Gastonia Daily Gazette (Newspaper) - November 8, 1927, Gastonia, North Carolina WEATHER Occasional rain tonight and slightly warmer tonight in east and north moderate winds mostly east and DAILY THE COMBED YARN CENTER OF THE 10 PAGES TODAY VOL. NO. 267. N. E. A. SERVICE N. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 1927. A. P. LEASED WIRE SINGLE COPIES 5 SINCLAIR OFFICIALS PROT OF ANY WRONG Defense Comes Back With Long Array Evidence Another Week Of Grand Jury Investigation Is Local Issues Feature The Elections Being Held Today JURORS TO BE E. J. Juror No. 11, Wants Chance To Clear Philadelphia And Kentucky Holds Center Of I vr i 11 Weds Wealthy TWO i South American GIRL LEADER OF i. w. w. STRIKERS War Time Aspect Special Term Court To Try In Colorado Coal Fields White Case Set For Nov. 28 Nov. 8 The prosecution ad- into a of today in its forts to convince a federal grand that the de- fense in the oil case was of jury W ith vigorous protestations of complete rectitude from VI J. founder of the Burns detective and Henry Mason ot Henry F. Sinclair taking the play from government attorneys turned to new nesses to prove its Sheldon of another Sinclair of- The prosecution con- tends that Day and Clark were between agents and Daj w as on record with as professing his complete innocence of any un- ethical conduct in having jurors and in the offing Edward J. juror No. 11, to whom the government attributes creet awaited a response to demands that he be allowed to clear himself in Another week of grand jury into the jury surveillance charges was forecast today by those directing the After several excursions afield the inquisitorial body has returned to the mam the identity of the poison who furnished the funds which a dozen operatives of the Burns Detective Agency freely spent in shadowing the ten men and two women v. ho ere to have sat in judgment upon Sinclair and Albert B. New efforts to connect the oil operator directly with the of these detectives were seen in the summons of chief clerk of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil company of New The prosecution has been told he actually engaged the services of the Agency in the under- taking which furnished the latest in the oil Claik was on the witness list ahead of and besides this the charge of the Bums men that a government employe actually made contact with one of the Norman J. at the Potomac Flying Field near ashington six days after the tual had to be dealt with going before the grand luiy Gustock declared that he never had Deen at Potomac Field in his had talked to no agent of the government so far as he and was at work all on October 22 when it was he was at the flying the Burns de- vvho has asserted in an L' 't that he trailed to n i I eld an automobile owned Horns R a special to the attorney came forward for Betting Machine Contest Principal Topic In Millicent Daughter Of Oil DIVORCED A Likes New Gives As The Associated J. Hampton Moore's endeavor to defeat the Vare political machine at Philadelphia and a lively con- test over the proposed removal of pari-mutuel machines from the race tracks of Kentucky ed the particular points of NEW Nov. in elections todav m the scattered i one of states throughout the ca's richest who sought For the most only local happiness and found only issues with but a minimum tion m her union with an upon national political affairs lay j Austrian was embarked before the These today upon a second marriage ed the election of two three members of the lower bers of numerous and state officials and deci- sions by referendum on enactments venture with Arturo Peralta wealthy The brunette daughter of Colonel Henry Huddlestone I Standard Oil of State I was divorced last April from The most important of the Count Ludwig Salm Von was in New where I Yesterday afternoon she the voters were called upon to de- was married to Ramos in the termine the fact of a proposal that Parish house of the Roman the term of the governor be Catholic church of the sacred ed from two years to with the hearts of Jesus and Mary at gubernatorial campaigns falling in Long Only the same year as presidential the bride's an attorney tions Governor Smith has been and a few intimate friends were active in its opposition a ob- All I. W. W. Leaders Are Held Incommunicado Than Negroes To State Prison TO In PICKETING Judge Clayton Moore Scheduled To Preside Over Armed Guards And Machine Guns Mines DEN'S 8. war time atmosphere prevailed in sections of the Southern Colorado coil fields day after a night of suspense during which special police ed jails where stake leaders were confined while signal flares and fires marked camps of With the arrest of nearly a score of strike leaders including officials of the industrial of the picketing ceased and returned to strikers started protesting the causing the authorities to muster I scores of special Ihe strike leaders first were confined at i quarters of the I Vv in southern field Hundreds of October Commitments Show 30 Only 23 A. Of And A. C. Jones Will Assist ONE Gaston County Furnished Occupations R Nov. More whites than negroes were committed to the North na state prison during Octo- the monthly of George Ross issued Twenty-five counties sent a total of 53 prisoners to the Of this number 30 were white and 23 were a was a During September there w ere 92 committed to the Twelve of The wh tes and nine the negro prisoners were married A special term of court will be held in Gaston beginning No- vember 28, for the purpose of hearing the J. H. White postponed from the regular October term of court of court a few Although court is for tie express purpose of hearing the White civil motions will be it is if any come No civil jury cases will be