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READY FOR THE WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY FAIR-NOVEMBER 9, lO. II AND 12 j; w Record. L VOL. 36 KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1920. NO l\ ? kfOX SHAKEN UP 1 w IN TRAIN WRECK PESSENGERS THROWN TOPSY- , TURVY; SOME SUFFERING BRUISES AND CUTS. I t Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 22.?Govern- ? 4r Cox's presidential campaign train j was wrecked about 4:30 o'clock today, ; fourteen miles north of here, while en route to Prescott, Ariz. j The Democratic presidential candi- i '-x- 1 u-aro COVBrpIv 1 ^aave anu ms nuv mv.?.v shaken when an engine and four cars of the special train were ditched, but all ^scaped serious injury. The most seriously injured was Charles A. Nichols, the engineer, of Prescott, whose \[eg was broken when the engine toplied over. ! X Spreading rails were assigned by railroad men as the cause of the wreck, which compelled the Governor and his party to return here tonight and cancel his evening address at Prescott His future itinerary also was upset. ? The accident occurred a half mile out of Peoria, a village on the Santa Pe railroad. After delivering several speeches here the train, consisting of ' six cars and drawn by two engines, needed for the up-grad to Prescott, (left here at 4 o'clock. About a half ' hour later, while running at a speed ' ] between 35 and 40 miles an hour, the train jarred suddenly, as if in col* liasion, and then application of the s brakes, the bumping over broken rails c F and tiee and the careening of the cars, t ft told passengers the story. g The four forward cars were ditched, t [ the Governor's private car at the rear t and the adjoining compartment car j of newspaper men, except for its for- g ^ ward track, remained on the rails. t A baggage coach jumped the track e about fifteen feet and turned over, t * Two passenger coaches and another u '* juppai hni ill car behind also slipped a y feet from the track and partly -^VThe first engine of the double-headWif, Engineer F. C. Sutton, of Fresco tt, ^ wd, left the rails first and then jumped on again, but the second en-| a?ne toppled over amid a cloua of V Syj"** J of the passengers on all cars 0 ' " Snmp Ruf- I ^ were (CIUWU IJ. fined bruises and cuts from flying d glass. In tiie rush for escape several t women passengers in the coaches were put through broken windows. J' Governor Cox was in the dining P room of his private car going over pa- 0 per* with Dr. Robert C. Goldsmith, 8 his assistant, on the league of na- * tions question, when the crash oc- c curred. ' "What's that?" he shouted, being * thrown heavily across the car. He was t shaken up, but rushed out to assist s the injured, and afterward smokeu a s ^ pipe while waiting for a wrecking c ; retrain to arrive and ta. back to e . a k^|^The railroad track was torn up for ^ * 400 feet, with bent rails, broken ties t and glass scattered about. Railroad * officials were unanimous in declaring P ? aL. 4 that a spreading rail unaer in--Aeavy locomotives and unusually 0 f heavy steel equipment caused the the wreck. The line is not a main * line, but a branch of the Santa Fe, v and the rails, it was said, were not of ( the heaviest type. A rumor was current among the farm people and oth- j era who gathered soon after the wreck that a man had been seen running k along the road beside the track just B before the train left the track, but the j B rumor lacked confirmation and was s W not credited by Governor Cox, mem- j W bers of his party or railroad opera- ? tivea. j . r Farmers' Mass Meeting. e There will be a mass meeting of ^ farmers and others interested in present-day farm problems of our coun- j i? -* Saturday. i . ??y? UIC VVUl b iivuwvi ? , . ^ Oct. 2., at 12 o'clock noon. t Mr. J. A. Cardwell, of Wilmington, j N. C? agricultural agent for the A. ^ C. L. railway, who is well posted on j the subject of combatting the boll ^ E\ weevil by diversified farming, will , BB speak here on this occasion. He will , > touch on the labor question, and is pared* to show the advantage of , NBOBSm labor remmning on the farms. 