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GAZETTE
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SENSATIONAL STORY OF
PLOT. INTRIGUE UNEARTHED
IN NEWBERRY TRIAL
Frank C. Dailey, Assistant Attorney General,
Tells Story of Inception of Election Conspir
acy - Newberry In New York Poses on Ship on
Dry Land For Pictures to Fool the Public -Money
Used Right and Left All Over State of
Michigan.
(By The Associated Press.)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 2
The fraudulent election conspiracy which
the government charges against United
states Benator Newberry" and his co-defendants,
had its inception in New York
in 1917, according to the ojening state
ment which Prank C. Dailey, assistant
attorney general, made to the jury' in
United States district court here today.
He named Henator Newberry and William
flody, whom he described as " a legis
lative agent for large corporations, par
ticularly the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company and the American
Book Company," as the men, is ho made
the "preliminary arrangements," He
added:
"They had determined to purchase the
United States senatorship in Michigan
for Mr. Newberrj.'
Mr.1 Daily told the jury that the sen
ator was then on "patriotic work" in
New York City as a lieutenant com
mander in the navy, adding that the
American Hook Company ' ' was largely
controlled by the Barnes family to which
Mr. Newberry was related by mar
riage. "
Mr. Daily said that Cody was com
missioned to hire a manager for the cam
paign and that J. G. Hayden, Wash
ington correspondent of the Detroit
News, was offered $500 a month but re
fused the position because ' ' he did not
want that kind of a job." Mr. Daily
said solicitation of Hayden ceased sud
denly after the latter had advised Mr.
Newberry "not to conduct a 'barrel
campaign'. "
Mr. Dailey then shifted the scene to
Detroit, where he said in February there
was a conference of Michigan politiciniiH
known as "(Jody Men. "
This conference, he said", selected Paul
H. King, one of the defendants, as man
ager of the campaign.
"During the campaign," nid Mr.
Dailey, "Mr. King visited practically
rvery county in Michigan. He employ
ed many general agents and paid out a
vast sum of money . ' '
The prosecutor then sketched the pub
licity (campaign oi" the Newberry or
ganization, charging that they sought ad
vertising space in "every newspaper and
magazine in the state. " He named sev
eral publcations iu which he said the ad
vertising appeared, including Russian,
Finish, Italian and Hungarian news
papers," and some published in the Ger
man language. "
He then turned to the use of moving
pictures, saying that Thomas B. Phil
lips, of Detroit, one of the defendants,
was sent to New York to negotiate for
them.
'."Phillips purchased about 1,000 feet
GERMAN OFFICERS RECEIVE MYSTERIOUS
ARMY ORDERS MARKED "STRICTLY SECRET'
Ceneral Staff Officers Get Orders Marked
"Strictly Secret," Containing Directions Con
cerning Recruiting Aviation Squads, Etc. -
Newspapers of Berlin
Document, Believed to
Insane Officer Now In
(By Associated Press.;
BERLIN, Fcby. 1. General etaff of
ficers throughout Germany have received
mysterious order, supposed to have
emanated from the war ministry, printed
on official stationery and marked ' ' strict
ly eecret" It gave instructions to the
officers respecting the organization -and
equipment of new army units which were
to be held in readiness for instantaneous
mobilization. "
The order contained detailed directions
oacerning recruiting and organizing
stores, aviation squads and other units,
and specifically ordered' that 600, fliers,
equipped for bombing flights, should be
a readiness by March 1 to break through
: ob the west.
' Some of the newspapers print the doc
ument today, accompanying it' -with a
semi-official declaration that its author,
aa insane former officer, was arrested
Saturday and is now in a sanitarium.
This declaration , adds that "the order
might likely be construed by the entente
. as a breach of the peace treaty and evi
dence. of disloyalty," and says it there
fore is given publicity with the purpose
f indicating its origin.- '
of an old film showing a review of the
United States navy," said Mr. Dailey.
"The sub-titles were changed so as to
make the pictures applicable to the
propaganda for which they were intend
ed. Mr. Phillips also employed a mov
ing picture company to "take 125 feet of
new films.
"Mr. Newberry posed, iu various at
titudes in the, new film. He went to
a battleship located on dry land iu a
New York park and stood on the bridge
of the ship and turned slowly to face
the audience while the camera caught him
in this attitude. ' '
' He then played that he was paying
a visit of inspection to this battleship.
