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I ** C O M E WATCH f* * _ Your Label ' h ? and Keep I ft - Paid Up. JL J| VOL. 11, NO. C>, SEMI OPENING DAY FINDS THOUSANDS AT FAIR People From AH Parts of State in Columbia to Attend Great A 1 OL Annual niiuw. - HARVEST QUEEN CROWNED Miss McKi^llu-n and Governor MantiitiK Open Itull?Today Military Hay at the Fair. Columbia Special to Charleston News and Courier, Oct. 25.?The South Carolina State Fair and Harvest Jubilee opened under auspicious and favorable circumstances today, a happy promise of a great and successful week. Alreadv people are pouring in from all parts of the state to attend the Joint celebration and the streets are filled with a happy throng. The city is in gala attire. The fair was formally opened today at noon by Governor Richard I. Manning. The parade formed this morning at Kimwooa avenue at 11 o'clock. Preceded by a platoon of mounted police the line of march extended down Main street by the state house and continued to the fair grounds. GOVERNOR OPENS FAIR. The arrival of the governor at the fair grounds was announced by the booming of cannon, the governor's salute. Surrounded by United States troops, state militiamen and the Hoy Scouts and a happy throng of people, Governor Manning stood on the band stand adjoining the administration building 011 the state fair grounds and formally opened the forty-seventh fair. The governor spoke of the returning prosperity, saying: "I wish I could recount the many blessings for which we are so thankful." Ho praised the fair and the fine showing which it made of the commercial, Industrial, agricultural and educational advancement nt tim state. The governor eulogized President Wilson and his magnificent handling of the perplexing problepis growing out of the European war, referring to the President as the "greatest leader of men." The hundreds of people warmly cheered this tribute to the President. The governor bade every one a hearty welcome nnd was warmly applauded. JUPIEEE QUEEN CROWNED, k Fifteen thousand people witnessed the crowning of the Jubilee Queen, Miss Hessle McKellhen, on the steps of the capitol. The crowd covered the entire north steps and approaches, filled the windows, wore banked hack on the grounds and massed out into the* middle of the street. Every building and point of vantage on Main street from the Jefferson Hotel to the state house was utilized and many more stood on the sidewalks. It was the largest crowd of its kind ever seen in Columbia. When Governor Manning placed tho crown on the brow of the Queen a great shout went up from tho people, the applause being taken up by the crowds up Main street. The chariot in which the Queen rodo to tho coronation piace waa arawn Dy Hoy Scouts. The pi occasion was headed by the Adluh Drum Corps, and following came the maids of honor in carriages. The fusees carried by the Shrlncrs, in their regulation uniform of full dress, red necktieB and fez made a brilliant spectable. EMPRESS OP SOUTH CAROLINA. In crowning the Queen of the Harvest Jubilee Governor Manning spoke as follows: "An English author has ?*aid that no people of any country ever becomes great without its holidays anil festivals. If we are to be measured by thai standard South Carolina will bo great, indeed, after this week's festivities. I have been asked to perform a delicate task. It is one in which I have had no experience. We have our queen,, but they are not npnwnAM * Aitonn e V ? - *? ..... w <<u/ 111* iioupie, out of one man's heart. In democratic * America we have no .kings and queens. In Europe kings and queens abound, but I have never been in that land across the sea, and to be entirely frank 1 have no desire to go there under existing circumstances. Rut we have a Queen here tonight. The festive spirit of our people brought about hv the'r snlondld fleht for success against adverse conditions with admirable mil rare flndu tta ovare* *1on In its demand tor a Queen of the flfi-rent Jubilee. In tbe presence of "* 1 | I I -,nr tmm y TO T H C -IE Li WEEKLY. ATROCITIES OF TURKISH SOLDIERS; Account by Kyi* Witness of the Tortures Kn<liitv<l by the Armenians. London, Oct. 25.?A long account ( by eye witness of Armenian atrocities j , is telegraphed by the Iteuter corres-| pondent with the Dardanelles fleet. . The statement is from an official : source, the correspondent explaining that it was given to the British staff by an Armenian serving in the Turkish army, who was taken prisoner. This account begins nt Erzerum, the principal city of Turkish Armenia last March. It covers travels about various parts of Armenia and gives details of various atrocities along fa-i I miliar lines?how the Bishop of Sivus was shod with shoes of red hot ! iron by a village blacksmith at the order of the Turks; how