I VOL. 13, NO. 17, TENSE SITUATION CREATED AT TR1 1 OF GASTON ME Defendant Accuses New Lawyer of Theft and Th Get Lively. SITUATION WAS SEI * Judge Cline Spends Sund Concord in Order to F the Uneasiness That S to Grasp Everybody. Concord, Dec. 10.?Concorc | td toward Hillsville and a Bhip in a Btate of near-pan Judge Cline lose control of th cial machinery in the Gaston case, is a situation upon whl barrus county people lay d< sleep Friday night. The climax to thi b sens murder trial was reached . evening near 6 o'clock when Means on the grill after an 1 his cross-examination accuse sistant District Attorney I)oo theft, and all semblance nf t was momentarily lost. Any observer has been able to sc day growing rancor and bit and the story that Judge Clinr spend Sunday on the grouni made the basis of a suspicion feels the tenseness of the out i Barely liiu'krd Battle of Gi Friday afternoon when Dool gan to attack the Means nara a day and a half, he found a p who showed small capacity f getting the part Mr. Dooling sumed In the drama down 1 Cabarrus. Tho closing scene court barely lacked a battle o Through the examinatlo well-controlled W. G. Mean? and smiled as his son was through the supreme test. B Means, who has sat almost t as near the state's attorney ai nesses as his own, had mo another part of the house. O was on his feet and his presec minatory in the extreme. Af final and dramatic tilt of Gast Dooling, the fearless Irishma his *ay unattended even by pert pistol shots who are ground and unafraid. Many Told to Stay Awuj Orowiua bittern^a in th< had caused women to tel neighbors not to attend suc< sessions of court, and mar they had been advised 1 main away. County official! openly expressed their fear approach to the Hillsville t albeit none of the feeling ex] itself against court officials. Solicitor Clement comes much abuse from the elite foi a duty which the family of 1 fendant commends. Testimony that carried few was rehearsed and took to absorb it without fatigue defendant told the story c King's death but he knew more of it than those who h? ceded him. He did not sustai self as the day before. Fury Unconflned. Dooling had conveyed Means to all parts of the count asked him sundry b questions. He asked the oner about a safety deposit b the answer left some doubt whether he recalled having i box. "'If I did have one, there v, a dollar's worth of securities he said after Dooling pr against excessive answers. "Why, you did receive a d letter recently about such didn't you?" the assistant i attorney asked. "J may have, but 1f I did yo It," Means said In a leer at tk yer. Dooling bounced to the flo addressed the court. There limit to that sort of reply, h if Judge Cline with greater en than yet shown rapped for "The court does not see Jus i * that question Is relevant," hi "but the court does see th answer was not proper. Oen (Continued on Page 4.] ITKE 1 SEM -WEEKLY. I THE ' ft V AL . CHARLES D. J< APIS R. S. STEWART York U. BELL . . . O. C. BLACKMC M. G. BRITTAIF E. M. CROXTOl HAZEL FERGTJ A. J. GREGORY HOUS JNO. M. MADR. G. W. POOVEY. WALTER S. ST lay at j. H. WITHERS telieve JNO. D. WYLIE eemed For Comm J. C. ELLIOTT.. P. M. LATH AN. 1 headTHE JACOR IftN ?r va 10 J UUl" - SUNK BY A U-l )wn to lationai Qne Gf America's Largt Gaston Newest Vessels Torpt ?our of in the War Zone. d As ling of , court SIXTY-FOUR LIVES sort of e ea< h Washington, Dec. 10 terness Commander David Worth * and Lieut. Norman Scot rl n YV R S among the survivors rescu that he Hinkln^ of the American side er Jacob Jones by a Germar tins. rine in the war zone Thursdt ing be- The navy department was so itive of by Vice Admiral Sims, rlsoner These two officers, two or for- officers and two enlisted m has as- named in the admiral's dls lere in survivors, in addition to the in the viously reported saved. It f guns, established that the five lin< n the on the destroyer were rescue i stood ner Harry R. Hood and 63 i going missing. lauouu Aamirai Sims' report s hrough Commander Bagley and the nd wit- er men saved with him got ved to a motor boat and were pi ften he and landed uninjured at tl ice was Islands. ter the The other four survivors on and besides Commander Bagl n went Lieut. Scolt were: Chief Boi the ex- Mate Clarence McBrlde, wi on the enoe McBrlde, Syracuse, Coxswain Ben Nunnery, fatl f. A. Nunnery, Edgmoor, S. C ? trial Electrician Lawrence O. Ke 1 their of kin not given; Fireman needing Korzeniecky, mother Anna ly said lecky, Stvlve, Russia, to re- One South Carolinian Ab s have Washington, Dec. 10.?B of an nery, a seaman, whose 1 ragedy, Fred A. Nunnery, of Edgmo< pressed ter county, is the only Sou linian who was on the t3 In for Jacob Jones. doing Lieut Bagley Is a brother-1 .he de- Secretary of the Navy . Daniels, and a brother o thrills Bagley, the first American c grace lose his life in the Spanish-A The war. tf Mrs. hardly LAIMJBHT VESSEL OF ITS Id pre- CLASS IN THE S n him-: Philadelphia. Dec. 10.?