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VOL. XLIH. NO. 230
GASTONIA, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 26, 1922
SINGLE COPY 5 CLirTZ
MTORM WAlSOr MED - SDDDEMLY THIS EflDli;
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ON
A
irUIJHV ifTA7P
ARMISTICE MEETING
FOR CESSATION OF
ASIA MINOR TO
BE
TO. ARRANGE
FIGHTING IN
HELD OCT. 2
IIAMID BEY, OF TURKISH
ARMY ATTENDS COUNCIL
HELD" AT THE EMBASSY
United State Wilb Be An
Observer At The Final
Peae Conference
ANGORA HEADS PROTEST
British Government Pledges
, That Positions At Chanak
" . Will not be Reinforced.
5,000 From Gaston County Are
Expected To Attend Exposition
Gaston County Day At Made-In-Carolinas Will Draw Big
Crowd From Entire County All Those Going Asked To
Assemble At Camp Greene At Two O'clock Wednesday
Afternoon.
MICHAEL ANGELO WORKED
FOR $32.00 A MONTH
ROME, Sept.' j7. Modern artists
who are inclined to compUin of the
lack of appreciation or the public, ex
pressed in dollars and cents, of their
work, may be interested in the money
made by some of their famous prede
cessors. The ancient masters of painting
labored for small pay. Cimabue, the
first of the great masters and the dis
coverer of Giotto, was paid about one
dollar a day, but he had to share this
income with an assistant. Giotto him
self, called the father of painting and
the producer of - many fine master
pieces, got from $5.00 to $11.00 for
each of his figure Michael Angelo,
Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael lived
in what may be called the golden age
of art, yet the first two received sal
aries of $32.00 a month, and the last
named got $250.00 for a portrait.
GOVERNORS OF THE TWO
STATES OPEN MADE-IN-CAROLINAS
EXPOSITION
Governors Harvey And Mor
. rison Speak At Second '
Carolinas Exposition
MEET AT LUNCHEON
Large Array Of Products Of
Home Factories" Is Dis
played In Great Hall.
.r r Teh Turkish situation reached an
other critical stage today.
Kemal Pasha's reply to the allied
governments has been made known
at Constantinople by his aide de
camp and is an ' acceptance of pro
posed conditions, but with the insist
ence that Turkish military move
ments shall proceed and that Russia,
Bulgaria, and Persia shall be admit
ted to ten proposed conference.
The military situation has become
, increasingly serious. , The Turkish
forces have occupied Kum Kalesi, at
"the mouth of the Dardanelles, com
manding the entrance to the straits,
with a cavalry force. Another na-
tionailst cavalry, 3,000 strong, is at
- Eren Keui, ten miles from tne Brit- '
ish lines at Chanak. -,
Soviet Russia has sent a note to
the allied powers the Balkan states1
and Egypt proposing an immediate
, Near' Eastern conference in the
..hope, it sys, of saving soutehastern
Europe from a theratened new out
break of bloodshed, and giving
.- warning that Russia will refuse to
recognize any decision regarding the
Dardanelles to which she is not a
party. ;
The urmistiee conference lias been ui't
by t ho all k'tl high command for October
2 ut Muduniu. .''.
Constantinople reports growing indica
tioiiH of the abdication of the sultan of
Turkey and teh selection of a successor
acceptable to Keinal l'nsha.
Ycuizulos is now figuring it the politi
cal idscussions at Athens. The former
premier is mentioned as one o.f the mem
bers of thu nationalist cabinet which will
week to reconcile' the Constantino ami
Venizelos elements in a movement to as
sure n united Greeee i nthis critical junc
ture for the uutiou. -,-
Five thousand Gaston county people
aro expected to. Invade Charlotte tomor
row, celebrating Gaston County Day at
the Mude-iil'-Carolinus Exposition. ' Plans
uro rapidly shaping into the finished
state for the big day. Arrangements at
this end are iu churgo of the department
of conventions an dpublic affairs of the
Gustonia Chamber Of Commerce, of which
Uumeron H. Williams is chairman.
Farmers, bunine lueu, professional
men, the- ladies all who go to make up
the live population of Uastou county, are
strongly urged to take the day off and
spend leu at the afternoon at the big
exposition, carrying the colors of Gastou
and letting the people of tho outside
world know that this is a live county and
u real one on tho map. ' ' '
Automobiles are to mobilize ut Camp
Greene, not later than 2 o'clock tomor
row afternoon. " 'Miles J. Ruidsill, P. U.
