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CORD VOL. IV. NO. 102 HICKORY, N. C SATURDAY EVENING JN.nuary 11, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS DR. LIEBIWHT REPORTED KIl ' 50 IN BERLIN FIGHT Unconfirmed Report on Death of Leader of Reds Seems Untrue Hard Contests For News paper Offices In Berlin Continues--Cannon and Flame Throwers Are Used. FOUR- SQUADS CHASE DOWN DESERTERS ID STEAMER S MTOL Bv the Associated Press. London, Jan. 11. Dr. Ka knecht. tht Spartacan leader Germany, was killed during street fighting in Berlin on Thursday ev fning, according to a dispatch to Copenhaven forwarded by the Ex change Telegraph Company. MhM I IT miOOlh i PROBABLY UNTRUE AT PEACE mm By the Associated Press. London. Jan. 11. Several dispatcn c h from the Associated Press cor respondent In Berlin filed Friday af ternoon at 3 o'clock contained no! mention of the reported death of Di' l.it'bkecht. Nothing definite is known here to what Friday's developments Berlin were. By the Associated Press. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 11. Thirty-tfwo soldiers from Camp Gordon left to day for the mountains of north Georgia to aid pturing George Crawley, alleged deserter from the camp and probably fatally wounding F. II. Dixon, a United States marshal who attempted to arrest him. Th.1 shooting took place in Union t'ouity, iv.iar where the states of North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina meet in the mountains. Reports received here state that the deserters are making moonshine liquor. It was thought a general round up of deserters would take place. as in DISORDERS SPREAD By the Associated iVess. Paris, "Jan. 11. It is understood' on best authority that negotiations have been under way for some time between the allies looking for rep resentation of ail the different par ties of Russia at the peace confer ence. It is understood that admis sion of these delegates be on condit ion that a truce be declared in Rus sia. The proposition, which is supposed to emanate from the British govern- j mont in its present form, is not ae- rented by France., which has refusea I to regnize the bolsheviki in any form. mars will is FILED FOB PROBATE HELP I TO DA Y L Y l Bv the Associated rress. ; nJY W. T. HOST" Halifax, N. S-, Jan. 11. The Raleigh, Jan. 11. Neither house of steamship Castalia reported by wire-' the general assembly put any great less this morning- that she was sink-' amount of work on the first Saturday ing fast 65 miles south of Canso, and 0f the session, b vth houses meeting called for -Immediate assistance. She princ'pally to adjourn, lis bejf eved 'to be the American j The house met at 10, Speaker steamship Castalia, 3.092 tons Brummitt announcing some of his gross, operated by the shipping board. ! mr.re important committees and Rep- There is a British steamship Cas-: resentutive Griiihi of Union county (AMERICAN TROOPS WELL EQUIPPED FOR WINTER Those In Northern Russia Are Prepared For Rigors of Cold Papid Demobilization of the Troops Overseas and at Home Is An nounced by General March Today. talia of 6,39(3 tons. SE vent KILLED IN FIGHT IMP ma calling for the submission of suff rage to the voters of the state. No fireworks followed and the house ad journed without revising its decision to let the prohibition amendment come up next week. j j. lie t-enais meeuni; c t ii'hiu nan j nothing before it. NORTH CARO 1 .TO DPS SOON RETURN By the Associated Prest. Copenhagen, Jan. 11. Very seri uus rioting occurred Friday in Dres den, Hamburg, Augsourg ana i;us svldorff, according to reports re-j ieived here. The fighting was, most severe in Hamburg and is still inj LLDENDORFF WANTS TO progress. SOJOURN IN SWEDEN The irovernment troops in Berlin Stockholm Jan. 11 the Spartacans, who still hold news paper row. The fighting for the possession of the newspapers -General Lu- iVndo.r, former chief quartermas ter genera' of the German armies, has applied to the Swedish govern- has ment for formal permiss'on for h im itated since Wednesday and cannon self and his wife to stay a snort time 1 in sweuen. ine application na& neon granted ior one rnoutn. and flame throwers have caused m casualties. SINKING STEAMER AMERICAN VESSEL By the Associated Press. New York, Jan. 11. United States sh.pping board officials said here to day that the steamship Castalia, re ported sinking off Nova Scotia, was undoubtedly the American steamer, Castalia, which was being brought around from the Great Lakes for overseas service. She was at last reported arriving at Sidney, N. S., from Quebec January 6 and was hound here. The shipping board has heard nothing from the ship except what was contained in press dispatches. Bv the Associated Press. Mineola, N. Y., Jan. 11. The will of Theodore, Roosevelt, filed today, divides a trust fund of $60,000 into equal shares for each of his