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VOL..XLI. NO. 13.
GASTONIA, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JAN. 15, 1920
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FEAR EXPRESSED THAT
GERMAN DISORDERS MAY
SPREAD INTO
Although Berlin Was Quiet Wednesday, It Is
Feared That Recent Disorders May Spread
Throughout Germany - Strong Indignation
Felt In Many Quarters.
(By The A'inua press.)
LONDON, Jan. 15. Berlin was com
pletely quiet Wednesday, according to a
-wireless despatch from the German capi
tal. The large factories were working
normally and the railway and tram serv
ice were not interrupted.
Strong indignation is expressed in ef
ery branch of industry at the unscrupu
lousness of the independents, the des
patches add, because the leaders hid be
hind machine guns while the masses were
driven forward Jo. face the guns of the
soldiers.
It is announced that the Berlin govern-
went will not permit demonstrations on
-the occasion of the burial of the vimws
of Tuesday's rioting.
May Spread.
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 15. Fears are , ex
pressed in diplomatic despatches received
here that the Berlin imbroglio may
spread throughout Germany and even .to
Vienna through the agency of the com
munists, this element using the recent
Berlin disorders to inflame the masses by
representing those kind as martyrs to the
-ause of the people.
Vienna, it is pointed out, would be
likely to furnish fertile ground for the
agitators because of the great unrest that
already exists there.
Thus far no disorders are reported oui
aide of Berlin.
The advices in analyzing the upheaval
in Berlin, point to its original cause as
Ihe dissatisfaction of the independent so
cialists over the failure of the govern
ment to provide a method for tlie estab
lishment of the workmen's councils call
ed for by the constitution, but give the
immediate cause as indignation at the at
titude of the government toward strikers.
This resulted in the organization of the
great demonstration in front of the relch
ntag building.
The violence that followed, however, is
BISHOP BRENT, SENIOR CHAPLAIN WITH A. E. F.,
URGES AGAINST RETURN OF SOLDIER BODIES
Says that Movement to Bring Bodies Dead Amer
icans Home Is Being Fostered By Undertakers
For Personal Profit - Will Be An American
Field of Honor Association.
By The Associated Press.) j
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 Bishop H.
Brent, senior chaplain with the Ameri
can expeditionary forces in France, has
addressed an open letter to Secretary
Baker and the next of kin of the Amer
ican soldiers who fell overseas. The let
ter was made public today by the Amer
ican Field of Honor Association, which
is opposing the movement for the whole
sale return of the bodies, and follows
' charges presented in the senate and house
that the movement is being fostered by
undertakers for their personal profit
"America," wrote Bishop Brent,
"has left to the decision of the nearest
f kin in each case what the final rest
ing place of our dead is-to be whether
in France or in this country. No one
will dispute the right of parent or wife
to elaim the fulfillment of the promise
made by the American government to
return to America the bodies of our
dead soldiers. But it is conceivable that
there are those who, after learning the
plans to establish and maintain in
France an American field of honor for
those who are 'forever overseas,' may
consider this the more excellent way.
"A bill to incorporate the movement
has already been presented to congress
and is to be re-introduced shortly. There
will be an American central field of bon
er with as many departments as may be
necessary. Here, each year on an ap
pointed day, commemoration of the dead
will be observed. Over all the shelter
ing folds of the stars and stripes will
forever wave.
"Those of us who have given for more
than a year careful consideration to the
American field of honor are moved by a
aingle-minded purpose. It i ti work
- oi love carried through by a iua3 of
. reverence for that sacred dust which,
though mingled with the soil of France,
AUSTRIA
declared to have been due to communist
ugcnts who took advantage of the assem
blage and, working on mob psychology,
started the riot, which resulted so disas
trously. German troops were marched to Lelp
zic on Tuesday, where they occupied the
squares and public buildings, according
to a Berlin despatch to The Exchange
Telegraph Company today. Machine
nuns were placed in commanding posi
tions. (
REPORTS TELL OF TERRIBLE
LOSS OF LIFE.
