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til n t o I r3ltelfe e ui $U ESTABLISHED 1876 LINCOLNTON. N. C THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 2. 1921. C Cents Per Copy, $2.00 Per Tear. TUBERCULOSIS CLONIC HELD HERE LAST WEEK At the tuberculosis Clinic held in Lincoln County last week, 96 people were given a chest examination by Dr. Sprujll of the State Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis, as sisted by Misses Marion Manning and Ellis C. Nelson,, Lincoln County Pub lic Health Nurse. Of the 96 examined there were 21 positive cases, and 7 doubtful cases; this percent of posi tive cases in no higher than the aver age found all over the state. The large number of people examined and found to be free from tuberculosis, as well as a number applying too late for an examination, shows the increased interest throughout our country in precautionary measures pertaining to health. Proper treatment was advised by Dr. Spruill for all those who needed it, and careful instructions given. This Clinic was conducted under the supervision of the State Board of Health and is one of the many ways by which the State is working for the benefit of the health of the people. JOHN ISENHOWER'S CAB IS RECOVERED Newton, May 31. About 1 o'clock last night a Ford touring car belong ing to ex-Sheriff John A. Isenhower of Conover was stolen from the front of his house. Sheriff John Mauser re turning to Hickory from Newton about that time met Mr. Isenhower's. car but did not see who the driver was as the lights of the car were turned out just before passing him. On reaching Newton this morning he learned of the theft he reported pass ing the car which was headed toward Newton and Mr. Isenhower accom panied by Deputy Sheriff J. 0. Gil bert left Newton early this morning in search of it, and they found it at Dallas, near Gastonia, the gas having given out. The driver, Hub Little of Newton, a 17-year-pld youth, was arrested, and brought to Newton where he was placed in jail to await trial. This is the second Ford car to be stolen from Mr. Isenhower. The first car was never recovered. Several cases of alleged automobile thieves were disposed of in court to day. Cicero and Ernest Costner, charg ed with stealing automobile fixtures were bound over to Burke county su perior Court Dewey Black and a young man by the naml of Mechan were bound over to Catawba County superior court. The young men -were charged with stealing a car some time ago from the Newton court square be longing to Mrs. H. tt Hilton. Ralph Shook charged with having one half gallon of whiskey in his pos session was tried in county court to day and sentenced to three months on the chain gang in addition to drawing a $300 fine. MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES FOR AMERICAN WAR DEAD Are Held at Arlington Exercises at National Cemetery Held Under Lead of President Harding. Washington May 30. The national capital's memorial ceremonies fori American war dead were colored by a new touch of international signifi cance today at services held in Arling ton cemetery under the lead of Presi dent Harding. Speaking in the Arlington amphithe ater to veterans of three wars and to a distinguishes company of officials and diplomatics, the President reded icated the nation to the cause of free dom and civilization and promised it never would fail to measure up. to every demand presented to it in be half of civilization. By striking across the sea in the world war, he declared, America had sanctified again her faith in free institutions for peoples every where. "Wherever men are free," said the President, "they are wont to give thought to our country's services in freedom's cause. Today the sons and daughters of other lands are placing with loving hands their laurels on American graves. Our memorial day is become an international occasion' At the conclusion of the address Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambas sador seconded the sentiment by plac ing on the American flag beside the president a wreath of roses presented by the people of the United Kingdom of the sacrifices that America has made for individual liberty." In special reference to the world war, President Harding declared America had opened the door to free institutions even in the countries against which she fought, and had given opportunity "of planting demo cracies where obsoleteism had held sway, of making the people supreme," he added that the troubled conditions abroad still made it doubtful whether the vanquished peoples would accept that opportunity and would "pay the price required to maintain the free dom to which