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Section One 'Pages ito 16 VOL. XL MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, NO. 20 MEXICO LAYING PLANS TO AVOID CIVIL WAR General Gonzalez' Withdrawal From Contest for Presidency Regard ed as Indication of Peace ful Policy. ' CARRANZA FLEES TO HILLS Obregon Allows Diplomatic Corps Fifteen Days to Declare Alleg iance to New Regime. Washington, May 17.--Pablo Gon zalez' withdrawal from the contest for the Presidency of Mexico, reported to the State Department, today, was re garded here as the best indication that leaders of the defacto government de sired to eliminate the danger arising from political rivalry. Further evi dence of coordinate action was seen in the announcement that Manuel Palaez to whom oil producers have paid trib ute for several years, had been ap pointed chief of military operations in the State of Tamaulipas. Restoration of wire communication with the Mexican capital brought from the American embassy long reports on the development. There was no word, however, as to the fate of Carranza who has fled to the hills near Jalapa, with revolutionary troops on his trail, The official advices were summar ized by the State Department as fol lows: Trains Are Returned. "The Mexico City press yesterday an nounced that trains captured from Carranza were being brought to Max ico City and that civilians who re mained with the trains are being given every protection. The press stated that those who accompanied Carranza in his departure from the Mexican capital are being pursued by the revolutionary cavalry. "A circular signed by Gen. Obre gon has been published ordering a military parade to embrace 30,00 men as participants, at Mexico City May 24, as a demonstration ok allegiance to the provisional President to be se lected by the Mexican Congress on that date. The press stated that members of the Mexican diplomatic corps have been given fifteen days to declare their allegiance to the new regime. Monterey, in the State of Nuevo Leon, having been turned over with out resistance to the forces of Gens. Obregon and Gonzalez and al burned bridges between Nuevo Laredo and Mexico City having been restored, it was announced at Laredo Saturday that through passenger railroad ser vice would be immediately resumed from the United States border to Mexico City. Carranza in Flight. El Paso, May 17.-Confirmation of the reported capture of twenty-four trains and other government munition 4 and the flight of President Carranza by automobile with a great quantity of coins, was received today in a mesa. sage from Gen. Obregon revolutionists here announced. Gen. Obregon's message dated May 14, corroborated previously reported dletails of Carranza's (lash to the pioun tains saying that before leaving the main body of his troops, Carranza or dleredl that the trains which carried the national archives should be burned, but that the revolutionary forces pre vented the entire e-xecution of the or der. Gens. Joaqjuin Amaro and Francisco Serrano ,chief of staff, today left Ira puato, Guanjuato,-with a cavalry di vision of 6,000 men for Mexico City, according to announcement made In Juarez by Col. HT. I. Almada, chief of staff of Gen. Eugenio Martinez, comlmandler of operatonms In Chihua hua. The movement of 6,000 troops from Ca'sas Grande to JIuarez has already begun and 500 already have arrivea in the latter town. Col. Almiada said. May Enter UnitedI States4. Mexiec (97. 'May 17.-(via Laredo Junction, L'ny 17.)--(B3y the Associat.. e-l l'ress.)