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Surry-Yadkin Annual Masonic Picnic. ThursdavJ A..« **u ^ fi *)(%/(* id Tii Home Coming Week" at Elkin, N. a Ijf mount lira ESTABLISHED 1880 MOUNT AIRY. NORTH = CAROLINA AY, JUNE SOth. 1921. $1.60 PER YSAR IN ADVAMA NINE BOMBS DROPPED FROM PLANE SINKS GERMAN U-BOAT Nearly 200 Bomb* ud 43 Army and Nary Machiao* Provided for tko Attack But Vary Faw Took Part. Cape Oharle*, Va., June St.—A di rect hit with a 163-pound aerial bomb, dropped from an F-6L type s*aplan* aent the former German aubmartne U-117 to the bottom of the Atlantic today and abruptly terminated the Ant of a series of experiment* by the American army nnd nary to test thp ability of naval veaaeli to withstand damage inflicted from the air. one-time German commerce raider And submarine mine planter waa bound for Davy Jones' locker just 16 minute* after the first bombs wens launched. The bomb that settled the fat* of th* U-117 was one of a salvo of nine dropped from three planes that con stituted the first and only aerial divi sion to engage in the actual attack. A few minutes before the fatal salvo waa flred the same division had dropped three bombs to ret the range. The projectiles were hurled from a height of about 1,100 feet while the planes were making more than 100 miles an hour. It was only six minutes after the second (uflvo was launched that the U-117 made its last "crash dive" to find a resting place 50 fathoms deep The sinking of the U-117 in so short a time came as a surprise to most of the army and navy officers who wit nessed the experiment, many of whom had been frankly skeptical regarding the ability of the planes to hit even the submarine, despite that all th* condition* favored the attacking force and no effort was made to simulate war conditions. The U-117 urns secure ly anchored and the bombinf planes were furnished with charts showing the exact position of the target, but few expected that a fatal injury would be inflicted on th* U-boat so quickly. | r-I.:,rp^ 'rrrrTr^S^; pianos anffalateratt|ack6y23 army machines if the naval craft failed to get the submarine. Nearly 200 bombs were provided for th* affair, but only 12 were used, and of the 47 airrraft scheduled to take part in the bombing only three obtained a shot at the tar get while three more were robbed of their chance after reaching th* scene, by th* effective work of the flr*t divi sion. The division that sank the U-117 was commanded by Lieut. Deloi Thomas. The three planet were com manded by Lieutenants Kenne, Rum mill and Garvey. Although the detailed plans for the exercise called for tha appearance of the first division of three F-5L type planes over the target at 9 o'clock, it was an hour later when the division was sighted. Led by Lieutenant Thomas, the planes approached the target in battle formation. Each plane carried four 16S pound bombs, each bomb containing 116 pounds of T. N. T. As the division swung around for the run past the U-117, the planes dropped down to about 1,100 feet from the surface and when the head of the formation was almoat over the U-117, observers saw three bombs, one from each plane, drop in a graceful curve toward the submarine. An instant lat er a great column of water shot up over the craft, almost entirely obscur ing it As the spray and mist cleared away, it was evident that while no direct hit had been made with the first salvo fired for ranging purpose*, the •viators had calculated the range to closely that not a bomb fell more than the length of the submarine away from the target. The bow of the U-117 was lifted clear of the water by the force of the explosion and as the ves sel settled bark it was thought for a little that it was slowly sinking. In the meantime the three plane* kad circled around and were again ap proaching tjhe target against the wind. This tttie a veritable deluge of bon bs was dropped, each plane launching three, and the nine projectile* formed •n almost perfect pattern around the U-117 as they struck the water. A cloud of'biaek smoke and dust, centered with the rod flash of the ex plosion. flew into the air along with the water this time and the submarine •eemed to be almoat lifted from the water by the terrific Impact Members of the official observing party credited at least one direct hit to the salvo and It was