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) Oastonsa Daily : Gazett GASTONIA ; COJTON 38V4 CENTS TODAY j LAST EDITION "VOL. XLL '.NO. 43. GASTONIA, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEB. 19, 1920 SINGLE COPY 3 CENT VAQE PROVISIONS ENTER DISCUSS HINES AND EXECUTIVES Sections bf the Measure tion Are Those ProhibitirigAny Reduction In Wages of Workers Prior to September 1 and 'Creating Permanent -.' Arbitration Board of . Nine Members Conference of Hines and 25 ' ' JRailroad Executives , (Br Tb Associated Press.) . - 'WASHINGTON, Feb. J 9 Wage pro--viaions of the re-drafted railroad reor- . ganization bill, reported to the senate and bouse yesterday, were counted on to enter largely Into the deliberations, beginning today, of ' the conference ' between Di- - rector General - Hines ' and twenty-five leading railroad executives. Bee ti cms of the revised measure, which it was considered would attract most at tention rom the railroad workers prior to September 1, and creating a pennan- ' nt arbitration board of nine members, representing the public, the workers and the corporations. .,. , . The conference with the railroad exe--ocutives was ealled by Mr. Hines to as certain .the attitude which the railroad corporations would assume toward the - proposal advanced by President Wilson in iiis reply to the demands of lailroad em ployes that a federal commission be1 ap ipointed to consider the wage problem. The committee f railroad officials ap- ". -pointed by Thomas Dewitt Cuyler, chair man of the Association of Railway Exe- ' eutives at the request of Director General Hinee,-is composed of tha, following: Harry Bronner, E. N. Brown, 8. T. . Bledsoe, H. E. Byram, W. B. Cole, Howard Elliott, 8: M, Felton, W. H. Haley, Carl B. Gray, Charles Hayden, L. E. Johnson, Howard G. Kelley, 'Julius Kruttchnitt, E. E. Loomis, L. , P. Loree, Bobort Slovett, C. JI. Mark ham, William Church' Osborne, Samuel Boa, Bird M. Robinson, W. L. Boss, A. H, 8mith, F. D. Underwood, H. Wal ,ten and Daniel Willard. v While the executives were meeting with Mr.- Hines, railroad union " officials is . Washington continued their study of the revised legislation. . These officials gen erally expressed satisfaction with the pro vision prohibiting any Reduction in wages beore September 1, which through an erroneous interpretation placed on.it be fore the redrafted measure was presented WILSON IS WRITING REPLY TO ALLIES' NOTE ON ADRIATIC SITUATION ' . i.'.. . VJ . vV. . -i . .' . i .. . No Intimation as to Nature of Mr. Wilson's Re ply Comment on Allies' Reply to President's First Note is Withheld From the Public For k the Present. ' - (By The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. Presi dent Wilson began dictating his reply to the allied supreme council's note on the Adriatic situation early today, and he tropes to bablo p have it transmitted today or tomorrow. There was no intimation at the white bouse as to tba nature of the president's reply." .,.". ' ' . The allied note received yesterday Is "about as long as the president's first srote," it was said at the white house. Beports from London said the allied reply contained about 4,000 words, and this figure was accepted by white house of ficial as being approximately correct WASHINOTONjeb. 19. The next tep of the United States in the Adriatic controversy was under consideration to day by President Wilson and -state de partment officials, following the arrival mad decoding of the reply of the allied premiers to President Wilson's recent ote. -. . Comment on the reply was withheld and it will not bo made public without the approval of France, Great Britain sad Italy, but it was learned authorita tively that this government looks with favor on publication of the exchanges and has taken steps to ascertain the wish es of those governments. One reason the publication is desired here is to prevent further prejudiced interpretations of President Wilson's note, such as have ap peared in the foreign press. . . Cable despatches Indicated that the reply was conciliator and that the whole question of Flume and the Dalma tian littoral was .at least reopened to egotiation. There was a suggestion also hat the allied premiers bad asked t&e WILL ION BETWEEN; Attracting Most Atten Begins Today. to the house was construed as establish ing wage scales