"VOL.XLI NO. 116. GASTONIA, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, 1920 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS t REBEL FORCES over carranza TROOPS International Incident Presence of W. A. Body, British ConsulPor Vera Cruz, In Camp of Carranza - Mexican Naval Lieutenant May Go to His Rescue. 4 ' '" . (By The Associated Press) . Mexican rebel forces' have apparently won the first phase of the battle against i stroops still loyal to President Carranza, ' -which have been fighting in desperate bat . tie north of San Marcos, state of Puebla for the past four -days. Advices from " Vera Crux indicate a break in the Car ranxa lines and an effort on the part of J, 'the president's men to break the rebel V' lines and march northward. " The struggle is still continuing, at 1 ' feew reinforcements are reported to hai s , reached the scene, coming up from tfa ) outh. : . An international incident may be fori -:j shadowed by the fact that W. A. Bod: , ?' British consul for Vera Cruz, is in th s 'camp for President Carranza . Advice i Xa .gives, no details as to the reason for hi i 'J, pretence there, but it seems probable h Accompanied the .president in his fligh V from Mexieo City. . ,," British and American authorities in ' "Vera Cruz have arranged for a Mexican ; naval lieutenant to go by special train! to the battlefield and make an attempt to teecue the imperilled "Englishman. French and British warships have made their appearance in the harbor "of Vera Cius and four American fighting vessels re at anchor there. Negotiations for the surrender of Mat Amoros, aerass the border' from Browns ville, Tex., are under way and it is ex- pectftl the Carranza forces there will sur render wihotffighting today. 21 WOULO-BE MOTHERS, -- CUIM BABY BOY (By The Associated Press.) NEW YORK, May 14. A two weeks oia Daoy ooy, pesertea on a doorstep ' x an Brooklyn, waited in a foundling hos pital today for the courts to decide which, ' v f 21 would-be mothers should adopt . fcim. - v' Mrs. Eva Phillips on whose doorstep '.. the hild was left, hurried to a Brook - ' Jyn .rolice station with him lata yestor- ray, closely pursued by 20 of her neigh- batst all of . whom ch.mored for posses : srion of the child. " ' "He's mine," she insisted, "I found S him." . 'Police Lieutenant Harrigan informed Jf Mrs. Phillips that in the case of children ' tfce Ale of ' ' finder is keeper ' ' did not '"j" necessarily apply and took temporary eus- - tody of the waif, pending a court de . eitnon. c:dianarepubugans :. ' elect negro delegates Along With Prominent Women ' . of State Negro Leader Is Named as Alternate Dele gate at Large to Convention. (By The Assumed Press.) IN D 1 A X A POL 18, Ind., May 14 In diana will send tan delegates to the re publican national convention in Chicago next month instructed for Major Gener al Leonard Wood, four instructed for Senator Hiram Wt Johnson, of Californ y is and 16 uninstructed.. This was one A of .the net rSulte-of the big republican ' ' trtpte convention that adjourned sine die ' last night after nominating a state tick- t. adopting a platform and electing four " delegates at large to the national con vention. The.only conest of the eonyen P tion came over the adoption of a quali fied resolution instructing the "big four" to support General Wood, who won-, the plurality vote in the primary laet week, !' as long as -there is a fair chance for Him to get the presidential nomination. ' ' The resolution was carried iter a hard fight, led by the Marion ftountjr (Indianapolis) delegation, by a Vote of 753 to .746. " iJ. The convention named United 8tatea Senators i James Watson and Harry & New, Governor Goodrieo and former Sen ator Alebrt Beveridge as delegates at large,- and selected State Chairman Was niuth, Mrs. Anne Studebaker Carlisle, of South Bead, Mrs. Joseph B. Kealing, of Indianapolis, and W.' A. Gaines, of Bvansrille, a negro leader, as alternate delegates at large. Their- selection was unoposed. INDIANAPOLIS. IncL, . May, 14. U. v Senators James E. Watson ana Harry SI (New, Governor James" P, Goodrich and former Senator Albert J. Beveridge -were elected Indiana's "big. four" dele- tea at large to the republican national VICTOR! US May Be Foreshadowed In GASTONIA CUDERY IS GRANTED A CHARTER Has Been Operating For a Year Under Dispensation and Now Has Membership of 105 Gastonians Have Delight f ul Time at Grand Lodge Meting at Wilmington. Gastonia Commandery Knights Temp-4 larg was grated a charter by the grand! 