'jM Farmers particularly are urged to , ^ attend this meeting, as it is not often the case when they have the opportu- ] * nity of hearing the views of a man ; ' whose experiene&Jfc matters of so vital interest tb are as broad as ; (are Mr. Cardwell's. * KINGSTREE SCHOOL OPENS With Full Corps of Teachers and Large Enrollment of Pupils. The Kingstree school opened Monday with a full corps of teachers and 1 large enrollment of students, a number of whom are from the rural districts near Kingstree. where the schools were unable, for one cause or mother, to secure teachers for the ensuing year. The usual opening exercises in the luditorium were held Monday mornng with the rendition of an informal srogram. Exercises were opened by i prayer by Dr. J. W. Daniel of the Methodist church, followed by the singing of the hymn, "Abide With Me," in which the school joined. Dr. Daniel also made the opening iddress and was followed hv the Rev. lohn W. Davis. Prof. Swittenberg hen made a talk to the pupils and >arents present. , Exercises in the school auditorium vere closed by prayer offered by the Sev. Mr. Davis. Prof. Swittenberg enters upon his .ieventh year as superintendent of he Kingstree school, under whose eadership the school has made many idvancements. He has as his assist- j ints for the ensuing session an effi- J :ient corp of teachers, a number of! vhom have taught in the Kingstree t/th/vni fn-r thp nast vear or more., ? ? * ? ?? ["hey are as follows: Miss Agnes Crchmann, of Charleston, 1st grade; drs. E. A. McDowell, of Kingstree, idvanced lfet grade; Miss Eva Agnew, if Greenwood, 2nd grade; Miss Elizabeth Speigner, of Kingstree, 3rd rrade; Miss Floride Harper, of Kingsree, 4th grade; Miss Carrie Lancaser, of Spartanburg, 5th grade; Miss | ifarian McCord, of Spartanburg, 6th I ;rade; Miss Ruby Thorn, of Kings-! ree, 7th grade; the high school teach-1 rs being: Miss Lilla Babb of Foun- j ain Inn; Miss Marian Calvo, of Col-! imbia, and Profs. M. F. Montgomery | nd J. W. Swittenberg. o ^ I TRAVEUNG POTATO SCHOOL j rlsited Kingstree Tuesday and Was1 Received With Interest. The Traveling Potato School made Is scheduled appearance here Tues-j ay and considerable interest was: aken in the modern methods of han-, ling sweet potatoes from harvesting! o marketing Among the more important subsets touched upon were the imiroved methods of harvesting, dem- j nstrating packing and grading; maps howing districts where the sweet poato may be grown successfully for: ommercial purposes; bulletins and { lue prints treating all subjects per-; aining to sweet potatoes were dis-1 ributed, and a modern storehouse,1 howing the different steps of contraction, was on exhibition. Disease harts and specimens showing mod rn methods of combatting diseases| nd rot were also exhibited. Possi- J Jy the thing attracting the most atention was a specimen crate of poatoes which have been kept for the iast eleven months. The Traveling School was in charge f Messrs. Geo. P. Hoffman and A. F. >chilletter, who are working under he direction of the Extension Ser ^ ice 01 uiemson ARREST MADE IN BECKOFF CASE farmer Held in Connection With Killing at Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Sept. 13.?F red lempley, a farmer living near the cene of the finding yesterday mornng of the body of Don Beckoff, the Spartanburg automobile dealer, was irrested at his home late this afterloon by Sheriff W. J. White and oth:r officers and brought to th county ail. He is being held in connection vith the murder of Beckoff. Hempley has stated that he was in BeckofFs place Monday afternoon ate and has made other statements hat give the police reason to beli ? o le knew more of the case than he had old. It is understood he accepted owoct nmVtlv and while none af | the officers have given out state ments. some additional evidence is >aid to have been gathered by their risit to Inman and Hemplev's. home this afternoon. It is generally understood here tonight that other arrests may be expected. Beckoff was shot three times in the head. His body was found in the head waters of Lawson's Fork, near Inman. Wednesday morning. Murde and robbery is the theory advanced in the case. HURRICANE SWEEPS GULF COAST PEOPLE ALONG LOUISANA-TEXAS COAST GET BACK AS/ WATERS RISE. Communities along the gulf coast from the Florida peninsula to the Texas lagoons prepared last night for emergency of storm and flood today, while weather bureau warnings told of a vortex of tropical hurricane dragging its attendant circles of roaring gales slowly toward the mainland. The traffic lanes in the gulf itself were clearing fa>t as ship masters, apprised by the wireless of the advent of high runiing seas and wind, ran into port shelter. Swelling tides cn the Louisana-Texas coast and falling barometers heralded its coming. At Corpus Christi | ana uaivesion, maaoiiam* remeuiuer! ei;ing the death dealing havoc created by the onslaughts of tropical | storms, sought higher ground and safer footing. Dwellings were vacated and store stocks moved at Corpus Christi last night, even the big steam tankers in the oil trade made way for the hurricane's passage and turned their course to harbor in the Mississippi delta. Though the weather bureau forecast the point of the storm's probable contact with the continent somewhere along the coast stretch west of the Mississippi mouth, any moment for sometime this afternoon, its signals were spread east as far as Tampa. Ships at sea sought shelter there, at Mobile and the smaller ports of the Eastern Gulf section, rejwrting high seas and rising winds as they did