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?lje fount j} Itccort). VOL. 36. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1921. NO. 9 /cf ? ?? ? v? SESSIONS COURT G. k CONVENED MONDAY A B MANY CASES OF IMPORTANCE TH H DISPOSED OF.?GRAND V . JURY'S REPORT. W I , y Court of General Session for Wil-; C licmsburg county opened here Mon-|Pei ! day morning at 9 o'clock, with Judge or\ John S. \\ iison of Manning, presiding. na1 A number 01 cases 01 more or ivss | j^ej importance^vvere disposed of. The! da\ result in cases already concluded fol- in lows below: 1 In the case of the State vs. E. 0. Mu Rodgers. charged with obstructing a An *** public highway the jury brought in a 4,0 verdict of not guilty. Attorneys for hal the State wore Solicitor McLeod and ma Mr. A. C. Hinds; defendant's attor- tio: neys Stoll & O'Bryan. He The State vs. Robert Rush for dis- On posing of property under lien, was far tried and a verdict of guilty rendered Col by the jury. Solicitor McLeod pros- Fr< secuted the case and Mr. R. K. Wal- ov? lace represented the defendant. The vel defendant was sentenced to six months wh on the chain gang or pay a fine of me SI 50.00. He John Flagler, charged with house- un< breaking and larceny, plead guilty D'( and was given a sentence of one year gio by the court. The defendant was not the represented by attorney. Un Robert Nesbit, also charged with rep housebreaking and larceny plead guil- nie ty and was sentenced to two years. I Maria Crappo, charged with violat- " ' ? 1. !???? MIAAJ riMiiHx' tVifi ing IX1U piOUiUlUUW ia?, picau guiibj j ?? and received a sentence of three jthr months or pay a fine of $100.01'. Ion In the case of the State vs. Buck ?v Sabb, charged with violating the pro-j yoi hibition law, the defendant plead i for guilty and was sentenced to four figl months on the chain gang or pay a fine of $150.00. pre Alex Parsons, also charged with in violating the prohibiton law, plead us, l guilty and was sentenced to four | stn months or pay a tine of $150.00. ; sue ft Conrad Jeffries, charged with mak-Jbar || ing whiskey in violation of the pro- > spl || hibition law, plead guilty and was us W sentenced to four months or pay a fine I ricl J of $150.00. I fini Raymond Burrows and Sam Scott, ( charged with violation of the prohibi-: tion law, plead guilty and each re- j er? ceived a sentence of five months on the; the chain cane or Dav a fine of $200.00. ; fri< L. H. Jackson, charged with viola- nat tion of the prohibition law and illicit ful trafficing in liquor, plead guilty to cau both charges, and was sentenced to ir? three months or pay a fine of $100.00 -exf for each offense. ha\ Sam Jones, charged with house- h;t: braking and larceny, was tried and est found guilty and given a seutence of be eighteen months cn the chain gang. he A. C. Hart, charged with grand lar- Ir-g ceny, was tried and found not guilty. < The defendant was represented by Mr. the LeRoy Lee, Esq. con Stephen Roundtiee, charged with S1"2 murder, plead guilty to manslaughter by and was sentenced by the court to *'11 L serve a sentence of two years on the K chain gang. ser B Zab Tucker, charged with housebreaking and larceny, was convicted bod aad given a sentence of eighteen Iffit months. by BH Orville Warmac, arraigned for *eS grand larceny, plead guilty to larceny bur of automobile (property of F. W. Coi H Fairey). Sentenced to serve three ^ |B years. ^pi Arthur Flagler, charged with house- lts B breaking and larceny, plead guilty m and was given a sentence of one year m by the court. y 1 Hazard Whitfield, tried and convict| ed for violation of the prohibition q f law, was given a sentence of one year wa? ? ... a? haaaa _ or pay a ime m <iiw.w, ^ The trail of Tom Poston, charged j)ei with the murder of J. H. Miller is in trjc progress as we go to press. The jury has been selected and several Qjt, witnesses placed upon the stand. At ^ye this time it is impossible for The tj01 1 Record to give the details of the trial tjlc as far as it has progressed. The case ^ will probably extend over a period of p several days, owing to the large num- a ber of witnesses scheduled to be heard in the case. An