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VOL. XLIII. NO. 294
GASTONIA, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 9, 1922
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
GAS
ONI A DA
E
GENERAL AGRICULTURAL
SITUATION HAS SHOWN
SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT
So Says Monthly Report of
Department of Agri- 1
.,.-.'- culture.. .
PRICES ARE BETTER
Prices Farmer Must Pay Have
Also Risen, Says the
Report.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 9. The general
Bgriculturl situation in the United Stato .
has improved slightly us indicated by the
monthly agricultural review of the de
partment of agrieultu.ro. Cotton, grain
aud live stock products prices, as, well ns
prices of things farmers have to buy,
hdve risen slowly, the October price in
dex on ten farm products being 110 eoi'i
pared with 100 for 1913.
"This lias put a little money iato tho
pockets of some farmers, put heart into
, many more, and has done both for thote
who carry farm products through the
channels of trade," the review says.
The prices the farmers pays for other
than food products, according to the
wholesale price index, has risen to 1(52
compared with 100 in 1913. Thus a
unity of farm products will purchase 33
per cent less of other commodities as
it would in 192.1.
November figures indicate an abnor
mal movement of population from farm
to towns.
Agricultural conditions in the east are
in relatively poor shape. Potato, apple,
hay and truck growers are thoroughly
incouraged, the report says.
, Some poultrymen are doing fairly well,
tut most dairymen are having all they
can to break even.
' The cotton belt shows the best general
rocovery of any region as u whole. Cot
ton is very poor in many areas, but those
having cotton to sell feel fairly good it
present prices. General business has
been much stimulated.
Farmers in the com belt are somewhat,
encouraged at the rise in grain prices.
A heavy fall run of hogs to market, as
well as heavy movements of feeder cat
tle and sheep to. farms, is repartcd,
Winter grains show good stands.
Wheat belt shippers have been ham
pered by an almost unprececdented short
age of- freight cars. Winter whe.it
stands are reported - generally fairly
good. -Sheep men in the range country
feel fairly good at cheap, lamb ami wool
prices and the outlook for next year is
generally considered favorable. Pa
cific coast shippers have been hampered
by enr shortage. Apple growers have
been hard hit by low prices hi eastern
markets.
EASTERN CAROLINA CHAMBER
I OF COMMERCE IN WILSON
'I WILSON", X. C, Dec. 9. Plans
for';the Eastern Carolina Chamber of
Commerce Exposition here beginning
March 19, 1 923, are being completed
by X. G. Bartlett, manager of the
organization.
"This exposition is" being promoted
for the purpose' of advertising this sec
tion of the1 statu and its resources,"
one of the officials stated. "Wilson
made the highest bid : for the exhibi
tion and was decided upon as the site..
The large tobacco warehouses here will
be used to house the exhibits.
"A speech by Governor Cameron
Morrison will open the week of festivi
ties and a parade will follow. There
Will bo other addresses during the ex
position by speakers of national repu
tation. Attendance prizes will be
given aud many . eveuts in connection
with the exposition are being planned,"
it was stated.
HICKORY TO HAVE
CHRISTMAS CAROLS
HICKORY, X. Vj, Dec. 9. Hick
ory is completing arrangements for a'
community Christmas celebration this
, year and directing officials have been
appointed.
Mrs." S. H. Farabee has been made
' chairman of the caroling groups and
is now selecting leaders from each
ward. Mrs. Robert S. Brown, super
visor of music iu the graded schools, is
training the school carol singers.
A varied program will be given at a.
large Christmas tree in the park at
Union Square.
CHARLESTON", 8. C, Dec. 9.
One wan was fatally injured aud a
score of other persons were more or
less seriously hurt when the second
section of fast passenger train Xo. 80,
of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad,
crashed into the rear end of local pas
senger train Xo. 52 during a heavy fog
at Hauahan Station shortly after 7
o'clock this morning.. W. S. Scruggs,
of Greenville, died several hours later
at a local hospital.
