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GREENSBORO, N. C. MONDAY. APRIL lfc 1921. VOL. 100. NO. 29
JUDGE BYNUM ENDORSED
FOR UACOORT JUDGE
,,;U!0!;i> COUNTY BAB WILL
I K(iK THAT* HE SUCCEED
JUDGE PRITCHARD.
judge W. P. Bynum was highly
endorsed and his appointment as
judge of the United States Circuit
court (fourth district) to succeed
the late Judge Jeter C. Pritchard
was enthusiastically recommended
;i! a meeting of thetJuiltord County
Bar Association yesterday after-noon.
The meeting was called1 by R. R.
King, chairman of the .bar associa-tion,
but Mr. King had to leave the
oiiy before the hour eet for the
meeting. G- S. Bradshaw was se-lected
chairman of the assembly. A
letter written by Judge James E.
Boyd and addressed to President
Harding, was read by Col. F. P.
Hobgood, Jr. Judge Boyd urged
the appointment of Judge Bynum
and endorsed his qualifications with-out
reserve.
A committee composed ot D. H.
Parsons, of High Point, Clifford
Frazler and S. J. Stern, together
with Col. Bradshaw as ex offlclon
member, was appointed by the chair-man
for the purpose of drafting res-olutions
expressing the sentiment of
the Guilford county bar. The res-olutions,
when presented, were
unanimously adopted, as follows:
"Whereas, a vacancy occasioned
by the death of the late Hon. Jeter
C. Pritchard now exists on the bench
of the Circuit court of the United
States (fourth circuit), and where-as,
the members of the bar of Guil-ford
county. X. C. desire to suggest
..-.-..! nice the appointment of Hon.
William I*. Bynum for this vacancy.
'•Resolved, that the members of
har of Guilford county, X. C,
.:: regular meeting; assembled, rec-ognizing
the pre-eminent fitness of
Hon. William P. Bynum. do hereby
In iitily and unanimously indorse
and recommend him for this posi-
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'•Resolved, further, that a com-mittee
of nine members of this bar,
consisting of R. R. King, John A.
Barringer, G. S. -Bradshaw, R. C.
Strudwick. John N. Wilson, A 'L.
Brooks. A. M. Scales, Westcott Rob-ertson
and F P. Hobgood1, be and is
hereby appointed to take such steps
as said committee may deem prop-er
and advisable in furtherance of
the object ot this meeting."
The fourth district is composed
of Maryland, West Virginia, Vir-ginia,
Xorth Carolina and South
Carolina. It is understood that
other prominent names frocn vari-ous
states have been suggested as a
successor to Judge Pritchard but the
local attorneys in speaking of Judge
Bynum yesterday declared" -that
there was no man better Qualified
for the high position within the Ore
Hates from which the appointment
win most likely be made.
Judge Bynum was formerly solic-i.
or of this district and was for a
short term judge of the Superior
court. He wae president of the
North Carolina Bar Association for
the year 1919-1920, and he has al-served
in important positions in
the American Bar Association. At
'• - ■ lection of last year he was the
Republican candidate for chief jus-
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i'.'-VIX PROPERTY OX WEST ..
MARKET BROUGHT $69,680.
VALUABLE SITES SECURED
BY WAREHOUSE COMMITTEE
EAST MARKET STREET PROP-ERTY
WILL BE USED FOR
TOBACCO WAREHOUSES.
'Ihe auction sale ot three lots
fronting on West Market street and
one on the street running east of
the court house was held Tuesday
'orning at 11 'o'clock, the fonr lota
bringing a total of 169,650. The
Property was owned by M.. HL- Pln-
>>lx. the sale being conducted by
Ferny brothers.
The corner lot, with a ttontage
'•' " feet and a d>ntu of 't$ «•«.
"'••'"> mrchased at $1,006 per foot
'"> r>r. W. J. Meadows. The ad-loi::
mg lot, 20 feet on West Market
- reet, was sold to John A. Smith,
"" High Point, at $650 per foot.
Ihe third lot on West Market, ad-i"-
nrag the Daily Record building,
" h a frontage of 24 feet was
I" u lit by R. L. Thomas, of Char-
"tesville, Va.. at the .price of $815.
''■■'■ rear lot. fronting toward the
'•'in house 20' U- : and with a
depth of 65 teet, was knocked off |
,0 P. H. Beeson at JfiOO per 12 j
!:icaes.
