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ftp Local Cotton T 18 Cents i : Rain VOL. XLIII. NO. 4. GASTONIA, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 5, 1922. SINGLE COPY S CENTS OAS M -1 . ' ' v- ' ; ,:. -'.-v.. , . THE STATES $5,000,000 SCHOOL, BONDS NOT IN DEMAND BY BUYERS ' May Go by Default Since Pro posed Purchasers do Not V ' Care For Bonds Which Ex p ire in so Short a Time ; Raleigh Murder Mystery Deepens. , ',:) (By Ma Aberuethy.) RALEIGH, Jan. 5. North Caro lina's recently advertised issue of five million in five percent -bonds for schools way go 'by default which .will force, the - State to change its plans so as to raise the money needed for this purpose. This Information was learned today in State circles just .prior to the tneuting of the Council of (State this afternoon when consideration of -tbo proposed bond is sue is acvheduled ,to 1e taken' up. The , fact that only one-tenth of the entire is , sue has beeu, bid for has caused some worry hero and the opinion is expressed that steps must be taken to iron out the difficulty that is holding back bidders for the State 's gilt-edge tax-free securi ' ties. , v ' :, : -. '. The cause of the complaint centers a round the act which provides that the bonds, which aro serial, begin maturing . at the end of live years. This has beeu a great handicap, it is said, to the sale of the bonds and has caused bankers and others to withhold their bids. The ' bonds 'begin maturing at the end of five years and every year thereafter until the twentieth year at the rate of-$250,- ; COO annually. ' . : Treasurer B. R. Lacy is authority for the statement that nobody wants to in vest in bonds which require attention again in such a short time. Buyers of State bonds are said to prefer securities which run for a period of f font 20 to 40 ' years. , The Council of State is meeting with '' Governor Morrison this afternoon to dis- ' cuss this matter and to accept or reject the bids made last week for $467,000 iiyorth of the five million issue. 'The coroner's jury investigating the death of It. II. Hamilton, who was mor tally wounded when twice shot on the . Milburnio road the night of Doecmlter 26 one mile from the city limits of Ra leigh continues to hold the stage center f of the capital city, but none of the two score witnesses examined havebeeu able to upset the story related by Miss Irene Guess, Hamilton companion in the car at the' time. . Miss. Guess holds to the- story that Hamilton was-ihot by two negroes whom they passed and that tho pistol wits fired by one of the negroes from the right hand sido of the road. Testimony before tWe jury by Dr. C. A.' Caviness, who attended Hamilton at a local hospitnl sooit after ho was- shot was -to tire effect that tho man ould not have -been shot while in the autonio- idle as described by' Miss Guess. v i , r F.vidence tending to" show there was signs of immorality a short distance from -where thenar was first found and a bottle of whiskey in tho Humilton car liars also been laid before the jury. Tho testimony 'before the jury is being heard in secret. , Commissioner ot 2t venue A, D. Watts has called his division deputies to the cnpital and thty are receiving in structions from ".general deputies C'ollio and Ilaynes as to their duties in aiding in the collection of State income, inherit ance, and other tuxes. ThesJ daily "schools" Mill be held by commissioner until tho newly ap pointed men aro familiarized withtfheir work, Nv " W. C KROUT IS LODGED v IN GASTON COUNTY JAIL Youthful Forger Brought Back From " Atlanta and Behind 1 Bars in Gastonia Will Make Fight in Court Against Charges Brought Against .Him. "- W. C. Krout, alleged check fbisher and forger, wa brought to Gastoma Wcdnes i day afternoon in tho custody of Chief Joe On, from Atlanta where lie was ar rested last week through the instigation of the Pinkcrton Detective Agency. Re turning with Chief Orr were Mcasrs. R. E. Caldwell and Lntther Anthony who went for purposes. of identification. Mr." J. A. Hunter, Jr-. und Attorney A. K. Wolts returned earlier in tho day. "-, It is' understood that local authorities hnd-nolittle lifficulty in apprehending Krout. Friends and r:hitives of Krout , jut in their appearance and for a time it seemed that the State authorities would not honor the .requisition. Nu merous alibis were" sworn to by Krout ami his friends. However, the' -police force of the city of Atlanta, together with the l'iukerton f Detective . Aguney, rallicl to the assistance of t he local of ficers and the :refjuljition