so. The erratic nature of hurricanes, the bureau said, made it always possible that the present disturbance would swerve from the northward course charted for it since its entrance to sea Saturday off Yucatan. Hourly its progress was checked and noted by the 'instrument readings at the bureau's widely separated stations, lest some atmospheric freak should speed its northward travel beyond the 12 miles per hour of its noted rate. This factor of changeability governed the bureau's forecast when last night it widneed the scope of its hurricane warnings to include territory as far east as Pensacola, and said the varying probabilities might throw the track of the storm center to an emergence on land nearer the Mississippi's mouth. But for all the gulf coast east and west the bureau gave grave predi'- i tion of a morrow's wind rising to hurricane velocity and lifting tide as the storm p'les the gulf waters landward to flood. o SOUTH CAROLINIAN SUES Dr. Hugh T. Boozer Asks Large Sum From Hospital Superintendent. New York, Sept. 21.?Dr. Hugh T. Boozer, of South Carolina, filed a $25,000 slander suit in the supreme court today against Charles B. Bacon, superintendent of the city hospital on Blackwell's Island. Dr. Boozer accepted 3 position in the city hospital to perfect his professional training. While there he said Mr. Bacon made the statement that he was soliciting business from the patients and that he was not fit tt> be in the hospital. Mr. Bacon, it is alleged, also threatened to bring charges against the physician if he did not leave the institution and also that he rvoudl prevent Dr. Boozer from becoming associated with any other hospital. Dr. # * 11 - a * aK_ boozer saia mai lie SUUaCVJUCUtljr VV tained positions with St. John's hospital and the Wyckoff Heights hospital, Brooklyn, and he was compelled to sever his connections with these because of this statement of Mr. Bacon. ? o A CARD. To my friends: I take this method of thanking you for the liberal support in the recent primary, and while I was not elected. I assure each and every one of the one thousand voters who supported me that their efforts i_ ^ lsJonnlir n niirppiatpil in my dciiuh m> and shall always be coveted as an expression of their confidence in me. I want to assure all that I will keep the best interests of our county at heart, and if I can be of any service in any way in promoting the county's welfare, I will deem it a privilege to be allowed to serve the people. 4 Sincerely yours, HAROLD, U. KINDER. ' --- i v- . t?r i ' iIgreat explosion shocks new yore SCORE KILLED, HUNDREDS IN JURED^PROPERTY DAMAGE OVER MILLION _______ A mysterious explosion in Wal street, near Broad, believed by train j ed Department of Justice and polic( I investigators to have been caused bj an infernal machine, rocked the hearl of New York's financial district al noon Thursday, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Twenty-nine persons were killed more than 200 were injured, the banking house of J. P. Morgan &Co., the sub-treasury and the assry office were practically wrecked and property damage estimated in excess of $1,000,000 was caused by the blast. Thomas M. LaMont, of the J. P, Morgan firm, expressed the belief, however, that the explosion was purely an accident caused by a collision between an explosive-laden wagon and another vehicle. The firm had received nothing indicative, and there was no real reason for the planting of a bomb outside the firm's office. The noon hour had struck and an endless stream of office workers had just started pouring into the streets from buildings in the neighborhood. Suddenly, a cloud of yellow smoke and a piercing jet of flame leaped from the streets outside the Morgan office. Scores Lying Prostrate. Then came a deafening olast. A moment later scores of men, women and children were lying prostrate on the ground and the streets were covered with debris from thousands of broken windows and the torn facades of adjacent buildings. Two minutes later the stock and curb exchanges, j the financial pulse of the world, had ' -1 1 Mn<nsion rpitmed cioseu. riuut wiu ?0 in the heart of New York's financial district. Thousands of clerks and stenogI raphers fled in terror from adjoining structures. Scores fainted, fell and were trampled on in the rush. Meanwhile, the noise of the explosion which was heard throughout lower Manhati tan and across the river in Brooklyn, brought thousands of the curious to , the scene. ! The few police on duty in the dis| trict were unable to cope with the ; crowds and a hurry call for police rei serves was sent to all downtown police stations. 