North Carolina Newspapers

DAILY WATCH YOUR LABEL Record tfubscribcrs hhould renew at least live dayti before their HulwrriptionN expire. ICKORY WEATHER Probably rain tonight and Wednesday. Rising temperature in inter ior. I ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 11, 1915 HICKORY, N.C., TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1922 ?RICE FIVE CENTS RECORD SOME LIVELY ISSUES BEFORE COMMISSION County Highway Builders and Interested Citi zens Find Agreement Difficult in Locating Roads County Engineer Places Resig nation With Board Meet Wednesday I P.Y II. II. LOWRY) Niwton. Jan. IT. The highway i mnmission of Catawba county met in continued session at the court limn in this city yesterday to pass i.ii various road matters. The first king a petition of Edgar Trice ask ing for a cart way from his home to the public road over the lands of Ed Whittle and others. Mr. Whittle op posed the cart way and Mr. i'rhv be in;: rt'piesented by Judg. (.'line of Hickory, the highway co.mmU-dcn called on their uttorne, L. F. Klutz, to plain the procedure for granting ii cart way under the now amended load law passed by the ne'i,d ros ion of the legislature. Aftev his fplr nation of the law the cart way was granted. 'I hi Anthon and Isctihowev dispute oer the location of a road in Dandy's township was again taken up, but as the parties could hot reach any arcenunt the road commission final ly gave until the first Monday in Feb ruary to get together and exchange lands in such a way that neither will be damaged; otherwise the comnns- ion intends to pass on the matter re gal d!es or what either has to say about it. It has been the policy of the commission to damage people ju.it us littlf as possible and for this reas on they have spent so much time at almost every meeting on this matter. The wannest light over a road was two different factions from the ex tieme western part of the county where County Commissioner Wyantt. Justice of the Peace Bledsoe and quite a number of prominent people took issue with the highway com mission as to where a road should run in that section. The county en gineer appeared to le with the com plaining citizens and against the highway commission on this particu lar roud, but the highway commis sioners including the members I mm the western pavt olj the count, vot ed together. Anothei hot fight came up from the eastern part of Catawba county where a large number ot citizens op posed the survey as made by the !oimty engineer and the highway commission did not decide in favor of either the complaining citizens or the engineer but managed to get, the complaineis to agree that the would abide by what a committee of the hoard would say was just, right and proper about the matter. A commit tee composed of R. I.. Shufoid, K W. Drum, J. U. Long and C. K Mauney was appointed to go over the situation and report their (.pinion about the niatter,at the next meeting The town of Conovir and a part of ('line's township -were next bond fiom. Dr. F. L. Herman, Robert Iii'. dy and ethers opposed the survey made by the county engineer, claim ing that Dr. Herman and Wilburn Hunsucker and others would be great ly damaged, as the new survey takes the bank along side of the old road which leads in the direction of the Catawba river. The highway com mission did not act on the matter hut decided to let several members oi the highway commission visit the road and report later. The commis sion seemed to be of the opinion that if those complaining citizens would pay the difference in the :-ot of building the road where they wanted it and where the engineer surveyed the road that they might comply with their request. Numerous other road matters were heard, practically all of which re quired both the county engineer and the attorney for the board's pres ence, as most of the problems were mixed questions of engineering and law. The road commission re mained in session all day, not taking an time off for dinner and finally in the closing hour of the meeting the county engineer, S. 15. Howard, ten dered his" resignation, claiming that the commission hart not backed up his survevH as thev should have. The mutter ot accepting or rejecting his resignation was continued until tne next meeting of the board. The county commissioners will meet . .it ,nevt Wednesday to consider the nvitti-v of the hard surface r oad from Newton to the Lincoln county line ,.-, txr.m no-o u contract was en tered into between the county and the state whereby the state was to buiiu the road provided the county would loan a certain part of the money, but now it seems that the state has re fused to carry out its first contract und now demands that the county ur isish $75,000 of the principal. The ,.w.i.,ilino. sentiment of the people in V.uitnti iti that, the road should be 1 V n " v w ' i.i. in- evin if the county, has to ff.nmh u nart of the money as this road will be worth more to the county as a whole than the road to th. linrke county line. If the road county 1'ium Newton to tne uurKe line had been started at Newton a3j FINE RECORD i FIVE STATE COUNTIES OF Raleigh. Jan. 17. Figures avail able at the state department : edu cation today shows that there are only five counties in North Carolina which have a population, undo.