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(fte M GASTONtA ' COTTON 88 CENTS TODAY TONIA LY dJAZETTE LAST EDITION JUMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PUSS VOL. XLI. NO. 36. GASTONIA, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEB. 11. 1920. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS DIRECTOR GENERAL HINES WILL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANSWER TO EMPLOYES Will Then Report to President Who Will Ap prove or Disapprove of the Decision - Both the Railroad Administration and White House Of ficials Regard Situation, as Extremely Grave Long Conference Held With Secretary Tum- ' ulty Another Conference This Afternoon. ( lu- Ttie Associated Prens. 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 Director tieneral Hines will" make answer to the wage demand of the 2,000,000 railroad workers on his own responsibility and from the standpoint of the railroad ad ministration and will then report to the President, it was said today at the white house. Mr. Wilson then will approve or disapprove the decision. Heretofore the President generally has nasaed upon wage decisions before the railroad administration 'a answer was giv en to the union representatives . No reason was assigned for the departure from the usual custom in this case. In the light of the urgent demands of the trainmen and the strike call is sued by officers of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes, both railroad administration and white house officials regard the situation as extreme ly grave. Mr. Ilines has held a long conference with Secretary Tumulty who has submitted a memorandum on the sub ject to the president. Mr. Wilson still has this memorandum before him. Conferences between Mr. Hines and the brotherhaad officers were to have been resumed this morning, but at the appointed hour neither side was ready to go ahead and the meeting was post poned until 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. CONFERENCE WILL DETERMINE WAKHINGTON, Feb. 11 The result of the railroad wage conference today be tween Director General Hiues and repre sentatives of the employes' unions prob ably will determine whether the rail transportation systems are to be tied up by a strike before the government sur renders control. The situation was regarded as critical by the railroad administration and union officials. At tho conference, which in -effect is a wage negotiation between the government and more than 2,000,000 railroad workers, vigorous efforts will be juade to reach an agreeable settlement . A new statement of what the unions of operating employes regard as essential to their well being has been presented to Mr. Hines, who announced that he would make answer today . W. G. Lee, pres ident of the: trainmen, continued to press the demands of his organisation, which has served a thirty-day notice, effective February 23, of abrogation of the exist ing wage control and has taken a strike vote said to be largely in favor of ces sation of work if the demands are not net PEOPLE OF SCHLESWIG VOTE OVERWHELMINGLY TO RETURN TO DENMARK Danes Receive News With Wildest Rejoicings -Say It Is Victory For Principle of Self Determ-in&tion. COPENHAGEN, Feb. 11. Latest reports as to the result of the plebiscite yesterday jn 8chleswig, show that Den mark secured 72,733 votes against 24, 793 for Germany. Only a few districts have not been heard from. PUBLICATION PROHIBITED. PTJSN8BUBG, Feb. 11 Publications f the final result of the plebiscite held In Sehleawig to determine the future stefns of that district has been prohib ited until this evening by the interna tional commission in control here. CHEAT REJOICING BY DANES. APENRADE, Schleswig, Tuesday, Feb. 10 Overwhelming victory for the Danes is this tone of the province of 8chleswig, the future status of which ia te be determined by the plebiscite held tarns received here. County districts -showed large majorities for Denmark, while the vote in towns showed larger ngnres than the Danish estimates. Deader, Apenrade and Sonderberg, however, have been carried by the Ger- News of the vote is being received with wildest rejoicings by the Danes in this ty. Minister 'Hansen, hero of the .Danish inhabitants of 'bchleswig, a J- SIMS SAYS HE OIDN'T SAY IT (By The Associated Press.) WA8HINGTOX, Feb. 11 The ques tion ofo exactly what was said in the con versation between Rear Admiral William S. Kims and three members of congress in I'aris during the war probably will lead the senate committee investigating the awnrd of naval decorations to pro long the hearing in justice to both sides. Admiral Sims denied that he had made statements belittling the participation of the American army and navy in the war. as