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GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1919. VOL. 98. NO. 78
HIGHWAY CONTRACT
GUILFORD HOT MM*.
v, KCTION WIUi PBOBABLV BE
«\OE VSMHHMY rtv COM-MISSIONERS.
\.ward of the contract tor con-
.„m;ion of tour and one-half miles
a will be reached by the state
/ay commission in Raleigh foi-ng
the reaching of an agree-
,-nt by the county officials. J. A,
L,ong, one Of the Person commis-sioners,
was here Friday.
PRESIDENT CANCELS ALL
REMAINING SPEAKING DATES
NEGRO HANGED BY NOB
AND JAIL IS FIRED
TRAIN IS WRECKED
WITH MALICIOUS INTENT.
ILL FROM OVERWORK OX HIS THE MAYOR, WHO APPEALED TO
LONG TOUR CAUSES THIS
ACTION.
MOB, STRUNG UP BUT SAVED
BY OFFICERS.
On Board President Wilson's Spe- Omaha. Sept. 28.—A lynching.
Petersburg Va Sent 28 Rail- cial Train, Sept. 26.—111 from over--.which developed many characteris-
,1 surface highway in Guil-'r0ad officials haveno doubt that the exertion «* his long tour for the tics of a race riot, held this city ter-
?'„, county Friday afternoon was wreck of Seaboard Air Line train Peace treaty' President Wilson to- rorized for nine hours to-day. May-
'° rtnoned until next Wednesday, at No. 5. three miles south of this city,day cancelled the speaking dates re- or Edward P. Smith was himself
Lhich time the contract will be early this morning, was caused by raining on his schedule and turned saved from lynching by a police-warded.
either to T. H. Gill & Co., lhe switch being opened with ma-iDack toward Washington. man. who, it was reported, cut the
"", Bin=-.:.mton. N. Y., or R. G. Las- iicious inte„t. The switch lock was1 The President acted under orders r°Pe f*m about tne m*y°T'* °eck
Lr & Co., of Oxford. The decis- broken and the Jaws of the switch Irom hls Phv8ician- Dr- Cary T- while ta» Mmra,i,!8 clubbed off the
n was reached in this city in Di- held apart by means of a large
lilu Engineer R. P. Coble's of- st0ne. The switch lamp was stolen.:statement that Mr" Wilson wa8 8uf' the ma,yor was ■»•■■«*»■ in
Grayson, who said
, statement th
1 fering from
formal mob. At midnight it was said that
a
exhaustion" hospital.
The riot centered about the new
FARMERS IN SIRRV ARE
MAD OVER FERTILIZER.
Mt. Airy. Sept. 26.—Surry coun-ty
farmers are very much exercised
over crop conditions this year and
are freely expending energy and
money to find oat about it. The
tobacco crop all over the county
has acted queer. The farmers de-clare
it to be the nearest no crop
they have ever had. First they laid
SPECIAL ROAD SESSION
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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AM, CITIZENS INTERESTED IN
ROAD QUESTIONS INVITED
TO BE PRESENT.
A special meeting of the board o*
county commissioners will be held
in the court house tomorrow after-it
to the wet weather and then to noon at *-30' according to announce
the dry. Some said it was the heat ment made bT w- c- Boren, chair-while
others thought it was the man of the ^anl, who states that all
cold. All sorts of reasons were ad- Guilford citizens Interested 1n road
vanced until some farmers who (Questions, particularly those inter-were
unable to get enough fertilis- ested in the proposed construction
er for their entire crop came along of * stretch of four and one-half
and declared that where the ferti- mi,es ,rom Greensboro toward Gib-lizer
was used the tobacco was no aonville, are invited to be present.
Irish o
lord
Tr
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of c:
jtar
good, and where H was not used the The cWef matter to be considered
Dr J H Burke chief sur- alarminR- a considerable period of county court house building, which nUhy weed just naturally got up at tne *P«»I«1 meeting la thai coa-ot
the Seaboard who was sum- rost would be *'necessary tor his re- was ■"* on fire in the efforts toand 8pread itgeU ,vKe a green oay tract for construction of the road
negro, tree. leading toward GibsonTille from the
representatives of the state the wick being found this morning
commission and of Guil- some distance from the lamp stan- a'"1 lh:,t w""" lus " !'""1 was "'"
■inty being present. dard.
