THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. 0.. SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1921.
EFIRD'S REMAIN
IN OLD QUARTER
Temporary Store Will be
r i xt a nnn
upenea, xiowever, ai aw
West Trade Street.
Temporary quarters of the Efird
Department store will be opened witn-
in the next Hen days in the building at
'209 West Trade street formerly occu
pied by the John W. Post company.
These quarters will be used while the
Efird building, at Trade and College
' streets, recently damaged by fire, is
being reconstructed. The company will
! re-establish its permanent home in its
, former location after repairing"and ren
ovations have been made.
The Charlotte Mercantile Company,
the Efird Brothers' wholesale estab
lishment, will be located temporarily
in the building until recently occupied
by the H. J. Lamar Automobile com
pany, on North College between Trade
and Fifth streets.
None of the salvage from the fire,
which destroyed more than 75 per cent
of the company's stock several days
ago. will be offered for sale in the new
location on West Trade street, Presi
dent J. B. Efird announced Saturday.
The insurance company will remove
salvaged stock to the building at 218
1-2 South College "street for disposi
tion. Since the first of the week before
last officials of the Efird Department
, Store and the Charlotte Mercantile
.Company have been engaged in clearing
away the mass of details .work result
ing from the destruction of the store
building and $300,000 worth of stock.
Arrangements for establishing tem
porary locations for the two concerns
were completed Saturday and new
ar.r. iiHll 1-in nla(ei1 in VirvtVl tllP retail
department store at 209 West Trade
street and in both the retail department
store at 209 West Trade street and in
the wholesale establishment on North
College street. Both of these stores
are expected to be open and ready for
business within the next 10 days or
two weeks, Mr. Efird said.
Perhaps a month or six weeks will
be required to reconstruct the build
ing at Trade and College streets which
was badly damaged by the blaze. Con
tractors will go to work within the
next few days and the job will be rush
ed to completion.
All goods which can be salvaged are
being removed from this building to
the storeroom at 218 1-2 South College
street. Although "it was estimated that
75 per cent of the stock was destroyed
by the fire a big supply of stock js
being taken from the building for dis
position by the insurance companies. A
large portion of the damage to stock
was caused by water. Some of the
goods damaged in this manner can be
dried out and rendered of possible use.
Although the Efird brothers received
a request from tie Wilmington Cham
ber of Commerce to establish the mer
cantile company and headquarters for
the chain of department stores there,
Charlotte will continue as the main of
fice of both businesses. The company
has large interests here, and the offi
cials are making plans for establishing
their permanent home at the sama
place in which they build up the busi
ness from a small and stuggling enter
pri se to one of the largest mercantile
companies in the South.
WasTooBadToBeAny Worse
So Misch "Joined" The Force
Knight of the Broom at Police Headquarters Has His
Past Writ Up for Public Consumption and, Private
Preservation Has Run the Category of Crime.
By BROCK BARKLEY.
"Misch" Brown, being now in. the
sixth year of his life as Knight of the
Broom at Police headquarters and a
bona . fide member in good standing of
the upper or social strata of this town's
population, is highly desirous of having
"writ up" for public' consumption and
private preservation a record of . that
eventful portion of his career, covering
a period of 37 years, in which he was
one of the most dashing figures of the
local underworld.
"Miseh" in his day, has done every
thing the law said he musn't do, from
purloining a five-cent piece to the sale
of the cold body of ai negro woman to a
bunch of medical students for $12. He
has served 20 years on the chaingang
and he estimates the number of times
he has been arrested at 300. And it all
took place in Charlotte.
"Misch" used to say, back in the old
days, that the only reason for hiring Jim
Johnson and Mack Earnhardt, Char
lotte's veteran sleuths of 10 years ago,
was to hunt .him. Every time ha saw
a policeman he would run, urged on by
a guilty conscience. Whenever business
was dull about headquarters and officers
had no arrests to their credit that day,
they went in search of "Misch," satis
fied that he was guilty of something.
And he admits that he always was.
HAS HAD ONE JOB
"Misch" estimates that he ha
handled in stolen goods about $10,000.
