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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
EUFAULA. State and federal
agents make prohibition clean up in
Barbour county, placing 20 men un
der bond on charges of violating na
tional prohibition laws.
L ASS IE RTO W N.—Ch arlie Bundy,
30, is instantly killed by lightning
while working in his field.
HEFLIN. —Tom Argo, who broke
jail here six weeks ago, is arrested
in Birmingham and brought back.
HUNTSVILLE. J. Will Moon,
former' deputy sheriff of Madison
county, -will be tried her? on charge
of murdering Yancy Hurper daring
fail near Ardmore.
HAMILTON.—Marion county farm
bureau will hold annual meeting
here August 14 and elect officers. |
Big barbecue will be_served.
.DOTHAN J. D. Fowler, one of
IXvtha’j's oldest and most highly re
gpeccect citizens, prominent lumber
man and church worker, is dead.
ANDALUSIA. War department
authorizes formation of medical unit
for 55th machine gun detachment
here.
OPELIKA. Secretary Hollings
worth, of chamber of commerce, an
nounces that Opelika will have “dol
lar day” August IE-
MARlON.—Thrown into bankrupt
cy and brooding over this misfor
tune, J. A. Edwards, prominent, mer
chant, shoots and kill himself
While in his garage at his home. I
ALABAMA CITY. While con- 1
ducting revival meeting here, Rev.
J. Doscar Cooley is given check for
$75 by Ku Klux Klan and Kamelias.
SELMA.—Three and one-half acres
of noted Featherstone estate, origi
nally comprising several thousand
acres and valued at SBOO,OOO, is sold
to W. H. Collins, of Rome, Ga., for
$8,500.
CAMDEN.—Duke Capel], Wilcox
county farmer, is dead as result ol
ahooting. L. H. Geek is in jail.
MONTGOMERY. Alabama sends
203 officers from organized reserve
corps to various training camps.
BESSEMER.—Thirty-one dray and
transfer men are arrested for vio
lating moving taw, which makes it
illegal to move furniture and other
goods not paid for, without giving
notice.
BIRMINGHAM.—G. L. Canter
bury, 42, is dead from knife wound,
alleged inflicted by G. C. Hum
phries, who is under arrest.
COLUMBIANA.—Bob Merrell is
held without bond and Reggy Lucas
is released on SI,OOO bond, on charge
cf murdering and burning body of
N. L. McElroy, near Calera.
REFORM.— Surveys are made by
Alabama, Tennessee and Northern
railway to extend its line from Re
form into Walker county connecting
with Frisco railroad, and making
Short route to Gulf of Mexico.
SHEFFIELD.—FederaI govern
ment orders 125,000 barrels of Port
land cement, for work on Wilson
dam, at Muscle Shoals, from Atlas
Portland Cement company and
Phoenix Portland Cement company,
both of Birmingham.
SELMA. Murder of Huston
Campbell, whose body containing
Bhots in back, was found in swamp
near here, remains deep mystery.
Three white men and three negro
Buspects are releasd.
SELMA—William Ellis Claugh
ton, G 2, highly respected employe of
Southern railroad here for 30 years,
is dead.
MUNSFORD.— J. T. Wood, of
Lineville; W. H. Pressley, Eugene
Burgon and Cecil Ragan, of Tallade
ga, are seriously injured when their
automobile turns turtle and is prac
tically demolished, near here.
MOBILE. —James A- Green, ne
gro, is arrested after chase by posse
on charge of attempting to wreck
train near here. He is taken to
Washington county for trial.
DECATUR—AIabama Water com
pany will soon commence work on
extensive improvements on their wa
ter works system in Decatur and Al
bany, according to C. D. Hale, lo
cal manager.
GADSDEN —Declaring it is for
public good, Judge O. A. Steele and
Judge Woodson J. Martin issue or
der for meeting of circuit court
grand jury to investigate kidnaping
and punishment of J. Nadler re
cently by "hooded mob.”
FALKVILLE—B. E. Davis, mem
ber Morgan county board of reve
nue, while with surveying party
near here has unique experience
when his foot slips through earth
and into underground still. Offi
cers are searching for owner of
Still.
MOBILE —Miss Minnie Avera, 14,
Instantly killed when she dives into
Dog river, near here, her head strik
ing on sunken logs and breaking
her neck.
MOBlLE—HaimhFßlake, 22, Cin
cinnati, Ohio, and J. A. Wolford, 25.
Cumberland, Md., walk into police
station here and tell police they are
deserters from army at Fort Sam
Houston, Tex. They are being held.
BIRMINGHAM—FederaI reserve
bank purchases lot 50 by 140 feet on
corner of Fifth avenue and Eigh
teenth street, on which to erect
home for Birmingham branch. Price
paid is $125,000.
DECATUR—City council contracts
with Alabama Power company to in
stall new street lights in business
section.
ANNISTON—Ben F. Alexander,
bacteriologist at local branch, is re
covering from operation at Mayo
Brothers, Rochester, Minn.
