North Carolina Newspapers

-s i ' r ' I'll') muiyin i.. I NiSi ! 1:1 rc 1 1 held : K')M) OF Al l, HOCSLV; ON 1 1, AND 1-i I i ll i:V STOK'I CHATEAU TillEiinY 1 1 " t : OUR FALLEN HEROES 'HO p! ( . . ; t. :,- . i. r m I.. Hitch, :,!! . ;.. y and ; ! ... i for textile wei .- s vf-ion in tli ; . -i t .1 ii, .' :i ; ii i i- ! -. ;! 2 o'l ioi I this morning by I 'oli'tf nan Ed ' Hlack and J. V., Hunter i.n a warrant hi-ought by a deputy k shci i:f from Ail .;. tl e ! hai ;-;.g him with inciting the i iot at lii.it place. Hitch v,;H !'!; 1 i,n er Liilii jl i jjilj'l, wl.iell iv; s Mgrnd by an en pluyce of tin' i out In-i ll railroad named i 1 o , ! i . J le will I." iv u a k iitniii.u y hcai iiii.r be'oi e tie- : i hi .1 r el AHiemailc Monday imihihi,,', it v;i.s .-ta!ei. liV ll i. p i to have harangued crowd; of tex tile worker, Mcnd.iy ,-lio;liy he fort1 the U'Olible stalled, though it was (Hl V.iai.Ml v. Ii,,!.. i le was in Alli-u.ai S- i t the t.:- of the Double or r.ot. The deputv fiom Ali'i la.ii !c arrive fl in Charlotte late lit night and after confer! mg with police authorities lie and Police 'inen Hlack ;;ml Hinder went to the home of Hitc h and served the warrant. Ho was brought to police headquarters, whore the I mud wis arranged. Hitch has been active in or ganization work anions textile i pel atoM in this .section for sev eral month.-.. He wan fust em ployed as attorney fe- some Charlotte rr. ill opeiatiet wlnm they went mi strike hC t spring following a falling out over the wage scale. Hitch wan raid to t have been instrumental in bring ing i gai.ui i s here v. ho form..! the union.- in Charh tie, and from tlil.- city, it wan hai 1. the work of oigaiiizing the textile operative of this Feet ion was directed. Since entering this work Hitch has leen active in union organi zations, and was 'tie of the j-peakers at the labor meeting in Raleigh, hU,-peech can-in;; con siderable cv-:imeiit among the papers of the :-tate. LENOIR DID NOT FACE FIRING S(H'AI) TODAY Talis, Sept. 10. Anaiiimce mont wa.s made at H : I . this morning of the jKivt)neivi nt of the execution of Pierre Inoir, who was charged with Senator Litnlx'it nd others of fuini.-h-ing military intelligence to the enemy, and who was to have fat ed the firinjr squad at dawn to day. The iieifhlorlnKHl of Vinci ti ne wood.s where the execution wju to take place wa.s put under a ptronir jruard of Miidieis at s r:Po this morning. A hott time afterwards Major (Iromicr. ccmnr.dcr cf the tvoe nt Ft 'inccr,res, nnd M. Knnx, pi-f.- t of police, arrived and a firing squad took up its jmsition. At fi:10 a. m., to autonn'bil .s left the fort and drove rapidly in the direction of the execution pii'iind.s and men and wonuh y,o ing to work, seeing' the nildiers, remarked:. "It is all over for I,e noir," but at (:!") o'clock it was learned that the execution was delayed for a shoit time. The military justice a party of lawyers and a chaplain went to Ijenoir's cell at cHO o'clock fmd ir.jj the condemned man very calm. "My father taught m-- not to fear death," he said, "am. I hhall k die courareously. I loVe l'rance and never betrayed my country." Asked if he had anv eo-nnu-nication to make to the party In'noir replied: "At the moment of e.-ath I re peat what I have always vainly asked: To bo confronted with Jose CHillaux.' " (Jose Caillaux, former pre mier of France, is now urder arrest in a hospital near Paris under a simih charge to tlioe upon uhich Lenoir was convict ed.) Lenoir then arpued that the actio i of the court had shown that his case and that of M. Cail laux was connected. Lenoir's lawyers then demanded that his request to be confronted with M. Caillaux be communicated to the under secretary of military justice. This was done and the order to postpone the execution was received two hours later. When he heard the news this morning. Lenoir said, "Before "man and God I swear 1 am no traitor." lib A t; Tin; 1 ii - hip : .vl privation d by any lo-Aii- out Mil .1 of the tropical huriienne u I i !i pa .ed over the ."oullui u end of Flo) id.i and Cuba recently and did . o much damage at Corpiti Chii-ti and other Texa; towns, has hern biou'ht Ittie fiorn N'n! tli F.ibow Cay by fiibinai ine ha r .".:'."). Waves hucpt en tiiily over the i.