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j CHICMO RIOT
“Black Bolt” Battle Ground
for Numerous Clashes Be
tween Negroes and Whites.
fwe&i‘whites and blacks and between
policemen and negroes who fired from
Bouse tops, from dark dlleys and oth
er points of vantage.
The call for troops to quell the out
breaks resulted in four regiments of
national guardsmen being mobilized,
but at a late* hour tonight they had
not bepn dispatched* to the disturbed
district and Chief of Police Garrity
expressed the belief that the worst of
the disorder had passed.
Five of the dead are negroes and
two are whites.
The wounded in most cases were
hurried to hospitals, after which they
jwere removed to their homes when
conditions permitted. — - L
There was no concerted battle by
the blacks, the outbreaks dotting a
large area.
• Every police station in the south
side was flooded with reports of foaths
and injuries.
Chief of Police Garrity, at a late
hour, said that it was impossible to
make an exact estimate of the casual
ties because of the contradictory re
ports.
OBEY REMEDY LIES
IH PRICE FIXIW
One’ Available Cheek to Profiteering;
Statement by Black. Former Yiee
. Chairman of War Labor Board
Gives Views.
Now York, July 26.—Price fixing
commissions by the government are
the only remedy for profiteering ’ in
the necessities of life in the opinion
of William Harmon, Black, formerly
vice chairman of the war labor board,
who sailed today on a six weeks’ trip
to France and England. Mr. Black
declared that even men who intended
to be fair had been forced intd exac
tions not warranted by the situation.
“The pressing problem,” he Mid, “is
Chicago, July 28.—Seven persons
were^ killed and more than two score
wounded, many of them seriously, in
a renewal of race riots in the Chicago
“black belt” tonight *
For more than five hours the five
mile , area on the South Side was a . , _
battle ground of scattered-ilghtr~bev Jtll *~* ky rocket cost ofliving. It is nll *he Britiah minister at the Vatican to
paid by the ultimate consumer.
BIDS FDR PEACE
MADE TO GERMANS
■ — 5 l
Only Two Years Ago. Vice Premier
Declares Great Britain and France
Sent Offer^hrong» Vatican.
Berlin, Friday, July 25.-^’>Peace over
tures to Germany by Great Britain
and France were made through the
Vatican in August, 1917, according to
the declaration of Mathias Erzbfrger,
vice premier and mlnlater of finance,
in the German national assembly to
day. These overtures, he added, were
rejected by Germany.
Monslgnor Pacelll, papal nuncio- to
Munich on August 13, 1917, addressi 1
a note to. the imperial chancellor,
Micheilis, inclosing a telegram from
Chicago, July 27.—A series of riots
in tbe negro district late today re
sulted in the drowning of one negro,
tfte reported drowning of a white man, “especially-that part-of
probably fatal injury of another ne
gro, the wounding of a policeman gild
injury Jo kmvc&.vUwhite*Reft
negroes by bullets or missiles.
Police tonight said they had
situation well in hand.
The trouble started {at the i29th
Street beach where white people and
negroes are segregated and soon
spread to State Street, the main-
thoroughfare in the heart of the negro
district, wh’ch extends about five
miles. Shooting started pear the
beach v and there was also some shoot
ing ife the vicinity of State street.
Although ill feeling between the
races on tbe South Side has extended
over a period of months, emphasized
by bomb explosions, some shooting
~and numerous flgh,ts» today’s riot®
seem to hrfPhad their start in petty
quarreling at the beach.
Twenty-ninth Street was soon pack
ed with white people and negroes, the
latter predominating- More fighting
occurred and a few shots f were fired
as some of the negroes fled and patrol
wagons loaded with blue coats raced
to the scene. A fire broke opt in a
small building and the apparatus was
blocked by the throngs. Negroes are
said to have , tried to drag the fire
men from their seats. /
During the fighting, rocks, bricks
and . other missiles were hurled both
at the beach , and at various points
along Twenty-ninth Street and along
State Street White men were fre
quently beaten on State Street, the
police said. At the beach while mis
siles were flying a negro on a raft
was reported to have been struck with
a rock and burled into the lake. Later
the body of a negro was taften from
the water. A white man, a swimmer,
also was reported hit and drowned.
Witi the police stations emptied of
reserves and scores of others rushed
* from North and West Side stations.