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THE ATLANTA TUI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
TALLADEGA —Questionnaires are
mailed by YV. R. Crites, secretary
of chamber of commerce, asking
what chamber can do to promote in
terests of Talladega. General con
structive program for good of city
will follow receipt of these answers
by Secretary Crites.
MONTGOMERY Officers raid
cellar of J. Michael Nicrosi, bust- ■
ness man, and find quantity of wine
and liquors. He i= fined SSO.
LIVINGSTON. Attorneys of
Seventeenth judicial circuit of Ala
bama meet here and organize bar
association for circuit.
UNIVERSITY. —One hundred and
eleven motion picture films travel
from high school 10 high school in
Alabama this year as result of
extension department of state.
TALLADEGA. —Four men plead
guilty to seining and are fined SSO
end costs each. State game and fish
laws are being rigidly enforced in
this county.
HALEYVILLE.—Work is being
rapidly pushed on construction of
new highway between here and
Double Springs, under directions of
J. H. Bull, of Winfield.
EUTAW.—Dr. D. M. Hall an
nounces for mayor of Eutaw. Elec
tion takes place in September.
EUTAW. —Bob Jones, negro, of
near Pleasant Hill, is arrested and
brought to jail here, charged with
whipping his grandson to death.
TUSCALOOSA. Reports of gov
ernment engineer's office show that
during June 57 towboats, 136 barges
anj eight small craft passed through
Lock 10 on Warrior river. During
same month 28,377 tons of freight
pass up and down river for gen
eral public and 794 tons for federal
government.
Clarence Bai
ley, convicted of killing fellow
prisoner at Kilby prison, and Alon
za Myhand and Porter Myhand,
convicted of killing Sophy Ingram
in Russell county, all are sentenced
to hang on August 8.
ANDALUSIA. —Andalusia Nation
al Bank building will be remodeled
at cost of several thousand dol
lars.
AUBURN.—Theta. Chi fraternity
house to cost $30,000 will be built
here. It will be completed by Octo
ber 1.
HUNTSVILLE. Alabama court
of appeals affirms sentence of
Ralph Roddy, farmer, convicted of
killing Joe Hittaker, and given five
years in state prison.
DECATUR.—Tobe Stout agrees to
take $50,000 stock in highway bridge
across Tennessee river here, and to
furnish sufficient land free of charge
for abutments.
CAMP M’CLELLAN. —Major Gen
eral David C. Shanks, commander
of Fourth corps area, inspects Camp
McClellan.
ANNISTON.—LittIe Dorothy Mae
Dill, four, is bitten by mad dog and
is undergoing treatment.
SALEM.—Two giant stills of 1.800
gallons capacity each, are found and
destroyed by officers near here.
About 5,500 gallons of beer is de
stroyed.
ALBANY.—Rev. Harry L. Carter,
former local newspaper man. sails
from Seattle. Wash., September 3
as missionary to China for Baptis?
church. He will be accompanied by
his wife and little daughter.
MONTGOMERY.—Montgomery is
planning big horse show to be held
in September, according to Mort L.
Bixler, secretary-manager.
GADSDEN.—J. L. Meeks and as
sociates, purchase Gadsden Evening
Journal and will, consolidate it with
Gadsden Times-News, which news
paper they have owned for some
time. These two newspapers will be
merged into Gadsden Times.
G L NTERSVTLLE.— Federal offi
cers investigate kidnaping and fiog
ging of Martin Zukas. Greek case
proprietor here, but give out no re
port. Arrests may follow, it is indi
cated.
HARTSELLeZTt - ' M. Ratcliff,
who operates rnotob bus line between
Decatur and Hartselle, purchases an
other bus and will extend his line
south to Cullman.
ELFALLA.— Eufaula Chamber of
Commerce plans organization of ag
riculture market bureau.
JACKSON.— Horne of N. C. Mo
zingo is struck by lightning and bad
j.v damaged, during absence of fam-
KJKMINGHAM. Judge H. P
Heflin prevents demonstration in
court room, when jury finds Will
O. Clark not guilty of murdering
Bam Bates.
SELMA.—City council adopts ordi
nance providing for sale of $58,000
uonds to pave First avenue
OPELIKA.— More than SOO a<res
are planted to peach trees in this
section. Peaches grown here are of
unusual s.ze, requiring but 138 to
fill crate, as against 200 usually re
quired.
DECATL R. —One-half millions dol
lars is sent annually from Decatur
and Albany to other cities for goods
which couM be purchased here, is
I statement of W. ,1. Meiniger, secre
, tary of chamber of commerce. Trade
at-home campaign will be launched.
BIRMINGHAM. Birmingham's
I big municipal auditorium will be
i completed early this fall and formal
| opening is set for October 19.
MILLPORT.—David Prescott, 30.
i fireman at Dorr & Mordecai's mill,
i at Eupora, Miss., dies from effects
I of getting too hot.
BIRMINGHAM. —New board of
revenue is planning bond issue of
at least $1,000,000 for health and
educational work in Jefferson coun
ty.
GADSDEN. —Etowah county Con
federate veterans of first Battle of
Alanassas. celebrate sixty-third anni
versary of this noted battle.
GORGAS.—New power unit being ;
installed here by Alabama Power j
company’ is nearing completion.