the door has been open ed." ' HARVEY CONDEMNED BY GREENVILLE VETERANS Greenville, S. C, May 30. Resolu tions condemning the London speech of Ambassador George Harvey, rela ted to American's purposes in the world war, were unanimously adopted tonight at a meeting of the Greenville post of the American legion. Copies of the resolution will be sent to President' Harding and South Carolina members of Congress. The resolution declare that the re ported utterances of Ambassador Har vey "ignorant or maliciously misrep resent the purpose and motive of the American soldiers, saliors and ma rines and of the whole civilian popula tion. Charlotte, May 30. Seven members will be added to the faculty of David son college, once attended by Wood row Wilson, at the opening of the com ing year, according to announcement made tonight following an ail-day meeting here of the executive com DEPUTY BAXTER GETS A 75 GALLON AFFAIR Last Sunday a .m. Deputy Baxter found a blockade still near Flay. It was of copper and about 75 gallon capacity. It was found hidden in the brush. Near where the still was found Deputy Baxter last week destroyed some beer. Since last December the Sheriff and Deputies have captured 8 still and captured 12 autos, and more than 200 gallons of illicit liquor; 10 of these cars are involved in next court, along with a' number of defendants. ELOPERS ESCAPE INTO OLD MEXICO Ex-Sheriff Deaton Tracks, Man, Wo man and Children From Salisbury To El Paso. Statesville, May 29. Ex-Sheriff J. M. Deaton has returned from a trip through Texas, including Houston, San Antonio, Sanderson, El Paso and Juarez, Mexico, in pursuit cf G. M. Wilkinson, of Marion, whois wanted in this State for embczzelment. Mr. Deaton went as special agent for Con nelly & Teague, of Taylorsville, Wil kinson's former employers from whom he is alleged to have taken more than $4,000 before making his escape with Mrs. O. A. Hartline, of Waynesville, and her two little boys, aged five and nine years. Wilkinson, Mrs. Hartline and the children boarded a fast train at Salisbury on the night of Tuesday, May 3, and passed across the Mexican border about the 10th of the month, according to information secured by Sheriff Deaton on this trip. Mr. Deaton had in his possession a letter written by G. M. Wilkinson to R. H. Prestwood, of Frederick Hall, Vs., father of Mrs. O. A. Hartline, and a letter from Mrs. Hartline to her father and mother. The letters told of the affection each had for the other, which led to their" elopment. and that they would adviae-Mr. and Mrs. Prest wood in case of illness of any one of the family. The letters bore the post mark of Sanderson, Texas, and it was expected that they would be located there. Mr. Deaton found that the letters had been mailed at Sanderson while the elopers were passing through to El Paso on board the Sun set Limited. Mr. Deaton had a pho tograph of Wilkinson and experiencer1 no difficulty in tracing him from New Orleans on through Houston, Texas, where he spent a day or two; through Sanderson, where he stepped off be tween trains W mail the letters, nnd to El Posa, where the Mexican consul and detectives reported that the man, woman and two children described had passed over into Mexico on the 10th of May. There is no way of knowing where Wilkinson is. The officers state that it is impossible to get him out of Mexico as long as he is not classed with un desirable citizens by the Mexicans. Texas officers on the alert, and if Wil kinson shows himself on this side his arrest will be effected and notice wired here immediately. FLAG AND WREATH PLACED UP ON GRAVE OF EVERY U. S. SOL DIER IN FRANCE MORE THAN 40,000. , Paris, May 30. Little American flags and poppy-dotted wreathes marked the grave of every one of the forty-odd thousand soldiers dead re maining in France and the few hun dreds scattered throughout the Euro pean continent even to the single mound on Gibraltar, America remem bered her dead. The Americans, comparatively few in number, 'shared with the French their sad task of honoring those who had died in the great cause. The French took part in every ceremony, and in places where perhaps there was only a single grave and the American committee was eble to send only one representative, French patriotic soc"e ties organized services. There were 77 groupes of graves where - formal memorial programs were carried out in France, but there were others, more picturesque, where a French pTiest led the school childron to an isolated American grave, which they had guarded and cared for as if their own, or where a village mayor presided over the services, with here and there an American