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Johmon and Hardin? Get on the Ground Early-
Five Days Before Convention Begins Will Be
Full of Conferences and Last Minute Moves.
I By The Associated Press.)
. CHICAGO, Jane 3. Two republican
presidential candidates Senator Johnson;
of California and (Senator Harding, of
Ohio arrived In Chicago tody, and their
coming ioarked the beginning of the active
days of the pre-convention period.
. Five days remain before the republican
party assembles in the Oolieeun ;to pick
ita candidate and those five day
pected to contain crowded hours of eon
f areneea, bat minute alignment of forces,
,-and, aa, dec! aipns among the campaign
.managers. Every one, oif khe. candidates
except Herbert Hoover- is6 expected here
.ax some tune. . , ;- -f.
The advance guards of ,tae delegates are
! -beginning to arrive and by Sunday they
will be coming in a steady, stream. The
majority of them, to be sure, are teeh
aiioally unpledged, but piost of them have
their leanings and very few of them are
claimed by leas than three campaign aan-
.Agera 8ome of Jhe chairmen of the in
coming delegations are announcing their
preferences ia prepared statement which
became the confidence of success, but the
political managers standing on the side
iines and making up their states have
found no reason for changing their opin-
' ion that while some of the candidates have
enough delegates to give them formidable
-fighting strength in the convention, it is
.going to take more than two or hree bal
lots to ahow where the forces of concilia
tion and compromise must be applied to
-bring forth a candidate who win com
mand a majority.
If the realm of speculation were to be
entered H would be necessary to mention
.practically every candidate who has an
nounced himself thus far because every
one of those candidates has manager
-who advances a set of Masons why- his
principal is the logical choice for a con
tention which Trill not be prepared to give
a majority of hs votes to any one at the
outset.
As the delegates begin to gather, there
is a forerunner of discussion of the con
vention issues which will find expression
In the party platform, and those who are,
interested in having the party take a
, position on various subjects are busy lin
ing up influences which they expect to be
effective in the deliberations of the reso
lutions committee.
As soon as the members of the national
committee are freed from consideration
of the claims of delegations contesting for
-eeeta, things are expected to move along
with more speed. The committeemen will
find themselves free to give attention to
the convention issues. While the contests
are on discussion of candidates, platform
and prospects is to them left hand work.
The committee today still had before it,
awaiting decision, the Florida and Geor
.gia rases and the cases of the eight dis
trict, delegates from Mississippi. From
those cases it was waiting to passonto
the contests from North Carolina, Okla
homa, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas
and Virginia. The indications ara that
the time consuming contests have been
passed and that with the Georgia and
Tlorida eases out of the way the remain
der will be more quickly disposed of.
DELEGATES ARRIVING FOR
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
" (By Associated prase.
. s BATON ROUGE, La., June 3. Dele
" -gates' are arriving in Baton Rouge for
the meeting tonight of the state demo-
- n-tal convention which selects delegates
:for the San Francisco convention.
The big four from the state at large
will probably 1e Governor Parker, Colonel
Frank P. Stubbs, . Senator Joseph E.
' .HansdelV and Senator Tklward J. Gay.
Political leaders said . the delegation
probably would be nninstruc'ted.
The fight in the convention tonight will
1 be over a plank advocating, the aale of
- light wines and beer, and urging the na
, tional eonvention to go on record as ad
vocating the modification of the Volstead
a act to . that extent. The ligh wine and
beer forces are led by Edwin Broussard,
candidate for" the United States senate.
The prohibition forces ara being led by
-ex-Gevernor Sanders.
SENATE RESOLUTION ORDERED -V
OUT BY HOUSE COMMITTEE
' -f ' B Associated PnaaJ ; ' f , . ' :
WASHINGTON, June 3. The senate
1 resolution ; declining to -grant Preeident
C 'Wilson's request for authority to accept
' . mandate over Armenia was ordered out
today by the foreign affairs committee.
-Chairman Porter said he did not. expect
to ask" bouse actios until tomorrow. .
