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GASTONIA, N. MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER, 29, 1920.
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flUESIIOiOFs ADMITTING
AUSTRIA AND
LEAGUE BEFORE
(By Th AMOcUted PreM.)
GENEVA, Nor. 29. The council at
tba . league of nations this morning ap
proved the final draft of the project for
tno permanent mandate commission, defi
nitely accepting the tentative proposal
-. to have the commission comprise five non
mandatory: and four mandatory power.
It was decided that all the members be
:boaea by ,the council.
- 'The permanent commission, it is fore
cast, will probably meet .once a year at
' Geneva -and review the administration of
the mandate holding countries.
Detailed rules for th comfflWiVm also
were ratified. , '
The council did not consider today the
proposed invitation to the United States
for its participation in the dissuasion
over disarmament.
V. GENEVA, Nov. 29. Appointment of
-sV permanent mandate commission and
lection of a successor to Reginald Tower
am- high eomissioner at Danzig were two
important matters before the council of
the league of nations, when it met here
today. , It is believed that some of the
most important' work before the council
ud he assembly of the league will be
accomplished during the coming week.
Vxnmittee reports are rapidly being put
in final form, and several will be laid be
fore the assembly before 8turday night,
It is said.
' . Among the most important questions
which will come before the assembly this
week is the question of admitting Austria
nd Bulgaria to the league of nations.
Despite the strong opposition of Serbia,
Rumania and Greece to the granting of.
membership to Bulgaria at this time, a
large majority of the delegates seem ir
favor, of staking that step. There is
virtually no opposition in the case of
Austria, the application of which prob
ably, will be favorably acted upon in a
few days.
Discussion of the detachment of troops
th member nations will send into Lith
uania, aa well as the organization of a
snedical force to be dispatched to Vilna,
were also to be considered by the council
today. In addition the council intended
to take up the guarantees extended racial
and religious minorities in Jugo slavia
and Czech o-Slovakia.
Delegates to the meeting of the assem
bly are awaiting with keenest interest
the probable discussion tomorrow of a
jootion- promised by George Nieoll
Barnes, of Great Britain, regarding the
conflict between Poland and Russia. It
is reported Mr. Barnes may attempt to
put the league in a position of defending
rts inactivity in that war, but there is
a disposition on the part of the delegates
not to permit the subject to reach any
decisive issue.
For the last two days European dele
gates have been dividing their attention
between the sessions of the assembly here,
and the meeting of Popmiers Lloyd George
jind Leygues in London. The decision of
Prance and England regarding Greece
and the near east is awaited with much
concern. Many delegates have the im
pression that the first reply of President
Wilson to the council's note relative to
Armenia will be perfunctory, not com
mitting the United States in any vay nor
-definitely rejecting the offer. Mr. Wil
on's answer is expected to arri-e within
the next tarn days. .
ST6RM MOVING EASTWARD
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. Attended
by northeast gales on the southern New
Xngland, middle' "Atlantic and North
4arolina coasts an3 Vain within the last
, Si hour in the Atlantic statea from Mas
. each-useUa southward to Sou Carolina,
,7 'Che storm that was central Sunday morn--.
ing over North Carolina is moving rap
idly, eastward and threatening shipping
. along the coast, the weather bureau an
.;, aoonced, J..;-
Storm" warnings remain displayed early
today on the Atlantio coast be tween Bos
.:" ton aad Wilmington;" N.' C."
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HEET TO DISCUSS PLAKS
- . 1Q .INCREASE: BUSINESS
" (By The Associated Presa.)
' ' CHATTANOOGA Tenn, Nov. 29.
' One hundred freight tralfio and transpor-
iaticm agents of the Southern Railway
tines west met here today with a number
." of gneral officers of the rdad to discuss
' plans for increasing business of the eom
y pany;-i ;Tte conference will eontinne
' through 7 Tuesday. ' -
U ft 0. WANTS MONEY ; W- ,
: 4 '5' --TO .'AY' NOTES
. WAS&INGT6N, Not. 29-The Caro.
.Hna,'CliD(ie1d and Ohio railroad today'
'! the , interstate commerce ' coaunis.
i i---ie 15 year six per cent'comn
M pntares totalling -.$5,-
' " V'-rt tnn notes. ' -.
BULGARIA TO
ASSEMBLY
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KflG CKISTIL'ITL'IE NOT
TO RETURN AT ONCE
Will Wait Until After Plebis
cite Which Is to Be Held De
cember. 5.
