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ESTABL ... SEPTEMBER 19,1878 THREE PRISONERS ARE TRANSFERED Grady Pugh, Will Rainey and Nettie Jackson are Carried Back to Wentworth WENTWORTH, Feb. 13. —A. P. —Grady Pugh, Will Rainey, and Net tie Jackson, arrested here two weeks ago under a charge of having rob bed a Reidsville jewelry store and who have for 10 days been prisoners in the Chatham county jail at Pitts boro where the woman was identi fied as having had a .part in the rob bery of the Bank of Bennett several weeks ago, were returned here today by Sheriff G. W. Blair, of Chatham, who had borrowed them for pur poses of identification. The identi ficaiton of the woman was positive; of the men uncertain. They were immediately turned over to Sheriff C. D. Story and deputies of Ala mance county, who carried them to Graham where they will be held in connection with the robbery of the bank at Elon. The trio was slated to be given a hearing here today but because the charge in Alamance is far more seri ous, the case here was continued. Three Elon college students have identified the trio as having been seen there on the day of the robbery. Sheriff C. D. Storey, of Burling ton; Deputy H. J. Stockard, of Gra ham and W. 0. Warren, Alamance county manager, went to Pittsboro and interviewed several of the pris oners held in Pittsboro jail. They sought information from the prison ers about A. P. Campbell and Doc. Bass, arrested in Alamance on feder al and county warrants for automo by the Alamance officers to be mem bile theft. The two men are believed bers of the car theft ring which has operated extensively in this and oth er states. Some of the trio previously had been identified as principals in the Elon college bank robbery. Proper Fertilizers For Chatham Soils County Agent Names The Four Types of Soil Found In This County With the cotton planting season not so very far off, the agent is tak ing this opportunity to urge farm ers to use the proper kind and right amounts of fertilizers for their dif ferent soil types, and to take ade quate precautions to plant good, cleaned seeds of a standard variety. In regard to the seed, tests con amounts of fertilizers for cotton grown on the various soils of the county, it may be said that in gen eral there are four different kinds of soils in this county on which cot ton is grown. There are two dif ferent types of our red soils, the deep, red chocolate soils, known as the Davidson clay loam, recognized as one of the most productive soils of the Piedmont, and a soil some what more light in color, known as the Georgeville, Silty clay loam. For these two soils, the experiment sta tion recommends a 10 to 12-4-2, 600 pounds to the acre. For our gray and white soils, the station re commends the same amount of a fertilizer analyzing roughly, 8 to 9- 4-6. The same fertilizers can be applied to corn, although it is not recommended to use over 600 pound per acre for this crop. In regard to the seed, tests con- i ducted for twelve years in differ ent parts of the state show that two varieties are outstanding, as regards yield, earliness and adaptability, and these two varieties are the Mexican and Cleveland. These two varieties have been grown side by side with such varieties as King, Simpkins, Rucker, Half-in-half, etc. and have out-yielded them in every case. Not only that these two varieties have a longer stanle, and buyers are be ginning to discriminate against short staple cotton. Another point to re member in planting cotton is the im portance of having the cotton seed cleaned. The county suffers large losses annually through the planting of small, black seed. During the past two months, the agent has pla ced over 309 bushels of pure Mexi can cotton with growers of the county, and orders for this seed are being taken now. A cream route has been establish ed which will serve the communities of Silk Hope, Center church, Gum ►Spring, Chesnut Hill and Man dale. This route will begin opera tions Friday, February 17, and will collect cream from farmers living on these roads. The Agent spent last fhursday and Friday of this week in these communities, discussing this route with various farmers, and we believe that the route w r ill be a suc cess. The advantages of dairying have already been pointed out, and when we consider that Chatham county is now selling approximately $75,000 worth of dairy products a year, as compared with a few thous and a few years ago, we begin to see something of the importance of dairy work in this county. N. C. SHIVER, Co. Agent. In office Saturdays and first Mon days. The