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A 1A J t Local Co I ten 21 Vs Cents VOL. XLIII. NO. 228 GASTONIA, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. 23, 1922 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS Neair; East TT5V Weather Fair Peace Gab Meet 36 HOURS Will Tell Tale as to Whether It is to Be Peace or War , ' In' Near East. CABINET NOW MEETING Unfeigned Anxiety, However, Pervades the Capitals ; of Europe. CONSTANTINOPLE, cpt ,23. . (By The Associated Press.) -Within 30 hours the world will prob ably know whether tho Turkish Nu tionalistg have chosen 'war or peace. Tho Angora cabinet, meeting ut -JSuiyraa, is expected hourly to de claro whether the Kemalists will await the peace conference proponed by the powers or take matters yiu . ," their owu hands by invading , Thrace. France is expected to exert re newed pressure to keep tho Turks from uny hostile action which would jeopardise thuir . present extremely V favorable position ut tho forthcom . ing conference, but many competent observers are frankly skeptical thut the Nationalist cabinet will accept "at the full value promises thut tho conference will result in the reali sation of all their cluims. Tho Turka are fully aware of the weakness of the British loud forces . now precariously holding points along the Asia Minor shore, and are convinced of their ability to de feat them. f . ' -v . . , French official circjes hold that tho only thing which can stavo off the . Nationalist attack is a definite . pledge by Great Britain to support ', Franco in guaranteeing that Thrace , will bo evacuated promptly by tho - Greeks and restored to Turkey. . It in rejwrtcd thut Mustapha Kemal pasha, the Nationalist leader, is op posed to hasty action, but it remains to be seen whether his strong person ality and convictions can triumph over the opposition of his collcugucs. ' Meanwhile, unfeigned anxiety ex- V ists among the BritislThere over the continued strong -concentration, of Turkish troops at Ismid, where, by reason of the- withdrawal of tho Italians, the position of the British ' forces has been sensibly weakened. - The Nationalist have brought up field guns from . J2-InoV which they recently seised to within 10 miles from tho southern ,horo of the Dard- . auellcs. V Tho teusioa ' in Constantinople continues. The capital is full of dis . turbing rumor und many British , " . n " FALL FOOTBALL SEASON STARTS IN EAST TODAY NKW YORK, Kept. - 2.1. Football will take its place. in the Kast's athletic spotlight today ' when thirteeu games will bring double that 'mini Iter cf col- leire and AervicM elnvptitf inl,t thn nm.ii. ing of the fall campaign. Yale, I'cnu State, Washington nnd Jeffecson, and Syracuse are 'among the larger institu- 1 tillllli Itnn liivulrin uorriiira u-ill irn their first test. . Most of the bigger colleges will not line up for their lirst games until next Saturday. ...... ..- The Bull Dog fates Bates in its opening (encounter nnd according to cw ilaven reports Head Coach Tad Junes has a husky nnd well drilled crew to t uke the field, Peuil State, decIareiL to Iks another jKiwerful title contender, despite the loss of several brilliant star will try conclusions with St. Bonareuture. Syracuse is to meet Hobart and W. & J. ld.-iVH Geneva nt WHsliinirtnn. DIRIGIBLE DEMONSTRATES ITS COMMERCIAL VALUE NOGALES, Ariz., ' Sept. 23. The flight from El rao to Nogales was the lisirrlpvt 'liQTt nt tlirt triii u-rt fmm Iangley Field, Virginia, said Com mander. II. A. Strauss, of the C-2. army umtjiu'c, aner ine airsuip new nere from i.1 Paso, Tex., yesterday. The " difficulty we experienced was because the ship was not designed to oerate at such high altitudes,- while carrying such a largo crew and heavy load of fuel," he said. 1 . However," the commander contin ued, "the faet that we were able to make the flight goes a lung way towant proving me practicability of dirigible balloons for cpniniercial purpose." i e nrsr 'doctor of medicine" was Gulielmo Gordonio, who received the lion-' or from the college of Aosti, in Italv, I iu 1220. PLOT TO RESTORE. VENIZELOS TO POWER ATHENS, Sept. 23. Announce ment is made of the discovery of a plot to .return former Premier Venite loi to power. Several persons have been arrstcd aod the authorities are conducting house to house searches. SPANISH WARSHIP CARTAGENA, SPAIN, Sept 23. SENT TO NEAR EAST (By The Associated Press.!) Spain is-about to send one of her most powerful warships to the Near East, it was