Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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~- ... ■■ . .. 7 ■** 7: • v- -» r . v r> . J»-! -' "' ' -^ 'V THB PEOPLE, BARNWELL, S. -v INDIVIDUAL ROADS AND tHEIR EMPLOYES MUST AGREE ON NEW WORKING RULES. W&imja m: w ■nw V'M X' FEDERATION OF MINERS FAIL Tp REACH AN AGREEMENT WITH MINE OWNERS EVERYBODY SEEMS SATISFIED Old National Agreements are Said to be Costing the Railroads Around $300,000,000 Annually. Washington.—Both railroad execu- POWERFUL TRIPLE ALLIANCE (£J 0pd«rwsotf Should Electricians Join Strike the Street Car and Public Light Con* panies Would be Paralyzed. London.—Great Britain’s "triple a^ W. ASHBY JUMP * W. Ashby Jump has been appointed tivos and labor leaders declared the, Private secretary to Secretary of Ag-1 liance” of labor will can Its members decision of the United States Railroad ^ iculture Wa,, ace. He comes from j from their posts, it was announced Labor Board abrogating the national i ** t - ,n ? re * n< * *^ er *^ t * e * >artmen * , here. This decision follows the in WOULD CANCEL’ ALLIES' DEBT The Nations of* Europe, Who Owe Huge Sums, Unable to Pay Even Interest on Their indebtedness. T" agreements would materially advance the effort to arrive at an agreement satisfactory to all parties. The board directed individual roads and their employes to confer^and agree upon new working rules by July 1. I^abor representatives said many of the 16 basic principles laid tlown 4n| the board’s deciHiem to govern the con ference on new working agreements, espcially the eight-hour day and the right of the employes to organize and select their own representatives, in- 14 years ago as a messenger. GREAT QUESTION NOW IS YAP t Secretary Hughes Appears to be Well Satisfied With Progress With Foreign Governments. ciudo principle. Chey have been firtt-; tlon8 w , lh , oreign jovernment,. ng for Railway executive, M l,I that,) accedpd to tllc Amerlcan he decl.lon recognised their comen. vtewpolot oi the , u(ml 0( ^ tlland tlon that tunny of the rule, should o( Yap and , here are lnd|eItlon8 lha , not have national application. japan. Great Britain and the other The decision affects members of 18 allies will fall Into line and agree to unions including all those affiliated dispose of the controversy by interna* with the railway department of the tionalizlng the Island ability of the National Miners Federa tion to reach an agreement with the mine owners and the government forj the settlement of the miners’ strike, fhich began April 1. The "triple alliance’’is made Up of j the NationaL Miners’..Federation, hav-| ing a membership of 80@,000 the Na-: tional); Union of Railwaymen, with 300,000 members, and the National — ! Federation of Transport Workers, Washington—The United States is whlch bombers as its members a large number of unions which have a mem- i bership of close to 300,000. It GUY STILLMAN Guy Stillman, twenty-eight months old, the child whose parentage is in dispute In the Stillmagn divorce case. '■ WANT SOLDTION OF PROBLEMS Nippon Is Anxious to do Everything Possible to Establish Friendly Co-operatic n. slowly winning Its way in negotia- The significance of what is hap Ing, however, does not He me American Federation of Labor. When the abrogation of the na- mg, however, does not He merely in tional agreements was proposed sev- the Yap question itself. Something' RU pp 0 rt the “triple alliance, au ent eral months ago by W. W. Atterbury.i broader is involved. It I, the nxproM- i^rlclan,’ ,trike would pamly.e etroet! ““i’ !, Speclall! ', C<mCernl 7 Germ . a ° vice president of the Pennsylvania | willingness of FrabW. to .be the car traffic and public light companies over8eas Possessions, not only created Tokio.«-^-Plans for sending to Wash- has i ington a distinguished Japanese, who been^estimated that if the alliance ’ | would take up the entire range of the should call a strike, there,wotild be so-called Pacific problems, including nearly 4,000,000 persons idle in Eng- mandates, California, China,. Siberia, land as a result. _ _ immigration and armaments, are un Other labor organizations may be-^derstood to be in the process of formu- come involved in the controversy be- lation by the Japanese government Ween the government and the ''triple, note (rom cha * M E H tl fh.f .