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ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878 ; Today Tornado Visits Europe Florida Is Sound Introverts M iss West Pities Women By ARTHUR BRISBANE i Terrific storms in Europe have killed many in Europe and Britain the high winds putting a new fear in the Tdrnadoes and earthquakes visit different parts of the earth, impar tially, and nations might he content with the war that nature forces upon them, not insisting upon fighting and killing each other. The tornado in Europe, leaving -a trail of loss and death, will not cause foolish pessimism, such as out siders have displayed after a wind stoim in Florida, b lorida’s high wind comes only rarely, and never in Winter, when harvest season of tourists is on. And Florida in one important re-1 spect has an advantage over other j States in her financial condition and freedom from debt. Florida, as a State, owes nobody a dollar. The States is absolutely free from bonded indebtness, its laws forbidding the State to borrow for any purpose, except for suppres sing insurrection within the State, or repelling armed invasion. No State is in a better condition financially than Florida, destined to be one of the greatest States in the Union, in population and in money. And now, after the boom, while the foolish nurse their wounds, is a good time to buy in Florida, if you want to buy wisely. Professors of the Northwestern University tell business men selec ting employes to pick out extroverts and avoid introverts. The introvert is a dreamer, with drawing within himself. The extrovert is a back-slapper and go-getter. Theodore Roosevelt, Mussolini, William Howard Taft and Governor Smith are of the extrovert type. There is something of the intro vert and extrovert in every man. Charles Fourier told about it more than a hundred years ago, using the words “internal intuitional,” and ex ternal rational,” which are better. Miss Rebecca West, forceful young British person who writes well, pit ies American women. Their lives are tragic, says she. Many of them lived parked high up in the sky-scra pers, “where they can’t even keep a dog.” It’s sad not to keep a dog m a .skyscraper. But Miss \V est will know when she gets married that a baby or even a husband is a good substitute for a dog. The latest eruption of Mount Et na “destroyed” ten thousand acres of fertile Sicilian land. Frost, rain and sunshine will crum ble the lava to dust. Weeds will grow, soil will form. Earth worms will chew it up, and those acres will be fertile again, and Etna will be a dead volcano. It will take some time, thousands of centuries. . There is no hurry, for according to Professor Millikan, men will live on this planet for a thousand mu~ ( lion years longer. The biggest fortunes are not al ways left by the greatest men. Schubert, greater than a million ordinary millionaires, left ten dol lars’ worth of property. Many un published songs sold for $2. Spinoza, great Jewish philosopher, who has taught millions how to think, left as the most valuable asset in his "estate” a pocket knife with a silver But he left a name worth move than the total capitalization of Gen eral Motors. / A CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their many deeds ot kindness during the sickness and death of our son John A. Burke, aso those who assisted m the funeral m any MR y 'and'MßS. J. W. BURKE. Jflß Mis, Victoria Mtchaux of Pari: has been elected Queen of the Cath erincttes of her distric These are the unmarried girls desirous of ob taining some eligible young men. They parade' the streets on St. Catherine’s- Day looking for these ( .men. The Chatham Record Engaged to Joie Ray < —.— fjjjt L&m3 .. 1 Pretty and shapely Alice Eld ridge, famous Boston swimmer, has become engaged to Joie Ray, famous marathon Kuuyigr. Fatal. Shooing Sunday Afternoon Will Taylor Kills Sam Watts at Former’s Door, Pittsboro PLEA OF JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE URGED t Negro Goes to Jail to Await Grand j Jury Action at January Court Will Taylor, called “Cap,” is in jail under a charge of murder as a result of a shot from his gun that killed Sam Watts Sunday about 4 j p. m. A preliminary hearing was i held by justice of peace Johnson J Monday evening when Cap’s attorney I sought to save his client from jail by • a plea of justifiable homicide, which > seemed rather reasonable. But the j state denied the right of the justice to do anything else in the face of the proved killing than to order the ac cused to join. The unusual Sunday quiet of Pitts boro was broken Sunday afternoon,. when a gun boomed and a negro man j fell dead, shot through the heart, j The assailant made no attempt to! escape and was soon arrested and lodged