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Section OneSetoOn Pages 1 to 20 Pages1 to2O VOL. XXXIX MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1919. COLUMBIA WILL HOLD GREENYILLE NEGRO MURDER SUSPCT Columbia Authorities Suspect Their Prisoner of Being Turner; Who Shot Officers. Greenville, S. C., Oct. 7.-Although a half dozen suspects have been ar rested in different parts of South Carolina, reports from local police headquarters at noon today indicated that-Joe Turner, the negro who.killed Policemen A. M. Blair and J. L. Kitchin Sunday morning, had not been caught. Reuben Royal, the negro arrested by the Columbia police Monday night as possibly the Joe Turner wanted for the murder of two policemen in Greenville, is still held at police headquarters, and Chief Richardson dates Tuesday that will he has not been able to idcntify the negro as the man wanted in Greenville, the man's actions are peculiai and the idea has not been abandoned that the negro is Joe Turner. -Chief Richardson is .to have the man photographed and his picture sent to Greenville for identification. The man will be held until the Greenville authorities report on the case after seeing the negro's picture. The negro was ar rested when he jumped from a freight train, on which he was beating his way, arriving in Colupnbia Monday night. When arrested by the Columbia police the man had on two pair of pants, two shirts and other extra clothing which officers state gives the- lie to his words that he was working on a railroad gang near the city limits and that he had boarded the train to come into Columbia. Royal was arrested along with an other negro, both of whom . jumped from the train and ran when they saw the officers waiting to .arrest them. Both negroes told different stories as to their being on the train. Royal denied that he was the negro seen on the train by the tjainmen. How ever, members of the train crew said he was the same negro. The first thing Royal said to the officers when he was arrested was, 'Are you arresting inc as the negro who killux the Greenville officers?" The Columbia police force were notified Monday night by conductor J. H. Gilbert, who was in charge of freight train between Union and Co lumbia that two negroes were heat ing their way on his train towards Columbia, and tNt he suspected one of them as being Turi-. wanter in Greenville. The 'train was tied up near Frost, just above the city. Po licemen rushed to the piece in the police patrol. Another squad went to the dcene aboard a freight engine that went to haul the train into Co lumbia. When the. train passed. the Broad River road the policemen in patrol wagon saw the two negroes on top of one of the freight cars. They "beat it" *acl to the city, and were wvaiting for the train when it reach ed Bland ing street. The negroes saw the officers in waiting and jumpedl from thc tryin. The policemen pur sued and the negroes were captured. Royal conforms in some particulars to the dlescription of the man wanted in Greenville. Chief Richardson stated Tusa' t ontath a not noiidteGenil authori ties and did~ not laln to do so, until lhe gets something more definite as to the negro's identity. He dloesn't want the Greenville oflicers to have a trip to Columbia for nothing. At the same time, if he get sany veidlence to con vince him that Royal is Turner, he wit then notify the Greenville police chief and ask that he sendl someone to identify the man. RlOIHERS STiiLL ATl LARGE Macon, Ga., Oct. 7.-Crawvford County authorities today are still without clues in the robbery during Sunday night of the Crawford county hank, a state institution, at Roberta, twenty-five miles west of here. Yegg.. men, believed to have been experts, blew open the vault andl safe in the hank and secured a thousand dollars in currency and five thousand dollars in liberty bonds. The force of the explosion wvrecked the vault. The yeggmen atre believied to have escaped in an automobile as racks found near the bank indicate an automobile was used. Two Macon safes were blown on Saturday night and a small amount of monb'y obtained. SAYS AMERICA FACES CRISIS Senator Thomas Talks to Sons of Veterans. Atlanta, Oct. 7.