Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THg PEOPLE, BARNWlLL, S. 0. w ! ; I- ¥ I 1 ft l X I {• OF CONMND LESS PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT OF. FICER KRAMER EXPRESSES INTERESTING OPINION. BNCOMMBN WEST IHD HOSTS PASSED BY SENATE MEASURE DIFFERS RADICALLY FROM FORM IN WHICH IT N WAS PASSED BY HOUSE. TW 1 Within the Last Few Weeks Southern Liquor Has Been Flowing Very Freely in City of Washington. X L Washington.—John F. Kramer, pro hibition enforcement officer, thlnka that tnOonslilninK is on the wan in the ! South. He for corn fresh from mighty tempting, but his men spreading f£ar around. DUTY ON SOUTHERN PRODUCTS — } •- Wheat and Wheat Producta, Flaxseed, Corn or Maize, Cotton and Tobacco, Heavily Protected Under Bill Washington.—The senate has pass ed the emergency tariff and anti dumping bill, retaining all amend- Eg*' •V •' •it* m Vtz STATE HISTORY IS DEPICTED ALL NIONEY NEEDED HE WANTS TO CARRY OUT THE PROJECTED PROGRAM .FOR > • EXTENSION OF TRADE. TO ENLARGE WORKING FORCE . / . k.". 'A* Secretary Expects to Recall Foreign <*• Trade Commissioners in Order to ' Utilize Their Information. KNUT RASMUSSEN. ' admit* that tin , Knut Ra8mu ”e n - "♦ted Danish ex* w ..„ , C t«.u,u B au anienu- .Kh from th.! « a ,..?.? a I , „ > p,orer ’ wil1 head * n ex P«dition which ments recommended by the-Anance W 'H leave Denmark this year for the : committee, but rejected those indi- are North American arctic archipelago to 'vidually proposed. The -vote was 63 investigate the life and conditions of to 28. Mr. Kramer must not have been . . u .l Eskimo and to complete a survey through the house and senate office h y v ., lr4#f-'itp* j) building lately, for it is,stated on re- 6f Baffin’s Land and adjacent terri tory. PRINCE VON HATZFELD. Prince von Hatzfeld, who was charged with mustering the German' As passed, the measure differs rad- vote at the recent plebiscite in Upper if ally from the .form in which it wasjsilesja, piay become the new governor passed by the house early in the ex-jof that pr<Winc«. tra session and now goes to confer-1 , ‘ ence. " " liable authority, those who buy it, that good .North Carolina moonshine can . - Zr TO FURNISH OBJECT LESSON ,™,,, lh • ., commenced to (low rather freely here. I uu « , ■ u, Lt-UUmi pro^ea the following comodity rates People who buy It pronounce It "fair ' . of duty on sotithern products: ‘ 1 Wheat, 35 c$nts per bushel; l Attempt is to be Made to Show That Navy <Must Immediately Build up Defense Against Asphyxiation. - to middling hooch." "The temptation to make moonshine Is great,” said Mr/ Kramer. "It is selling for $10 a quart, but our men in the south say they are breaking up the business. In the north and west the moonshine distillery is not a‘com- Washington —The use of poisonous mon thing. There is the private still,'gases against naval vessels under sim-1 rniintrifJa nnat „ m _ 10 , . 0 ,r A and home brew. These do not worry ulated battle conditions will be tested t & P ° Un<l: us much. Men will not wait around for the first time during bombing ex- “ d ° f tobacco - u n a month or so to get a drink. Home periments to be conducted off the At- brew is a fad Most everybody wants i a ntic coast beginning June 21. While to try It out, but they will soon quit army and navy aecfcil forces are co lt." Hill Wants Berlin Embassy. operating in an effort to demonstrate wheat flour and semolina, 20 cents per bushel; corn or maize,'15 cents i peifbushel; long staple cotton (1 5-88 inches), 7 cents per pound; cotton manufacturing, 7 cents per pound; wrapper and filler tobacco, mixed, when the product of two or more stemmed, 50 cents a pound. Washington—Coitpit manufacturers throughout the Jsouth will be inter ested in the fact that Secretary Hpover will be given about all the money he requested for his depart ment to carry out an elaborate pro gram for the extension of foreign trade. Mr. Hoover is to get what he do- sired in the way of supplemental es timates. The total was $618,728.34 and the new work, to be undertaken calls for the addition-of 175 or more regular employes jip the department. The amount is to be carried in the gen- About