THE CHARLOTTE NEWS. CHARLOTTE, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 28, 1921.
COUNTY HOME IS
INSPECTEDTODAY
Members of Committee In
formally Declare Condi
tions Could be Worse.
- The first investigation of the County
Home by a committee representing or
ganizations the county, autfloritized to
see and report whether conditions at
the heme were as bud as h.i e been -ported,
-a as made Mor.da. ..ftcrnojn.
Some time ago the honu demonstration
clubs of Sardis and armel, two rural
communities of t e county and mem
bers ot the county Federation ot'-ltural
Clubs, appointed a joint committee to
visit the home and see how it was
conducted and whether conditions were
such as members of the Mecklenburg
grand jury have reported once or twi;:e
with the last half y-.ir.
The joint committee consisted of Airs.
V. S. Pharr. Mrs. John M. Walker.
Mrs. A- B. Hood, Sr., and Miss Mary
Miller. Miss Marion Davis, home de
monstration agent of the county, accom
panied the committee and oir o two
others also were members of the paity.
The committee was received by .wr.
and Mrs. White, who are in charge
of the home, and who conducted' the
visitors over every department of the
institution. The committee vited and
talked to the inmates, both white and
negro, in the various wards of the
main building and fhen were taken t
investigate the smaV.er buildings where
the insane and semi-insane. "
Some of the members of the commit
tee expressed themselves an agreeably
surprised to find the institution sp well
managed, in view of criticisms' that
have been publicly made. It was the
opinion of the committee that there is
need for much better and more exten
sive equipment in several parts of tho
institution and that it can not be put
on the high plane of efficiency worthy
of the county without the expenditure
of more money on both equipment and
employes. The committee expressed en
tire approval of the efficiency shown
shown by Mr. and Mrs. White in the
management of the institution with the
facilities at their command. These ob
servations were made by members of
the committee privately and were no
part of the formal report the members
of the committee will make to their
organizations.
Several groups of visitors to the
Home recently have reported, marked
improvement in certain details that had
been strongly complained of by the
Mecklenburg grand jury in a recent
report". ' "
MOVIE MEN WILL
STAGE J5IG SHOW
Producers Arrange for an
Exposition Here Next
December.
A four-day motion picture exposition
with all members of the motion picture
industry in Charlotte participating and
with many stars of. the moving picture
world here, to say nothing of the latest
devices and accomplishments in screen
dom's history, will be staged here be
ginning December 12, if plans adopted
Monday night here are carried ut.
Theatre owners, theatre managers,
musicians, exhibitors and all others con
nected with the movie industry, here
sembled and talked and voted in favor
of the project, which was born at the
Exhibitors League convention recently
at Wrightsville, where it was agreed
Charlotte was the logical place for the
exposition because of the big develop-'
ment of the movie business here;
R. D- Craver. local theatrical magnate,
was authorized to go to New York and
arrange ' for' " air details neot;sary to
make the thing a success so far as par
ticipation outsiders is concerned.
Mr. Craver was also made perman
ent chairman of the ways and means
committee and F. Alton Abbott, head of
the Exhibitors Exchange, was madfi
permanent secretary. Mr. Craver will
report July 11, at the next meeting, to
be held at the Schofield Music house
on South Tryon street, how the sugges
tion has been received nt movie head
quarters in the metropolis.
C. S. Lee was made chairman of the
publicity committee at the meeting Mon
day night and H. R. Schofield, manager
of the Schofield Music company, was
made chairman of the finance commit
tee. - Other member of the ways and means
committee ar L. G. Schofield, E. F. Dar
dine, E. E. Heller, J. A. Prince. J.
C. Conn, Frank Bryan, Otto Haas, T.
O. Tuttle, J. E. McCormick. T. L. Bar
ron, I. C. Lowe, E. H. Riley. J. S.
Carroll, J. C. Carroll, and Cameron
Price.
