North Carolina Newspapers

wvirii your WEATHER Fair tonight and Fri day. Somewhat' warm er tonight. l it now at least .-n""-' t.,.r,... the thcir Mil'xcriptions ex- ESTABL1SHED SEPTEMBER 11, 1915 HICKORY, N. C, THURSDAY, EVENING DECEMBER 30, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS ' " - 1 11 - - airs? nrne1 M BLR oufrrq nniVN 1P1! 3 i w' tS '('(I I'lTSS. v. C.t f)lT. ;(). Vu!i ! iv, ,i of t'ir. t men ; r V. a round tin: !;, (.1 the New Kern . idle to.k.y foilnving ;iie woikmcn lo ;?'!-v-i ;it I ho wages they r -U.'. of flL wiis put in I c , :ie non-umoni.-t, fot cman, say there wards Lhe company l!:cv ure (rrV.' it.'u Bv tit' 1 V ill. be compelled find woik. g'.en cat. by the 'i , ban thai giv i ! !";;( in wh'fh i.h-ut of the i'D'i! , i ti; ,i v' wa una :lc H.i s t.Ti ;uvcunt of so-.. tlo:nv:.;.Uin. r. this piiat had ed ton per ecu , i ar.d v. he!', another ict-e.l the mc-n sm o :t-.-hai'ing plan I ' . . I,.,,',..! I ' i ; . ' I I V t '..1 l. 1 -i ' VI - fir it and only I's iday reprcsoni ner cnt re r original wage.- ist'aeti ; ion :inl :v- ; Union s 1 allure vt-terday. to !! 1 WE: ,d Pi:'. I ,v. .",!. Klllo:' X; . !'; and three ehitdron .i-.'.th wh':n lis d.iiiy pl.ir.'alion vas eiw'ly today. Parish v I'vy bidieve rob- to eoneeal a i ". 1 ? b 1 Ua :'" W itod Press, i !).(. ::o. (!ongressJ r ii'.v-c in Mi r ' ! ;tck !'e power and -"I 'he ix- grudti dly ulive d"- I i'vl -iv tincrrs o! ay . da; rd here today. '. -'TS saiil" that in 1 .'ureseiitatives of : ", !uvmb(rs of con ",ni"s:: ries of a n f ihe people. -nst lemons are too V uck' in k'gisla ' "or ile it is !tho '.'I' river in Oliio at ( in idoriiki. legislative inefiki 1'iime cause of pres !';' fessor llogers said ' ii's dictation was not K ty, hut it wii:; obnox hev'nusc of the presi- 1C 1 ii i 8 r - , ' " : i i i 2 l J M Amir u.''!. ; -V V, .i '"ill t,i il1 !'ll.l- .!' t act. PC BIH! BBFR n '", I (. .';(!..-Plans for Ik id right of v.-ay ''-t- .'le Iiardirig3 ' ': d'erences. the Washington 1,1 illinium of the ''"'I'f'.ittee and Senator :! H. Hays who will '" Part in inaugural ar w r,. ipmrg those call- i I; I'l'i, : i'" Iicre ni details! a:. I ! ! TO V.'HI) I he, 'ID. fikuima ; otii Ti'und operaa. he ; . , r;, s puen'u m It. n-'i'i-b r.f iVLoneapoii., " o diru;; to annfMniee "..oi.a.l, father cf tin- t Lv !V..(; PI IlTillEB MMf ! mima a Nn Hri.nF.mAWn S IU I is PUZZLES irfIC By the Associated Press. Lexicon, Ky., Dec. 30 Federal prohibition agents here are trvinir to solve tho mystery of 40 cases ot liquor which yesterday proved to be water. They say government seals en tho flasks apparently had nut been tampered with and tliey show i'o etlier signs el having been filled. '5y tho Asrociated Press. Washington, Dee. 150. Col. Geo. C. Ili.ehards of Oil City, Pa., was ap pointed today by President Wilson as adjutant general of the national guard. C'clonel Richards will have sylvania national guard officer, !i;:.suiiie has duties tomorrow. Colonel Iliekards will have the will tin ra.nk of a major general and will be the first national guard officer to hold this position. Appointment of I a guard officed vho is a member of tlie reserve corps of this post is pro vided for hy the army reorganiza tion bill passed by congress. L ilUJiJlHlii He the Post' Associated f'rss. a, Doc. :'(''.- Ancther (i-.-por- ion of alien radicals to Russia is planned by tire department of labor for January 15. It will include persons detailed or on parole both at th.'s port and New York. This announcement was made in the federal district court today by Assistant District Attorney Lewis Goldberg, who said Lewis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, had no tified him that arrangements for the further deportations had been con cluded. THE END OF MONK EAST3IAN ,vi ingfield Republican. After th? excellent w V,v tho New Yon; ;r re covet gangster. Monk Kastman. it was ftopra mat kc w.u'd keep to his determination to i j 1 1.:,. mvctrrinn? "(ro "'111. a i laa i J - i i i . I... -i-rtLrt., x-.rll infill' rfn . rr 'evidence as proof of his having p rrdansed into evil ways. Till the "acts! are known he lias fairly earned the benefit of the doutt. and it is to be; said also that the New York police . i r Jlinv. -..7; 1-. 