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. . i - . . . ' - ---M V -. l : '. . . v' - v-1. ' :- r Vi -; r'Vf ..":;'.. -.'OA : : : GASTONIA, N.yC, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 12, 19?0 SINGLE COPY S CEini YOL. XLI. NO. 272. .'V.,.,. ,,A ... t . , r , ,.. , . 'Vv . " .... ' ' -r- v- KXlfBXS OF THX ASSOCIAIXD PSXSS j . . ' ' ' v -v.'. ' V -t;V ' ' . , . . 1 : r . 1L V. A-..x PRESIDENT OF HAS NO n OF ALLEGED Charge That United States Marines JCilled Na tives IricUcriminaely Result, He Says, of Public Clamor - Charges Being Thoroughly 'Investigated. JPOBT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Nov. 10 JBudre Bartignenave, president of the re ' publie oT Haiti, testifying today before the naval board of inquiry, declared he had no official knowledge of the charge of indiscriminate killing of natives by United States marines . Speaking through nil interpreter, the president said he was without means of proving the existence 4t cases of homicide or violence that may have been committed by the marines, ad ding: "They have beea accused by public ' -clamor. " M. Dartigueuave was the only wit ness testifying, and after he had left the chair, Judge Advocate Dyer announced he had no further witnesses or evidence. The ourt then adjourned to reassemble upon on call by Admiral Henry T. Mayo, pres ident of the board of inquiry. ' The Haitien president, with democratic simplicity, walked from the palace to the court room, climbing the two flight of stairs. He expressed his pleasure in informing the United States government what be knew. Answering a direct ques tion, if he bad knowledge regarding al leged indiscriminate killings, he said: 4 Officially, no. I have heard of re f RANGE Ai ENGLAND OPPOSE ADMISSION OF GERMANY INTO LEAGUE PARIS, Nov. 12. The French gov . MrnmenL is unalterably opposed to the admission of Germany to the league of nations at this time, it was stated at the foreign office today. Some "drastic action" would be a consequence if the " league voted to admit Germany, it was intimated. ' The foreign office said there had been conversations with Great Britain on the subject, and that theBritish, who had been inclined to favor German member nhip in the league, now had accepted the French viewpoint, allowing the matter j' 1o rest for the present. In as much as Germany has not ap plied for league membership, it is con sidered unlikely there will be any effort with promise of success to get the assem- bly in Geneva to act favorably on the question of- Germany's admission at this time. The French hold that Germany must prove her intention to fulfill the terms of the peace treaty and live peaceably with her neighbors before seeking mem bership, and they contend there has not yet been time for them to become con vinced regarding Germany's attitude along these lines. The possibility of the admission ef Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria is re garded in a different light by the French, who have indicated they are not opposed to membership for ; these na tions, as it is considered- they have nhown good faith. . fMKIG UST EFFORT TO AVOID BASEBALL WAR Controrersy Between Major Leagues Being Submitted to , 7 minor Leagues oy Agree ment. iBIk (Rr Associated Press.) v , CHICAGO, Not. 12.Club owners of 9 V''- the National and American Leairue Jhre v- - fcere tody for a joint meeting to make . v, - The meeting was agreed upon when the warring 'factions met in -Kansas City to present their sides of the controversy be fore the minors. It was aannounced that t this session nere today John. A. Heyd ler and B. B. Johnson, presidents ef the National and American Leagnea, Tespee tirely, lawyer stenographers and all : others are barred and that only the mem ; ef the dry interested In the two leagnea are to be present. The meeting Sa to be Informal and no, record will be made of the proceedings. Clnb owners today were expected to apeak the:f individual opin ions as to the best mean for the re organization of the game, so as to briog HAITI i cnr.c llUWLLUUL ATROCITIES grettable acts perpetrated at Hinche, St. Marie, Croixes, Dequeta, Grande Revere Du Nord, Mirebalais and Las Co hidas. When people have been re proached for not having kept the govern ment informed of all that was being said, the answer, rightly" or wrongly, has been they were afraid of being caught by martial law. Victims or their parents have never brought their grievances to me because leaders of the revolution gave them to understand there was no Haitien chief of state. "The people, with a few exceptions, such as may be found in every country, have rejoiced at the coming of the Ameri cans. They were expecting their liber ty, prosjerity and respect for their per son and property, but compulsory road labor has been practiced despite advice by the counsel of the government. This has given rise to discontent, which led to the revolt of Cacos 'bandits.' Mis deeds, however, are always possible in eases of repression . ' ' Judge Advocate Dyer is privately see ing many witnesses, but as the inquiry is limited to facA bearing on charges, it seems difficult to secure those able to testify as to events they know have oc curred . 