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HICKORY VOL H. NO. U7 Daily Re i nKMnMOM i liMMMBMiBMM b CORD HICKORY, N. C, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, Hli PRICE TWO CENTS KEEN INTEREST SHOWN IN SiTURGANIZATION Many Planned to Hear Mrs. Lingle Discuss Pur poses of Woman's Club Room in Body for Every Woman in Hickory To Elect Officers. DELAY DECISION ROTATION ON POOLROOMS BILLIS LITTLE F Mrs. T. W. Lingle of Davidson, prudent of the State Federation of Woman's Clubs, addressed the citi ;;t.fis of Ilukory at the Hub theatre this afternoon on the purposes and t,!.r.vts of local and state organiza tion, and told them why the move ment for the Woman's Club of Hiek i.ry should be fostered by every per non who had the interest of the com munity at heart. After the address it was planned to organize along the lmos outlined by the distinguished visitor Hickory people may take some pleasure in knowing that Mrs Lingle, who had just returned from Raleigh, found five invitations awaiting her at Davidson, but accepted that from this city. She appeared before hou3e und senate committees in the inter est of the enlargement of the powers of the state board of charities and corrections anil, aside from the sat isfaction in knowing that humanita rian interests were being given con sideration, Mrs. Lingle enjoyed her experience as a "lobbyist." Mrs. Lingle was familiar with locals conditions and aspirations, her timei since ocming here Thursday being i spent lareely in discussing thej needs of Hickory with persons whoj h.ivo its welfare at heart. She was the recipient of several social atten tions, the V-ist being the luncheon! this afternoon at 1 o'clock at the home of Mrs. K 0 Menzies Mrs. K. H Cline was chairman of the Meet ing this afternoon and Mrs. Lingle explained in a plepsine and. corvine inir manner the need and object of the Woman's Club. .First, it is an organization of wom en for the civic betterment of the city, its membership not being limit ed to any class of women, good char acter being the main qualification. It difleri from hte usua1 study clusb in these particulars: Jts membership is unlimited The meetings are held at a public place, such as the Chamber of Commerce, or a club house, instead of at the res idences of members It has active, honorary and sustaining members. These last are-men who donate reg ularly or make contributions to spec ial objects in which they are interest ed. The men don't vote. JThe membership is divided into de partments, usually consisting of civ ic, education, health and library. The civic department cooperates with j the mayor and council and city man-' ager, in the enforcement of ordinan-l ces, the awakening of public senti ment and the education of the com munity in betterment of conditions, such as parks, streets, and ;o on. 'The education department will co operate with the school authorities and will interest iself in the whole some development and operation of the schools. Teachers will fall in this department, which will suggest pro grams for graduating exercises, award prizes for the neatest white dresses made by the girls, lead in arbor dav rplphrn firms, and ontoi-fnin chautauqua and other educational j ieatures. The health department, considered fundamental, will make a general study of sanitary conditions, report on the conditions of streets, try to in-' calcate in the young the desire to remove all paper and rubbish from the streets, plan clean-up campaigns, and help in giving at least two days a year to cleaning up the town i The library department will aid in library extension, and in this case, as Mrs Lingle explained, devote all its energies for the year to getting that new library for Hickory. The finances of the whole club, the speak er said, should be focused on this one thing and insure its success. There will be committees of enter tainment, financ e and merbership and the press. .The officers will consist of president, two vice-presidents, secretary, recording secretary, treasurer and auditor. These of ficers with the chairmen of the de partments, compose the executive board. The organization will be lined up with the state federation ; and join the 8,000 women who arej interested in civic betterment. FEW DAYS After hearing evidence in the pool room cases from 8 o'clock until 11:15 city council reserved its decision un til next Tuesday night, and in the meantime City Attorney Murphy will fortify himself and the board with ail the law and supreme court decisions there are on the subject. The pool room owners, through their counsel, Messrs. Self and Bagfby; produced most of the law Thursday night. There was a large crowd present for the hearing, but there were few representative citizens present, it seemed. It was stated by several that gambling took place, that the game of keely wag played here, as it was played elsewhere, but that the su-' preme court has held that betting on a game of skill, under which pool falls, is not gambling. Members of council had difficulty in differentiating between the various 1 classes of betting or gambling, and ' they will ponder over the matter until the regular meeting night Tues- t day. ' PRESENTED BY HY M COLD WARNINGS N A SENT OUT (By Associated Press) (Washington, Feb. 2. iSevere cold today had overspread practically ail sections east of the Rocky mountains except central and southern Florida. Freezing temperatures will occur to night