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BRIEF NEWS NOTES WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN TRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE Gathered From All Parts Of The Globe And Told in Short Paragraphs Foreign-. The American ambassador, Myron T. Herrick, at dinner, recently, Of the American Legion in Paris, urg ed all the members to take Marshal Foah as their model throughout life. Premier Poincaro has accepted the in vitation of Premier lonar Law to a conference of the prime ministers of Great Britain, France, Italy and Bel glum, to be hold in London December O and 10. Ricurdo Jiminez, who is now in Wash ington in connection with Conta Rican foreign affairs, has declined to accept the presidency. EamIIonn De Valera is hiding in Carl .ingford mountains waiting i chance to escape to America. Free State troops ,are hunting him. A coup d'otat In imitation of the Fas cisti in Italy, is regarded as a growing possibility in Poland utinless tho divid ed parties solve the deadlock over the ipresi dency. Great Britain will scrap no more war shipsj inder the Washington disarma ment treaty until the other nations have taken action and scrapped their (quota, according to the assurance 'given a questioner In the house of commons by lyres Monsell, financial secretary to the admiralty. Former Premiers Counaris Protopa Padakis and Stratos; M. Theotokis, former war minikter; M. B3altazzis, holder of portfolios In soveral former cabinets, and General -ladjanestis, commiander of the Greek forces at the time of the Asia Minor disaster, were shot to death by the Greeks, despite the threat of Great ilritain. British diplomatic relations with France have been severed. A spirit of uncertainty and a note of pessimism are apparent In the Near East con fenence at Lausanne, yet the chief delegations have pointed out that the work of the conference was stead ily continuing and that the various del egates are gradually and helping get ting a clearer understanding of one an other's views. Twenty-+;ix wnmen and children are lelieved to have b)en10 drowned in the sinking of a hiarcelona, Spain, passenger steamboat rammed by a customs boat. Only eleven bolies have been recov ered. The Tokio, Japan, police ha"ve ar rested a youth they charge with plan ning an attempt on the life of ex-I're mier Takithashi during a meet lug at 'Utsunomiya. George H. Scidmore, Ified States consul genoral. dNed at Tokio, Japan, the other day. as the result of an apoplec 'tie stroke, fronm which ho never re covered. The Russian soviets' program at Lauisannle as otlIne b101y M. Tchitcher Sn, the Russian for:ign tn iniste'r, will lbe liberally interlardled with "we de-' ,mand."' After a dany spent. in get - t ing aCgitiInted with . (ha ncellor C'uno and other members of the new Ger man government. M. Tchitcherin call ed in the foreig neorrespondlents with gyhom lhe freely d1iscussed0 his govern-. ment's attituec at l..ausanne. The six cabinet ministers executed at Athens recergy went courage'ously, even jauntily to their (lenthi. Washington Representatives of the National As pociat Ion of Manuitfacturers, t he Nat ion al Metal association, the Nationatl Founders' association and thirty-nino state associat Ions of miannufact urers, appeared before a house niaval sub -committee to oppose enactmient of the Hull bill, which wouldl reqIuire the gov ernent to manufacture in arsenals and navy yards all articles reqluiredl for .its use. Adlditional c'ivll suilts involving $20.. 0000,000 to $30.000,000, which the~ gov ernnment hopes to recover for aleged overcharges and waste ini connet in with the construct ion of certain army caintoinonta (luring the wvti, are he ing prepared by the depatimtment of Just ice and,(1 It was understood, pirob ably will be filed within tea (lays. Published attacks on the position the Lanusanne conference, attribuatedi to American government is taking at the Henury Morgonthau, ambassador to Trur key unmder the Wilson administration, prompted the state departmeont to issue, a formal denial. Secretary Denby waxed hot in his (enunciat ion of the midshipmen who got drunk the other day on the occa 5ion of the Army-Navy football con test. The senate adopted a motion the other day to recommit the resolution authorizing as..