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HICKORY, N. C, FRIDAY EVENING, N0VEMBER3, 1922.
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SHOT BY INSPECT
Jack Kennedy, Famous Missouri Bandit, and
Companion Killed After They Made Last
Hold Up During Night -Were Hurrying to
Automobile With Registered Letters.
Bv the Associated Press.
"Wittenburg, Mo., Nov. 3. Jack
KiT.nody, veteran Missouri train rob
ber, and a companion whose name is
believed to have been Logan were
shot and killed early today by post-
office inspectors after they had rob
bed a southbound tram on the St
Louis and San Francisco Railroad
The stolen mail, about 150 registered
letters, was being taken to an auto
mobile. Six pestoffice inspectors, three rail
road special agents and two deputy
sheriffs were waiting near the scene
of the robbery which had been antici
pated through knowledge of Ken
nedy's previous movements.
Kennedy and Logan were making
for their automobile with the stolen
mail when the officers ordered them
to stop.
Inspector Bob Ward of St. Louis,
who was in charge of the officers,
said the bodies of the two robber?
were found with' revolvers clutched
in the hands. A coroner's jury held
an inquest before daylight and re
turned a verdict of justifiable homi
cide. Describing the robbery, inspectors
said that Kennedy and hi3 companions
stopped the train at Seventy-Six.
Logan cut the mail and express car
from the rest of the train.
The engineer and firemen were ord
ered off the locomotive and Kennedy
took the two crews toward Witten
berg. Stopping the locomotive, the two
bandits entered the mail car. The
three clerks were lined up against
the wall. Kennedq inspected the mail,
taking several (pouches to the cal
of the locomotive. The locomotive was
detached and Kennedy and Logan rode
to Wittenberg. About 200 yauds from'
the station the two jumped from the
engine and left it running wild. Tin
inspectors were concealed on the right
of way. '
Inspector Ward shouted the com
mand to halt. It was bright moonlight
and the officers could see the robebrs
reach for their pistols and the, inspec
tors opened fire. Both mc:i droppo:"
to the ground dead.
Kennedy has a record of seven train
robberies and served 12 years in the
penitentiary for the latest of the.se.
He had been at liberty since 1912.
By the Asociated Press.
Henderson. N. C, Nov. 3. The com
mittee on social reform of the North
Carolina Methodist Protestant confer
ence in session here today presented
its report, going on record as being
"opposed to any and all organizations
in efforts for enforcement of the law to
uphold society under cover of secre
cy, darkness or disguise."
It recommended that the state pass
a law making the purchaser of intoxi
cating liquors equally guilty with the
el'er. It deplored what it described as
the laxity of morals in the wake of
the world war and resolved to ."attack
Prevailing vice with renewed vigor and
effort," urging parents to keep their
'children under proper restraint that
they may grow in the way of the Lord."
The place of the 1923 convention
M be selected tomorrow.
COTTON
BV the Associated Press.
ew York, Nov. 3. The cotton
"urKet showed continued firmness
with increasing activity, during today's
cy'y trading. The opening was firm
Bl an advance of 1C to 21 points or
"l!lldy firm cables.
Opdn
24.74
24.45
24.45
24.30
Close
comber
Miliary
March
Way
July
25.05
24.75
24.6:
24.44
24.07 1
Hick
URGE PARENT5TD
CHEN'
ory cotton 24 1-4 cents.
ROBBERS
ORS
ROOSEVELT TREE
INTGDDY
REIVED
By the Associated Press.
- Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 3. The
Roosevelt memorial tree, which has
been the subject of a controversy
since it was planted on the Mont
gomery capitol lawn by Montgomery
boy scouts last Friday, mysteriously
disappeared last night and officials
here without the identity of the mis
creants. .
A note discovered where the tree
stood by the nightwatchman read:
"Montgomery, Ala. Get this, Ala
bama.
"To all concerned,
"The Daughters of the Confederacy
are our mothers (war mothers) and
this is the vow. There are no trees in
honor of southern gentlemen in the
capitol yards at Washington and cui
war mothers do net want this 'one
here."
The Daughetrs of the Confederacy
and other organizations" contended
that it was improper for the mem
orial to Roosevelt to stand on the
capitol ground near the spot where
Davis became president of the Con
federacy. .
JOII DISCUSS!
HELD LIST JIG
There was a joint discussion at th
Abcrnethy school house at Ohveir,
Cross Roads last; .lilght m whicl
Inrace H. Abce of Hickory and SmitL
Campbell of Maiden, Republican coun
v chairman, were; opponents and V.
A. Self of Hickory and L.oomis i
Klutz of Newton were pitted againsi
each other.
