gtlje fUmmt %it# | KSTABL.I8HED 1 8 8 0 MOUNT AIRY. NORTH CAIN»< IN A THURSDAY MAY 12th, 1921. 81.80 P1R YEAR IN ADVANCB. POLICEMAN SHOT DOWN IN HEART OF GREENSBORO A Thrilling Ch**e Fellow* To Apprehend The Murderer Aad HU Accomplice* (ireenaboro, May 6.—Policeman W. Thoma* McCuiaton, a veteran member of the Qreensboro force, waa (hot and inatantly killed yesterday afternoon about 5:lfi o'clock ai b« attempted to board a Dodge automobile which the polica had been Informed wan a wnta key runner. Immediately following tha murder of Mr. McCuiston ona of the moat thrilling chases and running flghts in which local officer* hava par ticipated In many yeara took place on the road between thia city and Relda villo, resulting In the death of Tom D. Unitertaon. of Spray, and the capture of liewia Edwards, who clalma to be a son of Policeman W. S. Edward*, of Danville, Kddle Paxton, a third occu pant of the death car, has ao far elud ed the ofllcera but the search for him continue*. Policeman McCuiiton and Oake* were on Eaat Wa*hington street, be tween Davie and Forhia, when the car for which they hud been searching aa a liquor suspect showed up. It was do ing at a slow pace and McCuiston at tempted to step on the running hoard, directing the driver to halt. One of the men in the car placed a pistol at the chest of the officer, flred upon him and he rolled to th* street, death following inatantly. It is reported that 96 quart* of whiskey were found in t$e automo bile. Within a few moments afterward Policeman Oaken joined behind the fleeing ear. .Around Forbia, thru Fria eo and toward the Battle Ground he followed. The news quickly spread thru the city and within a ahort while other member* of the police force, I Sheriff Stafford and hi* deputiea, to gether with private citizens who were inrenai-d at the outrage. Joined in the hunt, and the road wai filled with automobiles or awift moving motor- j cycle*. A few of the pursuers, suspect-1 beaded for ReidsvilW along the Brown j Summit route, expecting to beat the | men to that point. Other* followed, along the Battle Ground road. At the fleeing Dodge reached the Guilford Battle Ground, the driver swerved Into, the road a ahort distance east of the | station. Officer Oakes failed to take' the tum hut continued onward to Summerfleld. Others following closely behind, however, were directed to the new road. The Dodge had suffered tire' trouble and the men had Just complet ed the job of making repairs when Officers .Southard and Rankin came up. I Robertson, the driver of the car, sped on thru the Rattle Ground arch and headed for Summerfleld, while the two j other men remained behind to battle] with the officers. They quickly separ ated in the surrounding woods, a few shota being exchanged at long range by oach sid*. Sheriff Stafford and other posaemen arrived on the scene! about thia time and a skirmish line 1 waa quickly formed. About 6:30 o'clock Sheriff Stafford and Deputy Brown spied the two men, widely ssp-1 arated along the creek bank nearj Jesaup's farm. Edwards took a stand behind a tree, as if determined to flght j it out, but Brown circumvented him by detouring and getting the drop on the object of hia quest before Edwards realized it. He gave up when Rrown i called for "hands up." The other man, later said by Edwards to be Paxton. escaped hut the officers have continued the search for him thruout last night •nd the early moming. Officer Oakes realixed at Summer field that he had miaaed the trail, ao he stopped to replenish his gasoline ■apply and await developments. With i_ _ _l i * t . - 11 e* i • - • ■■■ »• nnui v vunc v«u apcu inru Summerfleld at a high speed. Other officers came up and the race led on ward over the slippery roadi of Rock ingham county. At a point about three or four mile* thin aide of KefdivillA the driver cut Into a farm yard, ev idently Intending to back acroaa the road and cause a collision among the ear* of possemeitt but the officer* were too cl«M behind for this to have been accomplished. The officers swooped up on him and when he made aa lffto offer resistance, having refused to sur render. he was ahot down and died within • few momenta. The body was conveved to Reidsville and turned over to officer* of that city to