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1 J be The Lancaster News ess ???????BaMBBMB8MMI^ . 68TH YEAR. NO. 99. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1919. SUBSCRIPTION12!OO AYEAR SEABOARD TO USE OIL TYPE ENGINE Reported That Company Has Arranged to Replace The Coal Burners MUCH CHEAPER THAN CC^AL Mexican / Petroleum Company Will Finance Deal and Supply Fuel Oil Saving Half Million a Year. Conversion of a large number of Its freight and passenger engines to the oil burning type Instead of the common coal burning type :s planned by the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, according to a current report. The Seaboard will be the first Important road in the southeast to employ vuftiiim ui me uii uununK type, although such engines have been used in other parts of the country for years. It Is believed that the cost of transportantion will be decreased by, the step. According to the report, the Seal oard has entered into a live year contract with the Mexican Petroleum Company, by the terms of which the oil company is to furnish it with 40 per cent of its fuel requirements, the oil to be sold on a basis of $3 per net ton of coal at the railway junction points, where the fuel is ordinarily taken. A ton of coal Is taken to be equal to 3.66 barrels of oil. The Mexican Petroleum Company, is to loan the Seaboard $1,000,000 in cash $250,000 of which is to be used in erecting tanks at Tampa and Jacksonville, where the oil will be brought by the oil companies' steamers direct front Mexico. The other $7 50,000 is to be used in converting 2 50 locomotives from coal to oil burners. This 'loan is to be repaid, according to the ^report, at the rate of ten cents for "" each barrel of oil delivered. It was only about ten days ago tnat the Mexican Petroleum Company entered into a contract with the receivers of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, whereby thev are to supply this road with fuel oil. this to foe delivered at| Galveston. .Texas. Thlfl milrnnH loot vone i' 1 ^ IAO tons of coal, at a cost of $-1,51 per ton or a-total of $2,806,486.52. Others Have Changed. In the petition to the court t permit the receiver to enter into a contract with the oil company. It was shown that other railroads in the southwest have changed from coal to oil. During the period of the war one road was compelled to return to the osal burning type of locomotive, so that the Missouri, Kansas & Texas was constrained to hold proposals it had made for suhstituting oil in abeyance. The Texas & Pacific has also determined to burn oil. . There is comparatively little coal In Texas and the cost of obtaining coal from Oklahoma, Kansas and other States is constantly mounting the petition states. The cost of the changing of its equipment for substituting oil will not exceed $650,000, and the contract with the oil company provides for the advancement of that sum or that part of it that may be needed. The contract calls for 2,000,000 barrels of oil a year to he furnished the railroad company between September 1, 1010 and December 21, 1924. The railroad Is to pay sixtyfive cents a barrel of forty-two gallons, plus the handling charge. When the railroad has its locomotive equipment ready to begin exclusive use of oil for fuel the oil company will furnish about 166,000,000 barrels Der month. Advimrc tlie Money. The o'.l corporation in to advance not In excess of $650,000 to allow the railroad funda wUh which to refit Ita locomotlvea with oll-burining equipment and provide storage fncll"tlea at other places than on Galveston Island where the oil company will Install three or four standard 5,000barrcl tanks. The railroad company will reimburse the oil company by a payment of thirty-five cents additional on every barrel deceived un^ll the debt Is satisfied. The primary saving by the substitution of the oil burners will amount to $538,4-53 a year, accepting the 1918 costs of coal as a basis, (Continued on Page Three.) COMPOSER OF FAMOUS 1 AIR COMMITTED SUICIDE ' Two Misfortunes Unbalanced Mind W 4 of Auttior of the 'Internationale." i Lille, Oct. 6.?The tragic death of Adolphe Degeyter, the composer of the "Internationale,'* who passed away here during the German occupa- 1 tlon, has juBt become known to the city. Degeyter, a man of Strang character, a laborious worktngman, had ' written several