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A Paper with a Prestige of a Half Century.. A County, Not a Com munity Paper. ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878 MANY SENTENCES PASSED LAST WEEK Scores Submit to Charges— Only One Case Goes to Jury; Liquor and Larceny Most Frequent Offences—Convicts to Hire. <s> Much was accomplished by Judge Midyette’s court last week, though it did not open till Tuesday morning. The grand jury was kept so busy that it did not finish its work till Satur day noon. Starting with the docket, the case against Cleveland Self was nol pross ed. Bob Webb’s sentence was changed to eight months on the roads. Nol pros in case against Jim Wall. Capiases were ordered for R. L. Davis, C. C. Overstreet, Donald Adams, Alex Wallace, Carl Fox, J. A. Wingard, and others during the week’s proceedings. Toney Tapp received 12 months on the roads on liquor charge, and judgment suspended in a second case. Barney Perry must pay sls a month for support of his children; bond for $250. Charles Wilson got 2 to 3 years in State Prison for receiving stolen goods. J. L. Evans receives suspended sentence of four months on the roads but had to pay costs and fine of SIO.OO in liquor case. Nol pros ordered in case against Haywood Rainey and Jack Atwater. Shelly Brooks pays costs and sls fine in liquor case, but gets back his car. Henry McLeod pays SSO and costs or goes to road eight months in liquor case. Willie McCrimmon gets same dose for similar charge. Ernest Bynum gets S2O and costs for same kind of offense. John B. Beasley, unfortunately prone to get drunk and keep it up, though a good farmer and citizen in other respects, got six months for drunken rumpus at his home. George Cheek $25 and costs in liquor case. Richard Smith $lO and costs. G. R. Thomas, D. S. Dickens, and Clyde Womack pay, S2O each and costs for forcible trepass. S. S. Moody goes to roads eight nionths on liquor charge. I Lexie Page sls and costs on pos session charge. Capias for Cable Lane on same charge. J. F. Key, year on roads in liquor case. Grant Cooper goes to State pen two years for attempt to forge check. Herbert Horton $lO and half costs in case for drunkenness on public road. Cooper Harris gets suspended sentence in that case. Evert Perry $lO and costs, liquor charge. Joe Coward pays costs on similar charge. Cleveland McCray gets year on roads on liquor charge. Nol pros in case against Epie Yarboro.* Carl Fox goes to penitentiary a year for larceny, which he admitted. Cooper Harris gets eight months on roads for driving car while drunk. Africa Matthews and Hagwood Lea pay SSO each and costs for affray. Carroll Daurity, costs in liquor case and to show good behavior for two years. W. C. Booth on good behavior order was ordered to jail 12 months or to county home for being drunk. Judgment suspended in case of Floyd Langley driving car drunk. D. R. Rouse, receiving stolen prop erty, given choice of paying SIOO and costs and returning all stolen property found on his place and sup posed to be brought there by the son who escaped from officers a few weeks ago, or to go to roads eight j months. The wife and younger son were acquitted. The Rouse case was the only jury case during the week. Henry McLeod’s sentence was changed to 12 months in jail with privilege of being hired out to J. A. Keith on payment of SSO fine and costs. H. E. Moon and O. W. Stuart, making liquor, four months in jail, fine of $375.00 each, to be hired out tor costs. Newly Johnson drew 18 months on roads for having liquor and pistol. Sam Dobbins $lO and costs in liquor case. E. C. Walters gets same dose; likewise Will O’Daniel. Rossie Judd draws 18 months in pen on liquor charge. Claud Matthews, costs in trespass case. Ben Chavis $lO and costs, liquor case. Jesse Lights, costs in hquor case. Joe Henderson in liquor case given another chance to reform paymens of costs. Weldon:-Dee bar six months on roads, liquor case. Nol pros in Cliff Taylor case. Lacy Marley, larceny, costs and ordered to show* good behavior for two years. Nol pros in case against Rufus Johnson. •. . W. B. Marley 6 months and costs •n two cases. ' Sentence to begin June 15. SSOO bond till that date. Nol pros in case against Jack J- arrell, also Ralph Alston. Frank Clark pays $lO and costs in liquor case; J. B. Brooks likewise. Mrs. J. F. Key pleads guilty to possession of liquor; prayer for judg ment continued. Mandley Smith (white) costs and Th'* Chatham Record ITO SELL POPPIES TO AIDJDISABLED American Legion Auxiliary and Friends Again Come to Aid of Wounded Veterans “In Flanders’ Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly, Scarce heard among the guns below.” Because of the appealing verses of Colonel John McCrae, who himself became one of the dead in Flanders’ Field, the red poppy has been adopt ed by the