‘h. „ « y . “’7 American Secretary ol State, to the m a , mm , a Anles ' <l«lar^g America doea not Electrical Tradea Union resolved to | abandon her r ^ ht8 ln tha An elec-1 Railroad. It was declared that the na-! close friend of America in shaping a tional agreements were costing the j new foreign policy, railroads,. |3QDJl00»000.ji,.year, because Mr. Hughes appears to be well satis- certaln economics in shop conditions fled with .the progress made in the could not be put into effect under negotiations thusXJar with foreign the old rules. . governments. The note from FrancBvis the first triumph. France admits that the hand- j Ing out of mandates in the past was rather haphazardly done. The French pa . i ;^ ck Ac . ce . p * able *, 7/ the conviction that the time has ar- Pari8.--T he acceptability of Myron rlved ^ bri abou > a profound impression in Japan, but has served in addition to crystallize T. Renew Attack on Treaty. Washington.—Republican senators Of the progressive group, led by Sena tor Johnson, of California, renewed the attack on the pending Colomian treaty, but administration leaders sent word to President Harding that It was assured of ratification have gone further in their informal „ , . . . . . bring about a solution of all Herrick a. American ambasaador probiems lnvolTlng Japap and Ameri . to France waa aigriifled by the French, as be(orfthe rela , lon8 of , bose toup . government. Replying to VieAmeri. triM h , crttlcal <ta can inquiry in this connection, the a ■ , government expressed the pleasure of Authorities at the Japanese foreign France at Mr. Herricks nomination to °^ ce con H n ® ^ em8e l ve8 io a state ment that the Hughes note is “so 1m- the post. portant that it is receiving the most | serious consideration from the Japan- oral expressions than in their note. j ax idi ePg to Pay Veta. They have said frankly that they did- Budapest.—Austrians who did not 1 ese Kovernment, which is anxious to not think it was becoming of the great 8 ee service in the war are to be com- do ever y thin 8 possible tp_estabjish Georgia’a Blggeat Crop. press consent of the United States Macon. Ga.—Railroad traffic offi- , cials, returning from a conference of I Uae Debt to Sell Cotton, transportation officials in Atlanta, Washington.—A plan to take ad- stated that first shipments of Georgia vantage of the allied debt to the Unit- peaches will begin the first week in ed States in providing peans to diq- May. Railroads are preparing to pose of the Southern cotton crop was move 8,000 cars, the biggest crop suggested to President Harding by since 1912, _ j Governor-elect Hardwick, of Georgia. ; He proposed that the United States May be Women K. P’«. aslc the a l lled governments to under powers to take advantage of Ameri- polled to pay a special tax the pro- frlend, F the new ad- ca’s absence from the. conference by ceedg of which is- to be devoted to mlnistrat,on at Washington.’’ ^ giving away territory without the ex-: the care of disabled Hungarian sol-! ■— — $250,000 Worth . of Drug* Seized. New York.—Drugs valued at $250,- 000, said to have been brought into 350 Ships Are Idle. Nv x"- | this country by a band of international Christiana. — Three hundred and drug smugglers, were seized in a res- flfty Norwegian ships,'totalling 850,- idence in Brooklyn. ’ 870 tons, are laid up in home and for-f * — diers or the dependents of those who were killed in the war, eign harbors, according to the Nor : weglan Shipping Association. Alabama Is Quarantined. Washington.—A quarantine for the State of Alabama on account of the Stuart Succeeds Swr Rodgers. Mexican bean bettle was approved by Washington. — William M. Stuart, ; the secretary of agriculture to become Greenville. S. C,-A resolution to wr,te 0erman bonds wh, <* would b€ permit women to become members of accepted In payment of cotton exports : a8 gtgt an t director, became acting dl% effective...May 1 the Knights of Pythias fraternal or- from tbi8 countr y and would be held rector of the census, succeeding Sam ganization will be introduced before the supreme lodge meeting at San , c,pbt - Francisco this year by Rev. Louis J. j Bristow, supreme representative from this state. , here as securities against the war L. Rodgers, who resigned." Only One Resigned. Peace Resolution Introdu^fd. Washington.