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VOL XXXIX 3Au u~-G - Cx m e VO.-xi MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1919. NO. 32 PEACE TREATY CAUSES SIORM IN SENATE Bitter Criticism of League and Shan tung Provision PRESIDENT IS ATTACKED Yesterday's Uproar Sample of What May Happen When Lansing Appears Today' 'ashington, Aug. 5.-The league of natbns and the Shantung settlement bot1 came in for more bitter criti cisj today in the Senate's coiisidera tiou of the treaty with Germany. At a public hearing of the foreign relations committee issues of the league cohtroversy started a dispute which bordered upon an uproar and the attack upon the Shantung pro vision by Senator Watson, Republican, ->f Indiana, cauesd a series of sharp exchanges. The committee's clash over the league grew out of the examination of Norman Davis, a financial adviser to the Versailles peace conference, and centered in a heated discussion of the attitude of President Wilson toward supplying the committee with adequate information. Lodge Attacks President. Chairman Lodge, replying to a sug gestion that the President be asked to cotne before the committee, de clared Mr. Wilson never had offered to do so and had failed to send im portant information repeatedly asked for. Senator Pittman, Democrat, of Nebraska, replied that in his address to Congress such an offer had been made, but the committee majority had ignored' it. Once the subject of the league had been raised, league op poxients gave a foretaste of what may develop vhen Secretary Lansing ap pears-before the committee tomorrow by keeping the witness under a run ning fire of questions re:ating to pro visions of the covenant. It was when Mr. Davis declined to pose as an ex pert on the subject, In reply to a question, suggested that the President be consulted, that the committee mem bers clashed over Mr. Wileon's course in the matter. Under present plans the question ing of the Secretary of State tomor row will be in open session and it is expected he will be asked to disclose begotiations, with the league covenant and the Shantung provision occupying a. prominent place in the discussions, The Senate adjourned tonight until Thursday so tomorrow's committee session may not be interrupted. Senator Watson in his speech' de clared the treaty provision giving Ja pan control in Shantung province "was as monstrous a proposition as has ever been proposed to civilization," and said he could not vote for rati fication if the Shantung section re mained unamended and if Japan gave no more definite promise of restoring the province to China. In reply to a question from Senator Borah, Repub lican, of Idaho, as to what sort of declaration from Japan would be sat isfactory, the Indiana Senator said it would have to be one providing for withdrawal of Japanese forces prior to the Senate's action on the treaty. Wrong Heaped Upon Wrong Japan's claims to the province, Mr. Watson assertedi, was based, on o'e wrong heaped upon another, while the history of Japanese interests in China gave the lie to Japan's protestations of good faith in her promise to with Senator HIithcock, Democrat, of Nebraska asked to what court China could bring her claims should the treaty and the league of nations fail. In that case, Mr. Watson replied, Chi na wvouldl have to faIr back on the moral support she had always re ceived here and elsewhere ini past times "when we had an American for President who thought of America - first." ~ Senator Lodge said he understood that within two hours of the signing of the treaty at Versarilles the Chii nese dlelegates had offered to sign if aissuredl they would ha."e the right to bring. the Shantung case before the league later, but that "even that was denied to them.". The objection that t e special (de fensive treaty with Fraiihce violates the Federal Constitution by binding Congress to declare tar in certain circumstances was expressed in a res olution introduced during the (lay by Senator Newberry, Republican, of Michigan. It would direct the judi ciary committee to give an opinion ars to whether there are constitutional nhstacles to ratifleatlorr: CARLOAD OF SUGAR / TO BE MSTRIBUTED Will Be Issued People of State for Canning Iurposies Columbip, Aug. 5.