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ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 11, 1915
HICKORY, N. C, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1921
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FOREPART OF WEEK
3v 'he Associated 1'ress.
V;.:hintMi, March 19. Weather
ti'.r. fur the week beginning
rI!iilay incluile:
xh Atlantic and East (lull
art'j; i.i iai raitu ami .iiin vi-.un ;
the hi'K'inning of tne week lollow-
!iv i.'c:iu'ally tair weather and nor-
r,ii ti'iiijici .ituies trc last halt oi tne
TIIM I OUTER WRECK
R;ii!svr,V Age,
Analyzing the conditii ns, three f;:c
itn aif 't'" t eater into the eausi
f the a.'ci'if!it, (1) a "man fiiluru
n tr.t? part of tr.e engineman un i
iren-in on the Michigan Central
, uin ; I'D a derail loc.it: d too near
.he cr.--in--, and (3) a train crdei
jgnal u 1 cated i t Ii lespect to the
hi me . that there 'A as n nossi-
P'!::v of it light being confused with
a clear home .signal indication
te.-iiir.Lr each in ordor: th: engine
crew faih'd to see tne rcu r.g..c on
'the hnni.. signul and may havs nv.s-
iken the green light on the train
ricr signal fi-r the h:ime signal indi
cation, as the smoke f a train stann
-,'t on a siding near the home signal
ir.ay have obscured iti light momsn-
tuiily. No or.e will question the fact
thai tl'e er.gnc croA believed' thoy
hail a clear :;igmil in it would be sui-
al on th''ir par: to run past a st-p
-ignal at a high rat:1 cf speed know-
ng ti at there was an open derail
lh.' (it rail, vhi' h was of the split
r.oint type, wju 311 feet from j-ne
r.tiirct crossing frog, with a tiauing
point s,viteh. iocatid about midway
hetwei-n the derail and the crossing.
Hciv, then, the effective distance of
the ilorail might be only about lbu
'.ft as the trailing switch would have
5 tendency to derail an engine cr cais
h u re, alt ( f this ucci lent it is evi-
'!t;rt that many deiaiiS in high speed
routes shmdd be moved back to mee.
rrtM-nt operating conditions.
The nam order signal was in une
with tii- interlocking signal wnen
viewe. en the tangent track, aunougn
!h' irnlic itions ought not to have
Wn eifusel bv the cnginman of n
train anpruaehing around the curve
which lies between the distant and
th home, .-.itrnal at this particular
point.
"Man failure" was the primary
rnn-e ,,f tii- accident. The best si;-
r ; 13 ; r-t..- i.':d inter'tx-king ,npparatri )
i'l r.et in this cire, as in miny
thers in vent the mm future Ivoto
""iiltirnr r. a great eatastronhe-
There ii e-"od reason to believe thai
n automatic train control or trai"
ftoti vii.n't Itivi m-nvented this acei-
dfr.ts us uell n ', r!fi number rf oth-
'M. irh nf tvanhoe. Am'herat. nr
'''irnitu', Moiin Union and South
'!vio . Wh"n it is considered that au
tomatic Unci: zUruU on many lin'-'S
are h eate orily about one mile apart
iii'M that I'M cngineman tn a tsi
Mwene-er train may pass a signal on
nn nve",tf,. (,f everv f0 spconds. it i
Tiot t- 1 . wondered at that "man
f:iiiun " y,i,metinies occur.
A LIMIT TO JUSTCE
A ciii'itrv yokel was brought be
a I ondori magistrate for steal -iff
a ha yele. "'ve got a good mind
1,1 t '!. von three months imprison
"''" aid the magistrate, frowning.
"Veil can't" replied the offender,
'laihi'u-ity.
'i;,;"'e"!. And why pray?"
"(V I'v,. r,nly room oop for three
ilaya," Edinbiirg Scotchman.
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By the Associated Press.
Chicago. March 10 Rmt n
Tnvlni. .....11 1 i . .
. vj.w,, nui nufiwii numorisi ,u a
coduetor of n column in the Chicago
Tribune, "A line o' Type or Two,"
ills nvidoy and two daughters sur
vive. Mr. Taylor was bom in Massa
chusetts in 18(52.
WILSON TOBACCO
MARKET IBS
By the Associated Press.
.Wilson, N. C. March 19. The .Wil
son bright leaf tobacco market closed
yesterday, selling the largest number
ot pounds in its historv.
Dining the seson llVjO-21 (52,20-1,-
smu pcumts sold here for $1.'5,24'.,
at an average of $21.G1 per
iw pounus. in iyiy 42,(:iO,rU;j pounds
were sold for wliich $22.70,804 at
an ave.-age of $53-67 per hundred.
