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raw#* m gm. ? America's foreign trade for the fiscal year ending June 30 resulted in a,favorable.trade balance of $1;162,000,000, whidh was a decline of nearly 12,000,000,000 from the favorable balance of the previous year, according to reports issued today by the commerce department. Exports during the fiscal year just closed aggregated $3,770,000,000 and imports $2,608,000,000 as compared with exports of $6,516,000,000 and imports of $3,654,000,000 for the previous fiscal year. Exports last month totalled $334,000,000 and imports $260,000,000 against exports of $337,000,000 and Imports :of $186,000,000 in June, 1921. ? Crossing the American continent in one day by airplane and muking only ininrhiodliito ctnn will he attemnt UUO 111 IV.1 1IIVUIUVV W.V^ ..... . ed by Lieutenant James H. Doolittle, Kelly field, about August 8. he announced a few days ago. Doolittle will hop off at Kelly field on the morning of August 4 for Jacksonville, Fla., and a*, few days lat^r will begin a, dash from the Atlantic coast to Son Diego, Cal., traveling in a specially built plane. Authority for the flight was granted l*st week by the chief of the air service and since that timp a new piano has been placed under construction. It will be of a one man type with gas capacity of 275 gallons and will have an oil tank of 24 gallons capacity. The only stop will be made at San Antonio. ? Cotton seed products manufactured in the eleven month period, August 1 to June 30, as announced today by the census bureau, included: Crude oil, 922,790,180 pounds, compared with 1,285,020,797, and on hand June 30, 12,193.091 Dounds, compared with 37, 299,210. Unfilled oil 831,952,028 pounds, compared with 1,129,147,699 and on hand 211,070,222 pounds compared with 299,617,782. Cake and meal. 1,343,740 tons, compared with 1,757,543. and on hand 84,751 tons compared with 68,203. Lin tors 394,004 bales, compared with 434,239, and on hand 68,192 bales, compared with 154,222. Cotton seed crushed in the 11 months period was 2,980,919 tons, compared with 3,997,621 in the same period last year, and on hand, June 30, 19,431 tons, compared witl> 108,573. Exports for the period included: Linters 123,195 bales, compared with 47,709. ? An enforced voyage of more than lt)0 miles down the raging Rio Grande on top of the roof of a house was the thrilling experience which befell Long orlo Vasquez during me recent nouu qf the International boundary stream. Vazquez was asleep In the. little hut, Vrfedrp he hade his home a few miles above Eagle Pass., when the rising waters awakened him and he found that escape was cut off without risking his life by swimming across the sthong current. He took refuge on top of the house and when the building was swept away he clung to the rotff. For more than ten hours he was carried downstream. It was not until be reached Laredo that the roof was carried near enough to the bank of h<e river to give hlni an opportunity t(* jump into the water and. swim ashore. Ho was little worse off for his strenuous experience. He paid that all along the route he saw evidences of great destruction h-ving been wrought by the river. In pla, ?s the water was spread out over the lowlands for a width of several miles on each side of the main channel. ? Sheriff H. H. Duval, of Wellsburg, Pa., and several others were killed in a blpody fight between the officers of thg law and union coal miners in con nection with an attack by union miners on the non-union mine at Cliftonville, In West Virginia, close to the Pennsylvania frhe last Monday. The sheriff had information that men were coming across from Pennsylvania to attack the mine, which was being operated by non-union labor; but without mine guards. It is estimated that the attacking force consisted of about 300 or 40(X men. The sheriff bad a force of 20 men, including his son ar i other * regular deputies. The attac' em blew up the mine with dynamite ' nd set the tipple on Are. The sheriff attacked the mob and drove it before him; but was shot dead. His son assumed command and continued the fight. Several members of the mob .were killed and wounded and a number were captured. The county court elected Thomas H. Duval the son to be sheriff to succeed hid father. Both West Virginia and Pennsylvania sent troops to the scene to help preserve order. ?Lost: One speech in defense of the claim that Andrew Jackson was born in .North Carolina! Representative Wfllium F. Stevenson of South Carolina, muddied the water in a speech in the house, writes H. E. C. Bryant, Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Observer. He said that "Old Hfckory" was born in South Carolina, and Representative William C. Hammer, who represents Union county in congress, was going to give him a broadside in reply, but for some reason the answef never came. During the closing days of the house Representative Washington Jay McCormiek of Montana. Interrupted Representative H. S. Ward, North Carolina's "spread-eagle" orator, to ask: "Where was Andrew Jackson born?" It is conceded that Representative Stevenson i got away with a big contention for the Palmetto state. Some people who bolieve that Jackson was born in Union county. North Carolina and not iti Sou . Carolina, are very gunhappy over | the unanswerable charge of the gentleman JVoin Cheraw. This question of | Jackson's birthplace may become a live