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gSSjt-. ...... . . ....,, > * < ^2 &gm* ^' * g? Ibc fount!) Iccotfi. g S/ni.. 25. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1919. NO 40 ?????????i? * TO ORGANIZE BIG COTTON COMPANY SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION VOTES TO ESTABLISH BANK AND EXPORT CORPORATION At the meeting of the South Carolina Cotton Association held in Columbia last week resolutions were adopted providing for the formation * 1 ovnArt ror 01 a oanKing. uuot wm ?. ? poration capialized at $2,000,000 to handle the cctton of the State, and put itself on record as favoring'the diversification of farming so that only surplus acreage \^uld be planted to cotton recommended certain legislation beneficial to the cotton planters, igcl iding the assessment of , twenty-five cents on every bale of cotton, to be applied by the State r warehouse commissioner to an insurance fund to reduce the insurance on cotton, and the creation of a cotton commissioH. The association also thanked various public Officials, officer of the associ tion, the press and other agencies >r their untiring zeal in the movement for an increased price for cotton. There were fully 500 delegates present from every county in the State. s R. M. Mixson, of Williston, was elected pres dent of the association to succeed J. Skottowe Wannamaker, retiring president; J. H. Claffy, of Orangeburg. vice-president; Mrs. Hugh R. Ciinkscales, of Columbia, secretary, and J. T. Mackey, of Camden, treasurer. The central committee will consistj B af the following members from each I congressiona1 district: First B. F. ! McLeod, of Charleston; Second, Geo. L. Toole, of Aiken; Third, John P. j Stribling, of Seneca; Fourth, J. B j fe Cannon, of Spartanburg; Fifth, L. I.' ' Guion, of Camden; Sixth, T. L. Manning, of Dillon; Seventh, T. J. Kervin, _ of Sumter. J. S. Wannamaker, J. H. Claffy and . B. F. McLet d were reelected as South , Carolina's members on the board of of the American Cotton As sociation. Throughout the three sessions ' of the convention, morning, afternoon dp and evening, prominent men deliver1 ed addresses depreciating the future M>f the cotioi crop and pre<licting thai mf the ultimate fate of the industry lay | r in the hand of the farmers, who could j control the situation by organization j and an adequate system of holding I in warehouses. The keynote of the I convention was the assertion that it! was an economic fallacy to dump the fc* ?>Hnn cwir on the market at one | ? time, that the correct method was to ( warehouse it and gradual!^ feed it j } to the consumers throughout the I ? twelve-months period. Among those who delivered address- j es were: Walter P. Drown, editor of! the New York Commercial: E. D.; L Smith, Un;te<l States Senator: Har-1 vey Jordan, of Atlanta, campaign director of the American Cotton Association; Ccl T. J. Shackelford, of' Athens. G&., treasurer of the Ameri? can Cotton Association; former Con- j gressman A. F. Lever, commissioner j of the Federal Farm Loan Board; D. S. Murphy, of the Bureau of Markets, United Stites Department of Agri-' culture. Following the passage of the resolution providing for the organization of the banking, trust and export cor-1 poration, the following committee was appointed to organize the proD "-J** ^ Ajf rvoe Aro n (rpKurtr JCV'i. o. uai v 4uvop) chairman; F. D. Bates, Orangeburg; John L. McLaurin, Bennettsville; D. j D. Wannamaker, St. Matthews; R. I. Manning, Sumter; Lee G. Holleman,' Anderson; A. J. A. Perritt, Darlington; B. C. Matthews; Newberry; D.1 R. Coleman, Winnsboro; Charles H. I Barron, Columbia; Lowndes J. Brown-; ing, Union; R. B. Laney, Cheraw; J. Swinton Whalev, Charleston. k ? ; - Pay For Managers of Election ? r For the information of those who ; W acted as managers of the special | election in the county in September,' " and who are entitled to receive pay j for their services, are aavisea oy me Comptroller that this being a special election there are no funds available with which to settle their claims at this time. When the General Assembly conveues in January it will be asked to make an appropriation to I cover such claims and it is the opniion of the Comptroller that the money * will be available in March. COAL MINERS' STRIKE ENDED UNION LEADERS ORDER MINERS TO RESUME WORK IMMEDIATELY. