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Section Oneon One ANNING, Pages 1 to VOL. XXXIX MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER .29, 1919. PRESIDENT TO ANNUL WAR-TIME PROHIBITION WHEN TREATY IS SIGNED Dry Lealedra Plainly Disturbed Over White Hese Announce ment of President's Decision. 4)WILL NOT DELAY TREATY Anti-Saloonists say it Is Absured to Syspect Effort to Defer Ratifi cation in Order to Save Prohibition Washington, Oct. 28.-The Senate pased the prohibition enforcement act over the President's veto today and made immediately effective machinery for preventing sale of beverages con taining more than one-half of 1 per cent alcohol. ,The vote was 65 to 20, or eight more than the necessary two-thirds majority. While there was a wrangle over taking up the measure in place of the peace treaty, which had the right of way, there never was doubt as to how the Senate stood. It was overwhelm ingly "dry," like the House, which repassed the bill within three hours after the President had vetoed it. Before Congress at 3:40 o'clock finally clinched enactment of the en forcement law, despite 'Presidential objection to linking wartime and con stitutional prohibition acts, there came fro mthe White House the an nouncement that .the wartime law hich was put into effect after the cessation of hostilities-would be an nulled the moment the' Senate formal ly ratified the German 'peace treaty. Leaders Disturbed. It was the most definte of al ofli cial or semi-official statements bear ing on the wartime act. Prohibition leaders were plainly disturbed by the news,. for they had counted firmly upon the country reaching the effec tive date of constitutional proribi ion-January 16, 1920-without re 6pening the saloons. Despite the clamor set up by wet and dry forces over the White House pronouncement, Senate leaders said they would proceed with considera tion of the treaty as heretofore. Sen ators who have taken an active part in the prohibition campaign branded as unfair and absurd reports that they would delay the treaty simply to keep the liquor traffic from getting a foot hold in the comparatively short period remaining before the country will ge dry for good. ' Formal denial was issued from headquarters of the . Anti-Sloon League that its officers would take any part in any movement calculated to delay the treaty. League cicers stuck to the opinion that it woumo be neces sary to first ratify the Austrian treaty before lifting the wartime p-o hibition ban, which was said to have been the ruling of Attorney General Palmer, and they declared their posi tion was not altered by the fact that President Wilson was prepared to cut through legal doubt and wipe outa law the necessity for which he believes to have passed. D~epartment Ready. T With today's acfion by the Senate the Department of Justice is readly -to dleal wvith any offenders against the drastic provisions of the new act. At best heretofore, prosecufions were more or less haphazard, and nieces sarily so, it wvas said, because of the loosely dlrawvn language of tihe act but the newv lawv gives ample means of breaking uip the traffic. So drastic is the enforce-nent act that a man- for instance, may be fined or put in jai!. for displaying a picture of a brewery, or a keg, but his right to store liquor in his own home for his own use stood up against all at tack in the committee and both Houses of Congress. Warning wvent out tonight of deal er selling 2 3-4 per cent beer, with out apparent risk heretofore that the new law fixed 1 1-2 per cent as the legal limit of alcoholic content. Tfhe roll call follows: For overriding the veto: Republi cans-Ball, Capper, Colt, Cummins, 4urtis, Fernald, Frelinghuycen, Gron *4a, Hale, Harding, Johnson, of Cali ,rnia; Jones, of Washington; Kellogg~ Kenyon, Keyes, Knox, Lenroot, Lodge McCormick, McCumber, McNary Moses, Nelsofl, Ne, Newberry, Norrie Page, Ph ipps, Poindexter, Sherman Smioot, Spencer, Sterling, Sutherland Townsend, Wadsworth, Warren and . Watson-38. DRUGGISTS- HAD SUCCESSFUL MEETING The Druggist District Auxiliary No. Three, including Sumter, Claren don, Lee and Williamsburg counties held an enthusiastic meeting in the Court House here Tuesday night. While the majority or the druggists were from Sumter, practically every county was represented with one or more druggists. There were four teen present, and- Dr. DeLorme of Sumter, chairman of the association, called order for business at 8:45 in which the secretary, Dr. John Seibert, also of Sumter, read the minutes and by-laws of the Association. The prin cipal discussion of the evening, was in regard to the Sunday hours and Sunday laws. Dr. DeLerme said "you hardly ever find two towns with the same hours and Sunday laws, but we druggists catch the dickens anyway." . The meeting