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titi VOLUME~ XXXIV. LAUIRENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1919. NME BLOOD FLOWS [R[IY IN WSINGTON RIOTS Troops Patrol Streets Day and Night FOUR KILLED MORE WOUNDED most Serious Situation Pollee llave Had to Cope with Since Civil War. Trouble lesult of Numdrous As saults upon White e1'ople' by Ne groes. iWashington, July 22.-Another night of race rioting found the National Cap ital today counting the largest casual ty list it has since soldiors, sailors, marines and civilians began retaliat ing on the negro population for the long list of daylight hold-ups and at . tacks on white women which has alarmed the city. Four known dead, two mortally wounded, eight on more seriously Wounded, unknown numbers slight ly wounded or injured in the street fighting, and police stations and hos pitals packed with others, are the re aunts or the most disorderly times the National Capital has seen probably since the Civil War. Although reinforced with provost guard,; of troops and stinadrons of cavalry patrolling Pennsylvania avo nue, the police apparently were as unable to cope with the situation as they were during the celebrated dem onstration of March 3, 1913, when the crowd completely overran them and all but mobbed the suffragists parad ing on Pennsylvania avenue. Washington, July 21.-An air of suspense hung over the nation's capi til tonight as armed forces of cavalry, 1iparines and sailors joined with the pollee and provost guards to prevent. if possible, a threatened renewal of the race riots which began two nights ago in retaliation for numerous at tacks by negroes on white women in the outskirts of the city and general lawlessness. Two troops of Cavalry from Fort \lyers patrolled the dlown-town streets ready to quell any outbreak which might start, although the city gener ally was quiet. Two hundred ma rines, brought here from the Quantico training camp today when it was fear ed that the provost guard and police might not be able to stop tile dist urb ances, were scattered .throughont the city, together with 100 navel military police. A dozen motor transport corps trucks, each able to carry forty men, were stationed at strategic points, prepared to rush reserves to any part of the City. Uneasy crowds made up of civilians and numerous enlisted men of the army and the navy, on leave from nearby camps, mtovd up and down Fensylvania ave-ite from the capitol to the Wite to0Ii.30. E0very effoit wvas being made to keep) the meni In mo tion, and wvhen any number gathe red at corner's, pol ICe quiiicklIy d is Ierised them. *On the awhole, there was little is orders. Orders were issuedi from jo lice hieadquarteris to avoId tactics wvhich might result in fantinig the spark of lawlessneiss inito an outbreak of more serIous nature.. lFrieindl y warnings to 'keep moving'' s'rvecd thle pur'pose' of preventing aniy dlanger' from gathering of mobs. There was amphle proof. how.ever', that the ,preimarat Ions to g'imrdi the cIty had been made advised ly. 'Early in the e'veing1 severiaI distuIIrbiances took place, wvhich igh t have gr'own to seriouis'proportions had It not been for' the timely 'ntei'ven tion of the 1'Po lie(' and thir t rein fuor(emen' t.. A crowd of miore thain .200 ipersons congregated at Peace monitiumuien t, at the foot of thle capitol shortlIy after' the house adljourined and mienmbet's were 1lcaying for theirol hoimes. A nie gro htad s tairted i)an argumen t with a white so1lier, and1( by-stndi'rs ruished to take a partL Street vat's were hault ed gnd trtafli was locked' for' s'vertal yhiund red yards in ealh directtioni. ito 'OrO any3 lthlng seriiouts dievelopiedi, how ('ver, four a' utoiioblil's fillled withi po lice ireser'ves, made through thle crowd and halted the' istutrhatnce. Lbater In the evetinug, l'atrtoltmatn Thtnn, crack shot otn thle WashIigtn pollce forco, was struck lby a buillet lredl hy a negro in the ntorthwvest see (Continued on Pas Filve. ) THE Ab"*'ERTISER TO HAVE NEW HOME Two Story Buildhng to he Erected on Lot Adjolig Minter Company. Plans were practically agreed on Monday for the erection of a two story building by The Advertising Printing 'Company on the lot adjoining the Minter Company store. The present structuxre on the main part of the lot and generally known as the Josiah Hunter building will be torn down and an ~entirely new building erected which will take up this lot and the alley way which has 