- ■'1,1 rr*r~^ v “ ^ LY GAZtTTE IN EVERY HOME xxx-^x x x DAILY GAZETT VOLIrtfct XIL wo. t4 = TWO CENTS PER COPY LEAKSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MAY, 8, 1923 HOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACT ON C. OF C. PLAN Movement started for county wide Chamber of Com merce bv appointment of 22 men PURPOSE I O BRING COUNTY TO FRONT TheJJoard of County Commis sioners .adopted the resolutions pre sented to them by the Editor of this paper. I They provide for the organize tion of a Chamber of Commerce— county wide—to promote the busi ness interest of the county and made known t(ie advantages to business to locate in Rockingham county. The Resolutions as presented and adopted follows: WHEREAS, under the good r.oad program started in Rockingham county eight years ago, and carried on continuously ever since, with about two more year’s work ahead the completion of which, will place Rockingham county near the top of Goocl Road Counties in North Caro lina, anti possibly in the entire South making a total of 60 miles oi hard surfaced roads completed, un der construction, or ordered, and •330 miles of good sand clay Oi top soil roads making all parts ol the county conveniently and safely accessible twejve months in the year and, WHEREAS, the program of the County Board of Education hat been in keeping with the Good Road: movement in building many fine and modern pchool buildings for the edu cation of the children of this county, citisens of the State can lodk for ward with confidence to this time When every child, in Rockingham county will have first class school facilities within easy reach, and that the policy of the County of educating every child, will and must be carried out, and, WHEREAS, Rockingham count;. * has made wonderful strides in re cent years both in agriculture and manufacturing and many new en terprises are locating in various towns i|i the county, and that hun dreds of opportunities are open for those who would locate where ai: endless dumber of natural advanta ges abound goo d roads, good school: and churches stand ready to wel come them, therefore be it, RESOLVED by the Board of Com _ missioners of Rockingham county that this Board respectfully invite the business men ip particular, «pnd citizens in general, and urges then-, to form a County Chamber of Com merce, or some similar orgnaization for the purpose of making known the advantages and opportunities that Rockingham county has to of fer; and for the purpose of accom plishing this end, a committee com posed of two men from each town ship in the emunty, be named by this Board, and when named they get to , gether meet and organize a county wide Chamber of Commerce. RESOLVED, that power to con tract any bills or incur any expense upon the county is withheld from said committee and their' successors, unless they first obtain definits au tborization from this Board. --O DANVILLE A WESTERN WILL M£KE NEEDED CHANGE A representative of the Banvillt & Western Ra'lroad was in town yes terday and stated that the request contained in the petition forwarded to Major Parker by the Gazette, would bo granted as soon as arrange ments can bo made, When this is a done trail-and express will come in ’ on the train due here about 8:15 in the afternoon Tins.too will relieve the congested condition of freight ■ twitching in Leaksville. ——*—6—-* Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Thompson of Halifax, Va., spent-the week end with Mrs. Thompsons’ mother, Mi*. S. L Robertson, Leaksville. FOREIGN MINISTERS . DECIDE TO URGE CHINESE TO ACTION Two foreigners, one an Am erican killed in Chinese bandit raid 19 HELD BY BANDITS MOSTLY AMERICANS (By Associated Press) Washington, May S.—The council of ministers in Pelting have decided to rhake urgent representations to the Chinese Government and to rec ommend that punitive measures be taken by it to secure the release of foreigners still held captives by Chinese bandits. Shanghai, May, 8.—Two foreign ers including one unidentified Am' eriean have been killed in a shoot ing incident to the bandit raid on the Peking Express train according to a list compiled here. Other for eigners was Joseph Rothman a Brit ishr subject. Peking, May 8.—With 19 foreign ers iqpst of them Americans still held by Chinese bandits who seized the Shanghai & Peking Express train near Suchow, Kianghu Province early Sunday morning the latest re port here at 1:35 was that a ransom of one million dollars had been de manded for the return of the captiv es. The desperadoes were also said to- be holding out for their own par don?. Unconfirmed, advices say the bandits were suing captives as shield against bullets of pursuing troop?. Eight of the 16 foreigners all men are Americans. Two others escaped and have reached Tsinanfu. Roth man was shot down at the scene of the holdup Sunday aijd an American was killed in the fighting between bandits and the pursuing troops Monday. HEAVY LOSSES IN — TRIPOLridd^ORTED (By Associated Press) ■Rome, May, 8,—Fifteen hundred rebels were defeated and 200 killed by Italians in the latest operation? in Tripoli according to an official statement. Ninteen native troopers were killed. Unofficial reports state. Italian losses included 119 wounded. -O UNCLE JOE 87 YEARS OLD (By Associated Press) Danville, May, .