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News and Record from Greensboro, North Carolina • 5

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4 5 GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS Our Clearance Sale Continues To Grow In Interest iv i ruiinru i vu uer i tv Martha Latham at High Point Thurs S(ancilI in the prosecution Offered the Savings Are Worth While Sale n( ween turnea iner uie un can ndertand I ut the store with a certain amount of nfrllch Hilf H(t cm Ante all Airnnh Continues All This Week 1 9c 1 9 (Limit 20 yds on above) 19c 19c 36 in Curtain Scrim 19c ble 48c Bargains In Towels Muslin Gowns short sleeve 98c Assorted untrimnicd hats 98c It Will Pay You To Come Every Day During This Sale Watch Papers or Specials din nn? The amount of deposit was placed at is that 1200000 is I tin I ATaa VaUiln rl A rtl fid Vi a BROWN BELK COMPANY MOR XING BEORE 11 JONE brother Clyde Nash There MISTAKE! irvmrn XX ork I ai recruiting dgr ina eu mat DPTween uuuu ana Jeter ritchard of this dty? senior I employes in the eastern region would and the This is the best we can do and the best you can do! The Rhodes Clothing Company TaMwp (oughhm Sneezing Wheezing The Home of Hart Schaffner Marx Clothes Ly light One con 8 Morris Jr of Norfolk Va delivered an address at the negro A college summer school yester tfme that she was married not give the money him but told him to stay one of the family that she day night is the belief of Mrs Gus uppqs a rench woman of this city acting as interpreter for Pietro who told his story of the murder to repre sentatives' of the press and others at the jail yesterday afternoon considerably lodged in jail last riday appeared quite indifferent and ex appas: ujiano 45 or 46 living in in about been BRYAN OR SUNDAY MAY HEAD THE TICKET announce as he moved from one city to another be cause he feared them SEL DEENSEWILLBE PLEA RANK PIETRO? MORIIh at a a school HETqiAS BY MOTOR CAI! ROM ELKS' circuit judge presiding andH concurred in by Circuit Judges Martin A Knapp of Washington and Charles A Woods of Manon Cf and United States District Judge Henry A Smith of Charlestop sitting in advisory capacity Under the order" of Districa court Judge Dayton the injunction was to have become effective Tuesday morn ing JOHNSON OUTLINES HIS POSITION IN CAMPAIGN CoIIIIIihi Itih Hirer Meeting Secretary announce! meeting of the directors of the Greens boro Cotillion club Wednesday night at 8 at 208 North Elm street Ail directors urged to be present Bath towels and mats huck towels Toweling Clearance prices on bath ing suits suits coats dresses skirts waists will bo made to find places fur as manj as possible i eastern region embraces th territory east of Altoona Pa and be tween New York and Norfolk That rank Pietro the Italian here tofore referred to as rank Teter will plead self defense for killing Mrs Is a The Merchandise the Values Yiilloiin! Not Nominate If Co Or Hord ing Come Out or Prohibition Lincoln Neb July 11) If Governor Cox or Senator Harding will issue clear cut statement opposing weaken ing of the 18th the pro hibition national convention which opens here Wednesday probably will He Will Enthusiastically Sup port Harding If He Opposes the League gett Jordan drug store here who is alleged to have run away with Miss Jessie Ross cashier of the and to have taken some of the funds of the store will be prosecuted' according to Thompson general manager of the Liggett company who ar rived in the citv today He Immediate ly retained counsel to assist Solicitor Counsel fpr Mrs Melvin declared tha records of the Woodruff Trust com pany showed that the trust fund at the time of its withdrawal amounted to $172 000including for 34000 leaving a balance of $138000 Correspondence was also introduced to show that in December 1914 sev eral months before Mrs King became acquainted with Means she had been advised by anv attorney to wlthdarw the funds Other evidence included notes of Mrs Melvin for $35000 lent to 'her after Tthe withdrawal of the money receipted laills for $25000 for furnishing Mrs New York apart ment and a check for $4 OdO given for an automobile Menns read from a note book in which he he had written bits of conversation with Mrs King in effect he quoted Mrs King as saying: King told me that In a will of 1901 he had provided for the building of an old men home but that the will was not worth the paper It was wrlt ten on Another paragraph stated 