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IY GAZETTE GASTON COUHTY Xk Combed Tara Center f , v ' tfca South. GASTONIA Tbe Souti'f City of Spin dle. VOL. XLII. NO. 90. GASTONIA, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 15, 1921. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS QASTONIA DAI 30TH DIVISION VETS TO TOUR JiATTLEFIELDS Old Hickory Service Men Will Go to Europe July 12 Return ing August 21 Cost Will be $565. Plans are practically complete for the tour of tbe battel fields of Europe ly ( veterans of the 30th Division this sum mer, according to a letter received iy j local ex-service men from (iuy 11 . May, : general chairman, Kiioxville, Tenn. The party leaves New York July 1-' anl re- j turns August 21. In the letter is en , closed a map of the countries to I vis-j Ited, and the itinerary to be followed . The letter reads : "From the map on the back of this) sheet you will note that this trip covers j six countries in Europe in connection I with all the training areas of the oblhi Division and the battlefields in which J they were engaged. You will also note that this itinerary covers all the battle fields covered by our artillery in connec tion with other important battles. Some time will be hjm'IiI at the Hindcuhurg Line after which the entire party will visit the cemetery at Bony where oor heroes which we left in Europe are bur ied. It is the desire of the committee to have suitable decorations and cere monies at this cemetery. "In making this initerary it was the desire to sec as much of Europe at a-: little expense arid time as possible. This In has been accomplished. I -e "The party will leave New York on the Albania a Cunard I me ( Urit ish ) boat July 12th, and will return arriving New York August "1st. This makes a 41-day tour for only $30:3, whieh in eludes all necessary expenses of the trip from New York back to New York. "Our space is limited aioi due to the fact that we will probably not be able to accommodate all who desire to go, your request for reservation tdiould 1 ' 1 1 made at once direct with Mr. Albert I". i K Pierce, Jr., Travel Department, Ameri can Eipress Company, ." Broadway, New York City. "As so many friends and relatives of former members of the :!oth Division have expressed it desire to join this par-land those ty it has been decided that, the tour is i gani.at ion SAID TO BE RICHEST VEIN EVER STRUCK DAWSON, Y. T., April 15. Re cent arrivals from Keno Hill, in the Mayor district, confirm the report of the discovery of a nine foot silver vein in thj Rico claim there. The strike was made in a tunnel which pierces a 1,000 foot bluff and the center of the vein is said to be two feet of solid galena, assaying more than $200 to the ton. It is said to bj the richest vein ever struck in the Yukon or Alaska. EXECUTIVES AND LABOR LEADERS MAY REACH SATISFACTORY BASIS (By The Associated Cress.) CHICAGO, April 13- Both railroad executives and labor leaders today de clared the decision of the t ailed States Railroad Labor Board abrogating the national agreements would materially ad vance the effort to arrive at au agree incut satisfactory to all parties. Th e board directed ' Hi i - . . f ; cm - t "i g lrT 'Is is ? jar' r&tjrmm I Twenty years ago, Dr. James R. Pee bles, then a resident of Hammonton, N. J , published a book entitled "How to Live One Hundred Yean and Grow Old individual mads and their Gracefully." Several days ago, Dr. Peebles, now living in Los Angeles, Cal., celebrated his 99th birthday. Dr. Pee bles is the oldest man listed in "Who's Who." agree upon new open to anyone who wishes to go. if of America, you cannot go with us will thank you to i roads, kindly pass this letter and pamphlet to; When the employes to confer and working rules by duly 1. Labor representatives said many of tin Hi basic principles laid down in the Iccl.sion to govern the confereii ees on new win king agreements, especial ly the eight hour day and the right of ; tin employes to iirgaui'.e and select their ovvu representatives, include principles they have been lighting for. Railway 'executives said lliat the decision recog ni"d their lonlenlion that many of the 'rules should not have national applica i t ion . The decision affects members of