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Stye ^irg ESTABLISHED 1 8 80 MOUNT AIRY. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY MARCH 24th. 1921. |1.M> PKR YEA* IN ADVANCC. MURDERERS OP FELTS DETECTIVES ACQUITTED Aftar Triil Lasting Srrm Watb Miners Com* CUar, But Arc Hold for CMmt CbarfM. WUliMMon. W. V*., March 21.—The «ntMn defendants, triad In connection with the death of Alhart C. Palta, who waa hilled dusing the Mattewan con t|kt laat May 19, were today found aot guilty by a jury In the Mingo county circuit court. Tha defendant■ ware formally dia rfcarged by Judge R. D. Bailey, pre siding, but were remanded to Jail ysading bond arranircmenta on aiz •ther Indictment*, charging tha man with having been implicated In tha feath of tlx other private detective* killed with Felts. The trial conaumed forty-six day a News of tha aoquittal waa shouted to a large group of miners standing at a window outside tha courtroom and (he announcement was received with «othuaiaam. wtvss and relatives or the Matte railuu stood oa tkt porch of tha eounty Jail and rsrelred their kin with •pan anna. Williamson residents re oatved the verdict quietly and there ware no demonstrations aaide from an outburst of cheers from the miner* who atood vigil since early morning Criae for Which They Were Tried. A coal miner*' strike had heen in progress in Mingo county coal fields since July, 1919. Organiser* of the United Mine Workera nought to union ise the diatricta, both in Mingo and Pike count leu. on the Kentucky aide •f the border. Nearly a year later the •tone Mountain Coal Corporation en gaged the Raldwin-Felta detective agency to evict striking miner*' fam flies fmm the company houses in which they were living. On May 9, 1980, a party of private detectivea headed by Albert C. Felts, carried out the evictions. After a day fraught with argument between the operatives and the city officials the party ftniah ed Its work and prepared to depart from Mattewan on an early evening train, t Upon leaving thahr hotel. Albert C. Pelta and hia man stoppsd la front of a hardware stare. The leader and Mayor C. C. Teatennan engaged in a aonveraation and while they stood close to each other talking a ahot was trad. In an inatant rifles and pistols harked from all directions and before the shooting ended Felta, Teaterman, six others, members of the Baldwin Felts party, and two reaidenta fell anortally wounded in the main street . ef the village. Twenty-three men of Mattewan were indicted by a grand jury at Wil liamson In connection with the death ef Felta. At the outset of the trial, which began on January 2ft, the cases sgainst several of the defendants were dismissed and as the taking of teati aiony progressed others were dis charged on motion of the prosecution. When the jury took the case the fate •f but sixteen of th? original defend anta remained to be determined. One •f tl ese was Sid Hatfield, Mattewan's chief of police, around whom a major portion of the testimony was entwin ed. Duriing the cloning arguments of counsel reference was made at Hat ield's marriage to the widow of Test arman two weeks after the latter was killed. Mrs. Hatfield has been in con atant attendance at court since the trial began. Six other indictments are hanging aver the twenty-three men in connec tion With the death of the other six operatives who fell during the engage, ■tent. Hatfield also stands indicted charg ed with the larceny of $700 from the body of Albert C. Felts. Fire of the private detectives, who escaped after the battle, were indfted in connection with the death of Mayor Teste rman, Otto Kings ley and Robert Mullens, the latter two being the other residents of Mattewan who met death. Several months after the street tght, Anss Hatfield, proprietor nf the hotel that housed the private detec tive* during their stay in Mattewan, was shot and killed while sitting on the porch of his hostelry. Sid Hat fleld. Hallie Chambers. EH. Chambers snd Lair Chambers have heen indicted in connection with his death. Anse Hatfield had been regarded as an im portant witness for the state. The trial has heen the longest and -onceded to have been the most senaa tional In the history of West Virginia, ft was held Hi the county courthouse st Witllasaeon, but a few miles from where the Hatfsld McCoy feud waa hatched. A few weeks ago. during the time of dirott eomrt. which called the ease, "TVvil" Ase Hatfield, noted leader of the HatAeld clan dttriM many troubles, died. WHALE UNEARTHED A1 TARBORO Found Buried IS Pm( Undot Ground Chapel Hill. March 1» - Deeply bar i ml in the «oft black Mad of Kdg<e comb* county, *km • million yean ago the wave* of a prv-hlatoHe ocean beat upon a now almoat forgo tter shore, th« bona* of an ancient whale, recently dlacovered by citiiens of Tar lairu 15 feet underground when- they have been lying quietly for probably 1,000,000 yaars, have been dug up un der the direction of Dr. W. t. Pnmty, of the geology department of the University of