in jail. About all one could learn before the preliminary hear ing was that Cap Taylor had killed sam Watts at the former’s very door, and little more was revealed at the hearing. The only eye witness of the kill iing, unless it was Cap’s wife, was Alphonso Marsh, a Siler City colored youth of good repute. It was he who reported the killing to the officers and he upon whom the state relied at the hearing to establish probable cause, though his evidence was used j by the defense to prove it a case of justifiable homicide. Ray and Upchurch, employed by the widow, represented the state in the absence of the solicitor, whilie W. P. Horton represented the de fense. The case was vigorously prosecuted and defended. The state called four witnesses, Alphonso Marsh, Haywood Burch, and two officers, but rested after the testimony of Marsh, an eye-wit ness of the shooting. Thereupon the defense moved for dismissal on the grounds of inssu cient evidence to establish probable cause. But the defense countered with several su preme court decrees to the effect that the trial justice was empowered with no discretion in matter, but was j compelled to send an accused to jail J to await action by the grand jury. I Attorney Ray, however, pointed out that the prisoner had the privilege of recourse to the Solicitor, who may in his discretion permit bond, or that the accused secure release through habeas corpus proceedings. The court overruled the motion for dis missal, and the defense put on the wife of the defendant. • Then fol lowed able arguments of the counsel. But the court held that it had no re . course, but- to. send prisoner to : jail. . How It Happened 1 The story of the Killing was defi » nite but what. h a <i preceded is ip a i haze. Rumor had it that : the two negroes had been at a gambling bee near tjie negro Masonic lodge and had a dispute there; that Caut Tay lor had left and warned Watts not to . follow him or come to his home. But that is only rumor. ’The ne groes who know anything about a».y crap games are keeping quiet in all the language, they know. However, the rumor fits in with the actual evidence and with Cap’s known pro clivities as a crap shooter. Alphonso Marsh saw it and told about the killing in a straightfor ward way. One would judge that he has never been excited about it a minute. He was sitting in a closesd car on the street south of the courthouse when he saw Cap Taylor come running along the street and enter his house. About five minutes later the deceased came walking up the street, passed Tay lor’s house in which Taylor was seen standing a . few feet from the door which opened almost upon the side walk. 'Watts passed the house and returned, put his left foot upon the lowest door step while having his right hand in his hip pocket. Tay lor fired and Watts fell. Taylor PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13th, 1928. KIMBALTON NEWS Hurley Pickard and family moved to Siler City last week. A. V. Ferguson and Zeb Fergu • son went to :hc Clint Cheek sale. N. J. Dark made a business trip to Greensboro last Saturday. Ernest Brewer, Sara and Mrs. Rus sell went to L Ltensocro io.se Mo - day. Oakrr.ont Chocimg Club reports more birds this; season <han v” before. There are more co/eys ai d lurg- • ones. Meta Gdmoie has moved Vv’.tb ivr r, other, M v 3. C M. Pickard. SM has bee n living with her grandmoth er. came out and felt on both sides of the body, an action which the de fense attorney interpreted as a search for the m’stol which the de fendant supposed him to have. Af ter a few minutes the witness came up town and informed the officers, leaving the killer near the body of his victim, where he was later ar rested. A search of the body in the pre sence of the coroner discovered no weapon at all. The shot had bared a hole in the man’s left breast. The shot gun was in court and when broken corroborated the wit ness in his statement that Taylor broke the gun to throw the shell and the gun came in two parts. That happened when officer Burns oper ated it in the presensce of the court. Marsh declared he had the car windows closed and if there were any words he did not hear them. But the wife of the defendant declared she was crossing the street to her mother’s and heard Watts sasy he had come to kill her husband and her husband tell him to tbat he did not want to hurt him. She looked back on hearing this and saw Marsh said ho sak. Taylor is a native of Pittsboro and has been employed at the Blair Ho tel. He is backed by his white man Mr. May. the hotel proprietor. Watts came to Pittsboro a year or two ago and married a daughter of “Aunt” Nellie Leach. He was Walter John son’s negro and Walter says he was a good fellow, and he is evidently backing the