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TWO CENTS PER COPl VOLUME XLI. NO. 225. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1923 JAMESTOWN YOUTH IS KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE Jamestown, Octobe/ 'ibl— ffk&iti4 ing to his home in High PMnt late this afternoon after having attended the district teachers maetng in ses sion at Greensboro, Weaver" tit. Mari superintendent of city schools,' High Point driving his Ford coupe struck and instantly killed Mebane George, the four year old son of Mr. anl Mrs. George E. Matthews of this place. The accident happened along the Greensboro-High Point road on the hill towards Jamestown high school. A warrant for the arrest of the High Point city superintendent of schools, charging him . with man slaughter was sworn on11,by .W- G. Brown magistrate of High Point and wa sserved at 8 oclock tonight by R. B. Parker deputy sheriff of High Point. After two witnesses had been examined by Magistrate Brown to night Mr. Marr was released under $5,000 bond. The preliminary will take place Tuesday afternoon at 2 oclock. According to-Mr. tyarr the acci dent was unavoidable. Pfe stated that he was coasting down the hill and that the child ran fram behind another automobile directly in front of his machine. Mr. Marr is greatly distressed over the fatality which crushed the life out of the young ster. The twp witnesses jvho were heard by Magistrate Brown tonight stated that they did not see the accident Mrs. Robert Davis of Jamestown, testified that while she was hot an eye witness she heard the noise- oc / casioned by the crash. She said that the automobile of Mr. Marr was traveling at a slow rate of speed, i The High Point school superintend-) ent, she said picked the child up af ter the accident. Herman Cornwell the other wit ness who was heard also thated that he did not witness the accident bui that he met the brother of the ac cident victim who it is said remark- ] ed that the accident was unavoidable. I The father of the child is proprie- i tor of Jamestown Motor Co., a) local garage. The accident this af-! temoon happened almost in front of this garage and near the aMtthew’s home. Besides his parents the young ster is survived by three sisters. No definite funeral arrangements have yet been made. MERCHANT SHOT IN QUARREL -OVER FOUR DOLLARS HALF (By Associated Press) Marshall, N. C. October 15.—W. T. Hemierson, 60, merchant at Big Pine was killed Saturday by Eli Barker according to word received here today, the latter was jailed. The shooting was claimed to have followed a quarrel over four dollars and a half Baker claimed Henderson owed him. -o nMAIIJONG CRAZE STRIKES LONDON (By Associated Press? London, October 15.—Mahjong has become the latest craze of Lon don and it is prophesied will be til.! most popular sport in England thi3 winter. Thousand of Mahjong sets have been shipped from China during the last few weeks and almost every London shop of this elass-.is exhibit ing jteta in. its window. 8 -o BOMB EXPLODES DOING DAMAGE TO CUBS PARK •• '-J . ' - • »• - v l ^ ; * t •’ y f Chicago, October 15.—Damage m excess of $5,000 was caused by the explosion of a dynamite1 time bomb at the entrance of the Cubs base ball stadium' here early today. Po lice attribute the accident to mem bers of unions alleged to be opposed to the Landis labor award under -which* the’ sWijtim was .erected last year. Four ticket booths were wrecked and houses a block away were rock ed damaged. Many families Wero routed' from their beds and sent scurrying into the streets. Telephone ’lines in- the Yidnftjf Were put out of coqjjpifsion. A small blaze started by- the., blast but was extinguished by firemen before it could do much damage, d < . ■ 0J; y%-> . „ Police are searching for thrfee men I who, were seen near th stadium en,: madljpA in an auto axplosion. NINE LIVES LOST wtifiN MAN DRIVING CAR MISTAKES 'THE , SIGNAL OF ANOTHER DWV'ER I _ (By Associated Pr|eg>11 * Fairland, Ind., October IS1;—Nine perspns were killed and one serious ly injured when a Cleveland, Cincin nati, Chicago and St. Louis. passen ger train struck an automobile at a crossing near here at 11 bclock this morning the train was bound from Cincinnati to Chicago. The dead are J. W. Means, 70, Mrs. J. W. Means, 05, Mrs, Roy Brinton, 30,. Byron Means, 9, Mrs Jessie McGuire, 35, Mary Brinton, 11, Maida Gaither 22, and Goldie Gaither 18 and Marjorie Pear McGuire all of London, Ind. The only person in the car .o_ escape was Roy Brinton