T0LBERT NAMED FEDERAL
MARSHAL FOR SOUTH CAROLINA
WASHINGTON, Dee. 9- President
Harding returned today to the senate
the nomination of Joseph W. Tolbert
" to be federal marshal for the western
district of South Carolina. Confirma
tion of the first nomination failed at
the recent siecial session of Congress
because of the opposition of Senator
Dial, democrat, of that state. -
NEXT WEEK'S WEATHER.
WASHINGTON, Deo. 9. Weather
outlook for the week beginning Mon
day: '
' .Middle Atlantic. States: Tcraiicrn
ture below normal and weather mostly
eloudyywith a likelihood of raiu an J
possibly snows fi r?t part if t week.
South Atlantic and Knot and West
Gulf fitates: Temperature near nor
mal, considerable cloudiness, occasional
faius.
Allied Premiers Meet Today
To Outline Important Chapter
In Story German Reparations
Gained 215 Pounds
After Railroad Wreck
KANSAS CITY, .Mo., Dec. 9.
A federal court jury will be asked
to determine whether any injury
Mrs. Lorena Caldwell, 22, asserts
she suffered in a Chicago & - Alton
crash, is . responsible for the 373
pounds she says she weighs. She is
suing for $50,000 damages. She
claims one of the railroad's switch
engines struck a motor car in which
she was riding and that an injury
to an endocrine gland caused exces
sive obesity. She asserts in her
petition she weighed 1Q0 pounds at
the time of the accident, December
21, 1920. "
WOULD BAR "SPECIAL"
STUDENT FROM ATHLETICS
Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools Closes
Meeting at New Orleans
E. D. Pusey, Secretary and
Treasurer.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 9. The 27th
annual convention of the Association of
Colleges and Secondary schools- of tho
southern states closed its session here
yesterday after selecting Richmond, Va.,
as next year's meeting place, electing
officers and endorsing recommendations
of the executive committee relating to
athletio games for member colleges.
Spencer McCallis, of Chattanooga, was
chosen president; Miss Emilio MueVea,
president of Sweet Drier college, Vir
ginia, and C. C. Hanson, Xew Orleans,
vice presidents; mui Edwin D. I'ursey,
Duffttin, N. C, secretary treasurer. The
new executive committee is composed of
James 11. Kinkland, Yauderbilt univer
sity; L. T. Baker, University of South
Carolina; W. D. Hooper, University of
Georgia; W, W. Guth, of Goucher col
lege, Baltimore, - and President Dinsid
die, of Tulane university, retiring presi
dent of the Association.
The executive committee in its report
recommended that final decisiou in all
matters of athletic policy shall rest with
the faculty; elimination of the "spe
cial" student from participation in 'in
tercollegiate const ests; abolition of tho
seasonal coach; dismissal of conches who
practice "scouting"; ileructiou of ex
lenditures for intercollegiate athletics,
and regulation of amount of time de
voted to athletics by limiting the number
of games in each season and by escedul
ing practice periods.
The committee also recommended that
institutions applying for membership on
becoming a member of the association
with rank as a standard college shall not
be permitted to retain its athletics on the
basis of n -preparatory school or juuior
college.
The committee recommendations were
endorsed and it was voted by the dele
gates to offer them to individual colleges
for action.
PEACE -PREVAILS SINCE
THE NEGRO WAS BURNED
Charlie Wright Burned at
Stake for Having Slain Miss
Ruby Hendry, Florida'
School Teacher.
PKRRY, Fla., Dec. 9. Peace pre
vailed here early today, with county
and state authorities reporting no racial
outbreaks uring the night following the
burning nt the stake of Charlie Wright,
negro, by a mob estimated at several
thousand men early last night after he
is said to have confessed to ' having
slain Miss Ruby Hendry, a school
teacher, here last Saturday.
The police say that the mob, which
gathered from the northern section of
the state, quietly .dispersed after
Wright's body had been burned to a
crisp a short distance from here and
by midnight , the streets had been
cleared.
