The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, September 12, 1919, Image 1
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68TH YEAR, NO. 92, SEMI-WEEKLY
FORMER COLUMBIAN "UC??T
SHOT BY A WOMAN_
Mexicans,
Maud Moore, Arrested in Cave, To
Admits Killing Man She
Was Riding With Ney York,
_____ _ 000.000 and
goods are sr
CLAIMS HE ATTACKED HER the Mexican
' fourth of w]
Girl Says Harth Draped Her .1
From Car By Her Hair and tion for the
That She Shot Him With His R,Khts ,n M
Altendorf, f<
Own Pistol. United States
partrnent, as
Knoxvllle, Tenn., Sept. 11?Mniul As an ev
Moore, who Bhot and Instantly killed Villa is rath
Deroy Harth, prominent real estate tendorf decl
man and president of a motor car the present
company, on the Kingston Pike nea pawned her
Bearden late Monday night, was locat f?r f 4.800 ;
ed In a cave about two miles from Pick up a ba
the end of the Sevier River Pike car The smugj
line at 6:30 Tuesday afternoon and one-sided nf
placed under arrest by city detec- to Dr. Alter
tlves. She confessed to the killing third or mc
as soon as she was arrested. represents
When Interviewed in her cell in Mexico into
the city jail, Miss Moore discussed that this ii
the details of the killing freely and of opium,
did not hesitate in saying that she Responsib
had fired the shot which caused the 0f villa and
death of Mr. Harth.'but stated that P,i j,y y\ltem
he had attempted to attack her and erican niatu
it was either his life or her honor. ammunition
According to the girl's story, she wjjh fhP an,
has known Mr. Harth for nearly five declared tlu
years but had never been out with waa rPaponsl
him before, nlthough he had repeat- ?rjPan trooj
edlv asked her to iro drivine with <n,? _?
one arm." H?- then knocked me down I
and kicked ai me. In the souffle, the' * ' enr
pistol fell out of his pocket and wo '' r ,(> "" "
both grabbed for It. I reached it first ,M'rs "f
and fired as he rushed at me. I was ,,<M he ,a'
getting up from the ground when I 'hat '*1,> < (,u
fired. "ro(] KO far h
"I never heard him sereum and am (""on an4' s
sure I did not, although I was excited ,,f' f ' M^'m '
nnd may have done it. He ran down "nus,,','? lna
()T f hp vV*'I F*
the road toward town as soon as he
was shot and I did not know I had H"en,p
killed him until I read the story this liw> y (,f ',nv
morning." ,h* ,et,pr ,,r
Tried to Kscape. So,,,h Caro,i
Following the shooting. Miss Moore ,0K'8,aMv? a'
stated that she got Into the car and f"r a <nn,'nu
tried to start It with the Intention of of ,ho road
getting away from the scene as quick- 'h"n R mi'"
ly as possible, hut the self starter whi?h has
seemed to be out of order. She said ''lis s'a'0,
ihat she did not know how badly
burt the man was. Upon reaching patches that
Knoxvllle, the girl, who is small of introduced I
. the continue*
(Continued on Page f.) road machine
*
? * - ?o i it id, wnen
him. an(j 13 men
"I met Mr. Harth on the street wounded. I)i
several days ago and told him that Mexicans wl
I had secured a job as a stenographer short of ami
with a firm in Maryville and intended obtained sui
to go there Monday afternoon," Miss gade, who,
Moore stated. "He insisted on driv- $165,000 w
ing me there in iris car Monday night prior to the
and I told him that I would consider Tpe rencj
it and telephone him Monday after- e(j pv j)r
iioon. pe an agent
^ "After checking my baggage Mon- at Brownsvi
li day afternoon, I telephoned him that a confident
I would meet him in front of the Y. while at oni
W. C. A. at 9:30 that night, which I Eckhardt, tli
did. When the car pulled up. there Mexico, who
was a strange man in it and Roy schemo for
asked me if I could find a companion States by Me
for him. We drove out to the home
of Clara Harris, but found that she PENNELI
hatl gone to Virginia.
Ride Into Country.
