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VI RY DAILY CORB 4 JaL JL VOL. IV. NO. 124 HIOtvORY, N. C, WEDNESDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 12, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS ME AMERICAN DELEGATES TO OPPOSE POOLING OF DEBTSLQ 1 . ,MV.3 I rx . .. r Wont Let Former Allies Harness Their War Cost on United States Labor Legislation Considered by the Committee Other Matters Before Peace Conference. Rv the Associated l'arif, Fob. 12j AVJiHe President i I'll aiij the allied premiers and p lurals are deeply engrossed in de ; ails t'f the plan for the creation of a stvli'ty of natitons ana arranging tl,. new temis to be imposed upon Gtnnany for the renewal of the ar mist ice expiring next Monday, oth. it matters are requiring their atten- : on, It is expected the conference will .;. nl little time discussing them luAU'ver, and not pass most of them t,u t" the society of nations when t'io '.attor has been formed an be f.v. to function. Foremost on thi s secondary pro gram . fcro tlie recommendations of thf international commission on ;;i!or legislation. Meetings are go in' on today as they have contin uously for the past few days among mt-n 'who have been called to Paris by President Wilson to consider the i'.U'!tion. Already initial teps have been k. n to commit the peace conference t" a great international policy of Lots, which will Include all neutral virions, whether they wish to or not. 1 hoy will meet with the most determ ine,! resistance from the American ('l'ga es who feel that America did her full share by the allies 'in furn ishing troops and almost unlimited i-upplies and money. They are ready to relieve France fit her n'ghtmare of German power in extending further credits to per mit France to rehabilitate industries k:, to enable her and Belgium to held their own in the world's mar ket, bu: they feel that is is beyond their power to commit their country to any monetary system with Euro pean powers. They also feel that some of these countries have been derelict in not imposing, as the Unit- States and Great Britain have d"ne additional taxes on their peop'.e pie during the war to meet at least in part their obligations instead of calculating upon reimbursements in the form of indemnities from enemy countries. REPORTED IN SIBERIA By the Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 12.-A cable gram todny from the headquarters of the American expeditionary forces in France gave the total casualties of the American Expeditionary force in Siberia up to February 9 .... in . FT A Oil 1, 1 M nA ij onuutTS ujiu ui1! men a'u, died wounds and disease, wounded missing in action. The total was divided as follows; Killed in action, two officers and 60 nun; diej of wounds, one officer and 11 men; died of disease, 54 men; died of accident, five men; wounded se verely, two officers ami 67 men, wounded s'ightly, three officers and .''.0 nf-n; wounded degree undeterm ined, three offilcers and 53 men; missing in action 31 men. These casualties are being publish ed individually in the regular casu alty lists issued daily. MAKE PUBLIC By the Associated Press. Tiki'l, Monday, Feb. 10. Kijuro Shldehara, vice foreign minister of Japan, speaking today regarding the publication of Chinese treaties with Japan, said the latter simply had railed lattention to China of the es Vitilished condition, according to which neither has the right to pub mh secret correspondence without th consent of the other. Shidchara spoke for Viscount LVhida, foreign minister, who is Buffering from pneumonia. "Japan has no intention to inter- K-TO with n A con-1 ient!ois which the Chineste prefer u present to th nea inference h Mid tri,i- .ml OVER CASUALTIES WON T LET CIA TREAT ES -. nwruiugjy 1 em'S - " laSt Set OX eleven CiU.are", muugu o") J J lu . T . . i'rh reports to the contrary are sent to the white house to await the naf brotherS and sisters by marriage I Mr. Click leaves this evening to at alsolute'y untrue." ' president's return from abroad. and always lived as full brothers and tend the funeral. EAST S W HELP RUSSIAN By the Associated Pres. Washington, Feb. 12. Success of the bolshevik movement in Russia was attributed to aid from the lower East Side in New York by Rev. G. E. Simons, former head of the Methodist Episcopal church in Russia, testifying today in the senate judi ciaijy conrm'ttee's investigation of propaganda. ' The witness