He never held but one job in his life,
outside a chaingang job, and that is
the one he now possesses. He started to
work six years ago for $3 a week.
"Don't say how much I'm getting
now, but it's a considerable increase,"
he advised Saturday afternoon, after ob
taining acquiscence from the reporter to
duly record his life after the delation
of some of the things he had done
which he ought not have done.
The night preceding the day "Miseh"
reported for work af the police sta
tion he made a raid on the late Stone
and Barringer Book Store and carried
away two pocketsfull of fountain pens.
These were in his overcoat pocket when
he went to work next morning but
en route to dinner that day he threw
them into a sewer and, holding his
right hand high in the air, swore:
"Never again."
And he's lived straight since; a re
formed bad man; a bold bad man,
"Misch" used to consider himself, be
cause he never ran from anything but
a cop. He's in entire agreement with
this effort to record his history, not
because he's proud of his career, but
because he's proud of the past six
years in view of that career.
RECALLS SOME EVILS.
It would be impossible to recollect
all the unlawful things he has done,
Brown explained, but several "stuck
out" clear in his mind. He will never
forget the day he "went wrong". He
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was about six. His mother sent him
to an uptown grocer to buy a nicked's
worth of baking powder. His moth
er never got that baking powder, but
he got a licking.
A week later he purloined a supply
of meal from the back porch of a house
now standing' at Trade and Graham
streets. He sold the meal to a. grocer
and spent the money in riotous living.
He was caught and licked.
He first became acquainted with the
chaingang when he threw a rock
through the big bass drum of the Char
lotte Drum Corps wrhile a lively march
was in order. The reck went through
both sides of the drum and landed on
the head of a musician standing nearby.
"Misch" went to Captain Little's camp
for ten days.
"Ah nevah did hard labor on the
roads but foah yeahs of de twenty,"
Brown boasted. "When ah first
started going out ah was watah boy,
and when ah got grown ' ah developed
into a first class wagon driver and a
town boy."
SOLD DEAD BODY.
Captain Little and the guards soon
become well acquainted with "Misch"
CLARKE RESIGNS
OFFICEIN KLAN
Also Asks That the Resig
nation of Mrs. Tyler Be
Accepted.
Atlanta, Ga.. Sept. 24. Edward
Young Clarke, imperial kleagle of the
Ku Klux Klah, in a letter to Col. Wil
liam J. Simmons, imperial wizard of
the klan, tonight demanded that the
wizard accept his resignation, together
with that of Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, head
of the klan's women's auxiliary. These
resignations were submitted to. Colonel
Simmons, following publication of
charges against Clarke and Mrs. Tyler.
The charges were followed by demands
from A. Donald Bate, kleagle of the
state of New Jerstey, that Clarke and
Mrs. Tyler be dismissed.
ATLANTA BADLY STIRRED.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 24. (United Press)
Climaxing a week of agitation and
rumors for and against the K. K. K.
which has literally rocked Atlanta and
divided its citizens into two - camps,
rumors that a "serious break" has oc
curred in the "inneir circles' of the
klan were circulated here tonight.
William J. Simmons, imperial wizard
of the organization, could not be lo
cated. Members of his family state he
is out of the city on klan business.
Efforts to locate E. Y. Clarke, im
perial kleagle, who, with Mrs. Elizabeth
Tyler, head of the woman's department
and propagation bureau, has become
the storm center, were unavailing. He
was reported out of the city, but his
whereabouts remained a secret.
Intimations at the klan headquar
ters were that Simmons had practically
This
Wa ViavA hsen tnlltlnsr
terms about the caloric value of food
and the necessity of knowing these
values in order to avoid eating too
much or too little. I have orten saiu
TIH5 VALUE, OF FOOD
, - milk
in geneia tuecop " "" ,,vhPMmes a
is wnere reauunis. ,, inves
burden to the stout woman who love,
cakes and pastry, rich puddings and
ina.ii .i.j
such delicacies more
that the whole matter is as simple as else. - . .riven' the eyes
elementary arithmetic The only thing L Edith-If you have give jney
to remember is that some people are
tempermentally so constructed that one
will stay thin by nesvous exnausuon
too mucn - '7 " refresh
constant reaums ' rrvila is
them by using hot compresse s Tl his
hv snturatine a cloth with noi
after his ten-day visit. He remained J completed his investigation of publish
in town only a fejy days until he went
back. Brown's job regularly, after he
became a veteran, was to haul per
sons who had died in camp or at the
county home to town and bury them.
