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VOL. X^CVI No. 49.
MOORES ViLLE, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1922
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HAVE ALL GOOD:—The young
lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but
they that seek the Lord shall not
want any good thing. Psalm 34:10.
FREE FROM WANT:—The Lord
is my shepherd; I shall not want.—
Psalm 32:1.
SAFE STEPS:—The steps of a
good man'are ordered by? the Lord;
aiid he delighteth in his way.—Psalm
37:23.
PRAYER FOR WISDOM:—So
teach us to number our days that we
may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
—Psalm 90:12,
ETERNAL PROTECTION:—The
Lord shall preserve thy going out and
thy coming in from this time forth,
and even for evermore.—Psalm 121:8.
NOT MEAt AND DRINK:—For
the kingdom of God is not meat and
drink, but righteousness, and peace,
and joy in the Holy Ghost.—Rom. 14:
17.
SPEAK THE GOOD WORD:—
Heaviness in the heart of man mak
eth it stoop; but a good word maketh
it. glad.—Proverbs 12:25.
MARY’S LAMB.
Mary had a little lamb—
‘Twas Persian—on her coat;
She always had a mmk or two
About her dainty throat.
The bird of paradise, a tern
’ And ermine made the hat
That perched at jaunty angle *
On her coiffure, largely “rat.”
Her tiny boots were sable topped.
Her gloves were muskrat, too.
Her muff had heads and tail of half
The “critters” in the zoo.
And when she walked abroad, I ween
She feared no windly wind;
At keeping warm, ’twas plain to see
She had all nature “skinned.”
—The Reflector.
STATE FAIR AT RALEIGH.
The “Midway” with its shady con
cessions disguised as "games of
chance” “games of skill,” and the
lige, has gone from the North Caro
lina State Fair at Raleigh, under
the personal orders of Mrs. George
W. Vanderbilt, its .president. But
contracts completed by Manager E.
V. Walborn, assure patrons of the
61st annual fair on October 16-20 of
abundant and high grade amuse
ments.
Contracts : for all amusements
have been closed With T. A. Wolfe’s
Superior Shows, which carry with
them 16 tented shows and six riding
devices. In addition there will be
five high grade attractions, most of
which contain several acts that will
be given both day and night in
front of the grand stand. The two
bands carried by the carnival will be
supplemented by the band of the
120th Infantry, “Raleigh’s Own” and
Victor’s.Band of Texas, which car
ries 17 men and one lady vocalist,
making four bands ia'all..
Both the carnival shows and the
free attractions, which will be given
in addition to the daily horse races,
the horse show, the dog show, and
many other new features, contain a
well selected variety of entertain
ment. “Something different” has
been the Blogan adopted in selecting
these attractions and-all of them
have proved their worth at other
-fairs. One of the best attractions
secured for the fair is the "Twenti
eth Century Wonders,” King B, Max-*
ine R, and Hailey, three pacers each
with a record of 2.15 or better, that
are represented- in four trick acts,
including the three racing together.
King B also races Maxine R without
a rider and is shown in another act
pushing the cart backwards with the
driver facing the horses head. This
is a novel and thrilling exhibition on
a level track but on .«&e new $20,000.
00 race course', with an elevation of
more than 40 feet, will make R has
araous. me game iwo nurses win
stage a “rube race” that is a knock
out. All of these events are pulled
at better than a three minute gait.
Another series of track acts has
been secured in the Hocum attrac
tions, consisting of society riding
acts, trained ponies, doga, high
school horses, etc.
yj The other free attractions will be
given from a stage. Eugene and
'Finney, artists of the highest class,
-will present side splitting acrobatic
acts. The Rosard Trio, composed of
one man and two women, give two
acts',' one of comedy and the other
an aerial cradle and iron Jaw act.
The Moll Brothers, who make, their
first appearance at American fairs
this year, present an act of trapese
balancing from a bamboo pole sixty
•feet high balanced on the shoulder
of the one' on the ground. This is
one of the most difficult and danger
MAYNARD'S OWN PEPOLE PAY
HIM FINAL TRIBUTE.
