Gastonia Daily Gazette (Newspaper) - March 5, 1927, Gastonia, North Carolina WITHER NORTH Fair and wanner Sunday increasing cloudiness and wanner with light rains in ex- treme west light able winds becoming moderate DAILY GAZETTE THS COMBED YARN CENTER OF THE 16 PAGES TODAY VOL. NO. 55. A. P. LEASED N. SATURDAY MARCH 5, 1927. N. E. A SERVICE SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS WORKMAN'S COMPENSATION KILLED BY HOUSE Scores Ur Dills Passed With No One Knowing Any Thing About It of De- mands That Every Be worm WOLTZ Reconsidered In Order To i Pass It On Roll i March benefit of the price workman's compensation was killed by the house today by an ing vote to table and The motion was made by tive ledged labor Last day introductions brought In By for relief of widow of Sheriff J. L. Nettles and ing charter of city of and giving ty Coroner in j Passage of new bills on sion of fules ran into a The bills were not read and nobody knew what was in them except reel Hose To Siphon Warehouse Rum Spectacular Pistol Fight 1 Follows Recovery of ands of GANGSTERS Anniversary Service At Presbyterian Church To Honor Six Beloved Couples Seventy thousand dollars a year for three years is the salary at Estimated Worth of Whiskey Had Been March More than 600 feet of hose was used bj thieves in siphoning bonded whiskey from a ment bonded warehouse to an apartment building it was re- today after police and federal agents had captured four men in a spectacular tol fight and recovered sands of dollars worth of The four were William who was held for a time in connection with the slaying of Assistant State's Attorney McSwiggin last William known to police as a gangland John Barry ana John Christian Teaching in the Home Exemplified by Devoted and Long Lives of Twelve Members of the First Presbyterian Church Who Will Be Honored at Special Twelve loved and re- of My spected in Gaston county and re- i ot and also of m the devoted before the ship that has been theirs for fifty j The congregation join in j years and will be with the singing of the beloved at a special service at the First j old that were born Presbyterian church Sunday of the deeply spiritual lives of WIU Not Call Special Meet Congress Although Many Major Bills Failed He Sees No 62 OUT FOR Army Must Get Along j Without It Asked Mar. 5. j Advised by President i that he did not i plate calling a special session of j the 70th congress 469 senators 1 and representatives today began i a nine months vacation following 1 the death of the nine senators and 53 representatives will not return j next they either curtain will be those who lived for the glory of i lifted aside and the old people The stirring strains of A H Bellows director of ing retired to private life or en- will be transported into the days Firm a Foundation wiU station at tered other federal fields of en- of long Their children and resound through the church as all ac Is H grandchildren will be present to join in with the one men nominated to do them and to join in Thou Fount of Every the national radio commission to the celebration with friends and of Our and broadcasting in the United other all of which are Rev. and J. 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McLain known by will be will celebrate their fiftieth This special service has at- ding anniversary at this much attention through pursued over and John Frank this part of the It will De a year years is tne at the introducer which Babe baseball's home run is signing up ed amid pistol fire by dropping Mr and Mrs Henry Mr. who have lived through fifty me Left Babe himself and Business down a wall of the which and Mrs. R R and Esquire years of married life will be byf Et Manager Ed Barrow and Owner Jacob Ruppert of the New Yoik houses liquor valued at Mrs. Meek Adams will also too the prominence presentative SI their golden anniversaries of all the people makes it in- who demanded that every be The second offering under this prolonging I DC sent in by the school term two months more f I U DC for a special session to consider the major bills that failed of passage before the gavels fell yesterday made at the white house eral hours after While the legislation adopted had been generally beneficial to the in the president's Of Senate FUnaS he tnat congress wi j. had ample to put through other bills for which O'Connell and Bary were found commemorated at this They to everyone who has Hag Already Held One there was urgent bnt that manning two high pressure pumps be the known them all these of of some of these does ji man over me t f roof of the warehouse but he Mr. and Mrs. A M. unusual in view that six couples PrODS eH amid fire bv Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mr. who have lived through fifty a City's Popular Mayor An- was worth a Candidate For Election At The Re- was killed and no more bills than the present came in. i The introduction came as after- Representative Connor had the math of settlement of the fight for Waltz school an increased school support tion passed by the house equalizing fund of recalled from the senate vided in the Woltz During the and the vote by which it had last two fiscal years was cd reconsidered in order to pass it distributed to 76 counties compared on roll call which requires three with 85 to be cared for the next separate Today counted for two fiscal beginning July 1. first i This is the largest equalizing Grind of New laws amended the fund that the state