The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 22, 1917, Image 2
ASHUME MORTGAGES. *
Given Assurances That south
Not Kaller If British Closvs
BtUloo Dollar Loom.
Washington. Bept 17.?Fearing
that the British financial interests
holding mortgages on millions of dol?
lars worth of Southern farm proper?
ty, through agents In this country,
would foreclose under orders from
the British government. Southern
senators and congressmen today held
a conference with Secretary McAdoo
regarding the matter.
The interests loaning this money
do not care to call It In. hut the Drll
iah government, needing the funds
for war purposes, recently Issued an
at dar to collect the money as soon
*a possible. The amount said to be
ieanod in the South at this time ap?
proximate*. $1.000.000,000.
Assurance was given those who
paw Secretary McAdoo today that the
would either be taken over by
Federal Farm Loan Banks In the
d'iferent State? or hat negotiations
uould be carried on with the British
go vor; ment whereby no harm would
to tr ose under mortgage.
JENKINS VILCAN CO.
T. B. Jenkins Klee facti President Af?
ter Director* are Choscu by Stock
At the first meeting of the directors
of the Vulcan 8pring company which
held Thursday ufternoon at half
it four at the Commercial club, T.
B. Jenkins was electod president. K
O. Zetrouer, secretary-treasurer, and
& E. Swayne. assistant treasurer.
The directors who were sppointcd
at the meeting of the 61 stockholders
held at the Commercial Club for the
flrst time on Thursday morning at
10 30 o'clock, are John M. Lontz,
George E. 8eldel. 8. E. Swayne, Jas.
Carr, T. B. Jenkins, k G. Zetrouer,
and Edwin Schleie, the last two
named being residents of Si. Louis.
Mr. Zeuour will, however, cotne to
Richmond to live later on, and Mr.
Jenkins has been here, with his fam?
ily for a few weeks or so past.
The company is being incorporated
at $500,005. Mr. Jenkins 'will open
an office for the company in a cen?
tral location some time soon but will
have his headquarters at the/ Com?
mercial Club until the latter is se?
cured.
A committee to select the site has
been appointed and will begin at once
to look for a suitable location. Four
to eiche? aores is desired In order to
allow for future expansion and the
building will be approximately 75 by
400 feet. The factory will employ
aboufMS men. The managors of the
concern slat* that side-track facili?
ties will be required so that the site
will be locatod us ne ar a radroad as
possible and within tho city limits.
Mr. Jenklnax expressed the feeling
of the out-of-town people Interested
in the company when he stated they
were nightly grattiled with the cor
dial reception given the concern and
the buslnesa-llke manner In which
the arrangements toward sffocting
the organisation of the company had
been conducted. They considered
themselves fortunate, said Mr. Jen?
kins. In having associated with them
the prominent Ulchmond manufac?
turers who were stockholders and
directors In the company. ? Ulch?
mond. Intl.. Item, Sept. 14.
PR4 ?-GERMAN SWEDEN.
Subservient Pre** Ahmtet? America for
Exposing Conspiracy.
Stockholm. Sept. 16.?The losses of
the conservatives In tho election ap?
parently are not uffcrting the conser?
vative press The Aftoal 'ad asks if
it is Impossible to unite the Swedish
people so as to give a resolute "no"
to the entene which. It says, seeks to
Interfsre In HwcdlMh affair*. The
newspaper opposes n change in th<
mlntstry. saying- that in such event
"Hweden would soon suffer the fate
of Oreece by becoming a mere mes?
senger boy for foreign powers.
"If we are willing to arc p| that,"
It continues, "then, having brought
down Ihe ministry, we mutt weop on
our knees before Kritlsh and Am i I
can threats "
As tor the Washington disclosures
regarding the employment by th<
German minim r to Mexico of the
former Swedish charge d'affaires el
Mexico City. Folke Cr on holm, It*
convey Information to the Berlin for
elgn office, the newspaper says:
"This Is merely a part of Ihe
threats against us. with no founda?
tion for Insinuations against our
present leader of foreign affairs."
II EVOLUTIONARY <.l NERALS |\
PRISON.
Gen. Kornllolf ami Associates (fgaMtj
Guarded.
Petrograd. Sept. 18.?Twenty-three
generals and other officers arrested
Friday are being closely guarded.
Oen Kornlloff 1% Imprisoned in tic
Mohllev Hotel, where he is preparing
a statement,
LEARN VALUE OV COTTON.
Senator Banks Gives Farmers Some
Timely Advice.
Columbia. Sept. 16.?President J.