(Hy The Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, Wednesday, Jan. 14
Reports slowly coming in from eastern
sections of the state of Puebla tell of ter
rible loss of life in tlmt region as a re
sult of the earthquake on January 3.1
Further east in the state of Vera Cruz
the death toll seems to be growing, re
ports from Couztlnn stating that the
number of doad in that city and in sur
rounding villages is more than 3,000.
The lake which (inundated the village
of Barranca Grande was caused by a
mountain collapsing and damning a riv
er. The waters were backed up until
the former site of the village was inun
dated. An exploring party returned to this
city today from a visit of inspection to
the crater of Mount Popocatepetl. The
members of the party said the crater
had been entirely changed and that huge
fissures had appeared.
"For goodness' sake take out that
want ad about my Ford," said "Seller"
who advertised a Ford for sale a day or
two ago in The Gazette want add col
umn. "I reckon there have been four
teen hundred people wanting to buy that
Ford in the past two days, and I have
about decided now, since so many want
it and I know that I can sell it. that I
don't want to sell it."
is forever America. It aims to pay high
honor to those to whom high honor
is due. It would preserve as far as may
be the comradship of the war among
those who met a common fate. It would
express to all who are bereaved the un
dying value' of the sacrifice made. It
would perpetuate in death that work be
gin in life to bind together nations of
like ideals."
FORMER MONARCHS INTER
ESTED IN SALE OF JEWELS.
(By The Associated Press.)
LOUS ANNE, Jan. 15 Four former
monarchs who are living in this country
were interested spectators at the sale of
the jewels and objects of art owned by
the estate of. the late Princess Vera
Lobonoff, of Russia, here yesterday. They
were former King Constantino and his
queen of Greece, and former Emperor
and Empress Charles and Zita of Austria-Hungary.
They made no purchases.
A Parisian dealer bought a necklace
for 500,000 francs and other jewels
brought very high prices.
JURY IN NEW TRIAL
CONTINUES IN DEADLOCK.
LOC Angeles, Calif., Jan. 15-The
jury in the ease ef Harry 8. New, tried
for the alleged murder of his fiancee,
Miss Freda Lesser, today had been out
forty -two hours when court convened.
Possibility of a verdict being returned
brought forth the usual -crowd of per
sons in the court room throughout the
five weeks of the trial.
The jurors still were deadlocked when
locked up last night. Twice they had
sought information, from Judge Craig re
garding the distinction between second
degree murder and manslaughter. ,
The court stated last night that the
jury would be given as much time as it
desired .in 'Considering a verdict.
8AST0NIA MAY BE ON
AIRPLANE MAIL ROUTE
More Than 125 Cities Want
Airplane Mail Service May
Soon Be Put Into Effect
Gastonia, Charlotte and
Morehead City Arc North
Carolina Cities.
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From the Associated Press dispatch
earried below Gastonia along with a few
other southern cities may soon be re
ceiving mail by airplane delivery. The
postoffic.e had under consideration ap
plications from these cities and it is ex
pected that something of a definite na
ture will be announced.
WASHINGTON', Jan. 15 Postmaster
General Burleson has received applica
tions from more than 125 cities, more
than one third of which are in the south
ern and southeastern states, for exten
sion of the present airplane mail service
to their communities, and prospects are
that the desires of some of them soon
will be realized as the postoffice depart
ment at present has under consideration,
routes which would connect up Atlanta
with the Washington and New York ser
vice, and linking New Orleans and St.
Louis direct. The Washington-Atlanta
service would coter a direct route of
850 miles with a flying time of ten hours
and forty minutes and would reduce the
time of delivery of letters from New
York in Atlanta by 15 hours and 35
minutes. It would advance the delivery
of eastern letters to points beyond At
lanta from 12 to 24 hours ana south
eastern letters beyond Atlanta from 12
to 24 hours and southern letters in the
north by the same time.
The cities whose applications through
commercial organizations, city council
and members of congress, have been re
ceived by Postmaster General Burleson
include Atlanta and Rome, Ga. ; Birm
ingham, Mobile and Montgomery, Ala.;
Cheater and Spartanburg, S. C; Char
lotte, GASTONIA and Morehead City,
N. C; Key West, Pensneola and Tampa,
Fla.
