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f 9 ^ * ? * ? S / f . VOLUME LVI., NUMBER 82. NEWBERRY, S. C? TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1G, 1120- TWICE A WEEK, *2.00 A YEA* ?n??e?biw pwijurn i .. ? ^ cvws rrrrt rzztiE. a-#iv j?jmi . n-r;,iuwi,i 11 ra. vyrmx amort-r- ^x. ^rr o? rrxr :r. - * ??- ? ?-?? ???. -,** ir ~bi ??ittt immkimnmwmmmmmmmmwrwmmT?nrT?????^??????????^ FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ROB EXPRESS y ' TWO .WHITE MEN LOSE SAFE CONTAINING $16,000. Enter.-Expres Car Near Killians, Tic Messenger and Dump Out Safe and Depart. The State, 12th. Tp lose a safe containing $10,000 in cold cash and then to have it re-! turned again within a few hours, in- \ tact and with its contents unmoiest-1 ed, was the very unusual experience j of the American Railway Express; coniDanv .yesterday morning. The safe was on Southern passen- j ger train No. 36 which leaves Colum-j bia for points north at 5:10 a. in. Ne?ar Killians, two white men enter- j ed the swiftly moving train through j the side door, according to express j officials, held up the messenger, R.! w nt* Columbia, tied his i hands behind his back and then rolled j big combination safe, weighing j about, 1,200 pounds and containing; $16,000,. out of the door. They then i searched the messenger, secured'his j keys and opened his small safe from which they removed three packages, one containing-$321 in currency. The contents of the other two packages had not been definitely ascertained last night, though one is supposed to have contained jewelry. The two men jumped from the 1 train after it had proceeded about one and a half miles from the point where the safe was rolled out. The messenger says he mounted a barrel in the express coach and stooping over ipapaged to reach the signal cord and stoppexfi-thei train. When the conductor learned what had happened, he at once backed the train to .the^int wJiere he supposed the safe to have been thrown out -butj saw no traces of it: The train then proceeded * to' Blythewood where - it met a freight train, in' charge >of Conductor^)." H. Plott, coming south. ' ' ' ' * --? -if ?.,k ^ The Crew was miormeu 01 vnc t?r, beryand was requested to keep, - a sharp lookout'for the safe- The, freight."train rat once proceeded towa?I Cofumbia and Conductor Plott saw the safe lying beside the track about a half mile south of Sharpe. The freight" was stopped, tjie safe \ loaded on the engine and it was brought to Columbia. From its appearance, railway and express ofiiciais are of the opinion that it wasj not molested after it was thrown from the train, and it is supposed* the robbers took alarm when the pas- j senger train backed and that they <!i<l not have time to blow the safe open before the freight arrived and cai^ ried it off. Except for the $321 and the two packages, one probably containincr canceled checks, the robbers were none the better off for their bold attempt. Tells cf Robbery. J. R. Sowell, express agent in Columbia, who was informed early in the morning of the removal of the large safe from the express ear and who spent a good part of the day near Sharpe with officers who were searching for traces of the robbers, last night gave a full account of the robbery as he had learned of it from Messenger Poterman. Mr. Sowell^said: "The train loft Columbia at 5:10 o'clock and in the express car was the large combination safe, containing $16,000 and the messenger's safe containing several packages. The messenger, R. W. Pet-j erman, says that after leaving Killians, while the train was running at a good speed, two unmasked white men, one large and the other^small, entered