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, : ' 'Ua you lave Cr.Lcl tuZjug tit Enterprise, place t !i cent stamp here, land to a postal em ploy and it will be placed In the binds of TJ. S. aoldicrt and sailors. No wrapping no address. Local rains tonight aril T. northeast winds, strong on t coast. 1 K VOL 24. No. 263. HIGH POINT, NORTH CARO UNA, MONDAY AFTERNOO N, SEPTEMBER 24, 1917. Member AasocUted Press. M ! ii I i h "Hill ll II-" --a ...4: '.!!.' :i I! i 'dSSLffilKOT-HAVE FliiD i- ... ..'..- - , - . . i i SHOTHICH Defendant Removes His Pre liminary Trial To Another Magistrate. to HIS COUNSELLORS EIGHT Attorney-General Manning Sits With The Lawyers Eor The State At The Trial of Means. Concord, Sept, 24 Dr. William H. Burmeister chief coroner's physician of Cook county, III, who testified at the preliminary hearing of Gaston Means, ! said in his opinion it would have been impossible for Mrs. Maude A. King to have held the pistol which inflicted the fatal wound in the back of her head . near here, August 29- Means, who is charged with the mur der of Mrs. King, testilied at the coro ner's inquest that Mrs. King accident ally shot herself. Dr. Burmeister also said there was no evidence of powder burns around the ' wounds. He was the second witness. ' Means, by advice of an array of counsel, exercised his legal privilege in declining to be examined before Magis trate Palmer and the hearing was con ducted by Magistrate Pitts. Attorneys representing the state of New York and Cook county, HI, were present. L. A. Weddington, ft Concord under taker, who was the first witness, told of removing the' ho&f of Mrs. King from a Concord hospital to his undertaking es- iishtoene1" Mlj :-? AJn gleans, pa paid, jeaiifa mm over the telephone jo( take ,eharge,, ftf, the body. wotind in, Jhe, head behind the left fjarjand,, ,fr,acture4 ankle were, the only, wounds, on,, the body, said- ., He placed ,thc. body in,.a case ond caskt(and accompanied: jt,t(ftn under taker's place in Asheville September 1. Tliere he said Aftoji Means notified him they had decided they would take' the body to Chicago. Afton Means and Mrs. Mazie Mclvin accompanied him to Chicago with the body, where it was placed in a receiving vault. They stopped over at Cincin nati, he said, to do some telephoning nd to ret up. -""When his trial started (iaston Means, through counsel, asked that the hearimr be removed from before Magistrate A. &. Palmer, nnd under the North CaraHna law the request must be allowed. i Magistrate Talmer granted ' Means' request d Magistrate C. A. Pittn'took his plaoel td eonduct the hearing. Means was represented by eight at torneys, headed by F. 1 Osborne, of Charlottes -'Attorney -General Manning na,t With the prosecution of which Soli citor Clement was the head. Assistant District Attorney Dooling completed the list of attorneys for the state. Both sides announced they were ready at 10-40 o'clock and Means entered a plea of not guilty. ' Dr.William H. Burmeister, chief cor oner's physician of Cook county 111., was the second witness. ' He told of performing an autopsy on the body of , ilrs, King, Burmeister described the body and the wound, saying the latter was two inches above the opening of the left ear. There wag no evidence of pow der burns: ' Above the left" eyebrow was si small nemorrnage unucr'xue skhi vui, there was"(rio 'abrasion m' ' the1 lntlde. He satii he 4186' eiWkl,ti',trctttrta' ankle and said the fracture by ' tlie length of the iMifcjf "tw i -a King MUJnlllHIAIlHi l.J wound described. .Tha defense objected to tht ijuefif lotf bul the wftne Was ar-' , lowed,1rfaHW;Htt'iirtaWd:it'wtta his opiniori 'MtB'TCing'-eould' not haVe.iri flictea the wound. There was no evi dence of powder burns on the wound or the skin around it, lie said. Dr. Burmeister was cross-examined in arl to powder burns and testified that piftol hot fired 10 Inches from a' blotter left marks on the blotter. At toincy, Mansler , contlnuifig ; crost-ex aminathm of Dr. Burmel tter, sought to show that if the woman fell lit the time she was shot her hair would have pre ""ventebt' powder KttrtftrrButtrrelstrsdtd he f auu'd' nkf powder 'triirbi Wtaln" o - i . i - i . ; : - the skin beneath the hair. He also said there was no evidence the hair had been singed or burned when the shot was fired. M. F. Ritchie, salesman