-dand, which is I1) feet high, ili- t roved hi! lit, u jm except the lijihthou-e, end I i'l'd the inhabitant's cistern-, with ea water. Vh U-l.iiidi-rs were without water 11 day.s and food almost as lor.y. Wind and wave s truck the is let v. ilh Mich force that laipe p e- of rock we.e torn away ,.nd swept into theea. Not a e tie of human habitation was left, save only the lijfhthou.sf in whicli the 12 survivoih huddled and awaited the arrival of the help they prayed for. North Lliiow Cay Is in the rtr.aits of Florida about half way between the Florida penin HiUainl Cub.i. It H visited once in three months by a Cuban eovernnicnt vessel with supplies and mail. Two poats of the comparative ly larpe 1'eK.k on the island were left by the storm, and these were eaten. All other food supplies Were wahed away. Sepukhers in which bodies of foinier residents were buried weie torn open by the K'ant waves and the colfms carried away by the waves. A Cuban jrunlmat searchinp for the missinjr Spanish steam ship Valbanera was sipna!lel on the ICth, but was unable to fur nish the water requested. A wirele. s message from the gun 1hi.iI to Nassau, JIahama. and relayed tu Key West and Miami caused the submarine chiwr r"" stationed here, to le sent to the le.-cue with water and foo!. APPKM. FOR NEEDY OF CORITS CIIUIST! Coitus Christi, Tex.. Sept. 20. Mayor (lordon Loone and Hoy Miller, chairman of the lH'al re lief (oinuiiltee, have requested The AsNiHiated Press to make public the following statement: "Tlx situation so far as fool supplies are concerned i well in hand. Ihrnations received from various cities added to the sub sistence furnished by federal id and htale authorities here have for the present at least, Moved the food problem. "Our immediate needs are clothing end f.haiui.d aid. dreds in fact, thou?and.4 wrrc compelled to leave their dwelling en brief notice ncantily clad and leaving ail their worldly it'hkI.s khind. In the storm area ccn tipuous to Ci-pus Christi at least t.(" Ml are homeless and d im pendent upon the generosity of the jKsiple oCTcxas and other states not only for fcHxl and rai ment but for a new start in life. "We, therefore, urge the pul Jic to continue to send their jrifts of clothinj? and money. We are hopeful that these sifts, espe cially of a financial nature, will he larjre crouph to help these de stitute people to repair some of the damage sulfered. All con tributions should be sent to Clark Pease, chairman of the f'mmH'd v committee. Corpus Christi, Texas. HOCK HILL MAN IS TAKEN TO FEDERAL PEN Greenville, S. C, Sept. 20.-H. L. Kerr, formerly a prominent banker of Hoek Hill and member of the draft Uwd, convicted at Hock Hill on charge of foijrery in connection w ith soldiers' allot ments, w ill lie taken to the feder al penitent . ry at Atlanta today to betfin a five-year sentence. In imposing sentence on Kerr, Judire Watson said that he could have been convicted on all of the 21 counts, sentenced to the ted- cral prison for a term of U15 years and fined ?1.)0,0()0. The charges on which Kerr was found guilty, lh: Watson said, were for forging the names of soldiers to the United States checks sent them m lon- uses and receiving the money on them. I i Ii A KellTlil vii- of Die , . i . (1..;,.. . In ( Ik Tettl to tin rifti.l ti.T.M-n ,f tlio Third l!v! inltrM'ng id? .inl liii,'!'