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Tb 68TH YEAR, NO. 90, SEMI-WE I PACIFIC FLEET IN po | THE GOLDEN GATE __ ' lev T Steams Through Thrilling a Multitude of Spectators on Every Hill Oevrlooking Habor Hick< distinct zle-load REVIEW BEFORE DAN1EDS wa8 kn the She Navy Secretary Sees Forty-Two Gray Giants of Navy Amid Wycofr Formalities and Booming of interest poor ol Nineteen Guns. in the s Before San Francilbo, Sept. 4.?A far-flung here w covenant of protection, 42 gray giants knew t of the American navy, steamed from w^? hes their overnight anchorage off Bollnas inf? 8ay bay-, north of San Francisco, and pi- ylcted a lot?*d personally by Admiral Hugh wen* 1? Rodman, commander-in-chief, swept fa,r 'n 1 through the Golden Gate and passed ^l''ed c the famous old battleship Oreg'an, the Form reviewing: ship in a marine spectacle rememt which thrilled a multitude of specta- clearly tors. It was the review here of the aponden new Pacific fleet before Secretary of at the the Navy Daniels and other national, trial an state and municipal officials. In addi- the ma tion to those in the review a train of killed V ni supply and fuel ships later en- and tha teted the harbor and cast anchor. son, wh San Francisco, who, ashore, lined 'Wesli the marina off which the Oregan was good ci anchored; and San Fraclscans who, not to v in a myriad of small craft, lined the ed a hai waterway of the naval processional, oharaoti sought through cheers to express the childrer patriotism they left as they saw and in the heard the ceremonial. Illackwi From every hill and structure over- who wn looking the broad sweep of the har- air, pro hor, countless thousands had gather- er. ed since early morning to view the jjol) ; pageant. Not since May, 1918, when jljs tjayi the Atlantic fleet visited this port carrie(i on its tour of the world, hus San tjine Wl Francisco been spectator to a naval RUn ma review. . was Arc Not a few thrilled at the thought an oltl . that the fleet had come to make its fnr fro] home in the Pacific waters. pun fln Majestically, the long line of war Run .. ^ -rnft crept carefully through the Gol- were ai den Gate, past the Presidio military ^our It reservation, and the one Impragnable| ol(] (lar old fort point, whose thick brick (h(1 mu walls the engineers of civil war days .heard built to withstand the solid shot of fQr jie enemy frigates; past the modern forts, jtnow Mi ley and Winfield Scott, on the San _ , ....... . Office Francisco aide of the harbor, and un- ^ der the long range guns of Forts Baker and Barry, hidden in the golden , 8 ? brown hills on the opposite shore, ? , Mc( ork where Mount Tamalpais stands sentinel to the Golden Gate. oniiTvrt As the battleship Oregon passed by ^ , the leading dreadnaughts, Telegraph hill, a landmark famed for its asso- ', |!(j ^ elation with San Francisco's early history, came into view, its rocky At l' slopes thickly crowded with sight- Alexand seers. Thence the fleet swung Into ne8ro 8 'he upper bay past Goatrislnnd and 'aot came to rest while the harbor re- iury 0 sounded with the shrilling of whistles from scores of welcoming craft. "Aunt The formalities began with the an- pen choring of the Oregon, commanded by ,l^alr Capt. Ivan Wettingell, off the old ex- MeCo position grounds?now the marina?