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,,y ' * i T 68TH YEAR. NO. 76. SE ; HOB ORDERS MAN TO LEAVE COUNTY Father of Hoy Paroled by Governor Visited by Disguised Crowd. DENIED ANY KNOWLEDGE Union County, N. C., Citizen Told the Crowd He Did Not Know the Whereabouts of His Son. Monroe, N. C., July 17.?Twenty or 30 men disguised so as not to be recognized, drove to the home of G. 1). Stegall. in Lanes Creek township about midnight Friday night and after asking for his son, Roy, who was conditionally paroled on June 30 by Governor Rickett after having been sentenced to two years on the chaingang for an assault upon a white fe male, and being told that the boy'g whereabouts was unknown, informed Mr. Stegall that he must get out of the community by January 1. Marked by (Quietness. The affair was marked by its quietness. The men acted in an orderly manner, did not seem to be drinking, showed no firearms and allowed one who seemed to be the leader to do all the talking. To forestall any efforts to summon officers or aid, the telephone wires had been cut in three places before the party approached the house. Mr. Stegall gave an account of the affair. He said that it was nbout 11 o'clock Friday night, old time, when he heard several automobiles stop in front of the house. He said that neither he nor his wife was asleep as they had got word that a party was coming to make demands that night. Officers, he told the correspondent, had been informed concerning the visit by a party of men bef ' lieved to be impending, but placed no credence in the.report and so were not there to meet the disguised ones. Mr. Stegall declared that when he thought he heard automobiles stop he inquired of his wife if she didn't hear them. Upon her replying that she did he said that he made his way to the room of his 19-year-old son, Frank, woke him and told him that somebody had stopped in front of the nouse. Air. siegau aociarea that before his son was fully dressed someone approached the front door and said: "Open that door or we will knock it drfwn." Upon this Mr. Stegall opened the door, stepped out upon the porch ana leaned against a post to talk with the party. As to who composed the party Mr. Stegall said that he could not tell. He * said that he had defective eyesight and that in the moonlight he could not recognize any member of the callers. Their faces appeared pastry white, and blue and colored, he asserted. From this it is thought that the members of the party must have daubed their faces with some coloring matter. Asked whether they seemed young, old or middle aged men, Mr. Stegall declared that he could not tell. He thought thero were 20 or 30 in the crowd, which seemed ominous in its silence and quietness. The correspondent wanted to know if the men seemed to he drinking or displayed any firearms. Mr. Stegall replied in the negative. Asked for Hoy. When Mr. Stegall stepped out on the porch and leaned against a post a man who appeared to be the leader addressed him in words reported as the following, "Where Is the boy? You have moved him?" The hoy referred to was Hoy Stegall. 16 years old and recently conditionally paroled by Governor IJickett. Mr. Stegall replied that he did not know where ho was, and the leader reiterated the question several times. The man doing the talking for the party wanted to know where Koy had been moved. Mr. Stogall repeated . that he had not moved the boy and did not know where he was. The leader then referred to Kev. R. M. Uaigler, who was one of a number who appeared before Governor Rick ett and urged that he pardon the boy, Roy. According to Mr. Stogall. the leader could not recall the name of | the minlater at the time saying, "You tell that preacher (here he hesitated (Continued on Page Three.) 'Mr If A Mr JLL JLJL-^1 JUl/nVJL ^ MI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. DEBATE IS SHIFTED BENJAMIN D. HI TREATYTOSHANTUNG DIES IN CHAR Fight Breaks in Senate With Father of Mrs. C. I). J New Fury Over This Mrs. John Crawfo Provision. This City. WAS "PRICE PAID JAPAN" WAS LEADING FI> Chairman Lodge Says as Much Mr. Heath Had Heen in Connection With Japan's Health for a Number Acceptance of the League of But Was Seriously Nations. Short Time. Washington. July 17.?The stormy Charlotte. N. C., July 1 i senate flght over the peace treaty min Dawson Heath, a lea has shifted away from the league of lotte business man for a nations covenant and broko with a a century and one of new fury about the provision giving wealthiest men, died yestc i Shantung peninsula to Japan. noon at 3 o'clock at In Ave hours of debate the treaty "Heathcote." on