American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary as their memorial flower. Throughout the country, on Memorial Day, as on “Poppy Day,” this little flower will be found on the breasts of men and women who remember the service and the sacrifice of our men in the World War. During the month of May, Ameri can Legion Auxiliary units all over the country, assisted by sympathetic friends, are selling the little red poppies made by disabled service men in government hospitals, many of whom have no other income than the money they receive for this work. Ten thousand of these poppies have been made by the veterans in hospi tals to be sold this year on “Poppy Day.” Disabled Get Money And every penny that is paid for any of these poppies goes into the Legion Auxiliary units, to be used only for rehabilitation and relief of World War veterans and their families. Out of the funds thus created in North Carolina, money and gifts, and needed articles, are sent to the men in the hospitals, particularly at Oteen. Entertainment is sometimes furnished them through a full-time service worker stationed by the Aux iliary at Oteen. Many other services are rendered the disabled veterans there and relief and assistance are provided for families of the men in hospitals who are found to be in need. So, when a “Poppy Girl” ap proaches you on “Poppy Day” and says “Please buy a poppy,” remem ber what the poppy stands for; think of the service it is helping to render to the man for whom the war is not yet over—who must still fight the hardest battle of all—the battle for health and rehabilitation; and be proud to wear the little red flower on your breast. RAINS AGAIN DELAY FARM OPERATIONS This is the fifth spring that the editor of the Record has lived in Chatham and not one of them has been favorable for launching crops. Last year, for instance, rains were so frequent that about one day’s ploughing each week till June 20th was all that could be done. Most of the corn in the county last year was planted in June and July, and much land went unplanted. Similar con ditions have largely prevailed thus far this year. However, several days were fit for farm work last week, but the rain of Monday morning has de layed work for several days. $ REV. MENDENHALL PREACHED AT MONCURE LAST SUNDAY Rev. Mr. Mendenhall, who lives across Haw River from Providence Methodist hcurch, four miles north east of Moncure, and who attends Sunday school at this church regular- Ily by crossing this river on a boat, preached a good sermon at Provi dence church on “Job” last Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. good behavior required. S. M. Johnson $25 and costs. Calph Evans, making liquor, eight months on roads. Chas. Waddell, costs. Raeford Mitchell, decision of not guilty by judge. Grant Taylor, roads 12 months, liquor case. Coley Oldham, liquor case, SIOO and costs or roads six months. It will be observed that there are a number sentenced to the roads and as Chatham is now operating a chain gang, it is a problem to dispose of such prisoners. The sentences permit their being worked on the roads of any other county in the state, and Mr. J. T. Gunter, road supervisor of Lee County, was here/ Monday consulting with Supervisor Ward. Mr. Gunter already had four Chatham men, and would probably take a few more, but Mr. Ward was planning to visit Durham and Harnett counties to see about placing the rest of them. It was remarkable that there was only one jury case, the vast majority being sentenced on their own submis sions. There were a few cases nol prossed, but mighty few of those in dicted failed to receive some kind of a sentence. There were numerous minor orders, continuances, etc, which are not recorded above. The week’s accomplishments seem quite creditable for the court. PITTSBORO, N. C„ CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1929 I I i i ' I WH. out. \ y ' I e:o;jeT! * K / .- r K - - ' - ".,AM|S|! ihslP^ • hi I Wickersham Head of Hoover’s Law Enforcement Body Announcement was made Monday of the personnel of the law enforce ment study commission appointed by President Hoover. George W. Wick ersham, attorney general under Presi dent Taft, is chairman of the commis sion. Heading the list of members of the commission is Newton D. Baker, Sec retary of War in the Wilson admin istration, and chairman of the Na tional Crime Commission. The other members are: Frank J. Loesch, vice president of the Chicago Crime Commission; Ros coe Pound, dean of the Harvard Law School; William I. Grubb, federal judge for the northern district of Alabama; Monte M. Lemann, presi dent of the Louisiana Bar Associa tion; William S. Kenyon, of lowa, United States Circuit Judge; Ken- 1 neth R. Mackintosh, former chief justice of the Washington State Su preme Court; Paul J. McCormick, federal judge for the southern