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V i J,, A Da Gazette GASTONIA COTTON 41 CENTS TODAY READ THE WANT ADS ON PAGE 5 1,1 MKMBUt OT TEX ASSOCIATED PKXSS VOL. XLI. NO. 119. GASTONIA, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 18, 1920 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS SAURIES OF TEACHERS NOSTH CAROLINA ORTJIOPAEDIC HOSPITAL TO GIVE QLAD WILL BE RAISED HAND 1 School Board Adopt Schedule For Citv Teachers With 'SI. - 200 as Minimum Salary " Other Salaries Will Be Com mensurate With IrammjL , and Experience. -'77 - , At a meetinir of the i-itv school board Iheld Monday night, tlie board unanimous ly passed a resolution waking tit mini mum salary in the Gastonia city schools 'sJlEOO per year for a graduate of an "A" college who lias completed the re- qi'irc'l amount of professional training. For those of higher qualifications" more experience .the salaries will range iuward, in some cases reaching as high as 210 per month. Thin action on the part of the board conies an tlia final step in a prove long contemplated by the superintendent and board, "J"his provi sion will put the salaries of the teacher in the Gastonia schools equal to the best . in the State. Other matters of interest discussed were plana looking toward the building; in conjunction with the county, of "a. large building in the, vicinity of the Mu tual and Gray-Parkdale group of mills. Supt R P. Hall, of the county schools was present at the meeting. COMMUNITY WORKERS PI4 BIG THIiIGS FOR COUNTY Amofti Other AcUrities Coun ty Organization Will Issue Monthly Paper Other Pro jects r or Betterment or ut ' inr Conditions Considered Monday. Realisation of the vital importance of the work of the Gaston County Commun ity Worker's organization was brought more forcibly to mind in the second meeting held Monday in the office of Prof. F. P. Hall, county supenfn dent of public schools, at the corny house. The president. Miss Nell Picipry( called the meeting to order and prayer was of fered by Rev. 3. W. C. Johnson, who also gave a short talk. He made the detnark that the first thing that caught Sis interest after settling in his new home -was the account of the first meeting of the Gaston County Community Workers' organization published in The Daily Ga aette and that if we are to face thj op portunities that await us in this great county, thin organization will be found inanv time not only of great benefit but a necessity. ; - Prof.. Hall, the originator of conununi , ty work in Gaston County, stated ths im portance of . community work in connec tion with the schools. He said that the elevating atinoe phere' of the school room auid its influence over the children was often neutralized by home surroundings. J Heisaid that the community .w orker, or ' home teacher, and the employment of a school principal for 12 mouths of the yea were the great factors in coHnec tion.with the progress of the school. Ways and means of not only aiding the people of Gaston county to regain their health but also to prevent sickness and keep theui well was interestingly told by Miss Alice Ward, county Red Cross Burse, who also laid sTfesuion the im portance of a county hospital, one ward of which should be provided for those ad dicted to the drug habit. Miss Lee, a most welcome guest, urged that a carflpaign be put on against rue lewsness. In North Carolina alone last jrejir through carelessness 'approximately 4.000,000 worth of property was de stroyed nnd more than IlOU liven lost by fires. A motion made by Rev. George Gilles pie was carried that a monthly paper that will tend to stimulate interest and be for general information for the workers throughout the county, be published, electing Miss Nell Pickens, county dem onstration agent, as editor in chief with the following associate editors: Rev. J . W. C. Johnson, representing the minis terial department ; Miss Alice Ward, the nurse's department, and Mrs. Joe Grib ble the recreational.. Mr. H.N. Boyce, chairman of the ad visory committee, -selected as his asso ciates Dr. I). A. Garrison, Mr. 8. A. Eobinson, Mr. i. B. Dolly and Mr. W. T. Rankin. These were unani mously accepted by the organization. , -'Many people have the wrong concep tion of a Chamber of Commerce," said Mr. F. M. Allen, secretary iof the Gaa tonia Chamber. The bringing of indus tries into the city is Important but is not the whole business. It Is an organ ization to stimulate better things throughout the county and make the city, a better place in which to live. He said that the office of the Chamber of Com merce and he, himself, were ready at all times to render any service possible to the Community Workers' organization, Jtj-Allen urged the jcarkers to eo ' operate with him in making? the Gas-to-) County Fair in October of so much . interest to the progressireseas of the people that the flaring,- noisy midway would Je of minor importance and in doe time be done away with eatirely, for thSr is not?.:- j elevating about a midway. Tie r '.'