WILL SELECT DEMO
CRATIC LEADER TODAY
Race Is Between Senator Un
derwood and Senator Hitch
cock One Vote May De
cide Contest.
(By The Associated Press."1
WASHINGTON, Jan. .15 Democratic
senators meet in caucus today to select
a loader to succeed the late Senator Mar
tin, of Virginia. The raw lies closely
between Senator Hitchcofk, Nebraska,
ad in in ist ration manager in the treaty
contest, and Senator Underwood. Ala
banm, former democratic leader in the
house, and it was believed one vote
might decide the contest.
The few democratic senators not in
Washington were granted permission to
cast their votes by wire and it was
believed that Carter Glass, senator elect
from Virginia, also would be permitted
to vote.
The effect of the leadership selection
on the future of the treaty has been
widely discussed here. While both Sen
ators Underwod and Hitchcock have en
dorsed ratification without reservation,
Senator Underwood has announced he
was prepared to support a resolution for
partial ratification and leave the league
of nations covenant for settlement in
the fall election. Senator Hitchcock has
opposed this course.
Senator Lodge had an appointment
with Seuator Underwood today to dis
cuss a reservation affecting Article 10
of the league of nations covenant.
ZERO WEATHER FORCES
PEOPLE TO WALK
SALEM, Mass., Jan. 15 Thirty
thonsand persons who usually ride to
business in trolley cars crowded into
motor buses or walked in the near zero
weather atmosphere today. All local
lines of the Eastern Massachusetts Street
Railway and a large part of the interur
ban service of that company to this dis
trict was discontinued at midnight, the
public trustees of the road having re
fused to operate the cars in this vicinity
longer in the face of continued loss of,
revenue due to jitneys.
EXAMINE TEXT OF DEMAND
FOR FORMER KAISER.
PARIS, Jan. 15 Premiers Clemen
ceauand Lloyd George and Nitti will this
morning examine the text of the de
mand to be made upon Holland for the
extradition of former Emperor WiL.
liam, according tothe Matin. The pre
miers will also inspect the list of Ger
man officers and soldiers accused of
violations of the laws of war and whose
surrender will be demanded from the Ber
lin government. This list is said to
compromise approximately' 600 names.
METHODISTS CONSIDER
UNION OF TWO WINGS
Clergymen and Laymen At
tend Meeting at Louisville-to
' Consider Unification of Two
Branches o f Methodist
Church, North and South.
By The Associated Press.)
LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 15. Clergy
men and laymen representing six million
Methodist Episcopalians of the country
attended the meeting which began here
today of the joint commission of the
Methodist Episcopal Churches, North and
South, which has as its object unification
of the two wings of the church. That the
merger yftrtlTil bo agreed upon immediate
ly appeared to be a foregone conclusion
amongthe delegates.
In addition to the unification delega
tion from the northern church, headed by
Bishop W. F. McDowell, of Washington,
and that of the southern faction In
charge of Bishop Edwin Mouzon, of Dal
las, Tex., a hundred or more church paper
editors attended the sessions. The meet
ing, however, was not open to the public.
The joint commission is meeting In the
Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, from which announce
ment ciinic 71 years ago, that, ownig to
a disagreement on the slavery question, a
breach had come about and thenceforth
there would hr northern and southern
branches of the church.
The "secession" came inlSlti, after
a controversy lasting two years over a
negro slave girl owned by the wife of
Bishop, Andrews, of Georgia. Northern
congregations argued that Bishop An
drews should be removed for that reason.
Southern congregations contended that
he had been appointed for life by a
church and could not be ousted.
ABANDON PROFESSION
IN LARGE NUMBERS
Number Quitting: Has Increas
ed Over 40 Per Cent in Last
Three Years Teacher La
bors Under 25-Year Handi
cap. fliy The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Jan. 15 The numlier of
m hool teachers who have abandoned the
profession because of low wnges has In
creased 40 per cent in the last three years,
nci ording to a survey of trade conditions
in Chicago by teachers, made public to
day. "School teachers ' work under a 25
year handicap on the basis of a life
time's earnings," the report says.
