TONIA DAILY GA2
Weather,
Fair
Local Cotton
22 Cents
VOL. XLIII. NO. 185
GASTONIA, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 4, 1922
SINGLE COPY S CENTS
GAS
ETTE
Union Officials Await Further
Word From President Harding
SPECULATION AS TO THE
NEXT HOVE FOR PEACE
IS ONLY DEVELOPMENT
Executives and Strike Leaders
Still Maintain Attitude
, On Seniority.
REPORT MORE VIOLENCE
Scattered Reports Of Violence
Come In From Various
Sections.
CHICAGO, Aug. 4. (By the Asso
. ciated Press.) Developments in t he
railroad strike were confined to specula
tion as to what tho next peneo move
would be and report of ' violence from
various points during the past 21
bourn.
Union officiate here todav were await
ing word from President Harding with
regard to their message accepting his
proposals ... for ending the walkout.
Railroad executives and strike leaders
maintained their attitudes on the ques
tion of seniority, tho executives insist
ing that rights of tho men who stayed
at work and new men be respected, tuid
tion of rights to strikers.
Two deaths resulted from violence;
one in Edgemont, H, D., where a
switchman of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy was shot, and the other in
Chicago, where a carpenter etnpicyeu in
the Illinois Central shops was beaten
to death.
A repairman in the Illinois Central
shops was beaten into liiBenBiuimy uu
cause he refused to join tho strikers.
At Waco. Texas, a cuard in the Mis
souri, Kansas and Texas xhops was shot
during an argument with a fireman.
A Union Pacific train master was
seized on the main street of Las Vegas,
Nev., taken several miles into the desert
and given a coat of tar and excelsior.
At the same town four women attacked
the wifo of a Union Pacific round house
foreman as she was carrying dinner to
her husband. She was beaten severely.
Two men were injured and half a
dozen , windows in a passenger coach
were broken when a crowd of men
stoned an Illinois Central train at Now
Orleans, La.
! At Birmingham, Ala., two white' .men
ami two U negro women were wounded
in a clash between non-union workers
and striking shopmen of. the St , Louis
San .Prancisco Railroad,: police reports
said.si;'The white men and one of the
liegro i women werelrshot. One of the
men was seriously J-wounded.
Maydf Cowart, of: waycross, ua., re
voked tho licenses of two barber shops
where barbers refused to shave non
union ' men . The shops continued to
l.rt i.i-it.rifitnra ntl.l harhcra
upuruie, wufc Mm i" v'ir- -v
were summoned to appear iu eourt to
answer charges of doing business with
out licenses.
The Atlantic Coast Liuo Railway jes
fprdav obtained a temporary order at
Pcnsacola, Pla., restraining strikers of
the federated shop crafts from interfer
ing with that company's employes or
property, other than picketing by peace
iul means. The order was directed
particularly at shop men ou strike at
River Junction and High Springs, Pla.
Tho Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis, Seaboard Air Line and the West
ern and Atlantic railroads were charged
with maintaining a "standing army"
to suppress the strike of railway shop
men in a lengthy answer filed at At
lanta, Ga., by union officials to the
petition of the roads for continuance of
a temporary restraining order against
the strikers.
In their answer to the petition, the
strikers requested the court to prohibit
the railroads from "maintaining more
than two members Of their standing
army at any one garrison."
COTTON MARKET
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
NEW YORK MARKET
NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Cotton fu
tures Closed barely steady; spots quiet,
U5 points down. July -0.85; October
21.20; December 21.23; January
21.12'; Maih 21.08; May 21.00. Spots
21.43. -
Receipts 12 bales
Price 22J4 cents
THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and Saturday.
