University of South Carolina Libraries
r=n THE UNIOI^IHLY Times ,, |p~| : 4 I PA1LY EXCEPT SUNDAY E.uTbli.hed in 188Q?Time* Octobw 1. 1917 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY | . vni/ivnMiiWi I*?? ? - ?~ ' MAUL VEAIH OF LITTLE GOtl Prosperity, Sept. 26.?Little Eliza beth Miller, the ten year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ?. IjTMiller oJ the Mt. Pilgrim" section of Newberry f county, near Prosperity, was accidentally killed Sunday afternoon, being dragged to death by a runaway cow. The little girl with two of her brothers went out to bring the cow in from where it had been staked to graze. Just as the girl took hold of the chain some buzzards flew up nearby, frightening the cow, which began a wild race across the field, In some manner the child became entangled in the chain and was dragged over the field by the frightened animal. Medical aid was secured at onca byt the child, frightfully bruised, lived only a short while after the accident. The family has the sympathy of the entire community in the death of Elizabeth, who was a most attractive and lovable child. The funeral was 'held this afternoon at- 4 oVInelf at Mt Pil?pini cemetery by the pastor, - the Rev. J. B. Harmon. Besides the? bereaved parents, two sisters and four brothers survive as follows: Miss Gladys Miller of Union, Mis Marjorie Miller, Harry Miller of Clemson college, * , William* Carl and Gilbert Miller oi Prosperity. U. D. C. Meeting The William-. -IjiVhnace chapter, U I). C., met yesterday afternoon, ir the Chamber "of Commerce rooms and the hostesses were Mrs. J. A. Sawyer Mrs. L. Wagnon, Mrs. C. T. Murphy, Mrs. R. E. White and, Misses Margaret Barnes and Annie Tinaley. Mrs. Davis Jeffries, first vice' president, presided and as this Vas the first meeting since vacation days much business was transacted. Prof, Madden made a phort address to the ^chapter along |(he line of the new school building which we hop&to have soon and stressed the need of* such a - building. * * V i A vote of thanks was read from the school trustees thanking -the,chaptei for the liberty Bond which they purpose giving to the building fund. Mrs. J.^ ^ant, recorder of.crosies Idisg Margaret Barnes arid Thomas J West, in memory of their fathers. A number of lithographed certifi (>atPR wpra sold Violn .Tofforanr Davis Monument association. Th< monument is to be at Fairview, Kentucky. Three new members were added tc the chapter, Mrs. Bruce Hellams, oi New York city, Mrs. Josie Hughes Brabson, of Atlanta, Ga., and Mis: Theo Young. The chapter has losl one member by death, Mrs. Sallit Greer, of Pacolet. The literary program consisted of t reading, "The Southland," by Mrs. E Spears, and a splendid account b> Mrs. E. M. "Wilson of her visit t< Corinth, Miss., telling of the Shilol monument the Daughters worked si faithfully for and describing othei Confederate monuments they are in v terested in. The election of officers will be heh next month. Delegates to the general conferenci at St. Louis in November were elect ed: Mrs. J. A. Fant, Mrs. Macbetl Young, Mrs. D. M. Eaves, Mrs. Shep ard Nicholson, Mrs. L. J. Hames an< Mrs. Davis Jeffries. President Planning Week-end Trij Washington, Sept. 27.?A week end trip to Virginia to witness th fall maneuvers of the Marine corp on the Civil war battlefields abou Fredericksburg is contemplated b; President Harding. Realizes it is Growing Old Indianapolis, Sept. 27.?The mem bers of the Grand Army of the Rc public are realizing as an organize tion that it is growing old, making ai rangements to dispose of the propel ty through action to be taken at th 65th annual encampment being hel here. > Open Shop in It, Alaskan Coal Field "San Diego, Cal., Sept. 27.?Extern _ i : VU tuiitiuveiaicfi uciwixw tui; wpeii tors and miners in the Alaska coi fields have resulted in. the Unite States government settling the dii pute by creating open shop cond ^ tions, according to radio dispatch. 141,000 Persons Attend Ball Gam New York, Sept. 27.?A total < 141,000 peraoriS is now the attendan< record for the four conpecutive has ball games who have passed throue the turnstile when the "little v/ot aeries" ended at the Polo grounds. _ 9 * Cider must be hard to sell.?Flo Ida Metropolis.