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rrr Local Cotton 21 Cents VOL. XLIII. NO. 152 GASTONIA, N. Cn TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 27,. 1922 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS (SAS A DA If Weather: - Unsettled TABULATION OF STRIKE VOTE WILL SHOW A BID MAJORITY FOR THE STRIKE Provided Other Union Work er Whose Wage Have Been Cut, Join In, Too. CONFERENCES CONTINUE Some Say Strike Will Be Called July 15, Others Pre dict It for August 1. DETROIT, Juno 27. (By Tho As - socUted Press.) - Tabulation of the strike vote taken by the United Brother hood of Maintenance of Way Employes and (Railway Shop Laborers, following a wage cat, ordered effoctive, July 1, by the .Railroad Labor Board, continued at headquarters of the organization here today, with officials of the union predict ing the final vote would show a large majority favoring the walkout, provided ' otlier union workers, whose wages also wre cut, joined in. The eount started yesterday, and ap proximately 40,000 votes were counted. Today 'a tabulation is expected to bring the total to about 100,000 and it was aid the returns would le around two thirds complete by the end of the week, which would give an accurate idea of the sentiment in thq Union. ' CHICAGO, June 27. Railway union officials continued their conferences to day on the threatened railroad strike. With informal statements by Union leaders indicating that the referendum .of shopmen, maintenance of way cm ployes and clerks "throughout the United States discloses a strong sentiment in favor of a strike as a protest against wage reductions, J. C. timock, assistant to the president of" tho maintenance of way men, predicted the walkout would be called July 15. Others said conferences with 'railroad officials probably would de lay the call until August 1. : Word tame out of the secret confer ence that a meeting of union executives within the next few days flight include the "big four" brotherhoods of train men, who are unaffected by the wage cut decisions Of the railroud labor board. B. iMf Jewell, head of the railway em ployes, department of tho American Fed eration of'Lalior, said an : "important announcement" will be made ; Thursday as a. result of tho meetings on strike plans and policies. Any proposal from, the railroads to ' prevent the threatened strike will .be heard, uniort .officials said, but they ad vanced little encouragement of dcvelop- nienta in that direction. The United States Railroad Labor Board resumed' fts -hearings 'today on con tract cases'. BRASS BAND ALMOST -V, ASSURED FOR DALLAS Dallas' To Have Brass Band Town Rallying To Support Mr. W. W. Francis, of Gastonia, Instructor. 'V';: '"' ; (By Mrs. Joe Gribblc.) ' e DALLAS, June 27. The Dallas Brass band was officially organized Mon- day night at a most enthusiastic meet y Ins; held at the home of Mrs. Joe Gii'b- We on Monarch Heights. Messrs. F. C. Todd and W. W. Francis, of the Gas- - tonia Pythian band, were over and so.:e , mighty good things are promised for - 4 Dallas in the near future. Dr. A. V. . Boyles was unanimously elected manager with Mr, Bcelcr laneberger, assistant manager and Mr. L. W. Holland, secre- " tary and treasurer, the first regular meet Ing to -be held Wednesday night at the s ' club bouse with Mr. Francis as instruc tor and leader. Like every good thing that is worth while it takes money and the town of Dallas will Ibe benefited a hundred fold through this "band which will tie the one big means of promoting community spirit and unity. Some few have responded splendidly with cash gifts while others haven't, as yet, had the opportunity to show their appreciation in this way. So let all open vp the purse strings -wide and 1oost the boys with a littlo financial aid. All donations will be gladly accepted by the -treasurer, Mr. Holland. It would cer tainly speak . most admiralty for the - town should at lenst half of the teach er's salary be financed by tho citizens. Mr. Todd and Mr. Francis have al ready made time sacrifices for the en couragement of our boys and wilt do Z'uir l their .id and push them to the to). i An fce ereara supper is on at the club : house Katurday, night, aH proceeds for I the benefit oi the band, uood niusie" ; will fce on hand and let everybody old and young be there and make it a com Biunity party. Announcements. There will be preaching at the Dallas Presbyterian rhurch Sunday morning at the regular tour with a