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VOL. XLIII. NO. 148
GASTONIA, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON,. JUNE 22, 1922
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
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Weather:
Fair
ROTARY PARK IS TO
DEVELOPED 'AT ONCE -AS
A CAMP SITE FOR BOYS
Community Service Executive;
Mr. J. P. Mahaffey, To
Take Charge Of Work.
DAM TO BE BUILT FIRST
Site Will Soon, Be Developed
Into Camping Site For
Boys of Gastonia.
" At a meeting of the Community
Service Executive Committee, it was
unanimously decided to employ an
executive for the work in general.
After very exhaustive evaminatiou
and investigation of the records of
many applicants, Mr. J. P. Mahaf
fey, of Columbia, 8. C, was em
ployed. "Mr. Mahaffey is to start work
immediately. The first activity to
be developed by bim will be the
establishment of Kotary Park near
Crowders Mountain, for which the
Botary Club donated a sufficient
amount of money to take care of the
entire expense, including the salary
of Mr. Mahaffey while establishing
an equipping this camp."
The above announcement coming from
tho headquarters of Community Service
in Gastonia will prove welcome and joy
ful news to the 'boys of the community.
It means that at last they are to have
ft camping site where they can go and
live outdoors in sight and sound of run
ning water and mountain peaks. It
means that the boys of the city, irrespec
tive of class, church afliliations, wealth
er poverty, are going to have a place
where they can swim, hike, play and en
joy life as they wish.
Botary Park and camp, a tract of 35
acres at tho base of Crowders Moun
tain, part of the Foy lands, has 'been
bought by the Gastonia Rotary club and
will be fitted up for a summer camp for
the boys of Gastonia. Tho tract has
running water and plenty of ground
available fog baseball and other athletic
features. It is near Crowders and Kings
Mountains and there -will be ample op.
portuuity for mountain hikes and climb
ing. . Mr.' Mahaffey is visiting the camp site
today and announces that the first work
teta dose will be the building of a dam.
Work on this will be started as soon as
practicable.
WOULD MAKE TENNESSEE
AS FAMOUS AS THE RHINE
Further Development of River
Would Make It As Useful
as the German River, Say t
Army Engineer.
ASHEVILLE, X. C. June 22.
Combination of interests between agen
cirs interested in navigation ainl those
seeking further development of water
powers could convert the Tennessee river
into a stream capable of carrying the
tonnage equal to that of I he KiVine, ainl
make the river fully as useful conusor
cially as the famous (icrmn.i waterway,
is the opinion of Harold C. Fiske, dis
trict army engineer of Chattanooga,
Tenn., expressed in an ueldross before
the water power confer.'!. "; of the
(Southern Appalachian Slates here.
This could be brought about, the army
engineer said, by the construction of
large impounding basins at the head
quarters of the river in the Appalach
ians, t6 hold back the surplus water in
seasons of heavy rainfall ai'd distribute
it over the dry ierioi'.s. The rcquirc
Hicnts of river commerce- alone aie in
sufficient to warrant the investment of
the millions required, he said, but a
union of plans with commercial water
power development is easily within the
range of possibility. Utilizing tho im
pounded floods for generation of electric
power, Major Fiske said, while con
trolling river flow, would justify the ex
pense of initial construction and would
prevent against floods
Major Jr'iskc, communing upon me j uyue, vornew aiicii ana i.. i.ee iison. i peaceful, so keep out of Gaston county,' '
Muscle Shoals development, said when ' shouted Mr. Mangum in his speech.
the plan is completed and placed in op- GOVERNMENT DEFEATED i "They did not appeal to you for help
cration there will be two impounding HEALTH PROPOSITION ' ,"'t'llll8 tl'oy were poorly paid or uu-
lakes with a total lengtr. of 70 miles! ur" n rKurualAlu. justly treated."
