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VOL. 43 NO. 246
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TARBORO, N. C ' THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1922
PLEADS GUILTY TO
THEFT 0FS17S.IN INGS FOR NEGROES! WILE BE D I SO U SS ED j S G AL D ED TO DEATH; 1ESTLI HERD TO COOPERATIS 13GENT STAMPS
Former Employe of Treasury
Pleads Guilty in D. C.
Supreme Court
Petitions Have Been Circulat
ed for Subscriptions for
These Buildings
14th Annual Conference of t Switch Engine Side-Swiped A New Hero Proclaimed at New Ruling of Federal Reserve History of The United States
Governors in White Sul
phur Springs
By Passenger Train Near
Houston, Texas
The Methodist Institution
Yesterday
Board Beneficial to Co-op
Members
Bound Up in the. Num
eral Thirteen
DAILY
SO
ROSENILD BUILD-JKU KLUX ACTIVITIES SEVEN P ffSONS M TRINITY SALUTES
D
CREDITS
ASK RENEWAL OF
WAS IN LIBERTY BONDS
(By The Associated Press)
Washington Dec. 14-Charles
Clevcnger, former treasury employe
ana urceu Aimsiey ui
v.v ,
villc, V., pleaded guilty in the Dis-
trict of Columbia Supreme Court
yesterday to the theft and conceal-
ment of $175,000 in Liberty Bonds.
These cases were referred to pro-
bation officers.
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POISON LIQUOR IN
WILSON COUNTY
(Wilson Times.)
One of the stills brought in by
officers this morning was made of a
garbage can'and it looked very much
'tis though it had been put to its
proper use". The receptacle used as
a container for wiskey in t'ne'mnk-
ing was a filthy, disgusting, dirty
affair. Surely any. person looking
at that garbage can would lose their
appetite for booze.
Mr. Kohloss, prohibition director
in North Carolina in a recent state -
nient declared that investigations on
the part of hs forces had disclosed
the fact that wiskey is being itlade
in North Carolina in a horribly un -
sanitary manner. He told revolting
stones of the manufacture oT whis -
key in unclean vesesls and with dirty
ingredients. The director said that
disease and death must surely be
conveyed in the filthy drink maim-
facture-'l under these unsanitary con
ditions.
The still found today bears out
Mr. Kohloss'. testimony. Hereafter .
he who drinksWilson county whis-j
key can comfort himself that he is
most likely drinking garbage can
swill.
TO PRACTICE CHRISTMAS
SONGS
All adults are invited to come to
practice the Christmas songs and (
carols for the Community Christmas
. t
tree, tonight at Saint Luke's School
House at 7:30.
COL. BRUTON REELECTED AS
DIRECTOR RESERVE BOARD
Col. John F. Bruton, prominent
citizen of Wilson, has been re-elect-j
ed director for North Carolina of
the "Federal Reserve Bank of Rich- dollars as soon as five hundred dol
mond. Col. Bruton received 123 lars is raised by the colored people
votes while Mr W. B. Drake, of r of the community and placed" to the
Raleigh, candidate for the place, re-j credit of the county board of Edu-
ceivod 32.
; The following brief sketch of Col.
Bruton's busy life will give an idea
of his great value as a citizen:
He was born in Wentworth, May
23, 1861, the son of a Methodist
minister. . He was educated at the
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ifingnam JHiuiary ocnooi aim wuiv
course in law at the University j
of North Carolina. , Thereafter, un-
til he was admitted to the bar in
1884, he was engaged in teaching.
In 1895, he was elected president
of the First National Bank of Wil
son 'and in. 1902 he organizid The
Wilson Trust ahd Savings Bank of
which he has since been president.
He has served as grand master of
Odd Fellows, oClonel of the old 2nd
regiment, N. C. N. G., is trustee of
Trinity College and is also actively
engaged in the work of his church.
He has been a member of the re
serve board since its organization.
Amn th first women to enter
the field of motion picture directors can be secured for our district, on- Therefore, all parties interested ' making in all an eleven part pro
is Miss Dorothy Farley, who has di-!ly, upon condition, that the colored, in these projects are urge dto assist 'gram, so it will be impossible to re-
rectcd Vome of the most successful
film plays.
