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lEIURS COMMUNIST
LABOR PARTY INDICTED
Held on Charge of Conspiracy Against Govern
ment - Bonds Fixed at $10,000 and $5,000 -Evanston,
Illinois, Millionaire Among Those
Indicted Reddest of the Reds.
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Jan. 22 Most of the .'15
naen and three women members of the
communist labor party of America in
dieted on charges of conspiracy to over
throw the government and advocating
overthrow of the government, were ex
jeeted to surrender today. Bonds for
their appearance for arraignment m
t-rimiual court Monday were fixed at $10,
000 and $3,000.
For those n ilerrt living in other
states who did not indicate an intention
to come to Chicago for arraignment and
trial, the state's attorney indicated ex
tradition papers would be soughgt. Ca
jiiuses for the arrest of the entire .'IN
would be ready toiluy, ho said.
The special grand jury which returned
-the indictment yesterday had been In
vestigating radical activities .in Cook
county for several weeks. It was indi
cated its work was not completed and it
was believed that the communist labor
.party, a separate organization from the
communist party of America, also would
be investigated.
Except four, the persons indicted yes
terday were local, state or national ofifi
vers of the organization. "Active or
ganize and agitators" was the classi
fication given the quartette, not listed as
officials.
William Bross Lloyd, Evanston attor
ney, reputed millionaire, probably was
the most prominent of those indicted.
His indictment followed newspaper in
terviews in which he was quoted as hav
ing said he was the "reddest of the
reds." He is sergeant-at-arms of the
communist party of America.
Others included in the indictments
were: John Keed, New York, editor of
The Voice of Labor; August Wagon
anecht. New York, national executive
'-secretary; Margaret Prevy, Akron, O.,
delegate to the national convention;
Charles Baker. Cleveland. .. active
organizer and agitator."
DISCUSS FINANCE AND
TRADE COMPETITION
(By Tbe Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 At the two
general sessions of the second Pan
American financial conference today
finance and the regulation of trade com
petition were the only subjects up for
discussion. The principal speakers on
the program were Houston Thompson, of
the federal trade commission, Paul M.
Warburg and Senator Medill Mc
2ormick .
At the morning session group com
rnittees had ready their report to the
committee on form and resolutions. Mr.
Thompson's speech on "international
regulation of unfair competition" was
the only one for this session.
The general topic under discussion at
the afternoon session will be ' ' Fiscal and
Currency Reform at Factors in Nation
al Credit," with Mr. Warburg as a
speaker. The subject of Senator Mc
Cormick's address will be the "Introduc
tion of The Budget System and The
Improvement of Fiscal Methods in the
United States."
METHODISTS MAKE
REPORT ON MERGER
(By The Associated Press J
LOUISVILLE, KY.. Jan. 22. Mem
hen of the joint commission of the Metu
odist Episcopal Churches, north and
eouth, which has been holding sessions
be re for a week, today had left for their
bone after making a favorable report
oa the proposed merger of tbe two
branches. A draft for a new constitution
and a suggestion that the combined
church be called the Methodist .Church,
ia contained in the report, which, it was
announced, will be transmitted to the
general conferences of the two churchee
for consideration and decision.
UPTON WILL MEET
AMERICA THIS SPRING.
(By The Associated Press.)
NEW YORK. Jan. 22. Sir Charles
A Horn, a leading English yachtsman, who
arrived in New York yesterday on the
Cedric. said today that Sir Thomas Lip
ton wilt send . 23 metre Shamrock to
America thU spring to meet the cup
challenger, Shamrock IV, in a series or
trial races. Alfred Draper will be the
: skipper of the 23 metre boat Sir Charles
aid.
SO-CALLED FRENCH
MATRIX IN ATLANTA
Adventures Who Spent Part
of Night in Gastonia Last
Week Trys to Fool Author
ities in Atlanta.
(By The Associated Press.)