1 Sub-treasury officials, fearing that I an attempt might be made to rob the : building, all the windows of which j were broken, requested assistance of I the military authorities at Governor's : Island. A company of soldiers was sent to guard the institution. Hurry calls were also sent to all hospitals in the do'vntown section of New York and scores of ambulances were soon speeding through the narrow streets. Dressing stations were established in the lobbies of the buildings nearby where the less seriously injured were giver immediate treatment Bomb Evidence Found. Evidence tending to confirm the theory that the explosion was caused by a bomb or some other infernal machine came from various sources, i Chief Police Inspector Lahey re ported late Thursday that he had found evidence to justify the conclusion that the explosion was caused by , a huge bomb loaded with T. N. T.? trinitrotolool?reinforced with iron slugs from window weight bars. Pieces of these slugs were found in several adjacent structures. This type of weight bars, a close inspection by police and Departnfcnt of Justice agents disclosed, is not used in New York buildings within a radius of several hundred feet from the scene of the explosion. Warning that radicals planned a renewal of bombing outrages were sent less than a month ago to all Eastern clients of the William J. Burns Detective Agency according to a statement by Mr. Burns, who said he was convinced that today's explosion was a premeditated attack and was not accidental. Believes Driver Left. Mr. Burns, who said he had been engaged by the Morgan firm to make an investigation of the attack, stated that his personal investigation con vinced him that a. wagon i-uiiuuiimg bomb or bombs was left in front of the sub-trezisury building with a timing device 30 fixed as to cause it to explode precisely at noon. No trace of the driver of the wagon has been >? ?2 k?n*? -A! tit.x :2Ci. 'iZmi COMMITTEE NAMES NOMINEES , Official Vote for State Officers as Found by the Executive Committee Columbia, Sept. 21.?Senator E. D. " Smith was today declared to be the nominee for reelection as United States Senator from South Carolina by the State Democratic executive I committee, which met at noon to poll ' the votes of the recent sceond prii marv. Wilson G. Harvey, of Charleston, ^ was declared the nominee for Lieut tenant Governor, and Frank W. Shealey was declared the party nominee for the railroad commission. , The committee declared the vote for Senator Smith to have been 65,' 893 and the vote of his opponent, s George Warren, 42,748. The committee found that Harvey's vote totaled 63,190; that of his opponent, 0. K. Mauldin, 45,292. Shealey's vote was 62,353 and that > of his opponent, D. L. Smith, 45,502. o BAMBERG MEN FACE SERIOUS 1 CHARGES IN FEDERAL COURT Burglary Charged?Men Are Charged With Passing Off As Revenue N Agents. Columbia, Sept 21.?W. D. Mayfield, James Breedin and Henry B. Sandifer, the three Bamberg county citizens, charged with having kidnapped two negro farm hands from Anson county, N. C., and who were fined in the Superior court in Wadesbor, N. C. last Saturday, are to be prosecuted in the Federal court on a charge of impersonating Federal officers, according to information here received today from James Lockhart, attorney of Wadesboro, who has been connected with the kidnapping case since its beginning. Mr. Lockhart is quoted as saying also that Mr. Mayfield is to be prosecuted for burglary. The federal warrants will be asked on the statement of the two negro farm hands wRo were kidnapped, to the effect that the Bamberg men came to their homes in the dead of the night, armed with .pistols and impersonted revenue officers in taking the negroes from their homes. o Special Master in Dillon Suit Henry Buck, of Dillon, was appointed special master to take testimony in the case of the county of Dillon against the National Security Company by an order issued Tuesday by Judge Henry A. M. Smith in the United States District Court here. The county of Dillon has brought suit against the National Security Company for $80,000 as a result of alleged shortages in the accounts of a county official who was bonded by the defendant. o NOTICE OF TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. j The usual fall examination for teachers will be held in the court house on Friday, October 1 Hours: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. J. G. McCULLOUGH, 9-23-2tc. Supt. Ed. Wm'burg. Co. found, he said, and added that in his opinion the man escaped a few moj ments before the explosion occurred. Fire Chief Kenlon and officers from i the bureau of combustibles also exI pressed the belief that the explosion was caused by a bomb after axamining fragments of metal found in the street in front of the Morgan offices. Dr. Wm. F. Doyle, chief of the buerau of combustibles, pointed out that the small hole found in the street in front of the Morgan building, and the widely scattered scars on the facades of nearby buildings alsp indicated that the blast was caused by a bomb rather than by an explosion of dynamite or other