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TONIA DAILY GAZETTE OAS "- GASTOK COUNTY . 'Gaston county leads the . Sooth in number of produc- , iaf spindles 1,066,000. GASTONIA Gutonia the comked yarn manufacturing center of the South. VOL. XLH. NO. 50. GASTONIA, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 28, 1921 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS LIEUT. B. W. MAYNARD HEARD BY TWO BIG HIEHCESJESTERDAY Flying Parson Delivers Inter esting Sermon to Large Au dience at First Baptist Church Makes Good Im pression. Lieut. Belvin W. MH.vnnrd, known throughout the United .Stairs as the "Fying Parson, ' was heard hy two large audiences in the city Sunday. At 10 o'clock ho addressed the convent ion Bible claw of the First IJaptist church. ; At the 11 o'clock service he tilled the pulpit of the church. A record crowd; had gathered to hear him. """The nationally known aviator is a pleasing and entertaining Hpeakor. While he has had many alluring offers to take l up commercial flying he is eugageil in ' religious work in Brooklyn. His la!k Hunday morning was on " I'ihht. " The theme of his sermon was that all power id fit Divine origin. Nothing that is' man. made is infallible, he said. Through out his discourse he used illustrations . from his famous coast to coast, flight. He told of his experiences and sensa tiuns while riding 'thousands of feet in the air over the KocKics atop the clouds and the snow. On one onasion, he said, while flying through a snowstorm, they suddenly emerged to tiinl only a short distance in front of them a peak of the Hockies towering LVuiu tout higher than they were flying. Only the una derful power of the Liberty motor can abled to skim oxer the .top with a mar gin of loll feet . Lieut. Maynard told in an interes'ieg manner of his breakdown near Omaha on the coast-to-const flight. lie recounted' the details of the breaking- of the crank shaft in his motor, of their forced hud ing in a corn field, and of how they tin ally secured a motor from a fellow avi lltor who had been forced to the ground 1 1 miles away . Lieut. Maynard was born in Anson, county, the son of a country doctor. Karly in life the family moved to Samp eon county when- he grew up. He en tered Wake Forest College, but in I t 1 7 left college to enlist in the world war.j He soon became an experienced aviator! and tested planes for use at the front . j On his return to America he continued in the service for a lew mouths, winning the International race from New York to Toronto ami the coast to coast flight from New York to . an Francisco. While on his present .trip Ik' has been ' in much demand for .'peclics and a I dresses. t He as the guest tit lunch .x.'sierday of the Oastoniii Aero Club at the Arm ingtun Hotel. "BUY NOW" CAMA TO BE LAUNCHED BY GASTONIA MERCHANTS Under Auspices of Prosperity League and Chamber of Commerce "Buv N a w" Campaign to Be Inaugurated in Uastonia. 'Buy now and put the men back to work" and "Your purchase keeps America employed " aie two of the slogans which will be found throughout the country in a drive launched by the Prosperity League and to be pushed in Gastonia during the week beginning next Friday by the Department of Mercantile Af fairs of the Gastonia Chamber of Commerce. The matter has been gone into thoroughly and it is be lieved that the nation-wide move ment will have no small part in bringing about more prosperous conditions and more business for the industries of the country. The drive is planned along the line of those during the war and is designed to stress that, th? bottom having been reached in prices, noth ing can now bring back full employ ment and prosperous conditions more quickly than for the public to buy goods of all kinds as they are needed. j The promoters of the campaign are convinced that the active co operation of all forward looking commercial and civic bodies of the nation united in a common endeavor to instil optimism at this time quickly will dispel the clouds of de pression which hang over the entire country. They point to the efficacy ' of the poster in quickly delivering the tneisage of the war drives. As goods are sold from the shelves they must be replaced (torn new orders from the mills which in turn will mean increased operation of the mills. TY COBB EN ROU1K. 