was honored Chief Orr is high in his praise of the valuable aid extended by!the Atlanta au thorities. ' . ' ' It is understood here that Krwit in tends to make a tight in-thc courts, ' llii refuses, however, to say nnjihing, pre ferring to ta'k only to his attorni-ys.. It is understood that he will retain local rotuisel. No preliminary hearing, was held today. Krout . was lodged in the Gaston county jail. - Gustouia banks carry rinkerton Agen--v pwtii-lion. IiutmMiiately upon tho discovery of the trick that had -been i. , i .... . t. , i i I X" 1 mtt. tr,r: 1. . TT. x-; ilf toe H6lh infautry, testihd tliat be 2!th, oiur-uils of the Catizcns National . , . .. . . . , ., ... . , t 1! u.- 1 . i- u . , . .. , was Jiot in the xtugout where Smith said 1 Bank wired tnc Pmkcrton agency and ! u- i.- , . , -. . ; the latter liad .a man on the job in Ga- ton'ui early the next morning. THE WEATHER North Carolina, rain and. colder night; Friday fair aad colder. to- Mississippi Man Twelve Hangings In France , (By The Associated Press.' WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. Further testimony relating to. , the hauging of American soldiers was ' presented today to. the Senate committee- iurestigating charges ty Senator Watson, Democrat, Georgia, that soldiers were put to death, in France, without trial.. Herbert L. Cadeahead, of Greouville, Miss., 21 years old. a former, service man, declared' he saw men exxuted, in. orderly iashion, with troops looking on.J war i'epaximeni, records previously swo mitted to the rommittee showed that eleven soldiers were hanged in France af ter convietiou by general eourtmartial. '"How many hangings did you see al together!" Cliairman Brandegee asked. "Ten or twelve," lie replied. The witness did not know IW many had been tried. None of the men hang ed, he said, mude statements on the gal lows. - . . , , One of those put to death was a lieutenant,- charged with assaulting a seven year old girl, hedeclared. . The witness went over the executions he claimed to have seen, one by one. ' Called before a Senate committee to testify as to charges that Major Hieroine L. Opie, of Staunton, Vs., had shot two soldiers in France, Horace Cooke, of Covington, Va., declared today that' all he knew about the case was hearsay: Claude Breedon, of Covington, a form er service man, also was called. i " What, do you know about tho charges against Major Opie!" Chairman Brande gee asked. "Nothing." "You are excused." Tho names of Itreedon aid Cooke, who served in Major Opie's command third battalion, USth infantry, over seass, were mentioned in a letter to Sen ator Watson as likely to have evidence, But they insisted they knew nothing of their own knowledge. A moment later, however, Lemuel O Smith, of Dublin, Va., who has been in an linstitution for the insane sinco the war, declared he saw Major Opie shoot a soldier. " While in a dugout with tliris" com rades and four German prisoners,' sai.i tomitti, "i saw Aiajor Upie Taxe a gun and deliberately .shoot a ma n. The man Opie shot was William Woolwine. He was shot .while in the dugout, about in the middle of it.' Opie was ten Bteps from Woolwine." "What did Major Opie sayf" he was asked, ' "He said: 'I shot him; take him out.' " , : .... "What wus said before the shoot ingf" ' ' Not a word wus passed. Major Opie gave no reason." "How ninny shot were fired!" "One. It hit Woolwine in tho chest. He was den if when we picked him up." ""I)id you make a complaint about the shooting!" 'I did not." In a letter, to Senator Watson, Smith said lie had been decorated by French and 'American Governiucats, but ho ad mitted that ho had received no' such hon ers. He said a frieutt Henjumin H. Fieger, wrote the letter and had signed it without reading it. Smith said he had been physically un able to work sinco leaving tho army. Taking the witness, tnator Watsoni told Smith to compose himself uhd not be afraid of Major Opic or anybody else in the committee. Cagenhead produced , several small I plwtographs of purported hanging! scenes. , - 1 . " Your main criticism about the cxe- cation, as set forth in your . letter to! Senator Watson, was that tho French' people should not havo been permitted to' see inemf i;uairman liranaegeo asked. "Yes sir.