'previously been open between it and the Minter Con pany store. The Advertiser will oc cupy the second floor and the first floor will be rented for store purpos es. C. L. Rounds, contractor, has been engaged to do the work 'which will begin next week. S-E:N. DIAL CATCIllNG ON. Newberry Pnper Says the Senato'r Seems to haxve Made n "Killing" with the Newspaper Correspond. ents. Senator N. iB. Dial seems to have made a "killing" with the newspaper correspondents of Washington, says the Newberry Helrald and News in writing editorially of the senator's activity in Washington. It goes on further Jo say that the senator seems to be on the job in other respects and hands himi a little bouttuet in the judg ship appointiment. The following is how the Nowherry paper speaks of these things: "Senator Dial seens to have made t "killing" with the newspaper cor'e spondents over in Washington, espe cially those of our papers down In this neck of the woods, lie gets "played up" nearly every day. It may be that. he is doing big things up In Washington, and we hope that he is, but we sometixes wonder what has become of "('otton" Smith, and if we have any congressmen over there from down inl South Ca;rolina. Mr. Dial seemed to be'the only one who had anything to do -with the ap pointment of a judge, and ie ,was satisfied that he had done the right thing after he looked over the list of atpp 'licunts, and that is something worth while. And we reckon he was 'ig ht. And we notice that he Is going to have something done about. these postmastershil appointments down here that have been held up so long. And really just the other day there w'ere Several appoitu en fs $nt In. Newberry will have attention very soon, we suspect." Ol"i ('E 11S Ai ETiE(''PF) IOt WAIEIOl'Si II. ''erry is Elected President of the Potato Warehouse ('ompany. At a meeting of the directors of the newly incorporated potato warelhouxs company which was recently formed h r..., .l.. 11. T ...rr.y was lci l ed pri'5 i dentix. .\l . W. I,. (ray, vice iretsidlent, anxd \xr. R. 10. I abbxi, Set'retairy and treasurer('x. TPL(- directors' of thenx comix tmnxiy arxe \Mssr's. lsxamr Sithii. .iohi A. Fra'tnks, W. I,. Gray,)' -i. Tiexrry andx .. .1. Owinigs. comnpiany wa~s orgaized'x bxy loc'al citi zenxs lox bil a pota:to warehou'lcxse ix enxxoura':ge thex raxising xxi swxt ixoi ox's in iIs x'ouinty3. Th'le ixrese'nt enxi taxl stox-i is~ $'',.nxxx lhui it is ,xrolxosedx to iraise it tox a con~xsider'ib~lly largex S. .1. Waxxssxon Deadmx .\ in. S. J.- Wa~xson, a welli knxown xiti Thurx xsday mornxing axflex' ani ill ness of sxevxeral mxonthls. Thel fuxneral axnd In Sitement tooki it'~'i plac Thusda~y xafter' notonx axt iFr'ie ship churichi, lixi'. .. .\l. Dalltas conduxxt in ig thle servwices. .\lr, Waisson is sixrvived-x by hiis lxroither x andi sister', .\lr. W\ililamx W. Wa~ssxmn andt .iss i,izzie' W\asson, withx whomi lxx lived, l.-I C., an i 1xxiI. WV. Wasso5Ii x, f x th ty, dxxdi.\lr . (lxo. \'a'~xxn. of -linxx . ilo xxixd txx lxinnii'ns'. .\lx. O)sl' Sigrx'v's ixnd fixliy. xx Briltol Tenn.I'' xi. arrxivedo ini the city last wxexk to max~ke thxeir' home lxin aurens andx are'x tem'iporait-ily fliv in g sin 'thle il enottaxge oni Souxthi liaxper strxext, .\lrin. Sit gri-aves is a brother lx oxxf .\x'. i' Sitgr'eav's, of this o'ity, anti time fa thxer of Mx's. Albert Diah. lie expe(ts to enter- inito buxsiniess of somec klux has nxot. matde a deftinite tici ' (ts naxturxe yet. POWER COMPANI Voters Ratify Proposed River Power Compan fly a vote of 6i7 to 1 the voters of the city yesterday i'atifled the contract entered into some time ago between the City Council and the Reedy River Power Company. In general terms the contracts provides that the city pay to the power comipany a rate of 2 1-2 cents per kilowatt hour for electric current. used, that the power company shall have a monopoly of the motor load in the city above a quarter horse power and that the owners of the pow er company shall receive power over the city lines at. the rate paid by the city for the current. A similar con tract, with the exception that the term was for ten years instead of flve, was voted down' in February by a vote of 98 to 38. Since that time very little interest has been taken in the matter. Asked yesterday as to what. rate the city would have to charge consumers to mitake the power 'plant meet expens es, Mayor Babb said that he was un ('01,. 0 V(3t11'. 