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VOL. XXXIX MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 41919. U. S. ATIORNEY GENERAL ESCAPES ANARCHIST BOMB Attempts Also Made to Blow Up Homes of Judge in Boston and Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio ALL WITHIN THE SAME HOUR Radical Agitators Apparently - Try to Inaugurate Another Reign of Terror Throughout the Country. Washington, June 2.-Attempts on the life of Attorney General Palmer were m'ade tonight through the plant- 1 ing of a bomb which wrecked the 1 lower portion of the Palmer residence t in the fashionable northwest portion 4 (f Washington. Mr. Palmer and all members of the family escaped with out injury, being on the second floor at the time of the explosion. One man thought to be the person who planted the bomb, was blown to I bits by the force of the explosion.' Police believed 'that the bomb explod ed prematurely before it could be placed under the house. The bomb, the police said, was con tained in a suit case filled with cloth ing. Portions of the clothing of the man killed, it was said, indicated that he was roughly clad. The force of the explosion was suf ficient to shatter the window glass in residences for a block on each side of the Palmer home. The residence of Senator Swanson of Virginia, next door to that of the Attorney General, was not badly damaged. Police picked up along with bits of clothing of the man killed a copy of "Plain Words," a radical publication. This, in connection with the r.eport of an explosion at the home of Justice Albert F. Hayden in Boston caused authorities to fear another wide spread bomb plot similar to that which radicals attempted to carry through about a month ago. Radical agitators tonight apparent ly attempted to inaugurate another reign of terror throughout the country through the planting of. infernal ma chines near the residences of promi nent men. Within a few minutes after ex plosion of a bomb at the door of At torney General Palmer's residence here, with the killing of one man, evidently ' the person planting the bomb, reports were received from Bos ton and Cleveland of similar attempts. The explosion evidently was inter nal, as there was little exterior dam age. The interior was badly wrecked. All windows were broken. There was no fire. The police said that if a homb had been use l it probably was done as a result. of Judge layden's decisions in the recent Roxbury riot cases. An empty s'it case foun]l near the entrance and a hand bill signed the "The Anarchistic Fighter s" printed on red piapr, wtrded in inflammatory ;fashion and s'rving notice of intent of its author to begin genera! w.ar on leaders of soc4(iety., waIs the only', e ue ava ible at a la te Jour tonight. TIhe remains of the m n billedJ wer" literadly 1hreded over the blo:k and driven into the as;phalt pavemecnt. 1n Boston). Boston, Junie 2.--T1he~ homec of .Jus cce Albecrt F. Hiayden01,.of the Ro-:baryc i.nmHV icial curht, at 11 Wayne s reet., was severecly: <hnmaged by an ex plosiond ot f nknown origin shortly before mhl nighlt tonai4.ht. No on? was in thle haeat the time, the' jadge an l his fd.lyV bein11 at thel(ir sunna;ler home at In ('leveland. 'levelandi, Oh io, .June 2.--An at. temp gt wasl maile to lw 1:ip the home of May or'I Harry I.. Davis hece toni 4Ight N ( (onc was in juired, but a parit of the hsewas wret-kedJ. First rets1)1 were that it was; a gas exl~l15oslo, hut the p)olice lai: dieclared a bomb)1 orl ifrnl acineiI(1()I( had been pla nted. In P'ittsburg. i ttsburg, IMa., Jutne 2.-A bomb ex-1 plosion, wVhich orcur'red two dlogrs1 from the residence of United Staltes' District Jludge WV. H. TPhomjsson late tonight, dona)lird~ the residIence of thei jurist, and other houses in the vicin ity. TIhe' ho(mes of three promiinent business mn of the cit -:er lam-1 aged by the force of the . plosion, whuioh occurred on the porch of C. J. Carrady's residence, in the fashionable Jlighlami (1laira SURPLUS FOOD TO 0E SOLD RUSSIANS ;ecretary Baker Authorizes Disposal $25,000,000 Worth CONSULTED THE PACKERS War Chief Tells House Committee Packers Advised It Be Sold Abroad. Washington, June 3.