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THE STUTTER WATCHMAN, Estab Consolidated Aug. 2,1 SCORES INJURED BY EXPLOSION Navy Dirigible Destroyed at Camp Holabird Near Baltimore MANY LIVES IN JEOPARDY Lives of Two Hundred Persons in Danger When Huge Craft Blows Up Baltimore, July 1.?Explosion of the big navy dirigible C-S at Camp Hola bird near here today shook the coun tryside and eastern Baltimore like an earthquake and jeopardized ihe live.* of 200 persons, who had gathered to see the flyer. The ? dirigible, bound from Cape May. X. J., to Washington and commanded by Lieut: X. J. Learned, with a crew of six men and ' "two passengers, landed on the camp field to repair the rudder. The ex plosion followed shortly afterward.* and flames and blazing fragments scattered over the heads of the-crowd burning and injuring 75 persons, most ly women and children. The dirigible immediately burst into flames. According to the commander, the explosion was due to too rapid expan sion from heat. Several persons were blown 20 oi 30 feet by the force of the explosion and houses a mile away were shake: and windows broken. The air "waf filled with gas fumes. lieutenant Learned was in the of fice Of the camp adjutant, communi cating with the navy department in Washington when the explosion near ly, took him off his feet. The crew was at work on the rudder. Relief was organized from the Camp Holabird-hospital and 60 persons ap plied for treatment. 20 being burned seriously enough to remain in the in stitution. Jhe men who formed the crew of ; thp'^rigible besides Lieutenant .Learned were: Navigation officer. Comdr. W. M7 Wyerbach; directiona* ..- pilot*' Ensign C. W. Tyndall; engineer. Warrant Officer B. F. Sherman; First Claas. Machinist Keller and Radio Offi cer W. Lynch. The passengers were Lieut. Comdr. ,R. D. Quigley and Lieut A. R. Tilburn. Washington, July 1.?A naval court Of inquiry will be convened, it wai announced at the navy department to night, to determine, if "possible, th? cause of the explosion which wrecked the huge naval dirigible C-8 at Camj Hojabird, near Baltimore, today, an; endangered the lives of 200 persons A thorough investigation, will be made with a view to preventing similar fu ture accidents. Naval aviation officers expressed the belief that the explosion migh have been the result of careless use o' a lighted match or cigarette or ciga: by a spectator who approached to< near the big hydrogen-tilled bag. 1 was pointed out that the development of an adequate supply of helium, th non-infiammable gas discovered dur ing the world war, would prevent an: similar action in the future. Heliurr at present is being obtained only nea: Fort Worth, Texas, and the quantitie? so far produced have been insuflicien to fill the bag of even one dirigible The production is in the hands of c joint army and navy commission and is expected to be increased greatly soon. The C-S, as sister dirigible to the C-S which broke front the moorings at St. Johns, X. F.. and drifted out tc aea after making a record breaking night from Rockaway to the Nev Foundland city, was one of 20 simila: dirigibles contracted for by the nav> during the war. After trie armistice was signed the contract was reduced to. 15, seven of which have been de livered. The C-S was the latest of the class to be accepted and was 200 feet long.- It .had a total lifting power of more than six tons, carried a crew c live men and cost complete with a! equipments about $80.000. Two 15? horse power Hispano-suiza motor. furnished the power. The C-S on its trial trip made : maximum speed of 60 miles an hour believed to.be a world's record for it. class. The machine had a err.is: n: r'adirs of 2,000 miles. An innovation in the line of radir equipment was being subjected to ex periments of the C-8 when the ex plosion took place, the radio antenna being strung inside the big gas bag trather than outside, exposed to weather. Thus far the experiments have been successful. Krupp Works In Liquidation American Capitalists Have Abandoned Plan of Taking Over Plant Munich, Monday. June 20.?The lo cal Krupp works are being liquidated purely in the interest of employees following the tremendous losses whicl have resulted since the revolution. American capitalists were considerio;; taking over the plant and forming ; company under the style of the Ger man- American works, but abandonee the plan owing to bad conditions hc;*^ ?thed Apr?, 18S0. "Be Jutta .881. MEXICO URGED TO i PUNISH GUILTY ! I ! i Urgent Reperesentations Made By United States I I Government i IN MURDER OF i JNO. CORRAL I Tragedy Near Colonia Ranch, ! Twenty-Seven Miles North of j Tampico. Washington. July 1.?Urgent repre sentations have been made to ihe LMexican