- 10 veais of age, under five per cent illiterate. These counties a'e Run combe, Warren, Rowan, IIok. .Meck lenburg, Render. Guilford', Craven am' New Hanover. There r.re "S counties in tiie ria'e the population of which i: over 10 per cent illiterate, consider ing th so over ten years ff age. and ;, counties which are between the 5 am' 10 per cent classes. These figures are based upon t!ie last census nv.V: 1,v federal gov ernment and arrived at on oral questions aske('.' by the census takers as to whether the persons viuiz:'.'.--. could read and wiite. There is reason to believe thvi this information, which arrived at as accurately as possible under the circumstances ought to he multiplied by tv if 'iv.s state's exact standing in the iliiter- r.ey column ot si-i.es is ue.-m.-u. If this should be (.one .o:th i.aro- I'k'i nlil nmWf vclV m';:" S,?OW- ")g -.alf ll"" (-(lUC'.'tlOiUH 1IUVS ullliur.,:" the sSuite has made rapid progress in recent 'Shears. , i . . . ? . i 1 . . .. uuitnU Cy the Associate''i Pres. New York,' Jan. 17. the.usano' garment workers -Fifty-five the of metropolitan district were ready to , resume work in hundreds of shops: which have been closed by a strike since December when the manufac turers announced the inauguration of piece work. The tie up came to an end when at torneys for the cloak, scuit and skirt manufacturers' association notified the workmen that the shops would re open in obedience to an order of the state supreme court. The strikers voted to go back to work. ,ly the Associate Press. Rocky Mount, N. June 17. An order restoring positions to 412 men formerly employed at the Emerscn shops of the Atlantic Coast Line at South Rocky Mount this morning and restores the total of 500 men laid off by the executive order on December 2.'J. In addition to the re-employment of 412 men, the order gives em ployment to 14 additional men. There is no reduction in wages. HORTON ACCEPTARLE Ry the Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 17. The Germ an government has notified the Am erican government that Alanhotn R. Horto, now member of the house from New York, will be acceptable as ambassador and the name of Mr. Horton will be sent to the senate soon. FAMOUS INVENTOR DEAD By the Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 17. George Raldwin Selden inventor of the first gasoline propelled automobile and a pioneer in the automotive industry. died at his home here today. the contract was drawn by the coun ty attorney the road could have stopp- ed at Hickory and there would have been sufficient funds to have built the road to the Lincoln county line. but this is no fault of the county authorities as the road is beinc built by -the state authorities. GARMENT WOBKERS FORD TO ADDRESS WILL K9ME WORK SOUTHERN HUBS 1 1 COAST LINE SHOPS MEN BACK AT WORK iSEND OUT GALLS TO EGDNOMIG Ry the Associated Press. London, Jan. 17. Invitations the forthcoming Genoa general to eco- nomic conference have been sent to the United States, South American nations and to all European nations except Turkey, and acceptances al leaoy have been received from many nations. No official invitations have been sent the Rritish dominions, but it i? understood that they have been sounded out and the onestion of be ing represented is optional with them. spoct is said to be virtually the same as that of the existing domin ions. N(. word' as yet, however, has come to London in this respect from the Dublin government. SKCOND TRIAL DATE Dy the Associated Press. Los Angeles, Jan. 17 The date of a second' trial of Arthur C. Birch, in dicted for the murder of J. Welton Kennedy, was expected to be set to day in superior court, where yester day a jury of ten men and two wom en failed to reach an agreement. Acoiding to jurors who gave in terviews to the newspapers their vete on the final ballot .was ten to two for conviction. ADVICE TO THE RACKWARI) I Kansas City Times. New York ought to elect a shentt who shoots from the hip and go m for the law and order thing. It will ho surprised how many more settlers it will get that way and how business will pick up. m , , m STOP AND THINK IT OVER Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier. As the world moves faster real thinkeis grow scarcer. Few people stop long enough to do real think ing these d'ays. y the Associated Press Washington, Jan. 17. Henry Ford will address the southern group of the Ameiican farm bureau federation at its meeting at Muscle Shoals, Ala it was announced here today. INCLOSED BY WIRE Mr. J. M. Seizor returned last evening- from Tallahassee, Fla., where he inspected 10 miles of wire fencing built bv the Elliott Building Company for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad inclosing its right of way. The section where the fence was built is