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1700D LEADS
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Has Plurality of 3,000
Hiram Johnson Runnmg Third - Poindexter
Receives Scattering
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. 8IOUX FALLS, 8. D., March 24
Major General Leonard Wood held, a
. plurality of .approximately 3,000 votes
ver Frardc O. Lowden. governor of Il
linois, la the eontest in yesterday's pri
mary' for the republican presidential in-
nMement when , tabulation of returns
-was resumed today. .,
Hiram W. Johnson, United States
enator from California, was third, 5,000
'votes behind Governor Lowden . , Miles
Poindexter, United States senator 'from
"Washington, received only scattering
votes the returns indicated. ,
More than 600 precincts out of 1,740
' iri the state and 51 of 64 from counties
were represented in the unofficial tabu
lation which showed the following vote
for the three leaders:
Wood 20,257; Lowden 17,298; John
on 15,292.
Complete . or almost complete returns
from all the larger cities were included
in that count, as were the reports from
at score of smaller cities.
In the counties unheard from there are
fewer than 300 precincts. Mose of them
sue in remote destriets.
SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., March 24
Bet urns received early this morning rom
.yesterday's presidential preference re
publican primary showed that 'in 651
precincts' out of 1,740 Major General
Wood had obtained 21,998 rotes; Frank
.Lowden 17,350; and Senator Hiram
.Johnson, 15,985. The returns received
represent 53 out of 64 counties and in
clude those from all the principal cities
f the state.
' . Wood was leading in 31 of the coun
, ties heard from and was tied with Low
den la one. Johnson was ahead in 11
counties aad Lowden was leading in ten.
The eleven missing counties have a
total of only 173 voting precincts.
SOCIALISTS ABE INELIGIBLE
FOB SEATS IN ASSEMBLY
H '. jaiiUAix x, n . i ., Maren me nve
suspended socialist members of the state
assembly are 'ineligible and disquali
fied to occupy seats in the assembly, V
ousel for the assembly judiciary com
mittee asserted ' today in brief filed
with the committee which conducted an
investigation into the charges of disloyal
ty against the five men.,
fit is by the 'organization to which
tbey belong that these men must be
4adged,'l says the brief "Their indi
vidual acta and declarations, in so far as
they have been proved serve merely to
illuminate , and show in concrete the
principal , purposes - and program for
jsrhich the organization stands aad to
confirm the seditious' purposes and pro
gram for, which the organization stands
aad to confirm the seditious purposes of
ftbe party to which they belong. -'
, Socialists are trying to bring about
a change of government by political ac
tion backed up by a general strike, the
two being employed as the two strong
arms of a giant to pull down the struc
ture of our government' which hat been
built aad maintained through the inspir
ations, the toil and the . blood of count
less loyal citizens of this republic."
The brief contends the socialists are
ineligible" "because of. their disloyalty
.to the United States of America and
atateox aew xo." -
la rapport of the contention that the
socialist party "I preparing and at
tempting, to bring about a revolution in
this country' as part of the international
socialist revolution" the brief says: '
fit has opposed and -obstructed aad
continues to oppose and obstruct, the
government of the United States aad of
this state in all measures relating to the
national and state defense. I
' "It has advocated and Incited the do-
traction of existing government of the
UaiUd States by illegal mass action. ,
, "While professing to utilize political
action it insists that such political
action must be supplemented by. violence
and mass action, which It advocates, di
rectly aa well as by insinuation and sug
gestion." m
&BABP BXXAES IN
EXCHANGE SITUATION.
PAB13, March 24. Sharp declines
i the value of the franc as compared
with the American dollar and British
pound sterling yesterday while the Ger
man mark, v despite disorders ' in the
Bohr district, made appreciable . gains,
have provoked fresh discussions of the
exchange situation, and a renewal of
talk of rigid restrictions on importa
tions aa a measure to cheek the depre
action of the franc. Financial authori
ties are of the opinion that feetrletlons
ifford the only Immediate ' remedy, and
- -adiet an early prohlbitioa of fenporta
,)M of all luxuries aad articles which,
M b describe! as superfluous.