DAINTY OvtlRBLOUSEi
FOR SUMMER WEAR
4.poeJ and charming for mm? !s
this blouse of grahs green silk em
broidered with lilies-of -the-valley.
It is made on kimono lines with
snort, loose sleeves and is gathered
onto a quaint little band collar
which gives an unr.sual neckline.
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Photo shows opening of the parliament in Belfast city hall. Wearing a wig and seated in the "chair" at Uu
front of the hall is Maj. Hugh O'Neill, D. L. M. P.
The opening of the new Ulster
parliament, created by . the pass
age of the Irish home rule bill, is
one of the most important events
from a political standpoint in
BRIGERMAN CASE
IS BEFORE JUDGE
Former Market Man Pro
nounced "Scoundrel" by
Recorder at Hearing.
Charged with living together as man
and wife, Fritz Brigerman, former em
ploye of Felix Hayman's meat market,
and Mrs. Ernest Cerny were required
to renew their bonds of $200 and $25
respectively, while decision in the case
is being held over until Wednesday
morning bv Judge " Laurence "Jones in
the police court. The case was de
clared to be "serious" by Judge Jones.
According to the evidence, Brigerman
entered the home of Mr. Cerny as a
boarder last September. A few weeks
later Cerny beheld Brigerman with
his arm around his wife. With sus
picions aroused, Cerny kept his eyes
opened. On one occasion he caught
Brigerman kissing his wife, and ob
served numerous incidents tending to
show affection between the two.
"I got so I could hardly restrain
myself,' said Cerny on the witness
stand. "I would almost go insane at
times. Finally they admitted outright
that they intended to get married, and
things got so bad that I was forced to
leave the house."
Several witnesses testified that Brig
erman had spoken of Mrs. Cerny as
"his wife." When asked why he talked
of a married woman that way. it is
alleged he replied:
"Well, I don't care whether she gets
a divorce or not we're going to be
married intwo weeks."
The case grew interesting when Col.
T. L. Kirkpatrick began to sharply
question the witnesses, and many per
sonal back-bites sprang up. In attempt
ing to show that a man's arm around
another man's wife meant nothing, Col.
Kirkpatrick asked one witness the fol
lowing: "Put your arm around a girl occasion
ally, don't you?"
"No, sir," emphatically replied the
witness.
"Well, you have done it, haven't
you?"
"I never had my arm around a girl
in my life." declared the witness, as the
court broke into an uproar.
"Come down," commanded Col. Kirk
patrick. as he made a sweeping bow
to the floor.
Several character witnesses for Cerny
were put on the stand, all of whom
testified that his character was good.
One of these witnesses, however, told
of an incident that he had seen in the
Cerny home. He declared that he was
there once when Mrs. Cerny got mad at
something her husband said and de
liberately spit into his face. ;
Mrs. Cerny's two grown sons were
present at the trial, but did not take
the stand. On one occasion one of
the boys shouted in derision at his
father on the witness stand, and had
to be called down.
"They are being paid to do it," said
his father.
As soon as the evidence was in. Col.
Kirkpatrick told the judge that when
it was all boiled down he had absolutely
nothing.
"I've got one of the biggest scoun
drels that ever came into this court."
replied Judge Jones," and if there is
any possible way I can convict him, I
am going to do it."
Judgment will be rendered in the
case Wednesday morning, according to
the announcement.
NEGRO MAN AND WIFE
HELD FOR HARBORING
Charged with contributing to the de
linquency of a 15-year-old negro girl,
Lura Phillips, neg;o, and his wife, Mary
were given 90 days on the reads and
30 days in jail respectively by Judge
Laurence Jones in the police court
Tuesday Morning.
It was brought out in the evidence
thst Phillips had "slipped" Louis Grant,
a 15-year-old girl, from the home of her
mother and carried her to his home,
where it was alleged he kept her;
His wife knew of his actions and aided
him, it was alleged.
