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GASTONIA, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 11, 1922
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SEALKUKLUX DOINGS
ARE TO BE EXPLOITED
Q IN RALEIGH THIS WEEK
jGuerard Trial May Add
' Names to Haywood's List
- ; In the State.
JUDGE LYON TO HEAR IT
He Is Not a Klucker and Will
Require Answers to Ques
tions Asked In Court.
(By W. T. Boat.)
KALEIGH, Dec. 10. Heal Ktt Klux
: doings are going to be exploited here
this week when the defense in the ease
against deposed King KlagleW. V.
Guerard, who will be tried in Wake
county court ou a ehargo of embezzle
ment, will add names to the immortal
banded down by the Rev. Oscar Hay
Hood. The Gucrard indictment will lie tried
before' Judge i. 0. Lyon, who docs
not ride a circuit in the invisible em
pire. This case will not only bring
out the financial system of the khui
wtu its imperial capital in Atlanta,
it is almost certain to develop the per
sonnel of the order sufficiently to de
termine whether there is nny solicitor
iu this neighborhood who belongs to
the Simmons Clark shebang.
; Efforts to get a legislative rise on
the reputed membership of Judge
Henry A. Grady in this super-kingdom,
Lave failed. Letters sent out to the
new members have found most of the
respondents undisturiied by the klan.
If not positively apologetic toward it.
Thero are many answers yet to come,
but anr amazing viercentnge of un
masked Americanism must )e revealed
, in . the letters yet unanswered if the
suspicion that many legislative mem
bers are of the invisible empire, is
Cured.
In the trial of Guerard, once the big
Ike Of the klan, Chief Counsel J. W.
Bailey expects to have the imperial
wissrd from Atlanta here. It is not
believed that the klan can proceed
against Guerard without Clarke or Sim
mons, or perhaps both. It is possible
to get testimony as to individual trans
actions, but the grand imp is needed,
the whole chocc wizard is an absolute
essential. And if these high financiers
with their joke titles, wizards, klcaglos,
goblins and whatnots, get n the stand
for a cross-examination they are oirig
to be asked a lot of uestions which
a judge not of their empire will force
them to answer.
. Make 'Em Answer.
Rev. Dr. W. K. Thompson, most
erudite of the visitors yet to come
here, was grilled by Bailey two months
ago. The preacher got mad at Bailey
. , (Continued on page 6.1
FORMER GOVERNOR BILBO
WILL NOT SHOW UP
Most Sensational Law Suit In
Mississippi About to Come
: to ; Close Attachment Is
sued for Witness.
OXFORD, Miss., Dec. 11. Testi
mony of two witnesses, Theo. G. Bilbo,
former governor, nnd Major Will Perry,
A friend of the governor and presenta
tion of a hotel registe us documentary
evidence, was cxiccted to conclude the
rebuttal evidence in th suit Tor $100,000
darangs filed against Governor Leo M,
Kussoll, of Mississippi, by Miss Frances
C Birkhead. ' stenographer, in federal
district court here today.
Failure of Mr. Bilbo, who had Wen
mimmoucd as a witness for the plain
tiff, to appear, caused suspension of the
trial from Saturday until 0 o'clock this
morning. Major Perry was detained
on account of illness in his family. An
attachment issued tiy Judge E. It.
Holmes, was placed in the hands of a
United States mnrshul with instructions
to bring Mr. Bilbo into court, but ac
cording to the marshal's office, no
service has been secured ou the order
Bp to last night.
The former governor and Major
Terry, a member of the governor's
staff, are alleged by the plaintiff tO
have knowledge of the circumstances
that followed the incidents alleged in
the suit and of negotiations which, she
assert were "undertaken by the gover
nor 's friends.
'In the event neither of these wit
nesses appears today the seventh day
-it Ik ooi-teil tlu cae-u-ilt be closed
'aud arguments begun, thus closing one
of the most sensational law suits ever
tried in a Mississippi court.