through the side door of the car. The messenger was busy at his work and did not see them apparent * * i? i ly until they were inside, wnen nr was held up with a gun. The mes-j senger's hands were tied behind his] back, the large man standing be-i hind the stove and the work being j done by the smaller of the two, who j kept pulling Peterman's black cap i down over hi* eyes. This small man j was dressed in a khaki shirt and j trousers and wore a brown cloth cap. j - The large man was not seen clearly, j because he kept behind the'stove. "After tieing the messenger, the j big safe was rolled out through the } i __ _ n i ^ open door and the keys to tne smaller safe taken from the messenger; y - (Continued on Pajje 7.) : \ \ REPUBLICANS FILE ELECTION PROTESTS m Hawkins ?ind Sasporias for Congress Object?Each Protest Means $1,000. Two election contests in South Carolina have been filed with Secretary of State Banks Dove- who is chairman of thy state board of election canvassers. One contest by L. A. Hawkins, colored real ertate r-Tii of Column:*!, Republican, whw contests liis '(i.-fcai for congress at the hands of Ii. P. Fulmer, Democrat, of Oianjrebur<: and the other is by M. St. J Sasnni'f'ie ?1 i?*u n uf Chjivlostotl. I'VSI Kill, *VV|/M.'?IV v* , who was defeated for congress by W. Turner Logan, Democrat, of ? Charleston. Congress allowes $1,000 and also expenses to Washington of every defeated candidate for congress who files a prima facie election protest and appears in Washington to protest the seating of the successful candidate. The defeat of these two candidates for congress was overwhelm ing, their votes being a mere fraction of a total vote east. Hawkins lays his contest on allege:! failure of polls to open on time in Columbia, and also on the allegation that certain persons were not allowed to register for the election. He also sets forth other reasons for his protest. The state board of election canvassers had one meeting, but All the returns were not in, and the hoard ndiouraed to a future date. As yet the returns have not been declared. % TO PROBE WORLD'S STORY ON BLOWING UP N. Y. BUILDINGS District Attorney Swann Will Question Every jQne- Mentioned in Charge Made by Paper. New York,-Nov.: 12.?District Attorney Edward Swann planned today to question all; of the-persons mentioned by the Evening World yester" ' ' * it-- -IX,'.. 11 day in its "solution/ 01 m? vy.m street explosion here on . September 16, the motive of which %as declared by the newspaper to have been revenge on the part of members of a house wreckers' union against a rival organization, headed by Robert ?\ Brindell, a central figure in the building trust investigation now under way here. The publication of. 'be Evening World analysis ?f tbp tragedy that resulted in loss of life to '.]\i persons ?i v*iivov;il hundred others <1 IIU I 11 J It 4 #V ?> V MV * V ? , ...... . also brought forth other theories of its origin tod;^ from tlu: police and department of justice officials. Mr. Swann saiii he was particularly anxious to question Raymond Clark, who was a foreman on the house wrecking .rob diagonally opposite the scelie of the explosion and who was quoted at length in yesterday's Evening World article. He said Clark's statement to the newspaper was at variance with a previous statement nwule by him to Assistant District Attorney Alfred E . Talle.v, y- .VTi. shortly alter me cxpiu&iuu. n.. Swann wished, he said, to ascertain whether Clark haci made either of the* two statements under intimidation.' Local police and department of justice officials frankly placed little credence in the Evening World's story, which placed blame on individual members of a house wrecking union whose rival organization, under the leadership of Brindell, has superseded them on the house wreck in.'