Louise, the daughter, proved a hard
witness to question on the witness
stand and her remarks to the questions
asked her kept the court in turmoil
for several minutes.
"Don't you know that you had been
loitering around on the streets of this
city before this thing happened?" a.sked
one attorney.
"Where did you see me?" shot back
the witness.
PRINCE RECEIVES
VISITING VIRGINIANS
London, June 28. The Prince of
Wales this morninsr received at York
House the Virginian delegation headed
bv Professor Henry Louis Smith, Presl.
dent of Washington and Lee University
which came to England for the presen
tation to the British nation of a bronze
copy of Houdon's famous marble statue
Sf George Washington. The Prince
ardially welcomed the Virginians.
Dr. Smith, accompanied by Mrs.
Smith led the delegation at the recep
tion. All were presented to the Prince
separately, the other members being
Lieut. Gov. B. F. Buchanan, of Vir
ginia; R. L. Brewer, Speaker of the
House of Delegates, and John W. Wil
liams, clerk of the House.
No formality, attended the presenta
tion and there was no sieech making,
the exchanges being merely conversa
tional. The Prince chatted cordially
with all his guests and shook hands
with each one parting.
THE NEW ULSTER PARLIAMENT IN SESSION
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recent years in the British em
pire. While home rule adherent
in the Ulster region welcome the
opening of the parliament, the
small Sinn Fein faction has re
Nev1M
letter
hif Lucy Jeanne Price
New York, June 28. Slowly but sure
ly thrift may be felt edging its way
into the grooves of life. It seems even
to be usurping the place hitherto held
by speed! For the latest auto races
in which New Yorkers are indulging
have nothing to do with breaking time
records. Wagers are posted with no
consideration of which driver goes fast
est but of which one goes farthest on a
gallon of gasoline. The cars start from
the same point with a country inn as
the objective. Both carry the same
amount of gas. The one that' gives out
first has to pay the expenses of the trip.
It sounds like a rather impressive symp
ton of that sobering down which edi
torial writers have been demanding.
Wall Street is about to have an Ori
ental trade school. New York Univer
sity will open very shortly a brand
new department, down there, the Divi
sion of Oriental Commerce and Politics-
It hopes to supplant what one
of its officials call "business buccan
eers" with "business men who are dip
lomats and diplomats who are business
men". "The men that, we train for
foreign service will understand the
East, rather than try to reform its busi
ness methods", said Charles Hodges of
the University's School of Commerce.
Commercial Russian and the Mandarin
dialect are the languages to be stress
ed. Where do you keep your cow? That's
a more important question than might
appear on the surface. So the New
York department found out the other
day to its sorrow. The department has
been trying to collect a nice large sum
of -money from the estate of Henry C.
Frick who dwelt in the Vanderbilt resi
dence on Fifth avenue for some time
and later in a palace of his own on
that same street. But the cow is like
ly to win out against any number of
palaces. For regardless of where the
family lived, the cow remained content
edly and securely in Pittsburgh, and
that, according to the representatives
of he estate, means a real home. So
the bovine which kicked over the lamp
and started the Chicago Are is pretty
nearly duplicated by the one that seems
liable to cut New York out of an inheri
tance tav on a good $100,000,000.
I don't go quite so far as the tradi
tional . New Yorkers who turn away
from the Grand Canyon with the mur-
mur that it doesn't compare to the Palis
aaes or tne liuason Kiver. Jut l did
wonder when I came down from Pough
keepsie the other day on the Hudson
river dayboat, just why on earth I
had let myself be rushed into smoky
trains so many times when I had made
that same trip these recent years. I
don't know anything I would have done
with that hour or so that would have
been nearly as important as just sitting
there .on the desk luxuriating in the
beauty of the west shore,-and of the
whole river, in fact. Maybe that's the
effect it has on one to get away into
the country for a few days- I would
say it's a mighty good effect.
