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WAR RESOLL
ADOPTi
REPUBLICANS DRIVE MEASURE
THROUGH AND SEND IT
TO SENATE.
Score of Democrats
Assist With Votes
Test of Passage Shows Count of Two
Hundred and Forty-two to One
Hundred and Fifty?Flood
Makes Effort in
Vain.
Washington, April 9.?The Repub
lican joint resolution ueciarmg uie
state of war with Germany at an end
and repealing fiiost of the war time
legislation was adopted today by the
house. It now goes to the senate.
The vote on the passage of the (
? peace resolution was 242 to 150, present
two. |
Twenty-two Democrats joined with j
the Republican majority in supporting
the resolution and two Republicans
voted against its adoption.
Democrats voting for the resolution
were: Ashbrook, Caldwell Dooling,
Cullem, Gallivan, Ganly, Goldfogle,
Huddleston, McKiniry, McLane, Maher,
O'Connell, O'Connor, Pell, Pa
mill, Only, Sherwood, Sullivan, Tague
Carew, Evans, Nevada; Mead.
^ Republicans opposing it were: Ful?
ler, Massachusetts; Kelley, Michi*
gan. .
Before adopting the resolution, the
house voted down a resolution by
Representative Flood, Virginia, the
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ranking Democrat or tne ioreign aifairs
committee, to send the resolution
back to that committee with instructions
to report out a substitute
repealing all war time acts. The
vote on that motion was 171 for and
222 against.
On the Democratic substitute, offered
as a motion to recommit, the
only vote other than that on adoption
of the resolution permitted under
the rule, three Democrats lined
up with the Republicans while two
Republicans joined the minority. The
greater break in the Democratic
ranks came on the final vote.
Flood Scores Republicans.
Opposing the Resolution, Representative
Flood, Democrat, of Virginia,
declared the treaty would
have been ratified if the Republican
majority in the senate had not been
"obtained by the purchase of a senatorial
seat in Michigan." He characterized
the Newberry case as "the
most shameful and disgraceful debauching
of an electorate that has
ever occurred in this country."
Many Republicans voted to pass
the Volstead act over the president's
veto, Mr. Flood continued.
"I am curious to know," ,he added,
"how they will reconcile 'their acts
in voting to continue war time prohibition
on the ground that we were
at war with the vote they are going
to cast today for a resolution based
upon a preamble which declared that
1 the war had been at an end and eight
months before that vote was taken."
S. C. Delegation Against Motion..
Washington, April 10.?The south
today voted solidly against the Republican
peace resolution, thereby
placing its stamp of disapproval upon
a scheme intended merely to feel the
people.
After the smoke of the fight had
cleared away it became very apparent
what the whole thing was intended
to do. The debate was exciting.
Congressman Kitchin, of
yorth Carolina, the popular leader
* of the Democrats, at the conclusion
of a forceful speech was stricken
with paralysis. As he was being led
from the hall, Congressman Mason,
of Illinois, Republican, arose to reply
to him. He challenged anyone
to show that he ever made remarks
in the house favoring anything akin
to a league of nations, and Congressman
Byrnes, of South Carolina, leaped
to his feet with the Congressional
Record in his hand and offered to
read from a speech of Mason's indorsing
the league of nations, amid
cries from the Democratic side of
the house, Mr. Mason, however, refused
to yield.
The resolution is Republican politics
pure and simple and a species of
political maneuvering on the part
of the Republican party to mislead
the people in the November elections.
It was hatched by four men on the
Republican steering committee, one
of whom is chairman of the Repubpublican
congressional campaign
committee, and reported out of the
ITION J
ED BY HOUSE
RETURNS FOR TRIAL.
Tennessee Man Gives Up After
Fourteen Years.
Athena, Tenn., April 11.?After
14 years, during which time he had
been living in obscurity somewhere
under an assumed name. Richard
Derick today astonished Sheriff Lawson
of this county by walking into
the jail and surrendering for trial
on charges of having murdered
Hugh Duggan near Englewood.
The killing took place 14 years
ago this month and almost had been
forgotten. Few persons can be
found now who can tell any of the
details. Derick was indicted at the
time, but he escaped arrest, left the
| community, later sent for his family
| and under another name has lived
I and prospered. He told the sheriff
| that two weeks ago he promised his
wife, who was on her death bed, and
has since died, that he would bring
the children back to Athens and give
them their right name. In carrying
out that promise, he said, he could
could do nothing but surrender to
| the authorities, face a trial and acj
cept his fate. Circuit court will open
here tomorrow morning and the
Derick case will be advanced on the
docket so it can be heard this week.