issue for Mr. Hammer, it is one already in some minds. Mr. Hammer said he would make reply when he got all .the facts together. He wanted to be accurate. It may be that he will return with a bucket full of argument after the recess, but 1,000 ey:>s arc on him. and 1,000 ears are listening for him. ? Secretary Edwin Denby of the American navy narrowly escaped death at Peking. China, Wednesday in an airplane accident. He was flying at a height of 4.000 feet over the Great Wall, when the engine of the plane stalled. The machine was demolished in landing, but Mr. Denby was uninjured. The plane belonged to the Chjne.se government ami had seen service in the recent lighting between Generals Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tsolin. Secretary Denby euinliasi'/ed, however, that he had made the flight at his own suggestion, and that he uid not go as the guest of the Peking administration. The forced landing, made in the heart of the hills traversed by the Great Wall, was a thrilling one, aftdr a spectacular flight in which a high altitude was reached to avoid the mountain tops. The party took off from the capital at noon. In the plane, besides the head of the American navy, were Capt. Robert Bruce and Commander George Simpson of the American navy, and Charles Doian of Boston, who piloted the machine. After circling over Peking, Mr. Denby suggested that they proceed to the Great Wall of China. After half an hour's i flying over the wall at an altitude of 4,000 feet the secretary expressed a desire to follow the course of the ancient barrier to observe its serpentine path over the hills and sides. Tim plane was turned along the course o? the wall when suddenly the gasolinefeed clogged and the pistons stopped., leaving the party 4,000 feet in tho air with a series of jagged peaks and crags below. Realizing Ms danger, Pilot Dolan started to volplane downward, seeking a landing place. Finally he located what appeared to be a comparatively clear space in the midst of the hills. Here the plane was brought to earth, only to be wrecked against the rocks that strewed the ground. Secretary Denby was the first man clear of the machine as it struck and he and his companions all escaped uninjured. The party walked to Nankow Station, where they telephoned their plight to Peking and a special train was sent to bring them back to the capital. (The \|otkriltf (Enquirer. Entered at the Postofflce at Tork, as Mail Matter of the Second Class. FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1922. Yes, let us have law and good government. There is lots of room for improvement over what we have been having. If the people* who are elligible will only join the clubs by signing the rolls, York county ought to be able to poll ten thousand votes In the primary. Of course the government will be able to operate the railroads in a. way without the help of the unions; but for quite a while at least it will be a rather ooor way. rne enrollment duuks wiu?; u*:av Tuesday. Whatever may be the result of the election, the men and women who may have neglected to enroll will be estopped from criticism. For things that may not be as they would have liked, they will have only themselves to blame. While we are doing all we can to get as much cotton as we can in spite of tho weevil, it is just as well to. put forth all our resources of mind and body to ensure our future progress in the event the boll weevil gets the best of it. The first thing to bo provided for is plenty of food and after that has been assured the question of cash income may receive attention. With reference to the sending of troops to guard railroad property, Governor Morrison says that no troops commanded by him will infringe on the rights of any law abiding citizen. That is right. Where people are disposed to resort to lawlessness, there is need for troops; but so long as no man's legal rights are Interfered with. why should the rresence of troops cause objection? One of the main issues of the controversy between the railroads and the shopmen is whether or not there can be a restoration of pre-war conditions. In the ODinion of The Yorkville Enqui rer this is impossible. Tho wage earner's standard of living has got to be re-adjusted and it has got to be readjusted on a higher basis. But the readjustment is hardly to be accomplished without a prolonged struggle that will involve many sacrifices on both sides. With reference to the weevil situation, we want to say this: Don't be a quitter. Gather the punctured squares from the stalks and pick them from the ground. Burn them all. Look the white blooms for young weevils and destroy them. Cultivate as frequently as possible. Keep up the fight. Other sections have oontinued to make cotton under worse conditions. It is hard work. It is harder t}ian the hard work we have been havitjg. But we are taking primary lesjsons now and we must learn them thoroughly. We are publishing in our advertising columns to?day an advertisement that is richly deserving of space in this column. We refer to the advertisement of John M. Kord and A. C. Harnett, announcing the bringing in of a car load of sheep for sale to the people of York cvounty. As to whether this is the answer to the b<?ll weevil, we do not prett nd to say; but. the time was when sheep raising was profitable in this suction, and with intelligent attention we lnelieve it can be made protitable