(By The Associated Press.)
ATHENS, Nov. 29. It is probable
that former King Constantine will not
return at once to Greece, but after the
plebiscite, to be held on December 5th,
a number of deputies and ministers may
go to Switzerland to notify him of the
result of the vote. Every effort is be
ing made to win the favor of France
and Great Britain, which is taken to be
evidence that Greece is disposed to re
main pro-ally.
"The benefits of the Turkish treaty,"
said Demitrice Gounaria, minister , of
war, to The Associated Press today,
"should in any ease come to Greece, be
cause they were not given her because of
the personal influence of former Premier
Venizekw."
Followers of the former premier, as a
party, are officially requested by leaders
of the organization not to take part in
the plebiscite. They point out tho
plebiscite will be held in order to clear
the present cabinet and also Constantine
of responsibility, and to make the Greek
people responsible for whatever conse
quences the return of the former King
may have.
The newspaper Estia, official organ,
states the present Greek government has
received no unfavorable word from the
Allies regarding its actions, and that
the plebiscite has been planned in accord
with declarations made by former Pre
mier Bibot, of France, when Constantine
was dethroned-. He declared, the news
paper says, that dynastic questions should
be settled by the Greek parliament. It
is argued the plebiscite will be a step in
this direction. George Rhallis, the pre
mier, has visited ministers of foreign
countries to deny reports that officers as
sociations arc being reorganized for the
purpose of taking military measures a
gainst foreigners.
Returns from the vote cast by the army
in the election of November 14 show that
it will give the .followers of Constantine
a larger majority in the chamber. It is
reported that 50,000 ballots east by the
army were fraudulent.
ImjKirtant British und French sqund
rrous have arrived at Phaleron, from
Constantinople. So far, no foreign
ministers have left Athens.
Prince Christopher, brother of Con
stantine, has stated in interview that the
defeat of Venizelos was due to the fact
that because of his foreign policy Greeks
felt they were reduced to the position of
a colony. He declares it is false that
Constantine was a pro-German, and as
serts he was merely pro-Greek. k
"It would be folly, he said, "to be
pro-German today, with Germany so
low. Greece wants only to live in peace.
This is Constantino's program.
LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND, Nov. 29
Reports that "former King Constan
tine, of Greece, has already left for Ath
ens are officially denied here. He has
no intention of leaving Lucerne before
tho Greek plebiscite next Sunday.
COMPTROLLER HAS ISSUED
NO LOANS TO RYAN.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. Comp
troller of the Currency Williams an
nounced today that here were no loans
to Allan A. Ryan, of New York, or his
firm, held by banks under supervision of
the comptroller's office, which did not at
the present seem to be covered sufficient
ly by collateral .
The comptroller made his announce
ment after a conference with Mr. Ryan.
The comptroller's statement added that
so fas as he knew Mr. Ryan was in debt
to very few national banks.
CONFERS. WITH UNTERMYER.
NEW YORK, NovX 29. Allan A.
Ryan, financier, who "several months ago
aroused the financial world through his
alleged manipulations of a corner in
Stuts Motor stock, today announced that
he had conferred with Samuel Untermy
er, with a view to retaining the attorney
to take charge of the readjustment "of
his financial affairs. . -. - V :
Mr. Ryan said that MrUritermjer
had asked for time in which to consider
the pro position and that he would make
known bis decision later in the day.
' It is understood that aa informal con
ference of representatives .of -the banks
and trust companies representing .'the
largest creditors of Mr. Syaa win take
place today; bat no further statement
dealing with, his assets aad liabilitica la
likely to.be issued at thia time.
MANY TEXTILE MILLS
AGAIN IN OPERATION
Armstrong Chain and Loray
Resumed Operations This
Morning After Standing for
Two Weeks Other Mills
Are Running on Short
Schedules - No Apparent
Improvement, However, in
Yarn Market. ,
Again the merry music of the whirring
spindles is heard in the land and thou
sands of operatives are again responding
to the whistle .that calls them to the
spindle and the loom.' It is not to be
understood that there has been any de
cided change at all in the conditions
affecting the textile manufacturing busi
ness, for such, it is stated, is not the
case. Orders for yarns are still scarce.
In fact there is as yet practically no
demand for yarns. The mills, however,
the majority of them at least, are en
deavoring to run on short schedules.
After standing idle for two weeks the
Armstrong chain of mills, a dozen or
more in all, started this morning. Some
of them are running full time this week,
while others are running only part time.
