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HICKORY ' . '(t ' t i v WATCH YOUtt LABEL Rooord subacribera nhould renew at least fire days before their subscriptions ex pire. WEATHER i Unsettled weather nith ocraricnal showers to night and Thursday. ESTABLISHED SEPTE"' R 11, 1915 HICKORY, N. C, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1912 PRICE FIVE CENTS v , ' ' i KECOMD STOCKADE IS ASCRIBED ON WILLIAMS PLANTATION Federal Agents Tell Georgia Court of Condit ions on Farm Where Eleven Negros Are Said to Have Been Killed to Hide HUGE INDUSTRIAL STRIKE IN BRITAIN AVERTED NOW a Lloyd George Gets Miners and Mine Owners to "Big Three" Busy cn German Reparations Demands i ha I ft A, -.. 1 '. .1 " f.'. t v, ' i - .V. :' ' . ,;. ( Peonage Cases H v the Assooiatod Press. ('oviilgton, Ca.., April 0. The "stockade" on the Jasper county plantation of John S. Williams where tlie tdate alleges negro farm ban Ls j kept in peonage were locked up at night, was described by department' of justice officials in the trial herej today against Williams on the. charge of murdering a negro. I Geo. W. Brown and A. G. WhU nant, the first two witnesses for the tate. told the jury that when they went to the Williams place Fcbru- -i l..f thi.v v,.,i iiMUd . It .1 ) I ! - . . ;;u or 'iu xeet long ami aoouc zo i;et wide, with wooden shutters that could be barred on the inside and doors that had holes cut in them for locks and chains. Inside, one of the two rooms to the house, Brown said, wery hunks 1 alonp the walls, while in the ochcr wus u cot. There were eviden.es that cooking was done in the house. The court overruled all a motion by the defense to rule out ail testi mony of peonage. The ouV.'is were investigating reports oT roonaK- "! the report of Clyde Manning that ha and another nejjro killed 11 iv.'groes to liide peonage cases. John S. Williams told Brown he might have violated the peonage laws but that he did it "unintentionally," Brown said in court. ' Lcroy Williams, one of the sons of the defendant, was carrying a pistol the day the federal investigators went to the farm, they said. Efforts were made to have testimony that L.ioy Williarr.u killed a vVjgro ruled out were denied. Clyde Manning followed the fed eral agents on the stand and was told by the court ho would not have to answer any questions that might incriminate him. The court offered to advise him whenever he asked and K. Marvin Underwood, retained by cit izens represent the noro, also wuld aid him. The state took up some time in gain ing, from him the name cf ail Wil liams' children and names of all n groes on the farms of Williams and K Ids sons, Describing the death of Lindscy I'eUrson, Manning declared Peterson a nd Willie Predion wu'c brc-aght into New ton ccunly chained together with a hundred ponuds of rock and tossel into Yellow river from Allen'-" bridge. Willi.' m's drove the automobile that carried the party and helped get the bound negroes cut of the car. The witness said he and Charlie Chis holm were otdercJ to throw the ne groes into the river. They were bound together by trace chains .around their necks and wires around their heads, he added. vThey were stubborn and begging, too," Mann ing said in a slew vice, "and Tnc and Charlie threw them over the banis ter." The onion n the center of pr.pub.i tion -Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. Credit Hungarv with one vigorous ariM-shymmytic protest. Boston Ibrald. . ' Lenin should wash his hands be fore trying to put them in other f )lks k ckets. Washington Post. HEGISTKR NOW Registrars for the good roads election may be found at their respective registration places each afternoon during the week and all day Saturday for the purpose of enrolling voters for the coming el ection. Thy registrars and the place of registering follow: Southeast Hickory, J. Porter Bums at Burns Store. Southwest Hickory, Mrs. Ver non Lackey at W. A. Self's office, Ninth avenue. Northeast Hickory, B. A. Miller at the Chamber of Commerce. Northwest Hickory, James W. Kspey at the citymanager's of fice. ' riERR CK ACCEPTS f r v Mi if" wHS old sppoiffiiT i f 1 WMrmmim D.V hf A.?sf-iatpd T'roaa. Washing J hi;, April (' Myron T. ilciticK lias (leculcci to accept ap-i .... : i to France, a post he filled und under i President Taft and which he occupied the befrinninpr of the world war. .'II lierncK s i r i nomination will ' i made soon. Mr. Hcrrick, it is understood, was 'offered the post some time ago by ! President Harding, but his friend's say he was reluctant to accept it be cause he felt h should devote ihe re mainder of his life to nersonal af- fairs Since he left the diplomatic service Mr. Ilerrick has sustained personal misfortunes, which included the death of his wife and a grandson and "Ynore recently was ill himself and went to the Hawaiian islands in search of health. The principal trouble' was an infection in one of his eyes, which however, has been restored. Mr. Hertick has engaged in business. Bv the Assoclr Honolulu. T. ;;r T'ress, II- March 12. 