resident or visitor taking part. Imposing ceremonies were held at Mich places as Suresnes, with reiri ments of French soldiers, and little affecting cremonies were frequent where children from near by farms gathered to carry tightly gripped bou quets of wild flowers to th'e grave of one thev knew only as "the American.' FAST TRAIN TEARS CAR INTO PIECES Hickory Record. Mr. Craig J. Hawn, well known far mer had a narrow escape from death Saturday night when his Chevrolet car, in attempting to make a crossing near the Southern railroad near Oyama, got stuck between the rails and was demolished by No. 16 a few seconds later. Mr. Hawn and two small children jumped from the car when they saw the headlight of the fast train approaching, but Mr. Hown stayed long enough to make another effort to get the machine off the track. He jumped in the nick of time and the big locomotive smashed the car into a thousand splinters. SHERIFF MORTALLY WOUNDED IN BATTLE WITH BLOCK ADERS. Chattanooga, May 28. Sheriff A. J. Catron, of Walker county, Ga., was brought to a local hospital today des perately wounded as a result of a bat tle with blockade runners on Lookout Mountain, near Flintstone, Ga. Jim Abney, a deputy, was shot through the ear. The blockade runners escaped but the officers believe one or both arj seriously wounded. An antomobile with 40 gallons of moonshine was confiscated and the liquor destroyed. UNIVERSITY OF N. C COMMENCEMENT Chapel Hill, N. C, May 31. The largest number of students that ever won degrees in the century and a quarter of university history will re ceive their deplomas from the hand of Governor Cameron Morrison at the one hundred twpnty-sixth commence ment at the University of North Caro lina, June 12-15. With addresses by former Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, Gover nor Morrison, President Chase, and many of the alumni, and with the bac calaurate sermon by the Rev. Charles E. Maddry, secretary of the Baptist state convention, the coming com mencement promises to be the largest and most important Chapel Hill has ever known. Mr. Daniels' address, the most im portant speech of the commencement, will be delivered Wednesday morning, June 15. From the same platform Governor Morrison, attending his first university commencement as governor will hand degrees to more than 170 men and women. The senior class ranges up close to 130 and the number of graduate degrees will be markedly larger than ever before. Registrar T. J. Wilson, Jr. thinks the total number may extend as high as 180. . The full program calls for Sunday, June 12, to be marked by two impor tant sermons, the baccalaurate by Dr. Maddry in the morning ,".nd the annual Y. M. C. A. vesper services on the campus in the afternoon with the Rev. W. D. Moss, of Chapel Hill Presby terian church preaching. Monday, June 13, will be class day, with the final exercises of the senior class. The orations for the Willie P. Mangum medal will take place in the morning and the last class meeting in the afternoon under the historic Davie poplar. ! flW!f Alumni will hold the center of the stage Tuesday, June 14. The election of a president of the alumni associa tion to succeed R. W. D. Connor, an address by President Chase, and talks by representatives of each of 10 re union classes will mark the alumni meeting in the morning. Governor Morrison will address the alumni luncheon as will several alumni. The trustees meet in the. afternoon, the returning classes will hold their special presentation of the Carolina Playmakers and the reception to the alumni. Wednesday, June 15, commence ment day proper, will mark the final exercises in Memorial Hall, the ad dresses by Mr. Daniels, and the pre sentation of diplomas. The commencement dances under the direction of W. D. Carmichacl, Jr. of Durham, chief ball manager, will start Wednesday afternoon and will last through Thursday night, with more than a hundred visiting voung ladies. NO CHANCE FOR LINNEY TO GET FEDERAL OFFICE Name Either Will Be Withdrawn By President or Rejected. (H. E. C. Bryant, in Charlotte Obser ver.) Washington, May 29. The More-head-Linney political machine called kthe "Hog Combine'' by Marion Butler, will have to find another can didate for district attorney for the western , part of the state; the. nomination of Frank A. Linney will either be withdrawn by the White House or rejected by the senate. The protest of the negroes, because of the letter proposing an agreement to eliminate the colored voters, has put fear in the hearts of senators from close state. From information in my posses sion, I am sure that the President will be asked to recall the