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T ,x ' " ----- . - 'ill III. V " - I, ii- i . . . i HICKORY, N. C, WEDNESDAY EVENING NOV. 28, 1917 ALLIED WAR CONFERENCE SN PARIS PrGINS WORK PRICE TWO CENTS Rcprv -natives i . Principal Entente Belligerent Pr. -Opposition to Traitors Grows in K : . ia British Keep Up Progress Ital ians Repulse Austrians. s a fed Press of the allied pow ; mis for a conference, ... future course of war "..;. iliy will depend. The .-. r- have been joined by : tatives of the Uniteti iiriiain and Italy. (.:' ji'int action against ; aits will bo deter-c-inference, it is indi . future policy towards outlined. ..-,; bolsheviki npparcnt :; unable to extend theit Uussia except in the ::vct:uI and Moscow, their efforts towards , ( and separate peace uneed officially last '; Nheviki headquarters , :,atives of Ensign Kry- ! 'Isheviki commander in ;Mfd to the German I entered into negotia . .1-. ;:.t' worman military au 1; is reported that Ger- have entered Petrograd bolsheviki leaders. . are that the opposi- !!.sheviki is rapidly '."k'th. A conference of j '..' loaders at Russian; ; fur the purpose of i . ... . . i coalition government is NAVY RECRUITING PARTY IS IN TY 1 v.- .!"' " I','t.! 'A 'i I'.;.'. ; A u :. r General Kalendines, in control of the 'kk'in.ir territory in south- 'a. is growing in power. ; v (lilleers opposed to the i reiriiv.o, including offi- ; front, have joined Gen- nriri.h press towards Cam he west they encounter stubborn resistance. Gen nun, however, are mak against the strongly enemy, from whom more prisoners were captured, t..! i apparently by the los : ri - r I in their fruitless of hr ak the Italian line be iirenta and Piave valleys, 'Germans continue to hurl '"'.-I'M against the defenders of the Venetian The latest attempt was th. left wing along the valley. An entire division I in an attempt to break the '.-fenses. It attacked five r wi.-s formation, but was break the defense of the f a German threat that she .' a base in Denmark should rmit the allies to obtain a her territory is reported Mr. B. F. Best, Jr., chief electrician under command of Lieutenant Com mander John C. London, headquarters at Raleigh, arrived in Hickory today to spend three days here enlisting men for the navy. Mr. H. M. Belles, boats-main's mate, first class, is at Newton for three days. Mr. Best may be found at the post oflit'3. He will accept colored men for mess attendants at salaries that seem princely, considering that board, lodging and clothes are thrown in, and white men for sea men, firemen and electricians. A navy picture, said to be one of the best ever shown, will be present ed here by Mr. Best. It will be given at the Pastime Theatre, Man ager Miller running it along with his other good pictures. MAItllUtf) AT COJNCORD Concord, Nov. 28. Mr. David II. Blair and Mrs. J. B. Douglass were united in marriage here last even ing at the home of the bride's fath er, Mr. J. W. Cannon, and left im mediately for a wedding trip to New York. Mr. Blair is one of Winston Salem's prominent lawyers and both he and Mrs. Blair are well and fa vorably known throughout the state. By the Associated Press (Washington, Nov. 28.-President Wilson continues to work on his address for the opening of congress which will he delivered in person next Tuesday. As yet the address, is in a rough draft and probably will not be finished before delivery. It probably will not be ready to furnish newspapers in advance, as customarily. The capital today lay under a blanket of rapidly melting snow and slush and the president aban doned his usual round of golf to remain indoors writing the draft on his own typewriter. SIX DUTCH SAILORS DROWNED IN FORI By the Associated Press. Baltimore, Nov. 28. Six men. all members of three Dutch steamships lying at this port, were drowneo and nine were rescued earlv toda - when a launch carrying them to their ships capsized. All the drown ed men were Hollanders. DR. WOODS HUTCHISON AT T ADOIn TXT 11 " 1 Y WILSON IS BUSY SIXTY-THREE AH WOK ON MISSING IN SPEECH BOATS :estorfs i 3y the Associated Press. Washington, Nov. 28. (Sixty three men are missing in three un accounted for boats of the American steamer Actaeon reported yester day torpedoed by a German sub marine. The navy's official report says one boat with 20 survivorb landed at Finisterre yesterday and adds nothing more to published ac counts of the sinking. 