North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. 0 1'IUn, H. C, Thursday, Dec. HU'J No. 12 ) . RLD CROSS CHRISTMAS si: i.s Sanatorium, N'iiv. 2'.'.-- 1 in r.i'ig Monday morning, Pec .!, and continuing t n days I.'i'il Cross Chri tma ; Si a!.-, will Ik' placed on .sale in virtually every community in Noilh Carolina. A tojal of D.doO.ono sea! arc h -inj-T offend for sale in lie- Stale I his year, of a value of ?.)!,( :;.'). Thy funds d-rived from lie- s;.ie of tlie seals will he u. .r in 1 1 1 Slate for the din' and preven tion of Jub s-rrulo ,i in ITS communities of tin- Sib' there aie local committe--. who will ho in charge of ( I k sale of reals. These local committc s It ivc undertaken to dispose if amounts r;nf in? from .$100 to $.;.ooo. Groom.loio has assumed the lead in the State with a quota of 15,000, the sale being conducted by a hpecial committee headed by Mrs. Max T. rayne, acting under the auspices of the Wo nnm'.H Club, Mrs. Alan Mc-Donald of Asheville, Mis. Charles V.. Halt of Charlotte, Mrs. Claude 15. P.aibce of Raleigh, Mrs. Cuthbert Martin of Wil mington, and Dr. It. L. Carlton of H inston-Salem are each chairman of local committees in these cities which have under taken to sell $1,000 worth of the seals respectively. Other large amounts include $1,000 in Dur ham with Mrs. Finest J. Green as chairman; $1,500 in Fayette ville with Mrs. A. L Thompson ats chairman; $1,000 in Gastonia with Mrs. I-iFar as chairman; $2,000 in Coldsboro with Mrs. J. D. Daniels As chairman ;$ 1,000 in Henderson with Mrs. J. II. Rrodie as chairman; $1,000 in Kington with Miss Susie Perry ns chairman; $1,000 in Washing-; ton with Mr. Wiley C. Rodman as chairman. Other communi ties have assumed the sale of reals in amount ; from $('.oo on tlown to $10. In forty-four counties of the State in which there are employ ed rural supervisors for colored rchools the negroes have under taken the sn!o among the mem bers of their race of a total of $10,000. As a special reward for service rendered a motion pict ure health car will he rent into each of these counties attaining its quota of sale for a erics of twelve exhibitions. Special ed rational films feat u nr.; lui-ertu-losis and gom-cal health sub lets will Ik' piepaled for this .service. To reach thosy portions of the State where there rre no local ugunizalici-s in charg? of the seals an attempt h is hem made to reach the leading citizens di rectly by personal U tters explain ing the reasons for the sale ol the lied Cross Christmas Seals and urging the purcha. c of them to the value of $1 or more. gives ins hi.oodto save HIS VUTIM Wa-shiiurlon. Nov. 2'.h Mrs. riorelice llobinson , comely young matron, lying near death in a hospital, and Giover Gor don, little' more than a youth, who localise he said he loved her .yesterday shut the woman through the body and who, fo: m the same announced reason "Ve!ve hours later kept her alive by giving his bleed for transfu sion to her veins today, were the principal.-; in one of the most romiukable crime ineidei.ts in Washini ton police history. Following a jealous quarrel re cently Gordon yesterday xvent to the home of thecoung woman, w ho some time ago had separat ed from her husband, to bid her final goodbye, s he expected to leave that dav for his home in 1 Wheeling. W. Va. As she stood 1 in his embrace, Gordon fired a revolver shot through her body After his arrest last night Gordon was told that Mrs. Kol inson would die unless some one sneedilv volunteerd to submit to blood transfusion. He eagerly offered himself and requestci only that if the patient still were s conscious that she bo told of his action. Physicians today said it was too early to say whether the operation would save Mrs. liolt on's life. "shoot mi: whiles ni iiAii'V." ; i : r. ; answer! i'Mii; urn, ' '. lot it V. I .'len.ii:;- of a .NOV, convin. oil a! a ( :i e ; ;v::i ,1 .li'li Smith, In io, 1 y III" related (ir s .tance i ading i:p to the ."i re t of .)im on m peaeo warrant , sworn oi,t hy the mother of Arch Ellis, negro, ."j.a'ii t whom Smith h id sworn i ngeaure on aecounVif an niionymom, . . n t in the hack. Smith was among guests at an nl 1-1 inii' io, I - and - 'later in cad Ui I I' the ;il!s:-c , of llen.e I lai gi ave.iiej'.ro.iiear Lin V.oo.l. Cue.