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Slje fount? Itord. ^^^VOLUME 36 NO. 0 THE COUNTY RECORD, KINGS0REE, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1922. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE WORLD MEETING [ CLOSED MONDAY GREAT CONFERENCE ADJOURNS AFTER TWELVE WEEKS SESSION FOR PEACE. . Its covenants finally' signed and j sealed, the Washington conference was j 1 passed on to history Monday by pres- j < ident Harding as "an example to im- j < bue with niw hope all that dwell ( in apprehension." 1 Speaking before a plenary ses- i t sion which brought to a close the ( fegotiations begun twelve weeks ago t his invitation, the president de- i clared the record of achievement 1 voiced in courageous tones "the first i deliberate and effective expression of i A 4-1%/% rtAnem'nncnpcc i great puwc*5j m tuc wuovivuo<ivw c ^ of peace, of war's utter futility." i Before him as he pronounced his J1 appraisement lay, newly signed, the treaties by which the predominant ( nations of the world engaged to put i a limit on their navies, to guarantee 1 a new deal for China, and to set ^ up an international concord to keep t the peace in the Pacific. |t "It matters little," said Mr. Harding, "what we appraise as the out- i standing accomplishment. Any one { of them alone would have justified c the conference. But the whole s achievement has so cleared the at- 1 mosphere that it will seem like 1 breathing the refreshing air of a j new morn cf promise. ji "It may be that the naval holiday t here contracted will expire with the treaties, but I do not believe it 1 Those of us who live another decade are more likely to witness a 1 growth of public opinion, strength- ? ened by the new experience, which ? will make nations more concerned t . with living to the fulfilment of God's < Madi intent than with agencies of , ? warfare and destruction. "Since this conference of nations has pointed with unanimity to the . way of peace today, like conferences in the future, under appropriate con- i ditions and with aims well conserved y and definite, may illumine the high- 1 ways and byways of human activities. I Hie torches of understanding have ? been lighted, and they ought to glow j 1 and encircle the globe." 11 The president delivered his part- j < ing message to the delegates as soon : > as the formal signing of the treaties 11 bed been concluded, and when he fin- 1 ished the conference closed, as it had i opened on November 12, with prayer, i by the Rev. William S. Abernethy, I < pastor of Calvary Baptist church i which President Harding attends.|1 Within a few hours some of the ( foreign delegations already had left Washington, and most of the others j will go tomorrow. < Four treaties, and a supplement to < a fifth were given final approval today, but their red wax seals had j: been attached in advance and the entire ceremony occupied less than j1 "* ? VT? I ] an nour. i>o uuici uuomcoo , mained and the seventh and final 1 plenary session came to an end at l 11:13 a. m., one hour and eleven min- i utes after it was called to order. i In the order of their signature, i the instruments to which the ple^ nipotentia ries affixed their names ( 1 /M j&tre the four-power Pacific treaty j 1 supplement, excluding the principal Japanese islands from the scope of 1 . the pact; the five-power naval limita- 1 r tion tre^y; the five-pewer submarine and poison gas treaty; the nine-power 1 general Far Eastern treaty, and the < nine-power Chinese tariff treaty. Of the three other treaties resulting 1 from the Washington negotiations 1 that relating to Shantung was signed Saturday, and those dealing with 1 ceble rights in Yap and allocation c' the former German Pacific cables i arc yet to be put into final form by direct exchanges between the in- j i terested governments. The four- < power Pacific treaty was signed December IS. I The signing took place at che desk j of the Secretary-General in the center i of the great hollow square formed t by the U-shaped green baize table '* about which all the plenary sessions ! i of the conference were held. Only' one delegate sat at the desk at a time,! s but to shorten the ceremony it was ? arranged that each should sign in i immediate succession all the docu- j ments to which his government was ] party. ] Amid applause from the hundreds t ^who had crowded into Continental j to see the wind-up of the con- i ference the American delegation filed 1 around the U-shaped table and into the hollow square a few minutes 10-2 FOR CONVICTION IN ARBUCKLE TRIAL IURY REPORTS DISAGREEMENT.! THIRD HEARING TO BE HELD. i San Francisco, Feb. 3.?The jury in :he second trial of a manslaughter rharge against Roscoe Arbuckle derided after forty-four hours that it rould not agree and was discharged ;oday, with the final ballot standing ;en for conviction and two for acjuittal. Both prosecution and defense anlounce that they would favor another :rial. So sure was the defense of ts position in t{ie second trial that t submitted its case without final argument. This had an effect opposite :rom the one intended, according to tfate Friedman, one of the jurors. "We thought that when the defense leclined to argue it had thrown up :s hands," he said. 