again. Anyhow, Messrs. Ford and Burnett should have no trouble in the. distribution of the initial car load. The Yorkville Enquirer is hopeful that the postoffi.ee department will grant the petitions that hove been forwarded to it from business men of Yorkville and Clover asking that the star mail route between Uastonia and Yorkville be made operative two ways. Communication between Yorkville and *" " K.r ,.f uusiuma. in ine uiirimiuii i>.? Filbert, fCIover and Bowling Green would Ive of considerable benefit to many interests and since the government is providing a one-way automobile Rfj'vice between these points In the morning r, it would not mean much more | expense for the postoftlce department i to ir<akt it effective both ways. Such : an toddfiional service would be much appreciated. The press dispatches are bringing news of violence in the shopmen's i strike from all quarters. The persons ! against whom the violence is directed i are being; designated merely as "cm- | ployes." For instance at Nashville on ; Wednesday, an effort was made to hang I an employe of the Louisville and. Nashville shops. At Lakeland, Fla., an employe of the Atlantic Coast Line shops was tarred and feathered. At Aberdeen, X. C.. an "electrician" was kidnapped. Of course it means that strikebreakers or non-union men are the cause of the trouble in each instance. Many governors have furnished state troops to guard the railroad shops and other property. In many cases nonunion office men and members of the passenger and freight administration departments are undertaking to do the work of freight-handlers, shopmen and others who are out. There is hardly a railroad in the country thnt is not feeling the effects of the strike; business is slowing down everywhere on account of it. The situation is becoming more serious every day. The Charleston Navy Yard. Orders have gone forth from Washington for the abolition of the Char- I leston navy yard, and .although strenuous efforts are being made to secure | the revocation of those orders, there is reason to fear that they will stand. The establishment of the Charleston navy yard was the work of the late Senator Tillman in the face of the most violent opposition, which opposition has not in the least degree diminished. Tho excuse for the present abolition order is the world-wide agreement for naval armament reduction; but as a matter of fact, tho probability is that this is only an excuse. i,?0 *h:irhnr .smith v iiiuiumuu niiu v..v ..? of Hampton Roads, and the third best on the Atlantic seaboard; Hampton Roads being the best and New York second best. But. the excellence of Charleston harbor is of not nearly so much importance as its logical geographical location with reference to the commerce of the Southeast and Northwest. This, no doubt, was the reason why Senator Tillman had so much trouble securing the appropriations for Charleston harbor and for the establishment of the I navy yard, and this is the reason why the navy yard is to be abolished notwithstanding the millions that have I been spent in its development. The commercial leaders of the Northeast have long realized that if railroad traftlc should be allowed to develop along natural lines?the lines of least resistance?Charleston would eventually become the greatest Atlan"" K Vina linon fin 1h.lt nc count that all the power and influence | of the commercial leaders have been I used against Charleston and in 'favor j of the ports to the northward. Some of the earlier statesmen like Calhoun and Robert Y. Hayne, and later B. R. Tillman, had a clear understanding of the situation, and devoted their efforts to making Charleston to what she has a natural right to be; but the opposition has always been greater than they could overcome and It seems so yet. There is perhaps very little pieeent need for the Charleston nhvy yard; K,,f (Vin enmn mitrht ho sniri with eoual truth about any of the other yards on the Atlantic seaboard; and there is just as much to be said in favor of retaining the Charleston navy yard as there is any of the rest of them. But there is this important consideration in the matter, and that is that the government navy yard contributes that much to the possible future development of this port along natural linos and that is something the Northeast will never stand for as long as it can tind any way to prevent. THE PEOPLE'S MONEY. .Local Funds Should Be Kept In Lo cal banks. The Yorkville Enquirer wants the newspapers to "break up that policy which seeks to concentrate the county road funds in Columbia banks for the use of the Columbia banks and people," and calls on the candidates for the legislature in York county to take up and discuss the question whether York's part of the auto and gas tax should be allowed to lie in Columbia banks. The position of The Enquirer is well taken. The auto and gas tax money?except that part which goes to the state highway commission? should' be deposited in the county banks. It is a bad policy which concentrates public funds in any one place for the benefit of a few people. That was one of the crimes of the Republican party before the Cedent! Reserve act was passed. The government money went to New York banks where it remained without interest. The New York banks loaned the people their own money at from 4 to f> per cent interest. When the Federal Reserve banks were.opened the government money was deposited