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Gastonia Daily- Gazette GASTONIA ' w COTTON , ' 42 CENTS TODAY READ THE .7A1JT Ads on page 5 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED, PRESS VOL. XU. NO. 163. GASTONIA, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY ,8 1920 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS if - '1 WITH : (By The Associated Press.) DAYTON, O., July 8. Governor Cox, After .working, for a few hours in his newspaper office today, expects to pilot -a number of visiting newspaper represen tatives about the home and haunts of his early boyhood at Jacksonburg, near Mid dletown, O, The trip will be made by -automobile. . . ; It now is expected that when Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor Coxs running mate, arrives from Ban Francisco, ensuing conferences will , result in more than the mere exchange of felicitations.- Homer 43. Cummings, chairman of the democratic national committee, E. ' H. Moore, of Youngstown, the governor's pre-eonven-t'wn campaign manager, and a number of other party leaders, are expected to par ticipate.1 It is understood to-be probable Ibat phases of the campaign may be dis- cussed, especially plans for the official notification. s , Dayton citizens are apprehensive that A efforts may be made to have the notifica tion ceremonies take place, in Columbus and they are prepared to go the limit, if necessary, to nullify such an arrange anent. From present indications the no tification'' ceremonies probably will take place at Trails EndtMe governor's sub urban home, where several thousand peo ple gathered two weeks before his nomina tion to celebrate with him the occasion of the departure of the Ohio delegation ' for San Francisco. ( The governor last night made his sec ond public address since his nomination, at the Dayton country club, where a din ner was given in honor of the Ohio golf association Governor Cox is an enthusi astic golfer and his address was chiefly an intimate talk with the members on the merits of this outdoor sport. He also spoke in cordial terms of his republican opponent, Senator Harding, who also S a devotee of the game.. He declared that regardkss 'of the results of the election lie and Senator Harding will remain the same splendid friends as in the past. The governor's interest in golf was declared by Lee Warren Jamas, president of "the Dayton chamber of commerce, to be best exemplified by an incident that occurred on Saturday before the nomina tion was made at San Francisco. James eaid he and the governor were just leav ing the lockers for the course for an aft ernoon round when an attendant called out that San Francisco wanted Governor "Cox on the telephone. "Tell them I'll talk tonight," was the governor '$ reply, according to James. CIGAR FACTORIES OPEN DOORS TO OPEN SHOP PLAN TAMPA, Fla., July 8. Nearly 100 large cigar manufacturers opened the doors of their factories this morning to any eigar makers who wished to work un der the "open shop" plan. A strike and lockout has been in progress in this busl ness since April 17, last. Union leaders claimed that the efforts of the manufacturers to resume operation would, prove unsuccessful as they said the non union . cigar makers organisation au thorized the statement yesterday that its members would not "break" the strike. .The joint advisory board of the four cigar makers' unions issued a general order' last night instructing all union men to stay away from the factories and not to interfere in any manner with those who wished to work. "We will countenance np meddling," said Joseph Munis, secretary of the board. "If a man wants to forsake the union and return to work that's his busi ness and we will see that anyone who creates any trdRble or adopts picketing tactics is properly punished,. ' ' WESTERN WHEAT RAISERS ' HAVE GOOD FORCE (By The Associated Press.) -WASHINGTON, July 8 A land army of 100,000 farm hands recruited and organized by the department of agriculture is moving northward across the western wheat belt harvesting the na tion 's grain crop in better time than in many years, according to reports today to the department. . "Forthe first time in years .farmers have not been handicapped through labor shortages,' Director Taylor, of the farm bureau, said. Attracted by a v wage of $7 for a tea hour day thousands of porkers from Atlantic an4' Allegheny regions have gone west of the Mississippi river .to join the hamat drive, according to department officials." " " WJLL INVESTIGATE K)NEY- ; -tr;AIH TQ NEGRO, JOHNSON - (By TW Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Jiy8.