ATLANTA, Gn., Jan. 22 Later de
velopments practically have blasted the
assumption of the police that the young
woman held here is Jeanne Anna de Kay,
missing protege of Jane Adams, of Hull
House, Chicago. The woman, who was
arrested at a local hotel charged with
masquerading in an aviator 's uniform, at
first said, according to the police, that she
was Miss De Kay, then contradicted her
self and under cross-examination, the po-
m-c -iiaiin tun- ioiii several iiincreiir
stories. In the last of these she again
said she was Miss de Kay until her mar
riage to Harrow de Longe, who is now
at a New York hotel.
A description of the woman under ar
rest was sent to Chicago and word was
sent back that it did not tally with the
missing settlement worker for whom a nation-wide
search has been made.
Among the names given ly the young
woman, the jiolicc said, was "Jeanne La
Louge, " Belgian widow of a French
soldier, and the police of Charlotte, N.
C, n'iorted that a woman by this name
claiming to be an aviatrix had broken
jail there where she was being held charg
ed with failure to pay a hotel bill.
NOT DE KAY BUT
AN ADVENTURESS
CHICAGO, Jan. 22 Miss Jane Adams
today snid she felt certain that the young
woman held at Atlanta, Ga . , was not
the missing Jeanne Anna de Kay, but
"an adverturess" named Ia Hue. who
was in Chicago, January ii.
"She called me up and said she could
show me where Jeanne was." said Miss
Adams. "An appointment was made
and kept by Mrs. Gertrude Howe Brit
ton and John de Kay, Jeanne's brother.
A few minutes' talk convinced both slit
was an adventuress seeking notoriety. "
Miss de Kay came to Chicago shortly
before Christinas, to undertake social
service under Miss Adams at Hull House.
She disappeared a few days later, tak
ing only a few ersoiial things and leav
ing no word. Her wealthy father lives
at Lucerne, Switzerland.
nuiJiinu in hew YORK. f
NEW YORK. Jan. 22 At the hotel
Biltniore here, where the young woman
arrested in Atlanta as Miss Jeanne de
Kay, is said to have stated her husband
Harrow de Longe .resided, it was stated
today no person of that or a similar name
hail registered there during the pus:
month .
RAIDING SALOONS
AS REVENUE OFFICERS
Hy The Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 22. Thirsty ami
unscrupulous New Yorkers have adopted
the expedient of "raiding" saloons m
the guise of revenue officers, it was learn
ed today when James Shcvlin, supervis
ing federal prohibition agent, issued a
warning against their activities.
Mr. Shevlin said several reports had
reached him of "revenue agents" with
out credentials, who had demanded "all
the whiskey in the house'' from West
Side saloonkeepers. In none of the can
es reported were the "raids" successful.
Mr. Shevlin informed the saloonkeepers
they need not give up their precious sup
plies unless the "raiders" bore creden
tials from his office.
WOMAN DYING AS
RESULT MACON TRAGEDY
MACON, OA.. Jan. 21. Mrs. M. E.
Marsh, better known as Ethel Kelly, whe
with her daughter, Mrs. Martha Phillips,
were shot yesterday by E. I. Smith, a
former soldier, of Macon, is dying at a
hospital here. Mrs. Phillips will recover.
Mrs. Marsh was shot in the abdomen
and an operation was performed. Since
she has been sinking gradually ami hos
pital attaches ay he cannot live through
the day.
Smith, in a cell at the Blhb county
jail, admits the shooting, saying the wo
men came to his room and culled him out
to discus a warrant he had issued a
gainst the younger one.
v The shooting occurred in Wall street
alley in the heart of the retail district
and caused considerable excitement Both
of the-women were inmates of the re
stricted district here until it wax ah.il-
ished a year ago.
