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DEATH SENTENCE OF FRANK MUST STAND DECISION HANDED DOWN BY SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA RECENTLY. TWO MORE GRANGES Appeal to United States Supreme Court or to Governor of.Georgia for Clemency Only Hope. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 14.?Annulment of the death sentence pronounced on Leo M. Frank for the murder of 14? ?* nl t 1 YT uim; Plion?*i ?i it/n c vnfiiGOil I ^ \;ai vim w i $Y i iii^cviit i. vi V4^v*? last Saturday by the Supreme Court of Georgia. It was the sixth time that legal efforts in Frank's behalf had failed. Hope of staying the life of Frank, who was Superintendent of a pencil ./factory here, now rests in a possible appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States or an appeal to the Gov ernor of Georgia to exercise clemency His counsel said today an immediate attempt would be made to take the case to the Federal Supreme Court. The motion to set aside the verdict of guilty was based upon the ground that Frank's absence from the court room when it was returned by the jury was a violation of his constitu^ tional rights. Frank's absence was suggested by Judge L. S. Rogan, who presided at the trial. Ho feared a demonstration in the court room when the jury ren tiercel tneir verciict. Cousel for Frank, with one exception, and the State's attorneys agreed ^ to the absence. When it was decided to ask for an annulment of the verdict on the ground of the defendant's absence, Frank's attorneys, who had agreed to the proposal issued a statement saying that the defendant know nothing of the plan for his absence and did not give his consent. They v announced, however, that si?ce they had agreed to the plan, they would not participate in the annulment appeal and it was entrusted to other counsel. . ISLE OF PALMS AFRDPiANF I INF w 9 mmm mr ? w i? mm mm W. S. LUCKEY, WELL KNOWN AVIATOR TO HIBERNATE AT BEACH. * The public generally will be interest ?ed to learn that Charleston has been chosen for winter headquarters by W. S. Luckey, the aviator, who thrilled citizens here at the County Fair in Oc tober. Mr. Luckey arrived in Charx ".eston from the North and arranged ' with the Charleston?Isle of Palms Tranction Company to establish headquarters on the Isle of Palms where he and Mrs. Luckey will occupy one of the cottages. The aviator stated that he would bring two large Curtis biplanes here y-this year. The machines have a 37foot spread and carry 80 horsepower engines. Both machines are capable of carrying two passengers, and passenger carrying will be one of the feaf iir?c rtf thn nvliihi) !nn? will h#? I given here during the winter months, provided there are those among the i public who desire to experience a trip t in an aircraft. Other features will be demonstrations of bomb-dropping over Fort Moultrie and Sumter. The charges for carrying passengers will be $3 a minute. t To Train Here. I ? Mr. Luckey has wired for his maJm chines and expects to have everything in readiness to fly on November 22. The aviator stated that one of his chief objects in coming South for the ! winter was to keep in training for next season and to be ready for the big races which will take place at the Pan am a-Pacific exposition. ^ He said that he expected to make J an attempt to cross the Atlantic next I year, flying from New Foundland to I the west coast of Ireland. I /s? m 1.1 I Since leaving i^nariesion summer ?fore last, Mr. Luckey has given exbitions in Ontario and Quebec and in number of Northern and Southern aitcs. In New York on October 13, >13, he took first prize in the aerial >rby, racing around Manhattan in mpetition with other aviators of inrnational fame at a mile a minute ice. The prize was $1,000 in cash id a $500 tropy. He also was awardl a prize by the Aero Club of Amera for the best fiying last year. The rize was a gold medal. During his stay in Charleston this inter, Mr. Luckey will house his malines, one of which is a hydroacro[ane, the other a land machine, on | le Isle of Palms and special hangars jli he constructed for the purpose. I Mr. Luckey stated that shortly af?r the declaration of war between | ormany and England he offo.cd two NEW WARSHIP HITS IRISH COAST MINE SURVIVORS PICKED UP BY ANOTHER VESSEL AND SAVED. For almost a week it has been known to a few in London that H. M. S. Audacious, a dread naught (built last year,) had been in collision with a mine off the north coast of Ireland Later the news was spread that the survivors from the dreadnaught had been picked up by the White Star Liner Olympic. The Olympic meantime was reported to have put in at Lough Swilly on the northeast coast of Ireland. Although application was repeatedly made to censor for confirmation or denial of these reports, none was forthcoming. On the contrary the censor prohibited any mention being made of the disaster. The first of the Olympic's passengers arrived in London at 6 o'clock this morning. Announcement had been made yesterday that the passengers would arrive at Euston at 12:40. There is no such train regularly, and when the newspaper men went to Euston at the appointed hour they learned that the Olympic's passengers had arrived over various routes at various stations in the early hours of this morning. Two of the Olympic's passengers were located by the New York American's London correspondent at the Savoy hotel this afternoon. One of j them denied he had been on the Olympic, and the other