has ever set up charter of Rocky and to aid the counties in running the er local measures before The under the Wi gave the house new will be required to f our years as mavor will a cold chill by moving to reconsider levy tax of 38 cents before they regret to learn of his the vote by which the house con- participate in the equalizing not to ba a candidate for re- curred in the senate amendments An emergency fund of election in May on the revenue His motion was to take care of any unusual and This information was given to lost but there were enough unexpected is set aside The Daily Gazette Saturday 4- n which exception of Mr. I Charlotte papers and The long stretch of hose to a L s- pastor of the Press want long reports IN RIRP MAYOR of tanks in the apartment Presbyterian church of Kings on the with pictures of III HnUL I Un tanks had received will deliver the i the couples in This The tanks already had received which federal agents Congress Session of SEIZES BALLOT special request of one of the news will be distributed cu Dr. J. H. this church there also Senator Reed Orders An- af in not develop an emergency ranting a special The McFadden branch hanking the radio control and the setting up the Will More than fifty detectives and pastor of the will number of married couples who Me Wot federal men took part in the round the service and he will offer have celebrated their 40th and thieves after they Special music has 4oth and they will all May had received a tip that the been arranged by the director be present at this if ment operated by the music in the Mr. Joe Morand was to be The songs will be in i If the beloved wife of Col. other Meeting For March 25. j labor were listed oa presidents behalf as a- mong the more notable of Despite the failure of the senate several hundred bills and The many friends of Mayor B. H. who has served the a city as IT i i t 1 1 1 1 I. fcJ C d Ai Vi U ii iiT The two men at the pumps were keeping with the spirit of j Newt a member of the to sanction ite continuance after lutions many essential xo m L T i tno I t m-c i had lived to this adjournment the Reed campaign governmental activities elderly all of t they could have boasted of having funds investigating is fho of six years T the who had lain in These elderly couples all 0X5 they could have boasted of having funds popped out of Hiding the been married 60 to holo to indicate some opposition to the from the ing- in a voluntary statement by places and surrounded the lament of and who are son died last The committee already has held Chief among these j T 1 T I Sammons and posted on the the sunset side of life s will Mr. and Mrs. JR. and by which were captured after they had be at the front where of the church and unanimous ordered the im- funds for the army emptied their i may offer full proof of the dents of have been pounding of ballots cast in four sions government loans to T ft m 4-h Q I T Federal men who immediately be- gan an investigation to determine how the heavy pumps were hoisted t tity and the devotion that companies such inspired -j mfy a Ujf new on second Tije last killed the Mayor The election of into the building in advance of M vn McDonald divorce 27 to 14 on city from whose the said they believed the nouse kill the The measure would number a mayor is chosen by the the raid would plug a leak of tire it will require 6 days to pass haye cut down the time of a is to be held on ea whiskey which had been a new three roll calls in each divorce from five to Uvo years May these officials being Passage of bills then took in I extending corporate limits general assembly and providing special court delivered itself of two vigorous Bouses set a- ed for a term of two Mayor Parker makes his de- up their after thorough con- his principal Wayne A to allow transfer of funds by commissioners of With pay cut off tonight by that it has become somewhat of coin county was killed 34 to 53. constitutional limitation of a custom for a mayor after After Representatives re- sions to 60 members today jng two terms of two years publican had pleaded that it was were preparing to stay over at to leave the fieli open for ocher in iniquitous their own expense to see the end aspirants to the Mr. The repealing all game predicted for early Parker wishes to through laws in conflict with the state Speaker Fountain in the house this his very high wide law was has been assured that at least 80 tion of the support which has The Lee raising members will stay which will been given him during his tern ments for applicants for law relieve him of having exercise his of not only by the censes was and a to power of arresting members and bers of the council and city have the state secure and protect holding them by force to maintain but by the citizens of vacant and one relating to a convicts becoming insane tonia is a them for some In the apartment house at the end the hose the raiders found sixty ten gallon barrels and they estimated that the siphon system would transfer six or seven gallons a Devil Dogs Strut Stuff In Shanghai March United States marines today Shanghai one of the finest displays which the many tional troop concentrations have Fifteen hundred of them paraded through the pal streets of the city for two not as a show of the authorities but merely to provide exercise for the Landing at the bund the followed by passage of a until Monday by the Mar. rines marched to the race impersonation of peace simple process of