Officials and an undertaker went to
the scene of the lynching early today
and prepared, the body. for burial.
The authorities are still holding in
custody Albert Young, negro, who; was
captured in a Georgia town early yes
terday after he had been trailed for
six days, Wright, however, it is said,
in his confession had exonerated
Young. Wright implicated, another
negro whose name lie did not give as
having robbed Miss Hendry after he
(Wirght) had cut her throats
It was the intention of the mob to
lynch both of the negroes, but follow
ing the alleged confession by Wright,
the second negro was turned ' over to
the authorities, who .put him in jail
for further investigation.
PERRY, Fla.,'. Dec. 8. Charlie
Wright, negro, accused of the . murder
of Miss Ruby -'.Hendry, young school
teacher, was taken from the sheriff and
(uracil at the stake at the scene of
the crime early tonight by a mob esti
mated at several thousand men.
The negro, along with 'Albert Young,
nrgio, was taken from the -lieritl' and
his party' as they returned to Perry to
lodge the two men in jail. .
(Continued on page six.)
Details Are Preliminary to
Forthcoming Conference
at Brussels.
PLEDGES FROM GERMANY
France Has No Desire to Take
Over Rhineland, Says
' Poincare.
LONDON, Dec. 9. (By the Associat
ed Press.) The premiers of Great
Britain, France, Italy and Belgium met
here today to sketch the latest and per
haps the most importaut chapter in the
long story of German reparations. The
details, it is expected, will be outlined in
the forthcoming Brussels conference, to
Which the conversations beginning today
are preliminary.
Premier Poincare as the spokesman
for the nation most directly concerned
with the troublesome reparations prob
lem, was expected to take occasion at
the first - meeting with Mr. Bonar Law
to state definitely that France has ab
solutely no desires to take over the
Rhineland. Members of the French del
egation believed the premier would point
out that France, understanding the fu
tility of annexation of the Rhineland
a step which has been suggested knows
fully well that such action would only
create another Alsace-Lorraine and
eventually another war.
In the opinion of the French, their na
tion would only control the Khinclan 1
along economic lines during the term of
moratorium, collecting taxes and running
the railroad lines as a guarantee of Ger
many's promise to carry out the reforms
that would insure payment of her bill.
It is generally lielieved the Londoii
meeting will be. confined to a discussion
of a moratorium for Germany and to tho
guarantees which France demands. Pre
mier Poincare believes thatthe attitule
of the United StaXtos precents Great
Breat Britain from cancelling the
French debt.
If it seems impossible to to reach iin
agreement this time on the reparations
question, it is believed M. Poincare would
say to Mr. Bonar Law ia effect:
'We are prepared to agree to a mora
torium but only on the condition
that we take over administration of the
Khinelniid-nud occupy with one division
certain parts of the Ruhr. We want
England to. co-operate irh us, but if you
won't we must act alone."
The French premier, it is apparent, is
prepared to examine all proposals for
settlement of the German account but he
is determined to exact guarantees. He
will not look ui)on failure to reach an
agreement as a collapse of the entente,
believing that the link between acting
alone.
A statement of the positions to ne
taken by Great Britaiu and Italy in the
week end of conversations was eagerly
awaited. Premier Mussolini, arriving
here last night gave no intimation of his
views on the reparations question.
Mr. Bonar Law, it is believed, may
present no program, preferring that the
British government should maintain a
receptive attitude.
The arrival of the new German pro
posals, reported on the may, from Ber
lin, was also awaited with interest. Un
otlicifll advices said that Chancellor
Cuno's suggestions included' provision
for extension of the moratorium granted
.-. . ... . i i
conilitiouany upon me reccui, p.-ijim-m.
treasury notes . to; Belgium. The ex
tension, the German government is held
to believe, should go beyond the Brus
sels conference on the ground that the
future" of the reparations question hing
ed on the outcome of the. gathcrin;
CHESTER HIGH SCHOOL
BONDS AN EASY WINNER
$100,000 Issue Will Be Quickly Sold
and Construction Will Be Started.