Linney nomination. The request will be made by administration leaders in the senate, who cannot face an angry negro constituency. Senator Borah has indicated a willingness to "pass" Linney if he will convince him that if he is con firmed he will enforce the laws "re gardless of race or color," and see that the negro is "protected in his rights," just as he would for the white man. But, the ball has been started, and there is no way to stop it. Some of the leading friends of the President have told him that they could not be re-elected to the senate if they voted for Linney in the face of that famous letter- It is under- i stood that Senator Ernst will tell Mr. Harding that it will be impossible to get enough votes to report the nom ination from the judiciary. Nothing that has happened here in recent years has given republicans such a fright as the Linney affair. The protest of the North Carolina negroes does not especially interest the republican senators but what the negro in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois says is more important. It was pointed out here today that if Senator New, for instance, voted to confirm Linney, former Senator Beveridge would take the protest of the negroes and go up and down In diana and defeat him for the nomi nation. That tells the story in a nutshell. The North Carolina republicans might as well decide on another man, for Mr. Lenney, regardless of his popularity, is not going to get by. The offorts of President Hard ing and Daughterly have failed to convince senators that they can go to the bat for Linney. Within the next few days the republican mem bers of the sub-committee of which Mr. Ernest is chairman will get to gether and outline a policy and then act Greenville, S. C, May 27. While standing in the street looking at an automboile which had been badly de molished by collision with the city Water wagon, John Wyatt, 70, Mill Money, 50. and a young man named Yarborough were struck by another antomobile and seriously injured on Pendleton street. BOLD BURGLAR LANDS ; BEHIND THE JAIL BARS Lee Elliott, of Gastonia, Frightened Away While Attempting to Enter Lowell Store. Lowell was the scene of a very dar ing attempt at robbery last night. As a result Lee Elliott, white, aged 25, 'claiming Gastonia as his home, is in jthe county jail in default of a $500 bond, having been committed by Mag istrate S. S. Morris on preliminary hearing this morning, The principal witness against El liott was R. L. Featherston, a young man who clerks in T. P. Rankin and Co's. store at Lowell and who sleeps in the store. About 3 o'clock this morn ing Featherston heard some one tear-! ing off the iron bars from a window near his bed. He quietly slipped out of bed, secured his pistol and made his way to a point near the window where he says he had a good look at the would-be house-breaker. Testi fying in magistrate's court this morn ing, Featherston said that he decided once to shoot the would-be robber but as the lower part of the chiminal's body was below the window still and to shoot meant to fire a bullet into j some vital part of his body and per- naps cause aeatn, ne aaciaea to re frain from shooting. After frightening the burglar away, Featherston went out the front door and saw the man putting gas into a i Ford car at a store further up the street. A moment later the Ford started in the direction of Gastonia and Featherston immediately tele phoned police headquarters here. A squad of motorcycle Policemen started at once to meet the car, When, a short distance east of the city, they commanded the Ford to stop the driver 'stepped on the gas." The of- , fleers gave chace and got their man at the junction of East Franklin and Church street when two of the Ford tires, having been punctured by bul lets, ran off. The driver jumped from the car and was overtaken a short dis tance away. A pint bottle with a small quantity of whiskey was found in his car. He denied his guilt, but was positively identified by Feather ston. Gastonia Gazette. WILSON CALLS FOR REAL OBSERVANCE Must Make Sure of Fulfillment Of Duties Growing Out of War, He De clares. -j& Washington, May 29 Former Pres ident Woodrow Wilson has broken his long silence since his retirement from the White House on March 4. It is Memorial Day that his brought a let ter from him, this sent to the editor of Stars and Stripes, a soldier periodi cal published here, and in it he de clares that we of America "shall not be able to enjoy the full pride of the day's recollections until we have made sure that the duties that grew out of the war have been fulfilled to the ut most." The full text of his letter