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Y GAOTT GASTONIA . , COTTON 88 CENTS TODAY TONIA LAST EDITION MEMBER OF THX ASSOCIATED PUSS yOL.XLI. N.40. GASTONIA, N. C MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEB. 16, 1,920 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS .OAS DA ARTICLE X STILL PROVES STUMBLING BLOCK TO THE ADOPTION OF TREATY Ratification or Rejection Depending on Whether 64 Senators Can Reach an Agreement to Article Ten Controversy Draws Nearer Finale Today Number of Senators On Both Sides Have Prepared Speeches. (By The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. With rati Jteation or rejection depending, almost wholly on whether 64 senators can reach as agreement tin a reservation to article ten of the league of nations covenant, the peace treaty controversy today drew nearer a finale. Opinion still was divided mm to the possibility of a .compromise on this issue but as to other points in dis pute belief was general that no serious trouble in reaching an agreement would b encountered. In accordance with the agreement reached a week ago to formally call up the treaty today for further debate a umber of senators of both sides had prepared speeches. Among them were Senator Thomas, democrat, of Colorado and Senator McCormick, republican, Illinois, both listed as irreconcilable op ponents of ratification. The latter an nounced he would speak today and the former tomorrow. While the discussion is proceeding on tbe floor, the negotiations for compro mise on reservations will be continued. Leaders announced they would endeavor to hold the debate within reasonable twonds in order that actual consideration of reservations may be taken up within a few days. The reservation compro mises, as tentatively agreed upon, in the recent informal bi-partisan commit tee conferences are the basis on which the negotiations today were being car Tied on. ' N01BASIS FOR THEIREPORT OF SECRET AGREEMENT WITH BRITISH SMp CONCERNS Auction Sale of Former German Passenger Liners Comes Off Today - Chairman Payne Who Was to Conduct the Auction Is Summon ed to District Supreme Court to Answer In junction Proceedings to Stop Sale. (By The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 President Wilson will inform the senate emphatical ly that there is "no basis" for the re port of secret agreement between the hipping board and the British interests far the sale of the thirty former Ger naan passenger liners, it was announced today at the white house. The President s message will be in weply to the resolution of Senator Brandegee, republican, Connecticut, ask ing for Information regarding the re part. The resolution was adopted by the senate last Saturday. Just before the white house announce ment was made the publie auction, at which bids for the ships were received, fcegan at tbe shipping board with repre sentatives f more than a score of ship ping companies present. ; Chairman Payne was unable to eon dnet the auction, as he bad been sum moned to appear in person in tbe dis nnreme court in proceedings brought by William Randolph Hearst, of Few York, for an injunction to stop the aal. Commissioner Thomas A. Scott acted for him. t In opening the auction, Mr. Scott read a memorandum from Chairman Payne, which said the highest bids would have to fee approved by the senate commerce com mittee and the house merchant marine eommittee and that acceptance of any kids would depend upon the outcome Lthe injunction proceedings in the dis trict court. , t The memorandum said these proceed ings were expected to be concluded within two or three days, but that in any event checks received with the bids would be returned by Saturday if the sales were aet consummated . Commissioner Scott said tbe terms of the tale would be arranged to suit the aonvenienee of the board and the pros pective purchasers and that , aH ships aaost be operated under the 'American Sag. -.w.V- v" X '-'-J' LONDON COCKNEYS COMMENT ON GLASS LONDON, Feb. 7. Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass' manifesto against granting any further credits to Europe, besides filling columns in the newspapers, shares with the latest developments in the "crime wave" the attention of the men in the street. This is a scrap of conversation over heard between two London cockneys: "Wot d'ye think of this 'ere feller Glass a bloomin' hingrate, I calls 'im." "Wot feller Glass t" ' ' Why, the American chancellor of the exchequer -r- the chap 'oo says e won't lend us no more money." "Oh, 'imf Well, wot abaht 'mf Aint they caught 'im yett" VOTING ON CONSTITUTION. MONTGOMERY, ALA., Feb. 16. Voters of this state today voted on the question as to whether that section of Alabama's constitution prohibiting the issuance of bonds for internal improve ments shall be annulled. If the election carries, state bonds to the amount of $25,000,000 .to match a like appropria tion for good roads by the federal gov ernment will be issued. CHAIRMAN PAYNE WILL SELL SHIPS (By The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 Despite ef forts through court injunction proceed ings to prevent the sale. Chairman Payne of the shipping board, today had com pleted hja pLm for receiving auction bids for the thirty former German passenger ships taken over by the government dur ing the war. The auction was arrang ed to begin at 10 a. m., the same hour set by the District of. Columbia supreme court for hearing answer to the court's order to the board to show cause why a