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THE UNION DAILY TIMES VOL. II. NO. 341 UNION, S. C., MONl^Y, JANUARY 6, 1919 3c PER COPY PRESIDENT WILSON E TO REC (By Associt MILAN, Jan. 6.? (Sunday, from Rome to Milan today, stop he was greeted in an extra vagal sands of common people. The same character, but was propor :o Polish Troops Thi (By Associs BERLIN, Jan. 6.? (Sundaj railway station at Verouschnik, sent an ultimatum for surrender I mander replied that he would del ture of Bentzchen by the Poles v and all northern Germany. :o National Banks C (By Associa WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.?TI ed upon to render a statement of :o Date of Roosevelt's Fun< Burial at Chri (By Associa OYSTER BAY, Jan. 6.?Th velt's funeral has not yet been s? Mrs. Roosevelt's request, will be held, one at the home at Sagamor< here, where the Roosevelts atter be in Young's Memorial cemetery TALES Of HEROISM TOLD BY SOLDIERS New York, Jan. 5.?Five transports and the battleship North Carolina steamed into New York harbor today bringing a total of nearly 9000 offi ?-. cers and men of the army and navy from France. , The North Carolina, which is the U,JV ^^^S^pB^rom^>versea8, had among her 1389 passengers a detachment of marines who had seen service at Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood and the Argonne Forest, and 19 officers and 994 men ot tne One Hundred and Thirteenth Ammunition Train. The giant transport Agamemnon, which formerly was the Kaiser Wilhelm II of the North German Lloyd line, brought the biggest contingent of any of the ships arriving today, having on her passenger list 175 officers and 2711 men. The list included 330 wounded and more than 2000 officers and men of the Three Hundred and Thirty-fifth Infantry, as well as a number of casuals. Baker Greets Men Secretary Baker, who was on his way to Washington from Buffalo, where he spoke last night, visited the Agamemnon and spent half an hour chatting with the troops on board. The other vessels arriving were the Santa Teresa with 73 officers and 1609 men of the One Hundred and Fortyfifth Field Artillery, recruited in Utah; th Henderson, with 28 officers and 818 men, including members of the naval land battery which operated on the Western front and nearlv 4nn wounded; the Niew Amsterdam, with 79 officers and 1592 men, including the Three Hundred and First Field Artillery and 226 wounded, and the Heredia, with 72 officers and 10 enlisted casuals. The Heredia, which has a quantity of munitions on board, and the North Carolina, anchored for the night in Gravesend Bay. The other vessels proceeded through cheering throngs to Hoboken, where the men were debarked and transferred to hospitals and demobilization camps. Many tales of heroism and of "hard luck" were told by the returning soldiers. Capt. Alex W. Gordin of Oakpark, 111., a company commander in the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Infantry, had the "hard luck" to be wounded at Fresnes, on November 11, just three hours before the armistice became effective, and to be captured by the Germans. He was rescued, however, as the Americans surged forward. Capt. W. D. Torrey of Detroit, a member of the Thirty-fifth Infantry of the Stonewall Division, returned with a paralyzed cheek, resulting from wound suffered at Stenay, where ne said almost half of the advance platoon of his company was wiped out before the Germans were dislodged. Capt. W. G. Smith of Washington, D. C., who was in command of the naval land battery men returning on the Henderson, said that his battery had fired 236 shells on the Western front. The shells, weighing 1400 pounds, were fired at a 4000 yard ranga and observers reported, he said, that the shells had wrought much havoc. His battery lost but one killed CONTINUES EIVE GREAT OVATION ited Press) )?President Wilson journeyed ping at Geneva en route, where it manner by hundreds of thoudemonstration here was of the tionately greater. >: reaten Bentzchen ited Press) r.)