-I; wen' seated .'l round the IV -lac Uianl, all set to commune a session with Ur'er To -inn. The saoiy tiisli wa ; lrouht ,in and pa-scdn-rouii.I. Jim heaped 'possum and 'tillers on his platter until it ov ersowed, and then, spearing a generous juicy slice, he chanted "Shoot me whiles' I'm happy," and stalled the folk towards hi face, when his fellow banqueters noticed the fork halt, poi-od halfway between plate and mouth, and saw a look of nma.e ni"iit anil puzzled surprise come over Jim's face, followed by an ally look of terror as Jim drop ped his 'possum tidbit, jumped to his feet ;.nd let out a yell that rou. ed the echoes far and near. "1'se shot! l'se shot! Oh. mah Gawd, l'se shot!" he cried, running around and around the table, waving his hands. "Whar is yo' shot, nijrjrer?" One shouted. "In tie dininjr room, through de window, "Jim replied, locating a hitherto unknown section of man's anatomy lie rippeil oil his coat and bo Kim humping himself through a heavy wool sweater, when a ball dropped to- the floor. Hx animation proved that the bul let had come through the jrlass, penetrated his coat, ami drove wool from the sweater an inch into his hide, but had not seri ously damaged him. Jim swore the bullet circled to hi., body three times lefore tak ing a notion to penetrate. With out .-toppinj: to make up a case by the well known methods of detective rea.-onin and deduc tion. Jim damped the crime on his worst dicmy, Arch Kllis, and vowed that he would bo reveng ed UMn Arch. This led to a ea:t warrant aamsi miuiii. sworn out bv the mother of Arch ul a Arch himself neglected to attend trial. Smith was released and the lineer of suspicion wind's toward Arch, wherever lis whereabouts may now be. . "Shaot ni? whiles' I'm happy." is an expression laal Ji:n win never um aeain. JUNK' DIM i:k HITS roi.i:. nuns passkncku AllM-m:u!. Nov. "'.1 -Albe marle experienced another dan-g'-rous auto wreck Thursday morning al'otit o'clock just out- sid of the tow n on the lladin road, when .Marshxll Austin, ji jitney driver, with a big Hudson lillnf with Lailin negroes ran in to a telephone ole, almost com pletely demoli.shing Hie machine m l badly injuring three of four of the negro passengers. Aus tin was himself cut up pretty badly from (lying glass, one ne gro boy suffered a broken collar lone, another had an eye so bad ly injured that it is thought th.t he will entirely lose it. and one or two others were badly bruis ed. There w ere seven negroes in the machine, it is said, and soi.ie of them say that Austin was driving (50 miles an hour or more when he came to the shai-p curve, therefore, instead of turn ing with the road he went straight ahead into the tele phone pole. The injured men will live though badly hurt. The Albemarle-lyadin high way is rapidly becoming known as one of the dangerous roiu's in this section, and there seems to be little effort made on the part of those responsible for traffic regulations to stop the reckless driving which goes on over this five mile stretch of road. In fact it has reached the point where many people hesi tate to drive their cars out on the ioad, especially on Sundays and nc night. VALUABLE CARGO OF COTTON DESTROYED BY FIRE lu-i k dn hf on Hit- nti-iiiiiKli!i 0:iiiki :!ij,U0 wcrili ef ln-r iiri;ii of cotton. MEXICAN SITCATION IS .MARKING Tl.Mi; I'NTIL A I Tl.!.i:it KKl'OUT co.mi:s (i'.y A sociated rre.