FINAL TRIBUTE TO
LIEUT. MAYNARD
Crowd of Several Thousand
Composed of “Home
Folks” at Funeral
HARRELL’S STORE, Sept. 10.—
Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard, killed in
an airplane accident at Rutland, Vt.,
on Thursday was buried by his own
people at the old Maynard family
place in the back country of Samp
son county today.
Under the shade of the great grove
at the home of his own people, the
young parson and aviator was laid
to rest. Famous for his ability as
an aviator and nationally known and
honored as the winner of the great
trans-continental government flight
in 1919, it was not the nation that
came to pay last tribute to him or to
express grief a this passing, but his
own people. Several thousand Samp
son and Duplin county people came
today with simple offerings of sym
pathy and grief for Belvin Maynard,
known better to them as a boy and
man than as the great aviator hon
ored by a nation.
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No military honors marked the
burial, but the flags displayed by the
Leo. L. Daugherty Post of the Amer
ican Legion from Clinton. They
came wearing no uniforms, and no
military garb or insignia marked
the committee sent by the North
Carolina Department of the Legion,'
appointed yesterday at the annual
Legion convention in Greensboro.
The ceremony opened with a song
service. Rev. S. R. O’Brien, of the
First Baptist church, of Mount Olive,
read from the 21st and 9th Psalms.
The Rev. W. I. Stevens, local Bap
tist preacher, presided over the cere
monies. Rev. J. M. Duncan, of Mount
Olice, made a prayer for the dead
and for strength and guidance for
the living. Rev. Mr. Carter, pastor
of the Baptist church of Clinton,,
offered the closing prayer. Mrs.
Everett, of Mount Olive, and Rev.
A. S. Brown, of the Rose Hill Bap
tist church, sang during the serv
ices.
It was to the clean, Christian life
of Maynard rather than to his fame
as an aviator that these ministers
pointed particularly in their praises.
They spoke of his young manhood,
of his admirable life and character,
and referred with a certain lesser
pride to his fame and ability as an
aviator.
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The grave of the young aviator
in the yard of the old home is the
first to mark the burial ground of
the Maynard family. Of the largo
family of six brothers, and five sis
ters, Maynard’s death was the first.
The entire family was here for the
funeral, and the aviator’s brothers,
and brothers-in-law acted as pall
bearers. They were Amos, Worth,
A. H. Jr., and M. B. Maynard, Paul
and Neil Goodson and A. D. Korne
gay
After the services Mrs. Maynard
received the many who expressed
their personal sympathy at her be
reavement. Mrs. Maynard, who be
fore her marriage was Miss Essie
Goodson, of Mount Olive, attended
school at Dellway with Lieutenant
Maynard. They both taught there a
year following their graduation and
later were married. While he was in
service in France Mrs. Maynard
taught at Mount Olive, her former
home.
Mrs. Maynard expects to return to
the home at Queens, New York, with
her four children, Rosalind, Evelyn,
Belvin, Jr., and Baby Grace, eight
months old.
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Albert Schlaske, of New York,
came to the funeral today as the per
sonal representative of W. F. Dea
gan, State Commander of the New
York Department of the American
Legion. Mr. Schlaske accompanied
the body of Maynard from New
York and had long been intimate
friend of the flier. The two men had
been associated in aerial phot :graphy
and had arranged to enter business
trgetr er According to ihei*- plans
they wt re to have begun their worn
together omorrow.
Through ibe streets > New York
tnc body was escorted by e ditary
land of pieces a , a corps of
m t:c. to: policemen. Throngs of
FRED C. HANDY
RESIGNS OFFICE
E. L. Auen, of New York, Now
Has Charge of Department
of Justice In State.
Frederick C. Handy, for over
four years agent in charge of the
Department of Justice activities in
North Carolina, has resigned and on
September 15 will be actively engag
ed in life insurance business in Ra
leigh.
A. L. Auen, of New York, who it
is said, has had a splendid record
in the Department of Justice, has
taken over the work of Mr. Handy.
Mr. Handy opened the Greens
boro office of the Department of Jus
tice for Western North Carolina five
years ago. He organized the work
there and ten months later came to
Raleigh to take charge of the ac
tivities of the Department in North
Carolina as successor to Dorsey
Phillips. He was at the head of the
Department’s operations during the
war and was indefatiguable in run
ning down deserters and draft
evaders during the progress of the
war.
