BUSHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878 |>s * * Ford to I Stop 'l‘-' vish Articles v rU \mericaiTDeclares Man- I y, o f«tarer Has Retracted His Attacks ..York, July 7.-The New I fwerican. in a copyrighted I'- says Henry Ford haS ° r " ■ ,',t,e Dearborn Independent permanently all fL, hostile to the Jewish peo ■ art ! withdrawn from publica- l ple ' Ihe pamphlet in which such I** eK being distributed and, | IWDI! signed statement, has ex ■in a j dccp regret for any in- hurt caused by the series. ■ Mr Ford's statement, according American, includes the an- I; that “henceforth the tatborn Independent will be con lt,ctea under such auspices that I reflecting upon the Jews |will never again appear in its col-| I -Let me add. this version of ■rhe statement concludes, “that this ■ traitment is made on my own initi- Eve and wholly in the interest of m r ,r; and justice and in accordance ■with what I regard as my solemn ■duty, as a man and as a citizen.” I The Detroit manufacturer vas ■quoted as being “deeply mortified Eiiat this journal has been the me- Ejn for resurrecting exploded Bfor.s. for giving currency to; HTt so-called protocols of the wise Een of Zion, which have been de ■ki,!>:rate(i. as I learn, to be gross Erini'hs. and for contending that ■the Jews have been engaged in a ■ . t<. control the industries Hand capital of the world.” I "Had I appreciated even the gen- j ■c.. nature, of tiwse articles,” Mr. ' ■Fod is quoted as declaring, “I H haw* toroidden their circula-1 ■riot, with mt a moment's hesitation, ■because I am fully aware of the ' ■virtues of the Jewish people as a ■ten le. or what they and their an ■cest.irs have done for civilization j land for mankind, their be-! Hnevoler.ee and their unselfish in- j Merest in the public welafre. m D'd >irc; that William Randolph ■Hnir-t. publisher of the American, Hud oiiered >1.000.000 for the Dear ■Vrr. hakpendent. the article quotes as saying in reply: I “Xo, I won't sell it, but I’m go make it a house organ, and K JI - St' mg- to stop absolutely ev-j that could possibly cause | ■complaint or hurt the feelings of jl Ford’s Statement. I The signed statement of Mr. begins: I Tn the multitude of my ac- E Vu ‘ cS d has been impossible for ' devote personal attention to W** management, or to keep in ■'jrrntd as to their contents. It has, ■‘‘t.einre, inevitably followed that f ll6 conduct and policies of these HP ,J b.cations had to be delegated I . Utn w hom I placed in charge \ tntn b and upon whom I relied ■%icitly. | L}niy ? re at regret,” the state- H.^ L “I have learned I] ■ J, ' w> generally, and particu °f this country, not ■c' - n " tn ese publications as ■ *|- ung anti-Semitism, but re- Kle nd m£ ‘ their enem y. Trusted | Ecu ‘ S V !til ' v^ lom I have confer |i/j !" Cenil ‘ v ’ bave assured me in i L J CeiiL '' tna t in their opinion! ftsim* - I& ! acter 01 the charges and } a aons made against the Jews, e&, r .„;J ‘ 1‘ U:i! ' !v an d collectively, R 'nioh' many the articles icailv; * Xen c ‘h'culated period- L)earborn Independent j and hair - mentione d, justifies | lh eriJl been reprinted in the > dignation entertain-J toward me ntal anguish oc unprovoked reflec ptrsonai '!: : ‘ Ime t° direct my j co this subject, | ru.in the exact na- j V*:;? of this survey, I tbat Kconq?^ l wb * cb is intended r Ve > has 1 / tlVe and not destruc- Nrrectir f 1 made the medium for wing ciir S CXploded Fictions, for so-called' ntui “ed on Page eight) The Chatham Record 48 Hours Grace Given Testing Lights Forty-eight hours grace can be claimed by any automobile driver who fails to have his headlights ad justed in conformance with the “motor vehicle act.” His lights might be out of adjustment because of jolting or other cause for which he could not be blamed, and the law gives him 48 hours to adjust his lights after he learns about it. While the motor vehicle act re- j quires head lamps and auxiliary I driving lamps to be constructed so as to reveal a person on the high way 200 feet away, it gives any person arrested for its violation 48 hours within which to have automo- \ bile lights brought into conform- j ance with the requirements of the j act. Violation of this section of the motor vehicle act is made a misde meanor, punishable with a fine of i not more than SIOO or by imprison | ment in