Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DIFFICULT TO GET COTTON ABROAD Central European Mills Badly Hampered?Operating Part Time ? Washington, Nov. 11.?The cotton situation as it now exists in central Europe was today explained to ' Senator Dial of South Carolina after request that Howard W. Adams, representative of the department of commerce in Berlin, make a special investigation and report reached the department by cable and is now for ^ the first time being released for publication. "The spinners and textile mills in ( Germany, Holland, Czechoslovakia, T Austria and Jugoslavakia, only 20 to 30 per cent of their full capacity . except in the case of Holland," the ' report says. "This situation is due not only to the lack of fuel but also to the lack of raw cotton. "Considering the unfavorable rates of exchange of the German, Czechoslovakian, Austrian and Jugoslavian * currency with Respect to the American dollar, the spinners and textile mills can afford to buy raw cotton . />nlv when thev are able to simulta neously market the converted goods for export. This is very difficult for them to do because they can get weeks after purchasing it and the mills can never be sure about the cost of labor two months ahead. The consignments of raw cotton now stored in the warehouses at Bremen, Hamburg, Eisenbrod and other places were bought by the cotton dealers before the crop in the price of cotton in the United States, and consequently the prices (which the owners of these consignments are now asking from the consumers' with the additional cost of the relatively long storage of the -goods in the warehouses,, render the purchase of this cotton extremely diffi- ^ cult for the mills, because the goods wHi*>i urill he pnnVAr+.pd froftl this raw cotton will be too costly for ex- < port, and they can not compete e with the prices existing abroad in the countries where the mills are using the cotton bought recently.! This difference can not be evenly balanced by lower wages existing in Germany, Czechoslovakia ^and Austria, even if the money of these countries could be converted into money of other countries. "In order to effect a better , method of getting raw cotton into Geraiany and to eliminate possible speculation, the spinners and textile mills in Germany are now organizing into groups, according to their geographical location. "Some of such organizations (Verbands organize private corporations as, for instance, "Ditag" and others, with the purpose of ; handling, through such a corpora Hon, the imports of raw cotton and the exports of converted goods for all the spinners and textile mills which participate in this corporation. Other spinners and textile mills are endeavoring to do their exporting ? and importing through a specially organized government department, as, for instance, in the state of Wurttem berg, where a special department buys all the raw cotton necessary for the mills located in Wurttembergr and distributes the raw cotton among them." An estimate of Germanys possible requirements for cotton is made difficult by the fact that the consumption is dependent upon the deliveries of coal to the German spinning mills, The exchange question furnishes another serious obstacle. It appears that about the only way cotton xransacnons can oe camra out cere under existing conditions is by a shipment of this commodity to Bremen and Hamburg and there stx>red awaiting demands of buyers on terms to be arranged by cable. German cotton buyers offer not the slightest encouragement to be a transaction whereby the cotton would be sold through the ordinary pre-war channels. Legal Blanks for Sale Here.? The tress ana Banner company. SUGAR REFINING COMPANY DECLARES 7 PER CT. DIVIDEND New York, Nov. 11?Quarterly dividends declared here today by the American Sugar Refining Company were on the basis of 7 per cent, per annum, omitting the extra quarterly dividend of 3-4 of one per cent which the company has paid regularly since 1918. \ SISTER MURDERED: BROTHER KILLED \nd Another Dying Were Tragedies Of One Negro Family Last Thursday. One sister murdered, one