The Greensboro patriot [March 6, 1922]

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ESTABLISHED 1821. GREENSBORO, N, C. MONDAY; MARCH 6, 1922. OL. 101. NO. 19
[EQOEST ELECTION FOR
COUNTY MT TAX PLAN
STATE NEWS BRIEFS
EXPECT COMMISSIONERS
TO ORDER ELECTION TO
DECIDE ON SCHOOL TAX
lany Petitions Received
UID OP EDUCATION IM.PRES-D
BY SENTIMENT FOR
COUNT! UNIT PLAN. _
Early his week the Guilford
I board o' county commissioners will
[be pre; ited with a resolution ask-ing
the commissioners to order an
election on the proposition to repea-.
the spcciil school taxes and substi-tute
for I'leni a uniform county tax,
ihe reco^ti to be pooled and admin-istered
for the benefit of the schools
as a unit.
That the county commissioner:-
will order the election is not doubt-ed.
It Is expected that the election
will be held late in April or early
in May.
At a meeting of Che Guilfovl
county board of education Saturday
the formal resolution was paeseil re-questing
the board of county com-missioners
to call the election.
Strong Petitions.
Decision no ask for an election
was reached by the board of educa-tion
after numerous requests were
received by it from several sections
of the county asking Chat «he ques-tion
be resubmitted to the people.
Strong petitions were received, one
from McLeansville, one from Brow.-.
Summit arid one from Momticello.
These were in addition to the
quest of the Guilford county Farm
bureau, of a community meeting in
Greene township, another at SUE-merfieSi
and etill .another made at
a meeting of the Guilford County
Parent-Teacher association council
at Jamestown.
At the meetings where the m?fcter
was acted upon the sentiment wa->
very strong in favor of the propo-rtion.
At the Summerfield com-munity
meeting the re<i"««t that the
people be given a chance to paps
upon the proposition was unanimous,
i At the Greene township community
meeting all those present -were tn
avor of an election. The
TO USE RADIO FOR
- MARKET REPORTS
Chicago, Mar. 4.—The farmer
need fc»e no .more than thirty
'minute* behind, his city brother
in .receiving news of the factories
which Determine prices ol agri-cultural
products, Robert Mrou-gal,
president of the Chicago..
Board* of Trade, said tonight in
a statement outlining the board's
plan to broadcast market reports
by radto telephone beginning
Monday.
The radio system, which will
cover a territory within a radius
of 500 miles of Chicago, 'he char-acterized
as "the best forwa-.'d
step *ln two thousand years" in
bringing the farmer in contact
with the factors that make t'he
price of his product.
Beekeepers Meet.
Burlington, Mar. 6.—Members of
the Alamance County Beekeepers
Association met in the office of t'he
Alamance county farm 'demonstra-tion
today. Better methods of keep-ing
bees, were discussed.
Big Drop In Eggs.
Shelby, Mar. 5.—The egg market
has suffered a big slump here lately
| falling from 60 cents a dozen two
weeks ago until today merchants are
offering only 15 cents in caeb and 20
cents In trade for fresh country eggs.
Warmer weather and the lenten
season are given as the reasons for
the drop in price.
FOUND GUILTY
OF ASSAULTING ANOTHER
H*QH POINT WOMAN HAS SEN-TENCE
SUSPENDED—STRUCK
' >■*■ . WELFARE OFFICER
NEWS OF TBE NATION
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AGREE ON BONUS
Small Cash Payment And
Certificates For For-mer
Soldiers.
Sold Cigarettes To Minors
High Point, Mar. 4.—Ten persons-were
tried in Municipal court here
[Thursday, charged with selling ciga-rettes
to minors. Six of thom, J. A.
Hart, George Dialle, Tony Rodiacn,
,E. R. Hill, Louis Gonalis and Cris
. Bombalis were found technically
! guilty, judgment being suspended on
payment of the costs. The four
found not guilty are W. E. Sewar.v
Clyde Leonard and Louie Gonalis.
