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i - ' 1 . Oastonia Daily :,Gaz h--A'-'-:--Zik-t'-v-.''V$l':t' . MIMBER OF THIS ASSOCIATED PRESS Y f ?Tp" J county, the fine c..JlL.I and. combed yars. manufacturing center of the Sooth, now ranks fourth in America; 1.0?5,923 spindlesJ basto:;ia--. and prosperous people place worth living in. Popn- " latioa 13.871; 133 p. c tain. hi r;oL.-xu.-r;'' no. iss. . GASTONIA, N. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 6, 1920 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS W INTEREST IS SHOWN INOfJESSAOE THAT COX HAS HELD Speculation a to its Content Centers on Three Possibilities - Challenge to Harding, a bpecibc Statement on Article Ten or an Announcement , Regarding Prohibition Issue. DAYTON, On Aug, 8. Democratic lans were gathering here today for their .great quadrennial event, the presentation tomorrow to the American electorate of a presidential nominee Governor Cox, of Ohio. All was in readiness for the gov ernor's formal notification of nomination by Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, who .presided over the San Francisco conten tion, and the candidate's address of ac ceptance declaring the broad lines of the campaign. Between, his mail-laden desk and early -s, Governor Co today drew , upon of both nervous and physical ' "ng the presence ytifi cation cere- .. ,n organ 1 ration ' Affairs,' diapoM, V4, . yand personal business and be ready, after his address tomorrow, for unlimited campaigning un til election day. Among important early, arrivals due were George White, chairman 'of the dem ocratie national committee, and Senator Harrison, of Mississippi, head of the speakers' bureau. Theywere expected to announce, respectively, the special cam ' paign committee and the governor's first : speeehmaking itinerary, after approval by the candidate. With Governor Cox's acceptance ad dress in type for tomorrow afternoon 's jwepapen, speculation increased today garding the brief tout important insert f baa announced would be forthcoming .morrow. The governor continued to hold it secret. Speculation on its mes- 4age centered principally ou three sub 1 ; Jects a possible challenge to Senator f Harding, his republican opponent, for joint debate' of the league of nations, a specific statement on Article 10 of the league covenant, or a definite announce aent regarding the prohibition issue, i Democratic leaders here seemed agreed hat the league undoubtdly would be the ;reat campaign battleground and awaited rith keen interest in the address of Gov ernor Cox, which, he has announced, will aso plain that school children may un lerstand. His promises for an aggres sive and offensive campaign carried per sonally to the people from coast to coast also apparently found unanimous favor, i? - Besides the interests of himself and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the vice presiden tial candidate, Governor Cox is planning to carry with the national ticket a demo craticjcongress. On the league issue, (dose advisers say he feels that it will oa settled definitely in the November bal loting for president and senators. J . The people will speak so plainly as to - ompel a final settlement of the league .and reaty .controversy, the governor's friends say he believes, regardless of the actual partisan line-up of the senate. In v pua connection, attention was directed to i .the governor's statement yesterday ex preesing the expectation that former President Taft would work for republi "n candidates for the senate who favor the league. Tiie governor is scheduled to begin to morrow's address about 3 o'clock, several hours after newspaper publication of his srmddress in most localities, The parade of visiting delegations, expected to aggre gate about 15,000, is to start for the . Montgomery county fair grounds about 1 O'clock. A review of the pilgrims bv the governor and Mr. Roosevelt and Seua tor Robinson 's notification addresses are to precede the governor's. -" Many special trains and automobile caravans were scheduled to arrive early tomorrow. Formed democratic clubs and -bands galore are promised, and All are to feature 'Ohio,' the Cox campaign song ' of the San Francisco convention, in the music of the ceremonies. NORTH CAROLINA WOMAN . REACHED AGE OF 117 Raleigh, N. C-. Aug. 5. The bureau of wital statistics has announced the death at Big Laurel, Madison county, North