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VOL. XLI. NO. 280.
GASTONIA, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 22, 1920
SINGLE COPY 6 CCttTV
SENATOR
PHELAN
PROTEST AGAINST CITIZENS
RIGHTS TO JAPANESE
Sends Telegram to Governors and Senators of
Western States Asking Them to Protest to
State Department Against Treaty Giving For
eign - Born Japanese Rights of Citizenship.
SAtf FBANUSCO, Nov. 22 Senator
J .-umts D. Phelnn, of California, today
eciit a telegram to governors and sena
tors of westers states, asking them to
' ' please telegraph your political protest
o the state department- against any i
tieaty which gives foreign-born Japanese
now in this country the rights of eitixen
ship." The telegram was prompted, Senator
1'lieLa.ii said, by neves dispatches from
Lmidon, which said an agreement was
Hearing completion between the Unite 1
States and Japan which proposes full
citizenship for Japanese now in this
country and under which Japan won'.i
Absolutely restrict further immigration
t. the United States. He further sail
ii an interview that very often win-re
treaties were in course of consummitiou
reports often were allowed to be circu
lated of the plans to test public opinion.
"Citisenship for Japanese," said the
iilegram; "would give them not only
control of the land, but also a dangerous
political power." The telegram said in
part:
'Experience teaches uj that Japanese
exclusion can be effected only by United
States laws. To grant rights of citizen
.ship, Including land ownership, to the
00,009 Japanese in California and the
-other thousands scattered throughout the
western states would be nothing less than
-the destruction of the white population.
' "The Japanese invasion has taken the
form of land purchase and under the
constitution persons now born on the soil
can own land and enjoy the re ting privi
lege. The Japanese already here have
a birth rate three or four times as great
ai the whites.
"Resident Japanese have recently re
turned to Japan in large numbers, since
-the picture bride abuse was abolished, to
bring back wives, with the studied plan
of increasing their numbers.
"The initiative anti-alien land law
just passed by an overwhelming vote by
the people indicates their temper. Such
a treaty as proposed instead of produc
ing better relations, would cause greater
antagonism and possibly lead to war.
The Japanese, as usual, are preparing
for war" as a background for forcing
t.tifir diplomatic negotiations and the
state department evidently is frightened.
'A treaty should not be allowed to
attempt to override a state law passed
by a people who understand their own
iwril and are acting for their own preser
vation." ROY HENDERSON CONTINUES
TO PROTEST INNOCENCE
Gaffn-y Youth Claims That
Killing Was Done by Ne
vroes Coroners Inquest
Brings Out no Evidence.
OAFFNEY. S. C, Nov. 28. Roy
Henderson, 16 year old white boy, who
is held by the coroner's jury for the
death of Frank and Floyd Kirby, aged
and 8 years, respectively, today pro
tested his innocence of the crime and
.clung to his statement he made to offi
cers upon his arrest late last night that
he left the young boys at a certain point
after they went out hunting with him.
According to the story given by offi
cers, Henderson is alleged to have entic
ed Frank and Floyd Klrby away from
home Saturday fternoon to go hunting.
"Whsa near the creek, it is alleged, he
hot ' the smaller boy, blowing off the
.right side top of the head, then caught
the older boy and beat . him over the
bead after which he took the bodies and
threw them into a deep hole in Branch
creek, six miles from here. Henderson,
who was captured at the heme of a farm --er
at Butler as "he was preparing to re
tire was quoted by officers as having told
them that he was fired upon by a negro,
after parting with the Kirby boys. When
asked bow his gun,, which was feundin
twe pieces near the scene of the killing
was broken, he is said to have elaimed
"that when the negro fired at him he fell,
, breaking the gun as he went to the
)i VUUU -
The father of the dead boys arriving
; borne from work and learning that the
i -children had gone off with Hendetsoa,
" became uneasy and - la searching for
them found the mutilated bodies of the
boys in the creek where they had been
a; throws;', - - ' - - - - .
-"NV reason was brought out at the in
vest for the brutal murder as, although
the Kirby and Hendersons are sear
E.'.-lbors, there was Tery little, associa-
" ' 1 ? 'tween them.
