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iec to n i o Paes VOL. XL MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1920 'TWO MORE GINS BORN IN UXAS; WILL PROBE Federal Agents Instructed to Investi gate Destruction of Property by Night Riders in South IROSECUTION MAY FOLLOW Cotton Gins in Alabama Idle as Re sult of Warnings Posted on Build ings.-Quiet in South Caro lina and Georgia. The federal authorities have taken cognizance of the activities of night riders in the South, who are waging a campaign to keep cotton off the mar ket until it reaches a price of forty cents a pound by threatening to de stroy gins whose owners ignore warn ings to discontinue operation until that price is realized. The Department of Justice last night announced its agents in the affected areas had been instructed to investi gate instances where federal laws re lating to interference with shipments in interstate commerce might have been violated. Department of Justice agents have been investigating the destruction of a compress and warehouses at Camer on, Texas, Sunday morning, with a loss estimated at $1,000,00, according to A. J. Dossett, owner of the prop erty who returned to Waco last night from Cameron. The burning of two more gins iN Texas was rep)orted yesterday and last night. One at Pursley was destroyed Tuesday niight with a loss placed at $6,000, while the other, at Branch vill'e, near Cameron, was burned Mon day tight with a loss of approximate ly $12,000. Both fires are believed to have been of incendiary origin. Flames were discovered at the 1"ort Smith, Ark., compress last night. It was the third fire in a period of twc weeks at this plant but there was nothing to indicate a wilful attempt at its lestruetion. The posting of warinings on gins in Arkansas iS continuing, operators at Lavaca, near Fort, Smith. last Iigh! discovering phicards on their plants with inscription: "I)on't start" this gin until sixty days. If the wheels turn you know% the results-unless the price gets r i ght." Guards were placed about the gin and the owners Welt to onifer tolay with amr to determine what courseu topus. ver.: ailitinal iins in Alorgant County, Ajiia, w."re tlle yesterday afterl. tie reteipt of warninl.-gs to (;. tdo toj a 1-t- hour 1:1.t night there had beenl no ri-ports 1f the rlecipt of herwl warnfings by Linnewrs inl;lr Waslingtionl, Oct. 12. lederal pris' eutionl of "nlight rider-ls" mad whers respontsibt- for the wnihing of .ot ton and cotton gins in the Soulthern) States will bi oitrl-d it' aln inve-ti.. %gation ordereid totitiv di.tlosets viola.. tioin of any federal laws. D~epar-tmet of Ju'.stic agents have been instructed to ivestigaite aind report innniiediately to hav'e been viohate~i In most catses, oict-i- s bliuevedi , th outrag.es have tonstitted crinies onlyI under- State laws, lint the- investigatin, w.as orderitd wh'len it w.as inictedi (ter miiighit hav beena in iiterf'erencet wtit~h shipmientts in interstate comi WVar-nings A e l-ound, For-t Sniith, Arik, Oct. 1 2.- -Warinigs wereI foundit ptedi tin tottion gins at Lavata, Aik., near- liere', tonight, and amedit guards were Place'd abtiut: thet Th ginneris 'vill imieit with fa rmers' tirmmi row toi coniside r what act ion they' shall take. Several iotherii gins have b een piosted near-i herie, but nto d epretda St ins have followedl. For th le third timne in two weetks firev biroke ot onight at the Fort SmithI tcomipres~v. butt as tin the- twoi previous ociCtioi:- ilhiunage wa.- alight. It was imlpossible Itin igh t to dieterine i whether the lire- wai of i nceniaryi (irigini. No warntings have- bee-~n po~sted Cotton Gin Ilurnied. Waco, Teoxas, Oct.- 12.