Carolina, of -Miss Doreas Griffin, at the Age of 117 her age having been appar ently verified by the Griffin Bible. She was born on March 30, 1803, according to the Bible record, and died at the place of her birth several weeks ago. - LEXINGTON NEGSO ' SENTENCED TO DEATH v LEXINGTON, N. C, Aug. 5. Jim McDonald, negro, was sentenced here to day to die in the electric chair on Octo ber 8,- for having attacked the wife'of a prominent 'farmer at Lin wood, near Iiere several months ago. If 1 Mrs. B., O. Craig and Mr, and Mrs. ' Otto Duncan left Thursday for Wrights viHe BeacV where they will " spend i week 's vacation. j . -, ' OUT OF SPEECH SQUADRON OF AMERICAN FLYERS IS TRANSFORMED Koschuzko Squadron u Sent to Northern Front to Aid Hard Pressed Poles. WARSAW, Aug i 8:35 p. m. Owing to the desperate situation on the front nearest Warsaw, the Koseiuszko squadron, the air force composed for the most part of Americans attached to the Polish army, is being transferred from the southern front. The squadron will aid in the defense of the Polish capital. The American consulate in .Warsaw will be closed Friday and Consul Rankin is making preparations to depart Friday night. Most of the records already have been shipped away. The American legaion here also is pre pared to close within a few days. The legation employes 'have shipped their baggage to Camp Grappe, the emergency headquarters of the American typhus ex ipedition. The operations of the squadron will be begun in its new field within two or three days. Meanwhile, bullet battered tanks which saw service in the great war, rumbled through the streets of Vvarsaw today on the way to esgage the Russians. The ar rival also began of 75 millimetre aruns I which the French used against the Ger mans on the western front. Several artil lery detachments with these guns as their weapons left for the nearest front where fighting with the Russians was in prog ress. These batteries were expected to begin action on Friday. GASTON COUNTY MAN IS CHAMPION CHECKER PLAYER Mr. Coit M, Robinson, of Lowell, Wins Checker Championship of South at Augusta Match. The following from the Charlotte News is of interest locally: North Carolinians won spectacularly .at the annual tournament of the Southern Checker Players' Association in Augusta this week. Coit Robinson, of Lowell, one of the leading checker players of this state and a foremost figure in the North Carolina Checker Players' Association, won the highest score, 'being declared the Southern champion, and elected president of the Southern association. The Charlotte men, J. W. Elliott ami Sam Hill, were at the tournament-and Coit Robinson and J. M. Wilson, of Low ell; H. C. McNjir. of Maxton, and I. F Sampson, of Shelby, attended. -Mr. McNair is president of the North Caro lina association. In the elimination tournament the five highest players were left. In the five highest, H. C. McNair, Coit Robinson, Sam Hill and I, F. Sampson were in cluded. In the final contest H. C. McNair abd Coit Robinson remained, thes two play- : :w . ) r t-i nig bia guiiics aim jir. nuuiunoii winning in the sixth. Miss Iva Rudisill, of Dallas, joined Miss Emma Cornwell here and left this morning to spend the day with Mrs. Fred Bvrum near Steele Creek. MRS. SARAH FORD. Following an illness of several months, Mrs. Sarah Ford died Thursday after noon at the ho;ht of her granddaughter, Mrs. John McArver. at Ranlo, aged 79 years . v Funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock ''this afternoon at Chapel Lutheran church by the pastor. Rev. A. L. Boliek, and the remains were in terned in the Chapel cemetery. Mrs. Ford was before her marriage Miss Sarah Kendrick, and is survived by one brother, Mr. Mark L. Kendrick, of Gastonia, and one sister. Mrs. J. P. 8towe, of Belmont. She was born and reared in the South Point section of the county, but had made her home for some time with Mrs. McArver. She was a member of the Baptist church. Two brothers, the late John Kendrick and the late Jamea Madison Kendrick, Sr.. havej p.wucu ucr.w ue grave. Mrs. Ford'had a,, wide family connec tion and waa known to a large number of people over the county, all of whom will be grieved at the news of her death . ' MiSbNICNOTICE-"7 Regular meeting of Gastonia Lodge No. 369, A. P. and A. M, at eight o'clock tonight WorkUn the third degree. . ; W. L'THOMPSON, W..M. ' TAT LAVENDER, See. - . DEFENCES EAST OF WARSAW HAVE BEEN PIERCED Preparation Made' to Move Capital From iWarsaw,. if Russian Advance Continues. ) (By The Associated Press.) WARSAW, Aug. 5. The defensive line east of Warsaw has been pierced in several places, according to reports from the front. Preparations have been begun for transferring the govenment, if that move is necessitated by the Russian ad vance. The officials, however,, still hope the spviet forces will be checked some where east of the Vistula. No announcement has been made as to what place the government would move to, but it is reported it would be Posen or Csestachowa, 14S miles southwest of Warsaw, near the Silesian frontier. 