THE PEOPLE. JBARNWFXL. S. C. PRISON OFFER TO BE urn BPARTANBURG TO MAKE GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN NEAR FUTURE. CliyiSTO PAY HALF COST Will Help Meet Exp'ensc of Removinfl East Main Street Grade Crossing. Spartanburg.—Ah a result of formal and official action taken here by the city council, the Spartanburg chamber of commerce and interested citizens a propoea^, recently submitted to Spar tanburg by Fairfax Harrishn. presi dent of the Southern railway, for the erection of shops, tho elimination of the Fast Main Street grade crossing and the building of a belt line.' was accepted and Mr. Harrison was noti fied of action of the official and com- mc rcial bodies. Under the agreement the city of Spartanburg participates in the cost of removing the Fast Main Street crossing to the extent of 50 per cent., amounting, according to estimate*, to J250.000 as the city's portion yf the necessary expenditure. The crossing will be removed by the construction of ft belt line around something like one fourth of the city's area, connecl- ing the n?ain line of the Southern 1*4h the Spartah.hurg Columbi^ line sodth of Eftst-Spartanburg. v - - L The shop development, which will take place at Hayne, two miles north west of the city, will involve tho con struction of a modern plant for ,re- nairing passenger and freight cars. This plant will be designed to east $2,500,000, but the present purpose is to construct the first unit at a cost of approximately $1,500,000. The plant will employ from 700 to 1,000 men, largely skilled mechanics, represent ing an increase in the community’s population of from 2,000 to^5,000. The average monthly payroll of the estab lishment will be from $100,000 to $125,- 000 per month when working full time. Baptist General Board Meets. Columbia—At a meeting of the ap- tist general board approximately $70,- 000 was appropriated hy the missions commission for the work of the state missions during 1024. Tho Sunday School, B. Y. I*. U. and colportage com mission adopted a budget of approxi mately $21,000. The sum of approximately $115,000 was appropriated for the denomina tional benevolences, including the Con nie Maxwell orphanage, the aged min isters’ relief board and the Baptist hospital. Under the auspices of the aged ministers’ relief board blanket insurance with one of the leading life insurance companies of the state will be offered to the active ministers of the denomination in South Carolina. The insurance feature was inaugurat ed several years ago and has been a source of great satisfaction to the min isters. The denomination pays a large part of the cost of this insurance pro tection for its preachers. - Plans were adopted by the board regarding a provisjon which the de nomination of the state will make for the maintenance of Its work in the year following the closing of the $75,- 000,000 campaign period. A campaign commission of seven members was ap pointed by the board, and it will ha this committee'^ duty- to plan and bring to fruition >the successful clos ing of the five year campaign. The. commission will consist of Dr. C. E. Burts, general director: Dr C A Jones, assistant general director; Dr. Thomas J Watts, publicity director; the Rev. George P Mite, the Rev. A. B. Kennedy, Dr. Z. T. Cody and Miss Vonnie Lance. The executive committee elected by the board consists of; The Rev. A. B. Kennedy, Columbia; the Rev. Edward T ong, Clinton; Prof. C! E Schaible, Hartsvllle; .1 E Bruce, Winnsboro; Dr. C. C. Coleman,. Charleston; Lieut,. C. ov, E B. Jackson, Wagmr; the Rev. J \V. Truluck, Coward; the Rev. D L. Hill, York, and Dr. \V. S. Dorsett ■Wlfllo Spring. FAMILY OF SIX KILLED AT RAILLROAD CROSSING. Bicknell, Ind.—An entire family of six persons was killed, five of them almost instantly, when the automobile In which they were rid ing was struck by Chicago and Eastern Illinois train Number 92, at a crossing near here. The ma chine was thrown 30 feet against an iron semaphore tower and was hit a second time and carried' 50 feet farther before the train was stop* ped. . The d p ad are: Claude Whlttenmeyer. 