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VOL. XXXI3L NO. 82.
GASTONIA, N. C MONDAY' AFTERNOON, MAY 1, 1018.
00 A YEAR IN ADVANC3.
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29 CONSPIRATORS ;
. SENT TO PRISON
Lurid Chapter of Germany's Intrigues
in This Country Concluded at San
Francisco Had Big Plans to
Overthrow British Rule in India.
San Francisco, April 30. One lur
id chapter in the history of Germa
ny's intrigue to win mastery of the
world was closed today when United
States District Judge William C. Van
fleet pronounced sentence upon' 29
Germans, Americans and Hindus
convicted of having conspired to
overthrow British rule in India.
The trial of the principals in the
world-wide conspiracy was a series of
sensations, including exposures of
criminal German diplomacy and the
shooting to death of two Hindu de
fendants in the courtroom a week
Ago." '
.The total of the prison terms im
posed was 23 2-3 years and the fines
totalled $64,000.
- Louis T. Hengstler, San Francisco
admiralty lawyer, was the only de
fendant to escape a prison sentence.
Judge Vanfleet remitted a jail term
of four months after Hengstler made
a plea to the court, asserting his
Americanism and denouncing Ger
man imperialism. A fine of $5,000
remained against him.
Guilt for the conspiracy was plac
ed squarely on the German supreme
command, Judge Vanfleet character
izing the Hindu conspirators as mere
eats-paws of the "ruthless Prussian
military system." He told them that
had their revolution succeeded and
they had been placed under such a
system they would have spared no
effort to escape it.
The German foreign office, embas
sy at Washington and consulate at
San Francisco were the nerve centers
of the world-wide plot to wrest India
from England. Judge Vanfleet de
clared In sentencing Franz Bopp,
Wllhelm von Brincken and E. von
Schack, the heads of the consulate.
Bopp and Von Schack were given the
maximum sentences provided by the
laws for violation of neutrality, two
years' imprisonment and a $10,000
fine each. Von Bricken was sentenc
ed to serve two years, this sentence
to run concurrently with a similar
judgment hanging over him as a re
sult of his conviction for participa
tion in bombing and dynamiting
plots against the government In Can
ada. Judge Vanfleet indicated that no
action would be taken to deport the
Hindu defendants in the event they
refrained from revolutionary actions
after completing their prison terms.
"The people of this country are
taking the law into their own hands,
much as we may regret it," Judge
Vanfleet said, in warning the Hindus
riot to return to their propagnnda
activities when they are freed from
prison.
"This country will not stand for
any activities of this sorf, directed
against either herself or her Allies."
The judge's statement followed a
declaration by John W. Preston, Uni
ted States district attorney, that the
Hindus in this city, "still have two
presses turning out barrels and bales
of seditious literature every day."
Ill S'0CIALCIBGLE5
LATEST EVENTS IN KORAN'S WORLD
,. BETTERMENT MEETING
FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
The Gastonia Woman's Better
ment Association will meet in the
Central school auditorium Friday af
ternoon at 3:30 o'clock. A musical
program has been arranged for the
afternoon and all members are
e urged
V
to be present.
I.IXDSAY-TORRENCE
MARRIAGE LAST NIGHT.
In a pretty but quiet wedding at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lind
say on the Tork road, south of the
city, at 9 o'clock last night, Mr. John
-D. Lindsay and Mrs. Sallie Torrence
were united in marriage. Rev. Dr. J.
C Galloway, pastor of the First As
sociate Reformed Presbyterian
church, performed the ceremony In
the. presence of quite a number of
the friends and relatives of the con
tracting parties. The only attendants
were Mr. J. E. Lindsay and Mr. E.
Price Rankin, who preceded the cou
, pie to the altar in the parlor. Miss
Ethel Spencer played the wedding
march. '
The bride Is a daughter of Mrs. L.
C. Eury and the widow of the late W.
G. Torrence. Both have hosts of
friends who congratulate them , on
the happy event. Mr. and Mrs. Lind
say will make their home on Colum
bia street .
;7 Guard for Finger Ring..
