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MOUNT AIRY. NORTH CAROLINA. • THURSDAY. MAY 31. 1923.
11.6.0 PER YEAR IN ADVANO
-/ CHINESE KEEPING THEIR
PRISONERS
Captvaa Arm Kawping MinuU
Book o# Everything That it
<4 TlenUin, May rr J. H Powell
Amritin newapaperman and on# ol
the captitea of the Sue bow banditi
who recantly wai paroled to carrj
the tana* • f th« bandits for tha re
leaae of their priaoner* to tha foreigr
conauU at Taaochwang, ha* returnee
to tha Psotsuku hill* where tha brl
gand* ara holding thalr eaptivaa, ac
cording to a telegram from Taaoch
wane.
Tha local gantry who conferred
with repreaentativea of tha bandlti
Friday returned Saturday and atati
that tha handit chiafa offarad ib«
sams term* thay pravioualy laid dowr
for tha ralaaaa of tha foreigner*. 11m
gantry (aid, howavat, thay bel levee
tha chiafa wara inclinad to ba mon
reasonable.
Tha dalagataa aald thay wara flra<
open whan thay entorad tha oot
poata of thab audit cub p. Thla thaj
attributed to intoxication on tha pad
of tha aantviaa. Tha gantry plan nod
ta viait tha bandtta today with of
fJdal prnpeaah aa a baaie for eettle
anant of tha controversy orar the
eaptivaa.
bandita, tha captlvee ara keeping «
minuta book of all that goaa on. Th<
term* of thab and Its ara oatllnad at
tha atart during a oonfaranea be
twaan thab andita and tha eaptivaa
hava boon antarad in tha book. Whan
Mr. Powall waa parolad to carry tha
bandita' tarma to Taaochwang thay
Inaiatad that ha taka thgb ook with
him.
Powell aaid th eaptivaa aakad tha
bandita chiafa to allow Major Roland
W. Pinger and Robart A. Allan and
Laa Solomon, thraa of tha Amaricani
being held, to come down from tha
top of Paotiuku mountain whence
►- they wara taken recently as a means
of preventing any possibility of thair
escape Tha eaptivaa alao hava nak
ed thee hiefs to ralaaaa W. Smith,
40-year-old Engliahman, whose con
dition la caualng anxiety. Smith was
touring the eaat for his health after
a nervous breakdown. Tha chiafa
aaid they would conaidar the appeal
L- and told Powell they would relaaae
Smith on hia—Powell's return from
Taaochwang.
The number of eaptivaa held at
tha top of Poatusuku has been eeti
matad by Powell at 100. He aaid
that whenever thay taka a walk they
ara accompanied by a guard.
The military governor of Shan
tung has 16,000 troops atationed
around the mountain stronghold of
the bandita. it ia aaid, but no action
ha* occurred aince the deaultory
skirmishing which occurred shortly
after the captives were taken May
K
The failure of the Peking govern
ment in reporting an agreement for
the release among foreigners, ha*
stirred up an outlaw frame of mind"
throughout China, according to aev
eral of the diplomat!.
Well confirmed r ropteetaoinaoi
Well confirmed r*porta that ban
dit 'armies" are beginning to com
municate with other* or • coalition
of outlawery have been received and
it i* known that throughout China
new band* of brigand* aref orralnr
rapidly, the necleu* generally being
. a group of deaerting soldier* who
have received no pay for a long time
and have decided to live upon the
country.
There i* a strong feeling against
effect th» junction of force# large
enough to make them believe they
can overcome the small foreign gar
ri*on* in China.
These bandita, moat of whom have
had military training, and are (killed
in handling the most modern wea
pons, would be a much more for
midable foe than the yelling armies
of ill -equiped boxers that gave the
f world anxious weeka during the
aeige of Peking in ltOO.
Seven Year OM BUcuit Maker
The May issue of the Bxtenaion
Para New*, published by the Agri
cultural Extension Service of U14
State Department at Raleigh, fee
turia a front page article about lit
tle Marie Paul, a seven year old girl,
who won the prise In the recent bread
waking contest in Richland* township
Beaufort county.
