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^ ISTAMUSBnOHW IW-CONVEKTM TO-tjBE UNION DAILY TIMES OCTOBEM 1. >t!7 JBi *JL
YOL. II!. NO. 7 ()o IIN ION, S. C., TUESDAY, MAKCI1 9, 1920 . ? ? ~ PEU <Of4mJI
I GERMAN PAPER CLAIMS FRENCH
f ROUGHLY HANDIER Bf CERMAN!
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, March 9.?French officers roughly handled th<
Bremen barracks while the Germans sang Deutcherland Ubei
Allies, the Vossische Zeitung reports. It also states that a crow<
assaulted the allied officers on Bremen streets when the latte]
stopped the German soldier who failed to salute.
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Michigan Railroads Tied Up By Blizzards
(The Associated Presa.)
GRAND RAPIDS, March 9.?Virtually all railroads of West
ern and Northern Michigan are tied up by Thursday's blizzard
and many towns are isolated and suffering a fuel famine. Th<
office buildings of the industrial plants of the Cadillac Company
must close down within forty-eight hours.
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Italy Going Slow Regarding Constantinople.
(By Associated Press)
ROME, March 9.?Italy will associate itself with allies onl\
on diplomatic steps regarding: Constantinople, says Popok
D'ltalia, declaring that the nation's object in Asia-Minor is purely
economic.
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Five Firemen Overcome in Fighting Fire
(By Associated Press)
BALTIMORE, ,March 9.?Five firemen were overcome fight
ing the three hundred thousand dollar fire in the Crook Grocer}
warehouse in the downtown section last night.
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Seeks Wilson's View Regarding Turkey
{ Bt Associated Pr?gg?
PARIS, March 9.?Premier Millerand instructed the Frencl
ambassador at Washington to ask President Wilson's opinion or
the allied council's decisions regarding Turkey, says Echo D<
Paris. This paper says Lloyd George proposed the occupation 01
Constantinople war ministry and the arrest of the anti-allied Tur
kish statesmen, but Millerand gained a few minutes grace b\
stipulating that no action be taken until - .c^iVTrom the allied
commissioners of Constantinople W^'recej|ve(j
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->?^JgpIshevik Counterfeit Money Being Cir^late(
(By Anpociated Prong)
WASHINGTON, March 9.?The Mexican foreign office ha<
warned the Mexican guard against counterfeit money made^in th<
United States it says by Bolshevists as a reprisal for (persecu
tion) of radicals in the United States. The Mexican consul genera
of New York reported two hundred million dollars of spuriou:
currency in circulation.
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Sleeping Sickness Alarms New York
fBv AanociattMl PremO
NEW NORK, March 9.?A hundred and seventy-five cases o
^ ~ sleeping sickness have been reported here since January 1, ap
parently the aftermath of influenza, the health commissioner re
ports.
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It Is Strange |
. That men of sound mind and, in most matters, very \
;;;; ' sensible, are often the most foolish in the matter of spend- jing.
There seems to her u, sort of arrogance, a foolish X
;;; ^ -vanity in some people that says: "See how reckless I am j;
;;;; in the spending of money!" It is all very unwise and 4
* a)>sound. It is no. honor to be a prodigal. A prodigal is '*
1 one that wastes something.
\;; | It is better to save a part of your earnings and put your ;
savings in the batik. It urill be a gredt day for Union '
? ? County when its people become thrifty. That is why we !|
XX are so concerned in the matter of saving. Join our Thrift \
^ Brigade and begin to plan and save. The orderly mind ;
H demands some system. One o.f the first things that
t should he systemized is the question of income and outgo. \
It is very probable that the man or woman who saved ;
YJL nothing last week cannot, if his life depended upon it, tell ;
Y't what went with his money. The only thing about it that j
J it he really does know is the fact that it has gone! Vanished! "a
\T Not a cent remains, and the poor man has begun another ]
week that will leave him in the same sad plight. Per- *
Y.j. haps he is saying: "Gone, but not forgotten!" But re- Ij
ijj) mcmhering will do no good in that case. Plan ahead; |
t;; keep an account of the income, also of the expenses? ;
?' then you will know wherd it Went, and you can then
XI study the situation and find out how much went foolishly. I
5*;; This record will then lehd you to plan wisely the next \
spending and will leave you a surplus. Take that sur- ;
?.I ph's to the bank and open an account. '>
III An even better way will be: Take your entire pan to \
|f?, ;;;; the bank. Open an account. Pay your bills by check, ;
'?^ and you will have the record before you.
