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gasto::li - .2-s IONIA ILDAILY (LIAZETT foot echoola aaA food plaet to Ifou Per ' lata. xei im --.- ja . iiww; - win j KZKBXS OF THI ASSOCIATED PXXSS V GASTONIA, N.C; SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 20, 1920 SINGLE COPY I CEKli if.7 VOL. XU. NOV. 279. Gas m k GRMM AIDS , BOOM FOR BUTLER ; "0(W T Bosi'lta'Greensboro News,) ; r7'-;iV4LiiLElQH,--NoT.-'l9.--fienator Marion 5 Matter 'I sabinet boom spreads even as ' : .ke8peare'a glory circle in the water; 'hcmH' never, ceaseth to expand itself J iBjita fcy twoad swelling it disperse to ' wadgttt,',' Shake -deposetb not. . , i "i But Mr. 'Butler has a most able-bodied I V J- booster in the state department of agri .; u ;altoi.y CoHimlssioiier W. A. Graham .Uhcx'has' written or will write air the 1 , omiu!si6nerj ia the United States' "ask 0 - ' ing them' to join him in presenting Mr. .' Butler's claim at the court of Mr. Hard ' '" inir." !. Fanner Sam Hobbs, who . is a v wilghtjr grower' in 'Sampson eounty, it here doing hU leyelest to make Mr. But- ,i Ter king of agriculture for the next four ; jears'and Mr, Hobbs is one. of the most v prominent of the two Democrats who are V i left in Sampson '- Mr. Hobbs has been convinced even as Major Graham that Mr. Wallace, of '-. Iowa, is not the man for. secrHary of agriculture. Major Graham 's fellow work X er, T. B. Parker, is helping Mr. Butler, v - and Fanners J. Y. Joyner and J. Bryan , iOrimes are strong among the Butler men. The boom grows enormously in North . -Carolina ind If Mr. Butler should not win, Iowa having done a little better by Mr, Harding than North Carolina did, . lie will have one of the finest Demoeratie 2 crap-beoks on which to wage future " erapt that juiybody ever had.- y( ' ' Mfv Buer is being presented as a . 'VdirtM;' farmer. Four years from now, . r two 4 the' events may determine, when l f: being assailed, he ean mix a little mo jprt): ItUi retorts and if Oeeasion.de xnaade be fin prove a first-class dirt poli tician fff : JEJutler has selred np some of hbi Jteraocratie foes. ; rNearl)00 teachers bave joined the North I peirppna teachers assembly for . 1920Md: today when the list went be ypud' TTC5'lf!eeretary Allen1 agreed to lelWf pi 6,000 wil hare retdstered in --sadyaoe' $$4 assembfy next Tuesday in W toUtrbfloea now. He not only ' -ewpaj i; isj 8,000 before the assembly adrhaVj week; he will most likely . tt!;Hrat 'nundred names whUe in ;ftipifaiavelt7.'' ' The boost in the tneimWp f ollows the change of ton etitotlo'n last year and the assembly 'for 1920;,wtelie; an enfTrely different body. Thf Wvnbflr who will attend, even an ex--tremely distant point, for eastern teach tvft; f .ipair. Asheville promises not ' tty:"awMnped. liOTEO DRTKOPtEDIG SUHGEON VISITS CITY Dr. Oscar Miller, of Atlanta, Spends Saturday in Gastonia Looking Over N. C. Oflho toaedic Hospital. Dr. Oecar L. Miller, a noted Ortho paedic Surgeon, associated with Dr. Michael Hoke, of Atlanta, Oa., is in Gas tonia today as a guest of Mr. R. B. Babington and surgeons and physicians ef the city. ; Dr. Miller, being interested in the -deyelopment of Orthopaedic Surgery - tvObghout the South and particularly m fMested in the establishment of the North Carolina Orthopaedic Hospital, nearing -completion, desired to come to Gastonia and apend the day in looking over this .institution, of which ho has heard so jpach. ' . The medi-Al fraternity, as well as the , 4itixens of Gitonia, are delighted to have ' this . noted specialist to visit Gastonia and to aee for himself what North Caro lina proposes to do for her ' ' Tiny Tims." i v ' v SAINS AND UNSETTLED FOR NEXT WEEK FORECAST (By The Associated Press.; Z VfASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-i-Weather predictions for the week bgisMiig Mon day are: Middle Atlantic States P ' Unsettled weather and ram at the beginning of the week and again about Thursday; iotherwlae the weather will be fair with normal temperatures. - South Atlantic and East Gulf States: Local -rains at beginning