-Secretary laker told the House military commit ee today he had authorized the sale f $25,000,000 worth of surplus food tocks held by the 'army to the Coop rative Purchase Society of Russia. Che Society is composed of 20,000,000 leads of families, he said, and will ,ive in exchange for the food raw ma erials badly needed in the United States. Secretary Bake rwas asked by Rep 'esentative Anthony, Republican of Kansas, if the War Department was folding huge quantities of canned, frozen and cured meats because the ackers had protested against " dump ng it on the market and causing meat )rices to fall to a lower level." The secretary emphatically answer !d that the packers had not protested against such a course. The department onsulted the packers, the secretary said, as it does other manufacturers nd producers when it has a large 7uantity of goods to dispose of, to as :ertain whether the market could ab sorb them. The packers adivsed that the meat be sold abroad because it was unsuited for domestic consump tion, being packed in too large con tainers or cured differently than the American people want it cured. REPRESENTATIVES WHALEY AND LEVEli WIN FIGHT Washington, June 3.-Representa Lives Whaley and Lever and others ,vho made a fight for a steering com mittee of the minority in the House to assist in the leadership have appar ently won their fight to a large ex tent, although former Speaker Champ Clarke was unanimously made party leader. The special committee appointed to consider and report on the steering :ommittee proposition has decided to atdvise the establishment of what is to be called an advisory committee to assist Mr. Clarke, and this recommen ilation will undoubtedly be adopted. MANY STRIKES IN FRANCE Subways Idle; 50.000 Miners Walk Out in North. Paris, .ine 3.-The Paris subway emnployes, at a meeting lasting all night, voted unanimously for a strike, and this morning Parisians found the loors of the subway stations closed ad the lines not operating. o Meanwhile the strike in the metal trade:;, which includes the automobile ndustry, is steadily growing. There u iso aire rt ri II us on .:t sugar refln^1'('' Ind among house nainte'rs :.anI dre m12.ars, and1 t ''e wa:lk-out de.laire In thev. coi] bw ohflV N1:\'thernl v.-ance has Stri kes 01 moore or le s inrmrt ant'e. Ire replortS:I in otheL r pa rts of iFran:-e. Cong re:na.oin's IIouI.Ve Wruee.led. 1''uLe of State Rteremtative LehumI WV. Powers, am uon of orna Coe - ..an Samuel L. P'owers, wams pamrtly inight this m ;'~. Mr. P'owers; v.'h n. f(Iil was n 'h se:ctnd float' Vixplosiona in N'ew YorTi. New Yiok, .June 2--A numlier of itersons we 'jijured late. tnitt wheon a bombl ex ploded att Le'xin gt on rynrtsreciv I at poie he a. t../- m lance[' has b (men ha te-v.d to the i-en. In l'atter:<on, N. .J. P1at tv.rroni, N. .. JluneC 2.---Anf e xplo0 ion fr'om whih the polIice hel ieve to it'v' been caiusehd by a boitmb, wrv.cked hev. home of M ax G'old , s ik manufac-. urr 331 IEast Thirty-first street, at 2:30 o'clock th is morntiing, partially .vrev.ked an adjoinfing house onud broke he front door andI wvindows of a rvsi lence acrmoss the street. Most of the louses within ia radius of 2001 feet iad( windows broken. Capt, Rtyanf, of he police, declares it his belief that i bomb was planted in a drivewvay dose to Gold's residlence. No one was ninred. NEW DELVEOPMENT IN DOUBLE TRAGEDY Woman Swears Crowd of Farmers Shot Marley UPSETS FIRST REPORTS Just After Tragedy It Was Claimed Hogg and Marley Killed Each Other. Aiken, June 2.-Apparently new light has been thrown upon the mys terious killing of Jim Hogg and H. D. Marley, the two well known planters in the Allendale section last week. The report first sent out broadcast over the country that Hogg was shot by Marley, and, then while Hogg was wounded and lying on the grounid] that he shot and killed Marley, has been completely upset, according to the testimony of Carrie Stanley, at Aiken before Hon. Robert L. Gunter, the so licitor of the circuit. From the evidence of Carrie Stan ley, who is separated frc.;n her hus band and has been Marley's house keeper, it appears that a crowd of white farmers of the Allendale section shot Marley to death after coaxing him out of his house with the prom ise of protecting him on his way to surrender to the sheriff. Woman's Testimony. Carrie Stanley, appeared before So licitor Gunter here and has sworn that a crowd of men, consisting of Herman Lee, John Dunbar, George D. Kirkland, Henry D. Best, Paul Black, Hughes Reeves and Buck Lewis, came up to the Marley place after the shooting of Hogg by Marley, and after getting him to come out on the ground, John Dunbar shot him twice with a pump gun which he (Dunbar) had taken from the hands of Buck