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VOL.36. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 22,1920. NOW)
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STRIKE OYER, MEN
REUSME WORK.
BAILWAYS OF THE COUNTRY
GETTING BACK TO NORMAL
?CONGESTION RELIEVED
The nationwide railroad strike apparently
has collapsed.
Except in a few isolated sections,
railroad officials reported Monday the
hulk of the men who followed the
leadership of John Grunau, a Chicago
trainman who lost his job, had returned
to work. Normal passenger service
was virtually restored, they said,
while substantial progress had been
made in moving the vast amount of
Mk freight that has been accumulating
throughout the country, especially in
* the East, during the past three weeks.
Many of the strikers went out without
presenting any grievances and la- j
ter announced that failure to receive
increases in wages granted to other
railroad men prompted their action.
The strikers, who acted in defiance
of the railroad brotherhood chiefs, I
have generally returned without any
definite promises of more pay.
Demands to be Presented
Traffic is Resumed
* New York, April 19.?Traffic
through the tubes of the Hudson and
Manhattan railroad between New York
and Jersey City, the last branch of
railroad service in the metropolitan
. -district to break the barrier of the
outlaw strike of railroad employes,
was resumed between 4 o'clock this
afternoon and 7 o'clock tonight. At
the latter hour trains were stopped
for the night and announcement made
that service would be resumed tomorrow
morning.
Grunau Taken to Jail.
Chicago, April 19.?John Grunau,
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president, ox vnc uuuan vAuii*?gvr
Yardmen's Association," was taken to
the county jail at Joliet today by federal
officers after he had refused to
give $10,000 bond on a charge of violating
the Lever act, for which he
was arrested last Thursday with
twenty-four other strike leaders. Federal
officers said Grunau had violated
his promise to stay away from union
meetings.
Following the issuing of new warjgftjrants
last night for ten strike leaders,
^^ Jstrict Attorney Clyne indicated that
"v Rentv-five others would be served
men who succeeded to the offices
left vacant by leaders arrested. Harold
E. Reading, an officer of the Enginemen's
Association, who was rearrested
last night, is in the Dupage
county jail at Wheaton. He refused
to give bond for his release. The
| oase will he heard on April 24.
In many cases, however, they have
been assured their demands will be
presented to President Wilson's labor
board which is empowered under the
federal transportation act to settle disputes
between the railroads and their
men.
In Chicago, the original strike center,
railroad officials reported the
strike had lost its effectiveness, while
brotherhood chiefs declared action
would be taken towards revoking the
charters of locals whose members refused
to return to work by midnight
Saturday. Not more than 2,000 men
are reported to be out there by railroad
officials, although these figures j
were disputed by Grunau.
Most of Strikers Return
In the New York district it was ap-,
s.parent most of the strikers, whose;
w numbers were variously estimated >
from 4,000 to 20,000, had returned.
Two thousand employes of the Hudson
Tubes, which carry thousands of commuters
into New York daily from
northern New Jersey points, were the!
only united and important holdouts.!
tiihos havp been closed to passen-1
ger traffic siqce the men walked out
April 9. " %
Conditio Near Normal.
Virtually normal conditions were reported
in the Buffalo, Toledo and Philadelphia
districts, where the majority
of the strikers had already returned
to work.
The principal effects of the strike
thus far has been the closing of many
industries because of their inability to
-obtain coal, raw materials and freight
cars to move their products. One
hundred thousand men were reported
iple in the Detroit district, a similar
number in the State of Ohio, and 35,000
in the Connellsville coke region,
A with many score thousand others out
T of work in other sections of the counj
try. Nowhere has there been a vital
interruption of the food supply.
i LABOR BOARD REFUSES
TO RECEIVE STRIKERS.
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, Will Only Hear Those Who Are AdoptMeans
to Avoid Interruption
of Service.
Washington, April 19.?Undeterred
by the refusal of the Railroad Labor
Board to hear them today, representatives
of the railroad strikers announced
that they would present written
complaints together with demands
for a "living wage" to the board
which tomorrow will begin formal
hearings on the big wage controversy.
The board flatly declined to "receive,
entertain or consider" complaints from
strike, s, declaring it would only hear
those who were adopting every reasonable
means of avoiding interruption
of railroad service. ,
The board will proceed with the
| wage dispute involving claims of nearly
2,000,000 men which failed of adjustment
when the by-partisan board
! ceased to function April 1. Heads of
I the four brotherhoods and the chairman
of the Association of Railway
1 Executives, all of whom were present
today, will attend.