—Senator Knox, of Couples Forced to Marry. Chicago.—Declaring that she had been forced with 24 other couples to take part in wholesale marriage cere- a8 a result of The visit of former Em- Husband Out of Luck. mony while «n ifmate of the "House peror Charles to Hungary. Grand Island. Neb.-The wife of of David,” a religious cult at Benton Roy Yates, an overseas soldier, who Harbor, Mich., Mrs. Hilda L. Hansel - Promotioii List la Approved, married again when she was notified t 0 ] d h er s t 0 ry to Judge Jesse Baldwin Washington. — President Harding that her first husband had been I dled j n circuit court in an effort to have has approved the lipt of twelve newj-ers and related interests which the Budapest.—Gustave Gratz, ffitnisterj olution to end the state of war with of foreign affairs, is the only member;Germany. " -’ of the Hungarian cabinet to resign Pink Boll Worm Quarantine. Washington.—Quarantine measures to chOck the invasion from Texas of the pink boll worm will be discussed here at a conference of cotton grow- Pennsylvania, has. introduced his res-<7/'“ k k . V, .'Link, subject, "Universal Education -Spartanburg.—Governor Robert A. Cooper advocated America cancelling every cent of Europe's war debt in his address to the farmers here. He said that at first he thought the coun tries should be made to pay every cent but now he realizes that they cannot pay the interest let alone the princi pal, so the best thing to do is to can cel it and begin ovet; then Europe will begin to buy American produce, and prosperity will return in earnest. This would be nothing more than America's contribution to the cause. In speaking to the farmers he urged a marked reduction in acreage, say ing that if the fanner made the mis take he made last year that he will but retard the approach Jo “nor malcy.”’ > ^ Whether the farmers make a big crop or a small crop normal condi tions- will return but a big crop will delay that return. .... - " ■ • • -M He said that he could not under stand why the ex-solaiers, those who made such a sacrifice in the world war, did not rise up in their might ard demand that this Country sign the peace treaty and take her position beside the other nations of the world. STATE-WIDE SEARCH BEING INSTITUTED FOR PARTYiBY * .,NAM€-OF J, J. MOORE. [E’S HOUSE RIDDLED Activity- of the Officer In'Raiding Stills and Locating Bootleggers, Sup posed Cause of Assault Columbia.—Outspoken opposition to the plan of the Southern BelL Tele phone company to increase its rates in South Carolina has become mani fest and R. J. Person, of Columbia, member of the “Citizens’ Committee" of Columbia, gave out a statement in whiclr a statewide appeal for aid in the flight against the proposed in creases is made. In Florence much dissatisfaction is said . to exist because the Southern Bell has discontinued free service be tween Florence and Darlington and Florence and Timmonsvitte. . From Marion comes a dispatch which says that much antagonism to the increased phone rates is being exhibited. ^JJartsville.—Founder’s day was ob served at Coker college on April 6. In the morning Dr. Robert W. Lide, the lifetime Triend of Major Coker, de livered a very Interesting and able address on the personal qua)ities of hir friend. He spoke of his deep in terest'in'educafTonr At the close of this address the entire student body and faculty marched t4_tbe. grave of Major Coker and covered It with roses. -• Gaffney. — Two Cherokee county boys have gained distinction at Clem- son college during the present- ses sion. They are Louis Tolleson, who stands at the head of the freshman class, and \he other is Cecil L. Haas, son of W. A. Haas, who is among the first eight men of the senior class. The people of Gaffney are prpud of the record the young men are making, and those who know them well feel that they will continue to distinguish themselves at Clemson.. GrOer.