I unions including all thn-'c alliliated with railway dcpailnu nl of the American Illation of Labor. in this group are I lie "big four'', the organiat i'liis of en giueers, firemen, trainmen and conduit ors. It also affects telegraphers, clerks, shop employes, maintenance of way em doves, sheet metal workers, switchmen members of the national or of masters, mates and pilots PEONAGE SCANDAL BEGINS TO WIDEN a friend who might be interested. " The itinerary is us follows: July 12th Sail New York. July 23d Arrive Loudon. July 24th 25th London. July 26tl Arrive Ostend, Belgium. July L'7th Ypres Mt. Keminel Ar ras. July 28th IVroime Bellkourt. II in denburg Line. July 29th Brmscls, Belgium. July JHth Luxemburg. July 31st Met. Strasbourg. August 1st Basic, Switzerland. August 2nd Lucerne, Switzerland. August ISrd Milan, Italy. August 4th (ienoa, Italy.. August .3th Nice,, France. August tit li Kiviera Monte Carlo Monaco. August 7th 10th Paris and Vicinity. August 1 1th- 12th Chateau Thierry St. Mihiel Verdun, Argoiinc, Kheiius, Soissons, etc. August loth- Arrive Cherbourg. August 21st Due New York, V. S. A. (If proper arrangements can be made the itinerary will be changed to include Coblenz on the Rhine in the occupied ter ritory . ) GRAVE HAPPENINGS IN NORTHERN ITALY ROME, April Hi. -Grave incidents are reported from northern central Italy, where the extreme nationalists and the socialists have clashed in a number of cities and towns. Several lives have been lost and great property damage lias been done during these disorders, which are a result of the bitter feeling arising from the electoral campaign. Cpwards of loo nationalists from Leg horn and Pisa marched to the town Ceeina, 20 miles southeast of Leghorn, where they sacked a communist club as reprisal for a socialist attack upon na tionalists. Vpon its return to Leghorn, the party attacked the Sparlaeus club, ' "M's only in so far as it but was driven away bv royal guards, ! 'orations on regulations c who are employed by rail abrogation of the national 'agreements was proposed several months I ago by W. W . Atlerbury, vice president j of the Pennsylvania railroad, it was do dared that the national agreements were j costing the railroads .t:;oo,Mii,iMi(i a yenr, because certain economies in shop eondi ! t ions eould not be put into effcit under I t he old rules . A meeting of the conference commit tee j of the Association of 1'aihvay Kxccuthcs. j of which K. T. Whiter is chairman, was j called for today to disui.-s the applica , lion of the decision to the iiol i vidua I I roads. The executives' .side of the ar : j gunicnt in favor of abrogation of the old national agreements was presented to j the hoard through Mr. Whiter. I ''There call be no iiiestion that tlu'i decision has opened the way for more! j sat isfaetoty rules and working conditions' than are now in eltcct, said Samuel (). ', Dunn, editor of The Railway Age, 1o 1 day, ' ' and should result in a substantial increase in ellii iem y of labor and a re i I in t ion of railroad expenses. The deeis j ion is partly a victory for the railroads and partly for the employes. What the .outcome will be so far as railroad (Hi ;eioucy is (Olleellled depends upon the : conferences to be held . ' ' "The b-eis i hi i-mie just before the ( terms of time members of the board ex 1 piled at midirglit last night. Thes linen, appointed for one year when the j board was organ i.ed, are Henry Hunt, Cincinnati, one of the represeutat ies of the general public; W. I,, park, Chica go, a railway representative ami .1. ,1 I Forrester, Washington, ). ('., one of the labor members. Their successors J have not been appointed and their pla ees will be vacant be.a.ie.. the act iriat ing the board tailed to spc-ity that I members should ,onliniie hi oilier until (heir Miceessors ipiablicd . Last night's decision had nothing to I ,r.. :i. .i : I "I'm i ne arious wage louiereuces of which have been instituted by various railrn.'uls within the last , weeks and some of whieh hme already resulted ill disputes that have reached the board The rules finding will atfeit pav envel results in tniid uici ruing what after succeeding in wrecking the chain ber of labor. As a protest, the socialists proclaimed a general