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ction One Pagess 1to 8 L. XLII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17,1922 N1lmODISTS ELCTS FOUR NEW BISHOPS Oi Each From Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas--Five Ballots Taken. ADJOURNMENT DELAYED First and Fifth Ballots Result in "No Elections." More Balloting Today Hot Springs Ark., May 16.-After taking five ballots which resulted in the blection of four of the five bishops to be named tt this. time, the nine teenth quadriennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, rested this evening till tomorrow when the next ballot ill be taken. These men were elected bishops at *;today's session. Dr. J. E. Dickey, Griffin Ga.; Dr. W. B. Beauchamp, Nashviile, Tenn. Pr. Sam R. Hay, HIoustoA Texas, and Dr. H: M. Dobbs, of Anniston, Ala. Drs. Dickey and Beauchamp went Over on the second ballot receiving 194 and 209 -votes, respectively. Dr. Hay was elected on the third ballot with 191 votes, while Dr. Dobbs won " On the fourth with 256 votes. "No Elections" - The first and fifth ballots were de - clared "no elections" as none of the Candidates received the required ma jority of 189 votes. The fifth ballot was not completed until this evening. Dr. H. A. Boaz, president of Southern Methodist Uni versity, Dallas, Texas, was high with 143 votes and 6. E. Goddard, of Nash ville, was second with 140. Dr. God dard is home mission secretary. b The election of Dr. Dobbs was a surprise to the large number of work ers who had been active in the sup port of others. His friends say they had made no active campaign in his behalf and the bishop-elect tonight de lared that his election was entirely a surnrise to him. He is pastor of the First Methodist Church of Anniston. - Dr. Dickey has been in church edu cational work for many years and for merly was president of the Emory University at Atlanta. Beauchamp and Hay Dr. Beaucha,s , acted as director of the missionary 'centennary and has long been a figure in the church. Dr. Hay ,also has been prominent in the work of the church many years and is pastor of the First Church of Houston. Today's sessions were the most lengthy the conference has yet held, tWle body meeting both in the fore noon and the afternoon. * It appar eptly was the desire of the body to elect all o fthe five bishops today if possible. The fifth ballot was taken with the understanding that the re sult would not be announced until tomorrow. However, the delegates insisted upon waiting for the re port of the tellers and it was almost dark when the final count was an nounced. Hopes of officials that the body might reach adjournment Friday or Saturday of this week were dissi plated when the conference voted to hold the memorial services for deceased bishops next Sunday after noon instead of Iriday afternoon. The decision,' officials said,' will throw adjournment over into next week. The most important piece of leg islation enacted today was that pro viding for complete rewriting of the constitution of the board of ed ucation. The new constitution in creases the number of members of the hoard, expands the dlepartment of ministerial suplply and training into a dlepartment of life service, es tablishes a teacher's agency and makes other extensions in the wVork of the board. Loyal to Own Country The con ference 'also adioptedl a -newv gourse- of procedlure for the trial of a bishop (luring the session of the general conference and chang ed one of the articles of faith so as to pledge Methodists of other coun tries to he loyal to the rulers of their country instead of to the government of the United States. The con ference adopted a report increasing the salaries of the bishops from $5,000 to $6,000 a year wvhile active andl from $2,500 to $3,000 wyheni super-annuated. T1he active bishops were also allowved $1 ,500 a year for house rent and eIerical assistance and $500 a year' fox' traveling expenses. The widlows of bishops were allowed $1,200 per year for themselves and $300 additiondl for each dependent child. A committee was ap~pointed to re vise the dliscipline of the church and to supervise its publication. The committee consists of Bishop Col lins Denny .of Richmond1 Va. Dr. Gilbert T. howe, of Nashville.; ih. &. Randlo of Monroe La.