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CHILD FALLS 8KVKN STORIKW
I And* on Shoulders of Man and Both
Will Burrive Singular Accident
Nashville, Tenn., August 1.?Roland
Wolfe, Jr., 2, of Knoxviile, and
Raymond Garnctts, 23, "New York
bank clerk, were alive tonight despite
the participation in one of the most
spectacular accidents on record, when
the baby dropped seven stories from
a hotel window to land on Garnetts'
m boulders.
Greater part of the child's' fall was
witnessed by hLs horrified father,
whose attention was attracted to the
win/low by the rustling of curtains.
He sow the baby roll off the window
lodge, and rushed to the opening.
There he said he underwent an agonizing
conflict of emotions.
The accident was a matter of
seconds, hut Wolfe said he saw his
boy's body, turning slowly in o horizontal
position drop toward the sidewalk.
Subconsciously he was aware
of a man approaching the apparent
spot of contact. Hope that the
child's fall would he broken flashed
into his mind, Wolfe said.
h seemed that the pc.de stnaa
((jafriettff) stepped just a little faal.er
at^ the last moment and then I
saw Rowland strike his shoulders.
Both fell and the two rolled apart.
I felt that the impact had not killed
my boy, but 1 do not know how
1 managed to reach the ground."
The baby's left arm and right leg
were broken, but doctors said it
would live, (j&rnptts suffered a se- (
ver cut across the forehead. The
child's mother entered the hotel
shortly after the. accident, unaware
that it had occurred. But she was
[calm when advised that he had not
been seriously injured.
As for Garnetta, he told atten- (
dants he "never knew what struck
him." An x-ray examination disclosed
no fractures, and the New
Yorker, whose side visit to a school
friend here made him an apt instrument
of fate, returned this afternoon
to Chattanooga, where he has
been spending his Vacation. i
.Doctors said that not only had
Garnetts savtfd the child's life but
m ??
that both would probably have been
killed by the impact had not the
^other's body fallen acrow his back
and shoulders in a certain way.
Army Airman Killed
Ml. Clemen#, Mich., Au*.--Plunging
1,000 feet from his burning airplane
at Self^idge field here, Lieut.
1 lax-lair 1). Schulze, commander of the
Twenty-seventh squadron, was killed
today when his parachute did not open
until just before he struck the ground.
The ill-fated flier took over the command
of the squadron only last month,
when he succeeded Lieut, J Thad
Johnson, who was killed at Ottawa
while leading an escort flight with
Col Charles A Lindbergh. Lieutenant
Schulze did not participate in the
Ottawa flight.
Fellow officers at the field noticed
Schulze'? plane burst into flames as
a height of about 1,600 feeL
As the ship hurtled toward the
earth, the officers noticed the squadron
commander climb front the cockpit
and then leap. JI is parachute
opened only a few feet from the
ground M the blazing plane crashed
about 60 feet away and was destroyed
by fire. The motor smashed its
way five feet into the ground.
Only to Shoot in Self Defense
Spartanburg, July 80.?t-Peace officer*
have no right to fire at a man
charged with misdemeanor when he
is fleeing, Judge T. 8. Sease declared
| in sessions court. Fire-arms, he said,
! should never be brought into play except
in case of self-defense or where
the prisoner resists arrest. The statement
was made after Will Staton,
convicted of violating the prohibition
law, declared that one of the officers
who came to arrest him fired at him
when he fled, one of the bullets strik
ing him in the foot.
Two women of Kentucky are seeking
nomination by the Democratic
party for state offices in the pri-'
mary to be held next Saturday. They
are Mrs. Km ma Guy Cromwell, who
wants to be state treasurer, and Mi?S|
Klla I,ewi.s, who wants to be secretary
of state.
NEEDLEMAN SUES MOB .
Salesman Beets Damages Two ,??WI
After Ifi? Mutilation
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Raleigh Times, 27th.
Starting suit in the federal courts
for $100,000 as the result of his mutilation
at the hands of a Martin county
mob, Joseph H. Needleman, of
Philadelphia, has again focused the
spotlight of public attention on the
grisly affair which resulted in the
conviction of 28 mob members?convictions
which in the opinion of many
marked the breaking of the backbone
of the "Lynch law" in North Carolina.
Papers in Needleman'* suit were
received Wednesday at the office of
United States Marshall R. W. Ward
here. They were filed Tuesday in
the U. S. District Court at Washington,
N, C.
Thirty-two persons are named as
defendants in the suit. Defendant*
include in addition to the convicted
mob members, several of whom are
now serving terms in the ^State's
Prison, Sheriff 11. T. Robertson, ofj
Martin County, whom Needleman al-j
leges aided and abetted in the muti- .
lation by "counseling, advising und
witnessing" the unspeakable opera-1
tion.
Defendants in Ncedleman's $100,000
suit are: A. W. Griffin, Hubert Griffin,
H. P. Griffin, J. G. Corey, L. A.
Croom, I>ester Kdmondson, J. T. Harrell
lister Crofton, Edgar Johnson,
Sherwood Roberson, James Henry
Gray, Johnnie Guirkin, Albert Guirkin,
Roy Gray, E. C. Stone, Alfred
Griffin Clarence Gurkin, Joseph H.'
Collraine, Wilson Qriffin, Ben Lilly,
Allen Griffin, JohnrA Griffin, Grady
Smith, Julian Bullock, Dehnis Griffin,
A. T. Lilly, John T. Smithwick,
F. W. Sparrow, $r., F. W. Sparrow,
Jr., Claro Heath, Luther Peele and
H. T. Robertson.
Of these, three are now serving,
terms in the State's Prison. They
are Dennis Griffin, and two Sparrows.
