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Oastonia DAILY Gazette '' GASTONIA V v , COTTON 39 CENTS TODAY LAST EDITION XKKBKS OT THX ASSOCIATXO FXXSS VOL.XLI. NO. 14. GASTONIA, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JAN. 16, 1920 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS GOES DRY TONIGHT ON Tl STROKE OF MIDNIGHT TV0 MORE COTTON MILLS I ARMSTRONG HEADS MILL FIRST PROTEST TO LEAGUE . J -. TI NATION SVAN SONG VILL BE SOON TO BE ANNOUNCED AT ONE DOLLAR A YEAR SUNG FOR .Bibulous Fraternity In New York Celebrates Passing of John Barleycorn By Night of Revel ry Liquor Brings Unbelievably High Prices, But That Is Least of Worries. (By Associated Press., NEW YORK, Jan. 16. The bibulous fraternity in New York, having stayed up .all night at the wake of John Barleycorn in the cafes and hotels along the White Way, put on its deepest mourning today in preparation fur the final obsequies at midnight. Statisticians were silent as to the exact shrinkage in t!ie liquor supply here as the result of last night's well attended pre Jiminary servii es, but it was admitted that there is enough remaining to provide for all today, no matter how firm the de--termination might beTto leave not -a drop undronk upon the dawn of the dry era. The revelry in the hotels and restau rants last night was declared to have put -to shame all previous celebrations of a similar nature in New York. But the .mourners declared that last night's af fair was only a " tuning up " process for the last farewell touiglit. Liquor brought .almost unbelievably high prices, but that -apparently was the least of the worries of the thirsty. While the swan song is being chanted for demon rum tonight there will be cel ebrations of different character in many hnrehes. Special services will be held .and Ihimes at midnight will "ring out the old and ring in the new." While officials as a rule maintained they were not looking for viola 'ions, the long-package parade expected today caus ed revenue officials to state that the law would be enforced in every particular commencing one minute after midnight. The revenue officers will be assisted by police in watching for violations. Saloon keepers were not fully decided ah to what course to pursue today. Many announced that they would keep open and sell "soft stuff," hoping that per haps in some miraculous way a loophole would be found whereby John Barleycorn might be resurrected even if for only a short time. Constitutional prohibition, effective at midnight tonight, and the enforcement legislation enacted by Congress, make the BRITISH CABINET CALLED TO PARIS BY ACTIVI TIES OF RUSSJAjyiLARMIES IN NEAR EAST Bolshevik Successes In India, Persia, Mesopo tamia Cause Apprehension In British Diplo matic Circles Premier Lloyd George Con fers on Military and Naval Matters. (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 16 Attention of the British people is fixed on the Near East, where recent bolshevik successes have -carried the ri Russian armies almost up to the threshhold of India, Persia, Mes v potamia and Asiatic Turkey. Cabinet members and chiefs of the British army aad navy were today in Paris, whither they were hastily summoned yesterday .and are conferring with Premier David loyd George on military arid naval mat ters in connection it is believed with con ditions in southwestern Asia. Apprehensions were aroused by the is suance of a semi-official statement yester day pointing out the situation that has arisen through the collapse of General Denikine's army in .southern Russia and bolshevik penetrations of Trans-Caucasus. Not only was it admitted the menace from Russian bolshevik invasion from the northeast was very real, but it was pointed out that internal conditions in Persia, Turkey and Afghanistan were threatening. la Mesopotamia," too, the British are forced to' contend with difficulties aris ing from racial dissension. .- It was said that a soviet advance that captures the Crimea would make the Black Sea vir tually a Russian bolshevik lake, ..While there is a possibility the Ik1 heviki may launch an 'overwhelming at tack against Poland, the statement is sued yesterday showed the greatest pro--eeopation of officialdom wa over the DEMON RUM following provisions: Declare unlawful the manufacture or sale of any beverage containing one-half of one percent or more of alcohol. Declare places where liquor is sold In violation of law to be common nuisances, abatable as such. Search and seizure powers given prohi bition enforcement officers, except for the s.arch of private dwellings unless used for the unlawful sale of intoxicants or in part as places 'of business. Liquor seized to be destroyed, vehicles and other property to be sold and pro ceeds paid into United States Treasury. Advertising of liquor by any method prohibited. N Permit manufacture at home for per sonal use of non-intoxicating ciders and fruit juice. While "jion-intoxicating" is not defined specifically, the term "In toxicating" is construed by law to mean one-half of one percent or more of alco hol. Permit manufacture of alcoholic li quors for sacramental and medicinal uses, under restrictions. Permit manufacture of alcohol for in dustrial and scientific uses. Permit, possession of liquor in home If purchased before prohibition became ef fective. Physicians prohibited from prescribing alcoholic liquor for patient unless in good faith they believe it will afford relief from ailment Not more than one pint can be prescribed in any month tor one person. Complete records of sales, including names of persons obtaining liquors, re quired of manufacturers and druggists. Various penalties for violation fixed, the most severe being $2,000 fine and two years imprisonment. EFFECTIVE AT 12:01 A. M. WASHINGTON Jan. 16. Constitu tional prohibition, becomes effective at midnight tonight. From 12:01 a. in., the "manufacture sale, or transportation of intoxicating li- ( Continued on page 2.) debacle of Denikine's armies and the rapid advance of the soviet forces to ward the Persian and Afghan frontiers. For the past two montiis or more tne bolsheviki have had an almost unbroken series of successes which have swept them forward on all fronts where thtir forces are believed to be formidable. Admiral Kolchak's army in Siberia seems to have been completely defeated if not dispersed, and from tl e Yeneaeze to the Caspian, a distance of :W0 miles, the bolsueviki seem to be quite rirmly es tablished. From this line it would ap pear tney might be able to essay in curscions toward China to the east, or Afghanistan and Persia to the south. Cmna lies south of the Caspian sea and boisueviJk agents are said to be active there. Odessa is virtually hemmed in oy the reds. Thinly veiled threats to re sort to methods of terrorism should the bUsheviki be opposed by the entente, ar contained in a wireless message here from Moscow. A return to wholesale executions was hinted. BIRMINGHAM TEACHERS ADOPT SALARY SCALE. . By The Associated Press.) BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Jan. 16. A salary scale, providing for a minimum of $1,000 and a maximum of $1,750 per year was agreed upon today by the Birming ham Federation of Teachers, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and steps to put the new schedule into force will be taken shortly. Dame Rumor Hath It on Sub- tantial Authority. That a j Million and a Half Dollar j Mill Is Among Next to Be j Announced. j , Definite announcement will be made in a few days of the organization of two ! more textile corporations for the city, i One of them is described in the parlance of the street as being a "whale" of a mill, it being understood that the capital stock will be nuthorized at $1,500,000. A 23,000 -spindle mill is under consideration. Still another mill of nearly equal pro- portions is contemplated. Both the above corporations, and probably a third are to tie announced within a few days, although The Gazette is as yet unable to give any names, facts or figures other than the a bove except that the backers arc two of the biggest and best known corporations in town. MISS CLARISSA HARROLD " DELIGHTS LARGE AUDIENCE Noted Reader and Interpreter of Plays Renders Good Pro gram at Central School Audi torium Reprehensible Con duct on Part of Certain Peo ple. Miss Clarissa Harrold, dramatic reader and artist par excellence, delighted a large audience last night in the Central school auditorium in the third attraction of the season in the Oastonia Lyceum course. Miss Harrold, a graduate of leading con servatories and schools of expression in the north is an expressionist and inter preter of plays unsurpassed by any who have appeared this way recently. Her selection last night was a four-act play, ''Friend Hannah," a lieautifully touching little drama of the English Colonial period, the scene laid among the Quakers of Yorkshire county. The story as told by Miss Harro! 1 is one that is intensely interesting, especial ly to students of Revolutionary History in the United States and North Carolina for it concerns the marriage of King George TI, of England to Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg. Germany. Ac cording to the legend as told by Miss Harrold, George, at that time the Prince of Wales, fell in dove with a yung Quaker maiden, Hannah Lightfoot, who wn igno rant of her suitor '8 identity. Much against the wishes of his friends he was secretly married to the demure and prim young Quakeress. On his wedding day, his father George the Second died, and he succeeded to th-3 throne, all unknown, on 'account of political reasons to Han nah, his wife. The Queen mother and Prime Minister, however, discovered the fact of his marriage and coming by night in George's absence to his apartments persuaded the young bride to" desert her husband to make way for the social al liance with the German Princess. Fol lows then, briefly the story of the War of the American Revolution and the well known mental nherations and blindness of George the Third, now an old man in his dotage, and a subsequent visit to the scene of his youthful courtship. Many Gastonians who heard the story last night were surprised to hear of the legend whether or not based on fact. Others say that they have read the story somewhere or other. Miss Harrold says she does not know the author of tha play and so far as she knows she is the only reader who presents this selection. Miss Harrold iq easily one of the best readers on the American stag today. Her stage appearance is beautiful and her toqe and teachnique remarkable. One certain regrettable feature of the evening and one, sad to say that has characterized several performances of late held in the graded school auditorium is the reprehensible conduct of certain occupants of the gallery seats. Miss Harrold,' from the stage, not only noticed it, but remarked upon it afterwards to the writer. It is to be hoped that those guilty of such misconduct may be in formed through the proper authorities of the disgraceMness of such proceed ings. On account of the inclemency of the weather and other meetings schedule lv for tonight, the regular meeting of Woodell Rebekah Lodge No. 128 will not be held. A called meeting will probably be held next Friday night. At Organization Meeting Mil- dred Cotton Mills Company Col. Armstrong Announces Another Mill In His Chain, the Helen Cotton Mills Co., of Rock