"To divert attention from the fact
that the film was a Newberry advertise
ment and render it more misleading, the
film terminated with an np)eal for en
listment in the navy. " ,
Mr. Dailey said the film was distrib
uted in Michigan, advertised by .New
berry agents posing as theatrical ad
vance men but that "patrons of the mov
ing picture houses over the state paid
the regular price of admission to see this
film."
The prosecutor read a telegram which
he said was sent in Heptember, 1918, to
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bny
bidding for his approval of the New
berry candidacy. He said this telegram
was signed "Newberry volunteer com
mittee, Charles A. Floyd, secretary."
The telegran stated $176,000 had leen
contributed to the campaign by many
subscribers but, according to the pros
ecutor, the campaign statement of the
committee showed that five contributors
alone gave 169,000, and named John
H. Newberry, a defendant and brother
of the senator, Mrs. Henry B. Joy, a
sister, and her husband, and Victor
Barnes and Lyman H. Smith, of the
American Book Coin puny.
How the government charges the money
was scattered was described in detail by
Mr. Dailey. lie said it went for au
tomobiles and halls, workers at the polls',
votes, banquets, liquor, cigars and
flowers. He charged that some custo
dians of money used it to pay personal
debts.
There was also, he said, a system of
gratuities. A $50 bill was placed in a
book so that it could .be found by one
citizen' and a banker was given $500 for
his influence, the prosecutor charged.
"They employed men to work particu
larly among railroad unions," said Mr.
Dailey. "They paid the editor of a
railroad magazine for articles iu the mag
azine and gave him additional money to
(Continued on page 8.)
Give Publicity to the
HaVe Emanated From
Sanitorium.
GUILTY GERMANS TO
BE ANNOUNCED TODAY
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Feb. 2. The list of Germans
to be demanded by the allies and placed
pn trial charged with violations of the
laws of war will probably be given to
German representatives here today, ac
cording to The Petit Parisien. It is ex
pected Germany will resist this demand,
the newspaper says, and that the peace
conference will probably be forced to con
sider 'future action and at the same time
examine different violations of the condi
tions of the armistice and peace treaty by
Germany.
A patent has been granted for a safety
pocket for men, to be attached to bus
trousers and held closed by suspended
ponder buttons inside the waist band of
trousers, and held closed by suspender
tips.
MRS. ARTHUR DIXON DIES
FROM PNEUMONIA
One qf Gastonia Most Prom
inent and Best Loved Wo
men Succumbs to Fatal Mal
ady Funeral Services Tues
day Afternoon at Residence
at 3:30 o'Clock.
The deadly double pneumonia, follow
ing influenza, entered another Oastonia
home. this morning and claimed as a vic
tim, one of the city's most prominent and
best loved women, Mrs. Lottie Ray Dix
on, wife of Mr. A. M. Dixon, of the
Trenton and Dixon cotton mills, and
former mayor of Oastonia. Mrs. Dixon
was taken ill with influenza last Mon
day. January 26. Pneumonia developed
Friday afternoon of la.st week. Her
condition wns not regarded as serious a;
alarming until Saturday night. All the
immediate members of the family were
summoned to her bedside yesterday. Sun
day night her condition bccimi-i much
worse, and nt f: 4f o'clock this moring
she punned peacefully away.
Mrs. Dixon was conscious up until
within two hours Vf her death and
realized the seriousness of her condition.
In the death of Mrs. Dixon, ,the city
loses one of its most prominent ami most
popular young matrons. Mrs. Dixon's
personality was such as to win her frieuds
in whatever circle she moved. Dainty,
winsome and attractive, she wus a gen
eral favorite in church and social eli
des. Mrs. Dixon was prominent in
war-work activities. She was one of the
most tireless workers in the Red Croij
work-room ami iu other kindred activ
ities brought on by the war.
She was n member of the h'irst Prot.
byterian church of Oastonii and was
prominent in all the activities of uer
church.
Lottie Thomas Hay, daughter of Rob
ert R. and Mary Downs Hay, was born
at McAdeuvillo January 20, 1886, and
was therefore 34 years old. She at-,
tended the Presbyterian College in Char
lotte. On October 11, 1908, she was- mar
ried to Mr. Arthur M. Dixon, of Oas
tonia, who survives together with her
father and mother, and the following
brothers and sisters, Mr. Ed ('. Ray, of
McAdcjivillc, Mrs, L. X. Glenn, of Oas
tonia, Dr. Ralph Hay, of Oastonia, and
Miss Mamie Ray, of McAdenville. A
brother. Mr. Minor O. Ray died Octob
er 19. 19IS during the terrible epidemic
of tin that scourged this section at that
time.