- A tcott on gin at Branchiv ill e, 12 mileis east of C am t'ron, was destroyedl liy lire Moindany ight, accord(i-( ng to reporlts rece ivedl he-re todlay. Loss was estimated at alproximately $12,000. A small grist mill adjoining the gint also was de THE BENBOW MEMORIAL Among the papers and personal ef fects of Col. Harry Benbow there was found a package securely tied and covered with dust, this package-his "Alabaster box," contains a faded picture of his mother, her letters to hir.' filled with love and encourage m through one stress and storm of the '60's. The original roll of the Sprott Guards, yellow with age, but around each name a halo of glory, and last of all a letter from a com rade, from which I clip this extract. "I am deeply grieved dear Col. at Clarendon's seeming lack of apprecia tion of one who -served her with such valor and to whom she looked for leadership and protection in the (lark est hour of her history. But be of good cheer comrade, the nation pre sented Admiral Dewey with a home, South Carolina in like manner honor ed the hero of '65, Wade Hampton, and some day, in some way, Clarendon will honor her sold ifr-statesman Ben bow." Gifted with prophetic foresight, the brilliant and scholarly gentleman who wrote that letter doubtless caught. a glimpse of the memorial shaft that will one day stand above the ashes of his friend who wore the gray. The treasurer of the Memorial com mission, Mr. J. M. Windham has re ceived a letter from Col. ). V. Me Laurin of Columbia snying that he and his broth~r have over $100.00 sub scribed to the Memorial fund. This is encouraging news, and all persons in Clarendon who wish to contribute to this cause are now requested to hand in subscriptions to one of the Menor ial committee, Messrs. .1. T. Stukes and lred L.esesne at Manning, A. J. Riehbourg and L. A. Brunson Sum merton, judge Richardson, Sumiter, and Col. McLuirin Columbia. All contributions will be acknowleliged, and the names and amounts pullshed in the Manning Times. Let no one hesitate to make an offering, because the gift is small, any amount will be hlighly, appri!ted. and it is the de ire of the corolinss ion that this can p1( lifo 1fund he an out-poaiiy :r of th ' heart of the people frem t-very ctIon of the county. TI E S. C. tEVE.OPN ENT IHA RD Colunibia, October, 12.--A beg ining ol the progr-am10 for the agricultural, industrial, social and econom ic deve lolp)ment of the state - to be C:N-ried out by five commissions of the -South Caroli na Developmesr Board. These five commis;szons are: laiket. nati Al resoiur'ces alld industrial Iles'':.(:l, drainlag"e an1d driaeproje.ct- iv stock and health and -anitathn. I'e personnel of the sev'eral c'o m issions has been co ifii'limled by the board of directors and tie conuis3ijonS Will iol Iel till s in Columd.4 tlhis month to outline the.r taIsk :t, I y und11er way. Each con::. ision is u:1l' . I. the be)(St e4piippedI tienl m I V(women in1 S utih lina. Th w l'(1 :Wnliit - itI by? k,."~~ ;11--(", th3 :f)3v m o en I f . ir stat . win. toth evkp n boar frou'I m fI3(: have heel lItd too he exmi-;ssi for actioln. The chiai l-111. f thecon i0 sh are*(: A1.lar et, ]',right W illiaans,,n, 0f I Iuhiligton; 3itulral re'source(s am I I dustr'.ia researchiin 1, . . Co( Iifh \'1ifrnsvile dfige i md drain ((3m (stockf, ('). fi'. ll iwar f of'(l l ( 'hnfia - health :0 1 'ntt ion I :.m 31-: .F;bl of1 Whitire. Th l'in- f)tocllk~ cnil.l 33''di'ts, Chare1 1(4 .n stiaron ((I tl' 5hn' hH:livf~ e lok s t ion,11 d. hit. 15.l6l ('ho iof l~ li1ort V rains, 11 ra 01. (If-i forage .1 (.-if'otney (33'mophel ' of .' 'rgi way rhaed ~'to the~ s''o'' oft. e to13' th s iveo'(innent hor d.iniolum inu, whihr'1 wti' undertak ( to3 sel that3:~F thfei lueistin par tilv' n inte'V llen Some ll peope mue tink that'. pape ablest nothin. They) 1 waik int ou oaf-' pee and s for paperi 0 but' lle getl \Jsfvhan'k yoned inns ( ,lIf(l til'i avft e t th t. i N< t -eoe' '' is lifttle gvishJto (tat thatfe sl flir'i d'e1 g,~ sohereafter, a1ney' of~ w''ho enoy. j iwrmstpyth ,t. veya SEARCH FAILS TO REVEAL ANY CLUES OF BLAKELY COUGHIL Philadelphia, Oct. 12.