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COMBINATION TO FIX COTTON PRICES FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE COMPLAINT FROM SOUTH. BUYERS DIVIDE TERRITORY North and South Carolina and Georgia Have Complained and Will Be Investigated. Vashington.--:Special agents of the Federal Trade ('on'n ission have be gun an investigation of charges that cotton buyers in North and South karolina and Georgia have tonlhined to keep down prices to producers. The complaints alleged that large pur chasers of cotton in the states named have combined to divide territory in such a way as to allow the practically to fix the price to the grower. Com missioner W. J. larris, who received the complaints. recColmenlded a thor ough investigation which was ordered by the comunission. ,.t ( eI's of' till' ('11 o i SS 01 s that if the allegations of the corn plaints were substantiated. the 'rn bination would constitute a estra of triadet, and1( the conliissionlo'. be authorized to proceesd under anti-trust law. 'That would meani : stitution of the first suit of the kini brought through the comm iisser. si: its creation. Agents of both the e,enom a ni legal divisions ot te 'w : c:a o!" comuluet t-he investigali.: T..m t id Comm liissionl issued oi, statement: "The F~eder~al 'T'rade C'ommtissier. fhas ordered al n immediatre intvesti:a <tion to deterinine whether there is a comin; il4ion upon the part of co: buyers of South Carolina. North Car. olina, and Georgia t,.) hold down '. price of cotton. This inveio.:-:2 has been undertaken at the i : of Commissioner W. J. Harris to wv . attention com11pla.ints have co::: -.'! such a combination does exst ting in his sublliSsilon of the ::r*s to the commission. "This informatio). is to the eff =c that for years pas. in the three states .in question and more particularly in the two Cari'linas there have been varying prices for cotton, often this difference amounting to one-half cent a pound In two points not more than 20 miles distant from each other. "This difference in price, it is al leged in complaints which have reached the commission, seems to b" tihe sole result of the workines of this conbinatton. For instance, it cited, many cities and towns hav o practicatly no live markets due to the fact that divisions of territory foer buying purposes are made, one terrn tory belonging to one buyer, another territory to another. "These aleged practices are said to be contfned to certaln places. lnd! cated ill tile comlplainlt, tr> a greatr extent, possibly, than to other points withini the state sp~ecifled." ,LARGEST SUFFRAGE PARADE. Thirty Thousand Ladies in Line on Fifth Avenue, New York. New York.-Fifthl av'enuel for four hlours "'as givenl over to tihe largest w~omlalA's suffrage parade ever witz nes~sed anywher'e. It was the women('. appeal to place New York at the ('lee' tion 01n Novembner 2 amliong the state which havet given womlen thle righlt tc v'ote'. P'artici patedl In by wtomen fr'on' (very state iln the uni1on1 and1( fronm mor~le than 2t' foreign coulntr-ies, b) women frton 've'ry phase (of hulsiness professlonl. ('dum~tional, a rtistic a n< oflicial life, t.aa: paradtte extended fronl WVasinlgtoni Silare' to Central Ptark and althougi' it betganl shortly afte1 3 o'clock, it. was long aifter (lark whex the last nmaccher's had1( finished. * Sulffrage leaders e'stimlated 'that 30, 000 wVometn were in line. In adldition there wereC 5,000 luenl repreCsentinlg * ~ the .leaders aaid, onlly about hlalf o * the men w-ho had signed pledges thlfi * ~ they would participate, New Export Trade Plan. * 'Washitngton.-.Plans for handlini * export trade of tile Unlited Statei through a truzst comnpanyv, co-operatin, with the Federal governm lenlt, ill orde to avoid interference~ w~ith 11car goes U, ~were annonneed 1hy Secr'etary Jted( field of the departmlenlt of commlzeret after a conterence withl Assistant Set rotary Peters of the tre-asur'y dlepal'l ment, Assistant Secretary Yroomuan (c the dlepartment of &griculture andi 0' number of exporters trustees of tit company. Foreign Trade Convention. New York.