The Greensboro patriot [March 2, 1922]

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ESTABLISHED 1821.
WANT ELECTION
Will Press Proposition For,
Uniform School
Taxation.
STATE NEWS BRIEFS
Want to Drive Track.
"Raleigh, Mar. 1.—Reports to* the
state director of employment, M. L.
Shipman, show that there are three
applications for work as truck driver,
for every driver needed and only one
The county superintendent ol
schools. Thomas <R. Foust, is inter,
eated in getting before the voters
of the county the matter of uniform'application as plow hand1 for every
I school taxation, the county unit two plows
system, with all the school .districts
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PUBLISHED EVERY MOTOAY AND THURSDAY.
GREENSBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1922.
TRIAL POSTPONED I REMOVES SCHENCK
Illness of Witness Causes
Delay In Case of
D. B. Oakes.
taxed at the same rate, the money
pooled and administered according
to the needs of the schools.
Big Bank Case.
Monroe, Mar. 1.—Evidence ant.
argument in the case of over 200
Superintendent Foust thinks that Dank* ln North Carolina, asking that
j . „„,, «f .h. nlan are ereat *ne Richmond fererai reserve bank ,
Ih
ndSSStSSSiSl.- P-anent,y enjoined from retus- | *• *«■« -" ^ed Hon. who
ion of the Guiliord! Farm Bureau and
the Guiliord Parent-Teacher council
endorsin.-. it.
The l.oposal failed by only 62
votes i:. the election last April and
if an <- action is called the propo-nents
oi the plan are confident that
it will ?o through.
All special taxes would be re-pealed,
except for Greensboro and
High Point, which would not be af-
(ected by tihe plan.-—and- a levy not
to exceed 25 cents, 15 cents of that
for maintenance acd 10 cents for
buildings, would be levied uniformly.
Teachers would be paid uniform sal-aries.
The plan has many advant-ages.
The people of Mount Vernon
school district ar.d of the Brown
Summit school district are discus-sing
plans to consolidate the -two
schools. It is planned to erect a
new building near Brown Summit.
Sen
ing to 'honor checks on which state
banks have collected a clearance fee
was .presented here this week before
Judge James 1J .Webb. Argument
continued through Wednesday.
Judge Webb will announce a deci-sion
later.
Mule Kicks Hoy_
Thomasville, Mar. 1.—Allen Mc-runiel,
13 years old, an inmate of
'the Baptist orphanage 'here, was
killed Monday afternoon when a
mule he was trying to mount became
entangled in his harness, falling on
the boy and crushing 'him, tbe points
of the hames puncturing the boy's !
skull.
publicans Wanted Battle-
'feround Job—E .E. Merr
| denhall May Get It.
I Paul W. Sehenck, of this city has
■pen relieved of his duties as resi-dent
commissioner of the Guilford
Battleground National park, receiv-fpk*
a letter to that effect from the
sjOeretary of war, John W. Weeks,
! onday
A new commissioner will be ap-
I rtBtedi soon. the letter statsd, but
1 was not stated who will get the
$te. It is said that Edward E.
ndenhall, of this city, is *neing
considered. It has been said that
JOhn M. Morehead, Republican Na-tional
committeeman from North
'Carolina, must endorse the man wh-r
gets it and E. E. Mendenhall is sur
posed to be his choice.
jA salary of f 1,000 goes with the
position.
}Mr. Sehenck has been requested to
resign by Mr. Weeks but he refused
to do so. The position Is considered
ten-year sentence in the state penl- 'honorary and Mr. Sehenck wasma:.
tentiary. Talley, who is still a\ [commissioner on account of the great
Trial of D. B. Oakes, former police-man
of this city, Charged with the
murder of Tommy Robertson on last
May 4, la Rockingham county, Just
across the Guilford line, has been
postponed until another term of
Alamance county Superior court.
The trial had been set for today at
Graham.
The reason for the postponement
of the tral of Oakes is the illness
was In the automobile with Oakes
when Robertson was shot. Holt is
In a hospital at Roanoke, suffering
with pneumonia.
■Robertson was. killed during a
chase following the killing of Police-man
Tom McCuiston here on May 4.
McCuiston was shot from a liquar
car in which were Roberts-n, Lewis
Edwards and Carl Talley. ' Edwards
was captured and tried, receiving a
NEWS OP THE NATION
Mystery Murderer Arrested.
