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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-22
NEW BANK SITE IS
 PURCHASED FOR $30, GOO

Meridian, Miss, June 21.--(Special.) The Merchants and Farmers bank of Meridian has purchased from the es- tate of the late August Kling the property at the corner of Twenty third avenue and Sixth street, in the heart of the business district, for the purpose of building at an early date a modern banking build ing as new home for that insti- tuition. The property extends through the block on Sixth street from Twenty third to Twenty fourth ave nues and was purchased at con sideration around $30,000.
 It is the intention of the new owners to remove the present two story structure facing Twenty-third avenue, and the single story build ing facing Sixth street, and build on the entire site one large build ing, the lower floor to be for the Merchants and {, Farmers bank and the upper floors as an office build ing, it has been stated
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-12-22

XMAS ENTERTAINMENT
AT ST. JOHNS CHAPEL
The Christmas tree entertainment
will be held at st. Johns Chapel, Cor
nersville, Christmas night. Every
body cordially invited.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-12-22
The Daily Banner

CAMBRIDGE, MD, DEC. %. 1922.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-12-22
Brief Local News

Miss Mary Hudson, is visiting her
parents, Rev. and Mrs. G. H Hudson,
at Fishing Greek.
Mr.. Charles H. Prouse, of Midland,
Allegany County, is spending the
holidays with relatives in Cambridge.
Mrs. Emaline Keene, left today en-
route for San Francisco, Cal, where
she will spend sometime as the guest
Of her sister.
Mrs. VIM. White and daughter,
Miss Lille, left this morning for
Philadelphia to spend the holidays
with Mrs. S. HoWeth Reid.
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Ewell, OF
Baltimore, are visiting at the home
of Mrs. EWell's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James S. Sherman, Mill street.
Mr.. Hazelton Brannock, of Balti-
more, has arrived in Cambridge to
spend the holidays with his sister,
Mrs. Russell Smith, at ''LaGrange."
Mr.. Wallace Smith, student at
the University of Maryland, is spend
ing the holidays with his parents,
Register of Wills and Mrs. Russell P.
Smith, at LA Grange" farm.
Mr. Edwin Hirst, a student at The
University of Maryland, Baltimore,
has arrived in this city to spend the
holidays with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Hirst.
Mr.. William Moore, who is enroll
ed at Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore
is spending the Christmas holidays
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard Moore, on Belvedere Avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. Cooke and Miss
Ethel Bradshaw and Mr.. Lee Brad
shaw. left today by automobile for
Philadelphia to spend the Christmas
holidays with Mrs. Cookies daughter,
Mrs Jack Willis.
Miss Margaret Hubbard "a stud
ent at State Normal School, Towson,
Md, is spending the holidays with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. B.
Hubbard, at their home on Church
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Langford, of
Vienna, announce the marriage OF
their daughter, Mary Anthony, 10 Mr..
Joseph James Holley, of Chester, Pa.
The wedding will take place Tuesday
morning, December Goth, at $50
o'clock, at Methodist Protestant
Church, Vienna. Md.
Tickets for the Five Hundred Par
ty to be held at the Elk's Home on
Wednesday, December 9th, may be
purchased at the following places;
White House Lunch Room; Mrs. E..
E. Wolff; Mrs. Florence Robinson
and Mrs. John E. Croft. The entire
proceeds will go to Dorchester Tub
erculosis Association.
Tom Mix's greatest western fea-
ture the picture that broke theatre
records on Broadway has been Sc
cured by the management of the
Grand Opera House for tonight and
Saturdays feature Tom Mix him
self says that it is his greatest fea-
ture to date. Cordina and Reese in
big novelty musical act is the
vaudeville show. Paramount's new
feature ITO Have And To Hold" is
the Christmas special.
Elaine Hammerstein and Conway
Tearle are showing at the Arcade
tonight and Saturday in brand new
picture entitled One Week Of Love.
The picture is playing this week in
Baltimore at The New Metropolitan
where it is rated highest in enter
tainment value of any show in town.
1t is positively guaranteed first class
in all respects. The Hal Roach
comedy and Ruth Roland in 'The
Timber Queen" are added attrac-
tions. The Como Orchestra Saturday
night. May Murray is here for
Xmas in broadway Rose"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-12-22
Lewis--Richardson

Mr.. Russell Lewis of Aireys. and
Miss Alma M. Richardson, of Vienna,
we've married by the Rev. D. w. An
slime, 3S Glasgow street, Cambridge
Wednesday evening, December Goth
The Monroe journal., 1922-10-20
LEGION TO INTERFERE In
LOCAL POSTOFFICE SCRAP
Commander Lockhart Wants 10 knos
WAY the Grades of Applicants
Have Been Withheld
WANTS TO KNOW If GRADES
HAVE BEEN THROWN OUT
Locally 1t Is Believed Department Is
Making An Effort to Appoint Man
More Acceptable to County and
State G.. o. p. Powers.