The child is in* the third grade In
school and bar teacher aajrs she la
the aaarteet child In school She li
going te yut bar prise moamt ta thi
M uatfl she is eld momgb to ipmd
. n to go to college.
.
Kick Haul Mad* Wy Cut—ia
ONImt
Oantnnia. May 14. - The largeat aln
i rI« cinaignment of bootltf liquor ever
taken in Gaatonia, *h Niwd bar*
lata thla a ft# moon by Off tear Hoard
in a- local vara**. Three hundred
quart* of bottlad In bond Scotch and
' Gordon* dry (in and a brand* new
Packard lis waa tha booty that fall
, to tha alart officer.
Tha rar bora • Georgia licenae. A
negro driver, who waa with tha car
waa arreeted. Two whita Man got
wind of tha officara' coining and mada
thair escape. In tha car wara two
loaded revolvera and a 2B-.16 rifla
wjth a full chamber. Tha whiakay
j waa all naatly dona up in individual
packagea wrapped with neat straw
roveringa. Tha antira back pact of
the Packard vaa fillad.
The nairro aaya the men picked him
up in Spartanburg. Ha aaid, however,
that Savannah waa hia home.
At pricea prevailing In Gaatonia
the liquor waa worth 12.000 or 94.
000. Beth rar and liquor are at the
city halt.
KtlM Eight Rtrtouar.
Loa Angelea, May 24.—City and
fadaral officara ara checking the atory
told yaaterday by Jo* Buckley Louri*.
23 yearn old that when ha waa It
year* old In AprU. 1M». ha killed aight
revenue officer* in a moonahine fight
in the mountain* of Kentucky.*
Louri*. who aaid he formerly lived
at Kirby Knob*, Ky., waa taken into
cuatody by a apecial agent of tha
Southern Pacific railroad M a charge
of beating hia railroad fare. At tb*
jail detective* atated. ha told the folp
lowing atory:
"My father and my brother. Art
ran a moonahina still. Tha revenue
agent* war* always trying to find It
On* day back in April, 1908, father
and Art left my brother, Charlie and
m* on guard and went away for a
while. The laat thing my father aaid
waa: 'Joe If you aae any revenue
agent* ahoot on alght and a hoot to
kill'." *
"Charlie and I hung around the atill
keeping doe* watch and pretty soon
we heard ahooting—SO or 40 ahota
on the aide of the hill. We hid in the
buahea and in a few minutea we aaw
the! revenue agenta coming down the
hill. They were carrying two bodiea
and when they got cloae to *a. we
. could aee they were father and Art.
"We let the agenta jet past ua and
I then we started (hooting.* 1 fired IS
shot* all together and Charlie fired
some, and we killed eight of them.
Then we skinned out"
Lourie, the officer* *tat*d, laid he
and hi* brother had remained together
, until two years ago. He declared they
: traveled all over the world, and in the
' orient, afraid they would be arreated.
i The officer* said he waa covered with
tatooing and bore many raarka of a
i life of adventure.
Negroes do Not Receive Royal
Reception in .North
The quarantine placed Saturday- in
cluded the distric^ hounded by Vine
and Callowhill and Eighth to Tenth
street*. Six negro** were found to
have contracted the disease from
Julius Robinson, negro, 8 years old.
who recently came here from the
South. The cases were discovered
smong thirty-eight negroes living in
s house at 926 Vine street.
Something ought to be done by the
employers who import this cheap
I Southern labor. They encourage them
to come here by the thousand* and
then let them shift for themselves in
the matter of living facilities.
Employers could pool together to
provide the negroes with homes in
the same manner they pool together
to finance the sending of scouts dawn
. South to round up a trainWad of the
workers and bring them up here.—
Philadelphia North American.
RESOLUTIONS
We, the member* of the Mount
Airy Lodge Knights of Pythias No.
242, in session Monday night. May
21st. 1923, do hereby extend our deep
est aynypethy to Brother Eugene
Olive, in the *uddan and tragic death
of his sister, Mrs. Tarry, and we coat
mend him to the Father, who doeth
all things wall.
"In that laed of light where no
shadows rest.
Life's web complete, our labors end
ed; •
We shall find our lives had not been
blest,
Hsd the shadows ne'er with the
sunshine blended."