THE FIELD
SOUTH DAKOTA
Over Frank O. Lowden -
Vote.
NEW INTEREST IS
ADDED TO SIMS AFFAIR
WASHINGTON, March 24. "V irtual
chaos existed in the navy department at
the time the United States entered the
war, Captain Harris Lansing, assistant
chief of the bureau of navigation during
the war testified today bef ere the senate
investigating committee.
The American navy not only was not
prepared when the United States enter
ed the war, but it did, not "carry-on"
in the early days 'as efficiently as it
could and should- have, " Captain Harris
Lnnning, assistant chief of the bureau
of navigation," testified today before the
senate investigating committee. v
Captain Lannin, who followed Rear
Admiral Simms ou the stand, said his
statements were based on his experiences
at sea, with the fleet, just before the
United States entered the war and in the
navy department at Washington after
wards. .
The witness said that at about the time
the United States decalred war, the ofiice
of chief of naval operations bad prepared
a plan outlining how the navy's first
efforts should be directed, but that it
was disapproved by the department, with
the result that when a plan or operations
was needed the navy, was without one.
He charged that during the war it aU
ways was difficult and frequently im
possible to obtain the department's. ap
proval to essential plans and policies,
making it necessary for subordinate of
ficers to go far beyond their authority to
get things accomplished, thus increas
ing the difficulty of carrying on the war
and decreasing- the effectiveness of A
nierican participation.
Captain Lanning also told the com
mittee that. the various units of the de
partment could make no co-ordinated ef
fort to carry on the war for lack pf a
definite general plan;' that the fleet was
not ready for operations when war be
gan and that in the years immediately
'A
preceding 1917 the department did not
take an attitude toward legislation and
policies that would have prepared the
fleet.
WASHINGTON, March 24. There
was new interest today in the long
drawn out hearings on Kear Admiral
Sim's charges against the nary depart
ment 's conduct of the war because of the
injection of the war department; into
the controversy.
Secretary Daniels last night made pub
lic correspondence in which General Tas
ker IL Bliss, who was the United States
representative oa the supreme war coun
cil, denied categorically that he had re
commended the brigading of American
troops with foreign units, as testified by
Admiral Sims. The correspondence gave
interesting details of the intercourse be
tween the various army commanders in
Europe, which led up to the temporary
nse of United States soldiers with French
and British groups in 'the emergency of
the last great German drive, a step which
was submitted to President Wilson for ap
proval before being put into effeet;
. Captain Horace iJtnning was called by
the senate naval subcommittee at the .re
sumption of hearings today.
OSDEKS ALL WORKMEN TO
RZPOKT FOR MILITARY SERVICE
COBLEXZ, March 23 Otto Mdndorff,
who was released from prison to - take
charge of the . communist movement - in
the Buhr Jbaain, has ordered all" workmen
who have avBla military' service to report
for duty, threatening, if they fail to
obey, to cut offVheir food ration.
.v Communists areVequisitioning all food
stuffs but actual seizure must be made in
the presence of ofiicers, and looters are
severely punished. Since ' gaining con
trol the reds have re-established the Ger
man food ration aad have requisitioned
druggists 1 and doctors lo care for the
wounded.' . -
The communist military equipment is
a complete modern warfare uniform, but
some of the men in the ranks are wear
ing civilian clothes. Beports reaching
here state many women are fighting with
the communists.
There are many anti-semitie demon
strations, although many of the com
munists leaders and officers are Jews.
MINERS AND "OPERATORS TO
DBATT NEW AGREEMENT.