.. j adjourned to meet at the C ! r T lov the tV-tl Ifct- M.I I M V I Xr ; !lir 4.4 i.( i f. IV A I H Now Nearinj Completion at Babington Heights, GaatOnia Cornerstone-Will be Visiting Odd Fellows of State Will Visit This Institution Wednesday. SENATOR PENROSE, NOT SIMS, ORIGINATED CHARGES AGAINST THE NAVY SAYS SECRETARY ; Daniels Recalls That in August, 1918, Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania. Made Charges Against Navy's Unpreparedness Daniels Ac cuses Sims of Plagirism or Collusion With Penrose. IRm Associated Preaa. WASHINGTON, May IS. Senator oies Tenrose, republican, Pennsylvania, md not Rear Admiral Bims, originated Ithe basic charges against the navy de partment contained in the admiral's let ter of January 7, Secretary Daniels as- erted lefore the senute committee investi gating the naval conduct of the war. Mr. l)aniels recalled that the senator in a eech in the senate August 24, 191 S. de sareil that procastination on the part of Sie secretary of the navy delayed the termination of the war at least three months, cost 15,000,000,000 and many lives. The words used by Senator Penrose were almost identical with those used by Admiral Sims more than a year later. Mr. Daniels said. " Kither Admiral Sims is a plagiarist and appropriated his views and charges from Senator Penrose or by the new science of mental tele pathy the views of the senator were com municnted to Admiral Sims," declared Mr. Daniels. "Penrose conies from Pennsylvania anil Sims was appointed to tlte naval academy from that state. Did they collaborate or exchange mental" tele" grams? ' '' The committee might have "saved thousands of reams of paper and hun dred a uf thousands of words.-' by in vestignting Senator Penrose's changes, the "Vitness added. Seiuitor Penrose was 'Imposed upon J by some informant almost as reckless in his figures as Admiral Sims was in his accusations, ' ' Mr. Daniels continued. "It is also worthy of note," he said "that at the very time Penrose was mak ing his speech, Sims was writing to Captain Pratt, threatening on investiga tion of the conduct of the war." .Nfr. Daniels said he would not answer the Penrose charges at length, even tltough he had just learned of them, be cause his answer to Admirsl Sims cover ed the matter fully. He devoted the rest of the day to a resume of the navy de partment's war construction activities, comprising approximately 1.000 vessels, nearly three' times as many as there were in the entire itfvy when the war started. He paid high tribute to Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, chief constructor, who, he said, had no superior in the world. A stoking device invented in Sweden makes 1,3 tons of pulverized peat pro duce as much power a a ton of coal in locomotives . PROGRAM FOR TONIGHT Public exercises in Central school auditorium 8 to 9 p Joe S. Wray prasiding. Invocation by Rev. W. R. Coppedge, of Rockingham. Address of Welcome on Behalf -of City by Capt. R. Grand of Gastonia Lodge No..-118 and mayor of the city. Address ( welcome on Behalf of Gastonia Lodge No. 188 by Past Grand A. E..WoIU. Address of -Welcome en Behalf of WoodeQ Rebekah Lodge No. -128 by the Noble Grand, Mrs Stephen B. DoDey. ' Response ea Behalf of the Grand Lodge by Grand Master C. O. Mc 'Micaael, el Winstoa-Salem. SespOBse or the ReVkah State Assembly by the- President, Mtea Lil Baa . Flora, of Moyock. -.' .. . t At ARMORY r'. M. , Conferring of Grand Led.ge degree oa aew reyreaeatatiToo. . ' - , 'Orgiaiiatioa of Graad "Lodge ami Aaaotoceaeat Comadttecs. ' ' r" it - , 2' K K 1 r , I -" . ' BIG PARADE OF MOTOR TRUCKS HERE MAY 24TH Local Committee Making Ar ranfements For Farm Truck Demonstration to Be Held , Here. The advance committee representing the 'li!irlotte Truck Dealers Association we e iii Gastoniu this week making ar rangements for the reception of the farm truck demonstration tour which that association is sending out. They are scheduled 'to leave Charlotte Monday morning. May 34th, and will be here at lo o'clock and will leave at 12:."