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PAOLHYMANSHEADS
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
tfilXiIAN ELECTED PERMANENT i
PRESIDENT.
America is Wanted.
Chief Executive of Switzerland Expresses
Hope That United States
Will Soon Become Member.
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Geneva, Nov. 15.?Paul Hymans,
of Belgium, was elected permanent
president of the league of nations at
the opening session of the league's
assembly here today. He received 35
votes to four for President Motta, of
Switzerland, and one each for exPresident
Ador, of Switzerland, and
Leon Bourgeois, of France.
M. Hymans had called the delegates
to order and introduced President
Motta, of Switzerland, who in
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ixao auuicaa vyci^uuxiug tuo ucicgaico,
expressed the hope that the United
States would not delay much longer
in "taking its legitimate place in the
league."
When M. Hymans, who heads the
Belgian delegation and is a former
foreign minister of Belgium, declared
the first session of the assembly open,
the hall was crowded with men
and women and there were several
women among the delegates. Their
toilettes, with the quaint red and
yellow gowns of the Swiss guards,
gave touches of color to an otherwise
sober scene.
Mr. Motta, in his greetings, thanked
the conference for having selected
Geneva as the seat of the league of
nations an^ also thanked President
Wilson for calling the meeting of the
assembly in the seat of the league.
Six Vice Presidents Elected.
Geneva, Nov. 18.?In a somewhat j
agitated session today of the league j
of natioDs assembly completed its or-j
ganization by the elected of six vice
presidents, who, with the six chairfViAv
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day, form a sort of executive commit-!
tee of the assembly. The non-Euro- j
pean nations, for whom much solicitude
was shown yesterday, had no
complaint to make, as they obtained
four vice presidents, instead of the:
three they had asked for.
These were: Viscount Ishii, of Japan;
Honorio Puerrydon, Argentina;
Sir George E. Foster, Canada, and j
Rodrigo Octavio, Brazil. The other!
vice presidents are: H. A. Van Karn- j
abeek, Holland, and Dr. Eduard Be-nes,
Czecho-Slovakia.
READY DECLARES MANNING.
President of Exports Corporation
Says Arrangements Completed.
Columbia, Nov. 17.?"We have
made arrangements to ship some cot?
ton right away," was the interesting
statement made last night at th&
offices of the Cotton Exports Corporation
by the president, Richard I.
Manning.
"Just as soon as we can get it to
uta ran 'h<*erin shiDDiner it
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abroad," he said.
Pursuant to the resolution passed
by the board of directors of the
American Products Export and Import
Corporation President Manning
is directing the assembling of the
stock which has been subscribed.
The headquarters' office in the Arcade
building was a very busy scene
today when letters were being sent
out to the more than 5,000 subscribers
over the state. Each subscriber is
directed to make checks for cash subscriptions,
payable to the corporation
and to mail to the corporation at Columbia.
Liberty bonds are to be sent
in by registered mail or express. Detailed
shipping instructions have been
given to those who have subscribed
cotton for stock in the corporation.
"If your cotton is pledged to a
bank," writes Mr. Manning, "arrange
to have the cotton shipped and deliver
the bill of lading to the bank
and let the bank send the bill of lading
to the Exports Corporation and
the certificate of stock will then be
sent to the bank to be held in place
of cotton."
Nobel Peace Prize for Wilson.
Stockholm, Nov. 20.?President
Woodrow Wilson will be awarded the
Nobel peace prize for 1920, according
to the Swedish newspapers. The
announcement of the prize committee,
. however, will not be made before the
end of November.
TWO CHILDREN
BRUTALLY SLAIN
10-YEAR OLD BOY IS CHARGED
WITH THE MURDER.
In Cherokee County.
Roy Henderson Captured Sunday.
Dead Children Six and Eight
Years Old Respectively.
Gaffney, Nov. 20.?Two small boys,
Frank and Floyd Kirby, six and eight
years of age, respectively, were murdered
this afternoon about six miles
from Gaffney. The little fellows had
gone hunting with Roy Henderson, 16
years old, and the son of a neighbor,
and the county sheriff and his deputies
are hunting for young Henderson
who is believed to have slain the
children.
The smaller boy was shot, one
charge having blown off the right
hand and another tearing away the
top of the head. The other little fellow
was beaten over the head with
the blunt end of a gun or other blunt
instrument. The bodies were then
thrown into a deep hole in the creek.
