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v S ar M- M vol "HICKORY, N. C., MONDAY EVENING DEC. 17, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS m will be p:gned TODAY BoUhcvl kl anr1 .itral Powers Begin Peace Ne gotiatiuH More Lenient Attitude on Part 0f ) . jtente Auatro-Germans Continue Fighting for Italian Positions. . ,1 Press. . '-tifo agreement be :i government aiui rs gooa into effect Unlay, the omis- . ra! countries will - looking towards and her for Mvanwhilo it is in , r. that the allied ptvparinj; to deal vally with the bol- !!t. ! i twoon Russia and : is to continue for' an indefinite period ! KeVl ' l?-H'k Statesville. in . a seven day notice ' ht hiXS to Pastor J. C. Peery at -ulcs agree not to'?t- Andrews' church yesterday -y transfers on the movnirjr' reminded him that the except those bejrun I Worcl (lf r,0tl compressed and . is signed. . condensed for transportation, like cotton or medicine, and that his chief H u"lt Tth' was to preach that Word. BERLIN CLAIMS HELP . PROMISED REPULSE OF BK WEATHER BRITISH WORKS i " " - - ! 1 .. ress. .c. 17. Hiedier INSTALLATION OE . THE. REVJ.C. t PEER! recognition of the !er to prevent Rus or expand it tor the use hirers Vrn-m tlin Atct ... -. of his j: under the polit- , to Timothy as a basis, the preach i. . .i . 1 er unfolded verv rlenrlv thf rfnios , of an evangelical pastor m this age.' j Tie is to 'fulfill his ministry," is said to have de-'make full proof of it, always from! ....... . i i i I Tohitcherine. a Rus-:1"' wo a MSiS- ri.oner. and the bol-' ev; .Dr' Cr V Kin'3 .... T, . . .wountam. who charged the congre- w permitting British r,ti0n. must have been providenti- i.e Russia. To the ally d-'rectrd in his message, so ad- ifes at the Paris con- C'untcly was it adapted to the needs ,. be belong the cred- Vf thc! reticular congregation ad- , ., ... , dressed. His sermon was based on m-r.ng of the allied f ThejMf 5:12-13. His was a ser- i the bolsheviki yw, AMOC1 FrtM- By the Asso iiserun. via ijmHnn rv 1-7 i , . RritisK "CY: f' ; Washington, -c. 17.- ""i"5 u" Wie Italian Iront tpnmpratnwc -,,r -fA,,,,.. yesterday launched an attack' by the weather bureau: for the Ohio "ft"1"0" w;e Austro-uerman lines "i,cJ' Ulfc: lilK(:J region ana tne soutn south of Monte Secca, but it broke i i?antic states' beginhinjg tomor- down before the Teuton position,! ' I tne German war office announcprt ! T ' : todav 1 I su vii u A USUAU WEATIiEli - NEW YORK EXPECTS RELIEF VERY SOO By th Associated Preis. Washington, , Dec. 17. To keep coal production at n maximum, ruel Administrator 'Garfield is pre paring to appeal to operators and miners to forego the usual Christ mas and New Year's holidays. Every idle day costs the country nearly 2, 000 000 tons in fuel. Authority to shut down if necessary to supply householders with coal was granted by the federal fuel administrator for Michigan. 'Many Michigan cities are said to be almost out of coal. DISTRIBUTE i iv. on of love and peace, vet temper- ippear to be the wu.n tne tire ot tnth. As he GOODS TO HICKORY'S POOR c:r. ",V.'. Aii :!' ir losses have been V-j-tro-Germans contin PIT SP.'i . trip nistnr must. breach both Law and Gospel. and 'pare not the truth, even where it! -usr. reds give onense. A very "r.o parting word was addressed to hp sb.'dent body of the college. Yothing less than a stenographic report would do justice to both these fne discourses. The ten tams of canvassers from th jpn wont ovt in the afternoon -nl visited a large rnaioritv of the oines of the members Inthe inter est particularly of the finances for thfi C'Tning ya. Not quite all could seen, but the results al ready reported indicate that the to 'nl nrntv.mt will be raised when the rnd copip. Already 1h pledges have far exceeded the previous year, and tota; midget is an increase 01 ' I' 1 .A III VI lilVV i U 1 11113 i3VH.ll jous year. The evening service, as previou- !v announced was a strong service. ! 'ore the bolsheviki :-c:ally in the Petro The railway and are serious. The i. still more or less bolsheviki authority uirnt assembly 13 an- problem. The eonfis i.rnperty, land and Russian church has ' the bolsheviki, who hed all privileges of the short stretch be rta and Piave rivers " nn mirl'(i(l infnntrv f-,.. t, v,o,! M-e tota! budget is an II'. 