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HlCKOi lY Daily iRFr.owm) '"1 1 ' V0I"JJ HICKORY, N. C, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 26, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS mil R I i . '.. I i GERMAN TROOPS RUSHED FROM EAST J5 WEST FRONT n Meantime German Guns Are Active Along Entire Front Italians Retake Lost Positions. American Sentinel is Brutally Mur dered by Germans ,l, Ao,":tol Press. f'uiis bombard the .:, the Germans are , !r-m tho eastern front w:h'!y. despite the pro , i:uso-('(orman ar such action. Tho . y has been violent !M-,k of tho Meause, in, the scene of the tarly two years or. tw PLANS 10 DRAFT German .i ,-;;V. .i"! ' ;?i Marshal v-: rrair.- h j. aiivices : of tr.H-r-5 f :,:ry has not been v probable that Field i.rulcnburg is waiting : .forcfments' before uMi-d attack. Russi r. of the withdrawal : the east add that re being taken to the . taking part in the the Ulcraine, Mol . irabia are opposed to RuT.ar.iar. Krra rv.i i;iv:s .v.: 1 iou'.h vf .f.r. irvourt in the Rheims mpagne the French i nit a raid inSo the ; arid brought back (V: The British portion '.here have been raids r. the artillery, but as r;i! is ttu re has been no in fantry act; Or. the : A;-:r.-("-r to str:k ;t i f " . AK.or. have c.ir-:. GVrrr.a". '. ' 'ho t'r !" in aii.t -. lie f: GERMAN US FOR WAR GERMANS DELAY CHRISTMAS DAY GR ANSWER 10 WAS IDEAL IN RUSSIA HICKORY By the Associated Press. London, Dec. 26.-.The Russo-Ger-man peace negotiations which were to have been resumed on Monday af ter a postponement to give the Ger mans time formulate their reply to Russian terms were again de layed for one day, an Exchange Tel egraph dispatch received today says. The dispatch also says the Ger mans have asked for a further post ponement until January 24. ITALIANS REPULSED r:hrn Italian front the a:, tactics appear to be .itively on either side I:.::'.. Checked at Monte I;!-: '.C'ek. the enemy has struck t vsur.U the Frenzela valley, .?: cf the r:vcr. After two days : bitter ru'hf.nir the Italians have regained i"---esin of lost positions c", the C-! R.so, west of the ::v.r. ar.r. i have attacked the Aus-tr-'-fffrmar. .-itlns on Monte Per t.ca, ta.-t if the river. Berlin u.ms tho capture of 9,000 prison er ir. the gaining of the Col del Ita'iar.. i,. f :r.;r.:vr. C'rrr.ars ''. has ! .) stop IT- rmist:ctf. 0VS-; later was lost to the y, the bolsheviki for has protested to the rt the transference of the eastern front, but .red Russian factories n.anufacture of muni ! r.ot indicate wheth nvnt would take any a nst violation of the ;"t;atiins at Brest-Lit- f.prar- ::! are makinir little pr'Tcs-, Trv fiermans have de 'i'M tht-;- an,w.T to the bolsliexiki ar. i ;t i. reported the confer ee w;;: 'u, transferred to Stock '.m sh-Ttly. In the meantime the K'.aa.st- have convoked the assem to mM. t January 2, despite bol ''"'"':ki prt.t-:;ta. J'rriiar. -asacry has been called '":a''y the attention of Amer- -ar, tP.o;. n France. An Ameri- 'a" tr;t;n-! has been found with his 't,,h ar-.d an offtcial bulletin "'m' must have been killed after capture- Ir.formHt;.'i f,f enemy terrorizing ;? (Jr:v,ni' 'rrien and children from -T-T honaM ;n the occupied section f'f Franc- and Belgium to make '''f' f"r fi'-rma n troops, munitions and 9upp.li.:, is reported. BURN II S TO DEATH GRANIT E A By the Associated Press. Copenhagen, Dec. 20. Plans for general conscription of women af ter the war are beinig made in Germany, and there is a general feeling that girls, as well as boys, will be compelled to undergo a regular period of training cor responding to the German youth's service in the army. The service proposed for girls is not military, but civil. It is proposed that all women should, preferably at the age of 17 be taken from their homes and compulsory trained, either in a pro fessional trade, or in1 household duties. This characteristic German divis ion between rich and poor is main tained in the project. Girls of the upper class are to be trained in special institutions; poor girls will go to factories or be placed in pri vate households, where their employ ers will give them a trifle of pocket money and make a contribu tion to the state. The idea meets with wide commen dation in the German newspapers, but one English critic notes that "there is scime difference between male conscription which puts a man into a regiment run by and for the state, and a female conscription which makes a girl work without wage for the profit of private indi iduals. The latter cannot with ac curacy be called anything but slav ery." A short time ago a Berlin sociolog ical society offered a series of priz es for the best essay on compulsory service for women, and 145 essays were submitted. The best two have just been published. The mag azine, Soziale Praxis, in reiewing th3 essays submitted says: "There is general agreement that by a thorough compulsory training, the services of women to the coun try will become much greater than heretofore. Opinions differ as to whether