-A , carload of sugar will be distributed from Colum bia to the people of the State at cost, in the near future. Governor Cooper this afternon received a telegram from the Louisiana Sygar Commis sion, New Orleans, stating thnt fif teen cars of fine granulated sugar woukL be distributed "..ong fifteen states in the South. After taking the matter up with R. J. Blalock,' mayor of Columbia, the governor ordered the sugar, which will distributed to the Columbia city government. The price will be $8.28 per hundred pounds f. o. b. New Orleans, which will bring it into Columbia for slightly under nine cents a pound. The governor sugested that the sugar be utilized for canling purposes. The following is the wire to the governor. "The government through the United States Equalization Board, sug gests that the sugar be placed at pointswhere it is most needed for fruit preserving purposes. We have decided to distribute thees fifteen cars alloting one car to each of the fifteen states in this territory and we ask yc to designate the city or town in yo. State which is most in need of ti sugar and instruct the mayor of suci town that we will ship him the car for' distribution upon your suggest; and his confirmation, with sight e 0' bill of loading attached. Wire I' answer designating town any' '12ve mayor confirm." ------- DISTURBANCE AT LA 'T'TA Latta, Aug. 5.-Dr. E. L. L.'s.- and his song Thedford, were injured in a disturbance here Saturday night, when the former was struck on the foreheacd with a quart bottle of kero sene in the hands of one Pete Bethea, and the latter was cut in the should er and beaten across the shoulders by Pat Bethea, a brother of Pete Bethea. Dr. Brown runs a drug- store at this place, and it seems that about 11 o'clock Pete Bethea entered his store smoking a cigarette. He was request sed to either quit smoking or leave the store. The negro replied with an oath that he intended to do neither and was shoved into the entrance by the doctor. The negro then struck him in the forehead. The doctor's son, Thedford, on hearing the disturbance, rushed A his father's aid, getting therre in time to have' the- remainder of the bottle thrown at him, which cut through his shirt into his flesh. This, however, did not stop him and he ad vanced towar ithe buggy to which the negro was making his way. Just as he got by the buggy he vas struck several times across the back and shoulders with a buggy whip in the hands of the other negro. A posse tried all night to find the negroes and succeeded Sunday about noon. They were then placed in the Dillon jail and are awaiting trial. Considerable feeling was. exhibited in the town until it was known that neither the doctr nor his son was seriously injuredl. Both negroes are saidl to have recently returnedi from overseas. - ---. --- UNKNOWN NEGRO LYNCHED Cochran, Ga., Aug. 5.-An unidenti fied negro who was taken from a Southern passenger train at 1:40 this morning on complaints of negro pas sengers on the train and placed in the city baracks, was lynched by un known parties (luring the early mor'i hig. lIfis body wvas found hanging to a small tree fifty yards from the Cochran aindlEastmnan lne. The negro was en route to Rochelle. He told several persons, it is said, that he was from\ Chicago and had a message from that city. Negroes in formed white people that the 'Victim of the lynching had boasted that the negroes of Georgia were going to (do what the negroes of Chicago had (lone. Senator Lodge, gave notice today that he would address the Senate next Tuesday on the league. As the leader of the opposition to acceptance of the covenant in its present form he is ex pected to sound the keynote of the fight against unreserved, ratification. The statement from Tokio regard ing Japian's intentions in Tokio reach ed Washington too late to receive the attention of Senators tonight. It is expected to have careful considera tion in viewv of President Wilson's re.. peated statement that the complete facts in the case wduld place the $hantung settlerment in a new lgeht Manning to EH C The Home Bank and T $1,700 for Servic There have been complaints of the Manning Cotton Market in the past, but the cause for these complaints will be. removed if the busn'tess' men of Manning can remove them. The Board of Trade has set to work to make this one of the best markets in the State, and they have great hopes of success, since one of the Banks of the town has made the greatest contribution ever made in the history of the coun ty to a patriotic or civic enterprise. It has been felt for some time that if a Government Cotton Grader could be obtained it would put the cotton owner nearly on a basis of equality with the buyer, and would obviate dis putes and suspion as to improper grading. Through the assistance of Mr. C. A. McFaddin, State Demonstration Agent tI- claims of Manning were present e, t: the authorities at Clemson Col Ie; *. le found that there were five rou .a in the State with cotton grad ('er, anl that the College only had :ey enuj'rh to put on five addition I 'lice-. for this year; and as there v.ere( thiHy appiieations, our chances w. r li m inleed. After a number of I.e: :,n il iterviews and much corres rc, ice and the use of all of the in n--e that he could -:oim'manl, Mr. '"cFaddin succeeded in getting Mann ing pl eed with the favored five, y vided k, 1700.00 was raise- by the Board of Trade within three d:ivs. The Board of Trade could not do this. and the whole plan seemed about to fail. Everyone regretted this, but the President and Directors of the loa' Bank & Trust Company, with the pub lie spirit and progressiveness th:t has made this young institution dne of the leading Banks of the town, after a conference, offered to furnish the en tire amount; whereupon a telegram FLEET IS SHAKEN BY EARTHQUAKE Men on Dreadnoughts Thought They Had Run on Rocks. On Board U. S. S. New Mexico, Sat urday, August 2.