Interference by the North Caro-
lima department of the American Leg
ion in behalf of the ex-service men
who are seeking the Monroe post
mastership is seen in letter written
to the Postmaster General by Jas. A.
Lockhart. of Charlotte, commander
of the veterans organization. His
letter very pointedly asks the reason
for the Withholding of the grades of
the applicants who stood the exami-
nation two months ago.
Usually, it was stated at the post
office yesterday, the department
makes public the grades within two
or three weeks after the examination.
Failure to do this in the case of the
Monroe pos,mas.ership is believed to
indicate Juggling in the department
in an effort to secure the nomination
OF a man acceptable to the local and
state G. o. p committee.
Commander Lockhart's letter reads:
The American legion in this state
is not in politics, but the American
legion in this state insists that vet
Grams of the world war should re-
ceiye every right to which the laws
of the United States entitle them.
The statutes duly enacted by Con-
gress and approved by the President
of the United States provide for pre-
ference in appointments to veterans
Of The world war. In your depart
ment in North Carolina, this has not
been accorded to them. Instances
might he multiplied where service
men with higher rating have been
passed over in order that political
ward he,lers might be rewarded.
"0n July Is last, an examination
was held at Monroe, n. c., for the
POS ;ion Of postmaster in that town,
There were five veterans of the world
war and one veteran of the Spanish
American war among the applicants.
| have never inquired as to the polit-
ical aftiliation Of these men, but for
some reason, no announcement has
been made of grades and ratings up
o this time.
"Representating the ex-service men
of this state, should Ike to know
Il il is true, as reported, that the
examination is to be thrown out in
order to avoid complying with the
law and appointing a service man.
I've do not ask more than we are
entitled to receive under the laws
of our nation, and we will not be
satisfied with less. We insist that a
cabinet officer has no more right to
violate the law than a private citizen.
Perhaps the matter has not come
. your personal attention, and hope
that now that | call it to your atten-
on, you will make an effort to see
to il that the service men receive what
he law of the land grands them"
The Monroe journal., 1922-10-20
Hammer TO Explode South Car
lima MYTH

Was Andrew Jackson born in Unior
or Lancaster county? Congressman
Stevenson of South Carolina has
maintained on the floor of the House
of Representatives that Old Hickory
by his own admission, was native OF
South Carolina. Local historians con-
tend that Jackson was born in this
county and have documentary evidences
to substantiate their claims. Now
Congressman Hammer comes to the
rescue of Union county and the Old
North State. At Waxhaw next Mon.
day. in the school auditorium, he will
offer indisputible evidence to show
that Congressman Stevenson is erro-
neous in his contention.
Before speaking in the evening
Congressman Hammer, accompanied
BY Major w. c. Heath, Geo. s. Lee,
Jr., chairman of the democrat C ex-
ecutive committee, Esq. Henry Nc
Whorter and other prominent demo
Gratis of Jackson township, will visit
the Jackson monument and get what
speakers term "local coloring.'
The occasion promises to be one of
the most interesting political meets of
the year and large number of Mon
roe people plan to hear Mr.. Hammer
explode the South Carolina myth.
Waxhaw democrats are making ex-
tensive preparations for the coming
of the seventh district congressman.
The Monroe journal., 1922-10-20
HUGGINS RUNS ACROSS
OLD FRIEND In WILSON
John Richardson, the Legless Pencil
Seller. About the First Person
He Saw in His New Home
WILSON PEOPLE ARE VERY
PROUD OF THEIR MARKET
The Warehouses There viii Sell Be-
tween Fifty and Sixty Millions
Pounds of Tobacco This Season:
Wilson County Also Raises Much
Cotton, Its Land Producing Bale
to the Acre.
By l.. E. Higgins