An Ingenious new guard for finger
rings Is worn lnside'a ring and presses
against the finger to prevent It turn
. rng, at the same time being almost in
visible, v . .
WEDNESDAY
WEAECESS
KAISER'S MENTAL
N IS
KAISER MIND dOgz ...
4 By International News Service) -
LONDON, May 1. The German
Imperial entourage is alarmed at the
Kaiser's mental condition, says a
news dispatch received here from
Berne today. It is stated that the
Kaiser has become the victim of hal
lucinations. His advisers are vainly
trying to keep him away from the
battlefront. The Kaiser constantly
speaks of his "divine mission to save
the world and humanity."
BELMONT AND NT. HOLLY
HAVE RAISED THEIR QUOTA
With Belmont and Mount Holly
already awarded honor flags for
reaching their quota and each going
ahead in an effort to double the quo
ta and thus win a star for their
flags, Gaston county is shoving ahead
to win the flag for the county by
completing the quota of $417,000.
By making a big shove Gastonia will
have won her flag by Saturday.
Every one is urged by the county
organization to do all possible in
making the campaign for the third
Liberty loan, a success. Saturday is
the last day and so all who can are
urged to subscribe or increase their
subscription tomorrow.
BOY SCOUTS TO GIVE
MINSTREL FRIDAY NIGHT
On Friday night of this week, May
3rd, beginning at 8:30 o'clock, the
Boy Scouts of America, Troop No. 3,
will give an entertainment at the
Central school auditorium. The pro
gram will include "That Minstrel
From Dixie," and a complete reper
toire of original and startling special
ty acts, with music by a "jazz" band.
The price of admission will be 15
ant 9S wnti nnri n nnrt nf the nrn-
1111(1 " V, V. U , " J' - - - I (
ceeds will be used to buy war savings i
stamps, the balance going into tne
fund to pay expenses of the troop's
summer hike.
CONTRACTS LET FOR
N , THOUSAND LOCOMOTIVES.
Washington, April 30. Contracts
for 1,025 freight and passenger loco
motives, the .largest single order ev
er placed In the history of American
railways) were let today by the rail
road administration to the American
Locomotive Company and the Bald
win Locomotive Works.
The entire order represents a cost
of about $60,000,000. or an average
price of a little less than $60,000 for
each locomotive. The profit to man
ufacturers, who will divide the work
about equally, will be between five
and six per cent, less than half the
rate of profit represented In the orig
inal bids. '
Deliveries will begin in July and
continue through the year, and most
of the new engines, it is understood,
will be assigned to eastern roads
where the shortage of motive power
is greatest. They will bear only the
Initials "U. 8." and identifying num
bers, and will be virtually the first
lot of engines to be owned Jointly by
all railroads under government man
agement. Although the railroad administra
tion declined to announce the pre
cise number of engines ordered from
each of the companies, it is under
stood the American company will
build 550 and the Baldwin 475.
HOPE OF FINDING THE
CYCLOPS ABOUT GONE.
Washington, April 30. As the .fin
al phase in the search for the miss
ing naval collier Cyclops, the navy
department announced today that
numerous boat crews are being land
ed by warships to question fishermen
along the coast of the West Indian
Islands near the route taken by the
collier when she sailed from the Bar
badoes nearly twe months ago.
Not one of the many vessels engag
ed in the search has reported the
finding of wreckage or of any other
clew that would aid in solving the
mystery. Naval officials admit that
the time is drawing near when they
must formally give up for lost the
big collier with nearly 300 persons
on board.
MRS. W. R. HARRIS TO SPEAK .
TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
Mrs. W. R.; Harris, of Asheville.
will be in the city tonight and will
address the young people at Main
Street Methodist church at 8 p. m.
Mrs. Harris is the first vice-president
of the Women's Missionary Society
of the Western North Carolina Con
ference, and has charge of the young
people's societies. She is an able
speaker and will bring a message of
interest to all who hear her. The
public Is cordially invited to hear
Mrs. (Harris at the Main Street Meth
odist ehmrca taalghL .- - .., '
T LOCAL ITEMS
One quarter of 1918 is gone.
