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Oastonia Daily Gazette ... WEATHER. North Cirolin, cloudy and yanner tonight ; Saturday unf ttlnd with probably light .rain. LOCAL COTTON. IS Cents Today MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. XLII. NO. 6. GASTON I A, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 7, 1921. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAD SPLENDID YEAR Reports of Executive Secreta ry, Treasurer and Other Of- ficers Yesterday Show Lo cal Commercial Organization in Flourishing Condition. Approving the annual report of the executive secretary and other final re Mrts, adopting suitable resolutions upon the death of Col. C. B. Armstrong sub mitted by a committee composed of Rev. J. II. Henderlite, 1). D., Joe 8. Wray amd W. T. Rankin and receiving an ex cellent report from the committee com posed of . N. Boyce, Geo. B. Mason and .Miles A. Carpenter regarding tho pro posed assistant county agent work, the J 920 board of directors of tho Gastonia Chamber of Commr'ece wound up its af fairs Thursday afternoon and turned the administration over to the new board. The retiring administration was com posed of r'rt'd L. Smyre, president; A. G. Myers, first viie president; IS. A. Rob inson, second vice- president; H. X. .Boyce, treasurer; I', C. Armstrong, Wade 4S. Buice, R. Hope Rrison, (,'. U. Gray, Jno. li. Rankin, A. K. Woltz and J. U. White, directors. Through tne excellent interest taken liy rre.si.lent Sinyrc tun treasurer s re jport showed that not a single member of ilio (-number of commerce is in arrears. This was considered a remarkable show ing by tlio.se present and one few similar organizations can show at the close of I heir fiscal year. The annual report of tne secretary allows one of the most active years in tho liis Cory of the organization. Tho secre tary has had the close co operation of the officials at every turn, as well as tho membership and while, for brevity's take, much of the year's work was omit ted, tho report is ex en then somew hat .lengthy. It will be received by tho mem bership in the next few days. A splendid tribute is paid the memory of Colonel Armstrong in tho resolutions adopted. He was a charter member, a member for years of the board of direc tors, a vice president and a president of the Chamber of Commerce and always took a close interest in its affairs. Mr. Boyce 's report was one of special interest. He stated that his committee liad gone thoroughly into the matter, had conferred with County Agent C. Lee Iowan and had decided that the placing of on assistant agent here to take charge of the agricultural clubs as proposed by the extension service is a very important matter for Gaston county. The commit tee then took up the matter of financing the amount needed to meet the state aid offered and secured an appropriation from the county board of education. The matter was then placed before the Ki wanis Club und us a result, he stated, the Kiwanis Club will undertake to finance the balance needed and to take over the work for tho year as its especial project. The extension service is only offering this service to five counties. The chamber of commerce has thus completed its work in connection with the matter amd it is now in the hands of the Kiwanis Club. Upon motion of Mr. 8. A. Robin son the report was adopted and a vote of thanks was tendered the Kiwanis Club for showing such interest in the matter and definitely assuming the project. Many other matters of a more routine nature were acted upon nt the meeting. SEEK EARLY ACTION ON TARIFF BILL Senate Supporters of House Emergency Bill Anxious to Push Hearings. (By The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan.. 7. Plans of senate supporters of the house emergen cy tariff bill to prss for early action were manifest again today, when the senate finance committee resumed hear ings on the farmers' relief program. Senator Smoot, republican, I'tah, ask d George I). Briggs, representing the National Sheep and Wool Bureau, to confine his testimony to subjects not al ready covered. Later Acting Chairman McCumber interrupted argument with the witness to insist that the hearings be not delayed by committee members. With interest in the fate of the Ford ney emergency tariff bill increased by the formal announcement of Senator Penrose, chairman, that he would use his influence to secure its passage in the sen ate, the senate finance committee