. : Democratic members of the committee
offered a substitute declaring that ,-,-gresn
believes, it unwise to grant tie exee-
stive power to accept a mandate over Ar
' nmia until after the ratification of trea
ties of peace with the central powere,?
11U wnn vo'ed down by the republican
LEGATES
A1IVNG
PRESIDENT W1U NOT
GALL EXTRA SESSION
If Present , Session I Ended
: Saturday He Will Not Call
. ' Extra Session Unless There
is Grave Emergency. -h'
WASHINGTON, June 3. President
Wilson has assured senate democrats that
if. the present sesison is ended Saturday
he will not call an extra session during
the coming summer unless there is a grave
emergency.
Announcement of the president's de
cision was made in the senate today by
Senator Underwood,' of Alabama, the dem
ocratic leader, who said he had 1een au
thorised to deny reports that an extra
session was contemplated.
Sharp criticism greeted the adjourn
ment resolution when it came up for de
bate. Senator Kenyon, republican, Iowa,
moved to amend it so that the adjourn
ment would be to August 30.
PROCTOR'S ASSISTANT IS
CALLED TO STAND
WASHINGTON, June 3. Horace 8.
Stebbins, of New York, first treasurer of
the (Lincoln-Wood league, and sought by
subpoena servers of the senate investigat
ing committee for several days, wired the
committee today from "Montreal that he
had just heard of the search for him and
desired tiu testify. He will be heard to
morrow.
WASHINGTON, June W. B.
Burtt, assistant to Colonel William Cooper
Procter, national chairman of the Wood
campaign committee, was the tiritt witness
called today ttefore the senate Committee
investigating pre-convention campaign ex
penditures. In business life, he said, he was "as
sistant and confidential man for" Aiu
broe Monell. of New York, who it has
been testified, was a heavy contributor to
the Wood campaign fund.
Mr. Burtt said he had brought papers
from the Wood national committee, and
produced a suit ca and two bundles,
from which he took a sot of formidable
looking ledgers. The committee discussed
the showing of the various accounts with
him.
MYSTERY OF MISSING
CHILD STILL UNSOLVED
MORRI8TOWN, I 'a .. June 3 The
mystery surrounding the kidnapping of
13 months old Blakeley Coughliu, who
was stolen from his crib early yester
day, was still unsolved today. Hundreds
of persons, including home defense o
lice, members of the state police, depart
ment of justic agents and private de
tectives, searched the surrounding coun
try and the foreign settlements through
out the night without finding a trace of
the child's w lieiaUmts . The police,
hawever, announced today they arc work
ing o several promising clues.
Apparently the kidnappers were well
acquaintnl with the Coughlin house.
They used a ladder to reach the nursery
window .
A reward of 1,500 has been offered by
the county commissioner for the arrest
and conviction of the idnappers .
George H. Coughlin, the baby 'a fath
er, is president of a Philadelphia litho
graphing r oncer n, and a former Prince
ton athlete. " -
LITTLE SHAKY OVER RECEIPT
OF 100,000HECK
NEW YORK, June 3. Miss Virginia
Gildersleeve, dean of Barnard College, ex
plained today that her shaky signa
ture" on nraduatea (iinlnmu Teaterdav
was due to the excitement of receiving a
$100,00 check in the. morning mail for
the college endowment "fund from the
Carnegie Foundation. She announced that
the $500,000 endowment goal bad nearly
been reached, ; .
MILK WAGOIT DRIVER
CETS A WAT WITH $2,000
( B The Associated' Pre-O
NEW YORK, June 3. Detectives to
day sought milk wagon driver who took
s roll of bills amounting to $2,000 from
iz year old Sammy finlvmrto, who found
the money yesterday while laying on the
aidearalk is front. of his home. A few
minutes after the driver disappeared with
the money, Mrs. Lixxia Termees appeared
with a patrolman searching for the miss
iag bills which she said dHc.had'jont lost.
y I - '
Mr. W. W. Coaba, af Lawrenceburg,
Tenn
Who will sing at the First Baptist
-hureb tomorrow morning. Mr. Combs is
the singer at Ranlo, in the Baptist evan
gelistic campaign.
rIyImcoiiS
still at high tide
More Than.Seren Hundred Ac
cessions so Far To Close
Sunday With Big Rally in
Charlotte.
