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* . V/-V t J m VOLUME LVI., NUMBER 81. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1?. 1920. TWICE A WEEK, $2.00 A YEA* UPPER CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS READ THE REV. J. L. DANIEL RETURNS TO NEWBERRY. Many Changes Made??Financial Re ports Please Uenomi nation?December 31 Day of Prayer. The State. Union, Nov. 8.?Sessions of the Upper South Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal church concluded here this afternoon with the Teading of the appointments by Bishop U. V. w. uariington. rne ap-j pointments follow: ' Anderson District. A. E. Holler, presiding elder, Anderson. Bethel, A. M. Smith. Orrville, F. G. Whitlock. St. John, A. N. Brunson. Antreville, W. A. Duckworth. Calhoun Falls, J. T. Lawrence. Central, W. S. Goodwin. - Clemson College, A. E. Driggers. . Honea Path, J. E. Mahaffey. Lowndesville, N. G. Ballenger. t?-I tit T rCliClf TT ZJ. iuuuiacui Pendleton, J. T. Miller. j Piedmont, J. C. Harmon. Princeton, 6. G. Harley. Seneca, J. B. Connelly. Starr, J. W. Lewis. Walhalla, E. P. Taylor. Walhalla circuit, D. A. Jeff coat, Westminsfer, L. Doggett. Williamston and Befton, J. E. Hen' . . Student Emory university, W. F., Earrris, Bethel quarterly conference. Cokes bury District. J. W* Kilgo, presiding elder. Abbeville, C. E/ Peele. Abbeville circuit, J. M. Mason. Butler, A. E. Smith. ?Gokesbwy, A, H,Jtet _ Greenwood, Greenwood Mills, W. H.Murray. Greenwood circuit, D. E. Jeffcoat. Kinartii, L. W. Shealy. McCormick, T. W. Munnerlyn. McKendf?e, H. M. Tucker, supply. Newberry,J. lu Daniel. %Mollohon and Oakland, Paul Kennett, supply.. ,; ohWeall Street, W. F. Gault. Newberry-circuit, G. F. Clarkson. Ninety-Six, ,0, A. Jeffcoat. Phoenix, W. P. Meadors. Plum Branch, R. L. Rountree. Pftmnriji. D. C. Grecrory. supply. Prosperity, J. D. Griffith. Saiuda, J. L. Singleton. Waterloo, S. H. Booth. Whitmire, J. P. Simpson. Lander college, president, J. 0. Wilson, Main street quarterly conference; professor Lander college, R. 0. Lawton, Main street quarterly conference; assistant Sunday school editor, L. F. Beaty, Main street quarterly conference; associate head master Carlisle school, W., J. Snyder, Main ^street quarterly conference. Columbia District. J. R. T. Major, presiding elder. Aiken and Williston, G. R. Hodges. A-tIcpti circuit. S. C. Dunlap. Batesburg, A. L. Gunter. Columbia, Brookland, G. T. Hughes. Edgewood, W. M. Harden. Epworth, to be supplied; Green Street, R. L. Keaton. Main Street, R. S. Truesdale. Rose Hill, E. T. Hodges. Shandon, &. F. Morris. Washington Street, M. L. Carlisle. Waverley, W. H. Polk. Whaley Street, James Waite. Edgefield, G. W. M. Taylor. Fairfield, R. E. Sharpe. Gilbert, L. W. Johnson. Graniteville, W. H. Lewis. Irmo, M. A. Cleckley, supply. J Johnston, D. W. Keller. Langley, J. C. Cunningham. Leesville, J. H. Brown, D. R. Ruff, supernumerary. Leesville circuit, W. F. Johnson. Lexington circuit, H. A. Whitten. North Augusta, A. W. Barr. Richland, A. A. Merritt, supply. Swansea, R. C. Griffith. Wagener, J, M. Meetze. Epworth orphanage, superintendent. T. C. O'Dell. Editor Southern Christian Advo~ T G+ortlrVirmco Abandon. VClbC) IVt U? tj 1/aVXViiV wwwy ? ??Greenville District. J. M. Steadman, presiding elder. Clinton, L. E. Wiggins, \ Easley, J. PauUPatton, and one to be supplied. (Continued on Page 3.) 