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0 FBI EmiJTR.? County it 11,611. PepuU tio 5U43; total wealth, ASTOI 6ASTO -L?LZ good schools sad chttrchss i A good place to Uto. Pop, laton 13,871, 133 J p. c gala UXMBKR Or THX ASSOCIATES PSXSS I VOL.XLI. NO. 254. GASTONIA, N. C.t FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 22, 1920 SINGLE COPY 5 CENT! A GRAY ' SEPARK MILLS HOLD ANNUAL MEETINGS "Miss Martha Torrence Elected Assistant Secretary and Treasurer of Three Cotton Mills and Director in One Unusual Distinction to Gas " ton County Woman. At a recent annual stockholders' meet ings of the Flint Manufacturing com pany, Arlington Cotton Mills and Myrtle Mills, Inc., the following officers were elected: Flint Mfg. Co., L. L. Jenkins, president; S. N. Boyce, vice-president; ,J. H .Separk, secretary and treasurer; .Jas Bracey. assistant secretary and treasury and J, L. Gray, general man ager of manufacturing; Arlington cot- . ton mills, J . Lee Robinson, president ; 8 . 3J . Boyce, vice-president ; J . H . Separk, : secretary and treasury; Jas Bracey, as- r aistant secretary and treasurer, J . L . Gray, general manager of manufactur i ing; Myrtle . Mills, Inc . ; J . L . Gray, ipxesident; J. Lee Robinson, vice-president; J. H. Separk, secretary and treas ury ; Jas . Bracey, assistant secretary and treasurer, . At Meeting of the stockholders of the "Parkaale Mills, Inc. the following of ficers were elected: J. Lee Robinson, ; president, J. L. Gray, vice-president; J. H. Separk secretary and treasurer; Miss Martha Torrence, assistant secretary and treasurer; Gray Mfg. Company, L. L. Jenkins, president, T. L. Craig, and J. L.'Gray, vice-presidents; J. H. Separk, secretary and treasurer and Miss Martha Torrence, assistant secretary and treas urer; Arrow Mills, Inc.; J. Lee Rob inson, pesident; J. L. Gray, vice-president; J. H. Separk, secretary and treasurer and Miss Martha Torrence, as sistant secretary and treasurer. Miss Torrence was also elected a di rector in the Parkdale Mills, Inc. This is the first instance in Gaston county, bo far as the reporter knows, or in North Carolina, for 'that matter, where a lady holds the position of assistant sec retary and treasurer of three big cotton mills. :-- jiu-r' rJ DAVIS (JtflttY SECOND DEGREE MURDER 'Barium 3prtfi Orphanage Boy Tried" For Mter it Laufie Auten. STATESVtLLE, Oct. 21 George Davis, the Barium Springs orphanage boy '"who shot and killed Laurie Auten, another inmate of the orphanage, on the second of last February, was tried in 'Iredell superior court today. At 6 o'clock ' this afternoon the jury took the case and in 15 -minutes brought in the vnrdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. Judge Lane will not pass sentence until tomorrow . The defendant had able local counsel and made a hard fight on the ground that the killing was justifiable. It will be recalled that three orphan :agp boys, George Davis, Horace Wpters, aad Laurie. Auten, were at work in a new ground near the institution when u quar rel ensued which resulted in Davis draw ing a shotgun and killing Ail ten, leaving him lying in the woods. The Davis and Waters boys made their escape itn- jnediately after the shooting and took a train for the west, stopping at Kansas ity. Several months ago Davis re turned voluntarily to stand trial here for .the deed. The Waters boy was arrested sad brought back but when he was ar raigned today Solicitor Hayden Cle znent entered a n6i pros. The defense endeavored to prove that Davis did not ,vse the pistol until Auten attacked with i an axe, but the jury found otherwise. During the trial the defendant's mother, . Mrs.. M. L. Davis, was by his side and . showed deep emotion at time. When - the verdict was announced Mrs . testis fainted.. , :SPE(JRE!UnBM ROBRERY IN OHIO ' CLEVELAND O., Oct. 22. Three counties were taixnea oy posses waay for the remnant of the bandit gang who late yesterday, engaged in one of the most s peel solar, iajik robberies in Ohio. Amid volleys .of, bullets, that resembled a mft.r.hinA cnm Anffntrmant. nnA h&ndit. w A I " V I ' Albert W, Joyce, who had numerous aliases, was killed, and three others, in eluding George yjjggs" Losteiner, wanted for two murders and numerous robberies, were wounded and captured after eight men held up and robbed the branch bank of the Cleveland