adjourned at 10 o'clock, when an invitation was given by Drs. Stalnaker, Kellet and Crouch three local druggists to proceed over to Dickson's. Drug Store where they were served with sandwiches, hot cho colate and coffee. The visitors left thanking and com menting the Manning druggists for the hospitality shown them while here. The next meeting will be held at Kingstree, S. C., but the date was not decided on. ' - TIME CHANGES Thu. daylight saving campaign came to an end last Sunday morning, all time pieces were supposed to be turn ed back one hour and everything moves with the time as usual. While there is only one time, by the time pieces, people very often if asking about the time, "Is that nogy time or old time." All the daylight that can be saved has been saved. The nights have grown to be considerably longer than the (lay a(l people who get up at 6 o'clock now can get along without a light, while heretofore It was neces sary to use a light. The idea is that the old common time splits up the (lay better in wint er, while the statutory times gives more daylight working hours in sum mer. As a rule, the agricultural popula tion has not had much regard for the daylight saving law. The farmers generally, are accustomed to use all the daylight they can get at both ends of the (lay and they do not burn a great deal of light anyway.. About the only use they have for the new time is to fill appointments for business in the towns. rake the people as a whole, and a majority of them, probably, rather like the idea of changing the time backward and forward an hour in the spring and fall, so as :o keep the working part of the (lay balanced be tween suns. ENCOURAGE IT Don't you want to know the grade of your cotton? Isn't it a satisfac tion to know the grade o' your cot ton before you sell ? Wotld you be willing to sell anything else blindfold ed ? Don't you want to know some thing about what. you are doing when you sell your cotton ? Of course you do: any business man wants to know. well, don't be indifferent about having vour cotton classed. Think about it. Encourage the farmers and your neighb.'r to have their cotton graded. have every bale of your own graded. Don't wait to see if this proposition will he successful. You know it will be a success. Opnosition has turned to support in other counties where there are Government cotton classers. Let's All He Together. You willI want a ('otton grader'l here ne'vt se.ason aun-l the next so helpi to mauke this season a succ'essf'ul one in Clar:uendon C'ounty. 'Think it over. Encourage it! Hoost it!! Those having cotton to be graded in lots, should come by and get tags before sampling. HENRY McRAE, G;ov't. Cotton Classer'. Classint- i'oomn in rear of Home. Hank & Trust Company. - -0 SAYS PO'T .\MADE 'TO , KID)NAP ED)SEL. FORD~l T Ioledo, Ohio, Oct. 28.-Statements of a priivate dletective that he had dis coveredl a plot to kidnap Edsel Foid, son of Hlenr'y Ford, and hold )iim fi' $200,000 ransom, led to-the arrt st her'e today of four men. D~emocr'ats--Ashur'st, Bankhead, Chamberlain, Dial, -Fletcher, Gore, Hlarr'is, Hlarr'ison, Hlender'son, Jones, of Newv Mexico; Kendrick, Kirby, Mc Kellar, Myers, Nugent, Overman, O wen, Pomerene, Sheppard, Simmons, Smith of Airizonia; Smith of Georgia; Swvanson, Tframmell, Walsh, of Mon tana, Williams amnd Wolcott-27. Total for 68. Against overruling veto: Republicans - Borah, lBrandegee Calder, Edge, Fall, France, LaFellet te, MfcLean anel Penrose-9. IDepiocrats-Gay, Gerry, Hlithcock, King, bhelan, Randlsdell, Robinson, Shields, Thomas, Underwood and IWplsh, of Massachusetts- 11.Toa against. 20. [MERGENCY PLANS ARE K[PT SECRET C Secretary Wilson Believes Miners May Be Shown in Making Reply. e CONFERENCE OPENS TODAY n, Lewis and Associates Resent President g Wilson's Statement That ti Coal Strike Would 1 Be Illegal. b Washington, Oct. 28.--low to deal with the soft coal strike in event the ti 'I miners, ignoring President Wilson's a command to stay on the job, walk out a }Friday night, was definitely agreed S upon today at a two-hour meeting of 1 the cabinet. The plan of action was not disclosed "1 bu.t it is known that the cabinet stood o as one man for protection of the rights si o' the public, which would suffer with b the closing of the mines, in which d ordinarily more than half a million members of the United Mine Workers c, of America are employed. b Secretary Lansing, who presided, I brought word from the meeting that ) the situation was not hopeless. All u (lay the belief had grown that the in- b ternational executive board, at its meeting tomorrow at Indianapolis, i would postpone the strike, at least. ' Hope was expressed in some quarters s' that the strike would be called off by b the men who had called it, but oflicials declined to say whether this was s based