1 '? MARLBORO BANKER MAY BE SUICIDE SHOES, COAT AND HAT LEFT ON BANK OF RIVER. I Card Bears Message?Telephone Call Causes Apprehension as to T. BB. McLaurin. The State. Bennettsville, Nov. 8.?A deep gloom was cast over Bennettsville this afternoon when a telephone mes-; sage was received from the snernr of Rockingham county, North Carolina, which led to the belief that Thomas Breeden McLaurin, president j of the Mutual Savings bank of Ben-j nettsville, had taken his own life. | Mr. McLaurin's coat, shoes and hat j were found on the bank of the Tee j Dee river and on these were found | Mr. McLaurin's card on the back side | of which was written, "I thought it I best to do this." . About the middle of the afternoon j today Mr. McLaurin had his chauffeur send a public car to his office for him. Mr. McLaurin left in this and nothing more was heard of him j until the message was received. The clothing was found at Blewett falls, about nine miles above Rockingham, which is 25 miles from here. Many men have gone from here to search for Mr. McLaurin tonight. Mr. McLaurin is the son of Former Senator John L. McLaurin and is one of the most substantial business men in Marlboro county. He has large farming interests and in addition to being president of the Mutual Savings bank was also president of one of the large cotton warehouses here. So far as known, there has not been the slightest intimation that the financial status of any of the institutions wfth which he was conneced had been injeopardy. Mr. McLaurin was particularly well known ana well liked, and the entire community are deeply shocked and grieved by the report. Mr! McLaurin is 38 years old and has a wife4 and one child. MARLBORO BANKER ' TO RETURN HOME Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 10.?Thomas B. McLaurin, 35, banker of Bennetts-! ville; S. C., whose relatives had been, seeking him since he left home Monday, was taken in custody by local police late today and after an examination by a physician, his relatives here asserted he would return home: fAmnrrnur , Mr. McLaurin, a son of Former United States Senator John L. McLaurin of South Carolina, expressed surprise, according to police, that his absence from home should have caused worry there. He said he had been on a business trip to Montgomery, Ala., and was on his way home when found by police here. McLaurin denied any knowledge of clothes and a note intimating suicide said to have been found near Blewett's Falls, N. C. He had telegraphed his wife from here yesterday: "Everything is all right; don't worry,'* and this caused special search to be made here for him. T. W. Bouchier of Atlanta, a relative of Mr. McLaurin, stated tonight that after leaving police station the banker had been taken to a private sanitarium, near Atlana and found to be in good condition mentally. After spending the night there, Bouchier said, the banker would leave in the morning for home. Bouchier denied all reports that McLaurin was suffering from any mental trouble and emphasized that no matters connected with the bank had anything to do with his absence from home. i i The State. Bennettsville, Nov. 10.?Word was received here tonight that T. B. McLaurin, president of the Mutual Savi ings bank of Bennettsville, whose disappearance a few days ago caused j much apprehension, has been located I in Atlanta. His father, John L. Mcj Laurin, and other kinsmen, went to j Atlanta yesterday, it being believed that the missing man had gone either to the Georgia capital or to Savannah. c ? ~ nrnnA r-wlnrviKinOf 1C Kpin CT HntlP. OUI11C ~V...0 by Mr. Clarence Duncan along Har-1 rington street. . j y wmmammmammmmmmmamammmaammammmmmmamamammmmmmmmmmaaMmmmm ITALIAN ENGINEERS PE : I V<\.; ' ; t | ' ... -J . .V ' ':'X: >>. l V x v:-.