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i | M ? THE UNION DULY TIMES ><;VT;. - V ESTABLISHED IN 1880-CONVERTED TO OCTOBER 1, 1*1? ? ' * ' ' ' ' ** " 1 ' ? 8 i . . ? ' i hi Vol. LXX. No? 821 Union, S. 1920 5c Per Copy f YESTERDAY'S FEATURE . OF HOME INSTITUTE I BEING CONDUCTED HE! That tin Home Institute, being: coi ducted At the graded school, und< the auspices of the Home Demonstn tion Work, in charge of that wonde ful tad most able leader, Miss Mi hala J. Smith, is attracting increase attrition goes without saying. Ye terday afternoon was perhaps one < the very best features of this who event. Everv effort is being mat most successfully to present the vj rious features of rural life in form < |M4M11.'k1.. : -J 1 41 icDouua iiiuciuuijr iiupicB0t:u uy ti tftrong corps of teachers. In fact, tl whole occasion has been so we planned and carried out that it wou do honor to any state. The following schedule was carrie out late yesterday afternoon ar evening: Home beautiffcation with flower by Miss Lois V. Watkins, distrii agent for Piedmont section, aft* which the young people were gues' of the Rialto Theatre. Then came trip through the office of the Unic Times, where a cordial welcome wj extended and the new features of th splendid and rapidly developing 01 terprise were explained in detail. I^ater came supper at the schoc followed by games on the pla; grounds, in which adult and chi took part with equal interest. At o'clock a number of stereopticc slides were shown dealing with tl important features of cliib work ar rural life in which much interest wi taken. This was followed by club song recitations and stories led by Mr Hughes Johnson and the Miss< Bailey, Watkins, Fuller and Win each evidencing decided talent ar ability to hold the interest of tl classes. Refreshments were then served a ter which came a Bible story ab told hv Mrs. Johnson. The conception and^ carrying o\ of such an institute certainly reflec great credit ujmn all concerned, pa ticularly Miss Smith, whose wonde /ful efficiency cannot be rated in-do lars and cents. Miss Smith is to be congratulat< upon securing such able assistant and our entire adult population wou have profited ^aUeiidance ^at^eac ' To make . the occasion' eotnple' "Mother Walker" was present, lady who long since has endeared he self to every county and communit in South Carolina, particular! through her wonderful personalit and efficiency, and to whom tribui was paid by each teacher. The features of today's exercise will appear in tomorrow's Times. When the curtain drops this afte noon on this Home Institute thei will be recorded in the history of Ui ion county one of the greatest occa ions ever held here pointing out in definite and concrete way the pract eal side of rural life, what may 1 done, and the wav to hiirher realms AUTOMOBILE WRECKED The automobile of W. S. Nichols< was run into and almost demolish* late yesterday afternoon in front i J. Cohen Co.'s store where it was pari ed. The driver of the car that crasl ed into Mr. Nicholson's was a color* man named Smith; the car he wj driving was owned bv Rufus Gcud lock, a colored man living near Map Ridge. The damaged car was a Ford Seda and was almost a complete wreck aft the accident. % THE FANTS OF ANDERSOl ' The chautauqua advance man can in when he reached the city to get h bearings. He asked who had chart of the chautauqua sales, he was to Mr. Rufus Fant, then he asked who tl mayor of the city was, the answ< wuc- inr. r oster r ant, then the seer tarv of the chumber of commerce ar the answer again waii a Mr. FantArlington P. Fant.