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SATURDAY AFTERNOON; JUNE 26, 1920 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS 200 OASES OF T. B. REPORTED IN COUNTY TO INVESTIGATE CASES OF COLITIS AT MT. HOLLY PRE-CONVENTION SIGNS 1 1 ttj 1 riti I iiim nun nin jiiiiiv i i i ii ill i in i i 1 1 mi bLM mi a mm mm LiUU UUWLmLllUL POINT TO COX, BUT M' ADOO MEN ill ON THE JOB i nFIFfiATFS HAW WKH In Addition to Main Auditorium Seating 12,000 Many Delegates Arrive With Families and Convention Resembles Tourist Excursion No McAdoo Headquarters But Signs of Him Appear Everywhere Daniels, Palmer; Meredith and Burleson All Present and Active. 7-, People, San Francisco Convention Hall Has 5: Accommodations For Committees and Every Comfort and Convenience That Could be De-; Everything in Readiness.

having already joined the convention throng. 'Mr. Meredith's coming was signalised by a new manifestation of the kinship of his presidential boom with that of former Ambassador Gerard. Announcement al Number in Gaston Alone Exceeds Capacity State's Only Tubercular Hospital County Should Build and Maintain Its Own Hospital. Asked for a statement with reference to the tuberculodis situation in Gaston, Miss Alice L.

Ward, public Bed Cross nurse for the county, said to a Gazette reporter this morning. "Of the 3,000 cases of tuberculosis reported to the State Board of Health oVer 200 are known to be in Gaston county. This is 75 more than the State tuberculosis kottpital at Hanrtorium will hold at its fullest capacity. This institution, be it remembered, has to serve the whole State (100 counties) and the waiting list at that institution always exceeds its fullest capacity. There are scores of sufferers from this plague in our county begging for chance to be admitted to the State institution und not one of them will be able to be ml lnitte! there in time to be' saved.

"State institutions are never enlarged until public opinion forces the Legislature to act. Can ve wait for this If our own victims of this disease are to be saved and our own people protected from its spread, we shall have to face'the issue and meet the responsibility our selves. I "Investigation has shown that the peo- pie of Gaston county are well able to finanee a hospital for tuberculosis patients, without increasing by one dollar the bonded debt of the county. Not 1 to do so is to fail in our clear duty i to the community in which we live and our own selveB and those who look to us I for protection. I WEST GASTONIA.

Miss Ervin Nance, of West Gastonia, has been ill for the paHt few days but is improving. Miss Eunice Wall and Miss Nellie Grace Baker left Friday for CI iff side, to Visit friends for a few days. Mrs a K. C. Pljler left Tuesday fo Btatesville where she will stay a few weeks visiting relatives.

Mr. Judson for Chapel -Hill where he will attend the summer school. Mr. and Mrs. L.

1. Culp are spending the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. L. W.

Harkey. Miss Elizabeth Sehorn, of Charlotte, spent Sunday visiting hr friend. Miss Kathleen McClellan. Mr. Frank Gamble has accepted a position with the Loray Drug Co.

Mr. R. A. Baker has returned from a week-end trip to Chimney Bock. Miss Kathleen McClellan spent the week-end visiting friends in Charoltte.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Martin have returned, having been gone for a few weeks on their wedding toar. Mrs. Martin was formerly Miss Gussie L.

Cloniger, of this city. Mrs. Joe Douglas is improving after a few month's illness. Mrs. H.

H. Wall, her mother and little son, spent a most delightful day Tuesday with Mrs. Wall's sunt, Mrs. B. A.

Baker. Mr.i H. H. Wall returned Monday from a short visit to Lexington. Mrs.

Dorothy Shook has accepted a position with the Hub Bargain House on Loray square. Miss Marie Hopper has been ill for a few days but is improving. Miss Snowe Bradley has accepted a position with Mr. J. M.

Holland. Mrs. T. Wesley Bradley has returned from a week-end visit to relatives. Mrs.

Will Cathey spent Wednesday afternoon visiting Mrs. 8. L. Robinson. Miss Grace Baker, Miss Snowe Bradley and a number of friends motored to Lin wood Sunday.

Mr Falls has accepted a po sition with the Loray Cafe. Messrs. Cindy and Clarence Mauney, of Old Fort, are visiting relatives here. Misses Myrtle Riddle, Thelma and Craig Gaddey, of Bessemer City, visited Misses Marjorie Bradley and Grace Baker Saturday afternoon. Mr.