learned today. The dreadnought Jaime Primero has been ordered to coal and proceed immdi ately to Constantinople. Forbidden to Marry By Law Enacted By Episcopal Convention.. ONE EXCEPTION ONLY Commission . Named to Study , Whole Question and Report. ... PORTLAND, OBK., Sept 23. Com muuicnuts of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States pre forbid den divorced persons, except in cases where divorce has been granted on tho ground ofx infidelity. . The result of tho action takcu hero last night by the J House of Deputies of the general trienni al convention, confirmed a measure, pass ed previously by the House of Bishops. . The former law of tho church merely forbade ministers to perform a marriage ceremony where either party to it had been divorced for a cause other than infidelity. The new canon docs not provide punishment for members of the church disobeying it, but there was pending before the convention today a resolution by- Bishop Cameron Mann, of the diocese of South Florida, providing fur the ex-communication of persons re marrying contrary to the divorce canon.' 1 Resolutions offered by the -Rev. Dr. I. W. Tomkins, of Philadelphia, providing for the omission of all the section of the divorce canon which relates to per mission being given to divorced persons to re-murry in such cases as the single ex ception covers ami making tho inhibition against re-marriage of divorced persona absolute, were referred to a commis sion which will make a study of the whole divorce canon during the next three years and report at tho next general conven tion. Two other resolutions of Dr. Tom- kins, ono requiring a certificate as lo the health of persons to be married and another requiring that bans be publish ed for three"Sundays before an intended inarriago also were referred to this com mission. DETECTIVES BAFFLED IN HALL-MILLS CASE NEW BRUNSWICK, N J., Sept. 23. Baffled in their efforts to trace tho slayer or slayers of the Rev. Ed ward Wheeler Hall, rector of tho Prot estant Episcopal . Church of St. John the Evangelist, und his choir leader, Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, wife of the church sexton, authorities today pinned their hopes on getting some new light through volunteer statements by members of the church, A public ap ical, with a promise of protection from publicity, was made by rosecutor Strieker for facts bearing on the mys tery. Some detectives believe that the rec tor was shot i the front sent of an automobile and that Mrs. Mil's broke her ankle in jumping from a motor car. Witnesses have told the authorities of seeing two rapidly moving a itomo biles on the roads near the spot where the bodies were found. The tension of the week's investiga tion hns proved too much for Mrs. Hall ami she hns denied herself to callers. James Mills, the- dead choir leader's husband, told newspajier men that de tectives had not hesitated to ask him point blank whether he shot his wife and the rector. He said also that he agreed with the theory that the rector and Mrs. Mills may have been shot by ome woman in tho congregation who was jealous of Ifis wife. TURKEY AND RUSSIA IN COMPLETE AGREEMENT BKRLIN. Sept. 2.1. (By the Asso ciated Tress.) Foreign Minister Trhitcherin, of Soviet Russia, in an interview printed by the Tagcltlatt, to day declares thn Turkey and Rusaia are in complete agreement regarding the question of the straits of the Dar. dandles. According to Russia's agree ment with Turkey, he says, the nations bordering on thn Black Sca ajonc have the right to draft the final international settlement o this isue. Of the six Black Sea states, Ik; adds. Russia, the Ukraine. Georgia and Turkey already have adopted this standpoint. M. Tchitcherin declared himself convinced Turkey will eventually achieve her aim of reuniting all the territories inhab ited by Turks." THE WEATHER -. Fir tonight and Sunday: moderate I temperature. DIVORCEES FREEDOM Of the Dardanelles Is Thins Great Britain Seeks . . Most. LLOYD GEORGE SPEAKS England's ' Attitude One of Impartiality as Between Turk and Greek. LONDON', Sept. 23. (By the Associated Press.) The policy of Great Britain in tlte near east is to establish the freedom of the Dardanelles under tho supervision of tho League of Nations, declared Prime Minister Lloyd George in a statement at a conference with the newspaper men this afternoon. Mr. Lloyd George said that what-, ever' steps the government ' had taken to strengthen the military and naval forces in the