—“Uncle Joe” Cannon who served in Congress thru two generations with record and dis play of personality that has made his name and black cigar as well known to school boys as to the politician, was yesterday celebrating his 87tli bifthday and his homecoming from his final session of Congress. ———n-s MISS HELEN WEAVER DRAPER, N. C. CORRESPONDENT Miss Tecr* Faggc has returned from Richmond, Virginia. Miss Kopelia Hunt of the Caroli na Home, Leaksville spent Sundaj with her sister Miss Julia Hunt. Mr. and Mrs. Price and daughter Miss Maud Price were in Danville Sunday. ‘ Misses Loula Turner and Emma line- Marshall, of Martinsville, Vir ginia have returned home after spending the week end with Miss Loula Mitchell. Mr# and Mrs. J. C. Weavei, Mrs. Kemp Stigall and little son, and Miss Helen Weaver spent Sunday in Martinsville, Va., Mr. Robert Fagge is out of town for 8 few days. Dr. and Mrs. S. E. Webb had a dinner guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs Harry Filtz, of Cascade, Virginia Mrs. T. M Roberts has retuyitd hOme after visiting friends ir> Buna Virta, Va. '' Mr. Walter Barnes has i,’turned home from a business trip Soutir _ REVIVAL SERVICES P TO BEGIN There will a Revival at the Wes leyan Methodist Church starting May Oth to 20th. Every Christian is invited to help in this meeting. Rev T. L.. Armstrong from Concord, N. C Will do the preaching. Rev. Geo. W. Clarke of Charlotte, N. C. will lead the sieging. AH good singers are in vited to attend. • 7^ y 1 Mass Meeting Files Its Protest Against More Heavy Tax Burdens Strike at Fishing Creek bridge Madison Road and stills Stoneville CHAIRMAN PRATT SAYS ALREADY STOPPED "The protest mass meeting at Went worth yesterday, organized by the election of Mr. T. B. Wilson chair man and Mr. Gibbs of Ruffin, sec retary. They also borrowed the young lady clerk of Prof. Hicker inan’s office. Mr. Mead Wilson led the move ment from Leaksville township with a number of petitions from business men of Ljeaksville-Draper. These were all aimed against the proposed bridge at Fi hing Creek, which they claimed was not a necessity. A committee was appointed to draft resolutions. The committee lat er reported the following. We, the 'citizens of Rockingham county in mass meeting assembled I at Wentworth, N. C., this the 7t’n day of May 1923 realize that the lax burdens of the citizens of Rocking ham county are now very burden some, and that a further tax burden upon the citizens for the purpose of i building a bridge at Fishing Creek, and grading the proposed road lead ing to the same is unjust and abso lutely not a public necessity, and therefore an unnecessary expense. We also deem it inadvisable to build a hard surface road from Set tles Bridge to Mayo river, as a top j .<<•■.1 vnad hns recently been complet-1 ed where this hard surfaced road is !MOj;o _(d, which we consider suffici ent for pi esent traffic. We (rust our petition will be re spected by our Board of Commission ers especially since some of them promised a reduction in taxes. ! Respectfully submitted, M G yfilaon C. II. Dalton, R. T. Burton, Commit tee. Petition of citizens of I.eak.sville and adjoining townships hereto at (taclied. The matter was presented to the Commissioners during the afternoon Chairman Tom Pratt informed, the committee that the Commission ers lias been served with restrain ing order in the morning, and of* course they would do nothing with that while it was in court. This was the bridge matter. As to the second article of the protest the Settles bridge to Mari son road, Mr. Pratt said that within 24 hours after the order had been made for this road he had about changed Iris mind and that since then he had become convinced that the road could not be built. He had prepared resolutions and they were on the table he said to cancel the former order. And that the time had come when he thought the work should stop at least 12 months, and that a3 far as he was concerned there would be no more asphalt road building done for one year. This man ended the Stoneville I,eaksville road project. Everything went down together. BRITISH PRESENTS CHARGES TO SOVIET IN STRONG TERMS British Subject* are notifi ed to be ready to leave Rusqra RUSSO-BRITISH TO TEST RELATIONS (By Associated Press) (Moscow, May, 8— A lengthy re viewing numerous British complaints against Soviet Russia and couched in such strong terms it may bring Russo-British relations to an issue was handed to Maxim Litvinoff as sistant commissar of foreign af fairs by a British representative. Anticipating a break the British mis sion several days ago warned all Britishers in Russia they should be prepared to leave the country on short notice. FRANCO-BELGIAN NOTE BALDWIN DISLIKES (By Associated Press) London, May, 8.