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1 ANNULLED STRIKE j
L ORDER THURSDAY
f .leaders of union call off
SCHEDULED WALKOUT.
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BY UNANIMOUS VOTE.
F , Ateion TakerK Because of Growing
1 Public Opinion That Strike Would
r Be Against Labor Board.
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1 J Chicago, Oct. 27.?The rail strike
scheduled for October 30 was averted
1 tonight when leaders of the switchi
men, trainmen, conductors, engineers
I and firemen at a joint meeting adoptI
ed a resolution withdrawing author
dzation of a walkout and officials of
ft the. railroad telegraphers' organiza
tions announced they would take
2 similar action. Thaee'were the only
unions which had authorized a
strike.
The vote calling off the strike was
unanimous by organizations, W. G.
Lee, president of the Brotherhoo<^of
* iRailroad Trainmen, announced. The
official wording of the resolution
adopted was that "the strike be declared
not effective."
The vote in the indvidual unions
was unusually close, however, the!
firemen particularly holding lengthy
arguments before agreeing to cancellation
of the strike order, the labor
k chieftains said. In some of the;
j|\ groups the ballot was described as'
"the closest in histor^ on a similar !
* question." ?.11 of the differences were
ironed out by the different unions,
however^ and the final show -down!
found all of them casting their ballots
for "no strike."
* Had Little Chance.
L. E. Sheppard, president of the
Order of Railway Conductors, said
that the unions had decided to eall off
: the strike because of "the growing
public opiifton that the strike would
/ he against the labor board, conse-1
| quently the government, and not
against the roads.
'fit was evident also that the entire
I Washington administration was opposed
to us and that we had little
chance of gaining out objectives,"
v said Mr. Sheppard. ' *
"We called this strike to gain cer?
tain rights to which our men were
f entitled," Mr. Sheppard told the As|
* sociated Press. "It soon became evident,
however, that the roads were
succeeding in their misleading propaganda
to the effect that we really
would be striking against the governjv
inent. This railroad propaganda
f found its way to the United Statesrailroad
labor board. This governmental
agency told us that it would
look on a strike as against it and the
government and not against the
roads, and that the full force of the
government would be brought to bear
against us if we walked out. Under
such circumstances there was no.th*
ing to do but annul our orders for
the October 30 walkout."
I "Strike is Off, Boys/'
The first announcement of the executives'
action was made by Mr. Lee.
Rushing to the floor below the hotel
meeting room where dozens of newspaper
reporters were congregated, he
smilingly shouted:
."The strike is off, boys, but I've
only got one copy of the resolution
and I'll show that to you tomorrow."
All of .the union men were smiling
as they came out and many of them
jocularly pushed and shoved each
other down the stairs. To all queries
most of them merely replied:
"It's all settled. See you tomorr
row."
B The code message calling off the!
3B strike, arranged in advance, will be
B sent out tomorrow morning, the union
KB heads said. a code word will be
sent to each general chairman of the
unions and he will in return forward
ffiK the orders to each of the subordinate
Sjj^B officials under him.
bH negro to 'die Tv chair.
n^BBury Convicts Tillman Choice on
9HH Criminal Assanlt Charge.
^^^^Bipartanburg, Oct. 27.?Tillman
BBB^^Bice, a negro, was sentenced here
H^B^Br to be electrocuted after the jury
jKKBBB^ed a verdict of guilty of the
of criminal assault. No date
|^B^BB^Bcution was set. The crime was
upon a white woman at
near here, on October 4. The
flH^B^B^Kwas on the stand and the woHHHHBH^ntified
the negro as her asuHH^HLtically
1,000 men are lost each
BB^HHVby discharge from the United
gifiMa|fiBys navy.
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COTTON GINNING
IS FAR ADVANCED
LARGE PROPORTION OP CROP
ALREADY IX.
REPORT OF BUREAU.
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Figures ^Lccompanied by Paragraph
Giving Suggestion From Departmeht
of Agricutlure.
Washington, Oct. 25.?Cotton of
i this year's growth ginned prior to
October 18 amounted to 5,477,397
bales, exclusive of linters, corftpared
with 5,754,582 bales last year and
4,929,104 bales in 1919 o that date,
the census bureau announced today.
Round bales included* numbered
99,371, compared with 240,099 last
year; American-Egyptian included
numbered 7,498 bales, compared with
14,312 last year, and sea island included
numbered 1,204 bales, compared
with 334 last year.
