VOL. XXVIL YADKINVILLE, YADKIN CO., N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1921 ' NO. 29
lira TRIALS
t REALLY A FARCE
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Germans Who are Guilty of tho
Major Crimes in the War
are Not Arraigned.
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KAISER NOT ON THE LIST
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Many Other Notables, However Wero
! Among the Accused, But Probably
^L., All of Them Will Get Off as
Easily as Has William.
( i London.—The real German war
guilty probably will escape trial,
ffhey’ll get off as easily as the kaiser,
fwhom British politicians premised to
Jiang.
i This impression is given added foun
dation by the procedure at the trials
pf the small fry on the allied list be
fore the German supreme court at
Leipsig.
As presented tc the German govern
ment last year, the list was the most
formidable in the aftermath of war
fare, either ancient or modern. The
accused ranged from princes to pri
vates, and the crimes from murder to
theft.
The list was made up of lists pre
sented by the various allied nations.
America was conspicuous by its
absence. The others were divided.
Kaiser's Name Omitted.
'f Because William Hohenzollern and
eon, the former crown prince, had fled
to Holland, their names were not
pressed. But among the other person
ages were the following:
Ex-Crown Prince Rupreclit of Ba
varia—Charged with being responsible
for deportation of many inhabitants
tof northern France.
Duke of Wurtemberg—Charged with
being responsible for the troop massa
cres of people at Namur and other
towns.
\ Gen. von Kluck—Charged with being
tesponsible for the shooting of host
ages at Senlis and civilians at
Aerschot.
Gen. von Buelow—Charged with be
Ign responsible for the burning of vil
lages in the Ardennesi and the shoot
ing of civilians.
| Field Marshal von Mackenson—
Charged with having villages burned
and Roumanian civilians executed.
Baron von der Lancfeen—Accused in
Connection with the executions of Edith
Cavell and ('apt. Fryatt.
, Tirpitz on List.
Admirals von Tirpitz, von Capelle,
Von Ilippe, Scheer and von Ingenohl—
Charged with being variously responsi
ble for submarine warfare, with order
ing bombardmeat of unprotected Eng
lish town1? and with ordering sinking
of unarmed merchant vessels.
Field Marshal vpn Sanders—In con
nection with the massacres of Armeni
ans and Syrians.
Oon. von Manteuffel—In connection
with the outrages at Louvain.
Gen. Kruska—Accused of spreading
germs of typhus among the prisoners.
In the list presented by France and
Belgium, stress was laid particularly
fbpon those who oppressed the civilian
population, destroyed towns and de
ported helpless people into Germany,
j The British spec?r’'
those naval officers who violated the
laws of the war. For instance, in
their list the following names occur:
Lieut. Capt. Kiesewetter—for sink
ing the hospital-ship Glenard Castle,
Feb. 26, 1918.
Lieut. Capt. Valentiner—For torpedo
ing two merchant vessels without
warning in 1915.
Lieut. Capt. Jess—For torpedoing
boats without warning in 1918.
Commander Boaker—For bombard
ing Hull in March and Edinburgh in
April, 1916, from an airship.
The German government avoided
taking any action in the matter as
long as possible. Finally, it presented
a reply to the allies in which it sat
forth the view that to arrest the men
named and attempt to hand them
over to the allies would be to precipi
tate grave events in Germany.
It offered to put on trial any of its
Subjects before the German high
courts, provided the allied governments
prepared prima facie cases against
them, showing that prosecution was
Justifiable. This view of the Ger
man government finally prevailed.
i, Prepared Seven Cases.
0# 4 The British prepared seven cases in
r SeVnii. These were the cases against
.*1f Beynen, Muller. Trinks and Newmann,
charged with acts of cruelty to prison
ers of war at various camps, and the
■follow'-'" naval cases:
Lieutenant Commander Patzig,—
Charged with having sunk without
warning the hospital-ship I.landever
Castle and with having afterward fired
on and sunk boats'containing surviv
ors with consequent loss of 234 lives.
Lieutenant Commander Neumann—
Charged with torpedoing without
warning the British hospital-ship,
Dover Castle, with the loss i>f six
lives.
BOON FOR FARMERS
Picric Acid Left Over From War
To Be Given Them.
Twelve Million Pounds of This High
Explosive to be Distributed Through
Public Roads Bureau.
Washington.—More than 12,000,000
pounds of picric acid, one of the high
est power explosives, accumulated for
war purposes and made useless to the
war department by the armistice, will
be distributed to farmers for agri
cultural purposes.
When the war ended the army had
on hand this immense stock of picric
acid, and in addition more than 26,000,
000 pounds of TNT.
