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<gg founts JicrorD. |pf ] 1L : - 1 VOL. 36 KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1920. NO 4 1 B ' SUNDAYS STORM HAS MANY VICTIMS % THOUSANDS MADE HOMELESS IN SOUTH ATLANTIC AND CEN- ; TRAL WESTERN STATES , The death list of the Palm Sunday j tornadoes that swept sections of eight < States last Sunday has reached a total \ of nearly two hundred. t Telegraph and telephone service 1 -< with many isolated communities in c the Middle West had only been partly 1 festered yesterday and indications 1 were that the toll of death and de ' fraction would be augmented. . c W The known death in six central 1 Western States numbered 95, while > 55 were killed in Georgia and Ala- 1 bama. The property loss ih the Chi- < cago area alone was estimated at ( $6,000,000, while in the other States i affected the material loss was large, t Elfin, 111., suffered the heaviest loss, i the damage there being $4,000,000. t Illinois was the hardest hit of the i Central States with thirty dead, more than one hundred injured and two r thousand made homeless. t Indiana reported twenty-eight fa- I tilities and Ohio twenty-six. Nine s were killed in Michigan and one each c in Wisconsin and Missouri. f Dead in Georgia t The death list in Georgia was placed v at thirty-eight, and in Alabama at.a seventeen. s At Joliet, 111., three persons were ^ probably fatally injured, fourteen v riously hurt and the property loss s was estimated at" a half million dot- v I iars. c The Health Commissioner of Chica- c go, mobolized every available surgeon t and nurse and sent them to the strick- c * en areas. Mayor Thompson acted with the city council in raising funds s by public subscription and Red Cross t ruarters were opened. a Legion Lends Aid a v In several places American Legion t posts sent volunteers to watch for f looters and assist inpjjelief work. t Henry J. Cox, weAther forecaster ? for Chicago, said the tornado was the a result of a combination of two storms. One developed in Alaska, traveled through British Columbia and joined ? a storm from tne Southwest, which de- (d veloped in the arid plateaus of South- a era Arizona and Nevada. This com- r bination. Prof. Cox said, resulted in ^ a rotary motion which formed eddies J J ^ ana causeu a wiuauv. , Although the tornado traveled forward at a rate of about fifty miles an hour, the wind at the core of the tor- / nado was estimated to have had a l velocity of from two hundred to three hundred miles an hour. Relief Work in Georgia Relief work is actively under way in the storm swept cities of LaGrange and West Point, Ga., where j tornadoes that also caused heavey , damage Sunday afternoon in other "{>arts of Georgia and in Eastern Alabama had taken a heavy toll of life and property. Reports from LaGrange, the heaviest sufferer, tended to tone down the v - actual loss of life, putting the known t dead at 26. This would make the*total known dead 55, divided as fol- j _ lows: A LaGrange 26, Alexander City, Ala. l\ West Point 10, Agricola, Ala. 5,' ( Macon 1, Milner, Ga., 1, Cedar (j Springs, Ala. 1. ? Th<J number of injured was Renown to run into the hundreds, and after a night of, darkness and confusion attendant upon the wreckage of the it t-Vio intni?H at. TafiranL'e yv w CI [/lOiiVwj M1V AUJMkVvt WW ... ? -u_ and West Point"were being cared fori in improvised hospitals with the aid * of the Atlanta Red Cross and army 1 ( authorities here. * Property Loss Heavy 5 Property loss at LaGrange was '* estimated at $500;000 with that at i1 West Point said to be "hundreds of,1 thousands." The tornado that swept 1 through West Point shortly after 4 ' o'clock Sunday afternoon wrecked the 11 business part of that town even more;J severely than did the floods of last,] December, according to report herG. |. At LaGrange the chief damage was in ,1 the mill section where several hundred ' ^jhomes of mill workers were destroyed. ' ft Property loss near Alexander City, ' ^Ala., was put at nearly $30,000, while : 7 the loss in Alabama was expected to j i be increased as details of more dam- j i age come m from isolated communi-1 ( ties. I Macon. Ga., suffered heavy property | losses and one negro woman was killed I there, while as far east as Washing- J1 'j THREE MEN SHOT TO DEATH SATURDAY1 Near Aiken, Another Wounded?Corbett, Who Fired Shots, Surrenders Hugh Fanning, Julian Cooper and Bryant Salley, three white farmers residing near the Salley section in Aiken county, were shot dead at mid-1 light last Saturday night by Carlos ^orbett, a white farmer, who claims :hat the men were drunk and after wantonly burning away a new em- t jankment in front of his place, had :ursed and abused him. Corbett also ! atally wounded Jones Salley, one of ;he crowd. Sheriff Howard and Coroner Bell )f Aiken, wer called at 4 o'clock this norning to