who jumped before the train struck the machine. The victims were en route to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Means of London from Brookfield near here where they had attended church ser vices w!ie tithe accident occurred. Laura House driving an automobile in front of the machine struck which \vps. driven by Means had cleared tjhe track and saw the train com ing. He turned and motioned for Mr. Means to stop he said but Mr. Means apparently interpreted his signal to mean that the way was clear. Sam uel James of Brookfield who was al so nearby reported that the heavily loaded machine reached the tracks then, came to a stop. H" Auto Struck In Middle The* automobile was struck in the middle and.' completely demolished. The bodies of the victims!were scat tered in al Idirections and-were bad ly mangled. Parts of the bodies were found 50 feet from the wreckage. Dr. C. H. McDonnell dnd Dr. J, Rubush of London gave .“first” aid treatment to tlie victims' some of whom were alive when the physici ans reached' the scene of the acci dent. The bodies of the victims were placed in a baggage car and taken to Acton where they remained until ambulances Arrived fron>”Indianapo, 1 is. They were then removed to un dertaking establishments there. Mr. eMans was well kHiown in this district and took a prominent part in civic affairs of the community. He is survived by two brothers and 3 : isters JJessie id Goldie Gaither, who are sisters of Mrs. McGuire were visiting the latter who resid ed at the Means home. BUSH AND SCHANG < EI.BRR \T\ WEDDING ANN1VEKSARIEJ New York, October 15.—Today’s' wotld series; game was somewhat riore than a brilliant victory for Joe Bush, star Yankee twirier and his battery mate, Wally Schang—it was "ri celebration. For today -was the wedding anni versary of both players the ninth 'or Bush and the eighth for Schang. None irl the vast crowded stretches of the Yankee stadium rooted hard er nor Ware more enthusiastic over (he Yankee victory than their wives. Bush and Schang were married -.'hen battery'pals with Con lie Mack old Philadelphia Athletics. They have beer) together ever since, going r j Bodton six years ago before com .iig to the Yankees. —-o 1UKER PREPARING FOR PARI i ^)[By Associated Press) vLouiljvillc, Ky.,- October li>.~Rj»y lulier3 international distance runner nnounced his intention here of pre aring to compete ih the coming Oly mpic games when he signed a non i-eeempehsive ‘ contract to coach the University of Louisville cross coun try team.- •- ... ’ ..... ,... Buker said he would accept no nonby for hia services because he Vished to continue his amateur stand .ag and that he had offered to coach he local harriers if the university would permit fdai l? undergo his Ywn 'J.rdinhig wfth laeir athletes and fcv -’6 tUre university:; facilities n order .6 prepare; fq r.he next Qlympie games. r 'Ldst year Bfckdrled Joie Ray'to he tape several times in the mile cun. While a student at Bates, Buker held’ thiTtwo rhiltf intercollegiate title; He is now a- student at the South ern Baptist Theological Seminary I here. y - f Miss Gray QsbfThe of Roarioke Va spent the week end ,»t h6me with her parents Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Os l borne. VIRGINIA MAN DENIED CARNEGIE MERO MEDAL „ (By Associated Press) Danville, .Va., October IS.—Robert ' Lester Shaw, of Schoolfield who'last July 13 saved Mrs. C. A. Gillespie, , and Iris, her four year old daughter from death at Stokesland railway , crossing has been denied a medal by the Carnegie hero fund commission. i Today a letter was received from IF. M. Wilmot bearing a negative | decision. The letter ran: . "The Carnegie hero fund applies | to acts in which, conclusive evidence I may be obtained showing that' the ! person performing the act voluntar ily risked his own life to save the life of a fellow being. “While Mr. Shaw’s act is commend able from the facts at hand it does not appear that it was attended by nay extriford inary risk to his own life; and for this reason his Case, I regret to saydoes not come ^ith in the scope of the fund.’ The announcement was received with mingled astonishment and re gret especially among those who witnessed the act. According to these witnesses Shaw standing near. the railway crossing saw Mrs. Gillespie a id her Child seafed in a car the engine of which had stalled. A freight train was bearing down on them. Shaw ran to the spot, drag ged the woman over the car door ana pushed her behind and seizing the child whirled her clear leaping back an instant before the crash came. Shaw was five- feet from the engine as it passed. The engineer said it was the bravest act he had ever .seen and concurred in the movemeht to win for Shaw a medal. —-,——o MOTOR NO. 8,500,000 LEAVES LORO PLANT, HIGHLAND PARK Detroit, October 15.