CASTOMiA iAiLY ,CJIAETTE GASTONIA , COTTON ' 41 CENTS TODAY; READ THE WANT ADS ON PAGE 6 afXtfBEB OT THJE ASSOCZATXD PEXSS ; GASTONIA, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 11, 1920. SINGLE COPY 5 .CENTS- VOL. XIX NO. 113. -V ariAi s of tip m REVOLUTIONARY JTHey Maintain That Rovojutloir is in IU Last Stages -r Efforts Now to be.Beht Towards Re storing' Mexico's Industry and Prosperity. : . v(Br Associated Fras. s. ..' While' the advices .coming through irom Mexico on the revolutionary situ v ation are , fragmentary and conflicting, '"i'ley east considerable doubt on the re port that President" Carranxa baa been made a prisoner. ' 4 'A Vera Crus dispatch from the news - paper 1 Dietamen, a member of The .Associated Press, bearing Monday's late, declared the fugitive president of the republic, who was making an effort o reach TVers Cm, had broken through I- the revolutionary lines and was standing , .at bay with 4,000 men at Ban 'Marcos, 27 miles north of Puebla. :; f '-' . ' On the other .hand - the revolutionary . leaders along, the border ars still claim ing that Carransa has been made af cap tive, naming the place of bis, eapture as --.'-" point; near -Apixaco, in, the atateof JHidalffo; These reports however, ' gave few details of the capture except to de clare that th-entire convoy had been ""taken with the president, that three gen rals who were with hinv General Mur- uia,- Orquiso and Barragan, had been executed; and another general wounded. , ' It. was.; added that General ' Carransa ": had bee; ordered returned to Mexico City with all consideration and that none ' of his (party'was to b killed or mis- ' treated d It wpuid appear, however, even pre '-" aupposing . the accuracy of the , reports i that . Oarranxr ia; still ai' liberty, that - the situation he finds himself' im ;ae . ording "to the .Vera s Crus advices, Ja precarious. It is announced that govern f ment troops in Vera Crux hare deserted ' thgir commanders General Candlde N Aguillar, .governor of the state, and one ovirto the revolutionists, making that' state apparently no longer a safe refuge for the. fugitive president . '. EL PASO, Texas, May ll.--Official of the new 'revolutionary parr in" virtual ; control of Mexico today maintained that the revolution' is in 'its final stages, so iar as actual fighting ia concerned, de spite latest reports' that ' President Car- ransa was making; a stand after having broken through the rebel lines near Pue bla.wSUtementa.from the revolutionary leaders at Juarez, opposite nere, indicated alfy efforts - now - would "be bent toward V -restoration of the country 'a industry and prosperity.'1. '. Foreign capital "in the development of ;'the country's resources was welcomed in v a statement in which lives and property "' were promised protection. ' . " Expatriates were also welcomed to re. turn to Mexico. end it was stated that a .reform movement would be naugurated to prohibit gambling and saloons. '" -" .Reports .available here," today dealt xnoatly with the alleged "arrest sf Car xanxa, promise wf ssfeguarding his life an4 his. problble exile, little attention be ing paid to troop movements or activi- ' VVlJOGALSriAria., May 11-po'rdial iu vitation to foreign business men, especial ly Americans, to come to Mexico and en ' gage in trade and to Mexican expatriats . to return to their native land was ex tended today in a statement issued by Emiliano Tames, commercial agent for .. the liberal constitutionalist party at No- - alee. Benor Tames said he was. spoak ing for e- revolutionary, government. ' ' ; ' . r WASHINGTPN, May 11With prac tically all of Mexico dominated by rev olutionists and Car ran reported a pris oner, official interest here, shifted today from the military; phases jf the situation to the expected political .developments. JLgents of the de facto rulers professed to believe step would be taken Immediately -towards the establishment of a provision . al government to be succeeded as soon as possible by " constitutional. regime. Re ' ports received Jthrough . official efannels s well as those sent W the revoltjonary . ageot continued to l&lcate absence , of erious disorders aHhousi the' dUpatek of , si battleship, and ; additional, destroyers to southern waters suggested the determ ination pf this government' to afford- or igners protection in the event of: r ' 'While officials here considered the. riv olutionary movement's too "untried jpr judgment tha impression was inanifestt that for a ; time ' ar least, it would not have