-x; \x :: : / :x* I 7. , \ . : /:; ; ... : , j 7" V .. ' One of the greatest feats in the h where the dreadnought Lenardo da V HARDING RESTS ON TEXAS COAST 1 .. I / ____ PRESIDENT-ELECT TO ENJOY < FISHING FOR TIME. Hopes to Hook Big Tarpoon Found ! < Off Point Isabel-?Residence in Cottage. Point Isabel, Texas, Nov. 8 (By the j Associated Press).?In this little gulf coast fishing; town, which nestles in the southernmost tip of continental United States, President-elect ' Harding went into scclusion ? today ior an lnienm ui rest, nau ictiwuuii before he begins preparation of the policies of his administration. Politics and international problems and all the big and little questions involved in the making of a ?' new governmental regime at Wash- j ington are to be shut out of his con- j sideration while golf and fishing are i to take first placc in his attention '! and ambitions. r j He puts fishing first of all and his j fondest desire for the time being is ' to hook one of the big tarpon that j are found off Point Isabel. The president-elect and Mrs. llard-j ing arrived here late in the afternoon and took up their residence in a j small frame cottage overlooking a bay where a fleet of fishing boats lay at anchor. The townfolk, largely Mexican ; fishermen, gave them a warm wel-1 come, pouring out of their little box ( like houses and crying out their J greetings in mixed English and Span-' ish dialect. A score of pupils in thej. Point Isabel school lined the entrance j to the village and showered olean- j. ders and other semi-tropical flowers J on the members of the party as they! passed. j, Several guests, accompanying the president-elect, including his pre-convention manager and close adviser, Harry M. Daugherty, were housed in a small winter resort hotel nearby. | The party of 32, including newspaper ' men and secret service men, over-;1 i crowded the hostelry and the town's! one restaurant was overtaxed bv the i( i, visitors when the time came for the j evening meal. From Brownsville, 20 ' miles away, the party made the trip j by motor. | Their special train reached' Brownsville shortly after noon and I they spent several hours resting at j the Brownsville Country club before! proceeding to their destination. Brownsville threw its -doors open | ! to the visitors, a large crowd meet-1. ling the train and commanding a! jspeech from the president-elect. He I I responded briefly from the rear plat-1 form of his private car, expressing j his pleasure at the reception accord! ed him in his trip through Texas. I Earlier in the day he had spoken in I o eimilnr vpi-.t at. San Benito and sev eral other cities along the railroad. , Mr. Harding is the guest here of F. i E. Scobey and R. B. Creamer, promi- ' I ' ( HRFORM GREAT FEAT IN RAIS I :: ^ " ,/ / ,>' istory of marine engineering in Ital inoi has been raised after- resting fo] a w /mtr*TW? * TV\ 5ALMUN UlVt5 Uf | IN NORTH CARdLINA! 4-^' | CORONER'S JURY HOLDS HIM' ON CHARGE OF MURDER. Also Detains Mrs. Aiken?Mrs. Flinkinschelt Testifies Murderer Took Between $800 am! $1,000. , V i . r Mews and Courier. Greenville, Nov. &.?Walter Salmon, known here since the killing of Asa Flinkenshelt ; last Friday as James E.. Salmon, *nd charged with murder in connection with the case, surrendered to the chief of police at Salisbury, N. C.,'lasfc night, according to information received here today, rhc Salisbury chief, it is understood,? is an uncle of Salmon's wife. Sheriff anrl rlprmfcies are exDected to return lo Greenville with Salmon iate tonight. At the inquest today Mrs. Flinkenshelt charged that Salmon ac- j corded her brutal treatment after i killing her husband. She said that! he took between $800 and $1,000 in j cash from under her pillow after the j killing. . r " - " ?' , Surrenders at Salisbury. ~ - vt /- . XT.... o I Salisbury, i\. INOV. O.?r-trctii/v.?. j Salmon, formerly of Morganton, N.J C., who is alleged to have shot and J killed Asta Finkelshelt, near Green-j ville, S. C., last tveek and to have i robbed him of several hundred dol-1 lars, gave himself up to Chief of JPo-: lice Kesler here last night. Salmon's wife is a relative of Mr. j Kesler. Salmon told the police, he j had seen in a newspaper that his j wmc visitinir in Salisbury and ! he came here yesterday from Spar- j tanburft-, S. C., and surrendered to j the authorities. The Greenville po-! lice have been notified of Salmon's j arrest. j ! Coroner's Jury Reports. Greenville, No. 8 (By the Asso- j dated' Press;.?Walter Salmon, alias | Smith. Thirtieth Division veteran sol-1 dier, was today held by a coroner's i jury for the alleged murder of l4arm- j sr Asa Flinkenshelt. The jury's ver- j diet also hold Mrs. Alice Aiken, who j accompanied Salmon in his escape to Spartanburg after the killing, and j she was remanded to jail this after- j noon on a charge of accessory after j the fact to the murder. Salmon will j be brought back to Greenville this i afternoon if the intentions of the officers who left here in an automo1 ~ ~ ?lion?rurl a? a,; bile lo gei mm aic uut muubw, ? . precautionary measure to prevent j trouble. / Bitter feeling was expressed by some men who attended the inqust. nent Texas Republicans. The cottage he and Mrs. Harding occupy is Mr. | Creager's winter home. It was announced tonight that No vember 18 had been definitely fixed; as the date of which the president-' elect will sail from New Orleans on j his trip to Panama. I , % 1 g NG SUNKEN WARSHIP. 1 ii????i I I ^ j \r is iiPurincr rnmnlet.inn at Taranto. J AW ?O " i. / : four years in the harbor's bed. CAN STORE LIQUOR" IN YOUR CLUB NOW * SUPREME COURT KNOCKS OUT CLAUSE ABOUT HOME STORAGE Provision About iransporting ror Lawful Purposes is Also Given New Interpretation. Washington, Nov. 8.?Liquor lawfully acquired by a person for his personal use may be stored in a place other than his home under a ruling today of the supreme court. . The court's decision was on an appeal brought by William G. Street of New York from lower court decrees refusing an injunction prohibiting federal prohibition officers from seiz ing liquor which he had stored in a room leased from a safe deposit company. The court declared congress did not intend to prohibit such storage when the liquor was lawfully acquired for a lawful purpose. Justice Clarke also held tflat the transportation of lawfully acquired liquor from a warehouse to the home of the owner did not constitute "transportation" within the meaning: of the enforcement act. The decision was rendered by Associate Justice Clarke. The lower court in upholding the portion of the enforcement act interpreted by prohibition enforcement officials as prohibiting storage except in the home held that congress under the police power delegated by the prohibition amendment had authority to prohibit any transportation of liquor and in order to reduce the necessity for the transportation to a minimum it had the power to legislate as to the places where liquor might lawfully be possessed. The question presented, Mr. Clarke - - : 1 I'mnir o wo roVi nil?in V I saiu, Was 511UUljf may a iiuiw>vuw...e corporation lawfully permit to be stored in its warehouse, after the effective date of the Volstead act, or admitted to have been lawfully acquired before that date, and which are so stored, solely and in good faith for purpose of protecting until they shall be consumed by the owner and his family or bona-fide guests?" After answering the question m the affirmative, Justice Clarke declared the court could not bring itself to the conclusion that such retention of the liquor on the part of the storage company constituted! "possession within the meaning of the section under consideration or would the transportation of such stores to the legal residence of the owner from the warehouse, constitute "transportation" under the act. The opinion suggested that congress might have inadverently omitted having declared such storage unlawful, but regarded it as more probable that the framers of the ;?w imrl rleliberatelv left this means of preserving lawful stores of liquor to those not possessing commodious dwellings. i.