- F. J. Pret tymanof Knoxviile, 'lIenn., and Dr. F. N. Parker ,of Atlanta. ' D)RAGGEDI TO DEATH Prosperity, May 16.-Hlenry Scott, 14 years 01(1 negro boy, was drag ged to (leath by a mule on the farm of J. Erwin Long just becond the 4 town at noon today. The boy was said to be riding sidlewise when he lost his balance, and in falling his feet became entangled in a trace chain. The mule ran about 300 yards, dragging the boy to danth. The -I o CONGR1 AMERICA MAY TAKE PART IN HAGUE MEETING Intimations in Washington Are That Officials Ex gjtEarly Develop .ments to Clarify Russian Situation Washington, May 16.- There were intimations today that administra tion officials expected early develop ments mn Geona or perhaps later at The Hague which might calrify the Russian situation sufficiently .to per mit American articipation mn some international pro'ect designed to re store Russia to productivity. On what information that feeling might be based was not indicated. It was evidernt, however, that the exchange of et.bled notes with the Geona confer ence group yesterday was regarded as having moved'matters at least a step forward so far as Russia is concern ed. The only uthorized statement going beyond the terms of Secretary Hughes note declining the invitation to The Hague, was that obtained during the dlay at the .White House, that the note did not close the door to future con versations on the subject. There was no amplification of the statement in the note that the Rus sian memorandum to the Genoa powers of May 11,: disclosed an at titude on the part of the Russian government which, in American opin ion, destined The Hlague commission ed project to the same difficulties that were faced in Genoa. Secretary Hoover, speaking last might before the International Cham ber of Commerce, here, treated the conditions hie regarded as precedent to the recovery of Russian productivi ty, and correlated with the exchange of messakes between Genoa and Wash ington. This outline from an adminl istrationt official appeared to bring out sharply the changes which Secre tary Hughes might regard as neces sary 'within Russia herself" to re-1 store her to a trading basis with the world. LEVEE1 BRtEAK IS WIDERf . Hamburg, LaMay 16.-The break mn the .protection levee on Bayou De Glaises, near here, which occurred earl toay, as idend t 300fee suMaRICAn MAlYi TAEPRTPit Coupiat. andryshgton Marti Tand Obervilashs wh~eare i i D ev ared uneolddamag Claify rssia. Wateshuingn Mayrough Ther wre irntiak toaythatfrom he isRad miet fling thno erthapsalaa rive bahin au whicht speigngif the mt soutercn portin onveinlesomer iwhat irmaiatfhing poitswhch hav so far ben immunefot icthel diatrous evieh, howevr, tuhint the exchange thf co.lndits ithe thafaaya' conr muec gouf ywhichwas areadeuders foward from the Fruida ia. cncern el. Mayinh Terms, May 1S-retry puger note aelinong te invieatin down edgue, wasee ther obaned (luing asha dayult ofthe Whitelapseo thtte Martin Bltono bride thor te fuBreazon-ve fvesaies ontesubofjecete. ody The ws noamlerato of the'big rde stalemn abou therte thatons, incus-n miany wmernwer tani thee pwtching Meair work icose an at gvment whicha ien Amen opin ion, (teece flood. mmsson Tw pojc o the same bodietreovered hve faen inenoda hs fMs Secretary ooMarin. kig as nigh dbagedmayro the tglhin bersons fommtere haer befre they c thon toeheregaided as thV~e ork Sevra othoe recued hssa loducited toyth a thrree withouo theag accidesste bethweeo takn Wash thay wat. Rusa href oi Congressional F SOME WALK NIOW WHM-RE DO I GO? -- AGeiCU APROP o 11 *. ,,, //gm MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES ARE HELD IN MANNING Memorial Day was observed here last Wednesday, May 10th, and quite