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FARM CLUBS
Composed of Guilford Boys
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F0R PRACTICAL WORK
«,.in£ Organized By Mr. Oarrett and
"X Houston—All-Day Meeting
M Rocky Knoll With Women
Next Tuesday
Agricultural clubs to be composed
/^vs and girls are being organlx-
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GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16,1922 SUBSCRIPTION «lJSO PKK 1KA1
IN ADVANCE VOL. 101. NO. 92
STATE NEWS BRIEFS
.it Mr. Garrett has visited
hools in the interest of
P-.ise and he is much pleas-
,■ evidences of popular ln-nong
the youngsters. Me
,'! the boys and girls of a
of communities in the coun-
! nirtherance of similar projects
iithin the next few weeks, and Miss
Honston also will confer with many
school children regarding the pro-posed
clubs.
Corn clubs, pig clubs, poultry
jjujj—these agencies afford a line
outlet for practical, constructive,
progressive work, the demonstration
agents point out, and they believe
that material progress will be wit-nPSfcd
in that direction in the
moatlis ahead. The development of
resourcefulness in agricultural ac-idity
by the boys and girls will be
one of the most helpful features of
[:f. plan, it is anticipated.
Such efforts will be pursued in
infinite, systematic fashion accord-in:
to plans now *>eing formulated.
()■ course the young people will be
expected to apply progressive meth-
0,;"-. Furthermore, it Is not a one-year'program.
On the other hantt,
she program will extend over a
period of a number of years, the
policies embodying crop rotation
ideas, scientific seed selection, poul-try
culling and a number of other
Uglily important things.
Miss Houston last Monday after-noon
met a number of ladies of the
McLeansville section at McLeansville
school and devoted considerable at-tention
to the question of school
lunches. Ways and means of pre-parine
attractive lunches were In-terestingly
discussed, the work be-in;
accompanied by practical dem-onstration
activities.
On Wednesday an all-day meeting
na held at Whitsett. Miss Houston
taking an active, part. ^Jttlas Georgia-
Clapp. welfare worker of the Mln-neoia
mills. Gibsonvllle, had charge
o! the demonstration In basketry.
Many pretty baskets and trays were
made by the girls and women.
Miss Houston went to Gibsonville
on Thursday and there she assisted
Miss riapp in millinery activities.
The club workers evidenced keen in-terest
in the program.
On Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock
NN'N'N'Nshrdl upun eftrbl Mr shrdu
the county home demonstrator will
mnfer with the members of the
Woman's club at the Pleasant Gar-ten
school. Demonstraiton In meat
tanning will be the principal item
on the program.
An all-day meeting will be held at
Rocky Knoll next Tuesday with Miss
Houston In charge. The morning
tession will be held at the school
*ith the preparation of school
lunches the chief topic. On Tues-day
afternoon Miss Houston will
meet many of the clul> workers at
the home of Mrs. William Clark at
Rocky Knoll. Demonstration work
*ith dress forms will constitute the
principal activity of the afternoon.
Mr. Garrett will attend a meeting
of the farm demonstration agents" of
Korth Carolina In Raleigh iDftcember
5-15. Miss Houston Is planning to
attend a somewhat similar gathering
°f the home demonstration agents of
•he state in Raleigh December 7-J-9.
nnw!?!^. Fo* A»****ctk>n
and tZSP?ln 53*25 monies
bank thrn„frKm the Pe0Dle8 N»«<>nal
of «|J h vh. *gent8 and employes
?n *hf *?nkK.ln makln* '»l«e entries
ind mil**? * }!*»n- Waggoner
hnn„ i Were rtl««««o Uflder $5,000
BSSL'^ aPPearatrce before United
Deacember0mim,88,0ner BeCke'dite «
Girl Burned to Death
Graham, Nov. 15.-^Eliza Bell, 12-
P*V" dfugnter Of Mr. and Mrs.
a.',,,*" *****' was horribly burned
Sunday, death being almost instan-taneous.