?Polish troops occupied the four miles from Bentzchen, and to Bentzchen. The German comfend the town at all costs. Cap/ould be most serious for Berlin ailed For Dec. 31 ted Press) ie national banks have been callbusiness to December 31st. : / ;ral Not Set; st's Church, Oyster Bay i ted Press) e date for Ex-President Rooseit, but will be held here and, at ; private. Two services will be s Hill, the other at Christ Church ided for years. The burial will here. MONARCH-OTTARAY LOCALS T. E. Martin's family is having a tussle with the flu. There are eight in bed there. Yesterday was one of the coldest days of the season, but church and Sunday School attendance was good. The League had a social at G. B. Sparks' residence Saturday night. Bennie Turner spent Sunday at home, but returned to Spartanburg last night. -Earnest BrakeWWffT"W~ the" TJ. S. navy, is home on a furlough. Priate Walter Tucker, after spending a few days vith his parents, returned to camp at Baltimore yesterday. Private Walter West is at home on a ten days' furlough. Juanita Smith is returning to Liewood, N. C.t today to school. I can assure the public that Private James Meadows is alive and looking well. I saw him with my own eyes That is in spite of the telegram announcing his death. Grandma Lowe went to Columbia Saturday. Word came that Pete was having the second round with the flu. and that his wife was sick also. This is good old winter weather sure enough. Let us thank God fo? every good thing, cold weather and good health, appetite and something to eat. I Jot us pray him to stop the flu. too. W.Y. Meadows desires to express his thanks and appreciation for the sympathy of the gocd people of our community in his dark hour of anxiety over the supposed death in action in France of his son, James. Also he is grateful for their expressions of gratitude and pleasure over the better word that came saying that the boy was alive and in Columbia. He is at home this morning, but will return to Columbia at noon. NOTICE, W. O. W. MEMBERS Forest Camp, No. 36, W. O. W., will hold a very important meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock. All members are urged to attend. COTTON MARKET TODAY January cotton opened at . . . . 28.00 Local market 28.50 McNally Cotton Co. Clinton Local market 28.50 EXPRESSES APPRECIATION Pastor A. McA. Pittman acknowledges with appreciation and thanks the reception of a fine gvercoat, labeled National C. & S. Co., New York, the gift of his heloved Shivar Spring people. M. L. Sprouse of Hopewell, Va., is visiting relative in Union this week. Mr. Sprouse holds an important position in the electrical department of the DuPont Powder Co. Rev. S. C. Dunlap, who has been sick with "flu" is now able to be up again. ? . A 1 and three wounded. Private Silas McGee, a full blooded Indian of Talihina, Okla., who was wounded while serving with the One Hundred and Sixty fifth Infantry at Verdun, was also among the arrivals. EX-PRESIDENT R DIED He Had An Attack of tism on New Year's Been More or to His (By Associa NEW YORK, Jan. 6.?Ex died at four o'clock this morn Bay. News received here by secretary, in a telephone messaj Striker said that former an attack of inflammatory rheur since had been more or less eonfir tied mainly in his right hand and 1 His condition did not seem alarm worse is believed not to have cc)i stood that only his wife and the ni Oother members of hia famil try or abroad. The death of Ex-President R capital to universal regret at the nation's life, as is evident on ever are eager for details. On the str< is apparent. The announcement as soon as it reached the White 1 The immediate cause of dea lodgment in the lung of a clot of fc it is said, came painlessly as he s Colonel Roosevelt's career has left such a vivid impression flpon the people of his time that it is necessary to touch but briefly upon some of the more striking phrases of his varied, interesting and "strenuous" life to recall to the public mind fuil details of his many exploits ana experiences. Called to the White House in 1901 after President McKinley had been assassinated, Col. Roosevelt, 42 years of age, became the youngest president the United States has ever had. Three years later he was electd as president by the largest popular vote a president has received. Thus Roosevelt, sometimes called n man of de?|jny? .served for seven yeax^ . as the nation's chief magistrate. In a subsequent decade the fortunes of , itics did not favor him, for, again a candidate for president?this time leading the Progressive party which he himself had organized when he differed radically with some of the polipipe af tbn Ppnt?kl?i*n?? ? - 1 v.vw v/i vitc A%vj/uuutau ty?ne went I down to defeat, together with the Re-1 publican candidate, William Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson, Democrat, was elected. Colonel Roosevelt's enemies agreed with his friends that his life, hia character and his writings represented a high type of Americanism. Of Dutch ancestry, born in New York City on October 27, 1858, in a house in East