LYQA
Weather:
Unsettled
LocabCotton
18 Cents
VOL. XLIII. NO. 105.
GASTONIA, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 3, 1922.
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
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FIRE AGAIN THREATEN!
U. S. TREASURY BU1LDIN
AT AN EARLYJIOUR TODAl
Damage Is Estimated at $75,
000 President and Mrs.
Harding Watch Flames
From White House Window
Public Denied Admission.
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May n. For the
second time in three months, firemen
early today battled with a stubborn
firo on the roof of the Treasury De
partment, which for a time assumed
menacing proportions as the flames,
burning through a long super-structure,
leuped high in the uir and east a
threatening glow on the White House
itself, while sparks wafted across to
its surrounding terrucu.
When discovered about 1:45 n . m.,
the flames already had gained consid
erable headway and were soaring to a
height of .'SO or 40 feet when lire ap
paratus, responding to live alarms, ar
rived at the scene. (iaining impetus
about that time from a dull, rumbling
explosion which firemen believed was
caused by building materials stored for
use in the present work of raising the
roof of the structure, the blaze cast a
bright glow on the night sky over the
entire, downtown section before it be
gan to subside under the effect
ter from a dozen hose lines
White House and Washington
merit stood out in sharp relief
fantastic light of the flames.
of wa
The Monu
in the
Awakened bv White II oust
attend-
ants, President and Mrs. Harding
dressed and from a window watched the
firemen battle the flames in the nearby
structure.
When checked after about d(l min
utes effort, the flames had burned en
tirely through one section of the su
perstructure which tops the section of
the building that divides the court and
had spread to parts of the central por
tion of the roof. Unofficial estimates,
however, I'lacej the damage at not more
than 7W)1), although it was not
known whether this adequately took in
to account th(' possible damage from
water which it was believed might be
considerable in the court section of the
building immediately under the central
blaze. The new roof structure in oth
er portions was said to have been only
slightly damaged and not burned
through, which would reduce the dam
ago from water in other sections of
the building.
Firemen had been on the scene only
a few minutes when a cordon of about
50 marines was thrown around the
building -
The general public and representa
tives of the press alike were denied per
mission to pass within the line, which
had made it difficult at an early hour
today to ascertain the exact extent of
the damage. I'ndcr Secretary of the
Treasury Clifford was early on the
scene .to take charge of the protection
of tho building.
Tlie blaze' apparently was of much the
saiiie nature as-that which o. cui re, I on
the Treasury roof during office hours,
when hundreds of employes were in the
building, on last February, X. This
was extinguished without heavy daina
age, although a threatening blaze re
sulted frum the burning of much scaf
folding and some of the new ruof
structure.
Cotton Market
SPOT COTTON CLOSED
AT TWENTY CENTS
Xi:W YORK, May :!
Cotton fa- I
, l'.U'o to !
", ; 1 )e, eiulc r 1
tares closed strong:
May 19.71 to lsl.sn; .lu'.v
l!Ki:i;' October 1!H2 to H'lo
191!) to i:-": January 1!'
March HHr to lftBl. Jspots :
to l!u:l;
II cents. I
NEW YORK, May 11:t n . in.
bids. May P.Cot; July Is. 71: Octo
ber IS. SO'; December ls.M.'; January
18. 67. isteady.
NEW YORK. May J. Profit taking
continued heavy with July contracts
selling off to lS.fiS and October to ls.
7.'t or about 17 to 127 points net lower
on the general list. There was some
buying on the expectation of a bullish
weekly report by the Weather Bureau,
however, and fluctuations later were ex
tremely nervous and irregular. It is
reported that sales of fertilizer to the
end of April show an increase of about
X.2 per cent as compared with last
year. The weekly wather report was
quite as bullish as expected, but failed
to bring in much fresh buying, the
market being comparatively quiet with
July ruling around 18.77 and October
18.81 shortly after midday.
XEW YORK, May :t. Overnight
buying orders caused a further advance
of 2 to 14 points in the cotton market
at the opening today which was en
couraged by reports of further rains in
parts of Texas, Arkansas and central
belt sections.
All months ma'le new high records
for tho movemeut with July selling jit
19.00 and October at 19.10, but these
prices brought in heavy general realiz
ing causing reactions of several points
after tho call. The trade appeared to
lie looking for a bullish weekly rejiort
from tho Weather Bureau, but there was
probably some selling on a belief that
it had been discounted and hope of
gradually clearing conditions in tho
southwest. Liverpool just about met
yesterday's local advance with private
cables reporting trado. buying and cov
ering ou bullish crop advices.