1903 King told his wife that he had Just received sample line of Coun try Club Rain or Shine Umbrellas Bought and sold at a big reduction from former price in almost every instance his price is our price each $398 to $1500 Calderwond "vice chairman of (Im national committee said today Unless such a statement Is issued the prohibition party will the ilsts tor a fight to a he added a Mr Calderwood said however that the Issuing of such a statement by either of the major party candidates being accompanied from Baltimore by ine Cut Glass 12 diflerenttyles Choice $249 A preliminary hearlna will take place' before Recorder Jones as soon as Mr Thompson has had time to go over the books It Is denied at the drug store that Kistler before leaving Monday a week ago turned over the bank book EXTEND PERHOXVL I XV IT ATIONS TO ATTEND Charles chamber of committee yesterday mailed out Invi tations to all members of the organi zation to bp present at the Guilford battlegrounds Wednesday afternoon July 28 for the general jolly get to gether meeting He stresses the that there will be no speeches and nof soliciting and that there will be an abundance of barbecue brunswlck stew1 and ficlency in the operating forces ani to curtail expenses as far as practica ble it has been found necessary to of feet a reduction of approximately per cent pi the number of employe In the eastern region ol the of these men will he needed al other points on the the an Neither Mr Bryan nor Mr Sunday is expected to attend the convention While tltft delegates hero themselves as favoriner Air Ilrvan first choice all have some pet candle dates whose interests they are further ing In a8e the Nebraskan is not nom inated or refuses torun REiH 1 its peer vri xo force Philadelphia Ta July Th? Penn sylvania railroad company announced today that order to bring about ef I flrUonnr In vfSpedd to Pally Salisbury July 19 Summer Eett has returned from Cbieago where he attended the national Elks conven tion as a representative of the local Elks He was accompanied on the trip by Mrs Summersett and on the trip home the couple were accompanied bv Mrs Robert Latta The home bound i Asheville July19 An injunction by United Staled District Judge i Dayton recently at Phillips Va re Wonderful values here? 36 in Brown Sheeting 19c 36 in Greensboro Special Bleach ing 19c Unseasonable spring weather left a number oL coughs and colds Now comes the time of hay fever and asth ma and more persons than ever will be coughing sneezing and wheezing No wondes there is a tremendous de mand for Honey and Tar that old reliable lamily remedy for coughs cvium mhv mrr asuuna ana croup it heals and soothes that raw rasniner 27 in Brown Drilling 3G in Percale Remnants 150 ap alnst 177 for the entire month of I Jily of last year Another recruiting stimulant Is the bonus of $100 put up by the war de ipajtment for the man who recruits the largest number of men during July (Men working out of Raleigh Winston I SalATTt Ml nil Achnvilln the packlnff company makes Practice: ln Arln Carolina district se nt blockinc the shlwalk on East I to: officers In charge of stat asningion street wiiue joauing anu unloading commodities thus forcing pedestrians to take to the middle of the street thereby endangering their lives Mr complaint was substanti ated by May The commissioners toldhe complain ants that the city would lake stops immediately to remedy the situation No further business being on hand the board adjourned He told of the struggles of the negro and of their loyalty toutheir country and flag He urged them Iq continue to be loyal as their fathers had done He will apeak tonight on Blocks With We Black Jersey Bathing Tights 98c Shirt" Waist value dou ble 98c See' job counters low shoes masked and that fact has made it dlf I flcult tn him The grim de I termination of Alamance county offi I cers to bring the guilty one to justice will probably overcome that obstacle and it is altogether probable that the preliminary hearing will shed great deal of light all4 phases of the atrocious deed The sheriff was unable to say this afternoon when he would ask the gov ernor to renve the guardsmen Il 18 certain however that they will stay I on the job until after the hearing I Jail Stoutly Built The Alamance jail la no frail affair by any means It would stand bom bardment a long time from almost any kind of mob that use dynamite! Sheriff Story knew this and conse quently did not attempt to spirit