URGES
ADVISES REVISION OF
METHOD OF DISPOSITION
SURPLUS GOVERNMENT GOODS
Inspector General Claims That
Army Goods Are Sold and
Resold Recommends More
Care in Regard to Promises
Made to Recruits.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 Im
mediate revision of the present method
of disposing of surplus government stores
to prevent speculators from buying
federal property from one department
and reselling to another branch of the
government at a higher figure is recom
mended in the annual report of Major
General J. L. Chamberlain, inspector
general of the army, to the secertary of
war, made public today. The necessity
for the proposed action is indicated by
a recent investigation which disclosed
that one department of the government
sold surplus cement for $1.00 per on
to a civilian who immediately resold the
same cement to a branch of the war de
partment for $6, the report states.
Concerning hazing at the military
academy at West Point General Cham
berlain said that while the practice has
not yet been entirely eliminated con
siderable favorable progress has been
made to that end.
Criticism of the hospital facilities at
Camp Benning, Ga., is voiced in the re
port, the equipment there being crarac
tcrized as "entirely inadequate."
Prompt measures to check abuse of
the army uniform are recommended, the
report declaring that "civilian authori
ties have not always co-opertaed to stop
such abuse." ?f
Other recommendatlns of the inspec
tor general include:
More care with regard to promises
made recruits, particularly with regard
to the army's educational courses, in
order that all pre-enlistment promises
may lo fully complied with.
, bnii.lonment of civilian instructors at
army schools.
Renewal of the clothing allowance
system for enlisted men, a change in the
type of collar of the servive coat and
more care in seeing that each recruit has
one new, well-fitting uniform.
Revision of the post exchange system.
Replacement of temporary buildings
with permanent structures at all per
manent canips.
Consolidation of air service units as
far as possible and replacement of civ
ilian employees in this branch with en
listed personnel.
Favorable progress is being made in
building up army morals after the de- i
pression incident to demobilization of
the emergency forces, the report says,
and discipline has greatly improved due
to the eradication of unsatisfactory con
ditions. A clean bill of health is given the for
ces in Germany by the inspector general
with the exception of proficiency at tar
get practice, due, he says, to the large
percentage of new men and lack of expe
rienced officers to supervise their train
ing. Conditions in the army transport ser
vice in the Pacific are described as "sat
isfactory" but in the Atlantic the serv
ice, is "far from satisfactory," the
report states, recommendation being
made that legislation be secured to pro
vide adequate commissioned and enlist
ed personnel for army transports.
HARDING WILL REACH
CHRISTOBAL TUESDAY
ON BOARD STEAMSHIP PART 8
MINA, Nov. 22. President-elect Hard
ing's voyage to Panama was nearing an
end today with the Parismina riding in
a smooth sea on a schedule that should
bring her into Cristobal early tomorrow
morning.
Plans for the firs days stay in the
canal zone are so far incompleted, but
one feature will be a, trip . through the
canal, probably on a government tag. ; It
has been suggested that the party go
through the waterway on the Parismina,
but the president-elect regarded the plan
as somewhat impracticable. One day
probably will be devoted to inspection of
the canal and the remainder of the time
sightseeing with a few games. of golf
in between! ..'"' -
Whether or not the league- has been
scrapped, the scrap about it hasn't.
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A new photo1 of Maree Ramey, young actress who was found slain in Grant
Park, Chicago, and her pet terrier which appeared with her in a vaudeville act . The
terrier, which for fourteen years had accompanied Miss Ramey on her travels, seems
to sense something wrong and has been whining mournfully siuce the disappearance
of his mistress. Insert, Lillian Thompson, her chum.
FOUR STIRRING SERMONS BY GYPSY SMITH, JR.,
CLOSE A GREAT EVANGELISTIC MEETING HERE
Two Sermons and Two Stories of Human Interest Close Two
Weeks Meeting at First Presbyterian Church Possibly
the Largest Separate Audiences of Men and Women Ever
Gathered in Gastonia Hear Thrilling Life - Story of Gypsy
Smith, Sr.