'By the Associated Press.) AUGUSTA, (,:., F.-h. L's. T.xr 1-1 I.'av mon.l Cobb, manager of the iMroit American League team, leaves In- In tim fere tonight for San Antonio. Tex., to begin the spring training N;ivm. He will reach ramp in advance of ail but ' the battery men. j LORD'S. PRAYER ENGRAVED ON HEAD OF STEEL PIN. NEWBERN, N. C, Feb. 28. J. 0. Loxvder has on display at hii shooting gallery in this city an or dinary steel pin on the head of which is engraved the Lord's prayer. The engraving is the work of C. H. Baker, of Spokane, Wash., and the job required three years to com plete, according to Mr. Loxvder. There are 65 words, 254 letters and 19 punctuations on the pin head, and each is so clearly formed that be neath the magnifying glass they stand out clearly and can be read with ease. LIQUOR MAKING ON THE INCREASE IN THE STATE So Say State and Federal offi cers and General Assembly Will Be Asked to Make Pro vision for Running Down Vi olators Legislature Begins Week With a Rush to Clean Up State. ( 14 y Max A In i ml by . ) l;.l.i:i(ill, Feb. L'V l'lifaxorable leport of the Cooke bill to coordinate the State's Inns and to make the 1 SI li amendment apply with the prohibition laws of North Carolina raises th1' (pies lion as whether thcie Mill he any law enacted before the rlii'r of Icgislaluic to check the liijuor vilolators. It is the opinion of the Ant i Saloon members that there is widespread in latiou of the prohibition laws in North Cni ohiia - possibly worse than al any tune holme .ami this opinion is Lacked up by the federal piohibitiim ii(;riil , in the state who have already persuaded the 'superintendent at Kicliiiuunl to urge the esla blishmeiit of a slate police loice to aid the federal oHheis in running down tin' bout levels. Ill his It tier to the state's eecutet who was at the lime doxeiiior Itickett, Superintendent S. li. : Hrauie sax.. : '"Without me. nunc; to illicit in any wax upon lli. .slate or local a nl luu it i.-s I am unstrained to offer lie opinion that the time is al hand when the stale of North arolino must decidedly Mniigth ! en its laws and initiate comprehensive I measures and establish a strong and di i rectly, opernling system, direelid to the 'one purpose of preventing the manufac ture and sale of intoxicating litpmr. '' And the federal aueut expressed the 'belief that the state could put a large lone of otliiers in the field without cost , lo the taxpayers. The slate V, record of captured siills fioni le..inl.cr I. I:M:, I 1 ' ' lei eluber I, I'.IJO, IS interesting. Total number of illicit distill rics seled and deslro.xed was d.lL'l, uf 1 1 1 i s .number l.'l'sj were in operation at the lillle. I rosecllt lolli instituted, l,.i7o and the taxes and piuallies ns-e..e. a , (;:iinO violators amounted lo 1 . 1 .", :, 1 s I . I This woik was done hv (lie lo federal prohibition agints in Ninth ( .a rolin.a . ' Duly one Wick of the to in ml As. i ni bl.x is scheduled and ll Is v. I V likely that ia law IhB- A nl i .Saloon Icgiurs of the state aie seeking will hi p.es,,. (' r lain lv it ca uni.t be .h,ue nil. ,s anot her ch.-i niplon is found III the legislative halls . The lifly million dollars good roads lull wilt ten Into the law, appropriations for el Ilia lien I III pi OV euicul s i n. lumen. I ed Lv tin- a pplopl I ; 1 1 ions .i.iiiii',: Ices for tin- state's educational and ehui liable in slitutiou- and the levnue bill passed hv tile low, r house the legislator li.'ili' made a lug hme in the woik that must be done , Inline; the week if the M sioll is to be held within I he hi i day limit . The education hills drafted by the .joint cmmittie and indorsed bv tie s'at, sup, i iit, ndeii! ha. start,. I through the legislative I 1 1 1 1 ale! will dollb'less pass w it !,i. ut a ii - 1 1 ..nl, I, . All of 1 he hills :,e now heme; printed fo the ben lii ol tin numbers and will not be call ed up lor passage until toiimriow or "i d n es. la Amendments can be offer ed and for this icasoil the measures weie ord, r. d pnul, d Tin se t In e, lull- pi n. l Ide tor the following: T. I I ov do lev. line lor s, -4 ,,1' h s i 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' i i in . 