—Ford Motor No. 8,500,000 left the assembly line at the Highland park plant October a. The last half million motors were produced in seven days less than t hi ee months. •Ford motor factory located at Xortlivilje Mich., devoted excltwvely to manufacture of valves for (»odel T motors and- tractor n»otort*em ploy 350 men working in three eight hour shifts and turns out 85,000 Lord motor valves and 10,000 Ford ton valves daily. Since March 1920 the plant has produced more than ;4,000,000 valves. Nearly 7,000 tons of ammonium sulphate for fertilizer have been shipped fivm' the River Rouge plan f the Lord Motor Co., to all part, of the United States. It is a by-pro duct of coke and carries from 20 to 21 percent available nitrogen. ROBBERS BREAK INTO STORE OF F. A. BRENDLE OF ELKIN Elkin, October 15.—The store o F. A. Brendle and son on east Main street was broken into Friday nigh: ind robbed of a considerable amounl of dry goods, shoes etc., A window in the rear of the building was forc ed open with a crow bar through the thieves gained a entrance. \_iiite a number of shoes were stolen all of which were removed from the boxes the empty boxes being left in I .■ .lore. A considerable quantity of dry goods, sweaters and various .ftieles of merchandise were missing .he loss being estimated around $300 Jr i?400. No clue to the identity of .he thieves has been obtained. This the third or fourth time Mr. Brendle’s store has been robbed ince he has been in the mercantile business here. -o IX PERSONS DROWNED IN DETROIT RIVER (By Associated Press) Detroit, October 15.—Six persons hic.'uding five Ar se dans were drown C i when an uni;:.:a-tied steamer rail down a row boat in the Detroit river between Encourse and River Rouge oday immigration authorities end Eneorse police expressed belief that she Armenians were being smuggld into the United States. I AMERICAN LEGION CONVENT’N OPENED TODAY (By Associated Press) San Francisco, October 15.—The ! fifth annual convention of, the Am erican Legion opened officially here today. More than nine hundred dele gates representing virtually every state amt territory» of the United States and thousands of visiting le gtonarres were present NINE FOOT FLOOD IS , SWEEPING OKLAHOMA Enid, Okla., October 15.—All stores were flooded and Numerous residences were partly submerged by a nine foot wall of water which swept through parts of Woodward, Okla., today when the North Cana dian river overflowed from recent heavy rains according to reports reaching here over crippled wires to night. Scores of persons are said to have been made homeless, although no lives are believed to have been lost, Extensive damage as yet unestimae ed, was caused. Streams in this vicinity have been swelled to past stage flood by heavy rains which have fallen continuous ly since early evening. Information obtained from a number of points before means of communication were destroyed by the swirling torrents, described the worst flood condition in the history of western Oklahoma Freedom a small town on t’o ( • arron river also was inundated, th ■ advices said, stores there being flood ed. Railroad traffic 'is demoralized. Nearly 100 bridges have been carried away and sections of trackage in a number of places are out. CONDEMN THE KLL’X KLAN Greensboro, October 13.—A smash ing resolution of condemnation against the Ku Klux Klan—though no names were mentioned—was adopted by a loud unanimous vote yesterday by the northwestern dis trict of the North Carolina Educe, tion association at Us closing session at West Market Street Methodist church. The resolution reads as follows: “Be it resolved that we condemn the activities of any organization based on racial hatred and religious prejudice which under cover of hid den identity claims to be teaching citizenship and 100 percent Ameri canism. The resolution was proposed to the convention by P. H. Gwynn, Jr., chairman of the resolution commit tee and its-gppruvnl was delivered' with the loudest chorus of “Ayes” of any of the resolutions adopted. --o BIG AIR RACE TO BE HELD AT SCOTT FIELD OCTOBER 21 Bellville, Ills., October 15.