The total increase this season was
10,874,iC4 pounds iwhile the decrease
in prce totaled $9,273,807.53.
The market opened September 7
wth an average of $21.5.r tier hundred
and closed yesterday with an aver
age of $9.23 per hundrel.
for nunc ISLES
By the Associated Press.
Wishingicn, March 19. Secretary
Per.hy will l.ave Washington tonight
for (Juantanamo. uba and ll.iti. The
watre tiip involved will be made on a
destroyer on which the secretary and
hii party will embark probably at
Key West.
IIAIIdJOADS A XI) CONGRESS
piingfieM Republican
Senator Cummins ha3 consented to
throw seme light on the purpose of
.bat investigation of the railroad.
.vhich h'j will ask Congress to au
hoiize. The object is publicity. The
investigation will aim to "give the
,.ublic the truth of wh.-t has ir.appen
.d in the past year of prvate control
in comparison to the previous year
'!.hy not years'?) of government
jontrod."
Doe;! the public demand this in
vestigation? Probably not as a whole,
ut tntre ha.; been authentic criti
jism cf a lack of cooperation among
:alhcads. Under a competitive regime
companies will naturally put their
individual interests first, until an
emergency compels common action.
Labor organizations are asking tor
an investigation of the managements.
Here in New England there ihas hem
eibuse cf the railroad executives. Ir
the" miauie west mere is always ui
ticism. coupled with mors' or less
suspicion-
These are possible considerations.
Mr. Cummins does not, however,
mention them. He docs mention Mr.
McAdoo. Mr. McAdoo, says Mr. Cum
mins, "is . engaged in villificaticcr of
the transportation act." Is this why
Mr Cummins wants an investigation?
The railroads, for a year, have been
under a sort of Cummins -administration
Before that they were under a
MeAdoo administration. The year has
been unfortunate for the railroads,
and the transportation act has not
had a test under normal conditions.
Mr. Cummins seems eager to show
that the blame for any failures be
longs to circumstances not to the act.
Senator Cum'mi.-. b:lieve,3 that "no
more legislation is needed to handle
the railroad problem." Despite the
exaggerated fear? new being express
ed last the labor board and the inter
itate commerce commission fail to
-oopcrate, this is probably the correct
an far as tha immediate present
is concerned'. But Senator Cummins
thinks thrt the consolidation of rail
oa ls contemplated by the Esch-Cum
nir bill tAiU have eventually to be
made compulsory. In this he is doubt
less right, n'i'o- The unlikelihood of
a Strang railroad consenting wiliing
y to hr.ve its position weakened by
assuming the burdens of a nonnay
ing property is apparent. Equaliza
Lic -i of financial (burdens ia clearlv
intended bv the act. But there will
nrobatlv prove to be no way qi u ;
i it Kr,nt i?hort of n?w lagislation.
And this will rtquire a hold step.
N"- the leash interesting part of
Senator Cummin's statement is
idea rcunr-linV Nov Kngland It is
view that as the New England
railroads arc: cwentinlly "m.naK
thev should be linked to the trunk
lines. No or seems to know whether
this will agree with Prof. Rip.ey s
plan of cmsoli'Jatons, soon to be an
?cunceil. -But it is pt least imnortan t
m th". opinin- of the man iwho will
have most influence on railway legis
lation in the woff'g co"gre33-
THE MAIN THING
TcVtf.Twl Wife What do you men
nbnntknow about women's clothes,
nnvwnv?
Friend Hubby The Price.
Houston Post
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DEMf TO LEftVE
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FROM
Bv the Associated Press.
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aiar. iv. a great araousn
o! insn repuoncan lorces occurrea
near Kinsale this morning in which
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iw..c uun suiuicia vcil- ivim.-u ami
live wounded is reported. l'he at-
tackers numbered several hundred aiul
the battle is still in progress.
BOTHER BUSIfHT
SEEN II CI
By the Associated Press,
Chicago, March 19. A bandit was
shot to death by a workman, a hou.-'.e
.vas robbed and a uvoman was killed
in a mysterious explosion last night.
'Two bandits a f tempted to break in
to the Adler Tacking company and
one was shot by Cary Mason, negro
watchman. WJthin a few minutes a
terrific explosion set fire ta- a hou.;e
in another part of the city and wdien
firemen entered they found the body
of Mrs. Frances Sehirms-r. (55 years
eld, stretched across a tiunk.
In a negro district a bomb injured
Iwo negroes, set fire to two houses
and damaged several others.
ON LIQUOR
3v the Associated I'ress.
