It VOL. IV. NO. 276 HICKORY, N. C, MONDAY EVENING, Monday, September 1, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS X U "A KNOXVILLE CALM TODAY AFTER DAYS- OF RIOTING Soldiers Patrol City ar everybody is Urged to Stay at Home v rst Element of Both Races Involv in Disgraceful. Affair Saturday Night tli Hv the Associated Press ''K,,.vino, Tenn., Sept. 1. Knox sil y was calm this morning after the ,...'.. rioting of Saturday night and wM.r i rouble of Sunday as a result of ,1,,. action of civic and military au tlill. it t in placing the city under mar tial law. Will, military patrol in the busi es section and in the territory j.iv the negro population is great ,,,;t. a constant watch is being mani--,..-ti',l.' No disturbances occurred duriii;.', the nigh.t. i v spite the fact that this is a holi day, id crowds appeared on the .ti lt.-; dming the morning. Negroes uh,, appear on the streets are being -en lud and are not permitted to re main in the business district unless on Uis.ness. i;i.jhp S. J. Hargrave, negro min ;sti nal vorker among the negroes of tic i t , issued an appeal to the men ai,. women of his race in which ho iu;i' l that they maintain order and i'i vain and refrain from violence of character. He assured them that white people are their friends. He i teil that the trouble of Saturday it and Sunday was due to the li.v.t t types of blacks and whites" : n 1 not to the better element of I'thcr race, who deprecate the affair. NVt Saturday the primary elect ion incurs in which candidates for Mayor and city commissioners wili be nominated. The campaign has lven intense. Maurice Mayer, the negro charged u t!i the murder of a white Voman I- riilav night which act was the cause of tinting here, made a statement in Chattanooga Sunday in which he said that Friday afternoon he had been A-orking hf the interest of a candi date for ir.itvor. Severn) mati "meet ings had been planned for this week. hut candidates have determined these tratheriiigs should not be held. It i.-s the opinion of many that the rioting may have an effect in the el ection in reducing the negro vote particularly in the wards where the iK'trro population is very dense. The county court house and j. coniniittce met this morning and or dered work on repairing the county jail, which was considerably damaged by the mob on Saturday night when it sought to obtain Mayes who had! been taken to Chattanooga. The dam age is estimated at $5,000. The jail was considered one of the ftrongest ion the south. Officers say that the windows were dynamited after the I'attering ram had failed to dis place the barrier. The list of casualties incident to the rioting is two dead and 13 injur ed. Of the latter one is probably be lieved to be fatally injured. .Officers assert that the situation is in hand and that if today passed without un toward developments, there is .little kludihood of more trouble. Patrol v.'ill be maintained during the day. A "stay-at-home tonight appeal ' 'ring made in the hope that this wil. prev-cnt gatherings on the streets. The events of the past two days is deprecated by the better elements of ho Hi races. WILSON WON I PERSHING SAILS INFANT BURN: DEATH TODAY N HOME FROM FRANCE TODAY TURN OVER AP By the Associated Press. Washington, Sept. 1. President Wilson declined today to give the for eign relations committee the tentative draft of treaties with Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria on the ground that it would tend to take the funcif on of ne gotiating treaties out of the hands of the executive. In a letter to Chairman Lodge, Pres-' ident' Wilson raid as the treaty was, still in process of negotoiation, he con sidered it impossible to give the ten tative draft. Senator Lodge wrote in reply that the committee asked for the parts it was expedient to give and said it was the president's right to comply or not. By the Associated Press. Brest, Sept. 1. General Pershing sailed from here today on the trans port Leviathan, for the United States. The steamer left port at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Marshal Foch came aboard the I transport shortly before she sailed and made a feeling address to the depart ing general. "In leaving Prance," said the mar shal, "you leave the dead in our hands. On our soil we will care for them religiously and jealously. as bearing witness of the powerful aid you brought us. These dead will bring from America many thoughts of remembrance and pious visits and: will bind still more strongly our al ready close union." EAKS RECORD CONSECUTIVE GAMES M . S TO ISSUES PROGRAM FOR SHUEORD REUNION The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Jones McFalls was burned to death about 11:20 this morning when fire, originating from an oil stove, almost