- murder. ?t 10 o'clock. About 11 o'clock Mr. ?P. he I>aniels and the secretarial review- them to ing party boarded the historic vessel. ed that As the secretary reached th? ',e waa or deck and the naval form for hla 8'lveradvent was fulfilled, the big guns at| The Port Scott boomed a salute of 19 said, w Runs. mltted Uy this time a long line of the fleet man In ?coining single file was approach- the cns< Ing the gate, led by the dreadnaught That \*ew Mexico and with the dread- far as I naughts Mississippi and Idaho follow- old woi Ing at intervals of 700 yards. Itlackwc The next group, commanded by affair si Hear Admiral R. E. Coontx. waa com-(tatnlng posed of his flagship, the dreadnaught result n Wyoming and the dreadnaught Ar- Wycoff kansas, New York and Texas follow- wife an ing preserving the distance of 700 was thf yards between ^hips. I There Vice Admiral Clarence S. Williams, | the stoi on his flagship, the pre-dreadnaught i pftrt9 Vermont, led the next group, which I w ft s 11 lit I also included, in this order, the pre-] dreadnaught Nebraska, the armored ,nr ln cruiser North Carolina, the pre-dread- others h naught Georgia and the cruiser Seat- ('H> tie. I whether R iar Admiral Henry Wiley com- homlcldi mantled the next group In bis flag-' to Th ship, the cruiser Birmingham, and the ample, t destroyers Ludlow, Crane, Anthony, Catawba m | curred, I (Continued on Fage fr.) I a fair tr ie Lang JEKLY. , LANCASTER, S. C.? 1 ER SHERIFF SAYS fiiinANTEEnDCTI1 E RIGHT MAN HANGED WARAll 1 LbU Kbll Who Keoull Killing of Won. ON RAIL SECURIT ll'ychoff Over 40 Years Ago Say So. Memorial to Congress Asks Not Less Than Six P jry, N. c., Sept. l.?It was the Cent On Investment lve noise qf a sawed-off muz Ing shot gun, whose sound own by every resident of RATES MAY COME DC (rrlll's Ford community, that ,b McCorkle a negro, to the R<)ads # Returne( and caused Aunt Sarah to furnish the basis for an Private Owners It Maj^Bet Ing newspaper article on a Necessary to Reduce Tc d woman who had remained tate penitentiary for 4 0 years Business. proceeding farther, persons ho recall the homicide, who Washington, Sept. 1.?Prim he characters involved and Qf the Warfleld plan, under wh ird the trial and saw the hang- minimum Interest return of 6 pei that the right man was con- on railroad securities would be ,nd that "Aunt" Sarah Wycoff anteed through a mandatory a< prison for her part in an af- ment of rates by the Interstate vhich a harmless old man was merce commission, were indorsi iver a bad woman. "50,000,000 persons owning or d er Sheriff J. W. Blackwelder ly interested In railroad secur iers the event and Incidents in a memorial to Congress subn and he related to this corre- to the house interstate conni it today the facts"His developed commission by S. L>avies Wai preliminary hearing, at the president of the National Assocl d at the hancinp anil ho <- r?f O,T> " " ? dujo v/nuoin ui rwtui uitu oecunuf m who fired the shot that Signers of the memorial nui Lesley VVycoff paid the penalty d 5,000 investing institutions, in t it was not old man Wesley's ing savings banks, national and 0 died a few years ago. banks, surety companies, trust eyWycoff was a comparatively >anies and life and fire insurance tizen, given to drinking, but panies and 8,180 Individual inve ioience. A widower, he marri- The shipping public also was r ndsome young woman without aented in the indorsement by pr. He had a family of several municipal trade organizations, i. The woman was notorious an estimate total membership o SherriU's Ford section. Mr 00?- Insurance companies g aider says, and another man, their indorsement were said t is never brought into the nf- present 23,000,000 pollcyho bably was back of the murd- while it was estimated that 5,50 persons were represented by sa McCorkle, a negro who spent hanks. 