North Carolina Newspapers

v r" j - ,t. GASTONIA , .COTTON' 41. CENTS TODAY I READ THE WANT ADS ON PAGE 5 ' XXMBXX OF THX ASSOCIATED PUSS " -- - - - .,t VOL. XLI. r NO; 1 ll'iW'Z-:p?jW;B f-GOMA,. N.C., MONDAYAI-TERNOON, MAY 10, 1920 SINGLE COPY S CENTS . - . J'-"- V - I V ' - jr.'. .-; . - , i ';- v. -, y.v. .-, . 11 11 AF.'CiCCO VILLA'S DAYS OF BATJD1TRY ARE r (By The Associated Press. JUAREZ. ChihuaWa Mexico, May-JO 1 Francisco, Villa's days of randitry, and constant menace to all attempts to es tablish stable governmeutin Mexico and to the relation betweea ttiia fepubljc and the United States are ende, accord ing to reports feaclung here .- Leaders of tbe new "revolution displayed tiaible relief at tlie announeeiiient that Villa had laid doyrn bis arms and turned his men over ' to General Ignacio Enriqnes, revo iution commander f the Chihuahua dis- trict, Sinee the revohitioD. swept out ' Sonora wltk increasing fnomentum what Villa would do or what would be doae .vith him had been . sour pf mnch spec-- Jation., It was reported mat, wi in t Vst interests fit hi eountry at heart, e . wqu14 see fp b permitted to remain I oeutral and settle doW P planUtion, ' ' and sti Jater that his propered senriees to the reyoiutipn ; ad been ;.decHaed, JLgeBts.af 4he new regime admitted that if Villa decided ta appose $t would :pnstitot the greatest inenaee p it, dea yite thes fact that all reports credited j Win with leading a band of bnt jjjttla ' snore than a personal gnard. : " Th aanonncement that VUl had aid 4own his arms and guided his followers into-the ranks of the reroluUpniata earn rom General J. .0. Escobar, commander of Jnares Villa also notified the Mexi j can Central Balrwfy, EseoUf . said, that guards of -soldi6" "." ' longet". would te i necessary op 'ti:r'--:' I 'Vilbi was one of President parrawa'f ii rrt supporters and later one of his most i troublesome enemies. He also personal ' ly was vesppnsible for American troops poising the border, his moat serioutf j(Jf. turn, against the: JJpftpd 8tata prob ably being the famous raid on Columbus, 1$. M. ou March Jlf henl7 er 1 son " were allied and sereral buildings ArtOTUER AMERICAN KILLED. :(By Thl Aasoeiat! Preat) r - VAGH-ES,. May parry BL , Lyon. Aaxeriean restauranteur ia 3uraa got Mexico, was shot and killed fate n Aprilby Mexicans opposed to the Car ranza administration, according to a story panted today by the Los Angeles Ex jtminer. -,:r '.'" . The- newspaper said Mrs. Lyons was informed yesterday at her home at Ven tura "that her husband was executed af ter having been sentenced by a military tsrtirt-martial. ''i?i--'r C " DREADNAUGHT OKLA , HOMA ORDERED ,. TO KEY WEST - WASHINGTON, May 10.The dread naught. Oklahoma was ordered today to proceed from New York to Key West, Fla., for possible duty in Mexican wa ers.V I 7 f; v' ' '. - J TheVship will sUp en route at PhiU delphiato - take ,on a full- company of marines from the league island station. She is expected to arrive here tonight. TAMPICO in hands OF REVOLUTIONISTS " HOUSTON TEX :, May 10 Tampico, important oil town on the gulf of Mexi co, , .capitulated , to forces" of . General Obregon yesterday, according to radio advkeiv received by local oil interests liflr earlv this morning. The advices said the town went oyer to the 'revolu tionists 'without serious disorder. WASHINGTON, May 10 With Mexi co City, Vera Crua and Tampico in the hands ef the revolutionists, -American de stroyer were enroute to Mexican waters to await eventualities and to afford pro tection to American lives in the Mexican gulf ports. ' .'V'r- "--" '. . Official confirmation of the fall of the Mexican capital was received, yesterday by the state department from the Ameri anmbassy, which heported there was so .- disorde rin the - capital incident to the transfer of authority. Tampico and Vera Crus alsoVero reported quiet. CANADIAN MINISTER TO : y. . jo ;be appointed WASHINGTON Msy l6-A Candian t! inister. to the United States will soon 1 e apoinea. ; - Formal anounsement ' of the purpose t,t the British ovnunent-teplace' her 'anadiaa relations with the United tSate 4-ompietely in the hands- of Canada was r i.a toifav in a statement red in the t nadian' parliament at Ottawa by- di tioa .,-of the "eovemor-general, ; and v ioh was made-public here through-the I uUsh embassy. . - . . BRET HARTS.' r--;".V4 A daicty edition of Harte,"Vthff.prinea story tel.ers. All hit f torjes, ppcmf cbarming volumes, 330. r 2 'r.:ilh," tea . v. J. T: Trr -vy uviYiiA nmu'nnrhA Lt 115 