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liUlli f l C.j iTA Qn(( Courty U .tl,61ti ' Popula tioa. 31,242; total wealth, t32.573.749. 1 ' J -W good school aid A good place to live. 1 laton 13,871. 133 J P. a. wtM 07 TEX ASSOCIATED PXXSS GASTONIA, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 11, 1920 VOU NO. 271. SINGLE COPY 6 CZT.T2 TiTiTriTnTrhTr'irhi Tim II J i nun AT GAiESlKEy. GI I m EPMiAMJSOHELD ALLIED WORLD CELEBRATES ARMISTICE DAY VIIH , r ELABORATE CEREMONIES London and Paris in the Old World, New York, Chicago, Washington and a Thousand Towns : t From the Atlantic to the Pacific , in America ' PajrLdving Tribute to Heroic Dea1 Who Gave Their Lives For Civilization. . (By The Associated Press.) Impressive ceremonies were held in london and Paria today, the people of l he French and British nations eelebrat- ; Ang the second anniversary of the closing S'ii pf the World war and paying tribute to ' -'the men who sacrificed their lives during the" titanic struggle. Thebody of an ' unknown British soldier was buried in ; Westminster Abbey, King George, gov 5 -ernmental chiefs and relatives ef missing soldiers witnessing the interment. In .Paris the body of a French soldier, taken '.V from nameless grave at Verdun, was bid at rest under the Are de Triomphe. "President Millerand and three French . Vin'arshafl--Joffre, Foch .and Petaln "; stood by the pen grave, i King George unveiled in White Hall, Xondon, a "permanent cenotaph dedicated, ': to "The. Glorious Dead," and in Paris the heart of Oambetta, the' French state ' ;. man who was virtual dictator during the troublous days succeeding the collapse of "the third empire, in 1870, was de posited in the Pantheon, , . , No? ceremonies of a" national" character were held in the United States, but the .-men. who served the country jJuring the . war observed the day, which" irK some " states was made a holiday. In others, governors issued proclamations, pointing out the significance of the occasion. "the exercises cowristed.'for the most part, of parades, memorial services and meteings at which patriotic addresses were delivered. General Nivelle, One of the- men who commanded during the French defense of Verdun in 1016, -was ; the principal speaker on the program to ""be given a? a great gathering of service ' Toen in New York city. . " (' "' The United States naval department observed the day by awarding crosses ''.'" tmd medals to men who did heroic work during the war. io:ioo;i does hoirs . : ' TO UliKHOWil HEROES ' LONDON, Nov. 11. --Great Britain :' . roes by according a field marshal's in---cV.iieral t an unknown. British warrior, : - who was buried in Westminster Abbey, nd unveiling a permanent -cenotaph in ' . White Hall to "The Glorious Dead,'.' " ' t. Aaide from 'members ofth royal fam- Uyy which included Queen Mary, ' Queen Mother . Alexandria and Queen Maud, of 4, - " Norway,- and few officials, the only ' v'". witnesses to either ceremony were per I ' sons vho lost relatives in the great war. i i : Aa Big'Bea, ,tte great dock la-tys- ' "'".tower of the parliament building, began to.etiikB tb iour of eleven, King , -Oeorga, facinft tte sixteenth century eof : ' -;C fia of the. unknown soldier, whica-. was . restingon. a gun carriage, drew a cord !. '.that released the Union Jack draped above ttie cenotaph, and after the stroke i '; pf the hour, thousands of people, who ' ' ' crowded White Hall as far as one could -U C lutely silent for two minutes. This si- . : . ''-lenee was broken by a choir softly begin ' tilnir the hvmn: ; "Cih finA Cnr TTrfn la .V Ages Past," which was followed by the : , Lord 's Prayer, recited ; by , the - Arch t X bishop of Canterbury. , i Bugles sounded v7-' 'the-last post, ".and,' with its escort of ctroopa and a band, the gn carriage then '. ' moved toward " the' ebbey, with King "A. '.-'.''.nflArM." aa aenief mourner. YrftuMiTiff hM. . r -i ' - . p - ftina. accompanied Dy tne royal princes. - Durb the brief service in the nave Of X ' V the abbey, the kingstood at the foot of YI.'l tha crrnvft. thfv roval ladies and -nrirrr C' J aH the witnesses that packed White Hall . ' or crowded the. Abbey, a little band of ' - 1 Art rrwnn t-m. iU tVl ,' received the mostv veverent attention. Ther ,had been selected for the seats of "bonor bo use ach had lost her husband . , '."and all Icr son?. "Fvprr woman in fcntr- . ; ' "'' s- I land so bereft- who applied for a place got it, but less than half the other appli- cants for seats were successful, jwing to the lack of space. 