Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-24
NORTH CAROLINA

NORTH CAROLINA
RALEIGH.-Chim Rock Noun
tain, Inc, is chartered with author
lied capital of $12, 500,0 900 to develop
hydro-electric projects in Rutherford
county.
RALEIGH.-Jerry Dalton, white
prisoner awaiting execution for haV-
ing slain sweetheart and rival several
years ago, is granted 60-day respite
by Governor Morrison on eve of eX-
ecution date to hear plea for elem
ency. Dalton escaped after convic-
ton and fled to California, where he
made progress toward retaining
himself before being recaptured.
HIGH POINT.-John Wiles and
Dewitt Hoskins, youths, son of we'll
known business men, are shot and
painfully wounded by Rev. Thomas
C. Garrick, retired Baptist minister,
who is released on 5000 bond after
he declares at preliminary hearing
he shot because "boys stole my tur-
nips and waved them at me as
chased them"
HIGH POINT.-R. o. Price. %,
who admits having served term in
Atlanta prison, being paroled on
good behavior, is held on charge of
storebrealIing, having been arrested
while taking lock from store near
another he admits he pillaged, ac-
cording to police.
Observation-Disclosures L. T.
Knight and Fireman H. M. Smith,
of Southern passenger train No. IA,
jump and are seriously injured as
train crashes into rear end of freight
which failed to clear switch at Elf
land.
BURLINGTON-E1elen Frances
Morgan, aged three, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Morgan, is seriously
injured when run down by motor
car driven by A. l.. Patterson. of
Albemarle. Witnesses indicate &C
cident was unavoidable.
GREENSBORO. D. Norwood,
Salisbury banker and textile mag
nate, state Democratic executive
committee chairman, is declared
bankrupt in order signed by Federal
District Judge Boyd, who orders
Norwood to appear before referee at
Charlotte December l and file sched-
ules Of assets and liabilities. Several
of Norwood's mills have been de-
cared bankrupt and several banks in
which Ne was interested have been
closed.
RALEIGH.-Go Morrison S
first positive declaration for Amerl-
can membership in the League of
Nations, made at Davidson, is fol
lowed few hours later by assertion
in address here by James A. Lock
hart, of Charlotte, former state COM
mander of American Legion, that
more hell is going to be raised than
ever before" unless state Democratic
convention firmly aligns itself with
policies Woodrow Wilson advocated.
NEW BERN.-Asser1ion =by Dis
trict Attorney Tucker that Solicitor
Jesse Davis : will be arrested for
causing arrest of captain and mem
bers of crew of wrecked Nova
Scotian rum runner if sufficient evil
dence can be found of wilful inter-
ference draws from Davis charge
that federal agents have been lax in
enforcing dry laws and he only was
obeying call of President Coolidge
for cooperation by state officers.
DURHAM.-Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Steagle announce birth of son at
1:26 a. M, November II, was three
years to exact minute after birth of
daughter.
A TTTIJ C1oalon- C1nNo1y lila has
"only stable government in Europe,
because it's officials are true
Christians says Rev. Walt Hol-
comb, Methodist minister, recently
returned from EuropeanAsiatic
trip.
RALEIGH cells in which
convicts are chained to floor in soil
tary confinement on 12-hour ration
Of six crackers and pint of water
have taken place of whipping strap
in Halifax county, and men have
been thus confined in violation of
state prison rules as long as 172
hours, says w. j. Latham, former
prisoner, in interview in papers here.
CHARLOTTE railway
announces award of contract for
construction of office building at sta
ton to cost $350,000.
CHARLOTTE. - superintendent
H. p Harding. of Charlotte schools,
is gravely i'll at hospital, compiled
tons having developed following
serious operation.
MEBANE.-Tracto Of 800 acres, in
Guiding plant of famous former
Bingham school, which 10000 men
once attended, is offered by chamber
of commerce as site of proposed
state orphanage of Junior Order,
United American Mechanics.
RALEIGH.-Stat highway com
mission announces contracts will be
awarded November q for construc-
ton of Is projects, including 4S
miles of gravel and 6S miles of hard
surfaced highway, which mileage
will bring to 300 miles total mileage
of surfaced highway system com
pleted or under construction.
RUTHERFORDTON. - Allen D.
Lancaster, 6S, prominent in county,
dies at home near Forest City.
RUTHERFORDTON. - Mrs. c.
NJ. Long, mother of 3. H. Long,
Forest City bank cashier, and e.
w. Long, of Charlotte. Seaboard Air
Line railway division passenger
agent, dies at Forest City home,
ASHEVILLE.-W. H. Gray, one
of soIth's weil-known figures in
textile industry, dies suddenly a.
home at Brevard, aged At. He re-
Gently sold mills at Woodruff and
Spartanburg.
WINSTON SALEM. - Ira w.
Whitaker, so, dies suddenly while
asleep. after long illness.
DURHAM.-Was Mangum, mid
dle.a ged white man. is held in iall