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! Sbf Mount aim ffetos tSTAi*U8HKT> UM MOUNT AISY. NOBTH CAROLINA. THUB8DA Y. FEBRUARY 17th, 1921 fl.60 FEB YEAB IN AOTAJ9GB. (EUROPE ASTOUNDED BY AMERICAN SHIP OUTPUT AlUaa mmI K*m Germany Are Amm4 by lla»Mity Wi* Wkkh VmmIi Wero Built WuhHifMi, M. 12.—Bath the Uoa and the German* vara aatnunded at the rapidity with which tha -Wp ptag board ronatructed ahipa aftrr tha "nited State* mtarad tha war. tha houae committee inveetiffating tha Sotrfi oparattona waa informed to day by E. N. Harley, of Oiioaffe, who «M chairman of tha board f*o« July, IttT, to the aummar of It It. Hl*h ifovernmant official* In Enir Mad, Franca and Italy told him dur ate • "lalt to Euro pa aftar tka ana la ne*. Mr. Hurlay aaid, that thoy ware hiffhly plaaaad at the acrotnpliah aianta of tha board, which, ha added,' MK ihlpa faatar than thoea comtrlra had thought poaaiMa. Ha learned,! alao. ha aaid, that the Gannana, too, had baan ama«ad at the board** con- j •traction |iii|iii. Tha former chairman diacnaaad thai favorable cpaamant ha had haard ' abroad after teoehJiiff hi a general' way on criticiama directed at tha' board In thia country. Admittinr that mJatakaa had baan mada. Mr. Rarley aaid that waa inevitable line* ft waa nacaaaary to create a mam-; motn organisation in a snori ume tor die pnrpoir of turning out ships "We delivered the ships," h«- de-j . tared. "ThstV what we were nup- j posed to do." Shipping hoard officials profited by, •heir mistake* and took pain* not to repeat them, the witness said, adding] that the country could view with, pride the accomplishments of the hoard. The ships it pot into use, he1 declared, helped turn the tide at the most rriitcal period of the war Mr. Hurley paid tribute to the men asaociated with him especially Charles M. Schwab, who, he said, had been drafted to take charge of construc tion when satisfactory progress was not being made. At the peace con ference, Mr. Hurley continued, Clem sooeau told him that the appointment ef Mr. Bekmmk 1m* f*h»Ylin< the Oermsns, hesrtened the French and enthused the British Georgia Masonic Building Is Destroyed by Flames Sandersville. Ga.. Feb. H.—Ran dermrilic. located just 12 miles from the scene of the disastrous tornado which Thursday laid waste the town at Oconee and r.ardmer mill district, was rlalted by a fire early today, when the brick Maaonic building and four wooden structures were com pletely destroyod, entailing a .loss of approximately MO.OOO. The Masonic huildin* Is reported to have been the oldest stmctore of its kind in Georgia, having been built In 1866. It wn* an old land mark and has much history attached to it. When Sherman mad<- his march to the ses in 1864 his soldiers bmke in to the building and looted it. It It stated.But when Sherman arrived oa the scene he wa« requested by older masons to spare the huildtng, and ba ins: a member of the order he granted their petition While the actual loon is estimated at $60,000 thefre were over 7,000 hooka in the Masonic building, many) of them being very old and considered priceless. The loan in partially covered by Insurance When the fire was at jts height arrangement* were made to remove a number c4 those in jured in Thursday's tornado from a j nearby hospital, but the flame* were checked in time. It is estimated coal men extorted one and one-half billion dollnrs from the public diynnp- 1920 J ... | Til* Publisher* Responsibility. | Much demoralising reading f* printed on the plea that "the public | wants it." A mother might as ex- i cusahly (rive her child a glistening1 arsenic for which it cries. The pub liaher baaiy a responsibility to society like that of the preacher or the teach er. Thit, at any rate, Is the riew of. the Publishers of The Youth's Com-i panion From it* first issue to the1 present it has been a constant force! for character building And with all that it has been so wisely edited thatj no publication exists of more varied charm, more inexhaustible and re-1 freshing source* of interest. The t>2 Issues of the coming year wfll be rrowded with aerial stories, short stories, editorials, poetry, facts and fan. Only $2.60 for an amount of reading equal to thirty-five vol umes of fiction, httmor, etc. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION. Commonwealth Ave. A St Paul St., Boston, Mass. , MINERS ON TRIAL FOR KILLING WELTI MEN Indicted for *ltjh^ P» Wllllamaon. W. \Fab. 12.—Ex cited and aonfuaed. with piatola and rifle* popping on «v*ry aid*. John McDowell, on« of tha Baldwin-Falti detective* who battled wtfh <ka afft xana of Matewan bat May It, fired three ahota at (Mtr Chamber*, MM of tha defandanta and then fled fiwa the scene whara aavan of IHa mm radaa and three of tha townapaaple lay daad in tha villare atraat. McOowali, who waa tha ft rat wit naaa railed at tha triaJ of It Matowan men who have bean indictad ill eon naction with tha death of AKart C. Felti, laadar of tha datactivea. told hia atory to tha jury and a i rowdH courtroom here today. Ha waa fal lowed on tha atand by two telephone operator*. May Cfctfln, a aMa of Reece Chamber*, and Claic Chamber* hia daughter. Their taathaony waa' do laaa »tart 1 In*. McDowell aaid he had come with! the othrr detect!vaa to evict flow hooaaa owned by tha Staoe Mountain Coal company, at Matawan, a number Df miner* and thekr famlliaa. Ha could not recall tha exact nam her and althonffh preaaed on rroaa-raaoifna-' rion.dld not rive tha nnmhar of women and rhlldren turned into the' itraota. While tha eviction* ware in i proirea*. McDowell ma I lad that! Albert Felti had aeon C. C. Teater ! man. mayor of tha town and 8ld Hat Held. the chief of poller, accompani ed by a party of man comlnr their1 way. Kehl. the witneaa teatified. ordered *o»e of tha men to grt their sun* and they did. The mayor pro lea ted to Felts who anawared that ha : hari ample authority for what ha waai ilolnir. to which Teatennan replied : ncii, yi>u »i»n t pun ■njvninK n*«f ( that and Jrat away mith it down her* "i Later In th« Hay the eviction* were' >ver and the men were preparing to, leave Mate*an. Hatfield told Fehi1 that warrant* for tWir arrest had. were mrnhf on the next train McDowell wan not clear aa to how the shooting started or wh<^ fired the First *hot, hot he aaid that while the Baldwin-Feltz men werr going to the railroad station. they paMed a hard ware store where *ome IS men had gathered. Suddenly the (hooting he itan and McDowell, who waa standing in front of the station. ran to the afcal-1 ter of a telephone pole. He aaid that riling waa going on all around him Sut tin- only man he saw ahooting was Retce Chamber*. McDowell, accord ing to hi* te*timonv, fired three shots > it Chambers and then made hi* way' to Tug river, on the edge of the town, »nd crossed over into Kentucky. Ful-, ly 100 shot* were fired, he said, in the fight. May Chafin, the 17 year old niece of Recce Chamber*, was on duty in the Mntcwan telephone exchange a* oper ator that day, she testified. She heard Sid Hatfield call Tony Webb, who was .then chief deputy for *her • ff G. T Rlankenship. and ask htm when warrant* could be obtained for J the (irrest of the Baldwin-Felt* de-. DL. f ,L * *1*1—I .L . I «he heard Hatfield toll Webb "well kill the before they get out of Matewan." Thr next witness, Elsie Chambers, daughter of Reece Chamber*, testi fied to substantially the same thing They were excused for the time being a* was McDowell, and court recessed until 9 o'clock Monday morning The testimony today wan heard with absorbing interest not only by the defendant#, among whom aat Reece Chambers, but alao by the jury men and the crowd without the rail. For more than two weeks the court haa struggled to find 12 men in Minffo county to hea* the case and there were many who expressed the opinion that the accused would never be brought to trial. During all thin time a military guard of federal infantrymen hare paced the street* about the court house and the county jail, the laat of the troops sent here for duty in the coal strike region. Colonel Herman Hall, the commander, has been a