'T'raisc God from Whom all blessings flow ; "Praise Him all creatures here below : "Praise Him above, ye heavenly hot; "Piaise Father, .Sen and Hoh Ghost." In simple grandeur the notes and wcrJs of the Ul doxology arose from Iriit a tin u.sand thioats; a stahvai t, white-headui Hawaiian senator and pastor spoke a solemn benediction .ma M.L.y-iour men ami women, once P.1 fc4''vt'e? th la,va pilljv,s lA Kalihi's gates to freedom, back to a world from . hich they had been outcasts, back to the homes which seme at least had believed they never would see again. Seierice ha I won another great bat tle with the sccurge of the ages. The sixty-four patients who were teleased on parole the other day from the Kaiihi hospital after treat ment with refined chaulmoogra oil. constituted the third division so re turned to their homes. In all 142 h.Jve been paroled during the past two years and not a smgle one has been sent back owing to recurrence of the disease. Officially the institution is known as Kshlihi hospital, but its inmates call it by another name, a strange name, unless one has seen thei.cheer i'ulcss born cf hope that pervades the air there. It is "Mount Happy." On the day the sixty and fourj were paroled friends and relatives gathered from far and near in the Islands to greet those who came out of the vale of shadow. Behind a hedge stood one group of smiling inmates, behind a frail wire fence another hap py gioup. One group was to go back to the world, the other was to remain for further treatment. Still another group, and larger, was gathered on the other side of the wire fence; they were the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons daugh ters and friends cf the paroled pa tients. .Tb,: clear voice of a Hawaiian wom an started singing the doxology. fit.hr rs swelled the volumn, and, to the tiecmpaniment of rustling palms, al the hum of warm trade wind in the trees the air of thankfulness and led thvouerh to its last giand note. Stephen Desha minister of the ! Gospel and territorial senator, more I than six feet in height, stalwart and white-headed pronounced a benedic tion in the Hawaiian tongue. The sixty-four tured to the right and marched rut between the lava pillars cf the big gate to the arms of their waiting relatives and friends. die ""' VINSON GETS CARRIED Bv the Associated Fress. j Washington, Aipjil 0. Represen tative Carl Vinson of the tenth Georgia district and Mrs. Mary McGree-or of New Philade1.- phia, Ohio, .were united n marriage v,v tf.dnv n t. tho Foundry Methodist church. Rev. Herbert F Randolph officiating. mm mm UJIUSUL tiUUHLU ! jimim nnn PBJUSEO ' M elu ..1: .j t I r- ii ii I il n .mi . i t- i i ..'l.t. .. ILJ i t Marshal Foch, Premier Lloyd George and Premier Brirmd at an informal Buckhamshire, presented to the nation By the Associated Press. Atlanta, Ga., April G. Resolutions i declaring that flogging of prison- ers in convict camps is" responsible in a contributory sense for the con dition of murder in Jasper county were adopted by the Atlanta hu mane society in its monthly meeting last night. The resolutions called upon Governor Dorsey to incorpor ate in his next message to the leg- j islature recommendation of a law to j abolish whipping in penal institu tions. By the Associated Press- Washigton, April O.-New notes on ihe subject of mandates have be.n sent by the American government to the governments cf Japan, Great Britain, France and Italy. The notes are understood to be similar, but the occasion for preparing them is said to be the leceipt cf Japan's reply to the original note pretesting against Japanese mandate over the fir.w German Islands in the Pacific, north cf tbo equator. Stale c'.epartment officials refused tc H-cuss the documents, but it was learned that they wove bread enough in tern: j to cover ail American rights glowing out cf the world war. The retes form a part of a series begun by Secretary Colby and in which the United States insisted on its full rights as one of the allies ana associated powers and on its richl to pass finally cn all mandate questions. WAKE FARMERS ASK HG DEDUCT Raleigh, April C Wake county farmers stormed the county cimmis sioncrs here yesterday asking for a horizontal reduction of fifty per cent in assessed land valuation, but action was deferred. J- W. Bailey made the principal speech for the farmers, pointing out the discriminations which he said existed all over the state by reason of revaluation and deflated land values. The commissioner will likely authorize a reduction but they wish to give more consideration to it before taking final action. Board cf directors of the state school for the Blind meet with Gover nor Morrisonernor Morrison for the first time under the Morrison ad ministration yesterday. The usual work of a state institution, that of having to find a way of doing pome thing that costs money for less money than it wi 11 cost and with none on hand. The governor is in sisting that every member of the board shall interest himself in the institution and he hopes to see the new building completed. Goverijor Morrison has accepted an invitation to address the North J Carolina edical Society which meets , at Pinehurst on Monday. April 25". i The governor will speak Tuesday! i night this date having been fixed by beilirtAVA saiai f i a nil - H i mi 1 11 to mm B HUGHES WRITES m m by Uaron Leo of Fareham as a place SIT -H W 1 li GHARTlR Cy tho Associated i'resc. rttsburgh, Pa-, April G. The grant ing of a Delaware charter to the anti blue bivi league of America, Inc., w.s announced here today by the incor porators of the