'Of the developments along the eastern defense line, the wrd from the front hows that after a halt of several days while reinforcements were brought up and supplies forwarded along the river, the bolshevrki forced crossings of the Bug at a number of places. At one point, southeast of Ostrov, the soviet troops are reported to have crossed the river in large numbers. Tonight's communique from headquar ters announced that ' the Russians had forced the Bug in the region of Dro- hiezynv (about 70 miles east of the capi tal), this being a part ' of . the . soviet movement to outflank the defenders of Warsaw and push on toward the Vistula. The Poles counterattacked and fierce fighting is continuing. 1 Between Drohiessyn and Brest-Litovsk, the communique continues, the Poles launched a counterattack against the Russians, who had crossed the (Bug below Brest Litovsk. In the region of Brest Litovsk, which is in the hands of the Russians, they recoiled for an attack which compelled the Poles to evacuate Terespol, just to the west of the river. There was fighting at various points to the south, but' without gains for the Rus sians, The soviet troops have been checked in their westward push along the Prussian border, the statement announces. They have reached Miszniec in an advance ap parently designed to bring them to the Warsaw-'Di n.ig railway. The military observers assert that this is part of the Russian outa finking movement planned to encircle the capital, thus saving the heavy losses wnicn would result it Warsaw were attacked directly. Russian gains are conceded north and east of Warsaw, where the soviet forces are regrouping for what may be the final exertion in their attempt to bring Poland to their terms of peace by directly threat ening its capital. In the center of the front bearing down upon Warsaw from the northeast the Russians, according to the commu nique, are being held along the Ostrow Czerwony line to the Bug. AUGUST RASCAL HAS . LONG RECORD DEHIND HIM I PHILADELPHIA, I'enn., Aug. C Pascol, who was arrested last Monday in June he appeared to be plentifully Pascol, who was arrested last Monday at Egg Harbor, N. J., after he had been trapped into picking up a lox supposed to contain $10,000 as further ransom money for the return of the missing boy, is still hidden by the authorities. In no circumstances, they declare, will his whereabouts be revealed until thVy have completed their invstigation of the story lie tells. An important development in the i'a.e today was the identification of Pascol as Augusto Pasquale with a police record in this and other cities, This also led to an examination of the finger prints of Pas quale, , on file at police headquarters, with the kidnapper's finger prints found in the Coug'hlin home, and it is asserted by the police that they agree sufficiently to convince them that they wer made by the same man. . Pasqual was released from Moyamen sing prison here last March after serving nine months on charges of breaking and entering, laceny and carrying concealed death weapons. He had no money when he left, the pison. Biit when Pascol ap plied for a room in a lodging house here in June he apepared. to be plentifully supplied with funds. This was after June 17, when Coughlia deposited $12,000 under a deserted trol ley station at Swedeland, near Norris town, as instructed by the letter signed "The Crank," dmanding the money for the return of the child. The money dis apepared and no trace of the child was found. "Pascol deposited about $2,000 in a local trust company and later bought a chicken farm at New Gretna, N. J., near Egg Harbor, and also an automo bile. , ... ; Prior to serving nine months in the county prison here, ,. Psquale served a term in the Elmira, N. Y, reformatory, beginning .in' April, J910. , Three years later he was arrested in Newark, N. J, for carrying concealed deadly weapons and after that in Fairmont park her as a suspicious charcter. From the time he was eleased in March until June, when he appeared at the Iddging house, his movements are not known. The Coughlin NO ADVICES AS TO LOANS AGAINST THIS YEAR'S COTTON CROP (by the Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 6 The feder al reserves-board has not advised mem ber banks as to what loans they should make against this year's eotton crop, Governor Harding declared today in i .letter to the department of agriculture The letter was written in answer reports reaching the department that "due to an existing financial stringency, stocks of eotton were being forced on the market at sacrifices in prices. Such action, the department intimated, had been prompted through "a ruling or other form of instruction from the federal reserve board, which limited loans on cottbn to that only which was in pro cess of shipment . " In answer to this Governor Harding explained that congress had been request ed early in the year to amend the 'exist ing statutes which originally restricted loans to individuals by national banks in excess of ten per eent of the bank's capital and surplus. "Congress acted upon the suggestion of the board. ' ' Governor Harding wrote. The amended statute now provides that for a period of six months out of any consecutive twelve months a nation al bank may lend to an individual, firm or corporation up to 25 per. cent of its capital and surplus where the excess of -0 per cent is secured bv warehouse receipts . ' Commenting on the accumulation of low grade cotton, Governor Hardin it's letter stated that this was due partially to difficulty in making financial ar rangements necessary to sell it to the nulls in central Europe adding that "member banks in the south no doubt feel reluctant to carry too large a vol ume of loans on collateral which is not readily salable. " RALEIGH LAWYER IS ARRESTED AND HELD BY SHERIFF UNLAWFULLY W. T. Host in Greenslxrt-o News. RALEIGH, Aug. 5 Perrin Busbee, member of the Raleigh bar, noted uni versity athlete 2" years aeo. am) nrnmi- nent member of the Busbee families of Raleigh, may go ufter Sheriff John F. Hartvood, o$ Durham county, whom Mr. Busbee charges with Unlawful arrest and detention in the Durham jail several days ago. The allegations against the high sheriff of that county are that he arrested Mr. .Busbee. and held him incominunicando for hours. The Raleigh lawyer declares that he committed no offenses, was served with no warrant was denied knowledge of what charges were against him. afid deeply humiliated. Mr. Busliee wan taken in Durham while he was exploring the old stage coach road between Raleigh and the university, he -declares. Some months ago he was made chairman of a committee apK)inted to look over this road with a view to re o)ening it. It saves much driving be tween Raleigh and Durham and is about as near through the old route as Dur ham is, thereby saving 12 miles. Mr. Busbee set out to dig up this road, and had been going but a short Mvhile when he susjiected that he was being deceived by jieople who told him the road. This led him to wandering, he declared, and he found his bearings with difficulty. One night he walked alone the entire time and was 'still lost the following morning. Finally he began to har conversation that indicated he was being sought by of ficers. The natives were suspicious and he heard oue of them tell somebody that the man described by somebody else was then in the yard of the citizen communi eating over telephone.- Later he was picked up and allowed to ride. Once getting Mr. .Busbee in the machine, he was held there, though he was let out later and then put on the road again, he says. The next man who found him was the sheriff. This officer apprised him that he had been looking after Mr. Busbee for two days. The lawyer who is badly crippled as the result of paralysis, resisted what he deemed an unlawful arrest but he says the sheriff took him by force and de tained him in jail. Mr. Busbee de clares that be did not have he chance to communicate with any citizens in Dur ham, nearly all of whom he knows. Still biter Phil Busbee, a cousin and W. C. Douglass, both of the Raleigh bar, were found and the prisoner was released. If there is any way to make the sheriff pay for the