WASHINGTON, Mareh 2t Sugges
tion that the joint scale committee of
operators and miners of the central com
petitive bituminous eoal field meet Mon
day in New Tork to draft a new wage a
greement was made ia a telegram sent
today by John Lw Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers of America,
to Thomas P. Brewster, chairman of the
operators scale ommittet. - -
i RETRACTS STATEMENTS
Due 1 to is information as to
: Loray's Increased Spindleage
' Spartanburg Man Had De-
duced Wrong- v Idea at to
1 Gaston County's Spindles,
The change of .theLoray Mill from a
weaving and spinning mill to strictly a
spinning mill with a large . increase ' of
spindleage,, which increase had been over
looked. was responsible for the-surmise
of 11 8." Tennent of Spartanburg that
Gaston county's spindleage figures were
padded by counting the "twisters".
That this wag the fact had been sur
mised by friends here of Mr. .Tennent,
who is a man ranking high in the tex
tile Industry, and is confirmed , by- a
courteous letter rerevied by the Gastonia
Chamber of Commerce this morning from
Mr. Tennent in reply to a protest against
his statement published in the Spartan
burg Herald of recent date. He was fam
Sliar with the Loray's original 56,000
spindleage and upon seeing it given as
90,000 supposed that twisters must have
been counted to make such a total. In
his letter after referring to this he says
"And as I had what I thought good
reasons for believing they had 56,000
producing spindles, I made the state-
men that if you had included other than
producing spindles at the Loray Mills
you had probably done bo in counting
the spindles at the other mills. I am
glad to be correctly informed, and regret
having done your Scbunty" an injustice.
assure you Spartanburg rejoices iu
your wonderful prosperity and has watch
ed with interest your substantial growth ' ',
THIS MAN DESERVES
A CARNEGIE MEDAL
BALTIMORE. March 24. Watchman
Thomas Kennedy saved a (75,000 stock of
liquor at the country home of A. T. Car-
ozza, of Fisher and Carozza, a wealthy
contractor, at Catonsvillc, a fashionable
suburb of Baltimore, about 1:30 this
morning when men dressed In the uni
forms of policemen and soldiers were re
fused admittance to the house. While
Kennedy detained the men in conversation
al he loked out of the second story win
dow and the "uniformed men" threaten
ed to break down the doors, the watch
man 's wife telephoned police headquar
ters. Two squads of police were despatch
ed to the scene. The men made off in
a high powered "motor car as the police
came in sight but the machine stalled in'
mud hole. The men, however, escaped
in the woods.
SHOOTS SON TO SAVE
. HIM FROM CHAIR
CHICAGO, March 24 Frank Tinano,
Jr., today was at the county hospital
with three bullet wounds in his body.
Frank Pinano, Sr., was held at a po
lice station, where officers said a, mur
der charge would be placed if the 18-year
old boy died.
"I shot him to save his soul," the
aged man told the police. "I would
rather kill him myself than have the po
lice do it. For months I have been wor
ried every time I heard of a 'stick up'
for fear my son had been killed. I
tried to get him to buckle down hut he
would not doit." i; !
Frank, Jr., according to court records,
slipped into, a near-crime record -when
he was 14 years old. Two years later
he had become a recognized gangster and
repeatedly was arrested, A year ago his
father carried him bodily to the police and
had Frank, JrV confined to a boys' home.
Two months later he was released at the
instance of Mrs. Pinano,
Between sobs the aged father told the
police of how, for years, he had herd
ed his .family of tea children to the
Church of Our Lady of Pompeii on Sun
day, but that : Frank, Jr . always ? was
missing--' 'hanging out with his gang. "
Last nght, Pinano, Sr., continued, he
determined to make a final effort to '
claim his boy. Encountered with friends
at a street corner, the youth sneeringry
walked away to ' escape ' ' being bawled
out" .by his "goody-goody old man,"
the father said, and he fired five times.
Two bullets hit Frank, Jr in the legs
and the third seriously wounded him in
the back. .
REPRESENTATIVE BROWNING '
OP NEW JERSEY, DEAD
WASHINGTON. Marct 34 ReTre
sentativt W. J. Browning, of Camden,
N. J. dropped dead today la the barber
shop at the capitoI, " '
Mr. Browning was about to step out
of the barber's chair when he was strick
en with an attack ef heart disease. '' He
died before physicians who were hastily
summoned, could each the shop. . .
