Hickory Daily
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VOL. HI NO. 2.52
ITALIANS STOP
AND REGAIN
Enemy Able to Crosn n
on Railroe .aiding
Front Reported in
Other Action Today
i!u' Associated Tress.
...ut Italian resistance has again
L'cJ Austrians in their effort to
,,! their front on the Montell
. ;,u, the keystone of the Italian
:, e of the Piave river,
i , ia! announcement is made at
: that the Austrians were de
.o.l in a drive yesterday on the
. a t section of the plateau and
. i ly on the south were they able
,;..lve any progress whatever. The
, wa.4 able to cross the Piave on
Mi-Mtedelluna-Fuzanna railway av
points near Nervassa, but
; ,.t this point was promptly stop-
A- the Austrians have for some
...... hAd positions near Navcssa, the
lesa'.t of their last attack is in
.... :!..'.v.i:it.
A i'itiean aviators are now actively
. : .'..ued on the Piave Tront. Raiding
:''.a are reported on the British
i: i. while the French have improv-
! iiu 'f positions in the neighborhood
of Soissons.
RE
FOR ARMY IN CITY
Serjeant William Ball, Who did
s ri'" v;.o(i recruiting work in Hickory
; ft w weeks ago, has returned and
w.I! be here probably for several
'.ti:.'. lie is authorized to accept
i :i f.r the United States guards and
national army.
!rsons enlisting in the United
S itos guards must be above the draft
; " an 1 must have had experience in
:. regular army, navy or marine
i rps or a well organized militia, po
ll or tire department.
Men may be accepted for the dii
f . nt branches of the regular army,
i oast artillery corps, infantry, cavalry
.ind quartermaster corps, if they are
i et ween the ages of 18 and 21 and
,"! :.r.d -Jl years.
Ti, go desiring detailed information
rr ,y Sergeant Call in room 205 at
th - postoffice building.
By
tho Associated Press.
P. iris, June 21. The leading Amer
ican ace, in the French flying corps,
t LV-; rrur.fc L. Baylies of ?Ta
f i 'ui ..it.,l i.5 missing after an un
. . ,a.t I fight with fo'ir German ma
chine. SWEET POTATOES
GALORE NEXT
mother refreshing shower, coming
: after thousands upon thousands
.tat) slips had been put into the
in. I. filled the hearts of farmers
;i joy today. Farmers who have
'ip to sell have had many calls
r."j'u!ar dealers have gone near
far in order to supply the de-
I.
number of farmers have inform
al Record that they have set out
"" siips than usual and if this is a
! -iason, (,'atawba sweet potatoes
'!' more than ever towards sup
the demand on northern mar-
f.a:t year's crop was about half
" 'average, maybe a little better,
lie prices were good. The suc-
i potato has come into its own.
Ji r' sult of the rain, a good stand
' ired, and this counts a great
i the plants, once started to
:'-!, can thrive despite dry
i'hi r.
1 " week his been unfavorable for
'"r with wheat shocked in the
!- In many instances the grain
' " dry that it could be hauled di-
C" m the fields to the barns, and
" Liu re is no exact information
f.i'i. subject, it is the belief that
f the wheat is under shelter.
Ci.
rr,',.
A ('.
'U'
fit''
w fair davs will dry the wheat
. - ... . . . '
'nin, however, if it is still in the
faokees
I
38
the Associated Press. '
v"i! hington, Juno 21. American
j"'1'1'1' are now holding tho fighting
Iin" a distance of 38 miles on thv.
w,'!'li "i front, according to informa
11
OFFICER
SPRING
Miles
AUSTRIANS
LOST GROUND
.c,but is Held by Allies
Operations on Other
Bulletins. Little
HELP IS NEEDED
Chief of Police Lentz informally
has begun to notify men betweerf tho
ages of 18 and 45 years to find jobs
and s-o far he has put about a dozen
wise. On Monday he will hand out
cards to be signed up and kept on
file and those who receive these cards
will be instructed how to report. He
expects to enforce the ordinance.