1 about peace. The magnates were sched uled to convene at noon. After the joint fleeting, adjournment will bo taken, while each league delib erates on the proceedings for a final re port. In the eveqing, another meoting will be held and it was expected that some decisive action will be taken to i make peace. On the program today was the re organization of the national commission and abolition of the new 12 club Na tional League formed here last Monday, when the American and National Leagues split. The new National League will insist that the old commission, ooiu p'sril f Bun .Inlinsion, president of the American Leag, and .lo'm Hevller, I president of the National, with one va- cancy, be abolished in favr of the civil ian commission, it was said in baseball Tiretp.'.. , After the joint rvsi in of tiie tvvo litruo club owners, a i jminitt'-e of six representing the minors wil enter the a' m, uBcussions. i nis cominiuce is com posed of Mike H. i-'exton, of Rock Isl and, president of the National Associa tion of Minor Leagues, chairman; Thomas J. Hickey, president"' of the American Association: Georsa H. Haines, president of the Michigan-On tario League; William Walsh, president of the 8outh Atlantic League, and J. W. Morns, president of the West Texas League. Predictions were made today that the 11 club owners of the newly organized National League and the five clubs "loyal" to President Ban Johnson, will agree to end hostilities. Tyhile no offi" cial announcement was made, every mem ber of the) two major leagues has come on record as being in favor of s re organization in baseball, nd of the ap pointment of a new board of control, and the selection of Judge Land is, of Chicago, as the chairman, with a salary of $50,000 a year. ' SALE OF MALT AND HOPS TO BE PROHIBITED WASHINGTON, Nor. 12. Prohibi tion enforcement officers throughout the country have been instructed to prevent the sale of malt and hops to others than bakers and confectioners, but details of the order which tightens the ban "on home brewing were lacking todar.fs1.' In the absence of .Commissioner Kra mer, officials at the prohibition' enforce ment horean. said that the sale of bops and malt as component parts of - home made beer had been ruled to be in riola tioB of the Volstead act, . They would not discuss, however, details of the new order, which is said to have resulted from a construction plaeed. on the Lfw Bearly two months tgo. . i GYPSY SMITH, JR., PREACHED TWO THRILLING SERMONS TO URGE AUDIENCES YESTERDAY Afternoon find Night Services at First Presbyterian Church Be ing Splendidly Attended Business Men and Their Clerks Attending the Afternoon Services Chorus Singing Grow ing Better as Meeting Progresses Services Today at 3 PM. and 7:30 P. M. More Soprano Voices Needed. A congregation that filled the audito rium and a portion of the Sunday school room greeted Gypsy Smith, Jr., Thurs day afternoon at the First Presbyterian church. Mr. Allen conducted a fifteen minute service of soag, in which the congregation heartily joined, and Rev. H. H. Jordan, presiding elder of the Shelby Methodist district, offered the opening prayer. Mr. Smith and congre gation repeated the twenty-tbird Psalm in concert and the evangelist led in the singing of "Jesus Calls Us, O'er fbe Tumult." Using the Bible story or the miracu lous draught of fishes, as recorded in the first eleven verses of the fifth chapter of t. Luke, as the theme for his ser mon, Mr. Smith said : The people always pressed upon Jesus. He was the attrac tion, the lodestone, the maget, that drew the people to "hear the Word of God." It was not the disciples they came to hear but Jesus: And this was but the fulfillment of the Old and New Testa ments. "And gathered them out of the lands from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south." "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw ail Men to me." He said the reason the church today, hard as it was to say, with all her handsome buildings, equipment and expenditure of vast sums of money, was drawing such little re turns was because there is so little of Christ to be seen in her members. You een't fool the world. They know Jesus and you can't fool them with a carica ture of Christ. To the true seekers Christ firRt reveals the possibilities which slumber in their own natures, and then, who is to control the possibilities and finally, the breaking down of the barrier which has been between." These informal afternoon sermons are real heart-to-heart messages that touch and quicken the spiritual life of his hearers A congregation estimated at about I, 400 people filled both auditorium and galleries of the church at the night service. The singing under the able direction of Mr. Allen was exceptionally