of a local hardware concern, told of selling Gas ton Means, on August 29, a 25-calibre automatic pistol for target shooting. Means first asked for a 22-calibre pistol he said, but Ritchie had none. He told also of Means buying another pistol and rifle from Ritchie's sotre previously. After a brief cross examination Ritchie was excused. W. M. Bingham, who was a member of the party which went targtt shoot ing when Mrs. King was killed, was next called. Mrs. King, Gaston Means and (!as toa'ii brother, Afton Means, and himself made 'up the party, Captain Bingham said. , Ernest Eury drove them in his auto- mobilc, he added. When they arrived at Blackwelder spring, where Mrs. King was killed, be said the sun was down and the moon visible. He walked about .140 yards away from the spring hoping to shot a young rabbit , with h rifle) Bingham said, . '.j-.i: .. -i :'. ( i' When the' shot w fired he; heard UaKton Mfah calling him and Afton Means to- hurry to-'tte spring'. Art-iV5' ing there h found (!stun and Afton at ..ta 'Kings? Side. Oaston 7 was battling her Hcait. 1 He said Mrs. King appeared to be" dead. Bingham said he helped pu the body in the ear and they brought it to"Wwn",!'"' v ""'' ' ""; '"''' TO MIS Chief Busmeu Thoroughfare h . Ready for the Paving Con tractors. Sometime ' during -the present Week the' work of repairing ' and resurfacing Main street, from Commerce to English streets', Will be started1 and the con tractors expect to push the work to rapid completion. The street will first be washed, or scoured, by the lavish and prolonged use of fire hose, after which stiff brooms will be used to sweep any loose material from the surface. Cavi- ties in the paving will be repaired with bitulithic and a squeegee coat of as phalt and hot sand tfill be put on. This, it is stated, will make the street prac tically as noow ds new. A special meeting of the city council was held day or so ago, immediately after City 'Engineer Taplin had com pleted the work of ascertaining the front footage owned by those persons signing the petition, and it was shown that there was a total frontage on the section of the street to be paved of 2, '390 feet, owned by 44 different persons 6 'firms. Thirty-0 ftMf$M ienW hit i frontaae of weta siiaa tne .. . 1 i ' y 11 III ,l r.. r 1 . ' i r i ft." rt n ,Tho likniSSr Winthe,r4ntagK owned W. C. Brown, 24 7; George T. Penny, 2-3 .JoRfl MW. mdi TOM lill i "Kh'e"and "Kacock '"48 ' D. STARTWORK llll 0 Xtanton, H. Harris and, fotftf&iQfiJ. fci.Bt J. A. Clinard, 24 7 s R. R. Ragan, 75. P. H. Johnson, 23 2; J. 'A. Lindsay ,j 45; J. II. Millis estate 110.2; Bank of Commerce, 41 ; ' J. H. Johnston estate, 274; Mrs. L. J. Ingram, 51.2; Stanton and Ring, 25; ' Mrs,' J. J. Welch, 26; Mra. J. J. Cox, 129; E. H.C Field, 75 Wachovia i Bank and Trust company,. 284; J. C Welch, 50; Goldstein and Isaacson, 61; R- Lt Loflin, 30.5) A. V, Bapp, 50; M. J. Wrenn, 44-8 W." P. Pickett, 70.2! Dyer brothers, 114.85 t4rr;:iri.Tifci5rdwur48:67T -."ill ' 1 - - , ii - KILLED HES. RALEIGH EXCITED Bl SOMEEVENTS Capital of State Excited by Re cent Happenings Folk De vour Classic Peanut (Editorial Correspondence.) Raleigh, Sept. 24. Seldom has IU1 cigli experienced as much excitement in a whole year as it has in the last few days, what with Governor Bickett at tired in his "lynching suit" and ad ihvbsing mobs in front of the court House; Adjutant General Young facing an even larger mob at the state prison, Mid. even the women of the city taking part- in mob demonstrations. It all .iUiKi about because of an alleged as sault on the wife of a street car con ductor by the negro, Karl Neville, who has long since been spirited away t.i tli Mecklenberfg county jail, at Char lotte. Neville was taken away late Fri day. Thursday night an effort was made to take the negro from the Wake county jail at Raleigh, but Governor llickett, hearing of the mobs intent, is said to hvae shouted to his butler: "Jackson, get my lynching Buifc," said suitr, ac coridng to the? eagle-eyed young men of the press, bicng a light grey one, and the governor is said to have. looked im pressive in it, this proliably accounting ior the fact that the mob dispersed a soon as he addressed it. Anyway, the governor made the speech, and the mob cLsper. cd. Fiii'ay some more talking was done about th streets, and ' that mob de cided that it just ought to get that ne gro. So early Saturday morning more than . 