TODAY'S COTTON MARKET
Strict to Good Middling .,
An
CITY COUNCIL ASKS FOR
RESIGN A TION CHIEF ORR
Action Has Been Contemplated For Some Time Adderholdt
Ii
Ano
Ls Appointed Acting Chier
Another Meeting Tonight.
meeting of the city council
held Tuesday evening the resignation
of Chief of Police J. E. Orr was re
quested by the council Officer Ad
derholdt was appointed as acting
chief until a successor to Chief Orr
could be elected. Present at the
meeting were Messrs. D. A. Garri
son, B. H. Parker, G. R. Spencer,
and D. M. Jones. Mayor Cherry
was absent in Dallas on legal busi- ,
ness.
It is understood that this action
has been in contemplation for many
weeks by the city council For some
time it has been understood that
pressure had been brought to bear
upon the city council regarding the
alleged laxity in the enforcement of
Disarmament Question Bobs Up
In Session Genoa Conference
German Minister Declares That World Trade Must Be Dou
bled Before Conditions Can Be Bettered, But That This
Cannot Be Done While Nations Are "Jumping at Each
Other's Throats."
CKNOA, May
- The disarmament
question bobbed up today in a plenary
session of the Conoa conference.
Walter Kathciiau, the German Foreign
.Minister, said the world's trade must be
doubled before conditions could be bet
tered, hut that this could not be dole
while the nations were "jumping a
each other's throats."
Foreign Minister Tchitchcrin, of Sov
let Russia, declared in a plea tor genera
disarmament :
"Only by a policy of peace can the
nations balance their budget.'' He
said Russia must insist upon reservations
to the report of the financial commission
of the conference as it carried provisions
concerning the League of Nations, which
Iiussia did not recognize. He added that
Iiussia could not agree to renounce gov
ernment control over exchange operations.
.sir Laming YVorthingtoii Kvans pre
sented the financial commission 's report,
which he termed as important to the
world as was the Justinian code. SStabili- performance. It
ziiiLr of the iiiirchasiiiu power of irijUUi' of the O.'iston
could not be uccomplished without Amor- J "eat sum Ufls realized.
iean co-operation, he said. George A. Gray as Robert Bennett, the
The report, which was adopted, con- tyoiing man who on a ten thousand dollar
tains nineteen resolutions, among which vugcr, told the, truth for twenty four
is a recommendation that, the Bank of 1 bmirs, and George P.. Cocki r. as K. M.
Lnglniid call a meeting of the cent ral ( lf;t 1st on, the big business man whose
banks of issue to regulate credit policy .(laughter. Gweiidolin, was Bonnet 's tian
and s'udy curieiicoy reforms. The resolu- cee, were the star performer. though
lions also urge an international financial every other member5 of the cast did his
convention to centralize and co-ordinate ; (,v ,t.r part to perfection and won the up
the demand for gold, which should bcjplause of the audience. A. (i. Manguin
adopted as the standard for Kuropean 1 j, laved the part of Bishop Doran spleii
currencies). Ididly while Roger Gricr as Clarence Van
The report of the transport coinmis- . Duesen, and John K. Gray as Richard
sion was adopted and then the session ad- j Donnelley, partners of Rnl'stoii in the
jonnied. j brokerage business, carried their parts in
Richard Washburn Child, the American jsch a manner as to give the imprcvion
Ambassador, was among the visitors at i t hut it was an every day business with
Che session. jthein. Miss Pauline jSlitiford as Kthel
Interest in the plenary session of the '(lark, Mrs. D. II. Williams as (rwendolin
economic conference today was overshad- , R-i !ston, Miss Nirah Mood as !-ubel
owed by yesterday 's development', when '.lackson. Miss t.anclle Boone as Mabel
Belgium bolted the sub-commission .Jackson ami Miss Lucile Wat kins as
framing the final draft of the Russian I Martha, the maid, all exhibited splendid
memorandum and the Prem h a nnouiiced j histrionic ability. Miss Blanche Heiser
they were obliged to withhold final ap- ,;in w, piaye.l the part of Mrs. Hal
proval of the document until they heard j su,, for ,ich place Mrs. Marian lmft'
from Pans. was originally east, exhibited drain.-i:i
The Belgian's action was is'cause t lability of a high order. Mrs. Duffs w ,
their dissatisfaction with the clause in ' unable to appear because of duties a the
the memorandum dealing with the res- j Orthopaedic. Hospital, where she i- a
toration of foreign owned property n I ni'inB'r of tlie staff.