* * StALEIJ VfcKDIlT IN NEGRO'S CASE Saluda, Sept. 26.?The case of El liott (El) Culbreath, negro, charged ' with the killing of-Deputy Sheriff ' Wilbur Edwards last November, went to the Jury at 5:30 o'clock this after noon after the day had been devoted ' to the taking of testimony. At 9:30 * o^olock tonight the ury was still ap^ parently deadlocked and Judge Sease ' ordered a recess of the court, instruct I ing the jury to bring in a sealed verl diet, which will be read when court is i convened this morning, providing the t jury has been able to reach an agree. thent at that time. Culbseath was arraigned early this I movming and entered a plea of not guilty. N. George Evans of the Edgefield bar being appointed by Judge , Sease to conducte the defense, all . members of the Saluda bar being con nected with the prosecution. The tak i mg 01 eviaence occupiea practically the entire afternoon session, several members of the posse which accompanied Deputy Sheriff Edwards or i the night of the shooting telling the , story of how the tragedy occurred I Culbreath took the stand in his own defense, claiming that he shot in des fense of his -castle. Deputy Sheriff Edwards, according , to the evidence, went to Culbreath's house on the night of the shooting, , accompanied by several other men, intending to arrest the negro on a warrant charging him with some minor offense. The posse surrounded the . house and acording to the testimony i today posse members knocked at the I front door while Culbreath, coming out of the back door, shot Mr. Edf . wards and then-made his escape. Mr. i Edwards, members of the posse testified, had( made no attempt to enter . the house but' had stationed himself s at the back door to. prevent he negro's , escape. Culbreath, testifying in his own de fense, stated" that he did not know r who-Mr. Edwards.was at the time and ? claimed that he shot the officer in del fense of his castle, alleging that Mr. Edwards was attempting to break in ! the back door of the house. The men, ? the negro said, had awakened him and scared at the timei had no ideal that it was an officer of the law at had apparently made good his escape. .' Following his arrest the negro was i brought to Columbia and lodged in ; the state penitentiary to avoid any . possible trouble. Sunday night he was brought to Saluda under heavy guard > and placed in the county ja\l being [ transferred to the court house this 3 morning. ? The case is attracting considerable t attention in Saluda, the court house > being filled to overflowing for the session .today. Feeling against the negro i is still running high and threats have . been heard to the effect that mob ; violence will he resorted to should the > jury fail to convict. J 3 Page Resigns as Chairman r _ Washington, Sept. 27.?Thomas W. Page, of Virginia, has resigned as i chairman of the tariff commission and President Harding has accepted e the i*esignation. Mr. Page remains - as a member of the commission, i ' 1 Conference Gets to Work j Washington, Sept. 27.?Ten subcommittees were appointed by the organization session of-the unemployj ment conference when it got down to work studying* the various phases with a view to presenting practical relief measures to the conference, which adjourned until October 5th. y Ku Klux Klan Debarred From Jury Service Chicago^ Sept. 27.?Judge Davis has barred members of the Ku Klux i- Klan from serving on juries in his s- court. L- ' * ' Negro Kills Policeman e Newport News, Va., Sept. 27.? d Search for Carlo Meekins, negro, who killed Policeman Dekrote is continued after the Ku Klux Klan and other volunteers were called off the chasa. g Carem School i- Opens Monday i- * il The Carem school will open Monid day, October 3rd, for the fall session. *- IVIrs. Lloyd -Belu^ is to be th^ tepcher. H. E. Brewinprton wishes us to announce that he will speak at the Excelsior Readihp: Room Friday evepirtfe at 7:45 o'clock on the subject: "Is e There a God?" * ' v ? Mrs. P. S. Courtney was called to :e I^ake City^ S. C., on account of the c" illness of her cousin, Dr. J. D. Whitehead of that place. Id . If it were as easy^to get a job it is to gefc n pistol the fcriroe rocord r- would not he so bulkyLouis Dispatch. .. } is >- u ' V.& L.'.v? >j& :&k Pickens, fe.pt. adLrrgd vatl. the murder of fbrmel* Hendrix' . Rector of Greenville coUm Joke Gos- < nell, federal prohibition^ enforcement ] officer, w nt on trial fob"*the second time he..