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^ The Korean Trouble ?i- ????? American Missionaries Charged With Aiding Korean Agitators Pyeng Yang-, Korea. April 10.? (Correspondence of The Associates Press)?On the occasion of the ar rest of Reverend E. M. Mowry. a ? American missionary, on the charge of sheltering Korean agitators, the houses of seven other American mis sionary workers were subjected to domiciliary searches by the police and gendarmes at the instance of the j public procurator. . The missionaries whose houses were i visited were the following: E. M. Mowry. Manseld. Ohio: A. W. Gillis, Mount Pleasant, Ohio; R. O. Reiner, Berkeley, Cal ; W: M. Baird. Topoka, Kansas; S. A. Mottet, Madison. In diana; R. McMurtrie. Rock Island, .111.; Miss V. G. Snook, Fairfield. Ohio ) and Miss A. Gittens, Williamsburg,, Ohio. j As a result of this search the police! arrested Kim. Tai Sul, a well-known j leader and ten other Koreans as being j impieated in the Independencej movement. The police seized, as evidence, a copying machine, copies: of the Independence News, a declara-j tion not to attend school, and a re-1 port of the disturbance. The Rev. Mr. Mowry was the only one American detained by the police. I -Mr. Sheppey of the Seattle Post In- ? telligencer was in Pyeng Yang when j the arrest occurred. He immediately, applied through the Japanese officials * accompanying him and obtained per- j mission to see the prisoner. He was! extremely. nervous, said he had not! been badly treated, and asked per- J mission for his wife to visit him. Mr.; Sheppey spoke to the officials and : . they promised this should be allowed j and the interview .ended. . . Later the Rev. Mr. Mowry was found guilt j' of having permitted Ko reans to use his premises at Pyeng I Yang for disseminating, propaganda j for Korean independence. He was: sentenced to six months' imprison -! ment at hard "abor but. on b_is appeal. I was. admitted to bail. The United States School Garden Army; Food experts at Washington are df i the opinion that the cost . of .food j stuffs will decline but little in the j near future. America has pledged to j Europe this year 20,000,000 tons ofj food. Labor is receiving higher prices! than ever before known, consequent-! ly the. cost of food production is! greater than it has ever been in the! history of the world. The government :<? urging that every j family that has a backyard shall cul-! tivate a garden for the welfare of th*?j family- and for the good of the na- \ tion. The United States School Gar-' den was organized under the Inter- i ior Department by the Bureau of! Education. It has now enrolled three j million children in the United States. ( Texas alone having enrolled lSS.-j 000. North Carolina has enrolled thusj far 12,000 in the larger towns and j cities, taking no account of the rural t sections and small towns and vil lages. The following North. ^Carolina | cities have organized companies ofj school children for garden work un- j der teacher-directors: Raleigh, Char- \ lotte. Greensboro. Cancord, Goldsboro.1 Kinston, Washington, Elizabeth City, i Rocky Mount and Asheville. Charlotte leads with eight garden teachers and over one thousand child-! ren engaged in garden work. Golds-j boro has two paid teachers with an j enrollment of over 700 children, j Washington, Elizabeth City, Rocky I Mount, Salisbury have each one paid j teacher-director with an average of: 350 children. Raleigh has six volun teer garden teachers with an enroll ment of 500 children, among the whites, and one paid supervisor and 400 children in the colored schools. South Carolina thus far has enroll ed in the larger towns and cities and mill villages 9.000 children. The fol lowing cities have teacher-directors, whose salary are paid by their re spective boards of education- Col umbia, . Chester. Sumter, Rock Hill. Winthrop Normal and a number of the smaller towns and mill villages. In j Sumter the sixth grade boys are cul- i tivating a quarter of an acre in Irish j potatoes, the proceeds of which are; to be applied to supp. rting a French! orphan. In other cities of .South; Carolina some of the children are cul-! tivating community gardens having this same object in view. Last year the United States School; Garden Army enrolled 1.5.00.0^0 j children in garden work, who pro- > duced from their gardens Jbt6.000.