The Kirby and Henderson families
live near each other, but were not
intimate in their associations. When
the father of the dead children came
home this afternoon and learned that
they had left with Roy Henderson,
he became uneasy and went in search
of the little fellows and found their
bodies in the creek. Young Henderson
is said to have come back from
his hunting trip, changed his clothing
and left.
Jury Charges Murder.
Gaffney, Nov. 21.?Frank and
Floyd Kirby, whose mutilated bodies
were found in Blue Branch Creek, six
miles from here Saturday afternoon,
came to their death at the hand of
Roy Henderson, was the verdict of
the coroner's jury at the inquest com
pleted here today.
Henderson, 16-year-old youth, who
is alleged to have done the killing,
was captured last night at 11 o'clock
by the county sheriff and deputies at
Butler, in this county, and has been
lodged in the Cherokee county jail.
The youth had gone to the home of a
farmer at Butler and having secured
lodging, was preparing to retire when j
the officers made the arrest. No
statement had been obtained from
him tonight concerning the killing.
According to the story given to officers,
Henderson is alleged to have
enticed Frank and Floyd Kirby away j
from home Saturday afternoon to go
hunting. When near the creek in
which the bodies were found, it is alleged,
he shot the smaller boy, blowing
off the right hand and top of the
head, then caught the older boy and
beat him over the head with his gun
until he was dead, after which he
threw them into a deep hole of water.
It was learned tonight from offiecrs !
that Henderson denied the killing after
his arrest. He is quoted as saying
that he left Frank and Floyd at a certain
point after they went out hunting
with him. After parting with j
the boys, he told officers, he was fired j
upon by a negro. When asked how T
his gun, which was found in two J
pieces near the scene of the killing, j
was broken, he is said to have claim-'
ed that when the negro fired at him j
he fell, breaking the gun as he wentj
to .the ground.
HEAVIEST WOMAN DIES.
Weighed 668 Pounds and Was Native
of Kentucky.
London, Nov. 20.?Lucy Stone,
said to have been the heaviest woman
in the world, who died in Bristol,
weighed 668 pounds, and for manyyears
was on exhibition among the
"freaks" in circuses. She had traveled
all over the world. She was a
native of Kentucky. Her sister, who
is a member of the "Chu Chin Chow"
company, is a woman of normal pro
purxiuxis.
While Miss Stone held the obesity
record for women, there was at least
one Englisman who weighed more
than she. He was Thomas Lambert,
who weighed 738 1-2 pounds. Mr.
Lambert died in IS09. His waistcoat,
still in the King's Lynn Muse-!
um, measures 102 inches around.
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Posts of the American Legion are
forming in Japan and Belgium.
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Distinguished Service Cross is
worn by no less than 130 American
Jews.
Warning Note F
This article, written by John W. M
McGrath, one of the biggest business ; ]
men in the southern half of Missis- j 1
sippi, should be of the keenest inter-; t
est to business and professional mcn;s
and farmers throughout the south.! i
While it deals largely with boll wec-j 3
vil history, yet it is full of sound j 1
philosophy and agricultural advice j \
and fits everywhere. i s
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In order to make this article as
brief as possible so that he who runs; (
may read, I have decided to treat j ,
the boll weevil subject under three | i
heads: The anticipation, the coming j <
and effect, the remedy. j
The first great mistake made by j
our farmers and business men wasj
their indifference to the gravity o,f
the situation. Even when the boll i ;
weevil reached the Mississippi river, ;
which is 72 miles west of Brookhaven i
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and later on when it was reported on
this side of the river, every one was
going along at the same old gait; <
planting cotton and some corn, raising
big crops and sending the great- ,
er portion of the proceeds north to (
pay for provisions and grain. ]
Taken for Granted.
None of us realized th? greatness '
of the danger. We thought it would
treat us like all the other cotton ;
pests which we had so successfully
combated, reduce our yield for two (
or three years and then pass on to ;
other fields. I had been in business here
for 30 years. I had never seen
a complete failure in all that time. c
Forty per cent, of a cotton crop was 1
our. lowest record. Why then should ]
we dread the boll weevil any more 1
than its predecessors? We would 1
fight it out on the old lines. We 1
would just trim our sails a little and <
fight our way through the storm. J
Alas! how many dollars would have 1
been saved, and how much suffering
spared, and what a long up-hill strug- 1
o-lo wnnlH Vijivp hppn avniripri. through 1
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the seven lean years that followed ^
had we only taken the precaution to *
visit the devastated regions beyond 1
the river! Had we only seen with our ]
own eyes the ravaegs of the weevil
and then adopted the proper means !
of fighting the oncoming evil. But, 1
we just waited and we paid the pen- 1
alty that always follows apathy.
