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QA2ETTE OMAllEY Weather: Warmer Local Cotton 17 Cents VOL, XUII. NO. 72. GASTONIA, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 25, 1922. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS eA5 HEADS OF BOTH IRISH CALLED TO LONDON FOR IHPORTANTCOIEREKEE Collin and Craig Summoned by British Government v Shocking Murders at Belfast Have Horrified England and Ireland. - , (By The Associated Press.) LOXDOX, March 25. Michael Col lins, head of the provisional Irish Free State Government, was reported as pre paring to leave Dublin for London this morning in response to the imperial government's invitation to a discussion of the situation growing out of the ro cent grave events in Ireland. ' ' Nothing had Wo heard from Kir James Craig, ULter premier, who was also requested to come, except the state ment overnight that he hud not yet re ceived the government 's message. It was assumed, however, that he would bo on hand for the conference, which it 1 is hoped will bring forth some means of restoring order. j The invitation' asked the heads of the two Irish governments to bring with . them . such colleagues as they might : deem ' necessary parties to the discus sions. The London lnornbig newspa pers comment at length on the situa tion, especially expressing horror at the savage murders in Belfast of five mem bers of the family cf Owen McMuhon. Thnv terms the trairedv the worst mas- cr. in Ireland since Dublin tniiimen slaughtered 14 British officers there in j November, 1920. Latest reports from Belfast say the crime has profoundly sluuked the con science of every decent element of the city, and it is feared more murders will occur as reprisals. 8omo of the newspapers which in no wise condone the outrages committed by Bout hern extremists ami contend that the north has given much provocation, roundly denounce the continuance of violence iu Belfast. They are dispos ed to hold the northern government re sponsible to a great extent for having, as they say, failed to exercise sufficient repressive measures. LONDON, March 2,). Tlie Colonial office received notification today that Arthur Griffith, president of the Dail Eireann and Eunton J. Duggan, Minis ter of Ilomc Affairs, would arrive in London on Monthly, in compliance with the- request of the British government for. a conference ou the critical Irish situation. ' Should' the Ulster government accept the invitation to the conference it is ex pected the conferees will meet here on Tuesday. BELFAST, March 2.". Gunmen were busy again today. Three men am bushed John Borosford, a protectant and an employ of a morning newspa per. He was wounded twice. Several men entered the home of a coal hawker in Georges street, East Belfast, sot it afire, and then shot a. pony aud a donkey belonging to the hawker; David Ciiri.-tio was stopped in the street by Severn I men who interro gated him regarding his religion. He turned and tied, escaping unhurt, al though a shot was fired after him. BELFAST, March 25. Premier Sir James Craig today received a telegram from Winston Spencer Churchill, impe rial secretary for Colonies, inviting him to a conference in Loudon on the Iris'.i situation. The premier replied that the message would receive the earnest con sideration of the northern government and that a further reply would be sent shortly. The Ulster cabinet has been summon ed to meet on Monday for other busi ness, and it is understood Secretary Churchill's invitation will be considered at that time. A member of the cabinet expressed the belief that unrest caused by the re vision of boundary clauses in the Anglo-Irish treaty was responsible for the present disorders in Belfast . Locals Won and Lost. The" Gastonia high school debating team lost in the debate held here hist night to 'Shelby's team. Misses Annie Blair Anders and Rachel Hendcrlite represented the affirmative side. Mr. Frank Kincaid aud Miss Elizabeth Mc Millan representing the negative side won from Liucoluton. The Shelby teams won both sides of the debate. "There will be an important meeting of tho cast of "Xothiug But The Truth" Monday afternoon at 5 o'cUxk at the Chamber of Commerce. All mem ticrs are urged to be present. Disturbing Elements Put Damttcr on I Captain Amundsen will make vernl ! experimental rlijrht in the vicinity of - .... i .. , - , , New York, accurding to Mr. Hammar. Bonus