North Carolina Newspapers

rrr .3 A $ 'p. Weather"' Unsettled . Local Cotton 21 CENTS VOL. XLIII. NO. 196 GASTONIA, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 17, 1922 SINGLE COPY S CENTS in. a n7Tr t TlE-UP IN WEST ENDED BRIGHTER OUTLOOK FOR PEACE AT CONFERENCE Shooting, Bombing And Burn tag l ake Place At Scat tered Points SANTA FE TRAINS MOVE Reports Of Men Returning, To Work Come From Many Sections. CHICAGO, Aug. 17. (By The As sociated Press) , An ' end to the strike, of Big Four ' transportation brotherhood on western railroads, an improved outlook for peace in the New York conference today, shootings, .bombing and burning were high lights in the nation's rail way crisis during the last twenty four hours, v Blockade and tie-ups on the Atchi son, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Union l'aciflc, Western Pacific and Southern Pacific cleared up when (striking train crews called off their walkout and opened the way to immediate restora- - tion - of traffic on lines which were paralysed by the strike of the ; Big Four brotherhoods. ' - Stranded Santa Fe trains were mov- . ed out of Albuquerque New . Mexico, . aid trainmen at Preseott, Aria., noti fied Santa Fe officials that strikers would return to work. These moves followed earlier developments towards ; ending the tie-up on the Santa Fe. The Union Pacific's traffic knot un ravelled - rapidly after trainmen on tho Las ' Vegas division called off their v strike. Other western roads restored transportation activities to the basis . which had been . in effect since tho shopmen's strike began July 1. : Tentative agreements looking toward an end to the traiumen's strike on tho Cumberland Valley division of the Louisville & Nashville were announced at Corbin, Ky. , " With yie train service strike break ing up in other sections of tho country, trainmen who interrupted traffic on the Missouri Pacific at , Vanbureu, Ark., refused to return to work while guards remained on duty in the yards. Only trains which were made up aud deliv ered to crews outside the railroad yards were moved. Settlement of the trouble with the tMhimentresulted "in an immediate .movement" eastward of fruit shiimients and1 other perishable freight marooned in California. '.'; '.Bombs were thrown at a Santa Fe train which left San Bernardino. The first bomb exploded in . the railroad yards and two more were hurled at the passenger as the engine wheels spun over oiled rails in pulling into ivansas uty. A brakeman on the Grent Northern was shot and killed at Havre, Mont by a railroad guard. Mrs. Nell S. Hansen, wife of - a Santa Fe shop foreman, was shot and killed in her homo in Pueblo, Colo Police took up "the trail of two men who are said to have attacked her. ; James Lewis, a striking Pennsylvania railroad machinist, was shot to death by Charles Parsons, a wealthy real estate man, at Cape Charles, Va., after s dispute over the strike. Troops remained on guard in vir tuany au places where soldiers were sent to quell riots earlier in the strike. These included five towns in Kansas and three in Illinois. Local ' authorities asked for troops at Spencer, N. C, where shop work ers were routed by strike sympathizers. . Major Stiles, in command of troops at Clinton, Ills., recommended martial . Jaw following renewed disturbances. Outbreaks were reported from Cedar Rpnids, Iowa, Superior and Janesville, wirconsin, Birmingham, Mobile and ' Albany, Alabama,, and Scranton, Pa. An attempt was mndo to blow up the tracks of the Louisville & Nashville at Birmingham and a plot to wreck a irmu vu i lie sniiiu roaa at .atomic was discovered, while the homo of an L, & N. employee was attacked with bombs and bullets. Traffic on the Chicago,. Rock Island t & Pacific was blocked" nt El Reno, Okla., where a railroad. bridge burned.1 A jury in Federal court at Kansas ity, Mo., returned a verdict of not guilty in the Case of four men charged with violation of an anti-pieketing in junction, obtained by the St, Louis San Francisco railroad at Springfield, Missouri. ' New injunctions Included one granted to the New Orleans and Northeast em restraining strikers from interfering , with the operation of trains in Louisi ana. . OF ON 8,500 MILE v FLIGHT TO RIO JANIERO (By Tha Associates frees.) ' JEW YORK. Aug. IT. Pointing the nose of the Sampio Oorreia seaward, Lt. Walter Hinton, U. 8. N. B, F., took off from the waters of Jamaica bay at 7:20 o'clock this moruing and started' f put behind him the 800 miles to Charleston, 8. C, the first st6p in the 8,500 mile flight from New York to Bio de Janiero. The crew, five in all, which included beside Hinton, E. v Pinto Martins, Lt. Commander, Brasillian navy, retired, as sistant pilot and navigator; John Wil shusen, mechanician; J. T. Baltzell, mo tion picture camera man, and George T. Bys, reporter, were up at 4 o'clock, mak ing ready for the flight. . Hinton ex pected to make Charleston in seven houis. . GASTONIA MAKES A RECORD. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Gastonh is the only postoffica in North Carolina where an additional clerk has been ad ded since the first of June. Throughout the country 1,317 were added. The post ofilce derartn,ent announces a Tacancy at Grandy poetoffice. . . . . . Candler Arid The By fields Were Thrown Together At The Races Candler's Wife Has Gone To California Two Young Girls Were Children By Former .Wife Candler Will Enter .Counter Suit Denies By field's Charges. ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 17. Love for fine horses which drew them together at Walter T- Candler's private race track on his estate near Atlanta, where his racers performed for charity or before guests in preparation for the grand cir cuit and other race tracks, was one ot the meanB of developing ythe acquain tance between the Candler and Byfield families, it was said today by mutual ac quaintances in commenting on charge! that Mr. Cundler had.attempted to attack Mrs. Clvde K. Byfield: in her stateroom aboard the steamship Berengaria. ' - Mrs. Bvfields-suit for $100,000 Blot yesterday against the millionaire banker mentioned the gatherings at the Lanaier track and Clyde K. Byfield in hi written statement denying Mr. Candler's charges that he had attempted to "extort" $25,000 from the bunker as a result of the affair on the Beriengaria also told of having purchased a race horse from Mr. Caudlcr, of taking part in the events at the Lull water track. Prior to tho departure of Mrs. Candler for California shortly before the Euro pean trip, Mr. Byfields statement said, he and his wife were frequent visitors at the Candler home and in bis business as an automobile dealer he was a customer of the Central Bank and Trust Corpora tion, of which Mr. Candler is vice presi dent. At a special charity program in Juno both the banker and tho automobile a sent took Dart in the races and thd latter 's 21 year old wife joined with other guests in donning waitress' garb and selling cold drinks to the spectators in order to swell the charity fund. Mrs. Byfield, who claimed in her dam age suit that she was so injured that she was forced to undergo an operation last Monday, remained today at the home of her father, B. l Gillespie, a city de tective. Mr. Candler, who, it was in dicated, might soon file nn answer to her charges, issued a denial that he had "touched" Mrs. Byfield or. that "any thing of an improper nature occurred," and also asserted that "if she suffered any injuries on the trip it was from the terrific beatings her husband gave her," that nieht. Mr. Byfield had admitted that in his encounter with the banker he also had struck his wife. Barring a possible counter petition by Mr. Candler, the next step awaited in the case today was the hearing set for bep tember 2, of Mr. Candor's suit to pre vent Mr. Byfield from realizing on a note exchanged for the $25,000 check givert him after the affair aboard the Bhip. The clash between the two men, which Mr. Candler said followed his finding himself in Mrs. Byfields stateroom after partaking of champagne took place while the two families, Mr. Candler and hi daughters, aged 11 arid Pyears, aud Mr. and Mrs. Byfield, were on a voyago to France. Shortly after Mrs. Candler left tho banker, according to Mrs. Byfield 'a suit, tho two men decided upon the trip Summary Of Political Issues In The Eastern States Campaigns Prohibition, Tariff, Soldiers Compensation, Labor Legislation, Are Among Issues Four Candidates For U. S. Senator From Massachusetts To Succeed - Henry Cabot Lodge Gubernatorial Campaign In Pennsylvania Textiles Figure In Rhode Island. ' -f NEW YORK, Aug. 17. (By The Associated I'rers.) The Republican contest in- Massachusetts to wrest from Henry Cabot Lodge a renomination for tho United States Senate, shares with the rivalry within the Democratic party of New York state in the choice of a candidate for Governor the chief in terest in Congressional and State cam paigns in Eastern States. Advocacy of both stricter and molli fied prohibition enforcement, the tariff, soldiers' compensation, labor legislation and vaHous state governmental reforms, are among the issues. Four candidates aspire to the Democratic nomination for United States Senator from Mas sachuetts. The renomination of Gov ernor Channing II. Cox by Massachu setts Republicans is opposed by At torney General J, Weston