-(Wireless to the Associ:ted Press)-Six drealnaughts of the Pacific Fleet were shaken se verely by a dotible earthquake shoek at 4:18 o'clock this afternoon 20 miles off the coast of the State of Collma Mexico. None o fthe warships report ed any damage. The dreadnaughts trembled from bow to stern as if she had struck an unchartered reef and the navigating officer sounded "call to quarters" on the flagship's siren. Sailors in the foretop said the basket masts of the warships swayed like poplar trees in a gale. Officers on the qua.rter deck hur riedJ to their posts and the crew and marines took their places. Meantime all wvater tight comnpartments on the New Mexico were closed and inspec tion parties were sent into the holds to see. if there had been any dlamage to the hull. Admiral Hugh Rodman, command ing the fleet quickly recognizedl the cause of the dlisturban:-e. When the first' tremor of the ship was felt those below hurried on deck. The fares of some of the recruits showed alarni as the men stood at qluarters awvaiting otrders, wvhile the flagship rolled andl~ pitched in the heavy swells that followed the shocks. Admiral Rodman kept the crew at quarters for 15 minutes and then or deredl the "secure signal" to be soundl ed. -- o A!ILEGED BOGUS TRtEASUJRE HUNTER Washington, Aug. 4.-Capt. Charles M4. Bower, alias Steele, eighty years old, of Statesville, N. C., is locked up here by the police charged with ob taining various sums of money. from WVashingtonlans on a scheme to re cover diamonds and gold from Cocas Island', off the coast of Cocas Rica. According to the complaint lodged against him, Bower represented him self a:; eaptain of the steamer Mary Die, which he said wa. captured by irates while carrying the treasure to Peru. Escaping from his captors, Bower claimed, according to the com plaint, that he located the treasure [ave otton Grader 1 I rust Company Puts Up i es of An Expert lent to the College closing the mat- h ber, and Manning is as:ured of one of o the best Cotton Gr t lers or Classers that the Gover:'; eiployes. It is ' not known yet who the Government f will send here, but Mr. McFaddin is v assured that he will be a goodl man that has been carefully selected and f has had a preliminary training of a month or more in Washington after his appointnant. le will receive a salary of $24O0.00 and in addition the Hank will have to furnish him oflfee room and telephane, telegraphic cotton reports, and pay any other expenses of the office. This will mean a great deal for the' Manning market, as a man can bring hi samples and have his cotton grad ed and then if he caiog get the pro per price he.-e he can elephone to oth ei. Markets and sell on the same .rades. We a:e glad to see that the Cotton Buyers seem disposed to coop- t <rate with the Goverinment Grader and we trust that there will not be a repetition of the experience in Sumter, where we are informed the Buyers at first refused to buy of: the Official g':ades. 'T'hen the farmers got It :ether and refused to sell any other way, and since that time the Govern. raent Grader has graded practically all the cotton sold in Sumter. There are oth-- co:nr.ni'.. ^nter ri,. 'en r t :111 nIl .'er. :1 \ : a!c 'h-, the go,. ('xamlipile of th (lo-ny! -....T :st ..o.noinny will b - - by ot lher institutions. To bail 'i : t w r\\ ' e' eliresQ5 intellig ent eflro,' <r -mhu -iasm and noney and it ouhlt t. be an ins:pir'ation, for this institutioi in addition to be:aring its part in a! other entertprises, to pay anii ama11. m. q'(;ual to a seven per cent dividend to its stockholders foil the purpose of umakin'g our cotton market second to none in the State. in the cliffs of the island. The in for:.iants against him allege that he I was collecting money to finance an I e:tpedition to recover it. ----0 -EED YOUlR CHICKENS WELL Greenville, Aug. 4.