CI'LI.JIAX. Duke Woodward,,
Cullman county boy, is killed in an- :
toniobile accident at Akron, Ohio.
GADSDEN. Representatives of
all civic organizations draft ordi-1
nance to be presented to city’ coun- '
oil prohibiting appearance in public
of masked persons.
TROY.—When W?L. Sykes, Sam I
Vance and two Brooks brothers stop
at home of negro near here and ask j
to buy whisky they are tired at by |
negro. Sykes is badly wounded and
brought treatment.
SOUTH CAROLINA
WEST MIN ST ER.—Henry Carroll,
35, and James McDonald, 70, engage
in cutting scrape on Main street, fol
lowing words about McDonald’s pub
lic warning against employment of
son of Carroll. Carroll is seriously
cut, with long gash in abdomen, and
McDonald is held in jail.
GREEN VlLLE?—Ernest Gosnell,
20, and Dave Gosnell, 18, brothers,
are held in county’ jail here, charged
with burning barn of Web Morgan,
near Glassy Mountain, in upper part
of county.
GREENVILLE.—State chapter of
American Society of Architects holds
annual convention here, ’with H. H.
Martin in charge, of local entertain
ment plans.
ABBEVILLE.—John T. Langford
is given preliminary hearing before i
magistrate and bound over to circuit i
court on charge of bigamy. He is
alleged to have two wives living in ;
Greenwood. Warrant is sworn out |
by father of second wife.
PELZER.—RevT J. S. Edwards,
pastor of Methodist church here, is ’
given leave of absence for summer,
to study’ in Edinburgh, Scotland.
ROCK HILL. —Winthrop college's
entire plant is to be completely’ over- ■
hauled before opening of school in
September, work to begin August 1, J
it is announced by W. T. Clawson, I
superintendent of grounds.
SPARTA NBURG—Mrs. G. C. Wof-1
ford and baby are in hospital suffer
ing from injuries received when an- |
other car struck that in which she j
and husband and baby were riding, i
and breaking it in half. Other driv
er’s name could not be learned.
SPARTANBI 'RG.—Clarence Edge. 1
29, of San Francisco, and Matt I
Winowski, 21, no address, are placed
in jail here on charge of unlawful )
train riding.
ROCK HILL— E? M. Cooper, su
perintendent of large farms operated
by Winthrop college, resigns posi
tion to take institutional work else
where.
COLUMBIA.—W.~” S. Barstow, I
president of W. S. Barstow & Co., |
New York bankers, whose interests i
are negotiating for purchase of utili- (
ties here, accepts invitation to be I
guest of chamber of commerce at
j big community’ dinner.
COLUMBIA.—Mrs.”Jerome V. Wil
son, wife of prominent business man
and member of leading family, dies'
here.
COLUMBIA.—S? V. Breazeale, I
commander of local post of Salva- j
tion Army, is transferred to Chur- j
lotte, N. C., office of organization,
and is succeeded here by’ Adjutant
George Story’, of Anderson.
COLUMBIA. —South Carolina. Cot
ton Growers’ Co-operative associa
tion sells to prominent firm of buy
ers 15,000 bales, averaging 25 cents
pound and bringing $1,875,000.
CHARLESTON.—HaI Sanders is
crushed by motor tractor and dies
before being extricated.
COLUMBIA. —State canal commis
sion meets in Columbia to consider
development of 500 horse power in
Columbia canal, for furnishing elec
tricity for state offices and institu
tions in capital city.
KINGSTREE.—State highway’ of
ficials of two Carolinas and large
gathering of people attend formal
ceremonies attendant upon opening
of Santee bridge, connecting Wil
liamsburg and Berkeley’ counties,
largest bridge in south. C. O.
Hearon, of Spartanburg, is chief
speaker.
ST. MATTHEWS?— P. Webb Bull,
Jr., 34, prominent and popular citi
zen, dies after illness of two years.
GREEN VILLE.—J. E. Marshall,
for over three years assistant dis
trict attorney, for Western district
of South Carolina, is appointed spe
cial attorney in office of solicitor of
bureau of internal revenue at Wash
ington, and goes to assume duties
August 1.
AIKEN. Frederick S. Wilcox
for 27 years resident of Aiken, and
owner of Wilcox's Inn. fashionable
winter tourist hotel, dies at home
here after sudden illness. He was
native of England.
COLUMBIA. National Guard
units return from annual encamp
ment at Camp Johnston, Jackson
ville, Fla., after two weeks of train
ing, headed by Adjutant General
Robert E. Craig.
COLUMBIA.—A. B. Mims, of
Sumter, is elected sales manager of
South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co
operative association, succeeding Ar
thur Mazyek, resigned.
COLUMBIA.—Theo A. Beil, of Co
. lumbia, loses suit for $50,000. against
Clinton Oil mill, subsidiary of Amer
ican Agricultural Chemical company,
in which ho alleged slander. Su
preme court affirms lower court
verdict.
CAMDEN.— Manning Hutson and
i Richard Goodwin, colored, arrested
.by State Detective Kogers recently
I for murder two years ago of Wilcox
i Knox, also colored, are found “not
guilty’’ in circuit court here.