1 ' After the 100 iiad been seated, the next to be Considered .wore those mothers who lost their only sons, or all their sons, and then came women who lost their hus bands only. ' They were given positions in accordance with the price they had paid during the war. A girl who wrote she had nine brothers killed or missing was given a ticket, . as also was a 12 yearold boy who wrote: "The man in the coffin mjght.be my daddy." In all, 8,055 tickets were issued. The body of the unknown 'soldier was brought to London in the same railway car used to transport the bodies of Edith Cavelle, the nurse who was executed by Hie Germans, and Captain Charles Fry att, 3c British captain of a merchant steamer who also met .death' before a German firing squad. . It lay last night in a room especially set apart and fitted for H in Victoria station, and a guard of honor remained there until morning. PARIS DEVOTESBAY TO HONORING DEAD ' PAEIS, Nov. 11. Ofilcial and civilian France did honor today to the memory of the nation's sons who fell during the great war, the ceremonies lending a sol emn . atmosphere to the celebration of this second anniversary of the armistice with Germany. Paris, accustomed to ob serving .its victory- days and .national fetes with "rejoicing, turned aside this year and dedicated the day to memory and recognition of the sacrifice made by hundreds of thousands ofdead who are sleeping in cemeteries along the battle lines. , ' Called from its grave on the field of Verdun, the body of an unidentified French "poilu" was carried solemnly through the " streets and reburiedjander the Arc de Triomphe. Following the flag draped gun carriage on which th.e coffin rested, walked PeeKdent Millerand and -cabinet members and three French martrhals--Joffre, the hero of the Marne; Foch", .whose genius accomplished the final defeat of - Germany, and Petain, whose defense of Verdun will forever live in French song and story. -Ia addition, France took occasion to remember that 50 years ago, the country, (Coatiared on page 4.) H ' ' ;' " f H 4 ' ' ; m 'W s --T-m -rn ,mikm rn w.l ssxin si ssWi"-itrttTT firMtl ,v" ' l' " ' fc " "' ' ' ' t f i - r n r -1 n i r mm i tinrtirtnl nf-"ri Tfrrit iff i .-v. .He stdents of Mallow; county Cork, Ireland' fleeing with such furniture as they cvuld save; from their town, which Brltitfb troope burned and sacked in reprisal for raids by Sinn Fein aympathizers. : . - 7 - A. I GYPSY SMITH, JR., HIMSELF A ' MAN, PR EAGHES ON 'THE NEW BIRTH" . - ; . : : -.-.. . ..- First Af ternoon Service Held b y Noted Evangelist Yesterday a Success Service Will Begin Today at 3 P. M. and 7:30 s. P. M. Splendid Singing a Feature, of the Meeting at First Presbyterian Church. Several hundred people gathered in the auditorium of the First Presbyterian church Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock to hear Gypsy Smith, Jr., preaeh his first daytime sermon." Mr. Smith preached an inspiring sermon to church members, taking his theme from the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. In a sincere and emphatic manner Mr. Smith impressed the neces-J any of surrender upon tlx members or the church, if they would do for sinners what Jesus did for the woman "wth a question mark behind her name." If they would stir thfi community for God as this woman stirred the village of 8yehsr for Jesusjthe surrender must be olimtsry, unselfish, irrevocable - and enmplete. Mr. Smith was the guest of the Gas tonia Rotarians yesterday at luncheon, where he delivereaa five-minute address which was most intently listened to and enjoyed. At the night service Wednesday the singing was exceptionally fine. Mr. Al len sang Beveralverses as solos and suc ceeded in obtaining hearty responses from the large audience in congrega tional singing. A rest room has been ar ranged in the church in order that mothers may bring their children. Miss Abernethy and Mr. Allen greatly enjoyed their visits to Central school yesterday and to. West school this morn ing. The hearty applause which fol lowed their playing and singing wa proof of the enjoyment of the pupils. Mr. Allen will sing at the chapel exer cises of the JSart school Friday morning. The service Wednesday night consisted of half an hour of praise and song, prayer by Rev. A. L. Sanford, pastor of Main Street Methodist church, and the sermon by Mr. Smith. . The first seven teen verses of the third chapter of the Gospel of St. John were read for a scrip ture lesson and , the evangelist led the congregation in the singing of "Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross." Mr. Smith then took for his text the seventh verse of the third chapter of John "Ye must be born again." H uuri that in th heirinnin Ood created man. "in the imaee of GodJ created Ha him." Therefor man was made in tho image of God, with a mind to understand the things of God; with ; a heart that loved the things that C-ol lored ; and with a will that wanted to do the things that God wanted him to do. Then, you remember, temptation came, and man foil, and the temple of God was debauched "by sin, and the image of God went out of the. heart of man. Then, you remember, Adam begot a son. Not now in the imago of God, but in the image of Adam. That's what the Bible means when it says we were born in sin and shapen in iniquity. And God says