-Jamles A. Parrell, pres dent of the U'nited States Steel Co poration. and chairman of thle Natloo al Foreign Trade Council, issneti call to business men to attend tt third natIonal foreign trade conv'e ,tion at New Orleans, Janluary 27-29. I said that "commercil preparednesi * n;be the slogan of theO conventic th4 main object of which is to discu *d formulate plans by Which Mno esp bitsiness men will 'be able to g th4Ati u FAIRBANKS WARNS AGAINST INVASID FORMER VICE PRESIDENT SAYI COMMERCIAL INVASION MOST FEARED. ESTABLISH AMPLE CREDI' Even More, Unprepared For Commer. cial Invasion Than a Military In vasion He Says. Louisville. Ky.-Warning that the United States should prepare for "a conmniercial invasion" as well as for a military invasion was voiced by Charles Warren Fa.irbanks, former Vice President, in an address deliver ed at a political meet lug herm. "The present proseprity of certain industries based on war orders is in herently teniorary." he said. "With In the period of the next aldministra tlon. on:' own t:untional life and the markets of the world will be profound ly alTeetd by the great conflict raging aoard. We :must meet that with a : e W\r-American program wh: o:nsists of: '":t:-s: the restoration of the pro t'etiv 'a-'.t'': second. adequate pre pasv<m.'.: nadconal defense; third. t':e : :.:of the American flag -. -. rg nization to *.' ir 'tc:- Ytlie " ..1( Tii'r 8 l ('' ) Vtl It' :-Llf . '( owiln X1.' :. 5Cl) '$.*J,, 1 . 11! )e. ;),f, i. 1 tl . '' 1.11. T r' - "'. \"'t -1"''t . tt V 1. A:'. r :4 , r, . 'n . t:1 . . r.1 . yR' ".... ul 1 ' .7.. 1111.:'' :I i: ' r: 'v..1 11'm m .{ 2. n :au nt .::l. :1 : ?.1 1' ' 4 ., ',} *.a '1' !!! 1 9l' L".t el Y _.1 II :' r tie t r:' .' :-- -. ' said. "We are* r.c.w e e: ror:e -:prepared to resist con;r er.:'a' .'an :r.l:Mrary in vasion. The weapo of cheapness. wielded by o'.i tr.*-rbshed com meretal riva: -. b retsil. TO SERBIAN FRONT. American Military Attache at Berlin Will Go to Belgrade. Be. i..--in'. :0'. Joseph E. Kuhn. .-'y ~a'-ahe- of the A.merican em bas~y ;er:". has gone to the Serbian fron'. in company with the military attac-s of the other neutral countries stationed in Berlin. The officers will make their headquarters in Belgrade, froin w-hich city trips to the various fronts will be made. Li1-ut. Col. Kuhn has just returned ,frorn a two months' stay at the West err grand headquarters where he was Iresented to Emperor William last Sunday. T[he i-mperor chatted with t'he American officer for 10 minutes and evined particular interest when he learned that Lieut. Col. Kuhn be longed to the engineer division of the American Army. Austrian Killed Englishman. D~enver. Col.-Race hatred stirrmi up by the European war and resultinj in mlurdecr led to the arrest here o George F'laragr-ady, an Austr-ian, 01 charge of killing George Gray, am langlishanan. iloth menc wereO emlploy edl in a~ rail road machline shop. The~l police say that l'aaragrady, upol learning tha~t his brother had beel killed by the Allies in Europe bceca< so (enragedl that he pushed Gray nt< a po-wer-ful drill press where th< Englishman was crushed to death. Diax Joins Zapata. El Paso, Tex.-A message said te have been received in Juarez is quei edl as stating that Felix Diaz ha joined the Zapata forces andl~ is nov at the head of 40,000 men with whon he .Is menaoing Mexico City. Receip~ of the message was reported froa two di fferent sour(.O5. Two MexIcan Bandits Killed. Brownsville, Texas.