kl EXINGTON DISPATCH NEWS^ " I.EXIM.TON. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. .SKIT. -1, li.ll). No. 48. SBSE*~i vf\' /aid. but all that can bo done is to >e done. A memorial which shall rive expression to.the sentiments of he people of the State is to be raised. Co do less would he Organized ial Subscription ??B? ?B?f mill I LEXINGTON COTTON MARKET | Wednesday, Sept. 24. | Strict Middling 30 l-2c I CAROLINA AUTOMOTIVE DEALERS WILL ORGANIZE ; STATE BODY (Special to The Dispatch-News.) Columbia. Sept. 23.?The Automotive trade generally is greatly interested in the decision, reached by the Columbia Automobile Dealers Association. at a recent meeting, whereby it is nronosed to organize South Carolina independently, and to have the State Association affiliate with the National Association. The Charlotte Automotive Trades Association sponsored the movement for a bi-state organization, j and while the South Carolina distrij butors and dealers look upon the j Charlotte movement as an excellent one, they feel that the interests of | the Automotive trade in South Caro1 lina can best be served by a separate South Carolina Association which will !gladly co-operate with the North Carolina Association in all matters of muI | tual interest hut will be free and in'dependent to act separately when occasion requires. The Coumbia Automobile Dealers Association, which is the oldest dealers' Association in the State, is very much gratified by the steps taken by the Charlotte Association and in taking the initiative looking towards the organization of South Carolina dealers, does not in any way tend to discredit the Charlotte association, but feels that the volume of business embraced in this trade, running as it does* into millions of dollars and including not only passenger cars and trucks but also tractors, farm lighting equipment and acessories of every kind, together -with-electrical apparatus,-., .jmd alL affiliated lines should be represented by its own organization with headquarters at Columbia and it proposes to hold a preliminary meeting in Columbia during Fair week, to which all South Carolina dealers in these lines are invited and urged to be present. Further announcements will be made later. Expressions of approval and interest in this movement have already been received from dealers ail over the, State, including the Greenville Automotive Dealers' Association, which had originally intended to affiliate with the organization proposed to bw formed at Charlotte. NO 1'001> SHORTAGE TT' WORLD CAUEFOj I Brussels, Sunday. Sept. 21.?''The world need have no fear of a food shortage (Hiring the coming winter, providing there is proper care in handling the poblom and proper distribution." said George H. Roberts, British food controller and one of the delegates to the supreme economic council. in session here today. Other delegates concurred in this view. V ? o MRS MARY SL1G11 DIES l5cln\o a r n j PENSIONERS MUST ! REENROLL OR LOSE i I 1 IS SHORT?MEST COMK L\ I PERSON AM) HAM: TWO WITNESSES?NEW LAW. ! j Confederate veterans and widows j of Confederate soldiers and sailors who have heretofore received pensions from the State government are required by the act passed at the last j session of the general assembly to be I rcenrolled. It will be necessary for i all former pensioners to make new applications, the county pension board .'has set aside October 16th and 23 as the two last dates on which these apl | plications may be filed with Judge i j Drafts, clerk of the board. Two days j in September were also devoted to this J purpose, the 18th and 25th, but so I far very few of the old pensioners have taken the trouble to qualify. Unless new applications are filed and approved these former pensioners will not participate in the distribution next year. Tt is important, therefore, .that they comply at once with the requirements. The applications which were filed j in the spring were for those who had j not previously received a pension, the j legislature making provision for all 'who had seen service or their widows | regardless of property holdings. The {applications which are to be made now i have no reference to those who were J placed on the roll early in the year, I but to those who have formerly beer ! drawing a pension. i | it will be necessxry for applicants j to come in person and have two witI nesses to prove service in the Confed crate army or navy. ft | IN MUM DRY OF MRS ANNA C. SMITH Dear Editor: Please publish the following resolu1 tions: Whereas, Almighty God, in His wisdom, has seen fit to remove from our ; midst the sou! of pur dear sister. Mrs. Anna C. Smith. We wish pay honJ ored