Suit was started in the Federal
Courts on account of Needletnan's
non-resident status and on account of
the varied residence of the numerous
defendants. He is suing as a pauper
and asking $75,000 as compensatory
damages and $25,000 as punitive damages.
Renewal of interest in the Needleman
case brought to light the fact
that the victim has married since his
recovery from his misfortune, according
to reliable sources of information
here.
Needleman's mutilation took place
a few days after his arrest on a
charge of criminally assaulting Ethel
Griffin, a Williamston girl. This
charge was later dropped.
W hen Needleman was arrested in
Eden ton, March 26, 1925, Sheriff H.j
| T. Robertson of Martin county, took ,
him to Williamston, N. C. the next!
day Needleman sets forth in his peti- i
I tion. Needleman wished to remain
j in Edenton until the trial, but Sheriff"
I Robertson refused, he alleges. Trial1
! was set for Saturday, March 28, but'
postponed and many persons, among
them some of the defendants, came
to his cell and accused him of ruining
the girls of Williamston and said he
should be hung, he alleges.
I In the small hours of Sunday,
, | March 29, at 2:30 a.m. exact, mask-I
hed men came to his Williamston jail j
cell, clipped the locks and bolts, tore j
down the jail doors and seized hhn,
| he maintains, adding in his petition
1 ! " '
that he recognize} J I
W. Sparrow, Sr., fJM
Jr., and Claro H?a#j?|j?J
en out of town a
Sparrow, Sr., aakedfl I
be killed
recites, and the p^ij
ing salesman toM u*J I
pleaded, whereup "0u.fe{^H
moat * shocking aajT I
the
He wan refund d
cites, but lut?r WM
Waahington, N. C.,
covered within eight
Doctor KiIUTwT^H
Chicago, July
two gunmen at their
night, killing huth
tempted to rob hia/^H
who have l>eeo
US patients Oil ( nU-rinj^H
office, but th< jihyfc^J^B
Nathanson, m. < ntly
and was auspicious.
desk and when they <jr?^H
lie pulled open a
pistol and fired
level their
but tin- other Rtaggered^H
the stairway into the arn^l
man who had heard
fin died in . pitsl.
l.itthr
"Why, dad, in roj^|
claimed Willie at dinner^H
when a gueat of rtonor^^
"Of coui hisH
"Why, you told, inoti^l
ing that you were go^^H
old mutton head hmnti^H
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Glaliy's Cooknun, 1?
curly # Jocks.-and ireAJf
work at home,
Washington, D. C. honort^l
sent the capital in Awm?
nual beauty contest. j
I! $25.00 Cash Allowance on Any Type of
THE NEW FORD CAR
I To Person Making the Nearest
I Guess of What It Will Be.
i |l we have nothing official as to what it will be like, but here is what the
II american metal market says:
j 11; '-"New Ford will be a 4-cylinder, standard gear shift car made in four models.
I Features of standard equipment of new Ford car comprise self-starter, five wire wheels, speedometer, windshield wiper,
| j I! gasoline gauge, oil gauge, ammeter, dash light, and Houdaile shock absorbers.
i I The 4-cylinder engine is rated at 34 horsepower and designed to operate at 2,400 revolutions per minute. The new car is guarj
anteed to do 60 miles an hour and it will run from 30 to 35 miles on a gallon of gas. The car will accelerate from five to .30 miles
I | per hour in 30 seconds. _ . ... _
II Various models are built on a 104-inch wheel base and in combination of colors. The painting is finished with pyroxlyn"*
: which is guaranteed not to scratch.
j i II The four-wheel brakes are of a mechanical expanding type and have been designed by Henry Ford himself and embody entirely
new principles of construction. There are two brake shoes on each drum or eight in all. giving a total braking surface of
II 144 inches. Other features of new car include especially designed irreversible Bteering gear which will not deflect on rough roads
I and which makes car unusually easy to steer. A ne\C oiling system of force feed type and a new water pump are being used and
I ! ' springs are of the cross or transverse type such as are used on many makes of high priced foreign cars. Frame is heavier and
| 1 wider and is tapered at the front and both front and rear axles are of new designs and of heavier construction than in previous
j Ford cars.
j i| Transmission, which has three speeds forward and one reverse, i* an exact duplicate of transmission used on higher priced j
| '' cars except for fact that it has unusual feature of roller bearings.
I I j, New car will be only low priced automobile with a tandem or double fly-wheel, one of which is placed at the rear of the
! crank -haft and the other in front. Kleetrical equipment incluJes an entirely new type of dynamo generator constructed along
lines similar to the large dynamo* Used for electric power."
I Number of Cylinders
I Horsepower
I Transmission ..
I Radiator
I Ignition ^
j Wheel Base
I Speed . ;
Weight
Springs ,
Brakes _
Shock Absorbers ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
fuel Supply
Name the different types and price of each
We are expecting an olTicial announcement on or about August 15th. We expect to have the car on
show room floor between August 15th and September 1st. % ,
No gness will be accepted after announcement from The Ford Motor Co., so let us have yours at once.
REDFEARN MOTOR COMPANY
I CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA
EXCURSIO!
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WASHINGTON, D. |||
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Southern Railway Sy#
Friday, August 10, 19Z||
FOLLOWING VERY LOW FARE?: ,
Camden $11.50 Lancaster *
Chester 12.50' St. Matthew*
Columbia 12.50 Sumter
Proportionate low excursion fare3 from ^
mediate points. .. v
Excursion tickets sold for all trains Wedn
August 10.
Good returning to reach, original starting points
night Monday,'August 15;.1927. ' " v *
Good in Pullman cars upon" payment P
charges. No Baggage checked.
A rare opportunity to visit the nation's cai
Major league baseball games.
kor Pullman reservations and other
apply to Ticket Agents or