A. Banks, of the Stute Warehouse
Commission, who is State senator
from Calhoun County, has issued the
following appeal to the farmers of
South Carolina and of the South,
urging that they inform themselves
as to the real value of their cotton
that they may for the llrst time real?
ise an adequate return for, the labor
expended in producing a cotton crop:
"On September 9 the Department
of Agriculture of the government at
Washington issued a statement on
cotton, in which appeared some sig?
nificant facts which should be kept
in mind by cotton growers at this
time when there appears so strong a
movement to depress values. Mr.
Ansley, the assistant secretary of ag?
riculture, in this statement says:
" 'Last year American takings were
7,491,086, and last year's exports 5,
947,165, making a total of 13,438,250
bales. Or 939,250 more than the esti?
mated crop of this year, and there is
no apparent reason for a decline in
American takings or exports.
" 'An Increase in exports is expect?
ed with any Improvement in shipping
facilities.
" 'If circumstances should cause a
decrease In exports there Is likely to
be a corresponding Increase of
American manufactures, because the
world must have clothing and Its
stocks were never so low as at pres?
ent.
" 'From these facts It would ap?
pear that a crop of 12.500,000 or even
13.000.000 bales this y* will not ex?
ceed the world's eager demand, un?
less some unforeseen calamity should
befall.'
"Referring to the attitude of fin?
anciers, Mr. Ansley makes this state?
ment pregnant with meaning to cot?
ton producers:
" 'They do not visualise cotton in
dry goods now selling upon a basis of
thirty to forty cents,' meaning, of
course, that cotton is worth thirty to
forty cents per pound based upon
the market value of its finished pro?
duct.
"When flour is selling around $6
per barrel the wheat grower may con- .
fidently expect $1 per bushel for his
wheat; when flour reaches $12 pot
barrel he gets around $2 per bushel
for his wheat. To find the value of
cotton seed, note the market value of
oil, meal* Unters and hulls, and
reckoning upon this basis you may
know what you will get for your
seed before the end of the crushing
season, for the supply of cotton seed
has not yet approached the demund
for Its finished products. For the first
time In cotton history the supply Is
not equal to the demand. Shut both
eyes and ears to the artful jugglery
of figures by cotton gamblers; hear
what the American government
through one of Its great departments
says to the sweating thousands who
labor to provide clothing and food!
(yes, food, for where Is a more Im?
portant article of food than cotton
seed?) for the Allied nations in
stress of war. Cotton is worth thirty
to forty cents per pound based upon
the market price of its finished prod?
ucts, and there is an apparent de?
mand for approximately one million
bales more than the present year's
estimated production.
"The Importance of such a state?
ment from such a source could hard?
ly bo exaggerated, and should giv<
confidence to cotton growers who are j
threatened with stampede by inter-!
ests who hold only a scare-crow in
their hands, which wears a false foci
of figures to conceal its real charac?
ter. For the first time cotton has
roached the plane of other raw ma?
terial where its value may bo reck?
oned on a basis Of tho value of its
finished product, and the value of it:
finished product may be ascertained
by any one who will take the trou?
ble to weigh a bolt of common brown
sheeting, see Its -value In pounds, de?
duct twelve cents per pound for cost
to manufacture, an additional two to
five cents per pound for profit, which
would menn $10 to $25 per 500
pound bale, and the remainder would
j Indicate the value of raw cotton,
which Is at the present time 0*ei
forty cents per pound.
"If the sifety of our country in
time of war demanded. T have no
doubt that growers o*" otton would
cheerfully make whatever sacrifice
in price was reasonable, but neither
the government nor the public con?
sume raw cotton; both are paying
unheard-of prices for manufactured
cotton. The government, the public
and the cotton producer are paying
tribute to the manufacturers today
at a rate before unknown and un
Imarrlned. If thes? are not facts, I
invite the 'Cotton Spinners' Associa?
tion* in New I'ngland. which recent
j tlx* through their representative in
the United states protested ngnlnsi
the export of cotton to neutral eoun
' tries, to show wherein they are false.
"I hnVS PO fear that the bettet- in?
formed will fill into the tr.i|> so ait
fully laid by sordid corporate inter
osts, and appeal to this class to irej
form tho less informed on the re til
value of cottpn that they may for the
' first time realize an adequate return
for the labor expended in producing
a cotton crop. J. A. Banks.
"President State Warehouse Associa?
tion."
WALKOl'TK SKBIOCS.
Government Ship Building Contracts
Tied up by Strikes.