C. T. Webb has been ill for few days but is fsst improving. Miss Mattie Turner has accepted a position at the Loray community house. Mr.

Thomas L. Baker left Tuesday for the Presbyterian hospital in Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs.Vj T. Short, of Columbia, 8.

have moved to Gastonia. We hope Mr. and Mrs. Short will like our town as well as Columbian-Mrs. Margaret FHe is able back at her work at Mrs.

Wood's 8tyle Fite hss been sick' about two weeks. T. Wesley Bradley back from a trip to Statesville where she has been visiting her sister for nearly three weeks. Mr. Little, who has been going to Mayworth regularly every Friday for Nesbitt and Gillam, had a bad break down with the ear yesterday.

He was fereed to go to Charlotte for re-pain. An iee cream supper wllj be given at Recent Epidemic of Disease Among Babies in Gaston County Town Calls For Investigation By State Board of Health. Recently there have been five, deaths at Mt. Holly, due to colitis. It is thought, a disease of children, caused by unsanitary conditions.

It will be recalled that mention was -made in The Gazette at the time of the epidemic among the babies of Mt. Holly and also the fact that a nurse had been sent from Gns- touia to help with the situation. The following correspondence the mayor of Mt. nolly and the State Board of Health will be of interest in connection therewith and also with' the campuigu 11 gainst typhoid to be inaugurated next week in the county State Board yf Health, North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C. Gentlemen We take tliis opitortunity in calling your attention to tho neglect of sanitary conditions in the town of Mt.

Holljf, N. C. Our reason for calling your attention to this is the fact, that within one week five deaths have occurred, apparently due to the unsanitary conditions here. It is our desire that you send a representative from your department to investigate this matter at once. Yours very truly, MAYOR OF MT.

HOLLY Cpon receipt of this letter, the State Board of Health through Dr. J. 8. Mucliener. fcpiaemiologist, replied as foNowa: Mayor, Mount Holly, Mount Holly, N.C.

8ir: At the request of three citizens of your town au investigation reveals that recently 'within a few days there have been three deaths from colitis. This, as you possibly know is a filth borne disease, due to open privies and is a' twin sister to typhoid fever. Sueh makes it incumbent upon this bureau to authorize the Bureau of, -Engineering and In-spection to detail a man to your town for enforcement of the sanitary -privy laws of our State. We ask your support in this matter because you are naturally a citizen of influence, and as mayor, you are naturally a part of the machine for the execution of this law. The inspector, will reach your city on or before Tuesday, June 29th.

We are co-operating with your county in the typhoid campaign, which will be-tfin next week. Such conditions make it extremely important that your entire community avail itself of the opportunity. This is an opportune time for you as an official to render a service to your town for which they will be under definite obligation to you. Very truly yours, 8. MITCHENER, State Epidemiologist.

BOLSHEVIKI KILL THIRTY OFFICERS (By The Associated I'resa.) WASHINGTON, June 26 Bolsheviki at Ivanovka in southern Russia, shot a group of 30 officers on June 10 and tortued other prisoners, according to a report to the American commissioner at Constantinople, which was received today at the state department. The report stated that the prisoners were horribly treated. One witness, Lieutenant Commander Koehler, said lie saw the hands and feet of some of the captured officers cut off and the officers' eyes gouged out. The population in the region of Southern Russia occupied hy General Wrangel's anti-bolshevik forces continue very friendly, owing to the good behavior of the troops, reports to the department said. A new law has been promulgated in that section by General Wrangle providing for the distribution of all the government Und and large estates among the peasants.

DIVIDEND TIME HAS NO EFFECT ON MARKET (By The Associated Press.) NEW YORK, June 2 The advent of the mid-year, with its extraordinary large interest and dividend payments, effected no change' this week in the financial markets, beyond a further contraction of time funds and materially higher rates for tall i Unlike the years preceding the world war, prospective disbursements were unaccompanied by any marked inquiry from investment source. The bond market and other high grade securities were irregular at best on extremeniy Jight dealings. Resumption of the railroad strike at eastern terminals acted as further check to production at steel mills and intensi- the already Tery congested freight situation, with consequent heaviness in railroad shares. 'i'i (By The Associated Press.) FRANCISCO, June 26. Whea lere June 28 it will have available for the tion Memorial' Auditorium building suf- tn linnan urwler nn roof not onlv ViVJII rv civutrv 4fuv the convention proper but committee meetings and headquarters for iatw as well.

