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Voa1 XXxix: MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1919 No. 34 BANDITS BEING CHASED BY AMERICAN TROOPS Swift Cavalry After Mexicans Who Held Aviators INAUGURATES NEW PLAN From Now on Borde rRaids to Be Handled Without Gloves, Officials Say Washington, Aug. 19.-No official announcements are being made of how the United States government intends to handle the bandit nuisance in Northern Mexico from this point on, but there is every evidence that all preparations have been made to meet future depredations with a swift movement of troops such as is now being conducted against the despera does who held the two army aviators for ransom. Swift moving cavalry, rully equipp ed with machine guns and guided by airplanes, it is understod, will be re lied upon, and will be prepared to move qunickly from strategic points along the border of the bandit coun try on the Rio Grande. Organization of the border guard to insure the greatest speed in these movements has been completed, the cavalry regiments being so distributed as to place the nucleus of a flying column at carefully selected points along the Rio Grande. Without uwoves. Movement of trops of the Eighth Cavalry into Mexico today 'inaugurat ed the new plan, according to officials, and from this time incidents 'will be handled without gloves." In announcing that Maj. Gen. Joseph T. Dickman, commanding the South-' ern Department, had acted on instruc tions from the War Department, Sec retary Baker intimated that only the danger in which the two officers were placed pIevented an attempt to rescue then: by force. "When the reports came of the cap ture of these two officers and their being held for ransom." Secretary Baker said, "the hour of execution was fixed on the next day in default of the ransom being paid. There was, of course, no opportunity to make a military rescue within such time and therefore directed that the ransom money be paid and that a force be arranged to take up the hot trail of the bandits and pursue them with the'hope of being able to capture as many as possible." Left to Dickmen. Details of how the dash was to be conducted were left entirely to Gen. Dickman, the only requirement being that it should be made with a 'swift ly moving force." Cavalry with ma chine guns and guided by airplanes wotld be used. If captives were taken'. they wil be brought to -the United States. The close proximity of the bandit rendexvous to the United States to! rendexvous to the border led to the hope that the American troops might overtake them before they would have time to scatter. Reports to the State Department today from the American consul at El-Paso said that late last week Gen. Diequez, Mexicaptomnamndant at Chi huahua City had ordered Mexican cav airy patrols out through the country where the American soldiers were hel, but there was no indication whether these patrols were still op erating. Mexico's P'romises. The department was also advised by the American embassy at Mexico City that when it made representations re.. garding the capture of the aviators the Mexican foreign office promises to see that tvery possible step was taken to assist in the rescue of the men. Dispatches to the department from Chihuahua sad the governor of that Mexican State, with the approval of President Carranza, had offered a re ward of 50,000 pet~es for the capture of Francisco Villa. Two colonels and three captains of the Villista forces captured by .the federals were said to have been convicted of treason Sun day .by. a military1 courtmartial .andl executed by a firing squad yesterday. The Mexican situation was given further attention in Congress today Representative LaGuardia, Republican Mew York, introduced a resolution de manding that Secretary Lansing make a complete report to Congress on the capture of Lieute. Davis and Peter son and the negotiations that led to* their release., Before the House rules committee nrig Gen. William Mitcel1, chief of NI)TTON CLASSERS FOR SEVEN CITIES [ial Active in Making Arrangement for Graders. Washington, Aug: 17.-Expert cot ;on clasers provided by the federal )ureau of, markets will be stationed !or the- coming season at seven South arolina county seats, according to senator N. B. Dial, who has been ac ive lately in procuring such an ar rangement, for his home town of Laurens and has been keenly interest d in the work generally. Last year cotton classers operated it Darlington, Sumter and Orange urg. This autumn graders will be stationed at the same points and also it Laurens, Anderson, Greenwodo and avInning. Funds are derived from hree sources. Part of the money is upplied by the federal bureau of mar ets, a part is provided by the Na ional government under the terms of ;he Smith-Lever act and the balance is aised locally, by subscription, by ap )ropriation in the county supply bill )r otherwise. Senator Dial ha., been anxious to irrange for the services of such grad rs at as many points as possible in South Carolini, but the number of laces at which the work can be main ained is conditioned not only upon ;he local subscription but also on the ederal