Roth Mr. ami Mrs. Dixon were ill
from inllui'iiza last week, although jit
present Mr. Dixon is able to be up.
Funeral services will lie conducted at
.'I :.".(! o'clock tomorrow afternoon from
the residence. Rev. H. H. Jordan will as
sist Uie pastor, Dr. J. 11. Ilenderlltc.
The pall-benrers will he Messrs. George
K. Tnte. of McAdenville. W. L. Ralthis,
E. V. Gilliam, Fred S. Smyre, J. L. Ad
ams and S. N. Boyce.
Interment will be iu Oakwood ceme
terr. TO SAVE SWISS
WATCH INDUSTRY
(By The Associated Press)
BERXE, Feb. 2 Immediate govern
ment intervention is necessary to save
the Swiss clock and watch industry from
"inevitable catastrophe, " arising from
the unfavorable exchange situation, ac
cording to addresses made before the
Swiss commerce and industry congress
which closed its sessions here Sunday.
All lines of trade are adversely aJivted
by the present conditions.
A moratorium for firms in a critical
position was proposed and resolutions
were adopted asking the federal coun
cil to propose an international confer
ence to reach an understanding on the ex
change question.
TRIBUNAL TO TRY
ADMIRAL KOLCHAK
(By The Associated Press)
(By The associated Press.)
LONDON, Feb. 2. Formation of a
tribunal by the soviet of Irkutsk to try
Admiral Kolchak, former bead of the All
Russian government in Siberia, is report
ed in a despatch to The Daily Mail from
the town of Manchuria, near the border
between Siberia and northern China. It
is said that belief exists in the Far East
that Kolchak -will be sent to Moscow to
be tried by a higher court.
The despatch, which was filed on Sat
urday, stated that the situation in east
ern 8iberia bad quieteed down, under
martial law. The gold fields along . the
Lena river have been nationalized, it was
added.
Encouraging Report
In her weekly report to .the manage
ment of the Armstrong, Clara and Puna
mills, Miss W. B. Otey stated Saturday
that only 11 new cases of flu had devel
oped during the week. Of these 11 on
ly three have pneumonia, the other eight
being mild eases. This report Indicates
a decided improvement over, the condi
tion as it existed the week previous.
HELEN COM! MILLS
ANNOUNCE ORGANIZATION
Mrs. W. Ralph Armstrong . En
joys Unique Distinction of
Being Honored With Post of
Secretary Mill Will Be
Running By October.
At an organization meeting of the
Helen Cotton Anils, of Rock Hill, 8. CV,
held ii few days ago, the following di
rectors were elected: C. P.., ('. C. and W.
R. Armstrong, A. K. Wingct and J. R.
McElwee, of Rock Hill. The officers are
as follows: C. B. Armstrong, president;
V. R. Armstrong, vice-president and
treasurer; J. R. McElwee, assistant treas
urer, and Mrs. V. R. Armstrong, secretta
ry. It is probable that Mrs. Armstrong
enjoys the unique honor and distinction
og being the first woman in the South to
be elected secretary of a cotton mill. Mrs.
Armstrong, before marriage, was Miss
Helen Potts, of Kosciusko, Miss.
The Helen mills wilt manufacture
comhed yarns, Ms to l!0s and is .capital
ized at l.o,ooo. There will be :i,00U.
spindles. It is the intention of the di
rectors to have the mill running by Oc
tober. The old Syleecau Mill property
recently bought by Mr. Ralph Armstrong
will be remodeled and refurnished. Ma
chinery which has been bought for some
time will be delivered within .'10 to 60
days.
ARE STOCKINGS CHARG
ED WITH T. N. T:
'By The Associated Press.)
VIENNA.. Feb. 2 Police officials of
this city are confronted with the question
as to whether stockings may be ex
plosive. A man wns seriously injured,
a baby bruised and a house badly dam
aged here recently and officers were told
by the injured man that whilj about tl.e
house in his stocking feet he had dropped
a lighted cigarette on the floor and when
he tried to stamp out the fire one stocks
ing exploded. He said he found the
stockings in a neighboring village ami
that his wife had repaired them. The
authorities have a theory that the man
was keeping in his room explesives 1 e
had stolen from a munitions fneioiv.