strike, v.nich the printers have joined, and there are n$ newspapers being published in the city. A detachment of nationalists froi. Arezio, a town about thirty miles south of Florence, went to the village of San Bepolcro, 16 miles east, anil wrecked the chamber of labor. The portraits of Nikolai Lenine and Leon Trot.kv were burned, but the nationalists respeeted the pictures of Mnzziui and Garibaldi, wliich hung in the chamber. Tietro Mascagnl, the composer and a socialist member of the chandier of deputies, was forced to eign an undertaking that he would be personally responsible for any socialist reprisals in future. Another affray occurred at Parma, where a socialist club was destroyed. As a result of the widespread disturbance, several workmen ' organizations have surrendered their banners, insignia and : clared no charters to the nationalists. ' i ne now constitutes overtime, a railroad man starts subjects. letiniiig ju.s work and WILL TAKE ACTION AGAINST BLACI fU.v The Aaaoe-t!aj PrwsJ CHICAGO. Apr) l.i.-Dir, , t ir of the Chicago Baseball League wen- ,,,;ied to meet in ail emergency session today to take actioB against a team ssii I to have booked a game with the " Pla. k Sox" as ibe barnstorming team formed from dis charged members of the Chicago White So have termed themselves. No olli.i.il ruling bad been mad.- in the ras,. of the Black Sox by President Fdward Lit-ia ger. of thr Chieagu League, but it was understood that the h-ngue members were nt to meet the team on which the men under indictment in the 191i world'. series scandal are playing. The manager of the Black Sox do additional game, licsides the heduled for nritt Su ml:i v wit li 1 the About a Score of Negroes Kill ed on Williams Farm In dicated by Information Gath ered by Federal Agents In vestigating Records. ATLANTA, Ga., April 11. An ii i ii ii i-i 1 1 1 1 -ii t that indications pointed to Is or 20 negroes i" all having been killed on the John S. Williams farm in Jasper county through a period extending as far back as 1 1 1 I and of their intention to widen the scope yf their investigations into alleged peonage in Jasper and other Georgia counties was made here today by agents of the department, of justice. .Names of three more negroes alleged to have been killed were made public Jasper county is in the southern fed eral court district of Georgia and simiil-i ta.ii"its.y with the announcement by de partment of justice ageuts. Hooper Alex- , under, federal attorney for the northern 1 distriit, said it Has probable he would, turn all evidence his office has gathered cot to John W. Bennett, federal a t tor-1 ii ey for the southern district. Mr. Ben-' nett said tonight over long distance tele phone that as sunn as he received an official report I'riini federal agents he would arrange to place the evidence he fore the grand jury, which meets in Macon May 2. Indictments in the north irti district would be for ''kidnaping inti slavery,"' it being ehargVl nee roes i Were forcibly taken from Atlanta to ! work-in peonage, while those in tin) i southern district would charge actual ! peonage and also bo fur the "kidnap ing" charge where negroes were taken , from towns in that distiict. The federal , grand .jury here meets April L'o, and Mr. Aleaii.r indicated ''kidnaping" charges would be placed before it. Since the convict ion of Williams and his senleiice to life imprisonment in the state court at Covington on a charge of imirdi r of one of the negroes alleged pj , have been taken from his farm into New ton county .m l drew nod, and indictments against his sons and Clyde Manning, negro farm boss, negroes who formerly worked on the farm are more conimunica live, according to Vincent Hughes, in harge of the department of justice I'll lean of investigation here. Newspaper men wire allowed to listen1 to stories told by several negroes with I he prmso that they would not reveal iii.iues. Three witnesses declared they; kiiei'. that Al-.k Pyer, Nick and Mamie Walker, all negroes, were killed on the Williams farm in l!'l" and 1!11. j "Dyer was kill. I because he ran away1 twice.'" one of the negroes declared. "D was said, though, that Nick and his wife, Mamie, were knocked off be-, cause they were t"o old to do any more1 work." Another negro declared about 40 farm I when hands wer- v.oikc.i on tne Williams iarin Minil.