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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
ESTABLISHED 1821*
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
GREENSBORO, N. C. MONDAY. JANUARY 15,1917. VOL. ae—NO. s
SECOND QUARTERLY MEETING
MRS. I. S. CUNNINGHAM TALKS
TO GilLFORD TEACHERS ON
nun pnoTEtnox.
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' The second quarterly meeting of
,!ie Cuiltord Comity Teachers' As-sociation
met at 10.30 Saturday in
the court house, snd it was an indi-cation
of the faithfulness and con-secration
o!" the teachers of the
county to the work to Bee so many
in attendance on such a cold winter
morning- Devotional exercises were
conducted by Rev. H. W. Reynolds,
principal of the Oak Hill school,
near High Point.
Mrs. John S. Cunningham, who
lias ctarge of the educational work
of the state insurance department,
ivas present and talked to the teach-ers
on •"safety first." She explained
;irst the work of the department un-
.jer which she is working, that it
!n«s not sell insurance, but super-vises
the insurance companies doing
business in the state: collect insur-ance
and pay over to the state, thus
materially helping to run the ma-
.-hinery of the state. They also put
men in jail who are selling fraudu-lent
insurance. Mr. James It. Young.
who s at the head of the deparl-ment,
has by his strong ability made
i;s .ispartmeat the best state insur-ance
department in the United
States.
T'ire drills to teach the children
■o get out of a building quickly was
>irc;ed by Mrs. Cunninsham. especial-ly
if the building is a two-story
•tincture, as many of the school
buildings of the state have poorly
•nustructed stairways. She asked
'he teachers to try to keep the boys
from smoking, and especially to
warn the little tots about careless-ness
in handling matches. "This
'■are!e33iiess costs us many fires each
year, and we believe it ja.thge.-for J-the
state to take a hand in it." said
Mrs. Cunningham. "This state loses
every year about three million dol-lars
worth of property, and two mil-lion
dollars of that amount is caused
by carelessness. Last year in the
state 192 children were bnrnad to
death. No one burned these chil-
•lri:i intentionally. A fender be-fore
the fire costs about fifty cents,
an'. yet year after year these little
lots too small to have any sense of
danger fall too near the lire and are
burned to death. I am urging the
mothers to see that there are tend-ers
out around open fires. In the
schools of the state I find all kinds
of .stoves, and not one in five is set
up right. The most of them are set
rigiit square on the floor and the
pipes run all the way across the
building and are hung so loosely
that a little jar will knock them
down.
T have often been very much
struck with the carelessness with
which the school grounds in the
South are kept. If you could visit
rhe school grounds in the North you
could be surprised to see that there
s not a particle of leaves or trash
around the school buildings. It does
oot lake any money to pick up the
papers and brush around the school
uuildings. These things blow back
under the school buildings and
around the fence and are a source of
danger.
Mrs. Cunningham sees the need of
inana.: training being taught in the
school because if the boys are taught
now to make things they will soon
<e able to put up with a little ex-pense
a water system in the home
■ iiicii is r.o much needed, especially
■u country homes where if fire
'•reaks out the mother is helpless to
■'?!:! it.
i Tlie association went on record as
avoring a bill for pensioning teach-es,
and each department appointed
i ropresentative to confer with the
■ounty board of education to discuss
his matter. The departments also
ippointed representatives to confer
with the county superintendent in
"egard to the county commencement
for next spring.
The primary department of the as-sociation
held a very profitable meet-ng
in which Miss Williams, of the
N'ormal College, talked to the teach-
«s on third grade reading. Misses
..indley and Crutchfield, of the
iamestown high school, gave talks
>r busy work; Miss Mary Sharpe, of
he I'omona school, gave the second
nstallment in Leiper's "Language
Work in the Elementary Grades;"
and Miss Ora Scott, of the South
•Buffalo school, t*aght -M»» t*Mh«r«
GRAIG GETS WARM WELCOME DEATH OF MRS. STEPHENS
•SAY. HELIX), DADDY." SHOUTED
LOCKS, JR., MAKES ADDRESS
NOT OX PROGRAM.
Ashevllle. Jan. 12.—Hon. Locke
Craig, private citizen, was given a
real' reception and welcome on his
arrival here today to take up his
residence again in Ashevllle.
The ex-governor arrived here just
at neon, his train being about an
hour late, and was met at the sta-tion
by a reception committee o'f
prominent citizens who filled twenty
automobiles. The committee, head-ed
by* Judge J. D. Murphy and Mayor
J. E. Rankin. escorted Governor
Craig to the Majestic theater, which
was filled with citizens, eager to wel-come
the city's distinguished son to
Ashevllle.