--Occupation of' Monterey, Vi( 'ria and Zacateca:; by the liberal revolutionary forces was reported at headquarters of Gen. Gonzalez last night (Tfhursday), ' ;en. Hlumberto Bart ros entered Monterey, Gen. .Juan( Guerra todk Victoria and Gen. Martin Triana (a ptured Zacatecas, accordling tn therepornts. WHAT OUR COUNTY FARMERS ARE DOING Mr. 11. K. Beatson has cut his cot ton acreage about seventy acres and has planted corn and velvet beans in stead. As Mr. Beatson has a silo and about seventy-five acres of Bermuda pasture he is very well fixed to raise stock. Mr. Beatson expects to fill his silo this fall and to feed beef cat tle all winter. More livestock must be raised in Clarendon if we are go ing to fight the boll weevil successful ly. Quite a number of farmers are go ing to' plant vetch next fall to use for pasture and also as a hay crop. Vetch will gather more nitrogen on its roots in cool weather than any other legume and makes just as good hay as alfalfa when cured properly. If anyone want ing to plant vetch next fall will notify me I will obtain the seed for them by ordering cooperatively. Over twenty men signed up for the Bull Association at Davis Cross Roads and two of those men already had their own bulls. These men, when they found the Bull Association puts in the very best bulls obtainable im mediately decided to discard the bulls they now have and to boost the bull association for twenty men can do more than one. These two men are J. M. Rowe and L. D. Sports. There are a number of ien who are not joining the Bull Association because they have bulls of their own, but they don't have anything like the bulls that will be bought by the Associa tion. Men don't let a bull that was sold to you unregistered but "entitled to registration" keep you out of a good movement like the Bull Association. Nine chances out of ten if they were entitled to registration they wo'ld be registered. To those persons in Clarendon who purchased Excelsior Hog Powder several months ago for a cholera cure I want to say that the company has backed down on that claim. I have had some correspondence twith the Excelsior Hog Powder Company who wrote me that they were very par ticular to instruct their salesmen not to represent it as a cholera cure. The salesmen who came through here, how ever, seemed to have forgotton about such instructions. I have sent a sample to Clemson College to have tested to find out whether it is a good hog powder and will publish in this column the results of the test as soon as I hear from the College. In the meantime do not let the Excelsior Hog Powder Company scare you into tak ing your shipment out of the depot, for they miurepresented their goods to you and until you find whether the hog powder is any good at all leave it where it is. From July 13th to 23rd the Boy's Agricultural Short Course will be held at Clemson College and I want to urge all Club boys who possibly can to at tend this short course. The short course will offer some special induce monts this year in the matter of live stock judging and sports and pleasures as well as a splendid course of instrue tion in other lines. The course in live stock judging should especially in terest boys in Clarendon for livestock will play a very important part in fighting the boll weevil and you can't begin to learn how to judge an(d raise livestock too young. The fee will probably not exceed $12.00 for the en tire course andt a trip to this Clemson short course will be very pleasant and profitable. For further information write or see your county agent. Mr. Herman F. Lion, representative of -'The South Carolina rDevelopmient Board spent Monday in Manning and Summerton, explaining the objects and the workings of the Development Bloardl, to a number of business men and farmers. 'This is something th at all prtogre~ssive South Caraol in ians should take an interest in for' thi Development IBoardl is working for the good of the farmer especially, a[so the b~usiness5 men and the State as. wvhole. Tlheir slogan is ''Do It' IFor SouthI Carolina.'' South Carolin nn become the most progressive and be st (developed state in the Un iona, but. everybody in S'out~h Carolina mu ist he!lp. Don't leavye it all to your neigh bor to do but get busy your'sel f and make things hum here in Clarendoni. A. M. Musser', County Agent. .Ma nn ing has one, if not the pret tiest Court H ouse lawns in the St ate. butt some of our c itiz~'ens don't seem to it tprec iate' it, or' else unthought fuIlly they wtill carry newspapers andI mail out on the lawn to sit dlown andl reatd therefore some of them throw what