Los Angeles, Mar. 1.—-The mystery
of- the murder of William Desmond
Taylor. Mm director, "Is solved" If
the story, of Mrs. John Rupp In con-nection
with the arrest here yester-day
of six drug peddlers is correct,"
tonight declared detective Sergeant
Herman Cline, one of the police
squad assigned to the ease. Mrs.
Rupp directly charged- two of the
men with her with the murder of
Taylor.
Negress Worth 920,000,000.
New Orleans, Mar. 1.—Oil lands in
Claiborne Parish, said to be worth
nearly $20,000,000, were declared
today by the Louisiana Supreme
court to be the property of Lillle G.
Taylor, a negrees, when the court
denied a request for a curator for
thejsstate of I.ona McGee, 'her moth-er.
VOL. 101. NO. 18
KJNTY DUNS CITY
|ks For Money Due Coun-ty
School Fund From
Courts.
large, has been declared an outlaw.
'LIVE AT HOME"
Church Elders Acquitted.
Raleigh, Mar. 1.—A decision o!
not guilty was made in Municipal
court 'here Tuesday in the case c-
I Production of Food And
Feed for 'Home And
Market Stressed.
Raleigh, March 2.—A definite
stait is being made this week in the
W. A. Simpkins and G. T. Powell. I work ot puttlng over Governor Cam-elders
in the Primitive Baptist eron (Morrison's "Live at Home" cam-timent
is strongly in favor of the church, tried on charges of disturb- pal-gn, John Paul Lucas,' of Char-
Linsolidation. Mr. Foust said yes- ing religious worship.
terd.iy that plans are waiting to
some extent on the outcome of the \
proposition for uniform county
I
I lotte, v.ho 'has been secured to or-
] ganize and direct the campaign, 'has
opened an office n the state depart-ment
annex, and the preliminary
: work is already under way. The
work in prospect i* no; new to Mr.
Lucas, who had active direction of
Druggist In Liquor Trouble.
Laurinburg, .Mar. 1.—A. F. Blue.
Iiool taxation. 'manager of a drug store here, eharg-
Miss Bettie Aiken Land, super- ed with storing and keeping whisky
sor of rural schools for Guilford for sa'e, was found guiUy in Recor;:-
unty, attended the annual conven er's court here yesterday. He was
: of the National Educational .fined ?500 and the costS> Thej>ros-
*c-iatton at Chicago this week-. :ecution offered: as witnesses SDouf-flr Durihs VT,e war. first with the State
! persons, including bankers, preach- toi)d comm]3r.|c;, ; >ater with the
ers, business men and farmers. Th. ■ united States food administration
defense offered no evidence. | and vbo is "loaned" to the state for
- -this particular work by the Southern
General Carr Better. I pUD]|c utilities company for which
Durham, Mar. 1.—The condition
Interest taken by the Sehenck family
In having the battleground made «•
national park. He has rone a great
daal to improve and beautify it.
;Sena'tor Lee S. Overman became
interested in the matter when Mr.
Sehenck was asked to resign ani
conferred with the secretary of war.
Mf. Overman opposed firing Mr
Sqhenck and having the place given
oat like any common political ap-pointment,
and it was understood
that Mr. Weeks would not press for
tS removal of ,Mr. Sehenck if the
Republicans of the state would agree.
It seems they wanted the job for one
of,their number.
POULTRY WORK
»;
the food production and conserva- flfe Week In Stanley County
UQjL.c*mro.i*r. in Kan»jCft|ifc*J|( P^JMaidfaitttlaa**. ^»„
In County.
Ingcrsol Auction.
New York, Mar. 1.—Creditors o!
Robert H. Ingersol and Brothers,
bankrupt makers ot "the dollar
watch," have authorized the trustees
to sell the company* at public sale
April 10 unless an offer of at least
$1,500,000 is received within the
next ten days.
John Wilson, county attorney, ap-peared
before the city council here
Monday afternoon and asked that it
pay into the county schoodi fund
$2,600, due as the .county's share ot
Snes and forfeitures In Municipal
court.
The county, Mr: Wilson said, has
had trouble before In getting its
money from the city, 'having once
secured a judgment ot about $3,000
rendered In its favor. For a while
since, 'he state, there was no trouble,
but again payments 'have lapsed un-til
the bill la $2,600, -The county
asks interest, also.