Allen. The Democratic nomination is sought by four candidates. Both gubernatorial candidates in Pennsylvania, Gilford Pinchot, Republi can, and John A. McSparran, Demo crat, have declared for rigid prohibition enforcement. . New Jersey has a September primary contest among Re publicans for the United States Senate nomination, and the Democrats over their candidate for Governor. Prohibition- and public utilities are issues. The textile situation and prohibition are expected to figure in the Rhode Island campaign and the tariff will be Connecticut's chief debating subject be tween Republicans and Democrats. Summary Of Issues. Massachusetts: Joseph Walker, for mer speaker of the Massachusetts Jlouse, is seeking the -toga of Senator Henry Cabot Lolge, on the around that hi leadership is not progressive enough to represent the party. Mr. walker champions American member ship in the Leagup of Nations. Rus .tell A. Wood of Cambridge, and Wash ington Cook of Sharon, also may en ter the lists.. William A. Gaston, banker; Sherman L. Whipple, attorney; John Jackson Walsh, a former state senator and Professor Dallas Lore Sharp of Boston University are1 cam paigning .for the Democratic nomina tion for senator. Prof. Sharp is for abolition of war. and Mrs. Byfield was taken along not only for her pleasure but because Mr. Candler desired her aid in caring for the two girls. Friends of Mrs. Candler, who former ly was a stenographer in the Central Bank refused to say to what place in California she had gone, but it was said she had taken her young son with her. The two children who made the trip to Europe are daughters of Mr. Candler's first wife, whom he wooed while a student at Emory University, and who died a number of years ago. CAPPS SUPS ROAD SENTENCE Oft DRUNKS Another One Who Went Wrong Feels The Force Of The Law Gus King In Bellicose Mood. - t-, ; " . Recorder B. Capps whirled the limb of the law again this morning and sent another drunk to wear the ball and chain and muke good roads for Gaston coun ty. One Liszie Allen who has slujded the city court room several times before on charges of being drunk was present again today. Judge Capps 'gave her thirty days of work in tnt common jail. It seems -the defendant is more or less a dope fiend. Making a journey to a local drug store, fche purchased twenty cents worth of "smelling salts." Before she had gotten home she took some and pas sed away into the comfort of sleep on East' Long Street. Local officers got her and she f ace4 his honor this morning. The only other case was that of Gus King charged with disorderly condust. Young Gus appeared on South streot last night at nine o'clock in front of the City hall, ready to fight the worlL Under the influence of rot-gut liquor, he began using profanity. He was asked to leave but no results. After a goodly chase by local officers he 'was placed in the local calaboose for a night's rest. A fine of $10 and costs was placed upon him by Kecordcr Capps. OFFICER ROPER HAS STROKE PARALYSIS Friends of Officer Press Roper, mem ber of the local police force, will re gret to learn that he is suffering aj his home with a stroke of paralysis. lie was taken ill last night. For the past week Mr. Koper hns been on his vaca tion and was due to report for duty Friday. . One side of . his body is striken and he is unable to speak. The renomination of Governor Chan ning H. Cox for a second term is op posed on the Republican side by At torney General J. Weston Allen, whose successful protiecution of , two district attorneys on charges of , malfeasance brought him prominently in the 'public eye. -. New York candidates for Governor . 1 TT;t,.,1 Coo Hon.lA, m-;il n,.f lwi known until the iarty conventions September 28-29, the Republican meet iug in Albany and the Democrats in Syracuse. Candida tea for local af fices for the Legislature and the House of Representatives will be chosen at the primaries September 19. Governor Nathan L. Miller, Republican, seems assured of Tenoniination, if he will ac rept. Little organized opposition has developed to the renomination of Uni ted States Senator William M. Calder. Admirers of William Randolps Hearst are waging an energetic campaign to give the newspaper publisher the Demo cratic gubernatorial nomination. While the strength of the Hearst boom has not been determined, violent objection has been registered to it by many op State democratic leaders, who are urg ing the candidacy of former governor Alfred E. Smith. Such prominent democrats as former assistant secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt are understood to believe that Hearst's hostility to President Wilson would militate