Buy that Liberty Bond today.
Tax listing time is here again.
Mr. John Kirby, of Charlotte,
was in Gastonia Monday.
Mr. W. L. Hogan, of Charlotte,
was a business visitor in Gastonia
Monday.
Mr. R. G. Rhyne and Rev. E. H.
Kohn, of Mount Holly, were business
visitors in the city Monday.
Prof R. A. Marsh, of Belmont,
was a business visitor in Gastonia
yesterday.
Union prayer service every ev
ening at 6:15 at Main Street Metho
dist church. Lasts just 30 minutes.
" Mrs. E. O. Jennings returned
Saturday from a ten days visit to
friends In Atlanta.
Mr. A. L. Qulckel, of Washing
ton, D. C, has been the guest of Dr.
and Mrs. T. C. Qulckel. Mr. Qulckel
is a brother of Dr. Qulckel.
Communion services will be
held at Main Street Methodist church
next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock
by the pastor, 'Rev. H H. Jordan.
Mrs. A. J, Klrby Is quite sick at
her home on the New Hope road, suf
fering from pneumonia. Her friends
hope for her a speedy recovery.
Miss Von Sherrill and Miss Eth
el Whitener, of Sherrlll's Ford, Ca
tawba county, have entered the City
Hospital Training School for Nurses.
Mrs. A. M. Herron and Mrs.
Walter McEachin, of Charlotte, were
the guests yesterday of Mr. and Mrs,
S. A. Robinson.
Mr. R. R. Ray, of the McAden
Mills, McAdenvllle, is attending the
American Cotton Manufacturers' As
sociation meeting in New York this
week.
Mr. Glenn Pickens and Miss
Edith Pickens, of Asheville, arrived
in the city yesterday on a visit to
their sister, Miss Nell Pickens, coun
ty home demonstration agent.
Mr. J. Edgar McLean, who has
been in the third Officers Training
Camp at Camp Jackson, Columbia, is
home on a 20 day furlough. He is
eligible for second lieutenant's place.
Mrs. E. F. Glenn attended the
musical festival in Charlotte last
week and remained over for the
week-end as the guest of her daugh
ter, Mrs. J. Leake Carraway, return
ing to the city yesterday.
Mrs. M. J. Patrick, Joseph Pat
rick and Miss Lula Riddle, of the
I'nion section, and Mrs. George M.
Nolen, of Atlanta, and Mrs. A. C.
Kelley, of Hickory, were niong
Monday's shoppers In Gastonia.
Mr. A. B. O'N'eil left yesterday
for Camp Sevier, Greenville. S. , to
spend a few days with his son, Mr.
Alfred B. O'Neil, who expects soon to
receive his commission as second lieu
tenant, having qualified for the same
at the third officers' training school.
A Washington dispatch in this
morning's papers states that Colie
W. Roberts, formerly secretary of
the Gastonia Chamber of Commerce,
now occupying a similar position at
Henderson, has been appointed" a
clerk In the War Department.
Mrs. J. B. Wiley and child, of
Lancaster, S. C, are visiting the
former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A.
Costner. Mrs. Costner has been con
fined to her bed by illness but her
friends will be glad to know that her
condition is improved.
Among the Gastonia mill men
who are in New York this week at
tending the annual meeting of the
American Cotton Manufacturers' As
sociation are Messrs. A. K. Winget,
A. M. Dixon, W. T. Rankin, W. R.
Armstrong, Frost Torrence, L. D.
Grlbble and W. D. Anderson
Miss Wray Ramsey has com
pleted the course at the City Hos
pital Training School for Nurses and
left Monday for her home at Dur
ham. She will stand examination
before the State board of examiners
May 1 5th and will probably locate In
Durham as a private nurse.
Rev. H. H. Jordan, pastor of
Main Street Methodist church, re
turned this morning from Atlanta,
where he attended a meeting of the
General 'Educational Board of the
Methodist .church as a representative
of the Board of Education of the
Western North Carolina Conference,
of which he Is chairman.
