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DECLARES HIMSELF CANDIDATE
'Declares That If Democrats of Georgia See Fit to
Select Him as Their Choice He Will Accept
Honor. "u-- ""- ' :-: -
- CBv The Associated Pimm) .
WASHINGTON, . March Attorney
- 3eneral Palmer ha declared himself aa
democratic presidential candidate, lead
uif the list of aspirant for the demo
cratic nomination, in formally coming out
J lata the open.
In a -telegram to Iliram L. Gardner,
oeerotary of the Georgia state democratic
committee, Mr . Palmer declared ' that
' -"if the democrats of Georgia tee flt to
-we! ort me aa their choice, 1 snaU receive
the honor with deep appreciation," hold?
iag It to he highly important that an op
portunity bo given in the primary "to
: -directly pass upon the record made by-the
w present administration. '
r ; Mr. Palmer announcement, it was
Cbelieved, wiH open the way for other dem
m -oerata to announce their candidacies. Al--thougk
the republican campaign has
4been on. for; sometime. V Mr. Palmer
is the first democrat to declare himself.
HAS NAME OF EVERY v
X. W. W. IN AMERICA
(By The Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, March 2 Maelay Hoyne,
state's attorney today believed he had
a list of the names and addresses of
virtually every member of the Industrial
"Workers of the World organisation in
America. Detectives took the papers
'from a (nan who gave his name aa Alex
mader G,. Gavlin, as, jthey said, he was
.attempting to deliver them to a safe
TAKE WELL PASTY
JTOR MS. MILMOW.
The employes 'of the Weetinghouse
Electric ft Manufacturing Company tn
Oharlotto, about fifteen in number, with
their ladies, tendered a farewell reception
at the home of Mrs. Andrews in Carne?
jrie Court a few nights ago to Mr. Albert
Milmow, who has come to G Estonia to
taks np his work with the firm of Michael
-A Bivens, electrical eontrr Iters. ' A de
lightful buffet luncheon was served and
. the -evening was thoroughly' en joyed by
1 n present. 1 Mr. J. G, Simpson, in a
graceful speech presented Mr. Milmow
'with a handsome parting gift
FORMER YALE FOOTBALL
. CROSS DELEGATES
' . (By The) Associated Press.) t 1
GENEVA, . Monday, March 1 Dele
.gates to ihe.eongress of red cross socie
ties ,wbleh will pen here tomorrow, are
this dry and stats that plans will be
-aaads for the ee-operation of national red
Merest societies ia 30. countries. ; During
the congress, which will last for a week,
the peace time- program of the red cross
will be discussed, the plan being to re
niev suffering and promote human wel
ztser generally. 1 This will be based on a
ea-erdinated effort, to improve public
"health by controlling -and even eliminat
' lag such maladies as malaria, tubercu
losis and other scourges which have af
Acted mankind. .", . ' ' "
The program af the league has been
formed upon the advice of eminent roedi
al authorities throughout the world, who
;are unanimous' in declaring that most of
the lib of humanity can be prevented by
parts of govoramentti'and peoples .v
Beprcsentatives of 2S countries, include
tng China and Japan, are here, Ameri
can .delegates had. aa adventure in the
.Soto hi the Jura moan tains.'. Among the
anembers f the 'party were Mr.Wil-
longbby O. Walling.-iof Chicago,' Mrs.
W. K. Draper, 4t New York, H. P.
Davison, chairman of the board of gover
nors of the League of Bed Cross Socle
ties; Thomas Edward Green, ox wasa
ingtou, secretary of the Amerieaa dele
gation; DrV Voffle, a Fpch delegate,
sndT.'E. Steea, of r?eray. They
sjsie by automobile from 'Paris and
when they reached 8t. Cergnes, France,
'they were told the pass ahead was clear
of snow, but as the party -advanced to
the Franco-Swiss border the customs of
ficials said the enow was still deep in the
mountains and it was impossible to get
through. '.The -Americans kept on, how--verf
until they encountered a deep drift
where the machines were stalled and it
looked as if the party would be forced
to spend the night' in the ' mountains .