1 and nights hunting and who 'n Prpsent'ng the memorial a sawed-off shot gun all the ^ arliel?l said its signers did no as convicted of the crime. His "u* continuation of autocratic ,io n noxniio- ...? road methods of fh? n^t k..? .. ? yuVUliHI I1UIDC n Iicll il ^ d. One night about M o'clock and deftnlte by the Con negro wheelwright, living not of the ?loat ??Portant problem n the Wycoff home, heard a bfifore the ?. "That was Bob McCorkle's UrRinK favorable conslderatic e told his wife, as they both Congress of the remedial leglsl oused by the sound. A half ln th? Warfleld, plan iter somebody came to the n,fiinorial declared: kev's house to inquire about "II ls ol!r conviction that the rder. He told what he had roada cannot Jlvoid destruction It was Bob McCorkle's gun governmental abso. knew the sound. He did no *"hout ? Primary distributabl lat a man had been murdered. turn of not ,eaa fhan 6 pftr oent a w ? ... . ed upon the aggregate investi rs went to McCorkle s home .... . . ... . not through a governmental gu ested hint. They took posses- . . . .. ... , . , tee, but through the exercise by lis shot gun. powder horn and ...... . . . . gress of its duty to stop, by act ind compared the paper in . ... . ... . . . ., ... . i Unite of regulation short of the lea pouch with that found , .. . ... . ?T .'of the transportation system o ding at Wycoff s home. Not .. , ?. , . . ... | United States, tre the pieces alike, but they Dgcther and one could read! ,,Th" responsibility for the column after they had been ,n* ayatem and tht duly rtf oor ogether ing transportation in America ... . , exclusively upon Congress. The ] le trial, which was held in . . . . . . state Commerce commission ha er Superior court, the <old .. . , . ... the power and cannot, consist testimony was unshaken and ... .. ... .. . . , with the constitution, be charged s were plain enough to cause .. , , . . , the responsibility of determining if 12 men to pronounce a ver- , . . ., . * ,. . daiuental questions of public p guilty. The woman, called ... . . ... . , We appeal to this Congress to Sarah, was given a term in . .. . . . .. , charge its duty by the only poi itentiary for her part in the .. . ? . .... method. The first requisite is a d.*tory leclaratlon that the pow rkle did not confess to the regulation shall not be employ* Just before he was swung a8 dPpre8H net operating in removed his boots and gave bejow tj,(, level wlilch experienc one of his boys. He remark- Rhown to be necessary to sustai he was made a Judas and that carriers. betraved for 30 pieces of . . , The legislation proposed is 1 upon the necessity that Congress inference, Mr. Blackwelder hy law recognize a minimum r as that McCorkle. had com on aggregate investment as nit- iuinner lor sonic wmte J oessary limitation upon its doleg the community. In any event. rete-mfiklng power to the Intel 9 was nt pressed further. Commerce commission, and sha Is all there is to the story, so law enable that commission to the public knows, but if the ply with the duty to conserve t nan. in the opinion of Mr. portation in America." Ider, cared to tell the whole ^ tie would give a very enter- |\niAX8 KIM, AMERICAN narrative. The killing was the . .*XD FOUIl MEXICAN f a plot to remove old man No,Raltts> Ar,X-> Sept 4 _A so that his handsome young . ? Hen nessey, an American truck d the men with whom she ck would have least trouble. er> formerly employed in the i was much Interest here in gmtion service at Nolgoles. and ry. which is familiar in all Mexichn federal soldiers acting t the county. Mr. Black welder cort to u truck operated by tin 1 "Aunt" Sarah was so popu- Xavler Mining company, were 1 e penitentiary and with many by ^ aquis Tuesday, according t icre, he would like to hoq her "able information received by rs spent in ponce. He doubts warding agents of the Laughlin she recalls the details of the company here today, e or the incidents leading up The information carne from M icre was only one trial for ex- Lopex, federal judge at \m Colo he case being moved from The Indians