Legislation, Impending Coal Strike, .Labor Disturbances aft,.r which he pans to start on his trans and Tiirhter Money Had DeDressinar Effect on Wall Street ; continental flitr!. Mr. Hammar said This Week. fBr The Associated Tress.) ; NEW YORK, March 2o. Busi ness on the stock exchange during tha week fell off moderately from the active and broad movement of the preceding week. With the di- '- miuished dealings came an irregular but general reaction of prices. ( Causes for the reversal were pre sented by the confusion attending . Ikhius legislation ot Washington, . tighter money rates and labor dis turbances, bf which the impending coul strike was the foremost infiu CBpre that the industrial conditions - were more hopeful, especially as af fecting the iron shd stwl trade. Higher price for finished and semi fiinished products. kept pace with a pronounced expansion of output. MINERS UNION WILL AnEMPT T06ET 200,000 NOfi-UNION MINERS TO WALK CUT APRIL 1ST. Officials Are Bent on Tying Up Entire Coal Pro ducing Power of the Nation Will Concen trate on Pennsylvania Field Where There Are 100,000 Non-Unicn Miners Lewis Confers With President of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. (By The Associated Press.) CLEVELAND. O., March 25. Lead ers in the nation-wide col strike, of union miners, set for April 1, turned at tention today toward winning 200,001) non-union miners to the walkout, which Beemed assuri'd the United support of half a million union men. Calls for the non-union men to net will be issued in several states early next week, probably on Monday. The program of striking the non union field was decide on by the gener al policy committee of the United Mine Workers of America, which in conclud ing Its formal meeting 'here yesterd:i also affirmed the union's policy of & general suspension of work, with no wage contracts being made for any soft coal district until an agreement had been reached for the central competitive field. Douht that the'policy could long be main tained in some partly unionized fields was expressed by Frank Farrington, the Illi nois leader, who voted to supiort it, but declared (he Illinois union would muke a ! contrait with operators whenever the rike began to crumble. 1" addition to laying plnus for ex ending i ue sinnc, ine cimniuuei ineei ing was marked by a private conference! between John L. Lewis, the miners' in- ternational president, and Warren IS. fciono, president oi inn iiromernooii or i locomotive engineers. Jt ended with Mr. Lewis' announcement that Mr. Stone hail "proffered assistance in any way that it can be utilized," but the miners' chiet dclincd to define the nature of the pro posed aid, and Mr. Stone refused to make any statement. Mr. Lewis, who remained here today for conferences with various subordinate leaders in the strike, said he had no oth er conferences planned with the leaders of the three other "big four" railj brotherhoods, which have headquarters in this city. None of the brotherhoods, has yet formally ratified the alliance Ik-j tween miners and the transportation j unions to oppose wage reductions, and tho conference between Mr. Lewis and' Mr. Stone, was described by Mr. Lewis I as a review of the "general situation j confronting the mine workers." Wil- Haul -Gitcen, Be-cretarv-treasuror of the. miners, also attended the conference, but none of its participants would say I whether the financial questions were dis-j cussed. I District "union officials remaining herej after the committee meeting had con-! ferenees today with Mr. Lewis, the prin- cinnl aiihiirt lirilU' the conduct of the: strike. The union's move to strike tlif"ie others were missing early today as I non-union mines will centre in ' Pennsy-j a result of an explosion in Kopris Mine i lvnnin, where there are 100,000 non-lNo. 2, of the Colorado Fuel k Iron ' union workers. Special organizers of the,' Company, near here, yesterday after ! union are 1o aid the district union ofH-c"n ' cials in efforts to lead these men from; Eight of the nine bodies recovered ! the coal pits. Other non union fields from the mine have been identified, that are expected to be invaded are West i Kescuo crews worked all night in cf- I Virginia. Kentucky. Alabama, Colorado 1 Maryland and Washington. Union leaders professed their plan of ' action in the non-union districts was n : peaceful one, asserting that no disord' r j was