The Greensboro patriot [October 20, 1921]

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ESTABLllX 1821. • GREENSBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1921. VOL. 100. NO. 84
EFFORTS TO AVERT STRIKE
I RAILROADS ARE PUSHED
% FIVE" CHIEFS TO-DAY I
ARE IN CONFERENCE WITH
LABOR BOARD IN CHICAGO
Find Some Signs of Peace
To Move Necessities
In Spite of Strike.
WAY HEAD
MtlNTKNANO; OF
MKX I>OX'T WANT
STRIKE.
SAVS
C'j:r..
lor i'-'
,. Oct. 19-—.Preparation
,. various moves through
i; is hoped the threatened
5trike will be averted were com-pleted
today and tomorrow the
ffons will be in full swing.
lieuds of the unions and
peace e
Toni?ht
. lhe carriers were silently alert
»-ith—figuratively speaking—one
fve on i'i? conferences tomorrow
and the >'!lier <"> meetings of offl-tia'.
s of eleven unions which have |
no: yet joined the conductors, en-V
cinemen. trainmen, firemen and
priichmen in a strike order, for
40th sides were agreed that out of
these conferences would come the
final decision as to whether a gen-eral
walkout of rail employes
trotiM ma"eralize.
In the conference with the labor
board rested the possibility of the
"Bis Five"beiug persuaded to cancel
their order for a .walkout in the
meeting of the eleven unions, which
actually started today, was to be
decide.; whether these organiza-1
tions. holding the balance of man-power
through numbering three-iourths
of the nearly 2,000,000 rail
Chicago, Oct. 19.—In the
event the threatened railroad
strike is called the roads are
prepared tb "do our utmost to
move necessities, utilizing to
the fullest possible extent all
the manpower available,"
Charles H. Markham, presi-dent
of the Illinois Central
railroad, declared today in an
address before the American
Mining congress.
Mr. Markham said the pres-ent
transportation tangle was
due to the fact that 99 public
bodies have a hand in fixing
the rules, income and ex-penses
of the roads and that
in the expenditure of more
than 97 per cent of their oper-ating
costs the railroads have
no voice.
~ "The remedy," he said, "is
to place once more in the
hands of railway 'manage-ments—
under competent and
broad minded supervision—
the control of operating costs
in such a way that responsi-bility
may properly be placed
on the management for the
operation of their properties."
STATE. NEWS BRIEFS
1 COUNTY OFFICIALS YOTE
APPROVAL OF LOAN PLAN
Mistrial Ordered.
Payetteville, Oct. 17.—Standing
eleven to one against the insanity
plea of the defense the jurymen in
the case of J. Marshall Williams
charged with the murder of Deputy
Sheriff A. J. Pate this morning re-ported,
that they were unable to
agree, after deliberating for forty-five
hours on the question of Wil-liams'
sanity. A mistrial was or-dered
after the withdrawal of one
juror.
• Pastor Resigns.
Hamlet, Oct. 17.—.Rev. J. M.
Page, for the past five years pastor
of the Hamlet Baptist church,. on
Sunday morning tendered his resig-nation
to become effective on De-cember
1. He did not announce
where his next field of lu'bor would
be, but he is considering a number
of calls.
SEEKING $160,000 FOR COVXTY
SCHOOIiS—FURXITt'RE COX-TRACT
IS AWARDED.
Murder and Suicide.
f.enoir. Oct. 17.—Philip King
was shot and fatally wounded and
Tom Winkler was shot and instant-ly
killed near here this morning by-
Harden 'Mabe, prominent farmer,
who later committed suicide by
blowing the top of his head off 'with
a 12 gauge shot gun. This triple
killing occurred seven miles west of
here on the old Lenoir-Morgauton
roa.".. Mabe is believed to have
been insane.
GREAT REPORTM HEARD
REGARDIXC1 SCOlT WORK
Issue Road Bonds.
Tarboro, Oct. 17.—Edgecombe
county board of commissioners met
here today and unanimously agreed
that the county would raise live
hundred thousand dollars, interest
not to exceed 6 per cent, and pur-chase
five hundred thousand dol-lars
North Carolina state bonds for
the purpose of building hard sur-face
road from Rocky Mount
through Tarboio and Coneto to Pitt
By unanimous vote of the county
commissioners in mid-monthly ses-sion
here Tuesday the application of
the county board of education for a
loan of $160,000, to be obtained
from the state's special building
fund, was approved.