LITTLE MOUNTAIN. Annual
i picnic of graduates and former stu
i dents of Newberry college, at New
berry. and Summerland college, at
Leesville, both Lutheran institutions,
will be held August 1, according to
announcement. This is big affair
every year.
CAMDEN.— Mrs. Anna Calhoun
I Ancrum, head of prominent family,
niece of John C. Calhoun, dies here
' at age of 75.
DILLON.—“SIim" Sanders, known
as "tallest 17 year-old boy in Ameri
ca,” exhibited at Coney Island, N.
V.. is on visit to parents here. His
brother, known as "Fatty," is larg
: est boy in Dillon.
i OLAR.—John T. Worthy, of Alex
; under City, Ala., dies suddenly while
I on fishing trip near here.
i SPARTANBURG.—James S. Ogles
by sues Spartanburg county for $.15.-
000 because of son's death, caused
when auto plunged off approach to
Pacolet river bridge.
I SUMTER. J?~M. Des Camps
>■.’ -e candidate for governor, is found
guilty in court here of maliciously
• blowing nut crass seed in field of
«v- :lilx>r. T. B. Hods'"*. and is given
sentence of two months in jail or]
fine of $l5O. He_appeals,
CHARLESTON. John Swadski,
lightship seaman in harbor here, dies
of heart trouble while being brought
to shore in small boat for treatment.
COLUMBIA. —B. F. Bolton, keep
er of large cemetery here, who has
prepared hundreds of graves, dies of
apoplexy, and is laid to rest on spot ;
he had tended, with many whom he I
had helped attending funeral.
GREENVILLE. Tenth annual)
summer assembly of South Carolina;
Baptists on'ens at Furman univer
sity here, with large attendance.
COLUMBIA. —■ Democratic club)
rolls throughout state close, with ■
much smaller enrollment than usual. I
COLUMBIA. — Mortimer H. King,
confessed murderer of Major Samuel
H. McLeary, U. S. A., is tranferred
from county jail here, where he has
been held for United States secret
service, following his arrest in North
Carolina and finding of Major Me-
Leary’s body near Cheraw, S. C., to
state penitentiary, state assuming
charge of prisoner.
NEWBERRY'. —John R. Smith
and John Smith are arrested after
eight-mile auto chase. Just before
being caught men threw bag out of
car, and officers find in it several
gallons of whisky.
COLUMBIA. - Andrews Roberts,
convicted with Jesse Cooper, to life
imprisonment for murder of C. R.
Cannon, negro taxi driver, begins
service of sentence, following dismis
sal of appeal by supreme court.
CHESTER.—Pryor hospital # here
is presented portrait of Dr. S. AV.
Pryor, its founder, painting being by
Miss Sophia Hergesheimer, of Nash
ville.
SPARTANBURG. — Recognition by
Carnegie foundation of his bravery
in rescuing Miss Willie Roberts,
nurse, from drowning, is sought by
interested citizens for Lester Rooks,
19-year-old textile worker.
COLUMBIA.—State health board
takes census of schools of state and
replies from ten thousand families
in school district indicate that per
centage of malaria infestation has
decreased from 28 to 17 in one year,
due to severe fight on disease.
PARRIS ISLAND?—Monument to
men of marine corps who “went
west” during World war, is unveiled
here, with appropriate exercises at
tended by many "gold star mothers.”
Monument is work of Captain Robert
Aitken, former president of National
Society of Design. Chief address is
by Major General John J. LeJeune,
former commander of Rainbow di
vision.
LEXINGTON. —Miss May Atkins,
beautiful high school girl, eats
hearty meal and then watermelon
and goes in swimming. Suffering
cramp shortly after entering water,
and is drowned.
GREENVILLE. Approximately
50 per cent of 1924 state appropria
tions went to education. Representa
tive Joseph R. Bryson, here, esti
mates.
ANDERSON—Miss Varina Davis
Brown gives sufficient money to
Southern Baptist missionary board
to send fourteen missionaries to for
eign fields.
ALCOLU —D. W. Hudnall, em
ploye of D. IV. Aiderman & Sons
lumber company here, is struck in
back of head by negro named Gam
ble, using piece of luml»r, and death
follows within few hours.
IVA—Cornerstone of new Asso
ciate Reformed Presbyterian church
is laid here.
GRE E N WOOD—M em of ial Crafts
men of Carolinas, organiaztion of
monument makers, will meet here
July 29-30, it is announced, with ex
cursion trip to Elberton, Ga., to in
spect quarries there, as feature of
program.
SPA RTA NBU Presbyte
rian church property on East Alain
street is sold for $170,000, or $1,133
per front foot.
ANDERSON—Solicitor 1.. W. Har
ris receives notification that Corbin
brothers, sentenced to twelve and a
half years each for robbery of Enter
prise bank of Walhalla, intend to ap
peal to supreme court.
ESTILL —J. V. Morrison, promi
nent Confederate veteran, dies at
home of son, Dr. Morrison, in Sa
vannah.