-" - ' "See any barbarity?" ,'.," ' "No, the only thing I sw was that some of. the men hanged were doped.", Pressed by tliairman Brandegee, Cagenhead said all the executions ho saw were around Issurtille. . f j " At this point-Col. Walter A. Bethel, who was ifeneral Pershing's judge ad-' vocatw general in France, stated that of the II executions' listed by the War Do-! partment.' ono took place in 'December, 1917, three in 1918 and the others in' 1919, after the armistice iintor Overinnn. Democrat. North Carolina, wanted to know who was with! du?rs drawn up as witnesses, in accord CagenheaI when he looked on at the ex-; ance with military regulations, editions. I Harry W. Segal, of Dorchester, Mass., "Andrew Saloon, of New York, was, who enlisted 'for aervko overseas at owe," aaid the witness, and everybody! laughed. ! "How many were present at the. first' five hangings that you saw!" asked Colo-; nel Bethel. , ! " About 200 or 300 French people and' SOft soldiers." , ; "You saw the. other five or seven ex-, editions from a truck while hauling Ger man prisoners!" I "Yes. When, we "saw a hanging from the road we stopped to look." Senator Watson took sharp exception j to a line of cross-examination by John l r A. Cutchins, of Richmond, Va., counse for Major Opie.. The lawyer laid ask-, ed Smith ifjic believed a man killed 'in battle died an honorable death. , . 'Its outrageous to have officer who bullyrag this poor nervous man," Sena tor Watsou shouted. "We are after evidence, not opinions.'' Osborne Ellison, of Pulaski, mentiowey , bv Smith as having been in. V-Je dugout with him at the time of the Woolwine shooting, declared he was not present.- Lee tV)Uin., of Dublin, -Va., was next! totll.fl. but denied Smith's story. He! said he -was a committee witness and j mission of Viiivent Fralecretti, cafe wai pot siimmusied by Major Opie. - iter, to a Vnitiil Stales commissioner William-J. Kskew, of PnlaskL' V-., that lie savml the iiquor left on the eafe Woolwine was sCiot. , He lutd lieen nam- l, ,likc tlw preceding witness, by Smrth 1 as having been present. Near the close of a seven-hour session : Major Hierome L. Opie, of Staunton,) Fralecretti saiil he mixed the liquors Va commander of the third battalion.' together in the same bottle and as a rr lltjth infantry. Viverseas. went on the 1 suit, accidentally hit on cocktail combi- stand to entcf euiphatie denial of charges l.tf ..n,f. . ,). VA 1 1 i by former service men that he kid shot i Saw Ten Or down some tf his own soldiers in cold blood, on' the battlefield. He was asked, however, to step aside until other wit nesses then iu the room could testify a gainst him, meanwhile being given the right through counsel to cross-examine them. : , Responding to his name when the Opic charges were -taken up, - Grayson il. Withrow,' of. Baltimore, still in his ear ly twenties, -stepped to the front, ana testified that he saw the officer seito gun from a private and fire at a man in ids command. Shells were falling over head, he said, and there was tremendous excitement, but Withrow swore- that from his retreat, in a shell hole he eeped out and saw the man fall as the major's gun barked. ,- But he eouhl not say whet he Opie had killed him, declaring the latter, standing out in the oteu, was within arm's reach of half aj oivzen of ficers when the shot was fired., Shot Down "Runner." ' " As Withrow left tho stand 'William F. St. John, a young man from Lynchburg, Vs., suffering' from nervous troubles re sulting from service overseas. accused the Virginian of shooting duwn a "run- nerJ' at the front because he failed to; 1 1 m, . 1 : . 1 1 ... I uvim piier. iiirice ueins urucrcti (u nun. rour otlier men saw the killing, ho de clared, but he refused of his own accord to give their names, oil the ground that he had not been able to confer with them and thnt it would not be just to him if they should appear and "not back up" his charges. Olie of them, he said, had developed "cold feet" and was unwill ing to come. ' Reminded by Chairmau Brandegee that the names must be submitted, St. John, complied, mentioning first the cousin of one oi Major Opie's counsel, sitting across the table. It was while St. John was being cross-examined by John A, Cutchius, of Richmond, Va., Major Opie's counsel, that ho lost con trol of his shattered nerves, and dramati cally shouted that he was dealing with a bunch of fanatics "who aro trying to proVo I am' nutty." Mr. Cutchins promptly diselaimed such lyi intention. Seeing that the young man was worn out by excitement, Senator Watson, dem ocrat, Georgia, whoso charges of illegal executions 'are under investigation, . de clined to question him. Tomorrow Major Opie will testify in his own behalf. Noose 'and Black Cap. ' Startiug out with the' testimony of Rufui I'. -Hubbard, of New York, who aa embalming assistant v with tho American graves- registration service, ' declared he found a nooso and black cap on the bo dies of three American soldiers dug up ill the littlo French cemetery at Buxoii- Jes, the committee permitted the inquiry to run its own course. Right after the testimony of Hubbard another witness, who assisted in a legal execution, declared that the body was buried, noosu and bl;u'k cap, intact, in the same cemetery where Hubbard said threo so ; marked had -been f ottnd. 