All persons who know of loafers or
men who are engaged in non-useful
occupations will please communicate
to the chief. If he makes the ordi
nance worth the paper it is written
on, he must have the hearty support
of the public. One does not have to
become a nublio tirnspcutnr in nr-Ao-r I
help; all he needs to do is to give the
oflVeer names and addresses and
he
will do the rest
THE SHAME OF THE SOUTH.
Charity and Children.
A young man in camt) who is en.
gaged in registeringthe raw recruits
IN ENFORCING
WORK LAW
that are coming from all parts of the conserving the country's gasoline sup
country, tells us that he is humiliated Ply are being considered by the oil
every day in the fact that soldiers division of the fuel administration in
from New York, Massachusetts, co-operation with the automobile in
Maine, New Hampshire and all the dustry and the national petroleum war
northern states, take the pen in hand service committee,
and siern their names in lecrible hand-1 Mark L. Requa, oil director for the
writing, while a large proportion of administration, said that in the light
men from Alabama, Mississippi, 'of a preliminary survey it is not be
North Carolina and other Southern Sieved it will be necessary to restrict
siatfs, nave to seize tne tip oi me
pert holder and make the cross mark
the badge of ignorance. The curse
of the south i3 ignorance. This sec- ,
tion has suffered through all the
years of the past because of the large
numbers of its people who cannot
read. Evils innumerable arise from
ignorance. One of the most notable
and daplcrable of these is the con
tempt for law which creates the
lynching parties that now and then
disgrace us and that are in no section
of the union half so prevalent as in
the southern states. Some progress
has been made in the education of the
masses within the past twenty-five
years, but we are yet shamfully be
hind our sister states of the north and
west. Our white mill population is
perhaps the most ignorant element of
our people.
Children, instead of being in school,
are at work in mills earning a pittance
which goes into the family support.
Parents, too dull and mercenary to
see the crime of it,, hold their offspring
to the work of earning their bread, in
stead of taking advantage of the edu
cational opportunities which are of
fered to them without money and
without price.
The supreme need of our time is
another great educational propaganda
such as Aycock made. A public sen
timent should be formed strong
enough to compel blind and stupid
fathers and mothers to do their duty
by their children. No child should be
allowed to grow up into maturity
without the ability to read and write;
and no child would grow up in mid
night darkness, if it were looked upon
as a djs grace to be unable to write his
name.' A new day is dawning upon
mankind.
Wihen the war is over now condi
tions, social, political and religious
will surround us. The young man or
woman without a knowledge or the
three rs in this. new and wonderiui
" . . 1 I
ii"1B "MT ' 1
LllC iii iuo v v-.. e
world safe for democracy involves the
education of our people. Russia, ab
ject and helpless, is so because she is
an atumdlv urnorant. She has neg
lected to teach her youth and gloried
in her shame; and there she lies the
footmat of the Huns, and the object
of the contempt of all mankind. North
Carolina, which some of us have been
claiming the best state in the union,
Vina Rbamefullv neerlected the educa-
tion of her youth. We put dollars into :
the education of the few and pennies
into the education oi tne many, ".institution buy as many war stamps-
did Russia. We have pursued tms
mistaken policy long enough. We must
doymore for those who do nothing for
themselves because they do not know
the blessing? of light and knowledge
Every man ana woman anu cuuu wiiu (
, " .MJ !.
oo Know, vugm w w ui..n.6 v.-..
i i u v.. fiflminr. avancrcfcia
in the interest oi universal
educa-1
lion.
Hold
tion given members of the house mili
tary committee at the weekly confer
ence with' Secretary Baker and Gei
eral March, chief of staff.
Now
HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA
MORALS
SCORED BRITISH
BY LUTHERAN
REVIEW
By the Associated Press.