Trust Com pany at Bedford of $50,000. All of the money was recovered. William Petrie, a bookkeeper in the bank, was probably fatally wounded. Three citizens were less seriously shot. . Four ofjhe gang, all of whom also are - believed to have been wounded, -escaped after- the battle, which occurred in a - lumberyard and in which every Bedford citizen who could find a weapon partiei pated More than 200 shots were ex--ehanged. Harry Stone, another of the captured bandits, has served several prison terms and only recently was released from- the , Leavenworth penitentiary. , , ; ; The - fourth man captured refused to ' reveal his identity and police early today had been, unable to identify him. INTEREST IN STRIKE CENTERS ON LLOYD GEORGE LONDON, Oct. 22. Interest in the miners' strike and the threatened walk out of railroad and transport workers throughout the Country was centered to day on. 10 Downing street, the official residence of Premier Lloyd George. Served wif virtual ultimatums by the railroad and transport men to begin ne gotiations with the miners today on pain of facing a tie-up of railroads and pos sibly other traffic on Sunday night, the premier was expected to make a definite announcement of the stand the govern ment would take. Members of the cabinet held a long nie-eting last night, but the decisions reached were not made public. It was learned, however, that one matter dis cussed was it appel to the country for a mandate to settle the miners' strike. Indications of a political, as well as an industrial crisis,,were found in the situa tion, it was declared, and it appeared that labor had joned issue with the gov ernment in a struggle which might be trohie historic. Serious economic conditions are al ready becoming evident in some localities as a result of the miners' strike, and there is a widening circle of idleness that causes concern. Drastic restriction of railroad and shipping schedules has already been ordered, and many indus trial plants have been forced to close be cause of lack of fuel. COX IN NEW JERSEY. EN ROUTE WITH GOVERNOR COX, Oct. 22. New Jersey, the state which was one of his first and stuuncbest sup porters, was the campaigning ground to day of Governor Cox, of Ohio. The dem ocratic presidential candidate was to de liver speeches' this morning at Trenton, this Tfternocn at Princeton and later at Newark and Jersey City. Following his address at Baltimore last night to one of his largest audiences which heard him criticise Senator Hard ing 's league of nations statements, Gov ernor Cox was to make his first address aboiil USTt M Treat'm and motor to Princeton, where the University students were said to be planning a stirring re ception. - LOOKING FOR BRINES. " . PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 22. A nation-Wide search was instituted today for Walter 1'. Brines, the University of Pennsylvania freshman for whom a war rant was issued yesterday, charging him with the murder of Elmer C. Drewes, the Dartmouth College student slain here last Saturday night. The young men were said by the police to have been dose friends. Although the authorities admitted they haved iscovered no motive for the killing, they declared they have "a large quan tity of evidence which directly points to 'Brines as being responsible for the death of Drewes." SOUTHERN FOOTBALL TEAMS INVADE NORTH TOMORROW ATLANTA. Gan Oct. 22 Two of the best football rnadhhies the south ever produced will battle for supremacy to morrow against two of the strongest elevens of the north, when Georgia Tech meets the University of Pittsburgh in the Pennsylvania city and Centre College plays Harvard in the latter 's immense stadium. Both the southern teams are described an being in fine physical shape. Two other sectional contests and the classic game between Auburn and Van derbilt at Birmingham, with half a doz en contests in which local interest runs high, make the day's program the most interesting of the season thus far. The AtfWrtf plainsmen rule as the favorites over th CorMriodffree because of the lat ter 's 44 to- 6. clef eat a week ago by Georgia Tech, Cut odds have been set at naught before, ; afid whichever way the annual Vandy-Auburn &me' has gone it always has been desperately 6flght . In the inter-sectional contest!. besides those engaged in by the Tech audi