The ginning report included a
paragraph stating:
"The department of agriculture on
October 3, 1921, estimated fhat the
condition of the cotton crop on September
25 was 42.2 per cent, of a
normal, the lowest condition ever reported,
which forecasts a total production
of about 6,537,000 bales of
500 pounds gross. Reports indicate
that a large proportion of the crop
has been ginned."
The heaviest ginning on record,
prior to this year, was ithat of 1916
when 7,303,183 bales, or 64.3 per
cent, of the crop, were ginned prior
to October 18. The next largest ginning
to that date was in 1918 when
6,811,351 bales, of 57.2 per cent, of
the crop were ginned.
Grinning by states follow: Alabama,
426,152; Arizona, 8,567; Arkansas,
448,484; California, 4,012"
Florida, 3,127; Georgia, 637,120;
Louisiana, 195,11;*; Mississippi, 512,007;
Missouri, ^40,333; North Carolina,
444,964; Oklahoma, 347,140;
South Carolina, 494,261; Tennessee,
158,660; Texas, 1,740,766; Virginia,
7,505; all other states, 3,079.
HACHETTE FOUND GUILTY.
Chain Gang Guard Found Guilty of
Assault and Battery.
Spartanburg, Oct. 29.?Tom Hachette
was found guilty of assault and
battery of a high and aggravated nature,
and Lee Porter was acquitted in
a verdict returned late tonight in -the
case of Tom Hachette and Lee Porter,
former county chain gang guards,
charged with murder in connection
with the death of Thomas M. Keelan,
of Elizabeth, N. J., a convict whippfed
by Hachette while in command of a
chain gang at work near Glenn
Springs last August. Sentence will
be passed on Monday by Judge John
S. Wilson. Conviction carries a penalty
up to ten years, in the discretion
of the court.
Thomas Keelan, who was serving a
thirty days' sentence on the county
chain gang for train riding, died suddenly
after being whipped by Hatchette,
assisted by Porter, for failure
to work. Keelan claimed to have been
ill, but was required to go on the road
with the forces. He faltered and was
then punished and sent into a ditch
with a kick. Here it was he fell and
was carried to the shade of a tree
where he died in a few minutes.
The trial of the case h? - msumed
two days and went far ini . ae night
before arguments were concluded and
the case reached the jury. The verdict
was rendered after two hours' deliberation.
Judge Wilson in his
charge to the jury made it clear that
there is no authority for corporal
punishment in this state and quoted
the Constitution of South Carolina to
sustain ithat position. An investigation
of,'the case was asked by Governor
Cooper, and even the Department
of Justice was asked to make an investigation
by relatives of Keelan in
New Jersey.
Hachette was sentenced to serve
two years or pay a fine of $1,000.
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Cornfield Dispute.
Vastine Hanberry was arrested
last week by Magistrate L. G. Yarley,
of Ehrhardt, charged with the shooting
of Herbert Wilson on the plantation
of Mrs. D. P. Smith. The two
negroes are said to have been working
in a cornfield, and became entangled
in a dispute which resulted
in Hanberry shooting Wilson with a
shotgun. The load took effect in Wil
son s side, but it is not believed tbat
j -the injury is serious.
\ SUGGESTED I
PROGRAMS
WEEVIL
Some months a^o a number of
business men of the state asked Dr. j
W. W. Long and Hon. R. I. Man- 1
n.ing to form a committee of quali- { ?
fied farmers and business men to for- ;
mulate a pragramme for farming un- <
der boll weevil conditions. These
gentlemen appointed the following ]
committee which met in Columbia i
September 27: ;
Dr. W. W. Long,, Wade Drake, J. j
Ross Hanahan, R. C. Hamar, J. W. <
Gaston, G. W. Duvall, Dr. W. :
C. Brown, R. B. Cunningham, i
B. W. Segars, R. I. Manning,
and D. R. Coker. Mr. Coker
was selected as chairman and :
Mr. Cunningham as secretary. All
were present except Mr. Hamar.
The opinions of every member
were fully expressed and all were
agreed on the essential eatures of
the programme as outlir :d below. A
'sub-committee was appointed to
draft the programme, which commit
tee met on October 5, all present except
two, and the article below is
the result of the considerations of
j this sub-committee, which meets
with the approval of the majority of
the committee, and in its essential
features with the approval of the
whole committee. The programme
was submitted to the extension department
of Clemson college, which i
| also approves of it.
| "The march. of the boll weevil
across the cotton belt has been ac- '
companies by panic and demoralization.