The former Department of Justice
agent has signed a contract with
the Aetna Life Insurance Company
but will continue to make Raleigh
his headquarters.—News and Ob
server.
MILITARY REDUCED IN
NUMEROUS COUNTRIES
Great Britain Reports to League
of Nations a Cut of 55
Per Cent.
GENEVA, Sept. 9.—Reports pre
sented by the council of the league
of nations on reduction of arma
ments at this afternoon’s session of
the third assembly of the league
show that in more than a score of
countries restrictions of military
outlay has been begun.
Great Britain reported a reduc
tion of 55 per cent in naval tonnage,
France 36 per cent, Italy 49 per
cent and Japan 59 per cent. In land
armaments France reported a reduc
tion of 200,000 men under arms, and
shortening the term of military ser
vice by one-half. Sweden also re
ported the cutting of her military
service in two; Italy reduced the pe
riod of service and suppressed 88
battalions of infantry; Poland re
duced her army of a million men to
about 260,000; Japan made re
ductions but failed to give the fig
ures, while Switzerland reduced the
figures from 70 per cent to 55 per
cent the proportion of her men eligi
ble for military service.
Haiti took the front rank in the
debates of this assembly when dele
gate Bellegarde of that country took
the floor today and made the most
eloquent speech of the session. He
reviewed the work of the council
and demanded an investigation of
the operations of a punitive expedi
tion sent by the South African gov
ernment some time ago against the
natives of southwest African terri
tory for which South Africa has the
mandate.—Associated Press.
AGENTS AROUND HOME
OF JUDGE WILKERSON
CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Two fed
eral agents last night were station
ed at the homg of Judge Wilkerson
to prevent any outbreak against
him. The judge, it was said, has re
ceived several threatening letters.
Russia has proved that paper
money is the root of evil.
people witnessed the procession.
Mrs. Maynard first received the
news of her husband’? death when
she saw it flung across the columns
of a newspaper in large head lines.
She was neve’ officially notified of
his death, it was said.
The Stale of North Carolina was
in no way represented at rhe funeral
of her famous son. Prof. Hubert
; Jones represented Wake Forest Col
lege at the ceremonies.
Airplanes sent from Camp Bragg
to be present at the funeral circled
about the house during the lay, but
were apparently unable to definitely
locate the p'ace or to find a landing
field and before the services return
ed to Camp.—Jonathan Daniels, in
News & Observer.
HERBERT JACKSON
NAMED EXECUTOR
Mr. Polie Gardner Leaves
Estate Worth $85,000 to
Nieces and Nephews
Mr. Herbert W. Jackson, president
of the Virginia Trust Company, of
Richmond, Va., was in the city last
week and qualified as Executor of
the will of Mr. Polie Gardner who
died recently at the age of 73 at
the home of his niece, Mrs. Lota
Landrum, of Martin, Tenn. Mr.
Gardner was well known in Johnston
County and being possessed of con
siderable property, the contents of
his will make interesting reading.
His estate which consists of stocks,
bonds, jnjortgages, notes and cash
but no real estate is valued at $85,
000, the bulk of which goes to his
six nieces and two nephews. He left
nothing to his wife who survives
him, making the following state
ment in his will: “I make no bequest
in this will to my dear wife because
of the fact that she is already pos
sessed of a considerable estate in
her own right which I have manag
ed and largely increased during our
married life.”
The will directs that all the resi
due of the estate be turned over to
the Virginia Trust Co., of Richmond,
Va., to be held and managed by it.
I The income therefrom is to be semi
annually divided among the follow
ing nieces and nephews: Paul Gard
ner, Hugh Gardner, Mrs. Maggie
Fuqua, children of his brother, T. E.
Gardner; Miss Jeppie Miller, daugh
ter of his sister, Ada; Mrs. Lota
Landrum, Mrs. Gertrude Stoe, Mrs.