until September 1, at the level in effect when the properties are returned to private control, March 1. - The conferees draft of the bill was studied by the labor leaders at an in formal conference but night, but those attending the meeting refused to say whether any definite attitude was de cided upon.. ' PROTEST AGAINST WAGE PROVISION WILL BE MADE. WASHINGTON, Feb! 19. Protest against the wage provision of the com pleted railroad bill will be made in let ters to President Wilson' and Director General Hines which representatives of the railroad union organizations and of ficials of the American Federation of Labor were framing today at conferences at the federation headquarters. - SCHOOL FOR WOMEN VOTERS OPENS 1n CHICAGO CHICAGO, Feb. 19 A school for wo men voters was opened here today under directions of the League of .Women Vot ers, which closed its first annual conven tion yesterday. A large. number of women, who were delegates to the National American Wo man Suffrage Association convention and became members of the League of Wo me Voters, which succeeded it, ma triculated in the new school., Arrange ments were made for lectures on "cit izenship," with attention directed par ticularly to the duties of voters. The school will continue a week. CHICAGO, Feb. 19 Captain Marshall Field III, heir to the $120,000,000 Field estate, applied for a million dollar life insurance policy today. He made the application through two former ' "bud dies," with whom he served in France, and who are now insurance agents. United States to indicate the practical steps , that could be taken to carry oat the original agreement as to the Adria tic, under which Fiume was to be erect ed into a free state under theyleague of nations and the principle of self-determination followed in disposing of the Dal matian coast. It was said to be the European view that the seizure of Fiume by D'Annunzio and his Italian troops had brought about such a delicate situa tion that any attempt to restore the status quo might bring about more war. President Wilson, it was learned has taken the position that this country is in terested in-the Adriatic settlement as a co-belligerent in the war, despite the fact, that the treaty of Versailles baa not been ratified here. On similar ques tions, such as those affecting Armenia and Turkey, this country likewise is pre pared to keep In close touch with de cisions reached by the premiers at their London conferences at which the United States is not represented. ' All such de cisions have to be approved by the su preme council in Paris, meetings of which probably will bs attended in fu ture by an American representative to keep this gevernmenTln quick touch with what is going on. i Careful consideration is being given the allied reply, according to officials, in dicating that a rejoinder may not be forthcoming for sometime. ' PERSHING AT OGLETHORPE. (By The Associated Press.) CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Feb. 19. General Pershing Inspected Fort Ogle thorpe today and later was - taken in hand by a citizens committee and es corted on , a sightseeing tour to Look put Mountain. . , This afternoon the general win review thousands of school children. NEWEST PICTURE OF PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITY. l f sj Governor Frank O. Lowden DR. A. C. DIXON HEARD BY URGE AUDIENCE Noted Baptist Divine Preaches Powerful Sermon at Presby terian Church Wednesday Night A Man of Wonder fuf Personality and Pure Re ligion. For more than an hour Wednesday night a the First Presbyterian church, Dr. A C. Dixon, native of Cleveland county, brother of Tom Dixon, author and playwright and known personally to scores of Gastonians, preached to a mag nificent audience on the "Unveiling of the Glory of the Incarnation77. Dr. Dixon, one of the world 's greatest preach ers and for eight years pastor of tne Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle in Lon don, came to Gastonia from Charlotte where he is helping to eonduct tne Union Bible Conference, un response to an urgent invitation from the Gastonia pastors. Although the notice of bis coming was not given as wide publicity as was desired, a large congregation greeted him. Dr. Dixon chose as bis subject one of six lectures on "The Incarnation", the Birth of Christ, or The Incarnation of God," "The Temptation, or