North Carolina Newspapers

DANBURY REPORTER Volume LI. MVKINLEY REID KILLED INSTANTLY, Young Soil of Henry Ileid \\lule Tossuni Hunting Falls From Tret' and Hreaks His Nock, j William McKinley Reid, years old ninl son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry ! 11. Heiil. formerly of Stokes county, fill from a tree Saturday night while 'possum hunting and broke his neck, dying almost instantly. | The accident occurred in the woods not far from the present home of, hhi parents in Forsyth county, where j they have resided since leaving j Stokes two years since. Ac.ording to the statement of the | young men who were hunting with young Reid the dogs had treed a , 'possum and he climbed the tree aft *r it when by some means he slipped or a limb broke and he fell to the , ground. Mr. 111-id, who is survived by his ; parents and several brothers and sisters, had a host of friends in Stokes who are grieved to hear of his untimely death. He was un married and was an industrious and popular young man. Burial services were htdd at St. Mark's church comet Pry in Forsyth county Sunday and a large number of sorrowing friends and relative.* were in attendance. APPROVAL FOR SECRET BALLOT Clarence I'o. 1 Declares 'Men Will Not Iltiy Votes They Can Not See' Delivered. Shelby, Nov. 11. Max Gardner was being repaid in a manner today for the courage of ~peaking his con vi-tions regarding a secret ballot in his now noted Arnistice day address at (ireellsboro. Heaped upon the desk in his law l v ofli.c when he returned here today wen laO or more letters and tele grains congratulating hint upon his ;;tand regarding the Australian bal lot, and they came, and are still coming by every mail, from all sec tions of the state and all walks >n life, statesmen, editors, women club leaders, ministers, business men, party leaders, and just those wh i vote, but wish to vote right. It is perhaps the greatest ava lanche of congratulations ever heap ed upon an orator in thi# state re garding any issue that was not at the time up before the favor of the pe ople. As he goes through the hundreds of messages praising his open stand I'll a se ret ballot, Gardner appar ently cherishes three above all oth ers. They are from Mrs. I'hil Mc- Mahon. president of the North Caro lina League of Women Voters; Arclii" bald Johnson, of Charity and Chil dren, and Clarence I'oe, editor of Tile Progressive Farmer. A paragraph from Poe's letter is to the point: j "Congratulations on your declara- tion for a secret ballot—-men will not buy votes when they cannot see the,.i delivered." BIG MINING TRACT IN N. C. IS SOLI) New Jersey Capitalists Buy 10,0(10 Acres in Western Counties. Johnson City, Tenn., Nov. 1.1. Announcement has been made here of the purchase by Herbert Marge ruin of Trenton, N. J., of the plants of the Krwin Feldspar company and 10,000 acres of mining lands in Mitchell, Avery and Yancey counties. North Carolina. The deal is said to have involved nearly a million dol lars. The plants produce feldspar for pottery and glass making, and the new owners have indicated opera tions will be greatly extended. State School Nurse Here This Week Miss Cora Beam, State school nurse, is in Stokes this week exam ining the school children, and was with the Danbury school yesterday. STOKES MEN HELI) FOR COURT: ! __ ! Jim Smith, Jim Mabe and Orange Sawyer dive Bond*' For Their Appearance At Federal Court. ! Appearing in Commissioner N. A. Martin's court here last week i re Jim Smith, Jim Mabe and Orange Sawyer, all of Peters 'Voe'c tov.'n- Iship, and all charged with violating the prohibition laws. Thi three de ' fondants were each bound over r, !the December term of Federal court j in Greensboro ir. i onds of >\"ui •;>■ 1,. The men were arrested by the De puty Marshall C. C. Hryant. assisted by Prohibition Agent P. 1.. FKnchum. j j Smith is charged with retailing j and Sheriff J. F. Dunhp and oficerj P. L. Flinchum a*o the prosecuting witnesses. W. R. Stovatl signed I Smith's bond. The warrant ngu'nr-t Mabe was sworn out when eui'ii tent for a dis tillery was fo riit on 'lis j lace some time since. Two gallons of i q'n r was found on Sawyer's pi• • • *ii- • and lv.» h" is being held for u.ur.t on the charge of having liquor iti his possession. Kinjr News And Personal Items Ki!;tr. Nov. !