WSF QASTONIA DAILY GAZETTE Local Cotton 18 Cents VOL. XLIII. NO. 109. IS IN Jones Declares Issue Betwee WILSON ASKS FOR DEFEAT A L L f E 0 WMMULOYDGEORGESTRONGLY r - Criminal Element and Law HaklOFREED TO REDEEM TrlEIORDER GEN. 1 TO GET! URGES RUSSIA TO ACCEPT Ll KCri UNITED STATES SENATOR Been Clearly Drawn In Gastoni oFnPARty out of mm allied memorandum - - - , GASTOIA, n. C, MONDAY AFTEKIMUUN, MAY 8, 1922. , SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS BRITISH VETERAN QVE WITH DAUGHTER 0 Alexander E. Robertsoi Claims Private Detective Are Trying to Drive Hini From the Uunited states Be cause of His Love For Girl Claims False Arrest and Intimidation. (By The Associate! Press.) NEWARK, X. J., May H. A re quest that the British embassy send an agent to escort him from the station to morrow, so that he would not be molested, has been made by Alexander E. Robert son, British war veteran, who plans to go to Washington to press his charges that private detectives attempted 10 railroad him out of the country because of his efforts to win the hand of Miss Mary Culberson, daughter of fcicnatur diaries A. Culberson, of Texas This became known today when it was learned that Robertson, who ,:vcs in Blooinfield, had written a special de livery letter to Morris Peterson, secre tary of the British embassy, supplement ing a telegram Kent yesterday. Robert sou is seeking to have the embassy as sist him in obtaining the arrest of .lolin R, Huland and T. G. Anderson, on charges of impersonating Federal officers. He nlready has caused the arrest of John F. Ellin, another detective, on a charge of kidnapping. The friendship between Robertson an!' Miss Culberson was said to have started at the University of 'lev a three ths ago, where both were students. The two met again recently in Washington, where Miss Culbersou was entered in the Holton arms school. Senator Culberson, of Texas, refused today to see newspaper men to dis.-iiss charges of Alexander E. Robertson, British war veteran, that private detec tives had sought to get him out of tin' country because of his affection for Miss Mary Culberson, the .Senator's -1 year old daughter. Friends of the 4'ulbcrsoii family said Mrs. Culberson vjns nearly prostrate at their Sixteenth strict home as the re sult of the publication of the report involving Robertson and Miss Culberson, who until recently was a student at the fashionable Holton Aims Finishing School here. Chesley W. .lurney, private secretary, political manager and confidential friend of Senator Culberson, who has had full charge of the Senator's outsided af fairs since his health began to fail, was out of the capital yesterday and had lHt fippenrc'd at the' c'apitol up to 'noon today. His absence led to reports, which were without confirmation, that he had left for". Newark, N'i .1,. where 'a '(inference on the matter had been ar ranged with- Mr. .lurney. Robertson, Mrs. A. IV Andrews, of Bloomlield, N. .1.. aunt of Robertson, and possibly, Miss . Culberson its participants. Mr. .lurney is said by some friends of; the family hero to haw had at h a-f one I conference with Robertson at which lie urged the British war veteran to bear in mind his own youth and that of tiie Senator's daughter, and that both wait awhile before thinking of marriage, lurney also is understood to haw talk ed to Miss Culberson with such efleit j that she entered into an understanding I with Roberston that they would n d talk , of matrimony "until the spring of 1W at the earliest. j British embassy ollicials indicated to day they were cognizant of the matter in an general ay, Mrs. Andrews having j laid the charges before the embassy dur ing a recent visit to Washington. The embassy, after hearing Mrs. Andrews' story, telegraphed Thomas l'atker Port er, British eiisul general at Boston, to investigate, the aunt of the British vete ran having alleged that It ibcrtson was taken to Boston to be sent out of the country. The Boston consult' replied, it was said, that all of those mentioned including the supposed detectives had left Boston. NKWAIfK. X. .)