Foster Rockwell ot , Phoenix, Aria.,
former Yale football captain and now en
gaged in red cross work, had foreseen
trouble, however, and - had come from
Cenei, srrar;.-? for relays of horw
i-1 txrC "i r' t tve x. Tn"a
ft lour cf-rr t" rif' '--j were t'r".'-
GENERAL PALMER
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SEVEN LIVES LOST
FROM THE BOHB'IAII
(By -The Associated Presa.V S 3
HALIFAX, N. 8 March 2. Seven
lives are believed to have been lost when
the crew of the Leyland liner Bohemian
abandoned their ships as sha was break
ing up on the Bambro lodges this morn
ing.. Several others ware injured.
The ship, which was bound from Bos
ton to Liverpool, ran aground in a blind
ing snowstorm While endeavoring td put
into Halifax harbor, early yesterday.
Sixty four passengers were taken off in
safety in the morning, but most of the
120 members of the crew remained on
board all day. .
Late last night a strong swell developed
and the ship began to pound heavily on
the rocks. At four o'clock this morning
it was decided to abandon her. Three of
the chip's boats got away safely, but the
remainder of the men were enable to
take to the boats, according to the reports
mmIvm) hare.
The tug Boebling came as close to the
stranded ship as possible and the tranfer
of those still on board was attempted by
life lines. It is believed that the loss of
life occurred during this operation.
TO DISCUSS ESTABLISH-
MEIfT PERMANENT TRIBUNAL
Philadelphia, March 2 a meet
ing "of representative of Pennsylvania
Railroad shop crafts and other employes,
and officials of the company to discuss
the establishment of a permanent tribu
nal for the adjustment of wage dis-;
putea 4vas held today at the office of
Prjsent Samuel Rea. G. L. Peck,
viceresident, and director- of personnel,
was also present at the .meeting, which
was suggested by the company. Under
the reorganised" plan of the Pennsylvania,
Mr. Peek's duties embrace matters af
fecting the employes. It is proposed to
form a board of employes and represen
tatives of the company to which appeals
In wage controversies would be made.
CAPTAIN RESCUES -IRED
FROM MOUNTAIN SNOWS
they were being dragged through the
now and after slow progress for three
miles they were able to move ahead on
their own power again,
Charlotte Proves a Slacker.
Concerning the drive for Armenian and
Syrian Belief, the Charlotte Observer
of this morning says: V
"Charlotte proved a slacker tonight,"
said a prominent woman of tie aty.
"The heart of her did not respond to
the cry of suffering, dying Armenians.
A great man earns from Armenia to tell
of the frightful woes of his people, and
how many Charlotte people eared enough
to hear him aad his pitiful story t By
actual count there were eight persons
present The speaker Bet. Mr. Yonan,
and his family, came but recently from
the land where the unspeakable Turk
has persecuted the people in every way
that could be thought of. He is a mm
inUr of the Presbyterian church and is oa
a. tea, of visitations ' to ,eities.,of this
country to" tell of the weis of hj&peopia.
their starvation, their ' brutal treat
ment ' Only eight Charlotte people, eared,
ie seems.. . '" ' :: '
Mr. Yonan came in from Gastoala
where, yesterday, he spoke, and with the
result that the town of Gastonia raised
the whole of the county 's quota in a day,
aad then the county took 90 orphans extra
each orphan representing the sum of $60.
Charlotte, or Mecklenburg 's ' quota . Is
$17,000, and only half of that has been
raised. ; . . ' ' ' '' '
v "Although; there was only, a handful
of people to bear him, Mr. .Yonan was
cheerful. He said hs knew that Charlotte
would do its part in this work of rescuing
the perishing the physically perishing.
He leaves tonight to complete his tour of
talks for his stricken peopie, going to
Atlanta, then into Tennessee then
North."' r - V : "
: BITTXB MAYOSALITY' FIGHT
SEATTLE, Waaha.', March 2 James
A, Duncan and Hugh Caldwell were the
candidates for mayor in an election here
today after what had been described as
one of the bitterest municipal campaigns
in the history of the city. "Duncan, sec
retary of the Seattle central labor coun
cil, was a leader In the general strike
tnr a ypr Caldwell formerly was
a major la tie army. ' '
TREATY WILL BE A
, mm ISSUE
American PeoplcrWiU Bel Call'
ed Upon to Express Views
on Question of Ratification,
; Modification 6 r Rejection
Through Ballot Box.
-By The Associated Presa)
WASHINGTON, March 2 The peace
treaty will be thrust into the political
campaign under plans of senate .leaders,
who have agreed to drop the compromise
negotiations which " they . believe hv
reached a hopeless stage. Unwilling to
consume more time in dickering over
compromises, ths leaders have agreed to
put the treaty away and tarn their;, at
tention to urgent legislation. , .