con stant attendant at court, frequently occupying a seat beside Judge R D. Bailey, on the bench. Chamberlain's Coagh Kerned* a Fa ftrlU Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a favorite with the mothers of small children for colds, croup and whoop ing cough. Its pleasant taste find the prompt cures which it effects haa won the good opinion of mothers every ■vhrir. As this remedy contain* no opium or ether narcotic it ma* be given as confidently to a baby at to an adult SETTLE CONTROVERSY THROUGH ACTUAL TEST Navy Department to Dispone a# vs. Aircraft S! i ■ ■ ■ ■ n i > — w ^ i A M. . a _ w^9WlaJF E^VR^PavEw Waahington, Ctb. —Tto wntw wrsy ulotht relstivs superiority of battleships and sire raft, which re cently has stirrsd tto navy **4 war (ir-partmmu and hes tohhsd up In Congress, laajr to settled through se tnal Into, high naval officials skid tonight. , Brig. Gonersl William Mltctoll. as-1 mutant chief of th« air Nrrict, who recently told s congressional commit Im that developmenta in aircraft had spellsd the doom of ths prsssnt dresdnsught, and other a It service of-, ficsrs are understood to tore I wood a virtual challenge to the navy de partment to ponait them to preve their contonttoaa. The navy dopert meat la a firm tolUvei la tto super iority of tto capital ship and, naval officers believe, wilt accept tto chal lenge in tto tope of settling tto eow troversy, at len»t for tto time beteg. General Mitchell haa asked his sa periors In tto war dipartmstrt to send a formal request to 8ec>etsry Daniels that two torpedo boats, two supply vessels and one battleship ho designated for tto toots. Naval of ficers express tto belief that sach a r»qu«et, eren if made, would to re fused bocaaae of the largo amount of I material Involved and tto coat of fit-1 ting the five veeaels with distant rndto control apparatus There in a »trout likelihood, how pvm, naval officer* Mid today, that the old battleship Iowa, already fitted with raldo control rear and capable1 of a speed of more than 10 knots' and of being maneuvered with no one on board, will be used as a target for aerial bombs after experiments now) being ronducted on the control de vice are completed. Another suggestion going the 1 rounds of the navy department now is that large lighters be towed at high speed behind destroyers or cruisers I and used as targets. Many offlwn i belts vt that no teat of ability rf the aviator* to hit naval vassals would be 1 conclusive unless the target were moving at least SO knots an hour, pointing out that all modem cruisers < battle cruisers, battleships and de stroyers snd the proponed airplane! carrier* hare more speed than this. If the lighters were uaed, it waa said, a constructive area equal to that of a capital surface ship would be allow ed the aviator* around 'he lighter In which all hit* would be counted No test ever under these condi-1 tioa* would be enfrely conclusive, many naval off'cor maintain, be-j cause all of the elements of defense would be laek'tig including anti-air-: craft guns and protective aircraft.' It was generally conci ded however,' that Huch experiment* as General Mitchell has proponed would give a ifood idea of the ability of the avia tor* to actually hit a vessel moving on the water "1 am »o confident." said one high, naval officer today, "that neither army nor navy aviators can hit the I own when she is under way that I would be perfectly willing to be on board her when they bomb her, pro viding that they were kept at an altl-, tilde they would be compelled to maintain in battle." r»i ii^i ui i«hm ^ iiiuiiivaui mm «ny surface vessel in existence today cun he destroyed by airplane attack, ctt in? the tests on the battleship Indiana with dummy bomb* proof of their ability to hit the ♦nrget. Navy of. ficers assert that it is one thing to bit a battleship anchored In a hay and another to liil the same ship mov ing at 16 to 20 knots an hour far out at sea Officers of both services are eager for a test President Wilson Coin* a New Phrase » Washington, Feb. ii.