., May Alexan der K. liobertson, British war veteran was preparing today to gather his evi dence that private detectives had at tempted to drive him from the I'nited States Ijeenuse of his affection for the daughter of a I'nited Mates Senator. This evidence, he said, will be submit ted before the British emba ssv officials tomorrow when he will seek the arrest of the men through Fedora warrants. TI . 1 1 1. ... ur mis iiireany caused tne arrest or one i of the men on a charge of kidnapping. He described how he had lieen forced to go to Boston by the men under threat of arrest on a charge of stealing valuables from the British-American War Veterans' Association rooms and how he had returned to Blooinfield and caused the arrest of one of the detect ives named Kllis at a hotel here. Police Recorder W. H. Kawson, of Blooinfield, before whom Robertson ap i wired and secured the warrant on the kidnapping charge, said that Robertson 1....I vrv- , . ... . iir"'- - i'iwo.-vuu. i i'""- , ,. senator until aftor KIIik was arr-aitfuftJ in ourt, said juik? i;n wsoii. lhc - T Liwvir ilimf Cliotl ilnn i-k.t tn a with the caso was when Ellis told some i t iji fi..i.i ,.!!.. i..i., i ' ...... .. .1 t. ...... '.1922 will show a reduction of more than behind him ami that Robertson and the ! senator's daughter were friends." i Detective Sergeant J. J. Huddv, j who aeeomimnied Robertson here and j wem with him in the company of a ' XcwirV detective tr. the hotel untie M l lis was nuefctci, d .fiiK a hu Ellis af ! Ur his return in custody to Bloomlield j (CC li?ucj o" a" 6.3 Law Enforcement Is Just As Effective As Go Citizens Want It to Court Hits Law Violators Hard Rap Se Bootleggers to Roads Laundry. The issue between the criminal ele ment and the law abidintr people of Gustonia has been clearly drawn," said Judge Arthur C. Jones in Municipal Court this morning in the course of some very earnest remarks to the court crowd prior to passing sentence on sev eral men found guilty of violating the prohibition laws. "Law enforcement in a community is just as effective as the good citizens of that community want it to be," ho continued. "The good citizens of Gas tenia must cooperate with the police officers and the city officials by fur nishing information which wilt aid in the making of arrests and the convic tion of criminals. Many of our peo ple, considered by themselves, and by others as good citizens, withhold infor mation, the giving of which to the officers would help them to clean up the town, for fear they will milke ene mies or injure their businesses. The time has come when the better element must array its strength against the cricinal element if we are to have a clean town . ' ' Judge Jones told his audience that it seemed that the imposition of fines . : or..,. : on convictci criminals wan im-un-ou-. It 1ms been tried out thoroughly. But crime goes right on. especially in uie matter of liquor selling conditions have grown worse. "I am serving notice now,'' said the judge, "that so far as this court is concerned in the future when a man is convicted in the court of selling liquor or keeping liquor lor le he is going to get a road sen tence . Judge Jones, in his talk, touched also on the social evil wiiicn ne nam is vei.v prevalent in (iastonia and for the sup pression of which the co-operation of the law abiding element is demanded. One of the biggest liquor raids mad recen Iv liv Deal nil leers was iiiiicil on . ,, . . v I at o'clock Sunday morning when Of- j fiecrs Whitlow, Rankin and Mingus raided the Gnsfonia Damp Wash Laun- t dry, corner East Franklin avenue and i Columbia street, and secured "ti pint : bottles of corn liquor and found a number of bottles which had been eith er broken or emptied. The captured booze was introduced as evidence in i Municipal Court this morning when . T. Lilly, a young white truck driver, was arranged on a charge of receiving, transporting and keeping liquor fur sale. Officer Whitlow testified that be; was passing the laundry at 'J o'clock : Sunday morning and his suspicions was ' aroused by seeing a car standing at the 1 Dawes Estimates Government Expenditures For 1922 Will Be $1,600,000,000 Less Than 1921 Director of Budget on Economies and Savings in Governmen tal Business Submits Report to Congress Claims Many Reductions in Several Departments of Government. ( By The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Mav S. Ships and shoes ami sealing wax as well as mucilage, binding twine and miscellane oiis groceries figure in the -fl.tilui.