after leaving school girls should be trained principally for a profusion or for household duties. The lesson of this war, which has brought into clear relief the abilities of monev in both spheres, is perhaps that in future a middle course should be adopted. . , "The training in households is to be? regularly supervised with a view to seeing whether the girl .really learns something there and not merely made a drudge and she must be allowed time to attend the Wo man's scrice school. The employers are to give a small sum as pocket money to the 'conscripts and pay 1-vv for the services rendered, lhis revenue is to provide the means for creating more -Women's Service Homes." ENJOYABLE CHRISTMAS FOR MR. W. I'- HLH MAIM Christmas day proved unusually enjoyable for Mr. W P. Huffman, manager of Hotel Huffry, who has bet-n ill for many months. torone th mr he had all of his children with him and Mrs. Huffman for dinne. except Mr. R. "T M Brookfield, Mo, and Rev. A. M. Huffman of Charleston, S. C., and for another the choir of Holy Trinity Lutheran cnurcn r" o'clock yesterday morning : and sanfc crVeral beautiful hymns. Miss -Virl Miller rendered a solo. Mr. ' "ffman is one of the best friends , " e church has and members of the ; -o'r showed their appreciation by mkiTPS SLs dinner was j .v -'" -fi o-rand- --rvrd tnose umu.ui , children who were here. They are , Dr. and Mrs. E. E.Randolph E j fn pifp Mr. anti ivus. ,, andCth;ee 'children of rAville Mr and Mrs. Grover II "ffm1warf Mary Huffman and Mr. Ewart u. Huffman of Hickory. BERLIN SAYS TODAY By tne Associated Presi. Berlin via London, Dec. 26. Vio lent counter attacks against the Aus-tro-Germans on Col de Rosso and neighboring heights on both sides broke down yesterday with heavy losses, says the official dispatch is sued today. BOLSHEVIKI WILL SEND 0 AGENTS .a;,.v: r if; Th, . a young white man ! '! at Stony Point, 'f.v, met a horrible 've night in the r-nite I'alls when the l"'rrid. He had ''i' drinking, though '''biy that he was not ''J at Granite Fall3, "-m used, m said not to o v irlnity church last night by the hi-drrn and as usual a law .".o v: present to enjoy the even w The singing was unusual ly ,r;;,Hl nnd nvrybody was dalighted. at. nmi V TRINITY ristmas exercises were held at Ii.n-i oth n "I'iippfd with a stove on bc( ()f oxcelsor inside. V r.v small. I -'-iiahly ria,i attempted to1 ,r fiad lighted a ciga ri"vcr will he known. was by himself and ' r ! h'm Rcream " !' lock up, The door was 11 was forced and the 'ut.. LETTER DE MANDS SUM OF 50, 000 . II h . 'i hut pu:i,., M'f.u.wil said that his skin off hen touched. I s soon as he was re- 'he Associated Press. Srpm-nlo Cal , Dec. .20. a 'etVcr declaring nine bombs had been t in the executive mansion oi balding, has been receiv ed arul turned over to the police. A letter demanded that $50M imDae placed in a rock quarry, P'uma" bly near Oakland, December 31 at midnight. By the Associated Pres" Petrogi'ad, Dec. 26. The bolshe viki government has decided to send special representatives to all coun tries, belligerent as well as neu tral, to further the propoganda of internationalism. Two million ru bles have been appropriated for this purpose. An American Red Cross train left Petrograd for Rumania with the ap proval of the bolsheviki. It car ried all its original supplies except automobiles. - ... .- CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION AT CAMP GREENE HUGE AFFAIR Charlotte, Dec. 26. Christmas cel ebration at Camp Greene was a stupendous event. Forty thousand soldiers and thousands from the city were present. Silver loving cups were presented to the British, French and American officers by the city of Charlotte, Mayor McNinch making the presentations. There were also a Christmas tree and ath letic events. Moser-Ballew In a quiet but Very impressive ceremony at the home of the bride's parents in East Hickory, Miss Eu nice Ballew and Mr. George. Moser were on Tuesday evening, Decem ber 24, united in marriage by the Reverend R. M. Courtney. There were no attendants, but the home had been made beautiful for the occasion with Chirstmas greens. The bride is the daughter of Mr. John H. Ballew, and is a young wo man with many fine traits of charac ter. iMr. Moser is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Moser, also of East Hickory and holds a position with the Southern Railway. Both these splendid young people have scores of friends to vish them every suc cess through life. Immediately af ter the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Mo ser left for a ten days trip to points in Florida. CONVENT ACT IS HELD BY JUDGE By the Associated Press. Savannah, Dec. 26. Judge V'. r Meldrim in the superior court today handed down an opinion in a case of Mother Clare, the mother superior of St. Vincent's convent, who has been ruled for contempt for refusing to permit a grand jury committee to under the Veazy act. The court dis under the eazy act. The court dis missed the contempt charge, hold ing that th3 act