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Oastonia Da Gazette GASTONIA COTTON 39 CENTS TODAY LAST MEXBKS Or THJE ASSOCIATED PSX5S VOL. XL!. NO. 22. GASTONIA, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JAN. 26, 1920 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS FATE OF FOUND CONDITIONS IN COUNTY EXCELLENT COUNTY TREASURER CARL . FINGER DIED YESTERDAY LY OF TREATY HINGES ON TODAY'S CONFERENCE ."Bi-Partisan Committee of Five Democrats and Four Republicans Have Been Holding Series of Informal Conferences In Effort to Adjust Differences Between Foes and Friends of the Pact. (By The Auoel&ted Press j WASHINGTON. Jan. 26. No change m the reservations affecting article ten of the league of nations covenant or the Monroe doctrine provision of tlie pence treaty will le acceptable to the republi cans, Senator Lodge today informed Sen . ator Hitchcock and other members of the informal democratic committee which hag been conferring with Senator Lodge ' committee in an effort to reach n com promise on the treaty. WASHINGTON. .Ian. 20. Fate of tin negotiations for a compromise in the m rate peace treaty deadlock hinged on 'today's meeting of the bi-partisan com mittee, composed of five democrats and four republic-ins who have been ' holding :i series of informal conferences in an effort to adjust differences between the foes and friends of the pact. Senator Lidge, republican leader, who spent the week-end in consultation with his col leagues, had ready an announcement as to the limit the "strong" reservatlon iste of his party would go in compromis ing with democrats on the socalled Lodge reservations, the basis of the bi-partisu conferences. Before the meeting there was no indi cation as to what concessions the repub licans were willing to make, but it was aaid the democrats would be told that no change involving the principle of the two principal reservations at issue would be permitted. Any change in these, article tn of the league of nations and that -dealing with the voting -power in the league, it was said the democrats would be told, must be confined to language on- The. position Senator Lodge assumed was said to have the approval of a ma jority of the republican membership in the senate, including Senators Johnson, of Califoria, and Borah, of Idaho, as well as others of the group who have op posed any modification' of the reserva tions which the democrats at the last session declined to aceept. After the republican leader set forth his etand, the next move will be up to the democrats. There was no indication a to how they would receive the offer. Senator Hitchcock, leader of the Admin istration forces, said he was hopeful, hut not confident of the outcome ' of the meeting today. Should the democrats refuse to accept the republican proposals as a basis of an agreement, it was be lieved in some quarters that further com mittee conferences would be called off, although the final break might not come for several days. FEDERAL AGENTS MAY BECOME INVOLVED IN SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY! OF MARTENS Ludwig Martens, Self-Styled Russian Soviet Am bassador, Promises to Testify to Facts Involv ing Department of Justice Agents in Radical Activities - Will Continue Testimony Today. (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 Develop ments of a "sensational" nature were praised by members of the senate for eign relations subcommittee of which Sen ator Hoses, republican, of New Hamp shire, is chairman, when the investiga tion of bolshevik propaganda was re sumed today. Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, self-styled Russian soviet ambassador to the United States, who began his testimony last week just before the committee postpon ed its sessions, but who got no far ther than the reading of a prepared state ment dealing with his life history, was the first witness to be called today. Particular interest was lent Martens' testimony, because of his statement that lie would testify to facts involving de partment of justice agents in radical ac tivities. . . TO CALL 34-H0TJ2 STRIKE. (By "The Associated Press.) PARI8, Jan. 28 The council of the Federation of Port and Dork Workers, which met in Paris yesterday, decided to call a 24-hour strike at all Atlantic ports tomorrow, with a view to. supporting strikers at the port of Lorietft, Brittany. I. W. W. TO BE TRIED FOR MURDER (B7 The Associated Press) MONTKSAXO, WASIIX.. Jan. 26. A Tegtdar venire of HO men and a special venire of ."0j today had been summoned for the opening of the trial of eleven Industrial Workers of the World, charg ed with murder in connection with the shooting to death of four former service