The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 11, 1917, Image 1
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
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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 hel<l
today K>ves 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 run<li<lates for
mayor will Ih? voteil for.
The election for mayor, commisioner
of public works and six metners
of the board of aldermen, held
tiday. was quiet, while there was a
reat deal of interest on the part of
ome of the candidates and their]
riends. The voting was heavy,]
07 votes being cast, while there
rere 221 voters registered and
uly qualified. The polls opened this
norning at eight o'clock and the
oting began early, -approximately
2 5 having cast their ballots up to
oon.
There was no incident connected
rith the election out of the ordinary
nd while politics has been talked
nd has been the chief topic
hroughout the day, there has been
o mudslinging or bitterness on the
art of the candidates or their chief
upporters who were at work for
hem.
Of the officers elected today the
ollowing may be said:
Mr. E. M. Croxton, present memer
of the board of aldermen and reA
~ J ?
iiriicvi luuuy, is vice president and
ashler of the First National Hank,
nd has been associated intimately
rith the growth of Lancaster for the
ast twenty years.
Mr. J. H. Witherspoon, also rejected,
is a well-known business
ian, president of the Lancaster
ounty building and loan association
nd interested in other enterprises
a the county.
Mr. Andrew Gregory, another!
lember of the present board who
as re-elected, is a member of the
rm of Gregory, Hood Live Stock
ompany, and a young man well
nown in city and county.
Mr. Hazel Ferguson, newly-elected
unior member of the firm of A. B.
'erguson & Son, and has always
iken much interest in and has
iven much of his time to the Lanaster
fire department. He is a
oung man of good business quail-'
cations.
Mr. Max Hrittain, a newly elected
lember, is cashier of the Farmers
ank and Trust company, and is a
oung man of exceptional business
unlifications and popular In clPy :
nd county.
'Mi. O. C. Blackmon, new member, 1
a cotton buyer and farmer, and
man too well known to be intro
need to the public.
+
NiilXKKH HAS CLOSK (<ALh '
WHEN TRESTIJC IS BURN I NO !
Columbia. Dec. 10.?Thomas M. j
erndon. a Southern Hallway enginsr.
of Columbia, extinguished a <
urning trestle at Montgomery,
leven miles from Columbia, Saturayday
morning, after experiencing |
hpt he declares was his closet call (
i nineteen years of service. ,
The engineer saw the burning l
estle in time to bring his train to a 1
top and by taking the bell cord i
om his engine he drew water in <
uckets from the stream below to 1
ctlngiush the flames. i
)R RESULTS IN STU1
I NEW ELECTION CO!
BOYS' TOBACCO FUND Tt
IS GROWING SLOWLY
Contributions to Buy "Hniokes" for ?
Soldiers in France Only Mak<
Total
The first list of contributors to the **
"Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund"
was crowded out of the edition of APR1I
Friday and is printed herewith. As
may be seen by reading ihe list,
contributions have been Blow, but1 This ii
now that the campaign for funds is j
under way, it is expected that subscriptions
will come in more freely. ^ eai
Following is the list. which ggj
should have appeared Friday:
J. L. Drlscoll, Lancaster . . .50
D. V. Hinson, R. 1, Lancaster .50 Colui
D. R. Belk, R. 1, Lancaster . . .25 ures ?l
John M. Madra. Lancaster .. l.oo 'council
Geo. B. Craven. Lancaster .. .50'are 1.3
Miss Mildred Billings, Lan- the Uni
caster 25 conti
J. L. Henry, R. 3, Lancaster. . .25 has bee
lino on
Total $3.25 first tin
present
AGRICULTURAL COURSE "The
IN COUNTRY SCHOOLS
000. 1
DiirliiiKton County Plan to Re Estal>lislie<|
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 ! <his ni
tion on the part of the United Statesj
department of agriculture, though 'ono tir
the schools pay half of the instruc-! year ?*
tor's salary. As additional State 1
and federal money becomes available
the work will be extended to "For
other schools in the county. 27 5.000
+ saw ser
CAMP COMMANDER FEARED "The
FOR SAFETY OF SON-IN-LAW the Ian
Following the reading of press dis- hemispl
patches telling of the sinking of the 'ho mo'
destroyer Jacob Jones. General prous a
uicKTvuin, commander of Camp a,,y rea
Green. Charlotte, and Mrs. Dirkman. vv^
were very apprehensive for several togethe
hours Saturday over the possibible 'solid in
loss of their son-in-law. Lieutenant woul
Commander Harrison K. Knauss, Cinoinn
who until recently was executive of- Michiga
fleer of this destroyer.
Their fears were allayed by re- "A m
ceipt about 11 o'clock Saturday is as if
night of a telegram from the war de- state ol
partment, in answer to an inquiry I states o
from General Hickman, stating that togethei
Lieutenant Commander Knauss has ?were
arrived at an American port. He to youn
was wounded several weeks ago. and organize
the greatest hope of General and talions.
Mrs. Dicknian for his safety was "Whe
based upon this fact, as they believ- war it
pd he had not recovered sufficiently The fin
to rejoin his ship. When last they hered I
had heard from him he was ashore The kai
In a Hrltish hospital. little ai
at Mon
MANNING IHSIKH AN One hui
APPEAL TO LAWYERS encoura
Columbia, Dec. 10.?In connec- French,
tion with the organization for the feat In
irlassiflcation of reentrants unde?! "It is
the new regulations. Governor Man- another
ning has issued {in appeal to the times a
lawyers and well-informed peopl" fourth j
af the state to the end that South tory.
Carolina registrants may b.e told ofi "If it
Iheir rights and duties under the the met
selective service law. la greatc
* :
a
>
$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 11<M)C
3 the Tremendous Fact*
lie Reckoned With Nei
r by Hindenburg?Lar
Ever Known.
mbia, Dec. 10.?Official t
>tained 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."
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