completely destroyed their home just this side of the Brookford Mills store. Mrs. McFalls was in the yard dressing a chicken when the stove exploded. She rushed into the house for her ba by which was about six months old, but was driven back by the flames. The Hickory fire department was summoned, but the truck did not at tempt to leave until the horse truck was made ready and manned in case of an alarm in the city. High pres- sure at Brookford burst the hose in use there and a second connection had to be made. Part of the household furnishings were saved. The whole community was shocked, by the terrible death of the baby at Brookford, The body was carried to Tipton's undertaking establishment to be prepared for burial. EXPECT T OF ROB 0 FIND SLAYER IN J. COOPER SOON THE PRINCE OF WALES GRANDFATHER By the Associated) Press. Boston, Sept. 1. Statistics compil ed here show that Everett Scott, shortstop of the Boston American league club, has achieved a record of playing in 501 consecutive league games, beginning June, 1916. He has been at bat 1,700 times, obtained a bat ting average of 246 and a fielding av erage of 966. Previous marks for consecutive playing were set by Eddie Colline when he completed a run of 470 games and by George Burns, of the New York National Club, who played 459 games. AMU M NER IS KILLED BY MEXICANS By the Associated Press El Paso, Sept. 1. Adam Schaffer, an American citizen, was killed by Mexican bandits at his mine August 2S, according to a telegram received here today. Schaffer was an inde pendent mining engineer and was 35 years old. Misses Lottie and Edith Sutlemyre have returned from a visit to Greens- V-nrn r ir ml "Urt rtfiimal 1 iviss ivxay xnoinpsuii uu "JTi smearcase, cheesecakes tT-nm a rift ncntiui visit ui ocvciui .... weeks to friends in Chicago. It was in those dark days when the 15th president, "the Sage of Wheat land," calling for a day of fasting and of prayer as he did well to while the United States government with an empty treasury, had to beg for money at 12 per cent interest, when the American conttnonwealth and sisterhood was menaced with disruption that the Prince of Wales, after King Edward VII, and peace maker par excellence, visited us. We have no wish to exaggerate or deep en the shadows in our national pic ture Still it is a simple fact to recall that the great historian, Edward A. Freeman, beTving that the union was at an end, planned his great book, in four volumes, on the "History of Federal Government From the Amphyctionic Council to the Disruption of the United States of America." The activities of Lin coln, Grant, Sherman, Thomas and a million or more of American patriots, however, compelled a change in Mr. Freeman's views and plan. Only one volume appeared and the work re mains a torso. Moreover there weic some of his auditors whose eyes twinkled when a dozen years latei in New York and elsewhere they lis tened to his erudite lecture on "The English People In its Three Homes For we must confess that despite tht let that one of his kin had come over after 1855 and settled in Virginia, the man so mighty with the pen ana author ot Ihe Norman Conquest, did not receive as a lecturer the title which our Ii'oquois in their venacular gave to Red Jacket, "He Who Keeps Them Awake." In a word, we for gave and bore no malice, but welcom ed the ilearned gentleman who in the third home of the English people in America, told us about our fort' bears. Nor did we twit him with having discoursed on the "Disrupv ion of the United States," for rarely was a copy ever seen in Appomattox On the other hand, it was an evei grander voice that laid emphasis on the creative and unifying forces in American history. He proved the true prophet. It wras no less a per sonage than the Prince of Wales, England's future king, who in 1860, as Lord Renfrew, visited us almost incognito, and certainly without os tentation or a trace of snobbishness He came unexpectedly into the state house at Philadelphia and was mightly interested in Independence hall. -3U But, oh, what did he see in the hall-way and underneath the granu ftaircase? Listen ye daughters xof the American Revolution of 1919, to whose mothers we owe so much, while some there be yet who remem ber and can confirm what we tell Literally, they took up the bell, which the men had put down. What did the prmce, to his disgust, see but an eat ing stand and materials of quick lunch, whose steaming odors filled the place? We, with our juvenile Keystone state appetite, voted these viands an ambrosial and fit for the cods. There we took our Philade! phia pepperpot, waffiles, hominy, noodles and sm.ts tor Mannattan- and dump ' ers wo t.rnnslnf-.fi wheat, f lour riouem- balls. dried apnles and ham boiled together and served