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J ^ f*' ' < - ? ril j* g ibe founts ftfofii. gg #] VOL. 86. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 19.1920. , NO 4^7 $ . PONZI NOW IN JAIL -BROKE, HE SAYS POLITICIANS AND POLICE OFFICIALS IN VOLVED BY NEW j REVELATIONS. * Boston, Aug. 14.?With Charles Ponzi, "the 50-per-cent-in-90-daysv rUpander in the East Cambridge jail; four officers of a rival get-rich-quick concern locked up at headquarters, warrants out for others; one banking institution closed and others reported shaky, Boston is stirred today by - - ^ 1-*--?? tUIltS QZ iurvner rcvaauvus Wm. powerful political and official interRK<* eats in the scandal. Bank Commissioner Allen closed the Hanover Trust Company, not on account of Ponzi's connection with it, he declares, but because investigation due to the Ponzi case disclosed its capital "badly impaired if not wiped out" by loans which he regarded as insecure. These loans, it Is said, were made largely to politicians, though Mr. Allen refuses to say who they are. Ponzi, according to hi:; statements to Daniel H. Coakley, chief of the battery of lawyers who are defending him, is broke, the $5,000,000 hej had three weeks ago naving oeen panout to investors and the remaining ^ assets, including the $1,500,000 certificate of deposit in the Hanover Trust Company, being either in the control of others, or in the hands of / banks that dare not, in the face of ^ .A^rthe bankruptcy proceedings against ^^^ him, allow him the use of a dollar. I^H-rEnxi told me," said Mr. Coakley, "that he has paid out or has lost conBF twrf of all his assets except the machine he uses, his clothes and his home. He has. apparently, everyW ? thing the man of millions has except cash. He also insists to me in the faee of the proofs of the Governant authorities that he owes only 2500.000. although the audit of his books show ten times that amount doe," Ponzi spent last night in jail, a i federal prisoner, after having been surrendered by his bondsman. / While he was being turned over to the United States Marshal, the heads of the Old Colony Foreign Exchange Company, which is affiliated v . Ponzi, were arrested on warrants sworn out by Attorney General Allen of. Massachusetts, charging larceny, sad were held in $50,000 bail each. They were not able to furnish bail Sad are confined in cells at police headquarters and charged with larceay. Late at night they were joined by ^ ^ i a fourth prisoner, Samuel Zorn. ^ Earlier in the afternoon Brightweil narrowly escaped a beating by a mob t which had collected in his office demanding their notes be paid at once, w He told them he would not pay until Maturity, six months hence. Several made a lunge at him and he had to rbe rescued by the police. Brightwell's arrest followed admissions made to two reporters that his company could not meet its obligations because it had not yet earned any money sent to Europe. When Attorney General Allen was informed of this admission he ordered the warrants drawn. The chief organizers of the Old Colony Foreign Exchange Company were Ponzi's former lieutenants, who are held without bail as material i. f witnesses. One of them is supposed to have proposed buying Ponzi's venture for $10,000,000. Just as Ponzi surrendered himself at the Marshal's office two policemen with forty warrants from Attorney General Allen's office came to arrest him should he succeed in getting new bail 7 hey watched the little prisoner until 5 o'clock, when the United States Commissioner said he must go > to jail. Hie little "wizard" was taken in a taxi to the East Cambridge I jail, in Middlesex county, just across the Charges River. When he arrived \at the little red brick jail he hopped ^ quickly out of the cab and ran past V photographers who sought to snap him. Once inside he greeted them through the windows as he was benTvnn (Jiu Knnk 11I? Clttricu UJIVII ... T The sheriff put Ponzi jn cell 131 ^^_^_,since it was Friday the 13th. A num-! ^ ber of Tonzi bench en followed him and ordered a supper from a nearby' lunchroom. The order included ai pipe and tobacco, because the sheriff i B^^^Nidd not permit cigarettes. *. I The little ' wi?rd** was iftrippotP and given the regulation^l^^^^^^M TIE APPROACHES TO CAST BALLOTS IN LATTER STAGES OF CAMPAIGN MORE ENTHUSIASM IS SHOWING. South Carolina is now moving on to its biennial primary election by jumps and bounds. The state and senatorial campaign parties are both near the completion of their respective itineraries, and but little