against him as a candidate and that his nomination would disrupt the party. The Republican platform is ex pected to endorse the administration of Governor Miller and to recommend a continuance of his policies of economy In state administration, consolidation of departmental activities, and state super vision over hydro-electric development. The Democrats , will ask for the return to the direct primary system for nouiN nation of all candidates, for modifica tion of the prohibition enforcement statues, repeal of the motion pictures censorship, and for the establishment of a minimum wage commission. Pennsylvania : Giff ord Pinebot, Re publican and , John A. McSparran, Democratic, candidates for Governor in (Continued on page 3.)' Bombed! -. . : -rM ' '. ,".'.'-' ,','fl if I " ' ' XsK'"' sis. 4 ' This section of a rail shows how near a train full of excursionists wore to death when three bombs exploded under it at North Bergen, N. J. Had the rail separated tho (rain would have been plunged over an embankment. ' SCHOOL BOARD GETS READY FOR OPENING Accept Offers Of Sites From Armstrong And Gray-Se-park Mills Make All Ar rangements For Opening of j School. , The regular meeting of the city school board held Tuesday- night was rather lengthy and. several matters of importance were brought -tip and pass ed upon at the session. Plans for the new school buildings to bo erected at the 'Armstrong Mills' and nt the Arling ton .Mills were accepted. White, Streeter and , Chamberlain, architects, hajre the plans for the new . Gnstonia high school building. Tho preliminary plans were submitted to tho board and were passed upon. Tho corner , stone of the new half million dollar school building will be laid Friday,- October 20, at 4 p. m. The Grand Lovrlgo of 'North Carolina Masons will lo in charge of ceremonies on this oeassiou. It is cxjoctcd that all of the high school pupils will at tend the exercises in a . body and wit ness the beginning of their future nlma mater. The board ordered that , the auilito rium of the west school bo divided into class rooms by means of temporary curtains. This will not necessitate the using of the tenant houses of tho Lo ray division, of the Jcnckcs- Spinning Comiianv as class rooms. Since the session opeued more than a- thous and new pupils were brought into the Loray section. Tenant houses had to be used for clans rooms .last winter. Tho gift of tho Armstrong Mills of a large section of ground near the Char les B. Armstrong Memorial church for a large, modern school plant was ac cepted by the board. Also a large tract of land near tho Arlington Mills donated' by the Gray-Ncpnik system for a "school in that section was 'ac cepted. The - question of p.njyls living outside- the city limits and desiring to enter the local high school, was brought up ami dwelt upon. Tuition fees are I faiml J" h casw with few ex.-ep tions. mis is the state rule. Jt was decided to requiro every such child t4 be passed upon first by Supt. Hall of the county school system. Then if the latter sees fit to allow the child to attend high school, lm'a I Superin tendents are asked also to investigate the case. This limy seem like a great deal of red tape : but no other plans could bo followed. The exact date for tho city schools to open was set for Friday, September 1. On Thursday, August 31, a general teacher's 'meeting will be held at tlic central school. The purpose is for a get-acquainted gathering of the teach ers, school board, and the -different wel fare i organizations of Gastonia. Mix Maida Mr-Kain was elected by the board as secretary to Supt. W. P. Grier for the coming year. OFFICER HOUSER GETS ANOTHER LIQUOR CAR Officers Hoyle and Wesson, deputy ' sheriffs of Cleveland county, and cd eral Prohibition Agent K. L. Ilouser, of Dallas, arrested J.H. Bishop and Wnlfpr f inr twn tt-liit mnn. nf tliA Loray, last night on the South Moun- j tain road in Lincoln county. Two j gallons of brandy were in the car, j which was an Essex. When the arrest j was made the defendants burst the jars, that contained the brandy, throwing , the liquor on Mr. Morrison, who was the chief state witness. i This was the srvpnth .irrpst since July 8th that Officer Housof and his assistants have made. The almve ear ia said to be the property of Mrs. M. A. Moon. Bond was fixed at $300 for each defendant, appearance, for a hear ing being required on September 4. Mrs. Moon signed both bonds. POWDER HOUSE AT SPENCER ROBBED OF HUNDRED DYNAMITE CAPS LAST NIGHT; NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS MR. C. P. ROBINSON DIED :" AT 9:30 THURSDAY ) v.. Prominent Citizen Of County Passes Death Was Due To Heart Failure Surviv ed By Large