ANOTHER CARPENTIER-SIKI
FIGHT IS ASSURED.
I'ARIS, Dec. 11. -A second Carjion-tier-Siki
fight w-cins to be a certaintv,
according to La Journal, which points
out that President Rousseau, of the box
ing federation, is inclined to be clement
toward the incgulcse.
"I will box Siki under anr condition
8t a date to tie fixed upon niv return j
to ran this evening," Carpcntier tele
graphed Le .Journal, from Brighton,
England, last night. "Please say that
to beat feiki would be the greatest joy
cf my life," the telegram said.. It added
that Georges wag to get the opinion of
surgeons as to the .condition of his bauds,
which were injure! in his bout with
biki. . :
A report is cBrrent that biki has dis
appeared but neither his friends nor thiL
police seem unduly alarmed. ,
Conference Adjourns To Avert
Open Break Between England
and France on German Question
British Cabinet Rejects Measures of Force for Ruhr Upon
Which Poincare Insisted British Opinion Opposed to
Military Measures Against Germany.
12,000 REFUGEES FROM
VLADIVOSTOK IN SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI, Dec. 9. (By the
Associated Press.) Nine vessels
loaded with refugees from Vladivos
tok under command of Admiral
Stark, anti-Bolshevik Russian leader,
which arrived here last night 'have
furnished a problem for the Chinese
and -foreign authorities. The refu
gees, upward of 12,000 in number,
are officers and soldiers and their
families of the white or Bolshevik
faction of Vladivostok who fled
when the far eastern authorities
recently tock over the government
on the evacuation of the Japanese.
All ar destitute and are being held
aboard their ships. The ships first
went to Gensan, Korea, where the
officers say they were refused per
mission to land by the Japanese
authorities, although they were given
fuel and supplies sufficient to carry
them to Shanghai. They report
8,000 other refugees already landed
at Gensan in a terrible plight.
Six more ships are expected with
in a short time .
Admiral Stark seeks either per
mission to land, his destitute charges
here, or provisions and fuel to carry
them to Europe.
YOUNG MAN FOUND
DEAD IN BATH ROOM
Charles Shuford Expired Sud-
denly Following Shower
Bath No Suspicion of Foul j
PInv Fun oral ami Rurlnl !
Sunday.
Onirics Shuford, aged Hi employed as
n. floor nia n by T. . L, Craig, automobile
dealer, was found dead in the bath room
at the Craig automobile establishment
on -West Airline avenue' Saturday after
noon about .'!:4.'i o'clock. A negro of
fice boy employed on the place discovered
the prostrate body of young bhuford ly
ing on the hath room floor, and called
Mr. Noblett, a mechanic who was near.
The hitter brought the body out of the
bath room only to find that he was ap
parently dead. The oflice force was at
once notified and Drs. Garrison and Hun
ter were immediately summoned, arriving
within ten minutes. The physicians
found that he was dead.
About .'! :."l Mr. Lee Raincy, a me
chanic, stepped into the bath room to
wash his hands and found bhuford dress
ing, he having finished his bath, lie
talked to bhuford and says that he was
apparently in the best of health nnd
seemed to be in the best of spirits.
Rainey was the last man to see Shuford.
alive.
Coroner L. E. Kincaid was summoned
and, after an Investigation, ordered the
body removed to the undertaking es
tablishment of the Ford Undertaking
coiin..'i'i v. He summoned a jury com
posed of X. B. Davis, W. T). Ayeock,
VV. H. Grady, G. J. Harris, F, L. Furgu
son and J. B. Broom. This jury nut
at the courthouse Sunday morning at 11
o'clock and examined witnesses, aft:T
which they rendered n verdict to the ef
fect that bhuford came to his death from
some cause, unknown to the 'jury. There
was no suspicion of foul play of any
kind, the supposition of the coroner,
physicians, employers nnd co-workers be
ing that he died from some sudden attack
of heart disease. , j
Young bhuford, was a son of the late
Sheriff T. E. bhuford. He had leen in'
the employ of Mr. Craig most of the i
time for the past four years, lie was
apparentlv strong and healthy, a clcin
upstanding boy without bad habits and
was very popular with all the men with
whom he came in contact in the cstab-
lishment where he worked and' on the j
outside also.
