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VOL. XXXIX MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1919 RACE RIOT IN CllICAGO BREAKS OUT ANEW Seven -Persons Killed; More Than Forty Wounded. c TROOPS'ARE CALLED OUT Four Regiments nf National Guards men Being Mobilized to Quell s Disturbance. Chicago, July 28.-Seven persons are known to have been killed and more than two score wounded, many C of them seriously, in a renewvaI of ~ race riots in the Chicago "black belt" tonight. For more than five hours the five mile area o'n the south side was a battle ground of scattered fights be tween whites and blacks and between policemen and negroes, who fired from house tops, from dark alleys and other points of vantage. Troops Mobilizing. The call for troops to quell the out breaks resulted in four regiments of National Guardsmen being mobilized, but at a late hour toiight they had not been sent to the disturbed dis trict and Chief of-Police Garrity ex pressed the belief t.:at the worst of the disorder had passed. Five of the (lead are negroes and two are whites. The wounded in most cases were hurried to hospitals, after which they were removed to their homes when conditions permitted. There was no concerted battle. Chief of Police Garrity, at a fate hour, said that it was impossible to make an exact estimate of the casualties be eause of the contradictory reports. Stones and Knives. The riots which started yesterday on the south side beaches were re newed when negro laborers began leaving the big industrial plants and by dusk more than a score of out breaks had occurred. Whites began I dragging negroes from street cars; i the negroes retaliated with stones and 5 knives, Street cars in the heart of the "black belt" were tied up and the windows smashed. A flying squadron' of blacks mount ed a touring car and, riding at full speed through the section, sent a vol ley of shots at .a group of whites. One white woman was injured, but I not fatally. The negroes were over tikeni and placed under arrest. Shortly afterwards a mob of several hundred blacks'formed at Thirty-fifth 1 street and began stoning a policeman. Gun fire was opened and four of the negroes fell, all mortally wounded. A white man in the same neighbor hood was dragged from a truck and stabbed to death. A negro chauffeur was killed by whiten a few minutes later in the same block. Seieral - arrests were made but r where the rioters were found to be e mrimrmed they were released. t Stors Looted. Negroes began lotoing stores of whites in one district shortly after the firing of revolvers by a squad of policemen in an effort to break up the fight. The police soon emptied their guns, bAt the looting continued until a special squad of police, armedl with rifles arrivedi. They fired low feeling half a dozen blacks. A white woma nwas pulled from a street car by a negro. He was soon lyin gagainst the curb where angryi white men left him for (lead. Cha/ged With Razors. Groups of blacks formed in football fashion and charged against whites < with razors and clubs. On one corner the scene was like a miniature battle ~ groundl. Unconscious negroes and ~ whites dotted the street. While the main battles were in p~ro gross wvomen, blacks and whites, e battled away in front yards with e brooms and missiles. In one of these r fights a white woman was knocked un.- e conscious and taken to a hospital. ', Negroes Aid Police. In the fraces on 34th street negroes r knocked two policemen unconscious 5 andl were dirawing pistols when a group of discharged negro sokf'iers t came to the rescue of the police. In jy another battle three policemen were shot. One may die. In an effort to prevent trucks bear ing police'men from one section to ( another the negroes began cutting e tires.t The blacks began firing on street 11 car condluctors and motormen when t they refused to allow negro passen- r gers to board their cars because of 'I threats made by white passengers. d IT'S TAX FREE SODAWATER Washington, Ju'ly 28.-After nearly wo hours' debate and while the tem dratdire in the chamber? was hover ig around the one hundred mark, the louse today voted to repeal the 10 per A ent tax on soda water and ice cream. Considerable' partisan issue was in acted into the discussr ':nd Repre entative Tradaway, E% cican, Mas achusetts, declared the argument I as the best evidence in the world hat the House acted. wisely in voting or a reless. Mr. Em rson made a sharp denial f Representative Moore's charges. k tepresentative Kichain, Democrat, t Jorth Carolina, made thce principal ar L ument against repeal and Represen- i ative Longworth, Republican, Ohio, e vas the chief speaker for it. The House also passed, without rec- r ird vote, the bill for the reduction of var tax on fruit juices, as urged by c vestern producers. Members