in the Federal Reserve banks and the people used it at a low rate of interest until the policy of deflation, for which the Republican congress wos restwmsioie, wis put into effect with such disastrous results. Favoritism in the depositing of public funds is undemocratic in spirit and wrong in principle. It should not be tolerated in a county, state or nation.?Dillon Herald. ? Radio broadcasting1 has nothing on Renoir, X. <\ The air up there is full of big things, and they are just becoming known, here is the latest- A $f>.000,<)o0 bleaching plant and possibly dying cotton yarns and cloth is to be built at Edgemont. is the report in circulation there for the past few days. It is said that some of the big cotton mill men of the state are interested in the project. This information is obtained from what is considered a reliable source. Edgemont was selected because of its pure and unlimited supply of water. The streams up there will furnish all the power desired. It has been shown by tests that the streams there carry 110 chemicals whatever and there is 110 chance for the water supply to ever become depleted. l>ense native forests surround Edgemont, and the government owns this forest, and is reforesting all of its mountain lands, so that all the water that falls, falls on government land, and is thereby preserved by the forest. It is a disconcerting fact that over 100 yarn mills along the Carolina & North-Western railway are shipping t,helr yarns to points in New England tor bleaching. Tn Lenoir some of the mills ship their products to Rhode Island for the bleaching process. LOCAL AFFAIRS, . NEW ADVERTISEMENTS J. M. Stroup?20 per cent discount. Nathan Feinstein's Department Store ?Crowds! Crowds! Crowds! Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Our wonderful semi-annual clearance sale now on. The Hock Hill Laundry?First-class laundry service. Planters Bank, Sharon?Progress and Rood roads. W. S. Peters?Candidate for magistrate in York township. F. C. Black?Candidate for magistrate in York township. VV. R. Harper?Candidate for magistrate in Bethesda township. Frank M. Sandifer?Candidate for magistrate of Bethesda township. Hugh G. Brown, Supervisor of York County?Notice to all land owners and their agents with reference to cleaning out streams. Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager? Earl Williams today In "Lucny Carson." F. E. Quinn, Sheriff of York County?. Sale of automobile under execution. j J. D. Branch, Executor?Notice to the debtors and creditors of the estate of John W. Branch, deceased. G. H. O'Leary, Executor?Notice to debtors and creditors of the estate of M. J. Walker, deceased. W. C. Herbert, Headmaster?Wofford College Fitting school. Carroll Bros.?Larro, the best feed. York Supply Co.?Turnip seed. Oats. Standard Oil Co., New Jersey?When you get the sign. W. E. Ferguson?We must eat to live. Although the West road between YcrkvJHe and Sharon lacks a great deal of completion, travel is already beginning to go through that way. Tn places the road is cut in deep ruts, of course, because as yet there hun boon no effort, at surfacing. The surfacing will probably not be commenced for a month or two yet; but the probability is that so soon as the section between Yorkville and the R. B. Hartness place is completed most of tho travel between Yorkville and Sharon will begin to take that direction. ^ -> ? .1.1 kA n kiuk . Wfltpr bridge over Bullock's creek. That is absolutely necessary. The people have been going all these years without oven a decent road between Sharon and Hickory Grove. Many an important errand has been frustrated because of high water at a critical time. People who live on either side of the creek tell stories of how they had to wait until the flood went down before they could bring a doctor to desperately sick friends and relatives. Religious meetings have been hampered because of that creek. Flood waters in the stream have been known to change the result of a county election, because of the inability of voters to get to the polls. Now there are to be two roads between Sharon and Hickory. Grove, the West road being built by the county, and the old rood being rebuilt by the township. That the West road will have a high water bridge is to be taken as a matter of course; but it will be quite a while before it can be built. That the ,o)d road must also have a high water j bridge is to bo taken equally as a matter of course. The thing is a crying necessity. The funds may not be available now; but they must be provided some how, and without any more delay than is absolutely necessary. ' 'JiJ J REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Real estate transfers have been indexed in the office of the county auditor as follows: Broad River?Sallie E. Wylie et al., to Jennie A. McGill, one lot, $1 and other considerations. Sallie A. Slaughter et al., to Jennie A. Wylie, 70 acres, $2,450. Catawba?E. M. Kimbrell to Mrs. Bertha Workman, 1 lot, $600. H. M. and W. M. Dunlap to W. F. Howell, 2 lota, $1,200. W. M. Huey to Peoples Trust Co., 1 lot. $5. Miller-Roddey Realty Co., to Gladden and Greene, 1 lot, $300. Gladden and Greene to Mary Kennedy, 1 lot, $325. Henry Neely to W. J. Neely, 75 acres, $3,750. Jno. A. Black, Agt., to P. C. Poag, 1 lot. $50. Fort Mill?W. H. McKinney to H. A. Ferguson, 1 lot, $2,000. King's Mountain?E. B. Faulkner to J. G. Huggin, 41 3-4 acres, $2,500. Mrs. F. L. Kirkley to E. B. Price, 11S acres, $25, love and affection. Jas. 1). Grist and T. M. Ferguson to G. F. Hambright and I. J. Campbell, 1 lot, $1,600. York?Wilborn, Cartwright and Tate to J. O. Robinson, 1 lot, $100. THE FILBERT MEETING The Filbert people are expecting the usual big crowd at the state campaign meeting to be held there on August 2 and they are making their arrangements aeeurdin giy. "We appreciate the fact," said Mr. W. 1j. Parsley, chairman of the committee of arrangements, yesterday "that this is the first time any York county town other than the county scat has ever hail th?