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IHK StJMTEB WATCHMAN, EstabJ Consolidated Aug. 2,1 VETERANS SHOT DOWN BY REDS ?i ? \ ' i Gallant Men Fall to Pavement! I '. i ? j When Assassins Open Fire | on Parade i THREE OVERSEAS MEN i DEAD; ANOTHER DYING j r % I ?? I Furious at Death of Former y% Warriors, Citizens Storm Jail to Get Murderers _ Centralia, Wash., Nov. 11.?War ren Grimm. Centralia lawyer, and Ben Cassagranda, Centralia real es tate man, died late today from "wounds, received when Industrial Workers of the World fired on an " Armistice. Day parade hero today. 'The death list early tonight stood at " three. Arthur ?cElfresh having been killed instantly. All were overseas * men. Nale Hubbard, one of the six wounded, was -reported dying. The othei* wounded will recover, it was said. All the killed and wounded were overseas veterans. Sixteen alleged Industrial Work ers of the World were* arrested early tonight, and more were being placed in jail as fast as they could be found. Former soldiers were guarding the .Jail to keep the prisoners from a mob which crowded around the building. Immediately after the shooting a j crowd of spectators and marchers ] seized a man they believed to be the : ringleader of the I. W. W. They put j a rope around his neck, threw the rope over the cross-arm of a tele-' phone pole and started to haul him up. He was in the air only a brief j period before the chief of police pre vailed upon the crowd to let him down. Tonight the man was in jail here nearly dead. The whole city had turned out to celebrate the anniversary of the sus pension of hostilities and a large pa rade was formed headed by the city's boys who had. helped bring about the j glad day a year ago. Wearing the uniforms that sheltered them in the trenches of F^ne^gc^an^ on. jj&^?icke^i -UiM&'"of~t.Be C&rmari' border; the ser vice men were the cynosure of the hundreds of women and children who lined the streets. I s-i& 'the column swung around the corner of Tower avenue and Second avenue the band struck up a pa triotic march. Then bullets came into the ranks fror.' an unseen enemy Wen fell to the pavement and tiny rivulets of blood showed spectators what had taken place, the crack of the rifles of 'the assassins having u~en drowned by the blare of the1 b? Tiny puffs of smoke from tlu. xvof of a nearby building indicated whenc the bullets hael come ajid the near ness of the I. W. W. hall led to the quick decision that the heroes who had weathered the sanguinary bat tlefields of Europe had been slain from ambush by radicals who op posed the American system of gov ernment. The marching soldiers did not lin ger to await the order to fall out but -with seeming intuition rushed in to the nearby structure and sought their way to the roofs. The snipers had disappeared, but the service men sought highways and byways for all suspicious persons and then sent out pioneers into the timbered coun try around the city. TROOPS ON GUARD Situation Tense at Centralia, Washington Centralia. Wash., Nov. 12.?State troops today patrolled this city where, during an Armistice Day celebration yesterday four members of the Amer ican Legion were shot and killed and five others wounded by men said to be members of industrial workers of the world, and where Britt Smith, sec letary cf the local branch of indus trial workers was hanged by ?. mob. The reason for the attack, which came as the head of the parade swung past the industrial workers headquar-, is not dt veloped fully, but persons co operating with the authorities in the investigation said from evidence ob tained, it was premeditated. Citizens today planned to drive all radicals from Centralia. L W. W.'s IN JAIL Nineteen of the Thugs Arrested In Centralia Centralia. Wash.. Nov. 12.? Nine teen alleged members of the I. W. W. have been committed to jail. There was no disorder this morning. STOCK MARKET GETS EXCITED Investors Make Haste to Liqui date Their Holdings New York. X Y.. Nov. 12.?The 'i ouidation in stocks was resumed with opening of tody>'s stock market, but the declines w? re orderly in contrast to yesterday's demoralized close. The measures taken by local financial in tere?*s supplemented by the Federal Reserve Board were effective in stabil izing general market conditions. feted April, 18*0. "Be . a 881. S? COURT HOLDS AGAINST GRACE Action By County Executive' Committee Declared to Be Illegal OPINION IS WRITTEN BY JUSTICE HYDRICK; I Justice Watts Dissents on the i Ground That Case is Political,' Not Judicial | I The municipal election in Charles ton, heb,' ^ugust IS*, was yesterday de clared null and void by the supreme j court in so far as it applies to the \ office of mayor. The opinion was writ- j ten by Associate Justice Hydrick and; is:concurred in by Chief Justice Caryl and 'Associate Justice Fraser. Associate Justice R. C. Watts .filed | a dissenting opinion, Associate Jus tice Gage joining Judge Watts in this. | In the majority opinion the court j held that the action of the executive I committee in referring the chal-1 lenged votes to ?? subcommittee was | an error of law and prejudicial to the' rights, of -the petitioner. Tristam T. j Hyde. It is also held that the executive! committee erred in refusing to con- j sider the alleged mutilated votes. The difference in the votes between May or Hyde and John P. Grace was so small, it is emphasized, that a pro per consideration of these by the en tire committee might have changed the result. The court contended that neither the