the Testing of the Incarnation,". "The Transfigura tion, or the Unveiling of the Glory of the Incarnation," "The Death of Christ," "or the Glory of the Incarna tion," "The Resurrection, or the Seal of the Incarnation," and "The Second Coming, or the Consummation of the In carnation. ' ' Dr. Dixon's pulpit presence is com manding. A tall, handsome man, his head tinged with gray and wiih a face of wonderful personality, he catches and holds the attention of an audience front the beginning. There was not a rest less moment throughout the whole of last night's sermon and many of those who heard it said they could have listen ed all night The secret of Dr. Dixon's wonderful power and fame as a preacher is not oratory in the eommonly accepted phas eology. He is an orator, but not of the type generally so called. He is elo quen.t, but his eloquence is born of a wonderful spirituality and simplicity of utterance rarely seen in one so learned. His discourse last night was of the plain simple sort that any child could under stand, yet hundreds left the ehurch, fully conscious that they had heard one of the greatest sermons ever preached. Dr. . Dixon's religion is" of the sort that stands firm on the solid foundations. He ban not been Jed aside by so ealled higher critics and modern isms and ologies. In this connection, he paid his respects to Sir Oliver Lodge and other devotees of spiritualism and mysticism. He said that all the followers of this cult bad left Christ out of their reckon ing, that in their practices they were bringing' Christ down to the level of man. Pleasing features of last nights ser vices were a beautiful solo, , "Abide With Me," by Miss Buth Mason and a duet ''Gently, Lord, O Gently Lead Us,' by.Mesdames H. Butter and J. Holland Morrow. GIVES HIS PAT TO THE RED CROSS. Special to The Daily Gasette. ATLANTA, OA, Feb, 19. Lieute nant Colonel Franklin d 'Oliver of Phil adelphia, national commander of the A merican Legion, has given to the Ameri can Bed Cross every dollar 'of pay he received while in service during the war. His action was taken at the suggestion of bis wife, .made when he enlisted at the. beginning of the war. His last pay check for 12,571.19, covering" nine months' service, has just been received by the" Bed Cross. Previous cheeks bad already been turned over to the society. of Illinois and his wife. J. W. ATKINS SUCCEEDS J. R. RANKIN AS LOCAL P. M. Will Assume Duties March 1st Mr. Rankin Goes to Citi zens Bank as Vice-President - Mrs. Joe Cribble, of Dal las Joins Gazette Staff as Local Reporter. The following is from the Washington correspondence of The Charlotte Obser ver of Wednesday: "Jmes W. Atkins, of The Gastonia Daity Gazette, has been appointed post master at Gastonia to succeed Mr. John B. Rankin Be is to be acting post master, but it is believed that after an examination he will retain the position. It was stated by John C. Koonz, first as sistant postmaster general, that Mr. At kins had received- the appointment and that he would be given an opportunity to keep the place. Mr. Atkins was on The Observer about twelve years agp. He is 'well equipped for the post." As was 'noted in The Gazette some days ago Postmaster Rankin resigned to accept a position as an active vice-president of the Citizens National Bank. He will assume bis new duties March 1st at which time the new acting postmaster will take over his duties at the postofflce. Mr. E. D. Atkins, who for the past 12 years has been joint manager with Mr. J. -W. Atkins of The Gazette, will assume-entire control of the business March 1st as general manager. Mr, Atkins will sever his active con nection with The Gazette. In this con nection the publishers are pleased to an nounce that, beginning March 1st Mrs. Grabble, of Dallas, will become Jocal re porter on The Gazette. Mrs. Gribble has been The Gazette's Dallas correspondent for the past several months and her splendid work there and her lively inter est in and devotion to newspaper work has attracted attention. Hence the pub lishers consider themselves fortunate In being able to secure her services. Mrs. Gribble will see to it that The Dally Gazette carries an increased amount of local news each day. 4 Mr. John L. Ferguson, for the past thirteen years a valued employe of The Gazette in the capacity of linotype oper ator", is now outside