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1 68TH YEAR. NO. 83. SEW HIGH PRIGESNOT DU TO SHORTAGE SUPPL Wilson Lays Before Conure Proposals for Checking Cost of Living. NO LASTING RESULTS YE Present Laws to Re Employed Force Out Hoards and Me What Seems to Be a Critic Situation. Washington, Aug. 8.?Preside Wilson laid several specific proposj before congress today for checki the high cost of living, but at t same time declared permanent resu could not be expected until peace tii bases were fully restord by ratifb tion of the peace treaty. High prices, the president told cc gress, were not justified by shorta of supply, either present or prosp tive. but were created in many ca: "artificially and deliberately" '"vicious practices." Retailers, he sa were responsible in large part for ? tortionate prices. Strikes, the president warned t labor world, would only make m ters. worse and those who sought employ threats or coercion were 01 "preparing their own destructioi headers of organized labor, the pri ident Baid, he was sure would pr ently yield to second sober tnought "Illegal" and "criminal" were t words the president used in char; terizing the methods by which soi present day prices have been broug about. Present laws, he said, would energetically employed to the limit force out food hoards, and meet t situation so far as possible, but supplement the existing statutes specifically urged the following: Specific llecommcndations. Licensing of all corporations < gaged in Interstate commerce, w! specific regulations designed to i cure competitive selling and prevt "unconscionable profits" in t method of marketing. Extension of the food control act peace times and the application of provisions ngainst hoarding to fu clothing and other necessities of 1 as well as food. A penalty in the food control i for profiteering. A law regulating cold storage, li iting the time during which got may be held, prescribing a method disposing of them if held beyond 1 permitted period and requiring tl when released goods bear the date storage. Laws requiring that goods releat from storage for interstate conimei hear the selling prices at which tl went into storage and requiring tl all goods ties'ined for interstate co inerce bear the prices at which tl left the hands of the producer. Enactment of the pending bill 1 the control of security issues. Additional appropriations for g< ernment agencies which can sup] the public with full information as prices at which retailers buy. Early ratification of the pei treaty so that the "free processes supply and demand" can operate. Immediate Steps Promised. Immediate steps by executive ag< cies of the government promised the president included: The limiting and controlling wheat shipments and credits to fac tate the purchase of wheat in suet way as not to raise, but rather to lc er the price of flour at home. Sale of surplus stocks of food a clothing in the hands of the gove ment. The forced withdrawal from st age and sale of surplus stocks in i vato hands. / General Ileeommendat ions. General recommendations inch ed: Increase of production. Careful buying by housewives. Fair dealing with the people on I part of procurers, middle men a merchants. That there be no threats and i due insistence upon the Interests o single class. Correction of "many things" in t relation between capital and labor respect to wages and conditions of hor. (Continued on Page Blight.) ' "he Lai II-WEEKLY. LANCAST E STARTS MACHINERY QFPRIT TO REDUCE PRICES M Villi, ^ Committee to lk* Nunutl In Each REPOR County to Arrange Fair SS Price List. 1 Puts the Crop foi Washington, Aug. 10.?Attorney General Palmer started out today to ascertain how much of the high cost ^T of living Is due to excessive profits by SHORT I? retailers. In a telegram to all state food ad- _ ^ nilnistrators who worked with Adet miniBtrator Hoover during the war, Atlantic ial tlie attorney Kenera' requested the ap- crease 1 pointment of a fair price committee in each county to investigate what is 1918 of being charged for retail necessities . and if in excess of what the commit- ? , snt . . . New Orl< , tee considers just to publish a list ot ,T . , lis v _ . K Hester's an ? fair prices for the guidance of the , , ng . mercial cotb . public. .. # he . . . .. the crop of This is the "extra legal means or , , , Its "* bales, a de< ne reaching profiteering which Mr. Palmer recently indicated was under con . ' ,, ? ?a- under 1916sideration. He has frankly admitted ? . He says I from the start that there was no _ . , n- a 