is: "Memorial Day has always been one of our most solemn and thoughtful : anniversaries, wnen we recanea greai memories and dedicated ourselves again to the maintenance and purifica tion of the Nation; but this year it has an added and tremendous signi ficance because the memories and sacrifices of the Great World War are now among the most stimulating of the recollections of the day. "We celebrate the immortal achieve ments of the men who died in France on the field and in the trenches, far away from home in order that both our own and the peoples across the seas might be delivered from the uglist peril of all history. It is our I privilege not only to indulge a high ' and solemn pride and grief for the I heroes of that great struggle, but also j to rededicate ourselves to the achieve men of the great objects for which i that war was fought. We shall not be I happy; we shall not be able to enjoy (the full pride of the day's recollec tions until we have made sure that the duties that grew out of the war have been fulfilled to the utmost. Are we sure? If we are not, shall we not soon take steps to do whatever has been omitted?" 'WOODROW WILSON." MINE EXPLOSION SENT KITCH ENER TO HIS DEATH. The mystery of Lord Kitchener's death has been Anally authoritatively solved and the cause of the sinking of the battleship Hampshire definitely 1 established by information from ad- miralty sources showing that the I Hampshire was destroyed by one of a group of 14 mines laid by the sub ; marine U76, on May 29, 1916, says ' a dispatch from Berlin. The information not only settles the long-standing controversy wheth er the Hampshire was torpedoed by a 'submarine or mined, but also in tha 1 opinion of German experts convicts 1 the British admiralty and Admiral Jellicoe of responsibility for Kitchen 1 er's death. Admiral Jellicoe, accord- ing to official British statements, or dered the Hampshire to follow a course west of the Orkneys on the as . sumption that at the date of sailing, ! June 6, German submarines were not operating in the vicinity so far north. A submarine commander, Lieut. ! Commander Kurt Beitzen, had, as a ! matter of fact, laid in mine field in this well-known route of warships six days earlier and Admiral Jellicoe should have been warned by the sink ing of a chartered mine-sweeper there on June 2. The news apparently had not reached him or was not consider ed owning confusion over the battle of Jutland, and the warship, which was expected to carry the fortunes of Enland, since Lloyd "George, as well I as Kitchener originally was si-hed" im w sail iui ttuoo n tnc iiam- shire, was directed straight into the mine field the onlv one laid bv the Germans in the vicinity. STATE TO HAVE $15,- 000,000 FOR ROADS i Council of State Authorizes Commission to Proceed. High (Charlotte Observer.) Raleigh, May 31. Governor Morri- son and the council of state today gave j authority by " resolution to the state highway commission to spend all of: the state's ten million dollars for roads allotted for this year, and as much more as the counties, interested in road building and anxious for the work to proceed as expeditiously as possible, will advance for the use of the commission. This means in prospect for expendi ture on road building in North Caro lina during the next 12 months fifteen million dollars, and possibly more. Commissioner Frank Page's imme dinate program is to increase his own staff and let contracts as expediously as good business will permit. All the money the state wants is available at six per cent, the governor again de clared today, and his statement had the support of a number of leading bankers here for a confr.'ence. "The state can borrow $25,000,000 today if it wants it," Lieutenant Governor W. B. Cooper said, "and can set it at a rate of six per cent." The highway commission held its regular meeting today, but was so swamped with county road delegations that actual progress toward road build ing was nil. But when it orders the men to work the turnpikes somebody can go somewhere. Both Doctors Sloop, of Avery coun ty, leading a delegation, came to put Avery in the world. The commission never will have a finer advocate before it than Doctor Sloop, femme. She was here to see the legislation through and is back to get an incidental benefit of her work. Catawba, Lincoln, Iredell, Gaston, McDowell, Avery and Burke counties were here, Union coming d 'vni to get a slice. The majority of entcrp-ises arc county to county town. All the pro jects have been presented the board of commissioners will probably make an-, other move. Forecast recently in these columns that the A. & E. trustees