She was kindling a fire,
and accidentally picked up a gaso-
Ine can instead of one containing
kerosene. When she struck the
match, flames enveloped her, and
before aid reached her she was dead.
The remains were carried to Oak
Ridge for burial.
TO DISSOLVE
CONFERENCE
Will Return to Three-Con-ference
Plan \
MEETING IN GUILFORD
Holding 97th Annual 'Session ' of
North Carolina Chi humn Confer-ence
at Hises Chapel—Great
Mission Work Progress
Sues 1'nil mmi Company
Raleigh, Nov. 15.—Failure to pro-vide
sleeping car accommodation
from Raleigh to Portsmouth, Va.,
and an assault alleged to have had
no other cause than that of the ef-fort
of the plaintiff to secure a Pull-man
berth from the grounds of a
suit for damages in the sum of $35,-
000 brought here Monday against
the Seaboard All Line railroad and
the Pullman company by Dr. J. J.
Joiies. a negro physician, of Hamp-ton,
Va.
Endorse .Steamship Idea
Raleigh. Nov. 15.—.Following a
conference with Governor Cameron
Morrison, nineteen commercial sec-retaries
representing as many com-mercial
Chambers of Commerce In
North Carolina today announced
that their proposal for. the establish-ment
of improved port facilities in
North Carolina is directly in line
with the .state-owned steamship line
advocated 'by Governor Morrison.
Decision to dissolve the North
Carolina Christian conference three
years hence and to place 'the con-duct
of church affairs in the hands
of three conferences, the North
Carolina and Virginia conference,
the Western North Carolina confer-ence
and the Eastern conference,
was reached at Hines Chapel, this
county, Tuesday.
Approval of return to the three-conference
plan was one of the fea-tures
ot the opening day's delibera-tions
of the 97th annual North Car-olina
Christian conference at Hines
Chapel, of which Rev. C. E. Ger-ringer
is pastor. /•
An unusually interest'ng pro-gram
is being presented and the en-tertainment
features are evoking
generally admiring comment.
Dr. W. C. Wicker, of Elon Col-lege,
was elected president of the
conference: W. J. Graham, of Bur-lington,
vice-president; Rev. S. C.
Harrell. of Durham, secretary, and
W. J. Ballentine. of Fuquay Springe,
treasurer. Following organization
of the conference on Tuesday the
HARD PARTY
NOT NEEDED
Baruch Will Remain Demo-crat,
He Says
GOSPEL OF FARMING
He Believes In "Constructive Liber-alism"
of Democratic Party. Talks
of Problems of Farmers and
Points to Vital Needs
NEWS OF THE NATIOH
annual address was dd
Plan New Bank Building "
Concord. Nov. 15.—Definite an-nouncement
has been made by the
officers of the Cabarrus Savings
bank, one of Concord's oldest bank-ing
institutions, that the bank in
the near future will erect a hand-some
and modern bank and office
building. Plans have been drawn
up and accepted by the 'bank, and
Ore on display now at the preeen'
home of the bank.
livered by
- ■ Boy Killed By'Trin*
Statesville, Nov. 15.—Arthur,
aged six years, son of L. B. Mills,
of Cleveland, was run over by a
truck at Cleveland yesterday after-noon
and killed almost Instantly.
The tragedy occurred just after
school closed In front of the Lyerly
house. The school children were
crossing the street when a truck be-longing
to the Cleveland Roller Mill
•-ornpany came along and the little
boy, not seeing the truck, stepped
in front of it.
BIG CHECK RECEIVED
ON SALE OF TOBACCO
Amount Over One Million Dollars,
Which, Together With Other Sales
Proceeds, Pan! to Growers
R"v. R- L. Williamson, <if Hender-son.
Reports from various boards and
cvumittees were submitted Wednes-day
disclosing gratifying progress
ill a number of spheres of activity.
Th" Sunday school and Christian
Endeavor committee recommended
the establslhment of week-day
school" in the various churches, a
measure which was hailed as one
of progressiveness.
Miss Lucy Eldridge, of Richmond.