men of Tokat were tied together in groups of four and taken out one hundred at a time to the marshy districts for massacre, and how the declaration of martial law at Zile included the confiscation of all Armenian property. The account describes how women were tied to the tails of oxcarts and exposed to hunger and rough weather until they accepted conversion to Islam or death, how mothers were bayonetted before the eyes of their children, how Armenian girls wcro dis-| iriDiued as chattels among civil and I military officials. The prisoner says that an a soldier he himself was compelled to assist in many massacres, bsing on one c ci casion a member of a party of 4 0 soldiers which superintended the I , death of 800 Armenians. Ilis account closes as follows: "There is reason believe that German advisers of the Turks hn\oj urged upon them the undoslrability i of allowing an alien and presumably . unfriendly population to inhabit ports i which lie upon th? Russian attack." I ( HAUI/TON WENT TO PRISON. ' American Condemned to Six Years' ami Eight Months l?y Italian Court. Como, Italy, via Paris, Oct. 15.?' Porter Charlton, the American, who has been on trial here charged with' i murdering his wife in 1010, was to-' ! day condemned to six years and eight i months imDrisoninent. Tho jury found Charlton only pari lially responsible and that there wore1 extenuating circumstances. Owing to his American nationality J , Charlton will serve only twenty-nine days in prison, i Charlton, under the verdict, bene-j tits by the time he has been under restraint, and in addition a year isl 1 taken off tho sentence under the am! nesty for all ofTences committed bei fore Italy entered the war. i Kven though he was greatly pleasi ed over the verdict of the court and viewed with pleasure his approaching liberation from custody, Charlton maintained his usual restrained and almost passive attitude. THIRTRRN DIKD IN FIRE. Twelve Are Young Women Kmployed in Pa|>er Box Factory. Pittsburg, Oct. 26.?Thirteen persons were killed and eight injured by a fire in a four-story building, the two upper floors of which were occupied by the Union Paper Box Company hero today. Of the dead all \ were young women employed by 'he company except one. Many of the ' bodies were so badly burned as to I make identification difficult. Mayor j Joseph O. Armstrong at once ordered ; that the police, city council and the , coroner make a thorough investiga-! j lion of the fire. this beauty I must abridge my words! and undertake an act which my admiration stimulates and acknowledge my loy'alty to this Queen of the Harvest, who has been adjudged the most beautiful woman in South Carolina, and this is tantamount to saying the moot beautiful woman in the world. "T crown yqu as Queen of the Har-I vest 'and impress of' South Carolina, and bid our people manifest their loyalty to you." Immediately after the crowning of the Queen she and Governor Manning ' opened the open air ball. Music for the occasion was furnished by the Jubilee band of forty pieces. This hand is attracting much favorable comment from the fair visitors. Tomorrow w?)l be Military Day at the fair. Field day exercises and handsome prizes bare been arranged for the military. | I.I. .fl ' I mtn L A IN C VNCA LANOASTKB, S. 0. 'I nRiFPTWAQin RinwiiP UUJLUI II nu IU ULU If Ul ALLIES' MUNITION SHIP! Robert Fay, German Lieutcr ant. Explains Mission in United States. IN THE SECRET SERVICE Had \<> Cniiiicotimi Wltli Kiiilinssj Members ol' Wlii?>h Told llim to Keep Hands Oil'. New York. Oct. 25.?Details of plot to hamper the shipment of muni tions of war to the allies by placin clock-worked bombs on the rudder or propellers of ships so tinted tho the ships would be disabled on thei way across the Atlantic, were dit closed today in the confession of on of five men charged in a complain filed with a United States commit sioner with conspiracy to violate federal statute. Following upon the confession c tobert Fay, a lieutenant of ihe Si; tecnth Saxony Infantry, who said h ame to this country last Apr through a nagreement with the Gei man secret service to blow up or d< lay steamers laden with war supplic for the allies. William J. Flynn, chit of the secret service, tonight tiled b( fore United States Commissionf Houghton a complaint in which m only Fay but four other men ar charged with promoting the cot piracy. The hearing on the fedcrr charge was set for November 4. Fay confessed that while on th battlefield he talked with his superic officers about a device to blow u ships, that later his idea of comin to America and carrying his schem through was well received by th German secret service, that he cam well enough supplied with money t act or his own responsibility and tha he talked with Captain von Papei military atache and Captain