eongregutional meeting immediately following. Mat. ters of importance to tlie church will be considered that wiR require full atten dance if possible. ' The Economy Home Choral Club, of Kings Creek, 8. C, will present the "Evolution of Childhood. Up," Thurs day night at the graded school audito rium. This is a worthy cause and it is hoped a large audience will greet them. Admission 15 and 25 cents. The Young Matron's Club -wil hold their regular meting at th rouniry home, "Mavon," of 'Mr. and -Mrs. E. L. Bouser, Thursday afternoon at three o'clock. A full atUndsnee is nrgentlv Requested.; ; ... J Had 18 German . . Machine Gun Bullet ' Taken From Body SATAWISSA, PA, June 27. Herbert MoCarty, 28, a veteran of the seventy ninth division, lost a font year fight for life after undergoing nearly fifty operations to overcome wounds he bad suffered a few days before the armistice, when his body was riddled by bullets from a ma chine gun of a German airplane. McCarty bad been in hospitals al most continuously since he was wounded. . Twenty four of his operations were major ones, and 24 others were class ed by surgeons as minor. Eighteen machine gun bullets had been taken from his body and he carried two, grown into his jugular vein, to bis death. In the operations 14 ribs had been entirely removed, a portion of one shoulder blade and a collar bone Uk -out , His case is said by specialists to be one of the most remarkable in Amer ican surgery. Until two months ago he had recovered sufficiently to leave the hospital for short priods. McCarty had been cited for ex treme bravery, his citation stating, he was dragging bodies of his com rades back from exposed positions when wounded. . BARGENA, BIELASKI'S MATE, IS RELEASED BY BANDITS Mexican Lawyer, Kidnaped With American Agent, Set Free Ransom On Bruce Bielaski Being Paid. MEXICO CITY, June 27. (By the Associated Press.) Manuel Barcena, Mexican lawyer, who was kidnaped to gether with A. Bruce Bielaski, near Cuernavaca, on Sunday, has been re leased and news is momentarily ex viccs from Cuernavaca said Mr. Bielaski pected of Bielaski 's freedom. Late ad vt'us safo and that negotiations with the bandits were under way. Mr. Bielaski, former chief of the American department of justice's in vestigation bureau, and Senor Bracena were seized while motoring with their wives. : Tho negotiations for his release'- are being carried , on by friends,' ,'and . the ransom is. being paid on the, order of .Richmond ' Levering & Company, ' New York, of which Mr. Bielaski ' is - the head. , . Travelers returning from Cuenfavaca said an unsuccessful attempt' was .made to obtain Mr. Bielaski 'a freedom ,by the payment of ';$1,W0 in cash, camouflaged to, represent ten-time's, t. that', amount. The effort was thwarted, however, when spectators in automobiles Approached too closely and the bandits became sus picious., -i. The dispatch was -dated yesterday and said that the "rebel General Goro sabc" had scizod tho company V prop erty and was holding it with 240 well armed men. ' Prompt .instructions , were sent by the stato department to the embassy in Mexico City and to tho con sul at Tampico to urge, the Mexican authorities to tuke immediate action for the protection of American lives and property. The consul reported that Gorozabe had demanded payment of tho 15,000 pesos within 48 hours from yesterday morning when his forces seized the property. The message also said that there were no Mexican federal troops in tho vicinity. Tho consul 's message contained few details. As the message was dated yes terday the time for payment f the 13,000 pesos fixed by tho rebel leader probably was due to expire- some time today. Tho state department sent the fol lowing message to tho embassy at Mexico City, similar instructions going to tin consul at Tampico at the same time : "Urge the appropriate authorities to adopt vigorous measures to extend ade quate protection to the lives and prop erty of American citizens reported held by, the rebel General Gorozave and to punish the perpetrators of this out rage." - Meanwhile tho department" was still awaiting advices from Mexico as to action taken by the Mexican govern ment to obtain the release of A. Bruce Bielaski, captured by bandits aud held for ransom not far from. Mexico City, near ucrnavaca. The' embassy has com municated no additional details of Mr. Bielaski 's capture since it received the department's instructions to press the Me"Ci,n for