Va.. interestinely discussed the Sun-day
school and Christian Endeavor
work. Gratification was expressed
because of the number of Sunday
schools and Christian Endeavor so-cieties
in the conference.
Other interesting reports Wednes-day
related to the home and foreign
mission work. Especially extensive,
it was pointed out, is the church's
work In Porto Rico and Janan. A
large number of home mission proj-ects
arse- are being supported. -
Addresses concerning the mission
work were delivered by Dr. J. O.
Atkinson, of Elon College: Rev. C,
R. Underwood, of Bennett, and Rev.
T. P. Klapp. of Elon College.
On Wednesday afternoon primary
consideration was accorded the
"Men and Millions Forward Move-ment"
of the Christian church. It
was agreed that excellent progress
in that line la being anticipated.
New York, Nov. 15.—There is no
need of a third party and he in-tends
to remain a Democrat, Ber-nard
M. Baruch, former chairman
of the War Industries board and
personal friend of former President
Woodrow Wilson, declared Monday.
He made the statement in reply to
one by Col. .Robert H. Montgomery,
a Republican, former- general con-troller
of the United States Shipping
board and who served with Mr.
Baruch on the War Industries board.
Colonel Montgomery had suggested
that the manufacturers and farmers
■be brought together, _" with, Mr.
Baruch in charge of the organiza-tion
of a third party.
Colonel 'Montgomery, a leading
expert on tax and accounting mat-ters,
addressing more than 100 of
Mr. Baruch's former associates on
the War Industries board at a lunch-eon
in the Waldorf-Astoria, said:
"Get the manufacturers and the
farmers together. Put our chief, Mr.
Baruch at work organizing that al-liance
and you will have the strong-est,
safest party this country can
produce."
When asked to comment on this
proposal, Mr. Baruch indicated he
did not regard it seriously.
Will Remain Democrat
"So far as a third party Is con-cerned,"
he* said, "I believe in the
constructive liberalism of the Demo-cratic
party. I am a Democrat and
I intend to remain a Democrat, al-though
I would not remain in any
party unless it was constructive and
liberal. Those who have liberal and
constructive ideas should get them
Another RepnbUcan
Battle Crock, Mich.,
Senator Charles IB. To
publican, defeated in the.
tion, and Mrs. Townsen
tered at a sanitarium
learned. Mrs. Townsen
ing treatment at the
while the senator Is »
from his arduous cam
senator is said to be in
and not under the care
clan.
Will Scrap Camp
Richmond, Va., Nov. 15.—Definite
announcement that Camp Lee is to
be scrapped by the war department
is made in a letter received here
from Frank S. Cocheu, chief of staff
of the third corps area, who states
that the adjutant general of the
'army has ordered the camp Salvaged
without reservation. The govern-ment
recently offered the camp to
the Virginia national guard, hut the
state organization had no funds
with which to repair the cantonment
and put It in shape for troops. .
LONG VOYAGE
IS DEFERRED
What Are the Wild Waves
Saying Now?
QUIZ SKIPPER BILLY
"Captain" MoKeaato Heave* Into
Port, Hears Mdejthfn» Front Judge
Collins and Become* bandlab-ber
on th*. County 'Roads ■
Oil Fire Burning Out
Houston. Texas, Nov. 14.—A fire
that is consuming 830,000 barrels of
oil in the Humble section of the Gulf
Coast oil fields 18 miles, north of
here, has been confined to the two
tanks in which it is stored and oil
men estimate the fire will burn out
not later than Thursday.
Insurance Companies Penalized
Jackson, Miss., Nov. 15.—The Su-preme
court of Mississippi today,
by a vote of three to three, affirmed
the decision of ' Chancellor V. J.
Strieker imposing fines and penal-ties
amounting to $80,055,075 on
about 130 fire insurance companies
formerly operating in this state and
against whom State 'Revenue Agent
■Stokes V. Robertson two years ago
filed suit in the chancery court of
Hinds county charging them with
violating the anti-trust laws of the
state by conspiring ot control rates.