CHESTER, S. O.. Dec. 8. By an
overwhelming majority today, voters
east their ballots for the $f0,00il new
high school building bond issue. Bonds
will be uicqkly sold, it . is thought;
aud work (in the new and modern stVuc
ture will be started at an early date,
and it is hoped to have it ready for
use by next September.
Chester's high school facilities have
j oeen immensely overiaxco, aii'i me
jerectioii of this additional strnctiire
will be a wonderful step forward for
the schools, which under the able lend
'ership of Prof, M. K. Brockmnn, su
j perintendent, are accomplishing an ex
cellent work.
PHONE FOLKS MAY
HAVE SUMMER LAMP
CHARLOTTE. -X.- C, Dec. S. Jack
Helvin, of Atlanta, was re elected presi
dent and Louisville, Ky., selected for
the 112.'' convention at the closing ses
sion here today of the convention of the
Southern Asiociation of Bell Telephone
Company employes.
The proposal to establish a summer
camp in western orrn Carolina inj
members of the association was en
dorsed but referred to the divisions in
jthc nine slates represented for final
: act ion.
Witnesses tell of alleged incidents rt
early girlhood of, young women stenog
rapher who seeks $1 .OiW.fMM) damage
from Governor of JfcssissippL
- . I
United Stales railroad hibor board
gives division cutting about I.. jmo.h'M
a year from hourly jates of pay of II,
000 telegraphers 'on western railroads.
Memphis Nurse Found
j ' Bound By Car Track
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec, 9.
Efforts of the police investigating
the finding, bound hand and foot
and gagged beside the . street car
tracks in a suburb early yesterday
of Miss Jennie Rogers, 32, trained
nurse, who it was reported had been
placed there by a man, after having
abducted her from a railroad station
and held her prisoner for five days,
disclosed the identity of one of the
men mentioned in notes scrawled on
an envelope, found in her possession,
according to announcement early to
day. Lee Rogers, brother of Miss Rog
ers, referred to in the note as
''Lee," went to the hospital early
this morning, but according to at
taches ad nurses, she did not recog
nize him.
Authorities are unable to account
for her movements from the time
she left the bouse until picked up
yesterday morning by a street car
crew in the woods near Memphis.
Police physicians expressed the
opinion that Miss Rogers it tempo
rarily unbalanced, caused by nervous
hock, exposure and lack of food. :
The Day's News.
At A Glance
Irish laborites iu new parliament de
nounce Free State for execution of four
republican readers and era of terror is
feared.
Londan reports severe earthquake with
loss of life at Kiushiu, southermost of
three chief islands of Japan, whose big
city is Nagasaki.
Order i srestored in Sofia and Bel
garian government denies reported kill
ings of thee ministers 4or responsibility
in great war. . . .
Allied proposals for control of Turk
ish straits upparently win approval .;f
Turke and encourage Lord Curzon to
hope for agreement.
Poincare suggests cutting German da
delimit) to about forty billion gold
marks and loan of hundred filliou gold
marks,
VJCiucuecau imcj-prcis Iiariiiiig s rei-
erences to four power Pacific, treaty as
"an overture" looking to somewhit
similar compact for Europe.
Astoria, oldest city iu Oregon, is
swept by fire, eausing late estimated Joss
of l2",0iO,O00; two dead, hundreds
homeless and business section ruins.
J I... l IT... . e
Negro accused of. murder of young
woman school teacher burned at state by
mob of several thousand men at Perrv,
Florida.
American Legion Commander Owsley
in speech, at ludiaapolis vigorously op
poses rumor proposed visit German
crov.u prince to United States.
House of representatives reject amend
ment to treasury supply bill that would
restrict prohibition unit iu spending
government funds.,,
Friends- of prohibition take heart fit
President Harding's announcement of
intention to call early conferences "f
governors on prohibition enforcement.
