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Hickory Daily K ECORD NO. 71 HICKORY, N. C, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1918 i-rtL IV. PRICE FIVE CENTS PRESIDENT'S FIRST DAY MOR E ABOARD GEO. WA'I N RETURN HOME S0LDIERS1QND0N Mr Wilson Turns Promptly to Work In His Study--Quarters Not Luxurious How the Convoys Protect Big Passenger Ship As She Steams For ?est, France. By tin1 xiiiU-J Tress. ; ':,t. I'nited States Ship !-:; ":uii. JVc. 5. (By t. Associated Tress). y, ,, .1 spent most of the f ;, trip on this steam , ; ii's oilief part of his acknowledging from :. greetings that were ;i. tin.' ship put to sea. o i hi' pile of letters anil ;....t:.;;nc him and worked v-r;'. pliers. ,.;:,, m on the advice ot , ilcar Admiral Cary T. . ;;tv ,!ovn atul rested for ; 1 1 i- e of a slight cold c tiny: h's voice. "V i v ili'iit received calls h,i;ul. including the I' i iM'.cli ambassadors. this Iv took a walk on .. r with Mrs. Wilson. .. : :;.a. party dined quiet . a'ai:'. being served by a claimed to have attend 'inpci'or William and tht .'i' same ship. that the presidents, ni lilted up in a luxur- arc untrue. laf l'-a'.'. music was fur tiv chip's band a quar- WILL DISCHARGE 10010 MEN keeping in a 'y wireless. ! ;nvrs with ..-vlvan'a, leading touch ! tho tht-i k- piiv-' in close touch ram-h.p carrying the M.ne sweepers are run-tin- buw of the ship, t led with steel billets su a!'' deep into the water, i r is coid and misty, but V'li. 'r. .Mrs. Wilson reloan (irnru'e Washington cat to Vice Admiral Cleave? ' thanks for the arrange- ...' trip. i'. i s of the Associated I ' i'td I'rcss and the In N ws Sffvice are nccom f presidential party (ii'orgc Washington. Ar W'.'re made in advance r poialonts to send in. "rts, these to be releasee . m. GLASS NOMINATION en c , Mr (. IS SENT 10 SENATE A-aociuted Fres3. n. Due. "). Representa Tass of Virginia was I t '.lay bv President Wilson the treasury of th. go into office on De 1 1 i ',i a V. U,r an agreement with M'.A'loo, whose resigna f ''I'pted by the president to ' upon the appointment and "ii of his successor, av-um'ng his duties Mr. i y to his home in Lynch ' -i.iust his affairs, to wh'.cn ' could not give as much ; did while a member Mr. Glass' resitrna- im a ni. m!i'r of the house within ' ,"':: f;w days after 18 years' r; w'!l lausi; a special election h'r. i in his district to be his 'f. o fhant-( in tho nolicv tniwury is to be expected, :-a'd today. FROM NAVY By the Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 5. Discharge of JO per cent of the navy's wartime personnel, about IOO.OOq men, has been authorized by the navy depart ment. Secretary Danels said today the men would be released as quick ly as possible, with clue regard to the convenience of the service. Private yachts motor craft and other vessels are being turned over "o their owners. Mr. Daniels said by February 700 craft will have been stricken from the navy list. The release of en listed men is authorized not because the navy is over-manned, but to per mit the return to civil life men who entered the navy for the war ano who do not intend to follow the sea. PAPAL SECRETARY TO AWAIT PRESIDENT By the Associated Press. Paris, Dec. 5 It is stated in Vati can circles that Monsignor Cerretti, the papal under secretary of state, will await the arrival of President Wilson in -London to arrange for his y:,sit.. to the pope, according tc the Rome correspondent of the Echo de Par's. (As far as can be seen, no obstacles appear in the way of the meeting, which wiil be of great po litical importance. TODAY By the Associated Press. New Vorty Dec 5.--The British transport Orea, with 1,922 American troops aboard, advised here today from Liverpool. She is the fourtn transport to arrive with American (roops. HICKORY BOY WITNESSED SURKHXDHK OF GERMANS A Hickory boy, Mr. J. O. Bigger staff, saw the German fleet surren der to the allies and he was one among the thousands of Yankee and British sailors who will treasure the event as long as they live. In a letter to his sister, Miss Fair Big gerstaff, the young man says that he was on the battleship Texas, which took part in the ceremony. The German ships were (big ones, but they were meek enough, and now the sailors, instead of being called out of their bunks at all times of tht n'ght, can sleep artd that is what they have been wanting, he says. The joung man promises to bring details home with him. He was given to understand that the Texas might be in New York by Christmas, but he was not banking on it. BERLIN AFFAIRS ISAPPEAR VERY OBSCURE PAPERS SENATE REFUSES WELCOME i TO N WILSON SPS By the Associated Press. London, Dec. 5. (British Wlireless Service.')