rules of the party nor the election statute justifies the manner in which the contested votes and muti lated ballots were disposed of by a subcommittee v Judge. Wat^s contended in his con trary opinion that the question was one dealing whojly w ta the political branch of the State and was beyond the province of judicial power! '"The committee declaied the result, acting within the scope of the authority vest ed in them. Their decision on the facts are final and r.o errors have been committed, and i think the pro ceedings" should -be dismissed," he said. The election was held August 10. Mayor Hyde received 3,241 votes and John P. Grace 3;24C This did not in clude the 77 contested and mutilated ballots. At the meeting of the execu tive committee three days later to consider these contested and mutilat ed ballots, the ballots were referred to a sub-committee who heard all the evidence behind closed doors and threw out enough of the contested votes to give Grace v majority of 14. The subcommittee's report was adopted by a vote of 13 to 12, there being 13 Grace men and 12 Hyde men on the executive committee. A writ of certiorari brought the records ! of the election to the court. The court could only pass on the question as to the legality of the procedure ,-ind not as to a Question of fa'-t. With the election for the office of mayor thrown out, the executive com ! mittee will have to designate a date j for another primary. The general ! election is to be held December 4. f_ COTTON SEED MEAL ORDER ! - I Agricultural Department to Is | sue Bulletin in Reference to Alleged Profiteering I - Washington, Nov. 12.?Senator Dial of South Carolina, with represen l tatives of Southern cotton industry |has been in conference with the de ! partm^nt of agriculture in regard to jan order by the bureau of soils No ivember 5 declaring any sales of cot i ton seed meal at prices other than j those prevailing October 7 would b? [regarded as profiteering was informed 'this evening that a departmental i press bulletin was in preparation an jnouncing the withdrawal of the or j der, which is rescinded because it [ would lead to a misunderstanding by j the trade of its purpose. Th?- depart ! meat lacks authority to fix maximum i or minimum prices, but warning is given that any profiteering noted will be prosecuted. No definition is given of what is regarded a.s profiteering. Senator Dial has filed among anoth er paper a telegram or protest against the order from J. S. Wannamaker of St. Matthews, president of the Ameri can Cotton association. Russell Ac ree and L. X. Geldert of the Inter state Cotton Seed Crushers associa tion have been active in convincing the department that the order was disastrously affecting oil mills and depressing prices of raw cotton seed without producing counterbalancing benefits anywhere. BULGARIA WILL SIGN TREATY Government Decides to Accept Terms Granted by Allies Paris. Nov. 13.?The peace confer ence has received information that the Bulgarian government has decided to sign the peace treaty. The signing is expeeted to take place tomorrow. mil ?nd ?c*r not?let ?11 the end* Thon AI rMTER, S. C. SATTJRD, PEACE DELEGATES COMING HOME I i American Representatives In form Supreme Council of Intention to Leave I CONFERENCE NEARING END OF ITS WORK British Delegation Has Also ! Fixed Time to Leave French i j Capital i Paris. France. Nov. 12.?The Ameri can delegation to the peace confer I ence has informed the Supreme Coun-j j eil of its intention to leave France* j during the first part of December] j According to semi-official information} I from the French foreign office, thej I British peace delegation has also ex-; pressed the same desir% and the gen-i k'ral impression in French conference eircles is that the conference will con elude its work by the end of this raon'h. j NEED FOR COAL [ BECOMES ACUTE j Hoped That Agreement Will Soon Be Reached Washington, Nov. 12.?The appar ent unwillingness ? of all union coal miners to return to work at the old pay scale caused government officials to put forth every effort today to bring about an immediate negotia tion of a new wage agreement, j Secretary Wilson, without waiting ; for formal acceptance of his offer to I mediate the differences, began smooth I ing the way fo>* the joint conference J of miners and operators he has called ? to meet in Washington Friday. ! Both sides notified the laoor secre ! tary that they would attend the con | ference. Spokesmen for the mine i workers said that if the mine owners j came in a spirit of conciliation a new ; agreement could be, framed and. Gitia, jfied^by Saturady night. Until an agreement is formally ac cepted by the miners' scale committee, ! labor leaders said, there was little hope of full resumption of coal pro duction. Jt whs because of this possibility {and the steady drain meanwhile on Jthe nation's visible coal supply that j Secretary Wilson undertook today to I induce some of the miners and opera j tors to see the other fellow's side. The indicated continued suspension !of mining activities in union fields to I day was no* a surprise to government I officials nor accepted as an actual test of the attitude of the miners. ] Complete distribution of the order j cancelling the strike might take some ! time, it was said. It was felt, how ever, that a large number of men ! might remain out until the demands j agreed upon in convention would be ] granted. j Labor leaders who have admitted I that the public sentiment was strong i 3y against