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VOLUME XXXIV.
NUMBER 41
HENDERSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCT. 24, 1919,
FIVE CENTS COPY
CAGLE ET AL
VINDICATED
In the case wherein James Giana
kos was charged with transporting
spiritous liquors in violation of law
and against the peace and dignity of
the state, the defendant won out. The
case was tried before Esquire B. F.
Hood Tuesday afternoon. The court
room was well filled with spectators
from the time the trial started until'
it ended.
As stated in last week's issue of this
ptler, Gianakos, Saturday a week
ago, went out into the Crab Creek
section of the county and. procured
a gallon of liquor, and made arrange
ments to get five gallons more that
night, same to be delievered to hinfat
a certain point oh the Crab Creek
road. The five gallons were delivered
in pursuance of the agreement enter
ed into between Gianakos and the
man dispensing the spirits frumenti.
However, as stated in our news
columns last week, about' the time
the lnar" ornllnn wan rilnped in OinnnVrtS
car shooting commenced nearby, ancn
a man was heard shouting "Halt!
Halt!" Whereupon, Gianakos got in
to his car and left the spot as quickly
as possible, and the moonshiner, it
appears, did the same.
The man who did the shooting and
who demanded that the men halt was
Constable Walter Cagle, wbjjin com-
pany with his brother, Charley Cagle ,
and his father, P. P. Garren, had
gone with Gianakos to the place where
the moonshiner was to deliver the
five gallons of liquor. When Con
stable Cagle's shooting and shouting
did not cause a surrender of anybody,
he and his brother and father started
out in pursuit of Gianakos and soon
came up with him. They then came
on to Hendersonville and disposed of j
the liquor in the manner stated in
last week's issue of this paper.
Chief of Police Otis Powers got
wind of the affair and he spoke to
the sheriff about it, and the facts were
laid before one or more lawyers, with
the result that a warrant was issued
for Gianakos charging transporting
, illegally. No warrant was issued for
' any of the Caglesor for Garren, al
though it was rumored that their con-
j nection with the affair was thought to
J be wrongful
; At the trial Tuesday Constable
i Cagle, and the other men involved in
j the affair were thoroughly vindicated.
j A man named Fowler, and another
named Murray testified oh behalf of
the state, as to the delivery to Giana
kos of the five gallons of liquor, and
his failure to pay for the same, the
shooting and hollowing by Cagle, and
what happened in consequence there
of. Constable Cagle, put upi as a wit
ness for the state, testified that the
defendant Gianakos came to him on
ISaturday afternoon, after he had pro
cured the gallon, of liquor end in
formed him that he knew where he
jcould catch some men with liquor.
He testified that he then and there
ieputized Gianakos to take his car
ind accompany him (Cagle) to the
jlace where the men could be found
vith the liquor. He testified further
hat he also deputized his brother and
lis father to go with him to assist
n apprehending the moonshiners.
Constable Cagle also testified he
knd his posgemen, including Gianakos,
(vent to the spot where the moon-
hifcJrs were to deliver, and where
hey did deliver, the five gallons of
fquor, and dffl their best to capture
the violators of the law, but failed
a dp bo. They did however, he stated, j DEATH CLAIMS ITALIAN AMBAS
uedfeed in getting the liquor, but that j SADOR, -
(osseman, r. r. barren, in attempt-
tig to Carry the jugs containing the
quor to safety after they arrived
ack in town, acidently broke one of
lie glass) gallon containers and thus
he gallon of the five was lost.
The defense of the men, as stated,
us ; that they were attempting to
ptiire moonshiners and suppress the
licit traffic in liqnor .in this county.
td.the court, after hearing the evl-
4i not sufficient to :V show, I any
nhabUity of guilt and dismissed the
bibn against Gianakos. This resulted,
lerlindivation of Constable' Cagle;
; dfench- of i hit possamen, including
inakbsg to the delight of their
Vv ends tmd thV' chagrin of their en-
K Jt?'Wj
;A ri;MnT in the affair awutrt tHM thev
are going to continue to do all they
can, in the bounds of reason, to see
that the 0. 0. bucket suplants the lit
tle B. Jug in this county as soon as
possible. In their efforts in this direc
tion, there will be none who will say
them nay.
recall election is
threatening: in burke
Morganton, Oct. -21. Morganton
may have a recall election.
