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V * - S C F VOLUME XXXVI. LAURENSSO CAOLTH, ED SDY ER BRDJT[RHBD U[AO8 Railroad Me* will not Ac. ccpt cut PLAN FIGHT AGAIST ROADS Railroad Men of the United States will not PeneuwfuIly SlbgAut to Wage Re ductions, Say Meadu of Iailroad Unions In Cleveland. Cleveland, 0., Jan. 29.-Heads of the three big railroad - brotherhoods in formal statements here tonight said the railroad men of the country "will not peacefully submit" to the wage re ductions, which Ohicago dispatches say the railroads will seek from the United States Railway Labor Board in' a petition to be presented Monday. W. G. 'Lee, president of the-Brother hood of Railroad 'Trainmen, W. S. Cater, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and E'ngine men and 'L. E. Shoplyard, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, made this declaration in formal state ments. A similar declaration was made Thursday by Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of 1L comotive Engineers. All the brother hood executives doclare that reports of decreases in 'the cost of living are not borne out by actual conditions, but are the result of propaganda; that the wages of railway employes did not in crease ae rapidly as did the cost of living or as much; and that railway men are not receiving as high a stand ard of wages aw are paid in many other Industries. Mr.' Lee asserted that In his opin Ion, 'some if not the 'greater ;portion of the .business depression .has been -- -brought about solely for the purposo of .prejudicing the public in the in terest of a reduction in wages gen erally." Mr. Carter declared that "notwith standing all the wage incroases nate either by the railroad administration labor board it can be shown that be cause of the great increase in tho efficiency of ra!lroad emlployes there has been no practical increase i wage c"sts compared with product." Mr. Sheppard asserted that "to ad mit tit-A in this country of ours it is necessary t make an onslaught on laibor at thli tile, after all the coun try has done for the railroads is ab solutely un-American." Messrs. Lee, Carter and She~ppard also pointed out that railroad employe is a piece ;workfer, laid off an(d not paid when railroad traf!ic is light. They also took the position that bofore the railroads could present a request for wage reductions to the board, they would flist have to present them to the ainen and negotiotion f-iling there then appeal to the board Mrs. Lucksi Habb Mrs. Lucien 'Babb died at her home. in 'Dials township Thursday, d anuary 20, and was buried the following day at Bablin Creek church, the last rites being attended by a large concoiurse of friends and relatives. Mrsin. Ba bb, 'whio was about 70 years of alge, died frorn the effects of burns w'hich she received several days before wheni her cloths were ignited while she was standing in front of the fire. She is survived by -her husband and several children. T1oo Mutch Territory. With an inexperienced printer in the composing room last week, a line In the advertisement of Mr. II. TJerry, which was to have boen stricken ou.t, was loft in the advertisement, causing a conflict in statementswhich was eas ily detected as an error. Mr. Terry originally intended to call his sale a half-.price sale, but changed his nind when he decided to have a sale on his entire stock. When his copy was se cured, hotvover, the half--price heading was marked out, but through an over eight a 'part of 'It remained and was ;printed without Mr. Terry aeeing a -proof. The 'mistake was one which may occur in a printing office almost any time. . Mr. (l. P. MInter epen~t Friday in .Mcflee, wvhere ,ho attended the "Orch'ard Day" celebration, gottent) p by the oitizona of that commrum-t)'. COTHEAN CHOSEN ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ON TIULD BALLOT Greenville Mai Elected to Supreme Court t. Sucoeed Ilydrik. Give Up Seat In Next Two Weeks. Oolumbia, Jan. 26.-Thomas P. Cothran, of Greenville, speaker of the lower house of the general assembly, was today elected associate justice of the -tate SuDreme court to f1ll the va cancy caused by the recent death of Associate Justice Daniel Edward Iy drick. The choice came on the third ballot, -when Mr. Cothran received 106 votes, Thomas S. Sease, of Spartan burg, 27 and J. S. Carter, of Bamborg, 33. The names of Judge Edward McIver, of Cheraw and Judge R. W. Memninhi ger of Charleston, iwere withdrawn at the end of .the second ballot. On the first ballot the vote was: Car ter 28, Cothran 75, Memminger 4, Mc Iver 6, Sease 9. Second ballot: Carter 27, Cothran 82, Memminger 13, McIver 15, Sease 30. Bern lu Abbeville Thomas Perrin Cothran, recognized as one of the ablest lawyers and legis