refused to talk. It is evident the British Government issued instructions before the passengers were allowed to leave the Olympic at Belfast to keep secret what they, may know of the disaster. Charles M. Schwab, the steel man, the only passenger to he allowed to j leave the (Jlympie at Lough Swilllyj admitted today that he obtained this permission only on the condition that lie keep silence. One report of the affair is that the Audacious sighted and sank a Swedish boat laying mines off* the cost of Ireland. The Audacious is said then to have wirelessed the Olympic of the danger, only a moment later herself emphasizing it by coming iu contact with one of the mines. The explosion is said to have caused her boiler to burst, scalding 147 men, three of them fatally. It is said , the Olympic came up in time to tow the Audacious into a small harbor on the Irish coast, where she was beached. She will be quickly raised and repaired. NEW STYLE CONTRACT. All Business in January and Later Deliveries Under Government Rules. New York, Nov. 13.?The announce ment that the cotton exchange here and at New Orleans would be opened for unrestricted trading Monday mom ( ing had been generally anticipated in local trading, but was received with great enthusiasm. It is understood ; that all new business in Januar. and later deliveries here will be in the new style contract which conforms to the provisions of the cotton futures law, and the exchange will request thar trading in old December contracts be confined to liquidation. Under the operation of the corporation syndicate plan all the old interest outstand: g in the market is amply financed and local brokers believe that the tax of $2.50 per bale in new business will prove sufficient to reimburse the corporation well within the guaranteed period of three years. After the announcement that the ex change would reopen there was a ballot in liquidation of the international straddle interest amounting to 22,500 bales, of which 21,300 bales were awarded to the new corporation. This is understood to be the last ballot under the international agreement of last September as with the markets open, the old interest will be worked out around the ring. There was a large attendance of brokers on the floor here to receive announcement and considerable busiwoo A/1 * > ? nvun r??ci icfivi iri( III lycvciliun CUI1* tracts which sold down to 7.46 on the curb, suggesting that the bulk of the corporation's contracts will probably be transferred to the ayndcate when the market reopens next week. MayJune in Liverpool fluctuated between 4.27 and 4.25 closing at 4.26 !,1?, or one point higher. Won't Enter Cotton Pool. Boston, Nov. 13.?Nine of the 14 national banks of this city have taken advene action on the advisability of entering the $135,000,000 cotton pool which is being formed under government ausp'ces to finance the Southern cotton crop. Two others, the Commercial and the Fourth Atlantic, voted to enter the pool. machines, which he owns, and his services to 'he Canadian and British govI crnments for services in the big war. ?iis oTer, however, was declined. * SUCCESS OF GERMANS CAUSED NEW CONCERN! BY LATTER PART OF LAST WEEK WHEN DIXMITDE WAS TAKEN RUSSIAN ME HILTS Germans Fortifying Heavily Against Slav Invansion?Allied Armies May Take New Position Since Dixmude Taken. As stated elsewhere in this paper the spirits of the allied armies of Eng land and France went up several notches the first and middle of last week owing to German reverses; but later Dixmude, an important point for the allies, was taken by the Germans and was occupied by the German armies, and this with other minor events turning back in favor of Germany caused the spirits of England and France to go do>vn again. The wave of optimism which swept England for the week, was checked by news of the German occupation of Dixmude and the renewed indication of the peril from German submarines by the fate of the torpedo gunboat Niber which v/as destroyed by a torpedo launched from a submarine of the enemy. This occurred within sight of the English shore in the narrow part of the channel where several hundred ships were at anchor. The importance of the fall of Dixmude is difficult to estimate with an exact knowledge of how the opposing forces are disposed in this locality, but the town is on the direct road to Dunkirk, and if the German forces can dubouch from it, the allies probably will be compelled to fall back to new positions in their efforts to block the way to the coast. The allies stil held Ypres, where the fighting evidently was of the most deseprate character. Shells constantly fell in the town, also the object of aeroplane attacks. Armentires a bone of contention, being first occupied by the invaders and then by the defenders, become too hot for occupation by either side. The Germans are on the hills on one side of the town and the allies are attacking it unceasingly from the other side. The official communication given out in Paris claims that the invaders throughout the day continued their efforts of the day before without achieving any fresh result, and declared that the Germans are making vain attempts to move out from Dixmude along the left bank of the Ypres. Russians Halting. For the moment the Russian pursuit along the Silesian frontier had slackened. The Germans are reported in London to be making efforts further to strengthen their present line of fortresses, anticipating a Russian invasion and the marvelous