poultry growers of North Carolina have begun their annual co operative carlot shipment of poul try; this work is done largely under the supervision of the County Agent of the State college extension divi sion. T he Chatham Record MINER ELECTROCUTED AT CAROLINA MINE j J. W. Mullins, a miner aged 30, ' was killed instantly last Thursday at the Coal Glen mine when he came in contact with a live wire. Other i miners are reported to have said that they had been warned by Mul lins himself that they would better not touch the wire, as the insulation was torn off in places. A coroner's jury held no one responsible for the death, but attributed the tearing of 1 1 the insulation to the effects of fly ing particles of rock accompanying blasts in the mine. 1 Mr. Mullins leaves a wife. Coroner G. H. Brooks presided ov jer the inquest. The jury was com- J posed of Messrs. Albert Seagroves, I B. W. Gilmore, Jud -Newton, Colon »Johnson, H. T. Matthews and L. D. Underwood. . Durham Rotarians Go To Siler City Eleven Members of the Dur ham Club Attend Charter Meeting Monday Night Durham Herald Eleven members of the Durham Rotary club went to Siler City last night and took part in a program in which the charter was presented to the newly formed club of that city. The eleven Durham Rotarians were L. B. Bryan, E. D. Fowler, S. P. Alexander, W. E. Griffin, M. M. Floyd, S. H. Hoobgood, S. C. Cham bers, C. S. Green, C. C. Council, F. M. Martin and W. H. Pritchard. About 100 visiting Rotarians at tende dthe Siler City meeting, the following clubs being represented: Greensboro, Sanford, Reidsville, Leaksville-Spray, Asheboro, Bur lington, Oxford and Durham. Luther Hodges, district governor for North Carolina Rotary * clubs, presented the charter and it was ac cepted by J. Dewey Dorsett, presi dent of the newly formed club. With the forming of the Siler City organi zation the total number of Rotary clubs is brought to 2,727. They are 1 located in 44 different countries, j The following are the charter members of. the Siler City club: C. N. Bray, F. G. Brooks, J. C. Canipe, W. H. Coltrane, L. P. Dixon, J. D. Dorsett, V. M. Dorsett, V. B. Elkins, G. M. Honeycutt, R. A. Huddleston, W. W. Jones, F. C. Justice, J. B. | Millikan, W. H. Rowland, J. Q. Seawell, J. W. Siler, C. B. Thomas, R. C. Upchurch and J. B. Whitley. J|pIRY LIST For week’s term of court to begin i Monday, March sth, for the trial of i Civil cases. ! Albright township—C. M. Pickard, jJ. T. Harris. . New Hope—C. D. Goodwin, B. C. | Poole, J. G. Goodwin. Hadley—A. L. Johnson, Alonzo B. Campbell. Center —J. D. Baker, W. A. Rob erson. Bear Creek —Jerome Hilliard. Cape Fear —J. E. Holt. Matthews—M. M. Bridges, J. A. Mendlehall. Baldwin —J. H. Hackney, J. T. Mann. Hickory Mountain —T. B. Bray. Oakland—C. T. White. Haw River —W. W. Stedman. For week’s term beginning- March !19th: I The list for second week, which iis separted a week from the first | term and which is also for the trial cf Civil cases, is as follows: Gulf township—G. M. Smith, J. T. Waddell. Baldwin —W. W. Mann, W. B. - Cheek, L, M. Riggsbee. j Albright—C. P. Teague, j New Hope—E. E. Clark. Oakland—J. R. Poe. Williams—W. J. Ousley, J. B. Old j ham, J. E. Andrews, i Center—John W. Griffin, Lee 1 Copeland, G. C. Cooper. | Bear Creek —Graham Scott, J. E. Gilliland. ; Matthews —J. C. Lane, Curtis Ken- I nedy. ' j Hickory Mountain—J. IT. Watkins. | Haw River —E. E. Walden. LINDBERGH BACK HOME Lindbergh’s good fortune holds. He landed safely at St. Louis Mon day at 5:10 p. in., after a non-stop flight from Havana through fogs, ending his trip to Mexico, the Cen tral America nstates, Columbia and several islands of the West Indies. Not once has his famous ’plane gone back on him. The young man is scheduled t obegin his across-conti i nent flights on the mall route next week. RECORD MONTH FOR CHEVROLET January was a record month for Chevrolet production. That month 91,584 units were turned out. This was nearly 20,000 more cars and trucks than built in January of 1927. FARMS FOR SALE My farm of 230 acres on High way 93, from Pittsboro to Graham; on truck line to Pittsboro school; plenty water, buildings, fruit, mea dow land, and good cotton, grain farm, for sale on easy terms. Confer with IT. W. Cheek, Siler City or see me —H. F. Durham, Pittsboro, j Route 2. Feb 16-2 t. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1928 Washington Letter Hoover Jumps Into Hot Water —AJ Smith Still Debating With Himself WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Wash ington stewed a fine mess of poli tical porridge last week. Everything went into the pot and many cooks attended. In addition to the usual political concoctions, liberal quan tities of mud were thrown into the broth. The result was as dubious a dish as the public has had served it for many a day. The lid blew off with a bang in the little private war waged in Ohio between Herbert C. Hoover and F. B. Willis. Both want Ohio’s 51 del egates to the Kansas City conven tion. Willis has claimed this block of delegates from the start, months ago, and until recently there has oeen a sort of hand-off policy on the party of all other candidates. Representative Burton, daddy of Ohio politics, tore a hole in the Wil is fence the other day and beckon ed to Hoover to come on in and enjoy himself. Seventy-odd other robust Ohio vo ters quickly assembled their names on a petition and seconded the Bur ton motion. That seemed to put it squarely up to Mr. Hoover, and his advisers, including Walter F. Brown of Toledo (assistant secretary of Commerce, but reputed to be a lead ing campaign manager) got busy. Mr. Hoover has jumped in and will give Senator Willis a tussle on his own home grounds. Willis simply says that the election day will show Mr. Hoover that he didn’t know his onions, or words to that effect. There was much discussion as to whether Mr. Hoover’s advisers were acting wisely. Some of his friends predicted that he would leave Ohio with a sound spanking- that would take the spirit out of his supporters elsewhere. Others ventured the pre diction that he would mop up the Senator. These said he had all to gain and virtually nothing to lose. Whatever the result, the fight, if held, will open the way to clearing up some of the fog which the Hoov er opponents have attempted to put over his campaign. Thus the nation stands reasonably sure of a treat in Ohio which will hang out considerable linen on the clothesline. The part Mr. Hoover played, if any. in fixing the price of wheat during the war; where he stands on the wet and dry question; whether he really was a Democrat in 1918; whether he believes Uncle Sam should pay all the cost of the flood control program—these are things that won’t wait for the Presi idential campaign if the pre-conven tion fight comes off in Ohio, as now seems likely. There is no disguising the elation in other Republican camps. To date the fight has been the field against Hoover. Now that the genial Sec retary has climbed into the hot wa ter, the disposition of the rest of the candidates is to regard his pre dicament with considerable glee. In other camps, the Lowden move ment came to a head with the fill ing of papers in the Illinois primary contest; Illinois congressmen from the rural districts endorsed Lowden; Governor McMullen of Nebraska sug gested that Hoover take on Norris here; A1 Smith continued to debate the idea of getting out of the race, it was said, though no word came from him: Curtis of Kansas opened New York offices; Reed of Missouri extended his campaign from his Washington headquarters. The South is making a wry face, a Washington newspaper reporter Jiscovered, over A1 Smith and is try ng to work up a boom for Senator George of Georgia. Southern Re publicans started a parade to the Hoover bandwagon. Here in Washington, the House got its biggest money bill—one pro viding nearly $2,300,000,000 for the treasury and post office department. Congress decided to spend another $100,000,000 for federal buildings. That means a good many smaller communities wiil get new post offi- i cos in time. In the realm of high i finance, likewise, was the budget bureau’s estimate of the cost of the proposed bigger and better navy— sl44,ooo,ooo a year for eight years, or $1,152,000,000 in all with annual upkeep cost of $40,000,000 thereaf ter. This figure came as somewhat 1 of a shock to congress. Greeks bearing gifts settled with the treasury on the disputed ques tion over what Greece is to pay the United States. It developed that Greece wanted $12,000,000 more and would pay after getting it—in time. The 'President put it up to congress. The President also serv ed breakfast to about 30 members of congress on two occasions. They say some of the members left their ! beds earlier those days than they had for years before. Also the President addressed the press at the dedication of the Press club’s new $11,000,000 home. He told the newspapers they had lost something lately—a part of their ability to mold public opinion. La ter, at the White House, it was given out that Mr. oolidge stands pat on out that Mr. Coolidge stands pat on : states would pay one-fifth of the cost. The Senate talked mightily over the anti-third-term