Thirteen Thousand Postofflce*'f<0ral deficiency bill completed by the Ttte aa paasat, *y tha aanate T |,| R || |||g||^y gfj jpg of First, Second and Third Classes Are Affected by This Order. Washington. — President Wilson’s order for selection of first, second and 1 third class postmasters under eiyil service requirements was modified by President Harding to give a wider house appropriations committee. The appropriations wilF'enable the secretary Of commerce to Carry out at once his ideas for making the de partment of commerce more useful. Mr. Hoover said he wanted to recall trade commissioners Jrom foreign fields to the Washington office that their information may be -utilized. Rapid Extension Air Service. L mdon.—Almost dail/ extension of fleld from postmasters may be i passenger and mail service hv air is the effectiveness of aerial bombs .. . ,, „ against modern naval vessels, the rapid y n,,lkinR Europe a netW01 '* nf Washington.—Mr. David Jayne Hill, Chemical Warfare Service of the' ae ,[!‘‘ 1 < " , F l3 P ortat i 01 ) lines. of New York, is understood to Have ar nty will be launching a poison gas definitely declined to be considered attack from the air against one or Neg'-Uations are now nearinr c< m chosen. _ Instead of being required to select the candidate standing highest in a pletfon ft r an airway from Berlin via civil service e^ination for any j Riga to Moscow, and when tlus sor- specific postmastership, the adminis- Wage Cut Accepted by Carmen. New Orleans.—Accepting a cut in wages from.4 to 13 cents an hour, more than 4,000 members of the street car men s union agreed with J. D. O'Keefe, federal receiver of the New. Orleans Railway and 'Lighting com- ProbShly Seven Thousand Spectator* Learn Numerous Facts in South Carolina History. Rock Hill^—Representative men ana women of South Carolina, probably six or seven thousand strong, sat at the feet of the students of Winthrop col lege and learned numerous facts in South Carolina history, hitherto ob- scurej were vividly portrayed. “Come, See Your State," was the in vitation sent out by the COilege in an nouncing the presentation of the par geant, "The making of South Caro lina,’* and from every coupty in the state' they responded by the 10s, 20s, 50s and 100s. It was conservatively estimated that there were 3,000 visitors from outside of York County, while from the city and county there were several thous and in attendance. Front aged vete rans of tjie army of the Confederacy to school boys in their teens, * they came, the veterans being the especial, guests of the college. It was the most gigantic specta cle ever presented in the South and on all sides were heard the words of commendation for all concerned, from President Johnson on down to the school boys and girls who took part in the scenes. There were 11 episodes in the pageant and each scene was most realistic of the represented. Charleston. — Property owners of land along a section'of the Bluehouse road, near Charleston, have obtained an order to show cause against the Charleston sanitary and drainage committee the plaintiffs seeking a permanent injunction to prevent th commission from, it is alleged in the complaints, diverting the present road way to another that will -connect Charleston with the state highway. The order is feturnable on May 18. f Manning.—Violators of prohibition, operating stills in Clarendon county* for ambassador to Japan, and it is be- more warships in,an attempt to show !‘V^ ~ siiai uu* «•«? ■-* — T**^ — pa “V hat tke U t me was for | are being Promptly arraigned before 1< * u- . A , j ' vice is completed it will be possible tration may, under this order, give a "y mor e street car strikes. Mr. j the authorities. Sheriff Gamble has lieved he is foremost among those that the navy must immediately build now under sador to relations ■ . gassed will have a crew aboard. Nine Hawaiian Situation ia Bad. * 1 explosive bombs filled with “tear gas" ,r consideration for .mbas- np defence* attain*! a new and ter- lo L<>1,,lon 10 M °»- the place to an, one o( the three at 0 Kcete had .eked the men to accept; captured 11 atllls and nme-men were Germany when diplomatic rlble menac—aaphyxiatton. fcow. ._dl s tanee of 2.000 miles. the head of the Qualified list. a »»»« cut of 120 a month They com-1 charged with operatm,.