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Gastonia Gazette LY 6Asto::u ia tha fastest irewiar, city th textfls In dustry ia the Soatt 96 cotton mills in Gaatsn ceanty. ' ia North Carolina. 1920 population 12,871, a gala t 10 yean of 123.$ per cent.- : MSKBEK Or THX ASSOCIATED FUSS yOL.-XU. NO. 166. GASTONIA, ;jf. C MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 12, 1920 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS A GERMANY'S ABILITY TO PAY IS ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON HER FINANCIAL CAPACITY (By The Associated Press.) 81' A, Belgium, July 11. Germany fan fulfill future engagement only if they are based on her financial capacity, said statement outlining the "Berlin govern ment's plan for reparations submitted to the allied premiers here tonight. The Ger man budget must balance, the statement insisted, or there would be a rapid in crease in the floating debt and consequent inflation that would neutralize her capac ity to pay. There must also, it was as eerted, be no further diminution in the fundamental bases of German political -conomy, which are already much weak ened. Assuming that Germany's ability to pay is used as a basis, the statement asked that reparation obligations be ex pressed in annuities, the minimum o$ which would be fixed, and the obligation to pay such annuities limited to 30 years. Stipulation was made that the minimum of the annuities be fixed according to Germany's financial capacities, and, therefore, comprise all obligations in jnoney and kind according to the treaty of Versailles. This would relate espjeial ly to the undertaking to pay the'expenses of the armies of occupation, which are to be covered partly by money and partly in kind, which must, in principle, be credit ed according to universal market prices. Request also was made that the allies fix the maximum sum due for reparations, fter payment of which Germany would be free from any obligations. As the economic development of the text thirty years cannot be foretold, the statement asserted a plan must be worked out by which allied governments would participate in the improvement of finan cial and economic conditions in Germany. Experts from allied nations and Ger many should meet as soon as possible, the atatement said, to fix the amounts of the annuities to be paid and to pass on the securities to be demanded. Germany's . aovere.ign.ty in financial matters must not be infringed upon in decisions regarding this feature of adjusting reparation pay ments. These exjerts should also fix the maximum sum to be paid to the aliles by Germany, Material which Germany is to deliver t- lie allies under the peace treaty for reconstruction of devastated regions hould be specified by the reparations .commission, the statement declared, and its value should be credited to Germany. It was said the Berlin government had thus far received only lists of claims from the allies for purposes of observa tion. These lists had been closely exam ined, and suggestion was made that nego tiations between Germany and the repa ration commission should begin in the near future to decide which, deliveries can definitely be demanded, and which, in View of Germany's economic position, cannot be executed. After declaring Germany was ready, because of her concern as to future peace, to undertake to assist in the reconstruc tion of devastated regions, the statement made suggestions for the organization of a colonization scheme by which those who suffered from the war could start life anew. When the work of reconstructing bomes, rebuilding roads and restoring farms is completed, the plan would per mit people formerly resident in the af fected regions to return to their homes, or people from other parts o fthe wax zone could move to new regions. This colonization scheme would be operated on business, and not bureaucratic, lines, and be run in such a way that undue profits could not be exacted from the people seeking homes. If this plan should be accepted in prin ciple, the statement said, a conference should be held to consider its practical execution. ALLIED CONFERENCE HALTED BY COAL" QUESTION (By The Associated Press.) 8PA, Belgium, July 12. The German Allied conference was brought to a tem porary halt this morning by the eoal question. The allied premiers, who met at 10:30 o'clock to discuss the German reparations and the question of priority la ooal deliveries from Germany, were unable to finish their work ia time for the general conference to sit at 1130 'clock, the hour previously fixed. Chancellor Fehrenbaeh and his col leagues, who had arrived with a numerous stafCrJrere informed in the ante-room by the secretary of the conference that the foil meeting had been postponed until svfter toon. I VERMONT GOVERNOR RE FUSES TO CONSIDER SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT . RUTLAND, Vt., July 1 Governor Clement today issued, a proclamation re fusing to call the legislature ia special session to make possible ratification of the federal amendment for woman suf frage. . . - SEELY TO BUILD ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL The following dispatch from Asheville to The