-A detachmen~ of the Sixth Cavalry flred on and kil ed two supposed Mexican handits wh weecrossing the Rio Grande oit th San Pdro anch, 12 milles up thm river from lBre snsville. Bloth wer armed. The bodies wer-e not reco, er-ed. Lieut. T. R. Van Natta of Troc L, Sixth Cavahy, was In Command < the detachmnent. Two Mexicans am hold by the aheriff's department he: under suspicioni of being implicatedi the train wreck. Approves Defense Plan. Washington. - Formal announc ment of army plans in the nation defense program to be laid befo: a congress awaits word from Preadde e Wilsgn that he has concluded his co .forence with congressional leaders< the subject. While t'he pr-esident ha 9.ptprovd The. plan whieh calls f, htluUiugi uD attny of more than: 200o.,000 'In' Years he has heot y had, .an obportuity -to, iuouse it wi e l tse mnemibers bf the house .a1 td senmate i'those views he' wishes to ANOTHI :"~ (Copyright. ENDORSE DENSE BILL LETTERS COME FROM EMPLOY ERS WHO ARE WILLING TO ASSIST PLAN. Although Men Would Be Required tc Actually Serve One or Two Months in Each Year. W1ashington.-Endorsements of the ad:mnistration's plan to create a great 'n:nlental army for defense are be n to reach Washington from e::-.pioying firms and corpora ' was learned that approving r a ben received from several : ::s. and at least one had ; : .iWng ness to grant its .r :: pay for service in +! 7 :=k e a:ilzation. y rz:.-+:s i:: the continental +: .': :ep"::-.pated in Secretary " :- ," :-a:n would be for six S c:t the men actually would be - to serve but two months a year for the first three years during which time they would undergo in. tensive military training in field camps. Officials realize that the sue cess of the scheme depends to a con siderable extent upon co-operatioil with the government by the employ ers of the country's young men. One of the companies heard fron wrote that it gladly would grant leavt with pay to any of its men desiring to enlist, not only for reasons of pa triotism but because it was regardec a sa good business proposition t< permit the men to take advantag( of a"- opportunity to spend twc months in vigorous camp life witt military training. EMBARGO ON MUNITIONS. No Shipment of Arms to Mexicani Except Carranza, Says Wilson. WVashington.-President Wilson is sued simultaneously a proclamatlor establishing an embargo on the ship ments of arms and ammunition t< Miexico and an order excepting fron tho p~rohibition the recognized d< facto government of which Genera Carranza is Chief Executive. Tihe proclamation makes it clea that the United States intendls tha no forces opposed to the recognize government in Mexico, particularl those of General Villa, shall obtal war; nmnit-lons from this country. In enforcing the embargo, ti treoasurv will have the co-operation .the departments of state, war ar I justice. Orders will he telegrapho 1 to customs ofilcials along the herd' 1 andl on both coasts of the U~nitt SStates. Consular officers, agents a the department of justice and UnitE States dlistrict attorneys on the bc der have beon advised, and instru tions to co-operate probably will go iMajor General Funston as soon as ti ) state depIartment informs Secretal Garrison just wha-t the army is to d a With tihe announcement that t1 'Vdlla. agency here would be close 3 it became known that the consulati t established by tihe Villa faction 1 New York and other cities wvou probably -be discontinued. Lend MexIco $10,000,000. t New Orleans.-Now Orleans ban c-xer announced that as a result of Vl 0 recognition of the Carranza gover 0 ment they closed contracts to loi e $10,000,000 in gold to tihe Mexican a 0 ministration. JIt was also announoi that arrangements had been made p) handle the entire Mexican sis'al cn >f through New Orleans; that the sir '0 operators of Yucatan and Cam pee 'c were to erect a million-dollar manufe n turing plant here for the Purpose bandling the raw product. ExplosIon in French Factory. e- Paris.