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?in mm mm FKMCRAJj avth01utik8 ARREST | MAJTY LEADERS AND SEIZE paper* as EVIDENCE. Socialist Party, In? Wort-em of World and Ot h tu AMI-War Prop? er? Taken Over aad Clowe I > 2 Waaalarton. Sept I.?Tha govsrn moat today took drastic action to end the aatt-amr propaganda and actlvltteaj conducted in tha namo of tha Indus? trial Wot kefs of tho World, tha Bo csaJtof* party an? other organisational tbrbofcfcoirt tho United States. ? On ordsra from Attorney General QrOgery. United States marahala in saaay towns and cities descended upon Isoal headquarters of tho Industrial Wochsrs of tho World, seised books, checks, correspondence and other doc ita aid In some Instances arrested found ui>on the premises. In CaWego federal agents took poe sasason of tho national headquarters ?yt 0e Socialist party and a warrant agdheristag tha setsure of Its docu? ments was served upon its counsel. ?The setsure of documents waa car Had OSJt In accordance with a plan hero by William C. Fltta. as attorney general. The depart It of Jostles announced that the of papers was made In con Soottca with a f?deral grand Jury In? vestigation of the Industrial Workers of the World now proceeding at Chi Has deportment's action was taksn ns> the are of a report to President leistest? by ClMsf Justice Covtngtow of tho supreme court of the District of Columbia who was designated recent? ly by the president to investigate the labor situation In tho West. Judge tVriagton probably will report per to Pr?sident Wilson tomor Whether tho concerted action of marshsla throughout the country was I In any way related to Judge Covlng loa's Inspection was not disclosed. It Is known, however, that Judge Cov? ing* on made a special study of tho ac? tivities of tho Industrial Workers of tho World. It was shortly after he reached the Northwest that 17 load ore of tho organisation ware arrested by Idaho National Guardsmen the day before the time set for a general strike in Washington, Oregon. Mon? tana and Idaho. The charges against leadera of the organisation under arreut or whose arrest Is contemplated were not made public her* It was said at the de? partment of juattoe that theae would have to be determined by the gran?2 ttry Investigating the organisation. " - OAclale alao declined to state if In dlctmonts had been found by grand ' lories la Chicago or els here agalnat industrial Workers of ths World loagVl era. It was Intimated, however, that the Investigation had only begun. In? dications are that federal grand Ju? ries la other cltleo will be called upon. For many woeka past scores of field workers of the department's bursau of Investigation have devoted their un? divided attention to alleged attempts oa tho part of I. W. W. leaders to em? barrass ths government In the con? duct of the war by atrlkes and other disturbances called In the name of Charges of many complexions have received by the department In inaction with the organisation's ac? tivities. Recently It waa charged that Included In the rr.nks of the Indus? trial Workers of the World were many Austrtane who have been active In stirring up strife Intended to hamper American Industries, doing work hand? led by Oerma*is before the United BUtos declared a state of war exist? ing with Germany. Continued Investigation haa failed, It la understood, to connect these ac? tivities with Germany money. Many Instances of a suspicious nature In connection with alleged labor troubles, however, have been Investigated. As a result of the country-wide seiz? ure of the organisation's papera the department of juatlce tonight find? it eel f In poaaeaalon of documents by the thousand* many of which will be sub? mitted to grand Juries a* the baals of on Investigation to determine w hot ho, leaders can be prosecuted. Prosecutions may be begun under several lews, chiefly tho eaplonage act covering the utterance of treasonable and seditious statements, snd the new food control law. Seattle Wash., flept. 6.?A detach? ment of police and federal otlb-era rsldsd ths main headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the World here at noon today. One hundred and fifty men found th*re were ordered to leave the building while a aearch waa being conducted. The printing office af the organisation was also raided by federal ofllcera Los Angeles. Sept. 5 ? The head quarters hers of the Industrial Work are of the World were raided today by United Statea Marahal Walton and a force of deputies. Recorda and print? ed matter of the organisation were eel*ed. GRAND JURY WILL RE CALLED TO INVESTIGATE LYNCHING OF NEGRO PREACHER. Coroner** Jury, Witte little Evidence Before It, Finds "Unknown Parties" Verdict." York, Sept. 3.?"W. T. Sims come to his death at the hands of parties unknown to the Jury." 8uch was the verdict of the jury of inquest into the killing of Rev. Watson Sims, a ne? gro, near here August 23, which was rendered at 6.45 this afternoon. The coroner's jury was dismissed and an? nouncement was made that the grand Jury would he called to meet Monday morning to continue the investigation A crowd of more than 600 people, moat of them from the community in which