Judge Murphy, Or. George T. Win-ston
and Thomas J. Harkins made
addresses of welcome. Mr. Harkins
concluding his address with the pre-sentation
of a handsome silver ser-vice
and silver water set.
Locke Craig. Jr., two years old.
while not on the program, made the
first address of welcome. As the
orchestra finished the overture.
Locke. Jr.. held in the arms of
Judge Phillip C. Cocke, waved his
hand at Governor Craig and called,
"Hello. Daddy." He was given an
enthusiastic outburst of applause.
Governor Craig appeared to be
deeply moved by the reception and
the magnificent silver service ten-dered
him. He declared that he had
come back to live and die among
the grand old mountains of western
North Carolina. "I appreciated, move j
than I ever can tell, the offer of chief
executive of this state, conferred on
me by the people," he said, "but no
convict that I have turned out of the
penitentiary was more glad than .1
am to lay aside the cares of office
irnrnfSfie"a^n-rtt We^fer¥<fei ttf Caw*
olina, a private citizen. And of all
the receptions and tokens of esteem
that have been tendered me. there is
none that holds a place of such im-portance
in my heart as this recep-tion
and this magnificent gift which
my own people have this day tender-ed
me."
Governor Craig was given an ova-tion
at the conclusion of his speech
and shook hands with several hun-dreds
of pe\>ple.
NATIVE OP GUTLFORD COUNTY,
BUT MORE RECENTLY OF
HENDERSONVILLE.
WHITE GIRL SHOT AND
KILLED BY NEGRO PLAYMATE.
Desiree Miles, the 11-year-old
daughter of Isaiah Miles, who re-sides
about five miles south of the
city, on the road leading out from
Ashe street, was shot and instantly
killed about noon Friday by Lacy
Crutchfield, a negro boy 11 years of
age and a son of Fred Crutchfield.
The shooting took place in the kitch-en
of the colored home and is claim-ed
to have been accidental. It is
said that the girl was in the act of
drinking some milk w-hen the col-ored
boy picked up a shotgun and
the weapon was discharged. The
little girl's head 'was almost blown
off and death must have been in-stantaneous.
Coroner Stansftury went to the
scene of the tragedy as soon as the
officers here learned of the shooting,
but did not deem an inquest neces-sary.
Sheriff Stafford accompanied
the coroner and investigated the af-fair.
It was not then considered
necessary to make an arrest, the of-ficers
accepting the story of the ac-cidental
disciiarge of the gun. Satv
urday the sheriff came into posses-sion
of information which caused
him to swear out a warrant for Lacy
Crutchfield on a charge of murder.
The hoy was brought to Greensboro
and committed to jail to await a pre-liminary
hearing before Justice of
the Peace Collins.
It seems that the little Miles girl
was a frequent visitor at the Crutch-field
home and a regular playmate
of the colored children.
The Charlotte Observer of Satur-day
contained the following notice
of the death of Mrs. L. H. Stephens,
a native of this county, but in re-cent
years a resident of Henderson-ville:
A wire received in the city yester-day
announced the death of Mrs. L.
H. Stephens, mother of George
Stephens, of this city, which occur-red
at her home near Hendersonville
yesterday morning. The message
was from Mr. Stephens to relatives
and stated only that death was re-sult
of complications, involving
heart failure.
Mrs. Stephens had been ill about
three weeks but during the past ten
days had shown such marked im-provement
that her early recovery
was confidently expected. The sud-den
change, resulting fatally, was a
surprise and shock to her relatives
and friends here.
Mrs. Shephens was born in Guil-ford
county, near Greensboro. Janu-ary
3. 184S. In 1897 she came to
Charlotte, residing one year with
her son. George Stephens, and in
1S9S moved to Henderson county,
in the Fiat Rock section, where she
lived until her death.
When in Charlotte her church
membership was transferred from
her old home to Trinity Methodist
church, of this city, where it re-mained.
There being no church of her
faith near her last home, her religi-ous
activities found expression in
the work of a neighboring church of
another denomination.
Surviving her are George Steph-ens,
an only child, and two brothers.
George J. and J. O. Lambeth, of
Her^ersop. Cffitntj;^ TwojifajCj
F. K Tomlirison of FayetTevilleT
and Mrs. Theodore Abbott, of Char-lotte,
and three nephews, Walter
and Charles Lambeth, of Charlotte,
and Addison Lambeth, of Atlanta,
all children of J. A. Lambeth, are
others of the near relatives.