upon information purporting to convey some idea as to the attitude of the unions. Delay Thought l'robable. ti Mr. Lansing would not say if any Ii facts had been laid before the meet- s ing to justify hope of averting the n strike. Secretary of Labor Wilson familiar p with the way of miners through long e service as an oflicer of their national hI} organization, said it might be several t days before a decision was reached by I the executive board at Indianapolis. r "We stil lhave the function of a ( mediator to perform," he said, in an nouncing that no new strike develop- a ments had been brought. to his atten- . tion. Most oflicials had thought that John L. Lewis president of the United .Mine t Workers, who had summoned his full t scale committee to the meeting to morrow, would make immediate an nouncement of the reply of his men to President Wilson's letter. Accord ing to the view held by Mr. Wilson, however, there may be no answer until 1 the very last moment. An eleventh I hour decision to postpone or cancel t the strike would not be surprising, it I was said. But there was some doubt t h lere as o hether wvord coul he seat to the men in time to keep them at work. Moving Coal Quickly. The railroad administration, it was t learned today, is putting forth every effort to move the coal already mined t to districts where present stocks are f running 'dangerously low. \leantime 'I government agents were taking a quick eensus and trying to finad out, how long the stocks on ha nd might last. In the absence of an authorita- P tive statement, stock reports were cont flict ing, but it was saidl that union es timates of enough to supply dlemandls for- thirty (lays was not fat wrong. "The government is ready for the I worst, but it is hoping the wvorst will ~ not happen, firm in the belief that thte " miners wvillI respond pat rioticall y to (I the Presidlent's appeal andl keep the P~ mines running while negotiating 'a new wage agreement," was the sumt- ti ming upl tonight of a goveranment of ficial in touch with the situation." "Everything (dependls on what is done I at Indianapolis." "No Change in Situat ion." It Indlianapolis, Oct. 28.-With "no el change in the situation" rep~ortedl atb United Mine Workers of A merica 0 headquarters, leaders of the big organ ti ization of coal miners were pr-eparinm- ti grimly tonight for at momentous (cOnt ference tomorrow of its e-xecutive n board, disttrict presidents and scale ni committee. -John L. Lewis, acting president of t i the organization, arivedl late today n from his home in Springfield, Ill. but w~ had little to add to sentiments he hams a alr-eady expressed concerning the gen- 0 ct-al strike plannled to take effect in a bituminous mines November 1. w The condemnation of the proopse-l at wvalk-out by President Wilson andl his t< suggestion that tr-ibunal be apointed s to find a basis of settlement of the ri disagreement between workers andJ n OblE NOTES OF THE TEACHER'S MEETING The first meeting of the Clarendon Runty Teacher's Association for this ear was held at the Court House at ?. o'clock on last Saturday. Although the weather was threaten ig during the early morning hours, At there was a good representative tendance from the various sections P the county, It being the first meeting there was , attempt !nade to have any specific rogram, but to enter into a re-or anization and to discuss any uiatter mat might properly come before the teeting. Devotional exercises were conducted y Rev. C. B. Smith of the Methodist lurch. The election gI officers to serve for me ycar resulted as follows: Supt. . E. Lide of the Summerton Graded ad High School, President; W. O. atum, Jr., Supt. of Pinewood High chool, Vice-President; Mrs. J. K. reedin of the Maiming Graded and igh School, Secretary. The Government is having the hrift Saving Stamp Campaign put a in the schools, and the county iperintendent presented that subject efore the association. The subject. The Teachers Preparation for next tys work" was discussed. The State Teacher's Association iming on the latter part of Novem er it was deemed advisable not to ave any meeting of the County A, aciation for November and to meat gain Saturday, December 13th at hich time at full and interesting num er- of subjects will be discussed. Various matters of interest came p for discussion. The (lay's session ,a clo'sed with a socal half hour -en coffee and saniewiches were it :s desired that this year be the est i.a the trusting of the county. - o OUTHERN POR'RTERS ALSO WANT RAISE Washington, Oct. 28.