government for the punish - : aient of those responsible for the j .nurder of John W. Carrall, an Ameri ; can citizen, the maltreatment of his J wife and ihe attempted murder of his ; son at their ranch near Colonia, I twenty-seven miles north of Tampico, the State department announced to day. . Instructions have been sent to boih ! the American embassy at Mexico Ciry j and the American consulate at Ta?n pico to urge immediate capture and j punishment of the perpetrators of the outrages and protection for other Americans in the district. Six days after the attack on the Corrall family, the paymaster of the Gulf Refining Company, an American concern, was robbed of $15,000 in gold which he was taking to the til fields from Tampico. The paymaster. {it was learned, had notified the Mexi j can authorities as required by law of j the date and time of his depature. the I amount of money he was to take and the route he would use in reaching th^ oil fields. The territory through which he passed is entirely controlled by Oarranza forces. Other reports i to the state department today said on the day following the payroll rob bery soldiers wearing the Carranza military uniform, raided the camp of the National Oil Company in the Pan uco Field, near Tampico and robbed all the employes of their money and watches and jewelry. State depart ment officials were plainly anxious today over the new tdrn in the Mexi can situation following a long list of favors granted the Carranza govern ment, including the turning over to Carranza, at his urgent request, a complete telegraph circuit from Lare do, Texas to Juarez and on to No ; gal***. Arizona. This enabled ihe, authorities in Mexico City to keep in touch with the federal military com manders in the northern part of Mex | ico, as the V?listas had cut the line between Chihuahua and Juarez. Big Sale of Cotton Dne Thousand Bales Sold at Georgetown i ??? Georgetown, July 1.?One thousand ">ales of cotton were sold here Friday >y M' ssrs. F. Rheni <fr Sons and deliv - red today to the Geoigc H. McFadden vc Erothcrs Agency of Columbia. The urn received by the owners aggre I 'ated ccmothing over $170.000. The j irm of H. Kaminski & Company also j :old to Mr. McSIveen. a buyer of ? Williamsburg, some 225 bales, at a j irice averaging over 32 cents per j ->ound. The newly completed Planters Fer I iliser & Oil factory manufactured its I irsi ouput of fish scrap last week. The I mechanical system worked out with j complete satisfactory results, proving j that the plant is in every way pre | pared for operation this fall when 'he j menhaden fishing season .sets in. The j waters off Georgetown are said to be j ".he best fishing grounds for menhaden I on the South Atlantic coast. The s starting of this industry at Georgetown ] is expected to prove very beneficial to the farmers of this section, sup plying them with this best of all fer tilizers at minimum cost. The plant will also employ quite a number of * men. Steady rains for the past week have j given much needed moisture, and the i crops are greatly improved in appear j ance. Just enough fell to give the ,' right sort of relief from the long j drought, and the cloudy weather fol i lowing has been also providentially j helpful. The farmers are enjoying the j best crop prospects in years. Pawley's Island is filling up with I visitors, and nearly every boarding . house is filled to capacity. An unusual : number of house parties have been ; held there already, and many more . are forming among the young peopie. j So popular is this delightful seaside j resort, that a hotel seems a growing j necessity to accommodate the puMic demand. Will Post Speeches Throughout France Presentation of Treaty Speeches Of Premier Clemenceau and Paul Deschanei to Cham ber of Deputies Paris. Tuesday, July 2.?The Cham ber of deputies has voted to post throughout France the speeches of Premier Clemenceau and Paul Des chanei, president of the chamber, on the occasion of the presentation of the treaty to the chamber. man nd Fe&r not?Bet all the ends Thon Ali SUMTER, S. C SATP READY TO i GREET PRESIDENT! _ I j ? - Vice-Pres. Marshall and Mem-j bers of Cabinet Will Meet Wilson will arrive at new york Monday! i v J ! Battleship Pennsylvania Will j ; Escort Presidential Ship to, j Port. - j Washington, July 2.?Vice Presirj j dent Marshall and all members of the [ cabinet are expected to greet Presi dent Wilson at New York when he j arrives Monday. Secretary Daniels I has arranged for members of the ! president's official family to go aboard ithe battleship Pennsylvania, which is ?to meet the presidential ship outside )New York harbor and escort her to iport-_ TREATY PROVIDES INTERVENTION i Intervention of England and United