dis trict of California; Henry W. An derson, of Richmond, Va., and Miss Ada L. Comstock, president of Rad cliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. In making his selections, Mr. Hoover did not name a recognized leader either of the drys or the wets, although there had been suggestions from some of the leaders of the pro hibition forces that he do so. In general, the public careers of those named have not been identified with either the dry or the wet cause. At the outset, at least, members of the commission will serve with out pay. Congress has failed to make any appropriation either for salaries or expenses. The cost of the ex haustive inquiry which the commis sion is to make will be considerable * and Congress will be asked for the • necessary funds either at this session 1 or the regular one beginning next December. t The Chief Executive has conferred with a number of the members of the commission who are familiar with the work he has in mind. This con sists of a thoroughgoing survey of the whole subject of law enforce ment, including enforcement of the 18th Amendment, with a view toward a reorganization of the whole fed eral judicial and enforcement ma chinery. $ FRANK FOUSHEE PASSES 1 OUT RATHER SUDDENLY <§> I Mr. Frank Foushee was taken des perately ill here last Thursday at the court house. He was treated by Dr. Mcßain and was then taken to his headquarters in the Bynum com munity, where he died that night. The burial was at Mt. Gilead church Friday, Rev. R. R. Gordon conduct ing the funeral services. Mrs. Foushee and one daughter survive him. They live at Carrboro, we /understand. $ MRS, LONDON HONORED ; Mrs. Henry A. London has been , appointed matron of honor on the staff of the Second Brigade of N. C. . Confederate Veterans for the re union at' Charlotte, June 4 to 7th. ! She has been appointed also as one of the North Carolina hostesses for the State Memorial Association for this reunion. She will represent Pittsboro. . : — FORCE OF HABIT. During & holdup in Chicago • a ! young male stenographer w*as hit by a bullet. Thinking he was mortally j wounded, he whispered to a friend: “Write to Mamie. Give her my love,! and tell her my last thoughts were ! of her. Carbon copies to Sadie, and Kathleen.” I TWENTY WAYS TO MAKE A MILLION Many of the Suggested Inventions May Become Actualities An automobile that goes sidewise as well as forward and backward will make its inventor a millionaire. And, according to Roger Babson, the in dustrial statistician, who writes in The Forum, the device will come with in twenty-five years. The machine will probably have its cylinders ar ranged in a circle and its exhaust will empty on the roof. The sidewise motion will be a convenience in park ing. And 'here are nineteen other ways to become rich via invention route. Mr. Babson’s Forum sugges tions are summarized thus in the New York Sun r ■ " A Diesel engine for automobiles that will use crude oil, which is far cheaper than gasoline, not having to go through any refining prosesses. He i prophesies its appearance. The man who does it first will make more than a million. A practical and fool-proof helicop ter—that is, a device that will lift an airplane directly off the earth, and do away with the need of start ing and landing fields, enabling the aviator to light on city building roofs or the decks of ships without diffi culty. A light that will pierce fog, some thing greatly needed in the field of air navigation. Until this is discover ed Babson holds commercial avia tion will be dangerous. Gliders for children. Babson pre dicts that these will be some time as plenty as toy wagons and bicycles and “little boys and girls will fly around their yards as safely as they now play in their sand piles.” New sources of power—from the sun, the tides and the heat of the I earth. These are the big sources re maining to be tapped, i A new electrical developement ex ploiting the short-wave lengths. [ Fireless cities. Babson would have some man get rich by sending heat to houses direct from mines or gener ating-sources close to power sites. Cold light which will do away with 95 per cent of the electric current now used on resistance to create the glow. Central cooling systems, on the plan of the central heating and light ing plants. Electrical clocks. He expects time to be on (tap like gas or water, i Horizontal “elevators” that will subjugate the labyrinths of depart ment stores. 