WASHINGTON, March 4.—Unani-mous
agreement on a compromise
soldiers' bonus bill along the gen-eral
lines of that announced offici-ally
yesterday was reached today by
house ways ankl means committee
Republicans, who believe they had
fouml a| solution of the problem
which has been giving administra-tion
and congressional leaders con-re-
cern for several weeks. The rvvlsd*
measure, however, still h is a Ions I
u-oad to travel before it reaches tiity
statute books. ''
As now drawn the bill r •'.:'.»;.;
'tor cash payments ''only lo taooe
men whose adjusted service pay
wouipt not exceed $50, and these
four optional features:
Adjusted service certificates with
an added loan provision which would
enable the men to obtain immedi-ately
from banks a sum equal to
50 per cent of the. adjusted service
pay; vocational /training; home and
farm aid, and land settlement.
In working out details of the
Farm certificate loan provision, the ma-
Married Long, Seeks Divorce.
Wilmington, Mar. 5.—After being
rr rried for 23 years, Benjamin H.
■ ton has filed suit for divorce in
Ha-over county Superior court here
against his wife, Katie Baton, charg-ing
abandonment in 1914.
100 Years Old.
Ruthorfordton. Mar. 6.—Attesting
the longevity of "Tar Heel" citizens
of western No-.-th Carolina, and
Rutherford county, a birthday-re-union
celebrating the 100th anni-versary
of Mr. Thomas R. McArthur.
was held at the home of J. L.
..™ i Ureene. near Hollia, Sunday.
bureau and the Parent-Teacher coun-cil
in like manner were heartily In
TtoM It IIVIT.
ftoldsboro, March t.—Robbers
drove UP to the store of .Tnmes Ccle.
corner Slocumb and Maple streets,
in the extreme southarn suburb, be-tween
2 anld 3 o'clock Friday morn-ing
with an auto truck, broke in the
back door and car. ied away between
Jl,200 and $1,609 worth of stock,
including 7,000 cigars, cases of
shoes, cases of lard and other goods.
Heads Election- Board.
Raleigh, Mar. 4.—Col. P. M.
Pearsall, of New Bern, will succeed
the late Col. Wilson G. Lamb, of
! Because Mrs. Belle Steed, of High
♦olnt, seem ad sorry that she slapped
Mr*. Blanche Carr Sterne, county
welfare officer, when the latter
vifKed her to ask why Mrs. Steed's
fOHdren were not sent Jo school,
Mrs. Steed, found guilty of assault
on Mrs. Sterne, was allowed to go
uhder a suspended judgment, on the
condition that she send her children
to school.
' Trial of the case occurred at Higb
Point Friday in Municipal court.
Mrs. Steed was trie? on two charges,
violation of the compulsory school
law. and assault upon Mrs. Sterne.
t Mrs. Steed, asking for another
ehance, promised to obey the law.
She admitted that she struck :.;:-.;.
Sterne and that she had not sen;
her children to school as the law re-quired.
i Mrs. Sterne, who attendee" the tria:
with several county officers, asked
-'page Walter Royal, before whoni
the hearing was held! not to be hare
on Mrs. Steed and not to fine her
heavily. The welfare officer re-gretted,
she said, thai ».n arrest
was' necessary, but the school law
fcsd been violated. She was averse
to having a. warrant sworn out
against Mrs. Steed for the assault,
bat county officers insisted that It
be done, as Mrs. Sterne is an officer
of the law.
The trouble occurred on Febru-ary
2-3 when, Mrs. Sterne bavin:--
gone to the home of Mrs. Steed at the
Highland Cotton mill at High Poin
to see about the failure of her chil-dren
to attend school, Mrs.. Steen
declared that there was nothing in
taSySRle about couu-ni-ory school
l£zjm»t andj, after a wordy, at
i* <?*tlairped The v»Kir« oWitfri-
. Small Honored.
Washington, Mar. 3.—President
John H. Small, of Washington, N.
C, who was re-elected president of
the national rivers and harbors con-gress
by a unanimous vote, called
attention of the delegates to the
fact that this is an election year and
suggested that they go to their con-gressmen
and demand aHequate sup-port
for the rivers and harbors im-provements
needed.
BRING ESCAPED CONVICT
BACK TO GUILFORD COUNTY
JTOE PATTERSON, CONVICTED O**
HIGHWAY ROBBERY, CAP.
TIRED AT HAW RIVER
Hanged From Chair.