He brought the dead body of a woman
hert once and, being in need of money,
sold it to medical students at the old
Charlotte Medical College for $12. He
put the pine coffin in for good measure.
The policemen about the station who
were on the job in Brown's day will
tell you that he was the slickest thief
in the game. He was' wiser than most
of the bad men, and he was harder to
catch. That's the reason he got away
with a lot of things that' he did- !
"If I'd got caught every time I stole
anything, I never woulder got off de
chaingang," he explained.
Once Brown was caught with 12
bolts of silk valued at $600. In court,
he swore and got by with it, that he
won the silks in a gambling game
with unknown parties in High Point.
He had sold them here, to another
negro and tti? cops had arrested that
negro. When Brown came clear, the
court returned the silks to him, and
he sold them over again. He con
fessed many years later that they
came from a local department store
during stock-taking season and he had
pulled the marks off, making identifi
cation impossible.
TOOK 32 HATS.
He walked into Ed Mellon's in broad
daylight once and walked out with 32
panama hats while clerks were busily
engaged waiting on customers. He
sold hats all over town. . In fact, it
looked as if half the negro population
were wearing panama hats. But It
took months to trace the theft down to
"Misch."
On another occasion, he broke into
the old Chambers- Moody Company and
stole over $700 in cash and checks.
A rat terrier dog was kept in the
store to warn a sleeper upstairs should
burglars break in. Brown wrung the
dog's neck, made his haul and was a
free man for 18 months. Detective
Jim Johnson had a dull day and picked
Brown up on suspicion. He had failed
to take an l$-months-old check from
his poqket and Detecitye Johnson
thereby solced the mystery ofr the
Chambers-Moody robbery. "Misch" re
visited Captain Little's camp for a stay
of two j'ears.
Brown worked as a youth for the
family of the late W. W. Ward- This
family practically raised him, he said.
In his eagerness to see a circus unload
one day when he was about 10 years
old. his head came into collission with
a freight engine. The railroad was
sued and Brown got $3,000.
GOT $3,000 DAMAGES.
This money with interest was turned
over to him when he reached 21. It
took him three years to spend it, and
he remembered that his last nlckle
went for a lunch In an East Trade
street restaurant. But he lived high
those three years, visiting all the big
cities, drinking good liquor and riding
within, rather than underneath, railway
"Misch" was so -successful in nia
chosen profession that he never found
i tnecessary to obtain a job, which is
aaying a good deal for bad men
around this town. He
Money
In
this
Bank
is in active use earning interest for you and making the Nation
prosperous.
It is at . your command whenever you want it and absolutely
protected from burglary, theft or fire.
Hoarding money keeping it in a stocking or safe exposes it to
the danger of loss besides it is earning nothing for you and ing
no good for the community. - v -
Every dollar deposited in the
COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK
is insured against loss, may be withdrawn whenever wanted, and
helps to build up this city and the nation.
4 per cent paid on Savings accounts and Certificates of Deposit.
Commercial National Bank
Corner Tryon and Fourth Sts.
Capital, Surplus, etc., Over a Million Dollars.
ed charges that Mrs. Tyler and Clarke
were arrested here in 1919 on a disor
derly charge.
Developments in the investigation of
the klan continued with kaleidoscopic
charges tolday.
United States District Attorney Hoop
er Alexander ruled that the article
written by Carl F. Hutcheson, local
attorney and member of the city board
of education In todav's issue of the
Searchlight, alleged organ of the klan,
was not violative of any federal law.
W. F. Brandt, local attorney asked
for a ruling on the article), He de
clared it was treasonable, in that it
"would Incite war against Catholics."