f.uiltord road is to extend geon
IP eastern limits of the city moneel to the scene to attend injury
nsboro. at a point on East P<1. made a very close examination
street, tor a distance of of the surroundings and says he has
our and one-halt miles toward Gib- little doubt that the wreck prob-
MnTilh'. Work of construction will ably was caused by robbers. Em-hoeta
i" the very early future, it is hers of a fire built on the embank- ■ , , ■ -,..,.,
cares %which have occupied his at- grim battle of hours to save Brown | the tobacco growers. Accordingly on a concrete base
covery." reach William Brown, a
After a few days at the capital, charged with attacking a
where the President's special train white girl a few days ago.
will arrive Sunday morning, the With, the flames mounting stead-young
It was then that Surry farmers eastern corporate limits of this city,
aligned their guns on the fertilizer Two Dlds «re und«r consideration.
companies. State chemists down at one being for warrenite surfacing.
President may go to soire secluded ily from floor to floor. Sheriff Mike Raleigh reported on it, but the re- * wel1 known tvPe ot asphalt high-resort
for a rest from i lie official Clark and his deputies fought a ports were not specific enough for wav- *ne surfacing to be placed up-xpected.
Of the
ment above the scene were found.
._..„,„,.» .H. o„i> m j,_ J tention continuously for many from those who clamored for his thev he—m to ham mnaa meeiini's
tour contractors who sub- Bloodhounds were brought to the ., .-. v ..,,..,,., .. . I y Desan l0 na*e ,nass meetings. - . u»v«biii. IU tii^ «m,nornlttth\«s. llliff«e», hbiultt faitt 1111 ro»'Vcll/o\/c»lkr, TwV itthh ltthioe c<r.ri,e,,s- appo*in_»te_d.. a_ comm,i.t.t_ee. .t_o- canva.s..s. miiietl bids for the Guiltord pro- scene within two hours, and follow-.
It is expected that expression of
sentiment by taxpayers at tomor-
A plan for Mr. Wilson to go to of the 100 or more prisoners on the the county, sent a representative to row's meeting in the Superior court
ew York late next week to wel- top llobr—the jail floor—ringing in . Washington and succeeded in inter- room will determine largely the de-
.,,_ . come King Albert, of Belgium, vir- his ears, he was compelled to sur- esting Senator Simmons in the af- cision of tne commissioners as to
,llg ,„ provid. Plam cenient pave ,ng just bejond the corporate lira- tually has been abandoned, but the render the prisoner, who was hus-' fair, and yesterday they had . acceptance of one of the two bids
ment at ¥-.. per o. . . I s. President expects Id receive
, ussiter * CO. agreed to put down The body of Engineer C. L. Smith. £ZZSZ!t!TSi "w,^ Langod " *~* "^ P°'e "" "^ ^ "*""* * **"»' ^ * Gib8°nVUle " ^ VTOJ°~
\v;;rrvnite surfacing—asphalt-on - of Raleigh, was taken to Ashevlllo „OU8e. AH engagements for the im-mnerete
base at ?".1S per square this morning for interment. The
yard. While other bids were sub- body of Harry Ferguson, the fire-mitted
both by Gill and I.assiter. man. is still at an undertaking e.s-rhose
two bids are the ones between tablishment in this city,
which a selection will be made next^ The negro killed in the wreel,
Wednesday. "while beating his way, was identi-
On t!i" particular tj-pe of con- fie<1 this morning as James Hobbs."
struction mentioned the Gill bid to- of Dinwiddle county, for whom a
tal
hid
St.i0.6ftl.2.'., while the Laastter reward of $100 was offered by the'
heing considered aggregates authorities of Brunswick county for
XL7:».9?.3.S.'<. the difference being shooting another negro about six
S2S.2H.P.S. The cost per mile un- months' ago.
,;•••,- this l.assiier bid approximates , '
:-:>.ii(i|.. while the Gill bid involves BOTH SIDES OPTIMISTIC
...>• oi iiboui s::::.ooo a mile.
Itepreseaiatiros ot the state high-ii}'
emmission were prepared to
IN GREAT STEEIi STRIKE-Pittsburgh.
Sept.
contract to the Gill Com- p;,ssod quietly in the
Ion GuiltoN county officials zon„ of the Pittsburgh district. Mast
iiolinod to favor the Lassiter meetings called by the union organ-izers
were held in the halls in sev-eral
parts of Allegheny county un-
. Farmers overflowed the big court Tne frankest sort of discussion will
The mob spirit began to manifest house and overrun the little town. De invited to the end that a clear
■nediate future have been cancell- itself during the afternoon but it A chemist was up-from Raleigh to expression of the county's citizens
■Ml. was not until a gun store had been 'explain crop conditions, but it was may b® obtained.