•!. Mr. Thuodoiv} Newsiim has ju.-t returned from an extended trip through w.-stern North Carolina and Tennessee. Aitual w >rk has been eoinnin.'ed on a new home for Mr. I It. New s-ami south of town. The girls team of the King high school deflated the I'ilot Mountain ■ehool in a game of basket ball plav ed here Friday. The final s-ore stood fifteen to six. Mr. Al Vest, of Moore county, and formerly of King, is spending a few days with relatives and friends her.'. Rev. Paul Herman Newsum. of this place, tilled his regular appoint ment at Mount Airy Sunday. Horn unto Mr. and Mrs. Auburn Newsum, who reside just west of town, a line boy. Rev. Jasper Preston, of Stokes dale, preached an interesting sermon at the Christian church here yester day. Mr. and Mrs. James I.ove, Jr., of Winston-Salem, spent Sunday with Mr. Love' • mother on Pulliani St. Rev. Joseph Hall, of Westficld, j tilled his regular appointment at the Baptist church here yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. White, who reside on west Main street, are the glad recipients of a fine son. A hard fought game of basket ball war. played here Saturday between the King high school and Pinnacle highs, resulting in a score* of ten to nine in favor of the visiting team. Miss Cathryn Neal, of Portland, Oregon, is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. Smith and the Misses Tillotson on east Main street. I _ _ Come Across For The Orphans i ; The publicity committtee of tile- North Carolina Orphan association has mailed an appeal for a Thanks -1 giving offering for the various or phan homes to 20,000 individual citizens of the st:ite, with the sug gestion that each one forward a cash contribution, in some amount, to the orphanage of his choice on, or near. Thanksgiving day. Or. ' says the committee, the amount ' may be forwarded through church ' and Sunday school authorities and ; frat tnal orders. The pastors of ' churches, editors of newspaper* 1 pubbi officials and others are ad • modish) il to give tile widest pos ' sible publicly to the movement, " which is philanthropic in purpose and state wide in e*xte*nt. the r amount suggested is one day's in come. i Powell Lawson 111 At His Home News is received here of the illness of Ptjwell I*awson, a good citizen of 1 Danbury Route 1. Mr.* Lawson re . cently suffered a stroke of paralysis. 5 His many friends hope he will soon be out again. Danbury, N. C M Wednesday, Nov. IS, 1925 REPLIES TO THE CO-OP'S CRITICS j Rural Hall Man Says Hiasedi Propaganda II as l» e e *i Spread. I'. A. Grittin, i»f Rural Hall, issu-.'d th» following statement this week; tcgariilng the alleged attack made i on the Tobacco Co-operative associa tion by its enemies: "In order to blindfold the mem bers of the Tobacco Growers as sociation and further their specu lative interest, false prophets have | hei'n telling the members they would never get another cent, the association was broke, thieves had , gobbled up the funds, j This propaganda was spread for |no other purpose than to weaken | the confidence in the association and cause its members to break their contracts and sell their to bacco on the open market. This has caused a lot of our members to sell their crtificaU's at a sacrifice and break their contracts also. Listen to to a portion of an otlicial letter from our association: "'A payment of $1 ..V.iO.OOLi.Sfi will be made to members of the association in the old bright belt of Virginia and Mirth (Jtrolina on December IS, according to thy statement issued to the members , to-lay by Richard R. I'atterson, gen-ral manager of the associa tion. This payment r-;>r. -a-nts i final settlement on eighteen grades of the I'.fJ.f (fop of the old blight belt tobacco.' "The manufacturers, warehouse men and pjnhookers know thai the farmers have jrot to organi/ •• to jjet their price for their products. They know that if the association is successful that it will be detri ment. il to the wt rehouse business and pinhookors, and the manufac turers will have to pay more for the tobacco they get than they are now paying. Th refore. in my opinion, they set their heads to de stroy it by refusing to buy the as sociation's tobacco. This in my opinion is why we have not been paid for all the tobacco pooled. We had no money to start with and we could not sell without a buyer." NORTH CAROLINA LED SOUTH 'Tratlic Deaths Record For tin- I Past Week Was Six Dead i and Eleven Injured. Columbia, S. Nov. 1t».