Ctre elevens, the Virginia Military Institute, whose record this year indicates it to b the most powerful eleven representing the Old Dominion, meets the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the University of Virginia plays Rutgers at New Brunswick. Virginia Polytechnic held Rutgers to 19 to 6, a week ago. and from their early season games the Vir ginia University and the Polytechnic elevens would seem to be almost on a par. Among other good games are the con tests between Clemson and the University of Ten nessee in Knoxville, Louisiana State and Mississippi A. & M. in Baton Rouge, Sewanee and Kentucky State in Lexington, Ky. Tulaae and the Universi ty of Mississippi, and V. P. I. and Maryland State at Blaeksburg, Va. One football record has been made this week, the defeat yesterday of the University of North Carolina by North Carolina State for the first time in the history of the two institutions. The game, ending 13 to 3, was played-before some 8,000 persons, said to be the Unrest crowd that ever saw a, football game in me iar iieei state. - South Carolina University, won from Preabvteruni fW. lege 14 to'O otf the same day.. GAZETTE TO GIVE FULL ELECTION RETURNS The Gazette has completed arrangements for receiving on election night, Tuesday, No vember 2nd, the full leased wire Associated : Press election returns. . A wire will be install ed right in The Gazette building, with an ex pert operator at the key, and election news willjbe received without interruption through- out the night or until a definite result is an nounced. . If the weather permits the bulletins will be thrown on a screen across the street so everybody can see them as they come in. This will be a direct Washington wire and the election news will be flashed over it to Gas tonia just as quickly as to the largest cities in the country. The Gazette Invites its friends from all over the county to come in on election night and get the news hot off the wires. PRISON AUTHORITIES CON TINUE TO FEED M'SWINEY LONDON, Oct. 22 Terence Mat Swiney, lord mayor of Cork, was de lirious'this morning, and the prison au thorities continued to force food in his mouth in spite of his protests, according to a bulletin issued by the Irish Self-De-terminatiou League . The lord mayor becomes conscious at intervals, the bulletin said, but is un able to recognize relatives or his sur roundings. For a short time last night his delirium again became violent. "He went to sleep for an hour," con tinued the bulletin. "At about 4:45 O'clock he seemed .to be rallying to his senses, but relapsed almost immediately. This occurred again between 7 and 8 o'clock, when his sister Anuie was with him. He suddenly asked what were the month and the year, where he was, and was the Irish republic witablishcd and recognized . "It seemed as if he might recognize iltir, but he became delirious again, . -v We old some grand maroh muttering. 1 . .... C . t. b,tl they were march' ing during the i.. ' . .. .. . , ing as well, but we glorious. ' "The prison authorities continue ,' force food into his mouth. About 8: 'AO this morning a nurse held a spoon of incut juice to his lips, but he muttered ' No, no, take it away,' and closed his lips firtumly. The performance was repeat ed twice when his head fell back from ex haustion and the spoon was inserted in his mouth. " The Central N only partially conscious this illuming, having passed a very bad night. It de clares a doctor again administered liquid food, and that subsequently the lord may or became violently ill and was throw u into an exhausted condition . CAROLEEN CHIEF FINDS A NEAT SUM OF MONEY Is Looking for the Owner of a Package, Said to be Robber Loot. Cleveland Star. W J. Chief Barr of Caroleen fouuJ U pack age some wees ago containing a large sum of money estimated from $1,000 to $10, 00T as he flushed a bunch of men, thought to be whiskey dealers traveling in cars. The story is told that Chief Barr was on duty about the Henrietta Mill at Caroleen on that particular night and noticing two automobiles approach ing concealed himself in thf shadow of a house where he could not be seen. The ears slowed down and the chief, pot id his appearance. He thought the caff contained whiskey and when he flashed a light on the rear of the two cars to ob tain thel icense numbers, the drivers sped