'A farm boy from Georgia, who frank ly but pathetically announced ho could not read or twritc, cleared up his recent statement concerning the shooting of aj soldier because ho had sneaked away from his command to quench his thirst at a little spring. ..It developed that the command ,wiw trying to conceal its posi tion from the enemy and that all hands had been warned that the first man at tempting to walk out in tho ojicn would "0 Shot. Hie soldier walked nfty yards beyond tho dead line, icfused to halt when' ordered, and they shot him iu his tracls. There was much testimony relatiirfc to executions at ls-Sur-Tille, none of the witnesses being able to say whether the victims had been tried, beyond tho claim of some to the tontrary as the trap was sprung. Wur department records, containing the list of eleven legal hangings, listed two at ls-Sur-Tille. Witness From Penitentiary. ' Quito Inadvertently a member of the committee brought out during tho ex amination of a former soldier that since tho war he had served fourteen mouths in Georgia penitentiary for stealing an automobile. - No attempt was made. however, to discredit his testimony on 1 that account. It related solely to cx- ecl't tons, conducted publicly with sol- Jacksonville, rla., told of witnessingl the banging of two negroes at Gievres ial January, 1919.. "The hangings it was a lynching. I thoughwas the aftermath of a riot that occurred two days before," Segal said. " Were the men tried by courtmar tialf" ho was asked. "I do not know," he replied. ocgai lesuncd uial tho Hanging was directed by Colonel. Hahn, of-tho quar termaaler's corps. Porter Mastringalc, of Bowden. Gaj was called, but it it was explained by - Senator Watson there hail 1 been an error in subpocBamg him. He knew nothing and was excused. After he had testified late today Chair mnn Brandegee told St. John that he might return home, but - the witrlcss statist that Senator Watsan 1iad directed him to remain here overnight for further examination tomorrow. ... , v' CAFE WAITER HITS ' ON NEW COCK TAIL -' I (By The Associated 1'rcss.) SAX 'FRANCICO, Jan.- 5.Thc ad-! tables by New lcar's gi .. , . , r,, it to other guests at Sir . guests, and sold rents a drink. gave rroliibition a new situation to eon- sider t3duy. He was bound over to the district court on a charge of violating the Volstead act. nations wlm-h be said brought a . brisk I .1. ...I . ' - . ' demand. LIQUOR BOAT CAPTAIN HAS HARD LOCK YARN FOR EAR OF KOHLOSS Says Bad Winds Made Him Hit. North Carolina. Coast ft. Dl L r ii EVSES - worm or. Liquor will- rot Be ConBscated. (By W. T. Bast, in Greensboro News.) ' RALEIGH, Jan, Federal l'rohi-: bitiou Agent U. A, Kohk-ss, of Salis-i bury,-on his way boms from Ocracoke.l where hewent Friday to cast his respects! over a cargo of $130,000 worth of liquor,! dropped off today in Raleigh to tell th, v'j iun-u urois iiiiiii an ior liquor treasure. ' He visited District Attorney Irviu ft. Tucker's office and laid a few frag ments before him. The head of the pro hibition forces in the state has spent four nights getting to that liquor and a ay from it. He found on th "Mes selVgervof Peace" 1.0M6 case of whis key. 'This means 4.H4. gallons, or 16, 576 quarts. This lxoze sells at $12.50 a quart retail. The' grand total goes well aliove $150,000. the booie "was cnpidred in tin; Oera- coke inlet Friday when the Messenger of . .. . . " t eace, on its cuise to San Pierre, No-j nhe't.n r there were any religious serviet's via Scotia, blew into the inlet and got, at the house or at the cemetery. News stuck In tlui'mud. TheT fact that the j paper reporters wen- not a'dlidtted to navigntors were runninja 500 or so miles the burial ground. il0. Trse 71 not, Vl." l'aHt ;'n,,rra,"i Tlu-' tl1" '""ly ' "'e , t if' ,tf,i" f 1,h "fr1- wouM be buried today Uname kuown plaine.l that a storm blew him and his!ut0 yesterdiv of I'eaee is ripped m with threo ,.i.t. up with three masts an.l is very sensitive to tho wind. It has an engine and can drive wherever it lushes 1o go. Tho sailors had little paraphernalia which