--Porters on le passenger trains of the principal nes of the South have pre ented a petition to the railroad ad iinistration for a general increase in ages of not less than 65 per cent. The orters claim in the petition that ev ry class of trainment except porters ave been granted increases and that 1eir wages of less than $75 a month not enough for them to live on. The atilroad affected are the Atlantic oast Line, Seaboard Air Line Chesa eake and Ohio, Richntend, Fredericks lid Potomac and the Southern. Im ployers with coal production con inuing meanwhile, held no charms for le union leaders. Echoing the point made by Wil am Green, secretary-treasurer of the rganizat ion, Mr. Lewis said that the ational executive's idea that the need r war-time prohibition had passed (cause the emergency had ended, ex ressel exactly the union's attitude tward its war-time contract. '"'There is no further use for war ime prohibition, according to the riesident," said Mr. Lewis, "Neither there further use for the war-time Tashington wage agreemetn. We Ferefore, resent the impuitat ion that he strike is illegal." The suggestion that work be con nued pending appointment and re ort of an investigating tribunal was enominnte(l by Mr". Lawis a. measure f delay. "T'lhat wvouhdinmean maonthst of wvait. ag while maen ignoarant of miniing rolemias st udlied anld triedl to seive aem ," he said. 'SlMeanwhile the nmin rs woui be working under the lpres 'at intolerable conditions.'' Other oflhcials of the unjin agreed enartily with this view. In ~add ition ame of them pointed out that the p~erators would take adlvant age of the .lay to wvork the mines to capacity, tilling up reserve stocks andl placing ae union at a big d isadvantage should ae tribunal's efforts come to naught. Direct negot iaation wvith the mine wners-, honwever, woulhl be waelcomed y the union. Vice Presidcnt L~ewis, ee'retay Gr(~een iand such mienmbers of ae executive board tas lad reached :'re tonight were untanimocus in de aring thiat they stood ready ."as be a.fore to negotiate ai wage scale wvitha it reservations." They emphasized te last two words and chaarged thiat Ie emiaployers would not negotiate' wept on condlitions wvhic hthe union en1 were ploweiless wvhich the union en were powerless to fulfill. Authoritative forecasts of the ae on to be taken tonmorrow were al ost totially lacking. There was a elI deftined impression, however, that reply to President WVilson would be itlined at least, if not fully dlraftedl 1(d adopted by the confet (ncc as a hole. Much dloubt vwas in evidence a to the power of the executive board postpone or otherwvise modify the ~rike order andl if that dloubt is not :solved the big walk-out will take len Wrinay midlnight. GOMPERS CHARGES CAPITALISTIC PLOT TO CRIPPLE LABOR Washington, Oct. 28.--Thousands of organized workers- of the District of Columbia, who parade down Penn sylvania avenu! tonight in honor of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor ,later heard the veteran labor leader assert that. "big business" definitely had de termined "to give labor, because of its growing strength, a bloiv between the eyes?' The attitude of the United States Steel Corporation toward the steel workers' unions, he added, was only one manifestation on the part of industry. Mr. Gompers said that, while at the beginning of the steel strike he considered it "untimely," since learning of the plans of the steel Companies, in common with all large employers, he had changed his mind, and now the steel strikers had his utmost sympathy. The labor leader, was int roduced l.y Secretary of Labor Wilson a; a man "who, above all, loves his fel low men." o ROPER ASKS All) IN EN FORlCEM ENT Washington, Oct. 28.-Law-abiding citizens, churches, eiViC organizations and welfare societies were summoned tonight by Commissioner Roper to aid the .bureau of internal revenue in en forcing the prohibition enforcement law. Any flouting of the law, Mr. Roper declared, would bring itno disrepute the American f"rm of government. While the bureau is made the agen cy directing the enforcement of the measure, with the Department of .lus tice conducting prosecutions on evi dence obtained by the bureaus men, responsibility is not confined to fed eral officers, the commissioner said. State, county and municipa oflicials are expected to do a full share in stopping and punishing any violations and the successful administration of the law, Mr. Roper said, will he nens ured largely by the manner in which these oflicials meet their requirements. H'IIOUSAN1)S FLEE FRtOMi HOL SHFVIKi Refugees From U'ral Mountain Dis tricts 'ack Box ('ars. Irkutsk, Siberia, Oct. 5.- (Cortc spondence o fthe Associated Press.) 