men at Centralia, Washn., on armistice day. l)efenso counsel had announced, howcer, that a second request for a change of venue would be made. T h e trial was trausferred to Montesano, seat of Gray's Harbor county, from Lewis county, where the shooting occurred. De fense counsel then as now charged senti ment against the defendants would de prive them of a fair trial. It has been estimated that ten weeks will be necessary for the trial. The pros ecution has a list of more than 500 wit nesses and the defense is said to plan to present fully 100. Ten defendants are charged with the murder of Lieut. Warren O. Grimm, a leader in the armistice day parade. They are Britt Smith, O. C. Bland, Bert Faulk ner, Ray Becker, James Mclnneney, IjO ren Roberts, Eugene Bamett, Mike Bhee han, John Lamb, and Bert Bland. John Doe Davis and Ole Hanson also were named in the information hut have not been apprehended. The eleventh man, Elmer Smith, Cen traliu attorney, is charged with being an accessory )efore the fact, in that he is charged to have "procured, aided, assist ed, counseled, incited, commanded ami abetted" the others in the alleged con spiracy to shoot the former service men as they marched in the parade. OFFERED GIFT OF $25,000 (By The Associated Press) NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 24 Cum !erland University at Lebanon has been proffered a gift of $23,000 by the gener al educational board of the Presbyterian church, provided that the institution raises 175,000. The president and board of trustees will launch a campaign for the $75,000 at a banquet in Lebanon January 30. The fund so raised will be called the Nathan Green Memorial Fund in honor of the late Dean of the law school. EDITORS IK FROM SUICIDE MANIA j (By The Associated Press.) J NEW YORK. Jan. 26. Since the J signing of the armistice there has been a constantly increasing number of suicides everywhere, according to a report issued today by the Save-A-Live League. In Germany, Russia, Syria, and other for eign countries where the number has been very large, the earn is attributed to despair because of miserable living conditions brought about by the war. The report tabulated 5.121 cases of su icide in the United States during 1919. Of the professions lawyers led the list with 43. of whom 12 were judges; .56 victims were physicians, 23 teachers and 1 1 clergymen. The list Included 20 pres idents of large business concerns ami, 50 prominent club members, millionaires and wealthy society women. Unhappy mar tial relations were responsible for 350 tragedies. v Men outnumbered women 2,9X7 to 1, ,657, but of the child suicides 252 were girls and 225 boys. "Newspaper editors apjieaied to be immune. . E. F. Carter, Executive Officer of State Welfare Commis sion, Completes Two - Weeks Survey of County Speaks in High Term of Conditions Here. Mr. E. F. Carter, executive officer of the State Welfare Commission has com pleted a survey of conditions existing in Gaston county and left the city for Ral eigh Saturday. This work was done in cooeratiou with Dr. W. U. Hunter, wel fare officer of Gaston county. Mr. Car ter stated that he found conditions here, a,s a whole, excellent and that he was highly pleased with the cordial spirit of co-operation manifested by the manufac turers and business men of the county. This work is being done under provis ions made by the general ussembly as follows: Chapter KM), public laws of 1919, entitled an act to regulate and re strict the employment of children be tween certain ages; Chapter S3, public laws of 19Ki, entitled an act to compel manufacturing and business enterprises to provide separate toilets for each color and sex to lie lettered anil marked dis tinctly, iiinl chapter H7, public laws of 1909, entitled an act to require em ployers to provide seats for female em ployees when not necessarily employed or engaged in service of labor. Speaking of this work in the county, Mr. Carter said: "Our survey of the child labor of Gaston county has been very interesting. There appears to be a well-established rule in the cotton mills as to the posting of notices requiring a strict adherence to the laws. A keen in terest has been manifested by the di rectors of these institutions in the at tendance upon schools of the children within the age limit. Our conferences with those interested in the education uud welfare of the community has given us a first hand knowledge of the fine spirit of co-operation in a number of places and the strong financial and moral sup port given by the directors of industries to education and welfare work. Our survey in this county as well as others bears out our former statement that most of the