CATAWBA COUNTY MAN
IS GRANTED A PAROLE
RALEIGH, Dec. H. A parole granti
ed today goes to Albert F. Smyre, of
Catawba county, sentenced last mouth
to a year on the roads for driving an
automobile while intoxicated. Evidence
presented the governor indicated the
prisoner hail not had a fair trial, the
solicitor who prosecuted him writing
that the sentence was not just rind that
he had not been properly defended.
Practically every business establishment
in th town of Newton petitioned for the
parole, and all of the jurors joined in
the H'titioii.
WORLD WAR VETERAN
IS GIVEN A PAROLE
RALEGH, Dec. S.C. E. Mat
thews, Harnett county veteran of the
world war, and until sentenced a pa
tient at Oteen hospital, was paroled
today by Governor Morrison from a
two year sentence in the state's prison
for an assault. Matthsws committed
the assault while on a visit home from
Oteen and he is supposed to have lieen
intoxicated at the time. He is a suf
ferer from tuberculosis.'
The judge and solicitor of tho Har
nett county recorder's court recom
mended the parole. Matthews has n
wife and five children. He served
seven mouths of the two year sentence.
STONY POINT CASHIER
TO MAKE RESTITUTION
STAT ES V I LLE, Dee. 7, A. W.,
White, bank cashier at Stony Point,
who departed several weeks ago leav
ing iiu alleged shortage of between
19,000 and tl4,000, has voluntarily re
turned to Stony-Point and will make
good his shortage, according to a state
ment tonight by A. L. Watts, presi
dent of the bank, but he will no longer
!bc connected with the bank.
It was recently reported that While's
son h.id Is-en iu communication with
his father, and intimations were then
made that the missing cashier micht be
j induced to return and make restitution
jto the bank. Mr. White is not under
t arrest, nd it is understood that the
bank will ynot push charges against him.
THE WEATHER
Rain tonight and Sunday; colder
i tonight.. f
Southern Power
$16,000,000 Program Of Big
Investments And Improvement
Two Big Hydro-Electric Plants, One at Mountain Island In
Gaston County, the Other at Great Falls, S. C, Are Planned
1 New Transmission Lines to Be Built.
j CHARLOTTE. Dec. 9. (By the
j Associated Press.) A construction
program winch involves nu ' investment
of approximately $1 0,000,000 and is
said to be the largest ever attempted by
any corporation in tin South, will be
completed by the Southern Power Com
pany during the coining year, it was
announced by officials here today.
This program includes the building
of two new hydro-electric power plants,
j addition to two Meant electric, plants,
which will add 200,000 horsepower to
the. company's generating capacity; and
the construction of 200 miles of trans
mission lines ami a number of trans-
j formers and switching stations, accord
ing to the plans.
"The two hydro-electric plants are
at Mountain Island, Gastou county,
;N, C, where 80,000-horsepower will be
developed, and Dearborn Station, Great
Fulls, S. C, where (iO.OOO horsepower
will bo established," it was stated.
"Work upon botli these plants was
started a year ago. The Dearborn
plant, it is anticipated, will lie ready
for operation iu March. The Mountain
Island plant, a much larger undertak
ing, is scheduled for completion iu
August.
"The fdca.ni plant additions, accord
ing to the contracts, will lie ready for
operation by September 1, 1923, in timo
to supply the deficiency in irydro-clec-trie
power which usually occurs during
September, October and November as a
result' Of low water in the streams.
"The steam plant additions will be
at Mount Holly, where 40,000 horse
power capacity will be inlded, aud at
Ejio, University Station, N. C, where
20,000 horsepower will be added.' The
cost of these additions will be approxi-
MISS BIRKHEAD'S LIFE
IN EARLY STAGES' TOLD
Alleged Improprieties of the
Young Woman at Dance
Near Dover Are Related
The Governor On Stand.
OXFORD, Miss., Dec. 8. Alleged
incidents in the life of Miss Frances
Birkhead, plaintiff, from early girlhood
in the village of Dover, Yazoo county,
Miss., later iu Pearsall, Tex., und dur
ing recent years in Mississippi and
Louisiuna were told to a jury iu United
States district court here today by wit
nesses called by the defense in the
trial of the damage suit filed by Miss
Birkhead against Lee M. Kussell, gov
ernor of Mississippi.