Thompson and Fred M. Fraiicutu us .1
sub-coiiimitete have canvassed many anl
liave over a hundred Gustoinu cars prom
ised. . It is hoped that by tomorrow aft-
und Chas. Thompson will meet; the cars
from this section of the county alono will
be in line. ' . ,, . .- : n '' - '
II. I'. Linebej-ger. John. M. Miller III
and Cuhs. Thompson will meet. tho; curl
nt Camp Greene and line, them up on the
bight lmnd side of the highway. -The
Pythian Band will arrive first .and will
play while waiting for the crowd to
gather.. .' " -.
Gaston county tags have been provided
by the committee for ull to wcur on their
coats.v Be sure you get a tug before
leaving Cump Greene.'..
. Cherryville plans to have a large unit
in the motorcade and on that will at
tract attention. Mayor Crawford of Bel
mont advises that there will be u good
representation from that' thriving little
city. It is expected that the other towns
of the county will so be out in force.
Besides the motorcade it is expected
that many hundred will make the trip by
train. The P. 4 X. has ugrecd to hold
the last car, which will prove of much
accommodation to the crowds using that
line. - '. ,. .
The program in the afternoon after
arriving ut the Exposition building will
bo brief. - Everyone is urged to go to
tho audiotrium first for' this so as to
make a good showing for the county.
There will be-but few speeches und these
will be brief nnd interesting. The Pyth
ian Band will render several selections,
this constituitng its part in the Curolinas
Band Contest.
Henry jfcAdep, a good friend of Gas
ton county, is exposition cahirman for
the day and will preside, with President
8. A. Robinson of the Gustonia Chamber
of Commerce. Mayor It. G. Cherry will
respond , to the address of welcome.
From all indications it will be n big
day nnd everyono counting on going to
the exposition at nil is urged to help his
county by going tomorrow.
GOV. MORRISON URGES
COMMERCE DEPARTMENT
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Sudden Attack of Asthma End
Career Of Brilliant Georgian
Declared In Made-In-Caro-linas
Address That Manu
f acturing And Business In
terests Should Have A De
partment And A Voice In
The Council Of State.
HAD PREDICTED HOW THE
BONUS BILL WOULD FARE
On July 31 Washington Cor
respondent Said That Con
gress Would Adjourn
Without Enacting Bonus
' Legislation.
CONSTANTINOPLE, 'Sept.
pl. 40. thin rnlllMlll lwW H;lt nt .In It, Ml tl.M
t he Associated. Press.)-rThe reply of the j rttttwm.ut wag mado tll!lt tvngress
Turkish nationalist government to the .,.., ,i ;niMul , :, ! i.
ullied peace note has been complete.!, and ;f n tl , . . . legislation.
. (By Wallace Bassford)
(Speciul News Correspondent). ,
WASHINGTON, D, C., Sept. 25. In
HIGH SCHOOL TEAM TO
MEET KINGS MOUNTAIN
First Game Of Season To Be
Played Friday Afternoon
At 4 O'clock Local Squad
Is Going Good And Coach
es Are Pleased.
comprises acceptances of the conditions
laid down at the Paris conference, ac
cording to Essud Bey, uido de eunip to
Mustuphtt Kemal Pasha, who has arrived
here from Smyrna. .
1 .. Tho -nationalists," however, insist upon
their right to conduct military move
ments during the progress of tho confef-
' .euce, and also demand admission to the
ana that Jtepuuiican members who were
voting for it were doing So with .their
fingers crossed, , knowing the persideilt
would veto the bill. .This writer went
further aud gave the entire plan which
would bo followed that the bill would
pass both houses, would be vetoed by the
president, and that the effort to puss it
lover his veto would succeed in the house
ii.ecui.g or hi; iiie anies oi w.e wuj faii in the senate. This was not
government, including Kussm,- 1 erma, J I(ro,,ut.cyit Was written from kuowl-
aud Bulgaria. j edge of the republican plan to hold the
. '' , soldier vote in line for the republican
CONSTANTINOPLE,-..Sept. 2(!. ; members and those .-republican senators
(By The Associated Press.) Thejwho liavo to go before the popple in
armistice conference to arrange for the i November. .When they voted for it and
cosxation of hostilities between me mai tearful uj.pcals for oilier votes they
ii.m.n uuim....iu.o -- " anew t lCir votes wouiu not maKe tiio
held, at Mudania, on or about October m1.,sure iut0 linv for they knew it would
, provi.led that the Angora govern-fail j , t, m:iunvr Btated i the 1(.t.
mcut .accepts the ..provisional peace t aboV(J JUOUtioiied, which appeared in
terms outlined in tho note from the iundmls of m.,V8I,apers throughout the
. Allied powers.