tribute to her noble worth, and do hereby render these resolutions a* la fitting, but feeble expression to her j christian fidelity. Resolved: That the Woman's Misisonary So' cicty of Pond Branch, Methodist i jeburch. has lost one or its most laitn| fnl moilibers. ; That we feel deeply our loss and I while we recognize the all-wise Father j "Who doeth all things well." We mourn her pasing, do reverence to her i consecrated christian life, and honor | her memory. That the removal of such a life from lour midst leaves a vacancy, and a I shadow, that is deeply realized by th? ! members of the society. I That her life was so beautiful, her devotioin to home and loved ones so true, and her faith so great, that wc know where to find her, for she has gone to live with the Father above. | That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family, and to the Lexington Dispateli-Xews for publication. Society. extertiwmknt oiyex FOR PIXK VIEW SCHOOL i A play entitled "The Turn of the Tide." will he given Saturday, the 27th, at S:0 p. m.. at Pine View School house. The proceeds will be used for the benefit of the school. After the play refreshments will be served by the Ladies' Improvement League. A pleasant time is promised all who attend, and it is hoped that a largo crowd will be present. ? o ? REMOVE TO YTROTNTA. | .Mis. Ellen Scay anil Daughter I.ca\o I Lexington. Mrs. ICllen B. Sony, who has made her home in Lexington for some years, has sold her residence on Depot street and has removed to Ocean View, Va., a suburb of Norfolk, where she will make her home with her daughter. Mrs. Seav was accompanied by her daughter. Mrs. Stay is well known for many sterling qualities and she will ! be missed in Lexington. Her friend? wish her all happiness in her new home. CHURCH* ENTERTAINMENT The Ladies' Aid Society of Congarec Baptist church will sell ice cream and other refreshments Saturday evening beginning at 6 o'clock Sept. the 27tli i ;?t Mr. l-\ T. IaiicIi's at Slvx. Lvervi J body eome and bring" somebody. The proceeds wil go for the benefit j of the ehureh. 1 !LANCASTER FREED ;! BY COLUMBIA JURY 1 I i I ' j COLUMBIA POLICEMAN' IS ACI yniTKI) OF MI HDER ( IL\K(iE INKREKT WAS CHEAT. f 'I (Special to The Dispatch-News). ) I * Columhia, Sept. 22.?E. M. Lancas. | tor, Columbia, policeman, who shot I J and killed his wife and Newton S. Lor!! ick. a Lexington countv farmer, on * I h ; May 28 of this year, was acquitted by ja jury late Friday night of the murder ] f ijof his wife. An effort was made by 2 j the defendant's attorneys to have him 11 : j tried on both indictments, that of kill' i ing Lorick as well as the one for killing his wife, but this was overruled ?> 1 by Judge Ernest Moore, who presided '! at the trial. Solicitor Spigner has not La [yet said whether he expects to try nui '' Lancaster at the next term of the ch; 'j court for the killing of Loriek. but it da; is supposed that this will ho done. | m Lancaster was placed on trial Thurs- j foi day morning. Several hours were j ify consumed in the selection of a jury, j Co ^ The trial lasted until about 7 o'clock j bri ' Friday night, when the jury retire;. I on | and returned a verdict of not guilty icl> about four hours later. j tli< > j, .. There were two outstanding features i bii [ of the trial. One was the testimony of j L. Lancaster himself, and the other .was j ser an affidavit submitted by Lancaster's j Ge 16-year-old son. who was ill and could ; 1 | f not attend court in person. Lancaster told of circumstances j thi which led to doubt of his wife's fidel- ; ity to him. He said that several weeks !%va before the killing he sustained a brok- j en leg and had to go .to a hospital, j Pr( Upon his return to his home, and [ while still unable to work, his leg bri being in a plaster of Paris cast, his br: wife's actions were suspicious. On the j . day of the tragedy she left home and j P?s he went in search of her and hired a negro chauffeur to drive him to the j Gervais street bridge. He told thejVvi1 driver to" wait there, and soon Loriek ! sh( came * He says it is all a blank to him. ITe j,:Ml was closely cross-questioned by Soli- ^ 1 citor Spigner, but stuck to his story. j(:n i An affidavit by Lancaster's son \v;is i - put in evidence, after physicians hadj*() j examined the boy and reported thatM01' j he was ill and unable to appear in j l j court in person. The hoy said he had j un . long known of the intimacy between jms > Lorick ar.d his mother, that upon one i Pr( occasion he . caught them in a com- i r< s ('promising position and that Lorick tllc had given him $50 to keep his mouth j cor shut. Upon two occasions, lie said, his ; I