U.U.X'Urrtns ' 10-FOOT STRIP TO CITY Would ; Give to City Deed sd! Fori LsaaseV tion Ii s Prop- Wide . Sidewalk or Passase Way to Southern Station Possession of Postomce rty ' Is" Acquired Vndetf j pass suggested. Conditioned . upon the successful clos ing of the "deal between itself an4 the Treasury. Department i of the United States for the possession of the property now occupied by the postoffioe in Gas tonia, The Citisens i "National Bank this morning tendered to the city of Gas-tonia-through Mayor B. G. Cherry a strip of real estate fronting on Main i. avenue and extending back to the south ern ; railway right of way as a passage way to the Southern-stattonivThe'deed will be made to the city to be,' owned and controlled by the city as lonY as this al ley will be nsed.'4by tha publie for the purpose extended. .' This proposition of fhs Citizens J3ank will be presented 9 the city council In writing at its regular ses sion 'tonight. , ;:"''--v4vX:'V'-;';-:- - It . has been pomted u by those in terested 'in the proposition that the ten feet ffom jthe postoffica property when ad ded to th three . foot valkway , air in use to xne ooirwern siauon maae as v admirsble " opening . and auttet' for Main street .traffic desiring to' go to the trains, hptej,, et.e. ,lt has . been -suig-gested that the eily, if .poaseesion of this alley la seeured, eo-operate with the Sou thern Railway jjf constructing a-underpass under tha railroad tracks, somewhat after the. manner of the arrangement in Spartanbarr::-.-- ' : . It has als6 been suggested that the city-erect a memorial arch at the en trance to this walkway and that it be given a name commemorative of Gas tnt 's war record or of some Gaston coun ty herv or heroes of the World War. The whole y. oio8ition is conditioned on the passag of the bill recently drawn by the U.8. Treasury Depart ment for the exchange of property be tween the Treasury Department and the Citizens National Bank. HON. R. N. PAGE SPEAKS . AT BELMONT TUESDAY Finals of Belmont High' School Will be Featured by Address by Robert N. Page Dr. J, H. Henderlite Preaches Bac " calaureate Sermon Sunday. BELMONT- May 9 Commencement exereutes or the oselmont nigb school which began Sunday with the baccal aureate sermon, will be continued this evening with the presentation by the stu dents of the play, "Home Ties," in the auditorium at 8 o 'clock . The cast of characters is as follows: V' Martin Winn . v ........ . Isaac Howe Len Everett' V. . 'Marcus Reese Patrick Aunt Melissa Ruth Cox Alma Wayne .... . Ethel Foster Harold Vincent Robert L. Stowe, Jr. Buth . Winn .......... Katherine Stowe Mrs. Poplin ............. Laura Hall Josiah Tizsard Price Hand Lindy Jane Melva Tate Scene laid at the Winn County place. Act I Home coming. Act II Visitors from the city. Act III Wedding ' announcement and Home Sweet Home. An admission fee for 25 eents for adults and .15 .cents for children will be charged. Tuesday. Hon. K. N. Page, of Biseoe, will de liver, the address at the graduating exer cises of the Belmont high school, which be held in the high school auditorium Tuesday evening, May 11, at 8 o'clock. ' The , program for the exercises is as follows: ' . ; President Welcome -T- Price Leeper. r Class song Class. Class bistorys Robert L. Stowe, Jr. : Class SUtis ties Buth Cox . " - Ppem-Irene Harris. r, : r " . piass prophecy Jfary Howe. .,r.,, .Tjist will L and testament Elizabeth Dendy. ; - ,, Giftorian FJprine Hand. :. .: ' J Literary address-Hoa , B . N Page . 'Presentstion of diplomas.' " - The members of the graduating class are Florence Abee, J Edna Armstrong, Mary- Ida Armstrong, Elizabeth Dendy, Buth Cox Irene Harris. FJorin Hand, Jessie Hoffman fary Howe, Mfry Leep er, Priee Jeper and Robert L. Stowe, A electric. l'ht has been' designed' to be mountei ci the wind sUeU of an an ton::1, ''j t 't"V-- - j (j t drir SOUTHER!! RAILWAY E1ICGE M PARTIALLY DESTROYED ire From Passing Engine Sets Creosoted Cross-Tires Afire And Hnndaomer New Bridge is Partially Burned Traf Is Being Detoured By. Colum bia 'Local Trains Running. BELMONT. "May 10 Muh excite- nient was occasioner here Sunday by the burning, of the Southern Railway bridge - - v over tlie Catawba. .This magnificent bridge was finished twa years agoat an estimated cost of $500,000 and is now al most a total loss . The fire which is sup posed to have started from coal dropped by an engine was discovered about 2:30 Sunday afternoon by Mr .