—The preliminary oratorical contest was held this week the Greer schoor'auditorium to choose a representative to the Piedmont ora torical contest in Greenville April 15. There were seven boys of the high school who entered the contest. The first place was won by James Bailey, his subject being, “The Meaning of the Flag.’”' Second place by. Harry solved a dilemma when hev soldier the marriage annulled husband--!return<'d unexpectedly by . 7'.. eloping with a third man. : Volunteers for Inoculation ~ ''““" '“TTnajarrFenora 1 s and 26 hew brigadiers Department of Agriculture called for as prepared by Secretary Weeks^ Improvements at Camp Glenn. Chicago —Two men and one woman have volunteered to be inoculated Four Collision Victims. May 16. Covington, Ky —Four persons were 1 Miners Reject Proposals. . . , , , London.—The representatives of the Raleigli, N. C.—Major Gordan Smith scarlet fever germs; in an experi- killed, four seriously injured and two striking miners wrote to the govern- assistant Adjutant General; left for mPn t to Isolate the germ being con-. others badly hurt in a collision, of an ment refusing to accept the proposals Moorehead ( ity, where he will make ducted by Dr. Ludwig Hektoen and automobile and-a Chesapeake ft Ohio made by Mr. Lloyd George, the prime an inspection of improvements under pj, fjeorge F. Dick of the McCormick-* j. a j] r o a d'engine at a grade crossing. way at Camp Glenn in rena for the annual encampment of t tional guard in July. preparation the na- Jnstitute of Infections Diseases. minister, for the settlement _.of their disputes with the owners. ’ - Army Officer Killed. Columbus, Ga.—Maj. Paul F. John son, 34, a student at the field officers’ Urging Judge McDowell. -H Lynchburg. Va.—Friends of Federal Judge Henry C. McDowell of Lynch- j U8 ted and generally increased by an tomobile he was driving plunged over tics of tho service at’ more than $!,■ Increase In Freight Rates. Columbus. Ga.—Maj. Paul F. John- Spent Half of Amount. Washington.—Freight rates on high- son, 34, a student at the field officers’ New York.—Expenditures of .the er-classes of merrtvrnrdise thruugliuul c "f as8i United States infantry school, United States for the army air service the Southeast were completely re-ad- c ara p j3 enn i n g i wa s killed when an au- during the war, often placed by cri- burg, will ask President Harding to or der isued by the Interstate Com- an embankment, appoint him to succeed the late merce Commission. Judge Jeter C. Pritchard of Asheville. —: ! Case of Kilpatrick. Ku Klux Klan is Growing. r Washington. — President Harding Want Troops to Remain. | charlotte, N. C—Membership in promised a delegation from Alabama Manauga, Nicaragua —A resolution the charlotte klan of the Knights of t o personally take up with Secretary urging the United States government (he Ku K lux Klan has grown to nearly Hughes the case of Captain Emmett this;3oo, it was announced following s Kilpatrick, of Unlontown, Ala., wh&is 000,000,000, actually amounted net outlay of $598,090,781. to a to withdraw its armed forces in this i 390, it was announced city was rejected by the Nicaraguan meeting of members, senate. j _ —.— ' . Returned to Arkansas. Washington.—Large tracts of land in. Phillips county, Arkansas, which Tidden diversion of the Mississippi were transferred to Mississippi by a 4,000 Houses Burned. Hakodate, Japan — Fire American Flag Disregarded. Constantinople.—Skirmishing Is go- which i n g on between the Turks and Greeks held prisoner by the Russian bol- river in 1848, wef-e returned by the leid p shevik. Murder or Suicide. Baltimore.—Henry E supreme court to Arkansas. Schools to Have War Shrines. ^7 "Wack, heatU—London.—Nearly a thousand ele mentary schools in London are to be broke out here destroyed some 40.000 ln the Rardizag region of Asia Minor. ; 0 f the brokerage firm of Henry E. houses before it was brought under where it is reported neither is re- -Wack & Co. of Baltimore, was found 1 provided with war shrines in memory control. spectlng the American flag hoisted dead With fiYs throat cut in his room of old scholars killed in the war. Would Repeal Volstead*Act. ' ^ Washington.