of smooth water, free ot shoals, suitable j LONDON'. Juno 22. (By The As-j The defense endeavored to show that
for navigation at ail seasons, mi'l tin re, , sfK.ja,0,i ircss.) The Government was Bell and Hileaman had business to at
will be a minimui.i output of I,l'.";" 'defeated on a financial amendment to ! tend to at the office of Miss Whitesides,
horsepower fro.n tlw two hyel.-j-elcctnc the IV!ltiona.l health insurance bill in ' and that since this was true, they had
plants. 'grand committee of the House of Com-j a perfect right to enter the Lorav com
Gerard H. aMthes, district engineer, nmntt j0,iliv. The committee immediate-1 munity house. The warrant in the case
Chattanooga, and J . G. Williams, man- v adjourned in order that the Govern-, was based on this later action of the
ager development service, Southern Rail I11(.t might consider its position. The I defendants. Attorney Flower moved
- - . X,. .
nay, tc v.. tin iiuKiaui io,iay. -v
permanent water power congress will to
T.an..,.l itnritll. 1 ll.l aln.ln.. ll.l..
iw'u'ch wvmh.; E.cnuu n.''tlte Jaicsiinc manuaie.
afternoon. The deegites wcrj enter-! The amendment was carried against
tained at a rjcypiioa given by Mrs.
George W. Vauderbilt last evening.
FIELD MARSHAL WILSON
IS SHOT AND KILLED
jlax.hv!, vuuc - v t x ne As
sociated Press.) Field Marshal Sir
Henry Hughes W&lson, wag shot anel kill
ed outside his home on Eton Square,
London, this afternoon.
Two assailants of the field . marsh.il
were arrested.
,The field marshal delivered a seech
stHhe Liverpool street station in the
rity this morning in connection with the
unveiling of a war memorial. Appar
ently he had just returned home when
the tragedy occurred.
A few months ago Field Marshal 'Wil
son accepW an appointment as military
adviser to the Ulster government and
made freqoent visits to' Ulster. He spent
most of his time in London, however, at-1
lending the House of Common!,. J
BE Veterans, Weary and Happy As
Little Children After Hard Day
of Play Turn Faces Homeward
Thirty-second Annual Reunion Comes to Close With Grand
Ball Tonight Old Soldiers, Too Feeble to March, Rode
In Parade of Motor Cars Today.
RICHMOND, VA., June 22. (By
The Associated Press.) Weary and
Happy as little children when night
mes after a hard day of pJay, the jnen
iho fought for the south in the war be
ween the Statees, after passing through
the streets of theirol d capital in a long
and colorful procession, today were.
rady to turn their faces homeward.
The thirty second annual reunion of
the United Confederate Veterans here
comes officially to a close with a grand
ball tonight, but many of the veterans,
futigued by a week filled with happy
events, art? preparing to, leave the city
today.
These soldiers, whose youth throbbed
on the fields of battle, are now too
weighted with years to tramp tho long
avenues of the city, so they rode proud
ly in a parade in motor vehicles down the
streets that once resounded with tho
clattering accoutrement of a younger
army marching to war; and tears cam
to the eyes of many who remembered.
Through the long aisles made by
throngs of a trilAite-paying people, thej
grey fighters slowly passed as though
they were conquerors instead of the men
who laid down their arms in defeat.
Along the way, buildings, large and
small, mansion and hut, were coated with
the colors that fired the hearts of the
southland in '61 and '(55. It was as if
the hand of time had moved back and
transformed a new and younger Rich
mond to the historic city it was more
than a half century ago.
From the shining horns of fourteen
bands flowed the melodies of the old
south. "Maryland, My Maryland'
"Carry Me Back to Old Virginia,"
"The Suwanee River," "The OKI
Folks at Home," and many others: ami
then as if to light the spirits of the
parnders, and the throngs that watched
them to a white glow, a band, here and
there, would flare forth with the be
loved battle song "Dixie."
Every veteran who came to Richmond
was seated in a motor vehicle. It was
estimated that 800 cars carried the old
soldiers in the procession.
The Escort of Honor for tho Veterans
were men who fought in '98 and those
younger soldiers who crossed the seas
to battle with the Germans.
Sturdy and straight they marched a
foot, and in their faces was the light
they had caught from song and story
handed down from those heroes who woro
the grey of the Confederacy.
As the procession was passing out
Monument avenue, on which stand the
famous statues of Lee, Jackson, Stuuart,
and Davis, the motor vehicles in which
the veterans rode paused, as if in re
spect to the great military leaders. Tho
old soldiers gawd tin at the heroia
bronze figures of their beloved chieftains
who had led them in battle and on their
faces were the looks of men unconqiiered
in spirit, sentiment and loyalty. Giant
against the sky, breasting the storms of
the years, these bronze ftgurees repre
sent to th soldiers in grey ideals as
deathless as hope.