Timothy Shea, president of the
Brotherhood of Railway Firemen and
Enginemen, said tonight that speedy
1 settlement would be urged. Refusal
of the board to hear strikers, Shea
said, would have effect of sending all
of the strikers back to work, many
of whom had been led astray, he j
thought, in the belief that the board
might recognize them.
Delegations claiming to represent
railroad men of all crafts in various
cities who have "quit work" appeared
at the offices of the board today deI
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guarantee of increased wages," which
they said would send strikers back to
work. They composed an unorganized
association, they said, known as
the Railroad Workers of America, insisting
that they still retained their
membership in the recognized unions,
since they had not struck, but had
only "gone on a vacation."
After adopting rules of procedure
for hearing desputes, the board admitted
several delegations.
Immediate protest was entered by
W N Doak, vice president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,
who contended that the officers of
the eighteen railroad organizations
present, represented the men unless
thev had ouit their iobs. in which case
they were no longer employes of the
railroads, or members of the recognized
unions.
General dissatisfaction with the
board's action was expressed by the
railroad workers. Edward McHugh, j
representing strikers in New York and
New Jersey, declared that he would
continue his efforts to obtain some
assurance of an increase from the
board, adding that 8,000 men in the
New York district would not go back !
to work until such assurance was;
received.
Raids Dillorf Boarding House.
A bold thief entered the boarding
house of Mr. W. J. David at an early
hour Sunday morning and stole clothing
from the various guests valued at
over $550.00. The thief did not confine
himself to any particular room,
but quietly entered nearly every room
in the house and helped himself to
articles that seemed to suit his fancy.
Clothing that had been taken off that
j night when the guests retired was
j stolen and many of the guests had
I nothing to wear when they awoke
'next monring. The following gentle|
men were the losers:
Dr. J. R. Davis, $200; Oscar Rogers,
j $150; Mr. Wilson, $150;; W. W.
I Thompson, $35; 0. J. Hays, $15;
Watches and other valuables were
j stolen along with the clothing.
Mr. Oscar Rogers came over from
| Florence that night and was occupy|
ing Mr. Thompsons room. He lost
levprvthinc exceDt a cap.?Dillon Her
aid.'
Another Strike Threat.
I While the railroads announced today
that traffic conditions in Chicago
were approaching normal, a new menace
to railroad service came in the
form of a strike threat from 35,000
freight handlers and railroad clerks.
I George A. Worrell, chairman of the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks on the
Chicago and Northwestern, said a delegation
of workers would confer with
railroad heads on a demand for an
increase in wages. If the demands
were not met, a strike vote would be
taken, Worrell caid.
i At the national headqu^fcrs of the
Brotherhood of Raih^jrClerks in
Cinicnnatti, it was announced that no
strike vote had been authorized.
ESCAPED LUNATIC
SHOOTS UP CHURCH
PRO?*NENT NEW YORK SURGEON
SHOT WHILE TAKING
UP OFFERING SUNDAY.
Dr. James Marcoe, a well-known
surgeon, was shot and killed Sunday
while taking up the offering at the
morning service in the fashionable
St. George's Protestant Episcopal
church of New York city.
His assailant was captured after a
short chase by a group of parishioners.
The prisoner gave his name first
as Thomas W. Shelley and later as
Thomas W. Simpkin. The police said
he told them he had escaped Thursday
from the Eastern State hospital
for the insane at Williamsburg, Va.
| Dr. Marcoe, a wealthy vestryman
[ of the church, was a friend and per}
sonal physician to J. Pierpont Morgan,
also a parishioner there. He was
fifty-six years old.
The church was crowded with parishioners,
many of them representai
tives of the wealthiest families in New
I York, when the shooting took place.
Dr. Marcoe was walking down the
; left isle taking up the collection while
j the choir was singing an anthem. As
he,reached the twelfth pew from the
rear and leaned over to pass the plate,
Shelley, who was seated next to the
isle, whipped out a revolver and fired
at the physician. The bullet struck
him over the left eye and he collapsed
in the isle.
Several women screamed and men
rushed from their seats, some lifted
the physician up, and others rushed
after Shelley. Shelley, with the revolver
in his hand, leaped over the
body of the physician and started to
run out of the church. The choir,
led by Chas. Safford, continued singing
in an effort to quiet the congre
gation.