* distinction of entertaining a regular state campaign meeting, and we propose to show due appreciation of that distinction. "Of course we arc going to have a stand big enough and strong enough to accommodate the speakers, ifnd we are going to hove suitable tables and chairs for the reporters, and we are going to have suitable conveniences, as far as possible for the big attendance we are expecting." All who will are expected to bring baskets; but it is not expected that those who bring baskets shall feed the entire crowd. In that respect the usual plan will he followed. Those who bring baskets will group themselves according to their own preference, and entertain friends and acquaintances as they see proper by special invitation, taking especial care of course to provide for all the candidates. WITHIN THE TOWN ? T/Ocal merchants say that freight deliveries are slowing up somewhat on : account of the crippled condition of1 the railroads. ? There has been a shortage of horse feed in town for some days, and there j have been some sales of chicken feed j as a substitute for oats. ? A falling branch from an elm tree, ! just off the sidewalk, broke one of the | plate glass windows in the front of the salesroom of the establishment of S. Ii. Courtney on South Congress street, Wednesday. The glass was not insured. It was valued at more than $150. ? Enrollment at the two up-town precincts had climbed to 575 yesterday afternoon while the Cannon Mill precinct was reported to be well over 100. There were a total of 300 voters enrolled in York N*o. 1 and 275 at York So. 2. It was predicted yesterday that the total enrollment for the town would bo about 1,000 by the time the books | close on July 25. ? The changed complexion of the city council as the result of the recent election has again brought to the fore the question of establishing a park on the outskirts of the city. The original proposition to the city contemplated the donation of the land, provided the city will develop it to the extent of a stipulated expenditure for a given number of years, the property to rev.rt to <hc donors, along with the improvements made in the meantime in case the city fails to live up to its part of the contract. ? Construction work on a number of buildings in Yorkville at the present time is progressing steadily, according to local contractors. A residence for Mr. John M. Sandifer on Wright avenue, has been completed, as has also a residence for W. S. Willis on South Congress street. W. R Moore has about completed a bungalow on Lincoln street, and It. E. Montgomery is completing a residence on West Liberty street. Satisfactory progress is being made on a residence which B. M. Love is building on East Liberty street. Construction work on the new Yorkville Graded school building is progressing rapidly and so is the building of A. M. E. Zion church on California street. , ABOUT PEOPLE Mrs. 1<\ S. Kluttz. of Gastonia, is visiting relatives in Yorkville. Mr. W. E. Hall of Yorkville, is visiting relatives in Statesville, N. C. Mr. J. Brat ton Mendenhall of Greer, was a visitor in Yorkville this week. W. Guy Davis of Bethel, was among the visitors in Yorkville yesterday. Mr. John J. Carroll of Ayden, N. C? is visiting relatives and friends in and around Yorkville for a few days. Dr. M. W. White and daughter, Miss Lesslie, of Yorkville, were visitors in Rock Hill on Tuesday. Mrs. John S. I tartness of Sharon, visited her daughter, Mrs. Jas. D. Grist, in Yorkville this week. Miss Pauline Oates has returned to her home in Yorkville, after a visit to-friends in Chester. Master John Bowen of Washington, D. C., is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. N. Bowen, in Yorkville. Miss Pauline Moore, who has been visiting relatives in Columbia, has returned to her home in Yorkville, Miss Margaret Wray, who has been visiting relatives at Burnsville, N. C., has returned to her home in Yorkville. Miss Emma Gray Herlig, has returned to Mt. Pleasant, N. C., after visiting Miss Aileen llall in Yorkville. Mrs. Jno. C. McDow, and child of Atlanta, spent the week-end in Yorkville with Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hall. Misses Jessie Baber and Mamie Parish of Yorkville, were visitors in Charleston, this week. Mr. W. W. Smith of Leesville, is visiting his daughter Mrs. F. W. Morrow, in Yorkville. Miss Esther Ford of Clover, visited Mrs. Ernest Ballard in Bock Hill this week. Miss Sarah Boyd, of Lenoir, N. C., is ?e Yf,. ??,1 H A Pnrrell in Yorkville. Mr. Sam Rntterroe, of Waxhaw, N. C., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. A. Ratterree, in Rock Hill. Miss Julia Williams has returned to her home in Yorkville, after a visit to Gaffney. Dr. R. R. Calhoun attended the state convention of pharmacists in Florence this week. Mr. J. Hope Adams of Davidson, N. C., is visiting relatives and friends in Bethel township and in the vicinity of* Rock Hill. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Moore, who have been spending several days at Virginia Beach, Va., have returned to their home in Yorkville. Clarkson McDow, who has been spending some time in Spartanburg, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. P. McDow, in Yorkville, this week. Prof, and Mrs. S. B. Hayes and family of Clinton, S. C., are visiting the family of Rev. J. L. Oates, D. D., in Yorkville. Rev. Henry Stokes, formerly pastor of Trinity Methodist church, Yorkville. and now living in Chester, was a recent visitor in Yorkville. Misses Julia Sherer and Virgie Ferguson have returned to their respective homes in Yorkville, after a visit to Land is, N. C. Rev. J. K. Walker, pastor of Trinity Methodist church of Yorkville, is in Ninety-Six, S. C., assisting Rev. O. A. Jeffcoat in a series of sendees. Messrs. Law ton Ashe and Harold Williams have returned to Orangeburg after a visit to the family of Mr. H. T. Williams in Yorkville. Mrs. Rose C. Smith, who is suffering at her home on Lincoln street, Yorkville, with a broken hip, is ie_ ported as getting along as well as could be expected. Mr. John It. llogue, who has been unite ill at the home of his son-in-law, Mr. W. K. (Soltys, near Tlrzah, for some time i>a.st, is improving. Mr. llogue is one of tlie oldest men in York county, being in his Stith year. President 1). is. Johnson of Winthrop College sails from New York tomorrow on the Red Star "Lapland," for a toil" of Europe. He expects to visit France, Italy, (Sermany and England before returning to Rock Hill. Messrs. Leon Walker of Fort Meyers, Fla.; Claud Walker of Jacksonville, Flu., and Robert Walker of Columbia, visited relatives in Yorkville, Wednesday. They are former residents of Yorkville. Superintendent of Education John 13. Carroll of York county, who has I Hvll M . M 11 I 11 ^ III (III* > 1II11 II I ' I M'lllMFi.11 I'urnut.tt university, Clrecnville, for several weeks, is expeeted to return to his home in Yorkville tomorrow. Mr.. S. A. Robinson and little son. Johnnie, formerly of Clover and now of Chase City, Vn., are visiting Mr. J. J. J. Robinson anil other relatives and friends in this section. Mr. Robinson has been in bad health since last fall, suffering fioin heart disease. Mr. Tom W. Anderson, for (he past nine years in charge of the weave and cloth rooms at the Cannon mill in Yorkville, has severed his connection with the mill. Mr. Anderson said yesterday that he had not decided what , he would do in the future; but that he ; and his family would remain in York- i ville for a mouth or more. ( Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Marshall and ? little son Wilson of Yorkville were in i Rock Hill yesterday on account of the celebration of the 81st birthday of 1 Capt. J. W. .Marshall, Mr. Marshall'* I father. Others who were present for r the occasion included. Rev, and Mrs. i R. Ij. drier and daughter Miss Mary Clawson of Mayesville, S. C.; Mr. and Mrs. Prod D. Marshall and Mrs. Agnes Marshall of Columbia. THIS SECTION NOT HIT That Yorkville and this section of the state so far is not noticeably affected by the strike of the railway shopmen is the information obtained yesterday afternoon as the result of interviews with railroad men here. "About the only complaint that hear," said B. A. Correll, agent for the Carolina &. North-Western Hailway in Yorkville, "is that shipments of gasoline and oil aro a little slow. U ^V. r-V. f {j onnporiipfl lill <I*J Ui JIVI u ri^ni- >} WMW? ? there is no complaint so far as I have heen able to learn. We are receiving and shipping about as much freight us usual. Gasoline shipments have slowed up. Most of the gasoline that comes here is received from Charleston and traffic in gasoline is somewhat crippled." "I am- not able to detect any difference in business on account of the strike so far." said P. W. Patrick, agent for the Southern Railwny when asked about the matter. "Freight business here is running along about normal and while of course it is hard to tell what tho effect will he if the strike continues and extends it's proportions, at the same time there is no noticeable interference with business here up to this time." Railway employes in Yorkville as in every other town and city are keenly interested relative to the strike and they make no hesitancy in discussing the situation and giving their views. "The whole trouble Is the result of the railroad management's trying to cut our wages down to a pre-war level," said one railroad man j ..?ni?,.i?u '-u'a can't stand it. We can't live at it. My wages have been cut 35 per cent, since 1930 and there is another cut on the road now. Living costs have not come down anything like in proportion. "For Instance, three weeks ago, I bought a 25-pound sack of sugar and paid 51.65 for it. I bought another 25-pound sack of sugar a few days ago and I j>airt ?l.S."i for it. Yet my wages have been cut 35 per cent, in the past two years or less and will likely be cut more. The average clerk in the .average store is getting better wages now than the average railroad man. While of course there are exceptions, the average clerk in a storo has not been reduced from wages he received during the war while railroad workers have. "Wages of executive officials of the railroads have not been cut