Wilson, Oct. lS.-About the first
thing | saw after arriving in Wilson
Tuesday was John Richardson, the
old negro whose only platform is that
which he uses in getting from one
section of the city to another and also
to sit on after he gets there. John
was in Monroe a few weeks ago and
spent considerable time onthe streets
selling pencils for living. He lost
both legs twenty-seven years ago
from frost bite and blood poison, but
he never lost his determination to
earn living, which he is doing much
more successfully than some people
who have two legs and two arms.
John became somewhat of nuisance
around Monroe before he left, bur his
face "shore did look permiliar' to me
in land of strangers. That platform
mounted upon small wheels that has
carried John for twenty-seven years
away from his home in Columbia. s.
C., to almost every town and city in
the two Carolinas also looked famil-
lar, and John appeared glad to meet
gen'man from Monroe, where he
otsyS plNhsslSs NeiC SOuu.
Tobacco Instead of Cotton
realize that Union county people
are not very deeply interested in to-
| baec0 until it is manufactured into
cigars, cigarettes or chewia' or spit
tn tobacco, but down here p,acti-
eally all the talk is of the tobacco
crop and the warehouse sales. Wilson
has established quite reputation as
tobacco market and around six mil
lien dollars worth of bright leaf to-
bacco has already been bought on the
Wilson market this season. Il is es-
timated that the sales here this year
W Il amount to fifty or sixty million
pounds, averaging around forty cents
per poaud. WGson is proud of her
tobacco market and the cooperative
association is having hard time
making much headway here.
The Boil Weevil Coming
Wilson county also grows quite a
bit OF cotton, averaging bale to the
acre. But the boil weevil is this year
making his advent and next year will
probably hit this section about like
he did Union county this year. IL is
expected that many farmers in this
section will switch to tobacco almos,
altogether next year and that there
will therefore be the biggest tobacco
crop in the history of the county.
Just what the effect on the price w.l
be no one can foretell. However, it
IS reasonable to suppose tina. with tie
reputation that Wilson has made as
tobacco market there will be plenty
Of buyers here from the bigmanufact.
uring plants TO take all that is pro-
duced at a profitable price. Anyway,
tie people down here don't appear TO
be 50 badly frightened over the ceM.
ins Of the b)ll weevil as they are IN
n on county, where tobacco is no.
growa But have great faith in I'm
,oa CO MY farmers, and believe they
W, fud sone way of either growing
coon uade- bo,l weevil conditions
or sJa tia lg some other crop.
The Monroe journal., 1922-10-20
Court Proceedings

Frank Williamson of Indian Trail
was his morning convicted of assault
with intent to kill upon Tom Kendall
OF the same community. At noon
Judge Long had not passed sentence.
Other cases disposed of during the
week follow
7. A. Long, false prtense, four
months on the roads.
Charles Hudson, colored false pre-
tense, judgment suspended on pay
ment of cost.
John A. Jones, abandonment; plead
guilty. Judgment not pronounced.
Will Smith, colored who left horse
on railroad crossing few weeks ago.
Four months on roads.
State against George Furr and Will
Price, young white men, who few
weeks ago stole Ford car from Mr..
Erwin Mccain, coming on to Monroe
where they exchanged the Ford for
Mr.. Charles Iceman's Buick roadster,
carrying it to Charlotte where it was
abandoned. Will Price was sentenced
to eight months in the state peniten-
tiary. Furr's sentence was eight
months on roads. Prices mother
stated that her son had tuberculosis,
hence he was sent to the state prison
where he might receive treatment.
Cutlow Mitchell, colored, two cases,
carrying concealed weapon. Sentence
not passed. This man carried gun
while on duty during strike of shop
men, the colored man being a rail-
road employee.
Henry w. Aycock, false pretense;
pleads guilty. Prayer for Judgment.
Continued until January term.
Alonzo Fuller, larceny of an auto
mobile, the property of ]. Z. Little.
Sentence Of Ii months on roads.
Frank Ingram, colored, charged
with the murder of Oscar Parker, col
ored, about a month ago in south
Monroe, the controversy being over
colored wman. Ingram plead guilty
Of mans,aughter. Sentence to 12
months on roads.
John Funderburk, colored, for kill
ing his brother in Buford township
few weeks ago while tusseling over
a gun when intoxicated. Not guilty.
Howard Chambers, colored boy IL
years old, charged with killing his
brother with pistol. State took mol
Ipros, it being shown age of defend
ant made him irresponsible for the
act.
AL Trull, convicted Of secret as
sault with intent to kill; sentenced
to two years on the roads. Defend
ant appeals to Supreme court and is
released on $4,000 bond. A few weeks
ago Trull seriously cut in the hack
J. r. Remington, who w's ne
hospital for ten days or two weeks.
The Monroe journal., 1922-10-20
RANKING BUCK PRIVATE OF
A. f. 7. HAS OWN CONVENTION
For tae Benefit of His Audience He
'omposes Little Ditty, "There'll
Be No C0l0nels There