to face the vSlial counter fev'olu tioa . . Villa, who defied Carranza so sue essfully, was -reported : to have made peaeewith the winners; Manuel Palaec, ruler 9 the oil regions, was said to iava joined 'In the movement -without eserya tion and there remained no outstancing rebellious figure The' possibility, how ever, that some one of Carraata's loyal i PABTY EICO CITV officers might fill the role of rebel was suggested -although revolutionary agents asserted its improbability. . What ap peared for "a time as a. potential discord was the recent declaration of General Pablo Gonzales that .while he was fight ing Carranza he had not agreed to sup port the general revolutionary, movement. Both official and unofficial reports, haw ever, have indicated either an understand ing between him and Alvaro Obregon or the domination of Gonzalez by Obregon . Gonzales was . the first to enter Mexico City but recent reports pointed to Obre gon as the dominant figure. McCUMBER OPENS FIGHT AGAINST KNOX ; 7 ' " PEACE RESOLUTION i wJieHINQTON, May U. Opening the fight against, the republican plan to end the state of war by joint resolution of congress, Senator McCamber, of North Dakota, a republican member" of the for eign relations committee, declared in the senate today that tech. a step would bring dishonor upon the nation as it would iuvolve desertion of America's as sociates in the war. V ' The. senator said , he . could support neither, the-, house peace resolution- nor the substitute, of Senator Knox, republi can, Pensylvania. He advocated instead his resolution proposing Restoration of commercial relations withOermany, bh t said he realised that it would be useless to press this measure," where the lines ofidrision between the two factions in this body' have been cemented by parti sanship, and set and haiTTeqed Ly time. ' ' .'TJt''inajoritj? on this side of the ehambeV,' he declared, ' ' purpose to force the acceptance of the reservations adopt ed by. tie senate without the change of a single word or letter. 'The-majority on the other side, in obedience to the will of the. president, have resolved to make the lMre;iie of na tions a political issue. ' ' TAMOUS INSTRUCTIONS " OF PRESIDENT WILSON ARE NOW PUBLISHED. WASHINGTON, May 1 1. President Wilson 's hitiierto unputlishod war in-' structions to the officers of the Atlantic fleet, given in person on. the quarter deck of the flagship Pennsylvania on August 11, 1917, and biilding them "throw tra dition to the wind," strike the word prudent from their vocabularies ami "do the thing that is' audacious to the ut most point' of risk and daring," were made public 'here today by Secretary Daniel.'- rtf f ti " . The president spoke as commander in chief of the navy j and at a time; when the German- submarine menace was un. curbed. In . laying the text of his re-, marks before the 'senate naval investi gating committee, Secretary Daniels said they showed the r? bold and vigorous " poly-- the president had outlined for the navy. . .. , -; , , f"Do not stop to'tntnk what is pru dent for a moment," the president said. "You will win by. the audacity of meth od when you cannot win by the circum spection of prudence.' . "I, think, that there are willing ears to hear this; in the American navy and the American army because that is tho kind of folks we are. " Therewill have to come a new- tra dition intoKa service which does not do new- and t." audacious and successful tMngs."'.-" The president also expressed his dis satisfaction with progress then being- made toward " crushing the submarine campaign, a "We are hunting hornets all over the farm and letting the nest' alone," h said. "I am willing for my part, and I know that you are .willing because I know the stuff you are 'made of I am willing , to sacrifice half the navy Great Britain, and we together have to crush that nest because if we crush it, the war is won.-V . - The British admiralty had met Ameri nn suggestions with what amounted to statement that 'it never had been done " the president eaiddding: , vAnd.I felt like saying 'Well, nothing was ever done so systematically as nota ing is being done now ' .'5'lVl'-' ' -y-Vf ' Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sumrell and Miss VNoles left v Tuesday for Jacksonville, Fa., where Mrs, Sumrell and. Miss Noles wil spend a vacation of about two months. 