- these attlla. are resumea. ruder present plans, the ship to be '— . About 13 000 nostotflces of the first , eZd * I I she , rl " ( ,s . d , oms e ” 1 w0 , rk » _ r , n i. . . „ _, x ., _ “Disarmament or Burst.” ADOUl 1 * 5,u " w Jiostconices or me nrst, xepted. the cauSe of enforcing the law of pro- Washington.—W. G. McAdoo,* form- 8econ<1 and tklrd' class are affected , 0|* secretary of the treasiirv r esnnim the order which, it w’as announced Honolulu. The great sngar, pine- w111 be . dropped and every man on ed disarmament a8 a fUrati ;. e to \ the iat the White House would be applied to all selections’ made for those apple and coffee plantations of Hawaii boar d the vessel will be required to ; are facing near extinction as the re- ,cpe P within the protected areas and suit of the most acute labor shortage wenr a P** mask, in the territory’s history. The rice-! Officers of the Chemical Warfa-e, growing industry of the islands has S p ™ ice believe that by using a gas of been wiped out by the same cause. intolerable concentration, that is, of — ! sufficient strength to incapaciate but Plan an Adamlesa Eden. not to kill, the service cad prove Its London.—What Is described as an con t p ntlon that, in the next war, bat- "Adamless Eden" is about to be open- tleshlps must be made literally air ed here in the form of a small park tight to protect the crew. where London working girls may rest ; and meditate undisturbed by young Not to 0ccupy Ruhr Biglnr economic and social troubles of the world in an address before the na- P' aces - 1° making the announce- tion league of Masonic clubs. ment - President Harding issued a "Disarmament or burst!” he de- s k*t emen l saying he hoped congress clared. "That is what the people w «uld Uke a further step in the same have got to face.” direction by placing first, second and third class postmasters under the Kosciuszko Squadron Disbands. classified civil service. Warsaw.—Americans who fought In the world war and then came to Po land to fight against the bolshevik! were honored by President Pilsudski men. X j Duesseldorf. — General DeGouette, commander of the Allied forces on the Cotton Acreage Reduced. Rhine, arrived here from Mavehoe and Mexico City-Less .than one-third lrnmediatelv ordered the preparations of the acreage of the laguna district for OC( . upat , on of the Rllhr to cease . in the state of Coahuila. where most' of Mexico’s cotton crop is grown, has: \ - ' been planted and the entire region Cereal Prospects Favorable, is in dire straits financially, according Rome.—Prospects of this A Record Sugar Crop, Washington —Final figures on 1920 sugar production in the United States/ and General Joseph Haller at cere- issued by the crop estimates bureau monies attending the demobilization and covering both cane and beet su- of the famous Kosciuszko aerial gar production, confirmed previous in- squadron. composed of young avia- dications of a record crop, exceeding tors from the United States. the best previous crop in 1916. Success of Federal Reserve. Washington.—Ten billion dollars in potential credit for financing the legit imate demands of -business—a tower of financial strength—so huge that its dimensions stir the imagination to be- wjlderment—dtas been built up through thrift, economy and sound policy by the banks of the federal reserve sys tem during the last twelve months. nng ! hibitij^L He sent up 24 cases at the [last term of court and has already listed 15 cases for the June term. Britain Denies Russian Rumor. London.—There has been no formal New Treasury Certificates. , Washington.—Issuance of a new ee- v»ar’« riea °f treasury certificates of in- _ . . years- m # k * recognition of the soviet government) to statements here quoting travelers., <' prp «'»l »r p faMy favorable and " 1 "" e A 88 lo ”2 amouIU 01 Russi a hr Great Britain and the! tnriirnto -itt f-ir n« it r,r,««ihio tn $2wMKMW>00 maturing in nine months ..f , . ,,, 1 .