attributed to him by .Representative Byrnes, of South Carolina, one of the trio who talked with the admiral in I'aris, and substantiated in part by Svn ator Glass, who was a representative at the time of his visit to France. Sen ator Glass, however, explained that he did not understand Admiral Sims to wish to "discredit the army" but had be lieved he was ''simply telling Ui what he had heard and thought to be t rn " Representative Whaley, of .South Cui olina, the third member of the congres sional party, who was unable to appear before the committee because of illness, has requested that he be allowed to tes tify Monday. Chairman Hale, how ever, lias not set a definite date for re sumption of the investigation. GERMANS WILL MAKE PUBLIC THE LIST (!y The Associated Press.) BERLIN, Tuesday, Feb. 10 The gov ernment announced today it would make public an installment from the list of persons demanded by the allies for ex tradition and also issue the list in book form for the purpose of "forestalling any attempt to confuse the public by biased reports. " As the alleged mistreatment of entente prisoners in German camps figure large ly in the allied indictment, the ministry of justice has ordered prompt investiga tion of the prison camp archieves and the opening of the cases where camp of ficers were charged with misconduct. The civil courts will be given full access to the records of the military courts which operated daring the war and the minis try in the .possession of the military au thorities. dressed a meeting 'saying: ' 4 This is a great vietory for the prin ciples of self-determination, for which thoughtful men of Sc hies wig have wished for one hundred years, but which few statesmen had the wisdom t advocate a reply . ' GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESS. LONDON, Feb. 11 Indications of German success are claimed on the face of the first reports from the Schleewig plebiscite, according to a despatch re ceived by the Exchange Telegraph Com pany from Amsterdam quoting a Flens- ' berg messages to the Handelsbald . J 90 PER CENT VOTE. tX)I'ENHAGEN Fh. 11 In .r.ita nf the bad weather which prevailed yester day more than ninety per cent of the people in the first Schleswig plebiscite cone voted during the day, and about 75 per cent voted in favor of Danish sov ereignty. In the country districts there were virtually no German votes, only des cendants of German settlers easting their ballots ia favor of Germany. As artificial cork is- being made In Sweden from cork waste and- a binding paste. CLEBRATE BIRTHDAY OF THOS. A. EDISON Orange, New Jersey, Makes Gala Day of Birthday of Noted Inventor Number "73" Plays Important Role in Day's Proceedings. (By The Associated Press.) ORANGE, N. J., Feb. 11. Munici pal buildings, places of business and pri vate homes hre were decorated with flags and bunting today in honor of the seventy third birthday of Thomas A. Kdison. Mayor William A. Lord in a public proc lamation extended to Mr. Edison the city's congratulations and expressed the hope that he would celebrate many more birthdays and continue ' ' in good health and further unexampled usefulness to mankind. The Edison Pioneers, an organization of men" associated with the inventor since 1HS5, tendered him a luncheon. This evening, Mr. Kdison with members of his family will be the guest at a ball to be given by the Thomas A. Kdison Associa tion. The number "73" which played a prominent part in the day's proceedings was promptly recognized as the telegraph code for "good wishes" by Mr. Edison, who was an operator in his youth. GROWN PRINCE ACTED ON SPOR OF MOMENT (Mr Associated Press. 1 AMSTERDAM. Tuesday, Feb. 10 Former Crown Prince Wilhelm, of Ger many, sent his telegram to the heads of allied governments offering to surrender in place of Germans demanded in the al lied extradition list, almost on the im pulse of the moment, according to an interview with Major von Mulnheim, the forfher crown prince 's adjutant, pub lished in the Telegraaf. ' ' The former heir to the German throne," said the major, after confirm ing reports that a telegram had beeu sent, "took his resolution without think ing long about it. The return of Baron von Lersner from Paris and the serious situation which has nrisen in Berlin in consequence prompted the Prine? to send his telegram. He hopes by this to avert serious difficulties for Germany.'" Dutch newspapers describe William's action as a "beautiful gesture." FRANCE REFUSES RIG TORACCO MONOPOLY .