It probably wouldn't seem much of a
trip so far as length goes to William A.
Good who has just arrived back in town
from the longest canoe trip that has
ever been made in the memory of white
man. Starting from Chicago in October,
1919, he has canoed his way along 10,
000 miles. Think of it, those of you who
have been done up "by a five-mile paddle
at some time in your life!
' One more sacrifice to modernity,
say- the critics. For Susie would smoke
and does and make a success in
vaudeville. But she just couldn't take
care of her child properly. So it died.
She never sec-med to realize that it
required food, say the authorities at
the New York Zoological Park. And
consequently this tiny creature child
of Susie and Boma. high in the world
of chimpanzees, just died of malnutri
tion. And Susie's trainers have been
so proud of her ability to adapt herself
to education.
in luxurious nomes. Henry L. Doher
ty, millionaire public service corpora
tion, man, has built himself a domi
cile atoi the ten-story buildin at 21
State street, way down by the Battery
whers he also has his offices It's the
last place in this whole city one would
expect to find a residence. But it's
an ideal location, according to Mr. Do
herty, with its view of Battery Park
andj the Harbor. He takes all his
recreation within a radius of three or
four blocks of his own office and own
home, and he finds the top of a kv
scraper perfectly adapted to a cwenty
room residence, he says.
LUCY JEANNE PRICE.
PROGRESSING WITH
TENNIS MATCHES
The following matches were slated
for today's part of the tennis tourna
ment at the Charlotte Country club:
Mayer vs.loan, Green vs. Brooks,
Howell vs. Shelby, Leinbach vs. Peck,
Long vs. Tillett, Rust vs. Ahbott. Gil
christ vs. Jones, Murrill vs. Shaw.
Results Monday were:
Murrill defeated Hill 6-0, 6-4; Shaw
defeated Nisbett 6-1, 6-4; Holt defeated
Blalock 6-1. 6-0; Baesel defeated Beatty
6-1, 6-2; Kennedy defeated Scott 6-3,
6-1; Gilchrist defeated Barrett 6-4, 6-1;
Jones defeated Stitt. 6-0, 7-5.
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fused to have anything to do with
the parliament. The photo, taken
at the opening of the Ulster
house, shows Maj. Hugh O'Neill,
its first speaker. -
ROBBERS ESCAPE
BY SAWING BARS
Charles Wilkes and Red
Gordon Effect Escape
from Roanoke Jail.
Roanoke, Va., June 28. Charlos
Wilkes and D. C. Gordon, members of
an alleged band of bank robbers con
fined in the local jail under prison sen
tences imposed following the robbery of
the Bank of Glasgow, Va., last Novem
ber, made their escape early today by
sawing bars of their cells and crawling:
through a ventilator.
"Red" Gordon, one of the men who
escaped, was captured in Philadelphia
last January following confession of a
confederate, a woman from Atlanta.
Gordon was brought here after a trial
at Houston, Va.K along with , William
Walsh and Wilkes, was given 15 years
in the penitentiary.
The two men,- who are alleged to
have been members of an organize!
band of bank robbfers, were wanted in
at least two dozen cities in the Souta,
including places in Tennessee, Georgia.
North Carolina and South Carolina.
Each had served terms in penitentiir
ies, escaping.
Another member, James B. Rod-
gers, a former inmate of a reforma
tory at Lancaster, Pa., was killed h3e
last November during a battle with
the police, in which Wilkes and
Walsh were captured, following th3
robbery of the Bank of Glasgow, Va'.
The two men, after being convicted
appealed to the Supreme Court. They
had been confined in the Roanoke jai!,
awaiting decision of the Supreme
Court upon theuy appeal.
POLICEMEN GUESTS
AT ROTARY LUNCHEON
A score of members of the city police
department were - guests of Charlotte
Rotarians at their Tuesday luncheon at
the Southern Manufacturers' club.