Both sides had billed the Abernethj
school for a speaking: on the same
night and the adherents of eacl
party were present. Also the speaken
were on hand, only to learn that they
had company. Chairman Campbell m
vited Messrs. Abee and Self to t
liscussion of the issues. ,
It was said that Mr. Campbell tok
the crowd that he would give Mr
Abee 15 minutes and five minutes foi
rejoinder, saying . that he ' himse'u
would not require any time to answe:
him. Mr. Abee spoke 13 minutes anc
Mr. Campbell followed with 15, it
said.
Then Messrs. Self and Klutz spoke
but it is agreed that the Abee-Camp
bell discussion was the most interest
ing from ten spectator's standpoint. -
By the Assocatcd Press.
Statesville,, N. C, Nov. 3. The re
port made t the Blue Ridge confer
ence of the Methodist , Episcoppa1
chirrch here shows considerable , in
crease in membershop, the financia"
condition good and considerable build
ing done. A new church has recently
been organized in Winston-Salem with
70 members. The evening session yes
terday consisted of addresses by Dr.
D. W. Donnelson, director of religious
training, and by Dr, M. O.i Fletcher
president of the Washington N. C.
Collegiate institute. '
An executive for conference mem
bers only was held this morning and
a layman's meeting conducted by Dr.
M. B. Martin of Chattanooga,' Teni.
The bishop's addressj occupied the ro
mainder of the forenoon. : w. '
Mrs, Ada Iattamore of Maiden is
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. M.- Boyd.
nwnp
Ml M il
WRITER
By the Associated Press.
Eichmcnd.'Va., Nov. 3. Every bit of
available space in the "Old Fork"
church near his late home in Hanover
county, was occupied this morning for
the funeral services of Thomas Nelson
Page, author, diplomat and . lawverT
who died suddenly Tuesday .while walk
ing in the garden of his ancestral plan
tation. "Oakland." -
Many cf the country folk, unable
,to gain, admission, stood outside with
bared heads as. the Rev. E. L. Good-
win, rector of St. James Episcopal
church, Ashland, conducted the last'
rites in the presence of a notable group
of relatives and friends.
Tenants on the Page farm served a?
active pall bearers - at the services,
after which the body was put aboard
the train for Washington. Another fun
eral will be held tomorrow morning.
Newton, Nov. 3. The funeral ser
vices over the remains of little Bess
Lohr, only child of Mr. and Mrs. For
rest Schrum, who was found dead in
its cradle on Wednesday morning
about 7 o'clock, were conducted from
the home yesterday afternoon at 2
o'clock by Rev. C. C. Wagner, pastor
f Grace Reformed church, and the in
terment took place in Eastview ceme
tery. The news of the death of this
:ittle girl came as a shock to the en
.ire town. .
Mrs. Schruin on Wednesday morn
ing left her little daughter for a while
o do some work about the house and
.vhen she returned to the room where
i:hc child was she found it dead in its
ibd where she had only left it a few
.ninutes before. The child had not been
;ick and seemed as bright as usual and
or this reason the death was all thel
iiore a terrible shock and blow to th
ather and mother. Mr..- and Mrs.
Schrum had only , been housekeeping
or a short while and into their home
lad come this, little life which had en
wined itself around the hearts of its
parents and was the sunshine of their
new home.
ULTAB OF TURKEV
DEPOSED
London, Nov. 3. A report that the
furkish nationalist assembly at An
gora has passeu a law suppressing
he sultanate of Turkey and the law
:-f succession to the throne is con
tained in a dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph from its; Constantinople
orrespondent, which quotes dispatch
!S from Angora.
Such action by the national assem
bly would mean, of course, that the
sultan is deposed. In the future, ac
cording to the dispatches, the holy
caliph in Turkey would be elected
without government protection. ; '
By the Associated Press.
Burlington, N. C.,'Novf 3. The body
of a white new born infant was found
in a stream four miles from town early
today. It was wrapped in a newspaper.
The coroner was called and found that
the child, alive when born, was killed
by exposure. Efforts are being made
to find the mother and those guilty
of the deed. -
John J. Parker of Charlotte, Repub
lican candidate for governor two years
ago, is scheduled to adress the voters
in the auditorium tonight at 8 o'clock.
The occasion has been well advertised
in Hickory and the county and Mr.
Parker, as oneof the big men in the
organization, is expected to draw
large crowd. . i
FIIBSL IS HELD
FOR B ESSIE LM
s ra
BODY OF IH
STIRS BURL1HGTQH
PUERTO SPEIK
INHIBYTOU
By the Associated Press.