Russia nat lonauzed by tlie soviet Govern
ment. The memorandum is in the hands of
the i?oviet delegation. It contains
France's amendment to the property
ilaiM1, which the Frenchmen hope wi!
satisfy the Belgians' objections to the
article as originally compiled, but it was
delivered to the Russian plenipotentiaries
with a covering letter carefully explain
ing that the Frem-h delegates reserved
final approval of the entire document
until they obtained direct authority
from their government.
Prime Minister Lloyd (ieorge has also
announced that Great Britain 's-approval
depends upon France'-. The amendment
adopted is ca'cu'ated to strengthen tho
guarantees of the form r owners of
property iu Russia that they will be able
either to get their property back direct
ly or to have an equitable share in the
companies controlling it, it' such are
formed. Belgium held out for a more
definite restoration, and France has sup
ported this position throughout the nego
tiations. The object of today's plenary session
was totecoivo the reports of the financial
and transport- commissions which ha.e
sought to devise projects lor improvin
conditions in Kuropo falling under
heads.
theo
FREE TRANSPORTATION FOR
SUPPLIES FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS
Agent R. W. Hunsinger, of the Am
ericarf Railway Express Company, this
morning stated to The Gazette that his
company would accept for free trans
IHirtation all donated clothing and oth
er supplies fjbr destitute sufferers on
the Mississippi river when haiue are
consigned to recgnirod orga"!?'''! f"'
Until successor Is named
the law in Gastonia, and this action
cam as a result.
The council meeting was further
enlivened by a near-tilt between City
Manager Alexander and Mr. W. N,
Davis, regarding the laying of a
sewer line through Mr. Davis'
property in the Southern part of
the city. It is understood that only
the intervention of bystanders pre
vented a few licks between the men.
Another meeting of the city coun
cil will be held tonight at 7 o'clock
at which time it is expected that
Mr. Orr will be present to state his
case to the council. Members of the
council declare, however, that the
action of last night is final and un
equivocal, and that their ruling
stands.
OTHING BUT THE TRUTH
PLEASED LARGE AUDIENCE
Local Talent Play Presented
Under Direction of Commu
nity Service Pleased Gas-
tonians Players Exhibit
ed Excellent Talent and
Training Neat Sum Real'
ed for Public Library.
I Without question
performance so far
he best
pre sonto.
amatcu
in
tenia was given at tin
a uditorium last night
'service presented Nc
Central si hool
ilien Community
thing But The
Truth,'' a three act comedy, with an en
tire local talent ca-t. A large and ap
preciative audience was present and
thoroughly enjoyed every moment of the
was given for tin' bene
ia Public Library and a
I To Miss Heiserman, rri reaf iona 1
tor of Community Service, is due
credit for training the cast and the
t lence of her work in this line ;i
! deni ed by the splendid manner in 1
every member of the cast played h
be;- part. The play itself wis a . o:
of many laughs and afforded mii. !.
rin. nt.
t ;
MUCH DISTRESS IN THE
STRICKEN FLOOD AREAS
NATCHEZ, Miss.. May .l. M.m.v
families in tho inundated areas of Lou
isiana have limited food supples an I
unless they come to the refugee ,;,:p
or rations are sent to them soon ti. ro
will be real suffering declared II. P.
'Connor, member of the state flood r.
t lief committee, today. Mr. (' : n r
i protested against the requiri let nt o.
,the Red Cross that refugees shall be as
sembled in camps to receive fool uo
I piies, and said "unless red tape is cat
; it will cause four thousand ixviple ia
; Concordia parish alone unfold suficring
within the next few days". These per
tsons, he stated, are reluctant to h ive
j their homes for fear of Isdng compela 1
to sacrifice their belongings and !" i
: must be sent them.
I Planters of the flooded zoic ..hj.-ct
, to the tenants being taken t" em eu
tration camps on the ground that there
is danger of them lcu!g entii'd away
'by labor agents and the rehabilitation
of the country after the flood wa'cr
subside retarded.
THE WEATHER
North Carolina, cloudy with occasional
light showers tonight and ThnrsfUv;
rhie in fmr'uH.