Other policement were at last week's
luncheon as guests. The Rotarians plan
to have all of the members of the po
lice and fire departments as their guests
during the next months as a means of
expressing their appreciation for the
guarding of the public.
Numerous jokes and fun-making
stunts were pulled off during Tuesday's
luncheon at the expense of the police
department and these prdved as enter
taining to the blue coats as they did
to the Rotarians.
FATALLY WOUNDS WIFE
Fulton, Ky., June 28 Mrs. Joseph
Milam, wife of a farmer, was hroha-
bly fatally wounded early today at the
Milam farm house near here by shots
alleged to have been fired by her hus
band. Milam disappeared before o jeers
reached the , scene. The cause of the
shooting has not been ascertained. -
KNITTED CAPE IS
ACCEPTED SPORT
WRAP FOR SUMMER
This cape may look like many
others as far as style and line are
concerned, but it is unusual, never
theless, for it is knitted- It is th
accepted wrap of the 1921 summer.
Knitted capes have been found
practical, pretty and inexpensive.
What more could be asked of a irar-ment?
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POLES WOULD
ENTERAMERICA
Passport Chiefs Find That
Many Fake Vises Are
Attempted.
Warsaw. June 28.-One of the new
'.'daily sights" of Warsaw is a line of
1,500 Polish and Jewish fugitives from
ell parts of Poland seeking1 permission
to go to new homes In peaceful Ameri
ca. The !ine stretches away from the
American Consulate, housed in a huge
market bri-ding which has a :?reat
glass roof and resembles a New York
steamship pier shed.
Every one in the line must be armed
witn four things; a Polish passport, S10
in American currency for the vis, a
certified letter fiom relatives in f.he
United States and a third-class steam
ship ticket. Only about 500 can get
vises in one day.
The majority of the applicants are
Jewish women and children, depend
ents of peraoins now living in the
United States. Many of their" men
folks went to America before the war,
intending soon after their arrival to
send for their sisters, wivos and chil
dren, but the war cut them off. In
one day recently there were 300 women
applicants from the town of Cholm.
Most of their husbands had gone to
New York before the war and Hester
street was a common address.
The Warsaw lire forms early in the
morning, long before the lfaht is up,
and most of the people in it are pre
pared to stand there all day. Food is
hawked to them in the course of the
day on trays much like ice cream cones
or refreshments at American baseball
games. Mattresses on which women
and children sleep are also common
sights. ,, ' '
WEED OUT FRAUDS.
Attempts to sell fraudulent vises is
the unsuspecting in the line are fre
quent and are giving the authorities
a great deal of worry. Coming from
the devastated lands of Poland, the Ig
norant refugees fall easy victims to
the false tales of easing their way to
an American vise and. the steamship
for the promised land. The practice
has become so widespread that it has
resulted in numerous arrests and can
cellations of passports.
In an effort to discourage the prac
tise, American Vice-Counsul Huddle
stepped out of his office in the top tier
of the market building the other day
and delivered a speech to the emigrants
in which he warned them against those
wrho were preying on their ignorance.
"Thirty-four temigrants," he said,
"have been imprisoned in New York,
where they were trying to get intoHhe
United States with false American
vises. Thirty people are being sent
back from Goteborg, Sweden, where
they were stopped by the American
authorities. They cannot go to- Am
erica because they had false vises.
"Many other emigrants have been
arrested yi Danzig, Rotterdam and
Amsterdam because thoy were trying
to get on ships for America with, false
passports and false vises. AU of theso
reople will be prohibited from gring' to
the United States.
SOME COLD ADVICE.
"Hundreds of twindlers are in War
saw trying to steal your money. They
say they can get the American "Vise for
you. They are liars and cheats. They
will only make trouble for you and
you can never go to the United States
if you deal with them.
"Tell all your friends to beware of
passport cheats and vise swindlers.