Emmye Lightfoot, Miss Kensye
White, daughters of his sister, Ma
ria. When and as each one of these
heirs die, his or her interest ceases
immediately and shall be divided
among those living. At the death
of last survivor, the entire estate
goes to McFerrin College at Martin,
Tenn., and shall be known as the
Polie Gardner perpetual fund. This
fund shall be invested and the in
come used to help pay the teachers’
salaries, thusreducing t tuition fee
and thereby helping worthy students
of the county of his birth.
The decease 1 left all diamonds,
oriental rugs, pictures, paintings,
bed and bed clothes to his niece, Miss
Kensye White. To Paul and Hugh
Gardnei, his two nephews, he left
his wearing apparel and personal ef
fects.
The deceased left the sum of
$300 the income from which shall be
used to keep up his grave. He ex
pressed the desire in his will to be
buried at Kingston, N. Y., but in
case he should be buried elsewhere,
the sum is to be handled by the
county commissioners cr other prop
er authorities who shall invest and
use the proceeds for the caie of his
grave.
Two codicils were attached to the
will, the first changing the executor
from the Virginia Trust Co., to Her
bert W. Jackson, president of the
Trust Co., a change in the law hav
ing made this necessary. The sec
ond codicil directed that the Vir
ginia Trust Co., be paid the sum of
$1500 to be known as the Polie Gard
ner Perpetual Fund, which shall be
held ten years the income accruing
therefrom to be paid to the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, South at
Gardner, Tenn., to be used in the
maintenance of the church building,
repairs, painting, etc. At the end of
the ten years the amount is to be
turned over to the trustees of the
church to be used in the same man
ner as before.
We were informed that a note
' left to the Executor provides that
no mortgages which the estate holds
' shall be foreclosed within five years
: if the parties keep the interest paid.
Mr. Gardner’s will was made on
November 24, 1911; the first codicil,
February 6, 1919, and the second
, codicil February 18, 1919.
D. G. S. Girls Meet.
Miss Irene Myatt delightfully en
tertained the members of the D. G.
| S. Girls Club Thursday evening at
I her home on West Johnston street,
! The only guest present besides club
j members was Mrs. W. N. Holt. A
delicious ice course was served dur
1ing the evening.
FIRST LADY OF THE
LAND IS QUITE ILL
Friends Believe Mrs. Hard
ing Will Recover— She Is
Still Very Sick
For several days Mrs. Harding,
wife of the President has been ser
iously ill, and though the reports
are somewhat more favorable she is
not yet considered out of danger.
The family physician, Brigadier
General A. E. Sawyer, has been in
consultation with Dr. John Finnely,
of Baltimore, Dr. Carl W. Sawyer,
son of Brigadier General Sawyer and
Dr. Joel T. Boone. Dr. Charles
Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., was sum
moned but the results of his consul
tation have not yet been made pub
lic.
An Associated Press dispatch gives
the following information as to Mrs.
Harding’s illness:
Mrs. Harding’s illness was describ
ed by the attending physicians as
hydronephrosis (dropsy of the kid
neys), from which she has suffered
at intervals since a surgical opera
tion nine years ago. In 1916 she pass
ed thi-ough an acute attack, and
shortly after Harding was elected
President in 1920 was again ill. On
both occasions, however, her ill
ness yielded more readily to treat
ment, it was said, than the present
attack.
Mrs. Harding felt the first effects
of her present illness nearly two
weeks ago, while on a week-end
cruise on the Mayflower with the
President and a party of friends.
Last week she was reported to be
suffering from a severe cold, and ear
ly this week felt sufficiently recover
ed to again be about the White
House. A set-back, however, occur
red, with complications, marked by
i recurrence of hydronephrosis, again
| confining Mrs- Harding to her room.
The President has spem a good
j deal of time at Mrs. Harding’s bed
j side laying aside his jffieial duties
as far as possible in order to be
with her.
Yesterday’s daily papers stated
that though Mrs. Hardings * mdition
was still critical, friends of the fam
ily were extremely hopeful The
only official announcement from the
V ) ite House Sunday was as follows:
‘•Mrs. Harding’s cond-’a. r. at l'j
noon follows: Temperature 100.
Pulse 102. Respiration 32.
“During the early part of last
night patient was nervous and rest
less, latter part of night and early
morning quiet and sleeping greater
part of time. Physical appearance
indicate slight improvement over
yesterday. Condition still critical.