BODY OF DR. BELL SLEEPS ON
HIGHEST HILL IN NOVA SCOTIA
SYDNEY, N. 8., Aug. 4. Tho
body of Dr. Alexander Graham tx.i
will be laid to rest this evening from
the home on Beinn-Breagh Mountain
which he had occupied for 35 successive
summers. At sunset interment will be
made iu a granite tomb blasted in the
summit of the mountain, a part of the
Bell estate. The body will be borne
to its burial place on the highest poiut
iu eastern Nova Scotia bv the nwm-
- . n ii mi . 1 1
I" IB . LUC ' -" " - - - -
bo laid away in its lofty lookout with
simple ceremonies and to the singing
of Kotet Lonis Stovenson's requiem:
"Unier the wide and starry sky,
! Dig my grave au kt mc lie.
NEW STAR DISCOVERED
BY WOMAN OBSERVER
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 4.
Word of the discovery of s nev lUr
by Miss Annie J. Cannon has been re
ceived at, the Harvard observatory
from Professor . Bailey, who is in
charge of the observatory's southern
station st Arequipa, Peru. The star,
which is o fthe tenth magnitude, is
in the constellation Scorpius, in right
ascension 17 hours, 42 minutes, and
declination 36 degrees, 36 minutes
south. V
MYSTERIOUS SPLOTCHES
APPEAR ON GRAVE CTOTHS
Dallas People Are . Mystified
At Peculiar Occurrence
When Spots Appear- Many
oee otrange Phenomenon.
DALLAS, Aug. 4 Harley Lat
ham, the little eight months old
son of Air. and Mrs. Walter Latham,
died Sunday night at ten o'clock at
the home of his parents in tho Mon
arch village, after a few days illness
with pneumonia of the bowels. In
terment took place at El Bethel
Cleveland county, Tuesday morning.
An unusual incident occured iu
connection with the corpse of this
littlo liaby which caused quite a bit
of excitement and wonder. Many
- thought some dire omen was about
to fall upon the family or some mir
arulous sign sent. A cloth wet with
camphor was placed upon the littlo
face, after preparation for burial
and not until Monday morning,
twelve hours later, when the little
body was placed in the casket, did
they notice the strange oecurance.
A considerable sized blue spot ap
peared upon the cloth just about
the foreheud, as if stained with ink.
Not being able to account for this
; another was placed with the same re
sults and so on until four 'cloths
had been placed, the spot apepar
ing upon each. ,
Imagination began to play and
all kinds of interpretations given.
Some saw flowers upon tho spots
while others birds, baby heads, upon
another letters forming the word,
SIN. '
1 The news spread Over the town '
and a great crowd assembled to see. '
Mr. G. V. Lohr; the Dallas under
taker, in order to solve the mystery
and prove that no one placed the
spots there or that the designs were
not already in the cloth and brought
out by the camphor, secured a pure
white piece of cloth from A. B. Hol
land's store, visited the home and
i placed the cloth himself.
I Those who bad volunteered to sit '
i with the 'corpse, for the night said,
Mr. Lohr had just about reached
,' his home a distance of about three
blocks when thCiblue print appeared .
upon the cloth.
Mr. Lohr and Professor J. B.
Henson placed the cloth under a mi
croscope but failed to find a clue to
the mystery, .
The final conclusion was that some
chemical change of the body after
death caused the blood? and water
to ooze from the pores of the skin ,
and mixed with the camphor on the
. cloth, formed the stain.
Nothing of the kind was ever seen
by any one in this city, so tho mys
tery is yet unsolved. ., y '
Dallas was visited Thursday evening
by a considerable hail storm together
with rain in torrents lasting between
five and seven minutes. Some of the
hail was as large as small marbles. Tho
ground and' fence railings were quite
white for some time.
Mr. Eddings was in High Shoals . Wed
nesday afternoon and reports a heavy
hail storm there and severe lightning.
One bolt struck near the steps of a resi
dence close to the company store and
slightly shocked an aged lady confined
to her bed with paralysis. The lightn
ing then jumped to a Uirge tree near the
store and set it on fire.
An enthusiastic meeting was held at
the Methodist church Wednesday nig.it
in tho interest of the proposed new
church building, at which time an ap
pointment w-as made, of what might be
termed a steering committee wit hDr.