-Fifty-two persons are al ported to 'have been killedl in an r'e rilosion in a munitions factory in t [It F~ue de Tolbiac, while one hundred n- more wer'e injured. Many of the y )f t-ims were, women workers in the ft is tory which was wvrecked. Preside or Poincare and Minister of the Interi L,- Illvy whioli were informed of the d et atster visited the scene and gave dix' tl tions to the ,rescuing forces. Tx id 1auto-truck wa being loaded ,wb 6- ' workmen accident-ally dropped c MYSTERY C Z WH H THAF ; M IN1CWORE. '''"CAMI O' iNA sx n i th wri ng of a St"ous BrwsPl Mxc assenger Trirainriedb Sv onrownsoutse.tsTof.BTonsvilxeath inth weng aS.Lus BrwsilPMxc assenger train eriedb Sv killing of three Americans and the wounding of four others. Peace offi cerp said they had clues to other 'Mexicans connected wvith the roboers. No secret was made that more would tBe killed iM civilians posses catah vthera hundred civilians, county peace officers and United States troops continued in pursuit of other members of the band. After wvrecking the train the out laws, said to number about 75 men, fired on the passengers and robbed them of their money and valuables. Th.3 passengers killed were: Corporal Mc ee, Third United States Cavalry; shot. Engineer H. H. Kendall, pinned beneath engine. The injured were: Harry 3. Wallis, Brownsville, shot in arm; R. Wood hall, fireman, scalded and bruised Claude J. Brishear, Troop A, Sixth Cavalry, shot in the jaw; C. H. Lay, Troop D. Third Cavalry, shot in neck and leg. Only meager reports of the killing of the Mexicane were available. One of the men wa~s a passenger aboard the train and he is said to have re veald the hiding place of Dr. E, S. McCain. When the physician refus ed to leave the compartment in which he had taken refuge the bandits open ed fire through the door, mortally wounding him. Sheriff Vanni denied that the Mexican was killed, but it de veloped later that he was shot to dleath after the sheriff left the scene of the wreck. Four other Meycans were hanged to trees aWOMEN LOOSE IN NEW JERSEY. y Suffrage Amendment Defeated By n More Than 50,000 Majority. Jersey City, N. J.--Indications has e ed on unoficial retub's shortly before >f midlnight1 were thai woman suffrage d wouldi be defeated In New Jersey by d from 50,000 to 60,000. A majority of r , 23,671 was recordedl on unofflcial re d1 turns from 804 of the state's 1,891 (is >f tricts, the vote being 56,676 for and d 80,347 against the amendment. r. The defeat of woman suffrage in c. New Jersey was conceded by Mrs. E. to ii. Feickert, president of the New ie Jersey State Woman Suffrage Asso. -y ciation. Her admis-Lan was borne out o. by unofficial early returns from every ie section of the state which indicated d, that the majority against suffrage was as decisive. in President Wilson's own precincit, Id the seventh election district o1 Princeton borough, voted againsi suffrage by a majority of more thar1 2 to 1, the figures being: For 64 k. against 150. 1e n. Seven Plead COulty "Moonshining." id Fort Smitih, Ark.-Seven men or d. trail charged with conspiracy to de ad fraud the government in the manufac to ture of "moonspiine" w'hiskey pleadee yp guilty in the United States Distric al Court here. The ease against Fret te Bowles of Fort Smith, the eig'hth de e. fendan-t, was dismissed, The casei of against the defendants went to tria and their action was a surprise. Wilson Votes For Suffrage. -e. Washington.--President Wilson re x. turned to Washington from Princetor ho after casting the first ballot ever giv or en a chief executive of the Unitet Ic. States in favor of woman suffrage re. Thepresident's 'brief vigit to his lega ,nt residence was marked 'by a more on or thusiastic welcome from the Prince is. ton students than ever 'before hai ac. been given him in any of his numer hie ous trips there since' he entered th en Wh te House. 'Phe young men gavi ne tioi y evidences of their approval 0: his stand on the -suffrage question. PLEAD FORif5 LE,, MISS EDITH CAVELL WHITLOCK TELLS OF TRIAL AND FINAL INTERCESSION FOR WOMEN. AIDED SOLDIERS TO ESCAPE Wat Not Accused of Serious Charge. Germans Ignore Request From Whitlock For Councel. London.