"From there we drove hack to the
Farragut Hotel and the other man got 1 ,at
out of the car. He and Roy held a Trucks foi
brief conversation and we drove off. low<
I thought he was going to take mc to
Maryville and return to fill an ap- ('apt J F
}iuiuiiiH'iii Willi lilt? II1HX1 WC IPIl HI I no ('tilof
Farragut Hotel, but when we started (i(.l)nrtn,ent,
out on the Kingston lMke. 1 asked for |otter to eat
an explanation. In return h.e said we .,Ild ,nenibetwould
drive around a little first. tat Ives from
"I Insisted that he turn the ear aKajnH( the i
around and go back or let me out. He advocate get
refused to do this, pulled out a bottle niore motor
of whiskey from somewhere and machinery a
asked me If I wanted a drink. I re- njshed by th
fhsed, saying that I never drank. He department
then took a drink from the bottle him- rjous, state 1
tM,If Recently t
" We passed through Rearden go- f|j Co|U|nbla
ing several miles beyond. He turned 0jflce ()f th(.
the car around and started back to advla,nK thn,
town. We had gone about half a mile jhorlzlng tl
when he stopped the car and demand- . .
K uriny trucks
ed that I get out. I told him that I equ|pment t,
would not do It and ho threatened highway woi
n,e" and that tint
"He Jumped out of the car and or IeK,8,at|oi
snatched me out over the steering (|jS,, jj)Utton
wheel and gear levers by the hair and) nn fllt.fllo#.
ire of the total amount them into condition to withstand the st
goods sniURRled from winter traffic," said a member of the T1
the United States and commission In speaking of road prob- tr
tcludos great quantities lems. th
"For months the people of the 0(
ilitv for the "deviltries" Stu,e he8rd talk of a Kreat bon(1 ,ssuo ni
other bandits was plac- *>r the buPding of roads. Many of us lu
dorf at the door of Am- Reen' to bave become Po^essed of the
.facturers of arms and ,dea that when th" bon(ls are ,88UeJ th
who "work hand in hand the K?od roads W,U *prinK up over- ti
ugglers." Incidentally he ni?ht- ,lke a KOUrd- And the roads
it a renegade Americai are being given little attention in the |n
ble for the attack on Am- meanwhile. Q(
,s at Carrtzal in June "Tbe commission would urge the
two American officers pPople of pvt'ry section of the State
were killed and 23 to s<>? to w that thelr principal roads
. Altendorf said that the are pllt into condition to withstand
10 made the attack were winter tram?nunition
at the time, but "Efclity-four trucks and four
pplies through the rene- tractors have already been delivered
he claimed, smuggled to var,OU8 counties in the State. Kvorth
across the border cr>" count>" CXCi^{ six has already rei
attack ceived a truck or a tractor, and the
trucks for these counties already ea
?ade American mention- , , t.
. riute to them. So each county will
jndori was said by him to . , st
have a truck supplied bv the governof
Mexican Consul Clarza, . 4!
_ , . ment.
lie, Texas, and also to be ? , .
? ? We want the people to make good
ial envoy of Carranza , . ,, . ..
. . use of these armv trucks supplied to v
e time he acted for von .. . .. ... Jo
them bv the government to be used "
le German ambassador to . , . ., ,. . . , , I ivin
road building. A road drag can he; lv
was involved In the .. w ?
? . ,T , nilaiiipii 10 mem and much good *
an attack of the United , o
. . work done before the rough winter "
>xieo and Japan. .. . . X1
"ceather sets in. *M
pRftTF^iT^ If every commun,ty wi? Ket
" the principal roadways can be put in- di
TO CONGRESSMEN to fair condition in a few weeks, and di
. travel during the winter will not be' 3
Holding Up of Army a H,,rcessl?n "f broken springs and
... . ? blow outs." n
r Highways lie Not Al- n
The commission approved of the ni
cd By Congress. following requests of federal aid: i,'
?? Williamsburg County. $10,000 (or
toy Pennell of Columbia, the road from Lake City to Lane
er of the state highway Road, six miles.