children, bequeaths wedding presents given at the marriage of his first wife to 1 is daughter Alice and leaves the residue of his estate to the executors of the will in trust. The executors are directed to ap p'y the yieome of the estate to the use of his widow and authorizes Mrs. Roosevelt to dispose of the principal of the trust to his children in such shares and poi-tions or either as she shall declare. In the event that Mrs. Roosevelt i fails to make such disposition of the BULGARIA'S LOSSES ARE GIVEN IN DETAIL Bj the Associated Press. Sofia, Thursday, Jan. 9. Bulga ria's losses follow: Killed and missing, 101,224; woun ded. 1,152,399, and prisoners, 10,825. These figures do not include the loss es during the retreat from Macedonia. I principal it shall revert to his heirs. AMERICANS ARE uU'yjCu I tl) U LttV !ilL CAMPAIGN TO AID STATE SCHOOL GARDEN WORK INJUNCTION SUIT AGAINST BURLESON DISMISSED Washington. Jan. 11. Quite a campaign is on in behalf of the school garden work started several years ago by Commissioner of Edu cation Ciaxton and developed into an important war service within the last two years. Efforts are being made to have Congress provide well for tho pont.inuatlon of this enterprise. a o-reat cea has neeu & - By the Associated Press- Archangel, Friday. Jan. 10. The new positions of the Americans, Russians and Poles on the Onega sector was subjected to a heavy bol shevik mach'ne gun fire on Thurs day. The allied positions now are at a village .about eight miles back from last week. The retreat was made in order to provide better bil XTa rlrtnnf. IS. w York. .Tan. 11. The iniunct'on ,i p-arden culture by ; lets for the men iAler a tew days oi miit hrmio-ht bv the Commercial Cable' n or.hnn This rounled with tf company and the Commercial Pacific backyard garden move'ment has help- Cab e comoanv against Postmaster General Burleson to restrain h'm from taking over for the government their respective cable lines, was dis missed yesterday by Federal Judge Learned Hand. Counsel for the companies an nounced that an appeal wou.d be tak en. Judge Hand decided the case on its merits. ,' Taking up the claims of plaintiff that the seizure of the cable lines on November 1G, five days after sign ing of the armistice, was not justi fied by the joint resolution of July 16, 1918, authorizing the president to seize cables when he deemed it "ne cessary" and that the reso ution it self was not a sufficient warrant for the seizure. Judge Hand deeded both claims adversely extremely cold weather, the northern front has TL il, tL o 1 m-oducesr'The again become unusual warn, invmts have helped to clean A heavy snow has fallen. t v i.w up many a d'rty old town. Many North Carolina people have urged Senators Overman and Sim mons to aid in the efforts to have the work go on. OVERTIME FOR SCULPTORS Boston Transcript. With every state, city and town planning to 'erect a soldiers' memo rial, it looks as if our scupltors and architects should plan to ignore union hours and work overtime anc. holidays. By the Associated Press. Buenos Aires, Jan. 11. Seventy- two persons were killed, 81 wer gravely 'wounded and more than 800 received minor injuries in the fight ing which occurred here late yester day and last night, according to figures on th ecasuasues complied here 'at 3 o'clock this morning. Fighting was almost continuous from night until early this morning. m ENGINEERS ARE I0ERE0 NO RETU REPUBLICANS TIRED OF r. iSOUTH RUNNING '(NATION By the Associated Pre.s3 'Coblenzj, Thursday, Jan. 9. 37th engineers, consisting of picked electrical and mechanical -The 1,600 ex- j perts from every state in the union, fr lias been ordered for early return home. The 37th is the first regi- By the Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 11. Democratic members of the house rulescommit tee today reversed the committee's previous action and ordered the re port of a rule giving immediate considei'ation to the bill appropriat ing $100,000,000 for European re.ief work. Chicagai, Ddc. 11. Declaring universal female suffrage by censti speeches condemning Socialism, bol- IIU-'J1L 111 lu uc UIde"-u shevism and government ownerslrp, home. the Republican national committee? j yesterday conferred on onairman Wll H. Hays, who opened the meet-. ing with prayer, what was taken to be full power to conduct affairs of the party in its effort to defeat the Democrats at the next national elec tion. ' ' Resolutions laudatory of Theo dore Roosevelt were adopted and plans were made to erect a monument to the decedent by popular subscript ion. The Democratic national adminis tration was denounced by committee-' men for what was' termed its ten dency to socialism and for placing control of the government depart ments in the hands of the minority of the south, while the majority of the north .paid 90 per cent of the taxes as worded by Governor