'The first ten >allots stood nine to three for conviction, and thereafter until the foureenth and final ballot it was ten to wo." "In spite of my own personal conviction it was my intention to be raided by the opinion of a majority >f the jury," District Attorney Brady aid. "Had the majority of the jury >een in favor of an acquittal I would >ave asked for a dismissal. As the ury stood ten for conviction to two or acquittal it is manifestly my duty o try the case again." Gavin McNab, chief counsel for Armckle, said: "In-this trial on practically all balots the jury st <! nine for conviction md three for acquittal, with the two ilternates for acquittal. Practically ;he same evidence was presented to ;ach jury. The case will be tried igain." o News Notes From Hemingway. Hemingway, Feb. 7.?The teachers nvited their kind hostesses to meet vith them Thursday afternoon at the lome of Mrs. J. M. Eaddy. The pur>ose of the, meeting was to organize i club, the object of which is to 'aster a social spirit among its mera>ers. The following officers were sleeted: President, Miss Dess Gowdy; rice-president, Mrs. L. G. Day; secretary and? treasurer, Miss Elizabeth Page. The H. Y. W. (the name which ; vas adopted for the club) is to have I J- -I-" rp| 1 IJ* meetings VII lliuiauo^ calling wx . iach week at the home of the different j nembers. After the organization j vas completed, Mrs. Eaddy served j lelicious home made candy. The young set of Hemingway en-1 ioyed an informal dance at the home J af Miss Blondell Cockfield Friday, jvening. Rev. Thomas and Mr. E. L. Rogers j spent Saturday in Kingstree. Rev. B. J. Guess returned from Sreflnville Thursday, where he had jeen undergoing medical treatment, i He was able to fill his regular ap- j xintment Sunday. The faculty of the Hemingway high i school attended the teachers meeting I in Kingstree Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bonnoitt of DarlingJon, spent the week-end with the latjeris aunt, Mrs. Pridgen. Dr. Boyd Baker of Baltimore, Md., j visited his brother, Dr. H. L. Baker; lere last week. Messrs. D. I. Wilson of Oaks and Furney Rhem of Rhems, spent Frilay night in town. Messrs. Oscar Haselden and E. L. Rogers visited friends in Florence Friday evening. Mrs. J. E. Norton of Mullins, is j ^siting her father, Mr. L. L. Ard. j Mr. F. E. Huggins is erecting j i bungalow on George street. Miss Lena Thomas of Lake City, | s on a visit to her sister, Mrs. D. H. j )liver. 4-L AI ? nnwAnlo V? flvfl /uici waiting viicu paicuvo iicit, I Mrs. Balford Haselden and brother, Mr. Oliver Venters, left Thursday norning for Sanford, Fla., making ;he trip in Mrs. Haselden's automobile. Miss Flossie Eaddy of Leo, is visting relatives here. Mrs. Ida Stone of Johnsonville, ;peat Sunday with relatives hese. ifter the session began. One after, mother Secretary Hughes, Senator Lodge, Senator Underwood and Elihu Root wrote their names to the five igreements, each touching lightly, as, i token of approval, the seals al-' eady set opposite the spaces left for lis signature. Send your Job Printing to us HUMAN SKELETONS ! LIE THICK IN RUSSIA THOUSANDS DIE FROM HUNGER AS THEY PRESS ON IN SEARCH OF BREAD. An..Associated Press report from Volga region of Russia says: When the snows melt next spring the Russian steppes will be strewn with skeletons. They will resemblle the high prairies of the American cow country in the days when big cattle outfits ftbd insufficient hay to carry their stock through u hard winter. But among the skeletons of cattle and camels there will be bones 01 hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who fell exhausted in their quest for bread; who lived the simple lives their peasant ancestors lived for centuries and had little conception of the policital upheaval which made this famine more terrible than that of 1891. They wandered, and millions of them are still wandering. There was vtst+ViSnn. fn aaf m t.ViAir homes, so UVMUU5 W VM? . ? ? w, they started on the trek for bread. Some drifted Westward to the Volga and found death in the typhus-ridden railway centers, or among the horrors of refugee camps along the Volga; others started for Turkestan; still others moved Eastward toward Siberia, the land of gold and wheat which has always been so alluring to the Russian Moujik, who heard little of its vastness, its hardships and its heartlessness. The peasants knew nothing of modern ways. They