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V . L- ThePeople'sl /T ^JfiaSAtiX Advertising^ (iljc yummy liccoru H VQ^^35. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 1, M NO. 8 BOARD REJECTS I t THE PETITION! STUDENTS HAD ASKED FOR DISMISSAL OF PRESIDENT CURSELL fc " Rejection of the petition made by 146 undergraduate of the Univerof South Carolina asking for j the dismissal of Dr. William Spen^ wr Currrll. president of the institution, and the decision to make a thorough investigation of the affairs at the university by a committee of the board were decided upon at a special meeting of the board of Artcstees of the university, recently called by Governor Cooper, ex offiK do chairman. V ? The students petition presented * to the board or trustees at its regular meeting March 18, alleges that toe university had deteriorated under the presidency of Dr. Cuoell, who, it claimed is lacking in inspirational power, nn magnetic, and an ineiFcient executive, incapable of guiding the institution to greater A influence and prestige. The petition W attested, however, to the high integrity, honor and character of Dr. r . Carrel) and to his exalted scholarship March 22 Govenor Cooper, as chairman, gave out a statement to the press in the name of the board ef trustees, in which he stated that "the trustees have no idea of permitting the students to dictate who shall be president," and that at the time they had no intention of discussing Dr. Currell, as he had been ; < dnly elected and the trustees have, fhll confidence in him." Simulta-! neously he made public a letter from him to G. A. Buchanan, Jr., presi-; dent of the student body, which .said i that the board of trustees feels cap-j able of handling the affairs of the j university, and that any time it thinks a suggestion from the student body will aid it in the performance of its duty it will not hesitate to ask for it. The petition of the students wasI dismissed by the unanimous adoption of the following resolutions: "That the letter for March 21 to the petitioning students and theac, companying statement given to the press by Governor Cooper as chairman of the board of trustees in reply to the petition be unanimously approved, and that the board of trustees dismiss the petition for the reason therein stated. ,The by-laws for the government of the university provide for a standing committee of the board of trustees on organization, which is. empowered, among other things, to thoroughly inform itself of the "in- j ternal workings of the university, of the status and work of each and every ifficer and professor and - 1 every officer and proiesor ana i otf the "students," etc. The board of trustees therefore decided to leave the investigation to the committee which is composed of C. E. Spencer, of York: D. R. Coker, of Hartsville; and L. P. Hollis, of Greenville. Because he is a kinsman of Dr. Currell, who might be included in the probe proceedings, Mr. * Spencer requested that some one else be substituted for| him. Governor Cooper was named in his place and he called the initial meeting of the investigators to take place in the Executive chamber here next Mondav. The resolution adopted calling for the .investiga- j tion reads: "T*mt th#? organization commit tee be requested to meet at once and report on the condition of the j university in accordance with the | by-laws.-* investigation wil! be thor-! ough for GoVernor Cooper in his statement of March 22 said that j "the people of the State may be as sured the board of trustees will not slur over the affairs of the university. Its best interests will be safeguarded," ?"1 that the meeting of the board of trustees will not be for "the purpose of examining into the merits of the opinions expressed by the students in their petition but to consider conditions existing in the student body and to discover the cause of these conditions." o ? - * ?