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K- . i ' ak Sambmi %mlb $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1920. Established ill 1891 ?? , 1 = TRY TO ARREST COX PARTY FORSPEEDING PLAN BY REPUBLICANS TO EMBARRASS GOYERXOR. I Much Rest for Candidate. Senator Owen Confers With Nominee Regarding Alleged Impairment oi Federal Reserve Act. Columbus, Aug. 15.?An unsuccessful attempt to arrest Governor Ccx and his party for spooling and a harmless accident to one of the cars of newspaper men accompanying him .furnished excitement today in the motor trip of the Democratic Presidential candidate returning from Wheeling. The attempt to arrest the Governor and his party was declared by Roy E. Leyton, Adjutant General of Ohio, who accompanied the governor, to have been planned by Republicans to embarrass the Democratic nominee. Gen. Levton said a warning of the feeis sure 01 isryan support. Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, a friend of William J. Bryan, and a candidate for the presidential nomination at San Francisco, arrived here today to confer with Governor Cox. Senator Owen said he was not an emissary of Mr. Bryan but felt sure the Nebraskan would support the party ticket. His conference tonight with Governor Cox, according to the senator, was to give information supporting Governor Cox's statements that plans have been laid to impair the federal reserve act. Senator Owen declined to make public his information. He also discussed other financial subjects with the candidate. i m > ^ BRING BEAD MAX TO TOWN. Broken Neck Causes Death of Salley Farmer. Salley, Aug. 15.?Mike Corbett, a white man about 45 years old, was brought to town this afternoon in an automobile dead, his neck having ^ been broken in some mysterious way. Mr. Corbett lived a few miles from Salley just across the Aiken county line in Orangeburg. The body was brought to Salley by Tom Heron, Bill Huggins and Ruben Schofield. Because of conflict in the stories told the three men were placed under arrest and are held tonight in the jail at Salley. The men said they found Mr. Corbett dead by the side of the road. Further questioning developed some conflict in the statements and the three were held for investigation. The car with the dead man arrived here about 5 o'clock. Mr. Corbett was a farmer and is I survived by his wife and three chil| dren. L Raed The Herald, $2.00 year. * -v. i \ ' plan had been received yesterday At Jacksontown, Ohio, about 12 miles east of Columbus, the Governor and his party /ode siowly through, diregarding outsire.tched arms of a shirt-sleeve man, and also a large group of persons gathered theie. Within a few minutes two motorcycle officers stopped the cars of the governor and press correspondents, declaring all under arrest and demanding their return to Jacksontown. Governor Cox identified himself, but the i officers said they had orders from Jacksontown authorities to arrest ail four automobiles of the party "no matter who they contained" cn charges of speeding. Cars Ordered to Proceed. "You can reach me at the executive office at Columbus any time," Governor Cox replied, ordering all the cars to proceed and leaving the officers busy taking down car numbers on the fly. Soon afterwards, during a heavy downpour and in a jam of automobiles on a slippery road, one of the norc WQc fnmpd HI) an \;uiic5pvuucuiij V.UH) M ? i embankment and on an interurban road bed, partially overturning, to avoid striking other cars ahead. Occupants were shaken up but crawled out uninjured and were brought here in the Governor's car. Despite the two incidents, the governor obtained much rest on the ride s from Wheeling where he concluded a series of five addresses last night. West Virginia Democrats who accompanied the governor expressed pleasure with the vigor of his attacks upon the Republicans, especially with his charge that Senator Harding proposes a separate peace with Germany. I * J I MOISE AJUMY WOKMS EXPECTED j Entomologist Tells of Different Pests and Their Activities "The fall army worms are maturing rapidly and in about four or five days they will again have disappeared and gone into the ground to pupate, from which in about ten uays later the moths or millers will appear again, and if weather is favorable and forage suitable another generation may develop,'' says Phillip Luginbill, United States entomologist of the Columbia office. "However, as a rule the third generation does very little damage, partly from the fact that plants by | then are maturing rapidly and getting too tough for the worms to eat," Mr. Luginbill adds. "Considerable damage has been done by this generation of worms, not only in this state but in other southern states as well. The damage done was mostly to young corn, sorghum and grass growing in pea fields and in some cases the ?peas themselves were quite badly cut. Reports have come in that the worms were damaging cotton considerably, and after investigation