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 10.?The coal miner's strike is ended. With but one dissenting vote, the general com muiee 01 mo umu:u :uiue ??ui ivcio of America, in session here this afternoon, voted to accept President Wilson's prouosal for immediate return to work pending settlement of their wage controversy with operators by a commission to be appointed by him. Telegrams were sent out tonight to the four thousand locals of the union by international officials of the mine workers instructing the men to return to work immediately. Operators tonight nredicted full resumption of operations Friday and shipment of coal from the mines beginning Monday morning. Miners, operators and government officials alike were highly gratified over the settlement tonight and all sides appeared confident of a final satisfactory settlement of the fight by the commission. The action today ends a tie-up ofj the coal industry of more than five J weeks duration and one which was j in its effects than 1 IIIVI t IU1 ? any' other in the history of the coun-! try. As a result of the strike the | country was fast approaching a com-; pletc shutdown .> industry and widespread suffering among its 190.0(H).000 inhabitants. o SENTENCE AFFIRMED Dismissal is Penalty Fixed for Aviator Chamberlain Washington, Dec. 8.?Sentnce of dismissal imposed by a naval courtmartial on Capt. Edmund George " - A - ~' it"*. ?W? O _ Chamberlain, an aviator in me marine corps, on charges growing out of his. sensational claims of having defeated a vastly superior force of German airships on the western front, was approved Monday by Secretary Daniels. Chamberlain is a native of San An-. tonio. Texas. His case became one of 1 unusual interest to the sendee and of-' ficials of the navy department and of j the marine corps were sent overseas to investigate every point involved. Chamberlain claimed that on July' 28, 1918, on a trip over tre British j front, he had fought with twelve Ger-1 man plans, destroyed five of them, I damaged two others, and sweeping | earthward with a damaged machine,' scattered a detachment of German cnlHiovs He said that after landing | he took a German prisoner by pre-1 tending that a compass was a bomb and then carried a wounded French. officer back to safety. Denial of the exploit by the British ; officers led to an investigation, Cham- j berlain contended that the failure of | the British flyers to corroborate his story was because the admission that* an American officer had used a British machine would have resulted in their court-martial. Witnesses in Chamberlain's behalf testified that he had landed in a British plane on the date mentioned in his official report, j Chamberlain's case now goes to' President Wilson for final decision i o PERSHINp AT FLORENCE General Makes a Short Address Toj Admirers ?? / Florence, Dec 5.? Traveling in j private Pullman cars, attached to a i regular train, General Pershing and his staff passed through Florence last Friday night on the way to Camp Jackson. The train stopped heie twenty minutes and hundreds gathered around it, eager to see General Pershings and shake his hand. The general left his supper to greet his admirers and made a short speech 1 from the platform of his car, in which! he expressed pleasure at being,- in j " ^ ^ " ??'! the boys t ^OUin V>ai Ulliia, aiivt of the Thirtieth and Eight-first divi- J sions for their fine service in France, j He thanked the people also for the! splendid support they had given the I army during the war. The general's words were loudly cheered. Hundreds shook his hand, a rapid-fire conversation being kept up all the while. Gen. Pershing stood on the rear platform until the train pulled away into the! darkness. ; - * ^.%> A V. ' * SOUTH CAROLINA SERVICE MEMORIAL FULL EXPLANATION OF PROJECT SET FORTH BY COM- , M1TTEE IN CHARGE To the people 01 soutn Carolina: To clear up ceitain impression.; which seem to be current relative to the proposed memorial building and ' to set forth the objects for which the campaign for $400,000.00 is being prosecuted the South Carolina Memorial Commission deems it expedient to make ihc following statement: The C( neral A semb'y of 1919 passed a joint i.-solution, approved. March 7. 1919. providing for the, creation of a committee, composed of i Governor R A. Cooper, as chairman and ex-Governor Richard I Manning J as vice-chairman, and fourteen other members, two lrom each of the seven ' congressional districts of the State., This commission was empowered to, erect a suitable memorial building of j "architectural beauty and appropri-; ateness at the Capital of the State, upon grounds now owned by the State and held by the Board of Trustees of the University of South Caro- i lina," the structure "to be designed I as a memorial building," which will j "preserve in marble or bronze or oth- j er imperishable form the names of all : South Carolinians, whether soldiers, j sailors, nurses or other workers in j the cause of liberty, who offered their j lives as the supreme sacrifice in the j winning of the world war,'' ana I wherein will be placed all the records, i data, memoranda, and other manu-; scripts and documents historically ( portraying, describing or otherwise bearing on the South Carolinians and the organizations from this State participating in the world war. Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, Governor Cooper appointed the South Carolina Memorial Commission, naming on it several of the ; prominent women of the State. In its initial meeting the commission dc- j cided to ask the people of the State I to contribute $400,000.00 to supple-1 ment the legislative appropriation of 9i(Mtnnnnn fnr the erection of the building, the appropriation being contingent upon the voluntary contribution of the amount decided on by the commission. The details of the solicitation campaign was placed under the supervision of a sub-committee, with ex-Govemor Manning as chairman. This sub-committee decided to be-, gin the campaign for funds on September 29th, the first anniversary of the breaking of the Hindenburg line by the Thirtieth Division, and have it terminate on November 11th, the initial anniversary of the signing of the armistice. Movements were soon begun for a change'in the form of the memorial to one of a utilitarian purpose, the X - ? V.ocn nrnnAKfllc hf? most e;ujjiiaui ui mvov y*. ? ing for a great memorial hospital at Columbia. Consideration was given to these movements at a full meeting of the commission, which decided to adhere to the original plan, as the leg- j islature issued concrete, statutory instructions to the commission as to the form the memorial should take. To have decided otherwise would have meant that the commission could not have gone on with the project but would have had to recommend to the 1920 Legislature that the Act be amended so as to embody the utilitarian idea. Likewise, it appeared a hopeless task to attempt to conform the various utilitarian projects as proposed. At the recent convention of the South Carolina division of the Amer- j ican Legion, the mouth piece of the j soldiers of the world war, the hospital j idea was debated on the floor of the I convention, with the result that the non-utilitarian memorial was endorsed by a vote of ten to one. This was - ovnvoccinn of the romrades <X UC1IIIIVC VA)/4VUW.V.. of those who had fallen. The divergent ideas as to the form the memorial should take, the accu-1 mulative contemporaneous campaigns! for funds for other purposes, unset- j tied domestic and industrial problems I engaging the thoughts of the people, the let up in the strain from war conditions and fther intervening matters i have somewhat retarded the memorial campaign. However, the commis sion feels that the people of South Carolina will contribute to this worthy j cause, when they are approached and the project has been properly presentcontinued on Page 4) 4 ,' * , . 1/ v PALMERCALLSREDS GROWING DANGER DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS DATA CONCERNING ACTIVITIES OF 60,000. Washington, Dec. 9.?In his annual report, submitted today to Congress, Attorney General Palmer said that the Department of Justice is confronted with "increasingly dangerous radical activities." He did not give detailed information as to "red" activii i x A: ties in general, our as an inunauuu of what the department is doing in the matter he said that of the total of 36,295 index cards, 71,000 Bertillon records and 262,712 finger-print records now in the department, some 60,000 represented data concerning "reds" and their work. The Attorney General mentioned that his department had increased steadily its contributory sources of investigation, adding that this meant better facilities for running down persons whose lives bore marks of crime. Mr. Palmer said that while other Government agencies during the past year were rounding out their labors incident to the war, his department found itself only half way through its scores of investigations. Countless hundreds of claims growing out of the war have been made against the Government, he said, and must be fought through the courts. Cases in which the Government seeks to recover funds paid out through error or fraud provide for litigation. Alleged infringement of patent rights by the Government in its manufacture of war A' - * ? ax nloimc materials, as wen us annual ttouuo arising from private manufacturers of war supplies on the cost-plus arrangements. also puts litigation on the shoulders of the department's staff. The department policy of resuming prosecution of trusts has restored to activity other investigations and crime proving machinery, the Attor- i ney General added. In addition to these, he said the department will be burdened for month's to come with its prosecution of violators of the Sedition and Selective Service acts. Under the latter the number of cases runs high, he said. Investigations and trial arguments during the year have shown loopholes in many statutes. Mr. Palmer said. He called attention to the fact that, under existing law, it is not a crime to send threatening letters