Be It Ordered. That a copy of these
resolutions ha recorder by our keeper
ef Records it Seals, a copy gtveri the
Moeat Airy News fnr publication and
a copy sent te Brother Olive and
Family.
W. E. Lindsay, W. H Hok-omb. Will
H Kiger, Ceseltlii.
Fail* in Effort to Establish
Negro Republic
New York, May '/I. — Financial meth
ods uM>d by Marrue Garrty, .aelf
•tyled "preaident of the African re
: public," in railing fund* far ataKing
tba Black Star Steamship Una to
| iarr\ American negroe* back to Afri
ea, war* described in federal caurt
by wltneaae* today teatifying in the
trial of Garvay on charge* of using
the mail* to dafraud.
Kichard M. Warnar. formerly ex
ecutive wcrvtary of tha Black Star
line, declared ha wai elected to hia
office at thai alary of 126 a weak and
that tha night after the company -had
Seen incorporated Garvey took tha
flrat iaaua of »tock to Virginia to tall
it.
He declared that Garvey'* "cabinet"
member* refused to let nim examine
the book* of the concern and that a*
far a* he knew none of tha money rea
lized from tha *al* of atock wai ap
plied to the obligation* of the atoam
■hip line. ^
Edgar Gray, former private secre
tary to Garvey, testified the stock
had been sold through tha mailt by
the use of highly colored pamphlet*
and that Garvay appeared la gaudy
uniforms at meetings in negro Mo
tion* of the country and waa per
suaded to accept money for atock.
Cray alao declared the first *tock
book of the company disappeared. Ha
•aid ha received a aalary of |14 a
week for holding a number of hlgh
eounding office* with Garvey. He
waa questioned regarding tha pur
chaee of tha (traiaahlp Yarmouth by
Garvey aa the nucleua of the Black
Star line, but admitted ha knew lit
tle of the dataila.
The trial will be reaumed tomorrow.
Bandit* Kill Five Captives
A Tien T*ln cable from China *ays:
The Suchow handiU on WfdiMidiy
■hot five of their Chinese captive*
and "woul not ' esitate one moment
about nhoutini th< foreigners," ac
cording to Marcel Berube, one of the
priaoner* who arrived at Lincheng
yesterday on parole.
The Chbieae prisoner* were murder
ed for not obeying an order, or for
not obeying it quick enough. Berube
said.
"The patience of the brigands I*
becoming exhausted," the prisoner de-!
dared. "In three days they march
ed us SO miles. Some of the captive*
■till are without *hoe* and with their
feet *ore and svollen. marching over
the mountain trail* i* torture.
"We aw now encamped in three
temples at the foot of Paotxuka moun-1
tain. Prom there we can plainly Me
the soldiers across the valley. The
troop* greatly outnumber the bandit*,
and follow at the Heels of the latter
on each march we make.'
Berube said Major Robert Allen
and Theodore Saphiere are suffering'
greatly from cut and bruised feet.
He declared G. D. Musso, wealthy
Italian, another captive, is unable to
walk as one leg i* paralysed. Senora
Verea, he declared, still refuses to
leave her husband and i* bearing her
hardships remarkably well.
Major Roland Pinger has been
f)rc< *d president of the -captive*' or
ganisation. The major I* clad in a
large pair of trousers and a dress
jacket. Mr. Smith, a Manchester,
England man, more than sixty years'
of age who came out to the Par East
on a trip for his health, is reveling
in the adventure, v.cording to Berube
Dresied in a blue flannel pajamas and
a straw hat and carrying a broken
walking stick, Mr. Smith is irrepress
ible. One Sunday. Berube said, the
aged Englishman nearly slipped ove»
the edge of a chasm to his death hut
waa able to scramble back to safety
Berube aaaerted that the soldiAs had
looted one of the bandit village* and
that the captive* had sear, several
others villages destroyed.
Kills Brother in Play With
Pistol
Monroe, May 28.—Mrs. R. B.