Surviving are the following full
brothers and- sisters, namely: Mrs.
Bernard Banner, bf Atlanta; Mrs. C, C.
Boshamer, of Gastonia ; Mr. Boycc
Shuford and Mrs. C. L. Brown, of this
city; and the following half brothers and
sisters, namely; Msr. J. W. Suiumey. of
Dallas, Haywood R. bhuford, of Dal
las, Thomas V. bsliuford. of Hickory;
and Mrs. diaries M. Moore, of. Gns
totiia. He is also survived by his mother
with whom he lived. .
Funeral services were conducted at 2
o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Kirst
Baptist church, the pastor. Rev. W. C.
Harnett, ofliciating. Interment was in
the cemetery at Lowell. Young bhuford
was a regular attendant at the First
Baptist church and Sunday school.'
REVOLVER
BATTLE ON
NEW YORK
STREETS
NKW YORK, Dec. 11. A revolver
battle between four men in an auto
mobile and an eii'ial number standing
at the curb startled the liPart of the
I theatrical district . early today. At
least shots were exchanged." n one
was hurt. Charles Rosen and Mayer
Allwrts were arrested after, detectives
charge, they threw revolvers in the
street. The automobile was partially
wrecked on the steps of the Longncre
hotel when it? chauffeur let go the
steering wheel to join in the shooting.
The police expressed the opinion that
the-(.hooting was due to gangsters' disputes.
LONDON', Dee. 11. (By the Associat
ed Press.) Adjournment of the pre
miers conference touieht fur eight days
in order to avert an open rupture be-
tween England and France over the ques
jtion of German reparations'' has been vir
jtually deeided upon, it was learned to-
j-day. .
I The British cabinet rejected the meas
j urcs of force for the Ruhr district upon
j whieh rremier Poincare insisted,
i Prime Minister Bonar Law informed
(Premier Poincare that British public
opinion was overwhelmingly opposed to
jnny military measures against Germany.
I The conference probably will resume
' its session in eight days in London or
j Paris. Meanwhile it is hoped that some
' guarantees may be found which will sat
i isfy the French and at the same time
j j make military action uiinecesnry.
! It is stated in French circles that the
! imminent adjournment was merely a-
maneuver to prevent an open break
among the allies, particularly between
France and Kn;laiid, and that there was
little liklihood of finding a common
basis of agreement between England
nnd France.
It is further pointed out, that in spite
of Premier Poincare 's desire to co-operate
with the new British government
he has been forced largely by the politi
cal situation at home to demand the
Kuhr as the price of any concession to
Germany.
.The meeting of the premiers scheduled
for this noon was postponed until t
o'clock. It was expected in the mean
time private interviews would take place
among the premiers in an eleventh hour
effort to save the conversations from
what seemed this rooming to be inevit-
It Wi)H stated' in an authoritative
American' quarter that
of bringing the British
the chief hope
and French to
gether during the period of adjourn
ment to which the conference now seems
doomed, lies with the United Btates.
I(t was said by this authority that
England will probably ask the Ameri
can government if it is willing to can
cel the French debt to the United
'States provided England in turn can
cels the French debt to Groat Britain
and at the same time enters a definite
agreement with the American govern -
(Continued on page six.)
WHOLE TOWN JOINS IN
CHASE FOR NEGRO
FAIRFIL'LD, Tex., Dec. 11. A
negro, believed to have attacked a white
girl at her home at. btreetmau this
morning, has been captured by a posse,
but has not yet been identified, accord
ing to reports here. 'Excitement is
high, sad hundreds of persons are hur
rying toward Street man.