Unusually cold weather will con tinue tomorrow east of the Mississip pi except for slight moderation to morrow afternoon. Cold wave warn ings were issued for South Carolina, central and eastern North Carolina and southern Florida. Record's Special Legislative Report. Raleigh, Feb. 2. Speaker Murphy's introduction of a bill amending the constitution relative to rotation in of hce was the most important measure that went into the lower house this morning. The bill provides that the constitution shall be so changed as to allow no ofiicers except those in tne educational and legislative depart ments to hold o,nce for more than two terms. (County, officials are restricted to three successive terms. Speaker Murphy conferred with Governor Bick ett before the introduction of this measure. ,It is one of the inaugural recommendations of the governor The house recevied again today the Oates bill providing for the nomina ting of school board members in county primaries; also the Page bill providing for machinery for holding elections for school boards. Both had been reported unfavorably, but were lost in such a parliamentary tangle that they had to be reintro duced to come before the house. Beasley of Union introduced a reso lution appointing three representa tives and two senators to investigate prison conditions.. This rose out of charges made recently. Little resulted from this morning's session of the senate. A uniform warehouse receipt bill was passed and sent to the house; likewise an act amending the Cape eFar naviga tion laws. MERCURY FALLS 43 DEGREES 24 REPORT ED N BULLETINS (By Associated Press) I While developments from the new German naval campaign are pend-' ing military operations are on a small scale nd command only limited inter est. (Signs of probable important hap penings on the Franco-Belgian front are not lacking, however. The ar tillery and recoinnoitering activities are more pronounced hei'e. In the Somme region the artillery also is notably busy and raiding op-; erations of more than ordinary im portance are Indicated in official statements. In Rumania, Russia and on the Macedonian fronts there have beer comparatively few important happen-1 ings. G ANOTHER ANXIOUS DAY IS SPENT IN WASHINGTON Whole Country Awaits Action by President Wilson Suspense May Be Relieved by To nightPreparations Made to Protect American Interests Everywhere. LANSING SILENT ON SITUATION TODAY 1 HOURS Most Elementary Neutral Rights Are Swept Away The Springfield Republican con-! tains the following editorial on' "Germany's Plunge" and it is well worth the reading: Appealing solely to the unwritten law of self-preservation, and disdain-; ing further compromises of expedien-l cies, Germany puts in force this day a drastically sweeping order for un restricted submarine warfare against; the commerce of her enemies, within zones 20 nautical miles wide on the; coasts of Great Eontain, France and! Italy in the Atlantic, the North seaj and the Mediterranean. The avowed! effect is to annul all the submarine! pledges given to the United States i following the sinking of the Lusitania,! the Arabic, the Sussex and the An-j eonti; to expose even the regular pas senger liners sailing under the Amer- ioan flag like the St. Paul, to torpedo attack without warning unless they follow minutely German orders and touch only at the one Encrlish port I of Falmouth, carrying no contraband not oftener than once a week and car ry special markings day and night, which the German admiralty defines, for their protection. This means impossible conditions for the United States, and no Amer ican in his senses would consider for a moment acrmiescpncf" in Germnnv's action. It is a grave question wheth-l er President Wilson should not handj to the German embassador his pass-i ports immediately. Not before in this war has Germany gone to such extremes in the treatment of neutral' hipping. The Lusitania was not an! American ship, it was a British shin.i At no time hitherto has Germany as sorted the right to attack without no ti''" an American passenger liner nailing to any British port, located Within a SO-callprl vjar 7nn Nn I'-iral blockade of the British isles is proclaimed; no pretense of legality ' P'Jt forth in support of this final manifestation of maritime ruthless nss iOur neutral rights even in their most elementary form are "wept away at a stroke, on the sim ple plea that the war has now become wugirlo for simple existence. But oven this justification can have little moral force so long as the 'crman high seas, fleet remains in German harbors and does not go forth ' contest in a decisive battle for he mastery of the seas. The naval 1'ijtUe of Jutland last May was claim by the kaiser as a German vic-l(-ry; whatever may have been the went of . the triumph from the frman point of view, Germany's .'wn Pretensions to nnvnl ii.il ?fet Un forbid her casting '' U1" 'ast restraints of civiliza- u"n in her submarine operations, j or America, the most tremendous rl u . ,h0 war has now been oom1, Jn the Vlht of this devel opment, the events of the past two 3 ?r? Perftly clear. The Presu ent has forseen the crisis and avoi,l Te" "Afulinj? desperately to . " l- J" the interest of the Ameri- v;o. . 