3Lrv SumreB will, retorn to the city In a week or -tea days. The beauty par- l6r,' conducted by MrsI Sumrell and Miss Nolea. will be closed . for ' a few days aad. will then re-open under capa ble ma-i-i yrpnt during their ' absence. r'ETHooisT rei hear :' . BISHOP DJLRU::GTO:f List NightV Get - Together v; Meeting and Banauet a Landmark in Town Metho-t- dist Hbtory Short Talks by Several Gastonians and by ' BiaKop Darlington. " :- -V-,,---; . . . ' . S " .' ;.: V. Nearly t"hree hundred . Methodist jnen jpt the cityigathered in 'the- Armor last night ior flie annual get-together mecl ing and banquet at which the principal speaker was Bishop U, V. W Darling ton, of Huntington, W. -Va. A spleiolld repast served by the ladies of the circles of Main Street Methodist church; excel lent music -by the orchestra and. several short talks by local men were other fea tures of. an occasion which was alto gether the" most delightful and inspiring in the Methodist annals of the ttfwn. Mr. J. II. Separk acted as toast ntaster Jn his usual happy, style. X After the guests had partaken heartily of the viands set before them, the toast master called on Mr. M. F. Kirby, treas urer of Main Street Methodist chuch, to give something of the financial history of the -church and to tell how the new and novel plan of raising the church 's budget -was. working. - Thin Mr. Kirby did in a.Wat interesting' way. He gave figures which showed a steady and rap id development of the e hurch 'a finances and described. how; the budget is being raised this year r As has been mentioned on previous occasions this church began this conference year by doing away with the passing of the collection plates and substituted therefor boxes in the lob bies in which voluntary contributions are placed. Mr. George W. . Wilson was the next speaker , on the program and he made a splendid talk on the relationship between the young man and the church. He told how the young man may be a force in the organized church for carrying on the great work of spreading the gospel. Mr. Wilson's talk was a most forceful one and he. was heard with intense interest. The toastma8ter hen introduced one of " Gastonia's most beloved Methodist women, Mrs. B. P. Dixon, who briefly but in a most interesting talk voiced the sentiment of the women of the church a4 to their desire and willingness to co operate, in the great' forward' movements the church is "putting through. ' " l" . From 'the time he arose until he fin ighed his talk Bishop Darlington kept his hearers both amused and interested. Referring to the urgent, invitation which was" sent him to come to Gaatonia he said he had supposed-that he waj being summoned here to dedicate the new Main Street Methodist church.' He laid great stress on the new idea of stewardship. "If the Methodist men6f Main, Street church will agree to tithe"' said Bishop fttfUiigto, "I'Vln guarantee to' build a '.se Maio . ' Street '"'church, new chorrhKn alrth? 'suburbs and(,hav money; cftnTKf treasury . " ? The Hpeaer ' interspresscd ' his ' address with numerous illustrations whicli were both apt and humorous. His entire talk was of an inspirational character and will no doubt lear abundant fruit in the shape of reueweil activity in the Methodist con gregationt of the city. COMMITTEE CANNOT DECIDE CONTESTS (Br The Associated Press.) ATLANTA, OA., May 1 1. The sub committee of the democratic- state execu tive committee which was called to meet here today faeed a temporary restarting order forbidding it to decide contests aris ing from the Georgia presidential primary of April 2Q or from taking any step to "affect the action of the stata conven tion in selecting delegates to the national convention" of the democratic party. The sub committee had been expected to can vaas .the returns and officially announce the number of votes each candidate would have in th state convention. ' . . ' Restraining order, which is made re turnable May 14, was obtained yesterday in Warrentou, Ga., by Thomas E. Watson, one of the candidates in the primary, and a copy of it was made public here by B. M. Blackburn, local spokesman for Mr. Watson. On the face of unofficial returns from the primary Attorney General Palmer ob tained, a plurality of the delegates to the state convention, which is to be held May IS, at which time the Georgia delegation to 8an 'Francisco is to be elected. Mr. Watson ran second and United States Senator Hoke Smith third. AH three ran a close race, the available returns showed, no one getting a majority in the state convention. - j Friends vt the United States attorney general have asserted that under rule ten of the primary regulations, proclaimed by the sub-committee. Mr. Palmer, because Of his plurality, was entitled to the Geo gla delegation. Mr. Watson's petition stated that rule ten "violates the terms of. the' county nnit law of 1917,'V and Seeks- to establish unsurpctory domination of an autocratic minority." Mr. Blackburn stated tho petition pot only was directed against the member of the state sub-committee, but iacladed the entire: esmmHtee. - '- :'; RAISE SALARIES OF ALL CITY OFFICIALS City Council Increases Salaries .'