SPARTANBURG—John H. Cre
mer, business man of Cleveland, 0.,
once business associate of Andrew
Carnegie, who has made winter
home here for fifteen years, dies
here at age of 80. He was native
of Dutch East Indies.
ROCK HILL —County superintend
ents of education close successful
annual conference at Winthrop col
lege here.
COLUMBIA—State retail mer
chants association holds annual con
vention here, with A. E. Padgett,
of Edgefield, presiding.
ANDERSON—J. W. Crawford, em
ploye of Southern Public Utilities
company, falls from transformer pole
and is killed.
POMARIA—Mrs. Lou Epting, head
of prominent family, dies here.
COLUMBIA— ?L C. Weir, well
known business man, dies after long
) illness.
GAFFNEY—?J~w7 Lyles, of Gas
tonia, N. C., is acquitted of charge
of murder in connection with death
of one-year-old child of W. B. Aus
tell, near here, last December, caused
by being run over by defendant's
automobile.
FLORENCE—Pee Dee boll weevil
experimental station here makes ex
tensive experiments to determine ex
; tent of weevil’s inroads this year,
with weather favorable to him.
CHA R L ESTON—St ea msh i p from
i Hamburg brings 14,000 sacks of rice
| to this port, once center of fines f
rice country in America, and includ
j ed in shipment are some sacks of
American rice.
| CHARLESTON— Seventeen-year
i old stowaway. Ray Stewart, of New
; York, is found aboard liner arriv
; ing here. He claims his parents
; went to Australia and left him in
New York and he is endeavoring to
■ make his way to an uncle in Cali
; fornia.
I ROCK HILL—Dr. G. T. Pugh is
i transferred from business depart
; ment at Winthrop college to head
department of mathematics, suc
, ceeding Prof. E. C. Coker, who re
! eently became member of faculty of
; university, in Columbia.
; ROCK HlLL.—Women of Win
i throp summer school here play base
! ball game with “gentlemen flappers”
, of town, and Red Cross realizes neat
I sum from gate receipts. Scores are
! too numerous to tally.
Professor Heads Civitans
TUSCALOOSA, Ala., July 23.—Dr.
J. V. Masters, of the University of
Alabama, became president at the
organization cf the Clvitan club
• here. A. R. Bauder was elected vice
president, and Dr. W. F. Osborn sec
retary .
NORTH CAROLINA
ASH EVI LLE.—Annual convention
of North Carolina chapter, Associa
tion of General Contractors of
America, will be held jointly with
North Carolina architects, July 24-
26. U. A. Underwood, of Wilming
ton, is president of contractors, and
W. 11. Peeps, of Charlotte, heads
architects.
STATESVILLE. —Paola Mill re
sumes full time operations after
working on curtailed schedule for
several weeks. Orders will require
two weeks’ run.
ASHEVILLE. —There is no credi
ble evidence that negro migrants
to north in recent years are return
ing to south in any important num
bers, or are likely to do so, says
Dr. W. W. Alexander, of Atlanta,
director, at annual meeting of Com
mission on Inter-Racial Co-opera
tion in South. intimate result of
migration is not yet apparent, he
says.
CHAPEL HILL. —More thaji 2,000
persons view annual fashion show
staged by Y'. YV. C. A. at University
of North Carolina.
ELIZABETH ClTY—Fifty Pas
quotank farms are bein - ravaged
bv red spiders, .cotton crop suffer
ing severely.
RALEIGH. —Tobacco Growers’ Co
operative association will open its
40 warehouses in South Carolina
and North Carolina border counties
August 5 for first deliveries of 1924
crop, says R. R. Patterson, general
manager. Receipts of association in
South Carolina last year were above
34,000,000 pounds, compared with
20,000,000 pounds previous year.
GREENSBORO. Campaign is
launched in effort to obtain estab
lishment here of branch of Fifth
Federal Reserve bank, at Richmond,
Va. Various other cities in this
state and South Carolina are mak
ing similar efforts.
CHAPEL HILL. —Prevention of
delinquency among young persons
of state is as important as highway
and industrial development, says
Mrs. Mary O. Cowper, executive sec
retary of League of Women Voters,
addressing summer institute of pub
lic welfare workers at University of
North Carolina.
HIGH POINT. Neal Griffith,
member of Charlotte fire depart
ment, is seriously injured when au
tomobile in which he and W. J. Kon
neil, another Charlotte fireman,
were riding, is demolished by passen
ger train. They wet:; attending
state firemen's convention here.
SPENCER. —Rev. Tom P. Jimi
son, labor leader and former presi
dent of State Federation of Labor,
tells those urging him to enter race
for United States senate on Progres
sive ticket that third party is not
yet sufficiently developed to warrant
decision at this time. He says rail
road labor unions’ members at this
important shop town are Intensely
interested in aligning themselves
with La Follette.
MONROE. Ib H. B. Gra v es, rural
policeman, of Pageland, S. C., dies
at local hospital of injuries sustain
ed previous day when he and com
panion officer, J. Al. Deese, of Page
land, were thrown to pavement on
road near there by three men wanted
for rum-running, onto whose car of
ficers had jumped. T. C. Phillips,
of Pageland, is reported under arrest
at Chesterfield.