! The (British newspapers! in the last few days in publishing' President Wilson's address to con-! gress and American opinion have taken occasion to point out the Brit ish public's ever-growing apprecia tion of .the American soldier. "W would ask the Americans,'' says the Times, "to believe that the j j. va uuv will 1 Ilg, sjx. the president in the same spirit In which they regarded the immense war effort of the United States and the coming of their troops." By the Associated Fresa. WJashington, Dec. 5. By unani mous vote the senate foreign rela tkms committee today disapproveu the resolution of Senator Cummingj, of Iowa, Republican, proposing to send a senate committee to the peace conference. By the Associated rress. London, Dec. 5. (British Wireless Service.) The political situation in Germany appears to be extraordinar ily obscure, says the Amsterdam cor respondent of the Daily Express. Ev erybody seems to be quarreling with everybody else and every member ol the Socialist party is trying to see who can be the most radical. Two grave dangers, the correspond ent declares, appear to be confronts ing the new German republic. One is the separatist movement headed by Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian premier, who is issuing propoganda against the leadership of Berlin and appears to be willing to create a south Ger man republic. The other danger which the cor respondent adds is equally pressing is that arising between the Berlin Soviets and the Berlin executive com mittee. a a.- tV (ili till DOLLARS OFF IE NAVA STIMATE SOMEBODY WORK TO FOR THAT GOOD SUIT l:y tho "Major" W. A. Hahn, a mighty fine salesman of War Savings Stamps and a former carrier on rur al route No. 2 from Hickory has dc c'ded that he will not let Captain "Dock" Frye have that nice suit of clothes that Mr. J. D. Elliott, chair man of the War Savings Committee of the county, and others have prom ised as a prize to the rural carrier of thecounty who sells the greatest amount of War Savings Stamps. Al though Mr. Hahn resigned several onIns ago, his sales at the time he loft the posal service were greater than those at the present time of "Captain" Frye. "Major' says that the boys at the railway shops, where he works wi 1 buv more stamps this Associated press. .month than 'Old Dock" has sold ''"-ton, J)e 5. More than during the twelve months to the pa " dollars has been cut fromi Irons of rural route No. 4. "Taint stirnate for the coming s0 says tne captain. icntary Daniels dis- '" '"'lay that the estimates sent '. 'Wriv Monday wore based on ," iA ir program, and the reduction- ' ' in order. N, ''ACE LIKE HOME t. K; I;"!. ).., "a'd in, Hoiland anxious to get rid of t and the Kaiser's family n!' nt home in Germany, it ''""ii'h No Man's Land was ,,,i u notmbir !ift.fr-thi-war I OI ! Ill ml lAn.n I ri if , ...... ...iiiiiif, .Vlvertl-;er. Express u is not ,,(.''nrm. (h, Wis,- lllile,,,,, ,,,., U'llHer; ri-'law; fcnnl; AOLcs. ANSWERED iard to explain how he greatest man living: Charleston vening Post. Ml PANKHURST S GOES TO PARLIAMENT STATE SCHOOL LAW UPSET BY OPINION Hv reversinsr Hill asrainst commis sioners of Lenoir county the supreme court m Kaieugn overtnrows tne school law of 1911 and settles all school elections which have ithe double proposal to carry county-wide spec ial tax. but failini? in that to imuose it in townships where a majority of the votes have been favorably cast. Justice Wa.ker wruting the opinion regards it one of the most impor tant cases decided m years. Chiet Justice Clark alone stands up for the school law. He holds that the court has no right to reverse a judgment hnsed nnon the eeneral assembly act. The chief justice dissents vigorously while Associate Justices Allen -ana Brown indorse Judge Walker. The case has been many weeks in court. A week or two ago it was apparent that Kinston had lost ibe- ause the time lor special levy naa srone. .Lenoir counxy neiu m eauy nTYiTTiPr nn election nroDosine: a coun- SO cents and 90 cents on the poll. The act under which the eleqtion was held provided that townships which vote a majority in favor of county-wide proposals may "mpose the tax even when the larger unit fails. Mr. Hill sought to re strain the tax levy in Goldsboro. Judge Frank Daniels heard the argu ments and dissolved the restraining order, the plaintiff appealed and by reversing the lower court the high er knocks out the law. Tiuiiro Wnlk-er decides the case on the point that the lower court's con- 3'ruction oi tne iaw is aganiai, He policy; that elections in which there are two separate proposals are invalid; that if two distinct proposi tions could be voted for there is none in this law ithat provides for the cast in"- of a separate ballot; that suffi cient legal notice was given for a., elect'on of this character, that the real and single issue is whether there shou'd be coumty tax for spec ified purposes or whether there should be none and that voters were not allowed to express themselves on the actual issues raised. He said the township tax issue was not sub mitted and the voter is denied the rght of declaration there. He