—Repeal of the Vol stead prohibition enforcement act is proposed in a bill Introduced by Rep resentative Hill, Maryland. The ef fect of repeal, Mr. Hill said in a state ment. would be to leave the enforce ment of the 18th amendment to the concurrent power of the states. over the Near East relief stations. , a t the Hotel Sevilla, Habana, Cubft. Appeal for Christians. ^ : Landis Warns Ball Players. Rome.—Cardinal Gasparri, papal Chicago.—Federal Judge K. M. Lan- secretary of state has made an appeal dis, baseball commissioner, warned to Mustapha Kemal Pasha, head of the Turkish nationalist government at Angora, in behalf of Christians in countries under Turkish rule. Fatalities on Railroads. Washington.—Railroad accidents re sulted in the death of 2,044 persona for the quarter ending September 30, Lowest Price in 7 Years. Harding May Review Fleet. Minneapolis, Minn.—Vor the first Washington.—Secretary Denby will R me j n almost seven years flour sold Invite President Harding to review upder $8 a barrel at the'Tnills here. major league baseball players "that 1920, and injury of 17,947 others as they were facing a hard proposition against 1.763 killed and 14,738 injured in regaining the confidence of the pub*! for the same quarter in 1919 and 2,- 11c this season, and advised than* to play their best. More Arrests Mads. Jonesboro. Ark.—Eight arrests were 429 killed and 13,446 injured for the third quarter of 1918 Departmental Changes. Washington.—Montgomery Schdy- „ made in connection with alleged night ler of New York became chief of the the Atlantic fleet at sea off the VJr- ^ot since July, 1914, local millers said riding and arson in the vicinity of Bay division of Russian affafrs of the state ginia Capes when north about May 1. the fleet comes has flour been quoted under $8 a bar- Lunsford, rel. Warehouse Is Burned. Valdosta, Ga.—Fire, believed have been started by sparks burning sawdust, destroyed the ware house of the Empire Oil company, here, together with about 25,000 bush- ele of peanuts and cottonseed, cotton- need hulls end other stock. , ... Obregon Authority Established. Mexico City.—Authority of Presi dent Obregon has b^en firmly estab lished in all parts of the-republic and there are no threatening influences at work, declared E. Plutarco Calles, Secretory of the Interior. Lumber Case Postponed. Washington.—Reargument of the American Hardwood- Lumber case- was postponed by the supreme court until October 10. ' The lumber men are ap pealing from decisions of the lower courts enjoining them from continu ing certain co-operative selling prac tices. - ‘V;*. • ' • ^ -v ' department. “Puaayfoot” Johnson Howled Down. Wlnsdor, Ontario.—William “Pussy foot” Johnson, American prohibltior worker, abandoned an attempt to speak at the armory here. No sooner than Johnson had taken the fc}atform, he was greeted by jeers, whistling and singing and was unable to make himself heard. Greenville.—Sustaining the conten tion that the state law prohibiting carnivals from showing in certain counties is unconstitutional because it is • special legislation, Judge” Geo. F. Prince signed an order restrain ing tho,.Sheriff from executing war rants issued for the arrest of . 10.4. members of a carnival troop. ’ Gaffney.-—A young white man named J. B. Gibbey, was arrested by Sheriff- Thomas on a fugitive, war rant, the defendant - being charged with grand larceny in Gastonia, N. C. It is said that the defendant is ac cused of having stoleh a number of tools from the plant where he was working. Officer Hord came to Gaff ney and returned to^ Gastehia with his prisoner. Mullins.—Mullins is preparing to prevent any spread of smallpox ac- *cording to Dr. A. H. Hayden, epidem iologist of the state board of health, , who visited the town. Last year Mul lins had about 200 cases of small pox'in the town and a total of about 500 cases in the town and vicinity, ac cording to Dr. Hayden, and- recently a case was reported from that town. Branchvifle Bank Reopens Doors. Branchville.^—The Bank of Branch- ville began operating again at the meeting^ of the Stockholders. About 94 per cent of the depositors were reported as agreeing not to withdraw the deposits until January, after which a motion that the stockholders pay in 50 per cent of their stock was unanimously passed. The bank then began operating as usual. The people interested have shown an exceUent spirit In assisting, the bank to meet conditions. Esther Wake >.