*5,000,000 loan to ibhe ria, DA ocrats ana Progressive Riepub lican' uniting to dlefeat the administra. tiop' forces in this the first maijor leg Isl~utive contest af the extra flession. The Dyer atti-lynching bill is dead for this sessifon and the nlext, and prob ably for 8ame congress sessions to come. That was made certain' when the senate did not convene, Repub. lican leaders having abandoned their efforts to break the filibuster of South. ern Democrats naas te bll Indorsement of President Harmtng'5 stand for stringent enforcement of the prohibition laws as long as they re main on the statutes books was given by W. H. Stayton, a founder and nti tional executive head of the Associa. tion Against the Prohibition Amend. ment. Efforts of American manufacturers to compote in Germany with Ger. many's own products "must be fore. doomed to failure," according to ad. vices reaching the department of com merce from its representatives in Ger many. The dispatches, summarized by the department, indicate that spora. dic efforts to re-enter tehe German trade are being made without success because of the top-heavy situation in exchange rates. Diretssions among government off Ic lals over the proposed separation of the Central Pacific and Southern Pa. cific railway systenf have developed indications that the question may as. sime a wider aspect than is presented by the present hearings in progress before the interstate commerce con. minssion;. Domestic Fifty new prohibition agent: have beer added to the Philadelphia (Pa.) force. Mrs. Mary Cyck, Jersey City, N. J. in trying to recover a nickel, set fire to a mattress containing $600, which went up in smoke. Irving E. Henderson, his wife, and their four children were- found in their home at Lancaster, Ohio, were said t< have died as a result of a defective gas stove. William Goodsell Rockefeler, son ci the late William Rockefeller and nep hew of John I). Rockefeller, died of pneumonia at his New York home recently. Swept forward by an 120-mile-an hour gale, waves which swept over the bridge and threw spray over the funnels crashed through port holes and doors of the steamship President Wilson, and brought injury to a score of her passengers and crew. The condition of John Wanamaker, who has been ill at his home at Phila. delphia for several weeks, was ro ported by the physicians as having as numedi a grave aspect. Georges Clemenceau bared his aged head at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Ill., and paid tribute to hims as "one of the greatest men that ever lived." "After the very ' appro. priato and moving words I have heard, I hardly dare say more," he t;id. "Don't believe I came here to try' to consecrate such a memory." .eners Stewart, an Anniston (Ala.) moulder, was shot through the heart and instantly killed at a point near Cook Springs, while rabbit hunting rec.. ntly, (lie shot which ended ii life being fired by accident by the dead man's brother, liart Stewart, also of Ani1st n. Charged by inici('tment in nine counts with criminal assault upon a 13-year-old girl. A. W. Hobson, president of the South Texas Oil and Development coi many, and Mrs. Ella Hobson, his wife, )f San Antonio, Texas, were arrested >y dleputy sheriffs and lodged in the Blexar county jan. The Pacific Mail palssenger liner Newvport, carrying 100 passengers, Liound from San Francisco for Central Amiertiin, rollided with the steamship schtooner Svea amidships, plloughing into the hold of the steam schooner off Point Sanlius, 1 5 miles from San Luis5 Obispo, ac-cording to radio mes sages r'eceived at San Francisco, Calif. 'The closing days of'November found Wihnington, N. C., in the grip of a miniature bliz-zardl. That city is ex l)(-riencing the coldeost weather f~r the season ini its entire history. Nancy Jordan, pretty IEnglish mother, wvho hadl been detaineod at 1Ellis Islandl. has been releaseod to the divorcedl wite of the father of the child, Frank 0. Warren, of Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Warren says she wvill look after tht mother' and child. A six-inch vein of rich ore was fount a few feet beneath the nurface of tho main street in Tombstone, Ariz., tho other day, when excavations wert made for a cement curhlig, and mining men say the vein undoubtedly is th< lonig-roulght V'izna vein. William Gibbs McAdoo, erstwhil< secretary oIf the treasury, was aireste< for exceeding the speed limit in Tuiart cnunty, California, recently, and hialco before the judge and fined, T. L. Comer', lprohi agent, took poi son by mistake at his home in Mem. lis, Tfenn., andl physicians hold out no0 hope for hi recovery., Three children are known to be dead; at least two more are expeced~o to dlie; while twelve additional have broken bones and revere burns follow ing a disastrous fire which destroyed th'e High Point, Ga.,.community school, fiye miles south o Covington. For the seventeenth consecutive timo Charles 5. IBarrett, of Union City, Ga., was elected president of the National Farmers' union in a recent convention held at Lynchburg, Va. Freedom and Thanksgiving arrived almost simtultaneously for -William Dross Lloyd, wealthy radical, and 51 associates, at liberty after serving eight days of their sentences for vie. lation of the Illinois anti-syndicalism~ act., The Harvard observatory, Cam. bridge, Mass., has received word by cable of the discovery, et a comet by Skyjellerup, the South African astro, nomist, at Cape Town, November 26. The comet is described as faint ant1 the position given was in the consteilla tion of. .Crater. NEW BERN HAS $2,000,000 FIRE FIVE HUNDRED RESIDENCES ARE DESTROYED AND 1,800 ARE RENDERED 9IOMELESS. WOMEN AND CHILDREN WEEP Negro Section Practically Wiped Out Together With Warehouses, Stores, Churches and Other Buildings. New Bern, N. C.