today continued its iiearings on the measure. At the same time the house ways and means committee was prepared for the second session of its hearings on re vision of the permanent tariff laws with additional witnesses called to discuss the first schedule dealing with paints, oils, and other chemical products. Representatives of the wool interests apepared lieforo tho senate committee yesterday to urge protection for their industry against foreign competition, which they declared was threatening its extermination. Wien dosed a new kit.Venetto forms a cabinet attractive enofc to 1 el,i iurnish dining room. FRED M. ALLEN BEGINS FIFTH YEAR HERE RE-elected Executive Secretary at First Meeting New Board of Directors of Gastonia Chamber of Commerce. Electing Fred M. Allen executive sec retary for the year, his fifth term, de ciding to be represented at the Southern Tariff Congress in Atlanta the latter part of the month because of its impor tant bearing on southern industries, and transacting much other business tho new board of directors of the Gastonia Cham ber of Commerce took over the affairs of the organization from tho retiring board Thursday afternoon. In the absence from the city of President A. G. Myers, First Vice President W. A. Robinson oc cupied the chair. Other members present were Vice President J. O. White. Treas urer 8. N. Boyce. Directors W. E. TInynex, K. O. Mcl.nrd, ('has. Ford, A. J. Kirby and G. Rush (Spencer. It was decided to appoint n committee of three to co-operate with similar com mittees frcnii other organizations regard ing the work being undertaken by Com munity (Service, Inc., in Gastonia. The preparation of a budget was left to the steering cnmmittc" as was also the matter of remodelling the new quarters. Ttie new board was in session nearly an lniur and took hold of things with an evident determination to make 1121 the best year yet for Gastonia. SCIENCE AIDED IN LOCATING BALLOONISTS Meterologists' Knowledge of Air Currents Enabled Them to Follow Flight of B? 11 Don. TOUONTO, Out., Jan. 7. -The flight of the American naval balloon from Rockuwny, N. Y., to .lames Bay illus trates the remarkable accuracy with which meterologists can follow- the course of air currents, said 8ir Frederick 8tu part, director of the government observa tory here, today. He called attention to the fact that on December 2.1, he forwarded a chart to Ottawa which showed that if the then missing balloon was traveling nt a height of 1,000 fext, its line of flight would cross James bay slightly east of Moose Fastory at 8 a. m. on December 14. This forecast of direction proved accurate to within a few miles. The discrepancy between tho time esti mated by Sir Frederick and the actual hour of landing is accounted for by him by the fact that apparently the balloon did not travel at tho hypothetical height of 1,500 feet. Tho velocity of air cur rents differs very greatly at varying alti tudes, ho explained. Sir Frederick said the meteorological bureau had received letters from Niagara Falls and other towns hundreds of miles wWftvard, reporting that the balloon had been sighted. ANTI-JAP FEELING TENSE IN TEXAS TOWN New Arrivals From Japan Warned Not to Settle on Land They Had Purchased. (By The Associated Press.) II RUNG EN, Tex., Jan. 7. Pending the arrival of a real estate dealer from California, w ho is said to have sold farms to Japanese in various sections of the Rb Grande valley, no efforts will he male here by the citizens committee to compel the two Japanese families to leave, Ilarlingen. The Japanese, im-udling four children, nrived here Wednesday from California and were met at the train by a committee of citizens and informed that their pres ence in the valley was undesirable. The real estate agent will be asked to refund the Japanese the amount paid for two farms. BROWNSVILLK, Tex., Jan. 7 De velopments were awaited in the situation created yesterday by the arrival at Ilar lingen, Tex., yesterday of tho Japanese families bringing agricultural imple ments and who proposed to settle on a acre tract of land near Ilarlingen. Anti-Japanese feeling at Ilarlingen was described as intense. The Japanese have hecn warned by a committee of citi zens and American Legion posts that it would be dangerous for them ro settle on the land. Tho Japanese are at the Ilarlingen hotel awaiting advices from S. Kishi, who, they declare, sold them the land for the account of Z. Yamatao, of Los Angeles. A committee of citizens are meeting all trains looking, members said, for Kishi and other Japanese. The Japanese, T. Okuma and O. 6kuma, brothers, said that they pail $273 an acre for the land they niteu b-d to ocupy, and had no intimation that there was anti-Japanese feeling in the Rio Grande valley. Thev sai l that the plot of 282 acres had been divide info 40 acre tracts for settlement. American Legionaries in other valley towris are keeping in touch with tfec sit uation by telephone, it is said. i t -l.ifut.