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Hickory r- . Daily OIRJD . n. no. m VOL T w FINE HICKORY, N. C, TUESDAY EVENING APDIL 24, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS CONCRETE BRIDGE PLANNED FOR HORSEFORD Catawba and Caldwell Commissioners Award Contract for $38,000 Structure Between Hickory and Lenoir Other Bridges to be Provided for at Once. . ..-I Hridire is to be of 1IW ,Vw(,l high ami dry, ana co!riu: !:rvimatoly $:1S,01)U. The iU CT awarded Monday night KiMuarth Company of Char wt' ;,.i:!t meeting of the Ca- low ,-,, I ai County commis- u in the ivonu of the Chamber 'mmmJtvi. an.l the plans will be ap oon.lT . ... affo hiirhwnv com- of Lhe two boards fol ic nn a l dav session prov mislon- . The act 11 ,oWSa Vl. . r.wra'g, Worry r l n i. iv : vuvl'u Catawba and Alexan- Sll wks ajrrctnl on at a joint meeting nt the two warns miumnu . were W L. Craven and J. W. the Carolina J.. lV, .1 j:lti tu conie 'ahead with the plans. ? brul.i-w.il cost at least j!5.00U, ia believed, and will be a high wat er affair. . . -if....cit-,' with the commissioners of the three counties lUte bridge engineer, rui.ih.tf .iieer for nd North-V-tern. who gave the board the z'ndU vi their experience in construction. . The Regatta company submitted plans of its own for a high all-con-enrte bridge and this must be ap proved by the state highway commis sion. It will he one of the handsom eit bridges in the state, but it it will be erected with tnai enti in view GERMAN KAISER IS ASKED TO RES GN durability and servicealibity being! ing that the general (Uy Associated Press) Rome, via Paris, April 24 An In fluential local newspaper declares thav it was able to confirm reports pub lished in the Spanish newspapers that the immediate followers of the German emperor are exerting pres sure on him to abdicate. The pa per states that at a council of the Ho henzollern family one member older that the rest is said to have advised the emperor to resign. The German monarch is reported to have tourned pale and after observ- opinion was FRENCH COURAGE INSPIRING ASPECT PRESIDENT'S PLAN CLARK OPPOSES BR00KF0RD HAS BRITISH AND GERMANS ! IN TERRIFIC STRUGGLE (By the Associated Press) Washington, April 24. Speaker Clark opposed the selective draft and (By the Associated Press) Paris, April 24 The courage, the, joyousness of France, has been the as-' Dect of t.!iA Jesse Benedict Carter, director - of Predicted it never would pass congress the American Academy at Rome, who 'today in receiving a delegation from has been visiting provincial univer- the National Security League. Several Hyde fJfuSSo! leCtUTeV fr the hundred petitions bearing a million '.Nowhere3 have I found any lack n"mes askin congress to adopt the of courage, and lack of joy, and lack 'administration measure were laid be of willingness to work for victory," i fore the speaker. said Mr. Carter. "The joyousness "Conscription never will pass, in of France in this moment ot crisis is . . , itr . , ... not the superficial thoughtlessness of m Pmin he said, 'I am for letting those who are afraid to think. It ,!-the flower of youthr in this country the halm happiness of those who volunteer before we fasten the dis cannot fail and who know that they'grace of draft upon thm. The war cannot tail because they are seeking . . j i. after those t.hinM whi,h nr f department is jumping around trying ------C W WA M u AAVS W V With an audience filling the large hall," and with inspiring music led by i select class of singers and with; peakers in their lines, the mass meet-! ing at Brookf ord Monday night was ; decided success. j Mr. Mask in his address declared that while he had been in the county two years and had addressed the far (By Associated Press.j .While continuing to deliver haiu blows upon the German lines in the mers in different parts of the county, Scarpe river region east; of Arras this was the first time he had ever .i . . . , been invited to speak to an audience ; VVIieie . Lueir 1SiV was resumed of mill people. He appreciated the yesterday, the British have pushed opportunity, and while speaking to home a telling thrust in another sec farmers he urged them to raise a 4km of the great battlefield. crop to maice more money; ne spoKei AT ill 1 1 . ! io vne mm people to urge mem to to bulldoze people in