The Loray, Gastonia's largest mill,
after standing for two weeks, began op
erations this morning, running sixty per
cent of its 90,000 spindles thirty hours
a week.
The Gray-Separk chain of mills are
continuing to operate on a schedule of
two und three days per week, working on'
orders.
It has been impossible for The Gazette
today- to get in touch with all of the
30-odd Gaatonia mills, but it is under
stood that with possibly one or two ex
ceptions all of the mills are running this
week at least on part time.
So far as can be ascertained there is
practically uo change in the yarn market
and miU men generally, to use a slang
expression, say that Vthey cannot see
any daylight ahead."- There seems to
be a general, though vague, idea, perhaps
fostered largely by hope, that the first
of the year may show, some decided tarn
for the better in the textile business.
This is the hope of, all. '.
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FAMOUS FRENCH SPECIALIST
IS DEAD AFTER HAVING
UNDERGONE 24 OPERATIONS.
PARIS, Nov. 28. Dr. Charles
Infroit, famous X-ray specialist, -is dead,
according to announcement.
One of Dr. Infroit's hands became
infected in 1898 as a rseult of his con
stant use of the X-ray, and an opera
tion was performed . Since that time he
has undergone 24 operations, 23 of which
were performed in the last ten years.
The last was on August 1, when his
right arm and left wrist were amputat
ed. His announce ment in 1915 in the
academy of medicine of Paris that he
had extracted a shrupnol bullet from the
heart of a soldier was read with interest
throughout the world.
LONDON POLICEMEN SURPRISE '
MEN SETTING FIRE TO
LARGE LUMBER YARDS
(By The Associated Press.!
LONDON. Nov. 29. Half a dozen
men who were preparing to set fire to a
large lumber yard in the district of Fins
bury, an important section of the city of
London, less than a mile north of London
bridge, were surprised by a policeman
baturdny night. This attempt was i
almost coincident witL the breaking out J
of incendiary fires in Liverpool. I
The policeman challenged a loiterer,
who immediately attacked the officer and
shouted for help. Five men, with revolv
ers, answered his call, emerging from be
hind some empty wagons and rushing the
policeman, who was compelled to liberate
the man he had seen. All the men
escaped. Searching behind the wagons,
the policeman found cotton waste, soaked
with gasoline, had been pushed through
a gateway of a lumber yard, and also
discovered two revolvers and 100 car
tridges. One of the' supposed incen
diaries was later arrested. ";
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Russian Nobles Qeaning Streets
. This photograph, one of the few
members of tbs cane's court at work
mandeered by tba soviet gorernment.and many ef them are forced to menial
NEGRO WOMAN KILLED
BY NEGRO IAN SUNDAY
Clara Johnson Shot By Leon
ard Lewis Sunday Afternoon
at .Turner Construction
Camp Lewis Is Captured
and Lodged In Jail.
Clara Johnson, a middle-aged negress,
was shot Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'
clock by Ieonard Lewis, her companion,
the wound cnusins her death As she was
being brought to a local hospital. The
killing occurred at the Turner Construc
tion camp west of the city. Eye-witnesses
of the crime telephoned the police
and Chief Orr and Policeman Aderholdt
responded. Near the water tank. on the
Southern tracks above the Trenton Mill,
they spied two negroes walking rapidly
toward town. When they saw the offi
cers, one of them ran, and before he was
halted was winged in the leg by a fchot
from the officers' guns. He was imme
diately lodged in the Gaston county jail .
The other negro, Joe Jackson, was in
the house at the time of the murder . He
states that they were sitting down to eat
supper, and that some words arose be
tween the Lewis negro and the Johnston
woman. She jumped up and ran out of
the house, the man shooting at her. He
chased her around the shanty a time or
two, firing three times. Aa she entered
the door to take refuge in the house, he
fired a ourth time, the bullet passing
through her body and on through the
walls of the shanty. Negroes in the vi
cinity hailed a passing jitney and the
woman was plated in the automobile.
She died before reaching the .hospital .
The Lewis negro is held without bond
and the Jackson negro is being held as a
material witness.
THREE LATIN-AMERICAN
MINISTERS ARRIVE IN tJ. S.