I M I
4 Hi
I||| / will join the Thrift Brigade, and will open an
;;; account with . .... Bank
S ' cn March 1920.
^ 11! I Signed ...
k;;;; There are no strings tied to this. We are try*
; ; ing to arouse interest in this matter. You will be
I?I the one benefitted. The Thrift Habit must be en\;;;
couraged in Union County or we will suffer on ac;'
count of its lack.
THE UNION DAILY TIMES.
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DEMOCRATS SEE MEE II
riESIDEirS PIE
j Washington, March 8.?Limiting
debate by unanimous consent, the senate
moved swiftly today to reduce its
ft<?ht over the peace treaty to basic
5 issues.
I* Fbur more of the Republican reserI
vations were readopted, two of them
without change while negotiations for
r a compromise on the keystone problem
of article ten were pressed toward
a conclusion, apparently unaffected
by the renewed declaration of President
Wilson against any material
weakening of the treaty's provisions.
The President's letter, coming at a
time when the article ten negotia- ,
tions were declared by one of their
sponsors to have brought the two sides
5 "very near together" was given wide- ,
j y different interpretations. But the
Democratic senators working for a
lompromise continued their efforts ,
L.elling their colleagues they felt free ,
o act since the executive had not <
*een fit to say he would pocket the
-.reaty if it came back to him with ,
^mpromise reservations.
r Reservations Swept Aside.
^ In the day's work on the senate
r loor the last of the fourteen Repub- (
can reservations except those relatng
to article ten and league voting ,
lower were swept out of the way and ,
lebate on the voting power provision
vas begun. The four adopted related \
o armaments, the economic boycott, ,
\lien property and the labor section. ,
. .he latter being brought to a roll call i
vitliout a word of debate.
Until the votine nower reservation I
as reached, the senate worked under (
unanimous consent agreement, pro- \
r*sed by Senator Lodge, of Massachu- \
etts. the Republican leader, limitin*; ,
speeches to twenty minutes. Few J
senators spoke, however, and none (
used allotted time. Efforts to apply a ,
limitation on discussion of the two rt1
maining reservations were blocked by ]
i objections that both probably would
p meet wlt^^Molonged otnA^fgAgreen?ySL.Seems
i " ^
, While the, ariicleteTf"-? j,
"* -rSTTTlecf" a point, it was aaia, Tt|. n
I the adoption or omission of only a l<-? ^
words stood in the way of ? agree- ,
ntent, the leaders emphasized that the ,
last pull might prove the hardest and
I linimised hope that enough senators .
? , ratification VfffflUic Lr-ugif ?
nto accord. It also Was pointed out
heir neither Senator Lodge nor Sen- (
! ator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, the Dem- i
? -cratir leader, had openly given as.
ient to the negotiations and that even
I f a bi-partisan agreement were
cached it might not command a two*
hirds vote.
The letter from President Wilson
lid not reach senators until late in the
lay and few cared to make any ppblic
omment on it. Senator Hitehcock de^criWd
it as "illuminating,'' Senator
Lodge declined to discuss it, and Senator
Borah, Republican, of'Idaho,!
* leader of the irreconsilable oDtKments I
>- >f ratificat'on, said the President had
- helped insure the treaty's defeat by
throwing cold water on compromise.
Hope From White House.
- Democratic senators were quick to
? see, however, that the President did
j. not advise them to vote against ratiflj;
cation, as he did last November, nor
promise to put the treaty in a White
House pigeonhole if it were ratified
? with more than interpretative reservations.