Acting Chief of Police Alcock ordered
every available policeman on dtuy to
prevent further outbreaks. The small
army of policemen succeeded in bring
ing about a fair semblance of order.
Late tonight tbe streets of the dis
trict where disorders occurred were
still fairly well filled with people but
police kept the crowds moving and
no more trouble was expected.
Police were unable to make an es
timate of the number injured because
in many skirmishes names of injured
could mot be learned. Late hospital
reports showed one negro probably
fatally mounded, another slightly
^ wounded and a policeman shot in the
shoulder. Four.ptheT persons, includ
ing one white woman, were injured
by missiles. ■
A rifle bullet fired by a negro graz
ed the forehead ot a white man sitting
The
country believes that nearly every
body who can is profiteering. Nearly
every man is raising the price of ev
erything he sells. If nothing is done
to cbeck this abnormal ind&tton In
prices the stage will be "reached final
ly when there will *be a breaking
point to relieve the tension.”
Suggesting tbb remedy of price fix
ing commissions. Mr. Black said that
as far as the power of the govern
ment to create such commissions was
concerned, “tbe Mme supreme court
which read the rule of reason” into
the Sherman act could read fair pric
es into a decision which would vali
date un act crea ting price'fixing com
missions.”
He pointed oat that the war labor
board had fixed the prices of labor
and that the price of wheat had also
been fixed and maintained; Jhat there
was no difference in principle in his
plan. If tbe federal government was
found not to have jurisdiction over
prices of production in tbe States Mr.
Black proposed that each common-
wealtb appoint a commission to regu
late prices within its borders.
As to the composition of such com-
missfons, Mr. Black held that the un
organized consumers should be rep-
the papal secretary of state, to which
the French government assented. The
British note. Herr Erzberger explain*
ed, asked for a German declaration for
Belgian independence and compensa
tion, and Inquired as to what guaran
tees Germany would need for herself.
Chancellor Michaells did not answer
this note for four /weeks; then, Sep
tember 24, he wrote that the situa
tion for giving such a declaration was
foot yet sufficiently clear. ^
Herr lErzberger promised more im
portant revelations within a few days.
consumers who do not produce and
who have most bitterly felt the
pinch.” He suggested that each com-
.rffistr&’ttwa'or tu-
^ borer, a capitalist, a railroad man, a
»-steamship man, a farmer or miner, a
manufacturer and a consumer and
should include one woman member.
- “The producers,” he added, “would
not dare to refuse to submit the ques
tion of prices to the kind of men who
wouid compose these commissions.
Mr. Black declined to answer a
question as to whether he had sub
mitted his plan to the president.
NEW GENTS’ STORE.
The latest addition to the mer
cantile business of the city is the
firm of Adair-McMillah Clothing
Company which will open its doors
the first of September, occupying
the store room now held by Mitfe
Lease next door to Scaife’s Book
Store. The promoters of this con
cern are Messrs. V. Parks Adair
and Pressie McMillan, and they
will deal exclusively in gents’
furnishings. Mr. Adair, who has
had considerable experience in this
line of business, will leave this
week for. the markets to purchase
their new stock of goods and get
everything in readiness, for their
formal opening. Both are clever
and popular young men and have
a wide circle of friends and ac
quaintances who wish them mighty
well and are predicting that they
will enjoy a liberal, business at the
hands of the public.
NEARING COMPLETION.
The handsome new dining room
and kitchen of the Orphanage is
now nearing completion and it- is
hoped will be ready for occupancy
by September or the first part Of
October.
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at the upper window of his home. He
fell out the window, but was only
slightly injured. The negro, according
to spectators, had leveled the rifle at
a policeman, but a bystander struck
.the weapon upward. The negro es
caped. The negro dlatrkt has been
steadily increasing in recent years
with the Influx of Southern negroes,
who came to work in big industrial
pli
belt,” as it is known in
now comprises approxi
mate 56 square miles and includes
only omparatively few small white
tsttf nta.
Monslgnor Pacelll’s note said:
“I have the honor herewith to trans
mit to your excellency a copy of a
telegram which his excellency, the
king of England’s minister at the
Vatican has handed to the cardinal
secretary of state. The French gov
ernment gives its assent to the state
ments made in the aforementioned
telegram and bis eminence earnestly
desires actively to continue his ef
forts for tfie speedy attainment of a
just and lasting peace, such as the im
perial government has shown such a
conciliatory readiness to accept.
