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- gagtonia cotto:: . 40 ciint3 today v.. f " j ' v-r- I A READ THE WANT ADS ON PAGE 5 3 C7 TIIX ASSOCIATED PZS VOL. XU. I.'O. 7G. GA5TONIA, H. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MACH 29, 19J20 1 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTO o fi n TT?nrr3j MM Sra SVEEPS SECTIONS mm List of Dead in Atlanta Section Reaches 36 and .. ; intimated Total Running to 60 La Grange vand West Point Hardest Hit Whereabouts of . 'Train No. 36 Was Unknown Forv Hours Last Night - Atlanta Red ' (By ThV Associated PfVM l V . t ATLANTA, GA March 29. With tti&ttr six'anown dead and with estimated Jead reaching a total of 'seventy, with l: hundreds injured and property loss run ning into the hundreds of thousands, the worst storm of many years , swept over sections of Georgia and Alabama early last night La Grange, Ga and Wet Point, Gt,, -were the hardest hit points, the former v '.place reporting probably fifty killed and 2l bodies recovered, while West Point's vjeath Hat reached 10. r"'-:Z 7- -" f ' Fiva are reported dead at Agricola, , Ala., 25 miles from Opellka- ; , ' Hundreds are - injured at ; all these "points, while property damage is report- ed from Macon, Washington and Warren ton, G-, and Deatsville, Ala. and other points.- ' ..- w JT'. ' ' Greatest damage at La Grange eenler ed &a what is known ns the Hillside mill -section,' where if is estimated that 00 -" i small evidences were either destroyed of .-severely .damaged. Fire ttroke oat In -. the wake .of the high winds and many of the frame ibnadiags were burnt., . -' Help waa rushed to the stricken town -. from the Atlanta .chapter of thai ;red . cross, a train of etmy motor trucks hav ing reached there at aa carry tour this c binotnUg. 'Until after midnight it -was impossible . to dispatch relief ; tratn, . aa the telegraph wires were down and the - whereabouts of train No. 36, on the At lanta ft West Poin railroad, was un known : for ' many hours. ' ;' ; ; ? J v Every hospital Sn La Orange was filled 'with the injured and the auntie ; and courthouse were transformed into tempo t rary hospitals, likewise tilled to overflow ing. Three hundred army tents are being aent from Atlanta by the military aothor- Hies here. .-.;'ir-. At West Point the damage is report--ed to have been confined to the business section of the town, which waa practical ly wiped out. , Less ... than six months . ago - this totja suffered' heavily - from floods; and , waa just .recovering .from losses euatrlned at that -time. A tern porary pontoon bridge, .thrown ; across , - the Chattahoochee river, at that time, was wept away last sight and army eagin em left AtlanU last sight to. replaea it. Five white persona and Ave acgroes are '.known to be dead at -West Point.. -: Damage la other Georgia towaa ta .confined to property loss Which waa re 1 ported as severe at Macon, wher plate i glass windows werei aearly:iall destroyed and the roofs torn from several build- '. lings. l).'-'--T-:-'y.'HtS '-;'"'f;-, Word waa brought .. from ; Agricola, BICLARES lCih ArJEfMIENT ; nHVOLUnorJAO (By The Associated Presa.) WASHINGTON, March . 29. The eighteenth amendment to the ,T eonstltu- - tioa known aa the prohibition amenlmeat, ia k'jalatire la nature and revolutionary ia character, according, to Attorney; Gen eral Thomas F. McCrati; of New Jersey, :ia opening his argument before the United Btatee supreme court ' In New Jersey auSt to have the amendment declared void vanjf the Volstead set unconstitutional JJ!ght points were raised and dlacuseed ia tLe argument. ,. . ' ; - AUorsey General McQran'a brief de- - dared .that . the eighteenta amendment .' waa not constitutionally proposed;-that tha proposal ia subject to Judicial re view; that eongress did not by two thirds ' in number of both houses afSrmatlTely vote for the proposal of tha resolution; that three fourths of. the state save net ratified in the eonstitational sense. " . The brief also declared that the aa- - tional prohibition aet ia sot appropriate legislation; that there is no right -ts OBgress to legislate outside the words of "the amendment;- that the word "bever age purposes" sufficiently describe the limit within which congress wiU legislate and that the . term - "intoxicating H uors" is ita own definition; that the Vf 'd law fixing the standard Is cp- '-) and uneons'ltutioBal; ' tbat tie ! ! V i r -".'