Amsterdam, June 21. The German
quarterly Church Review, published
by the Protestant Truth Zeituner of
tTun, is iiKeiy to make unpleasant
reading for Emperor Wjilliam, in view
of his frequent utterances in praise ot
the quality and high morality of the
German people. The paper says:
"The highest law seems to be profi
teering and amusement."
.Lamenting the laxity of present day
German morals, the Review condemns
the proposal eminating from Cologne
to legalize bigamy, which proposition
the government takes quite seriously.
This attitude is interesting, because
it is recalled that the proposal at the
time it was made by eminent Ger
mans was a mere freak.
r 1 i., , . .
IS BUSY IN ITALY
By the Associated Press.
Italian Headauarters. Thursdav.
June 20. The first American aviator
to flv on the Italian front went to-
'day on a bombing expedition and sue-
AMERICAN
AVIATOR
ceeded in blowing two holes in a new.iam?Q names, uiviueu as itmuws
bridge across the Piave river.
PLANNING TO CONSERVE
THE GASOLINE SUPPLY
Washington, June 21. (Plans for
"v""" vvnawinwvii j.v.j.
vehicles and that with reasonable con-
servation it may not be necessary to
decrease tne supply to passenger cars
BASEBALL PLAYERS
By the Associated Press.
WUshington, June 21. New regula
tions issued today by Provost Marshal
General Crowder in regard to the
work or fight order do not rule spe
cifically on professional baseball play
ers, but emphasize the section of the
order placing games and sports
among the occupations classed as non
useful. 4.
By the Associated Press.
Paris, June 21. Crave events are
EVIDENTLY
INCLUDED
GERMAN ATTACK
EXPECTED ON
BRITISH
impending on the British Iront, ac- Recline of 14 to 26 points and active
cording to military experts who see in'mong sold several points net lower,
the intensity of the German can-:
, tf
nonade at various points a preumi-
nary step of a new German attack.
WEAVER HALL FUND $15,000.
Rutherford Colletre. June 21. The
(nWrintinTi fund for Wteaver Hall at
Rutherford college has been brought
to $15,000 on the $25,000 sought. In
his address at the Rutherford college
commencement Governor Bickett ex-
rt h friends of the college to
hnv and erive Liberty Bonds and War
stamps to Weaver Hall. During War j
stamp week, let the friends of the
2T1 J ,,,v r.N-wA kt thAwi tn
Weaver Hall. In laying the corner.
stone of Weaver Hall, Governor Bick
ett declared that while we are fight
ing to make the world safe for democ
racy weaver tian wiu neip
- " , 1, -1, l. J
jmutiavy ..v.
ma-fa. -- tho wat n
"SENATE COMMITTEE
POSTPONES
ACTON
By the Associated Press.
Washington, June 21. After- a
three-hour session, the senate agricul
ture committee today decided to post
pone action on the Jones rider to the
agricultural bill in order to investi
gate further statements made by
Bainbridge Colby of the shipping
board that to take beer away from
I shipyards would reduce ship produc
tion 25 per cent.
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 21
LOOSES
By the Associated Press.
London, June 21. British casualties
(reported during the week ending to
'dav ag-e-ree-ated 36.620.
I " ---
CHARLOTTE LAD
OF
By the Associated Press.
Washington, June 27. The army
casualty list today contained 38
names, divided as follows:
Killed in action, 6; died of wounds,
1; died of disease, 3; wounded se
verely, 27; wounded degree undeter
mined, 1.
LARGE MARINE LIST.
! B? the Associated Press.
Washington, June 21.
The marine
.corps casualtv list issued today con
Killed in. action, 10; died of wounds,
19; wounded severely, 98.
Included in the list are Privata
Joseph L. Orr of Matthews, N. C, who
died of wounds.
Gunnery Sergeant Oscar H. Jordan
of Ore Hill, N. C, and Corporal Eu
gene McLeod of Charlotte, N. C, both
of whom were severely wounded.
t s. s.
TOMORROW NIGHT
Bandy school .Speakers: W. C.