songs which he and his brother-'.n-law used to sing. He made no pretension to being a musician but took great pleasure In playing the bugle. It was on this instrument that he played the famous air which he wrote to the words of Eugene Pottier's hymn and the first time he sang It was to some of his comrades in a cabaret here. Then his wife died. His brother went to Paris and passed himself off as author of the famous air. 7&o miles. The base from which the airplane will start Is about that H distance' from the pole. The air r plane will be heavily loaded. I, "We shall be compelled to take a r sledge with us and extra provisions to enable us to return in case the airplane breaks down," said Mr. Cope, v "Because of this additional weight It r will be necessary to cut down o:ir r fuel to the minimum for taking off i will be very difficult and It will be impossible to lift the machine for crossing the mountain ranges. "We propose to set off with as J much petrol aa we can and then. half way on the outward journey n JuHt before we get'to a croa*, to dump o half of It and to pick It up on the j way back." a W * * * t- 4 The two misfortunes worked disas- J trously on Degeyter's mind. He began to drink heavily and conceived for all music a dislike so strong that * he would leave a cafe if any one be' nan to sing or play some musical in* 1 strument. ( ( Then the Germans came. Degeyter suffered acutely from having to work j for them on the town water supply. When the typhus epidemic spread he was ordered to report at the military hospital and one day he failed to present himself. The "Kommandantur" issued a warrant for his arrest. In the evening he hanged himself. He Is buried in the cemetery near the hill here where a little wooden cross with the name "Adolphe Degeyter" marks the grave of the author of the "Internationale." OMAHA ORGANIZING FOR FURTHER EMERGENCIES City Carry ir# Out Recommendations of General Wood For a Semi Military Force to (Juell Riots Omaha, Oct. 2.?In response to rec, ommendations of Maj-Gen Leonard Wood, who was assigned to quell rioting in Omaha following the lynching of a negro Sunday and the burning of the courthouse, the city council today voted to appoint 100 new policemen and carry out a proposed semimilitary organization. Two machine guns, 30 riot guns and motorcycles and automobiles for emergency use will be secured at once. A comptent military instructor I will be engaged to drill the reorgani- ^ zed department. General Wood said tonight there ( was no evidence of further trouble f and all parts of the city wep quiet. ( lie made preparations to leave the city tomorrow. . Civil authorities are continuing the t arrest of men and boys alleged to t have participated in the riot. All are being held without bond for a special j session of the grand jury next Wed- j } t'Rday. I Military authorities are holding a 1 negro suspected of the assault yester- ? day afternoon of a white woman liv* 1 lng on the edge of the "black belt" t 1 He has not been identified. I AN- AIRPLANE TRIP TO SOUTH POLE PLANNED f leader of Pro|x>se<l Flight Will Stmt c From lliu>*> 750 Miles From the South Pole. London, Oct, 6?John L. Cope, leader of the expedition to the south p pole to start next June, saya his air- t plane flight to the pole will be about HAS CHANGED MIND AS TO SOCIALISM William Z. Foster, Under Grilling; Fire of Questions, Makes Weak Witness. KE HAS HIS OWN IDEAS | Sut He Says Views Expressed in His Previous Writings Are Not Now Entertained?Heard by Committee. I Washington, Oct. 6?William Z. Poster, secretary of the general committee conducting the steel strike, vhen confronted before the senate abor committee with his writings advocating various forms of revolutioniry socialism, declared under a grillng fire of questions that his views lad changed. How much they had changed. Poser declined to tell the senators, unless they excluded newspaper cor espondents from tlie room while he lid it. This the committee did not lo. Armed with books, which Foster lad written during his career in labor drcles, which advocated revalutioniry socialism and sabotage, and with opies of the I. W. W. organ "Solida ity." containing articles contributed )y him from Europe, where he went n 11111 as a represetative of that H'ganization, Foster was pressed ipto i lengthy explanation of the doctrines ind