- indicate as tar as it is posstnje to ror- situation with reference to recognition Virginia Woman Decorated. spek - a >’< pb l wb i<’ b wilMie satisfactory antl bearinK intor « st of 5 1-2 per cent ha8 not changeB since the conc i UB i on • Has Ordered No WsIkouL Charlotte, N. C.—“No walkout of cotton mill operatives * in the South hair been ordered and will not be, at least until I have visited several other North Carolina, ^xtile centers and have conferred with President John Golden.” said Frank T. McMahon, vice- president of the International Textile Workers’ union. Greenwood. — Positive denial was- made here by Joe W. Tolbert, national committeeman, afld republican state chairman of South CfaYolina, that par ty leaders in Washington have In con templation the matter of turning over federal patronage in South Carolina to a referee,, who was formerly a "prominent democratic politician.” • Paris -Miss Hamilton Shields, of nnd sufficient to guarantee supplies Virginia, was decorated as a chevalier for the world during the coming sea- ot the I^egipn of Honor at a military »on. This, information was given out ceremony held in front of the Hotel here by the International Instiiite of Des Invalided The honor was con- Agriculture, ferred for the work of Miss Shields / as a nurse during the war. was announced by Secretary Mellon. of the preliminary Anglo-Russiaa No Mope for Public Buildings. Washington. — Efforts to write a public building hill this session has been dropped at the request of Presi dent Harding. He does not think it York. — Representatives of the Young Men’s Business league of Greenville and of 23 other South Caro lina cities and towns will visit York o‘n the afternoon of May 16. on their "get acquainted” tour of the state. The visitors will be met by a delega tion of Y'ork business men and given an automobile ride over the prettiest town in the state. I- George Receives George Hervey. London.—Colonel George H%rvey, the new American ambassador, was received by King George at Bucking ham Palace, the ambassador present- fing his letters of credit to the King. No Protocol for Mexico. Celebrates 103rd Birthday. ■Winston-Salem,N. C.— Mrs. Charity . „ , Hicks celebrated her 103d birthday Mexico City. Mexico* cannot and here at which time there was a family will not sign a formal protocol as reun j on Mrs. Hick's fiive children. 17 yaru wa8 , nsia nuy miieo nv ngmen- a condition to. recognition by the Unit- ! y insianuy Kinea ny ngnien- ed States President Obreiro*. told the ,<ran rh ren ‘*’ ^ great grandchildren { nj! , as s j, e s i ept ln ^er home at Say- ed Matos, i resident uuregop. told the and elt{ht Kr e a t. R re a t grandchildren Wife Killed, Husband Unhurt. Birmingham, Ala.—Mrs. Alice .Bin- yard was instantly killed by lighten- trading agreement, the foreign office "’ould be appropriate for the republi- announced. can party now. having just come into power on a plea of economy, to, vote millions for pork. newspaper men. i were present. Postoffice Receipts Decrease Washington. —.Receipts at the 50; Settlement With Clara Hamon. largest postoffices representing 54 per ^- ,oa Angeles, Calif. A settlement cent of the postal business Transacted was effected by which Clara Simth reton. William Rinyard, ^ the hus band, sleeping by the side of h!-; w.fe, was uninjured. < . - Rally in Foreign Exchange New York.—Cables received by the International bankers from London and Paris indicating that Germany would accept the reparations ultima tum of the Allies stiffened the local foreign exchange market perceptibly. Germany Accept* Ultimatum. Washington:—Germany has accept ed the allied ultimatum. The reichstpg, by a vote of 221 to 175, yielded to the final demand* of the allied flowers, and. in so doing, Virtually Return to Normal. , Havanna.—Business virtually had in the country amounted to $20,592,611 Hamon relinquished all claim to the relumed ^to normal in the hanks ; a g ree( } f u ]fi R the terms of the treaty of Versailles, ‘‘to the capacity” of the nation to do so./ * ' - ' —" ' "'T- U. S. to Lose $1,200,000,000. Washington.