would ratify the alumni proposal for a widely dif fused course at West Raleigh was quite borne out by trustee action to day, both Professors Taylor and Zim merman being added to the school of business administration, which em braces business courses, rural socio logy and other things. The trustees allowed the college budget which carries an appropria tion for faculty research wok, a new activity. PITCHED BATTLE BETWEEN RACES IS WAGED Tulsa, Okla June 1. Nearly ten square blocks of the nejjro sec tion of Tulsa, where an armed con flict has been in progress between white men and negroes since early last night, resulting in a reported death list of at least six whites and 50 negroes and a rapidly increasing list of wounded, were in flames to day. The fire was reported spread ing and threatening to wipe out a white residence section in the Stand pipe and Sunset Hill additions. Detachments of guardsmen were scattered throughout the city prepar ed to meet all emergencies with ma chine guns ready for action. Guards surrounded the armory while others assisted in rounding up negroes and segregating them in the jail, conven tion hall, baseball park and other places which had been turned into prison camps. State troops under the command of Adjutant General C. F. Barret, arrived at 9 o'clock to take charge of the situation, augmenting local units of guardsmen who were called out last night. At this time there were reports of sporadic shooting and the situation seemed to be eas ing. REPORT THAT 75 PERSONS HAVE BEEN KILLED Oklahma City , Okla., June 1. Seventy-five persons, whites and neg roes, have been killed in the race out break in Tulsa, according to a tele phone message to Governor Robertson here today from the chief of police at Tulsa. MILL OPERATIVES OUT ON STRIKE ESTIMATED AT MORE THAN 10,000 Charlotte, Concord and Kannapolis Worst Affected. Charlotte, June 1. Charlotte, Con cord and Kannapolis are the centers of the textile strik" movement ong muted this morning at 10 o'clock when it is estimated that more than 1,000 mill operatives in these three centers lft K,.;,- U., ivtfl anindlna anil m reifc men lUJni.i ..m o...v., stituted the strike which for weeks has been impending. In Charlotte, the mills notably af fected are those owned by the Chad-wick-IIoskins company, a string of five mills, four hero and one in Pine ville; the Johnston Manufacturing company and the Highland Park Man ufacturing company, the mills owned by C. W. Johnston and associates, ine Cannon mills in Concord and Kannap olis are under the ownership and man agement of J. W. Cannon. Three or four thousand operatives are idle in Charlotte and immediate vicinity. Concord reports that the strike in that town and in Kannapolis involves more than 6,000 employes. Gaston county mills, nearly U)0 of them, are unaffected, and so are those in Cleveland, Lincoln and Union coun ties. WANTS TO ABOLISH EXCHANGES New York, May 30. Abolition of cotton exchanges if they cannot be reerulated bv United States Senator J. Thomas Heflin, or Alabama, in an ad- dress today before a national consulta- tion of American cotton growers, manufacturers and affiliated interests, $400,000,000 SLASH- ED FROM ROAD BILL Chicago, May 21. An estimated four hundred million dollars will be slashed from the nation's railway wage bill when an order cutting waires on an average of 12 Der cent. to be handed down tomorrow by the United States railroad labor board, becomes effective July 1. The order affects members of 31 labor orsrani- zations, employed on 104 railroads. While the decrease is specifically applied only to the road whose cases have been heard by the board, the decision says it may later be applied to any other road asking a hearing under the provisions of the Esch Cummins transportation act. Percentages of reductions com puted by members of the board gave the average of 12 per cent, and the same source estimated the annual reduction in wages at approximately $400,000,000. The decision grants reductions varying from five to thirteen cents an hour, or from five to eighteen per cent, and in the case of section laborers completely wipes out the increase granted that class of em ployes by the $600,000,000 wage award of July 20, 1920. For section men the reduction was approximate ly 18 .per cent. Switchmen and shop crafts were given a nine per cent reduction while the train ser vice men were cut approximately seven per cent Car repaires were cut ten per cent. Common Labor Pay. Common Labor pay, over which the railroads made their hardest fight, is to be reduced to 8 1-2 cents an hour, cutting freight truckers' average monthly wages to $97.10 