S. A. Wilkinc, chairman, nmPthe fol
lowing members, Messrs. G. W. Better,
O. S. Spargo, J. E. Puctt; Mrs. C O.
Corn well, Mrs. 8. Wilkins, Misses
Joimie Better and Ielia Ilovis
Estimates, material, location, plana
etc. will be carefully considered and
brought before the church to be adopt
ed as a basis upon which to calculate
denite and immediate steps toward the
erection of the new church, estimated a j
vear ago, to cost, in the neighborhood or
$2.",000 or $30,000.
Glad did I live and gladly die-
An I liiy me down with a will."
Messages of condolence received here
today included the following:
From William Hownrd Taft, chief
justice of the United States; James i.
Davis, secretary of labor; New York
American Society of Civil Engineering;
American Institute of Mining Kngineer
ing; American Society of Mechanical
EngineiTs; American Institute of Elec
trical Engineers, and Uitited Engineer
ing Societj-, representing the engineer
ing in America.
Expressions of sympathy were also
received from Lord Byng of Viniy, gov
ernor general of Canada, and Lsd
If You Use Perfume
Keep Away- From Bees
NEW YORK, August 4 Ever
sine a bee census was ordered in
Goshen, N. Y.f metropolis of the
buzzing honey makers, tender hearted
persons have been shuddering at the
thought of the danger assessors
might undergo in plucking each bee
from its workroom or den and count
ing it But they might ss well stop
worrying, for W. E Thotndyke,
who knows bees from stem to dread
ed stern, said today that all the cen
sus takers have to do is count the
hives.-
'Even if they did have to num
ber each' bee, it wouldn't be so
bad," he said. "Some men could
count them one by one and never
have to use a mask. Of course, a
lot would depend on whether the beer
were aristocratic bluebloods, or hy
brids. The hybrids are usually the
fierce ones. Still, when it comes to
getting intimate with bees, discretion
is the better .part of valor." ;
Girls with, perfume-and men who'
use' hair oil, smelly 'pomades or
scented talcum better get out of the
way whenever they see a bee coming,'
Mr. Thorndyke says. ..He has a
theory that the little honey-makers
just naturally dislike certain odors.
When a bee likes an odor it noses
right in to gather raw material for
its manufacturing plant, but it turns
its back on disagreeable smells. And
when s bee turns its back, somebody
is liable to experience discomfftrture.
CLEVELAND FARMERS
' INTERESTED IN FAIR
Executive Secretary v Allen
Spends Day At Farmers'
y Picnic At Hamrick Springs
.-Beautiful Spot.
. Interest and enthusiasm for the Big
Gaston County Fair was shown by be
tween two and' three hundred represen
tative' farmers of Cleveland County at
tho annual Cleveland County farmers
picnic held at "Hamrick Springs, a few
miles from Kings Mountain, Thursday.
Executive Secretary Fred M. Allen,
of the fair spoke in the morning to the
assemblage, regarding the flair and ur
ging the co-operation of the people of
Cleveland, which is being given strongly
this year, The other speaker on the pro
gram was County Agent Lawrence of
Cleveland who dwelt upon proper diver
sification in farming and crop relation.
The afternoon was devoted to games.
TT.nnru't finrinn-a i a heautifnl snot
for such a gathering, twelve cplj and
clear springs bubbling up near together
in a small ravine.! The Hamrick home
is just above the springs, one of tho most
beautiful farm" homes' in Cleveland
county. . ..: ;, :. ;! ;-.
UNABLE TO FIX DATE
FOR VOTE ON TARIFF
Definitely Abandoned Today
j Some Senators Object To
Limitation Of Debate.
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. The at
tempt to fix by unanimous consent a
date for n final vote on the administra
tion tariff bill appeared . to ha.ve been
definitely abandoned today, but private
negotiations were underway looking to
at least some curtailment of discussion.
Some republicans believed these might
lead to results, but certain democratic
senators were understood to object to
limitation of debate until after the sec
tions of the bill dealing with duties on
sugar and hides ha4 been disposed. of.