-u 'back in P'ln and that they were kept ! locked up at night and had balls and chains fastened to their legs in the day. ! One negro said he was kept on the farm; SOX ! years and was well fed amp ilothed but given only one dollar. fie also charged thai negroes wire whipped when they lagged at their work. GASTON COUNTY LAWYERS APPEAR IN POWER CASE i Messrs. A. C. Jones and Geo. W. Wilson Appear in South ern Power Rate Hearing in Raleigh J. B. Duke on the Scene. ( Ky W. T. Bust, in Greensboro Xews.) KALKIGH, April 14. While Attor neys Norman Cocke and George W. Wil son wore today arguing the Southern Power Company into North ( aroluia be fore the corporation commission, W. S. j O'B. Hobinsou, Jr., chief counsel for the power company, was in the Supreme Court doing his best to prove to the rivet biggest judges ill the stale thai in the grea' game of ball the big power com ! puny was disadvantaged by having to play off its home grounds and motion to take the contest, to the national or thuj big league ground was made. ! Bush leaguers, Cocke ami Wilson call j oil themselves before the cpmmissioii ; Class Double A or lug leaguers they were1 just 1.1a yards away. One of Bah. I Ruth's ordinary homer uns would mea.- ure the distune,, between these two cm 1 tenlioiis geographically. But both ,v.re; made this morning at the same hour, ml the same city and by the same litigants.! Ill the argument Aubrey L. Brooks, coin ' sel for the North Carolina I 1 1 1 I i Service Company, .joined unctuously, and! Mr.,' Brooks was almost ready ycslerdav to ilnulit whether he is lug league, Class or simply outlaw player. Judge W. I'. B.vniim, who berates II Southern Bower Company from the angle of textile consumer, and defends it from the ravening "parachutes,'' as Brooks called the Hole boys' company, by wav of lapsus linguae quotation from Senior Ed Canslrr, was counsel for the power company in the Supreme Court today. The two arguments were seriopdy em ployed by the same interests at the same moment. The inhabitants of tle law buildings ran recall no such anomaly. James Buchanan Duke, whos- money makes the high stakes of this remarkable battle, sat with his corporation 101111111 siou contingent. I ' 1 1 . 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 . . 1 1 y hi. w ould have gone over to the Supreme Court, but his Methndistieal brother Walter Clark might have construed this to mean church and brotherly love and personal pies PLAYED MEAN TRICK ON GOOD SAMARITAN NEW YORK, April 15. Leo Busch, porter, who essayed th? role of "Good Samaritan" and placed whiskey to the lips of a plain clothes policeman who feigned collapse be fore the doors of a saloon, was held in $500 hund today for the grand jury, chared with violation of the new state prohibition laws. Bu:;ch told Magistrate Simpson he thought the policeman was dying until the latter sprang to his feet and ariested him. INDUSTRIAL CRISIS IN ENGLAND AVERTED AT THE VERY LAST MUTE REACTIONARIES OEFEAT ! NORTH DAKOTA PROGRAM PROPOSE TO BUILD HIGHWAYSTHROIIGH COUNTY ATEARLY DATE According to Program Outlin ed Work Will Be Begun Im mediately on Gastonia-Kings Mountain Road and Gasto- nia - Lincolnton Highway Word H. Wood Inspects Two Routes. 'Bv the Associated Preta.) LONDON, April 15 An unexpected and sensational split in the ranks of the powerful triple alliance of labor this af ternoon completely changed the complex- z rj mi -.it, ; ion of the blackest industrial crisis Great vv HV TitrT , r v Bntain I,as cv" fad and av"tcd the Ai M1I.V.1 O.N April 15. -North pi0Jected 8trlke of rail e and Dakota was prevented by a " reachonary ttansport w0lkm ; wRh tfc (.-roup , the leK,slaturo " from carryu.g strllunK mj sft ((jr lQ out her agricultural and industrial pro- night Kram "which had been approved seven 1 Fvi.nt J.in,,4 ,ai, j people tsenator h. Iv startling chants, as to leave the public state, declared today be-1 in a m.-.