of the week, and again .Thursday or Friday; other wise the weather wlil be fair with normal temperature. CONGRESSMAN-ET ECT KILLED , WHILE OUT RIDING (By The Aswiatea Preea.) . POMONA; Calif Nov. JtoXCongress-man-elect Charles F. Vandewater, repnb ' licaa, of Long Beach, Calif and his sec retary. Miss Jammess Leuvin .also of .Long Beach, wer killed at Walnut, 12 wiles from hereyfearly this morning when Vthe aatomobilein which they were rid ing struck a motor truck. " ; .', ' FORMER EKFRESS WORSE. DOOBN, Holland, Nor: 350. Former F-mpreea Augusta Victoria, of Germany,' - whose conditio has for several dys given aJarm taber relative, wai somewhat ' . worse' thb morning, according to infor ' n&Usa received from Doom castle. Her ' tmrwatore was said to be 3 degree ' con'.ijrse ,(J02.2 Fahrenheit. ' '. - RACIAL POPULATION -THREE TENNESSEE EMES '? WASHINGTON, TNov. 20. BacUl populations of three Tennessee cities an nounced today by the census bureau show increases in the negro populations since 1910 in-Memphis . aud Knoxville and a decrease in Nashville. The population of Memphis as an nbunced on April 8, was 162,351, of which 101,117 are whites, 61473 negroes and fi all other persons. The figures for MlOvwere white 78,590; negro 52,441; all other 74. ' "The white population constituted 62.3 per tent of the total populatn in 1920 and 59.9 per cent in 1910, while the negro population constituted 37.7 per cent in 1920, and 40 per cent in 1910. The population of Knoxville as an nounced March 13 is 77,818, of which 66,508 are white, 11,303 negro and seven all othej persons. The figures for 1910 were white 28,706, negro 7,638; all other two. The white population constituted 85.5 per cent of the total population in 1920 and 79.0 per cent in 190 while the negro population comprised 14.5 per cent of the total population in 1920 and 21 per cent in 1910. The population of Nashville as , an nounced March 27 is 118,342, of which 82,698 are white, 35,634 negroes, and nine all other persons. The "figures for 1910 were white 73,831, negro 36,523, all others 10. MEMPHIS. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. Memphis, Tenn., has 101,117 whites and 61,173 ne groes and 61 all other persons, the census bureau announced today. This is an in crease of 22,527 whites and 8,732 negroes over 1910. KNOXVILLE. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. Knoxville has 66,508 whites, 11,303 negroes and seven of all ether races. This is an increase of 37,802 whites and 3,665 ne groes over 1900. NASHVILLE. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. Nashville has 82,699 whites, and 35,634 negroes and a decrease of 889 negroes over 1910. YALE HARVARD CLASSIC TO BE PLAYED TODAY NEW YORK, Nov. 20. The historic Tale-Harvard contest at New Haven easily dominated all other football matches on eastern gridirons today in point of general interest. The Crimson was a top-heavy favorite to win by a comfortable margin. Many observers, however, remembering past performances, believed that the blue eleven, fighting with its back to the wall, would "find" itself and wnce a terrific battle nprainst its ancient rival. Physically, the elevens entered their thirty-ninth contest on a comparatively even basis, but Harvard hat an appar ent advantage of alertness, strategy and polished team play. Yale's team has boon slow in developing and, while it 'iVnt s'renirth has been apparent all during the season, the team play has bee" crude. The contest drew to New Haven the "reatest crowd iri the history of football in America. More than 75.000 people a city in itself had tickets for the 21 miles of seals in the great "bowl." Other games of outstanding impor tance were the Dartmouh-Brown clash at Boston; the Pennsylvania-Columbia contort at the Polo Grounds in this eityi and the Syracuse-Colgate match at Syra cuse. Dartmouth was generally favored in the -wagerin? to tame Brown, on the strength of the Green's steady improve ment in the past few weeks. Columbia and Pennsylvania anoarently were fairly evenly matched, with the red and