with molasses. To crown the vision, beheld a3 joy fullv by the Quaker City small boy. who concealed a mammoth cave under his dianhram. as it was sorrowfully looked unon by the surprised prince ! there sat a g-oddess of liberty in the jform of a fat lady, who might have tinned the scales at a quarter of a T thousand pounds. Red faced and beaming wth motherly good nature, 1 BULGARIA ON S TO RECEIVE TREATY By the Associated Press. Paris, Sept. 1. The supreme council today discussed the Austrian peace treaty, which probably will be delivered tomorrow to the Austrian plenipotentaries. The council also had under consideration the Bulgarian treaty, which is expected will be speedily completed,, except a decision of the Thracian question involving an outlet to the. Aegean for bulgaria. The partial program for the Shu ford reunion Thursday at R. L. Shu ford's farm has been issued. The meeting will be called to order by President J. W. Shuford at 11 o'clock. Opening prayer, Rev. W. W. Rowe. Address, Capt. A. Nixon. Address, Judge Geo. A. Shuford. Hickory Tavern as pertaining to the Shufords, E. L. Shuford. Historical address, Rev. J. H. Shu ford. Following dinner the Shuford Me morial and Historical Association will be called together by Mr. A. C. Shu ford to hear reports and consider plans taking care of the old cemetery. Five minute talks will .be made by Messrs. W. J. Shuford, A. A. Shuford, Jr., Dr. J. p. Shuford, Roy Aberneth C. E. Mcintosh R. H. Shuford. B. B. Blackwelder, W. A. Self, J. W. War lick and others. -The closine- nrvaer will hp maAt 6y Mr. Rowe. READY TO RESIGN LENOIR COLLEGE 10 I OPEN 111 Opening exercises in the college au ditorium at 9:30 a. m. The addres8 will be made by the Rev. Arthur M. Huffman, chaplain m the U. S. army overseas. All students should be present for enrollment and class reg istration. Regular class work will begin Wednesday morning at 8:30 Friends and patrons of the school are invited to the opening exercises. The Ladies Aid and Missionary So ciety of Holy Trinity Lutheran church will meet Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the church. GRAND N FOR PACIFIC FLEET By the Associated Press. San Francisco, Sept. 1. The Pacific fleet, piloted by Admiral Hugh S. Rod man, swept through the Golden Gate and by the famous old ship Oregon, the reviewing ship, in a marine spec tacle which thrilled a multitude 1 o. spectators. It was the reviewing of the new fleet before Secretary Dani els and other officials. Rev. J. H. Shuford, Mrs. Eli Ram seur and Mr. Jacob Geitner attended the Ramseur reunion Wednesday at the home of Mr. Tom Ramseur. HICKORY LODGE NO. 343 A meeting of Hickory Lodge No By the Associated Press. Budapest, Sept. 1. The govern ment of Premier Frederick has off ered to step down and out. It is reported that the premier has offer ed the entente the resignation ot the entire cabinet. BASEBALL IN CHARLOLTTE By the Associated Press . Charlotte, N. C, Sept. 1. Morning and afternoon gamtes here today will decide the championship of the South Atlantic League. Columbia has a lead of one full game and two pomts on Charlotte and the home club must take both of today's games to win the pennant. TO MEET TUESDAY The four circles of the Woman's Missionary Society of the First Meth odist church will meet at the home of Mrs. Clarence Keever Tuesday after noon at 3:30. . All the ladies of the church are invited to meet with them. MORNING BASEBALL By the Associated Press. National: At Chicago, 4; Cincinnati, 3. NEGROES DON'T NEED ANY YANKEE HELP By the Associated Press. Austin, Texas, Sept. l. Resolutions declaring emphatic opposition to "peo ple of the north who do nojt under stand conditions in the south inter fering with our relationship," adopt ed by the execuive board of the St. Johns Missionary Negro Baptist As sociation were made public at a meet ing last night by 2,000 negroes ana 100 white citizens. HAROLD SHUFORD IS CITED FOR BRAVERY Nashville Police Believe They Have Clue to Murderers of Lawyer Entered Automobile With Intimate, it is Said Further De velopments in Case NEW YORK LABO URGES TRUCE INLAND By the Associated Press New York, Sept. 1 all strikes throughout the United States and the declaration of a labor truce on the basis of the status quo for six months or more to enable President Wilson to bring about a re duction in the cost of living is recom mended by a committee of the New York state federation of labor, made public today. BETTER PAY POSTAL URG higher By the Associated Press. Washington, Sept. 1. A wage standard for all postal or. ployes, time and a half for over time, double time for Sundays and holidays, and a 30-day sick leavt were recommended today by ThcnKu Flaherty, secretary treasurer of the postal employes' association." By the Associated Press. Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 1. Robin J. Cooper, Nashville attorney and slayer of former United States Sen ator Edwin W. Carmack in 1908, whose body was found Saturday in Richland creek, near here, after he had been missing for two days, was killd by two or more men, and the murderers will be arrested in a few days, according to announcement to day by Chief of Police B'artell. The theoi-y upon which the police are working was not revealed. The Suspension of I chief said no woman was connected with the case, so far as he could learn. ' In pursuing a suggestion that Mr. Cooper might have been the victim of bootleggers, all men suspected of con nection with the traffic have been forc ed to disclose to the satisfaction of the police their movements Thurs day night when Mr. Cooper Was call ed from his home in Belle Meade park, to be seen no more by the mem bers of his family until his dead bctfy was found in the stream. A house girl in the Cooper home said that about 9 o'clock Thursday night she heard some one call Mr. Cooper and she went to the window overlooking the front porch. She saw only the shadow of the man who stood in the yard. The man did not come on the porch, but joined Mr. Cooper in the yard, went with Mr. Cooper to the garage and went with him to the automobile. This mysterious caller, it is now con sidered certain, was an intimate ac quaintance. The indentity of that call er and the significance of Cooper s remark made as the automobile left the home, "If you had asked for more you could have had it," are believed to be all the information that was passed The funeral was held today. FOR MEN ED ORGANIZERS ID FOR PLAY NG POKER CALM N CHARLOTTE S REPORTED TODAY Edwin Harold Shuford, son of Mr. and -Mrs. J. W. Shuford, has been cit ed for gallantry in an order issued July 18, 1919 by Major General Rob ert L. Howze, commander of the third division, and also recommended for the distinguished service cross. Another member of this , division, Lieut. John Geitner, has been cited for gallantry and his citation also is in the list in which young Shuford's appears. These are the only two Hickory men in that division and it is noteworthy that both won honors. Mr. Shuford's citation follows: "Shuford, Edwin H., private 1st class. Batterv B. 10th field artillerv. 8:00 Was a mpmhpr nf T?. C detail dnrini? 343 will be held tonight at I o'clock. There will be work in the the operation on the Marne July 14-15 second degree, and mi memoers are an(j rendered valuable service until raN(S iAIMBD AND BLIND BUT FOREVER HONORED Veterans of the world war leadin g the great parade , M a French priest who served with the "Blue Devils" fose and: arm .sacrificed to his country, have been replaced by the military medal and the corix de guerre. , amid appetizing clouds of vapors, she i presided over the steaming pots and pans, kept calorically high over live charcoal in sheet iron bases. This lady , bountitful dispensed soup, beans, pret izels and pickled tripe with especial I floy when candidates for her pine j benches began to multiply, at 12:05 post meridian, and she soon had a waiting list. The more the merrier, ' seemed to be the motto of herself and her maids. There was the Liberty i Bell, which, then set on rough tim bers under the stairway, furnished on its platform a dresser for dishes. ! But, oh, what a debacle from au I o-nst historic memories! Was the treasury -of Penn's city so poor and even as llow as that of the Buch anan government in 1861 that the city father must rent out the sac red edifice for the mean revenue of an eatiner stand? The future Ed ward VII was so horrified. Then ' and there, he the prince spoke out strongly in his mothers English, which we give in para phrase. He intimated that it was the duty of the Philadelphia munici pality to end such base usage of an orlffifo enn serrated bv noble memor ies. For. let it be recalled today, f none more than Edward knew tne true inwardness of the revolution, m 1775, on American soil with blood (Continued on pae 4) urged to attend. D. B. Taylor, secretary. j badly wounded. He was untiring his efforts to continue communica- tion, fearlessly making frequent trips Miss Lucy Bradley has returned to ever the lines and effecting repairs her home in Rutherford College after under heavy shell fire." spending a few months in Hickory. DEATH OF MRS. POOVEY Mr. Charles Stevenson of Norfolk is spending a few days here with his Mrg Catharine Setzer Poovey, parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Steven- widow of the late Taylor Poovey, SOn. 3,-0(4 nf l,OT. hnme- in Wst Hickorv j early Sunday morning at the age of 74 years four months and 14 days. I The funeral was held today from Mt. Olive Lutheran church. Mrs. Poovey is survived by several children, was a consistent Tnember of the Lutheran church and was an unusually good woman. COLUMBIA TAKES PENNANT 5 TOO By the Associated Press. Charlotte, Sept. 1. By shutting out the locals, 5 to 0 in the morning gamle here today, Columbia won the South Atlantic championship. The two teams were so close tfcat had Charlotte won both games, it" would have claimed the championship. .Mrs. M. H. Groves and daughter, Lela, of Salisbury are guests of Mrs. W. A. Hall. Mr. and Mrs.