-r-The senate torn initte investigating expenditures of can didates for presidential nominations to day turned it's attention to the 9,000 pay- . meat said to have been made by Lowden campaign managers -to -Henry Lincoln Johnson, Gerogia national- committeeman, Johnson was the -center-of bitter eon- . troversy before the. credentials committee of the republican", national . convention. ' While testifying .before . the credentials committee he admitted '. receiving" lhe money for eairpiign expenses in Georgia. GOVERNOR COX ON FAR EAST TRIP AT UNCLE SUM'S EXPENSE i . List of Those Going Kept Secret Until Lately Costs Unly 91.75 a Day. (Theodore Tiller, in Greensboro News.) WASHINGTON, July 7. With the sailing of the government transport Great Northern from San Francisco, a partial list of senators and representa tives who are going on a "junket" to the far east became available today. In the face of official refusal to make the entire list public for the time being although the war department promises it later the incomplete list was patched together in San Francisco and Washing ton and indicates that more than 100 congressional passengers are aboard the vessel. These include members of Con gress and their families. The journey of these legislators to the far east the Philippines, Hawaii, Japan and China is popularly known as a "junket," though the passengers them selves strenuously object to the term. The official reason given for the trip is that the "fast looming problems of the east" demand the attention of Congress and also demand first hand information. Inquiring newspapermen have endeavored far weeks to get the passenger list, but it was guarded both at the eapitol and war department. This secrecy added to the publicity given the "junket" and this publicity, it is said, scared off a number of senators and representatives who were originally booked to go on the trip. The congressional party sailed on a government transport. Each passenger pays $1.75 per day for board and lodg ing aboard ship, aud that is all the ex pense attached so far as is known here. In justification for their journey, ' meni bers of Congress argue that the boat was going. to eastern ports anyway and it might as well carry along passengers. Two Tar Heels Go. Two North Carolina members Small and Robinson are on the list. Up to the time the Great Northern sailed, the names of only thr.ee passen gers were positively known. Senator Harris, of Georgia, announced two menths ago that he intended to go. He is a member of the senate suh-committee dealing with fortifications and he wants to look over the fortifications at Pearl Harbor and elsewhere. Representative Vare, of Pennsylvania, and Representative Porter, of the same state, also announced their intention of sailing. Mr. Porter is chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. When efforts were made both at the eapitol' and the war department to obtain the passenger list some time ago, various excuses were given for refusing the list. The war department finally promised the list the day the ship sailed, not before. A I' the while, however,- it was insisted that it wasn't a "junket" and those promoting the party inveighed against the unfavorable publicity the trip was re ceiving. At the transportation division jf the army it was said today that the Great Northern had sailed one day Inte because of the hold-over of the Democratic con vention. Some of the passengers went from the convention hall to the ship, it appears, and the vessel had to be held pending adjournment of the ' convention. The estimated cost of holding a vessel in port one day is several thousand dollars. HAYS COMES TO CONFER WITH HARDING (By The Associated Press.) CHICAGO, July 8. Will H. Hays, re publican national chairman, resumed hearings today with party leaders of the middle .western' states. He will leave to morrow for Marion, O., with T. "Coleman Da Pont, chairman of the nomination no tification committee, to confer with Sen ator Harding. Hearings will not be taken up in Chicago again until the noti ficati6n ceremonies at the home of Sena tor Harding July 22. "The outlook for the republican party in Minnesota and the northwest generally is better, than it has been for a lone time," Irving A". Caswell, Minesota eom mitteman, told republican eladers. ' ' The attitude of the- democratic convention on the subject of liquor will work to the benefit of the republican party in Min nesota." ' ': It- H. 8toddard. one of the Wdor. nt the -progressives i the 1912 campaign, assured party leaders of support on the part - of former folio wert of Theodore nooseveir, - r- r- - ; Protests from Ohio leaders againat s tt a- 77 . ga uy senator! fMmnuug ww o takes., up with the re publican nominee br Mi- TT. u ... ii - I ,"OJ GENERAL ASSH'BLY WILL MEET AUGUST 10 Governor Issue Call For Spec- ial Session , to Consider Tax : Situation ' Suffrage Not , r Mentioned. -. t-(W.-T. Bost, in Greensboro News.) RALEIGH, July 7. Tennessee, Ver mont, Connecticut, and Florida were given their chance to go to glory or the grave when North Carolina's state coun cil set August .10 for the extraordinary session of the general assembly. These several states which form the battleground between the bourbons, and the suffragists expect to fight the issue on suffrage Bolely. North Carolina takes it up incidentally. Governor Bickett in issuing the call does not refer to the "cause." He leaves place for it and all other measures of "grave impor tance." .Without ratification this year it is eon ceded that the Democracy .will go to the grave" and so eminent an authority as Uol. "Hos" Watts declares the Democracy is dead this year any way. Ut course, he was ' talking for other purpose and doing what he could to injure one gubernatorial candidate who was steering away from the "grave" and to help the other who was headed direct for it. However, Cbolnel Watts did not know at that time , what the Democracy would do. He hardly expected it