1 I l J ! a -t? i l lodge which was in session at Wilming- ton Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week. The charter, however, has not been received yet and consequently it is not known what the number of the Gastonia Commandery will be. A year ago at Greensboro Mr. W. Y. Warren, and Mr. J. S. Winget, representing the Gastonia Knights Templars, appeared foe fore the grand lodge in session there nnd asked for a charter. At that time the grand lodge granted Gastonia the privilege of organising a commandery and operating for a year under dispensation. During the 12 months 105 members were taken in and the local commandery is now in a most flourishing condition. Messrs. J. H. Henderlite, W. Y. War ren and J. 8. Winget represented the Gastonia commandery at Wilmington while Messrs. W. J. Eoaoh, C. n. Pugh, d A. M. Spencer represented Gastonia hapter No. 66 Royal Arch Masons. Dr. 'ugh, Bev. Dr. Henderlite, Mr. Warren nd Mr. Winget returned home Thursday. r. Boach and Mr. Spencer returned Fri (iky. All the Gastonians at Wilmingto reVort a most delightful time. PASSENGERS DENOUNCE BRITISH PASSPORT OFFICE (By Associated Press.) CONSTANTINOPLP;, May 12. (By the Associated Press.) Charges that tho French steamer Souriah could not have been rob bod by Black sea pirates on May li without t-onnivaiu'e oi" ersons employ ed on the vessel were made by 300 in dignant passengers on the craft who landed here today in a driving rain. Penniless and enraged, the passengers joined in denouncing the British pass port control ollii-o at Baturu, the failure of British authorities there to diwirm the rubbers before they- boarded the Souirah and the negligence of the steamship company in not maintaining armed guards. Above all, the alleged abject submission of the crew to the pirates watt hotly criticised. Announcement that the ship would have an armed guard on her voyage from here to Marseilles only intensified the anger of the people who !st everything. It seems the fact the roidwrx did not molest the shipx safe b roused suspicion on tiio part of the pn.t sengers. The captain of the Bouirah refused to discuss the matter with the correspond ent of the Associated Press, saying he had made a report to French naval au thorities here. No light was thrown on his report at the French embassy but it was stated that in future ull French ships on the Black sea would carry guards. All British and Italian ships there are carrying armed guards, but French ships have been unguarded for several months. News of the robbery was suppressed here bj the inter-allied consorship, but the enraged victims of the raid are today giving it wide publicity, while demanding indemnification for ther losses. James Wood, of Glasgow, Scotland, a Y. M. C. A. worker, who witnessed the holdup, said the thieves showed "great courtesy," asking thai passengers they were searching whether they wanted tea or lemonade and ordering stewards to bring refreshments. Before leaving the ship one robber threw a steward a 1,000 franc note he had just -taken from a passenger. All ruble notes issued by the government of the Don were re turned, to passengers by the pirates, who said they wanted only "real money." .Mr. Wood declared the robbers had a committee of experts ready to pass upon jewels sus pected of being imitations. , He said the leader of the gang was not masked and wore. a. tartar officer's uniform. v' . ' - , , t ' ; . . A YUMA, Aria, May 14-A former lieutenant of the Carranss forces, after shooting to death Captain Carter G. Chi les, nephew of GenerafP. Elias Calles, at Baa Luis a ' small garrison town la fionora, Afirly yesterday took possession of the town in the name of the Csrranz regime, according to a telephone" message received hers and later corroborated, LIEUT. SHEALY TO DO .' STUMS IN THE AIR Pilot of Gastonia Aircraft Cor- oration to Stage Spectacu ar Flights Saturday After noon Orer City New Plane Arrives. , The Gastonia Aireraft Corporation, recently organised for purposes of com mercial flying with Lieut, L. E. Shealy as pilot is extending its activities. A second piano- has been bought, a Curtiss, known in the parlance of the aviators aa a .1 N 4 D. It arrived Sunday from the CurtiHH Motor and Airplane Corpora tion, Waukeegan, III. ft 1ih been on the road since March 29. Mr. George A. Gray, a Gastonia amateur and one of the stockholders in the Gastonia Aircraft Corj)oration, is fast becoming an expert airman, accord ing to observers. Lieut Shealy, instruc tor, says that he is learning rapidly, and may soon take the air himself . Lieut. Shealy, the pilot of the cor poration, is licensed member of the Aero Club of America and of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. During the war he was in the naval aviation brunch stationed at Penaaeola, Fla. Mr. Shealy will give a series of exhi- Attaa f Via i rw UnrnMtew