therefore. that we are spiritually dead, and we never can understand spiritual things only as the image of God is re stored in our lives by the incoming of the npirit of Jesus TJhrist. - . The text can read ' ' Ye must be 'born anew," or "Ye must be r bora from above," or "Ye must be bora from above anew. ' ' In any way, it means that old things must pass away and there Irish Tamilies Heeing From Burning Tojvh. TWICE - BORN must be a new man in Christ Jns v;' new desires and new appetites ard ev ideals. The first born is earthly, the ond is heavenly. The flrt is tf 'M flesh, the second is bf the will of ". i. And pleaso dont think that you are To advanced and too cultured iu this age of the twentieth century for these doc trines of the new birth; because this ia not the pot theme of some wild, hair b'rained, sensational tramp evangelist. This is not the theory pi some faddist from God knows where.' It is the Son of God who gave us this message and whispered H into the heart of a sinful world, because we must be born again, and please notice and put the emphasis in the proper place, on those .two words must and again. If you will notice, he did not speak to some man outside of the church, not to some man who robbed widows ,and or phans, not to soem fellow who was ostra cised from society, but it was to a church member that ho first gave this message, not only a church member, but a leader in the chureh, an official in the church. " Prof. Henry Drummond of Scotland, writing to his friend D. Barber of Edin burgh, after he had hoard Dwight L. Moody, who was then conducting mis sionary services in Scotland, and after studying his work and dealings with some of the anxious souls in those meet ings, said, ' 1 Barber, the majority of our church members know the letter of the law as well as they know . their own name, but they are as ignorant o( free grace as Hottentots." And I am cer tain that if Prof. Drummond could visit our churches and know something of the life of us who are followers of Christ, he could writfe it now, and it would be just as true as it was then. How is it that wo can work up enthusiasm for bazaars and fairs and socials, how is it we can get so busy over lifting a debt from the church, and yet, when our pas tors, are anxious that we should unite with them for the salvation of men and women, how is it that we are not jus$ as busy over that, and try to make all the excuse in the world T It is because, think, that we feel we have a name to llye oul are ue8a- Nieodemns said, "Can a man be born when h 'An'1 1 sk yu thflt ' onestian. Tt ia a wpII known fiuit that the majority of people today on our church rolls are men and women who have made this decision before they were twenty years old. There was a time in my ministry when I was not much con cerned when a boy or girl took their stand for Jesus Christ. I was far more anxious about some leading banker, or doctor, or lawyer, or business man, but God has opened my eyes to see and to take the right view of things. I am old fashioned enough now to believe that a fence around a precipice is much better than a hospital at the foot, and. while it is true that the majority of men and women make their decisions for Christ before they are twenty years old, it is possible for a man to be born when he is old, f or when Christ says it must be, ft may be. Then this church member did exactly (Continued on page 8) GASTtlNIA flFFICERS AND TV0 OF VICTIMS SEE SUS PECTS IN GEORGIA JAIL Weird Scene Enacted Early This MorningrWhen Chief Orr, Sheriff Carroll, Ransome Killian and Miss Grice Confront Suspected Men in Gainesville Jail - Men Tell Conflicting Stories . They Fill Description of Men Accused of Heinous Sunday Night Crime Here. 4 By HUGH A. QUERY Staff Correspondent GAINESVILLE, Ga Ndr. 11 . Two negroea, on taXL ginger-cake, colored giaht six feet high, the other a short, fat; black negro, are held in the Hall county jail here for further investigation by the authorities of Gaston county in connection' with the murderous outrage of Sunday night in Gaatoniai ' Wilmington as hb home. .i-The short squatty xieiproe goea try the name of Herman Allison and says he was born and raised; at . Kannapolis, N. C, liring there until three year ago. "J-, ' : Neither young Killian, the partner of the murdered Ford knv. Ar Miu Pffi frirm. ah nf tYim mitra trm.A tr1a ia sKto In swear positively that the two men held hero are the guilty onea. 1 They say, however, that they answer every description. One. is tall and yellow and hat sv deformed right foot which causes a. pronounced limp when he walks. He hat a decided brogue in his talk, a fact which Wat noted and commented upon in Castonia by the victims. The a black mustache. Both negroes were arrested at Lula, Ga., IS miles north of here, early Tues day morning after coming out ef s box car full f cotton seed hulls where they' claimed they had spent Monday night. Information from