The law, the county attorney said,
is explicit on the matter of fines and
forfeitures going Into the county
school fund! and while the board or
commissioners does not want to be
unpleasant it wants the city to pay
the money due.
City Manager Painter and City
Attorney Charles A. Hines 'were au-thorized
by the city council to look
into the matter and report to the
council.
Ford Gives 91,000
Grand Rapids, Mich., Mar.l—Con-tribution
to the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation offers opportunity for
persons of all political beliefs to aid
the cause of world .peace. Henry Ford
declared in enclosing a check to'
$1,000 for the foundation.
SHOT AT HUSBAND
Jealousy Ascribed As Cause
—Suspended Sentences
Are Given
Because she took a shot at her
husband, Z. R. Foster, when he came
home late Monday night, Mrs.
Foster andl the man were both found
guilty in Municipal court here Tues
day on a charge of affray with dead-ly
weapon and given suspended sen-tences
of 60 days each.
of Gen. Julian S.vCarr, commander of '
the United Confederate Veterans, >
who has been very ill at his home
<here with influenza, is much im- ■
he is advertising and publicity man-ager.
During the campaign emphasis
will be laid not u; on the production
of food supplies for the market, but
upon the production by every family
Respite For Negro. !of food and feed suppIles sufficient
Raleigh, Mar. 1.—A third reprieve \0 #uppiy- lt3 own establishment,
was granted, yesterday to Wrish; ,More and better gardent, more poui-
Rouse, negro slayer of W. W. Whit- trjp_ one or more cowg tm ^^
j ley, prominent Greene county farmer. famlly! an<j BUfflcient hogs to furnish
sentenced to be electrocuted. The an aii-year supply of pork will he
governor announced the respite by ] advocated. The new movement ha'.
Jealousy on fhe part of the woman ;
_»,a.„s ,t■h,e„ cause of..t.he shvoot»iing, po-1 g•overnor announced the respite by
lice said. Warm words followed lons dtetance tel*Pn<">e from New,the whole-hearted backing not only
the arrival of the man, a barber, a; York' Mr"' W'hiUey *n<1 W1H Hay* [of the department of agriculture and
his home, late and the woman shot who hired the neKro to do the k,"~ j th« »<*• College of Agriculture and
at him with a .38 caliber Colt re-i,nR are servlngllfesentences. ■ Engineering, but also ot the depart-volver.
The bullet struck the wall j . ment of education, the state board
behind him. a ■short .distance above ! - Mectro«»tIo» Prevented. |o| neaHh „d other, agencies of the
| his shoulder. f Wilmington, Mar. I.—An appeal state government. .
Mrs. Foster said her husband .to the atate Supreme court yesterday j The campaign which is being in-came
home drunk and she shot to''automatically prevented the electro- auguroted will, be intensively con
Protect herself. . ciltlon of Clyde (Montgomery, of this ducted and will' cover a period o
I city, sentenced to die for an attack eight or 10 weeks The organisa-
COMMUNITY CHEST
DRIVE IS STARTED
on a girl here.. He set* at least 30
days more to live.
I '. \L
, WANTS 918,000 BECAUSE
tion to be built up will reach into
every township of every county i
the state.
The community chest drive, with
$85,000 as its goal, began ■ here
HE FEU, FROM 80AFF0X.0 SHEMWELI, CASE HEARING
:R. J. Bennett, of this city. Wed- IS SET FOR MARCH 10
Wednesday morning, to last through nesday filed in the offlce of Mason —
Friday. Cant, clerk of Superior court of Guil- An answer to the complaint o'
The new plan for raising money ford county, a $15,000 damage suit minority stockholders of the. Mays
RJileigh, Mar. 1.—"Poultry cluB
week in Stanly county was a great
success In every section where
meetings were held," said Allen G
Oliver, hack from there last wel:
Mr. Oliver is the state representative
in charge of -poultry club work in
the state.
"Work done by O. H. Phillips ant'
Miss Myrtle Keller, the coutny agents
was the cause of a large attendance
and great interest," he continued .
"We held 15 meetings in the conn
ty. in the interest of standardizing
farm poultry, and giving demonstra-tions
in culling and grading of eggf
"The best work was done where
they had community clubs and many
large poultry clubs were formed.
"Fully 2,000 single combedl Rhode
Island Red egg*. 1.000 Barred Pl-uiouth
Rock eggs~ and'1,000 Whi
Wyandotto eggs wen ordered. These
will be furnished by boys and girl?
who have fine flocks and by local
state fanciers.