were unable to get rides on the trains burdened with the Red army and food for Moscow and Petrograd. When their animals dropped dead the families walked on always hoping that food lay over the knoll. But the country districts have no grain, or if peasants families have a small supply they conceal it in the effort to prolong their own lives until another crop is harvested. In the larger towns there is food for sale at fabulous prices but tne starving refugees have neither money nor goods to exchange and can only sit down to await death or trudge on until they sink of exhaustion. . The bodies that lie along the railroads are collected on cars and hauled to centers where they are piled in frozen, snow-covered heaps to await burial. Freezing refugees remove all garments from the dead, so the frozen bodies are nude when the scavengers collect them. Families drift apart and wandei aimlessly on to their inevitable fate. Human instincts are lost and they become little better than beasts. The cities and town populations are so hardened to suffering that they are little moved by the misery which lie.? all about them. Death seems more ----- " il merciful in the country' ior me refugees; they sink into the white covering of the endless plain, and wolves strip their bones. 4 From Perm and Ekaterinburg to the Caspian death is stalking over the steppes. Russians, Cossacks, Kalmucks, Kirghiz and Tartars alike are meeting their end with hopeless and patience begotten of centuries of unequal struggle against political extortion and unfavorable climatic conditions made worse by ignorance of scientific methods of tilling the soil. Entire village populations have died in the provinces East of the Volga and the animals which survive are so weak it is impossible to get adequate horsepower to deliver food to the thousands of snowbound destitute settlements far from food stations. o? E. C. EPPS IS NAMED AS A DIRECTOR. Governor Cooper Tuesday Appointed Kingstree Man on Tobacco Board. Columbia, Feb. 7.?E. C. Epps of Kingstree has been appointed by Governor Cooper director of the TriState Tobacco Growers' association. T. B. Young of Florence and Bright Williamson of Darlington were elected directors from South Carolina for the Tri-State Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Marketing association. They left Tuesday morning for t>_iiHonrl Hie first session XVOlClgil tv avbviK v?iv of the directorate which will formal lv organize during the session by the election of officers of the Tri-State 'Association. o The heaviest snow storm in many years was experienced throughout Virginih last week. BIGHAM'S CASE TO ( i U.S.SUPREME COURT i : ATTORNEYS OF FLORENCE MAN C HAVE ASKED STATE SUPREME COURT FOR A REHEARING. 1 Columbia, Feb. 6.?Edmund D. Big1 ham, Florence county man, coifticted o oi murdering his brother and sen- p tenced to the electric chair, and also t< ; charged with killing his mother, his a , sister and his sister'? two adopted i F j children, will, it is understood, appeal I J to the United States supreme court! e from the decision of the South Caro- 0 lina supreme court which recently re- b fused his appeal for a new trial. It t] is not knoVn on what grounds the new appeal will be made. An order staying the remittitur in sj the recent decision of the supreme a court has been issued by the supreme court, Bigham asking for a rehearing b< of the case. However, the court has not as yet announced whether it will grant a rehearing. Bigham was sentenced to die but ^ appealed, making numerous exceptions R. t) the proceedings in the circuit ^ court which convicted him. The supreme court recently dismissed the appeal, and Bigham will be resen- .n tenced at the next term of court in " Florence in March, unless his appeal to the United States supreme court is allowed. ' ^ Bigham is in the death house of the state penitentiary. His main comment about his case is a repetition of 0 the statement that he is innocent. T He talks very freely about his case. " tl si Iadiantown Organizes Club. (Reported for Tne County Record) ** The progressive citizens of Indian- P town, Williamsburg county, met at ^ the school house on Monday night, February 6th, for the purpose of organizing a departmental community b club. The meeting was presided over si by Miss Hattie McMurray, home dem- a' or,.^tration agent in Williamsburg ^ cour ty. Addresses were made by ?< Mrs. Frances Y. Kline, state market- 0i ing specialist and Mr. T. M. Cath- t< cart county farm agent. After which a * 1 J I?J 41.^4 A it was moved ana secunuuu mat a club of this land be organized. Mr. c T. B. Lovett was elected president, n Mr. IT. D. Gamble, vice-president, and 1 Mr. T. H. Stuckey secretary. Mrs. a W. H. Pritchet chairman of the worn- ^ 1 ar/s department and Mr. W. D. Dan- n 1 iel chairman of the men's department. c< Mrs. Kline discussed at length the ? 