at all," the railroad man went on to say. "I have reference to train dispatches and other officials higher up. "Railroad workers," the speaker went on to say, "believe that this whole business would be settled much quicker and more satisfactorily if there were no Hiich thing as a I.abor Board in Washington. That Labor Board was created by and for the railroads. Every decision that they have returned has been against the workers and in favor, of the railroads. It is common talk among railroad employes that l'resident Fairfax Harrison of the Southern Railway Is saying that he could quickly settle' with shopmen of the Southern Railway IC there were no Labor Hoard. Members of the unions look on -this Labor Hoard as a useless commission and a commission antagonistic to the rights of the laboring man." Practically every railroad worker in Yorkville is connected with one of the railway union crafts. Agents Patrick and Correll are members of the Railway Telegrapher's Union and of course if the order comes for the telegraphers to walk out they will obey the orders of their union. Information is that all the shopmen employed in the shops of the Carolina & North-Western Railroad at Hickory, N. C., have walked out. They are under the jurisdiction of Spencer, N. C.. and all of them promptly walked out when the order came., leaving the master mechanic there without hands. According to one report in Yorkville, the master mechanic at the Hickory shops wanted to move a crew of section men down to Hickory to assist in repairing an engine; but the management of the railroad declined to act on tho suggestion. "The shopmen are going to win this strike just as surely as anything," one of the railroad men said confidently yesterday. "Railroad men of all classes recognize that this is a fight for existence and all classes are going to fight until the last ditch. It is impossible for the railroad companies to fill the shops with non-union men; because such non-union men as they might be able to employ are not skilled men and are of little or no value. "It is so with the conductors and the engineers and other railroad men. Oftentimes one hears some foolish citizen remark: Oh, anybody can be a railroad conductor; he doesn't have to do a ihing except collect tickets.' Rut if one who is inexperienced were j to try to step into a conductor's shoo? j lie would find things altogether difrerone. One has to work on a railroad many years and be rich in ex- j perienco before he ever rises to the I position of engineer or conductor." "There was a time," commented another railroad man yesterday, "when the railroad companies coidd have beaten us down to a pre-war basis. If after the war the railroads bad ; been willing to reduce freight charges iml passenger fares back to where they were before the war, railroad workers would have had to accept a 1 eduction to pre-war wages without | * a light. Public sentiment favored:1 such a policy. Ihit the railroad com- II Dailies thought to beat down our wages and to keep freight and passen- i gor rates high In order to hog the I whole thing for themselves. The result Is this strike of the shopmen J which may result in the complete ty- j' ing up of the railroads. |< "Can they (ill the places of I he ? striking shopmen with non-union!' inimr, out you asK? "Well, the other day, they had to i use seven different engines in pulling'* I'assengcr Train NTo. 31 from Spencer. | * N*. (\ to Columbia. That doesn't look 1 like they can, eh?" ' "How about transiKirtation of coal ! nto this section?" * "Well." replied the railroad man, "if Ihe strike doesn't spread to all classes ' if railroad workers this section of the ' country shouldn't suffer for lack of i' : oal. |' "I don't know whether you know it s r not; but most of the co.il that is)? ,ised in North and South Carolina |:| nines from Virginia, West Virginia ' ind Tennessee. And most of it is ' >eing mined by non-union miners, k "onserinently this section shouldn't 5 lufl'er for want of coal unless all the I ailroad brotherhoods go on strike. 1 "As for myself and family." the|'i ailroader concluded, "I am not going li o take any chances but propose . to ? ;ot in my winter supply of coal with- | 1 n the next few days.' c LOC*L LACONICS Cotton Belt Defeated Sharon. Cotton P.elt won ovor Sharon in a pame of baseball at Sharon yesterday afternoon. The score was 4 to 1. Convicted of Selling Liquor. George Williams, well known white man of ltock Hill, was convicted by a jury in the recorder's court in that city yesterday of storing whisky. Walter M. Dunlup, Esq., represented Williams who was fined $50. The case may bo appealed. Underwent Operation.. Hon. Frank P. McGowan, who presided over the court of general sessions and common pleas for York county last week, underwent a surgical operation in the Pryor hospital in Chester Mon day. it was a minor operation, nowever and was not expected to give a great deal of trouble. From the latest information obtainable he was getting along very nicely. Batsman to Chaingang. Perry Bateinan recently convicted in the court of genera! sessions for York county along with Clarance Whisonant and Oliver Crisp of Rock Hill for conspiracy to rob Alexander Long, Jr., of Rock Hill, has been taken to the chaingang to serve a sentence of three months. Bateman was unable to raise the tine of $150 given him as an alternative. Fines for Whisonant and Crisp were