1-;.- I do noi anpear vj ire --, (luarrcl e ver the p: jee-: Is rt nliei he war. killed in. conse uienee of a later ca'-ecr. Their assumption that liquor seems to e merely an as sumption: if no oilier key fito that one is tried as a v. ere matter (f mu I ue when, 'r anybody w:th , a fshudy past r with dubious connect ions' is murdered it was one of the theories put forward, it will be re called, in the Elvvell r.'tse. Monk Eastman wdiose real name was Wiiiam i);laney. won exceptio nal notoriety, partly because the criminal gangs of New York, once called plug ugiies. and then gun men., attained such evM notoriety during his active leadership and partly because he was a rather ex ceptional character himself. His en ergy, decisiveness and couva?o im p:e::sed the underworld strongiv and made him an a-wios. iee.em'ary fig ure on which the coior writers for the press eagerly eii:d. No doubt tr.tu Ii that was writ' en of him was pure lownc' and stat '"iu-nu that he was the black siiecp of a rich and f .';t."ctnbio family have, been dis credited. V Yet in some respects nius h; ve been out of ill" ordinary, and hii;. unblemished record of s-v.ce in flu great war right fter his icie frcm prison ;r.iw,.:e.s that under rther conditio. is the nua!iU-s which lr.s.de him a ..m i.j leafier r.veht havo made him a heo. JIif; eoniman '; oii.'cer, (.apt. Conrovv, wrote: "He was a onici. disciplined soldier, and toward all his comrades ho U:o greenest kindness and devotion." a 1 may well be his epitauh; mar.y better men have not ?'ittacd so 'ood a one. As. a rule TT , '"nuin are ai- "''""i uic.v wvtc never inornnh v to begin with.. El Paso Hcraal. Every once 'a a while it is a long time between mail robberies. Chi cago News. ESS! re- I I 1 jUL.ll IU M HjTfiMT mm ii TO mm Tell Solicitor They Started Figh Hefner Shot -Glenn niaincd Behind With Not Present, With Y enng night ii in tho th? statements of Lone nj IJaxter llihlebrand last ti-lo remains to be cleared ; fHenn I.trvnard murder except ' the details of the rabbsry of tho body after the killing and a few odds and ends over winch the public has speculated frcm time to tune. Kcth men m.ade statements to Solici tor Huffman Ut night on his return to Morgan ton from Hickory, he sccit the afternoon invest icr" t ing sai l they were there and the policit.iv jierjuty charges. Lone and Baxter told the Record over the phone that the men tcld their tales separately. they not having a chanc to sec each ; other. Mrs. Young spent Moi ganton and it was after her vi it that Lone unburdened himself. Ha f first told about trie affair corrobor-: at:::g Lon Lynn m ail essential do tails, and then Baxter went to th" of the participants in the killing but it: does not clear him as an access ory after the fact. Further investigation ! rr.av result' in solicitor iiuiiman .", reauestmo- governor to extend a pardon to Cecil Hefner cn the murder ck-rrr- and hi eseane the 1 f-'-ea'--' .'.entenee given Loi toung. boacitor Huff lira; 1 toid the Record thn ! be- ' 'ivved he haul the vdv!e (ruth in th? ! maiiee as nearly as ho could get it from the witnesses ah principals. . ; t eijury charge against those who attempted alibis for Cecil II vf -ncr of course v.il rot s )U.shed, but the .-ciicitor will have the Henry rivet- and Rhouhiss witaesses pfssentad ay the grand jury. Baxter HiJtiebranc' told the Solici tor that he would plead guilty as an accessory to the murder and that he did not expect to have any lawyer at the trial. He purposed to relate the -whole story. Whether Cecil Hefner who told of ''.'g r hii I.ipi''' on the iroraing after the murder, wdi be held as rn accessory sifter the fact has not been determined. One witness told of seeine- Cecil and Dock ing from Burke county at llrao o'clock on the night of the murder, and that is a circumstance poin:ir.g to his knowledge of the crime. little Dock Hefner, in his