In the year 1908 the compress re- 1
ceipts at Brookhaven were 31,000
bales; in 1911 they were reduced to! <
3,100 bales. Just'10 per cent, of a ! 1
full crop was all that we could har-1 !
vest at the end of three years. The :
drop was rapid after 1909. That I
year we made about 17,000 bales of
cotton; in the year 1910 about 6,500 i
bales; and then the most complete M
failure. The farmers did not begin to
get demoralized, nor the merchants
alarmed until the early part of 1910. 1
Then fear took possession of all of
us. We decided to try new crops and <
selected peanuts as, what we call, a *
money crop and made a failure. The 1
merchants distributed 11 carloads of
peanut seed and shipped away that
fall only 13 carloads of peanuts, i
n 1 - -1- 1 -
Thank God, we got our seea Dacn: .
The next year we tried sorghum prim. i
cipally, and some ribhon cane. We
installed a canning factory and ship- i
ped our products to Wisconsin, Iowa,
and Illinois. We gained quite a rep- :
utation there for the best grade of ;
sorghum but being an absolutely pure ?'
grade, a quantity of it fermented and 1
was a total loss. The factory failed "
in consequence and the growing of
syrup as a money crop was a decided
failure. !
Much Experimenting.
In the meantime, the negroes were '
moving north to the delta; labor was '
getting scarce; and the supply mer- (
chants were getting tired. The strain
on the financial strength of all was
great. The farmers were trying to 1
raise a little cotton all this time, but
were devoting most of their acreages
to cow peas, potatoes, hay, and the
raising of cattle and hogs, and experi- '
menting with "money crops."
All the time, however, there was 1
one class of demonstrators who were '
continuously at work?the dairy di- '
vision of both the state agricultural 1
college and the United States govern- 1
mpnt. A dairv association was form-1
eel iS the year 1913. At the first;
meeting there were just nine persons
present?the two demonstrators, sev.
V
en farmers and myself. But we .
organized, and three years later the .
meeting of the same association packed
the city hall, capacity of hall 450, .
to its uttermost.
We now have two creameries here (
and the combined output amounts to '
$750,000 a year. Permit me to state (
here that the great success of the
dairy business in our section was
rom Mississippi.
iot due to my efforts. I was only a
nodest booster. During the y^ear
1914, F. F. Becker, an ex-banker,
.ook charge of the creamery. He
pent most of his time the first year of
tiis management in a buckboard going
from farm to farm explaining the
svonderful possibilities of the industry.
He built it up. Success brings
success! The second creamery was
installed a short time afterwards.
We commenced to climb the hill
of prosperity in 1917 when we received
about 10,000 bales of cotton;
the crop of 1918 was 14,000 bales,
and we expect to get about an equal
amount this year.
If I were living in a country that
was about to be invaded by the boll
weevil, I would promptly call a meeting
of all the bankers, merchants and
farmers and I would move the adoption
of the following resolution:
Suggests Action.
"Whereas, this community will
soon be infested by the dread boll
weevil and being full aware of the
danger with which we are threatened;
of the havoc this little insect
leaves in its trail; of the demoralization
it spreads among the business
men; the discouragement is causes
to come over the farming element;
and knowing that unless the issue is
bravely met and conservatively handled
it may cause depression that is
likely tb be felt for at least seven
long years; now be it, therefore,
"Resolved, that the economy and
conservatism shall be our watchword;
that bankers and merchants shall be
requested to screw down the advancement
of credit to the lowest possible
aotch; that, presuming the farmers
Df this section are composed of three
classes, first raters, second raters,
md plugs, about evenly divided, onethird
in each class, be it resolved;
that we will pay no attention to the
5rst class as they will be able to han
die themselves; that we will cast
loose from the third class and let
;hem root hog or die; but that we will
do all we can to elevate No. 2, and
make them better producers.
"That we will not run after false
?ods, such as peanuts, sorghum, etc.,
but will diversify and stick to such
crops as we are accustomed to cultivating;
namely, corn, cowpeas, hay,!
velvet beans and cotton, and that we 1
will raise as many cattle and hogs j
as possible and will endeavor to en- \
courage dairying as much as we can.
requesting our farmers to tackle the '
industry in a small way at the beginning."