States Against Ger many to be Independent ! ONLY HELP FRANCE BY A COMBINED ACTION j Will Occur if Disarmament of I Rhine Territory Not Suffici j ent to Protect France ?, Paris July 2.?Franco-British and I Franco-American treaties, The Jour ; nal says, provide that intervention ol i England and America on behalf of i France against Germany shall be in j cei e>penoent. Great Britain and the j United State':-, it added, will only help France by a" combined action and not i separately. The newspaper declares I intervention* must occur if disarma { nicnt of tlu\ Rhine territory is not sutEcient to^protec: France from Gev , man aggression. Forces on The Rhine j Have New Commander -. j Major Gen. Henry Tallen Will ; Succeed Lieut. General Hun ! ter. P.;ris. July 2.?Major General Hen j ry Tallen, it war. announced at Amer ican military headquarters, will suc ceed Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett in ? command of the "forces on the i Tlhine," the new title of the army ol ? occupation based on Coblenz. Block of Frame Buildings Burn i ? ________ j City of Florence Barely Escapes Serious Conflagration Florence, July 1.?Florence nar rowly missed a serious conflagration I this morning when the Euchheit row ! of frame tenants, stores, pressing jciubs, etc., were destroyed by fire. I The alarm from box fourteen, at ?Fast Evans and Church street::, in the midst of the business section, was sounded at f< o'clock. The lire was then bursting through the roof of the Buchheit block of frame buildings in : East Evans street. The department was soon on the spot, bat the inflam mable-material that the fire fed upon caused the flames to make raj)id head way and by the time the first stream of water was turned upon the seeth ing flames, the building had begun: falling. Nearly everything in the! several apartments of the building; was burned and the loss was considH era 1 do. The McMillan building, across the! street on the south side, soon caught] as well as the large billboards of: Brays. The Berry building on the] ? west side and the Buchheit tenant, dwellings on the north, were damaged.] The top of a gasoline tilling station tank caught and shot up a long stream^ of lire. The tank was expected to; e\.piode but a stream was shot at the; rhlaze from a distance and it was put; out of business. The property destroyed will amount to several thousand dollars and on, account of the high rate charged by the insurance companies on the risk, i about 10 per cent, there was little in-j ; suranee on a ay of the property. The lire originated from a spark j from a stove flue in a restaurant, be- j iug driven under the shingles by the! stiff, northeast wind that was blow-' ing. j The buildings destroyed will be re placed with brick structures at once. by Mrs. S. J. Buchheit, the owner. 1 t tuft at be thy Country- i, Thy God's I RDAY, JULY 5, 1919. comm?Mts?re getting jolder Strike Movement at Berlin May Develop into Political Insur rection at Any Time HAS ARRIVED AT CRITICAL STAGE Socialists and Communists Show by Their Actions They Are Confident of Position Berlin, July 2.?The Communistic leaven has again arrived to fermenting stage in Greater Berlin and there are indications that the strike movement may develop into political insurrec tion. The candor and boldness with which the independent Socialists and Communist henchmen are playing their cards shows they feel surer of their footing than during the. March revolt. re?efI?r victims Minister of Public Works Takes Charge at Florence, Italy WORK NOW GOING FORWARD RAPIDLY Plans For Relief and Forwarding of Supplies to the Stricken ' -A Areas ? r Florence. July 2.?Relief for tht : victims of the earthquake in this dis ! trict Sunday was going forward more I rapidly today. The minister of pub ! lie worxs, Pantano, Minister of Trans j portation Devito, arrived today anri j took charge of the work of forward \ mg supplies to the stricken areas. French Considering I Relations with Huns I Paris. July 2 (Havas)?French au thorities arc considering the.Question j of resuming commercial relations with Germany, The Excelsior says. Telegraphers' Strike Called Off ? New York, July 2.?The strike oi I the Commercial Telegraphers' Union I against the Western Union and Pos ? tal was declared off this afternoo i i This announcement was made by i Deputy International President Them I Order of U. S. Employ i ment Offices Reopened I - ! Columbia, July 2.?Orders were re [ceived in Columbia today for the te opening of the United States employ ! merit offices at Columbia, Charleston and Greenville. Hundreds of position rCekcrs visited the oniees yesterday to find doors closed. Military Censorship Ceases Paris, July 2.?Generai Pershing. it was announced, a.t