This means that the treaty would be
come, a dominant issue in the approach
ing political campaign and that . the
American people would be called upon
to express' their views on the question
of ratification, modification or rejection
through the ballot box. Both sides' here
tofore, have fought off etabbornly this
eventuality but they are said how to have
come to look upon it as inevitable,
The treaty would be taken out of the
senate, and saved for the fight at the
polls by a call for the final ratification
vote and. its resultant failure of . pas
sage, if the plans of the leaders material
ise. Action on the treaty was shut off
yesterday by adjournment of the senate
out of respect for Senator Bankhead .
By unanimous consent, the votebn the
reservation concerning domestic questions
went over until today. '
WANT RESTORATION .
OF PERSONAL LIBERTY
By The Associated Press)
TRENTON, N. J., March 2 The
democratic state committee has declared
itself in favor of a plank in the plat
form to be adopted by the democratic
national convention at San Francisco
for "the restoration of persona! liber
ty" and the abolition of the prohibition
amendment and f or the right of the
states to legislate upon prohibition. The
state committee pledged itself to the su
port of such a plank and requested
delegates selected to represent the demo
cratic party in New Jersey at the can
vention to advocate the plank and in
struct their representative on the reso
tions committee to, insist upon its adr
tion. The state committee alio indorse!
the wet policy of Governor Edwards
WOOD DECLINES REQUEST
FOR JOINT DEBATE
(hy Associated t'tv. :
DETROIT. Mich., March 3 Major
Leonard Wood, here to deliver two of a
series of campaign speeches, said in
formally this morning that he "would
respectfully and courteously decline"
Senator Poindexter 's request that their
joint debate in South Dakota be extend
ed through the week of March 15.
General Wood would not discuss the
suggestion of Senator Poindexter beyond,
saying be did not think the issues war.
ranted a week's debate. , j C
General Wood ' first address today was
before women voters oa "Amerieaa Wo
men la Politics. " Tonight be ,' is to
speak before a mass meeting In the local
armory.... ."-.--l ,- ' -'
BUSINESS IN BACK SEAT '
WHILE SOT ASIANS SEYEL.
8pecial'to The-Gazette. .
GREENVILLE, S. a March 2.
"If the Rotary district conference; at
Greenville interferes with your business
eLaut youj-httsjnessv' f 11" slo
gan for all Rotarians in'the Carolinas and
Virginia as well as the working rule of the
Greenville Rotarians. , They are giving
unlimited time and labor to preparations
for the district eonferenee here March
15-16. Committees on reception, trans
portation, registration, harmonics, Boy
Soeuts, program, hotels, meeting places,
banquet, entertainment, and publicity are
bard . at work---aad. have been for the
past two months. life with a Greenville
Rotarian now is just one conference com-
mittee ' meeting- after another.. No. de
tail is being overlooked. Everything is
in such a state of readiness that, so far
aa ths 'loeal end" is concerned, the
eonferenee could be held within 24 hours.
EAST SCHOOL CONTRIBUTES '
X TO ARMENIAN BELIEF.
During Chapel, Exereises at the East
School Monday morning the cause of the
Armenian relief was presented . to the
school. The proposition was made that
the teachers and pupils adopt , one of the
Armenian children for one year. The
cause was sympathetically received and
the school eagerly , volunteered to provide
for one of these unfortunate chil&re.
Last year over $71 "was subscribed 4
the same work, and H is expects that
at least this amount will be raided this
year f6r this worthy cause. -
WILL CONSIDER WAGE
. DEMOS OF RAILROADS
President Wilson Preparing
. Set Up Tribunal Which Sh
Hear Wave Demands of T
Million Employes.
" (By The AssoHakd Press)'
WASHINGTON, March 2 Pros
Wilson is preparing to set up the t
nal provided in the railroad bill for
sidering thejvage demands of the 2;
000 railroad employes.
It waa announced at the white , house
today that be was writing to the unions
and railroad companies asking that the;
nominate representatives to tne wag
boan) A Under the law the unions nam
six representatives and the boards six
From each of these groups the President
will select three and in addition he will
name three representatives of the public.
The board of nine as thus constituted will
be subject to senate approval.