-? U7il. The Uomeoeraie veienum vi ?.. , li&msburg county are invited to a dinner to be given in Kingstree under the auspices at Williamsburg chapter, U. D. C. Saturday, May 10, at 2 o'clock. Place to be announced later. v o The Colonial building, combined apartment house an theater. Green? * v.. ? ville, was totally destroyed oy nre Sim day morning. A gale blowing St the time carried burning embers m a southeasterly direction, causing the destruction of the Coco-Cola bottling works garage, and setting fire to a warehouse of the same I company and a dwelling in the ^ Camperdown Mill village a quarter qf a mile distant The flying sparks fce^ame so menacing that residents within a block on all sides of the building moved their household effects in the streets and small blazes on the roofs of the houses added to the labors of the firemen. BONDS WANTED?LAST CALL I will buy your war savings stamps and liberty bonds for spot cash. May 3, your last chance. JAS. L. LEE, Kingstree, S. C. GERMANS KEPT ! TABON ?. S. ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN DESCRIBES DR. SCHWEITZER'S WORK Under "the master spy," Dr. Hugo Schweitzer, German agents in this country reported to Berlin by code every detail of America's business life, kept from the Allies 4,500,000 pounds of explosives and sent overseas the formula for the deadly mustard gas which laid low thousands of American soldiers, according to Francis P. Garvan, alien property custodian in an address at the annual banquet of the National Cotton Manufacturer's Association held in New York last week. Mr. Garvan declared he had for nineteen months been making "a study of German industrial life and its manifestation in the United States." As a result, he said, he was also able to reveal the far-reaching machinations of Dr. Schweitzer, former president of the Bayer Company, which was taken over and reorganized by the alien property custodian. "True it is that the HamburgAmerican line and the North German Lloyd kept faithful tab for Berlin on a thousand details of our business life which came under their observation; that not a ship left our harbors, not a cargo was loaded or unloaded but that some member of it$ organization watched and reported every detail to be sent by code to the German Government," said Mr. Garvan. "But greater than all and forming the foundation of her entire espionage and propaganda system, stood the dye machinery. As long as you were supplied by the "big six," your business had no secret unknown in Berlin. In Berlin you will find a card index system which recites every fact connected with each one of your concerns that can , be of any possible value to your rivals over there. "The head of that system in this "1'intn' fnr vears before the war |1 was Dr. Hugo Schweitzer, president of the Bayer Company. He was given his secret sen-ice number by the imperial minister of war?963,192.637. He came to this country, became a citizen on the instruction of * the German Government, eventually 1 was made the head of the Bayer J Company, and led the espionage ( and propagandist movements here down to the day of his sudden death ' in November, 1917. < "Schweitzer was the inventer of ( the idea of the purchase of the New J York Evening Mail. Schweitzer was 1 the inventor of the idea of the Ger- j man publication 'society. Over thirtytrained chemists, his lieutenants, j are now interned." ! Asserting that Dr. H. F. Albert, commercial attache of the German j embassy in Washington, had turned ' over about $1,5UU,UUU to sen wen zer, Mr. Garvan said the latter had 1 formed the chemical exchange, by ' which all available phenol supply in America was turned away from the manufacture of picric acid for explosives for the Allies with a * profit out of America's pocket, to Germany of $1,650,000. In praising Schweitzer's work, 1 Albert is quoted by Mr. Garvan as 1 saying: "Now one should picture to him self what a military coup would be ' accomplished by an army leader if 1 he should succeed in destrojlng i three railroad trains of forty cars, '> containing four million five hundred j thousand pounds of explosives." Mr. Garvan added the Germans ' "hoped to comer" bromine, produc- * ed only here and in Germany, and 1 dpadlv in its effect when combined |i with nitric gases. ji "At Bogota, N. J., in the New j1 Jersey Agricultural Chemical Com- 1 pany, Dr. Schweitzer employed Dr. Walter Scheele, who was the inven- '< tor in that little town of New Jersey. in 1913. of mustard gas, the, formula of which he transmitted | through Capt von Papen to Germany as soon as the war broke out," continued Mr. Garvan. "This i is the mustard gas