thought possible that another bomb might have found a place in the U-boat's vitala. Almost before the mist a ad dost «f the explosion had cleared away the submarine began sinking slowly by the how and ail minute* after the salvo was launched the how had entirely disappeared only to reapp for an Instant, wallow in* helplessly in the trough of tha long Atlantic fell ers. Finally tha conning tower slipped beneath the surface and failed to re appear and the wounded vessel lifted her stern high Into tha aid and dived straight for the bottom. Meanwhile another diviaion of aircraft had ap peared on tha scene ready to take up the attack. Other naval planes at Hampton Roads and York town. Vs., and army aircraft at Langley field had no opportunity to engage in the at Uck' Y* LETTER FROM JAPAN V Having finished with th« bis city of Kobe referred to tn my last latter, I have ict out for home, leaving Mrs. Frank and Grady to stay two day* longer, after which. vapact to visit friends in Hiroshima, Nskatsu and Oita on their way Vtme. I am now sailing through the Inland S«a, noted for its scenic beauty, and through which sail ships going from the Uni ted States to China, the Philippines, etc. la sailing for'distance of over two hundred miles we are out of sight of land at only one place, I believe. With land on both sides of us, the scenes are constantly changing. There are no smooth or level lands to produce monotony What may at first appear to be a peninsula in the distance may prove to be an island on approaching nearer, and vice versa. There are mountains everywhere we see land, there being scarcely suitable land (or the towns and villages along the coast i of the island of Shikoku on which we live. There are islands of different shapes and sites everywhere. The smaller ones are too numerous to bej named or enumerated. Some are too small and some too mountainous to! be inhabited. I am traveling on a very satiafactiry steamer, though not the swiftest nor largest on this line. It is called the Cunzan Maru. Over fifteen years ago William Jennings Bryan was a pas senger on this boat, which jwa thei^ e~seemS* to Tmve 'Wen pleased with the treatment accorded to him. and wrote in large letters with a Japansae writing brush the following testi monial framed and hanging in the| dining saloon of the first class depart ment: On Board the Kunzan, Nov. 3, 1908. | To Capt. Harayama and Purser Miya saki of the Kunzan: You have made the Kunxan a very comfortable home for Mr. Yamashita and myself during our trip from Kobe to Kagoshima and return, and I am greatly obligated for the kindness shown by the offlcets and crtw. I hope I may fall into the same hands if I have the good fortune to cross the Inland Sea again. Kunzan: Bansai! William Jennlngi Bryan. The weather la to beautiful and the sea to calm that I have eaten my meals regularly and have felt entirely comfortable. But it is not always thus, I beg to assure you. Sea-sirkness is one of my "perils by sea," thoogh hardly as serioua aa the perils Paul experienced. In my travel by sea I am frequently reminded of the man who said that he got so sea sick that he thought he was going to die; but when! he got worse he was afraid he would not die—andget out of his misery. I have traversed the Hudson river by boat tor one hundred fifty miles; I have been up and down the Chesa peake Bay; I have seen whales and schools of porpoises in paaaiag through the lovely Paget Sound; and I have poseed oat from San Francisco through the Clolden Gate; but for beauty and interest which never fail nor fade give me the Inland Sea of Japan. At one end of the Journey of over two hundred miles is the eity of Kobe, the Mecca of our Mission, with its three schools with over 2,600 students and its several churches; and at the other end is my parish, stretch ing for fifty miles along a rocky eoast indented with numerous inlets which form ideal harbors for commerce and havens of protection for the multitude of fishermen snd their craft. These people need Jesus Christ, and I have been sent to them. This constitutes my privilege and my Joy. Inland Sea. May S, 1»21. J. W. FRANK. Heroin mend* Chamber lala'a TibbU "Chamberlain'* Tablet* have been a»ed by my huaba.id and my*elf off and on for the pa it five year*. When my huaband roe* away from home he always take* a bottle of them alonp , with him. Whenever I have that heavy feeling after eating, or feel dull and I nlayed out. I take one or two of Cham bertain'a Tablet* and they fix me an fine." write* Mr*. Newton Vreel ami, Mtnoa. N. T Take thm» tablet* wfcaa Tkra* U. 5. Skip* Hav* VtakbU •d From Smi Washington, J una tl.