-'ol. Culver of the V. 8. Army Air Service upon whom the 1'ni versitv of the State of Nebraska has con ferred the honorary degree of Kloctrical Engineer in recognition of his work in the past six years in the development of v.. -ice c ommnnded Hying and the nppli en! ion of the radio telegraph and tele phone t- aeronautics. ftSJEVERK LITERALLY DRY So Says Prohibition Commis sioner Kramer Sentiment. However, is Growing Stron ger For It. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.- The Fjiitcd States will never be literally dry, Pro hibition Commissioner Kramer declared t i lay, t'aoih h" : ressed the opinion prohibition is hire to stay. Sentiment t lir.iiighou' the country, bo said, is con tinually growing stronger for prohibition and practical prohibition will come after the present generation, which is familiar with liquor, is gone, he continued, though there probably always will be some few individuals who will make intoxicants in their homes. The sons and daughters of tho men of today, he asserted, will grow up without a taste for liquor. Tho commissioner declared that de spite evidences of law breaking in some sections, the country as a whole is behind the amendment to the constitution. New York and the east, he asserted, cannot be considered as reflecting the' attitude of the country at large and in general west of Pittsburgh the country is dry. Difficulties experienced with prohibi tion agents were to be expected, he de clared, but as a body they were doing thir duty. Most of the enforcement agents, Mr. Kramer described as men who could "take a drink in order to carry hut their orders,"' but his best agent, he said, was a Methodist minister. TOBACCO GROWERS FACE GRAVE PROBLEM Meeting of Burley Producers at Louisville Considers Prop osition of Planting no Crop This Year Prices Ruinous. (liy The Associated Press.) I.K.X1NGTO.V, K.V.. Jan. 7. Tobacco growers, bankers and warehou men vm re meet i ng t a v ;u an effort tn lind a sola- the situation in central Kentucky I l.v failure of t ..bareo bay rs to offer pri for the sa! ,sa. tory i op. tir. to t; growers ! at In lias ting was set d'clai k t ii is morning, w i of bankers and wan-Inn th. for tuis nfiiTuoon. Di legates from every county in the barley toil, 1. -co bell, which is composed of central Kentucky and portions of south ern Indiana and Ohio, wero expected to attend the meeting of growers. The call for the meetings stated that a proposi tion to agree not to plant tobacco in 1921 would be voted upon and that ef forts would be made to work out a satis factory plan for selling the crop at satis factory prices. Sales opened this week were discon tinued when prices offered ranged only from .fl to $.'i0 a hundred pounds, as compared with prices three times as high a year ago. Prior to the meeting of growers it was stated that an effort would be made to adjourn tho session until night. This was prompted by the fact that the bank ers and warehousemen would not meet until the afternoon and no arrangements for financing any movement by the grow ers could be made until it was seen what financial arrangements could bo made. Kfforts to get the burley tobacco grow- I ers association to endorse the meeting of I growers failed last night when the board ! of directors adopted a resolution saying I that the association would back any ' agreement reached between growers and bankers and warelionsemen. Cbarlei I .nn.l, president of the Fayette ! countv farmers' union, was chosen tem porary chairman of the growers meeting I v the committed which issued the call. A new ki'. hen :r.k faucet is equipped :!. a bubbling fountain type of drhik oi attachment. f 1 V " " 1 t : 1 w J1 WOMEN ASK SOLONS FOR CENSORSHIP OF MOVING PICTURES Representatives of State Feder ation of Women's Club Be seige Legislators Also In terested in Primary Bill. (By Max I). Abernethy.) RALEIGH, Jan. 7. House membew, following a thirty minute session Friday morning, were besieged by representa tives of the State Federation of Wom en's Clubs of tho state who are in Ra leigh in the interest of the proposed bill for statewide censorship of all moving pictures. In tire Raleigh delegation of women, Miss Gertrude Weill, of Go.dsboro, and Mrs. C. C. Hook, of Charlotte, president of the state federation, are here asking support of the proposed measure. When the house adjourned at 10:30 o '(dock Friday morning the censorship bill had not been introduced, but it is un.iorsioon uuii u is mm ix-m win no and will come up for consideration along J with the general "run of new bills either i Saturday or Monday. j The women n d.