views he advocated in 1H14 and arlier years. Foster first attemped to parry the juestions, at the outset refusing to inswer until newspaper reporters vere excluded from the room on the rrounds that "lying, prejudiced news>apers have misconstrued and misrepresented my personal opinions vith the whole idea of injuring the 'ause of 300,000 steel workers." He vas finally crowded into a declaraion when Senator McKellar, democrat. of Tennessee, reading many tuoatations from his works, demanded that he say whether or not he still idhered to his beliefs. i nose are not my views now," he mid. in a subdued tone, after lieteni^g to his own words repeated, dedaring "the state to he a meddling, capitalistic institution," and advocatng violence in strikers, and nil in ac eptance of bloodshed as necessary to he forwarding of the revolutionary a use. President Gompers of the American federation of Labor, broke into the examination in irritated fashion at >ne point, when Foster was standing >n his objection to newspaper reports )f his testimony. "Well, they can't say anything vorse about you than they have," he aged head of the labor federaion adjured him. Foster would not, however, com )letely abjure his old works, and prefaced one line to the effect "that he syndicalist workers will not be teld bnck from direct action by the capitalistic crowd of ethics, duty, tonor, patriotism," he told the comnittee. "Put quotation marks around some )f those, and I'll stand by them yet. They'll show how the words are used.' Other excerpts from later writings, dating that "government as we know t will shrivel up and die," and "inlustries now in the hanUs of the state nunicipalities and the nation, will >e given completely over to the workers in them" he was quite well pretared to defend. "I have my own ideas about govirnment," he said of the first, and of he second: "That's not so startling nowadays." "Well, that's syndicalism, pure and ilmple. Isn't it?" Senator Storil?.?? epuhllcan, of South Dakota, one of its most poPBistent IntrrogaterH, denanded. "I think not." Foster said. The wltnesH endorsed his own ad ooary of race sulfide with the statenent that "It is foolishness for worknen to undertake to raise big familen." Mayor of llaleigh Dead. Raleigh. N. C.. Oft. 6.?-James I. ohnson. for 12 years mayor of the lt.v, died at 8 o'floek Friday night j t Hot prings, Va.. following a stroke f paralysis. His grandfather was ames Iredell. United States judge nd United State* senator. b KING AND QUEEN OF BELGIUM WELCOM1 I Come to Voice Their Gratitud For Generous Aid Given by the Cnited States. RECEIVED BY MARSHAL! Vice-President Meets Transpoi r* "T 1 * \*wrKe wasmngton on Whic Belgian Royalty Comes to Thi Country. New York, Oct. 6?The king an queen of the Belgians, with Print Leopold, heir apparent to the thorm were the guests of the United Statt in New York They have come as h majesty expressed it. to voice the gratitude and that of their peop! for the generous aid given them ti this country in years of direst nc when their nation was threatene with extermination. Their first hours on American so were spent quietly at their hotel, res ing after their voyage across the A lantic and celebrating their l!?th wei ding anniversary. The Belgian royalty were given th official freedom of the United State by Vice-President Marshall when the stepped ashore from the transpo: George Washington on the cover! ment pier at Hoboken Thursday. As the George Washinton w.i warped in her berth, a fanfare < trumpets proclaimed the coming c the King. Dressed in the unifon of a lieutenant general in the Be | gain army, with not a single deco latino on his brest, lie walked un tended down the gangplank. Behind him, seemingly scarcely h: his height, came Queen Elizabeth. Sli wore a long traveling coat of whil broadclotl? over a white gown, a whit fur stole and a close titting whit hat with chiffon veil. Walking behind his mother was | slender lad of 18, the heir apparei to the throne wearing the unifbrm c a private in the 12th Belgain infai try. As the king set foot on the peir. tli hand of the George Washington s\ ung into the strains of "ha Gratia conne," the Belgian national antheu The king expressed great regr* at ttie state of President Wilson health, and sincerely hoped for h eoinlete recovery, adding that tl President was very precious. With the