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PAGE EIGHT "JOHNNY" WEEKS DIES IN GERMANY Charleston Grieved By The Death Of Athlete?Victim of Football Charleston, Nov. 4.?News received today by cablegram from Coblenz, Germany, of the death last night of Capt. John L. Weeks, affectionately known as "Johnny" , Weeks, brought sorrow to this city and will be learned of with deep re- ; gret by thousands of this state who knew and admired him. His father was apprised of his death this morn- ; ing. Captain Weeks succumbed to j injuries received in a football game played Sunday, at Coblenz. Details of his injuries were not given in the , cable, but will be sent by letter, j Captain Weeks was one of the most < * * brilliant atnietes ever piajmg xv* s the Citadel, and for four years was . prominent in football, basket ball j and baseball of this state. He was r senior cadet captain when he was { graduated in 1917, and soon after obtained a commission in the regu- j lar army as second lieutenant. Sent s to Europe, he was on the firing line ( for six months and it was his company, Seventh machine gun bat- t talion, that won renown in defending a bridge at Chateau-Thierry. He ^ was promoted to first lieutenant and i captain during the war, and after peace was declared, served with the A. E. F. in Germany. He played a I good deal of football in the army, as quarterback, and won high standing in gridiron circles. Captain Weeks was 25 years of age, the eldest of seven children. His parents, Mr. and t Mrs. T. J. Weeks, three sisters and three brothers, survive him. The news of his death came as a shock to friends here and especially at the Citadel. ELECTION OF ERNEST NOW SEEMS CERTAIN Louisville, Ky., Nov. 4.?Election of Richard J. Ernest, Republican candidate for United States senator from Kentucky seemed assured tonight when the vote from all but 12 precincts in the state gave him a lead of 7,238 over his Democratic opponent, Senator J. C. W. Beckham. Returns from 3,214 precincts out of 3,226 gave Ernest 261,840; Beckham 455,602. fiwprnor Cox. however, had a ma jority of 3,958 over Senator Harding with but nine precincts missing ; Sn the presidential contest. The vote of 3,217 precincts gave Harding 458,523; Cox 462,581. !> > V COLD SPRINGS. SI & V Mr. Arthur Newell spent part of last week in McCormick with relatives. Mr. and Mre. Cliff King of Abbeville and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. King j and children, of near Due West spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. King. ? . 11 _ J Mr. Koy McUomiDs spent tne i week-end with his home people. . Miss Dessie King spent the week- j end with Miss Addie Bowen. ? Messrs. Dickie Ellis and Frank Uldrick spent Saturday night with Mr. Arthur Newell. ^ Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Kay and chil- , dren spent Sunday with Mr. T. F. Uldrick. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Culbreth and < family and Miss Clayton Blaine, of Greenwood, spent Sunday with Mrs. F. E. Hagen. Mr. Fred Uldrick spent Saturday night with Mr. Horace King. i Mr. Claude Uldrick spent Satur- I day night and Sunday with Mr. and i Mrs. R. A. Hagen. i Mrs. Floyd Uldrick and children, < and Miss Ruth Uldrick spent Thurs- i iday at Mr. T. F. Uldrick's. FARMERS HOLDING TIGHT Greenville, Nov. 2.?Farmers of [the state are holding tight for high-1 er prices and even in cases of distress are not disposing of their cotton, according to information com-J piled at the government farm demonstration offices here based on re- j ports from various sections of the jtate. It is believed that more fish are' found off tiie Grand Banks of Newfoundland than in any other part of the world. MILLER IS ELECTED NEW YORK GOVERNOR smith Defeated by Approximately Seventy Thousand Vote? In Returns. New York, Nov. 4.?Election of Nathan L. Miller of Syracuse as gov;rnor by an estimated plurality slighty in excess of 70,000 as shown in revised figures tabulated tonight assured the Republicans of a clean weep in yesterday's election. With but 187 districts missing at 10:30 tonight. Miller was leading Smith by 58,047 votes. The actual re:urns give Miller 1,306,503, Smith 1>48,456. Belated returns continued to roll ap the overwhelming plurality in Mew York for Senator Harding. With . . , ? ?; -11 2UY Ul6tn.cts missing, an ui tuciu uy state where he led Cox by an averige plurality of 239 in each district, le had a total plurality of 1,051,156. The vote tabulated gives Harding 1,<29,862, Cox 778,706. If Harding's present ratio of gain s continued he will carry New York itate by an unprecedented plurality >f 1,200,00. New York city went Republican in he presidential contest for the sec>nd time in its history, McKinley ;aving turned the trick on Bryan in 1896. v WARDING WILL LEAVE ON HIS TEXAS TRIP SATURDAY MORNING Marion, O., Nov. 4.?With only wo days remaining before he leaves Vlarion for a month's vacation