-An army of grimy chimneys, standing as grim sentinels amidst an area of smouldering ruins which extends for half a mile from the western boundary of the city to the Neuse river, marked thd course of New Bern's two million dollar lire, the worst in the city's history. When Interviewed, Mayor Clark stated that as far as he could Judge. 500 residences and business house: had been totally destroyed, approxi mately 1,800 persons were homeless and the total fire loss for the day. including the Roper Lumber company mills, was in excess of $2,000.000. The war devastated towns of Bel gium and France hardly presented a more pitiable spectacle of complete destruction than that section of New Bern which was swept by the fire throughout the entire day. Over an area of a mile or more in length and from two to five blocks in width nothing remains but row after row of ghostly chimneys, standing as vigils in the midst of charred tim hers, which almost completely cover the ground. Not a single piece of framework remairns in upright position. Every. thing in the path of the terrific fire was swept before it. It was a grims and pathetic spectacle. Scores of families were wandering among the ruins looking for the site of their former homes, trying to see whether the fire had overlooked any thing. Women and children were crying and men gazed at the ruins with hopeless and sullen expressions upon their faces. In several places the charred timbers still burned and the homeless people gathered about those, seeking warmth from the cold which was beginning to make itself felt. In spite of the fact that both whites and blacks had been informed that sleep ing quarters would be provided for them, many apparently paid no heed; they seemed too stunned to think of anything Iut their homes and house. hold goods which had been taken away from them by the roaring, crackling fire which spread terror over the city for more than nine hours. In one of the empty fertilizer ware houses are huddled from two to three hundred negro men, women and chil dIren. Several of the women sit wvith infants hugged tightly to their breasts. Here andl there a child sleeps, but for the most part everyone is widle-awake and talking tn low tones of the great toll exacted by the conflagrations. Many of them have nothing left except a few articles they managed to save b)efore* the fire was upon01 them. ,Other fire victims are being housed in somel of the churches and halls of the community. The wvhites, for the most part, have been taken into the homes of their more fortunate neigh bors andl friends. Seven Die When Steamer Founders, Calumet. Mich.--Cptain Nason 13er. nard and six members of the crew of the Canadian steamer Maple Hurst lost their lives when the ship broke uip a mile west of Portage Lake canal during a heavy gale. Nine others of the crew were rescuedl one at a time, jumping from the bridge into a life boat. According to the coast guard service Captain Bernard and six others lest their lives because they declined to jump from the biridge. The rescue was affected in the teeth of a gale of hurricane proportions. The life. boat ran alongside the ship time and again only to be washed back. Fifteen Persons Drowned. San D)iego, Cal. --Fifteen persons were dlrowned when the motorship Is. abelle was wrecked in a tropical hur ricane October .15, accordling to a re port brought here by the Mexican steamer Guerrero, which groumnded during the same hurricane. The Gumer rero was towedl to San Diego by tihe British wrecking steamer Algerine. The Ouer.rero was the first to go ashore and the Isabelle followed soon after. The latter vessel was engulfed by heavy seas and of tihe 17 persona aboard only a young girl and a man were saved. Less Liquor Consumed. Ottowa.-Less liquor was consumed in Canada per head last year than during any previous year since rec ords have been kept, but consump tion of beer increased over last year, according to the annual report of tlie department of customs and excise. Per capita consumption of liquor was -86 gallons as compared with .86 gal Ions for 1921 and 1.99 gallons toj 1874. Consumption of beer was 4.32 gallons, an incirease over last year, while consumption of wine was .032 srallons laas than lst ar's... a.,e.... COURT TO GOTERN NEW TRIAL PLEAS ADCPTS RULE NUMBER THIRTY ONE FOR PROCEDURE HEREAFTER. FROM TWO RECENT OPINIONS Supreme Tribunal Establishes Juris diction in "After Discovered Evi dence" Cases. Columbia. Motions for new trials on after dis covered evidence will hereafter be matie under the provisions of a new rule adopted by the supreme court, which estabilishes the procedure Us outlined in tlhe recent opinions of the State vs. lawkins and the State vs. 