. CHEAT IIAHDSHIPS FOIl SIIIPWHECK St'UVIVOHS Tampa, S-pt. 21. After di ii in fix days in an op -n Ui.it, Chief Officer A. II. M die and 10 other rui vivois on the 1 1 . ton fteaniship H.iyrento, funk SeptemUr 11 off the Tortus. were brought into Tair.p;i by the local fi.-hinjf smack Ida, which picked them up .so miles houth-wcf-t of Kjrmont Key. Another lifeloat witli 21 men from the P.ayronto ha.l no. Un heard from. Fiftren men, inchatin Capt. T. Kversett and niost of l!ie offarrs, were IM on the ? hip U causa the other lifcUiats were MiiiL iieii. inn l l is leiH'iiifi lti it i. . I i ... :. : j.i... they were tn'vii v.T by the , M'huontr Ff.i'Ji'' and Fay, Tam-; p.i to Ilav.uu. Tiie 11 nu n tiidiieht to Tan.o.i aro Chi. f Of- lieer Mexxlie, V. Cole, wiieks operator; W. Saunders, carpen ter; L AbUd, lamp trimmer; P.o.itsw ain P.ridl? atal Fit em n T. Licit, A. Sheerin, Fdmunds, Dunovan, (Jrilfith and W. Den ley. The P.ayronto foundered in heavy seas without running agitHind. When the'jdiip listed GO degrees, the remaining two latH were launched. Moodie and his li men had live gallons of water and 100 biscuits. Two days later, running shod of water, they spread their oiled coats and Caught half a bucket of rain water. Tuesday they caught a few ll- h and ate them raw. At o a. m. September 12 they sighted a big lwo-ma-tcd idciiuier and .sent up di.-trc;.:-. rockets, but Moodie says the ship paid no attention except to turn and run off in the opposite direction. The men were almost naked. They injured halt water 'over their Itodies to cool them, and the sun blistered the skin. Many of them have Uuls and ahsesscs formed by the exposure. Peter Taylor, English vice-consul, is looking after their welfare. The 11,000-ton steamship Hay ronto, with 7,fM) tons of wheat was IxHind from Galveston to Marseilles via Norfolk. It is owned by the Lay Steamship conip.'Oiy, IrfHidoii. It wa.-. toi ped "ed in July lObs, and had been laid up for repairs until it sailed from Southampton bust month on this trip. Chief offi cer Moodie states that lie was on the steamship P.aynyassa in July, 1917, which sank a U-boat then, and he was afterwards de corated by Kin George with the D. S. C, the captain getting the D. S. 0. Moodie aho has the victory medal, the merchant service medal, the 1911 medal and on his .sleeve three gold torpedoes jmd five yearly service chevrons. One survivor of the wrecked steamship Lak-j Linono, a Porto Kican negro, was brought in with the llayronto sailors. It is reported that Lr of the Wino na crew were afloat in an open boat when a wave w ashed away all bu the negro and an Italian. The latter died later and the ne gro threw the body overboard. I 'll , t fV . ! 'il ') M :. thllK llf tollH-r hl'ilii. i.f II,.. ji..,,!iMlil i.l l,e i iti. A. II l M ') r i-in'rul Itowio, .n, nuit,.i..r i.f t!.c TMrl, U clmwo hiiooTiNt; of :n. pitts nfah ki:im:i5sti.i.e. Kei nersi;e , S:-pl.- 20 It ap-peaj-sth.it the iCpuit Ctillellt that W ill Heath, Vil.uon Monday e.eni.i la-t shot ....d killed lid PitU. his lathei -'n-Iaw, tried to i jmiui fjiliou ie.ii I !ic hdir! ieiile i I,,,,,, ou Tll,, tl, t ,tM.,JiS to le that he was wty cool in the face of the situat ion and tele phoned the sheriff hiimelf from the home of a nciyhtior. It if lel'Olted that he telephoned the dotlor, ;,! -. to c t - l attend the wounded man. A report i ? curt cut a! u) to the eiTe t that Pitts v,.a .a me d and fue l the fir.4 hot. 'lh.it al-o has U'cn denied by neihUir- who were first i -n O - seene. It I .lOIH' li s I nil 111 . . .i I liOV Vl ii' V I Uii.i.,,u ,U 1 itix la niiy, wh i .is thrown the ruri-a..y w.-n which - I I . I .... I I"" 'l uil "n " Imdv w;e; able to return to the Heath home and was the fii.