MAY 1 "MARRIAGE DAY."
Sultan Isues Decree?Effort Made to
Arrest Decline in Birthrate.
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Constantinople, March 18.?The
Sultan Mohammed VI has issued an
imperial decree proclaiming May 1
as "marriage day" throughout Turkey
in an effort to promote the weddings
and to arrest the decline in
the birthrate. This action was taken
on the request of Hazim Bey, minister
of interior, who ascribes the decreased
number of births in Turkey
to th? frivolity of young women.
In the Sultain's decree, all engaged
persons who have been unable to
marry earlier are urged to do so on
May. 1. As an inducement no charges
are to be made for marriages performed
on that day, guests at weddings
are to make no gifts, the first
children-of those who wed on May 1
are to receive the names of the children
of the Sultan and to receive the
gift of a bracelet from the governor
of the province in which the child is
born.
The Sultan's son is named d'Ertoghroul
and, his daughters are
Roukie and d'Ulvie. '
Ban on Dancing.
The edict is espically directed to
the province of Broussa, in Anatolia,
which attracted much unfavorable
\
comment in the Mohammedan press
because of its greatly reduced birthrate
and the tendency of its population
to violate the Moslem prohibi
tion of he use of intoxicating beverages.
Government officials allege
that people of Anatolian villages,
men and women alike, indulge in
what they call "buring nights" of
music and feasting.
Indulgence in modern dancing has
aroused the protest of a member of
the Chamber of Deputies from Anatolia
and has introduced a bill authorizing
officials to prevent women
from participating in the "antics and
capers of the ball room."
PIEDMONT CITIES CLOSE.
Census Figures for Greenville and
Spartanburg.
Washington, April 7.?Population
statistics announced today by the
census bureau included:
Spartanburg, S. C., 22,638, an inoroQcp
nf 5.121. or 29.2 Der cent.
over 1910.
Greenville, S. C., 23,127, increase
7,368, of 36.9 per cent.
Mullins, S. C., 2,379, increase 547
or 29.9 per cent.
rules committee by the Republican
majority of that committee at the
bidding of these four men. Every
Democratic member of the committee
voted against it. The steering
committee is far more concerned in
winning the presidency and congress
than on concluding peace with Germany.
Never before in the history
of this government was such a proposition
submitted to the house of representatives
for consideration and
there is no constitutional provision
or precedent for doing so now. Under
the constitution of the United
States the president and the senate,
and they alone,' have the right to
conclude peace, in the manner pointed
out by the constitution.
RIGGS AND CUMMINS
ARE EXONERATED
CONFIDENCE IN ABILITY AND INTEGRITY
EXPRESSED.
By Trustees of Clemson
Adopts Theory Expressed by President
as to Recent Cadet
Disagreement.
Clemson Co'lege, April 11.?President
Riggs and Col. Cummins were :
today exonerated by the board ot
trustees of Celmson College.
Findings of the board in the investigation
asked for by President i
Riggs and Col. Cummins may be
summed up in the following quota- 1
tions, from the official report:
"The board expressed its very fullest
confidence in the veracity, integrity
and ^ loyalty of President
Riggs, both of the college and its ,
students and deems it unnecessary ,
to express an opinion touching his .
extraordinary efficiency, so well
known to the people of the state."
As to the disagreement between
Pres:dent Riggs and membei^#)f the
freshman and sophomore committees, j
the board believes and adopts the j
theory of President Riggs himself, j
made at the hearing and found in j
his testimony as follows: 1
"My own theory is that these \
young men, whether through my mis- j
take of their questions, or their mistake
of my answers, go't mixed in the (
naHor r?f mv annroval of this order. ,
or my seeing this order, with my net j
knowing of this order. That is the {
only theory upon which I can ex- ?
plain it. ]
Reputation of Student Body.