Tell them the American officials know
all about their game" and that every
one who possesses these false docu
ments will be caught and will not get
to that land of their heart's desire."
The Hebrew Sheltering and Immi
grant Aid Society for America is co
operating with the American authori
ties in '-their efforts to run down the
false passports and vises, and their
agrents are working both in Warsaw
and Danzig, where most of the emi
grants embark for the United States.
Danzig is crowded with fugitives
who have passed through the routine
of procuring vises at Warsaw and are
waiting for their ships. There are
several camps full of them and the au
thorities are taking precautions to pre
vent outbreaks of epidemic diseases.
HIGHWAYMAN IS HELD
UNDER BOND OF $1,000
Charged with highway robbery Alex
Mitchell, negro, was bound over to the
superior .court under a bond of $1,000
after probable cause had been found
In the police court Tuesday morning
by Judge Laurence Jones.
It was brought out that Mitchell had
snatched a pocketbook containing $53.20
from Silas Hagner, a young man who
had been in Charlotte only a few weeks.
Officer Moser, brother-in-law of the
young man, was notified and apr;hen
sion of the negro resulted.
A small negro boy was lying on a
back porch near the scene of the rob
bery on Third street at the time, and
testified against the ngero. He declared
he knew Mitchell, and, after relating
what had happened, swore that Mit-1
chell was the man who had committed
the crime .
DEATHSFUNERALS
MRS.-ATWOOD FREEMAN.
Mrs. Atwood Brown Freeman died
Tuesday morning at 3:30 o'clock at her
home in Steel Creek following ah illness
of several months. She was 53 years
old. ' -
Funeral Services will be held Tues
day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at Steel
Creek Presbyterian church, the pastor,
Rev. John M. Walker, officiating. Mrs.
Freeman had been a member of the
Steel Creek Presbyterian church since
childhaed.
She is survived by her husband, I?.
C. Freeman. Jr., two sons, D. R. and
Frank Freeman; one daughter, Irene
Freeman; two half sisters, Mrs. Mary
McLelland and Mrs. Levica Freeman:
one brother, Charles F. Brown and two
half brothers, J. L. and F. B. Brown.
Ali live in the county. .
THREE NEGROES AND
LIQUOR CAPTURED
Three negroes ard a Chandler road
ster were taken by r.clicemen Tuosdny
when two gallons of liquor were fount
on board the mishine. -The anc.t fol
lowed an exciting chase, during which
the negroes attempted to escapo from
the county over tw? cr three highways
south of the city. They weie c.auer'.t
near Cathey's store -'n the Pineville
road.
The negroes arrN:d were Johnny
Barnes, owner of the machine; Jim
Staten and Alfred Coleman. Thay
will be tried in the police court Wed
nesday. SEVERE BREAKS IN
WHEAT PRICES TODAY
Chicago, June 28. -Severe breaks in
the price Of wheat took place today,
some sals showing a loss ef as much
nine cents a bushel compared with yes-
teraay s nnign. rret selling on the part
of country holders was largely respon
sible. July delivery fell to 119 1-4, and
closed treat ly unsettled at m th w.-,,
from 1X9 1-2 to 122. - x
This demure nuie Datnmjr
who is cosine here in a snappy
tle costume made of little more
than a bit of tulle, some feathers
and a couple of straps, is Miss
Vera Steadman of bathing comedy
fame. Miss Steadman really can
swim, however, and has the repu
tation of being the best swimmer
among the women of the California
film colony. -
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Today, with" Summer mornings innumerable
ahead, comes this sale of Gingham Dresses
Frocks just the thing for forenoon Summer wear
cool and smart and youthful; Checks and
plaids are included in this selling all colors and
beautifully individualistic .trimming effects of or
gandy, pique and braid. Some Lucette Frocks in
the lot. Surely your vacation wardrobe need
not fail to boast several such Dresses when you
can get them for $5.95. Regularly such style and
beauty would sell up to $12.50.
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