ob jects to the disposition of the funii and declares finally that the question is important as giving the voter the right to say how he shall be taxea. Chief Justice Clark rubs it into tht tate "which stands with New Mex ico at the bottom of the literacy list. ' He thinks the hundred thousand ma jority for schools indicates interest in education and that if the voter could not get it in Kinston the county-wide tax, he desired the township tax and the legislature has the right to pass such a law, he thinks. -Am-for LBy the Associated Press. London, Wednesday, Dec. 4. nnr i Vio candidates nominated parliament yesterday were 14 women. They include Miss iChristobel Pan hurst, daughter of Mrs. Emmaline Pankhurst, the suffragist leader. LOVETT WILL RETURN TO UNION PACIFIC ONE WAY OF RELIEF Washington Post. If Mr. Creels committee would the naDer short age in this country would end stanter. By the Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 5. Robert S. Lovett has resigned as director of the railroad administration division ox capital expenditure and will return Tomiar-ir 1 r Vii fnrmpr Hnt.l'ps . in-. chairman of the board of director ox the Union Pacific Railroad. NORTH CAROLINA RANKS HIGH IN FOOD North Carolina first in cotton pro duction to the acre, second m to bacco with 242,000,000 pounds, third in sweet potatoes, fourth m peanuts, fifth in sorghum and in buckwheat, seventh in peaches, ninth in wheat and 10th in apples is the way Com missioner Graham stacked up the state when the board of agriculture met for its semi-annual session in Raleigh yesterday. It was regarded predestination all over that since buckwheat stood as high there should be an equal am ount of lasses to go on the cakes for which buckwheat is chiefly fit. North Carolina continues to lead in acreage production of cotton a head position held many years against the best cotton states in the world. As far back as 1900 the state was yielding first among the states and the posi tion has not been changed many times. The report of the commis sioner yesterday shows many im provements elsewhere. For instance wheat, has gone from 27th to 9th place, corn from 25th to 15tth, buc&wheat from -20th to 5th, po tatoes from 31st to 24th and in oats alone has there been any loss of pres tige. The state is now 25th where 18 years ago it was 21st. - The rec ords for apples, peanuts, sorghum, peaches and sweet potatoes do not seem to be available so far back. Thus the state has held its position "at the head of the table" agricul turally while losing prestige in poli- t.cs. The value of crops is neariy 5 times what it was 18 years ago and compares with 1916 as $417,846,000 does with $700,000,000. The corn yield is 63,000,000 bushels, wheat 13.167,000 bushels, tobacco 242,252,- 000 pounds, potatoes 4,512,000 sweet potatoes 972,000 bushels, peanuts 5,- 510,00 bushels ana cotton d.uuu bales. Wheat is grown this year in every county. That may account for any increased claim Food Administrator Henry Page said much during the spring about big wheat crops. The millers protested Major Graham s rhapsodism. Major Graham makes bigger claims than ever and varies it ony m the amoumt tnat tne state sells to outsiders. He had believed formerly that each North Carolinian has 10 pounds of surplus flour. The number of bushels required tor oreaa is 11,092,000; for seed, 1,472,000 and the surplus is 597,000 bushels. Which would leave 12 or so pounds to the individual after all the bread had been made up. The grain and fruit crops have shown up well and these fierures are based upon govern ment reports. These were they which Marse Henry Page, a section oi tne eovernment attacked last spring when the federal government was about to requisition North Carolina tor a tew millions of bushels of surplus wheat. Millers thanked Marse Henry and asked him to muzzle the major. Corn production has gone to 21 bushels an acre, wheat to 12, pota toes to 85. sweet potatoes to y0, to bacco to 170 pounds, peac to 35 bush-. els and hay to 1.3 itons an acre. NEW YOR K COTTON By the Associated Press. iMpwYork. Dec. 5. The realizing which had developed on the early ad vance of yesterday's and caused the late reactions was followed by flue. tuations m the cotton market today, TVia nnpnincr was steadv at unchang ed prices to an advance of 15 points. Prices later worked some 10 to &j points higher. WEATHER-FORECAST For North Carolina: Fair to night and Friday. Warmer Friday, gentle to moderate shifting winds, becoming south. SAYS FATHER IS BULL-HEADED FELLOW By the Associated Press. London Dec. 5. (British Wireless Service.) You lEnglish clamor to get father and me away from Hol land. We are down and out and my father is a broxen man. Isn't that enough punishment?" the formei crown prince said on the island oi Wierengen, where he is interned with a correspondent of the Daily Mirror. Frederick William added that he