Beck-. man of Rhode Island. It was declared by Chairman Hays and others that it was too early to consider a candidate for president, but many names were ment'oned in the informal talk of committeemen. Two women took part in the delib erations as holders of proxies. t Mrs. Medil'l McCorpiick of jllh-1 nois, chairman of the woman's exe cutive committee, read a long report outlining plans for the active part ci Hickory relatives of soldiers in the 30th division will be interested in the announcemetn that the North Carolina troops probably will sail from France between January 25 and 25. A special from France to a Philadelphia paper recently gave the 20th as the date for sailing, and this is confirmed by announcement from j Wash'ngton in the special corres pondence of H. E. C. Bryant. Mr. Bryant says the men probab ly will land at Hoboken, N. J., and there remain for a week before be fore being sent to a southern camp to be mustered out. That wiil enable them to reach home about the first of March. The soldiers, it is believed, will be given furolughs and if they should be tranferred to a southern camp for muster out, many of them will spend short leaves with relatives. iSJnce General iHaig, the British commander, stated in his official re port that the 30th division was the first to break the Hindenburg line, interest in these veterans has increas ed. Their friends knew they had the goods, but it was so much finer for the British commander-in-chief to declare the fact. ' IflLLIU IILHL WILL OCCUPY PULPIT ETHODIST CHURCH By the Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 11. General March made public today a report from the American military attache at Archangel on the operations in northern Russia during the month of December and up to January 10 showing that the American troops were well equipped in every way for the winter. The chief of staff said he had no confirmation of reports that British forces are being withdrawn from the Archangel sector. RAPID DEMOBILIZATION By the Associated Tresa. Washington, Jan. 11. Demobiliza tion of the American army, General March, chief of staff, said today is proceeding at a rate which compar ative figures show to be more than twice as fast as the British demobi lization. Actual figures up to Janu ary 10 of men discharged from the American army showed a total of 693,889. British discharges to January 7 numbered 352,658. American offi cers to the number of 47.038 have been returned to civil life, while on January 7 the British had discharged only 3,038 officers. American troops scheduled for de moljTliziation now number 1,151,000 including 96,000 men who actually have returned from overseas, but not including units designated for return or on their way home. PRAYERS FOR PEACE CONFERENCE SUNDAY Due to the influenza situation at Lenoir, the centenary district group Z SrVwomen in The national af- meeting scheduled to meet there has Lrs of the party. , , ..d i ,rr- Tioon L'TTitin Ot KhOflC IS- 1 -"--'i jm-.vj, ...i.v... ..." 0... J KJ VC111UL iv,ui,iiii land, referred to the recent Repub lican victories m tne congi essina. crurcii iii Monday at 10 o'clock and continue i through the afternoon. Pastors in this section of tht Statesville district, together with lay leaders and other interested iay- , : ci-. -.xrhVh men. are expected to attend. it is aIJTa t.hP npmocratic national hoped that many of the women m the UUilllll"vi - - -i. , e'ections and said the people of the north were tired of paying 90 per cent of the taxes and having it expended Minne- administration. Governor Burnquist of sota denounced bolshevism, anarchy and socialism and said the hope of the country for the future was in the election of a Republican president. BELLAMY AND WOODLEY LEAD FOR MA.RSHALSHIP Flam To Harbor Settle Stn (Washington, Jan. 1L The mar shalship contest is comi gto a head. It looks like a final show-down be tween George II. Bellamy of Bruns wick and William T. Woodley of Chowan. There is plenty of time fo the situation to change, but the Bel lamy and Woodley stocks are soaring. Mr." Woodley whose father resided in Charlotte for years, has spent much time in Mecklenburg. He taugh-. school there. FORMER HICKORY LADY IS DEAD IN RALEIGH e . 4 . finding. The president said he was By the Associated Fu. , war aL navv departments, Washington, Jan. ll.