Lewis. According to the report it appears that a gathering of ten farmers were attending a fish catch and dinner at Cohen's Bluff. Jim Hogg and Buck Lewis, whose home is on the Georgia side of the river near Brier Creek, went down to the home of H. D. Mar ley, about three-quarters of a mile from Cohen's Bluff, to pay a visit. As Hlogg reached the Marley gate he was attacked by Marley's dog, and being afraid of a bad bite from the animal, is alleged to have shot and killed it forthwith. Marley, seeing the dead dog, and Hogg with his gun in his hand, came out of his home and is said to have fired one load of shot in the breast of llogg, who fell face down. on the ground. Lewis then dodged behind a tree until 1larley en tered his home, when he ran to the other menibers of the fishing party and told 'hem of the shooting. Marley Fatally Shot. It is testified by Carrie Stanley further that the whole party, some eight in number, then hastened to the Marley home, and after coaxing him outside shot him to death. 'lh af! hiavits of each member of the party conflict with the woman's 'tate'ent, the party claiming that Mariey vwas st andIing over t he pros rate hod y of' 1[ogg whe~n t he party, arrive( l, ai that M~arley appeared in a threa~ten ing mianner. TPhe testimony', of the wvoman Mtate's hat whiskey wvas on the breath of s 'veralIa men.hleris of the fishing party; she e ancl!y desig.naites John Da~n.. hrvbma ( (he char(s wVith firing the t2: 'ahot into 2dar'ley' body. Phv si cian 's' Sta;temnnt. Dr.I Johns;on Peeph s, sworn, stated: "I 'n I jline shot hol''; tfrom the back of 3iarley body. I''iv.' in the front H I '(''94.! la-eration' on the lew(r 4 fteski!! at the baick, as if om a 'irimier' 1f shot. Some of the' oundls wi.ere due to shot going th rough fr'om the fcrn, (Signed) "J.lohns-on P'((ples, 7,1. D). TIhe people in the Ellenton sect ion and many in .this locality are'( well in' 'taittd' with all the pariities coni I'rnied and pireat interest is beinr taken in the ferrting out of the kill igs. The me are uinder' arres('t bt. wvil aaiy to-lay for) hail. PO(LES lmPl'lI[SE HU1NS Pa;ris, Ju tne 2.--A German detach 'ccnt, !.,200O striong, from~ East Prus sia, criossedl the P'olish frontier anid a'ttacked the Polish 'aae guardsl according to a Hiavas d irpaitch from Warsaw. .Polish reinforcements were htas'tily sumioned andl counter-at I acked betw~een Osso viec anI Grajevo. The Geirmans *were repulsed wvith heavy losaes. HIN[S OUTLIN[S RAILROAD PLANS Would Form Dozen or More 'Great Syhtems UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL Sufficiently Attractive for Private I Capital and Afford Protection to Weak Roads. Washington, June 3.-Director Gen eral Hines tlined to the American a Short Line Railroad Association Con- li vention here today his plan for a ar- e manent solution of the railroad prob- n 1em, under which the railroads would ( be consolidated into from twelve to y twenty great systems, under govern- *c ment regulation sufficiently definite as 'I to attract private capital and afford t protection to the weaker roads. U The only alternatie to such regu- d laion, he declared, would be public r ovwnership, for under any other plan v private management would be doomed d to ultimate failure. t The director general .said that un- 1 der the plan of consolidr.tion each sys tem must be made up of some of the I stronger roads and some of the weaker C ones, be of a highly competitive char- I acter and have government represen tation on its directorate. A workable basis on which a proper return on the valuation of the rail- I road properties could be ascertained t was essential, Mr. Hines declared, I adding that excess earnings should be I divided between the railroads and the government. Earnings put back in the properties, he asserted, should not r form the basis for an increased valua tion. Prompt action by Congress in providing for the future of the rail roads was necessary, in Mr. Hines' view, as the.. present situation causes I the public to suffer. - o UNITS OF THE 81ST SAIL Two Transports With 8,000 Bound for Newport News. Brest, June 3.-Eight thousand men of the Eighty-first division (North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, na tional army) sailed for Newport News last night on the transport Siboney and Orizaba. The Mount Vernon with 6,000 regulars from the Sixth division sailed this morning for New York The liner, George Washington, in which President Vilson has three times crossed the Atlantic. has been ordered to be ready to sail on twelve hours' notice at any time aft -r mid rigcht June 5. - ------o-____ VAS'T' (R.