prosecution, though without bitterness. The dead man was buried Monday afternoon. Salt only 90 cents a hundred at R. J. Moore and Co’s, Bynum. SOUTHERN BAPTISTS PLAN TO RAISE $2,000,000 AS CHRISTMAS OFFERING Proceeds Will Be Applied Towai ness of Home and Foreign Institutions—Sacrifici In probably the largest single ex tra Christmas cash offering that j has ever been sought by any de- j nomination in America, the South ern Baptist Convention is asking j the churches affiliated with it to provide a cash .thank offering at the approaching Christmas season of $2,000,000. The proceeds will be applied toward the retirement of heavy debts upon the Home and Foreign Mission Boards and several other agencies of the Convention. Combined debts of approximately $5,750,000 are now owed by the various Southern Baptist Conven tion boards and institutions, these debts having accumulated over a per iod of several years because the reg ular receipts from the churches have not been sufficient to maintain the work of the various institution* as expanded a few* years ago when the churches were supporting missions and benevolences more generously than they are today. A portion of the total indebtedness is bonded lip DR. GEORGE W. TRUETT of Dallas President Southern Baptist Convention and does not have to be this year, but $2,000,000 represents im mediate demands upon the boards and institutions, hence the call of the Convention to the churches to provide this large cash sum through a sacrificial Christmas Thank Of fering. Over against these debts, however, ■ are combined assets of f 24.000.000. Heading the call tor the large j Big Increased Sale Os Franklin Airman I Shown in Check-up j Style Trend for Coming Year | Is Indicated in Exhibit of Air-Cooled Models A strikingly new interest in the ; Franklin Airman Limited on the part i of the American public and a decid ■ ed increase in the sale of these air cooled quality motor cars, resulted at the nation-wide salon recently staged by Franklin distributors in the 15 important trade centers of the country, according to reports coming to executives of Franklin Au tomobile Company at Syracuse, N. Y. Men close to the trend in the auto- • mobile industry declared that this pre-winter Franklin salon with its exhibits wh'ch drew thousands of persons to Franklin shrowrooms all over the country, sounded an ad vance note of what the public might j expect in the wav of style and qual ity among the finest cars of the world during the coming year. Following the salon it was re ported tFat nearly a score of the largest Franklin distributors and dealers in widelv scattered sections of the nation had, before the last of October exceeded their total retail performance for the entire twelve months of 1927, by margins ranging from two to 51 per'cent. A further check-up by Franklin sales organization revealed that nu merous other Franklin dealers were practically eaual with the total re tail business for lasi year while oth ers stated that before December they will have exceeded their last veer’s «:eles volumes. Franklin executives declare that this marked increase in Franklin sales, which are exceeding last year’s volume, is due to recognition of the outstanding efficiency of the Frank lin air-cooled power plant and the position of leadership in style, de sign. and quality accorded the Frank lin Airman Limited. On The Ark Yoah —Ard why so sad. dear. Mrs. Noah—'Who wouldn’t he Odum with this beashy crowd? rd Liquidation of the Indebted- Mission Boards and Other ial Giving Is Sought Christmas gift are Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and members of the* lArge Executive and j Promotion Committees of that body. Business Men Give Liberally Indicating the manner in which the Baptist business men of the South are responding to the call for the Thank Offering, a layman in one state has agreed to add SIOO,OOO to the fund if the Baptists of the South generally respond to the effort, while another business man in another state has announced an unconditional gift of $50,000. Un der the leadership of Dr. J. T. Hen derson of Knoxville, secretary of the Southern Baptist Brotherhood, an effort is being made to enlist all the large Baptist business men of the South in making big gifts •to this effort. From this source I several' hundred thousand dollars 1* expected. < In its appeal for the success of this cash offering, the Executive Committee of the Southern Conven tion is asking individual Baptists throughout the South to join in giv ing sacrificially to this purpose through the elimination of unneces sary giving to one another and mak ing their Christmas gifts to Christ and his causes instead. The proceeds of the offering will be distributed among the several Convention objects upon the follow ing basis: r,■ j- _ Foreign Miaion* 5* %•, p Home Mina ions .. A .. v 4;.... Relief snd Annuity' Board 4i .. %-^°/o Edncaton Board «••'»*. S % Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 5 % Sooth western Seminary 4 V%°!o Baptist Bible Institute ............ 