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TUT in ION I A V PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY. WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAYS ' TOL. XXXIX.,;. NO. 0, GASTONIA, X. C, '"MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 21,1918. '-.V; f2,00 A TEAR IN ADVANCE. GERMAN SOLDIERS ORDERED TO SHOOT STRIKERS E RADICAL CHANGES BIG CROWD HEARD GAEL FACTS ABOUT CARFIELD GASTON MIliS VOTE TO : OBSERVE FUEL' ORDER SITUATION 1M AUSTRIA HUK6ARY SO MEKCIKS THAT DRASTIS MEASURES ARETAKEN PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION SATURDAY IS SON OF THE MARTYRED PRESIDENT iiiiii mm ' Striking Workers In Austrian Muni V tkm Plant Forced Back to Wort at Polnt of. Bayonet Martial ' , Law Declared Rljc Peace Dera-:-r . onstration Sunday in Vienna. , : : . (By International News Service.) , , BERNE, '; Jan. .21. So aerious has the Internal situation in Austria- Hungary become that Germany has sent large forces of soldiers into the '. ' Industrial centers with orders to shoot down rioting strikers and force them hack into -the factories, according to information received from the Aus trian frontier today. r Jt is reported that Martial law has been declared in communities where munitions industries are located. Another big peace demonstration took place in Vienna Sunday, when old men, women and ,crippled sol diers marched through the streets New Demurrage Rates With Heavy . Penalties Are Effective Today, (by International News Service.) Washington. D. C, Jan. 21. The -new demurrage rates ordered Into effect by the Director-General , of Railroads become effective today. The only freight exempt Is that for export, All other, shipments must be removed, from the cars within 48 hours after arrival at ter minals, in some cases within 24 hours, in order to escape the heavy penalties prescribed. . The new rate begins with a charge of $3 a car for the third day, and builds up at the rate of 91 addi tional or each day to a charge of $10 for the tenth day that unload ing is delayed. After the tenth day the rate remains at J 10 a day ror each car. The scale is effective throughout the country. The provision made in the order that In some cases cars must be un loaded within 24 hours to escape the demurrage charges affects only a few points where special rules have been in force because of the more urgent necessity to keep terminals cleared to handle unusual traffic. Trotsky's Former Friend Runs Amuck of Courts. (By International News Service.) Pittsburgh, Jan. 2 0 Joseph Ron sky, an alleged professional pick pocket, of New York, who claims to have been at one time a workmate and chum of Leon Trotsky, now For eign Minister of Russia, was fined $50 and given one hour to leave the city after a hearing before a police magistrate. He had been arrested as a suspicious character. Before being placed on a train, Ronsky declared it was his intention to go to Russia and secure a position under his former friend. How Ambassador Francis Stood Off the Mob. " ., - Speaking in St. Louis Saturday Charles R. Crane, of the American : mission to Russia, told how Ameri can Ambassador Francis stood at the door of the American emoassy In Petrograd and stood off a Russian mob with a pistol. The incident oc curred months ago but has not here tofore been published. Mr. Crane said that a mob, be lieving that a man named Muni (in . reality Mooney, the San Francisco dynamite suspect.) was to be exe cuted in this country, started for tne American embassy. . Petrograd authorities warned the r' ambassador by telephone - that the mob was approaching. Guests beg ged him to flee with them, but ne . refused, said Mr. Crane. - Mr. Fran . els told a negro servant-to get a re r volver. With this weapon, the am "bassador met the mob at the door. y"Your government is going to hang our leader, Muni, and we ire 'going to clean out the American em . bassy." said the leaders.