-Investigati s of the latest confession of Augn Pasquale, "The Crank," in which is alleged to have tol( Maj. Lynn Adams, head of the state police, t1i he accidentally smnothered Blaki Ls Coughlin while stealing the baby fr( i- the home of its parents in Norristo, 3- last June, was continued today. P. a- quale, according to Major Adar 1- said that, when he lifted the ch ,u from its crib, it started to cry, a g that he placed it under his coat whi :h he buttoned tightly. After maki n his escape and running some distan y he unbuttoned the coat and found t it child dead. Search of the woods and swam y around Egg Harbor nd New Gretb it N. J., yesterday failed to reveal a d trace of the child's body. It was _e e neighborhood of Egg Harbor tI i- Pasquale purchased a small fa shortly after he succeeded in obtai ing $12,000 from George Coughlin, t missing child's father on the prom to return the boy and it also was th< that he was captured when lie I tempted to get an addi(ional $10,0 '1a rsom. The authorities stated todhy the ' vestigation would be coniit 1 t. declined to say what their next 11 d would be. r iecause of the manny false el Pasiiile is said to have giveni tit h working on the case since he colfe1 >r td the kidnapping, neither tie N< 1s ristowil police, norl the Coughli le plae much credernce in hi, Iast stop it Miirate 0. If. Lenhart decla >f tihiy thit l'asquale lis not vel to I Ihe truth and added: "I e iimot tell all that I know, I t the re-lI story will be out. wsitin ]I fw <hiys and it will le foul ti y ii lly Coulbliis alise. I am hain fthat,;.and ex p-t to iea aI - (ts enihlin mnak '.- a ceil~l k-ni fiention of lie bavby efoxi. V <h1id y . " tc..i !- :i)iim1 T') Slill SiG l TWO Y i N' I*N li\ 'lni. M .h.\ib. (4ct. 12. E.:rl Rf, n mliivinar here, toIday h.4 ,Nnh Silsh, hi w ht aged iw old ,i d uri thvjr }a i IRii ('edar r-, a .11 I - fr his homc. . I atihe of murder. S ( i tIle I'. I\Y Ti (' lnina, Oc~ ~ t 1 The Ierii! f tle lect i v of (. w it few t ars an ab t th ti t t I i w ill e '-me b i .hp . e m o rulia d(liic , e tse. i ti \\lThe lelinla of ) asend li rca tthe lut Mh ln I A .TI ilCerawiit inn Iistle mam tli of wtheGi' hlecti wai annl tmll hop I uerryl111, h i'! thay nely ielect liiutor scrtedI 9to theai cham~ l'e i fro, (lina ion (il lge. d ati of a big iitn1 wand; hirav a iate ment. ly nid e h ha dtiei* s the ale. Hi.sh, L[AGUE TAKES HAND IN VILNA PROBLI Polish Insurgent Leader Issues Seri< of Proclamations From 'Capital. Paris, Oct. 12.--Leon Bourgeoise, a presiding officer of the executive coui cil of the league of nations has teli graphed the head of the military mi: sion sent to Lithuania asking that ii formation be forwarded from time I time as occasion called for regardir events in Vilna, with a view to su( action as might be useful to put q end to the occupation of the city I Gen. Zellgouski, the Polish insurgej commander. M. Bourgeoise informed the militai mission that the Polish Governmet had disavowed Gen. Zellgouski at had expressed its readiness to tal Ill measures in order to end the inc dent. Proclaims New State Warsaw, Oct. 11--(By the Associa Press.)--The new "Central Lithuni: Government" at Vilna has proclaim( the creation of a new State, says Lida dispatch. A series of proclamations have bet issued by the so-called governmen The first proclaims the new state ar promises to convoke a Diet in the net future. The second, addre'ssed to the P4oli Governinent, asks for forgiveness f< the mutiny of Gen. Zeligouski's trool and gives niotice of the cIe:jtin off tI new State, the territory ofit wiicl, is set frith, includes the town Grodno, with tle River Niemni as ti dividing line from Poland. Tie prolamation further asks ti: the Polish troops Occupying Centr Litluan ia b' considered as an ar' of occupation. The Vilna governilel IQqutests that it he aIllowe I to send ( n011111nissarty to these troops. A tihird prochimIation is a declar; tion (o the lKorvnio (the obl lithiuani: Goverr IlV ) proposing the openli of negotitiotinis witl rfrni to (I future relahms of d tle two coitrie FND OF Bl S 11.1i ll'A IN RI'SSI \ 1, SIE Was inr., Oct. 12.- The iend 4 'lshe-Alfvismi' ;it in lussia is beliI.eved I he xiilS Of thes st IDIptmI ent to i S t 'io ll i ri, (\(%l X . . It: tiiar enuh ti leg in coonieii/Awh will l Sovr, iet rule. The .danme f---anah 'aie 1io a lotatmen~i t w' m.ww.s r laui'' I.. the0 belief tha;C tlw Zemstvo 1nt0bC d\i i I ti i e r ent v bI.