It is generally believed that the
money will be secured. It is to be
used in improving a number of
schools in the county. The request
for approval of the application was
presented to the commissioners by
Thomas R. Foust, county superin-tendent
of public instruction. It -will
be a long-term loan, it is expected.
Many improvements in the physical
facilities of county schools are
greatly needed, it is pointed out,
and these will ibe made possible if
the money is obtained.
The contract for furnishing the
bedrooms at the new county home
now being constructed was awarded
by the commissioners to the Harllee-
Welborn Furniture company, of
High Point. The contract is for ap-proximately
$5,000, and 36 rooms
Will be furnished. In each room
will be two iron beds (single), bed
clothing, a small table, a dresser,
two chairs and a rug. Ultimately
there will be 72 beds, but only 47
bed* will be furnished with cloth-ing
at present.
Yesterday the commissioners in-spected
a number of road piojects
in the vicinity'of High Point, also
the convict camp two miles from
that citv.
Miners Resume Work.
Pittsburg, Kan., Oct. 17—Fifteen
hundred coal miners of district No.
14, who have been Idle since Alex-ander
Howat and August Dorchy
went to jail, returned to work to-day,
according to an announcement
at the headquarters of tthe opera-tors'
association.
Delegates to Meet.
Washington, Oct. 17.—Secretary
Hughes today issued a call for the
second meeting of the American
delegation to the conference on lim-itation
of armaments fixing the date
as Friday, at 3 p. m., subject to the
convenience of Senators Lodge and
Underwoodi.
MR. CLEMENT IS AWARDED
DAMAGES^ JURY HERE
GETS «500 DAMAGES IX SUPER-IOR
COURT—OTHER CASES
ARE TRIED.
A
Senator McKellar Hurt.
Washington, Oct. 17.—Senator
McKellar, of Tennessee, was knock-ed
down and run over by an auto-mobile
today while crossing Penn-sylvania
avenue in front of the
White House. He received cuts
about the face and bruises, none of
which were eerious.
Bergdoll Papers Stolen.
Washington, Oct. 18.—Nearly a
thousand copies of a house commit-tee
-report on the escape of Crover
Cleveland Bergdoll, the draft evad-er,
and a big wooden box contain-ing
certain Bergdoll documents, to-gether
with many private letters
and papers were stolen last night
from the office of Representative
Ben Johnson, Democrait, Kentucky.
workers in their membership, wouH Excellent reports'were submitted''
join the "Big Five" if they walked at the monthly meeting of the exec-out
Octoher 30 as planned. utive board of the Greensboro coun-
W'hile the "Big Five" conference cil. Boy Scouts of America, on Mon-was
looked on as the most import- day night at scout headquarters'in i
ant of the peace moves, railroad the basement of the county court
men tonight professed to see signs house. W. C. A. Hammel announc-1
of a peaceful settlement of the dif- ed that the drum corps would make
fctdtiee in the attitude of B. M. its first public appearance on the'
Jewell, head of the 456,000 mem- following afternoon in the "Chil-I
hers of the six railway shop craft dren's Week" play day exercises.!
organizations, and of J. C. Smock. The young scout-musicians also will j
vice president of the maintenance parade with the American legion on
of way union, which number 300.- Armistice day .November 11. The
report of Scout Executive Bob Den-ny
showed that there are now in
Greensboro and vicinity 20 troops
with a membership of 378 scouts, 44
scoutmasters and. assistants. On the
troop committees are 53 men and
there are 31 merit badge scouts in
Eflrd Buys Building.
Raleigh, Oct. 18.—A real estate
deal by which one of the most val-uable
pieces of property on Fay-etteville
street changed hands was
consummated yesterday when J. R.
Bfird, head of the Bflrd chain of
stores, closed with Mrs. E. E. Swin-dell
for the building now occupied
by the Eflrd store.
WO men.