—Stanley Bald win chancellor of the the British cx checquer stated in the Commons the government regretted the precipi tancy of the Franco Belgian reply to the German reparations note and proposed to state its own view in a separate reply with the least possi ble delay. He added there was a rea son to believe Italy was in7 accord with the British and contemplated a similar procedure. 12 MILLION BALES WORLDS SUPPLY (By Associated Press) Washington, May, 8.—Stocks of Vmerican cotton on hand April 1st the Commerce Department estima ted totalled 6,390,000. bales while the world stocks amounted to 12 010,000 bales. \ --rO MISSING'VESSEL COMES INTO PORT (By Associated Press) St. Petersburg, Fla., May, 8.—Army vessel Q-15 which was reported lost at sea since May 5tlf dropped ancho in Baybro harbor here' last night following a rough time on the high seas. -O THE GAZETTE IN EVERY HOME MISS RUTH FARRELL SOCIETY EDITOR RESIDENCE PHONE 56 GAZETTE PHONE No. 1 Mi;!. Ava Scott returned home yesterday from Rockingham where she has been visiting friends for several days. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Gammon have returned home after having visited in several different states and took the same trip they took on their honeymoon. Miss Evelyn Ivie is visiting hei father ,Mr. R. H. Ivie in Roxboro for several days. Mr. J. S. Williams of Danville is spending severed days with his sis ter Mrs. A. T. Hopper on Bridge Street. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jones spent Sunday in Roxboro. The Ladies Missionary Society pi the First Baptist Church of Leaks ville met with Mrs. J. E. Holme; Monday afternoon. The meeting was led by Mrs. T. H. Barker, several very interesting papers were read, the subjects being, Work, by Mrs. liaikey, Mrs. Beeker and Mrs. Rowe. During the social hour Mrs. Hoi mes assisted by Mrs. McCollum ser ved delicious refreshments consist ing of Strawberry block ice cream, chocolate cake, chicken salad, sand wiches, iced tea and mints. The Ladies Missionary Society of the Leaksville Methodist church met in the church Monday afternoon Mrs. R P. Ray led the meeting. Af ter the business meeting a report from the delegates who went to the conference iri Monroe was given. The Thimble Club will meet with Mrs. M. L. Heiner Friday afternoon at 3:30, all the members who will not be able to be present at this meeting will please notify Mrs Heiner before ten o’clock Friday morning. Mr. J. G. Farrell is spending the day in Lexington on business. Mrs. J. B. Ray entertains the Bridge Club this afternoon. Mr Tom B. Davidson of Charlotte was visiting friends in town yes terday. A large number of people from Leaksville attended the meeting of the Board of County Commissioners in Wentworth. , Dr. Sloop of Cross Noro School will sponk at the Spray Presbyter ian Church Wednesday night at 7:30 o’clock. The public is cordially invit ed to come to this lecture. Mr. and Mrs. William Powler and Mr Ashley Greer are spending the week'with friends and relatives in Ashe County. NINE CONVICTS MET THEIR DEATH IN 1 FLORIDA CAM? Mrs. Thelma Franklin thus testifies before leeisla- i tive committee 9 DEATHS DURING THE PAST YEAR Oy Assoc'ated Profs) Talahassee, Fla., May 8.—Nin ■ convicts serving at least at camp cf State Senator Knabb met their death j during the last year six dying sine September the joint legislative con -; mittee investigating convict cam > j brutalities was told by Mrs. Thelma | Franklin, a social worker. I -o IRISH IRREGULARS IN ROUND UP (By Associated Press) Dublin, May, 8.—The roundup c Irish Irregulars is progressing in til mountains near Blessington county Wicklow where large numbers ci them are reported to be hiding' ac cording to reports received by the Central News. Heavy iiring wa: heard near Blessington 'and late more than a dozen prisoners wen brought into town DOCTOR KRUPP GETS 15 YEAR SENTENCE (By Assoc'ated Press) Werden, May, 8.—Dr. Krupp Vor Bohlen head of the Krupp Work war sentenced to 15 years imprison ment and to pay a fine of one hun dred million marks, as a result o' trial by court martial growing- out ofx the shooting at the Krupp pJan* an March 81st. CHANGE IN OFFICE HOURS URGED TO EASE TRAFFIC RUSh l'oKio, May, 8..^-The Tokio Elec trie Bureau which operates the street car system of the city, ha; adopted new measures to reliev< congestion at the rush hours. It wa asked the bank and business con ■cins of Marunouchi, the Wall street district of Tokio, to rearrange th< hours of tlieir employes so that al will not arrive at and leave their of ficcs at the same time. A recent investigation revealed that about 200,000 persons employ ed in offices in the Marunouchi dis trict ride on the cars between 8 ant 9 o’clock in the morning, and be. tween 5and 6 o’clock in the after noon. It is believed the present jan will be eliminated if half of the workers arrive and depart half at. hour earlier that the rest. -o o -o ARCHAEOLOGISTS AT BAGDAC (By Associated Press) New_York May 8.