- -After having expiressed) the opinion that any man is justified in shooting neighbors' chick ens wh ich persist in scratching up and feeding themselves on the vege tables growing in his garden. Magis trate J. L. Ballenger yesterday dis missed the case of D. A. Rigdon, of Cherokee Park, who was brought up on such a charge. Mr. Rigdon was arrested on a war rant sworn out by a neighbor whose chickens suffered death at his hands, it being charged that he had malici ously damaged personal property. The ' fendant frankly admitted hav ing s. It the chickens while they ate of his tomatoes and beans, and then expressedl his opinion in a .strong nmanner. Magistrate Ballenger stated that, while he was not experienced in the trial of chicken aea lie agreed wvith him, in part rt least, andl ois maissed the case. MAKE IhUSH TO REGISTrEl C'oluimbia, Aug. 4.--Primiarily duei to the announcement by Cole L. Blease I ex-governor of the State, that lie in- I tends to enter the general election for Congress from the Seventh conigress ional district as an indlependent, there was a rush of voters here today to get ' registration. There was a long line of voters in front of the registration office through out the day andI the crowd was so large that many failed to receive their zertificates. Very few negroes regis teredl. NEGIO SHIOOTS UP FAMILY A nderson, Aug. 4.-Elijah Clink lcales, colored, of this county, late. Saturdlay night shot and killed his wife, wounded his child and then com nitted suicide. A shotgun was useod, out being unsuccessfu lin efforts to kill himself with this weapon, the ne- I gro usedl a pistol. Alfredls Chilods, colored, died here n Bunday as a result of being shot by lI mother negro at a church in Abbe- b. ville county. The altercation is said t to have started over a odrink of wate I at a well. TO tETURN TO NATIVE LAND- B Columbia, Aug. 4.-Drift of a por ion of South Carolina's foreign-born opulation toward their mother unds has begun, according to 1). C. leyward, of Columbia, district c(olle- F ,r of internal revenue. During the past two motnhs, ac ording to the records of his oflice, ome twenty aliens in South Carolina ave applied for certificates from his C( fliee, prepaartory to getting pass orts to the hnds of their nativity. hese applications p"nlipally come rom Charleston, Columbian and Green- I 'ille, and the nmajority are from ex- of Iatriated Belgians and Greeks. So fa ar no Germans have applied. te Before a passport cin he issued to tai ravel in foreign countI:ies, the ap- I d ican t must receive a1 certificate from gi lie collector of internal revenue of eI is district to the effect that he is lot subject to an income tax, or, if 1 e is, that it. has been paid. l SCORE' S All'tRA:l' SERVIE(' in Washington, Aug. 5.--Although he w vas offered $1,00i0,00 by German gents before the United States en- r( 01r-1d the war, the recipient to go to o ;Crmany to take charge of that coun- a ry's aircraft program, his repeaterd m frers to aid the United States dur- T nit the war were rejected by the ft Var Department, Dr. William Whig- ti ey (hristmas, president of a New ti fork aireraft 'nanufacturii compan' ti oday told a House investigating com- w mlttee' ( The air service during the war was w lemoralized "from the Secretary ef ti Var down to the ordinary hirelin;.' r< aid Chritsmas. Designs which he of- is red to the War Department were al e.i'ctedl, he said, although since the g >uilt 'i machine with'the use of those st lesige that "is sixty miles an hour u aster than anything in the world." ------0-. -- , ENGLAND PAYS PROMPTLY C c Washington, Aug. 5.--By the pay- pi nent of $35,176,123, Great Britain has r( ,ettled I:r obligation to the Ameri- a an Government for munitions nego- n1 iated for (luring the war the War w )epartment announced today. Of the c, otal sum paid, $13,600,000 was for c< ,iberty miotors; $13,274,000 for air )lane spruce; $2,887,000 for wood dis- o illates; $4,690,000 for powder and tI ,651,000 as the British share in the 1n otton linters pool. i c1 The announcement was in the form a >f a l"tte raddressed to Secretary Ba cer from Chester W. Cuthell, Mr. n aker's special representative in t wegotiations with the bsritish minister h f munitions. Mr. Cuthell said the ransaction probably was without pre- i edent in "that a government has is 'ecognized obligations, based almost 'nti rely on verbal statements, to con- ti .ribute to losses sustained by anl ally e n the product ion of war materials t1 ieyold its own needs. It is likewise I without precedent in our country as a o the amount of money involved, and e >eeause of the fact that no recourse f vas had to any international trib- 1n inal.' TO'( SELL D)1 1 E YARN MlIL.S D)urham, N. C., Aug. 5.-The D~uke (arn) Mills in this city, one of the a argest (If its kind in the South, and ti ipart oIf the late ltrodIie L. Duke's aj n ill ion doll ar e'state, will be sold( this ci vieek tol the McCainless Mills, of Salis- tI mriiy, N. C., and South Boston, Va., Tj t. was learned today. Agreement fory he sale has been comfpletedi. Tihe f, murehase price will lie $100,000. The n ill makes coIttoIn yarn for hosiery t md1 underwear. Its net profIits last I rear were oIver $50,00t0. The late Mr. )uke pur1chased the factory in 1915 o .t a publ11ic sale' for $55,000. STlRIKE IN(GREENVILLE f G;reenville, A ug. 5.