jail for not more than ten i days for the first offense, and j doubling the penalty limit for a j second violation. The Legislature made it manda tory for automobile headlights to be adjusted and authorized the State Highway Commissioner to supervise official stations for ad justing head lamps and auxiliary j driving lamps to conform with the ; requirements including a red light i in the rear and a white light mak-; ing the number plate visible for 50 feet. While the Legislature also speci fied that when lights are adjusted at these stations, a certificate shall j be provided, it put in a saving sub- j j section to prevent undue hardships j I being imposed on automobile driv- ; ers. It put in this section the pro- ; vision that the offending driver j shall have 48 hours in w’hich to ! make his lights conform with the , statute, and that this shall be a ! complete defense, if a certificate j is presented to the prosecuting at j torney. j 3 State Prisoners Make Their Escape Raleigh, July 7.—Escapes of J three state prisoners, one from ; Caledonia prison farm and two from Camp Incorrigible, Stokes- i dale, last night, were reported to- i ! day by Prison Superintendent I George Ross Pou. The escapes were D. G. Lewis,, serving three to five years from i | Cleveland county for breaking and entering; Victor Frye, Lincoln j county, serving three years for lar- j ceny and Roscoe Snyder, Forsyth j county, three years for larceny and ! receiving. Lewis escaped from Caledonia and the others from Camp Incor rigible. CONSCIENCE HURTS UNTIL MAN REPAYS OLD ACCOUNT Ashevme, July 7.—J. F. Sims ran a grocery here 12 years ago. At that time he hired and fired many grocery boys. One o fthose boys, now’ a prominent young Asheville buusiness man, called on him I today. “I am going to join the church, ! Mr. Sims, and I have something I | want to get off my mind first,” the I young business man said. “Twelve years ago, whom I worked foi you, I stole 75 cents. I also drank some soda water and ate some fruit that you never knew about, I fig ure that I ewe you $1.50. Here it j is. lam deeply sorry.” Mr. Sims refused to take any i money for the soda water and fruit. He said the young man was wel come to that. He did accept the 75 cents on the young man’s insistence I that it would relieve his conscience, j Mr. Sims related the story to | newspaper men with a broad smile |of satisfaction. “Just print that | for the benefit of cynics,” he said. “All men are honest at heart.” It doesn’t pay to hold a fair in June for farmers of North Carolina found officials of the Wallace Fair in Duplin county. Not a single farmer attended the event and none made exhibits, states County agent L. L. McLendon. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1927 Army-Navy Forces Hunt for Flier’s Body Report Williams Was Fiance of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge, of Automobile Family Honolulu, July 7.—Search for the body of Lieutenant Charles L. Williams, army aviator who lost his life while participating in an aerial farewell demonstration here for Lieuts. Albert Regenberger and Lester J. Maitland, Pacific flier’s * occupied army and navy forces here today. Williams, said by the Star-Bul letin to have been the fiance of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge, recently d%j j vorced wife of the son of the weal- I thy automobile manufacturer,was j drowned in the deep waters off Fort De Russey when his plane,one of the many used in the “Aloha” to the flight heroes, failed to re cover from a diving position and plunged into the sea. The tragedy occurred within full view of Maitland and Hegenberger from the decks of the liner Maui and thousands who had assembled to see them off for San Francisco. : A navy seaplane alighted on the water just after the accident but its pilot found only a tire and a piece ! of a wing from Williams’ machine. Lieutenant Williams was a native ; of Arizona, 29 years old. Highway 90. The Chatham county commis sioners and Supt. A. T. Ward went down to Raleigh last week to dis cuss with the Wake commissioners | the routing of the new state high way, No. 90, from Pittsboro to route 50 near Apex. The Wake i commissioners have preferred a , route leading from Apex to Olive Chapel church, which would ne ! oesitate a new road for two or three miles