Then tho procession moved on, leav
ing leehinel the silent forms of bronzft
and granite, and the living soldiers had
found the end of another reunion
Lato today the cornerstone of the Mat-1
thew Fontaine Maury mounment at
Monument Avenue and the boulevard
will be laid. The grand ball tonight in '
which veterans, sons anil daughters or-1
gnnizations will participate, will con
elude the reunion of 1922.
PRESENTED PULPIT TO
SALVATION ARMY.
i
A handsome combination pulpit and '
desk has recently 'Isvcn contributed to t lit- '
local post of The Salvation Army for The state argued that tho introeluc
uso in its new hall on the second floor ;t ion of the paper into the mill villnc-e
of the Long Building on West Main nve-i
n lie. The contributors, who are all con-
nected with the T. A. Henry Lumber was also contended that since the em
Company, were Messrs. C. E. Murphy. ; jdoyes of the Loray division seemed to
Robert Hovis, I). 11. Johnson, J. I.. i
I f VI .w.Liin 1 1 Vnill W T U'nut':r I
I i V ,.111 7 i 1 " i""i a lai.or union sliouM l orgao
iJohn Cluldcrs, . A . Clnnton, Law rem e , ;ZO(i ,., .i,. ,ITi . .
. r , jt .,1 i II... 1 T it'll '
Government was iereatel yesterday in
fK. Hons,, of Lords on the question of
.. l
the Government 'by a vote of 20 to 14.
Th defeat is considered iq .political
quarters as of no greater importance
than that which occurred in the House
of Lorels yesterday and unlikely to lead
to modification of the government'
policy.
COTTON MARKET
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
NEW YORK MARKET
NEW YORK, June 22. Cotton fu
tures closed easy, ten points down.
July 22,40; October 22.40; Deeerulier
22.19"; January 22.0S; March 21.95;
May 21.73; 6pots 22.90.
TODAY'S COTTON MHKET
Receipts 33 Bales
Price -. . ; 22 Cents
(8trf:t to sHdlir;).
LBNINE HAS BEEN
GIVEN LEAVE OF ABSENCE
COPENHAGEN, June 22. (By
The Associated Press.) A message
from Moscow to the Central News
says the Russian council of commis
sars has granted Premier Lenine a
leave of absence until autumn, on ac
count of his illness. It is expected,
adds the message that Commissar
Tsumpa, the second vice president ot
the council, will act in his stead.
RAPRESENTATIVES OF LABOR
PAPER IN MUNICIPAL GONRT
Solicitors For Charlotte Labor
Herald Charged With Tres
pass By Management of the
Loray Mill.
At a forty-five minute continuance of
this morning's session of municipal
court held at 2 p. m. today, Judge
Jones rendered a verdict of not guilty
in the case of the .State vs. D. P. Bell.
The Loray Mills charged tho men with
trespassing. The words that Mr. Ira
R. Hayes used in warning the men to
stay off the mill's property were dis
cussed for forty five minutes in city
court this afternoon. Adjournment had
been made at noon for the purpose of
looking up decisions of the supreme
court of North Carolina. "Any further
visits from you will be considered as
trespassing and I will act accordingly,"
wore the words Mr. Hayes used in warn
ing the Charlotte Labor Herald repre
sentatives. This morning's session of municipal
court was taken up with tho hearing of
evidence in the case of the State vs.
D. P. Bell and C. D. Hileaman,
charged with trespass. The Loray di
vision of the Jenckcs Spinning Company
acted as prosecutors, being represented
by Mr. A. G. Mangum. The defend
ants were charged with trespassing upon
property belonging to the above com
pany after they bad been forbidden to
do so.' They were representatives of
the' Charlotte Herald, a labor union
paper. The management of , the mill
said they did not want ' them' on 'their
property soliciting subscriptions. ,
, The case opened at 9 a. m. .ami not
being disposed of at noon. Judge Jones
adjourned court to 2 p. in: today. The
defense was represented by Mt. J. F.
Flowers, of the Charlotte bar. The
state introduced as chief witnesses Mr.
