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STORY OF THE SORROWING MOTHER
BY STEVE HANNIGAN
NEA Service Staff Writer.
Brooklyn. X. Y.. Dec. 1. —"Td have choked him to death then
Had I ever thought he would grow up to be a gunman,” wailed Mrs.
Dora Diamond as she pointed to a babv pict-ure of her son, Morris
Barlow Diamond, taken when he was three months old.
Morris, 2t, and his brother, Joseph, 21, are in jail, charged with
murder in-connection with the shooting to death of two bank mes
sengers and escaping with $43,000.
Six other suspects have been taken by the police who expect to
round up a big gang.
Mrs. Diamond sobbed hysterically, beating her head with her
closed fists, her black hair streaked with silver, turning grayer with
grief as one looked on. •
‘They were both such fine boys,” she sobbed.. “Never a night
pas; ed but Morris would come and tuck the covers around me as I
lay in bed. And how Joseph used to smother me with his kisses!
These boys couldn’t liaye taken another man’s life.”
Solemnly, with perfect intonation she unraveled incidents of
their childhood climaxing them in a picture of her sons behind pris
on bars. Then she broke down.
“Where is my daddy?” innocently asks five year old David, moth
erless son of Morris.
But none will tell him the truth.
David is a bright little chap with blue eyes and blonde hair. He
was well-mannered and noiseless as he played with his toys.
“Morris was just like that when he was his age.” said David’s
grandmother. “The son is a replica of his father—can you imagine
a s\yeet boy like that growing to be a killer?”
There are four sisters in the Diamond family. Two of them are
strikingly pretty. <
"Three of us had to resign our positions as soon as our brothers
WINSTON-SALEM LEADS
In Number of Permits Issued for New
Buildings and Repairs.
Richmond. Ya.. Dee. I.—Winston-Sa
lem was leading all North Carolina cit
ies in the number of permits issued for
new building and repairs to old buildings
during the month of October, according
to the monthly report of the Federal
Reserve Rank of Richmond of activities
in the Fifth Federal Reserve District. In
the value of new construction, however.
Gieeasboro was leading with a total ex
penditure during the month of $.‘178,210.
The number of permits issued for new
construction in Winston-Salem was 74
and those for repairs, 110.
The value of Winston-Salem’s new ac
tivities ran second to Greensboro, the
amount spent being $260.83."!. The val-
REV. S. M. DAVIS DEAD
IN BED AT CAROLEEN
Saintly “Circuit Rider” Was Beloved
By All and Thousands Hnexv Him.
Shelby, Dec*. 1. —lfifcy. JS- _M, Davis,
pioneer Methodist preacher. Widely
known religious writer and one of the
few remaining historic "circuit riders”
of the state, was found dead in his bed
this morning at the home of his niece in
Caroleen. The funeral services will be
conducted tomorrow afternoon at
h’\aron Methodist church, this county,
by Ilev. Z. Paris anti Rev. Mr. Horn
buckle, of Caroleen.
Rev. Mr. Davis, wlio was 70 years
of age. became a circuit rider in the
combined North and South Carolina
conference something over a half cen
tury ago. His first charge, which he
served for six years, was the Darling
ton circuit composed of 15 churches.
Later lie served many charges in the
North Carolina conference and later
still in the Western North Carolina con
ference.
Nineteen years ago he-was forced td
retire from the active ministry, but he
never ceased the work to which he de
votfd his life. His sermoneftes and well
written religious articles have appeared
regularly in many papers throughout
the state.
' Stanly Man Killed in Auto Wreck.
Albemarle Press.
Mr: Jack Russell, well-known Stanly
county citizen, was killed Saturday af
ternoon as a result of an automobile-ac
cident on the Swift Island bridge high
way. the accident having been about 8 :30
o’clock, his death following in about two
hours.
Mr. Russell and hie son. Dewey, were
going home from Albemarle and stop
ped their car, a Ford, on the right,.side
of the road. Mr. A. C. Parker, of Al
bemarle. was coming toward Albemarle
and stopped opposite to render assistance
to Mr. Russell, whose car w|s in trouble,
to Mr. Russell, whose car was in trou
ble. After the repair had been made
Mr. Russell crossed the road to look at
Mr. Parker’s new car. As he turned to
re-cross the road to his own car a
third car approached, one driven vy Mr.
L. A. McFarlan, of Gastonia, and Mr.
Russell did not appear to see the car
or hear the warning signal.
Mr. McFarlan. who was accompanied
by his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Dela
hunt. of Gastonia, in order to keep from
hitting Mr. Russell deliberately turned
to the right and plunged into Mr. Rus
sell's car, which collision resulted in Mr.
McFarlan’s car turning over and in do
ing so it pinned Mr. Russell to the
ground and injured him so severely that
lie died two hours later in the office of
Dr. J. N. Anderson, where he was taken
for treatment. Mr. Russell’s hip was
completely crushed.