which laid low your brothers on the plains of France." ] Profit From One Pie. $587 - - - ( Ample proof that pig dubs pay is contained in reports being received continually by the United States Department of Agriculture from cIud leaders. One report recently received tells of the success of a Tennessee boy who, in May, 1919, invested $50 in a pure-bred gilt, and now figures his profits at $587.35. She farrowed seven pigs, part of ( which the boy sold for $133. With j this money he purchased a boar of j excellent breeding, which he exhib-' ited at the East Tennessee Division! fair, winning the grand champion-; ship of the breed over all exhibits, j He won $87 in prizes, $45 of it in | competition with experienced farm- i < Irs. His ^animals are now valued at j $525. Tins, wun xne money nvm j sales and prize winnings, amount to 1 $745, from which he deducts $157.65 for feed and care, leaving a pro-! fit of $587.35. BONDS WANTED?LAST CALL I will buy your war savings stamps and liberty bonds for spot cash. May 3, your last chance. JAS. L. LEE. Kingstree. J?. C. f THE PR OF The Greatest of / to be Shown at , Tuesday, M< 4;30 to 11 THIS MOTION PICTUR THE ACADEMY THEATRE, MAY 6TH LN BEHALF OF T1 SOME OF THE THING.' THRILLS AND "PUNCHES" . EMBARKATION OF T CAN SOLDIERS?THE MARL! LEAU WOOD, THE "LOST B, THE AIR, CAPTURED GEF DESPERATE FIGHTING OF 1 PICTURES OF THE G WILSON, OF THE STATUE MAN CANNON THAT BOMBj AND MUCH MORE FREE J THE VICTORY LOAN. THE FILM WILL BE II HOPKINS, ACCOMPANIED B"! GLENN FOUGHT OVER THE THIS PICTURE WAS MADE, THING TO TELL US. BRING THE CHILDREI SHOWS. THERE WILL BE N SION TO ANYONE. "HE ENTERED THE F RIGHT?BUY A BOND. MISSIONARIES WANTED Methodist Church Asking for 30w 1 ^ Recruits of Young Men And Women I In order to meet tl.e demand of (tl ;he time which calls for an im- tl nense enlargement: ot tne mission-, w try force of the church, the Worn-' is an's Missionary Council of the, fi Methodist Episcopal Church, South, hi iecided at its annual meeting re- ai rently to develop large plans forse- v :uring new recruits for the home v and foreign fields. An appropria- it tion was made which would provide for a larger teaching force, and for p larger building room at the Scarritt d Bible and Training School in Kan- g >as City, Mo. The Scarritt Institu-? n, tion represents the "finishing h school" for the missionaries of the j j? Southern Methodist Church and ha o: urder to take care of the young men I y and women who are expected to vol- j v unteer for missionary work in the c immediate future, the draining 10 school must neccessarily develop a a larger capacity for instructing a] them. o: 1 ' ?tV?n 1_ During tnc next, iew niuiiuiA uic j? Methodist Episcopal Church, South, y will begin a definite selection of the a missionaries who will be elected to s] work in the home and foreign fields, j d Already many young men and wo- p men of the church are getting in 0" touch with hoadouarters regarding l m'ssionary wo. k, but three hundred 1NV are wanted and it will take some- h time to secure the right workers. < ^ The reason that tlte Methodists willJ a need so many missionaries is be- i jj cause of the Centenary Campaign j e of that denomination. Thirty-five l y million dollars will be raised in the! p South between May 18-25 and the ti expenditure of this money in has-1 w pitals, schools and churches will call! w for many new medical, educational J ti and evangelistic missionaries. ja 0 i._ Tragedy In Court Room ;L ! v Chicago, April 25.?A divorce i K case in Judge Brother's court came V to a dramatic close this afternoon E when Mrs. Elmer R. Simpson shot A her husband, who was on the wit- a ness stand, through the mouth, in-' J dieting a probably fatal wound Simpson was testifying quietly, o Suddenly his wife leaped to her c k y leeu "That's a lie," she cried, and fired, j g Simpson crumpled up in the chair, blood oozing from his mouth. Mrs. j F Sim peon was arrested and court adjourned. o b In Honor of Confederate Soldiers g b Memorial Day Exercises. Opera tl House, Saturday, May 10,12 o'clock: * Prayer?Rev. E. A. McDowell. *1 Song. 11 Address?Rev. ,T. G. Herndon. , ? Song. representation of prize and reading ^ of prize essay?by Mr. Truluck. a Song?"America" w Benediction. " e 41 O u A locomotive