—Loss to the govern ment in operation of the railroad un- during April. That was a decrease of estate of Jake L. Hamon. of whos* 1 si- Ayhich ^ere subjected to withdrawals 3.24 per cent from April a year ago. . l p k ,p d murder she was ijpcetftly acquit- fof deposits by large numbers of per- Hun Workmen Strike is Off. i ' i ted by an Oklahoma jury, it was an nounced by her attorney. sons who had accounts in them. Dempsey and Corbett Present. Atlantic City, N. J.—Jack Dempsey Berlin—The general strike begun by the German workmen at Oppein, Convicts Mutiny and Escape Upper-Silesia, in protest against the Huntsv attitude of the Inter-Allied Commis- score of sion toward the Polish insurrection, armed, mutinied, stormed the arsenal, > wp re the guests of the Atlantic City estimated by former Director General Hit by Aurora Borealis. New York.—Telepraph service was ■eriously affected by a recurrence of the aurora borealis, or "northern lights,” as it Is generally called. News agencies, Using thousands of miles .of telegraph lines, wefe the hardest hit. Greenville.—His skull fractured by a blow with a singletree, Andy Wells, a young farmer of Travelers Rest sec tion of the county, is in a critical con dition in.a hospital here. Walter Bow- frs^ and his son, Carl Bowers, have been placed in jail charged with hav ing inflicted the wound. Lips to Match Color of Dress. London. — A rosebud mouth is no longer the fashion. Lip-salve to match the general color scheme of the dress—mauve, green or brick-red —is the newest ideh. It made its initial appearance at a Broad street dress show’. sville, Tenn.—More than a fiml Jim Corbett, present and- former d gr federal control will be about $1,- f state convicts, many of them heavyweight champions of the world,! 2 00,000.000, or $300,000,000 more than has been called off. Deficit of $9,202,437. St. Louis.—Officials of the Interna- shot two guards and fled. Baptist Meet in Chattanooga. Chattanooga. Tenn.—More than 4,- tional Fur Exchange annoy^ged a de- 000'meassengers from the Southern Rotary, club. Harding Wires Old Confeds. Albany, Ga.— President Harding tel egraphed greetings and best wishes ^ Hines. Celt of $9,202,43T in the finances of! states, representing over 3,000,00.0 to the United Confederate.*; Veterans ; stan the system. A circular containing Baptists, assembled in Chattanooga to Georgia. here in their this information is being mailed to begin the sessions of the sixty-sixth all stockholders. anpual convention. - . ' £ - ■ I *- Harding But Little Concerned. Two Killed in Tail Spin. Washington. — Efforts to differen- Lawton, -Okla. — Sergeant Algoti tiate oetween the foreign policy of the Bloomist and C. E. McCullough, cob Harding and Wilson administrations ton broker-of Oklahoma City, were respectively’ are not giving either killed, and Sergeant B. Grogan, At- President Harding or Secretary hmta. Ga.. 22. was probably fatally in- Hughes much concern. jured in an airplane accident thirtieth annual reunion. Agree to' Arbitrate. Geneva—The Swiss Federal Coun- agreed to arbitrate the long boundary dispute between Fined for Profiteering. London.—For charging 16 cents for Agreement is Announced. Warsaw.—Premier Witos announc ed in the diet that an agreement which he thought would facilitate a Solution of the Upper Silesia problem has .been ; birth were among the first to register reached by the Inter-Allied Commis- their votes in the plebiscite t6 decide sion in Silesia and Adelbert Korfan- whether Upper Silesia is To.-remain ty, leader of Polish insurgent , forces.. German or become Polish. Venezuela' and Colombia. ’ It is ex pected that a decision. will be ren dered within- twelvexmonths.- German Voters in Jaib^ Paris.—rF'ive hundred persons from. German jails ‘who are of J Silesian Guards Ordered to Kentucky. Frankfort, Ky.—Two companies of Kentucky national guardsmen were ordered to McCarr, Ky., in Pike coun ty, where a state of virtual war has been on for the last two days. ' Collapse of Polish Revolt. Berlin.—Collapse of the Polish re volt in Upper Silesia is expected in authoritative quarters there, accord ing to a special dispatch received here from Breslau. Richmond, Va. (Special.)