-oiio.uuo saving which Director Dawes, of the Budget, Burca, expects to pare from the grn-w expenditures of the Government during VX-i as compared with those of lOL'l. The detailed report, sent by President Harding to Congress today comprises nearly one hundred pages closelv printed items, the scope of of j which would make a eeni arge quite department limited in ' store s offering s compa rison. In computing tin ccononiv resulting i from the transfer of surplus material j from one department to another, Direct- or Dawes credited as saving only the 'difference bvtwen the "market price" and the "forced sale price." Thus .1 jiiuantitv of "steel washers and oil," I 1 1 -i nsferreit from tin Shipping Board, to suited in net esti-las !the public printer i i mate. I savings of exactly tourten cents, j one army sad lie sent from the ship j board to the interior Department saved fo.Oti and quantity of salt to the marine corps was credited with rll.!(7. j I Pipes and pipe fittings, blacksmith j took and "hollers, complete, all came , within the survey, along wit li more iiea.1- ly items such as cyaiiidt' of potassium,'" which the navy turned over to the treasuiv fur some uname. use. Several millions of dollars in ships transferred figured in the report, rang ing from Launch Xo. 411H, valued at I ;(((. to oilers of the Ramapo and bapelo ; ! t. i... pntcred nt fi:!5.0(MI each. The re- : ..:'' , . . ., ,. placement value oi tne oners was esti- , mate I at d.oiWJHm lint Director Da wis ; : held that thev would only firing 404,000 j , at forced sale. w."' ' ',, I inient expenditures for the fiscal year .6OO.on0.O00 from the actual exKndi-. t"-" for the pr.-'ding fiscal year. 19LM, nngress was informed today by Presi - ,1,nt Harding in transmitting the report ot Director Da wes of th Budget on economies and savings in governmental buMmss. Direc.or unwes estimate, that Gov- iinui'.xt erncc'litur'M for tit; ?vrr;'-t 6d Be Judge of Munici Whiskey Capture door on Columbia street and Mireo men inside. Jit demanded that te door be opened. This being deiiii'd, he pro ceeded to batter the door down. Two of the men went out the back door and got away. Lilly was arrested. The L'U-odd bottles of liquor were taken. Other pint bottles lay in the sink, the stoppers having been taken out, and the booze was gurgling dowji the Bewer pipe. Officers Tom Rankin and Min gus arrived on the scene a few mo ments later and assisted in getting the booty back to the city hall. After hearing the evidence against Lilly the hitter's attorney, Mayor 11. O. Cherry, asked that the passing of sentence be deferred until 3 o'clock this afternoon in order that he might introduce some character witnesses for the defendant. Lilly did not go on the s'anil nor did he introduce any evi dence. Mr. R. B. Kcphart, owner of tho Gns tonia Damp Wasii Laundry, states that neither he nor Mr. H. M. Robinson, the manager, had any knowledge of the fact that Lilly had liquor on the premises. They regret very much that one of their employees took the liberty of bringing whiskey on the premises. He was there at thy time without their knowledge or cons' !;. Will White, colored, was given lid days on the roads for receiving, trans porting and keeping liquor for sale. Through his attorney, Mr. E. R. War ren, he appealed to Superior Court and his appeal bond was fixed at $.100. A half gallon of whiskey was taken from White's house. It was in a jug. He claimed In had it for his "pus-onaC' use. A tin can was also found which 1 had had liquor in it . Clarence Long and Ernest Long, ! white, were each given ten mouths on ! t lit roads for selling liquor. The State j introduced cTidencc to the effect that 'each sold to W. L. 'ato a pint of li- jquor for which he paid $.'1 in each in stance. One pint was secured Satur day night and the other Sunday morn ing. Both gave notice of appeal to Superior Court and their bonds were 1 fixed at l.oo(l each. Chesley Montgomery, white, was sen tenced to six mouths on the roads for receiving, transporting and keeping li quor for sale. Officer Adam llord ar rested him on Franklin avenue Satur day night and took from his person two and a half pints of liquor. Mont ginnery refused to tell where he Ins liquor or who was with him. got fiscal year which were given in the ! December budget estimates as tL'.hiT,- !)L'L'.::i)(i will be at least . I.VmII.