ever they are readling down and allow the windt to mingle antd blow it all over the lawn. People shouldl have mre consideration for the beauity oP ouri Court H ouse lawn th-mn to thrii''w trash oni it. We learn now that 'Turhe'.vIt i lik' Piintwoodl has the' mving fevir--Sunm ter' has made the peole of that sr"-| tion a propositiona which they art't sertiouly 'oinider'ing. antd it woul not| sitrpt'io us at a!! if they doi not catl ta elec' ion for the un'pose of vot;e.I themse'lves into Sumiter 'ounat v. Tlh road from Tlurbeville. to Mamtil . so terr'tibly had that they can sear"'iv travel it; andh it's on account of the tur'n-like Sumnter'a has prom isedt t I c i thait they may leave us HIDES SELLING LOWER THAN EVER, SHOES SELL - HIGHER, WHAT'S -ANSWER San Francisco, May 18.-HiMesare stored in California warehouses "by thousands," and are selling at decided ly lower prices than in 1919, accord ing to an' announcement made public by Mrs. Edward F. Scanlon,, president of the local branch of the State House wifes' League, which organization has been investigating the leather indus try in an effort to discover why shoe prices are high. . "Members of the league delegated to make this investigation have made a personal canvass of the leather of the (SanFrancisco) bay district and the findings are startling," Mrs. Scan lon said. "The finest grades of hides that brought 70 cents a pound in 1919 are selling today for 40 cents. We have made a careful study of the dif ferent elements that make up the re tail price of shoes. We find that the labor cost of a pair of shoes never ex ceeds a dollar and eighty centp." OMAHA STORES CUT PRICE 20-30 CENTS ON DOLLAR Omaha, Neb., May 18.-Eight other smaller stores today joined the five large establishments which have an nounced reductions of from 20 to 30 per cent. Large automobile dealers made re ductions of $250 on open and $400 on closed car modelo. A store which made a 30 per cent reduction announced the cut would ex tend to its restaurants also. One of the concerns, which started with a 20 per cent cut, announced an additional reduction of 10 per cent. Stores which are excepting from re duction articles like men's collars and others upon which the manufacturer fixes the price, have protested to the factories that two large concerns are cutting these 30 per cent alog with the others. 0 PLANTS SCARCE IN NORTH CAROLINA LaGrange, N. C., May 14, 1920. Mr. R. D. Clark, Manning, S. C. Dear Sir: Kindly advise me as to the outlook for a crop of tobacco in your section. Dur crops in this section will be about fifty per cent off last year owing to scarcity of plants and if any plants !an be had in your section, I will send i man or two after them at once. Please let me hear from you at once ind oblige. Yours truly, J. E. Jones. PROGRAM District meeting of Woman's Mis ionary Society of Sumter District, Way 21-22-23, 1920 at Kershaw. Friday Evening 8:30 Devotional Service, Rev. R. M. Du Bose. Greetings from M. E. Adult Society, Mrs. C. N. Houser. Greetings from Presbyterian So iety, Mrs. I R. Hayes. Greetings from Baptrst, Mrs. D. R. ?letcher. Groetinigs from Junior M. E. Society, W4iss Nancy Demipster. Response-Miss Manmre .Johnston. Music. Address. Saturday Morning 9:30 Devotional Exercises. Organization. lutessage and report of District So niety. Mu sic. .Our Literature, Publicity and Mis don Study. Report from Council Meeting.--Mrs, 1. L. Kirkwvood. Echoes from State Meeting-3y )el ega tcs. Musiic. D~elegates Hbour. Playlet--"AllI in a Day's Work" {ershaw Society. Social Service. Scarrat t Training School. Saturday Afternoon 4:30 D)ovot ional--Mr~s. K irkwvord. Minutes of previous sesseno Juniors lour-- Mrs. N. L. Anodrews. Playlet,~--"Gardlen of Children,".. )swvego Society. Music. Young Peoples Hour. Sunday Morning 11 O'Clock. Address--Mr's. .Jno. A. Rice. Sunday Afternoon 4 :30 Rally of Young Peoples and Child. -n's Society. Sunday Evening 8:30 Address--Mrs. Jno. A. Rice. ---__--0 JOR D)AN The 2nd. Quar-terly Conference of he Jordan Circuit will be held at Oak rove Methodist church May 