prompt action ul ' ca3C' , wftTTMnn . . . . . X, IN HAMBURG UPRISING BERLIN", Juno 27. One man is re ported to have been killed and ten others wounded in disturbances which followed a big demonstration in Ham burg last night over tho assassination of Foreign Minister Batbenau. LIVES OF 40 AMERICANS ARE HELD FOR RANSOM WASHINGTON, June 27. The lives sf 40 American employes of the Cortes oil company, near Tampico, and destrncible property valued at a quarter of a million dollars, are be ing held by a rebel general until ran som of 13,000 pesos is paid, according to a message today fiom the Amer ican consul t Tampico to the States Ieprtment REV. J. A. SHARP COMES BACK WITH ANOTHER ATTACK AT OFFICIALS Charlotte Preacher Declare Judge Jones Violated One of Confidence Imposed. HITS CHARLOTTE PAPERS Declares Police and Newspa pers of City Are Not Tot ing Fair With Him. CHARLOTTE, June 27. In an im passioned speech before Ibefore the Men 's club of Tryon Street Methodist church Monday night, Rev. J. A. Sharp made a scathing attack on city and county of ficials, the court, the police and the news papers. Referring to the $10,000 hush money he said in his sermon the night of June 18 had 'been offered Frank Littlejohn :o "let up," he declared that since last week, when Clio ad testificandum proceed ings were begun with Bliarp A leading figure, $5,000 had been offered Little john to cease his activities against boot leggers. Mr. Sharp made the statement that ho recently received a letter from a worn. an in Kentucky who said she would send an affidavit in a few days giving evidence about a liquor transaction that took place within the very walls of Mecklenburg courthouse. The husband of this woman is a con tractor operating in this section, accord ing tq Mr. Sharp, who said that the -letter said that she had stopped with her husband in front of tho courthouse, thai her husband went into the place, leaving her outside in their automobile, for the sole purpose of purchasing liquor. This he dW, the janitor being salesman, who divided the money with an official in the courthouse, he charged. The speaker attacked Judge J. L. Jones, of recorder's court, on the ground that he broke faith with him and J. F. Newell in regard to the ad testificandum trial a week ago. He charged he present ed affidavits regarding illegal transac tions of certain officers, one of whom was Deputy Sheriff Vie Fesperman, to the judge, who informed him that he would bo unable to take action as the af fidavits concerned county officials. How over, he was advised to take the matter up with county commissioners, Mr. Sharp said. ' ,, Mr. Fesperman next day iwent to the man who signed the affidavit and bitter ly arraigned him for ; his action, the minister? declared. ' t , , ' "There were only three, men in the room when I gave the affidavit :to the court," he exclaimed. "I didn't divul ge the information. Jake Newell didn 't. Now I leave it-to' yeu to decide, who did. That is the kind of a judge you've got. ," The minister,. turned his guns ,on the policb department hnd reiterated his charges that tdiey wink at big operators in whiskey and nail the "small . fry .' ; He said he had a letter from a revenue officer, now in New Orleans, who works from Raleigh, offering to make an affida vit that when he comes to Charlotte and asks Chief Walter Orr to assist him in Tunning down bootleggers, Orr tells him to do the work himself and refuses to assist in any way. i Wo' rotten are the morals of the city, I that are winked at by the police, that j mean women drive down the streets ot Charlotte, stop, take 14-year-old boys in to their machines and carry them to tin country to debauch them, the speaker maintained. He returned to his accusa tions made in -his now famous "Law anil Order" sermon to the effect that school girls with books on their backs are pick ed up on the streets " within a block jt the city hall and carried to Camp Greenl and Derita road" there to be brutally attacked thy monsters in human guise. He aecused the newspapers of Char lotte with being leagued with the police to continue corruption and foil those who. are trying to clean up the city. He re ferred directly to a report of his "Law and Order" sermon written by Mason Hood, of The News, which, he contend ed, .Was not fair to him. 