-t pen-cm to reach Mr. wounded ir.au ha PitU. The I doubtle.ss pased away by reached him. the time he ji'.kged th.d Mr. U;ath tried to take the second gnu from the hands of her huband, and that Pitts did not turn to run until he saw his son-in-law loading the M-coiid weajwii. It is reported that as the shot struck him he half turned and said. "Oh, I.i ily." the only word he is known to have tittered U. fore he simk to th- ground and died. The sla.t took effect tvar the iiifk Miid tanged downward, striking vital parts. The immediate quanel .-. te ported to have been concerning a mail Uix. but it v.a.; the etit outgn.wth of bad fe'-Hrg con cern: the croppinjr Hn t'iT-" the sprinjt and summer. The funeral services of Mr. Pitts were held at Hunker lb!l Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'cl'x k by Uev. I. O. Gray. The crowds in attendance overflowed the'rhurch. The interment took place in the Hunker Hill bury ing ground. The widow, a son. Elmore Pitts of Colfax; a 'daugh ter. Mrs. Marion, of Norfolk. Ya. and Mrs. Heath, survive. Hoth Mrs, Pitts and Mrs. Heath are said to have been prostrated by the tragedy. r.sG H0D1ES OF VICTIMS WIK FOFND ON VOXs't Cotpiu ClinstiVfcx., Sept. 2". With known dead n.tr the 100 mark and steadily increa.ing. residents of Conms Christi and other nearby Texas coast towns tolay resumed their M arch for bcnlies of additional persons who lost their lives thru last Sun day's hurricane and tidal wave. The number of know n dead to day was :G, In Coitus Christi proper con ditions were becoming more nearly normal today altho elec tric lights and street car service may not be restored I'm some time. According to a statement is sued by the principal relief com mittee, clothing and financial as sistance constitute the imme diate needs oC the refugees and the people of the nation were called upon to render assistance. The food situation was said to be satisfactory. i ?! i ;'.t. HL1NDED AMERICAN SOI.DIEPS IN TRAINING Washington S' -pt. 10. Latest reports give the mmdor of the A. F. F. blinded in the war to be lv-0. Heeducatinn means much for this class of men. and aU-ut one-third of these blinded sol diet s are now availing them selves of the opportunities for training under the direction of Mie federal boaid for vocational education. , Poultry rai ing has U'"ii bvt ed md proved to U a lucrative vocation for b!md men. With the u-ssUtanee of meirJers of their families these blinded m1-lii- r.s are making good f.t it. Os teopathy and ma.s.:.,ge are at tracting' others as n.-cupations desirable for the blind. f The p'itey f Ye Ui.u'd ir. -unfiling tqHin the p.tst epc i-ienc-es of disabled soldiers in lit tinjrtlom for future eiiip'oy ment is adhered to in its deal iiign with the blinded. In fol lowing this jo!icy, an insurance man and a druggist are training in their old hues of work, learn ing to "cany on" in the old way in spite of their handicaps. These men have lost their tight, but they xtill retain their am bitions and their grit. CONCORD CHILD KILLED I5Y AN AFTOMOH1LE (uncord. Sept 20.-Walter Lam UtI, a jitney driver of this city, was today held under Urnus of $ I.f h hi for his appearance In1 fore the jecoicleiK court here Septem ber 20, on the charge of causing th- death of seven year old Irene Paean. The child was sti uck by an au tomobile operated by limbert at the intersection of Corhin and Phoenix streets, while LatnU-tt was carrying passengers from the i i ter of the city to the de pot. Following the accident, Lam bert stepped his car Immediately and carried the child to a nearby house, and Liter to the hospital, where she died. I-'imhert surrendered to the police after taking the little girl to the hospital. MANY WOMEN TRIED TO KISS GEN. PERSUING Washington. Sept. 20. One fair war worker faces the loss of $10!) as a reiult of a wager that she would kiss General Per shing Ufore he left Washington. As the c? neditionary comic m der was leaving a hotel last night, where he had attended a function in his honor, a comely young woman who had edged her