VOLUME 39
SMITIJ FIELD, N. C„ TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1920.
Number 38
GARDNER MAKES FINE
SPEECH TO BIG CROWD
Told the Democrats Here Saturday
Why He Failed to Answer the
Questionnaire and Laid Down a Pro
gram for Constructive Work That
Greatly Enthused His Friends and
Supporters.
Lieutenant Governor O. Max Gard
ner, Democratic candidate for the
nomination for Governor, spoke in
Smithfield last Saturday afternoon to
a big crowd of folks, the court house
being thronged to its capacity. He
came to Smithfield from Salisbury
where he spoke the night before. He
went from here to Wendell where he
spoke Saturday night.
Mr. Gardner was met at Selma by
his County Campaign Manager, Mr.
J. W. Stephenson, and a number of
other strong supporters and taken to
the Smithfield Hotel where hp was
served dinner with about a doien of
his admiring friends. Judge J. Craw
ford Biggs, of Raleigh, his State
Campaign manager, and Mr. N. E.
Edgerton accompanied him to Johns
ton’s capital.
Mr. Hilaries a. treecn mtruuuceu
Mr. Gardner in a nice little speech,
reviewing briefly his early struggles
to get an education, how his ambition,
his energy and his determination had
brought him almost to the top of the
ladder, and presented him as the next
Governor of North Carolina.
Mr. Gardner arose and was greeted
with an outburst of applause. Mr.
Gardner at once began his address
and for more than an hour entertain
ed his auditors with a high-toned
speech. He ' spoke of the question
naire which so much has been said
and written and gave hi’s reasons'for
not answering the questions which
were submitted to him and the other
candidates for Governor. He declar
ed that he was running on the great
Democratic platform adopted by the
State convention at Raleigh. He de
clared that he was a, friend of the
laboring man and felt that organized
labor had no more right to ask him
to pledge himself on the fifteen
questions submitted to him than the
thousands and thousands of the great
masses of the unorganized labor in
this country. That he did not propose
to wear the blind bridle of any man
or organization and that if he should
be chosen Governor of this great State
he would go into office without any
pledge or promise to give any man a
position in his administration. He
touched on the independent spirit of
North Carolinians and declared that
they could not be driven anywhere.
He said he was one of them in that
respect and that he did not propose
to be dictated to, that he was for po
litical freedom and independence and
proposed if elected, to be Governor
of all the people declaring that every
man, whether a laboring man, a mer
chant or banker, a manufacturer or
capitalist, mechanic or whatsoever
his calling should have a square deal
at his hands.
He spoke of the great agricultural
development in North Carolina, how
the value of the State’s agricultural
products had grown within the past
several years from the 22nd place to
the fourth place. He declared that
the great State Democratic platform
read like a romance and pledged the
party to a program of good road
building, connecting all the county
seat towns and bring the State in
closer touch with all sections. He
told of the 700 schools in the State
that had been without teachers this
year and that if he is elected Gover
nor he would use his utmost endeav
ors to open them and keep them open,
that he stands for better pay for the
teachers and that he is in favor of
giving them and all other citizens a
square deal. He also spoke of the
great work of the Wilson administra
tion and paid especial attention to
the Federal Reserve System and what
it had accomplished in times of great
stress and threatened panic.
Mr. Gardner laid down a forward
looking program for the State gov
ernment which appealed to those who
heard it as a great constructive pro
gram which will tend to place the
State on an even higher plane than
she stands today.
Mr. Gardner’s speech here greatly
enthused his friends and supporters
and was well received by the large
crowd who heard him. Like Mr. Mor
ENSIGN EDWIN POU
BURIED HERE FRIDAY
Body of Carolina Hero Is Brought
Back From France and Laid to Rest
At His Home Town.
The funeral of Ensign Edwin Smith
Pou, son of Congressman and Mrs.
E. W. Pou, of this place, who gave
his life in the service of his country
in 1918, was held here Friday .at 1
o’clock. The body arrived from over
seas in New York Monday, together
with 150 others who had died in
France.
After the ceremony there, the body
was brought direct here, accompanied
by Mrs. E. W. Pou, his mother, Mrs.
Edwin S. Pou, his young widow, Miss
Margaret Pou, a sister, all of Wash
ington, D. C., and Ensign Horcau, of
the navy.