resolution and the fever spread to the House where Mr. Beck of Wisconsin introduced a similar measure. The Vare-Wilson ballots were up for counting by Sen ator Jim Reed Reed’s little group of counters. And Senator Borah, chair- - man of the important foreign rela-; o (Please turn to page eight) ’Squire Blair Passes Prominent Citizen of County Dies After Lingering Illness As The Record wa s at press when ’Squire J. R. Blair died last week, the news was too late to find a place in last week’s papel. His death oc curred about 9:30 Tuesday evening, after a lingering illness. Mr. Blair, ’Squire Blair, as he was generally known because of his long and creditable career as a justice of the peace, was a good man and had a great many friends in the county. He was a native of the county, and lived much of his life on his farm at Kimbalton. Eight or ;ten years ago he moved to Pittsboro, where he has resided until his death. His good wife, who survives him, was a Miss Broom of the Kimbalton community. There are two sons, Sheriff G. W. Blair and M. B. Blair, of Norlina. A half-brother, U. S.. Blair lives at Siler City. The burial occurred Thursday af ternoon at Mt. Vernon Methodist church, in the Silk Hope community. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. G. B. Early, pastor of Hick ory Mountain Baptist church, of which Mr. Blair was long- a member. Mr. Early was assisted l>y Revs. C. M. Lance and George Perry, the lat ter of Burlington. The pall bear ers were W. H. Ferguson, A. M. Webster, S. D. Johnson, Bill Farrell, E. E. Williams, F. P. Nooe, John Burns, C. T. Desern, Lacy Johnson. R. H. Mills, Raymond Lasater, and J. J. Perry, the most of whom are associates of Sheriff Blair and as deputies have had much association with ’Squire Blair. A large crowd of Pittsboro peo ple and of his old neighbors of the western part of the county attended, the funeral. Wade H. Johnson Is Doped and Robbed ■ * Filling Station Man Is Victim Os Gang of Hold-Up Men —Other Items Sunday evening about 8 o’clock,, while Wade H. Johnson was alone at his filling station near Kimbalton. two men came upon him through the front of the room and a third from the rear. Seizing him, they insist ed that he should drink a via of what was presumed to be a elope. Upon his refusing, one of them threw his pistol into Johnson’s face ahd drew the hammer half-back. Johnson submitted, and the dope was poured down his throat,' though he was informed that it would not kill him, but put him to sleep. ' This it did only too well, for the rascals cairicd the young man into the woods back of the filling station and left him to come to consciousness, it was about one oclock Monday morning when he became conscious and made his way to the home of Mr. T. M. Brooks, a neighbor. Mrs. Johnson had gone over to spend the night with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. White. The night was cold enough for ice to form and the young and suffered severely from cold and was having a chill Monday morning. The scoundrels got $33 and pos sibly some goods. They were driv ing a Chrysler car, which seems to be a favorite with the bandit fra ternity. Mr. Bob Johnson has also been robbed of a pair of pants which con tained S2OO. There is no clue. Mr. and Mrs. Will Pugh and fam ily of Terrell Creek community spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs. Pearl Jus tice. Mr. and Mrs.j A. V. Ferguson and Miss Nona' Ferguson spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Ferguson. Troy Ferguson was a visitor at Kimbalton last week.- * DeWitt N. Perry is in a Charlotte hospital for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Brewer, little ; | Sarah, and Mrs. Russell were in j Greensboro Sunday. The latter two ‘ are spending the week in that city. ! Mr. N. J. Dark made a business trip to Greensboro last week. ! Some of the young people of the ; I community gave a surprise party for j j Mrs. Kate Burke Saturday night. I ! They had a candy pulling later in ; the evening. Sam Burke moved his family to ; j Ernest Brewer’s place near Silk Hope j I last week. i | to Mr. and Mrs. Dan W. Perry a son. Goldston Items i I ; Mrs. Jim Wicker has been very < j sick. She had a narrow escape of i ' pneumonia. We are glad to report | I that she is much better. Her daugh- j j ter, Miss Maggie, who is a trained ! ; nurse is attending her. Mrs. Jim Goldston has also been I very sick, but we are glad to say j j that she is much better at present. Mr. W. M. Barber, Albert Gold | ston, Mr. and Mrs. Harris, who re : turned last week from a trip to Flor-! | ida, report a fine trip. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Riley and lit- j tie Riley, Jr., spent last Sunday with | Mr. Riley’s mother at Carthage. Rev. O. M. Byerly preached to the Boy Scouts at the Baptist church last Sunday morning. It was a help ful and instructive sermon. Rev. Mr. Porter, of Ronlee, filled the pulpit Sunday evening. ; The school children enjoyed hav jing a Valentine box, the fourteenth lof February. They enjoy giving as I well as receiving. MRS. R. H. HAYES PRESIDENT . OF PITTSBORO PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION In rendering a report of the dis trict Parent-Teacher meeting- held in Raleigh, the delegate from the Pitts boro local unit says he was pleased with the showing made by his or ganization. The delegate felt a sense of pride when Mrs. R. H. Hayes and Mrs. R. G. Shannonhouse were called from the audience to sit on the stage with State and National Parent- Teacher officials. They were hon- MRS. R. H. HAYES, President ored in this manner because of their official positions and services ren dered to their local organization. Mrs. Hayes is completing her sec ond term as president of the Pitts boro association. During her tenure of office the association has grown until it embraces a big field of school activities. Membership has increased, school spirit has been fos tered and much money has been s raaised for the school. The tremendous increase in mem bership has been due to the leader ship and hard work of Mrs. Hayes. Her sincerity in her work has caus ed others to follow her. After see ing, the purpose of the organization they have joined her as co-workers in the great task of helping to edu cate our boys and girls. School spirit has been fostered. To be more specific, the parents and' teachers understand each other bet ter. There has been created a feel ing of co-operation between the pa rents and teachere with respect to the child. Without understanding, how many parents do you suppose frould approve of the modern meth od of teaching a child to read? The method has changed. What progress have the children made with the new method? Well, that was pre sented to the association at our last meeting- when little “tots” in the first grade with only six months of traaming agreeably surprised the association has spent over seventy programs of this kind where the teacher and parent were brought to a better understanding through the Parent-Teacher association. The maternal help rendered the school must not be overlooked. The association has spent over seventy five dollars for teaching material to be used in the first grade. Fiijty dollars was used in purchasing book cases. Newspapers, magazines and good wholesome literature have been placed in the library for the pupils. Instead of reading trash that will poison the minds of our boys and girls the association is trying to di vert their minds into better chan nels. Much credit should go to our ' president, Mrs. R. H. Hayes, for the i success of the Pittsboro Parent-Tea cher association. ! J. S. WATERS, Principal Pittsboro High School. j HUNDREDS PHYSICIANS i AMAZED AT EXHIBI TION SILESIAN MINER j VIENNA, Feb. 11.—A. P. —Hun- dreds of physicians gathered to-day : at headquarters cf the Austrian so- I ciety for psychic research and watch j led in amazement as Paul Diebel, | 30-year-old Silesian miner, had dag gers, nails and knives thrust into his body without evincing indication of pain or producing a flow of blood. The spectators included many wo i men, some of whom fainted. I This was the first time a group of ! qualified scientific men had witness ied his astounding exhibition. They | pronounced it genuine, i ~ Witnesses said Diebel thrust a : dagger through his forearm and j showed his arm around the room be fore he withdrew the dagger. Not j once did he wince nor shed a drop of blood. The miner next “by concentration of will power” caused drops of blood to trickle through the walls of his ! stomach. His most dramatic act was to make I a large cross in blood appear on his I back, the blood being forced to the surface apparently by uncanny ex ercise of will power. Diebel concluded his exhibition by' allowing one of the spectators to shoot a large metal bolt into his chest by means of a catapult. He then calmly withdrew the missile with no show of pain and permitted physicians to examine the bloodless wound produced. VOLUME 50. NUMBER 22 DECLARES WAR IS NATIONAL SUICIDE / It Is The Worst Way Out t Says Dr. Poteat In Dis armament Speech DURHAM, Feb. 10.