1 .a 1 1 1 v i. ie tin a .i.iii' ,! :.,. I.i.mW .ol ot live mild I. dlills li, he loaned to t ,iiii, - lor bu h.'mg nu provimin'. and .anii'diug tla Ian a doplillg til I k- l"l the I'liUielltalV sc hoo 1 s , I 'eorga n i. i ' a ni ,.1 'h, .-sl.a'i I'.iiihluig Comniissniu is j'l.e. , i, i t',.r in ;, hdl he ing advo, a,l, d bv I ii 'ii s, , 1 1 ; 1 1 1 v , i.l,,'.,r w hicli will in, n as. i c, n . r, h. i dii;. I i orn live to seven with ; i . , ' ' i ' . i 1 1 v i eg :gi- a whole time a I 1, 1 ' e, i at i"."" ;.. I ii.,l The hill I, the l. siil! ot a'il ,1 and the subs, ijuent uiv, st ,-a' ton ,f tl, i.,o. mission ami the slate .ml.i'i.t I he (ilover bill would give tin g"., m r .ci thority to replace ineiiib, .s of tin onii mission, three of the seven iicmbeis to be liepuhlii alls. Tin lull l,.e ;!n i n dorseini nt of the -ompi:'tee , .on ducted the in v est iga Mop and i- .i.'.i.' ,, all that will he dene tovviiid v ap proval or disapproval ot oilie r u-pai ; ment of the Mate. The ( lid Soldiers lb. me at Raleigh f.o Confederate veterans is to he made a tit place to live at last. A joint ommit !.- coiidiicte.l its investigation and uigis the exprnditure of :t,.",iio (,, put 'he hi, .Id ings in repair, and to make o-,h.r nu provements. The coHUiiittee found en ditioiis at the Home "really d. plora ble." "All the buildings leak." the repoit reads, "and the inmates have to move from place to place in an endeavor to keep dry in rainy xreatuer. " CITY AND ITS SUBURBS POPULATION OE 20,000 Survey of City and Outlying Sections by Gastonia Minis ters Not Yet Completed . Work Was Done by Thor oughly Organized Commit tee of Men. With favorable xveather and four liun- died canvassers in the best of humor the religious census of (iastonia was com pleted Sunday afternoon. I'ntil the fit; j Hres and information obtained by the I canvasi-crs are thoroughly analyzed and i sumiiial'ied it will be impossible to esti- ! i mate the number of people now residing in (iastonia and suburbs or (rive any rit , tional idea of percentages relative to the! number in and out of the churches. j All returning canvassers reported u- j 'ces'-ful work in their respective. Hcetions. and stated that they were hospitably re ceived in every home and all information was cheerfully and heartily (riven . Ow 1 Southern ing to the fact that many were not lit home and that a few of the canvassers became confused in their nectioii bound aries, a number of families were missed and in some instances cards were, dupli cated. However, each canvasser has a record of such instances and will nee that these particular sections are revis ll, d a nd ligure s i evised . The woik of nualy.ation will be com milted to Community Service headipiar teis ami Mr. V. f . Trout and assistants will have liual and complete details in leadincss at the earliest possible date. A I a rough guess the census will show a population of (iastonia and nea r suburbs, not iui hiding many -on t ig onus mill vil-1 , luges ill t he i iiiiiil v, of thousand. The pastors from IH to L'H composing the committee from the (iastonia Ministers Asssociat ion arc to be congratulated for th.ir untiling work and efforts to make tin- canvass a sun'cf.s and too much praise can not be bestowed upon the lias tins and laviiioll of all ( last n. iliiir,lit for their splendid spirit and co opera -lion from the start to the finish of the iciisiis Compli le figures in detail will appear in the laily Gazette at a biter date. REPUBLICAN MEMBERS TO MEET IN