also said the predom-' inating influence on bolsheviki pro-1 paganda here was the Yiddish ele-1 j ment on the East Side. He explain-! ed that he was not :n sympathy! i wim anii-bemeiic movements and in stating his views meant to cast no reflection upon Jewish people as a whole. (Immediately after 'the Kerensky revolution, Dr. Simons said, sent -ment in Russia was pro ally, but the bolshevik movement developed, with more than half the agitators Jews, including many on the East Side. LLOYD GEORGE SPEAKS N INDUSTRIAL UNREST London, Feb. 12. If industrial unrest continues the cousequences will be grave to trade irmd industry, Premier Lloyd George declared in the house of commons yesterday The government, he said, would agree to any kind of an investigation into the causes of the unrest. Special war conditions, the premier said last, n'trht Vind ffintr!hnfoH tr tVin i;:n ... i the strain of four vears of war and The nretnipr sn ir? that hill. o,VM be introduced next week dealing with housing Wt.h. the revival of mral ' life, land settlement for soldiers, land reclamat'on and afforestation. (Mr. Lloyd George said there wou'd be plenty of opportunities of employ ment if confidence was given those responsible for starting industr'es and unless the cost of production went so high that it reduced the purchasing power of the community or put the country out of the world mnrkets. Discussing housing conditions, the premier referred to overcrowd ng inj many districts which had been ag-i gravated during the war by congre- alleviate such conditions and hours r.i l- -1 J- 1 1 . oi .i:tui)r, n sum, aiieauy nave uee fixed Sn industries involving three million persons. Before the war, the premier said, Great Britain exported more than one million tons of goods and ,it was computed that half the cost of the goods was wages. The differ ence of a few shillings on a ton of a commodity like coal, he added, might deprive the country pf a hundreds of millions of pounds and might throw hundreds of thousands out of work. TRUCE BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND STRIKING CARPENTERS (New York, Feb. 12. A truce has been s'Jgned between the sty-iking unions of the building trades and the Building Trades Emp'oyers' Asso ciation, standing from Thursday morning until Saturday .noon in the hone lf arb'tratincr the cliff ereces ' r w ' . i wii me canuwiB uvH brought on a sympathetic walkout, it was announced last night. REV. SAM HANFF DEAD BOLSHEV K !Statesv), W. &. Kev. h - f amilie8. she ha3 f orty grand S. M. Hanff, rector of All Saints hiW n twenty-six of whom are liv Episcopal church in Concord, died- in Qn t d chi;;d is alsQ a hospital today following an oper--j.h- fc s at'on for appendicitis. He was about h t of Mrs Deadmon leaves 39 years old, was a native only two children of a family of and the body will be taken there fr twevlve. They are her full brother, interment. ;M j. f. Click of this city, and her . "Wfc ' GREAT WAR REVENUE BILL NEARLY READY art fha Aaclated rress. IWlashington, Feb. 12. More than iwiasningxo , rv six months in the making, the great war irevenue bill levying six billion dollars in taxes this year and four bill'ons thereafter neared final com- . , - - lemocratic ana ivepuwiica ieacia expressed the belief that when the senate convened today, the conference onnr-t. wmiM be adonted .and the bill AMERICA-JAPAN ERAN KAILKUAL) By the Associated Press. .Washington, Feb. 12. Acting Sec- retary Polk announced at the state department today that the United States now had accepted formally iuciai vj. i,iie Japanese guv ernment in regard to plans for the restoration of railway traffic in Si beria. The purpose of the agreement, Mr. Polk's statement adds, "is to assist the Russians in Siberia in regain ing their normal condition of life and have been reached on a definite understanding that the railways are to be operated in the interest of the people of Siberia. The United States and Japan have voiced their disinterested purpose not to infringe on the rights of the people of Russia and jvhere the Chinese Eastern is concerned of China. Under the plan which is .already being put into effect the Chinese sys tem, which includes the Sib Chi nese railway, is to be supervised by an inter-allied committee with a Russian as chairman. In addition to Japan and the United States, Great Britain and France and China have asked to be allowed to aid. IS FORMED IN HICKORY