This wns decided at a council of tho
Allied high commissioners held yester
day afternoon in the embassy and, at
tended by llamid Bey, representative
of the nationalists. llamid askel
.pledges from the British government
cOuntrj".
It is estimated that the bouus bill
would have cost the taxpayers about four
billions, scattered oer a generation or
more. The president aud Secretary Mel-
that the positions around Chanak bo;., . , i,J:. j
lot reinforced during the progress of thJ" b"1 th 10.81 ?n,c. ,
no negotiations.- ..' ............ lt. :..
T?..,. AH.ir9I Mnrlt T.. Uristnl. 1 ' "rc ycoiw
American- high commissioner, did not
iiarticipate in the council, but it is
pockets, in m
creases in the cost of inanufactured ar
ticli-s, almost four billions ech single
t - . -i . . ! .1 . . . a I
iiiKlei-stood the -United States vili haver. ie awaKeneu ami oii.rugea
u observer at the final iace confer- !" " ef w Ti
cm.e j into the cold. Mellon himself will be the
-ThV Animra rvoriiment has i.roteSt-! Rreutest beneficiary, in nil likelihood, of
- - I
ed to the Allies against the presence
in tho Bospliorus of the ,reek riag
uliip Averoff,. which it alleges in
fringes the neutrality of the - Con-j
Mantinople region. '
The , remaining members of the
Greek ifiilitary mission, the V,rsollllt'
or me urecx. naval ikisc. wtncli was
all the men who will fatten their present
wealth off of the needs of the peopel.
This modern Shylock controls, us merely
a part of his great wealth, all of the
aluminum manufacturing in the land. His
influence has raised the tariff rates on
imported aluminum wares to such a high
point that there will be no importations;
" The high school football siuud is
rapidly rounding into shape ' for the
first game Friday afternoon with
Kings Mountain high school. The
game will be called at 4 o'clock, and
will be played at the fair grounds.
The 'admission prices will be 50 cents
for adults and' 23 cents for children.
Coaches Rose, Lowry and Rutter are
well pleased with the progress their
charges are showing. The line-up will
be chosen from the following: Beam,
Henderson, Lynch, McConnell, Hope,
Boyd, Grggs, Mundny and Kirby. in
the line, Glenn, Smith, Davis and
Sparrow, ends, Jacobs, Hord, Freder
ick, ' Bigger, Rutter, Sheltoii, Moore,
Ratchford, Page and Atkins in s the
back field. Many of the scrubs are
pushing the regulars for a berth aud
none of the "positions are- absolutely
cinched. The Kings Mountain team
was beaten by Liucolntou last Friday
by the score of 12 to 0.
NO MORE SUNDAY GOLF -
ON GASTONIA LINKS
. Sunday golf for Gnstouia is a thing
at the past, the by-lnws'of the Gas
tonia Golf Club having been revised to
this effect last night at u called nieet
iug of the board of goveruors of the
club held at, the Country Club. The
action taken' ' simply restored the -.original
by-law covering this point, which
was amended some weeks ago by the
board to allow the playing of golf on
Sunday afternoons.
Last night's meeting was held at the
request of a number of members of tho
golf club who apieared before the
board und asked that the by-law allow
ing Sunday golf be rescinded.
discontinued yesterday, and prominent '"s companies .will have no competition
member of the Greek colony have 'and the prices ean be lifted to double the
Ixiarded the Averoff, which is leaving j present figures and the public will simply
shortly for Athens. i have to pay- There is no escaj. Under
A large Greek transport filled with j the new litw, with the help of a little
troops and artillery, passed through -joker, the import duty on - aluminum
the Bospliorus yesterday on their way 1 wares is 71 per cent, while under' the
to Rodoito, to strengthen the army in j Underwood law it was 20 percent. The
Thrace. The Greek newspapers an- j latter rat-e protected the American alunii
noiince the arrival in Thrace of Goner- num worker and put much revenue'- in
als Papoulas, Nider and Leonardo ! the treasury; the new rate keeps out the
J'oulos . and other prominent leaders j foreign wares, hence the treasury will get
who are expected to reconstitute the j no revenue therefrom, while it gives Mel
army and inspire -the ' men with new ibm'K companies a-complete monopoly,
spirit- f :Thy have suffered so little from foreign
The Greek residents ff Constanti-1 competition in the tmisI that they have
noplo are apprehensive of the results exported heavily, selling their goods in
fchould the Turkish nationalists take ,
(Continued on page 8.) (Continued on page 5.) .