1 Talking books—that is pages that may be fed into machines and save the bother of reading. Ready made subways, smaller in size, but of easier construction, hew ing made in cast sections, ready for instalation. Grass paper that will substitute the annual product of the soil for trees that take from fifty to a hundred years to grow into wood-pulp size. Pills for plants—some condensed form of fertilizer that will do away with wasteful spreading and supply | the needed help to plant life econ omically and directly.' i Flexible, unbreakable and bullet proof glass. j Synthetic foods. These are fast on , the way. Milk, cream, butter, and cheese already come as by-products of petroleum. Synthetic vegetables have been devised that outdo nature in vitamins, while eggs can be made direct from grasses. Mahogany lumber from native, hardwood trees, by inoculating them with dyes and chemical that shall make them take on the qualities of the tropical product. Tooth powder that will prevent ; the decay of teeth. I $ ! Some of the most humoruos jokes that we have ever seen are walking , around. u SOME COMPARATIVE ESTIMATES OF MEN Little Men and Great Men in Government—Roosevelt and Wilson of the First Rank— Jim Reed’s Regrettable By C. O* SMALL On the fourth of last March a new government went into operation— new executive, new congress, and a new senate. It is yet to be seen whether it will be the same old grind with the same old grist. Coolidge, the last of the old Yankee type of Federalist, goes back to his Vermont home. He is not tired and never was weary; he always let nature take her course. His life promises to be as long as a plea in an English court of chancery. Neither he nor his pre decessor, Harding, were able to stand on their own legs, and we have some misgivings if Hoover can do a whit better. It is hard to find any more men who can stand upright. But the great dreary outside public will know not a whit better unless the larder gets entirely empty and the pocket book becomes a total vacuum, for the public craves nothing more than a full stomach. But complimenting oursleves on our boasted prosperity has become such a mania that our one-eyed optimism has become a powerful magnifier. Furthermore, the public is so used to mountebanks in office that an honest man in public trust would precipitate a cataclysm. Since 1920 government has been run by propaganda, and by men elected by the same sonorous sound, and gigantic bombast and paucity of achievement have marked every step of the road. Within a long time only two men of outstanding achievement and qual ity of character have worn the ex ecutive mantle—Roosevelt and Wil son. Both these stood upright and flatfooted. Roosevelt, like Wilson, was born out of due time, and initi ated the lash against themass of obscene fraud and nonetities which has infested public trust and the public conscience like a 'leprosy. Wrlson--and 'Roosevelt were conscious of their power and drove charlatans from their gilded thrones of public office and places of embezzlement. These executives held at defiance politics and the cheap politician, and cheap tactics which are always played as a means unto . an ignoble end. Wilson’s scorn for quackery and predator wealth was to him a sort of holy virtue. Bringing to the execu tive office one of the most literary and logical minds this country ever saw, he could speak of meaner men in government as having “bungalow minds.” This country needs thou sands of such men as Wilson and Roosevelt. Their names are not in water writ, but will endure as ever lasting as those of Pericles and Cato. What can we expect ifcom our newly constituted Senate? The an swer is in the distance. It is a fact that character and national whole sameness are mournfully lacking in that body. It no longer inspires con fidence. But it is an age when men are no longer heroic or brave; they resort to chicanery and repulsive scheming to attain desired ends. The powers of cunning dominate. Where one man of moral courage and per sonal worth can be found, many can be found utterly lacking in those qualities. It is a pity that Jim Reed did not see fit to stay in the senate. His doing so would have made the sleep of Hoover more trou blesome. In our estimation, no one retires from that body of law makers with more platonic virtue than Jim Reed. The South should ever hold him in honor. He never learned the tactics of retreat, and always knew well how to fight. He stands along by Clay and Calhoun. Except Norris and Walsh, Reed’s going leaves no one to challenge the people’s rights. In the death of LaFollette and the retirement of Reed from the senate, that body and the public sustain thei loss of two men whose personal and public honesty will make history for time to come. Reed furnished the brains for Lodge and Johnson in their battle with the League of Nations. Reed was no petulant nagger and he sparred with his enemies in the open. One noble thing to be said of Reed’s career is that it affords superb proof that there are yet citizens in this country and even in public life, who are wise enough not to succumb to fraud and injustice. With more men like Reed the enemies of com mon decency, which run riot with the functions of