away at a break neck speed, dropping by accident a package which the chief took occasion to pick-up and examine. H was found to contain money and the rtport has it that he went home, called up wife and that from midnight until daylight they counted the big bills. . . The CharToftd News of Sunday carried a "story that af ?aroleen maa had foui d a package eontalnjf $22,000 in cash and reports have been going the ronnd in Shel by that the luckv man was BbK Kendrick, "formerly on the police force at ShHby. The Star phoned tn ClifTside yerferifrtv to pet the facts in the reported find and learned thnt chief Barr was the man who found tho money nnd that this happened several weeks a en. Our informant at CliffsLde reports tat the i hief has not made- known the amount of money found, but it has been estimated from $1,000 to $10,000 and that be is advertising for the ovrner. 1'or awhile it was thought that the money was the lo.it of yers;men who vihited Grover and Waco, but this happened before tlie banks in Cleveland were robbed. Futhermore the Cleveland banks did not lose cash; their loss be ing in liberty bonds and war savings stamps. Miss Mattie Turner left this morn ing 'for Greenville, 8. C, to attend the, Southern Texjile Exposition.' " PRAYIN6 FOOTBALL TEAM 60ES TO PLAY HARVARD CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 22. The name of Centre College and Harvard University were on the lips of every ot ball fan in this section of the country on this, the day before the "Praying Colonels" from Kentucky and the Crim son meet on the gridiron. Harvard enthusiasts were heartened to day when Coach Fisher gave out the word that Captain Horween had recovered suf ficiently from an injury to his side to start in the game. Three other regulars, Keith Kane, end ; Tom Woods, guard, and "Bubbles" Havermeyer, center, also stepped out of the hospital list and were slated to be in the lineup. f - :fli ' A warm welcome awaited the team and its supporters from the blue grass state, with everyone anxious to see the eleven which has not ben defeated in two sea son. Early today the Centre football squad, accompanied by more than 500 roarer including the president ef ho ;.0ile(?( members of the faculty and a number m itflTd Kentucky business men, passed through 'New York on their way to Bos on. The 1enm is in charge of Conch Charles Moran, who also holds the posi tion" a'0118' League umpire in the summer time. Vhil tla" invading rombi- nation is not boai,T ,l " IMa"-i" Ctnere win. supporter cxp the team to REPORT ON WORK OF v- LOGAL RED CROSS Speaking of thf preparation for lieC annual report on the work of the local chapter of the American Ked Cross, cov ering also the work of the Home Servire secretary, Miss (ieorgin Copeland sa.v's ; It. is very noteeable, in reviewing the work, to observe that in the case of both families and individual ex-soldiers who have been helped by the Home Service work in their various difficulties and problems that have arisen, the entire county is represented, including Belmont, Mount ttolly, May Worth, Lowell. Me Ad enville, Dallas, Cherryville, Bessemer City, ' Stanley. Soufh Gnstonia and the Pisgah and Panhandle section of the county. " ' , She Rays further that "th rnn who have put their eases before in Home' Service Secretary have seen service in all parts of the world. Two, for instance, were with the American forces in Siberia. Many of them were men suffering from the effects of gas. The last five who have come have been tuberculosis cases, who were put In touch with Uncle Sam pro visions for tbeif relief," The Fourth Annual ftdll Call for the fJaston County Chapter ill follow the Tines and dates of the National fioll Call, , beginning on Armistice Day, November 11. Any information and proffered as sistance in this work may be subniitted to the Bed Cross rooms over the post office in Gastonia. The following is the committee of ladies who are soliciting contributions for the Cox-Roosevelt Democratic Campaign Fund: Miss Sue Ramsey Johnston, chair man. Misses Katherine McLean. Saddle Stewnrt, Ma iila Me Kane. Mary Kllen Jenkins Vista Lindsay. Pearl Lineber ger, Ixit Davis. Made Craig. Lake Simpson, Kthel Adderliol.lt nnd Mes dames M. D. l'aimer, ( raiir ("oven. r?ryan Smith and I'aul Caldwell. Those who wish to do so may hand funds ;o the chairman, or