Hill Accepts Pres idency at Dollar a Year. . At a meeting of the stockholders of the Mildred Cotton Mills Company, the thir teenth in the hain of Armstrong mills, held yesterday afternoon in the Arm strong offices in Oastonia, an organization was perfected by the election of the fol lowing board of directors: C. B. Arm- tronKi A K winKoti I). M. Jones, C. Armstrong, W. L. Wetzel!. A. G. Myers, W. R. Armstrong, R. W. Stowe and W. B. Rod dev. The directors in turn elected the following oflicers: C. R Armstrong, president; C. ('. Armstrong, vice-president and assistant treasurer; A. K. Win get, treasurer, and J. R. Armstrong, sec retary. The meeting was featured by the elec tion of Col. Armstrong, to the presidency of the corporation at the war-time salary of one dollar per year, and a subsequent announcement by him that nextf week would see the organization of the Helen Cotton Mills Company at Rock Hill, 8. C, the 14th in the chain. A tlie opening of the meeting Colonel Armstrong explained the reasons leading to the organization of the Mildred ("ottoia Mills Company, and the further evident fact that some months would elapse be fore actual work was started. He stated, however, that work on side-trackage, warehouses and tenement houses would, begin in the very near future. So great has the 'demand been for stock ra this new mill of Col. Armstrong 's that at yes terday 's meeting it was decided to in crease the common stock to $800,000. Be fore the stockholders had left the build ing from the meeting more than $100,000 was taken. The mill will be equipped with 20,000 spindles. When twitted by some superstitious stockholders present on the rashness and iuadvisability of presiding at the organi zation of cotton mill No. 13, Col. Ann strong replied : "Well, if there 's'nny hodoo attached, it won 't last more than a few days, for we are going to organize the Helen Cot ton Mills at Rock Hill next week. That will make 14, so the '13' hang-over will not be for long." When asked his reason for the $1 a year salary, Col. Armstrong replied that on account of the fact that so long a time would elapse between this organization meeting and the actual operation of the management he felt that in justice to the stockholders he should not command, as i directing head, any more than that sum until the duties should become more on erous. REGINALD DE KOVEN DIED EARLY TODAY (By The Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Jan. 16 Reginald de Kov en, American operatic composer and con ductor, died here early today of apoplexy. Mr. De Koven, who had been here for several weeks sfiperintending the produc tion of his opera "Rip Van Winkle," was attending a dinner at the home of Mrs. Joseph Fish, when he suddenly be came ill. He died within a few min utes. The body was taken to the home of a brother-in-law, Robert G. McGann. Mr. De Koven was the founder of the Washington symphony orchestra, of which he also was conductor. He wis the composer of a number of operas, nud also had written various music for orches tra and piano. A large, number of songs, including "Oh. Promise Me," and "A Recessional," were among his works. Among De Koven 's best known operas are "Rip Van Wrinkle," said to have been 1 the first all-American opera ever produced, and which had its premier in Chicago two weeks ago, and "Robin Hood . " " The Mandarin, " "Her Lit tle Highness ' ' and ' ' The Wedding Trip ' ' were others. De Koven was born at Middleton, Conn., April zf 1861. He - graduated from Oxford in 1880 and studied music at Stuttgart, Florence, Faris and Vienna, Besides writing music he served as a musical critic on various New York pub lications. Mrs. Do Koven had been with her hus band until three days ago; when she re turned to their home in New York. A daughter, Mrs. II. K. Hudson, lives in New York, COMES League of Nations Came Into Being at 10:30 Yesterday Morning - Irish Republic Makes First Formal Protest to League - January 16 Date of Birth of New World. (By The Associated Press.) PARIH, Jan. 16 Representatives of France, Great Britain. Italy, Greece, Bel gium, Spain, Japan, Portugal and Bra zil, members of the council of the league of nations, met in the "clock room" of the French foreign office at 10 o'clock this morning for the lirst meeting of the league. PARIH, Jan. 16 The council of the league of nations received the first formal protest to be presented it almost before it came into being with today's initial sessions. The protest was from "the envoys of the elected government of the Irish republic," against "the unreal English simulucre of an international league of peace. ' ' No mention of the protest was made during the meeting of the council but copies were hand to the newspaper cor respondents after the left the foreign of fice. The document was signed "Ouak laigh Duffy. " It ''registered objections to the "pretended league of nations" and declared the league to be an "en gine and empire, designed to secure and perpetuate English hegemony throughout both hemispheres." The protest insisted that the league was illusory and incomplete in authority and sanction, and declared that the United States stood out ' ' in indignation and re pudiation of it." The council organized at 10:30 o'clock by electing Leon Bourgeois chairman and confirming the choice of Hir Kric Drum mond of'. Great Britain, as general -secretary. The first official act of the council was the appointment of a commission to trace upon the spot the frontiers of the ter ritory of the Harre basin. Leon Bourgeois, French representative, who presided, said : "The tusk of residing at this meeting ami inaugurating this great international institution should have fallen to Presi