good, the choir rendering in an excellent manner "King of Kings." Rev. Dr. J. C. Galloway offered the evening prayer. Mr. Smith read a portion of the 16th chapter of Acts for a Scripture lesson, choosing as a text the last sen tence of the thirtieth verse, "What must I do to be saved?" Mr. Smith said, if the same question was put by you to Paul, would he give you the same answer as he gave to the Thilippian jailer, "Believe on the Lord Jeans Christ and thou shalt be savedf" Mr. Smith said that there was the place that we had blundered, for we had said cheaply to the world. "Only believe," and we have said it to everyone irrespec tive of their condif iens. A doctor does nut give the same j'lescriptinri 1t everv cue, he studies pm-Ii ea( mid then writer his prescription for tii:i' use. And if i" e are troin to win men aid women for Jesus Christ, we must rn e 'ime f ir the individual, for t!v ui.:ld is not saved tdaapo omdlt.s etnoin -OtJIii KSC TH el ma -so. I ' ' V c i,'' Jon sa. , 'iv -i v h i lie tell tliis in. in to believe,'" IW-.-.-r.i-e this man was a idntant infidel, lie .iilii't believe I in i r.si. tie believe. i that ' ''st was an Itnpi.ster and had been ennitied, and that "as the end of Him. Hut some- thin; happened that evening while Paul and Silas prayed, and w ien men nraV like those two. did something always hap pens, something amid the roaring of tj thunder and the flashing of the light ning, amid the clouds of dust and rat tling of chains, something happened so that the old jailer ran in and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be savedf" And they said, "Believe on the Lord lesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." That's why they said to him, "Believe." But we don 1 have an infidel congrega tion, and Paul would not say "Believe" o you unless you were spiritually and morally'in the same place as htis jailer. The devil believes, so the Bible says, and trembles, and that is more than some of you have done with all the church going and professions. Then they took him and taught him what believing mean4 or, in Bible terms, they took and taught him the word. Immediately he knew what believing meant. He took them the same hour of the night and Washed their stripes. He had something more practical to do than singing hymns. He washed their stripes. Have you ever done that Have you ever righted wrongs or attempted to do Hf The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; it la. righteousness, or lightness, and I know-a 'great many so-called Christians wboi are more eneemed about peace, joy and assurance than they are about doing right. ,. Don't talk about believing until you have -done the stripe-washing. There la a wounded heart somewhere in God's "world thst yon tore to shreds,' and yon call yourself a Christian,,' and yet you have never taken a step toward helping that broken heart. No, air, yonr belief, or so-called belief, is a mockery until yon hare done the stripe-washing. . Some ....... J: . . :.-'' v. ..- ... , v. of you have got money in your posses sion that does not belong to you, and yon call yourself a ehurch member. That money must go uaik before you are a Christian. What do you believe f What does yonr belief amount tot It is not worth the noise you make over it, unless it helps yoa to walk humbly with God, and to love your neighbor as yourself. He took them the same, hour of the night and washed their stripes! That is reli gion. Undo the past, straighten- out the crooked places. There is a dear old mother in God's world that some of you are starving to death. She is asking for bread find you are giving her a stone, and you are going to make up fur that by putting flowers on the casket when nhe in too dead to nmell the perfume. Let your mother feol your love while she is living. Wash your stripes. It is time wo got down to business and straighten out the crooked places. And the next morning he rejoiced in God. Exactly. And no will you when you do right. What I am anxious about is that you should do right. God will take care that you shall have an experi ence of your own that wiir"be precious and beautiful to yourself. Now, will you do it T You know what you have got to give up. Don't tell mo you don't know, because if you say that, well I know what I think. Listen! You aro a rational, reasonable, intelli gent, educated being; you kuow Ood's gospel; you know what sin is. Will you do itt Will you do it? And then talk about believing. When you empty your heart it will be possible for Jesus to coma in. I my hands no price I bring. Simply to Thy cross I cling. Why did he bring.no price? Because occupied hands could not be clinging hands. If you want Christ, empty your heart and hands of the world's filth, and you will get HJm He is here, ne wants to come to you. He longs to come to you, and He will come when you submit. In one of my missions a lady came down one of tho aisles of the church, bringing her boy of ten to shake hands with