"Just before court adjourned for the
day, Mrs. Russell, wife of tho governor,
was announced us the next witness, but
owing to the late hour, court was ad
journed for the day before she took the
witness stand.
The testimony today dealt largely
with alleged improprieties on the part
of Mi Birkhead at a dance near Do
ver, and during her brief residence iu
Peasall; of threats the witness de
clared she made in Jaokson in 1920;
that she was "going to Yh-ksburg to
kill a man who had ruined her reputa
tion ami coming back to kill the gov
ernor," and of a visit to a roadhouse
in New Orleans.
Much of this testimony was given at
a late session of court, delayed to per
mit the disposition of another cuse set
for the early afternoon. '
The morning session was devoted
principally to conclusion of the cross-
examination of Governor Russell. His
testimony was chiefly a rectition of
deniaU he made previously iu detail to
all allegations made by Miss Birkhead
which included a charge of seduction
and an alleged promise that he would
obtain a divorce and marry her.
'"I never thought of such a tliinir as
divorce," . Governor Russell, said. "I
wouhln t give my wife up for all the
women in the world." He declared
charges that he had promised to obtain
a divorce were unfounded.
Testimony as to the alleged conduct
of Miss Birkhead at various times
ranged from an incident when she is
alleged to have ridden astride to serious
misconuct. . ...
DOGS IN IOWA TOWN
TO BE VACCINATED
MO KG AN TON". Iowa. Dec S All
dog in Morganton must be vaccinated
against rabies under a proclamation to
lie ls-ued within a few days by City
Manager R. A. A. Hall, it was an
nounced today.
Durinir 'the nast week nix iMrnna
have Itccn bitten by infected dogs and
UMtrolmen have killed a score- i,t tin.
animals suffering from the disease. The
situation became nkt alarmi n it .hut thn
city manager ordered a supply of vac
cine ami Ins proclamation will provide
inai an iogs must lie vaccinated within
ten days after the supply is received.
In addition to vaccination, doers must
lie muz.lzed, and even when muzzled
they must be .held in leash hv the
(owners while on the street.
White's Dismissal Postponed.
EMPORIA. Kans.. Dec. 8. Formal
ji!ismisal of the Mate's case against Wil
jli.nii Allen White. Emporia editor, t-harg
icl with -violating the industrial court
jlaw by plariag a strikers placard in
j his iiewsii.-ipcr office, was postponed to-
jday until tomorrow.
Company Plans
mately $2,000,000.
"The 200 miles of new transmission
lines, which, not including substation
aud switching equipment, will represent
an investment of more than $2,O0J,uu'J
will be completed during tho early
summer. The longest and most impor
tant of these lines is from Lookout
Shoals, west of Statesville, to Winstou
Salem, Greensboro and High Point, a
distance of more than 75 miles.
"Three lines will radiate from the
new power station at Mountain. Island
extending respectively to Salisbury,
Gastonia and Mount Holly. Other lines
will be built between Hickory and
Hhodhiss, and between Shelby and
Caroleen, while one fifty-mile line is
being built from Great Falls to New
berry, S. C. '
"The now lines will give the South
ern 1'ower Company a total of 2,400
miles of transmission and distribution
lilies iu its system, making it one, of
the most extensive truiisiiiinsiou systems
iu the world.
"The construction program being put
through ut the present time is the
largest ever undertaken iu the history
of the Southern Power Company,or
any other power company in southern
states,' the statement continued. "The
demand for power by tho rapidly grow
ing industries of the C'arolinas is such,
however, that the company already has
sold all of the power it dares to sell
against the two new hydro-electric de
velopments. ' Further indicating the rate of in
dustrial progress in North Carolina,
applications have been received since
the eoinpuny stopped selling power for
several thousuud additional' hor;
power," it was stated.