Charlotte Observer concerning the building of an orthopaedic hospital will be of interest in Gaston county where is located the North Carolina Orthopaedic Hospital, founded by R. B. Babingtou, of Gastonia: Announcement is made that Fred L. Seely, proprietor of Grove Park Inn will establish a children's hospital for crip ples to which will be welcomed all white crippled children from any section of the countrv . The hospital will be open with 30 beds and will be located on a wooded knoll a few hundred yards northeast of Grove Park Inn, near the site on which the government training camp was held in 1914. It will cost $45000 to be erected, the announcement says and work will begin at once, the building to be rushed to com pletion as fast as it is consistent to do good work. A dormitory and administra tion building will be erected and the gen eral architecture scheme will closely fol low that carried out in the Biltmore in dustries building which is only a short distance from the site of the proposed hospital . The hospital will le in charge of a staff of local doctors and surgeons of which Dr. W. I. Pinkney Herbert will be chief and each of the members of this staff will give their work free of charge. It is stated that while the hospital will start with 30 beds it will probably be in creased as the need for such an institu tion grows. As it is, it is felt that the hospital will soon be filled after opening owing to the fact tua it will accept cases from any section. It is the plan that just as soon as one bed is empty, oue case is cared, that another patient will be admitted . Mr. Seely states that he will support I the hosuital and that, no funds will he 8oli,.ite(, for its UI,kp,.ri. The details of the building will soon be worked out and the actual work of construction started. GIRL IN WANDERER CASE TURNS UP (By The Associated Press.) CHICAGO, July 1 2. A theory Carl Wanderer shot, and killed his that wife and a hired "robber" because of his in terest in a lrt-year old girl w being investigated today by the police. 'on fronted with the girl in his cell. Wan derer for the first time since his arrest lost, composure momentarily, but firmly denied the girl had had any influence on his desire to be free. iA one of his state ments to the police Wanderer hail said he shot his wife so he could return to the army and be free from the care of his wife and the baby they expected next month. The girl, Julia Schinitt, told the police she had known Wanderer some time and had gone to an amusement park with him several times, but did not know he was married. She was not held, as police announced after questioning that they were convinced she had no knowledge of the murder plot, which was carried out in the lobby of Wanderer's apartment June 21. According to one of the latest of Wan derer's statements to the police, the $1,500 which his wife drew from the bank two days before she was shot, was his own money. He had stated once be fore that he intended to steal the money and return to the army, but in the ex citement following the shooting forgot about it. Wanderer today maintained his calm attitude in regard to the murders and talked of his dead wife without emotion. The identification of the hired "rob ber " as John J. Maloney, of River Point. LB. I., was further supported today by John Welland, clerk at a hotel where Maloney had stayed three days just be fore he was slain. COX RETURNS TO GOVERNOR' OFFICE IN COLUMBUS COLUMBUS, O., July 12 Governor Cox, the democratic presidential nomi nee, arrived here from his home at Day ton this morning, prepared to resume his duties as the executive office. This af ternoon he was to confer with Franklin D.; Roosevelt, his running mate. En route to Columbus the governor rode in a dsy eoach and a number of the passengers recognized and congratulated him. At the railroad station here the governor shook hands with a number of railroad men sad waved to others at a distance. He went directly to the ex ecutive Hies U too stats fronts QIIT"CC.7C?.lTI0nS i:i FAST SIX MONTHS Large Number 'of .New Finns Hare Begun Business in Gas ton Since January 1st Other Have Increased Cap- icai 3 toe ica. During the past six months business activity in Gaston county has been great This is evidenced by the large number of new corporations established in the county. The large increases iu the au thorized capital stock show the confidence and optimistic spirit of the business men of Gaston. Following is a list of the cor porations, their authorized capital stock and the initial subscription required lie fore they could begin business for which certificates were issued between January 1st and July 1st, 1920: Todd Steam Bakery, 5u,0Mj, $17,uno. Mildred Cotton Mills Company, $1,5mi, 0(10, 155,000. Gaston County Colored Hospital, Incur porated, $50,000, $15,000. Shuford Mills, incorporated, .."