W. T. Cargile, superintendent of the
Loray; Ira R. Hayes, resident agent
of the- Jenckcs Spinning Co., and Miss
Lula Whitesides, community worker for
the mill. On cross examination of Mr.
Hayes, many a tilt took place between
the two counsels. Also the three visits
by the defendants played an important
part. The dates of June 7, June 16
and Juno 20 were considered. The de
fendant called on Miss Whitesides on
!" 1 for an interview in regard to
tho soliciting of subscriptions to the
Charlotte Herald. Miss Whitesides re
marked that Mr. Hayes should be con
sulted about the matter. This was
done. The latter refusod to allow the
. Herald representatives to go about the
village getting subscriptions. The
agents left but returned on June 16.
Jn learning of their presence, Mr.
Jiayes nail them arrested by his special
officer and turned over to the Gastonia
officers.
would create agitation among the cm-
ploycs that would do them harm It
be well paid an, I satisfied it was of no
i. ...
....... I" M"t. iaIX,
inai, uiuoe no evieiiuce slioweil that cured the agency for I'aekar.l cars in
Hileaman was guilty anel that his case be Gaston county, and will shortly hart
ilismissed. The motion was sustained, cars for distribution. "' of the fea
The same motion was maele as to Bell's ! tures of the Vackanl company is their
case, but no action was taken. The case 'new six-cylinder car ree-e-ntly appearing
will be continued at 2 o'clock this after -;on the market, emboelying many new
nOon. j features. Further annenine-emeiit will
ho niaele in the advertising columns ot
J. J. BRITT TAKES UP The Gazette.
' DUTIES AS COUNSELLOR
WASHINGTON, June 22 J. J.
Britt, former member of the House
j from North Carolina, assumed today the j
' duties of counsellor for the prohibition 1
unit.
Mr. Britt was appointed by Commis-I
sioner Blair, upon recommendation of :
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, to art
as a solicitor for the prohibition unit to :
relieve the office of the internal revenue-
solicitor of , the press of liquor law
case.
"AH of the matters pertaining to the
law division and the chief counsel's
division of the prohibition unit," Mr.
Haynes said, "wilt come directly under'
uw uprmmon i jane? nrm.
She's "Prompt
Finishing 2700 school days, Miss
Mary B. Fetrowr. Lewisberry, Pa.,
has Just been graduated from Mil
lersvMe Normal School without one
absent or tardy mark acalnt her.
LEWIS LONG ARRESTED
SHARP'S REVELATIONS
Notorious Charlotte Bootlegger
Is Taken Following The
Disclosures.
HAVE PRIVATE HEARING
Preacher Volunteers To Give
Information and There Is
No Ad Testificandum.
CHARLOTTE1, June 22. Lewis
Long, reputed to be a dealer in liquor,
was arrested Wednesday evening on
information contained iu one of the af
fidavits turned over to Judge J. Laur
ence Jones by Rev. J. A. Sharp in the
private hearing in Judge. Jones' office
Wednesday afternoon, following the de
cision to make it private, rather thai.
the onicial ad testificandum hearing.
Iu addition to Long, four others, two
men and two women, were arrested by
the. officers-soon after Judgo Jones had
turned over to Chief of Police Walter J!,
Orr. ,the affidavits and information l;J
secured from Mr.' Sharp yesterday.
! E. F. (Small, living on the third floor
Of the -Wilkinson building, in the first
block ofi South Tryon street, was arrest
ed when tho officers found a suitcase
full, of liquor in a vacant room on the.
third floor, of which Small said he had
charge, living -in a double room, tim
other three or four rooms having been
vacant.
A-Mr. and Mrs. I'oston, living at
.1(10 West Second street, were cited toi
a pi tear at court Thursday morning to J
answer charges of conducting a elisor I
derly house and II.it tie Corn, living in I
the house, was cited to appear in court i
today to answer a charge of agraiu-.v. j
The warrant sworn out as a result i
of the copy of the affidavit provided by
Mr. Sharp, with reference t Lewis;
Long, charged him with having a load
of liquor at the Cadillac- k:"':Ko on or
about January III). Long wis arrest eel
early ley jVtoet.ivcs Bradley and Hiley,
soon after tho warrant was issued, are)
placed under a $."jnli heme for his ap I
pearanee iu court this morning. !