resolution, all resi dents of Pittsburgh A. R. Smith, Pittsburgh attorney, and one of the incorporators, said that the league was formed in re sponse to a nation-wide demand, posed a wide-open Sunday and ad He added that the organization op vocaterl an "American Sunday of rest, recreatiaon and religion." The league i a ill resist the adopion of air tight laws, he said. (BY MAX ABERNETHY) Raleigh, April G Establishment cf free employment bureaus in all of the larger cities fo the state is be ing urged upon mayors and city and county authorities by Commissioner of Labor and Printing Id. L. Ship man, who is. also director of Federal employment service in North Caro lina. Commissioner Shipman points out that all points of crnf cmfwyp mf that all classes of employers and employes will be served through the j. bureaus, the need for which was nev er more apparent than at this time. The highest efficiency can only be leached, he thinks, through city, county; sfate and federal coopera tion and local authorities are in vited to join with the state riml :!ed eval governments in establishing a system of employment in North Caro lina that will be second to no other. Following a recent trip to WTash '"ngton where Commissioner Shipman conferred with the federal employ ment director he was assured that the present arrangement of main taining a supervising office in RalT eigh would be continued. This of fice is being managed by Commis sioner Shipman at a dollar per year. Communities wishing to obtain an employment bureau may do so up on the following cooperative basis as laid down by the commissioner: "Equipment, o ci quarters and the franking privilege t.p be furnished by the government, salary of the lo cal superintendent, not in excess of SI 25 per rr'onth, to be borne by the state, stenographer and telephone costs to be supplied by the local au thorities, city and county." Commissioner Shipman has sent letters to city and county officials and there is a probability that several bureaus will again be opened in the state whei'e applications for employ ment may be filled. At the present time there is a surplus of labor in all lines of work in North Carolina. The allies owe us a debt of grat itude, too. but we'll probably collect that. Syracuse Herald. o ' t m JIol liner German cities will give the allies excellent practice for thei. ultimate task of holding the ba Baltimore Siyi. 'the society's secretary, Dr. T. E " McBreyer who is in the city thi week completing arrangements for the four day meeting. FREE Elf LOIFJT BIE1S II STITE week-end conference n't riimirs in of rest for British nromiers forever. By the Associated Press. Tampa, Fla., Aprl 6. Wilbur Col lins, egro convict who is charged with having attempted to attack five or more white women at Barton Monday night, captured near that place last night was brought here to day when a mob of citizens was out witted. .Collins first was captured by citi zens early yesterday, but dived head long from an automobile running 40 miles an hour and escaped- rpopuqr By the Associated Press. Washington, April 6. Acreage planted in tobacco this year in North Carolina will probably show a slight decrease from last year ac cording to reports to the department r.f agrculture issued today- A con siderable portion of last year's crop is still in the hands cf the growers.. Transplanting was reported as practically completed in Florida and the plants growing fast in Tennessee with the possibility that a few buds may have to be replanted as a result cf the recent freeze. Virginia "bright" markets were raid to be closing up and organiza tion cf the growers' cooperative as sociation progressing satisfactorily. New England reported that its acreage this year would probably be reduced with much of last year's crop still in the grower's hands while l eports from the west showed that vprv little of the crop was in the bands of growers. COiiSES By the Associated Press. Washington, April 6. President Harding told a delegation of the wo men's peace society today that al though lie was considering a reduct ion of the program of armament, he had not considered it fully and did not purpose to take any preci pitate action. The delegation asked the president to call an international commis sion for reduction of armaments. COTTON y tha Associated Press New York. April G. Weakness in Liverpool and increased nervousness over the British labor situation le i to an opening decline at the opening of the cotton market. There was south ern,' commission and Liverpool seli-ino- rn the decline which carried May "1 1 and July 27 points undsr last night's close. Open May -11.50 July - -12.0' October 12.