blue a slight favorite. Syracuse, on paper, had a wide margin of advantage over Colgate. ' r FRENCH I'D RRITISH PREFERS WILL MEET ... , PARIS, Nov. 20. Premiers Georges Leygues and David Lloyd Geors-e, of France and Great .Britain, respectively, probably will meet in London soon for a conference which' Is. considered necessary because of the serious situation In " tte near east. A staff ef experts, it is un derstood, will take port in the meeting Th8 conference will determine np'on joint action relative to three ouestlons the defeat of .; PTem'er CVeniwlo in Grwce, wfcieh Trinps into question the status of th Greek army in Asia Minor; the advance of the Russian btlsheriki in the new states of the Caucasus rerion.; prMularl.v the co-operation- of the bol seriki with the Turk'sH natinwaHss. and the eonseouenees of the defeat of General Baron Wranrel, .head of the South Russian government. , " . Paul Cambon. f-Tmer French ambassa dor to Great Britain, submitted to the French foreign offir yesterday a note deelaring the . return of former 'Kins; Constantine to the Geeek 'thmne would be "intolerable." "He said that if su-h a e'en was imminent. Greece ahnsM be warned. the allieemiM j not. .maintain, friendly relations with berv " " INCREASED ATTENDANCE AS GYPSY I , SMITH MEETINGS DRAW TO A CLOSE - BBSSBWflaBWaBBBSBSSjBBBBSB " Friday Afternoon Audience Considerably Larger Than at Any Other Day Service - Many Visiting Pastors and People From Neighboring Towns Attend But One Service Saturday at 7:30 P. M. For Women Only. With the sun brightly shining from a cloudless sky to make Complete an ideal Indian summer day, visiting pastors and people from Belmont, Dallas, Clover,. Bethel and th rural districts, taking ad vantage of weather and dry roads, poured into the Friday afternoon meeting to hear Gypsy Smith at the First Presby: terian church. . Misses Garrison, Edwards and Otey headed another and larger delegation from the Clara school and community. The school children again featured the Bin gin g "with the singing of choruses. Mr. Allen, splendidly sang, "I Know of None" ind Bev. J. T. Dendy, of Bel mont, offered th opening prayer. Mr. Smith, after Sading a portion of the first chapter of the Second Epistle of Peter for a scripture lesson, chose three texts from the TW0 Epistles: (1) Par takers of the Divine Nature 2 Peter 1:4; (2) Partakers of His Sufferings 1 Peter 4:13; (3) Partakers of His Glory 1 Peter 5:1. Mr. Smith said, "If you will study for a month, a few verses at a time, the two Epistles of Peter, you will come to know as I knew, there is far more in New Testament Christianity than the average professor of it seems to think. The church in her mad rush for numbers has cheapened and prostituted church membership, which is due in large' part to preachers who have preached a cheap ened Gospel and a cheapened Calvary. What is it to be a Christian t 'I am the vine, ye are the branches.' 'Partakers of the Divine Nature' must necessarily mean 'Partakers of His Sufferings.' To walk under the weight of a sinful world and help lift it back to the cross. And we can't be partakers of 'His glory un less we axe partakers of, His sufferings." Another capacity ' crowd filled the church again at the night service, which was featured by the singing of about twenty boys and gils from the Sunday school. Mr. Allen made several divis ions of the large audience in the singing of "Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown." Many expressions of regret at the nearness of the nd of the meetings were heard during the evening. En velopes to contain personal offerings to Mr. Smith were distributed among the congregation. This free will offering will be taken on Sunday and is nil the remuneration for which Mr. Smith asks. The good that has beeu done in Gastonia during these meetings can not be esti mated, neither can it be measured in dollars and cents. "As we have received, so let ns give, not as unto men but unto the Lord." The coir rendered in a sn'endid nian npr, "Kins; of Kings." The oneninir nrnyer of the