belongs to outfits which go to sea. But for all that, the men stood by the story 1 that unkiud winds blew them into North Cnraliua, the first state to go dry by populnrvote. - High Sounding Liquor.. When tho Messenger of 1'eaeo became Stick-in-the-Mud the state began to ad minister on the .argo and found (quite a tonnage of booze. Tho boat is good for nbout 50 tons and a half its capacity was in bottled joy. There were four "lrl"'i ui .ie pruce street tioum standard brands. Two thirds of the1 tvbere the Senator's body lay and where whiskey was Maryland Rye by label, but!,u? "' bo."1- Fo,lr tutt"l larked there is nothing in a name. There was aa B,lort distuuee frojn the house about goodly percentage of Irish wtiiskeV amt tm? 8a,llt' tl,M'- A little later Charles a limited amount of two well-known brands. Mr. Jiohloss took samnles of all and sent flieui' to Wushlhirton. Oh. tueu m servatiou has tatight him that not all ohlj fro,n "ow're a hearse approached t''o riddles are Stadivariuses and not aiplMiuae. - tumble-down furniture is antiquex All' A ftW minutes later the body of the that smells is not pure rye made in 1913.1 Si'nator was brought out by .Hn iinder Tho Salisbury leader had his tribuln- taker's assistant aHd. the hoarse folloAV- I.: .U.J rtil I. .1 Tlll .:,, .,, ...f ' ..1.11i. . outs cut all corts of did)es.; The trip, brothers, startoil for the cemetery. Re i made Friday najht after tho rail ( porters ho were on watch at the ceme- ).....;y ended at New item. It is So mius lV' in there .to the Messenger1 Of Peace an . Mr. Kohloss finished his jour ney, which he continued from New Bern in a government boat, without getting to the Messenger ofr Peaeo that night.- A boat from Portsmouth, N. ., took him to the liqupr vesael and he went aboard her. Two whites and seven blacks man ned the schooner. She was a seaworthy ship. The whiskey on her was made in sundry parts of America. It had been consigned to San Piere with the Bahama Islands os a setting out point. But that awful wind camo up and sent her into North Carolina. .Mr. Kohloss, on investigation,- found that the winds 1ihvi had a habit of Mow. ing Captain Coleman and his associates' into that part of Xorth Carolina. Hither-1 to the gales have lieen a little more con- Iderate und have not sent tho shipmcli are i nrfl. agrourtil. Hut the Messenger of J'eaee was not in an uncharted sea. It made itself very much at home. The ship cannot get away and in time it will be taken to Wilmington. , The government will go amply into tho case. If it should turn out that Sssl Pierre really is entitled to the booze unh these men were in good faith carrying the, stuff there, there is nothing to do but to) turn the whole crew loo.se. I 'S wo .ships, which barely missed being! caught in the state, escajx-d by heaving1 their cargoes over board, it is said. - ,- Dl'BLIX, Jan. o. The astonishment GIANTS OFF TO TRAINING I pro.luced in the Dail Eireann by Eamonn CAMP ON FEBRUARY 26.de Valera's sudden production of his al NEW YORK, Jan. i). Members of, ternative proiosals to the ieaee treaty, tlm New York (iiants w ill start for their j and his announced determination, to winter training camp in San Antonio, move them as an amendment to the Tex., on February 26, Manager M;-j i Graw announced today. The players will. re..h the Texas city on the night of February '2H nnd start work at the Tex- as League ball park on March 1. Manager McGraw said that he had re ceived a telegram from Connie Mack ask ing him to arrange six games with the Athletics, three in San Antonio and three at Eagie Pas-. Tex., where the Athletics will do their training. Mc Graw declared that, he had declined the invitation becnuso the Giants' sched uled already was complete. Storm Does Damage. TULSA, Okla.. Jan. 5. With at least a score of families homeless and several persons- injured, several towns in tins' district witc recovering today from . a storm which yaterday - swept through northeasteru Oklahoma and reached into southeastern. Kansas and &ontliwiteni Missouri. ' Cotton Market CLOSING BIDS ON THE NEW YORK MARKET . NEW Y'GRK, Jan. . Cotton fu tures closed steady. January 19.45; March 1 8.30 ; May 17.S6; July 17.32; tktolK-r 16.50; Siots 13.73. - . . TODAY'S GOTTO'l T.1ARXET Cotton Seed C. - : - ft. . . - ,.45c ISC Strict to Good Middling SHANTUNG DIFFICULTY WITH JAPAN AND CHINA GIVES DUBIOUS ASPECT TO THE CONFERENCE NEGOTIA TIONS PENROSE FUNERAL IS CONDUCTED WITH THE GREATEST OF SECRECY ' and Funeral Arrangements That All Funerals Should be Secret Late Senator Hated Pomp