his prisoners off to Greensjboro or to Ra leigh for safekeeping before the mili tary company arrived: He did a lot taiiking to keep the enraged citizensj from making a break how ever ami he had several close calls There were occasions Sunday when the mob surged into the prison and all but overpowered him Even some of his closest friends the chief peace oflicer said got very unruly and he had to use all of his wits to get (hem out of the prison and quieted down Heavy showers today one of them the hardest that has fallen here months did a great deal to keep things cooled down All Graham is now eagerly awaiting the outcome of the preliminary eaxm Ina Lion and hophig the guilty negro will with little delay he made to pay the penalty fo tins the blackest crime committed her) within the memory of the living gen eration There is some talk of trying to get a special term of court for the case suspended here today by the United would be among men in repair shops States circuit court of appeals car cleaners and clerks It was estD The order was written by Judge that between 11000 arid 12 Delegates who have arrived thus far are unanimous In the declaration that William Bryan and Sunday are the men who ought to head the prohibition ticket jTf Mr Bryan wants the nomination cash to a member of the clerical force for placing in the bank Long ha? been appointed divi sion freight agenl and passenger agent of the Seaboard Air Line in Charlotte 8 Eskridge has been appointed city freight agent The position of com mercial agent is abolished Al Lewis and Henry Downer the for mer termed a crook and the latter a 4 Charlotte boy with a lengthy police record were arrested at an early hour this morning while rob bing a drug store in Dilworth Each was bound over in the sum The Mecklenburg spiMt has gone up 100 per cent by reason of rains that are worth thousands of dollars Corn has been hurt in many sections of the county by reason of lack of rain and cotton has not been looking any too well "In certain sections almost rain has fallen for weeks 'I A district conference of the Missionary union of the Associate Re 40 in ine Boilcs values clou BA rriEtJROl I) meet Wein chairman of the commerce entertainment Manufacturers Sample Umbrellas that we are going out of busi ness But we are not We are only cleaning up 7 English but not speak it well enoughto make his meaning clear asked for an Interpreter in order that he might be misunderstood in his state with the result that Jailer Mike 4 Caffey secured Mrs Pappas who speaks Italian practically as well as rench and and who served 7 rfor some time as interpreter in thecriminal courts of New York Pietro talked rather freely yesterday afternoon his story in the main coin elding with that printed In the Dally News Saturday morning The most in teresting features of his story of yes terday however are that Je admitted freely that he stabbed her to death be cause he was jealous of her and be cause he thought she was going to kill him and that he is sorry hkilled her ollowing is the substance of his story as interpreted by Airs He said he was born Italy near Naples years ago: he has America 17 vears most nf which time at Philadelphia for three or four formed Presbyterian church comprising 4 months he lived at Camden with pen churches in Charlotte and Meck xmfh Lainam mat wnite mere sne wrote to other men because of which acts he was jealous telling her that he fed her and clothed her and that she should be true to him Extra Special 40 in Colored Voiles 25c Big as sortment to select from IKE DESTllOYS LOME AUEI SALISBl It (Special la Pllr News) Salisbury July ire today de stroyed the home of Mr and Mrs I ile an aged couple on street Mr Ella has been sick fur months and Lad to be carried out of his home wlrnn (he fire occurred Rowan and Salisbury officers arez looking for George Culp a white man who la charged with having killed Jessn angle near Mlsenhelmers1 in Stanly county early Monday morning Everett Nash expreaa messenger be tween Salisbury and Badin' died Sun day in a Baltimore hospital where he had gone for on operation The body Bryan was arrested yesterday by local policemen on warrants charg ing him with 'embezzlement and tor gery Bryan was confined to the city jail to await a hearing this morning before Judge A Jones of the Munic ipal court The first warrant charges Bryan with the embezzlement and misappropriation of $13143 belonging to the American Railway Express