'UW 11 uiii ciiv .iv.ui 1 n atic. attacks in an effort j Christmas theme was dominant, 1 Cr.r T , Italians northern de-h-ird fighting just east 1 the enemy has gain at the head of the valley, after two at- n repulsed. The in r t yet reached the efforts here and else Ijeen checked by the and this ronroepntori rhp nuh he spr vie? of this nature before the stu dents leave. The program was as follows: Processional 'Come Hither, Ye Faithful" Choir. iryrnn, "Silent Night." Choir. Script"rp Reading and Prayer Ffstor Peerv. Anthem. ''O Little Town of Beth lehem. Choir. v lo .Mrs. Morgan. I jrymn, "Park, the Herald An r'ops on the Cambrai "--Is Sing." -CTioir and congrega- ;.'ilsed raids by in- v, r,r V:rd:n Sdo Prof. Patterson. ' Partlcs on, th,f .ne; ITvmn. "It Came Upon the Mid th of Lens the British j nJirht Clear." Choir and congrega- positions. The ar-ftion. n more marked south Anthem. "B-thlehem." 'Choir. Solo .:r. ratters the Arras area. ignoi, north of the s Dames and south of German efforts have by the French, while urtillery activity has r a great part of the r. Quentin to Switzer- NOTICE Excfianv.- mU of the First Lib ,,'1r,y i' m Ready for Delivery s hoiaiag receipts ior i-.-ue Liberty Loan Bond3 f-ir exchange are re- pre':jent them at the il Rank as we have the r. -idy for delivery. T NATIONAL BANK 12 17 2t s- I'" ' 1' !,' new ov J' i rn. Solo and Ounrtet. Ruth Rudisill, r.rnee Kohn, Elida Lohr. Herbert Fri'7. and Jack Davis. Offertory. Presentation to Pastor Peery of a Lifj Membership in the Missionary Society, a gift of the local society. Report of the canvassing commit tee. Hymn, "Joy to the World" Choir and congregation. MUST DISCONTINUE COMBINAION SALES i CROSS DRIVE I UNDER WAY TODAY May rr.i.fy.i . r (up "I'iated Press. ' Dec. 17. When the '' 1 '.trnas campaign of the li'd Cross got under way predicted that . the ' nrt.ilment 'of , 5,000,000 "creased to 10,000,000 or -"iiO.OOO new recruits. ''"k'-Tjt in everv' oart of eoordinate'd their ef- ,; intense drive to swell the total to an unpreced "' nt before the 'Christmas Brndstreet.'s. When the shortage in sugar be came acute a short fime ago. num bers of retail grocers adopted the method of selling small quantities of sugar only in connection with the sale of other commodities. This method has now been forbidden by the food administration except where sugar is sold in connection with cornmeal. An order issued on Saturday prohibits all combina- t'tr.n enloc nf fnnil mmmodities with nnforl Thp sale of one or more food commodities upon condition that the purchaser shall 1,'i.f nrya mnro ntliPr food COm- modities from the seller is regard- rd as a combination sale witnin uie K.m-n. nf tVio orrlpr The food ad- II1. filling i. V , J m'nistration points out that combi-., nation sales frequently result in tne sale of more, foodstuffs than the particular purchaser would ordina rily buy. and they are therefore de termined to be wasteful practices within the meaning of section 4 of the food administration act of Au gust 10, last. As has been said, there is one exception to the ruling thus made. Pending further no tice and as a wheat conservation measure, dealers are allowed to sell sogar in combination with cornmeal, at the rate of one pouna 01 with two pounds of corn meal. JNo other combination will be permit ted, however, nor will any other ra i,,., v,o TviotitinTipd be allowea. The (toiler is,' of' course, not re quired to make combination sales 01 sugar and commeal, but may do S0i at his discretion. ' In pursuance of their annual cus tom, the young men of the Baraca class of the Methodist Sunday school this Christmas will make many hearts happy in Hickory, thanks to the fine cooperation that they again expect on the part of the good people in the community. For 10 years they have been doing this and doing it well. Thursday night the young men will leave letters on the porches of the people of Hickory and Friday night they will return for the gifts of worn clothing, groceries and cash that may be donated. These can be left on the porch so that families need not be disturbed, if it is so desired. Orders may' be left on your grocer for the boys. The mor.ey, clothen aird groceries will be. placed at a convenient place and dis tributed Christmas morning. The gifts will be distributed regardless of church denomination; sweet char ity recognizes all sects. Mr. P. A. Stzer is teacher of the class, Mr. J. H. Sharpe is president, Mr. Earnest Starnes vice-president, Mr. Fred Murphy secretary and Mr. Ivey Starnes treasurer. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF Extracts from Macauley's essay on Frederick the Great. Contribut ed by Rev. E. deF. Heald. TVip kinc of Prussia (Frederick the Great) had already fully deter mined to commit the great crime of violating his plighted faith, of rob bing the ally (Austria) whom he was bound to defend, and of plung ing all Europe into a long, Diooay and desolajng war. and all this for nn pn d wh atever. except that he might extend his dominions and see his name in the Gazettes. v v The court of Berlin had recently been allied with that of Vi enna, and had guaranteed the integ rity of the Austrian states. The selfish ranacitv of the king of Prussia gave the signal to his neighbors. Oils exjampie quieted hhpir sense of shame. Jlis suc cess led them to underrate the dif ficulty of dismembering the ; Aus trian monarch. The' whole world sprang to arms. On the head of Frederick is all the blood which was shed in a war which raged during many years in every quarter of the globe. The evils produced by his -wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was un known x x x in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had prom ised to defend, x x x By the public the King of Prus sia was considered as a -politician destitute alike of morality and de cency, insatiably rapacious, and shamelessly false; nor was the public much in the wrong. HELP FIGHT ENEMY 'OF AMERICAN PEOPLE "Tuberculosis is the greatest al ly that Germany has, and hence the most formidable enemy of the Un ited States," eays a statement 'sent out for publication by the American Red Cross, which knows. "'Every Red Cross seal is a bomb thrown in to the trenches of this horried ene my We may not all be able to go' to the front "'over there," we may not all be able to buy Liberty Bonds, but every one of us men, women and children, white and black can buy Red Cross seals." iHundreds of business houses in clude Red Cross seals as a part of their regular expense. it is m tne budget, like Advertising and office rent; it is a good thing. The Hickory sale has not been as large as it should be so far, but there is a. chance of putting it over the top. Telephone Mrs. J. Worth Elliott and help. Wjith the thermometer register ing eight degrees abovs zero and' an impudent wind cutting at one's ears and nose, the weather this morning appeared to zome from the frigid zone. Inadentallv the j eighth day of the lovest tempera tures m many years was ushered in with little prospect of moderation for two days. Happily the sun was bright enough and there was no reason to doubt that i it would not continue to shine for several days, all the waves from all the points on the compass haing been exhausted for the time being. , ' Saturday's temperature .was five degrees above and Sutday's 11, and no time during Sunday did the mer cury go above 2G degrees, which or dinarily is cold enough for all re frigerating purposes. Speaking of refrigeration, it is not untimely to remark just here that Lord Bacon, whose essays on Truth and other abstract subjects, discovered the law of cold storage, as Newton stated the law of gravitation. Our old scientist friend and literary light observed the cold one morning as he was journeying in the snow and it occurred to him that a chicken would be preserved indefinitely if the prop er cold could be maintained and Messrs. Armour and Swift a few centuries later became millionaries as the result of the idea. If the conditions have been fiei'ce here they have been worse in ether sections of the state. Boone is frigid. Going eastward, one hears that Raleigh not only had a heavy snow, but that glaze to use the weather bureau's recent defini tion of sleet occurred immediate ly afterwards and walking was mis erable. The sama reports came from other sections of the state. Sunday was the most disagree able clay of the week. The sun was hidden most of the time, and only .One e did his handsome face show, and then for a few minutes only. The snow melted almost impercep tibly. Today promises to see some snow moved, though ' it was nearly noon before streamlets appeared in the streets, and the working day for the sun is short in wunter. JU5T DAY5 LEFT? TO MOP Se READTHfAD.5 2 tAbh ur By the Associated Press. Washington Dec. 17. Inioxma