contemplated and adding that if j trouble developed it would be due to tie 1 mine guards that the union men said would be employed by operators. ROY L. VAIL ADDRESSES y LOCAL Hl-Y CIU3 At their regular weekly meeting this j week, the Gastonia Hi-Y Club was ad- dressed by Mr. Roy L. Vail, state' boys' work fecretary of Charlotte, X. C." The speaker chose his subject from J the boys' weekly lesson in Jenk's "Life Questions for High School Boys, "J which was, Fraternities and Societies. " Mr. Vail in a. very unusual way devel- oped his topic and drove his points home to each boy's heart in a most unique manner. The local club will begin soon to or ganize other local Hi-Y clubs among 'he undergraduate classes at the high school. Alro other out of town speak ers will be brought here to deliver ad dresses to the members. THE WEATHER i North Carolina, fair tonight, warmer j in extreme west portion; Sunday increas-j inn rlourtiness. orobablv followed bv showers in interior. Stock ExchanmiA:i by 1,1 ,X1 Railroad returns were disappoint ing, despite increased carloadings. Tho cut in the Northern Pacific dividend was accepted as evidence that railroad executives deemed it unwise to maintain dividends un less earned. Call money rates several times rose to 5 1-2 per cent on the great er inquiry from brokerage sources, together with the drawing down of local reserves by interior banks. -Purchases of time funds also were less liberal, but commercial paper of the best class sold at 4 1-2 per cent for short dates. The most encouraging feature of the financial markpt las the nna hated demand for new underwrit ing!. - CAPT. STEPHEN B. DOLLEY. , - f " is , ' ; . ' k f 1 ( ' 1 'v it ' '.V. Gastonia Veteran Of The World War Who Delivered An Address In Char lotte Yesterday Before The State Con vention Of The Disabled Veterans Of The World War. His Subject Was "The Battle Line of 1918 And Thatl Of Today." Capt. Dolley's Address In Full Appeared In This Morning's i Charlotte Observer. Capt. Dolley Is J A Candidate For The Democratic Nomination For Solicitor Of This Dis trict. NINE MINERS DEAD NINE MORE MISSING IN COLORADO FIELD Day Shift of 200 Men Had Just Left Mine Near Trini dad, CoI. When Explosion Occurred. (By The Associated Press.) TMMIJAD, Colo., March 25. Nine men aro known to have perished and Rescue crews worked forts to rescue the nin r"rTS in rescue mo nine men jmprisono.i or to rirover their bodies. According to company officials, tlu IS dead and missing men were the onlv ones in the inn.e when the explosion occurred. The day fhift of 200 men : had left the mine just a few minutes i ' befora the accident, the officials said. j i The cause of the explosion has not ; been learned . HAY TRY FLIGHT FROM j HEW YORK TO SEATTLE ! IN KETAL AIRPLANE j Capt. Amundsen to Make Ex-' perimental Mights Prior to I Moose was now in baud ami this l.one Proposed Arctic Trip. j would be built in Dixie. For more (than one reason, said tlie speaker, this (By The Associated Press.) ! home will be located in the South. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON", March i Eii-st, became the climate insiir, s great 2o. Captain Roald Amundsen, noted j , r comfort ; se, oml, it will be more ceo Arctic explorer, who returns to New uomic, and thinl, 'leeiilediy mnr.; plo.is York from a visit to his home in Nor-1 ant, but, for possibly the greatest rea wav next Tnesdav. mnv atromipt. in flv i son of all. the South is the slii-et an- froin New York to Seattle in one of the metal airplanes' recently purchased for his new Polar expedition, it was announc ed here, today by Haskon S. Hammar, Captain Amundsen's agent here. Captain Amundsen, the discoverer of the South Pole, expects to leave Seattle, Jn' L ' "" drift past the Norih Pole on the Schooner Mau l, which )as- year was forced to abandon a simi I lar e ffort because of a broken propeller iu Ihe Behring Sea. Mr. Hammar stateil I tint Captain Amundsen had purchased tD flying in.ichiTii'.s to be used in his northern cxplora'ions. and that one ot them, an all no'tal plane, capable of car rying nine passenger, would be thor- loier before he- ! Captain Amundsen would Ik aeconipan j ied on the trip by tha Norwegian avia i tors and others of his countrymen whom ho had recruited o man the Maud. Captain Amundsen is understood to lie j having a smaller Hying craft shipjied to i Scuttle, which is. fpj be used in inakins j short