Long before the hour for beginning
the service at the First Presbyteriau
church Saturday night, Gastonia women
of all classes filled every nook and corner
of the spacious auditorium and galleries
to hear Gypsy Smith, Jr., narrate the
thrilling story of his father's lif
"From Gypsy Teut to Pulpit." Bom
and reared in a gypsy tent or wagon, un
lettered and trained only in the uomadic
customs of roving life, Gypsy Smith, Sr.,
became one of the world's greatest eva.i
gelists and toil.iy thronging crowds of
j:iv.nlt are being tunu-.l away from hi
meetings in Louisville. After the con
version of Gypsy Smith, Jr. 's, grand- I
father his- father was converted at tin
age of sixteen ami a .war laier was given
his first opoprt unity to j.r-;n.-.ii by (iea.
Kooth, of the Christian Mission, in l.o'i
don, now the Salvation Annv. i r :,
hated, harried, ignorant K.vjwy boy,
known as Rodney Smith, by hard v. jrk,
perseverance and the gnuc of God. he
became Gypsy Smith, "one of th--tinest
exponents of the possibilities of
Anglo-Saxon speech since tin- days ot
John Hrjght," according to ont- ot the
great London dailies. IT is son. Gypsy
Smith, Jr., himself possesses the same
characteristic speech as his father, aJ
tells a thrilling story, full of pathos, of
the habits, customs and traits of the
gypsy people. From that old rf.vpy tent
where his grandfather was eonvertei
thirteen men and women have been or
dained to the Christian ministry This
same story to the largest gathe.-i.ig of
women ever in a Gastonia audieoye, was
repeated to men Sunday aftemoot. And
they filled every available spac? in nd
about the church. Motor can that
brought the men were parked for twe
blocks, north and south on Marietta
street and for two blocks, east and west,
on Franklin avenue. Without apMo;fy
Mr. Smith used th first afternoon ser
mon he preached in Gastonia, Jeus and
the Samaritan woman at the well, to the
largest morning congregation cf the
meetings. At the conclusion of th serv
ice a possible hundred or more m?iThcrs
of the. church came forward on an imi
tation for renewed consecration. As
early a 6:30 o'clock every available seat
in the church wa taken and fand:ns
room was at a premium at the nignt
service. tr. Henderlite paid a vcy high
tribute to Mr. Smith and the metga.
Mr. Smith took for his subje.': the
story of the woman at the well, from
the fourth chapter of John.
It was a wonderful revival that took
place in the little village of Syehar. This
Tillage nestled in the foothills of Sa
maria, and it was made over anew and
shaken from center to circumference and
was revolutionized, all because of on
person in the Tillage, and that one, one
of the weaker sex, I don't know whether
we say ft wisely or not
The way God worked in Syehar is the
way He works always. First, a changed
person." Secondly, a changed place where
the changed person lives,-for we bare
found Ont that a maa can be stronger
and better and" bigger than fcis enviroa-
PET WHICH MOURNS
I
ment. The way ftis revival worked was
along one or two very simple lines.
First, this woman had a face to face,
heart to heart talk with Jesus Christ.
You may say that that was not very
much. No, but it is enough, and it takes
a great deal of courage to have such an
interview.
! Oliver Wendell Holmes usd in ui-
that there were three personalities in
each one of us. James Stalker said that
there were four, and 1 think that four
hiljjici! ror tl., mark. There is first of
nflhe man that our friends know outside
t!it. lii-iii. the men that we do business
with and the men we spend our snare
tinv with. Then there is number two
the man inside the door, the man tint
our wives, our sisters and brothers ami
t'a'he's and mothers know. You know
it is natural for us when we put out foot
I'll" the dof rstep in the morning to put
on the best side, for human nature lik-s
to he si en nt its best, but when we gi
into the quietness of our own home we
throw off our coats, so to speak, and be
rime ourselves. And there is a gr. it
difference between number two and mm
her one. Then, there is number three
the man that w know ourselves to Se
I mean the under-the-surface man. the
ambitions, loves, lusts, the ideals, the
ourselves. Although 'we may live with
people all our lives, they earyTiever know
us as we know ourselves, and no man
this side of God 's eternal throne knows
U9 as we know ourselves. There is a
great difference between number two and
number three, but then you have not got
ten the real man, for the real man is
numbr four the man that God sees, and
when H sees, the shutters are back
against the wall, the shades aer rolled
up until they hug the rollers, the win
dows are all polished, and the white light
from God's throne is shining through,
and when God sees, He sees everything.
And this woman who sat by the well that
day got a vision of herself as God saw
her, and it was the beginning of the
change in her that reached out and
shook the whole village.