Since the marriage of her son,
George Stephens, to Miss Sophie
Convcre Myers, of this city, in 1902,
they have spent each summer in the
mountains with Mrs. Stephens and
her home has not only been the
mecca of her own children and
grandchildren, but also a place
where nephews and nieces and
others of the family frequently met
to share her hospitality. Possessed
of remarkable health until her last
illness, and a lifelong fondness for
children and young people, she re-mained
youthful in spirit even
through her later years.
Body Brought to Greensboro.
The remains of. Mrs. Stephens
were brought to Greensboro Satur-day
night and taken to the home of
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Hudson, the de-ceased
being an aunt of Mrs. Hud-son.
The funeral services were held
yesterday afternoon at the residence
of Mrs. Hudson and the interment
was made in Greene Hill cemetery.
The services were conducted by Rev.
C. E. Hodgin. pastor of Westminster
Presbyterian church, assisted by
Rev. J. H. Bennett, of Centenary-
Methodist church.
Guardsman Dies on Border.
El Paso, Tex., Jail. 12.—Private
William R. Swindel, of company A,
second North Carolina infantry, died
at the Fort Bliss hospital Wednesday
from pneumonia. He came from
Lake Linden, N. C.
a song, "The Carpenter," for the lit-tle
children.
, The several departments of the
association hold their next meetings
on February 10. ;_*. u*: -*
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Love Springs From Fear in Two
Weeks.
Durham. Jan. 12.—Change of fear
to love, brought about the issuance
here yesterday of marriage licenses
to J. W. Crabtree. aged 50, and Miss
Cornelia Wester, aged 23.
Only a few weeks ago Miss Fester
asked Register of Deeds Markham
not to issue licenses to Mr. Crabtree,
declaring that she feared him, and
that if the licenses were issued she
would be compelled to marry against
her will. Today she personally re-quested
the issuance of the licenses,
declaring that she knew the groom-to-
be better now.
FOUL MURDER OHQOJIUIRL
WAS A MEMBER OP A PROMI-NENT
WEST VIRGINIA
FAMILY.
Columbus, O., Jan. 12.—Mona
Simon, 25 years old/ said to have
been a member of a prominent Graf-ton,.
W. Va., family, was found shot
and cut to death in a leading Colum-bus
hotel today and the police are
seeking a man said to have been
employed until recently in a Kansas
City brokerage house. The victim,
juvenile court officers said, recently
had become addicted to drink.
The room in which the young wo-man
was found was assigned on the
hotel register to "G. V. Van Brunt,
of Chicago;" A sporting writer on
a Columbus paper told the police
that the man who occupied the room
told him he was traveling under an
assumed name because of a "girl
scrape" in Kansas City. The news-paper
man said "Van Brunt" talked
to Joe Tinker, of Chicago, owner of
the Columbus baseball club, Wednes-day
about getting a job. He is said
to have been divorced in Hunting-ton,
Ind. He left the hotel without
paying his bill, taking the key with
him, according to the police.
The'body-or Miss Simon was dis-covered
late this afternoon, and, ac-cording
to the coroner, she had been
dead more than 12 hours. A maid
opened the door of the room, and
saw the body on the floor, but did
not investigate, thinking the young
woman asleep.
When the housekeeper entered
the room later she found the girl
dead with a gash on the neck and a
bullet wound through the head.
Blood soaked towels were found in
the bath adjoining, as if some one
had endeavored to remove blood
stains.
An;
lie rooms of I
proof and no one heard a shot, and
beyond the opinion of the coroner
there was nothing to indicate when
the tragedy occurred.
ADMITS HE MAY HAVE
KILLED MONA SIMON.
Huhlington, Ind.. Jan. 13.—Blam-ing
drink for a condition which may
have clouded his mind. Weldon H.
Wells, of Kansas City, admitted to-night,
the police say. that he might
have killed Mona Simon in a hotel
at Columbus. Ohio. Chief of Police
Baker declares the prisoner's state-ment
practically is a confession, and
believes that as Wells' condition im-proves
that the mystery surrounding
the death of the Columbus girl will
be solved.
"If I did do it I was out of ray
head with drinking," Wells said, ac-cording
to the police. "I must have
been crazy. I was drinking hard, I
know."
When asked for a direct statement
as to whether he killed Miss Simon.