ENDORSED BY THE BOARD
The County Superintendent of
Schools, R. E. Sentelle, has been con
fined to his room for the lust two
weeks with sciatica, but this does
, . ,. ,.,
fnot mean, however, that his work .s
,beilI interfered with. He is kept
jn daiTy touch with the work all over
the county, through his co-workers,
(iinj he is giving direction daily to
ns assistants; the work seems to be
j in excellent condtion throughout the
county.
Mr. Sentelle holds daily confer-
I ences v-ilh his co workers, at his
home on Sj-.int Patrick strevt.
. Mr?. Carrie Battle had n confer-
pnce -th jir. Sen'elle relative to
the ertction of Rosenwald school
building' in the county,
it was agreed by the Superin-
tondent that a new Rosenwald school!
,i;unding would be erected in every
district in the county where a com-
munity fund of live hundred dol-
ai.s ($,-,000) is raised by the col
i ored people and placed to the cred -
it 0f the county board of education,
j This is the requirement of the
Rosenwald officials, that the colored
,.00,ir raise five hundred dollars;
tj,e Rosenwald fund seven hundred
' dollars and the county board of edu -
c;ltion gives the balance necessary to
' complete the building. '
J Two petitions have been approved
by the county superintendent for
presentation to the people as local j
fundsre solieiteTFTor jthe Rosen
wald building,
Petition to White People
The petition to the white people
is as follows:
'-We, the undersigned tax payers
0f x0, township in Edgecombe
county, hereby express our hearty :
appreciation of the efforts that are
being put forth by the colored peo-
pie toward improving their school ;
buildings; and we hereby agree to '.
pay upon the completion of the I
Rosenwald building in , colored,
district, the sum of money subscrib-
herein, oposite our name.
"This su'jr-cription is made, only, long as he lives. I
uoon condition that the Rosenwald! ' e has been giveri one month's j
building contain three rooms to be leave and he will come home to
erected and furnished throughout visit his mother and sister about 1
vi ith modern equipment. .j December 22nd.
It is agreed, on the part of the!' Mine thanks to Mrs. and Mr, W. j
County Board of Education that the
Rosenwald building will be erected j
at the cost of twenty four hundred;
cation for. this purpose'
Petition to Colored People
The petition to be presented to
the coloied people is as follows:
We the undersigned colored pa
trons of School in dis
trict and township, Edgecombe
county, heartily endorse the pro-
posal of the Board of Education to
erect a Rosenwald Building in our ,
district, for the education of our
children.
We hereby express our apprecia
tion of Mr. Julius Rosenwald sfor
his preposal to give seven hundred
dollars toward the erection of a new
building; and to the board of edu
cation for their proposal to give
twelve l'undred dollars for this pur
pose. , We hereby endorse the pro
posal that the colored people of the
community raise their quota of five
hundred dollars toward the erection
of the building.
We understand that the Rosen-
lwald funds and the County funds
people of the district raise five hun
dred dollars for this purpose and
MANY OTHER, QUESTIONS
I
(By The Associated Press)
, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,
Dec. 14. Numerous questions of a
national and state importance are
listed for discussion in addresses by
state ev. cutives, here for the open -
ing session of the 14th annual .con-
ferenee of governors today.
The activities of the Ku Klux Klan
will form one of the questions on
the program, that will be' discussed.
li
(By The Associated Press) j
Greenville, S. C, Dec. 14. The
i
dissolution of the Southern' Intercol-:
legiate Athletic Association and the
formation of a new org?.nization is
' consdercd probable, follow ing the
receipt of a letter from R. T. Holmes
secretary.
- This dissolution will be discuss
(.i: at tu, i,egi
inning or the annual!
meetin
j
LETTER FROM STEPHEN BODIE,
NOW IN US. NAVY
j
' "From tj. g. Steamship Orion.
December-14th, 1922.
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To the Tarhoro Southerner!
"Renumlber Stephen Bodie, who
was recommended to the U. S. Navy'
I !
by Mrs. W. b. Clark.' ? Have serv-.
ed 12 successful years at sea and '
he has also signed for his last term,
which will end Dee. l!)2ti, making
him 11 years of sea service, giving
him a pension of $73.00 for fifteen
years and after fifteen years a $29
increase, making him $102.00 a
month for the rest of his life. J
lie vill be sent home to rest as,
long as he lives December 14th,;
11920 ar.d draw $102.00 a month as1
t !