The latter was distributed to various
governmental agencies for use in rail
road construction in Alaska, public
roads in the national parks and var’-,
ous projects on Indian reservations.
No TNT was distributed to individ
uals, and thus far not a single acci
dent has marked the use or transpor
tation of the millions of pounds of the
high explosive, according to officials
of the bureau of mines.
The question of what to do with
the 12,006,000 pounds of picric acid
puzzled government officers for some
time, and the war department had al
most decided to tow the explosive out
to sea and dump it overboard in the
interests of the public safety, when it
was decided to institute a series of
experiments in an effort to find some
safe commercial use for it. The ex
periments were conducted by the bu
reau of mines and disclosed many
ways in which picric acid could he
used safely and profitably on farms,
such as in blasting out stumps and
rocks and breaking up land. It was
accordingly decided to distribute the
explosive, practically free of charge,
to farmers.
Picric acid, a highly crystalline pow
der, having a lemon yellow color, is
18 per cent stronger than 40 per cent
straight nitroglycerin dynamite, ac
cording to the bureau of mines. It
should never be used in bulk, officials
say, and its uses should be restricted
to redipped paraffined paper cart
ridges.
The 12,000,000 pounds of surplus
stock, located at Sparta, Wis., and Win
gate, N. Y., will be distributed to.farm
ers through the bureau of public
roads of the Department of Agricul
ture. The only cost to the farmer,
it is announced, will be freight charges
and a charge of 6 cents a pound for
placing the powder in the necessary
cartridges.
Notice of Service by Pubii
eation
North Carolina ) In Superioi
Yadkin County j Court
I. D'. Long, Rachel Long and
Leona Long
vs
Ollie Potts Hanes and husband
-H anes, Lottie Potts Iiep
stine and husband, P>ob Repstine,
Jettie Potts Repstine and Lus
ba"' , John Hen
ry Potts, Frank Potts, Helen
I Potts and Hazel Potts,
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The defendants above named,
01 lie Potts Hanes, and husband,
--Hanes, Lottie Potts Rep
j stine, and husband, Rob Resstine
i Jettie Potts Repstine, and hus
| band,-Repstine, John Hen
j ry Potts, Frank Potts, Helen
Potts and Hazel Pofts, will take
notice that summons against
them has been issued in the above
entitled special proceedings
which is for the partition of real
estate among the tenants in com
mon. The defendants will fur
ther take notice that the 7 are re
quired to appear before the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Yadkin
county on the 27th day of Au
gust, 1S21\ aud answer ©r demur
to the petition or that the relief
therein demanded will be grant
ed.
This July 27, 1921
J. L. CRATER,
Clerk Superior Court
Williams <fc Reavis, Attorneys.
The Forsyth County Fair wil
be held October 4, 5, 6 and 7.
Pieparations are being made foi
a record breaker this year.
Learn to Market
Your Tobacco
County farmers are to have an
opportunity to sign up with pro
ducers of other counties for the
co-operative marketing of their
tobacco in a campaign begin
ning this week, which will cov
er the whole county.
Arrangements have beenmade
to hold local meetings daily dur
ing the next week, at which fhe
co-operative marketing con
tracts will be explained by
speakers from the association,
local committees, together with
the trained crew of workers
from the Raleigh headquarters,
are to canvass growers in each
township in efforts to put Yad
kin county in the lead with the
largest number of growers sign
ed up.
Outstanding features of the
co-operative marketing con
tracts, based on successful asso
ciations in California, as given
by Clarence Poe, of the Pro
gressive Farmer, are:
1. Growers organize by com
modity and not by locality.
2. Organize commercially
and not sentimentally or frater
nally for business and nothing
else, to get the best possible
price for tobacco.
3. Organize permently and
not temporarily.
4. Organize legally and not
loosely.
5. A non-profit association—
every cent over actual running
expenses is returned to gro wers.
6. Only growers or landlords
who receive tobacco as rent can
be members.
7. Directors are elected by
districts, each member having
one vote. Headquarters the to
bacco association is at Raleigh.
8- County and township
branches for the association.
9. Membership fee $3 for five
years, or 60 cents a year in as
sociation.
10. Association will sell for
members only.
11. Organization committee
named in the contract is simply
to get association going. Start
business with elected directors
as soon as enough growers are
signed ug.
12. Provision made for fin
ancing ruder plan nsed with
success in California.
13. All contracts are alike
and run for five years.
Mr. D. H. Osborne, county
farm agent, is assisting in the
Yadkin county campaign. Mr.
C. C. Zimmerman, teacher of
marketing, from the State Col
lege of Agriculture, and Mr. J.