-j 000 worth of food. This year about ! three million children have been or- j ganized and it is estimated that they; will produce $60.000.000 worth of food. In all of the larger towns and j cities, boards of education are mak- j ing home gardening an organic part: of the public school system. The gar-1 dens are graded and the work is being,' undertaken with enthusiasm by the! boys and girls. The eagerness with! which these boys are engaging in this! work is proof that the government is building wisely and that Commission-I er Claxton. the originator of the idea ! had the vision to see just what this j would mean in helping to train the j children of the nation in patriotism.: thrift, and good citizenship. ?. NC-4 Finishes First Leg Commander Reid Takes His Sea- ? i plane From Horta to Pont a Del Gada _ I Horta. May 20.?Seaplane N'?*-i| started for Ponta Del Gada at 1'?" P. M. today. Greenwich meridian time, j The weather was clear arid the wind favorable. i _ i Quick Flight Made Wash 'nerton. May 20.?Seapb-ne NO-4 arrived at Ponta Del Gnda from j Horta at 10.24 A. M. Washington time. A Real Fighting Man A Tribute to Capt. W. L. Mc Cutchen by a Comrade Who Was With Him irt Battle On the Way Home. May 1, 1919. Dear Mr. Osteen: Some of us have had the idea for quite a while that when "Daddy Mac" started home, we wanted to tell you a little about what we think of him. but we have put it off until I find myself now on the way home with him. He doesn't know that I am writing anything like this, or he sure would be as sore as a boil, for if any one talks less about what they did than he does. I'd like to lind him. I met a Miss Rettenberg on the way down here, and she enlightened me as to the name of your paper, as well as your own name, so I trust that this communication will reach you o. k, And we hope from the bot tom of our hearts that when "Daddy Mac" comes home, you all turn out the band and run a parade up from the station. We only wish the "Thirtieth" could be there to help make the parade. I'm a newspaper man myself, when I'm out of the army, and I ought to be able to -?Wte what I'd like to say. It was for that reason that they stuck the job onto me of saying what we all would like to say about Daddy Mac. But it couldn't be written as you would say it, and couldn't be said as you'd feel it, for when I say you can't describe the place that Daddy Mac holds in the hearts of the Thir tieth. I mean it from the bottom of my heart. But I trust that you good peple of Sumter will appreciate in some measure the Jove that we have for one of your very finest and great est citizens, and that you will know you are welcoming home one big hearted, whole-souled fightin' man, when Daddy McCutchen gets off the train. Sincerely. William W. Hague. Back there in Sumter you all call him "Rloody Bill McCutchen." so they tell us. Well, we know him by many names too, but to all of us who have known him in the Thirtieth In- j fantry he is and always vwill bei "Daddy Mac," , For "Daddy" Me- j Cutchen's place in the Thirtieth In not be measured with words, any more than could be measured the love that the Thirtieth has for him. But since "Daddy Mac" is on his way back to Sumter now. the Thirtieth J would like to tell Sumter a little of what it knows about him. He came to us soon after we came to France?'way hack before the fighting started for us. And he ha stayed with us every minute until now his chance has come to go home. He wears a wound stripe but he never missed ;t moment with the outfit for all of that, and of three officers who were with the regiment through ev ery bit of fighting. Daddy was one. and when they finally pulled the out rb out- of the scrap at the tail end of the fighting in the Argonne, it was Daddy McCutchen who was com- j manding the regiment. There isn't a j man who fought with the regiment at the Marne, and from the Marne to the Vesle. and up through the St Mihicl ?'hike" and then through the long wearing grind of the Argonm*. to whom Daddy wasn't a familiar figure, because everywhere the fight ting was. there he was. He isn't as young, as some of the rest of us. when yon count up his birthdays, but there wasn't a man who had any more "pep" and "sticking qualities" than our Daddy Mac. If you were to hunt around among the men who followed "Daddy Mac" from shell hole to shell hole and from trench to trench, you probably wouldn't find a man who could re member any time when he had order ed a man to a certain place. Because he didn't handle his company that way. With his outfit, you'd see him rush ahead in the thick of the ma chine gun fire, and from the position ahead that he would