TWO AND A HALF MILLION
SUBSCRIBED YESTERDAY
Following Announcement of
Two Cotton Mills Early
Wednesday Belmont Mill
Men Announce Organization
of a Third Corporation to
Cost Well Over Million ol
lars. The story in yesterday 's Gazette head
ed "Two More Cotton Mills For Bel
mont" wns old and out-of-date by the
time The Gazette was off the press ami
in the hands of its readers. For, by the
time Gazette readers were reading about
these two, a third mill, larger than these
two combined, had been organized, and
practically all the stock taken by (i
o'clock. At thut hour a prominent of
ficial of the mill stated to a Gazette man
thut in all' probability the mill would be
of 21.000 spindles or larger equipment.
Over one million dollars had been sub
scribed at that time. Counting the three
mills announced at Belmont yesterday,
practically if2,rou,n(i0 was subscribed
there for cotton mill stock in less than
12 hours.
The two mills, of 10.1MMI .spindles ami
capitalized at $(imi,immj each, were an
nounced by Messrs. J. E. Kurd and I).
P. Stowe early Wednesday morning.
During the morning u meeting of the
stockholders of the Superior Mills, of
Htatesville, wns held and it was at this
time that Messrs. 1. L. and S. P.
Stowe 'announced their plans for a plant
that will cod over a million dollars.
It was not publicly announced until 12
o'clock and before G that afternoon all
the stock had leen taken and would-be
subscribers were begging for more. To
?i representative of this paper who hap
pened on the scene about 5:.'t0 o'clock,
the appearance was that of an army chow
line. Prominent citizens from Char
lotte and other cities were on hand in
great number. The thriving town of
Belmont had one of its most exciting
days. Concerning the mill and its cap
ital The Charlotte Observer of this morn
ing says:
"That Charlotte and the surrounding
country is "textile stock mad" is the
conclusion to be drawn from the story of
R. L. Stowe. Belmont mil) man, who
yesterday sold almost a million dollars
worth of mill stock between 4 and N
o'cock p. m.
"We decided thos morning that we
would organize a new mill." Mr. Stowe
told The Observer last night. "We want
ed to capitalize it at one million dollars.
We came so close to selling that amount
of stock in the few hours we tried that
1 can tell you authoritatively that the
mill will be capitalized for that amount."
Much of the stock of Belmont 's latest
and biggest enterprise was bought by
Charlotte capital, it was said last night.
The little Gaston county town of Bel
mont, which has long threatened to seize
the textile laurels of some of the larger
nearby cities, went on the map in still
larger letters yesterday with announce
ment that three more big mills have been
organized there.
The largest of the trio is backed by
R. L. Stowe and his brother S. P.
Stowe. Next in site comes that spon
sored by A. C. Lineberger, prominent
textile man and J. E. Ford, which will
I capitalized at $600,000. Mr. Line
berger and I). P. Stowe are together in
a third deal which means the organiza
tion of mill to lie capitalized it $500.
000. Work on all three will begin in
the late spring or early summer.
The million dollars enterprise will be
a combed yarn mill with 20,000 spindles.
It will employ 400 i arsons and maybe
more. A site has not yet lieen selected,
neither has a name. As to the site, it
will be near the town of Belmont. The
name will be chosen later. The Stowe
biothers plan to hurry the work to com
pletion once it is started.
Advices from Fchnont say the Line-berger-Stowe
mill, which is a combed
yarn mill, will have 10,000 spindles and
will employ 200 people. All the stock
has been taken. It was not put on the
market until this week. It will be built
near Belmont .
Both Mr. Lineberger and Mr. IVrJ
are well known in textile circles of the
state and south. Mr. Ford has i
been identified with Belmont mills, while
Mr. Lineberger is connected with a
half dosen or more in and near Belmont.
He is president of the Imperial, Chroni
cle, National, Climax and Majestic Spin
ning company and the Acme Spinning
company.
The third combed yarn mill will be
chartered at $500,000 and is backed by
Mr. Lineberger and D. P. Stowe. It
will le built near the other mills, which
is to say just outside of Belmont, in all
probability. Work on this factory will
be begun in the late spring, it is under
stood .