company where he was employed while the second one charges him with forging the name of A Grubbs to a check amounting to $15643 He is alleged to have forged Grubbs to the check in order to secure money to replace the amo'int said to have been embezzled from the express company POLISH ItEl GEES BEING BEORE THE KUSMA AKIIYI MS inenome 1 1 trip was made in a new car purchased Warsaw July 17 (By The AsL Summersett and the party came elated Press) Thousands of refugees! bV New York and Washington Nine fleeing before the bolsheviki are as iteen days were consumed on the en sembllng at the railroad junctions trlP towns west of the fighting front The dates for Rowan's fair have been Jr it is estimated that more than 200'bvl ine rair win oe neia rue last oriUtL nni2! 000 refKfies have arrived in the region September running over a couple of nxro uLva 11 x'i niir 1 rrri ti rt iv ri the care of a bone specialist at thej Most of the refugees tome from thei'viK issue premium lists in a few days Union Protestant infirmary at Balti typhug diatricts The Polish govern Special attention is being paid this was peTformej last as appointed Col Harry Gil Year to live stock since Rowan is be WThkJ 1 Avi iT Uht the United States medical coming one of the leading counties in h0erj'thmS0 d0 and Andean the stateJUvtoeh hu pypnus expedition to take charge of 7 me re ugees I a tw An 1 Phillip Palmer for several years a to the niiu mat mt? innioniv tn inesi enangej the United would be among men in repair shops I he can have it by nodding his said Mr alderwood vand If he doesn Want it we probably will force It on him HIS recent statement In Com moner that a mnn must accept such (in honor if It is offered Is looked upon ly us ns tantamount to a declaration DENY MEANS GOT LARGE PART KING ORTUNE Documentary Evidence Introduced At Chicago To Disprove Testimony That lie Got Money Chicago July 19 Documentary evi dence to disprove the allegation of the Northern Turst company that Gaston Means had obtained a large part of the fortune of Mrs Maude A King widow of James King Chicago mil lionaire was introduced today in the King will contest hearing Means is the principal witness for Mrs Mary Melvin 1 sister of Mrs King who is seeking to have an alleged second will of Mr King's probated Last week counsel for the Northern Trust company sought to show that Means had induced Mrs King to with draw money deposited with the Wood ruff Trust company in Joliet mnder a trust agreement and that he had ob tained a substantial portion of this TUESDAY JULY' 201920 CASE AGAINST KISTLER IS TO BE PROSECUTED Manager or llgget Jordan Drug R(orr Charlotte Dechtrrm He Will Ce nwrKlitri nugh( Sped txj Dailv Charlotte July 19 The case against Kistler late manager of the Llg clerk at the Yadkin hotel goes Charlotte where he will be with Stonewall RiisKhinx Reject London July 20 The reply of the Russian soviet government to the British note concerning an armistice ADrith Poland rejects in substance the Bntlh peace proposal aeeorllne the London Times which todajr pub sages and makes breathing easier Sold llshes a summary ot the soviet answer adv't tuthsp UGLY ItmHK IS CHAIlril'D TO 5KGH0ES AT 111) IINGTOY (Specll to Daily News) Burlington July get her next negro made that remark to another negro here today as a prom inent Burlington woman passed the two blacks on the street The woman) heard it and reported it shortly aftor ward to some of her male friShds She! could not describe the black who made the remark and no trace of him' could be found when a thorough search was made ollowing so closely upon the criminal assault upon a white woman near here Saturday night by a negro this occurrence might have Jed to vio lence had the search been successful lenburg will be held in Sardis church Sharon township tomorrow Mrs Carson will preside Home missions will be the subject in the afternoon A picnic dinner will be served on the He stated also that he came to HlghHawn Xoint riday July 9 about a week before the killing that he came on the invitation of Mrs Latham the let ter however she took out of his coat pocket and destroyed After he arrived at the home in High Point: that he had $46 when he arrived of which the woman took all but $5 and gave it to her mother that continued to ask him for money he giving her a little at a time of the $5 which he originallyheld back tt btiy cigarettes with lie stated further that when be ar rived In High Potnt she told