"The average teacher will have to live
to be 70 before her total earnings amount
to as much as a plumber can make by the
time he is 40. She will have to teach un
til she is 53 to earn as much as the pat
ternmaker, electrician or pressman has
earned at 40.
' ' Blacksmiths, butchers, soda clerks,
shot clerks, and chauffeurs, would, un
der their present wages, have earned as
much at 40 as the school teacher would
have earned at 52.
"The teacher's salary is almost equal
to that of janitors, teamsters and laun
dresses. ' '
FIFTEEN ADMIRALS TO
TESTIFY AS WITNESSES
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. Fifteen
admirals, named by Chairman Hale of
the senate naval sub-committee Investi
gating naval decoration awards, are a
lnoiig those Secretary Daniels has been
asked to summon as witnesses before the
committee to testify in the investigation,
which begins tomorrow.
The list is headed by Admiral Sims,
who brought the controversy over naval
awards into the open by declining to ac
cept a distinguished service medal on the
ground that war honors had not been
properly distributed in the navy. He will
probably be the first witness called.
After the admirals have testified, coin
mantling officers of naval vessels sunk or
seriously damaged by submarine attack
during the war probably will be-called
before the committee.
POLAND-CHINA HOG
l BRINGS 135,000.
NOBLES VILLE, 'ind., Jan. 15
Chief's Best, a spotted Poland-China hog
brought $35,000. The hog belonged to
Frank Wise, and was purchased by
Wycoff & Simason, representing an
Iowa breeders' association. This is said
to be a new record price foe one hog,
A sow brought $8,000 at the sale.
Forty head, which were sold, brought a
total of $64,380.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS WILL
GOME INTO BEING TOMORROW
MORNING AT 10 O'CLOCK
In Famous Clock Room of French Foreign Office
League of Nations Will Come Into Existence -Leon
Bourgeois Will Preside Press Com
ments on Absence United States.
TO HAVE ENGLISH AS'
ONLY LANGUAGE
Methodist Episcopal Church In
United States Wants Only
English Language Used AInj
Services After This Year.
(By The Associated Press.)
SYRACl'WK. N. Y.. Jan. l.i. A
movement has been started to have Eng
lish the only language used in services of
the MethodiHt Episcopal Church through
out the United States after this year. The
matter is expected ti Ik- voted on at the
quadrennial conference of the denomina
tion next May in Des Moines.
The Kev. Dr. K. M. Mills, genernl sec
retary of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in America, announced today he had re
ceived petitions from several conference
bodies requesting that a rule for the ex
clusive use of English be adopted.
Such a rule would affect 16 conference
bodies, of which 10 are German speaking
and the others use Danish, Swedish and
Norwegian. The German speaking church
es have voiced a strong protest.
JUGO-SLAVS CAUSE DISRUPTION
K ily The Associated Press.)
PARIS, Jan. 15 Just, at the tim
when Italians seemed likeiv o agree to
the acceptance of a solution to the Finme
cpiestion, which has been approved by
Premiers Lloyd George and Clemenceau,
a division has been created among the
Jtigo Slavs regarding the problems in
volved .
According to best information obtain
able, the Slovene element of the new
Slav kingdoiik. is stoutly opposed to a
compromise by which Italy would give up
some of the territory apportioned her
on the Dalmatian coast in exchange for
full sovereignty over Fiume, with a strip
of land connecting that city with the
province of Istria to the west.
Other elements favor accepting the
compromise, but because of the impos
sibility of reaching an agreement the
Jugo Slav delegation has been obliged to
reject the proposal. Premiers Lloyd
George and Clemenceau thereupon issued
a sort of ultimatum demanding that the
government at Belgrade decide without
delay upon what it wanted to do and
give a categoric answer of "yes" or
"no" to the Italian compromise.
It is impoiwible to ascertain here
whether President Wilson has been con
sulted regarding the proposed Fiume set
tlement, which appears to be in abso
i
lute contradiction to the president's firnv
stand. Neither has absolutely satisfac
tory assurance been given that Italy, as
a whole, will approve the compromise.
WORST BLIZZARD IN YEARS
SWEEPS MICHIGAN CITY.
(By The Associated Press.)