Washington, Jan. 21. By unanimous
vote the house public buildings commit
tee decided today not to recommend pas
sage at .this session of congress of a
general bill authorizing construction of
new government buildings over the conn-try.
MR. S. S. SHUFORD HEADS
CITY'S LATEST MILL
Today's Announcement Is of a
$200,000 Fine Yarn Mill of
5,000 Spindles Site near
Ridge Mill on York Road
Charter to be Applied For
at Once.
Ami still they come cotton mills, of
course. Here is a brand new one for
Gastonia, this being the first announce
ment made relative to it. As yet no or
ganization has been perfected and tlie
"baby mill" hasn't even been named
yet. These small details will lie perfect
ed, however, within the next few days.
A site has been secured adjoining the
Kidge Mill property on the York road
and the machinery has already been con
tracted for.
Mr. Samuel S. Sliuford is the moving
spirit in this latest enterprise and among
those associated with him are Col. C. B.
Armstrong, W. T. Rankin, A. .). Rankin,
George W. Wilson, R. li. Rnnkiu and
otl ers. Subscription papers for stock in
the new mill were opened yesterday and
in a short time the stork was practically
all taken.
This will be ;i .1,0110 spindle mill and
will in,i:,"':ictiire line combed yarns. The
i-ipital stock will be $20,miii. Within
the next few days, as soon as a li'.me can
I decided on. applicat' iu will i- nade
t i the Secretary ef SH-c for a chi.t.-r.
Mr. Shu oid is one of :-.-tonia 's .veil
I ' wn 'ii' " business in ii. For t .( : .-" t
three or four years, however, he has been
playing the role of a farmer at which tie
was unusually successful. Recently he
sold his large farm on the South Fork
river. He is a business man of ability
and his enterprise will undoubtedly Ik- a
go f:om the very start.
FLU IN CHICAGO
HAS REACHED PEAK
Continues to Spread Through
State of Illinois Death List
In Last 24 Hours Has Reach
ed 61.
(By The Associated Press.)
CHICAGO. Jan. 22 The inlluen.a ep
idemic in Chicago today was believed by
health department officials to have pass
ed its peak, but it continued to spread
down state. There wns a decrease in
the iitimlter of new cases reported, only
2,00s being recorded, but the death list
here for the last twenty-four hours reach
. f . . I . i.. .a I : . - I
ei sixiy-one, me largest iiui ing auv u.iv
since the outbreak began. The malady
continued to appear in a mild form and
Dr. John Dill Robertson, city health com
missioner, declared "the further the epi
demic goes, the more definitely the mild
character of the disease is proved."
Relief was promised from the serious
shortage of Curses by announcements that
the local American Red Cross chapter
had called its 2,300 trained nurses into
service and that 100 trained nurses from
the Visiting Nurses' Association were
co-oeratiiig with the municipal health
authorities.
Spread of the contagion from Chicago
and other northern Illinois points to
towns in Southern Illinois was reported
by Dr. St. Clair Drake, director of the
state department of public health .
POWHATAN WAS
0. K. LAST NIGHT
(By The Associated Press.)
NEW YORK. Jan. 22 A wireless
message received here early toitay said
that the army transport Powhatan, dis
abled at sea about 200 miles south' of
Halifax, was "O. K. " at 8:08 o'clock
last night. The message said the sea
was moderating and that the wind was
shifting. The United States shipping
board steamship Western Comet r.nd
the Canadian steamer Lady Laurier were
standing by, the message stated.
Later messages said that the destroy
er Sharkey, which has been standing by
the Powhatan, was "leaky" and would
be forced to return to port. The coast
guard cutter Ossipee was reported to be
neariug the Powhatan 's position .
PENNSYLVANIA LED IN
ROAD CONSTRUCTION,
lily The Associated Press.)
HARRISBURG. PA.. Jan. 21. Penn
sylvania led the nation in 1919 in mileage
of contracts let for road construction, ac
cording to the State Highway Depart
ment. I'p to Japuary 1 the state award
ed contracts for the building of 679.26
miles of durable highways. Its nearest
competitor was Illinois which contracted
for 510.70 miles.