M. Gray, of the state depart
ment of agriculture, are here to
assist in the work. The local
committee hopes to complete
the canvass of Yadkin in the
next two or three weeks.
PLANS FOR A HUGE GARDEN
Six Hundred Thousand Trees Are to
Be Planted on North Slope o£
Pi Ice's Peak.
Colorado Springs, Colo.—Work will
start soon on the planting of 600,000
trees on the north lope of Pike’s peak,
and a bonus will be paid tp the sixty
odd workers who remain “on the job”
until the planting is completed.
This gigantic planting project is
part of the reforestation program
planned by the United States forestry
service to conserve the water suprdy
of the Pike’s Peak region by reforest
ing the watersheds that have been
denuded by numerous forest" tires.
Thousands of the trees to be plant
ed have already been delivered to a
nearby spot, where they are cached in
crates In deep snowbanks to ^prevent
premature budding. The trees are
four and five inches high and were
raised from seeds planted in govern- I
ment nurseries.
Growers Get More
For Their Tobacco
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The tobacco growers of Yad
kin county aim to complete
their cooperative marketing
organization to secure better
prices for their tobacco. They
are carrying on an intensive
campaign these two weeks to
secure the minimum sign up of
fifty per cent of the total pro
auction. Fifty of the best, larg
est and most influential growers
of tobacco in the county have
signed up to sell their produc
tion co operatively and are go
ing out this week to sign up
their neighbors and friends to
market tobacco with them.They
argue that other growers are
doing it in products much hard
er to handle than tobacco and
are doing it successfully, making
money each year and that the
tobacco grower must co-opera
tively sell his product in order
to make money out of growing
tobacco. They want themselves
and their neighbors to reap the
benefits of a stabilized price for
leaf tobacco.
This present week the cam
paign is actively being carried
on in Boonviile, Fall Creek,
Buck Shoal, Deep Creek, and
Little Yadkin townships. Mr.
Aaron Speer, a veteran grower
and progressive farmer of Boon
ville township, is to have charge
of the campaign in tnat to vn
ship. He is to be assisted by
Mr. C. C. Zimmerman, an in
structor in marketing from ttu
State College of agriculture at
Raleigh. Mr. S. T. (Vet) Hin
shaw, well known farmer oi
Yadkinville, has charge of the
sign-up in Fall Creek township
and is assisted in the work by
Mr. D. H. Osborne, the county
farm demonstration agent. Mr,
Sol. Allen and Ex-Sheriff G. T.
White have charge of the work
in-Buck Shoal township. Mr.
J. M, Gray, of the State exten
sion force, will accompany the
men in Buck Shoal to explain
the contract which the growers
sign and to tell the growers why
it is necessary that they sign
Mr. Alien and Sheriff White
have the promise of the assist
ance of Messrs. Will Parks, Em
mit Windsor, John Bowles,
Bloom Long and Squire Gentry,
ier veteran farmers of Buck
Shoal township. The campaign
in Deep Creek will be in charge
of Mr. M W. Mackie, former
county demonstration agent, as
sisted by Mr. Chas. Reavis. A
meeting was held Saturday aft
ernoon in Little Y^adkin school
house and a dozen of the best
gsowers signed up and agreed
to go out this week and see that
their neighbors signed with
them. Mr. J. H. Houser and
Mr. R. W. Brann agreed to take
charge of the Little Yadkin sign
up.
Meetings of the growers at
which speeches be made ex
plaining the co-operative con
tract will be held in dhe school
houses of the county for the fol
lowing week, beginning with
July 25th, as follows:
Booimlle Township
Monday, 25 Boonville
Tuesday, 26 Reese
Wednesday, 27 Oak Ridge
Thursday, 28 Shore
Friday, 29, Mt. Pleasant.
Fall Creek Township
Monday, 25 Union Grove
Tuesday, 26 Forbush
Wednesday, 27 Srnithtown
Thursday, 28 Piney Ridge
Friday, 29 Richmond Hill
Buck Shoal Township
Monday, 25 Windsor
Tuesday, 26 Oak Grove
Wednescay,27 Bell
Thursday. 28 Lon^town
Friday, 29 Shore
Deep Creek Township
Tuesday, 26 Long School
Wednesday, 27 Lone Hickory
Thursday, 28 Hamptonville
Friday, 29 Brannon.
Each meeting is called at 8
o’clock in the evening." It is
urged that every grower in the
county attend one of these meet
ings. After the meeting an in
tensive campaign is to be waged
the next day to secure a 100
per cent sign up of the district.