-- tvitit at- OF YEARS OF m Cross Goes to' Rescue. : Ala., by traiu of th loss of life there, but further details are still lacking: r Telegraph' and . telephone eommuniea tion was badly impaired on many lines and details of the disaster are, in many eases, meagre: ; - . : MUCH DAMAGE AT MACON. By The Associated Prej ,. MACON G A., March 29. At least one person was killed, several were In L jured and property damage to the extent of several hundred thousand dollars waa inflicted by the terrific ' rain and . hail storm which passed over Macon earry but night, v ; The only death reported this morning was that of a negro; woman who ,was struck by lightning, but it is expected that the death list will be increased when Communication with' outlying parts of the county is restored. Between 300 a nd 500 teli&hones ' wer put' out of commission in the city by the storm, which left the streets scattered with debris. ' Many houses were partly un roofed, show windows were smashed, poles and trees blown down, cellars flooded and negro- bouses blown away. ; The wind attained a velocity of more than fifty miles an hour.. Telegraph ser vice is badly crippled as result, only one long distance line into this city not hav ing been put out of. commission. The Acmulgee river this morning was out of its banks. , Torrents poured over the levee at Central City park at sev eral places, flooding the premises but the dike held, T The big tent . of the circus wintering there was badly damaged, and a barn at. the park, where, rare horses have been wintering, was proofed but none of the animals were injured. imaged estimated at fuu,oo was done at Washington, Ca., according to a telephone report from that place, A jniimbcr of houses were unroofed and com municauon oaaiy aneciea, out no one is known to have been injured. " .."JO DEAD AT LA GRANGE (By The .Associated Presa) ; LA GBANGE, Co., March 29 Casual ties resulting from the storm which swept this section late yesterday were placed today at about SO dead and 100 to 125 injured. -Approximately 100 homes were destroyed and the property damage is es timated at $300,000. : -:. At a special session this TOorning the city council voted $1,000 for the work of earing for the immediate needs of storm sufferers, o.-i-r- -. .The sub-station of the Columbus Tower Company hero waa partially wreck edand efforts are being made today, to get the old city. water plant la working order. ; IN CHARACTER ' i tempts to interfere with the right of physician and druggists to furnish li quor; thai the institutions owned and eon ducted by the 'state of New Jersey art hampered by the arbitrary aet of eoa gross. - The history of New Jersey and u relation to the federal government, both before' and since the adoption of the amendment waa discussed in. the brief while the rights which the states sorreneV ered for the purpose of forming a.more perfect onion are detailed at leigtft. The brief also stated that the 17 a BsendmonU to the -constitution prior to the eighteenth, (prohibition amendment) are- subjects ' relating to the structure and form of the govermnment and are not amendments revolutionary, ia ; character and which deprive the state of their sovereign powers. : f - " : In a supplemental brief filed by New Jersey's attorney; general an entirely novel point is made that "the right to amend the constitution ia a right of the people of the United State a distin guished from tha people of a particular state; that the peopl of the - United States bav only aatioaal powers;" the police power being reserved to the states, and the right of internal . police being a right'of tie people of New Jer sey over which the peopl of the United Bute ha v no control. This right may not be taken from them without "their ALABAMA ':. ' CLIO IS OnGAIJZEO Gaston Countr SuDftortera of ; O. Max Gardner .Form tve Working Organization