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THE TRI-CITY DAILY
VOLUME XIL NO 177 LEAKSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1923
TWO CENTS PER COPY
EightyFour Persons Arrested For Smuggling Booze In Georgia
Claim Some Of Those;
Arrested Are The Higher
Ups In Big B >otl g lang
Washington, August 16 (A>)—With
84 persons already under arrest at
Savannah, Georgia, under the con
spiracy section of the prohibition en
forcement act, Department of Jus
tice officials said they believed they
finally had rounded up one of, if
not the largest bootleg forces in the
United States. Other important ar
rests were forecast and it was stat
ed that indictments would be sough!
not only under the volstead act but
also under customs laws against
smuggling and statutes making 1*
unlawful to transport smuggled
goods.
NEW BERLIN GOVERNMENT
SEEMS FIRMLY IN POWER
Berlin, August 18 —Chancellor J
Stresemann’s new coalition govejrn
ment appeared firmly in power~~to
day after its presentation to the
Reichstag yesterday and a strong
vote of confidence by that body.
A majority of the middle groups
of public opinion seemed in full ac
cord with the government and ready
to back it up against the commun
ist and extreme reactionaries—the
only groups in opposition.
Meantime the internal situation
shdwed signs of calming, despite new
outb’reaTIcs yesterday in Aaschen
(Aix le Chappelle) and vicinity, in
whicft ten were killed and upwards
of a hundred wounded and extension
of the strikes in the chemical and el
ectrical industries at Frankforter.
The new chancellor’s opening
speech ifi the Reichstag, said the new
government will follow out the same
broad*Rues as the preceding cabinet
of Dr. Cuno.
HI Uhiwuellnr appealed to the ag
riculturalists To relieve the food siS*
uation admitting the government
could not expect the workers to re
main quiet unless they were assured
an adequate food supply.
In a general interview, following
his appearance in the Reichstag,
Stresemann told newspapermen Par
is is deceived if it thinks the changes
in Germany’s government indicates
an end to Germany’s power of res
istance.
The chancellor said that his new
tax program was fixed to ameliorate
finances considerably and reiterated
the policy that Germany considers
the Rhine provinces as inviolate.
Regarding the Ruhr, Stresemann
said it will always remain the soul
of industry and a nesessary symbol
of the nation’s material accomplish
ments.
The chancellor attributed internal
confusion to a breaking of the popu
lar nerve.
“Nothing is so bad for a nation as
not to know its future,” he said.
“But a people with the great past of
Germany need not fear. We still
have the power to carve our own
destiny.”
Dr. Cuno it was reported has been'
mentioned as new German ambass
ador for Washington, a post he prob
ably would accept.
Berlin continued quiet today after
a minor clash in Frankfurter Avenue
last night in which one man was ser
iously wounded when police fired on
a crowd of demonstrators.
RUSSIA PLANS TO EXPORT
3 MILLION TONS OF GRAIN
Berlin, August 16 M5)—Russia’s
grain exportation this year is a burn
ing question for Germany which
must buy a large portion of its bread
stuffs abroad. Contracts are already
reported to have been made by Ger
man organizations for 40 million
gold marks tffrfh of Russian grain,
chiefly rye. This transaction is said
to have been financed jointly by the
German government, the German
industrialist atfd the German bank
ers.
Krassin and other representatives
of Soviet Russia maintain that the
So iet government, wi% be able to
export three million tons of pain
thii season. They coiltend that the
■RERGDOLI, CASE
INVOLVES MEN
OF FIVE NATIONS
Eberbach, Baden, Germany, Aug
ust, 16 —The kidnapping plot against
Cleveland Bergdoll, American draft
evader, threatened to become ai- in
ternational incident here today with
Americans, Germans French, Swiss,
and Russians all involved.
The latest development is the dis
appearance of the Frencrman, Sper
ber, wro was quietly removed from
the local hospital by Bergdoll and
three German “green police” in full
uniforms.
It was reported the removal of the
Frenchman was caused by circula
tion of a threat that a band of seven
French friends of the wounded man
were en route to rescue their com
rade.
The Americans under arrest for
connection with the alleged plot,
Griffis and Neilson, continued 1 o de
ny existence of any plot, but a Imit
ted they had met Sperber and the
man killed by Bergdoll, Karl Schmidt
many times in different cafes
Police revealed additional infor
mation when they said they had
found scratched on the' steering
wheel of the automobile in which
the Americans were arrested the
name “A. R. Babchon,” followed by
the initials “A. G. R. 6.”
Griffis remained despondent Tn
jail, refusing to talk to anybody.
Neilson was defiant, demanding his
freedom in default of any conclusive
rroof he was guilty of any crime.
Meantime German police investi
gators were piecing together details
of the alleged attempt to overpower
Bergdoll and spirit him away to Par
is “for deportation- to America.
