Newspapers / The Mount Airy News … / Dec. 8, 1921, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Mount Airy News (Mount Airy, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
YEAR Of ADVANCE. ESTABLISHED 1 • 10 ¥ OMAN AT THE ELECTRO CUTION V ardan Wanted Her to Sign DnA Certificate But 91m Politely Daclinad taleigh. Nov. >0.—For the first tiii* In th* history of electrocutions In North Carolina ■ woman, who ra fi *4 to glvs hor nam* to reportere a. I prison official*, witnsssed an •ici-trocution thia morning when Claude Morehead, negro wife murder or vl Guilford county, went singing and prayinK to hta death. The ,'0W| I woman was pretty and ityllahly dreeaed, and came to the electrocution with friends, who guarded her name with the same'care that she did. Warden Busbee tried to get her name when he asked her tt> sign the death warrant, thereby adding an other new chapter la th* history of electrocutions, but she refused to fail In with the suggestion of the warden, and declined to sign the paper testify ing that Claude More head had died legally and according to the statutae prescribed for such crimes as the one with which he was charged and found ruilty. The woman waa passing through Raluigh. It is said she was a native of New York state and that this was the seventh electrocution or other legal execution she has witnessed. One of these was in the famous Sing .Sing prison of New York state. Con sequently those who looked for un usual emotion of femenine display of temperament when the •ogro walked into the death house and sat down in Hm chair were disappointed. For she displayed no apparent emotion— no more than the others who were witnessing an electrocution for the fin* time, and not as much a* some of who have seen several, for one Claud* Mowheid wtat to hU dcfttfc ataging and praying. "Th« Lord hava mercy on me. the Lord have mercy on my soul" Im prayed as ha walked from the call on daath row Into the death chamber. Ha startod a hamming intonation that may have been a prayer or may hare been a Kong aa he entered the daath chamber. Thia humming con tinued as he sat down in the chair and the attendants strapped the body. It did not stop even when the helmet was fitted dnwn over his head, and even when th«- face strap was placed over mouth a> d nose the humming, droning prayer or aong continued, stopping only wh m the first shock sent the negro's body heaving and straining against the taut leather straps. Morehead killed his wife in a drunk-; rn moment after he and his wife had bami to a celebration at the "Bull Pen" in Guilford county, where, ac-i cording to the evidence there wasj much drunkenneaa. Returning to their home after the day's festivities and celebration Morehead accused his wife of something which she denied. This enraged the drunken negro and he slhpped his wife In the face and then hit her on the head with a chair. The woman ran Into the house but her husband followed her and chokad her. 8ome negro, attracted by the dis turbance, went in and pulled Morehead away from his wife. Thinking that ha had stopped the fight he went home, but the negro was not content with the punishment inflicted. Re turning to the attack Morehead drag ged his wife off the bed and beat her to death, while people on the outside, afraid to enter, watched the murder1 through the window. Morehead ap-1 pealed to the Supreme court, but the', appeal was never perfected. The' case was laid before the governor in an appeal for clemency through com mutation. but the governor did not, grant the commutation. Homicide Rate u Highest in South ' New York, Dee. 1.—Homicide* in the United States durinf tJ»"M» totall ed aMrov'mately 8.U00, ■ decrease ot MO mm the 1919 record, according to a computation by Frederick L. Hoffman, third vlee-prreldent and •MMMaii of the Pi u4sntlal Life la •vranee Cosnpsnjr of America. The figares mad* pwblic last night pfcta, the lead with • kitting record of <14 persons far every 100,000 Of population. IV tfililffriTTT • lAfiffP ' 1 Jk . NORTH CAROLINA BONDS SE14. POR BIG PREMIUM NMfty Thr^T Million DolUr Imim U Bought il Premium of 102 1-X Raleigh, Dev. 2. North Carolina | fivf» war* ltold this , waning In the wholuanle lot of for 102 1-3, tha baat premium for North Caro i Una pa par In yaara. Treasurer Lacy "Jewed'* the Naw j York broker* up from 108 which th« > counrtl of ilata would have aceeptoj but for tha faith of Mr. Lac jr. Govern or Morriaon wa» wonderfully aat up at th* salesmanship of hla traaaurar. who thlnka tha newspapers ought, to > throw up thalr hats and hollar -once