Chicago, Mar. 4.—Strapped to e
chair and carried to the gallows in
the same comatose state in which he
has laid for weeks, Harvey Church,
slayer of two automobile sajeernen,
paid the penalty for his crime at
3:45 o'clock Friday afternoon. He
Tetained his apparently unconscious
mein to the end. Last minute at-empts
by his attorneys to save him
failed when Judges Scanlon and
David refused to intercede for the
condemned man.
Goesthals In Shoals Offer.
Washington, Mar. 4.—George W.
Goesthals, former major general in
the army and builder of the Panama
Canal, will take personal charge or
the development of the govern-ment's
war made projects at Muscle
Shoals, Ala., in the event the offer
of Frederick E. Engstrum, North
Carolina shipbuilder and engineer,
for lease and completion of the Ala-bama
properties is accepted by Con-grees,
it was announce* Friday.
PRIMARY ON JUNE 3
Compulsory Eduction Bill.
■Richmond, Va., IK*. 3.—The Vir
ginia senate last night, by a vote o»
25 to 11, passed what is known as
the compulsory education bill. An
earlier effort to put the question to
a state-wide referendum was defeat-
MtagThe measure already had passed
Tthe'house.
jorfty committeemen reduced the
certificate which. Willlamston, as chairman of the
state board of elections. Col. Pears-face
value of t* e
I favor of the election, voting unani- wouli be the amount of the ao-mouslv
for it and in ertdorsement of j Justed service pay plus 25 per cent.
| the plan. • |pl"» interest at 4 1-2 per cent com-
The plan calls for all special taxe' ■ pounded annually, instead of the
| to be repealed and in their place be service pay plus 40 per cent pins
substituted a uniform county tax, the Interest as ^jriglnally proposed.
loot to exceed 16 cents for mainten- It was thought tH& wouSd result in
ance and 10 cdrtta Xor ibuIMlng*. a saving to. the government up to a
I The total taxes collected wouUt bepossible maximum of halt a billion
put together and administered for dollar!.
the benefit of the schools according| Banks in making roans on the
to their needs. High Point ah* certificates could not charge an In-
Oreensboro would be excepted from tores* MM in excess of two per cent
the provision* of the plan. aboro' the rediscount rate charged
MEANS BETTER SCHOOLS | by the regional federal reserve bank
The county superintendent of on ninety flay paper in the district
schools, Thomas R. Foust, is anx- where the loan was made and they
ious for the plan to be pnt in oper- could not make the loans tor a per-ation,
holding that it will make for iod In excess of three years from the
greater progress in the schools of (date of the certificate, which would
the county. He is confident, also, not be rediscountable by federal re-that
a majority of the voters will serve banks.
agree with him. Last April the I « the loans have not been repaid
proposition was defeatcld by only 6: on September 30, 1925, the banks
votes and since then there has been could make demand on the govern-a
marked growth of sentiment in ment. it was stated. The govern-favor
of the proposition. Now that ment, it was stated, then would cash
the plan is better understood many the certificate, pay the bank.
all was appointed by Governor Cam-eron
Morrison Friday.
Lynched In Effigy.
HILLSBORO, Mar. 3.—John
Sprunt Hill, fourth district highway
commissioner for North Carolina.
was hanged and burned in effigy
here Thursday afternoon by a crowd
of about 800 Orange county people,
who were dissatisfied with the route
Mr. Hill choose for the Central high-way
through Orange county.
New Station For Winston.
WINSTON-SALEM, Mar. 4.—A
$700,000 union passenger station
will be erected here, work to begin
as soon as possible, according to
announcement of Southern railway
officials.
Tax Protest Meeting-
GOLDSBORO, Mar. 3.
persons who were against it are for
it.
turn the remainder over to the ser-vice
man.
fled taxpayers of Wayne county held
a meeting here Friday to protest
against what they called he "heavy
tax burden."
-Dissati *•
The petitions received, being FO
strongly in favor of the proposition,
are encouraging to the county super-
Others* Want Road Chief.
RJTLEIGH, Mar. 4.—Frank Page,
chairman of the North -Carolina
Highway commission, has not been
offered $100,000 by the state of
Clears Murder Mystery.