I would then adjourn the meeting,
urging each one to strive with all his!
might and main to put into execution !
the spirit of these resolutions.
Somewhere in the Old Testament,
[ think in <Jeremiah, it is written, .
"My people were destroyed for want
>f knowledge" and the immortal bard
Shakespeare, has said: "Sweet are
the uses of adversity."
Adversity Serves Purpose.
In our experience both the inspired
writer and the great poet were
right. We came near to being destroyed
for want of knowledge and
lack of belief; and while our adversity
has been a great educator and
we are now better farmers and business
nfen, and this section is more
prosperous than ever, we could have
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accomplished in iour years wuat 1^-.
quired eight had we used caution in I
the beginning and put the brakes on I
hard. |
Former Governor Manning, of1
South Carolina, who visited this sec-J
tion with a large delegation severall
years ago in search of information
on the boll weevil questions, remarkad,
after hearing several business
men, "Well, Mr. McGrath, your advice
is to keep our feet warm and
our heads cool." "Yes," I replied,
"and your pulse tight."
The three classes into which I divide
the farmers is true of all other
trades and professions, and the ratio
about the same. I know it applies
to merchants. I asked a good lawyer
about his fellows and he said, "Yes,"
and I then inquired of an eminent
? 1 1? ?" A oonrorllv
preacner mm ut? icpucu, n.uuu*I
50, only I fear we have more than
the one-third in the third class."
<i P?Reason
Enough.
Johnny?"What makes the new baby
in your house cry so much, Tommy?"
Tommy?"It don't cry so very
much?and anyway, if all your teeth
were out, your hair off, and your legs
so weak you couldn't stand on the^n,
1 guess you'd feel like crying yourself."?London
Ideas.
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Read The Herald, $200 per year.
BANK ROBBERS
SECURE $150,000
MEN CAPTURED, AFTER ONE IS
KILLED IN FIGHT.
Loot is Recovered.
Three Hours After Crime the Police
Block Ro^way With Cars
and Capture Follows.
Roanoke, Va., Nov. 19.?The Bank
of Glasgow, Glasgow, Va., forty miles
north of here, at 2 o'clock this mornins:
was robhed bv three bandits of
$150,0000 in liberty bonds and currency,
according to an estimate of
President Vaughn of the bank, and
three hours later, Roanoke police,
having received the alarm, blocked
the three roads leading into this city
from the north, halted the robbers
who were speeding in a seven passenger
automobile, killed one of them,
took 'the other two prisoners in a
pitched battle, and recovered the loot.
In the battle Patrolman O. L. Henri,
was slightly wounded. -The dead man
according to the police is James B.
Rodgers, of Philadelphia. The arrested
men gave their names as Chas.
Carter, Cincinnati, and William Porter,
Washington, D. C.
Chief of Police Rigney expressed
the belief that the trio is responsible
for robberies recently in North
Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee.
At the morgue, $200 was found
sewed in Rodgers's coat and $250 in
the lining of his underwear. Most
of the loot which included small amounts
of jewery as well as liberty
bonds and currency, was found in a
barracks bag. Carter and Porter, at
the local jail, declined to talk.
The bank robbery became known
shortly after, two o'clock this morning,
when an explosion occurred in
the institution. Examination showed
that the vault had been entered
and the contents rifled. Roanoke police
were notified, who took steps to
meet the incoming automobile on any
of the three roads. Upon each road
was placed a car lengthwise to block
the progress of the bandits.
A few minutes passed, when the
noise of an^automobile was heard approaching.
Officer Robertson sprang
into the middle of the road and ordered
the car to halt. A flashlight was
thrown in his face, accompanied by
a shot. Other shots then came from
the car, and firing between the occupants
and police ensued.
In an effort to go around the patrol
wagon the driver of the car swerved
to the side of the road. At the same
time the shot was fired which killed
Porl croro tho Hrivpr The car struck I
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a rock, turned turtle and pinned the
other two beneath it. One of the
men fired several times after being
caught.
Barracks Bag is Opened.
Roanoke, Va., Nov. 20.?In the
presence of bank officials from points
in three states, local police today examined
the contents of the barracks
bag taken yesterday in the fight with
three alleged bandits, and found $96,253,
the entire amount of which was
turned over to President Vaughn, of
the Bank of Glasgow, who claimed it
was stolen from his bank early yesterday
morning. The contents of the
bag was as follows:
Liberty bonds, $40,200; stocks,
$32,875; certificates of deposit, $14,925;
notes, $6,600; war savings
stamps, $1,655, and several pieces of
jewelry said to have been in the safety
deposit boxes of the bank.