North Carolina and an being tranapnrted to Chapel Hill for •afe-keeptng In the geology muaeum. A fair-aised whale, it la, too, a whale of a whal*, in fact, measuring over all something like B0 to 6ft feet, with Jawbone* stretching IS 1-2 feet from'tip to tip, and with riba and hackhone in relative proportion. Not all of the old boy ii left intact. The slow process of time have worn away many of th« smaller and lighter bone*, but the heavy Jawbone* were found lying in *lmo*t exactly the snme position they were in on that morning bark in the Miocene period, thousand* of year* before man ap peared on earth, when thia particular whale Mettled down for hia lung aleep, and enough of the other bone* were found to settle beyond all doubt what sort of animal ho wa* and of what *ixe. Whether the whale can he recon structed in a problem about which Dr. Prouty is doubtful. It may be that the hone* arc too aoft and that not enough of them can be transported to the geology museum, but part* of the old whale have already reached Chapel IIill and they will repose in Btate in the museum alongside of other treasured specimen! of other times, other daya. A broken exhaust pipe connected with the steam tarhinc engine at the Hart Cotton milla in Tartars was the immediate cium of unearthing the whale. The heavy flow of water from the broken pipe tore away the soft •and and cut a deep fully back of the power plant, dome 18 feet under ground the water puthed hack the sand, and lying there in the aide of the bantt, in almost their natural poai tion, were the two jawbones, big cres cent-shaped hones, spreading out not unlike a giant wish-bone. The bones, when fully uncovered, were difficult to handle because of both their hrittleness and softness. They would fall to pieces at the touch and it was easy to poke a linger into them. Dr. Prouty put plaster of Paris nround some of them to preserve them and make it easier to transport them He will have at Chapel Hill the jaw l>oncs. part of the front legs or flap ners. several rihs. and segments of the backbone "Other whales have been found at various places along the Atlantic coHHt," said Prouty, in telling of hii discovery, and one or two in North Cnrolina, but I don't know of any Tv.tTitly, This specimen wbs probably 'nirly similar to the modern whale. Tt is impossible to estimate hi* age ex actly, hut I should say that at least 1.000.000 years have passed since he whs alive. "That would make him belong to the middle part of the Miocene Period, the St. Mary'* formation K is called," he continued. "At that time the ocean extended over eastern North Carotins and the shore-line was in the neigh borhood of Tarhoro. I think it almost certain that the spot where his hone# were found was the shore-line of the ancient ocean." Dr Prouty said that the soil in which the bones were found was a dark marine sand, and he thinks it probable that the whale fell on hii long sleep in quiet water, possibly in a lagoon near the shore-line. "There was little indication of oxidizing hav ing taken place," he said, "and then would have been oxidixing had thf water been agitated, as by the wares. '"Possibly the whale was swept by the waves into a quiet lagoon and wa» caught there; or possibly he died out side and wss brought in by th» , waves." Harding Appoint* Democrat Comptroller Of Currency Washington. March 14.—President Harding aent to the senate today tlx | r om i nation of hi* personal friends IV R Crissinger. of Marion, O., to Im comptroller at the currency. Mr. Cris singer was a Democrat, but support** 1 Mr Herding in the lest campaign heading the Marion organiration thai welcomed the front porch delegations , Secretary Motion today espreseet satisfaction with the appointment SCIENTISTS DEPART FOR ASIA'S UNTRODDEN ARE> Expect to Fiad MiMing Lml Bi>ww Mm mmI BmiI During S**rck New York, March 18.—A groap o ■iKjntiita left hers recently on • »l» '■ktn that will keep thrm In the van I untrodden arraa of Asia for Ave yean Whan they return to America the; I hop* to hava evidence that the "miaa i ing link" between man and beaut act ually existed. Alao they axpact t< I bring back thouaanda of animal am botanical specimens to All the propoa I >>d Hall of Asiatic Life in New York Roy Chapman Andrvwa, leader o two former scientific partiaa inU China, will head tha naw group*, u be known aa tha Third Asiatic Ex pedltion of the American Museum ol Natural Hlitory. Supporting It flnan daily are more than a acor* of N«* York'* wealthleat men and woman. th< museum and other organisation*. Th< party wilt nail from San Francisco 01 March 19. Joined in Asia by scores of natlvi guides and huntsmen, cooks and help ers, the scientists expect to introduce American automobiles, moving pirturi cameras and other modern machinei on the Gobi deaert. Central Asiat plateaus, Tibthiax s tee pes and othei little known lands Gasoline truck* will constitute ' mobile bases fur various branchei ! of the expedition- palaeontologist* | archaeologists and