effort to have sajj the case continued until the next term (jav o; general sessions court was made fei*( by attorneys tor the defense, contend- me, ing that several of their important witnesses were viable to appear be- ( cause of being confuted to their beds on pro account of illnes; The court, howev-jvav i*| or, refused to grant the continuance, ^ 2^r and a jury was picked ind the exami-' Sp-, nation of the witnesses begun. fer * (Continued On Page Four) Kir AI.BRAITB HO%J) I T FUNERAL SERVICE OUSANDS PAY LAST TRIBl TE > TO LATE COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION. Cincinnati. Juno 11.?Thousands of sons from all walks of life paid c ir last solemn tribute to the mem- p of Col. Frederick W. Galbraith,, 11 ional commander of the American I non, who lost his life last Thursr morning in an automobile accident 1 Indianopolis. 1 r The funeral services were held in v isic hall under the auspices of the l lerican Legion. Every one of the o 00 seats in the auditorium of the 3 1 was taken. The obsequies were j rked by simplicity. Brief orans were delivered by the Rev. John o rgel, who was the chaplian of the I e Hundred and Forty-seventh in- t itry which was commanded by v lonel Galbraith in France; the Rev. t 5derick McMillin, who also was an' n srseas chaplain; Theodore Roose-1 f t, assistant secretary- of the navy, e o represented the federal govern-ja nt; Former Congressman Victor' intz of Ohio, who was a captain r ler Galbraith; Colonel Franklin'r )lier, former commander of the le-1 i: n. and Marcel Knecht. director of ^ French information service in the r ited States, who was the official a resentative of the French govern- I nt. j d n his address Mr. Roosevelt said:' In the great service movements s t have strengthened our citizens t ough the toil of every day life, il the shell torn battlefields of France c rhere service could be found, there d i found Colonel Gaibruith, at the h efront of the battle, gallantly'a iting ior me rigm. 'We mourn his death, but we are n >ud of his life. We shall miss him f the troubled days that lie before o but our faith in our country is t engthened in that it can breed ii h men. Good citizen, tender hus- r id, and father, valiant, soldier, d endid idealist?his death had left v poorer, but his life has left us (p ler. His pilgrimage is gloriously-e shed." tl Colonel D'Olier said In his eulogy: n The legion has lost its great lead- v the service man. and especially-! disabled man, has lost his best h aid; this city, this state, and this b ion has lost one of its most use- j n citizens. The service man, be-: r ise of his* training and discipline li the army, is not much given to h >ressing his deepest feelings, and n *ing known this great character so f imately, I am sure that the greattribute he would wish for would j li to assure him that even though tl has gone his spirit is still carry- p on." | tl Daptain DeLevergne, air attache of n French embassy, post humously a ferred upon Colonel Galbraith the f md cross of the Legion of Honor! b direction of the president of the v> ;ncn repuonc. u it the conclusion of the military vices the Scottish Rite conducted a impressive burial ceremonial. The \ ti ly then was borne through the city! h jets on a gun carriage followed!a the largest military funeral cor- tl e seen in Cincinnati since the o ial of Gen. Joseph J. Hooker of tl ifederate war fame. n he body was placed in a vault in j ing Grove cemetery preparatory to; h interment in the Arlington ceme-lq v in Washington. ! o: o j ? lethodist Conference at Pamplico. ^ he Kingstree District conference ^ > held in the Methodist church at , nplico, June 8-10. The Rev. C. 6. tj rick, presiding elder of the dis:t, presided over the conference, i~ ; Rev. W. A. Beckham, of Lake p y, preached the opening sermon on dnesday night to a large congrega-: i. Thursday morning at 10 o'clock conference was organized and, af- j n a short business session, the Kev. g H. Jones, of Georgetown, delivered ! sermon before the conference. J irsday night the Rev. W. A. Mas-, eau, of Johnsonville, spoke. Fri-: ' morning the business of the con-! ?nce was completed and the first ( ;sage was giver to the conference j Dr. J. L. Stokes, of Georgetown.' ivery particular the conference was 1 nounced a great success and the, ious reports showed that the j rch is still n^iag progress dete the strenu25s'tlmcs. The con- i ?nce will be nffa next year in igstree. . r PEACE RESOLUTION PASSED BY BIG VOTI IOLTH CAROLINA REPRESENT.! TIVES JOIN REPUBLICANS IN SUPPORT. . \Ya>hington. June 13.?By a vot d exactly "> to 1 the house tonigh abseil the Portter resolution to ter ninate the state of war between th "nited States and the central powers As a substitute for the Knox reso ution, already passed by the senate epealing the declaration of war i cas put through 305 to 61, as a Rc >ublican measure with the loss o >nly one Republican vote, Keller o lichigan. Farty-nine Democrat oined in the landslide. First throwing out on a poin; o rder a motion by Represenlativ ''lood, Democrat, Virginia, to seiv he resolution back to committe rith instructions to submit a substi ute requesting the president t legotiate with the enemy countrie or a treaty of peace, the house vot d down, 254 to 112, another propos 1 relating to disarmament. There was no debate on the Iatte notion, which provided for an amend nent to the pending measure reserv ng the right under the treaty o Versailles "to enter into an agree nent with Germany and her allie nd the powers associated with th Vnited States in the war for join isarmament." The vote of the Democratic leader hip to hold the party in line agains he resolution failed, and the minor ty crumbled on roll calls. Th rack of the gavel ending two solii ays of debate which leaders agree ad not changed one vote, brough sigh of relief to weary members. Springing a surprise at the las loment, Chairman Porter, of *.h oreign affairs committee in charg f the fight, presented Represents ive Burke Cockran to make the clos tig argument for passage of th esolution. There had been tall uring the day that Mr. Cockrai >Tould not be found in line with hi arty but putting him forward t nd the debate upset calculations. Ii be end, however, the New Yor! lember did not actually vote, as h . as paired. Mr. Kelley, who is chairman of th ouse conferees at work on the nava ill, with its disai-mament amend lent, made a bitter attack on th esolution declaring congress wouh ive to apoligize for its act, whicl e described as making peace with i lere clasp of the hand, after th' ashion of professional wrestlers. The principal attack on the reso ation was based by Democrats 01 he ground that it did not properl; rotect American lights and tha he United States in attempting t? egotiate a treaty with German; nd her allies would sit down witl eet and hands tied, and withou eing able to hold the right won b; *ar. Republicans held, however hat all rights were safeguarded. Representative Garrett, Tennessee cting Democratic leader, Representa '?? ~ Tnvo c nn/ IVC V/UUUttll/) ucumuov, ivauo, UIM Ir. Flood made the principal sheeche; gainst the resolution, all declaring hat the chief aurgument in suppor f its adoption was that it would pav< be way for greater trade with Gei lany. Failure of the senate to accept thi oase substitute will send the whoh uestion of peace to conference. Mos f the Republican speakers declaret ongress ought not to repeal th< 'ar declaration itself holding i 'ould be regarded as a repudiatioi f the war but Democrats remindet aem that a Republican house twic< ad adopted a peace resolution wit! lat provision. Among the 49 Democrats who vot fi for the resolution were: Dominick ulmer and Logan of South Carolina o The healthy stomach is nothing i1 ot conservative. Few radicals hav< ood digestion.?Samuel Butler. o ROAD NOTICE The Kingstree-Greelyville-Mann 1 ?:n 1? of. lllg IUdU Will, uc liu^u Vll uuu Ui ter Monday, June 20th until the load is completed to Black river bridge, a period of one week or ten days. . There is no way to detour ft this point. J. M. MARTIN, Adv.lfe Road Engineer. A v5 DIAL PLACES DATA BEFORE SENAT1 . SAYS PRESENT LAW OXE-SIDEI UNJUST, UNFAIR AND NOT HONEST. c Wash;ngton, June 14.?Senator Dia t of South Carolina, explained th senate today his t ill to amend the Ccl e ton