PHILADELPHIA WILL
HEAR CLEMENCEAU TODAY
Thousands Are Disappointed,
However, as He Speaks to
Philadelphia Forum, Whose
Membership Is 4,000.
PHILADELPHIA. Dee. .' (By the
Associated Press.) Georges Clemen
cea u, speaking today in the city where
America's Declaration of Independence
was signed, urged that America come
back toJ Europe and help spread inde
pendence throughout the world. He
was given a long ovation as he ap
peared on the platform of the Academy
of Music. The Academy, profusely
decorated with the Stars ami Stripes
and the French tri-color, was packed.
PHILADELPHIA, Dee. . Thou
sands of I'hiladelphiiins were disap
pointed today at their inability to hear
Georges Clemenceau, Tiger of France,
deliver the lust important address in his
tour of the United States. As a par
tial relief for their disappointment they
thronged the street sthrough which the
octogenarian statesman was scheduled
to pass on , his way to Independence
Hall and the Academy of Music to
catch a glimpse of him. ;
The arrangements called for only a
brief visit. Actually be was to be
here about ten ad one-half hours, but
officially several hours less than that.
He slept in his private car iu the
railroad station about four hours before
he was due to make his official appear
ance at ten o'clock.
Escorted by the first city troop, be
decked and caparisoned in all the mili
tary splendor of an earlier day, and
accompanied by a prfy of prominent
citizens, the Tiger will be taken first to
Independence Hall where a brief cere
mony at the Liberty Bell has been ar
ranged in his honor.
-In IndeiH'iideuce Square Clemeiiceau
will be whisked to the Academy of Mu
sic where a capacity crowd had tickets
of admission. His visit to this city
was under the auspices of the Phila
delphia Forum, au organization number
ing 4,000 members. A .futile effort
was made to have the Tiger's address
made a public function.
"WASHINGTON, Dee. f. -Georges
Clemenceau, closing his visit to Wash
ington this afternoon with a "formal"
adress, expre.scd the hope that diplo
macy would find the way to bring
America back into European affairs
through what he interpreted as an
"overture" by President Harding in
the annual message the executive had
read to Congress a few hours earlier.
"I was greatly "comforted," said the
war-time premier of Fance, "when I
irend in the !neji"v of your president
(the following lines. They are not very
long, -but they are very suggestive:
" The four-power pact, which abol
ishes every probability of war on the
Pacific, has brought a. uew confidence
iu maintained peace, and I can well be
lieve it might be made a model for
like assurances wherever in the world
any common interests are concerned.
"So you see," continued the Tiger,
"that even those who are supposed to
disagree, really uifree at tho very bot-
!i ..m i: . .. . .
win ui iiieir ici-iini; iinu reusoning
power. That is what I ask, and I
hope tin is something like an overture,
that soino light will be coming, and l
will be very gtal if it comes from )
America, und I hope that diplomacy
will have something to say about it,
(Continued oa page six.
OASIS SHR1NERS ETECT
A. G. MYERS POTENTATE
AT CHARLOTTE MEET
Gastonia Has Invited Nobles
to Hold Spring Cere
monial Here.
CLASS OF 225 INITIATED
Report of Mosque Committee
Indicates Work Will Start
This Coming Year.
CHARLOTTE, Dee. 9. With the
election of A. G. Myers, of Gastonia,
illustrious potentate, ami the moving oue ;
step-'forward 'of the entire official divan
of the tcui-ile, with R. E. Simpson, start
ing at the bottom rung as the newest ap
pointee on the divan, Oasis Temple eou-
clirded its business session Friday morn
lag by donating a congressman's yearly
salary to charities, and proceeded in the
afternoon and evening to the pleasures
or tins annual event. '
The business session was rather brief,
beginning at 11 o'clock and concluded
an hour later, when the newly elected
officers were installed. Dr. Charles P.