3V4% New Orleans Hospital 3 % W. M. U. Training, School ........... 1 % American Baptist Theol. Seminary.*. W’c TOTAL 1W % \ Will Wipe Out Foreign Board Debt The raising of the full s2,oo!fM)Oh objective, it will be seen, will pro vide $1,000,000 for the Foreign Mis sion Board. This, according to Sec retary Ray, will make it possible foi that board to pay its entire indebt edness, reinforce its American mis sionary staff to its former standard, restore the 600 native missionaries who were dismissed a few years ; ago for lack cf funds, re-open tve ’(hospitals and 235 mission schools, re i I build the Christian literature program ► and send out 150 trained young peo- J pie who are anxiously awaiting an l opportunity to engage in mission . service. Jk ■ " , Similar advance* will he made in f every other department of Southern Baptist work in the event the Doll : amount of the offering ia raiaed. Benefactor & ! _________ 1 Photo shows Milton S. Hershey, chocolate manufacturer, who has ! presented the town of Hershey, Pa., with a two million dollar com munity center. This is the latest gift of Hershey to the town with which he is closely identified. Hershey was. born at Derry 1 ownship, Pa., in 1857, a*nd began manufacturing chocolate in 1893 at Lancaster. He is now chairman of the Board of the Hershey Cho colate Company and owner of practically all the stock. His home is at Hershey, Pa. HILLIARD BUILDING AT MONCURE SOLD Several years ag 0 Mr. V. H. Hil liard came to Moncure broke, as he tells it. He started a little restau rant just about the time work be-! gap on the great steam power plant i of the Carolina Power and light Co. i Rafts of men were hungry and he i coined the money. Other jobs! brought patronage, and he launched j out and erected a two-story brick! hotel and case building. He did well, but he had taken too big a hold, and i the result was that the mortgage ! held on the building by the receiver of the Bank and Loan Company of fered it for sale the first Monday. The receiver bid it off for the amount of the mortgage, about ' $4 700.00. Mr. Hilliard, who lias j gone to Burlington and opened a business, had advertised the sale j of the fixtures and furniture of the j business to follow the sale of the' building. But the fact that no would-be bidder knew whether the building would be available, or if so on what terms, kept all their mouths shut and there was not even a bid. Mr. Hilliard left the sale onen till night, stating that he would move the equipment to Burlington if not sold by that time. _ Practically all the man made above his living is wrapped up in these ■ costly equipments. They should not leave the building, for Moncure will need a hotel and case, and the build ing is more suitable for the purpose I than for anthing else, and more suit- 1 able than any other that would probably be erected after Mr. Hil liard’s experience. DEATHCLA^IMS SAMUEL W. ADAMS Southern Pines.—No home is ev e,J ! ulte Prepared fo r the visitation ot the angel of death, even when he the clos of a full y matur ed life, but when the quiet messen ger VJS its a home and a community and suddenly calls a promising youth hut from among his friends and a way to the great beyond, there is a shock and a sorrow that is easily sensed but difficult of expression. luesday night December 4th this silent messenger came to the home °pV^T a , nd J Mrs - Adams on Rhode Island avenue, and summon ed tneir only son, Sam, a very popu ar boy of fifteen year, who had )een sick only two or three weeks. Pneumonia, that dread disease, was the immediate cause of death, developing after rheumatism of the hip which was followed by septic poisoning. * Samuel W. Adams, son of Albert L. and Florence Adams, was bqrn in Corord, New Hampshire Otober 7, 1913, coming later with his parents to the Sandhills section of North Carolina. At one time the family resided in Pinebluff, bu,t for the Past several years have made Southern Pines School department three years ago.. Sam was a popular upstanding boy* fond of ethletics and full of M e * He was- active in the work of the Baptiss, churchy and a second class Scoutj .having passed all but the final test to become a first class Scout. •. . Boy Scouts acted as pall bearers at the funeral whfclv was held at the Baptist Chlirch and largely attend ed yesterday afternoon a c 3 o’clock. The Rev. Edward A; Tuck, his for mer pastor, officiating, .assisted by the Rev. J. Fred Stimson, the pres