.: job at the corner of Wall and I'rond streets. The story claimed that the ' *? ?imfl in? il!c<[> men explosion w?? .... in retaliation to what they considered unfair advantage taken by the Brindell workers. Coincident with the Evening World story, came the announcement from Acting Inspector Coughlin, head of the detective bureau, that the identity of tin- farrier who shod the horse wh'ieh diew the ?'xph>sivt5-laden wa;?on into the financial district had been established as. well as that of the person who took the horse to be shod. Search for this man. who seems to have vanished since tne explosion, is be in.a: made. Invasion cf Slav. Slav invasions of Greece from thi fifth century onwards left little impress on the Greek people. 'l ; j A MI; :! f 1 I ^ y ik " 1 , v * - ? & '< * i* V s , f> $'. 3 : L < * ' t:> I I I jg^ ^ PS8S?iI m^NM v iltt&g&ksgg ". :."-ias j cJj&Sgj This ren:ai'-?.ubii- fosaiitfhl piiG.o held recently o*i ii. ?;>.oi' .sion?* M j has been ]>hot^?rranh:,il. WALTER L. SALMON IO APPLY FOR BAIL Greenvile, Nov. 11.?Walter L. Salmon, 26-year-okl ex-soldier, who is charged with the murder of Asa Flinkingschelt, a farmer, and who is accused of robbing Mrs. Flinkinir1 schelt of $S00 or $1,000, expects to i ?? <>?Vr>vt 1 r* <? <>! nnt Oil hail j ? ?? - ? | when his wife a:ul her uncle nrrive next' week. . Mrs. Alice Aiken, the woman v?bo accompanied him to and from the scene of the homicide, is still held ; Isin jail.- The trial is scheduled to | come up at the .January term. | NEW SUPT. ELECTED CONFEDERATE HOME j Captain Williams of Brunson Suc| cceds Wai-diaw?Wardlaw Remains in Columbia. 4? Columbia Itecord. l;ith. ('apt. Ken Williams of Brunsou has been elected superintendent of ihc Confederate Soldiers Home, state inI i ..i: ? r r*... 1. <,, j ITUIIUU VI ' 1-' .:mvi ?. J Oaj)t. Lnui.; \VaviHan\ who resign j ed about >ix :n?>nti'iK ficciivc j November 1. Captai'i Wardlaw. how| eve'*, continued Lo servt~ beyriinl tin* date ?>f !>i:; l't siti'swi)(>:'. due to 1 li?.* difficulty of m: i:r:i;Wii?!.;' a <jUoiUiii of the board of directors of the norm-, for the election of his <=>"vesn.r.-. Capt. Wardlaw rel::v.s ;<. c : ! J a half year ; of !'?:? -v- : s ta to. H1;?i; .;; . . ;. ::: I ,1 j the Cltilivji: I.f ' 1 ii .-i i* X>ru.isoa, *);. * w I\ ii * i*( . i, * . ', j within thv ik,v! seven %<?e ?-it;t .s j to take U}> :fix ;|1 !' ' 11)01)10. Mr. v\ South ( arobna, !>i:" * . j (Jcorjeii: at the ??uJ -? m I war. .lit* .iniii' t! the ' {rejrimi'Jil whoa v% w: I sowed vit!> ; . foil!- y. | of tile ! Mr. " !. j that ! j 1 , } ocimr : cit v. *!:. i j incs< : * ' . . ! Wintri:'- <)1 . '< .. .v.: {vacation. . ..it! i;j at the 1VI .* Gervaii JJVIPERATOR MAY JECOf-iE GREAT FLOATING MOTEL j London. Xo'i. li. No haw '{been receivesi i?y the miuV.ry of i shipping for tin* in>pvrato;\ <?no of i 4-1-.^ ^i.fnv.in vi>?<tntc 11t"?LLt?ii '.O 'I LIIU w 1(2 I 1 I \K\ iMtlii .v.. . w ' Great Britain, ami which has boon ofi 7 | fered for snlo by t!?. government. J~ is now consi'.ls'ic<l likely tliat tin* great ship \vi!l '-or.vevted into an ' immense floating hotel at the ciock site, as it is too costly to operate as la passenger carrier. ONICHT SESSION OF THE Ki.U KL ' { > , . ..= ij't : .1. $i" . - .--i ' ^ ???, 1 kr ^ "' ; :#5- .jv.'-l . jl ' .fer- "s? _ ' ,;> ??? ' / ' ' * . "" ' 4 ; ' ' . i?}; ; u ' *' vf * ? # .V - ./ - > '* ' iV.*" .; . 1 *.!. .. !' I i & u U'vs r>?T^?