An immense crowd gathered at the
Methodist church to do honor to the
young hero, many visitors from out
of town being present. All business
houses of the city closed out of re
spect to the occasion. Banks of beau
tiful flowers filled the chancel, as the
flagdraped casket passed up the aisle.
The service was conducted by Rev.
Howard Hartzell, rector of the Epis
copal church, of which the deceased
was a member, assisted by Rev. S. A.
Cotton, pastor of the Methodist
church. The eulogy pronounced by
Rev. Mr. Hartzell was impressive and
appropriate.
The active pallbearers were E. L.
Woodall, Ransom Sanders, R. R. Holt,
N. L. Perkins, Arthur Narron, Troy
Myatt, Robert A. Wellons and St.
Julien Springs. ‘The honorary pall
bearers were J. R. Banks, of the navy,
Charleston, S. C.; Capt. A. 0. Clem
ent, of Goldsboro; Lieut. Oliver Smith,
of Raleigh; Alfred Parker, of Benson;
Judge F. IJ. Brooks, W. F. Grimes,
Preston Faison, A. G. Byrd, J. H.
Abell, D. W. Parrish, E. F. Ward, H.
C. Hood, C. I. Pierce and T. J. Lassi
ter.
Among the floral offerings was a
basket of flowers with naval flag from
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan
iels. Here to attend the funeral were
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Pou, of Ral
eigh, and Mrs. W. J. Calvert, of Nor
folk, Va.
Vance Votes $40,000 ^School Bonds.
State Superintendent E. C. Brooks
was advised Friday that one big dis
trict in Vance county has voted $40,
000 for a public school. This district
is made up of several smaller ones
which were consolidated. Another
Vance county district, he reports, has
voted a thirty cent special tax.—Ral
eigh Times.
Building Material and Labor Short.
During the war building was held
back more or less everywhere. For
the past three or four years people
have prospered financially and since
the war ended they have been trying
to build houses both in the towns and
cities and in the country. They have
had a hard time trying to do this. It
has been almost impossible to get
labor and building material. Last
winter a newly married couple decid
ed to build a nice residence. After
the work began the man had to drive
twelve miles to town and get carpen
ters to do his work at eight dollars
per day for eight hours work. He
drove his automobile forty eight miles
per day to haul carpenters and had
to go almost everywhere to get build
ing material to go into his house. Of
course he was sorry he began build
ing but he had started and went ahead
with the work. The Greensboro Daily
News of May 19th commenting on
these conditions says:
“It is said that 75 per cent of build
ing projects planned within recent
months have been abandoned, either
before or after the actual beginning
of operations, and that buildings in
| various stages of construction are
being boarded up in increasing num
ber. It is safe to add that at least
75 per cent of people who have be
gun building within the past six
months or year wish they hadn’t.”
rison who was here two weeks ago,
he aroused the Democrats to a great
er earnestness for their great party
and gave them renewed hopes for its
success in the coming election. The
friends of each of these men are now
confident that their man will be nom
I inated on June fifth.
♦
CARRANZA SLAIN
WHILE IN FLIGHT
Juan Barrargan, Chief of Staff of
Deposed President, Says His Chief
Met His Death at Hands of Herre
ro's Forces.
Ex-President Venustiano Carranza,
who with a small party of followers
had been a fugitive in the mountains
of Puebla since last week, was killed
at Tlaxcalantongo early Thursday
morning, according to official an
nouncement made at Mexico City
Saturday by Gen. Alvaro Obregon.
Gen. Rodolfo Herrera, it is said, di
rected the attack that resulted in the
death of the fugitive President. He
belonged to forces commanded by
Gon. Francisco de P. Mariel, who ac
companied Carranza in his flight from
Mexico City, but who last week de
serted Carranza and joined the revo
lutionists.
The first reports late last night said
that all of Carranza’s companions
were slain with him, but despatches
received early Saturday state that
Gon. Juan Barragan, Chief of the
Presidential Staff; Ygnacio Bonillas,
former Mexican Ambassador at Wash
ington; Gen. Marciano Gonzales and
Gen. Federico Montes, who accompa
nied Carranza in his .flight from San
Andreas, are safe.
No mention is made of others in the
party, which it is believed included
Luis Cabrera, Minister of the Treas
ury; Alfonso Cabrera, his brother,
Governor of Puebla, and Gen. Fran
cisco Murguria, who acted as com
mander of the Carranza troops after
the President had fled from Mexico
City.