Boy-E< naval attache of the German en bassy, about the plan, but they ha refused to have anything to do wit it. The confession of Pay, who said li had been decorated with the iro cross for fighting in Prance, covei his arrival in the United States o April 2:1 last, his making of clocl worked bombs since and his exper menting with the explosives alon the Hudson river. Quantities of aci in the room occupied by Pay, an Walter L. Scholz in Weehawken, > J., and boxes containing chlorate ? potash, had been found after the at rest of these men Sunday. Sehol; a brother-in-law of Pay, is a m< chanic. Two other men were arrested tc day and another, making the flftl was named in the complaint, but h had not been apprehended. The nc arrests were: Paul Daeche, Jersey, City, N. J who said he was a graduate c Cologne University and came to th united states in 1912. Dr. Herbert Klenzle, 28 yearfi ol< manager of a clock company, charge in the complaint with having aided 1 procuring explosive materials use by Fay, committed to the Tombs fc examination on November 4. Max Breitung, about whose iden ity no details were disclosed, ala was named in the complaint as on of the conspirators. It was state that Breitung had not been appn hended. In his complaint to Commissions Houghton, Chief Flynn stated the Paul Slobs, formerly of the Germa army, had become a government wi ness. It was set forth that Siebs ha received money from Fay and Bre tung for chlorate of potash, said t have been part of the material foun by detoctives in the boathouse. The men are charged with conspii ing to violate a section of the Unite States criminal code which says: "Whoever upon the high seas c in any other waters within the ftc IT! I r ft 11V and marlilma (iirla<1ln?tnn ' the United States by surprise or b open force maliciously attacks or set upon any vessel belonging to anothf with an intent unlawfully to plundt the same or to despoil any ownt thereof any money, goodB or mei chandlso laden on board thereo shall be finod." Dramatic Author Dead. Paris, Oct. 25.?Paul Hervlei dramatic author nnd member of tli French Academy, died early toda; Ho had been 111 for several days. , servant entered his room to awake him and found him dead. ASTER iSTER TKXDAY. ()(TOBKK 2U, 15)15. RURAL SCHOOLS S IN COMPETITION i-' Improvement Prizes Aggre- ( gating $2,300 Provided i ?>? This Year. ('a ! AWARDS IN DECEMBER. !'l se r. Three Classes Are to Share in l>is- 1,1 trihut ion < 'out rolled l?y State Association. ,l' The following is taken from The * Columbia State of Sunday: ('1 g i , d r ' Patrons and school officials! ,4 j 1 throughout South Carolina are show| ing great interest in the prizes to he! I til i I awarded by the South Carolina j ? School Improvement Association in V |1( December. These prizeH come from ^ . the state department of education, )" (?'J ? which co-operates with the school iiua v vi provement association. The amount , of $2,300 will be expended in three ll vi ? classes of prizes, as follows: i- al e Class 1: Twenty first prizes of $50 11 each and 40 second prizes of $25 each (>j. .. to be given to the 60 schools which (j. can show the greatest amount of im- tj ,s proven\ent from October 1, 1914, to's( ,f December 1, 1015. Only rural schoolsi can compete for these prizes. Dis- j S(] ,r tricts barred by the state high school ^ vp act or the state rural graded school w 0 act are ineligible for this contest.; i_ Clean-up day must be observed and J U) ii r?'pu*"L ?i same som in t no county; ^ I superintendent of education, the sue porvising teacher or the county or,r 1 ganizer of school improvement :>ssop'ciations. g BASIS OF AWARDS. eI Class 2: One prize of $100, one, prize of $f?0, and two prizes of $25 o ?I each, to the counties that can show | (.j ?. the greatest amount of school bet-jw torment accomplished through local ,?! ' school improvement associations from di ' October 1, 1014, to December 1, 1015.' in l"; These prizes will be awarded as fol-j p.; j lows: -t 1) A supervising teacher em- rt h ployed; (2) field day held; (2) clean-'if 1 up day observed: (4) compulsory tli e school attendance enforced: (5) nuin- p. n I her of active local school improve- o< "8 ment associations; < >) a satisfactory " status in local taxation, enrollment,! rn buildings and club work: <7i other 0> I- i definite things accomplished. This R report must be signed by the count} ' organizer and approved by the coun-, '' ty superintendent of education. : or '[ class 3: Four prizes of $25 each " ; o the four local associations in the' ' tc state that can show the greatest re-; 7" suits of their work in the improve-j ment of school conditions in their, ,K districts from October 1, 1!?14. to De- " comber 1, 1915. These prizes will be' *' l' I awarded through the reports sent! "I from local associations, Riving just I C< the conditions before the association! began its work and just the condi- \'i " tions resulting from its efforts, j >f Special consideration will be given 16 to community activities and co-opera- jj tion. This report must be signed by 'j the principal of the school, the chair- U1 ^ I man of the board of trustees, the r( 11 president of the school improvement g, association and approved by the ,r county superintendent of education rt and the county organizer of the o! school improvement associations. ct ? All prizes will be awarded by the t0 e state executive committee of the 0< i South Carolina School Improvement "* i Association soon after December l.