. Bora ia Camden, N. J., seventy years
ago, Mr.' Browning had represented the
first Ifew Jersey district ia congress since
1911, having been elected while serving
as chief clerk of the house ef representa
tives. He was the ranking republican
member sf the naval committee aad han
dled the naval ita ia the house when it
was passed late yestrriry. -
win inr.T.H Mi'Piin
- : ; FOR PICDC LIBRARY
Messrs. J. LeeAtabinson, A. G.
Myero WndTJ. White Ware
Appoinlesf aa Steering Com
mittee M dolicit Funds For
f ubiic Library Enthusias-
retinw Well Attended.
At a weu attended massmeeting Tues
day night in the court house, plans were
launched looking toward the Immediate
raising of funds to build a publie lib
rary for Gastonia A central committee.
composed of Messrs. J. Lee Robinson, A.
G. Myers end J. White Ware, was ap
pointed with full power to appoint sub
committees and to adopt any other plans
that might seem advisable to them to in
sure the raising of funds to build the lib
rary. , Presiding over the meeting was Mrs.
D. A. Garrrson who briefly explained the
object of the meeting, vis: that certain
committees previously appointed had in
vestigated the Carnegie free library prop
osition and had found it not feasible,
that a lot for n library had been se
cured conditionally, and that this meet
ing was to sound the sentiment or the
community for a library, and If found
advisable to proceed at once with plans
to build the library. Following short
talks by Bevs. J. C. Galloway and J. H.
Henderlite and Mr. 8. J. Durham, who
spoke on the needs and advantages of a
library, the meeting resolved itself into
a discussion of the best ways and means
to proceed.
Col Armstrong gave it as his opinion
that a committee should be appointed
with full power to solicit funds and a-
dopt any methods they might deem neces
sary in raising these funds, this com
mittee to be headed by the best man in
the city for such a purpose, who would
have the power to appoint such assistants
as he might need. He named as this
man, Mr. J. Lee Robinson, active vice
president of the First National Bank.
Mr. Robinson felt that he was entirely un
fitted to the task and suggested that
Cold. Armstrong himself was the mau of
the hour, that he had shown in numer
ous instances in his business career his
power as an organizer and executive and
thaf he was the logical man to head this
work of raising the funds. Quite a dis
cussion and debate ensued and a com
promise was effected by the naming of
the committee mentioned, Messrs. Robin
son, Myers and Ware. All three of the
gentlement, it was pointed out, are su
cessful business men and have a habit of
making things go when they put their
hands to an enterprise. These three men
form a steering, or central committee.
upon whom devolve the business of launcn
ing the most effective campaign possl
ble for raising funds for a library. I
is generally estimated that the sum
ipiou.uuu 'win ie necessary to insure
building in keeping with Gaston!
growth and expansion.
HOW COULD OIIE EXPECT
THEM TO EAT ALL THI
Huge Amounts of "Corn Wil
ly," "Gold Fish" and "Thir
ty.EighU" are Left Untasted
by American Doughboys.
WASHINGTON, March 24. Corn
ed beef and salmon the familiar
'Corn Wflly' and :fGold FishV'.of the
American soldier 's diet ia the amounts
of 114,008,317 pounds and 20?4485O
pounds respectively, were purchased by
the army during the war, according to
the final report of Major General Rogers,
quartermaster general. Of the third in
dredient, beans, of that . famous .trio,
which made the Yankee doughboy the
most envied person in hungry Europe,
130.388,162 pounds were bought. The ap
petite of the soldiers could not teep pace
with . the supply, . and . the report showed
that millions of pounds' were still on hand
after the signing of the armistlee.
"Smokes" issued' aa a part of the
ration 'for th' first time proved the
most popular article on the subsistence
list, including approximately 5,501,000,
000 cigarattea. not including supplies
shipped overseas to the various welfare
societies. The government paid $57,
131,000 for this tobacco. Nearly 53,
000,000 pounds was purchased. 1
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GAZCTTE PUEUSHING
; cornvuiY.