28, all lay servic'es condlucted by Dr. W. A. 4fassebean of Kinigstree. It is dlesired hait all oflicials be present and thc al f years m'epno-t lbe in full. R[DPATH CHAUTAUQUA A BIG SUCCESS .The Redpath Chautauqua gave Man nng a program last week that seemed to please everybody that attended, and that was by the majority of the people of Manning and the surround ing country. The big tent was pretty well filled every afternoon and night, especially so the last three nights, when extra seats had to be added in order to accommodate the crowd. The Chautauqua was a success in every respect, financially and otherwise. Mr. W. S. Wright, better known as "Chautauqua Bill' deserves a great deal of credit for putting the Chau tauqua on the booming road. Messrs Joe Davis, John Bagnal, Ed Reardon and others worked hard and faithfully before and after Mr. Wright came, but it seem sthat he put new life, hope and energy in the whole situation. Mr. Wright was only in town a short time until he had met practically everybody and was making friends as he went. No stranger ever made any more friends in such a short time as (lid Mr. Wright during his stay here. He paid a very high tribute to the town of Manning and the hospitality giving them while here. Mr. Wright stated on the stage the last night, that they had never been in a town or city where they were treated as generous and friendly as they were in Mann ing. On the last night of the Chautau qua, the following committeemen were elected for next year's Chautauqua: Mr. Joe Davis, president, Mr. John Bagnal, Secretary and Treasurer and Mr. Ed Reardon, Publicity Manager. Chester Milton Stanford who gave the splendid lecture on "Vocational t Guidance" gave me the following list of books, saying some one had re quested him to hand to the librarian of Manning Library, hoping they might be purchased, placed in the library for public use. and send the listto The Times, hoping some of our good citizens will present them to their library. Mrs. J. F. Bradham, Librarian. Books on Vocational Guidance: Readings on Vocational Guidance, for parents and H. S. students-by Bloomfield. t Choosing a Profession, by Puffee, < for boys and girls. Choosing a Career by Marden, for H. S. boys and girls. Vocational and Moray Guidance, for teachers and parents, by Davis. Training for the Professions, for parents and H. S. students, by Brews- r ter. All the above may be secured from A. C. McClury & Co., Wabash Ave., Chicago. Also write U. S. Commiss ioners of Education, Washington, D. r C., for free Vocational Pamphlets. CIVIC LEAGUE The meeting of the Civic League V held Monday afternoon, May 17th i heralded great results. All energy of 1 the League has been focused on two great achievements, and the material zation of its efforts is in sight. With the gencious cooperation of Weinberg 9 Co., and the Manning Chautauqua as- I sociation, the paving of the driveway" on the school grounds is an assured fact. The League decided to select a committee of men to make the con- t! tract to handle this question. The elimination of garbage is still being punhed wvith all vim and detor mination. The League is endeavoring I to obtain a destructor to destroy this y refuse. The inclination of the town t! to aid in this necessary work is en- e couraging indleed. The accomp1lish- u ment of these two ohfet ts is essential y to make Manning a '"City Heautiful." o 'The Rook Tfournament spoken of at the last meeting will be hel in .June. , A bout the last of th is monmth the League has planined to have a baseball game between the buIsiness men of he town', and the 11iigh School boys. M esda mes (. T. F'loyd and F. 11. Sauls wvere unan imously elected nm-m t bers of the League. t Although the next meeting wvill not he held until the th irid Monday in Sept temb er, the work of the I .eague dur ig this period will not cease. Riespectfully51)) sbi ttedl, Sec. andl Tlreasurenr. (;R EATl I'tCTURE FESTlI V Al. COMING TO'( MANNING; Whlat proi'Oi Mss to be0 the grea t est nt erta in meat. ever otfered to the "'opti' of Clatrenon enutn'y and vicin it ., will be st -gted att the l'atst imte teatreP, Mannaing , the second week I'f. aun. F ir, Rose, owner af'e r c' i mtilii' the n'tirt ho. e. -n] patd 'in ' booetif'4l front, riv tiling a'ny ':i e. anyi.wher,. for a towni thi' Ie la fusture the btet.rtrmoion pticturI prt'd fr or an ca iow'. \ tater to las n x plicy!