-,,. ,, A. leople s Reconstruction League : nouncement in the house of commons bv 1 Prime Minister I InvH C. The senator asserted that "speculators miners had declined to accept his invita d Ka mlilers" in the necessaries of life tion to ienr.cn neuntiaiinn. ...;.. .t. have crow,, mh through a system ot ownets on the terms advanced last even uiaiketini; "s devised as to profit from jng Frank Hodges, the miners' secreta Hie toil f the fanner." Had it not been rv. came the annniinri.mi.nl ih,r w. -.;i t lines by Ladd, of lore tin con terenci the that .111. 1 It plans now uiel,, .is,'ie.,ioii l.elueen llie 'iu-.tuii 1-011 11 ' v l.oai'l of coiiiuii.isioii cis an, I llie Male Highway "iiiinissioii, through W'ur.l II. W I, ,,f 'ha riot t. representative of llii, ilistri.t, git; null, work w-ill I.,, in.i ueiirated iiuine- 11 I lin e hii,lnv,i s in 1 Ii, mt y, , thr, dial. I dure were to be employed toward a dec ion in favor of Brother luke .1 ml i Clark has been known to leave the bench when the contention before the court even indirectly involved a relative. Two "eeks jik ''e declined to sit in a suit 'deli his brother in the llesli brought.' I 1 .Miers In the church couhl be as close.! Ko Ion,' as his honor saw not his llrolln 1 Hllck. jus ' -o could put on her hoo.l ami1 the case proceeded as though Hrolhei! Huck v 1 re not in the world. 1 It should b. said by way of 1IT01I toj barnienize these impossible positions that I .Messrs. ( ot ke and Wilson vvcr.- not so much interested in whether they were in North Carolina or Cuited Nates courts, Mr. Coekn was arguing for a place in the sun and showing that even the .1. ('. White figures are susceptible of employ nient which fvould give the power cm I'anv a reasonable return on its uianv millions. Mr. Wilson's role was aioa ing. lie camp not to speak for the juris , diction of the corporation courl. I.ut a group of cotton mills which were anxious to pay the increased tariffs in the hope of gelling the current necessary. Jones Is Caustic. The game itself was not exciting. Tin lawyers in the Supreme Court building I diil not pu' up half the thrilling .,'n ' that has gone on in the corporation court ; all the week. Before the big live the at j torneys were attempting to overrule Judge Bis Way who had refused to allow ! th" Southern I'ower Company to remove its suit from the state to the federal courts. The power company had siicces. fully maintained tjiat it is lining inter state commerce business and is entitled to an inning in the national park. 'This! point will be settled bv the high court. , III the floor of the t ommission .. I Jones, of liatoitia. was going after the; string of nnUi r. pn seiite.l by Ccnrgo Wilson. Mr. .Tone-: disclaimed any purpos,, to say that any 0flici.1l of the power cm panv ever had threatened the cohshom 1 -of the Southern 1'owcr current., but lie thought it significant that men who Lad contracted with wide open eves ami with the hard trader that .1. B. Kuke is. and then should come into court ami say tin y had taken advantage of Mr. Duke. Mr. Jones said it wa s patent w hat troubled these mill men. Those win.-, executives had acted without coiisulta tion with the smaller stockholders must have taken counsel of their fears. Mr. Brooks had allowed himself to tell how v..: the I ia st 1 in ia I less, incr City Kings Mountain load, the Dallas High .Shoals road and the I 'liner road to tbe .South Carolina line. T!.os,. roads are part of !h,. State Highway Coin iiiissitin 's pro gram of s'.'il. iv ide road building. Thurs day Messrs. Wood and Simmons, nf ('liar Inlet, iv. re ill C'tstoiiia Inking over the proposed rout s with a view to locating the mad from Ci -Ionia to the Cleveland county line. Briefly tin- proposition is, that the highway coniiiii.ssiiin is ready to go ahead aioj link up these iliseiiiinected hig-h w a v -', lull tic ne. in y is not yet avail able from he Slate. The county fa 11 1 111 n I s. 1 1 ih,, inline'.' to the commission for the inime. linle completion of these roads an.t lie reiinhiirsi . when tlieistnto money for the continued rise in tho value of Ian. I, he added, the farmer would havo gone bankrupt. Tho farmer now, he added, is taking steps that "should and will, I believe, enable him within the next two years to market his products under coinlit ions that will insure for him a reasonable price, n fair return for his labors, and at the same tinm furnish the, articles to the consumer nt, a lower price. ' The turnover sales tax