dent Wilson. We respect the reasons which still delay final dicision by our friends in Washington, but express the hope that their differences will soon be overcome and that a representative of the great American republic will occupy the place waiting him among us. The work of the council will then assume def inite character andvilk have that par ticular force which should be associated with our work. "January 16, 1920, will go down in history as the date of the birth of a new world. Decisions to be reached to day will be in the name of all nations adhering to the covenant of the league, j UNITED STATES REMAINS OUT OF GREAT CONFEDERATION OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS Purpose of League Is "To Promote International Co-operation and to Achieve International Peace and Security" Thirty-two Nations Were Original Members of League. (By The Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Jan. 16 The purpose of the league of nations, the council of which holds its first meeting in Paris to day, was declared in the covenant of the league to be "to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security." This was 'to be accomplished, according to the covenant, by the nations obligating themselves not to resort to war; by prescribing oien just and honorable relations between them ; by establishing international law as an actual rule of conduct among the governments and by maintaining justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations. Thirty-two nations were to become the critical members of the league upou sing ing the treaty of peaoe. These nations as listed in the annex to the covenant were : United States of America, Belgium.. Bolivia, Brazil, British empire, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, India, China, -Cuba, Ecuador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Hedjax, Hon dura, Italy, JapV It Panama, Nicaragua, Poland, Bumainia, Serb-Croat-Slovene state, Siam, Crecho-Slovakia and Uruguay. Of the foregoing nations a number, however, have not ratified and- signed-tae F ROM IRISH It will be the first decree of nil free na tions leaguing themselves together for the first time in the world to substitute right for might. But the organisation of the league of nations will not be com plete until the assembly of all the states meets. ' ' Earl Curzon, British secretary for foreign affairs, and that nation's repre sentative on the council of the league, said: "On liehalf of the British empire, I desire to express the loyalty of my gov ernment and the external dominions of the British crown to the spirit underly ing the covenant of the league of na tions. It is our intention by every means in our power to insure its prac tical efficiency. It is our firm belief that through its instrumentality alone we can hope to insure that such miseries that the world has experienced during the past five years shall not be repeated and that a new era of international re lationship shall dawn. ' ' The league of nations is an expression of the universal desire for saner methods of regulating affairs of mankind, and provides machinery by whic practical effect may be given the principles of international friendship and good under standing. The success of the labor ef the peace conference is a good augury for the future of the league of nations. For the first time an attempt was made to bring together under the auspice of the league representatives of govern ments, employes and laborers, and an ad vance exceeding the results of the en tire work of the previous quarter of a century has been made in the field of in ternational action on industrial ques tions. ' ' All the members of the council called for by the covenant of the league with the exception of the representatives of the Cnited States, were present when M. Bourgeois called the meeting to order. Resides M. Bourgeois, the members were Earl Curzon, the British foreign secretary, for (ireat Britain; Premier Venixelos, for Greece; Carlo Ferraris, Italian minis ter of industry, commerce, labor and food, for Italy; Paul Hyinans, the Bel gian foreign minister, for Belgium; Bar on Matsui, ambassador to France, for Ja- . pan; Dr. Gastoa Da Cunha, ambassador to France, for Brazil ; Count Qulnones ds Leon, ambassador to France, for Spain. Premier Lloyd George, of Great Brit ain, and Viscount Grey dropped into the meeting at an early stage. Mr. Lloys (Continued on page 8.) peace treaty. Notable among these is the Untied States, which, therefore, remains outside the great confederation. The league is composed of a council and an assembly. The council is made . up of representatives of the principal allied and associated powers Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan.. The I'nited States is entitled to membership in the council if it ratifies the peace treaty and agrees to the covenant. The council includes also representatives of Belgium, Brazil, Spain and Greece. The assembly is to consist of repre sentatives of members of the league, each member to have one vote and not more than three representatives. The covenant provides that the coun cil shall meet from time to time and at least once a year. The council is to formulate plans for the reduction of na tional armaments. The members of the league undertake in the famous article ten to respect and preserve as against external . aggression the territorial integrity and existing po litical independence of all members. In ease of war or threat of war, U council will meet in special session! Members are pledged to submit matters of dispute to arbitration and not to re sort to war until three months after the award: "'
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