* Then he wanted know of the women who were backir the chauta^iqua. and he was told Mr IRufus Fant. Sr.. is president of tl Federation of Women's Clubs fi South Carolina, she is also preside] of the civic associations of this cii who took the responsibility of brinj ing the chautauqua here this yea Mrs. Rufus Fant. Jr.. is president < the Dixie Chapter U. D. C., Mrs. The Fant is president of the R. E. L< chapter. Miss Wilhelmina Fant president of the daughters of Wi throp College. This is some pror Iinence for one family and few peop of this city realized that so many ho ors had been given them until th information was asked for.?Anders< Daily Mail. GERMANS ASK FOR REINFORCEMENT Paris. July 23.?The German pea k delegation here has asked the Suprer Council for authorization to reinfor Hk the troops in Eastern Prussia wi vlunteers and to occupy Marienwerd< [ \ and Allenstein, where the recent pie v Vscites gave a large majority in fav K M German soveriegnity. V Germans say that more troo K mV^sary to defend the fronti /^[Veventual incursions Jjy i He jyfC NEGRO ill M FOB MURDERING EXPERT E MO BOM! FIMCEE n~ Richmond Va., July 23.?William sr Turner. negro. convicted of murdering ft~ T. Morgan Moore, government torpedo r" expert of Alexandria, and robbing Misg Pearl Clark .the slain man's fiancee. waa sentenced bv Judge Edmund 8" Waddell in the U. S. District Court today to be hanged at the Henar coun? ty jail. ^ i RESOLUTE WINS . il IN YACHT RACE id Sandy Hook N. J.t July 23.?Fog S<1 todav delayed the start of the fourth k! international yacht race. While the two cup sloops were loit s? ine around the Afnbrosa Channel Light Ship at 11:30 in a four knot ?r breeze, a thick bank of vapor enclosed them, causing the regatta committee a at 11:45 to order a fifteen minutes m postponement. *s An eight knot southwesterly breeze 's was blowing at 8:00 o'clock and with passing to sea of an all night rain I storm, prospects for todays interna' tional cup race were good. With clearing, marine observers exg pressed the opinion that a lively blow >n might be expected, guaranteeing the ie' yachts a good test in a smart breeze. 1(j Sir Thomas Lipton and his friends ig ieei vnat tne isnamrocK s Dest cnances of capturing the pewter mug lie in tos day's contest in which the Irish sloop s' will have twenty miles of reaching?a as point of sailing in which she has nt shown superorit - over Resolute, id Should the American craft win toie day. the cup boats wiU meet tomorrow over a thirty mile windward and leef_ ward course and the chances for Resoly lute?a witch at windward work?in the final and deciding contest would be at bright indeed. ts While being groomed for what may r- prove the last race of the series Shamr rock was equipped with a new top(1 mast and a new topsail. Following these alterations the New York yacht id club anounced that, pending a re:e measurement of the green sloop, the Id race would be run today with a handi& cap of six minutes and?f?rty seconds measurement probably* after the *ac?, k* should alter these figures. a Resolute dropped her moorings at r" 10:18 and stood out under her own -y s?>il. A tug steamed out .however, and 'y took the defender in tow. -y There was a three or four knot breeze blowing at 11:15 when the vachts reached the lightship. At 11:30 iS a thick bank of fog rolling in from offshore suggested a possible delay in the start although wind conditions wer6 1_ fairlv good. s_ Skipping along in front of Sham^ rock IV. wMch needs but one more vicj_ tory to capture the America's cup, )e Resolute turned the first mark of todav's Biancular cnni'Sn nt 2'H4'47 arid sped away^on the second ten mile leg. a reach out to sea. The preen sloon followed the defender aruund the first mark at 2:30:58. >n The wind increased to 15 knots at id 3:00 p. m. and the vachts for the first of time in the 19*20 regatta were teark ing throuirh the water. Shamrock h- seemed unable measurably to cut down ?d Resolute'*? lead in the first five miles is of the second leg. e- As Shamrock was twenty three secle onds later than Resolute in crossing the line, but must today give her a n, time handicap of six minutes and forty er seconds, she must finish six minutes and eighteen seconds ahead of the defender to win and six minutes and 17 seccns to tie. Unable to pass Resolute on the secN ond leg. although gaining 44 seconds. Shamrock rounded the second mark at 3:27:10 after Resolute had turned . at 3:25:49. The elapsed time for the s, second leg was: j. Resolute 51:02; Shamrock 50:18. 