the scene of the shooting,' vhich they found upon arriving had ' aken place just across the Aiken rounty line in Orangeburg county. Carlos Corbett, after the killing, got nto his automobile and drove hastily o Columbia, where he gave himself, ip to the authorities. The story of he killing as told by Sheriff Howard s as follows: "Late last night a car filled with nen passed noisily by his home with he muffler of the car wide open. Cor ett ran to the door of his home to ee who the noisy people were, but ould not discern them in the dark. A ew minutes after the car passed Cor- j >ett says he found a newly repaired rashout in front of his place on fire md believed the men had purposely et it ablaze. In half an hour the car vsls heard returning up the road toward Aiken and Corbett stepped out-, ide of his home to demand of the men t hy they set his newly filled washout n fire. The men, it is alleged, beame abusive and finally cursed Cor>ett, who drew his gun, killing each if the men in rapid succession. "Jones Salley was seated in the car ome distance away and finding that he first shot did not kill him,it is illeged Corbett went ep to the car ind shot him again in the head and K>dy. A young boy in the crowd lay lat on the ground and played dead, hus escaping injury. The people of 5alley are greatly worked up over the iffair." The dead men were unmarried. Carlos Corbett surrendered to the State penitentiary at Columbia Sunlay morning. He claims self-defense ind the protection of his home against narauders. o To Borrow $3,000,000 Governor Cooper, State Treasurer barter and Comptroller General Os>orne will spend nearly all of this veek in New York city looking for noney. They are there to make an ffort to borrow two or three million lollars, on which to operate the State rovernment until tax money comes in n the fall. Such a loan is made by he State every year. The bids on the loan are to be open:d at noon April 8. The three State. (fficials, constituting the State borowing committee, will make a thor-, ?ugh investigation of the money marjet, with a view to determining what i he loan should cost the State. The : ippropriafion act of the recent legis- j ature authorizes the borrowing of is much as four million, but that much vill not be needed right away. The omittee will borrow either three milion or four million, depending on the >ids received. o i Infant Found in Lake City Sewer ____ The dead body of an infant was ound in a sewer at Lake City Sun- i lay morning. The infant's head had >een crushed immediately after birth ind it had been dead, it is believed,! i week or ten days. Decomposition lad set in to such an extent that it! ;?,nnco,'Klo tn foil whether rt W (UHIVSV 1IU]A/OOIVIV w .. :he child was white or colored. The. lair was straight, however, and was j thought to be that of a white child, i A.n inquest was started Sunday by the ' mag^trate at that place and was ad- j journed until later, with the hope i that some light may be thrown on the j dastardly deed. However, in Sun- j day's investigation nothing was found Dut to throw any light on the crime.' ' ton, Ga., the storm caused damage estimated at $200,000. This was chiefly in unroofed buildings. Many smaller towns in Georgiare ported damage to buildings, Williamson, Hogansville and Milner, one life being lost at the latter place. SEN. NEWBERRY WILL NOT RETURN TO SEEK EXPULSION OF MICHIGAN SENATOR IF HE RESUMES SEAT. \ ????? Washington, March 29.?Senator: Newberry, of Michigan, who returned ( here today, will not resume his seat | in the Senate until questions as to his status arising from his conviction in the Michigan election conspiracy cases have been disposed of. "I shall not resume my activities in Uie senate," ne saia, "untu an maners growing out of the proceedings in Michigan are cleared up." The senator did not appear today at the Capitol. He was understood to have conferred with some republican leaders and will return to Michigan for the Easter holidays without any definite plan as to when he will be back in Washington. Would Seek Expulsion Democratic senators who were active in pressing for. investigation of the Michigan senatorial contest, admitted that they had been prepared should Mr. Newberry have put in an appearance in the senate, to seek his expulsion on the ground of his conviction on a criminal charge. His decision obviates that action and it was assumed the next step would be in the committee on elections, where the Ford-Newberry contest is pending. Even should Mr. Newberry not participate in any roll calls or be paired on any votes, the Republican control of the Senate by a majority of one would continue, the political align a. ? ah AQ incut uciug t -w. ??O Summer School at Winthrop. Active preparations are now being made for the opening of the spmmer school at Winthrop on June 15, to continue until July 23, a