lIr. Max T. Payne of Greensboro district organizer of the United Sti.ltes emp'oyment service, 'depart ment of labor, was m Hickory yes terday afternoon for the purpose of organ zing a loca; soldiers and sail- ors 'bureau to attend to the matter of 'tv!ing empiloiyiment to isoldiers and sailors from Hickory on their re turn from the service. Mr. Payne said it was especially desired that each community look after its own men nrst and. giving work to others afterwards. If ths is done the question of employment will not be acute and all persons are asked to report the return of soldiers to iany of the fo .lowing members of the lo- cal bureau: A- K- Jov secretary Chamber of i Coni'merce. Dr. W. H. Nicholson, president AS ed C?s.s Association, C. H. Geitner, chairman Red Cross home service committee. C W. Bagby, postmaster and mem ber of home service committee. E. W. Lentz, chief of police. Rev. W. W. Rowe, pastor Reformed church. W. J. Shuford, president Catawho Creamery Company. HI. E. Wlhitener, chief fire depart ment. Eubert Lyerly, chairman exempt ion board. ?' S. Hi Farabee, editor Daily Rec- IM. J j A. Sheets, new president Underwriters Association, is Mrs. R. J. i, 1 ' ruoi-ci. WON'T ACCEPT OFFER By the Associated Press. London, Feb. 12. The conference of the miners' federation of Great Britain at a meeting at Southport today decided against acceptance of the terms offered by the government for settling the labor dispute. MR. CLICK'S SISTER DIES IN SALISBURY . , " I U'UaV UIlt.ll Ilia o ioiwi , xi.' - v. T Deadmon, had d:ea at her name m Sa isbur th5s morning. Mrs. Dead- mon was aged 68 years. Jtier tuner- al will take place tomorrow She was the mother of fifteen chil- i I ITU. LCli W 11V111 C fyfoungest half brother, Mr. H. W. Deadmon who lives at the hold home stead in Davie county. Four of the twenty children died in infancy, sixteen of them lived to be grown and fifteen of tnem were members of the Baptist church. Ten of the mhave families of children, Itwo of them were in the civil war, , one having died m the trenches In this family there were tnree mar- riages, two husbands and father, Hailey Deadmond. wgre three setof cnildren( gjx of tje first get three of the sec. 0nd, and eleven of the third. Mr. Click and sister wore of the middTe set. Their parents were mameo lldrPti nf the mid- IVV IVC. 11'- - - . rt1 x. ere naif brothers ana ir- teTS to all the other seventeen ch.l dren. aA e Pr . s, i, SOLDIERS BUREAU MINERS ENGLAND ALL THESE BOYS ARE RATED AS By the Associated Press. ;London, Feb. 12. The entire crew of the, transport Mount Vernon lias been commended by Secretary Dan- , ;eIs for gallantry displayed when the ; s"jp was rorpeauea Dy an enemy sud. marine September 5, it was announc- ed today. "The conduct of the entire person nel from the time the ship was struck until she arrived safely in port iwias such as to uphold the best traditions of the service,, according to official reports," says a statement issued today by the navy departments Eleven men singled out for special mention included Chief Water Ten,- der Francis H. Griffin of Rural Hall, N. C. BELLS PROCLAIM NEW T By the Associate; Press. Wp.mar, Tuesday, Feb. II. Peal ing church belils announcing to the people of Weimar at 4.15 o'clock this afternoon that the German folk had for the first time in history chosen the Tiead of their own state Freiderick Heidk, fctoner baddler and Socialist, appeared before; the German assembly!, and stiigmatized the party to which President Ebert formerly belonged as uniworthy -of confidence. Despite the certainty of Herr Ebert's election, the theatre was crowded beyond anything since the convening of the assembly. NEWTON PERSONAL NOTES .Newton, Feb. 11 Gaither L. Bo- i ck, who has been with the P. O. Carpenter store here for the, past several years, has resigned J;s po sition and will move his family to mgn .point next week. Mr. Bolick has been made manager, as well as secretary and treasurer of the large dry gooas store ot Wood Bros., m High Point. Mr. Monroe Coulter died at his home near Startown Saturday night ot bright s disease. He was about 74 years old and one of the most highly respected citizens of that section. Zebu'on Bell arrived in the city yesterday from New York, where he landed on January 26, from France. Before entering the ser vice Mr. Bell was manager of the local office of the Piedmont Tele phone Company. He went' to France last