Feimster, Rev. W. R.'Bradshaw, J. 1.
Elliott.
Startcwn school Speakers: Yates
Killian, Rev. Geo. E. Long, Colin
Yoder.
Catawba school (Speakers: B. i.
Blackwelder, Rev. Ww W.. Rowe.
Terrell school Speakers: Judge W.
B. Councill, Rev. S. B. Stroup, Tom
Pruitt.
Rockett school Speakers: Dr. F. L.
Longaker, S. L. Wjhitener, John Isen
hour. Sandy Ridge school M. H. Younv,
Dr. W. A. Deaton.
Killian school A. A. Wliitener, h.
I L. Russell.
WSndy City IP. A. Stezer, Rev. Mr.
Peery, Rev. J. G. Garth.
.Minerva (W. H. Barkley, G. h.
Geitner.
Link C. W. Bagby, Chas. H. Geit
ner, Prof. K. B. Patterson.
By the Associated Press.
New York, June 21. Yesterday's
advance was followed by rather ac
tive selling in the cotton market to
day owing to the favorable weather
map, bearish private acreage figures
and reports that the first bale of the
new crop had arrived at Galveston.
First prices were barely steady at
XHC UVVilll YV MO VllV-XV-V c u Wll X
d there was b ; which
caused rallies before the end of the
first hour.
The close was steady.
Open
Close
26.53
24.57
24.10
24.01
23.99
July 26.60
October 24.60
December 24.15
, OT. 9o qr
January ZJ.Vi)
March 23.86
HICKORY MARKETS.
2fi
vvruwx
Wlheat i. 2.20
Corn 1.75
WEATHER FORECAST
Forecast for North Carolina: Prob
ably showers tonight and Saturday;
warmer in the west portion tonight,
moderate east to southeast winds.
DURING WEEK
36.620
MARINES
WOUNDED
MEETINGS
NEW
YORK
COTTON
1918
CALL IS ISSUED
TOR 4,247 IN
I
By the Associated Press.
Raleigh, June 21. A
North Carolina for 4,247
call upon
men has
been issued by the war department,
Adjutant General Young announced
today.
One thousand men qualified for gen
eral service will be sent between July
5 and 10 to Camp Greenleaf, Ogle
thorpe, Ga.; 247 men of grammar
school education having experience as
blacksmiths, carpenters and me
chanics will be sent to Clemson Col
lege, S. C, July 15: 1,700 others will
1,300 negroes will go to Camp Dix,
Md.
GROWDER- CALLS FOR
ISTRANTS
t
By the Associated Press.
Washington, June 21. Provost
Marshal General Crowder today call
ed for 8,976 draft registrants qualified
for general military service to be sent
July 15 to various schools for special
i training. The call is held open for
volunteers until July 1.
HIGHLAND WAR SAVINGS
SOCIETY . MEETS TONIGHT
The Highland War Savings society
meets this evening at 8:30 at the
Highland Baptist church. Dr. F. C.
Lcngaker and Mr. W.. A. Self will be
the speakers. The society was or
ganized last week and this is the first
regular meeting, and it is hoped that
the citizens will turn out in large
numbers. Plans for the drive next
week will be made at the meeting to
night. Caldwell and Catawba commission
ers have agreed on the proportion
each county is to pay on the Horseford
concrete bridge and settlement has
been made.
LOWER RATES FROM ;
SOUTHEAST TO WEST
By the Associated Press.
Washington, June 21. Through
rates from the southeast to the west
lower than the combination heretofore
in effect today were ordered establish
ed by-the interstate commerce com
mission. N
835 (GERMAN AIRPLANES
DESTROYED THIS YEAR
Paris. June 20. (Via Ottowa).
Eight hundred and thirty-five air
planes have been destroyed since Jan
uary 1, according to an official state
ment just issued, which tends to prove
that the German communiques are
not reliable when dealing with losseb
of airplanes.