await burial. Robertson waa said to have been the eon of Dave Robertson, of Spray. He was a young man of about SI years of ago. I Lewis Edward* refused to dtrslre any Information when he was first lodged In jafl at Greensboro He claim ed that his naaM waa Dave Jonas and that the oth«| man with him In the wood* in hi* roueln, Frank Jonea. and that both of them war* from Nor folk. When informed of Robertaon'* death, h* became mora oommunlcatlvii and aUtad that hla nama wa* I-awl* Edward*, that h* wa* a *on of Police man W 8. Edwarda, of Danville, and that ha hlmaelf wa* a formar member of the Danville fire department. Ha bore tha appearance of a "bad man." Oreenahoro wax deeply arouaed over the tragedy and group* of men con gregnted around police headquarter* and the undertaklnir parlor* of Pool A Blue, where tha body of Mr. McCula ton lay. until a late hour la*t night, ''"he vi'ti.nin member of the fore* wa* on* of the moat tionular member* of 'he forre and McCul*t«n wa* held In the hi|rhe*t e*teem by thousand* of friend* in the cltv. It wa* feared that trouble might follow if tha men were matured and returned to thl* city. Ed ward* wai ipirlted into the fnunty l* I thru a side door by Sheriff Staf '©.•d and a i'lo*e watch wa* kep*. dur •ng the night for any eventuality. Greenboro Policeman Held Un der $2,500 Bond Reidaville, May 7.- The coroner'* iurv investigating thr death of Tom Robertson, who wa* killed Wednenday in RiK-kinrham county, following the shooting to death in Oreensboro of Policeman McCuiaton, hv either I<oul* Edward*, Talley or Robertaon, re turned a verdict thl* morning shortly before 1 o'clock holding that the kill ing of Robertaon wa* not juatiflahl* and requiring Patrolman Oakea, of the firccnahoro police force, to give bond in the sufn of $2 500 for hi* ap pearance at Rockingham superior court at Wentworth May 16. % The coroner'* Jury found that Rob ertaon came to hi* death from a shot fired from a Studebaker car occupied bv Oaks. Clyde Cobb and another man unknown to the lurors and that Police man Onkes fired at Robertaon. Cobb wa* held under $500 bond aa a witneaa at the May term of court. The bond of 12 500 required of Policeman Oakea waa fumiahed and til# flitHtd.'" "• Award* Announced 23 Act* Of Heroism Pittsburgh, May 2.—Twsnty-three •eta of heroism were reeogniied by ths Carnegie Hero Fund Commission in swards announced here last night. In two esses silver medsls were awarded; in twenty-one eases bronxe medala. Five of the heroes lost their liv«* and to the dependenta of three of them pensions aitfrre(rating $1,920 a year were granted while to the de pendents of one of these and of one other whose life wss lost the sum of $2,500 was granted to be applied as the commission may sanction. In sddition to these money grants in nine esses awards aggregating <14,400 were appropiated for edu cational purposes, and in six cases swards aggregating $5,500 were mads for other worthy purpnaes. The Ave who sacrificed thslr Htm together with the swards follow: Miss Elizabeth Ball, aged 17, Buck eystown, Md. Died attempting to ssve another girl from drowning in the Monocacy river, Bncksyitown, July II 1920. Silver medal to the father. Mrs. Nsnnie B. Crocker, Ponca City, Okla. Drowned In a futile attempt to rescue s child from deep water in a grave pit at Dillion, Mont., July 2, 1920. Silver medal to the huaband. James W. Mullally, Cambridge, Mam., . crossing watchman. Killed trying to save an aged woman from being struck by a train at Cambridge, Oct. 11, 1920. Bronte medal to the widow and death benefit to her at th» rat* of $46 a month with a $5 a month additional on account of each of Ave children. Julius Hauck, Garden City, N. Y. Died attempting to save a man and woman from drowning at Southamp a daughter at the rat* of $85 a month, ton, N. Y., August 1 a, 1920. Bronx* medal to widow and death benefits to Ssmuel Davis, n*gr», Aflex. Ken tucky. Died in an attempt to rescue a young girl from drowning in Tug Fork of the Bib Sandy rlv*r at Aflex, Ky., July 12 1420. Bronte medal to the widow an i death benefit* to her at the rate ol 150 a month with |6 a month additional on account of her daughter. NOTICE Having qualified u administrator of the estate of J. R. Clark this la to notify all persona holding rlaimi against the eatata to present them to the undersigned for payment on or bfora March 0th, 1922 or thla notice will he plead in bar of recov ery. All persoas owing Mid eataU requested tq*naks prompt payment B. C. Rlvens. Admlniatrstor of the estate of J. R. Clsrk. CHILDREN TO BE TRIED IN JUVENILE COURTS That U Dociaion of N. C. Su preme Court Raleigh, May (I.