541,000 bal means to prosecute directly a man ,, guilty of extortion in prices. Retail- ? -C- , , ... bracing Lo ers who are gouging the ultimate con- . _ J ' sumer will have to be disciplined bv ansa8> '1 oy , , , ?... sourl, Ariz . . public sentiment which officials have , v, id, . . , ? , , . and New Mr no doubt is sufficiently alert to the 3gl ^ situation now to act vigorously in , ' i . ? , .. .. lantic stat< . clear-cut cases. Hoarders, on the oth- .... he . . ' . North C ar . er hand, can be reached through the ~ at- Georgia, Fl< war time food laws or the Sherman , , , to , ., ,, . . . .. ginia) an ir , act, and Mr. Palmer requested the . ily . .. grade avera ? state food administrators to transmit to him any evidence of hoarding or puts other violations of the law which they pound of n might encounter in their work, with cents the promise that the government's 'ast -vearlaw enforcement machinery would act 'n 10 promptly. commercial 1116 against $14 :ht EIGHT BIG WAREHOUSES th* year l,e crop, includ be FOR THE CAROLINAS 251.868 aK1 year. k* Five For This State?(irrenviilo, Mr. Hest< Spartanburg, Rock llill, < 'olimi- crop by stat HI. nK.-i?. a,uls ba,? Alabama, year; Arkai *n- CAistruction of eight ma at cotton 54 Ith warehouses in the Carolinas, with a .lgains 8e. total capacity of 300.000 bales is pro-, agajn^t ggr, >nt posed by the Union Warehouse cor- jQjg. he P&ration. recently organized in New North York. Three proposed warehouses in 717' <?oujh North Carolina will have a capacity j 20 5- Teni lts of 100,000 and the live proposed for Texas' > gx Ql South Carolina will have a capacity of oroD i,ales ] lfft 200,000 bales. 116 year. This corporation announced It will ^Ir u,,st lct build warehouses at Charlotte, 4 0.- Jd jQr thj 000 bales; Raleigh, 20,000 bales; ' est witnessc m. Greensboro, 4 0,000; in Sooth Caro)(13 Una. at Greenville, 20,000 bales; 110 ,hon 1 o{ Spartanburg. 20.000 hales; Rock Hill, <>xP?r,s for he 30.000 bales; Columbia. 40,000 ron*Pared w iat bales; and at Charleston, 100,000 ()f "ie ant,v 0j bales. For each warehouse, it is ,a' f()l v planned to build storage facilities of and ,a"s a ,e(j half the stated capacity and later en- du,'nB ,,u' rce Uirce the buildings to double the ca- *'f rman^ ar ! Paclty. 000 J ^ period thev tat I DEATH Or IIKOTHER lMr Hea,< for 191 8-1 ? CHARGED TO YOUTH put8 the nui ^ ^ in the intei Tragedy Occurred at Home of Aunt ing Southei ,_ While Other .Members of Family 000, ngalns t)]v Were Attending Church. at lhe r,OSfl ter then p to A . total cnrrySpartanburg, Aug. 8 - Buster in tlu, l njl( l0e Cooker, eight years of age of Wood- jujv j f ?' ruff, Spartanburg county, was lodged interior of in the county jail yesterday on a Cnitc charge of having shot ami instantly pean mill s ^n" killed his little five year old brother port stocks l,y Wednesday night. From the evidence pean brought out at the coroner's inquest ?^44 oot) it appears that the two boys were jj,, savs t alone in their aunt's home, other 6!* 1*.'MiO bal 1 a members of the familv having gone to ... Consump church and the young Fred Cooker ? , . figures was dashed a glass of water into his t north n'l brother's face while asleep, the older . 084,Goo b.i rn* boy was awakened and it is believed . , ,, . . , . Including In crawled upstairs into an attic secur- , . ... .. , , . American n or~ ing a single barrelled shotgun with . , 000 bales ol ,n" which he almost completely blew his . , . . total consti little brother s head off, It is stated. ? a|*< 1. , . foreign gro Responsibility for the crime was A 1 6, J''7,UUU, Ja" fixed upon Buster Cooker bv the coryear. oner's inquest. This is believed to be the youngest defendant ever arrested ( on'umi0 in this county charged with a capital the offense. eluding 293 ind m 156.000 in (lermaii I'otasli Kiubargo Lifted. last year x\r u 1?-a * ? ^ "" - in- **MBiiuiniuii, aur. ?. tuncial in 600,000 in ( a formation of the lifting of the cm- the North. bargo on the importation of potash Mr. Hest< j,e from Qermany was received today South at 1 jn from the War Trade Board by Sena- new and ja_ tor Smith, of South Carolina. The against 14.' lifting is effective today and leaves all there are ir foreign potash free to come into this the mills i country. mills in the MCASTB ER, S. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919. fary^ester1 secret service rs on cohon after food gou Commercial Cotton Assisting Forces Aire Year at 11,639,653 Work to Stop Hoardin; Wales. Profiteering. f TEXAS AND GULF EXPECT TANGIBLE III lan Last Year in the Congress to Proceed Proi States, But a De- Response to Wilson's Under Crop of 1917- for More Legislation c 267,320 Bales. lem. Jans, Aug. 9.?Secretary Washington. Aug. 9.?Tai nuai report on the com- suits front the investigation on crop, issued today, puts jng and profiteering initiate 1918-1919 at 11.639,653 torney General Palmer are urease under the crop of to develop in the immediate >f 267,320 and a decrease the result of an order toda 1917 of 1,301,281. lng the entire secret servi< lhat the crop of Texas is bureau of investigation to i es less than last year, the forces now at work trying t< other gulf states" (em- instances in which the public uisiana, Mississippi, Ar- gouged by the illegal c< nnesaee, Oklahoma, Mis- prices. ona, California, Kansas Officials of tho departmer xlco) shows a decrease of tico said reports from man> es and the group of At- of the country showed the s ?s (including Alabama, evidence of extortion in th? olina. South Carolina, ties of life was proceeding v orida, Kentucky, and Vir- and it was indicated that m icrease of 655,000. Crop ecutions might come very st ge barely middling. Announcement also was the average price per day that congress would diddling for the year at promptly with legislative . as compared with 28.8 recommended by President 1 it.41 year before last, and his address yesterday as nec 15-1916 and the average *top the "vicious practices value per bale at $155.14 have been largely responsibl 7.39 last year and $94.82 rising cost of living, fore and the value of the Republican I.eader Mond< ling the seed, at $2,045,- In the house that appr< iinst $2,001,682,939 last, would be made at once to e government departments t .rvn?? * ^ f * ? ? ' * * * -i j-> i > iniii cm cummercial ? "*" m'uuh'ui, ami t nairinai ps is as follows in thous* announced the agricultural >s: toe would begin hearings M 756 against 521 last ??K??'atl?n to control the ;i nsas. 914. against 1.004; held In cold storag , against 50; Georgia, 2,- '' aenute interstate < t 1,980; Louisiana. 541. Ittee discussed sugge . Oklahoma. 590. against the President interst !sissippi, 1,154. against menU of necessities be oonl Carolina. 908. against a "censing system, and ! Carolina. 1.491, aga.nst announced that nessee. 543. against 460; aPPotnt a sub-committee M 0, against 3,220. Total recommend such legislate 11,640, against 11.907 last sho,ll(l decide was necessary There were indications er says that the prices White Houae that Preside! s crop have been the high- high cost d for the past 52 years. ^hare with the league of n ,?wl? the speaking tour which he <. ?iiuwHiK lIU' |na|tfli The president uns he the live-year war period ,ng vJrtually a? of his tJim lth the five previous years Jo th<j economlc sltUntlon war period, showing a to- pomo (n bolieve that tbe ifl var period of 30.6660.000. <)f |hp questlon deItianda ( ttention to the fact that eq,mHy wJth the b,R lnt( five years prior to the war problem to expla|n whieh id her allies took 13,000.. pr|me purpoae ot- tbe lour. La la nee while In the war took only 3,449,000. ? put, th, act,,.,I PRICE LIST SURPLUS H9 at 13.070.000 and ho FOOD TO B in be r of bales carried over pior of the South, Includ- ii;lb,.<| itrans Five Cents i rn mill stocks, at 3.574,Pound < an; Other I in t 2,184.0011 carried over of 1917-1918. Mr. lies- Proportion, ives a statement of the -over of American cotton Washington. Aug. 8. Th ?d States and abroad and partment made public toda hose figures show total in I plete price list on all si cotton holt 3.574.000 stores available for sale to I ?d States, 5.291.000; Kit-' through the parcels post oi locks, 285.000, Kuropean j municipal selling agencies. ;. 1,248.000, total Kuro- ibe commodities to the got ,0000 total carry-over, 6,- the department said, had In garded entirely. In fixing tin hat of the total carry-over' sale which are materially h es were lintors. I prevailing market rates, tlon of the South in round The prices quoted are f. given as 3,354,000 and ^ from storage points in each a i ox a I or 0districts into which the c ilcs of American cotton divided for war departmei nters. In addition to this, tenco purposes. The departi lills have consumed 173,- jS realistributing the food si r foreign cotton, making a the 13 areas in order that niption of Aniericnn and' have its proportion per popi wth hy American mills or the 72 articles offered for pi against 7,600.000 last Quotations on some of th commodities are: tion of Unters, included in Bacon, $4.15 per can of 1' ng was 449,000 