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' MY. S Gabtt i G r-"i" rT 4 ', COTTO:: .: ; 40 CENTS TODAY. READ THE WANT ADS ON PAGE 5 OF THE ASSCCIATID PR2SS VCL. NO. 75. GA5TONIA, llC SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 27, 1920 SINGLE COPY 3 CENT E iSu'JEKMJr TnOOPSflASSE i , m siege: of isei 1-(By Th Associated Pre, - '"WESEL, March" Government troop made a sortie southeast of this ity today, drove beseigtoc workers ' V" ' force from their posts, shelled their e ; ' , ' treating columns and. , raised the siege i f Wesel on both the east and south east. , . Artillery operated by workers force . : .dropped two sheila into the eity and then . :1 withdrew.' : , '"' ,"'v 'v"v--':'; k.' .While the counter attack against tis - .beleaguering forces was . going on, rein .forcemeats arrived here. Among y them 'were the Deaths Head Hussars and Ub Hans. ' ' :. '.. ' f jyJj?'- -"" ,' Allied commissioner . conferred with , General Kabitseh and soon after the Bel " rB military authorities at Buderich.in Belgian territory, south of here and a .cross the Rhine, began issuing passes for ' ".civilians to return.to the city. ;';"'VV ' - Sniper are still active in - territory s vacnated by the workers' forces. - Sev ' en shots were fired at th correspondent of The Associated Press and American ' , newspaper men aecocmpanying him, while i ' they 1 were returning from advanced Bel: " " jrinn outposts on the Wesel eide of the " . Khine today. 5 They were on an" island - 1 formed at the confluence - of the Llppe r and Rhine, which is considered Belgian . ' 11 territory. 7 - - ' Dissensions - seem - to have broken out r among the workers troops. . The staff jit Hagen resigned yesterday because the ' -one ft Essen, which is directing opera- tions on thia front, failed to observe the '48 hour truce effective Wednesday-after- : noon at three o'clock There is also some ' . trouble among the : government forces " ' judging r from, constant references to ' cowards" in calls for enlistment. Those Issued today ' stipulated that "no eo ' -wards" were wanted., .," ': l 100 RUSSIAN OFFICERS K&'h ri-: v; - " v: v ASSISTING. ' , ' (By The Aasoelated Presar ?!: ' T LONDON, March 27. " One hundred - Bnasian officers sent to Germany by Nikfi ' lai Lenine, Russian bolshevik premier, ; re assisting In the operation of the Ger , - man worker' army before Wesel, MJ . '-Copenhagen despatch to The ', London ' Time, quoting an interview i with an ! Ebert government officer, at Muenster, by . the correspondent of the Politiken." u - The despatch says the workers have -. token over control of the Krupp works .at Essen aftd are turning put arms and I ammunition.: The. officer expect Wesel " .'ta-be evacuated by government troop la v " ' order that devastation and bloodshed - -unay be. avoided, the correspondent says. , s. GENERAL LOCKOUT; (By The Associated Press.) . COPENHAGEN, March 27 Decision ate) proclaim a general lockout on March '&9 ha been reported by the. organiza tion ot Danish employers, owing to atead- ' - ' ily inereasing wage and demand of - .-worker. - All factories will . be eloaed -witj iL exception of those vitally im Trtaat. Labor ia expected to eounter , this move by declaring a more extensive strike. -Vf f;CCH:'j"ti :-f V C0222XUNISTS ENTRENCHED ' CHEMNITZ, SAXONT, . JIarca .lrr .Communiat are firmly entrenched .in eon. ' ttrot her and prepared to resist attack) .-by gownment troops which may be aent i Against the city In the . event , the - troop secure control, a general strike " ;ma- affdin be called. Heinrich Brand- ".ler, chairman of the executive committee iof the worker, declared today, his fol- .lower were clowly eo-operatihg with -worker in the Bahr xalley. There are 12,000 men undo.-, anna tn this district. " The executive unittee- tolay aent. a ' num'ber of demanJn to the 6axoo govern-ioent.-(It asked tt.it the siege of Leip le b raise4t. that officer of the fevche-, whr e dismiased; that Dxeedc: studont - and volunteer be disarmed that miners .be armed and placed ander control of the . executive eommittee of workers; that the .government be remodeled so that work .men could be given guarantees and that new Saxon legislature be elected. . In, an , election held March 15, two fter the KaPD revolt in Berlin, ;an executive committee composed of ten comraunlsta, nine majority peiainte ana one independent socialist, was chosen. Im- - medinter after the election a general strike was called and worker; took charge of the munition storehouse and the bar- racks and .disarmed a -small "force of government troop there. Student votun - teerajresisted, but were '-disarmed wfthoui . ' Tjloodehed."' ;: :r" ': 4 We expect to retain control; Brand ler aseerted, ntil our 1 tlemanas are " granted. It U all nonsrajw -vo Im ngine we; intended to-establish eviet form of goverrasment.". - -",;' ". ' : . ; - ' - ORANGEBURG AND SUMTER SHOW. GOOD INCREASES. WASHINGTON, March 27. . Popu lation atatistica for 1920, announced to day by the census bureau, included: . Orangeburg, a C, 790, an tncreaee "" of 1,384, or 23.4 per cent over 1910. -Sumtera CL, 908 increase 139. or-lTJ per eeht.;' ":.