westward from Olive Chapel, through an unpopulated country, leaving the section of the old Ral j eigh to be kept up by Chatham county, or if the new section should not be built, would necessitate the loss of a mile cr two in going to Apex by the old route to the coun j ty line and then south to meet the ! intersecion at Olive Chapel. The i Wake commissioners agreed to have the upper route surveyed and ! then decide the question. The exit from Pittsboro seems to be determined upon. Several t Pittsboro citizens who went down , to ask the state highway commis | sion to change the routing out by way of the northward street in ! Pittsboro to the depot street or the ; street at the court house, got no I encouragement. The highway will j follow the street just above the H. i A. London home to Mr. Williams residence, where it will turn to the left, cutting across the corner of his yard and through the B. Nooe grove, striking the old Ral eigh road above the Geo. Brewer place. It is understood that this section of the new highway will be graded and, possibly, paved while the for ces paving the Pittsboro-Chapel Hill highway are here. FORSYAH COUNTY WANTS HIGHWAYS MADE SAFER Winston-Salem, July 7. —A move to make the streets of Winston- Salem and the highways of Forsyth county safer for the automobile driver and pedestrains was launched at an enthusiastic meeting of the Winston-Salem Automobile club. As the first steps in this direc tion the association voted it was the sense of the meeting that all applications for chauffeur license should be required to stand an ex amination, showing they are men tally, physically and morally fit to be licenced to drive a car before the license is issued. Another means for making the highways safer is to be through a campaign of education, which is to be carried on in the public schools as well as in other agencies. A local farm association in Pam lico county shipped 92 cars of Irish potatoes for which they received from $9 a barrel for firsts down to $2.05 a barrel for No. 2’s. Virgil Davis Again At His Old Trade Virgil Davis has been back again at his old trade of robbing stores, if he has ever left it off. It will be recalled that he was caught com ing out of one of the stores near the depot one night a year or so ago. He had then quite a bunch of keys, Those -were taken away from him, but he evidently secur ed another set. Several months ago Brooks and Eubanks noticed that the key on the inside of the door on the south side of the building would be pushed out of the keyhole when they owuld return in the morning. Passage through that door was stopped by putting on an extra bolt. For the last several weeks indications of entrance and loss of goods have appeared, and the entries seemed to occur at the week-ends. Mr. Brooks set for the marauder Friday,, Saturday, and Sunday nights last, and was re warded for his vigilance by the capture of Virgil early Monday morning in the act of helping him self. Mr. Brooks and Deputy Fred Nooe sat in the commissioners’ room at the court and Mr. Brooks kept a lookout for the thief. About one o’clock a form appeared’ on the street and wandered about in one direction and another for some time. Finally, it approached the south side of the store. A window on that side into the basement was opened and the form glided into the darkness of the basement. The two watchers took their stands by the doors of the store ] and when the rouge had loaded up i with a variety of goods and got what little money was to be found, * they walked in upon him. He was j unarmed, except for a weli-used \ pocket knife that had b - n taken i from the store some time ago. He immediately blamed the woman, saying that “Carrie” was as much to blame as he, that he didn’t want to come in the store that night but she said he must. And, sure enough “Carrie” was found to have on a pair of shoes from the store and a number of other things in her pos session. Virgil making a clean bone of it and “Carrie” were both turned over to jailor Burns. It seems that Virgil will have to be put away for keeps, as no store is safe while he is free. Mrs. A. G. Burke, 75 Dies at Her Home Gulf, July 9.