lators that South Carolina has pro duced In the past decade, 'was born In Abbeville, October 24, 1857. Ils father was the late Judge Jaimes C. Cothran, also a (1itinguished lawyer and law maker, and his mother, before her marriage, was Miss Emma C. Perrin. Both iarents were nativos of Abbe ville, the father having judicial cire and also At one time a member of con gross from his districts. His mother caie from a distinguished family. Mr. Cothran in his boyhood attended the public schools of Abbeville, going from there to the University of Vir ginia, from the law and academic do partment of which .institution he was graduated in 1868. He returned to his 'home and the samo year was admitted to the .bar by the supreme court of South Carolina. He began the prac tice of his profession in Abbeville to become the junior partner in Lhe law firm of Cothran, Wells, Ansel and Cothran. le retained that connection until the death of his father, the senior member, and 111n 1903 he, with his brother and Alvin C. Dean, formed 'the partnievrship of Cothran, Dean and otlhran, for a iumhbor of years past one of the best known law firms of the state. On January 6, 1886 Mr. Cothran was married to Miss lone Smith, of Abbe I ille, ho (ie(1 the following year. lHe was never married again. Mr. Cothran's career as a lawyer In Greenville has been one of em'inence, and for a number of years he has been looked upon as one of the lead era in his profession in the state. With his associatos, ho has taken part in some of the . most imiprtant logal fights, both civic and criminal, in the Piedmont soction. Recently he was honored by being elected president of the State Bar Association. As a Greenvi'le eltizen. 'Ir. Coth ran has always taken .p)ide in the growth, dievelopment andl progress of his adopted city andl county and has wor'ked unlconsingly and effectively for their ad vancement along all lines. lie has demitonst rated this pridoe by his work -in the le'gislature, where hp fathered legislation for progrossive mtovements in Greenville city and county, the culmination of which to (lay stands as monuments to his work. ie is at present a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Young Men's Business League, in the 'work of wvhich organiation heo has always shown much interest. To every cause promtising to advance the wol fare of the community heo has gilven freely in accordance with htis means. lie is also chnirmtan of the countty Democratic executrive committe, Mr. Cothrant was first electedl 'to the Housie of Representatives from Greenville county it 1903, and he0 has served continuoumsly ever since, with the exception of one term 'wfhen he dlid not offer for re-eleotion. He ntade an enviable record from the start as a legislator, and in 1918 he wvas elect ed Speaker of the House to fill out the unexpired termi of Jameos A. Hoyt, who .resigned beca'une he moved to another state, He was elected again for .the full 1919-20 term, and at the opening of the present session ofl the legislature heo was chosen to the Speakerehip for tihe third time. Mr.' J. S. Machent, 'who moved to Greenvilbe several weeks a~go, has been spending~ several days in the city on busineas. GIVES MILLION TO FOREIGN MISSIONS Col. Brown, of Anderson, Provides Big Bequest In Will For Baptist Board. Anderson, S. C., Jan. 26.-Approxi mately $1,000,000 In .bonds and per sonal and real estate will go to the foreign mission board of the Southern Baptist convention upon the death of Miss Varina D. Brown and Miss Bessie F. Tribble, beneficiaries under the will of the late Colonel Josaph Nowton Brown, who died at his home hero Monday. The will, made public today, showed that Colorel Brown, who at the time of his death was the ranking surviving officer in South Carolina of the Con federate Army also left $50,000 in trust for Anderson College and An derson County Hospital together, and $15,000 to Connie Maxvell Orphanage at Greenwood, S. C. The only other bequest was $12,000 to Mrs. Eimma F. Tribble, of Anderson. J. THOMAS PEDE1{ DEAD Well Known Citizen of Gray Court Passes Away After Illness of Several Weeks. J. Thomas Peden, of Gray Court, a well known and popular citizen all over the county, died at his home in Gray Court Friday jnorning at 10 o'clock after an illness of several weeks. He had not been well in sev eral mont.hs and while his death was not entirely unexpected it was a great shock to his community. The funeral services were held at Gray Court Sun day afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. C, T. Squires, conducting the services. A large number ' people from here, in cluding Mayor John A. Franks, attend ed the funeral. Mr. Peden was a native of the lower part of Greenville county, but moved to Gray