flights in the vicinity of tho ship. ; The larger piano u to he provided for a dash to the nearest settlement in case of any mishap to the Maud. In a rather c'ose game of the na tional pastime at Mount Ho'ly Friday afternoon, the Cramerton Mill team de feated tho Mount Hjlly High School team by a score of 8 to 7. Thomas fea tured in th seventh inning when two men were out and two on bases, the later: poled out a home run. which gave the I Cramers the deciding tallies. Batteries: j 1 Thomas ami Fi-rd; Skiilniorc nl Outon. !C0R0NER' P j' SENATE. MAY COMPLETE THE FOUR POWER PACIFIC TREATY TlliSJFTERNOON League of Nations May Be Asked to Take Control of Straits As Allies Are Una ble to Agree to Scheme of Internationalization. (By The Associated i'resi.) WASHINGTON, March 2.',. With the four power I'miiie tnaly itself rat ified by a margin of four votes over the ncceis.iry two thirds, administration leaders hoped to see ihe Senate action on the pact completed today by ratifica tion of tho supplemental treaty reserv ing purely domestic issues from the scope of the agreement. Hiiut off from debate yesterday, how ever, by the agreement for voting on the treaty, opponents of the four power pact were prepared to renew their ns enult when the supplemental declara tion came up for ratification today. This was called up immediaieiy after the final vote on the four power treaty late yesterday, but consideration was put over until today's session, when Senator Kobiuson, Democrat, Arkansas, announced that he desired to present ami discuss an amendment to the sup plemental pact. It was understood he would seek to amend the latter so flint the island of Sakhalin, occupied by tho Japauese, would bo excluded from the scope of the four power agreement. j More than 20 liiiHuec.e.-.til'ul attempts to qualify Senate action by reservations or amendments distasteful to the ad ministration were made by the irrcenn ciiables element yesterday before the treaty was ratified by the final vote of 07 to 27. The only reservation adopt ed was the "no alliance'' declaration proposed by the Foreign Relations Coin mittee mid accepted by President Hard ing, which carried by a voto of DO to 2. On the ratification call 12 Demo crats voted for the treaty and only four republicans opposed it. : MOOSE HOME TO BE LOCATED IN SOOTH -nal Official cf Mcose Or eo Addresses Gastonia Lodo Chances Are that Linwood May be Chosen as Site for Heme. An audience estimated at three, hun dred or more people, iiu iuding nn m bers of the Loyal Order of Moose, heard three very fine addresses at the county courCiouse Friday niyhf. Mr. C. M. Austin, of the local bar, in a short bni ploqeut address, vrry forcibly pre-ui:t 1 the merits of the (iastonia order jim! nmnv expressions of mendatioii were hear praise ;uid eoiit relativo to his able effort after the meeting. Hon. William Trickett Giles, supreme lecturer of the national organization ami the most valued adviser cf the su prenie staff, very clearly and (loqucut ly presented the outstanding feat are-;, accomplishments and aims of the Moose movement. Among the many things out lined by Mr. (iiles and of local interest was the statement that in the mar fu ture Mooseheart homes, .similar tip Moosi -heart, Illinois, were to be e:tab lished in the West, East ami South and tl.ol ll. .,.,,,- I'.,r tlie Heme t'nr A I-, 1 Ichor ami salvation of th Nation and the inmates of such a hone in iliin would imbibe some of the spirit which won the battles of Covvpens and Kings Mountain. The Moose ask and you n.uld not pive th' downieiit, said Mr. Giles, in-ed one thousand acres for for the individual cottages no money m an en "We will this homo aud live homes for acre tract to lie sepnrai our age aged members, who by virt u ot and its common affliction have ho- .... . r:. t ... come nut tinny per rem cmcim. out ml! able to care for themselves wh :i the ipport unity is provided." Tin speaker said he was returning to VYtsn ington ilirocth- after last n-g'd meet ing aud would use all of In- official 'itid personal influence in h.'n " sT l'1' tioiial commission visit tiasion county at the earliest possible tla ami inspect tlie proposed site of Linwood. Herein lies a magnificent opportunity to t-o-eure a National Home ot this crowing organisation tiow comprising 6o'l,000 of the brain and brawn of American man hool and bring to nnr county a tcr inaneiit home that will he