The girl failed positively to identify
the negro who gave his name as George
Gay, as her assailant and he was locked
up in a small house under heavy guard
pending arrival of bloodhounds from
the state penitentiary at Huntsville,
which will be put on the negro's trail.
The girl's condition is not serious, the
negro having been frightened away
after throwing a sack over her head
I and stuffinir her mouth full of cotton.
A mob of about 1,500 is gathered at
Street man.
CORSICAXA, Texas, Dec. 11.
Bloodhounds are being hurried from
Huntsville penitentiary to Street man to
take up the trail of a masked negro
who attacked a '-twenty -year-old white
girl at her home at Street man this
morning. Excitement is high at
Stroetman and the streets and surround
ing country are filled with armed men.
. Streetman is only a short distance
from Kirwin, where three negroes were
burned to death by a mob several
mouths ago after one of them had con
fessed to the murder of a white girl.
A few days later, the body of an
other ngero was found hanging from a
tree near the scene of the burning.
Officers expressed the ' belief he was
another victim of the mob.
Two weeks ago a jiegro' trusty in
the Freestone county jail attempted to
attack the wife of the sheriff. He
escaped searchers, but an uncle of the
negro was shot to death by a posseman
when, it was said, he offered armed
resistance to the posse's search.
FAIRFIELD, Tex., Dec
uess houses iu Streetman,
miles northwest - of here,
this morning while their
11. P.usi
a town U0
were; closed
'-proprietors
ana employes joinert tlie posses organ
ized following the -report that a negro
had attacked a white girl. Freestone
county, in whihe Street ma u is located,
has been the scene , of at least three
lynching in the past few months.
XKYV YORK, Dec. 11. Decision to
resrict competition in the women's na
tional golf championship to players
having a handicap of not more than 11
strikes, has been announced by the Wo
men's Committee of the United tates
Golf Association. For the pairing of
mcmliers, it also" was decided that-piav- j
ers having a handicap of 1 to 6 inclusive
shall be paired one with the other; those
having a handicap of 7 to 10 shall be
similarly paired, while the third class in j
the pairing shall provice handicaps of
not less tlian IU nvr more than 11. J
' Sm.Ic events held i;t the women's n:i-
tional shampionshiii wilt be limited to a J
match against women's par, a lest ball j
foursome and a mixed foursome.
Klan Threat "
Hubert K.C3ajt
i 'Harvard sopho
more, said he r
celved threat!
from the Ku Kim
Klan and h a i
n o w left Cam
bridge followins
an lllnes. day,,
who t from the
South, saya he la
a victim of the
Klan, but denies
that he left col
lege because of
its threats.
The Day's News'
At A Glance
Irish
ngaiust
homes
irregulars resume reprisals
Free State officials, attacking
of Postmaster General Walsh
and other government leaders.
French again call for Ruhr seizure;
British are oposed and success of Lou
don conference upparoutly hangs on
slender thread.
King George appoints Duko of Aber
corn governor of northern Ireland.
Japanese restore province of Shan
tung to t'liinu; Peking, pays bandits
$100,000 to refrain from violence after
withdrawal of Japanese troops.
Turkif.li delegates
that Angora is to
uople as capital of
at.- Lausanne say
replace C'oustanti
Turkey. Observers declare that Tchitcherin
has failed to convince Ismet Pasha that
Turkey shall plunge into arms of soviet
Russia.
Dublin Sinn Fein women and girls
carry stretchers of laurel iu funeral
procession of four executed rebels to
Glasuevin cemetery.
Pope Pius completes plans for to
day's secret consistory, in which he will
name eight new cardials, among them
Monsignor Bunznno.
Election of
continues to
tions.
new president
irouse hostile
of Poland
demons! ra-
Kwiss union declares that Huco
Stinnes has invested twenty million gold
mark in Switzerland to escaiw taxa
tion iu Gennunr.
