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JANUARY 0th. 1*22.
[-GOVERNOR BICKETT
DIES AT RAIXIGH HOMi
St*fea'i War Gwirwr Pat#
> Fmacofully With HbFw»
I. N"r
Raleigh, Dm. St.—Thomaa Watyr1
Brkatt, for four yean ffTimr
Worth Carolina, died at hie home^
Itli city at l:li thia morning,
twelve hour* after K* *m atrleken
|Wll)nia.
Uut night former Governor B|
•tt pn parod rapper for Mr*. Bick#
who ia confined to hor room by 1
, MM, ate a light rap par, than n-tura
la hor loom. While fitting hjr >
Ma head began to af
ho want to hie room tJ' |
few i
later
Maa. Kra. BUkatt telephoned >r
aaaHa, Wm Penelope Da via, pp.
eDr. logon and Bov. W.It
harried to the Blckett Iff
no algn X
M atrong raotorattvee were I
a alight polee wa»»
r, tho former if
■Mil never ragatoai conacmvmia. |
Tho entire right aide mi para%"i
The end came peacefully thia •<'
tag- Mn. Biekott. their one! n,
William Biekott, ralatirea and I 'I
frlenda were at the bedaiA.
Immediately after annoimdp"
of the former gevernor'a death aa
aaade the flaga on all atato buirr*
Ware placed at half maat an! h»
wtmtr office* war* clooed.
it'
Thorn** Walter Bickett »**
t Mar km. Union county, on Fc
IS, 1969, tlx ion of T. W, ami 1
Bickett. He vaa the oldest i
children. Hia father died wl
«aa II year* old. After at
the public schools at Monro*
Bickett worked hia way throui
| hrat college, where he gr
in the daaa of 1N0. For te
* ha taught school, then he ent
University of North Carolina
f law, paaabiff the bar in 1898.
I mnher of yean he prsotire4
Monroe and Louiaburg.
la 1907 Mr. Bickett waa
aseeaeber of the atata house <
aanUtivea. Hia entry into t
latere signalized the beginnil
paHticsl year. In 1906 he wa
attorney general of North
•frving for eight yeara in th
Mr. -Bkkett in 1916 wraa
Eoeky Mount. He waa
Mwth Carolina's war gov
patriotic service during the
fHct evoking the admiratk
political enemies He waa
M «m of the ableat public pp*ken
hi th* atate. During thefsr he
▼iaited varioua aectiona of ■ coun-1
try hi the intereat of lib* loan
Artra ud other war action Hii
•peach at Charlotte In 1908 minat
tag Aaheley Home for go*»or wan
eetialdered on* of the moalloqucnt
•Mreeaea ever heard in thttmmon-'
«mMi and waa an taporUjl factor
la Ma ria* in tha political jBi-r.
In Democratic campAi the;
apeechea of Mr. Bickett vm conaid
*r*d of |TMt value to thaf.rty. He
waa a ready and reaourc^tipbkUr.
| llnea retiring aa (tot *>r laat
January M*. Bickett had d ted him
•atf to law practice and hi ta in his
office yaaterday. He waa aociated
in the practice of law ' i Judge
Janaa 8. Manning, of R krh. nnd
Garland S. Fcrguaon, of C-onsU.ro
Many frienda called at fl Bickett 1
hai laat night and todaft.d hund
rada of meaaagea of cooAx-« wen
received by Mr*. Bickett'm every
aaction of the atate aa f aa from ,
Mm Will be on Fr
List in New
Waahington, Dec. 28 -
iCtnrer* appearing todl
•tat* finance committal
, nnderatand by Actil
leOuaaber that hide* wt
m llat When the pen
R l» reported to the aJ
I Whitman,
> National
fw*' aaao
>»• declared
I on hidas
I'f the ahoe
the. big
W*flt be*
"• raiaet*
fcERGEANT TILLS STOftT
| OF THE LOST BATTALION
KvhiU to Charlatta Ha T*Oa ml
tWMWPIn WWak Mm
ol Tki* Outfit Wara Swbjoct
1 ad to
To ba»e b*en • nrg»wt in the
famous I-oat Battalion, of New York,
and (urruuMml by Urmuu for five
,l«y» IK the «*P«r1ence if Michael
M-irkel, owner and director of the
wall known Market'* orcheatra, which |
•. ||i play at tha Myen Hark country j
fhuraday night," aaya tha CltM -
Naw%
"Ml Market, whoat- hum*' W tn
I:-,'"* Vorh, waa • p»i-«>iial frirnd uf
>I• j<>r Whlttlaaley, who commanded
-ta !-"»• Battalion, and who commit'
I auirid* recently Ha waa aula Sy
, |u with Major WMttlaaioy to thai
,i4K«iy which ovartook hia battalion
in franca, and Ma daacrlptioa of tha
, vent la graphic. Ba waa a ittitot
r bravary a* tbia ttoia.