—The best , "inside story" in Washington today is one of President Wilson's witti cisms. Recently the President listened pa tiently to a man who impressed him as having little intellectual depth. "That man." said the President, "is a simple bungalow He has no upper story whatever." New Conirswwonua Says She Will W Quiet Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 13.—In say ing her official goodbye to Oklahoma, Miss Alice Robertson, only congress woman-elect told members of the I American legion she was going to Washington to "keep my eyes open and my mouth shut." "You wont hear much from me at the start," she said. BANKERS TO AID IN CUR TAILING otor •f of tlM >( tha U«M ItKN hanker* from the of North >nd Kwiiiky. The rawMom unanimoualy adop tad at the nHtlon recite the nacaa itty of curtailing tha production until (ha promt lurpiun of orer aaa hun irad million p»mda of itaek ia tUm •4 to • point where tha culture of tha leaf max ha made economically peoflt ibie for tha frnar It whin ml tha —oeiaticn and thai N. C., ua m M unprecedantly large >rigfct tobacco cropa »ill pwjtuid m Wtl-M-M, tha laat yaar making tround 600 million raltad in an accumulation of • >ar ' iloi stock far beyond any poaalMe da-! nand, especially on tha common grmd m. with tha Kantocky low gnde typaa tow selling for at unpracadantly low >ricaa come to nomr degree Into com petition; end nnnrw, nrsriy inrfe-iourwii 01 l he bright tobacco In exported and a*1 argr ptittnUft of It to Europe,, »htch count ri#* now, on account of -xchange, havinir to pay 26 to 200 par rant other value* here, and many of .base countriea now have very large itock* of unsold bright tobacco, to rether with the deplorable economi- i ■a] condition* rxi*th»g, practically it >ar» buaineaa for cometima; and Whereaa, the government report i how* 138,000,000 pound* nor* tobac mafluesaMee twmJ hi the report of April; and Wherea*. tbaae facta moat undeni ibly ihow that a much decreased crop if tobacco la neceaaary to prevent dia-! isteroua renveqoence* to the farming ind tobacco intereata generally; and, Whereaa, the farmer alone can con- ( rol the production of tobacco, which o be effective and fair, must be tmi renal; therefore be it Reeolved, That thia meeting unani noualy indorsee the movement now nalituted by the Tobacco Association, n co-operation with the Farmer*' V*sociation, to curtail the crop of obacco, and to that end will do all in .heir (tower, thru tobacco dealer*, . varehousemen and merchant*, to pre-' rent more thnr half a crop being, >lantcd ar compared with la*t year,; is it ha* clearly shown that there is,' low a large surplus of bright tobacco in hand, especially common grade*. ! ind that half a crop will mean better . .obacco and the farmers will receive i nore money, therefore, than they I vouM for a full crop; that those pres >nt at this meeting pledge them*elve* o u*e every proper means to carry iut the purpo*e of the*e resolution*, ind that copie* be sent to every bank, varehouse and supply merchant in he bright tobacco district. FORD PLANT TO RESUME WORK Light Production Probably for 1 Next Few Months But the 1 Outlook ii Encouraging Detroit, Feb. 12.—Many head* of lepartment*, steam fitter*, foremen ind millwright* have been called back :o work at the Highland Park plant ■f the Ford Motor Company to get , he factory in ihape for resumption if production. No public announcement of plana laa been made by official* for fear of 1 ru*h of thousand* of men seeking work. It is not expected that even >ne-quarter of the former workers i rill be employed for several weeks. Production i* expected to be at a lew schedule for some time; the 8000 t day mark being put out of eonsider ition entirely. Negotiations between Henry Fordj ■nd banking interests for funds ne cessary to finance the Ford companies have not as yet been concluded. Opinion is evenly divided as to whether the Ferd need for money isj dire. It is not denied that Ford will find is necessary to do some financ- j ing in the near future, but there is a I strong probability that the