temporary injunction against the sale of the liners should not be issued. Appli cation for the injunction was filed by William Randolph Hearst, of New York. The highest bids at the auction, Chair man Payne stated, would be submitted to the shipping board and the senate commerce committee before any sale was eonsumated. HINDENBURB CHARGED WITH FEARFUL CRIMES LONDON, Feb. 16. The German press as quoted in a dispatch to The Ex change Telegraph Company from Copen hagen, declares that Field Marshal von Hindenburg's surrender is demanded by the allies not only because he is alleged to have said "the most cruel war is the most humane, because it leads to an end, ".but also because of his responsibi lity for the destruction of property dur ing the German retreat. The field marshal is also charged joint ly with General Ludendorif with respon sibility for the deportation of civilians, and the organisation of civilian labor corps in which thousands of girls are al leged to have, been handed over to vir tual slavery with -women of doubtful character, and whipped and imprisoned if they refused to work. CUICACO'S MODERN . "CINDERELLA" ! ' Monda Rose, ' ' society belle in Chica go 's exclusive social set, who since her arrest, on charge of embezzling $10,000 to $50,000 is reported to have explained that by day she was a $25 a week cash ier. She was arrested in Winnipeg, Canada, on information supplied by Chicago police. (e) U&U. MR. IV. H. ADAMS RESIGNS FROM CITIZENS NATIONAL Popular Bank Official Resigns Alter 20 Years Active Bank ing Experience- in Gastonia Will Devote Attention to Outside Business Interests. At a meeting of the directors of the Citizens National Bank held a few days ago, Mr. W. H. Adams tendered his resignation as cashier, to take effect March 1. This step was taken by Mr. Adams in order that he might devote more of his time and attentions to his outside interests. Mr. Adams is active ly connected with several leading tex tile concerns in the county and in addi tion has other business interests which demand his attention. Mr. Adams has long been a prominent figure in Gastonia banking circles. He has been with the Citizens National Bank since its organization 15 years ago. Trior to that time he was with the Gas tonia Banking Company, Jno. F. Love and associates. During this time he has risen rapidly to the top in banking cir cles. It was with reluctance that the di rectors of the bank accepted Mr. Adams' resignation. As yet no action lias been taken in regard to his successor. STREET CAR FARES HAVE BEEN INCREASED (By The Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Feb. 16. Sreet car fares in 460 cities throughout the country have been increased, according to figures given out today by the Illinois commit tee of public utilities information, which attributed the advances directly to high material and labor costs. In 59 cities ten cent fares are' being paid, the report said. As an indication of the ' financial plight" of the electric street railway in dustry, the committee asserted that, in 1919 forty eight companies, with a total of 3,781 miles of track, went into the hands of receivers, while during the past three years 98 companies, representing approximately one-sixth of the entire mileage of the country had become in volved in bankruptcy courts. Massachusetts led in the number of cities in which fares have been increased to ten ecnts, with a total of 37 and Penn sylvania was second with 14 cities pay ing this maximum, according to the re port. Twenty-one cities have eight cent fares; 21 have seven cent fares, with one cent additional for transfers; 118 have seven cent fares; ten have six cent city tones, six cent outside sones with a two eent transfer eharge, and 158 are paying straight six cent fares. The remainder of the 460 cities were classified as oper ating on a sone basis, with rates rang ing upward from five cents. AVON OPERATIVES STRUCK THIS MORNING Supposedly in sympathy with the strikers at the Ranlo Mill the aperatives of the Avon Mill, 175 in number, walked out this morning. The mill is closed. An official of the mill stated that the strikers at the Ranlo Mill the operatives management. Burners that the opera tives of the Osark and Modena Mills also struck this morning proved unfounded. A hole drilled lengthwise of a new drill enables on to be fed to its point. . ' rl f ' y 'ST?.; 773 I 4 V - ) r vv'; ' "j COL. ARMSTRONG AND A. 6. MYERS BUY MILL Gastonia Bankers and Textile Men Obtain Possession of Hieh Shoals Mill From D. A. Tompkins Interests Con- smeration Arouna une rail lion and a Quarter Dollars Management Will Continue Unchanged. As a result of a deal consummated Saturday Col. C. B. Armstrong and Mr. A. G. Myers, of Gastonia, became the owners of the High Shoals mill, located at High Shoals in this county.. The property was bought from the D. A. Tompkins interests, of Charlotte and certain Northern concerns, the consider ation being approximately $1,250,000. The mill is equipped with 18,500 spin dles and 524 looms. Mr. A. Q. Kale, who has been general superintendent of the mill under the former management will continue with the new owners and will be actively connected with the in terests of the mill. The offices of the mill will be moved to Gastonia from Charlotte, and will be in the Armstrong offices in the Realty building. The High Shoals Mill is generally recognized as one of the most valuable mill properties in North Carolina. It was built by the late