Miss Sallie Morton returned
Monday from Rocky Mountr where
she attended the annual State con
vention of Baraca and. Philathea
classes, being a representative of the
Philathea class of the First Baptist
church of this city. The convention
was in session Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. -
Corporal John A. All and Mr.
Alfred E. Fuller of Camp Wads
worth, Spartanburg S. ' C. Messrs.
Martin Anderson and Richard E.
Smith, of Camp Greene, Charlotte,
and Misses Ruby and Ruth Polk, of
Charlotte, were the guests Saturday
and Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. E. O.
Jennings at their home on South
Broad street. -
Monroe Journal, 26th: "Mr.
Pascal M. Aberenthy, son of Rev,
and Mrs. J. E. Abernethy, was a
member of the graduating class of
the Kansas City Veterinary College
Monday. He will arrive home from
the school today or tomorrow.
Toung Abernethy has many friends
here who will be Interested In the
above. He formerly lived here, his
father having been pastor of Main
Street Methodist church.
SHOR
STORMY SCENES IN
THE PRUSSIAN DIET
(By International News. Service.)
COPENHAGEN, May 1. Stormy
scenes occurred in the Prussian
Diet Thursday when a member of
the Centre party proposed that the
Inauguration of electoral reforms be
postponed until after the war, says
a dispatch received here today. Sol
diers participated in the debate.
Liberal members strongly rejected
the proposal for delay and predicted
serious consequences. Hoffman, an
independent socialist, declared that
If the propesed delay be accepted, he
would ask the soldiers not to fight
any longer. Extreme excitement
followed amid cries of "Traitor."
The proposal was rejected. Chancel
lor Hertling advocated general suf
rage. POPE HAY MAKE
ANOTHER PEACE MOKE I
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, May 1. Pope Benedict,
intends to put out another peace
feeler to all the belliegrents, contain
ing a concrete offer of mediation
with the possible co-operation of
neutrals, says a wireless from the
Hague. Reports stated that the con
templated offer was received sym
pathetically in Berlin. The move is
expected about the end of May.
FRENCH HAVE IMPROVED
POSITIONS NEAR LOCRE
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, (NOON) May 1 The
French improved their positions in
the sector around Ixcre. A local
attack near St. Julien by the enemy
was repulsed. Machine gun posts
held by the enemy in the Meteren
district were rushed by the British
last night and some prisoners were
taken.
SLIGHTLY INJURED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Morris Grant, aged 14. son of A.
M. Grant, of West Gastonia, is in the
City Hospital where he was carried
last night suffering from slight
wounds received when he was struck
by an automobile driven by E. Price
Rankin, of the Rankin-Chandler
Furniture Company. His wounds
consist of a flesh cut, a Bprained an
kle and minor scratches.
The accident occurred about 6:30
o'clock last evening on West Frank
lin avenue. It is understood that
Mr. Rankin's car skidded on the wet
pavement when he attempted to get
his car out from the street car track
and that It shot over to the sidewalk
where the boy was walking. Reports
from the hospital this morning were
to the effect that young Grant was
getting along nicely.
LOYALTV DICC LA RED
BY LUTHERAN SYNOD.
New York, April 30. No assist
ance or guidance has ever come to
the American Lutheran church from
the Hohenzollerns, who have not
been Lutherans since 1614, or from
any other sources in Germany, and
accusations of disloyalty to the Unit
ed States of American Lutherans are
attributable to either Ignorance or
malice, accordipg to resolutions a-
dopted at the annual convention of
the Atlantic district of the Missouri
Lutheran Synod here today.
More than 165,000 Lutheran men
now are engaged In American war
service, the resolution declare, add
ing there is no more democratic In
stitution in the world than the Luth
eran church."
GERMANS CLAIM
ALLIES' ATTACK FAILED
(By International News Service)
BERLIN, May 1. The Allied at
tack between Dorain and Vardar riv
er broke down.