—Children und»r 14 veara of ag» who commit crim«- • in North Carolina rannot be fried by other than the Juvenile court, accord In to a decision handed down by the atiprema court thi* wc<-k Court found an error In the caae of atate agalnat Coble, In which Jamo* Coble, a IB vear old hov of A noon county, wan denied the right to have hla trial re moved from the Jurisdiction of the superior court to the Juvenile court bv Judge J. Hia Ray The boy wan charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The defense made a motion to have (he cane moved from the *uperlor court to the juvenile court V»f Anaon county, hut Judge Ray did not allow the motion. The can* wat brought to the supreme court on thla point, and the state'* highest judicial authority imholdi the Juvenile court act. Judge W. P. Stacy write* the opinion, say ing that the caae *hould have bean sent back to the juvenile court for investigation. and the judire should have dismissed the indictment of tha grand Jury. "The jurisdiction of the juvenile court la not to be ouated or denied h> reason of the fact that the defendant '•aa now reached the age of Vighteen,*' «av» the opinion "for it la clear that hi* age at the time of tha commlsaion of offense. rather than at the time of the trial, la to determine hi* guilt or liability and the tribunal which ahall take cognisance of hi* caae. Further more. he la not to be triad aa a crimi nal. but a* a juvenile delinquent; un der the *xprva» provision* of the statute the juri*diction of the juvenila court having once attached continue* for the purpose of refnrmatiorv and correction of the defendant. TO LET CONTRACTS FOR FOURTEEN ROADS Tart ■—1■- >"k Work on Now State System of Hi|bw«]n Raleigh, May T.—More than eighty mllet of the stat* road system approv ed at last week's session of the state highway commission were offered to <-ontraetor» by chairman Frank Par* vesterday with bids to be opened In 'he various district offices beginning next Tuesday. Fourteen separate projects are In cluded in the hatch of advertisements for bids offered yesterday, and among them is every type of road from the gravel to the standard concrete. ! Wilkes and Alleghany get the long est single road, totaling 19.90 miles of water hound macadam road on the link between Elkln and Sparta. Mc Dowell gets the shortest, 1.80 miles of concrete road on the Central highway between Marion and Marion Junction. Among the mads advertised Is the completion of the Durham-Chapel Hill highway, the section being 4.10 miles from the Orange county line toward the university. The Durham end of the road is now nearing com pletion, and the remaining section will b» completed as soon as the con tractors can get to work. It will be standard width, concrete construction. Mr. Page hopes to complete it before the beginning of the collegiate year in September. International N««d Of Har mony Urged Boston, Mass.—A picture of the nation* of the world living harmoni ously side by tide as the states of the Union live, was painted by Charlea W. Eliot, president-emeritus of Harvard University, in an address at a dinner (riven to about 600 alien young men studenta at the nearby colleges anu universities hy the Boston Chamber of Commerce. He pointed out that many racea live together In the United States in such a way aa to provide "a type for the world," preserving their national escellenclM yet interchang ing their national merita and gifta. The students who comprised represen tatives of 44 non-English-speaking nations, were welcomed by the Mayor of Boston, the president of the cham ber and by other speakers who streaa the need of international coopera tion and paderatanding. Evila of ConaUpatiM Perhaps the most serious of the diseases caused by constipation ia ap pendicitis. If you would avoid thia dangerous diseaae, keep your bowels 1 regular. For thia purpose Chamber lain's Tablets are excellent, eaay te | take and mild and gentle la effect. GEN. CARR WANTS TO GO TO CONGRESS Grand Old Man Say* Ha Ht^ Always Baan Ragular; Nmr Had to Jump in Band-Wag on, Ai Ha Wat Always Thara at Start. Washington, May 7.