- Policemen,- Firemen and Other City Officials New Filter Unit Bought Will do Away With Quarantine '. on Smallpox - Telephone Matter Held in Abeyance. ' A wealth of business waa dispatched by the city council at itfc. regular session Monday night. Presettf. were Mayor Cherry and Coimcilmcii Wiaget, Ander son, Hmyre and Clifford, and frity. Man ager V. J. Alexander. l'v The salaries of all the city officials were raisetl, a subsidiary filter plant was ordered, an ordinance concerning the is suance of bonds for sewer, water and liglrt extension was adopted, the quaran tine on smallpox was, lifted, and a mass of routine business disposed of. The re port of Chief of Police J. E. Orr for the year endig May 1," 1920 was received aud contrasted with that of the previous 12 months. iThe rejwrt showed that for the year from May 1918 -to May 1919. the money collected in fines and costs by the police dejiurtment was $6,858 . 78, and the total number of arrests 827 . For the 12 month-period ending May 1, 1920, there was collected in fine and costs the sum of $15,375.30 and the num ber of arrests was 1,815, or an increase for the 12 months of $8,516.52 in fines and costs and of 988 in number of ar rests. The alwve report was heartily com mended by the city council as evidencing the activity and energy of the lice de partment. ' On m-oinmendatiou of the mayor and by a unanimous vote of the board, an in crease in salaries of all the city officials was declared as follows: Judge of the municipal court front $900 to $1,200 per year. ' Prosecuting at torney from $720 to $1,000 per year. Mayor from $600 to $700, Chief of Police from $150 to $175 per month, po licemen from $110 to $i:5 per month, chief of the fire department from $90 to $125 per month, firemen from $90 to $100, City clerk from $150 to $175, City attorney from $25 to $50 per month, tair collector from $100 to $125 per month, sanitary oliceinan and ceme tery keeper from $100 to $135, Sanitary Policeman O. O. Craig from $100 to $125 per month. "We can raise the salary of everybody but ourselves,' ' jocularly remarked one of the council men as the resolution was adopted. "W are allowed by statute only $200 per year," he said, "and probably that's about all we are worth," added another. It was felt that owing to the rapidly incrl-asing costs of living and the lucra tive positions that both the firemen ami policemen could obtain in other business es 'that the small increases noted should In made. The board voted to buy an additional wooden filter unit to tide the city over the emergency existing, until the new plant could be installed. There are three wooden filters now iu oieration and the addition of a fourth at a cost of $3,700, it ia thought, will give, the city an ample water supply. The city manager Whs instructed to co orte with the Loray Mill in install ing additional sewer facilities lx'tweeu Main and FrAnklin avenues. A written agreement from the Citizens National Bank tendering the city the use of a ten-foot strip as an avenue of access to the Southern and C. k N.-W. tracks, with the added suggestion that the city co-operate with the railroad in constructing an underpass from Main avenue to Falls street, was accepted con ditioned on the materialization of pend ing plans of the Citizens National Bank. Mr. R. B. Babington, of the Pied mont Telephone and .Telegraph Company was present and stated that the company had prepared an answer, or a re-audit of its books, and that same Mould be pre sented before the Corporation Commis sion May 25. There was no action taken by the board. Dr. C. J. McCombs, city physician, appeared before the board, recommend -,t Ing that the ordinance requiring the quarantine of all small -ox cases be re pealed. In conjunction with other physi cians of the city, he pointed out that the quarantine laws are ineffective, and that the city is at,a loss in feeding those quarantined patients. He was of the opinion that if the quarantine laws were lifted, vaccination would be resorted to more extensively. The board concurred