securities | will h«- offered direct tu the public, j BRITISH PREMIER'S FIRM ATTITUDE ON Rif ARA TION ISSUE Mr. Lloyd G»»f|« Sajri WUb German Trmp—U WW fta Canai dared, Alltoa Will CkMk AHmft to A~M Payment Birmingham, Eng . Feb. "We »nt«red Into the war bacauaa » traaty traa broken. Now it ia over, wa ma— to Ma that traatiaa ara ibiawW,' uld Mr. Lloyd George, the Prima Minuter, hare on Saturday afternoon, »n»*ho oeeaaion of being praaanted with the freedom of the city. After paying a graceful tribute to Lhe heroic work of Htrmiaetoa dar ing the war, the Premier immediately intend upon the >abject of foMHment if the Vereaillee Traaty. Taking the Fact that a challenged traaty ia war ia luapenae, aa the keynote, he puiatod Kit that until the treaty ia faMHad hare will be conatant nnraat in la rope. Than are notably two caadHteaa hat it ia eaeeatiai that TTiiiawi Ml raepoet, to aaid. The ftnt ia the aMpm atioa of the Traaty with regard to otttoat diaannament. It ia the'tott condition of peace that the war ma-1 shine moat to broken up—not mill) ; >roken up, bat broken beyond repair. "I have knowledge, on behalf of the British Got eminent, that since the irmintice Germany ha* made very rreat progr—s toward disarmament." m continued, and la order to give Mi ludienee an idea of the terrible ma-1 •hine Germany pome Med. he preeent id K>n« figure* of the implement* of ear so far surrendered: In cannon, rreat and small, in Miund flgme*. 11.000; trench mortar*. 10,000, and houMnd* and thousand* of the big-! jest gun* ever forged have been tar ■endered, broken and smashed. The Premier recalled to his audience that jreat Britain had about" 100,000 shells n 1016, with 90,000 in reserve, while Sarmaay haa surrendered since the imtotice IS 000,000 Km to maB irtf, «wites to.moT1 'hine gun* 3,000,000 rifles and 411,-' >00,000 cartridges. Germany'* Responsibility As to reparations, the first condi ion laid down by the British Govern-! nent before the last election was that jermany was morally bound to pay 'or all the damage inflicted by her; vanton acts, that by every fundamen al of jurisprudence in every nation n the world, the country, just like' he individual, is responsible for its! >wn acts. The second fundamental, which was ; ilso laid down in the pre-election >r<>grara, was not merely one of law. mt of common sense. That Hoes not ilways mean the same thing, said Mr. Jo yd George. "It i« that you can inly recover from another what he is apahle of paying. You cannot gut nore out of him than he has got. The >e»t way of determining that is to lave expert accountants determine' vnm me aeoior u> capauic 01 paying. "The third fundamental, and thin in ho mo*t important, it that Germany nuat not be allowed to pay in such i way an would inflict greater damage m the country receiving the payment han not to pay at all, which would the ca*e if Germany paid in good*, ir that would throw hundreds of, housand* of workmen out of employ- > nent here in France. Italy and in America." These fundamental! the Premier on aider* that the Allies have .low nc opted, and the bill pruaentt-d te Ger nany has one advantage in the way n which that bill hat been framed, t is scaled according to Germany's <rosperity. "If Germar v i* rot pros K-rous, she cant ot pay if Germany is' iroxperous "he evi pa- and she must! My," the Premier stated amidst heers. Agitation in Berlin As to the storm raised in Berlin on tearing the account of the Parla eon erence proceedings, he had read a 'airly full report of the speech deliv ered by Dr. Walter Simon*, who la Germany's Foreign Minister, "and I, nay say at once a very able man—I, hink a very high-minded man, as I, udge men. I sat with him around the able several day* at Spa, and he m pressed me aa a very sincere and Mtnest statesman, who meant to carry nit hi* obligation* a* far a* he con Id." Dr. Simon*' speech about refusing, to accept the AIKe*' condition* aa a. nasi* of diacimiiati reminded the Pre mier of that speech in the Reichstag which aiao received even louder ap plause—a sentence