Consultation with Dr. Charles Mayo,
who arrived at 10 a. m., and Dr. John
Finney, has not yet been concluded.
(Signed) C. E. Sawyer, M. D.”
MARION, 0., Sept. 10.—Marion
is stunned today. News of Mrs.
Harding’s critical condition at the
White House caused a shock that
was felt as poignantly in the home
of the poor as in the homes of the
rich.
Mrs. Harding undoubtedly is the
most popular woman that Marion
has ever known. Everybody here ap
pears to be her friend. At President
Harding’s newspaper office bulletins
were- giVen out regarding Mrs. Har
din’s condition as fast as despatches
some of them direct from the White
House, arrived. All day a crowd
stood about the bulletin boards, and
late tonight the crowds were still
| there.
Today in the churches of the city
there were prayers for the recovery
of Mrs. Harding.
“No one believed more in the
efficacy of prayer than did Mrs.
Harding,” said Dr. Jesse Swank,
pastor of the Epworth Methodist
Episcopal church. In her girlhood
! days Mrs. Harding was a member
i oi tne ivietnocnst cnurcn.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Mrs
Harding was said to be “getting along
very nicely,” by Dr. Carl Sawyer,
son of Brigadier General Sawyer, at
10:05 o’clock tonight, “Her improve
ment is continuing,” he said to news
paper men, as he entered an auto
mobile for a ride with Mrs. Saw
yer and Chairman Lasker, of the
Shipping Board.
It was learned that President
’ Harding retired at 9:30 o’clock to
; night.
CLEMENCEAU TO If
VISIT UNITED STATES ■
Will Try To Restore Prestige of
France and Tell of Duties
of Nations.
PARIS, Sept. 10.—M. Clemenceau,
the war premier, will sail for New
York in four weeks on an extended
tour of the United States for the
purpose of telling the American peo
ple what arc the rights and duties
of the nations which jointly won the
war, and also to try to restore the
prestige which France has lost in the
United States. The trip will mark
return of M. Clemenceau hto Frenc
politics, according to what is con
sidered authority here.
M. Clemenceau is making the trip
independently of any agency or lec
ture bureau, it is further asserted,
and he will not receive one cent for
the journey’s expense, which will
be paid from his own pocket. His
advisers say the former Premier now
sees an opportunity to again serve
his country in a large way and
hopes that he good he expects to
accomplish in America will serve to
create a demand for his return to
power in France. M. Clemenceau
is going to the United States as an
outspoken pro-American, but at the
same time it is said he thinks the
French position is misunderstood
by a large part of the American pub
lic.—News and Observer.
CO-OPERATORS TO
INSTITUTE SUITS
To Start Four Suits In Eastern
Carolina Against Contract
Breakers.
The Tobacco —Growers’ Co-opera
tive Marketing Association will im
mediately bring suit against con
tract breakers in eastern North Car
olina, aeco’Hfling to announcment of
association officials following a con
ference in Richmond, Va., yesterday,
with Aaron Sapiro, attorney for the
association.
Four suits will be instituted in
eastern North Carolina and two in
South Carolina, according to Mr.
Sapiro, who said “a few men cannot
block the 80,000 organized tobacco
growers of the Carolinas and Vir
ginia, who have behind them the na
tional laws, state laws and over
whelming public opinion.” Although
but few instances of contract-break
ing have occurred in the two Caro
linas, where the associations has be
gun receiving tobacco, the co-opera
tive association will go to the mat
with growers who break their con
tracts, and with unscrupulous per
sons who endeavor to induce them
to do so.
WILSON SENDS OVERMAN
MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY
j SALISBURY, Sept. 11.—Senator
| Lee S. Overman, who is at home
and kept to his room on account of
an injury received some few days
! ago in a fall at Washington, has re
, ceived hundreds of messages of sym
! pathy, but one that he appreciates
j probably more than any other is a
j letter just received from Woodrow
j Wilson. This letter betrays some of
the old time Wilson humor and in
dicates that the ex-President is at
least able to take notice of things
political. Mr. Wilson writes:
“My dear Senator:*
“I learned only yesterday of the
accident to your ankle, which I am
afraid must be very painful. 1 send
you this line to express my sincere
regret and great sympathy. We
! must, I think, leave all mis-steps t.i
the Republicans, and I advise you as
a true Democrat hereafter to ‘watch
your step.’ We must all keep as
fit as possible for the great tasks
immediately ahead of us as a nation
and as a party. Hoping that your
inconvenience and distress will be
very short-lived,
“Faithfully yours,
“WOODROW WILSON.”