said I he tax, fixed at two cents a gallon, I vas a flat reduction from twenty ight cents, estimated. All amend nents were rejected from the bill, 1 vhich applies to non alcoholic bever- f ges, including loganberry, grape and'; pple juice. t 'AS'TIME THEATRE ('HANGES HA' . On Monday a deal was consuma y which Mr. Roland G. Hill of G - ney, S. C., purchased the Pac' heatre from Messrs. B. B. 1. :n nd F. M. Shope. Mr. Hill i: i .To ressive picture man, being - a r of six other picture theat - 1 North and South Carolir .. ~r. t i ll omes to Manning higlhy -:, :'ci ' +l by business associatep >: '. dif- t erent cities where he na.:. atres. i t is the intention of Mr. I-ill to run a f >ieture here every night in the week % nd will use nothing bu: the very best ervice. The former owners wail have charge f the theatre until 1Ionday when Mr. Till will assume the management. The heatre goers of Manning can be as- t 'red. that they will get A one ser- 1 'ice. ERVICES AT HOME BRANCH NEXT SUNDAY At the baptism yesterday I announe d that there would not be any ser ices at Home Brane:p next Sunday. have reconsidered and there will be C preaching at 5 o'clock p. m. At said I ervice we will extend the right-hanI f f fellowship to the new members and elebrate the Lord's Supper. Every ody is most heartily invited to said I ervice. c Let each member of the church who t ces this notice tell otiers of the ser ices for next Sunday. Yours, only for souls everywhere. J. Di'wson Bowen, Pastor. Paxville, S. C., July 2;), 1919. -------- The Manning Bottling. Works have tarted work -in the rear of The Candy itchen. The very latest bottling nachinery has been installed andi verything is done in the most sani ary manner. Candy-Cola, a new cola rink which has just been put on the narket is the chief product. Orange t 3rush and Hires Root Beer is also be ng bottled. These produets are be- < ne handled all over the county in the _ ili'rent sf ores where (co~d drinks are old. Candy-Coha compares very fav- ~ 'ably wvith any soft drink made andd lready the works are over-loadedl kith ordlers. )no conductor was reported to have t een shot in the leg. Procession of Injured. A number of wounded negroes crept ~ nto alleys and other dlarfl places h1 Vhen they were found they were hur- i ied to a negro hospital, which for f everal hours receivedl a virtual pro- t ession of injured. The more seriously wounded ne- r roes receIved at the hospital had T# articipated in a battle with whites C n Thirty-fifth and State streets. Sev ral thousand of the blacks eirowded dI t this roint. It. was an orderly igath- (a ring for a time, but suddenly four I egroes raced up) the street and V Lopp~ed sudd~enly in thie home of a ihite man. In a twvinkling shots be- f an to. fly in all direction. Perhaps ~ iore than a score of negroes fell. s ome were carriedl off by companions. t For more than two blocks along pi he street negro snipers fired from p ouse tops and windows. n Orders to Troops. Springfield, Ills., July 28.-Acting o overnor Oglesby tonight, on receipt la f Mayor Thompson's appeal for State b roops, placeli Adjt. Gen. Dickson, u ow in Chicago, in complete charge of v he riot and ordered four regiments t< 'ibilizaed ready for duty and the'u 'hird Illinois reserve-militia to active 11 utv immediately.In I[IINC Of WHITE AND COLOB[ MINISTERS dopt Resolutions in Columbia De- ' precating Facial Unrest URGE BETTER RELATIONS t .esolutions Lay the Spirit of Disquiet Now Prevailing at Door of the War Columbia, July 29.-Taking co nizance of present relations be ween the white and negro races, the >cal ministers of both races, meeting it conference here yesterday, appoint d a committee to draft suitable reso utions on present conditions. These esolutions, signed by Rev. Kirkman . Finlay, rector of Trinity Episcopal hurch, for the white ministers, and tev. N. F. Hagood, pastor of Sidney 'ark Methodist church, for the nc roes, were completed this morning. 'hey call on the members of both aces to do all in their power to avoid riction and to enjeavor to bring thc 'mblic mind to normal, on the minis ers to use the power of their office more tranquil relations, and on the -ials to bend every effort to up standards of lawv and order. :e resolutions lay the spirit of bi;'.t at the door of the war which itndards of conduct, and ..the .disruption of the harn:ony and feelini (" Pn1 t2;e two races during the pe ofnliet w uld be nothing !iort of a national catastrophe. The esolutions follow: "I'5olVed, first, That in vie w of cer ain rcent events that h .e oc.r , n so.ie parts of our c(untlry and:1 of a eelini: of unrest and irritation th it ve bei e is more or .' prevai n, Ve feel the time has comie for law biding and patriotic cizens to ex >ress in no uncertain t(erms t:heir co ?inatiea alike o fthe actions that