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v< TWO CENTS PER COPY 4K fill! issioners Ask For More Time To Decide Wentworth, July S W)—After ad journing to give commissioners time to decide what fchey would do about a petition presented them asking for a referendum, the court house was again filled rapidly b ythe peo ple who attended the meeting. At five minutes to the time to begin, the hall was crowded to ca parity, with the crowd getting im ’ patient. During the dinner hour surmises were indulged in as to what would be the commissioner's reply. None, however, expected their reply would be as it was. When P. W. Glidewell, attorney for the cchruni^sioners appeared' with the reply, silence reigned. Ths reply stated that owing to the sick ness of one .of the county commis sioners, and the fact that they were too busy, the commissioners would give no decision until latter. In tJu> meantime, the report slated, no ac tion would be taken on the matter and no contract would be let for the bridge. A Mr. Roberson moved that a committee should invite the co(m v._ mksioners upstairs to confer with the masse meeting. His motion was seconded, but upon another motion he rescinded it. The reply was, therefore turned over to the ways and means committee, who report ed that they were not satisfied with it. They in turn offered res olutions to the commissioners, a committee took the resole downstairs. In the count# commissioner?* room, Mr. P. W. Clidewell inform ed tha county commissioners that a demand mch as the committee made whs taking power out of the comissioners hands. He advised them to take no further step until . ***"*>*-•«—• ■ the entire board was present. They accepted his advice, and informed the committee so. Mr. Dallas told chairman Pratt that i*e (Pratt) had informed Dallas that Pratt would give dne thousand dollars to be out of the fight; if so, said Dallas “you can resign.”^ Mr. Pratt “id that if he did resign he wouldn’t be out of the fight by a long ways. He fur ther stated that the three biggest men in the county couldn’t make him resign. The chairman also told the small crowd that he had been a diabetic sufferer for many years and that a doctor had just instruct ed him not to undergo any excite ment. After he had given the com mittee his answer* he was assisted from the room by two men. Mr, Sharp spoke upstairs then, calling' the reply'which Mr. Glide well had read a ‘‘Subterfuge. — by the trained mind” to deceive the people. He declared ours was a gov ernment “of the people, by the peo ple and for the people” and that the commissioners were denying the people of their right of petition. Me concluded hi* speech in a fiery burst ,of oratory and great applause greeted its dose. Mr. A. D. I vie then read resolutions, an abstract of which follows! Statins that. the. geveruwat founded by our forefathers gave the people the right of petition, the resolutions says “notwithstanding all these there has been establish ed and is now existing in Bucking ham county an invisible govern ment, dominated and controlled by one ijhdtyidua!, administered from the <$*, Turned upon the same arbitrary autocratic and imperial istic prin. clples as thdse put forth by George the third 01' England and William II of Ger WORK URGED AS MEANS TO S^VE DYING HAWAIIAN RACE Honolulu, July 3 W>—The Haw aiians have a right to the good things of their islands -and "I hope •you, will let possession of them slip from your hands,” Representative John E. Raker of California told dthe Hawaiian Civic Club here re cently. “After two weeks of studying1 your territory I am wondering whai is to become of the Hawaiians,” he continued. “A short time ago near the immigration station I saw 260 men and women from the Philip pines and I a111 wondering whether they are to take your places here, for I dont see Hawaiians using and owning the soil. “There is no need of one closing his or her eyes to the conditions about us. Uuleee the Hawaiians re tain possession of lands own and control them and work them they 'are not going to run this territory. The effort that is being made to rehabilitate the Hawaiian race, on the island of Moloaki drew praise from Representative Raker. “If you Hawaiians could develop Molokai it would renew your ener gy aspiration and give new hope to .your young men," he said. “You have the right to some things which were the heritage of your fathers. We Americans, and you Hawaiians are Americans, are getting farther away from work and labor. Yef un less education leads youth back to the land it is vain.” -o Mr. and Mrs. French Williams, French Jr„ and Margaret of Vic toria Va., are visiting