11IRRli SIT'EtVISO1{ OF ('ENSUS Native I,aurens 3Man, Now Private Secretary to ('ongressman Nicholds, ('ominir to (Greenville. Aecording to information of an uni otllcial ;nature received in I rens last week, Col. Oscar W. Blabb, ivate secretary to Congressman u J. Nicholls, is to be appointed supervis or of the 1920 census 'work in the fourth 'Congressional district, and is to assuimte charge of the work at an early date, having his headquarters in (.reenville. No definite anno1ncemlents have yet come out of Washington relative to the organization for the taking of the 1920 census, bilt it is expected that these announcements .will be made within the next few days, for the slpervisors of the work in the various districts will necessarily have to be gin work slortly in order to perfect the orga nizati onl necessary to carry out the work etlleiently. The actual taking of 1in ('ensus, doubless, will not* L started nut ii early in 1920. but the work involves a great deal of ('ari'etul anldh pailstakiig lahor, and will req uire numerous workers throughout this section. The next few months, it is likely. will see a great deal of )reparation for the taking of the 1920 census, which, it is planned, iwill be more comi ilete and thorough than any of the "uislises so far taken by the govern ment. IItunds (cts the ('ontract. C. L. ltounds and ('onpany was awarded the contraet. last week for the erection of the new mill houses planned by the Laure4nk .\ills several muonth s aigo. AbloutI i10 new houses arue to be built,1 all of thIem Iarigeri and more14 mtodernt itn1 the reent hlouses. Ini addit ion I) lothse~ buuihlinilgs, ai now I hurchel is to) be1 built for the I lohnes w hose builing was destrloyedI by firel severtal mon)1 ts ago. W'ihth ii rection' 101 of the~ new (ot - I ages and1( chu lrch th le miiill ('0orpora tioni planls ('xtenIs ive iminproveimetIs in lage'. Xioldiers (so into IlI insiness. .\l 4'srs. .1. '. Uand I toberC t 1'. ('lap miant, soins of' .\l i A. W. Chlaptmn, oif Uold l'oint, wij their loothIer, A. W. Ch'Iapmant, .ttr., ye opented up a gen een'Pt lyl( i retured fromt ardIll serv 5'l.ice ini I~rance4 andt( their1 father'l is giving 1lhemi a lift, In making a stait in life * **,* ** ** * * * * * * * * * * * * II. ('. Iiarv~eley, uwho hais beent * * tin)oir of~ Gren Ill' for Iwo yea rs, * V. Ii. 3Maitini, former'Ily of thIs* *ye'ste'rday, acecordinlg to a1 tele'- * * phIoneC miessaige rIeele by 'I'hie * * Advert'lise'r last, ighit. * * * r WINS ELECTION Contract Betweea Reedy y and City of Laurens. able to say exactly. However, he said, they had estimated that the loss of the city from Its water and light sys tems last year, counting interest and depreclat:on and not includin.g the coot of lighting the streets, was In the neighborhood of $8,000.00. The estimated Increased cost under the new contract, he estimated at from $@0,'0 to $5,000, making the actual deficit of over $10,000. The mayor stated also that he would carry out the wishes of the voters as expressed at the polbr-and sign the contract as the election provided for. The following was the vote by awards: Yes No Ward 1 .. ..... .. .. ..; 10 Ward 2 .. .. ....... .. ..17 5, Ward 3 .. .. ...............3 Ward 4.............. 4 4 Ward .. 21 W~ardt 6 .. .. .7..;. .5 1 ''otal .... .. .. .. .. ..i . A1,IlluDY) .tl)V.\N ': 1N F.ILL SI'l'S Price increase of $5 a Suit. Already Anunciii ed. A local merchant. has received the following letter froi a prom inent t manufacturer: Dear Sir: Owing to the tinprecedented advance in the cost of labor and material, the , Fall 1919 line of heavy-weight suits and overcats is advanced $5.00 a gar ment, effective on and after .luly 9tI. All orders received from and after that date will he accepted only on the new schedtle of prices. Owlig to the upward trend In the cost of labor and material the entire line is subject to further advance without. notice. On account of the unusually low stocks of merchandise in the hands of merchants, and the tretnendou s de mands that aro helog made upon them, daily imiuiries are received by ts in regard to shipmlettts for lhall. accompanied by reituests that such shipments he miade at once. \e have advised yot previottsly, both tlroulgh our sales force and in the' actknowl {edgemitent of your orders that ship tenlts would cotmence in the months of August and S elptembet. As conli tions have in no manner changeud, it will be lim posslle to make earlier i shipments and repeated insistence to the contrary is accordingly unnees nary. Our shipments to you will ihe Ix tedited and tnade at the earliest pus sible momnte i, and you Can repl y itton out: ftll co-operat ion. .11W.