While proceeding with debate on the
bill today, the senato awaited a leport
from the committee on contingent ex
penses on the resolution introduced yes
terday by Senator Gooding of Idaho,
chairman of the republican agricultural
taiiff bloc, proposing investigation by
a special commit too into the financial
interest of senators or their relatives
in any industry, proierty 3r. -commodity
affected by the adoption or rejection of
duties proposed in the lending bill.
CHARGE MUNSEY WITH
UNDUE INTEREST IN BILL
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. Frank A.
Munsey, owner and publisher of the
Sew York Herald, was charged today
in the Semite by Senator Gooding, "of
Idaho, chuinnan of the republican agri-cultuml-tariff
bloc, with fighting the
administration tariff bill in the interest
cf his investments in Faitojic
Asserting that Mr. Munsey had in
terests in steel plants, mines, glass fac
tories, pottery plants, woolen mills, six
teen beet sugar factories and other in
dustrial institutions iu foreign countries,;
Senator Gooding declared it was "not!
hard to understand why Mr . Munrey j
has turned his houns loose on those j
senators who are trying.' to protect!
American industries and American la-1
bor. " I
"Nor is it strange tliat he has sin-!
gled out the members of the tariff bloc
of tho icnate," he continued, "for!
without the steadying influence of the
tariff bloc, this propaganda that hasj
been going on by Munsey, Goldman and;
international bankers and their kind, i
would have defeated any attempt to
pass a protective tariff measure at this j
session. j
"So I say to Mr. Munsey and- his
hounds let them come on. I will take,
my chances with the American lanner,
the American manufacturer, tbs Ameri- l
can laborer, and the V.n ncan people, ;
regardless of what i.upatiou they fol
low, while he loouohs with royalty."
6 tilo has started an open air res
iut&at. Now, when eating spaghetti,
the sky's the limit,
In Rum Raid
5
Mrs. Edith Stevens, 19, Is held
in a Brooklyn Jail following the
seiiure of a ehlp by prohibition
officers. She is the first woman to
be held tn connection with raids
jpou boats.
FREIGHT WRECK HAD
TRAFFIC BLOCKED HERE
Two Box Cars Turn Over and
Tie Up Several Trains This
Morning For Three Hours.
s
The derailment of two bos cars on
train No. 57, through freight southbound
caused both main lines of the Southern
Railway and tho C. N. & W lino to be
blocked here today for several hours.
The wreck was caused by the dropping
of a front drawhead of one of the cars
on the rails directly on the So hern and
C. N. & W., crossing, corner of North
Broad and East Airline. Both cars were
coupled next to the engine. The first
car, loaded with a shipment of tobacco
from Winston-Salem, -turned over on its
side and lay almost directly across both
lines of the Southern. Tho second car,
loaded with a shipment of merchandise
from Spencer, turned from its south
bound rails directly over-on the north
bound tracks of ten Southern.
The train was conducted by Captain
James L. Martin,, whose run is between
Spencer and Greenville, S. C. The acci
dent happened at 9:30 A. M. A wreck
ing crew from Charlotte was ordered
here and began work immediately on re
moving the wreckage in order that other
trains might pass as son as .possible
Through passenger trains, 37 and 137
southbound were held up here for two or
three hours. Traih 36, northbound from
Atlanta, arrived, here; at 11:12 o 'clock,
lati mriro than ian- hour; was forced to
pulji .A'lto a siding in local yards and
wait for a cleat route.- y.':
No one was injured in the wreck.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
MAY TAKE OVER CARRIERS
ST. PAUL, Aug. 4. Unless the
threatened coal famine in the northwest
is averted, the federal government wil:
be asked to tak ovr four of the main
coal carriers of the middle eastern
states. Governor J, A. O. i'reus de
clared in an address here last night.
Shaking before a gathering of rail
road officials Governor I'reus said:
"If no other, plan of getting coal
to the northwest succeeds, then we will
appeal to the national administration in
an effort to make these four rnilroads
the Baltimore and Ohio, - Chesapeake
and Ohio, Louisville and Nashville and
Norfolk and Western taken over by
the government,
" These linen, carrying coal to the
Lake Erie ports, can supply the north
west with enough fuel ; to keep alive
cur industries and to ward off an im
pending crisis in the situation.