* today. CkMftll was arraigned at noon and mUi court was suspended shortly befo^ra o'clock thit? i afternoon throe state .^fitnesses had testified. They ere n?lw. C. Black; 1 who performed two auApsies on the i dead body of the formerhheriflf; W. B. Keller, an eye-witneai of the shooting^ and Thomas F. McAfee,jn undertaker i of this city. | Through the expert^testimony of Dr. W. C. Black the sfcite attempted to establish today that j|heriff Rector: i had his back partially at wholly turned Cosnell when the la&er shot him. Using the person of ,tjheriff Carlos Rector of Greenville j?U/vty, brother of the deceased sHetW, who was stripped to the waist i>jfbre the jury, and the court room ,Dri piack pointed out the locations on thi body where the three bullets thatf hit Hendrix Rector and explained tflfeir range. / Dr. Black was of opinion that DEMOCRATS PUN NO OPPOSmON . Washington, Sept. 2G.?Indications are unmistakablW tonfght that there will be no organized opposition on*the part of Democrats against the separate peace treaties with Germany and Austria-Hungary. .The Democrats will caucus tomorrow with the treaties as subjects. Senator Underwood, minority leader, and Senator Underwood, minority leader, and Senator Hitchcock, ranking Democrat on the foreign relations committee, intimated today that there would be no formal party opposition. As a rule Democratic senators interviewed this afternoon, declined to~ commit themselves either for or against the treaties. Senator Dial of South Carolina asked to be excused from making a statement until'after the caucus tomorrow. Senator Harris of Georgi^ was in doubt, but declared his intention of studying the topics tonight. Senator Harrison of Mississippi and Senator McKellar of Tennessee declined to talk for publication. Senator Borah, in arguing with telling effect today that the treaties are the Versailles treaty in new form, convinced some Democrats, among them Senator Caraway of Arkansas, that Democrats should support the administration in its present venture. Caraway was reminded that during the presidential campaign the then secretary of state, Bainbridge Colby, after predicting that the United States would certainly engage itself in European affairs, stated that it remained to be determined "whether we would enter bravely through the front door or sulk in like flunkies through the rear." Senator Lodge, Republican leader, declared that not more than "two or three" Republicans would oppose ratification. Going to School to Learn to be Detectives New York. Sent. 25.?DeDartment of justice agents are going to school to read books and learn how to be detectives. , The curriculum of the school, just 'started by the bureau of investigation, inellftleB' st'tfdy of such technicalities a? the laws of search and arrest, rudi^^^^^^Jden^^ight^^^ citizens iion. William J. Eurns, chief of the bureau, explained that establishment of the school was the first step to do away with hit-or-miss methods. "We are going to teach our men to get results," he said. "Slipshod investigation, making discoveries only by chance, is going to stop. And men who cannot be taught to be effective will be dropped. "Federal investigators are going to learn right away that they are not to flash their shields for their own amusement; and they are going to learn that the real object of this bureau is to protect citizens and to prevent crime, not just to arrest crooks. We are not going to set the world afire, but we are going to give this country a detective service of which its citizens can be as proud as the English are of Scotland Yard." Edward J. Brennan, division superintendent of the bureau, asserted that, to permit department officials to get a line on their men, recruits would put in a month of study before being placed on active duty. "Otherwise he would be helpless when he started out," he continued. "If without training he were sent out to investigate a bank robbery, he would not even know where to begin. He would not know how to proceed with a search without getting into legal difficulties. He would not know where the state and Federal jurisdictions overlapped. "That last is one of the most complicated points of all. For example, a robbery on Park Row is a matter for the state authorities, but a