4 YEARS FOR TAKING
ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE
Reidsville, August 16 —In Super
lor court at Wentworth Judge Henry
P Lane sentenced Walter Hopper of
■Spray, to a term of four years in the
state penitentiary. An appeal was
noted.
Hopper was tried for abduction he
having run off with another man’s
wife several months ago.
Steube
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Over Ku Kluxers
Steubenville, Ohio, August 16 (A*)—
Tense situation prevailed here and
7'o"lee were prepared for quick ac
i;;>n to prevent a repitition of the
ortbreak last night against the Kr
Klux Klan which culminated in a
~;st'~» duel between Darwin Gibson
taid to be a local klan officer, and i
group of men who fired upon him
as he was driving along a darkened
street. Earlier in the evening s
group of about 100 men, said to b<
klansmen from nearby towns, was
attacked In one of the downtowr
streets and a score badly beaten and
several automobiles wrecked.
SOUTH CAROLINA SUPREME
COURT RENDERS OPINIO
Columbia, August 16 —The Sout)
Carolina supreme court today ren
dered an opinion in the case of thi
state agai—+ Sam Bagwell of Lau
rens county refusing a new trial t<
the defendant who appealed from
conviction of non-support of wif<
and family. The opinion in the cas
is by Associate Justice J. H. Mario..
; season there has been more favorable
' than in Central Europe. TH**’ has
' been more sunshine and no difficulty
! is anticipated in harvesting the grain
because of rain. In . all the Soviet
government ekpects to collect about
11 million tons of grain this year
in grain taxes and is planning to ex
port almost one third of this amount.
AUTO THEFT AND BOLD
HOLDUP LAID ON BOVSj
Cawlaba County Youths Suspected
to Stealing Car and Robbing
An aged Man
Newton, August 16 (A>)—Monday
night a Ford touring car was stoler
from Charles Johnson, a Catawba
farmer near the Henry post office
ar.d on the same night a motor me
tt • was stolen from the car of P. G
Havner a nearneighbor of Mr. John
son. Both returned home about 1C
ocloclc from a revival 'meeting. H
was therefore after that time that
the theft was made. As soon as the
car was missed Sheriff Bost war
called to the scene and in company
with Johnson and Havner struck the
track of the Ford and followed it
without difficulty to the hard sur
faced road at Hickory. From that
point it could not • be discovered
what direction the car went. It was
learned at Brookford that two young
men in a Ford called up the garage
man at 3 oelock this morning and
bought 8 gallons of gaoline and a
quart of oil. The description of the
boys fitted well two boys of tb'
I Henry neighborhood and Sheriff
Bost dispatched a deputy to their
I homes to find out if they were there
The deputy has not yet made a re
freight traffic resumed
ON UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Moline, 111., August 1C —With
four rew motor barges, freight traf
fic or: the Mississippi between St.
Paul and St. Louis will begin siVm
after a lapse of more than £our
year's, the River Transit Co., of St.
Paul has announced.
Freight hauling will begin not
later than September 1
The motor barges on their route
between St. Louis and St. Paul will
cover G89 miles. Ninety landing
places are tabulated on a list. The
boats will have a 100 ton cargo cap
acity.
-o
Misses Myrtle Forbes and Olney
Dillon have just returned from Ashe
ville and Norlinn where they spent
two weeks visiting relatives and
port.
A few days prior to the automo
bile theft Tom Saine, a man 60 or 7C
yeors of age was held up on the pub
lie highway about 2 oclock in th?
afternoon by two men with blacK
faces. He was knocked down and
robbed of his pocket bookcontaining
$106. Suspicion rests on the same
boys as the perpetrators of this
erime.
Sentenced To Two Years
For Passin ; Worthless Check
Philadelphia, August (16 (A1)-—Er
nest Knoblaeh, Jr., member of the
bankrupt brokerage firm of Borden
and Knoblaeh of this city, wes sen
1 enced to two years in the county
prison when he entered a plea of
nolle contndcre to a charge of pass
ing worthless checks for $450,000
'•'he checks were made out to Rear
Taylor and Co., of New York for
payment of a block of United States
Treasury certificates.
WAGERS ENCOURAGE
TELEGRAMS
London, August 16 (A1)—Five mil
lion telegrams in connection with
horse racing annually pass through
the telegraph offices in England.
The telegrams for the most part re
late to betting, and it is estimated
they represent a revenue of about
£2,000,000 sterling. This is seven
per cent of the total number of tel
egrams despatched in England.
2 FATAL ACCIDENTS
TAKE PLACE AT ELON
Elon College, August 1G —This af
ternoon about 2 ocloek a sad acci
dent hapr#ied at the home of M. T
FerrulC near here, in the St. Marks
settlement when a truck was being
driven by a member of the Ferrall
family and one of the smaller child
ren, Jake age 6 years the son of M
T. Ferrall fell from the truck and
was run over by the rear of the
truck his little life was crushed <sqjf
instantly.