The case against White has been brought by hts bondsmen who have held liable for the amounts of his several ages m connection with the tax a period of The total miners abandoned their mass negro w ere marriea j amount of short to nf The w ith the exception oi nnn m. Milka 19, whose speeches have stirred the miners in the nd took up in nearby hills and along Dusk found thete camps the ma and to i tu to the clerk of the on 1st instead of The remainder The Philadelphia mayoralty a dispensation for the has been bitterly Losing at the Republican Kenneth a ries to Harry A. but ter of Ellen MacKay ing much encouragement from the of the noted song number of ballots he wag matron of Robert D. a former entered the 1 sts t of and New of the general election as an acted as best pendent Mackey Rogers never the backing of the Vare ed daughter's first with whom she hut he The Kentucky betting machine I proves of hls new contest involved one of the two and Ramos who came gubernatorial J. C. Southampton to this city who has served two terms as the State s chief executive wlU d on the and has represented it in the Santa f or Buenos was the nominee of the eventually they return and Although not opposed to with a he has contended that a f lobby is seeking to con- y k American says trol the state government and iue MiiKa nave tne miners in cue JP on this charge southern coal fields of is pictured above a broken ed by fires and as darkness settled i murder and ls Jue first arm she sustained in an attack upon a The attired in a flares appeared at several red was leading strikers to the mine property she was trampled by a mine Battled For Life Over Craves Of The Dead An occasional rocket was set while the meaning of the n 1-mston Martin one of recently appointed emergency tae meaning oi me biles fi for three appointed emergency was officers degree tius eastern Part of all roads leading from robbery two 's to the special burg were guarded by j term of Attorneys for At midnight reports were current strikers were mobilizing to 40; Auto 1; butcher 1; painter 2: i the jail More sworn in and their Lone Canoeist In Futile Attempt To Rescue Flood HOUSES HOWEVER In Bonds To Be Issued By County to liberate deputies were armed with not Occupations of those C' E- A IT and mail carrier 1; lineman 1; has asserted that the pari-mutuel law involved no In the second state on Page 7) Bombs Wreck State Theater Ind. and new j the provision that Ramos llay no future claim to the estimated at I nor even attempt to gam control of the principal of the No of the was willing to discuss this ed but Colonel Rogers I was quoted by the American made them a handsome gift but I do not caie to say much or what it Some Vermonters Reported Dead Are Found Series Of Explosions Mid-West Town In Defense Loses Point In Oil Scandal Trial No Labor Troubles Say Who Are who on yesterday denied 1 r rig's story m every of- himself questioning if the grand jury so desired Several other members of the ill iury weie at the District of supreme court awaited n to appear before the They Gardner T who was followed T iv by the Burns Burns Detectives Were All Coded 7ia: Jiur of the wno the Oil v II 0-14. i M 2'1 -T- t New York -t York New York Vw Bi New Yoi k New Stew adelphia 1 Pn Nov. series of mv sterious explosions w hich the police at- to black powder bombs wrecked the State theater here early damaged 4.11 church across the trolley and telephone broke plate windows for blocks a- causing estimated age of Th theater is in the rear of the three brick block which cost 000. The Masts ble v out the theater walls on Stale street for almost a demolished the I and stage which crumbled into a twisted mass of and bomb apparently han placed in the street entrance to were ilown in. The first blast about 3 n was od bv two As tve ter vails telephone poles tumbled into streets in front of the J windows and part of the roof ot I All Catholic church I the sheet crashed I which followed 1 Owners of theater assign no that no labor doubles and no enemies that they knew and the were without tangible LOCAL COTTON 21.37 bales bu. MR. ROBINSON'S CONDITION SHOWS condition of Mr Sloan Robinson of seriously ill a Charlotte is reported ti day as ed. Burns Detective Fails To Identify Juror Said To Have Been Nov. defense lost a point in the oil tangle today when a Burns detective failed to the government a- gent he claimed had Iv talked to a juror in the illiam the had made an affidavit in- tended to show that H. R. attached to the general's had trailed ror Norman Glascock to the Potomac Ing field and there had converged with Long failed today to recognize Lamb as the man involved La to whom Long's was not told Neil assistant in of the jury ir. that ho Had never the in his life then up ai or er ert called from corridor Long s Ht. said none cf e man he trailed to the Potomac to identify Lamb a by who rever visited the 1'itr had never seen Lamb GUEST DIED OF HEART FAILURE Nov. 8. his host's home firo here last the aged pal re r of heart failure Funeral were made Mr. Barr was the guest of Major whose home da d to the extent of several dollars by fire iof unknown Nov. 8. story of a tle for life fought over the graves of the dead was bj relief workers here the flood this village its greatest force was in the region of the beside which are several In those houses a score of people were trapped and an attempt at rescue was made a villager in the collapsible canvas canoe that was the only boat in Directly over the where headstones were being ed loose by the the canoeist paddled toward the screaming of the The water was 18 feet deep and w hite caps were a foot The canoeist bravely but arid were too for him and he was unable to reach the trapped of the