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ILY 0A2EI TONIA ia North Carolina. v 1920 population 12,871, a gala ia -10 years of 123.3 per cent. MEMBER Or THX ASSOCIATED PRESS yOL. XLI. NO. 177. GASTONIAN. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 24, 1920 SINGLE COPY 5 CENT! ! fCTf county - offers a r L.J 1 1. 1 wonderful field I for investor farmer or bue- iness maa. Write ths Chany . ber of Commerce.' - OAS Da TD CONCENTRATE DEAD ; . . , OF 30TH DIYISIKI I.lajor-General O'Ryan Thinks That Dead of 27th and 30th , Divisions Ought to Be To- . gether. -' J ' , (By the Associated Press.) NEW YORK, July ?X Concentration of the heroic dead of the 27tb and 30th divisions of the American Expeditionary Force into three cemeteries in France auggested in letters received here from Major General John F. O'Hyan, formerly Acting commander of the 27th division. : The 27th was composed mainly of men from the New York slate National Guard The men of the 30th division came mostly front North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. General O 'ftvan. accompanied by Col : J. Mayhew Wainwright and Capt. George B. "Gibbons, have been overseas for the last two months obtaining historical data in connection with the operations of the ; - 27th division and to investigate tne con dition of eemeteries in which the dead of the division are buried. " To my mind the sentimental side of , ' the cemetery proposition is quite clear,'! said General O'Byan. "I think that the 27th and 30th divisions should have three cemeteries, the first Lijssenhoek (at Bemy Siding near Poperinghe) ; tba-aec-ond.at Bony, on the Somnie, in the vicin ity"of the famous Hindeuburg line ; the third at St. Souplet on the Le Belle river, France, and that the remains of all men ' ' (who : lost their lives in connection with, V that la in the engagements leading up to or resulting from the Flanders opera- ""tions, should be transferred to Bemy. In . like manner all deaths connected with the r Battle of the Hindenburg Line, to Bony - and all related to the Battle of the Le 6elW Biver to St. Souplet. As remains 1 are transferred they should be reinterred by companies aifl regiments, so far as ' - possible, but no attempt made to disturb existing remains in the three cemeteries named.,-If the families of our dead could know what we know of this whole thing, 90 per cent would favor this plan. V-" Large cemeteries are already estab lished at the localities mentioned and V most of the 1,968 dead of the 27th divis ion and 1,629 dead of the' 30th division bare been collected there from the small; r plots where they were first buried. The t thought set forth is to effect a further concentration of remains now at smaller ' burial places as Abeele, oingt, St. Em ilie, Guillemont Farm, Busigny or else- where, to the three principal cemeteries ' named. All of these were found to be maintained in excellent condition by care ' takers of our own or the British Graves : Cervices. 1 "Fenced enclosures are laid off in grassy plots with gravel walks between. A substantial and well-painted white wooden cross or upright with a six point-'- ed star (in the case of Hebrews) marks ' each grave, almost all of which, in addi I tioa, have a small American flag and are planted with flowers. ' "The War Department contemplates the substitution of a permanent stone ' monument of uniform design for the pres ent wooden markers on American crares." Referring to the dead at Doingt the General wrote: ' "For the most part? if not all, they were wounded before the Hindenburg Line and evacuated to the casualty clear- ing station here, where they died and were buried. Having been participants in the groat battle, they should be buried ! . on the line with their comrades at Bony ' and I hope their fnnulies will take this view and urge upon the Secretary of War that' all our Hindenburg. Line dead be concentrated at this wonderful cemetery. ' The losses among so many New York ' families at this place should serve to .unite 'them always in the future. No resting place could be more appropriate ' for those who met death in this great battle than to lie together in this really beautiful cemetery on the aidehill over looking Bony, where there is a small Bed Cross rest house in charge of an American 'lady, Mrs. Lulu Frick Taylor, American Cemetery, Bony par le Catelet, Aisne, who will answer any inquiries within her -power or execute any missions for the families of our dead." The proposed policy of the War De partment for