reach, back would come the call. "Come on I Com. pany." and 1 Company would come on. to a man. Hack at the Mariie. after the terrific bombardment of the night of the 14th of July, it was Daddy Mac, who. finding a messenger trying to reach division headquarters, took the message, went out into the hail of shell fire and captured a rid erless horse, whose rider had been killed in the storm of metal, and after delivering the message to division headquarters, took the message to th" reinforcements, and then by himself) made his way through the woods in the thick of the German attack, and ! reorganized loaderloss elements of his! command and held the point there | until the reinforcements came. He I has a citation for Croix de Cuerrej for the things- he did that day. but I it would take a string of citations to take care of all his exploits. It is A ! Company that talks about what Daddy' McCutchen did at the Marne and I j Company that talks about following! him up throtigh the Argonne. and its c Company that talks about the best captain they ever want to see. up in the Army of Occupation. But to all of us he's the same "Daddy . Mac" and we're mighty proud to be able to say that we were with him in the "Thir tieth." He's on his way home now. and we're just b-tting you know how we feel about it. so that you will know whereof you people of Sumter have reason to be proud, when he gets back to yon. They don't make 'em any better fighters, and they don't make 'em any better friends than Daddy Mac. and so we'd like to shake you by the hand and tell you that we've got a part interest in him too. VW feel ms if we knew most of you folks pretty well. "I >oc Dirk" and lots more df you. for we've heard so much :i hont vim from Daddy Mae. For lie's mighty proud of Sumter. and Sum ter has mighty good cause to he proud of Daddy Mae. The Thirtieth r-ongratulates you on Rettins- him Home a train. Berlin. May 20.?Violent rioting is again reported at Stettin, where nine civilians and twenty soldiers are re ported to have been killed. Prohibition Speaker Coming Dr. Ira Landrith Will Speak 1 Here Sunday June 1. j Editor Sumter Item: Rev. Dr. Ira Landrith. of Boston. ; prominent in Christian Endeavor i work, will speak in Sumter on the af iternoon of Sunday. June. 1. He will come in the double interest of prohi j bition enforcement and world-wide ;' prohibition. Dr. Landrith will speak : in Columbia Sunday morning and 'evening. He comes to South Carolina i under the direction of the Anti-Sa i loon League. j According to .7. H." Larimore. C? j lumbus. O.. newspaper man... who is I in South Carolina on publicity work. [Dr. Landrith's coming is a part of a j long tour through several States. which started at Ft. Sheridan, Wyo.,j i last Friday. There are six other such j j tours, which started at Xew York May 19. Each tour is in charge of j ja speaker of national reputation, each I i covers a substantial portion of the J I United'"States and Canada, each con veys an Anti-Saloon League official ; I and several delegates from foreign i temperance organiaztions. and each, j winds up at Washington, where two 'dry gatherings are to be held. The first of these is the national [ convention of the League, to be held June 4 and 5. The second is a world wide prohibition conference, also in Washington and scheduled for June 3. C and 7 At that conference, it is asserted, delegates from ?O countries will plan for world prohibition, and it is not improbable they will form an international prohibition league. The idea of conveying the delegates over the country is to show them the! benefits of prohibition, to enable them j to contrast wet and dry territory, and j lu #how them :h<- methods by which, the United States and Canada have} been made dry. Former Governor F. B. Willis. of| Ohio, will speak at Spartanburg on i the evening of June Other touri speakers are William Jennings ?ryan, J Malcolm It. Patterson, former govern-j or of Tennesee: Captain R. P. Hob-j son. Merrimac her- and former j Alabama congressman: Rev. Dr. Ceo.; It. Stuart, of Birmingham, and C!ol-j one! Dan Morgan Smith, of Chicago, j According to Mr. Larimore. the I League in pursuance of a policy an-; nou need at its convention in Col um- j bus. Ohio, last November, has open-1 ed offices in several old world capi- i tals. and will shortly open an office in j every world center, with the idea ofj cooperating with the temperance! leaders in each center in their local j and general fights. ?Tobacco Market Notes. Reports