Miami, March 19. Hugh Maine
son, millionaire mayor of Cocoanut
Grove, today said that the action of
United States Commissioner Graham
in the federal case against Harry
Francis Black, New York capitalist,
who was discharged yest2rday when
his porter claimed to have placed 60
cases of lirjuor in his private car, would
have no bearing when Black appeared
before him for trial.
Black was arrested on two war
rants charging violation of the pro
hibition laws, one by the federal and
the other by the state authority. It
was contended that the liquor was
placed in the car without his knowl
edge. TO SEE SECRETARY
DAVES i K
Ry the Associated Press.
Chicago, March 19. The two re
presenatives cf the union packing
house employes, iwere on their way to
Washington to meet vvdth Secretary
of Labor Davis- The vote of the em
ployes showed a large majority in
favor of the strike if the packers in
sist on reducing wages and increas
ing hours.
Laying
croi mm
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The town of Essex, Mas.sucliu?tts, recently declared a holiday in honor of the laying of the keel ot the May
flower, New England's entry for the coming lnternationaitisbermen's trophy race. Prominent New England offi
cials were ou hand.
SENSA TION
GLENN LIPPARD TRIAL
P ! John Hefner of Hickory Sought by Burke Author
li ivi t?:4. a .s r. t -
"ca amu i.ic4.ii uei iiccxiii in eaieu ror vaUSing
t
Young Woman to Swear Falsely Against
Three Burke
j Jake Costner and Lrster Van Horn, j
jtv.'o citizens cf the South Mountain
section oi uurfce county, had the un-
.1 t-
'ususu experience in uurKe superior
court this week of being sentenced to
the roads for six months on a liquor
.. . 1
making charce ond beine- repi-,p,l
before thev had hep-im .fhoi,. snntn.
ccs. Duck Erittain." crinnled man.
nad an experinece that uas alio un
usual- lie drew a fine of $50 and i
costs on the same charge and saw
this remitted.
It all grew out of the Glenn Lin
pard murder case and John Hefner
and Man Erittain are charged with
conspiracy in a bill of indictment re-
turned by the Burke county grand!
jury. BrLLtain has been arrested.
Etta "Coote" Ilildcbrand, a young
white woman cn whose testimony
scores cf blockaders were turned up
in Burke county, swore that Costner,
Van Horn and Duck Erittain we re
making liquor and the men drew
sentences.
Lotev ahe decaied that John Hef
ner and Man Brittsin had paid her
$200 to Svvear against theaa defen
dants'. They were then dscharged.
John Hefner, it was claimed, ''had
it in for Jake Cositner in the Lir-
pard murder case. He is said to have
contended that Costner was present.
Cecil Hefner was convicted along
with Lone Young and Dock Hefner,
and afterwards Baxter Hildebrand
confessed to complicity and drew a
penitentiary sentence, o got reven
ge on Jake Costner John Hefner is
alleged to have paid the HildebranH
woman $200 to swear falsely agam-st
the three men.
More investigations will fellow, it
is said, and the last of the Lippard
case . will not be knovvn for some
time.
Burke superior court adjourned for
the term this morning in order that
Judge Henry Lane, who is ill, might
go to a hospital in Greensboro for
treatment. '
Mr. Joseph L. Murphy, who appear
ed for the three men .who were con
victed on tne woman s testimony, re
turned from Morganton at noon to
day and said that Solicitor Huffmai
had issued a capias for John Hefner
and had Man Erittain put under
bond. They were charegd in the bid
of indictment with subornaton of perjury-
i . :
It was said that John Hefner, whe
is under bond to begin a road sen
tence imposed by Judge Thos. J
Shaw in Catawba superior court Tor
hauling liquor, has disappeared. This
does not mean, however, that that he
will not begin serving his road sen
tence on April 1.
jforeign countries owe our peanut
politicians a shaking up. Rochester
Herald. : Ui
the Keel of a New Mayflower
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By the Associated Press
Warsaw, Ind.. March, 18. Offi-
c.ials ot K-asciusko county today con
tinued ineir ettorts to draw Irom
Virgil Decker of Elkhart, Indiana,
the reason for the attack on his
chum, Leroy Lovett, which resulted
in his death
Early today Decker confessed he
had struck his chum cn the head
with an iron bar on the Tippecanoe
river, near here, while Lovett was
asleep and several hours" later car
lied Lovetts body and laid it on a
raiiroad track.
"The devil made me do it." Lovett
told the sheriff after signing his
confession and would add no other
explanation- He contradicted his pre
vious statement that another man was
with him, finally admitting that he
committed the crime alone.
