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VOLUME XIX
CLINTON, S. O, THURSDAY, MAI 1st, 1919
NUMBER 18
TEXT OF DOCUMENT
IS NOW COMPEETEO
TRAGEDIE S OF PET HOG R AD TOLD.
Men and Women Drop in the Street
Through Sheer Starvation, but You
Seldom Hear Complaints.
London, March 20. Appaling in-
■cideata ot the tragedy of starvation "to
Semi-Official View in Rome is that
Italians Hare Not Definitely With
drawn from die Conference. Out
come of Italian Parliamentary Ac
tion is-novr Awaited.
The stage is rapidly being set for
the final phase of the peace negotia
tions said tbe Associated Press last
night Yesterday’s plenary session of
the peace conference stamped its ap
proval on the covenant of the League
cf Nations, while today Germany’s
plenipotentaries are expected to ar
rive at Versailles to join the members
cf the mission already there.
Some points in the peace treaty to
be presented the Germans are as yet
unsettled, but it is considered possible
The clauses involved will shortly be
ready for incorporation in the docu
ment, so that the completed treaty will
be ready for the enemy delegates by
the week’s end.
Italy was not represented at-the
plenary session yesterday, but dis
patches from Rome indicate the prob
ability that her delegates will return
to Paris after a brief period. The Ital
ian and it
is expected that Premier brlando will
at once appear and lay before it the
situation which arose at Paris <when
President Wilson made his public
statement relative to Flume and the
Dalmatian coast.
Action by the parliament which
will he in effect a mandate to the Or
lando ministry, will be requested,
there being an effort to obtain a unan
imous vote on the resolution demand
ing that Italy’s claims on the eastern
coast of the Adriatic be recognized.
If this is done, It is probable that
Premier Orlando and his colleagues
will immediately re-appear in Paris.
Advices from Rome state that the
*emi-offlcial view of the situation
there is that Ifaly has not definitely
withdrawn from the peace conference
but has merely suspended participa
tion.
If the vote of the Italian parlia
ment Is favorable to the position tak
en by Premier Orlando, It is probable
that the diplomatic battle will be re
sumed in Paris.
There Is apparently no thought for
the present at least to annex Fiume
to Italy by parliamentary action, It
being planned to demand action on the
part of the conference.
The national council of Flume, how
ever, has, according to report, hand
ed all the powers of the state and
mvfniclpallty to a representative of
Italy there.
German government troops are
slowly encircling Munich, which is
held by soviet forces, but it Is proba-
that it will be several days be-
Jrlre a general attack on the city is
launched. $
Rumanian attacks against the soviet
army of Hungary are making progress,
according to reports, which state that
Bela Kun, the head of the Hunga
rian Bolshevik!, has admitted the
troops under his command are being
defeated. Hundreds of people are be
ing arrested at Budapest and are be
ing held as hostages by the.Bolshevlki,
who threaten wholesale executions If
the Rumanians continue'to"advance.
The withdrawal of American forces
from most of the front line positions
Mn northern Russia is reported. It is
said that they will leave the country as
soon as possible.
NAVAL SEAPLANE
! READY FOR START
^Machine Prepared for Oveaseas “Jump
Ofr.’ ,
Rockaway, N. Y„ April 27.—The big
naval seaplane" NC-3, which completed
a successful trial trip at the naval air
station here today, may “jump off” any
time now for Newfoundland on the
first leg of its trip overseas^ according
to a statement tonight by Commission
er John E. Towers, in charge of the
navy department’s plans for a trans-
lantic flight.
Commander Towers asserted the ma-
ine was ready for its “big hop”, but
dined to say whether it would be
id here until the NC-4 and NC-1, the
tier naval entries, are ready for
Iht It is said these planes will not
ready to take the air until the end
this week.
Commander Towers made'his state-
snt after he had talked with th<*
who today had taken the NC-3
for itwo abort but satisflactory
Petrograd are revealed by a writer in
the Ruskoje Slovo, a newspaper pub
lished at Libau.
“Is life at Petrograd really as terri-
E)le as people and as the* 1 newspaper
describe it?” he asks. “It is difficult
for me to answer this question, difficult
to return to the eciting and fantastic
moods evoked by hungry, abandon
ed Petrograd.
“Educated people beg for alms in
the streets and hang around public
eating houses gazing piteously into
the eyes of those who eat and waiting
greedily in case anyone should leave
some morsel behind.