Twentieth Street, the baby Theodore was a weakling. He was one of four children who came to Theodore and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. The mother was of Southern stock and the father of Northern, a situation which during the early years of Theodore, Junior's boyhood was not allowed to interfere with the family life of these children during the Civil War days. So frail that he was Hot privileged to associate with the other boys in his neighborhood, Roosevelt was tutored privately, in New York and dur. ing travels on which his parents took the children abroad. A porch gymnasium at his home provided him with physical exercise with which he comhatted a troublesome asthma. His father, a glass importer and a man of means, was his constant companion; he kept a diary; he read so much history and fictional book of adventure that he was known as a bookworm; he took boxing lessons; he was an amateur naturalist; and at the age of 17 he entered Harvard University. There, he was not as prominent as some others in an athletic way, as it is not recorded tbfct he "made" the baseball and football teams, but his puny body had undergone a metamorpheBis and before graduation he became one of the champion boxers of the college. This remarkable physical development was emphasized by something which took place shortly after he left Harvard in 1880. He went to Europe, climbed the Matterhorn, and as a result was elected a U ~ w 4.1-- A I?'- * - ? iicmuri vi tiir A\ipinc V/iuo oi London?an organization of men who had performed notable feats of adventure. A few months after hie graduation, Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee of Boston. She died in 1884, leaving one child, Alice, now the wife of Representative Nicholas Iongworth of Ohio. In 1886 Roosevelt married Miss Edith Kermit Carow, of New York, and to them five children were born?Edith, now the wife of Dr. Richard Derby, and four sons, Theodore, Jr., Kermit, Archibald and Quentin. The public career of the man who was to become president began not long after he left college. His profession was law but the activities that were to come left him no time in iOOSEVlf IJHIS NORNINE Inflammatory Rheuma Day and Had Since Less Confined Room. ted Pre?8) -President Theodore Roosevel ins at his home at Oyste Miss Joseph ihe Striker, hi Ke from Mrs* Roosevelt. Mis President Reipsevelt sufFere* natism on Ney^ Year's day an led to his roouv. The attack set his wife sent at once for a nurse ing at first, an$ the turn for th ne until last It is under iirse were present at his death. y are in other Pjifta of ti"s cour ooseveU^stirl^and shocked th passing of a^TeSt figure in th y hand. Men In all walks of lif *ets everywhere anxious intere? was cabled Resident Wilso nouse. th was pulmonary embolism o lood from a|S?oken vein. Deatl dept. ^ * i\i A ,?Pf>' r which to practice It In 1882, 188 and 1884 -h* vhM elected to the Ne York State Aasembly,-.where his e forts on behalf of good governmer and civil service reform attracted a tention. When the Republican N: tional Convention 6f 1884 was heV in Chicago, he was ehairman of th New York State delegation. After this .experience he droppe out of politicf for two years. Goin West, he purchased ranches along 11 Little Missouri River, jn North Di kota, and divided his time betwec outdoor sports* particularly huntinj and literary wirk. Here h? laid th foundation- for 1 is series of. book "The Uvo Wa?Cr whir was publisher from 1889 to 1808, ar of other volumes of kindred characte Returning to New York he becam the Republican candidate for mayo in 1886. He was defeated. Presidei Harrison in 1889 appointed him member of the United States Civ Service Commission and Presidei Cleveland continued him in this offlc which he resigned in 189b to becon New York City's police commissione Illicit liquor traffic, gambling, vie in general?of these evils he purge the city in the face of the corruj political opposition, and the reputi tion he established as a reformer wo him the personal selection by Pres dent McKinley as Assistant Secretar of the Navy, in 1897. A year late the Spanish American War broke ou The famous Rough Riders were oi ganized by Wood and Roosevelt? band of fighting men, the mention < whose name today suggests immed ately the word "Roosevelt." In con pany with the regulars of the arm they took transports to Cuba, lande at Santiago and were soon engaged i the thick, of batlfe. Among the pr< motions which this hardy regiment gallantry brought about were those < Wood to