Dardanelles nnd the Boshorus had been dictated by two aupreme considerations: First, ''Our anxiety as to' the free dom of the'toas between the Medi- . terranean aud the Black Sea,' and second, "to prevent this exception ally prodigal - war from spreading into Europe.'' - The prime minister declared at the outset he would like to make it clear that any action taken had nothing to do with the merits or demerits of the case under dispute . between Greece and the Turks. The British government, he said,, had been impartial as between tho Greeks and the Turks. He oliited out Ithat u few weeks ago the Greeks threatened ' to inarch on Constantinople aud ut that time Generat , Harrington, tho British' general in chief command' at Constantinople,- had warned tho Greeks in "identical terms as. the warning now' given to Mustapha ', Kemal Pasha." ' In dealing with 'the question of ' tho freedom of the straits, Mr. Lloyd George says that what had happened in the lato war demon strated how vital was the freedom of these narrow seas to the pro. teetion of , commerce and "to hu manity in its broadest' aspects.'" Tlie closing of the straits by Turkey during the Into war, he de clared, was responsible for the dis aster "of one of our strongest allies and the defeat of Rumania and prolonged tho war by at least two years. " la pointing out Great Britain's impartiality,, ns shown by her warn ing to the Greeks, he added: "Wo acted then iji the interest of peace. The same motive is in spiring our action today.'' LONDON, Sept. 2.1. (By the As sociated Press. ) Notwithstanding as surances from Paris that the prospects for peace in the Near East are bright ening, ugly reports continue to come from Constantinople aud several, more units of the Atlantic fleet, including the battleship Revenge, have been ordered to prepare for srvice in the Darda nelles . ' The favorable side of ' the picture is presented by the Paris correspondent of' the times, who reports that the French naval commander, Admiral Dumesnil, sent his government a most reassuring dispatch concerning his in terview with Mustapha Kchial Pasha. He said he found the Turks "entirely tractable aud ready to enter negotia tions without delay.'' The same correspondent says the re port submitted by Geuerul Pclle, French high eouunander, who ulso saw Mus tapha Kemal, "is represented as by no means alarming," and adds that the danger ( of a Kemalist attack on the straits is regarded as small. THEATER FOYER COLLAPSES, INJURING 58 CHILDREN PITTSBURGH, Sept. 2.1. City offi cials, 'conducting . an investigation of the collapse of the foyer of the Strand theater yesterday afternoon,. began this forenoon to take statements of some of the 58 children, most of whom were injured when the concrete floor dropped to the basement. ' Madeline Kunkle. ace. I 8. ono of those invited to the free showing of ; the picture, "The Trap," was killed and 18 of the injured are in hospitals. Only four are in a critical condition. Several sustained broken arms or legs. Free tickets had been issued to school children for yesterday's show. Scores of them, gaily attired, clustered about the corridor awaiting admission. Then came the crash and the joyous throng was dropped fifteen feet into the cellar and covered with blocks of rock and concrete. Their bodies were ripped and torn. The alarm spread quickly and frantic parents stormed the building shrieking for their children. Cooler heads re strained the hysterical mothers. A crew of men worked in the chasm today, clearing away the debris. , Several investigators . scanned the wreckage in an attempt to fix respousi bility for the disaster. A city building inspector reported the flooring had been improperly constructed. Sol Selxnick, the -proprietor, who was seriously in jured in the crash, said the building was inspected two months ago and pro nounced sound.. Czar's Favorite an Exile it. "4. ' . JIadomolBlle Marie Kousnezoff, Rusflan opera beauty and frmer favorite eiUertair.cr uf the czar, is un exilo in London, buo Ucd aovkt " Hussi. l;i peasant dlsirulse. ...... MRS. MARY BOHELER IS AGAIN LODGED IN LAIL Woman Convicted of Selling Liquor and Ordered to ' Leave State Is Back In Gas- tonia Re-arrested and Is Lodged In Jail. Mrs. Mary Boheler, who was tried and convicted in Gaston county Suie rior Court some 18 or SO months ago ot tTio charge of receiving and selling whiskey, and' given a suspended sen tence of 18 mouths in jail, was arrested Thursday in Gastouia and lodged iu the