anthropologists I while speedier cars are to be used ir I explorations and hunting*. Dr. An ' ilrewa ha* found a AO-mile-an-houi too alow to keep up with frighteiHK antelope* in Central Asia, and ia tak ing a speedier racer to use in hunt I ing these mile-a-mlnute runners. The first base of the party will tx rstabliahed in Mongolia, where th« scientists expect to. remain 24 monthi before penetrating Western China After the fuguwd has spent a yew in Mongolia, a aeoood (roup of sciant ■sta will leavt Mm* York to >•*» tfcMt Northeastern and Central Asia wit be gone over ia • study of the ortg+r and migration of man, to prove or dis prove the popular acientiAc belief thai Asia was the center of dispersal of th« human race as well as for many o( the mammals the decendanta of whict are now scattered over the earth. There were Ave persons in the part) leaving New York under the leader ship of Mr. Andrews. Mis wife wil go along as the color |>hotographer The others are Walter Granger ant George Olsen, palaeonthologists, an< Clifford Pope. g< logist; all from th< museum here. Next year the museum will sent out geologist* and a motion pictur< photoj-rapher, und in 1923 archne ologists and anthropologists will fol low Then the entire expedition wil devote three more years to intensivi work. More than 2,000 persons liavi sought in vain to accompany thi scientists, Dr. Andrews said. Kinston Chamber of Commerce Active The Daily Free Press, of Kinaton in it* isati* of March 12 containa a lis • >f the new officer* of the Kinatoi Chamber of Commerce, among then we notice the name of Carel H. Vai Hervie aa aecretary. Die article men tiona among the achievement* of th< Chamber of Commerce in the paat thi carrying of big bond iaauea for street r<>ad« and other public improvement! procurement of better tranaportatioi facilitiea, the locating of a number o new enterpriaea herr and numeroui smaller surcesaes. In the immediati future it will center attention upoi schools, parka and city beautification i together with improvement* of com ' munication facilitiea. Engagement Of Mr*. M»c Swiney li Announce* The following from the London Ev jening Mail will be of interest: "Mr*. Torrence MacSwiney. widoi of Lord Mayor MacSwiney, of Cork la engaged to Art O'Brien, vice-pres ident of the Iriah Determination Lea true and preaident of the Londoi branch of that organisation. Lor Mayor MacSwiney died in Bristol prison, London, Oct. 26, following i hunger atrike of 71 day*. During Mae Swiney'a incarceration Mr. OHiia furnished newspaper* with' ahnos hourly bulletins of the condition o | the Lord Mayor and worked strenn Ioualy for hia release. In this work h waa neceaaarily thrown much into th society of Mrs. MacSwiney." ! GERMANY MUST PAY AT J ONCE , Million* of Dollar* Said to Bo Dopoaitod is Buk* of TkU Country for Gorman y Under l' Nimoi of Individuals. .1 Paris, Marc i 16.—The alliad repa i rat ton • commission, In Ita nota to Oar many demanding fulfilment of artlela r 236 of tha peace traaty, notified the German government It must pay four hundred million dollar* before March , 23, it was announced today. | The money muat he depoaited In the Bank of France, Bank of England or th* federal reaerve bank In the ' United ita tea, Germany was told. It muat complete the payment of four billion dollar* by May 1. The eommtaatofl gave Germany un tilApril 1 to aubmlt a propoaal to pay the balance of the four billion dollars otherwise than in cash. Germany may submit s plan for a foreign loan by April 1, tha proceeds of which ahall be payable to th* conamlasion. The commission announced that Germany hail virtually rcfuecd to pay the bal ance. asserting the four billion dollars had been fully paid. Much Money In Thu Country Held For Carman Account Washington, March IK.—Inclusion 1 by the allied reparation* commiaaion of thr American federal -eserve bank* us an optional depoaitory for German indemnity |uiyment* brought from trvaaury official* tonight the state • ment that thr commiaaion puaaibly had two purpose* in view; Pint. to enable the German gov ernment to call upon "vaat credit*" which it ia aaid to hold through pri vate agenta in the United Statea. Second, to employ in favor of the allied governments the tremendous difference in exchange ratea. Information gathered by the reaervc bank* was aaid to ahow that since the armtatire Germany haa bean amaaaing cradita in the United Statea I mate eatimate of th« amount could be obtained, but officials aaid the aom would run into many milliona. This money, it waa aaid, waa presumed to be for uae in Germany'a future trade, much of which would center in tha United Statea. There had been no intimation given the United State* government that ita banking ayatem might be employed as the reparationa note forwarded U)Ber lin today suggested, officials stated. Thr mere fact that the government's banka would serve as practically neu i tral territory ao far as reparations were concerned, was not accepted as the full reason for the