-) Washington, Nov. - The .Mexican situ;. lion marked time today while the government con tinued to gather further infor mation en the Jenkins ca. e and the mm tier of William T. Wal-! lace, at Tampieo Wednesday. The identity of the niurdivd man had not .been establi died to night. The Jenkin-i case and the Wal lace murder are being treated separately and in no way being connected at present. The stat j department has di rected the American embassy in Mexico City to make inquiries of the Carraiua government and forward further information of ti e new pha.-.c; of the Jenkins ca.e raised in the Mexican note declining to accede to tho lc qe.o. t for the ;vlea.e of the con sular agent. In the Wallace minder ca-e the government has about all the information (on iderc! mcc.ss.i- ry j-nd the interval i ; being u ed in framing the- d -tail,; of a oni . o of art ion. A note b Carranza, which m!ik' ofliei. l . think w ill b. al out the a t. was being drafted in the state chpaitment today and o far as could 1m- U: ine l it l-.ad not been stalled on Ihe way to Mexico City tonight. It has been drafted preliminarily, and dur ing the day had bun i eii aftci. The department va--. in houily cc-m.'vmiica'.ion wi;!t lh',-e:iib.ts-sy in Mexico City nr. 1 whe'i the olllii (lu d for the ilay ho fur ther i'i!oi nia'.iiiii had been re ceived. Senators Show Ir.fcie.st Sen. iters and ipie:-ntatives gathering for the reconvening of Co::ri :s were showing aetio uite. est ai tiie lour, e of tae sit uation and there v. - re some indi cation.; that it might be !; eu. .--ed in both ch.imbci.-i Monday. 1'p until tonight tl e govern ment had received no official word of indication of an oiler of mediation by Argentine, Iirail, and Chile and some officials thought it doubtful that it would be oircred. If such a.i otfer came, the opinion of most officials who considered it, scorned to be that it would be acceptable only un der certain conditions which they thought Mexico would be unwilling to ace, pt. Koports direct from Mexico City discrediting yesterday's noruer rumors vi an uprising with lighting in the streets, served to simplify the situation, in th. t they removed one com plicating factor and left the issue a clean cut one, involving only the continued murder and moles tation of Americans. There was no outward indica tion of whether President Wil son would touch on the subject in his message to Congress next week. Cabled advices from Mexico City today probably explained the report yesterday of a new - -It..' revolution there. They told of j indicate 1 choice of the people, a street fight between the two j The Mexican Congress is ap poUMcal factions, such as have'pannfly powerhss to settle occurred frequently, it wa.s said. Political excitement was increas ed yesterday by the unexpected arrival of Gen. Alvaro Obrcgon, and the message said a street parade of his .supporters resulted , 1 t, M .J - e lit In r jili-r lu llm I-'ukI rlvt r, New I'KKSIDKNT WILL SLND MilSSACH TILSDAV Wa hliigton, Nov. 2H. pit.- inch-nti-nt weather today, l're iih nl Wibon sj.ent an hour on the ; outh portico of Ihe While llo;i l, and after the regular weekly vi it of Dr. Francis X. Derrum. of Fhiladelpliia. his phy.-ieians reported continued lroi e , ; in his condition. Mr. Wil on will send his me.r sag to Congress next Tuesday it is said today, but no informa tion was avail. ib.. as to its con tent s. The- President wa; ex pected to ox pre s his views on ihe peace treaty situation and a! o to disco-s a wide range of dome -tic pi oh!. m- including the industrial situation! The rre. i.hiit has been wink ing on the me sage for the la I two v. eek . The fatigue this has ehlail. d was thought to h ive p. i.t d him fiohi .