(, Mr. wh'l'u' to bie .41hown duarn F estival Trme:'.:tre Islnd heI' t in mior'tal ' 'In m''\t'ittn to ithN pwgramn ir. w R~ose wvill presenet I. '"1 inew novelties,,g iicludinig an < r'eh . ;. ,, TJhis prograim ist otne that you ..an nott. ntford t in ss. t "WE ARE LOST," FINAL WORDS OF CARRANZA Believed That Deposed Chief Plans Escape by Sea. Mexico City, May 18.-(By the As sociated Press.)-"We are lost. Good. bye, gentlemen!" These were Car ranza's final words before his flight from the besieged train in the early afternoon of May 14, while pausing momentarily before a crowd of terri fied civilian refugees a few miles east f San M.arcos, accompanied by a few intimates and guarded by what the 3pecial dispatches term "a very small :avalry force." The fugitive President crossed the iarrow valley through which the Mexi :an railway passe, stopped for a few rmonments to watch the Liberal revolu bionary forces occupy the stalled ,rains, then disappeared among the mountains. Heading Northeast. It is believed that Carranza is head ng northeast towa,rd the coast by way >f Cofre de Perote with the intention >f boarding a steamer at some small port and escaping from the country. Judging from the list of captured of !ials and generals received Sunday at :he headquarters in Mexico City of ;he Liberal revolutionary government, i few are accompanying Carranza. Aniong them are believed to be Luis labrera, secretary of the treasury; len. Juan Barragan,. chief of staff; 3en. Francisco Murguia commander of he train guards. Gen. Francisco Ur ,uizo, sub-secretary of war and Ygna !io Bonillas, former ambassador to he United States. A motor truck load of gold coin, vhich the Carranza party attempted o carry off, broke down, tho soldiers >btaining the major part of it. Labor Lender Arrives Washington, May 18.-Luis Marones abor leader of Mexico and known here as 'the Gompers of Mexico," ame here today as special commis ioner of the defacto government. Recent reports of the State Depart nent, announcing plans for his visit, uggested the possibility of his ap 'ointment later as the chief diplo natic representative to the United itates, Marones and his associates leelined, however, to dItscuss this. Dressed as a railway brakeman, Ma ones accompanied Alvaro Obregon rom Mexico City when the latter was breatened with imprisonment. Further indication that the defacto overnment was settling more firmly ito Power was Contained in a sum mnry of news in the Mexico City press ent by the American embassy to the tate Department today. The State overnment of Yukatan and Campache ave announced their support of the ew government, and Villf., it was an ounced, was proceeding to the capi 11 "without military escort." Supervisor .1. E. Kelly has been ap "tmted by the Clarendon County iighway Commission as road en meer. This is an oflice created b he last. legislature, and it carries an xnenditure of S400.000. Nr. Kelly 'ill receive a salary of $3,f00f per ear, but he has to pay an assistant ut of this amount. OF ('LA RENl)ON (COUNTY: Owning to the a pportion411menit of t he 1e funds aulloted to this County ant 1e valgenles of the law, it will he imi ossible to pay any pens ions lbefore. fter Monda y the 2.It h day of May. J1. TP. Stukesu. A .J. ltichhou,1 Memb ers I t.n.sion B~oardi. h 111L ED IN P'lSTOl. 1)11EL Silma, Fla., May 18.-Andrew~ Mul nos, wholesale g roc-ery mierchan t, shot vat kille t-(art \Vard, Ii is birother-in w, preidlent of the Ward- Mlotor omrmI~iy today,'~ inl the dooriway oif t hi all.4. co'unty co'irthouse. 'The. shout - E 'llowved insmed('iiatelv a dcciion~ lhv Car1 Wardt,. r., to ihs. Alice \lc, n, its maliternal '.ran umoth ler'. IN NO VllDtIT, CAS\f~ SIT IT IN IlE (CO i It' I Greinville 8. C .May 17..