(Mi,ii0(i, $100,000. Dallas Rural Light Coinpauv, 25,oimi. $1,200. Aduins 8pencer Yarn Mills, Incorporat ed, $400,000, $150,000. Perfection Spinning Company, $1,000, 000, $55,000. Linford Mills, Incorporated, $1,00(1,000, $110000. Priscilla Spinning Company, $1, 500,000, $320,000. High Shoals Cotton Mills Company, $1, 500,000, $100,000. Armstrong Land Investment. Company, $5(10,000, $100,00(1. Gaston Kaolin Company, $100,000, $10, 000. The City Lumber Company, $150,000, $20,000. Eagle Yarn Mills, Incorporated, $800, 000, $90,000. j Stowe Spinning Company, $1,800,000, j $100,000. Gaston Granite and Quarries Company, $250,000, $40,0(M). Champion Cotton Mills Company, $1, 000,000, $100,000. Gastonia Aircraft Corporation, $75,000, $4,000. Gaston Textile Company, $500,000, $500. City Land and Investment Company, $200,000, $3,000. Pythian Club, no stock. Central Bank and Trust Company, $."U, 000, $25,000. Ousts-Walker and Company, $125,000, $30,000. Arkrny Mills, Incorporated, $1,500,000, $275,000. Shuford Drug and Oandy Company, $125,000, $5,000. Gazette Publishing Company, $100,000, $30,000. Cloud I.umlier Company, $125,000, $30, 000. Belmont Realty and Insurance Com- j.-iny, $100,000. $5,000. Lowell Land ami Investment Company, $125,000. $5,000. Dallas Fanners Suply Company, $100, 000, $800. Gastonia Hosiery Mills, $ 100,000, $3,000. Gray Barkley Company, $300,000, $100,000. Stanley Garage, Incorporated, $20,000, $2,000. The following is a list of corporations whose charters have been amended, with their original authorized capital stock and the amount to which they have been authorized to increase. These increases were granted between January 1st. and July 1st, 1W20: Lola Manufacturing Company, from $200,000 to $500,000. Mellville Manufacturing Company, from $200,000 to $500,000. (iastonia Cotton Manufacturing Com pany, from $ to $800,000. Catawba Spinning Company, from $200,000 to $500,000. Rex Spinning Compiiny, from $500,000 to $1,000,000. Gray Manufacturing Company, from $750,000 to $1 ,000,000. Arrow Mills, Incorporated, from $300, 000 to $750,000. Parkdale Mills, Incorporated, from $600,000 to $1,000,000. Myrtle Mills, Incorporated, from $500, 000 to $900,000. Arlington Cotton Mills, from $750,000 to $1,000,000. Tuckaseege Manufacturing Company, from $ to $750,000. Peerless Manufacturing Companv. from $200,000 to $1,000,000. Clara Manufacturing Company, from $200,000 to $600,000. Dunn Manufacturing Companv, from $200,000 to $600,000. Armstrong Cotton Mills Company, from $200,000 to $300,000. Imperial Yarn Mills, Incorporated, from $250,000 to $800,000. Monarch Cotton Mills Company, from $225,000 to $500,000. 6eminole Cotton Mills Company, from $400,000 to $800,000. Majestic Manufacturing Company, from $250,000 to $800,000. Climax Spinning Company, from $300, 000 to $1,200,000. Acme 8pinning Company, from $500, 000 to $1,500,000. - Kan kin Armstrong Company, from $25, 000, to $125.000. . Groves Mills, Incorporated, front $250, DENTAL (MIC HERE PROYES A SUCCESS Dr. Vance Hasty, State School Dentist. Pleased With Re sults of First Week's Clinic Tells Why Children Should Have Their Teeth Carefully Looked After Detailed Report For First Week. Dr. Vance Hasty, State school dentist, who is holding a month's dental clinic here for the benefit of Gastonia 's school child.,.., working in conjunction with Dr. W. B. Hunter, county welfare agent, is pleased with the work done during the first week of the clinic. Asked by a Ga zette reporter reganrlug his work in Gas tonia, Dr. Hasty said: "Our work is primarily educational, an. I our aim is to awaken the children to the necessity of daily care of the mouth and teeth, and regular periodical visits to the dentist. We clean and polish all teeth, fill any six year molars that can be rilled without treatment, clean out and treat the cavities in the babv teeth with silver nitrate. This stops the decay and will prevent the child having tooth ache in that tooth until time to shed it. We do not attempt, any operation requir ing a great deal of time, and avoid all painful operations. All treatments agj referred to private dentists. We do not fill the front teeth because they require porcelain and necessitate a great deal of time and care. We do not extract per manent teeth, because they require an anesthetic. We do all we can for each child at one sitting, and refer the rest of the work, if needed, to private dent ists. If we undertook. to do all the work in each child's mouth we would never get anywhere with the great numbers of chil dren that come to the clinic. ' ' We want to assure the parents of (iastonia 's school children that we are professionally and personally interested in each child needing our services, and will do our best to be just as patient and tactful with the children as our time will permit. We will do our best to render them just as faith f ul , and careful atten tion as if they were our private patients. You are welcome to come to the clinic and we always have time to discuss any condition found in your child's mouth. "It seems hardly necessary to advance any argument as to why you should have your children's teeth attended to 'ecause ims pasT weeK nas convinced us that you already believe that you should. .We had a .jolly, well behaved bunch of children last week, and have already promised Thursday and Friday of next week to the children of the Lorav Mills. "We want you to lielieve that, if the mouths of your school children were properly cared for and they were taught the daily use of a toothbrush they would le more i omfortable. happier, healthier, brighter and better. A clean, healthy mouth will he a great benefit to them as growing youths and maidens at that time in life when they emerge from childhood into those e.