|w ! 1915. These prizes will be sent in oJ r! checks from the office of the state, jy lt superintendent of education to the rr I county treasurer. In classes 1 and 3, rf ' the money will he deposited to the C( ^ credit of tho district in which the, 1 prize winning school or association is i located, and must he spent for the further improvement of the winning I scnooi. in ciass i, tne money will Pj be deposited to the credit of the!*'* ' j county board of education and must ^ be spent for the further improvement >r of the county schools. INTEREST IS KEEN. fr y Miss (Elizabeth Dickson, acting'01 ,g president of the South Carolina School Improvement Association, has.? ,r' recently returned from a visit to parts >n )r of Aiken, Orangeburg, Darlington ,fl r_ Marlon and Dillon counties. On all P> f , sides she found gratifying conditions. ?? New buildings, special tax levies, com- , >n pnlsory attendance, the celebration of Cf clean-up day were the. evidences of J( this interest. In many districts she ie was pleased to find live school lm-' t'1 ! provement associations. In many \ other districts associations were P? n formed. | tc ( *1188 uickhOQ nan received many *?' i C O U IN T nev 1ANAL TO BE READY FIRST OF THE YEAR nuUk'iaill.v Staled Itig; l)iteli Will be Opened Not latter Than lanuary 1st. Panama. Oct. 2:?.?Although an liciai statement is lacking, it lias >come known that the Panama nal will be ready for traffic not tor than January 1, lit 16. Major eneral Goethals, governor of the nal zone, declines to commit himlf on any definite date tor reopen-] g the canal in view of the uncer-1 inty of slide conditions in tin1 tillard cut. General Goethals expressed gratitition at the progress made by the edging fleet, which is coping with tremendous task in view of the vast lantity of earth set in motion by e latest slide. Although General Goethals would )t set a date 011 which he thought e canal might be reopened, other nal engineers expressed the couction that a sufficient channel to L ...... I "i mil viim passage or tignt draught issels would be attained consider>ly before the first of the year, hese engineers point out that the lannel was originally closed for a stance of 1.300 feet, and that since e latest great slide dredges have reored a thirty-foot channel virtually i ilf of that distance and at a width ifiicient for the passage of smaller ssels. Nearly all of the ships which ere delayed at Cristobal have deleted by other routes, and those held i at llalboa are departing as fast as ley can obtain coal. o\victi:i> mta m-:ntkncf,i>. mditioiial I'liiiisliiiient Imposed b\ I, Charleston Special to The State,I rt. 2:1.?Judge M. L. Smith in the rouit court today sentenced 38 men ho have pleaded guilty to the charge storing liquor i 11 violation of the ispensary law. The sentences \aryl 1 time and amount of fine, but all ivo the charactei istic of holding in >serve a conditional sentence, audi any one should, in the opinion of 10 court, violate the conditions imised. the suspended sentence be-j mies-effective at once. Those sentenced have made aringements to pay tines aggregating' or $4,000. Judge S111 i 1 li made an impressh ! Idress in imposing sentences. The case of James .Manos. convict-, 1 of storing liquor, is under appeal id the court did not impose sen not*. I'd avoid serving the conditional >rtu>n of their sentences, those senneed are essentially required not to olate any of the laws of the state. DLI MIliA MAVOlt KXONCKATKI) ote on t'oinmittee Report K-l t<? 71 in Mr. Griffith's Favor. Columbia Special to Charleston ews and Courier, Oct. 22.?Mayor ewis A. Griffith was exonerated of ^becoming conduct in visiting the (stricted district on the night of ?ptember 18 for the purpose of injection and for misuse of power in unission of fines by a mass meeting ' citizens in the Richland county' >urt house tonight by a vote of 84 > i 74. The vote came on the motion ' Mr. Williams, which was to accept le report of the citizens' committee, hich was in effect a condemnation ' the mayor. The mayor was warm- j congratulated by his friends on the! 