"If the government cnunot under
take this move under present law?, con
gress will be asked to provide iieee.-sary
emergency regulations by which it can
1! done. t
Sir Rider Haggard
, . Is None Too Sure Of
Western Civilization
LONDON, July 17. Sir Rider
Haggard is of the opinion that
Western civilization is by no means
so secure si many Westerners be
to eve.
. "We have an idea that? the West
is going on forever," he said, lec
turing before the Norwich Rotary
club, "but can we be quite sure of
that? Those who have studied and
know the East; its enormous power
of reproduction; its simple habits
of life on the land, and its system of
moralities which make every woman
think it her duty to have children,
know that it contains an enormous
potential power which must one day
break out. .
"Whether it can be curbed I do
not know, but I have grave doubts.
I shall never forget my . friend,
Theodore Roosevelt, saying when
talking of Japan, 'Look out for
your Australia; it will be the first
place to go."
"If once Japan secures the con
trol of China the outlook for the
Western World will be very cloudy.
The speaker said he thought our
existing emulations in the end
probably would go the way of other
civilisations that had preceeded it. '
"Who would have thought a dozen
years ago," he asked "that there
would be such horrors i nthe -world
ss we have recently seen in Russia.
Even in Ireland it has been revealed
that the savage is uncommonly near
the skin of the civilized man, and so
alwjyi it will be.'
Minority Report Of The Senate
Committee Urges Adoption Of
Ford's Muscle Shoals Offer
Strong Protest Is Entered Against Government Ownership
and Operation Plan-Report Declares Government Has
Lost Three Million Dollars Since the Armistice By Failure
To Develop the Project.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. (By The
Associated Press) Acceptance of Henry
Ford 'a offer for purchase and lease of
the government's vast nitrate and water
power projects 'at Muscle Shoals, Ala.,
was urged by Republican and Democratic
Senators comprising a minority of tho
Senate Agriculture Committee in a re
port submitted today to the, Senate.
Strong protest was entered against
the ncceptaeeof tho 'government own
ership and operation plan proposed by
Senator Norris, of Nebraska, the com
mittee 's chairman.
The Teport was presented by Senator
Ladd, Republican, North Dakota, in be
half of the Ford proponents on tho com
mittee whose signatures were attached.
It estimated that tho government had
lost $3,000,000 at Muscle Shoals since
the Armistice, by failure to develop and
operate the project and declared the
quickest way to ' stop these "losses is
to accept Henry Ford's offer for the
purchase of the government's Muscle
Shouls properties. "
"Certain objections to the Ford offer
seem apparent," tho report said, "but
we insist without fear of successful con
tradiction that none, of 'the objections
to the Fprd offer can be remedied or
solved by government ownership and
operation -by the government Koinir
into tho power business or entering tho
uncharted and hazardous field of oper
ating nitrate plants at .Muscle Shoals in
tho production of nitrogenous and other
commercial fertilizers umng electro
chemical processes, tho commercial suc
cess of which is yet controversial. .
"For Congress to adopt such a po'iey
when Henry Ford's offer makes it un
necessary for the government to do so,'"
it continued, "would subject Congress
to tho just condemnation and reprench
of all sober-minded people."
Tho belief was expressed that every
member of the Senate would agree with
the committee minority with reference
to the acceptance of Mr. Ford's pro
posal when they eonsidor the ' 'present
fuel and transportation emergencies''
in tho light of "development of tueh
great hydro-electric power as is found
at Muscle Shoals, " adding that it
"is the only certain and permanent re
uef m the future from the preseut
paralysis of American : industry, ' '
Tho report Called attention to ohnnjeg
that acceptance of Mr. Ford's tender
would give him at jjovemmcnt subsidy, in
the devepoment or power and the man
ufacture of (fertilizer and said;
'tit has ;bei'li claimed that tho Ford
offer constitutes a subsidy to Mr. Ford.