0 CLOSE BOLSHEVIK! THANKSGIVING INSIDE mm ! DELEGAT GERMAN ES LINES Mr. C V.. Troutman. demonstrator for the Jewel ranges, is at J. W. .Snufcrd's rurnitare Store Friday T.d Fntnnlay coflfce and biscuits will be served, and the ladies are invited. THANKSGIVING AY AT BAPTIST G HURCH Bro. F. B. Hamrick, treasurer of the Thomasville orphanage, will deliver the address at the Baptist church tomorrow morninig at 10 o'clock. The Methodist brethren will wor ship with us. After the address a collection will be taken for the orphanages at Thomasville and VJinston-Salem. All loose change will be divided sqarely between these two institutions. The public is cor dially invited to attend. to behind the conference of the three Scandinavian kings in Christiania. I State and Defense Battle Hard in Trial of Gaston B. Means on Murder Charge 5t f. it I, T, "I ' i. ! thv. a : l , . 1 I Th Up' Uihn h'T. i. kit,.!, "if ociated Prwt i Nuv. 28. That the de i try to show that Mrs. . King might have met ''"' discharge of a pistol ac 'Iroppod was indicated to- 1 i' , examination of F. M. .-date's witness. Ritchie, " man, followed Dr. Ii. P. . a local physician, and 'n, an undertaker's as- " '!, stand. f: ( ian and Ritchie attest- 'vornan's death and testi ' rn. y saw no powder tli' back of the head. On ' initiation both testified 'r stains might have been '.v blood stains, '"id of having sold a small pistol and a rifle several '" the tragedy to Gaston Mrs. King's business who is on trial for her has brought experts ''i ttirort to prove the wo '! riot have accidentally shot "d in the examination of state defense had him ,r'l got him to admit that ';r,!'i''i hard enough" an auto- kill, i ' U' f the Pattorn tnat King would discharge. h "'ril1" u'lded however, that he hi!',. '" T h('anJ of such a thin? ..I1''" u There was much direc "fii ri.,t t,:,. i. i 111. .1 '.ill 1. .I Hithing Mrs. King wore on ,.t. ...... . . .. -ii" me; death was ae !y the defoiise frjm the. state and the former agreed to pro duce it. Through Dr. McFadden the state attempted to identify the clothing, i but he said he could only say that ' they looked like those Mrs. King wore at the time. I Dr. McFadycn also described the fneturcd ankle which it is contend ed Mrs. King received at about the i time of her death. It might have been caused by stepping on a root, ho said. Capt. W. S. Bingham of Concord described the trip taken in the late afternoon of Mrs. King's death. The latter, Gaston and Afton Means, Captain Bingham and Ernest Eury, a negro chauffeur, composed the party. Bingham said no others were in the party. Bingham said the chauffeur drove the car about 100 yards down the road. Bingham went down the road seeking to kill a rabbit and Afton r.lso went off a short distance. It was also brought out that Gaston Means had extended a general in vitation to several women of the Means family and Mrs. Melvin, sis ter of Mrs. King, but they had anoth er engagement. During an argument over Alton Mean's action', E. T; Cansler of counsel for the defense , declared he wanted to show what -?fton Means had dne because he said he thought the state would try to show that Afton Means was an accomplice. e C. W. Andrews, a hotel clerk of Salisbury, who preceded Bingham on the stand testified that G. B. Means and Mrs. M. C. King had reg istered at the hotel on the night of August 18. The defense had sought to show that Means and Mrs. King v.o disced a train connection there. i By the Associated Press. London, Nov. 28. The doctor has made this world struggle probably one of the least deadly ever fought in proportion to the numbers en gaged," said Dr. WJoods Hutchinson, an American in an address at the Royal Society of Medicine. "'The : doctor's control over wounds infections is so masterly," he added, "that of the