mother had tried to get him to kill his 1 rc* 1 father. He said that on one occasion ; | she got a pistol and gave it to him. and |?or I that he went into the room where his!t:,'! ' i father was hut did not hav" the nerve l'or j to fire the shot. | U C( Several witnesses for the State gave * the details of the killing at the end j 1 of the bridge. Lancaster, who was on !t<>n crutches at the time, got into a public j<;x:i service car at the Jefferson hotel andjst" told the driver to carry him to thc|SUS! | bridge. .After going a short distance j n:': | hi' made- the driver put up the Cnr-In,:l ! tains of the machine. After reaching 1 ; the edge of the street and waited until j t)IS ] i officers arrived and placed him undei I an' lanvsl. Witnesses said he Pegged Chief ! k" I of Police Richardson to kill him. that | !,:n ; 1 i he did not want to live any longer, j 1 Lancaster said he did not remember ; ' ! making this request. ; v'r The trial attracted a large crowd, j f(>1 j and the court ; 00111 was packed from 1 Wlt r ! the beginning until the end. Many'C(M i of those in attendance were women. '' > ! Solicitor Spigner was assisted in the r,'l j prosecution by Solicitor George Bell fi'i i Timmennan, of Lexington, while the t-" J attorneys for the defense were Former 1": : i Governor Cede L Please and A. W. w i . ; Holman. (,,1 From Another ConvsiHuufent. ('r Special to The Dispatch-News. Columbia. Sept. 20.?TCutroue M. i American Legi* Important ] I l)KLK<; \TTON MEETING Jrmo, S. C.. Sept. 2f'.. 1919. Alitor Lexingon Dispatch-News. Lexington, S. <\ )ear Sir: Will you please announce that a d? etter has been sent to each memI icr of the Lexington County Dele- \ ration to meet at Lexington Court ! Louse at 2 o'clock, Monday the I I 9th., on very important county | I usinoss. Yours truly, R. E. Mathias, M. D. , I ncastor, former m/otorcycle police- j .n of Columbia, was freed on the , [irge of murder by a jury late Fri- j y night after a trial lasting two days j which a brilliant array of lawyers ; jght a hard battle. The trial was ; 3 result of a double killing at the 1 I luirrbia end of the Gervais street ! Arrr\ loct AT O OT1 T.hnPd?thr cV* Ht d killed his wife and Newton Lor- j a citizen of Lexington County, as ; sy were returning from an automo- | I e ride in Lexington County. Cole j Blease and A. W. Hollman" repre-i ited the defense, while Solicitor I orge Bell Tiinmerman assisted Soli- | or Spigncr into the prosecution. The jury was out a little less than i :ee hours. Great interest was mani- ; ited in the case and the court room { ,s crowded to its capacity. A. summary of the testimony l'or the ! usecution showed that Lancaster j ;t the couple at the foot of the; dge. Finding them in mutual em- j ice, .he opened fire, first upon Lor- ; : and then upon his wife, using two . itols. Lancaster fell to the ground er firing three shots, but was pick- i up by the transfer driver who was | ill him, and later fired several more i Dts into the form of his wife, whose i ty was literally riddled with -bullet ! Ic::. "My darling wife, you caused all," was his exclamation. Lancasniarrkd <>rrie D. Nipper 17 years d and there wore three sons. 11. 14. 1 1(1 years old and one daughter. P irs old. born to the couple. J. Dunbar, manager of VanMetrc's i dertakir.g parlor, Policeman It. II. ! Ison, James Harman. negro tansfer ver. it. il. Howell. M. A. Mims. illy Burdcll were used by the state establish the case against Lancas Plio defense rested its case upon the i written law and a pica of temporary anily. Peace officers who were , iscnt at the time Lancaster was arted testified to unusual behavior on > part of the defendant, depicting; ulition as highly nervous, a state j I \ ic-h lasted several days before the urn of the prisoner to normal. \t the time of the shooting Lancas- ! was recovering from injuries sus- ' ned in a motorcycle acicdent. which ; ifined him to hospital for several ; ?ks. -aneaster himself, cool and collectwas the star witness for the desc. lie underwent a gruelling cross., imination. but stuck closely to his ry. lie-citing how he had come to i pect his wife and J.orick of illicit j itions, he told of seeing the dead j. n dodging behind a nearby house ' tie- day of tiie tragedy after his!. had told him of her intention of', :ig to a picture show. Arming himf with two pistols, he employed a rsfer and proceeded in search of couph-. ?T(.ing to the river bridge, soon saw them coming from the wngton side, his wife in the arms'. Lorirk. Claiming that the dead } n threw one hand to his* side, f^anMor said he fired one shot and then mind became a blank. The defend- j I l claimed that he did not intend to 1 ! either his wife or her supposed earn our, but shot in his own defense. 