1,000 people gathered at the state I l ison, men, women and children, to at-' tend,be necktie ... party,' .;, Adjutant Uen eral Young: heard of 1 the plot, and was on the acene with 2ft or more wen, ea& man looking down a Winchester rifle barrl with orders to slioot.t iThttt; ther mob tore onp plank off the, .fence about the state prison and then saw what lit faced, ( It .balked-r-men, .women and children, andi returned . to the city A god Hime was had by all present Both newspapers in Raleigh Bre being roundly ."cussed" because they con demned the action of the mob. It is no secret that a majority of the people wish the negro had been lynched. Espe cinlly do they wish it, since reports Saturday said a similar crime had been committed at Dunn, not so many miles from here. The streets in Raleigh Sat wday night were crowded with men- negroes were scarce and it was reported that another attempt was to be made to storm the state prison, some mem hers of the mob not believing that tlie negrd had been taken away. They were not satisfied after one of their number had looked through the jail and reported the negro gone. , Tliere will be no legal action against the mob,- even if some of its member were known, because Governor Bickett promised them that if they would go home, he would guarantee them immu nity. It's, really amusing to go into a Ral cigh theater and hear them eat peanuts Everyone in Raleigh seems to repair to his or ljfr favorite movie when it pcaitut eating time in Wake. is Ye scribe was enjoying the latest tricks of Charlie Chaplin in a local movie, peanuts were cracking to the left of him, to the right of him, In front of him, and then all of a sudden an over-itealous discipline of the sawdust ring on the seat behind leaned over and the crackling hulls went down ye acrib biers' back. " fat psirtfuta 1ff;?f1glf ty the convention LaM'CS-oJUife observed. . Ain't Tin I urn wnnrinrfiil I . . . ' 1 ? ' San Francisco, Sept. 24. A temporary Wage schedule, which will permit 30,000 iron workers, who struck here last Mon day, to return to work . immediately upon ratification of the agreement by the unions, concerned pending final ad judication of their differences by the federal board of conciliation, was signed today ,' at a "conference between repre sentatives of the men, their Employers and federal mediators. TTriie" average woman requires, a , fifth; leap breadjianJa.1nia,q,,,j .;m .j. Hi WIS BODY EXHUMED on suspicion Dr. Nesbitt Issues Explanation of His Secrecy About he Permit, Saying That a Crime is Sus pected. Judge Bingham and His Friends Are Awaiting the Next Move of Those Who Are Prosecuting the Examination. Wilmington, Sept. 24. Dr. Charles T. Nesbitt, health officer, announced today that he had issued a permit for the exhumation of the body of Mrs. Robert W. Bingham. He told Mayor P. Q. Moore tha the would issue a statement to the newspapers later and explained the reason ne had withheld information was he had been told by those making the examination, that they thought a crime had been committed. Wilmington, Sept. 24. Graham Ke nan, brotner-m-iaw ot ilrs. tfingnam, who is a Wilmington attorney, issued a statement today declaring that "mdm- bers of her family" had had an autopsy performed "the usual and regular way" on advice of leading physicians. He said they were justified in this action "by the fact and circumstances relating to Mrg. Bingham's illness and death and as disclosed to them." The result of the autopsy had not yet been made known to them he added. Gilbert Stephenson, of Winston; and Prof . Broo&s, o Durham, and PxoL Broks,1 of Durhani: - One big feature of Kirsawa week, which' opens Wednesday, wilt ibs the public apeaksngii f Wednesday, Thurs day and Friday, which will occur each morning t Jl o'clock in the gtvB on Washington treet Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock Judge Gilbert Stephenson, of Wimtn-8alem, one of the- state's best known orators, will be the speaker, and his address will be patriotic in na ture. Judge Stephenson is one of the state's foremost Sunday school worker and is well and favorably known by a large number of people of the section. Thursday morning the speaker will be Hon. A. L. Brooks, of Greensboro, one