provided for an in spection of places where, the in mates were kept in confinement. The court held the evidence did not shew the Sisters of Mercy in this convent were kept in confinement, but remained there voluntarily, and for this reason the institution did not come under the Veazy act. There is another case of a similar character against the St. Francis home. This is a Catholic orphan asylum for negroes. NVALID . Christmas d r. in Hickory was ideal in every ivspect and children, with wagons and dolls on their lit tle minds, had one grand time some of them from 5:30 a. m. until 7:30 p. m. Church bells at 5:30 summoned the members to the early morning services at two churches and at 11 o'clock there were exercises at oth er institutions. At the First Bap tist church Mr. Bradshaw delivered a spscial sermon to the Knights Templar, who attended in uniform. The religious services at the various churches were well attended and in the afternoon, which was a beauti ful spring day, hundreds were on the streets. Police officers report that the conduct of everybody was good. In fact, it was remarkable how quiet the day was. There was no drink ing, so far as the officers observed, and the usual noise of firecrackers was almost absent. Occasionally a big waker went off, but one did not hear the continuous sounds that are so general on Christmas day. SOLDIERS GUARD RANCH FROM BANDITS By the Associated Press. Marfa, Texas, Dec. 26. American troops today were guarding all out lets to Vanhorne canyon where 100 Mexican bandits on Christmas morning crossed the Mexican border raided the postofnee and general stores on Brite ranch , 27 miles southeast of here, killed Michael Wfelch, a veteran stage driver and his two Mexican passengers, wound ed Sam Field, foreman of the ranch, and carried away booty said to be worth $7,000. After the bandits had passed over the rim rock which rises abruptly 1,000 feet above the Rio Grande, the soldiers who were in close pursuit, fired many shots into the Mexicans and killed or wounded many of them. Hawn-Hedrich The marriage of Miss Suma Hed rich and Mr. Craig Hawn was sol emnized Sunday afternoon at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hedrich, three miles east of Hickory. Both are prominent young people and the bride is unu sually pretty and attractive. For the present they will make their home with the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jones Hawn. MRS ALICE PRUDEN IS DEAD HICKORY Mrs. Alice Pruden of Orange, Conn., who for the past 25 or 30 years has been identified with relig ious and educational movements in Caldwell and Watauga counties, died last night at 7 o'clock in Hickory, where for years she had spent her winters. She was 85 years old. The body will be sent to Orange, Conn., for interment. Mrs. Jruden was a familiar figure around Blowing Rock and through her personal efforts much good has been done. She was intensely in terested in the mountains and at one time operated a school near Hud son. The building was burned and the school discontinued because of some articles in a northern newspa per. Mrs. Pruden always was a welcome visitor...io Hickory and her death will bring general regret here. NEW YORK COTTON By the Associated PrftM. New York, Dec. 26 The feature in the cotton market during to day's early trading was the strength of the near positions. It seems as though January notices had been is sued and there was a flurry of cov ering which sent January 31 points above Monday's closing level into nw high ground for the season. Other months were influenced by (January. The close was steady. Open CUse January 29.80 30.55 March 29.44 29.93 J" 29.05 29.54 Tuiv "": 29.72 29.15 October' Z-S-21A5 HICKORY MARKETS Cotton 30c orzi Baim EEKSURGEDTO THOUSAND BRICK LAYERS ARE ORDERED TO COLORS - Provost Marshal General Calls Out This Class of Registrants for Service With Pershing in France Aviators Next in Line Other Classes to Follow. JOIN U. S. ARMY By the Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 26. Greece wants her citizens in the United States to enlist in the American ar my. Not only will she suspend pun ishment which would follow their j enlistment with a foreign power, but , will reward them. This is the substance of a note from the Greek government deliv ered today at the state department. WILLIAMS TALKED AS RAILROAD HEAD By the Associat-d Press. "Washington!, Dec. 26. John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the currency, was being discussed today in official circles as the most prob able selection for federal railroad administrator by President Wilson. COAL OUTPUT IS L, NORMA SAYS A F 0 By the Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 26. War de mands fdr bituminous coal have been greater than the mines could meet, although the production this year has been normal, Fuel Admin istrator Garfield testified today at the senate investigation. In an effort to alleviate conditions, he said the fuel administration had allowed the operators good profits. 