Futures Trading Act by givin . buyers and sellers of cotton contracl . j the option of requiring delivery < , | half of '.he cotton in two grades. Cor t j siderablo interest in the bill, now b< fore the senate agricultural commii ? tee, was manifested by tire New Enf ? land and Westeni senators. s That tne present cotton futures la1 was "one sided, unjust, unfair and nc ? honest,'' was asserted by Senator Dia e Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utal asked whether the law had not bee e drawn in part by Mr. Dial's colleagui j. Senator Smith, Democrat, of Sout 0 Carolina, and Senator Dial replie s that the Smith-Lever law was a ste in the right direction, but did not g far enough. Among mjustices to cotton growei r ! cited by Senator Dial was statistics < [_} the New Orleans and New York coi ! ton exchanges for 1919. The Senate f j said that on the New Orleans e: change 33,000,000 bales of cotton wei s sold during that year and 71,000,0C c 1 on the New York exchange, while tfc t actual cotton production for 1919 wa less than 12,000,000 bales. Actual d< liveries of cotton on both exchange ^; he added amonuted to only 40,00 .. bales. e Cotton consumers, Senator Dial e> ! plained, were required under the la1 j'and the cotton exchange regulation . i to accept cotton offered on their fi i tnvo contracts or l>p civen a cash sel 11 tlcmcnt if the cotton offered was nc 0 suitable for their purpose. 'Jlhis pra< tice, he continued, resulted in ovei selling in the market, depressing th prices of spot cotton. That his bill t e i give sellers and buyers the option c delivering half of two grader of col n ten would result in such less depres sion of spot cotton, was declared b ? Senator Dial, o, (i! No action was iequested or taken o ^ i the bill, Senator Dial stating that h desired merely to explain thoroughl its provisions, and that all he wishe ? was fair and honest consideration, e Dial Given Close Attention. n Washington. June 14th.?Ser j ator Dial adres ed the Senate thi ^ afternoon at length and in detail o ': his amendment to the Cotton Future p; Act giving the buyer the right, unles settlement is made on the basis grad< to require that one-half of the quan ^ I tity deliverable shall be delivcre ,. equally in two grades, which th 11 buyer snail choose from the stand r) 1 aid grades, and that the seller shal .. | have the right to tender the othe * half equally in any two grades of th t ten which the seller shall select. The Senate gave Mr. Dial close at I tention, a number of Senators on eaci side of the chamber questioning an appearing satisfied with his explana tions. Mr. Dial aroused great interes ^ when he produced figures showini ? that in 1919 only 140,000 bales of th 104,000,000 bales sold on the Noi t York and New Orleans cotton ex s changes were actually delivered, j The figures theme selves prove tha the amount of cotton available wa sold many times over in these specu [ lative tranactions. t Senator Dial feels confident that hi ^ amendment will pass the senate am s is very hopeful of its adoption by th t house. He argues that the presen Cotton Futures Act leaves the marke , too much at the mercy of the specula tcrs. A beautiful day is the smile of th great spirit. IMPORTANT NOTICE P All persons, firm* a id corporations having cotton stored in the Farmers warehouse are hereby notified that same must be taken out on or before July 1st, 1921. If not moved by the owners on or before July 1st, it will be moved by the Warehouse company at the expense of the owners. Those having cotton stored in the Farmers wareL?" ;!! rJooco crivp this matter uuuoc ?m i/ivwwv Jb" V their prompt attention as t!v? tobacco market will open early in July. FARMERS WAREHOUSE CO. Thos. McCutcheon, Pres. and Mgr. 6-16-2t. ' kf J " . MOST FIGHT NOW E TO BEAT WEEVIL ), FIGHTING TALK BY MAN FRESH J FROM FIVE YEARS IN BOLL , WEEVIL TERRITORY '' The following is from the Leader & ^ ie Vindicator, of Bishopville, Lee county, j , being the full text of a talk which was ? ? made by County Agent J. P. Quinerly -s to the farmers and business men of * Lee county at a mass meeting held l~ there recenily. ~~ Mr. Quinerly 'is