has written an urgent Williamsburg County, $10,000 for t.
h United States senator the Manning-Georgetown Road, live jr
of the house of represen- miles. q
this state, protesting Lee County. $10,000 for the itn ecent
ruling of the judge provement of Lynche's River cross- p<
leral in deciding that no ing. one mile. .
trucks and other road York County. $lo.ooo for the road w
mi iiittn-imi Miuiii ue iur- mrougn me town or Clover, eight ami (|(
o bureau of roads of the one-half miles.
of agriculture to the va- York County, $12,000 for the Fil <(
llghway departments. hert-Bowling (ireen lload. eight and (M
the highway department one-half miles.
received a letter from the Ham berg County, $25,000 for the (a
judge advocate general, improvement of the fharleston-Au- |n
t the act of congress, au- Custa highwav from the Harnwel je
le apportioning of the County line to the Orangeburg County ;u
and other war time road "no' miles. ^
o the various states for ( hesterfleld County. $6,000 for the .ir
rk. had been repealed ^ ashington-Atlanta highway three ^
II congress passed furth- ?nd three-tenths miles. in
a, ordering additional th
of the road equipment, ^ lOIAXT III Itltlt ANE CAUSES ^
lipments would be made. MICH DAMAGE AT KKY WEST tw
lell wrpte about this mat- Washington, Sept. 11.? The violent to
le South Carolina mem- hurricane which passed closo to Key wl
ress on Saturday. In the West Tuesday night did serious dam-j w|
led attention to the fact :,K?' to shipping and property, the or
Ipment and trucks deliv- navy communication service announcave
all been of poor con- *'d No lives are known to have been to
lome unserviceable. The lost. ro
Rr states that since the Eight scout patrol boats were sunk, hu
( rial has been disposed ,vvo sub-chasers were washed on a or
department officials are reef, two barges were sunk and two of
t in? to HlluriMn/l ih? iIa f?n n TKa "?* - *
W llfV liv;. r. ? iwi. a no un? JT DK1IO Hin- pf)
further materials." and Put out of commission and nn
pes the members of the <*lty property was damaged High wind tic
ria delegation to take,am' a rough sea make it impossible
rtion that will provide to repair damages, the report said. (!|j
atlon of tho distribution a8
building material, more AI'STKIAX (CABINET VOTES t ^
on dollars' worth of TO ACCEPT PEACE TltEATV To
ready been promised to Berne. Sept 11.?Th- Austrian an
cabinet, after fully discussing the coi
1 .in Washington dis- treaty, has unanimously decided to 19
a bill has already been recommend to the the national as- Te
n congress, authorizing sembly its acceptance This informs to
1 distribution of the tton Is conveyed in a dispatch from ?
try and material. ITague. I
1
e Lanca:
if. . LANCASTER, S. C. FRIDAY ?
Si' ??CALL UPON PEOPLE N
iiiv TO IMPROVE ROADS
and Opium Kent
United state?. State Highway Commission Pre
diets Trouble This Winter
Sept 11?Between $17,- Unless Steps are Taken
$20,000,000 worth o
nuggled annually acroas __
border, more than one- MANY COCNTIES WORKINC A.
hich are arms and am
rcording to a atatemcnt R ,s f?r Fc(,era, A, , G1
by the National Assoeia
Protection of American Aggregating Eighty Thousand
exico quoting Dr. P. B. Dollars Were .Approved By
jrmer member of the .
i military intelligence de- Commission Tuesday.
authority.
idence that the present At the meeting or the State higher
hard pressed, Dr. Al- way commission held Tuesday In Hi
lared that In March of Columbia, federal aid requests to tlio th
year the bandit's wife amount of $83,000 were approved re
Jewelry in San Antonio and considerable consideration given in
and used the money to to the present condition of the roads h?
rgain in ammunition. in the State. 3(
gling is far from being a "Roads in South Carolina are going 0(
Talr, however, according to be as bad this winter as they were 01
idorf. He said that one- last, unless steps are taken to put
STER h
IEPTEMBER 12, 1919.