child labor violations are confined to the smaller places enu merated in section five. In some of these places the conditions and surroundings are such as to lead a boy to truancy and delinquency. This should call for the full support of every citizen in the great work of directing child life along the lines provided by our welfare laws and which is under the direction of Ir. Hun ter, superintendent of welfare work in this county. In this connection I wish to emphasize the fact that no girl may be employed under fourteen years of ago. No boy may be employed during the school per iod under fourteen years of age. A boy between the ages of 12 and 14 years may be legally employed In'fore and after school and during vacation when the em ployer has secured from the county su eriuteudant of welfare an employment certificate. These can be obtained by ap lication to Dr. Hunter. The law pro vides a fine for the parent as well as for the employer who fails to comply with this act. ' ' The importance of these rules cannot be overestimated as it provides a means to correct any influence that would de stroy the morals or impair the health of the child. ' ' During our two-weeks survey we have personally inspected 73 cotton mills 86 business places and have held 39 con ferences with education, welfare and community directors. It was found that ten buildings for welfare work are now ojen for active work or are under con struction. We have been advised l seven others that they are considering like programs for buildings and welfare work. This does not include numerous others who are developing a fine work, centralizing in the schools. One com munity which should have special men tion has provided a business course in which a goodly number of young peo ple are being instructed in bookkeeping, stenography and short hand. This has been made possible by the co-operation of the mill management with the school board. "My observation of the schools in the county causes me to add my endorse ment to the editorial in The Charlotte Observer commending those responsible for what has been accomplished and the future program now under considera tion. "In our survey of the county we have been impressed with the importance of some well-defined plans for vocational training. Nowhere have we found more ideal conditions for providing such a course and centralizing it in the city. The present and future needs of the ' indus try so well established in this county will require some action to meet the ever-increasing demands for trained and ef ficient overseers snd superintendents to manage the future industries. Our con ference with Mr. W. T. Rankin, Col. C. B. Armstrong and Mr. A. M. Dix on we have learned that they and others whom we did not have the opportunity to interview are now giving serious eon- Mr. Carl Finger Suceumbs td Attack of Pneumonia Sun day Morning at 4i30 o'Clock Funeral and Interment at Stanley This Morning at 10 o'Clock. Mr. Carl Finger, county treasurer of Gaston county, died Sunday morning at '4:30 o'clock at his home in Chexterplare. Pneumonia following influenza was the cause of his death. Mr. Finger hail been ill for two weeks, but was not compelled to take his bed until Sunday January l.Hth. During the past week hisoiliiition bciame serious, and fears were enter" tained for his recovery. Saturday he be came much worse and at midnight he lost consciousness and gradually Hank un til the end came at 4:.'t0. Funeral services were conducted at the residence this morning at 10 o'clock by Rev. H. II. Jordan, presiding elder of the Shelby district. The pallbearers j were Messrs. Krnest K. Warren, Kdward X. Halm, II. U. Thompson and Frank Ho.vd, of Stanley, (ieorge W. Wilson and K. C Mcl.urd. liurial took place at Stanley. .Surviving Mr. Finger are lii mother, Mrs. Sallie Derr Finger, who maile her home here in Gastonia with Mr. Finger and one brother, Mr. Fred Finger, of the Barnes-Finger Drug Company, of Kings Mountain. Carl Finger was born at Stanley, Gas ton county, June 15, 1888, and was 31 years and seven months old. He attend ed school at Rutherford and Trinity col leges and at the University of North Carolina. At the latter institution he ob tained his degree in pharmacy and was, up to the time he was elected county treasurer in 1910, associated with Mr. O. B. (arpenter in the Stanley Drug Com pany. In 1910 he succeeded the late Capt. J. Q. Holland as treasurer which office he has held continually since. Mr. Finger was the son of the late L. Eli "Finger and Sallie Derr Finger. Mr. Finger, after coming to Gastonia, began the reading of law and about one year ago was granted his license. He was a member of the Gaston County Bar