brother J tilled in an automobile accident and i i second brother lying at the point I )f death were the outstanding trageiies which happened to a family of legroes by the name of Wiles Thurslay. Olivia Wiles Carr was shot and -*11 YMAvninry of on O Q Y*1 T7 UllCU lliuiduajr mvi mu5 c* v ou * j :our in a house on East Whitner St., ' n Anderson. Her assailant, Annie ^owan, is now in jail charged with nurder. Two of her brothers, Fred and Tim Wiles were riding in a Ford au;omobile in the lower part of the rounty and collided with a wagon, vhich was drawn in front of their speeding car by a run-away team of nules, and as a result of this colision, Jim Wiles was killed outright, ind Fred Wiles now lies in a dying :ondition at his home in Abbeville :ounty. According to the reports which reached Anderson yesterday afterloon, the two Wiles boys were drivng to work in a Ford car, and were ;raveling at a rapid rate of speed. A run-away team suddenly rushed lown an embankment, pulling a two lorse wagon behind it, and the car :ollided with the wagon. The crash was a teriffic one, and a support of ;he top of the machine was broken ind the force of the collision pushed ;his broken support through the body )f Jim Wiles. The ragged support vas forced entirely through the legroe's body, and his death was initant. Fred Wiles, who was driving the :ar, was also seriously 'cut and injurid by glass from the windshield and :rom being struck by pieces of the Under a new marriage law a Swedish husband and wife may disx>lve their amrriage on agreement i >r legal application. REDUC On account o stocked in soj PR ii' sun $20.00 Suits for. 27.50 Suits for 28.OQ Suits for 32. 0(7 Suits for . 35.00 Suits for ... 36.50 Suits for 40.00 Suits for. 43.00 Suits for... 45.00 Suits for 50.00 Suits for 55.00 Suits for 57.00 Suits for 60.00 Suits for i rtf f\r\ n j ? H ro.uu suits lur Reduced prices c style or shopwon las We offer 01 I Ml \ ANDERSON CITY CUTS WAGES OF LABORERS Anderson, S. C., Nov. 13.?City council here last night voted to reduce wages of common laborers employed by the city* irom the present /-w-p Kft +/-> $5 7!> n Hnv. arid adopted a resolution requesting the South Carolina railroad commission to reduce telephone rates to the prewar level instead of granting the raise which the Southern Bell Telephone company is preparing to ask. DIVIDENDS DECLARED BY VICTOR MONAGHAN CO. Greenville, S. C., Nov. 11.?At a meeting today of the board of directors of the Victor-Monaghan Company, operators of a chain of cotton mills, a quarterly dividend of 2 1-2 per cent on the common stock and 1 3-4 per cent on the preferred stock was declared. The dividend is payable December 1 to stockholders of record. demolished wagon. Both the wagon and the automobile were wholly wrecked from the teriffic impact when they came together. How the team of mules became frightened; and how they came to dash into the road from the embankment just as the car was passing is unexplained. The accident occurred in the extreme lower part of the county, near the Abbeville line and the wounded man was taken to Abbeville county to his home. Brothers of Murdered Woman The two negroes were brothers 0/ the murdered woman, Olivia Carr. A relative came to Anderson yesterday to inform Olivia Carr of the death of her brother and to summon her to the bedside of her other brother who was thought to be in a dying condition. The relative was shocked when he reached Anderson and. found that Olivia Wiles had been murdered just befote the time of the accident which resulted in the death of her brother.?Daily Mail. <> rn-PDU Jul/ 1 till f the late fall and me lines. Now,. IPRS GIVEN I rs r $15.38 $10.0 20.63 J2.0 21.00 ?< ?? 