-irs of rapid development and intensive education which fit them for the duties and obligations of life. A clean, healthy mouth will prove a good life insurance and be one of the prime agents in the production of human en ergy, pep Mid go when they enter active business life. Those who are to be the mothers of the coming generations with clean, healthy mouths will hear stronger, healthier, children. And finally, a clean, healthy mouth will contribute to a longer, healthier, happier and more useful life." "Following is a detailed report of the first week's clinic here: dumber of children examined . . . Number of children treated Number needing no treatment. . . Number children's teeth cleaned. Number silver nitrate treatments Number abscesses treated Number amalgam fillings Number miscellaneous treatments Number children with inflamed gums Children with irregular teeth .... Number children with permanent six-year molars lost Number children with permanent six year molars beywnd repair. . Number chlidren referred to pri vate dentists for treatment . . . Number children been to private dentist for treatment Number of children using tooth brushes Number of children not using toothbrushes Cost of week 's work if done in 128 116 115 116 128 l! M 1 llll :;i r.ri 14 1.') 25 75 private office (conservative . $299.00 Mrs. C. I'. Robinson, of the Olney neighborhood, was shopping in the city Saturday. Misses Lena and Lola Guffey, of Bes semer City, were shoppers in Gastonia Saturday. Miss Bright Roper spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs . L . G . Lynn, at her home in Charlotte. M. and Mrs. M. P. Shetley, of Bessemer City, were in the eity Saturday shopping . 000 to $1,000,000. National Yarn Mills, Incorporated, from $250,000 to $850,000. Chronicle Mills, from $125,000 to $500,' 000. - LA FOLLETTE MOST LIKELY NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT BY THIRD PARTY Amalgamation of Labor Party, Committee of 48 and Single Taxers Amos Pinchot One of Leaders - Certain That LaFollette Can Get Nomination if He Wants it. STEPHENS' BODY NOT YET TAKEN FROM RIVER Adventurous Englishman Fails to Duplicate Feat of Bobby Leach Barrel is Dashed to Pieces. (By The. Associated I'ress. ) NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., July 12 River men were patrolling the Niagara gorge below the falls today in the hope of recovering the body of Charles G. Stephens, of Bristol, Kngland, who lost lib life yesterday in a nuttempt to dup licate the feats of Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor and Bobby Leach by going over the cataract in a barrel. Pieces of the barrel in which Stephens went to his death continued to float ashore in the eddy on the Canadian side alwve the Maid of the Mist landing un til nearly midnight, but Stephens body failed to appear. Exierieneed river men said it might be several days before it was released from the cross currents at the ofot of the falls. The staves of the barrel bobled,up through the spu;ne one by one and were picked up as they floated toward the shore. The board, with its sealing de vice, was virtually intact. It was in possible to tell which part of the cask gave way first under the force of the 158 foot drop and the pounding of the water, but Bobby Leach, whose exper iences gave his opinion some weight, de clared it was too light in all parts. Ieach warned Stephens before the start that lie was doomed to failure but the Englishman was confident his cask was strong enough and refused to listen to Leach's advice. Leach saw the start, but appeared very nervous after ward and refused to go down into the gorg where the barrel was exjiecteil to appear. "A steel barrel is the only safe kind,'' said Leach. "If I can have oue made by July 25, the anniversary of my last trip, I ' ' duplicate it . " One theory advanced to account for tephen's failure is that the rampart of rocks at the foot of the falls blocked the passage ami against it the barrel was pounded to pieces. It might have ridden out if the water had beeu high as it was when Leach made bis trip. Erosion at the crest of the falls has been comparatively rapid in recent years, the horseshoe shape which gave the cataract on the Canadian side its name having slowly changed until it now is more than the form of a triangle with the aex a considerable distance above where the middle of the ''horseshoe" was. This wearing away process has caused huge slides of rock. No observations have been taken to determine their loca tion at the base of the falls, but a simi lar procts on the American side indi cates that tin- tendency is to throw up a ridge of rock just below the curtain of the falls. Stephen- ' barrel went over the side of the triangle nearest the Canadian shore ami not far from where Leach made the plunge. 