wounded who survive six hours, 90 per cent recov er, of those who reach the field hospitals 95 per cent recover and of those who arrive at the base hos pital 95 per cent get well. '"The twin angels anaesthetics and antiseptics have not only enor mously diminished pain and agony but have made amputations rarer and grave cripplings fewer than ev er before in war history. Barely 5 per cent of the wounded are crip pled or permanently disabled. "From the statistics made public there is good reason to believe that the death rate of this year, in spite of colossal increase in instru ments and engines of scientific slaughter, does not much exceed 5 per cent. BRITISH CASUALTIES LESS THAN IN PRECEDING WEEK London, Nov. 28. British casual ties officially reported for the weeic ending yesterday aggregated) 30, 314. They were divided as fol lows : Killed or died of wounds Offi cers. 269; men, 5,947. Wounded or missing Officers, 896; men, 23.202. (HER FATHER DEAD Mrs. Tom Thompson of Hickory wired her husband Tuesday of the death in Portsmouth, Va., of the death of her father, Mr. B. H. Wjaugh, after an illness of 13 weeks. He was 49 years old. He is sur vived by his wife and two sons ana three daughters. Mrs. Thompson will return home Saturday, accom panied by her mother. OFFICERS AT HOME Hickory's new army officers, First Lieutenants C. C. Freeman, John G. H. Geitner and Earl N. Carr, all graduates of the Oglethorpe school, have arrived home to spend Thanks giving. They are receiving a warm welcome by relatives and friends. CLAMS WOMAN MENTALLY WRONG By he Associated Press. Mineola, N. Y., Nov. 28. What is expected to be a lengthy battle be tween medical experts over Mrs. 'Bianca DeSaulle's claim that her physical condition produced a lack of accountability when she shot her divorced hus'bfnd wras initiated to day in the young woman's trial on the charge of murder of her hus band. Dr. J. S. Wright, Mrs. . DeSaulle's physician since the tragedy, testi fied that th9 patient's condition was caused from the thyroid gland from an inadequate secretion ol this gland. Mrs. DeSaulle's attorneys claimed that the condition outlined by the physician produces a brain and nerve center condition which eve. t.;l'v ends in msntal infirmity. MR. SIGMON WRITES OF LIFE IN FRANCE The many friends of Mr O. M Sigmon, who sailed with the Rain bow Division for France some tim. ago will be glad to know that he has landed safely and is well and happy according to a letter receiveu this morning by his sister, Mrs. F. P. Abernethy. Mr. Sigmon stated that he enjoy ed the journey across very much and that he was scarcely seasick at all. While on board the ship Mr. Sigmon was promoted to mastei engineer, junior grade and while he was proud of the honor bestowed upon him he regrets to leave tht members of his staff to whom he had become attached. The other Hickory boys with Mr. Sigmon are all well. Mr. Sigmon asked to be remem bered to his many friends in Hick ory and gave the following address where mail will reach him. La. gineer Q. M. Sigmon, Headquarters Detachment, 117th Regiment h. gineers, 42 Division, American Ex peditionary Forces, France. OYIY O O MORE JUZ PAYS AJL TO SHOP 6- WILD PICKET GIRLS RELEASED FROM JAIL viy the Associated Press. Washington,, Nov. 28. All mili tants of the woman's party who remained in jail after yesterday's release of the hunger striking 22 were released today. This en tirely cleared the jail and woiT? house of the woman pickets sent to jail. COLD STORAGE LAW Chicago Tribune. The new state law requiring merchants to make food products that have been in cold storage, it appears, is producing an anomalous situation. Persons who have eaten cold storage products for years without knowing it (though possibly with suspicion) now object to them because they are labeled. lhe re sult is that fresh foods, eggs for instance, are rising in price to a phemomenal height, while those from storage are much cheaper than be- loite. Coal storage warehouses perform an important function, a function that is especially important when food is scarce. It is not the part