—Mrs. A. G. Burke, 75, died at her home July 4, fol lowing an illness of several years. She was confined to her bed for only three days before her death. Less than two months ago Mrs. Burke’s husband died after tnany years of bad health. Since their youth Mr. and Mrs. Burke have been consistent members of the Be thany Baptist church at Gulf, where their bodies were laid to rest. Mrs. Burke is survived by two sons and one daughter. A. A. Burke of Greensboro, C. W. Burke and Miss Mattie Burke of Goldston. EDWARDS GOES TO A FLORIDA RAILROAD I H. P. Edwards, former president of the Edwards Railway Motor Car Company of Sanford, has resigned to accept the vice-presidency of a Florida railroad, and has been suc ceeded by E. R. Buchan. Mr. Ed- w T ards report of the condition of the Motor Car Company is en couraging. A period of adaptation of cars to varied and changing conditions has passed and there is work ahead for several months, with prospects of orders from South America. This company, with its small capitalization, has sold more railway motor cars than any other company except the J. G. Brill Company of Philadelphia, which has a thirteen million dollar capital. The nitrogen top-dressing to corn gives best results when applied at the time the corn is between knee and waist high. Applied when the plants are bursting into tassel is too late. i Largest Active Vol cano Belches Lava Native Hawaiians See Huge Kil auea Active Again in Beautiful But Awe Inspiring Display Hilo, Hawaii, July 7. —The huge Kilauea volcano, slumbering for ages, awoke today and poured streams of lava from its crater, Haleftmaumau, 4,000 feet above the earth trembled as the giant roused to activity. Native Hawaiians cast berries and other offerings into the fire pit to appease Pele, gooddess of the volcano. Warning of the impending erup tion was registered by the seismo graph of the observatory at the crater rim which recorded four slight tremors of the earth in the two hours preceding last midnight. An earthquake at Hilo, thirty miles from the volcano, awoke a few residents at 3:21 a. m., and they gazed upon a beautiful but awe inspiring sight. Four huge fountains of fire 125 feet high were spouting upon the lofty slopes, and from the fire pit ran three rivers of lava, forming a blazing lake of rock 1,000 feet across. Crowds that rushed toward the pit to watch the display were driven back by the bursts of sulphur fumes, dust and sand. A tremor, accompanied by rumb ling sounds, at 12:30 a. m., a sure indication of activity in the pit, forewarned watchers at the obser vatroy that lava was in motion un derground. Eruptions began within ! thirty minutes. During the morning two foun ; tains of fiery rock formed big cones ' at the base of the deep pit. A i small peninsular between them was ! still uncovered. R. M. Wilson, colcanologist in charge of the observatory, estimat ed the depth of lava at other places in the pit to be from fifty to seven ty five feet. The volcano was be stirring itself vigorously, spouting flame and steam from the boiling lava. Several times Pele has sent streams of molten rock toward the sea, burning forests and turning the land to desert. The chief erup tions within a decade took place in 1917, 1919 and 1921. Kilauea, largest active volcano in the world, has a main crater that is eight miles around and 600 feet in depth. It is on a slope of Mauna Loa, a volcano, 13,675 feet high which erupted in May of last year. Contract For Bridge Let To Kizer & Yonts The contract for the bridge on route 90 across New Hope Creek, or river, at Seaforth, was let a few days ago to Kiker & Yonts, of Reidsville, for the sum of $30,- 170.25. There are already three big bridges under construction in the county, two by the state highway commission, and one across the Cape Fear by Lee and Chatham counties. It is not known when work will begin on the New Hope bridge. The large sums being spent on these constructions and in paving the Pittsboro-Chapel Hill road is helping the county consid erably these dull days. It is hard to see how Moncure could have got through, with its hard luck in addi tion to poor crops for three years if it had not been for the structures across the Haw, the Deep, and the Cape Fear, all within a few miles of that town. Charles C. Brooks Died Last Sunday Mr. Chas. C. Brooks, a half brother of Mr. Geo. H. Brooks of Pittsboro, died at his home in Dal las, Texas, Sunday morning. Mr. Brooks left Chatham in his young