October, got run over by a truck and while in the hospi tal had .the "Flu," He arrived in New iYork with a bunch of cas- ua.s. Mrs. E. T. Harwell has received a message stating that her brother James P. Hjairwell, had arrived at Camp Greene, Charlotte, from overseas. (Mr. Harvell when last heard from was 'rejcsoyeirinig frjom wounds received in battle. Solicitor Johnson J. Hayes spent Sunday in Hickory. The solicitor went up to hear his old pastor Rev. W. R. Bradshaw, preach. He made a tiailk to the members of the Sun day school at the Sunday schoo; hour. Those attending the memorial ex ercises: in . honofl of . Tjheodore Roosevelt in Hickory Sunday after noon from this place were Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Wilfong, L. F. Klutz, F. H. Lowry and Solicitor J. J. Hayes. iH. H. LiOWftvi , dot. FRIEDERICH EBERT ELECTED PRESIDENT OF (GERMANY Basle. Feb. 12. The German na tional! assembly has elected Frederich Ebert president of the German state by a vote of 277 out of 379 votes a majority of 102. Herr Ebert ac cepted the election. Count von Posadowsltfy-Wehneir received 42 votes. (Mr. D. E. Peterson returned from Camp Sevier yesterday where he was mustered out of the quartermaster corps. 1 WEATHER FORECAST For North Carolina: Fair in the east, cloudy in the west portion to night and warmer Thursday. Cloudy and probably rain except near the coast, warmer in the east portion, moderate south winds. ,1 ,TO fhw wow rm blood kin HEROES GERMAN PRESIOEN SSION TO SETTLE ARMY TS By fyie Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 12. The appoint ment of the United States liquida-l tion commission, -war department, toj liquidate the business and financial! affairs of the army in England and France was announced today by See-' retary Baker), Edlward Parker of Houston, Texas, was appointed chair man of the commission. The other members already api pointed are Senator Frank Hollis of New Hampshire, whose term in the senate expires March 3: Homer H. 7 Jcthnson of Cleveland, and Briga dier General Charles Dawes of Chi cago, who is now serving with the American expeditionary forces. A fifth member may be named later. In addition to settling all claims of and against associated governments, the commission will be empowered to dispose of movable and immovable property in France and generally "to liquidate the )d!ebts of .the United States in France and England." Headquarters will be aintained in Paris. Mr. George Hutton is a Morgan ton business visitor today. HOME GUARDS OUT BUI HAVE NO DRILL IHow many members of the Hick ory home guards went out for drill last night may never be known. Capt. L. F. Abernethy attended a meeting of the Hickory conimandery at 7 o'clock and expected to be at the armory at 7:30, but he was four minutes Lajte and when he reached the street the members had demob ilized fbr the even.ng. A fairly large number, all expressing indiv- ual opinion that the home guard might suspend operations during the snow, was found on the streets later, and most of them went home early iSewgeant Kuhn, Corporals Bagby and Clark and a couple of buck pri vates, Jim Espey among them, invad. ed the city manager's office, where the military editor of this yere paper was listening to the words of wis dom of the mayor and councilmen. Bind p aced ye humble scribe under arrest for non-attendance. The out rage remains unavenged. The detali marched around the building. The wind meanwhile affectionately cares sing ye scribe's limbs through those cotton breeches. Following: the release of the pris oner, the sophomoric youths then lo cated Sergaafnt Bob Martin behind the counter, but he yelled "Excused, ' and all the boys toOK a drink on Cjhaile Bagtby. Thils ended the eveliins'is pontfrmiansle. It was planned to go fetch John Stephens and Sergeant Alex Shunorq, Dut somebody said they had been down street and it was feaired they might be on to the game and the home o-uards did not want to take any trouble for nothing. ASHEV1LLE LIFTS E By the Associated Press. Asheville. N. C Fef. 12. After being closed for more than a month owing to the influenza epidemic, the official quarantine in Asheville was lifted today. In the first eleven days of February there have been 88 new cases and 11 deaths in the city. AT PASTIME TODAY The program at the Pastime to day wilil be Elsie Ferguson in "Song of Songs," an Artcraft picture. This play by Edward Sheldon from the novel of