--Pleas for "Ameri canism" were made here tonight by United States Senator Thomas of Colo rado, and Representative J. W. Oliver, of Misissippi, in addresses before the opening meeting of the Sons of Con- I federate Veterans. The "present radical movement," which is sweeping through the coun try, said Senator Thomas in the course of his remarks, is directed at the great < middle.class of America, 'which is the f arch and covenant of liberty." Amer- I ica is facing a crisis, he added, and I now is the time for display of 'Ameri canism-our country and its institu tions against all foreign aggressions.' The Sons of Confederate Veterans. Senator Thomas said, would not fail I in the test and their example would l be followed by the North and West in showing "Americanism, the leaven of the world. A resolution of sympathy for Presi dent Wilson in his illness was adopt ed. r The sons meeting tonight was also < marked by the apeparance of the 'Con I federate Choir,' of Norfolk, Va., a group of a dozen young women in Confederate jackets and campaign f hats who sang Southern war-time I songs and caused the veterans and delegates of auxiliary organizations I present to burst forth in the 'rebel t yell" time and again. t The veterans themselves will open < their convention tomorrrow with a for- < mal gathering Welcomes were ex tended to them and to the other or- t ganizations tonight on behalf of the f State by J. E. Pottle, of Milledgeville t Representative Coliler made the re- t sponse to this address and Senator Thomas delivered the annual address. Mrs. H. M. Franklin, president of t the Georgia <livision of the United t Daughters of the Confederacy, Mrs. A. MeD. Wilsoni of -Atlanta, -president general- and other . represetai # f women's organizations, extended wel comes to the visitors. Southern soqs completed the program. - o GOVERNOR REFUSES TO GRANT INVESTIGATION Richmond, Va., Oct. 7.--Governor Westmoreland Davis today refused to grant an investigation into the dis missal of C. B. Scott, who for twelve years served as assistant state high way commissioner. SUPERVJSOR KI COMF1 Editor of The Times, Manning, S. C. Dear Sir: In your editorial of the 1st, in re- t ply to my letter of the same date, you ' made a splendid effort to confuse t things, and no doubt succeeded in I tickling the fancy of your bunch of i kickers. Lets see howv much truth there is in any one of your statements. You say that I as a public official, should i not object to legitimate criticism. Do you call your effort of the 1st, legi.. timate? or honest. Lets look at it I from another viewv point; you say that 1 when I took charge of the office I soldl i all of the county mules, and bought a worthiesi tractor. The facts are that I1 sGld sh: of the mules that wvere I worthless, andl bought six more, wer still have seven of the miules that thet county owned when I took charge. In< your zeal to show me up had, you fail to see seven mules, I suppose5 you call that legitimate ? You say that you I are glad that I have pa id the county out of dlebt ; have never claimed to I have paid it out of dlebt; I have only claimed that we are not going to put< it in debt, in doing this I triedl hard< t4) get others to see what a propositio I was up against, in all of my repo--s,. from the very first to the very last. I i have given the facts, as to the $.10,- < 000.00, how much was avaIlable to lput, on it, and how much was left to he paid later, all of my repon s showv this, and the acts of the Legislature show how~ it wvas taken care of. You know all of 'this, and you show your grouch when you (ry to wvarp it around toi suit your aitos. Mr. Appelt get this indellibly fixed iyour mind; First: That you cana cater to the tax dodger slacker and grafters, even to the extent of con fusing the minds of honiest, progres sive people: hut when you have dlone ( this, you will only have made a long sten) backwards. Second: Get this, in 1917, the float ing dlebt levy was two mills, in 1918, one mill, in 1919, three mills. This gave us -approximantely or wvill give in the three years an income of $28. 