Decisions of the board will be by ma
jority vote provided one of the majority
is of the public group. 'The law doonA
not make acceptance of the findings man
datory on either the workers or the roads,
but members of congress during debate
on the measure expressed- the belief that
public opinion would compel acceptance.
Representatives of the brotherhoods
still are meeting in Washington consid
ering the president's reply to their wage
demands in which he promised that if
the new law did not provide for a tribu
nal for settlement of wage controversies
he would use his efforts to have a board
appointed. In asking the president to
veto the railroad bill the railroad men
said the machinery set up by law would
result in a delay of many months in the
settlement of their demands.
SENATORBJ!.'XHEAD OF
AUBJL'.M HAS PASSEO
Oldest Member of Senate and
Last Confederate Veteran
ThereDies in Canital.
(By The Assoc iaiefl Press.)
WASHINGTON, Mach 1. John E.
Bankhead, of Klabaqra, the oldest mem
ber of the United States senate and the
last veteran oi tifo Confederate armies
to serve in it, una today at his home in
Washington of myocarditis.
: His colleague, Senator Underwood, an
nounced the fact to the senate, eulogizing
him as the ' ' foremost figure in Alabama
for the last quarter of a century.' The
joumod iuiuieiHaifly aya mark
of respect. Later Vice-President Mar
shall aDDointed a eommittan of the uniM
nators Underwood, Nelson, Pomerene,
Townsend, Ashurst, Fernald, McKellar,
Harrison and Ball. The body, accom
panied by , members of the family, left
Washington i tonight for Jasper, Ala.,
where' the funeral will be hold.
Senator Bankhead 's death came' as a
surprise to. his official associates, though
immediate' members . of his family had
been concerned' for some time over his
health. . ne contracted a cold several
weeks ago, during a period of inclement
weather at the capital while escorting a
delegation visiting Washington in the in
terest of the United States Good Bonds
association through a round of official
calls.) f '.'' .sVv , v ,, . ':
With him at the time of his death
were his wife, his son, Representative
William. B. Bankhead, who serves in
Congress from the 10th. Alabama, dis
trict; his daughter, Mrs. Arthur G. Lund;
Mr. Land and Or. Sterling Buffin., Three
other children also survive him.
; Senator Bankhead was born in 1848
aad for over a half century has been a
dominating figure in public' affairs, bote
in. hia state aad in the nation.
Enlisting as a private in an Alabama
regiment during the Civil War, he was
three times wounded, and rose to the rank
eft captain before its conclusion. After
f lerving ln the 'legislature of his state sev
eral terms, he was . elected to Congress,
where he filled out 10 terms', later being
appointed to the senate to fill a vacancy.
Elected by the legislature to that office
in 1907, he waa re-elected twice by popu
lar vote, the last time in 1918. In Con
gress he was conspicuous for his work on
public, buildings and river and harbor
improvements. He was the author of the
law for federal aid to post-roads new in
effect, and the Bankhead national high
way, planned to run from Washington, to
Los Angeles,' CaL, was named for him.
HEAVY. DAMAGE .
BOISE III FL0.1ID;
-.MIAMI PLA. March 1
estimated at over five million
done , to tho uit and ve:
of Bonth Jirida bw t!
tempera res of lass
field north of 1
-,ued out tw carry
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damage e the eouth t, avocado
cent Bloom BS destired.
and mango fcSSat niaM were the low-
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MIUTAPlf TRAINING
Great Educational Campaign
Which Has Closed More
Than Achieved Its Purpose.
(By The Associated Presa)
WASHINGTON, March. 2 Educators
in eonferenee here today with war de
partment 'officials will submit recom
mendations for the adaption of the re
serve officers training corps to a system
of universal military training.
The shortage of army oiScers was giv
en as one of the main difficulties in the
administration of the training corps and
legislation for increasing the number for
college work from 400 to 1,000 was ap
proved. The reserve officers training corps is
now' represented in 253 educational insti
tutions, it was announced, with an en
rollment of 114,000 students.
Among the educators present were Dr.
J. R. Angell, national research eouneil;
Samuel Avery, president of the Universi
ty of Nebraska; M. L. Burton, presi
dent of the University of Minnesota; W.
II S. Itamarest, president of Rutgers
college: II. 8. Drinker, president of Le
high University; W. E. Stone, presi
dent of Turdue' University; W. O.
Thomj ton. president of Ohio State Uni
versity; R. L Vinson, president of the
University of Texas, and General E. W.
