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tzstinp - ■';■'■■■ ;■ V^': . - - UPROAR EXPECTED AT CATTS’ TRIAL Charged With Aiding An Alleged Coanterfeiting Ring, Former Governor Accuses Enemies. Jacksonville, Fla., April 30.—Perse cution by his political enemies is ex pected to be a strong claim of Sidney J. Catts, Sr., former governor of Florida, when he goes on trial in the to me when I tried to fight the peo ple’s battle—your battle.” He raised his manacled hands. ' “Whoopee, Sidney, don’t you worry, we’ll take ’em off,” his audience yell^ back almost in unison. He was elected. A native of Alabama, he came to Florida in 1910. He had'held several pastorates in Alabama, his native state. -I During the wild > campaign of 1916, when Catts sought the Democratic nomination for governor, he was .beat federal courts at Miami and Tahnpa, cblarged with aiding and abetting an i en in the primary. Coming out in the alleged counterfeiting ring. • The former governor, who in pri vate life'is a Baptist minister and a reputed large property holder in West Florida, probably is the stormiest fig ure in the state’s political makeup. Veteran of many campaigns, Catts always has appealed to his constitu- dicted on a charge of manufacturing 11100 notes. Catts was alleged to have furnished $5,000 as the initial capital for the ventuure, for which he was to have received $26,000 in spu rious bills on his investment. “It’s all a frame-up,” the former governor said vlhen informed he had been named in the true bills—there were two of them. REVOLUTION IN MEXICO CRUSHED general election on an independent ticket he carried himself to the gover nor’s chair by a wide margin. He was governor until 1921, when he retired! to his home ‘ at DeFuniak Springs, j where he had lived since coming to the | state, and where his pastorate was. | With the power to sway audiences,! ents and audiences by a highly devel-, Catts stumped the state to the tune oped sense of the dramatic. j of a^ steam caliope. He was a relative- He has been the target in egg bat- j ly poor man, it was said, and often ties. He even has left the stump on; after « speaking engagement, jwould speaking campaigns to go into his au- pass the hat among his hearers. It was dience and offer to fight hecklers who} said that he went into the governor’s disagreed with him or who harassed ^ office in a campaign so financed, him continually. The war time governor again turned Once, during one of his several state j to politics last year and sought the campaigns—he has run for governor i Democratic nomination for governor, three times—he was indicted on a ! running second in a field of five. General Callea Reports To President . Gil That Organised Reeiatance Is Now At An End. Mexico City, April 29. — General Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican minis ter of war, today considered the re volt in Sonora at an end, and the last Mexican state cleared of organiz ed resistance to the central govern ment. charge of peonage. The indictment, brought by enemies of his campaign, proved a boon for the fiery orator. Just when he had retired to private life again, he was indicted jointly with five others on the counterfeiting Ever observant of his sense of the' charge. The government indicted him; dramatic, Catts secured a pair of. as Sidney J. Catts, alias, Gato, *a; handcuffs and took them on the stump ; Spanish word meaning cat. 1 at a large rally of his supporters. j He was alleged to have financed a: “Looka there, boys,” he called to his i counterfeiting ring headed by Julian heareta; i! dnfcrPi^^i In a message to President Portes Gil he said: “It is my honor to report with satisfaction that in n^y opinion the rebellion in Sonora has terminated as the principal traitors continue their flight northward unaccompanied by material support. His message, detailed unconditional surrender of two groups of rebel sol diers, totaling 1,000 men yesterday, and described disintegration of the rebel troops as they found retreat at almost every point blocked by federal soldiers. sue rempants of the ’rebel army into the mountain districts. Aiding in this pursuit, General Calles said, were to be large Yaqui (ndian contingents who had vowed their allegiance to the cen tral government and had always re mained passive to the rebel cause. But one other military problem seems to face the administration of President Portes Gil, that being the suppression of the “Cristero” or so- called religious rebellion in the states of Guanajuato and Jalisco, where General Satumino Cedillo is already campaigning vigorously against them. It is not believed General Calles will find it necessary to undertake person al direction of this campaign.