relatives for a fe*r days. x' particularly three commissioners, ■that the people feel that a farther submission thereto would be a sac rifice and surrender of the sacred principle^ of government voucsaf ed by the blood of onr fathers. These three commissioners nam ed, though nominated and elected by the people of Rockingham coun ty under the promise of a reduc tion in taxes and an economical expenditure of the public funds, and upon the denial that they wflte connected with or related to the plans and purposes of this invisible government, when as a matter of fact after they were elected, even before they took their oath of It* fice they became willing agents of the heart of this special interest government, and were 'parties to hb selfish schemes and purposes and from then until this day they have demonstrated to the people ol Rockingham county that instead of being the people’s representatives as they were elected to be, they have become the agents of the master of this invisible government and are completely dominated 'by him either directly of* through his special agents.” Then evidence of these declara tions 'is offered, and the resolutions end with: “We, the citizens iirlarge mass meeting assembled, do declare and pledge each to the other, and. to the people of Rockingham coun ty, our every power to the over ' throw of this invisible special in terest existing in Rockingham county as described herein end re store to the people their govern* ment that same may be run and managed In the interest of the peo ple as a whole and not in the faitet est of special privileges for ths -furtherance of these principals and for the prevention of such a great wrong to the people of th^ county. We do further pledge our' sacred bpnor and all other powers belong REV. GEORGE R. GILLESPIE Gastonia pastor who sails from New York July 4th as Near East Relief Commissioner from North Carolina. Mr. Gillespie’s commission will re* port to Congress the needs for the fiscal year in the Bible lands. He will write for this paper this sum mer and fall giving his first hand impressions of conditions in that land of turmoil aftd strife. -o SIX (DANVILLE RESIDENTS' INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Danville July 3—Late yesterday afternoon in an automobile wreck on the Danville-Richmond road, 3 miles the other side of Amelia court house six Dalnville people were in jured two of them seriously and a motor car was demolished. The serioifaly injure dare Mrs. Minnie Thornton, 47 years old, who sustained a fractured skull and broken ribs and Mrs. Avis High, with fractured arm and severe body bruises. Elmer Thornton the driver, A. W. High, Ruby High four ytfars of age and a young baby were tall baldly braised. Mrs. Thorn ton and Mrs. High were rushed to Memorial hospital in Richmond where attention was at once given them It is thought they wil lrecover. DAMAGE TO LEVIATHAN NOT A RESULT OF SABOTAGE New York, July 3 CP)—The an nouncement today by engineers who reconditioned the Leviathan that wartime tales of German attempts to cripple the liner were false, left the Shipping Board iS a quandary, as to what to do with the $15,000 worth of elaborate souvenir book lets containing a detailed account of the alleged sabotage which were to have been distributed tomorrow on the ships first voyage as an Am erican steamer. Engineers said the damage to the vessel originally sup posed to have been the result of German sabotage, had been found to have been a result of docking the liner on her last trip to this country under the German flag. FIRST INSTALLMENT ON ' MANASSAS GROUND PAID Washington, July 3 CP)—The first installment of the $10,000 .paid for the purchase of the ground on which the first and second battles of Manassass were fought during the Civil war, President Ewing of Manaasass battle field, Confederate Park announced, Another five thou sand will be paid within the year and the remaining ten thousand will be paid by the State of Virginia. FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY BANK AND TAKE CASH Berlin, July 3 CP)—French troops j have occupied the Weisbaden branch of the Reichst Bank and have con fiscated a considerable amount of cash says the Vossischesitung. j -o-- ! CALL ISSUED FbR THE I CONDITION OF NATL' BANKS Washington July 3 CP)—The comptroller of the currency issued a call for the condition of all Na tional Banks at the close of Busi ness on Saturday June 80th. DANGER OF FILM FIRES REDUCED BY NEW DEVICE j ‘Chicago July 3 W>—Removing 9u percent of the heat from light—a long step toward the scientists' dream of “cold light”—has been achieved by a device recently