and track laborers to $77.11. This new schedule gives section men an aver age daily wage of $3.02 for an eight hour day, although considerable tes timony offered by the road, partic ularly in the south. Showed common labor wages as low as $1.50 for a ten-hour day. bhop crafts employes and train and engine service men, except those in passenger service, are "reduced eight cents an hour. Construction and section foremen are reduced ten cents an hour. 1'assenger and ireight engineers who were given increases of 10 and 13 cents an hour by the 1920 award are to be cut 6 and 8 cents an hour, respectively, passenger and freight conductors, who received increases of 12 1-2 and 13 cents in 1920 are cut 7 1-2 and 8 cents respectively by the new schedule. Train dispatchers and yardmaV ters, whose monthly earnings at present average $260 to $270, are cut eight cents an hour. Office Forces. The smallest reduction will apply to office boys and other employes under 18 years of age, who will re ceive five cents an hour less after July 1. Clerks are reclassified so that en tering clerks, usually young men and women of 18 to 20 years of age. will receive a monthly salary of $67.50 for the first six months and $77;5 for the second six months of service. Clerks with less than one years's experience now receive $120. A new monthly schedule for float ing equipment employes on ferries, tugs and steam lighters gives cap tains, $200; engineers $190; firemen and' oilers $140. 'On lighters and barges, captains will receive $120 to $150; engineers $140 to $160 and mates $100. The attitude of the railway unions toward the decreases ordered remains to be determined. The big brotherhoods are expected to meet here July 1, to consider the board's decision, which is effective on that date. CHARLOTTE COTTON MILL OPERATIVES WALKED OUT WEDNESDAY All the cotton mills in Chalotte and vicinity, embracing some 3,000 employes went out on strike at o'clock this morning, according 10 to telephone message to The Gazette from The Charlotte News. There were no formal demands made neith er were there any published state ments by either operatives or mill owners. At 1 o'clock , by precon certed action, all the operatives walked out. It is understood that the strike affected the Chadwick Hoskins group in Charlotte and Pineville, the Johnston mills in Char lotte and Huntersville and the High land Park mills. Talking to The Gazette, Mr. S. M. Robinson, of Iyowell, said that the Atherton,' Rob inson and Elizabeth mills were not affected, that they were running as usual. It is also reported that the mills jn Concord and Kannapolis are also 1 .1 1 (ClOSeU. Advices from the mill centers in Gaston county this morning weie that all is quiet and that no trouble of any sort is anticipated. It is be lieved that if there is to be any strike trouble in Gaston it will be called out of sympathy for the Char lotte strikers.not from any grievan ces that may be nursed on account of local conditions. Gastonia Gazette. NEGRO RAN AMUCK, KILLED POLICEMAN AND SHOT 4 NE GROES. Buffalo, May 28. Edward A. Wil son, 35 vears old. a sereeant of the police reserve,, was kijjed and four negroes were shot at midnight last night by a negro who ran amuck with a pistoi in a house occupied by neg roes in Clinton sheet. A telephone message trom bayre, Pa., said a near ro believed to be the slsver cf Wilson was taken from a Lehigh Valley train mere this morning . Grover "Where is Mrs. Smith'" She is out doing setlcment work.' "You tell her I'd like to have her come ' i round to my place and do a little of that" Judge. SHORT ITEMS Edinburg, Ind. May 30. From 50 to 60 persons were injured, two of them probably fatally and several seriously tonight at 10:45 o'clock, when a Penn sylvania freight train crashed into the Uixie Hyer, a fast Indianapolis, Co lumbus and Southern traction car carrying a trailer at a track intersec tion here. Cadet Edgar Love is expected home soon from West Point to spend his vacation of two months. Cadet Love is he son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Love, of Myers Park. He has made u splendid record at Wast Point and ranks as one of the brightest boys at the academy Char lotte UDserver. Spartanburg, S. C. May 30 Resolu tions condemning the recent speech of Col. George Harvey, United States ambassador to Great Britain as adopt ed by the local post of the American legion, were indorsed by a rising vote by the audience at the commencement exercises at Converse College for Women today, during Memorial day feature of the commencenent program. Detriot, Mich. May 27 The propos ed suspension bridge between Detroit and Windsor,, the 