-I.IC less. : or approximately f'.I'L'.. '172, Olio. As compared with 11(21, he continued, .there has been a reduction of ! ( 1 1 7 , ! ."iiil.iMi(l in expenditures for file operation of the routine business of the govcrn I meat subject generally to executive co'i i trnl. Of this sum he attributed .f-'.'-n,-j oou.oim to the imposition of the cxeci i five plan and pre? lire on the routine I business organization' of the Govern- ; incut under the new system inaugurate 1 1 by the Budget Bureau. The report of Director Dawes was siiii i initte.l to the House Appropriations Committe of the President in comic.-, tion with a pending resolution by Rep resentative Byrr.s, Democrat, Tennessee, asking the President to inform the Ibm-e in what ways direct savings of '-'. '"', 000 and indirect savings of .jnl.no i.ooO previously announced by the President accomplished bv the Budget Bureau during its first i. mouths of operation. hadi been made, Director Dawes presented in with accompanying table- and state deta, men! -: tin the comparative expenditure f'o past and present fiscal years di id to items; renreseiitiiiL' tho-e wlii.d cnargeif to executive 'control an such as public debt and si mi counts which were considered , a r 1 1' it troin the subject or routine Government expenditure. He also submitted ex haustive reiiorts of the C.ovci iM.ei;tal savings accomplished through inter. a- partniental transfers of miriihis lippll s lit., ef and nthcr ..u.. i . . ... I, I "IC...O.IS ,.i. reel r.y the budget- bureau, i mixing olving il Ihe i-ilized the :.- thousands of transaction- ships, shoes, sealing wax and i many articles and coininoditi. . oy the Government together with n "ving rtah.ed in cad, .a-e. The budiret director further re ported that th urinf. -.... r-,.,l ,eain t i current upprojiriations of l l-'.o' set tip by the departments and estahlis!,-t ) ments in August, 1921, in response to j I "ecutivc request, had been increased,! j notwithstanding re-nppropriatioiis by j j Congress of more than f7,Oou,1""1 .' jthits reserve for other purpose-, to the apiroimate sum of 136 000 mm onlv pjiiis" p nav tfds i?in Woodrow Wilson Refers to Senator James A. Reed as Marplot and Asks Missouri Democrats to Defeat Him in Primary Letter to Governor Lon V. Stephens Made Public Today. 'By The Associated Press.) ST. LOUIS. May S . Referring to United States Senator James A. Jieed as a "marplot", former President Wil son, in a letter to former Governor Lon V. Stephens, made public today, asked the defeat of Missouri's senior senator to "redeem the reputation of the .Dem ocratic party. It was Mr. Wilson's third letter on! rue suojeci 01 uie i emoi iatie nomina tion for United States Senator, sought by Mr. Reed and Hic.kinridge Long, former third assistant sccivtarv of state. in the Wilson administration. The letter was in reply to one by Mr. Stephens, in whirl, t. f, inner governor referred to a letter the form er president recently wrote the St. Lou is Globe Democrat attaeking Reed. Mr. Reed replied to this letter, in which he questioned Mr. Wilson's ini-mnry. The' letter under date of April J7 to Mr. Stephens follows: "My Dear Governor Stephens; " Your letter of April i' fled me. 1 am glad to U my own judgment of Kee.l closer knowledge of him d h: grat ' sustained ill b your own and' I shall hope and confidently ex pec repudiated by the Democrat maries. Certainly Mission tn see llllll i at the ii i ra ii not at ford to be represented by siu-n a mar plot and it might check tin enthu iasin , of Democrats throughout the country if I their comrades in Missouri should not redeem the reputation of Ihe party by substituting for Reed a man of the, true breed of democratic principle. I I am sure your own great influence will contribute to the desired and expected redemption. "l'lease accept assurances of my en I tire confidence in the Missouri De crats and believe me, with best wishc-, ' "Sincerely yours, "WOODRoW WILSON." In a letter, last week to John C. lligdon, a local attorney, Mr. Wilson asked Mr. lligdon "not to complicate; the contest in Missouri" by becoming a 1 candidate for the nomination. Mr. Long recently opened his cam- : paign at Cape Giraddeau, and Mr. i Reed opened his Saturday at lloberiy. i The primary is August I. I In his opening campaign address. 