engineer dreads a P misplaced switch; a naughty boy a doesn't u BONDS WANTED?LAST CALL I will buy your war savings stamps and liberty bonds for spot s cash. May 3, your last chance. c J AS. L. LEE, Kingstree, S. C. ICE PEACE U1 War Pidures, Acade Theater ry 6th from :30 p. m. E WILL BE SHOWN AT KINGSTREE, S. C? ON 3E VICTORY LOAN. 3 THE PICTURE SHOWS: ALL THROUGH. HOUSANDS OF AMERI*ES FIGHTING AT BALATALLION, A BATTLE IN LMAN BALLOONS. THE [HE AMERICAN ARMY. REAT TRANSPORTS, OF OF LIBERTY, THE GERIRDED PARIS. ALL THIS kND FOR THE SAKE OF * CHARGE OF MR. J. W. i LIEUT. GLENN. LIEUT. SAME GROUND WHERE AND WILL HAVE SOME J FOR THE AFTERNOON [0 CHARGE FOR ADMISIGHT"?YOU DO WHATS FURMAN GLEE CLUB nd Miss Lusby, To Appear Here Next Week On Wednesday evening May 7, in le school auditorium, Kingstree le Furman University... Glee Club ill appear in a concert that promes to be one of the most delightal musical entertainments heard ere this season. The clab is on its nnual State tour which includes nion, Sumter, Kingstree, Bennetsille, Florence and Hartsville in its enerary. ; The Furman Glee Club is comosed of fourteen young men, stuents of tfce University and Prof. eorge Schaefer, director, miss l,ea Lusby, violinist and Mark Osorne, impersonator. Prof. Schaefer ? the well known director of music f the Greenville Woman's College, liss Lusby, who is instructor of iolin at the Greenville Woman's bllege, is considered by many one f the best violinists in the State., .fter a period of study in America lie spent several years in the study f violin abroad. She is not widely noyvn in South Carolina because lis is her first year in the State nd through the Furman Glee Club tie will be introduced to manyhunreds of people who will immediately appreciate the wonderful charm f her skill with the violin. Miss1 .usby is a native of Novia scona, here she spent the greater part of er time before coming to the Unitd States. Mark Osborne, impersontor of the club, is too well known i the State to say much of his taint as an impersonator. He is praccally pne of the best ameteur im-1 ersonators in the State. In addi-' ion to these artists, all of whomJ rill perform, the Glee Club itself1 rill come in for its share of selec-! ions, including quartette numbers nd concert renditions. The personnel of the Glee Club I i as follows: Prof. Scheafer, Missj usby, Mark Osborne, I. C. Davis, j P. W. Anderson, F. K. C. Creech, ' f. R. Weeks, George Blarkhm n, .A.; V. Asians, A G. Allen, W. M.| llackburn, J. Richardson, E. A. IcDowell, Jr., Guy Hill, R. Ricnrdson, C. J. League, and Fred L. ones. The concert will begin at 8:30 'clock, and it is hoped that a large I rowd will be present to greet the oung men when the program beins. Proceeds to go to the Charity 'und of the Kelley Hospital. o I Resolution demanding the "all usiness, not found necessary before ovemment restrictions on private * i naraconrv hp fOTP nut luunu nvwww%M0j | he war, be immediately removed* j ras adopted as the closing act of j he annual convention of the Naional Cotton Manufacturer's Asso-, iation at New York last Friday.' "he association went on record as1 egarding as a fallacy "any declar-l tion that a declining cotton output I nil be for the eventual good of the1 mployees of the trade, believing! hat America can best provide em-1 loyment by increasing its product1 nd lowe?-ing its cost of manufact-! re." BONDS WANTED?LAST CALL I will buy your war savings tamps and liberty bonds for spot ash. May 3. your last chance. JAS. L. LFF. Kfngstree. S. C. i 1 4 *- T '' *r > 1 .V ITALIANS STILL IN WAY OF PEACE EVERYTHING IN READINESS TO DELIVERING PEACE TERMS TO GERMANY With everything in readiness for the handing over of the peace treaty to the Germans at Versailles, the Italian situation looms up as an impediment in the way of unanimous agreement on the part of the Entente and associated governments. The situation m ltaiy sun remains critical, the people demanding the fulfillment of the claims of the Italian delegates to Fiume and the Dalmatian coast and islands. So tense is the situation that Vittorio Orlando, the Italian premier, at a conference with Thomas Nelson Page, the American ambassador to Italy, left Mr. Page with the understanding that the premier did not intend to return