34 years; his wife and Helen, 16; Mary, eight; Lorene, four, and-Charles, three years old. ... —— Mrs. Whitt ! enraeyer was - killed instantly and the others lived only a few minutes with exception of the baby, who lived for an hour and a half after tfye accident. LEASE ON PLANTS PHOPOSED SOUTHERN ' POWER CONCERNS, INCLUDING SEVERAL IN N. C., TENDER PROPOSITION L-i SUFFER IN WAR REBELS TIGHTEN GRIP N VERA CRUZ, CAPTURING OUTLYING VILLAGES. v FEOERALS MAKE RETREAT Monterey Heart That Federal Forces Near Puebla Are Severely Beaten. FOUR DEATHS ATTHI- BUTED.TO COLD WAVE. Pittsburgh.—Four deaths attri buted to the cold wave were report ed to the coroner's office during the day. Two persons were frotfen to death during the flight and two others, a child and an aged man, were fatally burned while dressing In front of open fires. The "open fire" victims were Martha Redenbaugh, two and Aug ust Foerachke, 75. The child died later in a hospital, but the aged man was so badly burnied that he lived but a few minutes after the fire was smothered'from his blaz ing bathrobe. ". - - ‘ The body of Gilbert M. Davis waS found in an alley hear his home. Officials believe he was_rendered unconscious by a fflll and became a victim of the biting cold._ Neighbors found the frozen body of Alice Watters, an aged negress, in the home where she lived alone. Brownsville, Texas.—Monterey re ports are -that the' rebels have strengthened considerably their posi tions on the Vera Cruz front by the capture of several villages, and grad ually are driving the Federals back toward San Marcos. .* Rumors have been circulated in Monterey that a large government | force near Puebla has been defeated,! - r,^' S ° ' arg ' i RELIEF MEASURES CONSIDERED of arms and taking several hundred WALLACE ALSO TAKES BRITISH SHIP L-24‘ SENT TO BOT TOM OF SEA BY DREAD- NAUGHT RESOLUTE. ACCIDENT OCCURED IN FOG Battleship -Rams Submarine Off -Part-^ land; Accident Similar to One of Two Years Ago. Offer is $100,000,000 in Rent In Fifty Years; United States to Retain Ownership. prisoners. BY BOTH HOUSES AND -ALSO BY COMMITTEE. Mexico City.—Both the De La Huer ta revolutionary forces and the -Fed eral troops suffered ‘‘a large number” of ‘casualties during fighting at Pach Washington.—A new offer to the u'• - '• v ..- _ Foi* *peedy and effective pet Ion. Dr. p per y- B "Dead ' Shot” . has no eejual., A • Ingle dose cleans out Worms or Tapeworm. S72 Pearl St..,N. T. Adv. Washington.—The farmer received lision occurred when a combined at- pPwer of Mu self Shoals; providing for ^ the manufacture of fertlizer has been hen the rebels entered PacHuca, ; . . . . . .. ^ ’ after considerable fighting 7*0 Federal ! a raaJor share of attention in Con-j tack on the fleet was bejng carried P ° Wer| troops barricaded themselves accord- ; gress relief measures being! out by submarines. The D24 sank ing to, the information here and the considered both in committees and on immediately and although salvage rebels dynamited the building but the floor of the Senate and House,, vessels hurried to the spot and tendered by nine associated companies of the South. -Tbe-bHiguage-of-tbe offer describes the proposal -as one “to permit the use of a substantial part of the power for the production of fertilizer; to place- tho Muscle Shoals power under the protection and regulation, of the Federal Water Rower Act; to enable the. Government to collect during a building, .but. . — , , , , T _ only after the Federals had poured a whiIe ,,he De P ar lnient of Agriculture whole area was-searched by the mine- withering fire on the rebels, inflicting aIso took a hant l jo the legislative sweeping flotilla, no trace of the ill- many casualties * ’ situation. . , ' j fated vessel was found. Federal leaders here are rushing Th e Senate -adopted the Ladd res- There is a baie possibility, naval forces to the city toTetake it, and, ac-i option directing Secretary Wallace | men sav * ,b:l t there may be some cording to" a bulletin issued by the to determine through the Grain Fu-! surv * vors ’ * 8, the submarine can be brought to the surface. De- was 000,000 in rental and still retain ow,n-j ership of all its properties. anrf struck, the crew may have been able om . to close the water tight compart- <1 Jalisco fronts were proceeding mission houses of the Chicago Board rne pts in which case they might sur- t as yet no clash had occurred. of Trade.” ' , ’ . 