and Ceremony Hour of . Funeral Arrangements Are Kept Absolutely Secret. PHILADKLl'HIA, Jaa. 5.' Th( fuiu-rnl ni" Senator Hides Penross, was held this, morning. Tho same great se crecy that surrounded the nmking of ar rangements for the funeral was main tained mi lil the body of the--l political leader was lowered into' the brick lined grave in South I.aurcl Hill remetery. . . . , .n ltirortii.'il I'm w.'ia . fnrthwtiiniiir Newspapers that regarded the buriuh of a United States Senator who had fig ured sj largely iu the polltitul history the country as an important piece of 1 sanu plan as death watches are set on ! prominent porsous k are believed to i be dying. A report that Senator Fen- rose s father was buried years ugo at midnight iu order to avoid undue pub licity, made the vigil of reK)rters alt most an-all night alTair. About 7:'M a. in., today, the three brothers' of the Senator, wh4 was a bachelor, Charles U. RicJiard and Knen- i 1 enrose. who is vphysicinu and had'at tended his tn-otlier. cim. nnf nti ihu frant step alnf wand his arm, and socmiugly eontiiiuimr th- f.,,;ii... H, ,ofy yes;eruny were not admitted today and the newspaper men who followed the funeral party through a steady rain to the last resting place of the dead sena tor were warned that if they entered the eemeteiy it would beat their own peril, liuaids were stationed all around the place. The funeral party was in the cemetery about 1" minutes. Thus was enacted the final scene in the career of a 'man who was a political power. Lenders from every county in the Ktate came to Philadelphia within ill l,Uf .C....- (.. .1.. I - 4.. .1... .... ,w Mo iTunur - iu me t dead chieftain, and not one was invited j ! to the bachelor home of the SVmitor ' w,u'r' ''y been held. polithul conferences havo Questions hail been asked why the fa'y desired m-recy in the burial of '."V "enmor aim nie iniswer ot ciose po litical friends was that Penrose hut ml I iomp'and eeiefiiony. It is said to have Arrhur Benson, a bank messenger, ere been a tradition iit the Penrose family, wounded today when live bandits rob which is one of the oldest in the city. Ix-d them of a 12,000 payroll for the that all funerals of members be strictly Maywood dant of the American Can priviato. Company. , De Valera's New Plan Makes Action Dail Eireann Doubtful treaty at today's session, hnvo .turned nto anxiety over the probable effect of the move on the further proceedings in the Dail. , Mr. de Valera's right to move his proposals as an amendment has been challenged and it is possible that a criti leal livision toilay may occur on tho mo-! tion to enable him'to carry out his plan. t His opponents lecli.ro he must reserve 1 his alternative proposal until the Dail has anVn a direct vote on the treaty. SiihiortcM. of ratiiieation express! themselves as deeply ehargrmcd at the; turn affairs have taken. Some see 111 do Valera's action an attempt to rally the extreme republicans to his. side, while others profoss to rigard it as the hist, !us'rate effort of a leader who sees his power slipping from his grasp. From the confusion caused by his launching what .the followers of Arthur Griffith eccni agreed to rail ''document No. 3" it is dimcult to envoi ve any con crete view of the probable result and mowt observers, after expressing their personal opinions of de Va'.era 'a action, say the unraveling of the tangle mtist await today's proceedings of the Dail. i .-'Meanwhile strong condemnatory com-i ment appears in the Dublin newspapers. ' LONDON, Jan. a. - Few English. r.ewspacr correspondents in Dublin ven-i tiirj opinions as to the result of Eatnoiiii de Valera-'s suddenly announced plan to- amend the Irish p'aca treaty, but all re-i cord tlw amaziwient caused by. his nc-'j tion, ami the doubta arising from it.' ! They geaerally agree that entranoo of la this new factor ha greatly altered the situation and that the action of the Dail run not be predicted. Some writers avoid any comment 00 Final Decision May Possibly Be Reached Today -'Many Troublesome Problems of Conference Almost at Point of Decision Final Agree ment Also in Sight on Question of a Revised Chinese Tariff - Must Curb Use of Submarine. I. . , .1 .. HOME COMFORTS WEIGH LITTLE BESIDE INTERESTS OF SCIENCE SAY EXPLORERS Many Expeditions Go Forth to Frozen - Arctic to Blistering Africa and to " Varying Climes of Other Countries in Interest of Science. NEW YORK, Jan. S. Comforts of home weigh little when cast iu the bal ance wrth the interests of scicnu?, it is declared by those in touch with museums and