CALIFORNIA COW PRODUCES
40 POUNDS BUTTER IN 7 DAYS
DELAVAN, WIS., May 3
Forty pounds of butter in seven days
is the production record just an
nounced for a California cow by
Malcolm H. Gardner, superintendent
of testing for the Holstein-Frifesian
Association of America. The cow
is Miss Aggie Ormsby Segis, a reg
istered Holstein owned by Fred Hart
sook, Lankershim, Cal. Her milk
iroduction during the seven days
was 644 . 9 pounds . The test was
supervised by the California Agri
cultural College, the California State
Association and the National Hol
stein Association.
Miss Aggie established a world's
record over all breeds fur two year
old3 several months ago, producing
in ten months 22,084 pounds of milk,
yielding 834.7 pounds of butter, it
was stated. The daily average for
the ten months test was more than
70 pounds of milk a day, or more
than 35 quarts every twenty-four
hours. She freshened for her last
record the last days of March, only
a few months after completing the
ten months' record, the announce
ment stated. Less than fifty cows
have produced 40 pounds of butter
a week, according to records of the
United States Department of Agri
culture. All VFBY IMTFRFQUWHRIIT
THIS HFARTI FSS WOMAN?
Cleveland Woman Suspected
of Murdering Three Hus
bands to Collect $11,000
Life Insurance Had Been
Married Five Times Body
Is Being Examined. j
l (Bv The Associated 1'n-ss. ) !
CLKYKLANI), )., Mav While
ihe city chemist was examining vital or :
(Jans taken from the exhumed body id'
OBie of her five husbands. County Pros i
utor Edward C. Stanton planned to
i.v to question again a woman sus-
ccted of a scries of murders iu orders
collect $11,(1(10 insurance. Three of I
r husbands (lied suddenly under mys-
cnons circumstances. She was dicorc-
from the first two she married.
Records of poison sales in March, j
April and May, U'L'I, wore being check
ed by the police today in an eff ort to j
find evidence that the woman purchas-
ed poison during these mounts. Hi'1
records were gathered from every east
side drug store at the suggestion of tl.o
prosecutor.
The woman under suspicion was ques
tioned for an hour yesterday by Stan
ton and his assistants. She denied thai
she had caused the deaths of any of
her husbands. Several of her acquaint
ances also were ipiesiione'i.
Charue, that the Woman had to
d
flu m that she had expressed a dcsifi
for her husband's death so that sin
might get the insurance were made ly
two of those questioned, ,-oronl'ng ti
Stanton. It Was the body of this has
band which was exhum, I yesterday,
lie died last May.
Persons who knew tl
suspicious when he d
cause she attended parti
hilariously right after hi
niL'ht before his death
that be was feling tine. Stanton
he learned. The woman maintains
this husband was nitTering from
effects of being trussed overseas,
evidence of this is found in his
record .
If an examination of his organ
veal trace of poison, Stanton said,
cliait'e of loonier will be Man d on 1
widow. .No report of the aaaivsis, how
ever, is expected for several iluvs.
BOSTON MAN SHOOTS
WIFE AND THEN HIMSELF
: IBs The Aaaoci.necJ Cressj.)
I N l-.WTON, MA
! Iiii'i. ot her t hail i n-
iii which William I
j the Boston district
shot and kiiled his
Light, was
don of police :n
j Powell man-don t h I
Mrs. I'uwell, bet,
' : a::e si vera I "a i -(of
I!. II. White. ;.
lent store bilsiie
! 1' .i ,' m his na mo.
j was in (ie.o gia. 1 H
Li na i 1 bba rd, a q
! I he 1 'owe Is ha
home iiti'v a day, h.'i
w i liter apa rt incut 1 1
litter M is. I'uwell s
it',; he Bahamas for
vv. : said to have h
y. sterday, and. in
saw Pove! i-ba-in
, ! r. Shot s We 1 1
reslied tn tie lib. 'a
n,.st ress '! ing on t '
b.illd 'e.lVIII t!te '
pi-'ol f mud i
lauiineii, and I'le.v
iiis own room upst;
. w. al i.ll. He kille 1 I
er. found near his i
Tl. .ii.-tiiet
tee meoical cjai', r ' i imi'ialeii in-j
ton,. aily to him tiut l . v, i. had tone in-i
-aiie. I
SENATOR CARAWAY MAKES
SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST
ATTY. GENERAL DAUGHERTY !