The interest and spiritual power con
tinues at high tide in the evangelistic
campaign now in progress in thirty Bap
tist churches of Gaston, Mecklenburg and
Cabarrus counties . There have been more
than 725 additions to the cooperating
churches to date, fully three-fourths of
whom were received by baptism. There
have been scores of others who have pro
fessed conversion, but for some reason
have not related themselves to any of the
churches as yet. Iast night's services
were all good in all of the different
churches of the campaign. In some
of the centers the revival tide rdn higher
and with greater visible results than it
has gone hitherto. It is confidently 1h
lieved by the leaders of the campaign
that the total numlter of additions will
go-well beyond the 1,000 mark by next
Sunday night when the campaign will
come to a close; in fact it would not le
surprising in the least if as many as
1,200 new members are received into tin
churches before the meetings close.
The great union closing service of the
entire campaign will be held in the
city auditorium at Charlotte next Sun
day afternoon leginuing at :t::i0 o'clock. I
The complete reports of all the churches
of the campaign will lie made at that
time. Instead of the usual climatic ser
mon on such occasions, the program- will
consist of a sacred song recital by the
twenty or more singers of the Kvaugelist
ic staff of the Baptist Howe Mission
Board .
Kvaugelist X. U. Stone, of Hattie
burg. Miss., spoke at the union service
at the First Baptist church yesterday.
His theme was "The Relation of the
Holy Spirit to the Believer," which he
said is five- fold: "The Baptism of the
Spirit; the Filling of the Spirit; the
Sealing of the Spirit and finally the
earnest of the Spirit . ' '
Friday will be the last of the union
day services at the First Baptist church.
An excellent program has been arranged
with Evangelist W. L. Head, ef Atlanta,
as speaker and some of the best singers
including a solo by Mr. Work, a duet
by Messrs. Combs and Meier and a se
lection by the male quartet will sing.
PROGRAM FOR FRIDAY.
First Baptist, church: 10:00 a. m.,
Union service of 15 churches; song leader,
Mr. V. W. Combs; duet, Messrs, Miller
and Combs; nolo, Mr. W. J. Work; selec
tion, iniile quartet; sermon, Evangelist
W. L Head.
Noon hour: Cotton mills in territory
near the churches: l'astor, evangelist
and singer.
7:ji m. All Baptist ehurchesV
Evflngflistic meetings conducted by the
Visiting revivalists.
Officially Declared Nominees.
fiy The Aawelated Prats.)
-MONTGOMERY, Ala. June 3 Sen
ator Oscar W. Underwood was today of
ficially declared the nominee of the demo
cratic party to succeed himself and J.
Thomas Heflin was declared the nomi
nee to succeed the late 8enator John H.
Baukhead.
The entire Alabama delegation in the
house of representatives was renominat
ed except 8. Hugh Dent, who ia succeed
ed by 'Judge John R. Tyson, of Mont
gomery. .''
WOMEN MUST WEAR SMALL '
HATS AND REMOVE THEM
f By Tw Associated Press.) ,
. CHICAGO, June .3 Women attend
ing the republican national convention
ara asked by Mrs. Raymond Robins to
wear plain small hats and to take them
off as boob as they are -seated ia the
convention hall. Mrs. Robins is the wifs
of the chairman ef the last progressive
party eonvention.
BELMONT 2,941, GAI'I
OF 150 PER CENT
Thriving East Gaston Metrop
olis Registera Big Gain Per
Cent in Population Over
iu figures Kock Hill's
ropuiauon 5,8U9.
' Bt Associated Press.)
WAKHI.MiTON, June 3 Census fig
ures today include:
Belmont, X. ;., L',941, increase 1,
765, or lf0.1 er ent .
Rock Hill, S. C. increase 1.5:S, or li-. 1
er cent .
I The jiopulation of Hilniour according
to Hie I lu census was 1,176. There
has been an increase of 1,765 or 150 per
cent. Many of the larger mills at Bel
mont are outside the iiu-orrate limits.