Drunks Cause Some Trouble to Drivers.
Greensboro News.
"The only trouble I had in getting
back from Chapel Hill,” said a late
arrival last night,” was that caused by
drunks' between Chapel Hill and Hills
boro.”
This man, who reached Greensboro
after 12 o’clock, stated that it took him
four hours to drive the short distance
from Chapel Hill to Hillsboro. And it
wasn’t the road’s fault, he added. The
road was slick but not dangerous.
But in the line of cars were about a
half dozen No sooner
would passengers in cars behind them
help these drunk drivers get their cars
out of a ditch than back they would go.
Each time the whole line woulld be
hloked-
Those who came by Durham were in
lH*t.t»*r luck. The drunks were not so
much in the way.
ue of repair work at' Winston-Salem ex
ceeded that of other cities in the state,
the amount expended being $44.015.1
Asheville came second with $20,1150. »
Asheville alone of the North Carolina |
cities showed ail increase in new eon-j
struction of more than one hundred per-1
cent. October was the first month in
which Raleigh was given a place in the
tabulations of the Board.
Fenner and Beane’s Cotton Letter.
New York. Nov. 30. —Liverpool was
influenced by the publication of two
.bullish crop estimates today sufficiently
to carry prices into new high territory.
Profit taking was on a tremendous
scale.-the selling from which was for. a
time readily absorbed by buying by the
trade and Liverpool. For the first time
in many weeks there was some short
CATHOLICS AT OTEEN
. ASK FOR PROTECTION
Veterans at Oteen Hospital Fear the
Invisible Emipre.
Asheville, Dec. I.—An investigation of
religious prejudices among ex-service
men at Oteen hospital has been made by
agents of the department of justice as
a result of a recent verbal attack on
two Catholic patients by two other pa
tients claiming to be members of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, it was
learned today.
Frietz Tiedtke, of Philadelphia, and
Virgil Tibbetts, of Dallas. Ga., were the
two patients claiming to be klansmen,
and who. it is alleged, insulted and ver
bally abused the two patients who are
Catholics, the reports disclose. .
Earl T. Vensel, of Wheeling, W. Vn.,
and A. J. Scullan, of Philadelphia, are
the two men who were the parties to
which the bitter ednunciation of the
Catholic Church was directed by the two
patients, it was announced.
Tiedtke and Tibberts faced the dis
charge boards, charged with disobedience
to orders, misconduct and being drunk, as
it is alleged they were under the influ
ence of whiskey at the time they insulted
the two Catholics. Both were discharged,
as it was found that travel- would not
interfere with their health or future
treatments.
Vensel was discharged on November
12. the morning after the trouble, at his
own request. Scullan was transferred
to another ward.
letters written by Scullan to his
“Buddy,” whom he says is his brother,
in Philadelphia,, in which he expressed
fear for his life and requested that the
police be notified that the klan had
marked him, in case anything should
happen, were enclosed to Rev. Father H.
J. Gronis, of Belmont abbey, who is sta
tioned at Oteen. They were sent to
Rev. Father Gronis by Rev. Father Cor
coran, former Oteen priest, who received
them from, the national laisoi* officer,
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Colonel Jaines E. Miller, medical of
ficer in charge at Oteen, describes the
trouble as ”a tempest in a teapot.”
Scullan. is was stated, asked to be trans
ferred to another ward, as hd feared for
his safety. He was assured by Col.
Mi.ller that he would not bo molested.
Morgan Sentenced to Serve Seven Years.
Albemarle Press.
Jodi Morgan was convicted of man
slaughter and sentenced to serve npt less
than seven and not more than ten years
in the penitentiary for the killing of
Oral Honeycutt near Oakboro last Au
gust, from which verdict he appealed to
the Supreme Court. This case was
the last of importance to be heard in
Superior Court here, court ’• adjourning
Friday. *
Judge Sinclair heard the verdict Thurs
day night when the jury reported about
11 o’clock. He pronounced sentence the
next morning. The case was heard by
hundreds of interested citizens, among
whom there was much speculation as to
the outcome.
Tlie fact as reported in last week’s
Press were substantially all the material
facts brought out in the trial. It will
be remembered that after a disagreement
causing hard feeling between the men
that they met August 12 on the road
between Oakboro and Stanfield, where
an altercation took place which resulted
m Morgan’s shooting Honeycutt. The
defendant claimed ithat he shot the de
ceased in protection of his own life.
Morgan s wife and little son remained
within the railing with the prisoner
throughout, the trial. He was liberated
under -$5,000 bond pending tho outcome
of his appeal, which is returnable in
lebruary.