Sand was being hauled in the
truck and the child was riding and
in some way fell to the ground and
was killed before the truck could be
stopped.
About 4:30 oclock this afternoon
a distressing accident occurred here
when Mr. Tucker while at work or
some of the new college buildings
that are being erected her® fell from
the building and was killed, doctors
: were cfmed and came immediately tc
the scene but he died in five minutes
after 1he accident.
He was a resident of near Greens
boro and via*, about 30 years of age
and leaves a wife and child.
Washington, August 16 (A*>—Fav
orah'e trade balance of $26,000,00C
is shown by official figures on the
country’s export and imports foi
July, issued at the Department o
Commerce. '
I
GERMAN INTERESTS TAKE
OVER MORE RUSSIAN LAND
i
Berlin, August 16 </P)—Another
agricultural concession has been tak
en in Russia by a German organiza
tion called the Cerman-Russian
Seed Growing Co., which will estab
lish an experimental farm on a tract
of about 30,000 acres near Moscow.
This is similar to the Krupp agri
cultural concession in the Ukraine.
Qfhsr. German interests soon will
take over wood concessions covering
200,000 acres of forest near Mya
Rybinsk. Sawmills will be erected
and cellulose factories operated.
SOVIETS ALTER COAT OF ARMS
London, August 16 (A5)—The All
Russian Soviet Executive, according
to a London message, lias decided to
alter once more the coat of arms of
the Russian Soviet Republic.
For the last few months the coat
of arms consisted of a crossed sickle
and hammer, but now this gives way
to a more elaborate design which
represents the same sickle and ham
mer crossed in the background of a
globe representing the earth and sur
rounded by a wreath of wheat with
the words “Workers of the World,
Unite” transcribed in Russian,
French, English, German, Arabic
and Chinese.
Last Body I Wrecked
Mine Is Now Recoverec
Kemmerer, Wyo., August 16 C4*)—
Rescue crews of the Kemmerer Coa'
Co., mine aC Frontier, where an ex
plosion Tuesday claimed the lives ol'
98 miners believe they have recov
ered the body of Joe Roberts, the
last to be recovered. The workers
were too exhausted last night to con
tinue their efforts which it is be
Reved will end when Roberts body h
removed from behind a“ “barricade
he constructed in an unsuccessful
attempt to shut out poison gas.
ENGLISH REVIVE ANCIENT ART
Norwich, Norfolk, August, 16 (4*)
—Anot herof England’s most anci
ent industries is being ^revived in the
county of Norwich. This is the “rush
matting” industry, mentioned in
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as “Te(
rushe mattinge.” These mats, made
from rushes which grow in profus
ion in the marshy districts of Nor
folk are recognized as the best cov
ering for stone floors.
ieuten; rs - Governor Held
Of Charge Of Trying To
Wreck Wilminetcn Bank
WIFEBEATER FOUND TO
BE MAN WANTED FOR
HOMICIDE IN 191i
Newton, Aug. 16 —Chief of Po
ke Toni Gabriel has picked up an
other man who thought he had liveo
out the record and memory of a
crime commilte din North Carolina
j ears ago.
The man is Charles Whisnant. He
has recently been running a cafe at
the Newton depot. lie was put in
j jail one day last week for beating
I his. wife. While in jail Chief Gabriei
heard rumors that Whisnant had 10
ye: r-"o killed a negro at Morti
•'well county,
e iigation revealed that n
\ : -o an:1, that until lately he hgu
! : Tnj in Canada under the
i . Coffey. Chief Gabriel arrest
ed the man Saturday night and the
hcriff of Caldwell county now has
him in Lenoir jail.
AMERICAN GAME BIRDS
FACE FINAL EXTINCTION
Vineyard Haven, Mass., August 16
t/p)_The North American heathern
which far as is known, is today
making its last fight against extinc
tion on the protected public reserva
tion of Martha’s Vineyard, is now
near the vanishing point, according
to the reservation superintendent.
Nor more than 50 of the birds are
left on the island—and in the world
—and most of them are males, the
report sent to the -*£tate Department
of Conservation sets foth.
A census was taken by 'Commis
sioner William C. Adams with the
assistance of Professor Albert O.
Gross of Bowdoin College, who, at
the close of this season will sub
unit a report for the use of the divis
ion of fisheries fcnd jKime -*vhioh +is
endeavoring to perpetuate the spec
ies. *
The flock under the state’s care
fluctuates in numbers considerably
from "year to year. It has numbered
thousands, and at other times has
been almost as small as it is at pres
ent, but no eai-lier record has dis
closed any such decrease in the fe
male birds.