trip, President elect Harding went to vork today clearing up his desk of ;he final left-over details of his campaign. With Mrs. Harding he will start it 7:30 Saturday morning for Point Isabel, Texas, where he will spend L2 days hunting and fishing prior to in ocean voyage to the Panama Call zone. He plans to be back in Ma ion December 6, and after that may I jo to some gulf coast resort for a vinter to be spent in choosing his :abinet and formulating the policies >f his administration. Except for an engagement made teveral months ago, to speak on [>ecember 5, in Bedford, Va., at an Slks Memorial service, Mr. Harding xas no appointments for public speeches between now and inaugu ation. He may make short talks 'rom his train along the way south, lowever, and may also deliver one >r two addresses on particular subiects'before March 4. Tonight Marion is to celebrate formally his election to the Presiiency, and several hundred people from other cities are expected to ioin in the occasion. There will be ill the noise and red fire that his oyal neighbors and friends can proiuce, and many special features to jive the Harding front porch and awn one final bautism of campaign jlory. Miss Mary C. Judson, aged 90, professor emeritus of the Greenville tVoman's college and the oldest wo-| nan teacher in South Carolina, cast J ler first ballot Tuesday, for Gov. lames M. Cox. Miss Judson registerid at the American Spinning company several weeks ago. She is said a> be the oldest teacher in the State. ta dt r\nv ^VllUXVJUJJ IV 0Jb Il/AI, DECLARES WHEELER Columbus, O., Nov. 3.?Wayne B. Wheeler, legislative superintendent and general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League of America, tonight issued a statement in which he asserted that reports on congressional elections from 40 states show that a substantial majority of both ; house and senate are against any beer and wine amendment." Wheeler's statement follows: "This election gives reassured proof that the people are back of tne letn amendment ana its enforcement. The reports received from 40 state3 show that a substantial majority of both house and senate are against any beer and wine amendment. "This does not mean that the wets will quit fighting or that the drys can afford to relax their activities. The next thing on the program is the passage of effective state enforcement." PUT HARDING IN OFFICE AT ONC1 Says Wilson Should Quit, Marsha Go in, Name Harding as Secretary, Then Resign. Chicago, Nov. 4.?President-elec Warren G. Harding should becom President as soon as possible, Pres dent Wilson's resignation and Hare ing's appointment as Secretary o State by Vice President Marshall, fo lowed by Marshall's resignation i turn, should accomplish this, accorc ing to a statement made here Thurj day by William Jennings Bryan. "Mr. Wilson should resign at once, Bryan said. "Then Mr. Marshall, a soon as Congress convenes, shoul name Mr. Harding Secretary of Stat and himself resign so that Mr. Hare ing may become President at th earliest possible moment, and canthrough a definite plan of peace." Bryan was to speak in Oak Par Thursday evening. Party Not Blamed. Declaring the Republican landslid just accomplished "was not a resul of Democratic, but of Wilson pol cies," the Commoner said Presider Wilson can not afford to delay th restoration of peace. "Mr. Harding," Bryan said, "ca not refuse to assume the duties a once to which the American peopl have called him by an unprecedente majority." Bryan declared he knew nothing c a proposed meeting lu leuigomis the Democratic Party, but said h believed such reorganization woul follow naturally from "this unprec* dented defeat." The Commoner, in his statemen said the Democratic Party was force to go into the fight under false bar ners. Blames Wets, Too. "The convention at San Francisco he said, "did not represent the ran and file of the party. The drys wei lulled to sleep by the assurances thf the liquor question was dead an while they slept the wets were bus sowing tares. The result of the can paign ought to make it certain tha (rh( T all < tha mai ma hoi j To there will never again be a wet bunc E in our convention willing to chang the constitution of the United Statt II and the ten commandments for glass of beer." Bryan concluded his statement t voicing the belief that the result < :t the election was not a vote of conl e dence for the Republican Party but i- refutation and a "protest" again: [- Democratic leadership. if "The vote against the Democrat [. Party," Bryan said, "was cast weel n ago. It was merely tabulated Tue I- day." NO HALT TO COME IN NEGOTIATION ,s d Conference With Japanece Amban e dor Go On?Vote In California. I e Washington, Nov. 4.?Adoption I y the California electorate yesterday < the referendum measure restrictii 1 ? 