was denounced by liepresentntive Krear, republican, Wisconsin, as "especially vicious at the pre1 nt time when corporations are seek ing to escape the tax they are now pay ing on part of their profits over the eight per cent exempted by law." Mr. Kreiir charged that a few business men ami large corporations "have raised a large sum of money for the support of a lobby 11111I high priced Washington for propaganda waymen and transpoit workers had "cancelled" the stiike called for to-night. LONDON George, the ill the house miners had funis for a the basis tl April la. - Mr. Lloyd prime minister, announced of commons todav that tho refused to reopen iipgotia st ttlement of their utrike oil at had been suggested. HOPE FOR RENEWAL OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS LONDON. April lo British mine owners ami representatives of the Na tional Federation of Miners have accept--etl the invitation extended by Prime Min ister Lloyd George to renew negotiations for the settlement of the miners strike, which begun A pril I . The acceptance of the miners, however. writers in , was subject to the sanction of the other purposes. unions making up the, "triple alliance.' They are demanding, he added, the "re , 1l1e.se organizations are the National peal of the excess profits tax, a reduction j I'nion of Itailwnymeii and the National is available, will begin the mads nam.. I ready to lend -tart the J..I named the I f Gi- lc State coin 111 ission rk of fi uishiiig t be t hree ' 1 1 inve, I 1 .1 nt mi enu ill y is .- money with which to Vmli r t he conditions , st.onia Kings .Mountain Bessemer ('it v. connect-' .villi tli,. prevent liar. I surface 'hei -i vv ille. and 011 over W'liet mountain to the Cleveland e ty t 11:1 iriiiau I aveiiiiort ami oilier members of the board wer,. highly en thusiastic In, lav ov. r the prospects of so curing for the 1 oiinly s i early an excel lent system of roads. of tho personal income tax and that con j gross, enact a sales tax as n substitute." WILL INVESTIGATE RUMORS CONCERNING GOV. CATTS. (By The Associated Press.) I I. st.lllo line. Federation of Transport Workers. The miners' executives, after confer ring mining themselves, and with repre sentatives of the other members of the- 1 ..: ..I.. ,. 11 : 1 1 ' 1 . iii.iti alliance, au.piurnci! niMillt A p. 1 m. until .'( o'clock, without, a decision TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 15. h,'"'K reached whether the invitation to The lower house of the Florida legisla- rt'l'en ,m' negotiations should be ae- ture was oxieeted todal to consider n-,'P'ed. .concurrent resolution adopted yesterday Great Britain awoke this morning with by the senate authorizing a legislative ; renewed hope that some way might bo . investigation of rumors that former Gov- found during the .lay to avert the "tri ernor Sidney J . Cat is, whose term expir 1 I'1'' alliance" strike, which was called icd January it. last, received monev to in- "' o'clock this evening. The strike Ibieiiee his ofticial action in granting pur r t""'( a Nudden and dramatic turn towartl JAP PAPERS CONTINUE TO COMMENT ON SUBJECT OF MANDATES 1 the recent Allielli ma 11, la If., e.i nt iii ue lorials. M.-aiitiiiie, ,la .,a 11 is con .ii It i 11 ! and I'laiue mi the W hile some of I I,, in fa v .r nt' mi . on, hading organs like .1 i.ii Shim io and I In- c 1 1 ! I toiy a It ll II' ie. I lie ton i I'll e 1 in cd States is jn-t il lllg e .lice r M illg t ae i -la n. f o I' V a p, which ha 1 m , my vvilh .la abandon the male should ,'lsk the 1'lllle Ions to convicts, in removing county and j l','-'l,'f' state officials, in appointing oersous toiKil" ' oflice and that while governor he was' I guiHy of other nebs in violation of the law. The resolution was introduced in the! senate unexpectedly by Senator II. II . ! Wells, of Washington county, lint it ! was adopted almost unsnimauslK..iHt lit-of 'Jiouse of tie debute under a fuspensiou of " "Hie" 1,'a,,'r's of the rules, and icrtilied immediately to the house . During Governor Catt's adiniuistrn 1 u"f! cm ruing 1 tion of four years, approximately B't 1 print lengthy edi -I county and state officials were removed i iimlcrstitiid that from their positions and a report trans vvi'b Cieat Britain initted to the legislature early this week ib.ieet. 