- North Carolina led tho South during the past week in trattle deaths, while Georgia led in injuries, tabulations compiled by the Associated I'ress re veal. There were 2* deaths and 170 injuries in the territories. Mississippi continued her "no deaths, no injuries" for the week before, Georgia was the other state reporting no deaths from trnttic a - cidents. There were no outstanding a ci dents recorded during the week in which a large number of deaths were the toll, the toll being made up from scattering mishaps. The table follows: State Deaths Injur! ' Virginia 1 l:: North Carolina •! II South Carolina . 1 .'I (ieoigia II "1 Florida I -1 Alabama ."> "_M Missiv-iopi n ti I.ottisana " S Arkansas 1 2i> I Tennessee " •_'! . Kentucky ." 11 Totals I Til . Co-0))s To Make Final Payment " j Four weeks hence the Tobacco : Growers Co-operative association expects to make final payment on j various grades of tobacco from the \ li'lM crop produced in the old belt of Virginia and North Carolina. * One and a half millions in the r "long green" is quite enough to - place the organization in mightv .'good standing with the growers in i these parts, says a Raleigh corrt'spon- Jdent. I SEVERE WINTER i BEING PREDICTED ; Herbert J. Browne, Wideh Known Ocean Meteorologist. (Jives the Reasons Ocean Currents Cause. Washington, Nov. 12. A severe winter for the United States, with! I | heavy snowfall and long continuing j .•old waves, broken by warm periods of In ief duration, is predicted by Herbert J. llrowne, widely known ocean nut enrol igist. An abnormal condition, he holds, is pointed to by many factors, in-hid ing the record-breaking cold in many sections of the country this fall, be ginning with the first snows in the northwest on September 18, four days before the official close of sum me'f. The winter, he believes, will be followed by a late spring. Primarily the predictions are based upon a study of ocean surfan* temperatures as determined by the amount of sun's heat reaching the earth. This solar radiation for more than three years has been below normal. The present weather situa tion, he says, indi-ates that the world is facing a condition which will interfere seriously with crops, the cold fall and winter in prospect being but forerunners of the next two years. A serious situation de veloping in the southern hemisphere in the crop year of I'.ijil and 11)27 and the nortivin hemisphere in 11'2T predicted. That he* is supported by a number of prominent scientists is demon strated. Mr. I'rownc contends, by tin* published views of Dr. Rutzgcr Sernander. professor of botany in th • Swedish National University at t'psala. This scientist predicts the return in Scandinavia, and at least some sections of northern Fureipe, .f the "finibul winters," that is. three winters without intervening sum mer.-, to the extent at least of a con dition disastrous to the crops of northern Furope. The views of Dr. Sernander, M . Hrowne says, are supported by two other scientists of high standing, !>:•. Helmut Gans, of Switzerland, and Dr. Rolf Nordhagan, of Norway. Dr. Gans recently quoted Mr. llrowne is mentioning him among other Euro peans, "as supporting Mr. Rrownc's forecast that the year llt2! woul I be like ISIO, "the year without a i summer," but Mr. Hrowne today , said he had only quoted Dr. Gans as supporting the views of Dr. Sernan der. As for 1 s 11}. when ice formed in i the fields as far south as Pennsyl . vania, Mr. Hrowne says 11'27, not . P.»2fJ. will see a return of approxi s niately tin -■ conditions, not nece. - . sarily with continued cold, but wi'h i sharp cold si lis and other condi tions at intervals which will mean , great damage to crops. All factors, of which tin* condition . of the sun is tlii most important, Mr. . Hrowne says, supi ort his view. Th * sun, which is described