undertaking to arouse the cotton growers of Lee >' county to make a winning fight against the boll weevil, which, in the w absence of such a fight, is expected lo do great damage in Lee county this ' j year. 1'; The meeting in Bishopvills last t1 ; WppIt wa-i larcplv attended and Mr. Quinerly's speech made a profound im- 1 ^ pression. It is a very unusual thing ^ for a county newspaper to publish as * P long a speech as this in full, but the j ? Leader and Vindicator could not have . [ put its space to better account. Mr. Quinerly came to Lee county ^ from Alabama, where he had spent t" five years in boll weevil territory. His c " i talk is a fighting talk and he is doing L~ j his part and more, to defeat the wee- c e vill in Lee county. The News and Courier believes that ie j his speech will be read with interest ? and profit in every county in South ^ *" Carolina where the boll weevil is a ^ factor this year. The fight against ^ the boll weevil must be won in the j next six weeks if it is to be won at . L~ j all, and Mr. Quinerly is not only con- c ^ fViaf if ho hilt VlA . UUCIlt bUUV ?v vu.1 WW n W?, IS x tells how this is to be accomplished. 1 The text <>f his speech in full is as c follows: , c. tl ; 1 Mr. Quinerly's Address. t j It is absolutely within the power of 1 e the farmers in this county to literally 1 o cheat the boll weevils out of several I >fj thousand bales of cotton, and thereby a t- increase their yields from 25 to 50 per t >-1 cent over what it will be if no effort f V( is made to control the weevils and if v conditions are not unfavorable for f n them. But if this cotton is saved the 1 e fight must start tomorrow, and the u y j battle will be over in six or eight o d weeks. Properly directed, in a deter- J j mined effort to control the weevils, t : there is sufficient labor on almost ev- js J ery farm to make a profitable crop of f i- cotton, without much, if any addition- " S al expense, no matter how many wee- s n vils you may have now?unless we b s! have an extremely wet June and July; s then very little cotton is ever made i under weevil conditions. ^ i-! However, human nature is pretty ^ d much the same the south over, and it ' ? is probable that you will get your boll I-' weevil knowledge largely from expe- a d! rience. just as they have done in al- 11 r | most every section between here and ^ e jTexas. We are from Mossouri, but * what it takes to show us the boll wee-1 vil has it. There are a lot of doubting * h | Thomases here now, btu they will all ~ ^ j be converted in a year or two. If the p weevil has run true to form and varied t not from section to section in his *v ? march across the cotton belt during n e the last thirty years, how can we hope 1 v for him to suddenly change, now that J " he has "reached Lee county? Farmers a have usually argured that the weevils ? t may be very bad in other sections, but ? s that their farms are either too high, " too far north, too dry or too somehow for the weevils to ever destroy their s' s | cotton. Others content themselves ^ with the hope that some special dise pensation of Providence will protect * them or horbor the erroneous idea * that the weevils do only a little tem" porary damage and then pass on be- n cause they are still raising cotton 0 where they have weevils, especially a B in Texas, but the truth is that where ( Texas now raises so much cotton the ' - climate is too dry and hot for weevils a to thrive; and that the territory was p not planted to cotton many years ago. and in the other cotton states cotton Jj. i3 being raised in spite of weevils by . different methods and on a diferent '' basis from pre-weevil conditions. These sections have learned through g - - - ... n bitter experience, as you probably will, " what it takes to prosper and raise cot- J ton in spite of boll weevils. I wish it were possible to save you that ordeal. v From the Rio Grande to South Car- y ; olina, the path of the weevil has been 11 j littered with conditions that created nothing less than a state of panic for a few years. It has been his custom to d paralyze credit, stagnate business, t bankrupt farmers, demoralize labor, d and knock