LBAlIVlLLB. WORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1924
PRICE: TWO CENTS
\
In Cash
(By Associated Press)
An armed bandit, who held op
Samuel Schasstein and his wife as
they stepped into the porch of theif
Broklyn home, on returning from a
theatre party early today. The robbers
escaped with ten thousand dollars
worth of jewelry and four hundred
dol'ers in currency.
ODD FELLOWS TO MEET IN
RALEIGH, MAT 20TH
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* The laying of the cornerstone of
the half million dollar Odd Fellows
Temple at Raleigh, and the Grand
Ledge parade on the aftrfnoon 0f
May 20th ,a public meeting at thi
City Auditorium on Tuesday night,
a barbecue complimentary to visit
ing members of the Grand Lodge and
Rebekah State Assembly on Wednes
day and a sight seeing trip on Thurs.
day will be teh features of the Mee*
ing of the 'North Carolina Grand
Lodge. I. 0. O. F. which convenes
at Raleirh nert week.
The Grand Lodge will convene a
2:80 p. m. on Tuesday for a brief
business session. The parade wilt take
place at four ocloek. Stat and City
officials, civic and fraternal bodies
wil take part. A number of the dele
.ga*'on- are expected to have fkats.
At night there will be an open
meeting at the City Auditorium. Ad
dresses of welcome will be delivered
by the Mayor and Past Grand Mas
ter S. B.. Currin of Greenville. A
musical nroeraw will be a feature of
the evening.
The Grand Lodge officers will la>
the cornerstone. The following pro.
gram will be carried out: "Carolina”
by State College Band. “America**
by the audience. Official ceremonies
Oration by Gen. E. W. Bradford of
Washington, D. C.., Star Spangled
Banner, by band.
ATLAJmCXOAST LINK
N DECLARES EXTRA dividend
(By Associated Press)
New York, May 16.—The directors
i of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.
have declared an extra divident of on*
percent on common stock in addiion
to the regular semi-annual divident of
three and one half percent.
“BILLY’* SUNDAY REACHES
MAYO HOSPITAL
(By Associated Press)
Rochester, Minn., May 16.—Rev.
Billy Sunday, evangelist has arrived
here to enter the Mayo'Clinil-hospital
for treatment for kidney ailment. He
spent a restful night aboard the pri
vate car that brought him here from
Chicago^
MRS.' EDITH GOULD SUIT
BROUGHT AGAINST HUSBAND
(By Associated Press)
Paris, May 16.—Edith Kelly Goule
lost the suit she brought in the
French courts to obtain' half of the
property in France, owned by Prank
Jay Gould her former husband. The
court ruled she had no right to share
in this property because her marriage
occurred in America where the ml*
of separate property of husband and
wife prevails.
RIGHT OF PRESIDENT TC
PARDON WAS DENIED
A
it,i
(By Associated Prtii)
Chicago, May 15.—The right of
the President 0f the United Statt, to
pardon in a chrii contempt earn was
denied* in the opinion sijrned by .the
federal district Judges George Car
nenter and James Wilkeraon, |n_«he
Philip Grossman case which was con.
\ gidered before the Daugherty taresti
gatmjr committee, the opinion Wf
that Gfrossman ghouid-be taken in cus
tody on sentence of one year in jail
for Contempt decreed by the former
federal iudg, LandU- Grossman wai
«*ntenced for contempt in the prohi
bition case. ' .
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We at'n e r
Partly c’oudy with modern
tore today and Friday.’
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MRS O’BRIEN ENJOYfe
VISIT TO THE MILLS
Yesterday afternoon Mr*. W. A.
O’Brien of Seattle, Wash., who has
| been spending the winter in North
Carolina and Virginia had the pleas
nre of being shown throetgh the Bog
Mill oim| the Bfdapread Mill. She was
accompanied by Mrs. M. E. Murray
and for an hotir they were shown the
I different departments of the mill by
Mr. Trantum who take* great interest
In showing and explaining the work ol
these wonderful mills,
i Mrs. O’Brien was especially inter
ested in the rugs as they have four
stores in California, and it was a great
pleasure to see how the rugs were
made from beginning to finish.
She expects to leave in about ten
days for'a short visit in Kentucky.