session of six weeks. President Johnson has about completed the faculty, which will be announced soon. The college is hoping to make this the best of the many sessions that have been held here. A liberal appropriation by the legislature will make it possible to open with a stronger faculty and a greater variety of courses than heretofore. The increased appropriation wiU also enable the college to admit teachers from South Carolina without the payment of any matriculation or tuition fee. Courses of instruction will be provided, as usual, for the benefit of teachers in high school and graded work; and for students who wish to make credits for a college diploma, or who wish coaching in subjects on i which they need help. ?: o??? Salters News Notes Salters Depot, March 29.?We are having some real Spring weather after the unseasonably cold weather of the past month. Vegetation is very backward, trees only just beginning; to bud and grass to spring up. Gar-! d^ns, where up, are growing nicely. The bean crop around here is promising, stands being good, and with favorable seasons a good crop will be made. Tobacco plants have grown rapidly and several report they will be i ready to transplant by the 10th of | May. It is hard to get fertilizer, only a small amount having been received here up to this time, and farmers are needing them badly. We are glad to report that Mr. M. j R. McClary is improving after several \ days' sickness. We had several heavy showers or rain Sunday night and an unusual | amount of thunder and lightning for i this sason of the year. Quite a umber of Salters folks j viewed the Auroraborealis last Wed-i nesday night. It was quite bright. Miss Demaris Stubhs has returned to her home in Bennettsville after a pleasant visit to relatives here. Mr. J.#C. Lanham was here Monday looking after the trade. Mr. J. A. McCullough of Lane spent a short while here Thursday. Q I ! Robt. H. Pinckney, of Charleston, tried last week in the Federal court at Florence on the charge of forging government checks, was found not J guilty Saturday afternoon. Owing to ' I the popularity and good reputation of Mr. Pinckney, the case attracted wide I attention. I SUSTAIN CHARGES OF UNFITNESS i IN MAJORITY REPORT OF NEW1 I YORK ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE 1 !! Albany, N. Y., March 30.?Charges i i of unfitness against the five Socialist < members of the New York State as- ] sembly, Louis Waldman, August \ Claessens, Chas. Solomon, Samuel A. Dewitt and Samuel Orr have been sus- \ tained by a majority of the assembly' \ judiciary committee in a 20,000 word!< report submitted to the legislature to-; < day. It says the seats should be de-! ? clared vacant. I1 Enactment of a law to prevent any j ^ organization which admits aliens to jr its membership from occupying the' ( nnaitirvn nf a nnlifiml nartv on t.hf? of- 14 ficial ballot of the State is advocated. , The Socialist assemblymen, the < findings state, "are not obedient to the , constitution and laws of the United States and the State of New York, j nor desirous of the welfare of the j country nor in hearty accord and sym- t pathy with its government and insti- j tutions." ( The report mentions the fact the j party's constitution provided that any ' \ Socialist elected to an office who shall in any way vote to appropriate mon- r eys for military purposes or war shall j be expelled from the party." j The report views portions of the ^ evidence heard during the recent 24 | { days trial, purporting to show that jthe Socialist party opposed prosecu- -] tion of the war, opposed legislation { for industrial and military conscrip-! j tion, pledged its members to work for the repeal of the conscript law, j e advised resistance to conscription of j j life and labor and urged repudiation | a iifAM /Inkfe J t ux ?al UCUW. (X o r Farmers' Meetings t Is There will be important meetings' t for farmers next week as follows: la Hemingway school house, Monday, o April 5th. je Indiantown school house, Tuesday, | ^ April 6th. Cedar Swamp school house, Wed-1J nesda^, April 7th. Jr Plumb Bank school house. Thurs-1 b day, April 8th. Pt These meetings will begin promptly j a at eight o'clock. jr The purpose of thes& meetings will r be to discuss and organize bull asso- t ciations in each of the above commu-1 nities. ' a It is urged that every farmer at-1 a tend these meetings and help pull his s community out of the old rut. Let's t get out of the old rut now by begin1* a.--1- ? ning to improve our hvcswun. a hc c best and most economical way is to r do away with all scrub sires and use t nothing but purebred sires. c Your county agent and a dairy spe- i cialist from Clemson College will be c in each community the day of the a meeting and will explain the details c and help form the association at the ( night meeting. Don't fail to be there. o |J No Field Day This Year. 1 > !