before kicking him afraah. Than bonda ara 40-year obligations which will bring 2B time* aa good a premium aa thoaa aold to tha »am» folk* a faw waaka ago. At that tlma tha atou received $r>.000,000 a premium of Ifi.Otl for the whole business. Today thara la • two and a half cent bonuc going with "•very dollar, making tha grand total near $70,000 on 12.872,000. Tha Pi rat National bank, Stacey and Braun and itssociates of New York bought thla inane. They took the five millions several weeks ago and asked to hare a chance at thaaa. The construction work at varioua state Institutions will get naarly all of thaaa, .he first half million having bean spent. Treasurer Lacy does not '.h'nk tha state will have any more trouble sell ing ita paper and h«l expects the whole $50,000,000 to go In time at advant ageous figures. Ford And Ediaon Off where they will make thoro inspection of the nltntt snd wmUr power pro jects to 1mm from the {uvcrnmtnL The party, which Included ■ number of enrlnMri connected with the Ford organlution, left in Mr. Fork's pri-' rvate car. Altho hundred* of Invita tion* were received from chamber* of J commerce and other civic bodiM along the route, no steps are to b« made, it wai stated. The party ia expected to arrive at Muacle Shoali some time tomorrow. A report that Mr. Ediaon was in disposed upon hia arrival here yeeter day waa denied at Mr. Ford'* Dear hern office. The inventor waa "in |M'rf«ct trim" when he arrived, it wm said, and spent a very busy day in company with the automobile manu facturer, inspecting the automobile plant, tractor factory and other in tereata of Mr. Ford'a. No definite schedule hat been ar ranged for the inspection at Muacic Shoals and no limitation has been placed upon the length of time to be consumed here. It is understood Mr. Ford and Mr. Ediaon will go' over the projecta during the day tim« and compare notes in the evening. They expect to determine the ay proximate amount of horsepower that can be developed and expecta to ahow by data to be collected that hia offer to the government of $28,000.00 for the completion of the Wilson Dam is, s liberal one. Famous Derby Racer Found Bmaatli let Themahis, Man.. Nov. 28.—Search-j in* parties, who have h"en scouring' Moom lake, have found the body of Walter Goyne, famous American dog derby racer, who waa drowned Novem | i>er 14. Through the transparent ice, the body could be seen in eight feet of; water sitting bolt upright on the tied,, iiartly covered by an eiderdown robe. Stretched ont in frost, fn perfect : iliirnment want the nine racing doc*.: The provincial police, who inveati •nted, said they believed Goyne waa (raveling at racing speed toward shore in an effort to escape thin ice, when I ha plunged through and under heavier ice, where * scape waa impoaaible. Intensely cold waatheT set aoon J ifler the tragedy and the spot where , <~voyna went down waa fro sen over with a foot of ice, thus removing every bit of evidence, which might have aided esavchara. Of the eleven leoaa dogs that vara following Oojrm ud Ma faeirg team, two pariahad at tba aaaie Uaae aa their doee ta Mm taaau Ooprt dogs wane eonaldared aaoav the beat hi the Hattt ooyMry, aad aauch waa «s p acted of thaai It the IMS darby. Btwut of Tkli Schmw • Halelgh, Dec. i.-W«niui|t are now ' (wing »ent out by the atate depart ment of tnaurance to b«war* at no ticeable efforts to Mil aaewritle* of 'he town of Waraaw, Poland, and uther Hnliah municipaliUaa, and alto Ixinds of the Republic of Poland. Thle liurature" ha* boon w>«n by the t» mj reive department official* la Wt mingtan. Greenaboro and Murpantan and In Raleigh. Theae Waraaw bondi, 10,000-maA ilenomlnatlona, ar* offarod for (19.86 iaah. "Tba poaple offering tha bond*," ; tba department aaya, "vary frankly I atate that h la a gamble but th«y pro due* aigned utatementa from Pollah >un*ul general*, etc., declaring that (ha bonda ara good and will ba re deemed at par and ara trying to maha •■verybody believe that tha Poliah mark, formerly prorth a boat SO cent*, will eventually go to par and thu* make tba holder* very wealthy. They figure It out that the Investor win ; make |1 IP for every dollar Inveated "Inveator* ahould not k>ee light of i the fact that at preaent rata* of ex change the value of the mark ia ao low that 10,000 of them are worth only I2J16, Inatead of 919.86 and there ii not the alighteat probability that the mark will go higher. If any In ventor I* bent on acquiring aecuritlea I of this claaa there la no reason why he should pay the promoter* of this n-w *»kin game' a profit of 6SXJ per cent on each bond. Hia certified check for I19.M8 ahould purchaae ap proximately 70,000 mark* instead." Muck Army Material Turned Over to Thi* State For Road Work !, Washington, Dae. t.