of North Carolina's oratorical stars. Al though the subject of the fluent (Jreens boroite has not been announced, it is thought that his address will concern the patriotism of farmers, ne is sure to at tract a large rowd, for h Mijoya rare popularity throughout th section. Mr. Brooks has assured the men in charge of the program that he will be in the city and ready to speak at the hour ai. noupced. Friday morning Prof, ,E. Ci Brooks, head of the department of education, Trinity college, Durham, will lecture. He is slid to be the strongest scheol rnnn of the state and a lecturer and wite oi note. lie it'ently secured a national cputation by the publication of his hcok, "WoodroT Wilson, th Mnn." Although it has been found impossible for a company carrying a number of open air attractions to reach the c:ty owing to transportation difficulties, the management of the gala week has an nounced that it will be "held. This morning" the "work of fitting up the old Methodist church building on Washing ton street which is to be used as an exhibit hall was being pushed and the interiof was rapidly being transformed. fif e tomorrow r n ight, When all entries wfljj have -been put in place , ready for the ppening, the display will b a large and ; complete . one, sliowng practically every phase of the manufacturing an l farming, industries of the city and sec tion, . I tlO SALISBURY NEWS BRIEFS. Contributions Taken in . Chnrche. ? . Wearer Hall for Salisbury, j Sept. 24. Methodist churches in Salisbury observed yester day as Weaver day, when contributions were made to build a Weaver hall at Rutherford college in memory of Dr. J H. Weaver, ur. Weaver was at one time pastor of the FlrBt church ' here nd had a number of warm friends in the city. ' The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Xfti!rodraitjin,pungwonientj SPEAKERS SECURED ftlpiEEK take thenlee of en as civil engineersisje,' who1 they ariSoi1 whait theyvare do ,i Vtheir lines.- ' - .ie"V MMJIIIE: Chairman of Parades, H. A.; Mil lis. States; That Fraternal Or- ' "! ders Are Wanted m Pdrade. A number of the fraternal 'organiza tions of the city have signified their in tention of participating in the great parade Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock which is to formally open Kivmesa neck. II. A. Millis, general chairman of the parade committee, today stated that he wished all orders to be repre sented in the procession which will form at the South Main stret school building and start up Main street to Richard son street promptly at 7 oclock. At Richardson street the marchers will turn back down Main to Washington, thence to the exhibit hall, where ranks will be broken. All organizations are requested to communicate with Mr. Millis before Wednesday afternoon. A feature of the week will be one booth at the exhibit hall, a booth thnt Steve Clark calls the "table de hote" headquarters; To judge from the name real food will be served there. Be that as it may, Steve asscrst that it is every one's duty to visit that booth. SEVERAL CASES ON THE DOCKET TODAY Eight Cases Originating During the Week-End on the Docket of Municipal Court. Eight cases originating during the week-end were on the docket for trial during today's session of municipal court. Mace Loftlin, charged with be ing drunk and disorderly and with re sisting an officer, was fined $" and taxed with the costs in the lrst case and with the costs in the second. Lonnie Jones, charged with permit ting his steed to roam at large on the streets of the city, was granted a coy tinuancc until Wednesday while1 Henry Hankins, charged with leaving' his horse unblocked, had hi affair sent over until tojnorrow. Joe Bondtrrant wad adjudged guilty of 1 " u. u.m., . .w .... was fined $" and taxed with the costs. He filed notice of an appeal and bond 1 nthe sum of was named. "Bondu rant was also charged with being drunk i and disorderly and was fined $5. and tared with the costs. Ho again appeal ed and the same bond as in the other case was named. Charles Maynard was taxed with the costs in the case. -charging him with speeding while Louie Hast and Kdgar Lee, charged with engaging in an affray, split the costs fifty-fifty. COTTON PRICES OF LAST WEEK'S CLOSE UPHELD New York, Sept. 24 The cotton mar ket was very nervous and irregular dur ing toky'g early