“Children rummage in the refur/
pits and ravcnortwly devour heads of
herrings and all the things despised
even in the hungry Petrograd house
wife, all the things undiscovered even
by the lean, enfeebled Petrograd cats.
I will not tell of the terrible judic
ial proceedings where ten-year old
de-humanized boys admit with sullen
cynicism that they deliberately killed
a little brother or sister who embit
tered their lives and devoured all the
bread rations. All these things made
up-the chronicle^ of daily bappeningg.
when we still had a press.
“How do they live who have not
become wild beasts? They are all
hungry and hunger tortues them all.
But each knows that all the others
are hungry and that is why no one
speaks of his hunger. Human suf
fering has lost its individuality. Who
will pity me if I nearly die of hunger
when everyone is hungry himself?
•Everyone will turn away and say in
a surly voice: “I, too am dying.”
“Men and women cease to complain.
They drop in the streets through
sheer starvation but you seldom hear
anyone complain about his hunger, his
own torturing enervating hunger.
They all pretend to be busy with their
wonted affairs as though they had
‘come' to an unspoken agreement, as
though fheir customary existence were
still going on and nothing had altered.
'“’A school girl is running along with
her bundle of books to catch an elec-
<y
trie car. Her dress is hanging from
her body, her little face is drawn
together so that it is now about the
size of a fist. She is assuredly hun
gry, but she runs as she used to run
in days long ago to catch the cj,r as
though she must run on and on/
“On a garden path a little boy is
playing. His mother calls him and
gives him a piece of bread made of
some doubtful flour substitute. He
eats it very carefully and collects all
tbe crumbs and returhs to his game.
Nor does his mother groan or sigh
but hurriedly takes from her little
basket a worn stocking and mends it.
Assuredly she has forgotten the re
membrance of food, yet she hurries on
with her work.
“Yon can feel a strain, an inhuman
effort i-n the present daily life of Pet
rograd. You feel that everything is
only held together by the power of im
agination that may cease at any mom
ent. f
“Prerograd, the doomed city, a e :
sick to death."
COTTON ADVANCED NEARLY.
A CENT DURING WEEK
I
Rising Tendency Due to BeH^ that
Peace is Near.
New Orleans, April 27.—The net
change in the price of cotton contracts
last week was a rise of nearly a cent
address before the graduating
class will be delivered on Wed-
pound. May-traded up to 27.W andj nesday, June 4th, by Dr. R. H.
CIIAXOES ms POHWMOX. v
Mr. George Flanagan, who has
been connected with the orphan
age as Superintendent, has severed
his connection with the institution
and accepted a position with Jacobs
& Company. Mr. Flanagan is an
industrious tfhd reliable young man
and has a wide circle of friends in
the city who are glad to know that
his change in position does not car
ry him elsewhere.
flights. On each trip the machine car
ried about 28,000 pounds. t
While official announcement of offi
cers and crews selected for the flight
is not expected until tomorrow, word
has been received here from Washing
ton that Lieut. Walter K. Hinton and
Elmer F. Stone have been selected ^to
pilot two of the machines.
Three of the F-5 type’of plane which
recently made good showings r
Hampton Roads for both apeed and
duration have arrived here. It ia be
lieved they will conyoy the lar&r sea
planes on the first leg of the trip
from here.
Mr. Ililery Blakely spent Tues
day in koebuok.
closed at 27.38j In the spot depart
ment there was a gain of only 38
points on middling which closed at
27.63. On the closing session mid
dling spots and May contracts were
at one' time within three points of each
other the discount on contracts be
ing wiped out after having existed for
over two years. Last, contract prices
showed net gains of 39 to 113 points.
The rising tendency of the market
was due in a large measure to the
belief that peace was near and there
was heavy buying in a quiet way on
this account in spite of the Italian
situation which, as a surface feature,
was against values to some extent.
On the end of the week, however, it
served merely to hold buying within
bounds. Cold weather in the belt and
the mention of its effect in official r~
ports on the germination of seed and
the growth of young plants helped to
put priges up.
This week the market will not open
until Tuesday morning, owing to the
celebration of home-coming troops
here Monday.—It was generally
ceded in week-end market letters that
«
the opening of the new week would de
pend largely on weather and political
news over the holiday period. The
weekly crop accounts Wednesday are
bound, to be of the highest importance,
because they will submit the results of
the cold wave which recently passed
over the cotton country.