(By Jonathan Daniles in News and
Observer.)
Harrell’s Store, Sept. 10.—Lient.
Be Ivin W. Maynard, killed in an air
plane accident at Rutland, Vermont,
on Thursday was buried by his own
people at the old Maynard family
place in the back country of Sampson
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, 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 the last tribute to him or
to express grief at his passing, but'
his own people. Several thousand
Sampson and Duplin county people
came today with simple offerings of
sympathy and grief for Belvin May
nard, known better to them as a boy
and man than the great aviator hon
ored by a nation.
Hardly a score of people came from
beyond the borders of the counties.
It was a time for tribute from his
own people and it seemed most fitting
that at the last it should be his own
country that knew him.
Over the dusty roads that lead
from Clinton and Wallace the people
of the rtwo counties came—people
for the most part who came in sim
ple grief and sympathy and they
made no august body burying a hero
in triumph, but a kind, soft-eyed
gathering of neighborly folk who
came not to speak of the death of a
hero, but to express condolence and
grief over the death of one of the
loved ones.
No military honors marked the
burial but the flags displayed by the
Leo L. Daughtery Post of the Ameri
can I.egion from Clinton. They
came wearing no uniforms, and no
military garb or insignia marked the
committee sent out by the North
Carolina Department of the Legion,
appointed at the annual Legion con
vention in Greensboro.
Yet without the splendor of mili
tary honors or the gathering of
great men from any places to pay
honor, it was still a beautiful service.
No flags, or flowers; no military
pomp am) pageantry feouLd bava
made more beautiful these last trib
utes paid by the Sampson and Duplin
folk to him who was not alone their
hero, but one of their own and knew
and loved.
Long before the appointed hour
the people of the two counties began
to gather and when at three o’clock
the services began the several thou
sand stood in quiet reverence about
the front of the old Maynard home
where the services were held.
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 Olive, made a prayer for the
dead and for the strength' and buid
ance for the living. Rev. Mr. Car
ter, pastor of the Baptist church of
Clinton, offered the closing prayer.
Mrs. Everett, of Mount Olive, and
Rev. A. S. Brown, of Rose Hill Bap
tist church, sang during the services.
It was to the clean, Christian life
of Maynard rather titan 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.
Rev. Jackson A. Ellis, of Raleigh,
who preached the principal sermon,
particularly stressed his clean man
hood, his modesty and his humility,
his trust in God and the Christian
likeness of his whole life. He spoke
of Maynard as he knew him and lov
ed him. He honored him as a na
tionally-known aviator and spoke of
him as greater than most young- men
of his duty and his faith in God.
"Maynard was a real man,” he
said. "The highest gift of God—a
Christian gentleman.”
Sewn Creates Disrespect.
High Point Enterprise.
The fact that the Keith theaters
throughout the United States are to
permit no more jokes about the pro
hibition laws, because the public has
tired of them, indicates that a reac
tion in favor of law has come about
in this country.
Perhaps not more than one-half of
Keith’s patrons objected to jokes
about the Volstead movement. The
fact must be that the real American
nature has risen in the minds of the
indifferent and their objection is to
the ridicule of a law which is a part
of the national constitution. As
long as the Volstead act is law it
must be respected.
Without defending or ridiculing
prohibition it can be said that the
sooner people come to realise that
open scorn for law in this instance
creates disrespect for all other law
the better off we will be as a nation.
TENTATIVE PLANS FOR RE
BUILDING CHAMBERS HALL.
Tentative plans for the rebuilding
of historic Chambers Hall, that burn
ed on the Davidson college campus
last year, were announced by Dr. W.
J. Martin, president o f Davidson.
These plans call for a larger and
better equipped Chambers Hall than
the old one, and construction of the
new Chambers Hall on the basis of
these plans will begin immediately
after the successful completion of
the present campaign for $600,000
to pay for its erection and to add to
the endowment 'of Davidson.
ine new i/nanwers nan, duiu on
the announced "plans, will be one of
the finest college structures in the
entire United States, and will con
sit of three buildings connected by
corridors. The massive Dorian pil
lars that yet mark the ruins of the
old Hall will be retained in the new
structure, if possible, and the new
Chambers will be built about them.