ENGLAND IS HIT
BY MOTOR FEVER
American Flivvers Becom
ing Kingpin of the Roads;
Other Cheap Cars .
By EARLE C. REEVES.
International ' ews Service Staff
Correspondent.
London, Sept. 24. Despite the high
price of motor cars and the compara
tively higher price of "petrol'' England
is motoring.
Henry Ford has something to do with
it. Sundry long headed manufacturers
who have tried to compete with Ford
have evolved little two-cylinder, air
cooled engines, around which they have
built what looks more or less like an
automobile.
The slump in trade, hard times
knocked the bottom from, the automo
bile business. The showrooms of large
cars are not crowded and have not
been all Summer.
Cars of standard five passenger size
or bigger are not for ordinary individ
uals in this country. The cheapest sell
for prices seldom under $2,500. The
cheapest two Beaters of what might be
termed standard size and construction
cost $2,000.
The motorcycle and side car ranges
from $480 1o $900. Motoring isn't ,for
the skilled mechanic in thls country
as it is in the States. Mr. Ford's well
known and much joshed prdduct sells
for $900 stripped
- i i i i n
while a more placid tempered inaivia- aone Dy Hannahs "7 the eve lids
uni imrui iroin troicrht nn the identical water anu iaji6 "
Some people prefer to. use xm,
of this treatment and get thme ef
feet from ice water, but whichever
Kmperature is the most efreshipg r will
h the one vou should decide , upon,
nothe help will be to have your
reading light fall over .the left shoul
der and do not sleep in any position
where the light from a window will
fall directly on the eyes c.on.?u
doctor about the strength of the-' solu
tion, which will be used as a douche
for the eyes.
Lena If a gentleman asks you for a
dance after your card has been filled
n ir,Mi or verv sorry, due
uul, linn - 1 -,1 V Wu
perhaps another time you1 will be able
to have a dance with him.
All inquiries addressed to Miss Forbes
in care of the "Beauty Chats" depart
ment will be answered in these columns
in their turn. This .requires consid
erable time, however, owing to the
great number received. So if a per
sonal or quicker reply is desired, a
stamped and self-addressed envelope
The Editor.
ual will gain weight on the identical
amount of food.
If, after you have found out that you
should eat about 2000 calories of food &
day, and if after testing this you still
find you gain you must reduce the
amount below 2.000. You cannot pos
sibly starve while your body has fat
to consume. You cannot injure your
digestion or health as long as you eat
sanely, unless you deliberately starve
yourself.
Today I will mention a few of the
most fattening foods, things which the
stout woman should avoid eating. Yet
I must warn her that it will do her
little good to refuse potatoes if she
more than makes up for this sacrifice
by taking a second helping of dessefrt.
Foods for the fat woman to avoid
include practically all meats except
lean rare beef. She may have fowl
and all fish except salmon.
She may eat most vegetables but 'not
white or sweet potatoes nor baked
beans.
She may not eat any candy nor
sweats at all. nor butter, sugar, milk,
cream nor cheese, except the cottage
HEAR BURGLARS
, AT. DUKE fioi
MORRISON DENOUNCES
MOVE BYMINEOWNERS
Washington, Sept. 24. Efforts of
mine owners to secure a court in
junction against further attempts by
unions to organize the Mingo counyt
coal fields, were assailed tonight by
Secretary Frank Morrison, of the
American Federation of Labor.
Charging that the mine owners are
now turning to an injunction judge to
aid them in their peonage purposes,
Morrison declared an injunction would
accomplish nothing toward restoring
pace in the mine war district.
"The West Virginia situation," Mor
rison said, "cannot be cleared up by
an injunction any more"than it can be
by gunmen andthuggers. The only
remedy is the widest publicity."
BRYAN SETS STYLE IN
BETWEEN SEASON HAT
205 pounds sterling. For there's an
epidemic of them on the roads- With
dad astride the saddle ;he boy in a
seat behind and mother and daughter
comfortably packed into a fairly roomy
side car. many a holiday trip has been
taken this Summer.