trading. The opening waf) irregular at a decline of four points to an advance of nine points with Octo ber selling 24-55 and January at 24 28 on the call. An early reaction carried October off to 24 41 and January to 24.10, or about 10 points under Satur day's closing figures, but offerings were well taken at this decline and the market held well up t olast week's final ( quotations toword the end of the first hour. Cotton futures opened irregular- Oc tober, 24-52; December, 23-40 to 24-10; January, 24-10 to 24 28; March, 24 43; May 24-50. British Destroyer Sunk. London, Kept. 24 A British destroyer has been torpedoed and sunk by a Her man submarine in the approaches to the channel, according to an admiralty an nouncement. There were 50 survivors. SAMMIES ENCAMPED BATTLEFIELD FAR IN FRANCE Detachment of American Soldiers Moved Many Miles Away From Compatriots of Pershing Expeditionary Force, But What They Somewhere Along the British Front in France, Sunday, Sept. 23. By Asso ciated Press.) On a historic battlefield which merges into the fighting line arc encamped many American troops far re moved from the rest of their compa triots who farmed the vanguard of Un cle Sam's expeditionary force in France, For military reasons it Is impossible tuaeJLJ1hod4juaLji'teifiJ!tiajnen 1 lngr to furtber tlie interasH. if ihtfJ '4n wiiiN North Carolina Sends Descend ants of Lost Colony to Colum bia and a Peculiar Problem Arises. They Associate With Neither Whites Nor Blacks on Plane of Equality and Authorities Don't Know What to Do With Them. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 2b. Among re cent arrivals at I amp ,) ark son is a contingent of 14 Cherokee Indians, from Robeson county, N. C. Two member of Robeson board No. 2 accompanied the Indians here to explain their social standards to the cantonment authori ties. The Indians were formerly called Croatans, their name being changed to Cherokees by legislative enactment and they claimed to be descended from John White's lost colony. They have separate schools and associate on terms of equality with neither white people nor negroes. Their coming here is expected to give the officials a difficult social problem to solve. SSUE TO BE SOLD iTOESDAl Sealed Bids for Issue of $330,000 Municipal Bonds to Be Opened Tomorrow at N,oon. j . ; . The big sale of municipal bonds, to talling $.'130,000, for street improvement and refunding purposes, is to be held tomorrow at 12 o'clock at the municipal buildmg 'oa Jordan street; "The city manager, Thomas J. Murphy, stated this morning that a number ' of bids have been received and it is expected, that the luitifta will aiU ii t n uncii nrifw ; a hill ., . ,r ' , . nfilvaa than nnr r in ha nooenred 1M eaeh bidler must hav his bid accompa tried by a certified check amounting tti 2 per cent of the total before his olfer will be recognized. There was no manner of telling any thing about the oilers received today when the city manager was asked about the sale as the bids .ire all sealed and will not be opened until tomorrow at noon. It is one of the largest issues a municipality of this section has ever offered for salt". KINDERGARTEN CLASS STARTED AT THE ELM STREET SCHOOL TODAY Miss Claudia Dicks, teacher of the kindergarten in the city schools, has re turned and this morning met the mem bers of her class and their parents at the Kim street building where this de partment will he conducted this year. Miss Dicks stated that she was very anxious for the parents of tho children who will enter her class to come and bring their children so that all may get j acquainted U. S. Flags From Frenchmen. Paris, Sept. 24. Five American regi ments have been designated by the United States government o receive reg tmental flags donated by descendants of Frenchmen who fought in the American revolution. Bobby Byrne Released. Chicago, Sept. 24 Bobby Byrne, in fieldcr for the Chicago club of the Amer ican, league, was unconditionally re leased yesterday, it is announced. ON HISTORIC tente allied cause but it may be said that on authoritative to France at home that they are a credit to the stars' and stripes which for the first timein history fly over a camp of American anldiers in this nart of the war rent world. . rru. A TiMo haA ihauu mnn were here and sought them out, ' They are a fine healthy looking lot