1 The total elapsed time for both legs Jt was Resolute 2:24:10; Shamrock g 2:20:20. A singular shift in weather eondiu tion left both boats almost becalmed . at 4 o'clock four miles fim the finish, lor but with Reslute a quarter of a mile ^head. " At 4:20 both sloops were holding for * the finish at a fair speed with Sham, rock to weather of Resolute and a trifle ahead. y Resolute wop today's international cup race after a spectaular finish and , tied two and two witn snamrock IV ? in the fight for America's cup. % STATE TROOPS n- PROTECT LOGAN n Springfield. Kv., July 23.?State js troops today surrounded the Washing)n ton Countv court house and machine gun squads were posted at points of vantage to protect Rober Logan, negro. 18 years old. who is on trial charged with the murder of Joe Calg vin. a voupg white man here last February. ce SEABOARD RAILWAY H TO REDUCE FORCE th <, en Norfolk, Va., July 23.t?A report h- that the Seaboard Air Line intended or a widespread reduction in its force of employes was denied today by M. ps J. Caples, vice president in charge er of operations, who declared that a he reduction had not even been considi ,erod. HARDIN FORCES REMIT i 10 CtRRT 91 intci;1 SCMISI WILSON FOUCIES ? 7] Marion, Ohio, July 23.j?Senator^ Harding's stand on the .league of? nations, outlined yesterday in hid speech formally accepting the Republican nomination for the presidency, was expected today by hMj managers here to furnish the chief? bone of contention during the neott1 stage of the political campaign. They! declared the candidate was prepared to carry on his attack on the WilsOJS foreign policy aggressively, and thejr' predicted that his advocacy of a declaration of peace followed by nego* tiation of a world "understanding* for international justice and amity bases on moral force would help the issue along toward a commanding place in the presidential race. In their claim of solid Republican sup^l i.i j'j-i-i i purl xur tite canuiaaie s proposal 01SH associates pointed today to the lantH guage of the Chicago platform oflfl which divergent elements of the^ party came into the platform spfe^ cifically pledges the party "to such agreements with the other nations of the world as shall meet the full duty of America to civilization and hu-: manity, it was won with ideals and: without surrendering the right of the American people to exercise its judgments and its power in favor of Jus^ tice and peace." Democratic demands that the carir\ didate make a more specific -exposi* tion of details of the proposed "Understanding" are fully expected^ here and the senator's friends declare he will be ready to answer. In that connection they singled out today v oneparagraph in the acceptance spedch as indicating what trend his rhply might follow. "If men call for more specific ctetails," he said, "I remind them Aat moral committals are broad and 41] inclusive, and we are contemplation peoples in the concord of humanitjni advancement. From our own vieWji point the program is speclficalW American and we mean to be Amer? cans first, to all the world."* . For the immediate future towevetf the feeling here is that the figljj should be left to develop along natur? al lines. CONDITIONS IN BELFAST $ - B FPORTKn NQR M Befst, July 28. Conditions in riottorn Belfast were reported by the police at one o'clock this afternoon to be normal. The city was beginning to check up the loss of life and the damage resulting from the two davs and nights of fierce fighting between Sinn Fein and Unionist mobs, with the attendant looting bv hoodlums Last night was one of terror and bloodshed up to three o'clock when things quieted. Sporadic shooting^ this morning caused fears that the turmoil was to be continued today. Up to 1 p. m. however the city remained comparatively quiet under a down pour of rain, although passions were running high and it was unsafe to predict what later hours might develop. AUSTRIA'S AGREEMENT CONTRARY TO TREATY Paris. July 23.?The allies consider Austria's agreement with the Bolsheviki for the exchange- of prisoners stipulating that Austria is to maintain strict neutrality in wars afeainst the Soviet, even .to the extent of prohibitionu .pon the transpors of troops and material through Austrian territory to be contrary to the provisions of the treatv of S. Germain. NEW CANDIDATE The friends of W. R. Jolly announce him & candidate for election to the House of Representatives from Union County, and pledge that he will abide the result of tho Democratic Primary. REVIVAL MEETING AT BROWN'S CREEK The revival meeting will begin at Brown's Ci'eek church Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. July 25th. Rev. H. W. Stone of Kelton. wi" do the nreaehinc and Mrs. p]va Garner will assist in the music. We invite vou to attend our meeting. ard ask the prayers of the Christian rt^ople that we may have a^ereat revive I. C. D. Garner. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT I)r. an Mrs. R. R. Pope anhounce the birth of a dauehte" the little lady to be called Mary Helen. AMERICAN DENTIST DIES IN FRANCE Paris, July 23. Dr. William Younger, an American dentist, is dead here. He was the originator of the practice of transplanting teeth. WEATHER ? Forecast for South Carolina: Generally fair tonight and Saturday. J we neen impossible with anyone exmedical examiner was unable the organs of the bodji iremoved'Xbt1 the purpose of conMBfedcStth C*>^U8e Young woBrhewoman's bTairr^wag the onlv re^ "poisoning /as the cause of death. New York. Julv 23.?A surgeons autopsy including the revelation of all vital organs except the brain, had been prcviouslv performed on the body of an unidentified woman found today iammed in a trunk in the American Railway Express Company warehouse. The gruesome container had been sliipn/.l here from Detroit June 10. Detroit Mich.. Julv 23.?Police here declared they were without a clue as v*! the identity ?f the body of a woman Nund in a trunk in an express warehouse in New York today. Neither could they throw any light upon the identity of the person who shipped the trurjc from here on June 17. There is no such number on Harper street as *105" or no name "A. A. Tietum" in the city directory. WHALEY WILL NOT ASK REELECTION Washinton, July 23. Representative of Suoth Carolina, will not be a candidate for re-election, it was stated today by his secretary, J. F. Laningan Democratic state Chairman Cochran of South Carolina, has been informed of Mr. Whaley's decision according to Mr. Laningan, who said that Mr. Whaleys "Is in poor health and is rest ing at a place near Washington " He refused to tell of the congressmans whereabouts, and efforts to obtain a /u A * ? TIM 1 iui iiiui McHuiiu-ni ii um mr. v> imicy were futile. PALESTINE HOME FOR THE JEW Iymdon, July 23.?Decision to inaugurate a foundation fund of 4 25,000,000 pounds for the establishment of Palestine as the Jewish national home was taken by the Zionist conference at its concluding session tonight. Pledges of self-taxation on the Tithe prinicple were made by representatives of the various countries. ? # LETTER FROM THE "UNION GANG" A card was received this morning by the Times force from theboys who are in the naval reserve cruise? namely Miles f?torm, Hinton Cranford, .Holmes Crawford, Claude Godshall and others. It said: "Still going and just started. Boston and vicinity next week, then to Maine. No fans needed up here, especially in the evening. Wishes very much for an overcoat last evening. All well and very happy. Regards to everybody and you. The Union Gantr. Mrs. Ella Eubanks and little daughter left this afternoon for Saluda, N. C., where the Kttle baby is to be placed for treatment at the Baby Hospital. IiHitfUUMimfl tin Khe phclaim(Hl^baggage irf the the baggage, the police JHgVft waav addressed to "James J^prete company officials said that 1 BflT **ad held the trunk at the depot RHbtfe'' toom for several days, but |^w9?3?