learned societies, Expeditions, havo gone Arth from tho United States and foreigi. countries' in the frozen Arctic, the- blistreing areas of Africa, nnd to the varying climes of Asia, South Amer ica, and other distant lands in quest of auiiual and vegetable specimens and da ta that aifl add tff'the knowledge of man. Among the expeditions now at work are: I : The. Mijrd Asiatic expedition of. the American Mumnm 'of (Natural History, which is to remain five years iu the Oftii ent hoiK'ful of finding .the- "missing' link" and sure df gathering a wealth of scientific, data and having a lot of fun hunting antelope Jn automobiles. , The Stefaussou expedition -which ' is mapping tlie little known boundaries of .Wrangel's island, north of Siberia, und whith expects .to remaiiiaway two or taree years, , Donald B. Mat-Millaii and his com rades are exploring Baffin's Land. An expeditioa to hunt gorillas is trek king in Afriea under the direction- of Carl E. Akeley, of the American 'Muse um of Natural History. . The Mulford biological expedition which sailed from South America last June to be gone a couple of years, ex- pecis to spena ine coming months ex ploring the headwaters of tho Amazon, seeking Colonel Roosevelt's river of doubt, - ' The" British expedition which climbed to witiiin 6,000 feet of the world's high est HSjuiiiit, the peak of Mount Everest, in 19-1, expects to go bnck and finish the .job this year. Minor expeditious are working in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and elsewhere, most of thein lieiug American, 'because Eu rope has little money for such enterpris es. . - Nineteen twenty two, of course, will j have the usual dash toward the North Pole. This time it is to be attempted ! .., I".... 1.1 .l i. ...:n ... m.. .i . iitx.Ki auiuiuwii, iiii mil set luilfi iii the spring. , v BANDITS SHOOT TWO AND GET $12,000 PAYROLL. CIlTOAUO, Jan. 5. John KoftVr, president of the . May wood Stute Bank, i was shot and kf I cd. ninl l.onm K tni. v. eliief f unliee ,.f unl..i.-l, .,,,.1 Mr. de Valera's move while other clfarac teri.e it variously as a change in hjs position to align himself with the ex treme republicans, the last throw of the leaders of a lost cause, an attempt to evnde the alternative of accepting or re- jeeting the treaty en bloc, a tight for his I own political existence, or an attempt toftails of the naval limitation plan now wr.K-k the treaty. advanced by the nnval experts to a One says it improves tho prospect ofj point whore final disposition of the stib-. quickly endintr the susmmse recardina-' ject was declared in some Quarters to ha the late pf tho treaty, while another! declares, that, if document No. 3 is ad-1 tnitted as an amendment, debate oa the treaty may Ije prolonged far beyond! present expectations, , The Daily Mail's correspondent des- crilx the Dail's adjournment as having been taken in "a welter of confusion," this writer assumes thnt. if Arthur! Griffith and Michael Collins refuse to ac-' cept Mr, de alera s amendment, there may oe a vote on the issue which will ie equivalent to a vote on the treaty itself. The boIp editorial comment here in re gard to Mr. de Valera's move is that of the Westminster Gazette, which is a hearty advocate of Irish autonomy aud the treaty. The paper expresses amaze ment at the. alternative treaty and de clares Ireland lias to ask itself where, for a turn of a phrase, it is prepared to re ject peace anil return to bitterness and bloodshed." ,We( cannot doubt what the answer will be.", - . e SAYS TREATY WILL BE DEFEATED BY TWO. .- , - , . ' . ' ""'.,.-'' py Tho Associated . ra. j , LONDON. Jan. 5. J. J, Walsh, member, of the Dail Kiraiin, is quoted in lentral JSews despotclv from lJulrtin. today as saying in a statement: "I can ilefiinitely state that, as the position stands, the trejvry will lj d I feu ted by at least two votes I t-- . ' . WASHINGTON. Jan. 5. With tlm issues developed by Miantung. subma rine regulation and details of the naval limitation settlement all pressing -towards decision, the Far Eastern com mittee bf the. Washington conference re sumed its sessions today and opened up new sources of debate, . The Chinese went into the committee meeting insisting that the conference take up the "21 demands", and the Ja panese protesting that. the subject did not come within the scope of the tonfer-. ence. , . ... In the submarine regulation negotia tions a meeting of t-)ie full naval com mittee of the whole wus indicated as im minent, tho Italians having received In structions to accept in principle the Root ..