Baleigh, March 4.—Mystery sur-intendent
and «tte hoaott of'-educa- rounding the murder of Rufus H.
tion, showing that many of the vot- •*-^*^^5^*S£ Georgia to direct the construction of
m .mpelled to pass the resolution =Guess ona.a^a jj^.JJJf^jJ^ ba^been P
24 was cleared up today by the con- Virginians. The matter never reach-fesson
of "Red" Bryant, a negro. ed the price stage, it is Stated. »
--"»— . ,. . _._,,_ „-,„_t„ i.ii „n B oh»n»p Is said that Mr. Page has no intention
Hope, R. I.. Mar. 3.-A few brok- held ******* «! VaUtnat of 1-vlng road work in North Caro-kuH.
_.a j ._J__ ... „,..,,„_ of making whiskey, ine s.aiea mai
Democrats Will Select Can-didates—
Books* Open
April 27.
RALEIGH, March 4.—The state
district anH county Democratic pri-maries
will be held on June 3, the
first Saturday in June. Registration
books will ©pen Thursday, April 27,
and will be kept open dally from 9-
o'clock until sunset through Satur-day,
May 20.
The time for filing of notice of
candidates for state add district of-fices
closes Saturday, April 22. This
period is applicable to all candidates
for state offices, judges of the su-perior
auid supreme court, solicitors,
congressmen and state senators .; In
districts comprising more Chan one
county. In filing notice these candi-dates
must sign a pledge, under.the
election laws, to support the party
candMate nominated by the party
with which they are affiliated.
Candidates tor the state senate in
districts comprising only one coun-ty,
tor the house of representatives
and for county offices shall file with
the county board of election of their
county a like notice and pledge
prior to May 20. The cost of office-seeking
varies with the importance
of. the.job. A congressional candi-date
must pay a fee of $50; candi-dates
for judgeships, solicitorships
or any state office, J20; state senate.
$5, and county offices, $5, excepting
the office of coroner, county com-missioner
and surveyor—which pay
no specified annual salaries—$1.
Political talk about the state
capital indicates that contests will be
confined to the judicial districts and
the counties. No work as to con-tests
in congressional 'districts hae
reached Raleigh, jthose well inform-ed
in matters political are expecting
the ten congressmen to be renoml-nated
without opposition.
New Postmaster General.
Washington, Mar. 3.—Dr. Hubert
Work, first assistant postmaster gen-eral,
was nominated by President
Harding and confirmed by the sen-ate
today to be postmaster general.
He succeeds Will H. Hays, resigned.
Woman Skips With Cash.
Boston, Mar. 3.—Miss Elisabeth
Kenney, 30 years , of age, house-keeper
and bookkeeper for Town
pTreasurer Warren J. Wright, o.
NorthfieW', 70 years old. was being
sought in Boston today. Detectives
had a warrant for her arrest, charg-ing
her with larceny ot 110,000 oi
the town's money.
Long Hunt Ends.
Chicago, March 3. —A-l»-year
search for a missing man, which COT
ered Europe, Asia and Australia, and
twics crossed the Atlantic Into
America, was ended today when Mrs.
Bda. Shapiro, of Chicago, was notified
that her cousin. Bernard Trtenman
[has been located in New York.
Joe Patterson, young white man,
one of the 16 convicts who escaped
from a house at the Guilford coun-ty
camp about a month ago, was
brought back Friday night to servo
out his term of two years, Imposed
following his conviction at the.
December term of Guilford court on
a charge of highway robbery.
Patterson was captured near Haw
River Friday afternoon by Alamance
county officers and a Guilford con-vict
guard went there for him Fri-day
night.
The crime for which Patterson
was convicted was a very brutal one.
White J. P. Ratcliffe, an elderly
man, a resident of Proximity mill
village, was feeding his hogs on
the edge of the village one night in
November a man came up and or-dered
him to hold up his hands. Mr.
Ratcliffe thought the man was jok-ing
bat he soon found out better.
The fellow knocked him in the head
with a stick, stole his money ane
left. 'Mr. Ratcliffe carried: all his
money on him, a hefty roll of green-backs.
The trial of the case excited a
good deal of Interest. Patterson
maintained' to the last that he was
Innocent and sought to prove an
alibi, but the jury did not believe
his story.
Only one other of the 16 men
hae been sent back to the convict
oamp and he returned of his own
will. Van Miller, haunted by the
dread of being captured and tired
of hiding, gave himself up to a pri-vate
citizen, asking that he be not
given extra time. He was not given
extra time as punishment for es-caping.
