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TfiE CHRONICLE Strives t(f be a clean newspaper, complete, newsy and reliable. If You Don't Read The Clinton Chronicle You Don't Get The NEWS VOLtJMEIIX CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH llth, 1919 NUMBER 11 mDEITE OF Court in Session This Week With Many Cases on Docket Judge Prince Presiding. * The jury in „the case of the * State vs W. R. Burdette, charg- * ed with murder, returned a ver- * diet of guilty of manslaughter * . last night. • •••••• • • • • • • • Laurens, S. C., March 12 (Special)— The court of general sessions con vened here Monday morning with Judge Geo. E. Prince, of Anderson, presiding and all the court officials in their accustomed places. After the court was organized Monday morn ing, Judge Prince delivered an able charge to the grand jury in which he stressed the importance of good schools, and good roads. Both, hr said, were fundamental requirement for advancement and - urged liberal This is the first term of criminal court since March of last year and consequently the docket is crowded with cases. It is hardly likely that a large proportion of the cases tpriH be disposed of, as several murder cases will be trie\i during the week. Yester day Jhe court was engaged in the trial of W. R. Burdette, charged with the murder of D. D. Stoddard, near Qwings, in 1917. This case was tried at the March term of court last year and’resulted in a mistrial. At that TTme’Governor Cooper was an attorney for the defense, but his place was tak en yesterday by Hon. A. H. Dean, of Greenville, who is associated with R. E. Babb and‘Col. H. Y. Sirftpson. Judge Prince gave the case to the jury last night. Other cases so far tried are as fol lows: Mrs. Kora Pinson; violation of the prohibition law in having in her pos session about 8 gallons of wine; mis trial. Mike Washington, unlawful killing of animals, guilty—sealed verdict. . , Charley Wilson, breach of trust with fraudulent intent: plead gniitv— three months’ sentence. Murrell McDaniel, larceny; plead guilty—six months. Jno. B. Simpson, assault and bat tery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons; plead guilty—12 months. Sam Martin, house breaking and larceny; plead guilty to entering Dr. Clifton Jones’ dental office—sentence not pronounced. Presentment of Grand Jury. The grany jury made the following presentment yesterday afternoon: To His Honor, Geo. E. Prince, Presid ing Judge: We beg leave to submit to the Court our final presentment. — -We-have passed on all bills handed us by the Court and reported on same. We have before us the report sub mitted by the Supervisor, who reports that the board of County Commission ers have launched an experiment with the State Highway Commission, on road working, to be worked from Newberry line to iLaurens court house. This body is gratified to learn that a start has been made to improve our highways, which so badly need attention. % The Supervisor reports the roads and bridges are in a very unsatisfac- •tory condition at this time, but he is using every means' available to im- prove them during th$ year and Ve %eel that the best possible is being done at this time tinder existing con ditions. . . - The Supervisor informs us that he has made application to the peniten tiary authorities to have transferred to the county chain gang, a . number of prisoners who were sent there from this county. We commenjl his effpr^ts and hope that hte will succeed as their work is badly needed bn the public highways of our county. - The county Jail has been condemned by this and all other bodies who have inspected it recently as unsafe, un sanitary and unfit for use. The in formation Is that air appropflation a commission appoint ed to build a new Jail but owing to the existing abnormal prices, it is im possible to build 4 Jail for the amount appropriated. We would recommend that our representatives supplement this with an amount sufficient to erect ^ new building. THIRD OLD AND NEW CLOTH ING CAMPAIGN FOR THE BELGIAN-FRENCH WAR SUFFERERS. The Red Cross is launching an other—the third-’-eampaign for clothing, old and new, for war suf ferers in Belgium and France, who were robbed of everything they 'had. It is a new opportunity for, our generosity. Our quota will be a min imum of 1,600 pounds and we. mi to go as far as possible beyond that. On the other two campaigns com paratively few people'in Cli'riton contributed because they were not given the opportunity. We expect this time to give everybody a chance. The campaign begins Mon day, March 24th. Fifts of service able clothing, shoes, soft hats, bed ding—anything useful in the home -—will be received at Senior Red Cross Headquarters each afternoon of week beginning March 24, from 3:40 o’clock. There is no restric tion this time as to things with rub ber in them. The following com mittee has charge of receiving, col lecting and packing: Chiairman, Miss Eliza Beard. Assistant, Mi's. D.