to Paris for the signing of the peace treaty. Great demonstrations have been held in Italy to demand the realization of Italy's aspirations and premier Orlando gave the ambassador the impression that, owing to the critical situation and the fact that the premier's action either in going to Versailles or remaining away from the peace conference would have serious consequences, it would be preferable to have the trouble come from without Italy rather than from within the kingdom. A dispatch from Paris says that while the non-return of Orlando would give the situation a more se nous aspect tnan aia me uepanurc of the Italian delegation from Paris, the Allied and associated powers would proceed to the signing of the treaty, notwithstanding Italy's nonparticipation. The main German delegates have arrived at Versailles, but it is probable the peace treaty will not be delivered to them until Friday, as on the previous day, "May Day", a twenty-four-hour strike, which will dislocate transportation and com- i munication, is on the program of the labor unions. The council of three conferred throughout Tuesday with Baron Ma-1 kino and Viscount Chinda, of the! Japanese delegation, with reference' to Kiau-Chau, and he Belgian dele- j gates, who are pressing for the pay- j ment of their share of the repara- j tions, owing to the stringent finan-1 rial situation in Belgium. No definite decision on her question wasl reach oil. The British peace delegation has] given out its views with regard to' that section of the covenant of the league of nations dealing with the] Monroe Doctrine. It is declared tnat; the Monroe Doctrine and similar! understandings "have shown them-; selves in history to be not instru-! ments of national ambition," but guarantees of peace. It is expressly stated that the Monroe Doctrine "has become an international -understanding.". It is reported that the first meet- j ing of the league of nations proba-1 bly will be held in the White House! at Washington in October of the1 present year with Woodrow Wilson presiding. Washington, April 28.?Although the peace conference in plenary ses-; sion failed to take up ihe question; of responsibility for the war, offi- j cials here were unanimous tonight; 11 ~ * L - nonno frPflV ! in tneir oeuex umi i~_ ? , as delivered to the German pleni-! potentials will call for the trial of William Hohenzollern, former Em- j peror of Germany, before a court of the associated powers. Trial of the former Emperor for! a "supreme offense against international morality and the sanctity of treaties," the State Department announced today, had been included in the recommendations of the peace conference commission on responsi-. bility. These recommendations are embodied in four articles, which were made public by the State Department without comment and which* the commission proposes to insert in the hnai treaty. The articles specify that the j former Emperor is not to be tried I "for an offense against criminal | law" and that the international | trial court shall be composed of fiv? judges, one to be appointed by each of the five great powers, Great Britain, United States, Japan, Italy and France. It is further provided that the associated governments shall request Holland to deliver up the former Emperor. Not alone, though, will the head of he house of Hohenzollem be tried, but the commission's recommendation provide that all persons accused of acts in violaion of the international rules of warfare snall j be brought before international rib-1 unals and, if found guilty, shall be, given the penalties of international law. Some officials today, said this provision would bring before the associated government's other mem bers of the house of Hohenzollem and such other leaders of extreme German militarism and cruelty as Gen. von Bissing, military governor of Belgium, and Admiral Von Tir BONDS WANTED?LAST CALL I will buy your war savings stamps and liberty bonds for spot cash. May 3, your last chance. JAS. L. LEE, Kingstree, S. C. * BEER AND WINE COMEUNDERBAN UNCLE SAM PROPOSES LITERAL ENFORCEMENT OF THE PROHIBITION ACT New York, April 24.?The Government proposes a literal enforce- i ment of the War-Time Prohibition Act, including a ban on production and sale of all beers and wines, whether