rough and: hilly, strange as that mav seem to persons who think of tidewater and the evergk.vles in connection with Florida, and the rail road cuts, while not as deep as they are in this section, are almost per pendicular. Csttle wandering on tho Hacks find it impossible to climb out and recent claims for killing stock amount to $3,000. The Seaboard officials hope to demonstrate whether it is cheaper to nay claims than to build fences and if this experiment proves satisfac tory, a largo part of the road mile age will be inclosed. Unless the (.wn er of animals killed on ttK J-';1''1".0. accepts a compromise in Florida, Mr. Setzer said, he can take his case to court and if s jury awards him damages above those : offeree: him. he is allowed double the verdict. Mr. Setzer saw the late John Dougherty at Jaeksonvi'i'e lr.st Wed nesday and was told that the former Newton citizen never fell, better in his life. Mr. Dougherty invited Mr. Setzer to dine with hint last Satur day, the day death overti-ik him. Mr. Dougherty's wife was -v native of Burke county. COTTON s Bv the Associated Press. New York, Jan. 17. There was a renewal of more or less general sell ing in the cotton market today, owing to weak reports from Europe, reports tl at the break in cotton goods had effected raw material and the easier spot situation in the south. Active months soon showed net losses of 20 to 26 points. Open Open Close janUarv -- 17.55 17.74 January 17.55 j March 17.35 17.5T May -- 17.03 17.25 i July 1G.60 16 80 October 10.02 1G.20 I Hickory cototn 17 l-2e. CONFAB SEABOARD KS SERVICE MEN SAYSTATE GIKETALE S FALSE Cy the Associated Press, Washington, Jan. 17. Former ser vice men detailed for duty with the American graves registration service deniea oeioro uie senate investigate inn- committee tndav that t.ho hnrliw N , ,. , , , , : put mt,. eiieer not ween r.o;nts m soldiers legally put to death were.Noith CiVrolina am; Vir-ini.. and o buried with a stub of robe around the neck and the black can which was put about the head. I . j George A. Ranford of Wasnington; and John R. Flinn. of Cambridge, Mass., both testified they had heard of nothing to substantiate the . charges ! made before the committee to 'ellect. Flinn declared that Rufus P. this TTnK- 11 M I,, 1 t V- X' 1 1 1 1 i i-r- l . niwl lit iii- in!.' i-l--v u.wl fAcfili., 4I " l"""lu ; this practice was a "trouble maker", who had to be transferred on that ac-j count. The committee went into the meth ods of hanging as part of; its investi gation of charges by Senator Wat sen, Democrat of Georgia, that sol diers were illegally hanged in France. Flinn insisted that if the service was unable to identify body for ship ment home it was reinterred. Taking up the case of Benj. King of Wilmington, N. C, who was listed as killed in action by the war depart ment and who was claimed to have been shot by an officer, the committee called Vayney E. Wells of Wilming ton, who said King was a member of his platoon. "I saw King just before we jumped off in battle and never saw him again," he testified. "I satisfied he was killed in action. King was one of the best soldiers in the outfit and there never was any complaint against him. "How was it reported to you that King was killed?" Senator Overman. Democrat of North Carolina, asked. "I have no direct proof," he said, "but it is my honest opinion he was killed. A sergeant near by told me King was blown up with a shell. I know he went into action and never came back again." Disagreeing with witnesses who preceded him, Richard C. Sullivan of Summerville, Mass., assistant em b:.!mer with the Graves registration service declared he saw two bodies taken up with ropes and black cap about their heads. SENATOR CRACKS F 3y the Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 17. Denouncing those who wculld' d'estroy the great reserve banking system for the sake cf politics, Senator Class, Democrat of Virginia, declared that "much more god would be accomplished for the country if some -of the senators would talk sense to the bankers in stead of nonsense to the farmers.'' The Virginia senator continuing a speech begun yesterday in the dis cussion of an amend'ment to provide for a farmer on the board, spoke vigorously. "Why not tell the farmers the 'truth once?" queried the speaker. "Why insist cn drawing def latvdfT as the monster that caused injury to the farmer? Why not show that a lot of banks did not take advantage Of the resources of the federal re serve system found' their resources greatly curtailed'?" , LILLIAN RUSSELL OFF FOB EUROPE By the Associated Press. r tne new. OPPONENT 0 RESERVE iNew iuiNJa... x.. r.w. . "I much longer than a week is the sailed for Europe today as a sPecialpvinted kncwlcdpe rf the saving you agent for Uncle Sam commissioned tojcou(l have made if you had waited: look over the intended imigrants for ( until after Christmas to buy your America and report back to the de-jgifts.-Kahsas City Star, partment next spring. j cai IV T IT 1 I -i i T . 