Brigadier-General and Roos* velt to Colonel?and this title The< dore Roosevelt cherished until the em When Cuba was liberated, Roos< velt returned to New York. A gubei natorial campaign was in swing, wit the Republican party in need of capable candidate. Roosevelt wt nominated. Van Wyck, his Dem< cratic opponent, was defeated. When the Republican national coi vention was held in Philadelphia i 1900 his party in New York Stal demanded and attained his nomini tion for vice president on the tick* with William McKinley. In Noven ber of that year this ticket was elec ed. For his part in terminating tl Russo-Japanese conflict he was awari ed the Nobel Peace Prize in 190 Four years later, once more a pr vate citizen, he was Special Amba; sador from the United States at tl funeral of King ?dward VII of Enj land. Roosevelt after leaving the Whi House devoted his life largely to li erary work, hunting and exploratio He became contributing editor to Tl Outlook in 1909, continuing this f< five years, and later held editorial pi sitions with The Metropolitan ar the Kansas City Star. Prom 18i to 1917 he published about 50 volumi of works covering the wide range < naval history, hunting, biography, tl Rough Riders, Americanism, Natio alism, conservation of womanho< and childhood, animals, exploratio the world war and America's partic pation in it, and his autobiogarphy. His hunts for big game and his ze for exploration took him into tl American West, the heart of Afri< and the wilderness of Brazil. (Continued on last page) DEATH m HAND i ON VON HERTLING .Former German Chancellor Passes to Reward. (By Associated Tress) Copenhagen, Jan. 5.?Count George F. von Hertling, the former imperial German chancellor, died Saturday night at Ruppolding Bavaria. He had ^ been ill for six days. T Count George F. von Hertling was a considered the most learned man of s all the men called to the chancellor^ ship of Germany since 1871. He had won for himself a scholar's reputation " before he entered political life and > up to 1912 when he became Bavarian minister-prerident, he had combined e educal.'<"n and literary work with his politica1 activities. Von Hertling was appointed imperial German chancellor in October, 1917, succeeded Dr. I- George Miehaelis. He resigned in the fall of last year an dthe then Emperor William conferred upon him the Order of the Black Eagle and his warm e thanks for the "self-sacrificing faithe fulness" with which von Hertling had ,t served the country. n Wrote of Catholicism Von Hertling was born in August, 1843, in Darmstadt, of a well-known r family. He passed through the 1, gymnasium, or high school, of his home city, studied philosophy and history at Munster, Munich and Berlin and received the degree of doctor of ' philosophy in 1864. Later he visited Italy and studied the dogmatic history of the Roman church and in 1856 became teacher of philosophy in the University of Bonn. He was well known Ho A writer .->n rntVinli^ism nnrl ; ' political sociology. ie Count von Hertling was a member of the reichstag continuously from 1875 to 1912, with the exception of the K period of 1890 to 1896. He became ie the clerical party leader in 1909 after l~ the death of Count Hompesch. Dur1,1 ing the chancellorship of Count von Buelow he entrusted von Hertling, IC whom he considered an able resourceL XiiL ^with ^ the Vatican, von Hertling also was often the semi-official intermediary between his party and the govern^ ment. ^ In the later months of his occupancy of the chancellorship, von .j Hertling was assailed by the Social^ ists in the reichstag and the German newspapers, the Socialists charging ' that he had entered the chancellorship with the understanding that he would speak for the whole of the German people, but that he had gone over to the junkers and represented ideas that were obsolete. n Attacked by Press j. The press generally attacked the y chancellor as a result of the increas>r ing friction between the Berlin and t. Vienna governments. The feeling of r_ the newspapers was intensified when .a the chancellor early in September said >f the government saw no possibility of i- approving a bill for general equal i. suffrage as it came from the Prussian y lower house. The workers' unions ,(1 also turned against the chancellor, acn cusing the government of being re). sponsible for lack of food and of put's ting the interests of the producers ,f above those of the people, g. In his last speeches before the ). reichstag von Hertling dwelt on the possibilities of peace being brought