• "Your excellency's attention is par
ticularly drawn to the point in the
telegram relative to Belgium with a
view to obtaining, firstly, a -positive
declaration regarding the “impel
government’s intention with respect to
Belgium’s complete independence and
compensation for damage paused Bel
gium through the war; secondly, a
definite statement of guarantees for
political, economic and military inde
pendence which Germany desires.
“If these declarations have a satis
factory effect, his eminence thinks an
important will have been taken to
wards the father development of
negotiations. As a matter of fact the
minister of Great Britain has already
Informed his government that the holy
see will reply to the communications
made in the aforementioned telegram
as soon as it has received the im
perial government’s reply.
“It may be permitted for my part
to give expression to my firm convic
tion that by using your influence to
all highest quarters in behalf of the
papal proposal and this peace work
your excellency will gain the eternal
thanks of the fatherland and the whole
of humanity. If a conciliatory reply be
obtained which Can open up the pros
pect of peace negotiations^”
Herr Erzberger said that the govern
ment had asked permission to publish
the contents of the British dippatch
but that such permission had^not yet
been received.
*
The reading of the note caused a
great sensation in the assembly. In
commenting Herr Erzberger said:
“In 1916 President Wilson used ev
ery effort to brln& about peace, but
Mr. Wilson’s peace work has sabotaged
by the proclamation of unrestricted
submarine warfate, and at least twice
an honorable peace could have been
brought about, but a fight with the
military party both times prevented it.
At the end of September, I was in
Mifhicbi The papal nuncio came to
me and with tears in his eyes said:
“Now everything is lost and for your
poor fatherland, too!’”
“The collapse of Germany,’’ con
tinued Herr” Erzberger,' “was not
brought about i^y revolution but by
madness of the country’s political and
mllltaiT authorities, lack of politi
cal insitht on the part of the con
servatives and the supreme army
command. These socalled authorities
intimidated and terrorized the Ger
man people and are still pursuing
these aims. had to accept a peace
of violenc^ because that was the only
way out.
“We have undertaken tbe responsi
bility for their misdeeds, if they /wash
their hand® in innooency a hundred
times with ^oud ‘noes’ they will not
fr^e themselves of their guilt, either
before us, bejTore bitsory, or their own
consciences.”
Hsrr Erzberger concluded by point-
ing out the danger of revolution men-
•l acing the whole of Europe. Five mon-
NORTHWE8T SWEPT
BY FOREST FIRES
' 1 •' V X
Four Stale® Covered With PaH of
Smoke. 612 Fire® Siaee Jane 12.
Ban Franciso, July 24.—Much of the
Pacific northwest was under a -pall
of smoke from grass, brush and forest
fires burning-today in Montana, Idaho,
Washington and Oregon. /
Lightning was responsible for a
number of new blazes reported and
high wind in many places overcame
the temporary advantage brought by
the slight rainfall which accompained
of fire fighters who have been for
the thunderstorms to the thousands
weeks waging an almost ceaseless
struggle against the flames. In west
ern Montana and northern Idaho, ac
cording to forest officers, there have
been 612 fires since June 10. About
2,500 men are employed in fighting
the fires in that territory.
A change in the wind last night
brought temporary safety to the little
town of St. Regis, Montana, which
for several days has been threatened
by fires on three sides. The most
serious fire, to the north of St. Regis,
covered an area 30 miles in circum
ference.
Three crews of 130 men each were
fighting a fire along a fifteen mile
front in the Blackfoot forest adjoin
ing Glacier National Park on the west.
It had covered 15,000 acres and the
only hope of extinguishing it was
said to be in a heavy rain. Eleven
fires were burning in the Flathead
forest in Montana.
Fires in Washington were confined
to slashings, but were ' reported
spreading rapidly and threatening
standing timber.
Fires at several points in Oregon
followed an electrical storm yester
day.
CHAIRMAN B. H. BOYD
WRITES OP
FEEBLE-MINDED SCHOOL
The Citizens of Clinton p’oiniseJ
eighteen thousand dollars in order
to get the State Training School
“forthirFePble-Minded located here.