500.00 which will Lie applied to the floating debt. During the same period of time, the property tax available for< roadu will be $29,500.00, this is from 'OVERNMENT CLASSER EXPLAINS GRADES There seems to be some misunder tanding regarding the spot quota ions used on the big black board in vindow of Government Classing oom, Home Bank & Trust Co., muilcling and for the benefit of all oncerned I furnish the following ex ).an)atii. All spot cotton now sold at the ten pot markets which names are given n black board use middling cotton s a'basis on which all sales are made. aor instance, if middling cotton sells 'or 30c this is the basis. These strict niddling brings 60 points "on" (on fiddling) or 30.60. Good Middling vill bring 115 points 'on" (on mid ling) or 31.15. Strict low, 158 oints "off" (off middling) or 28.42 .ow Middling 411 off or 25.89 which a trict low middling yellow fringe vould bring 569 off or 24.31 and so vith the twenty different grades. All these cities named are designat d spot markets under the rules and egulations of the Secretary of Agri ulture under The United-States Cot on Future Act which" furnishes daily uotations. The average of such quotations overn the differences in value of cot on of various grades on the future xchange in New York. Those quo ations show much more uniformity han existed before the general adop ion of the Official Cotton Standards f the United States. Of course these lifierences change some each week. So you may see, the differences at he "Ten spot markets" are added to !ether so as to get an average and his average is really tho difference hat should be used between grades. One of the many good things the government has (lone for cotton was o leave out New York as one of the en spot markets. In other words the Government ises quotations from the large spot narkets in the Cotton Belt as a basis or difference between grades and New fork does not name them as it. has in he past. I hope the farmers will see the ad rantage and help they receive by hav ng their cotton graded and even if rou have only one bale it should be -lassed. Those wanting to hold and nsure cotton should have it graded by ill means. I now have tags number 'd to correspond with the grade cards md1( you can tag each bale of cotton. (ou may keep grade card until cot on is sold then mail it to this office LLY s BACK AGAIN will give facts to the cent, and it vill be worse than this. If it takes nuch not including the $24,000.00 hat was put on it, (one mill a year vill be collected on ali property up o 1935) to take care of the hack debt, think I an right, when I refuse to un the county in debt; however you liffer with me; maybe you have a elfish motive? Now lets see; you oive as an e'xcuse' for advancing your >id for the public prrnIttin~g from 75.001 in 19)17, to $225.0)0 in 1919, an dvance on the price ort supplies of romi) (one to tw.o hundred per (cnt, mit wvait a inmute, didl not the Mann ng Times collect from~i the counaty ;900,00 for the public print ing for 913, 1914, 1915 and 1916 this was at he rate of $225.00 a year, those were' mormal times, and if youzr Position is (enable, you owe the counaty ai refund if $600.00. I am using your owvn ar.. ment; but I unihesitatiingly tell youi hat. just such as that, as the cause of he county being in debt, in and out f season, you nmsrepresent, andI be ittle. my efforts to get. better results. Vhat is your motive. Youmr v'eiled 'om1ment on the Summecrton1 road is m a par with1 the re'stcit your' (edi oial. God grant that it ma'y be pos ible' for me to build at least one road or Summerton, before I yet out of >ffice. Thyhave.(11) compl wvith the vri tten) law ,anidu are willing to doi niore. If there is a slacker at Sum nerto~n, I don't knowv him. Now you ret .the facts from your hunch and wif y'ou can say ais umuch. This is he first. year that it looked possible 'or us to begin any permanent road myirovement, and it is a thorn in the iesh, to have to put up wvith you and 'our. kimd(. when I know tha1t thed most hat you do0 is to use your moumth ad -e'rsely. We haveyc ini Clarendon county 12, Pill lin feet of bridging, to make these Wmm'ges safi'. so that they will carry he heavy traflic, truicks; miotor's etc. twouild take $23.000.00, when it is all col lect ed wve wvill have' a road fund >f $30.000.00 this then wvouhil leave 18.00.00i for 850 miles of road or It <it. this bickering, and1( go :fte'r the hingsc that will benefit our 'ounty, I anm readcy, are you ? Yours truly, J. E. KEILTY. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will meet Tuesday afternoon at o'clock 14th inst. the graded school building. The president would ap preciate a good attendance of members and visitors will be welcome. Rev. J. D. Bowen left last week for Elloree where he has accepted the Baptist pastorate. Rev. Hill from Conway has been called to the Home Branch and Baptist church at this place. It is 'v t Y .own yet, as to whether he w' or not. Mr. J. L. Pr t)art, of Sumter was a visitor here last Sunday. Mrs. Alec R. igers from Kingstree spent last week with her mother, Mrs. Annie Herlong. The -Bank of Paxville opened its doors last Wednesday for business. Mr. Jesse Sprott of Manning has ac eepted the position of cashier and reports a splendid business. Miss Varnie McLeod has returned from a visit with relatives at Char leston and Mt. Pleasant. Mrs. Atlee Bradham has gone to visit her brother, Mr. ?Mendanhall Bradham at Augusta. Miss Leila Corbett of Sumter spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Corbett. UNION NEWS The weather is very dry and (lusty, a good shower of rain would do the roads so much good as the chain gang has reached us after r. long look for them and have done our roads lots of good, while the bridges are still very bad. Rev. Vance commences a revival meeting at the Mother church tonight hope he will have a good meeting. Mr. Richard Baker and Miss Essic Morris was married yesterday after noon at Kingstree, wish them a long and happy life. Mr. and Mrs. John DuBose were call ed to Sumter last Thursday to the bed side of their daughter, Miss Myrtle, but glad to say she is better able to be :t home now, hope she wont have any more fever and will soon be able to return back to her position. Mils Edna DuBose has iceptedi a position at Gables, S. C., Lookout Un ion boy don't drive the horse and new buggy too much. Mr. Tom Edens a prosperous busi ness man of Sumter was the dinner ':uest of Mr. and Mrs. John DuBose Sunday. Mr. C. W. Barrow is busy moving to his new home at Turbeville, hope M% r. Barrdw great success. Miss Eunice DuBose of Hebron is upending this week at the home of Mr. John DuBose hope she will have a nice trip. ies. Ilester Roland who has been very ill in the hospital in Florence is to he home today hope Mirs. Roland will return home and soon be able to be out an iong her many -riends again as we miss her very mluch. Well as news is searce will stop for this time hope we will have some rain Soon. Mr. Mack Baker's wife is very ill, hope she wilh soon be well again. with price you received. No postage is required. The Government State of South Carolina and local organization fur nish the money for expense of this work and is free to the farmer. Ilenry McR A E, Govt. Cotton ('hisser. Classing room in IHone Bank & Trust Co., building. FARMERS SHOl COTTON F All (-ottoni gr'ower( should exaine their' cotton fields closely once~t ever'y we'ek fr'om now until fi'ost. The holl veevil is making his annual flight at this season (If the yeai' anid it is very iimpor'tant that ev'ery ('(t ton gr'ower know whether ther'e are any wveevils in his c'otton this yeari in or'dei' to plut upI a good fight aga ist the ne11 i.xt ye-ir'. To dtec weevils have' been dhis ('ole redlL three miles nori'h-west (of Manning and as there is ever'iy re(asoln to suppose that ther'e am'e wee'vils scahtt(eed ovei' the souithiern t wo-thirds5 oif tihe county', the groIweris att Mann ing, Si lveir, Hinmin i and1( all po(ints south of that l ine sholulil be on the liokouit for b ell weev'il~ s. One of the biest mecthodk of light ing the weevil is bly pl1owinet under ori burning all ('ot ton stalks as SoonI~ as the cotton is all picked. l'his must lbe donie lbe'for'e frost t'oi' at thle first f'rost the adul11t we'v ils hu Lnt and( go into theiri I hiberna'ting quiarter's for thle wvinter'. Many oIf them h iber'nate in the samie ie'lid hut mantiy go ii woods or to other ('(tton Iiieitt. There''('foIre if boll weevil are foundtlial in your c'ottLIon fields Lbhis fall, tush your cot toni pick inig to coimpletiont andI then plow un der' the stailks four I to( Six inc(hes' deepi. If the lowinig is donei( sha llow andi the gr'ound not harrowed~('( after' plow'!ing with tire' stalks will have a c'han'e oIf esc'apinlg thro'ugh the light 'et'erig ofl Lrlil. That the boll11 weevil is mov'ing fast his. year' the peo~ ple. of (Chailest on enter-ed Chatrlesto'a nonty in May aid 'June, but is now~', 'stahtiushied there by~ the millions . A lar'ge inimber oif th c'otton fie'lds ar'e so itt'edO that the. stalks have no fi'uit on themi at all, FEDERAL TROOPS IN GARY NUMBER 1,100 Major General Leonard Wood In Com mand of Forces Controlling Steel Town. Gary, Ind., Oct. 7.