-.P. P. Clemmer and a Mr. Bhyne, who were eroiwing the highway bridge in an auto. It looked to them that there were only a few ties on fire at that time. .They rushed to the station here and notified the authorities who immediately sent out the word They arrived at the depot just in time to stop a freight train whieh was just in the act of leaving and would have probably gone on the bridge before discovering the fire. The authorities estimated that fifteen minutes possibly elapsed from the time of diseoverine until, they were at the fire and in that short time a large part of the bridge was ; ablaze, - Owing to its haVing been retarred only last week, it burned very rapidly,; great clouds of dense, blaek smoke pouring skyward . Ac cording to information from eye witness es, the bridge concrete abutments at each end are cracked," so great was the force of the pressure caused by the expansion i of the iron . The rails are twisted and even the bridge Iron'girders wsrped and ! rained. passengers from Southern train No. 12 Sunday afteraoon were detoured from here on the P. & N. and No. 12 ran back South from here as No. 45. T)e Wpmaa 's Club held its May meet ing "on Thursday afternoon of last week In the school building with the president, Mrs;"G. ty. Gullick, in charge; Mrs. Annied E. Hall led the club in prayer, after which the roll was called and mitt-, atea read. Mrs. R. Gr Fitzgerald gave the treasurer's report and the report from the State Federation of Women's Mrs. Gullick told of the pledging of money for the social service scholarships at Chapel Hill and for the Sally Southall Cotten fund. It tras announced that the election of officers for next "year would bv held at the Jane meeting the last one fr tlii year. A letter of thanks was read from Superintendent Fitzgerald, thankiiiK the clubs for its' interest and help in the school work-in-making the teachcrnge attractiveaad ia the establish ing of a Rchool ,liKra9- - Mrs . FitageraUl banded, in her resigna- j tiou as treasurer and tne club extended her a rising vote of thanks for her splen did work this year, Mrs. W, 11. Stowe was appointed to serve as treasurer until election of officers at next meeting. Af ter the meeting the members of the club gathered in the Domestic Scieuce depart ment for a demonstration' of aluminum -ajpre by Mr. Ji J . Enloe, of Charlotte. Following the disastrous fire at Bel mont Sunday afternoon and the subse quent derangement of traffic, Gaston ia was flooded . Sunday night and Monday morning with visitors forced to detour via the P. & N. to Charlotte1 until suit able arrangements could be - made for passage over the . river at Belmont . So far as could be learned today, near ly all the purely local trains will be run as usual. Trains 39 and 42, ran this morning, No. 42 returning about 10:30 as a section of No 137. No. 45 and No. 46 will go through this afternoon, .o. 46 to Belmont and returning as No. 45. Until more definite announcement is made by the Southern officials, per sons going beyond Charlotte On through trains are advised to go to Charlotte by the P. t N. and make arrangements from the Charlotte ticket office. Most of the through trains are being detoured around by Columbia today and tomor row. Railway officials say that despite the injured condition of the steel rails and girders in the bridge, it is hoped to have a singe track open for JLraffie in a day or two. Good Order in Gastonia. Gastonia, N. C, is one of the .moat orderly towns in this part of the country occordingaccording to all who are at all acquainted with local conditions, and Meek Parish of the police force says it' is because th city authorities including the recorder are on to the job in the en forcement of the laws. Of course some illicit whiskey.is oceassionally slipped in to the town says Policeman Parish, and from' time to time we arrest a bunch of drunks: but there are no- regular linnnr dealer about now. Chief. Off kee-Ds to close tab on the situation. Dis orderly women are also kept in check. The recorder is inclined to be somewhs linient with the first offenses r bnt the next-' time it means heavy punishment (Achsratera ar not sllowpd to par ade'fhe atreeta eifber day or night, fad we simnlr do not How them to tarry 1 'the chy.'i Ws srt rtrabbd a ttls with the of : T? .4 ,?tt?t4 :. like but there U f fr? 