a .crodit and l.onipr to future generations. That the (sople of the Linwood neighborhood are vitally concerneil and interested was attested by the large numler in at tendance at the mp?eting ami the nu merous cans aim loners xaai nam: jjci-h received from the most representative V poopie in mo ronnuuuuj . .'i"iii is ; toi.l during intervals when he was ra being hear.l from Gastonia. E"ty i tional, tht. two women died in his arms thousand dollars in Liu wood bonds are j f rm exhaustion, two of the passengers ia the city. bciamc panic, istrickeft and jumped over- -" ! board-to their deaths. The surviving In & comeily of errors yesterday, j mule .passenger finally slipped quietly the Gastonia highs defeated the high 'into the watery grave Friday morning school team from Bessemer City by a score of 25 to 5. The fielding ef both teams was exceedingly poor, ronidciiug i their work iu foraier gams tbis wvtc. I WESTINGHOUSE RADIO PROGRAM FOR TODAY Music Program. Selections. 1. a. Cavalier's Song, Werren rath. b. Mv Mammy Knows, De Costa, Fellows Club Quartet. 2. Reincarnate, Cadmcn, Mrs. Etta Rider Dunk'.e. 3. a. I'll Forget You, Ernest Ball. b. Molly Bawn (old Irish), Chaun cey R. Parsons. 4. a. She's Mine All Mine, Kal mar. b. Which Hazel, Norworth, Bur ton H. Muslin. 5. Sweet, Swoet Lady, Spross, Mrs. Etta Rider Dunkle. 6. a. Old Uncle Moon, Scott. b. Secrets, Smith, Fellows Club Quartet. 7. Le Sylphis Valse, Bachmann, Mr3. Archv I-. Ritts. 8. a. The Virginia Court Judge, b. Mrs. Rastus Johnson on the Telephone, Jack Thompson. 9. A Birthday, Woodman, Mrs. Etta Rider Dunkle. 10. a. A Chip of the Old Block, Squires. b. Three for Jack, Squires, Fred erick G. Rodders. 11. a. I Am Going To Quit Sat urday, Cook. b. Enutf, Jacobs, Burton H. Mus tin. 12. a. The Big Bass Viol, Bo hammon. b. Sextet rom Lucia, Donizetti, Fellows Club Quartet. FIVE OCCUPANTS OF FLYING BOAT MISSING Robert Miss Moore, Pilot of Miami Picked Up the ter Clinging to Wreck Fifty Hours. ( H.v MIAMI, The l"a Associated I'resO , M.ii cli U. . Robert the Hying boat Miss since Wednesday morn bout left hero for the Moore, pilot o Miami, missing ing . v. In n t lie island ef in the Miitish JJaha mas, vas being brought to Miami 1o- la.v anl with his arrival it was expect -luiied th.it in t oi mat ion would be ob tained as to the tale of t!i live pas sengers. Moore, inoi'e dead than alive, was l-iiked up by the 'lampico bound steam er William Green last night about fiO miles off shioe and about 100 lnih'S north of Miami. I he enpti.ia of tin sleami r iuimi'dinle! reported the fimt ing of Moore and s.i,d he apparently was the .sole -Hivivor of the accident Wiinh feii-ed tli. M;-s Miami down in the p'l'p'n sea. Tlie ;'assciij;ers aboard l.ie ft; ing boat when she left, here for Pdmini, ;i "i in i M iii t tiight. were Mr. and Mis. August liu:te and Mr. ami Mrs. I.awr -c K. Smith, all of Kan M-p 'i'v, a ml Mrs. J . S. Dickson, of M.-inphis: 1 inmeili.i ie!y the report of the finding of Moore was received here one of the numerous submarine chasers that have lie. n eiigagi'pl ill the search for the miss ing boat, and tluse it carried, put out to tin- steamer ami, accoidiug to advices eived In r. early today, took Moore oil' about It o'clock this morning. Moore account tatti of is unable to give a i-olnrciit what had h.ipprut d, llr; rap !:ie William C recti wirelessi'i! lo Iii ring thi' li'gl.t, and the only in .M mini f ormatii 1 hat hail In en id-tained was that h. ha i dung to the wre k ef the living b' t for more than fif'v linur-i in a. The captain ileseribed the a heavy - a. wrei ki d phtiti i gri" u in coinr and tins led to the belief here that it sized in as much as the wiliJ .ad eap i of the i raft were ,ilwr gray. KAN,-S CITY. MO., March 2.". A dispnMi riciivid here this morning from Miami. la by the milling com pany headed by August Unite, one cf those missing in the wreik pf tho flying boat Mi.s M ia mi. states : I 'i lot !i s 'Ued. IVliriou. but mumbles ' I '.i.