In that respect they contrasted
it with his letter to the No,'jy
vember Democratic caucus when he
;i suggested that the treaty with the
'3* Republican reservations be voted
!& down.
It also was pointed out on the Dem'Y
ocratic side that Mr. Wilson did not
center his objection on any specific
form of reservation and from this
"J hope was revived in some quarters
1*3; that he would take under protest such
a compromise as now is under nego\.f.
tiation.
NEW AUTOMOBILE FIRM OPENS
J. F. Pittman and A. W. Pittman
Yj. have formed a copartenership for the
|*'i Nash car and truck agency with headquarters
in Union. They will sell the
jCIj! whole Nash line?both automobiles
O; and trucks, and will have their head{ *}
quarters at Gilbert's garage in S.
Gadberry street.
'f.J. The firm has already on display a
?y 1 ton truck and will, in a few days
have in a car load of cars and trucks
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?|- WEATHER REPORT
:;j; For S. C.: Fair tonight; warmer ir
j* the interior. Wednesday, fair an<
! !.j* I warmer; gentle shifting winds.
; Mrs. Presley Smith spent the weel
{ end with parents in Sparthnburg.
:? ?
Miss Annie Mae Holinon who at
y.J. tended the funeral of her grand
;;y mother in Gaffney, has returned.
; [X Mr. David BetsiU has gone to Ma
j- con, Ga., on a business trip. '
?y Mrs. Dora Dee Walker, Assistan
1 State Home-Demonstrator^will be i
) \j\ Union March 29-30-31 for the purpos
;i , of demonstrating the steam prossur
jtt cooker. Her itinerary will be put
' jlished later.
INCOME IUX UW GIVEN
BLOW BUIHME COURT
Washington, Mar<jh 8.?Corporation
dividends, distributed in the form of
stock, do not constitute "income," and
consequently art wot subject to federal
income taxei^^M Supreme Court
decided today in* 16 to 4 decision.
Provisions of th^-1916 federal income
tax law levyntg taxes on stoclc
d vidends were declared unconstitutional.
The declsibn also nullified
similar provisions $f the^present law
and will involve gfeat loss In revenues
to the government In future collections,
and also refunds of such
tares already collecj^l. Large flnanc'al
interests llkew^s^ will be affected
and numerous stoclq dividends of generous
proportions w* expected to be
declared soon.
''Paper Ceitiicates."
In the majority ofwscliions, read by
Justice Pitney, Chief Justice White
and Justices McKertoa, Van Devanter
and McReynolds concurred. Of the
four dissenting membra of the court
Justice Holmes read a brief opinion,
in which he was joined by Justice
Day, and Justice Brdndeis delivered a
lengthy opinion, in- which Justice
concurred- In holding th?l stock dis.r
butions are not dividends on account
of no separation of corporate
assets being involve)!, Justice Pitney,
in behalf of the nia$orit^, declared
that stock shares "are nothing except
paper certificates'* in undistributed
assets, are not realitfftd profits and,
therefore, not taxable.
The attempt of congress in the income
law to tax stjock distributions
the majority decidedm be unconstitutional
and not permitted by the sixteenth,
or income tak, amendment to
the federal constitution. Stock dividends,
the majority l?ld, may be taxed
only after stockholder* realize upon
them by the sale, .1$ which case the
government may lev^,,Income taxes on
such profits. i
Says Dividends ^(4 "lucerne*."
All four dissen^f justices conow^
that congr?^eiad power-to tax
n and ncV?Pd?> Vpz that such
ow such a the same as
j land he goes an???iftth amendment,
U; . piece in the papeifljMt broad
enougi. is a regularjkr
Juatictbscrber. to tj^^Ojurke charsictcj'red^ujr.d
and yets hiafk.,'"*?*?
rov^* sn^T "bizarre,said it would1
permit many corporations to escape
taxation on a large portion of what
"is actually their income." Declaration
of dividends, in cash or in some
other medium, the two justices added,
is "wholly a matter of financial management,"
and, therefore, ''if a dividend
paid in securit'es represents a
distribution of profits, congress may
of course, tax it as income/
The other dissenting opinion expressed
the belief that the word "income"
in the sixteenth amendmen
should be read in a sense most obvious
to the common understanding
at the time of its adoption. Most people
other than lawyers, it was added
supposed when they voted for it that
they put at rest the question of direct
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taxes, including levies on biock dividends.