It was about those blackened pillars
that the student body of Davidson
assembled, after the fire had razed
Chambers Hall, and organized the
present campaign for reconstruc
tion of the old building that has
long been styled “The Heart of Da
vidson.”
The three buildings of the New
Chambers Hall will be known as the
Central Building, the North Build
ing and the (South Building. The
Central building will be 80 by 112
feet, four stories high and will con
tain more than thirty class rooms.
The wings will be 50 feet in length
and three stories high, and will con
tain twenty offices for teachers. The
North and South buildings will each
be 64 by 112 feet, and three stories
high. The departments of physics,
biology, mineralogy, geology, the ex
ecutive offices, the museum, the gal
lery, and an auditorium will be
housed in these* structures. The
new auditorium will seat 1200 per
sons.
It is the intention of the college
authorities that the New Chambers
hall, like the old, will be the center
of college life and activities, and the
shrine of the sons of Davidson in
years to come, just as the old hall is
to graduates today. The classic
style of architecture will be followed
in the new building and despite- its
larger size and modern equipment, it
will strongly remind one of the state
ly and beloved ; structures whose
ruins it will rest, according to Dr.
Martin.
The old Chambers Hall was one
of the most historic college buildings
in America and its destruction by
fire aroused in all the graduates of
Davidson an enthusiastic support of.
the present campaign to rebuild it.
Many of these same Alumni today,
including some of America's most
famous men, are members of the
“Greater Davidson Campaign Com
mittee,” which is directing the move
ment for a new Chambers Hall and
“A Greater Davidson for a Greater
Southern Church.”
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Pleads Insanity on Prohibition
Charge.
Kinston, Sepb. 7.—The insanity
plea of Frank Taylor, charged with
violating the prohibition laws, has
aroused more interest in court, legal
and lay circles here than anything
that hat happened in the local courts
in months. Taylor has served on the
roads for similar infractions. Form
erly he was well-to-do, if not now.
He is a slightly unusual charactefT
His acquaintances say he is good
natured. He has had one or two
spells of religious zeal. His court
record and {official suspicions de
tract from his reputation in the one
particular of anti-Volsteadism.
Attorney Fred 1. Sutton gave
Judge Guy Elliott a new puzzler
when he introduced the insanity plea
in police court. Elliott freely ad
mitted it, and considered there was
nonthing for him to do but send the
case to the county court Sutton
has not forecast the fate of his cli
ent, of course. Some opinions are
that tho-plea if maintained will auto
matically place the defendant in the
State’s care for a time. Whiskey
and requisites of bootlegging equip
ment were seized when the store of
Taylor, outside the corporate limits
but within the police zone, was raid
ed.
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42 Wed ia Forty Mina tee.
New York, Sept. 8.—Twenty-one
couples were married in forty min
utes by James J. McCormick, Dep
uty City Clerk, in the municipal build
ing. This is considered a record.
A total of 215 licenses were issued
during the -day and 107 marriages
were performed. This is the largest
number of licenses issued in one day
in New York, with the exception of
some days in 1917 at'the time-the
army draft was instituted. Among
those married yesterday were fifty
picture brides who arrives recently
from Greece, Armenia and Turkey.
The Reformed Jewish church has
made a ruling allowing women to
become rabbis.
PARTY LINES DISAPPEAR.
By a vote of 45 to 22 the four
billion-dollar soldiers' ( bonus bill
was passed by the U. S. Senate. It
now goes to conference where
prompt action was expected by both
Senate and House leaders.
Party1 lines disappeared, on jthe
roll call, which followed four hours
of debate. Announcement of the re
sult was greeted with applause from
the galleries which Went unchecked
despite the violation of Senate rules.