' TRAVERSE CITY, Mich Jan. 15
Scores of northern Michigan towns were
isolated today by the; worst blizzard
that has swept this section in years. Zero
temperature and Impassable snow drifts
have put a number of communities in a
serious predicament owing to shortage of
coal and inability of farmers to bring
in wood.
Practically all railroad traffic has been
8tisended since late Tuesday in half a
dozen towns private homes have been
thrown open to stranded passengers from
Pere Marquette and Grand Rapids and
Indiana trains.
GIVE 35 MILLION TREE
SEEDS TO FRANCE
(By The Associated Press.)
BOSTON, Jan. 15 Thirty-five mil
lion tree seeds were formally presented
to the government of France, Belgium
and Great Britain by the Americar
Foresty Association here today. Thej
were accepted by the consuls of the three
countries and will be used in re-foresting
the devastated areas of Belgium and
'France and the woodlands cleared in thi
British isles for war purposes.
"A hundred years from now these
trees will tell the glory of all those
who heard the call of humanity," said
Charles L&throp Pack, president of the
associativa, in pveaeutjitf the "seeds. ,
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Jan. 15 The league of aa
tions will come into being tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock at a public cere
mony to be held in the "clock room"
of the French foreign office. Leon
Bourgeois, the Fredch representative,
will preside and make the opening ad
dress. Earl Curzon, of Kedlestone,
British secretary of state for foreign af
fairs, also will speak. Hugh C. Wallace,
American ambassador to France, and
American representative at the peace
conference, will Hot attend.
Besides M. Bourgeois and Earl Cur
zon, the meeting1' will be attended by
Vitorrio Scialoia, Italian foreign min
ister; Premier Venizelos, of Greece, Paul
Hymans, Belgian foreign minister; Count
Quinones de Leon, Spanish ambassador
to France; Viscount Chinds, Japanese
ambassador to Great Britain; Dr. Al
fronso Costa, Portuguese peace delegate,
and Dr. Gastoa Da Cunha, Brizilliaa am
bassador to France.
Press comment on the meeting dwells
principally upon the absence of tae
United States from this entry into tae
realization of President Wilson's chief
aim in the peace conference. Host ef
the newspapers of Paris predict this ab
sence will not be of long duration, and
say:
"The league of nations cannot be
complete until America is represented."
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WANT $55 FOR
PINT OF BLOOD
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jan. 15. Mon who sell
their blood for transfusion operations
struck for more money yesterday at the
Flower hospital. They demanded $55 for
a pint of blood, $.'0 more than they re
ceived two weeks ago, since which time
the price has increased to $40. Student
nurses responded ato strike breakers. Ten
minutes after the strike started one nurse
wag on the operating table as a surgeon
performed a transfusion operation and
the hospital received a pint of blood
free. Two hours later the nurse was at
tending a clinic.
The strike was broken. Professional
blood donors were on the job today at
the old wage.
INTEREST SHIFTS FROM -ALBANY
TO NEW YORK
(B The Associated Press)
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ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 15. The lime
light in the drama of the five socialist
assemblymen from New York unseated
by the lower house because of their alleg
ed unfitness for office shifted today trom
Albany to New York. Following his ap
pointment yesterday as counsel for the
assembly judiciary committee, which will
hear next Tuesday the evidence against
the suspended members, Attorney General
Newton expected to leave this afternoon
for New York to select a ' prominent Ju
rist" whom he had decided to engage to
assist him in conducting the case for the
prosecution. He gave no intimation as
to whom he would select. Next Tues
day's session of the committee will fol
low what is expected to prove a show of
fireworks in the house, for AssemDiyman
William C. Ames, of New York, has an
nounced that on the eve of the trial he -intends
to move that the assembly recon
sider its action in unseating the socialists.
GROVES MILL.
The annual meeting ofJthe stockhold
ers and directors of the Groves Mills,
Inc., was held on Wednesday. Reports
of officers showed that the mill had had
an exceptionally good year. The follow
ing officers and directors were elected:
L. F. Groves, president; A. G. Mangunv
vice-president; H. II. Groves, secretary
and treasurer. Directors; L. F. Groves,
X, II. Groves, L. C Groves, A. G, Man
gum and Fay Lavender. -
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