Wells is reported to have said: "I
don't know, I might have. The tes-timony
of all these people in Colum-bus
makes me doubtful and uncer-tain
that maybe I did do it."
Columbus police aTe expected here
tomorow to take Wells to the Ohio
capital. He says he wiTl return with-out
requisition papers.
Negro Kills Another.
Concord, Jan. 12.—John Pyler, a
negro, was snot and instantly killed
Wednesday by Arthur Ivey, another
negro, during a quarrel at the lat-ter's
home. It is not known what
caused the trouble. Pyler left imme-diately
after the shooting and has
not been seen since. It is said Pyler
went to the Ivey home and called the
occupant to the front porch where
Confesses to the Killing.
Columbus. O., Jan. 14.—Weldon
H. Wells, former Kansas City brok-er's
clerk, tonight confessed to Coun-ty
Prosecutor R. P. Duncan that he
shot and killed Mona Simon in a
room in a hotel here last Thursday
night. His statement, according to
the authorities, says he killed the
girl in self-defense. Wells, who was
arrested in Huntington, Ind., early
Saturday morning, arrived here to-night
in the custody of local police.
Bryan at Raleigh Today.
William Jennings Bryan, advocate
of peace and prohibition and former
secretary of state, will speak in the
main auditorium of the. First Baptist
church at Raleigh this afternoon at
2 o'clock. Prohibition will be the
Commoner's theme, his address fol-lowing
immediately upon the con-vening
of the ninth bi-ennial gather-ing
of the North Carolina Anti-Sa-loon
League. Mr. Bryan arrived in
Raleigh on an early train from Flor-ida
this morning, accompanied by
his son, W. J. Bryan, Jr., and will
go direct to the home of his daugh-ter,
Mrs. Richard L. IJargreaves,
where he will be entertained while
t&ere. . _j
MILLIONS LOSTJiH EXPLOSION
PLANT OP DU PONTS DESTROY.
ED—TWELVE INJURED AND
TWO MISSING.
New York, Jan. 12.—Four hun-dred
thousand pounds or powder
was destroyed by fire and explosion
at the Haskell, N. J., plant of the du
Pont Powder Company at 9.30
o'clock tonight. Officials of the com-pany
declared, after checking up the
members of the night shift at the
works, that only two men were miss-ing.
Twelve others were cut by fly-ing
debris, but none of them was
seriously hurt. No estimate of the
loss was obtainable.
Until investigation Is completed
no further statement will be made
as to what evidences of incendiarism
have been found, an officer of the
company said.
It was explained that the danger
of fire or of explosions from purely
accidental causes was reduced to a
minimum by the fact that no com-pleted
ordnance was on hand at the
plant. The officer said the propell-ing
charges for the shells were not
attached until they reached the bat-tlefield,
and that the same was true
as to the detonating caps by which
the trinitroluluol in the shell bodies
is exploded.
The statement said the Kingsland
plant was used tor the assembling,
packing and preparing of these
shells for shipment. Large quanti-ties
of these shells have been ship-ped
to Russia.
"The buildings destroyed were val-ued
at $750,000. The value of the
contents destroyed amounted ap-proximately
to $16,000,000, of which
$6,000,000 belonging to the com-pany.
The company was protected
to the amount of about $3,000,000
in insurance on buildings and con-loev.
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iously injured as a result of "the'flre
and subsequent explosions.
"An examination into the circum-stances
attending the origin of the
fire in building No. 30 has created
the impression that it is possible, if
not probable, that the fire was of in-cendiary
origin.
"It is quite possible that the
buildings will not Be reconstructed.
The entire plant was most carefully
guarded, and every safeguard known
to sclene had been installed, ami
every possible provision made to
safeguard the adjoining premises
against injuries resulting from the
explosion.
"The company had secured insur-ance
in favor of the inhabitants of
Kingsland which we understand will
more than cover any loss or damage
to buildings in that town. The re-ports
with regard to the fire are
somewhat exaggerated and sensa-tional.''
There were two distinct explosions
of terrific force. Buildings were
shaken and windows shattered far
out on Long Island and up the Hud-son
river to Poughkeepsie.
The first was in what is known as
the "glazing barrel." The fire which
resulted leaped to the blending
house and from there to three mag-azines.
One of the magazines blew
up, but the powder in the others
was consumed by the flames.
The blazing magazines set fire to
the screening house, from which the
flames leaped across Wanaque river
and consumed three drying houses.
The fire then was checked by, the
efforts of the company's employes.