Chief Lays Crime Upon Soldiers.
Mexico City, May 23.—A dispatch
received from Juan Barrangan, chief
of staff of President Carranza, says
Carranza met his death at the hands
of Gen. Rodolfo Huerrero’s forces at
Tlaxacalantongo. The dispatch did
not give the exact date.
The dispatch follows:
“Villa Juarez, state of Chihuahua,
May 22.
“To General Obregon:
“Referring to your telegram of this
date, Huerrero joined the column at
Patla, professing loyalty. Arriving
at Tlaxacalantongo, Huerrero offered
hospitality to Carranza, placing sen
tinels who knew the terrain. At 4 o’
clock in the morning the men, abusing
the confidence imposed in them, sur
rounded the shelter where Carranza
w»as sleeping, firing their rifles furi
ously into the hut. Every one offered
resistance, although with the natural
demoralization caused by the unex
pected attack.
“General Francisco Murguia fought
valiantly in the obscurity (semi-dark
ness) repulsing the traitors who sur
prised the defenders w'hen they were
leaving their shelters to attack the
enemy.
“The unexpectedness of the attack
enables us to clear our military honor.
The defense was general to such an
extent that the attackers were forced
to take 60 prisoners, among them
Mario Mendez, Paulino Fontes, Gil
Garias, General H. Perez, Colonel
Gomez, General Villela and Carran
za’s military aid.
(Mendez formerly was director of
the national telegraph lines, Fontes
was former director of national rail
ways and Garias was Carranza’s pri
vate secretary.)
“Our conscience is clear. Our grief
for the death of the president is in
consolable. We are satisfied that we
did not abandon him for one moment.
“The fewr men wounded and dead is
explained by the fact that the attack
ers planned their crime, knowing the
place where the president, who had
placed his confidence in Huerrero, was
sleeping. The loyalty and courage of
the president’s followers were useless
against the treason of those crimi
nals.”
The message was signed by Barra
gan and Marciano Gonzalez, Federico
j Montes, Francisco de H. Maria and
others.
The flags on the American embassy
and all the other embassies and lega
tions were placed at half mast when
the-news of the assassination of Pres
ident Carranza arrived.
Rev. W. W. Peele, pastor of the
Edenton Street Methodist church at
Raleigh, preached the baccalaureate
sermon at Carolina College at Maxton
Sunday morning.
MUST BE NO STRIKE
WILSON WARNS MINERS
\\ rites to Joint Scale Committee That
He Will Name Board, if Necessary,
To End Dispute.—Work Must Be
Continued to Help Reconstruction.
Anthracite operators and miners
were warned Saturday by President
Wilson that there must be no strike
in the anthracite coal fields during
this critical period in the readjust
ment of the country, says a press dis
patch from Washington.
Writing to the members of the joint
scale committee which has been con
ducting negotiations for two months,
the President said that if they should
be unable to reach an agreement he
would insist that the question in dis
pute be submitted to the determina
tion of a* commission to be appointed
by him, and that work be continued
in the mines pending the decision of
the commission. He added that the
award to be made would be retroac
tive to April 1, the date of the ex
piration of the old agreement be
tween the operators and miners.
The President said he would hold
himself in readiness to appoint a
commission “similarly constituted to
the one which I recently appointed in
connection with the bituminous min
ing industry as soon as I learn that
both sides have signed their willing
ness to continue at work and abide by
its decisions.”
In making public the Presidents
letter, Secretary Wilson, who has been
in conference with the Wage Scale
Committee at the Department of La
bor for the past three weeks, said he
was confident that when the commit
tee reconvened Thursday it “will
either reach a mutual agreement or
the question in dispute will be sub
mitted to a commission as suggested
by the President.”
‘There will be no strike in the an
thracite coal fields,” said he.
FLIPS FROM SPEEDING PLANE.
Sergt. Major Brotwell Performs A
Sensational Act While 2,000 Feet
In the Air.
A flip from an aeroplane wing
while the ship was going at 110 n^les
an hour, 2,000 feet above the crowds
at the Atlantic City Airport to test a
new aerial life preserver, was the
thrilling stunt performed at Atlantic
City Saturday afternoon by Sergt.