'C- i of t-it eitier.TfrfT5 THr- R. P. SYKOD V(JLL ADJOURN TODAY mi Closing Session of Synod. Are :,. Being Held Today Lin - wood Orphanage Proposition ' Being Discussed .May Move Theological Seminary From Due West to Larger fity. J? ... On account of the mass of unfinished business remaining over from Saturday tlie. Synod of the A. R. P. church was uuable to aljourii Saturday afternoon as wan planned. The delegates were in session the greater part of Monday. At tbe hour of going to press, nothing had been done relative to the location of the orphanage at Lin wood. It is believed that the disposition of this matter will be left in the hands f a committee to be named Monday. The same would also apply to the matter of the removal of the Erskine Theological Seminary from Due West, S. C. to some larger city in the bounds of the denomination. No intimation has been given as to the place of the next meeting of Synod, or as to who the moderator will be. It is generally believed that next year's meet ing will be held somewhere in the West ern section of the church. Tbe. first item of business taken up at the Saturday morning session of the Syn od was the report of the committee on apportionments, of which Mr. Joseph Lindsay, of Chester, is chairman. The Synod granted a substantial increase in salaries of all foreign missionaries. The men who are to labor in places where new work is to be established in home mission work are to receive a salary of $1,800 a year; and the other men la boring . under the board of home mis sions Sre to receive a 20 per cent In crease provided that the fields they serve raise a like 20 per cent increase of the amount contributed to pastor's salsry last year. This will bring con siderable relief to the men who have been hard pressed on acount of the high cost of the essentials of life. The Synod decided to- pay an indebt edness of 1,600 on the church at Con cord. The congregation will at once, at its own expense, erect a parsonage cost ing' $4,000. It was decided also to as sume an indebtedness of $6,000 on the church at Greenville, '. S., with the un derstanding that the congregation there asatimes the entire support of the pastor from this date. The popular ami ef ficient pastor of the Greenville church is Rev. W. A. MeAtoy. The sum of ;2, 000 was aportioned to liquidate claims and to be uued in the new work, along the line of church ext. i?mi work The commiftiv? o.i ... rue missions al ways haw a rep UtV. int. re '. Tin Hiij'ortioiiinent f imim t'. ih-- dirtVrvut f elds' til ughout char .-h is :is fol lows: Kaunapolis, Rev. W. A. M. I'lax- -o: i.wneoni, Kev. ai. n. uidsoii ; nev. R. -'. Davidson, assigned to the First Presbytery; Coddle Creek and Salem in Iredell county, Rev. R. I. McCown; Fair- view and Hopewell, Ga., Rev. R. R. Neill; Spartanburg, Rev. S. W. Haddon; Green wood. Rev. J. T. Young; Tampa, Fla., Rev. II. E. Pressly; Ebenezer, Va., Rev. J. H. Suell; Broad Creek. Va., Rev. D. J. Lauderdale; Ha vara. Ark., Rev. E. B. McGill; Rev. W. M. Willis returned to Red Level, Ala. ; Rev. J. L. Pressly to Sftlem, Ala.jRev. V. C. Quinn to Coviigton, Tenn.; Rev, R. T. Kerr ask ed to go to Albany, Ala.; Rev. W. B. Grier assigned to the - Memphis-Louis-- ville Presbytery. The Synod directed the board of home missions to take up the work at Winston-Salem, Salisbury, Edge- comb county, and" other new fields ns opportunity favors. The location of the Eastern Orphanage was taken up at 2 o'clock. All of Saturday afternoon was devot ed to the consideration of the report of the orphanage committee. The origi nal report favored the Lin wood propo sition, to the exclusion of all others, pro vided that $75,000 was raised in the sur rounding community and the cities of Gastonia, Kings Mountain and Bessemer City; but the following was adopted. "That we learn with pleasure of th proposition from your committee of the eastern section of the church for the establishment of an orphanage, and that the Synod now apioiiit a committee of ten men to prosecute the matter at once with iHiwer to act." CHIROPRACTORS CLOSE ANNUAL CONVENTION. ' The following Is from The Ashe ville Times: The annual convention of the North Carolina Chiropractors' association dos ed Saturday afternoon with a' dinner at the home of Dr. W. .H. ..Woodall, folowed by a rotator trip over the city and aarr rounding country. ,V -.' - ' -.At the business sesion'Mayor Gallatin Roberts delivered th 'address of wel come, following which s number of tech nical addressee by chiropractors Were delivered, after whichr offleera were elec ted: Dr. . J. CBriea, Gastonia, pera idenir Dr. T. CL fiplude, Albemarle, rice Pfesidntr Dr. M, M. Gloves, treasurer; and. Jr. , F. T. Jloff, Bakigh, weeretary. : ' ' , ' v . : . ..;. A , . r , r - ..5 i fa tonserre - fuel . peraany gofers went ti'eojpctiiVaylfft'of ftoi with a,"TiW '.stf j'dizg nf P?' scoas bkal. ;.' - . ' . - i SAYS OF BRITISH ADMIRALTY Secretary Delivers Scathing Denunciation of Ad, miral Sims - Says He Lacked Vision, Coveted British Decorations and Belittled the .Work of the American Navy- Officers Who Supported Sims Had Grievances. (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 10 Secretary Daniels, before the senate investigating comin- j, u "'v, maae nis long await 1 nnlv tn f hi j. of Rear Ad- " v -r miral Sims on the navy 's part i. Xlf war. The navjl secretary let go a broacftfiSi whieh included charges that Sims lacked vision, belittled tbe work of the Ameri can navy in contrast to the British, covet ed British decorations and aspired to be- come an honorary member of tne Hrittsn admiralty. He declared that officers supporting the Sims charges were largely "people with a grievance." The testimony of other officers, in pos session of first hand knowledge. Secre tary Daniels testified "should be accept ed by all open-minded men as an abso lute refutation of practically all of Ad miral Sims' charges." Sims, Secretary Daniels told the com mittee, did not measure up to expecta tions in various ways, of which he men tioned six, as follows: He lacked vision to aee that a great and new project to bar the submarines from their hunting grounds should be Tavni omcera saouia never enter into, pa promptly adopted and carried out, no lie dispute among tlie4vef regarding1 matter what the cost or how radical the 'purely 'military matters, looked to , departure from what ' ultra Tndent men civilian seeretary- .defsaJ.lhealfV,-. t ' regarded as impracticable. "There were 12 of thehigh, rankinc f.' ' lie seemed to accept the viewa of the- aflJeers chargetl -withgret" responalbilA- British admiralty as superior to anything ty," said Secretary Daniels. 'You have that would come from America and urg-. heard eleven. One is me author of these - i ed those views even when the navy de partment proposed plans that proved more effective. "In public s)eecheH and other ways he gave a maximum of credit to Brit ish effors and minimized what his coun try was doing. "He coveted British decorations and seemed to place a higher value on hon ors given abroal than ou honors that could be conferred by the American gov ernment. 'He aspired to beeon a member of the British admiralty and wrote com pluiniugly when the American govern ment declined to jiennit him to accept such a tender by the king of England. "He placed protection of merchant shipping as the main oeration of our forces abroad, failing to appreciate that the protection of transports carrying troops to France was the paramount duty until I felt imiwlled to cable him per emptorily that such whs our main mis sion . " Secretary Dnniels testified that had he known that in October. 191H, hims had .v;K..tin. nf h TTiiWl HtfttP Armv and iiiHiit' niKtriiii'iiifl i viiv i ma 'r i nv i .1 iinn...liA VArlaAlilllT 11 V"Wk tl till) Jlktl. nar to winning the war to memWrs of congress visiting abroad, he would never have recommended his promotion. "He had not then attacked the Irish people," Secretary Daniels testified. I thought then he had only defended American sailors, a proper thing to do, when attacked unjustly by what he term ed a lawless element in Cork. If I had known that he projiosed, under the r mission granted him, to tell the story of what the navy had done overseas, to denounce the Irish people as he did in his article in The World's Work, the permission would not have been grant ed." Secretary Daniels said he had never publicly or privately criticised Admiral Sims for lack of early. vision in connec tion with the North sea mine barrage project "or his other mistakes or wrong views . " Admiral Mayo succeeded . in convincing the British admiralty of the soundness of the barrage scheme where Admiral Sims had failed, be said. V Although the department had dis approved of some of his recommendations and denied .some of his desires," said Secretary lJameis, "1 mistakenly sup posed until the letter of January 7, that he had accepted and acquiesced, with more or less grace, in the department's disposition of ships and its other of ficial actions, as a naval officer accepts the decisions of his superiors even though he might personally hold other views." " The investigating committee, Secre tary Daniels said,' had been wearied and the publie nauseated with "an abortive attempt to. ferret out