"The reputation of this student j
body is as dear to me as it can be ,
to any living soul. I would not wish ^
at this time to have you think that (
the young men of this corps, would (
attempt, directly or indirectly, delib- ]
erately to deceive you. I ask you to {
accept their statements of the conference
with the same sincerity that
you accept my recollections to the
contrary." . <
Regarding the charge of harsh and
unjust administering of discipline,
the board found as follows:
"The testimony offered to support J
the charge that discipline had beert (
administered harshly or unjustly does
not sustain it. The character, veraci- (
ty, and efficiency of the commandant, {
Col. Cummins, was not even brought
into question. The board allowed
any cadet to offer complaints of tes- (
timony against Col. Cummins or his j
assistants. I
"Five cadets out of the corps of
nearly 800 offered complaints and j
their testimony, but it is the belief j
of the board that every one who
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ilCdl U lUCii CfiVigUVV HMO WM I J
as the board was, that these complaints
were not sustained." ]
Barnwell Bond Election Carried.
After much patient and earnest i
work on the part of those interested i
in a better town an election for ,
bonds totaling $110,000 was held on \
last Thursday, The bond issue was i
overwhelmingly carried. In fact the ]
few votes cast against the bond issue
could be explained on some other
ground than opposition to these improvements.
The
bond issue for waterworks a
few years ago had hard sledding to
get over the top of public sentiment. :
Its advantages after installation be- <
came apparent to everyone. The new 1
bond issue of $45,000 will be used 1
to extend and enlarge the present 1
system. 1
A growing town like Barnwell ?
needs a sewerage system to provide a 1
proper safeguard for public health. 1
The election provided a bond issue of
$40,000 for this purpose. The close 1
proximity of the town to such a bold 1
stream as Turkey creek, provides a <
satisfactory outlet for the town's sew- <
erage. 1
Barnwell has only one block of 2
paved street, and in the matter of
sidewalks has not kept pace with 1
other towns of like population. -A <
bond isue of $25,000 was provided 2
for this purpose. It is proposed to (
care first for the streets- in the busi- 1
ness section and aroun? the court c
house. j
In all, 91 votes were cast in the 1
election. Of this number only four 2
votes were cast against water and
sewerage and only ten votes against
bonds for paving.?Barnwell Senti- 1
nel. 1
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GOVERNMENT FOODS
OFFERED TO PUBLIC
FOR USE IX RELIEVING SHORTAGE
CAUSED BY STRIKE.
Big Surplus Available
War Department Opens "Meat Shops"
in Many of the Larger Cities
to Relieve Situation.
Washington, April 13.?Surplus
supplies of frozen beef, canned roast
beef and bacon, which the war department
has in storage in a score
of railroad centers, were made available
today for use in relieving any
serious food shortage resulting from
the railroad strike. The department
advised state and municipal authorities
that the supplies would be available
at the warehouse on applica
tion.
Included- in the cities in which
large supplies of meats are stored
are: New York, Buffalo, Boston,
Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis,
Atlanta, Baltimore, Newport
News, New Orleans, Philadelphia,
San Antonio, San Francisco, St.
Louis and Washington.
"The offer of the war department
is not restricted to the communities
to which the supplies are located,
but it is made generally to the American
people. Communities adjacent
to the storage points are invited to
take advantage of this offering," said
tusi official announcement.
An officer of the quartermaster
iorps was officially detailed today to
2ach storage center, with full auihority
to book orders, make sales
md effect deliveries. Distribution
should be under way in forty-eight
lours, the statement said.
Caned roast beef is offered at fif
;een cents per one-pound tin, bacon
it twenty-three cents per pound, arid
;he frozen beef at ten and one-half
jents per pound. Sales of the canned
stuff will b? made in case lots ony
and in units of eight quarters in
he case of frozen meats.
GRANTS CLEMENCY.
Governor Restores Citizenship to E.
L. Jacobs.
Governor Cooper Saturday grant3d
a pardon to E. L. Jacobs, of
Charleston to restore citizenship,
laccbs was elected a member of the
3ity council of Charleston last August
by the Grace faction.
It was developed at the time that
Jacobs had been' convicted in Jasper
county on th? charge of representing
himself as an insurance &gent for
the Woodmen of the World and that
certain membership fees had not
been accounted for. Later on opinion
was given by the attorney general
that the conviction precluded
bis serving on the city council.
T'Via narHnn was frrantPfl nn rppom
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mendation of George Warren, solicitor
of the Fourteenth circuit, who
prosecuted the case. Mr. Warren
3ays he believes Jacobs "was not
blameless in connection with the
transaction and that he was technically
guilty. Still I do not believe
that this culpability should extend
to depriving him of holding office if
be be elected thereto."