turning up the Henry A. who re- i Colonel two legislative may be announced his reviewed them Then they officers in pursuit of criminals made in one as dragon of the Xu Klux ed down the historic banking road was I The assembly cannot adjourn un- in North Carolina was said with pennants and Other bills passed included every passed has been Hiram W. slunS over providing for ferries connecting imperial wizard of the to eastern I The revenue came back from have stepped out at the brilliant ceremony the major and for the noon hour man's compensation was The house immediately set about to the table and i digesting them The a secret fraternal The fixing punishment of. The tax scale on modern con- Patriotic saw fit to drunken drivers at not less than 30 days when jn my deemed it for the good cnc cf the most impressive were Calendars in both houses i in condition to be cleared by mid- O j Under a passed highway night but the revenue OaVS WaS contractors will be liable for roll call is still hanging A I l ages to private in the serate and must be 1 O A designed to tighten laws rent in by the by on motor vehicle titles was will keep the assembly in session Mar. ried 47 Other members of the church Not of a younger age where have been married 40 years additional counties in ans on bonds loans ma. to farmers for seed purchases Senator democrat other and separated i or are chairman of the con- Coolidge was T r x f an age where I known and loved in Gaston tends it has full authority to act that inconveniences will observed with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. tke Pennsylvania election con- be caused as a result of failure j t l i r T rf 11 yc dO O. A l these people offer Mr. and Mrs. Jos. H. test under a adopted of this measure he expects a proof of the results of Christian Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Mr. iast and tentative plans be found for the homes where the principles of and Mrs. E. Lee Mr. and have been hold an- ment to carry on with some ol righteousness and true living pre- Mrs. G. B. Mr. and Mrs. other meeting here March 25, when the activities A mixed composed of Mesdames J. H. Morrow and H- Messrs. Joe Overmyer John E. E. Mr. and Mrs. A. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Mr. and Mrs. John W. 'the question of opening the AS to the the boxes steady brought here from president feels that of the Philadelphia and Pittsburg may be fund provided by the and James will sing the and Mr. and Mrs. B. H. familiar version of Lover i Elizabeth City Folks Say Recent Storm There Was Worst Since for this will not work of the organization I asked for the The Klux Klan dead the sixtieth and final i Tax on contractors for privilege resignation day of the 1927 legislature which I of bidding was raade plans to stay over to Monday j Levy on bottles of soft drinks 3ncldents that night to complete necessary AD transpired r a military spectacles m After the review and the returned to their this severance Grady f rom hls off I Fur dealers taxes were changed The went the way of the to eliminate The tobacco privilege pistol toting and ured by the to raise expressed bills killed in the last minute was stricken at the yesterday of the in -n unmasking in the North to got day of the primary from Saturday tax out senate to me to requiring registration to the legislature 01 of drivers of barber senate off a- the transference of duties bout railroads the proposed of the salary and wage commission franchise to the Exemption from tax was allowed The Klux Klan or mutual fire insurance CLOSING BIDS OX THE killed by the Corporation income taxes were NEW YORK house on argument on the floor boosted 4 to 4 1-2 per cent. And that the kian at present en- the personal income NEW Mar. gaged in a factional discussion cut out children up to 21 futures closed at the growing out of resignation of putting it back to 18. March 14.40; May Judge Henry A. of A. H. house 14.23; July 14.40; October 14.53; N. as grand dragon of the finance said the Dec. 14.67. Spots closed at 14.40, North Carolina and that were in balance under 10 points enactment of the virtually the new passed last would put the He said the decreases made by e legislature in position of the senate were more than counter- Subscribe for The Mi balanced by the raise in The eaght months school term tion income He estimated was introduced on eve of this would bring in from went on the It will have I M. Broughton to to pass two roll call readings on queen ot providing for populart The house unanimously separate days before becoming party vote in 1928 of the proposed ed in the amendments and the 1 i LOCAL 10c to 14 3-4c Received 15j Cotton 48c Subscribe for The SAY PROHIBITION NOT PARTY Mar. declaration that should not be regarded as a issue was adopted unanimously today at a caucus of democratic j In a statement after the i Senator of j i the party floor j outlined the caucus action as i is recognized that i l I ences exist in the various J states on political subjects and that these differences j I ing prohibition are not to be j regarded as partisan in i the very nature of the it cannot be made a ELIZABETH eastern corner of the was the hardest hit probably of the entire couth in the recent The blizzard had its freak one a bolt of ing and loud clap of thunder in 18 miles from right in the midst of the The unprecedented zard caused old timers to trace back to the terrible blizzard of 1S57 and to agree this storm was