Farmers, bankers and merj
chants frightened by one or two
years of heavy losses, have in many
cases, curtailed operations and credits
to the point where farming was
; stifled and labor was forced to leave
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tne couniry to prevent awrvauuu.
There are signs that a similar panic
may occur in parts of this state unless
means are taken to reassure the
people and point out a safe course for
agricultural opperations under boll
weevil conditions. To this end a
group of practical farmers and busi,
ness men in cooperation with the extension
bureau have studied the situation
in the light of their own exi
perience and that of other states and
the accumulated experimental re- j
suits of governmental agencies and
beg >to present the following suggestions
and programme as onef which
will meet the situation, preventing
demoralization and enabling our
farming and business interests to continue
profitable operations.
It is especially important to prevent
our people from stampeding
intn new and untried fields of agri
culture in which they will fail
for lack of information and experience.
Promising new crops should of
| course be tested and where proved
! successful should be increased as rapi
idly as the people gain experience but
not faster.
The problem is not so much as to
what to do as it is how to reassure
j the people and get the information of
how to proceed to every farmer, renter
and and sharecropper in the state.
This must be done if it is done at all
by the larger farmers, merchants,
A n rv??A f A ATI 1 1 mOTl TlfVi A
| uauAcio auu ^luicosiuuai mvu uv
should make it their business to reach
the isolated farmers and tenants and
discuss with them the programme of
operations under boll weevil conditions.
The greatest responsibility
rests upon the landowners. If they
are going to continue to own their
lands they will be obliged to see to it
that thpse who farm them have correct
information and closest supervision,
for the average farm tenant
must .have sympathetic correct instruction
and active supervision until
he thoroughly learns the new methods
of operation.
A few broad principles of operation
for the whole state may be suggested:
First. " D'estroy immediately all
cotton stalks as soon as the crop is
gathered. This will prevent the
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during October. The old weetfils do
I not hibernate until cold weather and
' the destruction of their food supply
1 will cause them to die before frost.
The carrying out of this suggestion at
once is imperative and every effort
should be made to induce every farmer
in the state to do this work at
once, for, if only a few do it, it will
have little effect in reducing next
year's weevil supply,
j Second. During the fall and win
ARMING
AE UNDER
CONDITIONS
ter destroy all cover in which weevils
may be hiding, burning ditch
banks and margins of woods and
cleaning up around stumps. Fodder
and hay stacks should not be allowed
to remain near cotton fields.
Third. Cotton should be liberally
fertilized with a quick acting fertilizer
containing about 50 lbs. of available
phosphoric acid per acre, ammonia
and potash to be used according
to the character and relative
fertility of the soil. All applications
of ammonia should be put down before
the middle of June. Over-doses
of potash have a tendency to delay
maturity. Where the weed grows tal]
only a small amount of ammonia
should be used as it always delays
maturity and encourages overgrowth
of stalk.
Fourth. Early .planting of approved
varieties of cotton with plenty ol
seed. The farmer should save at
least'3 bushels of good seed for eact
acre -he is going to plant. He shoulc
plant at least two bushels before
April 1 in the lower half of the stat(
and before April 10 in the upper hall
of the state reserving a bushel pei
acre. If a stand is not secured bj
the first planting he should plant
over not later than April 10 in the
lower half or April 20 In the uppei
half. If large quantities of seed an
used good stands are usually securec
from extra earlv nlantinas and thf
experience is that under boll weeVi
conditions the greatest crops are al
ways made from the earliest plant
ings. If stands are not secured at ?
comparatively early stage the lane
intended for cotton should be put
into other crops.
Fifth. Cotton should be left thicl
in the drill. This distance should
vary with the height of the nature
growth of the plant, 3 inches or 4
inches not being too close as a mini
mum and 8 inches or 10 inches as ?
maximum.
Sixth. The question of-poisoning
for boll weevil is still in the experi
mental state but your committee be
lieves that poisoning with calciun:
arsenate is valuable, especially i:
done at the proper time time and un
der favorable conditions. Heav^
damage from plant lice following
dusting with calcium arsenate earl?
last August makes us doubtful as tc
this treatment when applied at tha:
time. The weevils should also b?
picked frojn the plant in the earl^
stages and as soon as puncture,
squares are noticed they should b<
picked up twice per week until mid
summer. Rapid and thorough cul
tivation at all times should be em
ployed and the crop should be gath
ered as fast as open to insure a higr
grade. In no case should more cot
ton be planted than can be properlj
handled a tall stages and promptly
picked by the labor on the farm, foi
it is the height of folly to plant '<
crop and let the boll weevil eat it u;
for lack of attention or allow ii t(
become blue in the fields for lack'o:
picking force.