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TO CONTEST PICKFORD CASE.
Attorney General of Nevada to File
Suit to Set Aside Divorce Decree.
Reno, Nev., April 7.?A suit to
set aside the decree of divorce granted
to Mary Pickford, now Mrs.
Douglas Fairbanks, will be filed next
tveek by the attorney general of Nevada,
according to a statement made
:oday by Robert Richards, deputy
attorney general, who has been investigating
the circumstances under
svhich the decree was granted.
The suit will be based on allega:ions
that collusion and conspiracy
Evere resorted to in conducting the
case and that because of the insufficiency
of the residence of the other
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J(Xl ly m lLLC ta."5C LIAC V/UU1L laiitu cvy
icquire jurisdiction.
"As a result of the examination
[ have made of the files and records
in the Pickford case," Mr. Richirds
said, "I am satisfied that the
lecree is not valid because the court
lad not acquired jurisdiction and be:ause
conspiracy, was resorted to
k suit to set aside the decree will
)e filed by Attorney General Fowler
ibout the middle of next week."
Just received, line of Westinglouse
electric irons. FAULKNER
3LECTRIC SERVICE CO. tfn
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FORTY YEAR
FOR KENNi
MAGISTRATE IS WOUNDED.
While Trying to Arrest Man in Coach
of Train.
Orangeburg, April 10.?In a mixup
to secure a man said to be a negro,
named Daily, Wednesday night
at Elloree, Magistrate Jeff D. Wiggins
was painfully shot. From information
secured, it seems that the
man was alleged to have had some
whiskey. He was found to be in a
coach on the Atlantic Coast Line at
Elloree, and Magistrate Wiggins
with two other men tried to catch
mm. ne locKea tne coacn uuor, auu
while the men were trying to break
open the door, Magistrate Wiggins
was shot and painfully wounded.
The assailant was then caught, and
struck the policeman over the shoulder
and made his get away. He was
closely followed and many shots
were exchanged, but the man escaped.
Magistrate Wiggins has been
brought to Orangeburg, and is resting
as well as can be expected in the
Orangeburg hospital. Deputy Sheriff
Gillam, of Orangeburg, searched
all night with a posse for the man,
but he has eluded capture. The affair
has caused considerable talk at
Elloree and the whole community is
otirred up.
Magistrate Wiggins died at the Orangeburg
hospital Monday night.
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Fertilizing Tobacco.
Clemson College, April 14.?Care
should be taken in buying tobacco
fertilizer that materials from which
they are made are derived from the
right sources, says R. E. Currin,
Superintendent of the Pee Dee Experiment
Station, in Bulletin 43,
"Tobacco Culture in South Carolina."
The phosphorus in tobacco
fertilizer is generally obtained from
14 per cent, or 16 per cent, acid phosphate,
while the nitrogen is obtained
from dried blood, fish crap,
takage, cotton seed meal, and sulphate
of ammonia. The use of nitrate
of soda under tobacco except
in very rare cases is not recommended.
Dried ground blood is almost
as quickly available as soda
and should compose at least one
half of the nitrogen in tobacco fertilizer.
The other half may be obtained
from the sources namfed
above, giving cotton seed meal the
preference.
Potash in the form of sulphate
kainit should be used. Muriates and
kanit should not be used, as they
contain chlorin, which tends to injure
the burning qualities of tobacco.
The presence of chlorin is
shown by the black ashes produced
in burning.
rv? o mtrA m o v HA naoH in
Olituic mauuic iuuj w uuvu -?
small quantities or in compost at the
rate of from three to five loads per
acre. But too much stable manure
tends to cause fungus diseases on
the growing tobacco. The best way
to use stable manure when used by
itself is to chop it finely and sow in
the drill at the rate of from three
to five loads per acre. Another good
method is to make compost heaps
with woods-mold or the top soil
from the woods and stable manure.
Make this compost early in January
or February and apply in the drill
when the fertilizer is put down, or
before.
A second application of fertilizer
to tobacco is not advised, as this
is likely to cause what tobacco
planters call "second growth," and
this is not desirable. The fertilizers
under tobacco should be nearly exhausted
by the time the tobacco
commences to mature, so that maturity
may be hastened.
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Farmers of Cope Working.