by the Smith . sotiian institute and others, as a va , ] riable star, is for seine unknown .'reason in a period if |.w activi'y , wiili d • leased radiation. What They Pay Taxes For In Davie The editor of the Davie Con: Record writes as follows: "It hurts our folks to pay tav but it would hurt tlieni worse if the\ had no taxes to pay. The taxes ke.v your schools running, keeps your roads in such shape that you can travel them in all seasons takes caie of the pen* and homeless in your county who are not able to work and gives you protection day and nigh:. What kind of a town or county would we have if the people didn't have to nay taxes. Nobody |. would live n such a county." „ Frank I 'aire Back ' From South America ii • _ c 1 Chairman Frank Page is back t from an extended visit to South t. America where he went several e weeks ago to attend a highway a conference. The chairman was met v in New York by his assistant, L. R. n Ames, who has held down the Nortii - Carolina situation all right in the ab t sence of the chief. KEEN TO PROTECT ! TOBACCO PRICES! Virginians Sign Millions Of, Pounds For 1 It'll—S. C. . t Co-ops Head,. . Raleigh, Nov. !,. 1 obacco farm ers of Vi i ginta and South ' arolina I will organize ctn larger and stiimg ler marketing .•i -ociatiens at tin- ex-' ipiration of the present contract of the tri-stato pool, if last week's events are any indication of the fu ture. More than 7,ot)0,000 pounds of dark-fired Virginia tobacco were signed up in the first month's drive of the thirteen months campaign to secure three-fourths of the entire Virginia production of dark-fire*! tobacco in an association with a con tract to extend from 1'.i27 to lllltl which calls for all the tobacco which is raised upon the farms of the land lord members. This announcement was made at the meeting of the organization *oni mittee for the new association of dark tobacco growers held in Farm villi*, Va., .November l.'l, the follow ing resolution was passed: i "Resolved that we are -at i.ified with the result of the campaign for a resign-up of contract* ir as sociation to date and with tl: report from our directors of the general condition of the affairs of :i. a ... eiatton and will go forward with re newed i ff irts to reach our goal as soon as possible." Tin- present strong posit;.' f the dark fired members of th* Tobacco Growers Co-operative Association was emphasized at this meeting of the organization committee. It w c pointed out that the cash advance* paid by the association, which opened twenty-five warehouses in Virginii , this week, are the highest ever re ceived by its members. It was also stated that the recent shortage of dark tired tobacco in Virginia will . enhance the value of the association's holdings of redried tobacco. MI'ST HA VK ASSOCIATION. The tobacco farmers of South Caro lina will be satisfied with nothing J less than a sixty per cent sign-up of the South Carolina tobacco crop from H'27 to IH3I, according to meet ings of delegated fanners from every important tobacco growing county I of that state, who named the organ ization committee for the rcsign-im campaign and took the first step in formulating the new tlx- \ear contract and organizing a driv for a majority sign-up of the to! mo i*i the South Carolina Belt, at Florence* and Marion last week. Last week's meetings were regard ed as positive evidence of the asso ciation's su cess in South Carolina and as a strong pledge •• eontidi-nee in its management. Ilusiness men and *ri on - - tative tobacco farmers who W. r* at la ( week's meetings at Marion iI I ,r -ence to consider the rt -ign ::p de dared that the co-ope rat i\• idea is stronger in South Carolina th-u ever was before, and ha.- iohh to stay. I'IGGEST RECEIPTS OF SKA SON. Receipts of the ti !*a co as sociation in the old belt of \ rginia and North Carolina dote ii last week and will reach approximately 4 Mon.nno pounds, the larg ameuni received during one xx• -k from any i' .rle belt this season. I,' ■•cut dispatches fit. the Wash • .on lu*adqiiarters of tie Nation::! 