This money was raised by public
subscription and the executive
committee in charge has paid the
whole sum to the school, although
some have not paid their subscrip-
0
tions. We expect to have a list of
the subscribers showing the amount
subscribed by each person printed
in The Chronicle ami will do so as
soon as we can finish collecting.
We hope to finish this collection
within a few days and get this lisl
printed.
B. H. BOYD, Chairman,
E xeeut i ve Com m ittee.
GERMANS" SEEKING
TO EVADE ORDER
Troops Object to Giving Up Letvin.
JPOgter by Fletcher. Hun Colonel
Has Paper Rend to Soldiers Declar
ing British Aim at Alliance with
Russians.
Paris, July 28.—The German troops
in Letvia are maintaining their bold
on the territory that they occupy
there and are making every effort to
avoid compliance with the allied or
der that they shall evacuate the coun
try speedily, according to messages
from Colonel Grome of the American
relief administration in Libau. ,
> Colonel Fletcher, commanding the
forces in Libau is sympathetic with
the Germans, has distributed over a
-wide area posters declaAbg that Carl
Ullman, head of the government of
Letvia, is aiming with British coop
eration to expel all Baltic barons and
other Lermans so as to make It im
possible for Germany to retain her
strong influence in the former Baltic
provinces and “frustrate the coming
alliance between Germany and Rus
sia.”
The posters also declare that Pre
mier Lllman and the British are en
deavoring to make a powerful ally of
Russia, to the great injury of Ger
many’s future. Colonel Fletcher had
this poster read to all hi® troops and
has given it wide circulation.
General Von der Goltz is also mak
ing every effort to delay the German
evacuation of Letvia until after the
harvest, apparently In the hope of not
having to leave at all, as he frankly
admits that the German soldiers were
promised land in Letvia and will he
greatly disappointed” if they are
forced to leave.
The general has asked that the evac
uation be postponed for a period of
74 days, but the allied mission at Li
bau is urging the peace conference in
Paris to take steps to force the Ger
mans to leave Letvia within four
weeks.
N0IE.MS m
■ NEEDED IN CLINTON
•Impossible to Secure Living
Accomodations or Placoo
of Busim
Clinton’s most pressing need to
day is houses. Should twenty-five
residences be built thfey could all
be easily and profitably rented as
soon as completed. There are fam
ilies desiring to locate here -and.
can’t find living accommodations.
There are doubled-up families in
dwellings because no relief can be
had. So far as The Cjhronicle
knows there is not an unoccupied
dwelling or store room in the city
today. This condition needs to be
met if the town i^ to grow. Those
who have money (and taking the
recent bank statements as a gauge
there are lots of those folks in the
community) can render a big com
munity service by coming to the
rescue and help relieve the situa
tion by erecting a number of com
fortable pottages for rent. While
the argument is true that the pric
es of labor and building material
are high, the fact is corresponding
ly true that rents are higher than
ever before and property easier to
rent.
Clinton needs more houses and
store rooms. The moneyed people
of th^ community ought to come to
the front and relieve the situation
from which the town is now suffer
ing, and that right badly.
General Von der Goltz is in com
mand of tbe regular German organ
ization, but Colonel Fletcher’s forces
are made up of demobilized Germans,
sympathetic with the efforts of the
Baltin land barons, who are chiefly
of German extraction, to retain con
trol of the Baltic states.
LAURENS GETS (OMMANDERY.
Local knights Templar Elated Over
Granting of Petition by Grand Com
mander.
Laurens, S. July 30, TSpecial) —
Local Knights Templar were very
much elated yesterday when Mr.
I^amar Smith let it be known ; that
Grand Commander J. K. Owens' had
advised him that the petition of the
Laurens Knights for a Commandery in
Laurens had been granted. This brings
to an end the friendly contest which
has been going on between Clinton
and Laurens for the Commandery for
several months past.
In his letter to Mr. Smith, the Grand
Commander spoke very highly of the
friendly rivalry shown by the Knights
of the two towns and said that while
Clinton made a very strong petition
the best interests of the order prompt
ed him to grant the Laurens petition.
HAZEL HAD /THE LADIES.
Last Friday afternoon about
three hundred ladies of the city
took the plant of the Dixie Ice and
Fuel Company en masse. They had
been invited by the manager, Mr.