-An on cuw , - . . the ra51road administration would use eveiy powei rmut has been sent to tne siring. " ''..' harbor boatmen of Now ior w turn to work oending action by the V,oard. which President, Wilson asked by cable today to dc--ido the controversy. Officials think the strike will be over before night. Representatives of the war and na vy departments the railroad admin istration and the shipping board de cided upon this policy and commu nicated their decision to A. H. Smith, regional director of railroads, who was asked to advise the strikers. By the Associated Press. .wwi in o-ton. Jan. 11. Wilson today cabled a request to the war labor board to take up again the case of the marine workers In New -Prffeident strike . . . j i to make the finding ettective anu n was sure that private owners would t... .c,,iir1ol hv natrioftism to abide by the decision. Basil N. Manley, joint chairman o the war labor board with Wiilliam II. Taft ,today said the board would tak up the president's request, but doubt ed if a quorum could be secured be fore Monday. Mr. C. G. Whit n today received a teleirram from Raleikrh announcing the death of his sister-in-law, Mrs. S. W. Whiting, who many years re sided with the family of the late Gaither Hall and conducted a pri va e school m Hickory. ahe was Miss Florence Farrow before her marriage and it was in Hickory that Mr. Whiting met her. Mrs. Whit ing had a number of relatives and many friend3 in Hickory and Lenoir who will be grieved by her deatn. OELEGAT ES ; EN ROUTE TO PARiS district wi 1 be present. One ot the subect will be "The Woman and the Centenary' by Mrs. G. A. Warlick of Newton. The centenary team wh"ch is pre senting the cultural side of the pro gram will be present. Other speak ers will be Rev. John C. Hawk of China, Rev. R. M. Courtney.- and Rev. W. A. Newell. The object of these meetings are to help the pastors, to know how to put the centenary over the top. Mr. Hawk's subject tomorrow morniho at the First church will V "China's Part in and After t War.' Rev. R. M. Courtney of Thomas- vilie, formerly pastor of the First Methodist church here, and Dr. Hawk of Nashville will occupy the pulpit of the Hickory institution tomorrow at 11 o'clock for the purpose of pre senting the mission campaign inau gurated by the conference at its re cent session in Charlotte. Hickory Methodists wiil have a double pleas ure in attending tomorrow to greet their foi'mer pastor and to hear the cause, he and Dr. Hawk will present. Rev. W. O. Goode, pastor, wili at the evening service. preach GERMAN PAPER CHARGED WITH DOUBLE DEALING 8y the Associated Press. London, Jan. 11. The British de: egates to the peace for Paris today. conference left IS GERMANY BANKRUPT? bill t to ! .ot proD- ilerm Albert Tucker, a white man, was Omaha Bee. . . .i -j- estimates as w c:i convicted in recuiuc a wuii ji.- tj . i . 4? nn aDIV Will UB uicsci.-'-u sentenced to 30 days in jail. Tucker 1' TV claims to be unable to work, and sValinfi bv wanted his children kept out oi j- - - " 7,n , ptermi,-,; school, it was claimed, to help sup- u cm m .; - port the family. The man was sa .Z" rT v nar; tion and to be a regular loater. -indemnity. In anticlpatior oftlm interest centers on the abiliry of 'he Tliis is the season of directors' Germans to meet the denials tnat meetings when plans are made for the wip be made upon them. year, and as usual it is rather dull in Dr. Walter Rathenau, the greatest lines. in a weeK or so, 0f tne soientinc capMis m " Berlin, Thursday, Jan. 10. The government today issued a proclama tion attacking Die Freiheit, for its continued denunciation of the Ebert- Scvfecfmann .cabinet? while ,at the same time attempting to act as nego tiating agent for the radicals who are plotting- to overthrow the gov ernment. "The proclamation accus es the newspaper not only of pub lishing a vicious asd distorted ac count of the street fighting and of charging the government; troops with needless brutality, but also of engaging in double dealing, and treachery in sending its henchmen :'irluding Haase, Dittman Barth and Brietischetid, to act as embissaries for the Spartacans. The role of Haase and his friends ir. the present conflict is still a matter of conjecture. The fact that the former cabinet member and lead er of the independents has been un able to prevent his party's newspa- 1L" per from publishing the Spartacan's By the Associated Fress. New York, Jan. 11. Prayers for the success of the peace conference in France probably will be uttered in most of the Protestant churches in the United States, Sunday, January 12, at the suggestion of the federal council of Protestant churches . in America. Favorable replies have been re ceived by the council, and it calls on all churches to observe the day. The council is in favor of the league of nations. WOULD RULE BY IMAGINATION VdllUUO iiiivo. " . - , wt - ' . , -r 1 i ( however, business m all lines via 0f the empire, says nis uw' j pick up and the new year wnl prove bankrupt. eng isn anu r , -one of the best in history, according to .thonties insist the capital ani p- ! sources of Germany aie swatn .'paired as a result of the var. Mn i power has been considerably dim n lished, but may be replenished tn ! porarily at least by the en p!oym nt iof men from neighboring counties I whose industries were dthbera-Viy i destroyed by the Huns, wiose J-s-tematically wrecked