1 ion If The American beauty, who is now. Mrs. Alexander P. Moore, wiie ot the editor of the Pittsburgh Leader, who also goes on a government mission. SHIP fMGIRL K 'Th Tf narrr in . X IUIvillI IF! OF ALLLi'I (BY MAX ABERNE THY iiaieiga, jan. 11. state snippers 17 Qiotri el, will send their lepiesentatives to Rale'gh Wlednesda of this week for meeting' with the corporation corn- mission to ic.tniuiaio sisting the merer. od plans fur re freight rates from Virginia points to 'points in North Carolina. , The Wednesduy meeting heie shippers and representatives stato traffic r ionizations is inl a meeting sehed'alea in Atlanta kit er in th? week at vhich ail tv-r ffi: i experts ana corporation commission- i ers oi tne soutneast win attend ion the same pui pose. Members of the I Nc rth Carolin-. commission exoe;-t to i i g to the Atlanta meeting. i H.-.Li; Willi. IVI-1H 1ULU Rates which went into effect l:.svi Sunday 1 etween points in this stat- and Virginia and Virginia and Novtn Carolina cities .represent an increase cf approximately 15 per cent over the readjustee, rates which tne inte state commerce commission recently ordered mac's. Under the readjust ment Ntv-'th Cai.nina. points w;;n quite a victory bu the ore recent der of the Washington body upsets the "victory rates" and does the Nr. rth Carolina shippers a great in justice, members of the state cor poration commission think. The new order also elevates sea port rates to the basis of all inland cities and this is likewise considered by the commission here as unwar ranted and unjust. It is the hope of the corporation commission that something can be done at an early date to cn-rct these injustices to North Carolina, Virginia and other states to the Southeast. Something will be started at the meetings here and in Atlanta this week, it is said. Secietary Van Hervie today: t ceiveol a telegram from the com- mission announcing that the confer ence set for today had been post poned owing to another ccnfetc-nce in Atlanta Thursday. A new date will be set for the Raleigh hearing By the Associated Press. New York, Jan. 17. J. P. Mcrga.i & Company toc'ay announced opening and over Subscription Of bends for $50,000,000 development and general mortgage bond issue for the Southern Railway beating G 1 -J. per cent interest. Raleigh, Jan. 17. Governor Mor rison's appeal for Jewish relic'" week, which he obsignates as oeginnin.z Monday, ' February and ending Sunci'av February 12, has been issuer It 'follows: : "Whereas there is great suffering among the Jewish people of Rurope, thousands of whom me renori"u as being entirely destitute and in a dy ing condition, due '.o the l ick of tV.od am' other necessities- and "Whereas our own hind' has !u en blessed with a prosperity th only guarantees our own sa which enables us and shou at not fcty but d impef us to share our bounJ.;s with our loss fortunate fellow human beings in other lands, now, "Therefore, I, Cameron Morrison, governor of North Carolina, do he.re Vv set apart by this proclamation teh week beginning Mond'ay. Febru ary G, and end'ing Sunri iy. February 12, as Jewish Relief We-k. I ask that all newspapers of the state give wide publicity to this week, devoted to such a worthy cause; and 1 es pecially ask that on Sundav, Febru ary 5, notice be given in all church es that the following week will be observed as Jewish relief week, and that the ministers. Sundav school superintendents and teachers and others, urge their peop'e t seize chis opportunity of helping the suffering and contribute to the relief of those ki thy distressed people so far na their means of relief vvdl permit." One of the principal reasons wny ; th ni Christmas spirit doesn't last; "-" " . . "What is so impressive evening hour?" asks a writer. How about the ho u r ? Peoria Trans c r i p t . as tne magazine kilowatt' t.; i QfiHTyPirn RflPfi i RIR JliRTIiRRlWCF ! UUli 1 IILIilE U LU4LL? i uiu i jnuiiinwu. ARE QUICKLY TIEl I SOT JWERHU; i - --n.--cr- - column. ii unm i a. m. ooua.v. . gB- I f The period of greatest intensity was MORRISON APPEALS j " rnn n p m t . nn rrnr nr n m run josnon mult bum t Thirteen-Year-Old Globie Lawing Tells Cabar rus Jury of Approach of Two Persons to Big Car and Fatal Shots That Followed Con versation Not Shaken in Testimony II in It h Mil m ; 5 r J iPQoyrn dv S MUW! l!fi in Ey the Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 17. Sec re tat c cks decision to submit to con- gross all and comj at Muscl Oil today offers involving the lease detion (,f the nitrate plants e Shoals, Ala., was a Italy, -by law oi'l'i.'ers of the war department and found to be in strict compliance with the nati inal defense act t elating to government 'property. Under the expressed injunction of con J.