an attractive and appropriate pro gram was carried out, under the auspices of the Clarendon Chapter of the U. D. C. and American Legion. Promptly at one o'clock the veterans of the GO's met at the Court House and marched to the Hall where a sumptous dinner was served them amid beautiful surroundings. The tables were lovely with shining cut glass and silver, lovely red rambler roses, white clemates awri blue lark spur. The placecards being tiny con federate flags. During the smoker, which followed the dinner. the vet erans were welcomed by the president of the U. D. C. followed with thrill ing talks by Mr. T. H. Stukes, Con.. mander of the American Legion, then Rev. Mr. McCord and Rev. Easley. After which several of the veterans gave quite interesting rentiniscences. At three o'clock the parade formed at the Hal land led by the veterans in cars, the A merican Legion and school followed and went to the Cemetery, where the following program was thoroughly enjoyed. Invocation by Rev. .1. T. Fowler. America-,School Children. Tenting tonight in the Old Camp Ground-by quartette. Address--By lion. Charlton* Du Rant. Star Spangled Banner--School. Roll Call of Veterans. The graves of each Confederate vet eran, Spanish, American and World wa r were decorated with confederate and American flags respectively, and beautiful wreathes of flowers, by the school children. Then Dixie was sung and the Benediction was pro nounced by Rev. L. B. McCord. OUR BIR'llI)AY CELEIRATION The Woman's Auxiliary of the Pres byterian Church U. S., was authorized by the General Asembly of 1912---so it is ten years old in May of this year. The Manning Auxiliary extends a most cordial invitation to the entire membership of the ('hunrch and con gregation to .join them in gratefully celebratinr this ioveune ann iversar-y on ''uesday evening at c o'clock at the Presbyterialn Church. A le.asing r ga is b.ein.g p.re pa red illustrating the wvork andi pro gress year by year by placing ean dies on the hlarge hi rthday cake. The gifts will he sent to Miss Dowd 's School for friendlless girls in Koch i, Janpan, for mutch needed re pa irs. L et. everybody come a ndln mae th is a great occasin. Dn't forget he date, Tuesday iven ing, Mal y 23rd at H o'cliock , P'reshyt erian Chturch. ICSIGN SATIURD1AY Col umbia , il a y 16..--Governor Coop er an nouncedi- tiniglht that he wouldI resign as (Ii ef I'xecuntive next Sat ur (lay. Th is aiuton~at ical ly wvill mea n the e'levaition of Lieu tenan1 t Govwernor lHar vey, of Citarleston ,to) the Governor ship. '__ TlWO) GIRLS K ILLED) Charlottesville, Va., May 16. Misses Mary Moon andl Endia Sar geant were killed at Scottsville last night wvhenu 'thei'r automobile turni ed1 turtle and plunged in a canal. NOT INTERESTED, Washington, May 16.-Indlica i~ions given at the White House that the United States would not accept the invitation for representation on the commission investigating Turk atrocities in Aisa Minor. REFERS PROBLEM TO GENOA Genoa, May 16.-Council of the League of Nations refused to take up the Russian problem and re ferred "same to the Genoa confer ence with the Nonwegian govern ment's reqluest for immedhiate in quairy by the league in general on the situation -in Russia, and the ef fect, of the famine on the economic reconstruction in Enrope. McLENDON TELLS WHY HE JOINED BAPTIST CHURCH In response to a query as to why he quit the Methodist and joined the Baptist church, the Reverend B. F. McLendon, Cyclone Mack' sends the following dispatch from Fort Worth: My reasons for joining the First Baptist church, Fort Worth. By B. F. McLendon. Twelve years ago I made applica tion to join the South Carolina Con ference, and I don't supspose there has ever been a fellow in the history of the world that missed it as far as I (lid. But after much manipulating, wire pulling, placating and pan handhlng, they condescended to give me a supply job. I had a marvel ous record for two years, preaching hell hot, sin black, life short, death certain, eternity