it was found that the grass growing between the rows of cotton was recently plowed up. The worms had been feeding on this grass, and when destroyed they went to the! cotton. Injury to cotton consists primarily in cutting leaves and branches, farmers claim that they LJUU U^U OUiuc i.uiAuuAw ~ ate the blooms and bored considerably in bolis, although it is quite possible that they contused this worm with the boll worm," Mr. Luginbill says. "Farmers should avail themselves of the opportunity of getting acquainted with this worm. It is here every year, some years more abundant than others. This year they have been more abundant than any year since 1912. Other years they appeared in injurious pumbers only in spots. This worm is not the cotton army worm that had been so destructive to cotton in 1911, nor is it the true army worm, which periodically appears and wreaks havoc to crops. This worm does not as a rule march or move in a fixed direction, like the other two army worms, but rather spreads out from an infested grass area when the grass is eaten in all directions. It is primarily a grass worm, feeding on grass and grasslike plants," the entomologist says. "Everyone should learn to distinguish this caterpillar from all others, especially from the army cotton worm and the true army worm. This caterpiller when about grown is grayish on the baqk, with three white stripes, one in the middle and one on either side. In front of the head there is a white mark resembling the letter Y upside down. '"Nature is assistyig in the control of tnis pest in the form of enemies which prey on the worms. The most important one at this time is a fly resembling somewhat the house fly. This fly lays eggs on the back of caterpillars, which hatch in a few days into white maggotlike larvae. These maggots live inside the worms, thereby killing them. Some places 50 per cent, of the caterpillars bear eggs. These eggs can be seen by the unaided eye. They appear about the size of a small pin head and are white in color, somewhat oval in outline," according to Mr. Luginbill. DOLLAR DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN. 4 Every Democrat Asked to Give at Least $1 to National Campaign. The Dollar Democracy campaign is making excellent progress according to reports reaching state headquarters. The organization of the cam, paign to secure funds for the election of Cox and Roosevelt has been completed in 34 of the 46 counties. Reports received from Gen. Wilie , Jones, state treasurer of the party, indicates that several thousand dolI ioro Qir^dv hpen contributed by . XU1 o 2AU T V M loyal Democrats. Contributions have been received from practically every r county in the state.' , Thos. P. Cothran, state chairman i of the executive committee, is anxious for the canvass for funds to be } completed as soon as possible. Mr. . Cothran in a statement issued calls . attention to the fact that a great amount of money will be needed for the national campaign and that it is , the duty of every Democrat in South , Carolina to contribute as much as , one dollar. Of course larger sub; scriptions will not be refused. Reports received from national j headquarters are very encouraging and there is every hope of party success. The Republicans it is pointed out will spend large amounts of vmoney in on effort to carry all doubti INCREASED RATES CONTRARY TO LAW STATE HAS AUTHORITY IX INTRASTATE TRAFFIC. Wolfe Gives Opinion. Railroad Commission Can Not Permit Intrastate Passenger Rates Over Three Cents Per Mile. \ The increase in intrastate passenger rates, which the South Carolina railroads are expected to ask from the state railroad commission, can not be granted according to Samuel M. Wolfe, attorney general. Such an increase, Attorney General Wolfe says, would be a violation of state law, which provides that the state railroad commission shall not permit a passenger rate on intrastate traffic in ex cess of three cents per mile. The | present fares have already reached this limit and the proposed increase therefore can not be granted. Xo formal request for the increase in intrastate rates had been received by the railroad commission up to last night, but members of the commission, in preparation for action on the request when it is made, conferred with the attorney general yesterday, Mr. Wolfe giving it as his opinion that in the absence of further legislation the commission can not permit a passenger rate in intrastate traffic in excess of three cents per mile. The interstate commerce commission might in a war emergency assume control of intrastate traffic, the attorney general thought, but under normal conditions the regulation of such traffic and conditions was entirely in the hands of the state authorities. Hearings on the increases in both passenger and freight rates in intrastate traffic will be held by the railroad commission when requested by the companies, according to H. H. Arnold, member of the commission. The increase in