The Supreme court in the state of
Mississippi consists of six members
Incorporated into the old parties. In I and in the event of a tie vote cus-my
opinion, the most Important I torn makes such a vote an affirma-
Ralelgh, Nov. 15.—A single check,
lor $1,127,673.06 was received by
the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative
association last week on account of
sales of redried tobacco from the
South Carolina belt made to R. J.
Reynolds company. .o__.
-All of this money was turned
loose in South Carolina and border
North CarbMna markets along wltn
Repair Damage From
Big Asheville Fire
Asheville. Nov. 15.—Work of re-
IWring ihe damage done to the
*ooden cnlvert tunnelling Depot
street, the Southern Railway aja-hon.
the Asheville Grocery company
"'"Mini, and the Southern tracks
Mttroypd in a spectacular fire late
Yesterday, was began this morning.
The i„iai damage is estimated at
""•001 with $30,000 loss to railway
Property. To combat the flames In
'tie 300-yard aqueduct the firemen
"M to resort to dynamite, blowing
"9 the culvert at several points ln
"wr in bring streams of water into
•';<<•. Several buildings caught fire.
R »•(•!•„ saved from destruction bj
womm work of the firemen. Traf-
■« on the railway was held up for
',. "''i" hours as a bridge. Ignited
••'>m th
Davidson People Are
Suing Power Company
Lexington. Nov. 15.—Complaints
are being filed this week in seven
suits brought by citizens of A1U
ghany township, in the extreme
southern end of Davidson county. |
against the Tallassee Power com-
'pany. In which various sums total-ing
about $50,000, it Is said, are be-ing
asked as damages.
These citizens live along the head-waters
of the Badin lake or tribu-tary
streams to the Yadkln that
contain much back- water and they
allege .in their complaints that the
breeding of mosquitoes has cost
them hoavily in health, in doctors-bills
and In depreciation In value
«m« nroceeda from ottier sales of ..of their farms. TThheeyy iallege that
^Btobacco in the second [failure properly -to clear away the
South- Carolina too. undergrowth before turning ln tn*
'water was yie cause of trouble.
In Eastern Carolina
' Methodists Assemble
ers
XSnee to membet tobacco grow-s
on Monday, November 13.
(Mass meetings of tobacco growers
in celebration of this second pay-mnnt
in the South Carolina belt
were held auKlngstree. norenne.
Conway. Mnlline and J*w»™».
Treasurer J. «• Cralg and B™**"
tfveManager Oliver Sands sddreaa-
S?JTS5E« «d told them how
their organization was handling to-hacco
ln « businesslike manner to
X:CadvantU of the growers Mem-bers
in South Carolina had been
told that they would never get any
more than their first advance, but
with the second payment already
made and the statement that there
was more to come the South^Caro-llna
& read"'to"K an/of the wild
less «• . enemies of the
Kis
culvert burned.
sing and Murder
Charges Are Lodged
,;io
n" Worth, Tex.. Nov. 13.—A. C.
»>""'. '"'• '" Forest Hill, a suburb,
■ shot six times late this after-r
n and died in an ambulance en
own '" a hospital. The shooting
mem " '" the doorway of a depart-
•"' store in the business district.
*a«'. , rir,'«n. also of Forest Hill.
5£ grower^ are feeling much bet-
They are also reported to be
..eady to believe any of ' - ■
rumors started by enemies
M With the
into custody and charg-
- in- killing. He made a
-men, !0 authortiies in which he
m/u
rHl he caught Glenn ""Hk«is«siinneg-
1,1 and Mrs. Green were found lot
"*mi,y*"U'Hy of disorderly conduct re-i
aSS
A
0tClathenmeeting of the boardi of
directors which will be held in Bal-e
gh next Tuesday arrangements
"X t'in^e'ro North3 S&LS
TSSXSm this payment will
probably be set.