manhood and has been in Dallas more than 30 years, where he has long been engaged in the mail service of that city. He was 57 years of age. Farmers of Bladen county pur chased ten pure Guernsey bulls dur i ing early June. Mr. Coolidge Confers On Mexican Problems He and Ambassador Sheffield Talk Over Situation But No An nouncement Is Made Rapid City, 5.. D., July 7—A firsthand report on the troubled re lations between the United States and Mexico was given to President Coolidge at the summer White House today by James R. Sheffield, ambassador to Mexico ,but details were withheld pending further con versations. The ambassador had indicated, before departing from Rapid City to be a guest at the state game lodge, that in his opinion there would be no change in the Ameri i can attitude toward the Mexican oil and land laws. Pressed for a statement regard ing frequent rumors that he intends to resign, Mr. Sheffield declined to comment, saying that he would not discuss the Mexican situation in any way until he had conferred with Mr. Coolidge. Reaching Rapid City shortly af ter midnight, the ambassador was driven immediately to the summer , White House and retired without seeing the President. He arose just before Mr. Coolidge left for the executive offices, remaining in seclusion until the President’s re turn at noon, when the two held their first conference. At the executive offices it was stated that some time before Mr. Sheffield’s visit is over he will make some announcement regard ing his future plans and his impres sions of the Mexican problems. Aside from his conference with the ambassador, the first on for eign affairs he has had since reach ing his summer residence, Mr. Cool idge put in a busji morning at his I desk and with Mrs. Coolidge in spected the Rapid City Indian school —a government institution. There he saw the native American is being tutored in the ways of the white man, and was presented with a peace pipe of cherry wood, decorated gaily in beads, porcupine quills and buck-, skins. J. T. Standing Elk, who made the ' pipe, told the President to smoke it and think of the Black Hills’ In dians when he did and Mr. Cool \ idge, accepting it with a smile, not ed how the old life had been inter woven with the new in the Ameri ! can flag which shared in the pipe’s decoration with native Indian de- I signs. * Mrs. Coolidge was presented with a hand embroidered pillow by Norma Silver Thorn. At the Indian school the Presi- I dent and Mrs. Coolidge heard a copper skinned lad extol the record I of the Republican party during the civil war and saw exhibitions of Indian dances and songs. Both ap plauded generously when a tiny In dian in full native dress danced a war dance with Charleston varia tions. They also looked on attentively when Rosebud Yellow Robe, daugh-! ter of Chauncey Yellow Robe, a i well known chieftain, danced in In dian interpretation of an elk hunt and thanks to the great spirit. Returning to the summer White House for luncheon, President and Mrs. Coolidge welcomed troop five of the Sioux City, lowa, Boy Scouts which is making a tour of the hills and then the President sat down with Ambassador Sheffield for a discussion of Mexican affairs. Man Is Jailed On Charges Os Beating His Children Goldsboro, July 7. —L. B. Strick ! land white man of Goldsboro is in j Wayne county jail charged with un j mercifully beating his five children, i Cira, Velma, Willie, Chille and Woodrow. When Deputy Sheriff Grant went to arrest him, Strickland came out of his house with a shot gun in his hand and ordered Grant off his place, the officer said. However he was arrested and placed in jail in default of a S3OO bail and is awaiting trial in county court on Monday. Pastures form the foundation of a successful livestock industry. VOLUME NO. 49 Hopkins WiffToße " Held For Disposition 700 Alleged Heirs In North Ca»» ' lina and California Have Cases Pending in Courts New York, July 7. —The will of Emily B. Hopkins, widow of Mose* Hopkins, a brother of the late Mark Hopkins, California railroad, magnate was filed today but hte 45 heirs may not receive their por tion of her $3,474,881 estate until suits started b ysome of the 700 ‘ alleged heirs in North Carolina and California have been adjudicated. Mark Hopkins died itestate. Hi* estate passed to his widow and tw