Connection. Mr. C. P. Robinson, one of the best known and most highly respected citi zens of Gaston county, died at his home on tin! Union road four miles south' of Gastonia, Thursday morning at 9:J0 o'clock. Heart trouble was the cause of his death. Mr. Robinson had suf fered acutely for the past two. months from this malady. Friends and 'medi cal' skill had dono their utmost to re lievo his suffering. Following several days of intense pain, the end came very quiet ly this morning. lie was perfect ly conscious until the ' last, and died with his hand in that of his wife, who was constantly at his side seeking to ease the Buffering which ho had en dured constantly for so many days. He was conscious of tho fact, too, that ho was dying, ami expressed no fear, but went bravely down into tho valley. Funeral and interment will tako place at Oliiey church Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. T. O. Tate, tho pastor being in charge. Mr. Robinson had been a member of. this church since early boyhood.. Ho had been a dea con and treasurer since 1900, succeed ing in that office the late W. L. Robinson. The active pallbenrers will bo tho deacons of the cnurch, ns fol lows: It. C. Robinson. C. M. Faires. Cluis. Hoffman,- Frank Lineberger, L, 11. ' Lrandon, S. P. Grissom, C. 8 Dickson and J. J. Wilson. The honorary pall bearers will be com posed of the session, composed as fol lows: Eli Lineberger, L. Q. Howe, K. B. Robinson, P. L. Ratchford, L I). HufMetler, W. L. Hutchison and W. M. Nolen. Surviving the deceased are his wife who was Miss Lizzie Torrence, one sister, Mre. S. A. Crawford, McCon ucllsville, 8. C, one half-brother, M. A; Rhyno of Gnstonia and the follow ing children: Carl, Torrence, stationed at Paris Island, 8. C, Price, Kathleen, Elizabeth and Fra-itccs Love. Nino children were bom to Mrt and Mrs. Koliiiibon, three of whom died' in in fancy. ' Mr. Robinson was born and ruised in Gaston county, tho Bon of Samuel C. ami Emily Robinson. His aged mother, 5 years old, is still living. The late VV. L. Robinson, father of J. Lee and S. A. Robinson and Samuel L. Robin son, .wcro half brother. Mesdames B. G Bradley and H. A. Torrence were also half-sisters.. Mr. and Mrs. Koliinson were nuirried April 29, 1896. A brother, Price Robinson, died at the age of 20. Mr. Robinson was born July 1, 1819, and was thus 53 years old at the time of his death. He was hold In - high esteem throughout the community, and was often urged to run for public of fice. For kcveral years he held a position as one of the property list takers for Gnstonia township, and as such was held in the highest esteem. The bereaved . family, widow and chil- ren and large connection throughout the county have the sympathy of many friends in this time of saductts. SMYRE MILL ADDS 15,0G0 EXTRA SPINDLES Local Manufacturing Plant Will Have 25,000 Spindles When Additional Equip ment Gets Under Way. The. A. M. Sniyro Manufacturing Company - is beginning work on the (instruction of plant .No. 2, the new addition to their mill at Ranlo. The addition will house 15,000 additional spindles. The present equipment of the.Smyre Mills is 10,000 spindles. They manufacture fine combed yarns. Alreiuly 10(1 .additional tenant houses have been completed and are ready tor occupancy. ihe new work is being pushed rapid ly and will le ready for operation by January 1, 192.1. Death Toll From v Typhoon Now 60,000 AMOY, Aug. 17 (By The As sociated Press.) Swatow'a death toll in the typhoon of August 2, ia conservatively estimated at 60,000, a representative of The Associated Press learned in s visit to the stricken area. The storm was one of the worst disasters which has visited this part of the globe. The property damage will run into many millions, the Standard Oil Company alone suffering a loss of $100,000. No foreigner was seriously injur ed in the storm, which almost obliter ated the native section of Swatow. THE WEATHER North Carolina, unsettled, local iaina tonight or Friday; no change in tem perature. Governor Morrison En Route From Blowing Rock Expected In Spencer At Any Moment This Afternoon No Clue As To The Guilty Parties Injunction Granted Bjr Judge Boyd And Judge Webb Will Be Enforced. A telephone message to The Daily Gazette from Salisbury at two o'clock this afternoon stated that there were no new developments, in the strike situa tion at the Southern's Spencer shops today with the exception of the discovery this morning that during the night the powder house near the shops had been broken into by unknown parties. A hundred or more dynamite caps had been taken, but no clue has yet been discovered as to the guilty parties. At two o'clock it