Pennsylvania's 1920 program calls for
the construction of approximately SOQ
miles of roads. The department says
that Pennsylvania is far ahead of other
states in tbe organization it has perfect
ed to bril.l ?unble highways.
BRITISH EMPIRE TO
PRODUCE
Recommendations Include Plans For Production
Within the Empire of the Bulk of Cotton For
British Empire - Do Not Want to Be Depen
dent Upon United States For Supply Cotton.
ANOTHER RAGE RIOT
IN ARKANSAS
Detachment of Federal Sol
diers From Camp Pike Take
Charge of Situation.
(By The Associated Press)
Dl'M.YS, ARK., Jan. 22. A detach
ment of 128 federal soldiers from Camp
Pike, Ark., Governor Charles H. Brougli
and large parties of civil officers and
posseincii from nearby towns arrived ear
ly today to take charge of a race situa
tion arising from an alleged attack on n
deputy sheriff by armed negroes at a
negro settlement near here late yesterday.
Although apprehensive, local civil of
ficials saiil they were of the opinion that
the trouble would be confined to this dis
trict. The federal troops, six officers and 12S
men, were ordered here from ( amp Pike
after Governor Brough had conferred
with departmental headquarters at Char
leston, S. C.
According to reports today the dis
turbance started when J. H. Brecdlove,
a deputy sheriff, and two white compan
ions went into the negro settlement to
arrest a negro charged with stealing hogs.
Armed negroes, it was said, demanded
the prisoners' release and when Breed
love refused, opened fire. Breedlove re
turned the tire and with his companions
withdrew to get reinforcements, accord
ing to reports. Shortly afterwards the
wires leading to Dumas from the negro
settlement were cut.
Dumas is a village of film inhabitants
iu the southeastern part of tbe state. The
district where the trouble occurred is iso
lated ami the only white residents are
planters and their families ami a few
crews of small sawmills. The negroes
are said to outnumber the whites about
:;n to I.
Duimo is about tin miles southwest of
Elaine. Ark., scene of a negro uprising
last October, when a number of persons
were killed before the outbreak was
iuelled by federal troops. Dumas is 10
miles north of Winciiester, headquarters
of Robert Hill, alleged lender of the Kl
uine insurrectionists.
The troops arrived here at fi o'clock
this morning and made preparations for
an early start on the 12-mile march to
the settlement where fin armed negroes
are reported to hac gathered. The
movement of the troops will, necessarily,
be slow owing to the condition of thfl
roads which, in some sections, are almost
impassable owing to recent heavy rains.
The county is considerably removed
from Helena, Ark., where race troubles
of proportions occurred somo months ago
and where a number of persons were kill
ed before the outbreak waa quelled.
NO SERIOUS TROUBLE.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.. Jan. 22. Gov
ernor Charles H. Brough, who accompan
ied troops sent from Camp Pike to Du
mas, in response to appeals front tin
mayor and citizens of that town, declar
ed after a personal survey of the situa
tion there this morning that he does not
anticipate serious race trouble, accord
ing to a despatch from the correspondent
of The Arkansas Ieiiioernt. It was stat
ed that no evidence was found at Dumas
of a conspiracy to foment an uprising
such as was shown in the investigation
of the reent disorders at Elaine, where
six white men and a number of negroes
were killed.
"PLAN OF SAN DIEGO"
TO THE FRONT
SAX ANTONIO, Tex., Jan. 22 The
Mexican "plan of San Diego" which had
as its object the recovery of certain
American territory, was to the fore
front today when the senate sub-committee
here investigating Mexican af
fairs resumed its hearings.
Senator A. B. Fall, of New Mexico
who had been hi El Paso in connection
with the proposed transfer of the hear
ings to that city, was back in the chair
as presiding oilier.