She will be met there by Mr. O’Brien
who has been in San Francisco fot
a year or more. They will go to
their ranch in Washington to attend
to some business and from there to
San Francisco where they will make
their home. •
When Mrs. O'Brien returns to Cal
ifornia she expects to tell the people
she had the pleasure of seeing the
rugs made in Leaksville mills. And
the courtesy showed by Mr. Trantum
in explaining the different work, and
also tell them of the beautiful designs
in bed spreads Which are being made
here in our own town.
THE WILD BEAST MAN
(By WickM Wamboldt)
I read the other day where hold-up
men with guns >» their hand8 used
their teeth to pull stiek_pins from the
clothes of their victims and rings
from their fingers. The thought oc
curred* to me, how like wild beasts
these men Were. How like the tiger
of the jungle and the wolf of the
foty* Wtfh *v-’- tvrr *—•
from their victims what they wanted.
Unlike the tiger and the wolf, they
took jewels instead of blood, but this
was d))e only to difference in taste,
not character. Had they, like the
tiger and the wolf, wanted blood, they
would have taken blood and like these
ferociou8 beasts would have sunk
their teeth' in the throats of their vic
tims. As it was, they Wantonly shot
four of the party they robbed. The
tiger and the wolf! would have killed
not had not they wanted blood.
The whole United States is.seeking
for the wild beast man who the other
day snatched a little baby and idade
off with it. Did he eat it? No; proo
ably he was less merciful. Had the
little thing been carried off by this
man’s twin brotjher, the tiger, its
parents could at least have had the
meagre comfort of knowing it was out
of its misery. ,
Some one made the observation that
600 years ago the site of New York
City was the haunt of wild beasts and
savages, and someone else remarked
that there were fewer wi'd beasts ana
savage8 there 600 yeara ago than to.
day The city jungle always attract#
the wild beast man.
Have you ever thought how like an
imals some people are? There is the
man, shrewd an! shifty eyed, who
makes *us think' of a fox. Another,
slick and treacherous, reminds u» of a
snake. Another has , the fierce de
meanor of an eagle. Another is lithe,
graceful and as dangerous as a pan
ther. Another, high-«trung, emotions,
irrational. reminds VOU of S horse.
Another* p'acid, and mentally heavy,
makes you think of a cow. Some
people chatter and go on like a flock
of gueneajten*. We have all seen the
man with a face like a rat. A* for the
eak-tai* simile is too common to need
mention. $
Most of us in some degree the wild
'beast taint. Our biggest Job- in this
life is to get it out of ns..
SOUTHERN BAfTI8TS DECLINE
TQ HAVE PEACE COMMITTEE
(By Associated Press)
Atlanta, Ga., May 15—Southern
Baptists convention has declined to
authorise the appointment of a spec
ial peace committe, to prepare a pap
er for presentation to the convention
tt IMS eetting,forth Hie Christian
teaching in regard to varv
I HENRY EDHAM MAY BE
; KEENAN GIRL’S SLAYER
THE POLICE BELIEVE
CHOKES AND,ROBS LADY
Police Trying to Link Confess
ed Gem Robber With Oth
er Crimes in Gotham
STOLE TO PAY LAWYER
New York, May 16.—Henry Edhan,
an Englishman of a half doze naliases
and a suspect in several of this city’s
most sensational unsolved crimes',
was incustody tonight on a nalleged
confession that he drugged Mrs. How
ard Johnson wife of the playwright
and robbed her of $9,000 worth of
gems at the Hotel Alamac last Mon
day night.
Arrested on a clue furnished by a
bottle of cough medicine an didenti.
fled by numerous witnesses, the pris
oner wa9 reported by Inspector Cough
lin to have almitted he and a woman
companion robbed Mrs. Johnson and
that he and two gunmen* recent'y in
vaded the apartment of Mrs. Mifdred
Monroe, a former Follies dance),
overtaking several thousand dollars
in jewels and money.
Witnesses were summoned t0 his
cell tonight to see if they could iden
tify Edham as a participant in the
drugging, bobbing and murder of
Dorothy King Keenan anl of Louise
Lawson. Pd“ice declared they also had
clues linking him with a Broadway
shop silk robbery of two weeks ago.