formal greeting over tl king, queen and prince were prcs ted to the members of the officii government reception committ ee. The king clasp most warmly tl hand of Mr. Whltlock. although \ ASK INVESTIGATION * 4 OF CROP ESTIMATE i I ? Discrepancy Pointed Out by Muny Observers Significant < 'oni6 purison. Columbia. Oct. 6? J. Skottowe Wannamaker, President of the American Cotton Association has announced that the association would ask for an investigation by. Congress of the government report on cotton issued Thursday. This action, he h started, would be* taken as a result of urgent requests received by the association not only from the producers and business enterprises. but from other interests in the various (j fect|ons, including the cotton ex>e changes. The request, he said, had come, from various sections of the ^ country. "The association has been urged I from every section," said Mr. Wanna. maker, "to take the necessary steps ^ to have resolutions passed by Con gross providing for an investigation , as to the indicated yield shown by this d I report. The association is making .j a painstaking investigation through( out the entire belt as a result of these ' t complaints and will lay the information which it obtains before Congress. Strange Discrepancy "The government report issued >s Thusrday gave the condition of cot- ' | ton as r.4.4. The condition of the crops on the name day last year was given as 54. 4. The indicated yield for * this year, according to the government 1 report, is 158 pounds lint cotton per ^ acre. Last year when the condition 1 - was given as being the same as this year, the indicated yield was given as only 137 pounds. Regardless of 1 the fact that the report shows serious- < a damage from boll weevil, boll worms I and insects, it gives the indicated | j yield as being greather than last , i iC year's. The government repo-t ap- t f pearetl this time in somewhat chang 1 [e form, the indicated yield being given . by States. The indicated yield for , South Carolina is given as 311 pounds . a per acre. We know abslutely that , is wrong. A canvass made by our as- , , sociation shows this to be an error. , >f A canvass made by our the asn sociation throughout the belt shows that cotton is opening prematurely.1 that the liolls are nudersize, *he lint vshows a marked decrease. ft-, Overestimate Apparent. ^'i "In justice to the farmer, the mar.-, ..'fuacturer and the consumer, an in-: i vestigation should be authorized by Congress. We do not charge that to Ithe Department af Agriculture would j i ii m-imlummy overestimate the yield., ; We have not, however, the slightest j ji doubt hut that an over'estimate has I been made. Had the correct indicated yield been given based upon the acreage shown by the department | ()j tifh r deducting for abandoned acreage of 1, 570,000, leaving total acreage at .:12,390,000, the highest es{:I mate possible under the existing conjditions, which diseased plant, ravages II | by insects, premature opening, etc., 11 the indicated yield could not have ' exceeded 9,775,000 hales at the outV side, exclusive of linters, even with a very late frost. f"With representatives throughout! si the length and breadth of this en-j I ! firsthand information the crops and ? firsthand information the crops and ie base our statement upon actual facts. >r | We shall use every effort in our power jr to have this error corrected. In the meantime, we feel convinced that if | the department itself will make a recanvass. it will detect the error in- j dicated and take necessary steps to .. correct same. n "We are writing every member of (1! Congress from the South urging that ,t they insist upon this investigation.and s. we shall call upon cotton producers all s. over the South to do likewise." <* DKADbV POISON* TO WKKVIIi - POt'NB BY TilK BKPAIITMKNT Washington. Oct. 0. A deadly pois >n to the boll weevil, the insect which ,,'has cost Southern cotton planters , ! f 100.000,000 annuallvfi has been disg covered in the for of dry powdered ' s calcium arsenate by the bureau of en- 1 ( f. tomobogy of the department of agri- , I culture. <> Although calcium arsenate has j I- been used at the government experi- 1 II mental stations since 19J4 as an in- : sect it tide, the department of agrleu'g i tare has started only recently tho ? campaign for wide application of th | poison. greeted Secretaries Lansing at Baker as old friends. The formal welcome over, the royi party entered automobiles and drot to the station, where they boarded special ferryboat which brought the: to Manhattan. When they arrive on the New York side, they were dri i en through throngs which had waitc for them in the rain to the Waldor Astoria hotel. The royal party wj entertained at luncheon by Vice Pre dent Marshall and Mrs. Marshall an then went to their suite. hate in tti afternoon they went by motor car ft a sightseeing trip about the city, bi passed almost unnoticed, as was the wish. Appeal for Pardon. Richmond, Va., Oct. 0.?Attornr Sherlock Rrunson has filed with Go ernor Davis an appeal for pardon t the cases of Wesley Edwards an Sidna Edwards, participants in wha were known at the time as the "Hill ville murders " In uhUh i .,a.... m. sie. of thfc eircult beneh. was sh< and killed wlille residing in pniirt an several other court officers and spe< tators were killed and wounded. I'. I). <\ Mivtinit. The Lancaster chapter. IT. I) C met Thursday afternoon with Mr \V. P. Mennett. Thirteen member were present Mrs. J M. Knight wa elected t-oasuror and Mrs. It. N Walkup and Mrs. Ann'e Crawfor l.lmUnv Utirn niooloa - . ...i i. > <ivirnal'"t ill ill national chapter. with Mr*. J. M. Rid dlo and Miss Annie E. Witherspooi as alternates. A feature of the meei lnR wns the reading of a touchin poem on the Women of the f on fed eracy. A delicious salad course wa served by the hostess. MORE THAN 65,000 AUTOS IN STATE License Fees Up to End of September Amount to $300,941.48. PART TO THE COUNTIES Lancaster Has $2,821.39 Returned to It From Fees Paid By Citizens of Lancaster County. Automobiles licensed by the state highway commission during the presnt year total 65,501.' The total amount ot license lees taken in by the commission up to the end of September totals $300,041.4 8. Of this amount $346,731.84 has been returned to the various counties of tbo state to be used by them on road construction. According to figures recently compiled by the highway commission, Itichlaiul county heads the list in tbo number of automobiles with 4,750 licensed. Greenville has 4,300; Anderson. 3,ft30; Charleston, 3,470; Spartanburg, 3,925, and Orangeburg, 3,331. In the number of transfers in nr.. - - eration, Richland again heads the list of counties by a wide margin. Ia Itichland there are 1 7 transfers; Anderson. 62; Charleston, 87; Greenville, i?5; Spartanburg, 7 5. During the past six months Richland led again in the number of cars sold. The figures for Richland showthat 1.178 cars were sold during the past six months; ligures for other counties are Anderson, 747; Charleston, 681; Greenville, 1,060; Spartanburg. 684. In motorcycle sales for the past six. months Richland and Spartanburg are tied for first place, each having recorded 117 sales Figures for a few other counties are Anderson, 20; Charleston, 113; Greenville, 108. In different makes of cars hnmit.-wi in the various counties Richland leads with 73. Greenville and Charleston each handle .72 different variet es. Anderson comes next with 4 8 and Spartanburg next with 47 The fees taken in from licenses are distributed in part to the various counties. For the whole year Anderson county has received $17,441.65; Charleston. $16,003.4 6; Greenville, $19,525.80; Richland. $21,013 07; Spartanburg. $18,159 62. The share by counties of the auto license fees up to the present time is given below; Abbeville $ 3,825.13 Aiken 8.171.30 Allendale 1,745 01 Anderson 17,441.65 lO.r.. ii,uis.4r> Barnwell 6.14 3.34 leaufort 1.603.20 lerkeloy 1,301.85 Calhoun 3.938.60 'harleston 16.003. <6 'herokee 4,316.32 'heater 4.397.36 Chesterfield ft.669.67 Marendon 4,973.92 'olleton 3.619.78 larlington 7.818.05 lillon 5,397.77 lorchester 3.016.43 Cdgefield 4,007.08 ''airfield 2,69ft,83 "Morence 9,533.79 ieorgetown 2.024.70 Jreenvllle 19.525.80 Greenwood 7,542.23 lapton 4.040.26 lorry 2,825.25 Jasper 704.63 <ershaw 4,140.21 JS.BZl.o'l Laurens 8.162.54 !'e<? 5,022.33 Lexington 9,470.45 MeCormlok 2,179.03 Marion 3.60 1 9 J Marlboro 8.683.08 Newberry 6,423.10 flconee . , , . . . . m a.189 84 Orangeburg ir?.:<32.45 Pirkpn? 4.130.93 Klchland 21,u1 1 97 Saluda . . , 4 28.? 7!) Spartanburg IS.159.62 Sumter 8.270 94 l n,on , 3.576 87 Williamftburg i 4 c 41 York K.907.95 Total $.".00,811.48