attacked a truck c l, where the homicide oc In* powder and supplies to th? to Alexander county to Insure Xavler mine, according to the lal. sage. I %STER NE^ FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1919. IRN CITY SCHOOL WILL IES OPEN NEXT MONDAY wln7T., , ?? South Atlantic by lieatinK For No Formal Exercises to Be Held lotte Monday Morning ;r Owing to use of Auditoriums as Class Rooms. Columbia, s. c., Sept. 4.? bia won the pennant in the S< )WN THE LIST OF BOOKS USED !fn/Jc a^ocJation when the uci ca it*u v> nan one in tlie l 1 game Monday at Charlotte Everything in Readiness for Ses- The Columbia team took the sion Which Promises to Be a ,he oul"" ";c ,eB"on' ""d ' come . exception of about a week. 1 ^ Successful One Hegins at lead all season. This Is the fl Nine O'clock. 'n ^e ^ years of the associat it took the last day's play tc the pennant winner. Charlotb The city schools will open at nine e(, one game bchitl(1 Col(imi '!>? o'clock next Monday morning, and tbe other teams follow in this 11 everything is in readiness for the ses- Greenville. Charleston. Augu 1 ctnt sion which promises to be one of the Spartanburg. The race was ai ^Uar most sucessful ones in the history of ttonally tight one, three teams ^ the public schools in Lancaster. The a chance for the pennant at tl . . crowded condition of the school build- ing of the last week of play. 2(1 by irect- ,nRS wil1 somewhat relieved by the xhe Columbia club, whi< ltje8" tise of the auditoriums as class rooms, managed by Tom Clarke, for jilted an<* *' ' rpu8?n ?' there will be league catcher, returned to nerce no formal exercises held in connec- bia Tuesday and on We rjj0l(I tion with the opening. opened a barnstorming trip lation Superintendent Scott has been in days. Beginning Tuesday. Se the city for the past two weeks mak- 9, there will be a post-series nber- '"P f1nal arrangements for the open- games with the Atlanta tean , <?w~ ?.wl 1 * iciuu- * ??= *:urps UI i?*acners is com- southern league, state Plete. no?h the Central and Schoo Columbia is wildly excited ? com 's,?* ~ open at nine o clock. winning of the pennant, aboi com Following Is the course of study f,ins followed the details of tl stors for the year: by wire and fully 1.000 goii epre- First tirade. here to Charlotte for the con , I(j Halihurton Primer. . ^ wi,u Hills First Reader. GENERAL PERSHING f !() Childs World First Reader. iving Practical Writing No. 1. HLAI) I \\ O RIG PAF 0 re Applied Arts Drawing No. 41. ldors Second tirade. One in New York and One ii 0.000 Hills Second Reader. | ington?Kxpitted to Arriv vtnera Hunts Modern Word Rook. g r, x- o September 8. Practical Writing No. 2. ^j,. Applied Arts Drawing No. 4 2. ; usk TIlir,, Washington. Sept. 4 ? rail- Hills Third Reader. Pershing will head the par L just Childs World Third Reader. New York and Washington of gress Hunts Progressive Course in Spelling. di\ision, *as tormally an now Smith's Modern Primary Arithmetic. today hy MaJ. Gen. James Fairbanks Home Geography. Andrew, forme, chief of staf ,n by Practical Writing No. 3. American expeditionary fore ation Applied Arts Drawing No. 43. has been detailed by Secretar , . and General .March, chief of . the Fourth tirade. ., .. ? , arrange all military matters Hills Fourth Reader. . .... i. ... .... . ?~ , nectlon with the welcome tc rail- Childs World Fourth Reader. . . _, .. corded the American overse 1 an I Arnold s "The Mastery of Words. . mander. ptioi Kinard-Withers English Language e re Book 1. General Pershing, who saih issur- Smiths Modern Arithmetic. rr,,,u Hrcs, on ,ht> transport men", Maury's New Elementary Geography than, is ?.