(By The Associated P ress. ) PARIS, Feb. 1 1 Proposals by four great tobacco growers' associations in the United States for an immediate loan of 60,000,000,000 francs in return for a concession involving a tobacco monop oly in France were made several months ago but were rejected by Louis Klotz. then minister of finance, according to the Journal. In amplifying its information regard ing the proposed grant the newspaper has learned, it asserts, that the proposi tion has been renewed since Frederick Fra ncois- Marsal assumed the portfolio of finance. It has been discussed at greater length by the present cabinet because of the seriousness of the si tun. tion in the financial world, according to the newspaper, which says that the loan of forty billion francs was for the to bacco monopoly and the additional 20, 000,000,000 was to be conditional upon th granting of a monopoly for the sale of matches. Government experts estimate the profit from the sale of tobacco in France is about 500,000,000" francs per year. A match monopoly, it is declared, would never be a paring venture, because matches are manufactured in this coun try. Some profits, however, were made during, the war wheat matches. wars .pur chased in foreign 'countries by the" gov enment which acted merely as a sales agent. The Journal, says Hugh C. Wal lace, American ambassador, made unof ficial representations to the French gov ernment endorsing the monopoly propo sition . BOXING RECOGNIZED AS SPORT AT CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL, N. C, Feb. 11. Boxing has been recognized as a collegi ate sport by the Universitv of North Carolina, it wasjinounced today, and uu- aer tne direction of Thomas J. Browne, formerly United States army captain and head of the central army school at Camp Gordon, for training athletic directors 150 freshmen have begun studying the difference between a left hook and a right cross and the relation of shifty foot work to the cauliflower ear. The instruction is part of the athletic work compulsory for all first year men. Automatic mechanism maintains abso lutely constant the arc light in a meter that has been invented for testing the colors of fabrics. DEFENSE HAS FLOOR IN SOCIAUST TRIAL Considerable Interest Aroused By Use of Name, "R. N. Na than" rrosecution Closed Its Case Yesterday After. noon. (By The Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y.. Feb. 11, The de fense had the floor today at the trial of the five suspended socialist assemblymen charged with disloyalty, the prosecution having closed its case late yesterday af ternoon. Reading by he defense of fur ther excerpts from documentary evidence introduced by counsel for the assembly judiciary committee which is conducting the hearings, is expected to consume the forenoon. Until this has been completed, attorneys for the defense contend their opponents cannot technically "rest" their case. Considerable interest lias been aroused by constant mention by the defense of "R. N. Nathan." The In test time the name came up was yesterday, when Sey mour Stedman asked an agent of the joint legislative committee investigating radicalism in this state whether he had met such a person during a "raid" on the Russian soviet "embassy" in New York. Mr. Stedman during a recess de clined to state who "Nathan" might be, but it has heen reported he might be-a British service agent. From socialist sources has come the re port that "information" has been re ceived that British operatives were in terested in raids on Russian commercial organizations in order that they might flash to commercial London reports as to the ability of Russin to pay for supplies she is seeking. EDITOR JOHNSON IS AMDASSADOR TO ROME (Bv The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 Robert Un derwood Johnson, of New York, author and editor and one of the founders of the League to Enforce Peace has been selected by President Wil son as ambassador to Rome, to sue ceed Thomas Nelson Page, of Virginia, who resigned several months ago. The president is expected to send the nomi nation to the senate within a few days. Mr. Johnson was originator of the Memorial to Keats and Shelley in Rome, originator and chairman of the Ameri can Poets' Ambulance in Italy in 1917, and author of Italian Rhapsody and other poems of Italy, published in 1917. He was decorated by the Italian govern ment in 1895, was made Cavaliere of the crown of Italy. Mr. Johnson was born in Washington t7 years ago and was editor of the Cen tury Magazine from November 1909 to May 1 9 1 a . He induced General Grant to write his memoirs and set on foot the movement which resulted in the crea tion of the Yosemite national park. UNEARTH SCHEME TO STEAL SECURITIES NEW YORK, Feb. 11. The arrests of two brothers, who were employed as brokers' messengers today, made a total of six men held in connection with what the police declare was a plot to steal $5, 000,000 worth of securities in the financial district