ORTH CAROLINA IS 1,1
AHEAD IN INCOMES lt,
to Ik- Hox
;ads All Southern States in i>
Federal Tax Payments
During Last Fiscal Year Washingtoi
tirement fron
MOUNT WAS $101,278,152 ,nlss,on- ('*a|
' ' a statement <1
" Herman W.
r The Total of Approximately mo,nb<>r of
w, . .* "ousted" hoc
I-our Billion Dollars Paid In ?.mlll(.
South Carolina's Share was be a mere a
$18,660,000. department a
pecially with
tions for pre
Washington Sept. 11.?In a pre- Galloway ;
ninary report to Secretary Glass t?? resign fo?
e internal revenue commissioner returned to
cords that his bureau collected in early in Mar?
ternal revenue taxes during the have cent
ical year 1919. which ended June request, but
). last, a total of nearly $4,000,000,- House that
0, the exact figures being $3,839,- purpose to re
12.05. Martin A. M
North Carolina led all southern <,corKe R- ^
ates in paying taxes to Uncle Sam. aPP?'nted ne
he Old North state turned into the ni'ss'oneasury
colters $101,278,152.98. Of Mr Gallov
lis amount a little more than $30,- My resiP'
10,000 represented income and pro- cause I won
s taxes and the remainder miscel- '>ostniaster (
neous internal taxes. bauching thf
Commissioner Hoper states that np '
lere was a large increase in the re- j ' rfU
irns from taxes on tobacco. " r' an(' 51
from the com
Taxes paid by other southern states not willing
round figures were as follows, the should be ;
Id hundreds omitted: postoffiee dep
A1 nluini?i t t . . . . . . $12,8 i 4,000 to it, cspccj?i
Llorida 9.229,000 aminations fi
Georgia 30,923.000 ers under th
Louisiana 31.018,000 March 31, 1
Maryland 67.94 4,000 "A very r
Misslppi 6.656.000 Hurleson s c
Snlllll Cnrnllna 1C |U!II ftfid
? ........... . .. ia,uw.i,uuw I11JS proposed
Tennessee . . . . t 23,471,000 dcr, which 11
Texas 62,215,000 of the Presii
Virginia 4 5,108,000 provides thn
New York, of course, led all the highest tan<
ates, paying a tax bill of $020,74 4,- A larr num
94.60, or almost a cool billion. been aeld u
Illinois paid $33,000 000; T'ensvl >?ng time, ?
, ,ti?. *437,000,000; Ohio. $26,000.- of this amen
00; Massachusetts. $24 5,000,000; Mr Buriesot
entucky, $178,000,000; Caliornia prlve those <
122.000.000; Michigan. $134.000,- examination!
l?0; New Jersey. $10 1,000,000, and which they
[issouri. $106,000,000. j Among the
Other states paid less than a hun- j ,*l? amendnv
red millions, gradually dropping ^,ass.. -v
own to New Mexico, with only $1.- "Furthern
47,000. the eomntiss
Commissioner Roper issued last m,,,"h'd 'ha
Ight the following interesting state- <'>"I ?*xa
ent regarding the big tax bill paid j, oini,,isfiion '
y Americans; fo1 "'is P"s'
...r> . , ,, . son of whon
Total collection of internal revtue
from all sources for this fiscal ' ' K' '
&ar ended June 30, 1919, amounted
? a total of $3,839,950,612.05, an 'f noth.
icrease over 1918 of $14 5.330,-' " "?n
73.33.
.... .... , , <V< MINK ?.
Collections from income and ex?ss
profit taxes for 1919 amounted 1,1 <iK xvi
$2,59H,008,702.70 as compared Havana, ?