ave rise to these o.itir.ists of vi ence and of the vio'i: te itself. Ve elieve that both the off(en::+s uand the Ilegal methois whereby punishaeat vas meted out are rel;' nant to the ast majority of both r..e. "We believe that these events which ve so deeply deplore are in large rieasure the result or the abnormal onditions incident to the recent war. t has ever been true that war brtn-ra orth along with many heroic virtues by-product of lawlessness and vio once. This war has not been an ex ept;'mn. we believe that all the coaut ries which have bewen --ngage! in his terrible conflict arc row ;assin brough an experience similar to our I wn, and in some cases much more videspread and violent. "The circumstances, however, that n our country two races are of neces ssity brought into continual contact mnparts to these outaursts of lawless ess and violence a seriousness that hould be recognized. There is danger hat what in other countries would be ('garded as simply an evidence of in ividual epravity or personal violence e magnified into an occasion of ra ial antagonism expressing itself in eedls of violence and cruelty. "WVe believe that tihe splendid co peration between the races (luring he period of actual warfare whereby be soliers of both races fought and ibored with splendid loyalty for their omamon country anmd the people at omie gave and wvorked with the same igh spirit of dlevotion notwithstand lj. the persistent and. insidiious ef n ta of our enemies to undermine he loyalty of the co)loredl race, is vidcme that it is pos.-ible for both hue to live together and work to ether for the realiziat ion of the noble nis for which we fought . "We believe that durmng the terrible ays when the clouds of war hungI ver our heads and we knew not what day might bring forth, the races '(re brought to kindlied feeling an-] better undlerstandling than ever be-. nre. We feel that it would be noth Ig shotr of a national catastrophe hiould the conduct of vicious or un- I linking members of either race be ermnitted to destroy or seriously im sir that which the stress oIf our comn-t ion danger and united labor prodluc-i "Resolved, Further, That in view of ri ceimvietion that the present unrestr but a temporary condition broughti y abnormal circumstances and by an & awonted and highly contagious ner- ( >us tension and yet full of menace the beat interests .,f both races, t e call upon01 all patrlitic and right- t minkinlg persons of both races to doa 11 in their power to avoid all occa- I PAXVI[[[ ITEMS Mr. and Mrs. Alva B. Curtis of Lnniston, Ala., have been visiting at he home of Mrs. S. E. Curtis. They vere accompanied by their niece, Miss Mary Turner of that place. Mrs. L. I-I. Langston of Cross An hor after a visit to Mrs. T. W. Gun er left on Monday for a visit to her ister, Mrs. Tiom Bean at Spring;ield. Mrs. Ida Ses'io:;s of Valdosta, Ga. rft Fri lay after I visit to her sister .Ira'. L.XV Weinvr.' Miss Annie Bradham spent the past veek-end with her sister, .lrs.-Short r at Davis Station. Mrs. Elizabeth Keels returned last veek from a two weeks stay at th< ruoniey hospital: Misses Jessie and Vivian Curtis Miary Turner, and Mrs. Alva B. Curth tre spending awhile at Lake .Juna uska. lev. J. D. Bowen has been conducting evival services here and at Home 3ranch for the past two weeks. H< vas assisted by Dr. Swayse, of Rich nond. MM iss Iva Geddings spent the week 'nd with her sister, Mrs. Elma Tis ale at Sumter. Miss Ethel Corbett :s spending a vhile with friends at Fair Forest. Sh< viii spend a while in Asheville and Siddenite before her return. Mrs. .1; W. Minis, Jr., and children eft Friday for a month's visit witl ier aunt Mrs. Maggie Garvin, a sharon. Miss Pearl Broadway left a few lays ago for a visit to relatives at iandersville, Ga. ------ AMERICA LENDS HUN MONEY London, .July 28.-An American lon >f $100,000,000 1,": t, p'ined by kitrti * *. ..... . . .. . !'t. lit ' ;chalnor teleL.r-i12 eil), t;a ii It was said 10 pt. cent. of th I i voulhl b. depositel in forei'n i.,m o the (-rmau batik's :dit. '1OVOST GUAlRD IN WASHI.N('ro Vational Capital Quiet After Riot: But Still Well Guarded Washington, July.27.