'Senator Reed defended bis enure and asserted Mr. Wilson "was the boy I who is conducting the campaign in ! Missouri for the other side." . GASTONIA MINISTERS ASSOCIATION MEETS The ministers of (iastonia met in regu lar monthly conference this morning at the First 1'resbyteria n church ami heard wilth pleasure Miss Margaret Laws, Local Red Cross Health Nurse, o it line the Work she expects t do in bii-lini county and offer her services in connect ion with flic ninny churches of the county an I city. Miss Laws was Inaid wit.i .leepe-t interest and assured of the hearty sup port and co-operation of tin Aiii t ion. Reverends Dr. J . II. ll. n l. i lit.-. C. !. Black and J. W. C. Johnson were ap pointed a committee to draft suitable resolutions thanking and cniniendiii.; the drug store owners t he splendid spirit and i fested by them in the stores on the ("sabbath the hours of i(;.'t a. in. This same committee tc ot cist onu 1 er I i opera' ion ma n: eloping ot' the.r la v bet w m 1 tie an I 2:-'i" p. in . aiso con 1 1 r wit ii i the Public tserviee station owners I k- ; ing toward the same action on their pait. The simultaneous Sunday School j Rally Day to be observed and being pro moted bv the Gaston County ;s. S. A-- 'social ion Was reported as nude way an 1 iilnient i and accorded the h ai t j and support of t he A j The movement on foot ; cell at ion : lie !. guli the b. ai'ti- ; at ion of I clnniaa- j immoral I lying of our city and tie unsightly bill boards and tion, as tar as posil public advertising, r endorsement "f the b: .t ill d the I n ai t v 400,000 FLOOD VICTIMS ARE BEING CARED FOR Relief Organizations in the Two States of Mississippi and Louisiana Feeding Thousands of Refugees. (By The A.ssoce, : XKW OKLL'ANs. .than 40,000 refugee. . ' areas of Mi.ssis.si i o n :. i being maintained by p ' it was officially ani; i ! in charge of the we iv p This l ies not take in: , a 'amis of persons w!e c I flooded homes and a 1 ii : The victims are almost 1 I'lcsS . ) c s. . ,r,. ; the tloodcd Louisiana are f oi'gani.ati.iiis, e ! by offici-ils the two states. . oiini the thous iciin in their need of .relef. equally divided in the two states. An flici mitted to Governor Parker. il rejrtdt sub of Louisiana, vesterday Mated that I- .."ti I victims were niral Louisiana j being ratUuied in 'where several thousan land were inundated ( : Mississippi river le. To thi,j will 1 adde. square miles of the break in the ( it Ferriday, La. j t hose lieing sue- 1 cnoced in southern Louisiana lis th. slt of the breaks in the levees at Bernard! and Blaqucmines parishes. 1 - BANK CALL, ( By The Associate, Presu.) WASHINGTON'. May . The t'omn. troller of the Currency today issued a call for the condition of all nation;.' banks at the li'e (j,l M-o Says His Presence Is a Viloa tion of the 1901 Proctocol He Refuses to Leave. (By The Associated Tress.) TKINTSIN. May s. General Wu I'ei Fu. who came to Tientsin from Pckin in pursuit of the Manchurian governor Chang Tsao Lin, was ordered yesterday by the Allie.l military com manders here to leave the city, as his presence was held to he in violation of the 1 lo 1 protoiol. lie refuse. : to leave on the ground that he was ailing gover nor of Chihli province and would re main as long as necessary for his pur poses. The bridges between this city and Tuliu, on th south side of the II in river e.-.tiary, were burned by the retreating members of Ghung Tsao Lin's arinv. I Two thousand of Chang's soldiers were ' reported yesterday in Taiigku, on the j nor'. n side of the river, where their de mands for frailis to convey t Ik m to i MnVbii were fruitless, no locomotives being available. 