—The federal government has tamed over to North Carolina for ro^fl building purpose* mote than $3,009,000 worth of surf plua army equipment. This ia show* trucks and 112 automobiles under the Wadaworth-Kahn act which author izea the war department through the agricultural department, to distribute surplus army material to the various state*. Total value of the property turned over to North Carolina at the tim* of the laat compilation la given aa 93, 0934*20. Value of equipment diatri buted to other southern *tale» is given as follows: Virginia, 12,902,000; South Caro ' lina, $1,768,000; Georgia. *4,271,000; Tennessee, $3,154,000, Altogether approximately 9160, 000,000 worth "f surplus war material turned over by the war department t*> the department of agricultuie wax distributed through the bureau of public building purpose* by Novem I ber 1. Under the Wadsworth-Kahn bill thia surplus war material ia aent to the atates with (the sole provision that it be used only for road building pur poses. A vaat act umulation of ma chinery, equipment, supplies and motor vehicles that waa to havs bean! used in France haa thus been diverted j to a useful peace time purpoae. Included in the surplut distributed imong the atatea are 27,198 motor vehicles, mostly trucks; 172 locomo tive* «f various six**; 25,000 gross 'ion* of raila; more than 4,500,000 I pounds of powder, and nearly 10,0001 tons of TNT. Also it i* believed that the states have received, in addition to the umount above mentioned, appioxi ] mately (5,000,000 worth of material : shipped by the war department from the various army camps and not re ported by the state* aa delivered. Before American Died, He Killed Three Bolivian Cop* Washington, Dec. S.—Regret for the' ' Killing of Hart MU, an American citizen at Santa Crux, Bolivia, hat ibeen expressed by the Bolivian gov ernment and the foreign minister la directing an investigation of tbe oc currence, the state department was advised today In a report from Min ister Maginnis at La Pea. Mr Maginnis stated that the in vestigation showed that Mix had re pulsed a» invasion by Bolivian police In civilian clothe* en hi* hem* la Santa Cm*. November t>. Ia the encounter, fat which Mix was slain, three of the police were killed and two 91AM PRINCE HAD 300 STEP MOTHERS "Father Laft Tkat Many Wid ow*, All Ctnd For," hjn Youthful PHnc. Vancouver, Nov. 39.— "Chowfa Yagala," wh the nan* tit* awarthy Httto man wrou- on the hotel re*later. "Perhapa you havo «om» piail for ma," he laid. Than, aa the clerk riffled uaeleealy through the "Y'a," "Quit* poialbly It may be addreaeed to Prince Lopburi of Slam." That to on* of the drawback! whan royalty traval incognito. Somebody at noma la aura to aend along a atock of letter* loaded with tltto. Fifteen mlnutaa after the quiet little maa had received hU mall, everybody In the hotel knew that a prime of the hoaaa of Mlam, own brother to the king, waa among the day*a arrlvala. Yagala did not deny hia myal Identity when approached for an interview, "I am taking a trip to England and Kurope for my health," ha aald "and I naturally deal re to aecompltoh my journey In an unoatentatloua manner." Prince Lopburi'* opinion waa aought on the queation of polygamy, which i» legal In hia country. It waa daH catoly hinted that America would be intereatod to know what had become »f the .100-odd wtvea who became widows when hia father. King Chula longkorn Khan, died. "Proper proviaion waa made for ihe ladle*," briefly anawered the r>rince, "but that to rather ancient history. The queation of polygamy '» a topic which I do not think ahould intereat the American people. The practice will diaappehr aa civilisation progreaaea." Briand Arrives Horn*; Stormy Tim* la Ahead Havre, Dec. 2.