way to the front of the crowd surrounding the entrance made a rush for him. Members of the general's staff grabbed her, buj not until she had an arm around General Pershing's neck was struggling to kiss him. Her act was a signal for a grand rush on the part of other feminine members of the crowd and Gen eral Pershing literally had to dive into his waiting car. In the meantime, the young woman apparently thinking . an explanation of her precipitate act was due, explained that she had wagered $100 that di would Kiss tienerai rersmng uc fore he left Washington. i ! n : peon i; n w i: hchn Del ll'l.HA'liil.V Ml I !1) O.. '!, r,L ;..,,!. . r,, ,. id- .: .... ! ' I ;:s, .,,:!,. nee beie !)! the i,..,.!,',. , -1 ,jn "in;. .:..:!, . i I o-. ,;"r 'e r.,U y on ii , ' , t t In ' ' ::: ( lh" . ;.ee lie.ils, hi ;.n i.d-'i. -a iii' 1 1 ej.ied . t.my tm.e.H ,,- ( 1( rl ( j,,. t llall ilii V l l.ill v. i.. ,i is the ti aly i ii t!i- bin i . oj i. I t !. a ..! r 1 . i . ; ,i 1, ; .!.!., ill !fl" etel be "eVei ' . d" l'i publ'e opinion. Ml". ll --on ! pi !.e bej'oie a Crowd W J.ieh ..e...: d tie- i.l.dl til it'l'l llej e v. ,1 h il - e.il't.g ( a p e it v of H'..o'j(i, Many oth i stood i;i the aisl".-, ami u t rear oi the g .!,. i n ... 1'er th i'.i' t ihii iti': hi tt ip tie- I'r - id- i.l v. iii(i...lj" ed v a wiiTii.m. Dr. Auieiia J Heinhafdt, pre, id -nt of Mo! i rd !i,,:e, of 0.'i'.,l.i!ii. pre.-eiiting hhi: :ii one to whom lh" internation al affairs of the country might be .safely end u did. W hen he aro-e to speak . ome one shouted "Are we with him'.'" and many shouted in chorus, "Ye-!" This was the first treaty, said Mr. Wil -on, who-e purpose w.u; not to .erve governments, but to "serve peoples," All the peoples of the world, he declared, at la t had .-eeri a vision of lib crty and had drawn up ii treaty. I 'E'NIIING KISSES JFST LIKE DADDY hiladeiphiu. Sept. 10. 'I know vh.-it I want to say, but I ui t can't sny it" i- the way MN .M.'.rie ll. Weiser expresed :---f-e..;i:: on l-eiex kis id by Gen eral Pershing. Th hitter showed his appicruition of the gift of i s:k American flag pre-nted ta hiu. by Mis Weiser o;i b"h:.lf ol the girl scouts of Oimbel Pros.' -, ;' t ;scr was one of thlee girls on whom the kiv-dng honor Vf'.s li-towed. The (it her two, nine -year-old jjils, were male equally proud when tiny pre sented the general with a U.u quel of mole than 1M' pink Co lumbia loses. Hoth of thesi little girls speak in hushed tones of the occasion. Like Marie, they feel it in their hearts, they sav. but "it just won't couu out." The.e girls are Mis Marie Auih.ie, :md Miss Hazel Mat thews. It was rieaitt, though. Mafic Weiser though, to a. k hei w Imm she preferred to be kissed In her "daddy" or General Pcrrhing. "Gee," she : .ii i. as a puzled expre ; ion came over ht r nmnd face, "thrtl's a funny que: tio;i ! My daddv is Very ileal' to me and I like to be kissed by him, but to have been kised by General Pershing is something 1 h.id nev er dreamed ot. FOOD PRICKS DECLINE MORE THAN 10 PER CENT Wadi'mgton. Sept IK, He poits to the department of jus tice from 12 states indicate there has. been a decline of 10 to l.'i per cent in food prices since the tune the fair price commit tees began their work. From iour states have come reports en wholesale prices, in cating a decline of two to five per cent. Virtually no reduc tion in clothing prices have been , i i on m. The i Kil ts on retail food prices were said to have been from cities and countj well c istribuled throughout the coun try, and the information is be lieved by officials here to be a fair indication of what is going on everyw iieie. They think that results now becoming evi dent will be cumulative as the e:uson advances, new declines in wholesale prices being reflected in retail prices, and additional reductions coming from the campaign against hoarding and pi ofiteei imr. Paris, Sept. 21. ((lavas.)