,S. Clark.
Respectfully yours.
Chief of Hawser, Naval Base,
H;impto:i Roads, Va., U. S. Navy.
place the same to the credit of the
County Board of Education.
In view of these facts, in prder
that the public may know that I am
interested in the better training of
the colored children of the commun-
ity; and in order that the children)
of this community may have better
educational advantages than they
have heretofore enjoyed, I hereby
agree to pay within thirty days the
sunt of money subscribed opposite
my- name on this petition.
The County Superintendent ear-j
nestly solicits the hearty cooprra j
tion of white and colored people in
securing the necessary funds for 1
the erection of these Rosenwald
buik'ings. .....
All applications for aid from the
Rosenwald fund should be in the
hands of the county superintendent ;
of schools, within thirty days. '".
No assurance is given from the !
State Department of Education, that !
applications will receive favorable
consideration after the fifteenth of j
Januarv. .!,
in every possible way in raising of j
local fund 1
Tn ninu i n
ATHLETIC GROUP
35 OTHERS ARE BURNED
(By The Associated Press) I
Houston, Texas, Dec. 14. Seven;
death bv'!
corsons were sialded to
steam and about thirty-live other
' were burned, several probably fatal
, when the Houston East and West
Texas, railway passenger train side -
swiped a switch engine near the dc-
pot t Huble last night.
i The cylinder heuds of the lnco-
i
j motives struck squarely but neither
! engine left the tracks,
j The seven persons wtre killed,
when the two-inch steam pipe tore
'loos? from the cylinder luail of the
: switch irgir.e and swept around-ami
j crashed through the window of the
j passenger train.
THESE MEN ARE YOUR UN
PAID FIREMEN
With the exception of a paid
drivr. for the truck and a small
amount paid to the Chief of the
Fire Department, the men whose
names appear below are the un-
paid fire company of the town of "
Tarboro; men who give their
services" for the protection of
j the property of the people of
I tne town. These men receive
: not one cent for their services,
whether-at night or during the
dayf'" '
Britt Andrews,
Charles Austin.
William Austin.
W. E. Barden.
W. D. Bryan.
L. Bcrwicke.
Charles Burnett,
Bcb Cosby.
Tom Collins.
Alex Constantine.
N. Constantine.
Spencer Dancy.
R. D. Karn.
Paul L. McCabe, Chief.
Ernest Meredith.
Ed Morris.
Ivey Moore.
J. B. Pennington.
Perry Pitt.
Tom Saunders.
J. E. Simmons.
Conrad Shipp.
Walter Thomas, driver.
J. A. Weddell.
V Earl West.
Latham Williams.
This list is printed to let our
people know who these boys are
- and to make an appeal to our
people to ekercise during the
0 Christmas holidays extreme cau-
.
,
tion as to fires,
ents warn their
Let the par-
children and
appeal to them to be careful
where they fire their fireworks.
By exercising this precaution
the work of the fire boys will
,
be lightened and they can en
I joy Christmas as well as any- r
body else,
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BE ON TIME TONIGHT
' '. '
To the patrons;
If you are going to attend the
showing of D. W., Griffiths "Dream j
Street." at the Colonial tonight, I j stageu nere. "." w . " ws me on-
urge vou to be on time. We be- Coach Bailey looked at Carolina's, ly Trinity man to lose a straight
gin at 7:30 sharp,, showing a two- j big boy, at Ray, the 240 pound match at the contest. When thrown
part comedy, entitled "Special De- Trinity man brought over for him, he was groggy from the effects of
livery," at 8:00 o'clock "Dreamjbut tuied back to Midgett, the IGOtnk.ng h.s head against the floor
- ,. Thi' nirtnre is in nine narts'l
peat anything by closing at 10:?0.