*ATrr^- sty*'this r ~ A?" j*? y %&'&?? y lt iLf J :i-*ii Oi ^ LOSS PLACED AT SIXTY-FIVi. i THOUSAND bOLL^iRS. I Fifa RoliVv^r) tft H ?v(? Been the Work of incen- ! diarist. _ f i - - ^ *- v" .1 ! The Stale. j I Dillon, Nov. 13.?Last ni.erht, between 10 anil 11 o'clock, tire destroyed A. K. Me Lei lan'3 gin house, 300 tons of cotton seed, between. 285 J and 300 bales of cotton, two seed '^housH;s and a round house. There ! were also five -wagons ' loaded with cotton which were left at the gin bv I persons of the county burned with ? I their contents, and an automobile left j under th^ grin house by one of the cmj nloyeeS jOf the owner was also burni ed. flic fire was discovered by a j resident of the place about 10:20 o'clock. There is little doubt about i the burning being of an incendiary j character. It. is thought that. con-! I sidcrable kerosene must have been' used to havt: started the flames so; extensively in so short a time. T'i-: ' 'V.s v.hich Were lo:u!e:i with <e.eii oil'. ?> h i a? U'lvi around tin* i l:c..t:*c \wwv. is;mi:liaTipou?lv ' . ; wis ii i *IC J'rfS; o! thr *:'!<" t ' 1 iff! - . . ; ? * : * I * \ ? t x (/ ?;" : . i / v : 'kir * ' ' -V- ; ; ;ipp ;iri ' : ' ( . --r . i rr.ia/ *i wir< ' 'u : v \v: berry count" highway for tov.T.shin No. vie 1. A. Do; ; nick, T "" ' Animal Training. Mu::ie<?It's intc resting ic see* now honii-loving your husband j-, after having been such a lion in Society. | Violet?Yes; I take pride in my, , >k:ll as a lion tamer, i i I ?_??? ? I UXER5 ?? , ; jj I - ' -5 fWI s . ff-pj? . 1. , .? / %B| ,Vs! *i ' ' . "*:j > i . - . : ! A- . ' 1 ;r. - \ * i * 'i ' ii t . I ~ i * i : I i * ; ' ! i . i ; r ? * \ / . iv.it* Aij'.H J bJ} ik'-i i.-.-ti: !!' i a | '! TO OPERATE MILLS FOi/n DAYS A WEEK I r it.. -vile, r--v?v. 11.?'The Victor v.ghan company. operators of a ; iialn of mills, employing several thousand operatives, annoryr.ced that it would operate," beginning this week 5 _ - ! 1, ? Oil a DUSJS Ol'Jvitr U<. vs u vvccr. iui an indefinite period until there is a better demand for cotton ^oods. The directors' meetir.g here today declared- a quarterly dividend of 2 1-2 per cent, on the common stock and 1 3-4 per cent, on the preferred stock, payable December 1. SENATOR KENYON * ***.r^r* o i ircr AP r irsuo t/iuoa v/r PEOPLE'S UNREST Chicago, Nov. 11.?Senator William S. Kenyon, of the senate committee on housing, investigating conditions in Chicago, told the committee today he had found the cause of unrest and Bolshevism among: work" ing people. He made the statement after an early morning tour of Chicago's tenement district. The senator had started cut. alone ;?fvr a hasty breakfast in a cafe vheve toast and coffee fetches ^0 Ci'jjt.-i. "I' am a half horn* late," he ox- j p.I,'i<ir''<! \\ licit !'< '*ii'!" ; < ;! the commit-! i* J i'.'i.vc i'. avn'j?l more j ' : : fitiiei hY?i ; . .i ' v ! it. :*rii Uetr/' | t J i i;. . J1'otsr j . J.iKiO t:; .y.u'.ifi Wei C J . . ! :< ; :I?;iTc?! i : ' - ;!) two Ut'id | ' I : t i 3; iikcy. j jceUmgj :: i e:in. j i - I iv:tn vnv ! . nres.; . vet the: i xoi\' a; j i uyj-ia. j teethj I i as!:trf! j (i.l ! (i v. e. i v.vrei! | care! ? . . . , dress j i !: uOO | lid the f r :r{e of | accomplishment, a suuernig; with- i 'V,f kr'.v. r."- Joast a! .'m/ii:- ro :n. : .-.'itnd.. Lia:.:\;Sv and Bol-I : t; prevail. These : ns iO' r-e 'A'Oi'.sc." Aiivc: lie..i.7 That Didn't Pay. Jeweler \? f rov. have evidence I that ? ' exults? h's nejgi'f-.or?ii 'w* s->? Jeweler X?evening Ij advertised for :i n?;r:H watchman and during the night burglars came and cleaned out the store. TO MAKE INTO LAW THE HIGHWAY RULES State Highway Commission and At* torn-y Genera! to Draft Act. A Ti;*w jaw In the i uuy a;;.j?i(p;tre:l 1?