'harles George Stephens, who was kill ed yesterday iu going over Niagara Falls iu a barrel, was a barber extraordinary. His hobby was performing spectacular stunts, for which he received three rib bons, five goJd medals and six silver med als. His specialties included kissing a lion in its den, shaving customers in a lion's den, boxing in a lion's den, and parachute descents from a balloon. STEAMSHIP FSAMPTON SUNK OFF JERSEY COAST NEW YORK. July 12. The steamship Lake Frampton, owned by the United States Shipping Board, lound from Nor folk, was sunk early today off Atlantic City, N. J., after it bad collided with the steamship Comus, according to wireless messages reported to fbe naval communi cation office here. The Comus also was damaged and anchored until after daylight, but was ex pected to proceed to wo me port today; Three of the crew of the Lake Frampton are missing. The Lake Frampton, a vessel of 4,200 tons, was operated by the West Indies Steamship Company. , - .,. ,, - Mrs. Will Clemmer and Mrs. Robert Crow will spend the week with Mr. Rob ert Moss at his horns ia Smyrna, & C ' CONVENTION I By The Associated Press.) CHICAGO, July 12 Amalgamation of the labor party of the United State and the committee of 48 in a new polit ical movement with a single party name, one platform and one presidential ticket are included in the recommendations sub mitted to the labor and forty-eight eon ventious when they reconvened today. Senator Robert M. LaFollette, of Wis consin, remained the most talked of can didate iu the presidential race. The terms of the proposed combine are under stood by the party leaders to meet his views as expressed last week to Amos Pinchot and George L. Record, leading; forty eighters, who called on the senator to ask if be would accept the nomination ' should it be tendered him . The conference committee appointed' yesterday by the labor convention and Saturday by the forty eighters smoothed out objections to amalgamation in a pro tracted session last night and adopted a series of recommendations to be offered to the two conventions today. Besides urging the combining Of 'forces under a common standard with a common name they also proposed appointment of apes ial sub-committees to draft the machin ery under which the combine will work and to prepare a joint platform. ..''-' The recommendations, if approved, to-', day, as the leaders confidently expect, , mean that the two convention j will pre-' serve their separate identity and eon-yA tiauftJto. anctiou. iu separate sessions, with sub committees reporting identical measures to each for discussion and ac tion. What reception the amalgamation pro posal will receive from other liberal and radical groups now meeting here only time can show. The single tax party, also in national convention assembled, is divided according to expressions of various leaders, on the availability of Senator LaFollette as presidential nom inee. One group of single taxers has announced that it will bolt the proposed combine rather than stand for LaFol lette. while another faction has declared it will accept any presidential nominee so long as a single tax plank is incorporat ed in the platform. If Senator LaFollette wants the third party nomination he can have it, both forty eighters and laborites agree. He is already the overwhelming choice of the forty eighters, a small referendum has shown. While other candidates will be placed in nomination in the labor con vention, and probably in the forty eight meeting, too, the senator's friends say both groups are ready to nominate him Frank 1. Walsh. Kansas Oitv rhrl- II ingersou, watch manufacturer, and Henry Ford, have been mentioned for the nomination, but there is no apparent con certed action to further the prospects of any of them. Walsh is also being dis cussed for vice president. Yesterday was given over to the open ing session of the labor convention, with delegates from sixty trade union groups and other organizations represented. The forty eighters and single taxers, whose couvention opened Saturday, had recess ed for the day and practically their en tire membership attended the labor con vention, many participating as active del egates. Prominent among those assuming a dual delegate role, was James Duncan, oue of the leaders of the general strike in Seattle last year. Duncan, on Saturday, was elected chairman of the Washington delegation to the convention of the com mittee of 48 and yesterday was chosen vice chairman of the labor convention. The radical groups, who according to Swinburne Hale, one of their leaders, were in the minority in the forty eight convention Saturday, were in the as cendancy yesterday, and vigorously ap plauding when their leaders prayed for the day when workers of America would follow the example set by the workers of Russia . Every reference to Russia, and to Ire land too was applauded with a will, and when John Fitzpatrick, the labor key noter, praised the Russian revolution three cheers for soviet Russia were called and given . Mr. John Btamey, of Lawndale, was a business visitor in Gastonia Saturday. Miss Minnie Prather was a visitor ia Charlotte Saturday. ; t Misses Mary Hows and Kate Dixon were among the shoppers ia Gastonia Sat urday. . . -
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