him for the firstthat she hack to there as has a sister who married an Italian In Philadelphia leaving him after a month that on the night of the killing this sister with another man xVas in High Point Pietro claims that Mrs Latham was flirting with this man laughing and stalking He said he was jealous but cIia tnlrl him If ho was not satisfied she would kill him He said he I A 3 1 1 11 a TV 11 All'1 IHI tire ill 1 Jlio IL HI when he talked to her about this manshe was walking tn the room and say fng she was tired of living and was rgoing to kill herself He told the interpreter that he and the woman were in bed the night of the killing: that he was aroused when she rubbed her fingers over his eyes Jle said she did this to find out If he was asleep that she scratched him with the dagger: that he thought shewas going to kill him and that he took dagger away from her and stabbed to death He said he was too ex JcTted know if she screamed thatafter the stabbing ha remained in the house a while He exhibited two small one on the left forefinger and (he other on the neck The one on the finger he said he received the night of the kill ing and the other the night before both at the hands of the woman Pietro savs that Mrs Latham told him she was a Canadian and 'that her father was Irish He stated also that once told him her surname was Clay then Latham and that he really did not know for sure tis cor rect claims that he did not serve in the world Avar but that his two broth ers lost their lives in the Italian army during the recent Avar He fcave Mrs names of friends of his in Phil adelphiac asking her to write to them for him 1 According to Jailer Caffey Pietro attitude toward the horrible crime has since hfi was At first he 1 come' up before the city commii eunuay ou entering the part of the jail in which Pietro is kept Mr Caffey says he found the prisoner sobbing i LIGHTNING SETS IRE TO TWO B1G OIL TANKS PRINCE JOACHIM WAS 1 1 MENTALLY DEPRESSED'1 Bin Condition linn CnuNrd Ills mnily i oiuxvn Rut He Had Not JnH mated Milcidc Berlin July (By Associated The mental condition of Prince Joachini who committed sui I cide had lately caused his family grave I concern His adjutant the elderly von Steuben with whom he con BITTERNESS IN LETTER I 4waaRo aJhnned by the dopres Boston July Senator Jliramj pjon the game even thjU toW rluce1 Johnson of California in al Eitel of the younger brother's condl i Bancroft Abbott leader of the John son forces in the preeonventlon earn to the Nationi PHLir Lur aftr akn lea' ha naraing in nis I I zs rt Hit ryuimvrtii presidency should frankly and courageously take his posltion in favor of the Americanism vhat is he could and enthusiasti cally go forward with the Republican If In his speech of acceptance should evade the Senator John son said most difficult situation will be presented to men like myself'! The Republican platform plank on the league of nations Senator Johnson said "was not such as I would have writ ten but nevertheless its language seemed to me capable of but one con struction big issue which has engrossed me for so long and which has become a party of my life seems to have been met by both platforms the Republicans assuming the position 1 have taken from the first and the Democrats the contrary position In favor of the league Lnder these circumstances It seems to me that men who viewed this over shadowing issue as I did could con sistently follow but one course and that was the acceptance of the party opposing the league and opposition to tlie party approving It do not wish you to think for one instant that I am unmindful ofthe conditions which obtained at Chicago or the system which we saw in its ugly nakedness exemplified there nor do I forget the men who represented that system Because of the big thing I am will ing for a period tf declare a truce upon these men" but you may be cer tain that in the short shall re main in public life my work hence forth will be to attack the system nnd to hold up to public obloquy the ven wno nave rounded such a cynical contemptuous disregard of the pressed will of the SUMMER SCHOOL OPENS AT LUTHERAN SEMINARY School or Church Workers At Mount Pleasant Began "Yesterday Sirs A Shenk Member aculty Rev and Mrs A Shenk left yes terday for Mount Pleasant to attend the? Lutheran summer school for church workers which began there yesterday and will continue through riday noon This school the purpose of which Is to train