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How Alvin York Made Prisoners Of" 132 Germans (Willard Neal in Atlanta Journal) How Sergeant Alvin C. York, of the 328th infantry, captured 132 Ger mans single-handed was told to re serve officers of the training camp at Port Screven, Georgia. The account was given on July 29 l>y Major Robert R. Milam, of Jack sonville, Fla., who was captain of York’s company during the war and -who was leading the charge when the Tennesseean made quick work of the German machine gunners. "York was a corporal when we were ordered to go over the top ini -the Meuse-Argonne drive,” said Ma-I jor Milam. He had objected to en terihg the war because of his reli gious belief, when he was drafted from his home at Pall Mall, Tenn.; but once in the service he made one . of the finest soldiers who ever wore a uniform. “We moved off at dawn on the P morning of October 8, and at sun up found ourselves moving up a little dale. On out right was an unscal able bluff, and to the left was alow wooded hill. To the front was an other hill covered with woods and un dergrowth from which we were get ting heavy rifle fire, while a machine gun nest in the draw at the junction of the two hills caught us with a with ering fire that played havoc with our advance. Men were being mowed down as fast as they reached the fir ing line. "Two squads in charge of a ser geant were sent through the woods at the left to flank the machine gun ners. Corporal York commanded one of the squads. “The detail moved through the forest without drawing fire and came *ipon the machine gunners from the flank. The Germans had seen Ameri ■cans advancing on the other side, and they thought they had been surround ed. The major who was in command surrendered himself and 27 men with out exchanging a shot. The machine gunners came out of their conceal ment holding their pistol belts over their heads. “Several men from the little de tachment of 16 were put in charge of the prisoners and- ordered to hold them there, while the remainder of the handful of attackers' moved for ward. “As the Americans turned away from the group of prisoners, the rest of the machine gunners in the draw opened ■ fire upon them with every gun they had, mowing down all but seven of the attackers. The sergeant in command and the other corporal went down with the first hurst of fire. “Corporal York dropped to the ground at the first shot, and crawled over near the prisoners who had also hit the dirt. Then he got his rifle into play for some of the most effective shooting ever known in the history of the United States army. “He was so near the prisoners that the Germans had to shoot high to keep from hitting their own men. York, however, fired directly over the prisoners' backs, and they did not dare try to move out of the way. “York lay there on his stomach, picking off Germans as fast as they raised their eyes above the ground. The other six Americans lay in the brush, keeping the prisoners cov ered with their rifles. Only one of these fired his rifle, and he shot at a prisoner who tried to crawl away. “York fired his rifle part of the time and used his pistol some. The dead Germans were never counted, but York thought there were be tween twenty and thirty, and nearly all were shot in the head as they raised up to fire the lone corporal. 1 asked him later if he had missed anv, and he said, ‘Cao'n, I don’t think I missed a single shot.” “The German major, seeing his men falling everywhere and noticing that York still had a good supply of amunition, ordered them to sur render. The machine gunners came out of their pits, holding their pistol belts over their heads and fell in line with the original forty-eight pris oners. There were 132 men in the group Corporal York captured, and, with the other forty-eight and those York shot, they made up a whole bat talion of machine gunners. Among them were a major and three lieuten ants. "I knew tnai tne urncmnc In the draw had been stopped, and -my company moved easily after it •eased, but I never heard .a word « the drama that had been enacted until the following morning, when Corporal York came to the command post to report , . •“Where have you been?” I de manded. “Well Cep’n. I just ketched some prisoners, an* had to carry 'em back to the rear,’ he answered. “Why didn’t you bring them to me, like you were supposed to do? I asked, for I supposed he had picked up two or three men somewhere. “Well, you was up here fighting and I knowed you'd be hard to find so I tuk ’em to batalion PC. and they sent me back to the regiment, and they sent me to brigade head* quarters, and they sent me to divi aions—' . “The various unit commanders had been so proud of his feat that they sent Mm alone, with 180 prisoners, all the way back to corps head quarters, fifteen or twenty miles to the rear, and it took him all night to get back. , .t ‘“That was a damngd good job, York,’ I said. ‘Now come up o# the railroad here and fight some mom.”' “Was Sergeant York really such a Large Per Cent Of Randolph Farms Are On Improved Roads Figures compiled by the University of North Carolina News Letter show that 60.5 of the farms in Randolph county are located on improved roads, and that 23.5 of the farms are on paved highways. And in this respect Randolph ranks high among the coun ties of the State, taking 25th place. Montgomery county has 27.1 of its farms on paved roads and 61 per cent on improved roads. Davidson farihs are 2.7 per