HOLY LAND DOOMS
KAISER TOWER
Jerusalem, August 16 CP)—The
Kaiser Tower, which was erected on
the Jaffa Gate here to commemorate
Wilhelm~seeond’s visit to the Holy
Land in 1898, is about to be demol
ished. It has long been regarded by
natives and visitors as an eyesore.
THE GAZETTE IN EVERY HOME
SANFORD EDITOR ESCAPES
BAD AUTO SMASH
WITHOUT 1NJUR\
Sanford .August 16 —P. J. Browi
newspaper editor and manager, mir
aculausly escaped death today whei
his roadster turned over about three,
miles from town.
He was returning from Raleigl
to Sanford driving about 25 miles ai
hour and as he reached a curve ii
the road saw a wagon just in fron
and a car filed with women an
children passing the wagon.
Seeing a collision inevitable, un
less he could stop he applied th.>
brakes and the car stopping suddenly
skidded faced tftward Raleigh an«
went down an embankment.
He has not a bruise and the ma
chine was repaired in time for hit.
to return to Raleigh today to tak>
part in the marriage of Miss Flt>r.
Sholes and Solomon L. Homewood, a
the Church of the Good Shepherd a
5 p. m.
j Raleigh, August, 16 <A>)—Lieuten
ant Governor Cooper, his brothel
Horace Cooper, his son and Claude
Lassiter a business associate were
arrested in Wilmington Wednesday
on Federal warrants charging con
spiracy to wreck the defunct Com
mercial National Bank of Wilming
l ton and fraudulently using' funds o;
that institution, it was learned here
All four were released under bond
Lt. Gov. and his brother furnisheo
$10,000 each; Horace Cooper $5,000:
and Lassiter $2,000. They waiveo
1 examination before the United States
j Commission and will be tried at ths
! November term of the Federal court
in Wilmington. *
social and personal
VCsa 'UTll 1 ARiifc.LL
Miss Maria Ballow returned tc
her lyune in South Boston yesterday
after spending sometime with her
sister Mrs G. C. Carr. Mr. W. W
Ballow who has also been visiting
her sister, Mrs. G. C. Carr returned
to South Boston with her.
Miss Sallie Belle Anderson of
Winston Salem who has been spend
ng several days with Mr. and Mrs
Vf. G. Wilson is now visiting at the
iome of Mr. Frank Anderson near
.eaksville.
A large number of koung people
from Leaksville went out to Ivies’
Farm last night to a watermelon
east. Those present at this delight
ful agair were: Misses Lucile and
Henriet Reid, Bessie Clark, Mary
Marshall and Ruth Farrell.
Messrs Philip Ray, James Richard
on, Anthony English, Mack Martin
‘hilip Wall, Alfred Goodwin, Aus
in Murray, Otto Kircheis, Ohe!
"Hark, James Marshall.
Mrs. M. G. Wilson who has been
'ery ill ^for sometime is improving
rapidly. 7 \ :
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. v,Kuk leave to
lay for Blowing Rock to spend t
week.
Mrs. N. B. Austin who has beer
ery ill for several days is better to
Jay.
CHILDRENS chapter OF .. ..
...THE U. D. C
The Annie Johns Childrens Chap
er of the Daughters of the Confeder
•cy met with Misses Florence and
Trace Hobbs on Tuesday, Augusf
1th. After the meeting was called
o order by the president, Miss Rox
e Barksdale was elected assistant
ecretary, Hie regular secretary, be
ng absent. The roll was then called
nd the following program render
ed:
leading, Jefferson Davis as Senator
iy Miss Ttebekah Smith.
Piano Solos, Evelyn Darlington
Trace Hobbs, and Caroline Price.
The hostess served delicious re
freshments consisting of peach
;herbet and cake. The chapter had
ts guest at this meeting Miss Car
oline Price of Winston Salem.
Mr. T. H. Barker assisted by Mrs
Barker carried his Sunday Schoo
elas sTo Buffalo Creek yesterday af
■ ernoon and treated them to water
melon, ice cream and kiddo suga.'
wafers. Wading in the creek wa?
| very much enjoyed and a gentle
shower of rain added greatly to the
enjoyment.
Mrs. G. T. Bell of Fayetteville
Mr. and Mrs. William Jones Mitch
ell of Ridgeway, Mrs. J. S. Andrews
#f Lynchburg &hA Mr. George B
Tones of Ridgeway were the guest?
of Dr. and Mrs. Tuttle this week.
Mrs. F. M. Flinn left yesterday af
ternoon for Price to spend several
days with hei m^the- there.
Misses Pollye and Brownie Meyer?
who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs
P. V. Godfrey for several weeks re
turned to their home in Mississippi
yesterday afternoon. The Misses
Meyers will go by way of Asheville
and spend sometime.
Miss Cora Martin left yesterday
for Richmond, Baltimore and New
York to buy fall goods.