or not they are fhtoxicatthe Department of Justice announced last week through a special representative in the federal court While no steps will be taken to prevent brewing epnding a court determination of the law's constitutionality raised by the brewers of the district, they will operate in peril of prosecution, according to the statement of William C. Fitts, special counsel appearing for Attorney General Palmer in the beer litigation. The attorney advised Judge A. N. Hand, who heard arguments on the government's motion to dismiss the suit brought on behalf of the national brewing interests by the Jacob Hoffman Brewing Company to restrain the federal authorities from interfering with its production of 2% per cent beer, that the Department of Justice did not know and did not care whether beer of the strength indicated was intoxi eating. The law prohibited sale after June 30 of distilled beverages, as well as manufacture after April 20, and sale after June 30 of "beer, wine and other intoxicating malt or vinous liquors for beverage purposes," pending the demobilization of the military forces, he said. The words "beer" and "wine" were not qualified, in the opinion of the government, he added, and the apparent congressional intention to stop the "waste" of grains and fruits in the production in any strength would be enforced. With "half the world" looking to America for food, Mr. Fitts contended, the necessity of its conservation was greater "even than on the day of Chateau-Thierry," and it was equally essential that liquors be withheld from public sale while the army and navy were undergoing demobilization. To this statement Judge Hand added his opinion that the war was of the complainant's contentions. o Nursing Class Begins Miss Belle Reece, insturctress for the course in home nursing has arrived, and regular lessons have begun. There are three classes daily, one at 10:30 in the morning one at 4:30 in the afternoon, and another at 8:30 in the evening. The lessons last only one hour and a half. Thus an opportunity is furnished to all to take the course, housekeepers, school teachers, clerks, and anyone else who wishes to join. The course - it is very interesting . and not at ail arduous. All classes meet on the third floor of the Kelley hospital. Sewing to Be Done Mrs. T. E. Arrowsmith, states that there are still about two dozen refugee pinafores to be made. She wishes those who are willing to help with this sewing to see her and get some of these garments from the Red Cross room. Please come forward and assist with this work. Mr.- P. G. Gourdin, Publicity Chairman. pitz, who conveived and advocated the submarine campaign. Trials of the former German Emperor for a "supreme offense against international morality and nf wnitiVs" has been , UIC saiivkivj . t_ determined upon by the Allied and , asociated powers. Holland will be required to surrender the royal refugee for arraignment before a court composed of five judges named by the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan. The State Department made pubi lie today proposed articles for insertion in he peace tretay, to be (considered this afternoon by the peace conference in plenary session, providing for the trial of William j II., of Hohenzollern, and also re(quirying Germany to deliver alL persons within its borders charged * ?Va/I oofc in vio witn "navinjf caciviku >?.? ... lation of the laws and customs of war," for arraignment before military tribunals of the Allied and associated powers whose Jftionals suffered through such offenses. I Paris, April 28.?At today'splenary session of the peace conference the council of four presented the text of a peace treaty provision for the prosecution of former Emperor William by a court of five judges "for a suoreme offense against international morality and the sanctity of treaties." The court is to be composed of Representatives 4of the United States, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and Fiance. lit will fix the punishment of the accused whose extradition is to be asked. o Crooks understand the art of get ting out or financial straits. BONDS WANTED?LAST CALL I will buy your war savings stamps and liberty bonds for spot cash. May 3, your last chance. , JAS. L. LEE, Kingstree, S. C.