cent on paved roads and 47.3 per ceht on improved roads. Chatham has 5 per cent on paved highways and 51.2 per cent on im proved roads. New Hanover ranks first among the counties of the State with 66 per cent of its farms on paved roads and 84.9 per cent on improved reads. In Guilford county 12.7 per cent of farms are on paved roads and 50.4 per cent on improved highways. Where the World War Started Few people could call to mind now, thirteen yean since, that the spark that set off the World War was the assassination of an Austrian Arch duke in the city of Sarajevo, now in Yugo Slavia. Sarajevo is hemmed in by the mountains, immutable, inscru table, slumbering in Mohammedan in difference, and dreams of brighter days which never come. It has a pop lation of 60,000, four-fifths utterly illiterate. Ask a native, says a recent news dispatch, where the World War started, and he shrugs his shoulden and says nonchalantly, “Down near the bridge there.” IN MEMORY The Death Angel visited the home of Roby Canoy, Oct. 7, 1927, and took away his loving wife, Mary Ellen. She was bom Aug. 13, 1898, and was at death 29 years, 1 month, 24 days of age. Those who survive besides her hus band and an infant are her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Hinshaw, Randleman, Route 1; five brothers, Messrs. Vance and Eugene Hinshaw, Atlanta, Ga.; Paul, Albert and Claud Hinshaw, all of Randleman, Route 1; two sisters, Mrs. Rom Ward, Ran dleman, and Miss Ruby Hinshaw. She was of a sweet disposition, loved by all who knew her. She pro fessed faith in Christ in her girlhood days, attended her home church reg ularly and took a great interest in the choir. She was married to Roby Canoy Dec. 22, 1923.' Our heartfelt sympathy is for her husband, family and all who are left to’ mourn her loss. May God’s richest blessing rest and abide with each and every one in the loss of darling Mary. Rev. Neece conducted her funeral Sunday, Oct. 9, at New Salem Church, 2 miles east of Randleman, and inter ment followed at the cemetery.—One Who Knew Her. Arguments In Finch Case The North Carolina. Supreme Court will hear this week arguments in the Finch damage suit which was sent up from Davidson County Superior Court some months ago. The Davidson jury awarded damages in the amount of $161,500 -for the death of Brown Finch, Thomasville furniture manu facturer and son of T. J. Finch, of Trinity, against the Southern Rail way, a train on this railroad having struck and killed Mr. Finch. Brown Finch was 32 years old at the time of his death and was said to have had an earning capacity of $30,000 a year. The damages awarded were the larg est ever given by an American jury in similar actions. 10,000, would have known what to do and few, if any, of those could have shot straight and fast enough to have kept the heads of the 150 fighting men buried in the dirt. He sure put the fear of God into those Heinies. “After the armistice York was kissed and decorated by every Frenchman that had enough author ity, and he met the king of England. When we drew into the harbor at New York cries came up from the dock, ‘We want York—Give us Ser geant York!—Speech from Sergeant York!" “After the whole ship had been searched over, somebody located York behind a locked door in a stateroom. When they called him he promised to knock the head off any body that tried to come in. There was no getting h|m out, either, until j sent orders, as his commander, for him to appear on deck. “The next few days were a dlssy while for Sergeant York. He was fed and feted by all kinds of dubs, and at one big dinner his mother, down in Tennessee, was called to talk to him over the telephone. "The best stunt of all was his vis it to the stock exchange. He was +J.ir»n down and set upon a table, while the members gathered around to Wd for him. The bids started at $200 and went fast up to $500, when he was knocked down as a sale. The broker who had made the bid peeled off $500 in cash and handed it up to York, who rammed it down to the bottom of his breeches pocket, said •Thanks,' and walked out, cool as a cucumber.” Jewelry, Jewelry of all kinds: "nger rings, bar pins, wrateb bands, and „ — neck wear. Also a nice line of cent and gift goods. W. A. Gregory’s 5, 10 and 25c (By Rev. T. H. Lewis, D. D., L. L. D., President of the General Confer ence of the Methodist- Protestant Church, in Methodist Protestant Hand Book.) The particular protest made by those who finally organized the Methodist Protestant Church was aimed at the feature of the govern ment which was regarded as the real cause of all the dissatisfaction among Methodists, viz., the exclusion of lay men from the councils of the Church, and withholding from them the right of suffrage. After years of desultory discussion of this point, William S. Stockton, a layman, of Philadelphia, Pa, began in 1821 the publication of a periodical called the “Wesleyan Repository,” which was intended to provide a med ium for the more formal examination of what began to be called “the mu tual rights of the ministry and laity,” and to spread abroad the views of leading ministers and laymen on this subject. This publication was superseded in 1824 by “The Mutual Rights of Min isters and Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church,” published at Bal timore, Maryland, with the Same gen eral object in view. A large number of pamphlets also privately printed, contributed to the stream of discus sion which continued to spread over