—An air neet rivaling in interest the recent international air races at St. Louis will be held at Scott feld near here next Sunday October 21, according to an announcement by Maj. John P. Faeglow, commanding officer. The only thing missing officials in harge declared will be the fast pul zer speed plane entrance. The meeting which is being held .'or the benefit of the army relief society will be crowded into one day and will in?!; de air races of every description. In the iighter than air division entrants incln.de all snips from blimps to a race between the TC-3 and RDC-1 two /f the worlds largest non-rigid airships and from army training planes to a race between the monster iU.000 pound twin motor ed Martin bombers for the heavier than-air division. The fastest race is expected between members of the first pursuit squadron of Selfridge field Detroit. A similar race at St. Louis was won with an average speed of over 145 miles an hour. ■ Other thrills also are scheduled I for the spectators and after the ra ces a marriage ceremony; will be per-! formed in one of the big balloons, the ceremony being broadcasted ov-; er the radio. , j YANKElfSMAY WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP (By Associated Press) New York, October 15.—The Yan kees stand today on the threshold of worlds baseball championship. Bullet Joe Bush put them there by holding the Giants to three hits all by Irisi. Meusel and winning yesterday 8 to 1. This gave the Yankees three game to two for the Giants putting them in the position to take 'the champion ship by winning one more. John Watson only Giant pitcher is welll used. The Yankees have several good rested al lthe others having beer, pitchers Tjpady to go. McGraw lw not downhearted, “anything may happen,” he salu. A mist of rain this morning made the game today seem doubtful. ,...RS. WEBB DIED OF NATURAL CAUSE' (By Associated Prey's) White Plains, October 15.—Coron i or Fitzgerald announced today that : he had filed a certificate at Harrison ! statin}? that Tilrs. Gertrude Gormann 1 Webb wealthy New York and Phila delphia society woman whose death three weeks gao was officially inves tigated had died from natural causes and the inquest has been called off U. S. TO SELL SPANISH SHIPS (By Associated Press) Manila, October 15.—Two United ■tales naval vessels in whose dark hulls is buried the accounts of years teeming with histoiy and romance, have been placed on sale by the Un ited States navy at Cavite Naval Yard. They are the Callao and the Barcello both of which were captured from the Spanish at Cavite in 1898 when *the Cavite naval yard surrend ered. Now the United States navy is get ting rid of them—to the highest bid der. CORRECT SIGNPOSTS SOUGHT BY AL'TOISTS Washington, October 15.—An offi cial milestone for every city and town in the United States is sug gested by the American Automobile Association to avoid the confusion arising from the present habit o' taking .; . :: toy o,> of several points in a city or even several miles apart. Every motorist will recall at some time in his travels having seen a sign reading “eight rides to Joiles vlle” and then a couple of miles fur ther on passing another sign saying that Janesville is still eight miles away. Both signs may be correct de pending on the point in Jonesville from which the mileage was taken. From a commercial standpoint an official milestone would be of ser vice in giving readers of advertise ments of era! estate for example de finite definite information.. A farm may be advertised as being six miles rhscarst- from Jwnewville, With the adoption of an official milestone by Janesville the reader would knew that the distance is six miles from a fixed point in Jonesville which woula be in the- heart of the city. The cost of putting up the official milestone can be negligible. A sim ple murker could serve the purpose Automobile clubs in many instance, will be willing to erect the marke: or milestone for the city or town. BASEBALL’S CLOWS AMUSE EARLY CROWD AT CLASSIC Now York, October 15.