!0 There will le about 2d trucks in the I b'K tnortorcade representing all the dif j ferent makes handled in this territory, j There will ! other items of interest ear ried besides the trucks in the way of la bor lightening devices. A speaker who is an authoritv on farm eeoniini s will also ls with the caravan and will 1 address the meeting h-re. Music will be J a part of tin1 progr;.in. In all it wl! be, a travelling motor show wortli your i tone aai eltort to atteml ami enjov. A committee consisting i f ( '. I,. Oowan, .1. C. Loughridge. V. !s Buice. M. A. 'nrpenter, I'red M. Alien, John R. Ran kin and S. . Ito.vce has been appointed to handle the local arrangements for the re.-eption of the touring truckmen. An address of welcome will be given bv May- i or Cherry. The purpose of the tour is to interest j the fanner in motorizing his farm. It j is hoped that the result will tie in helping to solve the lalor shortage problem and assist in producing more food stuffs for j human consumption. ! Demonstrations will Ik1 made on dif I feront farms and the committee asks that yon reserve hauling for that day and no tify them or this office and they will see that the trucks do it. All will be invited to go with the trucks to see these de monstrations. The tour will 1h out on a five days trip and the towns to be visted Hre Gastonia, llessemer City. Kings Mountain, Shelby. Cherryville, Lincolnton. Maiden. Stntes ville Mooresville. Davidson. Huntersville. Derita Pineville Matthews and Mint Hill. r Paris maintains a museum of the j horse, showing a complete history of the I animal from the earliest known period ' to the present . i . C? J1 7" m. Past Grand G. Cherry, Past ' i 1 J . i i - - - 7ir-s3-e?ac Laid June 8th With Elaborate Ceremonies MASONS TO HOLD BANQUET FRIDAY NIGHT Gastonia Lodge No. 369, A. F. & A. M., Gastonia Chapter, No. 66, R. A. M., and Gas tonia Commandery, Knights Templar to Have Get-To- ? ether Meeting In Armory at :30 Friday Evening Big Attendance Expected. Prepa rations are being made !iy (Jas tonia Lodge No. .'HS9, A. F. & A. M. for a banquet and get-together meeting Fri day night at 7:.'i0 o'clock in the armory. Tiie meeting promises to be one of the most signitiiant and enjoyable ever held in the history of Gastonia Masonic cir cles. Kvery member of Gastonia Ixdge No. M69, of the Chapter and of the Com mandery is urged to tr: present. Of late, the holding of informal ban quets and feeds by the various organisa tions of Masonic bodies in the city, has become quite a common custom. It has been found that the members appreciate tiii-se get-together meetings, that under the influence and spell of H good dinner and a good speaker, topped off with a good smoke, those attending are in a bet ter mood to do things. It is the earnest wish of Worshipful Master Thompson and Secretary W. V. Warren that every Mason in the city at tend this feed Friday night. All who ex pect to attend are asked to notify the secretary as early as possible. CHINESE BANDITS ROB MISSIONARIES HANKOW. May !7. Chineso ban dits recently held up and robbed two missionary families of the church mission society traveling by houseboat on the Vangtse from their post in Szcchunn to Shanghai. The robbery occurred in llnpeh province near Ichang. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. Cnld well mid Mr. ami Mrs. Whitesides who were compelled to bring their craft to land by firing from the shore. About 2" rubbers boarded it and held the male mem bers under guard on shore while tte in men were forced to otrn up their bag gage, which was thoroughly ransacked and looted of everything that took the bandits fancy which included virtually all clothing, watches, rings and evon spec tacles. A celluloid doll belonging to an infant member of the farty was restored only when the wails of the child touched the hearts 'of the robbers. The latter were described as having been dressed in army uniform and carried service rifles with bayonets and revolvers. SENATE AND HOUSE REACH DEADLOCK. WASHINGTON". May Is. A dead lock on the army reorganization bill was reached today by the senate it' f house con forces. Senate provisions lo reorganize the force caused the breach and the ues tioii