Shelley continued shooting. His
second shot, directed at members of
the congregation who were pursuing
him,i went wild. John C. Tiedeman,
the sexton, dipped to the floor in
time to escape the third bullet, which
grazed the cheek of J. Morgan Jones.
George E. Brewer was the first man
to reach him. He grabbed the man's
arm, but Shelley managed to wriggle
himself loose long enough to fire another
shot, which grazed Dr. Brewer's ,
thigh. By that time several other J
members of the congregation had |
thrown Shelley to the ground and
were holding him down when a police-1
man arrived, handcuffed the prisoner i
and took him to the police station.
Meanwhile Dr. Marcoe had been
carried out of the church and placed
in an automobile. As he was being
lifted into the car he regained consciousness
long enough to say "I will
be all right" and collapsed. He was
rushed to the Lying-in-Hospital, but!
was dead when brought into that institution.
Shelley freely admitted that he had
shot Dr. Marcoe, according to the police.
"There are a lot more who are
going to get it, too," he is reported to
have said when questioned by detectives.
Search of a suitcase Shelley had
checked at the Pennsylvania Terminal
revealed, the police say, several radical
papers and pamphlets. He also
had a draft card showing he had registered,
September 12, 1918, under the
name of Thomas W. Simpkin, 203
i Fourth Street, Sauk City, Wis. There
I were also several business cards reading
"Thomas W. Simpkins," and in the
j lower corner 'Representing Swift
i County Printing Company" and "Kerkihoven
Banner."
j A letter addressed to him and found
i in the suitcase had the address, 5118
I Peabody street, Duluth, Minn. The
police believe it was from his wife.
About two years ago. Shelley told
the police, he escaped from the insane
asylum at Fergus Falls, Minn., after
| three unsuccessful attempts. Six
| months later he went to Gary, Ind., he
j said, and there bought a revolver,
which he has carried ever since, and
I with which he did the shooting.
I It was definitely learned later that
Thomas W. Shelley, who shot Dr.
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!time of the Minnesota State Insane
I Asylum up to two years ago, when
I he made his escape.
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While kneeling at the alter, being
received in the Seventh Street Christian
Church at Richmond, Va., Sunday
Preston H. Cobb, forty-nine, died instantly
of heart disease. The Rev.
H. D. C. Maclachin was in the act of
pronouncing him a member of the conI
gregation when Cobb reeled and fell
into the isle.
WHO WON THE WAR?
I THE ARMY MULE!,
I
THE AMERICAN MULE FAR SURPASSED
HIS EUROPEAN
BRETHREN.
Washington, April 19.?Almost everybody
and everything that contributed
to the winning of the war has
| received some sort of public recogni|
tion from the war department. Even
j the patient, long suffering, hard workjing
and oft rediculed army mule has
at last come to his ecomium in an
appreciation from the quartermaster
general
Here follows the "low down" on the
army mule as it comes today in an
official publication. There were more
than 45,000 of them engaged with the
army overseas, and more than 100,000 '
j with the^ troops in the United States
; and while there was as much heehaw ,
ing, kicking, balking, biting and other !
, mulish tricks as might be expected,
j the army mule lived up to his estab- 1
Jlished reputation for enduring, sacri(
ficing and dying like a soldier. 1
They were not all American mules; i
j some of them were Allies like the
j troops they fought with. Seven thou- 1
j sand came from England and nine
thousand came from France and an- !
other eleven thousand came from i
Spain. 1
"There was no comparison," said the
quartermaster general's announcement
"between the small, poorly nourished
mule secured in Spain, and those
purchased in southern France, and the
powerful, upstanding, mealy-nosed i
produce of the Middle West. There <
was sharp criticism in some places of ,
the class of animals which came up (
from Spain for duty on the battle ^
front. But these little animals were (
able to haul machine gun carts, re- j
leading tuc ucav > aiuuuu^ wi uuv;
with the artillery and ammunition
trains.
'^There were times during the final
stage of the world war when it was
impossible to give much needed rest
to these animals. There were not
enough to do the work which confronted
them, and the result was that
it was necessary to keep on the move
forty-eight, sixty and sometimes 72
' hours, with hardly more than a pause.
Then it was possible to feed only a
small amount of grain, and a few
handfuls of hay. Under this strain
| the mule went forward, giving his
I all uncomplainingly.