\lN ST()('KS NEEJEl) IN EUROPE t Mr. Hoover E'timates the Exports f'rom Inited States at -'i,000,0 0. C Paris, Jun :t---A p"einliinry sur- I vey of the Uns;(ort neessities of Eu rope, ex. e! t Ru sia, sh:r.v that area will ne.e 700 0(I,(9 bushels of < wheat. and 1': 0 at a railimum, (or S - 000,0400 bus&I(ls as a po(:sile4 max..\ maum. llerb.ert (. llouoer, heend of thet r Allied relJ' (r~iza~l~tion, ni in 0 dl sta t('menlt issuled todliay. TIhe expor t 1 s urpl us (of whea t and rye from the hat thle nieeds of Europje ('an he met. t ~'th li R i iaed ies at 17,0 0,0 buh - v < b;i~r Censumpio i heUnte. "Thr 'g ou organ4izm4tion n-in co0 rai wt the vari'ee ous l oun ments,"h hi':th ---aee n iay "wA oftIni thee oi'h'tsujipe a i thle imeort terei',otsdeRssa for the ha m~1 et yearo beinnn Aug.100 4 European yi !I ofi wVh(at and ryi ouit-4 4?idCe R u i a . ?l .\lay 1, (4ier4 leduct '?n4 )Ceed, aIt I ,55.000(0i.P bashe s Thiis indie'ntes a c'rii' oif abiout 77 per 4 (en o11(f prC- 'r no armaI.Theii pre'-war4 iaot 2,500 'i40,000,( bushc~, inien(t ing5 a net imr, oft i aho-:t2 950,000,000 bushels if co.4 umupt ion were normiai next year4. Thle somewha~'i~t dliminished' pla(~~it ions a. ml the dimi4nished buy.V ing~ powe'r mf it:' oagins0t full 1nor- 1 mial consuimpt on but t he least, possi- y ble consum pti .n with the ma intenance s of publie hez th, w.e estimate at 0: 2,250,000,000 bushels, or' en imilort a on a minimua basis of about 700,- i< 000,000 bhehls. . C. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONV[NTION OP[N lorence Greets Workers From All Over the State &UO DELEGATES PRESENT r. Watson B.- Duncan Speaks on "Victory," Keynote of Convention. Florence, June 3.-Th2 forty-second nnual convention of the South Caro na Sunday School Association open d its sessions here at 9:30 o'clock this corning in the auditorium at the entral Methodist Church, with up lards of 200 delegates from vari us portions of the State present. 'he session was augmented by delega ions- that arrived throughout the day ntil tonight there are possibly 500 elegates present. The visitors were let at the stations by committees and ,ere escorted to the Central Metho ist Church, and from there were sent o their respective homes, under the ersonal escort of a boy scout. In the absence of President W. E. Villis, the Rev. W. H. P. Pendleton f Spartanburg, presided and Prof. 0. Excell of Chicago, vas placed n charge of the convention music. Prof. M. P. A. Holine of Dayton, )hio, who was to speak on "The 'hilosophy of Man-Making," missed a ailroad connection and did not reach ere. He will address the convention ater. In his absence a practical addrcAs vas made by Mrs. Mary Foster Dry ier, a pre ainent Sunday school work er. The Bible half hour was con lucted by Dr. J. S. Dill of Gaffney. The first address of the day was hat by Dr. Watson B. Duncan of Dil on, whose subject was "Victory," vic xory being the key note of the con rention. This afternoon the program vas carried out on time and tonight ;imultaneous meetings at both the ,entral Methodist and the First Bap ist churches are being held. The 'onvention will continue through I'hursday. o .ABOR RIOT IN TOLEDO, OHIO Villys-Overland Plant Guarded by Former Soldiers. Toledo, June 3.--Two men were shot o death and two others were danger >usly injured in a riot late tonight rowin- out of the labor disturbances nvolving 13,000 employes of the Villys-Overland Automobile Con many. The victims, presumably idle mployes of the company, were killed y discharged soldiers who are guard ng the plant. The killing was the ulmination of three riots today and onight which resuited in injury to hir'teenl persons. Violence started early in the day vhen a crowd of ile workers stormed :ars carrying loyal employes to the lant, snashe I the car windws with tomes and brieks an d pulled ;workers oto the streets where they were beat ,. The sitation fhamed into a pith I battle tonight when idle worer en, stormedl the enitra nes of the hint, as the em ployes w.ere leav'in, eat them with clubs and felled them ith a shower of stones~ an I brieks. treets in front of thle plrnt were lit L'red with missile.; 'and broken glas. :ayr (Conell Schre-iber, under honii 'tion the f'ormer .sohli'rs till wvearing~ their military uniform, o more ileInc( e'oni be taler:2e nl tilnt "('very oine who stai ts tign le will be dealt w'.ithi forc(ilyn in0. h mnn r whi ch the o e(,imn de. a " v!''' The forme (' old i 'r wes rmed with ri fles suplied at the? K (. eetion otff% t he ayo. TJher~e ar' 5 0 f' themi acting~ as emer'gency pol.! e Mlayor Wires for TIroops. Columbus, .June 8-. :\t niinight to igh t.Mayor Sch e'her of Toledo, red G;overno 1Coxe , saog, "send (Ops immediately to Toletio.'' The mayor sail all avaiale ldeut: heriffs had lben swvorn in hut that e was "'unable to cone with fib' st at ion," RAINM EN TO MlEET' IN ('ANADA Columly~s, Ohio. .June 3.