P. L. McCABE.
'MOPS UP' WITH CAROLINA
Ey KENRY BELK
Durham, N. C., Dec-14, A new
hero, was proclaimed at Trinity Cnl
lege yesterday. Another mighty
man of valor "arrived," so far
the students '.vere concerned and
t((),. hw in Trinity's hall of
' f,.nil. for athletes alongside such
present day figures as Tom Neal rf
Laurinburg and Jimmy Simpson of; which I'mits the amount of paper
Winston-Salem, football, basketball , by one maker while a federal re
am! baseball stars, and Everett serve bar, k mtiy rediscount for any
Spikes, of East Durham, basketball
and ba.-eiiall artist. John Barker capital ar.d surplus of the member
Midget t of Wancheso, a modest ap- bank.
pearing young fellow with a chesty Removal of the 10 per cent limi
like a steamer trunk is the name of tation frorii cooperative marketing
the latest hero.
I Midgett has been at trinity lor
j more rtiMi a year now, but the stu-1 jn furnishing adequate credit facil
I dents were hardly conscious of the ities to these organizations.
fact until Coach Bailey's wrestling,
team got back from Chapel Hill the
other night and told how Midgett,
a lGO-pounder, had thrown his vn
man; tren grappled and defeated
Carolina's light heavyweight repre -
senlative; and without a let-up took
on Poindexter, weighing 18T pounds
to lose en points by only a few sec -
onds. Trinity's team had won from
( Cnrclin.1 23 to h. Midgett s strong
. man tactics contributed 10 ot these
! points and allowed the mighty Poin-
; dexter to chalk up only three tallies
for his mates when he would have . marketing is an agricultural opera
s' most assuredly .registered 5 against tion lind.n farmers' tote- for-finaim-
'anr-ther opponent.
! Ninettcn years of sporting with
tlie wind and waves of Albemarle
Sound, in taking the fish, or bag -
ging the wild duck, have given Mid-1 PARISH AID SOCIETY
gett a muscular power and endur- J WILL HAVE A BAZAAR
ance that none of the northern The Parish Aid Society of Cal-sport.-men
who now swarm to coun-; vary church 'will have a bazaar on
try adjacent to his home can ever j Friday of this week at the Mayor's
hope for. Accordingly, Water, Car-1 office.
olina's middle weight man, was clear ; This bazaar will be for one-day
. sailing for him and in six minutes f only. . Home made candy, cakes,
the Tar Heel had been pinned tf I fancy articles, sandiviches, hot choc
the mat, olate.
Fowler, Carolna's light heavy .
homy man and Weighing about 170 NOVEMBER WAS RECORD
'stepped forth to defend his in-titu-. MONTH FOR COTTON
tion. Bailey, tile TlMnlty coach, (By The Associated Press)
gave him the once over, notice, his, Washington, Dec. 14. The .een
fine points, and looked doubtedly at PUr bureau has announced;' in its
Mnthcwson, Trinity's light heavy , cotton consumption report that more
man, ard turned back to Midgett, j ectton was utilized during Ncvmber
wno was brcutnmg casuy auer n.s!than in any month sin(.e October,
match. : ion.
"llo-v about going in again?
he
asked, and Midgett stepped back to
the mat. At once he launched an
offensive campaign that sent the Tar
Heel squirming around the mat in '
an effort to evade his holds. For nine;
1 minutes Midgett kept the offensive j
'and Fowler contented himself with,
! keeping out of the way. There was
a minutes rest and the battle was with prespiratmn. After two at
on again. The same tactics , were : tempts to press the big fellow's
renewed, but before the end of the j shoulders' to the mat, five minutes
necessary six minutes, Midgett, the of wrestling, Midgett reversed his
middle w eight, had pinned Fowler, tactics and allowed Poindexter to
the light heavy, and shoved
his
shoulders to the mat for another
victory.
Poindexter, unlimited heavy and j of nine minutes the oflicials gave
pressing the scales for some 1 So j Poindexter the match on pointsby
pounds, stepped forth to do battle , the leeway of a few seconds. '
for Carolina- Poindexter the far-j ' "We will he with Trinity again
famed guard with Coach Fetzer's ; next year," said Dr. Dawson,; Car
football machine Poindexter who olina's trainer, as he shook Midgetts
last year won the heavy weight J hand, "But we won't have anything
championship at the Olympic meet j
pounder, who was now bathed in
prespiration from his 21 minutes of
wrestling, but still looking fit. ( weight, both turned in straight vic
"How do you feel?" asked Bail- j tories, while Daniels, bantam weight
ey, won on points.