The statement says that on June 2
the Germans lost 48, while on June 9
and 10, there were 49 of their ma
chines brought down. The Britisn
were responsible for the destruction
of 33 of those lost oa the latter date.
The German official statement ac
knowledged the loss of In on June 2
and eight on June 9 and '10. The
monthly losses during the present
days foMow: January, France 20 and
Germany 78 ; February, France 18 and
Germany 79; March, France 50 and
Germany 186; Apr'l, France 46 ana
Germany 136; Mhy, France 60 and
Germany 356.
CARPENTERS STRIKE
By the Associated Press.
Asheville, June 21. -Between
and 600 union carpenters went
500
on
strike today at Azalea tuberculosis
sanitorium when the contractors re
fused to grant them an increase of $1
a day.
TO CANVASS CITY
Miss Julia Wheeler, who was chair
man of the Woman's Third Liberty
Loan committee f or Hickory, met with
her workers at the Chamber of Com
merce rooms yesterday afternoon to
plan for the War Savings campaign
in Hickory. A house-to-house can
vass will be made by Miss Wiheeler's
committees between now and the 28th
of this month, by which time they ex.
v ha oKIp to rpnort that Hick-
ory has gone over the top by purchas
mg
es allotment oi war isavuigs
Stamps $81,702.
The war captains
are as follows:
First ward Mrs. H. D. Abernethy.
Second ward (Mrs. W. H. Little.
Third ward Mr. W. N. Sherrilh
Fourth ward Mrs. C. L. Mostellar.
CAROLINA
REG
SANITORIUM
IK
CHAIRMEN
NAMED
AUSTRIANS DISGRII
OVER SHORTAGE OF FOOD
Intense Resentment Reported in Vienna as Re
sult of Bad Conditions There Further
Reports Tend to Emphasize Hard Life
of Poor in Badly Governed Austria
USE AIRPLANES
IN LEAVING
GERMANY
By the Associated Press.
Copenhagen, June 21. .Four resi
dents of Berlin attempted to escape
from Germany Thursday in two air
planes. One succeeded in landing in
Denmark, but the other was brought
down im the Black sea by a guard
ship. The machine which landed in Den
mark had two occupants, one of
whom, a reserve officer, is a professor
at the University of Berlin. They say
that they fled from Berlin because of
conditions there.
AMERICANS AND THE BRITISH
London Morning Post
American troops are now with the
British armies in France. Their
camps are dotted over many miles
of country. The troops have been
arriving steadily for some time.
Careful selection has resulted in a
very high physical standard. Weak
lings and incompetents have been
mercilessly weeded out. I have not
seen a single soldier among them
who is not fit and hard after the se
vere training undergone in Ameri
ca. "What impresses me even more is
their wonderful keenness, said a
British -officer who has been associa
ted with the American troops since
their arrival. "They are so eager
to learn. Tell them how to do a cer
tain thing and they go at it until it
is mastered. They are out to know
everything there is to be known
ab:ut this business. It is a real
p" asure to work with them and to
w tch their rapid progress. One
cc Id not ask for better material for
ar j army.
I have heard comments of this kind
on all sides. The men as well as the
of." '.ers have resolutely put aside all
suggestions that "they know it all."
Thoy work hard from early morning
until late at night. The en seem to
think only of their training.
The American soldiers are living
on British rations. That is, they are
fed exactly the same as their allies,
and not on supplies imported direct
from America. They get the same
issues of beef, mutton, potatoes and
jam. It is a somewhat different bill
of fare from the one to which they
have been accustomed, since distinct
ive American items are lacking, but
they have settled down quite com
fortably to the ..new routine. They
are no "grousers.".
When the troops arrived in the
British zone they were distributed
over an are?, alloted to British units
which had just come out of battle.
The men of the two armies fraterni
zed in the most cordial way. I im
agine the Americans felt at first that ;
TMiVht hfi natronized by their el
der brethern in arms. Perhaps the
thoueht there
might be manifestations of a "su
perior" air by the newcomers.