long, and calling people to a blood-bought redemption. Crowds of folks came into the church; finances trippled but because of the wrath of some of the bell wethers and minority leaders, I was dropped without any ceremony or ex planation, and . left on the cold world. For six months I wrote letters and begged preachers to let me hold meetings for them. And they all, with one accord, said; nay, nay. After a while, an old Baptist preacher threw open the door and said, Mack if you want to preach, I will be glad to welcome you to my church.' For the balance of the year, he kept me busy on his hard scrabbled work. "From that day till this, nineteen twentieths of my calls have been from the Baptist denomination. The last six months I have receive(d fifty calls to prominent places in America, and forty-eight of them have been fron the Baptist denomination. Right now I have calls from the lead ing Baptist churches of America. They back me up and sympathize with me and love me. I never have in all my ministry found a chur_ that suited ie, until I came here to the First Baptist church. Anel then I found what I have been look ing for. these years. A church that believes in the Bible from Genesis to RIkwclation. They believe what God says because God said so, and God's .maying so makes it so. "They are ndt apologizing or Compromising. 'They believe in the old fashioned, backwoods, religion. They believe that the only way to get to God is thru the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. They are not whit tling nothing off' to a point, fighting theological non-essential, shamhattles, splitting hairs over trifles. hlere is a church of about six thousand mem bers. No rich or poor, high or low, 1 No caste spirit. No big l's' and lit tle 'yous.' No mediocricy or aris tocracy. Just folks, that, love God I and believe in Jesus' coming, the Bapt.ist of the holy Ghost, and believe in prayer and then get.ting out and helping God to answer their prayers by doing personal work and leading people to a saving knowledge of 'Jesus Christ. "I have been here four weeks. I have seen no evidences of sectarian ism. But the motto of this church is to winl men to (god, and to fight everything that has the appearance of evil and stand for the Bible just as it is written, nothing added and nothing subtracted. "These are my teasons for coming to this church and uniting with 1)r Srank Norris in his gere:at tight. 'M the Bible, vital Godliness and1; old time salvation. "'ly heart's ery toda' i k the B3ible, back to the :up1iutu t ral. Awaiv with the sickly stin: lmnt 1 I ,:,h lth t we see :iil :bol:? n: this iays. Blick from this high tio kidgloveit, devil-concoctcd t:arh ol sul-withern g, worl dly emb lish mentil anid hm-m restiti on thati have beent inistituotedi in t he placei ol the lody Ghost, iand het 's have thl; eri. hoe's ' haivi the sliiupirntiua thtr Iltritiies Godii and glorlie- the- son A power thaiut will emp lt y Mepuiblhri: anod treak; chins, take otY hands am let the calit ives go frei-." hundriledlii and sity- ive dayis in th<i year. I tC[Iliudol and~ .1. -ruiuk >-.i;i formedt an evnigelistic partiy. Whih~ Norris is out, in m eetini :s, ?~ I~en dlon will be pa~stor oft the First. lHapt tist. chumrh. While .\-Te-nloni huoldhing mneetinigs, Norris wvill be pias tor.''-lThe P'iedmitont, Gree.-0nv ille. ( ~ SigndI) ".Fank Norr-is." IUESOXLTIONS OF (CONI)OLENCI Once' agin the deaithI Anogel tin visitedl our castle and in HIis dlepart ing flight taken the soul of oiur dear' bro ther A rthuur H. Briggs, Be it Therefore liesolved: 1.fThat we as members of Pine wood Lodge No. 124 Knight of Py thins bow in humble submission t< Hins hioly Will. 2. That this Lodlge has host worthy and~ faithful, membier and w< dleeply regret his suddoen death. 3. That we .as memibers of Pine woodl Lodlge No. 124 extend our sin cere sympathy to his loved ones ir this hour of their bereavement. 4. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his widow and~ also to each: of his brothers andl to the county pap. er andl a copy be spread on the minut< of the Lodge. Committee:' J. M. Barwick, S. F. Griffn, W. G. Grimni. like TURA. - RIAIION -- ( IWEATy HILL. -- -'1 00 Q * *o e -0E PU.AU roCAST E SEi VICE. -t L2. LADY ASTOR CALLS HERSELF "HELL OF A GOOI) PlR1EAiIEI Chicago, May 1.-After a whirl wind round of visiting and speech making, Lord and Lady Astor ended a two-day visit to Chicago today, de parting for Toronto, Montreal and Ot tawa, to sail for England next week. I1er last public appearance was be fore the students of the Salvation Army Training School, where she de clared: "Some of your countrymen are say mig now that America has nothing to gain by going to the Genoa confer ence. I dont' think that is the soul of a great country. "Since I've been in Chicago the newspapers have described me as a middle-aged woman. When a wo man gets to that age she needn't be reminded of it. "By heck-" Lady Astor made apology and then offered justification. "I learned that in the five years I helped in an army hospital in Eng land. I learned some stronger than that and once I nearly broke up a dinner with Lord Balfour by using one of them." "For goodness sake, he cheerful," she advised. "Sad, mournful so called Christians have done more to hold bach the Kingdom of God than anything I know of. ")on't mind if people laugh at you. I get laughed at too. But any body can stand being laughed at. But it's a hard ,job." Then sudden ly remembering that she had but a few minutes to catch her train, she leaned far across the platform and waved a bouquet of sweet peas. "ILook out," she said, "you've got me on my favorite subject. I'm not much on making political speeches, but I'm a hell of a good preacher.'" EVIDENCE AGAINST i LEADIRS Chicago, MIay 1G.---Evidience con necting the bomb throwers and slay ers of two policemen with ('hit.'go's big three labor leaders is claimed by the police and state's attorneys. A decision is exllectedl today ont pleas of the attiorneys for the two Ieaders that their cases be assigned for trial. BlUSINESS CONDITIONS 1E1121"0([ Washington, \Iay Ia. --A Ithough business conditions are on tile nId in this counitriy, improlvememiti thriough out the wor-ld, parit icul arty mi Eu rojpe, in ce the war has not. been suflic ien t to justify optimi1sm1 as to the( future', .Joseph II. D~e fres, priesidenlt, declar-ed at thle open ing of the tenoth anunual meeting of thet Un itedl State's Chamnber of (Con A~lltEl'l1lS NOWV ON Columbia, an 1 IL.--J. M. .Jefords, Ira IT ariston and4 Glenn Tlreece were placedi on t rialI here today for thei mu11rtder last Tluestday night of . C. A rne(tte, olIeractori of a filling stat ion (on Ma in si reet. Early in the trial there was5 a moationi for- the separate. trial of .Jeffordis, bu0t this wvas refusetd andil the men arec being tiedo t ogethier. Thel(iri counsel stated in hearing the court's dec1 i iiitht thelre was no in tention to delay progress of the trial. The drawing oIf the jury conlsumed the larger Part of the moirning. The state has announced a long list of new witinesse's. Arnette was killed by being *struck in the head with an automobile axle. Ihis body being taken in the dead lman's cair toa loiiely spot inl the suburbs and the car putshed over' a steep) enmbankmuenit. Thel court house wais packed for the trial todlay and~ the court had to order the doors closed. LIGHTINING STIRIKES TANK Bayonne, N. J., May 16.--Ten tanks of petroleum were dlestr'oyed by fire at the Tidewater Oil Co., which startedl last night when lightn ing struck a tank. The loss is esti matedI at seven hlund~red and flfty thousand dlollars. Budlapest, May 16.--Princess Fes tecits Do Tolna, the divorced wife o-l the Prince of Monaco, is (lead, after an operation. SENATOR HARRISON AIACKS TARIfF BILL Rags, Skeletons, Old Junk and Sea weed on Free List FUNNY MAN OP 'Ti' SENATE Senator Harrison, Mississippi, 'Takes Fling at Tariff Bill Reported to Senate by Republicans Washington, May 1.