-1 , pedo boat destroyer Jacob j (he largest United States v Uaston us ciaas. was built at the N< ry and Shipbuilding company's i usinesa Camden, N. J. It was laur prla- May, 1915, but was not ox and turned over to the Kovernmf as to February 10, 1916. such a The Jacob Jones was 31! inches over all, 30 feet 6 1-: as not beam, 17 feet 7 1-2 inches ii In it," and had a draft of 9 fe otested inches. Her trial displacem 1,150 tons and her speec1 unninft knots an hour. The destroyi a box. e'l oil and had a fuel cap JI.4_I O A A * jimriri iuiib. nne was aoie 10 17,000 horsepower, u stole * le law- NEARLY TRN MILLION COTTON HALLS ( or and was a Washington, Dec. 10.?C< p said. year's growth ginned i iphasls December 1. amounted to 9, order, running bales, including it how round bales and 77,638 bale b said, island. at this To December let last yt tiemen 362,031 bales including round bales and 102,496 1 I sea island, were ginned. LANCASTER, S. .. T1 1 OFFICIAL VOTE. For Mayor: 3NES 103 1 103 For Aldermen: |l 72 >N IM 1 r 129 * 127 SON 126 138 \ 90 104 EWMAN 70 < OON 125 115 issioner of Public Works: 81 112 ES JERUSALEM IN THE MAT HANDS OF BRITISH est and Control Passes to British After rlopd TWPIVO Von ? - .. V*f V . m UIIUI vu K vcl 1 r> Under Moslems. LOST ENDS DREAM OF GERMANS .? Lieut. Jerusalem is in the hands of the Hagley British after having been for l,20u It were years in the control of the Moslftns. eel after The Holy City of the Christian'Yedestroy ligion capitulated to General Al^n- s i subma- by's forces. consisting of British, b ly night. French and Italian troops, after it ti i advised had been tirely surrounded and g with its fall seemed swept away the s warrant dream of the Germans and the Turks f en were of driving southward through Pales- 2 patch as tine, capturing the Suez Canal and w i 37 pre- invading Kgypt. d is now Since the recent taking of the town n e officers of Jaffa on the Mediteranean and v d. Gun- the gradual closing in on Jerusalem 1 men are by the allied forces the fall of the n ancient citv daily had been anticipated that ed. It wab not the lack of Htrej|ptLh * five oth- that prevented Its capture but rath- a away in the desire of General Allenby to a eked up carry out his plan of enveloping the t le Scllly city and forcing its capitulation, as n a frontal attack would have endan- p reported ; gered the numerous sacred places in- a ey and side the city and its environs. tl itswain's Move Against Bolshevik!, fe Flor- The counter revolt against the f N. Y.; Bolshevikl regime in Southeastern ter Fred Russia apparently is gaining mo- ^ ; Chief mentum. Already the movement is lly, next spreading fanlike from the chosen i Joseph bases northward, northeastward and Korzen- northwestward, while preparations a are hastening to extend it southward w oanl. into the Caucasus. Meanwhile the1" en Nun- Bolshevik! government continues to ather is issue manifestos calling on its fol- e ir, Ches- lowers to resist the attempt that is n th Caro- being made to overthrow it. ,r lestroyer a MR. HOOVER FORECASTS h " law of REDUCED FOOD PRICES ? losephus n f Worth i?ri>,||<"ts l.ower Prices in Meat ami " jtflcer to Milk as Result of Rumpel Corn I " American C'ro|??Regulation Imperative. New York. Dec. 1ft.?Lower prices ir meat, milk and other commodities as a result of the enormous crop of J' Mt\ l< k rorn which it is expected will he clis- ] The tor- tributed throughout the country by j Jones. january 15^ was forecast by Feder-|R esse! of aj p00(] Administrator Hoover. He 01 9w 1 ork declared that the extraordinary crop y plant in jg ??the certain economic remedy for ^ iched in high prices." i actually | "The real fundamental and eco-1 n nt until nomjc relief is the coming of the 111 corn crop, the greatest crop we have y > feet .{ j(nown |n many years. I expect that ' q 2 inches ^y january 15 it will have been ai [i depth, started on the way to the consumer et 8 1-2 through the various channels. Is ent was "This crop is not only plentiful. a I OQ 1 O i {.* t-- jjUt W|jj t,p soht at a reasonable ^ er burn- prjre The cost of corn is dropping aclty of every (jay. in proportion to the develop cheapness of corn to the farmers we shall have reflected lower prices of i such commodities as milk and meat." " UNNKDj to regulations of prices of bi ! all commoditiM hy the government l> )tton of i^r Hoover ^nld that either prices prior to muat he regulated or there must be 704,617 a continuous wage increase. w 173,329 * ir s of sea Ecuador Breaks Off. Ouayaqull, Ecuador, Dec. 10.? (r >ar 10.