1'requciit attempts at j telephonic communication with Tangku I last night were unsuccessful. Should Wu accede to the Ailied de mands to leave, he would have to move ! : i . -L toward Peking, as rail communica tion to the east and north has been sever led by the burniny of the bridges, and ii I Japanese destroyer is preventing the idispa' li or his forces down the river in (barges. The situation therefore, is I that, while Chang Tsao-, in had uninler ' copied use of Hi,. Mukden railway for x two weeks during his offensive operations, his pursuer is now unable to use the road to complete lus victory. MONROE WILL SEEK TO ATTRACT MILLS FROM NEW ENGLAND I In view of the fact that it is the n -ported intention of New Knglnnd maiiu ;facturers to build their mills of the fu t lire in the South, the following from i The Monroe Journal about how Monroe is U'ting on the proposition may be of ! loi al interest : "Mr. Jesse M. Jones, i liief of the de velopment department ()f the tSeuboa.'i Air Line railway, with headipia rters in . .Norfolk met i.ith the Chamber of Com : merce yesterday evening at six o 'i lock to discuss plans for sending a delegation tn see New l-.'ngland textile manufacturers I with a view to inducing then to locate mills in Monroe. J 'Mr. June:: has all the information I anybiidc is looking for along these lin.sj it on t lie tip ot Ins tolii.ue. lie is a i liii-v man. receiving one hum a day and employing two whom he carries with him. are therefore va'uaMc ami he toe some mighty eiuiinriiging Hard to the proposed pro h ct red lette-s 'i retarie'i ' His i.l.-n s j ga ve Mou- talk ill re- I He is! promised t hat . prov ided s4-nt, as it in all proba nit her he or M r. I apps, t he i oad, will go with t t he delegation is lilitiis will be,' v ice president oT j e delegation and lend a helping hand. Mr. .loiies believes that with the ad vantage Monroe has to offer the citv stands a good chum e to bring large manufacturing inteie-ts lure. It was pointed out that in I'mon county the costs of eoiis'iuction a.'o inuch lower than I in New Knglnnd liv ing expenses are cheap 1 er. raw material is grown right here, i sanitary conditions are excellent, un bounded development pov.er, cheap labor. freedom from labor troubles, that this I section of the state is callable of pro In- ! in sutticient food t i feed anv sizr liop.i I,,,,,,,, and that large textile inaiiufa tilling interests would mean thousands of dollars to I'nion c unity farmers, vv'.o would then be in position to grow all the truck and dairy products they could ali i find a ready market at profitable figures. "Mr. Jones states that the Seaboard is ready to send representatives familiar with freight rates and industrial condi tions and sugge-ts that Monroe's repre- sentat iv t horougl.l ,- in! cessary l:.:iires h are inn. !: li s rm themselves I with the un,.. rates, w hieh ; Knglnnd, cost situation, i m' I freedom from 1 ment, sch e '-. ; etc. ! "It ha- ., I that New Li., come interest.' t south, w hu h i 1 ton mills. :, ud s relat ive to tax ss than in New ees" homes, coal lights, labor, , road improve industrial laws, ,f Cllipa. of pove f' r Mimi time 'an.l e.i j .t : :i I st s have d tn m.iaofact uring in tin s i he logical place for cot :!...! large sums of mon.-v ing i n sled ill fhe textile co' ' 1 1 1 i.elt. There i no c f.iini. is of the south p. Le.' to ship their stap i .nd 'o In- worked up into ' .d e l and pay freight . , I the natural a. Ivan; ..re vigbt here wiiere tin' .. and tiiis step on the part -m.ss men to bring the i . d K.r of the cotton f;, - e-. meet with the hearty j iiii.en of the count v. ' ' are year b. i business in 'I.' reason why 1! should be c "" to New l.i . tlie finished : Ijoth vva-. ages imagii.ae cotton is . ' . : of Mo; mills t . mers w : . apprnai "' " TOOAT'S COTTON MARKET CLOSING BIDS ON THE NEW YORK MARKET , j;v Tlie Associated Press.) M.U YOliK. May S. Cotton fu tures . io-ed steady. Mav Is.ss; July lfi.42; OctolKT 19.5:1; Be. IK.- r il'.Gii ; Jaiiua. v P.(.4i; March ,-spotS Strict to Good SSiddlirj :8c .t"tt KNIGHTS TEMPLAR TO GATHER IN TWIN CITY Over 1,000 Uniformed Knights Will March in Big Parade Thursday at 11 A. M. The greatest Knights Templar demon stration ever attempted! in North Carolina will be in the form of a parade next Thursday morning at 11 o'clock in Winston -Halem when 1,000 full uni formed, plumed knights will inarch in review before the grand comuiandcry of North Carolina, Knights Templar. The annual meeting of all York Uite Masonic bodies will be held in AV'inston- tSalein beginning Tuesday night at 7 o'clock with opening of the Grand Chan ter, Boyal Arch Masons. This meeting will