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S/ni.. 25. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1919. NO 40
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* 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
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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
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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.
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- 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
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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.
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SENTENCE AFFIRMED
Dismissal is Penalty Fixed for Aviator
Chamberlain
Washington, Dec. 8.?Sentnce of
dismissal imposed by a naval courtmartial
on Capt. Edmund George
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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
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PERSHINp AT FLORENCE
General Makes a Short Address Toj
Admirers
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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
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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. ;
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CARRANZA LINKED j
WITN PLOT,
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j TO INSTIGATE REVOLUTION IN;
UINITBIJ S I A I CS AttUKU- j
ING TO EVIDENCE
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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 :
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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."
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In rKariMitnn
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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.
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An imbargo on freight for export
shipment to South Atlantic ports was
announced in Atlanta last night.
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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
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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
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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.
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The directros of the Bank of Neises
have made good the loss suffered
through robberv November 16.
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