Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-02
NORTH CAROLINA

4fOmlSlnS neluS, lnCluulnS WoIh
among negroes.
COncOrd.-Senator Lee s. Over
man, Democrat, of Salisbury, tells
kiwanis club members here that
. efforts of certain men and organiza-
tons to centraiize power in con-
2re8s" Is the greatest menace the
United States faces to-day.
LOwelI.-Tom Harris, understood
to be Atlanta, Ga, salesman, is Sc
riously injured when his car is over
turned. He sustains a broken leg
and possible internal injuries, and is
taken to Gastonia hospital.
RaIeigh.-A total of 2,27S North
Carolina farmers sign pledge to pro-
duce sufficient food and foodstuffs
for own needs, it is announced by
B. w. kilgore.
Elizabeth City.-Marshan Jen-
nings, thirty-five, fails to appear for
preliminary hearing here on charge
that he shot his nephew, Marvin
Russell, twenty-one. Bond is forfeit
ed and capias issued.
Ie.-Lieutenant Gaines
and Sergeant Hilton, Camp Bragg
airmen, arrive at San Diego at the
end of their transcontinental trip 20
map an air route after twenty-five
and half hours of flying time, Cen
eral Powley announces.
Mount Airy-Excitemen is caused
here by conflicting reports. some
highly sensational, regarding a
balloon which passed over this
town. One report from nearby COM
munity said a woman occupant of
basket was appealing for help.
Reidsville.-Judge Humphreys re-
leases on $500 bond Mrs. Dora Med
lin, middle-aged white woman,
charged with shooting to death Bert
Galloway, 40, negro, who she claims
aroused her fear of assault.
Raleigh.-Rev. E. A. Shenk, pas
tor of Lutheran church at Green's
boro, is elected president of the
eastern conference of the United
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Of
North Carolina, in session here.
Salisbury.-Postma Boyden de-
mics charges published in Baltimore
weekly paper for negroes that negro
was lynched here recently and that
armed whites are interfering with
plans of 400 negroes to migrate
northward.
Shelby.-The county school board
approves plans of Mooresville Sec
ton to float loan of $4,000 for
eight-room school building, bond is
sue for this purpose recently hav-
ing been voted.
Durham.-John w. Carr, Jr., SUI
perintendent of education, announces
he will move for a ban to night SEES
sions in wooden school houses, a
number of such buildings in this
county being regarded as fire traps.
AshexilIe.-With registration now
500, it is expected 500 will attend
Summer Young Peoples conference
of Methodist Episcopal church at
Weavervillle, June 1922.
: WinstOn-Salem. Baptist state
hospital is formally opened at exer-
lcises attended by several thousand
visitors.
8 AShebOro Arthur Burrow, aged
six, is improving after being bitten
by rattlesnake, medical aid being i'm
mediately obtained.
New Bern.-Skull of Robert Alli-
son Waddell, aged five, is crushed
under wheels of motor car driven by
Guy Gaskins, white, and child dies
an hour later at hospital. Officials
hold Gaskfns legally blameless.
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30 run down by cars, 9th er two re-
covering.
Roclkingham.-Ola Covnigton, ne
gro, pulls the trigger with his toe,
sending a load of shot into his body
and tells officers before he died two
hours later he was tired of living.
Macon, n. C.-Memorial tablet is
unveiled at grave near here, Of Ma
thaniel Bacon Thornton, great-great-
North Carolina statesman, ceremo-
MES being attended by Master Ma
thaniel Bacon Thornton, great-g great
grandson, and Miss Elizabeth Hen
derson Thomas, grand
daughter, Colonel Fred Odds, of Raj
eigh, making principal address.
Observation-Disclosures Daniels set
aside jury's verdict in superior court
here holding J. B. Rawls to be big
amist and the husband of Mrs. j..
Bynum Reid. who fled in 1915, Mrs
Reid admits Reid's teeth were brok-
en- and is nonplussed when her eff
forts to pull Rawls' teeth from his
mouth disclose they are both real
and whole.
Wake Eighteenth annual
baccalaureate address by President
W. L. Poteat brings to close eighty
ninth commencement Of Wake For
lest Baptist college, 80 students re-
ceiving academic degrees.
Wake FOrest.-One million five
hundred thousand dollar Bostwick
Request to Wake Forest is again
tied up, this time by attachment by
Frank Parham. New York lawyer,
representing college in litigation of
thirty years, who refuses to name
his fee. Parham is said to claim
his expenses amounted to $4,000.
Raleigh.-Fifty new lodges and s.
1000 new members in state is Odd
Fellows program for year outlined
by Grand Master Sam B. Currin,
of Greenville, n. c., in address to
local lodge Another speaker heard
is Past Grandmaster J. K. P. Meth
cry, of South Carolina.
MOnrOe-Vance Kluttz, %, is sho
and killed by his sister, Mrs. Clara
Belle Kluttz, Is, at the home of hel
mother, Mrs. Ida Wentz. Mrs
Kluttz, arrested and held for tria
June 1, explains she was playing
with revolver in attempt to frighter
young people attending dance.
New Bern-Ferd Hahn, account
ant, announces Red Cross relief worE
for sufferers in New Bern fire las
December probably will be completed
soon after June l. One hundred
homes are being built and tented city
is rapidly disappearing.
BeafOrt-Carteret county's pot q
to crop, which is being sent to north
ern markets, will be about 10000