GuilforTDruggists
To Meet Each Month
ond Tuesaay ul decided at a
Greensboro, It was °ec'a .
meeting of the body here Tnesday
•TSte was agreed that an ex-tensile
publicity campaign °>».gned
to acquaint the people with the Im-nual
state conference on the Near
™iidhe waged. Enthusiasm con-e2&
MSB* of th<> associa-tion
was generally expressed.
Raleigh, Nov. 15.—'Much, busi-ness
was transacted today at the
opening day's session of the annual
North Carolina conference, Method-ist
Episcopal Church,vSouth, Bishop
Collins Denny, of Richmond, Va.,
presiding. The conference is meet-ing
In Edenton Street church. Re-ports
showing splendid progress in
all lines of church work were sub-mitted
by the presiding elders. The
net gain in church membership
during the year will range around
5,000, it is believed.
Rev. R. R. Willis was elected sec-retary
of the conference, succeeding
himself. A number of standing
committees were appointed. Rev.
W. C. Owen, of Nashville, Tenn., ad-dressed
the anniversary meeting of
the Sunday school board tonight.
ANSWER IS FILED HERE
BY FURNITURE COMPANY
That the plaintiff. Joseph H. Cook,
was Injured, because of his own neg-tigence
and carelessness Is one of
the principal allegations of the Giant
Furniture company, of High Point,
<n the company's answer to the
comnlaint filed by Cook aeveral
weeks ago. Cook is suing the Giant
Furniture company for $100,080. al-leging
that he was seriously and
permanently injured when a piece
of lumber, projected from a machine
which he was operating, struck him.
In the answer, filed in Guilford Su-perior
court Tuesday, the company
declares that if there were any de-fects
in the machine it was the duty
of the" plaintiff to remedy them.
thing today is to get our biggest in-du,
8tryrf which is the farming indus-try,
on a sound basis.
"I am not afraid of the so-called
'radicalism' of the great northwest
and the great farming communities.
For years I have been preaching an
equalization of opportunity. for the
farmer, placing him on an equal
footing wtth_>those 'with' whom he
has 'to deal, particularly in regard
to facilities for the establishment
of greater credit to the farmer, for
the more orderly marketing of
his crops, for greater facilities for
the production of crops, for legaliz-ing
the co-operative marketing, for
the establishment of neutral graders
—so that the farmer will not see his
crop, sold at one grade, become In
the hancjs of a new buyer a higher
grade.
"Because the farmer is unorganiz-ed
he has not been able to keep step
with other interests who have been
organized. The farmer works hard
and gets too little of what he pro-duces.
The unorganized consuming
public Is almost in the same posi-tion."
Tulka of Farmers
Mr. Baruch was asked if he In-dorsed
the Non-Partisan league
wholly".
"No." he replied, "but although
one cannot agree with their entire
program, even their severest critics
will find, on investigation. that
there are reasons for just com-plaints.
While It Is true that the so-called
'magic elevator' has to some
extent been eliminated, ' there are
still many Inequalities and abuses
which can and will be corrected.
After all, the farmer Is not desirous
of reform that is going to injure the
community.
"What to 'radicalism'? The Nor-man
barons were called radicals
when they demanded- the Magna
charts from King John, and the
American colonists were called radi-cals
when they sought to break away
from England!!. The so-called rao-lcallsm
of the farmer is no more
than his demand for a square deal.
I am not advocating everything th*
farmers ask. but I bellsre that an
examination Into the facts' should be
made and corrections made that will
place him on an equal footing with
jothers with whom he has to deal."
tion of the case.
Meets Death Smoking Cigarette
New York. Nov. 15.—Lying
against the mossy bank of a seclud
ed ravine in the Bronx, a lighted
cigarette dangling from his smiling
lips, the lifeless body 'of Arthur
Crawford, actor, humorist, "the man,
ot a wealth ot funny ideas," waa
found today, a bullet wound in the
heart. A revolver lay at his side.
Newbet-ry Says He'll Stack
Detroit, Nov. 15.—RUmors that
he plans shortly to tender his resig-natlo
nwere refuted here today ny
United States Senator Truman H.