tion received here today by neutral diplomats agrees with intimations from abroad that Gerrmany is pre paring a new peace offer. VICTOR CENSURED F ACC DENT E PO EARLY R OR OF RUSJ ECOGNITION S AN B0( 5HEVIKI By the Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 17. Captain Victor Blue, who commanded an American superdreadnought which recently ran aground in home waters, was sentenced by court martial to loss of 20 nuntbers, but Admiral Mayo commander of the Atlantic fleet, recommended that it be cut down to 10. TO MAKE CHANGES N ARMY COMMANDS United States Apparently Has No Intention of Acknowledging New Government of Russia. Armistice is Signed at AH Central Capitals Most Troops Removed By th Associated Pros. Washington, Dec. 17. .Rearran gement of some of the high com mands in the wrar department was indicated by the .detachment of of ficers designated by Secretary Ba ker to sit in the department's war council. It became known today that Ma jor General Goethals has been of fered the place of quartermaster general to succeed Major General Sharpe. Provost Marshal General Crowder will remain in his present position. LOCAL DRIVE FOR MEMBERS IN DDppqpco MR. ROWE PREACHES at ormDMcn pliiidp hi nuumiiLU ununoii Rev. W. W, Rowe who is to become pastor of Corinth church at the be ginning of tlhe year preached for this congregation Sunday morning from Romans 16:23, "Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, salu- teth you. Erastus the chamber lain of the' city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother." In this strong sermon, the. keynote was Service. In speaking of heroes, the minister said that after the present war is over, there will be no abbey large en ough to hold the bodies of all the heroes of the war, but in his opin ion there will be four names tnat will go down in history as heroes who gave their service for others. Dr. Carrel of France, Mayor Max of Brussels, the general who com manded the forces in Belgium at Liege and Herbert Hoover of the United States. A service ag presented by Mrs. C. C. Bostfi was placed in the church the ast week the thirteen stars repre senting the thirteen men from this their country. Announcement was made that a box wall be sent to the Orphan's Home at Crescent, N. C, and all who will contribute are asked to bring the articles to Bost and New- ten's stores Wednesday morning, Dec. ly when a committee of ladies will pack the Christmas box. The Ret! Cross drive for 200 mem bers in Hickory began this morning. It is hoped that every man, woman and child not now a member will re alize the importance of this cam- Ipaign and join. It in no way ob ligates the member to do active ser I vice in the army or navy. Your dol i lar helps to provide for the suffer ing of the wounded, and sick sol , diers; it helps the homeless people ! who have been driven out by raging battles which have turned their farms and homes into battle fields. The Red Cross was the first to re lieve the suffering in Halifax; it is on duty wherever there is suffering and it is our duty to support it. It is hoped that every bank, man ufacturing plant, wholesale and re , tail store will join and have a ser j vice flags in their windows, every . church. Sunday sschool room, doc tors and lawyers windows should bve a service flag, every person being a member should wear their buttons. Please be considerate enough to know that the people working for this cause are working for Uncle Sam, standing back of the govern ment and the soldiers. In asking you to join they are serving a good causa and making an appeal for you to join our army of workers. The young ladies were very successful in securing new members Last Saturday. They will have charge cf a booth in the Hickory Drug Company and the Lutz Drug Store all this week and you may file your application with them. CAPT. ASHE TO SUCCEED THE LATE LEO. IIEARTT Raleigh. Dec. 17. Capt. S. A. Ashe is en route from the national capital to accept appointment by Judge Henry G. Connor as clerk of the federal court for the eastern North Carolina district, succeeding the late Lee D. Heartt, whose fun eral was held here Saturday afternoon. Judge Connor made the appoint ment thus early because of the pressing necessity for immediate clerkship service to the court. Cap tain Ashe has held a government position in Washington for several years. By the Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 17. It was in dicated today that President Wi.1 son will make no further move, in the railroad situation until con gress reconvenes after Christmas. YORK COTTON By the Associated Press. New York. Dec. 17. The cotton market opened steady today at an advance of 10 to 20 points on a re newal of the covering and trade buy ing which had been in progress at the close on Saturday. There was a good deal of Wall Street and local selling, however, and the market scon turned easier about six to 10 points net lower. Trade inter ests continued buying on the de cline and prices steadied up on the first hour The close was steady. Open Close December - -29.90 30.10 January 28.85 29.17 March 28.50 28.77 TViav 28.25 28.55 July "- 28.03 28.30 HICKORY MARKETS DEATH OF MRS. HUFFMAN Mrs. Sallie Huffman, who was nearly 74 years old, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. S. Reinhardt, about a mile south of Hickory. Fri day evening. Mrs. Huffman is survived by only one child, Mrs. Reinhardt, with whom she had been living. She was a member of the Mountain Grove Baptist church. The congregations of the First Presbyterian and First Baptist churches Sunday night worshiped at the Methodist church in honor of Rev. R. M. Courtney, the new pas tor. The weather did not prevent a good congregation. MEN ARE NEEDED FOR U. S. GOARD Cotton Wheat 27c $2.40 WEATHER FORECAST For North Carolina: Partly cloudy and continued cold tonight. Tues day fair and warmer, moderate northeast winds becoming southeast. Fifteen thousand men beyond the draft age are needed at once for the United States, guard. The United States guard is an organi zation to be formed for the protec tion of the public utilities within the United States. Men who have seen service in the army, navy, or marine corps dur ing the Spanish-American war, the Philippine insurrection or the Boxer uprising are especially desirable. Men who are or have been members of rvro-nmVpd Tiolice or fire departments, I. in fact any man who is above" the draft age, can volunteer tor tnis organization. These men will be enlisted for the period of the existing .emer gency and will serve in the vicinity of their homes. (Married men will be acceyted on the same status as single men. For any information call at . or write to the-army recruiting station Hickory, N. C. TWO NEUTRALS SUNK ;-Vy the Assocla.'ed Presa. London, Dee. 17. Two neutral merchant vessels and a -brawler were sunk off the Tyne on December 12 by German destroyers, Thos. J. j'cNarnara, financial secretary to the admiralty, announced in the house of commons today. AMBASSADOR GERARD'S STATEMENT "It seems that the Germans had endeavored to get volunteers from the great industrial towns of Lille, Roubaix, and Tourcoing to work these fieMs; that after the posting cf the notices calling for volunteers only fourteen had appeared. The Germans then gave orders to seize a certain number of inhabitants and then send them out to farms in the outlying districts to engage in agricultural work. The Ameri cans told me that, this order was carried out with the greatest bar barity, that a man would come home at night and find that his wife or children had disappeared and no one could tell him udiere they had gone except that the neighbors would relate that Germi.n non-commissioned officers and a file of soldiers had carried them off. For instance, in a house of a well-to-do merchant who had perhaps two daughters of fifteen and seventeen, and a man servant, and two daughters and the servant wuld be seized and sent off together to work for theh Germans in some little farm house whose lo cation was not disclosed to the par ents. The Americans told me that this sort of thing was causing such indignation among the population of these towns that they feared a great uprising and a consequent slaughter and burning by the Germans. "That .night at dinner I spoke to the chancellor about this and told him that it seemedr to me abso lutely outrageous; and that, without consulting with my government, I was prepared to protest in the name of humanity against a contin uance, of this treatment of the civil population of occupied France. The chancellor ' told me that he had not known about it, that it was the re sult of orders given by the military that he would speak to the emperor about it, and that he hoped to be