Senator Fall and Senator Marcus Smith
conferred until late last night with Gov
ernment agents about the evidence they
expected to submit concerning the
"plan. "
Judge John Valle, in whose court were
tried several Mexicans who participated
in raids into the United States under
"the plan" wns called as a witness.
Tlte Presidential ring is - getting all
i' i ri! up with hats. Boston Globe.
NEEDED
1,1111!
I (By The Associated Press.)
LONDON, Wednesday, Jan. 21 Plana
I intended to result in production within
the Hritish empire of enough cotton to
supply the bulk of the nation's needs, are
outlined in a report of the empire cotton
growing committee of the board of trade,
made public here today.
Recommendations included in the white
paper for stimulation of the industry
were as follows:
An annual grunt of ten thousand
pounds for live years to the empire cot
ton growing committee; strengthening of
the agricultural departments of the Brit
ish colonies and protectorates ; establish
ment of a central research institute; crea
tion of readerships at universities; foun
dation of a bureau for the interchange
of information on cotton growing; strict
control over essential matters connected
with cotton growing; authorizing local
associations of the cotton growing associa
tions to act as agents of the empire cot
ton growing committee in marketing the
crops; funds to be provided by the treas
ury would come from local revenues of
cotton growing areas and from the cot
ton industry itself.
The reHrt of the committee said the
cotton industry in the empire drew four
fifths of its supplies from the United
States, ami expressed the belief that it
was dangerous to be dependent bo large
ly on the climatic vagaries of one por
tion of the world. The white paper also
jiointed out that the United States ia re
quiring every year an increasing propor
tion of its own cotton crops for homo
consumption .
Since July, 1917, the situation with re
spect to the cotton industry has become
worse, the report stated, and there waa
said to be evidence of a world shortage
of the commodity. Notwithstanding this
condition the committee said:
We nre confident that if proper meth
ods were taken it is ossible to grow with
in the empire a very large pro tort ion of
the cotton it requires. "
The problem of adequate development
of the empire's cotton resources was said
to Im- dependent on the acquisition of
necessary knowledge, the supply of calla
ble men, establishment of efficient ar
rangements for controlling growing cot
ton crops and marketing, and the provis
ion of necessary money.
SAYS EFFORT MADE TO NOM
INATE "WET" CANDIDATE
W. J. Bryan Makes Startlm
Disclosure of Attempts By
Liquor Interests to Nominate
Candidate.
RICHMOND. Va.. Jan. 22 Declaring
he had evidence to prove that an organi
zed effort was l-ing made by "liquor
interests" to nominate a "wet" candi
date for president ou a "wet" platform.
Willian J. Bryan was on record today
in opjiosition to Governor Edward I. Ed
wards, of New Jersey, and in favor of
a new democratic national chairman, "if
Homer H. Gumming' address at a ban
quet Tuesday night in Governor Edwards'
honor rorrectly expressed his attitude."
Mr. Bryan assailed Governor Edwards
bitterly in sfieechcs here and Vnwu
j yesterday and last night, and joncluding
nis remams, referred to Chairman Cuai
mings' attendance at what 1 termed
the New Jersey governor's - coming
out" banquet.
"If the chairman," he said, "hadn't
Sense enough to know better than to join
a boom for a candidate like that, he
hasn't sense enough to be o.i tb,- com
mittee. "
BRITISH SEND EXPERTS
TO STUDY DISEASES
SYDNEY, res. 26 The British gov
ernment has sent a party to the EllVce
and Gilbert islands in the Central Pa
citic to study tropical diseases such as
filariasis and allied ailments such as
elephantiasis. Hookworm and dysentery
also will be studied. The party ia head
ed by Dr. F. W. O'Copnor, who in
vestigated disease in China and Africa
and who in the war was attached to the
British forees on the Sinai Peninsula
where he devote.! special attention to
treatment of dyseutery.
The former tf!. - n. ...
havmg exprest a desire to make a tour
that the dime museums nare been dis.
placed, by the moving i.Ictures.-Bostoa
lj lube.
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