You don't get a photographic view of
yourself, because a photographer always
retouches a negative, but when God sees
we only get an artist's proof, and there
is no retouching. All the warts, moles,
tnrker footing ami crow toeing are shown
on our moral faces, and no wonder ou
and I shrink from an interview like that,
but it is by visiting God's studio and
seeing ourselves as He sees us that the
power comes to enable us to count for
Him.
Then, secondly, this woman lad a faee
to face, heart to heart talk with those
who knew her best. That is never an
easy thing, because, we must talk, with
Christ before we talk for Christ, and I
dsat know which is the hardest. But
if yon could see this picture as I see it
a woman who was living in open
adultery, everybody knew it h town.
She couldn't go down. to the well with
the other women in the cool of the mom-
; Continued on page 4)
25 PERSONS. KILLED ;
100 WOUNDED IN STREETS
OF DUBLIN SUNDAY
Sensation Created by Wholesale Murders i s
Equal to That of Easter Rebellion in 1916 -Communication
Between London and Ireland
Broken. ; "
(By The Associated Press.)
LONDON, Nov. '22. The sending of
additional troops to Ireland is being se
riously considered, it was stated at the
war office this afternoon.
London was waiting anxiously and
fearfully this morning for further news
from Dublin following the reports of
yesterday 's horrors, but up to early aft
ernoon only meagre dispatches had been
received.
Report, to the Irish office from Dublin
said three or four unidentified persons
had been killed in other parts of Ire
land, the Irish office announced.
A brief telephone message at 8 o'clock
this morning had reported the city at
least temporarily quiet. Then came a
gap in the reports, nr to the noon hour,
but whether this indicated a censorship
was not known.
Meagre reports during the night stated
that shooting was going on as a sequel
to yesterday's assassinations and the
subsequent clash between the military
and a crowd at Croke park.
Sir Hamar Greenwood, the chief secre
tary for Ireland, was in conference dur
ing the morning with members of the
cabinet in peparatton fo the expected
bringing up in parliament today of yes
terday's Irish happenings. Nationalist
.members, it was understood, wero pre
pared to move sn adjournment of the
house in order to secure an opportunity
for full debate on the situation.
A dispatch to the Press Association
from Dublin enrlv this afternoon placed
the number of dead resulting from the
Croke park shooting at twelve.
LONDON, Nov. 22. Murder stalk
ed through the streets of Dublin yester
day, and at nightfall the meagre re
ports received here indicated that at
least 25 persons had been killed and up
wards of 100 more or less seriously
wounded . The day "s disorders, which
added au appalling 'chapter to the trag
edy that has been enacted in Ireland for
the past several months, began with the
apparently deliberate shooting of four
teen men, who for the most part, were
military otliei r During the after
noi n Irish coi.':i biliary, or ' Ulack aud
Tans" raided Yke park, where a foot
ball game wa-. in progress, and iu tBe
melee which resulted at least 10 per
sons were killed.
Coiniiniiiiral ion with Ireland was
seemingly int-Triipted last evening, but
latet advices declared that fires had
broken out in irious places in that
city. Sho ing iain began in the
streets just before midnight, andvit was
asserted a number of persons had been
killed.
Yesterday's murderous outbreak in
Dublin produced in this city a sensation
comparable to that which followed the
Kaster reMlion of 1916. Recent dec
larations by members of the British
ministry, to the effect that their policy
was succeeding, that outrages were de
creasing in number and that the author
ity of the law was being re-established,
had been hopefully welcomed by the
general public. The people today re
called with astonishment such phrases as
were uttered a fortnight ago by Prem
ier Lloyd George, who said: "Unless
I am mistaken, we have murder by the
throat" v
Whether Sunday's tragic events are
to be regarded as disproof of such of
ficial utterances remains to be seen.
Military authorities in Dublin are said
to hold the view that the murder of the
14 army officers will prove the final out
burst of nearly broken conspiracy
the last desperate throw of the fugitives
who are known to have flocked to Dublin
to escape the severity of the measures
employed in the province to suppress
Sinn Fein ism .