*esented. Spartanburg. — Esther. Wake, the atory s of North Carolina revolution ary history, dramatized by Prof. A. Vermont, of Converse college faculty, was presented here. - The scenes are laid in colonial days, during the administration of Governor Tryon, reflecting with his torical accuracy the spirit of “the reg- ulators.” „ A cast of more than 60 characters represented by students of Wofford and Converse college* won dramatic laurels. • j Greenville.—At a hearihg before Federal Judge H. H. Watkins here o» the request of receivers for the South Carolina Light, Power and ,,Railway company, of Spartanburg, to material ly increase charges for power furnish ed cotton mills and other industries of the section, the court asked that a complete survey and audit he made antf filed with the clerk here, after which he will take action on the pe tition. A atate-wide search has been insti tuted by Greer officials for a man who gave his name as J. J. Moore and who, according to a warrant taken out by the Peoples’ bank of Greer, is alleged to have .cashed two forged checks at -that bank and secured 1 in part payment for one of them, a cash ier’s check for $700. The home of Magistrate A. D. Plum- ley, near Gowansville, 25 miles above Greenville, was riddled with bullets by two men, according to Sheriff Car los Rector, who returnecT to the city after an* investigation. No one was hurt - 4. V • Officials believe the attack was due to the magistrate’s activity in raiding stills and assisting officers in locat ing bootleggers. Cl £ Abbeville.—Lewis Hutchinson. * -nb- gro living near Lowndesville, heard an automobile stop in front of his house and some one walked up on his front porckx. Hutchinson says that as soon as the caY left he heard a baby crying and upon going to the door he found a box and in the box a baby wrapped in a few old clothes and some sacking. Camden.—A large crowd gathered at Bethany Baptist church, near West- ville, to pay last honors to Corp. Wal ter Johnson of the Kershaw Guards (Company M, One Hundred and Eigh teenth infantry). Commander Plyler ofjt{j® Kershaw post, which bears the name of the .departed soldier acted as master of ceremonies. Columbia.—The Congaree and Char leston presbyteries of the'South Caro lina sysnod closed a two day session at^tbe Prist Presbyterian chxrrch with J. B. Spillman, last moderator for Congaree presbytery, presiding. l„ Columbia.—The national council of the Junior Order American Mechanics won its case in the county court. Sa rah .C. Everrett sued the insurance branch of the order for $2,000 to cover a policy on her husband's life. The compahw refused payment at the death qf_ Mr Everett and the'widow filed a complaint in the Richland coun ty ceurt. Spartanburg—Miss Kate Keridlg, southeastern field secretary of the, fi nance division of the Y. W. C. A., with headquarters at Richmond, is in the city, the guest of the city and county* association. Orangeburg.^Tbe annual Jtedpath Chautauqua will be held in Orange burg from ARril 17 through April 23. . --v '*i“ ' ‘ * >■ - ... Merchant Hurt by Automobhlk^ Rock Hill.—J. Barron Steele, wet! krlown merchant, is in the Fennell In firm knee as a resttlf of an accident on the Saluda road. It seems that Mr. Steele lost control of his car and sud denly applied the brakes t6 cAuse the car to turn turtle and then right Itself Mr. Steele was en route to Chester to bring Mrs. Steele home at the time. Accompanying him to Chester was Miss Helen Powell, who escaped with minor bruises. Luckily, both fell clear of the car. High School Entertainment. Fort Mill—The auditorium of the graded school, which seats comfort^ ably above 500 people, was filled to ^ overflowing by an audience which gathered to enjoy an entertainmeflt by the pupils under the direction of Miss Edna Tindal and Miss Dorothy Bergstrom. The program was replete with amusement and the several num hers elicited great applause and laugh' ter. * Poaalbly the most entortotoiftg number was a "Torn Thumb Weft* ■ - yiTiS'*’* -. ■ “.”* r nn.. y ••••