be followed by sessions of Grand Council!, Ito.vnl Arch and Helect Masters at 1 :'t0 o clock Wcdncsdsty afternoon. The crowning event of all will be the opening of the Grand Coiiunandery, Knights Templar, at 7 o'clock Wednes day night. After t he istomatr) prelimi nary program the magnificent degree of the Temple will Is exemplified by I'lan tagenet Conunanderv No. 1, of Wilming ton. This coiiiinaiidery 'has had the de gree work under preparation for 12 months and will render a class of degree work seldom witnessed in Masonic circles. Kvery Knight Templar is expected' to witness this work. On Thursday at 11 o'clock the big parade will be staged. Klalxirute prepa rations for this event have leen under way for many months. It is expected to eclipse anything ever seen in the slate from a Masonic point of view. Special trains will take plumed Knights from the various parts of the state and when the command tn begin marching is given over a thousand Knights of Ihe Cross and Crown will obey the command. Many Masons from Gastouia and Gaston county arc expecting to make the pilgrimage to the tobacco capital. The l'vthian band will also attend in full force. The following letter has been received by W. V. Warren: Winston fcjalem, N . '., Mav .Jth, Mi. W. V. Warren, l iastonia, N. i '. Dear Sir: - Nun are doubtless aware our Grand 1 ommander Raymond I , Dunn lias ot tered a silver Loving Cup to the Coin- manderv making the liest record at the iL'ml Annual Conclave to lie held ill Winston Salein on May 10th and lltli. This cup is now in my possession, and is certainly a most licautiful piece of work; one any Coinmaiiilery would o'e proud to own. Jt is typical of Ihe big-hearti'-biess and enthusiasm of oar (Jrand Commander, which makes it all j the more to be desired. I am having sent to v on n copy of the local paper, giving a more detailed account. (In behalf of Piedmont Coiiimanderv No. ll. I wish to extend you our most hearty invitation, and we truly hope you and a great number of your Sir Knights will be present, with a strong desire to lake this cup home. This will 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i V be the biggest Masonic ! meeting ever held' in this state, and we want you and in full force, sand Knights in grand paiad your Coiiiinaiidery here Think of over one thoa Templar in full uniform c ! Will you be one ' 'oiirteousl v . It. K. JOHNSON'. Grand Sword Hearer. COOK COUNTY JAIL INMATES BREAK LOOSE IN RIOT Drop Burning Blankets to Lower Floors Bedlam Is Heard for Blocks. (Ry The Associated Tress.) CUB AGO. May H. A four hour riot in the I ook county jail was quelled car ly today when Wesley Westbrook, war den, and eO guards removed the ring leaders from their cells one at a time and whipped them. Displeasure of the Ipr'somis over a change in the none ''ml of admitting visitors led to the out - break. The riot started on the fourth tier. Plaining blankets were dropped to the j ground floor. Ponsc smoke almost -uf focated many inmates. With steel strips torn from their bunks, the pris oners leat upon the bars of their cells, I'ae bedlam being heard for blocks. Crowds gathered at the jail entrance and police were called to drive them a way . Th.. women's ward is just above the fourth tier and close to the center of the disturbance. Four babies, who were locked up when their mothers and two other women were committed last j Thursday on a contempt f court sen tence three years old, became hysterical nml jail physicians were called to quiet : them. One woman, about to become a I mother, was reported to be suffering a 'severe nervous shock, i Warden Westbrook said that after ieach of more than 900 prisoners had a visitor mi a recent visiting day pack lages left mounted so high it required the entire jail force nearly all night to sort them. "The result was that guus, saws, files, drugs, and all manner of contraband came into the jail," he said . The warden then decided to divide the jail iuto four sections and permit onlv one-fourth of tho prisoners to have, tis- iters t a time GOVERNMENT LOAN IS OFFERED THE BOLSHEVIK! IF IHE! If L ACCEPT An Atmosphere of Gloom Per vades Conference Circles. MAY PLAY TRUMP CARD. Failure of Russia to Make Af firmative Answer Will Mean French Withdrawal. (3y The