Three opponents oft the bonus
were present, but unable to vote on
account of pairs. Eight other op
ponents were absent,-* making the
buiai nuimjtrr tt^aiiub measure
33, or one more than Aough to pre
vent passage over a presidential
veto provided all 96 Senators were
present and voting.
On the actual roll call, however,
there was one more Senator sup
porting the bonus than two-thirds
majority of those presept and vot
ing. A two-thirds majority would
be sufficient to insure final enact
ment of the legislation even should
President Harding disapprove it, as
many now believe he will.
For the bonus:—^Republicans:
Brandegee, Bursum, Cameron, Cap»
per, Colt, Cummins, Curtis, Good
ing, Hale, Jones of Washington, Kel
logg, LaFollette, _ Lenrootj Lodge,
McCormick, McCumber, McLean,
McNary, Nicholson, Oddie, Rawsofi,
Shortridge, Stanfield, • Sutherland,
Townsend, Watson of Indiana and
Willis—27.
Democrats:—Ashurst, Broussard,
Culberson, Fletcher, Gerry, Hefflin,
Hitchcock, Kendirck, McKellar, Pitt
man, Pomerene, Ramsdell, Reed of
Missouri, Robinson, Sheppard, Sim
mons, Smith, Trammell, Walsh of
Massachusetts and Wajsh of Mon
tana—20. Total 47.
Against the bonus:—Republicans:
Ball, Borah, Calder, •, Dillingham,
Edge, France, Frelinghuysen, Keyes,
Nelson, New, Phipps, Reed of Penn
sylvania, Smoot, Starling and Wads
worth—15.
Democrats: Dial, Glass, Myerls,
Shields, Swanson, Underwood and
Williams—7.
The treasury apparently is confi
dent that the President will veto
the bill if it passes as it nopr stands.
High officials inditulUil >
the President had not changed from
his announced intention to disap
prove any bonus legislation which
does not carry with it the means of
raising the revenue needed, and the
proposed . measure now before the
Senate, the treasury officials say,
does not meet that requirement.
The Simmons amendment to devote
interest on the foreign debt to bonus
payments is regarded at the treasury
as unacceptable since repayment
from foreign governments is con
sidered as pledged to retirement of
Liberty bonds.
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
BURNS.
Fire of undetermined origin early
last Friday morning destroyed the
administration building of the Stone
wall Jackson Manual Training and
Industrial school, the state home for
correction of boys, located several
m\les soothwest of Concctrd. The
fire was discovered about 2:30 o’clock
and burned until after 6 o’clock,
when practically the whole building
had been gutted by «ne flames.
About a dozen persons were sleep
ing in the building when the fire was
discovered, one of the sleepers being
aroused by the smoke. All. the sleep
ers escaped, saving some of their
clothing and other effects. The fire
was confined to the attic when first
discovered, but it quickly spread to
all parts of the building, and though
heroic efforts were made to check it,
it was halted only after the entire
interior had been gutted. Only the
walls are standing.
Mr. Jesse Fisher, one of the in
structors at the school, and 10 ma
trons were sleeping in the building.
Each saved something, but no one
saved everything, most of the office
equipment was also saved, the vault
and its contents being the only
equipment left in the burning struc
ture.
The destruction of the building
will only temporary halt the work of
the school: Offices will be opened in
another of the buildings, it was aaid,
and the matrons and instructors who
slept in the building will be given
quarters in the various cottages.
The classes which were held in the
building will be transferred toother
buildings and the regular routine
work will be continued.
It is not known now that action
will he taken in regard to the erec
tion of another administration build
ing. It is believed that the walls
of the burned building are all right,
and while no definite plans have been
made, it -is certain that the building
wiW be rebuilt in the near future.
The largest turtle ever imported
to London from India was killed for
soup. Its weight was 450 pounds.;
THE CHURCHES AND THEIR
CRITICS.
Many striking things are being
said by both the 'defenders and the
critics of the churches. Some think
the churches are doing all that can
be fairly expected of them consider
ing that they are made up of erring,
faltering, stumbling human beings.
Others think that many Christiajn
people are lying down on their jogs.