WASHINGTON, Nov.' ' 29. Tlrree
American ministers,' who recently arrived
in the United States to assume their du
ties, "were received' today by .President
Wilson. The three diplomats, Emilio
Joubert, minister from" San Domingo ;:
Dr. Julio Biauchi, minister from Guate-'
mala, and Dr. Octavio Berehe, minister
from Costa Rica, were acebmpanied to
the white house by' Under Secretary Da
vis, of the state department.
BELIEVE AMERICAN GUNMEN
ARE IN IRELAND
LONDON, Nov. 29. American "gun
men" are said to have made their ap
pearance in Londonderry, Ireland, ac
cording to advices received here today.
The presence of these mercenaries in
Dublin and other Irish cities have pre
viously been reported. The military,
authorities of Londonderry are taking all
precautions in the event of attempted as
sassinations. PROMINENT ITALIAN DIES.
ROME, Nov. 29. Pierro Bertolini,
Italian member of the allied reparations
commission, died late yesterday on board
a train on which ho. was coining to this
city from Paris.
8i:.rnor Bertolini took a prominent part
in the work of restoring peaceful rela
tions with Austria, and was one of the
leading Italian statesmen participating
in the study of the Adriatic problem,
which was recently settled by the treaty
of Kapallo.
BUILDING OPERATIONS
IN GEORGIA BLOCKED.
MACON, OA., Nov. 27. Building
operations in Georgia are almost at a
standstill because would-be builders are
unwilling to pay bricklayers the price
they demand, according to the Georgia
Brick Manufacturers' Association
which held a meeting here yesterday af
ternoon .
SPARTANBURG, S. C, Nov. 29.
Three stores were burglarized in this city
last night, and in one an unsuccessful
attempt was made to blow open the safe.
The value of the loot taken by the rob
bers was small. There have been no ar
rests. Wv M?Ar
i
reaching this country Dlcturtna conditions
cleaning! tn streets. Former crand dukes.
SPECULATION WAS CAUSE OF
UNUSUAL 1919 COTTON PRICES
SAYS EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT
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OPPOSE PLAN DIVORCING
MEAT PACKER . FROM THEIR
STOCKYARD PROPERTIES
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. Opposi
tion to any plan for divorcing the big
five meat packers from their stockyard
properties by court deeee, aa tending to
intefere with enactment of controlling
legislation, was expressed in a joint state
ment issued here today by, Charles A.
Lyman, secretary of the national board
of farm organizations; Mrs. Florence
Kelley, secretary of the national consum
ers league; and Mrs. Maud Wood Pak,
president of the National League of
Women Voters.
Tho statement, also signed by repre
sentatives of the Farmers' National
Council, and the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, declared the modified
plan for divorcement of their stockyard
Interests submitted to the District of Co
lumbia supreme court by the Armour and
Swift companies would, if carried out,
only "complicate the situation" anj
make more difficult the enactment of con
trolling legislation. Control of the meat
packing industry must be "exercised as
a whole," the statement said, adding that
congress "can and should" - promptly
enact legislation to that end when it con
venes, next week.'
NICKY ARNSTEIN PLACED
ON TRIAL IN WASHINGTON
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29Jules W.
(Nicky) Arnstein and three others were
placed on trial today in the District of
Columbia supreme, court on indictments
charging the bringing of stolen securities
into the District of Columbia from New
York. The co-defendants with Arnstein
are David W. Sullivan, W. W. Easterday
and II. S. Bowles. Arnstein is under in
diet in cat in New York on charges grow.
ing out. of the operation there of an al
lcgoil band of, thieves.
When the court convened Arnstein wa
not present, but his counsel said he was.
on his way here, and Justice Gould or
dered the impaneling of the jury to pro
ceed and Arnsttin appeared within an
hour, before half of the jurors had been
selected-
In questioning the talesmen, Attorney
T. Morris Wanipler, of counsel for the
defense, laid stress upon whether they
were stockholder in any one of several
Washington banks in which sonio of the
alleged stolen securities were hypothe
cated.
I. C. C. SUSPENDS
L. & N. SCHEDULE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. The inter
state commerce commission today bus.
ponded until next March 28, schedules of
'he lxuisville & Nashville railroad pro
viding for a uniform increase of 20 cents
per ton on coal in carload lots from
points on the Cumberland railroad to
points on the L. it N. in Alabama, Geor
gia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North
Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia
and connecting lines in Kentucky and
Tenenssee.
BELL GIVEN. FREEDOM
OF SCOTCH CITY.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, Nov.