commission's ' proposal, althougl thr Reserve hanks have acted as depositaries for several foreign government* since the begin ning of the war. | Some $30,000,000 ia now held for ' foreign governments, the weekly ' statement of the federal reserve board > shows, and to receive a deposit from , Germany, although a technical enemy. | would mean only the placing or that i additional credit to the nation dcsig naU'd by the commission. Officials gave no explanation of '1 method* employed by the German* in building up their supply of fundi in ' thia country. It wai said that their 11 frovemment has used similar tactics ' j in Holland, in the Scandinavian coun tries and more lately in London after assurance had been given by the ! British that the deposits would not be '1 confiscated. In some quarters it was believed | that allied intelligence agents had dis covered the existance of the German ' funds here and that the commission 1 had acted on the feeling that Germany 1 would use the money in indemnity ' payments. The suggestion also was made that Germany might attempt to borrow in the United States, In which case the shipment of gold to Europe would react favorably on the ex |. change situation, now strongly against all of the allied nation*. No information has reached the treasury, however, it was said, that would Indi cate Germany had sought or would ' seek loans through private financial houses here. I Got The Poor House Fame i Mrs. Taylor, the only woman who i ever went over Niagara Falls In a bar ■ rel, has gone to the poor-house It Is i reported that she has no frianda. We t suppose that people got tired of hear ! ing her talk. If you stop to think of • It, it would be a good deal of a trial to l lire in the same house with the only i woman who ever went over Niagara Falls in a barrel.—Ashevflle THnse REPUBLICANS DEALING OUT THE FIE Smrtl North Carol! aa Politi. cUni Seated at th* Pi* Washington, March 19.—The lint batch of reeommendatiolni for federal positions In North Carolina reached Washington yesterday, It waa learned from aathorltlva sources, whan Frank Linney, of Boone, waa raconuaendad by National Committeeman More head, for diatrict attorney for wee tern North Carolina, succeeding Stone wall Jackaon Durham, of Caatonia, who ia serving aa a temporary official since March 4. Llnney's name will go to the president within the nest week or ten days and President Harding will Immediately give him a recess ap pointment. Other recommendatlona which have reached Washington Include the fol lowing : John T. Ben bow, to be postmaster of Winston-Salem; Brown low Jackaon, to be United States Marshall for West ern North Carolina; J. Byron White, to he postmaster of Greensboro; 0. R. York, to be postmaater of High Point. All except Unney came by mail. Morvhrad presented the papers of the Boone man in person and there Is no doubt that he, along with the others,' will he named without more than the! customary delay. While Gilliam Grissom's recom-i mendation for colla tor of intimation-' al revenue at RaIrish ban not yet been filed, there i* no doubt that he will he named for the place now held, by the present collector. All Democrat* to Go. De*pite rumor* to the contrary, it i* known that the Harding adminia tratkin intend* to remove practically all Democrata who hold their poaitiona thru political preferment juat aa toon a* the variou* head* of departmenta are able to reach a decision and the atate organization in the several ■tate* make their recommendation* to the president. Ia the caa« of North Carolina one of th« «U* S0MMI friend* oi President Harding, stated that there waa no intention whatever to allow the Demoerata to hold poai tiona durihg the next year or ao aim ply becauae they had received com mission* for four yeara shortly before the late election laat November. It wa# contended that to do ao would mean that the Democrat* would be given a powerful club to disorganise what ever organization ia left in the South and would block any plana which the Republican* have for organizing and electing congressmen and other Re publican office holder* in 1922. North Carolina wa* given a* an ex ample. There are nearly 75 prohibi tion enforcement officer*, clerka, etc., on the payroll and assigned to North Carolina. All of these men, it ia claim ed, are Democrats and political influ ence wa* used U> get them appofnted. The Democrats are not blamed for this because the Republicans are going to do the very same thing. But what the Republicans want done is to have the Republicans recemmended and the president appoint Republicans to these places. - - j $40,000 For Loss of Both Limbs Raleigh, N. C.. March 16.