state ment Monday, declared Lone and Baxter killed Lippard. Baxter Hildebrand went to Hick ory that Saturday and seeing Glenn Lippard. arranged to meet him. about o clock at I he crossing three miles w:-r' "f liickc-ry or somewhere along t'-.e Ph'idhir-s road.. Baxter says that hi a".: ' G'enn were f;-oin to get some Clon had told mm that it Vvcuai fui. u:ri v '.ha' i i- ce (r'-r. ; 1 va.ds;f:.:.:-d geirg to meet a meet ftim aoout '.c:i where he v,-as !cad) for he was I 'man ( presumaoiv Lou Lynnj on tiie Ehotlhiss road. Lone Young says that whin Bax ter, who had heoa his frso.vl tor bi g- time came along that rniit and risked him to go Lo ri la !'.c had 110 ot into i'lea. when he consent ri and the car wlyre thev were geng v,hat they were goi.ii: o iio. ill vv( nt along wit!: Ba c'; :r. from here on the pwus in or just tnei Huff state stories as they tahoid to Mr. man and as h? ro-orded ilu-ir Ments are the sam. ' All Wer- Driaking "We went up that ioal as I (Bax tcr) had agreed with G'enn, and get Moving told how nth Dock Hefner fired theam ICc wlth cfs fatal shtls. Lone Young struck Lip-! i ' am?n- Clc holler- pard over the head instead cf Xecii i nV M ' k shot agam. Hefner, who they said was not nres-Vf" f ;!l ,wncj;c h:? was found cnt. This lets Cecil Hefner cut as ra'Z, i7LT-. VVHV8 LMne Not even the Ahouset Indians cf the west coast of Vancouver isle, British Columbia, have been spared from the Inconveniences of moving day. With them, however, it is a much easier affair just load the-barge and sail down the river to an enticing ,';pot and pitch the tents. . - irsti - - - - - i- 1 1 WBiliri...J"-i ...-..,.,,,.. - V - PARTKPA TION M MURDER and , Deck Deck 'R- ! L? Body- 11 Hefsier Bo'di Assert ting to the clace where tjlcnt; was ki;etl, stopt-d the ear ani" got. out to wait," said the statament. "In a xev minutes Glenn and Dczk Hefner t?.:n? along in Dock's Icrd and also r.toppu. Ji!otk. said. 'Let's shoot a dohara.' vc went to sho5un? r'i? .the running board, of the car by the i light cf the moon and a flashlight,! and had een inaymg just a licile I while whpa Lou Lynn cuaie. up as j ..he told. Dock asked i,ou to have a I drink. Wo were ail drinking. We h:id n :y. i a while when Dock said lhals iViine and grabbed up the money. Gk:;n made some remark about chs money (neither remembered just I vviiat, tic saitt- ana jjock said, ycu the afternoon iaj?ou, me p!j om today.' Glenn , ni;iu. i ve jyi- it- ana 'iu cimes more. JOCK KUlCiC pushed Glenn and then (Lone) pu:;hed and knocked . at u; en n. as Lou said. At. that Glenn started to run toward the place wncre he fell, and as ho run TW-lr ther cd. "7q left TTpfnpv tp-.t. t once leaving Dock in the briar patch with u.-i,r DOCS", Exonerate Cecil llcfner yo:n men SiatCd positively that that ' 'v.-ccii iie.tncr wa IK ''- ieji ai mill- nui 1 . luy iii. (li,.ni ...T.,, )K4- explaining this discrepancy in Lou rynns tc-timony is the fact that Ce cil Hefner and Hildebrand are about the same weight and height . and it was possible for the girl to have been mistaken. However, sne been trying to shield might have STildebrand, who was - put m -jail Monoay ol week because cf evidence that has" developed since the trial. Before examining Hildebrand So'ici tor Huffman inaaircd whether or not he had employed counsel and tlis vwto n . (y h ;inn ivnc e, as she said, whan .was kill. as' or me Momcans m 1- a rm. , lfe - : x 1, WMk - - k? 11 tijs sA&ytmm, ?&mmm mspH&i i m Lemuel "Oocum Fielding, the "Iasst of the Mohicans," surviving chief of that tribe, ia Washington with Ids son and daughter, to confer with Cato Sells, commissior.ar of Indian affairs, regarding the title to land in Norwich, Conn., vfcich lie rays belongs to his tribe. Day for Canadian v ....KSSi::?::r-.. - t ' stated that he had decided ,kc chances on HiL- the truth. He i a ir rested the other tUjf r.o4h:a.r mor'; than he i.:;: ne Knew r.o'.h: i- jJ, hut t.vo nights in jail evidently h'vn re!:i:::n :r nn ro, espt hen In; rcaii-x! that V-'i'n. "ft-a: a naking a -lean urease it -hl . 