'When anything is aid against Chief Orr, he claimed the newspapers rush to Orr's rescue. The police chief must have something on the newspapers be cause they "holler 'car barn' and go to. his rescue whenever he is assailed, the precher declared. MINER IS KILLED IN THE OHIO REGION - WASHINGTON, June 27. Indica tions were given at the White House today that the government soon would be ablo to make an announcement in the coal strike situation and that the step contemplated was a move to bring the leaders of the union miners and representative operators together for a discussion of wage differences. BRIDGEPORT, O., June 27. One miner was killed and another wounded this morning when they were fired on from the hills while en route to work at the strip mine of the Catherine Coal Mining Company at Uniontown, near here, according to information reach ing here. The victims were in an auto mobile when the shooting began. Tlie shooting occurred near Laferty, Belmount county. There were six min ers in the automobile, but four escaped without injury. According to reports j to the authorities here the firing began j without warning and lasted only a few ! moments. The assailants escajied. Three strip mines of the Catherine Company in this region have been op erating since the strike . was called j April 1. There have been several minor 1 disorders in that region vithin the pastj ajontfc, Harvey's Son - in f A If J sm'. .' - V '!', fit UKf;.U'$s w;.,tS: ... .- .. ',,. "wvCvl v., v -. i -. . ' . - ,1 I v. ? ,.- v ' - S ' UfT-?? .?' i.-SBa-r: l Colonel Marcellus ThomDson. whip machine guns to Irish rebels, has pleaded not eullty totthe Indiet ment at Newark. N. J. Col. Thompson, son-in-law of Col. Georae Harviv" U. S ambassador to Great Britain, is shown on tho right examining a new machine gun invented by his father, General John P. Thompson DECLARES BOOTLEGGERS IN ATLANTA IMMUNE Former Federal District Attor ney Will Be Called On to Make Good His Assertion About Law Enforcement. ATLANTA, June 27. Hopper Alex- andcr, former Federal district attorney lien, will hn ...illf.,1 l.pfnri. thn K.-I.tmI grand jury to "make Kood" his ;,sm r - tions in a statement published today that bootleggers in Atlanta arc immune from I prevent a runaway ul lmtiket by s"t prosecution. N. T. Jones, assistant lll' nmehinery for eo-oniiiintiiiK the Federal prohibition direetor, eharaeter- l'"''1"'"' of coal nn,oitK their Imal . . i n I list nul iintl imiivilunl eoiiMUiners. zing the charges us " ri-lieulous " stated .;..h of tliu M, rKnnii!ations that the former district attorney would chambers of commerce and trade nssn be subpoenaed to ai.pear and tell Ihe ia lions was urged to appoint a fuel grand jury irhat he knows about tl.o I '' ,,1 make an i.n....vliate sur- violations of prohibition laws here. 'In a statement to newspaper men, the former Federal jjrosecutor suggested that the Federal grand jury should in vestigte for itself whether bootleggers in Atlanta are immune from prosecution. "I 'am of the opinion," lie said, "that an adequate- investigation will show there are even some who ara protected from Washington !'" There is "no- explanation except, of ficial incompetency or ollicial corrup tion," the statement declared. U. Innna r,n ihn Hw.- 1....1 more 'violator's of liquor laws are heing punished here now than when Mr. Alex- ander was in office. BURGLARS ENTER LEBOVITZ' STORE; Entrance Gained Through a Rear Door Monday Night and $200 Worth of Clothing Stolen Officers Have Clue. Unknown pnrtics entered l.eliovitz Department Stores on West 'Main avenue last night between the hours of nine and ten o'clock and helped themselves to a generous supply of gents' furnishing, Local officers making tneir rounds in tlm rear of the 'buildings I'miud everything as usual at X:10 p. in On their rttnni iibout K) o'clock they discovered that the store had ..been hrokrn into and tha parties bad made their getaway, Entrance was gained through the rear door of the dry goods depart merit. The main panel of the h it door was cut and a smaii portion ol the glass was re moved, enough to enable a man to get his arm through with ease. The bars used to hold the doors were next re moved by the above means and en trance was easily made. No articles wero missed from the dry goods section, where entrance was made. The robbers went over the stm-k of men's clothing and helped themselves to about $-00 worth of goods. Three suits are known to be taken. Several ties, silk hoes, and two pairs of men's shoes were taken. A high priced suit case was also removed. Other articles are believed to hav been stolen but