New Orleans, Oct ia solemn,
sun-browned youth in olive drab, an
overseas cap, set at a care-free angle
over one ear, stood in the middle of
Royal street last night while crowds
of American Legion visitors, home-
ward bound from the French fete in
Jackson square, walked, strolled or
marched by as their fancy dictated.
1t was a care-free night.
But the French fete meant moth
ing to the comrade in the middle of
Royal street. He was holding a
convention all his own, and announc-
ing it 70 the passerby who cared to
listen. He had evidently had the mat
ter on his mind for long time, per-
haps from the first week in training
camp, when he learned to regard his
commissioned superiors with natural
suspicion and sergeants and corporals
as their active agents.
This is buck private conven-
ton, said the solemn one. II oughta
know; was the ranking buck pri-
vate in the A. E. F. III tell the
world This convention Pm holding
here is the buck privates' convention.
No officers admitted. Throw EN- out"
He paused to glare around bale
fully for any one who looked like a
major general or a secand lieuten-
ant. None appeared, and he resum-
ed his address, of welcome to himself,
and bowed in acknowledgements of the
well chosen words.
No kno.ty problems of soldier bo-
nus or rehab;l .ation, vexed the COM
rade. It was a large moment-one
he had been promising himself for a
long TIM ne he had dreamed
about in chill French cowsheds while
the good looG ng nurse he'd liked was
dancing with colonels and captains.
The time had come when he could
safely tel! all corporals, top sergeants,
military police officials, regimental
and corps commanders where to head
in. And he did. None said him nay.
I'VE will conclude" said the buck
private, with the singing of a little
ditty, you may all join me, friends.
1t runs like this:
+" 'Therell be no generals there;
Therell be no generals there:
In heaven above, where all Is love,
Therell be no generals there
Second verse:
'There'll be no colonels there +.
With military exactitude he went
down the line to corporals.
Then he called 1t a day.
The Monroe journal., 1922-10-20

A reproduction on wheels of the
famous French box car, 40 Hommes
and 5 ChevauX," or translated into
English, 40 Horses and Men," will
be but one of the many unique floats
in the American Legion's armistice
day parade here Saturday Nov. IL,
Mir Henry Crow, chairman of the ar
mistice day parade committe, said
yesterday. The box car, similar in
every de al 10 those French cars that
transported mi lions of American SOL
diers from the base ports to the bat
tlefields, is being built by Monroe
members OF the Federated Shop Craft.
II will be complete, even to the little
cupelo on the outside, where the
brakeman SITS during rainy and cold
weather, ard straw on the floor. 1t
will give home folks an idea of the
crowded conditions of soldier travel,
and bring unpleasant memories of
long, hard rides the soldiers.
Another e0at that will vividly por-
tray the war will be "The Rose of
No Mans Land contributed by the
Central Filling Station. Named for
the famous Red Cross song, it will
show battlefield, shell holes, barb
wire and all, with a wounded soldier
receiving the ministrations of nurse.
No expense will be spared, Mr.. Frank
Redfearn, proprietor of the Central
Filling Station, tells the parade COM
mlttee, in making it a vivid reproduc-
ton Of common, but stirring Incl
dent Of the war.
The history of America will be lit
orally told in floats, said Mr.. Grow.
There will be Washington Crossing
the Delaware, Grant and Lee at APP
pomattox and dozen other STIR
ring incidents. Of particular interest
to Union county people, however, will
be the float contributed by the Cor
don Insurance & Investment Company
pieturing the Battle of New Orleans.
Esq. Henry McWhorter, whose grand
father was the playmate of Andrew
Jackson, central figure in the battle
of New Orleans, will be asked to take
part II this scene.
Mr.. J. ". Hines, manager of the
Monroe Ice & Fuel Company, is
working on a miniature transport. It
will be reproduction of the ships
used TO carry the American soldiers
across to France and will show sailors
on the decks. To give it touch of
the realistic, solder in uniform will
go through the paroxysm of seasick-
ness. This promises to be one of the
biggest hits of the parade.
Other high spots in the program
for the day include big free dinner
to all soldiers of the county. athletic
events n the afternoon and fddler's
convent on, staged by Judge W. 0.
Lemmo2d, in the evening.
The Monroe journal., 1922-10-20

Lines of least resistance lead to no
where.
The Monroe journal., 1922-10-20
Plyler and Skies Reflect ID