1922 marketing program of the home ? demonstration department. The la- S ! dies were much interested in the butf ter contests which are being put on a 1 in some of the counties of the state il 1 and also in the various other products P 1' which are to be marketed by the o ' South Carolina Home Producers' As( scciatior., particularly in the black- ? ! berry jam, plum jelly and soup mix- d I ture. A committee will take the mat- tl i ter up with the club women and S 1 bring in the signed contracts to the o ' i next meeting of the home demonstra- tl i tion club which will be in the near !j future. A survey will also be made 1 j to determine upon the women who t< | would like to take part in a county u j butter contest. Miss Elizabeth a ' Forney, state dairy agent will con- b duct this contest! V j O ? c< State Tax Commission. IC ! W. G. Query of Wellford, a mem, bei of the state tax commission since b < i*s organization in 1915, and a pioneer p j in the matter of tax reform, is the d . new chairman of the commission. fi It will be recalled that the term of b< the former chairman, A. W. Jones, t< expired this year and that J. Fraser ti Lyon was appointed by the governor b< to succeed Mr. Jones, the appoint- hi ment being confirmed by the senate. i< Mr. Jones was not a candidate for b< reappointment. An organization meeting of the 0i commission was held Tuesday morn- y, ing and Mr. Query was elected chair- bi man. The three members of the com- l mission as it now stands are W. G. a Query, chairman, J. P. Derham and U] J. Fraser Lyon. John L. Rice is sec- ta retary. w o w Curtis Franklin, Aiken county negi'o, about 30 years old, convicted ti! of criminal assault upon a white woman of Aiken, was electrocuted th at the state penitentiary Friday* mom- bi ing. pi o A The Woodrow Wilson Foundation sp has met with financial success since tli the campaign was started a week ago. hi > CARDINAL RATT1 NEW PONTIFF: >CONNELL ARRIVES AT VATICAN AS NEW POPE APPEARS ON BALCONY. Cardinal Acchille Ratti, archbishop j f Milan, has been chosen supreme ontiff of the Roman Catholic church j ? succeed the late Benedict XV. His i pronation as Pius XI will take place j 'ebruary 12. After the announcement cf his lection the Pope appeared on the utside balcony of St. Peter's and estowed the benediction on the icusands who had \^ited patient-! r in the rain in St. Peter's Square -the first time this has occurred ince the breach between the state ad the church in 1870; for fiftyvo years the blessing had been estowed from within the basilica. The election was completed withut American participation in the onclave, Cardinal O'Connell, arch- ' ishop of Boston, arriving at the molent the new Pope was blessing the multitude. ? "Universal pacification" is the key- ! ote of the new Pope's policy, as idicated in a statement issued by , Tince Chigi. the marshal of the , rnclave, which made reference to , le first blessing bestowed by Pius I. Cardinal Gasparri will retain his , ffice as papal secretary of state. , his announcement almost imme- , iately after Pius XI had assumed < :c high pontificate is regarded as gnificant, as Benedict XV required venty-four hours for the appoint- ] tent of Cardinal Gasparri, and never , reviously had a newly elected pon- i ff chosen his secretary of state ] efore the elapse of two or three days. : That the new Pope has decided i j exercise his full authority was lown when some of the cardinals, i htached to what has become known s the "cric irreconciables" attemptJ to persuade him not to appear n the outside balcony. He listened > the arguments for a few moments r.d then said: "Remember I am no longer a irdinal. I am the supreme pontiff ow." The diplomatic corps and papal listocracy were received in the ' tt: f.tican tnis aiiernoon. ms nigiiess passed along the loggias, acompanied by his entourage and esorted by noble guards in their strik>g red full dress uniforms, and the wiss guards in mediaeval costumes. As the pontiff moved slowly along 11 knelt. He offered his hand, and t was reverently kissed. Then he roceeded to Clementin Hall, where thers received the papal benediction. There was a touch of melancholy adness and disappointment to hunreds of Americans mingling among he thousands of Italians in Si. Peter's, quare, when Cardinal Bisleti, dean | f the cardinal deacons, appeared on he balcony of St. Peter's and shouted: "I bring you great joy." The words spelled consternation : the Americans, and a few mintes later, as Cardinal O'Connell's utomobiles drew up to the large ronze gate on the right side of the atican, it was realized that one more jnclave had been held without Amer:an participation. Cardinal Archillic Ratti, Archishop of Milan, was for several years apal nuncio in Poland, where his , ischarge of important