29. The freedom of the city was con
f erred today upon Alexander Graham
Bell, inventor of the telephone, who is a
native of Edinburgh,. -
of Petrograd
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CAIRO, EGYPT, Nov. 29. Extrava
gant simulation following the armistice
was responsible for the advance in cot
ton price, in 1919, which carried the
product, if a point 300 per cent higher
than normal, says a statement regarding
the crisis industry', issued by the Egypt
ian government. The preseat world-wide
check in expenditures, it says, has ar
rested speculation and compelled .the
owners of eotton to enter the market.
"The United States," it entiauea,
"which last year bought one-third of
the Egyptian crop, is now taking only a
very insignificant quantity. This is ex
ercising a very depressing effect apea
prices. Emphasis should be laid oa the .
fact that the eausee of the fall in quota
tions are economic and world-wide, and,
therefore, outside the sphere of infloone
of the producing country. Present pri
ces still leave a substantial profit for the
caltivator who works his own lead, bat
anybody renting land on the basis of last
year's prices will be faced by a, great
loss. If insolvency follows on a consid
erable scale, it will affect most injuri
asly the country, as well as tho tran
quility of the agricultural population'
YOUNG SHEPARD CLAIMS
TO HAVE BEEN POISONED .
(By The Associated Press;) U:'
MACON, Ga., Not. 29.-Offleisl , .
the solicitor general V office, while-this Tp
morning admitting that they are inves- ,
tigating charges that Frederick Cranial!
was poisoned -by drinking whiskey found
in the automobile in which Fred D. Saepr
ard was brought to the local hospital r
where be died last June, decline to dis-
cuss this or any other phase of the ease f
for the present. . -t
"Young Crandall, who is a nephew -
of the bite Fred D. 8hepard, claimed in t r
a statement published here that ho fait '
"peculiar" soon after drinking whiskey
from a bottle in the automobile in which ' ' -Shepard
was brought to a hospital here
and that he was ill five days thereafter. -He
added that he did not know "where -
the liquro came from or who put it into - "
the car.' " .
Solictior General Garrett said he did
not care to discuss the statement, k. ' '
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NO FURTHER ARRESTS.
MACON, GA., Nov. 29. No further
arrests had been made early today in con
nection with the unsolved death of Fred.
D. Shepard, wealthy Georgia peach .
grower. Mth . F. E. Elmer, wife of n
Jacksonville physician, and a former" wife
of the late "Peach King", Mrs. lone
Henry, a sister of Mrs. Elmer, aad
Ernest Uopson, Mrs. Elmer's son by a
former niarriago, were under arrest, the
former being in jail here and the latter
two under detention at Perry. ,
Attorney Charles M. Durranec,' of .1
Jacksonville, counsel for Mrs. Elmer,
at a conference yesterday with Solicitor
General Charles K. Garrett, explained, it
was announced by the solicitor,' "some
of he features pertaining to th prop
erty interests ' ' involved in the ease '
gave other information which is expect
ed to have some bearing in ascertaining
the truth in the case.
The truth "is all we are trying to- '
get," Mr. Garrett stated. "The state
is not trying to persecute any one." -
Developments today were, expected to
bring out the fixing of a date for pre
liminary hearing of the defendants. , At
a late hour last night no attempt had
been made to obtain bail for then.
TO DEMAND' BACK TAXES?"
MACON. GA!' NoV j 'A-
for $176,000 back taxes on the estato of
the lat, Alfred Sheoard! father f tw'
late Fred D. Shepard, will be mado by -tax
officials of the atatA
the estate either late this afternoon or 5
tomorrow
The amount demandml Mnnwrnh n. ,' .
paid taxes aa the Alfred Kwt . ' '
tate fqr Jh past 23 years, it will be act
out in the demand made.
WILSON-WILL DEVOTE
HIS TIME TO WRITING
(By The Associated Preaa.) ' '
WASHINGTON. Nov. s. w AL
though it has been generally understood
mat "resident Wilson, after ho leaves
the white house on March 4 will devote
his time to writing, this fact became
Known today with a decree of finalrtv.
It also became known that Mr. Wilson
will make his home in Washington, hot
thus far he has not obtained a veeideace.
J oaeph P. Tumulty, the Droidnt V
secretary also plans to remain in Wuk
ington after March 4, and ke intends to
write some . books about the president,
with whom he haa btvn
, . - t - nva I
past ten years. Mr. Tumulty tas I tea
offered a place on the customs court ef
appeals, but he has reached no '."
as .to accepting tbe a;; . - i.
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