SEATTLE HAS LARGEST
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
CHARLOTTE, Sept. 20. A dVuurt
ment of manufacturing and commerce in
tho state government to represent, co
ordinate, promote and direct tho business
interests,' und give them u voice in the
state' council, was presented to the Mude-in-Curoliuas
Exposition audience yester
day afternoon by Governor Morrison in
such strong appeal that his suggestion
received great aypluues and encourage
ment. :','''.. ..,''
"We h.ivo a well-organized govern
ment in North Curolinu," said tho gov
ernor, "but it has one weakness. We
have a great commissioner of labor and
a tsrong department, aud thut ie well.
We have a gerat agricultuarl department,
doing vast good in the state-I wish I
had time to tell you what it is doing
for, North Carolina agriculture. , B.;t
thereis no department of commerce and
manufacturing.' We ought to have it,
and puWi big-bruined commercial expert
m charge. It won't cost much, although
some old reactionaries wiil denounce it
and figure that it costs thirty-two cents
a township, and will try to oppose it, in
the face of the fact that the commercial
und manufacturing inetresst of the state
uoh pay a great part of the tax that
is required to run the state, while the
masses of the people pay no tax at all.
"The wohle stock in trade of some
politicians consists of denouncing und
abusing 'corporations,'' yet last year one
corporation paid into the state treasuiy
more tha nail other taxpayers combined,
save the tax collected , from automobiles
on account of roads.' Yet there 'is no
department in the state government to
represfent teh great buisness interests of
North Carolina.
" A .c huu aro was made in the tax sys
fern to relieve the citizens of towns and
counties, because their burden was too
heavy, and local taxes were left with the
towns and counties to be expended within
their own borders, none of it going to the
state treasury. -
."A commissioner of manufacturing
and commerce could co-ordinato chambers
of commerce and trade bodies of every
sort, organize Kiwanians and Rotarians
nnd Civitans and clubs, and direct their
combined energies for a bigger, better
Curolina, I wanted to see this depart
ment created at hte last legislature, but
a man can die un moer sunkes than he
can kill to save his life they were all
around me at the last legislature; but I
shall pers sstrongly for its creation at
the next sension fo the general assembly.
"I want to see n department organ
ized ns is the agricultuarl department.
It will cost very-little and can be made
to help' development in North Carolina.
It would prevent duplication in advertis
ing, conserve energy now being wasted
iu trying to build up export trade. We
need this agency for progress. Do you
know that the cotton and tobacco indus- i
tries pay nearly half the income tax in
North Carolina f Yet they have nobody
to whom they can go to solve, industrial j
urobelms. fell citizens won 't alive to i
pay a ceut of the excuse. These busi
ness interests themsevles will pay the tax
that will support such a department."
,. Col. T. L. Kirkpatriek, at, the cuoclu
sion of the address of the governor,
thanked him for his ltans for the de
partment, and assured him that Char
lotte, Mecklenburg and the women would
support his plans. As for him, the
coloen Isaid, it was a case of "Lay on
McDuff an ddamned be he who first cries
hold, enough! " He declared to the gov
ernor that "Joe Bailey and nli his tax
talk, by the eternal gods, cannot turn
back the dial of progress."
.. ' ' v" i
We v l
,
Was Known For His Bitter
Attacks. Against Wilson's
War Polices
RAN FOR PRESIDENT
Senator Thomas E. Watson.