- A fter a 'liberan >f .fteen hours a general 's ons .n jut .i ya fitld t ioiay to e! 1 o' a verdiot in she case of the Ltr 0 finterin:l 'M< )iC, (elmrlged ichl the" omuriter ,' Sheril I tlendrix .J. \Ia~utd~n, at I0:30l ordered,' a mbi min. STATE CONVENTION TO CONVENE TODAY Executive Committe Adopts :veral Resolutions SUFFRAGE QUESTION UP Want Austrian System to Apply Only to Incorporated Munici pallties. Columbia, May 18.-Milledge Bon ham, of Anderson, as temporary chair man and former Governor John C. Sheppard, as permanent chairman of the State Democratic State Convention here tomorrow, were selected tonight by party leaders. Columbia, May 18.--Adoption of resolutions requesting the State Democratic convention, which con venes here at noon tomorrow, to me morialize the General Assembly to amend the law so as to provide that the Australian ballot system shall ap ply enly to incorporated municipali ties and rewrite the rules disallowing the executive committee to hear pro tests from recall elections in towns and cities operating under the coin mission form of government were the principal things done by the new State Democratic executive committee, which met here tonight at the call of the retiring chairman, ex-Gover nor John Gary Evans. The iuffrage matter was referred to by the chairman, who said that a committee of South Carolina suffra gists, headed by Mrs. Julian SaUey of Aiken, president of the South Car olina Equal Suffrage League, had de cided not to appear before the commit tee, but will present their cause to the whole convention tomorrow. There a.e a large number of suffrage lead ers in town tonight and they intend to storm the convention in an effort to have a rule adopted providing that they will be allowed to parLic ipate in the Democratic primary elec tions, should the necessary number of States ratify the Susan B. Anthony amendment before the elections. Suffrage Question Up While there was no open discussion of the suffrage question in the com mittee, there was much talk in the lobbies of the hotels among the dele gates, and the majority opinion pre vails that any effort to have the suf frage question decided favorably to the sponsors of the movement will fail. There was much skirmishing among the suffragists to have one of their number, as a compliment to the wom en, (designated as at delegate to the national convention at San Francisco Mrs. W. C. Catheart, of Columbia, one of the leaders of the movement, was mentioned as a Candidate for this cov eted honor. There was a miovement on foot to night to have baunes F. Byrnes, of Ai ken, Congressman from the Second district, elected temporary chairman of the convention aind dliver the key note 'speech, an Tl'homias P'. Cothrian, oif G reenecilli'. Spea ker of the H~ouse of RlepriesentLatives as permanent c'ha irman . Tlhere was mouch sentiet in favori of Mr'. By rnes pariticularlyv as Speakeir Gillette', of the national 1 fouse, refusedl to a ll w then South Car (4lina Congressman a few .lays ago to ''otiu w~''4ith his opehi which was repor(4tt'4d to4 be :i, ex'S riat ion 40 f t he Republican party. As~ (x-Governr lans, of Spartan burg, has aninouncedl that he will not offer for reelect0io for eba irmani of the State e.-:eet r '4' 4nunIitit'', then ('anidneyha of1 A shly (' Tob1ias. ,1inof a 4 1 f w l l d e.' ''lin e i m p eif tu s t ti p e a k e11 - Cat a's44 name4 hast beni enio e f'r thVis p'ao ition and1 h4 probably wi he4 n(ai40ted4. lie stated hast night hat, whliile he is not a cam12ii':(e. if eleeled c he w-l a1cLcept it. Th~mree of "Iig I:one.' It appeoars c'erta(in ti'tBht to o at or Sm it hi, Governor t4'operi a 0 Go;ernr.Manin(gIiii w4il l)be thre,' if the It' ted tot the nattion2 '41d cometi There' is an un0 4-rta: as1 to 14 oth mn lgs. maori4 of ume 1tir; - eate Rhett , of 1 h14!4'lton; 1.4'iio\ 'sIiings, oif l.Ii'enster and( ex-f, 444-n 0-4Nyg arIe boeing Vr'nt ioned'. ex -G('vernii r t'san4.( a4 na, maa -14 ''11. mllit t44'iman fromn South Ii (. iben has heet l4 nulifeUst el sin'' Semuor D )i ial w ithorew \ from thie ra(' .wiverial days