-. . "No yon are not!" replied Ambas " sador Francis. "This is American 3 soil and I will kill the first man wno crosses the line." ; r Mr. Crane said the mob then dls persed. :- He said he heard the noise at the embassy, and arrived there Just as the crowd went away. From , the negro servant, Mr, Crane learned the details. : ' , " ivf;. v. : c y-: Superintendent John E. Ray, ror many years (he head of . the State school for the Blfnd atv Raleigh, died suddenly' last Thursday night. His funeral, at the First Baptist . church In Raleigh ; Saturday after '. noon was attended by an immense . throng. -He was one of the ' most noted educators . of the whole coun try la' the realm of the : education and manual training of the.bllna. . Major Henry A.. London, editor of the Chatham Record, and the oldest newspaper editor In North Carolina, died at his home In Plttsbora Sunday, aged 7 5 years. Major London was a " Confederate veteran, having served - with distinction throughout the Civil Wart and had been prominent In - - State politics for years, having been .a member of the State Senate in 1901 and again in 1908. -1 BIG STRIKE IN : VIENNA MAXUFACTURINS PLANTS ARE CLOSED Hundred Thousand Men Employed in Munition Factoriesln Austria Re- fuse to Work Movement Has as Its Basis a Desire for Peace. - Fresh troubles are reported to have broken out throughout Austria. General strikes have taken- place, and in Vienna and Neustadt all tne war manufacturing plants are report ed to have been closed. , in tnese towns 100,000 men are said to Have quit their jobs. The movement is political and economic and has as Its basis the desire for peace. Anti-Germanism is declared to be especially prevalent throughout the country. After an adventurous career or nearly three and a half years in fight ing and raiding operations In trie Black sea, the famous former Ger man cruslers Goeben and Breslau have met their fate at the hands of British warships in a fight at the en trance to the Dardanelles. The Bres lau, renamed Mldullu, was sunk and the Goeben, rechristened Sultan Ya wuz Selim, was beached. The two cruisers escaped into Turkish waters shortly after the outbreak of tne war and were purchased by the Turks. Evidently the German censors are keeping a strict watch over the Ger man newspapers in thair expressions of opinions on the serious Internal political situation, for even the most meager reports concerning the doings of the militaristic and anti-militaristic parties were missing Sunday. Tne latest accounts of the controversy, coming by way of Amsterdam and forwarded by the semi-official Wolff bureau, were to the effect that the military party had gained a victory over their opponents with regard to the settlement of the questions of an nexations in the east THREE PITTSBURG GROCERIES If AVE SUPPLIES CUT OFF. (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. Three Pittsburg retail grocers, .guilty or profiteering on sugar, had their wholesale supplies cut off today by the food administration. COXFEREXGE AT STOCKHOLM. (By International News Service. 1 ' AFSTERDAM, Jan. 21. The Bolshevik! representatives and Ger man socialist representatives, neaded by Dr, Scheidman, are in conference at Stockholm, state a dispatch: re ceived from that place today. PXEUMOXIA PLAGUE 19 RAGING IX CHIXA. (By International News Service.) TOKIO. Jan. 19. A nneumnniA plague is ravaging northern China. Several foreign missionaries nave succumbed and 'natives are dying Dy tne nunareas. SATURDAY'S MARKET SHOWED SOME GAINS. (By International News Service.) NEW YORK, Jan. 19. The cotton market closed with January contracts selling at 31.39: May 37.80. Today's gains were approximately three dol lars a bale on general buying. GOVERNMENT SEIZES ' AN ALIEN'S YACHT. (By International Naws Service.' NEW YORK,' Jan. 19. The yacht Joyous," belonging to multimil lionaire Kleug, an unnaturalized German, was seized by the govern ment today. TO PROMOTE LIEUTENANTS. (By International News Service.) - WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 8. -Second Lieutenants in the regular army will be promoted to first lieutenants in the national army, the war depart ment announced. RECORD PRICE FOR HOGS. (By International News Service.) CICAGO, Jan. IK. Hogs reached the record price of twenty dollars and five cents a hundred pounds here today, forty cents higher than the former high record. ,:- Unfurls Old Glory At Altitude of '.V 20.70O Feet. ?By International News Service. 1 -."Knoxville.'Tenn., Jan. 20. Tne distinction of being the first to un furl Old Glory on the peak f the highest mountain in North America. Mount Denall, in Alaska, Is claimed by Robert Tatum, of this city. The flag was made by himself out of silk handkerchiefs.' - The jarty of four, of which Mr. Tatum was one. was the first to as cend Mount Denall, and the second to attain an altitude of 20,700 feet. : The Charlotte Observer says that a ' Mecklenburg farmer ' estimates that there are 700 bales of cotton m the fields of that county now, and that farm, laborers decline $1.25 Tor picking this cotton. There'is cotton in the fields in York county and fn other South Carolina counties, but it will no doubt be picked' when . , tne weather- is favorable. .