"VOL.XLI NO. 116.
GASTONIA, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, 1920
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
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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'
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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
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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