One of the sternest critics is
Franklin H. Giddings, professor of
sociology and history of civilization
in Columbia University. He thinks
there is not sufficient activity by the
chui^hes against the outstanding
evils of the day. He fears that the
churches are thinking too | much
about “mystical sin” and not enough
about concrete sin. “What I should
like to know,” he says, “is what the
churches are doing to save sinners
from profiteering, breaking the traffic
laws, bootlegging and boodling. I
should l»ke to know also how far
they think they are saving the souls
of men and women from the spiritual
meannesses of malice and envy, scan
dal-mongering, bitterness and jeal
ousy; how far they think they are
succeeding in imbuing mankind with
the charity that vaunteth not itself
and is not puffed up; which is loath
to think gratuitous evil, and which
is kind though suffering long.”
These are timely words. If the
churches are not making the headway
they ought to make In battling with
svil, it is because they are not apply
ing the teachings of Christ as they
ought. If the leaders in the church
ss are giving their time and thought
to worldly things instead of to the
things of the spirit, they are not
functioning as the founder the Chris
tianity intended them to flourish
More old-fashioned evangelism and
religion are needed. The former is
si necessary precursor to the latter.
And by old-fashioned evangelism we
mean the sort that has not the taint
of commercialism such as hinders
and hobbles the work of some of the
latter day preachers of power and
moving eloquence.—News & Observ
er.
FOURTH VICTIM" PASSES.
York, S. C., Sept. 9.—Fred Taylor,
22, fourth '.yictim. in tljfrshootiqgat
Clover, S. C., on Wednesday when
Wim. C. Farris was alleged to have
shot six members of the Taylor fam
ily, died in a Gastciiia hospital this
morning. Efforts are being made to
arraign Farris in the sessions court
which convenes here on Monday.
Magistrate Love, of Clover, went
to Chester this afternoon to consult
with Solicitor Henry, relative to try
ing to secure a speedy trial for
“Fighting Bill” Farns, who shot and
killed three persons and wfbunded
three others at Clover Wednesday af
ternoon. Sessions court begins at
York Monday with Judge Peurifoy
presiding, and the solicitor said the
case would be brought up.
There is strong sentiment among
Clover people that Farris should be
tried epsedily. ’It is practically cer
tain that he will try to plead insanity.
It is said by old Clover residents
that no white person had been killed
here in 42 years by violence until the
tragedy of this week.
Mr. Nash Shot for a Burglar.
Salisbury, Sept. 9.—Archie Nash,
former deputy sheriff, is. in a serious
condition. in a Salisbury hospital as
a result of being shot in the head last
night while investigating reports of
a neighbor, George Boger, to the ef
fect that there was a burglar in the
neighborhood.
Mr. Boger telephoned Mr. Nash
that someone was trying to enter the
Boger home. Mr. Nash obviously
misunderstood and went to the Bo
ger store several doors from his
home. After finding everything all
right at the ^tore he started to re
turn home and was shot as he passed
the Boger residence. f!.a made no
immediate qptcry but later fired a
shotgun to attract attention.
Mr. Boger fired several shots at
what he was supposed was a fleeing
burglar and it is considered probable
that he fired the shot that hit Mr.
Nash. Sheriff Krider, who visited
the scene shortly after Mij. Nash
was found, is of the opinion that it is
a plain case of mistaken identity. No
charges have been preferred.
An X-ray was made and the bullet
removed at noon today. Mr. Nash
was reported as resting very well at
9 o’clock but still in a critical condi
tion.
At an Episcopalian convention in
Chicago recently, a report of a social
and economic life said in part: “A
fundamental change in the spirit and
working of our. social and industrial
life is necessary to restore the world
to peade and order. The fundamen
tal change can be effected only by
accepting on the basis of all our re
lations the principle of cooperation
in service for the common good, in
place of unrestricted competition for
private or sectional good.”
What’s worse than hay fever and
no handkerchief?—Nashville Tennes
seean.
SUN ECLIPSE.