Kluttx, 18 years old, and a bride of
16 day*, accidentally *hot and kill
ed her borther, Vernon Went*. 29
year* old. while playing with a re vol
ver from which *he thought she had'
extracted the shell* at ths Went*
home eight miles from Monroe, Prl
day night. •
A neighborhood crowd .had con
gregated at the Went* home in Vance
township and the bride (hiring the
evening went to a bureau and took
there from a revolver front which she
theoght she had extracted all the
shads before she mapped the ereapon
ia the face of her brother. There
waa one hall *till ta the chasther,
which exploded with fatal re—H.
A. V
T«1m Step to Prmat Lom of
Life by Fir.
Charlotte. May 24.—At the direc
tion of the city oaaunlaalon noticoa
mn Mnt to the theaters of Charlotte
T\j«U«l*y notifying MM^n of tho
amuaement houses that tho city au
thorities will noC tolorsto < ondftions
in tho theaters that endanger IHo by
tho |KM«ikl» outbreak of fir*.
Tho tho*tor managers war* given
warning to allow only aa Many per
aona In their ahow houaoa aa could
ho aeated, to k**p all aisles and pas
ageways cleared and to provide ade
quate exits for discharging tho audi
ence without loaa of timo In caao
that a fire should broak out.
Tho fir* and polir* chiofa hav*
boon given notico of tho order of tho
commisaion and instructed to mo that
it ia enforced. Th* chiof of tho ftro
department haa tho authority to close
• theater that does not fumlah proper
protection against fir*, it ia stated.
Th* warning against tho overcrowd
ing of t boa tors was emphasised ia
tho notico to theater managers, who
war* told that if tiU order la not obey
•d tho violator would hav* to faaa
court char(«a.
Th* danger of a poaalbl* outbreak
of firs in one of th* city'* public
| laces waa brought sharply to tho
mind* of th* city commiaaioner* by
the recent holocaust at Cleveland
school house, near Camden, S. C. It
waa with a foil realisation of each
a possible danger and the deaire to
avert any calamity auck aa tho re
rent pne In South Carolina that the
rommisaloners took tho precautionary
•top.
Florida Pua*t Act Regard in f
CWicta
Tallahassee, ria.. May 24.—Flori
da's second convict reform came to
day when the legislature effected fi
nal passage of a measure to aboliak
the county convict lease ayatem next
January 1. With thia measure went
a second and more emphatic prohi
bition against administering corporal
punishment to prisoners.
The lower house adopted without
discussion a conference report op the
subject while in the senate 14 votes
were cast against tho' matter in which
it was drawn. These 14 members
were for the most part those who
viguroualy had fought the passage
of an outright corporal punishment
ban. the effect of which was had
yeaterday when the governor signed
a measure that directed the state of
ficials to bar whipping from their
prison regulations anfe the commiss
ioner of agriculture promptly acted
accordingly.
The measure aa paaaed deals hoard -1
iy with the supervision of convicts, |
and requires that convict warderin
give bonds of $2,600 while guards
must be bonded for f1,000. They are
made subject to suit for damage for
any abuae of their authority. The
warden is made directly responsible
for the convict* within his rare and
trust male periodical reports to the
commissioner of agriculture and the
report must be sent to the board of
county comissioners of the countiea
in which the prisoners are workad.
No contracts for the leasing of con
victs shall be permitted after Janu
ary 1, and all existing cnn'racta at
that time become null and void. One
county, however, may turn ita prison
ers ever to another county for wirk
on the public roads or thev may be
turned over to »he state road de
partment for similar work uader
terms the two parties may find suit
able.
HU Prayer
A certain ncfro preadher not a
thousand miles from Here recently
opened hit service with the following
prayer: . .
"O Lord, giv« thy servant this
mawning the eyes of the eagle and
the wisdom of the owl; connect his
soul with the gospel telephone in the;
central skies, lumlnate hi* brow with
the sun of heaven, pisen hi* mind
with love for the people, turpentine
hit 'magination, grease his lip* with
'possum tie, loosen his tongue with
the sledge hammer of thy power, lee
trify his brfcin with the flghtnin' of
the Word, fat "petual motion in Ms
arms, flit him plum full af fhe dyna
mite of they glory< 'feowt him an over
with* the karaeenat ale of thy salva
tion and Kl him on ftrs."