passenger rates, Mr. I Arnold, said. WOUiU ue reiuscu, ! under the ruling of the attorney gen| eral the commission is without authority to grant it. There still remains, however, he pointed out, an appeal to the interstate commerce commission before whom the roads might argue that the action of the state commission in refusing the rates is a violation of the transportation act of 1920. tfhis act guards against rates that cause "any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference or prejudice as between persons or localities." Authority is also given the interstate commerce commission to enforce a revision of such rates, "the law of any state or the decision or order of any state authority to the contrary notwithstanding." YEGGMEN ROB POSTOFFICE. | $20,000 in Currency Obtained at Fair-! mount, N. C. Fairmount, NT. C., Aug. 11.?Yeggmen robbed the pos^office here early this morning of $20,000 in currency and several hundred dollars in postage stamps. The money belonged to the Bank of Fairmount, having been sent by insured mail. People near the building were awakened by the explosion and when they ran otft the robbers ordered them , to retreat, which they did, when several shots were fired. The robbers escaped in a o+rOnn automobile, which they aban lOtV/XVXX M Vhvv. ? -- ? doned a mile from town. <o>? ? Rats in the United States destroy $200,000,000 worth of property annually. In Denver there is a mark near one mile above sea level. ful states. -Gov. Cooper is very much inter ested in the campaign and urges that every voter in the State support the party liberally. Joe Sparks, financial director of the campaign has received the following letter from Wilbur Marsh, national treasurer: "May I suggest that if a man can afford to give more than a dollar it is only right that he do so. The only test of helpfulness in spirit is to give until you feel that you have denied yourself by reason of the gift. The campaign will cost proportionately more than four years ago, I know that the South Carolina Democracy will do its full duty." Nearly two thousand solicitors i have been appointed in the state to collect the dollars for Democracy. Ti'ain Wreck Story Started Cox. j New York, July 29.?Jimmy Allison thinks he may have been a little bit sore that night. He may even have been a trifle harsh to Jimmy Cox. He does not remember this , phase of the evening with accuracy. He trusts not, becouse Jimmy Cox might, perhaps, be the president of the United States some time. It would be embarrassing if the president said some time: "Remember that night you bawled me out at Middletown." This is the story of the time that Jimmv Cox chiDDed first the egg. It is the tale of his official hatching. Up to that time he had been the correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer at Middletown, Ohio?that is, that } had been one of his activities. A country correspondent was not paid enough in those days to permit him to devote his entire time to corresponding.** He had attracted the same sort of attention in the Enquirer office that other country correspondents did. When he got scooped the telegraph editor wanted to know why. Then.came the work of the Second Forty-five. "Forty-five" was a known numbered passenger train. People sst their tin clocks by it. The Dayton Cash Register company's employees arranged an excursion, and the railroad management decreed that the special train should be known for the day under the title of the "Second Forty-five." Somehow the train dispatcher forgot, or the telegraph operator forgot, or some one else forgot. At any rate, after the only known "Forty-five" passed Middletown on this fateful night the engineer of a freight train pulled off a siding and rumbled down the main track, quite unaware that a second section of the passenger train was approaching. A dozen people or more were killed. "I was the night police reporter for The Enquirer at Cincinnati," said Jimmy Allison, who for years has been the New York man for the Cincinnati Times-Star. "All this happened after midnight. Cox had been getting around Middletown at night, as was his habit, and picked up the news. He 'flashed* it to The Enquirer, and 'Charlie' Hodges, who was then the city editor, got me on the wire ;and told me to hurry up to Middletown and take charge." Allison was not unnaturally outraged by this order. It came just as he was getting ready to call it a day and go home. He rode through the brisk morning air to Middletown?on a freight?inhaling indignation and cinders. All the way he reflected bitterly on the policy of a paper that would entrust so important a post as that of Middletown?where nothing elst had happened since the memory of man?to a green reporter, and thereby cut into the recreations of a regular newspaper man just when that regular's playtime had arrived.' He may have been crisp to Cox when I he got tnere. cui ne nu^ca uui. Cox had done all that could be done. He had gathered the