Chicago, 111., SeptL 1.—The fact
that you do not live on the east
coast of Africa, Australia or on is
lands in the southern Pacific ocean
relieved you of the unpleasantness
of a dark day on October 1.
On that date, according to Prof.
Edwin B. Frost, of the University
of Chicago and director of the Yer
kes observatory, a total solar eclipse
will occur over that region.
The moort coining between the
earth and the sun, will cast a shad
ow which will sweep over the south
ern coast of Africa near the equator,
cross a few scattered islands and
the continent of Australia a nd then
out to the Southern Pacific ocean,
ne saia.
This trail of the shadow will be
about 115. miles wide. The dura
tion of totality at different points
will vary from three to six minutes
and Professor Frost declared this to
be an unusually long eclipse.
Expeditions from various astron
omical institutions will be estab
lished at favorable points to study !
the eclipse. John Evershed, direc
tor of the observatory at Kodaika
nal, India, will make his observa
tions from the Maidive islands. As
tronomers from the Royal Observa
tory at Greenwich, England, have
established a station on Christmas
island. A party from Batavia,
Dutch Indies, also will be located at
Christmas island and will be joined
by Dr. Freundich from the Einstein
laboratory at the Postdam observa
tory. Prof. W. W. Campbell, with
a party from the Lick observatory,
will be statoned at Wiallal, Austra
lia. Professor Chant, of the Univer
sity observatory at Toronto, will be
with this group.
“The total eclipse of the sun al
ways has been one of nature’s most
thrilling spectacles,” said Professor
Frost.% “It gives a momentary
glimpse of the mysterious veil sun
rounding the sun, called the corona,
which is never visible at any other
time. Gigjanific rosy eruptions of
flowing gas also may be seen along
the rim of the eclipsed sun.”
On September 19, 1923, he said, a
total solar eclipse will touch the
coast of the United States at Santa
Barbara and near San Diego, Calif.
pff the Pacific joast,
notably Santa Catalina, will be well
situated for stations. The track of
the shadlow will sweep southwest
across Mexico. Preparations for
observing this eclipse already have
been started by several American
observatories.
After the one of 1923, the next
total solar eclipse that can be ob
served under favorable conditions in
the United States will be on August'
21, 2017.
Mr. Wilson Has His Old Time Humor
Salisbury, Sept. 11.—Senator Lee
S. Overman, who is at home on ac
count of an injury received some days
ago in a fall at Washington, has re
ceived hundreds of messages of sym
pathy, but one that, he appreciates
probably more than any other is a
letter from Woodrow Wilson. This
letter betrays some of the old-time
humor and indicates that the ex
president is at least able to take no
tice 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. I send you this line to
express my sincere regret and great
sympathy. We must, I think, leave
all missteps to the Republicans and
I advise you as a true Democrat
hereafter to ‘watch your step.’ We
must all keep 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. Keller Would Impeach Daugh
ters'.
Washington, Sept. 11.—Impeach
ment of Attorney General Daughtery
was attempted in the house today by
Representative Kellar, Minnesota, in
dependent Republican, who, rising
to a question of the nighest privilege
declared: “I impeach Harry M.
Daughtery.” There was so much
confusion that the rest of his open
ing sentence was not neard and he
was forced to stop on a point of or
der that there was no quorum.
Demand for impeachment of At
torney General Daughtery for “high
crimes and misdemeanors,” was
made in the house today by Repre
sentative Keller, Republican, Min
nesota, who sought immediate action
on a resolution for an investigation.
By an overwhelming vote the house,
however, referred the question to
the judiciary committee, thus, in the
opinion of leaders, disposing of it fi
nally.
Celery was once a fall and winter
luxury associated with turkey and
cranberry sauce but now it is eaten
during the entire year. The celery
industry in the last few years hat
grown from a novelty crop to a busi
ness of 17,000,000 crates a year.
OFFICER CRABTREE DIES OF
HIS WOUNDS.
Raleigh News and Observer.