-elieei s "one on.' cl still hope." MIAMI. Ha.. March -o. Of th ,w,s persons who left hi ri Weilnesday i yesterday afternoon he paid several ac f'nr a lo minute airplane trip to Bitn- j counts in Bessemer City, which he was iui islai, two women dud of exhaus- not accustomed to settle until tho first of tion after the living boat was forced to i tin month. Among these was his hotel la ml owing to a broken I'lopeUor; a I bill and his account at the Bessemer man and a woman became panic strick en and jumped overboard and were drown, d, and a li ft h slipped into the se;i TIiUimI.i.v morning from sheer tx-liau-t ion . Iiobcrt Moore, the piiot, and the s;lh person en the craft, was pick ed up by the tanker William Grci'ue af ter clinging to the wreckage of his ma chine for .On 'Icons and was lauded hero today by a submarine chaser. . ! The submarine chaser 1 3 1 "a rrived iu port this morning at 10 o'chs k after , having transferred the delirious pilot from the William Greene. He was! riisla .1 to a Iippspital, where it was fear-' d the exposure will rcsuit- in his leat h. AccoMing to the disconnected story Uhk - h the exhausted and delirious pilot as a result of sheer exhaustion. Thj incoherent story of tho tragedy us told to the incmbent of , the erew by - (Ccatiascd on ppja 5.) BELIEVES WAS FOULLY MURDERED PROMINENT YOUNG MAN IS FOUND DEADJN HIS BED Until Body Was Examined This Afternoon by Dr. L. N. Glenn Belief Was That Young Gas tonia Man, Whose Dead Body Was Found in Bed in His Room at Caroil Hotel, Bessemer City, Shortly Before Noon Had Committed Suicide Coroner Davis Orders Post Mortem Examination and Body Is Being Brought to Gastonia For That Purpose No Motive Known for Suicide Other Men Seen in His Room at 4 O'clock This Morning. That Harry Shuford, whose dead body was found in bed in his room at the Carroll Hotel, Bessemer City, at 10:45 o'clock this morning did not commit suicide but that he may have been killed and his body placed in the bed is the belief expressed this afternoon by Coroner's Physician L. N. Glenn, of this city. It was 2 o'clock this afternoon when Coroner W. N. Davis and Dr. Glenn reached Bessemer City from Gastonia. Up to that time the body of young Shuford had not been touched. He was lying on his right side. On turning his body over and examining the right side Dr. Glenn found that the entire side of his face was covered with clotted blood. This was washed off and it was then discovered that, instead of one bul let hole in his temple, there was also a jagged cut, half an inch or more in length, which had apparently been made by some blunt instrument It was discovered also that the skull had been crushed, this having been done presumably by the blow he is believed to have received at the hands of some unknown party. Cor oner Davis ordered the body brought to Gastonia and that a post mortem examination be made this afternoon. Dr. Glenn is quoted as saying that, from the examination made and the things it revealed, he did not be lieve Shuford could have inflicted this wound upon himself. Since the above discovery was made some credence is given to a story told this morning by a man living nearby to the effect that a bout 4 o'clock this morning he saw a light in Shuord'a room and saw several men there. His story was discredited this morning when it was first told. M. Harry Shuford, aged 30, son of the late ex-Sheriff Martin H. Shuford and one of Gastonia's best known young men, was found dead in bed in his room at the Carroll hotel, Bessemer City, with a bullet) hole in his temple, at 10:45 o'clock this morning. The body was dis covered by Mr. Palmer, proprietor of the hotel, who had gone to see why I young Shuford had not gone to his office at the McLean Mills. i A fruitless search was made in his room far some note or message that might throw some light ou his death but ' none was found. His fatally and friends attribute his rash act. to a sudden fit of, : tin lam holiii from which ho had suffered i at intervals since' his return from the. , World War. His financial affairs were! known to have been in excellent coudi- tioii. lie was to have been married on i I April l!0th to Miss Kuth Ensor, of Mount ' I Holly, the announcement of the approach- j 1 ing marriage having been ma'lo some' I time ago. The only circumstance which j b nds any susyii'ioi. in an 10 a meory i t hat the act was premeditated1 was that'; t ity urug store. When parties entered S-h u o r.l 's room at 10:4.3 o'clock this morning af tr having liocii asked over the phone if he knew why the latter hail not gone to the mill office, Im touml the young man's body in bed with his head covered. Near his head lav a Colt's automatic .l!o and there was a powder burn on his right temple. The bullet was under; the skiu of the left jaw. The door was' lockis! from the inside