-;"'-:. ; ' . Hasting, "Neb.. 11 I?,: increase C3, -or 24.7 per cent. ;- "'" . r' . DEUVOE LEGISLATIVE HDJOuiiS L-riTIL VMXt - ' (By The Aaeoeiated Pre) DOVER, ; Del., March 27 Although the Delaware legislature was in adjourn ment ntil Next Monday today saw little let up in toe struggle for and against it ratification of the woman suffrage con stitutional amendment. - Workers - on both sides continued campaigns in pre paration for the vote expected next Tues day or .Wednesday ";':',;:.;;' v ''J'- An end to the fight next week is re garded as assured. Suffrage advocate declared that, should Delaware refuse to be the thirty-sixth state needed for rati fication of the proposed - constitutional amendment they will turn their attention to four other states Connecticut,. Ver mont, North. Carolina, and Louisiana. Suffrage organizations now have represen tatives at work in' all four. ; They are seeking special sessions of -the Connecti cut and Vermont legislatures and count ing on action in the North Carolina as sembly for July." - IDENTITy OF I'UilDERER . STILL UTiESTAELISHED (By The Associated Press.) ?; -' STEUBEN VILLE, O. ' March 27. Identity of the person or, persons , who killed 11 year old Frances . South, near her home at Adena, 25 mile west of here three days ago, had not been established today inspite of the fact that humorous armed posses have eeonred tae surround ing country since the body 'of tbr-girl was 'found Thursday afternoon. ... v ';.: Officers, assisted by posses of citizens, were searching today for a man dressed in a soldier 's nnif orm,- This , maa ae coramg w se-erai Auena-resiqems, was seen, late Thursday sear the spot where the body, with the hands ' tied ' with a military hat cord, was found. . . - :; . ; The four negroes arrested : Thursday night as suspects 'were still in jail at Carrollton todayv.They denied knowledge of the killing. ? t.;; Previous belief that Frances South was the victim of a man wearing a military uniform was done away with today when the child 's mother identified the cord which bound the" wrists as part of her I tam-o'-shanter hat. ' Coroner- - T. B. Kirk said he felt sure the child had been kicked to death. Her skull was frac tured and' there was an imprint of the heel of a shoe over her right temple.. . Three more uspects were arrested by searching parties last night.' Two were foreigner and the name of one is said to correspoad with" the initials on a hand kerchief1 which 'was bound " across the girl's mouth, L-': ' - " . SURGEON'S CLAMP IS FOUND - IN DEAD WOMAN'S BODY. ; CAMBRIDGE, i MASa, March 27 As autopsy ; performed on the body of Mrs. Jennie Cholakian, who died at a hospital here under intense ; pain for which -physicians could not account, dis closed the presence of a surgeon 's clamp in the body, District Attorney Nathan A. Tufts announced today. -The damp, fire inches long, apparently was forgotten af ter an operation performed some time ago, and was sewed into the body.; The district attorney said .there was no evi dence as to where or jby whom the oper ation wwperformed. ."-'i". ';- . BACK FROM SOUTH AMERICA. . NEW TORK, Mareh 27.L William Lavarre, Jr., an explorer connected with the Rice Institute of Houston, Tex, who has been' conducting - soological investi gations along the Rio Negro in South America, : arrived here today V on the steamship Maneo from 'South American ports.. He brought with him a - large bomber of specimens of birds and beasts. PERSONNEL CT CABINET. ; BERLIN, .