the tragedy occurred, filled the court house here long before the in? quest was resumed this morning. Prac? tically every business man In Sharon closed his place of business for the day and came here. More than 200 negroes were present. The ninth arrest in connection with the affair was made this afternoon when T. R. Penninger, a blacksmith of Sharon, and a man who has many friends, was lodged in jail. He is the father of Fred Penninger, who was placed In jail the morning the dead body of Sims was found. What evi? dence there la against the senior Pen? ninger has not been divulged. Little testimony of value came out at the hearing today. Solicitor Henry waa present and he put in a busy day. The authorities are confident now they know every man In the crowd who killed 81ms and all will probably be arrested before the grand Jury meets Monday. They say they know every eesential detail connected with the tragedy. The whole county will undergo more or leas of a shock when announcement of arrests yet to be made la published. Men In positions of trust will likely have to clear themselves of the charge of being parties to the lynching. Nobody waa surprised at the inquest jury's verdict today. With what little evidence waa before them they could not have done otherwise. The grand jury's Investigation next Monday will be more searching and thorough. T. F. McDow, Esq., of this place, has bean retained to defend the nine men now In jail charged with complicity In the lynching. York, Sept. 6.?Another surprise was registered In the now celebrated Sims lynching case today when Dick Norman, a well known young man, who was arrested shortly after tho tragedy occurred, announced his Inten? tion to turn State's evidence, accord? ing to the authorities and In com? pany with Dr. J. H. Haye and his fath? er. Hose Norman, the youth was taken to Cheater by auto this after? noon and there he is said to have made full confession of the whole affair to Solicitor Henry. The alleged confes? sion, of course, waa not made public but It hi stated that It waa largely a confirmation of evidence the solicitor already had. It had been rumored here for sever? al days that Norman would confess and a number of people were expect? ing it. The News and Courier corre? spondent haa It on good authority that there are others among the eight prisoners now in jail who are willing to tell what they knew about the lynching, m an effort to aave them? selves. If the. are given an oppor? tunity. Young Norman was returned here shortly after 6 o'clock thla afternoon and with his bond fixed at $1,000, is being held as a material witneas. He had little trouble In obtaining bonds? men. He may or may not tell his story before the grand Jury Monday. No further arrests have been made and probably will not be until after the meeting of the grand jury Monday. Several others who are alleged to have been In the mob which put the negro preacher to death early on the morninr of August 24, will then be taken Into custody. There Is a pos? sibility that some may flee the State before arreats come, but that is hardly probabto. Washington. Sept. 6.?Several let? ters written by President Wilson re? cently to congressmen endorsing the view that it would be a fine thing if congress would adjourn and members ?a home to their districts to shed "full light" on the war and Its object. Administration leaders hope for ad? journment by October 1st. The pres? ident Is not expected to exert pressure for an early adjournment. Los Angeles. Sept. 6.?Two hundred Mexican soldiers were drowned when the government barge capsized In the Oulf of California last night, accord? ing to a messago to the Dispatch here. The barge was being towed by gov? ernment tugs and was suddenly struck by a squall. Car ran/a officers on the border disclaim definite knowl? edge of the accident, but. said the re? port Is probably correct. MICHAELIS ACCUSES RUSSIA. CLAIMS CZAR KNEW GERMANY WANTED NO WAR. Says Nicholas Gave Direction to Stop Mobilization but it Was Unheeded by Underlings. Amsterdam, Sept. 5.?In an inter view the German chancellor, Dr. George Michaelis, has made a state? ment in regard to disclosures at the trial in Petrograd for .ligh treason of General Soukholmlinoff, former minis-1 ter of war. Great prominence has been) given in the German press recently | to testimony said to have been taken j at the Soukhomllnoff trial, tending to show Russia's responsibility for the beginning of the war. Accounts reach? ing this country have net contained such testimony. Chancellor Michaelis said: "The statements of the former Rus? sian war minister and the former chief of the general staff (General Januschkevltch) are of the greatest Importance. They are calculated com? pletely to destroy the legend of Ger? many's guilt in starting the war and they will force European opinion, it* the reports are allowed to be publish? ed abroad, to revise its judgment on Germany. "The moment at which these dis? closures were made is the more favor? able, as we have just had knowledge of the American reply to the pope's note urging peace. In Secretary Lan? sing's answer, the German government is described as an irresponsible gov? ernment, which secretly planned to dominate the world, which chose its own time for the war and cruelly and suddenly executed its plan; which did not heed legal barriers or truthfulness, which flooded a great continent with blood, not only of soldiers, but of in? nocent women and children, the help? less and the poor. When adopting these accusations from the entente factory of calumnies the American government obviously had no knowl? edge of the course of the proceed? ings against General Soukhomllnoff. Otherwise Its judgment would certain? ly have been quite different." 