hales, in- ' orned beef, 55 cents for ca 1,000 in the South and pounds; baked beans, 5 cent the North, against a total of 1 1-4 pounds; sweet of 1,100,000, including cents per 2 1-4 pound the South and 500,000 in beans, $6.49 per 100 pound ers, 5 and 6 cents a pout >r puts the spindles in the flour, $6 per 100 pounds; i 5.187,000, Including old, 7 cents per 1 1-2 pounds; re idle and uncompleted, 12 cents per two pounds; s< 186,000 last year and says sins, 10 cents per pound, r i course of construction in oer hundred pounds; toi ind being added to new rent? per tvo-nnend can, s i South 209,226 spindles, com $2.50 pei hundre New SUB! NAW HEATH WILL IN WU?I HANDS OF CLERK PFRS uLllU Kiuh of I f < liildreii (?ets <>\er $100,(Mid and Widow I'liiU Amount ady at and Home. K and Charlotte, N. (*., Aug. 8.?The will of the late 11. I). Heath, which was turned over to the clerk of court's 'SI LTS office here yesterday for probation. will disnose of ;>?> a ? *? .... - . K Mil VO.UIC 1 UIUCU ail about $2,000,000. Under tbe will, | J ,n each of the 14 children of Mr. Heuth Request win receive over $100,000 each, and Prob- ^rs- Heath will receive that amount and the Heath home, in Piedmont, surrouuded by a six-acre tract of land. .. . The Western North Carolina ngible reho ird Methodist conference was bequeathed "l bv' \t ?4?.000. ":|wthornc Lane Methodist ?x ected <"'iurr'1 $8,000, and the Presby. ?xpt c <( terjan hospital, here, $6,000 under future as ,, , _, , ? v (jjrer1 conditions. Old family servants of lJ '', the Heath faniilv were bequeathed :e of the $200 each, issist the . Numerous other smaller bequests i uncover , ... to elementary institutions were made has been , , ... ...... . in the will, which is the largest to ontrol of . , , .... he filed in the local clerk of court s , . office in years, it of jusProbation will not be made until r sections , , one or two more witnesses have earch for , , , , made acknowledgement. Meanwhile, s necessithe document is being held bv the igorously , , . . ... . clerk of court to whose office it was any proshanded yesterday bv II. Bascom ion. , Heath, son of the late 11. I). Ileath, made to- ? . , and one of the six executors named. proceed ?, , The five other executors are Charles measures ? ,, T. _ . D. Jones, of Lancaster, S. < .; I)r. J. Wilson in ,, ( . Montgomery, of ( harlotte; W. II. ipC(<o vy T ' Twittv. of Charlotte; Mrs. Nettle IT. i which Heath, of Charlotte, wife of the dele for the ceased, and W. C. Johnston, of .Chattanooga, Tenn. pll :i t i'fl 1 .. ..... ... $40,000 bequeathed to the . I Western North Carolina conference 1* liable the , to be kept intact and used as thp con0 attack . ference mav deem best. 1 Haugen ' ^ commit- PRINCIPAL FOOD CROPS ondav on njc foods SHOW SHARP DECREASE e. \ comnurce Wheat Production Off 22l,tKtO,(KK>| stions of Bushels; Corn 27,(KN),(NH) and ate ship- Potatoes [rolled by Chairman he would Washington. Aug. 8 With living londav to costs soaring. the nation's principal m as it food crops showed sharp decreases during July, resulting from drouths at the and pests over much of the growing it Wilson area. of living Wheat production fell off 221,000,. atlons in 0,MI bushels during the month, ac. soon is to cording to the forecast today of the' . ,tl I rlnno rf ? ???!??> " '?1 11 ? T-ii miipi-i < ( am ten 11 tire ; corn recently | showed a reduction of 27,000,000 and hasj bushels; oats 137,000,000 bushels: nportance! barley, 27,000.000 bushels and white liscussion I potatoes 34.000,000 bushels. Kice rnatibnal j alone of all the crows showed an inwas the crease. Total production of wheat was foia&t at ^40,000,000 liui'hc!.0, 1ms t this was an Increase of 23.000,000 bushels over the forecast last Decern* E SOLI) her 1 and 140,000,000 bushels ovet I the five-year average from 1013 to for I l-l 1018. Winter wheat showed the es in greatest loss with 124.000,otto bush Is, with spring wheat production showing a decline of 97,000,000 bush els. e war de ** y a com lliglnva> Kccoimiicndcd. ibsisteti e York. Aug. 8 ?The county board i the public comtnissloners ha: recommended r through state highway department tliej Costs ?f! extension of federal aid to the vernn;ent, 1'"oount of $22,000 for work on the een dlsre- Clover-dast onia road. $12,000 to be prices of used in the construction of a connver thnn|rro,tt road through the town of Clover. Abutting property owners in; o b and * have agreed to hear one-fourth ' of the l.tl""' of building of the toad! through their town, ountry is _ i! suhsis- l-'nmilv (iiM'i to School, mcnt now Greenville, \uu. 8 Twelve inemupplies in j?.rs 0f single family enrolled and ateach may tending night school regularly is the illation or record 0f Greenville county in the ihlle sale present drive against illiteracy made e leading j,y the state and county school authorities In the West Dunklin school the . pounds; par(.nts and their ten children, all of n ^ them over 14 years of age, are study's per can jng regular courses, the most adcorn. 