-ciag Sena tor Hitchcock, Democratic leader i n'h" trcr.ty fight, toilay,, on his l-e'inn to th.e (itv. It wa not km C!l. tonij-ht w !i -n a roiifer- v ould l e an :mg -d. Senior Hitchcock Cnable To Co.ifer With I'rcsiihnt Wa hin r'.en. Nov. L"h - - Pre liminary plans to lonew the s'.rugg! for ratification of the (! no; n ': tieaty wee m; de tod:',y by S n.itor Ibtthroclc, of N'-'e-.t 1 a. isdi'iini tration leader in the senate tirht. lie d'd not -c President Wii on, however, and a; few sena!i. had return ed lor the (penirg of Congress Moral iv, the tie.itv si! Hat ion e -lea !. n 1 to stand ju t as it fhi s-jv,!,. j,(i,,n(.,, no I" Th.' Deii.o r.t'ik- loader pre i!i -U ! that !h tu..ty wol.kl b, n ;.b all' -,1 by the Pic,ld. i:l next v ck, ,"','! thai a c i: ml - v. icil li w .i! ,-d ,.t w hich would re u't in i at i:"n t.tion with in a few we.-k ... St n.itor llitt heo k lu tilied the Wiiite Ihu- e hi; arrival that h" would bjr!;-.d lo.ee the Pres. id nt daiii g li e d : , but no ap point! rut w:t . i! a I lie indi cated toniyht that the expected cabd tonight that he cxpectul eerty next week. in rio'ing in which firearms wcie t:.-ed w ith no casualties. Fiv.hls Meen l.iltlo Seme weeks ago a child was killed and bystanders and pa ra lers wetmded in a similar li.-.ht. Luis Cabrera, minister of Haciciula, used the incident in his argument recently to post pone the elections next year and keep Carraiua in power indefi nitely. At the same time he asked to coal inue the 1H20 bud get beyond the cud of that year owing to probabilities that the new Congress would not have been installed or a president elected by that time. Cabeia was quoted as saying that two governors and two leg islatures were functioning tho states of Tabasco and San Luis: l'otosi, while in Guanajuato, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, a can- , didafe had been imposed against the ;e conflicts as in the only case in which it has intervened, Nayarit. where Governor Godin ez wa.s deposed by a military cli que, a se!uu order that he be reinstated was ignored. Voik, during the lir wlih h destroyt-d McCLl Ili: IP.llK TO SLLL IMS GLANDS San Jose. Ca!., Nov. 2'J. Floyd Lee McClure, who killed D tectivo Schoembs, left no doubt today that he is "game" in hi; o'fer to sell his inti rsliti.V gland s to the highest bidder as a beat fit for Schoembs w idow. "I will do anything to help that woman," said MtCIure. lie had sttn the statement of director of San Oucntin prison that hi; proposed operation v.ould have to hi' performed be fore McClure went to prison. "If 1 can legalize the selling of py glands before I go across," 'hen I'm ready," he said. "This i, no bluir with me. I'm ready. I'm sorry for what I have done, but it is fmi died now and can't be undone.- "The operation would be noth ing. Of coui s!', I would w ant to know that I was to hang. I gue it's pretty suit I'll die." Mi Chile's spirit of gameness lias won the half reluctant ad miration of the officers. This i; the first time youth renewing interstitial glands have evel been ollei ed for sale. All oiler of $10.0uo was made for stall gland; in a Utter to . ui :eons at St. (Juintiu. but glands that are Used within the pi ison wali.s and are not for sale. Has Itight to Sell rSan Francisco, Cab, Nov. 20. Fl-'.vd Ia-c MrClure, who has of fered t. auction hi; intt istili.il g!.ad; for the U nelil of the tie p inK-nt-. of the l it'll he killed t ay (i so without int- rlereiin ft on l! . of California." Th; . ( pinion was civy today by Henry 11. llcko'f. state prison di ret tor. himstdf a lawyer. McClure has det hired that in recon pcii e for the killing of Alton Schoembs, San Francisco ih-tettive, he will gladly undergo the on ralioii and sell his glands. Surgeons at San Quintin prison have said SlOOOO has been of fered for g lands, but glands are not for sale at any price. "McCkne's willingness to have the operation performed before he reaches San (Juintin prison will be the test of his sincerity," said Ilckhoff. There is no law fo prevent the operation before he is sentence'!. Put the opera lion cannol ln perlormetl oil a commercial hasi: after lie reach es the prison." McClure is 20 vears old. lie appears to be in the best of health. JKXKINS HIILD