\It11-:11 S(01101..\Itsilll'. .11 ss linirrlet t SullIinan of l~aurens to I iter (olumltbla1 Unliersity3. .\liss Ilarriet II. Sutllivani of'. thtis city hals been nttied otticially thaet shte has beent awarded a (arlwnttier residence scholaursht ip at l ianad 'dltege. (oluittia l'initersity, New Yorkl. ~.liss Sullivan, a dIautghitr of Ai.and .\rs. J1. G. Sullivan, is a this vear's hotnor ;.raduiate, from W.in Ithrol College. It is undt~erstood that thle scholarshiip at C'oltumbia lUniversity was awarded on M\iss 8lullivan's~ record t~lbroutgh the 2aiurens city stool as well as that she inade att Winthrlop, sth) will inter Itarntard (ollege for the A. 1I. degree which Is given at the entd of a two year course. 'Te schiol To ('lant Off (emetery. All personis wvho ha~ve telallives buitedl it litaerdei:wl eenterty ate repitested toi be at thIe cemnetery Thlutrs day, the :lst, to assist itt tleav'.g It otT. Those who live at it distantce or who eatnnot. (omte to hllp themetselvyes, ate asked to send handlis 01 mloney~. as li tntied Young Fi~ riendls. .\liss Alary Ainderlson, the yountg dnilghlter of Mtr and 'Irts. 1 ,ewvis Ati der'son, (ntetainedl(( about1 a dozeln of ler tyoun1 g schtool friends yester'tay at a s pend i-Ithe-day partiy att htert ho0m otn East MlaIn street. Thte chI idreni en joyed romin g about theii plage and wingit in the brtatnch nlearbty, spenctd ing a:jplly daty loget her. LLITERACY WORK BEGUN IN COUNTY Hiss 1linie Wallace has been Ap. pointed ('ounty Organizer for Lau. rens County and is Already Organ. Izing the ('1aimaigna. The County Board of IEducation for aurens county has begun the drive igainst illiteracy in the coutfty by tppointing Miss Minnie Wallace as ounty Organizer for tlio "lay-by" chools. This work in Laurens coun y is being begun in connection with t similar work in every other county n the state. A concerted drive against ilIiteracy in the si A!: heing mAdc inder the supervision of Mias .Wil ,ou (;ray. Miss Wallace has just returned from WVinfhlro!> ieollege, 1twhelre tShL ook a course under .\Miss Gray rela ive to this work in Laurens county. The is planning her work for the drive igalnst. illiteracy, and is anxious that nany of the teachers of the county vill avail themselves of the oppor unity of helping t.o remove the stain )f illiteracy from the state. Miss Wallace has addressed the fol ow appeal to the trustees of the :ounty: 'o the Trustees of Lautens County: The Federal e(enstius will he taken text. year. Acording to the census )f 1!1111 there were 27G,9 l) people in olith Carolina who could not. read tnd write. Liaurens county furnish 'I 7,1;!13. in rank South Carolina was Caued next to the hottoin. We are lot' protl of this record, tiherefore, he State dpartlient of education is naking an effort to have 10,0001) per ons * taught hiring the lay-hy sea sonl. Our share for gatrens coun1y t I. Will you help us? Many of he tounti 's are employing paid o' anizers of adult s(hools for the nthut of Auguiist. At the reluest of lie 'oint, lloard of Edlucation I am letailed to or;.anize thelt county for his drive. It shall be 1m1y duty to n wil the t superintendent and ri t tee (:ur netlod of work, to se ct a !cw schools for concentrated vor:, to help the teachers with organ zation of - e'tols, the selection of ext hooks. etc. If the work is to be a success I must nave .tie co-ope'ration of the peoph )f the county, therefore, I amd comt ing to you, as leaders in your (etm itunities. to ask aid in this drive. l'he Ftate is willing to pay the teach Is, provided the various comilpluli itis are initerested enouigh to organize lansses. 'T'o ntany of 0r1i' people the're has beet little opportunity of alt(nding wchool. The illiteracy which exists in ir state is but the result of neglecte childhood. Let us repair the evil lone, by taking as our muotto: "Not In illiterate in mly school district af er August 8tst." Por as Kipling ays: 'It ant't the guns nor armament, or tIm futtis that they can pay hit the close co-operation l'hat mtakes them .winl the day. it ain't tih' indiiv idu al. otr the armyi3 as a whtole, ery biloii n i' 5(oul." Sintcer'ely yOurIs. >rs oif the rents 'lTrus. Comlpaan) tli last. Wednteisiday it was 'decidle< was or'iginially' formedt'i. Th'e newv call. it at is brouiighit intoi thle comipany3 I< latak ('nre of' the rapidly inicreasin). business. 