military headquar ters today has issued instructions that military censorship be abolished im mediately. Bad Weather Prevents Start of Handly-Page St. Johns. July 2.?Rain, fog and a northeast gale here and at Harbor Grace today prevented the start of the trans-Atlantic, flight of Rear Admiral Mark Ken- in his Handly-Page ma chine. Hurts Prove Fatal Young Cherokee Farmer Dies in Gaffney Hospital Gaflfney, July 1.?Ten days ago. Al berry Huskey, a prominent young farmer of Cherokee, while riding his mule home from the field was thrown from Jhe animal and dragged a dis tance of nine hundred yards. He was brought to lite local hospital, where little hope for his reocvery was held out. and he lingered until Sunday morning when he died. He is su ? vived by his widow and four little children. His death will he deeply felt in the neighborhood in which ho fiW'd. as he was prominent in all mat ters which made for the good of his community. Uftfl Tndfc's." TBE TBVE T?RKS GIVE TROUBLE I _, I Reports Received at Paris Give Peace Conference Much Uneasiness i THREE ARMIES ORG ANIZED j IN ASIATIC TURKEY! j Generals Refuse to Obey Orders i from Constantinople. Oppose j Italians and Greeks. Paris, July 2.?The Turkish situa j tion is giving the peace conference ; much uneasiness. Reports received I here indicate that there have been j organized in Asiatic Turkey three i Turkish armies whose generals re I fuse to obey orders from Constanti j nople. The Turks at Konia are j threatening the Italians, while those } at Ealikesri are opposing the Creeks. Need More Funds For Dormitory Winthrop Trustees Undecided I About Building Columbia, July 2.?High cost o? building material and labor hat j brought about a condition at Win ; throp College which may exclude j j from attendance on the institution s?me 160 pupils next year. I At the 1917 session of the legisla- j jture an appropriation of $100,000 was j j made to provide a new dormitory j I building which would accommodate [about 300 pupiis. Work was started; j in 1917, but on account of the out-j j break of the war and the mustering of < J the nation's resources, it was halted i and was found that by reason of thr I increased cost of material and laboi ,} the money available was not sufficient j to construct a building such as hac ! been planned originally. The trustees i estimate-that with the funds on hand I they will be able to complete a small er building which will accommodate . j about 140 students and that by bor ' J rowing some $60.000 they can earn , j out the original plans for the largci \ I structure. Every year about 300 stu dents are turned away from Winthrop I by reason of the lack of accommoda tions, so that the need of the large: j building is evident. Recently Governor Cooper went U I Rock Hill and held a conference with Mhe trustees in regard to the building , j They asked him if he would authorize * j them to borrow the money necessary j to complete the larger buiiding with j the understanding that he wouj? use : j His influence to have the legislatur: II make good the deficit at the next ses^ sicn. The governor said that he coulc ?not take such a course under the law j It has not yet been fully decided A whether to complete the smaiier build ' j ing with the money in hand or to j make efforts to secure outside fund? ? j to erect the larger dormitory. The trustees have decided to charge j the students $16 per month for board I beginning with the next session, in-1 ? jstead cf $15 as heretofore, owing t< 1 the advanced cost of groceries, etc. Or j this point President Johnson says ir ! his annual report: "... It will b' j impossible for us to give our'student? j the fare they should have for $1; j per month, where that amount must ! cover also, in addition to board, fur ! nished room, heat, light, service and I laundry. The cost of groceries alone j the past month was greater by $2.01 i per capita than for the same month Iis 191S." I Killed at Camp Sevier i Fire Truck Struck by Train Near Greenville ! Greenville. P. C.t July 1.?John F. I Moore of Columbia was killed and ; Floyd Albright of Medan. X. C, was j serious1:/ and painfully injured when iSouthern train number 3$ struck the j truck of the United States Public ! Health Service hospital fire depart j ment at Camp Sevier about 5 o'clocl I this afternoon at the camp railroad i crossing. Moore, whose age is about 20, wa j driving the truck and with him were j , five others none of whom besides AI- I 'bright was injured to any degree. j - I Making Preparations | Brock Will Survey Rural j Churches of State Columbia. July 2.?J. A. J. Brock, rural church supervisor of the inter church world movement, returned yesterday from Charleston, where he went in interest of his