"Sometimes when exhausted it
I would seem impossible to get him
back to the front again, but his powerful
constitution came to his rescue
and in a remarkably short time he j
was able to return to duty. The mule
has always been given the credit of
having his full quota of brains, but
at times it seemed he had more than
his share. He may rim when hitched
I to a wagon, but he never does harm
1 to himself or the wagon. When tired 1
he makes his condition known by 1
; quitting. However, his quality did not '
come to the fore during the days of St.
Mihiel and in the Argonne. i
"The record of the mule through the <
i world war has been such as to reflect
I much credit upon the dam, the farm i
{mare of the United States, as well as '
J upon the long-eared, loose-jointed pro- '
1 genitor of that hybrid, an animal inj
dispensable to the success of our army <
in the field.
I "Instances have been known where i
i a pack mule would loaf about the
i army kitchen while the cook was bak- i
i ing bread until he observed the cook i
! busy at some other duty, when he 1
! would approach the fire, raise one foot <
! and paw off the lid of the dutch oven, 1
! grab the hot loaf within and make off i
with it on the run. He would do the I
isame thing if he observed a hunk of i
, bacon within easy reach."
A good many farmers these days i
I devoted to their horses, say, "Gosh
darn a mule, anyway," on general '
principles, but the army loves and ad- <
mires him for service rendered and 1
would like to see him get the distinguished
service medal. Perhaps his
' - 1 ? wot* fimn will 1
i vaior ana cunsuuitjr an ......
I recommend him to softer sentiments j1
in times of peace.
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Democratic Club Meetings.
Kingstree Democratic Club will 1
meet at the courthouse here Saturday :
at noon. All members are urged to
be on hand promptly.
All Democratic Clubs in the county!
are called to meet in their respective
precincts on Satturday. See notice
elsewhere in this newspaper over the
signature of County Chairman A. C.
Hinds.
RAID ON SALTERS COMMUNITY
Prohibition Officials Attacked by Willie
Matthews?Assailant Killed.
Salters Depot, April 20.?Deputy
Sheriff Cockfield, with Prohibition
Agents Darrow and Coleman and Detective
Eichelberger made a raid in
this community on last Thursday,
which resulted in the capture of blockade
whiskey and the killing of a negro
man, Willie Matthews. The story of
the killing, as reported here, is that
the officers went to Matthews' house,
and told him they had evidence that
he was making and selling whiskey
and they had come for him, and that
they did not want to hurt him, but to
go with them peaceably. Thereupon
the negro got mad and said that he
would not go, but went into his house,
the officers following him as he entered
and instigated a search of the
house. As the negro got to the fireplace
he grabbed up a sad iron and
showed fight This being taken away
from him by the officers he, in scuffling
with them, got within reach of
his foot adze, with which he struck
one of the officers a lick?on the arm,
inflicting a slight though painful injury.
When he endeavored to use
this weapon again, he was shot twiae,
from the effects of which he died at
about 2 o'clock p. m. The still* was
not found, but a jug of liquor was
found in Matthews' house.
?o Sunday
School Convention.
The conferences to be held in the
afternoons in connection with the
State Sunday School Convention,which
*111 be held in Greenville, May 4, 5,
5, will afford an unusual opportunity
for specialization work in the Sundayschool,
according to those in charge
>f the program. The program committee
has been very fortunate this
fear in securing expert specialists for
jvery phase of the Sunday-school
*ork, and from the reports coming
nto headquarters, Sunday-school
workers from every part of the State
ire going to take advantage of this
>pportunity to learn more about their
ipecial work. The demands for spe:ialists
in Sunday-school work are far
jreater than the supply. If the Sunlay-schools
are to keep pace in progress
with the other agencies of the
vorld, the Christian people who are
villing to help in the cause must spenalize
more.
There will be conferences for the
ihildren's division workers, young
people's workers, adult workers and
idministrative workers from 3 >00 to
>:30 on Wednesday and Thursday afernoons.
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Democratic County Convention.
A call for the Democratic Clubs,
ivhich are to be held throughout the
State on Saturday, April 24, have been
3ent to all Democratic chairmen by
Ashley Tobias, Jr., of Columbia, secretary
of the State Democratic Executive
committee.
The county conventions will be held
in all the county seats on May 3rd.
rhe State convention meets on May
L9th.
Mr. Tobias' letter to the county
chairmen follows.
"T fslnnn, tKo lihortv nf rpmind
A OU1 MUUU^ M4V .
ing you that under the rules of the
Democratic party the clubs are to
meet for reorganization on the fourth
Saturday in April, which this yean
falls on the 24th. It is not likely, of
course, that this will be overlooked
by you, but it is a matter of great
importance, and ample notice should
be given to the presidents of the clubs
in your county so that they may designate
and give notice of the time
and place of the meetings.