with such a large stock on hand, the manage ment can not estimate the missing goods to any definite amount A small clue was fourtd, which local officers are at work on endeavoring to find the guilty parties. ILLINOIS CENTRAL EXECUTIVE DEAD WINDSOR, Out., June 27. A. Stuart Baldwin, 61 years old, of Chi cago, vice president of the Illinois Cen- tran Railroad, died suddenly of heart failure while en route from Xew York to Chicago on a Michigan Central train last night, the crew reported on ar rival here this morning. Mr. Baldwin, accompanied 1)3' his wife, and daughter, had only returned from a three months visit in Europe Monday morning. The train had just entered St.' Thomas when Mr. Baldwin was stricken. Trainmen summoned a physician at St.l Thomas, but the railroad executive was dead before ' medical treatment reached i Mm . ' 1 - Lav Indicted indirtM oii n ,. . . TO HELP PREVENT A RUNAWAY COAL MARKET u. S. Chamber of Commerce Asks ' Business Organiza tions Help to Co-ordinate Distribution of Coal. WASHIXdTON", .Ii 27. HimiucNM 1 "rKniiiscations affiliates with the Chum '"'r (,t" 'oiiuin'rce of the United HtntcH , ,..,. ,.,..:,,', ....... i today by Julius 11. oM I ire. I limit tt tli,. 1m in Imi in , ,.d their eo oi.er.it ion in the effort to y J 1-" I'".U IVIll OIIIIUIIUU. I Proposing the plan as supplemental I to the suggestion of Secretary Hoover that the public utilities, railroads and metallurgical industries, as the largest coal consuming groups, appoint buyers committees to co ordinate their pur : chases, Mr. Haines said: "In view of a possibility of the strike continuing until depletion of I stocks becomes serious, I believe that in tin; general public interest, this situ ! ntion should be anticipated as much as possible. Ill tllU ai.SCIICU Ot Other nia- I lli,K'r-v 1 "ggest that you appoint a fut'' eomimttec to survey the conditions relative to stocks on hand anil the needs in your community or industry and that this information be compiled I so that ir the situation docs become serous it can I distribution of e used in any plan for available coal." GREATEST RACE IN HISTORY OF ROWING ON HUDSON mnillKKKI'SIE, N. V., Juno 27. t'ompcting oarsmen and rowing experts today wen; still keyed up iby the inter collegiate regatta won by tho naval aca demy crew on the Hudson. It appeared to ibe almost the unani mous opinion of both those participating and witnessing the three mile race, that it was the greatest crew spectacle and the most gruelling contest ever staged in the history of the sport ill this coun 1 ry. Moinebcrs of the winning crew, who have set in the shell for the lust two years and taken part in n long string of navy victories, including t lit; Olympic triumphs a! Brussels in l!H!l, were frank in admitting that the varsity contest was the hardest and most trying in which they had every swept an oar. One of tho leaders in the shell said that it was one such cession of bruising sprints, in which it seems as if there was never a etiance for the oarsmen to draw a long breath. Experts pointed out that the race, won in 1.! minutes. seconds, could not have been don.- under . minutes on lake W.'ife r and tie -drain of the rowing in still water won'd have been far greatci than w is the c'i-e on the Hudson. RUTH GETS HOMER I MONDAY WITH TWO ON XKW YORK. June 27. Babe TJutli again i- a winning cog in the Yankees' machine. Returning to the game aftei ! his suspension of live days for a run-in with I'mpire I line u at Cleveland, Ruth ! socked nut a home run off Jack Quinn ; in the fifth with 'wo on liases, the clout ' putting across the six to four triumph i of tlie New Verke.-s over Boston. ; Bbl Shaw key clinched thedetory for; himself wi' a ;.!- In r circuit blow in the : ninth. j Coveles'i-a- M. Louis in check while 1 his Cleve1 n I a t. s hit I'ructt for 12 hits i and wain to gain . ing Itro" i. thus enabling the Yankees j where except on the property of the fill I e.nne on tho league lead- j iK station or distribution agency a ny Two and a half games ' where within the citv limits of fias- aepurated Mi. rivals today j PLANTATION OVERSEER j SHOOTS NEGRO HELPER j AMKlIirlS. Ga., June 27. As the, result of a shooting on the farm of : J. II. I'ooV and Sons, near this city, Morelt Mm", a negro, is dead. Albert Jones, tation. S!i.llll WII.I3LU l.il lug JJ1UI1 aims he killed the negro in U I .. Self-defense. Jones says he reprimanded the negro for earn ins a pistol while at work, and "-when he