of wisdom or economy to de ter to a prejudice that was inop erative when the source of food stuffs was uncertain. . NEW YORK COTTON By the Associated Press. New York. Nov. 28. The cotton market opened steady at a decline of five to 29 noints todav. with January and March selling off on reports of increased spot offerings in the house and pre-holiday realiz- ine Earlv offerings were absorbeu by Liverpool and the market firm ed up. The close was steady. Open Close December 32.20 30.14 January 29.25 29.34 March 28.71 28.88 May 28.50 28.58 July 28.41 28.40 HICKORY MARKETS Cntlnn 29 l-2c Wheat $2.40 In accordance wdth the annual custom, the stores of Hickory will be closed Thanksgiving Day and j little business will be transacted. The banks and other public places j will be closed also. I The Daily Record will not be a ! daily Thursday, the force taking the i day off. j There will be services at practi cally all the churches and attendants are urged to give liberally to the orphanages. At the Baptist church the Methodists aryd Baptists will hold a union service at 10 o'clock and envelopes will be there for the contribution. The loose change will be divided equally. PRESIDING ELOER ANNOUNCES DATES Rev. W. A. Newell, presiding el der of the Statesville district, an nounces his appointments as fol lows : For December Statesville, Broad Street, 11 a. m. Dec. 2. Catawba Ct. Catawba, 11 a. m. Dec. 8-9. Statesville, Race Street, night, Dec. 9. Statesville Cti, Bethlehem, 11 a. m., Dec. 15-16 . Stony Point Ct., Stony Point, night, Dec. 16-17. Hickory Ct., Bethel, 11 a. m., Dec. 22-23. Hickory, First church, night, Dec. 23. North Lenoir Ct., Harpers Chap el, 11 a. m., Dec. 29-30. Lenoir, Central, night, Dec. 29-30. For January Maiden, Ct., riendship, 11 a. m., Jan. 5-6. Newton, Newton, night, Jan. 6. Granite Falls, Granite Falls, 11 a. m., 12-13. ! Dudley Shoals, (irace (Jhapei, 6 p. m., Jan. 13. Rhodhiss, Rhodhiss, night, Jan. 16. Lenoir Ct., Littlejohns, 11 a. m., Jan. 19-20. So. Lenoir-Whitnell, South Le noir, night, January 20. Mt. Zion, Mt. Zion, 11 a. m., Jan. 26.27. Mooresville Ct., Fairview, 3 p. m., Jan. 26-27. Davidsori-Kuntersvillo, Davidson, night, Jan. 27. For February Olin Ct., Olin, 11 a. m., Feb. 2-3. Cool Springs, New Salem, 3 p. m., Feb. 3-4. Troutman Ct., Vanderburg, 11 a. M. Feb. 9-10 Mooresville;, Mooresville, night, Feb. 10-11. Alexander Ct., Taylorsville, 11 a. m., Feb. 16-17. Marvin, Marvin, 3 p". m., ieb. 17-18 The District stewards will please meet in Broad Street church States ville on Tuesday, December 18, at 10:30 a. m. The attendance oi everv district steward is desired. Let us make it a great occasion. GYPSIES AND BOOTBLACKS NOW CLASSED AS 1DLEKS Baltimore',' Nov. 28. The status n-f flmips nnrl bootblacks was established as idlers and they will come und)er the provisions oi me M-rvlanrl cnTnmilsorv work law. Following a conference between Po lice Marshal Carter and ueorge a. Mahone, director of the state work bureau, a number of Gypsies were rnnnrlrd ill). Thev declared they had work and stated that some weeks thev earned $500 as horse dealers and coppersmiths. ' The men were fined $5 apiece lor not navmg reg it.prpr) as idlers and Louis Mitcheu. their chief, was notified that all must leave the city immediately. iMagistrate Johannssen fined VV il ium r.nlp a riRP-ro. an emolovea liwiii C5 7 f bootblack for failing to report for work. He had been assigned to work on the state roads. The mag istrate said people should shine theu own shoes during this war. Representatives of Radicals in Hurry to Con clude Peace Conference Called For Decem ber 2 Allies-May Take Action Against This Gang Later. m WORK IS City council decided Tuesday night to lay Tenth avenue from Fed eral street east to Twelfth street with asphalt. A petition having been presented. This will give a permanent street from the Metho dist church to the B. L. Hine wholesale frait store. Residents of Eighth and Ninth avenues presented a petition asking that Ninth street which leads from Eighth avenue to Ninth avenue, be widened and improved, and a sur- kvey was ordered