--The full report of the cir cumstances of the condemnation and oxecution of Miss Edith Cavell, an English woman and head of a train ing school is Brussels for helping Eng lish, French and Belgian soldiers to escape from Belgium, made by Brand Whitlock, the American Minister at Brussels, .to Walter H. Page, the Am erican Ambassador at London, was is sued by the British government. How the secretary of the American Legation, Hugh S. Gibson, sought the German governor, von Der Lancken, late at night before the execution and, with the Spanish Minister, pleaded with the governor and the German of ficers for the English woman's life is graphically related in a memorandum from Mr. Gibson. This document re fers to the German authorities' ap parent lack of good faith in failing to lieep their promises to inform the American Minister fully of the trial and sentence. Minister Whitlock telegraphed to Ambassador Page on the twelfth: "Miss Cavell sentenced yesterday and executed at 2 o'clock this morn ing, despite our best efforts contin ued until the last moment." Mr. (W1ulock's final appeal was in the form of a note sent by a messen ger late on the night of the elev enth to Governor von Der Lancken, the translation of which reads as follows: "My dear Baron: I am too sick to present my request. myself, but I appeal to your generosity of heart to support it and save from death this unhappy woman. Have pity on her. "Yours truly, "BRAND WHITLOCK." Mr. Whitlock also stated that Miss Cavell had nursed German soldiers. Mr. Deleval, Counselor of the Am erican Legation, reported to Minister Whitlock: "This morning Mr. Gahan, an Eng lish clergyman, told me that he had seen Miss Cavell in her cell yester day night at 10 o'dlock and that he had given her Holy Communion and had found her admirably strong and calm. "I asked Mr. Gahan whether she had made any remarks about any thing concerning the legal side of her case, and whether the confession which she made before trial and in count was in hMs opinion perfectly free and sincere. Mr. Gahan told .me she was 'perfectly well and knew what she had done; that, according to the law, of course she was gulty and admitted her guilt, but that she was happy td die for her country." THREE AMERICANS KILLED. Five Mexicans and One Japanese Also Killed on Border. Brownsville, Texas.-Tjhree Ameri can soldiers, five MexIcans and one Japanese were killed in a fight be tween Unmited States soldiers and Mex i-can bandits at Ojo de Agua. T-he Jaipanese had apparently been shot in the fight, ibut there is nothing to in dicate that he belonged to the raiders. Eight American soldiers were wound ed. The Rio Grande was usedl by separ ate bands of Mexican bandits' to stop pursuit of American soldiers, most of the bandits crossing Into Mexico in both instances. The first cross'ing was in the retreat fromn thec Ojo de Agua fight, six miles up the river, and the second about 30 miles uaP the river. Capt. Frank R. McCoy, of the Third Cavalry, commanding t'he Mis sion Patrol District, reported his be 14of thaft there were not more than 30 Mexicans in the party which at tacked Ojo do Agua Moonshiners Are Sentenced. Fort Smith, Ark.-JTohni L. Casper of Kansas City, alleged head of the moonshine conspiracy, who pleaded guilty in the United States District Court, was sen tencedl to nine years and three (lays 'in the Leavenworth penitentiar-y and ordered to pay a line of $33,000. Others were Rentencedl as follows: S. L. Williams, Winston. Salem, N. C., former government rev enue agent; (Oharles Brewbaker, Kan sas City, and George Hlartman, Kan sas City, one year and one day in the Penitentiary, fined $1,000 each. New Export Records. Wahington.