to Back Cleveland Man. At a meetiug held Saturday night, a "uardnerxor Governor " club was or ganlxcd in Gaston county with the fol lowing offlcers : G. B .' Armstrong, presi dent 8. . X.'BoyeiiJtice-pTesident A. E. Wts, secretary and A. G, Myers, treasurer. A .campaign committee as follows Mas appointed: .A. M. Dixon, J HollanJMorrow, Gastonia ; J. O.' Howe, Crpwders Creek t J. H. Wilkins, Besse mer City; B; Grady Bankin, Mack Arm strong, D. F. , Ware,' Gastonia; - J.. C. Ballard, M, A. Stroup, CherryvUle, ,W; B. Butledge, Stanley, C. . Hutchison, Mt." Holly; Arthur Young, .Mayworth; H. B. Gaston, W. A. Duke; VA Feather- stone, Belmont; Dr j S. A. Wilkins, Dal las; W. E. BoberU, McAdcnvillo, G. V. Patterson, Fpencer.; Mountain; Sam Lanier,- J. B. Connor, Banlo; : Julius Kimbro, Maurice. Lay," Lowell; W B. Carpenter, Capenter's, and D. F. Short, Loray; . -!. gm " " . Petitions carrying . over 1,200 names have already been signed.. - .. ) k SOUTH CiHOUM FARMER KILLS 3, WOOS ANOTHER Charles Corbett Cornea to Co lumbia and : Gives - Himself Up After Wholesale Slaugh- (B? The Associated" Presa) COLOMBIA, 8, C.i March 29. Hugh Fanning, Bryan1 Bailey and Julian Cooper are dead and John fialley is in a hospital here probably fatally wounded as the result of au altercation late Sat urday- night with Charles Corbett.- a farmer, near. SaJley, 8. C. Corbett, who is charged with the shooting by the coro ner 's jury, came to Columbia' yesterday and surrendered at the state penitentiary. The three men who were killed, Louis SaUcy, 18, and the wounded man, left Salley in an automobile Saturday night to go to the home of Cooper. On the way they passed Corbett 'a home and, according to John Salley, the ear was stalled and a backfire from the motor set fire to some pumpice owned by Cor bett.' 'Corbett claims the men fired the pumpice with "matches. ; ; - When the party returned, it was said. Cooper met the ear in front of his home and after' a few words began shotting. KKTJPP PLANT NOT, MAKING " - MUNITION FOR INSURGENTS. . .. f.By The Associated Press) ; , ' COPENHA0EX, March W. Many of the majority socialists who have been in , the ranks of the rebellious workmen in the Buhr district of Germany have quit the figrbtlng front and. are sow be ing followed ia their action by the in dependent socialists, according to a Jtele- gram from Muenater today.' .-. The manager of the Krupp plant at Essen has issued a denial that the plant ia manufacturing munitions for the ia- aurgenta. : :-'.'.'' ;-' The executive council of the Essen workingmea has withdrawn its order per mitting the aeiraro of food ' ia private houses, .the message adds, because the privilege had been mad a pretext for the plundering of the better class houses for valuables. 2.30 INCHES RAIN. (By The Associated Press.) ANDEBSON, B.C. March 29 Ia 22 hours ending at t o'clock this morning 2.30 inches of rain fell nere. An almost continuous electrical disturbance daring that period is the severest en record for the time of year, according to the weath er observer. Total rainfall for the month already la 8. 49' inches, tha heaviest recorded sine 1912. ' Farming operations, he states, are al ready 30 dayaehind, many punter not having turned a furrow. REGULAR GERMAN ARMT TROOPS ENTER RUHR DISTRICT. ' PARIS, March 28. Absolute con firmation of the entrance of regular Ger man army troops into the Ruhr district, on 'the edge of the allied w of occu pation, without any pernussion from the allies, ha been received by th "French foreign offiea, it was declared today. ' The subject. It was stated, win prob ably come up before the Supremo coun cil ia London. The French say they find a exeote whatever "for the sending of troop iatj this section. .. ".' - 3.10 INCHXS VX GREENWOOD. - GREENWOOD; 8. C March 29 The weather observer hero reports 3.10 inches f rainfall ia the 24 hour ending at 7 o'clock this morning, 2.20 inches hav ing fallen between 5 o 'dock' yesterday af ternoon and 11 'clock last night. No daihag has been reported' from the severe electric storm which raged more than- aa hour last tiZ'U , , : J BIGLY BESTEII U? - : . BY REVENUE GENTS '.