the Church. Petition When the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church met in 1824, a large number of petitions were presented, praying a representa tion of ministers and laymen in the law-making department, but no change was promised, and the only answer vouchsafed was: “If by ‘rights and privileges’ it is intended to sig nify something foreign from the institutiqns of the Church as we re ceived them from our fathers, pardon us if we know no such rights; if we do not comprehend such privileges.” Immediately after the close of the General Conference, a meeting was held, composed of distinguished mem bers of the Conference, and others from different parts of the country, to consider whether it were advisable to continue efforts for the reform. It was decided to recommend to re formers everywhere to organize themselves into societies “in order to ascertain the number of persons in the Methodist Episcopal Church friendly to a change in her govern ment.” These were called Union So cieties, and their whole object was so to unite the Reformers as to present to the next General Conference a pe tition which would obviate the objec tion made against the appeals to the Conference of 1824; that they were so various and conflicting in their aims, it was impossible to discover what they wanted, or who wanted them. In November, 1827, a General Con vention was held in Baltimore, com posed of one hundred delegates rep resenting Reformers in seven States, by whom a Memorial was prepared to be presented to the ensuing General Conference, praying for the admission of laymen into the legislative coun cils of the Church. The General Conference, after de liberating three whole weeks in com mittee upon the Memorial, not only denied the necessity or justice of the change proposed, but extended the claim for the exclusive right of min isters to legislate for the Church be yend what had ever been attempted before; “The great Head of the Church Himself has imposed on us the duty of preaching the Gospel: of administering its ordinances, and of maintaining its moral discipline among those over whom the Holy Ghest in these respects has made us overseers. Of these also, namely, of Gospel doctrines, ordinances, and moral discipline, we do believe that the divinely instituted ministry are the divinely authorized expounders; and that the duty of maintaining them in their purity, and of not per mitting our. ministrations in these respects to be authoritatively con trolled by others, does rest upon us with the force of a moral obligation.” Expulsion The resources of peaceable reform would thus seem to have been ex hausted! But it is probable that the protestants would have continued dis cussion and petition indefinitely had they been permitted. It is certain that they professed again and again their loyalty to the Church, and their strong desire to remain in its com munion. But this they were not al lowed to do. Immediately after the “Mutual Rights” began to be circulat ed, and Union Societies began to be formed, members of the Church in various sections of the country were threatened by their pastors with ex pulsion unless they would cease to read the “Mutual Rights” and with draw from the Union Societies. When they were brought to trial NORFOLK SOUTHERN R. R. Paaaenger Train Schedules Bffoe* tire October 29, 1921 Aaheboro, N. C. Deity Except Sunday . Leave 7:30 a. m. for Aberdeen-15J lerbe and intermediate pointa. Connect* at Star for Baleigh, Charlotte and intermediate Tar tick* .. — tlona and information, eddreoa apply t* ,,up la k BUBS 1BAATI** Ag and insisted on being informed what law of the Church or of the Bible they had violated, they were referred to a clause of the “General Rules” of John and Charles Wesley, which for bids “speaking evil of Magistrates or of Ministers” and to a regulation of the General Conference forbidding “inveighing against either our Doc trines or Discipline,” which the Gen eral Conference itself declared admit ted of no other cohstruction than “the sense of un-Christian railing and viol ence.” One Annual Conference went a step further, and replied through its pre siding bishop to the demand of an accused minister to know what law of the Discipline he had violated, that “An .Annual Conference has authority to make rules and regulations for its own members.” These facts would seem to show that the majority were not care ful to find the violated law. They had an occasion and they had the power. Their determination was voiced by one of their leaders as fol lows: “You publish the ‘Mutual Rights’ and say you will not with draw from the Methodist Episcopal Church. Now we are reduced to one of two alternatives, either to let you remain members of the Church and go on peaceably publishing the ‘Mu tual Rights’ by which you agitate the Church, or expel you. We have come to the determination to take the lat ter alternative, and expel you.” It seems difficult to believe, but it is the literal fact of history, that this ruthless determination was rigor ously executed. In North Carolina, , Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Penn sylvania, Ohio, and the District of Columbia, able and efficient ministers, prominent and devoted laymen, men . who lived blameless and pious lives . and against whom no charge of here 1 sy or immoral conduct could be . brought, were excommunicated be cause they read and recommended to i their friends a religious newspaper in . whose columns it was