-Approximately ixty Southern Railway shopment em loved at the roundhou~se here strucka .t I o'clock odlay as the result of in trucwtions receivedl from the hea:1- 4 luart ims of thre organiratioc'. The-. hops h''nre i ar virt ualy i(Il tonWght t' 'he strik~ rr include carmen. machma- t tst hustlers, helpers, etc. P C'OMMITTrEE TO MAKE TRIP ' Washington, Aug. 5.-Chairman 'rear of the House commnittee' investi ating aircraft expendlitures an- A ouncedl that the commttee would RI Lave Saturday for the Northwest toI er ('gin) its inquiries into spruce pirod(ue- t( ion. It maiy stop) at Chicago Monday RI or a hearing and is to arrive in n. eattle the following Thurayn. ,i K[R RECOMMENDS UNIV[RSAL TRAINING )r All Eligible Youths in Their Nineteenth Year BILL BY GENERAL STAFF ills for 21 Divisions and Auxiliaries With Strength of 510,000 Men Washington, Aug. 4.-War )eparr L'nt recommendations for a system universal training for three months r all eligible youths in their nine enth year, was presented by Secre ry Baker today to the Senate and ouse military comm ittes for their idance in determining the penman it military policy of the nation. The proposal is obtained in a bill epared b the general staff of the my at the secretary's direction. In ansmitting the bill, Secretary Baler. a letter, said that Geeneral Pershing id not been consulte(d and the ; fan as tentative. The department's hill calls for a gular army of twenty-one division.. Id necessary auxiliary services, witi peace strength of 510,000 enlistfrd en, and a war strength of I,250,000. ie reserve to fill up the divisions' to ill strength would be * provided rough a modified form of the selec ce service act under which the na onal army was raised for the war ich Get-many. For training purposes fly youths in their nineteenth year ould be called to the colors for a ree months period, to be attached to gular divisions for that time. It estimated that this would provide annual claim of (100,000 men to he ven intensive military instruction. ripped of all vocational or other ed :ational features. For two years atter the training the )uths would be required to subnit rtain reports giving their addresses, ranges in status as to dependents. iysicial condition, etc. They would ceive $1 for each report called for id submitted, thus encouraging the aking of reports. In the event of ar, all men in this status would be rled to fill up regular divisions and impose the first replacement units. Th ebill provides for reorganization the regular army in sub;tantially e same terms as previously recom ended by Secretary Isaker when the irrent amy bill was unde consiier tion. No mention of the National Guar i.. ade in the bill, but in his letter to le committee, Steretary Baker si I e assumed that the national defenw. :t would be continual(3 In force, :;.. ig the guard the subjcet to federnl ;ation for war. One of the features of the universal 'aining plan of the department is )mplete federalization of the regis-. ation and induction machinery, ocal and appeal boards would he cre ted as during the war, except that )mpensation at $10 a (:ay is provided r hoard officials but a mention is ade of employing State oflicials ~r ~ec(ies in carrying out the proM -t, Expenses and AlIlowanoces. Youths in training would r eceis no ty, but would receive p y ment for || expenses anid an allowance e: .5 month for incidentals. No ext ion ons wvould be grantedl except to sil ers, sailors, members (of the aer mant marine, public or priv'ate '3r to ose mentally or p~hys5iclly de'li -i nt. o) meet the case of tI'se witnh nfdents, however, provsio is)m3 r deferring th~e t ra inh net~I 0 (. Theory on wvhich t he i r .sts is nat .on army of I ,25n,t00 ,-mouldb tailable for ranpid :hil at!ion at. 'ganizant ion of an 1: ld Vm of :h ze shall he mhaintainedl, the only dif. rence bet ween peace' and w :r m >oting being in the en liste-l : n ngthI The twenty infalntrmy and 1( ne caalry visions woul comprise I !: geld rmy. T'o supp~lort the ph;:n. en-ral statT lieers have Iprepai(ret ful Ih at i led tudlies of cost , syst ens of nejbil iza on, administratioin :,nd all other fea res5 which the0 depart mentI i.4 prte i red to( suibmit whenever t ho (on ressional cmramittees call for them, Rt'MANIANS IN 11UIM)AP!ST Hudapest, Monday, A ug. 4.- fly the ssociatedl Press. )--T-'hirty ftousandl uma nian troops, includiml. infantry, valpy and artillery, ente red the city (lay with a blare of t rumpts. TPhe unmnn forces, led by Ge3n. Matrg C- N, lpawed th rough An 1r:.ssy andl her streets