candi- II A 1 XT A Mlt-A- Montn, vice chairman of the (National -holding minor conferences away irom tD vwunuwuu In addition to the main auditorium, j.i mri tr i i 1. jtaa building contains two auxiliary halls, one that wflTieat 900 persons and the other used for smaller meetings. A fence around the entire building, with entrance gates for ticket-holding amootntnra rtnlfiiTBtpa. officials And newft writers, will be used by police and con- from rushing doorkeepers to obtain ad-- cnittance. This has occurred several no auuiiorium xur mice nocu jwir baa been a scene of noisy activity.

Car-, ienters have erected the speakers plat- mi i A. nMn4- lorm, jv vy zeei vnu iu invi "BU rt anu t)i alrlfl nf the hi? hall tust in front of the great organ and opposite the main entrance. Several feet lower and extending along the greater part of At. j. ai.

iiIA' ection with scats for 516- working news writers. of the speakers' platform in sound-proof rooms are telephone oootna ana ruiiv eauiDDea accommoua- tions for press associations and news- nknoi'nion The central portion of the main floor 7,4 Is reserved for the 1,092 delegates and likA mimruir nf altAmftta Arnnnd thi space a solid railing has been raised To keep back spectators that are admitted to this floor. To aid these onlookers a platform one foot high has been built ai. 21.. 41 ii lTh9 balcony, sweeping around three si a a 1.

jn Covering the dome is a canopy weighing 16 tons that forms a false eeiling. This and draperies on the walls and in the corners are designed, to-improve the ASiiatiia The auditorium will be equipped wrtn fi.11 monern eieciricai aeviccs. uiciuujiik -a 1 a 1 31 tern that will enable the chairman to auriraaBt Jiturmi and other officials and these in -turn to speak to their deputies in any part of the great hall. A complete hospital under the direction of the Bed Cross and a large restaurant and lunch room have been installed. 2A 2.1.

.1 AAA AAA vfour-stry granite 'and concrete structure ana rm.tAl Onlv flv vnan nm tA in. tenor nas oeen entirely renovated ana repainted. Flags are 'to be used in the xive eneci 09 preseniea opening a ay, "are" described as "typically Califor- flB A 2 1 Weather records rannimr hack tn 1871 indicate tool "tor eoat" weather for the convention period. Overcoats and bats of spectators and participants may be checked free of chacge in permanent sta- 1 .1 1 A Al. lions Bcaxierea inrouguuu uw ouuaing.

The' auditorium stands in the open 4 a tj ht offers much snaee or parking automobiles. One corner touches Market street, the city's principal thor- eugaiare, wnicn nas -two ariBcc street ar lines running in each direction, and it 11 blocks from the Palace Hotel, lrhere national committee headquarters are located. TTia Ran TVaneisco committee Mat pledged $125,000 to bring the convention here is headed by Charles W. Fay, postmaster. George P.

Mara, of Bridgeport, representing Homer 8. Cummin gs, of BtamfoTd, Conn, ciairmanf of thg TWirvratii- Vat inn al Committee, has been aere for nearly six months overseeing ar-. rangements or the eonTention. Cd minings is to be temporary ckainnaa ox toe convention, tie wiu i piweanw Vy Kremer, vice ehairman of the National Committee. E.

O. of Fort ecretary of the committee, will act in a ir capacity for the convention, being -1 ly 7 Jl. IlolIIster, of Jefferson (fiy The Associated Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 26. Completion of the temporary roll of the democratic national convention was in aijjht today when the national committee resumed consideration of credentials with the Georgia contest before it and Senator Reed's effort to gain a sent on the floor with the Missouri delegation also to be passed on. Oher business occupied the first session of the committee yesterday, preventing prompt disposition of these troublesome questions.

Committeemen expressed confidence tliat the Georgia case would be put through, probably without a vote against seating the delegation lined up for At torney General Palmer for president. They were not quite so sure of the result on Senator Reed. Previously it looked certaiu that he would bo denied a seat, having been refused election as delegate at large by the state convention. There were intimations overnight, however, of a disposition among some committee members not to 1 oppose the senator 's plan for getting on the convention floor. The iifflux of delegations which began yesterday continued and added hourly to the physical and conversational congestion in hotel lobbies.