-ku.huou proposals. The Italian ac ceptance was snid to be conditioned on rrenth ascession, however, (tud the atti tude of the French has not been fully" defined in spite of their .announcement I hat they would accept the Root - pro gram in principle. The naval commit tee meeting may be held late today. The naval experts were again in con sultation, with uiemliers of the sub-corn- mitteo indicating that their work was about completed. The Japanese and Chines were preparing to go into eonfer-' euee again hiro in the-day over Shsn tung. All tho evidence pointed to an early comliision of the Shantung coi versntums, one way or, the other. 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. - With allV ' other problems of tha ,rm conference rapidly moving towarJ tin) poiut of final ; -settlement the Shantung v negotiations : between the Japanese and Chinese dele gates alone today presented a dubious.' aspect us to whether their resumption is . , to result in an agreement or a final ...V' deadlock. While tho Far Kastera coin- -iruttec of the whole met today to tak ac-' a.un It". !,('t,isioi Ptits sub-eommittee ' Tin the Chinese tariff qnestioa, the two ' nelegationa faecd another meeting iu"'" their effort to settle' the controversy which has developeil over the mode of " t payment for the Kiao Chow-Tsin An Fu' ' railroad in tho former German ' Jeasov' -hold. , .. . ' ,. ... ' Iu the first meeting yesterdaY since tho conversations" were adjourned be-' causeof the deadlock over this issue, ' there were no eutward in.lications thnt. either side had uhondotied its former jKitioii on it. Tho meeting was held late in the day, after the Japaneso dele gates liad informed Secretary Hughes an.l Artlpir J. Balfour, who, through a their observers, had been "sitting in" " during the conversation, were the indi- ' rect means of bringing tha two delega-' tions together in an effort V break their , 1 deadlock, that they had received th in.i ' I strnction awajteil from Tokio and were4 ' " reauy to meet again with tho Chinese. V Kvidenee of revived hope in many quarters for an early settlement of tho iwne following yesterday's meeting was . . reganhd as pttributabie in somO meas ure to the subsequent statement issued. by the two , delegations that the discus sion would bo "completed" today. .It"' was trtated by a spokesman of the Japan ese delegation' lato last-night, however, that the statement should have said the discussions would be "continued" to- day, although there wan no official a- mendment to that effect. ' In nldition to expected ratification bv ' the. Far Eastern committee of tho sub- j committee deeiaion to increase China's tariff s hcdu!c' under au international . commission plan, that body faced . the' : possibility of encountering new troubles . ! at today's meeting through China's re quest that the famous '.'twenty one de mands" be brought np for eonferenc discussion. A protest ngainst this course ; was lodged by Japan at the hjst meeting V' of the committee and a stubborn de bate was exfiected -by soma delegates be fore the point is decided. ; ' Aith settlement of the technical de- 'l'y a question of hours, the problem of submarine regulations also had beeu d- va need another step toward decision to day by Japan a acceptance in principle or tlwltoot resolutions proposing to out law tne w submarines against nr tm. T'sels- lta'y alone remains to V'n'1 Tf. proposition and it was tor- lu've'1. discussion by the full - naval committee might take place late today.." CORRESPONDENT OF LONDON TIMES IS KIDNAPPED f By The Associated.-Preaa. ; DUBLIN, Jan. 5. A, B. Kay, cor respondent for the London Times, was. kidnapped last night by three armed men while with other newspaper -men in a grocery fehop. There has been no wort' of him s'ni(' his disappearancef and 11a explanation of his seizure. ; ' - - " The- correspondents - httending - thU " morning '.1 session of the Dait Lireana demanded his immediate release and the f punishment of his kidnapH-r. Kay '9 friends pointed to an artiVlo he wrote recently from trk, saying that senc of the leading lighting men of that city favored ratification!1 of the Irish treaty, as a possible reason for hi ab duction. They said he wus warned st that time to leave Cork oa the tlirr-i', that ho would be "put in a va ;'t corpses and & candle." . The.v v.(:, f the opinion-he 'had been tafcm to li"-, and thai he Plight be nt'irned here K -day." J "
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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