Chief Orr said Wednesday that two!
of his men bad been working on the
case in the Wilkinson 'building two ore
three davs, following in format ion that
t
a man had 1ieen seen L'oiog up the step.',
with n suitcase, iu whie li it was thought !
that ho was currying liquor. The plaf" j
was being watched, iu order that flic
man might be caught. Chief Orr said, j
adding that the state uient iu the in j
formation given him through .Iiielgo
Jones and Mr. Sharp e stenlay serve I ;
to cause him to at at nine.
The entire floor h "I been searched,
all of th rooms being v .1 e .- n t , except the
(Continued on page 5.)
RANKIN REALTY GO. TO
HANDLE THE PACKARD
Announcement is ni:i!- ly tin If;mkiii
RePMlti.' 4 'nmttfeinv flint thi-a firm linn -
THE WEATHER
"
North Carolina, fair tonight and Fri-
YAP TREATY APPROVED.
TOKIO. June 21. (By The As
sociated Press.) The Yap treaty
with the United States was approved"!
by tne privy council ana Japanese
Prince Regent today. The treaty
fixes the rights of each nation in the
island, which is under Japane
mandate.
TWO MINERS DEAD AND SCORES WOUNDED IN
A CLASH BETWEEN UNION
REV. DONALD D. STEWART
SAYS HE CANNOT LIVE
DOWN PAST MISDEEDS
Unfrocked Pastor Has Filled
Charges In Various Parts
of Country.
IS NATIVE OF SCOTLAND
Has Attained Prominence At
Vice Crusader and Tem
perance Leader.
(By The Associated Pres3.)
LOS ANGKLhX Ca!.. June 22
Donald I). Stewart, tho unfrocked cler
gyman who is held iu the city jail
awaiting officers from Boston, where he
is wanted on charges of bigamy, grand
larceny unci conspiracy, has met inter
viewers with this comment:
"I c.m't live down niy past; the pub
lic won 't let me . '
With Stewart when he was arre-steel
wys Mrs. Kthel Turner Osba blest on
.Stewart, the secoml of the four wives
he is saiel to have marrieel, an. I who
also was taken into custody. She is
cnargou witn Having conspired with linn j j jlUU. Hn, lt.nrty, consi.ler-
to effect his allege.l marriage to Norma i,ig his aevane-e,l years and returned
Khrense'ller, of Boston, from whom be 'from liichmonel iu gooel' shape. He' stood
is saiet to have stolen $2,500. the' trip well, he saiel.
Reports of operatives of th( private; Mr. Huss while' in Itichiiioml, visited
detective agency which arrested the the scenes of some of tho famous bat
couple were incomplete, it was stateel, ! ties in which he engageel while fighting
as te the charge's saiel to have been ! around the capital of the Confederacy
placed against Stewart in various sec j towanl tho close of the war. He fouiul
lions of the country, lent they listeel his nothing familiar except one old tree
alleged marriages as follows: j which was shot full of bullets ami which
v;u i,. r..,.,. c:. 1. .11 ur i. - has U'eu preserved as a historic land-
ton. Did., in l'.IIM. A child was liorn
to them and Sttnvart is alleged to huv
e
desert e
wife line I babv
Kecoiie
at New
Third,
I, tee Kthel Turner Osbahlestou,
York, in 1920.
to Bertha Ellen Grannis at
I Indianapolis, in JP21.
Fourth, to Norma Kh reuse Ik' r, at Bos
ton, in 1021, with alleged connivance of
MrH. Kthel Turner Oshuldeston Stewart,
with whom he is said to have effected
a reconciliation a short time before. He
disappeared shortly after the marriage
to Miss Khrenseller. In addition to
these marriages the detectives charge
he obtaineel 1,2.)0 through the endorse
meat of a check by Bertha Klla .Grannis j any the worse for it. And ehinco' with
Stewart and that when he deserted' he girls nearly nil night,", he aehleel
her, be left her in her brother's nuto-iwith a twinkle. "We workd in those
mobile, that he stole $2,500 from Norma 1 'lays, but we were able to stand it. Tho
Khrenseller Stewart anil that through an '"'"g men thess days couhln't stan.l
allegeel courtship of Miss Gertrude Van Hat. There's so much machinery ami
I.ioik. an art teacher of Detroit, in I I could take a mowing scythe yet in 1
;i 11
1!21 he ei'fraudi:el her relatives of H.'iO.