Petitions, have been filed calling
for an election to recall Ben Kibler,
alderman from the second ward.
Fifty-seven of the 70 votes in Gib-
ler's ward have signed the petition,
which charges that he has failed to
carry out the campaign platform and
pledges upon which he was elected,
Morganton being under the com
mission form of government, a recall
can be demanded. Interest in the de
velopments is at high pitch here.
This is the second attempt at a re
call, the previous effort being to re-
call former Mayor Martin. This failed
htwever, as the charter at that time
made it necessary that the mayor or
der the election and this Mr. Martin
refused to do.
M'NINCH ADMINISTRATION
WINS VICTORY IN CHARLOTTE
Every faction and every element,
political and religious, united at the
polls of Charlotte Tuesday and by
the sweeping majority "of 1,433 bal
lots voted to retain in power until the
expiration of their terms the present
administration, Mayor Frank R. Mc
Ninch and Commissioners A. H.
Wearn and George A. Page. It was
the greatest election ever held in
the city and the grand total of 5,27&
votes was but small indication of the
intensejtaterest -shown during the day.
Of note was the fact that despite
this tremendous vote there was noth
ing of a disorderly nature to mar the
day or to cause the police undue ac
tivity around the voting places.
The issue was clear cut in the
mind3 of the voters and there were
but few if any votes changed during
the day. The great majority of men
event to the polls with their minds
made up and they proceeded to cast
their ballots accordingly and leave
the polls. Men voted in Charlotte
Tuesday who have not honored the
polls with their presence in years.
lousiness men who have not hereto -
fore taken the trouble to leave their
stores went early to the polls with the
result that the great majority of the therefore, to urge upon precinct corn
ballots had been cast by noon. The mittees the importance of making a
small percentage was cast in the af -
ternoon and hence the general result
was known long before the polls had
closed.
So closely had the administration
leaders checked up the voters that
they were able to forecast with almost
complete precision the result of the
election several hours before the polls
were closed.
There was a complete absence of
party action in the election of Tues
day. Republicans and Democrats,
union labor members and unorgan
ized labor, capitalists, merchants and
all that great element of citizens who
believe in law and oder as against
the action of the radical element, uni
ted in casting their ballots.. It was
nothing unusual to see a life-long Re
publican and an aged Democrat work
ing side by side in getting out the
large vote.
Washington, Oct. 20. Count V.
Macchi di Cellere, Italian ambassador
to the United States sinpe 1913, died
in the emergency hospital here to
night just as he was about to undergo
an operation. He had been ill since
Saturday. j
The ambassador Was removed ffom
the embassy to the hospital tonight
after his physician had decided that
H reached-the hospital aftit o'clock
and while on the perating.,tebi bet
j fore the operation was started, his
Hia death was pronounced is' due .to
mesenteric ttombonsisi Countess di
' Cellere and several members of the
embassy staff were ai the hospital
ambaar
rf&rlnr urai f3 vesra nlrt. " . ' -
NEPBUILDING
BEING ERECTED
The Marlboro Villa, one of the old
est lodging, houses in the city has
been stripped of its outer coat of
many colors, and for several days it
slowly vacated the site in front of the
postofRce where it held undisputed
sway for many years. The forces of
U. M. Orr, with their rope and tackle,
had charge of the job. The building
was first dislodged from its founda
tion slipped westward to Church
street and will later be moved along
is
e
street to a point opposite
old flower garden, thence
west over on the flower garden lot
and once again placed on a solid
foundation where it will be repaired
and used for purposes; other than a
rooming house.
Mr. Jackson, owner of the lot on
which the Marlboro Villa stood, is ar
ranging to have erected on this lot a
brick building in which will be located
a number of store rooms, offices, etc.
It is understood the telephone ex
change will be moved into new quar
ters in this block when the building
is ready for occupancy. The lot is
one of the nicest in the city and when
the present building program is com-
i pleted the old Marlboro Villa site will
be a thing of beauty and convenience
to those occupying the new quarters.