'by Governor Hardee showed pardons had at midnight, and conferences bc irly this inorniiiL' with nrosneeta country from re .) ' By The Ass.. -iat T0KI0, April II. Tbe newspapers lay, ap pieci.it iiig the importance of ot succeeding 111 saving flu a grea 1 nuillsirial crisis. Both the mine owners and the .striking miners brought forward, almost simul taneously, new proposals looking to an adjustment of Ih.. situation. Sfemfcers minions who had heard ers ol the miners outline tiieir de mands hurried in taxieabs to the resi lience of Prime Minister Lloyd George at midnight, remaining with him for 50 minute? . No statement was made as to the subject; discussed, but- it was felt the whole situation had been r'.,li,.ll,i ol "'V - vspapi rs counsel been granted t.il convicts during the last the A sa 11 1 liein g made, Vomi I ri, the ii advise a run I. Ts Hint tbe I'nit- 1 at Ii ,ist in protest mandate fur the 1 is in I Ie iut eresl of pan. Should Japan ale. however, she I Si a tes to a ha iidoii two yt;ar . Of this number l,"ii were convicted for murder, and 1 lit of these were serving life sentences. The governor, under the Florida laws, is not solely responsible for the issuance of pardons, but he and his cabinet com prise the pardon board, of which he is chairman . Mr. C.itts, who is at home in Defun iak Springs, thus far has refused to com meut on the action taken by the senate. tered . ' ' The house e London Times, when the crisis tie- !. : 11... lilire.'ls I w a s cue ! i -upp..rt ! ta re-. 1 11 di". All l ing. of ( .nam. il it -let His ti,e A Ol' aide, bee.l ll-e, J s.l !u. .'. 'I ma 1 id v a . a of Ho- Am eric. 111 .lii .-li'inpo roe. regaidlll- cable .p. like liu.s,. made I. Tin lb, s point States Aristo Giants, are planned for Chi- ' Grand Master I. II. Tillett of thc engi, but the team is scheduling dates Xorth Carolina Grand Lodge of Odd; through Kentucky snd Indiana . Joe Fellows will deliver a public, address at, Jackson, Claude Williams. Happy Felsch. the court houv at 7:43 o'elosk this eve- sVcde Risberg and Fred McMullin are Bin);. Everybody u cordially invited to j the former White. Sox players forming frear him, " ' " - I the nucleus of th Black Sox. ; Greensboro citizens told him not to op BRIBERY IN GAMES 1 -,OSH ,.impaiiy lest it penalize him SUBJECT TO FIN? nn, ,lp ,.,, ,,. n , , ,nrt ,,,,,1 II AKKlsilU'J'C. I'a.. April 13. Offer any ofticial ever has threatened any of or acceptance of a bribe to porcure a these people,'' be said; ''and 1 would defeat in any alhh'ti- contest in l'eiin not stultify myself by saving so. But I s v 1 v.i 11 In is made punishable by a fine of ,o know that fear ha dictated some of rum 100 to 3,00(1, or impritoiillienf of tbe actions of thus-,, nun who have asked rtol over five years or both, under the, that the old contracts be broken." lln terms of the MeHride bill approved yes- qualified this further by saving there is ; terday by .Governor Sproul. It is also a general feeling that such conduct had; made unlawful fur any erson to infill- Im-ch directed by these fears. I eiice or nt tempt to influence any one! Judge Pell asked Mr. Jones if the participating in an athletic contest to S'oiitliern Power Company had a greater! scciir,. defeat. .power to oppress Gaston mills than anyi ' others. Mr. Jones replied that it did not,' tint it wmiM 1,A ill- to ,.Tinsi.t alt man in ; ' lo the same thing under the same ciremn i stances. He could not comprehend such , been ; conduct as this. Some of tbe executives . I 1 in I nil,, I ground in 01 date,-, for .1 da ime I etpia I tional.i ill all I'acitic. "If Japan m ,v i'h I lie Brill li 11 11:111:1 'II,' .'.III all, teriia t ioiia 1 ial ion I nn, -. ' ' I II (lie se llloi, leivv ev er, it I Australians and N SCI ttl.'t s Hit tl, re 01 e r, -pi'.'l em 1 pan. it -ay. npie.lililllti, . 