to nom inate Cox, was in fact as unable to see Cox in 1920 as Woodrow Wilson in 1912. The calling of the special session for August 10 is in no wise a passage of the buck to some other state. Governor Bickett is extremely anxious to see a state which showed so much courage in the war, exhibit civic bravery in telling the truth about its prfrty and in pay ing just rates on it. For that reason he hopes that the suffrage states that are just hankering to emancipate the women, will also set free his special session to work on taxes. If after the body ha foregathered and it is necessary to give Cox the fighting chance that women will furnish, Bickett will tear his silk shirt from narrative to neckband in favor of ratification when he is not a mt crazy about votes for women. Call of the Governor. The call was framed this morning by his excellency and reads thus: "By and with the advice of the council of state, I, Thomas Walter Bickett, gov ernor of the state of North Carolina, in the exercise yf the power conferred upon me by the constitution, and as contem plated by section 3 of chapter 84 of the public laws of 1919, do issue this my proclamation on this extraordinary occa sion convening the general assembly in extra session, and I hereby notify and request the senators and members of the house of representatives of the general assembly of North Carolina, to meet in their respective halls, in the eapitol, in th city of Raleigh, on Tuesday, the 10th day of August, 1920, at 11 o'clock, a. m., for the following specific purposes: "1. To prescribe such tajc rates as may be wise and just in view of the actual value of the property in the state, as ascertained by the revaluation act. "2. To consider constitutional amend ments reducing the tax rates that may be hereafter levied. "3. To consider such other matters of prave importance to the public as the (itneral assembly may deem wise. "In wituess whereof, I, Thomas Wal ter Bickett, governor and commander-in-chief, have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the state to be p ffixed. "Done in our city of Raleigh, this the 7th day of July, in Jhe year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and in the one hundred and forty-fifth of our independence. "THOMAS WALTER BICKETT, ' ' By the Governor : ' Governor. ' ' "SANTFORD MARTI V. "Private Secretary." CONEY ISLANI) MAY SEE DEMPSEY-CARPENTER FIGHT .(By The Aisoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 8 Coney Island, New York's playground, was added to day to the list of possible battleground for the prospective Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight championship boxing match, when the managers of the two pugilists met here to discuss terms for a bout. An unnamed promoter is said to have authorized Charles J. - Harvey, former secretary of the boxing commission, to offer $500,000 for the privilege of stag ing the championship eontest at the famous amusement park. Thanksgiving Day was the date discussed at the con ference. SOUTH CAROLINIAN DIES FROM MAD DOG BITE (By The Associated Press.) - WASHINGTON, July 8 Michael W. Hester, 56 years ojd,of Easley, 8. C, died on s train at Alexandria, Va., to day as a result of being bitten by a dog seven weeka ago." He was being rushed to Johns . Hopkins . hospital, Baltimore, for treatment,, accompanied by menbera of his family and Doctors Ponder, of Eaaley, and Charles W Gentry,- of Greenville, 8. C; CHAMBER OfCOERCE ACTIVITIES FOR JUNE Monthly Bulletin From Secre tary Allen's Office Reveals Varied Workings . of Cham ber. Additional street car service- from Loray has been urged for Saturdays and Sundays by several members and as a result of their requests the Chamber of Commerce took the matter up with D. K. Jackson, commercial agent of the Piedmont and Northern Railway. It was found that Mr. Jackson had already been stressing the need and he im mediately took the matter up anew with the result that the service was doubled, beginning with last Saturday. The com pany is trying it out and it is under stood that if it breaks even on the in creased service that it will be continued. Freight service at the Southern Rail way Company's freight station has been the subject of strong complaints lodged with the Chamlier of Commerce by a number of local shippers and energetic protest has been filed with high officials in an effort to get relief from the con gested situation. G. C. Andrews, agent, and Mr. McKee, acting during the absence of Mr. Andrews from the city, have both done all in their power but the facilities at hand are entirely inade quate. The Chamber of Commerce was informed by wire by an official today that ' ' the matter is being gone into thoroughly and within the next few days you will see great improvements in con ditions." Shippers are accordingly liopeful that some permanent relief will really le given. Lxpress serVice will be improved at once ir the American Kail way 'Express Company will gran the request of the Chamber of Commerce to raise the local office to an "A' classification. The Chamber of Commerce for over a year has had continual trouble in getting prompt service on claims. The present agent has endeavored to give the best service in his power but the real remedy would I in the Company 's raising the classification of the