-wti to Raleigh pri . marily in the interest, of tho bill for the ceiisorshio el' moving postures. They are equally interested in the proposed light to wipe the stfivuido primary luff from j the s'alute bo..ks. And while here they j are doing s one effective work among the legislator to prevent, tho destruction of j the law as it now stands. Pear that iem Wright's salary bill -for increase of all constitutional officers' introduced in the house at tho opening ; session would go by default was ex- ! pressed by house members Friday when adjournment was taken without a report j on tho measure from the committee on salaries and fees. JUDICIAL SYSTEM (By Max Abernethy. ) RALEIGH, Jan. 7. The introduction of a bill in the house at the opening ses sion of the legislature by Representative Crisp, of Dare, and which will Aborted upon soon, would make the "riding' of a superior court judge trom .luiy l June 30 instead of to December Ml to Ull der the present law. If the bill passes muster without change the State will be divided into five divisions of four districts each instead of the two districts and a judge will not ride the same district, under the pro visions of the constitution, "oftener than once in four years . ' ' Chief Justice Walter Clark, of Hie North Carolina supreme court, favors the changes suggested in the Crisp bill. "We now have the most anomalous hvs tern in the world by which a judge nom hinted by one district rides the other lis tricts without their people baing any part in bis selection," the chief justice writes of the system. "This was to prevent the election of a Republican judge by any district . By the four ills triet plan the iiomina'ion and eVc'ion could be made by the four districts over which the judges rale and they would be . . , . o .- . I I.I 1 . hi arrange. 1 inai an oi u.em no.oo i ''' MakCtb. . "in. that 1 h e " na , oi ' ' ' s stem is in t nowhere else except ill South Carolina and in this State, Chief J ust i. e ( 'la rk says : "It would be a decided improM men' n the administration of .justice" if tit change as suggest"! in the led is made Cndcr the four district system cer judge would be home eery Siin.h y and would lover be very far away. The strain would be much less on bun and the State treasury would save largely in his traveling expenses. The modification of dividing the State into tun divisions has worked well, and the further restric tion of rotation by having five divisions is much to be desired . Following the announcement from Representative Woltz. of Gaston, that he would lead the fight for retention of the I present Statewide primary law in tin lower house there has been a decided drop in "repeal the primary" stock. I In repealists will have the hardest fight of their lives to get a bare majority of votes in the House while the Senate will defeat any bill seeking to wipe the stat ute from the books. When Lieutenant-Governor O Max Gardner reached Raleigh one day prior to the opening session he declared that it wa.s well nigh an impossibility to find a legislator who would really befriend the primary. Since that time, however, he has done some mighty effective work for the law himself and the announcement from' Representatives Woltz and I'barr that they would oppose repeal makes if certain that the aet is not going to be de st roved outright by the Neal Murphy Bowie wing of the General A-.