Later the names of some of those persons appeared on the lists of dead or missing but the were saved bv the strength of the houses in which were To Cover Indebtedness curred Before July 1927. In- 1; and farmer 1! Henderson county sent up thf Despite the highway i 11, of any of the 25 Walsenburg officers succeeded m transferring several prisoners tai about 70 miles Tne at Pueblo mustered more than 200 deputies to the jail Strikers arrested and included of the of prosecution engaged to Carpenter Induce and of A regular term of civil court counties sending j Is scheduled to begin the week weie Fender 2; Wilson 1; the special term of 1; 1; 1; criminal combe 5- Wake 2: Jackson 2; held m- 1, Frankl n 2: Duplin 1; ham 2; 3, New Hanover 1; 3; Union 4. Bladen 1: FOR ROAD Will Borrow From State For Building tional executive committee of the I W. W and charge of all I W. activities I in coal and metal mines declared that thoy had arrested all the leading I W. W. organizers in the Inheritance Tax n Stokes Under Searchlight 3; 1. e picketing stooped in southern operators in A A A 1 Arrested Long-Standing Controversy Again Before Ways And Means Nov. charge that advocates of the the Nov stories of came fiom thern vith tions to the e growing list oi week's has LC more than 140 From Nev ig- men r and swav me ton to of to face witn that at ished that claimed tnt BlacK r v New of hie tio f the s four as been i been an vast volume t ET the river o. the do TJO tea dechne the v also cor fronted by Kill of itv were making a of hou In now full blow n ltd on 7) incurred before July 1, 1927, in accordance with the county finance the drawing of a jury list for the civil term of in the ordering of a special term of court for the pose of hearing the J. H. the to borrow from the state for school purposes to be paid five per cent a year at a 4 1-2 percent interest rate and the healing of as to valuation oi constituted the main bigness the ty commissioners at the regular the members I A. The in bonds to be issued is to cover the of road done during vear or two over and trt receipts from six months A itc -t decision of the a in Graver maae to this g er n issue on P -re the ht latest tale if a of T u cr torn I- tov n was fa 2 at on in b c rise of t f fe v fo d as git it Now Fll Ask You One You should be to an- at 01 lowing ten Turn to back i for an- ou tried the i c c' of a a cat t swers after test. 1. nou i. mtan and r. 2. nf what cont. -n n leum in Red are in cov 3. called the 4. tho ruler of Tihet bo 5. i- thi 1. merest ruer in 6. Who tho author of the El ic 7. ho the only of the I State 8. won the Peace 9. For what was the month of June 10. N hai i- the nunciation of the P. i me of the State of that miners recently returned to work had again ed Governor W. H. who recently took advantage of a statute to send police to the ordered a score of special officers to northern Strikers near had more than 100 automobiles their disposal and one large van formed 20 miles Forth of that it was understood to invade properties where miners were returning to In addition to of a machine wit in the house It fhe the jail A of police sent tn an with carried 50.000 of REPUTED COUSIN OF KING IN JAIL FOR Ferrando De of reputed to w a Excessive Tax N. Nov. 8 Madison arrested late yesterday in dramatic fashion on charges of levying an ex- cess tax in the county and failure to expend road funds as provided by be given a hearing before Lee a. justice of the The charges against the commissioners were brought by N B McDevitt of Madison county sentative in the state who in seven that the violated the law viding for road over- seers and have failed to and spend road money as required bv law in the area where the road tax is The Garrett of charged witn means of He was plaint of a I keener w settle b 11 of jai v nte th Claude 1 TA ild and Jonas C. They the of a tailed at the roon to they re louse yes the t ii An today by Greea during testimony of witnesses on i taxation A burst of applause had greeted a statement by John H. president of the national council of state in favor cf elimination when Green leaned forward in his seat and room has been packed by your Before the witness could reply he know now are j don't think yon Kirby let's come back to the merits of this ing those present like himself I ways were ready to applaud j otic Kirby directed his assault on tha inheritance tax by appealing to Representative Garner of ranking minority committee ber he can support a law that would take are part of estate my wife and of the the of the to take the property of their The witness said he had always gone along Garner on good Democratic principles until 1 w hen began to wabble La C VERMONT'S GOVERNOR FACES FLOOD PROBLEM J t 11 him in the r i-y offices hore toward from claims h i ha re 10 ba he would bo one to Tne com- -n t de to the crowd 'n a waiting t- bis the form of w One l man er under nOD bond of the Doard rates is N5 f as by was questioned closely by Democratic committee concerning financing of the al council of state but tne witness could add little to pre- testimony by William tax for s who said the funds of the organization raised by SlO ons FUCH 1% Trii of the director of thi rhv culture ifv t her beauty to fences ti s ow a and hold re- cords and drives an REV M iN TODAY S. Nov. L. tor of tne Central Methodist churcH of early today a He was 61 vears ard one of the known m the Nov. standing controversy over repeal of the federal tance once again came to the of the House ways and With tbe whole of the day ant tomorrow set aside for discussion the issue the witness was long and included both those opposing con- of the Consideration of subject al so was enlivened by by one of the committee Page 7)