The prisoner ig known to the police
under the aliases of Harry Lasset,
Wilson, Philips, Trent and Roth. He
is alleged to have confessed he stole
the stones to pay a lawyer at Wash
ington, D. C, where he recently was
arrested for burglary and released on
bail.
The record, indicate Edham was
born in^ Dorchester, England and that
he has served in Sing Sing nrison,
Atlanta penitentiary and Trenton
prison in this country. ‘He toTd his
captors that “Sam Jackson” now in
Sing Sing was his brother.
LIMIT STAY OF BISHOPS IN
ONE PLACE TO EIGHT YEARS
> (By Associated Press)
ansi, may 'Ip,—in»
limitation to eight years of the bish.
op’s tenure in any one area residence
in this country which was formerlj
indefinite was approved by the Meth
oiist- Episcopal General Conference
The change was regarded as radical
and opponents of the measure said it
would decrease the effectiveness of
Episcopal suprevision*
POWER COMPANIES SUBMIT
PROPOSAL FOR MUSCLE SHOALS
(By Associated Press)
Washington, May 15.—Willingness
on the part of associated power com
panies to submit another Muscle
Shoals proposal to purchase the power
produced at Musc’e Shoals by the gov.
ernment and to distribute it under
federal water power act was expressed
at senate agricultural committee heal
ing by E. A. Yates, general manager
of the Alabama Power L. J. Power
Co. Yates explained’ this proposal
would depend upon the perpetual
government ownership and operation
and in effect would be the modifica
tion of the Norris bill which provides
for the government operation' of the
property.
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COLORLESS VERDICT IS
RETURNE DIN DEATH OF
MRS. JOHN EGGLESTON
Expect “She Was Killed Bv
Persons Unknown.”
HER HUSBAND IS HELD
He Is In Jail In Martinsville,
V»., and Will Be Given a
Hearing Today
Danville, Va., May 15.—The cor»
ner’s jury which for days has beei.
investigating the death of Mrs. John
Eggleston late this evening returned
a non-committal verlict that she had
b«en killed by persons unknown. The
formal decision was reachel after
' the jury had gone to the Eggleston
home near Fontaine, combed through
for new evidence and discussed the
affair with neighbors who spoke of
the family with some reluctance.
Notwithstanding the colorless ver
dict returned, John Eggleston tonight
remained a prisoner i ntEf^Martins
vLTe jail charged with complicity in
the death of his wife. He will be
given a preliminary hearing tomorrow
while the evidence in '.lie case re
maitig clear in the mines of witnesses.
He has not formally testified but
maintains ignorance of murder in all
particulars. The state, however, holds
circumsthncitH evidence in spite of”
the theory that jealousy prompted tlu
crime, that Egg eston had found let. i
ters from an admirer addressed in
warm terms to his wife and had taken
them to an attorney. There is also ev
idence that three day3 before Mrs.
Eggleston disappeared she had told
a friend she was having trouble over
money matters with her husband.
Sapling Spattered With Blood
The coroner's inquest which began
early on Tuesday morning continued
most' of the day and was held in the
open air at the spot where the remains
werP found. All of the" evidence was
presented there and Coroner J. W.
Simmons afforded the jurors every
opportunity to examine the spot. A
group of the jurors were examining
the surroundings when two of them
came upon what probably is the most
vital evidence sudstantiating the tht
tv.»m a distance of five feet dr more
to the ground. This was close to where
the body lay and the theory is that
when the woman was attacked she
staggered against the sapling and
then sank to the ground.
The theory of robbery was also
gone into exhaustively, the jury going
to Martinsville and making inquiries
at the bank where she kept her- sav
ings. These had not been withdrawn
and it js doubtful if Mrs. Eggleston
had. the $300 which*her husband opines
was otf her person at the time. How
ever, Mrs. Eggleston was known to
always carry substantial sums, or
money on her person for some rea
son not exp ained. This she kept in a
belt about her waist. It was found to
be empty.
Mrs. Eggleston was about 42 years
of age arid is described as having
been a comely woman. She was *
member of a prominent Henry county
family. She was before her marriage
Miss Nancy Graveley and member i
one of Henry Countys pioneer famll.
ics. Jack Gravely .living on the old
homestead is her brother and T. B.
Graveley, hardware merchant of
Martinsville, is her cousin.