"As also you know, the county con
of rniir nnnnfv cPflf
VCI1UU11 Will IllCCb Ob ,iuui bvuu.^
on the first Monday in May, which
this year falls on the 3rd, and to which
convention should be elected from
the clubs one delegate for every
twenty-five members in the club, and
one delegate for a majority fract;on
thereof, based upon the number of
votes polled in the first primary of
the preceding election year.
"At the county convention delegates
to the State convention must be
elected, each county to be entitled to
as many delegates as double the number
of its members in the General
Assembly, and one of the delegates
so elected to the State convention as
a member of the committee on credentials.
The State convention will
meet in Columbia on the third Wednesday
in May, which this year falls
on the 19th."
WONDERFUL NEW
ASTRONOMIC CLOCK
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RECORDS THE EQUATIONS OF
OF THE YEARS ON A DIAL
WOUND ONCE IN 64 YEAR&
Claims of astronomers that the
equation of the years could not be
' accomplished by machinery are disproved
by the clock completed by
William Blanford of Aurora, 111., who
has recently* died a. the age of 82.
His clock was the labor of forty years.
The calendar is arranged for 10,060
I years, even the double leap years be
! ing provided for. The equation of
time, operating automatically, has
been accomplished.
The astronomical dial is wound once
in every sixty-eight years, or fourteen
times in about 1,000 years. During
the first thousand years, the dock is
expected to operate without impairment
or attention. The calendar registers
the number and name of each
day, each month and each year. There
is a dial or plate below the astronomical
dial, which gives the longitude
east and west at 127 of the prindpal
cities of the world, showing the tiine
at any hour of the- day or night in
each. An improved compensation pendulum?a
device conceived by the inventor?is
responsible to a large degree
for the accuracy of the deck.
The pendulum is adjusted to, normal
temperature, and is automatically controlled
bp expansion and contraction
as the result of changes in heat and
cold.
The entire structure, cabinet and
mechanism, was made by the inventor
in his little workshop adjacent to
his home. The cabinet, beautifully
carved, stands 9 feet in height, 3
feet in width and 2 feet in depth.
Series of Dials.
The upper dial marks the time with
absolute accuracy, and is governed by
an eight day movement. Above the
time dial is the moon frame, thowini?
precisely the phases of the moon,
changing automatically at each quarter.
The astronomical dial,* below the
time dial, shows the earth and its
revolutions around the sun, the time ^
it enters the constellations or signs .
of the zodiac, paralellism of the
earth's axis, variations of the seasons,
the months and days of the.
month, giving February 28 days for
three successive years and twentynine
in leap year.
The main dial is four feet in diameter.
Twenty-four smaller dials show
the time in the principal cities of the
globe, there being a variation of one
hour in each. The clock is operated
by two weights of fifty pounds each,
capable of driving the mechanism for
two months. At the end of this period
the weights are automatically
rewound by an electric motor. The
total rewinding process occupies about
five minutes of each year.
The clock also has a themometer
and micrometer attachment which
shows the exact temperature within
one-fiftieth degree Fahrenheit, and
the amount of contraction and expansion
up to one ten-thousandth of a
inch. Each night the dials are all
automatically illuminated.
Emigrating to America in 1879.
Blanford located in Aurora. He invented
many improvements in the
sewing machine, horological machinery,
pin machinery, breaking and
carding machines, etc. In most instances
he profited little by his inventions
and he died comparatively
poor.
It was his dying wish that the clock
be kept in his home city of Aurora,
and this will be provided for. Offers
fmm flin ITnirorcifv rtf PlilPQ ffA ATlH
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have been declined.
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The South Carolina Bar association
will meet in its 27th annual convention
in Columbia tomorrow. P. A.
Wilcox, Esq., is president of the association.
Columbia is expecting a
large turnout of lawyers from all
parts of the State.
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One of the biggest real estate transactions
at Georgetown in many years
is reported by the Times-Index of
that city to have taken place Wednesday
of last week, when about $100,000
of property changed hands.
Georgetown property values are rapidly
increasing, due to the demand
for property. Within the next few
months a still greater demand will exist,
prophesies the Times-Index.
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The Rev. Denton, pastor of the Elm
Avenue Methodist church, Portsmouth,
Va., anounced that he will preach in
overalls. ^
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