was stated that Governor Morrison was expected to ar rive in Salisbury at any moment, haying started from Blowing Rock, where he was taking a vacation, early this morning. The governor is expected to go at once into s conference with Sheriff Krider, of Rowan county, who made a request upon him last night for State troops to aid in preserving order around tho Spencer shops. The injunction granted yesterday by Judge Boyd and .Judge Webb in United States District court at Asheville, restraining the striking shopmen from interfering with the operation of the works and the running of trains will be enforced, it ia presumed, by United States deputy marshals and the lack of any disorder today ia attributed to the quieting effect of the injunction. SALISBURY, N. C, Aug. 17. It was said at the sheriff's oflice here this morn ing that Governor Morrison ' was expec ted to reach Spencer this afternoon to make a personal investigation of the situ ation there in connection with the strike of shopmen at tho Spencer shops of tho Southern Railway.. Sheriff Kriddcr ap pealed to Governor Morrison yesterday for troops when it was reported to him that a corload.of special agents were prevented from getting off a train at Spencer on Tuesday night. Sheriff Kridder said there had been sveral cases of disorderly conduct on the part of strike .gyjnpathizers at Spencer uring the past few days, including tho beating of two negroes. He said tho railroad company appealed to him for protection for guards and others they in tended sending to Spencer but as he had only a small force ho felt that he would be unable to take cure of the situation in event of serious trouble and had re quested the governor to send troops to Spencer. Sheriff Kridder said there had been no disorders reported at Spencer during tho past twenty-four hours, but that the rail road company had complained to him that many of the men doing picket duty around the hopa were armed with rifles aud shotguns. RALEIGH, Aug. 17. -Governor Mor ison will go to Spencer shops of the Southern railway tomorrow on his way from Blowing Rock to Raleigh and make a personal investigation of the aituation there, following calls for troops from the sheriff of Rowan county. In the meantime, orders for troops were held in abeyance but the adjutant general has been ordered to hold the military forces in readiness for instruc tions. Governor Morrison, in a long distance conversation with his private secretary shortly after midnight tonight, authoriz ed the following statement: " I will leave Blowing Rock at sun-uj) tomorrow morning, reaching Raleigh by night." "Vigorous appeals have been made up on me by the sheriff of Rowan county for state trops to be sent to Spencer, I am withholding my decision until I can go to Salisbury and look into the inattei' personally. I will stop there on my wiy to Raleigh and have a conference with the sheriff. "While I have made no order calling out troops, I have notified the adjutaut general's office at Raleigh to be ready to act upon a moment's notice." Federal Injunction Signed A temporary injunction restraining all striking emplayes from interfering with the movement of interstate commerce or maniils or with employes of the Southern railroad at tjpencer or Salisbury was issued in the federal district court at Asheville today after railroad attorneys had asserted disorers had occurred at Spencer last night. Following closely on this statement, a long distance message from the Spencer chief of police said no disorder had come to his attention since List week when several negroes were beaten. Tho in junction was signed by Judges Janus L. Boyd, of Greensboro, and L. lates Webb, of Shulby. Defendants named in the injunction against shop eraft organizations and in dividuals have been ordered to show cause, if any, on August 28, at 11 o'clock at Greensboro, why the injunction should not be made permanent. Attorneys asserted that "three hun dred or more strikers and sympathisers refused to allow special guards to leave the train when they arrived at Salisbury for. special duty Tuesday night," while reports received here said that a shop train running from Salisbury to Spencer was halted early today and the men not ! permitted to leave the train. Nine men were said to have been taken from this train while several railway guards are missing. All negro laborers were re ported to have left the shops. For a time it was indicated that fedq- ral troops and marines would be re-' quested to preserve order as well as state troops, but it ' was said later no request would be made for state troops at present. In Washington, Attorney General Dau- i 'gherty stated that no federal