robbery 20 feet way in the postoffice is up to us. Ordinarily, safe-breaking in a national bank is a state offence but if there is collusion between the actual thief and one of the bank employees the Department of Justice takes up the case. "Our men have to be ready for any kind of investigation. One day they work in overalls on the docks, the next in a white collar m a ban:c. And the work is so complicated that mere experience is not enough, though it will always be the biggest factor. The man on the street cannot make a bigger mistake than to say that there is nothing about a detective's trade that * i p Today's Cotton Market ^ Vew York ^ Open Close January 19.97 20.77 March * 19.90 20.40 May 19.62 20.0$ October * .. *19.45 21.03 December ... 19.90 21.05 NeWYork Spots .. .. .. ., .. 21.55 Local cotton juarkQt .. .. . ! .. 21.00 New Yorjc, Sept. 27.?jQctober cot. tqn advanced $6.25, a bale over yesterday's closing. * *" t 4 * ? ' one 01 tnese Duuets, tnat which struck the former sheriff in the right side, between the sixth arid Seventh ribs, and two and one inch&i posterior to the auxiliary line, was the bullet which struck Rector first. cross examination, however, he admitted that this was an opinion only that no man I could tell which bulltitu was the first fired. "if; v"> W. B. Keller, who rjus* with Gosnell on the day of thp shooting, and who witnessed the trhgedy in Briscoe's garage at Gre<gHdlle, told his version of the affair iff. a straightforward manner. H$.?*id that Jake Gosnell, Gosnell's and himself I had driven into the fefcrage to secure grease for the car alid. that Gosnell was squatting dowfc behind the automobile when Sheriff- Rector entered the front door. Rectd^ he testified, said "Hello, Jake^S-'orirt'Good morning, Jake," and Gostnelldid not return the greeting. Reotor* then told Gosnell, the witness testified!'that he did not care whether Gosih H.flpoke to him or not. Gotthell then told ReCbor thw, lwg^hot cai*e to speak to him un^w^riried'riothiffg ltector, he said, repTTed by curstnp Gosnell violently and turned to walk off and as he was in the act of turning around Gosnell arose from the squatting position he had assumed beside his automobile and fired four times. Rector fell forward and sunk to the floor on his left side, he testified. A number of other witnesses are to be placed on the stand by the state and it will probably be Wednesday morning before the defense's witnesses begin their testimony. Gosnell killed Rector July 4, 1919. The case went from the sessions to the United States court, but was later remanded to the sessions court by Federal Judge H. H. Watkins. Gosnell was tried in May of last year but a mistrial was the result. A change of venue was requested by the defense on the ground that the brother of the former sheriff had been elected sheriff of the county and the case was ordered tried in Pickens county. Negro Killed Resisting Arrest Estill, Sept. 26.?Will Aiken, negro, was shot and killed hei-e Saturday afternoon by Constable H. .R. Youmans who was attempting to arrest him on a charge of' carrying concealed weapons. The negro fought violently, it is .said, and was attempting to draw his pistol when the officer struck him with his own gun which discharged and inflicted fatal wounds. Even after being wounded it took two men to overpower the negro who continued to resist. Constable Youmans was exonerated of any blame by the coroner's jury, meeting soon after the tragedy. Masons Gather at Asheville Asheville, N. C., Sept 26.?With the exemplification of the Royal and Select Masters degree by a special degree team from Missouri and the exemplification of the Super Excellent Masters degree, the 14th triennial assembly of the general grand council of the Royal und Select Masters of the United States opened here to day. Representatives answered the roll call from every state in the union, and, including the women, there are 500 present for- the general grand council and- general grand chapter meetings. The 38th triennial convocation of the general grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons opens Wednesday morning. The" election ..of' general grand council officers and the appointment-of a joint committee to select the next meeting place will be the leading business features tomorrow. Miss Pauline Millings