'Wihen the operators complained that prices fixed by the president are too low, we are inclined to give.them the benefit of the doubt," Dr. Gar field said. Senator Kenyon asked the adminis trator if he had information on divi dends of some of the large opera tors and he added that he had no accurate figures on them and could not furnish them. He knew, however that big profits were being made. FREE ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED BY REGISTRANTS HOOVER SCORES HIS SUGAR CS An attention is called to the tele gram from Mr J. D. Langston of Raleigh,, published elsewhere, urg-! injg bookkeepers;' and persons com- i. j. j j j a ,,.; u peueiiu lu iieip uiaiu men vyiui their questionaires. Some few men in Hickory are assisting Mr. Self, who is working hard and doing it free, but more aid is needed. It is reported here that some of the reg istrants are being charged for a lit tle assistance and there is consider able indignation at such a treat ment. Either a notary should do the work free in cases like this or he should refuse to do it. That would be 10 times more patriotic than col lecting fees for work that many registrants cannot do themselves. Mr T? M Rum earner of Tulsa. Okla., sent Blind George $11 for a Christmas present and membership! in the Hickory Red Cross. WA SECRETARY ORDERED TO 'EM Washington, Dec. 26. .Food Ad ministrator Hoover's statement on the sugar situation, which he tried un successfully to get before the senate committee investigating the sugar shortage, was made public last night at the white house. It attributes' the shortage here to the heavy mov ement of sugar from the western hemisphere to Europe, and asserts that without the fixing of prices by agreement sugar would have been selling for 25 or 30 cents a pound and more than $200,000,000 probably would have been profiteered from the American people by this time. The statement contains the food administrator's reply to charges made before the committee by Claus Spreckles, president of the Federal Refining Company, that the sugar situation was mismanaged, and sets forth in detail the administration's efforts to keep the sugar prices down while supplying large quan tities to the allies. The committee, of which Sena tor Reed is chairman, not only had refused to make the statement a part of the Congressional Record, but has declined thus far to permit Hoover to take the stand to answer Spreckles' charges. When the hearing is resumed Fri day, however, it is understood Mr. Hoover will be permitted to tell his story. At the outset the statement pre sents the world situation as it exist ed prior to the European war. The allies then produced much of their own supplies and purchased the re mainder from Germany. Before the war they took only 300,000 tons an nually from the western hemisphere. This year they have taken .1,400, 000 tons. "That," says the food administra tor, "is the cause of the sugar shor tage; and nothing else." The statement says the food ad ministration has handled the situ ation with a view of sustaining the morale of France and England, where the sugar ration has been ex tremely low for months, and at the same time preventing a jump in price to 20 or 25 cents here. Since the food administration was created in August the United States has exported to the allies 110,356 tons of refined sugar and in the same period Cuba has shipped to France 346,133 tons of raw product. This, it is declared, is just the amount of the shortage in the United States. Even with these shipments, it is pointed out, the supply in England and France has been inadequate. Consumption in England is 24 pounds a year for each person, in France 14 pounds, against a consumption in America of 55 pounds. The shortage, the food adminis trator declares, wil continue during next year, as it is the duty of the United States to continue to feed the allies. Next year,, the statement says, American supplies will be short 250.000 to 300,000 tons unless the allies, go to Java for supplies, which would require an extra am ount of shipping sufficient to trans port 150,000 or 200,000 American soldiers to France. MISS ETHEL ABERNETHY OF CHARLOTE WINS THE PRIZE WEATHER FORECAST For North Carolina: Generally fair and continued cold tonight and Thursday; strong northeast winds on the coast. By the Associated Fresa Washington, Dec. 26 Aroused by Reports of shortage of winter cloth ing in national army camps, the sen jate military affairs committee today in resuming its investigation adopted a resolution requesting the secretary of war immediately to ascertain con ditions by wire, supply deficient troops and suspend departmental routine necessary by direct pur chases from sources near the camps. The resolution offered by Senator McKellar of Tennessee declared that i"upon unquestioned" proof there is a shortage of at least 20,000 over coats and 47,000 woolen blouses in inine national army cantonments, in cluding Camp Jackson. Quarter master General Sharpe, who testi ' fined last week, admitted shortage