1 "i"?.. many of whom have per havn T !ntenreted his efforts and 1 wn! ne' t discredit his diplomacy, of thl C Aiden Lat time of the fall ine Asquith ministry in Great INVESTIGATE OTTON EXCHANG E Britain and the rise, of Premier Lloyd George to power that the war threat ened to enter a new phase in the. year 1917, under conditions of in creasing embarrassment and difficul ty for neutrals. Germany's original peace proposal in December was a distinct notifica tion to the world of Germany's pur pose to avail herself of all possible means of defense and offense, in case the proposal was rejected by her ene mies. The president rightly follow ed Germany's offer to enter a confer ence with an appeal to the two al liances to seek an understanding as to their war aims, for he was the recently elected chief magistrate of a people whose predominant desire had been shown at the ballot box to be for the maintenance of peace on the part of their own government. Secretary Lansing's unguarded state ment that the president's first peace note was due to the fact that this country was "rapidly drifting to ward 'the verge of war" is now seen beyond all dispute to have been a correct estimate of the situation. The president's extraordinary ad dress to the senate was his second great effort to promote peace, and if among his motives was that of sav ing the United States from possible participation in the war by giving a new turn to the popular thought and popular discussion in the bellig erent countries opening the door to further diplomatic exchanges ' he was not betraying his high obliga tions as an American president. The hope that, after extorting from the entente powers a farrly definite avowal of their war aims, he might exort from the central powers also an avowal equally definite, is now disannoinAed.. vet iM'r. Wfllson's el forts in that direction must now be accounted doubly fortunate. (In all respects, indeed the pres.' dent's labors in that direction must now be accounted doubly fortunate. Tn nil resnects. indeed, the presi- fa lahora for the nromotion of this memorable winter have been enormously to the moral advan tage of the United States. He nas proved to Germany no less than to the world that America's desire for peace was sincere; he has wholly pre vented Germany irom pointing mi in cusing finger toward America, at the moment unrestricted submarine war fare is proclaimed, as being direct ly or indirectly in league with the en emies of the central rfowers; and, finally, he has proved to all sections of the American people, however, pa cific in their temper they might be. that, come what may, their govern ment has exhausted its resources in the endeavor to presedve an honor able peace for the republic. (By Associated Press) 'New York, Feb. 2. Hearings by the leak investigating committee will be resumed in Washington tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, Chairman Hen ry announced today. George A Ellis of Hlutton and Company probably will be called to the stand. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Feb 2. The senate today passed the resolution of Sena tor Smith of South Carolina direct ing the attorney general .to investi gate buying and selling on the New York cotton exchange to determine whether these were in violation of the interstate commerce act FIRST LYCEUM COURSE IN HICKORY TONIGHT With a large number of season tick ets sold for the event, the appearance of Miss Jeannette Khng, well known reader, at the Hub tonight at 8:30 promises to be both enjoyable and profitable. The high school seniors have worked hard to place three ly- ceum attractions here and Miss Kling is the first number on the pro gram. The two others will come in the next two months. The theatre will be comfortable, as fire will be kept in the stove all afternoon. NEW WiAR LOAJf (By Associated Press) The Hague, Feb. 2. the new $50, 000,000 war loan of the Netherlands has been over-subscribed to the ex tent of seven millions. This is by no means so brilliant a showing as the two previous war loans of $110, 000,000 and $50 000,000 recently made, but only four per cent inter est was offered in the present case as compared with four and a half and five per cent in the two former instances. The price of the new loan was 97. MORE ROAD FUNDS AVAILABLE JULY 1 Raleigh, Feb. 2. The state high way commission held an adjourned meeting yesterday and made tenta tive arrangements looking fcjPrard the utilization of Federal aid funds for the next year. The portion to North Carolina has been officially certified to the state highwaiy cjommission by Secretary Houston, of the department of agri culture, and $228 763 of additional federal money will be available for road construction in North Carolina after July 1, 1917. Indications are that this will be largely oversub scribed by the various counties mak ing application for federal assistance in road work. It is apparent that the use of federal aid money will be a moans nf larerelv increasing the amount of road work done in the state in the next flew years. It is expected that more roads will be constructed in North Carolina dur ing 1917 than in any previous year. Six of the 12 cylinders of a new automobile engine can be cut off from operation when it is desired to econo mize fuel and full power is not ned-ed. A drop of 43 degrees in temper ature occurred in Hickory in the last 24 hours, the worse of it falling dur ing the nighitj, The weather ob server here, Prof. J. E. Barb, re ported 17 degrees above zero at 7:30 this morning, and this was a drop of 18 degrees since 6 o'clock last even ing. About njaon yesterday the temperature