If it iir a subsidy, it is not such a sub
sidy as is proposed by the administru-'
tion in the Ship Subsidy Bill."
'The report then cited a' comparison
between the Ladd bill and that propos
ing federal relief for the merchant ma
rine, showing that the former ealbd
for an expenditure of f 42,000,000- while
the latter required an expenditure of
$125,000,000. :
In that connection, it was contended,
one measure would take the government
out of the shipping business while the
other would take it out of tho fertilizer
and power business. It was also argued
in that connection that tho Ladd bill
would cost the government "approxi
mately nothing" a year while the "ship
subsidy bill" would necessitate an an
nual expenditure of $414)00,000.
"If the lord proposal is not to be
supported on the grounds of subsidy,"
the report asked, "how can the Ameri
can people support such a subsidy to
ship operators as is here proposed! ,
Jtcferring to the relationship claimed
between Muscle Shoals development and
the fuel and transportation emergencies.
the report said :
"No electrified railway and no in
dustry served by water power can suffer
suspension on account of a fuel supply,
because hydroelectric power, both in its
production and distribution, is practical
ly free of all labor troubles. Fuel and
transportation are big national prob
lems which now distress our people.
Muscle Shoals, with the Ford offer ac-
eejtcd, may furnish an opportunity for
the Senate to discover how such fuel
and transportation emergencies can bc(
at least in part.-avoided in the future."
The report compared in detail the
Ladd and Norris bills now pending in
the Senate. The Ford offer as repre
sented by the Ladd bill, the report said,
("take" the government out of the fer
tilizer and power business'' while the
(Nebraska member's bill "set the gov
ernment up in the fertilizer and power
j business. "
! The Norris proposal requires direct
j appropriation by Congress of $64,000,
000, without including any estimate for
the proposed dams in the upper Ten
nessee river, "witn no guaranteed re-
(turn of either the principal or interest '
I n same," it was said, (m the other
j hand, the report argued, Mus4o Shoals
could be developed by Mr. Ford under
! the Ladd bill, by a government bond
i issue, if dcxircd, "as the. interest and
sinking fund payments made by Mr.
Ford will meet interest on such bonds
and retire them at the end of lease
! period, except during the short construc
tion and power loading period."
"Even those of us who are in favor
!of government ownership and opera-
Jion," said the rejort. "must concede ! James H. Doolittle, who left Kelly Field
l41. kA r..u,.l wl.n..l. nan a ahaIum tt.;.. i,A .n-.;t iw.ll....: 1
i fraught with the gravest danger of
! heavy losses if the governrwt under -
j takes to work out the fciulizer prob-
jlem there. No advoc: ie of government
ownership and operation can .discount
the fact tha. -ic -Muscle Shoals case
is not a 'rood one to select in testing
jout the iilny of government ownership
'and operation.. The dangers and.tM
(Cctia-cd on pajs. $ )
Rome Authorities
To Stop Speed Fiends
ROME, July 14. Confronted with
the difficulty of controling speeding
sutomobiles within the city limits,
Rome is considering a device which
will prevent the car to which it is at
tached from travelling over, ten
miles an hour. (The more the driver
"steps on it," the slower the car
will run.
This automatic speed regulator is
the invention of Ernesto Frsgano
and Ettore Villa. An inidcator is
set st the number of miles sn hour
desired as the maximum speed. An
application of centrifugal force in
terrupts the working of the motors
if the driver attempts to go beyond
the limit.
In Rome Jhe narrow streets in the
older quarters of the city; the num
erous hills, and the inequalities in
the pavements of many streets make
fast driving particularly dangerous.
Drivers Sre prone to disregard ex
isting speed regulations, so the city
authorities are giving thought to
making obligatory the use of this
automatic speed regulator,
REED MAINTAINS A
BIG LEAD OYER LONG
Virtually Impossible For Long
To Cut Down Big Lead the
Senator Has Piled Up In
Missouri Primaries.