—Supreme court opinions today contain the Park er va S. A. L. railway case, a personal injury action which gave to the plain tiff one of the largest judicial rewards on the records in the state. The ver dict is upheld. Mrs. Jennie S. Parker, of Halifax county, a woman of 44 years, was in an automobile last year which was struck by a Seaboard freight train. Th^re was conflicting testimony as to the contributory negligence of thej plaintiff. Then the defendant held that the roads were not under their' own, but under the government direc tion. Mrs. Parker was 44 years old when' injured. She was first knocked down by the train, snd as it backed over her leg above the knee, she was badly in jured by the loss of that leg. Then for some mysterious reason the train j came back and ran over her other leg,; cutting it off between the ankle and the knee. As she narrated her test! mony on the stand it was necessary for the sttending physicians to give her a hypodermic injection. She sued fcr (100,000 and the jury gave *40,000. Chief Justice Clark writes a very mild opinion, bat says he thinks the trial judge was mora than fair to the company. Justice Walker disaents. He thinks the compear was culpable he-' cause the road was net under Its own managsassnt. A ad he would give a new trial If tor m other reason. EUROPEANS THINK U. S. LAWMAKERS ARE CRAZY Freak BUI* Introduced la tfca State L«|UlaharM Arm Tak aa Sftomly Abroad The RifM, Fab. It.—It—d*ra at the Dutch and other European imw paper* thaaa day* frequently gat tka Idea that varlooa *tate legtalaturea la th* United State* are conducted aloag the Itnaa of alapatick comedle*. Each bit of trmk legialation, aba lb rt introduced with aartuui intaat ar merely to cauae a laugh which ana nataa from thaaa variooa itata govern Ing hortf.- . ia printed with *11 *ertoua neaa on thla aid* of tha Atlantic. If a aanator la a atata legtolatune darldaa to make tha bill of a political opponent appear ridirulou* by Intro ducing anotbar along tha una Hnaa that goaa tha opponent'! on* battar and la prepo*t*n>ua, tha purport of 'ha bill to cabled abroad by a Euro nean correepondent In Naw York ar Waablngton and to reprinted, through out Euro pa Tbaaa dtopatcbaa ara generally fea tured or played op In tha European pre**, and many Europaan editor* have told the correspondent they are corvlnced that most American law maker* are crasy The fact that theae meaaure* are merely introduced and have Utile If any possibility of paasing, la seldom reported, with the reault that many Kuropean newspaper reader* are con vinced that, here and there In America there are place* where, for example, person* are sentenced to live several month* with their mother-in-law If found guilty of snoring. Million* of Cigarette* Burned In France Pari*, March 16.—American cigar ette smoke obscured the northern horizon of Paria for 48 hour* thia week wl en 99,000 pound* of cigsrettaa originally brought here for the United State* army were burned. Relay* of»18 policemen were nsadad to keep off raider* who had aadeat da rtre* to Vm the cigarette*, en* at a time, in the aaual manner. It waa an American Red Croaa aac riflcial Are—lighted under compulsion There were 632 metal-lined caaea of rigarettea burned. They were con demned by French authorities and de stroyed according to law. They were part of two lota rain-aoaked in ship ment through faulty metal lining la the caaes. Many caaes, not too badly damaged, were salvaged when th< French authorities could be convinced that a moist cigarette would be more welcome than none at all to some smoker*. TROUBLE OVER APPOINT MENTS North Carolina Republican* Object to Yankee Sent Down Here. Washington, Marvh 1H.—Formal protest was filed with Secretary of the Treasury Mellon Friday by Na tional Committeeman Morehead against the appointment of L. H. Shuck, of Maryland, an revenue agent in charge in North Carolina. It haa been charged that the two Republicaa senatora from Maryland had succeed ed in having Shuck nuraed to the posi tion in North Carolina. The place pays over $4,000 a year, with liberal ex pense account, and the Charlotte maa wanted to know why Maryland sen ators were taking part in North Caro lina patronage affairs. Secretary Mellon assured Mr. More head that the appointment was made before he took charge as a member of the president's cabinet and that an im mediate investigation would be insti tuted and Mr. Morehead would be ad vised later as to the status of Shuck. If Shuck was named bj Md. senat ors it ia a foregone conclusion that he will be removed. It ia a safe bet that a honest-to-goodness North Carolina Republican will be named to succeed Shuck at an early date. While at the treasury department Mr. Morehead discussed with the sec retary the question of having the of fice of collector of interanttona! revenue for western North Carolina restored. Mr. Mellon told Mr. Non head that as soon as a new conunia «toner of Interna] revenue is appointed the question would have his personal attention. It ia believed certain that the office will ha reopened and that it will go to Winston-Salem Whan Russia brings her corn pro ducing lands op to the standard off America's ear* lands she alone «M he able to sapfly the wofWt ureal nadsw tth the exception of Matas aad
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