with the under standing that the work would be done: Maiy petitions have been presented for several years urging that this street be widened, as it is only wide enough to permit one ve hicle to pass at a time and has no sidewalks. It is not believed proper ty owners will offer serious ob jection to the much needed improv ement. A delegation! of colored citizens from south Hickory appeared before council and asked that Fourteenth street, about two blocks south of the postoffice, be improved. It is said that conditions are rather bad, and masked men occasionally give pedestrians a fright. iSergeant Roy Black, in charge of the local recruiting office, announced his readiness to begin drilling the cadets. By the Associated Press. Petrograd, Nov. 28. Represen tatives sent by Ensign Krylenko, the bolsheviki commander in chief, have been received in the German lines and have been informed by the German commanders of their read iness to agree to an armistice -on all fronts. The Germans have set December 2 for a conference for the negotia tion of an armistice. Ensign Krylenko sent three repre sentatives w-ith instructions to re quest the German commander of the sector in which the crossing was effected to inquire of the German commander whether it was agree able to him to have a conference at 8 o'clock to fix a time and place for a conference on an armistice. The Krylenko men crossed the German lines at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and wrere received by the German commander. A reply w'as promised at 8 o'clock. At the ap pointed time a delay was suggested. By the Associated Press. Petrograd, Tuesday, Nov 27. It is announced officially at Smonly in stitute, the headquarters of the bol sheviki, that representatives of En sign Krylenko, the Bolsheviki com mander in chief, have crossed to the German side and entered into nego tiations with the German military authorities. WILL SOON KNOW WHIPPLE IS SILENT By the Associated Press. Charlottesville, Va., Nov. 28. Prof. Leonidas Whipple, who was preparing today to leave the Uni versity of Virginia, after his dis missal yesterday from the chair of journialism, said he had ruo state ment to make, but said he had no present prospect of employment. The board of visitors removed Wlhipple from the University faculty because of his alleged disloyal utterances. y the Associated Press. Washington, Nov. 28. The Amer ican government and the allies as well will determine whether the bol sheviki are actually enemies as sOon as a conference between the Rus sian bolshviki and the Germans is held. The state department had no new advices whatever but was expecting some on which judgment may be formed. Meanwhile the United States gov ernment is receiving the benefits of what information the entente allies are receiving in Russia and the ac tion will be in conformity with a general agreement. Mr. J. C. Mcintosh of Denver and daughter, Miss Fannie Mcintosh of Morganton are guests over Thanksgiving of his son, Prof C. E. Mcintosh. esterri Republicans in Convention Here Adopt Some War Resolutions Resolutions pledging the support of the Western North Carolina As, sociation of Republican Clubs n. the prosecution of the war were adopted by the convention represent ing the clubs of the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth congressional dis- tricts in session in Hickory lues- day. IThe resolutions were maoff REGISTERED ME SUPPOSED TO KNOW LAW WEATHER FORECAST For Nonth Carolina: Cloudy to night and Thursday probably rain, warmer tonight in west portion, moderate winds, mostly southwest. COMPARATIVE WEATHER Nov. 27. r , Minimum . 