„E- Tribble. Wards 1 and 2, Musgrove St.— Mrs. A. B. Galloway., Ward 2, Owens Hilb—Mrs. Rich ard Copeland. Ward 3—Miss Sallie Wright. Wards 4 and 5—Mrs. J. T. Robertson'. Wards 6 and 1, North Broad— Mrs. Bessie Godfrey. Goldville—Mre. L. M. C. Blalock. llopewell and Wadsworth—Mrs. J M. Monroe. f • Hurricane—Mrs. *j. F. Whitmire. Lydia—Mrs. A. P. Oxner. Renno—Mi's: J. C. McMillan. Rock Bridge—Mrs. John Davis. Please ransack your closets and chests and be ready for these la dies when they call. Clothing, out er or under, for children, both boys and girls of any age, and men and women of any age,^will all be.ac ceptable. Rugs and druggets also, if still serviceable and thoroughly cleaned. Winter clothing or sum mer clothing may he sent. But don’t send mere rags. TIME FOE BETTER BEEF CATTLE HERE Raising of Texas Fever Tick Qu&ran tine Opens Doors for Big Cattle Here ' Clemson College, March 5.—The raising of the Federal quarantine against the Texas fever cattle tick in December 1, 1918, opened wide the door for more and better cattle in South Carolina. The rapid increase In interest in dairy cattle and the im provement |being right in breeding stock by means of bull associations should ho- followed-and—will—be- fol lowed by similar development in the beef cattle Industry. To specialists in live stock of the extensive service, in order to aid in this development, have planned sev eral lines of beef cattle endeavor to be undertaken in 1919 through the aid of district and county agents, cattle f - . ..." breeders organizations, and individ uals, as follows: . . • 1. Development of pure bred beef cattle industry; to place pure bred beef cattle on definite constructive basis promoting -certain breeds ii\ certain counties and sections. 2 ' Pure bred beef cattle records; W A to record the number and kind of pupe bred animals available at any time and to find market for surplus. 3. Buying pure Ibrqfd 'cattle; . to promote community, breeding enter prises and aid in buying economical-' ly the breeding stock needed in va rious communities. 4. Herd management, demonstra tions; to secure and demonstrate defl-. nite local knowledge as to costs, best methods, and profits to be expect ed. 5. Feeding demonstrations; to en courage the practice of furnishing beef cattle for market, to furnish market for cheap coarse roughness produced on farms, and to increase the quality of manures for soil improvement. 6. Co-operative breeders’ sales; to advertise and encourage worthy breeders and help find market for their surplus. — ^ • 7. Preparations of cattle for exhi bition; to stimulate cattle shows and * y breeding herds. TO SPEAK SUNDAY. — Div E. W. Sikes, president of coker College, will speak here twice next”SiTnday. In the morning he will preach at the First Baptist church apt! ‘also address a joint meeting of the'Baraoa and Phila- the”a classes. Tri. the evening at the * : , , same church; he will preach at a union service, the night services in all the other churches having been called in for this special occasion. Dr. Sikes is one of the ablest preachers and pulpit orators in the state und is sure to be heard by large congregations at both servic es. We would urge that the police offi cers of our county look closely after the enforcement of what is known as the patent-medicine,"extract, etc., act, which was passed by the last legis lature, as ii^ our oplnion .great harm is coming from the excessive sale and uses of these compounds. We have appointed committees to investigate the following: roads and bridges, schools, county officers, coun ty home, chain gang and public buildings. The’ committees will at tend to these duties and report to the Court af a future regular term. This being tb£ first term we desire not to report on these until we have suffi cient time to familiarize ourselves with the true conditions. In conclusion, we desire to thank His Hpnor and the court officers for courtesies shown. All of which is most • s ' ' ■ respectively 'submitted. „ S. M. WILKES. Foreman of- Grand Jury. Mr. W. P. Jacobs spent the week end in Spartanburg with Mrs. Ja cobs. * • ‘ CAMAUFLAGED GU.NS PROTECTED >ATI0X Many Large Mortars, Standing on Con crete Emplacements, Hid Along I’. S. Coast. Camoufleur Describes Work Against U-Boats. Ne wYork, March 7.