—TV (own ment it confronted with a sea myiter] that has itven rUe to the greatest ap prehension. Steamer* and schoonafi have disappeared from the ocew lanea, leaving no clue to the manner 01 cause for their vanishing. It ia no art thine * ship to sail and not he heard from again—the incident of th#| Cyclop* durine the war ia an exampl^i of thia—but now three and perhap*! more ■ teamen have cone, with no I storms reported along their routes . One theory la tjist •the crews oH tome of those vessels mutinied, seised veaaela and are taking them to Russia to make up a Bolshevik merchant marine. Crawless ship* have bee* re ported drifting on the ocean. One has! smashed on a beach with no trace of, anybody having been on board. So uncertain an the officials who have cognisance of the disquieting1 situation that they refua* to state what ship* are missing; they do not see how it could b* but they say there j I* • possibility that the veaaels are simply disabled and may show upi some time, and they do not wish to alarm the friend* of those on board by premature annuoncement. Again the element of coincidence makes thia improbable. One ship might have lost its rudder or suffered * breakdown,' but that several in the same zone within a few weeks should have had this experience is beyond the bounds of even sea Action. A hundred year* ago pirates would have been blam*d for the unreported disappearance of ships, hut the black flag cannot fly with wireless on every ship and vessel afloat accounted for by' clearance paper*. And yet, the missing ships suggest some such agency. Three coastal steamer* have vanish ed and the crew of an American schooner disappeared. The theory that the disappearance of these vessel* and crew of the schooner, Carol Deering, '.-..Tfau uff'alm. T4 il? sian ports, was advanced today by Secretary of Commerce Hoover. But few details of the disappear ance of the ships could be learned here today, either from governmental or private shipping Interests. ✓ Pirate* Roaming in Atlantic? Portland. Me., June 21.—The theory that pimtei are afloat tn the North Atlantic ha* found credence here Be lief in thia explanation Of the fate of the recently milling ihips ha* grown with establishment of the fact that a menage in a bottle picked up two month* ago north -of Cape Hatteraa, purporting to explain the disappear ance of the crew of the Ave masted Bath achooner Carroll A. Dee ring, mystery ship of Diamond Shoala, was written by Henry Bates, of Nlesboro, Maine, a member of the crew. Ques tion of its genuineness was settled to day by handwriting expert* who com pared it with letters written by Bates. The unsigned note stated that the schooner had been captured by an oil burning craft, something like a sub chaser, that the members of the crew who were hiding all over the ship with I no chance to escape were being hand-1 cuffed and that everything was being taken off. Through the efforts of Mrs. Willis M. Wormell, of thia city, wife of the captain of the Dee ring, and friends the Investigation was started by the state department, the department of commerce, the coast guard and other government agencies to establish the fate of the missing crew, which con-' silted of twelve men besides the cap-1 tain. They are working on the theory that the oil steamer Hewitt which 4)s-' appeared in the same locality at about the same time while bound from Texas to Boston, was captured by the lame pirate crew Brfla Hunt For Mlaaiag Crew Washington, June 21.