county jail. Mrs. Boheler'a sen tence of 18 - months was suspended on Conxion that she get out of the state and ntiiy. , , ' - - It will .be ' recalled that the trial of Mrs. Boheler furnished : quite a sensa tion at the time. She was apprehended at her home near Pleasant Ridge on the charge of keeping liquor for sale ft was alleged that she lnade frequent trips to the mountains for tho purpose of securing liquor. The trial was hard fought and excited a great deal of in terest. Since the trial and up until a short time ago, Mrs. Boheler was out of the county. It was learned recently that she was' thinking of returning to Gastonin, and it is alleged that she was trying to purchase a farm near Gastouia. She was promptly rearrested and lodged in jail' by Sheriff Cole. It is understood that efforts are be ing made "by' her attorney, John U. Carienter, to secure her release on Cond, but the authorities declare that the only release for her is a pardon from the governor, that the IS months jail sentence automatically goes into effect with her appearance in Gastouia, following the judge sentence. COTTON GOODS MARKETS WERE ACTIVE THIS WEEK NEW YORK, Sept. 23. Cotton goods markets have been much firmer aud have continued 'moderately active this week. Advances are being paid on some of the more staple domestics and the elight ad vances in gray cloths have been fully sus taind. The demand' was broadened and while buyers are not anticipating freely they are doing much better tlian they were earlier in the month. Percales arc now being sold carrying spring dating on goods deliveruljle to the end of the year at old prices. No new prices for spring have yet been namd on dress ginghams. Eastern tickings have been advanced half a year and some of the choice eastern branded muslin are up 1 rent. Commission houses have been sell ing to the jobbing trado quite freely, most buyers taking domestics for deliv ery till the end of the year. Fine comb ed yarn goods have been less active than print cloths or sheetings. In wash fa brics lines the principal business is pass ing in fancies on crepe and voile grounds and with ratine decorations. Cotton blanket and napped goods are in better call. Heavy cottons for manufacturing purposes are distinctly firmer. Cotton yarns have been more active and prices are firmer. Knit goods are being sought for immediate delivery. Current prices in first bands are as follows: Print clothe .'S inch 64iK 7 1 8 rents; MW3. 6 7 S cents: 3S 1 3 inch 61xHls, 9 11; brown i-hectings, sheetings, southern standard, 13 1-4; tickings, 8 ounces, 26 cent?; deuims 2.20s, 18 12 cents to 19 cents; staple ginghams 14 1-4 cents;. dress ginghams IS cents and 20 1-2 ctuU; prints 10 1-4. V ... k. , 1 :..".f ALL OVER RUT SHOUTING IN THE PENNANT RACES St. Louis Browns of American League and Pittsburgh Pi , rates of the National. Have But Slim Chance to Over haul Gotham Rivals. NEW YORK, Sept. 23. Take it from New York 's baseball, fandom, .the major league ' icuuunt races are "all over but the shouting." Mathematicully shaking, t the St. Lou'm Browns in the American and the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National have n chance to overhaul their Gotham ri; vals, but it's a, slim chancel .; y The Giants, with ten more games to play, were leading by four and a half games today as - a result of defeating Pittsburgh, 8 to 7, In n sensational hand to hand grapple, upon which the last tangible hopes of the Pirates rest ed. The Yanks, with sis games yet to play, downed Cleveland, 0 to it, for their fifth straight victory, and kept a lead of three ami a half 'games over the Browns, who defeated .Philadelphia, 1 1 to '5. The New York clubs need win but half their games the Giants five and the .Y links three to retain their cham pionship titles, even if tho Pirates win all seven of their contests and the Browns are victorious in their five. McGraw , used six pitchers mid an overdose of strategy to take the final contest from Pittsburgh, the climax coining iu the ninth when the cham pions squeezed -over two runs for vic tory. The. Pirates piled up a five run lead in the fourth but Johnny Morrison paved the way for the beginning of the end by blowing uj in the next three innings. . Joe. Bush hung up his 2(th triumph of the season at the expense of Speak er's Indians, whiU' . the American League champions "pounded Edwards and win consistently. George Sitiler returned to the game while the Browns slugged out their vic tory over Philadelphia. Ty Cobb laced out four hit to help his Tigers down the Red Sox, 5 to .'