—Huge mortars, standing on concrete emplacements and abundantly supplied with half ton projectiles, were erected during the war among the flowers and shrubbery of private gardens in New York City and elsewhere along the Atlantic Coast ready to repel the attacks of German naval or airships, Maxi milian Touch, one of the first* Ameri can camouflagers told the New York section of the American Chamical So ciety tonight. Mr. Touch, who directed" sererahot the navy’s important camouflage pro jects spoke iwith the consent of Secre tary Daniels. He described how honeysuckle, morning-glory and ivy, as well as paints; had been employed to conceal or lower the visibility of coastal fortifications. Ambrose channel, the mouth of o New York harbor, was protected in addition to the guns in the regular army forts, by motars having a range of twelve miles, said Mr. Touch. Some of these auxilliary cannon, he declared, were placed two and a half miles inland on private estates and so concealed by arrangement of trees, shrubbery and flowers that passers- by were ignorant of their erection and even.aviatqrs (ound “little or no'evi- dence’’ of their location. They were manned by army gun crews. The camdufleur describes his work in disguising navy yards and .docks along the Atlantic Coast, notably 'the Pensacola and Key West bases, which were exposed to attacks by German raiders and submarines operating in the South Atlantic. The navy be lieved, Mr .Toi^h asserted, that the Germans had a secret base on, the north coast of Cuba, declaring that “rich German firms in Havana were notoriously aiding the Central Pow ers” and that there were “more Ger man. spies and propagandists on the Islands than in the United Spates.” Mi\ Touch declared the" army “did not take kindly to camouflage at the beginning of the war,” and said that he had great difficulty” in convincing army officers the necessity of camou flaging fortifications adjacent to navy yards. Prior to the war Mr; Touch gained a reputation as a camoufleur by lower ing the risibility^ of the forts at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TELLS OP BOLSHEV1KI Amrican Ambassador Before Commit tee. Grave Menace Found. If Pres ent Misrule of Russia Continues Country Will Be Exploited by Ger mans. Washington, March 8.—David R. Francis, who went to Russia as Amer ican ambassador in 1916 before the overthrow of the monarchy and who remained there until after the Bol shevists had seized the government, r testifying todAy-'befof0 tbe seriale committee investigating lawless propa ganda, warned that'should the Bolshe-. vists be permitted to remain in power all Russia would be exploited by’the Germans. ‘Within .ten years under such GondRioiWT- Germany would .be the, victor of the war in that the nation tWould be stronger in every way than it was in 1914. , ■ Ambassador Francis* fKl*d the com mittee a complete and thorough un derstanding of ‘‘the RiisaiafrWcnaee eoirVinces him that witli the Bolsher * ' • - ■*■"— — - ' *• * vists in. power in Russia, peace” not only in Europe huts throughout thq, entire world ..was an utter impessi- bllity. He said even noV there wa§ good reason for Relieving German aqd Austrian officers were with *the red forces operating in- Northern Russia and’, he added, ’the Germans were steadily getting a grip upon the vitals of Russia and her. industries. . Mr. Francis further testified that information had reached him that Raymond Robins, former American Red Cross commissioner to Russie, had upon his return to the Uni te states carried a pcoposal from the Bolshevik government to President Wilson. This, proposal, he said, he Understood, was an offer o£ certain concessions to the American govern ment similar to those granted Ger many .in the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The ambassador said so far as he knew -Mr—Robins was never given an opportunity to present the proposal tr ibe president f - ./ In reply to-questions of jnembers of the committee, Ambassador Francis said it was his understanding that the soviet did not- desire tp’ make a similar proposal to Great Britain. France and the other allies. On the contrary his information, he said, was to. the effect .that the Bolshevists wished to corfceal the. pioposal fronr the. governments associated with the United States. The ambassador was askpd what would happen if American and allied troops were withdrawn -from North ern Russia and in reply asserted he was positive the Bolshevists /would feweep in and engage in an orgy of murder and destruction on a scale such as the world has never seen. Reports that the Bolshevists were sending their agents into Germany, France and England were upheld by tke^rrilia^sadQr_Mih.Q.said.h.e_Ji£j.i£.ved efforts in this country thus far had taken the form of money for use in spreading of their propaganda. Ho told of the delivery of Bolshevist prop aganda, to the. Armifa of .the allies and. the United States in France. . The ambassador said the soviet gov ernment had recently been petitioned not to carry out the denationalization of certain, banks, the objects of the petitioners being, he said, to allow German agents to obtain control of the stock of