15.0 26-25 29.0 27.38 30.0 30.00 33.5 32.25 35.0 33.85 36.0 /inn, 37.50 A. 9C 45.0' 4125 55.0' 43.75 60.0, 45.00 65.0' 52.50 lOO.i f >n all hats now in sto i Ladies, it will be t. We have many otl ur stock of co THESE PR! RS. JA AVERAGE COAL PRICES PARTLY CAUSED BY FOREIGN BIDDING Washington, Nov. 13.?Foreign demand for American coal was an important factor in high domestic | coal prices along the Atlantic seaboard during the first nine months of this year, but it w^s only a minor factor in the creation' of high coal prices for the cbuntry as a whole, I the interstate commerce commission declares in a report prepared for the senate. The report made public today, is in response to a resolution adopted by the Senate last June calling for an investigation of the effect 8f coal exports on domestic prices. "It would be an serror to assume that fundamentally the high prices paid for spot coal are to be ascribed mainly to the large exports," says the report. "There also has been abnormal domestic situation. The foreign demand intensified the abnor mal ^domestic demand and the several factors together afforded an opportunity for the exacting oi prices not justified by the cost of production." During the first nine months of 1920 the commission's tables show that a total of 30,273,379 tons of coal left the country oi which 22,560,013 tens was exporl coal and 6,713,366 tons was for foreign bunkers. With an estimated production oi 357,142,857 tons for the first nine months of 1920 the export and foreign bunker coal Tor the nine months was 8.5 per cent of the estimated total, production," the commission declares. , , "In particular situations the for eign demand plays a much more important fart than is indicated bj the comparison of total production apd efcpprt for the United States ai a whole." During the period covered the commission showed that the exporl and bunker coal passing through :es on i v. , I the low price of we must reduce 5EL0W WILL rn ats M, a 0 Coats for 0 Coats for , 0 Coats for , 0 Coats for 0 Coats for., 0 Coats for j. 0 Coats for * 0 Coats for...! ... 0 Coats for. 0 Coats for 0 Coats for 0 Coats for 0 Coats for ? 0 Coats for 0 Coats for. 00 Coats for ck. There is nothing to your'interest to v ler. bargains to offer 3 tton and silk I ICES ARE FOR C s. s. c New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Hampton Roads and Charleston amounted to more than one half of i IViQ frt PoiL Wit, IV XVOll* roads serving those ports, the commission asserts were forced to buy spot coal at the exorbitant prices quoted at those ports and were directly affected by the upbidding of prices by foreign .buyers. In July, 1920, the average price per not on of coal at the mine was $3.25 for ^ontfoaj&t coal compared with $2.41 per net ton in July, 1919 the commission said, while spot c?al in July was $6.01 per net ton at the'1 mine against $2.38 in July a year ago. , | To Those W The! nn/\m ImUl. ' / I ' ** Give. US fo WE'LL MA ; > We always have the market afl satisfactioi r ' f ' L- assi W. D. BA t .' V LADIES' ? cotton we find ot i our stock and w DO THE WOi DR] $ 7.50 $10.00 Dresses i 9 38 1^.00 Dresses i 1H n 2ft. 00 Drpssps 1 JLVt AV ?v v 27.50 Dresses i 21.75 22.50 30.00 Dresses i 25*13 32.50 Dresses i 27 00 85,00 Dresses 1 30.00 37.50 Dresses i 33.85 | 40.00 Dresses t 45*00 ^ '^-00 Dresses t 4gjp ? 17.50 Dresses i 70.V* r,(> 00 Dresses f in i department th; isit ?< store while tV ^ou besides those liste losiery at 25 p ASH ONLY OCHR. ~ ? 112 BURIED TODAY IN ARLINGTON CEMETERY Washington, Nov. 13.?Obseri '-r> vance of Armistice Day in Washington today was marked by the burial I in Arlington national cemetery of | twelve officers and enlisted men who ' died while serving overseas, with the navy and marine corps. A detach- . ment of blue jackets and* marines formed a guard of honor as the flag J draped caskets were carried from >' the receiving vault at Arlington/to the graves. Representatives of the Washington chapters of the Red Cross and posts of the American Le- J gion participated in the ceremonies. 1 I'"/. rho Demand lest in .||| ERIES .<1 . . > 1 * Vi' * ur order, and ,, 1 JCE GOOD ''r8 on hand the best ; 1 'ords andi your a is always ; ^ I 1 " " - I \ lRKSDALE (1 ' ''' ' GOODS I H ;* >J ffi irselves over- 1 re believe the I \Jv ESSES for % 7.50 ' r'(1 for 9.00 for 18.75 J \ for 20.63 or 22.50 or :.r 24.38 * or 26.25 or...;........: 28.13 or 30.00 or._ 35.25 or 35.63 or 37.50 at is old, out-of Lese good values d. er cent off., 1 TkT 22 j I . '. A.