—A world wide search for the mining; crow of the schooner Carroll A. Deering, of Bath, Maine, which piled up on the North Carolina beach last Jaimary with all sails s«t, but not a living soul aboard has been started by the state department thru American consuls. The mystery la being investigated by the department of justice and the department of commerce as la also, the unexplained disappearance of the American steel freighter Hewett out of Sabine Pasa, Texas, for Boston. < This craft disappeared at about the; same time that the Deering came ashore. The summary of the history of the Deering case as sent to consuls by the state department dlacloeea that wWi the Deering passed Cape I-ookont Mgfctahlp, N. C., on January 19, while hewul from Bio ds Janeiro Cm Norfolk • man other than tlx master reported that the tmm! bad feat both anchor* and asked to ba reported to tte owners. Two day* later tha vessel waa found •a tha beach which tha state depart ment describes aa "In tuch condition that theha is every suspicion of foul play having occurred." The department'* nummary also ■ays that a short time after tha Doer tag passed the lightship, a steamer, ths nam* of which has not been ascer tained, passed the lightship and was aaked to stop and take a message, but M response was received to the Hiamerous attempt* on the part of the master of the lightship to attract the veesel's attention.* The department's summary then says that on April 11, the following message was picked up in a bottle near Cape Hatteras: "Deering captured by oil-bumn% like chaaer, taking off everything, handcuffing crew. Crew hiding all over ship. No chance to make escape, j Cinder please notify headquarter* of the Deering." "The schooner carried a motor lif* boat and a dory." the state depart ment'* summary continues, "but neith er of them has been picked up and no wreckage from them ha* been found. Most of the provisions, clothing and supplies of the veesel had been jvraov •d." Amusement An Antidote For' Mischief Since "the pursuit of happiness" is recognised in the Declaration of Inde-1 pendence s< on* of our primary In alienable rights, it seems natural enough to Americans that a large part' of our charitable effort should be de-! voted to providing amusement and recreation for those who cannot obtain1 it without help. But a British social worker who has been making a care- i fui study of American charities is led te wonder at the amount of energy { and money we spend just to provide nl—nnra Our ^Mgukiui Mtivitv lor ShSiaiVf-nB'ieem#i to tli# er somewhat misplaced or misdirected. Yet she does not care to criticise too' strongly, since a foreign observe! "cannot grasp all the Conditions which J require mitigation nor the history: which led to their formation." More-, ov'er, she remember* the rebuke ad-; ministered to the too practical-minded1 disciple who lamented because the ala-' haster box of ointment was broken at; the Master's feet instead of being sold1 for the benefit of the poor. Mrs. 8. A. Ramett has, with her husband, been! "doing her bit" in Whiter ha pel, Lon don, for thirty-three years, und she rvportu thus, in the London Daily: T'legraph, on American charity: "One of the most striking facts is1 the amount of energy and money that, is expended to provide pleasure. Even, the government uses its machinery to instigate recreation clubs In public1 schools, and some muncipalities spend1 vast sums on playhouses, playgrounds, and recreation parks. The example It: followed by organisations such as the! Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A„ which extend from the Pacific to the Atlantic and from Canada to the Gulf of Mex ico. They adapt their work to the needs of many climates and to varied conditions, but never banish nor ignore as a leading note the provision of pleasure. In this pursuit many at the! churches and the settlements Join, as well as isolated societies, whoa* raison1 d'etre is freely to offer non-injurious amusement. In one report the follow ing passage occurs: 'A dime for the 'movies' is not always to be had for the asking. There are thousands of New York tenement children who could never see Charlie Chaplain throw a custard pie or know the thrill of Bill Hart's exploits were it not fori the free 'movies' provided by the Hud-j son Guild." Fifteen thousand is con-| sidered a small night's crowd as Chel sea Park, the 'stamping ground' of New York's congested lower West, Side, where free entertainments are provided on Monday and Friday nights during the warn weather. The police say they have been having 'a soft time' of it in the district since the, •movies',have been drawing the troo ble-makers off the streets."