^ General Calles in his report said the last of the rebel armies had been driv en north of the Rio Yaqui and that General Robert Cruz, one of the com manding officers of the rebel west coast army, had fled to the mountains. Marines had been landed at Guaymas from three federal gunboats there and were holding the city while reinforce ments were rushed up the railroad from Corral. Gunboats in the harbor of Guaymas were said to have shelled rebel troop trains passing the junction outside the city on their way northward toward Hermosillo and the United States bor der. Many, it was believed, would es cape into the United States before General Almazan, moving through Pulpito pass could cut them off. Negro KiUed In Train Crash One Negro was killed and another seriously injured early Saturday morning when five cars of Seaboard passenger train No. 5, were derailed near Garlington. Four Negroes were standing near the tracks when the accident occurred, all being members of a section gr^ng. Two were able to climb the bank and escape, but the other two were caught under the cars when they left the track. One of the men was killed in stantly and the other seriously in- iured. He was rushed to Dr. Hays’ hospital of this city, where he is now a patient. The cars leaving the track were baggage and express cars, the heavy steel Pullmans remaining on the track and all passengers escaping without injury. A temporary track was pro vided immediately with two gang^ and a wrecker on the grounds, and traffic resumed about 8:30. No cause has been given for the accident. Near East Relief Director Visits Here the ^man whof Mhada LOff .A’ POLICYHOLDER writes followins endoraemeni (hr lol lowing rr of .€ini Accident Iniurw^ Claim Senirmcnct: “ My claim was handled promptly and th^ was absolutely no quib> bling or disputing of the amount due me. I am more than satisfied in ewy way and have no hc»>* ttney whatever in recommend ing your company to anyone desiring the liberal accident protection which you offer." It pnft to be iEtnehizeJ If' Numbers of local policy- ^ holders will say the same thing. S. W. SUMEREL AETNA-IZER Continued desultory guerilla war- i WHAT DO fare seems the prospect in Sonora for wmie-^f •rteraheontttaepnts-Tmr* P. S. JEANES Lex Kluttz, Carolinas director of Near East relief was in Clinton yes terday to confer with Dr. D. J. Brimm, local chairman, regarding the final and culminating appear for the Bible land orphans which is being launched Dr. Frank F. Hicks DENTIST Office National Bank Building Dr. Smith’s Former Location. Phone 153 : t"',' ■ AGED with a threatening competition which relentlessly demands better cotton goods at lower prices; and realizing that competition can only be successfully met through a permanent reduction in production costs: many manufacturers of South Carolina as well as of other Southern cotton manufacturing states, have adopted at heavy cost for new and improved machinery what is commonly known as the extended labor system. The intricate nature of the textile industry has caused misunderstanding in some cases of the methods adopted. These methods have been in use in many South Carolina mills for years with pleasing results. Particularly have they been successful in mills where there is a closer understanding between officials and operatives and a mutual appreciation of each other's problems. A^ a basis of agreement in a South Carolina mill recently, both officials and operatives concluded that “The fundamental principles of extended labor are correct when properly applied.’ The essentials of extended labor, applied principally to the weave room, lie in relieving the weaver of all but the more, technical oper ations of weaving; thus lifting him out of the class of common laborer and elevating him to the position of skilled specialist. His assistants attend to the more laborious and simpler-duties. Thus the weaver is enabled to give his whole time to weaving. In his new capacity as expert weaver, he is enabled to supervise more looms and thus earn greater wages. In one South Carolina cotton mill the weaver who formerly alone attended 24 looms can nowwith more ease, less exertion and greater skill, care for a hundred looms with the help of his assistants. With 100 looms, his work is no heavier and his health is in no way jeopardized. However, the number of looms attended is not an accurate measure of the weaver’s accomplish ments, for with different mills the width of the cloth varies, and with the width the number of threads per inch also varies. Some threads are coarse, others fine; some yarns are strong, others weak; and the more closely spaced the threads, the more difficult the weave. Thus it is obvious that in one mill the handling of 50 looms could be more difficult than the operation of 100 in another. Under the new system the principal duty of the weaver is that of tying broken threads. With automatic looms the machine stops for every broken thread. Production costs are largely gauged by loom stops. As broken threads result from many causes, and there is a limit to the number of threads a weaver can tie in a day, manifestly no mill can install the new system until so organized as to eliminate defects all along the journey of the cotton through its machinery. No mill can successfully put in a system of extended labor without first carefully selecting an im proved grade of cotton and replacing defective machinery wherever necessary throughout the mill. This alone has involved South Carolina mills in the expenditure pf millions of dollars within recent years. Nothing is left undone in an effort to specialize the weaver’s work, and enable him to accomplish-tfnore and earn more. 1 Thus there is nothing in extended labor to cause suspicion. It is a scientific, a sound, and an honest effort of the manufacturer to meet exacting competition with improved production and a better product; Nothing now is needed but time to convince the operative that the principle is sound, and its adoption inevitable. It is but a logical and natural step forward in the'advanecment of the industry. iTTON Manufacturers^ssociation a y SOUTH Carolina