office as that would then provide adequate help to properly handle the heavy incoming and outgoing express from this point . Application has been made for the change and it is hoped that it will be granted. Re gardless of whether claims are paid promptly or not shipiers would natural ly prefer to receive their goods intact and in good condition. Switching limit extesion is being sought b.' the Chamber of Commerce from the Carolina and Northwestern Railway foi South Gastonia. This is quite necessary for the industries in the sou t tier n scctiou ol tne citv. Gastonia received rather shabby treat ment at the hands of the Bankhead motor couvog, regardless of the fact that when the Bunk head Highway project was launched this county had the largest unit between Washington and Atlanta and gave the . , it Minding party one of its most notalile receptions. A telegram was received twenty-four hours ahead of the party's arrival last week from Benehan Cameron, president, stating that the party of approximately one hun dred and eighty would reach Gastonia the following noon ''for one hour to ac cept hospitality." In Gastoniaese that doesn't mean handing out a drink of ice water all around or anything of that kind but it means real hospitality. So preparations were hurriedly made for the providing of a sumptuous luncheon for the entire party. The next morning the party arrived but the colonel in com mand stated that he had not been ad vised until he reached Mount Holly re garding the matter and that the convoy could not possibly stop. He left his deep regret and an uneaten luncheon on our hands. But Gaston is building good roads, anyhow. Road ' routings are furnished members free but we only ask that you notify the office in advance far enough ahead if your trip includes highways regarding which there may be no information on hand. If we haven't, well get it, if you'll speak early enough . A road report card will be ready for distribution soon, which all motorists are urged to take with them and mail back, indicatiug road conditions. TJjis will en able the Chamber to keep up a road con dition information file which will be of great value to members. "A traveling man was talking with me and told me of your city. He spoke well of it and I am interested in it" this is an excerpt from a letter re ceived at the Chamber of Commerce, and not the first by any means referring to good works from traveling men. Did you ever stop to think what good boosters they are for Gastonia t A little 'cour tesy and cordiality towards the commer cial traveller always comes back in good dividends for -the city . ? : ; Orthopedic day was a great ! Success, R. B. Babington - and others oa the committee la charge making the laying (Continued oil pais S.) BOARD OF APPRAISERS FIND $75,000,000 OF PROPERTY Represents Increase of 400 Per Cent Over Last Years Valuation of Nineteen Million Dollars - Acreage in County is 211,528 as Against 201,263 Originally on Books Tabulation of Last Year's Values as Compared With Find, ings of Board of Appraisers. HARDING IS BUSY ON HIS SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE MARION, O., July 8. Senator Hard ing arrived at his office earlier than usual again today in. order to accomplish as much as possible on his speech, now un der preparation, accepting the republi can presidential nomination. Instead of dictating it to a stenographer, however, the senator, following a habit acquired during . 30 years of newspaper work, is writing it out in long hand with a pencil. According to members of his office force, the senator makes "clean copy'' and few changes are required in his manmjrripts. Owing to the rush of work, Senator Harding has been unable since his return to Marion to engage in his favorite out door recreation, golf, but he hopes shortly to arrange his engagements so he can play a round occasionally in order to keep in good physical condition during his campaign. There are no golf links nearer than Mansfield, about two hours distance by motor from Marion, but the senator expects to play during some of the week-end vacations he contempjates taking during the summer month. WILL INVESTIGATE RAIL ROADS AND COAL DELIVERY (By the Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, July 8 Priority of service in favor of the more essential commodities is necessary to relieve the present transportation congestion on the railroads, Daniel Willard, chairman of the advisory committee of the Association of Railway Executives, declared today before the interstate commerce commis sion. WASHINGTON, July 8. Investiga tion of the railroads' observance of the service order requiring preference to be giveu eastern coal mines in the assign ment of open top ca-rs was begun taday in hearings before the interstate com merce commission. The preference order was issued re cently by the commission as a measure to relieve coal shortages in the east, par ticularly in New England. Since its is suance numerous complaints have been filed with the commission relative to the supply and exchange of coal cars by tin railroads. The commission therefore or dered a hearing to determine whether auy change in the present regulations waj necessary. Determined protest agaTlist continua tion of the preference order is expected from a number of