ith $2,839,027,938.57 for 1918. a'ar<' known
screase of $243,019,235.87, The ori-' ofhprs a re it
nal estimate of receipts from these| cyclone uhic
>urces for 1919 was $4,707,000,-' Tuesday nigi
)0. hut the revenue of these of 1918 1 Par' nl 'he
OVidert navmenl a! ?.?. i? .u.l frnni I hn on
U> niroi: ia*ra n me "" ""
xpayor so elected, in four equal spa W8"- Th
stnlimonts beginning with March ,hfl ft reefs
?. or tho dato of filing tho return, anf' debris,
id in three subsequent instalments telephone syi
je on before June 15, September 15 but " 's
id December 15. If will thus be seen 1 ,na,f> the dan
at the last two payments fall duel
the fiscal year 1920, which explains Addiflonn
e decrease in the collections made The follow
iring 1918. It is estimated that the dined by Cot
o remaining payments will amount
approximately $2,000,000,000, To increns
tilch, added to the receipts for 1919, I'nitcd State
111 bring the amount close to the Lancaster. S
iginal estimate. j Me it enac1
"The report slates it is not possible House of II
segregate the collections of in- United States
me and profit taxes at this time, | assembled, tl
t special tabulations of the returns tnry of the
e being made for the annual report States to gi\
the commissioner of internal rev-'the provis'ou
ue. which will show separately the tion author!:
iounts assessed against corpora-! post-office but
?ns, partnerships and individuals. | '-aster. South
"The revenue derived in 1919 from! roHf heretofo
(tilled spirits was $365,2 1 1,252.26. ' 'herefor l)C. i
compared with $117,553,687.33 jn ,nrroa8<>(' $2f
18, an Increase of $4 7,657,564.93 ,?' Treasi
xns In 1919 on fermented liquors' to "n,pr '"t<
lounted to $117,839.602.21. as Amotion of f
m pa red with $126,285,867.66. iu thoT,zod I'mii
18. a decrease of 88,446.255 44 2xas
on tobacco in 1919 ainouuted additional ?u
$806,003,091.84. an compared with ??thoriBed t
of any mone
(Continued on Page Right.) otherwise apj;
Jews
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR
STEEL PLANTS LABOR
.ZZ....ISSUE STRIKE ORDER
i*?^| By Ptwtofllri'
?'i?urtin<>n(. Demand Recognition of Union
and Collective Bargaining
i. Sept. 11.?Upon re- on Part of Employes
l the Civil Service coin
ies M. Galloway issued
ecluring that he and SEPTEMBER 11 I)A I E SEP
Craven, the Republican .
the commission, were t,, ,A . . .. ..
. Strike Decision followed rauure
ause they "were not;
the commission should! to (iet Conference With The
d Janet to the post office Steel Company Officials?Evind
subservient to it, esreference
to examine- dences of Bitterness,
sidental postmasters." ti.d
Craven were asked Washington, Sept 11.?Regurlesa
tore President Wilson of ,ho request of pre8ident Wilson
the peace conference ih.,, tlw,v. ,?w
.....V w.W vans II" UIUUII |jr:illIlMK IIIU
b. The letters were said comjnR industrial conference, repreained
no reason for the Sf.ntatives of organized workers la
it was said at the White th<) SfPei industry late Wednesday
it was the President's caue(i a strike, effective September
organize the commission. 22, to compel recognition of their
orrison of Indiana, and unionH an,i 0f the principle of colleo/ales,
of Vermont, were tlve bargaining by the United States
w members of the com- steel corp0ration.
The executive council of the U'4
'ay's statement follows: unions represented among the work?
lation was forced be- prs made known their decision in
lid not co-operate with an announcement issued by telegrapfi
General Burleson to de- for a ..,nore definite statement" as to
* civil service and mak- the possibilities of arranging a cent?f
the merit system. Her- ference with steel corporation official!*
en. the Republican mem- an,j after tliey had received a reply
i Democrat, were ousted from the President asking that they
mission because we were withhold action until after the industhat
the commission trial conference.
i mere adjunct to the The President's telegram was not
lartment and subservient ma<ie public by the steel union headw
lly with reference to ex- but its contents became known iia
or presidential poxtmast- Washington through press dispatcher!,,
C PXPOIItivp nrilpi" riT -
... I |? tiieir statement tin; executive conn917.
c|i merely saiil they had not been adecent
example of Mr. j Vjge(j "that the efforts of the Presfonduct
is furnished by | ,jent have been any more success! ul"
amendments to this or-|tljan tlie efforts Qf the men.