facts, wired them to the Enquirer in time for the city edition, sent in all the names and street addresses of the injured, and then made inquiries about the wire. But one wire was open to Cincinnati, he discovered, and at that moment the reporter for the other Cincinnati morning paper began to snoop around. Young Mr. Coxv the Boy Correspondent/ knew that he must save the scoop for his own journal. "So he put two or three pages of a book on the wire," said Mr. Allison. "He'd heard about that trick, you know. Another Enquirer reporter, during a strike in the coal fields, sent most of the 'Lamentations of Job' on one occasion, thereby preventing the current Job from getting any news through in spite if his anguished protests. Anyhow, Cox did it. He held the wire." Allison did the story all over again, of course, in that provokingly superior way in which big town reporters A *- ^11 frk-nrr. ronnrfprs even irea.u siuan tv " u ? ^ , _ though the small towners have all the facts. The Cox story, which had been sent to the Enquirer in hurried bits, as he learned of a new fact or a new name, had been rewritten by the office genius into a compact and lurid story' of the wreck. Allison remembers the awe with which "Jimmy" Cox read that story the next morning when the papers came in. The facts were his, of course "If I could only learn to write like that," he said dejectedly. "I'd never want anything more." When Allison returned to Cincinnati "Charlie" Hodges called him in. "Seems to be a pretty live wire," Hodges said, "that young Cox up at NECK BROKEN BY BLOW WITH PISTOL MIKE CORBKTT KILLED IX VERY STRAGE MANNER. Near Springfield.' Said That Companion in Car Tried to Make Him Stop Singing?Hit Him With Weapon. Springfield, Aug. 16.?A coroner's jury returned a verdict holding that Mike Corbett, whose body was carded to Salley in an automobile yesterday by four men, came to his death ( hv a wound on the back of his neck inflicted by Joe Higgins. The dead body of Mike Corbett, a farmer 45 years old, who lives about six miles from here, was carried to the town of Salley yesterday afternoon in an atuomobile by Thos. Hereon, Joe Huggins and Rubin Schofield. The occupants of the car stated, it is said, that they had found the body in the public road a few miles from Salley. Upon close questioning, it is stated, their stories conflicted and these three, with a son of Thomas Herron, who was also in the automobile, were placed in custody and separately questioned at an inquest held over the body by the coroner of Aiken county today. The young Herron boy testified that they were all out riding in the car and that Huggins asked Corbett to stop singing, which he refused to do. Thereupon Huggins, it is said, struck him on the back of his neck with a revolver and Caused Corbett to fall over in the foot of the car. When he made no effort to reseat himself they examined him and found that he was dead. An examination revealed that Corbett's neck was broken and his skull fractured. According to the testimony all the occupants of the car were under the influence of intoxicants. The jury found that Corbett came to "his death J -I 1 by a wound on toe u<ick ui tut; nctn inflicted at the hands of Joe Huggins. Huggins, Heron and Schofield have been lodged in the Aiken jail. Mike Corbett leaves a widow and three children. Middletown." No doubt Hodges was smoking a pipe at the moment. He usually was. "Got a cleaji scoop for us. Held the wire, too. What do you think of him?" That early morning bitterness had passed away from Allison by thai time. He no longer remembered the injustice to which he had been subjected in sending him away from rest ?and recreation?at that scandalously early morning hour, but recalled the alertness of the young reporter He told about it: "I've given him a chance to come down here," said Hodges. "It's up tc him to make good." Cox became the railway reporter ir Cincinnati. Railway reporters ir those days usually walked severa thousand miles a week and talkec mostly to brakemen. Now and then? this was a long time ago and as a nation we lacked the high and mightj notions we have nowadays?a railway reporter got a pass from some onz and then sold that pass to some one Oddly enough it was the railroads wh( most bitterly complained when th< pass issuing privilege was taken awa: from them. Allison remembers that z friend had a pass on the Queen anc Crescent, which was in constant us< when there was racing on at Nev Orleans. "The railroad never complained,' said he, "until some one tried to car ry a horse on it." Cox would not graft passes and sel them. He did what few other rail way reporters had done at that time and managed to get into the private offices of the presidents and treasurers and directors of the railroads and tall to them. Then they asked him to com* [ back. He became a very live news 'gatherer, thereby confirming the judg ment of Hodges and Allison. At this point Theodore Mitchell, now th< chief agent by which the D. W. Grif fith filming company takes the publh into its confidence, may be introduce( and sworn. "Jim Faulkner brought me down t< Cincinnati," said he, "and gave me ; job on the Enquirer. The most vivis impression I have of my first nigh was of walking into Charlie Hodges' office and of seeing Jimmy Cox sit oi Hodges's desk and swing his legs an< talk- confidentially to the eidtor. Tha was a great occasion for me, you un derstand." \ * RATTLERS STILL ABOUT. r*i Many in Mountains a Few Miles From New York City Hall. ' _______ V?S * . 