the concentration of all American dead in a few great cemeteries . which' would Involve further transfer of remains to places with which there waa no association In operations is strongly , opopsed by General O 'Ryan and othera of ' the 27th division, who state that "we will -t only consent to this idea if compelled to " 1 - and that 44 Bony must never be dis turbed." -. - Mayworth Easily Wins Over G Hinders. ' . In a one-sided .game at Mayworth Fri : day afternoon the Gilanders Club, of Lex ington, waa easily defeated by the local team. The Maworth aggregation had - no difficulty in making their ten -?un lead over the visitors by the end f the ninth . -inning. . . - -; :. Score: , ' BH. E. Mayworth ;-.,i".,'.i...'.13 15 S Gilanders ..... .1 . ........... 3 2 3 - Batteries: Gihnders,"1 Daggenhart, "onecutt; irayworth, Robinson, Gibson. TRAINS 21 AKD 22 V1LL -HOT BE RESTORED Will Continue Via Winston Salem . But Other Sections Will be Put on Main Line. . (W. T. Bost, in Greensboro Daily News.) RALEIGH, July 23. "Thru" trains Nos. 21 and 22, taken from their "thru" runs over the North Carolina and western North Carolina, "thru" corporation or der in 1917, were "thru" the same com mission today ordered to continue the run "thru" Winston -Salem, brag tobacco burg qf the world, until further notice. While High Point, Lexington, Lake, Linwood, and -Salisbury lose their "thru" train, it is "thru" no fault of their own. They done noble in the fight and won to them many outsiders who joined the lower country folk strictly on the merits of the controversy. So far, no man admits that he was influenced to give his influence against the Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Barber route "thru" the peculiar orthography of one of Winston-Salem's organs. "Thruoout" it all the innocent bystanders were overwhelm ingly with the pioneer run. The commission does not let the Salis bury, Barber, Linwood, Lexington, Thom asville and High Point people down with out hope. Its order today is a gentle hint to the' carrier to get ready next year to make Nos. 21 and 22 two "thru" runs. One section will highball it "thru" Greeusboro, Winston-Salem and Barber, the other "thru" train will mosey "thru" High Point, Lexington, Salis bury and Barber. Meanwhile, Moores ville, which seems to have had neither "thru" nor unthru trains, gets a new one which connects at 1:15 in the after; noon at Barber with 22 eastbound and comes on to Salisbury; and goes west fol lowing No. 45 's arrival at Salisbury, and connects again with westbound train 21 for Waynesville, likewise going on "thru" to Charlotte. These schedules will meet Salisbury's demands and will retain for Winston-Salem its "thru" trains. EDITORS WILL MEET IN CHARLOTTE NEXT J. F. Hurley, of Salisbury Post Heads IN. C tress Associa tion For Next Year. WAYNESVILLE, July 23 J. F. Hurley, publisher of The Salisbury Post, was elected president of the association for the ensuing year at this morning's session or. tne iorty-eignin annum con vention of the North Carolina Press As sociation. Mrs. W. C. Hammer, edi tor of The Asheboro Courier, was unani mously elected vice president . Other of- j ficers elected are: A. W. Burch, business manager Charlotte Observer, second vice president; H. G. Braxton, publisher Kingston Free Press, third vice presi dent: M. L. Shipman, of Brevard, his torian; J. Z. Green, of Marsh ville, ora tor; and J. D. Boone, of Waynesville, poet. E. B.' Jeffries of The Greensboro News, was elected secretary and treas nrefat the beginning of the convention . Members of the executive committee elected today are: H. G. Braxton, Kingston; H. B. Varner, Lexington, re elected; J. A. Sharpe, Lumberton, . tiring president; Dr. Clarence Poe, Ral eigh, and R. W. Haywood, editor of The New and Observer, Baleigh. J. B. Sher rill, of Concord, retiring secretary and treasurer, was selected as a member of the executive committer but insisted that he be given a year 's rest, having been an officer of the association for thirty-two years," and another member was chosen. Charlotte jvas selected as the meeting place for the mid-winter session of the association which will be held either in December or Januray, the exact date to be dettermined by the executive commit tee. Invitations for the next summer convention were extended the editors from Asheville. Lenoir, Hickory and Beaufort. As usual H. B. Varner, of Lexington, extended an "request" that the summer session be held at Denton. However, the request fell upon deaf ears. The