The shop crafts erecutive council
wet today, but took no action
other than to call in the conference
committee of 100. The committee,
Thile having power to call a strike,
>lso is expected to defer action by
tailing in the 1.000 general chair-; Greensboro.
men for a meeting Friday, twhen the __„__,
final attitude of these groUpS prob- pon|ng furthe,
•Mj will be made known.
The maintenance of way execu-tive
council met only informally to-
Many Jobs Found.
Raleigh, Oct. 19.—'More than
three thousand men and women
found employment through the state
employment service during the three
months' period ending October 1.
according to report made public by
M. L. Shipman, director of the ser-vice.
Ambassador Speaks.
Red Springs, Oct. 18.—Sir Auck-land
Geddes, British ambassador
: CONFERENCE MEETS
Bishop Darlington Presid-ing
. Over Sessions at
*"-■ - High Point.
poning further wage cuts—would
be the basis of discussion.
Board members admitted they re- i Irom the court of St. James to the
alize the board really is fighting for united Stales was given a royal
«»•• 'he formal meeting coming to-j ,u „fe and that muCn of its future weicon.B here today by the Scots o.
j>rrow when all of the members depends on lts ability to handle the tne tw0 carolinas who came from
'" present situation. | all sections to hear him speak. The
In connection with the possibility ambassador made a most interest
of this conference averting a strike, lag talk.
It was pointed out, however, that
many railroads have announced pos-itively
that the public group proro-
'1 cannot speak for my entire or-
SMilatton now. but personally I
*lll say that,we do not want a strike j
I*'tat we would ever strike on the i
**8« question unless forced to. and
-: "'• will not so
into any walk-
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«» ha v.
*rat:on. \.v,.i, ..„ ...... , __» i „|
•". I : • brotherhoods unless
elinite promises of co-op-it:
vHleh so lar nave not Deen
lorthcomina
Saiock,
rom them," said J. C.
ni'ilnienance of wav vice-presi<
lent. , sht.
Be labor hoard will go into con-
'ew« with assurance of full sup-
" every interested govern-lartment,
its members
following an executive!
'•on at which they went over the
One member intimated he
JJB
1W"d {h" board had found a le-method
of enforcing its ruling.
N ti *" b°ard h"S malnta,ni
I had no power to carry out
""I'al de...
uli tonight
sal is Impossible in their opinion
while few labor leaders have ex-pressed
very warm approval of it.
In this connection Samuel (>
Pastor Called.
Reidsville. Oct. 18.—At a congre-gational
meeting at the First
Presbyterian church on Sunday
morning the members voted unani-'
mously to extend a call to the Rsv.
Dunn editor of Railway Age, issued Marion Huske to become pastor of
a statement today denouncing the t;,e church. He is a native of Fay-plan
as "involving a complete sur- etteville and for two years served
render by the roads to the labor as a missionary in China, returning
unions" The statement said that to the states on account of his
the "labor leaders' opposition to the health and for some time has had
plan was a bluff, as it
High Point. Oct. 20.—With Bish-op
U. V. W. Darlington, of Hunting
ton, W. Va., presiding, the annual
sessions of the Western North Car-olina
conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, are being
expeditiously conducted here. Yes-terday,
the first day of the confer-ence,
was a busy one. many impor-tant
matters of business beit>s
transacted.
Addresses were delivered yester-day
morning by Rev. Lurther E.
Todd, D. D., secretary of the board
of finance of the Southern Metho-dist
church, and Dr. Henry N. Sny-der,
president of .Wofford college.
Spartantourg. |S. C. The opening re
ligious services yesterday . morning
were conducted by Bishop Darling-ton,
who apostrophized the love of
Christ.
Rev. W. L. Sherrill was re-elect-ed
secretary of the conference.
Standing committees, nominated by
Rev. A. W. Plyler, presiding elder
of the Greensboro district and secre-tary
to the cabinet, were elected.
Various vacancies on the church
boards were filled.- Yesterday af-ternoon
Rev. H. G. Hardin, pastor
of Tryson Street church, Charlotte,
preached in Wesley Memorial
church, where the conference is be-ing
held. Last night the anniver-sary
meeting of the Sunday school
board was held.
The conference will probably
come to a close next Monday with I
thelreading of the appointments.