Stewart, 117 years olel and a native
of Se eitlaml, attaineel consieleruble promi
nence a few years ago through his work
as vice crusader ami a temperance
h'aeler ami as the author of a prohibi- j
lion campaign song, "We'll Make Call-
foriiia Dry," after Mrs. Maud Hen-;
ilrieks conunitti'el suieiele at Haywarel,
Cal., ne'.ir Oakland, Dee-ember :I0, 1912, j
when he refused to marry her anel he
vas arrested for a statutory offense be
was 1111 froe-ke'i, although tin charge was'
elismisseel feer lack of evielencc.
Stewart is kneiwn also as Donald
Allister Stewart anel as Robert Allan !
McLaren Brown. Hhe- latter is s..iel j
to be his true name. He; has fille-d
pastorates iu Dunelee Luke, X. Y.;l
I'aterson, . J.; Sanderson, Texas;
Douglas, Arizona; ami Chieo, Cai. '
COTTON SPINNING
SHOWS AN INCREASE
(P.v The Aewclated Press.')
1 1 1 l I'l'l ) V .lime' 22 Vot te-ii !
Sl.llllllllir ae tlVltv Slieiwe'i n b ir it ll- i
creas,' in Mav as ,-,mi.a r.-.l with Ai.ril.
iho fi. r iifi iiitinl,! r (if Hiiinfllfs murt,
' " 1 - " "I"
nnr "iO"' i7 1 ;ix cfirm 111 rp.fl with 'Ai .
921. OH the i.r-vi..us month, the Census'"1
11.,.. .,1 i,.,l,- Ti.
gate number i f n- tive spindle hours re
porte-e t,.r the me-i.th of May was 7,49:!.
491. (i I. as e eini are el with 6,6..,fiil),tif
in April.
Th. r
in j.lae
were e,
month.
April,
on an
Mere'
. on M
perate I
as '-"if
l,l.'i.'l cotton npindh-s
:l. e,f which 3l,rc:tM
:i se.nie time during the
e ..-( r.-.l with 3I,:tsl,2.-,-6 fe.r
-7 I . t'.'ti in March. Base'.l
v e.f 2fi'. days, allowance
,ir Memorial Day in sm
s 7 henirs per day. the
eef spinelles operate-d at
1 ' eipacity single shift
Ml'!
ae-t'n
being mad'1 1
localities, ' .-r
average' nun i
88.1 per i
basis .
Active- - :i
Spinelle lie. .1 -aniiouie
i i . -
and the number of
- e tively for May were
l"vvs:
,-'y4; 325,717,838.
:"1220; 231.443.62t.
.72; 653.797,035.
'; 237.817,331.
9,984.043; 1,887,66!,
Alubain
Coll lie e '
GeorL'i.
Main. .
Mass;., i
. i.-l-:
I.
Co..
365.
New Hamp-:''re. 140.29S; 37,120,042.
Xe .!, r-v. ("rt..'!.'i5 ; 7o,84j,002.
X,. V-ik. : 1,-29; 22s.319.912.
X,.rh fare.iiua. ",17S,511; 1,465,173,
400. IViiiesvlv-.i.ia. 1HM73; 26,984,772.
Rhode Island. 1,756,791; 403,812.071.
Se.uta ( arolina, 4,993,616; 1,387,186,
087. Teuncsses". 419,764; 109.634,219.
Virginia. e'9f.6; 15082.551.
All oth'r 'tats, 1.013,330; 22,679,-
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DEPOSED PRESIDENT IS
PRISONER ABOARD SHIP
PEKING, June 22. (By The
Associated Press.) Dr. Sun Yat
Sen, deposed president of the Canton
government of China, is a prisoner
aboard the cruiser Haichi. This, with
other vessels of the Chinese nary at
Canton, has been handed over to the
provisional government established
there by Sun's enemies, which adhere
to the republican government at
Peking.