Washington. Sept. 17.?Strikes in
Pacific coast shipyards holding gov?
ernment contracts have assumed
I such serious proportions that Chair*
| man Hurley of the federal shipping
I board announced late today that he
was considering going to San Fran
! Cisco late this week in an attempt to
settle the trouble.
Strikes at Seattle. Portland, Los
Angeles, San Francisco and other
places on the Pacitlc Coast now art
holding up about 12 per cent, of the
government ships under construction.
The shipping board hopes to settle
all on a basis to lie determined for
Seattle yards within a few days.
Officials of the board conferred to?
day with representatives of Seattle
yards and union leaders regarding
an agreement under which workers
would be given higher pay.
The shipping board today called on
the secretary of labor for assistance
in settling the strikes and William
Blaekmon, an experienced concilia?
tor, was assigned to the work.
Portland, Ore, Sept. 17.?Partial
cessation of work in wooden ship
yards on the Williamette and Colum?
bia Rivers at Vancouver, Wash.; St.
Helena, Ore., and Astoria, Ore., was
reported today as a result of the
strike of approximately 2,000 union
men Saturday for the closed shop.
SAVAGE HEAD HUNTERS.
(iermao General Puts Price on Head
of First American Brought hi
Dead or Living.
British Headquarters in France and
Belgium, Sept. 15 (By the Associated
Press).?German military authorities
on the Western front have shown
concern about the imminence of the
American army's entry Into the fight?
ing by offering rewards for the pro?
duction of the first American prison?
er. , Th? general' commanding the
Eleventh Reserve Division recently
put the price of 400 marks on th(
first American soldier brought dead
or alive into his lines.
This information has been disclos
ed by the diary of a Prussian ser?
geant of tho Twenty-third Reserve
Regiment. He wrote at the end o'
July:
"We are supposed to have Ameri?
can? opposite us for some time now
and two di.'vlons of Portuguese on
our right. The man who brings in
the first American dead or alive to
headquarters has been promised the
Iron Cross of the First Class and 400
marks and 14 days leave from the di?
vision."
The dairy, which covers a period
of nearly two months, describes in
detail the destruction of an important
industrial town by the Germans and
its transformation by u German arm>
command into a great mass of for?
tified ruins. Batteries have bean
planted in the cellars of private
houses, factories and public buildings
which have been partly demolished to
give a better field for the fire, whip
the streets and squares and even tin
city cemetery have been torn up and
enmeshed with wire to provide po?
sitions for groups of machine guns.
The diary doaoiiboi how the
troops quartered in the city spent
their time when not on duty, in fir?
ing machine gui.s from the barrlead
ed windows and the roofs of build?
ings left standing and in searching
for hidden treasure und in dlRgin*;
among the ruins- for silverware.
The sergeant tells how his friends
found gold watches nnd priceles;
paintings in the museums, statuary
and other works of art which they
are hoarding in their dugouts. The
1 German authorities have removed
the bulk of the municipal and eccles?
iastical valuables to Germany but
many of the inhabitants who were
evicted from their homes when the
city was cleared before its destruction
i had no opportunity to remove their
private possessions and tried to hid.
them. The German soldiers, ii
seems, were eager to serve at St.
Quentin because of the chance for
"treasure hunts" there.
The diary does not indicate any
marked depreciation of the German
; morale, but emphasizes th discom?
fort of the conditions of life in the
field and the terrible nccurncy of the
French runners, who give the Ger?
mans' no rest.
tin the Flanders front during the
! past few days the only activities have
la-en slluht outpost engagements.
Stoekholm, Sept. ;>. The German
'minister to Sweden today formally
expressed lo Ihe Swedish government
Germany's regrets at Ihe conse<iuen
OOS of Ihe Swedish-Argentina affair.
WOMAN DIES OF WOCNDS.
Nobody Yet I. nmed of Killing Mrs.
Estelle Baker.
Canulen. Scut. 17.?Mrs. E.stelle
; Baker, who was found badly beaten
I near her home, seven miles east of
I Canulen, Friday, died at the hospital
j here Saturday morning at 2 o'clock,
j never having regained consciousness.
An examination by physicians reveal?
ed the fact that she had not been
shot, as was first thought, but thai
the wounds made on her band? wen
received In warding off the blows
Evidence at the scene of the tragedy
went to show that she had been tirc(.
at, as fresh gun wads wore picked
up, and the trail of a load of shot at
they cut their way through the
weeds indicated that the murderer
fired from a crouching position con?
cealed in the weeds as the unfortu
r.ate woman was gathering grapes,
A coroner's Inquest was held Sat?
urday, with Solicitor W. H. Cobb con
ducting the investigation. The hus
band of the dead woman, testifying
at the inquest, stated that he found
the injured woman, und that he call?
ed to her, but did not offer to assist
her in any way. He stated that hi
and his sons were hauling straw near
the house at the time of the attack
upon his wife, and stated that he
had -shot at a wasp nest near by. The
shirt wortf by tho husband on the day
Of the tragedy was put in evidence
and showed evidence of having been
freshly torn and had stains upon It.