'Tloi pson. Hereafter when the supreme court has decided a case and the remittur has been tran smitted to the circuit court, U lmotion for a new trial oil after discovered evidence cannot be made in the circuit court until the supreme court grants leave for such a motion. A motion to asli for lease( to move in the circuit court for a new trial on after discovered evidence must he made before the suprene court not later than the tenth day before the late set for the execution if the omo ant is under death sentence. The new rule, Nc. 13, is as follows: "The following practice shall be ob served in the matter of motions for new trials upon after discovered evi dence: "F'irst, In a case in which the cir cuit court has not been deprived of jurisdiction by appeal or otherwise, the motion may be made in the circuit cot:rt. "Second. In a case which is pend ing upon appeal in the supreme court the motion may not be made in the circuit court until after the supreme court, by order upon motion therefor, shall have suspended the appeal and granted leave to the movant, to make the motion in the circuit court "Third. In a case in which the ap peal has been disposed of by the su preme court and the remittur trans mitted to the circuit court the motion may not be made in the circuit court until after the supreme court, by or der upon motion therefor, shall have granted to have the movant. to make the motion therefor, shall have grant ed to have the movant to make the motion in the circuit court; and whey the defendant shall be inder sentence of death the motion in the supreme court must be made not later than the tenth day before the day assigned for the execution of the sentence (ex clusive of said day) and upon four days' previous notice to the solicitor, "Eugene B. Gary. "R. C. Watts. "Tr. B3. Fraser. "T. P. Cothran. "J. H. Marion." Governor-elect Endorses Sate.. Governor-elect Thomas 0. McLeod highly endorses the work being dlone by the South Carolina Tuberculosis association in a letter to that asso ciation. The governor-elect says in his let ter: "There are few who have not suffer ed the loss of friend or relative as victims of the great white plague. The methods of prevention as advocated biy the association will be a blessing not only to this generation, but to gen erations to come. The relief now of fered the sufferers and the hope of life -and usefulness extended to them through the aid of this association, should commend It to the mindi and heart of every citizen." The annual Christmas bond and stal of this organization begins December 1 and continues until Christmas. The association is badly handicapped from lack of funds with which to carry on Its work of wiping out this dealy men ace to life in South Carolina. All hands are needed to pull together for this aim and every effort is being made to put this seal sale over successfully. Welfare Board Makes No ,.Cholce. C. W. Coker, of Hartsvillo, and Wal ter B. Wilbur, of Charleston, were asked by the state board of public welfare to select a secretary for the board to succeed the R1ev. (G. Croft Williams, recently resigned. The re quest came after an all-day sessiorn of the board in which efforts to choose a successor to the Rev. Mr. Williams failed. Several names were considered at the meeting, but it was announced that on choice had been made and that Mr. Wilbur and Mr. Coker had been desig nated a congmittee to select again a successor to Mr. Williams.. Two New Charters. The Tennel corporation of Charleston was chartered by the secretary of state with a capital stock of $3,000. The firm will do a real estate and bonid and mortgage business. Officers are: W. H. Mlxson, presidpent; G, N. Buell, vice-president; George R. Mof fett, secretary and treasurer The Carolina Lumber company of Greenville was chartered with a cap ital stock of $5,000. Officers are: A. W. Allison, president; treasurer and' secretary; R. D. Foxhall, vice-presi dan Public Sohools Receive Money. The sum of $55,136 was paid out by J. E. Swearingen, state superinten. Llont of education, to the schools of the state running seven months under the equalizing law. This payment was made possible, according to a statement given out by the department, by the action of the budget commission in transferring to this account the unexpended bal ince of the rural graded school fund, $3,500, and the unexpended balance of the term extension fund, $51,636. For the session 1921-22 694 districts