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L VOL. 36 KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1920. NO l\
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kfOX SHAKEN UP 1
w IN TRAIN WRECK
PESSENGERS THROWN TOPSY- ,
TURVY; SOME SUFFERING
BRUISES AND CUTS. I
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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
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of the passengers on all cars 0
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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iIgreat explosion
shocks new yore
SCORE KILLED, HUNDREDS IN
JURED^PROPERTY DAMAGE
OVER MILLION
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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THE WILLIAMSBURG
COUNTY FAIR
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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
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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
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