through the mails unless in the furtherance of a scheme to defraud or as a means of extortion. The attorney general said also there was great need for a statute * r? ? I providing punisnment iui an nm...., ual attempting to defraud the United States. Present statutes, he said, provide punishment only in the event that two or more persons conspire to defraud the Government. o Mr. I.e,sesne Resigns Citizens of Williamsburg County: We, the undersigned members of the Williamsburg County Delegation have received the following communication from J. E. Swearingen. State Superintendent of Education: "Columbia. S. C., December C. 1919. Gentlemen:- N "Acting for Mr. X. D. Lesesne, his legal representative has filed his resignation from the office of County Superintendent of Education of Williamsburg. This resignation shall be submitted to the State Board at its meeting December 19th. The vacancy will be filled promptly, if a competent and desirable applicant can* be found. "Following my invariable rule, I am notifying you of the facts in the case in the hope that you will give me the benefit of your advice and assistance. "Please make full announcement also in the columns of your local papers in order that the citizenship of the county may understand the situation. Your respectfully, J. E. Swearingen, State Supt. of Education." We advise any person desiring to file application for the position as Superintendent of Education for Williamsburg County to do so at once, sending it to J. E. Swearingen. State Sunenntendent of Education, Columbia, S. C. (Signed) Hugh McCutchen, Senator; S. A. Graham, S. 0. Eaddy, W. H. | Welch. Representatives for Williamsburp: County. n Every farmer should have at least one stock in the Williamsburg Mar-| keting Association. You will have an opportunity to purchase this stock in January. v'_ ... . A ': ^ , CARRANZA LINKED j WITN PLOT, ! j TO INSTIGATE REVOLUTION IN; UINITBIJ S I A I CS AttUKU- j ING TO EVIDENCE i | ! Evidence that radicals in Mexico,) . with the knowledge and support of j ! President Carranza, plotted to insti-' gate a revelution in the United States , and to seize the border States acquired by the American Government in 1848, is contained in the memorandum presented to President Wilson by Senator Fall, of New Mexico, chairman of the foreign relations subcommittee investigating the Mexican situation. Plans for the proposed revolution were obtained by the subcommittee from the minutes of a meeting last October 15, in Mexico City of Lodge 23, an organization of extreme agitators and members of the Industrial Workers of the World. The Mexican President is linked most directly with the plot through correspondence, in which he recommends three men for special consideration because of their connections with "the plan they desire to put into practice in the State of Texas." These men, the committee states, have been identified as active agents of Lodge 23. 'l'fie memorandum, wnicn contains an abstract of the evidence collected by the committee, was delivered to the President by Senator Fall Friday) night and made public late Monday! night. The notes of the October 15, meet- 1 ing of the radical lodge declare! "there appeared three delegates, two j Americans and one Mexican, who had arrived from the United States, and | who claimed that "the society" would I be able at the beginning of i next November (that is, November, 1919,) to call a general strike of all ! miners and metal workers in the I United States; that they have 3,000,-' | 000 adherents in that country, where : 1 ?? ?-ill * ?1.1- salitA Ana \X7net. t Uiey win ue uuie w scik uuv >ivo? I em and two Atlantic ports; that a ; large number of American soldiers : were preparing to take sides with; them, and that they proposed to es-i tablish a capital of a reformed gov-. erament of the United States in thej State of Colorado; that when such a) revolution was successful, the Mexi cans rendering their assistance, the! border States which were acquired by 1 I the United States under the treaty of j 1848 would be returned to Mexico." J The three men referred to arc the! | same, the memorandum states, as 1 j those mentioned by Carranza in let- i , ters, of which the committee has se- i cured photastic copies. The first of | | these letters, dater June 4, and adI dressed to Manuel Aquirre Berlanga. j ' Mexican minister of Gobernacion. says: ' ?enor Lino Caballo, bearer of this' letter, is the person who, in company) with two friends, will bring to you I ; the manifestos and the plan which they desire to p'?t into practice in the 1 State of Texas. "This plan being very favorable j for Mexico, please aid them in every j I way and give the necessary instruc-! J tions in the frontier States. "I remain your affectionate friend, j "V. Carranza." j i The second letter, dated August 19, J