THE ROSEVELT
MEMORIAL FUND
' The campaign for contributions to !
the Roosevelt Memorial fund is
scheduled to close Saturday, and the
chairman and secretary of the county ,
organization report that unless a ,
mighty good day's work is done in !
each precinct in the county Saturday j
the quota for this county will be far
short of being raised. We are, there- i proper for- those in control at the
fore, asked to urge that, ,preuniifci,White Heuse to attempt to conceal
committees canvass, or arrange toTthe truth but, what is worse still,
have canvassed their respective pre-j foolish and utterly futile,
cincts thoroughly Saturday. j There is no prospect that the Presi-
Colonel Roosevelt was greatly ad-, dent will be able, at any time in the
mired by the citizens of Henderson immediate future, to resume the res
county, and now that a popular sub- ponsibilities of his exacting post. Why,
scription is being taken to erect suit- j then, is the inevitable announcement
able monuments to perpetuate his being delayed? Why should any at-
memory, every admirer of him in this
county ought to hasten to make a
small contribution of the above men-
tioned fund. A dollar from each of
: the friends in this, county of the late
j ex-President will put Henderson coun-
ty in the place where she belongs in ;
'the Roosevelt Memorial Association.
. The chairman and secretary of the
county organization requests us,
i thorough canvass of their precincts at
i once, so that the county may come up
fully with its pro rata share of this
' fund.
We stated in last week's issue of
. The Times that the names of all con
tributors would be published in this
week's issue of the paper. The secre
tary, A. O. Jones, however, was un
expectedly called to Asheville as a
witness in some case, and had not re-
turned at the time of our going to
press. We could not therefore, obtain
a listof the subscribers for publica
tion this week. We will publish the
list next week. !
Friends and admirers of the late
Colonel Roosevelt should not wait to
be visited personally by a solicitor,
but should send their contribution by
mail at once to A. O. Jones, Hender
sonville, N. C.
As soon as you read this put a dol
lar bill inan envelope and mail same
to Mr. Jones, if you have not already
made a contribution to the Roose
velt fund.
G. M. GLAZENER'S CON
DITION IS CRITICAL
The latest news from G. M. Glaz
ener, before going to press, is that
his condition is still regarded as ex
tremely critlcaL "A second operation
was necessary the "'early part of this
week and while his friends have not
entirely, abandoned hope of his re
covery, his attending physicians atate
that; he has by no means passed the
danger point V: A
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WARD AND FEW BUY GARAGE
A. F. Ward and Ben Few have pur
chased the O. K. Garage from Bert,
Shock and will continue the busi
H1TER SELLS
DRUG STORE
It Will be of more than passing
interest to the people of this city and
Henderson countv to know that Dr.
F. V. '"Hunter has sold his drug busi-
. ' . .
ness unown as "Hunters Pharmacy"
tn WxP. Whitmire. Jr . Wiltshire I
Griffin- and H. I. Hodges of Mobile,
Ala. ' 1
The; deal includes the entire stock
of drugs and drug sundries, fixtures,
stock and good will of the company
and the consideration is reported to
be in the neighborhood of $25,000.
The new company has leased the
building in which Dr. Hunter has
been located for some time and will
continue the business under the name
of "Hunter's Pharmacy, Inc."
The business changed hands Wed
nesday of this week. Mr. Hunter will
remain at the store for a short time.
He has not yet decided what his
future business plans will be but ex
pects first to take a much needed rest.
BARACA-PHILATHEA PROGRAM
AT EAST FLAT ROCK SUNDAY
Baraca District Secretary Lawrence
J. Pace announces that there will be
a program in the interest of Baraca
Philathea work at the East Flat Rock
Baptist church next Sunday morning,
MALADY OF
THE PRESIDENT
.Boston, Oct. 22. The Providence
Journal says in part: Mr. Wilson has
had a clot of blood on the brain, ac
companied by partial paralysis. These
facts are well known within a certain
limited circle and cannot be indefi
nitely hidden from the country at
i large. It is accordingly not only im-
tempt be made to carry on the gov
ernment without the assistance of the
one official upon whom, in can'.- of the
President's inability, the ex..
power constitutionally devolves? Air.
Marshall is the duly elected Vice-
President and Mr. Wilson's condition
is perfectly known, of course, to the
leaders at the national capital.
The situation is utterly impossible,
and cannot be permitted to continue.
Let the whole truth be known and let
the business of the government pro
ceed normally and constitutionally.