recorded 60 degrees above and at no time during the day was the mercury lower than 39; most of the time until late evening it was much higher. Accompanying the wave was a wind that had bristles on it. The air stirred to disadvantage late m the evening, but from then on dur ing the night and until the forenoon today, the keen wind cut right, left and otherwise. The rainfall during the last 24 hours was nearly an inch 72 of an inch, in fact but the ground was frozen as dry as a bone this morning. In the southwest Tuesday the mer cury registered 86 degrees above zero, against 72 degrees in Hickory, while near the Canadian line in the Rockies it was 20 below. That was a disparity of more than 100 degrees. rvnm MARKETS uti;nii;itit:m COTTON FUTURES (By Associated Press. New York, Fab. 2. While still very nervous and unsettled, the cotton market was much less active than yesterday and excitement was sub siding. The opening was steady at an advance of 15 points on March, and active months sold 54 points below last night's closing figures. There was good buying, however, and May rallied before the end of- the first hour. The market closed steady Open Close March 15.17 to 15.06 13 S& May 15.26 to 15.07 14.12 July 15.10 t 15,07 14 13 October 14.52 to 14.56 13.80 December 14.65 13.98 HICKORY MARKETS CotHon no qtyotations. Wheat -$1.75 CHICAGO WHEAT (Rv Assoeia-rt Press.) (Chicago, Feb. 2. After a cautious start the wheat market today, inllu enced by limited purchasing, scored a moderate advance After opening 1 1-4 decline to two cents advance with May at 1.63 and July at 1.42 to 1.42 1-2 were followed by a de cline nad then a moderate harden ing. - THE WEATHER For North Carolina: Fair and much colder tonight. Severe cold wave PYccnt in the extreme west portion Saturday continued cold; northwest gales on the coast, diminishing by Saturday. (By Associated Press) .Washington, Feb. 2 Secretary Lansing authorized the statement to day that so far no communicatijn had been sent to Germany. The secretary refused to say whether any instructions had been sent to Ambassador Gerard and de clined to make any statement for the public in regard to the delay in action by the United States Secretary Lansing said he was not prepared to say whether any action would be taken today. ANTI-JAPANESE BILL RECALLED IN OREGON (By Associated Press) Salem, Or., Feb. Oregon anti- alien land bill was withdrawn from .the legislature today by Senator Wilburn, Democrat, who withdraw it, he said, to preevnt embarrass ment to the president on account cf the German situation DECIDE NOT TO CLOSE NEW YORK EXCHANGE (By Associated Press.) ! Washington, Feb. 2. The Jiew sub marine crisis seems to have resolved itself into another day of waiting. Tonight or tomorrow the American people may know what course their government will pursue to combat the new German submarine menace. President Wfclson and the few who know his plans continued their sil ence today, but it was expected some thing would be announced after the cabinet meeting this afternon. On every hand officials are convinc ed that nothing less than a break in diplomatic relations will result, but whether that will be delayed there is no inkling As another day of tension began, opinion was about even as to wheth er any communication actually had been dispatched to Germany. There seemed to be no doubt that some communication had gone to Ambassa dor Gerard warning him of the step? the United States was about to take and to give him time to alleviate the hardships of American citizens in Germany. There are about 3,000 Americans in Germany, and efforts probably will be made to get them to Holland or some other neutral coun try. The German embassy continued its official silence, calmly prepared for the break Count von Bernstorff ?aidf privately he expects, but sepremely confident the German order will re sult in victory. -The entente embassies, fully ex pecting the United States to bieak with Germany, seemed to be confident that the new campaign of ruthless ness would be of little greater effect at this time on allied shipping, which they claim has been prosecuted re gardless of German pledges. A few more ships may be sunk, they think, but they expect the Brit ish navy to take care of shipping. Whatever measures are being tak en by the adminstration to prepare the country physically for a break with a first class power, which in history always has been followed by war, are being carried out secretly but expeditiously. It is specifically denied that any orders have been is sued to the coast guards, but there are evidences that the agencies of the government are ready to take any steps necessary in the event of a sev erence of relations. . ilt was generally expected tha,t some announcement would be made from the state department or white house tonight (The state department has made no reply to the telegrams from the in ternational Merchantile Marine ask ing for instructions for the movement of American ships. From the official refusal to affirm or denyor leny that any message had gone forward to Ambassador Gerard, impression grew that such a message had been sent, but it was thought at most a message to outline the first preliminary 'statement' of the American viewpoint without definitely committing the country to any course of action. It was pointed out to the oftc'als that the country was waiting ofr some statement or at least some in dication of the