Association. He was an omnivorous reader and was one of the best informed men in the county on events, current and political. Despite an affliction which he has en dured throughout his life he was one of the most genial, gooifnatured men In Gastonia, always ready with a smile and an encouraging word of greeting. There was nothing he would not do to accom modate any of the patrons of his office at the courthouse, frequently going out of his way to render a favor to some one. He was held in the highest esteem by all the county officials. Out of respect to his memory, practi cally all the courthouse offices are closed today. In all probability the couitty commis sioners will appoint his successor at the February meeting of the board next Mon day. BOLSHEVISM DOES NOT APPEAL TO TURKS (By The Associated Press.) CONSTANTINOPLE. Jan. 1-Bol-shevism has no aptteal to the Turks, be ing contrary to their religious training and their patriotic sentiment, says Mus tapha Kemal Pasha, political and mili tary leader of the Turkish nationalist movement in Asia Minor. Recently there have been reports that the bolsheviki have made inroads in Turkish Asia Minor and that Knver Pasha, minister of war here in 1914, has sponsored a bolshevik uprising in Turkestan. Mustapha Kemal denied his adherents in the nationalist cause were leagued with Enver Pasha or with Talaat Pasha, former grand vizier, who is reported to have been converted to bolshevism. Bolshevism might result, however, from a peace which makes the Turks a sub ject people, he asserted, but he added that such an alliance with the soviet power would be but temporary. sideration to the establishment of a tex tile school in Gastonia. These gentle men are to be commended for the long view they have taken for the future of the organization of their industry. The full realization of the welfare programs now being promoted and those antici pated should have a far-reaching in fluence in providing directors for the adult and child life in education, recrea tion and wholesome amusement. In our interviews with the employes we have been impressed with the good feeling manifested for the plana of co-operative profit-sharing and the ideal housing con ditions evidenced in so may communities. I feel deeply indebted to Br. Hunter for his line spirit of co-operation in making this survey s success . ' REPLY TO REFUSAL OF DUTCH GOVERNMENT (By The Associated Press.) PARIS. Jan. 26 The reply to the re fusal of the Dutch government to com jdy with the demand of the allies for the surrender of former Kmperor William was the fir-t subject discussed today at the initial meeting of the council of the ambassadors, created to carry on the un finished routine work of the supreme council of the peace conference, which disbanded Inst week. It was decided that the French legal experts available should go into all the aspects of the case and prepare the reply, which probably will be submitted for approval of the conn I cil early next week. I Hie discussion in the council iid not disclose the trend of opinion among the members than that it appeared to be the view that the legal jdia.se of the ques tion had become the chief one. The council was precided over !y Premier Millerand. Hugh C. Wallace, the American umhats:idui-, wus present with the others members of the body. After disposing lur the day of the ex tradition question the council decided to give the representatives of the Jugo slavs four days additional time to reply regarding the proosed compromise on the Adriatic question, including the dis position of Fiiime. This carries the question along until Wednesday. The council received a letter from Htanislau Patek, minister of foreign af fairs of Poland, calling attention to the possibility of a strong aggressive move ment by the bolsheviki against Polish territory and recommending that a plan be adopted for defensive measures. The letter asked that the question be called to the attention of Marshal Foch. The council also had before it a note from the German plenipotentiaries rais ing certain points regarding the make-up of the boundary commissions provided for by the treaty of Versailles. The questions were raised by the Germans be cause of the non-ratification of the treaty by the United States and the con sequent lack of American members on the coinmissionans provided for by the peace document. LEFT MOSCOW. (By The Associated Press.) STOCKHOLM. Jan. 26 Members of the soviet government have left Moscow after a renewed outbreak of the pleague and have gone to the city of Tvor, on the upjier Volga, according to advices re ceived here. WORLD'S DEBT AT TOO HUNDRED World's Debt Increases From Forty Billions in 1914 