funds available and extension f the system is also limited by the carcity of qualified men. It has been ound impracticable to operate in more .han the seven county seats mention Ad during the next season. Local ooperation includes not only 1 sum neach case, varying between $1,000 and $2,500, toward the salary of the trader but also a grading room a clerk and provision for incidential expen ses. George Livingston, acting chief, bu reau of markets, explained to Sena tor Dial the policy of the department )f agricilture as follows: "Our funds for this work being so limited, only a few typical points in each State are selected. which may serve as a demon stration for the entire State." County agents and others in ce'ested who have investigated ' the ser'ie as operated last year at Dar ington, Sumter and Orangeburg, have round the experience remarkably sat isfactory. M. D. Moore, demonstration igent for Laurens county, wrote Sena ;or Dial that farmers of Darlington :ounty told him the expert classer had ,een worth :+s them many times his salary. Not many farmers know what rades of cotton they produce. D. W. Watkins of Celmson Colege, n his capacity as acting director of ooperative extension work in agri ulture and home economics for South Carolin, is in charge of the cotton lassing service. Mr, Watkins his nifgrmed Senator Dial that all details lave not been completed, but the local Funds have been provided for at Laur ?ns and Manning, and a South Caro inan, Drayton E. Earle of Pickens, s specialist in the federal bureau of markets has been requested to select axpert classers for those points; while the raising of local funds is proceed ng at 'Greenwoodl and Anderson, and Msr. Watkins believes local support at ~hose places is practically assured. --- -- Soldier Crosewell Davis has returned tome from Fransce. Croswvell belong 3d to the Regulars and served nearly six years in the service. perations in the army air service, testified that the 1,200 officers pro rided for the air service m the pend ng bill authorized retention of 18,000 afficers until next October would not be sufficient to maintain r~n expedition into Mexico. If We Entered Mexico. "If we go to Mexico now," he deC :dared, "we have, jhe keleton of seven been squadlrons. Twelve hundred of ricers are not enough to keep them up; we needl twice as many. That number s too small, even to maintain an expe :lition into Mexico."~ Representative Rodenberg, Republic in, Illinois, remarked that 'with the posibility of trouble with Mexico we should keep aviation up to a high state o fefficiency." D~enialatIyat ~ilistaa capturedl a trainload of ammunition tiet~een' Chi huahua and Jimenez, as reported from the border, was madle today by the Mexican embassy. It was said that what really happened was that -the Alvarado Mining Company shipped a quantity of dlynamite by rail without notifying the military authorities so that a military escort might be pro vided and the explosives fell into the hands of the rebels. m veCVaxu REV. C. B. SMITH'S SON WRITES Of H. C. L. Washington, D. C., Aug. 10, 1919. Dear Father: Your letter received and I was very glad to hear from you. I will leave bere somewhere near the last of the month for home. You can expect me the first of September at the latest. It might be possible that I will leave here about the 26th or 27th. If I do I will telegraph you. \ See if you can't Arrange your vacation for about that time. Everything here now z3 concentrat img on reducing the high cost of liv ing with the League of Nations run ning a close second. I c(on't see exact ly how they are going to reduce liv ing to any large extent unless the Government steps in and fixes all prices, which in that event woult be tantamount to declaring the United States to be a Socialized State. What I think is causing the high prices is dlue to several things. There is a huge inflation of the currency, not only here but to a larger extent in the rest of the world. This in itself makes money cheap and as counted by the dollar makes living high. Then with such a large demand all over the world for the encessitie: of life and the world not up to its normal production will also make living high. And in my opinion one of the greatest causes at present is the unprecedent ed extravagance which is sweeping the country. People are demanding And buying things they do not. need and do not care what the price is. If they would try to economize and only get those things absolutely neces sary and then pay no more than they actually had to instead of buying the article first and inquiring the price afterwards prices would come down in order that the vendors could sell their articles. People are spending instead of p'roducing. The labor unions are demanding more money, taking the cost of living into consideration, than ever before even contemplated by them. They are entitled to a decent wage but so are other people and where they profit unduly those whose very existence makes the labor unions possible suffer. It is a first step toward Bolshevism. And contin ual Governmental interference has not helped to bring the prices down. Nobody knows where they are and