explosives. Five members of the Morgan firm were in the building at the time of the accident. Thomas W. Lamont, i Dwight M. Morrow, Eliot C. Bacon and George Whitney were in a con: ference on the second floor of the Broad street side of the Morgan build ! ing. They were shaken up by the ' force of the explosion, but all esj caped without injury: Young Morgan Cut. Junius Spencer Morgan, son of J. P. Morgan, head of the firm, who is now j abroad, was at his desk on the lower floor when the explosion occurred. It shattered the glass partitions of his office, showering him with fragments i He received slight cuts on the hands i and arms. # THE WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY FAIR _ ? SECRETARY WELCH URGES CO OPERATION OF PEOPLE FOR SUCCESS OF FAIR. Citizens of Williamsburg: Our minds throughout the year so far have been centered on our business, whether it be farming, merchandising, professional life or any other vocation. It is true that many of us have been interested in the primary election, but now that the primaries are over and our tobacco marketed, let's turn our attention to preparation for the County Fair to be held November 9-12. Our fair last year was not up to the standard as we all know. We need not discuss here the causes for its being below par. What we are interested in now is making the coming fair a success. We are anxious to make it the best yet. But we cannot do it without the cooperation of the citizens of. , the county. That is what we are pleading for now. This is not the President's nor the Secretary's fair; it is your fair, and in order for us to have a good fair you must take an interest in it You, through your executive committee have elected us officers to direct the work, but your work is not finished when that is done. Back them up in their work in behalf of the fair by constituting yourself a committee of one to begin talking about and boosting the fair? and the best way to boost anything is to have the personal interest in an undertaking that you would like to ' see others take in it One of the principal reasons the fair was no better last year is the fact that everybody was disposed to leave it to "George". Everybody complained that labor was scarce, and that it was too great a personal sac- , rifice to make exhibits. It took too much of your time and money. I do not believe that the citizens of the county are going to be so lax this year. We have already heard soem expressions of regret from some people at the lack of interest shown by them last year. We know there are ! many who feel that, way, and we feel | now that we are going to get the an1 essary cooperation. We must havj it, and we know vou are going to give it to us. There are many reasons for i better fair this year: First?A better premium list In no case have wj increased the premium less than 13 ) per cent, and in many cases two and three hundred per cent It is true that we are later this year than usual in getting out the premium list, but we believe that the fact it is late will cause many people to keep up interest in it Many times when they are sent out early you lose interest in the list and thus lose the premium list itself. We have the premium list in the hands of the publisher and expect to get them out by the 1st of October. It is our plan to ?' iil and 1 distribute them otherwise as soon as j we get them. If yon do not get one write us and we shall be delighted to I ;i ?? nn,aw ..An ?a( if ifnHv mail you our. nu j?u ??, ...... it. Take an inventory of what you have and if you find something worth 'while bring it along and we shall be glad to get it If you get the prize you will be glad, if you Jon't you certainly will have the satisfaction of knowing that you have been a great contributor to the success of the fair. This is the spirit we want to see in the heart and soul of every exhibitor at the Williamsburg County Fair this fall. We are going to have a clean carnival this year. We said that last year, but were disappointed. We are more experienced this year. The Dufour and Tillford Shows, who will be in Florence fair week, come to us highly recommended. They have no money wheels, their concessions being i principally commercial. They have I no cabarets, no oriental dances. They have four rides and ten good shows. If there are clean carnivals, the Du' four and Tillford Shows are in that class. In order to make ourselves doubly sure as to the character of the shows, etc.. we reserved the right, as officers of the Association, to discontinue anything we think should be ! stoDDed. We did not have this power last year under the contract we had with the carnival company. We shall also have some good free acts before the grand stands to entertain the people. We are not spar! ing any money nor time in trying to get you something highly entertain(Continued on Page 4.) ' - * - - V ^