experience Mr. Busbee means to find it. baby was stolen on Junes2. According to George A. Leonard, chief postal inspector, Pascol said he did not know anything about the kidnapping bat that he was hired by a man to bang the white sheet along the railroad as a signal f or Coughlin to' 'throw a box containing flo.uoo out of a railroad train window' letween Camden, N, J, and Atlantic , . . ,. Leonard aald Pascol wil) not reveal the identity of thia man. DENVER QUIET AFTER NIGHT OF RIOTING IN WHICH TWO ARE KILLED AND 34 INJURED Thousands of Dollars Worth of Property De stroyed - Plant of Denver Post Which Opposed Strikes Is Almost Completely Wrecked - Re sult of Street Car Strike. KAMENEFF EXPUUNS TO PREMIER LLOYD GE0R6E LONDON, Aug. 6. Leo Kameneff, of the Russian soviet delegation here, sent Premier Lloyd George last night a long communication, giving the soviet govern ment's reply to Great Britain's note of Tuesday with regard to the delay in the armistice negotiations between Russia and Poland. 1L Kameneff ' statement declares the soviet government never desired to com bine the negotiations for an armistice with'negotiations for peace, but that it demands that the terms of he armistice include reasonable guarantees which would prevent attempts on the part of Poland to use the period of the armistice for the renewal of hostile acts. The sole obstacle in the way of the be ginning of negotiations for the suspen sion of military operations, says the note, is the absence tt the Polish delegates, whose return is being awaited by the rep resentatives of the soviet government in order that negotiations may be imme diately opened. The note continues: ' ' The Rusisan soviet government agrfin declares that it is firm in the recognition of the freedom and independence of Po land, ami its willingness to grant to the Polish state Wider frontiers than were indi.Med y the supreme council and mei 'i iii'd in the Brilisli note of July 20. " Willi regard to the proposed London pea e conference the note says in sub stance t!iat the soviet government had projiosed that the conference be only with the leading powers of the entewte, because the usefulness of such a conference arose from the fact that without the assistance of the lending powers w:ir could not be waged by o' her sfates against Russia, and s.i the. pcn.e of Europe would be guaranteed , CRISP PREDICTS DEFEAT SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT RALEIGH, N. '.. Aug. 0 Kepre sentiitive B. G. Crisp, recognized as one of the principal auti sun rage leaders l it i the state house of representatives, in a statement here today predicted defeat of the federal woman suffrage amendment by the 8eeial session of the North Car olina legislature which meets here next Tuesday. . Mr. Crisp said he had taken a poll of the members and if all ''stick" who havewrnteu him he looks for ten majority in the house against ratifica tion and about a tie vote in the senate. In regard to the telegram of protest sent last night to Governor Cox bv the North Carolina States Right!, League, Mr. Crisp sand: "It voices my sentiments entirely. The way I feel about the matter is simply this If I belong to a party that must be governed by 'expediency rather man principle ihe soon I leave that par ty the better. ' "I have always been a sincere demo crat from conviction," continued Mr. Crisp, "my iieople were republicans and I separated myself from them political ly because, from a study of the Hamilton- ian and Jeffersonian principles' I chose to follow Jefferson. -When the demo cratic rty forgets those principles and goes over to the federalistic idea, then it is hig htime for a halt to be called. " Mrs. J. L. Stowe. of the Js'ew Hope neighborhood, spent Wednesday with her laughter, Mrs. Fred Rhyne. Mis Pearl Stowe, pf the New Hope sectionr attended the big pienic at Dallas Wednesday. Mr. Bryan Jones, formerly of Gas tonia, but who now lives at Hickory, ar rived in the city yesterday and will be in town several days on business. Mr. Leonard E. Boleh, sergeant in the quartermaster corps, son of Mr, W. E. Boleh, of 111 South Clay street, re ceived his discharge ,from the army on Wednesday, he 4th. Mr. Boleh enlisted as a private here last August and because of Jits industry and ability was quickly, promoted, receiving the rank of sergeant On December 26. Since his enlistment Mr. Boleh has been stationed at Camp Benni ng, Ga., Fort Thomas, Ky and Camp Miggs at Washington, D. C. While the army furnishes good temporary em ployment, he prefers eivitiaa life. ; Mr. Boleh will. immediately take np work at the Trenton mill . - , . DENVER, Colo., Aug. 6 Denver was quiet early today after a night of , rioting ou the part of the street car strik ers, their sympathizers and strike break ers during which two persons were kill ed, 34 injured, and thousands of dollar property damage incurred. Two thous and volunteer policemen are expected to prevent a recurrence of the trouble. 