more than two weeks remain before the date for the Democrats to cast their ballots. The primary is on Tuesday, August 31. Aftt r a rest over Sunday candidates for the senatorial nomination take the stump at Kingstree Monday, the cam paign closing at unarieston rnaay, August 27, after speeches at Manning, Georgetown and Moncks Corner. As the primary is on August 31 the would-be office holders will have a short interval to return to weak spots and get in final work prior to the eventful day. Whte in a great many instances! the candidates have been met by rather discouraging attendance at the various meetings, says the Columbia State, the interest in the several races has quickened some in the latter | stages of the campaign. The people as a whole, however, have displayed an unusual lack of enthusiasm in state and county politics this year. The enrollment come strong at the close, although it looked at one time as if less than 50 per cent of the vot ers would put their names on the books and therefore, while there has not been so much outward enthusiasm in the races, it is expected that a good sized vote will be cast on August 31. The official statewide list of candidates follows: For United States senate: W. C. Irby, W. P. Pollock, E. D Smith, George Warren. For governor: Robert A. Cooper. For lieutenant-governor: Octavus Cohen, Wilson G. Harvey, Oscar K. Maul din. For secretary of state: W. Banks Dove. For attorney-general: Samuel M. Wolfe. For Comptroller-general: Walter E. Duncan. For state treasurer: Samuel T. Carter. For state superintendent of education: John E. Swearingen. For adjutant and inspector general of South Carolina: Atticus H. Marchant, Wm. W. Moore. For commissioner of agriculture: B. Harris. For railroad commissioner. D. M. McCaskill, R. L. Moss, Frank W. Shealy, D. L. Smith. and for the third time in his life he was locked in a cell. There is little prospect of him being I a free man again until his case is finally disposed of. The Attorney General will ask bail of $100,000 if z new bondsman is secured, to get him en the Federal charge. 'Ponzi hiniseif acknowledges it will be impossible for him to furnish this large amount.' He feels that jail is about the safest place now, since he is afraid of an attack from nis disappointed creditors. * ' x. U. *.J His inam concern seemed to De save his wife, who is sick from worry. As one way to do this he aranged to telephone her from the jail that he was staying in town tonight to assist the auditors on his books and could: not get home until some time today. It has been considered strange Italian creditors have conducted them selves so quietly, but it appears now that many members of the police j force, some of them in high positions, have been investing instead of investigating, anil that they have been pacifying the excited creditors. The tip was passed from them that Ponzi was 0. K. The fact that the creditors knew the police force had invested was the base of their confidence. Boston authorities are now investigating the police connection with I onzi. Some members of the force have sold or mortgaged their homes and others have acted as agents for Ponzi. The Boston police scandal is unique. Notices have been sent out to commanding officers of Boston police stations instructing the captains to obtain' a list showing how^Bnv men "invested their savings; with Ponzi an/ whether they ,)uw4 fh?it. ^^Corfiinied <? TEN MORE D TEI CONTESTANTS IN RECORD DRIV TO WIN THE FORD?LEADE IT IS STILL "ANYBODY MISS TAYLOR CROWDS MRS. VA SMITH DROPS TO FOURTH WORKING HAVE CHAN News from Rome. Rome, Aug. 17.?Dr. and Mrs. Olin Johnson, of Bethune, spent a few days here last week with Dr. and Mrs. L. B. Johnson. Mrs. D. 1. Wilsoi is spending some time in Greenville with her daughter, Mrs. Holmes B. Springs. A. H. Haddock, of Houston, Tex., is visiting his mother, Mrs. v. ..lie Haddock. Mrs. L. B. Johnson and son, Allen, are spending some time at the Isle of Palms. , | Judge John S. Wilson, of Manning,] spent several days here last week with relatives. He was accompanied by his grandson, Bill Belser, of Columbia. F. B. Hemingway, of Kingstree, spent last week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hemingway. Mrs. G. B. Eaduy, of Hemingway, visited Mrs. L. B. Johnson last week. Mrs. J. M. Clyde spent several days last week in Georgetown with Mrs. E. E. Orvin. Miss Ruth Carraway, of Georgetown, spent the week-end with Miss T^tniap Snow. Miss Florence Hemingway is visiting Mrs. T. S. Hemingway in Kingstree. and Mrs. 