1 v * v ® f°r 4S hours. If you aren’t interested peojile, you won’t gossip. Mrs. L. E. Gunn In othei . . . * , . * I War Department, the city will soon be tures Administration the position tak- fan ne fifty-year period approximately $100.-, in fhp hand8 of the Fedo ' ral8 ‘ I en on the wheat market,by the "well Pending-upon how the vessel The War Department bulletin said known professional speculators , that operatiohs on bbth the Vera Cruz members of the large ’futures’ com- to c ^ ose tb e water tight compart- The companies associatde in mak- and ing the offer to the Federal Power bu ( oiumission are The Columbus Elec- Unofficial reports reaching Mexico Legislation aimed to aid the wheat After the disaster, the Resolution trie and Power Company, The Caro- city tell of a counter-revolution that growers was considered in both the rp,u rned to Portland harbor, wherft, lina Power and Light Company, The has broken out in the western part Senate and House agricultural com- sbe be examined b\ divers, at ladkin River Power onipany, The D f Guerrero against the De aL Huerta mittees and w ; as the center of debate ( l a .vl )r>oajd- the-1,24. | conference with Western Stated Sena- which <’ arripd - a miuh larger crew than customary, mariv extra men be- . Fight Mjlrjer o, Army-Navy. 1°” aml Rpp rf’ enU ’,' ve ' « * »•«'' '« V.'aahinRtDn.—Opposition to propoa- i piprove conrt.tiona In stock ralainn. cl consolidation ol the War and l,e , «» »"«>'' Navy Departments under the depart. ; l ” d! “ r "'“i" 1 C0n< "“, 0n! ' ail,li,lon 10 mental reorganization plan was rel(er-'> he ,fp r ' s '. a » contiguous an- reserved—public lands—chiefty—vatir- ing abpard for training.purposes. The king has telegraphed a mes sage of condolence and sympathy for the -relatives of-the crew. Augusta, Ga.—“My father’s family was kept well ever since I can re member by using Dr. Pierce's remedies. My father used to get a supply of the ‘Golden Medical Dis covery’ every spring, as a tonic. He took it himself and gave it to the rest of us. He did not wait until we were sick. He said, ‘An ounce of preven tion is worth a pound of cure.’ When I was about sixteen my parents saved me, I believe, from serious feminine trouble by giving me Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription.’’—Mrs. L. E.~ Gunn, 506 Moore Ave. Keep yourself in the pink of con dition by obtaining Dr. Pierce’s Gold en Medical Discovery in liquid or tablets from your neighborhood drug gist, or send 10c to Dr. Pierce’s In- + I Who again appear before ab ' e ,or live s,ock - The mqe associated companies pro-j ^ona! Reorganization Committee. The testimony of the secretaries The Sec- Mexico City in Terror Era. trial package. retary said there should be no in- San Antonio. Tdx.—Reinaldo fesper- ► crease in grazing fees until the in anza Martinez, ‘-member of,the Moxi- 'valKk’ H4t*Ma- Su&doTl?.' - ' /> dustry. warrant's. can House pose to. organize a company to lease the planUfor &0 years under the terms was j n p art a re buttal to reeomme’n • of the Federal Water Power Act; to ,i ations D i a beforp th „ " Representative Leavitt. Republican.! ed here, says that an era of anarchy, agree to pay to the Government a ren- | )y \v E Willoughby director of the Montana ‘ told - the House of losst's exists in Mexico City, and the den tal sufficient, to meet all .interest institute For Governmental Research suffered by the wheat ? rowers Hie tinies of the Mexican people are in the charges on expenditures on the pro- wb o advocated the consolidation as a ject to the time of completion, includ ing the $17,000,000 expended during and just after the war. This total ex penditure the companies estimate will approximate $45,000,000,* if the Gov ernment installs eight contemplated generating units in the hydro plant. A sum of $4,500,000 would he added for the value of the" present Govern ment steam plant at Muscle Shoals means of promoting greater efficiency. Secretary Weeks declared he had only been very briefly consulted by those who drew up -the reorganza- tion plan. “I am not In favor of consolida-, tion.” he said, “nor am. I in favor with all the transfers proposed." Transfer of the Inland Coastwise Waterways Service ffom the War Northwest States and proposed an ex- hands of Socialists headed by Sesoa • port corporation to dispose of the an( l Morones. surplus crops. Many outrages have