--New high records in the American export trade, made dur ing Septemb~er, are shown In figures made PUbile by the Bureau of F'oreign andl Domestic Commeree. Exports for eptember, total-led $297,766,705, an .increase of $141,714,417 over Septem -ber, 1914. They made a favorable trade balance of $146,343,919 for the month as against a trade balance of $16,341, I722 for September, 1914. The favr able trade balance for the monthasr only $41,693,371 less iflhan teetr isanar.th ntr State of South Carol d ,4 } County of Pickens, In Court of Common. Pleas. Emma 'C. Bowen, Plsintiff, against John T. Bowen, et al,; Defendants. In pursuanpe of a decretal order made in the above stated case by His Honor Judge R. ,W. fMemminger,' dated September 80, 1915, I will sell\to the highest bidder on salesday in Novem ber, 1915, during the legal hours for sale, at Pickens C. H., S. C., the fol lowing described lot of land, to-wit: All'tnat piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the buildings and im provements thereon, lying and being situate in the State and County afore said in the town of Norris and known as a part of the shop lot, containing one and 31-100 acres, be the same more or less; said lot fronts on one side the street leading from the Nor ris depot by the Bank of Norris to Cateechee and adjoins the Southern Railway and others and being .-the same lot of land conveyed to H. B. Bowen by Emma C. Bowen December 29, 1913. Terms cash; purchaser to pay for papers and stamps 'and for recording. Should the purchaser or purchasers fail 'to comply with the terms of sale within five (5) days the said premises will be resold on some subsequent salesday at the risk of the former puronaser or purchasers. A. J. BOGGS, Clerk of Court. CLERK'S SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Pickens. In Court of Common Pleas. Strother & Phinney, Plaintiffs. against J. H. Vickery, Defendant. In p rsuance of a decretal order made In tne above stated case by his Honor R. W. Memminger, Presiding Judge, and on file in the Clerk's office. I will sell on salesday in November, 1915, during the legal hours for sale, at Pickens C. H., S. C., all that piece, parcel or tract of land in the County of Pickens and State aforesaid, on branches of Crow Creek waters of Keowee River, containing ninety three acres more or less.; adjoining lands of J. C. Alexander, H. B. Bowers, J. I. Vickery, J. M. Vickery and ' oth ers; has the shape, metes and bounds set out on the plat made of the same by W. R. Dalton, surveyor, Jan. 5th, 1910, to which plat reference is here by made. Terms of sale cash; purchaser or purchasers to comply with the terms of this sale within five days from the date of sale or I will readvertise and resell said premises on the following Salesday or some convenient salesday thereafter at the risk of the former purchaser or purchasers. Purchasers to pay for all papers, stamps and re cording same. A. J. BOGGS, Clerk of Court. J CLERK'S SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Pickens. In Court of Common Pleas. Corona A. Freeman, et al., Plaintiff. against Edel D. Freeman, Defendant. In pursuance of a decretal order made in the above stated case by his Honor Judge R. WV. Memminger, dated October 2, 1915, I will .sell to the high est bidder on salesday in November, 1915, during the legal hours for sale at Plckensq C. H.I, S. C., the following doecrihed tract of land, to-wit: All that .certain piece, parcel or tract of land, lying and being situate in the State and County aforesaid in Easley Township and adjoining lands of JT. HI. Blowen, tracks Nt. 3, 7 and 8 in the division of the real estate of JIames G. Freeman, dleceased, and con-1 taining thirty acres, more or les's. as showni by deed recorded in Vol. "K"' at page 275 of Register of Mense ('on voyance for Pickens County, S. C. Terms cash; purchaser to pay for papers and for recording same(. Shouldl the Purchaser or purchasers fall to comply with the terms of' sale within one hour the premises will be resold at the risk of the former pur chaser on 'the same or sonme subse quent salesday thereafter. Purchasers C to pay for all papers, stamps and re cording the same. *A. 3. BGS Clerk of Court, (It's a waste of time to Worry along with ihcom-h petent help when an army of good. material awaits you among the readers of the classified Columns. (i he Want ads-next to the telephone-are the necessary lieutenants of the modern, busy busi ness man.