(Bv The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON'. May .i. Kenator
Caraway. Democrat, Arkansas, charged
in the Senate that Attorney General
Paugherty fired all the honest instiect
urs in his department who wanted to
prosecute government swindlers and put
into office a physician who helped get
a fraudulent u-r.l' - Tv,r..
r. Al.u ". i. p.a 'ia- . I id low in-- this .lis o. err the fiastonia
no". ... tic ':n4i ly : high H.iioi.l athletic i.lli.-ials made the
I. I'"" -. . inaiiaf,' . ill ! Kiversioi r tno propuvtions: I hey
for Ii. ii I'- i A. 1 "..'would cither forfeit tue game or come lo
wi I l.:a.seif hist j ( di: oiii.'i and play ac'ior game at the
II iri.-KH i ' A 1 t I.orav ball ;aik. A it in u"h t hi s was con-
ii ,:: t - i I a the j sidere.l as fair as co;;!. lie expected in
"i ;, ' ii'-'it. pier the i i r -la'is'a m is, many a fiienil'v
"i -'..mi mar- ;i rgr.-ii'iit p.-r I bilofe all agreement '
.,..' u ... the v.iiiowivcas Knaliy rcohi d. '
: " d' '.iit- j ILmov, .-. when it" sane e'eared away, 1
" "" '' . (. second prop'isi t u ivas ilei'idi'il upon,
'"' ' ' '' "' , Heather p.-tm'.-ting the game will be;
' 1 ' ' ' c"i " -s ; phiyed anew vY. ini.ia ,- afternoon on
;;' '' " " ''' ' v :' '' 1 the' lo.-ai dia'c i"1- ' i
I " i .;. '' if -iimu r , ,,. ,., ., - . .
" - y '."'' ,l,"-r ' romped on :!,. M mi .;c. last Monday
1 ''' : :' 1 4V ''T will sit ba. k I who they will have
r ' !' ' "" :' ir'l' to piny I'M .
!,. . ' .. !-i .".a'ds , '
i - 1 i BEVERIDGK IS
I: . : . e,. irag.j jNLW
' A ' '"' ;hei (Bv I A
' ' 1 '','"'i I IXPI AN v. ; i
' : l 1:1 'ir. With aim..-- t "
' :S - '" 1 ,i,'r ,!'"- i State r. p. .- .'. A
A-. a-.t..m;ic ,..,;., , . . ... ;
1 '" ''",i,S'iiat..r..,: m'
", -i. i.u.v u. in io i Si-V, v i ,.ti :al
ir- '. . g.t another j vot(, fr(:! .. the
ua.s- f with a reVr:V- , . ;, :! dg..
riu ..nui.i'iK ed that,
in- i t 1 1
FIGHTING ON 100-MILE FRONT
FROM PEKING TO TIENTSIN
No Apparent Advantage of Any Consequence
For Either Side in General Fighting Many:
Wounded Are Dying For Lack of Medical At
tention Thousands of Troops Engaged.
(By The Associated Press.)
i'KKINU, May ;t. The Feugtien
army under General Chang Teo-Lin has,
for the moment, at least, successfully
withstood the drive on Chaiisinticii, ami
H'nppcd (ieneral Wu lYi 1'u's movement
toward Peking. The cost, however, has
been heavy, au.l i 'hangsiid ieu is filled
with wounded, many of whom are dying
for lack of inedieul attention.
While Chang has succeeded in t Kix ac
tion, there has been no apparent ad
Vantage of consequence for either side m
the general fighting along, the one hun
dred mile front from here to Tientsin,
and hodi commanders are rushing up re
iuft r. -au'iits ii preparation for a deci
sive action.
(ieneral ('hang's ( iimmiinieat ions are
threatened both front and rear, for Wu
has thrown 40,000 troops) against,
right confer in an effort lo cut
Peking Tientsin railway, while Adm
his
'he
iral
Tu tSliih Kwei has notified the Nanking
consular body of his intention to cut tho
railway connect iu the Peking-Tientsin
road with Mukden, General Chang's
base. This railway is within the range
of naval guns at, Chiuwangtao.
At the eastern end of the battle front,
(o'neral Wu is marching L'o, 0(1(1 troops
toward Machang, one of the l-'engtien-ers'
strongholds, where heavy fighting lias
occurred for their days.
Meanwhile word comes through SSliang
hai that JSiin Yut Men, president of the
southern government, is preparing to
-end aid to Cluing I'so Lin. He will
strike at the psychological moment, it
was sai I, seading troops either through
Hankow or Nanking, the route depending
on the oi.tcome of tin' present conflict.