CAUCUS Called For Purpose of Organiz ing Majority Forces Ma jority of 169. (By The Associated J'ress.) The full next house x AMI I M. T l, leh. L' i 1 publican mom I i h i p of t h v , s called to meet in ia mils hei tonight orgnin.e the majority forces. Willi the i 1 1 1 1 1 r 1 1 1 1 e; memPers swelling ,;e lepiihluaii majority to Hi!' by actual unlit. same republican leaders were segh'lv apprehensive that the majority might be too big to handle. While they i 'pre-. i, I s Hue fear that the new meir4 I el s II igiil .ithmpt to take a hand in the. 1 1, 'II ol i. til, els to verve tor the next ii'-. the predicl ion was general "' piesent lineup Would be re two y 'hat I tamed I'i a sealat I- -l'1-..k'T (illicit and Ifepre Mondell, the republican floor leader. Wen e.inlideii' that their re I'lec 'I'll um.iM be unopposed, but Reprosen 'alive kiiiitsnii, nt Minnesota, republican whip, was prepare 1 for a fight, II n fen in loiiigh' .also will name 'lie ''11 pow. l'iil cmiimitti u commit fo'-. N'.aiix- ali nieinb. is of th,' present committee Wele ixpee", I to be renamed. Ihe st,, rill;: i emu. ill te' tl'-ll mav be hleiiad. I.i.oieis predicted no impor t. Ill changes ill the heads of the big i-i iiiiuit lei s and I hat I lie se ri'y rule Would l,e adhel, d to. Mothers and Fathers of Gastonia HEAR DR. CHAS. E. BARKER Noted Lecturer Wednesday, March '2nd :):',) V. M. "A Mothers Ueiation to Her Daugh ter." All women over 10 in vited. 8 P. M. "A Father's Re sponsibility to His Son." All men over 10 invited. CENTRAL SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Admission Free Au-piccs (Iastonia Rotary Club CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR FIRST THREE DAYS OF THIS WEEK Monday. 7:30 P. M. City Council Meets. 7:30 P. M. Congregational Meet ing, First Baptist Church. Tuesday. 12:30 P. M. Kiwanis Luncheon; Dr. E. W. Pressley, speaker. 7:30 P. M. Mr. i Hurrison, Com munity song leader, at Armory. Wednesday. 11 A. M. Dr. C. E. Baiker to school children. 1:30 P. M. Rotary Luncheon; Dr. Barker, speaker. 3:30 P. M. Dr. Baiker to Women. 7:30 P. M. Prayer-meeting. 8:00 P. M. Dr. Barker to Men. BUSINESS MEN ENTER PROTEST AGIST THE PROPOSED GAS LINE Railways Plans to empty Cars of Gasoline Into Pipe Line at Rear of Postof fice Meets with Strong Oppo sition Would be Danger ous to Life and Property. Property owners and business men generally of (iastonia are very inn, h ex ercised over a report which became cm rent Saturday afternoon to the effect that the Southern Railway has plans and ... I specifications for p riroposcl gasoline j pipe bne from its liui track in the rear ,,f the poatollico tota inaibv Idling Ma tion near the Ariniiigtnn Hotel on X c-1 Airline avenue. It is understood Hint "if latter concern contemplates the in ' sta lla I ion of an underground tank witl ., capacity of something like louim, or a full carload of gas. Asked about the matter Aakc.l about till' matter tills lliorillllg City Manager W. .1. Alexander Mated that the Southern Railway's engineer was in the city Saturday and thai he had ; sue li plans and spec iticat ions in his p'e session. Asked as to whether the Stall fire laws would permit the installation of rfueh a tank car unloading stain. n within the fire hunts Mr. A leva nd,r i-a o I that he did not know that the Mate law j covered the subject except in a gMu r.il nay, prohibiting- the insl.illal ion of "anything of a character that would in 'danger life and propertv. Prior to the coming of the railroad's ' ,'"K'",,,'r Saturday the public, it seem ., 'was ignorant of the proposed pl.au . As soon, however, as it became noised a broad that such a thing was pioposed strong protests worn heard on every hand. "'That's cx.n-tlv the Ihing h!ch expjoded at Memphis, Teiin ., some I am ago and killed twenty odd people, and that wrecked the town of A i.Iiiihi ,-. severa I renin rk, d . 1 1 i., a matter of common knowledge that there is great danger in empty or partially empty gas cars The explosion- ll is stated, occur at Ihe car and the gas,.