\p<ct?d to nuch N? aran Richie-Caldwell's Primer of Hygiene. on ,ht> ???rnii.g of September Con- Practical Writing No. 4. ernl McAndrew said, and will t. the Applied Arts?Drawing No. 44. that ,hree or four da>> heart Flfth rir.l(li. corning to Washington to rer , . i tnally to the war departnten Hills Fifth Header. jjrgt (|{vision parade here Child's World Fifth Reader. pec(fMl Jhat Generj|1 ,,ershir exist- Arnold's, The Mastery of Words. No. v|gJt hJs qM home ,n Miggou iser\- 2. which he will return to Wat rests Klnard-Wi titers' English Language t0 preBent hte vieW8 ag lo the , Inter- No. 1. (>nt mmtary policy of the na s not Smith's Modern Advanced Arithmetic. furp congreg8lona, commilte* ently White's lleginners History of II. S will. Maury's New Element? of Geography. ss wolvl>KI, : jun- Practical Writing No 5. , ??<>? ,s,; ,N olicy. Applied Arts Drawing No. 45. > dis- slxth <iia<le. Washington. Sept. 4 wu,Ip Harrison, brother of Carter II man- El8?n'8 S'Xth ReadGr' . . former mayor of Chicago. er Arnold s. The Mastery of Word*. Se< wjfe received slight flesh wo sn t'on "* the explosion of a bomb thi come Kinard-Withers. The English Langu- Governor General Saito at e has aKe' Ro?^ Korea, yesterdayday, an of!i< n the Sln,,h'8 Modern Advanced Arithmetic. p.U(.h t() the g|ate dppartmer History of S. t ., Sirams. said. No Americans were wou Maury's New Complete Geography. . . . , . ? . # c. .. .i i The bomb was thrown as t msea Ri0t,ie's Printer of Sanitation and ?hiii . . ernor general and his wife wt snail Physiology. -? i P?,,rT, . .. . .. c. ing the railroad station and t etutn practio?l Writing, Manual No. t?. ? n? * under their carriage. No one t a ne~ Applied Arts Drawing No. 46. ntirtn .od hut the dispatch said sove al,on Seventli Grade. stato ~ w ww s?os wore wounded. 8ia>e Elson's Seventh Reader. .11 b) \ rnnlcl'o Tliu \f uaiucu f Il.'o.J.. fn. :Z CAPTAIN SPR1NC Kinard-Witliers. The English Langu?Kp. nook 2 CORNFIELD, . Smith's Modern Advanced Arithmetic. 7 Thompson's Grammar School History (Special Dispatch to Ne\ AIDS of U. S. Herald from Roosevelt Field i. P. Wallace's Civil Government. Major Llliot Springs and drtv- Maury's New Complete Geography. server. Lieutenant Roullet Practical Writing. Manual No. 7. completed their race today. w< Eighth tirade. to descend near Rat a via < four Kern & Noble's First Book in Eng- wav because of motor troubl ts es- lish. They landed in a cornfle j San Paynes Common Words. Misspelled. Ira,p farmer galloped at them tilled West's Ancient World inK:? o re- Wefi's Algebra. Part 1. "Hey, what you fellers doi Collar & Danill's First Year Latin. cornfield? J-or" Richie's Physiolgy. Part 2. "We dropped in to Ninth Grade. social call." replied Springs. Lewis & Hoslc's Practical English. Th''n Major explained t Iguel i>aynes Common Words, Misspelled, culty and said he would rem rada Weal's Modern World. airplane as soon as he coul arry- Well's Algebra. repairs. Meantime he and hi > San Tarr's Physical Geography. ver would walk to a teleptv mes- call up headquarters. (Continual on Page 4.) "Wall," advised the farmei ws SUB SCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR !!,.r STREET CAR STRIKE ! ENDS IN CHARLOTTE Char Contract to Be Signed This Morning Which Puts Men -Colum- Back to Work. >uth At Comers morning SAME AS IN GREENVILLE 5 to 0.! lead at' _ _ vith the *,n Practically The Same Terms told the| Men in Ikith Cities Go Back to rst time) Work Without Discriminaion that I > decide I tion. e finish-! >ia, and| Charlotte, N. Sept 5. ? Charj lotte's street car strike is ended. st?i and j President Z. V. Taylor, acting fut 11 <XMp~'the Southern Public Utilities Cornell ing j jpany, an,j a committee of five men, u open-. actjnf, for 8t,eet car employes. | will meet at Mr. Taylor's office this ?h was morning at 10 o'clock, and will sign mer bipjthe contract that puts the strikers < olum-|haek t() work on the carg this afterdnesdayjnoon -phe contract is practically lite ot four|8ame as that signed i>y the Greeiiptemherj v{||e strikers last Tuesday. ot five After an all-day session Wednes-1 ot tlie day and practically an all-day session yesterday, with a committeeaver the going back and fort it between union it 4.000 [ headquarters and President Taylor's tie game office, the street car men late yesterng from | day, agreed to the final draft of the test. 