Today's advices to the American mili
tary attaches state that (ieneral Wit's
main army appears to be engaged In a
drive towards Tientsin. Severe fighting
has occurred along the Hun river, which
indicated that units ot' Wu's forces an,
crossing tin1 country from Pan Tinij Fu,
town ids the northeast.
Aitilh ry tiring is also reported to have
opened along a wide from at Machung,
south of Tientsin on the, Pukow railroad,
IjlpilQ Tfl Dl IV MflHiUT
HjUnO IU iLAl IViUUllI
HOLLY SECOND GAME
Weather Permitting Second
Came With Mount Holly,
Will be Played Today, Min-!
us Services of Skidmore, '
Who 13 Ineligible.
LEADING
IN SENATE VOTE.
-so. iate.J Press.)
I N IK, Mav
precincts in the
.1. Beveridge wa-
r the Jfepubliean
in Indiana ov
tabulation of the
Hate's :,.'-' pre
s 1,000, ami New
('LI.-. Im.I., Mav r.. ;
Kr,, r
,. .,, .,,.,!
.. .;. r Albert J. Beveridge
: . ,-,, -reuse bis lead today
'or Barry S. Npw in the Kemp.-.;
tor the nomination for
;,is Senator, almost every
purling giving him a majori
, candidate for renomination . ;
i7 of the .t,.'iS2 precincts iiC
Beveridge had a total vote of j
i ova r . . ' 1 1 .
,.,,, ;. ..
l it, I :
nr ,
tv i,.' r
F..r 1.
the state.
tW.L'".: ay
ditst ii.'U.L! for New.
i
Ju the I'l'iiiix ratie senatorial contest i
Samuel M. Ralston, former governor, :
hn,! riveived 4't,4s9 votes ill 71 pre
Clllct
w it h
P:
. Jesse
votes, T
Sanders was
t'h thr'f, ofb
f c?n-
1
i
It was learned In re lata lad night that !
tlie Mount Jlollv I ia-tonia high school
si me, played at MeAdenvi'le on Monday. ' M
man were '-as lie: n t brown nut ot the western
I, t hey said, I ):; ip'et.sliiii hi ric .iinoiiir the state ureti
s and acted , ,
death. The s,-,:"1'-he
remarked 1:11,1 """.v vvn I ae contest by a
paid si me 1. 1 1 to II. However I ne game was
that ' p'oti . .. on the e.ro;.nd that a, Moun'
tl" Holly pi. re. r was not i iiginlc fu perform
No in the li's, the slat" rules laid down
war bv the I'niversity of North Carolina be
nig quoted by the protesting partb's.
" ' l.'-,,.i v, ,.,,,,.1:1 in t n,.,t i .... sib;. I.
'' more, Mi. i.i.t Molly's first baseman, had
is : . . , ' - , .
i received more itiaii expenses ror playing
Ion the tslic by semi pro league team last,
j summer.
Thmiigli coiiiinii ii '! t i on with the lea
; gtte promoter iu "evi laud the above wjis
. veri.'ied.
7-'.!ll.
I
where large farces of General Chang's
troops are concentrated under the com
mand of the Manchur'utn leader's twenty
five yea r old sun.
j Wu IVi-Fu's drive toward Tientsin is
i designed to isolate Chung Tsao Lin's
j forces by cutting their line between
I Tientsin and Tnku, on the sea. (Success
of this move also would result in the
cutting off of (ieneral Chang's 40.00(1
men north of Tientsin. Meanwhile three
l (liiflTsp efuiai'rs are engaged in an at-
tempt to destroy the Mukden railroad a
ishiiuhai Kwiui.
j Fighting has been resume, 1 south of
the Peking wall. A terrific, explosion
this morning shook the windows of the
jcity. It. was attributed to the destruc
tion of an arsenal by bombs dropped from j
, airplanes operating for (ieneral Chan
I army.
Admiral Joseph Strauss, commander
of the American Asiatic fleet, after a
conference with Minister Mchurman. or
dered the gunboat Wilmington to pro
ceed immediately from Hong Kong lo
Tientsin. The foreign vessels now at
Tientsin include three Japanese torpe lo
boats, a British submarine tender, a
French gunboat and an Italian gun
boat. They will guard the Pei-Ho, the
river running inland from Taku to Tient
si n.
Reports that he luul resignel were de
nied today by Acting Premier Chow IV.i
( hi. He said he intended to retain his
post and watch the outcome of the civil
war. Meanwhile Liang Mhin Yi, the real
premier, is persisting in his refusal to
resign. He has been in Tientsin for
many months on leave of absence. On
Wednesday he visited ('hang Tsao Lin at
I'liungliangcheng, to discuss the progress
of the war.