Spot developments will be awaited
with the greatest interest for it is felt
that the better business in dry goods
in this country is hound to stimulate
the demand for raw material but it is
admitted that the foreign demand will
hang on what comes out of the peace
conference. Appearances are that the
market will become more of a 'weather
affair, unless world politics take a new
turn of the highest importance, and in
this connection warm and brighl
weather with moderate showers at in
tervals would make for new operations
on the short side while continued low
temperatures and unfavorable moisture
conditions, either way, would encour
age buying.
BORAH STILL REFUSES
TO SUPPORT LEAGUE
Supporters of Plan Think Amendments
Insure Ratification by the Senate,
However.
Washington, April 27.—Members of
the senate were greatly interested to
night in the revised text of the league
of nations covenant as made public by
the state department.
Senator Borah of Idaho (Republi
can), one of the leading opponents of
the league, in a statemerit, however,
reiterated his declaration that despite
the clianges hej:ould not support the
proposed covenant.
Supporters of the league plan, how
ever, reiterated their belief that the
revised covenant would be ratified by
the senate.
“From a cursory examination of the
covenant,” said Senator Henderson of
Nevada (Democrat), “I believe the in
sertion of the Monroe doctrine amend
ment, the two year withdrawal clause
and a provision removing domestic
questions from the league as well as
the other changes that have been
made will virtually meet all the objec
tions raised against it.”
A similar view was expressed by
Senator Pittman (Democrat), also of
Nevada and member of the foreign
relations committee.
ORATOR NAMED FOR
COLLEGE CLOSING
President I>. M. Douglas, of the
Presbyterian College, announced
yesterday thiif th» nmnniflnfinnrH»»i.
DIRECTORS MEET TONIGHT.
The board of directors of The
Commercial Club will meet,tonight
at 8 p. m. at the office of the secre
tary to perfect plans for the"* 4 Big
Anniversary’ Celebration” to be
Bennett, of Emory University, Ga.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
preached on the preceding Sunday
by Dr. H. Tucker Graham, pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church
of Florence, and the Y. M. C. A.
sermon will be preached in the
evening by the Rev. J. P. Marion,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Sumter.
GOVERNMENT TO SELL
SHIPPING INTERESTS
Immense Plants Built Up in War
Emergency to Go Into Private
Hands.
Washington, April 27.—Important
steps toward disposing of the tremen
dous shipping interests built up by
the government during the war w>
taken today in the creation by Direc
tor General Piez of a new section of
the emergency fleet corporation de
signed to supervise the disposal of
millions of dollars worth of invest
ments to private concerns.
The new section will he known as
ttre ptarrt dlsposaT section, with B„ E
Grant, engineer of the shipyard plants
division, in charge. Sale of the cor
poration’s interests in wood yards,
concrete yards, steel yards and fabri
cating plants iwill be effected under
Mr. Grant's direction, with a view to
putting the' immense shipbuilding
plants into private hands as going con
cerns so they may continue for tbe
benefit of the economic welfare of the
communities in which they are lo
cated. .
Termination of the war brought
about cancellation of contracts with
wood yards and these will be the first
interests to be placed on the market
by the new section.
NEGRO TRIES TO ENTER
OIOSS HILL STORE
Interrupted in the Act and Captured
After Being Wounded and Uhased
Nearly all Night.
Following a chase which lasted from
midnight until early Tuesday morning,
Willie Washington, colored, was
brought to the county jail yesterday
morning by Sheriff Reid, Deputy
Sheriff Hicks Owings and Rural Po
liceman Columbus Owings. About
midnight -Monday night Washington
was discovered by several young men
while making r.n attempt to enter the
store of Mr. J. H. Nance. The white
men secured guns and when Washing
ton tried to make his escape they shot
at him, one load of shot hitting him
in the right leg and-taking off one of
the flrfgers of his right hand. He elud
ed these young men then, but Ylioy with
others ioiiied the sheriff and bis offl-
cera lator and-finally captured the
culprit in a swamp some distance from
town. Before being placed in the coun
ty jail. Washington was given medi
cal attention and yesterday afternoon
he was getting along very well.