He admitted that th transfer ol
i his of.vn clothing tc Lovett's body .vas
part of a plan to collect insurance
totaling nearly $30,000 of Fred
Decker, his own brother, in the event
of his accidental death.
THIS REPUBLIC!
REFUSES GO
By the Associated Press.
Washington, March 19. A. T. Hert,
Republican national committeeman
from Kentucky, has declined to consid
ed appointment by President Hard
ing either as ambassador to some for
eign country or as a member of the
committee on reorganization of the
departments.
In a letter made public today, the
president assured Mr. Hert he iwould
have had a very important post in the
diplomatic service had he not with
drawn. The president also declared that
since acceptance of the ambassador
ial appointment was impossible, he
was exceedingly anxious to have Mr.
Hert represent him personally in the
reorganization of the departments.
By the Associated Press.
Washington, March 19. Solicitor
General Frierson today asked the su
preme court to advance to April the
'hearing of the injunction restraining
the Western Union from landing a
cable on the Florida coast-
ii JOB
URCES DUCES
W.UIHSE
F10US SCULPTOR
BE BURIED HEOE
By the Associated Press.
Washington. March 19. The horiv
oi oir Moses Kzekiei of Kichmond,
Va , world famous sculDtor. who died
J?ri' -n ... Y
in Rome, Italy, in 1917 will h buri
ed in Arlington cemetery. Sir Moses
was born in Richmond Va., on Oc
tober 8, 1844.
By the Assiated Press.
Tokio. March 19. Japan will stand
firmly over her mandate in the
South sea, Viscount Ushida declared
in a meeting of the diet today in re
ply to a question of a member. The
latter asked whether the atttude of
Great Britain and the council of the
leaue of nations and the United
States woul affect Japan and wheth
er Japan would stand on her right
regarumg x ap.
It was declared that anti-Japanese
agitation was spreading from Cali
fornia to othe rstates. He also charg
ed John S. Stephens, of Chicago, head
of the Amercan railroad mission,
with, carrying on propaganda in
Siberia. .
MISS HILL WEDS
D.
By the Associated Press.
Rjaleigh, March 18 Miss Eliza
b?th Hill, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
D. H. Hill of West Raleigh was mar
ried at noon today to Max D. Aber
nethy, well known newspaper man.
Mr. and Mrs. Abernethy left immedi
ately for northern points.
GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING
HEARD BY GREAT CROWD
New York. March 19. Gen. John
J. Pershing, speaking before a crowd
which packed Madison Square Garden
last night at one of the greatest pa
triotic demonstrations here since the
signing of the armistice, bitterly de
nounced persons of foreign birth
who seek the freedom of this country
'to spread "political and warlike
propaganda" to weaken the ties of
friendship between the United
btates and her 'allies in the L-.ti-i
war. The meeting was held unavi I
the auspices of the Amercan legion
and ether patriotic societies as a
protest against the recent mass
meeting arranged to voice objection
to the presence of French colonial
troops in occupied Germany de
scribed as "the horror of the Rhine."
Fifteen minutes before the meet
ing was called to order by Col.
Frank Galbraith, national commander
of the American legion, the fire de
partment officials ordered the doors of
the garden closed to bar further ad
missions. More than 14,000 persons
were then packed into the hist oric
structure while thousands of less
fortunate ones were swarming ar
ound the building in a frantic en
deavor to enter.
General Pershing, payirfe tribute
to foreign born citizens who served
under him in the Philiijpines, Mexico
':'nce. declared it was entirely
proper that foreigners should cling to
the folk lore literature and music of
the native land but he assailed those
who seek to dictate merican quest
ions and political policies by the
standards of their own countries.
DRY ENOUGH NOW
FOR FRENCHMEN
Paris, March 19. A prolonged
drought in France and in western Eu
rope is beginning to cause alarm
those who judge the situation by lev
el rivers such as the Rhine and Seine
which are remaining unprecedently
low- Official information, however,
showed that the crops have not vet
i suffered, the weather on the contrary
ihiaving singularly favored spring sesd
ing, which has been effected under
j better conditions than in many years
past. Official crop reports just re
ceived by the ministry of ariculture
?rSmJne p5iV,cir6real J-.-lst rifa
u,ul?.lB M'nviui, wiiiuxumi, ue-iia
nciTlino. hnwTOftr nn an ear w rein.
fall. Further prolongation of the
drought is lkely to affect the sprout
ing spring wheat, most of r-vheh al
leady ra been sown. An-early gen
eral rain, in the opinion cf the di
rector of ariculture wll be sufficient
o put this year's crops in excellent
shape.