-The tariY is generally considered a dry subject but the Senate got rather hilarious during consideration of it today. 'he hilarity .ctarted when Senator Iarrison, Democrat, Mississippi, de ,scribed by Chairman McCumber, of the Senate finance committee, as "the funny man of the Senate," started reading the list of commodi ties to be let in free of duty if the' bill were passed in its pending form. "Let's see what the people are t get tax free under your bill," sai$ Senator Harrison addressing the Republican side. "First you are go ing to let bones come in free. And BrazAilan pebbles. Then bristles, if they are crude. Cuttlefish bone. Dry mnsects. Stems of Vegetables and flowers-I don't understand how they escaped. Birds' eggs and fish eggs free. Fish skins. Fossils; dra gon's blood. Horse hair. Hoops. Old junk-if it's new junk it can't come in free. I don't know whether you let loaded (lice in free, but you are giving the American people loaded lice in this bill. "And seaweed. That just drifts in. Nux vomica. Rags. Shavings. Old paper. Rope ends. Waste ropes. Waste baggings. Oh( sausage cas ings and bladlers. Skeletons and spunk. 'Teeth--it' you pass this bill the American people won't need any teeth as they won't bet able +. pur chase the necessities to use them ".Joss sticks, turtles and worm gut. "So that's the free list the A mcri c'an people are going to get." Replymng to Senator IIarrism in a sarcastie vein, Senator AleCumiber said, 'the funny man of the Senate has given us an addr4ss on the free list which he apparently enjoyed as much as the galleries enjoye hea ring.' "The trouble was that the Senatoe got, hold of the wrong bill andi was reading the Demolcratic fru e list of the present law," said Senator iMle ('umber. "Yes, dragon's blood, whetstones, jo: sticks, ohl junk lava and a hall' thousand other things are on the fr'ee list." The North Dakota SenatIor fol lowel with reading what the )emo crats put on the free list and wh ich the RIepublican: left. on the fn-e list, and added that Ioss sticks were left free to I)emocrats w>. could "pray to their l)emocratie saint s." "(ANIIMA" N'lON 11 .1011 New York, .\lay It.-A gr:md iother who totes :t gun stai'rted back to ('hiciago' to nit with :a woman nmane yer's her jlnimr who is vanted' there on a chartge of silk ste'lin g. Ihe grandmothber is \ii":. A1litv C'i:,aan i "auheil. Sh!,( w\-s f:n- f'romn in4esent ing the co4,nf v io-11 picture of a polie wmal when she all peared in court to c-la im heIr pri' (11n ,r I.:.tit' leel. A.ssist:ant IDistrict Attorne\y (;oo - m4:m loo'la I eoI'}ly at, ''Irl. 4n'." The high li hts tf her ((.-t a n- con - ' lSe a4 purpl- 1tur(:'n, a black cap4', wa~s Iive 1 fee ain Ini ned 11 to ldimi' Al'. Giioodmn also looked1 at the lprisoner.- Shte wa~s 1poorly dressed air. Goodman to) \lys. I' -(uhe4: you'll . ( h Iv tr hube takin - is w man4 all th way t1 \ ( hi): ~' with1 lie 14141ysr. 1:,uh' : 'l'm4 a 4:rmnh1!f her-! :o i prou4l # hrst gra le- detec-tive- of 14 th Ci,. - p o4ll 44:d part0-4 I'S J 4Ik. Ne~v 51l1' IN NIEW Y0Uth New Yo4k, \I'-y 1;.-'lTheM Alestie, mammliloth new4 2Alorvich'l of the 'seals, wa(d4i her' pier thiis a ft ernloonl Aaftera ~rip fromt Il~ngland di -i' whllich she br'oke' all existing records fo mm1'111 denl voyages on the A tlanItic. Sir Her'tramn I layes, t he skipp4er, ~~ho went to tihe bridge ill succes.. sive' steps5 from caini bov in the Wh ite Starn Line ser'vice 10had not tied( to put the Majesti(' at top) spleed (luring the voyage. F'or two4 ihiys she had "Ioa fed,'' then speed.l ing up1 as5 she ran1 into smoother seals she dIrove along at a 25.50) knot pace, hitting upI to 2E0 on the last leg. JTust five (lays and sixteel hours after she left Chlerbour'g, the Ma .estic. whirled past A mbrose light ship in a cloud of spray. . Then she slowed dlown to pick up her' pilot. A tiny tog tootedl vigor'ously three times in welcome. The terrific boom of the Majestic's whistle answered her andi other ships, waiting to wcoethe newv liner took up the re.. welame