OF DELAWARE
SOU'S STILL IN DOUBT
No Vote In Either Body of Legislature In Prosr
pect Before Next Friday - Both Sides Claim
Victory.
AMERICAN LEGION HAS
NEW RELIEF PUN
Embraces Provisions For Land
Settlement, Home Buildin
Aid, Vocational Training and
Adjusted Compensation.
WASHINGTON, March 24. Repre
sentatives of the. American Legion had
ready today for presentation to the ways
and means committee of the house a new
plan for soldier relief, embracing provi
sions for land settlement, home building
aid, vocational training and payment of
adjusted compensation.
The proposal is a substitute for the
original bill explained to the committee
earlier this month by Commander Frank
lin D'Olier and Thomas W. Miller, chair
man of the executive committee. The
fourfold plan carrying new rates of
compensation was approved last night at
a meeting of the executive committee.
Under the bill land projects in all
states would be available to former ser
vice men and credit at the rate of $1.50
for every day of service, together with
a loan at the rate of 41-2 per cent in
terest would be authorized. Compensa
tion at $2 a day 'would he paid those
who desire to acquire home in city or
country section.
Vocational training would be extended
for a time equivalent to service in the
army or navy and compensation at 91.50
a day would be paid. Adjusted com
pensation for those who do not desire to
participate in land projects, home build
ing aid or vocational training would be
paid at $1.50 for each day of service, to
be available within n year from the pas
sage of the bill by congress.
Former service men would have 10
years in which to tile npplication exer
cising one of the four options.
WANT GERMAN ARM!
TO RESTORE ORDER
PARIS, March 5 Two German of
ficers who arrived Aett last night from
Berlin to explaino the allies the neces
sity for Trmltyfig the German army to
enter theqeenjned cone to restore order,
saw Premier Millerand today and told
him the Kbert government had . ample
forces ready to deal with the situation in
the Ruhr valley.
aio decision was officially announced
but
derstood on good authority
have decided to glvd the rxt-
mission, and that air that remains to be
decided is what guarantees will be asked
of German to insure that her army will
retire ss"soon as order, is restored. '
The. French government would have
preferred interallied action in the occu
pied tone, while the British and the
Italians favored granting permission for
operations by the German army. The
French gave way' on this point in view
of the aeuteaesa of the fuel situation in
France and the dependence of this coun
try on supplies of eoal from the Ruhr din-trlet.-
- -
. i French eoal production has decreased
from the old ngure of 40,000 tons to an
average of about' 19,700,000 tons yearly.
By the terms' of the treaty of Versailles
Germany is bound to cover the deficiency
vp to a total of 20,000,000 toss a year.
She has never approached that rate of
deliveries, however.' The experiment of
procuring coal from the United States
was tried by France; but proved unsuc
cessful because of the' high' freight
charges aad the nigh rate of exchange.
On the restoration of order in the Buhr
L valley, therefore, depends largely the
continuation of French Industries. Witn-
out a continuous aad growing supply
fuel from that source they will bo
ly hampered, with the possibility
partial shutdown would - be a
The Soar valley is producing only
sclent eoal for Alsace-Lorraine.
r Communication between Paris and Ber
lin, was interrupted today. -
BIDGXCSXST GETSJ100.0OO.
BIRMINGHAM, ALJL, March 23.
The Southern Baptist Educational Board
today authorised the following ap
priations to be made from the $15,-
000,000 fund reeentlj raised for edifca-
tional purposes: . .
-.- Southern Baptist Assembly, Bidge Crest
K. C, $100,000; John B. Steton Univer
sity, DeJand, Fin $100,000; Monesnma
Baptist College East Las Vegas N.
$50,000.
The board was expected to act late
this afternoon a -the the retract cf r
Southern Ear-tiirt Tfco!-r'"l
at Lonlsv-n: f.r tl '
w
seeesarr. i
(By The Associated Frees.)