been commit- Representatives of the wheat grow- ted by so-called laborers, Senor Mar- ! ers appeared before the two agricul- Hnez said- tural committees, advocating favor- Several foreign factories have been able action on the Nqrris-Sinelair seized and the laborers are said to bill and relating financial troubles en be riding in the streets in the capi- countered by farmers in their sec- tat in costly automobiles which they tions. - have taken from p’rivhte owners. * : ; Tho financial crisis in Government bringing to $r»0,000it)00 the total sum Department to the Commerce Depart- on which interest charges are to be rnent was favored, however,.by Mr7' computed. * - Weeks. He said in this instance he On this sum the proposing com- belie.ved efficie*«Fy hnd economy would be promoted by the change. — Exports of Grain Show Decrease. Washington—-Grain circles has extended to the Army, panics offer four per cent, which exports - from a °d the Federal troops have not been the Unite,! States last week amount- Paid for some time, the. deputy said. ed to 1,330.000 bushels, compared with 1,868,000 bushdls the week before. Unknown Negro Kills Officer. would retufn to the Government in the way of rent $2,000,000 a year. Southern Pines. W. C. Page police- f Big Increase in Gin Report. Washington.—Cotton ginned prior to January 1 totaled 9.807.138 running bales, including 234,723 round bales, counted as half bales. IS,639 bales of Otgn governments: Will Not Prohibit Sale of War Arms. Washington—The House Foreign Affairs Committee indefinitely post poned actidn on the Fairchild resolu tion proposing to prohibit sale of war- materials by the United States to fo'r- > “Two Mo’ Twins” Born. Gaffney.—Ben Davis, the negro of Cherokee county, who at 42 years of age is the father of 17 children, in formed this correspondent that since the report on his case was written his wife has again become the mother of twins, making 19 children born them. Ben was sorrowful because the children did not lire. The white peo ple In Ben’s neighborhood say he is a splendid negro, makes a good living for his family. Lumbar Dealers Meet Greenville.—Charlotte was named as the next meeting place of the Carolina Retail Lumber Dealers’ association at their first annual gathering, which was held here. The meeting was attended by more than 100 enthusiastic mem bers from all aectlpns of the two Caro lina*. R. L. McNally of Union was, elected president of the association, W.'J. Snead of Greenwood, vice presi dent and P. W. Powery of Greenville, jiecretary-treasurer. A new board of {tractors was named. American-Egyptian an,! 776 ’hales of The action, which precludes any sea island, compared with 9,6^7,330 chance of the immediate interference ^ he previous week. No’ exports of running bales including '166,072 round by the House in negotiations by tire—irrrr r Karlov or rve were-rennrted hales. 28.498 bales of AmeHoan,Kgyp~ State Department, fo.r sale of arms to ’ ° ' were reported.. tian and. 5.069 bales of sea. island Mexico received virtually una'nimous ginned to January 1 last year, the Uen-' support of the committee. sus Bureau announced.' , ] Ginnings to January 1 this year by Death of Mrs. LouiSa China. Slates, were: « Sumter, S. ,C—Death- from natural Alabama. 594,764; Arizona, 62,371; causes staged a grim finale to the Arkansas. 608,230; California, 39,765; domestic tragedy ushered in here five Figures made public by. the Com- merce Department'gave the follow- man at Aberdeen, was' shot and in ing comparisons between exports last stanitly killed by. a one-armed negro week and those* of the previous. \Veek: stranger he had arrested and was Corn. 496,000 bushels, against 225,- bringing to Aberdeen in his dar. He 00*0 bushels;' oats, 44,000, against 8,- had searched the negro for weapons, 000; wheat. 790,000, against 1,528,000. finding nothing, ad put him in the Canadian grain exported from Unit- hack seat:; Alter starting the negro ed States "port? amounted 1 to 3,469,- pulled a gun from under his' arm 000 bushels, compared with 3,164,000 stump and fired several shots- at Page. M. P. Genes, in'the front seat with Page, grabbed Page's pistol and killed the -negro. The negro was be lieved to have been guilty of several burglaries in this neighborhood. A Florida, 13,454; Georgia, 606,754; Lou isiana, 366.757; Mississippi,- Ji 13.253; days ago with death by violence. Mrs. Ixjuisa Davis China, middle- 20 Dead as Result of Cold Wave. Atlanta. 