_vfas unclaimed they had sent B|^^heman mentioned in the record Jyly ^23. ^ When^ Dr. in. 11 urns, UW nieaicaI EiXuuj^Efc; laid out the body at Bellevue n(Hwi with the intention of making nyflBif mortem examination to deDuMpfte the cause of the woman's utksfih, he found that some one had alnmoy operated on the body. Dr. Nor flEnd that the operation had been gt&foriYied with a skill which would KCIIO KAKED NMT MO HIIIIE ATTEMPT : TO CHEAT TOE IE Wilmington, Del., Jufjf 28>?After an unseccsessful effoffrt to commit suicide in his cell, Isiah fountain, colored, was hanged early today in the ail at Easton, Md., for attacking a 14-year-old white girl. CA policeman found Fountain trying to hang himself with bed clothing. Fountain escaped twice ami thout sands, joined in the search for him. Several attempts by mobs to lynch him were frustrated. On one ococcasion the governor declared martial law and ti^oops were stationed around the court fequse. The state paid a reward of for his second capture. _ SUBPOENEDBY FEDERAL GRAND JURY Chicago, July 23. Subpoenas for sixty railroad official!; and union leaders to appear before the Federal Grand Jury next Wednesday were issued today at the request of district Attorney Charles F. Clyne. The witnesses are to testify in the investigation of the activities of John Grunau, President of the Chicago Yardmens Association and twentyseven other leaders in the unauthorized Railroad Strikes last April. Gruingnau and his associates have been out on bail following their arrest on charge^ of /iolating the Lever law by holding up improvement of food movement of food and fuel.. . NEW EMERGENCY ORDERS FOR COAL t i . Washington, July 23. New emergency orders directing priority in the ; movement of coal to the Atlantic Seaboard for transhipment to New Eng. land to meet the fuel situation there were asked of the I. C. C. today by ; Coal operators, dealers and railroad > \ / ' 't ? f ' ? * executives. The^'arder,* it-was-, propoaad '.ygpald. require a half score of railroads tapping coal fields in W. Virginia, Maryland and central P.enn., to give the right of way to the movement through Hampton Roads, Baltimore. Philadelphia and New York. EXPORTS REACHED NEW HIGH RECORD Washington, July 23.?Exports from the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30, reached a new high record of $8,111,000,000, but as all records for imports also were smashed the net trade balance in favor of this country was only $2,872,000,000, this compared with a trade balance of slightly more than $-1,000,000,000 the year before. The figures were made public today by the department of commerce. Imports for the year were valued at $5,238,746,580, an increase of more than $2,000,000,000 compared with the year before, and $3,000,000,000 during the year endjng June 30, 1918. The exports for the year compared with $7,732,282,686 the year before, an increase of $878,893,445. There was a a sharp drop in exports during June and an increase in imports with the result that the trade balance in favor of the United States that month was only $78,000,000,000, the lowest of any month since before the world war. Exports were valued at $631,000,000 and imports at $30,-1 000,000 and imports at $553,000,000. The imports reached a new record exceeding by $30,000,000 the previous record made last month. Gold imports during the fiscal year amounted to $151,000,000 against exports of $467,000,000 but imports of the previous metal in June exceeded exports by $21 000,000, the figures he ing $20,700,000 for imports and only $5,300,000 for exports. Silver imports last month totaled $0,500,000 and exports $4,400,000. an excess of imports of $2,100,000. Total silver imports for the 12 months ending June 30, were $102,800,000 and exports $179,000,000. \ _ COTTON SEED OIL New York, July 23. The cotton scd oil market closed steady. Prime summer yellow 1250 at 1350; Prime crude normal. July 1275; August 1275; September 1307; October 1334; November 1300; December 1293, January 1290 February 1300. Total sales 7,000. GREEKS ADVANCE Constantinople, July 23.?The Greeks are reported to have advanced to the east to Seidlar and Luleburgas. about 50 miles southeast of Constantinople. The grand viser has sent a message to Jaffar Tayar, who is commanding the Turkish nationalist forces, urging him to surrender to the Greeks to prevent further bloodshed. Ifcdl . POSSE IMS rao OHO m cm 1 miMIM II SViMP Pottersville. Mich.. July 23.?Leaders of a band of three hundred farmers searching the countryside for an unidentified mar who yesterday attacked and killed a thirteen year old girl on a farm near here, declared this morning? they had the fugitive surrounded in a swamo. Neighbors partially identified the fugitive today through a photograph brought here by Lansing nolice as an escaped convict from Jackson Prison. COX WORKING FOR WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE , Columbus. O.. July 23.?Governor Cox. Democratic Presidential jiominep, today told a delecat.inn from fVio M?