- The cotton pickers over In, Mecklenburg appear to have more money than those else where. If they decline to get the cot ton out for. $1.25 'per; hundred pounds. Rock' Hill Herald, 18th. SOVEBNSIENT FORCES RECONSTRUCTION Congress Determined to Fight to Last Ditch to Centralize Powers Bill Provides for Three New Cabinet Positions Outranking the OUkts and ttecond Only to the President. I By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. The American government today faced the most radical reconstruction in its history. Congress determined to bring about a compromise centralized government that will take the place of the present system of divided authorty. Despite the President's 6ipo3ition, the backers of the meas ure are determined to fight to tne last ditch. The Senate Military Com mittee today put the finishing touches to the war cabinet bill, which pro vides for three members outranking the present cabinet and second in authority to the President only. At the same time Senator Chamberlain prepared to call up the munitions dictators measure. Some changes in the present method of running the war seem certain. BALDWIN WORKS ARE RUXXIXG. I By International News Service.) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 18. The Baldwin locomotive works, employ ing 20,000 workmen, are operating today despite the fuel saving man date. The plant is working on gov ernment contracts. Otner plants, in eluding tool-making . concerns, are remaining open pending furtner in terpretation of the closing order. 8POERMANN NOT TO BE PROSECUTED AS A SPY. (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. Walter Spoermann will escape with Intern ment until the end of the war. The Department of Justice announced that there is not sufficient evidence to prosecute him as a spy. (RIG LOSS OF HORSES. (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 18-. The army has lost 5.000 horses and mules in the last six weeks from shipping fever or influenza, the war department announced. The ani mals were valued at nearly a million dollars. MARTIAL LAW DECLARED IN RUSSIAN CAPITAL. (By International News Service.) COPENHAGEN, Jan. 18. Martial law has been declared in Petrograd In order to prevent disorders during the meeting of the Constituent As sembly, but it is believed here that the Bolshevik 1 fear an uprising or the people of Petrograd. AMERICAN LIXKR ENCOUNTERS FOUR EG UMAX SUBMARINES. (By International News service.) A BRITISH PORT, Jan. 19. An American liner has reached Sere safely after encountering four Ger man submarines. One was severely damaged by a shell fired in the dertso fog. Later two - more submarines were sighted and the ship's guns opened fire. It is believed one was sunk. Another was sighted and fir ed on before the American vessel reached port. GERMAN OFFER OF PEACE TO THE UKKANIANS. (By International News Service.) COPENHAGEN, Jan. 19. Ger many is concentrating her efforts on making peace with Ukranla. accord ing to information received from Brest-Litovsk, today. It Ts reported that the Germans have pledged them selves to the following program: Uk ranla shall be given a part of Poland, Galicla and Roumania; Austria to annex a part of Roumania and secure large acquisitions of territory in tne Balkans; occupied portions of Rus sia to be set up as Independent States under German protection. T&e Ukraniana are more imperialistic than the Bolshevik!. A PROMINENT WOMAX INVOLVED WITH CAILLAUX. (By International News Service.) PARIS, Jan. 19, Official Inspec tions of Italian documents , against form Premier Calllaux were com menced today. It is understood, that a woman of wealth and social prom inence is involved with Calllaux. CERTAIN. WAR INDUSTRIES ! ; s ALLOWED TO OPERATE. (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON. Jan. . 1S.- Pro tests from manufacturers continued to pour In on Senators and Congress men, but reports from the fuel ad ministrator's office show that the or der is being generally obeyed th roughaut - the -. affected territory! There is still considerable confusion as to whether certain war Industries will b required to close. Mr. Gar field announced that factories work ing, on cloth for uniforms and tents must' obey the closing order while the war department announced, with ejnal emphasis, that such factories may continue operations. Garfield and McAdoo are working in the clos est harmony to rush fuel to hun dreds of ships tied up in Atlantic ports. .'