If these were included it is thought that
the figures would run well over 3,000.
The increase of 150 per cent ia consider
ed a remarkable showing.
"CITIZENSHIP" SUBJECT
CO!.!MEHCEMENT ADDRESS
Hon. D. H. Tillett Gives Good
Advice to Young Graduates
Diplomas to Twenty
Youngest Member - of Class
Carries Off Highest Honors.
With the presentation of diplomas to
twenty young graduates the session of
1919-20 of the Gastonia city schools came
to a close last night. Of this number
eighteen were young ladies and tw were
young men.
The exercises began with the invocation
by the graduating class, followed by the
salutatory address by Miss Elizabeth
Boyd, who in a very appropriate manner
bade the audience welcome.
The commencement address was deliv
ered, by Hon. D. H. Tillett, of Camden.
He was introduced UjslMiss Louise Beal,
president of the class. His subject,
"Citizenship," was handled in a clear
and forceful manner. The speaker inter
Ipreted citizenship as consisting not so
mueh in the mere casting of a ballot but
axQie in the light of service and success
in the, activities of government. ,.
Mr. R. C. Patrick, secretary and treas
urer of the city school board, presented
the diplomas to the class, which was com
posed of the following: Leon fic'hnerider,
Mary Love Babiugton, Elizabeth Boyd,
Mary Xeil Davis, Edith Kendrick, Artie
Liueltergef, Lillian McLean, Nellie Ratch
ford, Margaret Spencer, Geneva Wilson,
.lames Sloan, Louise Beal, Lavine Craig,
Mary Grier. Mary Lee" Land, Beulah Mc
Kenzie, Anne Rankin, Ethel Rhyne, Mar
guerite 'I' rout man and Eunice Hoyle.
Miss Beulah McKen.ie, the youngest
meiiilier of the class, won the highest
scholarship honors. In her valedictory
address she bade the class adieu in an
effective ami interesting way.
TO PLACE REALTY
ON LEGAL PLANE
Plans Adopted to Give Real
Estate Men Same Standing
at Lawyeri, Doctors and
Other Business Men.
(By The Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY, June To pl;ue the
profession of the realtor on a legal plane
affording the client the same protection
that surrounds medicine and lavv is the
supreme purpose of a special committee
on real estate license, the report of which
was sulnnittd today to the convention of
the .National Asso iation f Real Estate
Boards, in l.'ith annual session here.
"The year iyj was one of prosperity
for real estate men generally," said Jud
sou Brad way, Detroit, chairman of the
committee, in submitting the report, 'but
not until the years to come will the aver
age realtor realize that during the year
past a new era for the real estate profes
sion began and obtained a tremendous im
petus, which must not and will not cease
until the name 'Realtor' stands with the
name lawyer and doctor, and will mean to
the public that the man entitled to use
that name is qualified mentally and by
experience to give proper and honest ser
vice to hL clients. "
To bring that condition about, the com
mittee urged that the convention go on
record as favoring the adoption by states
of stringent laws governing real estate
operators.
WOMEN ARE FLOCKING
TO CHICAGO CONVENTION
(By The Associated Press. ,
CHICAGO, June 3. The added inter
est of women in politics is responsible for
the unusual demand for tickets to the
republican national eonvention this year,
according to Chairman Wyi H, Hays of
the national committee wrho said today he
had received 150,000 requests for the 13.
288 seats. More than 1,100 applications
for the 578 press tickets have been re
ceived. - v V . ';S . V, "-. ,
,'f The requests from women for ticket
are unprecedented, ' - Mr. Hays . said.
"There, are mora than 10 applications
for every seat" It wis announced that
the ticket will be distributed Saturday1.
IKS MIDSHIPMEN TO CAST
OFF SLAVERY TO TRADITION
Secretary Daniels Addresses Graduating Class
at Annapolis - Diplomas Presented to 289
' Members.
THE TENNESSEE, LARGEST
BATTLESHIP AFLOAT
Launched at Brooklyn Navy
Yard Today Cost Twenty
Million Dollars Repre
sents Last Word in Battle
ship Construction.