- March 27 Expectations this morning were that the new cabinet, announcement of which is looked for shortly, will compromise sir socialists, four democrats and four members of the centre party, ' - " : , ifiOd FIELD GUNS FOUND ' PARIS,' March 27 Great quantities of arms have been ' discovered in Ger many by the allied officers, charged with supervising execution of th epeace treaty according to advice received here, In Brandenburg and in the immediate vi cinity of Berlin alone, 3,500 three-inch field gun were found. ' ' ; TO SEND ENVOYS TO WESEL. - (By The Assoriatl Ith " -BERLIN,. Mareh 27 After a eonfer enee at Hagen,. th three socialist par ties delegates have decided to send en voy to Weset in an attempt to bring about a cessation of fighting there, ac cording to the Vossische Zeltung. ' 7f l7n:i eitgii gc:.:es . , OUT FCif cc::o3ess y- . ; Charlottettorney Who Figur ed in Labor Agitation An : nouncei That lie Will Make Kan on Democratic Ticket. Bitch, of Charlotte, who has figured more or less prominently In certain labor disputes in North Carolina during the past year, was in Gastonu yesterday. While here he announced to The ' Daily Gnxette reporter his inten tion to run for Congress,-- ; " I am going to run on the Democra tic tkkct," he said, ' "subject to. . the action of the .Democratic primaries in June, i If -1 am - defeated in 4 the prim aries, then I will get out and work for the man that is nominated., I am 'not going to spend a cent for campaign pur poses, but you will see that, funds will not be lacking when the expenses are to be paid. " r ': ; I :' X.:'-:''-", ' " . Mr. Bitch declared that he would-visit every county seat in the" ' district ad would make a speech in every courthouse. "Many- people have", accused met of cleaning up last year in the textile trou bles. I want to say that I made only $2,768.50 from both my law practice and labor work." ' ' ' - ; -J- . -; Speaking ef ' the strikes , and disaf factions among textile workers in North Carolina last year Mr. Bitch said that lf it had not been for; these, troubles, cotton would be selling for from 25 to 30 eents, and the cotton yarn industry would have been "on the blink." Mr, Ritch gave The Gazette practical ly the same interview here Friday after noon as appears in The Observer', of Saturday, as follows: : .'Yes, you may say for me that I am ia-the running and will be in it until the finish." . .My. law practice and work with labor both in the year 1919 netted me only $2,768)0. Since opening a law office in Charlotte on July 1,' 1914, . I have, been primarily engaged in making men and studying men and their ways, while everybody else has indulged in the sorry game of making money. It is a wicked contrast to have to support but I'm thankful to aay that T have gotten along very-well and have sncceeaed to a satisfying extent. A ' . ; "About 50 per cent of the lies, mis representations .. and exceedingly over drawn bad temper that was displayed" a round Charlotte against me last year was worked up by the friends of the crowd that handled big fine new automobiles a round the city hall during 1918 as com monly' as if they had been one-bladed pocket. knives. : I ran all of that 'gang of erooks away from the city hall and I'm exceedingly proud of the job. - t ' ;'"It was either them or their friends who were running "around on the streets of the city of Charlotte looking for 39 other good 'men to take me out and 'string' me to a limb. It was that crowd who warned me to leave Charlotte within 43 hours. Now for their pleasure I beg to advise that I'm still here; am in thia race for Congress, and that if they don't Han t me to open up on them with "all my gnns. they had better not start anything. It is the duty .of every good man to stand his trial. . "As for the labor and capital strug gle that wa pulled off in North Carolina last year, I wish lo-ssy that I have no apologies to make. Economically it was the greatest thing that ever happened for the south; the textile manufacturer and. their labor. All other business peo ple are now advertising for the money they are all making as a result of the economic regulation and curtailment of production. ThaV is the' frame that all other great industries of the country are playing on the south ; tSen why shouldn t we here in the south give them a slight amount of their owa . medicine t The manufacture! ere'mons; 'my slightest troubles." . .. . ' RED CROSS WILL HELP ;.V : - i RETURN THE POLES. - IB The Assoelateil Press.) , : WASHINGTON,:-March 27. The American Bed Cross, at the request of the National Polish Committee, will as sist in the return to' this country of the 12,000 Poles, who at the outbreak of the war, enlisted te fight in the Polish army. The first detachment of 3,000 men will reach Hoboken in afew day. Two other ships, the Mercury and the Princess Matoika, recently sailed for Ant werp to return within two months, 2,300 Polish-American troop. - : -, - CALIFORNIA FURNISHES - : ANOTHER MURDER MYSTERY r LOS ANGELES, Calif.. March 27 A man, the police said had been seen fre quently . with Mrs. Ruby . Reed, a young divorce, was under arrest today in connection" with