- ' -' : Exercises Held by Daughters of Con federacy Saturday Drew Immense Ctowo Address by French ttn cer, Lieut. DaeU Heard by Larg fathering. The largest crowd which ever sembled in the city for the purpose of celebrating Lee-Jackson Day gather ed In the Gaston county courthouse Saturday morning at 1 1 o'clock to attend the celebration held' under the auspices of Gastonia Chapter, United Daughters of the Confedera cy. Every available space in the courtroom and the galleries was or cupled. and many who came wen unable to get Into the hall at all. Mrs. W. J. Clifford, president of the chap ter, presided, and the exercises were opened by the singing of "All Hall the Power of Jesus' Name," and prayer by Rev. J. H. Henderlite, pas tor of the First Presbyterian churcn. Miss Margearet Louise LaFar then 'delighted the audience with' two splendid readings, both especially ap propriate to the occasion, one being "A Southern Volunteer," and the other "Young Fellow My Lad." In presenting the speaker of the occasion Mayor A: M. Dlxon spoke eloquently of the services the French Republic had rendered to the United States in their day of great need and of the service we are now in turn rendering to the Fr ch people. The principal feature of the occas ion was of course the address of Lieutenant Dael, one of the French officers who are on a special mission to the United States for the purpose of giving our soldiers instruction in the new methods of warfare whlcn count for so much in the great strug gle now raging on the fields of France and the other European the aters of war. Lieutenant Dael was accompanied by Lieutenant Augusts Arrighl, an officer of equal rank and also a fluent speaker, but wno was prevented from accepting an invita tion to talk to the audience because he has no permit from bis govern ment to speak in public, while his brother officer, Lieut. Dael, has sucl) a permit. Lieutenant Dael, in excellent Eng lish for one who has been in this country only a short while, talked in terestingly, although In purely con versational style, of the effects upon the civilian population of France or the war now raging. He told his hearers some first-hand facts in re gard to the situation which were doubtless much more vividly impress ed upon their minds than the same facts would be if merely read in the mass of information carried by tne newspapers and periodicals In regard to the war. Especially heartening: to thos who have relatives In the service was the statement, that the percentage o' losses on the French front has stead ily decreased every year since 1914, and is now less than two per cent. France, said he, has one million more men on the firing line today than she had when the war opened. She also has plenty of food, but this fact is largely due to the rigid con servation of food and other supplies which is enforced by the government. The speaker did not go into detail in regard to the horrors of war. but de scribed the trenches and the hard ships of trench warfare In a very re alistic manner. He was heard witn the strictest attention and Interest Dy the large audience, and at the close of his speech was presented with a beautiful bouquet of flowers by Miss Lowry Shuford on behalf of tne Chapter. Rev. E. N. LeBlanc, form er rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church, who Is awaiting orders to join the army as an interpreter ror service in France, sang the Frencn national hymn, the Marseillaise, in French. The exercises were closed by the singing of "The Star Span gled Banner" and the benediction by Rev. H. H. Jordan, pastor of Main Street Methodist church. The visiting veterans were given a dinner at the Morris Cafe and at Z o'clock were the guests of Manager Estrldge, of the Cozy Theater, wher a special war feature picture was be ing shown. MEETING OF ASSEMRLT ACCOMPANIED BY FIGHTING. (By International News Service.) LONDON, Jan. 19. The assemb ling of the Constituent Assembly in Fetrograd yesterday was accompani ed by street fighting in which many -vmjoiui o SnipjooaB 'pains ejea tlon received today from Petrograd. BOLSHEVIKI CONSENT TO PARTITION OF RUSSLA. BT" International rJews Service.) STOCKHOLMN. Jan. 15. The Bolshevik I have consented to a parti tioning of Russia into several repub- cs, loosely governed from Petro grad. The confiscation of all banks, mines, industries, railways and land Is Included in the program. THEATRES ALLOWEDTO V " . CLOSE ON TUESDAYS. (By International News Service.) . WASHINGTON. Jan. 1 9. DirectJ of Garfield today issued an order ex empting laundries from the closing order and