INFLUENZA PLAYS HAVOC
WITH NEWBERRY TRIAL
(My The Associated Pn-sO
ORAXp RAPIDS, MICH.. Fob. L'.--Half
a dozen of the defendants in the
N'ewlierry election conspiracy trial were
reported today as ti nil bio to 1! in court,
but the jurors, under the watchful eye of
a physician, had so far csenpod the influ
enza epidemic, which Hiindnv affected
three more defendants including John S.
Newberry," brother of the principal de
fendant. Frank C. Dailey, was to begin the
opening statement for the' prosecution
when court convened at 2 p. in. The de
fense announced it probably would follow
iL-. Dailey. Introduction of testimony
was expected to be delayed until Wednes
day. SAILOR CHARGED WITH
MURDER OF GIRL
(By The Associated Press'
CLEVELAND, O., Feb. Police to
day were seeking a man in a United
States navy uniform as the slayer of
Frances Altmsn, 22 years old, a chorus
girl of Philadelphia or Paterson, N. J.,
the fifth murder victim there in four
days.
The woman was also known as Mrs
Frances Altraan Stock well. Her bod)
was ' found yesterday afternoon in the
snow in a vacant lot and lay unidentified
in the county morgue until this morning.
She had been a member of a burlesque
company which played hem last week.
She was last seen alive Saturday night.
FRENCH ROYALTY
ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT.
(By The Associated Press.)
PARIS, Feb. 2 Announcement is
made of the engagement of the Duchess
de Valentinois and Count Pierre de Pol
ignac, son of Prince Max de Polignac.
The duchess was recognized in May, 1918,
as the adopted daughter of Prince Louis
of Monaco, only son of the Prince of
Monaco, ruler of that tiny principality.
She has full rights to successions to the
throne of Monaco and her marriage will
not affect her status.
The. Prince of Monac, one of whose
titles is the Duke of Valentinois, pre
sented the duchess in Paris society some
time ag4, and her engagement to a
Frenchman is known to be acceptable
to the government of this country.
A Swedish railroad has built a rein
forced concrete bridge with an arched
pan nearly 300 feet long, designed to
carry trains at a speed of 60 miles an
hour.
FAKIRS OF COUNTRY
BELIEVE THE
VILL NOT
Sherman J. Lowell, Master of the National
Grange Declares That the Only Way to Re
duce the Cost of Living Is For Every One to Be
Willing to Do a Day's Work - The 44-Hour
Week Will lot Support America.
MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING
AFFAIR IN CHICAGO
Mrs. Richard S. Folsom is
Found in Bed With Bullet
Wound Through Body.
(By The Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, Feb. 2. The mysterious
shooting of Mrs. Hit-hard 8. Folsom,
prominent Chicago society woman who
was taken to a hospital late Friday night
with a bullet wound through her body
just below the heart, today was still un
explained. A police investigator reported he hail
found the bullet buried in the mattress
of Mrs. Folsom 's bed. The course of the
bullet through the mattress was down
ward and, according to Dr. Emanuel
Friend, who attended Mrs. Folsom, It
passed through the body at an angle of
less than 15 degrees.
Mr. Pojsoiu, a former city corporation
counsel, and Chief of Police J. II. Ghar
rity, who was privately notified of the
shooting and miido an investigation, an
nounced yesterday that Mrs. FolsonfSiad
been wounded by the accidental discharge
of a revolver which she had taken from
n dresser drawer. '
According to Mrs. Folsom ' physician
she had been suffering from inlluen.a the
night before the shooting. Friday night
she attended an automobile show with her
husband and father; General George M.
Moiifton. Khortly after their return to
the Folsom home Mrs. Folsoui retired to
her room. A few minutes later, accord
ing to Mr, Folsom, the shots were heard.
Mrs. Folsom had made no statement re
garding the shooting the two physicians
attending her said today.
Tin: physicians announced Mrs. Fol
som probably would recover.
JURY RETURNS VERDICT
OF GUILTY.
(Hy The Associated Press.)
TACOMA. WASILX., Feb. 2. A jury
trying alleged Industrial Workers of
the World on a charge of a criminul syn
dicalism, returned n verdict of guilty late
last night after being out 58 hours.
The men were arrested during activity
against radical suspects iu the northwest,
which followed the shooting of four for
mer soldiers during an armistice day pa
rade at Centralis, Washington.