the finding of Mfr. Reeds' body ia her apartmeat last night. She had been ga rotted with one of her undergarment and a man's handier chief was stuffed in her mouth. -The body was hidden under a pile of cloth ing and the landlady of the apartment home said ah had not noticed it when she visited the room earlier in the day. ' The police 'said they believed Mrs. Beed had beea dead since Wednesday. They added that they were positive rob berywas not the motive for the killing. - There has beea a steady increase la l. production of eoal ia Venezuela, for sev eral ycirs. " ti:::::(S BDio cc::o ISSUE VILL FAIL Time is Not Opportune - Vis itors in Raleigh ' Think it - Would Be Foolish For Legis- lature to Tackle Issue. By W. T. Bost, in The Greensboro Daily News. - . . RALEIGH, March 26. Col. LcRoy Kirkpatrick's proposal to stampede a hot air legislature into, going it $30,000,000 on hard surface roads, and to prod this body Into such legislation by adopting woman suffrage eampflre and picketing methods, impresses a few stragglers - of the body who have been here today and yesterday but middling, tli' uncommon per rentage of hard sur face advocates are, the 14 legudators who earn in and out yesterday and '.today They are highly favorable to a better state highway system. But these fellows are averse to entertaining a delegation of outwiiers whose presence would be inter preted as a threat to the legislature and therefore, a stop to the very proposal to build roads. "- ... ." Colonel Kirkpatrkk isnt' regarded a judgmatical man. Charlotte's former in ternational mayor who defeated Woodrow Wilson, in a speaking contest May 20, 1916, when the President was chief speaker, or thought he was at the cele bration of the' myth and Colonel Kirk presented him, punished the .crowd. Then the colonel's congratulations to Emper or William, now champion woodcutter of Holland, are remembered affectionately f The kaiiier was then on the throno aud Aniorira was singing "he kpt us out of war," that great national hymn of 1916. Then Colonel Kirk came here, last year and speaking to 91 good ' roads bugs, 89 of whom were Baptists and Primitive Baptists, denounced the fellow who went to the baptismal font with Jis Vife and told a lie to the preachea Then after committing the assembly of 89 Baptist to infant baptism, he ealled Bickett's speaking "warmed over . flap doodle cakes," and declared himself out of poli ties for keeps. ' Taxation Come First - The proposal of the colonel falls heav ily today, not because the project isn't good; but the tax program of the 11 IS general assembly, which was universally adopted, now is having the fight of its life, with odds against it. It looks much as if the Income., tax amendment will be beaten unless the demagogue goes out to meet the dcniabobue ; the hon est taxationist appeals to the one gallus non-taxpayer. Revaluation, whlcti was universlally adopted, carrying with it Collector Josiah William . Baitey. who claimed it as his baby, the child of pres sure, not of his brain, is under terrific fire and its proponents are being charged j with' concocting this device eo enlarge the power of the state in taxation. To spring a $50,000,000 bond issue out, and before the state knows what are its necessary revenues next year, would, ac-! cording to these members here, prove, the truth of the attack and put every re valuationist in the hole. . ; For that reason, the legislature will in all probability take .up suffrage instead. There are converts to "the cause" in that bunch here today.' But they are not taking up suffrage because they think it more important than good roads ; they do think the traveling on a wave of de mocracy easier- than over t a traditional distrust of bonds. The Republicans favor- suffrage and have made it an is sue. And to invito complications by go ing into 50,000,000 bond issue the visi tors here -think would be the last word ia foolish politics. J VV ;.; - This view will most likely, be taken. It is understood to be the feeling of Governor- Bkkett, who isn 't a ' suffragist but is a friend of Old Man Inevitable; He may think the old codger' is a hard surface highwayman, but not until the tax question Is straightened out, And it is far from being straight. - " The governor doe not believe ' that Colonel Kirk can get his 3,000' together. Neither doe Rufe A.' Doughton, who has been here. Both agree oa the capital im portance of - setting ' the ' tax system straight. And, both think that the ma terials, the eost of labor,- and every thing entering into . construction raise seriously the question whether the state can build roads any more rapidly than it ia now building without artificial process es to attract people here. - ? WOOD CAMPAIGN MONEY ' IS SPENT LEGITIMATELY. - (Bv Associated Pre. -:. CHICAGO, March $7." Any money used in furtherance of Major General Leonard Wood' presidential' campaign has been expended openly for perfectly legitimate publicity in the presentation of his merits and "not one cent for any indirect and corrupt purposes," said a statement by W.