evening service was offered in sincerity and earnestness bv Rev. T. J. C. Galloway, pastor of the First Asso ciate Reformed Prenhyterian church. The tweniv--:-i Ps"'m uns rproned in concert with Mr. Smith for the script uro lesaon. Mr. Smith took as the basis for his talk last evening the story of the ship- wreck of St. Paul, and his text was from the 27th chapter of Acts, the 9th verse. Famous German Castle Ruined by Fire -Medieval gtamof clings more clonety to tho ancient Gennaa raatlav Barg ltx..than to moKt. European relic of the feudal days, and tbe reporta Ju pnhllRhrd that tt baa been destmyed- by lira will be of Interest to thousand. Situated near, the little town of Moaelkern on the Motel river, tbe Bars Bit towird over mile of surrounding virgin forests. It da tea back to tho thir teenth centuryAnd was said to be one of the boat preserved cutlet In Europe. The text is this, "And whep much time was spent and sailing was now danger ous," and his subject was "A ship wrecked life . ' ' Mr. Smith said that in those days it was a very veasy thing to be wrecked on the voyage of life. Life is a tre mendous thing with great opportunities and privileges, as well as responsibilities and duties, and all we have to do is to give full play to our own passions and luatio be wrecked on the voyage of life. The oldest questions of ail times are these .,, Where did I come fromf Why am I here. Where am I going tot Yes terday out of the unknown, today taking a little flight across the great continent of time' onto eternity. I haven't any message for the man who believes that six feet of ground and a casket .are the end of this life. For when I Bee a caterpillar crawling across the I sidewalk in the fall of the year, I watch it as it crawls up the trunk of a tree, and then out onto a bough and builds around itself a shell, which the scientists have taught us is a chrysalis, and then in the spring of the year, kissed by the sun, it breaks its shell and comes out, no more a caterpillar, but a beautiful butterfly, not crawling, but flying, and feeding on different vegetation and with a brand new life. If God can do that in the animal kingdom, it simply points to the fact that there are greater things in store for us if we will obey. The shores of time today are strewn with the wrecks of men and women. Life is full of shipwrecks and eand-bars and hidden rocks and cross currents, and it is a very easy thing to be shipwreck ed. What yon and I need is a pilot for our lives, and so I offer to you Jesus Christ. . I want to bring to the pulpit this even ( Continued on page 2.) , WILL ESTABLISH SPOT MARKET IN LOS ANGELES (By The Associated Press.) LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20 Unani mous vote to establish a "spot" cotton market in Los Angeles was taken at the meeting heft today of the International Cotton League of the West. It was planned to have it in operation by Jan uary 1, 1921. The proposed market, it was said, would be the first of the kind west of Texas, and would divert from Dallas and (Jalveston shipments of Arizona and Cal ifornia cotton to Los Angeles harbor. Plana were made tentatively for united efforts by all commercial organi zations in cotton growing sections of t ho southwest to obtain rheaper railroad raios on cotton to be shipped to the pros liectsve "spat cotton" niarki't. ! lie.solutiouH protesting against inter I fercnie with importation of Mexican la bor to work on the cotton lands of the southwest were approved by the league. i : 4$$ -'..