Court as a young man shortly after his marriage -to Miss Mary Dor roli, of tbhat place. He continued to live there until his death, being at various times engaged in farming and in business. On several occasions -he 'w-as put fprward as a candidate for sheriff of the county and while he was not elected, lie received a very flatter ing vote. He took an active interest %!n the Dorroh Presbyterian church, at Gray Court, and was one of its ruling elders. Mr. Peden was about 68 years of age an( is survived by his widow and the following children: D. D. and Lowers Peden, of Gray Court; Charles Peden, of Fairview; Mrs. W. F. Stewart, of Fountain Inn and Mrs. Carrie Waymer, of St. George. His youngest son, Eu gene Peden, was killed on the hattle field In France. GROVEl II HERDOL1 SEEN IN GERMANY Attempt wus 11ecently Mide, to hlii. nap Draft-Dodger at Ebersbach, Says Paper. Borlin, Jan. 26.--An attempt was re cently made at Ebersbach to kidnap Grover Cieveland Hergdoill, American dIraft evader, andl a companion named Stretcher. Five men in an automobile, two of whom were American military intelilgence ofmleers andl one an Am erican sergeant, madle the attempt, ac cording to the Ebersbach Zeitung. Tlergdloll was being driven to the Ehersbach railway station to meet wedlding guests when the -automobile was suddenly surrounded and its oc cuipants ordlered to surrender. The party attempted to escape and one of the Americans fired, the news Paper says, wounding a German friend of liorgdoll in the right 'hand. Police ofmiers appeared and the five men fled, but the two alleged inteili gence oficors and another of the men wer'e arrested later.* Grover Clevelandl Iergdloll,- wanted b~y United States authorities on the charge of being a draft ovadler, was arrestedi in the home of his mother, widlow of a -wealthy Philadelphia brew er in January, 1920. Ho 'was tried, convicted of being deserter fromi the army andl sentenced to five years at hard labor. Hie began 'serving the sentence on March 30 last. 1ie was permit-ted to go home to Philadelphia in the custody of two guavdsi on May 20 on the plea that he wvished to get $150,000 in gold which he had hidden in Maryland while a fugitive. The following (lay he left his home .by a way unknown, jumped into his automobile and fled iwith Isaac Stoteher. his chauffeur FULL COUNCIL RESCINDS ACTION Road Superintendent Bolt Holds to Job but One Policeman Left Off. Wdth all the members of city council present Monday night and with Jno. A. Franks, the nowly elected mayor, pre aiding, the action taken at the partially attended meeting Monday night of last week 'wben two city employees were displaced, was rescinded. The vote on rescinding the action was by secret ballot and resulted in a tie which Mayor Franks broke by casting his ballot in favor of rescinding. Alder man Dial made the motion to rescind and Alderman Moore seconded it. Prior to :ction by Council, Mr. Dor roh appeared and stated that under the circumiistances, where he had been elected to fill a job that had not been declared vaeant, that he wotild not ac cept the place; that lie had understood that Mr. 'Bolt was not giving satisfac tion and that -he had applied fur the job thinking that there would be a vacancy. Under the latest action of council, Carlisle Bolt retains his position as road overseer, but J. V. Senn, who al so lost his place at the last meeting. does not proilt in the deal. Council took the position hat Mr. Senn was employed only temporarily and that need for his services 'has passed. Former Chier V. R. Blakely, however, does not retain the iplace to which he was elected. I)EA'H AT CiOSS ilLL, Gus H1ipp, of ('linton, Dies at Hlome of his Son-in-Law Siulnday Night. Cross 1,111, Jan. 31.-Quite a sudden death occurred here last night when Gus Hi.pp, aged, 72, died at the home of his daughter, 'Mrs. Samuel D. Aus tin. Mr. Hipp's home is near Clinton. lie came to Cross Hill last Friday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Austin, and had pl)anned to go today, in company witb Mrs. Austin, to Yisit a son, Clarence, who lives at Abbeville. He complained yesterday afternoon of a pain, in the nature of acute indigestion. A pIhy sician was called in, and lie was much improved. Mr. Iipp was sitting in his chair talking and laughing in his usual cheerful way, last night about nine o'clock, when suddenly his head drop l)ed forward. His son-in-law, Air. Aus tin, seeing him, caught hii and laid 'him on the bed, where lie expired in about a minute. The deceased was a widower, his wife having been dead several years. lie leaves seven children, four sons and three daughters, all married ex capit one son. Tho funeral will be held tomorrow at lHurricane church, below Clinton, in which