If yeu have raUtteaa and (Heads
who Hve hk er atovt Mount AH? JM
need The Mount Airy Mews in ye«r
A.
A Horo WW Wim'I Etm at
. the Fir*
Camden 8, C., May It.—WHo la the
outstanding hero developed by Um
rUvtland school house lira may ha
a question of diapute, but to many
on# of the outstanding horoaa of Um
orcaalon will ho a boy who was not
even at tha fit*. Ha ta Thompson
Parte. IT. \
Hla parent*, Mr. and Mr*. A. *.
Davla, and two • later* war* burn ad
to deatl In tha flra. Today, ha itood
In tha Beulah churchyard surround
ad by tha *h«atad and charred flguraa.
Aaked what ha knaw about tha flra
ha *aid:
"Dont know vary much. I wasn't
thara. But I loot my moLba* and
fathar and two oldaat atetera. Lena
and Ida May. Thay wara 14 and It.
At homa thara'* a littla brother about
nina month* old and thraa Mora lit
tle slatar*. Thay ara two, five and
ais. Thay and ma ara all that'* left
But I |ua*» I can halp *oma. I goaa*
t can do It,"
A hi)oat inatantly a doten hand*
wara throat Into pockata and men
who had heard tha aaaertion, thra*t
bill* into hi* handa. Tha boy beet
la ted bat finally waa prevailed- upon
by an elderly man ta Lake tha money.
"You've got a big load to carry,
aon." the old man told him.
"Ill da my beat air. Ill do my boat
beat," the boy replied.
. \
Some Priaon Condition a Not
So Good
Dunn, May 27.—After ita viait to
tha Harnett county convict camp
thi* week the grand jury recommend
ed that A. A. Weaver, auperintendent
be diacbargod by Um oounty coasmia
»toners, providing to he aa ri pawad.
In ita report the grand jury referred
to the food *eTved the convict* aa
beoing improperly cooked. Tha noon
meal, which came under the obaer
vation of the viaiting jury, wa* de
scribed a* consisting of "pea*, a lit
tle meat, and cold biacuit bread, very
poorly cooked." The report added
that the bisrutts appeared to have
been cooked for several days, proba
bly a week.
Some of the convict* reported that
the cook *pent a great part of hi*
time in waiting on the family of
the auperintendent, and did not have
sufficient time to property cook the
food for the convict*. The report
i* emphatic in the declaration that
the viiiting committee doe* not think
Weaver i* the proper man for *up
erintendent of the convict ramp.
Another recommendation of the
irrand jury i* that no conVict be
whipped except in the pre*ence of
the counuty health officer. "We un
derstand. says the report, "that in
the past certain prisoner* have been
whipped in the absence of said of
ficer.*'
The action of the board of county
commissioners in the matter will be
awaited with intereat.
Ford Sale* Ptu the Half
Millioif Mark in 120 Day*
More than half ■ million Ford Car*
and Truck* sold in 120 days.
that i* the astonishing record ju*t
established by%thr Ford Motor Com- i
pany, eclinping all previous sales fig
ure* and emphasinr .more strongly
than ever the right of the Ford to
the title "The Universal Car."
From January 1 to May 1 sales ?f
Ford Cars and Truck* in Ute United
States reached the enpqmous total of
561,(44, nearly twice the number sold
at retail during the same period a
wear ago when the total was 883,
782.
Even with it* huge production fac
ilities. now operating on a schedulue
in excess of 6.500 car* and truck* a 1
day, the company i* unable' to keep
up with the unprecedented demand.
April *et a new sates record for '
them onth, juat a* ha* every other 1
month this year, and was the thir
teenth consecutive month In which.'
aales hare run aver the 100,000 mark. 1
Sale* during April totaled 14S,- 1
682 Ford Can and Trucks, 60.000
more than were delivered in tlx *ame '
month last year whan lit, 281 retail '
deliveries were made.
Baptist Stat* Maaoital Open*
At Winston-Salem I
Winston-Salem. May 16.—The j
Baptist state hospital waa formally i
opened tonight and daring the are- <
a tag hundred* visited the inetltutien j
and admired the splendid rtiwtuw ,
and equipment. Many leading asem- I
burs of the Omsmiasl.lss ware hen I
for the apsniag sxsscissa. whiefc were 1J
la forma I hut enjeyahle.