meeting place of the forty-ninth an nual convention will be determined by the" executive committee. GENERALLY FAIR WEATHER PREDICTED NEXT WEEK WASHINGTON, July 24. Weather predictions for the week beginning Mon day are: Middle Atlantic States: Fair first half of the week; probably local showers the second half of week. Seasonable tem peratures. South Atlantic and East Gulf 8tates: Local thundershowera probable except generally fair first half over the northern portion of the district. Seasonable tem peratures. West Gulf States: Generally fair in dicated. Temperature averaging above normal. . v ' . Owners ' of an Alabama ; mine have found that their mules' do better work and are less troubled bv flies if riven daily shower 'baths. ' ' . Coal deposits are known to exist in at least five Of the provinces on the wes tern border of Argentina, an almost in accessible region. . - - UARYUND IS J0:H - TO PASSKiG AUT01STS Mr. J. Meek Smith, of Clover. Reports Hold-Up Game at Hands of Officers in Mary . ' land. Gastoniana who have been to northern automobile plants to drive home ma chines through the country report that Maryland officers are an unusually hard lot to deal with. The ronowuig story of the same sort of treatment accord ed Mr. J. Meek Smith is from The En 'quirer: - ' J. Meek Smith, prominent citizen of Clover, who is well known throughout this entire section of the country is mad all over because of a hold-up game per petrated by constables at Frederick, Maryland, a few daya ago. Mr. Smith was obliged to pay $42 in fines because of the fact that he had not complied with the laws of Maryland in regard to automobile driving . "I was coming through this town of Frederick, Maryland a few days ago en route from Flint, Mich., to Clover," he said Wednesday. "There were three cars in our party and when we reached this town of Fred erick, Maryland, an officer halted us de manding to know where our-state license and identification cards were. I told him we were from South Carolina and had South Carolina license numbers on the rs. Then he wanted to know what we meant coining through Maryland without frosted glass instead of plan glass over the lighting system of the cars. This was in plain daylight mind you. "I told him that in South Carolina people had sense and didn't require all that foolishness. As for identification cards I told him I didn't know anything about that ; but that if express travelers ' checks wouldn't do for identification I didn't know what would. He said that wouldn't do and that we would have to put up $10 for each car because we did irot have the proper license. "Well it looked like jail for us until Big Thad Clinton, who was with us man aged to get those travelers' checks cash ed . Then the officer told us that we would run into auother officer who would arrest us. if we were not careful and for the sum of $6 he would show us the way to a garage man who would show us how to get out of town. There was nothing to do exefpt come across with the other "We go ,to the garage man who said he would get us out of town for $6. There was $42 paid out in all. I could n't kick against the pirates. We were strangers in a strange-land and it was either put up or in jail we would go. "I made each of the hold-up men who were under the guise of officers give me a receipt. "Finally we got out of that towo of Frederick and what we said about them when we got away well, you w?uldn 't want to print that. "After I got home I mailed those re ceipts to John R. Hart, Esq., at York ville and told him that if he could col lect the $42 he could have it. "I don't believe a citizen of Mary land would be treated in any such man ner if he came into South Carolina. I know he wouldn't be treated that way at Clover. WILL ANALYZE BRAIN OF MURDERED WOMAN Thought Analysis Will Reveal Whether or Nor Criminal Operation Was Performed. (By the Associated Press.) NEW YORK, July 24 Chemical analysis today of the brain of the un clad body of an unidentified woman, which was found in a trunk here yester day, shipped from Detriot on June 10, was expected to assist in establishing how the. victim met her death. The brain of the woman, who waa said to be be tween 25 and 30 years old, was the only vital organ left that could be examined, either internal organs having been re moved before the trunk was shipped to "Mr. Douglas, New York City." If death was due to criminal operation, the analysis of the brain should reveal traces of ehlorofora, said Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner, who