"■ itow too tkr ahead aa a
mpatafy surrounded by Oerman'a,".
>piaaiad Mr. Market "Than tat
#00 of aa to tba hattoHea. Aa qaiek
ly aa wa eaald aa dag boiaa to tba
ground aaid erawlad ta ap to our
nhoulder*. Tba dirt frota tba balaa
wa pi lad irmiai tha to pa ta' pro tact
our baada. Many naw racraito who
war* not quick enough to die thair
hole* war* killed outright.
"Aa *o«a aa wa ware la ear boiaa,
hall broke looaa. On r»ery aide of ua
were Orrauna raking ua wttb machine
gun* *Ad rifle flre. We reahied we!
didn't have a chance, but determined
to hold out aa long aa poaaible. For
five day* thie handful of men held
untold Herman forces at bay. The
r I'-ray toned looaa mry kind of
utructrve force they bad. Liquid
fin- played about ua continually. All
kinds of gaa, ahrapnel, machine guna
aid artillery turned upon ua. Snipers
kept th<Hr rifle* hot pouring lead in
to B*.
i nr worn pan 01 re >11 mi ine
lack of water. Nearby ran a mill
utreaa in a ravine. It waa practically
sure death to naack the stream, but
many a poor man attempted it Th«
Germans only played with aach one
like a rat plays with a mouac. They
would let him gat the water and atart
hack—Umb acoraa of machine (una
»'>utd heaak looae and riddle him. In
ipite of thia, however, several of the
men vicceeafully returned with their
water.
"For five days we had not a bite of
food. Our comrades behind us at
tempted to drop It to ua by aeroplane,
Kut even whan they dropped it wa
rould not crawl out of oar holes to
get It. Everything the enemy had
was turned upon ua. It ia impoasiblc
to describe the horror of thoae long
lays. Man who were wounded linger
ed on and died in their holea without
medical aaslatance. Many died from
lack of water. We were farced to keep
iidr masks on moat of the time, which
added terror to the situation.
"Just when wa had prepared to die,
tic French on our left started a big
lirive and the Americana on the right
behind ua also charged To escape
l«einjr caught hi a pocket the Ger
mans retreated rapidly and in a few'
'.ours ere were rescued. Over 800 of >
lL>_ iiii ■! ■ tm liAttalinsi I
•v. r, found to hare bMn killed."
•Sine* returning from France Mr.
MarkeTi orchestra hu been known u
>ne of the best orchestras in Now
York City, and hu played in this
' <>n on only a few occasions Be
fore coming to Charlotte Thursday
morning, Mr. Market played for a
'■rew*H ball given to Marahal Foeh
! y M|»e Cemelia Vanderbilt, which
was attended by General Pershing
NOTICE
and by virtue of the power
I in a certain mortgage deed
on the 0th day of October
W. D. Oneal and wife to
. Robinson, securing a debt of
dred ($600.(Mi) Dollars and
taring been made in the pay
Bcureo thereby, I will offer
for caah, to the highest bid
« Court House door in Surry
iatarday. Jaa. tt, tftl
at 1 p. as.
i tract or parcel of land in
was
ling en a stake at the Kock
RELEASE Of DEBS
DEEPLY RESENTED
AdjuUat North CiwHm La
giom SmmU Protoat to Hard
in#
By Cafe K. Burrcx in Newa and
Observer.
'In the relaaao of Eugene V. Debs
from Federal imprisonment, the
will of th« American people ha* been
iHint*nM by the PMidmrt of Um
United States, Sentiment through
out Um land 1a again*! Hi. panton of;
thoee m«n who failed our nation dar
ing tha rriaia of war. Veterans of tha !
Croat War, spaaklng through tha1
American Legion and other organise-'
:i.»n* and through conatitutionally or
ganised convention*, have oppoaed
>'mphatieatly the granting if freedom
tosuch man aa Debe Recently Han
ford McNidar, National Commander
of tha Legion, urged upoa Preaidant
Harding the clean fact that tha pard
on of Doha would never to • tolerated
by thoaa men wto wars fighting to da-1
fend oar country while each man aa
Deto wan proving traitors to tha
Nation.