RALEIGH.—One hundred eighty
five thousand number plates for mo
tor cars have been issued by office
of secretary of state, and 50,000 have
been distributed at 37 local branch
offices of motor license bureau, which
makes automobile and truck regis
trations about 85 per cent complete.
G REENSBORO.—GuiIford county
commissioners and school board are
in deadlock over 1924 school budget,
which calls for appropriations total
ing $538,000. compared with $513,000
last year. Budget is sent to state
education department without county
commissioners’ signature. Increase
is represented largely bv raises in
teachers’ pay at High Point and
Greensboro, which are illowed totals
of $103,000 and SIOB,OOO respectively.
SALISBURY?—Mrs? Mary Susan
Yost, 73, is killed at China Grove by
Southern train when she walks on
track near home of son, John Cline,
with whom she. lived.
YVAYNESV ILLE. Thomas L.
Gieene is named acting postmaster.
SALISBURY.— More than 200 mail
clerks, representing north, east and
middle districts of Southern railway
system, meet in annual convention.
SALISBURY.—After hearing at
which allegations of more than $250 -
000 indebtedness is admitted, Paul
Rubber company is adjudged bank
rupt by John C. Busby, special mas
ter. Creditors will be called in two
weeks, when future policy of com
pany, with headquarters here, will
be established.
HIGH POIN 1 .—Asheville is chosen
as next convention city, and Frank
Bennett, of Durham, is elected presi
dent of North Carolina Firemen's
association at closing session. Vice
presidents are A. B. Horney, High
Point; Long Duckett, Asheville;
''hallos Schniblen, Wilmington, is
elected treasurer; C. W. Styron,
Statesville, secretary. John L. Fos?
ter, Chapel Hill, is retiring president.
ROCKY MOUNT.—Stricken w th
heart trouble. Mrs. Lula A. Tuttlo
53. Greeleyville. S. C., dies abo.ud
Atlantic Coast Line train near here,
where body is removed for shipn ent
to Kingstree for burial. She was
en route from Philadelphia to Flor
ence.
LAKE Jl'NALl.SKA.—Moral de
velopment of nation is not keeping
pace with its material progress, says
7'■ -'"'mman E. Richardson, r.f
Northwestern university, Evanston,
81-, at opening of leadership school
of Methodist Episcopal church, south.
He deplores "spiritual illiteracy” at
tributed to fact only 5,300.000 of na
tion s 20.500.000 public school pupils
are enrolled in Sunday school?
ASFIEYILLE. Dr. As. Ashby
Jones, of Atlanta, is elected general
cha.rman of Southern Inter-Racial
commission, and Asheville is chosen
as 1925 meeting place at final ses
sion of commission’s annual confer
ence. Dr. Jones succeeds late John
J- Eagan, prominent philanthropist
Ol Atlanta and Birmingham.
RALEIGH.— Isaac Meekins, of
Elizabeth City. Republican candidate
for governor, files statement of cam-
Parcn expenses with secretary of
showing fifty cents as total,
vvhicn was incurred as notary’ fee
lor witnessing statement.
GASTONIA. lnterviews with
business men indicate general belief
here that election of John W. Davis
■is piesident by Democratic partv
will result in improvement in busi
ness conditions.
RALEIGH —R. Jeff Whitley,
wealthy lumberman of Zebulon,
whose estate is estimated to be
worth $1,000,000, dies at local hos
pital following operation for appen
dicitis.
HIGH POINT.—Rev. Zeno Wall,
pastor of church at GrAtsboro, de
clines call to pastorate of First Bap
tist church.
THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1924
CH ARLOTTE. —Forty-five stolen '
motor cars are reported recovered in
thirty days by’ Dan Bradley and YV.
T. Asbury, detectives employed by
Automobile Underwriters’ associa
tion, of Atlanta.
FAYETTEVILLE—Lieutenant W.
S. Bryant and two enlisted men,
members of recruiting party from
Fort Bragg, here, are injured when
their car is struck by Norfolk South
ern train near Lillington.
WILMINGTON —American steam
er Ruth ai rives with 3,000-ton car
go of sulphur consigned to Virginia-
Carolina Chemical company.
CHAPEL HILL.—New chepiifilry
building, now under construction, is
named by University of North Car
olina board of trustees to honor Dr.
F. P. Amenable, Keenan professor of
chemistry, in recognii'on of his 44
years of service to institution.
SALISBURY. —Two men, giving
names as R. L. Sexton and H. P.
Diggers, of Columbia, S. C., are fined
S6OO each in Rowan county court
after trial on charge of possessing
75 quarts of fine whisKy in then
car.
PITTSBORO.---Members of Repub
lican party are in majority’ at meet
ing called to put into field.' an inde
pendent ticket and organize inde
pendent third party in Chatham
county. J. E. Bryan, prominent Re
publican, presides.
CHARLOTTE—Rev. Clay I. Hud
son, of Cullman, Ala., accepts call
to pastorale of Pritchard Alemorial
Baptist church and will assume du
ties September 1-
CHARLOTTE. —Postal receipts for
fiscal year ended June 30 amounted
to $618,000, according to Postmaster
J. D. Allbright, compared with $375,-
000 for same period five years ago.