ONLY A DREAM
I'm busy dreaming I was awaj
from Union only six weeks. I step
ped off the south bound Carolini
special at 4:27 p. m. on a busy daj
n Union. I walked across to Mail
street?looked toward the monumen
and to my great surprise there wai
not a car to be seen on the street ex
cept those in motion. All tha
smotherd, congested condition w
usually see on Main street had dis
appeared and it all looked so fre
from danger as the cars passed eacl
other in the broad street. As I wa
wondering what had taken place,
noticed one of those splendid city po
iicemen standing on the corner, an
I asked him what it all meant. Wit
one of those broad Union smiles, h
said, "why we have passed a new 01
dlnance since you have been awa]
No car is now allowed tQ park o
Main street from the railroad cross
ing to the monument, and no car c
vehicle of and kind is allowed to. sto
over five, minutes at a time at any or
place In these bounds." But I sai
said where will they all go to7 "Oh!
1 he said, "the good old city fathei
have provided vacant lots for pari
ing purposes". I just took the grar
officer by the hand and was shakir
my congratulations, when I awol
and alas, it was only a dream, whi
J a pity.
a. d. Cooper
Mrs. Minerva nancb dead
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Mrs. Minerva Nance, mother
Mr T W Nanra af fho Intt*
home in Union today at 2:30 o'chx
Mr*. Nance was 85 years of age ai
for many yean has been a devot
* member of the Corinth Baptist chur
In Cherokee County. She was a i
t man posessing many noble qualiti
n of eharater.
e "
e Misses Maud Mabry and Juan
>- Smith-of Lin wood College are visit!
their parents
. . uHM&iM.*-,- 1, ,r**
sunt urn ?
BT GALE im I
New York, March 8.?Repo**"^ '
marine disaster reaching here
indicated that the gale of last r
which prevailed all along the N> y
Atlantic coast and sdde<l materiiee
to the shipping losses of -a winl*
which already had placed a heavy
den on the insurance companies anV
owners. ^
Sinster. reports received ' today ineluded
one that the tanker Cubadist,
four days over due from Matanzas to
Baltimore, had failed t^ respond to
wireless calls. Her owners expressed
the fear that she had mta with difc
aster. _ v
Schooner Abandon* fP*
The schooner Eva B. Do V*ksa,
itaunch vessel which has w eethere
n years past some of the ^heavies
ja'.es along the Atlantic coast, had t
e abandoned off Nantucket wi ?h th
ooast guard cutter attempt .ng t o tov
her in.
The Lake Ellithrope with a br. >ker
iropeller was anchored dangero^sl)
.1... A.- _ _1 i a.Li * > \?1
s:iu&e wu n oiiuhi near oauie lsiayu,
Jails for assistance from this ship
brought the Fumess line steamer M4plemore
and an attempt will be mado
to tow her to Halifax. , ^
The Cape Breton, a collier, was
abandoned as a wreck on Scutari
Island.
Other ships reported in distress included
the Norwegian tanker Henrik
Bund, ashore in Halifax harbor; the
.^rfolk Range at anchor near Halifax
with a crippled propeller shaft;
the Buckhannon, from Messina to
New York, is being towed into Bermuda
short of fuel and provisions.
The steamer Wisconsin Bridge,
'rorn Hmgo, Finland, for New York,
-ilso is disabled several hundred miles
it sea and in tow of another ship whe
answered her wireless distress call.
The royal mail steamer Chignecto,
which sailed from St. John Saturday
afternoon for Halifax, has not arr.ved.