Sudermann was one of the dramatistic hits of the past season, and with Elsie Ferguson in the role of Lily Kardos it takes on new and more attractive life on the screen. Lily was a salesgirl in an Oriental store on the boardwalk at Atlantic City and because of her great. beauty she attracted the attention of wealthy men. Her career is one series of dra matic incidents and she finally mar ries an fix senator who had repeated 1 ybeen repulsed in his wily advances. Then love came into her life in the shape -of Stephen Bennett; how she meets the unexpected guest and wins makes; one of the most diramtic stories and characterizations in wh!ch this talented star has appeared on the screen. MARRIED A.T CLAREMONT . Claremont, Feb. 12. This after tbft Methodist parsonage at Catawba Mr. RolMn Murry will be married to M'ss Floy Little of this place. !Mr Murray is a son of Mr. nf Claremont route 1 11 QUARANTIN AGAIN and Miss Little is the daughter of home at Rutherfordton and held court Mrs. H. J. Little of this place. TJn- f yes terday. til recently M'ss Little has been em ployed as' tephone operator in the! Claremont office. . The young people are popular and uvlr. H. W. Harris' is confined to have the best wishes of a host of his home on Ninth avenue with ill friends. 1 nes3 V ' 1' - - STIFF LIGHT DEVELOPS OVER STATE ROAD LAW Gray, Stacy and Holderness Have Substitute for Steeens-Scales Mrasure That May Pass Sen ate, But May Die In HouseOther Leg- ' islation Mostly Local In Nature. SHORT HISTORY The following information in re gard to Co. A, 105th engineers, was prepared for the Record by First Lt. I1 rank Laurence Clme and First Of HICKORY COMPANY w vvv tuvtrvM v Sergt. James Homer Bowles and will j (Substitute it may be; but it bids he interesting to hundreds of the fair to involve the champions of paper's readers. good roads in one of the stiffest iNow that the war is over and we ' fights of their lives; it may and prob have a little time to think of some-! ably will pass the senate. But per thing other than fighting and dodg- j suading the house t mg shells and bullets, I will take this 1 - nnn . opportunity to write you a few lines of $2,500,000 for two years is and try to tell you something of our I admittedly a doubtful job. experiences since we came to France. 'Gray, who made the first set "u the chaps have spread, either bv let- ter or verbal, nevertheless I expect there tare a few things that have been left unsaid and the following is a brief sketch of the doings of the boys of this organization. The scene, a train leaving Camp Mills, N. Y., destination, somewhere, first stop, Montreal, Canada. Act One. Loading on transport Talythybius. Act Two, everybody on deck and make ready the life boats. There is not very much response, however, as the majority of the boys are un able to get out of their hammocks, gnd as one private remarked, "had just as soon die by drowning as from seasickness." The submarine pre sented itself, but owing to the fact that the submarine chasers made it so hot for him that there was very little damage done, one boat wa3 hit by a torpedo, but made port and ev erybody aboard O. K. The following day the sun shining and the sea as still as a mi.l pond, very few sick and everybody happy. The bal,atnce of the journey is of little importance, as everything went well and the boat docked at Liverpool, England, P. M. June 12, 1918, en trained in less time than nothing as all the officers that wear buzzards, and leatves were very much excited and wanted us to march a mile, get aboard the train and be ready to le,aive in two minutes, we finally suc ceeded in getting everybody on the train, atelr having ihad the jgood wishes and the assurance of our be ing welcome to the great country of England, and having heard a noted English band play tai number of pop ular airs, such as the Double liagle March, Dixie and a few otners loo numerous .to mention, the train pudeH out as the national anthem was be ins' played and everybody in the car was standing at attention. Our jour ney through England was made at night, so naturally we can tell very little of the country tnrougn wnicn we traveled. The scene changes: We receive or ders to detrain. It is dark as a pocket and nobody can tell you a thing. The train stops, everybody is scrambling to get his belongings and to try to get off as quickly as possible. Everybody off, the marcn commences; we are -iwx about an hour