passing this bill and I don't think they will do it." INSURRECTION IS FE AD the ends sought. against him left the room muttering: fatawba county will spend about We gnau gee 1100.WK) in bridge construction this: . IJmmer and it m hoped that the The same evening he assembled an itructures erected will be here when1 other family council. The chancell the grand children of people living) or and some of the ministers were today are tlittinr over the land in pregent but what occurred has not fatawba commissioriers will meet leaked out. the Iredell hoard at Statesville to-; iLittke importance is attached to liiht for the purpose of considering! this story in Italian political quar the Isnalil Ford ami Buffalo Shoals ters In these quartera it is thought bridces between ( atawba and Iredell . , j counties. It wa. expected that the;the story has a German origin and substructure work on the Buffalo was designed to create deversion. Shoals bridge would be awarded to-! . niffht I Judge W. B. Councill and Alderman Alexander county is to receive-Fd A. AWnothv W-p rmrvWpd - - x Oakland Six automobiles from the the earth and must therefore contin ae for that very reason because, with out them, the earth would become a madhouse.. The greatest things are always simple and the French today are simple as Abraham Lincoln was in our civil war. I "There is no hatred even for the Germans, there is instinctive abhor ence, but no wasting of words over symptoms and acts which belong in the realm of pathological psychol ogy. Common decency draws a veil over these things and leaves them to; the physician who at the end will) doubtless write the verdict and give- nis iuii skill to drawing up 'the post-! mortem; meantime it is day and we must work in the day while our trength and our courage is with u... 1 Ut course there is a natural ob jectivity about any people engaged in a great work. They forget them selves in the enormous importance of wnat tnev are dome-. This i t..- -. 0 i it i il . . ture s anaesthetic. pons tnat tne uermans ra souuiern 'In a small village I was in the 'Iiraz: Dfti States are iCQncjenitrating mayor's office looking at the no- jn Catharina. It is believed' a Ger- WILSON Striking south of the Peronne-Cam raise vegetables to reduce the cost of Drai road' General Haig's forces gam- about route. lvmg. Mr. Mask pointed out many Rd ground last night on a wide ways by which these people with lim- front. Of greatest moment, how ited time and limited space could doLvpr wns fh( eiloco nf a much to relieve the present situation! -- -- -"- of food shortage. It was a most help-, reacmn tne waterway between St. ful talk. Quentin, the St. Quentin canal. The iMiss Mary Rowe, head of the girl's canal was cut at EDehv. canning clubs in the county, empha-; Pua- fliOTI, t.h Pmmp..,m.. sized the necessity of economy and , . . urged the canning of all fruits and brai railway further north General vegetables so that nothing be wast- Haig's troops captured two villages ed. (Her statement that it took which places them within a bare three more brains to save than to make maes Gf Marcoing, another important 111,000 from tie lenlenT govx-rn ment for bndes and Catawba and Caldwell $5,001) each. lAbernethy Hardware Company. Standard Oil Company is Responsible for High Gasoline, Board Reports (By th Aasociated Press) I zing common ownership would fix up- Washinirtnn. nril ''I nnminirii.. n such common owners the responsi- of the gasoline industry by Standard i bilify fo.?e acts of ea-ch oJh sev' ' ' u.Buumu suhsidflrv fomnanies which nre- Oil interest.-!, tho federal trade com-; Vent competition. mission reported to the senate today begregation of ownership of pipe has largely been responsible for high!lines from .the other branches of the fasoline prices of the last two years. The report declares interlocking stock ownership prevents any real competition among the various Stan ird Oil Companies and the commis sion recommends legislation to permit re-opening of the oil trust case to ob-1 declared to be: tices on the walls. I observer! two sheets of paper containing the various nations of a young man who hau been mentioned in September. 