Each had rather mistaken ideas
'oJirait -Hbo nersonalitv of the other.
The Americans found that the Bri
tish soldier was rather disinclined to
talk about his experiences; the Bri
tish discovered that their new allies
were full of eagerness to "know
things" and to be made free of the
Tv,-,rc0T.;0s r.f t.hfi front. Gradually
they became acquainted. You could
see them sitting together m a neia
discussing the relative merits of Brit
ish and American kits. The Britisn
instructors found that they had apt
and willing pupils. They found, too,
that the latter were imbued with one
idea to kill Germans.
"TTioir will be 0-o.od trooos. said a
TiritisVi cpneral to me. as a battalion
ilwav station to en
train for another place. He eyed
them critically as one company
round at the sharp word oi
command, and filed the carriges.
"Ive seen a lot ot them recently,
pd. "and thev have made
wonderful, very rapid progress.
Austrians Fail
in Italy Again
The close was steady.
Rome, June 20. The efforts of the
Austrians to widen the salient on the
Montello, the keystone of the Piave
front towards the west, have failed,
Premier Orlando informed parliament
tonight.
Towards the south the premier
stated the enemy again succeeded in
PRICE TWO CENTS
(LED
By the Associated Press.
London, June 21. Food conditions
in Germany are becoming worse and
there is great discontent there owing
to the reduction of the bread ration,
according to a Dutchman interviewed
bythe correspondent of The Times at
the Hague. The Dutchman has just
left a munitions plant in Germany and
said food conditions were bad.
The German people, he added, fear
to' grumble openly lest they be sent
to the front.
London, June 21. Further Infor
mation confirming reports of intense
resentment and excitement in Austria
over the reduction of the bread ration,
is quoted from Austrian newspapers
by the correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph.
Premier Seydler is accused by the
Socialist Arbeitcr Zeitung of Vienna
of producing a disastrous situation by
favoring agrarians and traders. It
adds: "The Austrian population can
not starve while Germany and Hun
gary have adequate rations."
Copenhagen, June 21. The situa
tion is grave at Prague, Bohemia,
Hungarian Bohemia and the industrial
centers in that province, says the
Neuie Free Press of Vienna has be
come so serious that the Austrian
government will either be compelled
to increase the bread ration or run
the risk of further rioting.
MASONS TO UNVEIL
THEIR SERVICE FLAG
Hickory Masons are looking for
ward with interest to the unveiling of
a service flag in the lodge room Mon
day night in honor of the 12 members
of the lodge who have joined the
colors and have carried Masonry to
the battle fields of France. The flag
will be presented by Rev. W. R. Brad
shaw and will be accepted for the
order by Mr. J. D. Elliott. At this
meeting the new officers will be in
stalled. All members and visiting
brethren are urged to be present.
The lodge will have a special com
munication tonight for work in the
second degree, and it is hoped there
will be a large attendance. '
TO SEND FLYERS
OVER WATER
TO
T
By the Associated Press.
Washington, June 21. Big Ameri
can air and seaplanes should be flying
across the Atlantic to reach the front
by next summer, Major General
Blankor of the British air ministry
said today in a formal statement to
the press. He is in Washington to
cooperate with American officials and
believes that an agreement will be
reached.
General Blankor disclosed the fact
that the British air council had defi
nitely decided upon the Atlantic flight
to find a route for the American air
craft to the front. It is hoped the U.
S. government will cooperate.
It is expected the initial flight will
be made this autumn in a machine of
British make, probably a seaboat,
starting from Newfoundland, touching
at the Azores and Portugal on the
way to the front.
crossing the " Montelluna-Fusegana
railway at several points near Miner
va station, but was promptly stopped.
On the lower Piave the Italians gain
ed further ground.
The enemy losses during the day
were enormous, the premier added.
The Italians took several hundred
prisoners.. ;
FRON