CHARLOTTE, Kept. 6. His Ex
eelleucy, the Governor of South Caro
lina, Wilson Harvey, and His Ex
cellency, the Governor of North Caro
lina, Cameron Morrisou, lent thei renm
bined voices ut 3:30 o'clo-k Mouday
afternoon in opening the second an
nual Mude-iu-Carolinas Exposition t iu
the presence of thousands' of visitors
from the two (States ami afar, regal
ing the event with words of commen
dation for the spirit behind the project
and prophetic of the greater Caroliuas
which will spring from this "industrial
University.'' ,
The opeuing of tho exposition was
auspicious. The weather was ideally
Beptemberish . The skies put nothing
in the way of nn Autumnal sunshine
thut nt times showed the teeth of au
August severity, but an occasional
breeze that leaped from tc West took
a lot of oppressiveness from the after
noon sun and 1 the well-ventilated hall
was comfortable even in its packed aud
jammed condition.
The arrangements of the .'-interior
were also conducive to a hospituble he
ginning, . The booths were neat and
ireshly Blade as well us attractively
prepnred'for the' first opening of the
doors. There wns everywhere a dom-
rimnt mifro-ORt ion tt ' tHtnf iiIiichh. One
might well hnvo thought it was n stylo . CHARLOTTE, Sept. 2(1. After hav
show in 'which, all the finish and polish mg entertained tho goferuors of North
and livery of tho fashion plates had ull,r Sou,h Carolina on tho openihg day
THOMAS G. M'LEOD IS
CHARLOTTE'S GUEST TODAY
Democratic Nominee For
Governor Of South Caro
lina To Make Principal Ad
dress Today at Carolinas
Exposition.
been brought into brenth, so excellent
ly arrauged wore the exhibits and so
admirable and attractive the booths.
Mr.. Clurkson struck tho keynote of
flie exposition 's purpose when he de
clared, in first presenting Governor
Harvey, that "The Carolinas are near
the top. This Mude-in-Ciirolinas Expo
sition is-'to put them over the top."
"These Wtutes, " said Mr. Clarkson
have nlwHs been bound together in
war and peace by ties of kin and inter
est. In the great buttle among the
fctates of this Union for commercial
supremacy, they today stand shoulder
to shoulder. I want to congratulate
the exposition directors for this won
derful undertaking. It means more to
the Carolinas than anything done iu
this section in the last half century.
Live at Home! Buy Curolinu Prod
ucts! It menus that more than $200,-
000,000 can be kept ut home each yeari
It means that every man, woman mid
child in the Carolinas should join the
Made-in-Carolinas As ociation to buy
Carolinas products. This is a jntri
otie duty. The burden of this Exposi
tion is immense, and 1 .congratulate
the directors who put at the head of
this undertaking u man of energy and
splendid business qualifications, born
iu (South Carolina, now claimed by
North Carolina, John L. Da Lilts.
"To start this constructive undertak
ing, it required a man of vision, pluck
and iierserverauee. That man is Joe
C. Patton.
"On May the 20th, 1775, iu a gun
shot from where we stand, the Meck
lenburg . Declaration of Independence
(Continued oo psce 5.)
l-esterday of the Made-in-Curoiluus ex
position, Churlotct today was host to tho
democratic nominee lor governor of
South Carolina, Tohmus G. McLeod, wlio
arrived this morning to make the chief
address of the day. ' : ;
Mr. McLeod, regarded as the govemor-
flect of the Palmetto Stute, was, invited
to be the guest of tho Southern Manufac
turers Club u t lunecbon where Cluudo A.
Cochrane, city attorney, was seelcted to
introdco him. His address ut the exposi
tion was set for late afternoon. ' . "
It was estimated that several thousand
persons attended the dispaly of products
of the two Carolinus yesterday and last
night, drawn by the musical eoneert, ad
dresses by Governor Morrison of .North
Curoliu.i and Governor Harvey of South
Carolina, and, the opportunity to ' see
what is made in the two states.. A fea-
iiitre of the musical -program wns'lhe ren-
idtioit of the "Carolina Exposition
March," written by Modest. Atlwhuler,
conductor of the orchestra. '
Was Author Of Several
Treaties And Editor Of
Widely Read Magazine ,
GRAND JURY TO PROBE
GOVERNMENT WAR OPERATIONS
CHICAGO, Sept . 2(5 . The First
Presbyterian church of Seattle, Wash.,
having membership of 7,066, is t)w
largest church of its denomination in
the country, according to the anucul i
report of the church for the year end- ONE JNCH RAIN AT
ing Easter, now being prepared. ASHEVILLE BREAKS DROUGHT
iiie winrai cnun-n or riroosiyn, v.nn
almost 4,000 members,, ranks second
while the number of churches with
1,000 or more memlers has increased
from 131 in- 1920 to 167. These arv
less than "two er cent of the total
number of 9.500 churches in tins de
nomiiuitiou but they have 14 per cent
of the total membership of l,7."i7,000
the report states. .