-- -The i'otherhoodI ofq Ra ilroul Train men, 'ho0 have bee n in c'onven tion here ince Maiy 1-1, will hold their next .iennial convent ion ina Toron Io, Can Ia, it was announced todIay hy Pres lent William Lee. The convention crn will ndjounrnf tomorow. KCLAR[S GERMANY STILL IN A POSITION YET TO SAY 'NO' Rantzau Says Huns Decline to Agree Like Criminals SPEAKS OF PEACE TERMS Says He Will Do What is Right and Await the Result. London, June 2.-Count von Brock dorff-Rantzau, when asked by a rep resentative of the European Press Bureau whether he believed the Ger man counter proposals would lead to 1egotiations, according to a Berlin dis patch to the Wireless Press, said he had cured himself of the habit of believing in such things. The chairman of the delegation added: "I will do what I think right and await results. "According to an article in the Temps on Wednesday, our opponents seem to assume that the German counter proposals go beyond the lim its within which they wish to grant us a discussion. If this article inter prets the view of our enemy leaders, I hardly see any prospect of an un derstanding." Asked whether he considered un bridgeable the gulf between the Al lied demands and the German officers, the count replied: "This question itself is based on a contreversy of principles on which no agreement can be reached. It is pos sible to b' of different opinions about the esources of Germany, but there exists no agreement about the ques tion whether this nation is to do pen ance as a criminal or to fulfill obli gations as a party to the treaty. Can Still Say "No." "If in October, 1918, an avowal of its aims had been laid before the Ger man nation for its acceptance instead of a preliminary treaty regarding the foundation of peace, it would have continued to fight. At present Ger many can not fight any more, but she can still say 'no.' " After declaring that if he were in the position 6f President Wilson, Pre mier Clemencean or Premier Lloyd George he would be afraid of "assum ing an equality to God," Count von lroekdorfl'-Rantzau continued. "At the moment when the moral cloak of penal justice is removed f'rom the peace document, it became bear able for Germany to a certain extent that we, as the vanquished must make sacrifices in power and goods. We realize this bue we decline to agree like criminals to our removal into a second-class position among the na tions. Hones of (ontertion. "There are in the draft an astor ishineg amount of mental work which could be used usefully if the stipula.. tiuns which were forinulated in the most blunt. one-sidedl ness in favor of our opponents, were to change to a point of v iew, wh(ih woul correspondl wvith a peacle of justic~e. It is true that such a work'l would po(ssess many hones of' contenI)tion which wonuld have to be done away with in some other mananer bumt t hi'Br 3.4cond it ion for the esta b! imen t ofC a peac'e of' un uderstan d inge wouh! h a'. e heen) fulfilted by it." .\ror' a ndil~l It i phx Oper'atomrs Sp Alta, .Juna2- -A. strike of un1ionl morse'( andl mult ijdcx opera;tors at the W'm-.'ern I niOn Tlemgraphm Compa.ny (ice'(S hir i'n i)suplitort of the strik.' ing' emplo,'es of the Sihern Bell 'Tel lphot' a nd Teilegraphi Compan~' wads vyt'I tonight b~y the loe's counicil omf th ( 'onmmecil aTele'.gra phers U1n ilm <f Amricia, it was; annuce'd b~y~ Chas. I". t1lan, a v ire pr'esient of the - 'The strike will beg in at 11 o'clock: nounaced, adding tha t it had bz'en au.. thor'izedl .by S. .Jl. onenkamp, j inter antional pridelnt of the telegr~aphers LtmIion. The Po'sta: l'Telegraph Cable omlpany will lnt he affie:-te l, Mr. Mann said. Muchl 4 'ountfer'feit Money. Pa-is, .T'ne, 2.- J~argie amounts of ('ounIter'feit A mer 'licain papei~r mioney ar'e inl cimlatlion', in) Soviet Ria,5Ip 1lccording to uinoiliciail dispatches re-f eeivedl here. :