ow awaits the signature j Union otticials tirmly refused to in?
tlent. The existing order j duige jn any speculation regarding
t tlie eligible with the (j,e ?.xt*^nt of the strike, though a deling
shall be nominated, j ciaratjon attributed to Judge Gary, of
ber of nominations havt steel corporation, that the steel
p. many of them for a workers were not more than 10 pec
jvidently in anticipation cenl organized, was ridiculed as erdtnent.
which will enable1 roneoU8 j corporation was
l. in many cases, to de- saJ(1 to e,npi0y about 2?>2,000 persons
landing highest In these an(J tht. entire Industry nearly 400.?
of the nominations to ppo. In some places, it was said, the*
already are entitled. mt>n are 05 per cent. organized, ami
postoffice affected by at virtually all mills, organizers havn
ent were those in Moston, hcen ;?ctiv? for weeks and still are
lewHt k, N. J. working to obta n recruits for the
uore, a short time ago, union.
don unanimously recom- This campaign of organization
t the President appoint union officials said, has been onnoseif
intn< r an employe of the] vigorously by the mill owners, wh-v
who is far better qualified were said to have adopted every portion
than any other per- sible method to defeat it Claims were?
i the commission has made that at least 100,000 men in tin;
Hut the postmaster gen- Pittsburgh district. 100,00<? in t *
that the position be fill- Chicago district and 50,000 in scatr*r
person of his own sel- tered areas employed by "independents"
as well as by the steel corporation
had been brought into the*
iTItlliKS HAVANA ANI> union and would answer the call by
WHS KMHH) TIIK CITY dropping their tools In addition
Sept. 11. Five persons ! un'on officials said, the strike woufrf
to be dead and several havo w,de ramifications by its effect
ilssing as a result of the 011 ?^er Industries,
h swept over the city Kvidence ot the bitterness in the
nt flooding the greater relations between the unions and thrj
city with huge waves s,oe' nii11 was seen in allegations
If which swept over the made *n tbe statement by the union
e waters receded leaving heads announcing the strike. Scii.'it
itrewn with fallen trees union members and organizers, the
The electric lighting and statement said, had been killed restems
are badly crippled. C('n,lv b>' ,h?' "armed guards anal
possible as yet to esti- ,hu-s" employed by the companies.
lage, which is very heavy. ^ *
In Plant Huttine**.
I Kunils for I'ostotlirp
Miini'r i.. i.ong. son of 1{. P. Ixingr.
'ins bill has been intro- of the Pleasant Plain community, has
igressman Stevenson: become associated in business with
\ itHi. Norman il lllitcli, Jr.. of Chariest ow,
e the limit of cost of the with whom he was a class-mate at
s post-office building in ,hp college of Charleston, in the grow ovith
Carolina. i,,K of cabbage and potato plants upon
led by the Senate and'8 '?rRe scale The firm lias summer
lepresentatives of the1 headquarters at Hendersonville, NT.
i of America in Congress (' - an<l winter headquarters at Charlat
to enable the Secre-1 b-ston. and are in business all thn
Treasury of the I'nitod' >'p8r 'ro,|n<l Something of the ene
effect to and execute! ormity of the business may be in of
the existing legisla-' rived when it is known that about
zing the erection of a 1 acres are grown in cabbage plan**
tiding in the city of Lan- and a??out acres in potato plants.
Carolina, the limit of nt Charleston. Their field of distnre
fixed hv Congress' bution covers a very wido territory.
iind the same is hereby,
1,000; and the Secretary Horton?Folmar
try is hereby authorized Fred A Horton. son of Hie latff
) eontract for the con- (J. P. Horton if (be Abney comlaid
building within an- munity. of Kershaw ( ounty, who ret
of cost, including site, moved to Alabama about fifteen
?t for said purpose the years ago.was married at Andalusia,
m of $25,000 is hereby Ala., his home town. Sunday. August
r> he appropriated out SI. to Miss Sarah Kolmar, of Goshen,
J in the Treasury not Ala. Mr. Horton is one of the leading
iropriated. business men of Andalusia