0. M. Mitchell are visiting the former's parents at Ridge Springs. Dr. P. S. Thomas, of Hemingway, was a visitor here Sunday. Mrs. Willie Snow and sons, William and James Edward, of Macon, Ga., are visiting at the home of Mr. J. J. Snow. Mrs. James Johnson and son J. B., of Georgetown, are visiting relatives here. Messrs. Bill Smith and John McLaulin, of Andrews, werp visitors here Sunday. Rev. G. K. Way was in Georgetown one day last week. Mrs. Fannie Munnerlyn si visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. E. Orvin, in Georgetown. Mrs. Ed Vause of Kingstree, visited her mother, Mrs. Willie Haddock, last week. Mrs. G. K. Way and little (laughter, Harriet, have returned from a visit to Mrs. Way's mother, Mrs. Floyd, at Fioyd Dale. The Epworth Liague convention of the Kingstree district, was held at Union Methodist Church here last Wednesday and Thursday. A very I interesting and helpful program was i carried out. The uelegates enjoyed j the social hour Wednesday evening, during which time they could meet each other and the people of the community socially. Games were played >r the school campus right near the church. Sandwiches, cake and iced tea were served. o-? Items from Beulah. Beulah, Aug. 17.?Mr. Watson McCutchen lost his tobacco barn full of tobacco last Sunday by fire. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Cox, of Florence. spent Sunday with the latter's sister, Miss E. A. Snipes. Miss Lucille Mills spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. F. A, Hannah. ( Mr. and Mrs. W. A. McCutchen and1 family, al.so Miss Vera McCutchen, motored over to Andrews Saturday. There will be an ice-cream suppei at Beulah Church Friday night, August 27, for the benefit of the church. We are glad to learn that the little son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Snipes, whe has been very sick with typhoid fever, is getting along nicely. We are glad the rain has stopped for a whiie. o U. S. Army Is Scattered. Washington, Aug. 17.?Contingents of the United States army are today being maintained in ten widely separated sections of the world. Out of a toltal strength of 203,870, units in continental United States comprise 153,000; tn the Philippines, roughly, 20,000; Germany, 15,090; Hawaii,4,600; Panama, ?,500; Porj? Rico, 1,500; China, 1,500; 'Alaska, 890; France, 138 AYS jl THE TALE E ARE BENDING EVERY EFFORT RS ARE VERY CLOSE AND S RACE" WHO STICKS USE FROM FIRST PLACE?MISS PLACE?OTHERS WHO ARE CE TO "CROWD" ALSO .vanrfmg ot Candidates Mrs.Lena Vauss 574,400 Miss Flora B. Smith 562,600 Miss Ola DuBose 562,000 Miss Annie Tisdale, 400,000 Miss Sadie McElveen, ?350,000 Miss Myrtle Turbeville, 566,200 Mrs. J. G. Foxworth?519,950 J. P. Gibbons 500,000 Miss Claudia Taylor 574,700 Miss Beulah Spivey, 400,000 Miss Lucile McSlveen__520,000 Miss Willie Register, 315,000 1 There are just TEN MORE WORKING DAYS of the contest and contestants should not endure an idle waking moment of that time. IPs vital time, and the fate of all as far as this contest is concerned hangs on efforts made during the next ten days. Rmrv offnrt ehnnlH hp ma/)p hv the candidates to collect this week all "promises." for this week's extra vote offer is POSITIVELY the last one to be made. For every $15 turned in by a worker up to 2 P. M., Tuesday, Aug. 24th. we will give a coupon good for 50,000 votes. A very erroneous idea seems to prevail that the last day is the time to lend a helping hand. On the contrary, all aid should come when it will give extra votes to the contestant. For instance: Suppose you want to aid your favorite worker with a ten-year subscription or $15 worth. If given to her this week, it will mean 50,000 regular votes and 50,000 extia votes. If given next week it means but 50,000 votes; thus your delay in extending the promised aid will deprive your favorite of 50,000 votes. That's s hardship on her and may* have turned the scales in her favor, making her a winner instead of a loser. The last cash prize was awarded on T-?T* ttroo lrnn Kir V i OC Plail JLUC5Uay. IV woo nvu uj miuu dia Taylor, of Trio. Miss Taylor also succeeded ia crowding Mrs. Vause from first place by a narrow margin. Miss Myrtle Turbeville is moving closer to the leader, while Miss Flora B. Smith has fallen back to fourt'. place and is being pushed in an uncomfortable manner by Miss Oi;. Bose. This standing shows that it is r as we said last week, anybody' race, and for that reason not one of the leaders can afford to let down one iota in her efforts, while those who hold fourth, iifth or sixth place itf in their power to move to any point. It means just work, and that neversay-die spirit. o? Death of Mr. W. D. Britt. Trio. Aug. 17.?Mr. W. D. Britt died at his home near Warsaw, FriJ? ?