community he has always lived. Will 1111)1 , of .lountv'ille, Claude -iipp, of Cross Hill, Clyde lipp, of Greenwood, are neilhews, and Mrs. M. L. Crisp, of MoNutville, is a niece of the (eceased. Signed With The Spinners Announcement was made from Greenville last sweek that. D~eXitt Ceth ran, the local south-paw, had pult his mit to a Greenville contract and~ ill play with the Spinner~s in the South Atlantic bhase ball league next season. Cothran, who has played1 in several wvestern leagues besidles a lit tie local 'work 'here last season, ended0( the summer in .M Illion Dollar league In Georgia where he coplped eight out of ten gaimes. Local backers predict that 'he will finish the season next year at or around the top) of the ladder. Res ignis as Orphanaitge Hlead Rev. Tr. C. O'D~ell, nattiv(e of this coun ty, who has been superintendent of the 10p)worthI Orphanage at Columbia for several years, has handed in his resignation on account of failing health, the resignation to take place in June. Rev. O'D~ell will retain his conneetion with the orphanage as field representative. Ills successor as superintendlent will lie 1Rev. WV. D. Roberts, of Dillon. Miss Nettle Avery Mliss Nettlie Aveiy, eldest daughter of Mr and Mlrn. S. J .Avery, of the -1au f'ens Mill. d11ed at the home of her~ .parentr. Wedlnesdlay and was laid to rest in the 'Laurens eemetery Tlhurs (lay. She was 34 years of age and had been in de'clining health for some time. She wvas a consistent nmember of the Secondl .aptist chur~ch and had many friends 'who deeply rc'gretted her pass ingr. FREEDOMt OF PMHISONEIS WAS SHORT-LIVFED Four Young Prisoners Escape from County Jail but are Tcaptured. Four young white boys secured a temporary lease on their freedom last Tuesday night when they made a get away from the county jail by burning a hole in the ceiling, going out on the roof throulgh a sky-light and then slid ing down a lightning rod. All four or them were re-arrested before t'he end of the week so that their freedom was short-lived. Floyd Outz, charged with house breaking and larceny near Kin ards, and Edd Finley, a fugitive from the state reformatory at Florence, were found in a car box at the rail road station by Offcers Wham and Martin shortly after their escape and were brought to the city lock-up as suspicious characters without the po licemen knowing of their recent es cape. Ansel Holtzclaw, another es capod prisoner from the reformatory, was captured the following day at Clinton and Leonard Garner, charged with house breaking and larceny at Lydia Mill, was re-captured in Clinton the latter part of the week. 'Ple two fugitives from the state re formiatory have been carried back to 1-lorence by ofilcers who came for them, but the other two reniain in jail for trial at the spring term of crim inal court. J. W. COOPER DE.I) Burled at Un ion Churelh Thursday, Rev. Coleman Conducting the Ser vices. J. W. Cooper, a well known citizen of the Ekoix section of the county, an uncle of Gov. Rob. t A. Cooper, died suddenly at his home last Wednesday and was buried Thursday at Union church, Rev. J. P. Coleman, pastor of Poplar Springs church, conducting tho services. His death came entirely un expectedly an( was a great shock to his relatives and friends. He was a consistent mnotnber-of- the 'Poplar Springs Baptist church and had re cently been elected a deacon, though he had not been formally installed. He was 61 years of age and is survived by his widow and several sons and daugh ters. (Grouind flog iay According to the weather prognos ticators today will be groundhog day in Laurens, as elsewhere, and weather conditions during the next six weeks will be largely regulated by tho anties of the said grountidhog as he enmerges from his winter lair this morning. Groundhog lore is to the efTect that if the little animal comes out of his hole and is able to see his shadow he will be frightene(d at it and return to his warm bed to take another six weeks' nap. On the other hand, strange as it may seem, If lie find the weather (lark and cloudy so that he cannot see .his shadow, he will brave the weather and come olit to stay, knowing that balmly weather is on the way. So, if it is cloudiy todlay the early ga rdeners may well begin to gather up the hoes andl rakes and~ order their seed for plan ting. Thbree Ellied, Onie llurt at CentrAl. G'rerenville, Jan. 30.--PTree men wvere instantly killed and another se riously ittured when the au tomtobil e in which they were ridling was struck b~y Southern IUailway passenger traini No. 37, at a grade crossing at Cen tral, oarly this afternoon. The dead are W. 31. Strickland, 415, driver of' the car; N. F0. StrIekland, 410; A. J. Sentell, 37. W. 1. Miller is the injuiredl man, he being in a hospital here with a chance for recovery. All are wvell known citizens of Central. For Near East RelIef The Advertiser is in r'eceiptt of $1 0 from Miss Minnie Wallace for the Neat' IEast Relief. Thbis will he forwarded to Columbia within the next few (lays. Shoulid any one else desire to contri bute to this fund, they may mtake out chteck to' "i'0. 