Communication with the outside broken ly for bours by Wednesday's the worst in this tion in seventy slowly was being restored Trains wers running ly close to schedule and greatly increased crews of linemen working feverishly to repair ed telephone and telegraph About poles were Fortunately there was little actual suffering in this city and section as a result of the Lloyd truck driver apparently was the only in- dividual came near freezing to He was reported seriously ill today from drove to South Mills in bis oil truck on the day of tbe Unable to drive it the fifteen miles back to this city lie left it and walked some five miles to Hinton's stopping there for the Thursday morning he started again for Elizabeth City afoot He was picked exhausted a few miles fu ther along the road by Len state highway patrolman who brought him to He is under medical care at his Two rural mail misting since they loft on their the day of the turned up safely Thursday They George Pool and Victor Tbe former bad been snowed in at and tbe latter near Berea bad found sanctuary with NEXT WEEK'S South Atlantic and East Gulf Mostly fair weather although there are some probabilities of rain Monday and again about temperatures bove normal most of Ohio Valley and Light rain or flurries in extreme upper Ohio Monday and a period of rather general rains the mid- dle of the otherwise mostly normal or somewhat above most of the The committee's order to seize serious He the boxes was entered late a workable plan will develop by day after the senate had been for- which banks can make loans as mally apprized that William B. originally han contested i Realizing that it must now go the election of William S. re- j along without the for it in the Senator Reed said this was the the war department has begun an I only taken by the examination of possible loop holes the question of whether prevent a reduction of boxes already seized will be 000 men in the strength of the ed was left for later army before July 1. The Vare has written the ried between and attention that it had been t to build the army no to directed by resolution to men by that date from ballot boxes for the present Without tha while Senator it was the army must Pennsylvania who led the be cut to by July 1'in buster against the resolution to der to stay within available pay continue the hold does not have the to open the it was will go along as best it can without tSa Both Vare and Senator Elect funds provided for it in the Frank L. Smith of continuing work on the aircraft primary campaign expenditures J carriers Lexington and Saratoga also have been inquired into by the by Reed have been tion of the battleships Oklahoma on the senate pay roll with the and Nevada will be but port by the elections it is hoped to continue that their credentials in due i tion of fleet submarine While counsel for Smith Failure of the two public advised him that this action gave ings bills would not entirely hold him a seat Senator of up building although a democrat on the the program will be it tions told the senate was said at the under that question had been the present 35 i considered during examination of buildings can be placed trader DAN MORGAN IS the and that he pre- contract during the next RETURNED TO i every one would hold that Location of these probably l the of both Smith and Vare be announced next March a question for the next con- alias Dan gress -o There was no dis- DOWNWARD TREND return to Indiana sent from this OF PRICES i day to complete a sentence of irom Since is no contest pending NEW Mar. ten to 21 years for highway and in of the A further downward readjustment i Indiana officers said fact his case as of prices took place today's Willard was sentenced in was to the elections com- brief section of the stock court here last to serve after an Selling originated largely with months on the roads for CP t it is ru t the Reed bear who succeeded in concealed and to pry uncovering a number of weak upon an His a- the spots the automotive issues and tended that he not be taken In his formal of content specialties but long traders and back to Indiana that sentence the senate yesterday investors also showed a over The sentence Senator Robinson of to sell and convert their was suspended by the Wilson charged a failure to paper into Except judge His counsel ther appealed of the ballots cast for him for farther crude oil price eats to John M. Oglesby for a habeas assorted a fair count was little in the day's news corpus and the hearing should he had been which could be construed as was held at Lexington this oils were Judge Oglesby ruled that VOLUNTARY PETITION nent among the few outstanding Willard should be returned to In- IN BANKRUPTCY FIELD strong Houston soaring The wholesale nearly ten points to 119 and At- field a voluntary petition Refining moving up 3. Con- ROBINSON IS AGAIN in bankruptcy Saturday with the Baking A. yesterday's DEMOCRATIC LEADER clerk of the United States District weak also received better March Court for the Western of democratic caucus today North whose office is in Senator Robinson of was It is understood that the i unanimous re-elected democratic of the firm are around Dr. Ira 81, president j senate floor leader for the while tha assets listed are emeritus of Johns Uni- approximately The papers died berft last night j were filed for the firm by their at- a brief Death was Subscribe for The A. 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