The warehouse committee of the
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
has negotiated two deals for the se-curing
of valuable East Market
street property to be used in the de-velopment
of adequate •facilities for
a live tobacco market in this city,
according to announcement made by
the chairman of the committee
Tuesday morning. J. E. Latham
Company grants to the committee
on option on the brick warehouse
building, located at the corner of
East Market, 'Forbis and Sycamore
streets, whlle..an option was also
secured for the old Swaim property,
located on Lyndon, near East Mar-ket
street. The Latham property is
now occupied by Thos. C. Hunt,
Inc., and is used as a garage for
the Packard automobile sales com-pany.
The Latham property was for-merly
a tobacco warehouse but has
not been used for such purposes
during the past several years. _Jt
will be ready tor use with the open-ing
of the approaching season. It
is understood' that the consideration
for this property was $40,000, Mr.
Latham agreeing to take $10,000 ot
this amount in the stock of the
warehouse corporation to be formed
at a later date. The price is get er-ally
regarded as a most reasonable
one. the lot alone being regarded as
worth the sum asked for the entire
proposition by Mr. Latham.
The plans of the committee in-clude
the construction of a big
warehouse on the Sw.aim property,
which is well located for such an
enterprise. It is only a short dis-tance
from the Latham property
and convenient to railroad side
tracks.
In the event that the bullcir.g and
lot occupied by the Thos. C. Hunt
Company is actually taken over by
Ihe warehouse committee. Mr.
Latham has announced that he will
build a large and modern garage
building on East Market street for
the use of the Hunt company. That
concern has a long lease on the old
warehouse building and in order to
secure possession of the property it
will be necessary to provide new
quarters for it. This building. It
was announced would entail an ex-pense
of between $50,000 and1 $60,-
000.
Another proposed development on
East Market street was announced
this week, the Guilford Motor Car
Company intimating the intention
of building a large garage on Its
property in the near future. Plans
are already complete for t>he-_erec:
tion of a modern garage building
for this company, which has the
agency for the' Franklin automobile.
This company owns property at the
corner of Market and Forbis streeis.
SCHOOL EQUALIZATION BILL
TO BE VOTED ON SATURDAY
ADVOCATES OF MEASURE CON-FIDENT
OF ITS HEARTY
ENDORSEMENT.
The citizens of Guilford county
will cast their ballots Saturday id
determine as to whether the speoial
bill of the 1921 legislature author-izing
an equalization of the Guil-ford
county public school tax shall
be adopted. The measure has been
heartiy endorsed by the county
school comraitteemen, as well as
friends of education and progress in
all parts of the county, and advo-cates
of the bill predict a sweeping
majority in favor of the amend-ment.
The law, if made operative in this
county by the citizens, would auto-matically
eliminate special school
taxes heretofore voted1 by various
sections of the county. Section 4 of
the act of the general assembly spe-cifically
prov/des: "That if a ma-jority
of the qualified electors favor
the additional school tax then it
shall operate to repeal all local
school taxes heretofore voted by lo-cal
tax districts and special charter
districts. "A large number of su h
districts have been created and spe-cial
taxes levied for school pur-poses
in the county. The adoption
of the new system would eliminate
such special districts and assess a
uniform rate In all parts of the
county to maintain the schools and
provide for better buildings.
The amendment to the present
law would approve the collection of
a tax of 10 cents on the one hun-dred
dollars valuation for school
buildings, together with 15 cents
on the one hundred dollars valua-tion
for maintenance purposes. The
state tax on property for school
puiposes has been entirely done
av.ay with this year and in the
evert .hs proposed1 bill is ratified
j by the voters, special school dis-trict
assessments will also be elim-inated.
The supervision of the
county schools will not be changed
by the bill, the local school commit-tees
to function as heretofore. The
measure would merely undertake
to improve on the method of col-lection
of funds for the schools and
endeavor to operate all ot the coun-ty
schools on a uniform basis.
It is estimated that the total
amount derived from the collection
of a tax of 25 cents on the $100
valuation from the county would
provide modern school buildings
for every section within a very few
years. Moreover, that it would per-mit
the securing of first class teach-ers
in all of the county schools. A
uniform salary for teachers would
apply to all of the county schools,
thereby giving each school a chance
to secure well-trained and capable
teachers.
MRS. CARRIE M. FRIES FILES
DAMAGE CLAIM FOR 925,000.