ENGLAND MOTOR MAD
Father prefers the motor cycle and
side car combination because with it he
gets about sixty miles to his 65 cent
gallon of gas. It isn't the cost, it's the
upkeep, that causes many a family
which in the States would own a good
car to stick to the "squab basket."
Tfae fnakers of cheap cars have im
proved on their models in the last
year. At home the cheap car means
Henr5 naturally. But the Ford is a
lord of the road compared' with British
cheap cars.
Here the phrase may mean four by
Here the phrase may mean four bi
cycle wheels, set narrow guage cov
ered by a tub like body, under which
chugs a very cheap motorcycle engine
price $400. It seats one person or
a rare exception, two, one behind the
Washington, Sept. 24. William Jen
nings Bryan, here to call on President
Harding, has a hat that 'joins Summer
into Autumn.
It "has a felt brim and a straw
crown.
"A sort of an equinoxial hat," Bryan
remarked.
SMALL BOAT CUT
IN TWO BY CARONIA
New York. Sejt. 24. Three men Were
believed to have been drowned this af
ternoon when the small auxiliary cruis
er, John Hancock, was rammed and
sank by the Cunard liner Caronia, out
bound, near Staten Island.
The "schooner, struck amidships,
broke in three pieces, and sang immediately.
PREMIER BRIAND TO
ATTEND CONFERENCE
"Paris. Rpnt 9A. PfPmior Pn'on ir,r
But a lot of people are finding then Ambassador Jusserand will attend the
wasnington disarmament conference,
it was learned tonight. Briajid will stay
enly a short time, however, returning
as soon as possible to France to avoid
compromising domestic affairs.
MAN BRUISED WHEN
HIT BY AUTOMOBILE
Charles Darnell, a young white nian,
sustained severe bruises about the
head and body when knocked down by
an automobile driven by R. P. Steffy
near the 1.000 block on South Mint
street shortly before 12 o'clock laat
night. At St. Peter's hospital it was
not thought his injuries are serious.
He was conscious.
Information obtained by a police in
vestigation indicated that Mr. Darnell
had started across the street to, catch
an approaching street ear. Upon pee
ing the approaching automobile he
turned back towards the curbing. Mr.
Steffy had directed his machine to
wards the curb to dodge the man and
the change of direction placed him in
front of the car.
Tlje police considered the accident
unavoidable as Mr. Steffy was drivin?!
at a moderate, rate of speed. The au
tomobile was going south on Mint while
the street car was approaching froi
the opposite direction.
NEW AND GRAVE
(Continued from Fa ere One.)
Police Answer Two Call
from Watchman Report
ing Attempt to Rob Kousc
" Two reports of attempts u,
ize the new home of James i; if'
in Myers Park were made to ih,'. J"
last night "by the night wat-:nnyr 5
the property. Officers respond.'
searched the house twice, ;u,fi ,
arrested two white men. H. -;. s
and B. Swearingen, who v..,e fQ i
loitering near the grounds.
The night watchman tekph nn(j '
lice headquarters about 10 ociork ,;'
the house had been entererl. qV
accompanied Deputy Sheriff . p'w
perman to the home and sarchti .
premises. Shortly after tkjr ret ' '
to the city neighbors telephony tv '
two shots had been fired from the Dr
house.
Another trip was made i, rPS
to this call. It devolopw that f
watchman had fired twioe a? tv0 v
ures observed running fr(,m fl
grounds. oiarnes aim fcwearWf
were found near the ground, both !.!
rtr the influence of whiskey. th
lice reported. They were confined?
the city jau awoiuus j.muit-r invest',
tion. - . . ' .
Mr. Duke, although in the cltv
not residing m "ume as consM
contractors. j. vkhuiuhui uas oeen.
tinncri there at nignt to nrntan .'I
nishings in the house and keep ioid
irom '.ne Biuuuua. ,
The property is outside the city
its ana me luutti pun5 uuve not i
n4t.. in ansnror n call nri.i... X
in accompanied by a county nfv mi
Depujy snerin reopeimau wasathei1
quarters at wie nue auu ne went
the omcers.