% t lit- ith part0 1men t from va riout s Qor( )1 Wt . Id to i-lint t haI I - I I- N teilw Z'iini cht 12.-l niim hav tte i f $rp- hm- fiolreeil -iw who th efar 5f tis (wn t'(dity itE.ss e n. Wrang g!'- I i epot ii ' t o bie r<t i'ul ttatino t htetI tyrrtodry afer' ht vltro intt aSIouthm Rusia boy ait - h'ii ofuit .v(rf a It is(t b fin ineraihat 11: ('(ti-lt s hpik ea- r: is hadiiiii pjgo <!ia it $1,0. cl i 10 o POLISH AN) RUSSIAN SOVIETI' DELEGATES SIGN AMI0lSTICE, [N, Riga, Oct. 12.--A preliminary peace treaty and armistice wtvi signed by the Polish and Russian Soviet peace 4t <lelegates here at 7:10 o'clock tonight G The armistice actually becomes ef fective at midnight October 18, that is at 144 hours from midnight tonight. * The announcement that peace was to be signed brought great crowds to the square surrounling the Black Ileatd House. M. Joffe and the Bol id shevik elegation entered the hall first and were followedl by M. Domb c ski and the Polish delegation. About el 300 persons, including the entire dlip eig lomatic body, ai(l prominent Lettish oflicials crowded the small room many of them standing. Ihe head of the Soviet delegation ps descrilbied the Riga peace as "a peace ia, without victory and without van I quished" in a brief aldress before the at signature of the treaty. This de scribes the IRiga argument accurately as it apP p::red to disinterestedI on lookers. It was a peace of give and take, which those who have followed se the course of events fear will not be re very popular either with the book or It- the Poles. 00 But it is un1idoubtely a1 triuniph for the two chairmien who made it, and the spirit of conciliation with which they handled the explosive questioins ve t1'1t <oiSrIutul the li usk conI'Vere aCe is likely to win for them the grati stude of a wa r-exhausted world. se lh e : :tR armisticc will put the liolhevik at p(aic v with al Itheir lail tic neinh, ors ithinl 1-1-1 hlui-s froml m idni t o(itht 111 1 le-a-e tw W.r tingel unvemlent as the only I',re:It miiitary operation ara -t tho S4 vaS. li .\A I,(f) \1) P I ' F}S o f \ t4n t t. l--.---c(i4n te_ 0!u t1! auhh of Oiw 1: hn kn of the r0pt cent :ovti S 4 !.: ,.,- 1) , 1 - - I I hor *i t "' i '-; . J 11w 4 i 1 ti t ht n bI \ 4 II-4; 1.II l Ih I d thlens 4.4'. 144'4 * a14n4p d~ t o ct t fn d, IIf het ot. \. an|t o I 4 b4 - - i 1 r11444 int 14b it *o )t . | * ry4 .J44(n-1.11an'oth44 ; ' a not .144n(4s : 1 .un .a . s5 4 44' 4444r \a.- h44..4 j ' e tii I' Ita~ it woni4tt hte Iha '11h4t 14 L \I e . 8 .1 PRESBYTEIRIANS TO BOOST [DUCATION Rev. C. S. Ilyrd, Columbi:, Is Elcted Moderator I.AlGE FUND SUBSCRIBED l''our Institutions 'Will Be Benefitte, fly Drive Now Being Waged. P.ennettsville, Oct. 12.--The nob that will be dominant throughout the session of the synol of South Caro linil of the Southern Presbyteria Church which convened in annual se- - sion lere toiav wil ]be Christian edu eitt0in. Giv ing additional emphasis iz this fart was the election of Rev. S (. Byrl, president of Chicora Collegt Columbia, as moderator. The syno. opened with a sermon elliverel hi Rev. Iugh R. Murchison. of Coimbia retiring moderator, and the electiow of the moderator- for this session tool place immediately following the ser wnn. The only other offeer elected was Rev. II. W. Pratt. of Abbevill, as tenportry clerk. Iev. 'lhornas If lIa\w is statedl clerk, having servcc the syol in this capacity for mam years. Tlie enrioI0lment of (ielegates show, about (ne hunirel present at th oPeniln S(ssioll Mad this numb1e1(r wa lar'elv invrease luringlY the <h:y. Th. nolrao ppointedl three mem~rber, z c(nst itute a steCrin- w1im tie u'tiOl :te the business 1. th-- >,-o'; v-q)pecially in the mat ter of b:i .-in e he vnoil the vnrit:. a .ca. "ri:als presen -lI for onsileraititn. T . (ral st in c1li committe w m aW i I'll e cam p1i n lit II r i n r one Ir th 444t v: -4. n . D I ee 14n4 iteako -4 4 n ti ha eb enh' b n