METHODISTS SEEK
JOBS FOR SOLDIERS
Piemflont CliurcljcH Plan to Connect
Unemployed Ex-Service Men with
Work. '
Greenville, April 14—Every Metho
dist church in the Piedmont section
will ' endeavor to help the returned
soldiers to find a Job Sunday, May 4.
according to plans that have been
worked out by the authorities of that
church. An organisation of several
hundred minute men, formed to, pro
mote the centenary movement, will
speak on the subject of giving posi
tions to returned soldiers.
The plans provide for the listing of
positions or opening with the United
States employment bureau, according
to L. P. Hollis, conference director of
the • centenary movement. Every
BAPTIST S. S. WORKERS
MEET HERE TODAY
The Laurens County Baptist
Sunday School Institute will con-
n m dR'i’r' thR^'irrfmiliiEf 1 '«\i' 'dAe
First Baptist Church, and con
tinue in session until Friday at
noon. Several prominent speak
ers are on the program, among
them being Thos. J. Watts, Sun
day School Secretary; 4 J. A.
Gaines, B. Y. P. U. Secretary;
Dr. W. L. Ball, C. B. Bobo, C. H.
Roper and other pastors and lay
men of the county.
The service Thursday night
will be in charge of Dr. W. U.
Ball, pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Spartanburg. Dr. Ball
is- pleasantly remembered in the
city, having, recently conducted
an evangelistic meeting here, and
will be greeted this evening by a
large eongregat ion.
The sessions begin at 10 a. ni.,
and Rev. Edward Long, the pas
tor, extends a cordial invitation
to all Sunday School workers and
the public in general to attemptin'
meetings.
Clintonians Urged to Make
Effort to Raise Quota—As
sessments for City Banks.
MANY VISIT WAR
TROPHY TRAIN
Several hundred persons visited
two hours that it remained in the
city Tuesday morning. The cars
were parked just below the Union
Station and everybody who desir
ed to had a chance to inspect the
captured guns, helmets, rifles,
etc., that did full duty for the
Huns on the western front. The
children of the public schools and
orphanage were out on masse to
see and enjoy the war trophies
that had been brought as silent,
hut forceful arguments, in favor
of the buying of Victory bonds
during the present campaign. The
train was composed of two flat
cars and a box car on which the
war trophies were displayed, and
in the rear were the Pullman ae
commodations for the workers in
charge of the work. The address
es were short and to the point, and
after the relics had been inspected
by the throngs of men, women
and children, present, the train
pulled out on .its announced
schedule for a similar visit to
Laurens.
PD1SS OmVE 100
mmim
The campaign to sell $111,050
Victory Liberty Bonds in Clinton
is now on and several thousand dol
lars have already been subscribed.
The banks of the city have sold a
number of bonds and announce in
a joint advertisement' in today’s
paper that they are ready to as
sist their customers in making their
subscription^. B. IT. Boyd . is
again chairman and hopes to see
another splendid record made be
fore the campaign comes to a close.
The work will be pushed and it is
hoped by the executive committee
that there, will l>c a generous re
sponse to the call in order that
tliCLtown's quota may he raised.
Clinton’s assessment is divided
First National Bank .. . .$38,300
M. S. Bailey & 'Son .32,750
Commercial BanJj 28,200
Bell-Workman Bank .. .. 11,800
Total $111,050
ANTI-SOYIET REVOLT
IN HUNGARY FAILED
BISHOP BOSS DIES
AT OKLAHOMA HOME
Widely Knotvn ns Writer; Editor and
Educator in Southern Methodist
Church.
Muskogee, Okla., April 2°.—Bishop
Embree Hoss of the Methodist Episco
pal Church, South, died at his home
hero at 9:30 o’clock tonieht lowing
a paralytic stroke two months ago.
He was horn in Joneston, Tenn. April
14, 1849.
Bishop Hoss, also widely known as
a -writer, editor and educator, was
held in connection with ehautauqua ; church fwl11 haV€ a commItt * e on e m -
. ! ployment knd demobilization to see
WPPK »
how many of the soldiers of the par-
LANDED IN NEW YORG
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lankford
received a telegram Tuesday
morning from their son Clyde an
nouncing that the Rainbow Div
ision, of which he is a member,
had arrived at New York. The
division will proceed to "Camp
Merritt, N. J.> to be demobilized.
ticular congregation have positions
and to open positions for those who
have not secured employment
The plan as outlined by the church
authorities is for every employer to
put into the contribution boxes slips
showing how many men he can fur
bish employment. Soldiers and sailors
wishing employment are urged to put
their name in the plate also and in
Mrs. Maggie Little and Mr. lh " “ '■ » , “ ne ? t0 , k brln f Z
ployer and employee together In the
Frank Little spent Stlnday with
Mn*. A. P. Little. ^ »
easiest and quickest way.