It is most unfortunate that those who
are illegally and unconstitutionally
trying to run the government should
have put themselves in their present
position.
REPUBLICANS TO MEET
Chairman Brownlow Jackson has
called a meeting of Republicans of
the 10th district to assemble at the
Langren hotel in Asheville next Tues
day for a conference with a personal
representative of Will H. Hays,
chairman of the Republican national
committee. Each county in the dis
trict is urged to have representatives
at this meeting, as matter involving
the interests 'of the party generally,
and particularly in this section of
North Carolina, are to receive the
attention of the meeting.
YOUNG MR. SLAT
We are introducing to our readers
this a week a youngster whom we
have named "Slat." He is a real boy,
made of the genuine boy stuff that
will awaken interest in any intelli
gent reader.
"Slat" keeps a careful diary, jots
down the day's happenings and
records them in his memorandum;
His outgoing and incomings, his up
risings andsdpWn sittings, fully, de
scribed, mil appear each week in this
paper for the -benefit of the younger
set of our jeaders. Don't fail to read
"Slat." ti
It ''M.. .. ii!
TIMETO BE TURNED BACK
Don't forget to' turn the .hands, of
your ; ciockback6ne hour ief "Siint
day. Octobef 26V !
LEAGUE FIGHT
TO END SOON
The latest news from Washington
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uuiww uujuummem. ui
Coneress rlv in November in order
that the special session may not
. i , -
merge into the regular one, which
convenes on the first Monday in De
cember . News from the nation's
capital aiso indicates that ratification
of the league pact and peace .treaty,
in some form, will occur before the
present session is adjourned.
A wearied house, whose members
profess to be tired of talking at and
about one another, has sent its lead
ers over to see the Senate with a
view to arranging for adjournment
about November 10. Of course, the
Senate with its league debates, holds
the key to the situation, but the Low
er House thinks there is strong
hopes of a gradual wearing down of
the Senate's vocal cords to the ex-
tent that an adjournment can be had '
between November 10 and 15
i
It is also pointed out, in this con-
nect.on, by trained and cynical ob-jority. The league of nations was
servers in Washington, that not even;the issue involved in the campaign.
a peace treaty adjoined to a league I . Senator Poindexter. R-nnhlimn.
of nations pact, is likely to produce a 'introduced a resolution asking for a
merger of two sessions of Congress, j report from the Department of Just
Whether or not one is prone tojice as to its alleged failure to report
' cuss Congress," he may not overlook . foreign agitators.
the fact that members of our national j Because of the President's illness,
law-making body are entitled to, orjthe Senate forejgn reiations commit.
at least allowed to draw certain al-jtee postponed action on various reso
lowances for mileage twenty cents j lutions asking for informati(m regard
per m.le ecah way for members go-. ;ng treaty negotiations at Paris,
ing to and returning from their. , ,
, . . . , , ' Farmer s Conference Proposed
homes, if we are not mistaken, and
we do not think we are ' Representative Dickenson, Repub-
It is pointed out that there ought ' ,ican- of Iowa introduced a resolu
to be a respectable lapse of time be- ,tion. requesting the President to call
tween the adjournment of one ses- a conference between agriculture and
sion and the convening of another, ' eaPital- Hfi claimed that the f armers
else these emoluments of the old,Sre hV no means adequate!- repre-
stage coach days shall be lost to our;sented ln the Present industrial con-
rnational law makers Thera'"3.
both from, the, standpoint of weari
ness and Mileage allowances Congress
is mighty, apt to adjourn before De
cember. Senate in High' Gear
During the past week or two the
Senate has manifested a slight, dis-
position to go into high gear in its ' dePressed the Price of cotton,
consideration of the leacue pact. All Representative Ballenger. of Mas
amendments save one, to the text of j 'nusetts, introduced a bill to place
the treaty nroner. have nlrenrfv been ' !in embargo on sugar exports.
voted on. The remaining amend
ment is that of Senator Hiram John-
son of California, proposing to give
the onited States an equal vote with
G.eat Britain in the assembly of the
league of nations. The vote on this
is likely to be taken sometime today,
and indications are that it will be
close, with the possibility of its defeat
by two to four votes . i The Baraca-Philathea convention
With the amendments out of the will convene at Fruitland Sunday, No
way the Senate must then take up j vember 2nd in an all-day session.
the reservations. A number of Sen
ators who have balked at the actual
amendment of the treaty which
would require its resubmission to all
the signatories are willing and anx
ious, so they say, to vote for reserva
tions and interpretations in sufficient
number to Americanize the league
pact.