To Prevent Fight,
Oklahoma City. Okla., Oct. 1«.—
Governor J. B. A. Robe:t?on today
ordered the sheriff of Tulsa county
to take such steps as may be neces-sary
to prevent the Kike Gibbons-
Mike O'Dowd-middleweight boxing
contest in Tulsa next Tuesday,
warning the promoters it will not
be permitted In Oklahoma.
Flat World Theory.
Zion, 111., Oct. 18.—Zion schools,
of which Wilbur Glenn Vollva, the
overseer of the colony, is president,
have adopted his new theories of a
flat world and the absence of grav-itation,
and the 1,000 grade and
high school .pupils believe them im-.
plicitly, according to their teachers.
Road Work Report.
Raleigh, Oct. 18.—In response to
a request from Herbert Hoover as ■
to the possibilities of the use of un-1
employed through the Increased ac-tivities
on highway construction in
North Carolina, Governor Morrison
today telegraphed Mr. Hoover, sec-retary
of commerce, that North Car-olina
can at once puf under contract
(5,000,000 of road work in excess
of what the state otherwise can do.
Damages in the sum of $500
were awarded to W. L. Clement
Tuesday by the Superior court jury
in the case in which the plaintiff
was suing the American-Southern
Motors corporation.
Mr. Clement alleged that an auto-mobile
which he had purchased
from the defendant company did not
All the requirements. He paid $1,-
717.33 for the car. In addition co
the $500 the plaintiff was given the
•car. Representatives of the defen-dant
company contended that they
did not manufacture the machine,
but only acted as agents in making
the sale and could not be held re-sponsible
for any dereliction npon
the part of the manufacturers.
Excellent progress is being made
in court this week. Judge T. J.
Sha'w, of Greensboro, is presiding
and civil causes are being tried.
On Tuesday a negro named
George Evans was granted a divorce
from his wife, Emma Evans. The
plaintiff contended that in 1919 his
wife left him. The iwoman said her
husband wa's so mean that she
couldn't live with him. She declar-ed
that the Lord told her to leave
him.
In tHe suit of Sands and company
against the American Railway Ex-press
company the jury returned a
verdict awarding $75 damages to
the plaintiff.
Yesterday the Jury returned a ver-dict
in the case of Nataniel Brooks,
administrator of ' Leon McKinney,
who was killed on July 4 1920.
when he slipped and fell under a
train at Pomona, against the South-ern
railway. The verdict was against
the administrator. , „,«*,■
Two suits against |f. Stadiem by
the C'ooaill Manufacturing com-pany
and Arthur B, Laubheim ter-minated
unsuccessfully for the
plaintiffs. The former was asking
for $60 damages, alleging that that
amount was due the company on a
bill of goods. Laubheim asked for
$65.30 damages alleged to be due
on a bill of goods.
Damages in the sum of $60.86
were awarded to the Keystone Mer-chandise
company,irt its suit against
E. C. Hamilton. The plaintiff con-tended
that the defendant had fail-ed
to pay for a bill of goods. No
evidence was presented by the de-fendant.
Pass Tariff Rill.
Washington, Oct. 18.—A bill to
extend the life of the emergency
tariff law to February 1 was pass-ed
today by the house 197 to 74.
The measure now goes to the sen-ate.
If the extension is not author-ized,
the emergency law expires No-vember
27.
MAKIXtt PLANS FOR BIG
KIWAMS MKETIXG HERE.
was exactly charge of the church at Black Mouu-ca
«»
!i£CiSi°n -' -ions
*ith
and rail-
*;"* have charged the other
The hOO** 'he board's rulings.
to1 >m»a..k..e , '' "■* no announcement
ST'0* ""'*
"*WM be gone over thor-
H wa,s
"'Sht as to its procedure
»r than to say that the
°»ghly
*»er,
Dosed
*»er ,i ' n"'s understood, how-
" that -,i
»«
for
group In Wash-acceptance
of
what the unions want."
Possibility of immediate steps to
bring atoout a labor board hearing
on the proposed 10 per cent wage
cut which the roads recently an-nounced
they would seek was re-norted
in rail circles, but locally no
action yet has been taten to this
end. Informal meetings of presi-dents
tain.
LIEX AOAIXST AR.MF-IELD
REAL ESTATE IS BOUGHT.