( To the Teachers and the Public: * The influenza epidemic came on us, i just at the time when we were making I plans for what we hoped would be ( our greatest field day event. Two i weeks ago a letter was sent to all.? school principals in the county asking,,' in view of the influenza situation, ^ these two questions: (1) "Are you in 1 favor of having Field Day this year?" 1 (2) "If we have Field Day, will it be IJ practical for your school to take part * in the exercises?" * I have had replies from 24 of the 1 41 schools at present in session. Sev-: en express themselves in favor of * having: field day and seventeen { against. Ten schools say they willi j enter the contests, and fourteen say ' they will not. In view of these replies, and of the fact that most of the schools of the county have lost. some time, and practically all have j been more or less interupted at a : critical period by the epidemic, I have ( concluded it will not be advisable to'] have field day this year. I am sure some of our schools will j, be very much disappointed, and assure 1 , them that I am too. , J. G. McCULLOUGH, , Supt. Ed. Williamsburg Co, j ? o Cotton ginned in Williamsbur 1 county, season 1919, up to March 20, ] 1920, amounted to 26,963 bales, 6,283 ] bales less than the 1918 crop. 1: 4 CONTENTION OVER GARAGE BUILDING ON ACADEMY ST. j Messrs. Lee and Silverman Take Mat- i ter Before Open Meeting of Council and Citizens. Considerable interest was aroused imoung the citizens of Kingstree ruesday over the contention which arose between LeRoy Lee, Esq., a prominent member of the local bar, . and Mr. David Silverman, a wellknown, successful merchant of the .own. The contention was over the erection by Mr. Silverman of a garage juilding extending from Academy St. m the site adjoining Mr. Lee's law jffice, which is located on the east >ide of the court house yard, the rear vail of the garage being on a line with the front of Mr. Lee's office, rhe garage was to be corrugated iron J >r sheet metal, and Mr. Lee's conten- 1 ;ion was that such a structure was 1 inlawfyl within the fire district of Jie town and prohibited by an ordi- < lance of the town. There are many similar structures n Kingstree, and within the fire lim-1 ts, and Mr. Silverman was granted t permit by the proper authority to jroceed with his building. On Tueslay Mayor Shuler and Mr. Lee for- i >id Mr. Silverman putting up the milding, and he stopped his workmen, i Mr. Silverman and his friends de- 1 nanded that the matter be brought I efore the town council, and there be- 1 ng unusual interest manifested, it 1 vas decided that the contention of < he gentlemen interested be heard by 1 hat honorable body in open session. ] ruesday night there were present at j he meeting a number of the town's ] eading citizens. The Mayor and ev- i ry member of the couneil were presnt. Mr. Silverman was present with i lis attorneys, Messrs. A. C. Hinds 1 ind E. L. Hirsch. Mr. Lee presented j lis nun case and made a strone anru- j nent against the erection of the ] tuilding, stating that it would de-! \ troy the usefulness of his property,as i < o the purposes for which it was there 1 j ind was used. He contended that the rdinance now in force prohibited the 11 rection of such a building as Mr. Sil-11 erman?had under construction. i] Mr. Hinds, speaking in behalf of > < rtr. Silverman, pointed out the large | ] lumber of similar buildings that had \ een permitted by the town authori-; j ies to go up within the fire district,' ] md as a matter of justice and fair- ( tess to Mr. Silverman, could see no I eason why he should not be granted!, he same privilege. ] Mr. Hirsch addressed the meeting j ilso in Mr. Silverman's behalf and < isked that all citizens be fed from the ] ame spoon in the matter of applying, s he building ordinance of the town. , When the contentions of both sides j, it interest had been heard, Council- j < nan Fairey asked that a vote be ( aken by ballot in order that the coun- . :il might get the sentiment of those )resent on tne suDjeci. mis was j lone and the ballot was a complete ( 'ictory for Mr. Silverman, only one |< )r two votes being cast against the j srection of his garage. |, In behalf of the councilmen, Mr.!, ^airey also stated that a new light j< vas thrown upon the ordinance in i ] juestion, they were better able now \ j o understand and interpret its mean- j { ng, and asked that, in view of the i, jresence at the meeting of so many j, if the town's citizens, a vote be taken j' is to whether the town go on conJ( struing the terms of the ordinance j( n future as it had in the past, or j 1 vhether it should be construed in the I nanner now made more clear to the , mderstanding. The vote was taken ^ ind was unanimous in authorizing , :he council to modify or restrict the iurther building of metal structures J vithin the fire district of the town. , The present ordinance will probably } >e revised and our main streets will it least have no further increase in , :in kitchens, mullet shops and sheet , ron groceries. o , Embargo Lifted 1 Announcement was made yesterday j1 jy officials of the Atlantic Coast Line'1 railway to the effect that the embargo on carload shipments which has < >een in effect for several weeks, was lifted. The lifting of the embargo 1 will mean a great relief to shippers, especially of fertilizer, as the agrieultural interests are in need of this rommodity. o? There is a movement on foot in the town of Andrews to establish a hospital. The proposition seems to have the support of the leading citizens of that town. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION TO CONVENE IN GREENVILLE MAY 4, 5, 6?STRONG ROSTER OF SPEAKERS SECURED Spartanburg, March 30.?The greatest array of specialists in religions education ever brought together & South Carolina has been secured for the State Sunday School Convention at Greenville, May 4, 5, 6, according , to a statement from the program committee. With the convention theme, "Facing the New Day in Religions nj i* ?> _ s i.1 *i-i- ? education in mina, me cummituw ? has secured seven outs tan dL g leaders in North America to bring to the largest gathering of religious workers held annually in this State messages of information and inspiration. The program is considered the strongest ever presented at a gathering of this kind in the State. Dr. E. Y. Mullins, president of the Baptist Theological Seminiary at ; Louisville, Ky., has been secured for the Bible half-hour each day. Dr. Mulling is one of the greatest Baptist scholars of the day. Prof. M. A. Honline, Dayton, Ohio, educational superintendent of the International Sunday School association, formerly connected with the Bone- ' brake Theological Seminary at Dayton, will give a number of lectures on different phases of religious education. He is one of the leading child psychologists of the continent He is , a member of the faculty of the Inter national Training School at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Dr. W. E. Chalmers of Philadelphia V is the outstanding Sunday-school leader of the Northern Baptist denomination. He is possessed of a pleasng platform delivery, and is a popu- ; ar convention lecturer. His work at be convention will be along the line )f religious education for the young people. , Mr. W. C. Pearce of Chicago, field superintendent of the International raining school for Sunday-school eadership at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. For thirty years he has been a prominent Sunday-school worker, raveling in every State in the Union, n all of the provinces of Canada, in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the inter- j est of Sunday-school work. Another International worker at the convention will be Dr. William A. Brown, formerly Missionary superntendent of the International association. For the past two years h$ las been connected with the missioniry work of the Methodist Episcopal church. He will conduct the early nomine consecration services at the State convention, and speak.on Evangelism before the entire convention ind at th^ conference periods. Mrs. W. M. Walker, of Birminglam, superintendent of the beginner's department af the Advent Episcopal Sunday-school, comes as a specialist in work with children. She has had tvork in the local school in both primary and beginners' departments. She is an instructor in the Birmingham Graded Union, City Children's Division superintendent, and has been in instructor in schools of method in many places in the South during the year. For the music, Prof. F. 0. Sellers if New Orleans has been secured as director. Prof. Sellers is an instructor in the Baptist Bible Institute at New Orleans in Sunday-school work and music. In addition to directing^ . the singing at the convention, he will take part on the convention program. / Rev. Daniel Iverson, of Charlotte, N. n will, hp thp Dianist at the conven tion. He will speak also at the administrative conference. / Workers in every department of Hie Sunday-school will receive from these speakers much that will help them in making their schools more efficient. The greatest blessings will come to them, however, by personal contact with those who are giving their lives that all the people of every State may be brought into the Sunday-schools and churches and have their lives enriched through the teaching service. ,., of the Sunday-school. . o ^ Meeting of Teachers' Association There will be ameeting of the Williamsburg County Teachers' association in the auditorium of the Kingstree school building at 12 o'clock noon on Saturday, April 8. Teachers throughout the county are urged to be present at this meeting by the president of the association. 2