ad ded that if the victim was poisoned, the same analysis should so indicate. Police here have communicated to the Detroit police all information consider ed of any value obtained. Some of this information was not made public, but they gave out that fact that the trunk's shipper was described on a tag as "A. A. Tatum, Detroit, Mich. ' ' HARDING BUSY . WITH CORRESPONDENCE - (Br the Associated Press.) MARION, O., July '24 Correspon dence occupied ( Senator Harding's atten tion again today, a big docket of letters and telegrams accumulated over notifica tion day being placed "before him when he reached hjb desk. Many of the eom municationsirere messages of congratu lation oaUj acceptance speech and many others kext coming ia during the day. GOVERNOR COX PLAYING GOLF r .. : " : . '4 .' Democratic nominee for President playing golf at the Dayton, Ohio country club, for the first time since his nomina tion . COX WILL BEGIN WORK ON SPEECH (By The Associated Press.) DAYTON, O.. Jul 24 Here to work on his address accepting the demo cratic presidential nomination August 7, Governor Cox today hoped to end all political conferences until his speech is sent to the printer. Considerable first hand information Tor pronouncements of his address was expected by Governor Cox from callers on his engagement list today. Shipping and general commercial affairs were topics he, planned to discuss with Ed ward N. Hurley, of Chicago, former shipping board chairman, and with O. E. Bradfute, Xenia, O., former indus trial commission and federal farm bureau member tlje governor was to discuss in dustrial relation) and agricultural in terests. Senator Pomerene, of Ohio, was to come here today or next Monday to dis cuss means of continuing the senate in vestigation of campaign expenditures, which Governor Cox is pressing. Another senator, J. C. W. Beckham, of Kentucky, was en route to talk state poli tics. The governor also expected a call from James W. Gerard, of New York. HARVEST SITUATION GOOD IN KANSAS. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 22. The harvest labor situation in Kansas and the Southwest is generally good according to officials of the federal free employment bureau in Kansas City, Kan., apd the Missouri Bureau of , Farm Labor, con ducted by state authorities with federal aid in Kansas City, Mo. At the opening of this month a surplus of farm labor was evident. There were a number of instances of men who came back from the harvest fields declaring that they had been unable to find employ ment At the end of the first week in July scattered requests were received for morn harvest laborers to be sent to coun ties in north-western Kansas, a need which is being filled, according to the federal employment agents. Generally speaking the Southwest has been supplied with all the harvest labor necessary as soon as the wheat crop was ready for cutting this season. A wage standard of 70 cents an hour agreed upon by farmers in the wheat belt of Kansas and announced through the state labor commissioner, Samuel Craw ford, attracted many workers. In regard to the situation, operating officials of the leading roads through the wheat sections agree that there is at pres ent an adequate supply of availablejars. Plenty of cars have been ordered west, it is stated but as yet they have not arrived in sufficient numbers. However, an offi cial of the local terminal company in close touch with the Interstate Commerce Com mission declared that although the ear supply is still somewhat short, it is bet ter than in other sections of the country and better than it has been here in past years. Railroad officials were not inclin ed to agree with this rather optimistic estimate. The 1920 wheat crop is beginning to reach Hutchinson, Kan. It is said to average better than for many- years, testing from 60 to ft? pounds to the bush el and bringing $2.40 to ilSCper bushel Yields run from 12 to 20 bushels to the acre, farmers declare . . . " "Grasshopper planted' wheat ia re ported to have turned out well In many places. In their attacks on wheat fields last fall, grasshoppers cut the heads off tffe wheat, causing them to drop to the ground, which resulted in tracts of vol unteer wheat Near Jyons a grower re ported s 20 bushel to the sere yield from a ' grasshopper planted" tract. , CONFESSES TO MURDER OF MOTHER FOR WHICH FATHER WIS HANGED Young Canadian Farmer Con fesses That He Killed Own Mother Seren Years Ago Father Had Hanged For Crime. TORONTO, July 24 A