m bition flights over the city Saturday af ternoon beginning at 3 o'clock. Ordi nary lundlubbera thought what he has been doing for the past week every af ternoon was quite sensational but he avers that he was just getting the new plane warmed up for some of her real stunts. Pedestrians hereabouts have chronic cases of stiff-neck acquired from constant rubbering' at the antics of the plane. Mr. Shealy named over a list of stunts that will be included in his category Saturday afternoon for the delegation of the earth-worms. He will do the loop-the-Ioop, the tail-spin, the barrel roll, Immelman'n turns, and the If ailing leaf. In this latter stunt the lane with the power cut off, comes hurt ing to earth exactly like a falling leaf r a crippled bird, only to be righted in me to save spectators from the "sound the sickening thud" as it crashes to larth. Rev. B. F. Bradley, moderator of the . R. P. Synod in session here last week, was a pasieuger with Lieut, bueuly on one of his flights. He described it as the most thrilling sensation of his life and expressed a wish that he might go from here to his home in Troy, 8. C., by plane. Miss Myrtle Hayes, of the Gray-Barkley Company and Mrs. K. P. Washam are two lady passengers who hare taken flights. Gastonia is headquarters for the Air craft Corporation. With this city as the central point,-, it . is planned to cover this whole section wthin the next two or three months. Trips will be made to all the surrounding!, towns. "By Airplane to Asheville" ftiyr the week-end will la the privilege of uiauy Gastonians if the plans of the corporation are carried out. HOME MISSION OPERATIONS HAVE PRACTICALLY DOUBLED. WASHINGTON, May I t. -Opera tions of the Home Mission Board ot' tiiv SSouthcrii Baptist Convention have been practicaly doubled during the last year. Dr. H. I). Gray, secretary, reported to day to the 7"th annual session of tne convention. In the general evangcliKtic w rk of the board, carried on by ."(' white general evangelists and singers, one special mis sionary to the deaf mutes, and throe ne gro evangelists more than 16,0o0 fer sons were added to 1 lit churches during the last year. Evangelistic and eduea- tionnl work among the people of foreign tongues in the South has reached large i proportions, this work being conducted ! in seven different languages. j MODERN BLUEBEARD I 111 J jjs-WfMW yVygyil'irtilJ ! 1. 1 1 mm m m ymwm HM vnm "IV1 I oral ' - -Vfv v! " y . , - -.. i r o - - ! f 1". 'Hn -., , ' - ''jZ . " ; - I r i f v T - - . New photo of modern Bluebeard and four victims, A new photo ef Los Angeles ' saoders Bluebeard, Chaa. Harvey, alias Watson, sad bis four wires, who wen km ed by him, according ts am alleged coalessiom. ' Let to right: Alice Lndvigsen, Betty Prior Lewis, Nifl Ddoney said Bertha Cfeodaici. " 'r RIFLE SQUAD GETS ROB BER WHO HAD LOOTED MAIL CAR OF URGE SUM Chicago Police Shot In Running Fight With Train Robber "Easy to Rob Mail Trains When You Have Inside I' formation," Said He. CHICAGO. May 14 A rifle squad of Chicago police early today cornered and shot u train robber who had robbed an Illinois Ciiitral Railroad mail car of cur reucy estimated to totul $100,00(1. The train arrived at the 63rd street station about 1 o'clock, three hours late, and the train robber left the mail car there . A few blocks away two policemen accosted him and he shot one through the head. According to reports received by the police the robler boarded a passenger car on the train at Oilman, about fifty miles south of Chicago, an 1 worked hist way forward to the mail car, where he compiled one of the five mail clerks to tie the hands of feet of the others. The shooting of the policeman attract ed a squad of patrolmen who cornered the robber in an apartment building not far away. A rifle squadron was sum moned and after two hours of sniping by both sides, the robber was killed. During the exchange of shots which fol lowed the attempt of the two policemen to search the robber, be dropped the satchel containing the money taken from the mail i pouches . At the Hyde Park police sta tion it was found to contain packages of currency of $5,000 each, whose total uj- proximated nearly $100,000, according to police. Chief ClerkElmer F. Harris in the mail coach loosened his bonds and pull ed the cord, stopping the train soon af ter the robber had departed but while the alarm was being spread to South Side police stations, Policeman William A. Roberts, the wounded officer, and another policeman, had found the ban dit and recovered the stolen currency. A' mail pouch from Decatur had been taken on at Oilman, where the bandit is believed to have boarded the train, ac cording to