and take them to Canada, where is was expected a market would be found for them. Herbert Bunora, 19 years old, was ac cused of stealing Crucible Steel securi ties valued at 4145,000 entrusted to hftii to deliver to another firm an hour after he obtained a job as a broker's messen ger last November. Some of the securi ties were recovered in Washington and Philadelphia and some in the office of David B. Sullivan, a New York broker, who is under indictment on a charge of obtaining loans on stolen, securities. --'Rudolph G. Bunora, 22 years old, was accused of receiving $21,000 worth or securities stolen by Joseph Gluck, 23 years old, and his brother, Irving, 19 years old. The Glucks were arrested yes terday with Edward J. Furey, who is regarded by the police as the "master mind" of the conspiracy, Irving GlucK, the police said, confessed he had stolen 2,000,000 worth of securities in a year and disposed of them with the aid of his brother. Further arrests were expected today and the detectives asked a number of brokers to appear in court to see if they could recognize any of the prisoners as former employes who vanished with secur ities. UNPRECEDENTED DEMAND FOR GOLF BALLS CHICABO, Feb. 11 An unprecedent ed demand for golf balls indicates there will be a record-breaking play this year, according' to manufacturers here, who re ported today that all factories are oper ating at full capacity and a number are working two and three shifts for the first time in their history. Club manufacturers also reported the factories working st capacity. Owe fac tory reported its daily production of clubs was 8,000. LINEBERGER-STOVE MILLS HAVE 145, iiiiii CAPITAL DE $7,000,000 During Past Six Months Six Mills Aggregating Over Five Million Dollars Capital Stock Have Been Organized in Belmont History of Mills One of Success and Profit A. C. Lineber ger, R. L. and S. P. Stowe - New Mills to Be gin Work in Summer. From their premier position among the pioneer cotton-mill builders in Gaston county, tho Lineberger-Stowe interests at Belmont have never been displaced and today they hold first rank among the mills of the county in num ber of spindles and capital stock. From the organization of the Chronicle mill in 1901 with a capital Btock of only $100,000 and It. L. Stowe as the chief promoter, the mill business at Belmont has grown to the magnificent total of eleven cor porations in Belmont alone, representing approximately 145,000 spindles and an authorized capital stock of $7,00(1,000. Soon after the hi oniric mill was built came the Imperial iiud Majestic and Mr. A.'C Liiieherger. of Tm-kaseege, onoe of the foremost cotton mill authorities in the South, became associated with the lielmont mills as president. In addition to the presidency of the Belmont mills mentioned below, Mr. Line- berger is president of the Rowan cotton mills at Salisbury, a concern of 10,000 spindles and $(100,000 capital, manufact uring auto tire fabrics, and is interested in the Vance mills at Salisbury and Superior Yarn Mills at Statesville. The growth of the mill business has leen truly magical and tho rise of the men connected there with has been equally as wonderful. For instance, a few days J ago there were organized in the town of lielmont within the space of .'1(5 hours three new cotton mills with a combined capital stock of $.'I,SoO,0no. Listed on the board of directors of these mills ar men who, 20 years ago, were nothing more than doffers and ordinary helpers in the h'rst mills built hereabouts. Such facts as these arp illustrative and typical of the cotton mills at Belmont. All the super intendents have risen from a low place in the ranks to positions commanding $4,000 and $5,000 yearly salaries. A spirit of co operation anil lmrmon.v oxists between employer and employe that is seldom found. The eniployoers are a staid, settled class, thrifty, progressive and educated. Many of them own their own homes, their own automobiles and carry bank and M. and L. deposits. For years they have enjoyed unexcelled educa tional opportunities. Soon, a new and modern school building is to be erected in the very heart of the mill district at Belmont. "The three new mills at Belmont or ganized last August, the Crescent, Acme and Sterling, will all be running soon, I think," said Mr. A. C. Lineberger m conversation with a Daily Gazette man last night. "First shipments of machin ECHO DE PARIS TELLS HOW ALLIES ACCEPTED WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS It Was At a Meeting In the Office of Stephen Pichon, Foreign Minister, on November 3, 1918. (By The Associated Press, i PARIS, Feb. 10. How the allies ac cepted President Wilson's fourteen points in connection with armistice negotiations was revealed