permitting theatres to close on Tuesdays Instead of Mondays, fn order to provide amusement for Idle workmen on Mondays. .All public a musements are affected.. Fuel Administrator Was Trained for Big llUHineHH Once Head of Cleve land Chamber, of Commerce Is Deeply Vested in the Law. The following sketch of Fuel Ad mlnistrator Garfield, from The New York Sun of the 17th, will be of In terest to our readers: Dr. Harry Augustus Garfield, whose order shutting down the Industry and trade or more than half the United States for fourteen working days ta&es rank as one of the most extra ordinary proclamations in modern history, was president of Williams College when he was appointed Fed' eral Fuel Administrator by President Wilson on August 23 lastv He is 54 years old and one of the most vigor ous figures among those who have been chosen to handle big war meas ures. Dr. Garfield can best be described as representing the unusual combina tion of student and practical worker His business experience In early life proved that he wag a man to handle affairs of large proportions. From 1888 to 1903 be was one of the lead lng lawyers and business organizers of Cleveland, Ohio, and was one of the two men who swung the railroad and development syndicate that open ed up the Plney Fork coal. mines in southeastern Ohio. During his resi dence in Cleveland he served as pres ident of the Chamber of Commerce and was organizer and first president or the Municipal Association, now the Civic Association. He is a son of the martyred Presi dent Garfield and was an undergrad uate at Williams when the nation was shocked by his father's assassin ation. He went through SL PauTs School at. Concord. N. H.. and was graduated at Williams in 1885. He taught Roman and Latin history at St. Paul's for a year and then studied law at Columbia University and at Oxford and the Inns of Court, Lon don. He was admitted to the Ohio bar In 1888 and began the practice of law as a member of the firm of Garfield, Garfield & Howe. boon after being admitted to the bar he married Belle Hartford Ma son. His life In Cleveland was es pecially devoted to the Improvement of municipal conditions, and when in 1903 he abandoned business to ac cept the chair of political jurispru dence at Princeton be possessed a special training in public affairs. In iu ne leit rrinceton to accept tne presidency of Williams College-?. Since bis appointment as FuelAd- minl8trator he has been called upon to race situations affecting the coal supply, production and conservation of the nation bat have called form the full exercise of his executive abil ity. In November last he managed to calmn disturbances at coal mines which threatened to develop Into se rious strikes by pointing out to the miners and owners that it was their patriotic duty to put aside personal grievances during the war. His first order directly affecting New York city was his now famous "lightless night" rule, which went into effect In a mild way on Novem ber 9 last. This order directed that the big signs on Broadway should not be lit before 8 o'clock or after 11, and only affected the largest dis plays. The order was amended from time to time until the middle of De cember, wheVi the more drastic order calling for two "lightness nights" a week went Into effect. This provid ed that no electric signs, big or little, except those considered virtually es sential, should be illuminated on Sun day and Thursday nights. While this order at first only applied to Broadway, it was gradually extend ed to all parts of the city. McADOO DKFEND8 GOVERNMENT CONTROL. (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 19. Director McAdoo, testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee today, declar ed that government control of rail roads is necessary to prevent the na tion's credit from becoming demora lized, and to expedite the movement of war supplies. He said credit throughout the country was based largely on railroad securities, which were rapidly becoming of doubtful value under private management. Members of the committee question ed him at length, but he stoutly de fended government control. Mr. McAdoo added that very lltt of the traffic congestion has resulted from government control. All lack of progress Is due to bad weather. He urged Immediate passage of the' ad ministration bill earning approxi mately $500,000,000 to guarantee dividends. Representative Thome testified that the bill should do away with the interstate commerce com mission and nullify Its past good work. FUEL SITUATION SHOWS