- - Charles Vicenti. of Baltimore, President of tne Triaca Com . pany, Has' Harrowing - x penence on British Island Is at Liberty Under $20,000 ; Bond ' BALTIMORE, Md.. March 29 Charles Vincenti, president of the Triaca Company, of this city, charged with con spiracy to violate, the war time prohl bition law, waa at his home here tyduy attended by tyo physicians and. at lib erty; under $20,000 bail.,: Vincent!, with his clothes spattered with blood and a severe cut in bis scalp, inflicted, accord ing , to his attorneys, by United States internal revenue agents was brought to Baltimore yesterday front Bimini . His lawyers say he virtually was shanghaied from the British island.' i ' because of his reported condition Tin- jenti has denied himself to all callers. His attorneys, however, told the story of his reported experiences at the hands &t revenue agents, Vin vent Demarco, po lice magistrate, one of his lawyers, eaidt "Mr. Vincenti . obtained jwrmission from, British Customs Inspector Palaey, Bimini, to erect a warehouse and. agreed to present the warehouse to the British government when he ceased to use it. Shortly before . sundown Thursday, the sea launch from Miami, manned-by five men, approached the beach, where he was at work. One of them "went ashore and asked Mr. Vincenti to step aboard the launch to ascertain the cargo capacity of the launch. ' . ... ' s v. r" Wnilo Mr. Vincenti was in the hold of the launch he was struck on the head withsilaatD'ngntf npeked. W" conscious, gagged and bouncl. He lay in the . bottom sl : the munch' for . several hours, ' bleeding from a wound on his head;' .;, " "l '. ; , . - t f ' ' 4 Revenue Agent Arthur Johuson was in tlte party and it was he who informed officially Mr . Vincenti of his arrest .'Mr. Vincenti V shirt ; was soaked in blood, so he ' was given , a change of shirts by Johnson,' -;,'.v-' ' Friends of Vincenti set out to over- take .the launch. Captain .Charles Thompson, master of the ocean speed boat New Yorker, and a party of friends got under, way soon ; after the revenue boat headed for Miami. Twelve miles out they overtook the revenue boat, in quiries were made by megaphone and Captain 'Thompson was informed that Vincenti was in . the hands of United States officers. That waa ; enough for those aboard the New Yorker. They re turned to Bimini. , -; "When the revenue agents reached Miami after midnight they transferred the prisoner to an automobile, and left the city immediately. The arrest of Vincenti caused a sensation among his friends in Miami and ; when no trace could be found of the party Friday morn ing, a captain and detective were press ed . into service in an effort to locate them. Joseph A. Trombetta, an of ficial of the LH Giorgio Fruit Company, telegraphed me Friday morning of Via recti's arrival at Miami, informing me that he waa bleeding from wounds when he waa placed ia the automobile. " - . Revenue Inspector Person, who bad handled the investigation of the Triaca conspiracy, case, declared he had.no in formation to sustain th charge of vio lence made by Vincenti' counsel.-. Hs said, however, that Inspector Johnson would be obliged to make s detailed re port of th arreet and-subsequent hap penings to th internal revenue bureau at Washington. .;, ,: :: HOKE COTTON MILLS CO., ' . ORGANIZATION MEETING Racferd Mill ts Manufacfnr Tire Fabric Tana When Present Contracts Are Filled. ' :V- v,---.;-''v-. Charlotte' Obserrcr. ' - 1 1 " .'. The officers and directors of the Hoke Cotton Mill company, which is to take ever the eotton mill of the Baeford Man ufacturing company, were elected at the organization meeting of the company. held in thi city yesterday. :r n The officers are a follows: John C. Rankin, of Lowell president; Sloan M. Robinson, of Lowell, vice president, and M. M. Tuttle, who will movs from Char- lotto to Raefordf ecretary aad treasur er . - ; . . x These officers are also dieretors, th other director being M. W. MeBae, president of the Bank of Rockingham, and W. P. Covington, cashier of the Bank of Hoke, Baeford. - .' - Combined ia the directorate r ex perienced and successful eotton manufac turers ia