i and addressed to the same govem! ment official, follows: "The present letter will be deliverered to you by Mr. Juan N. Gercia, and the two friends who accompany him, and, in accordance with our conversation, please give them the guarantees they solicit, as well as the pecuniary assistance they may de- j "I remain your friend, affectionate, ly. "V. Carranza." o In rKariMitnn IilCV H"M All v. Jno. P. Grace, Mayor, twelve Aldermen at large, twelve ward Aldermen, six school commissioners and two commissioners of public works were elected in Charleston Tuesday. All of the men elected belong to tyie j Democratic party. The total poll, as j returned by the managers of the commissioners of election, ranged for the city from 1,330 to 1,475. The new Mayor and the board of Aldermen will take the oath of office Monday. o An imbargo on freight for export shipment to South Atlantic ports was announced in Atlanta last night. a? :. Jt . , , , ; ; SENATORS DROP PLANS ON MEXICO SITUATION IS NOW LEFT ENTIRELY TO PRESIDENT WILSON FOR SETTLEMENT Washington, Dec. 8.?The resolution asking President Wilson to break off diplomatic relations with the Carranza government was abandoned by the Republican leaders in the Senate after the President had informed Senator Fall, of New Mexico, its author, that he would "be * * _ t_ graveiy concerned 10 see any sucn resolution pass the Congress." In announcing after a conference with Senators Fall and Brandegree, of Connecticut, that the foreign relations committee would take no actions on the resolution, Senator Lodge said: "We want to help, but now the entire Mexican situation goes to the President. The responsibility is on his shoulders. Let it rest there." Passage of the resolution, the President wrote Senator Fall, would "constitute a reversal of our constitutional practice which might lead to very grave confusion in regard to the guidance of our foreign affairs." Declaring that the initiative in directing relations with foreign governments was assigned by the constitution "to the executive and to the executive only." Mr. Wilson said he was confident that "the only safe course" was "to adhere to the prescribed method of the constitution." "We might go very far afield if we departed from it," he said. senator r an, in a statement, wok issue with the President that the Senate could not advise on matters affecting relations with foreign governments until requested to do so by the President, and said there were precedents to support him. He also said he would again request the com- ^ mittee to postpone action on his resolution, "or any phase of the Mexican matter" until the President had time to give the subject his consideration. Before the President dispatched the letter, the Senate foreign relations committee held an hour's session for discussion of the Mexican situation, including the Carranza oil decrees, which have been the subject of diplomatic correspondence between the United States and Mexico, but "? .-iiwnaQtinn nf Siinatnr Fflll. AC at tilt: OUggVatiVil VA iwrvcwaw. . w?, ?. tion on his resolution was deferred until the President had expressed his views. Senator Fall made public the memorandum which he sent the President dealing with the results of the investigation of the Senate committee of which the New Mexican Senator is chairman. Part of this information was given Mr. Wilson last Friday by Senator Fall when ho and Senator Hitchcock, Demociat. Nebraska, called at the White House to discuss the Fall Resolution. M . Wilson's statement in his lettor that what the New Mexico Semitor had told him of the investigation "prepared" him to find in the memorandum matter of the greatest importance" was interpreted by some Senators as meaning that the President had not yet had time to study Mr. Fall's report. Senators noted also that the President's letter gave no indication as to whether a change of tne administration's attitude toward Mexico was under consideration. During the day the State Department was advised by the American embassy at Mexico City that Carranza's reply to the American note renewing the request for the release of Consular Agent Jenkins was to be handed to the Americn charge. The reply had not been received at the State Department. Meantime the investigation into the liberation of Jenkins on bail last week was continuing. Officials read without comment a statement given out by J. Salter Hansen at Mexico City that he had acted on his own initiative and responsibility in furnishing 1,000 pesos bail for Jenkins' release. Senator Fall announced that his committee would continue its investigation of the Mexican situation. He expects to leave for the border before the new year to pursue the inquiry there. o The directros of the Bank of Neises have made good the loss suffered through robberv November 16. ' ' > ' ' * $