MORRIS DIAMOND, HELD IN MURDER CHARGE, AND
HIS FIVE-YEAR-OLD SON DAVID, WHO IS THE IMAGE
OK HIS FATHER AT THE SAME AGE.
selling noted, though it was of a timid |
character, and limited amount, yet the
fact that any amount of such selling
was going on at nil increased the de
sire to accept some profits.
A crop report by Clement. Curtis of
Chicago, estimating the crop at DJIOtL
-000 was also given as the basis for some
western selling.
Wires were received from the south
saying that December commitments had
been filled and cotton continued to point
its way here for local stock. In the
afternoon a block of about 20.000 March
was sold when that option passed
through 50. It should be remembered
that there is a big speculative long in
terest held in Liverpool as well as on
this side and should Liverpool meet our j
decline further lliquidation is- likely.
A s we advised around the opening l
we thought profits should be taken and
continue to thing some cotton can be
kept on hand, using bulges for profit
takings’.
Liverpool due 22 to 33 lower.
FENXEIt AND BEANE.
From the Outside—ssoo a Day.
Charlotte Observer.
of automobiles beating li
cense tags of other States are buying
gasoline in such amounts as to yield
North Carolina SSOO in taxes ever day (
during the present season. This, of
course, is in addition to yields from
purely domestic purchases. No more i
equitable system of taxation could have J
been devised to pay the interest on our ;
road bonds and maintain highways al- j
read built. It is nothing but just that ;
those who use the roads should pay the i
taxes. They do. Nobody else does.
It should he constantly borne in mind 1
that there is not one cent of taxes levied
on real or personal property for State!
purposes. North Carolina’s just tax
system is being incorporated into the
laws of many States. There was :i
time when North Carolina followed —
often afar off—now she leads. 1
A Remarkable Stal’dl For Gold.
One of the many remarkable stories
in The Sunday -World Magazine for
December S) is the tale of the tragedy
haunted search for gold along the tribu- j
taries of the Amazon. Dr. H. S. Dickey, !
who tells the story in his own words,
' was the leader of the little band which
defied jungle death and ancient curse
alike in their quest for the yellow metal.
Most amazing of all. they actually found
it. but were driven back by the relent
less jungle terrors. Read this fascinat- ;
ing account and tdx other interesting
stories and articles in this issue.
Most Remarkable Photo Ever Taken Inside a House of God
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The Knights of Columbus, a frater
nal and benevolent organization to
which male members pf the Roman
Catholic church, are eligible, was
founded In 1882 in New Haven, Conn.
were arrested —and Jane had to stop attending school,” said Sally,
the eldest.
Yes, but my firm wrote and told me they did not believe my
brothers guilty and to came back,” broke in Elizabeth.
“People are so cruel,” commented Jane, 16, and popular in high
school.
Leona, always sickly, has been confined to her bed since the
sparkle of joy has been replaced with shadows of gloom in the Dia
mond household in rapidly growing Bensonhurst, 45 minutes from
Broadway,
“Only one month ago I borrowed SISOO from the YCest End
Bank,” said Mrs. Diamond.
Messengers of this bank, just a stone’s throw from the Dia
mond home, were those robbed and killed.
“For 11 years we have lived here—and now we are disgraced,
talked about and curiously gazed upon—and all for something I
know my boys couldn’t have done,” said Mrs. Diamond.
She is 52 years old and has been a widow and head of her family
for two years. ' • ,
Morris, handsome and athletic, was a football star in high
school.
Cups and trophies*Morris won as a fancy ballroom dancer adorn
the mantle in the comfortably furnished and happy home until mis
fortune wrought havoc.
“A man who has any knowledge of a murder, or is suspected of
it iii New Fork, has two paths to follow. He can take his chance
with the electric chair —or —“squeal. ’ be called a ‘rat’ and be murder
ed when he is set free. It’s death in any case,” mused Morris, the
eldest of the brothers.
“But I think I’d rather have little Davey grow up to know that
his dad was murdered by a revengeful gangster’s gun than to have
him learn that I was electrocuted.”
Joseph, tall, dark and 21, was silent.
Timely Definition.
“An optimist,” observes an ex
change, “is one who believes the- dec
orators when they tell him they’ll
paint and repaper his house in two
weeks.”
Nature’s Universal Law.
The law of Nature is: Do'the thing
and you shall have the power, but
they that do not do the thing have
not the power. Everywhere and al
ways this law i£ sublime. —Emerson.
Monday, 3.
DINNER STORIES
“‘My good man. you should begin
the bottom and work up." ' *
““It can't be done i n my ]j n „ T ...
grave digger." 1 a
! Wanted:. A young man to undert ~
the sale of new patent mediem.- Ti
advertiser guarantees that v o,j
profitable to the undertaker.
| Little Willie was enjoying a piid
Ins kittens on the street W 1 \ "
man passing by asked him the
his kittens.
1 ‘“.Tee and Jerry." was the p r( •
I ply.