and nearly tSOJBontfiLtt! - lunder real campaign condition has made - theni . BOND MBHI1D ! NOTCHITAKITV -'" ' 1 " . i . R. B, Terry and! Others Received Secretary J. A. Rountree, ' of Bankhead Association Today and Agreed to Organize. - Twelve Army Camps on Route and Military Necessity May Compel Early Construction of Highway. An immediate organization of the High Point Bankhead Highway associs tion was agreed upon in a meeting held in the Manufacturers club this morning. The meeting was called to allow J. A. Rountree, of Birmingham, secretary of the general association, to present the plans for the promotion of the highway. Mr. Rountree came to High Point with 1 C. M. Vangtory, of Greensboro the North Carolina Bankhead director. R. B. Ter : ry and other High Point business anS professional men met and talked with Mr. Rountree. i; f ' 1 . The association Is confident that the psychological moment for pressing the claims of the south for a national high way to cross the .continent has arrived, Mr. Rountree believes the state of war makes the construction of a military road to connect the army cantonments a necessity, and fortunately for the proposition of the Bankhead highway, there are 12 of the cantonments located on the route it would follow. To get the government to adopt the Bankhead road as a military highway is one great objetc of the association, and congress will be approached with the offer of the route' in December. ' ' ("You can readily see," said Mr. Roun tree, today, "that these cities, where the army camps are established are doubled in population, in other' words there aref new cities of large population all along the route and the population! will have to be taken care of-by the vermnti, , , The " shortage ,of s railway jj; equipment, serves' to intensify the " problems , jfU movement of supplies and munitions, as well' as '6t ' adTdlers.-' ahd' the 'military t road apparently must be' built." ' !",J " , When the 'government s'nce1d' a 'mili-'"'" tariy"'foad In time' of International trdd-', ,i hies, it does not wait for ppropfhtttor'"" by . congress to pay for" the work but' ' goes ahead and builds the road. When,1""' General Pershing Was sent into Mexico,' he was expected to be on . the foreign soil for 10 days. He remained there 10 months. One of the necessities of ftie friendly invasion was the construction of a road. The United States built an excellent highway 2"0 miles long Into Mexico. It constructed 300 adidtlonal miles along the border in Texas, and wherever troop movements are to be made, good roads are essentiaL . . . . The cantonments along the route pro- . -posed by the Bankhead association for ' the Washington, D. C, to Los Angeles ! connection, are Petersburg,' Charlotte, Spartanburg, (ireenville, two St Atlanta., " the rifle range at Waco, Ga., two ramps at Anniston, Ala., the aviation camp t' . Memphis and the camp at Little Rockj Ark. Contrary to a belief which has spread, , the routing of the highway proposed by . v High Point and Greensboro is not SB sured. It is incumbent upon the towns (., along the Charlotte to Greensboro route to get a good organization of the asso ciation and work for the routing. High Point men yesterday assured Mr. Roun tree that this town would be prepared for the coming of the pathfinders on or about November 1, and would arrange an informal reception for them. A meeting is to be held in a few days to form the association. Mr. Vanstory and an escort of 19 cars, turnisnea py v. a. aiwuamrrj with a group of Fords,, and ( lug Ward with a Buick, brought Mr. Rountree out of Greensboro . this morning, and Mr Terry conducted him from this place to Lexington, where they were met by IL B. Varner. . -' '. , i a, ONE UNIT OF WHITE WAY DEMOLISHED BY t ; SMALL MACHINE TODAY "tjne of . the white , way , posts M.f knocked down and badly broken when ,w ;i it was- struck by a small automobile ,, ( shortly after noon today, . The machine. wrecking the post, backed np hit and went on it, wsy. , The sumber was ,n , LOCAL COMPANY CHARTISM BY THE STATE THIS MORJIWO Raleigh, Sept. 24.-The Blue Pidgt Timber romiunV. of llluh Point, S ' .i i -J l.u 41, .,.l Af alata la. ' day. The company Is cspitslied at flOO.OiiO and has r''t h. U mVl design S., gwersl t'wbtt 4 land b ness .
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