Mrs. Carrie M. Fries filed formal
notice Monday afternoon with the
city commissioners of claims against
the city of Greensboro and the North
Carolina Public Service Com-.-iny
for damages in the su.n of $25,000
on accoune of personal injuries al-lseed
to have been sustained as the
result of negligence on the part ot
the city and the Public Service Com-,
pany. The notice stated that Mrs.
Fries fell in a ditch on North Elm
street in front of the new American
Exchange Bank building, causing
her to break several bones in her
foot, resulting In mental and physl- j
cal pain and suffering. The *eci- j
dent occurred December 8, l«zfl. j
The ditch was alleged to hare •
Seen made *y the PuMia Service .
Company tor the purpose of laying .
wrw gas pipes and Mrs. Fries tell I
while stepping off of a street car.
CONE MILLS CUT WAGES.
TWENTY PER CENT
REDUCTION EFFECTIVE TO-DAY
—WILL DECREASE FULL
TIME BONUS/. '
Announcement was made yester-day
by J: E. Hardin. general man-ager
of the Cone mills, that a wage
reduction of twenty per cent, would
become effective to-day. The de-crease
will apply to .the 3,700 em-ployes
working in the White Oak,
Revolution, Proximity mills and the
Proximity Print Works.
Depression of business conditions
is given as the reason for the cut in
wages. For some time, according to
the announcement, the officials have
realized that a cut was imperative
unless ths textile business experi-enced
a material improvement, and
the improvement has failed to ar-rive.
The four plants will continue
to operate on full time, six days a
week, and no reduction is contem-plated
in the schedule of operations.
The employes, have been receiv-ing
a- bonus of 75 cents on every
dollar ot the wage scale, provided
that they worked full time each
week. The bonus has been decreas-ed
3& cents, making the remaining
bonus. 40 cents on the wage dollar
when full time is made. For part
time the reduced' bonus will be 20
cents on the dollar.
Wage reductions In the textile,
business have been nationwide dur-ing
the past six months and the lo-cal
mills have deferred cutting the
wage scale much longer than most
of the cotton mills. Several months
ago the Cone mills reduced wages
25 per cent, but at the same time re-duced
prices in the company stores
in a similar manner.
BAST MARKET PROPERTY
SOLD WELL YESTERDAY.
HIGHWAY COMMISSION MET
MONDAY AFTERNOON.
The Guilford county highway
commission held a business meeting
Monday afternoon for the purpose
■ -ot^BWSifgTng financial matters rela-tive
to the borrowing of funds to be-gin
county road work and to start
the completion of the remainder of
the state central highway • in this
county. •
The county will advance funds to
the state for the work on the state
highway, thjs money to be repaid
with interest when bonds are sold
■by the state. About 10 miles be-tween..
Greensboro and Gibsonville
remain unpaved, while a distance
of four miles between High Point
and Winston-Salem Is unfinished.
With the completion of this 14 miles
the towns of Graham, Burlington,
Gibsonvtile, Greensboro and High
Point will be Interlinked with a con-tinuous
asphalt road. Forsyth coun-ty
is planning to complete her part
to the Gnllforvi line four miles from
High Point, which will connect the
county seats ot Alamance, Guilford
and Forsyth.
The sale of a portion of the J. E.
Latham Company real estate on
East Market street was well attend-ed
yesterday .morning and the prices
were regarded as being good. The
lots offered at public auction con-sisted
of 160 feet of vacant prop-erty
on East Market street, between
Davie and Forbis streets. The to-tal
sale amounted to $53,130.
Lots were bought by the follow-ing
persons: C W. Edwards 20
feet at $493.50 per foot. Mrs. D.
E. Thomas 20 feet at $4S0 per toot.
L. EX. Edgerton 60 feet, part at
$226.50 and part at $305. Schlosser
Brothers 20 feet at $290.50 per foot
and L. M. Ham 40 feet at $323 per
foot.
The sale was conducted by the
American Realty and Auction Com-pany,
the Thomas brothers serving
moot efficiently in the role of auc-tioneers.
ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE
FOR ROAD CONVENTION
TOWN WILL BE IX GALA ATTIRE
—INTERESTING PROGRAM
FOR BIG MEETING.
NICHOLAS ROOSEVELT VISITS
WAR COMRADES IN GUILFORD.