IMPROVEMENT. -By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, ' Jan, 19. The general fuel situation already shows material Improvement. This was an nounced by Dr. Garfield after exam ining reports receired from all sec tions of the country today. The clear ing of congestion of railroad traffic goes on. He said It will be the first of the week before satisfactory ' re sults can be expected. - Cars are mov ing rapidly. Protests against the closing order had practically ceased coming In today. Saw mills in the South producing timber for the ship ping boards were exempted from the order. - At a meeting of the Gaston County Cotton Manufacturers', Association, held here Saturday afternoon,- tne following resolution was adopted by 2? mills represented and voting: - "We have read the order of the national fuej administrator. Dr. Gar field, and have secured all informa tion thereon that It has been possible to secure, and while we Individually and collectively think that the legal and moral right exists under which factories using as motive power hydro-electric current may continue to ; operate under said order, . neverthe less out of the abundance of our wil lingness to co-operate Ho the fullest with the spirit of v said , order we frankly and freely. pledge ourselves to complete compliance wlthsaid or der, to the effect that we, the mills or ' Gaston county, remain closed througn out Monday, January 21, and TuesV day, January 22, and during each of the following Mondays, that Is from Monday, January 28, to and inculd- ' ing Monday, March 25. v. : - (Signed) "R. It. RAY; Chairman, "I. II. BE PARK; Secretary." gastonia stores to 1 close durc;g i:o;;days Gastonia merchants pledged them selves to co-operate wittmhe- fuel administration In every way possible by absolutely closing on Mondays, with the exception of the groceries, which close at. noon and the drug' stores which remain open, at a meet ing held at the chamber of commerce Saturday morning called by Cralr- man E. N. Habn of the department of mercantile affairs of the chamber of commerce. The: meeting was largely attended end the object was ' explained by Secretary Fred M. Al len df the chamber of , commerce. County Fuel Administrator J. Lee Robinson was present and advised the merchants regarding the ruling. The following resolution by J. A. Hunter was adopted by unanimous vote: ',::' - ,; . Whereas, it Is' the -sense of this meeting that the fuel administra tion's order means that grocery stores shall close at noon and that all other stores shall absolutely close their doors for the entire day each Mon day for the next 10 weeks, be it Resolved, that the merchants of Gastonia pledge their co-operation and support to the government In the enforcement of the ruling ; and pledge themselves to strlcqy abide by it to the letter. PYTHIANS TO MEET IN HOTEL ASSEMBLY ROOM Fuel AdminUtratdr Garfield's closing order will not prevent Gas tonia Lodge No. 53 Knights of Pythias" from holding their regular meetings on Monday nights. Mr. R. B. Bablngton and Manager Crown W. Wilson of the Armlngton Hotel have very generously tendered the lodge the use of the hotel's assembly room for the next ten Monday nights for its meetings. First rank work will be done tonight. RED CROSS ...DEPARTMENT... RED CROSS NOTES. Some of the ladies from the Mt, Holly Chapel were over Wednesday afternoon of last week and paid a vtalt to the work-room. The ML Holly Chapter is very active and has accomplished much. Miss Mary Hall, of Belmont, came over Wednesday bringing dressings from the Belmont Chapter. She also carried back material for future work. Mrs. A. L. Bulwlnklo and Miss Stella Lewis, of Dallas, were visitors at the work room on Wednesday morning of last week. Any old sheets will be most ac ceptable for use in wrapping dress ings for shipment. FOOD PLANTS EXEMPT FROM FUEL-SAVING ORDER. (By International Kews Service.) . WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 8. - An order issued by the food administra tion declaring that all food conserv ing plants are exempt from the coal "Using order added to ithe confusion today. JLater Mr. Garfield announc ed the exemption of more mills and added that other- Industries will also be exempted. He declined to name them for publication, as It woulJ eause him to be flooded with appeals from less Important Industries for exemption. The Senate, fairly bell ing with wrath, resumed Its titter denunciation. In the House Repre sentative Snider, of New York, charg ed that Garfield has been made the goat to cover up McAdoo.