Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Il-sri tuff1 iIIVIOIV han \ nrm/mrc. F"*x?^Ib H 4W4+1I |liiilj M, B llVlr^ i MmMtixlB ^ 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. ????????? JO I 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. :o: 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. :o; ^ 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. :o: 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 - - - 9 ->?^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. !n! 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. tt s 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. j ij i r I-B w 1111 M-i IHI ? ? i >f?i 8 ?i-m n 11 ?? f e. t mW rft M l M >??? '#? > ???< > ? >< #>'? ? ? ?? ? > ? 1 -V u/ *" 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 TV 1 ?|- 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 A. I 1 ^ J * 1 1 A 1. Jl..! 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 4 T 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 L i llv Associated Press) '] h 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.