Firemen Select Officers. -
At the meeting of the members
of the Greensboro fire department,
held Monday night at the Hook and
Ladder Company hall, matters of
routine business and election of offi-cers
was the principal business. Of-ficers
selected were: F. N. Taylor,
chief; George R. Shaw, assistant
chief; E. L. Clarke, treasurer; H.
C. Guthrie, secretary.
COUNTY NEGRO SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT SATURDAY.
Capfc Nicholas Roosevelt, of the
81st division, a son of the late Theo-dore
Roosevelt, spent Tuesday in
this county on a visit to his former
comrades in the 322 infantry. Gor-don
Hunter, ot this city, and P. E.
Gordon, who resides, about eight
miles north of the city, both served
under Captain Roosevelt during the
world war. Accompanied by Mr.
Hunter, Captain Roosevelt spent a
large portion of the day at the home
of Mr. Gordon in the country, they
being dinner guests at the Gordon
home.
Young Roosevelt is spending his
vacation by visiting his former war-comrades.
Greensboro is donning gala attire
for the gathering of good roads del-egates
expected to arrive in the city
early next week. Business houses
along Elm street are being decorat-ed
in red, white and blue bunting
and the old thoroughfare has taken
on a holiday spirit.
An elabroate program has been
completed for the entertainment of
the thousands of visitors from all
parts of the United States that will
partake of the city's hospitality dur-ing
the convention week. Thirty-six
committees have been at work com-pleting
the innumerable details rel-ative
tq, arrangements for the big
convention. The question of hous-ing
the delegates has been a matter
of serious proportions but with the
volunteering of over 1,000 rooms in
private homes it is thought that this
difficulty has been overcome.
The United States Good1 Roads
Association and the Bankhead Na-tional
Highway Association will
hold a joint convention, the meet-ing
to be opened in this city on April
19 and continue until the 23. State
officials of high rank, together with
many notables of national reputa-tion,
will be present for the occa-sion,
and it Is expected that it will
be one of the most Important con-ventions
that ever Greensboro has
entertained in many years.
Next Thursday afternoon the vis-itors
will be driven over the city in
decorated automobiles. The parade
will also go .o High Point and con-clude
£t the fair grounds, where a
genuine barbecue wiil be served.
Two loving cups will ba given by the
Greensboro Automotive Association
for the best decorated cars in the
parade.
Wednesday evening a reception
and ball will be given complimen-tary
to the visitors. This affair will
be giver, at the O. Henry hotel and
will be a socral feature of the week.
Harry J. Lewis is -the official dec-orator
for the occasion. His work
during the past two days along' Elm
street has made a marked effect
and before he has completed the
task the appearance of the street
will be a wonderful transformation.
BISHOP DARLINGTON BEGINS
METHODIST REVIVAL MEETING
Bishop U. V. W. Darlington ar-rived
In the city Tuesday afternoon
and last night he was greeted 'by a
full audience for his introductory
sermon beginning a series of ser-vices
at West Market Street Metho-dist
church.
Prior to the arrival of Bishop
Darlington, Rev. Luther B. Bridg-era,
of Gainesville, Ga.. conducted
the services and' he has made a
forceful impression upon his num-erous
hearers. Rev. Mr. Bridgers
Is a. singing evangelist, and in the
midst of his sermons he often sings
a solo.
• The services will continue
throughout this and next week.
J. CLYDE GHHEK DEAD;
FUNERAL TOMORROW.
The negro schools of Guilford
county will hold their commence-ment
exercises in the court house
Saturday morning at 11.30 o'clock,
music and1 recitations by representa-tives
of the various schools are on
the program, while the principal
speakers will he County Superin-tendent
Thomas R. Foust. Dr. S. G.
Atkins, o! Winston-Salem, and Prof.
G. E. Davis, ot Charlotte.
J. Clyde Cheek died yesterday af-ternoon
at Asheville where he had
gone several weeks ago in the In-terest
of his health. Mr. Cheek was
40 years of age and' had been in ill
health during the past several years.
He was born in Hillsboro but had
made his home In Greensboro dur-ing
the past 15 years. .
The body arrived in the city this
afternoon and was conveyed to a lo-cal
funeral home. The funeral will
be conducted Friday afternoon.
Mr. Cheek is survived by his
wife, who was before marriage Mies
Clara Emanuel, ot Asheville.
Caught Still in Center Grove.