and everything in the room was in its usual order. Just ! when the shot was fired it not known as, no one in the hotel heard it. A man liv-, ing mar the hotel states, that he hap peiied to he up at 4 o'clock this morn ing and noticed a light burning in Shu ford's room. The light was not burning when tLc room was entered by the hotel manager. Mr. Shuford was in- Gastonia yester day afternoon and evening and met and talked to numbers of his friends." AH of these any that he whs apparently in the best of spirits. He culled at the home of Mr. A. A. McLean ou 8onh York street at 6 o'clock. H9 and Kr. Robert McLean were especially close fricutis and were to have had R double THAT wedding on April 2itli. During the af ternoon he purchased a new Essex enr from the Scott Motor Company, paying cash for it. He was in a local barber shop at 7 o'clock and talked to friends in his usual happy vein. At 11 o'clock he parked his car at the mill office iu Bessemer City, took off a spare tire and put in the office ami went into the mill where he talked to several of the operatives. I'rom thero it is supposed that ho went to his room at the hotel. He was not seen after leaving the mill office. . . When the call to arms camo to Amer ica young Shuford enlisted in Captain Cherry's company here. After going; to camp he was transferred to the 27th Division (New York). Overseas he at tended an officer's training school, was commissioned a first lieutenant and placed in commanil of a company of infantry. Ho saw active service ron the Hindenbiirg line aud at BcHeconrt. Sinco returning from the war ho h.-wt hehl a responsible position with tho McLean Milis at ISessemer City. Deceased is survived by two broth ers and throe sisters, namely: Mr. Sam S. Shuford, Miss Lowry Shuford, Mrs. . : George W. Wilson and . Mrs. . K, M. Keid, of Gastonia, and Mr. J. Oscar Shuford, of Liiieolnton. His father, the late Sheriff Shuford, .died several years ago. Sown of his tragic death brought & great shock to his largo circle of friends here. He was greatly liked by all who knew hiiu. DARDANELLES AGAIN IS B!& BOflECF CONTENTION Administration Leaders Think Supplemental Treaty ' Re serving Purely Domestic Isi sues from Scope of Agree i ment Will Go Through To' day. (By The Associated Tress.) I'A HIS, March 25. The League of Nations is likeny lo be asked to take con trol of the Dardanelles, it has become known despite the secrecy with which the Allied foreign ministers have veiled their deliberations here. The rivalry between Frame and GreaX Britain in tho near ' east and tho constant friction which ha existnl between them at Constantinople are pointed to in international political circles here ns showing the practical im possibility of apply any scheme of in ternationalization to tho straits thai would suit ail the AIIiis. ' For that reason Premier Poincare, tho Marquis Curzu-n, British Foreign Secre tary, and tho Italian Foreign Minister, M. Schanzer, have discussed the eventual- . ity of asking the League to relieve them of this burden. ' ; SENATE COMMITTEE LEAVES FOB MUSCLE SHOALS, ALA; (By The Associated Press.) V WASHINGTON, Marcn 23. Mem lrs of the Senate agriculture and tho llmllm ,;i;,, ,mnat,wlt - .p.. i.,., ....,. ., ' V special cars for a personal inspection of the Government's power and nitrate projects at Muscle Shoals and Gorgas, Ala. ... - Ten House committeemen who had def initely deriiled to make the trip included Koprcsentative Hull, Iowa: K earns, Ohio; James, Michigan; Miller. Wash ington; Parker, New Jersey: and Wurtt bach, Texas, lie-publicans; Quinn. Mississ ippi; Fisher, Tennessee; Wright, Geor gia ; and Stoll, South Carolina. Demo crats. Representative Miller had an en gagement to speak tonight in Cleveland, o.. aud planned to join his colleagues aTCr ia Alabama. In addition to tho conuriitteo member," Tfanresentat ives Almon. of Alabama. "in whose district the Muscle Shoals proner- ties are located, and Oliver, of Alabama. ' announced tney. would go as ex -officio members of the party. SWIMMING POOL PLANNED FOR DAWSOU fBv The Associated Vroas.) - DAWSON", Ga., March 18 "" lo&d post of the American Legion I its drive for jieecssiry funds to ere. u swimming pool wilii treat sucee t v- dav. Girls of the city have hail tho eelilnjf of th.1 season tickets und ir tltt-ir ipr,i:oij. and from their report prac tically the wuiifo ton will r,c swimming this summer