M. P. Hazel to inspect their ice
plant and cold storage facilities for
the handling of fresh ipeats, this
new department having just been
added to their business. Mr. Hazel
knows how tq do things right and
had prepared a most tempting
menu of meats, sandwiches, punch,
etc., for his'gucsts, which they all
enjoyed. All of'the visitors were
■shown over the plant and came
away with the highest commenda
tion for Clinton’s modern cold
storage plant-as well as for the
courtesies shown them by the gen
ial manager.
TO BUILD IN LAURENS.
Messrs. J. *S. Craig of Tylers-
ville -and J. D. Bell of this city
hhve lef- tbe contract for the erec
tion of tw r o handsome brick store
rooms on the Robertson property
they recently purtihased in Lau
rens. Mr. C, L. Rounds is the
contractor and it is announced that
work will begin this week.
kSUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS
TO MEET AT HURRICANE
archs had been dethroned in this war
with the greatest ease, and there was
every likelihood of this example be
coming contagious* Statesmen who
were not blind or dumb must per
ceive Jhe dark deapair of tbe peo
ple, must hear the angry rumble from
‘•V
the masses, and must take this factor
into account. '
R. D. Webb and Miss Corn Holland
to Address Animtul Meeting of Sun
day School Association.
Laurens, S. C\, July 30, (Special)-^
The Laurens County Fsinday School
Association is to hold its annual con
vention at Hurricane church Wednes
day, August 13th. Among those tak
ing part in the program will be R. D.
Webb, State Secretary of the associa
tion; Miss Cora Holland, of the Ju
venile Department; and the local
county officers, consisting of R. T.
Wfison, County President, and Jas.
H. Sullfvan, Secretary.
In order to more fully explain the
meeting theVfollowing communication
has been addressed to the Sunday
School workers of the county by Dr.
D. J. Brimm, of'Clinton, district presi
dent of the association:
A rousing county oenvention is to be
held at Hurricane church near Clin
ton, on Wednesday, August, 13, begin
ning at 10 A. M. and consuming the
entire day, with a basket dinner for
entertainment of all delegates. It is
planned to have every Sunday school
of every denomination In the county
represented. This is inter-denomina
tional and workers will meet together
and compare notes and help one an
other to better things. It is hoped
that every active Sunday School work-
621 Per Bale Loss on Cotton.
In evjgy cotton county farmers
should at once look into the question
of better warehousing facflities. The
recent marked advance in cotton
prices shows how great an advantage
is possessed by the grower who in
times of depression can warehouse his
cotton, borrow on the receipts, and
wait patiently on the Lord and vin
dication.
The waste and folly of leaving cot
ton out in the weather have also been
illustrated in ten thousand cases
this season. Just for example, take
the case of a farmer whose experience
we have Just board of. He left five
bales of cotton out in the weather last
fall, and when he went to sell it re
cently, 400 pounds had to be picked
off as rotten cotton and sold for ten
cents a pound. In other words, he
got only $40 for this 400 pounds when
he should have gotten $120, his loss
here being $80. He also had to pay
$5 a bale for. picking and repacking
the cotton. Loss, $25. - Total loss on
these two items, $105, or $21 ii>er •
bale—-621 Delng aboijt as ’nmch as a
whole bale sold .for twenty-five years
, w
ago!
“And it is probable," said our fflend
who witnessed the transaction, "that
the farmer also had to take a half cent
a pound loss for the rest of the cotton
than he would have recivd for it if it
had been properly stored.
The saving from “country damage”
is only of several advantages of
fered by the cotton warehouse, but
this advantage alone should insure
the house, establishment of a* great
number of new warehouses all over
the South.—The Progressive Farmer.
BUYS RESIDENCE.
Mr. Johnny Finney has purchas
ed the residence of Mr. Joe H.
Phhiney on Carolina Avenue. ►
PREACHING AT KIN ARDS.
Rev. T. P. Burgess is holding a
protracted meeting this week at
Dominick church near Kinards.
er will see to it that his Sunday school
is represented by the superintendent
and several active workers. No mat
ter how good the denominational work
may be, each can help by passing on
good ideas even if be does not get
any Valuable ideas for himself, hut
most likely he will get ideas that will
be helpful in his own school. He will
hear state workers ^of wide and rich
experience. Kach must co-operate to
make this truly a victory county con
vention and show; that old Laurens
has as much pep in Tier as any county
in South Carolina.