Masked, robed Klaiisman sneaks
from pulpit of Brooklyn church and
escapes molestation by police authori
ties. Secretary of Labor Davis investigates
charges that foreign contract laborers
are working iu railroad renair tdinns.
Public meeting in ' Washington ap
proves resolution calling upon president
to grant Christmas amnesty for prison-
cm held for wartime esnionaee.
i.iemeueenu mis iienetit ot crisp moun
tain air in walks out-ide of Pittsburgh
in day of rest on way to Chicago.
. . .....
Ii.
tail food costs increased in 0 of
21 representative cities in United
States iu month ended November 15. '
SHOOTING SCRAPE AMONG
NEGROES AT MTN. ISLAND
One Negro Killed and Several
Wounded In Free-for-All
Fight In Construction Camp
At Mountain Island Dam.
Sheriff G. R. Ithyne, Deputy Miles
Rhyne and Coroner L. K. Kincaid were
summoned to Mountain Island lato Sun
day in response to a. message stating
that there had been a wholesale shoot
ing among the uegroes near the South
ern Power Company's dam. One negro
was killed and several others more or
less seriously wounded. The only name
by which the negro was known, accord
ing to the officers, was "Bad Eye."
He was shot with a pistol in the breast,
in the head and a load of birdshot was
emptied into his groin. The negro who
did the shooting escaiied, but the of
ficers have his name and dcscriidion
and an arrest is exneete.l short lv.
Sheriff Rhyne states that the shoot-
jing leg-in among some negro camps
,-jiiu nii;uiin's iu me woous, not oa the
Southern Power proicrty. It seems
that the crowd was drinking and gam
bling and that the quarrel was renewed
a second time after it had been quieted
oiu-e. It was the usual result of a
Sunday afternoon of drinking ami
gambling among negroes at a construc
tion camp.
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REGISTERED COWS
BURNED TO DEATH
MtlXnoK. I ;i IW 11 v;no.
I've registered Jeier cows were burned
I to death in a (ire that dest roved the
Grciihotise. Model Dairy, here, yesterday.
, The property loss was ' estimated at
$50,0110. '
THE WEATHER .
Rain and warmer tonight and Tues-day.-
'
Wm. C. Faries Will
Not Di Dec 29'
YORK. S. C.f Dec. 11. William
C' Fariea will not die oa December
29. Today Judge Jamee . Peuri
foy signed an order staying the exe
cution of Faries pendig the motion
for a new trial before the Supreme
Court. Fariea was recently con
victed here of the murder of Newton
Taylor, a thirteen-year-old boy, at
Clover on September 6 last, and
was sentenced to electrocution four
days after Christmas. It ii expect
ed the convicted man will be brought
back to the York jail to remain,
pending his appeal.
CLEMENGEAU BACK IN
CHICAGO FOR SPEECH
French Diplomat Has Hard
Schedule Secret Service
Man Acts as Traffic Cop.
CHICAGO. Dec. 11. Delegates to tha
American Farm Hurcuu Federation in
convention here today expected to bear
Georges Clemeuceau, France's wartime
premier, take a tack different from that
followed in the other speeches of his
American tour. The Tiuer had for a
subject "The fanner os a world citizen'
and would, it was announced, deal inn in
ly with foreign markets.
Representatives of agricultural or
ganizations from all parts of the country
were here to grc,et Clcinenccau.
While preparations were being for
welcoming the former premier the all
American National Council of . Illinois
adopted a resolution protesting what it
termed his "efforts to embroil tho
United States on matters wherein it is
not interested. ' '
P1TTBURG, Doc. 10. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) En ronte with Clemenr
ccau to Chicago Refreshed by a day of
leisure spent in the crisp air at the crest
of the Allegheny mountains, at Cresson,
Georges Clemeuceau is on his way to
Chicago tonight, to make a brief address
there tomorrow before n convention of
farmers.