Those applying for the positions do
educated at Emory and Henry Col
lege, Emory, Va. He married Miss
Abbie B. Clark. Christiansburg Va., in
November. 1872. He had entered the
Holston Conference of the M. E.
Church, South, in 1869 and was in
charge of the pastorate at Knoxville,
Tenn., in 1870. At the close of his
year at knoxville he was transferred
to the Pacific Coast Conference and
was pastor at San Frajicisco In 1872
after which he was transferred to the
North Carolina Conference and was
pastor at Asheville in 1875.
Doctor Hoss became president of
the Martha Washington Collfge,
Abingdon, Va., in 1876. In 188! he was
made vice president of Emory and
Henry College, later becoming its
president. He was professor of ec
clesiastical history in Vanderbilt UgL
versity from 1885 until he became the
editor of the Nashville Christian Ad
vocate in 1890. This wprk he con
tinued until 1902. ' t
. His more pretentious writings in
clude “The New Age,” published ih
1906; “David Morton, a Biography,”
1916; “Methodist Fraternity and Fed
eration” a compilation of essays and
papers, 1913, and.“William McKendres,
a Biographical Study," 1914.
In 1902 he was confirmed as bishop
and continued his bl'-hopfc until re
lieved in May 1918, on account of Ill
ness. Since that thne he had been
making hh homo with a .son in Mus
kogee.
Gommunigt Government Conrt Impos
es Summary Sentences on Instiga
tors.
Zurich, Switzerland, April 28.—An
anti-comm\mist uprising In Fueles,
Hungary near Sopron (Odenburg),
west of Budapest, began April 10, and
ended a few days later with the exe
cution of a priest <5n false charges
and the imposition of prison sentences
on 15 olliers accused of participation
in the revolt. This news has just
been received here from Vienna, hav
ing been held up by tbe rigid censor
ship at Budapest.
The revolt began among the peas
ants who defeated a red army force
sent from Sopron. Reinforcemenls
finally enabled the troops to suppress
the revolt.. The communist govern
ment immediately sent revolutionary
judges to Ftieles to punish the rebels.
The tribunal caused the arrest of
all the young men of Fueles and from
them selected '2 of the wealthiest.
They wore told they would be shot
unless they betrayed the name of the
rebel loader of the uprising. After
conferring among themselves the
young men, it is reportr i unanimous
ly denounced the Rev. Anthony Szed-
eniker, a CaUio]ic~prio«it,-^as-the-‘qo_
tellectual originator.” The trial of
the priest lasted loss than an hour
and there -were no witnesses except
the young men. He was condemned
ho dath and shot a half hour later.
Subsequently thf/young men, it is’'
added said that they bed denounced
the priest only because they were con
vinced that his cal'ing would protect
him from violence. .
TO USE BANK FUNDS
BANK FAYS COUNTY
not have to be members of the Meth
odist church or of any church. The
fact that they have served the nation
in the world war will be sufficient re
commendation for every Methodist
employer to give them a chance.
Fairfiel Makes Advantageous Arrange
ment. Best Bid Accepted.
Winnsboro, April 24.—It is believed
that Fairfield county can boast of th?
most advantageous financial arrange
ment for borrowing money of any
^ounty in the State. This year tho
Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank of
Winnsboro, of which Senator T. H.
Ketchin is president, actually pays
the county one-fourth of 1 per cent,
on the $25,000 to be borrowed by the
county for the privilege of making
the loan. The details of the arrange
ment provide that all county officers
shall -make their deposits of county
funds in the bank which agrees to
lend the amount needed by the county.
The^banks in the county are called
upon to bid for the loan, and the
Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank this
year agreed to pay the county one-
fourth of 1 per cent, on the loan on
the condition that the county officers
deposit their funds in that hank.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and Miss
Davenport of Ninety Six, motored
over Tuesday to spend the day with
Miss Ellen Anderson.
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