(L Proctor, national campaign manager, ia reply to charges made ia the senate yesterday by Senator Borah. . . , . . "The peopli approved campaign meth ods of the open and straight forward sort that we have adopted," said the statement. "We resent any statement or imputation of illegal or corrupt -penditare and shall hold the guilty per son responslUa therefor. "This attack at this time looks Uke iy kst s"!-i cf tie ell f--rl" PERSONNEL OF GEU CABINET IS ANNOUNCED TO C0"PlfTE CROSS- . EXJOAMJ OF FLETCHER (By The Associatel Press.) . ' . WASHINGTON, Mareh 27 Counsel for 'Admiral Sims expected to complete the cross-examination of Bear Admiral William B. Fletcher today before the naval court of inquiry investigating Ad miral Fletcher' removal from command at Brest by Admiral Sims in October, 1917, four days after the transport An tilles was sunk off the coast of France. ! Admiral Fletcher, concluding his di rect testimony, declared his orders di recting the convoy of the Antilles with three other transports were disobeyed by Lieutenant Commander F. M. Free man, escort commander. , The orders, presented In evidence, called for the con voy to be held together in sailing from the French coast, but Commander Free man, the admiral testified, permitted, the escort force to be split, part of it go ing out with three transports, inchi ding Antilles, while one vessel remained be hind to escort the fourth transport, which was late in arriving at the designated point of rendezvous. , ' NO SESSION TODAY. . (by The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 27 The sen ate naval subcommittee which is inquir ing into Rear Admiral Sims' charges concerning the navy 'a conduct during the war held no session today, but will re lume Monday. Rear Admiral H. T. Mayorwho commanded the . American fleet during the war, and Rear Admiral A. W, Grant, former commander of a battleship unit, will be the next witness heard. TO SET OUT; OF ' SIBERIA APRIL FIRST (By The Associated Press! VLADIVOSTOK, March 19. -4 Eva cuation of eastern Siberia by American troops will be completed by about April 1. in the opinion of officers hero. The transport Thomas sailed u March 10 with Colonel Morrow and IS men of the 27th regiment and the South Bend, which will leave on March 22, will take 2,000 more American soldiers. The remaining force of 1.000 men with General William 8. Graves and his staff, will depart on the Great Northern late this month, . The Americans have been in Siberia a year and a half and hare seen service in the Khabarovsk region, and in Trans-Baika-lia. ' ' -V '" ' :'L . Withdrawal ef Caecho-Sluvak troops in Siberia is nor than half completed and it I expected the ; forces still In. this country will hare left for home by June 1. . . , .V':.; , ; - . ; SUSPEKDEO SOCIJUJST - STARTS A RIOT t l (By Th Associated Press.1 1 ; PHILADELPHIA, :. Mareh 27. Charles Solomaa, one of -the socialist as semblymea suspended by the' New- Yorx legislature, and three other New Yorkers, were ia jail here, today charged with la citing to riot. They wer arrested last night when the police broke up a mass meeting in Labor Lyceum to protest 4 gainst the unseating of the five socialist members of the New York assembly. The others under arrest are Joseph P. Cannon, president of the United Mine add Smelter Workers' Union, who aso is eharged with making seditous utterances; Royal W France, a lawyer and -J. Au gust .Gerbert. They will be given i hearing later ia the day. ' . ? -. Although there was great disorder and several fights when the police ' ordered the meeting stopped because of alleged radical utterances of one of the speakers, no one was hurt.-' A large squad Of re serves aided the policemen attending the meeting in emptying the hall and clear ing the streets in the vicinity. - ' FORMER SERVICE MAN SHOT AND SILLED. TOLEDO, O, March 27. Th body of the man shot and mortally wounded by gangster in a rooming house here yesterday was identified by Dr. James Corrigaa, ef Cleveland, as Tat of his brother, Charles Corrigaa, a former ser vice man. Dr. Corrigaa told police he had seen his brother but ones since his return from the army several months ago. Cor rigan succumbed front a bullet wound under tha heart without revealing the identity of his assailant. The police have arrested a number of euspecta.