_ tional Woman's party that he already v had "two or three men working among members of the Tennessee legislature to secure the thirty-sixth vet-3 ^eeded for ratification of the federal tfv.man suffrage amendment. The sucraift delegation asked the Governor to send ""vx. a personal representative to Tennessee and were surprised and gratified that the candidate had "beaten them to it" as thev said. Gov. Cox. ioined by his conventionmanager. E. H. Moore, had a long conference with Senator Harris of, Mississippi and King of Utah, who stopped here today enroute to Washington from the San Francisco convention. Senator Harrison, one of the Governor's most active floor managers at San Francisco said he called only to extend congratulations.. Senator King talked over western campaign plans at length. Both senators expressed confidence in a victorious tide to the ticket, particularly in the west. Among the first visitors on the Governor's engagement list at Dayton are Senators Pomerene. of Ohio, and Beckham. of Kentucky. The Governor will urge Senator Pomerene to have the investigation campaign of which the Ohio senator is a member, cor^inue its work during the campaign. v COX PREPARING HIS ADDRESS liLw ? Columbus, Ohio, July 23.?Preparation for his address for acceptance of the Democratic presidential nomination on August 7. was the principal task today before Governor Cox. He was to leave here at 2:10 'clock for his home at Trail's End, near Dayton, where he will be notified, with the intention of devoting all of next week to drafting his acceptance speech. Governor Cox has refrained from indicating the viewpoint of Democratic leadership on the acceptance address yesterday of Senator Harding. He has indicated that his chief thought now is on what he himself shall say to the electorate in his address on August 7, rather than in declarations of the opposition. m A i **iMrc vvrr?Li 1T1111C.J AFFECTED BY STRIKE Belleville, 111., July 23.?Coal mines throughout Southern Illinois today were affected with the possibility of being: forced to shut down on account of the unauthorized strike of their day laborers which started Wednesday and is reported to be steadily spreading:. Approximately 20,000 men are idle, according: to the strikers. For the majority of these the idleness is enforced, it is said, the walkout of the day men, who include drivers, pump men and timbermen causing: a suspension of operations. The strikers are demanding: an average watte increase of from $5.50 to $7.50 a day ami predict further accessions to their ranks. PERSONAL MENTION Mrs. Perrin Kennedy is the truest \iic? T o vi ia vvic vi?uu/&ttitii in o}mi tanburg. Miss Vera Berry and Jo Earle Berry. of Greenville, are the guests of their parents. Mr. and Mrs.Ben-L. Berry on North Pine street. Mrs. J. L. Bolton. Miss Annie Bolton and Miss Annie Tinsley are spending the day in Spartanburg shopping. Arthur ^ittman. of Carlisle was a business visitor in the city yesterday. M rs. E. B. Gable and small son. of Atlanta. Ga.. have arrived to ioin Mr. Gable and make their home in Union. Miss Edith White and Miss May McEr.chern will return to their home in Bambere todav after a visit to Mrs. Sarah Clement < n South Mountain street. They will be accompanied by Miss Ida Perrin. who will visit them for a fortnight. _ FEDERAL AGENTS MAKE BIG HAUL Toledo, Ohio, July 23.?Federal agents were elated today over the biggest whiskey seizure in the history of this section of the state when they confiscated liquor valued .at $265,560 on a railroad siding at Lang, Ohio, ? i'