qualified for $475,962. The . legisla tive appropriation of $370,000 left a debt of $105,962. These payments go to reduce this deficit. The amounts by counties follow: Abbeville, $661; Aiken, $109; Allen. dale, $93; Anderson. $1,958; Bamber $131; Barnwell, $320; Berkeley, $137; Cherokee, $119; Chester, $100; Ches terfield, $2,916; Clarendon, $5,999; Colleton, $246; Darlington, $457; Dil lon, $623; Dorchester, $65; Edgefield, $184; Fairfield, $181; Florence, $3,295; Georgetown, $141; Greenville, $4,608; Greenwood, $29; llampton, $293; Ilorry, $5,901; Kershaw, $1,301; Lan easter, $3,616; Laurens, $2,08"; Lee, $347; Lexington, $1,945; McCormick, $518; Marion, $918; Newberry, $878; Oconee. $4,855; Orangeburg, $784; Pickens, $2,961; Saluda, $2,634; Spar tanburg, $4,58-4; Sumter, $97; Union, $323; Williamsburg. $1,465; York $4.15. Inter-Racial Body Holds Meeting. 'Tihe annual meeting of the commit tee on inter-racial work in South Car olina was held at the Columbia Y. M. C. A. building and various matters were discussed. Committees to co operate with schools, churches, homes and transportation were appointed and other matters given considerar tion. Officers elected for the coming year were as follows. G. Croft Williams, chairman; Mrs. C. P. McGowan, Char leston, first vice chairman; A. M. Tra wick, of Wofford college, second vice president; T. B. Lanham, Columbia, secretary. Among the out of town members who attended the meeting were Mrs. McGowan of Charleston, Mrs. I. L. Keaton of Fort Mill, Mrs. S. W. Henry of Allendale, Mrs. Stoney of Charleston and 1. L. Kirkwood of Bennettsville. Among the negroes at tending from out of Columbia were J. S. Leevy, Florence; A. J. Clement, Charleston; E. J. Sawyer, Bennetts ville, and J. S. Earle, Spartanburg. Officials attending were W. W. Alexander of Atlanta, Mrs. Luke John son'of Atlanta and R. W. Miles and J. T. Hodges, the latter two being sec retaries who travel over the state in i the interest of the work. Harvey Suspends Rhett Griffith. Governor Harvey suspended from office Magistrate Rhett F. Griffith o Olympia and appointed Gary E. Pas, chal to succeed him. The suspensior followed an investigation in which it was found that Mr. Griffith appar ently guilty of malfeasance in con ducting the duties imposed upon him as magistrate. The Richland county grand jury has recommended that the solicitor proceed to take legal action against Griffith. Mr. Griffith has been missing since late in July and is short In his ac counts, according to the reports made to the governor. Mr. Griffith was magistrate for Ward 5 and Olympia, He was said to be short about $3,000 in his accounts. Mr. Paschal, the new magistr-ate, so lected In the Demoec atic primary dur lug the past summer to be the next magistrate and would havo assumed the duties of the office the first of the year. The governor's order of suspension followvs: "Whereas, It appears to me from the attached report of the auditor em, ployedl by the grand jury of Rich land county to Investigate the affairs of the office of magistrate for WVard 5 and Olympia, Richland county, thai you, Rhett F. Oriffith. as magistrate for the aforesaid district of Ricfhland county, have been guilty of malfeas ance In conducting the duties imposec upon you: "Wherefore, it is hereby ordered that you, the said Rhett F. Griffith hbe, and you are, hereby suspendeq f rom the said office of magistrate fo' Ward 5 and Olympia, .Richlant county.'' CommIttee to Collect Unpaid Pledges. JThe executive committee of th South Carolina Lutheran synod me the other clay and in addition to al tendling to routine matters of th' church, the campaign executive com nmittee on the $300,000 oducationa fund appointed Dr. C. A, Freed e |Newberry, Dr. J. J. Lorng of Littl' Mountain, the Rev. J. )B. Harman e Wht ok and the Rev. C. 3. Sheal: of Cameron to complete the unpaf pledges on this fund. The state was divided into four dis tricts and one man was assigned t each district. increase of Stock. Authority to increase its capita stock, from $200,000 to $1,000,000 wa granted the secretary of state to th< Secuirity Building and Loan associa tion of Hartsville. The Howell Lumbeo' company o Sumter was chartered with a capita stock of $15,000. Officers are: A. A Howell, president and treasurer; 0. P Howell, vice president and secretary George F. Epperson & Co., Inc., a general merhantile business firm of Sutinter, was chattered with a capital stocte of $in aan . dat~e w,+ a d C a ul~ Ven lra . sll al gt t o a tu a~E nd aes Wreab n.aiNET'.OD high-gad, uar. hon sier dret towarr All en wetm. Expribc.e neoc POlt se l Pe.e ree Now- P-LSv. b er row far an br e rarle.Caao in wo. us ca C Luberto. n.a shaving cren w r..e" wil nd o y Philip , . t F ris st,.:, tI od a e , N. 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