The Syuod of New Yokr is largest
with Pennsylvania and Ohio ranking in
the order named.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2i. A "new
special grand jury will be empanuelled
early in October to coiitiuue investi
gation into alleged illegal activities
iu connection with the government's
war operations.
The present grand jury, -which has
been iu recess since it handed dowu
indictments in tho Old Hockory pow
der plant case, will go out of exist
ence by law when the October court
term begins. It was also said .today
there probably would Ik; no further
meeting of this jury hut it 'was am
phasized that there was no intention of
permitting the inquiry to lag over nuy
extended period.
After completing its inquiry into the
sale of surplus lumber stock und the
"uisposition of the Old Hockory case,
the grand, jury was understood to have
HISTORIC BELL IN GERMANY
SUCCE$FULY REPAIRED.
BERLIN, Sept. (5. The huge bell in
the cathedral tower on the former impe
rial palace grounds, which cracked while
tolling out the edath of the former em
press, will riiijr again after a year of
silence, Like America's Liberty Bell, it
went mute because of a rent sustained
while coinineorating un historical event.
The great mass of metal has junt un
dergone a "welding which marked the
first attempt of its kind iu German
science. The crack measured 820 milli
meters in length nnd required 45 kilo
grams of metal to fill it.
It was estimated that to remove the
l-ll and transmit it to-Alpona or Lu
beck, where Germany's only recanting
works are located, --would ' cost more
than 500.00(1 marks. Further, senti
ment precluded installing a new bell
for one which had done service since
T471 when it originally graced -the Wil
sniiik monatstery. -Consequently, a firm
undertook to repair it within its own
m . i i ' t i c ..rf 'planned. The Senator is survived by
The lel lwa glowered from its support:! . ... . j.w:u
to the lloor of the tower room and there
subjected to u welding process of ace- j
tvlic nxidiiiiir under a heat or 1,400
degrees. Experts hold that its "voice"
.. - ii - . ii . e l..,' 1.1 ,!....-. . L... v
nui recover :m in inc wiu-mm- ..!.-. , . .- . .
nes when the nm-ssory operations 0f i uemuji ' "'7"7'"
1 rn.-lw.iMKr tll lluf:l I I IMOUIlt anu WUM a JUlIg nuaciltc liuni
, -, . . . ..u.'.'n - - !
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. United
States Senator Thomas K Watson, of
Georgia, died suddenly at his homo hcr
early today. Heath was said to be duo
to un acute attack of asthma, from whieli
Senator Watson had suffered recurrently
for some years. ; .-'.'
Although failing health had interrupt
ed fccnutor Watson's attendance at sen
ate sessions frequently iu the last several
months, ho was in his seat Friday whoa
the sesatc adjourned and his friends be
lieved that he- was then showing improve
ment. He was stricken suddenly after
dinner last night and passed away short
ly after 3 o'clock this wornign. He was
b'6 years old. . , ; -
A number of the senator's friends hero '
had been summoned to the residence be
fore the end came, but no relatives wert
able to reach the bedside.
Huriug the first year and a half of
his term in the senate", to which he was
elected in 1920 after receiving the nomi
nation over Senator Hoke Smith and
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, Senator Wat
son gave no indication of auy impair
ment of the vigor and activity which hud
marked his loner career in politics hud
a publisher. In his lust speech "in the
senate, delivered only a week ago lust
Wednesday, the Georgia senator severely
criticised tho administration for its.
course in connection with the rail strike
situivtoii. Hs previous attacks on the ad-'
ministration, and most ' notably his
charges of illegal hangings in the Ameri
can expeditionary forces, the subject of
exhuustivo investigation by a senate com
mittee, had made him a eonsujeiious fig
ure in tho senate' body during his brief
service. -
Born in Thomson, Ga., in 1858, Sena
tor Watson grew up and practiced law
there for some years before enterine
state politics. After serving in the Geor
gia house of representatives and later, in
188S, as democratic elector ut large for
the state, ho wa selected to Congress iu
IS!) I on the populist ticket. ; After being
defeated on that ticket in the next two
elections. Senator Watson, was nominated
us the choice for vice president of tho
St. Louis popuilst convention, which en
dorsed William J. Bryan for president Jit
LSOfl. Nominated for president by the.
people's party in 1904, Senator Watson
conducted an active campaign to revive)
the party. ' - '
About that time lie began the publi
cation of Tom Watson's Magazine in
New York, and a year later undertook .
thu puhlie.-itiou'of Watson's Jeffersoniun
Mugajen, which was continued under
tho name of the Weekly ' JefTersoniau.