CHARGFD WITH FALSI! STATKMKXT Laredo. Texas. Nov. 2'.). The state of Peubla, Mexico, has no intention of trying William 0. Jenkins, American consul ajent on a charge of conniving with bandits in connection with his recent abduction. Governor Al fonso Cabrera, of Puebla, told press representatives, according to a Mexico City newv.papiT, Ex celsior, under date of Thursday, ; copy of which was received here late today. Tho only charge against the consul, the governor is quoting as having said, is that of per jury in judicial declarations, which is solely within the juris diction of the court w here the of fense is committed. ' Ni:W IT'LL KFGFLATION Ll l IlCTlVi: TODAY AND it r,:r: t in: onsiiuvni) (,'..V A' eiialed Pl(ss) . .U.-nla, .Nov. ",((. Co-opcra-t ii of ; ta'e governors in bring i.'.g le the alien! ion of the public . ii sally the :!i-up ciirtailmeiil oi in I i ( iih d upon yesterday lo ha ban,! the r: pid'y diininish l ;r si ;:; !. i of lit,; loo s t oai, was a d;cd tod iy by the region..! "oal (omisilte The :ie,: regulation.; s. l.ieh v. ill :;. iu' . t llc.t Mt i day a.t re n,.".;v a; far i :'.. h:i;; in many le: pec I , a ; lho-e ( f th" war v. inter of J'.H7-H!... ;.nd in its amoe.ii.-c;,,. iu (,j pu'ilie the .oi.imitleo slated that iinies.-; a in -r . relt ! :i lo v. in k in .- uch numbv-..; .:. to p.cvide a t ld- lanuai iiitrea-o oi coal ai an eaily date, "..till further restric tion; may become necessary and consideration w ill have to be giv en to the distribution of the stocks of coal now in the posses sion of industries not recognized as vital." Provisions of Order The new restrictions, will be enforced tinder the war-time powers of the fuel administra tion. They provide chiefly that tores raid office buildings mav use heat, light or hw or only Im-- twoeu .) a. m. and 1 p. m., except for bakeries, restaurants, drug stores for sale of drugs only, and barber shops which use light, heat anil power from 8 a. in. to p. in. Certain other exceptions are made to provide for various industries and business- Thea ters, moving picture houses and other places of public amuse ment may use light, heat or power only be1 ween I p. in. and 10 .',() p. m All aa.eriismg signs and l ill- I wards Using electricity must le eliminated, as must white way lights 'how windows and other lights not strictly essential. Industries, except those whose continuous processes cannot Ik? interferred with, may le operat ed only -IS hours a week. In ceptions are made to meet the special conditions of railroad station;, hospitals, telephone and telegraph and newspaper offices. Mail Orders To Majors Copies of the announcement- hich were furnished to news papers for Sunday morning pub lication w ill be mailed to mayors of all cities in the southern re gion, which includes Alabama, rennessee, Noith and South Carolina. Kentucky, Florida, Mississippi and Iniisiana, east of the Mississippi river. Fuel supplies will Im? cut off when the regulations are not observed and in case cf viola- ion-, of the law attention of federal district attorneys will be called to the matter. All rail road agents handling coal are re garded as representatives of the committee in enforcing the pro visions, w hili. co-operation of all state and municipal officers also is asked. KANSAS CITY YARD AM) TRAIN MKN ON STRIKK Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 20. Fifteen hundred yardmen and trainmen of the Kansas City ter minal and railroads entering the city, went on strike late today, reports tonight indicated. Day crews left their work at 1 o'f lock this afternoon and night crews coming on at that hour did not go to work. Fight roads arc af fected so far. All switchmen employed by the Kansas City Southern, the Chicago and Alton, the Wabash, the Missouri Pacific, and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and sonic of the crews of the Santa Fo, were reported on strike. The