1 ? w " j tne ngnc 01 aliens 10 lease ur uu real property in that state will m affect, it was learned today, the co tinuance of negotiations here b tween the Japanese ambassador ar I the state department as to the stati t of Japanese in California and tl general subject of Japanese immigr tion. The heavy majority in fav< of the restricting measure, it w; ^ said, had been fully discounted advance and negotiations have mat ^ such progress that should a treaty r suit it may reach the senate durii ? the winter session. ;e The temporary absence from Was e ington of Ambassador Morris, wl d has been conducting for the state d partment the discussions with Ai bassador Shidehara, it was said, hi ^ only partially delayed negotiatior d They will be resumed fully on t! j. return of Mr. Morris this week. Ti JaDanese ambassador conferred tod) with Secretary Colby but no stat ?? ment as to the purpose of his vii k was given out. e The discussion between the ti it ambassadors is understood to ha d progressed so it will be possible so y for the plan which they have in mi: l- to be reduced to form for presenl ? tion to Secretary Colby and next va * Kirsc fO stand fast foi - 1AA ct ll/V/ pcic^li wool standarc , To make sur< t every detail o terial and wort tishipisofsounc lest quality . . put into eacl That, coupl prices as $4 the Kirsci our idea? Ramey / h "HARD TIMES DONE TA ;e COME AGAIN" ;s a New York Times. If it weren't that he gets a fresh 1 >y batch of passengers every run, the Pat >f Pullman porter's trust in human na- mai 5- ture would have gone since the in- Bri a creased fares have come in. hor For the public 'has tightened up *ee on this. The crowds in the Pullman 1C cars have not decreased, but the (^ public is taking it out on the porter. s" I speak on no less authority than H.-4. 1 O ^ l/I Id L UI A uillliau ijisi. o cq wiiV4 wu | uat together in the New York Pullman! Porters' club, where porters in civilre i< ian clothes sit about between runs , * DGl on upholstered screw base chairs ^ a" salvaged from 1901 parlor cars, 6V6 reading the morning papers salvaged ^ from the passengers of the night be>y fore. , ant jf an "Them that was accustomed to 50 paj |*jj cents had dropped to two bits, and <] , them that uster hand out two bits ot has the nerve to hand out 15 cents SI3 nan' a dime. So they bewail the passing of the old order. If it weren't Jg for traveling salesmen?and others J who travel by grace and the expense lea a_ account?the Pullman porters don't li? 3r really see how they'd meet ^the sot ag slump in the .tip market. The stan- the in dard nationwide expense account of an< 25 cents each Pullman night, they me e. tell me, is the backbone of their civ business. ? NC DrtBCDT TAFT FT FPTFn h 10 TO OHIO LEGISLATURE e- < n- Columbus, O., Nov. 4?Robert Taft 0j ad son of former President William How- gn is. ard Taft will be a member of the Cinhe cinnati delegation in the Ohio house he of representatives in the new legislaay ture elected Tuesday. He will take ^ ;e- his seat when the legislature con- ^a, sit venes early in January. frc no the president on the one hand, and to sai ve the foreign office in Tokyo on the me on other. All proceedings thus far be- an ad tween the conferees nave been sub- ba ^a- ject to such reference and to amendto ment, approval or complete rejection. 10 1 tie? tibaum i v suit the lin< t good style an< i feet fit... 1 e sure long we* I your ausuxuu > faction, or tl I, turn of your t without quib h question. ?d with such moderate 0, $45, $50 to $75 is hbautn idea?and of clothing value, 8c Giiiiaj kBBEVILLE I ' ' I LLEST MAN IN AMERICA IS DEAD OF BRIGHTS DISEASE ?exarkana, Tex., Nov. 2.?J. W. terson, reputed to be the tallest n in the United States, died of o*V?f'c 1Qof. flf. IllO ne in Bloomburg. He was seven t, five inches tall. OTHING SITUATION IN FRANCE SERIOUS ^ris, Oct. 30.?The clothing sition in France is as serious as the d and fuel crisis. Suits for men costing sixty francs ore the war are now 600 Women's clothes have increased n more. rifty, sixty and a hundred thous1 francs for an evening gown is ordinary sale on the Rue De La x or the Place Vandome. \ Chere are plenty of buyers. ( POLICE KILLED IN SOUTH IRELAND SUNDAY Dublin, Nov. 2.?There were at st 14 separate attacks on the po! and military in the west and ith of Ireland Sunday evening. In sse attacks six police were killed 1 eight others wounded. One mber of the military and one ilian was killed. >TICE OF SETTLEMENT AND APPLICATION FOR FINAL DISCHARGE. Take Notice that on the 27th day November 1920, I will render a al account of my actings and dors as administratrix of the estate Mrs. Annie E. Cox, dceeased, in ; office of the judge of probate for beville County, and on the same y will apply for a final discharge >m my trust as such. All persons having demands against d estate will present same for pay:nt on or before that day, proven d authenticated or be forever rred. J MRS. ELLA C. CROMER, -29. Administratrix. , Ml Idea I es of II d per- II Lo inir and t satistie renonev / ble or i / m &