—General Jul ian S. Carr, of Durham, will be a can didate for ••ngressman-at-larga should North Carolina be given su ditional representation under the new census figures. The General, who Is In Washington tmlay, unit] laat night that he had bnn urged to make the rare and that he would |>rohahly do ao. General Carr said: "If the iltuatlon in tha state la aa I am warranted in believing it ta ha from the letter* whirh I have received, ! am honeatly of the opinion that NoHh Carolina ha* no second choice for congressman from the state-at larife, and I feel that perhapa I owa It to friends who are urgin^me to an nounce my candidacy, to aay that my bat is in tha ring to the finish. One thing and the chiaf thing, regarding my announcement is that tha party will have mi apologies to offer or ex cuses to make for my faith and prac i tlce. I have liyn ao regular, that I | have almost leaned backward. I have never waited for the band wagon to start. On the other hand, I was in at the beginning— in fact I have been one of the starters on the proposition of woman's suffrage, liberal appropri ation for education and improved highways, sufficient enlargement and ippropriations to properly rare for all our eleemosynary institutions, includ ; ing the increased pensioning of Con federate veterans, the enforcement of l»w and order. The party will have no reason to appologize or explain. "Since the year I served under Mr. Hoover as a 'dollar a year man,' I have had a hankering to get hack to Washington. I ramble considerably but 1 have yet to And a more delight ful city to live in than Washington. I am too young to retire, in fact I have led such a strenuous life, 1 could not, .pur do I want to, part cumpany with gooi!, Ixinest, hird-work. 'Xnd nothing would afford me greater pleasure than to associate with the most capable and distinguished gentlemen who so fit fully snd faithfully represent North I Carolina at the national capitol—all ! of whom I am proud to claim are my personal friend*. What I don't know -about public life and North Carolina needs. I feel wsrranted in saying these delightful and capable gentlemen would take pleasure In telling m*. Yea, tell the hoys that my hat is In the ring snd to come across. . n \ l5empsy's Job From Now On To Get Speed Jack Dempsey will train more scien tifically for hi* cnminf match with Carpentier that he ever trained In hi* life. One writer amy*: The reason ia tnat he's going to fight a man who ia credited with be ing the moat scientific boxer in the world. * Preparation* for the big mill will he entirely different than what he went thru before rocking Jeaa Willard. Willard waa strong. alow, bljr—a mountain of flesh and bone. Carpen tier ia clever, faat, smaller—a high (reared muscular machine. Dempaey hag consulted the best authorities in America on how to train to meet the skilled Frenchman. He i will do no boxing for the present. His . training for the Rrennan fight, which j extended over Ave months, taught him I a lesson Dempsey waa "boxing" stale when he met Brennan. Speed ia the thing which Dempaey will strive for in all hia training. Hell have to have It to match that of Carpentier. Instead of big, hf«vy sparring part ners Dempsy will aurronnd himaelf with clcver boxers who are fast-mov ing. Rowan Officer* Fmd And Destroy A Kitchen Still | Salisbury, May 1.—|<oc»l ofBcers hoadod by Sheriff Krider found and drutmyrd a kitchen (till in a negro** house in this city, the outfit being found in the horns of Jim Graham, who admitted that hs waa making a little whiskey for his own us*. The plant was In operation when the of ficers arrived. The still was made out of a five-gallon ran that had contain ed oil, and Jo this was connected a small copper pipe which had been twisted Into a coil at one end. The coil ran off into a large bucket and the end protruded from the bucket near the bottom and from this liquor was slowly ootlng. The can waa set on a hot stove and the backet waa on a chair nearby. Graham drew nine months