Remains in Private Car. looted that the sheriff considered not satisfactory. With the aid of Although the Lassiter bid is much
Vftcr a night of illness, during the sit"at'on serious. -He swore in .Senator Simmons, they have the bu- higher than the Gill bid, county of-vilch
Dr Grayson and Mrs. Wilson extra dePut'es and also brought in roau of chemistry at Washington ficial8 P°int out that they have
were in almost constant attendance some nolice »■ uniforms determin- \ analyzing the fertilizer and expect found warrenite a most satisfactory
on him the President decided to ed ,hat the 'a»' should take its to get a report witnm a tew days, material for road construction,
abandon his trip when his train co,,rse despite the atrocity of the They have employed an imposing whUe ™any careful observers re-reached
Wichita. Kans. He did not crime charged against the negro. j array of legal talent here and else-leave
his private car there, and dur-ing
most of the day he was in bed.
In the afternoon and evening he
got some sleep and was able to take
i:ome nourishment.
Since he left Washington Septem- ,.,.,,.„.,
nor S the President has delivered onl> *"" d,fflcul,v "lade his one is brought, and it seems certain,
own escape. It was at this
By dark the streets in the vicin- where to pry into the matter, and
ity of the court house were block-'these farmers say they are going to
ed for several squares. Chief of. have damages or know why. Many
Poliee Eberstein mounted a box and, strange stories are floating around
attempted to address the crowd but as to how the guano has affected the
was unable to make himself heard crops, and the outcome o| the suit it
dows in the court house and short-j THREE PEOPLE GROUND TO
proposition. Finally it was agreed
that the award would not be made
until next Wednesday. By that time
Cuilford officials will decide which
"i Uie two bids is desired, that de-ly
afterwards the cry of "fire" was
heard.
28. —Sunday i(l speeches for the treaty, and when
Bsnteii .ti settruiki-eo . ,i nri 11. t. . i ,...,, ,i.„i that the mob began areakmg win- ne reached Wichita had traveled .
ss more than 8.200 miles of his origi-nal
10,000 mile schedule.
Although Mr. Wilsou's illness did
not take all aggressive turn until
tZ !.!! _ST"!!?!0n S, the .8her'!f- 1«* night, he has not been entirely
well since he left Washington. A
slight cold several times handicap-ped
him in speaking and for several
days ho has suffere." rrom headache.
After leaving his train for a three-time
will be watched with much interest.
gard concrete as in the experimen-tal
stage. The Cireensboro-High
Point boulevard, a warrenite Job
performed by Lassiter. is pointed to
as excellent evidence of the success
which attends such construction.
■ A definite decision as to whether
the county officials will accept the
Lassiter bid. involving about $39.-
1000 a mile, or the Oill bid. contem-plating
a cost of approximately
and the authorities had no trouble
in handling them. The crowds gath-der.
Steel companies expect that to-
■Moa will be communicated to the ored and disperae<, without disor-
• :ite Highway commission at Ral-
■:.;;i and the award will be made.
If thi- Lassiter proposal is accepted.
the county must pay the difference
between the cost of that bid and
:;i" one made by t\ e <• ill Company.
morrow will show a radical change mj|e walk vcster(Uy near Pueblo he
in their favor. Operating officials
PEACE TREATY ARGUED
FOR SIX HOURS BY SENATORS.
Washington, Sept. 26.—The Ger-man
peace treaty got nearly six
hours of speeding up in the senate
to-day. but without reaching the
Fall amendments which had been
of the corporations have been bend-ing
all their efforts toward making
Officials of the state highway com- a good showing when the plants in
seemed in much better trim.
Physician Stays With Him.
In the evening Dr. Grayson spent
PIECES UNDER ENGINE. $33,000 a mile, will be reached fol,-
. lowing the special session Tuesday
Winston-Salem, Sept. 25.—J. W. a"ernoon, the ant.ouncement will
Brown, aged 67, his son, C. W. h* conveyed to the state highway
Brown, aged 25. and Arch Stevens, commission at Raleigh Wednesday
aged 40. all of Walnut Cove. R. F. and award of 'he contract will
D. 3. met instant death here about Promptly follow.
11.30 o'clock to-day. when a Sontb- ]
em Railway shifting engine struck SCHOOL TRUCK DRIVER
an automobile in which they were IS KILLED BY A TRAIN.
