THE CHRONICLE Strives to be a clean newspaper, complete, nejrsy and reliable. If You, Don’t Read The Clinton Chronicle You Don’t G^rThe NfeWS YOfcEMB III -uL. CUSTOH, S. C., THUKSDAY. 1UL1 17th. 1919 NUMBER 2*> NAMED EDI JDDtESNIP Anderson Nan Nominated tor the Western District- Native of Laurens County. Capt. Henry Hitt Watkins, of An derson, prominent lawyer and citizen of the Piedmont section, will succeed the late Joseph T. Johnson as federal Judge for the Western district of South Carolina. According (0 Associated Press dis- * ""patches and S'pecIaT correspondence of t fie cfi fjir^c ci isniisscd from Washington to The News to The News yes terday the nomination of Capt. Wat kins as federal judge was sent to the United States senate by President Wilson. The nomination now needs only the formal confirmation of the senate, which will be given within the next few days, in all probability, and Capt. Watkins Will shortly there after assume the office. He will, in all probability, preside over the fed eral coart for the first time at the special term which is to be held in Oreenville beginning the first Tuesday in August « News correspondence from Wash ington last night was to the effect that Senator Dial has requested Chairman Nelson, of the judiciary committee, to expedite action upon ths nomination of Capt Watkins. Ordinarily the nom ination, with others received yesterday from the White House, would lie over until the next regular meeting of the committee, and then be referred to a sub-committee. By reason of Senator Dial’s request however, it is now very probable that the confirmation of Capt. Watkins as judge will take place with in a very short time. The nomination of Capt Watkins brings to an end a contest for the Judgeship which developed—shortly after the death of Johnson on May 8. Judge Joseph T. The names of a from various parts of the Piedmont section were proposed by their friends /nd admirers, and virtually every *40 community put forth a candidate for the vacancy. The appointment of Capt Watkins has caused very general satisfaction throughout the district and after the news of the appointment was received yesterday the opinion was very gen erally expressed that Capt Watkins would fill the position in a thoroughly satisfactory manner, and that his tenure of the office would be an honor to the district and a credit to him self. Henry Hitt Watkins was born in DRIVE TO DEFEAT SUFFRAGE BEGINS National Association Expects to Ob tain Defeat of Woman Suffrage in 13 States. Tells of Dangers in South From Suffrage. Washington, July 13.—The national association opposed to woman suffrage announced today that it had set out to obtain the defeat of the woman ‘ iiffrage amendment by at least thir teen states and issued aif open chal lenge to William - Jennings Bryan to piove statements that he was quoted as making in an address at Montgom ery, Ala., that ratification of the fed eral woman suffrage amendment would be a “sure guarantee of continued and lasting peace” and that “the forces of evil are lined up against the ballot for women.” In answer to the first statement by Mr. Bryan the association declared that Germany had been given “great con solation” by the woman’s International congress at Zurich, attended by a num ber of American suffrage advocates. Replying to the second assertion, the association said that there was no con nection between suffrage and prohibi tion as shown in Texas which defeated woman suffrage and approved prohibi tion, on the same day; in, West Vir ginia which gave prohibition a 90,000 majority and defeated suffrage by 98,- 000; in Ohio which defeated suffrage three times at the polls and adopted prohibition by popular vote, and in California which after adopting woman suffrage, has defeated prohibition three times. • ’ ’ ’. "We ask you and challenge you,” the statement said “to tell the Ala bama legislature and all other south ern legislatures just why you are so eager to. fasten anew the problem of reconstruction days upon the South, just why you want to put back the clock sixty years and restore all the race hatred, “carpet bag” rule Soldiers Tell of Cruel Treatment Washington, July 15.—Six for mer American soldiers testified to day before a special house commit tee investigating alleged cruelties to military prisoners in France, de clared that merciless assaults were committed without provocation on the prisoners by arrogant officers in charge of the prisons and camps.* Only one of the witnesses, all of whom were charged with being ab- • . . 