- x-.. .V-.aj&ySSSSfei AMERICAN FARMERS BREAK ALL RECORDS CORN, TOBACCO, RICE, PEAR AND SWEET POTATO CROPS. "Vfrxr Outnuts in Other Pro ducts?South Carolina Products Gain. Washington, Nov. 8 (By the Asso- ' dated Press).?American farmers broke production records of five 1 crops this year. Preliminary esti- < mates announced today by the de- ] partment of agriculture show the |< corn, tobacco, rice, sweet potatoes |] and pear crops surpassed in size j; those of any previous year in the ( country's history. j] In addition very large crops were < grown fn some instances closely ap- 1 proachiiig records, of oats, barley, s rye, potatoes, apples and Jiay. The , buckwheat production record, how- j ever, has stoo<^ since 1866, with this year's crop more than 8,000,000 , bushels under it. Final crop production figures will be announced next . month. Corn, kin? of all crops and of which the United States grows more than 70 per cent, of the world's output, reached the enormous total of ' 3,199,126,000 bushels. That is 75,-, 000,000 bushels more than ever be- ' fore grown in any year. This is the third .corn crop to exceed 3,000,000,- : 000 bushels, the previous record hav- < ing been made in 1912, while the I j crop of 1917 was the second largest. ' Huge Tobacco Output. |' The tobacco crop this year, placed j: at 1,476,444,000 pounds by the pre- ! . ia ?7 nnn noo ! 1 Iiminary ticanato, ^ ^~, ( pounds more than grown last yearj 1 when all previous records were brok-j< en. Virginia, North Carolina and j: South Carolina exceeded their, last, year's production, while Kentucky's crop this year is 36,000,000 pounds : less than a year ago. 3 Production of rice this year exceeds by 12,000,000 bushels the pre- 1 vious largest crop in 1917. The out- i' put this year is placed at 52,298,000 j' - * - - ?! bushels, almost hall 01 wmcn w<? grown in Louisiana. The sweet potato harvest will . .show 105,676,000 bushels which is j 2,000,000 bushels more than grown last year, when the crop exceeded all previous years' production. Ala- ^ bama's output is larger than any oth- ( er state's. The crop of pears this year is placed at 15,558,000 bushels. The pre- ^ - 1 />rnn WftC that f")"f 1917. VJUUa IdlgCOV \.M.vyr ... whenl3,281.000 bushels were pro- j duced. California produced more , than 3,000,000 bushels, while New ^ York's production is almost 2,250,- 1 000 bushcb. Preliminary estimates of this year's production of wheat, oats, . barley, rye, hay, rice and peaches , were announced last month. Preliminary Estimates. i Production of other crops, as , shown by the preliminary estimates <, today, follows: Buckwheat 14,321,000 bushels, | , compared with 15,532,000 bushels j forecast las^; month and 16,301,000 j bushels produced last year. Potatoes 421,252,000 bushels, 1 compared with 414,986,000 last month and 357,901,000 last year. Flaxseed 10,836,000 bushels, compared with 11,704,000 last month * and 8.919,000 last year. Apples 236,187,000 bushels, com rvno AAA loef mATlt.h I psrod witn z^ / o^vw ^ and 147,457,000 last year. L Sugar beets 8,812,000 tons, com- ^ pared with 8,970,000 last month and 6,421,000 last year. ^ Peanuts 37,499,000 bushels, com- t pared with 39,217,000 last month ^ and 33,263,000 last year. j The preliminary estimate of the production of corn in Southern states ( follows: ^ Virginia, 4-5,600.000 bushels; ^ North Carolina, 62,640.000; Georgia, 69,405,000. * Tobacco, Virginia, 179,653,000 pounds; North Carolina, 383,922,000;! ? South Carolina, 87,750,000; Florida, ^ 4,620,000. ^ t Another Big Game. There will be a football game on ? Thursday afternoon between the c A T oori'nn orirl at the AlliCiltaii uvgivii u.<v> v. 0 , k college grounds, at 3:30 o'clock. At- ^ tend and laugh away the bines. Admission 25 and 50 jents. ... . .-?? >-' s'S _ .. i...