1 "It certainly now establishes," Dr. Michaelis stated, "that it was not Ger? many who desired the war hut the military party surrounding the czar, who was under the influence of France and England. Up to the last moment, In the exchange of telegrams with the Emperor of Russia and the King of England, the German emperor made the most earnest and fervent attempts ir the Interest of peace. "The importance of the new disclo? sures is that the czar, who had to decide as to war or peace, in fact came to the conviction, with the Ger? man emperor's efforts, that Germany did not desire war. The consequence of his conviction was his positive or? der to cancel the Russian mobilization but a couple of criminals who belled the csar disregarded the order and the war started by its execution. A consequence of the emperor's efforts also was the czar's order to General Januschkevltch to give the German ambassador, Count Portaules, assur? ance of Russia's desire for peace. "The execution of this order was frustrated by Mr. Sazonoff (then Rus? sian foreign minister), who obviously feared the German ambassador could perhaps take further effective steps for prevention of the threatening weather. {Who was behind all these men? They certainly did not of their own accord plan to drive the great power of Rus? sia, then Europe and finally the whole world Into a war of unparalleled ter rlblene8s. "I need not remind you of the re? lations between General Soukhomll? noff and the French group of chauvin? ists, M Polncare and his associates. It Is well known that the election of M. J ncare to the presidency was a sign of an aggressive Franco-Russian alliance against Germany and that General Soukhomllnoff was ordered to Paris to play the presidency of tho French republic into M. Polncare's hands. At that time in Paris General 8oukhomlinoff made a statement About tho Russian army and the alter? ations of Russian plans for mobiliza? tion. A long time previously aggress? ive plans against Germany were pre? pared by an influential political group in France, England and Russia. "Regarding English influence at Petrograd during the critical days. July 29 and 30 (1914) I only need to refer to a telegram of the Reuter cor? respondent at Petrograd and to the well known report of the Belgian charge d'affaires, de L'Escallle, which clearly show that the certainty of English support strengthened the de? termination for war of the leading men of Bussla. "While Russia thus prepared an ag? gressive war and secretly mobilized attempts were made to mislead and betray Germany in order to have time for Russia to move her troop:; to the frontiers. The word of honor of Gen? eral Janusekevlteh will live In history and Major von Eggeling. then German military attache at Petrograd^ tele? graphed the word of honor of that chief of the Russian general staTT and CLOSING jjj ON RUSSIA. GERMAN FLEET MAY USE RIGA AS BASE OF OPERATION. Lute Report? Do Not Make Clear tho Situation?Germans Advancing on Forty Mile Front but Some Rus? sians Still Resist. "With the appearance of the Ger? man tleet in the Gulf of Riga, the Russian ditllcultie.s in northern mili? tary operations are accentuated. Not only the safety of 'he armies is con? cerned, but apprehensions are excit? ed as to what will happen to the Rus? sian fleet if the Germans arc given full 3wing in the Baltic. Only submarined so far are operating against the Rus ?tan right tlank as it fell back along the Gulf of Riga coast. It is* not ex? pected that actual operations against the Russian fleet would begin until the land operations have been push? ed further and it is seen what success the Russians have in their efforts to I make a stand. The Gulf of Riga would I offer a favorable base for naval oper? ations against Reveal, where the Rus? sian fleet i3 stationed. While the Ger? mans are pushing forward on a forty mile front the Russian retreat is de? clared to be by no means a rout. The Italian campaign continues to make progress, Gen. Cadorna re? ports. It seems that unofficial re? ports of the capture of Monte San I Gabriel were premature, but its fall I is considered certain. GERMAN FLEET APPEARS. Petrograd Reports That Fleet is In Gulf of Riga. Petrograd, Sept. 6.?It was semi? officially announced this morning that the German fleet is in Riga. Gulf. RUSSIAN RETREAT CON ITNUES. Germans Shelling Rear Guurd und Trying to Cut Off Retreat. Petrograd, Sept. 6.?The Russian retreat from Riga over a neck of land a mile and a-half wide is being accomplished with tho greatest diffi? culty. The enemy is shelling the rear guard. The Germans are