-, which are formed from the vent In the top of the car while it is being uulo.olid are very highly explosive. It is understood that a laige d. h g i lion of business men will appear In Ion the city council at that body's ngulai meeting tonight at 7:. 'in and will , ni, r a -Imi.g protest against this propo-M em . CONGRESS HAS ONLY FOUR MORE DAYS LEFT (Hy The Associated I'rejts ) WASHINGTON'. I'eh L's V, :'i, h i' foill mole days left in which to , ',:,i the many iniportiint in, :eiir,'- I .ft ri v.ir.ving stiiges ot' prog ress if ,n, ,.,ngn--today re-iinnd work under Cd s'.an, Only two of the II Ing a ppropi i.a' i-.n lulls have been sent to the plesidcnt f.,r signature but five others have been , on pleted, leaving SCVCIl yet to he ds,ieed of. All of these. Iiowevir. c, cpt thai for the navy aie cxpeefid to go thne.'i in time to he signed by i i of Man h I five of the money lulls an- in outer I'll, e with agreement expiited but a M . I t fight over the army a ppi opr ia ' uui nna ure is cxpei tod beiause of the div,r geme of views between the senate and house as to the size of the army, the for hut favoring 1 7.".' " ) men as against lo'i.ooii in the house. The agrc ult urn I lull is tied up hoinuso of :i disagreement over iti ms for free seeds ami a loan to fanners in drouth stiukeii areas .and tin -uiolry service civil lull is deadlocked over the .flo.lillll. item for the Muscle Shoals power project its inserted by the senat, Scon's of lulls in-biding packer r, go lalion, good roads, .soldier bonus, i oa 1 regul.'it mil, i ongressional reapportion ment. and others id' isjual importance :,r. doorm d to failure and leaders pre, lot that it will Ii- fortunate if the big ap propriation measures can ! fon.-l through the jam. Soi-sion, are 1,, I held nightly with probably an all night session Thursday in an indeaxor to get the mo' rnt''t noflsnr,s tl,ro'irl. DEATH TOLL IN DISASTROUS TRAIN WRECK HAS REACHED TOTAL IMlllRIIRiTinil Di V IIIMJUUIIHIIUII UH I MAY BE FAIR AND MAY NOT Law of Averages Shows That March 4 Is About as Likely to Be Cold and Snowy as It Is Fair and Balmy. (I'.y The Associated I'rebs.) WASHINGTON, Feb. -- Viewing Ihe weather probabilities of Inaugura tion li.iv In the light of the law of aver ages th Ids probably would be laid as i, Hows; Fair and balmy, IJ to 1. Mild but oveicast, ;; to I. 'oh I a ii. I damp, ev en. cry Col l and vei v damp. I lu .". Snow, hail, el.-., :; to 1. I :' i , i I. H t,, . Ihe ,-old mat he ii i a 1 1, s ot' historical re coi l would indicate Mite h odds hi he fair. It i-. an even bet that Mi'. Harding will in i d a heavy overcoat when he rides to Hie I apitol ami Hire,, chances out of five that si'iiie one should be nearby with an umbrella and overshoes. If seelus to he safe at twelve to one that Mr. Harding v ill not xperienc,. the perfect Spring lav who h greeted Mr. Wilson nu Ihe oc lasioii of hii lirst inaugural. (hi three oi a -ions Washington has e,iveu the inaugural i ic crowds a weather welcome in winch warmth was cnnspicouH lv .absent, I'resnlciit ( Irani 's sociiml cere ; inonv was ''bitter cuhl,'' the chronicles I that day reconled, Ihe wind being of he ' ' I ecu , fierce ' ' k i III'. ''Young i adi I. puiading without over coat, wer,. removed insensible fiom the hues,'' sa v one account which described lie ii ii 1 1 i'Iiii ia I ball :is ' ' ii most dismal affair'' .al whnh the ''various cham pagnes were found frozen.'' Mr. Iliirisoii met with a ''bleak and bitli i cold day with a raw wind blow ing.'' but the histoiians neglect to men tion Ihe conditions of Ihe li'iui'ls. The climatic climax, however, caini villi the inauguration of Mr. Tu f I when a bli.ard howled out of the north, crip- ling telegraph wires, stalling trains and utleilv spoiling an elaborate program. Thousands of spectators wailed in the i.