these institutions. Mr. Francis said it was not true that the mass of the Russians, favored the rule of the Bolshqvists. As a matter of fact, according to Ambassador Francis, less than a constantly dwin dling 10 per cent of all the people in Russia holnngftd to the Brtlaheviki. He painted a vivid picture of the ter ror that reigns and told -of an instance where the gutters from a court-yar^ in Petrograd actually ran with blood from the victims of the Bolshevists. Many were killed without even charg es being made against them.and or several occasions, the ambassador as serted, wholesale killings were indulg ed in. He said more than 500 innocent hostages were killed at one time and his observation of conditions and af fairs in Russia led him to believe-the Bolshevists in their every day prac tices committed excesses far beyon^ even the wildest dreams^ of anarchists. “Anarchists, as I understand them.” he declared, “believe only in the de struction of property. The Bolshevists believe in the destruction of property and life as well, for they realize that their only means of continuing in power is by killing all those who dare to oppose them ” Flat contradiction was givetTby Am bassador Francis to statements of, previous witnesses before the commit- DEMOCRATS UXCDVER REPUBLICAN SCHEME Congressmen of Both Parties Will Therefore Yisit Paris to Gain In formation. Washington, March 8.—(Democrats today caught on to plans of Congress man Julius Kahn, who will be the next chairman of the house qommittee on military affairs?, to hike to France with* a number, of Republican members and tell th,e Democrats nothing of the trip. The Democrats did not think this was eatthg tbfefn ralrly, sp they hhrried to Secretary Baker about * thfe matter and the result is that several ‘Demo-, cr'atic members, among k them Con gressman Sam J. Nicholls, of South Carolina, will go abroad on.April 8 for the purpose of seeing for themselves what conditions there are, end so that Mr, Kalin , and . his Republican .aides will not be in possession of any facts which they do not. have -when the extra session of congress begins in June. ». • •;*. ' * LOCUSTS COMING IN MAY AND JUNE PJTNNSYLYANTX ELECTS “'' ’ DEMOCRAT TO CONGRESS G^eensburg, Pa., *Iarcb 5.-f-For the first time in fifty years a Democrat, John Wilson,*has been elected to Con-' gress -from Butler Oouhjy,. according to late, returns from Tuesday’s spe cial election in the . tjrenty^second congressional, district. With the re-1 until next year; postpone budding op iums virtually complete, Mr. Wilson is leading John-M. Jamison, republi- can, by 4.73 votes. He will occupy the seat left va'cant by the death of E. E. ' -/* v r V * Robhlns. tee to the effect, thjit a free press exist ed in Russia. ' ‘ r 4- . The ambassador discussed Colonel Robins at some rength.^IIe.sald he had heard the Red Cross representative re-’ furred to as the-^mouth. piece of Araer-’ ica’’ and the reference became so fre quent he )was obliged to issue a public notice sayinghe'represented the Amei> ican government and stateihents com ing from any other source were unau thorized. Mr. Francis . declared Col. Robins wanted him to “follow the Rol- V ‘ 0 shevist government to Moscow” when it moved there from Petrograd. The Red Cross representative was said by the-'ambaTssador to have had every fa cility placed at his disposal’by the Bol shevist#, with whom he was persona grata. He said when Col; Robihs trav eled the Bolshevists telegraphed, ahead * ■ f to, help him in every way‘and that he even had authorization to have what toiegrams he sent put ahead of all other messages, such privileges being denied to the ambassador. The ambassador on the night of the suppression of the constituent assem-, bly by Bolshevists expected trouble, and^three of the, maay'hundred Ameri cans who cange to Russia were on guard at the soviet ministry of foreign eratiofis; do no pruning this spring. When the insects begin coming out, »* * • hand pick them from young trees or spray them, with pyrethrum powder, kerosene emulsions, or a solution of * carbolic acid or noetic acid. Later, when the insects are ready to' pcared before the committee, a man named Humphreys and another named Reinstein, whose home was said to be in Buffalo. The _ ambassador asserted that, in .a single week 800 Americans arrived in Russia and that many of them associated with the Bolshevists, soon thereafter. The ambassador said he warned the state department and recommended that passports be‘ not is sued to Americans to corne to Russia. Albert R.' Williams, a previous wit ness before the committee, was re ferred to by Mr. Francis who said Williams freely associated with th< Bolshevists and was an advocate of their principles. „ ' Oliver M. Sayier, who said he was a dramatic critic of the Indianapolis News."and was in Russia during the early days of the Bolshevist revolu tion. described conditions as he said he found them. Subject to the future call of Senator Overman, chairman, the committee ad journed at the conclusion of the tak ing of Mr. Sayler’s testimony. It was saijl to be doubtful whether any fur ther witnesses would be asked to tes tify before the committee. Chicago, March 8.