LIBERTY. LOAN IS
NEAR1NG THREE BILLIONS.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, May 1. The total
subscriptions toUhe third Liberty
Loan announced by the Treasury De
partment todsy reached $2,509,314,
$00. '
L C. M'LURD PRESIDENT
THE COMMERCIAL CLUB
In addition to the transaction of
routine business the members of the
Gastonia Commercial Club, in annual
session Monday, appointed a com
mittee composed of its president, E.
G. McLurd; the secretary, J. W.
Tlmberlake, and R. B. Bablngton,
to secure a service flag and an hon
or roll, and have the same placed in
the club rooms in honor of those
members of the club who are in the
military and naval service of the
United States.
Officers for the ensuing year were
chosen as follows; President, E. G.
McLurd; first vice-president, A. E.
Woltz; second vice-president, W. T.
Love; secretary and treasurer, J. W.
Tlmberlake; directors to serve for
one year, W. D. Anderson, A. B.
O'Neil. D. K. Jackson, Carl Finger
and C. J. McCombs.
PROF. H. C. SISK GOES
TOIBELMONT NEXT YEAR
There will be several changes in
the superintendency of Gaston
county schools next year on account
of the war and Its demand, not only
by the army and navy but by many
lines of industry for men.
Prof. R. A Marsh, for the past
year superintendent of the Belmont
high schools, has recently been ac
cepted for service In the aviation
section of the army and expects to
be called for active duty at an early
date. He succeeded Mr. H. A. Query,
who Is also In the army. Prof.
Marsh will be succeeded at Belmont
by Prof. Hi C. Sisk, for the past two
years principal of the East Gas
tonia graded school. Mr. Sisk was
elected to this position some time
ago and only recently signified his
acceptance.
During the summer Mr. Sisk and
Miss Melva Gullick, who is a member
of the faculty of the Belmont schools,
will direct war gardening In Belmont.
They already have more than a
hundred war gardens under cultiva
tion by high school pupils.
Mr. Sisk's successor here has not
yet been chosen.
It is understood that Jrof. Joe R.
Nixon, for the past several years
superintendent of the Cherryville
graded school, has accepted a simi
lar position at Edenton, in the
eastern part of the State. His suc
cessor has not yet ben named.
It is probable that there will be
still other changes In the schools of
the county but no announcements
have been made as to them yet.
LIGHT CASUALTY LIST
WAS ISSUED TODAY
(By International News Service)
' WASHINGTON, May 1 The cas
ualty list issued this morning con
tained the names of 8 killed in ac
tion; three died of disease; one from
wounds; one from accident; Ave se
verely wounded and 51 slightly
wounded. Two lieutenants are re
ported as missing in action; one died
from other causes.
TODAYS COTTON MARKET
(By International News Service)
NEW YORK, May 1 The cotton
market opened with July contracts
selling at 26:00; October 25 30.
Friends of Mrs. W. L. Walters,
who underwent an operation at the
City Hospital last Wednesday, will be
glad to learn that she is making a
very satisfactory recovery and ex
pects to be able to return home the
latter part of this week.
Born
On Monday. April 29, 1918. to
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Falls, a son.
Uderwent Operation.
Mr. George E. Marvin underwent
an operation yesterday morning for
appendicitis at the City Hospital.
His friends will be glad to know that
he stood the operation well and that
he is getting along nicely.
School Cloning.
The Mt. Olivet school will hold its
closing exercises and a picnic Satur
day of this week, May 4, and Satur
day night the school will give a play
entitled "A Kentucky Belle." Ad
mission is free and the public Is cor
dially Invited.
Decoration Day.
We are requested to announce that
Saturday of next week. May 11th,
will be observed st Mt. Olivet church
as Decoration Day. All families who
have plots in the cemetery are re
quested to have the plots cleaned off
before the exercises begin at two
o'clock Saturday afternoon.
'
About Your Errors.
Remember, that to change thy opin
ion and to follow him who corrects thy
error Is as consistent with freedom ss
It Is to persist Is thy error- Marcus
Aarsllua.
TO VOTE ON INCREASE ; ?