system of strategic railroad extending along the line of fortresses between Graudenz Thorn, Posen and Cracow will enable them to bring up reinforcements so rapidly that the German center is not likely to again be exposed to the same weakness which led to the retreat before Warsaw. The rumor still continued nersistent ly in London that the German crown prince was in command of the German center which gave way before the Rus sian assault outside Warsaw, and he was being blamed for the reverse. Teuton Dissensions. A dispatch received from Petrograd declares that the dissensions between Gen. Von Hinderrberg, commander of the German forces in Kast Prussia, and Gen. Dankf, the Austrian commander, are so acute that Austrian officers are refusing longer to cooperate with the German staff. Vienna officially admits the withdrawal of the Austrians from western Galicia and the complete investment by the Russians of the Przc'mysl fortress, but up to a late hour the Austrian general staff was reporting continued success in the Austrian invasion of Servia. Russian army headquarters in the Caucasus reports only minor actions, with the Russians still occupying the points in Armenia previously captured by them. To Arm Million More. A supplementary estimate to prof ai? n naf Km? 1 1 i am tvton vaoniua/l YiMi; ii/i (VIIUVIIVI 111 i i i i\fii iiivil I Ul|lll I Ull by the British government during the year ending March 31, was introduced in the House of Commons last week. This brings the total army, not including the territorials to 2,820,400 officers and men. Wont Withdraw Forces. Not until it is determined which of the contending Mexican factions can exercise control of Vera Cruz and execute th" guarantees requested by the United Stales will American troops be ordered from the Southern port. WILSON IS OFFENDED! BY KESRO SPFAFER PRESIDENT BREAKS OFF AN INTERVIEW AT THE WHITEHOySE. DEPARTMENTAL SEGREGATION Trotter, Colored Spokesman for a Negro Committee Vses Harsh Language to President and is Called Down. Offended by the tone and manner of their chairman, W. M. Trotter, of Boston, President Wilson last week ended an interview with a delegation of negroes who called at the White House to protest against race segregation in Government departments, with a warning that if the negroes wanted to see him again they would have to get another spokesman. The President said he had not been addressed in such fashion since he entered the White House. A fifteen-minute interview had been arranged for the callers and the Presidnet received them in his oflice with only his stenographer present. Thr delegation complained formallly that Postmaster General Burleson, Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller Williams of the treasury, were enforcing segregation of white and negro employees in their offices. Mr. Wilson listened to the statement and then replied at length, explaining that he had investigated this matter himself and had been assured that no discrimination had heen practiced against the negroes and that segregation had been inaugurated to avoid friction between the races, not tr> iniuvo th#? negro. He added that he was deeply interested in the negro race and admired it for the progress it had made. Took Issue. At this point Trotter and others of the delegation took issue with the \ President. They declared the negro people did not seek charity or assistance, but held that they had equal rights with the white and that these rights should be respected. There had been no friction, they insisted, before the segregation was started. Mr. Wilson waited for the protest to end. Then he told the delegation that he could not discuss the matter further. He closed with the quiet, but emphatic statement that Trotter had lost control of his temper and that he (the President) could not be talked to in such a manner. When the negroes left they said their talk had been "thoroughly disappointing," and that they would hold a masss meeting in Washington next Sunday to protest further against segregation. ur 1 iiui us ttmiub. Trotter said in his address that the committee did not come "as wards looking for charity, but as full-fledged American citizens, vouchsafed equality of citizenship by the Federal constitution." "Two years ago," said Trotter, "you were thought to be a second Abraham Lincoln"?the President tried to interrupt, asking that personalities be left out of the discussion. Trotter continued to speak, and the President finally told him if the organization he represented wished to approach him again it must chose another spokesman, adding that he had enioyed listening to the other members of the committee, but that Trotter*;: tone was offensive. | The President toid Trotter that he was an American citizen as fully as anyone else, but that he ^.Trotter) was the only American citizen who ever had come into the Wh'te House and addressed the President in such a tone and with such a ba 'kground of passion. Here Trotter denied that he had any passion, but the President told him he had spoiled the cause for which he had come, and said he expected those who professed to be Christians to come to him in a Christian spirit. Continued to Talk. The negro spokesman continued to n renin that wne mnrolr fwirnr show how the negro people felt, and asserted that he and others were now being branded as traitors to their race because they advised the negro people "to support the ticket." The mention of votes caused Mr. Wilson to say politics