made the special order of business riding. The bodies of the three
by a strict party vote earlier in the , men were literally ground to pieces! Charlotte. Sept. 26—George Camp-week,
i under the engine, and the car was bel, driver of the Long Creek town-
Chafrman Lodge, of the foreign!101'11 into splinters. When the en- shTp school truck, the first truck
mission declared they considered the thjs cjty resume operations for the some time with bin: and during the relations committee, called up the
u ■ rial involved in the Lassiter an.i weeK. night made another visit to the pact two hours ahead of the regu-lill
Mil< as of about equal valu». Assurances that they would be President's car. and found that the lar schedule, and from that time
■>ii' jn!) being as desirable as to the protccted. the company officials say. President was not sleeping well and until adjournment it was discussed
"tli-r. ii was indicated. With that wU, lead thousands of men who that Mrs. Wilson, who has been his continually, with a big crowd look- Bine.
ri-u. the commission's represcnta- nuit a W8eit ago to venture back to constant companion during the trip, ing on from the galleries and afraid.
lives favored the Gill bid. as It was tne mjns had been up attending to his wants, to cheer because of omnious warn-ntm:
li lower than the Lassiter bid. , ._., , „,_:,.„ „„„„,.„„„„Vc ex. When the physician left Mr. Wilson ings from the guards with orders to
llalltord county officials, however. preMed conndence that there will be seemed to be resting more quietly. •£"*•• w«o made a no.se With
arc known to favor asphalt and it no break in the ranks of the union At 5 o'clock this morning Mrs. •*» ■ 01 eet-
's i-isnnably safe to predict that men Tncy said they do uot i00k for -Wilson asked that Dr. Grayson
th« contract will be awarded to tne retllrl, of many men. and that again be called. Virtually without
'-issuer. His bid contemplates the the nuraber going back will be sleep during the night, the Presi-mnstruetion
of a road very closely more thau counterbalanced by those dent was in a ner\v..-.s condition.
to the Creensboro-High Point
fvard, which i» a Lassiter job
which has given g -cat satisfac-v.-
i're also received
& lloyer and from
S Co.
from
who will join in the walkout.
New Way to Cure Meat.
Gaffney. S. C, Sept, 26.—M.
Mr. Wilson was up and dressed
before his train reached Wichita at
:i o'clock and was preparing some
notes for his address. It was then
that Dr. Grayson, after an examina-irnian
Frank Page.
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Adams. Perry, who lives near Gaffney. has tion. took a resoltue stand against
perfected a liquid .viich will pre- continuance of the speaking trip.
of the serve all kinds ot fresh meats in Secretary Tumulty was called into
ishwuy commission, and State the hottest weather without the use the consultation, and the two pre-
I'.ngineer W. S. Fallis. of anything other than the liquid, vailed on the Pres.fient to abandon
' from Raleigh to consider which is very easily and inexnc.-.sive- his plans and return to the capital.
!" hid*. Award of a contract for ly made. He killed a 200-pound Meantime the train officials acting
•"'ii" hard-surface road in porker on the 28th of last month „n orders from Dr. Grayson and Sec-
M"«k:.-nburg countv was made to and the meat is as sweet as if it retary Tumulty, sidetracked the
si>ni:i<tiix-Whttton Company. of had been cured in the coldest presidential special a mile away
r-hjiri
tPPrnxiwately 521.227.
r'inley penetration asphalt job by the ordinary processes.
Another Big Strike Pending.
Washington. Sept. 26.—A strike
of 200.000 shipyard employes on
the Pacific coast is certain unless
the navy department and the Ship-ping
board revoke their joint ordSJ
prohibiting wage increases after
October 1, James O'Connell, presi-dent
of the metal trade department
of the American Federation of La-bor,
said to-day.
An equal number of workers on
the Atlantic coast will join in a
strike unless the demand is changed
O'Connell said. A meeting of the
executives of 15 international unions
affiliated in the shipbuilding indus-try
will be held here Monday to de-cide
on action and Mr. O'Connell
giue was stopped about 200 feet_ put into operation in this county
from the crossing, the wrecked car for the tr.insportai:on of children
was under the tender, it having from their homes to school, died at
been struck by the rear of the en- 11 o'clock last night at the Presby-
| terian hospital from injuries sus-
Pieces of the bodies and splinters tained when his truck was struck
from the car were intermingled and practically demolished by a
along the track from the crossing Seaboard passenger train at Rhyne.
to where the engine was stopped. late yesterday evening.