President Hull Mhih Cliang and the
inemU'rs of his cabinet in Peking con
tinue to profess neutrality. llau tshih
Chang is watching the nrogress of events
with keen interest. Standing oil the bal
cony of his ollice, located in the pa!uc
of the former Dowager Empress, is the
forbidden city, the president frequently
listens to the sound of c;innoiuidiiij from
the .south.
MIEN ARE SWINDLING
DYING SOLDIERS AT OIEEN
Veterans at Kenilworth and
Oteen Are Not Immune
Bureau at Washington Has
Taken Cognizance of Mat
ter and Ordered Investiga
tion. ASH i: ILLK, May 2. Chief M . P.
Iiiernev. of the special investiiratinc
section of the Cnited States veterans'
bureau, Washington, who has been in
Asheville and vicinity for the purpose;
of investigating the reported scuemcs I
i niployeil, particularly by wiime i, to
obtain the insurance money of soldiers '
at Oteen and Kenilworth hospitals, to-j
night stated he could not give out ;i n y
names of thiee involved by the iuves-j
ligation, but stated he would make his:
report direct to Colonel Forbes, direc
tor of the veterans' bureau, and that
action would be taken by the director.
It is alleged that persons, the cases
investigated involving women only, have
by various ami sundry methods induced
men while on their death bed to make
iv ills designating all their property and
insurance carried with the government
and otherwise over to them. This
practice is said to have existed ill sev
eral of the government hospitals, and
the veterans' bureau has expressed a
determination to exterminate such
schemes of swindling the parents, wives
and relatives out of money, which
would have accrued to them, had not
the si ntcr motive of preying persons
swayed the g I intentions of dying
veterans while in weakened condition
meutall.v and ph.v sicallv .
TRIAL OF COAL MINERS j
IN PROGRESS AT CHARLESTON i
(By Tne Associated Press.)
(TIAIi'I.KSTON, W. VA.. May
"On to Mingo" was tho cry of the
armed men who battled with state forces J
on the Logifn-Boone county line last fall. 1
according to I. H. Morton, of harlestiiii.
an olli.er of several cal companies, w!e!
testified today in the trial of William I
Bli..ard, office r of the United Mine Work ;
ers. on a charge of treason. j
Morton told th" jury that while visit-,
iug his mines at the time of 1he march
he traveled on a train with a number ot ,
armed men and two women were c'a-1 j
in "near Tod cross uniforms.'' Tlie
nurses' caps, he s;tii, bore the initia l
" C. M. W. A.'' On a later trip to ids !
mines), Morton ilc dared he observed un
easiness among the working miners .
which culminated iu the closing of bis
plants at Leevale and Ameagie. j
Alva Ksiep, a miner, asked him for
guns and amiiiunii ion, hut he refused,
.Morton said. Making the request, he ,
continued, Estep said "we can't stay at j
home.'' "We have to go when our men ,
have been shot down in our own pre
cinct. ' '
Romeo Craig, a miner who testified yes
ter.lav that he was wounded in tho moun
iams ner ycurcv uunug mc uguuusr,
wan called for cross examination. lie
testified that he did not see Blizzard or
i - .. ir i hi . n
firers, who p t5efesiEtg 5a cthrr in-
-tftiesn4r "
S. C. SUPREME COURT
REFUSES TO INTERVENE
IN THE CASEOF GAPPINS
C. O. Fox and S. J. Kirby
H a. v e Appeals Pending
Which Also May be Dia
missed Attorneys Are
Warned They Must Not In
terfere With Justice on
Technicalities.
coi.r.MIHA, s. c. May 2. In a
perciiriam order handed down lato thin
afternoon the state supreme court dis
missed the appeal of Jesse Gapping, ona
of the trio of murderers of William 0.
lirnzeil, a young taxicab driver of this
city, under sentence of death in the
state penitentiary, and remanded Gap
pins to the court of general sessions of
Lexington county for resentence soma
time this mouth.
The two other convicted murderers,
S. .1. Kirby and ('. (). Fox. have au-
j peals before the supreme court, and So
ilicitor ( allison, of the eleventh judicial
I circuit, announced that he shortly would
request the court to dismiss them also,
i The appeal of Gappins was on tho
; ground i that the grand jury which
lnwi
Id the
true bill against him
was
was
not swum,
and t lien tori' Ins trial
illegal.
liming the course of the argument on
the case before the court this morning
Chief .Justice Kiigeue B. Gary took oc
casion to warn attorneys at the bar
against bringing appeals on trivialtieg
in an effort to defeat justice. He said
that with the crime wave sweeping tha
state, attorneys who take advantage o
minute technicalities were arraying
themselves with tlio "forces of law
lessness . ' '
Must Stop Crime Wave.