Monroe friends of Rev. A. W. Plyler
and Rev. Timothy A. Skies, editor
and bus ness manager, respectively
of the North Carolina Chr stan Ad.
vocate, will be delighted to learn that
they have been reelected to These
positions by the North Qarolina
Methodist Board Of Publications
Selection of these gentlemen to sue.
ceed themselves was considered by
their friends practical recognition OF
the effective work which they have
performed during the past year in
editing and managing the Advocate
here. Financial reports submitted at
the meeting showed gratifying prog
ress. The board ordered a, 8 per cent
dividend on the stock Of the publica-
ton be paid.
The Monroe journal., 1922-10-20
10 HORSES and 5 MEN"
FEATURE LEGION PARADE
Famous French Box Car Is Being
Built for the Occasion by the
Monroe Federated Shop Craft
HENRY CROW HAS PLANNED
FINE HISTORIC PANORAMA

Rose Of No Mans Land" Jackson at
New Orleans and Other Historical
Events TO be Pictured in the Parade
for Armistice Day; Program Also
Includes Free Dinner for Soldiers
and 4 Fiddlers' Convention.
Evening star., 1922-05-18
THE WASHINGTON THURSDAY,

his, nomination. he gave out q state-
meht saying that, with no grudges
to satisfy, no enemies to punish. and
with the support of united party"
he would approach the great task
ahead with confidence that 1t can
and will be carried through to the
credit of the republican party and the
advantage OF all the people of Penn
sylvania.''
Personal Victory. Says sproul.
Gov. Sproul said, Mr.. Pinchots VIC
tory Is great personal triumph" )"
when informed that Secretary Baker
had conceded the nomination.
II have sent my congratulations to
Mr.. Pinchot," the governor said, land
I shall be- glad to assist him in his
campaign against the democrats, as
we'll as in the big problems he will
have to meet in his administra tion.
He got q good start on US and was
able to capitalize the enthusiasm of
the newly enfranchised women voters
and to corral all of the disaffected
elements in the state who are out of
sorts with the administrations at
Washington and Harrisburg and with
conditions generally. The coal strike
Evening star., 1922-05-18
DAUGHERTY M|SF|T,
SAYS SUNTERMYER
Appointment to Cabinet Seen
as Harding's "Worst
.BIunder."
BY the Associated Press.

by tne Associated HreSS.
YONKERS. N. Y, May 1s.-The
worst blunder" that President Hard
ing has made was the appointment of
Harry NJ. Daugherty as Attorney Cen
eral. Samuel Untermyer, council of the
Lockwood legislative committee, de-
clared in an address here last night.
criticizing the administration for what
he termed it's inef1ciency in going after
the big criminals"-trusts and war
contract profiteers.
He is hopelessly untitled by train
ing and temperament for that great
office, which is, in many respects. the
erful. in the government next to that
of the President" Mr.. Untermyer de-
clared. 1T peculiarly requires great
lawyer, a trained executive and a man
free from political contact or environ
ment.
The idea of placing at the head of
that department Of all other" a po-
litical manager as connecting link be-
tween the administration and big busi-
ness fairly makes ones blood boil, no
dent who was lawyer would not have
done it. That appointment has put its
stamp on the present administration"
Department Broken Down.
Speaking before the Dunwoodie
Chapter of Masons on Law Enforce
ment Against Big and Little Crimi-
nals." Mr.. Untermyer declared it was
mot an exaggerated figure of speech
; to say that the administration Of JUS
tice has broken down." and asserted
that the reproach of the unequal en-
forcement Of the laws as between the
rich and poor is not without an element
of justice"
/ ii
treatment Of the little criminals"
during the recent crime wave in New
York and the brand of justice hand
ed out to wealthy persons and cor
porations-cfting on the one hand
New York judge whose boast was
gregating 230 years as a days work,
and on the other, the record of the
sugar trust case," "in which a dis
solution decree has just been entered
about twelve years after the suit was
begun"
The Attorney General came in for
criticism when Mr.. Untermyer was
discussing. under the head of "Big
Criminals" the trade and open price
associations he uncovered while con-
Quoting the Lockwood committees
investigation into the building trusts.
Time Limit Passing.
'It Is more than a year since these
cases were brought to the attention
of the Department of Justice" he
said. THE preliminary proofs in
support of them has been gathered
by the committee. Prosecution has
been begun on less than a half dozen
of them. There are a dozen OF more
important ones on which the depart
ment has taken no action whatever.
Meantime the statute of limita-
tions is running against these Of
,fenses: the witnesses and proofs are
scattering and the chances of sue
cessful action are diminishing day
by day."
II do not mean by this attack on
these so-called trade associations to
include the honest, legitimate ones,
The latter constitute, 1 should say.
about so per cent of all trade asso-
Citations and have been of great aid
to honest competitive business