did Mann started toward him with the weapon drawn. No -r- fvmt have hcen Have Complete Record of Every Georgia Soldier Who Died In the War ATLANTA, GA., June 27. A complete record of every Georgian who died in the world war has been prepared by the Georgia department of archives and history, according to the annual report of Lucien Lamat 'Knight, director of the department. The record consists of newspaper clippings and other data regarding each Georgian who made the supreme sacrifice. Seventeen scrap books of 450 sheets each, arranged in alpha betical order, were required for the record. Eight other volumes have been compiled, covering various phases of Georgia's participation in the war, the report says. HAGGARD MEETING IS GROWING IN INTEREST First Two. Days of Evangelis tic Services Promise Great Meeting Singing Is Un usually Fine. The crowds at the Haggard tent last evening wero very large for Monday evening. They wero there from many sections of the city, an4 many from other places. There were many from Bessemer City, and some as far away as (iaffnev. The choir took on much life and the singing was very fine. itof. Sumner uses a song book especially prepared for the Haggard meetings, ft has some ot the U'st songs for evangelistic meetings ever heard. Many of the preachers of Gastonia were present last evening. We hone mat an or tliciin may fall in lino and co operate with us in this great campaign against sin. If the meetings increase in interest for the week as they have for the first two days, we are going to have one ot the nest campaigns we have seen. We feel sure that our preachers who at tend are going to lend their hand to help in this great work. The sermon was very fine last eve ning. Wo aro so glad that Haggard does not use any slang whatever. So many of our modern evangelists want to take advantage of the pulpit to unload lots of s'.ush that is not fit to bo heard anywhere. This meeting is free from all such. This man is un evangelist, and wnen wc suy tins, we mean that Be. preaches as they usually do with all ot the fervor of their souls, but with all ot this, he keeps close to tho old Book. The sermon lust evening was one of the most practical ones at all. His text was Phil. .(:100. That I may know Him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being niadb conformable unto his death. The thing that he emphasized most ;n this text was knowing Jesus. His real theme was ' ' How Wo May Kno.v Jesus." r He said there were many ways by which we might know him. 1. We may know Him iby the rocord of His wonderful life given us in the New Testament, (iod 'sword reveals one of the purest lives thai any record has ever given. 2. We may know Him by talking to Him. At this point the preacher stress ed the necessity of prayer. He told ot what it had been to him and how thut his mother years ngo prayed while his father was away from home preaching the Word of God. ;i. We may know him iby singing a bout Ilim. He showed what wonder ful power there is in a .good gospel song, and how that wc may know Jesus in the singing of good songs. 4. We may know him by talking a lut Him. At this point he showed how we may make our lives worth so much more ly talking albout Jesus to our friends about us. As ft whole the sermon was ubovo tho ordinary. Evangelists) do not do tho preaching they should, but this man made a wonderful appeal last evening. His message was entirely free from ah kinds of slung and expressions that low er the standard of Christianity. 1 There will be services tonight at eight o'clock. The cars will wait until nine thirty to carry the folks to East Gas tonia . All GAS AND OIL TANKS TO BE REMOVED FROM STREETS After July 17 All Tanks and Pumps, at Filling Stations the building was heavily patrolled. Up Inside City Limits Will Be'!0,"1? Tly 'afta no lturbancea . had develoied. un rrivate rroperty. In accordance with the terms of an ordinance adopted iby the city council on January 17th of this year, on and af ter Julv 17th no frnsolinit or nil atom-re tanks or mimns will he allowe.l nv- tonia. This ordinance was published inimediatelv after its adoption in Jan- -uarj-and was republished in The Oazette of last Thursday, the 22nd. Already, says City Manager Alexander, several of these tanks and pumps have leen moved off the sidewalks and the re- mainder are to be moved within the time prescribed by the ordinance This change in the manner of handling gasoline and oils will be a great boon to the piiblic, in that it will prevent in the future, sidewalks being blocked by cars (waiting to have tanks filled. Here after it will be necessarr for antra la 4rir8 inside to receive fas aad etia"" WOUNDED MINERS ARE IN DANGER OF, A FURTHER VIOLENCE, IT IS FEARED Some of the Wounded Non Union Men Say They Feel Unprotected In Hospitals. HERRIN CITIZENS ANGRV Say Other Towns Should Bear Part of the ResponsibiU ity for Tragedy. HERRI V, Hh.