always favored an agreement between Germany and Great Britain and wished them to work together. A number of his close friends live in England and he would like nothing better than to live there as a private citizen. "I quarrelled with my father in Great Britain," he said. "I told him the British would be against him. He never believed this and would never take into account that possibility." BRITISH NAVAL STRENGTH WILL REMAIN SUPREME Winston Churchill Declares That Government Will Allow Nothing to Change Its Policy President Wilson Has Views of Allies on the Former Kaiser and Others. EXPECT TERROR BERLIN FRIDAY PLAT MAY UY WN AL By the Associated Press. Washington, Dee. 5;. AH requi sitions of the fuel administration for the shipment of bituminous coal to industrial plants has been cancelled. The administration announced today that its policy in the future will be to leave to the plants themselves the work of obtaining coal. With Mrs. Abernethy Mrs. F. A. Abernethy charmingly entertained the members of the Cos mos Book Club Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Craig Shuford was a most wel come guest. During the social hour Mrs. George Yoder read a very inter esting story and Mrs. J, L. Cibey played several enjoyable 'selections on the piano. At the close of the delightful meeting dainty refresh ments were served by the hostess. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Blackburn on December 11. The books for the year are as fol ows: "The Golden Bird," "Daugh ter of the Land' "My Home in the Field of Honor," "Bunker Bean," You can only be young but once "You Can Only Be Young But Oncai," "The Magnificent Amber- son. Ihe Hilltop on the lvlarne, "The Amazing Interlude," "The Un pardonable Sin," "When the Cock Crows" and "'Sam." DEATH OF MRS. MAYER vMr. J. O. Moore, Mrs. J T. Setzer and Miss Lois Frye attended the fu neral of Mrs J. A. Mayer at Black Mountain. Mrs. Mayer, a former resident of Hickory, had a number of relatives and friends who wiil be pained to hear of her death. She eaves six children, two brothers, Dr J. L. Payne of Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. H. C. Payne of London, England, and one sister, Mrs. Laurence Frye of Hickory. Mir. J. A. Mayer, her hus band, a merchant of Hickory and Black Mountain, died some years ago. AUTOMOBILE FIRE Mr. W. N. Sherrill's Oakland au tomobile furnished diversion at 2:30 this afternoon when fire started un der the hood and sent up flames and smoke for a minute or two. The pyrene juice was applied and Chiei Whitener hurried with other chemi cals, but the blaze was extinguished without trouble. A short circttit is said to have caused the fire. The damage was small. K. OF P. NOTICE The Knights of Pythias will meet tonight at 7:30. T URKISH NOW FLEET OUT OF COMMISSION By the Associated Press. London, Dec. 5. The entire Turk ish fleet is now in the hands of tht allies, the admiralty announced today. The warships after surrendering were interned in the bay at Constantinople. The former German cruiser Goeben was among the surrendered vessels. By the Associated Press. Paris, Dec. 5. A terrorist revolu tion under the leadership of Dr Liebknecht, the radical Socialist, will break out in Berlin Friday evening, according to advices received by the Zurich correspondent of the Joui- nal. Liebknecht, it is reported, is in command of 15,000 troops. The population of Berlin, according to reports, is at the mercy of gang., of marauders, and there appears to be no authority. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY By the Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 5. Julian P. Alexander of Jackson was nominated by President Wilson today to be Un ited States attorney for the southern district of Mississippi. RICH T TO ORGANIZE IS SAID TO DEPEND By the Associatea Press. Washington, Dec. 5. Holding that the question of right to organize am ong municipal employes is a sepa rate matter for the right to organ ize in industrial plants, the national war labor board today refused to as sume jurisdiction in a case brought by the city firemen of Omaha, Neb., seeking the right to organize for high er pay. DOROTHY DALTON IN "TYRANT FEAR AT PASTIME TODAY By the Associated Press. London, Dec. 5. The British na val authorities have decided that it will be unnecessary to demand the return of Helgoland to Great Britain from Germany, Winston Churchil minister of munitions, announced in a speech at Dundee tonight. Mr. Churchill also said that the govern ment had decided to nationalize the railroads. "We enter the peace conference, said Mr. Churchill,, "with .the absolute determlnati on that no limitation shan be imposed upon our rights to main tain our naval defense. We do not intend, no matter what arguments and appeals are addressed to us, to lend ourselves in any way to any fet tering restrictions which will prevent the British navy maintaining its