Tho war premier of France took two
brisk walks with members of his party
one being n hike of more t ha im mile
along the Lincoln highway, with Bernard
M. Baruc. h unci Colonel tepheii Bonsai.
Scores of motorists whizzed by and on
several occasions when the Tiger stopped
in the middle of the road to engage in
animated discussions, the secret service
man with the party was obliged to act as
a tra c oniccr ami 'detour" the ma
chines.
A recent statement of Lloyd George
touching upon the charge that France
sought secretly to obtain tho left bank
of the Rhine, was discussed this after
noon by M. Clemenceiiu in his private
car, at the second extended interview
that he has granted newspaper corres
pondents. "I know of no party in France wish
ing to annex any German territory,"
he said. "We never claimed German ter
ritory and that shows wiv never meant
to."'
Reiterating that he had no means of
knowing whether the terms of the guar
antees offered Premier Briand nnd Poin
care were satisfactory, since he had. never
seen thin, he exclaimed;
"Do you think n guarantee offered by
Bonar Law Would be similar to one
offered by Lloyd George I Ceiitninly
not."
The Tiger is due to arrive In Chi
cago at S a. in. He plans to remain in his
car until 10 ; :. leaving just in time for
his address. The speech will consume
about ill) minutes and will deal chiefly
with foreign markets for farm products.
He is to start for New York iu the af
ternoon. RESOLVE TO MAKE NEW
YORK DRY FOR CHRISTMAS
NKW YORK, Dec. 11. Further steps
in the campaign to make the metropoli
tan Christmas dry w?re taken last night
iu the issuance of drastic orders to ever)'
patrolman in the city. ;
The new regulations are designed o
check up on every saloon, resturant and
calx-ret in the city, and also to check up
on the police who enter them.
Officers stationed iu premises previous
ly raided are required to submit at the
end of the dailv hours of duty a report
which includes a brief description of the
premises, the names of the owners, the
waiters, bartenders and other assistants;
the approximate number or customers
served daily; whether or not the police
is equipped '"' dumb waiters running
to floors above or lelow, and what sup
plies lire carried thereon; whether there
is a stock ticker and the number of
Jiersons interested in the ticker informa
tion; the kind of liquor served to cus
tomers and the prices charged therefor
as shown on the cash register! ami the
names of all police- who enter the es
tablishment. MORE EARTH
SHOCKS
FELT
IN CHILE.
SANTIAGO. Chile. Dec. 11. (By
The Associated Press.) Strong earth
shocks were felt at Illaped and Ovalle
early today, according to a dispatch re
ceived here, tate railway officials said
that communications north of the laf-
'ter towM had lccn' interrupted and that
the station at Coquimbo did not an
jswer calls. The shocks were felt very
Utrongly at I.os Andes, but apparently
(extended no further south than Valpa
raiso, where a tremor was noticed.
The center of the disturbance is be
lieved to have been in the Vallenar dis
trict, where the recent disturbances oc-
eurrctL
Farmer and Laboring Man Have
Discovered Their Power, Says
Johnston To Progressives
Political and Industrial Future Is Brighter Than Ever Before
Recent Election Let Loose Stored Up Wrath of People
Against Captains of Industry, Free Booters and Profiteers.
PROMINENT LABOR MEN
AT PROGRESSIVE MEETING
Two Hundred Delegates From
Every State In Union
Farmer-Labor Vote Is Re
sponsible. CLEVKLAND, O., Dec. 11. (By
the Associated l'ress.) The two-day
conference for progressive political ae
tioa opened hero today with represen
tatives of labor, the farmer labor and
national iiou-nartisau league gioutis,
progressives and socialists in attend
anoe to map out a policy for present
and future political nctiou.
Most of the oH'iiiug hcssiun was de
voted to tho reading of reports, ap
pointment of committees and tho annual
address of William II. Johnston, iuter
tiatiouul president of tho machinists'
Onion and president of the conference.