la county court SCHOOLS FOR ILLITERATES Notable Work For Nativa And Foreign Adult* Dom In Bun comb* County, North Caro lina Aaheville, N. C — Buncombe county It (Ivan credit for Its succeaa In eetab lUhing and in maintaining community M-hoola for tha benefit not only of natlva adult illltarataa but alao of foralgnera. Tha flrat community •choola in Runcomba county were ••nranlsed in Ortobar, 1»I9. Inatruc t ion la given both In Aakavilla and In dlatricta outalda tha city, wherever, In fart, aa many M 10 peraona desiring to be taurht can con»enlen»>" bj grouped together. The rlaaxea am held n ptlMIt school bulldinra, welfare cot U|M, rhurchee and In tha homaa of the puplla. In Aaheville, tha teachera of theae <'»mmunlty arhoola arc paid by tha city, or by aome organisation or in dividual, and by tha state, each pay ing ona-half of tha expense. Outalda of Aaheville, tha expense la boma equally by tha county and tha state. riaaac* for foreigners war* flrat organised in tha county In tha fall of H»"20. Robert Hoffman, a C*echo-81o vak, ha a been ona of tha prima movara in making thla department of tha work a success. Thera ara aeveral achoola in tha city of Aahevtlla. for Nagm adult illiter ntea, but none in tha rural diatricta, thla being due to tha fact that thera are only a few Negroes in Buncombe county outside of Aahevilla. Tha average age of tha native-born white men and whit* women attending the community achoola ia 28 year* Mra. Elizabeth C. M >rria ia tha di rector of the Buncombe County Com munity Schooh, and it ia due largely to her unaelflah devotion to thla work and her intelligent guidance that tha irhools have attained ao marked a aucceaa. In apeaklng recently of her work in Buncombe county, Mra. Mor ria naid: Deflniteneaa along four ipac ial linaa haa been worked for. In tha ft rat place, we endeavor to diacover if there la real deaire among tha illiter atea above 14 yeara of age to learn, or if thia deaire can be arouaed. Wa then work out definite outline* in reading (including elementary history) writ ing, arithmetic, spelling and eivica, and to find or make subject matter adapted to the pupila. Another aim ia to train teacher* In uaing thia mater ial by meana of methoda that have brought reaulta. Lastly, we strive to arouae in the general public and In vbool officials a definite interest In i-ommtinity schools as a piece of civic betterment work—a matter of both altruistic and economic value." Parent* Liable For Damage The decinion of the Supreme court in ■ case from Forsyth county may interest parent* whose automobile* are operated hy minor children. In this case a youth, running his father's automobile with the tatter's consent, drove recklessly, the machine was wrecked and a young lady riding with the boy was killed. Her relatives brought suit for $50,000 damages against the father of the hoy. In the court below Judge Finley dismissed the action, holding that it could not be prosecuted against the father. The Supreme court over-rules this de cision, declaring that ft is a question for a jury to determine. Parents will therefore take notice that they are liable for damages in such cases; and when a minor under 16 is allowed to operate the car in express violation of the law, as is common, the verdict would be more certain and the amount of damages probably larger. A Cat Is The Mother To A Litter Of, Fox Cuba Danville. Va., May l.^J. J. Toller, a fanner living at Callands, has a'cat which is raising a litter of fox cubs. Several days ago the barnyard cat was plenteously bestowed with pro geny by the hand of fate. At about the same time one of Toller's dogs ran down and killed a fox which had a lit ter of cubs which warp soon found. Toller took three of the young cub* to his farm. The mixed family it hap py with growing devotian on ths part of the cat to the newcomer*. Mongolian Tom Thumb b Suing For Dtvorco Uportt, Ind., May 2.—Thia la about a divorce. The long and ahort of it ia that Che * amalleat man m the world, baa sued hia wife, who la mora than three tinea as tail, charging aba abandoned him Che Wah, 28 inchee tall, traveled with a circua on til lea yeare ago aa the Mongolian Tom Thumb He waigha 40 pom*, la eigh ty yeara old and wealthy. HIGH PRAISE FOR U. S. ARMY Of OCCUPATION I* Capable of Taking lb* Fi*U Within Twenty-Four Hour.