-All of the 2, )00 regular troops brought here t< >reserve order when last week's rae: ioting and street disorders got be n- < ontrol of the police, had beer vithr'r.wn tonight, but the Nationa ipital was; s-till depending on th< imy. which was represented by a rovost guard. At the earliest request of the loca uithorit.ies the War Department re -reated the provost guard which had )een abolished several weeks ago, an< onight the troopers with red band: )n their sleeves, armed with rio ticks and six shooters in opene< ioisters were patrolling the principal >arts of the Capital in pairs. Although the race rioting and the it tacks by negroes on white women lave subsided, street hold up have -ontinued. The Maryland State authorities have lemanled the extradition of one negr< rhom they charge with an assault oi u wvhite womnan. The Washingtoi molice, who say they believe the man': ilibi, howvever, refused to give upl th< >risoner for fear he wvould be lynche< vhen taken over the Maryland lin< rhe locail Maln authorities (is uatisfied 'u ith the conclusien of th< Mash ington police called in (leteec ives who dleclare t hey have dlisprover he man's alibi entirely. Governoi Iarrington, of MarylandI has issued ormial request for the negro's ex. radlition. While action has been dleferred ir :ongress on various resolutions dbe. nand ing an invest igat ion of the pol ic nml fixing of responsibility for tht rime w:.ve, the local authorities hiavt eeon preparing legislation to increase he personnel of the forces. ions of fritcion, to ex\ercise p~atien(ce mdl forebearance under all1 ci rcun tances, and to use their influence in estoring the publie mindl to a normal nid healthy condition. We would Irge the otlicials of the city and State 0 be prompt, eniergetic iind impartial n enforcing law and resisting all runnifestations of violence. liesolved, further, that we urge all ministers of this city to tfeal with ex sting conditions from their p~ulpits in san and( constructive spirit at the arliest possible occasion. Resolved, further, that we suggest I) the o(ther 'onnnilunition of our State hiat as8 soon as5 possibe)l meetings, imilar to that from which these reso itions emnanated. be held." K[[P O0T PRIMARY ( SAYS COLE BT[AS[ Tells Followers to Vote Only in Gen- ( eial Election. REAFFIRMS STAND ON WAIL Will Run in General Election, Be cause, He Says, Ile Was ('heated in Primary. Columbia, July 29.-Advising all his factional followers in the Seventh t Congressional District to abstain trom I participating in the primary election e called toray by the State Democratic execL:tive committee to select a nom inee for the unexpired term in C'on- t g:cis made vacant by the resignat ion of Congressman A. F. Lever, form'er Goveror Cole L. Blease, in a lengthy i satt'ment given out toniight, ungutai i fiedly announced himself as a can didate for Congressman in the general I election. lie gives as his reason for I refusal to go into the primary elee- r tions under the rules of the I)emocra- I tic party the allegation that previous primary elections have been corrupte 1 lnd the voteg stolen amt that, he coul 1 not be expected to be declared th,: nominee by the execId.e committee (ven if he won. IHis statement is replete with charges that he was defrauded in the elect ion of 191 4, when he was a can didate for the United States Senate against Senator E. ). Smith, and in 1918, when he was refeated for a third term for Governor by Governor Man ning, stating that the 'Reformers' have been treated worse than negroes. The statement continues: "No, I am not going into any primary until the iles are made fair to all and until an ther set of men r.re placed in cha: re of the machine; y, and I am 1 goinp to fight for my and my people's righa s as long as I live." 'o Apology for War Itecord. Rehl*tive to his position on the world war, t he former Goverior said: 'I was oppo5ce ! to the war just temporarily suspen ed and have no apology or excuse therefor. Iear the statements being made by ou rboys that went over to fight for humanity and demoe racy and let every man in the State talk to some of the boys as to whom they fought, whom they fought for and what kind of treatment they re ceived from their own as well as other folks while over there. Yes, over there, and then ask himself this cues tin: Was Blease right in his Filbert lan' Pomia n speeches? and answer truly and then say if he was right in wa. nt log to lynch Blease for being on God's side, for peace an daga inst the slaughtering of human ity. Mr. Blease says those who have watched events know that he is in better position to do service for Souh i Carolina and the Seventh C'ongressien al District than any man in it. If ser vice is wanted. The statement says that the formicr Governor is opposed to the destruction of States' rights, to the league of onations with conditioni as by the Present plan, to national prohibition andl to nat ional woman's sun'rage taking th pi'losit ion that the la st two quaestion s shoulId Ihe set t led by the States i nd iviidaly. lie furt her States that he is in 4avor of local iecf goivenmeat in favor of the Mlonroe D oetri ne iand oppvoed to( any altera ion in it tiuje(r the present c'oni-i taons: in fav.or of t.ie return oif the rail roads, telephone anad telegra ph and l all other property to their rightful3 owners a nd regu iing of them dli- ., eijent anrd promnpt seri ce; in favor of religio' s lreedomII an op1 ilposed to any att emplt to give anry