1 U LIS M 1 1 ? il ! S a 11 n 15 si rs I! 11 By the Associated Press. Chicago, Dec. 30. Squads frcm the Evanston tank corps and auto mobiles manned by city police, each armed with a rifle, will guard Evanston Chkagb's wealthy north shore 'suburb, from the raids of bandits who have terrori:t;d "'.he women of that town, according to Harry Pierscn. The motor patrols will remain on duty at night. Two more robberies of women last night were added to the more than 50 attacks and robberies of women in this fashionable suburb. Policemen dressed as women also will patrol the streets with re volvers concealed in handbags. They will be instructed to shoot to kill if suspects attempt to escape. LEAN DAYS IN WALL STREET O. O. McEnt . The Wall ,Tre in Birmingham News street broker is riding to work these days in the subway His car is in pawn. Lean days loom ahead. In most of the brokerage shops business has fallen off 75 per cent, and the 'majority are . running at a heavy loss. The high priced cafes are also feeling the loss of the broil er trade, for when the broker has money he spends it. Their eating- patronage has been transferred to the dairy lunches. 'asnington .3,., Indiansf ! ; pi;sc:iei not to " w- 100 a El M MB L;--y a sa l vmy an w n J m m iTTlriP " nrnnpy w i i nhhi nr i fan I e s B ; Sits i I iJ 1 3 LA y i 1 i hi m BOWK Gy the Associated Press, iMissoula, Mont., Dec. 30. Governor-elect M. Dixon today called off an inaugural ball planned for Hel ena next week. "I don't want to be the honor guest at a party casting $5 a per son," he said. Bv the Associated Ptpss. Triest, Dec. 29. Hostilities at Fiume between Italian regular troops and legionaires of D'Annunzio end ed tonight. Orders for a cessation of fighting at Fiume apparently fol lowed a report tc the commander of the Italian regulars in Dalmatia. that Captain D'Annunzio had turned over his powers as regency of the pro vince. TO GRANT AMNESTY P:-" tho Associated Press. London, Dec. 30. The Evening News Rome correspondent says to day that Gabriel D'Annunzio has ac cepted the terms of the Italian gen eral. D'Annunzio's legionaires will be disbanded and granted amnesty D'Annunzio probably will go to South America. By the Assocated Press. Muskogee, Okls.. Dec- 30. A lone masked bandit swung onto the plat form of a freight train last night ar.d thrusting his revolver into the face of the conductor, relieved him of his watch, lightig a cigarette and ,tcd himself at the door. HeJ&m icbbcd 'members of the train crew - entered the cao. '- h'0'n ehe train neared the Arkan J'rive, - bridge the bandit cut tne air bra andjupipcdofL . NEXT SECRETARY OF STATE the trcalury has gained very much in importance since the .preside dial Section. It is hardly an exaggeration now to say that it will not be inter tor in responsibility to. the post of secretary of state during the next administration. The reason his up on the surface of things Issues concerning taxes, tariiis, banking and financse, which are in the treasury's special field. Ne po litical and even sectional cleavages are in sight, because of the clash of economic interest between produc ers and consumers in regard to in flation and high prices, which were largely hidden from the sight of the people cnly four months ago. There are possibilities in the situation re calling periods of cheap money agi tation which profoundly affected our history. The next administration needs to be well safeguarded in the interest of sound finance. It so happens that the outgoing democratic administration is in strong and brave hands with respect to these new issues. Secretary Hou ston would have pleased even Grover Hlpvpland. whose second administra- was politically wrecktd by its fight to save the gold standard, wnai a ie markable fact it is that the only two democratic presidents in 60 years have both performed services of in calculable value to the financial sta bility of the country Cleveland by his policy of sound money and Wilson by his creation of the federal reserve system- In the critical 15-year period of readjustmlent following' the