' - ' .J "
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 4. (By Tho Asso
ciated Press) James A. Beod," Unite!
States senator maintained a lead of near
ly 7,000 votes over Breukenridgo Long
for the democratic nomination for tint
office today and Mr. Long haeed his hope
for success on the 4 official eeunt being
made today. . , '.
In, 3,629 precincts of 3,848 in Missouri
tho vote stod: V
Reed, 189,821..
Loiur 182,4.-J4.'' '
DbserWs tt Missouri politics agreed
it whs virtually impossible for the former
third .sistunt secretary of state td sur
pass Rved 's lead With the limited number
of ;jpteeinets yet to bo heard fom.
' (iS-s It. Brewster, republican nomineo for
senltor, will poll a plurality approxima
tely 2,000 over hiB five oponents.
With 219 scattered precincts in 31
counties unheard from, Mr. Long would
have to poll more than 31 votes more
than Seed per precincts to pvcrtako tho
latter 's lead. Mr. Long continued op
timistic over the outcome, however, say
ing the vote would be "about 1,00 either
woy." -
A feature of Tuesday's primary was
the failure of any other persons than tho
precinct oHicials to: vote in ono preemte
in (taseonadc County. -The five demo
cratic and five republican precinct offi
cials reported bright anil early, swore one
another in ami waited for their neigh
bors to excerciso tehtr right of suffrage.
They continued to Wait until 7 P. M.
when the polls closed, sealed up the bal
lot box and forwarded the ballots to tho
county clerk.
MAMMOTH FOREST FIRE
RAGES IN NORTHWEST
Thousands Fighting Flames
In Rockies Help Refused
Wardens -One Killed By
Tree Falling.
SPOKANE, Wash.. Aug. 4. From the
Rocky Mountains in Montana to tho
Columbia River in Washington and up
to one .hundred' miles from the Canadian
border, thousands of men are fiehtinz
forest fires which, with nature apparently
siding .with them, have according to
Theodore Goodyear, assistant state fore
ster, rendered Washington virtually help
less before them.
Calls for help are going nnheeded in
many instances, he said, with the fire
wardens fighting the worst fires and
leaving the others to burn themselves
out. One fire fighter on Foehl Creek,
Idaho, was killed yesterday when a burn
ing tree fel sad hit him.
Many hundred acres of government
ami private stands of timber have been
burned over or on fire. Glacier National
. . Black feet forest, and the Kan
iksu forest are affecteiL
ONE-DAY, ONE-STOP FLIGHT
JACKSONVILLE TO SAN DIEGO
SAX ANTONIO, Texas, Au?. 4. (By man DeHaviland with a 875 gallon gnso
The Associated Press) A oue-day one- J line and 24 gallons of oil capacity. Th
stop flight from Jacksonville, Fla , to j fuel is gufficieut for a 1.200 mile flight.
San Diego, Calif., is the- aim of Lieut. I While the venture is beinir made under
land ariplans in which Lo will attempt
Uhe trip.
J The definite d ( for the trans - conti -
nental trip ba not been art. Doolittle
j pinna to ?al t he air about dusk some
evening r--.t week for an all-night flight
to star. Antonio, spend half aa bone there
H.v.g on fuel and resume his flight,
ehing San Deigo before dark.
lxlittle's airplane is an ordiaary on-.'
ROTARY CLUB HAS DIG
AT OLD CHOWDERS CREEK
Visitors From City ' Declare
They Never Saw Such
a Feed.
APPLE CIDER WAS SERVED
Chicken, Ham, Cakes Of All
Kinds, Pies, Etc.,. Were
On the Menu.
If G;iistoiiia Kotarians ever recover
from the effects of the wonderful sup
Ier served them by the ladies of Crow
ders Creek A: It. P. church Thursday
evening they will be open to other in
vitations of a similar nature from other
country communities. It 'a a good
thing their meetings are not held but
once a week. They could not stand
such a feed as they got at Crowdcrs
Creek oftcner than once a week. As
it now stands, some of them will be
laid up tho rest of the week.