Associated Prow.) GKXOA, May S. Prime Minister Lloyd George, of Great Britain, anil ' foreign Minister iSchanzer, of Italy, ail ! dressed today a strong appeal to the Buh : siau representatives at the conference) here, urging them to accept the allieif j meinora iidiim in its main points ant j promising Russia an international loan. I The fifth week of the Genoa confer ence, opening today, will see the en.l j of the conclave, it is generally believed. An atmosphere of (loom jiervades con I ferein e circles, in view of the appar ent irreconcilability of the positions of Kuglatid on one hand and France and lielgium on the other over the terms under which the reconstruction of Eus sia would pe undertaken. Admirers of Mr. Lloyd George be lieve he may yet have some trump can! in reserve, but in other quarters no such hope is felt, although it is conceded that several deadlocks have ben broken when dissolution seemed certain. Among the reports circulated is that Mr. Lloyd George will promise a tlireet governmental loan to the bolsevipi if they ague to nccpt the terms set forth in the allied memorandum. An other is that the conference will be con tinued, i veu if Prance and Belgium drop, out in protest against tho recognition, embodied iii the Alljed memorandum, of Russia 's right to hold foreigners' prop erty sequestrated under the soviet na-' tioiialiation program. Those who predict a break un think it I Willi take the form of an adjournment. If the soviet reply, which is cxpectel within two days, is unsatisfactory to tho powers, these people say, another noto will be sent to the Russians, embodying the power's minimum terms and giving the bolsheviki a stated period for con sideration and final reply. , , , , The Russians may spring a surpriso by returning a favorable answer to' tltn present metnora ndum, but complete' ac ceptance is improbable, and the bolshe viki would hardly agree to amendment t by l'lamo nml Belgium of the property j lause, which thev already rcenrd as 't compromise their political principle that all property bt. owned by the Stat. ' France has announced through her chvef spokesman, Vice Premier Barthou, that she will not go on with tho nego tiations unless the Russians give a cate gorical answer to the memorandum. A dilatory reply, one which meunfc merely "playing for time," said M. Barthou, would bring the instant with drawal of Prance. This would include refusal to consider the non-aggression pact proposed by Mr. Lloyd George, as such a pact would be impossible unlyesa there was an arrangement with Russia. I Meanwhi'e the Italian leaders continue ! their role of peace-makers, audi Foreign. Minister Krhnnzcr is devoting all his at jtenlioii to the problem of finding somo j formu'.i which will satisfy the French ; anil Belgians. Little dope is helil, out, however, that this is possible, and Zecln Slovakia is said to be leading the) way ill negotiation.! a separate economic, ac cord with the bolsheviki in lieu of tht collective agreement which seems iuipri"' l l.aiile nf at'aiiiment. . i NEGROES TAKE NO PART IN THE KIRYIN AFFAIR Bv The Associated Press.) Klin IN. Texas. May 8. Kirriu was (jiiii-t today, folloving rumors last night that armed bands o negroes were marching toward the town to avenga tin- burning of three negroes who were accused of attacking and murdering a lTycar old white school girl. O. C. King, city marshal, said that be expected no further trouble and that he had investigated the rumors and found no one had seen a band of negroes in this vicinity. One of th rumors, he -aid. might have originated when about ' negroes had a Teligious gathering here. This meeting broke up, according to the marshal, when th negroes were informed that the Jur lose of their meeting might bo mis-, construed. The finding of the mutilated body oC the girl Thursday night caused feeling to run high here. Posses containing; more than oOO men searched the coun try near here for traces of the mur derer. The three negroes were taken from officers who had them iu custo dy. One of tho negroes is said to have ronfesM-d that he had a part iu th crime, implicating the other two, bat they maintained that they were inno cent. THE WEATHER Noita Caiolin, fan tonight and Tuts ity, !Kt ftmcfi chn$e ii ?rTTr't"' i V