is expected home this week from a fortnight's visit to relatives in ^tlanta, Ga. . . V" f i % b'Cd - POSSE RESUMES SEARCH FOR NEGRO ' , JL Allendale, Sept. 26.?The hunt for Meraminger Priester, the negro who >n last Thursday night killed two negro women and shot a third and who is wanted on a previous charge of murder and criminal assault on a white woman of Allendale county nearly four years ago, took a new turn today, Priester being reported arrestjd in Savannah, Ga., this morning and also seen near Allendale late this afternoon. The description of the negro held in Savannah vies almost exactly with that of Priester and Sheriff Bennett and deputy left here tonight to go to the Georgia city to identify the negro and bring him back to Allendale if ho is the man wanted. In the meanwhile posses, aggregating, approximately 200 or 300 people, are scouring the country around Allendale in pursuit of a negro, said tc be Priester, who late this afternoon was Men at the house of a negro near Allendale. The negro started tc enter the house at 7t80 o'clock but the alarm was given by a negro woman who saw him and now identifies him as Priester, the man wanted by the Allendale officers. Stephen Walker, who was in the house, fired severa1 shots at the man in the yard, who then turned and fled. Walker and the woman immediately informed citizens that Priester had been seen and the search, which had been abandoned upon receipt of the news from Savannah that the man had been captured m.. 41 11.. vaivcu up n^aiu, cvcrv man in the town joining posses to make the hunt. ^ M The bloodhounds which had been brought here from Newberry to assist in the search were carrfed back home early this morning and the search was abandoned as hopeless. All last night the search was carried on with the hounds and several trails apparently fresh were picked up, but no definite result could be, accomplished. Several negroes in the vicinity. of the swamp in which the negro was said tc be hiding testified that they had, seen bim as late as Saturday night but since that time no trace of him had bee^-found until this afternoon. As the negro captured in Savannah 1$ s&ig-to have reached there on Sunifaa afl5l?teg verfc eu&Dfcifgft citr cumstances it Is believed thai ne nW& rowly escaped the posse on Saturday night and caught one of the Seaboard trains into Savannah. Some of the negroes in the vicinity of the hunt last night failed to comply with the requests of the members of the posses and received strong third degrees as a result it is understood There were several negro members of the posse, however, who showed much enthusiasm in the hunt and assisted the posse very materially. Everything is quiet here and no evidence of mob spirit exists. Major League Standing New York_ Sept. 27.?"Fathei Knickerbocker (two major) league baseball clubs, Yankees and Giants, could not look back today at thoi' nearest rivals, the Cleveland Iidians and Pittsburg Pirates, without seeing them at their heels. Two more victories out of the four games for the Giants and the pennant will be theirs. If the Yankees win three of five games left on the schedule they will be the American league champions. Submarine Sank Last Night I>os Angeles, Sept. 27.?Submarine R-6, attached tto the Pacific fleet, sank last night in the harbor at Sar Pedro, due, it 5s believed, to water rushing through the open torpedo tube. Two members of the crew arc believed to have been drowned when the craft sank within sixty seconds. Two submarines early today arc searching for the bodies of the crew and a naval investigation to determine the cause of the disaster is to be launched immediately. Los Angeles, Sept. 27.?LieutenanChambers, who was in command, reported to -have been the last one to make his escape from the submarine R-G when it sank and aided othec members of the crew who were unable to swim to get to the lifeboats and places of safety. San Pedro, Cal., Sept. 27.?Three men are now believed to have lost their lives wh-M the submarine R-6 sank in the harbov here last night as a result 01 an unexpiawea acci dent, so the submarine bese seated ' ' 1 " Davidson Will Spend Winter in Georgia New York,* Sept. ^7.?Henry P. Davidson, financier, will spend the winter on his Thomasville^ Ga., es tate recuperating from a recent op eration, so business associates