and will assist In the matter of soliciting advertising and subscriptions and collecting. THIRTEEN IS ALSO ' LUCKY FOR OESCHAfjEL (Sy The Associated Press) PARIS, Feb. IS Another famous statesman has come forward to keep President Wilson company in claiming that 13 is a lucky number. The new fol lower of what is ordinarily ealled an ill starred number is, by coincidence also the president of a great republic He is M. Deer ban el, newly elected chief ex ecutive of France. Just after the elec tion M. Deeehanel remarked: "My life is simplicity itself. I was born on the 13th; I was married on the 13th, and it was on the 13th that the chamber declared me a candidate for the presidency." i. , HUGHES NOT A CANDIDATE. OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 11 Charles E. Hughes has written a letter to County Clerk Frank Dewey asking him not to proceed with plans to present Mr. Hughes' name in the state primary as a candidate for the republican nomina tion for -the presidency. "I cordially appreciate your personal interest and friendly sentiment yon ex press," Mr. Hughes 'letter read.. "I am utterly unwilling, however, to under take a second candidacy.' -, ; ' GASTON COUNTY RANKS FOURTH IN UNITED STATES IN NUMBER OF SPINDLES . : ' ,. , ' Recent Figures Compiled by Gastonia Chamber of Commerce Relative to Number Spindles in Comity Place Gaston Well Ahead of South and Ranked By Three Counties in North - Has Well Over One Million Spindles. ' RANK OF COUNTIES IN AMERICA IN NUMBER OF SPINDLES. 1.. Bristol County, Mass. 7,294,221 , 2. Providence County, R. I 1,709,713 3. Middlesex County, Massl . 1,082,752 4. GASTON COUNTY, N. C. . . , 1,012,698 MR. CHAS D. GRAY TO PLANT MEMORIAL TREES Will Set Out Avenue of Forty Norway Maples as Memorial to Gaston County Boys Who Died on French Soil Will Be at Entrance to Clubhouse Grounds. Acting upon a thought which came to him after reading in The. Gazette the list of those Gaston Courity people to whom the French government is present ing memorial diplomas for -their rela tives who died in France in the service of their, country, Mr. Chas. Jf. Gray, president of the Gastonia Country duo, announced today that he is setting out thin week 40 beautiful Norway maples in front of the clubhouse, as a memorial avenue to these boys. There are forty names as published in The Gazette and for each dead soldier there will be a tree named for him. Later on, a name plate will be placed on each tree. The row of trees will be . 800 feet long, the trees being set out at intervals of 20 feet. This avenue will be between two fairways of the golf course, and will thus be bordered on each side by a beau tiful lawn. This is at the entrance to the clubhouse grounds and will be in the most conspicuous location on the grounds. Visitors to the clubhouse and golf links will see this avenue as they enter. FARMERS CONTINUE TO SHOW DISSATISFACTION (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 Additional replies from farmers to the question naire recently sent broadcast by the post- office department accentuate the feeling of dissatisfaction expressed in - the first forty thousand of the answers, which James I. Blakslee, fourth assistant post master general, reviewed recently before the senate postoffice committee. In a letter, made public today, to Sen ator Dial, of South Carolina, democratic member of the postoffice committee, Mr. Blakslee, in urging extension of parcel post facilities so-, as to bring producer and consumer into more intimate con tact, said: , "The replies to our questionnaire not only indicate a desire on the part of the food producer for improved facilities of transportation and distribution, but ex plain in detail the tremendous difficulties under which the producers are endeavor ing to meet the demands made upon them. About seventy thousand com munications are now at band and of those who make any comment beyond an explicit answer - to our questions, there are none who do not complain bitterly of the shortage of labor, of the high price they must pay for pie same, of the cost Of fertilizer and farm implements, and eito as indication of their attitude that they propose to reduce and suspend pro duction, and that they do not propose to labor 14 and 16 hours daily, to supply the necessities, of life, of high-paid, short hour urban resident