The publication begun in that period
were suspended duriug the Wilson ad-
ministration when denied trunsuiissio
through the mails after attacks appearct
iu them against the draft act, the espiou
iige law ii ml other war measures. Mr.
Wntsou " then began publication of the
Columbia Sentinel, at Tliomsoa, Ga., of
which he was proprietor up to his death.
In the senator's own language as given
in his biograpldcacl sketch in tho Con
gressional directory, he conducted hi
campaign for the senate as an ."anti
Wilson, anti-League, and anti-war mca
ures democrat." After defeating Semi
tor Smith and Governor Dorsey for the
nomination he was elected over Harry
Edwards, independent eauiddatc, w,l.o
favored American participation in the
League of Nations, by an overwhelming
majority.
The body of the Senator will be
taken to his home at Thomson, Ga.,
today at 3:15 o'clock. He had already
made reservations on a train leaving
at that time to spend the congression
al vacation at his home and Mrs. Wat
son decided to take the train he had
his widow and two grandchildren.
Senator Watson was in a greatly
weakened condition during the last
few months from a severe attact of.
bronchitis bast spring which threat-
repoiisliing
have been completed.
62 CARLOADS PLANES.
SAX FRANCISCO. CALIF.,
2ti. Sixty two car loads of
started on a third case of equal im-1 airplane, 240 in all, and valued-lit. im
portance, the records in which will bej "00,000 arc on the way to the Pacihe
turned over to the succeeding body.
Details of tho matter to be taken U
Erobubly on October 3 are withheld
ut it is known that subpoenas in this
connect ion already have been scut out,
ROBERT G. HAYES. OF -
CHARLOTTE, IS KILLED
coast from an eastdru airfield, it be
came known today at Ninth Army
Corps Hcudquartcrs,' The airplanes, it
was said, will lie ussembled nt - Mather
Field, near Sacramento. Where and
how . the airplanes will bo used was
not Btated.
ASHEVILLE. Sept 26. With a rain- j
fall of nearly one inch falling lasrnight 1
the drought which has existed in Asiie
ville and vicinity for the post two months
was effectively broken. The city water
sheds now have nn abundant supply snd
the river U tdijihtly above normal, rising
almost two feet. Hydor -elect fie power
stations are operating ut fuH capacity
today and all industries that bad beeu
shut down 1mve resumed, including the
Cahnipioa Fibre Company at Canton.
, SALISBURY, N. C, Sept. 26.
Two men were killed this morning
at a crossing at Linwood, near here,
when the automobile in which they
were riding was -struck by a Southcrnv
Railway passenger train. " Papers
found on the men indicated that one
of them was Robert G. Hayes, 21S
West. 10th street, Charlotte, N. C.
The car bore a Charlotte license No.
4225 and is said to be owned by
George J. Blum, 103 Worthington
avenue, Charlotte.
COTTON MARKET
Receipts
Price '..
THE WEATHER
I the Senate. The former Senator celc-
I hrstcrl hi Inst hirtlulav Jsnt 5.
Although having served only a
short time in the Senate, Senator
Sept. Watson's soratory and first attact up-
urniylon legislation he opposed added t
his national prominence gained irt
his home state. He was an historic
al expert, his Senate speeches beinj;
rich with incidentary of history, prac
tically French, of which he was a
great student. He was a strong ad
vocate of a bonus for former service
men and another of his strong policies
was advocacy of release of men con
victed during the war under the es
pionage act. He wrote President
I Harding and made many speeches
! favoring general amnesty fur sutU
. . 36 Bales ' prisoners.
21 1-8 Cents i Because of the absence of We-
j President Coolidge, Senator CVn
.mins, republican, Iowa, president pi'
Generally fair tonight and Wednes- j ate, w
i dav: moderate temoerature. - '
tempore ofthe Senate, and many of
the Senatto.-s, plan for onicml r , u
sentatioiif at the funeral of tho I."
Senator were uncertain. I '.u i :
Barry, fergeant-at-arrns cf ihc :
nt notified or the ovarii i
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