—“ Where so much is obscure it becomes nobody to be dogmatic,” said Dr. W. L. Po teat, president emeritus of Wake Forest College, in an address here tonight under the auspices of the Durham Disarmament coifimittee. ’ We be brothers all,” .said Dr. Po teat, “convenanted to spring on call defense of our great country. “But some things are clear, clear as sunshine. This is one of them. v ‘No peril on all our national hori zon is so loaded with disaster as the limitation of free discussion of pub lic questions, no matter by,what ag ency, personal or organized, that limitation is effected. “Another thing is clear. War is whe worst way out. . I teosts too much in manhood and in treasure, it is national suicide. Besides, it does not get us out ; it gets us deep er in. Being essentially irrational, ►t settles , nothing. “This is also clear. Most of us have had enough of it. f’hose of you . who went across got enough of filth and blood and stench to last you an immortality of earthly years. - Ask your comrades under white crosses in France. The ques tion will stir, them . against the laden inertia of death, and out of their graves they will rise, like Dante’s Farinata, with but one word on their pale lips, “Enough, en ough!” Don’t ask the poor chaps in the hospital of the land. A fresh delirium of bursting shells of us, civilans and*'soldiers, are all from the torture of that hell. Most of us, civilian and soldiers, are all but ready to say, “Let the gentle men who declare the next war fight it in the ranks.” “And yet it is clear that this recoil is not unanimous. There are not a few “professional and in stinctive militarists’” among us, and it is not unreasonable that they should seek to promote the aim of their long training. Some military and naval experts easily step out side the field of their technical equipment and assume to determine the national policy and control pub lic opinion. Every now and again one of them, like Rear-Admiral Plun kett the other day, makes an infia matory speech which, according to Senator Borah, is not only mischiev ous bnfc^'forms a. part of a well or ganized plan J*6 prepare the public mind for a naval race.” Dr. Poteat said he could not see any reason for the proposed big na vy and lie asked from what country attack wag expected in case the big navy was for defense. In case it was for offense, he said the public would like to be let into the secret. “Do we scheme for lands where rub ber grows, where oil flows?” he ask ed. “I hesitate,” he continued, “to mention another hypothesis, which seems to compromise the dignity of responsible men, whom I respect. But the victim of such exploitation may be pardoned for catching at any sug gestion when none is offered from above. Is this a piece of practical politics designed on the eve of an election to win the support of the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution? At any rate, these and similar organi zations appear to to be responding with address and heartiness. In some instances their unthinking zeal has swept them into an extravigance in which they will later regret—the ab surd un-Americanism of spying up op men who happen to disagree with them, applying offensive epithets, and under cover seeking to close public platforms to intelligent and patriotic citizens whom they have not taken the trouble to understand. These ardent propagandists are pa triotic, but misled. They have no right to impugn the motives of men as loyal as they, and their policy of espionage and suppression has aroused widespread indignation. Many of their associates join in the general disapproval.” SCKOGLNEWS Miss Viola Wrenn, of the eighth grade, wrote an entertaining playlet for presentation in the last Friday afternoon program. The short play is called “The Jones Family’s Living Room,” and centers around the de sire of the young ones to change and brighten the old, inattractive living room. * The programs of the club have been, for several weeks, studies of beautifying home surroundings at small expense, so the play was a di rect outgrowth of work done. Those who took the parts were: Father Jones, George Partin; Mo ther Jones, Isabel Petty; Jane Jones, Elizabeth Womble; John Jones, Al fred Self; Frank Jones, Frank Mane: The simple staging and costum - ing was all initiated and planned by members of the club. The leade * of the group was much pleased wit i the play and the part contribute:4- by each one who acted. The ofiefers of the club are: Viola Mann, president; Isabel Pet ty, secretary. Program committee: Katherine Mann, Bettie Mae Har mon. Farmers of-Stanly county fin 1 that grading and recleaning cotto ' seed will give an extra bale yield on each eight acres.