—Raymond Robins, former American Red Cross commis sioner to Russia, sent a telegram to night to Chairman Overman of the committee investigating lawless propa ganda requesting permission to appear again before the committee^ and jyfute “false statements” reported -to have been made before the committee by Ambassador Francis. Big line of jPercolators, Tea Pots. Coffee Pot»r*.Ca^feeroles, Baking Dishes and Kettles in aluminum and nickle- plated ware. , S. M. & E. H. WILKES & CO. Seventeen Year Locust Expected to Appear. Once Regarded as Harbin ger of Disaster Now Known Only as Insect Pest. Washington. March . 8. -r- Great swarms of the 17 year locust will in fest the United States in late May and’ early June this year, which is expect ed by scientists to be one of the worst “locnst. years”’on. record. Experts of the. department of agriculture, h'o'w- ever, see nothing alarming In’tFe pros pect. - Once regarded superstitiou’sly as a harbinger of disaster, the periodical cicada, popularly known as the 17 year locust because it comes at long inter vals. is seen now 1 fo be no more than an ordinary nonpoisonohs Insect ppst, which can do little damage if proper 'precautions are taken. The-chief in jury inflicted, by the insect consists al most wholly in ',chiseling.;grooves in the branches of trees for depositing egg«. .’Young" fruit trees sometimes are killed, but the'damage generally seems greater than it actually is, ac cording to ’The • "entomologists, and pbpular alarm is emt *of proportiop to the re%l danger. “ : ' - Suggested . p^cautionary measures are:* t *' x ' Defer putting out young fruit trees begin laying,- spr^y. young fruit -trees with whitewash/ ' ''* t The department of^agriculture^ hgs kept close check for many years of *11 ,the broods o$ locji^ts and.can fore tell accurately when and* where « pests will appear/ Large regioift will )ie affected this year whene one brood, appeared 17 years .ago and in Qther regions which suffered f3 years ago,, the States including Alabama. District of Columbia;- Delaware, Georgia, Il linois. Indiana,-lowa,-Kentuoky,‘Mary- land, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey,' New York, North Carolina, Ohio,;Pennsylvania, South Carolina. Tennessee,- Vermont, Virginia, West jila,and. Wigc n . nt Ti n . Belief that the 1919 brood will be exceptionally Jarge is based on the fact that the 17 year brood coming out this yeaV is brood 10, perhaps the larg est of thV 17 year brood, and tha f brood 18 of the 13 year family comes out at the same time. The year 186^ w-as the greatest locust year in his- l •< lory, when brood 19, the largest of the 13 year family, anpeared in con junction with brood 10 of the 17 year family. There will be three regions of affairs. He declared these to have greatest occurrence of brood 10, one horn John Rre.d, a writer iwho has ap—- r ' n £ * s £- w Jersqy x Marjlftm) and Eastern Pennsylvania; anothVlJcover- ing all of Indiana, the greater part of Ohio and Southern MIchig&n; and a third covering -Western-North—Cttro- iina, Eastern Tennessee and Northern Georgia. While brood 10 will affect 20 States, brood 18 will appear in only five States—Alabama, Georgia. North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and only limited areas in those States. C. L. Marlatt, chairman of the Fed eral horticultural board, who has per fected the information on the cicada, calls the insect the most interesting in the world, because of the spectacu lar swarms in 'which it appears, its queer recurrence dt long intervals and the portentious significance frequently attached to it. Every locust year has been a year of fear and dread, even in civilized times. Some people have fancied that they could detect in the cry of the insect a resemblance to the name of the Egyptian monarch. Pharoah, who persecuted the IsreaL ites. Superstition attached alsb to the shape of the filmy bars on the cicada’s wings, which f *eenied to form the -let ter "W:;,"interpreted as a forecast of twar. “Since this outbreak will come just at the conclusion of the greatest war." Mr. Marlett said, “and when even the imagination of tl^e rural prophet could hardly conjure up the likelihood of an other one, some new explanation will apparently have to be found.” SPOKE SUNDAY. Rev. J. C. Roper of Chester, oc cupied the pulpit" of North Breed Street Mjethodist church last Sun day at both services and was heard , by large congregations.