- Ecuador has severed diplomatic r - ^ 177,662 lstlons with Germany, according to fj >ales of an official announcement made by 5, the government. < e: STER UKSDAY, DEC,1. 11, 1917 VOTE FOR MAYC TIE; TO HOLD o LECTION TODAY IS 01IIF.T WITH n ftW ^w?mm mill VUVUU CONTESTS FEATURE Candidates for Mayor Each Receive 103 Votes?One Thrown Out. TOTAL VOTE WAS 207 Croxton, Witherspoon, Gregory, Black mon, Brit tain and Ferguson Are Elected on the Aldermanic Ticket. The official count of vote** In the municipal election helves the two candidates, Charles I), .lones uml K. S. Stewart, the same number of votes, ami thwforc, it will l?e necessary to call an election, which likely will he liehl within tho >?.v< - ..u.. i.>u mvRfi, and 111 whk'h only the runlislie<| in lauicustcr TliN .. army tl Month. 110,000 Under the direction of Verd Peter- Mos son. state supervisor of agricultural traininf instruction in rural schools, an ag-, lot ye ricultural course under the Dar- e,l"ippe lington county plan will he establish- "Hut ed in Lancaster county this month, them, a The plan fs to e.mploy one teacher for tors 111 five schools, and the schools will be for the Heath Springs, Elgin. Rich Hill. An- "To 1 tioch and Oakhurst. The teacher 000 offi who has been secured for this work the sec is L. M. Eargle. a native South faro- nrst or< linian, graduate of the A. and E. loO.OOf] college at Raleigh and of the Unl- were pr versity of South Carolina, who now "The is principal of the Olemson farm life nH>n( v and high school in Forsyth county, jjjary" j N. C. Mr. Eargle will report for mjmon duty aboujt December 15 and his that classes will be ready with the open- j^apjtjs ing of the schools after the holidays. y There will be classes in each of p^ja the five schools twice a week, and when school is not in session, Mr. Eargle will spend his time with his "Sine students on the different farms. a < Every boy who takes the course will Hellesp be required to have a home project. [ raniPa'l either in livestock or a^iVculture. | srale. and Mr. Eargle will give practical, fought instruction, being employed for 12 ^er fro' months in the year. 700,000 The plan is made possible by leg-arm* '' islative appropriation and co-opera ! $2.00 A YEAR >END0US FORCE flPOSESARMYOF IE UNITED STATES lillion and a Quarter Me: e Up Military Establish?ent of This Country. . 1 ONLY 11tained through the natioi of defense show that th? 60,000 men in the armies ted States. This informati lined in a statement whl ;n issued by the South C5a uncil of defense. It is l ne that these facts have be ed. The statement follo^ latest official figures put i of enlisted men in the l the United States at 1,3(< "his is the force that j in eight months out ofj lat on April 1 numbered aj i men. | t of them are still in ; eamps. Many of them i t disciplined troops, ft <1 and armed for battle, there they are, 1,360,00C . Iready one of the biggest ! ndenburg is reckoning V campaign of 1918. lead them there are over -?' cers. When the graduate ond training camp get tj 1ers the number will be < l?as many officers as tl ivates nine months ago. whole military estab' irith the marines and the roces thrown in, numbe and a half. The expan .s taken place is as if G: had grown in eight ma virtually as big as Philj Other Wars. e XerXes led his million >f assorted Asiatics acros ont, Kurope has seen ma en conducted on the g American battles have as stubbornly but with pes engaged. There we| I enlistments in the fe 1 the civil war. But ma imber were re-enlistn ghest total engaged at ne was reached in th? the war. On Marc he union army com| men. the Spanish war an art I was raised. Only 6 vice. present American ar ;est armed force the wtere has ever seen? jnd builders were more nd pugnacious than w^ ison to believe they w( ole army could be ga r today and lined uj tfantry column, four al d reach across Ohio ati to Toledo and on < n line. Britain's lOO.OOO. illlion and a half of m the entire population T South Carolina, or f Nebraska and Wyomi r? men. women and cl suddenly to be conver g men clad in olive dri Ml into companies an >n Great Britain enter was a much smaller st expeditionary force >arely a hunderd th< ser called it a contei rmy. Yet without lt< s. Paris might have idred thousand men, t gment they brought were enough to av be first year of the ^ i the hope of the all! new forc^B, ten or, s yet will be enough rear of the war to Ina is not enough, Amei i and the machinery t >r effort." ? M' ti