Major Brotwell, crack balloon jumper
from McCook Field, Dayton. The
leap won him the first leg in the Aeri
al League of America trophy.
The feat was the first in the aerial
safety device competitions in connec
tion with the third Pan-American
Aeronautical Congress in session
there.
The new parachute of the Irvin
type is attached to the back of the
jumper like a knapsack, release of the
“umbrella” being secured by the pull
ing of the trigger rope across his
chest. On his first leap Brotwell
hopped from the wing close to the
cockpit as the machine went into a
loop. The chute opened in two sec
onds by the official records. He made
a second trip with Lieut. Ray as pilot
and this time walked out to the end of
the left wing and permitted the Lieu
tenant to flip him into clear space.
Three seconds later be was floating
gently earthward, making a perfect
landing.—New York World.
FAILURE TO OBSERVE MAY 10.
Brings Censure to Greensboro School
Officials From U. D. C.
Guilfprd chapter United Daughter,
of the Confederacy, Thursday sent a
copy of resolutions adopted by the
chapter to Frederick Archer, city
school superintendent, strongly cen
suring the school authorities for fail
ing to observe May 10 in Greensboro.
In the discussion preceding the adop
tion of the protest late Wednesday
ladies charged that city school pupil?
had been allowed to leave their tasks
a few days before Memorial Day be
cause of a circus, but were not given
a holiday on Memorial Day.—Greens
boro Dispatch.
Elon College commencement exer
cises began Sunday with the bacca
laureate sermon Sunday morning by
Dr. L. E. Smith, pastor of Third
Christian Church of Norfolk. He
graduated from Elon College in 1910.
TRYING TO GET
COLLEGE TO MICRO
An Effort Being Made to Get Free
Will Baptists to Move From Ay den
To Micro.
Rev. S. H. Styron, of Pine Level,
Dr. M. Hinnant and Mr. A. F. Bowen,
of Micro, were here yesterday. These
gentlemen and others are setting
move on foot to try to induce the
trustees of the Free Will Baptist
College at Ayden to move the institu
tion to Micro or vicinity of Micro.
They are asking for subscriptions to
be paid within five years provided
the college is moved to the vicinity of
Micro. Quite a number of subscrip
tions have been made and the leaders
of the movement are hopeful that
they can bring the institution to their
section if the trustees decide to se
lect a new location.
It would be a great thing for the
Free Will Baptists of Johnston county
if they can manage to raise enough
money to bring their college to this
county. There ai*e a large number
of Free Will Baptists in this county
anA they are growing rapidly in num
bers and in wealth and can well af
ford to strengthen their denomina
tional college.
MILLION LOAFERS IN CHICAGO.
Visitor Who Charged High Prices to
Idleness in New York Faces Same
Condition at Home.
Chicago, May 20.—John A. Carroll,
who explored New York and found
“a million loafers,” evidently has not
investigated parasite conditions in his
home town. Conditions are similar in
the two cities.
Curing the big demand for labor
this spring Chicago has wondered at
the unemployment indicated in crowd
ed movie theatres from 11 A. M. until
midnight. Vaudeville has attracted
the greatest crowds of all years and
lines in State Street and Dearborn
Street extend for half a block in front
of popular houses. Billard balls,
bowling alleys and pool rooms are
jammed with young men, for whom
life, apparently, means only one cig
arette after another.
The newspapers have been asked
many times by the curious to learn
the angles of this urban feature. The
only answer and one which does not
meet the situation is ‘‘they are night
workers.”—New York World.
Two Killed in Fayetteville Race Clash
Fayetteville, May 21.—One white
man was killed and another was mor
tally wounded in a race clash late to
night at the Victory mill, near here,
following an attempt by officers to
arrest a negro, who, it was said, caus
ed a disturbance after his daughter
was arrested on the charge of assault
ing a young white woman.
The party of officers was fired up
on in the negro settlement when Dep
uty Sheriff H. C. Butler was instantly
killed and Deputy Sheriff W. G. Moore
was mortally wounded. At midnight
citizens had invaded the negro set
tlement and two dwellings there had
been burned. A call has been sent to
the governor for troops.