moving up from the Uxkull region to cut off their retreat from the southeast. Despite the disgraceful llights of some Rus? sian elements the others fought brave? ly. The approach of the rainy season Is expected to prevent the Teutons from advancing far toward the cap? ital. RADICALS CONTROL RUSSIA. Municipal Elections Result In Victory of Social Revolutionists. Petrograd, Sept. 61?The municipal elections' resulted in a victory for the radicals. The Social revolutionaries and Bolsheviki inflicted a heavy defeat on the moderate Socialists and Con? stitutional Democrats. American Training Camp, France, Sept. 4.?It Is announced that Britisn officers will soon be attached to the American camps for training, thus giv? ing the Americans the benolit of both French and British tactics. expressly referred to his statement that until July 29, in the pfternoon, no order of any kind for mobilizatior was given. Despite this General Ja nusckevitch had in his pocket the prepared mobilization order. Germany j was to be duped with a proposal of arbitration at the Hague court while Russia busily continued to bring her army to a war footing for the plan? ned attack. "In this connection the importance of the czar's telegram to Emperor William, which was dispatched Jul> 30 at 1.20 o'clock in the afternoon and which announced the general mobilization of the Russian army, If evident. This mobilization, according to the caar'8 well known ukase of 1912, meant war against Germany ane was intended to maintain the decep? tion that military meaures were de? sired solely against Austrian prepara? tions. "Germany was obliged to enter a most serious tight for the defense of her existence because she was threat I ened by her neighbors, France and Russia, who were eager for booty and power, who wanted to destroy her and who were urged by the island empire beyond the channel because England was striving for the hegemony of Eu? rope as Viscount Grey (former British foreign secretary) once said. "Nothing else but the mischievous will of criminal enemy war agitat? ors forced uw into this sanguinary de? fensive war for life and freedom. No American note can alter this historical truth which now again is confirmed by (Jeneral Soukhomllnoff and General JanUSCkevltch m>r can the American note shake our firm determination to fight in loyal harmony behind the crown and the people for war aims; namely, maintenance of our rights to Germany's integrity, freedom ami a future of assured peaceful develop? ment for which our heroes have now been fighting ami bleeding for more than three years." - REX THEATRE SUMTER, THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 10 MONDAY Ethel Clayton In a Late World Brady Production "DRIFTING SOULS" This is a Brady masterpiece and excellent production. Tuesday?Blue Bird production in "Southern Justice," a great Southern play. Taken from the famous book. The biggest photoplay that Miss Pickford ever appeared in and cost thousands of dollars to pro? duce it and is the lirst Artcraft production ever shown in Sumter. Miss Mary Pickford under this coi .ict gets a salary of a million dollars a year. The theatre opens at eleven o'clock in mornir.j and a continuous show until eleven thirty that night. Worth miles to come and see it. Thursday, "Master Passion," Edison masterpiece. Friday Kitty MacKay, a Vitagraph special. Saturday, "Perwinkle," a Mary Miles Minter production. These ads are run for the benefitof country patrons, so they know each day show. WEDNESDAY. MARY PICKFORD In "THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL MUST WIN THE WAR. SECURITY WILL BE UNKNOW N IE PRUSSIAN ISM SURVIVES. Tulk of Peace With an Untiefemcti Germany Can Not be Considered Seriously, Declares Boot. Saratog. . N. Y., Sept. 3.?The cry of "alarm" for a single prosecution ol the war was sounded in an address delivered today by Elihu Root before the Conference of the Bar Association Delegates, an organization afnlia\ed with the American Bar Associate n. He urged that each member of the bar exert every inlluence and every power he possibly possescs over his clients, friends and associates in his community in that direction. "It< has been perfectly evident," he said, "that this is a conflict betweeen two opposite and inevitably opposed systems of governments, of policy, of politics, of human society. It has be? come perfectly evident that the war was brought on with a purpose to establish a military autocracy. It has become perfectly evident that more than a generation of careful prepara? tion had been made for this very thing and that the democracies of the world, rejoicing in peace and pros? perity, in political freedom and In in? dividual liberty, were in great meas? ure and In tly differing degree un? prepared to .iiect thi' attack upon them. "Slowly they have gathered to the support of the principle of their lives, the principles upon which they live, against the adverse attack on this principle, the domination of which means the death of democracy and the everlasting destruction of the system of individual liberty of which we are the high priests of the bar. "So long as there exists a great and powerful military autocracy