North Carob'na had reached this section of Georgia Monday and officers were on the lookout every where for suspicious characters. The negroes, when arrested and lodged in the Hall county jail here, claimed that they had just left a negro minstrel show at Tifton, 233 miles south of here, and were making their way to North Caro lina. They claim they left Tifton Satur day night at two o'clock and passed through Atlanta Sunday night. Owing to the fact that Killian and Miss Grice are unable to identify posi tively the two negroes they are being held while their story of being connected with the show is being investigated and until the jitney driverFowler can be brought here from Gastonia to assist in the iden tification. If they art aot the negroes, say the vic tims, Killian and Miss Grice and also Chief Orr sad Sheriff. Carroll, then it forms one ef the most striking co ad den ces in criminal annals I The victims told in Gastonia Sunday night that one negro was tall sad yellow and limped when he ran and that the ether was short and dumpy and black. Everyone ef these details is true to the letter. . Both negroes were wearing tray trousers and spiral ptrttes ever the regular civilian trousers, 'illian says that they had en enly the eiviliaa trousers Sunday night er else had the army pants en under neath. Both Killian and the Grice girl say that the tone of the voice, features, Hps, etc.r correspond exactly with the negroes who assaulted them. ' Sheriff ff Crow it holding the negroes while the Gastonia officials get in touch with the Tifton authorities to verify er explode the story of .the minstrel.. " , Weird Scenes at Jail.., ' The scene In the old Hall county jaij en one of .the dark back streets of Gaines ville this morning at the weird hour, ef 3 o'clock is one' that beggars description". Arriving in Gainesville on train No.' 35 at :30 o'clock: the twe Gastonia officers. Killian and Miss Grice, and the repre sentative ef The Daily Gazette were met at the station by- the. Gainesville yolice and escorted to the city hall. , In a few moments Sheriff .Crow, who has held this position in this county for 16 years, came and related the story of the capture and heard the details of the crime and the de scription of the assailants. I believe I've got your ' men," be said. . "' At 5 o'clock the party wet to tYe 1 other is short and black and hat . ' ''. ',";- ; jail. Chief Orr and Sheriff Carroll talk ed te the men alone at first. Later K& lian and the Grice girl were sent up anc the negroes forced to talk within hear ing distance of the two but out of sight. The expression used at the scene of .the tragedy were repeated by the negroes . Then they were brought out .into the dark corridors of the ' jail 'and placei directly facing Killian and ,the rjirl. AD was in darkness. In a moment the light was flashed full en the faces of eJL ' The negroes blinked their eyes But turned w w m a , awv . wav asasaw iV Ulta again and again and forced to run up and down the jail corridors while the inmates, 32 of them, three of them life termers, peered yout of their cells in ti darkness at the strange sight UkiBj place before their eyes. In the coU gray dawn of a rainy November mor ins it was t weird, ghostly experience Both negroes protested their innocence eves when put through a grilling exami nation. Their tales conflict as te their connection .with - this show, in Alabama ana routnern ueorgia. Tney are famuiai with North Carolina towns and cities mi have worked oa construction gangs. Jet these reasons and because of the abse-' lutely accuracy ef the description, wia which they tally, they are being held fet further investigation. 7 ' MANY MXMOXIAL SES VICES - HELD IN NEW Y0IIK CITT NEW TfOBK, , Nov. , 11. Ifemerial services In ecoree of ehurcheaj unveilir-g of monuments, planting of trees' in mem ory of fallen heroes; dinners and patri ots speeches today crowded New York's Amuatiee Day program from . - early morning until lata evening with celebra tions . commemorating- the - memorabW fau Tin..) ak).. The chief eelebration was planned if tonight "by the New York county chapte Ofthe American. Legion in the ee vents regiment armory, where General Georjfls fioXert JiiveUe. ,fthe hero of Verdaa," will be the guest of honor and doSver as addreas." Victory medals win be present ed to commanders of the 175 posts ef he chapter. TWELVE SOLDIERS BUSIED V " IN ARLINGTON CEH-Trr.T ..WASHINGTON', Nov. 1L Ob.rv ance of 'Armistice Day in Washing is today ,wa marked hy the. burial in Ar lington national "cemetery of It cT -"- an enlisted men who. died while e--r' overseas with the navy an ! rr.arli? e-". A detachment of blue; I - an 1 t rinw formed a guard of honor s flag draped easVcfs were rarr- I f U reoemng ' vau!t at 'AriL-.jt a t graves.- -. ; ' Representative' ef t'e' '' chapters of the Ll Cr ; the Air.eriiian Lr ' n ; : een'tnor.!-. -
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