DEATH RATE FOR 1918 WAS 18 PER 1000,
, HIGHEST ON RECORD IN UNITED STATES
CABINET CHANGES THE
ORDER OF THE DAT
Glass Succeeds Senator Martin,
of Virginia -Houston
Changes From Agriculture to
Treasury and Meredith Sue
ceeds Houston.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 Cabinet
changes were the order of the day here
today. Carter Glass, secretary of the
treasury, relinquished his post to succeed
the late Thomas 8. Martin aa senator
from Virginia. David Franklin Houston,
who has been secretary of agriculture
since the beginning of the Wilson ad
ministration, moved over to the treasury
to take the oath as successor to Mr.
Glass and Edwin T. Meredith, of Dee
Moines, Iowa, became head of the de
partment of agriculture, succeeding Mr.
Houston.
Mr. Meredith, the new agricultural de
partment, is the editor of "Successful
Farming" and president of the Asso
ciated Advertising Clubs of the World,
lie also is a director of the Chicago Fed
eral reserve bank and was one of the ex
cess profit advisors of the treasury de
partment. Secretary Glass, then s member of the
house of representatives, from Virginia,
was appointed about a year ago to suc
ceed William G.. MeAdoo, as secretary
of the treasury.
44 -
HOUR WEEK
BE
(By The' Associated l'rs )
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Feb. 2 8her
nian J. Lowell, master of the National
Orange, in a statement given out here to
day declared that it was the belief of the
farmers of the country that the only way
to reduce the cost of living was for every)
one to be willing to do "a reasonable
day's work," and that the forty-hour
week would never support even America.
Mr. Lowell's statemcut in part follows:
"The farmer's belief concerning the
way to reduce the cost of living is for
every one to be willing again to do a
reasonable day's work. The 44-hour
week will never support America, to say
nothing of feeding a hungry world.
"Those who are beat informed oa
agricultural conditions in-Ainerica can
not offer the slightest hope of lower food
prices, so far as the farmer is concern
ed.
"In the reconstruction every one must
get ready to actually work again, to save
again and to. a considerable degree to get
back to thrift, sanity and common
sense, or else accept as permanent the
present scale of living costs, in which
event we might just as well stop ranting
about the high cost of living and real
ize that a new basis of economic pro
cedure is here to stay.
' ' This is the declaration of the Na
tional Orange, which sees in the future
no reason why its members should slave
long bours, seven days a week, to supply
cheap food to the other wokers of the
country, who enjoy short hours and un
limited opinrtuuity to rest and pleas
ure, y peaking us the largest and beet
established farmers' organization ia
America, the Grange hereby notifies the
world that the farmers do not intend to
keep residing to the call, 'Produce,
Produce, Produce,' so long as other lines
adopt -as their slogan, 'Heduee, reduce,
reduce '.
"There are five very definite things
that may be expected in time to have aa
effect upon the production of a world's
food :
"J- A more direct and less expensive
system of distribution.
, "2. The removal of all artificial re
strictions upon the sale of far mpro
ducts. A lengthened industrial day,
with honest service for wages paid.
" 4 '. Increased dividends oa farm In
vestment which will enable their owners
to nieet the wage scale of competing oc
cupations. "5. Increasing social and educational
privileges in rural communities."
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-The death
rate iu the United States for 1918 was
the highest on record, according to the
census bureau's annual mortality statis
tics, issued today, which show 1,471,
367 deaths for the year representing a
strktions upon the sale of farm pro
rate of IS per 1,000 population in tike
death registration area of 30 states and
27 cities, with a total estimated popula
tion of 81,868,104.
Of the total deaths 477,467, or over 32
per cent, were due to influenza and pneu
monia) 380,096 having occurred in the
last four months of the year when aa epi
demic of these diseases prevailed. The
rate for influenza and pneumonia was
583.2 per 100,000, Influenza caused
244,681 deaths and pneumonia 232,786,
showiag rates of 289.9 and 284.3 per
100,000 respectively, the highest rates
which ever have appeared for these
causes. The' rate in 1917" for. influ- '
enza was 17.2 and for pneumonia 149.
The other principal causes of death
were organic diseases of the heart, tu
berculosis, acute nephritis, Bright dis
ease and cancer, which together were
responsible for 391,391 deaths, or nearly ;
27 per cent of the total during the year.
An are light for motion picture phi
tography has been invented that has a
maximum eaadlepower of 120,000,000 and
nan been used aa far sway as a quarter
of a -mile from a subject being photo
graphed. - . .
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