must be left out because it was a form of blackmail. He said he would resent it as quickly from one set of men as from another and that his auditors could vote as they pleased, it mattered little to him, so long as he was sure he was doing the right thing at the right time. The President spoke frankly, saying that if the negro people had made a mistake in voting for him they ought to correct it, hut that he would insist that politics should not be brought into the question because it was not a political problem. With some emotion he declared he was not seeking olVice, and that a man who DIXMUOE HEOCGUPIEO TAKES BY GERMANS THOUSANDS DIE IN THE FIFTEEN CHARGES MADE TO GAIN THE RIVER. PERFECT HAIL OF BULLETS Germans Marched Over Great Heaps of Their Own Dead in Heroic Attack?Now Occupy Left Bank at Several Points. There was tremendous fightng at Dixmude, which the Germans have retaken. The Germans, advancing in torrents, charged fifteen times in one night. "I shall never forget our occupation of the town," said a Belgian officer, who was wounded in the course of the operations. "My regiment after having resisted for several days, in the trenches, was ordered into place, and had scarcely got there when in the middle of the night a tremendous commotion took place. "Officers were oalling up their men by whistles and shouts of alarm. We were on the point of being surprised, but fortunately our machine guns had been installed in good positions and were served by determined men. Perfect Hail of Bullets. A perfect hail of bullets were thrown on the Germans, who during the night advanced fifteen times to attack. As many times they were | thrown back by our troops, i The German soldiers were even brought to the pont of marchng over their own dead and wounded. "I shall never forget the cires of the latter amid the infernal noise of rifles and the machine-gun fusil lade. "In a single street, when daylight came, I counted over 800 German dead and wounded. These tactics cost the Germans thousands of lives, but en-* abled them to cross the river and establish themselves at several points on the left bank." 4,000 Wounded at Liege. Four thousand severely wounded Germans arrived at Liege from the battlefields around Dixmude, where most sanguinary fighting has taken place according to a dispatch from Maestrich to the Neiuws van den Dag The message adds that 800 Hungarians passed through Liege en route to Cracow with several 2.30 centimetre guns. Sank German Submarine. Paris, Nov. 18.?A dispatch from Dunkirk states that a French torpedo boat sank a German submarine off Westende, Belgium. The submarine it appears, was trying to torpedo the French warship when the latter's com mander caught sight of her periscope, put on full speed and charged down on the enemy which disappeared. A large quantity of oil rose to the surface marking the spot where the submarine sank. sought the office of the Presidency was a fool for his pains. He spoke of the intolerable burden of the office and of things which he had to do which were more than human spirit could carry. A Human Problem. Emphasizing that he did not care in the least for the political considerations involved, Mr. Wilson urged that he wanted his auditors to understand that it was a human problem and not a political problem. While the American people wanted to support the advance ment of the negro, the President was sure that, as practical men, everybody knew that there was a point at which friction is apt to occur. The question must be stripped of sentiment and viewed in its facts, be cause the facts got the better of the individual whether one desired it or not. The President said he thought his colleagues in the Government departments were not trying to put the negro at a disadvantage, but simply to make arrangements which would prevent friction. He added that the ques i tion involved was not a question of intrinsic qualities, because all had hu man souls and wore equal in that respect, but that for the present it was a question of economic policy whether the negro race could do the same things that the white race could do with equal efficiency. He said he thought the negroes were proving that they could, and that every one wished to help them so that they would not be so dependent, and that their conditions of labor would be bettered. The entire matter, however, should be treated kith a recognition of its difficulties. Mr. Wilson said he Was anxious to do what was just and asked for more memoranda from the committee as to instances of segregation about which they complained. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take I.AXAT1VK UKOMO Quinine, li steps the Cough lle.v'nche mid works otT 'he Colt. Druggists refund money if it fail? to cuie. K. ( ^OVl.'S signature on ach bo*. 2be. jffyflrs and Mice Wt^- 1 ft ? Rat Corn, i|fc"2LS?jnt 1 12 mt. dMtrorrr U Mm* I 11 world. It mummlftro rata ud *!? I U quirk I y and without bad, daanraM I h w aobotTr*T*>,e MiMcquMUM. Aooewt 1\ -5c. .vie and $1.00 Can*. o w\ All dr?lrrii. or ont by mall. I Hotannical MTg Co., j I ltoo?SU^j|hlladdphla 1 W. E. McCORD, I Denfal Surgeon, I CONWAY, S. C. I 1 1 IT ft *x??? a n. M. H UUUttAKU. i Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CONWAY, S. C. R. B. SCARBOROUGH, Attorney at Law, CONWAY, S. C. HAL L. BUCK, * Fire Insurance Office Conway National Bank Conway, - - - S. C. New Store. We have bought out the stock of S. F. 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