action was! j being taken except tnat United States j marshals "were on the job." j Reports reaching Mr. Daugherty to the effect that strike sympathizers ha 1 entered the shops at Speucer and routed workers could not be confirmed from nearby points tonight, while at Raleigh, , the capital, it was indicated tnat no movement of troops would be necessary if the aituation developed no more seri ously. One of the men against whom today's restraining order was issued is J. M. Ellis, of Spencer, who was elected presi dent of the Statu Federation of Labor yesterday. : PICKET MEN ARE ARMED WITH PISTOLS AND GUNS GREEXSBORO, Aug. 17 Approxi mately 1,700 men arc now on picket duty around the Southern shops at Spencer, according to information reaching Thu Daily News from a reliable source last night. Xo seroius disorder has been re- : ported beyond" spasmodic attacks oft so veral workmen who, despite the picket lines, have obtained access to tho shops. A largo ' number o men on picket duty earry weapons, nearly all of them sticks, many of them shotguns, and still more pistols. Beginning tho first part of tho week, tho picket lines were thick ened until now virtually every man tn strike nt Spencer, is doing picket duty. Three shifts have, been . arnuiged, "with about 530 men in each shift, and tho lines are maintained day and night. The picketing duty includes meeting virtually all trains that puss Spencer. Passengers, panning through as well as peoplo in ''Spencer have informed Tho Daily news that when trains stop r.t Spencer armed men, with sticks and aliil lalahs watch who gets off and inspect the cars by looking in through sthe win dows for this purpose and searching care fully. So far as can be learned no per. sons have entered the trains to search. , Tuesday night a number of special of ficers of tho Southern, not workmen but special officers sent to Spencer to aid in- protA'ting. the Southern's property and in keeping order, arrived on train Xo. 32. Word had been sent along tha lino of their anticipated arrival and a crowd of approximately 200 men, many of them armed with shotguns and with sticks, were waiting at tho station. Th special otlicerg wero warned not to get off the train. They did not get off but camo on up tho Hue. There wcro said to be 19. of these special otlicera. Despite the efforts of the picketcrs in watching. trains, a small group of work men, generally individually, have jumped off trains before the stop was made at the station, find have hot-footed it to the shelter of tho shops. Several of these have been caught later aud have been beaten with various degrees of severity. No serious injuries have yet been re ported. Talk of indictments against tho assailentg is heard in Spencer but no ia dictmenti have been made. , , . . i . MORRISON AND METIS , KEEP IN CLOSE . TOUCH RALEIGH, Aug. 17. Governor Mor rison anil Adjutant General Metts' de partment tonight were keeping in close touch with what was described as a deli cate situation at the Spencer railway shops. C'onlitions had not reached a stage where the use of troops was con sidered necessary, but eloso communica tion of the governor with military author ities in Raleigh indicated that movements at those shops were being watched. Major Gordon Smith, in charge of tho state's military forces in the absence of General Metts, was awaiting further in formation on developments at Spencer. Lawlessness will not bo tolerated theio nor elsewhere in tho state, an dreporls reaching Raleigh of disturbances cr threatened disorders was responsible for rumors that troops had been ordered there J. K. Cruise, chief ot police of Spea cer ,stated over the long distance tele phone tonight that there has lx:cn no disorder of any kind at Spencer sinco last week when several negroes were lieaten." Railroad guards are on duty, the chief of police stated, and tho unio.i shopmen are picketing but with out any breach of tho peace that lias eomo ta his attention. ' " i RAIL SIRIKE SUMMARY. Developments today in the rail Strike situation included: Union leaders representing the transportation brotherhoods of the roeds, went into formal conference in New York to devise plans for end ing the shop crafts strike. Plans to be submitted to road executives late today. President Hardinj understood to have completed message to Conzr1 on rail situation, but deferring its presentation pending outcoma ot New York conference. ) COAL STRIKE SUMMARY. Developments in the coal strikek situation today included: Operators ard miners seek a.-.tr.-a-cite he'd scttlrirrfct in l'h;!a !';!.! canferene. i:hnoii opetatnM ; i miners pra7 for jo-nt e that .f-.!rj':--i v li t t' i tone cf c - ' "a.