to any of the members. Miss Johnston reports that the commit tee is meeting with a hiar'.y nf oiee. TODAY'S COTTON MARKET Gastonia Cotton 19 1-2 cents NEW YORK, Oct. 22. -Cotton futures opened strong. December, 19.35 f Jan uary, 19.50; March, 19.65; May, July, 19.40. - BUSINESS PROSPECTS ARE UNUSUALLY E. II. GARY, HEAD II. S. STEEL 60V. COOLIDGE TALKS TO MANY CAROLINIANS Speaks at Hickory, Davidson, Winston and Other Towns Enters Virginia Today Governors Lowden and Mor row Accompany Republican Candidate and Make Speech es. (By The Associated Press J (HAKLOTTK, Oct. 22. Governor CoolnTxc completed a A6 hours' speaking lour of the western part of North Caro lina last night with an address in Char lotte in which he directed his remarks particularly to farmers and to wage earners. Uc urged both to increase pro duction, that economic independence may be advanced and profiteering eliminated, and pledged the republican party to do its part in improving the well-being of them both. The republican party, he said, .would endeavor ' ' to dignify the farm ' ' because the farm is the base of our existence, and help the farm tenant to become a farm owner. "We shall seek to place our wage earners in a position of eco nomic safety, ' ' he said, ' ' and put them in the way of treatment aa the partners of enterprise and of government." The special train bearing the vice presidential candidate, Job Hedges, New York, and Governors Lowdon, Illinois, and Morrow, Kentucky, on their tour of southern and border states, left Ashe ville early yesterday and before arriving here mailt u half -dozen stops for rear, platform Ipeeches and two stopB of an hour or more for more extended sneaking Hickory-Winaton-Dyviajoa At ILliiwj vy.refu6r Coolidge was met by a checrtHjf crowd and a brass band. He spoke froui a platform in the public square and upon returning 2 made his way with difficulty through tho throng that sought to shake his hatld. -Again at Winston-Salem a brass banM met the candidate and headed an auto mobile parade to the auditorium, where he was given u tumultuous greeting by a crowded house. He also addressed an jvr audience in the court house in th city. A fecial slop was made late yesterday1 at Davidson by request of the students of .Davidson College, an institution which J lVrs'.lcut Wilson attended for OHO year t iH'rore entering i rinceion. iiovernor J Coolidge delivered a non-political speech ami was sent on his way with a college h e mining in his ears. Codlidge's Argument. In his speeches yesterday Governor Coolidge emphasized the position of the republican party on the tariff. He de clared also for "a return to constitu tional government" and denounced "the exercise of war powers by the President at this time." The republican party, he added, had endeavored to obtain peace under the law as well as in fact, only to be prevented from accomplishing that purpose by the President, because of the latter 's disagreement with the senate over the treaty. Governors Lowdeu and, borrow again denounced the league of nations as it was submitted to the senate by the President, charged the administration with extrava gance, and called for support of the re publican party. Both were under a physi cian's care yesterday for troublesome throats, the result of their strenuous cam paigning, but they appeared to be in better condition last night. Virgmia will be entered today, where reiir-platform speeches will be made dur ing the day at Danville, South Boston, Keyesville and Burkeville. There will be a night meeting at Richmond. SAYS MONKEY THAT BIT KING HAD RABIES ROME, Oct. 22 lnjilri inflicted ijrti King Alexander by a monlnry were r! lesiilt of a plot to assassinate the yoxrhj? monarch, according to Dr. Georges Kern.Trid Vklal, of Paris, who lias been at tending the king and was interviewed by the Mes.hgero, while passing through Rome on his way In ;.n :om Athens. "While tiie "tory of the monkey biting King Alexander is true." Dr. Yidal is quoted as saying, "tho monkey was suf fering from rabies ith .vhii h it had been artificially iiuxculiitcl. Hence, a veri table attempt ngainf" tho kiugV life was committed. " SAVANNAH BANK DIRECTOR DIES FROM APOPLEXY (Ky The Associated Press.). SAVANNAH, Ga., Oct. 21. While the directors of the Exchange Bank were in session this morning, J. W. Seay, a. mem ber