—Premier Briand rs turnad to Franca today after a five weeka' absence la Washington. As ha teded hare ba wu greeted with da exception of Minister of Justice Bonnavay, and the acting premier, War Minister Bart-hou, mat the Paria ten milaa at aaa on the tug Athalata, In a wind which waa blowing half a gale and threatening to tend the tiny tug crashing against the plaUs of the huge Paris. M. [friend, "Sailor of>6t Nasalre," boarded the Athlete. A heavy sea was running but the pre mier's opponents made no pretense of hiding their opinion that It was balmy as compared with the storm M. Briand will have to face in the chamber of deputies next Tuesday when fee gives nn account of his Washington mis sion. The Premier and his cabinet mem Iwrs then were transferred to the Destroyer Admirhl Senes, a former German craft, on which he held an In formal receptioi^ M. Briand was informed that co incident with his return, lists were being circulated in the chamber of deputies and the senate purporting to give the composition of a cabinet under former President Poincare, which the opposition expects will succeed the Briand ministry should the latter fall aa a result of non-pay ment by Germany of its reparations quota due January IK. Altho 11. Poincare has refrained from attacking the present cabinet the former preeident delivered an address at Bordeaux last week which haa been characterised aa a "program xpeech," and M. Briand's adversaries lire rallying behind him. The cabinet members with whom the correspond ent talked today, however, feel' posi tive that Briand will weather the storm in the chamber of deputies as easily as he did the choppy seas this moming in Havre Roads and will be nccorded a vote of confidence by a large majority. M. Loucheur told the correspondent that the cabinet's posi tion In regard to Prance's foreign nglicy was unconquerable. |^A new wireless telephone system, installed by the French Une, was In augurated by the Paris during if. Briand's voyage. The Paris haa been in constant telephone communication with Prance since Wednesday even ing. This morning at daybreak, Pre mier Briand said good morning to Eiffel Tower while the liner was fifty rallee off the French coast Shout now^The^wootSl^'wtth \<mi acclaim, Tfk» up th« cry and mm! II farth; tk MM ft/ ■ i 1 Mir Ua, *0. —«1. K. Htyi ■ CONDITIONS BETTER IN STATE THAN ELSE WHERE W. McLcan TVinki Agri cultural Condition in Soutk Much Bottwr TKm in WmI I.umberton, Nov. 39.—Aptcslbintl t indltlofi* ut batter in North Caro Hr* than In any othor ^putham or any wa»trrn atate, according to A. W. MrUw, • mambar of tha war flnanca , board, who arrivad Saturday from Waahington. Hpaaklag of buainaaa and financial ■ onditiona ganarally, Mr. <McLaan aald Sa had had oecaaion racaatly tu laarn at ft rat-hand of ■gricnltaral rondl '.lona In practically avary atata In tha union and that OMtditlona In No-th Carolina in bat tar than hi any othar •uutharn or any waatarn itata. Con iitloM in tha NMh.ai a who la ara much batter than In tha waat, ha aaya. Tha graater number of loana mada tfjr ha war flnanca corporation# bava haan mada to banka in Iowa and Mln ntnota and othar waatarn grain-erow ing and cattla ralalng itatea. Corn la <vlllng on tha farma In tha waat at 'r»m IB to IS rente tha boahal, and 'here la no martat for cattla and *haap. Liveatock ara worth only about '»5 par cant of what thay *old fnr a vcar and a half ago. Asked about the prospect for a r(ae in the price of cotton, Mr. McLean ild he would not venture a predlc 'ion, other than to say this depend* largely upon .general business condi •ion». If business should improve throughout the world, cotton would mbably tell for • higher price. Eu rope hi unable to buy our cotton In normal quantities, thoe largely reduc 'ng the lumber of our foreign bayerm. Those who dsetre the cotton are unable to pay for It. "I aee no hope of a general Improve ment in boaineaa hen until economic "This cannot result unlees the United Statea assumes not only an active, Sut a leading part in the work of stabilisation and restoration of econ omic processes." The war finance corporation has extended liberal credita to bank* in North Carolina for financing the ex portation of cotton and tobacco and financing agricultural needs, through he local banks In agricultural re gions. Under the law loans can only be made to banka that have made such <nns to farmers. Loans cannot be made upon lands, only upon crops or 'Mirations representing these agri cultural commodities. ) It's Coming Already* Dr. Plato Durham preached a bril liant termon before the teacher* of the state In aaaeutMy at Raleigh Thur* lay in which ha predicted that the id«aliaa>a fostered by former Presi dent Wilaon would aoon be accepted by the rank and file of the American "eople and that the leadership of Mr. Wilaon daring the paat years in American life would be justified. hie name enshrined in history and hia lofty notions of internationalism be accepted as sane and practical and inevitable. Events are shaping themselves rapidly toward the fulfillment of that very prophecy. Mr. Wilaon ia com ing hack, not in the sense that he will ever again become enmeshed in political fortunea, but in the larger sense that the American people and •he world are reaching the conclusion that he headed the only sensible pr* rram by which world conditions may be righted.