-Gary, site of one of the United States Steel Corpora tion's greatest plants, affected for more than two weeks by the strike in the steel industry, today was under military control of approximately 1, 100 federal soldiers, commanded by Major General Leonard Wood, com mandant of the central department of the army. The men have just re turned from overseas. Five hundred more troops fresh from riot duty at Omaha, Neb., wee on their way here early today. The call for federal troops was made by James P. Goodrich governor of In diana after thousands of strikers pa raded and held mass-meetings after being forbidden by the mayor, the po lice and the approximately 300 state militamen stationed at Gary. The course of the strike here has been marked by little violence. With the reports during the past week that strikers in increasing numbers were resuming their old places in the steel mills the attitude of pickets whose number also increase:, became threat ening and for a time it seemed as if a serious clash would be unavoidable. With the parade yesterday however according to a statement by Governor Goodrich, the situation became so threatering that it was deemed advis able to ask for federal troops. Upon the arrival of the federal sol diers and the issuance of a proclama tion by Gen. Wood proclaiming mil itary control the state militia were or dered to Indiana Harbor and East Chi cago, Ind., where 'Governor Gocdrich declared martial law. Following the action of several score men wearing the uniform of the United States in leading the parade against orderk of the mayor and police yesterday, Gen. Wood's proclamation ordered that "all men in the uniform of the United States, whether in tle service of the Unted States or otlh. wise. who are not par i of the Unit.'d States armed forces on duty within the limits will be examined nid those who are in the service of the Uniti States will be attached to an ortani za ti'n on duty in the city limit- :'ial contin'uoe on duty during the proser d ist urbance.'' It was imadle plain that martial lav had not been declared. The federal -troops, it was stated by n mem,er of General Wood's stat', will be used to preserve order working in conjunction with the civilian peace authorities. Ar rests made by the military forces will he bo'vhe- over 1', thte tivilien cal er and tried in courts of law insteal of by courtmartial he said. ilr. II. Raiford G;ffney of Gaffney is the new manmaeer of The l'astimte Theatre, the present manager Mr. Iiuntphries going into the head otlices of the B1ill Enterprises at Gatincy. JLD WATCH IELDS CLOSELY but on thet roundl you ( amt find hutnd-. redls of squlares whichl hiaI bet' pune turedI by the weevil', ant now that the souppl y of young sqigunis is ex hausterd the weevils bast~e taken to big b)01ls nuany of whitch when exsa1mnedl showed one and t wo see't ions r'utined I.' the wormt that hatches f'rima the e'gg of the weevil and lateri tourns intoa a weevil. You t (an Itfigure upt for your-t' sel f what the loss to gro~iiwers will lie untdert stoh condli itins. C'htalestont county, is not very'~ fa. itrom ('laren.. dlnt (iont y andi t he ioss whIiich t he yrowert~ts oif thatt coty susta int'l this y'ar is very likely to lie dupttliented in ('larentdon iotaty inex :-'eart. Ytou will not ice Iildid nott say it WO(U(Ii) hap lien it thIiis couty newxt yesar but was Y lslt Y Il K IN, to h pn hte it will or wilI not happent is in a very hlre-i parit utt fto the farmers of this (0ount1y. an ud the loss intcrea sed bty neg.. lect ofl tot ttn fiehtls this t'all at' tdim inishedI by the jitt antd co--onterat ive counat v as describedl