—Affirming the judgment of the^district court at Columbia, the federal circuit appeal court held that Dr. Louis D. Barbot, physician, of Charleston, S. C., must serve three months in jail and pay a fine of $1,000 for violation of the Harrison anti-narcotic act. York. — One hundred and fifteen white persons took the teachers’ ex amination conducted here by the coun ty board of education., this being the largest number to apply for certifi cates in years. About three-fourths the applicants were Winthrop stu dents. 0 Greenville.'— Policeman George S. Burroughs died from an internal hem orrhage caused by a bullet said to have been fired by William Thompson, a negro, wh*n the officer attempted to arrest. Tragedy at Conneilsville. Connellsville. Pa. — Six men are a boiled egg at its cate, the National dead as the result of the bursting of a House Passes Army Bifl. Washington. — ThV arfhy apropria- tien hill carrying approximately $320,- Beaufort Will Entertain Denby. Behofort, S. C.—‘Edwin T. Denby, secretary of the navy, will be the Provincial Cinematograph company 16 inch steam pipe at the West Penn 000.000 and Tfcroviding for an army of guest-of Beaufort May 30 and will al- was fined $250 under the profiteering Power company at Fayette. Three of 1 50,000 enlisted men. was passed by i tend the exercises to be .held at th» net. ^^ the victims were Stilled outright. H*® house, and senate after a bitter, na iigjj a i cemetery in Beaufort ifiTci- Japanese Colonial Conference^ Tokio.—Examination of Japan's po sition relative to the entire field of questions affecting the Far East Is the object of a coldnial conference to if Ilk;* * Omit- . J Mulling Elected President. Chattanooga. — Dr. E. Y.* MhlHns; fight. Oppose Department of Welfare. “Washington.—Indications that the president of the Southern Baptist proposals to create a Department of Theological Seminary of Louisville. Public Welfare will not have smooth was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention on the first bal lot at the opening session of the 66th annual convention. Opposition to Sales Tax. Washington.—Opposition to enact ment of a general sales tax law de veloped at a hearing before the sen ate finance committee. At previous house education com'tnktee friction : B ® 8 *Yons oaly arguments in support j meeting with tile committee of South being clearly indicated jof the plan had been given. . |ern bankers and cotton exporters. sailing through congress were furnish ed at initial hearings hy senate and 1 dent to the celebration of national Memorial Day. ^ Z Zf "'x Bankers Promise Asslafance- New Vork.—Co-operation in flnan ing cotton exportation was promised by important New York bankers at a Couldn’t Find Typhus Germ. Mexico City.—Search for the typhus germ, for the discovery of which the newspaper Universal offered a prize of 2S^0fli<l/'peso8, has been abandoned by the numerous Mexican physicians who sought it, and the newspaper’s offer^has been withdrawn. Bluejackets Leave Charleston. Charleston. — Thousands of blue jackets who have spent several months on destroyers In this harbor were bidding their /riends goodbye, as 50 destroyers, with the flagship Ro chester, carrying Rear Admiral A. H. Robertson aboard, will depart for New Y'ork, from where after a short stay, they will steam for Newport, their' summer base. The- tender Le onidas and the~»uf>ly ship Bridgeport were slated to sail northbound. Mov ing picture camera men—will take “Shota’’ of the destroyers. be held here soon. ^ Would Provoke War. /Pkflfl.—The entry of German troops into Upper Silesia wduld "provoke in tervention by regular Polish' troops, which mean war,'and in such a war JFarmers Diversifying Oops. Oringeburg. — Farmers around Neeles haVe-^jone extensively into the growing of trucks and new* crops. Quite a large acreage of tobacco has been planted in that section, say^ Farm Demonstration Agent*" Ti^S.' Wolfe, and they have cut their cotton acreage about 30 per cent. Besides tobacco they are planting cucumbers, watermelons, cantaloupes, sweet pota- France could not remain neutral, ae- cording to expressions in official cir- and lima beans. Farm Demon cIm bate. rtration Agent Wolfe ia arranging a meeting to be held at Neeses In the near future. * w A ‘ :i S AY X-. ...7