6th international bridge linking the U. S. with Canada and the third that will carry highway traffic between the two countries, will have been completed within the next five years, in the opinion of Charles Evans Fowler, chief engineer of the project. Mr. Fowler announced that construction work might start late next Fall or during the Winter. About four years is expected to be required to complete the project. Washington, May 30. The contest ed election case of Henry Ford, the fliver king, against Senator Truman H. Newberry, of Michigan, promises to furnish many thrills within the next few weeks now that the senate has finally decided to proceed with its in quiry. Tomorrow the Spencer sub committee of the senate committee on privileges and elections will meet with the attorney for Ford and Newberry and arrange a date for the beginning of hearing. Lloyd George plainly indicates that he is "from Missouri" when it comes to consideration of the Borah disarm ament conference. He has not yet been invited by President Harding to give ear to the proposition, and he does not believe there is any immedi ate prospect of Great Britian sus pending activities. Even that would not be done until after the Borah pro position was in operation and he should bavfi a chwnce to see how it works. Cautions olo chap, is TfJoyd George. Charlotte Observer. Raleigh, May 30. Following the commencement address of John Skel ton Williams tonight at A. and E. col lege, Editor E. A. Wescott, of the Mill News, speaking before the alumni declared Max Gardner the political idol of North Carolina. The utterance might have been a vagrant tribute of commencement time and no more, had Governor Morrison not been on the rostrum. The students shuffled mightily in honor of their alumnus who was not present. Governor Morri son goes tomorrow tc Hamlet where he makes a commencement address in his native county. Lenoir. May 30. The people of Avery county are working for a road leading directly into Caldwell county, the route to be nither through Grand mother gap to Edgemont where it would connttt with the C and N. W. railway, or along the Yonohlosse road to Coffey's gap, and from that point down the mountain to the Globe. Nel son McRae of thj Linville Improve ment company, Ed S. Lovin, merchant of Linville, and many others have al ready started a movement to make the Yonohosee road a part of the county-seat-to-county-seaf highway system. York, S. C, May 30. An effort is being made here to reward Alex Childers, white 55 years of age, serv ing a three months sentence for viola- 1 tion of the prohibition law, for his brave conduct in coming to the defense of Deputy Sheriff D. T Quinn when the lat ter was attacked by a prisoner a few days ago. At the critical stage of the encounter, when Deputy Quinn shot himself through the leg in trying to wound his antagonist, Childers came to the aid of the hard pressed officer and the two prisoner, who was bent on making his escape. Lexington, May 30. Dr. John W. Peacock, of Thomasville one of the foremost physicians of Davidson coun ty, charged with the murder of Chief of Police James E. Taylor, of Thomas ville, Saturday, April 16, will be ar raingned here tommorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock before Judge T. B. Fin- ley, presiding over the two weeks' term of Superior court which con vened here this morning. Following the arrangement a special venire from Davidson, or some nearby county, will be ordered and a date set for the ac tual beginning of the trial. The grand jury returned a true bill aganist the defendant this afternoon. Raleigh, May 30. Greensboro June 1 and Raleigh June 3 will be the dates of the hearing in the injunction against Collector J. W. Bailey who is proceeding at the instance of the com missioner of revenue to collect taxes and penalties from men who are charged with the violation of the Vol stead act. The method of procedure will be very simple. Government and victims will agree on the cases to be argued and these will settle the law in all such litigations. The government will undertake to collect these taxes and the citizens will resist on the ground that all such procedure as tak ing a man's property away from him must take its course through regular forms. The fight is to establish an im portant question: Shall an accused be forced to give up his property to pay fines levied against him without trial by jury? 14' .... - I, -J ... '.---.. . - . I-
The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.)
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June 2, 1921, edition 1
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