Mr. Overman is able to rest well,
but six weeks off his feet is the
shortest time given by his physi
cians. This enforced vacation is go
ing to knock the Senator out of the
! approaching campaign fight to a
j great extent.
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I They have schools that teach do
mestic science, but why not schools
that teach domestic silence.
SOUTH CAROLINA’S
GOOD SHOWING
Virginia and North Carolina
Tobacco Growers Organize
Association Locals
First advance payments to mem
bers of the Tobacco Growers Coop
erative Association in South Caro
lina on nine markets for the first
nine delivery days this year, averag
ed more than the total receipts un
der the auction system, for the same
period last- year, according to
figures just compiled by the South
Carolina offices of the Association.
At Bamberg and Hartsville mem
ber growers averaged two cents a
pound more in advance than the av
eraged price paid by the “auction”
system in 1921. In the face of those
figures and the fact that the Associa
tion has increased its advance pay
ments to South Carolina members
and is urging them to make early
deliveries in order to hasten the sec
ond payment, only growers with
short memories find any reason to
cljng to the out-of-date “auction”
system. That many of them still
remember 1921 is shown by the way
new contracts are being signed in
the Palmetto State.
More than twenty Virginia coun
ties have perfected local organiza
tions in school districts or townships
and the five hundred locals are hold
ing regular meetings at which prob
lems of the member growers are
discussed and plans made for holding
the Association with a united front
in its fight against the old auction
system.
Growers in four counties in West
ern North Carolina have requested
assistance from headquarters in per
fecting s|ome 200 local communfity
organizations on the eve of the open
ing of warehouses in this territory.
In response to this call the Asso
ciation has sent L. E. Rogers, of Vir
ginia, R. J. Works, of Kentucky, and
Field Representatives L. V. Morrell,
J. B. Farley and H. H. Lawly of
North Carolina to cooperate with
the growers under the leadership of
Director J. W. King and J. B. Swain,
district representative in these coun
ties.
Sentiment for Co-operative Mark
eting is overwhelming tobacco grow
ers in Western North Carolina and
leaders among the growers expect
through their local organizations to
assume 100 per cent deliveries among
members of the Association.
Aaron Sapiro is to speak in Dan
ville, Va., Friday, September 15th,
and in South Hill, Va., Saturday,
Sept. 16th, at mass meetings which
are expected to break all attendance
records.
Mr. Sapiro says that California
Cooperatives are much impressed by
the remarkable story of the Ken
tucky Burley Association in its first
year, and that H. G. Coykendahl,
head of the California Prune and
Apricot Growers Assiciation, is go
ing to Kentucky to study the opera
tion of the Burley Association,, whicn
has made a groat record in handling
tobacco at a minimum cost to mem
bers.—Frissell.
ISSUE WARRANT FOR
FORMER BANK TELLER
ELIZABETH CITY, Sept. 11.—A
warrant was issued today for the
arrest of John D. Sykes. Jr., 26,
former city collection teller of the
First and Citizens National Bank of
this city, on a charge of embezzle
ment. Sykes has been missing from
Elizabeth City since Sunday, Septem
ber 6th. Chas. R. Robinson, presi
dent of the bank, today issued a
statement saying investigation of
Sykes’ accounts revealed an alleged
shortage of more than $20,000. Mr.
Robinson said the bank is fully pro
tected by a surety bond in the sum
of $25,000.
Parrish’s Stables Leased.
The Virginia Horse and Mule Co.,
of Four Oaks, has leased the stables
owned by the late F. H. Parrish and
will be ready to serve customers
about the first of October. For the
past four years this firm has been
located at Four Oaks where a good
trade has been built up. This firm
I will be glad to have their friends
‘ and patrons call on them at their
new place of business.