ELKIN. —Town of Rhonda sells
$20,000 issue of bonds for street im
provements.
ELKIN. —John Seagraves, 30, in
jured when car overturned, dies at
North YVilkesboro hospital without
regaining consciousness.
LAKE J UNALUSKA. —Unification
plan of Methodism recently adopted
by special general conference of
Methodist Episcopal church, south,
is not menace but realization of
dreams of Methodists everywhere,
says Dr. S. H. Burgin, of San An
tonio. Texas, chairman of general
conference committee selecting meet
ing places. He says many cities are
bidding for 1925 general conference.
WILAIINGTON.—FIaming cross
es. surmounted by placards signed
“K. K. K.,” warning bootleggers to
mend their ways, are placed at vari
ous places along Carolina Beach
highway by hooded procession. An
other sign, warning "home desecra
tors,” is placed on popular driveway
in fashionable suburb.
STATESVILLE. Three school
districts vote for consolidation and
levy of special 20-cent tax.
RALEIGH. Governor Morrison
appoints Robert N. Page, of Aber
deen, former member of congress
and opponent in 1920 of Morrison for
gubernatorial honors, as director of
North Carolina Cotton Growers’ as
sociation as representative of public.
HIGH POINT.—CoI. Z. P. Smith,
industrial agent of Southern railway,
inspects available factory sites and
submits to chamber of commerce
names of five large northern con
cerns seeking locations in south.
ALIENISTS HOLD BALANCE
IN FIGHT TO SAVE YOUTHS
'Surrender by Defense in First
Round of Bitter Court Bat
tle Does Not Mean Boys
Must Die
BY OWEN L. SCOTT
(Special Leased Wire tn The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924.)
CHICAGO, July 23.—Psychiatrists
still hold the balance in the bitter
fight opening today to save the necks
iof Chicago's precocious young
I •‘thrill-killers,” Nathan Leopold, Jr..
I and Richad Loeb, sons of Chicago
I millionaires.
Surrender by the defense in the
first round of the battle, it is evi
dent, does not mean that the slay
ers will go to the gallows, even
should Justice Caverly so sentence
them. Their attorneys threw the
boys on ‘‘the mercy of the court”
and look for mercy. To them life
imprisonment would be graciously
accepted, but hanging is to be
fought to the last ditch.
The. determination of the state to
demand the death penalty has drawn
the lines for a memorable court
battle. But instead of a jury of
twelve, Judge Caverly sits alone to
pasj judgment on the murder of 14-
y* ar-old Robert Franks, son of an
other millionaire, Jacob Franks.
Alienists the Pivot
Here the psychiatrists enter. They
are the pivotal point of the defense.
For two months numbers of them
have been unraveling the minds of
the Loeb-Leopold combination —the
pair whose pampered, tutored life
left them university graduates at
18 and murderers at 19. Prying into
these minds revealed an irresponsi
bility, a lack of emotional develop
ment that borders on insanity, the
defense psychiatrists are counted on
to tell the court.
Alienists for the state are pre
pared to testify that the youths are
•as completely sane as they appeared
lin the court. Jail life seems to have
; removed none of their suavity, ruf-
I fled* their composure nor dulled in-
■ terest in their own plight. Leopold
i is no longer so eager to display hi.
superior mental ability, but both he
land Loeb take great delight in not
ing the amount of newspaper dis
| play the pair receive.
There is ample precedent to in
dicate that after all the arguing and
presentation of evidence, which is
expected to occupy at least three
weeks, Judge Caverly, on his own
responsibility, might impose the
death sentence. Five times within
i recent years, local judges have sent
slayers to the gallows after a plea
of guilty, the last occasion only a
few weeks ago when Robert Scott,
!of Detroit, was sentenced without
! a trial to be hanged.
Fight May Drag
Should Leopold and Loeb be or
| tiered to the gallows after the final
i show of their psychiatrists and at
torneys. Attorney Darrow has inti
mated that the legal tattle woulj
go at once to the state supreme
: court. Each step of the way is be
ing bulwarked for possible openings
i that might be used in the case of
a death penalty. While the state is
building what it believes 1o be an
[impenetrable argument for hanging.
I the defense is just as carefully k-’j
ing the ground for legal saving
■ maneuvers should such be the out
' come of tho present flurry.
| The object of th® defer is for
WINSTON-SALEM. Resale of
bankrupt Bailey Brothers tobacco
plant, at Winston-Salem, and other
properties of concern is held here,
George Penny, of Greensboro, bid
ding in property for $300,000.
ASHEVILLE. —Five-day school of
citizenship, conducted under auspices
of league of women voters, is opened
with satisfactory attendance.
RALEIGH. —“The Carolina Jeffer
sonian,” weekly journal, of which
M. L. Shipman, commissioner of
labor and printing, recently defeated
for re-election, is editor, is estab
lished.
DURHAM. Announcement is
made that “The Southern Republi
can,” weekly political journal, will
be revived immediately.