government, could be better combatted. What this new government will do, remains yet to be seen; but, if we are to adjudge the near future by the immediate past, the process of government will became the process of privilege, fraud, graft, and abused confidence, sponsored and led by men devoid of juridic conscience. <§> : Suggestion Timid Wife (to husband who has just fallen asleep at the wheel) —I don’t mean to dictate to you, George, but isn’t that billboard coming at us awfully fast?” Subscribers at Every Postoffice and All R. F. D. Routes in Great County of Chatham VOLUME 51. NUMBER 35 LAWRENCE REPLIES TO DAMAGE SUIT W. H. Lawrence, Through At torney J. Elmer Long, An swers Suit Filed by Mrs. Mary Yandle Daughter Wants $25,000 for Death of Mother Os interest to the readers of the Record is the reply of W. H. Law rence, through his attorney, J. Elmer Long, to the suit instituted by Mrs. Mary Yandle for $25,000 damage for the murder of the plaintiff’s mother, Mrs. Annie Terry. The following article is from Monday’s Durham Herald: In answer to a complaint filed by Mrs. Mary Yandle in which she asked for $25,000 damages for the death, of her mother, Mrs. Annie Terry, attorneys for W. Herbert Lawrence, Durham contractor, have denied all claims on the grounds that Lawrence did not receive a fair and impartial trial, that a number of state’s wit nesses testified falsely and that the conduct of the trial in Pittsboro last June was prejudicial to Lawrence. Lawrence is now serving a 30-year sentence in the state penitentiary for the murder of Mrs. Terry, having been convicted of second degree mur der in Chatham county superior court in June, 1928. An appeal to the supreme court on grounds that the evidence was insufficient to convict failed to bring about his freedom. Mrs. Terry, Durham dressmaker, met death on the night of March 24,. 1928, at A vent’s Ferry which spans the Cape Fear river in lower Chatham county. The suit for $25,000 damages was filed by the daughter several months ago. She made her home in Durham until shortly after Lawrence’s con viction and now lives in New York City. Trial of the case in civil court is not expected to be reached any time in the near future, since the civil docket is greatly congested. R. M. Gantt is representing the plaintiff, while J. Elmer Long is rep resenting 4;he defendant. The trial will serve to re-enact in part, the hard fought trial in Chat ham county, which lasted almost three weeks. The supreme court . ruled that evidence in the criminal trial was sufficient to convict, up holding Judge R. A. Nunn, trial judge. <§> *************** * * Chapel New#* *************** Last Sunday was a great day at our church. Everything passed off finely. The children had been well trained by their teachers, Mesdames R. G. Perry and C. H. Lutterloh, and the young ladies who staged a pageant full of most beautiful les sons for all of us, both old and young, v by Mrs. E. J. Dark. A collection of over sl6 was taken, which has been sent on to help needy Sunday schools. In the afternoon the pastor held a service memorial of the dead of the past year. But the most important feature of the day was an address by our beloved returned missionary to Korea, Mrs. J. R. Moore. This was indeed a treat, for Mrs. Moore i was raised in this church and left about thirty years ago as a mission ary and spent about twenty years in Korea. Any one to listen to her talk and not believe in missions could hardly believe in Christ. We had lots of visitors from va rious sections of the country andT from several towns, some former members who have not been with us lately, but to mention them would fill a page. Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Dur ham of Carrboro, in their seventies, had the flu last winter and were near death’s door, but recovered and were able to be at the home of their son, H. F. Durham, Saturday night, and out at their old church Sunday. We are proud of our S. S. super intendent and expect when the boys and girls have had more train ing, especially in music, that they will make us who now sing ashamed of ourselves. But few children will learn to sing without lessons. We are glad to report most of our sick folk up and to be out again. Last week Messrs. C. H. Lutterloh and J. R. Goodwin attended the Fay etteville district conference, and the former was chosen a delegate to our annual conference. Saturday before the second Sunday in July at Emmaus Baptist church our township Inter-Denominationa' S. S. convention will be held. The convention comprises four churches and all the pastors are expected to be there. Dinner is to be carried by representatives of all the churches and it is to be an ail-day affair. GET THE MONEY. New Boarder: “When I left my last boarding place the landlady wept.” Landlady: “Well, I won’t. I always collect in advance.”