-ess written into thai lv.w, it was said that it was impossible for rr. Weeks to accept or reject Mr. F'ord's offer with a "yes" or "no." Departmental officers recalled that when Secretary Weeks first consider ed disposing of the Muscle Shonls ptoperty to any private individ'uals, he made it clear that any offer would be submitted to congress. From the beginning of transaction, it was said, the war department did not have authority to dispose of the propprty and therefore was unable to d'o more than refer the proposals i ot pnvate enterprises to congress. By the Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 17. An earth quake described as very severe and estimated to have occurred at a d:.-t::noe of. 2,500 miles south of Washington was recorded cn the seis mograph at Georgetown University ypiif i. o fy; the Associated Press. W'ash;iHj o.Q San. 1 7. ;Uepuhlican enatois wdl hold their first confer- : c-nc-e oi this session tomorrow wu.i. the jiurpo:pe of reaching an agree ment on the allied d'eht funding bill The strung opposition by Democrats tc. the features written into the bill vas understood to be responsible. Whicl the call mentioned only the allied debt funding measure, some Republican leaders stated privately that it would serve as a general get together affair. iBliTEXTILE PLUS COT 1GES 3y the Associated' Press. Providence, R. I., Jan. 17. Neces sity of reducing costs so as to meet southern competition was announced as the reason for wage reductions an nounced in three cotton mills in east- Jetn Connecticutt. The manager of i the Manhassett Manufacturing: Com pany, which announced a cut of 20 per cent, said at present the northern manufacturers "were slowly bleeding to death." He also gave as reasons for the reduction the drop in goods prices. If the farmer survives ail cf the conferences to he held' over him thete is hope for his future. Indianano'ds News. miXM pin L til j beginning at 10:58 last night and IESS TELLS OMICIDE i i: " the Associated Con.-oid. X. C. Press. Jan. 17. The sec- n;i day of the ti ial f (). G. Thomas f ('"-! rb i tt ..! trlutte, charged with the mur- -dor on Octooer 25 of Arthur J. Allen, at Kannapolis was begun this niorn ; in.- with piesentation of further evi dence on the part of the state. C! 1 ie Lawing, KJ-ycar-old girl of kannapolis, an eye-witness of tho ! shooting was the first witness on the ! stano today. Her testimony follow ed closely that given by her in an i:ffii'ovit used at the preliminary heating of Thomas in Charlotte on his application for bail, the essential pa its of which follow: V.' ifiO: was at the home of a h id start- fi . I, a i Setzer, :..-.ul t-ci home when she saw from front porch of the Setzer home car standing by the side of the the a big vond. :.'d:'n In few moments a Fore : passed y gom-- pretty fast, vv'-en i some one in the b:g car li-iiled1 tha ;;a' seniors in the sedan. The i car ran a short distance down ttter the j road and came to a stop when two i persons a'ighted from it and ca-tt-! back to the big car. It was impos Jsiole to distinguish whether one was ja man cr woman or whether they ! wore white or black. After these two persons approached the big car, a conveisation took place for sever.! minutes, after which tho man turneof to walk away from the big car. He had taken only about two .-.tops when a shot was fired a.td he turned ojuickly again towards the bi car. Tw(. more shots were fired in rapid succession, when ' the man walked I aooui ine steps a way irom th'j car and' fell in the road. The big cat then drove awaj. The witness held closely to her st.;ry through ci oss-examination, which lasted close to an hour. The state rested at the conclusion of the I.!l";in" i-:i-1"s tat;-.imnr avwl i - -- ..-w..V.J, Cl.l.B hhe defense put up two witnesses, ! Recce I Long, an enigneer, and I,. ,Sh;nn, who testified directly on- Y- site tc. the testimony offered by the Lawing irl. He stated that ho was at the home of 0,s Overcash ; fi.;nt cf v.ki'-h the shooting on cut red. He head the car coming, he saie', and looked out of the window no saw the car befoie it came to a standstill. He testified that the shots 'v ie fired I y the time the small car came to a stop. He said he did not -e the F( rd sedan pass and if any had' passed, he would have seen it. ILL OOf DEAD AS RESULT OF GUN l',y the Associated Press. Scotland Neck, N. C, Jan. 17. As a result of playing with a loaded shotgun Robert Haislip, eight years old, is dead at the hanc'.'i of his br ther, ton years old. The two boys found the gun in a room and as a result of fooling with it, one was killed. The boys are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Haislip. TWEI1ITY-TW0 STITES By the Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 24. Twenty-two states already have . accepted the federal aid for maternity care and its probable acceptance by most of the others has been indicated, ac cording to a statement issued today by Miss Grace Abbott, chief of tho children's bureau of the department of labor and a member of the feder al board of children and maternity welfare. The states accepting receive under the hill $10,000 under the fiscal year beginning next June and $5,000 the next year and suceeding years, $7,500, based' on population. The aid is based on approval of plans for its use by the department. SEEK MATERNITY AID