ent pastor of the church. The pall bearers were- Souts Robert Gifford, Lincoln Nott, Thom as Miller, John Pottle, William Pye, and Jerome Shear. His ialner, Albert L. Adams, hi? step mother, Mrs. Adams, and sisters Eleanor and Albertat Adams are left to mounr their loss. The towns people <sho>wed their sympathy by great numbers filling the church to overflowing. A quartet from the Baptist choir of which Sam’s father and mother are members, sang Lead Kindly Light and Abide With Me. The quartet cosisting of Miss Ethel Jones Mrs. Etta Lynch, S. B. Richarson and Myron G. Adams. Interment was' in the Mount Hope cemetery. VOLUME 51, NO. 16. Goldston Church To Be Dedicated New Presbyterian Church Building, Representing a Cost of $3600 to De Dedicated Free of Debt. Rev. Jonas Barclay, Presbyterian pastor here, anounces that the new church at Goldston, which for the last few years has been a mission field, will be dedicated free of indebted ness next Sunday afternoon. The cost of the building and equip ments is aboiut $3600, and represents real sacrifice on the part of the hand ful of Presbyterians in the Goldston community, though they have been ; assisted by the Presbytery and the ; Synod. The building, contains not on , lv a fair-sized auditorium but also four Sunday school rooms. Present to assist in the dedicatory exercises will be Dr. Gillespie, sec retary of home missions, Dr. Hod gin. secretary of missions for the Presbytery, and Dr. Gilmore, pastor of the church in Sanford. Mr. Barclay is anxious that mem bers of his Pittsboro and Mt. Ver non Springs congregations attend the exercises and see. the achieve ment of the little Goldston group. The public generally is also invited. MRS. SARAH A. GRIFFIN BURIED AT MT. GILEAD Mrs Sarah A. Griffin, formerly a Miss Stone of this county, died Sat urday morning at the home of her daughter Mrs. S. Vance Scott in San-- ford. Mrs. Griffin married Edward A. Griffin in this county in 1877. They moved to Sanford quite a number of years ago. She was 80 years of age. The funeral service was conduct ed by Pastor Hawkins of the San lord Baptist church, and the burial was at Mt. Gilead Baptist church in Baldwin township. The deceased leaves a son E. A. Griffin and a daughter-in-law, Mrs. K. B. Griffin, and six grandchildren, one of whom is Miss Sarah Griffin, the adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Griffin of Pittsboro. Mrs. J. L. Griffin and Miss Sarah attend ed the funeral services in. Sanford and the latter the burial at Mt. Gil ead. Mrs. Griffin was a most highly esteemed lady and had many friends in Sanford, as well as in her ©ld ••• home section of Chatham county. AUXILIARY TO MEET ‘ AT BELL'S SCHOOL The Auxiliary of the AmerkMt Legion will meet at Bell’s school next ' ’ Tuesday afternoon. All members : are urged to attend. One of the ©b- : ' jects of the meeting is to pack a be*. for the Auxiliary’s soldier at Qtee». DEFICIT IN HARNETT AMOUNTS TO $161,293.02 Inefficient and In sufficient System of Bookkeeping Reported by Auditors The Record has heard Chatham county citizens question the wisdom »r necessity of tne employment ot a county auditor, but when they read what nas Happened m coun ty for « e lack of an efficient t‘-'“ :,<*neial they should be con voiced that the county is spending/ ' r.o money more wisely than that pa*d'\ \.i. Riggsor.c as auditor. A y day " anybody 'an go to Mr. RiggsV.e am? see how Chatham county stands 1»- Inefficient and Insufficient Syatwsn it possiDiiuy, of suen a aencic sicca t - ting in Chatham without it* being known as the thing takes place. Be low is the lirst paragraph of an tide from the b'unn •Ldspat’i abjut ” the Harnett situation: “A county deticit of $161,293.02 as ol «iu;*e 30th, 1928, trii end oi tne ct-unty’s last fiscal yea: re pealed m ' ; iie audit report prepared by JK. i. t'mele and Compa i>, ter. lined public accountants, ox itakrgh. ' ju-'t cuinpitied and delivered to the outgoing county commissioners o* " Harnett county at their meeting Monday. In addition, to revealing a / deficiency i ncounty funds, the %*■ " dit report is to a large extent a * graphic picture of what has taken’,’" .place in the administration of she ..county’s fiscal affairs, revealing a’j' lack of sound management, the it.' istene of; a chaotic, and inefficient, .as well as insufficient, sytem .of ac counting, and at the same time ai fording an excellent working basis- - fpr. some sound reforms in theman ner in which the county’s a airs are handled-” • *" i ■ 1 1,1 1 \ ■'••• " *. ( Noted; Explorer •| ; — •* I Fridtjgc Nanson, famous Scan dinavian explorer, will commandan expedition in 1930 in which the Graf Zeppelin will be used for North Polar explorations. Th». was decided at Berlin recently. _//