VETERAN, 90 YEARS OLD,
'TELLS HOW HE USED TO
SWING WHEAT CRADLE
"Uncle Henry" Huss, Who
Fought With Col. Hoke
Around Richmond, Tells
How He Cut Wheat All pay
and Danced All Night
" I'ucle Henry" Huss, of Cherryvillc,
father of A. Hoke Huss, secretary and
treasurer of tho Rhyne-Houser Manu
facturing Company ,of Cherry villo and
uncle of C. J. Huss, of Gastonia, was
in town this morning a few hours, t-11
route home from Riclmonel, Where he
has bei'ii since Monday with tho other
gray -clad veterans of the '60 's. Mr.
Huss is nearly DO years (del, but still
laiins to be able to go with the best of
mark.
Mr. Huss was a memlicr of Co. "O,"
i7th North Carolina infantry, coinmaiiel-
eel liy Colonel. afterwards General
j Hobert Hoke, of Lincoln county.
" I'ncle Henrv" was in a rtiiinisccnt
t mooit as ho nut ru. talked in the station
Ithis morning, waiting for his 'train to
Line-olnton. The talk rnn along the cus
toms anil habits of other days ami the
olel gentleman was describing how hard
he, used to work aueP hou able he was in
his younger days.' What ho saiel is ap
plicable to many of the older citizens of
this community.
"I used to swing a wheat eraelle all
day long for two week ami never feel
ineaelow ami seeii up Willi you, no
adeleel,
Huss.
Mr.
Mr. J
referring to his liephi'W,
J.
Huss was aee oinpanieil by his son.
. I". Huss.
THREE DEAD RESULT
OF MOONSHINE RAID
Pastor of Church, Sheriff of
County and Aged Trapper
Are Dead Following Big
Raid.
j ALBANY. ORKOON. June 22.
. Three' leoelit's torn by gunshot wounds,
j were brought here' today. They were
1 those of R-v. Roy lle'alv, jtastor of the
First Christian e huri li of Albany;
leVhe'riff C. M. Kenelall, of Linn county,
ianel Dave M. West, 7u year obi ranch 1
ami trapper. Their ehaths were the
result of a raiel 011 WVst 's moonshine still
'yesterday bv Sheriff Kenelall, accom-
panie,l ley the Ibv. Mr. H.'aly. The
sheriff anel m i 11 i t r were shot ami killed
,IL""ml.' "" '""e eici, u.
I1" barric.-i.ling himself
in his heiuss
flUtl liol
ing "IT a posse for hours, crept 1
the leiiilduig when night came and ;
,lis l,;,r" 1 tll,! episode by blow
iing off the top of his
head with his
ride'.
..
The. killing occurred at 3:30 o'clock
and until the Iwiely of West was fouiiel in
the barn, the bodies of his two victims
lay where they fell insiele the West yanl,
iiiinil.ers of the posse fearing to enter the
pre mises anel remove them.
We-st threatened any one with death
whee shoulel attempt to approach, except
the coroner, who, he saiel, coulel remove
the- bod is of the men he hael killed.
l-'eir fe-ar, however, that WVst might
mistake the coroner for a woubl-be cap
tor, no effort was made.' West shot ami
killed both Kendall and Healy without
warning while they were prhaps fifty
varels from him. H fired only twice.
.Sheriff Kenelall, armed with a search 1
I warrant, left Albany yesterday for the j
We-st ranch, sccompanicel by Rev. Mr. jof
Healy, who elcsire.l to sec a
1 still to obtain material for
raid on a
a story
which he was inteneling to writfc The
minister went merely as a spectator.
After the shotting West returned to
the house and sat down in a chair with 1
the rifle between his kneefc
As long as it remained daylight he
l.eirri :nti-,l himself in the honse. sn.l ele-'
tie-el the possenien to rapture him, but j Williamson county officials have not
when night fell he bade his wife tare- requested ariy outside assistances in re
' well, telling her to go away where harm (storing order in the district, ai.d Col ml
would not ebefall her. jSam X. Hunter, attache of the 1111-
This is the last good-bye," he said, as'nois seljutant's office, this morning ex
he kissed her and showed her through I pressed th belief that "the worst is
the door of the housC. Shortly after-over."
ward h reached Jhe barn, where be kill-
.I himself, . I
AND NON-UNION
.