1914. and several times thereafter, receiving the Croix de Guerre and finally uymg heroically m October, 1916. I said to the mayor: '"What a beautiful areer: Did you know this boy?" The answer came perfectly calmly,' accomplished by a smile of deep ap-, preciation: "He was my son. He was a brave boy, and only twenty." l he mayor smiled very thouerhtf ullv as he said these last words and turned back to his business which happened to be the collecting of dog of Winston-Salem, Thurman M, taxes, but I did the weeping for him Gregory of Shiloh and James P. Giz petroleum industry. Congressional enactment to fix stan dards for gasoline Federal collection and publication of accurate statistics and information concerning the industry. Conditions in the gasoline industry as uncovered by the investigation are supremt, tain modification of the four, s dissolution decree. No conclusive evidence was found, it is stated, that collusion exists am on the Standard companies in viola tion of the dwree, but the commiss ion's finding have been transmitted to the attorney general. 'Prices arc declared to have been raised arbitrarily, although natural Gasoline marketing is divided into eleven territorial divisions art; least nine of which are said to be under Standard Oil domination. Stockholders of the Standard com panies to a great degree are the same individuals or interests, with more than half of the stock of the various companies in their hands Leading officers of the Standard companies hold considerable stock in two or more companies in "I,: iron0unCe ipncemore than g. cenfc of thJ inequalities were found in different !jne output in 1915, sold about sixty. pirts or the country. five per cent of the total marketed The principal findings of the com-'and held more than seventy per cent mission nr. i of gasoline stocks TW . i .. . ''Correspjondence of the different .1 '- nun iwmiik luri auriei tne standard companies are domin nt, " 'o marKCting territories np;s in ig1fi with Standard market- i - - ing territories " says the report, "it That thr. t i i i lselt Vmt3 to arbitrary price nxing i iLiti tin i i iiiiii 1 1; ft i ij riMf i a l nmtamed a distribution of territory m marketing gasoline, and that no sub 'tantial comtietition a,, if r,. e arbitrary character of the in equalities in prices is conclusively de monstrated by the fact that as be tween most of the territories there StanTrdl U- xist'! umonK the,were no such differences in demand That l "panies- Und supply and the margin between j..a "''-nei: oi compctuion is ship. a community of stock owner- w'hich could not except under conditions That the facts disclose evidences " prices of gasonline and difference in u-VJ n"V"rUnK to Standard mar r"" r':rntories, That the combination of pipe lines h other branches of the industry IS n A " 'tablish and perpetu monopoly. nt 1 t'r,! ' no conclusive evidence Danii. amonf lhe Standard com vm" m violation of the risolutior. diyree, rnear''0" recommended these dltionv' as r"'t'-ssary t0 remedy con- of'Vfi I,rovi,lirJ? for the re-opening cost and price was widely different in the different territories." Wholesale gasoline price rose be tween 75 and 85 per cent in 1915 says the report. Detail prices kept close behind them. The part in creased demand and scarcity of the product played in the increase shown in figures giving the increase in demand 38 per cent in 1915 and the production seven per cent below the year before. The Standard books show large earnings, says the report, and also was evidenced by the en hanced stock market value of Stan dard securities. , plause. Miss Rowe refered to the arge amount of fruit that is wast- d each year in Catawb county. Miss Rowe has some seventy-five girls en- isted in her clubs. Mr. Oliver's addess on the "Old Hen" was uniue, entertaining and in- (Uy Associated Press.) Rio Janeiro, April 24. -Telegrams received here from Parana confirms re man insurrection in the south is immi-ent. MORE COLLEGE BOYS JOIN REGULAR ARMY (By the Associated Press) Raleigh, April 24. fft.. P. Connoly, structive. " He pointed out clearly positions against the desperate coun- how the mill people having only lim- ter attacks the Germans are mak- ited space may make the raising of ; 4.u chickens a profitable investment. , " . his address should be heard by ev- tms Pomt Dut nave made ad- ery one who attempts to raise a ditional progress at Monchy lePreux. chicken. His talk was well receiv- .Along the Aisne and in