- John Holshouser of Concord are visiting . Mrs. Hols houser's sisters, Mrs. J. and Mrs. C. R. Warlick. Mrs. C. T. Anderson and little daughter Sarah, of Monroe are guests of, her parents, Mr .and Mrs. J; C. Frvo,- Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Fisher return ed to Salisbury today after being guests of Mrs. Fisher's sister, Mrs. P. P. Jones. A High Point special to the Ral eigh News and Observer under date of August 18 tells of a raid on labor union officers who were playing po ker and the checking up of books to see if te funds of the organization were appropriated by the gamblers. The fee collected from each member is $1.50. Here is the High Point story: Police Chief Welch and assistant made a big haul yesterday when five leaders of organized labor taking part in the differences between man ufacturers and employes here, were arrested while at a poker table and later placed under $5C bond each for their appear ance at trial today. The men indict ed are Scott Kiser, treasurer of the (local union of carpenters and join ers organization; A. M. btewart, head of the textile workers; Roy White, financial secretary of the textile workers; Charlie Kitchin, an official of the furniture workeis. The fifth member of the parly, W. S. Hurman, forfeited his bond by failing to put in an appearance at the trial today. "Kiser was fined $100 aid given the alternative of going to the roads for six months, while Stewart held to be less guilty, was fined $50. White and Kitchin by reason of their tes timony were discharged but were held under bond to appear in the case charging Kiser with retailing, warrants for which were issued by Chief Welch at the conclusion of the first and main trial. "Evidence was offered by White and Kitchin, who were placed or: the stand by the state, that the men had previously played at th ! same place and that the gallon and j a half of whiskey found Saturday right was partly sold by Kiser two ; pints having been procured from j him earlier in the day. Over six quarts of whiskey were found in the j room where the game was Agoing on 1 and which is used by the union as headquarters. j "Scott Kiser, the testimony show- ' ed, had given a check for bond mon-, ey on an' official union check which j Chief Welch had cashed prior to j the trial. Attorneys were bitter in their denunciation of men who would violate the trust of workers who had placed their confidence and their ' money with them. Their remarks were not forthcoming until a wit ness stated that the fundt, were sup posed to be forwarded to the great headquarters of the carpenters and joiners organization at Indianapolis, but none had been forwarded as yet. "Kiser, White and Kitchin were remanded to jail following the L. Murphy1 trial because ot tneir maDiuty to I give bond. "President Jones, of thtT carpen ters' and joiners' union; had taken over the books of the union from Scott Kiser and this afternoon was By the Associated Press Charlotte, N. C, Sept. 1. Quiet prevailed here early today and city officials announced they expected no further disturbances. Street cars are operating on the same limited scale. In a public statement, Mayor Mc Ninch called upon citizens to observe the . law and accompanied the state ment with an announcement that the administration was in position to en force law and order. Mr. Joyce Eckard has returned home after spending a month in Merriwether, S. C. Mr. D. E. Eckard has home after spending some South Carolina. returned time in Mr. J. F. Peterson of Winston-Salem' spent the week end in the city. Messrs. Carl Loughridge and Charles Robinson of Gastonia were Hickory visitors for a few hours yes terday. . vitl- ffjz ' IK f 3f3 2 ! 4 ',T Copyright 1919. SERBIAN CROWN PRINCE MAY, RULE HUNGARY A London dispatch is reported stating that the Crown of Hungary ig Upon the finding of the bank will M?ca a Nnrt lff. this mnminfr depend whether Kiser was short any for a. business trip to Greensboro. Jf the union's funds. to be oered to Crown PPrince Alexan- having them balanced at the bank. ( der of Serbia. The photograph is one of the more unusual and unconvention al snapshots of the Prince. 1 ,s j ' 4 I i iff n r U i I! 1 s 1 ft 1 t ! I I ( i ! : 11 it?'! 1 V I Si I p! ill HI h ! I h tl