D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte. The saying is' that he re garded it as one of his pets. Certainly, he lavished care, attention and money on the development of the property and the site on which the mill is located. For natural beauty of Surroundings, the site is unsurpassed in North Carolina. Ample parks, playgrounds and picnic spots are furnished and it is a general gathering place for picnic parties from all over this section of the State. There will be no change in the man agement of the mill so far as the super intendent and operatives are concerned. The same families will continue to live there. Ultimately, it is the purpose of Messrs. Myers and Armstrong to In crease the mill to 50,000 spindles. Other details concerning the officers and directors of the mill will be an nounced later.. MR. CARPENTER WITH THE MASON MILL Mr. O. B. Carpenter Elected Vice-President and Treasur er of Mason Cotton Mills at Kings Mountain Will Not Move From Gastonia. At a directors' meeting of the Mason Cotton Mills, of Kings Mountain, held in Salisbury recently, Mr. O. B. Car penter was elected to the position of vice-president and treasurer. This action on the part of the Mason Mill directors is a distinct recognition of Mr. Car penter's ability as a business man. Mr. Carpenter will not move his residence from Gastonia to Kings Mountain, but will direct the affairs of the mill from Gastonia. He will also continue to hold his present position as register of deeds for Gaston county until the fall election. He will not be a candidate for re-election. Mr. Carpenter has recently sold his property on East Airline Avenue and has purchased a house and lot in Chester place. WANT BONUS FOR . EX-SERVICE MEN American 'Legion Wants $50 a Month For Each Month of Service For Its Members and Compulsory Military Train ing Says Congress Has Been Dilatory. (By The Associated Press.) . Washington, Feb. 16 A bonus for ex service men and compulsory military training were announced as the principal aims of the. legislative committee of the American Legion, members of which were here today for a series of conferences with congressmen. Franklin D'Olier, na tional commander of the legion, was present to direct the activities of the committee. " The bonus issue, whin was sidetracked after considerable agitation at the first annual convention of the legion in Min neapolis, through a vote to leave the question to congress, last week was re vived at national headquarters in Indian apolis. It is claimed that on account of the dilatoriness of congress, the legion was determined to press the matter by asking for a specific settlement of a $50 bond for each month of service per formed during the war. Such a bonus, it was estimated, would cost the govern ment approximately $1,900,000,000. The legion already has gone on record as favoring compulsory military train ing. ' COMPENSATION FOR C C A O. WASHINGTON, FeK 16, The railroad administration today signed a contract providing for, $1,839,255 annual compensation to the Carolina, Clinch field Railroad under government control. SON SAID US. WOULD NOT FURTHER k i irnni r iit MLUULt IN Intimates That United States Would Find It Im possible to Continue to Concern Itself in Euro pean Affairs If Allies Settled Adriatic Ques tion Without Consulting: United States - Wash ington Denies That Wilson Intimated Such. (By The Associated Press.) PARIS, Feb. 16 Rejection of Presi dent Wilson's objections to the compro mise agreement by which England, France and Italy hoped to settle with Jugo Slavia questions relative to the fu ture status of the eastern coast of the adriatie is reported in the Echo de Paris, Premiers Lloyd George, of Great Brit ain, and Millerand of France, drafted the reply to the American chief executive and insisted. Jugo Slavia must agree to the compromise, with the alternative of seeing the treaty of London become op erative, it is said. At the same time, the premier's re ply was sent to Washington, the for eign minister of Jugo Slavia was noti fied the view point of the British and French governments had not been alter ed by the seemingly unexpected action of Mr. Wilson. Contents of the Wilson note have not been made public here. He is said, how ever, to have given intimation the United States would "find it impossible to con tinue to concern itself in European af fairs" if the allies proceeded to settle ment of the Adriatic problem without consulting the United States. It is said the President entered serious objections to the ultimatum sent to the Belgrade government on January 20, and declared it differed from the program framed by Premiers Lloyd George and Clemenceau, with the assistance of an American representative last December. While not connected with the situa tion resulting from the Wilson note, a cabinet crisis has arisen at Belgrade. The ministry, led by Premier Davido vitch, resigned yesterday, announcement stating this step was the sequel of the refusal of Prince Regent Alexander to dissolve the present provisional parlia nient and call for the election of a con stituent assembly. It is probable this situation will still further delay settle ment of the Adriatic problem. WILSON DID NOT SO EXPRESS HIMSELF. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. President Wilson, it was learned today at the White House, did not say in his note to the entente premiers regarding the Fiume question that the United States would no longer be able to concern itself in Eu ropean affairs if a Fiume settlement were made without consulting America. Beyond the general statement that the United States adhered to the original proposition of the supreme council m Paris alloting Fiume and the coast of DaJmatia to Jugo Slavia and Trieste and the adjacent country to Italy, there never has been any official statement of the American position regarding the Adria tic issue. Since that original position was assumed a number of, notes have been exchanged between the state depart ment and the entente premiers and there have been several conferences in Wash ington between former Secretary Lan sing ' and the resident ambassadors and ministers of Italy and Jugo Slavia. It has been reported that the United States was willing to accept some amendments of the original plan, but all of the ex changes have been closely guarded. It is understood, however, that the Amer ican position has been one of unalter able opposition to the application of the terms of tbe treaty of London, which would have given Italy jurisdiction over Dalmatia, though not over Fiume, and WILSON'S NOTE ON ADRIATIC QUESTION PUTS FRANCE AND ENGLAND "BETWEEN DEVIL AND DEEP SEA" (By The Assorts ted Press) PARIS, Monday, Feb. 16 Comment ing upon President Wilsos's note to the supreme allied council relative to theH compromise agreement on the AdriawcJ nnMliAn titM .TaufhaI aov it Vila ' ' H l large paving stone in the conference pond. " This aptly sums up the trend of French opinion. There is not at tempt to disguise the fact that the in cident creates a serious situation. Eng land and France, according to the news papers here, are "placed between" the devil and the deep sea." Although Mr. Wilson's " attitude is viewed as excessive in the light of the "discredit thrown upon his poliey by the resistance of the senate, yet the fact remains Mr. Wilson is absolute master until the spring of 1921, and that the allies are obliged to take him into ac REPORTED TO HAVE EUROPEAN AFFAIRS that all of the notes, have indicated the purpose of the American government e adhere as closely as possible to the lines 6f the original settlement, based, as It was supposed to be, upon the principle of self -determination and of ethnological af filiation as set out in President Wil son's original 14 points. It is believed this position included consenting to the erection, of Fiume into an Independent state, or at least one un der the control of the league of nations. But there was unqualified objection te the transfer to Italy of title to Dalma tia or to the long strip of coast of the Adriatie extending from Fiume to Ital ian Trieste.. ' So far as known it is the present posi tion of the United States and its note have indicated that if the entente pre miers were disposed to find another eola tion inconsistent with this attitude they must provide for the execution of their plans without any participation on the part of America. TEMPERATURE WILL MOOERATE TO.'iiGffT ( By The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. Another cold wave gripped the eastern portion ef the country today. The cold area extend ing from Canada to the gulf and faona the Atlantic to the Mississippi river. At the weather bureau it was said that the cold snap would be of short dur ation, however. The forecaster predicted that temperatures would begin to moder ate tonight in the Ohio valley and tbe upper lake region and would continue to moderate in those districts and, in the east gulf and middle Atlantic state Tuesday. Nearing freezing temperatures were registered along the gulf coast as far west as the Mississippi river this morn ing with killing frosts in northern Flo rida anl General. In the middle Atlan tic, middle western and New England states thermometers registered well be low freezing point and in some places W low xero. The cold snap was not as severe a some which have gone before it this win ter, according to weather bureau officiate, bift it was accompanied by general higfc winds which added to the general dieeoaa fort. Except in the New England states, northern New York and some points ta the middle west, where snow was falling, the weather was clear over the eastens part of the country. POLLARD ON FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 John Gar: land Pollard, of Virginia, has been select ed by President Wilson as a member ef the federal trade commission. Mr. Pollard, who formerly was at torney general of Virginia, will succeed former Governor J. Fanklin Fort, ef New Jersey, who resigned from tbe commission recently on account of ill ness. Mr. Pollard is a native of Virginia and a 49 years old. He was a deme cratic presidential elector in 1904 and was a candidate for governor of his state in the last election. count," says the Journal. "President Wilson's abrupt interven tion, ' ' the newspaper continues, ".was less to be expected since the President himself has been exhorting the nations of Europe to put an end at the earliest 0, possible moment to political stagnation, which has been the principal cause of ' economic stagnation." "President Wilson," remarks the Petit Parisien, "does not seem to Lave taken into account what has been done during the past two months, aa if that period were negligible. He harks back brusquely by publishing a document, the object of which is to call everything in to question at a moment when tbe goal appeared to be in sight. " ; Moat of tbe other newspapers com ment on the situation, but their views are expressed in the senate in the strain as those gives.