The usual time for the trip is
about twenty hours. The Sarcoxie, a
new shipping board steamer, is said
U> be, leaking and storm damaged 400
miles east of New York.
BUFFALO
A
Rev. J. W. Bailey spent last week
:; *'z
"rom Atlanta .where she underwent
a very serious operation. Glad to
3ay she is much impoved.
Mrs. Sisk, assistant mannger of the
nursery, is recovering from a slight
ottaft of flu. .
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Higgins spent
Sunday with friends ir. Enoree.
Little Sarah Panther Meyers is
quite sick with mumps.
Misses Vivian Bradbery and Dessie
Earl left Thursday for their respectve
homes, in Seneca and Wahalla.
Mrs. Cgpic Nance and Miss Inez
Wilbum were visiting in the country
Wednesday.at the home of Mrs. Wade
Howell. ?,v
We archery grateful to Mr. H. B
ennings for furnishing us a diet
kitchen. Two of the school teachert
prepare the food and it is sent oul
to all the folks who are sick and hav<
no one able in the family to fix then
nourishment.
Mrs. J. W. Griffen is recoverinj
from a relapse of flu.
t J. F. Woodward and L. G. Sumne
spent Sunday at the home of J. E
1 Eubanks.
t Miss Gladys Miller left Saturda;
e for Prosper.ty, S. C., Where she wil
visit her parents until school open
t again.
Mrs. Lander, of Atlanta, is visitin
at the home of Supt. G. H. Fairbanki
Rev. J. M. Trogdon and famil
I pent Sunday with Mrs. Corie Nanci
Miss Marie Padgett spent Satui
t day and Sunday with friends in Eat
Buffalo.
j Mrs. Nellie Johnson of Chester is i
^ the bedside of her mother, Mrs. J. 1
e Riley, who is seriously ill.
- "PNEUMONIA BLOUSE""
r CONSIDERED HEALTH
n
i- London, Feb. 19.?(By The Assoc
ir a ted Press)?Professor Leonard ni
p who has been making investigatioi
le for the Medical Research Committe
d thinks that the "pneumon'a blouse
!" a garment of flimsy material at
-8 with a profound deeolletage, doe's n
(- cause pneumonia but is conductive
id good health, the open neck acting i
ig a ebimney to the clothes, letting tl
ce heat and moisture of the body escaj;
it "The healthiest people in the woi
are sailors", said a woman physicia
Robert Johnson spent the we
end with bis parents in Spartanbui
of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mauldin ha
n returned to their home in Gaston
:k. N. C. after visiting their parents, 1
nd and Mrs. L. D. Smith.
ed * * ' ' - *
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Charles sp<
*0 Monday in Spartanburg,
ies ' *'1
Lindsay Smith, Joe Gault a
James McLure left today to resu
ita their sLuci.ej at Kaiicy Militaiy
ng | stltute at Greenwood. The school 1
I been closed on account of influer
CHARGES EFFORTS BE! ? "'"I :?1
TO KILL SOLDIERS' BONOS#
(By Associated Press) '
WASHINGTON, March 0.?Charges that a member of |
house ways and means committee is endeavoring to kill the soldief 1
. bonus legislation by delay was made by Chairman Fordney when J
f*~ ambers suggested the postponement of the hearings until the
nerican legion legislative committee meeting is held on March <$1
; the committee' has called Secretary of the Treasury Houston? V I
d Governor Harding, of the federal reserve board, for ThurS- ;|j
* Mine Workers to Demand Increased Pay' |j|||
0J ^ (By Associated Press) '
e will WDIANAPOLIS, March 9.?That the United Mine WorkeMHaU
vIsioniiAfuse to accept the findings of the bituminous coal commigta&jSI
distionMess a substantial wage increase and improved working confi^Sfl
Mheadqua\ are provided is inferred from a statement issued today atv.^ 1
I fused toVters. The officials are absent, and those in-charge r^v||
> 'comment on the statement. 1
I SpfchV :o: J
J ^Perish When Epileptic Hospital Burns ff'j
GALLIH (By Awociated Frew)
burned to deVJOLIS, OHIO, March 9.?Seven persons are reported?^?