work preparing to survey ail the rural churches of the State. Mr. Frock is at present select-j ir.g his State council to have charge' of the supervision and to work in co-1 operation with the national commit tee for interchurch world movement j Several members have been selected but others are yet to be chosen. Mr. Brock is holding daily confer- J ences with pastors and laymen with ! reference to the survey and hopes to be able to begin actual work in the next few weeks. : SOUTHRON, Established 3unz> VoLXLVIIL No. 41. R-34 MAKES GOOD START Reported at Eight O'clock This Morning 325 Miles Off The Irish Coast AIRCRAFT SENDS MESSAGE TO MINISTRY Machine Running Well and Mak ing Speed of Forty Knots an Hour. London, July 2.?The position of" R-34 at S o'clock this morning, Greenwich meantime, was fifty-five, degrees, twenty minutes north, latitude and ten degres, forty minutes west longitude, about three hundred and ? twenty-fjve miles off the coast of-Ira land, according to a wireless from aircraft received by the air ministry this morning. The machine was" then making an average, speed' of forty knots an hour. Editors Gather In Greenville State Press Association Holds Convention Greenville, July 1.?Col. Reginald L. Foster, who commanded the Fifty second Pioneer Infantry, addressing the South Carolina Press Association tonight, declared that open warfare in the Argonne forest by the First, Third and Fifth Corps of the Ameri can army was the cause of the de feat of the Germans and that the fox holes writes the history of the Ameri can army over the face of France to .lay. He described the activities of the wonderful offensive of the American army-in this vital .sector. He stated that it was a fact, though unpublished, that the American sol-, diers exchanged places with Freneh And wore their uniforms to deceive the enemy as to'their, idepfityv ^ol onel Fester spoke of the reconstruc tion jproblem which faces the country and. the neceslly "for providing em ployment for the 4,000,000 soldiers. "The question," he said, r'is whether there are jobs or will we have to cre ate more jobs. The American employ ers are more than eager to place, dis charged serivce men into suitable em ployment." He predicted a shortage of labor and said that the present high prices of commodities would not de crease within the near future. Following Colonel Foster's address ? Thomas M. Seawell of Winnsboro read apropriate memorials on the death , of three fellow newspaper men who|| died in the past two years. The de based members eulogized were~-John?._u S. "Se^noTtts, J. H. Hem pel and Hart well M. Ayer. The second day's session opened .this morning with the reading of President Mim's report. The president briefly-re .iewed the%work done by the associa ion during the present year. Paul C. Harber of Commerce, Ga., ??resident of the Georgia^ Press As iociation, presented a fraternal greet ing of the newspaper men of Geor&.u ro their fellows of the Palmetto State. Robert Lathan, editor of The Newa md Courier, who was .to have spoken tcday, was unavoidably detained' in Charleston. W. H. Wallace of the Newberry Ob server delivered a brief address on ?The Press and the Negro." William Banks of Columbia gave rhe report of the committee to com pile the list of newspaper men in the world war. . j HenrV R. Sims of the Orangeburg . Times and Democrat delivered a mas** - r. terly address on the press as a factor in improving rural conditions through che development of agriculture and . the building of good roads. Albert S. Johnstone of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond spoke on he subject of thrift. Mr. Johnstone auded the newspaper men for their issistance in the Liberty loan and war savings stamp campaigns. The newspaper men were entertain ed at the Rotary Club luncheon this ifternoon and later at the Augusta Greenville baseball game. Police Guarding Homes Of Those Who Have Denounced Socialism and Anarchy New York, July 1.?Police guards were placed today at all public build ings in the city, churches and homes of public officials and citi2ens, wfi ? . have spoken against socialism and anarchy, by order of Police Com missioner Enright. The guards were posted at 4 p. m. and will be contin-v ucd until 7. No explanation of the order was offered by Commissioner Enright. but for some days it has been reported that such- precautions would be taken in the face of the repeated rumcrs that anarchists were planning; a demonstration" on July 4. Prominent Politician Dies in New York New York. July 2.?Lemuel Ely Quigg, former member of congress and prominent in Republican politics in New York State for many years, ; died at his home here early today. Ho had been in poor health for sevral years.? .