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VOLUME XIX
CLINTON, S. C. t THURSDAY, MAY 8th, 1919
, NUMBER L«L
PARCEL POST PACKAGES
COSTAIN SIXTEEN BOMBS
Addressed to Prominent Men in Vari
ous Parts of Country.' Discovered
mt- New Vork OWke.
New Lvrk, April 30.—Every agency
of the nat'ou^l and municipal govern
ments was at work tonight trying K
truck the “reds” responsible for th*
terroist bomb plot iwhich has startlei
the country.
Sixteen infernal machines were
found, literally by chance, early to
day in the general postofflce in this
city. Apparently they were identical
vrith six others which went through
the mails safely and were delivered to
the persons to whom they were ad-
-dr&ssgd. Fortunately, however, nope of
the intended victims has been injured
thus far. How many others have been
mailed no one can tell.
From all the information available
tonight it. was apparent the makers of
the bombs hoped to exterminate every
one who has been prominently involv
ed in the prosecution or deportation of
members of the I. W. W.
Not only were officers of the immi
gration bureau marked for destruction
but also the authors of the bill which
would have st opped'tmTiTi gran on “for
a year. This measure would have made
it difficult for Russian radicals to
gain access to this country.
Agents of the department of justice
said they believed the mailing of the
bombs was intended to cause a reign
of terror on ' May day, observed
throughout the world not only by
peaceful labor organizations but the
most pronounced radicals. It was re
called that radicals in this country had
threatened a demonstration on May 1,
in behalf of Thomas J. Mooney, under
sentence of life imprisonment in Cal
ifbrnia for murder in connection with
a bomb outrage.
The deductions of the government
agents were based on the list of those
who have received the bombs and the
names on the wrappers of the infern
al machines seized in the postoffice.
Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle, who
-brought to a sndden end the “general
strike” instituted by the I. W. W. in
his city was the first to receive one
of the deadly packages.
Former Senator Thopias W. Hard
wick, of Atlanta, author of the senate
bill to stop immigration, was the
second. His wife was injured when
the bomb exploded.
A bomb was received today by Rep
resentative John L. Burnett of Gads
den, Ala., former chairman of the
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house committee on immigration.
Another of those marked for de
struction was Judge Kennesaw Moun
tain Landis of Chicora before whom
William D. Haywood and his followers
were tried and found guilty. >
Bomba also were sent to Charles M.
fflgfflct
Ficnert;
arronrey—or san
Francisco, and his assistant, Edward
Cunha, who were prominent in the
prosecution of Mooney and others im
plicated with him. Included in the
list of those to whom the bombs found
here were addressed were:
Anthony Caminetti, commissioner
general of immigration, who issued
oders for the deportation of a large
number of I. W. W. agitators rounded
up in tlie West.
Frederick C. Howe, commissioner of
immigration at New York, who has
cQafess«d--so»ewfaaWradioal» ideas ■. of?
his own but who was charged with
carrying out the orders of his chief.
William B. Wilson, secretary of
labor, whose jurisdiction extends over
the bureau of immigration.
Attorney Genera! Palmer, who di
rects the operations of the depart
ment in enforcing prosecution of al
leged violators of the espionage law
and plotters against the government.
William H. Lamar, solicitor of the
postofflce department.
W. S. Finch, one of the representa
tives of the department in this city.
Bomba were also deposited in the
mails for Mayor Hylan of this city
and Police Commissioner Enright.
Radicals have accused them of making
it impossible to rent halls in which
to hold demonstrations. They also
have barred the red flag in parades or
at meetings of any kind.
Others on the list of those marked
for death by the reds were John D.
Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan.
Government officials made no at
tempt to minimize the seriousness of
the situation. They admitted frankly
they had no idea how many of the
bombs had been mailed. All ap
parently were vwrapped in paper pur
porting to come from the department
store of Gimbel Brothers in this city
but declared by members of that firm
to have never been in their establish
ment. It was pointed out that 14 of
the infernal machines had been held
up in postofflces along the Pacific
coast
The postofflce department has sent
a general alarm to postmasters all
over the United States directing them
to twatch the mails carefully for
packages similar to those seizej} here.
Inspectors in different parts of the
country have been set at iwork on the
difficult angles of the plot.
Chief Inspector William E. Coch
ran of the postofflce department took
YOUTH LOSES LITE
AT GREGG’S SHOALS
Claude Fleming Loses Balance and
Falls to Heath in Water Wheel
—Anderson, April 30. ™Claude Fiemr
ing, 19 year old dynamo tender at the
Southern Public Utilities Company
power station at Gregg’s Shoals, met
a horrible death Tuesday afternoon
when he stepped through, a hole In
a bulkhead and fell into the water be
hind the trash screens and iwas sucked
into the water (wheel of one of the tur-
bines^ The accident occurred about
6:30 o’clock and the body was recov
ered 40 minutes later, when the water
in the lake had been released and a
crew went down into the turbine to
find the body^-^Yo^Bg- Fleming ■ -was
the son of W. C. Fleming, of Abbeville
and had been employed by the power
company for some time at Gregg
Shoals. The funeral and interment
will be at Belton Thursday morning.