are scared to engage in anything new for fear- of' interference. There probably is some profiteering in the sense of combinations getting together . to mononolize. But we have laws on the Statute books now to take care of them and all the Jaws in the world will not better conditions if they are not enforced. As to an individual profiteering when he has entered into no agree meent with another individual, to profiteer either tacitly or impliedly. that is his right. The Government ias no right to walk up to an indivi lual and say that he cannot charge thus and so for an article when he bought it on the open market . id is selling it in the same place. If his prospective customer does not want to buy from him at his price there Are others he can go to buy. It is this very thing that makes competition which working togethc- with the law :f supply and demand makes ptices more or less equable. Price fixing kills b9th. competition and the law of upply and demand and as a result ndividual initative (lies and the coun try quits producing. This condition being, we are worse off than before. There is one advantage at the pre sent for a cheap dollar, no matter how you look at it. We have a tremen lous indebtedness which will even tually have to be paid. If the dollar is dear we pay so much more in re leeming the debt. I think that if the Government let t be firmly understood that it wvould be hands off in tradle. only interfering to see that no illegal practices and 'ombinations wvere entered into, and ruit diishing out public money, at the rate it has been dloing, that the coun try would settle dowvn eventually and things would ad just themselves. rtherwise we will go into Socialism. The unrest in Europe has a lot to do with the unresst here. 'f things ever ret settled down over there and they Tet to pfodlucimev at their maximum rapacity we wvill have to come dJown to mleet them. It has been nearly winter up) here for two or three days. It was uncom rortably cold. There has been a lot >f rain also. It is pretty hot today. ruowever, and indienht rs are that it will be hotter. WILL ASSIST I.N BIG CAMPAIGN Greenville, Aug. 18.-Rev. Thomas V. McCaul, formerly pastor of the fllenmson College Baptist Church and well known in religions circles over the State and section, and who has just returned after several months in Y. M. C. A. work overseas, will begin work within a few dlays to assist in rganlzation for the coming Baptist 75 million campaign in all parts of the StAte. Rev. McCaul, it was stated at state :ampaign headquarters here todlay, will have officers at headquarters here, but his work will lie largely in the field, Hie is to work under the ceneral dlirection of the State Qr n'nizer, Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, and the Rtate Publicity Director, Rev. Thomas T. Watts. Rev. McCaul will continue the work of preparation up until the anening date of the drive, November 10, andl will assist in the direction of i1ennvassinlr during the eight days of actual soliciting for funds. RDDIJIONAL LOCAL N[WS Mrs. Leon Weinberg was a visitor to Sumter yesterday. Mr. Ingram Bradham is spending a short vacation at Black Mountain, N. C. Miss Lucy Johnson is the guest of friends at the Battery Park Hotel at Asheville. Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Breedin are spending the week with friends in the upper part of the State. Dr. Crouch spent several (lays this week with his family, who are visit ing im Goldsboro, N. C. Mrs. J. B. -arvin of Summerton is in the Toumay Hospital, Sumter, hav ing undergone a serious operation. Soldier llarry Levison has just re turned from France where he spent about seventeen months. Dr. G. L. Dickson has returned from a ten day vacation spent at Glenn Springs. Mr. Sim Ridgeway is moving from the Baptist parsonage to the McKay house in front of the cemetery. Miss Ida Goldstein of Atlanta Ga. visited Mrs. S. Katzoff and Mrs. A. Abrams last week. Mr. John Burgess of Summerville spent Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. .J. T. Stukes. Rev. Guery Stukes of Atlanta is visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. .1. T . Stukes. Mr. Jack Goldstein of Wilmington, N. C.. spent a few (lays with his sis ters, Mrs. S. Katzoff and Mrs. A. Abrams. Capt. .Jake Harvin has returned home from France, Capt. Harvin made (Jute a reputaton as a solder and was cited for bravery by Gen. Pershing. Married last Friday afternoon at the Methodist parsonage by Rev. C. A. Smith, Mr. Jessie Hawkins and Miss .Janie Ridgill. Miss Rita Nimmer, who is employed mn the piostofile at Charleston, is spending several days with her par ents here. Mirs. J. M. Appelt and children of Winston-Salem, N. C., are visiting the home of Mr. P. B. Mouzon at Pine wood. Mrs. E. C. Alsbrook and family have returned after an extended visit in Spartanburg and Columbia. Mrs. Al. F. Evans, Misses Edith and Mary Evans Brasington, all of Kershaw, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Stalnaker. Mrs. Evans is the mother of Mrs. Stalnaker. The hog ordinance of Manning seems to be a (ead issue. We notice r'verv morning for the past week or so the Court