Ambler, of Asheville, was added to tli-3
list of imperial representatives, junl again
elected high priest and prophet of the
temple. The imperial representatives
are: W. 8. LiddelL Charlotte (emeri
tus); Mr. V. F. Bandolpli, of Asheville,
and H. F. Bernhardt, Liucolnton, (life),
and Julian Price- and Dr. Ambler.
Some 225 candidates were led through
tho mysteries of the desert yesterday af
ternoon and came forth towards night
fall, wiser men in many respects; but
smiling beneath the crimson of a neiv
fez, and jauntily wearing the crescent
and -scimitar of the Shrino in their eout
lapels. To them it had been a great ,
journey, as most wero willing to testify
after the occasion. : '
Some of Donations. 1
Among the donations yesterday were -those
of $.j,U00 to the Masonic and Eas
tern Star home in Greensboro, to the New
Bern fire sufferers, ami to lit up Ma
sonic clubrooms at Oteen and the Green
ville hospital for the soldiers. The '.
North Carolina Orthopaedic hospital re
ceived several hundred dollar-donations.
As the imperial council will be in ses
sion iu Washington city next year, tho
sum of $2,500 was set aside for use in
Asheville, and the sum of $1,500 set
aside for the use iu Charlotte of enter
taining Shriners who are pa.ssing through
en route to this meeting next . spring.
Five 'thousand dollar was set aside to
send the Oasis band iiml patrol.
Activities began early in the morning, ;
the candidates being required to register'
at' the Masonic Temple and thcro ru
eeive their numbers and other necessary
things, which they dill not understand
then; but which 'is perhaps clearer to
them now.
Owing to the inclement weather, which
radically cut down the attendance from
nearby cities were 'either greatly lessened '
in effect, or were eliminated altogether;
notable among these hist was the culling..'
of!' of the big torch light parade of the
nobility at 8:30 o'clock last night. This
:s au unuu.ll. event of the temple, one of
the most spectacular and beautiful open
to the public Last year the Shriners
marched Itetweeu living walls of people
on all the streets along which the parad
ed. It was a most impressive sight, und
drew tremendous applause from every
one 'fortunate enough to be present.
Preparations had been completed for
making the oue last, night even more of n
spectacular event, and it was with relnc
ta ace that ot was eliminated from the .
program. -
However tie 'annual Oriental ball at
the city auditorium, and the informal
dance at the Red Fez club, compensated
iu Mme regree for the disappointment. .
Cities Make Bids.
During the progress . of the business
meeting, invitations were received from
VS'iustoii-Salem ; Asheville and Gastonia
for' the spring ceremonial; but this mat
ter was not decided upon at this time.
Custom usually carries the spring meet- '
ing to the home of the potentate,' since
the December meeting must be held eaeh
year in the home of the temple, which
iu the case of Oasis is Charlotte.-
Noble W. F. Randolph extended the
ii'vitatiou mr iHfhalf of Asheville; whilo
Noble I'. T. . Wilson spoke for Winston-.
Salem and received u hearty second on
the part of Noble J. A. BolicX. Poten
tate Myers extended the invitation en
the part of Gastonia, und promised a
magnificent hall (the new high school
auditorium) in which to hold the cere
moiiiat. Following is a list o full officers of tho
official divnn for the ensuing year:
J. I). Elliott, Hickory, chief rabban;
Louis D. Sutherland, Clmrlotte, assis
tant rabban; Chase P. Ambler, Ashe
ville, high priest aud prophet; W. L.
McDonald. I lift riot to, terr.surer; Thomas
Griffith, Clmrlotte, recorder; J. LeGrand
Everette, Rockingham, oriental guide;
guide; C. M. Van Story, firt ceremonial
master; P. T. Wilson. Winstoli-Salcni.
second ceremonial master; Eugene D.
Graham, Charlotte, marshal; ' diaries F.
Limp, High Point, captain of the guard,
and R. H. Simpson. Hickory, outer guard.
The dancing at the auditorium and the
Red Fez club lasted until into the morn
ing, and brought. t a el" the annual
PJ-"' Dveember meeting of Oasis temple."
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