able to stop further deportations. I believe that they were stopped, but twenty thousand or more had been taken from their homes were not re turned until montihs afterwards. I said in a speech thv.t I made in May on rhy return to America that it required the joint efforts of the pope, the king of. Spain and our president to cause the return of these people to their homes; and I ; then saw that some German press ! agency had come out with an arti : cle that I had made false statements about this matter because these peo ple were not returned to their homes as a result of the represen tations of the pope, the king of Spain- and our president, but were sent back because the Germans had ! no further use for them. It seems to me that this denial makes the 4-1 v.jt n James W. Gerard, "My Four Years in Germany," pp.. 333-335. By the Associated Press. V.ushington, D.tc. 17. Recogni tion of the bolsheviki government by the United States is still remote, it is indicated today at the state de partment. Reports in Europe sug gesting a developing statement in favor of dealing with the new regime as a de facto government have found no response here and it was made plain that the United States would continue its policy of awaiting developments. Reports from Ambassador Fran cis are now coming through with more regularity, but consuls in many parts of the country have been un able to report to Petroigrad. It was suggested here that one of the direct effects of the armistice between the Russian and German ar mies might be the financing of Rus sia with paper money. When the war began Russian money was being printed in Germany, and the plates are still in Germany. ARMISTICE SIGNED By the Associated Press. London, Dec. 17. The predomi nant fact as Tegards the Russian situation at the moment is the sign ing of an armistice which is an nounced officially at the capitals of all countries concerned. According to special dispatches from Petro grad, every one there believes a permanent peace between Russia and Germany will result. Correspondents in general treat as negligible the undertaking of Germany and her allies not to with draw from the eastern front. A Petrograd dispatch to the Times says large masses of Germans al ready have been removed and prob able German command has trans ferred all its purposes to transfer elsewhere, so that the German plans will not be interfered with. The reported suicide during the ar mistice negotiations of the Russian general Skalon;s 'apparently has made a considerable impression at Petrograd, although the Russian na tional commissionaries are silent in regard to it. The correspondent seeks to show there is enough to prove that he committed suicide, which is most probable, and insin uates that he was murdered. There is no confirmation of last week's announcement regarding the arrest of General Kalendines. CONGRESS TO RECESS UNI JANUARY 3 By the Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 17. Arrange ments for congress to recess over the holidays from tomorrow until January 3 were completed today when the senate adopted the house (resolution. MEANS TO BE TRIED IN NEW YORK STATE New York authorities will indict Gaston B Means, acquitted Sunday of the murder of Mrs. Maud A. King, on charges of embezzlement and forgery, and Governor Bickett will be asked to turn the fellow over to the officers in that state. . District Attorney Swann says all the details in the Means- King case will be brought to light. GERMANS AGAIN RAID BUNCH OF SHIPS By the Associated Press. London, Dec. 17. One British and five neutral merchantmen, four mine sweepers and a destroyer were sunk in the North sea by a German raiding fleet. The losses were the result of an attack on a convoy bound from Scotland to Norway, Srr Eric Geddes, first lord of the admiralty, announced today. The total tonnage of the lost merchantmen was 8,000. The German raid duplicates the successful enterprise of last Octo ber, carried out by two German raiders which attacked a convoy in the North sea. They sank nine neu tral merchantmen and two of the ships escaped. Five Norwegian,, three Swedish and one Danish ves sel were sunk without warning, three othe merchantmen escaping. The raiders were armed heavily and succeeded in evading the British watchers on the return as well as the outbound voyage.
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