Approximately 200 delegates from
nearly every state in tho Union, mainly
accredited delegates of international
labor organizations and national farm
groups, attended . Among the promi
nent leaders here are Warren H. Utono,
president of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers; 1). B. Robertson,
president of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Knginemen ; Sid
ney Hillniau, New York, president of
Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Ed
word Keating, of Washington, editor;
Morris Ilillquit, cw York, member of
the national committee of the socialist
party; Benjamin C. Marsh, Farmers'
National Council; .1. O. Brown, na
tional secretary farmer-labor party;
Fred C. Howe, New York, 11. F. Sam
uels, representing the National Non
partisan League, and representatives of
the United Mine Workers of America,
the Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Order
of Kailroad Telegraphers, ami ..Women's
Trade Union League.
Kach international ' oriraiiizatio will
have three delegates. in the case of
a roll call vote, however, instead of vot
ing by delegates, each organization will
be allowed one vote for each 10,000
accredited members.
Prior to the convening of the confer
ence, 'Mr. Johnston and other leaders
said the formation of a third political
party was not contemplated". Mr.
Johnston said, "We are committed to
the principle that the primary is u
distinct institution nnd that, it is in
tended as a means whereby voters can
place their candidates in nomination
anil we intend to use our power in the
primaries to nominate tho right men,
regardless of political faith." It was
said, however, that some of the rank
and file were strongly in favor of a
third party 'movement .
Demand for the primary nomination
of candidates iu states where there is
no primary is made in the annual re
port qf the national committee of the
conference, which states that "through
the primary ballot progressive candi
dates can be nominated." The com
mittee declared' that "in those states
where the primary Jaw does not exist
a ilemaiiil tor the enactment ot sue u
a law should lie made on the incoming
legislatures; states where the law is de
fective, efforts should be made to per
fect them and that efforts of big busi
ness and politicians to abolish or de
vitalize the primary should Im) de
feated." Summarizing the achievements, of the
recent - election, the report states: "It
has brought together the industrial
workers and farmers and demonstrated
their common "economic and political
interests and that they can and will
unite their forces in the political held,
and "it has given dignity' anil stand
ing to the progressive movement that
it has never had before."
NOTORIOUS CIRCUS CASE
COMES TO TRIAL. TODAY.
MOUNT HOLLY, N. J., Dee. 11.
Mrs. Doris Bruiien, and her brftiiiv,
Harry C. Muhr, go on trial today before
Supreme Court Justice Kaliseh, mi
charges of having killed Mrs. Bruneii'.i
husband, "Honest John' T. Brunei,
circus owner. Bruiien was shut on March
10 last as be sat by the window of his j
home at Riverside readiim a newspaper.
Both defendants,
a bout two mouths
repeatedly have
ccnee.
More than 100
summoned, bv the
who were arrested'
after the shooting, i
protested their inuo-1
j
witnesses have been
proKrtition, the chfT I
of whom .Charles- M. Powell, formerly
of Indianapolis, said by the authorities
to have confessed firing the shot tint
killed thp circus man at the investiga
tion of Mobr ami Mrs. Bruiien. Powell,
formerly v holder of a consession wiHi
the Bruiien shows, is alleged by the in
vestigators to have stated that he was
promised $1,000 for slaying Bruiien. The
date for his trial has not been fixed. ;
I Col. Marshall Lost.
j 'PHOENIX. Ari;, Dec. 11. The
search for Colonel Francis C. Mar
shall and Lieutenant Charles Lr. Web-
I . ... 1
tier, army aviators wno nave Deeu "nss-
; ti,,.i.,,- i,n tiw.v ,li:m.
n:imi1 on route from San DieifO. C:il..l
tn. TX.a,i rW hift,..t f.irthrf k.mth I
into the Arizoua border -strip today -
the result of two reports indicating the
presence of the missing plane and avia -
tors iu that region.
CLKVKLAND, (")., T)ec. 11. (By the
Associated Tress.) Farmers and labor
have discovered thier joint power through
the primary and "there is now hope that
our political and industrial future is
safer thuu it ever was before,' William
If. Johnston, international president of
the machinists' union, declared here to- .
day in opening the conference for pro-
pressive political action over which ho
is presiding.