'suit of the vote which reieeton flic ;port and findings of the citizens'! mmittee. ! iivcinhutg to Have Money Made of /inc. Luxemburg, via Berlin and Lon-J >n, Oct. 25.?The Luxemburg au-; lorities have decided to follow the | erman and Belgian examples and yve ordered coinage of 200,000 anoi iu five and ten centime pieces ' zinc. _____? quiries concerning the. contest to ose December 1. .Score cards and ize application blanks have been nt (o all county organizers of school iprovemcnt associations and to >unty superintendents of education >er the state. The president of the hool improvement association hopes int all progressive counties, loe.il isociations and schools, where im"ovement bis been made, will send > her their applications for prizeR. ithin the next six weeks. V FAIR m / m V T WEATHER gk E Wednesday cooler $1.50 A YEAR. MASSES OF PEOPLE SHOULD STUDY LAW Senator E. I). Smith Calls Attention to Curreney Legislation. COTTON CROP AND MONEY. 1^........... ' . r.xcnungc ( otton as ( old is (liven i'oc Certificates. Florence Special to The State, Oct IF!.- Senator F. L>. Smith today, in. commenting on the recent criticism of The New York American of the policy of the administration and the Democratic party for alleged failure to provide for the farmer although much had been done for the business man, said that he regretted the fact that the masses of the people seemed to avoid anything like a study of the present currency law, assuming that it was something which there was little use of their trying to understand, because it was a matter of finance, and only hankers understood nuance. He said particularly that he would that the farmer of the South would try to grasp the idea that his bale of cotton was now on the same basis exactly as the gob! that one carried to the assay ollice and exchanged for yellow back certificates except for the matter of percentage and limited period of issue. The government through its regional bank system asked nothing more than that some reputable and responsible bank would guarantee that a bale of cotton of a certain weight and grade, ownership established, was properly warehoused and insured, and then the government issued on that cotton regional bank notes, it was not a loan; it was the creation of new currency, and currency based on the wealth of the country, new money, an elastic currency that the people of the country have been crying for for years, and that has been denied them ever since the old state bank system was abolished by a too burdensome taxation. It removed the inflexible hands thiit surrounded the expansion of the currency under the old law, which recognized nothing hut gold and the, debts of the government. I'or instance, if the crop of South Carolina would lie warehoused and insured and presented to the government as a holder, for those 1,000,000 hales of cotton 14 0,000,000 new dollars, not a loan, additional currency, would he issued for a period of time with a privilege of renewal. When the matter of financing the cotton crop was at first discussed the federal hoard invited tho entire committee to discuss it with them. It was in response to suggestions made there that the secretary issued orders that there should l>e the fullest light thrown on the transactions of the hanks in this matter, and that reports of their loans and the discounts and rediscounts should be published. The government did not propose this aid to he, as it had been for so long, given to the hanks to finance their business, but that they were to be merely distributing agents of the government, and it was not their credit nor their responsibility that was considered; it was the farmers* cotton, and that alone that stood for the government's money. The government offered this money at three per cent, and allowed the bank to charge three per cent for its trouble in Investigating title, as it were, seeing that the cotton was properlv warehoused and insured. In reply to the inquiry what was to be done by the small fanner who wanted to borrow money on his cotton and hold it when the bank, as is so often the case, required that he bo a depositor wkh a certain balance to his credit, or he could get none of the government's liberal provision. Senator Smith said that such an individual should put his case in the bands of an organization liko the .Chamber of Commerce, go to the bank and in the presence of witnesses request the loan on his cotton, and If refused for any such reason, or for any reason, to have that reply of the bonk fatten down and a?nt ?a Air. Ragsdale or himself 111 Washing inn, or any representative in the house or senate, and they would take the matter up with the federal reserve board, and he thought the abuse of the privilege by the bank wou'd he satisfactorily arranged, if indeed (Continued on Pago Eight.