—Literary Digest The M. E. Church, South contribu ted nearly a quarter of a million dol lar* to the relief of the famine suf ferers in China. Why Safer frem RheaaaUanT Do you know that ninl oat. of ererr ten cam of rheumatisan are ■imply rheumatism of the muaelea or chronic rheumatism, neither of which require any internal treatmentT The pain ma* he relieved hy applying Chamberlain's Unlment, which toakaa sleep aad reel possible and tkat certainly mritni aVeatW to any m afflicted with SENT TO INSANE ASYLUM FOR LIFE Slayer of ThomtivilU Polica »»»^» Mutt Spood Rtmtiadar of Lifo With Other Crtmina! Greensboro, June 24.—Dr. J. W. Peacock, who «u acquitted of the murder of J. E. Taylor, Thomssville chief of police, by a Rowan county jury at Lexington week before taut, was committed to the asylum for the criailnal insane at Raleigh for the re mainder of hi* Ufa by Judge T. B. Kin ley after a hearing held here jres terday afternoon, tha order ' ..ig xigned by Judge Fin ley about 8 o'clock. Dr. Peacock waa in the courtroom, being in tha fun tody of Sheriff Prod 8. Sink, of Davidson county. Re did not ihow very much interest in tha diacuaaion but ap| eared slightly ner voua, nibbing hia hands together frequently. In announcing hia decision to place Dr Peacock in an insane asylum Judge Kinlry declared that thia action was not done in order to punish the de fendant who had been acquitted of the charge of murder by a jury but to protect society; that experts had testi fied that Dr. Peacock was insane, that he was suffering from an insidious nervous diaease which is progressiva; that he is likely to lose his sensea on alight provocation on account of the diaease from which he is suffering. Judge Finley declared that the jury acquitted him solely on the testimony of experts who declared him craiy and that if he la not now rraxy, as Mr. Rsper contended, he Is likely to be come a menace to society ss ha couti pretend to have s lapse of sanity, per form any crime and plead inaanity as an excuse. So evidence wss presented tk.r wsx the testimony of '.he all mists at the t-ia' read, all attorneys agree1.ig that Vflsi sT'Texinrton. was familiar wt'h the case. Mr. Raper, who was chief counsel for Dr. Peacock at the Lexington trial and whose chief defense in his speech to the jury . It la said, was the plea of Insanity, protested vigorously against the commitment order. He declared that there was no evidence that Dr Peacock is now an Insane man. He told the court that he had no doubt hut every alienist who testified during the l<exington trial would now derlare Dr. Peacock a sane man. He further more declared that every expert testi fying at the trial admitted on cross examination that Dr. Peacock was not insane; that he had been only tem porarily insane. Clyde R., Hoey, at torney for the prosecution, according to Mr. Raper, told the Jury that Dr. Peacock was a sane man. Mr. Raper asked Judge Ftnley to forget about the crime. He contended that a jury of men had acquitted him and that for this reason he could not be held liable to any punishment for the crime. Mr. Raper contended that Dr. Pea cock was made temporarily inaan* by reason of the burning of his barn the night before the murder of Chief Tay lor occurred | that on account of the nature of the disease from which the murderer waa suffering his mind was unbalanced by the incident. However, Mr. Raper declared that he does not now believe Dr. Peacock ia a menace to society and that he believed he would not have any other outbreaks. Solicitor Bower spoke but a few minutes. He declared that he waa astounded at the remarks of Mr. Rap er. Mr. Raper, Stated Mr. Bower, ham mered the idea of Insanity into the minds of the Jury and succeeded in ob taining a verdict of not guilty for his client, a man who had committed one of the most horrible crimes occurring in North-Carolina in many years. Mr. Raper made the point during the trial declared the solicitor, that paranoia is a progressive disease. He claimed at; that time that the disease, combined with (he excitement on account of the flr«, eauaad Dr. Peacock to murder a man in cold blood and yet, said Mr. > Bower, this same attorney actually comes before the same judge who pie sided over that trial and declares that Dr. Peacock ia now a sane man; that he Is not a menace to society; and that although he admits that one hit of ex ritement drove him to commit a mur der he does not believe it will happen again. Mr. Bower declared that It would be a travesty en Justice for Dr. Peacock