&S December ' 12.88 January .. .13.00 Close 11.85 tg i 13.22 13.32 JIM FROM CI RUBS 1 MILES cniic n ill sir r ' IS uUlvSL U CilTTII PS GRAM :ree to Conference and Railroad and Transport Workers Won't Leave Jobs Mines Going to Ruin READY TO HIT ON SICK SOLDIERS By the Associated Press. Washington, April 6. Three defi nite recommendations to President Harding had been agreed upon today by the spec-is! commission invest igating the care and tieatnient of sick end disabled soldiers. They were a central government agency to have control, a decentral ized administration of service carrying- federal aid as near as possible to the homes of soldiers throughout the country .and a request for ad ditional hospitals throughe't the coun try, including hospitals in all parts of the country. Cha. G. Dawes of Chicago, chair man of the commission, said he would be greatly disappointed if the hear ings are not concluded today. He said he expected to make his report tonight. Raleigh, April 6. Reports of the weekly meeting of the council of state- with the governor made it cer e.in that the state treasurer would journey to Ne wYork within the next secial days to feel the financial pvse of that great city. This decision to send the treasurer after money is to begin work on the 5,500 miles of hard surfaced high ways the stAte is expectinc and to bulid dormitoi-ies, mess halls and classrom buildings at the various ed ucational institutions which are charges of Tarheelia. The charitable schools also must be looked after. Whether money is to be obtained n LIE! WILL FEEL BIND MET POLSL short term notes or whethe bonds are'mjners union for the purpose of se- to be sold, or wnetner tne ounamg is to be delayed depends entirely upon the money market. Governor Mor ilson has insisted that five per cent money should be found and unless Jie treasurer is able to find it there is every reason to believe that the coun cil of state will mark time until the market opens up somewhat. Governor Morrison may make a trip to New- York himself, it is learm ed, for the 'purpose of learning whether the money can be obtained. The governor's investigation trip will be i nthe nature of semi-offieial business but as head of the state gov ernment he will become acquainted with the financial situation. JCED 01 TRISl FOR MOB VIOLENCE Bv the Associated Press South Boston, Va., April G. Fif teen .white men charged with mob disorders in the town cf Houston following the murder of William Rickman on the night of Marcn li, an attempt having been made to lynch William Coleman, a negro. After Coleman was arrested and landed in iail a mob formed and at tempted to get hi nr. Coleman said he'iProPer function of government. dodged bullets by runinng f rm one j cell to another. He declared he was at a dance at the time of the murder and added that he could prove an alibi- LOCKOUT DECLARED . II TURIN PLANTS 'near here, for the past several London, April 6. A lockout has!mcntb-s committed suicide by hanging ogibeen declared by the factory owners -oil of Turin, an important Italian Indus-- trial center, says a Centi'al dispatch from Rome. By the Associated Press. , London, April 6. The great indus trial crisis with which Great Britain was faced this morning as a result of the bitter wage war between the mine owners and the miners, with strikes by the railway men and transport workers in addition to the miners' strike threatening the public, has found at least a temporary hope of settlement. At the 11th hour Mr Lloyd George, the prime minister, intervened and asked both sides to hoi ' a conference After serious deliberations the con tending forces decided to accept the mediation offer. .No time has as yet been set for the reopening of the discussions, but the acceptance of the premier's invitation it is pointed out, is taken to mean that the other great unions the rail road men and the transport workers .will take no active measures to sup port the miners while the peace ne gotiations are in progress. This ray cf hope pierce the black industrial clouds just at the time when it seemed certain that the storm was abut to break and involve Great Britain in the worst disaster in its history. The great coal industry already is at a standstill with many mines fall ing into ruin and great steel plants idle. By the Associated Press. Jinffw, Ap-i' C. VI: i excivutfve body of the m iners' union this after noon accepted the government's pro posal that the mi ners'' delegates meet representatives of the owners with a view to settling the strike. The miners' association comprising the owners of mines has agreed to the conference. SUPPORT .MINERS By the Associated Prss. London, April 6. Decision to sup port the British miners in their ftrike was reached by the transport federation this morning. The vote was unanimous in favor cf lending aid to the miners. It was (Voided to meet in conference imme diately with delegates of the nation ;1 union cf railway men and the curing action by the triple unions. 0 I TO SELL Cy the Associated Press. Chicago, April 6. The department of agriculture should extend the f:ame aid to farmers in marketing their crops as it does in producing their crops, Secretary Wallace de clared toVlay before the Farmers grain marketing committee of 17. Study of improved marketing meth ods as wrell as of conditions, the farmer should understand to pro duce intelligently and adjust his production to the needs of con sumption, the secretary said are "proper functions of the depart ment." , "A plentiful supply cf fod at pric es which are just to both consumer :nj producer is vital to our national .welfare," he continued, "and it is a in COUNTY GIRL By the Associated Press. Greenville, N. C, April G. Miss Neta Harris, who had been teaching school at House Station, ;nersIt 11 cm Ine nmb ,of a tree yes" !-evday, the body having been found ENDS 1 News'nbfnit 4:30 Tuesday afternoon. Ill health is believed to be the cause.
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