about a scrap of paper. "I aak Germany net to allow itself to he mialed by passion of the * ■noai-nt mta rapaaunir tka folliaa of lm" He than rapMOy akrteharf tha raia Un twwilw of q—t Mali mi t rnnrm, aa conparad with dmaa*p. mmd iMwi that tt la iatalmbte lilt Um roantry which fnfltet«4 tka 4fm > BoO WHICn flMSpVC TMI ttaal/, iImM ate aaaapa wfck a Ifcht by tka AlHaa an StRMMf ia aa* a« iianiaai. Ftor tka AMI twa jmH, II ia not nuil ta tka avnil »id«a» toll of franca and Qraat Urttaia alaoa Aftarward, tt twcrniM, bat tka* ti is pra part ton to the lnciatorH proapity Bo»abody nut pay, a*td tk» h» mlar. "Who la ta rapair daaaatatad Franca, da# troy ad by tka (!wi army? la It tha agilinii af Pimm. who nun ply paatactad that* aatWa \mt •Itlnat tka lavata aad >nlnli< it with inflniu haroiam T Oar (lata ti a rifhtMua ona. and wa muat «iftui It." Aharnatlva Fn(aaah "A» far m Gerauuiy ia concerned," th* Premier pointed out, "It ta p«Nl* a quMtWm of good wffl. Dr. Mai6» haa aaM that he haa aew slternett*. proposals. Be la entHM ta make than by the VeraaMea Treaty. D*. Simons haa not pat forward any elatet of hU own for liquidating German obligations, and hla exraae ia extra ordinary. He aays K ia bacaoae of the sneer* of the Pari* press Fancy making that a* an excuse for ear thing! Dr. Simons moat be very young in politic*. The Pari* preaa I* Jar Idee any other preaa, none of H nane. and aome of it rather leaa ao. "Dr. Simon* most ftnd a hotter reason than that If he ha* alternative proposal*. we promiae fair condition for them. We said so at the time of the Treaty, so long aa theae proposals show a bona Ad* effort to liquidate thr obligations of Germany. We are will ing that Germany should pay na wi der conditions which boat rait Ha ow» In coochwion. the Premier ed: "The Allies have the same jusf cause aa ever. They will proceed la the same spirit of justice and moderation and they arc as united as over la their purposes." He said that at Spa, he had had misgivings that behind Dr. Simons were the men of 1914, bat th* assumption of power by the instiga tor* of the war could not be permit! ed. The sword must be sheathed for all time Nothing, he said, would harden the allied people against Ger many more than the feclinjr that she was still animated by the idea of looking upon treaties as they had looked upon those of 50 of SO veair aim—as "scrap* of paper" "Oar clnim is a rl*h»eous one." said the Premier, "and we must enforce It " NEGRO DETECTIVE COINS THE MONEY Hi* Operations Land Him in StatesTille Jail Statesville. Feb. 12. —Charged with having used the mail* for fraudulent purposed, C. D. Douglass, negro pro prietor of the Union Bloodhound De tective Agency, of Moore*ville. ii in jail here. He wad brought to Statesville by Deputy United States Marshal John L. Milholland. It ap pears that Douglass had been operat ing at Mooresville for several months and had developed a growing busi ness. His scheme was to place ad vertisements in newspapers snd dis tribute circulars, offering to employ other negroes to do detective work. His victim!" extend in many states of the union and in Canada. He offered to employ men at $7 a day. Appli cants had to forward him $8 in cash for a commission and pay feim $2.90 Additional for a badge. Having v» reived their commission they weir to nwnit orders from Douglass for as signments. Mooresville postoffice records show that since October 1, he collected more than 1400 in money order* for commissions and badges, and there to evidence that he collected much actual cask, expreas money orders and checks. It is learned that Dooglaa* has done mae detective work, either himself or through bis employes, in Statesville aad Hickory. It ia stated that as a result of his work at Hick ory. at least IT aerroea, three women and U men werr arrested for Mr part in the liqaor traffic. Douglaaa claims that ha has dene no wrong aad * has employed local counsel to dufsnil 1- - M p . __ 1 ^ Qf | | IWiOTt \tOw1 >riimIKwiVi vf . #. 141 ™B»»| •
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