(By The AssodaUd Press. 1
NEW YORK, June 3 The super-
dreadnaught Tennessee, the largest and
most formidable battleship afloat, goes
into commission today at the Brooklyn
navy yard. Formal ceremonies were set
for 2:30 o'clock. Constructed here at
a cost of 920,000,000. she represents the
last word in battleship architecture. She
is 625 feet long, 98 feet abeam, and has
a displacement of 32,500 tons.
She is the next thing to a pleasure
yacht in the comfort of her apartments
for' officers and men, she is the first bat
tleship to recruit her entire personnel
from the state from which it takes its
name, and she represents advantages tak
en from lessons learned in the battle of
Jutland, and other important naval bat
tles of the world war.
This last special feature, which dis
tinguishes the Tennessee from all other
units of the United States navy, is the
highly organized "fighting brain" en
closed in a steel fort near the top of the
forward mast. Here are concentrated de
vices for observing enemy ships, a de
vise not known in (he batle of Jutland,
enabling the crew to.. quickly ascertain
the position ot enemy craft . HK-cml
devices are installed in this turret which
enable the crew to quickly train the 14
inch guns on the enemy before the crew
of any other battleship known could even
sight the Tennessee. This new device
consists of tlfree decks and their fighting
complement is L'-r men .
By Seci.il signalling devices, connect
ed throughout the nlnp, reorts from this
lighting top can be flashed instantly into
all parts of the ship, thus insuring in
stant correction of range and rapid fire.
This "righting brain" is filled with me
chanical devices for range rinding and
other delicate instruments never liefore
used on a battleship.
Another important feature in the con
struct ion of the Tennessee is her elec
trical control of speed, enabling her to
quickly change from her capacity speed
of -I knots to an almost imperceptible
motion. This is considered an important
loiut from the standpoint of maiieirver
i"g. The Tenueesee is believed to have been
built with more care for the comfort of
her crew than any other battleship in the
world. Her size makes iossible spacious
lockers, baths and recreation quarters.
Hhe has a printing shop with a linotype
machine and presses on which a daily
newspaper will lie printed. The Ten
uessee is the first battleship to be equip
ed with a motion picture i ;i nu r.i . IShe
w in not .'U Tually lx- put into i v u-- un
til August I, when sin- will :nl i.n a
practice cruise to (iuuiitauumn, ulia.
Her present crew of Tciiiicsxeenn num
U-is : 1 .
A large delegation ot Tennessee folk
was in New York today to attend the
ceremonies. Governor Koberts, ofTen-iio-e.
lin was expected to be p resell t,
teelcjf i. -i plied that lie would be unable to
do so. ("aptain R. II. Leigh is the com
mander nf t lit- vessel.
R 80 CAN FLY ACROSS
ATLANTIC WITH EASE
(By The Associated Press )
HARROW, "England, May 29. Airship
K -HO, built here for the admiralty, will
Ihj launched in two or three weeks. She
embodies the latest improvements in air
craft design and it is stated that she
could fly across the Atlantic with ease.
The- vessel is 535 feet in length and
70 feet wide. Her lifting jower is 38
tons. Four engines, each of 240 horse
power, will give her a maximum speed
of 65 miles an hour. She will carry a
crew of fifteen.
COL. STONE WILL REPRESENT
AMERICAN ARMY WITH ALLIES
" (By The Associate t rrees.1
OOBLEXZ. June 2. General Henry T.
Allen has apKintel Colonel David L.
8tone. former chief ef staff of the third
diviaioa, to act as representative of the
American army of occupation at seesiona
of the allied -Rhine-land eommiasion.
Piempoat B. Noyce, who resigned last
week as America representative era the
Rhineland comnJaioa, will - return tc
America after si extend trip la Europe.
IAMELS
AN'XAPOLIS, Md., June 3. Upon the
spirit and will of its officers to' cast off
"slavery to tradition " and venture into
the realm of things new and untried de
pends the future strength and efficiency of
the American navy, Secretary Daniels '
told the graduating- class of midshipmen
at the naval academy here today in pre--senting
diplomas to its 289 members.