METEOR CREATES PANIC.
Strikes Earth in Center of West Virginia
Town.
Morgantown, W. Va., Nov. 22.?
Residents in the city of Kingwood,
Preston county, W. Va., were thrown
into a panic tonight when a large meteor
fell at Howesville, five miles
south of Kingwood, according to reports
received here.
The meteor struck in the business
section of Howesville, near the railroad
station. It exploded as it it buried
itself in the earth. The force of
the blast was heard for several miles.
An automobile, standing near the
railroad station, was damaged by the
explosion, and the occupants of the
machine were dazed, but escaped injury.
There is no telephone in Howesville
and detailed information as to
the meteor could; not be obtained tonight.
PASCAL SPENDS
LIFE IN PRISON
SENTENCE PRONOUNCED IN PHILADELPHIA
COURT.
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"The Crank" Declares He is Sorry
He Did Not "Get the Chair"
Instead of Life.
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Norristown, Pa., Nov. 20.?Life imprisonment
by separate and solitary
confinement at hard labor in the eastern
state penitentiary at Philadelphia
was pronounced upon August Pascal,
alias Pasquale, "the Crank," who confessed
he kidnaped and accidentally
smothered 13 months old Blakely
Coughlin last June. The prisoner,
who is 34 years old, heard the judg?
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rneui ui cue uuun wiiuuui ueLrajrxuft
any emotion. '
"I am glad it is over," said'Pascal,
as he was led from the court room.
"But I am sorry I didn't get the chair.
I do not want to live."
Judge Swartz told Pascal he was
sorry he coul'd not sentence him to
death. The second degree murder
sentence will be considered if Pascal
is ever released. Pascal confessed'
to the kidnaping and killing of the
child. As the body of the baby could
not be produced and legal proof, aside
from Pascal's own confession, being
lacking, first degree murder could not
be pressed against the abductor.
Pascal, 34 years old, shorn of the
heavy black beard he had grown in
jail, was instructed to stand up when
sentence was about to be pronounced.
"It is useless for me to say any- . : J
thing in this case," the judge began,
"the cruelty, the deceit, the wicked
and hard heartedness on your part,
as well as the history of your past
life, show that your conscience is so
seared that anything that I may add ^
will not increase the burden of your
sentence and I am sure I do not wish
to say anything that will in the least
diminish the burden of the sentence
or in any way be a source of relief ;
or comfort to you. *
"I am sorry that I cannot impose
the most extreme penalty known to
the law, the electric chair, because
your crimes richly deserve such a
penalty."
Life imprisonment was then imposed.
Pascal stolidly heard the sentence.
If the court's judgment made
any impression upon him, he did not
show it.
With eyes moist Dy tears, air. <anu.
Mrs. Coughlin heard the imposition
of the sentence.
"I am satisfied with the court's
sentence," said the father of the kidnaped
child.
WANT BUTLER IN CABINET.
North Carolinian Favored *or Agri" ,
cultural Post.
Washington, Nov. 17.?Former
Senator Marion Butler, of North
Carolina, is being vigorously urged
by his friends for selection as SecreI
tary of Agriculture in the Harding
Cabinet. It is pointed out that there
1 has never been a Republican secretary
of Agriculture from the south
and that this is the time for that %
party to recognize this section in a
position which is of most vital concern
to outherners.
S. H. Hobbs, former chairman of
the legislative committee of the National
Farmers' Union, today issued a
statement in behalf of the Butler
candidacy, declaring that it was being
endorsed by President J. S. Wanna- ,
maker, of the American Cotton asso
ciation; by Congressman Claude Kitchen,
minority leader in the houser
and by a large number of the leading
officers of the North Carolina state
government, including Chief Justice
Clark and Associate Justice Hoke, of
the state supreme court; Secretary of
State Grimes, State Treasurer Lacy,
and Commissioner of Agriculture
Graham.
The presidents of the North Carolina
State branch of the American
Cotton association and of the State
Tobacco Growers associations have
also endored the Butler candidacy,
and it is asserted mat uu mwc
markable tribute to a politician's ability
has ever been given as presented
in the Democratic endorsements of
the former Republican senator for
secretary of agriculture.
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The German army now numbers
150,000 men.
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Italy will officially declare the war
at an end on October 31.
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