And, is this connection, 1 want ta
reiterate what Prmldwt Wllaoo
thought is regard to thfe Deto pard- I
on. In hia recently pwhlfetod articiee, I
Mr. ToaauHy tells ue that when the
petition for the pardon of Doha waa
preeanted to Preaidant Wlfeon, to ex
amined the same carefully and said,
"I will never consent to the pardon of |
this man. Were I to do 4t, I could
never look into the faces of the moth-:
ers who sent their sons to the other!
side. While the flower of American
youth were pouring out their blood
to vindicate civilization, thia man,
Deto, was standing behind the lines, j
sniping, attacking and denouncing
them. This man waa a traitor to his
country, and he will never to pardon
asit Hitrinar mv asiwi inlat*afiAtt **
Recently in an address before a
large audience in Savannah, Ga„ I j
covered this point, concluding with
that statement by our great War Pre
sident and adding, "All Legionnaires
and all true patriots should lift their;
faces toward the heaven ard thank
God for the divine idealism and
matchless leadership of that immortal
President, Woodrow Wilson,'' and1
that K*«*t audience' of men and wo
men applauded and shouting their
approval even to the point of a demon
stration lasting for several moments.
Furthermore, men and women
hroughout this 8tate, in audiences in
'orty seven different cities and
towns, have, almost without excep
tion, applauded and shouted their ap.
proval of the Legion's opposition to
granting freedom to such hostile
birds as Eugene V. Debs, And, I want
to say to you, that last week when I!
road in the newspapers that Mr.!
Harding had actually released Debs'
from the Atlanta prison, I felt so
furious that I could not even sit still
'n my office chair.' f paced my office 1
for a few moments and then directed
the following telegram to President
Warm G. Hardin*. "In the nam* of
North Carolina Department of the
American Legion and on behalf of the
World War veUrani in tMa SUte, I
protest moat vigorously against the
releaaa of Eugene V. Debt. His re
lease by you is a discrace to this Na
tion, an tnsnlt to every serviceman
and blasphemy to our fallen com
rades."
I deealer to yon that the menace to
the ideals and the free institutions of
this Nation is greater today than H t
was even in 1917-18; and I appeal to
«very serviceman and to every true
natriot to |M on the armour of cour
age and civic righteousness and go
"orth in oar State and Nation as real
rrusaders for freedom and Justice.
The President of the.United States
has with bold impunity flaunted into
our facee his otter disregard and vio
lation of practically every wish *x
nressed to him by the men who
fought for the protection and safely
of the Nation. There is something
radically wroni somewhere. I am
tired and disgusted with the feminine j
pussy-footing methods that we have
heretofore practiced. The time and
occasion for open an rseol'ite fight
ing have arrived; and, aa for ma and
my future tactics, my bat is in the
ring. To your tents eh Israeli Tie
Philistines are ope* us!
Chamberlain's Cengh Remedy
CHAMPION CORN
CROWE* A CRANK
J. W. Workman, WW Col
Grmmd Sw.ap.tahes, Nmr
Saw Forfoct Car.
Hpringfleld, III., Dae. SO.—Rick toll
of Smwhmm county, which la Indian
diatact meant "Land of Plenty," aad
long years of careful laad mtaction,
produced the com tMa year which
bmifkl to Ilttnoia laat waafc tha 1M1
grand champion aweopatakaa priaa of
Ameriea.
Only a country store, a (rain eleva
tor three farm heuaei and a muddy
rotnl mark tha railroad station of
M kwell, '23 mile* southweat of
Springfield, where the tea aara of
yellow eom ware raised which won tha
frand championship.
Krum tha decrepit railroad station
westward etrslshaa tha land of i. W.
Workman, producer of this champion
graia, tha son aad grandaon of corn
growers. His com was awarded tha
ampioaeUp te CMeago at tha Inter
national Grain and Hay Show.
YiarKf careful aead aelection, hie
excallaat laad, the rotatiaa af aara
with alfalfa, or clover pasture, an
tha three outstanding elements la Ma
Fanaera about Workman's hoaaa
aay the hoaor eame af hard work, and
his wife adda, "enthusiasm that kapt
him out of had at night while all tha
raat of ua slept," poring over hie
graina with the same rapture that
holds a miser.
"I'M a crank," Mr. Workman said.
"You can't raiae priaa corn for tt
yaara and not be a crank."