Citing as au object lesson the navy'
record ' of resourcefulness in the world
war, as best exemplified in the North sea
barrage, the secretary delivered an earnest
appeal to the young officers not to let A
weight of accepted theories restrain their
efforts to keep American aeapower at the
forefront in strategy and invention.
' ' To some men tradition ia a tasknaaa
ter, a hard rule, a beaten path," the aes-
rotary declared. "To others it is a star
in the firmament, a light to the pathway;
wings on whieh to mount, for dearer
vision and wiser action, to win the goal,
not by precedent of rule, but by an illu
mination that is spirit and not deed.
"No two wars were ever won by the
same tactics and few by the same weap
ons. The military leader of the future
may navigate his ships by radio and the
day may even come when all his fighting
craft may be 'airy navies fighting in the
central blue.' "
Coupling with his admonition against
diffidence and skepticism toward the na
med a reference to the "doubt and de
lay among naval statesmen" in accepting
the American navy's proposal for the v
North sea barrge, -Secretary Daniels de
clared the spirit that gave birth to that
"great and origin! conception" won far '
the navy the honor of contributing the,,
"outstanding offensive" Ucainst the aub
miirine menace. ' ' Let that be a tradition,
to incite you to newer heights than have
ever been--attained, " lie added.
"The American tradition of boldneae
ami audacity," the speaker continued,
"enforced by world war achievement, will
save you from the danger of a slavish ad-'
hereuce to tradition or precedent ia
method, while heartening you with the
KiMing realization that the tradition of
daring and audacity is bounded by aa
limits of possibilities or miracles."
The secretary told the young officer
they were to lie congratulated upon com-4
ing into the navy "in a day when it-holds
and holds deservedly higher place' in
the confidence of the American people
titan in any period of its history."
WHITE AND NEGRO SAILORS ,
CLASH IN ENGLAND
NEWPORT. England. June 3 White
and negro sailors dashed in street fight
ing laM night and early this morning in
this city. Large crowds assembled ia
the thoroughfares, winddVs tvere smash
ed and a numler of houses badly dam
agel. Several revolver shots were fired,
but resulted in no casualties. Several
combatauts, however, were badly beaten
and one white sailor was arrested. Care
ful handling of the crowd by a large
force of polioe finally restored or
der .
PRESIDENT'S SHEEP YIELD
18S POUNDS WOOL
WASHINGTON. June 3 Under eom
pulsiou President Wilson 's flock of prise
sheep exchanged their winter coats today
for summer attire. The flock which num
bers 2ri sheep and 22 lambs, yielded 185
ou ml of wool, which will be given to
the Salvation Army. Last year the yield
was presented to the red cross.
Hy, the prise ram of the flock, who in
vaded the white house offices last week, ia
serving a term of solitary confinement.
U. S. TO SEND DETACHMENT ,
TO FIGHT BUBONIC PLAGUE
(By Tie Associatt I'r-ese.)-
MKXICO CITY. June 3. State author
itien at Vera Cruz have accepted the offer
of the United -States government to send
a sanitary detachment and supplies t
that city for the pnrHse of combating the
xpread of buUmic plague, says a dispatch
from that city to the aewsaper Universal.
One suspected case of the plague waa
found yesterday, the dispatch saya. Ships
sre allowed to enter the port, .but rigid
quarantine regulations are being enforced."
Furniture suspected of having come ia
contact With the plague ia being burned
in the streets.. In one lot of furniture,
burned there yesterday there waa a bomb
concealed. This exploded, killing one
maa.-' Theaters and churches, it is said,
win be allowed to opea aoon. Y
OrrERS REWARD Of $500 FOR
' ARREST GR0YXS C BEKCDCLL
GREENBURG. lad, June 3. Joe
Welsh (Post. Americas Legion, of !'
eity, has offered a reward of t f r
the eaptare of Grover Ow'-I -doll,'
the wealthy I'l.: . ' '
evi.Jpr, who e ; 1 e
army erj-w-jti.
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