0. Black, Treas." andxr mall it to The Advertiser offlce or to Mir. Black In Columbia. In a recent lettem acknowledginig checks forward ed to him, Ito -says "Please keep up this york in the interest of -humanity." Income Tax Meni liere M est's. 1101llluger and G1Ibert, dleputy collectors from tihe office of the in ternal revenue collector, arrived in the city yesterdlay and wvil 'e at the -post otlce today and Thursuay to assist Income tax payers 'in making out their returns, . SOVI[T COLP8E IS IN[VITABl[ Millions Begin to Suffer Privations COLLAPSE MAY BRING ANARCHY Paris Conforoneo Is lsclosing Condi tions Under Bolslievistic 11ule in Russuia. People in Direst Straits as Rlesult of Internal Trotbles. New York, Jan. 30.-The veil which for many months has completely hid den conditions in Russia, due to the action of soviet leaders in barring visitors from the rest of the world, is being withdrawn u little by the confer ence, now in session in Paris, of the all-Russian constituent asseinbly. Prominent exiled Russians who op posed the rule of Lenine and Trotzky are now subineiging their differences in an effort to lresent a united front against Bolshevism. They are disclos ing in Paris replorts from associates still in Russia picturing conditions not before' clearly )resented to the world. These reports are being received by cable by A. J. Sack, director of the Russian information bureau, who is the authorized spokesman in this country of all the Russian elements opposed to Bolshevism attending the Paris conference. In a statement to (lay summing up the reports which have reached him, Mr. Sack explains why the conference is to be regarded as 'an event of international importance and Incidentally he discloses for the first time that there is a famine in Russian villages this winter "probably not less acute than In China." "Thirteen million :people have be gun to suffer acute starvation this January," he said, "and seven mil lions already in December of the past year." On the basis of the data he hs submitted he declares, on behalf of his associates that the downfall of Bolshevism is inevitable. His statement says, in part: "The situation within Bolshevist Russia is critical. "The econolic life of the country is dcstroyed, according even to the Bol shevist ofllcial data. According to No. 254 of the official Bolshevist daily, Pravda, which contains a comparative table of manufacturing outputs for the first half of tho year of 1920, as com pared with the corresponding period of 1914, the present outiput of iron in Bolshevist 11ussia is only 12 per cent of the output before the war; steel,'4 per cent; cotton, 20 per cent; coal, 25 'per cent. The area under cultivation Is only 2.1 per cent as eompared with land cultivated in 191-1. Tihe Bolshevist regime is both a pol1itical andi 'cbnomnic failurle, and its downfall may 1)0 expected at any moe mlent. After that, Russia may iplunge into compilete anarchy. if this will happen, the Russian cirisis will last for many years, keeping all E'urope and the rest of tihe world under' great stra in and preventing anywhere the r'eturin to nlormlal economic conditions. "It is of importance, therefore, for tile cuntire world that the dow nfall of lHolshe(visim ini Russia should1( not mark an Increase of a narehy in the 'ounutry hc'' on the contrary should stir upi priocesses that wou 1ld bring about speedly politiclal1 iand economic r-ecuper-~ at ion of Hussin. Tis is posstible only on two condlitions: first- --that. the Rus sian democratic forces should( 1)0 iro p('rly org~anlized and re'ady to work at the time Ru lssinul opens for their ac tivity, 'aud the other is that the world shiould( conmc to thle realization that tile Russian 'problemr is the centra'~l l'ur opean plem~lCi aind thierefore, the cenltral world problem of today, and that the forces that wvork for Russia's regeneration should( be given all the moral and material supp~ort they need for tile successful fulfillment, of the great task before them. "The importance of thle present Ruissi'n conference in Paris is in that it 1w the foundation for unity of all the hussian dlemlocratic forces Opposed to Bolshevism, and that It secures for thenm actIve sympathy and co-operation of the international deomocratic forces, We look upon tis confereneo 'with great hope, trus-ting that it opens the wayv enr' Rus' andl thle world's re generation."