Deputy Sheriff Boatman Carl:
made a little trip to Center Grove
township Tuesday afternoon and re-turned
with a blockade liquor mak-ing
outfit. The still was of 50 gal-lons
capacity and was made of cop-per.
'About 150 gallons of beer
were poured out by the officer. The
plant was not in operation when
discovered, and no one was near at
hand to claim ownership or protest
against Its being confiscated.
Grady Wilson Tried For Disorderly
Ceadaefc.
Gr*dy Wilson, young whfc* man.
was convicted before JuoUeo D. H.
Collins yesterday morning on a
charge ot disorderly conduct and
judgment was suspended on the
payment of costs. The disturbance
resulting in Wilson's arrest occur-red
at Mt. Pleasant school house
Saturday night.
Preaching at Peace Lutheran
Church Sunday.
Rev. E. A. Shenk. pastor of the
First Lutheran church, of this city,
will preach at Peace Lutheran
church, four miles east of McLeans-vllle,
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The public is invited to attend.
THE PREEIDENT'S FIRST
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
OPPOSES PRESENT LEAGUE OF
NATIONS AND WANTS PEACE
• BY RESOLUTION.
Washington, April 12.—Final re-jection
of the Versailles league of
nations by the American govern-ment
was proclaimed to the world
to-day by President Harding in a
solemn pronouncement of the for-eign
policies of his administration.
Speaking before the new Con-gress,
assembled to write a program
of political and economic reconstruc-tion,
the President declared accept-ance
of the league would be noth-ing
short ot a betrayal of the man-date
of the November elections. In-stead,
he asked for a congressional
declaration of peace and for ratifica-tion
of those sections of the Ver-sailles
treaty which protect specifi-cally
American rights and 'interest!
in the war settlement.
"In the existing league of nation .
world governing with its super-powers,
this republic will have no
part," he said. "It is only fair to
say to the world in general, and to
our associates in war in particular,
that the league convenant can have
no sanction by us."
The declaration was answered by
a tremendous demonstration in
which Republican senators and rep-resentatives
led while most of their
Democratic colleagues sat silent and
unsmiling. After weighing the words
of the chief executive, the senator-ial
group of treaty irreconcilables
tonight was claiming a complete
victory, predicting that even the
parts of the treaty indorsed by Mr.
Harding never would receive senate
approval.
Tariff nn:l Tax R vision.
In his recommendation for do-mestic
legislation, the President
gave greatest attention to tariff and
tax revision end to the railway sit-uation,
though he indorsed a list ot
lesser measures which congression-al
leaders 'declared might prolong
the special session until the snow
flies. He alsff took occasion in his
address of nearly an hour to declare
his faith in maintaining merchant
marine and in the principle of arm-ament
reduction without asking for
legislation on either subject.
An emergency tariff to correct
serious disorders In American in-dustry
wae placed at the head ot the
President's requests, and within an
hour after he finished speaking, the
house ways and' means committee
agreed to report tomorrow the
emergency measure passed at the
last session and vetoed by President
Wilson. For the permanent tariff
bill that is to be framed later, Mr.
Harding made no specific sugges-tions
except that it follow the prin-ciple
of protection.
Similarly, the President retrained
from detailed recommendations on
taxation, contenting himself with a.
general discussion of the situation
with an added reminder that hJ»
party pledged itself in the last cam-paign
to repeal the excess profits
tax. He also recalled the campaign
promise to organize a separate gov-ernment
department of public wel-fare,
but made no recommendation
whether a cabinet official should be
placed at its head.
.•"-■■K-i Kailroud Investigation.
Declaring that rates and operat-ing
expenses #of the railroads must
be lowered, Mr. Harding asked that
Congress investigate the whole
transportation problem. He recom-mended
co-ordination of all govern-mental
agencies dealing, with for-mer
service men, strengthening or
the federal laws affecting highway
construction and maintenance, en-actment
of budget legislation and a.
Mngreaaional Inquiry into lynching
and race relations in general.
HARDWARE DEALERS MEET
HERB MAY 10-tS.
Hardware dealers of North and
.South Carolina will convene in
Greensboro on May 10 when the
17th annual convention of the Hard-ware
Association of the Carolina*
will be held In this city. The con-vention
will continue through May
13. A large number of delegates
are expected to be present for the
meeting and an interesting program
has been arranged. .
W. K. Holt, of Burlingtcn, in
president of the association.
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