--The Dutch minister in Paris has been advised, according to the Libre Helgique of Brussels, that Holland within two weeks wiSl ro ceive a demand fur the extradi tion of former Emperor William cn behalf of th allies. STRIKERS ASSERT THEY will ( oviimt; STRIKE. Af.euar!.-, :pt. 20, WH! the me;;, ' I ( !' the !, ; ,, ,;u J, V.oi k Moinh.y V. hell the hi -tlei Nee , a , w ,-, j announeri) yr-cr-day by Mayor Ciov-, or will the -tiikeiH again blik the way of ll o e Hon union men and women as they dal la t Monday morn ing? Is the spi, it of unionism broken and crushed here as has been generally talked of or will the strikers still hold out for for mal ri cognition as they have di.ne f,,,- tl. t several week . before again letuining to their woik? Th.e e are some of the questions that are In.-ing discuss ed h' re today on every sticet finer,, in stoies and homes. 1'he strikus say tlicy will riot return to work Monday when the whi.tl.M blow, but further they .say not. The Wiscassett and I -in (I noils will blow their whistles at the u-ual hour Mon day, and if :uiy want to work everything will go off as usual. The day p.i.se, of with out any excitement in connection with rioting of last Monday, ex cept th. it thiee or four addition al defendant were put under Unds in the sum of ?2,".00 for their appearance before Judge Ingram Monday morning at 10 o'clock. ThU makes the total number of defendants under Uiiid for appearance Monday ag gregate 2S and includes iu de fendants H. M. Hiii bee, the pres ident of the local union; J. A. I'e, vice-president, also Marvin Pitch, a Charlotte lawyer. That Monday will see a hot legal bat tle in Judge Ingram's corrt goes without saying. a. every mem ber of the 1'x-hI b;u. except A. C lloneycult, is retained by the mills to prosecute the defen dants. Mr. Ilonejcutt has refus ed to In? retained on either tide v far. There will be able coun sel sent here to represent the de fendants. In the meantime the disinterested long suffering juuV lic of Albemarle and Stanly county is looking forward to the time when the mills will invite all deiring to come to work by blowing their whistles and hav ing ever) thing in readiness. Frank P. Kennedy, an attor ney of Charlotte, was in AIIh marle today to investigate the evidence to le produced in the cases against alleged rioters, to be heard in the county court here Monday. It U generally supposed that Mr. Kenney fej rcsents Marvin Hitch, one of the defendants, but this supposition has not been confirmed as yet. HA DIN PHYSICIAN HELD FOR CAPITAL OFFENSE Albemarle, Sept. 18. Charg ed with committing; criminal assault on Mrs. Thomas Coggin, prominent young woman of Pa cini, Dr. H. T. Atkins, one of the best known of the Hadin physi cians is being guarded outside the county jail today until bail can be arranged if the courts can be induced to mitigate the of fense. The physician w as arested late Wednesday night and brought here today. The charge against him is that he attended Mrs. Coggin and had taken her to Ch.T!"tt' to put her in a hon pital for treatment. It was while they were in Charlotte that Mrs. Coggin alleges tlu.t Dr. Atkins gave her an anaesthetic and made the assault. She uade no outcry, but wrote her hus band some days later, it is said, and the arrest was made Wed nesday, The offense is not bailable but attorneys for Dr. Atkins, be lieve that the charge will be re duced in gravity, are having their client saved the humilia tion of jail as long as possible. Should the committing magis trate not reduce the charges, At torneys G. 1). P. Reynolds and W. L. Hann w ill seek release of the physician by habeas corpus proceedings. Dr. Atkins spent the day in Mr. Mann's office and w as guarded by an officer. The prisoner is about 15 years old and haa three children.