RALEIGH.—James P. Brown, in
charge of administration of federal
warehouse act in Carolinas and Vir
ginia, is advised by federal reserve
bank at St. Louis that cotton ware
house receipts will not be accepted
as collateral for loans after Septem
ber 1 unless receipt is issued by gov
ernment licensed warehouse. Brown
expects other federal reserve and
member banks to take similar action.
Warehouses must incur considerable
expense to obtain license.
CHARLOTTE.—City commission
ers agree at conference with business
men to lease large city auditorium
for 20 years to proposed local thea
ter company at SIO,OOO per annum.
Company proposes to expend $150,-
000 in remodeling building into road
show house, which city now lacks.
ANDREWS.""— Walker McGuire
and Wilburn Crisp, superintendent
and foreman, respectively, for Mont
vale Lumber company, at Fontana,
near here, are instantly killed in
copper mine at Eagle Creek when
ten blasts of dynamite explode pre
maturely.
DURHAM. —Executive committee
of Republican party in North Caro
lina meets with state and congres
sional candidates at call of Chairman
W. G. Bramham, of Durham, and
lavs plans for campaign in behalf of
Ike Meetins, of Elizabeth City, can
didate for governor, and other nomi
nees which “will be one of most
intensive political fights ever con
ducted in state.”
RALEIGH. —Authority to make
third loan of $5,000,000 to various
counties of state for erection of new
school buildings will be asked of ex
tra session of legislature, convening
August 7, by A. T. Allen, state su
perintendent of public instruction.
Fourth loan will be asked next Janu
ary of regular session of legislature.
ASHEVILLE.—Persons convicted
hereafter in city court of driving
cars while in intoxicated condition
will be sent to chaingang, regardless
of wealth or position, Judge Cam
eron Mcßae says in court, to "re
move grave menace to society.”
CHARLOTTE. —Three couples are
wedded within two-hour period by
Rev. H. F. Surratt, pastor of First
Methodist Protestant church, one of
brides being Miss Alma Poe. of
Greensboro, N. C., sister of Mrs. Sur
ratt, who married L. W. Jobe, of
Greensboro.
BELMONT.-Bod7 of M. W. San
ford, 56, well known, is found on
roadside where he evidently had died
suddenly of apoplexy. No evidence
of crime was found, coroner says.
the killers to emerge alive but im
prisoned—the goal of the prosecutor
to see them hanged. It is for im
prisonment that the millions of the
parents are available to be spent.
They ask only that their boys’ lives
be spared.
Yet, whatever the outcome, the
future is none too bright for the
two young men. The mental powers
so early displayed that marked these
youths as intellectual supermen
when barely beyond adolescence, are
doomed either to extinction or to a
confinement that will of necessity
dull all of their brilliance.
A few weeks will mark the end of
the first stage of the battle to save
the two lives demanded in payment
for that of Robert Franks.
The otUer stages of the fight
might extend over a period of years
if hanging should be the sentence.
Coolidge Soon to Name
Ambassador to Mexico
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Presi
dent Coolidge is expected to fill
promptly the post of ambassador to
Mexico, soon to be vacant by the
retirement of Charles B. Warren, of
Michigan.
The ambassadorship at Tokio. an
other major post now vacant, prob
ably will not be filled until after
the November elections, but rela
tions with Mexico during organiza
tion of the new claims commissions
are held by Mr. Co t olidge to require
immediate designation of a successor
to Mr. Warren.
Steamer Runs Aground
ROCKLAND, Me., July 23.—The
passenger steamer James T. Morse,
of the Eastern Steamship Lines,
Inc., which left here early today
for Bar Harbor, struck on Crotch
Island, near-the entrance to Stoning
ton Harbor, shortly after in a thick
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from the mere sale of her raw
materials to their manufacture, Dr,
L. Brittain, president of the Georgia
School of Technology, told the Geor
gia. Press association, in annual ecn
ention here today, in advocating leg
islative support of the school, which
she termed as “the chief rol;ar.-.,3 of
the state for our industrial progress
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Calling attention of the editors to
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bought back the manufactured prod
ucts of these raw materials at a cost
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The Georgia School of Technology,
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ished its latest addition—a ceramic
department, the building of which!
will be completed next month, “ready
to trail our young men in ceramic
engineering and teach them what to
do with our clays besides turning
them over to a negro and a wheel
barrow for shipment north.” The
speaker declared that it was "confi
dently expected” that the new de
partment at the institution would
prove to he “a productive servant I
that will add much to our wealth."
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graduates are in great demand as
managers and superintendents in
the printing and publishing field."
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a real need,” he added, telling the as
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Georgia Tech and will aid us with
the establishment, I shall undertake
to promise you that it will be added
to our ten departments.”
Man Blown to Pieces
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Holding Nitroglycerine
LOS ANGELES, July 23— One
man was blown to bits and another
probably fatally injured in an ex
plosion at Vernon avenue and Long
Beach boulevards today when an
automobile driven by Mrs. Markory
Watts, struck a suitcase believed to
have contained nitroglycerine. Vic
tims of the explosion had not beep
identified some time after the blast.
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