me.v The little fellow held out his left hand and held his right hand behind his back. 1 told him I would not shake hands with a left hand, but ho was ob stinate for a while, but at length I per suaded him to bring his right hand from behind him, and then I discovered that he had five marbles. in his hand and he was afraid to' let go of them. The child bad -his marbles, you have whatt With some it is greed, others lust, some pride, etc. You know what it is. Will you let go and take hold of eternal life and d: it now? Lot us pray. Mr. Smith will preach to men onl. Sunday afternoon at .1 o'clock and his subject wil! be "The Tricks'er." There will be no service Saturday afternoon r l. . i. -.1. jail'! no services on .vionuav. .vi r. virion ' iv'H j.reach Saturday iii;jlit at 7:.W I dclnck SOUTHERN COLLEGE GAMES FOn TOHORriff? (By The Associated Press) .ANT A . Ga., Nov. l'.. Kiuht gamesi. particina'ed in by bi; southern teams, fe.it, ire Saturday's football sched ule aail al teas! one more clean recorn f no defeats by another Dix'e eleven is lue to be wiped out. for the schedule brings together at N'ew Orleans, Missis sippi A. & M. and Tulaue. Interest in this game, however, is no wbit greater than in the other big con tests, which include: Auburn vs. Washington & Ioe at Birmingham. Georgia Tech vs. Georgetown of Wash ington at Atlanta. Virginia vs. Vanderbilt at Nashville. Georgia University vs. Florida Univer sity at Athens, Ga. Virginia Military Institute vs. Catho lic University at Lexington, Va. South Carolina vs. Navy at Annapolis. North Carolina University vs. David son at Winston-Salem. ' The week already has seen several inv portant games, the most notable being that yesterday in which the University of Alabama defeated Louisiana State 21 t . Other games yesterday included North Carolina State's 14 to 6 victory over Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Clem son 's 26 to 0 defeat of the Citadel, Mis sissippi College's piliajf "op of a 0 to 0 score against Millsap'a Colelge, Florida University's 20 to 0 defeat of Stetson, Spring Hill's 43 to. 7 victory over South western, and Wake Forest's lose, 12 to 13, to the Naval Air Station at Scot land Nee, N. C Decidedly cold weather is promised for Saturday 's games and with the teams generally reported in fine physical ahape. and ready to go the limit to show their football prowess, several of the hardest contests of the year are looked for. IN AT BLACKSBURG NOT IDENTIFIED AS Will White and Jesse Swift, Claiming to be From Person County, Under Arrest las Suspicious f Characters, Examined by Gas tonia Officers Who do Not Believe They Are the Men Want- ) ed For Ford Murder - Were in Gastonia Mon day - Both Were Armed, 'iyyv By H. A. QUERY Staff Correspondent BLACKSBURG, 8. C, Nov. 12 Police officers from Gaatonia who came to Blacksburg this morning to examine two negroes arrested on suspicion in con nection with the killing of John Ford last Sunday night, aro inclined to doubt very much, whether these are the guilty parties . The two negroes under arrest here last night give the names of Will White, alias, Will Rainey, and Jessie Swift, alias Will Matthews. Their story is to the ef fect that they are both regularly em ployed at Woodadale, a small station in Person eounty, near Boxboro by the Nello L. Teer Construction Company, of Durham, on some construction work be ing done there . Will White, whose home is at Sharon, S. C, claims to have been on his way home at Sharon to visit a member of his family who is sick, and was accompanied by Swift. They spent the night here Monday night with a negro well known to the police as "Borke Back Stetson." Both claim never to have been around Gastonia at any time except when parsing through here Mon day . Chief of Police Allison, of Blacksburg who has been on the lookout for sus picious characters since Monday, arrest ed the two rs they alighted from a train ut Blacksburg last night, having come up from Hharou on their way back to their work in Person county. Both have in their possession printed pay envelopes of the Nello Teer Construction Company, which' is taken as good evidence that ahey have been employed there. Neither of the two negroes arrested is exception ally tall or short, both being about five feet eight inches in height, one a mulatto and the other of a ginger-cake color. They state that another negro named Walson "as with them, and that Watson ran when Chief K. A!lion approached th. mm in lilu ksbnrg. laM night, this fact si n ntlieniiu: the chief's suspicion that they iiilyh! be fugitives. The .strongest evidence upon which W'iiiie and Sunt are being held ix the fact thai both were armed when arrest ed White had a tiue :is caliber Smith Wesseii n xolver, with holster and belt, and Swift had a S. Jt W.,- also of the very 11 nee t quality, with holster and belt. Both claim that they acquir ed the pistols by trading for them while on this trip to Sharon. In the party which went from Gas tonik