up hill ,amd a very steep one at that, and finally reach our place of abode, which is a cas tle situated in the suburbs of Dover, England; here we are served witn beer just think of it, an American niini. Koino- served beeT and With the beer were served sandwiches, a'jd with the sandwiches we were told lVht exnect down the line. The next morning was a beautiful one and we were allowed to visn ur for a certain number of hours. Ev erybody that had tne pleasure yi v itng this beautiful place, situated along the coast ana overlooks English channel, had quite a nice time, drnking Scotch high-balls and fiirt- ( Continued on page vmo) m fSergeiant Willie Fincher return,. a r T?vk Hill today after visiting his aunt, Mrs. J. H. Elliott. Sergeant Fincher saw some ot tne narue&t fighting in France, being in the battle that helped break the Hin denburg line. JUDGE M. H. JUSTICE DIES AT ASHEVILLE By the Associated Press. (Asheville, Feb. 12. Following an acute attack of indigestion, Judge M. H. Justice, aged 75, for 16 years a leading memoer oi tne superiui Q bench North Car0iina, died at 8:45 o'clock this morning at a ho tel here. He came here from his ". ,M'J (BY W, T. BOST) IRaJeighi Feb. 12. The jresult erf putting of hired heads together be came apparent this morning in the senate when the opposition to the Stevens-Scales road bill showed up with a substitutefor the re-writtea measure proposed to provide for a state highway system through bonds to meet the federal aid and to use an automobile tax Nothing like 75 cents a horsepower either for pay ment on the bonds and the creation of a sinking fund. Stacy of Roberson, Gray of For syth and Hollderness of Edgecombe were advocates of tho speechln fact it was pursuant to hls cal1 that last niht 8 got together and rug up the present bone of contention inveighed against the injustice of taxing automobile owners and them only for the support of the roads. He thought contractors would accept the bonds in payment for constructing the highways. Tn figh)t in the qajruy afternoon bade fair to go over into a late after noon or night session, but the Indi cations were that the Scales-Stevens bill at least that part of it tax ing automobiles 75 cents on the horse power) was lost. (Meanwhile the house -was busying Itself with local bills providing for roads and school bonds, abolishing and creating douinty auditors, putt- ting them on salary or taking them off and demanding that certain streams be kept free from carcasses of swine, cattle anj poultry. It also had a bill creating county boards of welfare. In the senate Connor of Wilson offered another equal suffrage bill. It was announced that Secretary of the Navy Daniels had accepted with thanks an invitation to address the general assembly tomorrow and will speak at noon. Y. W. C. A. HICKORY THIS WEEK The blue triangle drive will be put on in Hickory Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The national campaign calls for $1,000,000 for home service extension work and Hickory's quota of this sum is $100. A live team will begin canvassing for this sum tomorrow and the people are asked to give libenatlly. The Y. W. C. A. needs this money to invest in the betterment of the lives of the young1 women of America. Put your dollar into this program of servfce ior the betterment tf the young womanhood of America. A member of the team will call on you to take your subscription this week. Mrs. George Wlhite has as her guests at her home in Longview, her brother, Mr. Otto Tesh and her cousin, Mr. John Harper of Winston Salem. Newton. F h 12. Solisitor Hayes concluded tl.e srgument for the state this after:; ,o:i in the case against Alvin Wiarren, Hickory jitney driver, on trial here for the murder of Sheep Shores, colored, in a restaurant sev eral weeks ago. Argument was begun yesterday af ternoon. The state is represented by the solicitor and Messrs. W. A. Self and W. B. Councill and the de fense by Messrs. A. A. Wlhitener, C L. Wfcitener anj W, C. Feimster. Judge Webb charged the jury shortly af 'er 2 o'clock and the twelve men took the case. Miss Louise Peeler entertained a few friends last night in honor of Sergeant Willie Fincher who is the guest Jof Mrs. J. ,H. Efliott. A number of musical selections were enjoyed. The hostess served dainty refreshments at the close of tie even. DRIVER WARREN CASE IN HANDS OF JURY AI NEWTON
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