35 One reads in Kansas papers that they are killing off the rattlesnakes out there, because "there isn't much use in keeping them alive any longer," says the Boston Transcript. The * rattlesnakes themselves may have a different idea of the matter. It is one thing to "kill off the rattlesnakes" and another to get them killed off. Massachusetts has not killed off all of hers, after 300 years. A few years ago the Nomad read in a printed explanatory statement displayed in the reptile house in the Bronx Park Zological Garden, New York City, that "no rattlesnakes are now found within thirty miles of New York city." Shortly afterward the Nomad presented the custodian with the rattles of a large rattlesnake which had just been killed on the Palisades, not three miles from the city limits of New York. There is no place in the whole world where rattlesnakes are more abundant than they are in the Ramapo Mountains, near Sufferin, N. Y., about twentyfive miles from the New York city < -V hall. And though for many years they have been regularly and professionally haunted here?to be deprived of their fan^s and exhibited in cages or to be killed for their skins or their , ' oil?they do not seem to diminish in number among the hot rocks on the summit of the High Turne or along the slopes of the Ramapos or the Catskills. , The rattlesnake, of course, disappears in a region which has become a distinctly farming country. He needs peculiar conditions for his development. He needs hot sun in summer, and the protective cover of dry leaves, and he likes the crevices of the rocks in which to rear his brood* As he does not run away from attack, he cannot survive in frequented fields.. 4 * But in tne wooqs ana nins, or me great stick, without the slightest move on wastes where men's foot- . steps are few and far between, he increases and multiplies. And while cur northern ratt'er must have hot sun in summer, he nevertheless sur' vives in climates where the tempera- If ture falls far below zero in winter. , P The rattlesnake is common cn the . \ shore of Georgian Bay in Ontario. There are still a good many places in , New England where one needs to look out for him?needs to took out, , that is all, for the rattler, in spite of centuries of persecution, remains the perfect gentleman. He does not attack unless threatened; he will not run away; and he gives full warning k before he strikes. He is generally not averse to the unharming approach of humans, often seeming to regard the intruder with merely curious ini terest. The Nomad has seen a curledl > . up rattler remain perfectly motionless for a long time, while a fool terrier barked at him not a foot away, \) not deeming it worth its while to strike the dog. The rattler is the t most dignified of living creatures. l But it is, and will always remain, j the part of wisdom not to tread on , him. And if one is in a rattlesnake * i country, it is a wise precaution to carry a long stick and keep a good T watch on the path ahead. 7 It is an odd circumstance about a s rattler's fangs that they will grow again if cut out. The snake hunters, 5 who take the rattlers alive and sell a them for exhibition purposes; follow this method in their capture; they l stun the snake with a blow, put a , forked stick over him and then seize him around the neck with the left " hand. This forces the rattler's mouth open, exposing his great fangs, and , with his knife, the hunter now digs out the fang and put the snake in a Vvoo- whprft he soon completely re vy?.0, " " j vives, but is now harmless. This is called "trimming" the snake. ? 1 ? By and by Cox became the private 3 secretary to Paul Sorg, the Middle5 town tobacco manufacturer, who later c went to congress. Sorg died and Cox 3 went into the newspaper business and 5 politics at Dayton. It is presumed " that he was backed in his first pur3 chase of a newspaper by the Sorg 3 estate. Dayton was a Republican - stronghold in those days, but "Jnn3 my" Cox managed to be elected to 1j congress by the aid of the vote of the Soldiers' Home. Get that. There 3 j should be an orchestra to stop with a 1J crash and a peevish man in the gali lery to turn on a green light at this t point. He was elected to congress by; s the aid of the Soldiers' Home?Cox * being a Democrat and the soldiers bei ing almost bigoted in their republit canism. Then, after awhile, he was nominated for the presidency. ' ~ " ' If ^1 *