will le brought before the house for a vote. EIGHT-YEAR-OLD CHESS PLAYER BEATS 20 EXPERTS. PARIS. Mav 17. Samuel Rzeszewski. iuie p0auder. M years old, who has won fame as a chess marvel, justified re- poru of his ability on Sunday by de ! feating twenty elderly experts of the ' Palais Royal 4'hess Club in a simultane ous tournament. The tournament lasted three hours and the little fellow presented an unusual appearance as he trotted a hout tables which were, almost as tall as he. Samuel has been playing chess for three vears. C. W. BURNS BISHOP. DKS MOINES, IOVA, May 18. C. W. Hums, of Minnesy-xilis, Minn., was elected a bishop of the Methodist Episco pal Church on the ballot taken here late yesterday at the general conference, the result of which was announced today. His vote was 552. HUNGARY WILL SIGN. , f , BUDAPEST, May 17--Huagai7 .wiU sign the peace treaty presented to her by the allies, it w&a indicated here , to day. Count Appozryi, who strongly op posed the seeepts&ee of the treaty, has re sigsed froa the peace delegatioa. TO THE ODD FELLOWS OF STATE TONIGHT Following Public Exercises in Auditorium of Cen tral School Tonight, When Delegates Will be Officially Welcomed to City, Seventy-Seventh Annual Session of Grand Lodge Will Convene Business Session Wednesday and Thursday. "SHINE" SHANNON, NEGRO . MURDERER, CAUGHT Killed Another Negro at Grav er Six Years Ago Arrested by Local Police Here Mon day. Policemen Terrell and Adderholdt Mon day afternoon arrested Tom (alias "shine") Shannon, a Cleveland county negro wanted for the murder of another negro near C rover six years ago. Shannon- arrived in Gastonia Monday after noon on No. 4." and was arrested a few moments later on Marietta street. He diif not deny his identity but claimed that there were extenuating circumstances. He will be turned over to the t leveland coun ty authorities. At. the time of the killing Shannon and his victim were working 011 Hob Mc Arver's road force near ("rover. The name of his victim is not known by the local police officers. Shannon escaped, went to Salisbury, stole a horse and buggy and went to Kentucky. Since then, be says, he has been in vnrlous part of the country. BERLIN COMMENT ON KNOX RESOLUTION HERLIX, May 17 Only a few news paers comment editorially on the vote in the United States senate on the Knox resolution ending the state of war be tween the United Spates and Germany. The Tageblatt Mieves the United States has ' ' found a convenient solu tion to the situation growing out of the rejection of the Versailles treaty" but suggests it will Ik1 necessary to enter into friendly negotiations Cith the United States for the adjustment of many moot ed issues In fore normal commercial re lations can be resumed. It says that among these is the iiestion of the treat inent of German procrty confiscated in America . Suggestion is made by the Lokal An z.eiger that news of the vote in the senate should be "received with an ample meas ure of scepticism, as numerous parlia mentary olwtacles are yet to le over come.'' Liberal organs express the Ite lief the action of the senate may material ly aid in enabling American financiers to take up the problem of aiding German riM'OUHt ruction in a practical manner. WASHINGTON,. May IN Two re orts, one by republicans condemning the government 's entire war time nitrate program and charging reckless waste, and extravagance, and the other by demo crats defending it and charging partisan bias by the majority, were presented to day to the house by a special committee which took up the investigation nearly a year ago. Along with its 41 general condemna tions of the government's policy, the re publican majority comprising Cchairman Graham, Illinois, and Representative Jef fries, Nebraska, submitted recommenda tions for future disposal of the Muscle Shoals properties, which Representative Garrett, of Tennessee, the democratic member, declared was beyond its province Mr. Garrett indicated that he would make a point of order against the report on that ground. Members said this would open the way for the biggest political fight in the house since the war investi gating committee was created. The republicans laid the blame for the nitrate program, entailing an expendi ture of about $166,000,000, at the door of President Wilson, with Bernard M. Baruch as the moving spirit of the great wartime project, although Representative Garrett, speaking for the minority, de clared that the president acted on the suggestion of Secretary Baker and that both could assume responsibility without thought of spology. - s ;.