After an unequal battle against
hurts that might have instantly kill
ed a weaker man, Tom Crabtree, city
detective, died at 2:30 yesterday af
ternoon at Rex Hospital. “Boots"
Klutts, nineteen year old boy, who
fired two steel bullets into the police
man’s body at one o’clock Thursday
morning, and then drove a big auto
i mobile over the prostrate man 4* in
Wake county jail, without bond wait
ing to answer the charge of first de
; gree murder.
iom Crabtree, after nine years of
service on the Raleigh police force
turned over his badge at last without
murmuring and without admitting
that he was vanquished in the fight
that friends have, watched with hope
since the news of the shooting spread
about.
Shortly before the end came in the
hospital room, the nurse and physi
cian lifted the ban against visitors.
Several close friends were there.
Mrs. Crabtree was sobbing quietly.
He asked what she was crying about.
He was told she was merely distrub
ed. Commissioner Mooneyham, with
Captain Nat Warren, came in and
spoke to the dying man, asking how
he felt. Crabtree said he felt badly.
“Who is with you?” he asked. Eyes
were dimming and life was going out.
These were his last words.
Those who knew how seriously the
officer was wounded were encouraged
when he lived through Thursday
morning, and when Thursday night’s
reports indicated that he was rally
ing from the shock. Physicians were
waiting for a more complete rally
in order to perform an operation that
they hoped would relieve the paralys
is that bound him from the waist
down. With the passing of the
shock, internal complications set in
and all realized that the time was
short.
Thursday afternoon, the wounded
man made a deposition which, jlb
his dying statement will be used in
the trial of his slayer. In it, he told
how he answered the distress signals
of the negro, George Williams, at the
corner of Glenwood Avenue and
Hillsboro street early Thursday morn
ing, where we found “Boots” Klutts
•in the Tearnf a ^Cadillac automobile;
how, without provocation, Klutts
turned a forty-five caliber automatic
on him and fired at close range, how
he rolled over the wueels of the ma
chine to get out of the line of fire;
how Kluttz jumped out of the car,
shot him again on the ground and
then drove the automobile across
his body.
No time has yet been set for the
preliminary trial of Kluttjs. The
boy, who is well connected in Salis
bury and Rowan county will be rep
resented in court by Charles U. Har
ris, of the Raleigh bar, and R. Lee
JVright, of Salisbury, his uncle. In
the meantime, he is in Wake, county
jail, nursing a wound in his arm, said
by the police to have been self-in
flicted, and claiming complete ignor
ance of the events of early Thursday
morning.
A MUNICIPAL SCANDAL.
The American legion parade was
impressive, but more impressive was
the scandalous way in which Greens
boro exhibited its ignorance of tho
correct way to act when the colors
pass. Perhaps one man in 10 along
the crowded street pulled off his hat;
and of those who uncovered not one
in 10 came to attention and brought
his headgear opposite the left shoul
der. Why the very policemen, in
stead of snapping to attention and
saluting, gazed languidly and stood
slouchily as the flag passed by; and
they, since they were keeping clear
the line of march, were in soma
sense a part of the parade.
lhat exhibition was « disgrace to
Greensboro. We boast of southern
patriotism, but in all Yankeedom
there isn’t a city where the flag of
the United State would have been
treated with such flagrant disrespect.
We talk about southern courtesy and
display toward the colors a discour
tesy that would not be tolerated In
any town north of the Mason and
Dixon. Let a Greensboro man try in
New York the trick of standing with
his hat on his head as the colors
pass, and see how quickly he will
have his hat knocked into the gutter.
He will be lucky not to have his head
almost knocked off with it.
Of course one isn’t expected to sa
lute every automobile with a banner.
But when the national colors ara
carried at the head of a body of
marching men, patriots will respect
them gladly, and others should ba
Compelled.—Greensboro News.
Peddlers outside the subway sta
tions in the Bronx, Manhattan and
Brooklyn recently drove a thriving
traffic in German live-pfenning pWes
about the same in size and appear
ance as an American nickel They
sold them at 600 for $1. The coins
work subway gates the same as a
nickeL —.