0 sent without leave, was convicted, the others having been atequitted on “The Bastile,” the Stockade”, “Prison Farm No. 2,” and “St. Ann's Hotel,” also £nown as “The Brig,” were the places named by witnesses as the scenes of the al leged cruelties, which were said to have extended over several months in 191&. Some of the officers in charge of the prison camps, it was said, had been convicted by court- martials and others were awaiting trial. Lieut. “Hardboiled” Smith, one of the prison camp officers, was mentioned frequently, while oth ers named were Lieut. Mason and Went. -Sullivan and Sergeants Ball, Wolfmeyer and Bush. “Did they try the general in charge of the camp?” asked Chair man Johnson, who left his seat in congress to serve with the army abroad. “Not that anyone heard of,” re sponded a witness. “When Lieut. ‘Hardboiled’ Smith was tried at ours early this against him, and ,f he was convict- large *nmSr^ly~the young est man in the Spite to fill the office of sheriff. He was recently mustered out of the service* having served in France as captain of the Butler Guards, the Greenville company, in ^he-Th1rtie.th, JM vision—He -Also,saw. service on the Mexican border. There were a full dozen applicants for the place. Th|y %ere: J. L. Bal- lenger, GreenvUkjj-L M. Wood, Greer; E. O. Hoitzclaw,^Greer; J. W. Lit tle, Simpsonvilj^; J. Ben Watkins, Greenville; W. A. Alison, Greenville; J. H. Bagwell, Greenville; Capt. Sam D. Willis, GreJnville; J. P. Charles, Greenville; H./D. Capell and Dr. J. R. 1 T. Neal. J In connection with the appointment of Captain 'Willis, Governor Cooper gave out the following statement: “It is a Murco of real regret to me that it is f ecessary for me to dis- ther applicants, some of ’dose personal friends y one man could be ap- er. • ~ priate that I call atten- it in which the various conducted themselves, has said anything to other applicant, and very naturally and anxious for the office. whi v*» pfoperly 1 it has been theYule that each hag said. In effect, *1 waiH X ou t0 name the man who will be cif most value to the county, .lor that 1A the important thing.’ I do -not rl’call having par ticipated in any matter of this kind feeling and sincerity. There was not an applicant who. showedJUmaelf un worthy, and neither was there an ap plicant who would, in my opinion, have made a failure in the office had it been given to him. “In this connection I wish to add this word: An officer is almost helpless save where he is backed by public opinion. I shall, therefore, expect those men who have indorsed Captain Willis, and all other citizens as well, to create the kind of sentiment that will enable and inspire not only the sheriff, but all other peace officers to do their utmost in behalf of the hap piness and welfare of Greenville coup- ty.” “Once when I was scrubbing a floor a sergeant swung a club at my head every five seconds,” tes tified Goldberg. Paul Boggs, Baldwin, N. Y., 31 »th field signal battalion, said men at the farm were often so hun gry that they were “glad to o't? dirty potato peelings.” He said he dipped a tin cup in a swill barrel so as to get some grease that he would eat ‘with a relish.” “Instead of giving v command, it was generally given with a club,” asserted Boggs, who s;iid re .saw’ at least fiLy Men beaten Alvin Bates, 42 Hawthorne St., Brooklyn, who was wuth the head quarters troops, Second ,rmy, . e aid whenever “there was a formation a mfin was beaten up every five minutes” at he prison farm. He and Boggs said that Pole, serving poor boys and girls of the State who are 'not able to get an education. The lb- La Howe property, which has been used as a County Indus trial School foi under the provisions of the He La Howe will, is to be used as.the new school property. There are 1,700 acres of land, seven hundred in cul tivation and one thousand in vir gin forest. The contract has btfen lot for a $40,000 administration building, which will later be im proved at a total cost of $70,000. Plans have been laid for a steady growth at the institution, so that in the American army, was brutal-Uooner or later this plant will rival ly beaten and soon afterward the prisoner cut his throat with a razor. Medical inspection was a farce,” said Bates, referring to the farm. “You went in one door and were kicked out Another.” George L. Pallitto, 315 Walnut street, Newark, N. J., private in Company M, 113th Infantry, 2!Hh divisibp, testified that he beeime known as a “nut*patient after he had said that he did not like a nnrse. ’ ’ Pallitto also teld of a.my cruel ties in the prison "amps in France, and admitted that, he absent REV. J. B. BRANCH HEADS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. Mr. J. B. Branch, who recently resigned from National Headquar ters of the American Red (Voss, Washington. D. C., has been fleet ed to take charge of the He La Howe State Industrial School, which is m ar Abbeville! TheState of South Carolina ri'cehll^TTe^ided to build up a large school for the HOW WETTEST CITY IN U. S. WENT (DRY San Francisco, Cal., July 12.—The wettest city on earth is dry— dry amid the lamentations of-p»tHilat4