pital today. V\th by fire which destroyed the Ohio Epileptic
I Board 9
A \nnounces Safe of Seven Freighter* ppr'
I WASHINGIm (By Associated Press) ^
I foreign corpo ratfeON, March 9.?The sale of seven freighters^* 1
(French and Belgiajuons was announced by the shipping boardv 1
(ton; the vessels are! in companies bought at two hundred dollai^L% J
^ of three thousand tons each. ^^JSI
fifty R%rt^.d Dead When Boiler Explode 1
BERLIN, March (By AMoe?t?i PrewO *
ninety were buried by t'r9 ?Fifty persons are estimated k'iiea bnd
Westphalian Electrical"'' he bursting of a large boiler in the Rhenish
^, ^Works, according to a dispatch here.^ ^ ^
Carelew MatcL^T^a?ts Destructiv?
^ORAlf"!^AI^ERIA.'^areh Aas-"d*ted aa^^H
age resulted when a carelessly dropped match caused the destruction
of a thousand barrels of alcohol and other property here.
BALTIMORE JEWELRY HOUSE ROBBER
(By the Associated Press.)
BALTIMORE, March 9.?Four armed men smashed the win- M H
! dow of the James R. Armiger jewelry store, shot and wounded a SH
man who interfered and escaped with forty thousand dollars H|B
, worth of diamond rings this morning. ';^v|
' Nip and Tuck on Suffrage Question . i'--?
In the West Virginia Sertata;Q
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CHARLESTON, WEST VA., March 9.?Senator Montgomr^fe
I Awr 1 i oforl n o ova onli-onfft?Q(riaf QVPIVoH f A/)lkV OH/) tnM OH
CI J f liotcu c*0 Oil 011V?~OUI11(*540V) MA * ft V VVt WVM?*J mkv* w.?v
opponents will try to break the deadlock on the Anthony ameh<?|? H
ment this afternoon before Senator Bloch, suffragist, can arrivoJ>v^M
r by special train from the West and vote for ratification. Mont-%'^H
! gomery moved to Illinois but didn't resign from the senate.
l] May Reach Compromise on Article Teft;^ '
? (By the Associated Press.) "v i"i I
WASHINGTON, March 9.?A modified draft of the
y can article ten reservation in the peace treaty is understood to
e have been assented to by a number of Republican leaders fl
? with the Democrats for a ratification compromise. * lR
Bank Robbed and Cashier Killed , oil
9J
(By Associated Press)
y KANSAS CITY, March 9.?Glenn Shockley, cashier
Southside Bank, was killed by four bandits who trl&drtpJioldY41^^^H
J- J;hebank this morning. *; &,
Admiral Sims Still Testifying^ j; 1
^ (By the Associated Press.) /*<?$
? WASHINGTON, March 9.?Admiral Sims told th*?fl
as committee investigating the navy's conduct of the war tlilil I
be failure of the navy department to act promptly upon r?comg^K|^
* tinnR And nlace the country's entire naval resources at iflHl
- ?
n posal of the allies witibin six months after the United StilwMBi
tered, prolonged the war four months and'Jeopardised
ek come at a cost of three thousand lives and a hundred
* lars a day. It was said the criticisms was dilrdcted at'. 1^
ve that the navy functioned magnificently in rftl.8. '
It. CLUB MEETINGS Bmvw rfWhroman's >wSfW BK
-- meet at the hfflfr ?| Mr? &. M. wlHt? BH
The Tinker Creek demonstration Friday,
mt club* will hold their regular meetings This is a V
Thursday, March 11. Interesting and all the fl
demonstrations will be given; all are cordially mvitad^Jg w B
nd members are urged to be present. ^
me | The Beaver Dam Garden club will Mr. and Mrs. WeaJ^MtriMBey
In- meet Friday, Marcn 12, at Beaver Burlington, N.
us Dam school h"use. A sewing lesson withcB^r.
sa. I will be given. . North Church St.