1 —With fair weather predict ed almost generally and with assur Raeford policeman was in Aberdeen ance of waftner weather, the South hunting for liim when he was arrested, welcomed the_eml of a cold wave that Rage came* to Aberdeen a few^years took a tole of nearfly twenty deaths i ago from • Pennsylvania from exposure to cold and fire mis 103.103; North Carolina, aged society leader; died at 3:25 haps in this section. " Eight deaths wer*» :eported In Geor gia, with several persons in serious Missouri* 1,016,308. Carolina rsr-4.-0S4.733; Virginia. 46.447. All day. following the disepv-ery of the and'near that city-to the'cold'weather" Temperatures In many Southern •8.; Oklahoma, 62^,034; South o (lo< k of pneumonia tfl the local hos con( jj^j on as a re SU j^ exposure, la. 781.541; Tennessee. 221.416; pltal to-which she was taken on Mon- New Orleans credited six deaths in other states, 26,208, The revised total of cotton ginned this season ’to December 13 was an nounced as 9.554.177 running bales. There were 15,169 ginneries operated prior to December 13. Boys Held on Murder Count. Newport. Tenn.—Following prelim- , inary hearings before Magistrate O’Neill here BUI McKinney was held fhr Superior Court under bond of $4,250 oil a charge of manslaughter,' In- connection with the death* near Bridgeport, Tenn., December 28^ of ’Bascombe Jones. Noah Bishop. Porter Taylor, and Hafry Smith, hejd jointly on changes of murder and accessory were each placed under $1,250 bond and prob able cause was found in cases charg ing transporting whiskey. •• ’• • k body of her husband. Dr. Archie Ghina. wealthy physician and banker, | cities 'dVopped to marks” not passed Ip in his, bath-room with ,twt> bullet wounds In the head, which she was charged by a coroner’s Jury with In flicting. — Tuckenf In New Jersey. Jersey City, N. J—Mr. a'nd Mrs. Burton S. Tucker pleaded not guilty to charges of perjury and conspiracy many years. In Atlanta, the cold wave sent the mercury to the zero mark, breaking a record of, 25 years’ standing. Physician. Kills Spouse and Self. Glen Falls. N. Y.—Dr. Robert Lee of Hartford, -a WashlniT&B county hamlet, shot and killed his wlfe^ ser- to violate the marriage laws 5 and .iq-jjgJy wounded his cousin, Fred Nor- were released in $5,000 bonds each. ^ cress, and committed suicide. Nor- Prosecutor _ McMahon announced cr0RSi 30, was brought to a hospital that he would arrange for an early trial. " . The couple were married October 2. Tuckei t -gave his age as 21-In ap plying for the marriage license, which htfl fathei - testified at the grand Jury hearing that his son was 17 years old. Mrs. Tucker Is 48 years of age. ’ J * to have been acting strangely for a/ar 40 Hmo in *thls city. Physicians say his eon- "itttlon is critical. According t<5 relatives and friend^, the reason-for the shooting was sud den insanity from overwork. Dr. Lee, the only doctor in the village, is said f Moore suddenly seized an axe and bur in Taylor's head Fod Prices Decrease. —-Washington.—Retail’food prices de creased during the month ending De cember 15, in 14 out of 22 cities where the government conducts current stud ies of their movements, the depart ment of labor reported. As a result of changes during preceding months however, for the 12 months period ending December 16 there was an aver age increase of food costs in 21 citlaa of the 22. Veteran Kills Captain at Hospital. Asheville.—“Michael Taylor. 28, a captain in the World War, and for merly a attorney at Richmond, Va., was fatally wounded at Highland Hos pital here by another patient, hospital authorities announced. Robert Mboro, said to be a member of a prominent Chicago family, was accused of doing the killing. Both men Were undergo ing trea.ment for iqental disorders. Attendants at the hospital sgid that family laxative TAKfc IN THE PLACEOF CAtCMEL - fOrt 5ALE - EVERY WHLRE 30^"°6CK BUY A BOTTLE W.LHAND MEDICINE CO., CHARLOTTE N.C. AVOID dropping 1 Jtrong d ru 8 • tn ey»i lor® from Alkill or-other trrtutton. The old ilmpl®, remedy thit bring] comforting,jrllef U J>ect. 15c, oil druggist. 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