mail clerks, but whether it contained the big shipment of money is not known. The unwounded olieeman, who was knocked over when his compan ion fell mortally wounded, chased the bandit into an apartment house nearby, wounding him once and recovering the money;, and from there iuto another building where the robber is said to have been living. During the siege the rob ber was shot through the head and sever al times through the body. According to the police he is Horace Walton, thought to le from St. Joseph, Mo. According to .1. P. Walker, one of the mail clerks, the robber walked directly to the mail sack containing the currency saving: "This stuff is euny when yon have in side information . ' ' In a few minutes he had packed the currency into a satchel and for the next hour sat guarding the mail clerks. PITTSBURGH. Pa.. May U. bix hundred shopmen, yardmen and train men of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie 'railroad who have been on strike at the important terminal at Dickerson Run, I'm., returned to work yesterday, it was announced at the general offices of the company. It is the most important break in the strikers ranks since the strike was calKM a niontii. ago. Airplane motors and propellers, at' tnched to each end of a railroad car in Germany for exierimental purposes, are said to have run tho car at high rate of speed witM small expense. AND FOUR VICTIMS eiHC CTATCMCMT did dltlL WAR WAS DEPARTMENT DELAYS IS FALSE ASSERTS' DANES Admiral's Statement is Refuted By A is Own Tes timony Secretary Says That Charge of Un due Prolongation of the War Was Serious -Made With Reckless Disregard of Facts. fby The" Associated Prees) WASHINGTON, May 14 Read Ad miral Sims ' ' fallacious ant baseless ' ' as sertion that navy department delays pro longed (be war four months unnecessari ly was "practically the only charge of unfavorable results from the many alleg ed sins of omission and commission, ' ' the officer had ascribed to the department, Secretary Daniels today told the senate naval investigating committee. It was fully refuted, he added, by the admiral's own testimony. '"Tha nkirn it tliA nrnlnnffatinn of th was was a definite and serious one," said the secretary. "It was made with reckless disregard of the facts and the reasoning and statistics adduced in its support are thost one might expect to find in the fantastic tales of a Baron Munch ausen." . Admiral Hims based his estimate of an unuecessary loss of 500,000 lives on an average loss for the allies of 3,000 men a day, said Mr. Daniels. ' ' The loss of 3,000 men a day for four months falls far short of half a million, but of course half a million sounds more impressive than the figure which would have been arrived at by correct arith metic," the secretary declared. The admiral based the charge on the assumption that had there been a mil lion American soldiers in France by March 1918, the war would have ended four months sooner, Mr. Daniels said, and completed the reasoning by assum ing that the tonnage losses of 1JH7 pre vented carrying that number of troops oversens by that date and that failure of the American navy to eo operate heartily in the first months of the war resulted iu the heavy tonnage losses. "It is not necessary to wander far into the realm of statistics or technical questions to show the absolute fallacy of Admiral Sims' claim," Mr. Daniels said. "He informed the committee that the net tonnage available for the allies May 1. 1!H7, was 'i7 ,000,000. It is a n. alter of common knowledge that on May 1, 1 9 1 S, the tonnage was less than on May 1, 1917. Testimony given by Vdmiral Sims would indicate that the net loss during the year was about 2,000,000. This is probably a sufficiently c lose esti mate for practical purjHBes. Now then, owiiiK to the tonnage losses of 1917 and the early part of 1918, the net tonnage available to the allies had been reduced from 27.000,000 on May 1, 1917, to 25, 000,00(1 on May 1, 1918. Yet it is ad mitted bv Admiral Sims that iu the spring of 1918 American troops were traD8iorted to France at the rate of nearly 300,000 a month, or more than tenJ times the rate to which he said transpor tation had been restricted in 1917 be cause of tonnage. This simple fact re futes absolutely Admiral Sims' attempt that the tonnage losses of 1917 made it ' impossible to transport any considerable American army' and made it 'necessary to limit the number of American troops that could be sent abroad during the first year to an average of approximately 25,000 men per month. " There never was a time, the witness said when tonnage was not available to carry troops and supplies to France as fast as they could be landed and