house Square. This is cer tainly -one grand sight for a city the size of Manning. One darkey passed a two dollar bill on another of his race Saturday for for a five spot, but Policeman Flowers got him, and not only did he have to make the fellow's five good, but the city touched him for $25.00 more. Mises Beatric Fisher of Laurms burg, N. C., and Estelle Townsend of Bennettsville, who had been1 the guests of Misses Esterlena and Bessie Rear Ion for several days, i'eturned tohtheir home on Monday. Mar rie d last Saturday mornIng at the Central Hotel Mr. Roy Hall and Miss Mabel Sparks. Rev. C. A. Smith performedl the ceremony. The bride has been employedl as a milliner in the Ladies Shop. The c'oupile left for Charleston their future home. Mir. and Mr's. A. G. White are hiav iny a reunion at their home in the Fork section. Their out -of-count" ruests andl relatives ai'e Mrs. C. A. Malloy of ChIeraw. mother (of Mirs. White: Mr's. TP. M. Keels of Columbia; Mrs. L. Reynolds and1 Mrs. J. J1. B. Montgomery of Kingstree. These ladies are all daughters of the late Dr. McQueen of Sumter. Last Saturd"ay one of the colored laborers on the Alderman stores went to buy a ticket to go to his home in "harleston to spend Sunday, andl hav ing his poc'ket book in his hip pocket, he felt something touch him on the back, and when he looked aroundl he dliscovered that his roll of about $40.00 was gone, and' the robber making his way out of the depot. lie tried to eatch him but c'ouldI not, and now he is out his $40.00. A meeting of the South Carolilla Cotton Association will be held at th'e tourt hous'- in Manning on August 22nd at 11 a. m. This meeting will be addressrI by Mr. L,. I. Guion of Luroff. and other speakers. TIhis is on extremery important me(eting to every cotton grower in Clarendon Count~y as well as all whose business iis dependent up)oiigood prices for the cotton. It is particularly dlesiredl that all Iaadies will attend for they are as muth interested in this work as the men themselves, atnd their con-oe.. PROMINENT COUPLE UNITED IN MARRIAGE A social event of unusual interest becaues of the popularity of the young people was the wedding of Miss Helen Miriam Boger and Mr. Harone Austin Sauls, which was solemnized this morning at half after eight o'clock in the Manning Metho dist church. The church was simply but beautifully lecorated in palms and ferns, masses of the cool green being banked against the altar. To the strains of the Bridal chorus from Lohengren beautifully rendered on the organ by Miss Martha Jenkinson with a violi'n accompanment by. Mr. Edward Sprott the wedding party en tered. First came the ushers Mr. Croswell Davis, Mr. Morgan Sauls, Mr. F. M. Horne and Mr. Minto Dwight. The bride entered with the maid of honor, Miss Janie Wilson, her only attendant. They were met at the altar by the groom and hi.. bet man Mr. Allen Sauls. During the eeremony which was performed by Rev. C. B. Smith, the pastor of the bride McDowell's "To a Wild Rose' was softly played by Miss Jenkinson and Mr. Sprott. Mendelsohn's wedding march was played as a recessional. The charming young bride was clad in a smart suit of navy blue-a new Fall model with accessories to har monize. She carried an armful of bride's roses. Miss Jenkinson, and the maid of honor Miss Janie Wilson, also wore lovely blue' coat suits, Miss Wilson carrying pink roses. Immed iately after the ceremony the bride and groom left by motor for Sumter where they took the train for Winston Salem, N. C. where they will reside in future. The bride has numerous friends who will regret to know that she is to make her home elsev here. T'he groom has many friends here also havin spent his early boyhood in Manning. He now holds a responsible position in Winston-Salem. Out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Antley, St. Matthk .vs; Miss Martha Jenkinson. Kingstiee; Miss Mallie Waters, Johnston; Mrs. A. T. Allen, Darlington; Minto Dwight, Eastover; Morgan Sauls, Allen Sauls, and F. M. Horne, Winston-Salem, N. C. LETTER TO. VEHICLE OWNERS Up to this (late the 19th, we have collected 866 vehicle license more than has been returned for taxation. Three districts have not reported, and we have partial reports from five more to come in, and possibly a few scatter ing ones from all the districts. In my last report I said we would collect for over 500, more than the Auditor had on his books for taxation, I will now change this to more than 1,000. In the face of the above facts, I am surprised at the strenuous kick some of our good people are making, and I cannot keep from asking? "Are they honest in their clamor for better roads? "If they are wouldn't it be better to hell get theme, than to try so hard to obstruct. I will now ask you individually, and collectively; to secure your license, and help us get results with the money. We have no wish or desire to try to force you: but we are going to ask you to fall in and help us. In justice to tho'e that. have paid the license; this will he the last ap peal to you. The ('onmaissioners have done their hest to accomminodate you by making it possible for vou to pay in your own commnunity. We