Central a\ opponents charged In bitter terms heart trouble. Mr. lleatl that the Tokio government ban In poor health for a numb wheedled Shantung from China at the but his condition had b< i peace table without the shadow of a er<*d serious only for th< cause except the ambition of conquest weeks, llad ho lived unt and supporters of the treaty defended he would have been 70 ye the course of President Wilson in the Mr. Heath was widely I negotiations by declaring the only cotton mill owner and Ana alternative was failure of the whole ginning life without adv: pence conference. fought all obstables in the Chairman Lodge, of the foreign re- and was reputed to 1 1 lations committee, declared Shantung more than $2,500,000 at 1 was "a price paid'" for Japan's ac- his death. Mr. Heath wa ceptance of the league of nations, lantliroplc nature and i 1 Senator Norris, Republican, of N'e- Rifts to deserving cause braska, charged that Japan in 1!?17 them was a donation of secretly had inveigled the European the Methodist orphanage t allies into a promise to support her Salem, and the property oi Shantung claims. Senator Ilorah, Re- Hawthorne Lane Method publican, of Idaho, asserted that if and the parsonage are lo the United States must either under- was a steward in Tryon S write the Shantung agreement or ac- odist church for over 20 cept the chnllenge or another power, was one of the organizers, the country would choose the latter ago. of Hawthorne Lane c course. Until the death of his Won Fairly by Japan. H Heath- hft wa8 R moni o . *?.. ?. , . . cotton Arm of Heath Brot Senator Hitchcock. Nebraska, rank- .. ,, .. . . ' . ~ ? A. , 1012. Mr. Heath has devot ing Democrat of the committee. r<*? . ... .. _ .... to his extensive cotton ml , plied that the German rights in . .. 0. . ..... ... He was president of the Shantung wore obtained legally bv v. .. ...? 1 . . * mon . ... National bank for lo year treaty, in 19 89 and were won fairly from Germany by Japan long before Funeral This After the United States entered the war. Funeral services will br Senator Williams, Democrat, of Mis- at Hawthorne Lane Metho sissippi, said the president had to ac- afternoon at 5 o'clock cent the Shantline sell lenient r?r Mnrr the n.l niol, home without n general treaty of Kilgo will officiate. Inte peace and that Japan never would lake place in Klmwood co give up the peninsula unless forced Mr. Heath was born in to do so by war. county, South Carolina In the end the senate adopted with- 1^49. He was H*e snn ^ out a record vote a resolution by Sen- an<' Mary Morrow Ileal ator Lodge asking the president for onc ?' a f:un'ly of 1T> chi any available information about a Heaths mother came iron secret treaty alleged to have been Morrows who hold an negotiated between Japan and Ger- b'arp 'n Hie militar\ histoi many in 1918 embodying a plan for 'ca- Heath is an old and Russian rehabilitation and promising name, borne In eailv Norm Japan's indirect protection of German ^H.lam Watte Ilethe, J interests at the Versailles conference. Hothe and in later times . , . . Heath. The Heaths settlei A sweeping request for information , .... .. , ? ... umberland county, V lrgii about tlie conversations at Versailles . i . . . la'p seventeenth century, also was sent to the White House by , ? . ,,, .... , . ed Heathville, the pres the foreign relations committee, . . . , . , . ? seat. The Heaths were which adopted a resolution bv Sena- ? , . , ..... ' .. .. first to receive land grants tor Johnson. Republican, of Cali- , .... , , , , from Charles I. fornia, calling for all proposed drafts for a league covenant for the reports Saved to Go to Scln of the arguments relative to the Henjamin Dawson lleatl league, and for "all data bearing upon boyhood days attending or used in connection with the treaty school and assisting in far of peace." home. In 18f>7 his father Committee Heads Treaty. v"ar ,i,tor younR Heath er the mercantile business a At its meeting the committee began . a general store at Waxhaw the reading of the treaty, covering i:t , . ? . realized the importance of less than two hours about one-fifth of education, and as soon as its sections but passing over for fu. permitted, took a commer ture consideration the league covin Raltimorc. After grin enant. the boundaries of Germany, . , , , . , . , immediatelv returned to li and manv minor provisions. . ... , ... at Waxhaw, which occupier There was ifn discussion of Presi- tion ?nti, 187} when ho dent Wilson s offer to consult with general mercantile, cotton1 the committee on doubtful points o[ |n^ establishment at Monr the treaty, nor was any attempt made ujnK