'The rioting began bite in the after noon and it was not until 1 o'clock thia morning that members of mobs which had kept police busy in various parts of the city for more than six hours had dis persed. Eight street cars were wrecked, the office of the Denver Post partially de molished and damage done to carbarns in widely separated sections of the city. The dead: Blakeshot and instantly killed; A. G. Smith, Denver, died of bullet wounds. The riots followed the first successful effort of the tramway company to carry passengers on street cars manned by armed strike breakers. Two cars were blockaded by a motor truck just as a parade of strikers and sympathizers were passing. Some one threw n brick and the paraders Attacked the cars and crews. Car windows were smashed, prttective screens torn off and strike breakers badly beaten before po lice could restore order. One man was shot in the foot. The Denver Post was the next object of the, mob's attack. That paper op i posed the strike. Every window in the j pl.-u-e was broken, presses hammered and ;uid throwa into the rollers; the business ! ofih e was wrecked, records and fixtures being thrown into the street; the en graving room was demolished and type and linotype mattrices scattered through the composing room. The publishers said they would attempt to puolish thia afternoon . While theNiiiob was still at the Post another crowd iud gathered at the East Denver carbarns and fthird mob liad at tacked the South Denver barns, where 150 strike leaders who had arrived dur I ing the day, were housed. Several hua- dred shots were fired at the latter place, i at which the two fatalities occurred, i This mob did not disperse until well af j ter midnight. I When police were engaged in quelling I these mobs, four street cars which had been waiting in a residential section for the trouble down town to abate, were at tacked by a crowd of 5,000 persons . The cars were overturned and the strike breakers, after receiving a sever beat ing, sought refuge, in the cathedral of the ImiiiacuhUe Conception and were saved by intervention of priests until rescued by the police. An attempt waa made to burn the cars, but serious damage by fire was prevented. All during the evening Mayor Bailey, Governor Slump, Chief of Police Haind ton Armstrong, who was injured ear lier by a flying brii'k, and other city of ficials were ia coherence at the state house considering the advisability of asking for federal troop. A decision was reached earlv todav to rely ou vol unteers and speeial policemen, all of whom v., re ordered to report to the city hall for strike duty today. A. H. Burt international orgaaizer for the union, and President Silberg, of the local union, in statements issued lost night, deplored the mob violence and dis claimed all resjiousibility for the strik ers. General Manager Hild, of the com pany, announced today that cars would be run today. He declared there were 500 strike breakers here aud more on the way . A crowd surrounded the city hall for a short time last night and an angry mob was restrained from attacking the tram way building, where the majority of the strike breakers are housed by a strong armed guard which protected every en trance and exit. Mr, Hild announced, that 200 armed men , were kept at the '. darkened windows of the building with instructions to shoot if the police line below should give way. Early today the mob still surrounded the building, but there was no sign of : violence, j ; TjMe company had 14 cars running yes terday and for the first time men and wo men were accepted-as passengers. At times in the day . the ears were ' . crowded almost to the extent of the rush hours of normal times. ' One passenger r was injured in the rioting. - ' Miss Edna Rankin, who has been, at tending the summer school at the Unirer. sity'of North Carolina, has returned t Gastonia. . V r 7