test ed and approved by the Under writers Laboratories Inc. here foi the Society of Visual Education. JEhe device is an actinic ray filtei for motion picture projectors, and by its use it is possible to stop a highly inflamable film and project “still” pictures without setting fire to the film. i The filter utilizes an old princu pie that certain materials will break down the heat rays while allowing light rays to pass through. A thin film of gold is the substance used. The filter consists of two small glass discs an inch in diameter coat ed on one side with a spray of puro gold and then cemented together with the coated sides adjoining. In use the projector is so arrang ed that the disc is held above the projection aperature as long as the camera is running and the film mov ing. Whenever the motor is stopped or even slows up to a dangerous de gree the disc is automatically releas ed and drops into place between the light and the film. The light shining through the gold has a slight green ish cast but not enough to interfere with the projection of the still pic tures. At close examination of the disc -appears to be opaque and looks like a mirror with a gold instead of a silver back. It will reflect objects as readily as an ordinary mlrroi. When held to the light however, the thin gold film appears transparent. Tests at the laboratory of the Underwriters showed the disc was .90 percent efficient only one-tenth of the heat applied on one side be ing recorded on the other and that a^ftrip of nitro-oelluloge Him could be left motionless in the camera indefinitely without danger of fire so. long as the filter was in place. As soon as the filter was raised the film burst into flames in less than one second. MILITANT MEXICAN BEAUTY DIES OF HER WOUNDS Mexico City July S —The Joan d’Arc of the Mexican Revolution Ramona Flores is dead from the ef fects of a wound she received dur ing one of the battles in which she was engaged against the troops of Victoriano Huerta in 1913. Known popularly as “La Coron ella” Ramona first saw active ser vice in the ranks of General Juan Carrasco. She was born in Sinaloa about 40 years ago and was a strik ing example of Mexican Indian beauty,. During the last three years she was a patient in a local sani tarium the federal government meeting the cost of her medical treatment. !' Pl^Tl'W THIRTY EMPLOYES HELD UP AND ROBBED OF $38,304 St. Looia, July 3 04s)—Police here and in surrounding cities are hunt ing for seven bandits who held up 30 employes 0f the United Railway Co., here late yesterday and made away with $38,306 in currency. Of ficials of the company expressed the belief that the robbery was an inside job. The money constituted the payroll. -o TWO KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT; ONE~INJURED - Frederick Md„ July 3 —Two members of an automobile touring party from Watertown New York, were burned to death and three others injured near here when the gasoline tanked exploded while being refilled. Dead, Mrs. Andrew Miller and daughter Viola, five. Husband probably fatally burned. Gibbons-Dempsey Fight To Go On in Shelby July 4th Croat Falls, July 3 (4*)—'The Dempsey-Gibhons fight, suddenly called off at midnight last was put back on its feet again today :.nci will be decided in the big pine bow, at Shely tomorrow as scheduled. Jack Kearns, manager of the champion at a conference agreed to send Dempsey into the ring ag.iimt Gibons and gamble for tim final hundred thousand dollars install ment due on his three hundred thousand dollar guarantee. Promo tens were guaranteed prelim nary ex penses of the show. -o DINNER LASTING THREE DAYS WILL MARK ROYAL NUPTIALS Tokio July 3 OP)—A public din ner extending over three days is' planned to follow the weddiife of the Prince Regent and Princess Na gako which is to take place in the fall. Three thousand government officials the diplomatic corps, the foreign colony and many others are to be invited. The Empress the Prince Regent, Princess Nagako who then will be the Crown Princess and other members of the royal family will attend at stated times. -o WANT TO ENFORCE THE PROVISIONS OF AGREEMENT Tokio, July 3 UP)—Japan has de' cided to approach America and Great Britain with a view of reach ing a tri-party agreement to enforce the provisions of Washington Naval treaty without awaiting ratification by France it was asserted confiden tially in Japanese newspapers which print statements believed to be re liable. » f 'r ;‘ -O DUTY TO WHIP TABERT _ SAYS HIGGINBOTHAM Lake City, Fla., July 3 UP)— Thomas Walter Higginbotham, for mer convict whipping boss 0f Put nam Lumber Co., told the jury in his