! IN CITY SHOOL TAXES
An election will be held In Gas
tonia on Monday, May 27th. from 7
a. m. until sunset for the purpose of -giving
the citizens of the town an
opportunity to express their wishes,
in the matter of increasing - tho
school tax from 30 cents on the $109
worth of property to a sum not to
exceed 50 cents on the $10v worth.
This election was called by the
city council after ' more than one
third of the taxpayers of the city
had petitioned the council to do so.
In an advertisement appealing else
where in today's Gazette the partic
ulars with reference to the election
are set forth. R. Scott Loughridge
has been appointed registrar and B.
T. Morris and E. J. Rankin Judge
for this election, which will be held
in the city hall. This is a new reg
istration and no citizen, no matter
bow long he has been registered and
voting in regular elections, can vote
unless he registers anew for this new
special election. x : .
That the demands on the city
school board have been Increasing
not only steadily but rapidly for the
past several years is a fact of gen
eral knowledge. There are now
more than 2,000 children in the city
schools. Every year it is found nec
essary to increase the teaching '
force, and, on account of the great
increase in the cost of living, it has v
been necessary to raise the salaries
of teachers.- Thst it will be neces
sary to raise them still further in the -future
seems not improbable. '. -
It is the purpose of The Gazette to v
present to its readers the facts and
figures as to the amount of taxes
collected under the, present schedule.
how it is expended, what the growth
in demands has been, how much tho
increase will afford for increased op
erating expenses, etc., as rapidly a
these facts and figures can be got
ten together.
Mount Holly Matters.
Correspondence of The Gazette. ,
MT. HOLLY, April 30. Miss '
Christine Henkel, of Statesville,, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Henry A.,
Rhyne.
Rev. J. S. Hiatt is spending a few
days in Winston-Salem among his "
former parishioners.
Mr. R. K. Davenport, who went to
Little Rock, Ark., on the Bankhead
Highway matter, reports finely and
enthusiastically on the prospects of.
the highway. It cannot come too '
soon.
This calls to mind that the county
bridge across the Catawba here Is
making more rapid progress. The
contractors are about ready to put .
up the Iron supports, then the bridge
proper, and then you quit paying toll .
Rev. E. H. Kohn, married at the
home of Mrs. Janie Belk, Mr, Jule
Williams and Miss Ethel Crump.
Last week Rev. J. S. Hiatt, pastor .
of the Methodist church, conducted a,
successful revival. He did the preach
ing and the singing was conducted '
by Misses Williams and Lineberger.
A number of accessions to the
church resulted from the meeting.
Mrs. Karl Keller, who spent tho
winter in Philadelphia, is at the
borne of her parents, Rev. and Mrs.
E. H. Kohn, spending some time.
Miss Carrie Lentz and sister, Pau
line, spent last Sunday in Spartan
burg with their sister, Mrs. J.-'.-W. .
Spring
Mrs. A. P. Rhyne has been spend
ing several days with her daughter,
Mrs. Ernest Cannon, at Charlotte.
The intermediate grades of - the -high
school give in the school audi
torlum Friday night a patriotic play. v
Drills, dialogues, songs and such will
add to the enjoyment. ,
In the sale of Liberty bonds on
this, the third drive, the committee
put the town "over the top" in short
order by subscribing the allotment. 5
and have eight days to work up tho
excess.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rhyne '
Monday, a dainty little daughter, ' '
NO AGREEMENT YET REACHED.
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, April 30. Final negoti
ations between Germany and Holland
over the use of the Dutch railways
by the Germans has not yet been
concluded, says a dispatch from The
Hague today. A definite agreement
is improbable until the Western bat
tle front becomes calmer, ... i .
FOR AN INCREASED ARMY.
(By Internationa News Service.)
WASHINGTON, April 30. Three
different bills were Introduced in the
Senste this afternoon to increase the
American army. Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, introduced a resolution ask
ing for 5.000,000 men. Senator Reed '
one for 3,000.000, and Senator Poin-'
dexter one for 1,500,000.
Keep Up the Good Work.
"When you git a sinner reformed,
sajd Uncle Eben, "don't lose Interest In
him so quick dat he feels lonesome an
neglected."
THURSDAY
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