the Piedmont section aad some of the leading financiers of eastern North Carolina. - ' -: : , - ..... A soon a the present orders ar com pleted the output of the mill will b changed to tire fabric yarns which are m great demand at this time, it 1 aa- aouaeed. ' " - The Baeford eotton mill has ' 10.4SS spindles, of which tfiOQ were Installed ua-aa addition boilt Ja -19 IT. - r.lANY CITIES IN igijg Know Death List of 64 Is Being Increased 29 Deaths in Chicago District - Four Million Dol lars Damage in Elgin, Illinois Martial Law Proclaimed and Former Service Men Preserve ' .Order. ' - I ' ; ''.. '" '' : (By The Associated Presai . CHICAGO, March 29 Material aug mentation o fthe known death list of 64, hundreds injured and property damage estimated , of many millions ojj doUars loomed today when restoratio nof wire communication would permit compilation of accurate rcporis from the six central west states hit yesterday by a series of tornadoes..- . - . ' - :" ') The most foreboding rumors early to day were from the southern Michigan peninsula and. the rural districts of In diana and Ohio. In those state wires were prostrated in every direction and it was said it might be days before some of the communities were beard from. The Chicago district, with 9 deaths. was the heaviest sufferer,' according to reports early today. The remainder of the known death list follows; rWet Liberty, Ind., 7;Fenton, Mich. 7; Zulu, Ind., Nashville, O., 4) Geneva, Ind., 3; and one each at Monroeville, Ind., Townley, ' Ind., Hart, Michigan, East Troy, Wis., and St.-Louis, Mo, Thousands . of persons were made homeless by destruction of dwellings and outside relief was necessary for ft hum' bet of places. Elgin,. Ills.. 30 miles went of Chief, where 8 persons were killed, suffered ni proximately $4,000,000 damage, when the tornado wrecked a large portion of the business quarter and part of the real dence section, Military law was dclured in Elgin and former service men volunteered to pre serve order and prevent looting. From Elgin the tornado swept north eastward around Chicago, smashing through Melrose Park, Evanston Wil mette, and Tother suburbs with a trail of wreckage and deaths. , In Melrose park and Wilmette fire further added to the fiavoe. Soldiers of a national guard regiment which was called out when the extent of the damage became known, abo assumed control at Melrose Park and Wilmette. The twisters which swept1 through Michigan and ' Ohio and Indiana - ap parently were distinct from the Illinois storm. In each instance, however, it was the same Ule wrecked houses, pros tration of wire communication and . a death list. '.; A dozen. or more Michigan cities were cut off from the rest of th world sad it was reported they were in the path of the twister which swept northeastward across the state from, Lake Michigan. The storm was said to have been partic ularly severe in the vicinities of Kala mazoo, Battle Creek, Lansing, Bay City ana eaginaw. - ' la ' Ohio and - Indiana, however, the tornado's fury apparently was wrecked on rural district. None of the large eities waa hit, according' to reports. Ia the open country aad semi-isolated dis tricts it is beiieverd a number of per sons were killed and much property dam- sged.r; fc X,S:h V I KILLED IN TOLEDO. - (By Associated Piwsai , TOLEDO, O., March 29 Eight per sons were killed and uarly 100 injured ia a storm of cyclonic intensity that struck Toledo and nearby Tillage in this section late hut night. ' At Raab Corn er, 15 mile west of Toledo, and Genoa, IS mile southeast, the property damage runs into hundreds -of thousands of dol lars, y-;- v -? t About , 25 . home at Genoa were de molished. Many occupants had retired at night and in many instances whole famHie suffered injuries .: ' ' , At Baabs Corner the Catholic church aad school were blown over. Charles Harsh, of Toledo, who passed through ia his automobile, said he saw many wo men and children lying ia the street with arm and legs apparently broken. ' Several were injured at Martini, near Baab Comer.' . ' '' ' A urge grain elevator at Martins was overturned . - - It was sheltering at th time five mea who had sought refuge from the storm. . " . . - DEATH TOLL UNDETERMINED ! DETROIT, Mich., March. 