10 vanned of which is fourth grade readcan; dry jng ,,n(j arithmetic. Is; crack T<1; armv (iovcrnor Knorkcil Dosn. macaroni. Jackson, Miss.. Aug. x Walter died oats, Ih-nt. assistant attorney general of >eded rat- Mississippi today knocked Gov. Theoice. $ t>. 7 4 dore ftllbo down in a list fight in the matoes. ft office of the secretary of state. Joseph ind white Power, who. with other officers, sepd pounds, arated the inen. SCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR ANDREW CARNEGIE STEEL KING PASSES Died at His Summer Home. "Shadow Brook," in the Berkshire Hills. INTERMENT AT PITTSBURG When Bodily Infirmity Overtook Him, He Foresaw Knd in Spring and Sought Seclusion, With War Saddened Mind. Lenox, Mass., Aug. 11.?Andrew Carnegie, ironmaster and philanthropist. died today in his great mansion overlooking a lake in the beautiful Berkshire hills, where he sought seclusion when bodily infirmity overtook hint and his mind was saddened by the entrance of his country into the world war. Although he had been in feeble health for more than two years, his final illness was brief -a matter of days. A severe cold developed quickly into bronchial pneumonia, the aged patient lapsed into unconsciousness and the end came as though it were but the beginning ot a deeper sleep. No ostentation will mark the funeral of the man who, when he began 18 years ago to give away his millions. was reputed to have the second largest private fortune in America. A simple service, attended only by members of his family and household, will be held at the home. Shadowbrook. tomorrow or Wednesday. The time had not been determined tonight. It is expected that the body will be taken to Pittsburgh, the city where he laid the foundations for his wealth, for burial. Mrs. Carnegie Present. Mrs. Carnegie was at her husband's bedside in the last hours of his life, but he did not revive sulllciently to pcrn.it of any sign of recognition. Their daughter, Margaret, who last April married Knsign Itoswell Miller, of New York, was notified that it was* apparent that the illness would be fatal, and she hurried from her home at Millbrook, N. Y., arriving a few minutes after her father had died. The widow oi the laird of skibo. although overcome with grief at the. comparatively sudden death of her husband, bore the shock bravely. Her physician said tonight that she had recovered sufficiently to make it possible for her to go through the ordeal of the private funeral service. When Mr. Carnegie returned td hi? Qimimoi* 1 *1 ./ukumui turn IT \S evident to his intimates that the once great industrial leader was a broken man and that any slight indimposition might have a fata! end However, the air of the ilerkshires and the seclusion afforded in his beautiful estate appeared to benefit him and he exhibited occasional flashes of the old exuberance that had made him a cheerful companion for so many years. Mr Carnegie proved an easy prey to a cold contracted last Thursday and after a futile attempt to shake it oft he took to his bed the following day. I'iir Iteinovod I'roin Affairs. In his last days whatever his thought;- maj have been, Mr. Carte -i< appealed as one fir romnvo^ from Hit' affairs of the world in which he played fo great a part for more than the average lifetime. TV) his physician he spoke only or his health and the mode of living host suited to it. He always appeared < heerfu 1. No guards were needed to induee the people of the countryside and the occupants of the summer villas to respect the privacy which they instinctively understood would be desired by Mrs. Carnegie and her daughter. It was chiefly due to Mrs. Carnegie's description of Shadow brook, after a visit to the estate in the early summer of 11 7. as bearing a strong resemblance to the country around Sklbo castle in his native Scotland, that the ironmaster decided to purchase the property. The war had pre. vented his annual visit to Skibo and indeed had made such changes there that it was understood that he had decided to make his country home in America for the remainder of his liTe fContinued on Page Four.)