the Chained. spirit of earnestness prevailed , , Xi, , , . the entire meeting and that spirit was 111 uie reai oaiue Dy seeping up close akin to true patriotism. ;a heavy artillery fire while prepar- Mir. H. J. Hplbrook is much inter- mg for the next infantrv move. In- ested and will lend all the aid possi- cidentally in local engagements the ble and with the lots, manure and ,1 . ... teams furnished, Brookf ord will take French improved their positions, its place among . the communities In Mesopotamia the British ar which are doing much to improve the continuing their victorious progress condition of the people HIGH POINT FACTORY DESTROYED BY FIRE v?S wo"dered as 1 Iookfd ?ut on th zard of Rosemary, Halifax county, of the A. and E. College, ittlo "vr ill o era. ennara en Vio-f Via nrTilil not see me wiDiner rav eves. how &l'uuc"1 anyone could doubt for a moment and Vernon A. Galluppe have apph that those who had conquered them- ed to the array recruiting station selves as these people have could fail here for enlistment; in the aviation iu conquer muse wno nau lost an self-control." NEWSPAPER MEN ANNA L SESSI ON (By Associated Press) iNew York, April 24. Editors, pub ishers and advertisers from all parts of the United States and Canada are section of the signal corps. Roy M. Giles of Marion, brother of D. F. Giles, superintendent of pub lic instruction of Wake county, a ju nior at Trinity, and known as one of the finest athletes in the state, has enlisted in the cavalry. The recruiting officer has been noti fied that the four negro regiments have been recruited to the maximum and that no more negroes will be ac cepted for the present. ANOHHER JOINS (By Aso"4 FrM.) Durham. N. C April 24. John H here for the annual convention of the Small, Jr., and son of Representative Associated rTess and the American John H. Small, left here todav en Newspaper Publishers' Association. ! route for Washington, where Ke in The members of the Associated , tends to enlist in the army. Press met this morning and the open ing session oi tne American iNews paper Publishers' Association will be held tomorrow. One of the most important questions for discussion is that of the war cen sorship. George Creel, chairman of the government's censorship commit tee, has addressed a letter to the edi tors urging their cooperation, lhe paper situation also will be discussed. (By the Associated Press) Birmingham, Ala., April 24 An explosion occurred in the Aetna Ex plosive company here today. The ex tent of the damage is not known. The explosion was accidental. HICKORY MOTORISTS M CONSIDERATE MARKETS COTTON FUTURES (Bt AasociaUd Pres.) New York, April 24 There seem pd t.n be a eood many May contracts for sale on the cotton market today and after opening: barely steady at a decline of two to nine points, active WA4-V.f r- 1 rl o Vinn 4- nine f r 1 fi Tinmts and as a result the dust has not been . lower but the market steadied such a nuisance "F"1" shortlv after the call on covering. Juiy coming from all sections ot the city and later deliveries rallied to about and it is hoped by everybody, many j t niffhts closing figures, but May Residents living on Ninth avenue re nnrt that, anhomobilists have been more consiueraie in uie last xcw uayo ordi- and ; was slow to respond. The close was asy. cases on the application Kvie; f,TTy ?t'neral by a bil1 to such r, Purpose of obtaining UI the Attn mi ; - "i",;iltlons ot decrees aa are iWui ?" n,'w crlitions. eorr: stoc'K ownership in com ""I. r!'rmcrly members of Sh,;. - ,ns lwolvcd under the ,," law. own"0?'"''' Iilnitation3 of common Bn8h,p of stock in Potentiallv com. Dowi.?nwrat.ions by withdrawing n Zirl r. l voting and control. uuion, which while recogni- motorists included, that the ntiTirPo in recarfl to mufflers ..M.muh. ' " ( . ..... 1 I speeders will be ooeyea. !.M&v -- 19.60 IMayor D. M. Cline ot Granite Fans Ju" 19.17 announces in the Record today that October"." 