—Charlotte News. Wilson Mayor .Hands Oat Stiff Sentence Wilton, Dec. I.—With corroborative ' proof and their appearing no raali •ious pronecutton, there it absolutely | not the leiut chance for those .who I traffic in liquor when they are halad before Mayor Kiilette. Whan violator! are proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt hs has in stock a I in* of seat -nces for both white and colored, make and female, and he feeds them all oat Robert Williams, colersd. was ar rainged before the mayor with three chaigaa against him oa the polios i blotter, via: having whiskey oa hand for the parpsss of sale, for saiHag the staff sad foe receiving met* thaa the law allows every flflssa days. Oft the first two Is—ta ha was MSt ts the reads for ikt ■ubMm. sad for ra> ceiviag in# a flae a# |60 sad the sast of the trial. Ha wilt tafea Ms ase*> ehewiihNtmedt.aMgk.Mrt. CONCERNED OVKK . SEASON CHANGES fmnmmt km WMtan CmBat Say* Na»mbir Hnwi Pal Month Hickory. Nov. 2*. Kiirnri hi tWa •ectioa of North CareHita, who re >11 that 30 or 40 yrani ago, poach Hid apple crop# vUtnm ware killed bf mate and that a foil crop of thU 'ruit cannot ha expected now once hi •it yean, in (earthing for the nana. ' It la not unaginatioa on their part. They recall too that tho month of November la a f*U moatq .rrw, w>»n %• SO or 40 yaara ago, It waa winter month, with Octobor aa cold end rainy aa Nuvemh*r la In »ho • pmart decade. Year* ago thia aactton of the .State waa heavily timbered Obearvatlaa and experience have taugl.t farmara that cm pa of treat planted in tha wwoda are not aa likely to la damaged Vy froat aa if the* wan expoead hi large fielda. Tha farmer auw* hi* tobacco aaad bed In tha foroat, in a place cleared for that pnrpca*. Here j the expoeur* la not great. S<.m« Urmers believe tharv la a direct relation between Mtwutl* i tad killing frost*. They believe that J *1 "i* should be a way of cireumveot . >nr nature, alnce man haa destroyed the safeguards erected by nature. I Karraer* cannot give any explanation between the lata (all now and the i ty fall many years ago. The coataa lata. Wintar is at kaat a month farther removed now than K wan 40 years ago ard spring :« also a month latar. What farmers (a this section would like to laam la whather something could not ha dona to correct condi tions which they believe ars of re cant origin. There la wore interest hi fruit growing in the foothills aad mountains now fhan at any other biHHuiv tkt dtwuid for ipptu tion the older generation of propound la. why do*a frost kill fruit nearly every season now yea re ago it did not? There is always soma fruit In near ly every section. This year the Brushy mountains of Alexander are furnishing the applea. In some parta >>f Catawba county applea and peachaa hit, but generally speaking the crop was a failure this year. It Is that way every year now. Farmers want 'n know why. Ireat Bone Specialist, Weak ened by the Crush and Clam or of Cripples for Help , Col lapses Three Times. New York, No*. 29.—Weakened by ark of nourishment, due to s malady of the stomach, Dr. Adolf I-orens, the toted Austrian surgeon, fainted 'hree times today while sttending ps 'ienta in his charity clinic here. Then, after recovering from the succession of collapses, which took place within a few minutes of nmrh other, the fsmnu* specialist, the pleading of Ms leagues, insisted upon | other hospital, where new J j pour people were clamoring ministrations. ! loiter in the day, and with the ut j most reluctance, Dr. Lorens . yielded to the arguments of the physician whom he consulted yesterday, an nouncing that next week pnless 1m was stronger, he would bold bat one •link each day, in his effort to repay part of his country's debt to America for food and medicinal aid. "It is too much—all this work," be said. "I can not do it all with my "trength. I'm sorry.* When the great bone specialist saw his first patients at 8:80 this morning, hundreds of men, women and children were waiting in line outside 'he hospital. A mills man sad a «»ndwich vendor had served brisk, fast to suuiy. - Scores, hospital had waited there In the rate all I -mothers and f children to their on cratches or id been told the of air In v '.ORENZ FAINTS THREE TIMES
The Mount Airy News (Mount Airy, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 8, 1921, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75