The occasion was the first of a series
of meetings tho Rotary Club of Gas-
tonia is planning to have with the
country congregations of Gaston county.
The idea back of the movement is to
cultivate a closer relationship and a
more intimate acquaintance with the
country folks. '
Despite a heavy rain, accompaniod by
some hail, the Rotarians, their wives
and guests to the number of 125 or 150 -debouched
at this historic and beautiful
old country church at six o'clock after
a delightful drive of eight or ten miles.
Crowders Creek church is located a" mile
or so west of Bowling Green, 8. 0. It
is nnmed from the fact that it is situ-
ated near the headwaters of the creek
of that name which traverses Gaston
and York counties. Arriving at the
church, located in a beautiful natural
grove of pines, hickories and oaks, tho
Rotarians were at first appalled, later
dismayed and finally delighted to see
such an array of good things Bet on a
long table ranged along the side of the
Church.
Every one of the party had been
preparing for this occasion, but each
one in spito of. Ids best efforts was out
done. It was useless to try to eat
all that was set before them. When
ono plateful was finished along would
come a battalion of these good ladies
with ham and chicken and cakes and
pis and cider hard cider and deluge
the victim with another barrage of
country cooking. There was nothing to
do but "throw up your hands" and
yelp for help." 'i! i -
Being a country picnifc, spread, tho
piece lo resistance, of coutkywas fried
chicken. There" was plotter after plat-t
ter of , tho golden brown : delicaey. It;
was calculated ; by s6me of the 1 home
ward bound Rotarians that itliese goodj
ladies, finding that 125 guests wwe ex
pected, promptly set to work amL
slaughtered no less than 123 chickens.'
Certainly there was us much enieken
left a3 there was eaten . Running the
(chicken a close ' second was country
ham fried. Town folks generally get
all the chicken self-respecting folks
can eat, because they can buy. them,
but a country ham is something you
can't buy every time the desire to
taste one hits you. There were great
dishes of ham; home-cured, hickory
smoked ham. "My goodness alive,
did you ever taste such ham f" asked
one ravenous Kotarian of another be
tween mouthfuls. Coming on down the
line there was cuke chocolate cake,
caramel cake, eocoanut cake, white cake,
angel's food cake and its partner,
devil's food cuke. If there are any
other cakes in the category of cakes
they were there. And all of them
good. And the same thiug might bo
said of pies. There was every kind
of pio that mother used to make and
all the other known varieties thrown in.
These were the substantial. As fill
ers there were cherry tarts, citron cus
tard or. chess pies, grapes, tomatoes,
thicken salad, stuffed peppers, home
made cheese, deviled eggs, pickles, sweet
and sour, almost 57 varieties, tomato
sandwiches, pimento sandwiches. To
wash -all. these edibles down there was
hot coffee, iced tea and ice cold eider
all the apple cider a body could drink.
A driving rain came up and every,
body grablK'd a plate and beat it to
the church where tho meal was finished.
Lucius Glenn, Ed Rankin and Ab Myers
got up in the pulpit behind a barricad
of hum and chicken. Others were de
posited around on the organ and th
stool thereof, on the stoves, in the amen
corner benches and all over the church.
Circulating around among the crowd
were the good ladies serving aud insist
ing that each one taste some of thi
or that when the poor victims were
well-nigh foundered. Salt-rising bread
was another article on the menu that
many of the city-bred folks had never
tasted. Of eourse, they went wild
about it.
When everybody had raten all they
could and had drunk two or three
Cnntlmittd on D.B b.l
authority fom the chief of the air crvk
1 . 1-..,.i:..t. : . : , &.:.
expenses. Air service officials here say
(the trip is practicable and that the flit r
1 will be adied by the moonlight, gulf
j coast lino and the light of tin larger
'cities of Pcnsacola, New UtU hu. Iu.
J moot snd Houston, The f f..cm! y tias
! nM-eees in the flight w6!. n..i that in
! tin of war the mi ire air r.t tf .'.
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