of the board and proprietor of a local hoteleomplained of feeling ill. In '30 minutes he was dead, presumably from apoplexy. . . BRIGHT SAYS NEW YORK, Oct. 22. Business proa pects are unusually brignt, boch in the United States and abroad, Elbert H. Gary, head of the United States Steel Corporation, declared in an address be fore the American Iron and Steel Insti tute here today. "Although this is a time for courage, composure and caution," Mr. Gary said, : "the business skies are practically with out clouds. As always, there may be showers from time to time, but there i ' nothing in the atmosphere to indicate the approach of dangerous storms. "If there should be a serious reaction and depression," he continued, "which now seems improbable, it will be Vhm fault of those who are connected with business operations or others who by reason of official positions, improperly . interfere, and not because of any fu mental deficiencies in our resources and opportunities. ' ' Without referring to individual eases of lines of general business, I believe is . many instances prices have been out rageously high. This observation applies more especially to middlemen, so-called, ; and to smaller departments of industry. ! It also includes employes in certain trades; but it does not pertain under tfcs- present conditions to the masses of work men. "The present tendency is toward a! lower, more reasonable and fairer islav tive basis. The difficulty is found in the J fact that every individual is perfectly willing that all others shall majte re ductions the larger, the Better. Now s general publlo, - including particularly those who are neither buyers nor seDers to, any large extent, will in one way another ,rttjr about ft Wf ftn. W-; hfcle adjustment of prices, The law tf uypijr aim iieiimiiu win uv tuo yrui factor. "The people of the United States hav reason for confidence in the business fs tur. They need not be discouraged or impatient." 'f Speedy recovery of industry in Prance ; and Belgium from the ravages of war, was predicted by Mr. Vlary. k Rehabilitation was made possible, Mr.1 Gary said, by the spirit of the Preach' and Belgian - - - ' - . ... t ywyw "ane gOOt "HBMBNg,' JTrini, persistent and splendid effort to succeed, to restore and to recover. : : : J WILL ELECT CCX v. TO SAVE LEJSGUf: And to Avert Infamy of Sepa rate Peace With Germany Chairman White Think. Peo ple Want "Four-Square Pres ident," Not WeathTervaiie. NEW YORK, Oct. 21. Returning to his headquarters here today after a trip of inspection through Ohio and Tiling . George White, chairman of the demo cratic national committee, issued the fol lowing statement: ' ' The American people have made up . their minds to elect Governor Cox and democratic senate in order to avert the infamy of a separate peace with Ger many and to save the league. ; ' ' They are weary of the chorus of re publican katydids croaking "he did, a didn't.' They have finally concluded to -entrust to its friends the only plan fr world peace ever agreed to by both great. tions and small They will select s four-square President instead of a humjy. weathervane. - "Senator Harding lias only stopped'' oscillating once, and that was when W said of the league and its reservations at Des Moines: I do not want any clari fying reservations. I stand for rejec tion. ' . v r-fpwr Senator Johnson points out that Sen ator Harding has put the league of aa- tions behind him, and rejects not only the league but any modification of it. The American people agree with Senator ' Johnson and they will vote for Governor " Cox, who has put the league in front of him. "Senator Johnson sneaks with nmtur , resentment of 'individuals and newspa pers which misrepresent and misinter-' pret Senator Harding's words,' chal fe:icos their 'falsification,' as he properly calls it, and says bluntly they may 'savo their faces but not the league. "In that list of newspapers ami indi-" viduals I am sure that Senator Harding" silently puts the name of Senator Hard- ing himself. . , "No one has been more sedulous in trying to fool the people than the repub lican candidate, but Des : Moines was enough for the voters as it was for Ben ator Johnson." . An Jnventor SSs given "a two wheeled freight or baggage truck a pair of hinged to the center of the handles to ea ablo it to be moved np stajra.