saUl. ?, 11 ^ I? * lVIrs. J. H. Hamilton and chilrfrei will leave Thursday fqr Jacksonville on an extended visit to relatives. % NEW TURNIP ARBUCKLE CASE San Francisco, Sept. 26.?An assertion in court today by Roscoe C. 0*Fatty" Arbuekle's chief counsel Frank Dominguez, f that he believe< blackmail had been contemplate! against the film comedian and tha this motive figures in the defendant' arrest on a murder charge was or dered put before the grand jury tonight by District Attorney Matthev A. Brady. Brady issued subpoenas for Dominguez and his associated counsel Charles H. Brennan of San Francisci and Milton JVJ. Cohen of Los Angeles to appear at tonight's grand jury session and repeat their charges. The action was taken, Brady said, on the request of Alfred Semnacher who was accused by Dominguez todaj of having conspired with Mrs. Bunv bina Delmont, the complaining witness against Arbuekle, to take tori, parts of the clothing of Miss Virginia Rappe to Los Angeles for the pur pose, Dominguez said, of extortiiiR money from the defendant, who h charged with the murder of Miss Rappe. Dominguez made his assertion af ter long questioning of SJemnacher regarding his previous testimony in the cast. Police Judge Lazarus, before whom the hearing is being held, refused how.ever, to allow Dominguez to question Semnacher along this line, saying it had no part in the present proceedings. Semnacher's testimony took up most of the afternoon session. In the morning session Dr. Arthur Bearsdlee who treated Miss Rappe after the revel in Arbuekle's hotel suite, testified he discovered evidence of a ruptured bladder early in the morning after the party and that he advised her removal to a hospital. The da' tense was unable to make him atinvi that she could have been suffering from anything else. Dr. Bearsdlee reiterated his diagnosis and said he found her writhing in pain so great he had to administer sedatives threetimes. Replying to a hypothetical question regarding the cause of a torn bladder, he said, an injury such as that violent vomiting might have produced that effect. Evidences of alcoholism were overshadowed by Miss Rappe's suffering from the rupture, Dr. Bearsdlee said He testified that Mrs. Delmont, whe attended the injured girl, showed nr signs of being under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The defense pursued its questioning of Semnacher with great vigor causing him to announce that he must have been misquoted if he said he was Miss Rappe's manager. His acquaintance with both her and Mi*s. Delmont was more or less casual until shortiy before their trip to San Francisco where they attended Arbuckle's partyhe said. Dominguez questioned the witnessclosely about a purse he produced from his pocket, saying it was Miss Rappe's and asking what connection he had with it. Semnacher replied that, after the party Miss Rapp< asked him to look for it and that or asking Arbuckle about it next day Ar buckle produced it from a desk. Sem nacher said he then took it to Miss nappe in ene nenruy room wnere sin lay ill. Asked about Mrs. Delmont's condition at the party Semnacher testi fied that she was dressed in yellow pajamas, and appeared "lit up" 01 "about half drunk" when he first sav. her. He denied hearing any scream? from the room where Miss Rnppe af terward was found in distress. The defense drew from Semnaehei the admission that he might have misunderstood Arbuckle's exact language regarding the ice incident. Hi said Arbuckle had described it to bin and others but later he told the pros ecution that he did not mistake Ar buckle's meaning. "I only met Mrs. Delmont three times in four years before thin trip t. San Francisco," the witness said. "But called her Maudie," asked Dominiguez. "I might have," answered Semnacher. Dominguez questioned him closel> about his action the night before the party when he, Mrs. Delmont anc Miss Rappe* stayed at the same hotel Semnacher testified that the door be tyveen his room and that occupjed bj the two worrier* was unlocked most o the time but that he entered ,thei ? apartmept only when the trio met ii the mornintr to co to hrpakfnst The hearing will he resumed to morrow, Among witnesses.yet to b heard are "Mrs. Delmont, Zeh Prevos end Alice Blake, two show girls wh attended Arbuckle'^-party. 