San Diego,' Cal., Nov.
. 3. Lieut
John A. Macready and Oakley Keiley,
army aviators, , took off at .'Rockwell
field at 5:59 ai m. today in an attempt
to cross the continent from San Diego
to New York: without a stop in the
great monoplane' T-2.
By the Asseciated Press.
Missoula, Mont., Nov. 3 After Le
iand Tucker, 2i,. had, shot and fatally
wounded his father, last Friday the
father called Leland to him,', took '.his
hand, declared he loved' him and com
mended him for shooting him, accord
ing to' witnesses at; the trial for first
degree murder. The charge was dis
missed. ; :
"You have done just what I wanted
you to do,'' the witnesses declared the
father told the son. The boy declared
he fired in self-defense after his fath
er had threatened him with a knife.
INB UP VICTORY
By the Associated Press.
New York, Nov. 3. Chas. F, Mur
phy, the closed lip leader of Tam
many Hall, burst into print today with
a 200 word prediction, of an "unprece
dented Democratic, victory" . in New
York next Tuesday. J,"
Murphy, wholserdbm predicts, did
not intend to citiote this time, his se
cretary exp!aine.Tle jwfetion was4
made in letters to the state commit
tee, a copy of which found its way to
the Evening Telegram.
By the Associated Press.
Angora, Nov. 3. The Turkish na
tionalist assembly at Angora has an
nounced that it considers null and
void all treaties and conventions con
cluded since March 16, 1920, by the
Constantinople administration
I0KF0RD
ptsnoiiT
Mr. H. D. Schubert will visit Brook-
L'ord this evening in the interest oi
nmmnnitv.. Service. A program- ol
games and stunts will be used togeth
er with singing and rhythmic games
which are proving so popular in xiicK
;ry. The affair will take place over
.he Brookford Mills store at 8 o'ciock
and everybody is invited. These com
munity gatherings are for all the peo
ple and similar programs are to be
3stablished in the other centers oi
his neighborhood. - "
SEVERAL M.
By the Associated Press.
.New York, Nov. 3. Two to six wo
men were reported to have been killed
today by jumping from windows when
a fire broke out in a celluloid factory
on Thirteenth street. Four ambulances
were rushed to the scene. Several girb
were reported injured.
Credit Lloyd George wih not ex
nlanninir his resignation by saying
that his lomr-netrleeted law practice
demanded . his attention. Boston!
Herald. -
The Grand Falls of Labrator-' arc
2,000 feet high, as compared with Nia
gara's 1G4 feet.
FATHEB LAUDS SDK
FiKinieyi
I T
SLL1I TREATIES
IRE DEGLIEO VOID
PEOPLE
n
lishment ox Hickory Com
munity Service and the development of
a strong community wide.. pre o'r-yn of
social, recreational and : . 1c activi
ties has met with favor ai.ung "-the citi
zens or this section. A-; the regraa
meeting of the ex'cuth''c committee c'
Comnuinity-' Service held last evening
it was dec-iaca to ftold a meeting of the
Community "Council at" which'- time
plans : that have bc.i work'sd; out by
the.coinSSittee will be outlined for the
strengthening";, of the -- pre gram. ' This
meeting will" take place tomorrow ev
ening at 7:30 o'clock in the city court
room. Mr. W. J. Shuford, president
of Ccmmunity Service snnotirvcss the
members will not be lu Id on this occas
ion more than 30 -minute's ar.d urges
every member of the council to be pres
ent. '; -"' -
It has .bean demonstrated 'that 'Hick
ory believes in Community Service and
the time has arrived wheri steps should
be taken with regard to the perma
nency oi the vor:.- The movement is a
cooperative one and rtot ; competitive.
It is the People tnemselves banding to.
gether to secure larger and better re
sults m suDplying the needs of a com
munity through more complete, cooper
ation between all grouus and agencies.
"Some of the things accomplished
since the beginning of the work the lat
ter part of September include the co
operation with the Catawba Fair As
sociation; conducting of community
get-tcgethers or fun fests in the leg
ion hall each week; cooperation with
the South School Parent-Teacher as
sociation in the recent Halloween get-
together ; cooeration with the Com
munity club in the big Halloween cele
bration ; cooperation with the high
schpol boys and girls clubs. This ev
ening Community Service activities
will be inaugurated at Brookford over
the Brdokford Mills More. In coopera
tion with the American Legion a beau
tiful and impressive program will be
presented in observance of Armistice
day. Neighborhood gatherings will be
conducted in West Hickory, Longview:
Highland and other near oy communi
ties. , . i: - " "'-. .,
Incorporated in the program adopt
cd by the Community Service coun
cil are activities in community music,
dramatics, 'recreation,- athletics, heigh
borhood work, playgrounds, celebra
tions and other civic betterment pro
grams. :';
It is proposed to cooperate With thi
churches in a union Thanksgiving pro
g4'am.--'Ar-cimuhity,wMa'.phris-tmas.
program will be arranged with carli
singing over all the streets of tot
city. .