Out of the din arose what some observers professed to recognize as a spurt of nomination sentiment toward Governor Cox, of Ohio. It sent the army of news writers on the ground scurrying about in search of its source. The bes. they' could make of it was that the coming of several delegations already in the Cox column had added just that many to the Cox talkers with nothing definite to indicate added votes for him later. The elusive McAdoo boom also put in a new and this time a public appearance.

Bobbing serenely into sight despite Mr. McAio's personal efforts to chloroform it some days ago, the movement for nomination of the former treasury secretary took the shape of cards appenringin hat bands of delegates here and there with the legend: "Mac '11 Do." As there is no McAdoo headquarters nor agency authorized to stimulate sentiment for him, so far as known, the source of the new manifestation of political immortality on the part of his boom was not clear. Action of the national committee yesterday in adopting a resolution urging the convention to grant qual committee suffrage and membership to women of tho party gave the delegates another subject to discuss. Women delegates, of whom there are an unusual number present, were elated. Wives and feminine relatives of the men delegates also participated in the impromptu jubilations.

The convention has almost the look ind manner of a tourist excursion in some respects, so many delegates having grabbed at the chance to bring the family west on a sight seeing trip while they were at it. If the national committee's plan is ratified by the convention, the committee will hereafter be double its present site and composed" of a man and woman member from each state with equal voting powers. Delegates from non-suffrage state groaned somewhat at the prospect, but they recognized there was no escape from making the apopintments for women unless the state in -such esses was ready to forego half its voting jwwer 1n committee. Arrival of part of the Pacific fleet from the south added a touch of color to lobby scenes and to the streets not known in previous conventions. Officers snd men piled ashore in boatloads.

In the busy corridors of the hotels the white-capped folk of the quarter deck, resplendent in gold braid and flowing boat cloaks, took a keen interest In getting a first hand view of 'political convention proceedings and were themselves much observed by delegates from interior states. On the streets the snappy sun-browned young jaekiea, crisp and trim in navy blues and jaunty white-watch caps, took cheerful part in any celebration they could find. Admiral Rodman, fleet eommanden, will arrive today with Secretary Daniels ss a passenger on his flagship. The naval secretary an old political war horse and is expected to- take an active part in party deliberations. He will be the fourth member of the esbinet to reach the battlefield.

Attorney General Palmer; most active of pr- nomination aspirants, to ju.1 I signs now display i- dith and I I THREE KILLED IN CR0SSI1V ACCIDENT ANDERSON, June 26. Charles Huffman, 41V, nls aotwjohn, 17, and Elmer Garrison, 55, all of Fishersburg, were killed instantly and Jennie McCord, 20, of Fisherburg, was severely hurt when an automobile driven by the elder Huffman was struck by a Big Four train at a street crossing here this morning. I I ALUEP NATIONS ARE MASTERS OF SITUATION So Declares Marshal Foch Who Says That Allied Position is That of a Liability Company. (By The Associated Press.) PAEIS, June 26 Allied nations are masters of the situation in the near east, as elsewhere, and, if in complete harmony, can employ forces at their disposal to carry out their polices which are "soberly proportioned to their interests." said Marshal Foch, in an interview today. "The allied position in the near, east," the marshal declared, "is that of a niability company, limited, in which no shareholder may say it was his capital which made the company's operations successful.

The Greek army is one of our assets, and we are using it in the corporate Ww Discussing German disarmament he asserted this matter was not the destruction of 1,500 cannon, but the overcoming of the "hostile and militarist spirit of the German people. "If such a spirit," he continued, "should again be translated into action, the arm it would use would be the most terrible and swiftest on earth the airplane. The way to guard against renewed aggression is to increase the distance that separates us from the enemy. When we leave the Bhine Germany is within snatching distance of Ostend, from which she could lay London waste in one night between dark and dawn. Until that evil spirit dies out, it is our duty to the next generation to see that our precautions are never abandoned TODAY'S COTTON MARKET OPENED ON A DECLINE (By The Associated Press.) NEW YORK, June 26.