- ' ' . Charging the Air Nitrates Corporation, builders of the H uncle Shoals plant, with failure to perform its contract, the ma jority -recommended to congress that ao further sums be paid it on S' t, sl that eivil suits be i-utel f - ? REPUBLICANS CONDEMN Tho seventy -seventh annual session of the (rand Lodge of North Carolina, la- 1 dependent Order of Ocul Fellows, will be colled to order in the Armory on West Airline avenue at nine o'clock Tuesday night, following a program of pnblie ex ercises to be held in the auditorium f the Central school from 8 to 9 o'clock. Oraad 1 Master C. O. McMichael, of Winstoa Salem, who arrived on a late train Moa day night, will preside. The public exercises at eight o'clock sv full program of which was published ia Monday's Daily Gazette, will include d drejsos of welcome on behalf of the eity ' the local Odd Fellows lodge, and the local "ebekah Lodge, with respouaes by Graad Master McMichael anil Miss Lillian D. Flora, president of the State Rebekah iseitl!ll . : 'f Hu'ncMs session will occupy the tune . lo?!i Kilies Wednesday morning, Wed in day affinoofTnd Thursday morning, wit 1 degree work Wednesday afternoon by ti e degree staff of Neuse Lodge of Golds oto, and the conferring of the f Rebekah degree Wednesday night by the ' degree staff of Letitia Rebekah Lodge Vo. 3, of Wilmington. The Grand Kncampment convened ia j : tlie Odl Follows Hall Monday afternoon .' A o 'clock, and took up routine business. . At .'lit o'clock Monday night the three ;..n ui.'iit degrees were very beautiful ly exemplified y a team composed of of ficers and members of the Grand Encamp ment. The candidates were a -class of ' eleven irtn elected to membership in Pied mont Encampment No. 6, of Gastonia. The Grand Encampment is again in see- sion today, the proceedings being given elsewhere. TO SHOW VISITORS CITY. Wednesday afternoon, beginning at 5 o ' lock, the delegates and visitors to tho - -Grand Islge will be gtven an automobile -. ride over the city and suburbs. Th j party will start from the Armington hotel ' and will go the following route: . Cars headed west, ou Airline to York, York to Franklin, west 011 Franklin to Lin wood street, returning on Second are-1 t , ... nue by the Loray Mill to York, then 1 south to the Victory Mill, crossing the C k X. W. and back by the Dixon, Ruby, , Osceola, Seminole, Armstrong, Clara' sm-l -Dunn, then out East Franklin to the . ' North Carolina Orthopaedic Hospital now in course of construction, which will doubtless be a -point of great interest to the visitors. From there the cars will ., j. probably return direct to the Armington. WAR TIME PROGRAM and that the whole question of pay be threshed out in the court of claims. It also was recommended that the govern ment pursue such remedies as might be decided by the attorney general. After asking congress to sell materials stored at the Toledo and Cincinnati plants and retain the Sheffield, Ala., plant, tlte committee recommended that . the government lease the deserted Tillage, built for officers at Sheffield at a cost of $12,000,000. The prineiial recommendation by the . majority rebated to the big Muscle Shoals plant, costing $70,000,000. Being -too valuable to scrap, the majority recom mended that it be leased and converted into a fertiliser plant, for the sale of pre-, ducts direct to farmers, with the right of the government to take it over in time of threatened war. Further expenditures at Muscle Shoals were opposed. - In the first of its findings the majority charged that the nitrate program eost tho government $116,194,974, that mo aitra tes were produced prior to the armistice, and that it contributed nothing' toward winning the war. ' The minority report replied that if war expenditures were to be judged by the un expended st the end ef hostilities, three fourths of the nation s efforts were use less, three million more mem than were necessary were called to the colors and congress made itself ' ridiculous' ia passing the last draft set. '. The nitrate program was character', - ! as "one of misdirected rort"-t - ' majority, which declared if C r fort had been utilized la t" and war eseBt'.;.?i it w Tal he!? is w!----
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