* Notice Coblmi, Germany, April II.—A complete outfit, miniature army equipped with all neceaaary services, capable of taking tha Arid In 24 hours' nolle* without tha s*» (stance of any outside elements and on* of tha haat military units avar onranlzad tn tha world'a history of armlai such la tha description that military man. allied nautral and former anamiaa apply to th* A ~-i ri< an army of e>'< upetlen as it *i constituted today. That la tha efficiency of the train ing system of tha American forraa In (iiTmtny, tha excellence of their •<quipm*nt and thair fsuit leas military ►•earing ara generally recognised thnj out Rtirope la shown hy the fS<1 tha* missions from various rountrlaa hare either rtaltad Coblena during the paat faw montha or hava applied for fxrmiaalon to coma tn thla baae and gat first hand knowledge of how It la done. A faw waalca ago tha chief of staff of tha Swiss army, accompanied hy arveral officer*, a pent a week In CnMeni as the guest of General Allen, the American commander, attended inspections. visited the barracks, re viewed the troops snd returned to Berne to tell the officers of the Swiae army that the American armv on tha Rhine was "the most up-to-date, the heat equipped and the heat looktnff military outfit of all the armies of the world." A commission from the Netherlands made a similar visit and was equally favorably impressed and now the Fin nish government ha* asked permission to send a commission to Coblens. Should circumstance* require the American army on the Rhine to moee irainst an enemy or occupy further territory. 10.000 Infantrymen compos ed of the first and second brigades furnish the bulk of the fighting force. Their advance would be guarded against surprise and ambuith by MM cavalry and 18 airplanes, which would do the scouting before the moving infantry. Three trained pilots are »* - * » e • - «> «■>•••>■« mi rmn pi as nr in CIN 91 airmen meeting with accidenta. On* thousand artillerymen, aerving oiirht batteries of field irunn, would be ordinary force. it become necessary. Thro* hundred men of the signal corps battalion would look after tele phone and telegraph communication* with the base at Coblenx. The fmfl way engineers battalion, which ia re ceiving constant practical training on a little branch lina on the right bank of the Rhine which they are operat ing. would, with the assistance of tha motor transport corpa, attend to the service of suppliea of the extra mend them. Aak your neighbor! The engineer* first battalion wonM throw pontoon bridges over luck stream* as were traversed in the ad vance. Six ambulance companies, as sisted by a medical corps of 800 estab lishing field hospitals, would give first help to the wounded before their eva cuation of the baae hospital Only one arm uaed in modem war fare is lacking—tanks. As one officer remarked facetioualy: "We have no tanks of any sort in this army." There i* a machine gun section with every company instead of on* to every battalion as formerly . Thus while the army of occnpattaa in Germany numbers Just a little more than half the effective* of on* Ameri can division on a war footing, It la nevertheless, a real army in the full est aenae of the term. ^ Young Couple W«d ^ West Market street Methodist church last night was the acene of a quiet wedding, whan Miss Una Ssal and Karl Ljung, Jr., were married bjr the pastor. Rev. J. H. Bernhardt. There were no attendants, only a few relatives and friends of the young1 couple witnessing the ceremony. Soon after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. I Jung left for Asheville and other points in western North Carolina? where they will spend their honey moon They will return to the city May 15 and will reside at 410 Gnllforl avenue. Mr. LJung la the oldest son of Mr. and Mr*. K. J. A. LJung. of this city, and is aaaistant caahier of the Jeffer son Standard Life Insurance company. Mr*. Liang, whose home foi lastly was in Mount Airy, has lived hi Greeas boro for shoot a year and has wan numerous friends. She was idnaatad at Guilford college and |g a yn—g ws man of Many accomplishments sal ft Daily New* May Ml

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