!, while tho Wiitc Sox bunched 'hits to beat Washington, 6 to 4. In the National League Philadelphia and Boston divided double headers with tliicago nnd Cincinnati, rescctivcly. ToiKrcer and Clemoiis, of the Cardi nals, each collected four biugles in as many times at bat while !t. Louis took the hist game of the scries from Brooklyn, 7 to 4. MAY DO. AWAY WITH THE ARMY SALUTE WASHINGTON. Sept . 22. Army rrjrulations arc soon to be amended to do away with much of the exchanges of salutes ln-twecn officers and men in public places. Experience during the war when large numbers of officers were in Washington and other centers of military effort has convinced war department officials that strict adherence to existing regulations made the required exchanges of salutes upon every meeting a nuisance and led to a general disregard of the regula tions among officers- by common con sent. The revised regulations will re strict the exchange of salutes for both officers and men to military reserva tions exrept whore they may address one another while in uniform mi the streets or iu other public places. NKW YORK, -Sept. 2.1. Daylight saving, observed in New Y'ork city since April ."50, ends tomorrow. The official hour for shifting the clocks is 2 a. m. OITION Of Tentative Settlement Being Drawn By! French and British Cabinets. PARLEY AT VENICE? French and Italian Groups May Be Sent Back to 5 Chanak. PARIS, Sept. 23. (By the Asso- ciuted Press.) The prospects of peace vin the near east were dis tinctlybrighter today as the -Fryjach and British cabinets met to consider the tentative conditions' of settlement drawn np by the allied representatives here These condi tions are expected to form the basis "of negotiations at the peace con- ( ' ference soon to be summoned. They provide for the reoccupa- ( tion of Constantinople nnd eastern Thrace, including Adrinnopla, up to tho line of the river Maritza, with a neutral suae along the Thraciun, Bulgarian and Grecian frontiers; internationalization of the Dardanelles, maintenance of a permanent allied military forco at Gullipoli nnd Btrict guarntees for the protection of the minorities in Turkey. Should the plun bo approved by tho two cabinets today and bo ac cepted by the Turkish nationalist government as a basis of negotia tion, it is thought the peace confer ence could be convoked for' Octo ber 10 or 12. Although' Venice hus been tenta-, tively fixed upon ns the placo for the conference, the conferees are williiig, if the Turks insist, that it be some cU.v in Asia Minor. The questiou of holding Chunak, from which the French and Italian forces recently withdrew. leaving the British unsupported, ms recoil ed into the background. Indeed, L'Eclair states on the authority of an Italian source thut it has been decided to send tho French and Italian troops back. COBB AND SISLER IN NECK AND NECK RACE Ty Just 27 Points Behind George, With Latter In jured and Probably Out for the Season Records of Other Top Liners. CHICAGO, Sept. 23. ( the Asso ciated Press.) Tyrus Raymond Cobb, chumpion of the Amereian League for J2 out of 15 years, in his fight to over take George Sisler, of the Browns, to day Is 27 points behind tho St. Louis star, but with Siifler injured and it un certain as to just how much more base ball he can play this season, Cobb hus a chance to pass him provided he aver ages two hits or more for the remitting games of the season and Sisler is un able, to continue his fast normal part-. Sisler's average, including games of Wednesday is .418 compared with a mark of .424 n week ago. Cobb is collecting hits to the tune of .391 and is displaying no indication of slowing up as the clubs swing into the final stretch of the nice. But Sisler's heart and soul is in baseball and it is almost an impossibility to keep him out of the game despite physicians' orders. Cobb led the American League every year fronj l!o7, with the exception of 191C, wlu'n Tris iSjieaker, of the In dians, took the honors and in 120 when Sisler was crowned king, and last season when Harry Heilmann. of the Tigers, crowded Cobb out of first place. Sisler's mark for stolen bases ap ears to lc safely tucked away, as his 47 thefts is l:i better than his closest rival. Ken Williams, n teammate. Williams bagged a brace of homo runs during the past week and is tied with Rogers Hornsby. with .'51, for the leadership of the major leagues. j Rogers Hornsby. the St. Louis