1917 1916 8 53 By the Associated Pres. W&shingtori, Nov. 28. -All per sons subject to the selective service law, Provost Marshal Crowder an nounced today, are charged witjx knowing the law and accompanying regulations, and failure to comply will be regarded as a misdemeanor and punishable by a year's impris onment. General Crowder pointed out tha. all previous exemptions are revok ed. . On its part the local board is to do everything possible to acquaint registrants with their order of li ability. It is absolutely necessary that each registrant should know his liability number. The board is to mail registrants the duties they are required to - -:"orr.i. The fight, if there was any fight I over them, occurred in Mr. A. A. i Whitener's office, where the commit. tee worked for nearly three hours and kept the boys in the Hub Thea tre waiting a considerable time. The meeting did not draw af many prominent Republicans here as was expected, Senator Borah be ing detained at home and Messrs. Reynolds and Holton not being present, but there was a good sprinkling of leaders and the crowd in the theatre numbered 200 oi more. Among those here were for mer Senator Marion Butler o Washington, National Committee man, John M. Morehead of .Char lotte, Brownlow Jackson of Hender sonville, A. H. Price of Salisbury, C. B. Spicer of Jefferson, State Senator C. A. Jonas of Lincolnton, J. B. Parker, Smithfield, Thoma. Settle of Asheville and others. Mr. Kohloss presided over the af ternoon meeting. Mr. Parker was here from the east and said he drew inspiration from the gathering and promised to go back home and work. Mr. Settle made the principa. speech during the afternoon and hfe delivered one pz his characteristic addresses. He said the Democrats were false prophets jand: defied Democrats to show that they had not done exactly the opposite from what they said they would do. He didn't think much of the American people for keeping them in office. Mr. Settle took issue with those people who believe that Christian, ity and civilization had broken down. He believed that the worm would be better after its great struggle and he looked for a cleans ing of the spirit by reason of the sacrifices that free peoples are making in defense of their liberties. Mr. Settle rose to heights of ora tory, if not inspiration, in the course of his speech. Short addresses also were made by Mr. Jonas, Mr. A. A. Whitener, Mr. A. H. Price and others. Mr. Butler c?mc Ipst on the program, and he spoke after many in the au dience had left the hall. Not many 'JhM sfitf2;d Mr. (Butler and he stormed in his usual way. It was an open question as to whether he was given a frost in Hickory Tuesday. Certainly his part in the program was inconspic uous, though he made several mo tions and carried them all. But if he had any hope of storming the convention or of boosting his politi cal aspirations in North Carolina, he must have been disappointed. The resolutions were presented by Mr. Whitener and adopted un animously, the delegates rising They are as follows: iResolved. 1. The United States by the action of the constituted au thorities of our government is now at war, and the Western North Carolina Republican; Club Associa tion favors a most vigorous prose cution of the war to a speedy and successful termination. , Resolved: 2. That if the Democ caritic administration had promptly and firmly maintained and upheld American rights on the high seas, in Mexico, and throughout the world, our flag would have been re spected and thereby the country would have escaped the calamity of this war. Resolved: 3. That we deplore the inevitable loss of .American lives and property which confronts us, and we arraign,, as responsi ble therefore, a national policy which has lacked the wisdom of experience and the stability of pur pose, and , one, which, through specious premises and prolific phrase-making, has sought to disarm vigilance to defend our constitution al rights at home and the flag from menace from abroad. Resolved: 4. We believe in making the world "safe for democ racy;" we also believe in making "democracy safe for the world." Deeds, not words, should be the test. W3 believe in putting an end to the practices of the Southern democrat ic machines of stuffing ballot boxes and falsifying election returns. We believe in the liberty guaranteed by the constitution of our forefathers rather than some new and not yet defined liberty. iRosojlved: 5. That while our North Carolina soldier boys are do- ( Continued nage 41 V r r I
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