DOVER, DELA., March 24. .Wheth
er Delaware would be the 36th state to '
ratify the woman 's suffrage constitu
tional amendment still was ia doubt to
day when the legislature convened for
the third day of its extra-ordinary ses
sion, No vote in either body of the legisla
ture was in prospect before next Friday,
and the struggle for votes between tho .
o,l.... ..nr..
tinues unabated today with . both still '
claiming victory. . Governor Townsend
said he was sure the resolution' ratifying -tho
amendment would bo put' over".
Introduction of the resolution was the
only officital event scheduled today. Sena
tor Walter, of Wilmington, was to offer
it for reference to the committee on re
vised statutes headed by Senator Short,
regarded as an opponent of suffrage. Be-
pubhean leaders planned to have the sen
ate act first because of the smaller mar-
pin of nnnMitlnn in t.hn nniwp Timiu, f .
The contest for votes will come openly
before a joint session of the legislature
on Thursday which has been set aside for
public hearings. Suffrage advocates will
be heard Thursday morning and oppo- -nents
at a later session. United States
Senators Spencer, republican Missouri,',
and McKellar, Tennessee, democrat, have
I U .L XT . t 1 w ,
Veen uitiuru Vf uiv iBliuu! nmu
party to be the principal speakers for ,
suffrage. -,..
Vote on the ratification resolution was
to be deferred until after the hearing. ,
The republican steering committee is
considering a legislative slate with pre- '
sure for disposal of the state school
code reorganization bill ahead of the ' '
suffrage resolution. For this reason, re-' ,
publican leaders said today that while a
vote on suffrage might be reached next
Friday there was prospect of postpone
ment until next week. , Delay is regard .
ed by the suffragists as helpful to their 1
cause. . . ,: . . t
GOVERNMENT TROOPS CLASH
WITH COMMUNIST GUARDS
WES EL, Germany, March 24, via
Berle Six thousand government troops,
reinforced bv armed eountrvmen. haa a
skirmish with communist guards num
bering about 15,000 near here but night. :
Reports state 62 were killed and upwards
of 100 wounded.
BUDEBICH, Rhenish Prussia, March 1
24 - The government forces are keeping
open the northern side of tho town to ad- -mit
reinforcements, should these be sent, .
or to provide for a possible forced re- -treat;
. '' "" , ... . -
Heavy firing was beard from the dicer- '
tion of Wesel during the night. There
were occasional artillery flurries and .
spurts of machine gun fire. ;
The indications are that the Ebert
troops are still safe. They are very
nearly surrounded, however, by tho lines
of the workmen whoso guerilla warfare"
has driven the government troops steadi
ly out of the industrial district in fro
days' time, in a combined retreat aad
concentration movement, to the stroag
fortress at Wesel, on the Rhine, v
About 100 interned prisoners, who fied
serosa the bridge from Wesel last night,
are held here by the Belgians. A docea
German wounded also were brought over
during the night and treated at the hos
pital here. " , ; ' , . . '
A small detachment of Belgian troops,
with artillery, arrived here last night and
promptly took' np a position near the
bridge. The Belgians stopped all traf
fic ia tho direction ef Wesel and interned
all who came from that city Tho east
ern ena or the bridge runs into the city
of Wesel and provides an exit from the
sorely-pressed town safely open to
iroops. -
CROWN PRINCE
ON. WIIRINGEir KLAND.
THE HAGUE, March 2 .announce
meat- by the premicrfcday that the
Dutch goveAmeatJstagranted the island i
of Weiriagln toChe . former German
crown princfyff a place of residence la
believed her to complete the steps by
which Holland seeks to meet allied do-,
maads aa to the safekeeping of former
Emperor William and bis son. A de
cree Jy which William of Hohen-oQera
would be confined to that, portion . of
Utrecht, including Amerongen and Doom,
was maao.puoue last week :
are current that the crown
priaeo asked that his reeideaeo be fixed
on the island, and declined an -opportunity
to live near his father.
The big army searchlight t! .at was heTO
last week looking for tncmj r r blria
will arrive at Ga-tonia XI.'. a t -jfr -i
r-itherforiton, li .''