Other buildings in the plant and
many in the village were shattered
by the explosion. ,
No estimate was available of the
number of men at work when the
disaster occurred, but company offi-cials
rounded up their men to check
up the casualties. It is feared that
two who were employed in the "glaz-ing
barrel" lost their lives.
TBAW SLASHES HIS THROAT
THIRTY STITCHES NECESSARY
TO CLOSE WOUNDS— POISON
TABLETS FOUND.
Editor Robs Partner of Funds
Charge Made.
Wilson, Jan. 12.—H\ B. Jones, ed-itor
and part owner of the Spring-hope,
Nash county. Journal, after
drawing all of the funds of the pa-per
from the bank and collecting for
subscription and advertisements, has
left the city, it is claimed. O. B.
Moss, who holds an interest in the
publication, has taken legal steps for
Jones' apprehension.
Jones formerly worked in Raleigh
and Goldsboro. He is* a practical
printer end for. several yean was
foreman or the P. D. Gold Publish-ing
Company, tali city,.
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 11—Harry
Kendall Thaw, who with two so-fail-ed
bodyguards is under Indictment
in New York tor an alleged attack
on a 19-year-old high school yeuth
last Christmas, attempted suicide by
slashing his throat and wrist with a
razor.
Thaw's attempt at seir-destractiea
was the climax to a hunt which be-gan
here on Thursday, following the
announcement by District Atterney
Swann, of New York, that he was
wanted to answer a charge or at-tacking
Frederick Gump, Jr.. ef
Kansas City, in a New York hotel
and as a sensation it rivaled tha
wealthy Pittsburger's shooting of
Stanford White on the Madison
Square roof garden and his later
escape from Matteawan asylum.
Thaw gashed himself with a razor
belonging to the husband of Mrs
Slizabeth Tacot, in whose home he
was known as "Mr. West." He hail
been there since last Tuesday. He
slashed his throat twice, which re-quired
thirty stitches to close and al-so
hacked the artery of his left wrist.
Had the wound in his neck been one-eighth
of an inch deeper, he could
not have lived, according to physi-cians.
Several poison tablets were
found in Thaw's pockets.
Tonight Thaw was reported rest-ing
easily in St. Mary's hospital,
where he was removed in a police
ambulance several hours after he
had been discovered unconscious
from loss of blood by Mrs. Tacot.
Dr. Blwood Kirby, chief medical di-rector
at the hospital and Thaw's
private physician in this city, said
tonight that Thaw's injuries were
nqtjikely to prove fatal and that he
,1^ rjaepver within
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covered with a bloodstained razor on
the floor beside his bed. Ho re-mained
in that condition until his
arrival at the hospital at about 3
o'clock this afternoon. Restoratives
brought him to a semi-conscious con-dition
and his mind appeared to be
wandering, according to Dr. Kirby.
Some time later Detective Lieut.
Wood assured by the hospital physi-cian
that his condition was not seri-ous
enough to necessitate an ante-morten
statement, approached his
bedside and remarked: "You are
not going to die. Harry, but. never-theless,
there may be something
which you may want to tell us. Will
you do so?"
Doctors, nurses, attendants and
detective awaited anxiously for a
confessional or denial of the
charges which led to his attempt at
suicide. The patient regarded the
detective quizically for an instant
and then slowly shook his head.
Refuses to Talk.
"I have nothing to say," he said
feebly, and closed his eyes.
Two detectives were placed on
guard at the patient's beside, and
Captain Tate, at detectives head-quarters,
began arrangements for
extradition to New York as soon as
his condition will permit.
Captain Tate and others detailed
to search for Thaw had accepted the
belief that he had left the city, and
it was generally believed that he
was in seclusion in Pittsburg. The
first intimation of his presence in
this city came with a message to the
detective bureau from a private de-tective
who had been informed of
Thaw's attempted suicide by Mrs.
Tacot, shortly after she went to call
him about 10 o'clock this morning.
Failing to get a response, Mrs. Tacot
entered the apartment and found
him lying stretched across the bed,
fully dressed, his clothes stained by
blood, which spurted from two deep
gashes on the left side of his neck
and from a severed artery in his left
wrist.
His right arm hung limply at the
side of the bed and on the floor with-in
a few inches or his hand was the
bloody razor he had borrowed from
Mr. Tacot.
Submarine is Coming Again. -
New London, Conn., Jan. 12.—
The German undersea freighter
Deutschland started on a return trip
to the United States on January. 2.
according to a report here tonight.
The report came from an authoritive
source in shipping circles. The na-ture
ot the cargo »a» set learned, j