' ' Our first experiment is ended and
our first preliminary skirmish on behalf
of equal and exact justice has come to -a
close," Mr. Johnston declared, sum
marizing the recent elections. "Through
you, as a result of the efforts made by
your associates and neighbors at home.
'jthe American -people have spoken most
emphatically.
"Ou that day American citizens vot
ed more intelligently than they ever did -Ix-fore.
They voted with rare discrimi
nation and magnificent independence.
They not only . brandished the big sti-ik
of outraged -indignation, but they used
it that day most effectively, so thorough
ly in fact that, the predatory interests in
and out of tho present a dmisist ration are
till ir.Mnl. II.,,. i.itl. fr,,,
. . . iiviu niv .
lops they got and they are quivering
with fear as to what is likelv to happen
to them when they voting intelligence
and independence of tho people develops
in every legislative and judical district
of our land.
"You showed 'them' limr helpless they
were and how ineffective their ballots'
were on election day if thy had it oehoice
m'tween two evils. The, first place to
make a choice is at the primaries.- You
have exposed the crcatest ir.ifpiitv of the
sleight of hand shell game iu American
politics, whereby candidateson both-major
party tickets have heretofore been
luindtieked by the predatory, un-Ameri:
a it corporate interests. .
"A very deliberate nnd dishonest
iiropaKiinihi of iiiirtisanshio and rreiu.
dice has been kept In circulation to fos
'er mistrust among the farm workers ss "
against the city workers. Fortunately,
the dawn is breaking nnd we now see
each other more ch'nrly.
"We are not mendicants 'seeking fa
vor or blessing of any other groups, any
parties, 'any institutions. We have our
'uuilations, but they were becoming less.
We have our shortcomings, but they are
iK'coming fywer. .
" We have consecrated our lives to the
highest ideals of fair play in industry,
ni'd the proper representation in polities.
Thus there will be brought together in
understanding nnd political fellytfship
those great constructive and productive
forces upon which the welfare of the na
tion fundamentallv bests.' . . .
OLD WAVE ACTUALLY
' COMING THIS TIME
Weather Man Who Slipped
Up On Previous Calcula
tions Says He Has the Right
Dope Today.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. The ,
official weather man who, for the
past week or more, has been pre
dicting semi-frigid temperatures for
the south, promises the "actual",
appearance of a cold wave in the
Atlantic and Gulf States by Tues
day night or Wednesday. Follow
ing the tint forecast for the south
of premature cold spell, a change
took place, but instead of going
down, the mercury rose to surpris
ing heights and aftormed some un
seasonable though not unfavorable
temperatures. -Latest
officials word was that the cold
wave now over the northwest; would
spread eastward and southward over the
plains states and the great central -valleys
during the next ;ti or 4S hours and
by Tuesday night or 'Wednesday would
touch the Atlantic. nnd.Ciulf States at
tended by temperature "lower than pre
viously recorded this-season, ' in the re
gions comiitg under the influence of this
i old wave.''
As an indication of the wintry weather .
conditions
over the country during the
coining week and "perhaps longer, tc
weather bureau pointed today to the
general- pressure distribution over the
United States, western Cauiula ami
Alaska.
Lowest rempcrntiires tins morning wero
2S below zero at Calgary, Alberta r 2t
Mow at Havre. Mnut.; 16 below dt
Helena. Mont.'; It below at. WKIiamston,
N. D.: ami 8 below at Nortlifield, Vt.
COTTON MARKET
GASTONIA COTTON.
Receipts, today. ..............
Price. i . ....
Receipts: Dee." ."ith, MO bales;
."-J bales; Dec. 7th, 12 bales;
."11 bales; Dec. Mh, ?.o bales.
.12 bales
...N5 13
6th.
.Ma,
Dec
,rr,
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
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NEW YORK
MARKET.
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