this business until 1 to have the committee open its doors Heath then removed to to the public. It was said these ques- vv horo ho has ros|,jP(| stnco. tions might not come to a bead for h(. SOftn became a leading H^vcnti ci ays. fliicr ino rcicd in^ of I ho the huslno's and civic life* document was finished. There was a . . lie was senior member < <,f"lvlc.t. ' ???;<? ,hat ton and banking Arm of lit should the president son the commit- ?rs ,s,,7 ?M|l tee. it would be at the White House ? , .. ... , . organized the Charlotte and not at the committee room. bank. He was president i when succeeded by Julian MONTANA TOWN CIMI'I.KTKI.Y later was succeeded b CUT OFF DY A KOHKST HUB Scott, the present preside! Missoula, Mont.. July 17.?St. Re- In 1912 Mr- Heath foum ... * . . sary to devote his entlrO al gis, Mont., which was partiallv do- . . his industrial enterprises stroyed In the forest fires of 1910. has 0,U()4.(l ,h(J Mane(ta Mil)s at been surrounded by the Nigger hil c.; Jackson Mills, Monroi fire, which has leaped fhe divide. Tlio Newton Mills, at Newton, o town is completely cut ofT from help WftH president and general ... ... . . . . . . . Other concerns of which he and Is declared to be in-danger of de ' "" tructlon. (Continued on Page C., FRIDAY JULY 18, 1919. EATH f. I HTTP President Says M LU1 IE Must be Main i ones and Streng A rt* URGES ALL UNITED WAR WORK C WELFARE WORK WILL SUF SOUTH TO "SPEED UP" DROP BEH IANCIEK Washington. D. C.?The need for tl Campaign subscriptions has become so i in Pool' the work of the welfare organizations will be curtailed that a letter to Rayrai of \ eai'S Commission on Trair'ng Camp Actlvit 111 Only been made public. This letter from Pr other document, shows the great need until the Army ol Occupation is wlthu: pleted. It la to back ap the President's re .8.?Benja- for cash to carry on the work that " din*: Char- August 4th, has been inaugurated so thi quarter of pledge will do so at that time. tho city's! I The President of th irday al'terhls home, My Dear Mr. Fosdlck: renue, from All that I have eeen and heard l had been added to my eenee of profound appre er of years. of maintaining In full volume and str on consid- organlaatlone which last fall Joined e? past two port?the Young Men'e Christian Asi U j,,iv of) Christian Association, the National C of Columbus), the Jewish Welfare munlty Servloe, the American Libra mown as a tlon Army, on behalf of our soldiers < mcier. De- In addition to the needs which e intakes, he war, there are now added and very way of sue- work should be oontlnued during th he rated at American people showed li the time ot wholehearted support of the cause fc . . Ing when they responded eo generoui ? <l '' 11 War Work Campaign last November, nude man) whole amount then subscribed mey s. Among this final helpful and still abeolutely $20,000 to of the men who have given themeelv it Winston- tbe nation's cause may be In every * I which the spirit. list church Cordlaly and a 'cated- Honorable Raymond B. Foedicl tret t , et l- Training Camp Activities, 4S, Avenui years, and a few years 'hurch. ~ brother. O. TWO WARRANTS RESULT Ft her Of the qF GASTON MEANS TRIAL ;hers. Since ed his time . II holdings. W arrants Charging Conspiracy Issued llei s Charlotte for J. T. Dmding, of New York, S s. and W. II. Miller, of Clilrago, noon. conducted Concord, July 14.?Charging condlst church spiraey in the prosecution of tlaston mi: Dr. T. F R. Means for the alleged murder of i est iop John C. Mrs. Maude A. King and for suhordi-l Mi rment will nation of perjury in connection with at metery. tlie trial of Means in 1 17. warrantSjFo i Lancaster were issued here today for John T.; a . July 20, Dooling, assistant district attorney of frii loses Chap- New York, and William 11. Miller, at- as th, and wan torney of tlie Northern Trust com- enl ldren. Mr pany, of Chicago. hoi i me ngru- Dooling assisted Solicitor Hayden j Dr< iinpoitant cienion^ jn tiJe prosecution of Means, y of Amer- jn ueceniber, 1917, and representa-, Mo aristocratic tives cf tjie Xorthern Trust company ov< inn da>s l>v were witnesses for the state. Means, wa ohn de la WftjJ ar(Juitted at the conclusion of a by Robert sensational trial lasting three weeks. ' mu il In North- ,, .... wa . . The evidence upon which the warlia. in the It,.. and found- ran,s were issued will be presented t ent county and witnesses heard by the grand, j0| among the jury of Cabbprrus county Supt rior am in America courj here August 11 next, it was of- '?h flcially announced today, and if a true ,m no I. of bill is found the governors of New !i spent his . i son counfrv ^'or^ an(' H,ino's will be asked to ex- of m work ?t tra(M? the defendants for trial here.' bei died, and a j ',ro nbarked in WILL TRY TO REPEAL Ari ml opened, THE SODA WATER TAX ti! . N ( H0j I a business I ~~ ! bis savings Itcpuliliran I.endoix llccidc to \t- Ro< rial course tempt lto|M?al?Investigation of l"'a luating he I'ostolllce Department. is business! i an(' I his atten- . % lie opened a Washington. July 1,. -Repeal ot jarj , , , i the soda water tax was decided on by i,,,... and bank- ? . . . ... Republican leaders ot the bouse I he oe, eontin891 Mr ('f,<'s'?n, which was made by the Ref'h irlottc inuhliciin steering committee, w ill be ^ ! . referred to the wavs and means com-; and where , , . mittee, which will draft a repeal T factor in i ' measure Some leaders predicted that the tax which levied an infport of lo if the cot- ! 'esK , per cent on soft drinks and ice cream at h Hrot h- I ' 'rt' would be repealed within a month. I . others, he ? an<1 Iniroot 1 nro? lr\r? aT ' l?/v - 4,1 "" 1 ~ National I u?- atta intil mil ' Par^men' was understood also to have t,,r jl j / boon discussed by tho steering com-' v Jolui M ,n',,('e without a final decision. Mem- ],.g, " hers, however, indicated fhat an in- |nst rl it necos- nuiry Wi,s Planned by the standing that eiiflon to bouse committee on the department's ruir which in- oxPon'"lares, headed by llopre enta- jn j Lando, 8. tlve Zihlni?n, of Maryland. | wit! ami the Immediate attention, the steering says f which he committee decided, would lie given by faib manager. ",G house to tho two appropriation iste wan pres- b'll*. vetoed by the president, after atio .? which the prohibition enforcement rled 5.) legislation would be disponed of. sent News SUBSCRIPTION $2 .'I COUNTY Welfare Work Tu| tained in Full HlAK 1 HI len Overseas Execu(|vc ,; _____ ..... __ fore SherilTs, AMPAIGN PLEDGES PAID OR FER?NECE8SARY FOR licitors II IT8 PAYMENT8 OR IIND JAILS OVEI te payment of United War Work acute because of the danger that for our soldiers still In uniform Crime is Incrc ond B. Fosdlck, chairman of the les, from President Wilson, has ernor, in H< esldent Wilson, better than any Asks Co-OIX for continuing the welfare work rawn and demobllratlon Is com- forcement. quest and to fill the great need Speed Up" Week, July 28th to Setting a pr< it everyone who has not paid his step that has sc inundation of th United Statee of America. Governor Coope Parle, 18 April, 1919. gathering of sin licitors and fori over here In France haa but Gie hall of tin elation of the vital importance tives in Colum ength the service of the eeven manly, heart-to In a united campaign for sup- uf South Carol! sedation, the Young Women's enforcement is lathollc War Council (Knights . .. . _ . .. _ " ho did not exp Board, the War Cjimp Comry Association and the Salva inu sailors. iiurni lull Ml 111' xlated at the beginning of the great amount c Imperative reaaone why thla th" state. "Th e period of demobilization. of jaw j? ||,(s y a remarkable manner their i morality tlian is ?r which their men were fight- interests of'the ily to the appeal of the United ... and I earneatly hope that the ernor in his add be forthcoming, In order that ors ol the State, neceaaary mlnletry on behalf Governor Coo 'ea with auch rare devotion to crease of crime vay worthy of their wonderful on th?> unsettle! the high price Incerely your., conditions. WOODROW WILSON, k, Chairman, Commlaalon on Jails At s Montaigne, Parle. The governor ( ing olhciuls thi - many reports o tOMINENT PLANTER stat0(1 that ,he i , is on the increa . DIES NEAR FORT MILL plain to the Rh(, licitors and jur; njaitiin I*. Massey Passed Away public sentimen uildenly at His llome Wednesday their efforts, if Morning. at ,he 8ame tln public opinion ai tion and suppr Port Mill, S. C., July 17.?Renja- thHr roun(ioa h n Franklin Massey, one of the old- en( a(iniinistrati an<l best known citizens of Fort offices " II township, died suddenly Monday Governor Coo his home about three miles east of] imnninff rt Mill. Mis sudden death came as | wVs "hmird whh great shock to his hundreds of BOVCrnor.a poslt ends in the town and community uaual meeting a he was seen here Saturday appar- he hag pu, (ho Ay in good health. The unusually tors boforo thp weather of the past few days was 8ubject of mncl >bahly contributory to his death, as ,, js be|jOVO(j th| tried to do some work on the farm jn a be(fer CQn( nday morning and was probably sreome by the extreme heat, 11- Governor Poo s in the 6i*th year of age. having ..j hayp req(I mi born April 10. 