ia this matter, with Dr) McCombs aad the ordinance was ordered repealed. The city physician stated that he had an am ple supply of vaccine on hand and was ready to vaccinate the whole city'' if necessary. It was pointed out, how ever, that the epidemic of small-pox ia the city, particularly ' in the Loray sec tion, was of a very mild nature. PARIS, May 11. The French cabinet at a meeting today Instructed .Miajster of Justice L'Hopitcau to open proceed ing against the General Federation of Labor with a 'view to the dissolution of the organisation which' has been support ing the . strike of the Freaeh railway men calling other strikes. V Bern. ' ; ' -' ' "'-'. ..... ' To Dr. aad Mrs. fiahh 'Bay on Tues day, May 11, 1920, a sea. . , SMS ATTEMPTED TO ROB AMERICAN NAVY OF ALL ITS GLORY Daniel Says Establishment of North Sea Barrage Was Delayed Six Months by Sims and British Admiralty - Latter Favored at Every Turn by Sims to Descredit of American Navy. WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS DEAD AT AGE OF 83 Characterized aa "Greatest Liv ing American Writer And Novelist" End Came at New York This Morning Wat Intimate of Hawthorne, Emerson and Other Great Literary Lights. (By The Associated Tress.) NEW .YORK, May 11. William Doan Howells, the novelist, died here today. At a dinner given in New York in 1912 to do honor to William Dean How ells upon his 75th birthday, William Howard Taft, then President of the Unit ed States, lauded the guest as "the greatest living Ameircau writer and nov elist" He was the dean of American letters; lx't, essayist, dramatist and editor, as well as u weaver of fiction. Beginning his first book, "Poems of Two Friends," just before the CivU war, Mr. Howells had completed and published more than 71 volumes at the time of his death, besides acting as edi tor of various publications. Crossing the oeenn 18 times in search of material for his novels, and writing essays, criticisms ami magazine articles. Horn in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, in 1887, he served his literary apprenticeship as a composer, reporter and editor - en- his father's newspaper. "Inwardly 1 was a poet, " said tha einnent novelist in reviewing-., his early experiences, "with no wish to be any thing else, unless in a moment of care- rless affluence I might so far forget my self as to be a novelist." When 2'A years old he traveled to Bos ton to make the acquaintance of Long fellow, Hawthorne, Knu rson, Holmes and Lowell. Though a hoy among musters, he iMvainc their intimate, learning their literary traditions and preserving many of them throughout his long life. At the age of 4 he was appointed by President Lincoln as United Btatcs Con sul nt Venice, lie combined his consular duties with literary work, and produced his celebrated book, "Venetian Life." Four years later, in 1865, he came to New York with his wife, who as blnior i I. MVad, of Vermont, and whom he had ! married in Paris in 1S62. For two years he wrote editorials for The New York Nation, The Times, and .The Tribune, and then moved to Boston where ns as sistant editor he Wgaii his association with the Atlantic, Monthly, succeeding Jumcx Kuaell Lowell as editor in 1872. At the age" o' 44 he retired to devote himself to his novels, which he produced for many years at he rate of two a year. . When 50 years old Mr. Howells found time to leeonie contributing editor, and later writer for the "Editor's Easy Chair" department in Harper's Maga zine. Jr a brief period he acted as editor of The Cosmopolitan. Dr. Howells he had received degrees from Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Colum bia universities though he had never at tended college was . a keen student of current events. He avowed his belief in socialism. "I cannot see," he declared, "that the remedy for existing conditions lies Umywhere else. But if it is to be a remedy it must come Blown. Violent revolutions do not permanently solv these problems. On the subject of, woman suffrage his opinion was decided: "It ia one of the most important de velopments of this generation and one of the most hopeful. The men have made such a mess of things that If the womc do not come to the . rescue I 'm sure I don 't know what is to become of us. " TO DETERMINE AUTHOR ITY OF COMMISSION fBv Aaoclited Pros. WASHINOTOJr; May' 21. The - su preme court in petitions filed Jby the gov ernment was asked to oetermins the an thority of the federal trade commission over business organisations. . The pro feedings resulted from