18.16 the town ordinances and state laws December 18 18 in regard to speeding will be en-;Januarv 18.22 v IOrCcU III Lllat wwil auu m 10 nyu that everybody will be considerate. (If there was any need to speed f MAii rvVi Ua tnumc and if t.TlprP WS on.r naaA in rnn witn tVip miiffiers wide Cotton iy7a . i . l a v. . . ' - - , rn nnen. the authorities here and else- Good clean wheat $d.UU where would not raise any obejetions, ' 19.62 19.47 18.47 18.56 18.55 HICKORY MARKETS but there is not. CHILD'S DECLARATION OF RIGHTS Every child has the right to belong to the aristocracy of health and in telligence; to be born with a good mind and a sound body. (Every child has the right to be loved. To have his individuality re spected; to be trained wisely in body, mind and soul. To be protected from disease from evil influence, and evil persons, and have a fair chance in life. Every child has the right to be surrounded by that environment in which he may develop to the fullest his abilities and his talents. The child is the asset of the state He owes the state nothing LENOIR-OAK RIDGE T CHICAGO WHEAT ENLISTED IN CAUSE Issue of Bitterest Battle of Present Offensive Still in Doubt With Teutons Clinging to New Line Militarists Apparently Suppress Strikers in Germany. ranks. It is too early to say whether these stern measures have repressed the uprising. The only news from Austria in some days is to the effect that the Pan-German leaders have emerged as victors in the struggle for control of the government. This news is vague, however, and comes from a round 1-2 miles southwest of Cambrai. 1. iOn another area of the Arras bat tle front extending 12 miles frofh Croisilles to north of Gavrelle, the British have not only maintained the. SIGNS WA BOND BILL TODAY (By Associate! Press.; "Wbshington, April 24. President Wilson today signed the war bond bill authorizing the sale of $5,000, 000,000 bonds and $2,000,000,0oo in treasury certificates. AMERICAN AVIATOR KILLED IN FRANCE (By Associated Press.) Paris, April 24. CjorporaJ Ron ald Hoskier of South Orange, N. J., one of the stars of the American fly ing corps, has been killed in an aerial combat in the present offensive. (By Associated Press.) High Point, N. C, April 24 Fire of unknown origin at 10:30 o'clock this morning destroyed the plant of the High Point Safe and Table Company, causing a loss 01 $3u,uu. destroying the machinery several thousand dollars in machinery were burned. The plant was insured. MjETHODIST PHILATKEA CLASS up the Tigris valley. After fighting a hot battle with the Turks at Sa mara, 70 miles northwest of Bagdad, they occupied Samara, making impor tant captures, including 16 locomo tives and 224 railway trucks. The pursuit of the Turks is being continued northward on the Tigris. Sofia reports the repulse by the Bul garians of a British attack in Mace donia between the Vardar and Lake Doiran. i"What is apparently the bitterea.. fighting of the present Anglo-French Besides 1 011 tsnsive 1S rasms today along the Wiotan line, the hastily organized po sition east of Arras to which the Ger mans retired when the northern end of the Hindenburg line was turned by the British. The Germans are putting forth a ITALY MAY SEND MISSION TO STATES (By the Associated Press) (Rome, via Paris, April 24. It Is expected that the Duke of Abruzzi, cousin of King Victor Emanuel, will head an Italian mission to the Unit ed States. Wle had a most interesting class strong effort to hold this vital portion session Sunjday conducted by M:rsr) their line, the crumbling of which S. H. Farabee, who gave us many would expose JJouai and Cambrai ano helpful thoughts in connection with bring into prospect another great re the lesson. The attendance was treat splendid. Wfc were glad indeed to j na .. . , . , . . ... , iii' Ajiiuioii nave uiivcu lWU WCUKW have several visitors and to add to . . n - . . our roster, Mrs. A. H. Setzer. Misses mto the German lines, forming sharp WAR ARMY BILL TO PASS THIS WEEK Enroll Bolch and Myrtle Pence were r salients into the Ccarpe river and the presented with class pins for having j Cambrai-Laon road, been present the first four Sundays The head of the first salient has after joining the class. been thrust within four miles of Vi- Wle are anxious to have all who'. . . . . . . 1 1 1 v 1 . 