Ratification of the league proposi
tion without reservations and inter
pretations is apparently an impossi-
bility. Even administration leaders
like Hitchcock, ranking Democrat of
the foreign relations committee, have,
it appears, come around to the situa
tion as it exists, and the problem now
is, will the President veto the adopt -
ing resolution containing such reser -
vations and interpretations as a ma- Service will hold an important meet
jority of Senators say must be incor-1 ing on Thursday afternoon at 4 :30
porated therein if the league pact is
to be adopted in any form.
Acceptable Reservations
It seems to have leaked out that!
reservations not too radical will
eventually be accepted by President
Wilson, notwithstanding the fact that
he has intimated strongly all along
that nothing would be acceptable to
him except the draft of the league
pact as he handed it to the Senate.
1" Stranger things have hapened than
a get together of both Democrats and
Republicans on such reservations and
interpretations as will satisfy all
hands, and such as will protect Amer
ican rights and obligations under the
treaty, and retain for this nation its
sovereignty and bdividuality.'iuid
that practically a" unanimous vote on
tat adopting resolution, may be had.
Doings in Congrett
For .maj'or performances in Con
grert , during the past "week, there ap
pears' to have Twen a dearth. , Chief
1 interest centered,. around the .Shan
tung amendment to the league pact.
This amendment-. nrnnnco1 n crra ia
.
Shantung province back to China,
rather than to Japan as provided in
the treaty. This amendment was de-
bite bxcabjr. aiuo aiiiciiumcilb was uc
feated although a number of gen.
ators who voted against the amend
ment announced they were unalter
ably to the settlement, but would not
risk doing a thing which would send
the treaty back to conference.
The House military committee
favorably reported a bill traufsfering
to the Department of Agriculture,
motor vehicles owned by the War
Department and suitable for distribu
tion among the states for road con
struction work.
After a hotly contested election,
L. B. Rainey, Democrat, was sworn
in as a member of the House to suc
ceed the late Representative, John
Burnett, of Alabama. Rainey defeat-
d his Republican opponent in the
ai0uq,0 j;cff .i,,-i. ; n
iiHkfMiua uwii iv t w xi ivu 10 many
Democratic bv 4.000. bv onlv 403 m.
ference.
Both Senate and House passed a
bill directing an additional survey of
ootton production not later than No
vember 2. This was in response to
the contention of cotton growers that
the department of agriculture's lat
est estimates were too high and had
The- prohibition enforcement bill
was signed by the presiding officers
in both Houses and sent at once to
the White House for the approval of
the President.
BARACA-PHILATHEA CON
VENTION TO MEET
Mrs. N. Buckner of Asheville,
Claude Sales of Fletcher, and other
speakers are expected to address the
convention. All classes in the county
are requested to be present as a whole
or send delegates.
BOOKS FOR LIBRARY
Mrs. W. C. Powell, of Jacksonville,
Fla., who has a summer home here
on Fourth avenue West, has presented
: the Library with a nice XO-volume set
of books, entitled,
of America."
'Wit and Humor
WOMAN'S LEAGUE MEETING
1
i The National League for Woman's
j o'clock, October 30th, at the mayor's
i office. The presence of each member
' is earnestly requested.
MRS. R. P. FREEZE, Chairman.
MISS SARGENT ENTERTAINS
Miss Clara Sargent gave a 6 o'clock
dinner Sunday afternoon at her home
in Laurel. Park in honor of her guests,
Dr. McPheeters of Charlotte, and
Miss Julia Selden of Spartanburg.
SPECIAL AUTO SCHEDULE
The Asheville-Interurban Company
has arranged a special schedule for.)
Saturday, October 25, for the accom- .
modation of those wishing' to attend
Ringlind Brothers Circus in Asheville
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on WW unjr. iftj
A Hendersonville man thinks rent
could be reduced by the use of tent
In this he is in error; the t price o4
tents Would at once eo ud. 1 .
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