the molehills of mistakes and exaggerate : them, into mountains, to make a noble and notable accomplishment appear as the-dint and fading-background of a frontispiece of cQmparaUtIyjunbnportant lerrora oji iudgmeat.,.:i Vi- "The saryV record in the war stands untouched today sad for sU timistdetpits eriticismt, from within- or without," he said; 'V':- S'" f '::?. "v-s No Buck troop moyemfflt evr i ri- SIMS VANTEO HONORARY MEMBER panse of water had ever been attempt ed as tbe transporting of America 'a leg ions to France, Secretary Daniels de clared, adding that "in comparison to that essential to winning the war neta ing else counted. It was well and ex peditiously, done. That fact alone i answer to most of the criticisms heard bj JH. -A-mittee." v- " The oniman injured in publie es teem by his charw la Admiral Kima himself," said Secretary 1'The evidence has had only one effect that has been a feeling of deep regxet at the necessity of withdrawing approval from Admiral Sims and replacing it with . deep and lasting disapproval. The siavy and its service in the worhi war stand without a face of .the -mod. with which a few hare sought to besj?atter it-f f So far as his own acts yere concerned Secretary Daniels said ha-, would, be , wBV , ing to let the case rest. The judgTrtenS- ' and ability of the eleyea othf r inembanr . of the general board had been brought under publio criticism by one of their owu number, however, he said, and' the - officers, respecting a navsl tradition that-', criticisms. The twelfth, Aqmirat , Gleaves, who was in charge of the Jlrooy '-, ships that carried our soMiers to Fraaesv is commander in chief of the Asiatic fleet im I I do not feel justified in ordering him from his distant station to testify. The ten who have testified, besides the -author of the charges, have ably and flat ' ly denied the correctness or justice of the criticisms." "In considering the criticisms of -one of the eleven officers referred to 1 think it surprising and gratifying that the ver diet of these officers is ten to one as to the correctness of what we did. Had there been during the war a serious difference of opinion among those charged with de terinining our military actions as to what -should be done, it would, of course, have -been my duty to have decided between them. 1 have been fortunate that no such condition arose, for that is a heavy responsibility for any civilian, untrained in the technical art of warfare, to under take. - , "What I feel is needed for me U,not a defense but a clear statement of what . ! has already been testified to, that the public may clearly tfiiderstand that the the defense has already been ably and fully made by Jhe highest officers of, l4 the navy, together with some statement of what the navy actually did during; ' the war. You have heard long state- incuts of what it did not do. The roun- . try 's pride will be heightened by , the. facts of some of the great things it did do." - - , The portion of Admiral Sims' cel ebrated letter that shocked the publie more than any other, Mr. Daniels said, was the statement that he had been told at the navy department "not to let the British pull the wool over your eyes. -We would as soon fight them as thaT Germans." : : "I must confess that it shocked . meA declared the secretary, "for in ' all -my years of association with officers' of the ' navy this was the first time I had ever known one to make publie any confide-' tial conversation- with a superior officer. I did not believe it was possible for an - -, officer of our navy to do such a thing. The people could not understand how any patriotic American who put the good of his country first could possibly spread broadcast a statement which reflected up on his government and might tend te disturb the cordial relations - with sv- : friendly power, and violate the confi denee ; reposed in him and publish a. -statement which he evidently believed would damage a fellow officer and east doubt opon the navy's wholehearted es-. pousal of the sllied cause. ' ' ' ; , Secretary Daniels assailed the manner ia which the Sims letter was made public, declaring that Admiral Sims read it dur ing the investigation of ' naval award j althouugh it had nothiog to de with the ' sobjeot under eonsideratioa. ' - -"He could aot have ehown vore for naval oCeers, nothing coull 1 been ea&r 'Caa for him to have i ostentations sad well plsxsed manner of' securing publicity, V saia. Hr. .Jt'" "If, as he said, he had written it e 'r A er. . . . . . z )