federal court de crees setting aside commission orders di recting the Beech-Nut Packing Company to cease its policy of re-sale price main tenance found by the commission toTon stitute ''an fslr method of competition." A larm number of sim.LI.ir now are pending before the eo-v ' WASHIOT6N,!;?8dayn---A counter charge that establishment of ths North. . sea mine barrage was delayed six months because of the opposition of Bear Ad-.; miral 8ims and the British admiralty,, was made before the senate naval in- ' vestigating committee today by Secre tary TJaniels in presenting the second : part of his reply to the officer's eharge that ' the navy department had unneces sarily prolonged, the war through fait" ure to co-operate fdly at first with al A lied naval forces. Tfys barrage, Mr. Daniels added, was thoVmost effective V measure that could have b?n taken to y check the submarines and wasf isholly -American idea. v.'-f-N" The secretary also charged that Elm -had attempted in , his testimony to rob f.' the navy of credit' for this project and to ' 1 give it to the British. The plan was conceived, he said, ia. I i the bureau of ordnance at the navy de- r - partroent and urged on the British ad ', miralty for six months before it was cepted. During this time Admiral Sims constantly discouraged and opposed tho V idea, he added, and when Admiral Mayo , was sent abroad and finally convinced thi admiralty of the worth of the scheme and the necessity for adopting ' it j Admiral ' Sims, attempted to convey the. impre-; v sion that the project had been t delayed while the British attempted' to 'get the ,' : 1 American navy department's approval. ' "Admiral Sims attempted to rohi . America and the United States' navy of ' the credit for initiating this great achievement and to give you the impres- ' sion that it was "' British plai which'- J our navy merely assisted L carrying out, ' though it originated in the1 navy de- ' paHment, was proposed and urged by us for half a year before wo could In duce the British admiralty to approve i$ ana aitnougn zour-nitns or it was com posed of American mines designed and constructed in America and transported 3,400 nules overseas and aided" by Ameri can vessels," Mr. Daniels told tho com mittee. v .' The secretary said close comradahip bad existed between the American aad British navies during the war, despite Admiral Sims ' x attempts to create : the -c impression' that there waa lack of bar-. mony and co-operation . t - :' , kirns' charges of unpreparednesa bo ! the war were not justified, Secre- , ? tury Daniels asserted, declarirg that ia .1 jiy, 1915 he ordered the jrenral board to study and recommend clans ' for a" consistent and progseesive, - develop' ' ment,.'' As a result of this study the -policy was evolved, he said, : that - tho United States must by 1925 have a navy . enual to any other in the world. V He ap- " proved this jHilicy and the direel' result was the five year buildings program of lt it, the naval secretary A said, an - eiKH-h makinjf measure.". President Wilson fully .approved the .policy, the witness asserted; ' " l s ' - SMITHS MADE UP FIFTEEN REGIMENTS WASHINGTON, May 11. -- Smiths- made u j 15 regiments in thd.'Americaa war army, Johnsons made, up',!! rnore Browns 8 and Williams, Jones, and Mil- lers made up m6re than 7 eaeh.- 4 ' ,. s Records at the bureau of war risk in-' surauce, wbere the names of 4,6-2,45 former service men are indexed; also show that the Anderson and : Davis . . families were represented in sufficient number to compose more . than five regiments 1 each and the Wilsons, Moores and Taylors, 4, each. .' '.. ' .' ' ,' LOCATES AIRPLANES IN ALL KINDS OF WEATHER WASHINGTON, Mar 11. A radio compass for airplanes which will enabta them ' ti 1 locate other planes. accurately regardles of weatehr conditions has been successfully .tested by navy flyers. On a recent trip of .the NG-? from Phila delphia, to Tenaacola that machine and another" from the Anaeostia, J. C field were equipped with the new compass. , Officials at Anacostia kept ia communi-." cation with the NC-3 constantly by radio and took bearings at stated intervals on both planet by means of tha compass. The two ' planes . were directed toward each other, from the field until, whea 5 miles apart. the compass of each came into operation eomfirming thoir posit' and establishing communication 'A Danish inventor etor I feeted a meter for to steam eat s-rr'I t ' central rbiH. I ft' f.vi -

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