GOVERNOR WILL
(Continued From Ykzo On,,,
mounted behind their machines, had
poured several volleys into the gun
men. !
An interview wkh Arthur Griffiths,
Sinn Fein minister, clearly outlined the?
Irish viewpoint on the conference prob
lem. Griffiths declared Ireland insists
upon its right to independence but that
it does not desire that England recog
nize it as a republic before the peace
parley.
Secretary Churchill's speeh at Dublin
relieved rumors of a dual monarchy in
the United Kingdom with a king for
Ireland. It had alread been proposed
that one of King George's .. sons be
placed upon the Irish throne.
HARMNGS STAY AT HOME.
Washington, SejpU ,24. President
Harding is spending the week-end in
"Washington for the first time in several
weeks. At the White House, it was
said he plans to stick to the job here
until October 19, when he speaks at
William and Mary College, Williams
burg, Va. '
RIOTING IS SUPPRESSED.
Belfast, Sept. 25. Crown forces
gained control of the situation shortly
before midnight after fierce rioting be
tween Catholic and Protestant mogs had
lasted throughout the day.
Machine gun volleys, poured down
the streets in the battle area, sent both
factions scurrying for cover and defi
nitely quelled the fighting; although
here and there a sniper continued to
fire occasionally until after midnight.
Early todav everything was quiet.
The death rqll in Saturday's fighting
was two, with four wounded.
speaking, and although very t
to physical condition, spoke -with
old time power and fire. It was p
of the most powerful appeals made it
this famous case. It did not carry &
invective and denunciatory eloqwntt
of Judge Frank Carter on the first da
of the heading, but 3 a plea for tt
4ife of the prisoner on the groat;
that every act in connection with &.
murder lacked evidence of deferi
tion and premediation it was a pn
erful appeal back up with soirj
reasoning and logic.
The former Governor called attemh
the fact that this murder was crrj
mitted in the open, and that no eftc-
was made to conceal1 it. That, in itselif
was evidence of the lack of premeditatif
and deliberation. The prosecution
self, Governor Craig pointed out, '
driven to jhis conclusion, and km
that it could not account for sjr
an act by a sane man unless it co
supply the motive for the killing i
supplied this motive through the Re
Livingston Mays, who claimed to hav
heard Monriish with his dying bm .
whisper the word "Moonshiners," ther
by connecting Harris with the tip
Monnish was supposed to have be'
making against the Illicit whiskey mai
era in the RIdgecrest section of &
mountains. It was Mays who suppl,
the evidence of deliberation and pp
meditation, when he stooped over tr
prisoner in the back seat of the trail -which
was carrying him to Asheville i
surrender to the authorities, and claia
that Harris told him that he did rt
take a drink of whiskey before t
murder because he wanted to he '
his right mind" for an act of t't
kind: ' -;" ; r -
There Is no dispute said Goerr
Craig,, about the, testimpny of anyri
hess save Mays and it was Mays a
supplied the testimony of premefo
tion and deliberation.
' Governor Craig thought that I'l,
evidence was as unreliable and 5
unworthy as the life'behind it, Ha' T
life should be spared. He closed k
an effective description of the heei ,
of Harris and declared that the cr
of the blood was in Harris, that he r
suffering from some sins of his fi'M
BECK ACCEPTS PLACE.
Washington, Sept. 24. James M.
Beck, solicitor general of the United
States, today accepted a place on ,t?ie
national executive committee of the
Belleau Woods Memorial. Association.
AVIATOR FALLS IN
LEAP FROM PLAM
i
Oklahoma City, Okla., Sept- 24. Li '
tenant Arthur Emerson, head of i
"flying circus," was dead tonight
cause he missed a rope ladder vfc
leaping from one airplane to another r
mid-air. He fell from a height of .
feet and was instantly killed.
. ,z ; "lomer. ur it may oe a xnree-wneeier,
fu!ir ln anY h.ne -other tn two seats and dinkey seat behind. Pri-
the one he chose early in life,
The cops kept getting "Misch
rrequently that they considered that
day on which they failed to arrest
him a "perfect day." Every effort .was
made to get him on the chaingang for
life, satisfied that this plan alone
would solve half the town's big rob
beries and relieve the law of much
burden and expense.