self-eonfess-ed murderer of his mother a crime for which his father was hanged seven years ago ArneU Love, 22, a Ceylon, Oat., farmer, is in jail here today. During evangelistic services in his home town, Love went forward and de clared to the evangelist that he had clubbed his mother to death, because she had reprimanded him for "keeping bad company." Young Lovo waa one of the principal witnesses against his father, Henry Love, who was convicted by a jury and hanged at Owen Sound, Ont., for the crime seven years ago. While the evidence against him had been mostly circumstantial, on the scaffold the father made what was be lieved to be a confession of his guilt. The non grew into manhood as a farmer, and the tragedy of his life was apparently buried until he attended the evangelistic service. He- told the evangelist, the Rev. C. N. Sharpe, that when his mother reprimanded him he was angered and killed her with a stick of wood, and hid the body., in the cellar, where it was found later. On advice of the evannlit. Love gave himself up to the police, who are investi gating his story. In the meantime, the young farmer, apparently greatly relieved is in jail indifferent to his fate. REPORTS THAT CONVICTS' ARE BRUTALLY TREATED Washington Society Sends Wo man to North Carolina to In vestigate Rumors of Mis treatment. 1 (Theodore Tiller , in Greensboro News.) WASHINGTON, July 23. Earle E. Dudilinjf. president of the Prisoners Re lief Society of Washington, has sent a special investigator to North Carolina to investigate complaints that state convicts have lieen brutally treated while em plovcl on the romls of the State. Mr. Uudding announced today that in re sponse to an "epidemic of complaints," Mrs. Rex B. Duckett, of this city, is now in the state conducting a quiet investiga tion (tl conditions under which convicts work. Mrs. Duckett is the wife of a Washing ton minister in charge of a suburban church here. She is a North Carolinian, a native'pf Zebulon, and. it is said, went to si-hool to Santford Martin, the private secretary to Governor Bickett. As soon as Mrs. Duckett completes her investiga tion, her observations are to be laid be fore Governor Bickett and his secretary and she expects prompt assistance in rem edying alleged improper conditions. Some time ago Mr. Dudding made charges against the management, of the North Carolina State farm, producing complaints from convicts who told of brutal treatment. An investigation fol lowed which resulted in an exoneration of the State officials. Mr. Dudding referred to this today, saying that it was difficult to bring about reforms when practically the only evidence to be obtained i that of convicts. Gets. Letters From State. More recently, he announced, letters have been coming from North Carolina telling of "horrible conditions" under which convicts are being worked on the roads and alleged brutality of convict guards. Mr. Dudding said he could not give at this time the specific places to be visited by his investigator, Mrs. Duck ett, who is working quietly end on a schedule of her own and who will say nothing until certain facts are put before Governor Bickett. Dudding said today he had a conference did his "bit" some years ago and since that time has devoted his time to secur ing employment for discharged convicts and to bringing about better conditions at penitentiaries in all parts of the coun try. He appears sincere and his move ment is supported by voluntary contribu tions from men he has helped and other persons interested in such charitable work. Dudding said today he had conference with Governor Bickett and believes he will correct any improper conditions brought to his attention. Dudding quoted Governor Bickett as saying that a road camp is no fit place for any convict. Dudding 's organization has no official authority . It tan only bring improper conditions on" the prisoners to the atten tion of state officials. 