Newberry. Asked specifically con-cerning
a widely published report
that he would not take his seat in
the next Congress, Senator Newber-ry
said: "There is not a particle ftf
[nation were refuted here today by
more."
GROUP MEETINGS FOR
TEACHERS OF COUNTY
Being Held In Various Sections of
Guilford, Miss Land-Giving In-structions
as to Problems <
Schoolfield FaUs In
Effort. For .Net*Trial
Claude Schoolfield, of Greensboro,
who was sentenced in Guilford Su-perior
court to serve seven years in
state prison for forgery of a $10,000
check, was unsuccessful in his effort
:o secure a new trial, the Supreme
court at Raleigh yesterday uphold-ng
the decision of the lower court.
Tried for a big bank swindle, Claude
Schoolfield was convicted, but his
brother. Clarence Schoolfield, was
acquitted.
"The Supreme court also affirmed
Guilford Superior court yesterday in
the case of C. M. Witty et al vs. Ed
Witty. Under this ruling the estate
of Lev! Witty reverts to Levl Wltty's
side.
-- To Try Wealthy Citizen
Fayettevllle. Nov. 15.—Neill S.
Blue, wealthy citizen of Hoke coun-ty,
who was recently paid $300,000
tor his holdings on .the Fort Bragg
area, will face trial, at the next term
ot Federal conrt at Raleigh on a
charge of larceny of 14 miles of
wire fence from the military reserva-tion.
Instruction in regard to a num-ber
of vital school problems is being
given to Guilford county teachers at
group meetings in various sections
ot the county, the first of these
gatherings having been held Taes-da
at Jamestown. The following
schools were represented ' there:
Jamestown, Hilltop, Union Hill,
Welch, -Deep River, Uelane and
Groometown. ;'
On Wednesday teachers of the
following schools attended a similar
group meeting at A la ma nee: Coble,
Patterson, Cross ' Roads, (Mount
Hope, Mount Pleasant, Pleasant
Union. Staley. Greenwood.- -Brick
Church, Brookfield, Shady Grove and
Alamance.
'Miss Bettie Aiken Land, of the
administrative staff of the County
Board of Education, is instructing
the teachers at these meetings. The
subjects of study inelude methods of.
conducting reading, arithmetic, his-tory
and geography classes, also
classroom management. The meet-ings
begin at 9:30 a. m. and con-tinue
until 2:30, the. regular pupils
being dismissed for the day in order
that the members of the faculty
may be free'to pursue their special
studies. f
Other meetings are scheduled as
follows:
November 17—Piney Grove, Hills-dale.
Gethsemane, Scottsvllle, Mas-sey,
Longvlew, Elm Grove, Oak
Rid?e. Stokesdale. Winding Hill and
Bethel at the Summerfleld school.
November 18—iRidgefield, Muirs
Chapel, Battleground, Friendship.
Millwood, Hickory Grove, Colfax,
Alba and Sandy Ridge at Guilford
College school.
November 21 — Mechanicsvllle.
Oak Hill, Highland and Oak Shade
at Springfield school.
'November 22—Monnett, Taber-nacle,
Concord. Center, Oak Hill,
Rocky Knoll, Shady Grove and Piney
Grove at the Pleasant Garden school.
'November 23—Madison, Thomas,
Barber. Buslck, Osceola, Bright-wood,
Pray, Brown Summit, Mount
Vernon and Glenwood at the Monti-cello
school.
November 24 — Smith, fMerrv
Oaks. Rock Creek. Union. Snminerf
and Washington at the McLeansville
school.
Somewhere on .$he- ptaold- waters
of the Atlantic, mayhap, Is a Chinese
skipper, the redoubtable Lee Tong,
complacently collecting his thoughts
in the fo'castle of the sprightly
yacht purchased by his master,
awaiting sailing instructions from
His Lordship Captain Billy McKen-zie,
but it appears highly probable
that the philosopher from the Orient
will have a'long, long wait.
For "Captain" tMcKenzie, who
put into port in Greensboro last
June, has been unavoidably detain-ed.