He could not account for the rents in
his shirt, but stated the stains were
from watermelon juice.
The jury returned a verdict to the
effect that Mra. Baker came to her
death at the hands of a party or
parties unknown to the jury.
The funeral of Mrs. Baker occur?
red at Marshall's church yeste? riy
afternoon, attended by an immense
crowd of town and country folks,
services being conducted by the Rev.
John H. Graves.
Neither the husband of the dead
woman nor any of his people were
present at the funeral.
Mrs. Baker was about thirty years
of age and leaves four children, the
eldest being a son of fourteen years.
She is also survived by her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Sinclair, of Cam
den. The killing seems to be one of
the most mysterious In this county In
many years. The officers say they
have fresh clues and there will be
nothing left undone to ferret out the
guilty parties.
GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT.
Central Span In Quebec Cuntilievcr
Bridge Going I p.
Quebec, Sept. 17.?With 122 feet
yet to be negotiated before it is bolt?
ed into place above the St. Lawrence
river, the huge central span of the
Quebec cantilever bridge tonight it
suspended like a great pendulum
28 feet above the point from which
it was started today. An olllcial
statement says that so far the tre?
mendous engineering feat has been
going on without a hitch.
The span is being elevated two fee*,
at a time, in contrast to the three
foot lifts which marked the lirst tit
tempt to raise a span into place in
1916, when 14 lives- were lost as it
broke from its moorings in midair
and plunged into the river.
The engineers have introduced all
possible precautions against a recur?
rence of the disaster, and as evidene?
of the care with which calculations
have been made it was stated that
j the 50,000 tons mass of metal varied
only tlve-eights of an inch from tin
computations as- to how far it would
bring down the cantilever after the
scows had flouted from beneath it.
Engineers who occasionally went
out on the span to inspect the lifting
connections were the only ones per?
mitted on it after the hoisting opera?
tions began.
Thousands of persons lined the
river banks when the span was mov?
ed on scows from the Billery Cove
to bridge site, and a great cheer went
Up when the hoisting chains wen
fastened in place and the scows slip?
ped from beneath.
The engineers estimate that the
75 foot mark will he reached tomor?
row if the same ideal weather condi?
tions prevail.
.IADs CORDIALLY WELCOME.
Great Crowd Greets Japanese Mission
in Boston.
? Boston, Sept. is.?The Japanese
mission was welcomed to Boston by
a great crowd despite a disagreeable
rain storm. The troops lined up ;it
the station stood at present arms
while the band bailed the guests With
the Japanese national anthem.
RIVER CA ITAIN DEAD.
.lohn W. Harper of Wilmington. \.
c, succumbs lo Operation.
Wilmington, Sept. 18.-?Capt. .lobt?
W. Harper. Ihe awner of the Harper
line of river steamers, died today rid
I lowing an operation.
TO ENLARGE CAMP JACKSON.
liuildiiig Work Will Continue for
Several Months.
Columbia, Sept, 17.?Orders to en?
large Camp Jackson were received at
the office of the constructing quar?
termaster this afternoon When ad?
vices came from Washington to .add
a room to many of the barracks and
to erect a number of additional
buildings for oflicers. It was expect?
ed that construction work would
gradually decline after October 1.
but the new orders mean that build?
ing will go forward at approximately
the same rate for several months.
All plans are completed for the re?
ception of over 10,000 additional men
of the national army at Camp Jack?
son from September 19 to September
22, increments being received from
the two Carolinas and Florida on
thcHe days. Fifty mustering officers
are ready for duty and assignments of
the men to regiments have already
been made.
President Fairfax Harrison and a
number of other Southern Railway
officials visited the camp today. Mr.
Harrison announced that this m the
j largest cantonment he has seen.
; EDITOR INTERNED I'OlI WAR.
; Gorman Language Paper Contained!
Offensive ArtiHes.
Fort Snelling, Minn., Sept. 17.
Orders were received today from
Washington for the transfer of Frit*
j ttergmeler, editor of the St. Paul
I daily Volks Zeitung, to Fort McPher
son, Ga., for interment during the
war. Dergmeier was arrested be
j cause of certain editorials which ap?
peared In his publication.
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