to the Sumter Chamber of; Commerce indicate the largest acre-j age of tobacco in this county ever, planted, with the finest outlook lor aj big crop in every section of the coun-i ty. j The new tobacco warehouse on the i corner Magnolia and Hampton is be-, ing pushed to completion; it will be ready in ample time, and it wlil be; one of the biggest and best .equipped j tobacco warehouses in South Carlina. It is said that this warehouse will, have excellent prize warerooms con -' nected therewith. The directors of the Farmers' To-; bacco Warehouse Company have or- j dered th.at their warehouse be en larged by the addition of a prize room j Or>;c.r)0 feet to accommodate the large' corps of tobacco buyers ro be on this' market this summer. This building! has a number of prize ware rooms. )ul the directors decided that more room was. needed or will be re quired to handle the prospective! largest amount of tobacco ever sold on this market. Messrs. Knott and Newton, lessses and managers of the new tobacco warehouse, with several of their force are here. They reported to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, ready for a preliminary round among the tobaceo planters and to find out how their new building is progress ing. "John and Rill" Moore, losses of the Farmers' Tobacco Warehouse Com pany were in town a few days :\zo. They ran the Sumter warehouse last summer, and leased it again for two more years. They say that Sumter is going to be the leading tobacco mar ket pf South Carolina this summer. Knott and Newton said "Amen." Dr. E. S. Booth, president of the Sumter Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. J. Z. llearon. president of the Retail Dealers' Association, and num bers of other Sumter business men are anxious for the first tobacco mar ket boosting trip. Secretary Reardon will blow his little conductor's whis tle for the first booster trip about June the 10th Says he is just waiting for some of those frying sized pullets at Turbeville and Shiloh to grow a little bigger. Taken to Penitentiary Altamont Murray, a Lee county ne gro, was taken to Columbia Tuesday and placed in the penitetiary for safe keeping until the next term of court. Murray was arrested Monday under a warrant issued by Magistrate L. S. iVinson, of Rembert. charging him [with assault and carrying a pistol, the i .<rrest being- made by deputy Sheriff ill. G. McKagen and Rural Policemen I H. B. Boykin and Alex. Norris. He I was committed to jail, but the aggra vated nature of his offense having j given rise to considerable feeling, it j was thought advisable to place him in 11he penitentiary until he is brought to j trial at the next term of court. It is stated that some days ago [Murray and several other negroes .vere congregated in the road in the j Hagood section and that a lady who was driving a car passed them, and I in doing so the 'fender of the car brushed Murray, but did not injure [him at all. Murry drew a pistol and j threatened to shoot her, when she stopped to ascertain if he had been, hurt. He demanded that he be paid live dollars as satisfaction and was rude and threatening inilanguage and ?manner. It is also stated that.Mur : ray was himself responsible for the ?ear striking him as he had ample i time to get out of the road, but did : not do so. j The annual picnic of the Sunday j school of St. Anne's Catholic church ! will he held at Pocalla Springs on i next Wednesday, May 28th. Prepara i tions are being made to give the I children a real day of enjoyment and I sufficient vehicles will' be on hand j in front of St. Joseph' Academy that [morning at 10.30 o'clock in order to ! transport the little ones to the j grounds. -: ?-... ! There is an unusually large acreage I planted in tobacco in Sumter county, j and as a rule the crop is doing well, ' but quite a number of farmers report ! broken stands and they are still en ! gaged in replanting. At ORANGEBURG, S. C 30 4 ?BIG EVENTS ? 4 Under Management of F. R. SINEATH, Sumter, South Carolina One Mile Race Five Mile Race Ten Mile Race Twenty Mile Race PLENTY OF EXCITEMENT :-: :-: x DON'T FAIL TO COME RACES START PROMPTLY AT 3 P. M. LIST OF ENTRIES CAR OWNER DRIVER Hudson Sandifer Bros. R. H. Wiles Packard L. Marino L. Marino Special Jess G. Reynolds Jess G. Reynolds White Harry Davis ! Harry Davis Ma, mon C. E. Sandifer C. E. Sandifer Oakland F R. Sineath J. D. Bethea Abbott H. P. Kelley E. S. Grooms - More Big Automobile Races at Orangeburg, first day of Orangeburg Fair, in November.