star, i who Tor the last two years has carried off premier batting honors of the Na tional League, has launched a filial drive to boost his 1922 average above the coveted 4(H) mark. The St. Louis favorite is on the brink of his ambition. The fieures show him hitting .3!9. In 1920 he topied the league hitters with a mark of .370 and last season roiuicd off j with the honors with an average of! .397. . ! Hornsby fell into a slump early in i August, but when Jiininv Tieruev, ot I the Pirates, and "Hack" Miller, of! the Cubs, began to htreaten he recov- '. ered his batting eye aud started to pull i away. This drive was started about! the middle of August, wjieli he was hit- ' ting .374. He has steadily iacreaeit ' and at the rate he is traveling he will I easily reach his goal the " .4l0 mark. In his InM mmcii4 games Ilornty ' cracked out 13 hits, three of which t were doubles and four were home runs. I Tierney, hu has been tagging ! Horiishy's heels, suffered a slump udr- j Tug th? past week, but continues to ha ' the ruuoer-up with an average of .572. Passed . On , to Next Session By Geneva Peace Conference. AWAIT U. S. ENTRY? I French Member Says Should Not Have Been Changed. It GENEVA, Sept. 23 (By The As sociated Press.) The question of re vising Article X of the League of Na tions evenant or eliminating it altogeth er, was passed on to the fourth assembly by the present assembly today without other observation : or recommendation than that the subject be considered iu all its bearings. ' The Cunadian 'dele gation showed no disposition to rush Charles Dchcrty ' amendment elimina ting tho article. W. 8. Fielding, chairnma of tho Canadian delegation, said he had no fault to find with his predecessors on tha delegation but would not ask tho as sembly to eliminate the article. Ho would ask, however, that it bo inter preted so the world would understand what it meant. Mr. Barthelemey, of France, said ar ticlo X ought not to have been changed in tho hope, of bringing the United States into the League. There was no assurance that a change would have this) effect, he declared, and in any case tha article ought not to be changed until the United States was on the scene to delib erate upon it with the rest of the world.- VETERANS TO MEET in ASHEVILLE IIEXT VEEK Annual Encampment North' Carolina Division, United Confederate Veterans, In Mountain City, September 26-28 See Mr. ' Ragan For Tickets. The annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, North Carolina Division, will lie held in Asbeville .next, week, Sept, 26-28, according to''; an-; nouiieement made today by Mr. .iJ.'V W. Ragaii, commander' irf William .'Xiambien Camp. According to custom, theitvurity commissioners will pay the railroad fare, of all those voterans who go'. Tickets are good from Sept. ,22 up to anil including Oct. 4. Mr. Ibigan states that veterans may secure tickets and all other information from him at his office in the Ragan Tiuilding on Main street any day up To 8 o'clock Tuesday morning, Sept. 2tf. It is expected that a number of Gaston veterans will attend. , PISGAH MAKES PLANS FOR COfa'IITY BOOTH Pisgah made plans at a welt attend ed meeting of representative men ami women of the community nt the school house Friday night for the community booth to le entered in the Big Gaston County Fair, October 10 to 14. Oscar Torreuce was elected general chairman in charge of the arrangements for the booth. Strong committees were named to look after various details, , Tho executive secretary of the fair spoke briefly on the details iuvolved. Much interest was evident and it is certain that the community will have a. very creditable collective exhibit at the big fair. COTTON MARKET, CLOSING BIDS ON THE NEW YORK MARKET NEW YORK, Sept. 23. Cotton fu tures closed steady, 15 points up: Jauu ary 21.22; March 2L2:J; May 21.1B; July 20.91: OctoWr 21.13: December 21.40 j Spots 21.40. GASTONIA COTTON. Receipts Today . . Price 63 Bale 21 1-1 Cents SLEEP WALKER AWAKES TWO MILES DOWN ROAD. LONDON, Sept 4. An extraordi nary case of sleep-walking is reported from Fleet, Lincolnshire. A Norfolk man was cycling through the country, and arriving at Holbeack close upon midnight, was unable to find lodjin-. Placing his bicyeh against a fate, he lay down exhausted by the roadia and went to sleep. On awakening he could not find I f machine... He arouM th ;:' constable and learned thit fc ? walked to Fleet, two m s f his sleep. The bicyc' found where be had h'l it beach.