The cotton market opened at' a decline of 6 to 17 points under continued selling encouraged by a favorable weather map and unfavorable trade adviees. There was trade buying of July, however, as well as considerable-covering for over the week-end and prices soon rallied from 35.85 to 36.10 for July contracts and from 32.85 to 33.13 for October or about 5 to 15 points net higher. The world's visible supply of American cotton is now below last year's figures, according to the week-end reports but statistical features attracted little attention in this morning's market. Manchester cables said that trade stagnation was becoming more pronounced and that manufacturers' engagements were running down quite rapidly. $3,000,000 IN GOLD ARRIVES.

OBy The Associated Press.) NEW TOEK, Jnne 26. A cargo of South African gold, consigned to the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb is aboard the steamer (Mauretania, scheduled to dock here today. The metal was purchased in the London open market la banking circles it was Chat further gold shipments were expected Iters within the next two weeks. mittee.1 Colonel John 1 Martin, of St, Louia, ia honorary sergeant-at-arms and J. Hughes, sf Oklahoma City, Okla, is active sergeaat-st-srnm.

i Wilber W. Marsh, of Waterloo! Iowa, is treasurer of the National Committee and W. D. Jamieeon, of Washington, D. director of finance, 4 -The press section win be ia charge of James IX Preston, superintendent of the United States senate press gallery, assisted by William B.

Donaldson, superintendent of the House of BepresentatiTes press gallery. ready had been made that joint head- quarters had been opehed for these two. a thing unknown to the oldest habitue of political conventions. Today a huge sign appeared far up on the front of a hotel declaring that Meredith Oerard headquarters" would be found within. Gavin McNab, in a way host to the democratic party as national committeeman for California, was host in fact last night at a dinner to his committee colleagues.

'No political speeches were in order and such fixing up bf platform or candidate slates as occurred was highly informal and confidential. Out of gossip started TJy the entertain- ment, however, came a new report of an impending fight on the chairmanship of the convention 's resolutions committee, which will draw up the platform. Senator Class, of Virginia, hag been generally-accepted as slated for the post although there has been strong talk with- in the last day or two that 6enaler 'waian, 01 Montana, migni gee we joo. Glass arrived two days go, while Senator Walsh came in yesterday. senator has the backing of W.

J. Bryan, who also arrived yesterday, armed and equipped, he intimated, for a knockdown and drag out fight against any attempt to slip a wet, or even slightly inoisr, plank in the platform. Mr. Bryan also is credited) with ideas ocVhis own as to the league of nations plank, not in accord with the Virginia state platform declaration- approved by President Wilson. Owing to these con siderations the fight over Ihe" resolutions-committee chairmanship was generally taken to be a struggle between admiis-w trnfinn and Rrvnn fnVip tar Mr.

Burleson's coming revived dnterest in his recent public castigation of certain provisions of the Volstead enforcement net as "absurd." Tha statement wet pianic iaik in piariorm aiscuseion zest it had not previously Known, jven non when many forces appear to be eomK' bining to suppress this issue completely and leave the platform silent on the subject, there is great interest in watching the course Mr. Burleson will take and argument as to the extent to which ho should be viewed as administration spokesman on the point. LORAY WOM ANOTHER VICTORY FROM BELMOOT (Special to The Gazette.) BELMONT, June 26. -With a score of 2 to 1 in favor of Loray, a very fast game was played here at Lineberger Park Friday afternoon. The feature of the game was the superb pitching of Van Pelt, who held the visitors to two hits.

However, these two with two errors and a sacrifice hit netted the visitors their two runs. Score by innings: R.H.E. Belmont 000 000 1001 4 Loray 002' 000 000 2 2 0 The Belmont team has so far played six games, three of these lost and three won. In the establishment of the new ball park, BeTmont now has one of the-best and most up-to-date ball grounds in this section. It was decided on Tuesday noon to enclose the park and erect the grandstand, and the work was completed in time for Thursday's game.

This speaks well for the efficiency of thoe in charge of the sport here. The park has been christened Lineberger Park in honor of Mr. A. C. Lineberger, who has slways been a staunch supporter and friend of baseball in this community.

New play-. till -riving for the team and they expect to have -a splendid line-up by next ewek. NEW YORK, Jnne 26 Cotton futures opened steady. July 35 83 October December January March CABSESA IN UNITED STATES. (By The Associated Pre) MEXICO CITY.

June 1 1 'i Cabrera, Who was minister of cabinet of former V- to I t. I' i the Gray mill basketball ground Satur-Jned dav nisrht by the Gray mill Camo Fire I Oirls. I j1tj 0 the com-.