- .. > COTTON MOVEMENT WILL NOT FAIL COTTON MERCHANT DEFENDS WANNAMAJCER. Holders to Blame?Surplus Staple of Low Grade?Many Warehouses at Mills Empty. To the Editor of The State: We dislike very much to see some t-ery few making effort to break the organization of the farmers as em- ; bodied in the American Cotton asso"iation and esDeciallv breaking its head and very life blood,. Mr. W?n? | namaker. We can only speak for our immediate community, where we hear it from business men and farmers alike. These few are being severely criticised. ; J/ Mr. Wannamaker has undertaken ' . Dne of the most stupendous tasks in the knowledge of the writer?that ip, to organize the farmer?that has ever been attempted on a like scale |jj by any other man. Certainly the or- V ganization is farther along today J: than it was in the yesterdays. Then up to the present time the project is ^ compelled to have been a success. (A Did they not set the ultimate price of ' J last year's ?rop at 40 cents and then those who would make us believe this - f* was failure on the part of the leader. "*|m The writer is now actively engaged in the cotton business as cotton marchant, and agents for Southern shi]* '% pers, including every territory from ' Texas to the Atlantic, shipping' to ? " At port ana semng xo wie oaroiwa mills. Being somewhat active in my line, I feel some degree of capability in judging whfether those issociated in the cotton sphere are working on concrete fact* aa Wgards j?s morvfcment. My honest opinion is, Mr. ; Wannamaker is a close student of all / the workings of cotton and*'the statistics surrounding it, and has r fdr* mulated a plan that it will rfeqtfifre time to complete, but when complied will put the producer in a position with his raw material that has never been dreamed of by our farmerS/Tffir. ! Wannamaker, by his untiring efforts > J and in spite of the buffets of tbe few, has gone forward ami wiU go forward until the American Cotton association will be the greatest organized body on earth, and when his '% :riticisers are dead and forgotten his monument, not made of marble, will >peak on. Mr. Wannamaker is right in his conclusions, especially as regarding :hc present crop and its price. We ill know that Central Europe wants )ur cotton. We all kriow the exports So date have been practically what it jvas to date one year ago. The, We?t | furnished by far the largest per cent. *2 Df this, and consequently has gotten rid of practically all its distress cot:on from this crop. Those who now lave cotton in the West are joining . '' % .he holding movement, for only in ;he past ten days they have hardened ;heir basis in some instance two cents i pound, with numbers of firms withIrawing their offers from the market ^together. Those concerns in ttte niddle and Eastern sections have all | lardened their basis, and only a few & vill sell forward commitments, then vith the privilege of the seller to rail the price. There is not one oat ' )f 20 mills in the Carolinas that has ;nough cotton in its warehouses to un it 40 days, and the most of them lot two weeks. I have been to see \ hem and th$y are empty. Numbers _| >f them have forward commitments >ought, but this is paper for the ime being, and ultimately must be eplaced with the actual cotton which -fnrmorc now n\vn. From statis IlC laiiuvku ..w .. _ _ ics as gathered from the Manufacurers Record and the Textile World Journal the condition in the Eastern nills is on about the same par with >ur own mills. The mills are frank o tell you they want to pay 40 cents 'or cotton, and I believe they are incere. My opinion is that one of >ur greatest troubles in the avenue j >f trade now is with the commission nerchants. They are composed of a . omparatively few and are holdirj Hp nriee of their stock above that -jlS X , >-hen our cotton a year ago was sell- . ng for 30 cents. In ten days we will egin to face the filling of November ommitments. You will see the mret begin to go up, and it will coninue an upward trend until around (Continued on Page 3.X > vx >.$ '' * ''