trans ported to the front, although it "was only by extreme exertions that this was done during the rush of troops in April. " Allocation of ships to the United States by the, allies was always the dom inant facforVMr. Daniels declared. ' ' As a matter of fact the American army materially shortened the war,' ' said Secretary Daniels. "It got to the front as soon as it was humanly possible, not by chance, but as a result of careful plans involving complete co-operation between the army and" navy, carefully tarried out." Mr. Daniels quoted Field Marshal Haig as saying that the British armies were unable to. intervene until nearly two years bad elapsed in sufficient strength Adequately to assist tho allies. . The war was over 19 months after the United States entered, he said, adding that "no one .can deny that within tf ten manias after our entry tho Ajnericu army -was fax sufficient strength 'adequately to as sist the allies: " f'-i ---:: - Ia this connection he aked the eom xoittee to consider that Americas troops and supplies had to bo transported serosa 3,000 miles of sea, whHe Great Britain was "within sound ef tv r " Mr. Par! c - t-J f TUAT MUU illfll PROLONGED BY of Admirals Rodman and Wilson, Bear Admiral Niblack, McKean, ' Strauss, Fletcher, and Badger and Captain Pratt to show that all of these officers refused to support Admiral Sims' charges of pro longation of tho war. UMBWOOD LEADS BY: f.TORE THAN 3.000 VOTES (By The. Associated Press) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 14. Oft cial returns from 54 counties out of 67 early today gave the following result ia the Alabama primary race for the nosai nation to the long term senatorship: Underwood 47,192 first ehoice, lJ51t second. Mnsgove 39,87 first; 3,468 second. Weakley 4,210 first; 10,120 second. Twenty-two counties gave tho following official returns in the contest for tho short term to fill the vacancy1 caused by the death of Senator Bankhead. , Renin 14,091 first; 3,331 second. White 1,129 first; 3,491 second. O'Neal 9,276 first; 805 second. Rushton 5,622 first; 2,719 second. On the face of these returns Senator Underwood was 3,595 votes ahead of tho combined totals of his two opponents. Unofficial returns compiled by the Birmingham-Age Herald indicated the sen ator would at least hold his own in tho remaining thirteen counties, but Judge Henry B. Foster, campaign manager of Musgove, the union labor candidate, de dared the latter would materially est down the Underwood lead and might break even with the arier of the raeo in the final count. If this should occur. a seeouu jinuinry uriwucn unuerwooa and Musgove might b necessary. CITIES CAN COLLECT ONLY $1.00 TAX FROM JITNEYS RALEIGH, N. C. May 13 One dol lar tax, the amount fixed by state law, is all that municipal authorities in North Carolina have the right to collect from, operators of "for hire" automobiles un der the law, according to a decision of the state supreme court handed down hero late y . terday. The decision probably will mean the loss of thousands of . dol lars " luxcb to '-ities of th.) htate as te lieen ; 'or "for lu.t " jutomobiles in some pi.-icc; :n as hitjli us $50 per car. METHODISTS WILL HAVE PLAN OF UNIFICATION READY NEXT WEEK ( By The Associated Press.) I)E8 MOINEH, Iowa, May 14 Tho special committee appointed by the Methodist General Conference -in ses sion here to consider and report upon tho "plan of unification of the Methodist Episcopal church. South, expects to have its finding and recommendations ready to submit to the general confer ence some time next week, it was said today . All phases of the proposed plan, which provides for the division of the terri tory in which the churches are located io-. toregions, have been explained to the en tire committee which is now discussing the various points involved. It is um derstod that the sentiment expressed to date is not strongly in favor of the pro posed plan. VETERAN OF ONE WAR KILLS THE VETERAN OF ANOTHEK. JOHNSON CITY. Tenn.. May 14. John O'Mara, veteran of the Spanish-. American war, was shot and killed by Luther S. Sands, veteran of the Civil war. just outside the north gate to too soldiers' .home grounds here ' yesterday afternoon. The shooting r followed a nnftrrel belsveen the two men which arose when Sands, who is officer of tha guard at the home, is said to have ejected O' Mara forcibly from the grounds. A eor orner's inquest, hekl 'snortty afteh tho killing, returned a verdict of "justifiable homicide." ' .. i WASHINGTON, May 14. The pro vision in the republican peace resot'-i requesting the President to cr tions with Germany for a Bejr t was stricken out today on mot" i ' str Ie'-, ef ?.fa3ach V