shippers. Organization meetings were held last night by shippers of building materials preliminary to par ticipation in the hearings and every effort will be made, it was said, to convince the commission of the need of an ade quate car supply for the shipment of ce ment and other building commodities. COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE PALMER'S CAMPAIGN (' By The Associated Press.') CHICAGO, July 8. The senate com mittee investigating campaign expendi tures will move to St. Louis tonight, to take up the investigation of Attorney General Palmer's campaign for the demo cratic nomination, Chairman Kenyou an nounced when hearings were resumed here today. t The principal witnesses in the Palmer investigation will be Edward F. Goltra, democratic national committeeman from Missouri, and Joseph T. Davis, an attor ney of 8t Louis. Reports that Galtra paid the expenses of S8 delegates to the state convention which ousted Senator Seed from his na tional convention seat will be one of the matters investigated, it was sail. Sena tor Reed is. a member of the investigating committee. PROMINENT SOUTH CAROLINIAN INJURED IN SAN FRANCISCO " (By The AssociateoVPress.) . 8AN FRANCISCO July 8 Colonel J. 8. Padgett, of Walterboro, 8. C.,-1 vice chairman of the South Carolina del egation to the democratic nations! con vention, is suffering from concussion of the brain and probably a fractured skull as a result of being hit by a street ear, hospital, authorities reported today. " WORTH IN COUNTY - With their books showing thA taxable) projierty real and personal, of Gastoa county to be $75,090,248, as against the " figures of $19,495,172 according to the y old system of listing on the 1919 tax ' books and a total of 211,528 acres of land in the county as against 201,263 acres in 1919 representing a gain of nearly 400 per cent in taxable proper ty and an increase of 10,000 acres of land, the county board of appraisers have practically finished the work of revalu ing the property of the county, and are ready to report to the State Tax Com mission that Gaston county is a $75,000, 000 county, exclusive of railroad property ' which will doubtless run the figures np to $85,000,000. :-: ' The most remarkable feature of thie ' report is that part which shows that property which for years has been list ed at less than its real value is now ap praised at its full value, and that an in crease of taxable values of 400 per cent has been thereby recorded. Ten thous and acres of land which has from time immemorial been lost to the list takers of the county has appeared on the books. The work of the appraiser, C. C. Corn well, J. W. Armstrong, B. G. Belk, R. K. Davenport, Jr., ahd Miss Georgia Connelly secretary has been long and arduous. Twelve months ago, in June 1919, they started work on the tedious task of inspecting every bit of projierty in the county. Throughout the long hot months of last summer and the cold rainy days of last winter they have covered the county acre by acre un til not hardly a square foot of land has escaped observation and inspection. The results as secured by them justify the ' claims of the adherents of Governor Bickett's tax revaluation program. Gastou county's property has been truly , and fairly assessed and its real value placed on the books. There are 211,528 acres of band in the county whose value, minus improvements and manufacturing plants, is $11,786. 622. Last year's books give the acreage at 206,263. The figures as given below do not in clude railroad properties which in Gas ton county last year totalled over 4, 000,000. It is thought that this year, with the Southern's double trackage completed, the value of railroad property will run to $10,000,000, making the -total taxable property in Gaston coun ty $85,000,000. In the summary given' below the word "real" includes mill ' properties . 4 ? . A comparison of the values by' town- . ships in the county as listed for the year 1919, and of the new valuation just" completed is as follows: GASTONIA TOWN8HIP (outside) For 1919, real estate, $1,972,701; personal. $1,316,116; total $3,288,817. For 1920, real estate $10,926,257; per-N sonal $5,959,613; total $16,885,870. GASTONIA (Inside) - ' ; For 1919, real estate $3,336,087 ; per- : sonal $2,150,416; total $5,486,503. ,' f For 1920 personal $6,414,636; real. -$15,905,518, total $22,320,154. SOUTH POINT TOWNSHIP For 1919, real estate $2,370,720; per sonal, $2,083,56 ; total $4,454,288. For 1920 real $10,822,305; personal $4,765,4S3; total $15,587,783. DALLAS TOWNSHrP. For l!li. real $9090,137; personal $71U.12."; total $1,619,262. For real $3,688,309; personal $1,477,159; total $5,165,468. RIVER BEND TOWNSHIP. For 1919, real $1,139,723; personal $857,991; total $1,997,719. For 1920, real $4,027,413; personal $1,658,720; total, $5,686,133. CROWDERS MOUNTAIN TOWNSHIP . For 1919, real C$661,674; personal $241,224; total, $902,898. . .. ' For 1920, real $2,681,551; personal $589,137; total- $3,270,688. - ,V CHERRYVILLE TOWN8HIP ' " ' For1919, real $912,459; rrsonal $833,226; total 41,745,685. V . For 1920,v-real $4,292,938; personal $1,881,211; total $6,174449. Grand total for county, ef taxable prop ' Grand total for county of - taxable property, exclusive" of railroads for 1919, $19,495,172 and 'for 1920 090,248. 1