A colored man, an eye witness to The tragedy occurred but a few
I he accident, says he did not notice minutes after Campbell had depos-the
driver of the automobile In- Red the last load of children at
crease Or slacken his speed as he their homes. He had started to his
ascended the steep grade crossing home to put the truck up for the
at Fourteenth street, just north of night when he crossed the railroad
the city. track, the passenger train darting
The dead were all married men from a cut just as the truck reach-with
families, and were well to do ed the tracks. The truck was pur-farmers
in the community where chased by the school board about a
they lived. The bodies were sent to month ago to transport the children
Walnut Cove' this afternoon. An of the new Paw Creek high school
inquest was held and the coroner's to and from school. It had a seat-jury
returned a verdict that "the ing capacity of about 30 children,
men came to their death from an
unavoidable accident."
the cos, per mile being weather, and the flavor is very much from the. station where a crowd was ^ ffl ed coutere„ce Tues-
This will better than the meat which is cured waiting impatiently lor the chance
Oft
IV'irlII
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re is Mr. of the executive to appear Word , em an„ Aa8i8tant
reconstructed waterbound Perry's intention to have the discov was later sent to the crowd and it
"'"''' i-i base course. Earlier ef- ery protected by a patent, when he dispersed.
torts tn award a contract for this will put it on the market. I
'"•"'• fhich extends from Charlotte, jparalyzed hy Shot While Asleep.
1st r."!w.t0,fa^? Mentoe. failed, j situation Improved. ; Wilmington. Sept. 26,-Quo Vadis
"i tie meantime the Simmons-1 r _ , _.„, ,. „,,..,,, „f am
Whiten r _..., _- ! ™-u.-w*^ «««♦ ae.—The de- Wooten. a girl, 14 years of a„e. ov m,vnr nf thi. ritv dl.on roke yesterday from a nap at her face, ex-mayor of this cit/. diop
GOMPERS APPEARS BEFORE
THE SENATE COMMITTEE.
Depot at Winston liin-iied.
Winston-Salem, Sept. 26.—About
one-half or the Southern Railway
freight station, with the exception
of the brick Walls, was destroyed by
Secretary Roosevelt and Director
| Ackerson, of the emergency floot' right of employes "to be heard, to
corporation.
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Washington, Sept. 26.
E-Mayor Drops Dead.
Mt. Airy, Sept. 2Sr—Samuel
•townward revision of its partment of agriculture has taken aw-....•'■—"„"..„_,„ and found ped dead this afternoon near .w„\M-. i,ci*naid -d j- A- -»wuh the ra.uroad adT.inif:at;h: sri^rs?^raj her *« .* «>* M, ^ ™e *»».
After home remedies had pany just as he finished auctioneer-
,e*oll, Mecklenburg commissioners the question of car supply in
*<"• here Friday. Florida phosphate fields, and armed body. After horn.
Sari, „,xl week . deci8ion win bc guards have been placed on phos- falted. J^JJ^,
'• •"•"'<' i" regard to bids consider- nhate trains operated by the Atlan- and M *J-^g^
' ''-'> for construction of a top- ^ Coast Line and that road to now f? £**££££
. I "" in ''-on county. This moving Florida pebble M*£ Jj he sp3 co.unu
Washington, Sept. 26.—The issue
in the nation-wide steel strike was fire early this morning, entailing a
defined to-day by Sa,.ne.; Oompcrs. lo8S of seTeral thousand dollars,
president of the American Fcdera- Vcry »»le freight was in that sec-tion
of Labor, as recognition of the "on of the building, therefore the
heaviest loss sustained is in records.
organize and "to ~have~ so~me3voice in «fflc« nxtures. etc. Some of the
determining conditions under which f°°d8 8tored in the west end ot tnft .
they labor." depot were dania"ed ** smoke and
Appearing as labor's second wit- water.
„ ness in .the senate Tabor committee's The origin of the fire is not
the ' investigation of the steel Strike, known. It was first discovered by a
President Gompers drew from his shitting crew in the yard, who say
experiences as chairman of the first that it started about the middle o.'
committee to organize the steel in- the north section and had gained
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extend for a distance Similar action is expected <>
from Roxboro toward part of officials of the Seal
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,he ing the spinal column. i wc »*., »--- """""" w..,i ,!-., ,, u-i.ic, ,\ in the handling of freight. it is-aboard
Air was not awakened Vy the shot and ot ltlwna of MI Air/ He was a it Judge Gary, chairman of the United hlgniy prooaniy mar a more mou.ru
Methods .T be" employed Line. The department will continue
one son. ised to appear. company.
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