Twenty-eight prisoners are r.t
large, four who got away In a bunch
before Patterson and the 15, end
10 men who escaped later from the
city stockade. It Is expected that
some of them will be taken sooner
or later, as Patterson was. A week
ago a conviot went fhto a barn at
Durham, spent the night and swap-ped
his stripes for a suit of clothes
he found In the barn in an old
trunk. It is supposed! that he was
a Guilford conyiot and the fact that
Patterson was captured in an ad-joining
county, another getting no
further than Durham, gives ground
to the belief that some ot the others
are not a thousand miles from here.
CUT ARMFIELD BOND
asking that an election be called.
Strike Fight.
Runs Amuck and Suicides.
Newton, Mass., Mar. 3.—Enraged
because his wife stayed out late at •
motion picture show, William T.
Garvey shot and killed her, woundetf
Mrs. Doris G. Atwodd, a boarder,
and took his own life late last night.
A 17-year-old son, Raymond, and
two other children, witnesses of the
shooting, tried unsuccessfully to stor.
their father, one of the girls jump-ing
at him'. At the Newton hospital
today physicians said Mrs. Atwood
would recover.
Reduced to $90,00 But He
Hasn't Raised That
—Continue Case
SALES TAX FOUGHT
BY FARM BUREAU.
•n he?/ds remained todav '3S souve
nirs of yesterday's first attempt to he was with another negro,
reopen cotton mills closed by the Richmond, still at large, when Rlch-strlke
neariy six weeks ago. Mean- monli shot Hamilton. Miss Guess
while the results of the attempt testified that dne of the two negroes
were debated throughout the
tnext and Blackstone valleys
"early 17,000 textile workers are turned a
out. woman's story was discredited.
John ,ina-
Hoir Grower Fined.
New York, Mar. 4.—A fine of 31 ^
, paw- they met on the road shot an* killed for falsely adverting that a tcl"
where Hamilton, but the coroner's jury re- would re-grow h?lr was. lm-o"d
. «-o turned a verdict in wbjeh the young Friday in city c-u-t u-on the Jue-
Fercad Company, Inc.
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Miss Fannie Holmes.
Miss Fannie Holmes, for many
years an employe of the Guilford
hotel.here, died Friday night at f
hospital here, death being caused by
i hftart attack. She lived only r
-.h~-t whl'e after heinr stricken. The
bodv was taken to Statesville tor
"r-o-ri oe-rices -nd interment 9tt-wi*-
T. she le?ve« her paren's. Mr
' tps. R. P. Holmes, of Sta^es-ville.
End five brothers and sisters.
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Chicago. Mar. 6.—The American
Farm Bureau federation, in a state-ment
issued here declared that re-ports
to It showed that "organised
agiculture" was opposed to any form
of sales or consumption tax as a
means of raising the soldier bonus.
The National Grange Is "nnaltera-bly
opposed" to the sales tax or to
any form of "direct consumption
Lexington, Mar. 3.—The bond re-quired
of Jesse L. Adnrfleid, former
president of the bank of Thomasville,
which was closed last August 22 by
the state bank examiner, was reduced.
from 3175,000 to 330,000 by Judge
B. F. Long at a hearing here Thurs-day
afternoon. However, Armfield
was unable to raise that and was
carried back to the Davidson county
jail to await trial on a charge of
embezzlement of over 3150,000 from
the banje.
Attorneys argued before the judge
as to a continuance of the case, and
it was ordered continued. No date
has yet been set for trial. Judge
Long suggested that a special term
of court might be called, as the case
will take considerable time for trial.
There are a large number of In-dictments
against Armfield. He was
also president of the Bank of Denton,
of Davidson county, which was also
closed and must stand trial en
charges in connection with the clos-ing
of that bank. Continuance was
necessary because it seemed the case
could not be finished by the time
Judge Long will have to go to
tax," T. C. Atkeson, Washington rep- . Greensboro' to 'hold Superior court.
resentatlve of the organisation, de- .**>*■ M*rch 20'
dared In letters sent to Chairman | Zed Griffith, former cashier of
McCumber, of the senate finance the Bank of Thomasville, will be
committee? and Chairman Fordney. tried at the same time as Armfield.
of the house ways and means com- as will W. E. BOOM, former cast.er
mlttee. of the Bank ot Denton.
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