-iilwiv' e a i in cold drills miles from a sli i ii g I . i n vx nil,. Mr. T;i ft was being swoin in the Senate chamber, the first ic! or corenioiiy in seventy live yc.irs, if ' lie 1 i-'iiiaaii will ii.,iiiiie the more or less .: formal inaugurations of Tv let'. I'M m..n. .lo! u-nii, Arthur and lionscvelt for 0 eiii..., terms. I he lieiee nalni" uf Washington ' -.v, at hi r god ha s h d to many move nieiit , lo change Ihe inaugural dale the I" opinion! s id' a later date being about nl to thus., who believe that the in ' ' a t I li of t he lie VV I'l esi' lent and Coll-iii'-" .I." Ill I follow more ch.-elv the i do ' of th.- p.d's ' ' Tradition, only ; r -.",i' :lile foi I i,,. ma i nten.-i tu-e of M t '. I ,-,s the time tor tin' r-ereiiion v, ' is -a: I. a , ;!. I ill r. sear, ll of legl-la l.ir r i Is tailing to n veal the specific m-ng of that .lav. W'V'i l lie a I,. prevalent a to t he maun. ' ia win I, the present dale was, :!. hi,- is that I he revolutionary 1 H. - .:!!' , an e h .a lis I i v e computation, ' a I ' v in, . ' I t mil Ma leli I would !' ta ' on San lav in any leap year. .m '"..l'. ivtdentiv , ? roneinislv ev.aluat i t'.e.t ''x'' qiiiiii'ilv. in thiit case for M . r- h I 1 1 a . ii mi on Sum la v 1 h roe t inns -one V a sh itigt on s inauguriil in New V... i. l i . -. e.Old Ihe . i v is ha-ed en the l 'll i'e. 'if ',e first CUl St i t lit lllllit I COII mi w h. r.. 'he d, legal, s ' iiele! date l b ii ''-'r I '. I 7ss , did icsolve .,. I I-, that th,. first Wednesday ill I i . i 'v I"- the da v f.rr .appointing elee rs .a 'he s. n- ,l stat, s ; tiiii! the lirst . ,(... f iv ia I'i lu ii irv he tin day for ',. eie.'.O- to assemble in th'Ur ICSpl'C ixe -i i'is and vote f,,r President, and ,;,' ih.. first We. lues, lay in March, next, he the tune .an I the present scat of ('on J's4 tla !o,. for , oil.me'uillg proi ced ,. 4 i a, i, r s.i i. i oil s' . I I I t ioi, , ' ' 'I I. : W...u,-day o, Mar. h. " t. ' ' ha pp. lied to he the Itll. ilfeor l g ' ' 'h I.il i'"g Wl'h the second idea. :i. i M m h I. ! he i ' fi j r Hi. xx. at her no! v. i'li-l.ae beg. has I.e. n the day foi ' " Id Ual, i I li g proceedings. ' ' RAIDS IN NEW YORK GET 25 PERSONS MAY Y'H.K. Feb. JV Prohibition , ! t'.H' ,'li ,'llt agents who conducted a stir ; i -,. ra-l on N vv York rest.au ran Is and ciharei. s-.,ti:ida night, arresting more than I '- " .'-.in-, xx ; I ! continue opera 'ions t o tn i weeks, it was announced hilar. William .1. McCarthy, New Fngland I" '.hi '. I ion . n f orcetnen! supervisor, who h , tl,e nobis, said today he was seek . g ne i.. 'i.iiii a hundred new warrants. WEATHER. North Carolina, fair tonight and Tuesday; not much change in temperature. ' ' " s ? t t New York Central Train Crashes Into Michigan Central - Towerman Denies That He Is Guilty j ffifiT " rf IW (By Tho Associated Press.) ' PORTER, Ind., Feb. 28. Forty-txvo 't bodies had been collected early this fore noon from the wreck last night when the , Canadian and the Interstate limited on the Michigan Central and the New York Central lines, respectively, crashed at a crossing. It was a diamond shaped ; crossing, permitting the New York train, which struck as the other sprawled, de ' i ailed, across the intersection, to rake two Michigan Central cars instead of cutting them at right angles. Edward W. Fierke, of Grand Rapids, Mich., who stood on the platform of the : day coach of the Michigan Central train, ) just a few feet from the point where the New York Central engine hit it, and who saw the passengers in this coach tiying to escape as the headlight bore I down on them, gave a graphic descrip tion of the wreck today. Beginning at i the point where the Michigan Central tiain derailed and came to a stop across the New York Central tracks, Fierke said : "The car swayed suddenly and left the tracks. We bumped along the ties for a few feet at full speed. From one side I heard a blast of a whistle. I looked out. There was another train btaring down nn us at full speed. "I couldn't move. My tongue stuck up in the roof of my mouth. I tried to open the door into the day coach to shout to the people inside. My