The experience of many of on
best farmers and numerous experl
ments conducted under the auspice;
of the experiment stations prove tha'
it is absolutely essential in almost al
sections to use around 300 pound;
per acre of acid phosphate under cot
ton. In most cases if the amount!
applied varied much, either above oi
below this standard, the crops wen
less profitable.
Everywhere it must be insisted 01
that the individual farmer and tenarn
raise an abundant supply of food anc
feed and that this food and feed b<
properly conserved. The man with ?
crib full of corn and hay, a smoke
house full of meat and molasses, ?
hundred bushels of sweet potatoes ir
a storage house, and a garden full ol
vegetables cannot be put out of busi
ness by the boll weevil or any othei
pest.
Storage houses for keeping sweei
potatoes should be everywhere as thi<
is one of the greatest crQps we have
and one which every farmer car
raise.
Special Suggestions.
I. For lower coastal plain. With
in 50 miles of the coast it is doubtful
whether cotton can be profitablj
raised under boll weevil conditions
except during very dry summers following
unusually cold, winters. II
Dlanted at all the acreage should be
small, planting should be done extra
(continued on page 2, column 1.)
DEAD BODY OF
FARMER FOUND
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I FLEMING CHAVOUS DIES NEAR
ALLENDALE.
BULLET SIN BREAST.
Prominent Citizen Found <On Edge
of Woods?Investigation
Being Made.
Allendale, Oct. 31.?Fleming Oha
vous, former mayor of Allendale and
one'of the most prominent citizens ol
this entire section of the state, was
> found dead on the edge of the woods
1 on one of his plantations near Alien
dale this afternoon, with two bullei
i holes through the region of his
' heart.
I While evidence points to the facl
i that his death might have been sell
I inflicted, there is no reason that car
i possibly be assigned for such an act
He was seen only a ftw irirutes be
- fore tbe discovery of his dead bod:
E in apparently good spiiits, bavins
: bought several cigars fr./.n a stor<
\
i keeper nearby. While his health has
1 not been the best during the pa's
5 year it has caused him no ap
J parent anxiety. His financial condi
C tion was in every way satisfactory, i
* appears, he being one of the larges
r land owners and planters of this sec
t tion. His mysterious death has cas
i a gloom over this town and com
* munity that has scarcely ever beei
i felt. The sheriff is conducting an in
I vestigation to find out if there coul<
s possibly have been foul play in con
1 nection with his death.
Mr. Chavous wad about 65 years o
- age and leaves a widow, former!:
i Mrs. Clementine Williams, of thii
I section and two sons, W. A. Chavous
i present mayor of Allendale, and as
sociated with his late father in busi
: ness and C. C. Chavous, cashier o
I the Allendale bank, besides severa
1 grandchildren. Funeral services wil
1 be held tomorrow at the Baptis
- church here and interment will tak<
i place at Swallow Savannah cenieter:
near here.
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' WOULD INVESTIGATE.
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t Methodist Board Calls on Rules Com
p mittee of House to Take Action.
. Washington, Oct. 29.?The boan
r of morals of the Methodist Episcopa
T church, in its official publication, call:
, upon the rules committee of the houa
I of representatives ito investigate al
i secret societies.
7 The position of the Methodists, a;
j thus set out, is regarded as mor<
? than interesting in Washington.
The publication says: "The rule
. committee is now considering whethe
_ congress should investigate the Ki
. Klux Klan. We think it should. No
, only that, but we feel that it shoul<
. investigate all secret societies.
7 "For instance, we would like t<
, know what became of the money col
r lected by the Y. M. C. A. and Kniight;
l of Columbus for welfare work dur
} ing the war. Was any of this mone;
j lefit unused? If so, what is beini
? done with it?
"Is any of this money, contribute<
. by people of all churches, being use<
. to fight the Y, M. C. A. in Europe'
3 Is It true that any of it is being use*
t to fight the Italian Methodist church
1 Have any American fratenal order;
5 j had anything to do with the atrociou
. effort to induce the Italian goVern
s menit to confiscate property of* tin
r Methodist church in Rome and pre
5 vent its construction of a colleg*
there?
i "When the Methodist general con
t ference expressed disproval of an:
1 interference by the United Statei
> government in the quarrel betweei
i Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics
. why did congress in a formal resolu
i tion take ithe side of the Catholics'
i Was this due to the fact that th<
f Catholic church has a fraternal ordei
- while the Protestants have no simila:
r order?