"I consider this fhe banner week'r
work so far done in the state "
Mr. Oliver is- working with the
poultry club of Cumberland county
this week.
12 Children In Five Ye.'rs.
Brownsville, Ky., Mar. 1.—That
the stork lias favored them wihh six
years of generosity unequalled, per-b
»»». a»r*»ofi '-tap is «KS country.
-is the claim of Mr. and Mrs. William
i'oteet, who became the parents here
Monday of four more children, mak-ing
a total of 12 in five years. Dur-ing
the first five years of their wed-ded
life, four pairs of twins wer*
born to Mr. and Mrs. Poteet. The
eight twins and the four born Mon-day
are all living and apparently In
good health.
TAXPAYERS TO MEET
HERE NEXT TUESDAY
FINED FOR INSULT
Young Men Charged With
Asking Women To
Ride.
Caught After 51 Years.
Montgomery, Ala., Feb^ 28.—Gov-ernor
Kilby late yesterday honored
a requisition drown by Governor
Hard wick, of Georgia, tor the return
of George Nichols from Tusctloosa
to Floyd councy, Ga., for trial on :
charge of murder in connection with
the death of >Peter Mooney, at Rome,
Ga., 51 years ago. - -
T. E. 'Latham and Dewitt Rey-nolds,
young men of this city, were
each fined $50 and the costs in Mu-nicipal
court here Tuesday, the re-sult
of charges made by two young
women that the men had spoken to
them from an automobile..
The young women, Mrs. Rul n
Pickard andi >irs R. L. Kirkman,
testified that the men approached
them on DavTe street in this city and
spoke to them and that when the men
were rebuffed persisted in following
them, repeating their remarks, until
the women reached home.
The men testified that they did ask
one of fhe young women for permis-sion
to take her home, but that they
thought she was another person, an
acquaintance of theirs. They said
that they appoligised when they
found they were mistaken, and im-mediately
drove off.
The incident happened one even-ing
about ten days ago.
There were two cases against each
of the defendants, technical charges
of assault. In one case each Judg-ment
was suspended for each. The
men appealed from the decision and
bond was fixed at $500 Jor each. *
Soldier Bonus Wrangle.
WaehlojjbMi, Feb. 38.—House
ways and means committee Republl
can spent three hours today trying tc
reconcile their differences over the
soldiers' bonus, but without success
Call for "a meeting of the tax- j
payers of Guilford county to meet'
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for benevolences here, so far as nine against J. L. Crouse, contractor, of Manufacturing company that Baxter
organizations is concerned, is ex- this city, and the Proximity Manu- Shemwell looted the treasury of the in the county s courthouse at
pected to be a success. The money facturing company. Bennett alleg- company and/asking for the appoint. o'clock on Tuesday, March 7, 1922,
raised will be placed in one fund and es that while he was working on the ment of a permanent receiver has. for the purpose of obtaining infor-
Party Vote On Tap Treaty.
Washington, Feb. *8.—Dividing
virtually on party lines, the senate
refused.- to amend the Yap treaty to
day In the first test of strength or
any question affecting the interna-tional
covenants negotiated durin
the Washington conference. Th*
vote was 50 to 23.
allotments made to the nine organ-izations.
They are: The Board of
Public Welfare, $7,000; North
Carolina Children's Home society,
$7,000; District Nurse and Relief
association, $8,000; Greensboro fendants-.fcnew it.
Camp and Playground association. . ■>. ;
52,000; Boy Scouts, $5,500; Red BISHOP DUUffldNTON HEAR©
Cross, $4,900; Y_ M. C. A. $8,000; IN STRONG SERMON HERE
^ W. C. A., including the Travelers' 'Bishop U. V. W. Darlington, o'
Aid society. $18,100; Salvation We8t Virginia, of the Methodist
Army, $6,500. As a provision against Dpiscopal Church, south, preached a
emergencies $10,000 will he reserv- 8trong sermon at Centenary Method-
, ed, and $8,000 is allowed for shrink- fa church here 'Wednesday night. In
In subscription lists and for which he described conditions In Po-wmpaign
expenses. land and Creoho-Slovakia. He made
a strong appeal for. help for the
Denies Fleecing Women. people there, with whose condition h*
-\'ew York, Feb. 28.—Alfred Lind- Is familiar, having visited the' cVran-say,
alleged swindler of society worn- tries last summer
*n, issued a statement from his
in Tombs prison-today, denying that
he had fleeced the women out o' the Centenray church, speaking
Y. M. C. A. building at Proximity been filed in federal court here.' mation as to the needsj andi expendl-he
fell from a scaffold 15 feet to tin western, district of North Carolina, tares of the county fuijds" has been
grdundi and suffered a compound by Mrs Susan Shemwell, wife o ] issued by C. T. Weathefly, president
fracture of the arm. He claims that Baxter Shemwell, in which it i» de of *he Guilford
the scaffold was. unsafe and the de- nied that Baxter Shemwell is an offi
HAltDING ASKS SUBSIDIES
FOR OPERATORS OF SHIPS
cer of the company, and asking for a
dismissal of the temporary receiv-er.