1851. in the com- w,(h |hp shprjft inlty in which he spent his life. Me . , .. . v juries, solicitor? s married January 1, 1 884, to Miss , t he purpose of d ssie Mills, who survives him. to- , , ,. , . 1st ration of crii her with the following children: . . , state I do not in M Massey, I.eonidas II. Massev . .. , J pression that tIn I Miss Isabelle Massey, of Char- .. . . olma are lawles le. N P.; H. F. Masse,. Jr.. of Mas- (hat (he gn.a( n gs. Flu., and Ladson Mills Massey. | am, ,nw Fort Mill. Me was connected \n it h , ^ ,. ,. I eombination of in- of the most prominent families . , . . 1 I have a lawless Fort Mill bv blood and marriage. i the state. The ng survived bv the following , i liquors and evei ilhers and sisters: Mrs. Mary M , ^ . . I t ure of everv ki Irev, wife of the late Captain , ? .' , ' i to produce drunl n W. Ardrey; Mrs. Sue Spratt, demn<ld> Xbis ? e of the late John M. Spratt. Mrs. t|on_wi(lo 0wj] >. Kirkpatrick and L. J Massey ol' . ... * price which a gi k Mill lie was a man of unim- .... willing to pav chable character, honest ami up- ? .... ... ages, illicit dist it in all his dealings, and honored ... ,, I ii|i an over i nr s I respected bv all who know him. , , . ' vices are heing i owned and operated one of the; , .. . . * l uro of intoxicai test farms in Fori Mill township, . , ,. ? 1 I is to the effort ited in a beautiful spot near the i _ ,, narilv would not awba river. ... , | any illegal praei ~ " J by the profits wl \\IM.i: MINISTER SCORED that they en| ll\ MIN In I hltl.X I, Sit hi.N I otls business ] >anville, Va.. July 17.?A sensa-j mallors closely a 1 was caused here when Guy l.nw-l jnc from ti,js pi . a ministerial student of the Hap- considered seminary at Louisville, issued, "The populath had published a long statement S(ate is on the eking Rev. ('. J. I). Parker, pas- tho governor, of Moffett Memorial church, also reports of imn board of deacons for their tl- called to my attf d failure t-. indorse him at that of ,his condition itution. In his statement he says natural rea his ministerial career has been war amJ |noidnri led and that he has been "stabbed settled condition he back" by the minister. The ,j(f> 0a1l!,o or t|lf. lholding of the indorsement, he remains that tHe t, was due to the fact that he ,,f jau jn tj,js Ml to take advantage of his min- moralitv than is 1 rial exemption but joined the avi- jmerests of our n service, also that he was mar- . "The governor without first securing the con- , . of the minister. (Continue' 1 *? 4 /, .00 A YEAR OFFICIALS E GOVERNOR ys Conditions IJe, Magistrates, Soind .Jurymen. I STATE FULL asing and the Goveart-to-Heart Talk, eration in Law En ;cedent and taking a >licited the loud come citizens of the state, r laid before a great sriffs, magistrates, soimon of grand juries, e house of represctitaIda Wednesday, iu a -heart way, the needs na, in so far as lawconcernod, and whilo ress pessimism as to he governor did call fact that there is :i )f crime practiced irx ere is more violation state and more iioconducive to the best people," said the govress to the law enforcper explained the inby placing the blnnio 1 afterwar conditions,, of liquor and similar e Filling l*|?. told the law enforcit he had received f immorality and ho ' >opulation of the jails se. He made it very riffs, magistrates, soy foremen that whilet must back them ir? they are to succeed, ic they "can create u nd secure the cooperairt of the people of y a tactful and efli-fon of their respectivener's n?ldrn<j? ivn? ,?, ? of the meeting. lit* rapt attention. The. ion in calling this un nd the spirit in whirl, la w'-enforoement m?rvnfticials, has been the i favorable comment, it this step will result I it ion throughout the por's address follows: ested a conference* 's. foremen of grand i and magistrates Tur iscussisng the adrninninal laws of this wish to create th< im1 people of South <"'ars. because I am sure lajorlty are law-abid ecting. Hut due t< circumstances we condition throughout sale of intoxicafirn y compound or niixnd that is calculated {onnoss has been conit ohihition is now nang to the very higti eat many people tiro for alcoholic bevorilleties have sprung tate. and various dctsed in ihe manufacits. My information that men who orili* think of engaging (n lice are so attracted liich they may make. ^.iKinc in mis netai iUut then are other Hied with and result ractice that must ho ill ot the jails in t hid increase," continued "In various section? norality have been ntion. A great deal is d on lit less due to ction following tho it to tho general unWhalever may bo explanation the fact re is more ilolation t state and more im[ onducive of the best people. can not without tho I on Page 4.) i