Yet for all hie corn growing and
prise winning ha haa never seen a
perfect ear of oom.
"Never," he aaid, "have I Men a
perfect ear. Not one of the ten ears
I eent to Chicago *u perfect. All I
•ould do was take the very best I had
ind hope they would stand np beside
the others. In every ear I could see
imperfection."
Of his 430 acres in the Maxwell
farm, only 5S were in corn this year.
They yielded 76 tusbels an acn. alt
yellow dent. That was picked over
it.first by Mr. Workman and his son,
Rome Workman, who, his mother
says, "is almost as bad as his pa
about corn." That yield offered
several bushels of "show com." Then
by the midnight oil Mr. Workman
with hi* keen eye for imperfections
eliminated all but fifty ears, which
were sent to the international show.
In the regional contest with Kan
sas. Missouri. Kentucky, West Vir
ginia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware
and southern parts of Illinois, In
diana and Ohio, be won first for
yellow corn; then took the highest
regional prise for any kind of corn
from the holder of the best white
corn, which was from Missouri. Then
he entered the sweepstakes. His best
ten ears woe.
• MTV KTII II1111 wwn un Mil IWU1 >,
one neighbor said, "picking hi* Med,
train by train, culling out that which
he felt below his standard He would
spread a big tarpaulin, pour the
grain upon it, and then get down
with ft."
"Corn .should not be planted for
more than five years in soccesaion
in the same land," Mr. Workman
said. His custom la to raise cor*
in a parcel of land four or flvs years,
and the* to plant K In alfalfa and
clover and maks it pasture land for
>n or twelve years, renewing. the
land.
"Beet corn never comes the first
veer," Mr. Workman declared. "Com
that won the championship came from
■round that was la Its second year of
wni."
Sixty-Fifth Birthday Celebrat
ed by Wilaon
Washington, Dee. M.—Former Pre
sident Wilson eras today deluged with
telegrams from all over the world en
the occasion of the celebration of his
Mth brithday at his home here. It
waa said tonight thit the telegrams
were of a congratulatory nature on
the Improvement of his health ai
that the volume probably eseeeded
any like number at greeting ever re
ceived by Mr. Wilson. In the after
noon Mr. and Mrs. WUson wort t<
an automobile rids and In ths evet
ing had as gueets for disner Mi
Margaret Wilson and several oth
members of the family.
Several of the mors tatima
friends of Mr. Wilson sailed at I
hem* os S. street dvrtaf the day to
art id greetings in person. It waa
said that the fanner peeaMmt sms la
HUGHES FACES fITgiMT
WITH U. S. SENATORS
PUm AIUmm. WWb DHMnh
to Oust Smrttory W State,
kbhU
Washington, D«c. 28.—An open
I piio Dciwvcn nirrfuirjf si msu
Rufto Mid ■ number of Republican
Senators is in the making Angered
by what they nM Hughea' "du
plicity" In nwilm to mi toiyw
tatkm of the four powar Pacific pact
which would include tha • Japan—a
mainland undar tha treaty '» guaranty
of territorial integrity, a nurabar of
Hmmton arc talking of S dirqrt attack i
nit tha secretory.
If (hay coald tore* Hughes' mlg-l
nation from tha Cabinet, astoe aay.
members would aat to unhappy, la
ordar not to appenr to to foteeating
ratolllon within Republican party
raaki tbay an depending for tha
praaant upon rloaa alliaa wnng tha
Demoerata to to lea tha <—and for
Hughea" expulsion.
on Hughea' work la com.actian with
tha arte* conference toe boea lauda
tory la tha ntrwi«. tha satl-Hughea
pubMe opinion ig not M universally
admiring of Hughes as might appear.
Tto attack on Hug toe will he baaed
upon the charge that to deliberately
involved tha United States hi an "en
tangling alliance" In tha face of the
popular verdict againat tto league of
nationa covenant a little mora than a
year ago. His critics will racall to
the country tto fact that they viewed
with alarm Hughes' inchwiodkla tto
Cabinat Soma of the irrecoitolabls
Republicans have been waiting ever
nines Hughee took office for him to
do aomething justifying their cenaure.
Hia friendliness toward the league
convinced them, they Mid, that he
would sooner or later try to involve
the United State* in that league or
something elae juat aa bad.
The four-power treaty ia at leaat
aa bad, from the standpoint of Ameri
can traditiona, the irreconcilables
aay. They declare Hughea deliberate
ly tied Hia country up to a pact that
mean* protection for Japan with no
corresponding obligation on Japan to
protect the United States.