well-tried and well-deserving supre macy." TO DEAL WITH (GUILTY The program at the Pastime to day will be a Paramount special, "Tyrant Fear," featuring that popu lar .r, Dorothy Dalton. Are you afrad of the dark of a mouse of anything? If you are, then you probably realize the truth of that old Biblical saying, that "fear hath torment" to rend the soul, to dwarf the ambitions and hopes of men and women, to make a mouse of a iion to do any one of a number of seem ingly foolish things. In this story of a girl brought up in the French Canadian settlements of the far North, you will see what fear did to one poor victim, and also what transformed her to a brave, fear less woman whose will was law to aii within her scope of influence. Dor othy Dalton is the young heroine. ROCKETT NOW LEADS, ENTIRE CARRIER FORCE iCarfcler O. T Rockett, or better known as "Over the Top" Rockett, now leads the city and rural carriers 'n the sale of War Savings Stamps. For the greater part of the year car rier J. L. Bolick led, but Rockett centered his efforts in securing a large number of buyers and did not worry about the large buyers or pur chasers of stamps and has always been confident that he would win by having the greatest sales. The sales by carriers today are as follows: CSty Carriers O. T. Rockett $24,490.00 J. L. Bolick 24,290.00 H. H. Bowman 18,100.00 Rural Carriers H D. Fry (and W A. Hahn) $11,220.00 9.69&.OU 6,510.00 5,915.00 5,820.00 By the Associated Press. London, Dec. 5 The substance or the discussion early this week be tween the representatives of Grea Britain, Fancp and Italy relativb to the peace conference was cabled to the United States and it is believ ed they reached President Wilson be fore he sailed. Reuters, Ltd., says there is reason to (believe the president's adVisers are of the opinion that the views of the conference regarding former Em peror William are likely to coincide with those of the president himself. Responsible opinion, says he news aigency, holds that the ex-emperor and other persons guilty of breaches of international law during the war should be dealt with by a tribunal of the allied powers, especially those which suffered most. TO CAMP GREENE The soldier clerk. Pvt. Henry L. Bumgarner, who has been on duty at the local board office for Catawba county at Newton, has been orderea to report to Camp Greene December 6. He leaves for Camp Green 36 Friday morning. on MACHIN NS USED E TO SUPPRESS RIOTS By the Associated Press. Copenhagen, Dec. 5. Machine guns were used in suppressing fooa riots in Cologne, according to tele grams from that city. Several stores in different parts of the ciity were plundered. There were a number of casualties. After plundering the stores a great crowd gathered at the food depot but the "welfare committee" of the city decided to suppress the disturbances without mercy. The mob retreat ed in disorder. Other casualties occurred in con flicts between the mobs and police. IN THE FUTURE "There is one time coming when men will really enjoy their wives' biscuits and rolls." "What time is that?" "When we 'ook back and remember the war bread mother used to make." IDetroit iFree Press. N FORMATION WANTED REGARD TO POSITIONS D. K. Fry L. S. Huffman ,- N. A. Yount J. H. Fry MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR LIEUT. S IGMON A memorial service will be held in the Reformed church Sunday after noon at 3 o'clock for Lieut. Orin M. siirmnn. TYipmher nf the rainbow di vision who was killed in France on the night of September 30 when a mo tor truck in which he and several other soldiers were riding collided with a passenger locomotive. In this accident Sergt. Chester C. Williams also was killed and Private Joseph L. Murphy was injured. Mrs. Clarence Keever is recovering from the flu. The soldier and sailor boys are be ginning to come home, and they will be looking for positions. These they will find without much trouble. Yet the home service committee of the local chapter of the American Red Cross desires to secure and file infor mation that will enable any soldier or sai'or tq secure position as soon as he wants to go to work af ter a good long rest withut any trouble or loss of time. Therefore the committee requests that ail manufacturers, business men, farm ers and others desiring to employ the services of one of the boys to so no tify in writing Mr. Chas. H. Geitner, Mr. Leroy Abernethy or Mr. Chas. W. Bagby. The not'ee should state the number of men dasired, the char acter of the work, the salary or wages to be paid, and the frequency of the payments. This information will be filed at the post office and the committee wil! gladly assist any sol dier or sailor in securing the kmd of work for which he is best suited. All are requested to send their notices stating the number of men desired, etc., to the committee without delay.
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