Newton. Nov. 3. Mr; J. S. Lancas
ter, who came to this city from Louis
burg, N.'C, about nine years ago and
took charge ot the Virginia fcn:pp no
tel. has iust leased another hotel, the
Central at Rutherfordton, "and took
charge today, thus adding -another to
his chain of hotels. Mr. Lancaster,
since coming to Newton has been con
ducting a first-class house ana win
continue to have charge of the Vir
ginia Shipp and tne St. Hubert, at this
nlace, for the present. Mr. Lancaster
will divide his time between the hotel
at Rutherfordton and the hotels at
Newton. He has secured a manager
or his house at Rutherfordton. On Jan-
nnrv 1st twentv-f ive additional rooms
vill be added to the Rutherfordton ho
tel. These rooms will be modern in ev
ery respect with running water and
bath in each room. .,
Bv the Associated Press.
Washington, Nov. 3. Declaring
that the state of the nation "presents
very much to justify a. nation-wide
and most sincere testimony of grati
tude for the bounty which has been
bestowed upon us, President Harding
in the annual Thanksgiving procla
mation issued today calls upon the
American people to observe Thurs
day, November 30, "as a day of thanks
giving, 'supplication, and devotion."
IHSSADQR FR1
: ITALY TO AMERIC!
By the Asociated Press.
London, Nov. 3. Baron Romano
Avezzano has been appointed Italian
ambassador . to the United States,
which post he formerly held, to suc
ceed Vittoria Orlandi Ricci, resigned,
according to Rome advices received
' here. ' -
The asta;
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OVER H HOTEL
PRESH ISSUES
HIS PROCLlHTII
MOTT BEGINS, WM
MAJOR
AH Persons Connected with Hall-Mills Murder
Except Rector's Widow Brought to Court
i lease for Examination and Checkingr Preli
minary to Giving Case to" Graiid Jury.
With the death last Saturday of
Mrs. Susan Rice, aged 65 ' years,
Wilson Rice, aged 73, was left to
care for a 35-year-old son who is a
cripple, deaf and dumb and imbecile.
The Rice home is six miles south of
Hickory and the family moved there
two years ago from one of the moun
tain counties. " .-
The son is kept in a cage. He gets
about more iikd an animal than a
man, tears his clothe- rom his body,
and is hard to handle. An attack of
meningitis when he was a year old
caused his condition. It is a tragic
case. " -
Chas. E. Hefner, county welfare
officer, has made visits to the home
and tried to get the man into one of
the; 'asylums, but has failed. He can
be entered at the home for feeble
minded near Kinston, but the appro
priation for that institution has run
?hort and the authorities .lack suffici
ent funds. Mr. Hefner was told that if
che man's friends would raise $100
to provide his expenses until the
'egislature -meets in Januarv. the
Kinston institution would take him at
once. .- ' -" ' '
Those who want more details about
Rice should see Chief Lentz, City
Manager Ballew. Dr. E. M. Craiir.
Miss Koch and others who have visit-
xl him. The amount needed should be
raised at once and Rice, who is left
in charge of his old father, should
be taken to Kinston next '.week..' " i
Mb. George F. MeCauley, known
the world over at the human fly, who
iias climed some of the highest build-
ngs m America, will scale, without
aid or asistance the Chamber of
Commerce building Saturday after
noon November 4, at 4 o'clock.
Mr. MeCauley was in the city today
and has completed arrangements with
tiickory Post No. 43, American Legion
to climb the building. He will climb
under the auspices of the legion men,
who will receive a portion of the col
lection taken before the climb.
The "Human Fly" comes to Hickorv
with an enviable, reputation. He
has climed some of the tallest buikl
mgs in America and his death defying
act feats have thrilled thousands of
spectators. According to his own state
ments, the climber has made several
flights with Lieutenant Belvin W.