-i inhiy. The most effective argument that friends of the primary are using is that its repeal will alienate the women voters in North Carolina. In the convention it is argued, the women will not be giv en an opportunity of expressing their wihes us to candidates with the s.'um degree of certainty as by popular vote. "An ar to promote the due adminis Wnr-.on of justiae and to letsTn the LORD MAYOR OF CORK HAS HIS FREEDOM Though He May be Finally De ported by Order of the State Department, O'Call a g h a n Will Probablv Have a Chan Will Probably Have a Chance to Testify Before Irish Committee. (By Tho Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. Regadless I of what final action is taken on the ad I inissibility to this country of Donal J . O 'Gallnghan, lord mayor of Cork, who arrived at Newport News Tuesday night as a stowaway without a passport, de velopments of the last 24 hours appear ed today to have removed all obstacles to the, achievements of the purpose foi which he came here. Action of Nccreta ry of Labor Wilson yesterday in paroll ing O 'Callagban on bis own recogniz ance was believed to have insured free opportunity for his appearance before j the committee of the ( 'ominission of One I Hundred investigating the Irit-h ipiestion j.H,ir(, j the date of the iiov" meeting . With O 'Callagban 's case not ing been formally referred to department by tin' dep.'n tin. n! VI -I hav tic sta'r . f labor the fad that the former d, it'll nt. Davi indicn,t I bv A.ii So larv V. ;,s li, .t d isposi I i.. .... rest lit 1 ions hi the lord n.a-.or' no bearing to.a on his .slati ing that the lord maor's ,,(o- bad Peclar role left nothing to prevent his coining to Wash ington 1o testify before the coinini.s.sioii even though he should finally be deport id. Secretary Daws said the labor see retary's parole order had been isMied without consultation with the state de partment . Although Secretary Wilson early to day bad taken on formal action on ()' Callagban 's appeal from the decision of the board of impiiry at Newport News excluding him from this country, it was understood that, on account of the fric tion which was said to have developed between the state and labor departments over the admissability of aliens without passports, the labor secretary would sus tain the appeal without referring tin case to the Mate department. Such ref erence, however, it was pointed out would be the usual custom of the do part incut of labor in such cases. REP. JULIUS KAHN CONFERS WITH HARDING MARION, O., Jan. 7. Representative Julius Kahn, of California, chairman of the house military committee, camo to Marion today at the invitation of Presi dentelect Harding, to discuss the ques tion of army reorganisation and general prepa redness. The conference was one of a series to be held by Mr. Harding with those who j are in charge of military and naval legis I latioii with a iew to reducing appropri j atoms for the two establishments, devcl- oiing a reserve personnel for both army I and navy and agreeing on a definite pol ! icy to bo pursued uutil a possible plan of disarmament is worked out by an I a -s i. i.it ion of nations. Later the prosi- . ,.' w id confer with Chairman ! I-,.' ,; -.!' t.ie 'louse n;i:il ci mill it tee. Q3 TRIED TO LYNCH NEGRO ' I'v The Associated Bless) ,1 I . I ' I ' KliJM )N V I LLC, In. I., Jan. .loins, in-gro, alleged assailant '. U lot. woman, was taken from tne t lark I 'y .jail ear.y t"day to the Indiana ; reformatory, a few blocks distant, I safekeeping after a limb of several j i 1 'r i I jail lie, I persons had gathered around tne eailier in I lie night with the avowed I intent ion of lynching him. j Members of the mob came from I'tica, I a nearby village, where the victim lived. I It apparently lacked a leader and easily ! was'.lisperse.l bv det'Utv sheriffs. A lit- ,,. latl,r j,,niSj w10 had slept through the demonstration, was taken in a police machine to the reformatory. Jones is charged with entering the woman's home early Wednesday evening. She declares she first was rolbed of about $40 and then dragged across the road to a secluded spot, where she was subjected to indignities. The city was quiet today. A species of orchid in Porto Rico seems to prefer to grow upon telegraph and tel ephone wires. crime of lynehings" is the title of a bill introduced by Senator Taylor, of Wayne. The bill provides that whenever an in dictmcnt charges the commission of a capital felony the judge si. all have tin lower to remove the in lic'ue nt for trio' to some adjacent county ; rior to the ar raignment of the defendant without tin presence in the court of the prisoner. Coming from the senator from Wuync county, where an unsuccessful attempt was recently and to lynch three ne grow, the bill alrapay has a rtrong ar gument for ita paotsfe. ' It is predicted j that t will Ix a;cv?d w if