administration's atti tude. Officials declined to discuss the situation While yesterday it was said flatly no announcement would be m .cie that day, officials de fined to iake a simiia- statement it cay. N. W. Clark Is President Fair Association Other Officers For Next Event (By Associated Press.; New York, Feb. 2 The board of managers of the New York stock ex change at a special meeting decided that it was to the best interest of the trade not to close the exchange be cause of the international situation. The meeting was held as the conse quence of the action taken yester day at Augusta asking that all cotton exchanges be closed. CHILDREN'S TEETH (By Associated Press.) (Berlin, Feb. 2 Dr. Schaefer, a no ted school physician of the Pankow section of Berlin, who for years has made children's ailments, and par ticularly the condition of school chil dren's teeth, a specialty, announces has been a notable better ing of the dental condition of his hun dreds of patients since the war. He ascribes the remarkable drop m cas es to the more sensible toods now De ino" An ten. narticularlv the gradual omission of candy and sweet things from the daily bill oi tare oi toe mmi la ;A lessor decree of meat eating, and a greatly increased con sumption ol bread, due to me nguis of the war, are also factors. COLLECTOR HAS T AKEN OVER STEAMER (Bv Associated Press) iCharleston, S. C, Feb. 2 tCollec tor of the Port Peters today for mally took charge of the German freighter Liebenf els which was sunk in the harbor yesterday under con ditions leading marine men to believe she was scuttled. The vessel is lying ir 30 feet of water. The directors of the Catawba Fair Association mot at the Chamber of Commerce rooms and elected the fol lowing officers for the coming year: President N W Clark Vice-president John Mouser. Treasurer K. C. Menzies. Secretary Under consideration. President-elect Clark thanked the board for the mark of confidence and assured them that with the help of the directors and with the coopera tion of the farmers, business men and citizens in general, we should be able to pull of the best fair ever held in Hickory next fall. The most important work at pres ent, it was thought, v.is the prepa ration of the premium list, so that an early distribution would enable the farmers and others to prepare for competing for the various premiums awarded. The pvr-sident appointed as that committee the following: John Mauser (Ch,), H. P. Lutz and L. W Bollinger, with Miss Mary Rowe and R. L. Shuford as advisory members to confer with this com mittee. President Clark said he wanted this committee to get busy right away, so that they could report to the board of directors some time early in March. The president also stated that the association should aim to have a new building for manufacturers and fine arts exhibit, an extension of the race track so that it would be a standard half-mile track, nd a commodious grand stand. Mr J. D. Elliott stated that there was no reason why our fair grounds should not be the best equipped in the entire western part of the state, and that was what every one should pull for. The entire meeting showed the greateste nthusiasm and thisspirit is bound to show in good results. Artificial marble invented by a Bo hemian is said to closely resemble the rarest marbles and to be strong ed and less liable to injury than the genuine. A fibre mat has been invented that is intended to be clamped to an au tomobile running board to enable ri ders to cleans their shoes before en tering a car, Holland's prod'jJction of butter, which amounts to about 154,000 000 annually, is controlled by the gov ernment so as to practically insure its purity. Many Persons Are Burned In Gas Explosion and Fire In a Chicago Tenement (By Associated Press.; Chicago, Feb. 2. An estimate of 40 persons dead in a gas explosion and fire in the West Side early today may be materially reduced, as many hours later firemen were able to res cue three unconscious persons from the debris. Firemen, police and la oorors encourag d by th" indications that persons we:; alive, redoubled their efforts at rescue At 11 o'clock two women and two girls, unconscious, but with the spark of life remaining, were rescu ed and sent to the county hospital. A tenement of the house told the fire men he saw a neighbor at midnight moving through the basement with a lighted match, presumably in search of leaking gas. Seven different investigations were started todayv (By Associated Press) Chicago, Feb. 4. Forty persons are believed to be dead and as many injured as the result of a gas explo sion and fire that wrecked a tene ment building on Fourteenth place in tl'C heart cf the foreign district on the West Side ealj today jnjured persons .-nd resident-. !U d from their homes scantily clad, suf fered miserably in a temperature of 10 degrees below, and cold hampered the firemen. Burning gas from a main prevented search of the ruins and at daybreak only two bodies had been recovered. When firemen arrived they were able to rescue a few childre i who were dropped by thii parents from up vc windows Sme adul4s weresav ed in this way also. A group of rti'road switchmen are said to have l escued 15 child' en. The explosion is believed to have re sulted from the bursting of a gas main in the basement of a tenement. Water thrown on the blaze froze as fast as it reached the air.
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