the bottom out of land c values, in all the cotton sections. This b same little bug has broken more men. MOTION IN lilGDAM CASE Li HEARD : fl'DGE SHIPP DEFERS DECISION PENDING A STUDY OF THE CASE. Saturday at Florence, Judge S. W. j. Shipfh heard Mr. A. L. King argue lis motion for a new trial in the case >f E. D. Bigham who is now in the jenitentiary under sentence of death or the murder of his mother, brother, iister and two adopted children of the atter. The death sentence was stayid by appeal to the supreme court. A. L. King appeared as attorney for idmund D. Bigham at the hearing md Mr. P. H. Arrowsmith repre;ented the state. Mr. King gave as lis ground for the motion for a new rial the allegation that George White ind H. Haselden had made remarks irior to the trial wh_'ch tended to :>inw that t.hpv had made un their ninds as to the guilt of the defendant >efore being sworn in as jurors. Pubication of a new's article in the Times n which i? was stated that the Seveneenth Chapter of Deuteronomy had >een resorted to as kind of a guide luring the deliberations of the jury vas also referred to in the attorney's trgument and he argued that the jury herefore had undertaken to substiute the Mosiac law for the law appliable to the case and that this tended o show prejudice and bias against he accused. Mr. Arrowsmith for the state in rernttal produced an affidavit from H. \ Hasdelden, foreman of the jury tryng the case, that if he had made any itatement referring to the use of the Sible by the jury it was only done in >rder for the jury to determine its luty. Performance of duty was the dea uppermost in his mind and on hat point his conscience was clear. The statement in the affidavit of Warev Wilson that he had heard George J. White, a juror, express an opinion is to what he would do if drawn on he jury was denied in a counter afidavit of George B. White. Affidavits rere introduced by Mr. Arrovrsmith rom Sheriff Burch, A. H. Gasque, L M. Singletary and H. A. Brunson ipholding the credibility and integrity tf Messrs. Haselden and White; udge Shipp will defer his decision in he motion pending study. =======__==__ oreclose&jnore mortgages, and hung for rent" signs on more stores in the outh than have all other factors comined. Seeing is Beleiving. Seeing is believing, I had read about oil weevils all my life and like you, hought most of the reports were unk, but when I went to the infested rea to live in 1915, I realized that o one ever has or can exaggerate -1- ? rl/\ XT' a? niixi tvccvua can uv. * vi lived in Alabama and traveled hroughout the state. This gave me a plendid opportunity to observe the ffects of the weevil when he first apeared in different counties and after e had been there from one to five ears. . Thinking that some of you light be interested in such a narraive, I took the privilege of inviting ou to attend this meeting and hear discussion of what experience has aught to be true about weevils. I ope you will interrupt me at any ime when you wish to ask a question.* will answer it if I can and tell you W o if I cannot. First of all let us clear up a lot of tie misinformation which is so genral regarding boll weevils, tl?iirftis>ry, habits, characteristics, possible amage and the best method of minilizing this damage. No matter what thers may say to the contrary, any uthority will tell you that what fol>ws are the facts in the case as den-mined after years of observation nd study by expert entomologists and ractical farmers. a The weevil came from Mexico. He rossed into this country when the exas farmers converted ther- rancnes ito cotton fields all the way to the n order. Had southern Texas never beun to grow cotton within a hundred liles of the Rio Grande, the weevils rould have probably never been able o establish themselves in Texas from rhence they have migrated year by ear, on an average of about sixty liles, I believe. A Cotton Specialists The weevil is a cotton specialist. He loes not eat any plant except cotton. S o any extent, and he cannot repro[uce his kind except in the fruit of otton?either the squares or young .oil?usually the former, except in wet (Continued On Page Eight)