h.e t sericm , opposition .. NAVAL BALLOONISTS STILL LOST IN WILDS Scouting Parties Covering All Trails in Hope of Finding Them Bunch of Reporters .... Ready to Greet Them. (By Tho Associated Prees.) OOCHHANK, ONT . , Jan. 7. Scout ing parties, composed of veteran trap pers, Indians and ncwspaix'r corres pondents, today were pushing nong va rious circuitous trails northward in the hope of intercepting the three United States naval balloonists who are treking back to civilization from Moose Facto ry, where they landed Dec. 14 after ft hazardous flight from Kockaway, N. Y. Pack of actual knowledge of the aero nauts progress and impatience to hear first hand the narrative of their thrilling drift through stormy clouds and of their heroic battle agaiie-t cold and starvation after landing, led the scouting wpiads to follow up their scleral speculations re go In ding the route chosen by the office inn guides It was guierally agreed here t( l.-iv that. barring unforeseen trou- Lie. the b: night at i ram-. I 'ost mas was in mi etderd-iy h . 1 1 . 1 arrive by to . Ma'.t ice or (Vhtb ;.. lib ling, at Clute, of e.e, -alley all and las! night, that o:i there early thif lent of meeting the ther Clu! W. A a slat I'll riioon ml 1 r. confi ,i I a : morning, fu southbound I a li y w i l hunt going far afield. The t'.-l I ' 1 1 : . last, night lb, that. Clute wa of the Indian The special i f Me ! .a IIoihi i.s' s to arrive I not shake his confideftrr i chosen as the b sl iniktion guides . Pullman car for newspa per correspondents, however, was kept here, with steam up, ready 1o rush to any point reporting the aeronaut's ar rival. Many men here acquainted with the north country still cling to tho be lief that either the Massnnibi or Abitibi river trails were chosen. The former would bring the party out at Mattice and the. latter terminates here. NORTH CAROLINA GETS TWO MORE CONGRESSMEN WASHINGTON, Jan. Closing iU open hearings, the house census commit tee went into executive session today to draft a reapportionment bill based on the last census. The basis for representation was fixed at one member for every 21 S,!79 inhab itants. I'nder this bill the states would gain as follows: Alabama 1, Arkansas 1, California 5, Connecticut 1, Georgia 1, Illinois 3, Maryland 1, Massachusetts 2, Michigan 4, Minnesota 1, New Jersey 2, New Mex ico 1, New York 4, North Carolina 2, Ohio 4, Oklahoma I, Oregon I, Pennsyl vania I, South Carolina 1, Tenncsaite 1, Texas :i, Virginia 1, Washington I, West Virginia 1, and Wisconsin 1. No states would lose any representa tion. Under tho committee's bill the statca would have representation as follows: Alabama 11, Arizona I, Arkansas 8, California Hi, Colorado 4, Connecticut 6, Delaware 1, Florida 4, Georgia l.'l, Idaho -. I Ib.i ns :;o. tn.li.-iii.-. I::, Iowa 11, Kan-i-as s Kintii.ky 11, Louisiana , Maine !. Maryland 7. Massachusetts Is, Michi gan 17, M niosita 11, Mississippi 8, M lb. M ei-ana 'J, Nebraska f, No-N'-.v llatnpsiiiie 'J., New Jersey M-v.e-, N.-w V .rk 47, North i M. . lina 1:', North Dakota :i. Ohio 2. ''" tea :. lre-n.il 4. 1 'en n sy 1 a n ia 40 b- I -'a I'd Soiitb Carolina K. Soiit'" l:n:i -,. i'Ii l)-ikofa '!. Tennessefc I'. n.is Jl, I'tah 1'. Verm out 2, V'ir i II. Wa-!i:ng!on fi. West Virginia 7, oiis. u 1 ', Wyoming 1. 1 i The bi'l provides that in ease of any increase in the number of representative in any state such additional representa tives shall be elected at large until th state legislatures pass redist ricting lawSL INVESTIGATING EXPRESS RATES IN GEORGIA (By Tha Associated Pres ' WASHINGTON", Jan. 7 The inter state commerce commission today txtgan an investigation into the state express rates in Georgia, ordering a bearing held before Examiner Keene on February 9th at Atlanta, Ga. The commission says that by an order of November 2.1, the Georgia state com mission refused to allow the American Railway Express Company to increase state rates 12. per cent to m(Ht the raise recently granted in interstate com merce. The railroads have protested to the commission that such action worked a a discrimination against competitive interstate traffic. SIX BURNED TO DEATH. ENGLAND. Ark. Jan. 7. Six per sons were burned to death and two prob ably fatal'y burned in a fire which de stroyed the Royal Hotel and Cafe hen eailv tcslav. Thoroughly clean ivtiry ran be bril liantly pob'ihied with powdered magnesia.
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