A party from Lowndesville had gone
out to the dam for an outing with Dr.
Thomas O. Kirkpatrick. Some of the
party were out in a boat taking pic
tures of those on the dam, the young
man and Dr. Kirkpatrick standing
near each other. A lizard ran out and
young Fleming stooped down and re
moved a plank to get the lizard and
lost his balance and fell into the iron
grating and in the face of the dam.
The turbines being in operation at the
time his body t was immediately sucked
down and iwas whirled around the wa
ter wheel. Wtien found his body lay
upon the wheel, but was not in any
way mutilated. Dr. Kirkpatrick did ev-
o'
erything possible to revive the young
man without success. •
Officials of the company express re
gret at the accident and state that
young Fleming was a highly compe
tent man.
charge of the investigation in this
city. His operations have expanded
until they include a score of agents of
the department of Justice. Police In
spector Fourot and scores of New
York detectives.
Defectives who know the anarchists
and radicals in New York were round
ing them up and questioning them to
night and a careful watch was being
kept on the known haunts of I. W
W. Agitators.
A slip on the part of the sender of
the infernal machines, coupled with
the sharp wits of a postofflce clerk,
were all that prevented the bombs
from being delivered. The 16 pack
ages were mailed Saturday night in
a box somewhere in the neighborhood
of ,30th Street and Broadway. They
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ARMY OFFICER IS
KILLED IN WRECK
Auto Crashes in Telephone Pole Kill-
Ing Driver and Injuring His Com-
panion. Woman Occupant of Car
has Husband in France.
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Nashville, Tenn., May 4.—Major
Alexander W. Dillard, Brooklyn, N.
Y., 102nd infantry, U. $5.'At, was killed
and Mrs. Lloyd Cregor, wife of an
army captain now serving in France,
was seriously injured, when an auto
mobile driven by Dillard crashed into
a telephone pole here shortly after 2
o’clock Sunday morning.
The couple are reported to have
left a dance about midnight and to
have spent^ the next hoiAdjdyinj^
about thei city at a high rate of speed.
Several automobile parties reported
narrow scapes from collision with
the Dillard car.
Swinging into Broad street, near
the business section of the city, wit
nesses say Dillard had absolutely
lost control of his machine. His car
shot across Broad street hitting a
steel telephone pole on the opposite
side. The engine was crumpled up
Into the body of the car pinning DID
lard in his seat. His skull was crush
ed in and both legs broken at the hip.
Mrs. Cregor was thrown clear of
the wreck. The extent of her In
juries has not been ascertained.
Major DJllard w’as a former Ten
nesseean. Before his parents moved
to Brooklyn, N. Y., several years ago,
he resided at Bristol. He entered the
regular army in October, 1916. After
the outbreak of the war he w’as pro-
had the correct postage for tl\e par
cel post but were sealed with red
wrappers and therefore could .be ac
cepted only as fist class matter. Ac-
ocrdingly they were sent to the gen
eral postofflce to be referred to the
sender.
moted to a major and 5 was among the
first troops to go overseas. He was
with the first army being assigned to
the unit shortly after completing bis
college course at the Virginia Mili
tary Institute His parents now re-
side in Brooklyn.
Major Dillard had been stationed
in Nashville but a short while, hav
ing been assigned here by the war
department as a military inspeptor
with the headquarters R. O. V. C.
shortly after returning from France
a few weeks ago. His work was to
tfT?tvathTrig‘‘of Itudehts at
the colleges in and about Nashville.
Mrs. Cregor lived with her sister,
Mrs. Charles A. Robertson. Her hus
band is a captain in the army and is
now .in France. She i|i well known
in Nashville. * •
HUGE WHEAT ( ROP
ALMOST CERTAIN
Government Predictions Ivinter Yield
he^Bitmper Crop hr Nation's History.
Washington. May 2.—Prediction of
the department of agriculture for a
wheat crop this year even larger than
the record breaking crop of 1914 was
repeated today by the United States
chamber of'commerce in a report on
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statistics obtained from all sections
of the country*. The report stated
that an acreage never before equalled
had been planted and a yield of 900,-
000,000 bushels was forecasted.
••The condition of the winter., wheat
is so high as to be without precedent
or parallel” the report said, “It is, In
fact, a monotone of perfection. The
plant came through the winter and
the trying month of March unscath
ed and unhurt. In many sections of
the west and southwest it was neces
sary to pasture it to live stockTo keeiT
down Its rank growth.
"Reports of damage are mostly re
markable by their entire absence.
Mere rumors of Hessian fly and some
stray predatory insects, but that 1 Is
all. Unless some climatic catastrophe,
or some Egyptian like and unexpected
plague or insects intervene, the yield
will probably be 900,000,000 bushels
or about 33 per cent more than the
great rarvest of .1914.”
The report stated that one Inter-
estteg-AddciigM T>f tbg • situation vrasv
that about 25 per cent of the yield
would be South of the Mason and
r
Dixon line. Southern states which
never before grew winter wheat this
year have large acreages planted, It
was said. Reports showed that the
seeding of spring wheat had been de
layed from ten days to two weeks by
excessive rains, and a decrease of the
acreage as compared with last rear
was expected.
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