to he tamed loose and he ask ed Judge Ftnley to merely consider the evidence given by witaeeees for the defence during the trial at Lu ll. Hoyle Sink, appearing with Soli eiter Bnsmr. stated that one of the principal argements ma*e by lawyers for til* defense during ilw hunni a Luliiftiii, including Mr. Kipw kte Mlf, «t> th*t Dr. Peacock would W confined in M Irmm asylum for Ufa If be war* acquitted. On* of the attor ney! for the dtftw, John J. Plliar, told the jury that If tbey acquitted th* defendant It* would not aak that ha ho turned looae, declared Mr. Sink. Tfco jury accepted the • la lament and as quitted Dr. Peacock, aaid Mr. Sink, and now una of hie attorney* aak* that h. ha turned looae. Dr. Peacock was taken to Raleigh yesterday afternoon on No. 22 'aavtoig Greensboro about 4 o'clock. He waa ac companied by Sheriff Sink. No mem ben of Ma family were pg*«ent at tk* h urine yesterday and only a few peo ple heard the argument* which wore mad* Just prior to the convening of Superior court for tk* afternoon. Judge Fin ley stated that by th* order of commitment Dr. Peacock could b* releaaed from the asylum by only two methods. A special act of the legiila ture will have to be paaeed or a writ of habeas corpus issued and >ign*d by the aolicitor. High Honor Comas To Rot. Cilbort T. Row* Greensboro. June 23 —The people .if North Carolina in general and Meth udinta in particular will ba deeply interested in the announcement re ceived here from Naahville, Teen., that Rev. Dr. Gilbert T. Rowe. at present editor of the North Carolina Christian Advocate, had been elected book editor of the Quarterly Review of the Southern Methodist church by the book committee of the church in session at Nashville yesterday. Or. Rowe will succeed Rev. Dr. Frank Thomas, who died some months ago. The news of Dr. Rowe'e election for one of the highest appointments in the Southern Methodist church came in a telegram yesterday from J. A. Odell, of this city. The position to which Dr. Rowe has been elected ia generally regarded in Methodist cir friends of Dr. Rowe in Greensboro and other sections of the state feel that he is destined to All the highest of fice in the church. Dr. Rowe has Ailed all of the more important charges in the Western North Carolina conference. He is a son of the late Rev. J. C. Rowe and at the last session of the conference was elected editor of the Christian Ad vocate, a position which he has Ailed wonderfully well. Dr. Rowe was paa tdr of Central Methodist church at Asheville, the Charlotte churches, Wesley Memorial at High Point, pre siding elder of the Greensboro district and pastor of the leading churches in Winston-Salem. He ia regarded aa one of the brainieat men in the church and one of the greatest pulpit orators in North Carolina. North Carolina Law Regarding Thrasher* The North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculuture announces, in coopera tion with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, that the law require* each thresher of grain to **ean a threshing license, from the Register of Deed* before operating. This license is free—no cost for same. In the sam* way that the operator ha* to hare a licenae, it ia also necee sary for *ach fanner to see that the party threahing hi* grain has a license. Each thresher must keep aad report the bushels threshed and the acre* from which the grain was har vested. All thresher operators should at once get their license, when a note book for keeping the records requir ed, as well aa the report sheeta, will be given them. These book* are to be retained permanently by the operator for personal records. But at the eloee of the threahing seaeon or not later than September 16, a complete report up to that date must be mad* to the Register *f Deeds. The thresher's re port* ar* net to be sent to Raleigh, bat to the Register of Deeds of each county where the threshing t* done. A word to the wiee Is: Operate with a licenae aad be sore the operator is licensed. Failure tor a Mwsaber to re port hum K6.00 fine, ahfco the licaaa* cost* nothing—i* free. The record* mad* will be a business memo randa fef reference ia later years and for making selteettoas from farmer i. Ths information ia used aa a< North Wilkuhors was ths next peats anting place tee
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