'Except where fed era! prisoners are involved, the federal government has no supervision over state convict camps, and few states, including North Carolina, seem to want any inter ference by the federal government in the handling of convicts. - , - "Epidemic of Complaints., ' Dudding spoke only in general terms .today of complaints received from North Carolina. . He declared, that bis society had received " an'epidemie of letters'' from the State recently. Some of these letters are said to have come from cos- SOVIET ARMY ORDERED TO BEGIN NEGOTIATIONS FORAN ARMISTICE (By The Associated Press.) LONDON, July 24. The soviet gov ernment of Russia today notified Poland that the soviet army command had been ordered to begin immediate negotiations for an armistice, it is announced in k wireless dispatch from Moscow today. The following telegram was dispatched by George Tchitcherin, Russian eoviet foreign minuter, to Prince Sapieha, the Polisk. foreign minister, at Warsaw, at 1:15 o'clock this morning. "The Russian soviet government has given orders to the supreme command of' the red army to commence immediately with the Polish military command nego tiations fcr the pu-jese of concluding an uuiiiscice aud preparing for future J eaco between the two countries. The Russian conimind w' advise the Pol'sh command ns to tin p h.o and Lifi ii- cemmencing negotiations between the military com mands of the two sides." Another message, signed by Vaseileff and' Khvostchbisky, for tho chief head quarters staff and the revolutionary mil;, tary council, was sent to the higher mili tary command iu Warsaw, marked "Very urgent," and saying: "The supreme command of the red army has received the order of the soviet government to enter into negotiations with the Polish military command on the questions of an armistice and peace be tween Russia and Poland. The supreme command will send representatives fur nished with full powers to a place which will be indicated to you by the command of the Russian front, who will inform yon of the place and date when the Polish representatives will be invited to attend." Russia's reply to Poland's application for armistice negotiations brings in sight a possible oiuiiou oi' one oi the most serious crises which Europe as a whole and the allied nations in particular have had to face since the conclusion of the armistice with the Germans in November, 191?. The official world of allied Europe has been stirred to its depths and undis guinedly alarmed over the sweep of the soviet armies through territory held by the Poles to the very borders of Poland proper, with a menace to Warsaw and the virtual wiping out of Poland as a no tion looming up to the allies as possibili ties if measures were not taken? to head them off by giving efficient and speedy aid to the Warsaw government. Furthermore, the close approach of the Russians to the German border gave addi tional cause for uneasiness, there existing trreat uncertainty and apprehension as to the effect a touching of German and so viet frontier lines might' have upon the political future of Europe. BOLSHEVIK THRUST CARRIES PAST POLISH BOUNDARIES (By The Associated Press.) WARSAW, July 22. The bolshevik thrust in the direction of Sokolka, west of Grodno, has carried them past the Polish boundary line set by the council of ambassadors. Along the railroad in this region the Poles are reported to be fight ing to stem the momentum of the south westerly drive which is swinging the reds toward Poland's capital, but in many places the tired Poles are compelled to withdraw, without much resistance, in the face of overwhelming numbers. Bolshevik Teserve divisions assembled by General BrussTloTf, weeks prior to the launching of the offensive, are daily be ing thrown in all along the northern front. They are making headway against the scattered Polish lines in the open country. Many spurts and gains are made by tho reds in drives with divisions or detach ments between poorly defended troops or through a gap between withdrawing or maneuvering troops with their flanks on protected. BRINGING UP TARTARS. (By The Associated Press.) WARSAW, July 23. Da their offen sive against Galicia the bolshevik! are re ported to be bringing up Tartars sad , Kuban and Terek Cossacks, who have entered the line. Four regiments of Tar- : tars already have been identified in tin forces driving toward Lemberg. BELIEVE THAT ARMISTICE HAS BEEN ARRANGED (By the Associated Press.) r LONDON, July 24. Private cables from Warsaw this morning say there is a strong report that Moscow has replied to Poland's representations for sn armi stice as f ololws : .- "We have directed our field command to arrange an immediate armistice with Poland.' - v victs, others from ex -convicts and some from interested persons. Mrs. Duckett, he said, took a number of the complaints with her to North. Carolina. ' Although ' Dudding did not let it be known until today that an investigator had gone to North Carolina, it ia under stood that Mrs. Duckett has been In tbo State for some days aad her report s.cm' 1 soon be ready for tie peri; .1 cf C -ernor TUU'.U .