'Ten thousand refugees from the Ural mountain districts of Europearn Rus sia and Siberia have for weeks filled the yards of Irkutsk with their rail way cars. Forced to flee from their homes in Perm, Ekaterinburg. ''umen, Creliabinsk, Ufa, I'etropavlosk, Kur gal, Bart.ua1 and other cities of West ern Siberia, because of the mrenace of the Bolsheviki, they took refuge in the railway boxcars provided by the Omsk government and started east ward. Irkutsk. midway bet ween Omsk and Vladivostok, has felt the full imi pact of the enrmOous tide of refugcees. Thousa nds hav e breen sent on east - ward but they still remain in and aroundi lbhis d ist rict--an extrtatordinary nuimbher otf pteople who hav~e no homes I.umt borxcars oir hovels somiewherte ailong the railroad a3 A week ago it was estimated by an roflice r of the Amnetican riailrot ad corps, whiich is att em ptinrg to relhabliitat e the tran is- Siber'ian serv ire, that niot fewer than 35,000 cars of refuge'es were amrassedl ini and aroudt Omisk. Traini after train 'olled in from the~ westwa rd andt for somte timtie it wa~s virtually ai blockadre at Omnsk before the trucks (could hr. clea ret! andl sonme of the' huntdrteds o ft ra ins st'nt ont east. WVIlI.L NOTl WALK 01UT I)URING F~AIR WEEK ('oluimbia, Oct. 28.-T'ihere will he no not stri ke of the( el'cttrical workers connei(cted wvith the Columbian Railwvay Gas anid Electr'ic Comipany her'e dur ing fair week, according to Tlhomars BI. Coopet', tnf Columibia, presidernt of Ltcarl 382 International Brrtherhoord of Elect r'ical Workers. However, Mt'. Cooper saird that. if the workers d~o not rec'eive art meir'ens in the wages scale as rdemandrrred from the lotcal 'omtpalny they prtobably will go (rut oti a strike on Werdnesday of next week. The electr'ical wto'kers de mandled a 1t0 per cent increase over their present wage scale. The major ify of the men, saidr Mr'. C'ooper, re ceiae .0 contsai nnoaur. LAKE WAVES CLAIM FOURT[[N VICTIMS When Passenger Steamer Muskegon Is Dhashed to Pieces. SIX OR MOIRE ARE MISSING Tragic Fate Follows Vessel in Mus.. kegon h arbor--Heroic Behavior Noted. Muskegon, Mich., Oct. 28.--With fourteen known dead and six or more missing, only time can bring an accu. rate count of the toll of the great seas which early this morning bodily lifted the Crosby -ssenger steamer Muskegon, form- the City of Hol. land, and smash ?d her to pieces on the piers at the entrance to Muskegon harbor. The list of dead is being added to almost, hourly. The steamer, a side-wheeler bound from Milwaukee, after outriding a night of gale, made for the harbor in the early morning darkness, but it is said by Capt. Edwin Miller to have struck the bar at the entrance. '1he wheel paddles jammed in the sand, checking headway, and the great. combers threw the ship about and hurled her onto the nior. 'here she hung momentarily pounding into wreekage, and then slippers off in to the deep channel, going down in tifty feet of water. The vessel lie:; a storm torn tangle of steOl an ! spintered wood, effectually blocking the bar! m1 entrance. Guided by Single Light. Iift yof the seventy-two passeng..ers and crew, guided to safety by a sin. gle flashing in the hands of a coast guard, were tonight known to have been saved from the vessel. It was feared several were caught bet w'en decks. Survivors most of whom ts caped only inl their night. cloth'tg, were being cared for by the tie d Cross, while in the city morgues lit the bodies recovered. Grat ptic ste is of terror, :';ull'ering and heroism v.n told by surivivors and hte bravery of capt. Edwin Mliller and his ,1t. -r. anld crew, who re mained at their p .:.". to the last, was recounted. ('apt. il ler, sensing disaster as the vessel va: driven toward the pier, ordered al! to leap for their lives ,nd the t " hallowed sea rule, "women first. .a followed. Only bour women, on'. whom was employed on the boat, V cr tonight known to have been lost. The women, fearing to venture ec, 't rail, were bravely led by F-'red I.. lHeerm ,t . of \luskegon. h, Ieaped from the ship. Others jun: ic oir were hamle doilwi{ roe bs b ; . pass'elgt'e's and crew. Captain (lard Stricken. Capt. .\liller hard stricken by ihe lisaster and loss of lives, declhued ii. :indettow swune- his ship after she struck th' har. "I told tithe c;.'i boys to wake the passengers mi crew and ordered all over the r .'." he said. "'Those who moved qlub ly were saved. The ones who held 1 ",! lost their lives. " mnyt'of tehevd wheig teir le tccordin to surirsetyyonl edseamer, anO.ky,. wih ott~1111 (f heilI icoast ol uar stiggled t' m(ae iaiilsoment rc th tiagh wrage ber at farligt di t'h way tot'csafty.i h ns i G.in~ltei and the tgnenel coalmi t. the~ Hrtheroo ai. ettijlwa(I Treailt' w'illfe b'onfe tmorr' awth wair, Generalie t''llneotn the oi tunio s staie demanst''l whttichar at de'cas' i ll h.\ eui. i. I Iie a a thes ,v I omme ndtions oftheaboar of(eltntei raly ' IwaesetI iefor , hitwfor leawinei . .1 rthiaitetisi odan bin the ru'siof w k i(ni'et to ac t lona thrae hea st ' wnthe sdemaind were presnted agee:I anis'ttien an thejustimen ' iii~u t i coiderd werthi (tha' t; -a. mrembas, will b grnsd hisr delinsitm l