> j sa'iU' V ttiulttf ot tn j act. ol ttio J'i'iO central assembly, will be intro-n th?? nc::i general assembly, ivii.s h siwts it; January,'according to :t siai'f?ne)it from the highway ilenje.-c ioJay. The highway act of hv ve;t legi.-iature session authorthe h:>]iv.'..y commission to pro?iiul-.Tt?? filler eroverni2:g tralTu' ' o:y. stale highways. "A*ior: ey DenOttu WOiiO has iiceil ^j'i.o;! t oi.-cerni^ir the scope of the i t ? u!*-* *??>..* pioporctl u? bo i&vaed by \h<: 1 =-.V'i the hiR'hWTiV -1utf;mOTit, 'Vtitd Htivisei th?f if >. p.r.aiiiona arr- {a go heyn:.ti ti'.c Vjl ii.j provisions of rhe stalutc < it. vil] he belter to have a law exacted covering thein before they a'-.- lie orders his services in prupr.ri:^ th;- necessary bill, if We vviii t::'i.-..arv ah'i subn-i? to him the r.-j.rab.tii'iiS '.ve desire to have enforced." The highway department is now wording- on these regulations. "Pending the. issuance of these re^ula- , lions," it is stated by the highway , department f acials, "appeals are be- j ing made to the public to observe . care on the public highways and to carry out the requirements of local traffic regulations." ' EARNEST EFFORTS TO HAVE HARDING NAME W. H. TAFT , i Washington, Nov. 11.?The mostj earnest efforts are being made by j -Republicans high in the party coun- j r>\lc tn indnre President-elect Hard-! ing to appoint former President Wil- j liam H. Taft to the supreme bench in succession of Chief Justice White, who will shortly retire, for the purpose of safely disposing of him without damage to the organization. - The change is expected early in the Harding administration. Mr. Taft, it was pointed out today, is an extremely able judge but a woefully poor politician and it is feared that his predilection for the league of nations will get the party into tr'juuiv. As a member 'of the supreme bench, the former president will be barred from participating in discussion of political measures pending before congress. Hughes on Slate. The return of Charles Evans ilughcs to the supreme court is also looked for , it being understood that j he is scheduled for the first vacancy that occurs. ' . j It has been known for sonu: time; lhat Chief Justice White was anxious, to ]eav<! the bench. Some surprise, has icen occasioned by his apparent j unwillingness to resign during President Wilson's term in' office, inasmuch ;?s ho has been a lifelong Demo-; crat. He was first appointed to the j ? j ?:it beneM by rtvsMcm; v leveianu wimi'j ? ; rvin;r :j; United Stale-? senator! from JiOU'siann. Upon the death ofj Chief .Justice Fuller, he was appoint*; ?-tj rhief jus! ire. (?ft Appointed White. Jf ?.!r. 1'^f succeeds to the chief; justiceship ;>s predicted by senators j v.'ltti an> admittedly close to tli ineom-; ir::x ad mi nisiration, the appointment,' will j.-reyor! perhaps the most curious j succession in the history of Arneri- j . . Ir \iroc i vnm Mv ! faft h'Mist'lf. as ;)r<*si<le?it, that Chief Justkv White received the elevation l?> present position. AI that time "resident fa f t sot ;':.ii!o '.wry consideration of politics! and those Justice White for the ap]. because he recognized his ?rc..t ability as a jurist anti his fitness for the nosition. I Mr. Taft was circuit judge in the ; sixth Ohio circuit court when he was! c?i!kd by President McKinlcy to bej civil governor of the Philippines, lat-j er becoming secretary of war under j President Roosevelt and succeeding the latter as president. Twice he was offered a place on the supreme bench by President Roosevelt and de-j clined. It is believed now, however,! lhat he would be wining 10 accept, the chief justiceship in the event of Chief Justice White's retirement < t. UVl M'LAURIN BANK FOUND NOT SOUND EXAMINER ORDERS INSTITU* TION LIQUIDATED. President's Personal Liabilities and Worthies Securities Cause* Action. * The State. Cl'?se examination of the affairs.