1 \ u-.irm Cat! to wnv wealed over admisson of :?n affidavit from Al- j i Lancaster, son of the defendant, i whom the claim was made that lie j s physically unable to attend. A amission was appointed by Judge! nest. Moore to examine the boy and j >ort to the court.. The affidavit was ' tally admitted as evidence, after a j ntiuanee of the case had been re- ; t sed because of the absence of this : tness. The affidavit recited a know!- 1 ge on the part of the son of comomising relations between his moth- j and Lorick. To offset this the prosecution put i i the stand MVs. Catharine Nipper. on to Hold & x a ftm . i vieet inursaay The Lexington Post or the American Legion meets Thursday evening at S:"0 at the school house at Lexington. This is to be an important meett ing inasmuch as the Post is to adopt a constitution and by-laws, select rooms for headquarters, consider the program, if any is desired, to be carriecVout on American Legion day, (Wednesday) of the County Fair, and decide on the work and policies of the Post. At the meting to be held during the County Fair delegates will be selected for the statewide meeting in Columbia during the State Fair, and at the latter place delegates to the national meet will be named. There are more than white men in Lexington County eligible for membership in this organization. It has absolutely no military feature, connection, or obligation?any more than the Confederate Veterans, and only those men are eligible for membership who served in the army, navy, or marine corps in the world war. Membership dues to the Lexington Post have not been fixed, but will probably be two dollars per annum, one dollar of which goes to the local Post and the other to the State or National organization. The amount of dues will be definitely determined at the meeting Thursday night. Altho only one Post may be organized in a County under the present provision of the State Constitution, any Post may permit the organization of branches subsidiary thereto, and if in any town or community in Lexington County there are as many as fifteen ex-service men who wish to form a branch of the County Post they may secure permission to do so upon making a proper showing to the Post at any regular meeting. It is hoped that several such branches may be formed so that the whQle county may be thoroughly organized, for the American Legion is destined to play an important part in the Nation's history henceforth. Read what Tin- State had to say in an editorial recently: "In time, practically all of the men of South rf'arolina who served in the World War will join the American Legion?just as, in time, all of the Confederate veterans Joined their association. Why do any of them delay connecting themselves with it? Why not join it now, be with it from the beginning, sharing in the growing influences, that it is sure to have in American affairs and augmenting the influence of their State? "The American Legion is a permanent institution. Its establishment is secure and firm. With the passing of the years, its significance and importance in American life will more and more be recognized and the men who h-wl n r>;i r-t it? nrp'Mtli'/ntinii :inri in the nurture of it through its infant ilays will be honored for their work. "It is especially desirable that the membership of the South Carolina brunch bo as large as possible at this time, so that in the national convention of the Legion the State's representation .will be proportionately numerous. Policies having a weigthy bearing on the future activities of the iuganidation will be determined upon at this meeting and it would be unfortunate were thrt influence and \ote of the veterans of this State to be not ?o great as their participation in the war would implv. Wo can not emphasize too strongly the great part that the American Legion is destined to play in the concerns of the country. One day all South Carolinians will be eager to bt# associated with it?why not join the I.egion now?" i Be sure to come out Thursday everting and bring a buddy! Ar|d make it snappy! Be on time. S:M0. mother of the dead woman, who swore that Igmcaster and his wife has had fusses before, and at one time defendant had told the dead woman that she would be in need of an undertaker rather than a doctor. < luef ol Police Kichardson, bnenii -Met'ain and others testified to the abnormal condition of Lancaster immediately .subsequent to the killing. Dr. w. a. Boyd testified to the nature of the pounds and to the discovery of evidence tendiug to establish the fact of illicit relations between t h< couple.