flftS morning were Sheriff Carroll, Chief Orr, J. W. Cole, Adam Hord, Miss Effie Grice and her father, Bob Grice and Boy Alexander. They are returning to Gastonia this afternoon, being of the opinion that there is very little likeli hood of Swift and White being the par ties wanted for the crime which was com mitted here Sunday night. The two suspects will be held by the Blacksburg authorities awaiting further develop ments, and in view of the fact that there have been several hold-ups and burglaries in that vicinity recently. STILL INVESTIGATING STORY BY NEGROES AT GAINESVILLE, GA. The story Mold by Allison and Jones, the negroes held in Gainesville, Ga., is being investigated today by the police and county authorities of Gainesville and Tifton. If it is true that they were eon-, nected with a minstrel show as late as Saturday night at Tifton, Gil, 500 miles from the scene of the crime in Gastonia, they will in all probability be released. However, they are being held an til every elu is exhausted. ' ., : The fact that the Killian boy and.the Gtice girl were not able to identify poi- GASTONIA MURDERERS 1 tively the negroes has given rise to ; speculation. It must be Tfiiiidiafcinsji that the victims never did ' tea Atnortv M a 1 - a '; i ' the tone of their voices,' stheir gemani ' appearance and movements were observe ' : by them. That is why the negroea made to walk and run and more about V in the presence of the two, and why tfcty , were made to talk and go over tha 'ansae " language used on the night of tha erinsa. ,' Both say that the negroes tally In everr4. 't Lparticular with the general appearaaee of the negroes as they observed theas . Sunday night, and they are fairjy tain that they might be the guilty partieft' ? -However, realising what one word ansdnr oath from them will meaa in a- lif f ' ' death matter like this, they say that they ' cannot swear positively that they are tt ' ' '. ' men, that they are unwilling to b cans'' less with their sworn statements waew -.." word from them might mean th death of the negroes. . V ' ' " Photographs of the negroes ar bairn . f ' taken by Gainesville atr&oritice aad eef here for examination. In the meantiia the manager of the M. G. Dodfeoa nerroX ' minstreUshowa, the mayor of.Tifm aa y the police authorities re being eaav ,: mumcated with, in the effort to eatab ...... v..? . . u v u V ..... "V lotv MtJKXVOV - 1 statements. . 1 The negroes as seen in the jafi' at Gainesville did not have the! appearaaar of malicious characters. They are eeav ; paratively young, and fairly well asha- ,' .4-J r - Al AX. - tZ - A from Wilmington, talks with a fcrogaw I that resembles the Charleston aegrv I talk, ne calls himself a "half-geek," whatever that is. The newspapemaa . has found no one in Gastonia who. know -1 , what the expression means. At any rata " , the negro possesses decidedly low ntiy. coloquialisms. ; CORONER'S JURY TAKES . RECESS - NO VERDICT- After being in almost continuous m . sion since Monday morning the jury im . -punnelled by Coroner W. N. Davis to y. investigate the mysterious murder of John Ford and the shooting of Miss Ebk ie f'.entty in a lonely spot near Gastonia Sunday night, took a recess late yeaterr- day afternoon without rendering a ve- diet. A mnRfl of evidence was taken, a large number of witnesses having beesr examined by the coroner. . ' Coroner Davis will probably call the jury together as soon as additional wit nesses or more testimony are available... While no statement has been given out by the coroner, his action in taking a reoee '. is taken to indicate that the Jury is not .' yet through examining witnesses. ' MISS BEATTY RESTING WELUT HOSPITAL When The Gazette representative risil ed Miss Essie Beatty, the young womasv ' who was shot in 8unday nights tragedy 4 when John Ford was killed, at thoty -Hospital this morning, he found her im eheerfnl mood. She said that tha rested ' well last night and she took some aoarUh- ment this morning. Her physicians da not consider that the is by any means mmt of danger bat concede that abas baa ' ehance to live. ' BLIZZASD HITS HAXDING PARTY AND STOPS ITSHUfC POINT ISABEL, Tex, Jfoa. lZ-'-President-elect Harding ' tarpon sahbxg -was mterrnpted toJlay ; by . a '35-mik norther that ehorne j , the Point Isabel ' fishing grounds Into a tumbling ield of foam and drove the temperature down ta . the shivering point.' - ' Deciding to stay ashore, the aeaator read and rested during, the morning b his cottage overlooking the, lagoon, bat V. hoped bcfor the day wax over to UL ' , a motor trip to Brownsville for a gaaor of golf,'. He expressed keen disappoint ment that unfavorable weather bad ever- ' taken his fishing ventures and said b expected to get a ehance to try hk Incb -once more . before he leaves bare' earb; -. next week. vr; " -r ' JEvery state in BraxO produces aogar cane, Yernamboeo .and 8ao' Paulo . fram ing the ether. -sC r r
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