have ex tended the time more than is reason able. and we are now going to see if you have the right to override the large majority that have complied with the law. To those that have c'ompjlied, we thank you. YIours very truly, J1. E. Kelly, Superv isor. tion is des ired. This ineting is dIis tmect from the one held this day and adldressedl by Mr. G;eorge R. Wheeler of Charleston, on "get nng ready for the coaming of the boll weevil" andl "mecreasing the taxable wealth of the State of South Carolina.' NOTICE 'TO P'ROP'ERTY OWN ERS Trhe Tfowns Council liis contrmactedh to have c'ertain Streets in the Town nf Manning Paved. Thait it wvill be necessary to have water and sewer connections made with city mains before paving is dlone, All property owners on following streets are requlested to report to city -lerk at once their property subject for connlhection. Brooks's Stree t fr om Thames resi lence on the front of Sprott residence am the South. Mill Street between Rett Street and Boyce Street. Boyce Street from Brooks Street to Mill Street. Railroad Street from Broks Street to A. C. L. D~epot. By order of Councel. 2 t. E. B. Brown, Clerk and Treas. A wire today at 12 o'clock concedes the election of John P., Grace as Mayor of Charleston over T. T. Hyde. SAY REPUBLICANS REMAIN UNCHANGED Johnson and Borah on White House Conference CITE FAILS DEVELOPED Declares America Will lie Compelled to Take 'art in World Wrangles. VW ash ington, Aug. 19.---Senator: Johnson, California, and Borah, Idaho, Republicans, declared in a statement tonight that upon the facts developed' at the White House con ference today as stated by them the pos' tion they had main tained, "in -_ )pect to this covenant or the league of nations is justified and ca i firmed." "The league of nations as const red by the President," they said, "lea'.ves it clear and unmistakable that when we enter it we are a 'compelling' moral obligation, to say nothing of the legal obligation which other sup. porters contend we are ;ander, to take part in the disturhances, the con flicts, settlements and the wars of Eu rope and Asia if any should arise, and it is equally true that under his construction, Europe would neces, sarily be under the same impelling force to take part in the settlenmiit of American affairs." The Senators said that in then opinion, "the significant facts devel oped by the interview with the 're., ident" were: Other Treaties. "There yet remain treaties of peace to he made with Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empi--e, These treaties deal with subjects -is important, territory as extensive and matters as intimately affecting tihe United States as the treaty with Ger many. The obligations of the United States, therefoie, what our country assumes in the future, can not be de termined until these treaties are com pleted and presented to the United States Senate. "That the President regards the ob-. ligations which will be assumed e-n der the league of nations, and par ticularly under articles 10 and 2i as moral obligations. These, however re of "compelling' force and would re, buire action upon our part. For in stance, the President concedes that in an undoubted case of aggression ifrom the Balkans upon the newly ac. gu:red territory of Italy, it would be our duty to come to the assistance of Italy and prevent such aggression The resident's construction of artiale to, is at variance with the construction of the Democratic attorneys of the Senate. "A moral obligation, the PresidLent insists rests upon usto carry out th*. terms of the various treaties of peacn 'I6.:: normal obligation, the President states, requires us under the Germ'an treaty for fifteen years to maintain A merican trooTps ini Europe. ''The P'residen t did not know, nor~l had lie heard (If the secret treaties ton territorial acquisition anad part itiouin .' various territories until he reache.id Paris, (Iliere th(e Senators outlinedi:d treaties referred to.) "'The P'residlent oposedl the Si. . tu ng decision. It was oflicially c~an. veyedl to himi that the Japaniese wo".ll not sign unless the Shantung rights were given to Jlapan. The Uni~ed States experts adlvise'd the Priesident that Japan's verbal promise to ret urn the sovereignly of the te'rritory in Shantunig, v:Lai ie it ain ing the econonm. ic conices!.ons, was"a return oIf the shell of :he nut by ,Japan while she retainedl the kernel. Tnie Ch inese in sisted the retenut ion of the e'nocomaj privileges mlean t prnactical sovereign t' but the Presidenit says he dlisagrees, wvith this view. Only One l)isinterested. "England, France and It aly ad, hiered at the' peace confere'nce to their secret treaties disposing o'f peopiles and1( territories in the Shantung case; the(refore the President was the only disinterested judlge. The decision, bo'iv< 'er, was made unanimously. "'The United States asked China to1 enter the war. "'The A merican commnission at Paris ur gPed that a definite sum of rep~ara.. tionis be fixed in the treatey. Why this view (lid not pirevail, the Presi dent felt lhe could not state without dlivulginig matters respecting other governments he felt he should not dl..