11, an lilted territories of the an attitude tin. treaty s,.lt of the plell Ipoten .llilliell'ls con slams 111 the v France ill i! Japan and a common irniiig mail always has fur other na WOULD COMPROMISE ON HOUSE MEMBERSHIP OF 460 f coii'moii;," said Tho this morning, "balked came and took matter in its own hands. A large body of mem I tiers, cliielly. eoa lit ion ist.s. invited the 'owners to explain in .Mail their propos ed wage .selie I ude . , and many members iwere plainly disappointed with the case , the owners made out. Some frankly de clared that the wages proposed for cer tain districts were too low. " After this 11 ting Parliament held an independent inquiry into the merits of j the dispute, and Prank Jlodges, secre tary of the miners' union, sjHike, niak j ing an offer whnh seemed to 0s-n the ' way for a renewal of negotiation-!. LONDON, April 1 .3. Announcement that the railway men", strike, set for 10 o', luck tonight, had been cancelled, was made shoitly before four o'clock this attiTi101.11 by J. II. Thomas, general sec retary of the ra iivv.iv men's union. No explanation. was immediately ble of the railroad men's action, muglit I i CUte. in some quarters that a split in the triple '"l r I t I s oil trad,- rights e,a and New 1 permit the in Yap." 'iif the -nt of 'bis tiies !y fair thai the .e.i landers make Japiinesv. ' ' availa but it was tl it might in alliance. The transport workers' srike also ha been called off, Mr. Thomas announced. "As far as tin railwaymen and trans port workers are concerned the strike is cancelled, ' ' bo said. WEATHER. North Carolina, unsettled weather with showers tonight or Saturday; not much change in temperature. SUSPENDS FREIGHT s SCHEDULES UNTIL AUG. 1 '.Hv The Associatn-1 P'ens.) WASHINGTON. April I.. Tbe in ferslate commerce commission siispentlei today until August l.i freight schedules j proposing to increase the minimum charge on less than carload shipments to the charge for Dm pounds at the first ,' class rates between points in Carolina. territory and eastern and interior eastern point:'. The attitude of Mr. that of the county, he ons ll'' toil. Wilson was riot 'of the mills had not pretended to get de hired, and to argue it before the eom j corporate action on .their own orders. J mission was to' present so indefensible j ! Tb'sy i"ei fo tho po"r'3 h? w I no'Gon, -' ' '"- '- ." j of the clu, artnovneed !a?t Eigbt By The Associated Press.! WASHINGTON, April 23. Represen tatives who made an uusuceessf ill attempt last session to increase the size of the house to tH.t members have begun a compromise movement to loost the mem bership to ti'.'i. Chairman Siegel, of the census cominittee. said today there was a growing sentiment in favor of an in crease, and predicted that a membership of I60 would meet with approval. A number of representatives from states that would lose seats if no increase were authorized and who voted for maintain ing the present size of the house, now favor compromise, he added. During the last session the house, voted GIVES UP TO FREE to hold its membership to 415, rcappor WIFE OF CHARGES. tinned on the basis of the 1920 census. ATLANTA, Ga., April 1.3. W.'W. The bill died in the senate. Mr. Siegel Klanchard. .young Cherokee county eon said be probably would introduce a bill viet, who cn-aped Tuesday, gave up Ids in a few days to increase the number of freedom tonight and surrendered bceaitoe representatives tn ttiO. He already has he had re.nl that, his wifv was being held introduced a resolution calling for a con- , 011 a charge (.f aiding him in getting stitntional amendment that would per-(way. nianently limit tho size of the house to, lilanehard, who wan cnfeufed Jauua .300 members. Representative Blanton.iry If, to serve t.no years on tho ('hrt democrat, Texas, has introduced a bill ; kee county chain garig, wat brought heio reducing its size to oOI members. j to testify in court and en rpui back 1J- the tower from ronrt jiersuaded a hoiliff to let him go by a hotel to see his wife. The bailiff said Warn hard darted sud denly in to the ' rrxtn i,t while Mn, Lilanehard momentarily Ml tin? door her husband got out jisoffa-r tiJrii.i.-. Blanchard sai l he h. ; 1, m.";i,-,. of free.lom would r-u't, i e il.' j 5 gautt hw wife .Uiii.d -.ems-si DETECTIVES STATIONED. (By Tha Assoctated Press.) PHILADELPHIA, April 15. Detee. tives will be assigned te the Philadelphia National League baseball park irith in structions to arrest any one attempting to gamble, William F. Rakes, president
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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