In the office of Mason W. Gant.
clerk of Gnilford Superior court, a
complaint was filed yesterday by the
Treaties Ratified.
Washington, Oct. 18.—The ad-ministration's
peace treaties with
Germany. Austria and Hungary
were ratified- by the senate tonight,
the vote on the first two .being 6C
to 20, or eight more than the nec-essary
two-thirds, and in the case
of Hungarian treaty, due to the ab-sence
of three senators, being 66 to
17.
An unusually Interesting program
will be carried out at the annual
convention of the Kiwanls clubs of
the Carolina district to be held in
this city on October 26 and 27.
Among the honor guests will be
Governor iMorrison, Harry E. Karr,
international president; Fred W.
Parker, international secretary; R.
A. Mansfield Hobbs, chairman of
the international board of direc-tors;
Roe Fulkerson, editor of ti.e
Kiwanis magazine, and J. Thomas
Arnold, governor of the Carolina
district. Business sessions will be
held in the O. Henry hotel jnd the
Grand theater, while a number of
social events*also are .planned.
Held For Assault.
Greenwood, S. C, Oct. 18.—Miss
Alice Cobb is held In $500 bond on
Crude Furniture company, of Wins- j a charge of assault and battery with
Gen. Metts Dead.
Wilmington, Oct. 18-^Gen. James
I. Metts, 80, commander- of the |^ tonnSalem, asking that a lien against j intent to *ill James Patterson,
North Carolina division,. United real estate on Wharton street, own- whom she flred aj. last night in his
Confederate Veterans, who.was ln-jed by Mr.'and Mrs. J. L. Armfleld.| dairy luncb^establUhment. Patter-
Jured when his automobile was; be granted, the Hen to be tor $l,->on, was arrested and placed under
struck by a street car here Saturday I 060.75. In the complaint it is* al- a $1,000 bond several -weeks ago
informal MWP "Vh^.iro nicht died at a local hospital here'leged that the plaintiff provided five on a warrant srworn out by Miss
of railroads entering CTHcago . , WM ^ fatn. furnacWJ tor a „ke nunrt,er of rwi- Cobb'sxfather charging seduction.
are being held almost J^'-JT" ^^Sjrtan" General J. Van B. dene* erected on tfce. property, iv;
ever, and it was said that delimit ..,..' ^.'-V.:..: —, ^— ..... _>.i_.w.l
would- be made Metts.
Plan similar to that.n/o-
. • lllp Public
b*tea, „ "°n'ediately reducing taken within a f«rw
order by the men. with
announcements'.
shortly.
Presidents of railroads centerin;
here have not Jj^fJJ* of'" ing in Jackson Superior court to-men
to man the train, in case of a g ^^ ^
strike, as has been done In^New WJ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Goes to Referee.
Asheville. Oct. .18.—Judge Hard-
.11
rates
days..-, it
an<l temporarily post- said.
be electron contest to a
ond til
has gone to a reforetoi
York, but this action also will ^ ^^ ^ m ^^
i the defendant and that the plaintiff j
' has not received pay therefor. Mr. I
Armfleld was president of the Bank
of Thomasrllle 'which was closed
several weeks ago by order of the
s ate corporation commission. The
plaintHfSin this case Is represented
by Wilson and Frazier, of Greens-boro.
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.).. Kissing Game Deadly.
Baltimore. Oct. 18.—Two men
were shot to d«ath in an affray
which it is said was the outcome of
a "kissing game" at a party at the
home of John Allen at Curt s ba.\
a suburb, early today. The d°itd
are John Allen, 57, and Robert
Reed. 36.
Harris Electrocuted
, For Slaying: Monnish
Raleigh, Oct. 20.—At 10.30
this morning J. T. Harris,
Ridgecrest merchant, paid the
death penalty in the electric
chair for the murder or F. W.
Monnish, a wealthy Alabama
citizen, in September, 1420.
Governor Morrison dvcHned
to commute the sentence, al-though
it was said that he re-ceived
about a thousand tele-grams
asking for commuta-tion.
He declared "the ver-dict
of the Jury seems to me
the only possible one." He de-nied
that the Baptists of this
state had made any threats
against him in the cvea't of
commutation.
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