The Baptist Vote To -
' Handle Negro Problem
Without Outside Help
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BSC SUM IS RAISED
Report At Southern Baptist
Convention Show S3 df 75
Millions is Rased
CATHOLIC AFTER NEGRO
Atlanta,*Gd., May 14.—Voicing ivt
determination to handle the negro
problem in the south without con
ference or consultation with the
northern Baptist convention or-'any
other organization, the southern Bap
tist convention late today rejectee
a recommendation spf its executive
committee for a joint conference
with tJ» southern Baptist convention,
the northern Baptist convention and
the national Baptist convention.
The recommendation was container
in a report to the executive commit
tee to the convention. It was at
tacked by Dr. B. C. Henning, of At.
lanta, in charge of negro work under
the home mission board, who said
that it would complicate a situation
which already is delicate enough. He
urged that the board he represents
be 'eft alone to handle the situation
,as it sees best. \
Dr. Livingston Johnson, of Ra
leigh, N. C.,> a member of the execu
tive committee, said the intent of the
recommendation was not to have any
organic conn£btion with any othet
body on the negro question, and thai
the action merely was taken at the
request of Congressman Lowrey tc
do something to bring about bettei
| felling between the wbite^ and th(
negroes. • > ’ $
Both W
id and Starnes
Make Bitter Complaint
Of a Harsh Prison Life
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* WOOD AND STARNES
TAKE DINNER TODAY
* AT MORGAN’S CAPE
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* This afternoon about 3 odock ’
* Otio Wood and J. H. Starnes '
* accompanied by three officers '
* from the North Carolina peniten- '
* tiary stopped at Morgan’s Cafe 1
* on the Boulevard and had lunch. ’
* Quite a number of people con-/1
* gregated in from of the Cafe to ’
* get a glimpse of the two desper- "
* adoes. *
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SENIOR CLASS PLAY WAS
A GREAT SUCCESS
A most interesting and entertaining
play was given by the Senior Class
6f» the Leaksville High School in th>
High School Auditorium, Tuesday,
night, 13, 1924.
The Senior Class intends to follow
the custom of presenting some gift to
their Alma Mater, and the proceeds
from this play will be used for that
purpose.
Tn» opening scene of the play was
in the home of a rich man, Mr. Capell
Allen Ivie). His daughter Evelyn,
(Elizabeth Patterson) and Evelyn’s
aunt (Mildrel Osborne) are very
much disturbed becaus,, of an accident
’auspd by Evelyn’s carelessness which
resulted in the serioud injury of a
stranger, David Bourne (Fred Mc
Kenzie) Evelyn’s suitor, William Ab
ernethy. his sister. Johnsie Fagge and
*heir so-called friends, Mary Millnet
ind P.allie Smith, try to help Evelyn
iut of her trouble and gee her safely
married to her suitor.
The second scene shows the stran
ger in the hospital under the special
■are of Dr. Johns (John Moore) and of
thp nurse Miss Ramsey, (Willie Mat
*';bee). Evelyn brings the young man
promise3 him d position as manner ,
if their farm.
' the third scene the ambulanoc
Doctor, Homer Vernon brings David
is a convalescent to Mr. Capell’s home
Evelyn gradually becomes more and
more interested in his welfare. Her
brother Gilbert, (James Crouch) ana
Mammy (Ruby Hedrick) are interest,
ed in spite of the disapproving words
of eyesy one else.
At the manager’s bungalow in the
last scene, we meet David’s moth-T,
Audrey Hodges and Remus (Joseph
Bondurant). Remus is a great help tc
David and Evelyn on their daily
hunts The play as a whole was well
directed and we’I presented. All of
the characters acted their parts well
,n 1 deserve credit for their interest
and diligent work.
WORKMEN FUSS OVER
CLOSING OF WINDOW
RESULTING IN 3 DEAD
Chicago, May 14.—Angered be
cause other employes opened a win
low, John C. Gardner, 60 years o'd
an inspector for the Illinois Mallea
ble Iron Co., today shot and killed
two foremen andthen pursued by oth
er employers, placed one of the thret
pistols with which he was armed
against his temple and committed sui
cide.
The police said they learned that
Gardner and his two victims, R. W.
Wilcox, 64, and Herman Krause, 41,
had quarrelled because Ihe two mer
insisted that a window be left open
while Gardner insisted he had a cole
and the air would make it worse.