The unprecedented dryness is work
in on sensitive imaginations and va
rious catastrophes, includin earth
quakes, are being predicted asi a re
sult of the meteorological conditions.
MAX
n
Still: when the allies intimate thatlS Z JIS in a
they would like to haye their debts I
canceled they strike a responsive
chord. So would we like to have
our debts canceled; Detroit Free
Press.
iDflNIELS
ID
IITEfiH
By the Associated Press.
Washington. March 19 v Josephus
DnnV's was ba -k .u the navy depart
ment today, but not as secretary.
Jo'lnirig ihe givnv of Washington
correspondents at their press con
feree - Mr. Daniels fired a few
questions at Secretary Denby, hoping
to get a few quotes for his Raleigh
newspaper.
They produced no results and Mr
Daniels described the natural ad
vantages of Raleigh for an aviation
s La won.
m"After an eight year vacation in
Washington as secretary of the na
vy," Mr. Daniels said to Mr. Den
by, "I am a plain country newspa
per editor scratching gravel to get
an honest living. I think I ought to
go to work."
"After two weeks on your old job,
I have a very fine idea of what kind
of a vacation you had," Mr. Denby
replied.
Mr. Daniels will spend several day
Mr. Daniels will spend several
days here getting up material for
articles on naval subjects he is
writing.
OF FLORIDA MS
the Associated Press.
Washington, March 19. Florida's
white population increased to 638.
153 in 1920 or 43.8 per cent over the
total of 1010 according to census re
oofo'Ii16 negro Population of
1S7 in 1920 was an incrP!i
o. ier ce:'t over v?
nes and all other . , i :
berea 830 in 19?0.
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A WILSON MEMORIAL
Springfield Republic.,- .
fi?e fi'I-'emtioii .,r Woodrow
Wilsons servkv in humiiidty by his
creative iaturpn-tation of democrat
ic idealism r.nd hi.-: efforts to apply
it as 1 ! -o s-p 'K-. sman Af America is
evident m th. movement for a memo
rial tLirri xhu-h was inaugurated at
New lurk 'hu-i-dny. It would be a
line tr.!.ng u, at 1 1-,'Uir.i,-. tho cn,v
Tiis
"'r -ioo by an an.ijal awnrH
vhk-h
oiri-J renew ir j incniva
M".'i.';rfit;,!n.s to com1.
Ap excel it-nt comniiU-e? - of repre-seMUiiivt-
men and v.xm.r n - has the
matter in hand, as-mii g its devel
opment in a s,:;i:'acrf.ry manner. It
?s a god iueeti-ion that Mr- w:i
son nnn self be askod to define the
kind of pervice which would , best
typify his Jd-a-s of service to man
kind. Whether the award, or awards,
from the fund si. all be made on the
prmcif 'e of the Nobel peace prize,
whether po.a or all of the proceeds
shah be devoted to prizes for stu
dents' essays in competition, or
whKher the money, or. part of it.
shah go foe expert research work
are que.-t.-.p.s that hfive been raised.
As one spt-ker at Tuesday's meeting
said "Everything that concerns the
well hemg of world democracy can
properly come within the considera
tion of the committee in workine
out its plans."
There should be no partisanship in
the promotion or conduct of this me
morial. There was no partisanship
m the utterances and acts and ideals
which it is proposed to celebrate and
renew. They inspired a united
country and made for international
comity and to this high service they
should be continually potent.
THE "YANKEE TWANG"
London Observer.
Dr. Eugene Howe, professor of hy
giene at Welleteiley college, Massachu
setts, has startled his class of eirls
we are told, by telling them that
New England's traditional "Yankee
twang." is due mostly to laziness of
the jaw in other wonfe. to on into-
countable failure to let the lower jaw
ian enougn in articulation.
The explanation is not regarded as
sound by authorities in this ennnrrj
j Daniel Jones reader in phonetics at
tut: uiuversiiv Of lrfnrtoti HaoAr hnJ
. indeed. as absolute rubbish when
representative of the Observer ask
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he declared, is partly due to nataliza
tion a different way of using the
soft or hinder part of the palate. It
is partly due also to a certain way
the Yankee has of curling m , the tip
of his tongue when using the letter
"R": and partly again to a different
kind cf ris and fall of the voice.
Tbe.se. Paid Mr. Jones, are the three
main causes of the "Yankee twang."
There are others of a secondary har
fitter. For instance, the Yankee pro-
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nounces xne letter "u one Way in a
word like "long." To ascribe. the cause
of the twang to any failure of .the
is as absurd as isaying that the
difference between an . Englishman's
way of speaking and a Frenchman's
is due to the climate.
DEir
WHITE POPULATION
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