*f E, nVln/>1r aftpr an uay ancliiwu c?v v w v*v^M, ? illness of several weeks from typhoid fever. Everything was done to restore him to health and strength, but to no avail. He leaves to mourn his death, a wife and seven small children, besides a host of friends and relatives. His remains were laid to rest Sunday morning at 10 o'clock at Big Dam swamp near Black river church. o Community Meeting at Mt. Vernon. ! Mrs. Dora Qee Walker will be in Williamsburg County to assist with community meetings at Mt. Vernon August 26, and at Central August 27. It will be a treat to hear Mrs. Walker and I hope that a large number will take advantage of this opportunity. Hattie McMurray, Home Demonstration Agent. - ?VI Corpse Returned from France The body of Henry McClary, a colored man of this county, a barber by trade, who at one time conducted a shod in the Kellahan hotel, was received here last week lrom France. went io France as a soldier ad* died m a hospital there dnrinc WOMAN SUFFRAGE FOR TENNESSEE THIRTY-SIXTH STATE RATIFIES SUSAN ANTHONY MEASURE 17,000,000 MAY VOTE Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 18.?Tennessee today ratified the federal woman suffrage amendment, the lower house of the legislature by a vote of 50 to 46 concurring in the action of the senate which, last Friday adopted the ratification resolution by a vote of 26 to 4. Although it was the thirty-sixth slate to act favorably and the amendment should become effective as soon as certified by Bainbridge Colby, Sec retary of State, whether 17,TOO,wo women of the country would vote in the Presidential election in November remained to be determined. The house stip has an opportunity to rescind its action and preliminary steps for testing the legality of ratification by the legislature, if reconsideration should fail to upset it, already has been taken by the Tennessee constituents on the ground that the assembly had no authority to act. After the ballot today Seth Walker, speaker of the house and leader of the opposition, changed his vote from "no" to "aye" in order to avail himself of the privilege of moving for reconsideration and announced that he would do so. Under the rub only Mr. Walker can offer this motion and it may be done at any time he so desires. He must act, however, cither tomorraw Or Friday. Ninety-six of the ninety-nine members of the house were present today and the alignment, until a vote on concurrence was taxen, was a tie, each faction polling forty-eight votes on a motion by Mr. Walker to table Ihe resolution, pn the ballot for concurrence the line-up was 49 to 47 until the speaker changed his vote. This apparently would give the suffragists an advantage of only two votes, but their leaders declared tonight two members in favor of suffrage, who were absent today, would arrive probably tomorrow morning. The motion to reconsider may b< carried by a taajority vote of the members present and since Mr. Walker can act without a moment's notice the suffragists expected to be on hand in full force during the rfext two days. It was evident the only hope the speaker had of overturning today's action was through des?from the suffrage ranks or failure of the suffragists to have virtually every 4,1 1 member present until uie nouae adjourns Friday. The suffrage leaders declared they expected no defections among their forces, but as a precaution they were lightening their lines. The opposition leaders tonight were waging an active campaign in an effort to increase their strength at the expense of their antagonists. The end came with dramatic suddenness. Debate on the motion to concur had been in progress little more than an hour and there was no indication that on agreement was imminent. Speaker Walker called Representative Overton to the chair and took the floor to reply to a suffragist who had charged that special interests were at work to defeat ratifica lion. o Death of T. B. Cooper. Mr. T. Burrows Cooper, a highly respected citizen of the Bethel community, died Saturday after an illness of several years. Mr. Cooper was a successful farmer and a good citizen. Several years ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis, which since greatly impaired his former active and industrious career. He was 66 years of age and is survived bv his wife and four children: Mr. W. A. Cooper, of this county; Mr. T. B. Cooper, Jr., of Norfolk, Va., Mrs. J. w Mrs Mick ffl. IWU((Cld, ntouMw*, Stephens, and Mrs. P. A. James, of Norfolk, Va. The deceased was buried Monday morning at the Old Belim Baptist Church. o "If lightning should strike this tent tonight how many would be ready for it?" Rev. John Timber, evangelist, asked a congregation of Free Methodists crowding a tent at Springfield, Ltd., a few night ago. Outside a storm was threatening. A few moments later a bolt of lightning entered the canvas top, killed two ministers' on the platform, burned Rqv. Mr. Timbci dangerously and knocked down many of the worshipers. i TAR HEELS DEFEAT -I WOMAN SUFFRAGE ACTION POSTPONED UNTIL REGULAR LEGISLATIVE SESSION NEXT YEAR. Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 17.?National enfranchisement of women apparently was defeated in North Carolina today so far as the coming election is eoA* SJ cerned. Opponents of equal suffrage r jfe long victorious here, were successful 1 in one of the most bitterly fought I contests ever staged in the state sen* ate. , g Their success was measured by the narrow margin of two votes, the count ii being 25 to 23, but it was sufficient to lay on the table a resolution to ratify the Susan B. Anthony suffrage ~ amendment. It postponed action un- J I til the next regular session in 1921. Suffrage leaders, however, may make another try tomorrow. They may attempt to recall the resolution but even the leaders were not confident could be done. To make their victory complete the antis planned tonight to bring up suffrage in the lower house under a " , < special order of business tomorrow. Representative Neal, anti-suffrage^ Jj floor leader in the house, said they ' expect to "call it up and kill it right" -jS The end of the contest came soddenly. It came at .'a time when suffrage supporters were confident c ' victorv in the nm>er chamber of the legislature. They were not prepared * for the plan of Senator Warren, anti- , w suffrage floor leader, and were ; 3 pushed back by clever maneuvering. Move Proves Surprise. At the end of a day of heated dobate, punctuated by charges and coon- ' . V1 ter charges, some of which were vitriolie, Senator Scales, suffrage leader, announced he was ready for a, 'J vote. The commander of the opposi- * tion forces was .recognized by Lieu- ) tenant Governor Gardner and he be- ? & gan the introduction of the resolution : which burst the program of ratification asunde^ Suffrage leaders attributed tbeiij defeat to "weak kneed' senators who were unable to determine the course which their constituents would have them take. There were half a dozen votes which neither side had counted definitely and which neither were able to '* TTlOl'r AWKWh I VIIiUUk UU1MW TVUI/ *MV* vrr?. nity came to avoid action at this time by voting to postpone action tmtfl after the coming election into which the question has not been thrown as a state issue. Anti-suffragists were hilarious. They marched from the old state house in victorious procession for they had not expected to accomplish . their work so soon. As they left the portals of the senate chamber, they were shouting: "We'll beat it again 1 . in November." o . jSj Items from Saltern. SaHers, Aug. 16.?The tobacco crop 1 ->11 rvnthorn^ amtnt/l IiaS ttUUUV All l/vvu gawivivu *? v - . here, but marketing has been slow owing to the unfavorable weather for v handling. The hay crop will be short judging from appearances, and fodder judging from appearances, adn fodder will have to be pulled if we would * avoid another short forage year. Cotton has begun to opn and the crop wrfll be good. The corn crop is fine throughout this section. Mrs. T. E. Salters and little daughter, Sarah, are spending some time at her old home in Renno. Mr. and Mrs. Devoe Grimsley, of Florence, spent Sunday with relatives here. Henry E. Davis, Esq., of Florence, spent Sunday with relatives here. Rev. i>. I. Sinnott left Monday night for a visit to his old home in Alabama. Messrs. J. D. and W. S. McCullough and F. A. Douglass spent Sunday at Folly Island. They report having ha a fine time. Dr. Witherspoon, State veterinarian, spent Wednesday with relative* here. Mr. T. E. Salters has purchased a new Dodge auto. ' 4 ,V?J O _ -;.'S Gen. Willie Jones, treasurer of the party, had forwarded a cheek far ' $1,000 to national Democratic hMdquarters to be used in the fight to elect Cox and Roosevelt, flus is South Carolina's first contribution. . ?-m O d4f||K^JHL?oods is as impor- . s tnnt as nrdnt