ecclesiastical j jnctions when the Polish question j ecame acute earned for him the es- i fern of Benedict XV and the gratiide of Vatican authorities. It was , ccause of this service that the red j ] Et was conferred upon him on June j j, 1921, when a similar honor was j pstowed on Cardinal Laurenti. , Cardinal Ratti was born in Italy 1 n October 12, 1858. For many i rars he was librarian of the Am- j j rosian Library and archives ac Milan.: j ater he became librarian of the Vati-!? in. In this position he remained j j itfl the new republic of Poland es- < blished -official diplomatic relations ith the Vatican, at which time Ratti as appointed archbishop and was < -signed to Poland as the representave of the Holy See. < That country was then torn With i ie estrangements from religion ' ought about by the Communistic c opaganda from Soviet Russia and i rchbishop Ratti counteracted the ? -read of radicalism. He also won t ie esteem of Polish Catholics by i s efforts in behalf of destitute c TOBACCO ASSOCIATION WORKING WELL 1 SO WRITES J. C. STONE, PRESIDENT OF THE KENTUCKY BURLEY GROWERS ORGANIZATION. Florence, Feb. 8.?In reply to telegram sent to Mr. J. C. Stone, president of the Kentucky Burley Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association, asking him to give the South Carolina Campaign Committee some information as to the Kentucky situation, the followirg reply was received : \ ? "South Carolina Campaign Committee, Co-operative Tobacco Association. Florence, S. C. Gentlemen: Owing to my absence from the office your telegram of January 26th Itas just been received, and in reply will say that there arc about 132 loose leaf warehouses in the entire Burley district. Of these houses our Association now owns 117, and there are h" houses, mostly small ones, selling tobacco at public auction. Up to this time tbey have sold around thirty-seven to thirty-eight million pounds, and for the last ten days receipts in these houses are extremely light, and in my opinion, they will not sell over twelve or fifteen million pounds more. The Association began receiving tobacco in Lexington on Thursday. January 26th, and on Monday, January 30th, we began receiving in all Oi' our other receiving points, about 90 in number. We are making a substantial advance to each farmer on delivery of his tobacco, and this advance in most cases has proven to be more than the farmer got for his entire crop last >ear, and I am glad to say the farmers over the entire district are not only satisfied, but are charmed with the way their Association has started off. We estimate that the Association will handle this year in the neighborhood of 150,000,000 pounds and from . present indications, I feel confident that we will sell most of our tobacc> in winter order. However, we are prepared to finance and redry all of the crop, if it becomes necessary ro do so. We feel very much encouraged over the way our operation has started off, and the members of the Association are pleased with the way their business is being handled, and I feel confident it is going to be the salvation of the business interest of our section. If there is any information at anj time that you desire, write me and I will give it to you. With kind regards and best wishes, I am, Yours very truly, (Signed) JAMES C. STONE, President and General Manager. Pooled Tobacco in Kentucky. / The following news item from a Shelbyville, Ky., correspondent of The Louisville Times is self explanatory. Shelbyville, Ky., Jan. 31.?The first of the pooled tobacco was received yesterday at the three warehouses controlled by the Burley Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Marketing Association, the total receipts amounting to about 180,000 pounds. After it had been weighed and properly graded warehouse receipts were issued to the growers, on which they ^ received a cash advance of 50 per VJ cent of the estimated value, which, in a number of cases, amounted to more than was realized for the entire crop last year. With but few exceptions, the growers expressed themselves as thoroughly satisfied with their grades and the general workings of the new system. Deliveries equal to the amount received yesterday have been booked ? - ? 1. m i .M U]) to -Vi u id I IV) aiiu givwcio ai v earned not to bring in any tobacco for the receipt of which arrangenents have not been previously made. \ revival of business is expected to follow the distribution of the tobac:o money. :hildi en orphaned by the war. Cardinal Ratti as the Archbishop >f Milan presides over one of the nost important archdioceses in Italy. Hie city being a great industrial snter, one of its main requirements s that the cardinal shall possess a Kxrial problems. He is big physically, horough knowledge of political and rnd Is reputed to have liberal tenlencies. - Lwddi