strike wa.s not authorized by national officials of the P.ro therhood of Railway Trainmen, according to a telegram receiv ed rom W. G. lxe, national pres ident, and W. T. Corbett, federal representative here. The strike vote wast taken hist night without any demands hav ing been presented to the rail roads. H. A. Carroll, general chairman of the brotherhood for the Kansas City district, to day declared his efforts to pre vent the walkout had been in vain, lie said he attended the meeting la:;t night, but as it was secret he could not make public the details. TMRItll IC STORM HITS INDIANA TIIRI1F DFAD Inil'anapoli.-, nd Nov. 2.).- Two men dead in Indianapolis, one woman killed at Muncie, and thousand.; of dollars damage lo property was the toll of a wind s.torm that swept the state of Indiana this afternoon. Scores of men, women and children in Indianapolis were more or less seriously injured on the streets when the wind reached its great est velocity. Those killed in In dianapolis were: Fverett Morris, M years old, who was electro .uted by a fallen wire, and Geo. Me;k, p; years old, who was n v I ed from a ladder on which iie was working. Mrs. Fva Con-n-T, I") years old, was killed when the cornice was blown from a business building in Mun cie and struck her in falling. Reports from Ft. Wayne, An derson, South Rend and several other it-ties in northern part of the state tell of buildings being unrooted, trees being uprooted, plate glass windows smashed and of general demoralization of street car and telegraph service. In Indianapolis, one church steeple was knoken dow n, many large signs were torn from their fastenings and several large show windows were broken. Several women and children were cut by the falling glass, and many of them were knocked down or buffeted against the walls of buildings by the wind. The wind reached a velocity of oG miles an hour here. THK CENTRAL WEST IS NOW COVERED IN SNOW Chicago, Nov,. 2S. Snow ranging in depth from two feet to one inch today covered most of the country between the Mis sissippi river and the Sierra Nevada mountains and from Canada to Norther: Texas with low temperatures prevailing throughout the area. A slight snow fall occurred in northern Illinois, Indiana and as far east as Toledo, ()., while wonl came that some snow fell in Ixs An geles, Calif., and that two inches of snow covered the ground at the aviation field near Riverside, California. South of the snow belt heavy nuns fell and floods swept thu low lands bordering the Salt and Agua Ii ia river in Arizona with possiblo loss of life. Suffering in many places in the central ami southwest was in prospect U-cause of the ex treme cold and the limited fuel supply resulting from the coal strike. Cattle on the wrtcrn ranges also were reported en dangered. In the western plains states trains were badly delayed and w ire communication was crip plod. lender, Wyo., was the coldest place in the country according to reports, the temperature there being 20 degrees below zero. KILLS HIS KEEPER IN DEATH CELL CORRIDOR ... Hamilton. Ont., Nov. 2?. Paul Kowalski, awaiting death by hanging for the murder of u wo man, killed his keeper, Consta ble J. C. Springtead, and serious ly injured four turnkeys, one of whom may. die, in the Ihu ton street jail here today. The condemned man, who was allowed to exercise in the cell corridor, suddenly attacked Springtead, his only guardian, choking him and then cutting his throat with a sharpened spoon. Four keepers rushed to Spring tcad's assistance. Arthur Auty, chieT turnkey, the first to reach the condemned man, was stab bed :n the chest and is not ex pected to live. Sergeant Lawrie, a policeman, also was stabbed and is in the hospital in a ser ious condition. Two other turn keys received injuries while try ing, to subdue the infuriated prisoner. ' Kowalski was finally overpow ered and thrown back into the death cell.