argued that . laymen ought to be admitted into the . councils of the Church. The immediate effect of these . expulsions was to convince Reformers ; that there was no hope of obtaining . any change in the government, and . they began' to withdraw in consider i able numbers in various parts of the , country, both as a mark of their sym i pathy with their persecuted brethren, . and as their final protest against a . power that struck but would not hear. , Organization ; As for the expelled and their . friends, nothing remained but to form . a new Church. They were Methodists, . and the only Methodist Church in ex , istence had cast them put. They had no controversy with Methodism, for : its doctrines and spirit and experieiice were their joy and their crown. But . because they did not believe it was . necessary for the lovely and free spir . it of Methodism to be cast in the mold of absolutism, and because they could i not consent to the suppression of free | speech in behalf of free suffrage, , they sorowfully took up the task of . organizing a new Church, which should hold fast to all the distinctive . features of Methodism, and at the . same time ally it to all the great r heritage which Protestantism had be . queathed to the world; whJfch two > ideas they sought to express in its . name. Reformers throughout the country [ were invited to send delegates to a i convention to meet in Baltimore, No ■ vember 12th, 1828. This cpnvention ■ effected a provisional organization • under the title of “The Associated . Methodist Churches,” adopted Articles r of Association covering the main fea 5 tures of a church to serve until a [ Constitution could be matured, and 1 called another convention to meet in t 1830. > Meanwhile local churches were gathered, and annual conferences or ganized; and when the General Con ference met in St. John’s Church, Bal timore, Maryland, November 2nd, 1830, fourteen Annual Conferences , were represented by one hundred and > fourteen delegates. The title “Methodist Protestant i Church” was submitted for the former title, and the Constitution and Disci 5 pline adopted substantially as it still . remains. j And so at last the long controversy L Frequent Gone To Florida W. F. TROGDON Mr. W. F. Trogdon, president of the Trogdon Historical Association, which has hundreds of members in Ran dolph and adjoining counties, left last week for Miami, Florida, to spend the winter. Mr. Trogdon is in the real estate business both in Florida and at North Wilkesboro, in North Caro lina. He usually spends the summer in North Wilkesboro and when au tumn comes interests himself in his real estate business in the land of sunshine and flowers. Coley Bridges, 35, Chatham coun ty’s largest man, died suddenly Sun day morning. Funeral was held Mon day afternoon from the Siler City Baptist church. He leaves his widow, his parents and two sisters. was closed. The desire of the Re formers to remain in the old Church, and accomplish changes in its gov ernment by the peaceable methods of discussion, was not realized. But per haps it was better so. Set free from the past, albiet by the stem mandate of an angry authority, they were now disentangled from the American as well as the English hierarchy, and at liberty to recur to the advice of Mr. Wesley, which the Conference of 1784 had strangely ignored, and “simply to follow the Scriptures and the prim itive Church” in laying the foundation of the new ecclesiasticism. That they did this completely would be too much for uninspired judgment to claim; but that they earnestly desired to do it, and welcomed discussion oi even change of what they did when shown a better way, is asserted with confidence. K. 0. OINTMENT For all akin diseases caused by germs, especially for itch. ASHEBORO DRUG COMPANY Asheboro, N. C. Plant Shrubs NOW! Beautify your home and enhance its value with hardy Ewrinm, Shrubs, Vinca, Shade Trace; alee Prnita. Berriee. etc. Now la the Uaie to plant. We have large selection el varieties suited to this climate and sell' to pen direct at teweet prices — no asenta’ co mm lea lone. Half a eenffiry In buslneea aaanree poor satisfaction. New catalog new ready. Write todap far your free ropy J. B. WATKINS A BRO. > Midlothian. Va. TRINITY NEWS The pupils of the high school here were given a half holiday Friday on account of the teachers meeting at High Point. Mr. Russell, of lower Randolph, was in town Thursday afternoon on business. Mrs. Henry Royals, of North Trin ity, with her children, went on a visit to relatives in the country near here Saturday. Mrs. Heilig, who has been very ill for some time, is better, but her lit tle child is still critically ill. Mr. Lacy Johnson, well known in and around Trinity, late of Duke University, has a position in New York, and will reside there in the future. Mrs. Annie J. Cranford has moved to our town from the Fairview section. We gladly welcome Mrs. Cranford. One farmer of Hoke county who used the plans of the Agricultural Ex tension Service in building his new bam said they had saved him over $100 and that he had a better bam than he would have had. Party Candies, Mints, Nuts Martha Washington Candy Shop Greensboro, N. C. We mail 'em Those farmers of Hoke county who cooperated to buy a car of fencing; wire saved about $1,000 on the deal and several gave the county agent orders for an additional supply. Marble Granite MONUMENTS HIGH POINT MARBLE & TILE CO., INC. 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