"Just what are the influences bad
t of the opposition to the rehabilitatioi
51 of our public schools?"
i j I,t is not regarded as likely by lead'
i1 ers that congress will undertake th?
! extensive programme thus mapped
out by the Methodists.
Where Venus Belongs.
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5 Venus of Milo is not a member o
. the "cabinet of the gods" at Washingf
ton, but she ought to be eligible foi
j the disarmament conference.?Bostor
t Transcript.
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BLANTON SAVES 1
| SEAT IN HOUSE !
I AFTER VIGOROUS SPEECH MADE
IX HOSTILE TERRITORY.
GIVEN SEVERE CENSURE.
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' Resolution to Expel Democratic Member
Loses By Bare Margin
of Eight Votes.
- Washington, Oct. 27.?Saved from
I being thrown out of the house of
t Representatives by a bare margin of
5 eight votes, Thomas L. Blanton, a
5 Texas Democrat, was publicly repri
manded late today by Speaker Gilt
lette, in accordance with a resolution
i of censure, against which no man cast
a single vote.
I Then, a moment later, as he walkP
ed out of the chamber with all eyes
i upon him, he toppled over in a heap.
. Some of his colleagues wrho had vot-, %
- ed to expel him, picked him up and
7 placed him on a lounge. But he did 3
X not stay there long. Rousing himi
self, he stumbled out, the tears
s streaming down his cheeks, and as
t he went away he was heard to ex
press the hope that he mighT never
- see the house again.
t There was no doubt of the fact, as
c; members expressed it, that the Texan
- was utterly crushed and worn by his
t experience of the day, an experience ?
- that seldom comes during the life of
i a man in congress. For an hour and
- ten minutes, with hostile eyes upon
1 him, he fought to defend himself
- from the charge that he had transgressed
the law <by putting into the
f Congressional Record a document de7!
scribed as "unspeakably vile."
5 Steps iSrisKly to t<Tont.
Before he got up to speak in his
- own behalf, it was the view of Re-j
publicans and Democrats that action
f i upon the resolution to expel him
1 would depend upon his own attitude.
1 He sat with folded hands as Repret
sentative Mondel, of Wyoming, the t -j
3 Republican leader, pleaded earnestly ' ' S
7 to have him cast out. And then, pale,
smiling, he stepped briskly to the \
front, as the leader sat down.
His voice hoarse and broken, he '"I
touched rapidly upon the charges, ;
" and then his old-time fighting fire returned.
Right at the beginning he
said he knew the house was prepared
jj to expel him.
sj CARR IN COMMAND OF CONFERS. |
1 Durham Man Succeeds General Van
Zandt. -J
5 Chattanooga, Tenn., Oet. 26.?Gen.
Julian S. Carr, of Durham, N. C., was
s elected commander- in-chief of the
r United Confederate Veterans to suci
ceed K. M. Van Zandit of Texas. Rtoht
mond, Va., was chosen as the next rei
union city at the closing session here
tonight of the veterans' convention.
3 The annual parade, the big event of
- the reunion, will be held tomorrow,
s Commander Van Zandt delivered a
- brief valedictory to the veterans.
V Richmond won the next reunion
I city over Savannah^ Nashville and
Sulphur, Okla.
i The reunion went on record with
i a declaration .that "these reunions?
would be continued from year to year
i so long as there are as many as four
n ^ - 1- J ~ VI ~ fvoiral
veterans ten auve auu iu naio?
s to* the reunion city and so long as
s the people of the southern cities see
- fit to invite them to come." /
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CONVICTED OF MURDER.
Negro Found Guilty of Killing Greenville
Man.
3 Greenville, Oct. 28.?Will Hood,
{ negro, who shot and killed G. W.
Smith, night watchman for the Pied.
mont Lumber company here Septem>
ber 29, was convicted of murder of
3 the first degree, by a jury in the court
r of general sessions today. Eugene . t
P Beeks, another negro who was tried
for murder with Hood, was acquitted,
. but he is now being held on a charge
t of larceny.
Hood and Beeks were being chased
. by a posse of citizens after the pair
> were alleged to have broken into the
[ store of the F. W. Poe Manufacturing
company, when the shooting took
place. Mr. Smith had just started
to work about 5 o'clock in the evening,
when he stepped into, the path
f of the fleeing negro, who shot him
- four times, thinking, it seemed, that
the white man had him trapped.
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A mosque is to be erected In France
in memory of the Mohammedans killed
in the world war. /