1 i tail of Farmer-. Co-operative :* M ri-.eting Association described the r i ',-en: demoralization if price-- for ii i on the auction I'loot- of th • s . of Virginia and North s Car ' a and emphasized the strong '* pe of the tobacco association pos/ *f the tobacco association, r whi. it* paying its members a !i."» e | per i ash advance upon deliver- V ' ies, h. tiounced a million and i half d'i! * cash distribution for th • I old belt 'libers oil December 1"|. I I i Redu Auto , Taxes \ T oted Today '' Washington Nov. 10.—Reduction ' of the automobile taxes and repeal of many of the special excise levies 1 was voted today by the House Ways ' and Means committee, i 1 - I \V. E. Stauber and son. Lesley, ol j Rural Hall, were visitors here today No. 2,796 j"UNCLE" SAM EAST HAS HEAVY LOSS Two ol' His Hoarders Departed . .. With Hi.- Kord Car and Oth er Property Some Time Sal i unlay Night. I!. A. Martin ami wife, claiming Anderson, S. as their home, came to hanbury three weeks since and had been hoarding at the home ol "I'ncle" Sam Hast, our well-knov.M mail carrier. On Saturday night some time after the family had r tired Martin and his wife left their room hy way of th»» window and drove away in "Uncle" Sam's best Ford ear, going to parts unknown and have not been heard of since. On Sunday morn inn when th.» couple weix- called to breakfast they failed to answer and the door to their room was forced. It was not until then that the theft was discov ered. They had used a plank on • which to slide down to the ground | from the second story window. In vestigation revealed the fact that ihey had taken Mr. Fast's overcoat, levins, bed (guilts, etc., and in ad i.n left a three-week's board hll for the two unpaid. Martin came here to work on n bridge that is being erected i>y lh# highway commission near town, and appeared to be a straight inward hard-working fellow. r rtunately Mr. Fa. : «..r» i. «1 in surance 011 his car. He ays he don't cafe anything about the tar but is anxious to see Martin on • mm. RELIEF IS MADE IN CUT OF POWER Southern Power Co. Orders I .ft up In Curtailment. Charlotte, Nov. 1.1. The Southern Power company today announced a fuither reduction of one-half day each week in the schedule of curtail ment of industrial use of electric power by its customers, leaving the curtailment now at one day and a half each week. The curtailment was reduced to two days weekly about two weeks ago. The schedule of curtailment tirst was put into effect in August, on a basis of one day each week. I.ater it was increased to two and a half days each week. The curtailment was necessitated, according to Southern Power com pany officials, by the unprecedented drought in the Piedmont and moun tain sections f the state. Today's statement says recent rains have not improved the heads in the res ervoirs but have improved the nor mal flow of the Catawba river, on which the company's hydroelectric plants are located. The curtailment program has affected several hund red textile mills and other industries in the Carolinas. Mt. Airy District Leaders Confer Tiara! Hall, Nov. 11. There was a "get together" meeting of the min isters, lay leaders and Sundaj stir ml superintendents of the Mt. Airy dis trict held at the M. I'.. chtir. h here Thursday, with Uev. Mr. Fox. pre siding elder of the di-tfii t in the ihair. Notwithstanding the d'wn ' pour of rain there was a spi.-ndiij representation present, ministers and lay leaders numbering nearly ' forty. The session was most inter esting and profitable. Inst iratioiiel and timely talks were given l y dif ferent ministers and lay leaders such as would t end to create great - 1 ()• interest in the various lines f • work of the church. Plans for 'h • ' year's w ik were mapped out. A* the t 10.-e of the se-sion a bountiful ■' dinner was served by the ladies of the chutch. Recent rains have about broken the water famine that Asheboro his experienced for several months. Since midsummer there had been restrictions on the use of water for any except the most necessary pur n poses and for several weeks train (l loads of water had been hauled from , s High Point. During the past ten ■ s days the amount hauled daily has been cut down and now the crisis has 1 practically passed and within a short >f time the use of water is expected to y. be unrestricted.