consumers. " XERENSKT A PRISONER. LONDON, Feb. 1 Alexander Keren sky, the former Bussian premier, whose regime was. overthrown by the bolsbeviki in November, 1917, has been imprisoned in the Caucasus, according to a Central News despatch from Copenhagen quot ing the Esthoniaa newspaper Yaraniaa. The message declares that Kerens ky re cently proceeded to the Caucasus on board a British nteamer for the pur pose of inducing the population to promise their support to .the Russian democratic center, iparty. The Caucas ian leaders, however, gave him a cold reception, it-is asserted, and on bis ar rival at Baku he was arrested and thrown into prison. ' Gaston county leads the United States outside of Massachusetts and Rhode Is land in number of cotton yarn spindles and now stands fourth in the western hemisphere, besides leading the South in the production of combed and fine yarns. . Of the ninety mills in the county forty- , one are located in Gastonia.' Announcement1 of this pleasing place of industrial supremacy came today with the securing of advance . ' information from statistics being compiled by too Gastonia Chamber of Commerce for use in the 1920 publicity. campaign in tne ' outside world. The statement is backed by actual figures and, if anything, tbo total given will be increased with final . tabulation of statistics for the county covering all phases of its industrial , growth and standing. . Gaston 's spindleage is now . over the one million mark and ths county is on ' the way with a good start to overtakw . in time Middlesex county, Massachusetts,' ' which will then place Gaston third t- -rank in the world outside of the spinning district of Great Britain, according to the best figures available. Spartanburg county, South Carolina, easily holds supremacy in the South with regard to weaving but has until now al- , so ' led in number of spindles. Official figures received from Spartanburg givo . . the spindleage for that county as 850, 000 so the. lead easily comes to Gastoa and in addition Gaston yvertops Hills borough county, New Hampshire, which j , has held fourth place, the New Hamp shire county having 907,245 spindles. Gaston county for many years bad claimed the lead, in number of yarn mills but the spindle is the true unit of spinning. The county held eleventh - place in Americaitf-.thaf Irgardfot a time with 603,102 spindles but the'netlvl ty of the past three years, together wlti'.. the 1919 and 1920 new mill building pro gram totalling between $3,000,000 and 9,000;000 has turned the trick. ; : 7 J , ' The following figures, taken front "The Fabric of Civilisation", an inter- ' eating brochure recently issue1 by tho -Guaranty Trust Company of New Tort, indicate the relative standing of some other American counties: Windham, Conn. ....... 790,232 V Worcester, Mass ...... . . . . 766410 , Greenville, 8. C. ...... 758444 Essex, Mass. ........ ....... 645,020 Hampden; Mass. 642,096 Kent, B. I. ........ 594,38 Cabarrus, N. C. 315,810 v Mecklenburg, N. C. ........... 272,198 Guilford, N. C. . . 262,862 Anderson, 8. C. ...... 58,464 , Attention of the yam markets of A merica has lately been centered to a' marked degree upon Gaston as the fin yarns of this county and the eombed yarns generally are recognised as being of the very highest grade. It is always well to, back np with the actual figures and for this (Continued oa page 7.) - NEW GERMAN COAT OT ARMS ADOPTED. BERLIN, Feb. 19. The new Ger man eoat of anna adopted by the Nation al Assembly consists of a one-beade eagle, on a yellow-gold" shield, and with out the old-time crown. The eagle will be displayed in simple heraldic form without any accessories. '- -::v 'i v The Hohenxollern coat of arms, and the chain of the order of the Hirer Eagle, all parts of the old Prussian eoat of arms, have been omitted. The bill of the eagle, the tongue and the talons are in red. Servants of the government are to-wear the device without the shield so it can bo pinned to their uniforms. , 'Some of the Pan-German papers ridi cule -it, saying, the "skinny, homely eagle with extended tongue" violates all the rules of good taste. Without making it inconveniently large a New Tfork man baa invented a foun tain' pen with a tiny incandescent lamp under its point, supplied with electri. by a dry battery in the barrel. ' Advertise ia Tit DaCy C . -