March 10 is set for a hearing.
ONLY DAUGHTER OF KING
OF ENGLAND MARRIES
. Washington, Feh. 28.—President
Harding through a mesage which he
read in person to congress in joint
session presented today the admin-
Mr. Weatherl* "It will bC the pur. j'"ration program for development
„„,,» nf .K, ._ .„ , ..„ ,„.„ through direct and indirect subsidies
Counjty Farmers'
union.
According to the call issued by
pose of this meeting to Inquire into
the overhead expenses of all de- ■ of the American merchant marine,
land immediately after he had out-
■ lined his views steps were taken to
translate his recommendations Into
legislation.
In addreslng the joint session of
rding decfar-
.nearly $1,000,000
transactions.
by fake stock the necessity of carrying through the message and vast crowds
sible to Inaugurate savings." Tax-jipayers
signing the call state that
London, Feb. 2'8.—Princess , "We deem it our right and privilege
Mary, only daughter of King George , to know where all our raxes are
and Queen Mary, was married today spent, and if every employe of the Congress, President Ha
to Viscount 'Lascelles, with all the county Is giving results. Let every ed that the policy of government op-pomp
and dignity befitting a royal citlsen come prepared to hand in eration of its merchant Ships had
wedding • ! questions regarding"county finances,' , been demonstrated to be fundamen-
The ceremony began In Westmih- " if tated in tfce.«a.ll. . . «*~f »nd p^c"ca"yJ^Si
ster Abbey at 11:30 o-'clock and soon -.Similar meetings.are being he' • «»>le. He proposed the sale—even
at an admitted sacrifice—of the gov-war
and
have Indirect subsidies, together with, oth-
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SUIT AGAINST SPEED
COP GOES TO ROWAN
A suit against W. O. Allen, a
motorcycle speed policeman ot Oa-barrus
county, brought by Mrs.
Mason W. Cant, of this city, has been
moved from Cabarrus to Rowaa
county. It Is charged in the salt
that the offlcer maliciously interfer-red
end arrested Mrs. Cant while she
and her children were traveling
through Cabarrus county in an auto-mobile
on their way from Greensboro
to Forest City. Damages of $2,000
are asked:.
Mrs. Gant was notified by the po-liceman,
when she and her son, driv-ing
the car, tried to pass the police-man,
who was riding in front of
them, raising much dust, that she
had violated the speed laws
PYRTLE BOUND OVER>
ON MURDER CHARGE
~™ i,i„ I»I ™mm«r ster Abbey at 11:30 o'clock and soon '.«.«»" meetings,»re MBB « , ' _,. » ZTZ.
ceU Today SEE - Darlington met therea.ter the couple «, pronoun* tj*tW thr*..houUtho:.«*.. R- W. at an admitted^-"^ £ I
Centenary movement tuniu'.'.uoua greetings.
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gave ****• that many - taxpayers'
signed the calls.
. ,- • '- • -''"' •
.- -£..;^: X..-.
er aid, to private ship operators.
.1.
W. M. Pyrtle, of Reidsville, was
bound over on a charge of murder
at a preliminary hearing Monday in
Municipal court here His arrest md
trial followed an automobile smash
on Bast Market street extension Sat-urday
night in which Robert Mc-
Pberson was killed. Bond was fixed
at $5,000.
Pyrtle testified that he was 'driv-ing
the ear at 20 to 25 miles an hour
when, in paaslnc another car, it left
Che road and struck a telephone pole.
Horace Hamilton, of this city, the
third occupant of the car, testified
that the car was going at 25 to 30
miles an hour.
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