Gardner left the plant and shortly
came back with three pistols. He firs*
shot Krause and then rushed to an
other pari of the factory and sho‘
Wi’cox.
METHODISTS IN UPROAR
(By Associated Press)
Springfield, Mass., May 14.—t
charge that the Methodist church ha
been brought int» ill repute as a sup
porter of communism and third intei
national threw the Methodist Episco
pal general conference into an uproa
(t was finally voted that policy Wor
chairman of civil liberties union an
ditor of Methodist Federation of sc
cial service was behind the jurisdic
tion of conference. f
IN PRISON AT ROANOKE
THEY ASK PEOPLE NOT
TO JUDGE TOO HARSHLY
, Wood Say That Society Never
Gave Him A Chance ,
LAW ALWAYS HOUNDED
Otto Says He Tried to be Mod
el Prisoner and That Was
Treated Harsh
Roanoke, Va., May 15.—Otto Woou
J and J. H. Starnes the two North
Carolina convicts captured here Mon
day evening, today issued signed
statements telling why they left the
North Carolina prison and scoring
the prison officials. Wood’s statement
was headed “Why I Left the North
Carolina Penitentiary”. It follows:
“Good citizens of Virginia and all:
11 know you have Wood and Starnes
pictured as desperate criminals, but
I wou'd like to say to one and all
that I, Wood, have never had a
chance to make good for I have been
drug around by the North Carolina
authorities.
“Sometimes I think 1 was born on
a dark and cloudy night for my troa_
bles have been much and many. I am
now 29 years old and I have now ail
told been sentenced to 80 years and
at the time of this ^rouble in North
Carolina I came out with a clean
breast of everything that I had done.
That I ask the people for a chance
on account of having a dear wife and
two 'ittle babies.
Warden Makes It Hard
“Instead of getting a chance, tht
warden of the North "Carolinapt-ni •
tentiary Sam J. Busbee makes it hard
on me in every way I went to him and
asked him to treat me as he dil the
other prisoners: that I had a long time
and I wanted to make good and that
I didn’t want to run away from thre,
‘If you think you can Bet away from
here you better go, if it is that easy.’
Then is when I made up my mind to
leave for I seen that I had no chance.
That is why we have so many crimi
nals today. It is the harsh treatment
that a poor devil gets that turns him
against the public and society and
the inhuman treatment. ,
“When a man with a long sentence
enters the penitentiary he needs all
‘he encouragement he can get for he
fee’s that the world is against him,
anyway. And I hope 'that the good
teople will not criticize my wife for
•vhat she did not do anymore than
any other loyal wife would have done.
(Signed! “OTTO H. WOOD’’
Starnes Statement
Statement by J. H. Starnes, Jr.
“They do not treat all prisoners
alikp as the officials show partiality
‘oward some prisoners and some ot
‘ho prisoners get treated worse than
a bid' doe'that I used to own myself.
“I guess the public thinks I am a ^
desperate, hardened criminal but
‘h<*v have done me wrong, if *-b~" do.
T have never hurt no one. TTie onlv
‘niury I have ever done is to myself.
T would have tried to make my five
years but that was .too much time for
the offense that I was sentenced for.
But after all, at th. penitentiary we
get the treatment like as god aR sotm
dogs get for I owned one myself one,
and I know.
We have to work 10 hours a day
from 5:45 a. m. to 12 and from 10
to 5:15. Then after what thcv call
supper they march us in aond 'oak us
up in a cell just large enough for *
cat and you can hardly turn around.
The cell is just 5 by 7. So there you
are until 5 ocloclc the next day. and
hen you have another day of th«t
■sme thing. Some days we will have
some kinds of beans or peas and it is
”o trouble to find huge, and flies in
the food. But sti’l we prisoners have
pat it and say nothing.
“But the old Prisoners the-' told
~te it was heaven from what i: used
■ to be. When you "et sick you go to
the drug room as they call it ar>d give
. vou a handful of calomel 8 "nd 10
r crains at a Jime and the next day the
’ doctor comes around and pa-.ses by
1 you at from four to ten yard, from
• you and says ‘well you are ready to
- go back to worjc’’
(Signed) i. H. STARNES
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