23 The death toll of yester'y's storm ia central and western llicb. r'"lr-,.,"rr'! med this ii-.brn;-;, " i r re ports eorr.' -j ia c . 1 OHIO AND These report indicated the losa of life at 54 persons being . killed between Long; Lake and Fenton, and one at Hart. A,' number of injured also were reported ia the wake of the storm, which apparent ly entered the state at Gary, Ind . , and -swept northeast through Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Lansing, Fenton and Flint. V Considerable damage was reported la the rural districts where barns were un roofed, sign boards blown across high ways and fence carried away. Sus pended signs and plate glass windows bore the brunt of the atom in the eities from which reports had beeq received this morning. - V-'- ' ' Wire communication was being rapid ly restored, ' according to the telephone and'telegraph companies and definite in formation from the ator-swept districts' v was expected by noon . . t - - ;;v-z5pki . o, ' , ; 20 KILLED IN TOLEDO. " V TOLEDO, O., March 29 Casualties in the storm which swept Toledo and dis trict yesterday afternoon and late last night numbered 20 killed and hundred ' injured as far as could be learned today with communication to surrounding points badly impeded by fallen wire. ' 7 DEAD IN tIM.U:K ' LIMA, O., March 29 Seven persona dead and immense property damage waa the toll of last night 'a wind storm over this section of the state. Iuterurban traffic has been suspended. and wire communication is seriously im paired. .' ' . JfiJ-GIW CUT OFF FROM WORLD ELGIN, Ills., March 29 Elgin t began . digging itself out from "' th. wrecsage or yesterday's disastrous tor nado which claimed eight lives, injured more than 100 persons and did damage ta property estimated at 4,000,GOO. ; .Merchants and professional mea joined hundreds of laborers' in clearing , the ' streets today. ' Many, guardsmen laid ' aside their rifles at dawn and with picks aad shovels attacked the heaps of. brick. timbers and shattered . glass. Several business blocks,' where the damage was greatest, remain roped aff thi mora- : ing-, while workmen prepare to raize the tottering wrecks which sway ia the wind in momentary danger of falling; into tha ' streets, . , vjv .... ,t- .- .', The electric light plant was wrecked and all factories without their own power .. are shut down. " No newspapers can be printed, here tody-'J .'-: -i.-'r-- 4'. ' Elgin remains cut off from Surround-, ing! town and roads rendered impassable by yesterday's torrential downpour make it, impossible to determine, the damage ia the outlying districts.., The few per sons who have been able to reach Elgia report farm house and dairy - barns blown down with heavy loss to cattle. - ENERGETIC MEASURES , TO BE TAKEN. - (By The Associated Press) '. BERLIN, March . 28.' EnergeUe measure to restore order and to protect ; th German people from "illegal acts" will be taken by th government arainst communist force opera tiair ia the Buhr district, 'said a manifesto issoed by the government today, if leaders of the com- mamsts fad by March 30 to give ade quate guarantee to General von Waiter. commander of government troop ia that aistriet:' ."v--v'. : The following stipulation- am laul dowa as conditions upon which th govern meat will refrain from taking . drasti steps to punish those who have ODDoaed its authority; .- .... . Unconditional recognition of constitu tional state authority. ;.; Nv Bestoration of official civilian and po lice services, providing they bav not been implicated in the movement sup- -porting th reactionary regime set np by Dr. Wolf gang Kapp on March 13.' ' '. Immediate release of prisoner. -If these condition are accepted the government will sot intervene, but If they ar not. General von Witter will re ceive full power to proceed, .r " The manif esto. declare th Eloh f '1 agreement has not been kept, as a" ' i on vvessel ar. ontia'.i!r-r r-1 'numeroos eoJrjT'Jatj f.- i t'l " " " : i it ' s yi4 : u )
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