'agreement offered by President Taylor* i and directed their representatives toTO | s?*n ltk * Electricians Still Out. i|* . .. . . . Following this action by the street j car men. I). L. Globe, organizer lor i \Yav|?. i, ho International Brotherhood o1 e on | Electrical Workers, announced last I ...Mil mill me iumiii nas no eneci on (he electrical workers, who, he dt? I dared, will remain out at Charlotte. General i , | Greenville ami Winston-Salem untii ades in I . . their union is recognized, the first ...... . . ! Final draft of the agreement, alLL nounced; . , I 'he carmen showed concessions bj W . M 0 - , f >f th 1 koth shles. President Taylor, at the * . ^ last, withdrew his stipulation that v H k ' * " men na,ne,l h.v him should not be 1 taken hack He did this, he explained, staff, to . . , I rather than prolong the striki , further and punish the other men t he no-1 . , , . who were standing by their comrades as com- , . , , j At the same time he made it conditional with the committee that these *d tod.-.y ni,,n should retract statements made ! Levia- ng,ljnf,| the company and Its officiate w > ork an(j should apologize for these re8. Gen- niaan(j threuts. stay in The street car men waived tecognii before , .. tion of the Anialgameted association. iort tor, . and conceded a slight reduction in tint. After l maximum wages asked. At no placeit is ex- , ,,, in the agreement does the word ig will Amalgamated appear, and the wage ri. after . . ? scale gives a mamimum wage of 41i ihington , ? , . . 1-2 cents per hour, as against 'he 4f* ' cent maximum asked by the strikers, tion ftcUnder the agreement which will be signed this morning, the company agrees to reinstate all men now out SFOI'I on s,r'kc. wit^ no discrimination as to their seniority rights, and the meiv William aprfte to resume work on the same arrison [,a8|s immediately. There is a distinct and his specification that no discrimination unds in n |,e made against any man forrown at!- . . . . . _ . joining or not joining anv organfr.aSeoul. dnl dis-'*'00, ,*1'9 arti('le leaving the men frt-flt today t? belong to the Amalgamated assonded. elation if they so desire. he gov >re leav Raise Postal Men. exploded Washington. Sept. 4.?Flat ii r,vas kill- crease of $150 in the annual wages ral per- of all postotiice employes is provided by a bill passed today by the house. IS' AIRPLANE FALLS IN FARMER STARTS A SHOW v York on you'll have to walk putry fur up. 1-. I i the road to find one. We'll take car* his oh- of yen verlocipede." t. who Springs and Roullot were gone fo<" ?re tor - more than an hour. When they re an their turned they were startled to see -t le. big sign hanging up where it could id. The be plainly seen down the road, reud i, shout- ing:? *see the great American ace a lid n in my airplane that fell 2,000 feet. A dm if sion. f?rt cents." make a "They'll get a swell crowd in Thi? lonely place." remarked Springs he diffi "How's business?" the Major inlove the quired walking up to the farmer, d make "Purty good, so far," was the repfy, s obser- 'Collected little more'n seventy doPone and lars lip to date " Springs made quick repairs, crank ? "reck- ed up und whirred away.