factor es ot -a J !k'nds wherever found, that tne t rs v,oiro n marke"- tor ts ie wuuiu j T . Tno. T-o! rnven " the wares wnen peace . IS business men. MEN ARE SATISFIED By the Associated Press. New York, Jan. 11. Officers of the murine workers affiliation announced today they stood ready to abide by( AVI FY HUNS SEEM "SULLEN' New York Times. Several of the correspondents who are accompanying the armies of oe fnnition Into German territory ex ! nress a ming'ing of surprise with i something very much like resentment I at what they 'have repeatedly called the "sullen behavior of the greater part of the German population. That the correspondents should have this feeling seems strange, when the question is considered from across the sea, and the answer of the Ger man in Bltburg, when asked why the neonle there treated the invaders as they did did, "Well, you don us to shout about it, do seems at first to be an entirely nat ural and adequate one. appeals and otherwise giving the in surgents active journalistic aia is now ("ene't-ally jfnterpreted as proving thi t the Haase chorts are determined upon a campaign of ruin. At 4 o'clock this afternoon the big newspaper plants and the officers of the Wolff bureau were still in the ha ids of the insurgents. New York Evening Post. If the world is still ruled by the imagination' and it is the frater nizing now going on between Eng land and the United States is of the highest augury. President Wil son's demonstrative reception by the undemonstrative English is, of course, purely symbolic. He him self hastens so to interpret it. In acclaimed h'm the English democ racy hails that of America. The two have fought and suffered and triumphed side by side, and nowr have the instinctive and overmastering feeling that, united, a great mission is placed in their hands. To trans late this emotional solidarity into common aims and common practical action is now the task of the states men of -the two nations. Messrs. Geo. S. Watson, McDonald Wtatson and John Crouch returned last night from a hunting trip in Burke county above Morganton. They reported a scarcity of birds but a number of rabbits. Hie'en Huffman, aged seven years, and seven months, died last night at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin F. Huffman, in West Hickory of pneumonia and the funeral was held today from Houck's chapel. NEW YORK COTTON By the Associated Fress. New York. Jan. 11. There were overnieht selling orders around ring at the opening of the cotton " r np fomi was argel; a market today and first prices were it may be founc that: he unchanged to 16 points lower m con- sham, ana it i y m sequence. It seemed that yesterday's Povejtv now set up s a sharp break had left a stronger Uaretul iny , p VJ tecumvi . - , -oft; He is right a? to aoers as oon firmed up for over the weeK- B ' t ;t ;s the worst car, r t expect end t0 about 20 to 22 points net hign-1 one Germ,r,y k, 2, .y?U'. er- . innn ,TOar. but this will rot rel: ve The Woman's Missionary Society- meet the marine ww - . , ,.,,.,. strike York and proceed to make aternvnate the harbor stnKe om, rnMnv of the war laDOr Doar i oi uie xveiormeu cnuicu win made in response to President V,1p renuestino- for action son s wil. Monday afternoon, January 13 at 3 ' ' 1 . . . -' . ' - I T ''jm'ss;on study class will be resumed J October ' at this meeting. Hickory cotton, 27c The close was steady. Open January 27.65 March 26.00 May - - 24.85 24,15 22.10 i uuw .v---"' -- . j-uf tvp.- owe Close the Funs trm x will iOSe rttinr, nd reparation wi 27.60 .r"I," "a Wtlv ins:ste I u ,e , be r 'Ciu re jthe 24.85 ;,',t nf venerations oi a oa (k L aA tW mav outerow notions of anotner "j the last claim is settled. l-w!iflTT nnn 1 26.00 " - thP bill will 22.0 the. 0 pit Walter Hiees New Director By the Associated Press. ;Washington, Jan. 11. Walter D. Hines, assistant director general oi railroads, has been appointed di rector general by President Wilson, succeeding William G. McAdoo, re signed. Mr. Hines, who was recommended by Mr. McAdoo, is an advocate of the latter's plan for five-year con- the last year of government mana gement. He is accredited with hav ing originated many policies of the administration. If congress does not enact new legislation at an early date, Mr. Hines favors immediate return of the roads to their owners. Announcement of the appointmt vhich does not need to be confirmed by the senate was made by Mr. Mc Adoo today in the west on a vacation tinvation of government control to j trip to Los Angeles. The news reach provide a test period, and has sup-! ed the white house from the presi ported most other policies of the . dent by cable last night and was tel tirlng director general., with whon. i egraphed to Mr. McAdoo at Winslow, hi has been associated throughout Ariz. ,
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