There is no lack, however, of scornful
inferences, and the fact that these fugi
tives have been able to enjoy freedom
f.om arrest since having arrived in
Dublin, and could have become accurate
ly acquainted with the residences and
habits of their victims, who, it is stat
ed, were securing evidence to be submit
ted before the courtmartial, which will
try recently arrested Sinn Femers, is re
garded as further furnishing significant
ground for, doubting the confidence sup
posedly held by officials. " This ' morn
ing's newspapers condemn with great
severity the system followed ia Ireland.
Some demand sternest measures of re
pression and bint at the desirability 'of
imposing martial law in Ireland. "
' Those journals which have adopted a
strong stand against reprisals and hold
the government largely repponsille f-r
these attacks by the srL' r 1 f
take occasion to renew their ' insistence
that reprisals must bo stopped. ! The
London Times, for instance, while vehe
mently denouncing the murders" of the
otlieers, expresses belief " that '2- the
strength of the Irish executive would be
ten times greater in this emergency, but
for "an army perilously undisciplined
and a police force avowedly beyond eon-
trol, which have defiled by heineous nets
Lngland's reputation." V(
Ministers responsible for the adminis
tration iu Ireland were called to r meet
this morning to discuss the situation.
Sir Ilamar Greenwood, chief secretary
for Ireland, and Winston Spencer
Churchill, secretary of state for , war, ,
who is responsible for the movements of
the army in Ireland, we're in - constant
telephonic communication with Dublin
Sunday. The people of this city today
eagerly awaited announcement of any
new steps to be taken in the presence of
this new emergency. .
GASTON F.1ILL MEN V
TO FIGHT RATE RAISE
OF SOUTHERII POWER G9.
Textile Executires Front ; City
and County Go to Raleigh to
Protest Before Corporation
Commission Against ' Rate
Increase of Southern Power
Company; --..--ii .
Many Gastonia cotton mill executives
are in Raleigh today to appear before
the corporation' commission in protest
against a recent action of the Southern
Power Company asking for an increase
in power rates. Concerning the ' raise '
and the fight that will be made, the
Raleigh correspondence of the Greens-,
boro Daily News says: -
' ' Two hundred big patrons of 7 the
Southern Fewer Company, chiefly textile
manufactories, have been summoned to
appear before the corporation commis
sion Monday to present their cases in re
buttal of the power company's promul
gation of new rates which are Calculated
to be 25 to .'?f per cent over the present
charges.
"Tlie character of the grand increase"
was ler.rned quite incidentally today when .
one of tiie ("'annnns in Concord telephoned
Raleigh asking about the hearing., One
of the subscribers to the Southern Power
:s ;he Catmon string of mills, which
would bi forced to pay annually an in
crease of about $60,000, according to the
calculations of a competent engineer here
today. Charlotte, Kannapolis,, China -Grove,
Salisbury, Spencer, Lexington.
Theniasville, Tligh Point, Greensboro and
various other cities, including Winston
Salem, pay tribute to the great hydro
electric plant, and the new rates will
doubtless run into the hundreds of thou .
sands.
The Southern Power hat presented its
case to the commission. In doing 'so -it
subscribes to the regulative power of the
state, and makes a notable concession..
In February, 1914, it took the position
that the state had no power of control,
and credited its legal department with
such advice. It puts itself in the hands
of the state now and asks to be allowed
to show why these radical increases are
necessary. i..- -
Lucklessly for the laymen, there is ae
money scale which will show the exact'
percentage of increase. On a service
which hitherto cost $1.10 a kilowatt hour,
acocrding to attorneys who have looked
over the petition, a eharge of 1.40 is
now asked. If that ratio is sustained
the rates proposed will be very much
higher than any heretofore paid. 8ine
these fall on textile bosTBess they wiD
be burdensome in the extreme. That in-'
dustry has rarely had any such difficul
ties as now environ it. Many mills srw
running on short hours, and quite a few
are indefinitely shut down. ' These wi3
be the chief complainants at the hearing
Monday. - .
SOUTH CAROLINA FARMER .
TURNS UP Ilf FLORIDA
COLUMBIA, a G, Nov 22. Marios.
Ha good, Blythewood farmer, who;'
bloodstainod automobile was found in
here Saturday night, and for wose 1 '
searching parties have hunted w""
success for 48 hours, wired his f" - t
Blythewood. today from J- '
Fla-, that he was all right a--5
to Columbia today, rcr'-'-received
here by teVr'
wood. ITo rc f -