Walking im Hi* SUwp Mm
Fall* to Ground
W in*ton Halem. May 21.John Ro
berta, of Reddwe River, wilkee «M»
ty. i> in the Livrtm HoapttaJ in a»
unroaactoua condition u the rveutt
of ■ jump from • third atory window
to the ground thia monnj at 4 a'dock.
Dw yuung man. who haa baon givea
to aom><ambuliam, or walking is hta
•leap for nom* year*, aroaa thi« morn
ing and in wandering about the rwa
awokr a young man in another bad.
Bofora tba man Jn bad rould got up
and wake younc Roberta, h* ran ta tba
window, palled down tba top aaah
and took a thirty foot jump ta tha
ground.
Tba two man in tha room butriad
down tha itairway and foaad tha
crumpled form of tha aleep-walker
lying on tha ground, faca downward.
They carriad him bark to tha bad raaaa
and aummonad a phyaieian. An • lam
ination did not reveal any brokaa
bonaa, but tha opinion of tna attea<
tng phyaieian wat that tha man waa
auffaring from a general cowcnaaioa
of tha body, cauaad by tha tarribla
Jar whan ha at rack tha groo ad
Roberta waa carried to tha Hoepital
aoon after the iamp. While he haa
not regained conaciouaneaa, it ia be
lieved that ba may recover. It ii
probably that aa x-ray picture of
hi* body will be nude in aa effort te
determine whether or not there are
any internal injwrtea.
it ia uiHwniooQ inai in* jrounf m
nwt with a similar misfortune at his
Mom In Wilkea county amnl years
ago. Hovntr hi* nxxnmatN Mf
that he ha* net bm known to- walk
In hia sleep liwt he haa been In Wls
•ton- Sal eta
All that aaved th* young aaan from
instant death. It ta hsllsnd. waa the .
fact that the ground on which ha
rail waa soft from the rain Sand*)'
»nd Sunday night. There ara a la*
indicstions that ha landed on hi* f**t
ind than pitched forward on hia face.
How to Stock Farm Fiah Poad
Raiei(h, May il.—Indications ara
that aaaay farmer* in North Carolina
ir» interesting themaelvea in ha ring
i farm fish pond from which they
nay secure a plentiful supply of this
food for home use. Juat recently A.
<ravei Thompson. who livea at Mc
[ver in Caawetl county, wrote the
\gru-ultural Extension Service that
te had a pond of about an acre in
lize that he wished to stock with
ood fiah.
H. H. Brimley. Curator of the State
Museum, answering the letter for ex
:rnsion folks suggestion that such
■ pond might well have two or three
rarietiea of the beat kind af perch
which would be better than using
>Uck bass 'and perch. While many
nrm<-r* will prefer baaa as well aa
;it-r<-h. the baaa will clean out tlW
imaller fiah in a few yeara.
The best kind of perch aa recom
mended by Mr. Brimley would be blue
>rim and rrappie. both of which reach
> weight of one or two pounds. The
crappie ia generally known aa white
perch and ia eaatem Carolina aa
ipvckled perch.
Since the State Department of Agri
culture dors not supply fiah for stock
ng, Mr. Brimley suggested that
imall fry could be obtained from, the
United States Fisheries Communion
it Washington, D. C. It ia thought
hough that an eaaier and quicker
ray to stock a new pond would ha
o catch adult fiah of the species mon
ioned in the ponds and streams near
ly using a small Hook or aein, hand
ing the fiah carefully *nd transport
ng them in large clean containers to
he new pond.
Mr. Brimley suggests also that
wine of the common sunflsh or dmb
■obi* might be added. Shad roaehaa
ind minnows ought to be placed in
he pond for food for the perch and
ilenty of bushea allowed to grow
iround the edge of. the pond eo that
ipon which the amall fish feed wdvid
» attracted to the plae•„ All eels,
".tfiah and terrapin should he *x
luded from the pond and flood water
root the surrounded fields kept froaa
towing into it. When handled ta
his manner, a pond covering aa acre
>f land would supply plenty of fiah
or family use.