teachers for the Sunday school will also include missionary lectures helpful courses in methods of work in the various organizations of the church and a course in church music This course in qhurch music will he in charge of Mrs Shenk who Is an ex perienced choir director Others in cluded In the faculty are Rev Burt Smith "of Easton Ta Rev Horine Columbia Miss Sadie Goggans Newberry Rev Sox Hickory Rev A 'D Hancher Richmond Va Mrs John Cook: Concord: Rev Waltz Chicago Ill Mrs Evelyn Gur ley Kane This school is under the auspices of the North Carolina synod and the North Carolina conference of the Ten nessee synod LARGE NUMBER MEN TAKEN INTO THE ARMY' During Month Of July EnliMtcd Men Have hnrgc Of They Are Doing Splendid Work The United Slates army recruiters throughout North Carolina secured 62 men during the past week according to officials in charge of state recruiting These new men' Yvere divided up be tween the different regiments of the irst division located at Louisville Ky Durlng the month of July the war department lias turned recruiting throughout the country over to the en listed men of the recruiting de partment Tt Jr said' that th? enlisted men in North Carolina have made an exceptionally fine showing during the present month their total thus far is Baltimore July 1 Since noon today when lightning struck two large tanks containing? thousands of barrels of crude and light oil at the plant of the States Asphalt Refining com pany south of this city firemen have been fighting desper a tclv to save surrounding property At 10 o'clock tonight theflames were shooting a hundred feet in the air and blazing oil was running in the road ways Two blocks of two story houses the homes of workmen are burning and rnanv morearc in danger "The burning oil is also flowing tn ia mAvoa Ail nlant 'rdjoinlng All hope ol extinguishing I straining the Baltimore and Ohio am the burning oil was abandoned this other railroads east of the Missis afternoon as the water supply: river from distributing special inadequate and 1he firemen were di coal cars in the mining territory as rected to exert all their efforts to aav an emergency step Jnjhe face of the ing the dwelling houses I present coal shortage was stayed and i Hundreds of families resident of airfield and Point became frantic with fear and movedall their houehold belongings to the streets The aggregate losses to the company is es timated at uuvtHJ The two tanks were struck ning almost simultaneously tained 55000 barrels of crude second tank exploded force of the shock was so great that the roof was hurled into the street about 200 feet mins Giiuiui i BAiriuoni INIRMARY I'Oll THEATMEXT (Special to Tiails News) Salisbury July Mr and Mrs Grubb have returned from Baltimore where they accompanied Mr sister Miss Kate Grubb who was in jured several fteeks ago at the time her father and Miss Smithey were killed in an automobile railroad grade 7 crossing accident 1 wv JviugceB nave jaw was broken and she is now under nt Bresl Lltovak i a nnra rf rnn a cnon la lier Or 7 A COMM ISSI ON ERS REMAI IN SESSION SHORT TIME 1 inMi AY nKhlngton Street ChizriiM om ylaln Of Armour And ommnvN Truck Blocking Sidewalk very little business to isRioners at their regular session yesterday aft ernoon: Young a resident of East Washington street registered a complaint against Armour and com Greensboro house located on the corner of South Davie and East Wash ington streets jmt loving tom me 1 1 board that the big truck belonging offkes ar Italian Who Killed High Point YVoman "Tells His Story i Through Interpreter THOUGHT KILL HIM ir knntori itr miring leave or ms litre nocananrc old son shot himself through the 'EVI fo about ml 'nlKht The i nomination for tne BZV1I CTvunt tucr nt wan nut nrsiu inc servants found him In he early hours! of Saturday lying in front of hl bed unconscious He was removed to a1 hospital and regained consciousness and was able to talk to Eitel But the doc tors saw that there was no hope Me rapidly grew and died at 1 o'clock Sunday morning The Zeitung am Mittag says Prince Joachim left no letters ONE KILLED AND TWO OTHERS ARE WOUNDED BY GUARD AT GRAHAM (Con 1 1 i rw 2 32 WT IS 4 1 ght A 89 all wool suits extra pants All other wool suits i price 20 off 20 off Palm Beach knee pants suits 1 price 20 off Palm Beach Mohair All Straw Hats Panamas and and Cool Cloth suits 20 off Bangkoks at price.

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