( jllne 27.(By tho Associated I'ress. ) Removal to safoty from "Woody" Williamson county and tho southern Illinois coal fields of wounded non-union men now in tho hospital is one of the problems coming in the wako of last Thursday's mine massacres. , Twelve wounded survivors cf the 47 guards and workers who were sent on, the death march out of the Lester strip mine still are in danger, according to information reaching state and federal investigators. Lying on their hospital eots, their wounds swathed in bandages, some ot tho wounded nay they sensed anger and express fear of further violence if they;, leave the hospital unprotected. Herrin's law respecting eitirenry be lieves a body of state troons wonlrl solve the problem and dispel any fur ther danger to the imported guards and workers from the wrath of striking miners. Herrin was speculating today on the fate of nineteen missing men who com pleted the gang of sixtylsix in the bunk cars Wednesday night. Allea P. Eindley, of Chicago, timekeeper, who is iu the hospital with forty buckshot ' in his side and a bullet in his foot, is authority for the statement that there wero sixty-six men in th cars when the attack was made. Whether tho missing 19 escapeil or were killed in the cars and burned when attaekera fired the train still was unknown today. Angered because their town has been blamed for the atrocities, Herrin citi zens say otlier mining owns should bear part of tho sesponsibility for having supplied rioters who joined the mob wh -h stormed tho Lester mine. Sheriff Meivin Thaxtou said he had been un able to get any information leaning to the inentity of any member of tho mob, ASSASSINS OF RATHENATJ T WERE STRIKING AT GERMAN GOVERNMENT, SAYS EBERT BERLIN, June 27. (By tho Asso ciated Press.) The assassins who kill ed Dr. Walter Rathenau, Germany's foreign minister, were striking at the republican government of Germany and its people, declared President Ebert tft Dr. Rathenau 's buneral service' in tho RelcbstStf chamber today in eulogizing tho dead statesman. i, . . "The bullet which struck' down Rathenau , was . aimed at the German republic,'.' ( said the. pWaidni- "It robbed' the nation of one of her most loyal patriots, one of the ablest cham pions of German rejuvenation. This murder is a crime agaiust our indus trious, suffering, hopeful people.' President Ebert was visibly moved, his normally strong voico scarcely reach ing tho corners of tho crowded, cham ber. From tho former imperial box . on the seat tho" ex-kaiser was wont to oc cupy on state occasions, I rau Einil Rathenau, widowed mother of the dead minister, heard the oration of the presi dent of the republic, and the addresses of other leaders in German publie life who praised the character and achieve ments of her murdered son. Around her sat tho members of the diplomatic corps, resplendent ,ia full regalia, among them Alanson B. Houghton, the American ambassador, who provided the solo exception so far as simplicity in attire and the absence of decorations were concerned. On the floor of the house sat the Reichstag deputies and as many of the government officials as could be accom modated there. President Kbert sat with the cabinet at the government bench. Tho coffin rested on the spot usually occupied by the president's desk. It bore two simple wreaths, one from Frau ltatheuau and the other from tin- late .statesman's sister, Edith. The vicinity of the Reichstag build ing was crowded with masses 'of "work ers obs rving the day 's abstention from, labor decided upou in protest against the crime. The prohibited sone near J. THE WEATHER f North Carolina, unsettled with thun dershowers tonight or Wednesday; ai change in temperature. : COTTON MARKET CLOSING BIDS ON THE NEW YORK MARKET NEW YOItK. June 27. Cotton fu tures closed steady, 25 points up, spots steady, 25 points rp; July 21.2 ; Oetuber 21.25; Decembel 21.03: January 20.86; March 20.70; May 20.60; Spots 21.75. TODAY'S COTTCvl I.""!ET Receipts Nans Price offered........ 21 Or- V