Nichoh, of the Virginia Military Institute-
MATRIMONIAL BARK
WEATHERS STORM AT LAST
(By The Associated Press.)
PARIH, March 2 Among the pas
sengers on board a United States ship,
ping bonrd vessel which left Lisbon on
SaturdajVas a newly wedded Couple to
whom the sight of disappearing shores
of Portugal must have been most grati
fying. They were the 'chief mate of ths
ship and his bride, who were married
during a brief stay of the ship at aa
Irish port and after a courtship lasting
less than three days .
After securing a special marriage
license, the chief mate sailed on his ship
for Lisbon and when he arrived there he
introduced his bride to ths captain, say
ing, according to advices, sbr had come
to that port from Ireland by way of
Prance and Spain. The captain agreed
that the bride could go to America as
a stewardess and it eeroed to be "fair
weather ahead" for the souple. A few
hours out of port, however, aa accident
occurred in the engine room : and the
ship had to return to Lisbon for repairs,
during whieh time the mate . and the
chief engineer had a bitter quarrel. This
resulted in the engineer telling the cap.
tain the mate's wife had been a stowa
way on board the vessel during the trip
from Ireland.
Ineensed by this breach of discipline
the captain sent the bride ashore. Af
ter cablegrams had passed between Lis
bon and Washington in whieh it was
pointed out the young bride could not
be left stranded in a foreign land an
the mate would demand his disc!
was finally agreed that the eon
go to America on the ship
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dT SURFACE ROADS
Plan Extensive Road-
At their regular monthly meeting hekft
yesterday the county commissioners a
dopted a road building program whieh
when completed will put Gaston in the
forefront among ths good roads counties
of the State. The plan as outlined by
the commissioners will give the county
a network 'of g0od roads traversing the
county in every direction, in addition Iff-
the two main thoroughfares going east
and west, and north and south through ,
the county.
At yesterday's meeting it was decided
to push to a successful completion thla
summer the following projects, entail
ing a total of 43 miles of hard sur
face roads for the county:
Gastonia to Cherryrille via Bessemer
City, a distance of 14 miles. .
Gastonia to Belmont, via Ranlo, Lowell
and MeAdenville, a distance of 12 miles. -
Gastonia to Dallas, 4 tniles.
Belmont , Abbey College through Mt. '
Holly to Lucia, a distance of 9 miles.
Gastonia to the South Carolina line at
Bowling Green, 0 miles. .
The road leading from Mayworth to '
MeAdenville, which will connect the New
Hope road in the county with the Nation
al Highway at MeAdenville has bean
practically finished, or will be very soon.
It is tne Intention of the commissioners
to push this work to a rapid conclusion.
To that end committees are -at work
negotiating for the purchase Of rock cjuar- -ries,
one in the immediate neighborhood
of each new road, in addition to these al
ready in operation. At MeAdenville
there is. a larpe quarry already in opera
tion that is furnishing rock, for the
eastern section of the county. Near Bow
ling Green, another quarry is available.
In the vicinity of Bessemer Cly aad
Whetstone mountain a vast amount of ,
rock is available. Rock for the Dalian- .
Gastonia road can also be easily secured.
The asphalt for this building program
has already been' purchased. In addi
tion to the native supply of rock, the
commissioners are investigating a species
of asphalt rock In Tennessee whieh it to
believed will furnish a combination that
wiH be suitable for road-building.
This work is to be done by hired con
victs. Mr. O. B. Carpenter leaves to
night for Raleigh for a conference aa
to the matter of securing 100 State con
victs immediately. . '
Other deals are pending whereby' it U
thought that other county eoavkta win
be secured.' It will be remembered thai '
a good roads bond issue of $500,000 waa
voted in the county last summer which
with a like amount from Federal and'
State sources will give ample funds to'
carry oa this extensive program. '
When completed there will be a hard
surface road from the Catawba river 'on
the east to Cleveland county t tix weaV'
and from 'Dallas 'to Bowling'. Green. '
Furthermore tho southern s&d eastern
end of the county .'will be connected up-
by the New Hope road,: the Mayworth
McAdenville road and' theXMa-Mt.
Holly-Behnont road. . The
tion of the county, sJLraJr nerved by
good roads from KiBw'onBi to Lia
wood and from CEfTlut Dallas win
have a hard rxCTJ1 from
Cherryrille
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