1 LlAfi LUC UlVOb 11UUU1 tail U UUlIlLi UII tnc dial welcome awaits you. REPORTER. HG HLAND SCHOOL CLOSES THIS WEEK Wotan line, but the tenacity and pow er with which the Germans are fight ing leave the issue for the time in doubt. The battle is being waged with machine guns and field artillery ana the meagre reports indicate heavy losses on both sides, although tne British claim that their losses weio slight in comparison to the damage inflicted on the Germans. The closing exercises of Highland Tip sit,,atiOT, hphind th r,an graded school will take place on v - , , ... . Thursday night April 26, at 8 o'clock; hnes' frauht as 18 wlth mre tr and Friday morning April 27. mendous possibilities than those of On Thursday night two plays will any bttle, remains dubious and ui be given, "Gone Abroad," and "Not certain. The little news that trickles a Man m tne Mouse." inese piays -A;a. 1 r 11 I, 1 dtiuss 1,1m vjrci 111 a. 11 11 uutici iixuia itc have been carefully worked up and , , u . , we hope will prove a great success. that the authorities have gained the, On Friday morning at 10 o'clock Dr. upper hand over the strikers by mil J. L. Murphy of the Reformed church itarizinsr the munition workers and ii jj i win given an auuress xoiioweu imme- (By AssstietsJ Prcw.) Wlashington, April 24 'Passage of the war army bill was forecast upon the assembling of congress to day. General debate on the measure continued in both houses. A vote may be reached in the house Thursday and the senate Saturday. GERMAN SOBMARINE WA NOT CAPTURED diately by a short exercise by school. The committee extend to all a most hearty invitation, the whole exercise for both night and day be ing given free, so as to get the par ents and, teachers to meet together.; This closes Highland's tenth school year, and it also closed its largest! year in attendance. The parents are ; all pleased with the work done byj the teaching force, which is made up( of (Mr.) E. L. Carver, principal; Miss Elizabeth Keever, ass:tShnt princi pal, Miss Claura Powell and Miss Maude Eckard. forcing strikers into the military (By Associated Press)' Washington, April 24 Denial of reports that a German submarine had been captured by an American warship after being caught in a net at Newport News and was being talb en to New York was made today by Secretary Daniels. "The statement is entirely . without any basis of truth," the secretary said. ALWAYS PLEASING, BUT MORE SO WHEN LEADED Statesville Landmark. Here's hoping that the editorial page today is more pleasing to the eye of Editor Farabee of the Hickory Record. French Commission Safe on American Territory; Given Hearty Welcome GAME OMRROW fBr Associated Press.) Chicasro. April 24. Wheat valu es took a decided upward swing to day, influenced largely by unfavorable advices regarding foreign crops. Op ening prices with May at 2.31 1-2 to 2.32 and July at 1.98 to 1.98 3-4, were followed by sharp gains all around. !niinniim:sjiiiiimiiiim The last ball game of the season will be played at Lenoir College tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 between Lenoir and Oak Ridge. The instituters defeated the collegians at Oak Ridge several wrr.t.- int chariA For North Carolina. Fair tonight i?rSr" "r:. w Atb E and Wednesday. Colder Wednesday on the mound, to retrive that lost and m north portion tonight, game. The contest will start at 3:30. north winds. I THE WEATHER fresh SARAH BERNHARDT CONTINUES BETTER (By Associated Press.) Washington, April 24. (The French commission has safely landed in the United States. This official statement by American torpedo boat destroyers 1 '"The depatment of state is advised ! of the safe arrival of the French com mission." (By AsseeWkteA Preea.) The commission which includes Mar- New York, April 24. The outlook ' shal Joffre and former Premier Vi for the recovery of Sarah Bernhardt : yiani arrjvea eary this morning on pfcianSTtaS'j'.oard a steahip of the French Une '"There has been a steady improve-; which was convoyed across the At ment during the past 24 hours. The lantic. outlook is better than it was, although . The vesses were met off the coast and escorted to the coast. The naval and military attaches of the French embassy at Washington and American naval and military offi cial i, together with representative of the state department, immediately boarded the French vessels and gave the distinguished visitors a hearty welcome. Later the state department issued this further statement: "The department of state is ad vised that the French mission will reach Washington tomorrow morn ing. The precise time of their arrival I will be announced later,"
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