for the first time by The Echo de Paris today. It was at a meet ing in the office of Stephen Pichen, for eign minister, ono November 3, 1918. Pre vious meetings at Versailles had fixed the military conditions of an eventual armistice and the government chiefs had met for final deliberation. David Lloyd George, the British pre mier. The Echo de Paris says turned to Colonel House and declared: "If we have thoroughly understood President Wilson 's thought, the armistice negotiations whieh the American govern ment is disposed to open with Germany in concert with the allied powers are sub ordinated by the acceptance by the said powers of the principles and conditions of peace defined by the President on Jan uary 8 and in his subsequent speches.' In a word we must give oirr assent to the fourten points." Colonel House is reported to have ans wered that was so. Premier Clemenceau broke in: "As for the fourteen points, I have not read them yet Let me know what they are." 4 Colonel House began, bnt after he had read the first point (relative to "open covenants of peace, openly arrived at") M Clemenceau exclaimed: "That can not be accepted. Yon cannot negotiate in the middle of a publie street, y SPINDLES AND ery are due to begin arriving in March and we hope to be spinning yarn in July or August", he added. "It takes almost a year exactly these times to get a mill started", added an other prominent cotton mill man of Bel mont. "If I remember correctly we ran cotton through the Climax within six months after ground was broken for the mill, but that was in the good old days when labor could be had for $1.25 per day." Asked as to the probable date of the beginning of operations of the Linfora, Perfection and Stowe Spinning Company, the three newest mills, Mr. Lineberger was not in a position to say, although it, was evident from his conversation that they may start operations sooner than is generally believed. A peculiar fact about the names of the cotton mills at Belmont is that the major ity of them bear names that represent superlative qualities, a fact that may or not have something to do with the super lative value of their stock. For instance, there is nothing positive or comparative about Imperial, National, Majestic, Ster ling, Climax, Acme, is there t Each name connotes that which paramount and highest of its kind, the peak, the sum mit, tho suminum bonum, so to speak. It would seem that there is a limit to these superlatives in the naming of the mills, but evidently not so in the mind of D. P. Stowe, secretary and treasurer, who calls his mill the Perfection. All the mill at Belmont manufacture fine yarns, the managers being among the first in this section to recognise the vast difference in the selling power of fine and coarse yarns. A list of the mills with officers, direr tors, spindles and capital stock is as fol lows: Linford Mills, Inc. Officers: A. C. Lineberger, Pres W. B. Puett, Vice-Pres., J. E. Ford, secre tary and treasurer. Directors: A. C. Lineberger, W. B. Puett, J. E. Ford, C. L. Bumgardner, C. E. Tucker, W. ('. Wilkinson, Karl Kale and 8. P. Stowe. Spindles, 10,000. Capital stock, $1,000,000. Perfection Spinning Co. Officers: A. C. Lineberger, Pres., W. C. Wilkinson, Vice-Pres., D. P. Stowe, ' See.-Treas. ' Directors: A. C. Lineberger, W. C Wilkinson, D. P. Stowe, R. B. Suggs. (Continued on page 8.) I A. J. Half nil r Rriti.it, mu.w - w ., A..v.oa. CT-y. , n .1 J state for foreign aftV.rs, explained this point meant only publication of a result and not the steps by which they were reached, and the French premier ans wered: " In that case my objections fall to the ground." Beading of the second point, in whieh Mr. Wilson declared in favor of tho ' ' f revdom of the seas ' ' brought a reser vstion from Premier Llovd Geonre. bnt ; the present third point (regarding tho removal or economic barriers) and others went through quickly. Only when the seventh (regarding the evacuation and restoration of Beleium). the eicrhth I elating all Trench territory most be ireea ana restored and the wrong done France by Prussia in 1871 relative to Alsace Lorraine) and the eleventh (ia which the future status of Rumania, Ser bia and . Montenegro was considered) were read, were there further reservations as the matter of reparations entered into the situation. After all the points had been read, M Clemenceau turned to Colonel Hons, saying : 4 4 In case we reject the fourteen poiate what would happen?" . " "President Wilson would consider con versations he has engaged ia with the al lies on the subject of the armistice as ended," was Colonel House's repry. "Would he also consider as ended the (Continued on paf 1)
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