regalI advani talge to an creed e'.er the others anid' (opplosed to phlic(inrg any in c'ont ril of' this Gorver'nment and giving to it a Inarger* number of oifice'rs t hanr to ira' the others." In quot ing. with approvanl an exe--p; from TIhomads .Iefferson's wvr in which oilposes a large standine armv, Mr. Blease says that thi' waru I.as certainly shown our peoplde wvhat i i tariy power d Id do, enn i do antd will do if not p)'rperly curbedl; and I coulid meintion miuch, but ats ma~neralI March and C ol. Asnell nowv have the floor I will awa it their report and let the world judge as to what has been done, and the fraud, injustice andI inhuman ity that hits been practieed under the nam-e oif fighting for thre world peac'e and1( dlemocracy." lDeniel lie is Holter. According to Mr. Jilease's reasoning in his appeal toi his followers to disi regard the primary elections, they cannot be called "hoi~lt er,"~ fiora t hii |Democratic: partyorm ..Indeen. n '[RMAN MILLS ARE READY [OR COII0t Ran Consume 1,000,000 Hales Says. Erwin Thompson. EAGER FOR LOWER GRADES Varehouses in liollansd Now Available for Handling Corton for Germany Washington, July 28.-German at on mills with 10,000,000 spindles, esti nated as still suitable for operation, an consume about 1,000,000 bales of otton during the next year, if means re found to finance the movement of he commodity from the United States aid a report by Edwin W. Thompson, on'nercial attache of the bureau of or :gn and domestic commerce, mad$e >ublic today. 'Mr. Erwin outlined a plan by which Janish and Dutch tracers may oo urnished cotton for release to Ger.. nany and allowed to assume a p rt of he risk. Out of 4,067,018 bales of cot on on storage in '3 e United States on lune 30, he estimated a very large )reparation was classified in the lower rides which are especially suitable 'or German mills. Need Lower Grades. "At this tine the German mills hould be eager buycFe for the lcw 'st grades," Mr. Erwin's report said, ointing out that during the war they lave been operating on wastes shoddy Mettle fibre and paper, owing to the )rCSsure of the blockade. "Cotton experts are :greed that the -otton in pubile storehouses in the United States is of the lower grads, s the most desired by these mills." Declaring that the problem for :he American producers and holders of cot on was to find a way to offer lawe issorted stocks of cotton to Gern::n spinners, and at the same time be se ured for the value of their property, Mr. Erwin said thmat warehouses in Rotterdam, Holland, were now avail ible for handling such a trade. "Several strong trading companies in Rotterdam are in a position to han. lie and finance cotton into Germany as fas as they can consume it," he said. "Matters can be so arranged with them that American bankers can finance the cotton in any amount into safe warehouses in Rolland and the Rollanders can arra-,e their own -redts for delivery to German spin ners in lots to suit their weekly or monthly requirements. "Owing to grt'at labor troubhle at the moment, it would be hard to surt up spinning at full capacity, evt 1 if the cotton were enm the spot, but is 'timated in a few months : fter the 'otton arrives the miln' could .j0,.. t00 bales a month. Danish tradcer are wiling also. to, resuime handling cotton into Russia, imd would also stan: I willing to join ir supplying Germany. ---- 'JUDGE WATKINS SWOUN IN Anditersoni, ,July 28.--1 . IL \/a: uis book( the oath of' h.1(C this ifternooni as jiudge of the \Ves'rn Federal (listict of Sotth ('acol ina1. .. . Kinight, clerk of the fv eealcut dm inisteredl the oath. .\!I th e eirs of the local har* and a few frionds vitniessedl the ceremoncly. .Juid1 Wat.. <inls took the oath of "''e aon a Esible given h im when --ch i b his niother. H e wvilI101 hod! out at Gr ieen. rille. or, he says, "'if we 'o in.t the pri.. nary we are bound by: i' unde the math ta<:n but if 've Ce' un out we itr free( an ILIi n ot or whom we >leas and cannote he cal le' heilters >ound ouriselv\es to abide by Oa :d. b ut VO will be wvhat wve are, te iefor act ion ofi thle D~emocra ic pr ety of iotht CarIolinii. anid atdher'nig to the ru(e Jeffersonian Demo,-rac.' a s outlin.. di ini my views as expre-iste I, and I hallenge any mani to sho(w to' the on trary." The formeri Governor in fim enit ially er'ves not ice in his stateiment that, if e considers that he is cheated in he general election and fai1. to get Lustice at the hands of the st Ate board f canvassers, he will appeal t~o the ~ongress, "where men of h'of 4 parties, 'ho have no persoad or political 'rejudice against men en a PISS on the vidence presented and give an honest quar'e deal.'' The si eteme t is filled ith excerpts from the v. ritings o eftersoni andl Jacl~soni on w.hich th x-G;over)nor' bases his p~a' Formfo >referent. o