I "Why not call them Cook and ivaiv
the man then asked.
‘“Go on. man." Willie aid. "the > ,
no pole cats.'’
Definite.
Old Colored Mammy: "Ah v n
ticket so“ Florence."
Ticket, Agent: . (after ten minuter ~f
weary searching through railroad
‘“Where is Florence?"
| Old Colored Mammy: "Settin’ (VP ,.
I dar on de bench 1”
i
j Representative Harry R q, W(
[Democrat, of Missori says:
j “There are always two q,h- t..
question. I did not believe that uir •
{recently. The utilities committee <( f :l '
[thrifty town in my Slate norniiucd t ),,.
street, car company to raire the fart
[that five public would get four ti.-k.-t-
I instead of six for 25 cents. Thi cans. 1
'a great storm of protest- An ipdignaie
citizen of the community met an oi]
Kcotchman on the street and tried
get him exorcised on the subject, hut
failed.
“‘Well what do yon think of it':'
said.
‘“Of what?’ asked the Scotchman.
‘“Why the utilities committed allow
ing the roads to collect 25 cents f„ r
four tickets instead of six?’
“‘Fine. I like that,’ was the reply.
“ ‘Like it. why?’
“‘Because 1 walk till the time, and
now I can save 25 cents by four tripl
-of six.’ "
Neighbor Women : So your mother
wants to borrow my clothes.wringer.
does she?
Tenement Child: Yes, “cause hruv-r
put Kitty’s tail in it "n spoiled it all to
pieces, “n muvver says you're a horrid
old woman if you don’t; but don't tel]
her I said so. “n 1 think you are any
way. so there —where’s your wringer?
A little boy was eating persimmons
in school. ‘‘Johnny.” said the teacher,
"are you whistling?"
"Whithlin’. hell.” said the youngster:
"I think I’m noithened.”
Useless
‘‘Now. Mary.” said the teacher, “would
it be proper to say ‘You can't learn me
nothing'?’’
•’Ye'm. it would.” replied Mary.
“Oh!’’ exclaimed the amazed teacher,
“perhaps you will tell ine why!'
“ ’Cause you can’t!”
Long Winded
After-dinner Speaker: "Allow me be
fore closing to repeat the words of the
immortal Webster —”
Bored Banqueter: "Great Scott! In
going through the distionary."
Enlightening.
Mrs. Ayres: “Ellen, how d.»es it hap
pen that you never saw linger bowls
before? Didn’t they use them where
you worked last?”
Ellen: "No. mum. They mostly
washed theinselves afore they came to
the table.”
Exactly.
“Now. children.” said the teacher, "I
am going to tell you about the hippo
potamus, but you will have no idea what
it is like, unless you pay strict .atten
tion and look at me!"
With Reservations.
While a revivalist was holding meet
ings in a certain remote town a convert
full of zeal offered himself for service.
"Parson.” he declared, "1 am ready
to do anything the Lord asks of me—>■»
, long as its honr'ble!”
"Don’t you find it hard these days
meet expenses?”
’ “I should say not! Why, man ah - ''''*
I meet expenses tit every turn.
\ -
Mistress: "Mary, your ..voting man
has such an air of braggadoci < ale";
him.”
■ Mary : “Yis. pore lad. he worritk* m
a livery stable.”
Full Dress,
A couple who desired to atfrad an
amateur theatrical left their six-yeat-*- 1,
son with some neighbors. The w man.
thinking to make a nice lemnt! a
the little boy's mother, said:
“Your mother certainly looked '■'[
Slip was all dressed up. wa*n f Tm
"Yfs'm.” replied the hoy. '''
on ever’thing she got for <
’ceptin’ her percolator."
Employer: “You were d!«eh,;in:'
week. What do you want now:
McGrath: “Didn't the envelope-' r
turn in five day.*'"
The Doughboy’s Swfctli-ar
know.-Jimmie, I think it s wmid*"
popular you are! Why. yon re
terms with every one «•:
the City Temple.
Buy Christmas SeaN
No tuberculosis in .\or'i
1936. Let's finish . the j<.h >' j
done in ten years. Let st
next ten. -
There were 4.WKI- Tent h
eulosis in 1913: them
!«22* ' ~ ~,f
Tuberculosis cost the -p* m 1 , , s .
Carolina one hundred nn 1
1913; it cost fifty million
Fifty million saved m w pght
losing fifty million tight!
is everybody's fight. Lulm - .
(Buy a bond or seals. /" xbursday.
[canvassers call Wedne»da.
Oyster culture represents
t valuable fishery in t!lf ' “‘A
lit employs more than c aboUt .<H
drawing wages aggrega ” i s a nd ,»P*
• 000.000 a year, and m
paratus appraised at
' 7Z, required t 0
Twenty-eight <tays «
hatch the eggs of a turn}.,