civil war when the task of the government was to deflate the enormously inflat ed paper currency and restore a speci al basis there was fortunately a suc cession of able and conservative sec retaries of the treasury Hugh Mc Culloeh. Geore-e 1 S. Boutwell. Benia- min Bristow and John Sherman. In his autobiography the late Senator! Boar writes that President Grant) changed his mind twice before final- j 'y sending in his celebrated " eto of ! the inflation bill, which indicates j how easily he might have gone wrong 1 with a poor or weak secretary of Thej treasurv to advise him. j My - 1 in government finance, taxat't n, or economics and he needs a seerrtary the treasury and u financial ad viser as well equipped as John Sher man in order to make h big decis ions sound decisions which wiii stand the test of time, ljkj- Gra-;- infla tion veto and Cleveland'-; bond issues and gold syndicate opovaion? for maintaining the treasury's gold re- serve. iiiiBiiBnin niiHflB" riniiTinin iiii?3i i ssKEsav a u s k s i a r. xix in imTT nsgrn nsun UlLlt. Of 10 eniT W UP mm tru m WHITE STJRS IIP SOUTHERNERS By the Associated Presc- Washington Dec. 30. Southern members of the house census com mittee holding healings on the ap portionment bill were 'aroused today by the charga of Walter F. White of New York, assistant secretary of the national association for the ad vancements of colored people, that the majority of the white people in many southern communities were lawless. Representative Loffin, Demcei-at, declared that the charges were "un true" and demanded that the wit nesses be made to confine themselves to their own knowledge, instead of hearsay evidence. "I am unwilling,' he said, "to let witnesses come her and make whole sale charges slandering2 a secticn of the United States." Representative Bpe, Dnmiocfrat of Texas, also took exception to the statements of White. "Knowing what we hav? undone i upbuilding the negro race, I canno. sit silent while the southern people are slandered," he said . nr vetoes JUT RES8LIIT1 By the Associated Prjss. WaflHngton, Dec. 30. President Wilson vetoed today the joint reso lution designed to suspend a section of the Clayton act prohibiting com mon carriers from dealing with any concern having interlocking (direct orates with the carrier except to a limited extent with the tonti'adts. By the Associated Press. London,, Deci 30. Inisistencfe tfa on the desirability of restricting naval armaments and the holding of a conference on the subject by the United States, Great Britain and Japan was again urged by Lon don newspapers today. The Times saying the belief was generally jprevalent in (the United States that Great Britain . was bound to support Japan in case of a war with the United States devot ed a large part of a long editorial seeking to convince the people of the United States that Great Britain would not aid Japan in such a war. The newspaper recalled that when the United States and Great Britain in 1914 signed the peace commission treaty Great Brita;n immediately no tified Japan of the fact. "If that does not explode all un easiness about an Ang;lo-Japanes attack," said the newspaper, "tho suspicion must be beyond the pow ers of reasoning." NO COMPROMISE YET ON FIRE INSURANCE By the Associated Press. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 30. All ef- forts looking toward a eomnromis. isu of the anti-trust suit filed bv he state revenue deparment against im fire insurance companies doing busi ness in Mississippi advanced at a series of conferences here ysterdav hav failed, according to a local com mittee of underwriters. COTTON By the Associated Press. New York Dec. 30. The cotton market opened at an advance of rux to 18 points on overnight buying orders. Covering was stimulated by the firmer ruling of Liverpool., but January notices rem-PKentino- oUi"- 2,000 bales were reported ir? circula tion and tne price soon eased off in consequence. Open CIosg January 14.60 14.10 March 14.00 16.B6 Iay 14.05 13.78 July . 14.1G 1390 October 14.20 1 1 on J Sim LONDON