hand refused to function. "It perhaps wasn't over thirty sec onds between the time I saw that train, and the moment it hit us. It was ten yean to me. t "The light from the headlight of the , approaching train made everything as blight as day where I stood. I thought I was surely going to be killed. "As I stood I could see into the day coach. On the side the New York Cen tral train was approaching, I could, see that other passengers had seen the train. A woman jumped up from her seat. She i held a little girl looked m though she ! was about eight or nine years old to her breast. Men jumped up one even started for the door where I was stand ing. "Then suddenly ths side of the car buckled in. My Inst conscious impression was of everything dissolving in front of me. I remember seeing tho nose of the engine. I remember the lights in the car going out suddenly. I remember hearing a scream that I '11 never forget. And then carim darkness. "I was1 thrown from that platform nearly fifty feet. T lit on the prouml--the breath knocked out of me. When I sat up ,th Txhole middle of our train was gone. If was a little hell there for a few minutes. ''I wish 1 could accurately d'eribe the sensations of that m, uncut that T waited for death. I can't understand, e'en now, how I'm alive. When I could get to my knees, I slaved there and gave up a prayer. "I'll never forget the expression of the faces of those poor people us thev died. The staring eves of one man looked directly into mine that face is going to emtio before me fur the rest of my life." Fierke. outside of numerous bruises, was not injured. The car platform on which ho -it,, was smashed into fragments. PORTER, Ind , Feb 28. Relief crews early today had taken 33 bodien and scores of injured from the wreckage of the Michigan Central and New York Central passenger trains, which crashed last night at the Diamond crossing here and at least six bodies were visible en tangled in the debris. ..The forward coaches of the New York HARDING'S INAUGURAL WILL MARK FIRST SWING TOWARD SIMPLICITY SINCE THOMAS JEFFERSON ( fly The Associated press. ) W MIINi,T( IN, Feb. L'ti. - Ina igu ration of Presidentelect Harding will mark the first swing of ceremonies to Ward simplicity since Thomas Jefl. rs an toiled up Capitol Hill afoot, one hundred and twenty on0 years ago. The ceremony of administrating the oath, will bo as it was prescribed by Ccoige Washington. There will lie no ohauge in its utter simplicity, but Mr. Harding by his owu decision will entei upon his great t.isk without the pomp and parade that have increasingly sur louiid.sl that solemn moment as the years went by. Not even the "salvos of artillery" that heralded the dawn of Jefferson's inauguration lay will wake the sleeping eclms along the Potomac next Friday. (ione too will Ik the Inaugural Parade, time honored since regfilar and militia troops blazed the historic route up Pen nsylxania. Avenue to "The President's Hons'" when President Madison rode, in state to take up duties laid down bri Jefferson. Wethpr ioii oa? Tirox-ntdj 42 Central train, which was west bound, lay upon two sphnteied'coaches of the Mich igan Central tiain through which it had ploughed while travelling nearly 50 miles an hour. The daikness and the tangled mass of wreckage made rescue work slow, railroad officials waiting for daylight before attempting an accurate check of dead and injured. A statement by Towerman .1. ('. Cook, on duty at the crn-iug, declared tin) block two miles awav was set against the, Michigan Central train when the track was left clear for the .New ork Central. Railroad nlhoiais a' xv reck said F.ngiiieor .1 ackson, M ic!i . , w ho i e la red he had received had checked it with left early today for h the sc. ne of W. 1 ' . Long 'seap, d unhurt , a dear signal In- Im man . is home the of de- and He When the Mulligan Htrurk the deriiiler Cm f . crossing, it was the lirst. bad of the impending ciash to ha ve sta i ! . l-'inm 1 1 mi i : 1 1 train I from the