about. These addresses were characr_ terized by the newspapers of all coun^ tries as "peace feelers" and were attacked by German writers and poliIS ticians as insincere or untruthful. London, Jan. 5.?Count George F. von Hertling, former German im1 I Derial chancellor, is dead, it was an nounced in advices received here tote i day. i- _ 1_ I Coming and Going j t- fc A Dr. J. T. Jeter of Santuc was a bus^ incss visitor to the city today. *> Labon Krasnoff left last week for i* New York, where he has entered Cos lumbia College, that city, le There will be preaching at Fairview Baptist Chuich by the pastor, ?e Rev. J. M. Trogdon, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The community is n cordially invited to attend. ie Our local delivery boys at Monarch 5r and Ottaray, the two Garner lads, are both down with the flu. They have u' substitutes and we hope the papers will therefore get to all subscribers, es , m , af VESSELS AT DANZIG le n* Paris, Jan. 4.?The United States cruiser Chester and the destroyer? n> Wicks and Aylwin are at Danzig for :1* the purpose of ascertaining whether there are any destitute American? st thera nnrl hrinminw nuro? ??>? ? ""J mijf "me"" ,e cans 'affected by the disturbed condi:a tions. Otherwise, it is stated, the visit has no connection with the political situation. . V FLAGS AT HALF MA! IH HI (By Associa WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.?Fl; House, Capitol and all public bu ment of the death of former 1 Daniels and General March also < and shore stations of the navy ai home and abroad. :o Henry Ford Contest (By Associa WASHINGTON, Jan. 6?In today, Henry Ford, defeated for Newberry, Republican, gave forn for a recount of the ballots. The berry's campaign and the intimid rejection of ballots, "flagrant" laws will be among the charges n :o Arguments in Berger (By Associa CHICAGO, Jan. 6.?Argurr trial of Victor Berger, congress: four other Socialists, charged wil act. The case has been on trial i GOOD ROADS MEETING AT COLUMBIA FRIDAY By Jas. L. Carberry. A lively spirit was in eider.ce Friday at Jeffersdn Hotel, Columbia, during the entire period of the meeting of the special committee to formulate and set into activity working plans for the Good Roads movement now sweeping the entire country. Mr. Carl Baer, the first speaker, brought a stirring message from Illinois where the movement seems not only to have accomplished greater results than elsewhere, but where the entire state is already enjoying benefits out of all proportion to the cost which was largely borne by the automobiles. He further stated that Mr. fttMjhilir Ay at.y , ment had promised in the near future to spend a week in South Carolina to assist in the same work here. "Seven years ago," said Mr. Baer, "the peopl of Illinois asked the automobile owners to pay thirty million dollars for the accomplishment of main arteries in the good roads movement, and the state was asked to provide a similar sum." The state finally declined to t pay its apportionment and the sum of sixty million dollars was rai=ed and paid with a tax of from $12.00 to $20.00 levied on the automobiles and the saving in gasoline and tires is claimed, alone, to have been twice the amount of te direct tax named. 'The car and the boy are the power of this country," contended Mr. Bner. Secretary A. V. Schnell, of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, spoke of the necessity for adopting: some such plan in South Carolina, first, the establishment of main highways, the cost to be paid from automobile tax, and later, the tributaries of these main arteries, which would be found so necessary, would be built by taxing the farmer, who would he the thief beneficiary and additionally enjoy gratis the benefits from the main hiirhways to which he had r.ot contributed. Mr. Rhett, of Charleston, and president of the chamber of commerce of the United States, then spoke, stating first, that South Carolina is now in the midst of a great crisis which follows every war. He also asserted that South Carolina had not enjoyed equal opportunity with other parts of our great country, having been oershadowed by New York exchanges. Mr. Rhett stated the very small income of the people of South Carolina in 1914, compared with income of the present year of two hundred and fifty millions of dollars, with eigty to one hundred million income from the cotton mills, the total income for state heing much greater than ever before. "The motor trucks have come to stay," said Mr. Rhett, "and this form of