OPEN FIGHT BETWEEN
TWO FACTIONS AT BIG
ILLINOIS COAL MINES
ers Around Camps Will
Number 2,000. " t"i
WORST IS OVER, PERHAPS
Fighting Followed Receipt of
Telegram From John L.
Lewis, President.
1
HERRIN, ILLS., June 22. ','
(By The Associated Press.)
Nineteen are known to have been ;
killed in the open warfare or union
men and sympathizers with em-- '
ployes of the strip mine near here '
of the Southern Illinois Coal Com- '
pany. An incomplete check up !
showed 16 non-union men and three -:
union men dead. One of the non- '
union me was found hanging to a
tree, his body riddled with bullets. ,'-
The bodies of the sixteen non- '
union men were found in a woods '
near the strip mine, six miles east K
of here. A man named McDowell, t,
foreman at the mine, was beaten '
to death, and the other 14, exclu- '
sive of the man hanged, were shot to '
death. It was stated the men were '
massacred when they attempted to '
escape after being taken prisoner '
by the Union forces.
The dead non-union men were re- '
ported to have been among 44 pris- '
oners captured at the strip mine.
Four others were found riddled with "
bullets, and are not expected to re- 1
cover. What became of the other '
24 could not be learned. - .'
There were several thousand men '.
and boys present when the 16 were '
killed at 9 o'clock this morning. '
The forty-four men were taken pris- '
oners at the camp, herded in front '
of the captors and when they reacxh- '
ed a point about half way between '
tb mine and Herrin, where they '
passed through a woods, thet killing' '
began. Strikers declared the pris- '
oners, by an apparently pre-ar. '
ranged signal, made a dash, to e- '
cspe and that they were pursued and '
killed. - :
The -three dead union miners '
were killed in last night's 'fighting. ,
The bodies of the nineteen dead were '
counted by an experienced and cos- '
servative newspaper man. , V -i
Four of the sixteen bodies of v
strike breakers were found at the 5
foot of the tree from which the body : '
of the man hanged was suspended. ''
The bodies of 11 dead and four j .
wounded were' scattered 1 through '.
the woods. -1
The hunt for the non-union men
was continuing over a wide area. '
Six men later were captured and '
taken in the direction of the mine. '
The miners brought in from the '
Chicago district are reported to have '
surrendered in their camp near the 1
strip mine. There were forty four
men in the group hoisting the white '
flag, it was said. These men were ,
marched toward Marion and six ',
were said to have made a dash for '
freedom. The were hotly pursued, v'
There are three bodiss of miners V
in undertaking establishments here ?
an d three wounded miners in hospi
tals, one not expected to live. i.:"
report was brought here that IS or
20 men were seen lying in a ditch '
near the mine property, whether
dead, wounded or hiding was not '
known. '
HKRRIX, ILLS., June 22. (By The
Associateel Press.) Two union miners
are known to be eU-ad today, six nnaa
cotuitcel for and nearly a score of men
wounded as tho result of an open fight
between striking union miners and non-
union men employed by the (Southern
Illinois Coal Company at its strip mine.
six miles east of here, which broke out
.,. , m .:e .1 i
late yesieruay, ani conuuucu uuiu uara-
tness influon,eeel its cessation,
1'nvcrified reports were that more than
. twelve men were killed in the fight at the
' mining camp, in an explosion between
' Carterville anel May, near the See no of
j the trouble, ami in an attack on a truck
carrying non-union men to the mine,
I which oecurreel near Cnrboudale. It
' was impossible to verify these -reports
I because of confusion at the camp. . .
I Joe I'itchovie, a union miner of Her
rin, lied in a local hospital early today,
after being seriously injured in the fight. .
The other deael miner is Jordan lleneler
son, also of He?rrin, who was killed in
the action. His body has been brought
to an undertaking establishment here.
Thousand? of striking mineral maay
whom were armed, last night and this
morning made their way along roads
congested with every tort of conveyance
leading to the mining camp, where the
union miners and sympathisers, esti
mated to number approximately 2,009,
surrounded the mine, until a truce with
the non-union forces, who claim they are
members
unions.
of th steam ahoveunen
-Colonel Hauler is at Mai ion, eltieb?
(Coptiu'iM on tsp i.y f