indication he Long i i h:ii1 at point. Ihe eight coaches of the Michigan Central train bumped along the Ins, coming tu a standstill with the third and fourth coaches at the intcneil ion of the tracks, and an instant later the New York ( 'en tral train burst through. All except the two baggage and mail tars of the .New York Central train re mained upright , although bits of the wooden coat lies of the Mnhigan Central train were scattered for ,"'i yards. Passengers in the tour couches of the .Michigan Central train behind the death cars were unhurt except for the shake up, ami all of the pa.ssengi rs on tho New York Cent ra I esca p"d. t limbing down from their cars through the wreckage. Most of the identified dead and the se riously injured were from Indiana and southwestern Michigan . For no reason that railroad officials could assign, almost all of the dead tak en to the little morgue at Chesterton, a- I cross the tracks from Porter, received their fatal wounds in the head. Some were decapitated, accounting, for the j failure to identify nine of the 25 which had been taken there up to b o'clock. I The firit group of thtee critically in jured were rushed in an ambulance to Michigan City, hid., ami two of them died on the way. Railroad oflicials ex pressed the belief early today that all of the others injured would recover. Hos pitals and private homes at Michigan City and (iary received the injured. Hail road oflicials had no detinite esti mate early today of the I it.al injured. Tin. heavy death toll, it was believe, made it doubtful if more 'him a score had been seriously llliled, according; ti li ilrn.ad oflicials. .as only ihe m -i-virgeH in the tvvn coaches received Ihe shock of tin Hying New Yoik entr-il train. The engine of th,- No". York Central tliiill 1 1 1 1 ist till' t le eh it coaches .v hirlcl half an I the ' th.. vxreck- w ith such for i o I ha t a 1 mill' I. fa r d - vx n I he sn.a 11 bin w h i. h st , -age r. us on I, k i i.b i i I liO d. Within a sluol tin;.- ,g!, r'e.hi coaches of ho; it trains on .again from a u 't moi -amc . in the up wa re turned oiii ne 'tion among thn the unhurt from their .and th i' on at the n ovi r early Va Ipa rai.so, of the 'nt ral train rai'rial rm- -cheduled t. ' ti.ey C'llllll and any semblance of mi i n lure. I w ;i s ;, I !., v ,1 . I'.l'ii win! m I nistorc I to 11 , i s e ! , 1 1 ! 1 Si ills hut si j I I I V nig. I '-e! i m in:! 1 y i u v , si ; j i .1, handling; of 1 1 ,1, a' ii I hestcr'on morgue were t.d;e today by Coroner So,,., !, ,f I I L. ;is.is'i'. I v I h o.iii I l.ts McKee, V light, alid M Michigan Central. Id i ds of the M ''-hig-ill I d "i lose. I a la rgo I, 'iinher n1' '.liv es, traveling on a - ,e ., g I oil t h" VX re- ke I I r.l i 11 . bu (Continued on page or hind'Oe I t a is tuti t he yea rs :,,! f . di v. I,., in- a!-. l.- , soldi. ry I'r nu u.a i. v pained Pics.;,!.'!,' Ui'l son : a h. r e h- ' , , h., t : tilk,' the ...I'll ; g.m ranks of i .alone! office professors ami st ltd til tl r-.-ct,i''l in i :!. ..' and the s a 'e. ii a ccom lh nrv Harri to the i 'apitol the tramping and clergy ami of ( .eirgetuu I'lliversltV vvliicl cade the historic jour ney wi'h Polk; gone th" MiiUhiry splen dor nf the page.-m's thst marked eleva tion to high otii.-e of s.illnr'.y Zuclmrv Taylor and C. S Grant. Among things of the more recent past not to lie revived for Mr. Harding will lie the gray and white chid lines of Vfewt point cadets, sfej.piiig proudly and with wrfeet unison up the great avnue. Ia? auguration has beea. for tiiee futaro leaders of the prmy and for their brothers of the Midshipmen nrp from Aiinipolis. a great public day, sad the nation has lavirdird -well .defrvcxl plaud its on their app'uraneT'. "When 1'olk tw-1 bi bSa InaugnratUm, a "kid glove" troop of voonsj Yir (Contiac(5i ca VK
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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Feb. 28, 1921, edition 1
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