trial for the murder of Martin Tabert of North Dakota “It was my duty to whip Tabert,” adding that he only gave eight lashes. The state contends that Tabert died from ex cessive whipping administered by Higginbotham, state witnesses tea tifying that from SO to 119 lashes were applied. -o---— WILL FIGHT PROHIBITION Paris July 3 UP)—The interna tional conference of wine produc ing countries of Europe at its clos ing session in this city, adopted resolutions setting forth the neces -sity of replying in kind to the pro paganda of the prohibitionist, and drew up a set of rules to guide wine growing countries to uniform action in this regard. ITALIANS GOING TO MEXICO Mexico City, July 3 OP)—Italian? emigrants are expected in large numbers in Mexico and probably will settle in the states of Tam aulipas, Jalisco, Tabasco, and Neu vo Leon. Arrangements for their colonization have been made by agents of the Italian emigration service at Washington. The first batch of arrivals probably will num ber 600. -o-. FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY WESTHOFF; ARREST OFFICIALS - i Dusseldorf, July 3 W)—French , troops have occupied Westhoff, ac-! cordng to German sources, arrest- j ing the Burgomaster, Stationmaster, Postmaster and other city officials. -o The reason the fishermen lies more than the golfer is that the lat ter usually has witnesses. JOYOUS BUCHAREST NEEDS NO BOOSTERS TO SING ITS PRIASES Bucharest July 3 OP)—Bucharest is growing faster than any city in directions over the neighboring 'Europe. It is spreading out in all plains in an effort to house its pop ulation of a million which is still growing. In 1913 the, capital’s pop ulation was only 338,000 which jn eluded 35,000 Austrians and Hun garians and 43,000 Lews. Bucharest is the joy city of Eu rope. Love and laughter, song and wine, dancing and card-playing are as dear to the Rumanian heart as to the gayest spirits in Bohemia. The Rumanian eats five times * day, and is ready for another repast at midnight. He dislikes going to bed. He loves his wine-jug and his •cards. And he would die without his rum-coffee and his gossip about the latest scandal of the town. The Calle Victoriei, Bucharest’s Fifth' Avenue, is studded with pret ty women in the latest Parisiau igowns and jewels. Smart looking army officers in high patent leather boots and blue and gold uniforms strut along the rialto, shedding smiles on Rumania’s lovely feminity Among, these dashing Don Juans and Lotharios one sees motley groups of gypsy men and women with their numerous progency, some of the children without a stitch of clothing. For this is the land of Romany, oi the race from which the gypsy for tune tellers and vagabonds of the United States claim descent. And the gypsy believes that beauty un adorned is adorned the most. 1 Rumanian women, who admitted ly are the most attractive and fas cinating in the Balkans, Owe their striking beauty to their strain ol gypsy or Greek blood; their lan grous eyes and their olive complete ions. They are buoyant, and viva cious, romantic and pleasure loving. Both sexes in Rumania use per fumery, rouge and cosmetics in pro-, fusion. The cosmetic business is one of the most profitable in Rumania. The Rumanian men are tall, hand some and dark, but are inclined to be effiminate. They wear form fit ting jackets, waist bands and af fect monicles and spats. This of course does not apply to the peasant ry who are a study, homely, ener getic lot and constitute the back bone of the country and its chief hope for the future. Although Bucharest prides itself on being the Paris of the Balkans and French is spoken more than any other foreign tongue, there is a great desire on the part of the ed ucated classes to learn English. Am erican tutors are much in demand. There are at present three news •papers printed in French which is 'the court and society language but it probably will not be long before a daily paper published in English will be established. Queen Marie, who is an accomplished writer has published all her books in English and that is the language of the roy al family although both the king ana queen command facile use of a hnif a dozen other tongues . BELGIAN ANSWER GOES TO THE BRITISH SECRETARY Brussels, July S C4*)—The Belgian answer to the British questionnaire i on the Franco-Belgian reparations policy was sent to the Belgian Am , bassador in London who is expected to deliver it to the British Foreign Secretary today. - 1 1 o-■ On account of tomorrow being , the Glorious Fourth and a National Holiday there will be no issno of the Gazette. ***■ \
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