The local farmers who have
charge of this work are all vol
unteering their time for the next
week or so to put over this cam
paign. They ask that their
neighbors open their homes to
the men canvassing for this co
operative movement and that
each and every man hold him
self open to conviction and be
willing to go a second mile in
aiding this work is necessary.
Ott er growers in this state and
other states are controlling their
markets and handling their pro
ducts co-operatively, growing
more prosperous each year
while tobacco farmers are grow
ing poorer each year. The only
way to change this system of
robbery and exploitation is
through co operative marketing.
“Justice.”
State News Items
Aston Croffee, a youth of
Cherokee county, was killed
near Asheville last week when
the car in which he was riding
turned over.
John T. Simpson, prominent
tobacco warehouseman of Win
ston-Salem, is seriously ill with
dry gangrene m his right arm.
It is thought that the member
will have to be amputated.
Sidney Kincaid, while drunk
one night last week, cut his
wife’s throat at their home near
Morganton. Mrs. Kincaid bled
to death in a few minutes. Kin
caid was placed in jail to await
court.
Gaither Autrey, of Yancey
county, was shot and probably
fatally wounded by Sheriff
Go6de of «~rmntv. a few
days ago. igone
to arrest Autrey on a charge of
seduction when he attempted to
shoot the officer.
An examination for postmast
er at Winston-Salem has been
ordered on or prior to August
9th. The office has been on the
vacant list since April 17th last,
when Postmaster Galloway re
signed. Mr. N. L. Cranford has
been serving since that time but
his nomination has never been
confirmed.
Administrator’s Notice
Having qualified as adminis
trator of the estate of W. J.
Prim, deceased, late of Yadkin
county, North Carolina, this is
to notify all persons having
claims against the estate of W.
J. Prim, deceased, to file same
the undersigned on or before
the 27th day of July, 1922, or
i his notice will he pleaded in bar
! of their recovery. All persons
indebted to said estate will
please make immediate pay
ment.
This July 27th, 1921.
W. W. Woodruff,
Administrator.
Williams & Reavis, Atty’s.
I Mr. E. C. Mayberry
Answers Final Call
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| Mr. E. Clarence Mayberry, of
Cycle, died in a hospital at Rich
mond where he had gene for
an operation for a stomach
trouble, last Friday afternoon.
The remains w.ere brought to
this county and interred at
Union Sunday at 11 o’clock, the
funeral services being conduct
ed by Rev’s. Jarvis and Myers.
The Masons and Juniors had
charge of the burial, Mr. May
berry being a member of both
of these orders. The largest
crowd ever assemDled at Union
church was present at the burial
Mr. Maybeiry was a member
of the Yadkin county road com
mission, being secretary of that
body, and yvas deeply interested
in road work in the county and
had done much to promote it.
He was a high-toned Cnrislian
gentleman and an upstanding
grogressive citizen of his sec
tion, loved by all who knew
him and the news of his death
came as a shock to the this sec
tion. A good man has gone to
his reward.
Mr. Mayberry was 43 years of
age ana unmarried. He is sur
vived by his father and two, sis
ters.
John L. Casper
Dies in Mexico
Mr. John L. Casper died in
Mexico last Friday morning of
heart failure.
Mr. Casper went to Mexico
last January and located at Villa
de Acura, where he and his son
in-law, Mr. J. D. Lambe, were
having constructed a modern
whiskey making plant,
The remains will be shipped
to Winston-Salem for burial.
Mr. Casper was a native of
Rowan county and was, for sev
eral years, engaged in business
in Winston-Salem. He was na
3 ears old. fie is survived
his wife and one daughter and
one son. His father, James L.
Caspe*, oi Cximu Grove1, aiso
survives.
Paul Vestal to Visit His
Hying Mother
■Asheville, July 19.—Rev. B.
H. Vestal, a minister of Winston
Salem, pleaded with the govern
or today to pardon his son, Paul,
sentenced in February from
Clemmons, N. C , for selling
stolen property. The boy’s
mother is dying, the minister
said, and uuless the son can re
turn within two or three weeks
it will be too late.
Vestal had been recommend
ed for a parole when it was
learned that he had attempted
to escape from the state prison
whereupon the proceedings
were stopped. The governor
said because of the seriousness
of the attempt to break prison
and the damage to discipline
that such action would entail it
would be impossible to $:rant
the request. However, if possi
ble that the boy may be alio vs ed
to go home to visit the tn< :n-r.
Fire destroyed the Andrews
Box Co’s plant in Durham last
Friday. During the lire Hugh
Riggsbee was burced to death
while cutting some live wires
that were interfering with the
' work of the fireman.
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