31. J. Owings is prideniltt rt ay and ii tir-as u i indI).ti. iTo;uth nitet. Th'ie ('ompllanyl is ini a health11 ('(1ndhition atnd pays a semii-anniuali divi iln~t of l'rrot' ()ni ni Peitrtograid. at luhistaig's arle rejiotiedi to have last threel weekt and1 Petrougrad ti'.t piapersa- puliisht almlost dlaily lists o from 50 Iiil~ to ersoni Sw ho n hav ee nlamtts oif nil t tose ini(i lharg oif lihi di plotinatic arcthie'ves of fore igti legn tions in P'ettogtnd auppuear (In the lists A lliantt genetral, 70) year's old, I| re:' tedh to hav be'iuen shot Cor' hain; in his' rom weaon 1(15whiicht he wa: REPUBLICANS CONFER WITH THE PRESIDENT G. 0. P. Leaders Called Into Conference - DISPUTED POINTS ARE CLARIFIED Senator (olts I)elares 'lTale with Wilson Failed to Remove Ills Doubts On Certain Portion of League (ovenatnt. President Asked for In. .'ornttion by Senate. Washington, July 17.-dIow the Ver sailles conference reached many of the agreements embodied in the trea ty of peac. was dscribed by President Wilson today to three Republican sen ators inyted to the White -louse at the head of a long list of republican nemubers whom ho purposes to take into his confidence. Afterward one of his callers, Sena tor Colt. of Rthode Island, said Mr. Wilson had been able to place the Shantung settlement in a new light and had clar'iled other disputed points in the treaty. Senator AleCumber of North Da kota, and Senator Nelson of Minne sota, the others who saw the presi. dent, were retient as to the subjcets discussed but said the President had given them mull interesting intorma tion. Senator ('olt, who announced his general approval of tho league of na tions in a senate speech delivered shortly before he went to the White Hiouse, indicated after the conference' that his dotubt. over certain portions of the league covenant had not been re moved. lie said he was not ready to express an opinion regarding Shan tung an'. intimated that. the Pres dent might. make public a6 statement O on the siubject. Senator MeCtnber is the only re publican memnber of the foreign rela lions Committee who has favored theu league and it is understood Mr. Wit son talked over with him committee action oi the treaty and the general situation on the reimblican side of the senate. Senator Nelson never has nuade a public declaration for or against the treaty. To all of his call ers the President is said to have reit erated his opposition to reservations of any charater in senate ratification of the treaty. 'Tite President, tomorrow will con titnne his talks with senators inclined to be friettdly towards the treaty 'pro visions, though it is expected that later he will seek a conference with virtually every republican senator, In cluding those who have most bitterly opposed ratifleation. Senators Kel logg, Mlinnesota, and Kenyon, Iowa, both of whom have kept open minds on the treaty, have been Invited to c all on thte President tomorro)w morn ing anutd Sen atorts .\le~arty, Oregon, a leagute sup lporter, and Capper, Kan. sas. who has taken nto definite stand, in the aftternloon. -1The Posit ion of Ithe foreign rela tionis conitttee with regard to mneei iing the iresidtlit as a body was ex tlinted in a stat eitent tonight bY4 Chairmtan 1-odge, who said no congresJ-l sIa (onantittee "has any rigltt oz shiotthi hav e any right to sutmmon"' & presidtti btefotre it, anid that Mr. Wil son had ntot beent asked to a 'pear. Hip tmad' nto iredictioni whtetheri the o mitt'er woul d areeiit l ater the Presj dent'! s oifler to recive it at the while~ hotuse but. poitted outt that so f connutiitt eO contsidetration Of the tr eat'~ is ill its prelimilnary stages. \\hile thte P'reslient wais beginnin hiis whiite htouse conferen'tces the sOnl ao deba ted Shtantiung and the lenguo , andti Idotled without a recotd vote a rsoltion i i by Senator Boraht, repubil iiin, idahlio.,tskintg for iniformation re' IatIive to thii Shantt tung ntegotlatloni, nout debaited. ashs thIt Precsideniit ~1~' an nomlit.It iiilont as to whtethei thlea Chliiii deled it is wutO "intlimidat 1(4" by~ the Jialanse and~ requteslt (copy ofi a lettr said to have o wr tittn ottnt behalf of General Bli Secrearyt lenisnlg an td 1litry W1I prtstfing I agat ist the0 Shatuntilg Ret In his id as anntoutncing aco ta~nce of the league princi ples, for ('oIl dlelaired thte covenant noit ( ottlii't with thte Amehtrletnf (C td onPage Four) ~ I'