paid. Case to Higher Court. Rev. G. W. Jennings colored Baptist minister of Yorkville, who was arrested Tuesday on a charge of carrying a pistol has given bond in the sum of $100. A wan-ant charging assault and battery of a high and aggravated na lure issued against .Jennings because of-an alleged assault upon his daughter has not been served. Magistrate p. C. Mlack said yesterday that tin? warrant may be changed to assault and battery with intent to kHl. P. C. Alumni Organize. The York-Chester Presbyterian College 'Alurtttii Association was organized at a meeting of former students of the college held in itoek Hill Wednesday evening. It. T. Pewell of Rock Hill, was elected president of the association; Dr. W. It. Wallace of Chester, vice president and P. K. Clinton, Jr., of Rock Hill secretary-treasure:. J. Arthur Plannagnn of Howling Green and A O. Jones, Jr., of Port Mill were elected directors for York county. Miss Laura Mcndenhall. Fort Mill Times: Miss Laura Mendenhall, an aged and well loved women, who had lived In Fort Mill for a number of years, died In a Rock Hill hospital Monday morning, following an operation which it was hoped would prolong her life. The remains were taken to Bethesda Presbyterian church, where the funeral services were conducted. by Rev. R. H. Viser of Port Mill, assisted by the Rev. R. C. Wilson, Jr., of McConnellsville. Interment followed in the Hethesda churchyard. Miss Mendenhall Is survived in her Port Mill home by a brother, Vv. M \l h:i II nntl n ulct or \fru T ah. ra Kendrjck. Sho wan a member of the Fort Mill Presbyterian church. Cow Killed by Poison. Fort Mill Times, Thursday: A flno milk cow belonging to T. K. Garrison, for which he is said to have refused an offer of $100 recently, died Tuesday morning, it is claimed, as a result of eating grass to which "weed killer" had been applied by order of the town authorities of Fort Mill. Recently a considerable quantity of the "weed killer" has been used in Fort Mill to destroy grass and weeds growing alongside the pavements on several streets. Mr. Garrison's cow consumed some of the grass which had thus oeen Kuica near ms nome on Han street and died, withi* a few hours after eating- the grass. A veterinarian who was called from Rock Hill to treat the cow is said to have expressed tho opinion that the "weed killer" would destroy animals which seems also to be the opinion of the manufacturers who issue a warning, printed on the barrels containing the "killer," that animals must not be allowed to eat grass treated with it within 36 hourjj after it has been applied. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Greenville News: A total of approximately 3,000 cases have been handled through the federal prohibition department of South Carolina during the past 10 months and a sum of 1169,927 in fines collected, according to a report submitted yesterday by Georgo C. Bowen, director. During the same period of time, there have been 3,018 defendants' cases appearing on the docket of federal court, 520 of whom pleaded guilty, while 125 cases were nol prosscd, one dismissed and six cancelled on account of the death of the person charged with the crime. At the present time there were 1,872 cases continued on the docket and 23 mistrials together with 47 on contingent docket. Judging from the number of cases docketed in tho two districts, much heavier work has been done in I I., , l,.? ,llv_ trict. The defendants on 'the docket in the eastern district numbered 750 and in the western 2.2G&. During the past six months, a total of 343 distilleries or parts of distilleries have been destroyed and about 3,747 gallons of whisky seized, together with !>4,000 gallons of mash, the report shows. According to records of the prohibition officer, 25 automobiles and four boats have been confiscated since January 1. A to till of 184 persons were arrested in connection with whisky raids, Director Kiowen's statement showed. ? Governor Harvey has ordered an election on the question of a section >f Spartanburg county annexing to Cherokee county and fixed Tuesday, September 3 as the date fort he qualified electors of the area involved to say whether they want to remain in Spartanburg county or ?ro to Cherokee. 'Che commission appointed to investigate the petition of the residents of Lli<* area reported some time ago and everything in connection with the lection has been legal. The area involved" includes the town of Cowpens iml surrounding territory. In his iroclamation calling the election. Gov Tnor narvey tuu? un mc iiiaiia^vis ui lection of Spartanburg to prepare for lie balloting. The general election ules and regulations will govern. The icetion involved is set forth in tho governor's proclamation as follows: 'Beginning at a point where Cherotee county touches Pacolet river above ,'acolet mills and following up tho iver to a point where Patterson creek lows into the river; thence about a itraight line by Sinip Lipscomb's place m the National highway; thence about l straight line to a point on Island reek, about one-half mile from river; hence up Island creek to what is mown as the old Scruggs' place; hence in about a straight line to a >oint near Lem Green's old store on he Spartanburg and Cherokee county ine; thence with the Cherokee county itie as now established to the beginling point." None of the proposed ines run within eight miles of any ourthouse building.