- Great Britain has adopted the metric grrtem for us ia its cdeial pharraaeo- pc;'.i. ." (By Th Associated Pre) BERLIN, March 27. Announcement -ef the following personnel of the new German cabinet will be made today, ae- ' cording' to the Vorwaerts: , ; Premier, Herman Mueller. -- " , ' . Foreign Affairs, Herr Landsbery, or sv democrat. - Finance, Captain Fisher Cuno. . Treasury, Dr. Wirth. 7 Justice, Ludwig Haaa. ' - ' - Interior, Herr Koch. . Defense, Herr Gessler. Economics, GuBtav Baoe. ' . Food,' Herr Hermet, a centrist. Labor, Dr. Schmidt. . Transport, Dr. Bell. K Posts and Telegraphs, Herr Giesbertav . Minister without Portfolio, Edouard David. " . ':'-"'' 77 -v '7:.'-'' ' Herr voa Graef e, former Prussian an-der-secretary for national welfare, has undertaken the task of forming a Prus sian ministry, according to Th Tags blatt. MUELLER DECLINES. , PARIS, March 27 Hermann Mueller,, foreign minister in the cabinet of Pre mier Bauer has declined to accept the task of forming a new German ministry according to information by the French foreign office today. POLISH GOVERNMENT " . Tvmrrvtrvn r DrjunrnA JPkA JW Mm mM AV a, m f p- f y LONDON, March 27 The Polish gov ernment was removed on Thursday from . Warsaw to Biomberg ' in - Polish -Posen, . 25 miles northwest of Thorn, aceordinpr to a Berlin despatch to' the Exchange 4 Telegraph Company, quoting rumors in -that city, :y '.?'- A v staff ! correspondent of The ' Asso- -eiated Press, stationed at Warsaw,' filed a despatch from that city on Thursday, which contained no hint of any intention on the pact of the Polish government to leave Warsaw, nor were there indication in the military new ' contained in the correspondent's message of any reason why it should feel impelled to make such a move at this juncture. , DUTCH READY FOR . . . ANY EMERGENCY THE HAGUE, March 26 Prepera-" tion to meet any emergency at the fron tier have been made by the Dutch gov ernment, according to , authoritative ia- formation given The Associated Press. T.1 , V . . - M . x'uuts nave oeen peneciea xor mo in- - - stant mobilization of three levies of the second division and if if becomes neces sary, eivie guards and volunteer corps from some frontier villages will be call- . ed to arms. FEW STATES MAY BAR SUFFRAGIST THIS YEtf Unless Chances Are ' Made in t lection ' Laws Amendment ' Won't Affect Women, WASHINGTON,-March 23. Womes ia several atates may be denied a vote ia the coming presidential election despite ratification of the suffrage amendment before November, it is said at the head- acre, unJes cnaaget are maae in regis- , tratlon law. J-r :y .:l: - In order that women all over th TJai-'. ted State may register for the coming 7 November election under existing laws, ' ratification must b completed . baferv . May 1, 1920, on which date Georgia close it registration. "Excluding Geor- -gia the next date is June 30 when regis- -tratioa closes in Rhode Island. ' Kegistra tion, in all other states does not close na-. til September or October by . watch tim suffrage leaders are confident the amend ment will be ratified. ' r r : Other requirements, - however, . beside . the element of time may nullify the wom en 's vote'next November in certain of the ' state, especially ia the south, unless th legislatures are willing to mak aeea sary change In the laws. Payment of - a poll tax is required la eight of . the . states; in Virginia over a period of three year before the election aad in Florida and Louisiana for the two year ' previous. Texas law call for the' pay meat of a poll tax oa January 1, Ala bama and Mississippi on February 1 and North Carolina and South Carollna--oa May 1. ' V 7 . Pressure will be brought to bear upon . the legislatarss, where necessary, to have registration re-opened and th law mo dified, it ia said here, bat women politi cal leaders hope the changes will be ac complished without difficulty. Ia state where women have not heretofore been -given the privilege of fulfilling the neces sary requirements, provision' should be ; made for them to go to the polls this November if the amendment is ratified la time, they assert. " No opposition to the operation of lis . suffrage amendment in" strongTy e Eli suffrage states, similar to tactics ; y ed in the south to limit the ar? vets after the passing ef the V. iner." -,t, is cai7!?rel l'.kt'y ly r;T"-"' 1 1 .
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