which has the purpose to secure domination by military force, so long as republics, democracies, countries which preserve individual freedom and individual rights, countries which subordinate government to freedom, must be at the mercy of autocracy. As well go to sleep with a burglar sitting in your front hall as to talk about the peace and security of a democracy with Germany still competent to pur? sue its career of domination. "We are in the light and the stake for which we fight is liberty and our bar stands at the door through which oppression would enter. It is not sr? easy for the farmer to see there will be a difference in his crops, or in the sale of them; for the manufacture: to see that anyone will stop wearing clothes or shoes, or using machinery, but it is easy for us to see that with the domination of that military sys? tem that subordinates- the law. that makes the bar but a cog to an ad? ministrative system of government and leaves to the bench no independ? ence?it is easy for the lawyer to *ee that everything he has contended for of individual liberty and the suprem? acy of the law over executive power? will be attacked and destroyed if we do not succeed in this war." Mr. Root spoke after he had been elected chairman of the conference He was interupted by applause many times during the address. The dele? gates indorsed a plan which pledges the lawyers to give legal aid to those entering the federal or State service and the local exemption boards; tc conserve the practice of lawers en? tering tho service; to cooperate in re? lief work, including gratitous assist? ance in probating the estates of those who have died -.while in the service and assisting the federal and State authorities in all questions in connec? tion of the war. Tj. w. Halliard was elected mayor of Klngstree Tuesday. ENDORSES POPE'S PLAN. BAUOX COCHIN TAKES ISSCH WITH WILSON'S NOTE. Ix>ndcr of French Catltolic Party Does Not See Why Kaiser Must be Shorn of His Power. Paris, Sept. 3.?"You ask for my opinion concerning the utterances- of Pope Benedict and President Wilson?" said Baron Densy Cochin, one of the leaders of the Catholic party of France in parliament, to the Associat? ed Press today. "It is certain that those of the pope," he continued, "have rather the character of a proto? col, while those of the president are encyclical, but I do not see why we should oppose them to each other. "Did the pope speak in vain? No, because his voice has been listened to. Did he speak inopportunely? No, the highest moral authority In the world was obliged to speak. Did he speak with partiality? No one has been able to pretend so. He desires, first of all, to put things back where they were before 1914 and regulate afterwards the questions raised in the Orient and in Western Europe in conformity with the wishes of the people and in such manner as not to provoke new wars. He does not forget the horrors- com? mitted, the inoffensive populations carried off into slavery, the open towns burned. He condemns these crimes. "Who then committed them? He renders us full justice as to the honor of our armies. For the future he recommends to all, those who attack us as well as tc ourselves, that they disarm and we shall soon see the Ger? mans obliged to resign themselves to that. "The president desires to end mili? tarism. So does the pope. But in ad? dition Mr. Wilson desires the end of the Hohenzollern dynasty, which In? stituted this regime. He uses about the same language as that used by the allies against Napoleon in 1815 af? ter the return from Elba* "My notion is quite different. There was only Napoleon, while there are among the Teutons of the North millions of Hohenzollerns among the bankers and manufacturers of Prus? sian cities, among the legions of merchants, who as the advance guard of their, armies, fell upon our coun-* tries. "As for rr.o. it goes without saying that r shall be delighted with all the vexations that come to Emperor William. But I confess- that I do not see in the fall of this trad tional auto? crat and in his being replaced by some other elected autocrat a solution of the European catastrophe. For us that would not be worth another week of the war. ? "The president is more happy when he declares the present Germany to be the enemy of four-fifths of the human race. Lot that people, says the presi? dent In high and generous sentiment, resign itself to the acceptation of a regime of equality and no longer seek to dominate all other m.tionu as it is trying to do today?such is the pri? mordial basis of every peace project. There is none other than that and tho desires of the pope are the same as those of the president. "Such is the peace we shall have, the peace we owe to the heroes we mourn, the peace of which the libera? tion of the French provinces of Lor? raine and Alsace will be the only ac? ceptable pledge." Marriage Announcement. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Williams have announced the approaching marriage f their daughter. Frances T*ouisc to Mr. W. Allison Sea,ffe. Jr.. of Char? leston. & C. Marriage to be solemn? ized at the home of Mrs R. L. Soaffe on September 12th. 1917. No cards.