-if IV Vr NEW ORLEANS DIFFERENCES BETWEEN . ENGLAND AND FRANCE ARE BUT TRIVIAL PARIS, Not. 20. Differences between Great Britain and France do not amount to a quarrel, and tbe views of these two nations have in no way prejudiced the alliance which held them together during the war, said Premier Lloyd George, of Great Britain, in an interview at London yesterday with the correspondent of the Petit Parisien. Mr. Lloyd George de clared that, regarding reparations, Eng land would stand "elbow to elbow" with France, buy he insisted that the amount Germany will be called upon to pay should be fixed. "There are always some people who pick quarrels," said the premier, in re ply to a remark by the interviewer that Fench public opinion was badly im pessed by what France believed to be the British attitude on questions vital to this country. The interviewer told Mr. Lloyd George that the question of reparations took precedence over all others in France, and that in certain French circles there was an impression either rightly or wrongly held, that the British premier opposed the viewpoint of the French relative to the amount Germany should pay. "I would say that this impression is wrongly held," said Mr. Lloyd George. "You say reparations constitute an es sential point for France, and I would say it is also of paramount Importance for us, since it is evident that the more France getvthe more England will re ceive. "I can tell you exactly what I think. It is very simple make Germany pay all she can. "I have, I think." continued Mr. Lloyd George, testified by acts and not only by words, to my friendship and ad miration for the French democracy. We fought together and conquered together, and must not renounce in peace the ar rangements that in the past were dear to my heart. In return, the French peo ple must not think I have become 'an enemy because I speak as a business man and ns a realist. Friends should speak thus to each other, and defend the system which seems best to conform with their common interests. Once the decision, Js reached, then we wiJJ stand elbow to elbow. ' ' PASCAL, THE CRANK, IS GIVEN LIFE TERM NORRISTOWX, Pa., Nov. 20. Au t'ost Pascal, alias Pasquale, -"The Crank," in the C.)ughlin kidnapping c.-ise, was sen ten 'ed to life imprisonment this mornint by .Ti: le bwurtz, in Nor-, ri.itown court. Pascal pleaded guilty at his trial to srrund degree murder and idnnppinK fjr extortion. He stole Blakply Cor .?H;n, the ! months old bnhy (A Mr. an Mrs. George II. Coughlin, from their home near Norristown on June 2 last find smothered the infant under his coat. He was sentenced on the kidnapping charge and , sentence was suspended on the second degree murder charge. Pascal will be confined in the eastern stan penitentiary in Philadelphia. 'Judge Swarti told Pascal he was sorry he con'd not sentence him to death. The second degree murder sentence will le oonsTdered if Postal is ever released. Pascal confessed to the kidnapping and killing of the child. As the body of the baby could not be produced and le?al proof, aside frm Pas"al's own confes sion.' being lacking, first degree murder eonld not be pressed against the ab dnetor. "f FIRST STEP TOWIRO REVISION OF LEAGUE L GENEVA, Not. 20. The first formal step looking toward e revision of the covenant of the lene e of nations was taken by the assembly of the league at yoday's session. The Dnfch minister of foreign affairs, li. A. van Karnsbeek, introduced a res'n'ton for reconsidera tion of Aricle X'TIT hring to do with rep-istration of treaties. The resolution provides that the recon sideration be conducted either by 'the as--sembly itself or by a committ-e. to make th mninr of 'e ari'U clesrer. Jorkher Van Kamabeek said there were several ipWretsMns of the r i"h which in brief provides that reaies between nations ssll not be binding nnt5l thev are r"Vrd wit the lenw. and proposed that it be n;ed carefully wth a view to its clarification. fTHe text of Article XVIII reads: "Every tretv or hih mm. ment entered into hereafter between any tnetntwr f tli" lue sH be" flwh rerievd wih ir a swwi aa T'owrM twVN nr It. N sn treaty or international engage ment all be binding . nntil so- regis tered.") : SUFFERS FIRE LOSS NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 20 Fira, believed to have started from sparkt from n switch engine, started a rive ' front fire here early today which befora it was extinguished, had eaused property . damage estimated in excess of 2,000,000. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 20 Fire whieh started just below Congress street -. . shortly after 1 o'eloek Saturday morninjg . in the new banana wharf, being ereetosV by the Zemuray ' Fruit Company, destroy ed the banana wharf and quickly spreaf , along the riverfront until the dockes for . a length bf four squares were aflame. 1 ' As the fire spread and gained in in tensity efforts of river jnen and doeh workers were directed to saving the Truxillo and the Peneelot, two ' Truck tied up at the burning wharf, whieh' weir in immediate danger of being destroyed. The Truxillo was towed to safety by two tugs and the Poneelot was rescued after being scorched, by the United 8tatee -cutter Davey. An oU tank in the eterav of the Poneelot exploded after that ves sel had been towed away from tho wharf. Several million feet of lumbr belong-, bag to the government caught and mnefc was destroyed. . The harbor was alive with tuga giving, aid in whatever fashion possible and tho combined efforts of these and the fire do partment succeeded in checking tho flames and finally bringing them vnder eontrol at both ends of tho burning eo-: tioa of wharf by 8:30 a. m. " , NINE PERSOliS LOSE LIVES III IIE17.Y0HX FLIE- NEW YORK, Not. 20 Nine persona, eonstitutig. every member but one Of tw- entire familes, lest their lives here early -to day in a fire which' destroyed a five -story apartment house at 807 West 148th street. Fourteen othor families teeapol or were rescued by axemen. . Originating, fire authorities say, ia- baby carriage on 'the first ffoot of tho brick structure,, the fire swept upward through open stairways, cutting off escape through the hallsV '- Nearly, a hun dred men, women and children, dad U. night elothes, swarme4 to the flra escapes: some making their way to the groune while others huddled terror stricken o platforms " in mid-air until carried ' to. safety. ;. ...;',.": ,!-"" All the dead were found on the fifti and top floor after tbe flames had been, controlled. They were: , .''-f Bappael Gebbia, his wife, and their four children, who ranged ia years from seven" down to one and one half ; Mm. Ada Frank, Mrs . Bertha Eeynolds, he sister, and Ruth Reynolds, a girl of six teen. .. . ' , . . Charlos Frank, overcome by smoke, fainted over a windowsill . and wao dragged to safety and revived by a man who reached out from an' adjoining building and drew him across the. narrow open space.- Mrs. Dora Schofield, living on the second floor, escaped with minor injuries. ,- -v-';.'-. Robert Wajker, a neighborhood resv -dent, climbed a fire escape before the a-, rival of firemen and carried to safet an infant which had been abandoned ia its crib by a family living on the scconeV floor. . - Other residents of the doomed buHding." ' cscaiK'd over adjoining room bfiieers. ,: ' . '. The cause of the fire was not learned., PRESIDENT ABLE TO WAlk lS WITHOUT A CAWX " WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 President Wilson is now able to walk about th whjte house without even the aid of ar cane, it was stated today officially .N Hs" uses a wheelchair only for the purpose e an occasional relaxation it was aaid. White house officers declared that the - ' president's health had so far improver as to make it possible for him to address congress in person when it convenes next month, but that Mr. Wilson had. aa y ; made no definite plana to do so. -. .. : - HOUSE WIVES IN TOLEDO BEING DOWN BREAD PRICE." TOLEDO, O., Nov. 20 A campaign begun a week ago, in which members o the housewives' league pledged themselves to make their own bread, ia aaid to hav been responsible for an annonneed redne--' tion of from one to two cents a loaf.U day. ' ' . - ' For several months the price haa bee 11 cents for the small loaf and IX for tb large. lbe new prices are 10 and''!-"'-'-eents. " - .'S MR. HARDING HAS ' GOOD TIMX ON SHIP , ON BOARD STEAMSHIP PAEIS MINA, Nov. 20. (By Wireless to Tit Associated Press.) With all thongit of 1 his doming responaibnitfea thrown. s"d. President-elect Harding ; today, am I himself with quoits, shufie hoard i ofher deck games as the Parisxi-j e -tinned withent incidentVen T"-y t I the canal tone.'