to Two Hundred Billions Today - Paper Currency Has Increased 600 Per Cent. ( By The Associated Press. ) NKW YORK. Jan. 126 The world's debt was estimated by the National City Bank today at $200,000,000,000, com pared with $40,000,000,00 in 1914. Paper currency throughout the world increased 60 per cent since 1914, while the gold reserve behind it increased only forty per cent, according to statistics compiled by the bank. The face value of paper currency of thirty principal counties, whicfi totalled $74150,000,000 in 1914. had increased to 140,000,000000 at the time of the armistice and to $50, 000.000,000 in December, 1919, exclusive of $34,000,000,000 issued by the Russian soviet government. Germany Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria show an advance in note circula tion from $1,200,000,000 in 1914 to $12, 300.000.000 at the close of the wr. and IR.770.000,000 in December, 1919, the gold reserve falling from $600,000,000 in 1914 to $327,000,000 in 1919. the ratio of gold to notes dclining from 49.7 per cent in 1914 to 5.5 per cent, in Novem ber, 1918 and 1.7 per cent in December, 1919. In the eight principal countries of the allies, paper notes increased from $1,166, 000,000 in 1914 to $2,420,000,000, a ratio of 44.3. in 1914 and 59.9 in 1919. ON STRIKE . HAVANA, Jan. 24 The engineers, firemen and shopmen of the United Rail ways of Havana have gone on strike in sympathy with tue striking federated harbor union. Train service into and out of Havana as far ss Santa Clari is virtually at a standstill. Prices of food stuffs here snd throughout the island sre soaring upward. . ' ' "' BRITISH NAVY MAY HAVE LARGE SHELL Will Pierce Heaviest Armor Without Shattering Will Render British Gun Unsur passed. (liy The Associated Press.) 1 OVfiAXT 7 no mi ... . unu. 0. me xirrusa asvry may soon be given a new and "unsur passed" weapon in a large calibre shell, ,;which will pierce the heaviest armor with out shattering, said Sir Robert Hadfield, chairman and managing director of Had fileds. Limited, steel manufacturers, re cently. He indicated that possession of such a shell during the great war would hae been of inestimable value to the At lantic fleet. "The feat has been accomplished," he said, "within the last few days of get ting the largest calibre of armor-piercing shell unbroken through the thickest of modern hard-faced armor plate. This result will render the British gun unsur passed, incomparable and the master la any naval engagements of the future. "If we had possessed such a shell dur ing the war many of the German battle ships would have been 'scuttled' long uerore tneir end at Mcapa r low. " CLEARING AND WARMER WEATHER TOMORROW. (By The Associated Press.) ATLANTA, GA.. Jan. 26. Rain and sleet storms which have prevailed throughout Northeast Georgia and the Carolines for the past .16 hours, are ex pected to give way tonight and tomorrow to clearing, warmer weather, according to the weather bureau here. Reports today showed it was sleeting at Raleigh, N. C, where the temperature was 24 degrees. The thermometer reach ed 32 degrees at Birmingham and Atlan ta. Southern headquarters of teh tele graph and telephone companies here re ports slight delay to business lecause of ice lailen wires, while railroads report practically all trains operating on sched ule time. IS ESTIMATED THE ALABAMA IS STUCK IN THE ICE Six Men Unaccounted For la Attempt to Rescue Steamer Stuck Four Miles Out in Lake Michigan. CHICAGO, Jan. 26 Six men who tried to reach the steamer Sidney O. Neff, stuck in the ice four miles out in Lake Michigan, were unaccounted for early today and the Goodrich Transit Company's flagship Alabama, carrying a crew of fifty, was fast in the ice banks six miles out. For the first time in a week, however, the wind today had shifted to off-shore and it is hoped ice breaking tugs could release the small neff, with its crew of eight, tomorrow. It was believed the . shifting ice would permit the Alabama to crush her way to port. Captain Olsen, skipper of the Neff, H. C. Anderson, a sea-faring friend, sad four members of the Neff 's crew. Amund Strand, wheelsman; George Duncan snd Paulus Hanson, watchman, snd Conrad Carmody, fireman, were the men reported missing today. The five men from the boat had made their way to the shore, but were returning to the Neff, ss it was not, believed she would be crushed by t he ice. The lookout st the four, mile crib ' reported that s careful watch all -day yesterday failed to reveal the men Bear ing the ship, which lay within easy range of his glasses. Rescue partks failed to find their trail in the snow. , . BILLION
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