At midnight a pose of several hun
dred men, including Sheriff N. H. Mc
Geachy and other officers were search
ing for George Hobbs, negro, charged
with shooting the two ipen. For half
an hour or more the negro had held
the officers and the posse at bay, and
it was during this time, while barri
caded in a negro residence, the men
were shot. Finally the house in which
he had barricaded himself was set on
fire and burned, and the house next to
it also was burned, the second believed
either to have caught from the first
or to have been fired by the black to
aid him in getting away.
The trouble had been brewing, it is
said, for several days, and had its in
cipiency in a quarrel between a white
girl working in the Victory mill and
a colored girl working in the silk mill.
They are reported to have had a fight
yesterday. The colored girl was ar
rested tonight by Deputy Moore and
taken to jail. Soon after he had
brought her to town, he was called
out to the village again by telephone.
It was on his second trip to the mill
village, three miles away, that he was
killed.
If necessary, the second state-wide
primary will ‘be held on Saturday,
July 3.
ENGLISHMAN HELD BY
VILLA FOR BIG RANSOM
Has Become Embarrassment to De
Facto Officials—Order Again Pre
vails?—Calles Fails to Obtain From
Villa Unconditional Promise of Co
Operation.
Camargo, Chihuahua, May 21.—
George Miller, superintendent of the
Alvaredo Mining company, who was
reported captured by Villa, is at lib
erty on his own recognizance, accord
ing to messages received here today
from Miller and Villa by General
Calles. Miller will remain with Villa
at La Bouquillas, southwest of here,
until certain “obligations” with Villa
have been fulfilled after which, the
message said, he will proceed to Par
ral.
Washington, May 21.—Francisco
Villa, who has defied every govern
ment in Mexico since the overthrow of
Madero, already has become an em
barrassment to officials of the new de
facto forces.
A report to the state department
today that Villa had captured and was
holding for $50,000 ransom George
Miller, British, superintendent of the
Alvaredo Mining company, at Parral,
Chihuahua, followed a report that
General Calles had failed t,o obtain
from the outlaw leader an uncondi
tional promise of co-operation.
Representatives here of the revolu
tionary government said they doubt
ed the report that a ransom had been
asked for Miller’s release and called
attention to the repeated seizure by
Villa of Americans since the begin
ning of the year and their subsequent
release. His action was explained by
statements attributed to Villa that he
was following the course most liMtly
to provide him the most up-to-date
news and a means of transmitting his
own ideas to some one on the outside.
Information reaching the govern
ment and the revolutionary agents
agrees that order in Mexico has pre
vailed in the past few days.
El Paso, May 21.—George Miller,
reported held by Francisco Villa for
$50,000 ransom, and another mining
man visited the bandit’s camp at Bo
quillas, Chihuahua, several days ago
and Miller was detained and held for
ransom, according to officials here of
the Alvaredo Mining company, of
Parral.
The other man was let go to make
arrangements for the ransom, it was
said.
A correspondent of the Associated
Press interviewed Villa at Boquillas
May 18 and 19 and no evidence of the
presence of Miller was discovered by
him. Neither was mention made of
Miller, Villa told the correspondent
the only foreigners he had molested
were some he forced to visit him for
the purpose of obtaining information
about outside affairs. •
A Chapter of Accidents.
One day last week Mr. George H.
Brooks and his three children, Rev.
and Mrs. P. D. Woodall and their two
children and Miss Tmily Thompson
motored over to Buies Creek to at
tend the commencement exercises. On
their return and while at Sanford Mr.
Brooks ate something that made him
quite sick. He was taken to a hos
pital and the car and the rest of the
members wore started homeward.
About 10 miles east of Sanford the
car caught fire, while running at a
rapid gate, and in the excitement,
Miss Thompson jumped out. and
striking the haid ground, was knock
ed unconscious and also badly bruis
ed. The car wtfs stopped, the fire put
out and the driver returned to San
ford. The party stopped at Mcncure
all night with friends and returned
home next day, Miss Thompson being
none the worse off except a little
soreness.—Pittsboro Record. —
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Miss Lucile Wilder the Winner.
The Herman Harrell Home debat
er’s medal given annually to the best
debater at the Clayton school com
mencement was •won last week by Miss
Lucile Wilder, who defended the neg
ative of the question, “Resolved, That
for the next ten years all immigra
tion should be prohibited except for
study and travel.” The judges were
Professors Holmes and Wilkinson of
the Raleigh high school and Col. Fred
Olds.