WAS MADE JANITOR.
Former Police Chief Horace Moore
reformed "Misch." The last time he
came into court, the ex-chief called
him aside, told him that he was so
darned crooked that he could not get
worse; consequently, he considered it
possible that he might grow better. He
offered him a job as police janitor, a
position which would keep him con
stantly, under the eyes of the police
and make a long haul unnecessary
15 i eJenl il should again fall to
lock up mcers to brlnS him to the
30t- "lr on the force believed
that Misch" would reform. He ad
mits himself that the morning he re
ported for work he carried in two
pockets a load of fountain pens. He
fought the battle of his life that first
morning on the job, endeavoring to
decide whether to give up the fasci
nating, profitable profession of bur
glarizing and sneak-thieving and settio
down and live the cut-ad-dried life
of a law-abiding citizen, or vice
versa. ,
When he went home to dinner he
emptied his final collection of booty
in a sewer and has followed the
straight and narrow, path since. He
has proved of Inestimable value to thl
policemen. He knows every negro crook
SmSS? KnTS WuMch croc r dW aCp0ark
ticular job by the manner in which
the job was performed and knows the
hang-out of many of the crooks.
DEATHS FUNERALS
CHARLES LEE KINNEY.
Charles Lee Kinney, jr., five-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kinney, of 1907
Park Drive, died last midnight after an
illness of about 10 days with diphtheria.
Funeral services had not been complet
ed early this morning but services prob
ably .will be conducted at the residence
Monday. The parents and two brothers
and sisters survive-
J ces vary, but are usually around $1,000
so: mere are cnmumtive cars witn ooaies
built on racing lines, with a long and
impressive hood which houses merely
the passenger's feet, the motive power
coming from a motorcycle engine at the
rear.
Others, some having excellent body
work, glistening bonnets and looking
altogether like arlstrocrats are pro
pelled by a good two-cylinder motor
cycle engine which occupies a small
portion of the space ostensibly reserved
for engine power. These Will set you
back about $1,400.
Like the American flivver, however,
these near-cars all go. And English
roads are built for light cars, being
for the most part better than we can
display at home. The roads are full of
them. They solve the problem of com
paratively cheap initial outlay and
cheap operation.
TRINITY PARK WILL
GET GOOD COACHING
Durham, Sept. 24. Members of
Trinity Park School teams will thi3
year receive training equal to that giv
en freshmen in institutions where the
one-year rule is in effect. This is as
sured by the institution of a coaching
staff under the general supervision of
the Trinity College coaching staff. This
new system is expected to turn out
some expert players for the varsities of
Trinity. Located in the same campus
and closely associated with Trinitv
College,, some of the star Methodist
players of the past have come from
the Park School.
The new system is instituted with
Watts Norton and E. K. Powe, former
University of Virginia players, as foot
ball coaches. Norton is in charge ct
the backfleld while Powe is whipping
the line in form. ,
S. T. Carson, captain of last year's
Trinity baseball varsity, has ,been se
cured to coach this sport in the Spring.
Carson is ,now playing with Tarboro
in the Virginia League.
In a few weeks, an experienced man
will be secured to coach the basket
ball team.
MEXICAN OIL DECISION.
Mexico City, Sept. 24. The Supreme
Court hag definitely ruled thar" article
27 of the Constitution,, against which
American, oil interests strongly protest
ed, is lion-restrictive. The text of the
court decision wa smade public today.
ANOTHER BIG BEDROOM
NITURE VALUE
FUR
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$1 75.00
This Pretty Four Piece Ivory Suite Is
Only . ' . ' . . .
Suite has large dresser with pattern mirror, roomy chifforet,
bow-foot bed and triplemirror dressing table.
This would be just the suite for the guest 'room or the young
lady s room.
And can be had for $25.00 cash and $25.00 per month.
W. T. McCO Y & COMRA N Y
Get It at McCoy's.