—The Americar schools of Oriental Research has an nounced that the long contemplate!1 School of Mesopotamian Arcliacolo gy probably' would be opened ii Bagdad next fall. The American consulate will fur nish temporary quarters. Plans liavr been drawn for the erection later of a permanent building near tin new museum ‘and the University o1 Bagdad. —--o Mil LIONS OF AMERICAN TREES SENT FRENCH BATTLEFIELDS (By Associated Profs) New York, May 8.—Millions ol “good will” delegates sailed from port today for France. These “good will” delegates are American tre« seeds presented to the French gov eminent for reforesting battle area? by Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American tree Association. A similar shipment was turned over P the British Embassy at Washing; r a few days ago. Today’s shipment had been pro sented to Ambassador Jusserand ii Wahington and here M. Barrett, the acting consul general received them. The seeds will be turned over to the French Commissioner of Agriculture in Paris and will be placed in nut series until ready for transplanting as seedlings. -o Mr. C. M. Land was re-appointed Solicitor of Leakrvill? township yes terday by the Board of County Com missioners. HOME SWEET HOME 100TH ANNIVERSARY TO BE OBSERVED 100 years ago John Howard Payne wrote Famous words to sons; HISTORY OFAUTHOR CORRECTS OLD ERROk (By Associated Press) New York, May 8.—The 100th an niversary of the first singing of “Home Sweet Home” in Vovent Garden will be celebi-ated tomorrow on both sides of the Atlantic. .England has planned* appropriate exercises, while the chief ceremonies in the United States will be staged at Easthampton, Iiong island, and in this city me words of the celebrated song —incorporated in the opera “Clari, or the Sweet Maid of Milan”—were written by an American, John How ard Payne who was born in New York City and spent his boyhood in Eacthampton, where stands the old homestead which inspired the song. The music was composed by Sir Henry Bishop. Suitable exercises will be held at the homestead while in New Y’ork schools 900,000 children will chant the air, which later will be sung in front cf the City Hall by a selected chorus. “Home Sweet ome” which was placed in the second act of the opera was popular from the start. It spread rapidly throughout the En giish-speaking world, bringing tears to the eyes of countless thousands. Payne used to tell his friends that he caught the air from a little girl during a trip through Italy. The words of the song Payne said came to him while he was a student at Union College in Schenectady, N. Y., when he recalled, his boyhood days on the Long Island farm. Contrary to a general belief, Pay no not pennness wanderer when he wrote the words of the song. He' was in Paris at the time living in comfortable quarters with Washing ton Irving. Born in a little red brick house in lower Manhattan, on June 9, 1791, Payne was the sixth child of William Payne, later principal of a school at Easthampton, and a Jewish mother. He spent the greater part of his early childhood in Easthampton in the old homestead which is still stand ing and open to visitors. A replica of his childhood home has been er ected in Washington as a permanent exhibit of the better homes move ment. Payne’s family moved to Boston where he received most of his early education. While there he showed the greatest interest in the theatre and expressed the desire to be an actor But he was placed in a New York counting house to be a business man at the age of 13. He secretly published “The Thes- . pian Mirror,” which attracted the attention of the editor of the New York Evening Post to the unusual abilities of the boy. Through his friends efforts Payne was sent to Union College, where he devoted as much time to amateur theatriclas as he did to his studies. The death of his mother and the failure in business of his father led the family to consent to his be coming an actor. He was a successful actor while in his ‘teens but a quar rel with his manager led him to leave for London in 1813 at the age of 22. He was successful on the English stage, but although he had won the approbation and friendship of men like Coleridge, Southey, and Thom as Moore he was not satisfied. He left the stage and began to write. It was at that period that he wrote the opera “Clari” In 1845 he was appointed United States Consul at Tunis and with one interruption when there was a change of administvatir-remained ‘here until his death of fe'jr, April, 9, 1853. In 1883 his remains were brought to this country and re in terred in the old Oak Hill Cemetery In Georgetown, D. f with ceremon ies in which President Arthur ani official Washington too* pari. .- o Famous Players Lasky Corp., has sent Mr. A. L Hicks to Leaksvillc to explain how the ‘‘Screen’s most beloved Star” met his untimely ' death.