transportation, like the automobile in common use requires a pood road, built for permanency and to withstand the hard usage. The cost of such roads varying from nine to eiphteen feet in width alternately would ,in Mr. Rhett's opinion, cost about $2.25 per squire yard under conditions whieh we may reasonably expect to prevail in a very sort time, and at this rate, twenty-six million dollars would construct the permanent hiphways in question in South Carolina. "The purpose of this meeting " \ continued Mr. Rhett, "is to create def- i inite and approved plans which may be submitted to the legislature with the request that a Highway Commission be appointed which shall have charge of constructing and maintaining the highways in question from independent funds for the main arteries, and that the required sum could no i doubt be raised by increasing the present automobile tax of .25 her IT INOR OF ROOSEVELT ted Press) lgs are half-masted on the White ildings today on the announce3resident Roosevelt. Secretary srdered same action on all ships id every army post and camp at :s Seat in Congress ted Pressl a petition laid before the senate <rV senatorship from Michigan by lal notice of a contest, and asked excessive use of money in Newation of voters and the improper violations of the state election lade by Ford. Trial Begun Today ted Press) lents were begun today in the man-elect from Milwaukee, and th the violation of the espionage ?our weeks. IflKEI CUE iiriim nrirn rnn ntAVT UtAIH IULL Washington, Jan. 5. -The influenza epidemic which swept the country during the latter pa"- of last year caused 111,(188 deaths in the 46 largest cities and increased the combined death rate for those communities in 1018 to 19.6 per 1,000, according to statistics made public today by the census bureau. Total figures for the country were not available. Baltimore, with 26.8 per thousand, and Nashville, with 26.4, had the highest rates of the registration cities, while St. Paul, with 13.9, and Minneapolis and Grand Rapids, with 14 each had the lowest. Grand Rapids showwequmMthn Vti?thann igg- . rate L>r 1917 having been 13.1. There were 442,374 deaths in the 46 cities, the estimated population of 42 of which aggregated 20,514,520. There was no estimate of population for the other four. Deaths from influenza totaled 69.439 with 42,149 deaths from pneumonia. The year's total death rate in New York City was 18.8 per thousand, compared with 15.2 for 1917. In Chicago it was 17.1 against 14.9 for the year before, and in Philadelphia, where the influenza epidemic was very severe, it was 24.2, compared with 17.1 in 1917. ENVOY PETTIT AND WIFE LEAVE FOR GAFFNEY Envoy and Mrs. M. C. Pettit held a farewell service last night, before leaving for Gaffncy where they will continue their work with the Salvation Army. The farewell service was held in the First Presbyterian Church here. These faithful workers have done a good work in Union, and will be a great help in any community. DENIES PETITON OF SOUTHERN BELL Columbia, Jan. 4.?The South Carolina railroad commission today denied the petition of the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company for an increase in telephone rnte, increases for 26 exchanges and also for an increase in toll rate9. The petition was filed Sept. 17, 1018. In denying the petition the railroad commission says that inasmuch as the telephone lines are now under the control of the United States government and the postmaster general "claims" to have the power to revise rate schedules, it is not incumbent on the commission to act. D. J. Gregory of Santuc was in the city today. Dave Fant of Santuc was a business visitor to the city today. horsepower to .50, based on 100,000 automobiles at $20.00 each." The meeting unfortunately started at a late hour in the day, compelling those representing Union County, Mr. Emslie Nicholson and Jus. L. Carbory, to leave early in order to catch the train, but sufficient evidence was given that the same course of procedure approved by the Southern Commercial Congress at Baltimore would prevail, in that these highways should be built and maintained under federal government and state highway direction and supervision which would insure value received for every dollar expended. It was further urged that the various States and counties would fall in line with the general plans rather than individual methods for obtaining relief from the bad roads which have in the past and will continue to hold at the bottom any people who tolerate such conditions. I ,