1 Fine Beets * 4 Mr. VJ. B. Wtllard thought the Ci * some fine- beets yesterday. One < e the'm weighed five pounds, and man others weighed three and four pound ? . * % msmm favoribp Chicago, Sept. 26.?Loaders qf tKFK.^ bier four brotherhoods affiliated onions tonight declared they, had little doubt that the railway employees had voted for a general strike rather than accept a wage reduction, bat anlounced that the conservative counsel >f the leaders might prevail against a*- . ^ walkout. . w^nii 'i From the opening the first envelope, it' was said, it was clear that there wbuid be a majority for a strike. Giving an estimated maority, V^ice President Murdock of the engineers said: "Our past experience has been that 98 per cent of the men alwaya vote to strike." Next Monday officials of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Order of Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enlinemen and Switchmen's Union of North America will meet here to count the strike votes of their 259,000 members. .. -V Railroad union leaders here expect all the brotherhoods and -tho- Switchmen's union to cast substantial ma- ^ .v jorities for a strike. The affiliated shop crafts have already voted, by a majority of approximately 325,000 to * 48,00d .to walk out and are only waiting to see what action the otl^er uninns will t-alcA and for tho TInitMi States railroad labor board to dispose of the pending working rules agreements. Reports of the general chairmen of the trainmen when they assembled today were plainly disappointing to the union leaders. The trainmen had voted .tWi a separate ballot because their leaders did not approve of the joint ballot prepared by the other union. On Septembe 12 President W. G. Lee addressed a circular letter to the men in which he pointed out five reasons why he thought * strike would be .unwise at this time and why the men might expect to * accept some wage reduction. He asked the men tp consider the fact that wages and working conditions of all classes established since 1918 were the wrelt of a world war; that 6,000,000 men are now unemployed; that nearly all classes of labor have been forced by mediation, arbitration, strikes or lockouts to accept year; that the increased wages granted railroad men last year were based on increased cost of Hving and that government reports indicate a 16 per cent cut in iiving costs since July 1, 1920. The letter, however, apparently has failed to influence the voting, the general chairmen reported today. Arrested Upon Murder Charge Gilliam Hughes, colored, formerly of Union, but recently of Rockingham, was arrested here Sunday morning upon a charge of murder. He is accused of having killed another colored man in a crap game at Rockingham. Sheriff McDonald of Rockingham wired Chief of Police Moseley here to be on the lookout for Hughes. He was arrested by Chief Moseley and, upon notice, a deputy sheriff from Rockingham came for him and carried him back. Court is now going on and he will probably be tried luring this term. Fashions for Boys and Girls There is no garment in the child's wardrobe so popular as the sweater. The coat sweaters for either boy or girl are pocketed and belted in trig ways and some slip-overs for "girls have collars, cuffs and nnm-nnm trimmings in contrast color. Worn with these sweaters are the tarns to match and gloves go along. On your shopping trip, lake a look at these garments for the young people for our stores are filled with them. "Trade with the home stores." Dr. Mathcson Given Flattering Offer Dr. Kenneth Matheson, president of Georgia Tech, has been offered the presidency of the Drexel Institute of Philadelphia and "The Georgian" ' speaking editorially laments the fact ' that he may accept and says: "We re' gard Dr. Matheson as so truly vital to the progress and welfare of the " Georgia Tech that we cannot bring J ourselves to believe circumstances r will so combine, in any event, that he -. r will not remain in his present posi1 tion." Dr. Matheson is a brother of Rev. " John P.' Matheson of our town, e . m t Twft Man WnnnJoJ <f V ff vuitucu ? " 3 Belfast, Ireland, Sept. 27,?Two men were wounded during the scattered shooting. The crown troope to* day occupied strategic positions in lt the disturbed area* >f ??. iy Mr. Goyan Austell has accepted a s. position with J. Cohen Co.