of winter equipment in some camps, but said all supplies were en route to' 'camps. Charlotte, Dec. 26. The prize of a $50 liberty bond, offered by J. B. Ivey. state merchant's represen tative under the food administration, for the best article on food conser vation has been awarded to Miss Ethel Abernethy of this city. Sev eral score pupers were submitted and the judging was done by offi cials of the food administration at Raleigh. The excellence of the papers sub mitted in the contest showed a grati fying degree of knowledge of the food problem in its world-wide as pect and of the problem of the United States in meeting the situ ation. Four or five freight cars were de railed yesterday several miles wrest of Hickory, causing a tie up in traffic for a few hours. E RIAN STEAMER BELIEVED BE LOST By the Associated Press. New York, Dec. 26. The Ameri can steamship Tuscorora, formerly a lake essel and requisitioned by the shipping board for the Atlantic ocean is believed to have Deen lost with her entire crew of 33 somewhere north of Camp Brenton island, according in messages received here today. By the Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 26 The new draft machinery was invoked for the ;irst time when Provost Marshal' General Cro-.vder made public to lay instructions to all governors calling for the mobilization of liOOO brick layers needed by General Pershing at once. Local boards are called upon to examine all questionnaires and re port as soon as possible on the num ber of brick layers of draft age available for service. Only white brick layers will be taken either by draft or voluntary induction into military service through local boards. They will be followed by the aviation section sig nal corps at Kelly Field, San Anto nio, Tex. The order is the first application of of the special occupational classifi cation provision of the new draft regulations. General Crowder's letter indicates that other special men will be called out later. GERMAN U-BOAT CREW WAITED FOR THE LINER An American Port, Dec. 26. Gov. R. L. Beckman of Rhode Island, who left here the latter part of October to visit the American forces in France and to convey to them a per sonal message of greeting from President Wilson, arrived here on a British liner. On the same vessel was William B. Thompson, head of the American Red Cross mission to Russia, who is re turning to the United tates to make a report of the conditions in that country with reference to the work of his organization. Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan and com pany and Sir Frederick Edward Smith, attorney general for Great Britain, were also among the pas sengers. That the crew of a German sub marine made prisoner after their vessel had been destroyed, knew when a large steamer, carrying Am erican army officers had left the Un ited States and that the subma rine lay in wait to sink her, was the statement of several enlisted men of the American navy who were passengers on the steamship. Ac cording to the German prisoners who were taken to England, they knew "all about the departure of the steamship," but the submarine had failed to sink her because of the vigilance of her convoy. MR. FRED HELTON WAS STILL UNCONSCIOUS TODAY The condition of Mr. Fred Helton, who was injured Saturday, remains unchanged. He has not regained consciousness, but it was said at Richard Baker Hospital, where he was removed after a shifting engine struck his automobile, that this does not mean that he will not recover. Persons have been known to remain unconscious for a week or more and then to recover. It is hoped by the young man's many friends that he soon will be getting along all right. Christmas Dance A Christmas dance was given last night by the young men of the town in the Chero-Cola building, about fifteen couples being present. An orchestra from Morganton furnish ed the music and Chero-Cola was served throughout the evening. QUEER WEATHER CONTINUES HERE Those Hickory people who retired last night thinking that a warm rain would remove the rest of the snow awoke this morning to find that this might have been the case, but that another snow had come to take its place. The weather continued its freakish ways and the works de livered another prize package. The mercury registered 34 degrees yesterday morning and rose to 59 during the day which was partly cloudy. Not until night was there any appreciable change in the tem perature, and about 7:30 rain be gan falling. This was followed by a rapid drop of the mercury and glaze occurred some time after 9 o'clock. During the night snow fell, and it was here this morning. The thermometer registered 25 de grees during the nicht and at 8:30 vas stationary. There were indi cations, however, that the day would be fair, despite a light splatter of snow, and at 9 o'clock the sun had burst through the clouds for a brief period, at any rate. As to . t'ft snow, it wasn't much, just a light skim, probably dlf an inch.
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