LIMITATION IS REMOVED
Liberal extension of credits by
'he Federal. Reserve Board to nicm-
- joorx of the cooperative marketing
j associations has resulted from re
cent ruling of the board.
' The most recent ruling excludes
i growers' drafts drawn and accepted
by cooperative associations from the
provision of the federal reserve act
' member bank to 10 per cent of the
I associations was regarded by board
. oilicials as of extreme importance
Other rulngs opening up credit
: channels to these associations an-1
nounce l by the board covered the
j t.; ijb: lil y for rediscount for grow-I
i (,,.s- !,iifts accepted bv associations.'
j notes of associations for funds to !
lav fov commodities purchased, ,
, warehouse
receipts covering agri-
, cultural products
for security and
, bankers' acceptances drawn by as-
y-.dfltions and secured eby ware-
house receipts.
The board has also ruled that the
carrying of a crop pending orderly
j i:;g the carrying of his products for
rersoniible period is eligible for
rediscount.
1
''Ail right," replied Midgett, and
went back to tackle the giant,
For the first minutes Poindexter
looked pretty bad. Twice did the
little fellow roll him around the mat
but Midgett's previous matches were
telling upon him and his grips would
not hold, so slick were his hands
take the offensive, but by an exhi
bition of eel like characteristics e
vaded his onslaughts. At the end
that can stop you.-
" " me mat. Mayes, wel
ter weight, and Hardaway, feather-
"13" LUCKY FOR THE U. S.
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Dec. 14. Postmast-
rr general Work has received from
- mimber,s of the American history
class of the Shepherd College, state
normal school, Shcpherdstown. W.
Virginia, a petition that the post
office department again issue stamps
of the thirteen cent denomination,
which was recently abandoned. .
The petition declares that the en
tire history .of the United States is
bound up in the figure 13 and gives "
the following historical reasons why
the thirteen cent stamp should be
issued:
America was discovered on the
night of the thirteenth of the month.
The republic originally consisted
of thirteen colonies.
The first official flag had thirteen
' stars ard thirteen stripes.
The American Eagle, requires
thirteen ' yetter to spell it, s does
also the motto, "E Pluribus Unum."
The first word to pas over the
transatlantic cable was transmitted'
on the thirteen of the month.
The silver quarter is written all
over with thirteen. Around the
: head of Liberty are thirteen stars;
; the eagle bears an olive branch with
J thirteen leaves in one claw and
j thirteen thunderbolts in the other.
On his breast is a shield bearing 13
bars, ar.d in his beak is a ribbon
bcaW.itf th"e motto with thirteen liet-
J tors; each wing has thirteen feath-
f Cr an.l it takes thirteen letters to
spell quarter dollar.
There are thirteen letters in John
Paul Jones' name.
There were thirteen ships in the
first American Navy.
Perry's victory on Lake Erie was
won on the thirteenth of the month.
The stars and stripes were raised
over Fort Sumter on the thirteenth
of the month.
General Pershing arrived in
France on June 13, 1917.
The thirteenth amendment to the
constitution freed the slaves.
It would not cost any more to
make a thirteen cent stamp than any
other one. : .. ..
The petition to PostmilVter Gen
eral Work also suggests several de
signs for the stamp, all commem-
' orating the thirteen colonies,
!
j WILL PREACH AT THE
MILDRED BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. D. E. Vipperman .'.will preach
at both the morning and night iser-
vices at the Mildred Baptist church
next Sunday.
These services have been changed
from the first Sunday to the Third
Sundays in each month.
The public is cordially invited to
these services.
HOME DEMONSTRATION BAZAAR
TO KpLD COUNTY COUNCIL AND
. Miss Deans, the Home Demonstra
tion agent for Edgecombe informs
the Southerner that on Wednesday
of next week which is the 20th of
December, there will be held in the
office of the Home Demonstration
agent in the ourt House a Bazaar to
be known as the County Council
and Home Demonstration Bazaar.
At this Bazaar there will be on
sale, drtssed poultry at the Market
Prices, Turkeys, Fruit cakes, Christ
mas candies, fancy work and holly.
Orders for poultry will be taken
by Miss Deans, who can be found
at phone 677 or 250.
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