While the irreconcilable*, knowing
Hug bee' atrong poaition in Preaident
Harding't esteem, do not actually
hope to force Hugh*a oat of the cabi
net, they do hop* to force hia and
perhape Harding to go to the country
in defense of the four-power pact
Divorce for Daughter
at J. D. Rockefeller
Chicago, Dec. 28.—Mr*. Edith R.
McCormick, daughter of John D.
Rockefeller, Sr., millionaire oil king,
was granted a divorce from Harold L.
McCormick, president of the Interna
tional Harvester company, in Superi
or court trw4*v
No provision for alimony m in
cluded la the divorce dwrw, which
wu ii|iwd in court by Judge Oiirtn
A. McDonald, after Mr*. McCormick
had filed aait for divorce on chargea
of deaertion against Mr. McCormick,
who admitted the chargea.
While no announcement of any set
tlement was made in court, as agree
ment has been reached between Mr.
and Mrs. McCormick on the division
of property, according to Clarence
Dairow one of counael for Mr. Mc
Cormick.
Mrs. McCormick is the only daugh
ter of John D. Rockefeller. 8he re
turned to thia country a few weeks
ago, after spending eight yean in
Switzerland. Upon her return aha
took op her reaidence in the McCor
mick town boose, while Mr. McCor
mick moved to his aetata at Lake
Forest. Although they are Jointly
the backers and main principal con
tributors to the Chicago opera aaao
ciation, and attend almoat nightly,
Mrs. McCormick haa occupied a box
on one aide of the hooee and Mr. Mc
Cormick and his daughter, Muriel, on
tte ether.
Dabs is Resting After Wsleems
Torre Haute, bid., Dae. B.—Bo
gene V. Debe, Socialist leader, parol
ed several days ^o from federal prta
on. was i^sstl^B^f ^is^ps to^laj^,
Ky„ Dm. *7.—la lk>
o*m varahoMe dtotcicta sf KsMMky
Ohio and Irattan*, Um Central Earn
tosky District Friday sicnad op al
■Wt n«r warehooa* to «h terri
tory uid tn L«iin|ton irtrjr wars
hoase bat om which «wM UgaBy be
turned o»er to the Buriey Tobaeoo
Growers Aaarvrlatkon waa turned arar
of tha ssmntotisn.
TK* widatlon now is to paaaaw
Ion af 100 raantotof plants to the
Buriay District. ,
la Um mm af the aaia
to* by sartata total
torototot one'of his
Ralph M.
with tha
ovar tha war»hoM> of tha
District, approved what had
baa don* in that reaps ft by
Barker, and authorised htoi to i
plata tha transfer of tha rait—a
properties to the association, M pro
vided by the terms of the
with the
i inwni <um i>. Burnt announc
ed that tobacco would be raca trad sa
the warehouse floor*, in baskets, aa
heretofore, and the grown would be
paid the advance upon their crops on
delivery and reading of their tobacco,
the checks for the advance beinf pay
able at their local banks.
The directors also adopted a resolu
tion forbidding any officer or *
ployee from deaHng in any way in tk*
certificates of delivery
grvwers whsn their crops srs Whuf
ad to ths warehouses and iHuriUag
for the dismissal from ths serviee j>
of the association of say ■mptoyso
violating ths tsrsss of ths rssolutioo.
Aaron Saptaro, California lawyer,
in chargs of ths lac*) prsiiminariss
incident to ths transfer, assand the
loyal warehouseman that they will
he protected from the sharp practices
of out!ids warehouse owners wto
might attempt to induce growers to
the pool to soil their crops over At
floors of thsss outside wariknssemia
and quoted a recent dscision of ths
Supreme Court of the United Stats*
that in sock cases the isoocistioa
might obtain an injunction and so*
ths offenders for damages.
Aa official bulletin has just coma
from the United States Can— Bo
reas which incidentally aheda a let of
light oa co-operative marketing.
doubted whether California tioama
under oo-oyeratin marketing had m
joyed much mot* pioeperltj than
other famera. Well, the United
States Government through Ha Ow
rui Bureau haa juat laanid a aUte
rn ent naming the fifty rirheat agri
cultural countiea in the United Statea
—the fifty countiea where fanaera
are making moat money.
Wen any of theae fifty richaatf
faming counties In California T
The rery flrat or richeet ooe of al
waa one of the California co-operative
marketing countiea.