He said that when criminals from
other states are coming into South Car
olina stealing automobiles and commit
ting burglaries, he proposed to use tha
uttermost diligence in refusing to grant
bail and giving them opportunities to
defeat the law. It is tho duty and
the province of the courts, he declared,
to do everything in their power to seo
that the fortress of tho law and tha
civilization of the state are not breach
ed by criminal advance.
The chief justice, issued a solemn
warning from the bench that if it is
necessary to stop appeals on rrivoious)
technicalities, offending attorneys would
be haled before the supreme court to
answer cause as to why they should not
be disbarred as unlit practioners of
their profession. '
The killing of William C. Brazell
hiipi'oucd oa the highway between Co
lumhia and Lexington last summer. It
was proved at the trial by the testi
mony of the accused that Brazell was
hired to drive Kirby, Fox and Gap
pins, and that they murdered him to
gain possession of his automobile. Tho
brutality of th" crime and the ghastly
circumstances surrounding it caused an
upheaval of indignation and several
mobs attempted to lynch the accused
men. They wire sentenced to death by,
Judge Thomas S. Hease, at Lexington,
but their executions have been Stayed
by appeals.
The following is the order signed by
the full personnel of the court this af
ternoon destroying the last liopO ' of
Gappins:
"This is an application by the solic
itor of the eleventh circuit, under rulo '
No. dii, to dismiss the appeal in tho
above stated case upon tho ground that
the exceptions above are manifestly,
without merit.
'The sole ground of appeal is that
it dues not appear from the record in
the office of the clerk of court of gen
eral sessions of Lexington county that
the grand jury which found the truu
bill against tho defendant was sworn
Aside from the well established rulo
that all Ihings are presumed to havo
been dune regularly unless tho contrary
appears, which would alone be sufficient
to show that the appeal is manifestly
without merit, the authorities are over
whelmiiii' that a motion to onash tho
indictment upon such a ground
must bo
made before idea and trial on
tho nier-
its.
.'!M! ;
stati
!seo state
state vs. I
vs. Smalls
vs. Bovd of, 8. C,
Iwards, lis S. C, 311J
7.1 S. ('. T.16.
Is Dismissed.
Appeal
Ju ;!,. ,, is.- of ex parte Wilson 1 1(1
r.
tlie
gra
it is said: -V delect IU
a. t ion or organization of a
v. vvhi. il does not prevent tho
,rr,...i, .' ol l compoieni jurors oy.
whose votes the indictment is found,
hi, I which could have been cured if
the attention o
of the court had been
time, or promptly reuie
mp. 'lifting of a conipe
v. is waived if tho do-
d at
by
that
the
died
tell!
fend
ciell!
trial
yraiui
nit tie,
. pleat
oil the
its 'he indictment, as sunt
s i d guilty and goes to
mi i its of the charge.
tu.ii is therefore granted
eil dismissed.
i' her ordered that the easo
1 to t ae court of general
Lexington county for tho
having a new day Set for
i ..f the sentence which has
"The mi
and the apt
"It is ft
be relliallde
sessions ot
purpose if
the ( X' i iitie
hereto f
mittiiuc
i imposed. Let tho re
ur hvith transmitted to
he court of general tcs-
;tiui county. "
ui e
bei
b,
the eh rk of t
sions of Li xin
miss Mccormick does
not answer max 0ser
PAUI-n May 3. Max Oser is sur
prised at the failure of Miss Mathilda
Me ormick, his hnancee, to answer fcU
cable messages, and disappointed, be
cause she did not appear Zurich last
month, when he expected her, according
to a Zurich dispatch to The Herald.;
The former riding master declines, how
ever, to discuss reports of aa estrange
ment with John D. Rockefeller's grand
daughter, to whom he became engaged
; prior to her departure from Switzer
land a few mouths ago. "
Oser said he had addressed several
messages to the Lake Shore homo of tho
McCormkks. in Chicago, but had re
ceived no reply. He believed, however,
that Ws r.dghs be dun to the fact ttutt.
Mis MathBde was nt Tr"t ti.,
Iirg in V!t'v '. ; it ,