Cope, April 8.?These beautiful
sunshine days have the farmers quite
busy getting ready to plant cotton.
The many friends of Mr. H. P.
Proctor regret to learn that he was
taken to the Orangeburg hospital j
Tuesday to undergo another opera- j
tion.
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Stevenson spent
Easter in Charleston and visited the
Magnolia garden while there. Mr.
and Mrs. T. D. Antley and children,
of Cope, spent Sunday at the
home of Mr. M. A. Smoak.
Miss Annie F. Ashe, who has been
attending a house party at the beautiful
home of Mr. and Mrs. S. W.
Mims, of Dorchester county, returned
hbme last Saturday, reporting a
pleasant time.
Master Waldo Bookhart, of Elloree,
is the guest of the Ashe girls
of near Cope.
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SENTENCE
ETH COSSETT
HONEA PATH YOUTH CONVICTED
IN ABBEVILLE OF CRIMINAL
ASSAULT.
Defense to Appeal
To Supreme Court
After Judge Sease Refuses New Trial
Notice is Given o{ Taking Case
to Higher Tribunal.?Jury
Recommends Mercy
to Prisoner.
Abbeville, April 10. ? Kenneth
Gossett, a 17 year old youth, will
have to serve what is practically a
life sentence in the state penitentiary
for criminal assault of a 16 year old
girl, a native of Abbeville. After beiner
nilt fnr frmr hrrnrc and mJn
w w - V UVVAA w M?uu VU 1.1 .11utes,
the jury returned a verdict of
guilty of criminal assault at 6
o'clock this afternoon, with recommendation
to the mercy of the court.
Judge Sease immediately pronounced
the penalty of the law, 40 years imprisonment
at hard labor. The finding
of the jury and the pronouncement
of the sentence were heard in
stoical silence by the youth.
Attorneys for the defendant, who
had fought the case bitterly since
last Monday in the face of public
indignation against the crime, appealed
for a new trial on the grounds '
that the court was illegally consti- 1
tuted and the venire was not drawn
according to the law. Their motion
was overruled. They will ap- \
peal to the state supreme court.
Warning from Judge. v
In passing sentence Judge Sease
said that he presumed that the jury
recommended mercy because of the
extreme youth of Kenneth Gossett.
He hoped that the lesson which was ,
taught^ in the court this week, will
have a deterrent effect on others who
would commit like crimes. He said
that, in passing the sentence that he
gave what was in effect a life of imprisonment.
He hoped that the prisoner
would ponder on the wrong he
had done.
There was no demonstration when
the verdict was announced. When
it became known that the jury
had agreed, the court house began
slowly to fill up and there wasa
hush as the jury filed out and announced
its verdict.
The court directed a verdict of
not guilty as to John Gossett.
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The Trial.
Abbeville, April 8.?The trial of
John and Kenneth Gossett, charged
with criminal assault, was begun
here at 10 o'clock this morning.
Both young men pleaded not guilty
to the indictment and the selection >
of a jury was immediately begun.
This was not completed until 4
o'clock this afternoon, an extra venire
having to be drawn. Both sides
exhausted its full quota of challenges,
the state five and the defense 20.
When court adjourned at 7 o'clock
this afternoon four witnesses for the
state had been examined. The trial
ill be resumed at 9:30 o'clock to-^
morrow morning. The court house
could not accommodate more than
half the crowd here. All boys under
16 years were excluded.
The alleged crime was committed
Sunday afternoon, March 14, when
two 16 year old girls on their way to
church were invited by the Gossett
boys to take a ride. When they got
to the church the boys would not
stop the car, driving to the country
instead, where they kept the girls
two hours. Only one of the girls is
bringing charges.
The prosecutrix was the first witness
this afternoon. She was on the
witness stand one hour and 35 minutes
and was subjected to a most
searching cross examination by ProcA
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tor jsonnam, represeuuug me viofense.
She wept much of the time
she was testifying, and her mother
swooned once and had to be taken
from the room and given medical aid.
Climax of Testimony.
Testimony of the prosecutrix
reached its climax when she said
Kenneth Gossett threatened to kill
her if she called again to her girl
companion, who was leaving the car
and threatening to walk back to Abbeville.
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The car had been driven between
four and five miles into the country,
where the party stayed five or ten
minutes. Here the girls appealed to
the boys to drive back, and one of
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