-^. of the Mutual Savings bank of BenneM. svl'ilr liscloiied that the infititu-. t'">n not sound and a petition to t'fif circuit court to appoint a re- t ceivrr will be nir.de during this wo-k. Stale Bank Examiner Cral# anr.r.uriCPd upon h:r, return from Ben* . nettsviiio yesterday. This bank is thv nisLMtio-i headed by Thomas B. who disappeared early last week and'was not found until seven;! days later. It wil! be remembered that a note was found on the river hank az Blewett Fajls, N. Cj which radicated that the bankpreai- \ r4av>? /v.mv.niiJ-j-<*r1 cniriHc*. Following- this note several days were si.-ent in search of the missing man until he was located in Atlanta. * He wits carried to a sanitarium in North Carolina by members of the family, where ho is now, it is understood. Immediately after Mr. McLaurin 1- _ 1 I ' ? ? J -4 ????*# ^AfWsf HSU ({ISiippUiirCd II ?<I9 cu iuav the financial status of the bank was not sound #nd James H. Craig, state bank examiner, '.vent to BennettSville to examine the booRs of the institution. Mr. Craig returned .yesterday and his report shows that the bank president had made loans and ? transactions that jwre Unknown tb the directors and tKat did net appear as liabilities. j . Mr. Craig yesterday conferred with Attorney General^ Wolfe as to the appointment of a r?*i*$r and these two officials will go before nearest circuit judge during the' &e4k r' to ask for a receiver. In the meantime the bank will remain closeit "My examination disclosed *' that > the bank was carrying* as security to loans certificates of the Bennettsville warehouse which were bogus .or 9 worthless," Mr. Craig said. "We fuf* i .t it. ,?.? J?i. titer touna mat me ptcsiucnt, nau made large personal obligations to v the bank and with other banks and parties for his own benefit which he indorsed as president of the bank, but which he concealed from the liabilities of the bank. "Aside from the worthless Securities, pledged- in the form of worthless certificates, and the personal liabilities- of the president, the bank/ vc9s found srolid. These, however, wnvrt ,sf sti.h nronortions that with the approval of the board of direotors wo decided to closc the bank. If the president and his family were' to make good these worthless securities apd hidden liabilities, the depositors could be paid in full," the state \ examiner said. m $> $> *> ^ $ $ $ v & * * y Things We Don't Understand. & * ' . {f> * "/ -i v 'v ' ?' ' ? *' & 'v Another thing we do not under' 1 ? 1 n/iA>i]n <->?m hn nnn Sltinil 17 Ii"W dt/iuc pvv/f/iv s,wu MV v??-o way today and another way tomorrow. One day you meft them they are so friendly it makes the sunshine warmer on a winter's day; at another time they are so fcrum it even chills tiie itfarmth of a friendly nature on a summer's day. When some people leave home of a morning in an angry mood they look mad to everybody else; others can throw it off, which is much better. We' like "0 see ?. feliow the same rnmg every ? day. It is easy enough. Griffin-Sh^ppard. Invitations as follows have been received in'Newberry: Mrs. W illiam Moon Griffin ' requests the honour of your presence at the marriage of her daughter Octavia b to Mr. James Orlando Sheppard * on Wednesday evening, November twenty-fourth at seven o'clock Aveleigh Presbyterian Church Newberry, South Carolina. The Sphinx of Gireh is believed to be the oldest example of sculpture ?xtant. ?x ^ - :V / *": j** * . 1 / - v.