—Devote of polo and horse racing who came to the Yankee stadium today were sur "eited with their favorite pleasures Nick Altrock and A1 Schacht, th clowns^ of baseball furnished both They amused the early crowds witi their two man horse polo game played with all the dash of Dever oatix Milburn the international! known famous back prancing abou on a thoroughbred pony. Nick and A1 were their own pon e. They fitted themselves into garment lepresnting back horses on Broad way at 3 a. m. and smashed a base ball around the lot using their bat; for mullets. Then in the afternoon they galloped to a starting point on the running track that furnished a border for the playing field and gave a foretaste of the international race to be held next week between Zev. the American three year old and Papyrus the champion English horse -o Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Heiner and daughters Misses Gertrude ana Bessie and Julian C, Marley are spending the afternoon in Greensboro WANTED—For files Sept. 10, 22, 24 and 25 and 2Gth of the Gazette. Anyone having thes e papers we would appreciate it if they would let us have (them. THREE PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH IN FIR1 (By Associated Press) New York, October 15.—Six per sons were burned to death in a fire of a three story frame dwelling in Brooklyn today. The dead are Mrs Million Andrews her son Charles and neice Margaret; George Kyne, Fran cis P. Fowler, Miss Roberta Wigerl. One womn was badly hurt. THREE BILLION POUNDS ICE NEEDED FOR SHIPMENT (By Associated Press) Los Angeles, October 16.—When the 120,000 refrigerated cars of produce now in process of being moved eastward from southern Cal ifornia will have reached their des tination their consumption of ice to keep ther perishable contents fresh will total 3,000,000,000 pounds ac cording to a semi-official survey completed here. For every car of fruits and vege tables that leaves this section eight tons of ice are required for the initial Icing. Between Los Angeles and Chi cago another seve ntons are used. If a car goes farther, to New York or some Atlantic seaboard point, four more tons must be added. An unusual type of shipment being handled in completely iced cars is I-res. In order to move a carload of the honey makers eastward it is nec e. sary to lower the temperature of the car to offset the body heat gen e:ated by the millions of busy in sects and thus sustain life by bring ing about what might be termed ar tificial hibernation. —-»-o————— PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Davis and children spent the week end in town with relatives. Miss Gladys Osborne who is at torn ing N. C. C. W. spent trfe cc.. end at home. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Stocks of Hen c.ersonville spent the night with their mother Miss Stocks on their way front New York. They have been on i heir way a' week. Mrs. E. V. Hobbs, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Warren were at Chapel Hill .'..unday to see their sons Alden ilobbs and Bowman Warren who are attending the University. Mrs. Hobbs has also had an encouraging letter from her son Edward who is attend tg Poughkeepsie Eastman College, New York. Mrs,, Rufus Stone entertained at ■ x oclock dinner in Stoneville Sat i :day, Mrs. Seward King, Mrs. Ear os t Fulcher and Mrs. Barber from Winston. Dr. J. G. Hickerson and Miss Lu > :le Price motored to Reidsville Sun day afternoon. Mrs. E. E. Richardson Miss Mary Ling, Betty and Marie Sherrill of 1 harlotte, Nathan and Richard iichardson motored to Reidsville 'unduy afternoon. - --o HINESE ARE WEARING LEATHER SHOES NOW Pking, October 15.—Chinese are radually taking to the use of leath r shoes according to J. C. Huston, American consul. Chinese who have ot adopted the foreign style of foot car are beginning to use chrome 'ather soles with their native cloth ppers. Native shoes with chrome soles ill »or $1.00 while locally made for ign style shoes sell for $5 a pair, he eather soels can outlast three ’ loth tops', it is stated. The tanning centers are Kalgan or goat skins, Kioascheng near Tia osfu for lamb skins and Teintsin, ■ here the leather tanned is usually ow hides and used mostly for shoes, here are three Chinese owned tan -lerries and one Japanese owned n Teintsin which imports its cattle Tom Shantung. "he chemicals used for tanning are practically all imported from the Jnited States. -o LEXINGTON YOUTH IS KILLED BY A TRUCK Lexington, October 15.—Charles Iunt, member of the local high chool football squad and son of E. 1. Hunt was instantly killed early his morning when pinned beneath a heavily loaded flour truck that iverturned on a hill two miles east >f this city. Hunt’s neck was broken. The engine of the truck stalled going up a long hill it is said, and -he brakes failed to hold the heavily loaded vehicle which ran backward about 100 feet and overturned. John Tussey escaped injury by jumping. Hunt who was driving is reported to have attempted to jump but his over coat caught on the truck. . >
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