above. IFvery weevil idesltroved titis fall metanus at least twit miill itn less text yt-ar . If voou thinko I'rovidtence hans st-at fhe btol I weevil here to feedl ont voturt cot - tin andt that it is ntit op to vtou fib gtt rid otf thIem, let thtenmalttte; butt if you still want toa en iov good living itd pri o-eitev G T IIUSY. TIht-re is mtot'e than ion- way fto "bhett the hall weev~il." Ask viotr (otcty Agenit whant thev are~ andl houw to grow othetr crtops thait ! th bll weevil will ntt destroy. It will also na1v ever'v Cotton farmerCi'f t~' reit the bulletin imay be hadl upon auppl ition ( t ou County Ag eat. A. M. Mosse'. MEMBERS OF I. W. W. FORCED TO KISS R[AC AND .[AVE WIERTON West Virginians Corral One Hundred and Lighteen of 'Em, Stage Public Ceremony, Jail Seven and Chase the Rest. Weirton, W. Va., Oct. 7.---ne hon. dred and eighteen alleged members of the Industrial Workers of the World, capturedl in a raid near 'here today, wee marched into the public square of Weiton, forced to kiss the A meri can flag and were then driven out of town by police and deputies. Seven others, suspected of being tae leaders, after kissing the flag were taken to the county jail at New Cur; herland, where they will be held pend ing investigation by federal autho " ties. No Serious Disorder. The raid was carried out. without any serious disorder. Authorities of Hancock County and Weirton had been searching for tC'' rendezvous of the alleged I. W. W. since several days ago, when there a'. peared o nthe sidewalks here written threats that "the I. W. W. will gt you. Last night the meeting place of the men wante(l was located in a old barn on the Hancock County road. south cf here. It was surrounded by heavily armed deputies and a few entered the barn. The few men in the barn sought to escape without success. A search of the place resulted in the finding of a large quantity of "red" literature-half a ton, it was said in which the flag of anarchy was ex tolled and the prediction made that the extremists would rule the wort. The deputies also found the names of 187 men, supposed to be nembers of the organization meeting in the barn. Immediately deputies were sert. out and the men were rounded up a the public star. There was one fight after another :a bringing the men to the square. ao even after they were corralled there was resistance when the depot ies ga. e then the option of kissi e' fat going to jail. A' big A mer'Iica n flaj. xva st rurI across the street over their heads while another fag was usl fr o. kissing. Most of the men were Iimro;, -t : they were told in their native' ton',re that they must kiss the flag or r 1min in custody. Protests ''amte le m many, hut. they were in vain. So-t voluntarily took hold of the flag a buriel their faces in it. :Another Vain Protest. The en were then tformed that they must ehave town. A -a ii I a -e wars a protest from many, but th y were escorted to the town limit.; .., ertheless, and ordered to lea-e. It is claimed most of the men wre furnace woirkers and that they cavr here from Woodland, Pa.. near' Pits buinrghr, a few dlays agoi. Tlhen. rcord the mlen at Woodllan dis bein-~ irve igated hy State and l1idlera! aurth: - Then I lomie Serv.'ice S'ct ion tf to ited ('rross1 has urchas~ed a *'t ' boonks in which to ro'ord th~e a ('ha rges of thle meni fro m t hi> 'on-iv who ser'vedl in the war. The di,> c'har!ges will be (copied in t h-n' he 'ind cert ifieIlib tn he 'rk 'f ('ou The boioks are ha~ndsoun 1yh>n sublstauitiail so tnat they~ w'dl h- a p 'o ennt recordh who-n tm.y are - Iiroducflt ion oft a dlischlar'ee. If the s ''i('rs of the' countyV will hle to nok.-' t hemn to yl-te by i lin t heii 'Ihartreas thev w.'ill f m an ~tierstrt and0 authenit ic hist ory of ('lareinh, chrrsto th In'1lome Ser-vice ti over n the iank If .\an nling, to b I ;ire of' .\l r. l''ranik (hIib Mhr I'(ti lh-th partia . r n'::nr iarm fri'tids in ( .ri> :,h ivny Thl~e ceremnonty wil be Ire I ,rie in i the Prnesb'yt enrnuiinhu't: *i'i en- oni 'lesday cx riin, ( )ei hi'r I4th 'it S ::t (c'clo-k. NATlIO N A1, P'itO llRIl'TION ADlOPI"I) IN NO': \A Y ( hristiania, Oct. 7. Nat ionl p hibit ion hars been inopted ini Norw; bny the vo'(te at a general pilehiscite biehl v'e~a'