Maynard, the "flying, parson" who
was killed while flying several weeks
ago. Mr. MeCauley claims the dis
tinction of, having climber ! 32 stories
of the Woolworth building: in New
York in the presence of thousands of
spectators. When he reached the 32nd
tory of the building he was forced
to discontinue the climb on; account
of physical exhaustion
The great feat" of climbing the
Chamber of Commerce building will
doubtless be witnessed by hundreds
of interested spectators. - - : "
IUTHERK TLANS -
FI1STI SEBVICE
Of interest to patrons of the South
ern Railway is the announcement that
effective Sunday the comipany will
make- important improvements and ad
ditions to its service between Wash
ington and Atlanta. Trains. Nos. 135
and 44 will be extended and operated
as through "trains, handling coach and
sleeping cars between Washington and
Atlanta. No. 135 will leave' Washing
ton at 8:2'0 a. m., reach ; Salisbury
at 8:55 and arrive Atlanta at 6:25
a. in. No. 44" will leave Atlanta at
9 p. m., arrive Salisbury at 6 a. m.
and reach Washington at 7:05 p. m.
The running time' of No. 35 will be
reduced two hours. It will leave Wash
ington at 11 a. m. and arrive Salisbury
9:50 p. m. No. 35 will be an exclusive
passenger train and will handle sleep
ing cars from New - York to . New
Orleans, Birmingham and Columbus,
Ga., and from Charlotte, Greensville
and Asheville to Atlanta. '
The running time of No. 38 also
will be reduced so-as to put it out
of Atlanta at 12:15 and into Washing
ton at 7 a. m.
lOliFLflLL:::
CHARACTERS
By the Associated Press.
New Brunswick, N. J., Nov. 3. AH
persons connected with the Hall-Mills
murder case, with the exception of
the slain rector's widow, Mrs. Frances
Npwell Stevens Hall, were summoned
to the court house today by Special
Deputy Attorney General Mott for a
checking, it was reported, of evidence
to be ...submitted to he grand jury.
Thte investigator, it was learned, in
tended to question these persons in
the order in which they appeared in
the case, beginning with the two New
Bruiiswick policemen who discovered
the bodies of the Rev. Edward Wheel
er Hall and his choir leader, Mrs.
Eleanor R. 1 Mills, under the crab
apple tree. ' '
The statements made by Mrs. Hall
Wednesday when she answered a long
questionnaire propounded ' by news
paper men probably will be taken as
her story for the grand jury, it was
said, and it was for this reason that
she was not called today.
Mr. " Mott has discovered another
eye witness, it was reported today.
James Mills, husband of the slain
singer, visited the scene of the crime
for the first time last night. He declar
ed that he thought the majorities had
made a mistake in their failure to
arrest all members of both families
immediately and said "it is too late
now." -
Mills added that he "believed the
eye-witness . story" told by Mrs. Jane
Gibson, the farmer woman.
. MIL MOTT SILENT
By the Associated Press :
Newark, Nr J., Nov, 3. Wilbur A.
Mott, special deputy attorney gener
al '. investigating the IiaTl-Millsr mur
def case, refused here today either to
affirm or deny that warrants had been
sworn out for any one in connection
with the case. '
By the Asociated Press.
Chicago, Nov. 2. To awaken the
conscience and ; intelligence of .The
people of the Protestant Episcopal
church to the needs set out .in the pro
gram adopted at the Portland General
Convention, thereby raising the aver
age of regular giving throughout the
Communion, is the main object in view
in the nation , wide campaign to be con
ducted wholly 'within the ranks of the
church, according to a statement by
Chicago headquarters of the denomi
nation. .... . " '
Results of the campaign in the three
years now closmer encouraee church
leaders in the belief that the ensuing
three years will be equally successful,
says the statement,, quoting the secre
tary of the field department. ....
"In the eighty-eight dioceses of the
church in the United States, the work -of
informing our people of the con
vention program and explaining the
educational methods to the leaders," al
ready is going forward," continates the
statement. "Our reports show enthus
iasm and determination that will go for
anbther big advance in the missionary,
educational and social service fields?'
The program which fixed a budget
of $21,000,000 for the next three years.
work, will support 3,000 missionaries
in American and throughout the world
and carry on the work of religious and
social service to which ' the church is
committed. A forward program . also
was adopted involving an additional
$7,400,000 of which eighty-two per cent,
will be spent in the United States and
its territorial possessions for hospi
tals, schools, new churches and com
munity houses, with special emphasis
upon work among Indians, negroes,
mountaineers and mill workers, ' ac-
cc rding to plants. Americanization 'and
rural and industrial effort also come
under the program.
An appropriation of $2,000,000' for
denominational colleges and for stud-'
end work at fifty-five of the great sec
ular institutions all oyer the land; is..
provided in the program. The budget
is- to be raised by quotas in the three
years ending4 1925., :; .'
We are now, trying in, our diligent,
conscientious way to find out what our
Republican foreign policy 'is so ag to
be for it heart and souL Ohio State
JournaL .. .--? ,! .
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