Of his exploits as a mighty man
of war the cap'n has oracularlxed
to many sympathetic auditors tn
this city during recent months, but,
alas, such is the lncredultly of some
persons, the stirring story was
finally punctured in several import-ant
places.
First, however, permit the ancient
mariner to tell his own story as he
related it to many Greensboro peo-ple.
He first saw the light o' day
in Roanoke, Va., 30 years ago. While
he was in the swaddling clothes or
shortly thereafter the hero's parents
moved to bonny Scotland and there
he was in swaddling clothes stage or
reached the age of 11 years.
Then the spirit of adventure
claimed Billy MoKenzie for its very
own. With his father, who was the
owner of a large landed estate, a
whopper of a cattle tarm, in South
Africa, Billy went to that favored
country, and there he remained un-til
his. father's death. Then the
young advenTurer returned to Scot-land
with his mother. Subsequent-ly
they went to England and later
came to America.
It was then, according to the
cap'n's chronicle, that McKenzie
j'ined the French aviation service.
His service was cut short when he
was shot down and l06t an eye.
Later McKenzie went to Canada,
where he became a member of the
American expeditionary force and
again he embarked for France. Sub-sequently
he arrived in Greensboro
and since, that time,' he.has given
many a man an earful in regard' to
his heroic activity.
But the good yacht Diana must
not be forgotten. In 1912 while
Captain McKenzie and his first wife
and baby were cruising off the Flor-ida
coast in that worthy vessel they
were caught in a typhoon which
was cuttln' up scandalously. There
the wife and baby were victims of
the storm, while McKenzie, wtth a
few members of the crew, had an
escape so narrow that It makes him
nervous now In contemplation.
ln 'Municipal court about 10 aays
ago, as previously narrated in The
Patriot, "Captain" McKenzie appear-ed
in answer to a charge of obtain-ing
money under false pretense, his
arrest having been instigated by
members of the Henry K. Burtner
oost of the American Legion. Be-fore
Judge Collins the fellow admit-ted
that he' had not served in the
American or French army, that he
was seeing so much of the seamy
side of life that he resorted to the
story to obtain assistance. Judg-ment
was suspended for 10 days and
-he wanderer was to procure gainful
employment. The g. e. was found,
but McKenzie didn't tarry wRh it
more than a couple of* days.
" Subsequently the adventnrer waa
arrested in Salisbury and on Tuesday
again appeared betore Judge Col-lins.
Thistle • he undertook to con-tradict
tbe judge, declaring tbe lat-ter
bad given Wn>" permission to
leave the city, but His Honor said
he had not done so. The Judge
'lowed that McKensie'a wife had said
she didn't care «*st was done with
her erstwhile lord' sad master.
Judge Collins said. "Fosr months on
the county roads." McKenale said,
"Judge, for God's sake have a heart.
This will rain me. I've got a wKe
and baby to support." Tbe Judge said
"Change the entry, Mr. Clerk, to 12
months In the county Jail, to be as-signed
to the county roads."
In Municipal court this morning,
however. Judge Collins reduced the
sentence of McK%n*ie from 12
month to four months. Indicating
the belief that the defendant was
not possessed of the strongest men-tal
faculties in tbe world.
McKenzte's wife and baby are be-ing
supported here by the American
Legion and the Woman's Auxiliary
of the legion.
Besides lqnging for the historic
yacht McKenzie will pine for his
magnificent residence on Cuyahooga
evenue. Hollywood. Calif. At any
rate, he had previously informed
members of the legion that he own-ed
a handsome home there. Perhaps
a caretaker is now in charge if the
naughty movie queens haven't taken
possession.
What are the wild waves saying?
tAsk Skipper McKenzie, and If he
can't tell you, then send a radiogram
to Lee Tong. The cap'n's auditory
faculties are not sttffTcieDtly devel-oped
to enable him to hear 'em from
his present post on the Guilford
county highways.
Fosr Bnrned to Death
Armory- Miss.. Nov. W.—Four
persons were burned to death in a
Are which destroyed the T. P. A.
hotel here Monday.
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