the strike, took comfort to . day in what they described a com ? plete change of sentiment in newspa ; per editorials. Messages to labor ! headquarters stated that the feeling ? was growing that the miners were i entitled to higher wages. j Secretary Wilson, while declining j to discuss the outlook in the coai I fields, was greatly encouraged by the ! readiness of the two sides to meet and make a determined effort to frame a wage schedule satisfactory to min ers and operators alike. Mr. Wilson was quite hopeful of success a id this ? feeling was shared by most officials. i Birmingham, Nov. 12.?At the first jmass meeting of Alabama miners' iheld since the rescinding of the strike ! order the men at Pratt City tonight ! voted unanimously to return to work Jat once. I Pueblo, Col., Nov. 12.?Coal miners j in District No. 15. comprising Colo I rado. New Mexico and Utah tonight , were ordered back to work upon i*e 'ceipt of telegraphic advices from In dianapolis. George O. ,T<<hnson dis trict president telephoned local unions ! that the strike was ended. TWO AVIATORS j MEET DEATH ! Douglas and Ross Planned Flight to Australia London, England, Nov. 13.?Lieuts. j Douglas and Boss, the Australian en I trants in the Kngland to Australia flight for the Australian government's ; fifty thousand dollar prize, were killed ! today ?shortly after they started the ? flight from Hounslow. Their aeroplane fell. STOCK MARKET" TAKES TURN I - Stocks Were Strong on Opening This Morning New York. N. Y.. Nov. 13.?Stv.ks were -strong at the opening today of :the sto< k market indicating the liqui dation had run its course for the time at least It is generally recognized, however, that the market's future is wholly dependent upon money rates. [ ttttft I . II i DM't at be ihj Country's. Thy Gcd'i I &.Y, NOVEMBER 15, 19: COAL MINERS RENEW DEMAND Will Stand Pat For Sixty Per Cent More Pay and Short er Hours SIX HOUR DAY AND FIVE DAY WEEK WANTED Settlement of Strike Contro versy Will Have to Be Dic tated By Government I Springfield, 111., Nov. 12.?The erig I inal demand for a 60 per cent, wage incre.sr-c. a six hour day and a five div weok v> ill be presented to operators by the mine workers at the confer?? re called to meet Friday in Washington, accord-ag to Frank Farrington, char man of the miners' scale committee. U. D. C. CONVENTION Largely Attended Meeting in Florida, North Carolina Wins Trophy Tampa. F!a., Kov. 12.?Acording to the annual address of the president general. Miss Mary B. Poppenheim. of Charlesio S. C, made at the first business session of the annual conven tion of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, here today, the organiza tion now has n membership of 63, 479 in 34 States and the District of Columbia. "Membership in a U. D. C. chapter is the most eloquent tribuce fa woman can pay to her Confederate ancestry," said Miss Poppenheim. Referring to the Confederate vete ran, she spoke of the bestowal on the veterans whose records have been filed with the custodian of the cross of hon or of over 30,000 crosses, and during the present yea?" 391 crosses have been issued by Mrs. Elizabeth, T. Sells, the custodian. The president general said that dur ing the year the organization had ^awarded 7-S-fr scholarships o descend ants of Confederate veterans, these scholarships having a value of $71,023. Among the other educational work* undertaken by the order, was men j tioned the award of university prizes for Confederate essays and the send ing of shipments of books and pamph lets on Southern history and litera ture, to the Bodlian library at Oxford, England. The report of the register general, Mrs. Charles L. Trabert, in her ab sence, was read by Mrs. H. M. Frank j lin, and following its aceptance che j presentation of the Alexander Farris trophy, for the State making the j greatest gain in membership since I April, 1919, was made by Mrs. Pler bert M. Franklin of Georgia, to the division of North Carolina which made j a gain of 27 new members, with j South Carolina c. close second with 25 (additions. The Farris Trophy is giv | en by Mrs. Roy McKinney of Paducah. j Ky.. in memory of her father. Alex ander Farris. j Roll call of the states disclosed that j 26 states are represented at the con tention with 59'1 chapters and 37,959 [ members, giving the delegates present at the convention a total of 1,751 i votes. The report of the treasurer general ? showed that the organization purchas j ed $12,350 worth of Liberty Bonds I during the past war. ! Resignation of Mrs. Thomas Wood i Parry of Missouri, as recording secre : tary general, was received, and Mrs.. W. C. N. Merchant of Virginia was ap [ pointed in her place. The resignation 1 of Mrs. Wallace Streater as corres ; ponding secretary general, also was I received. Mrs. Streater is in Eu.ope j on war work. Ke place was filled by j Mrs. W. E. Byrnes, of West Virginia, j Tonight a reception to the delegates and officers was given by Tampa chap i ter. at a local hotel. ! Election of olficers will take place {tomorrow mornirg. Mrs. Royal Weeks I McKinney, of Paducah, Ky., will proh ! ably be elected president general with jout opposition no other candidate hav ! ing announced. Asheville, X. C. ap ! pears to be in the lead for the honor I of entertaining the 1920 convention. B0LSHEVIKI CAP TURE ENEMY Four Regiments of Kolchak's Troops Taken Prisoners London. Nov. 14?The Bolsheviki captured four entire regiments of Kolchak's troops and two divisional staffs between November three and ten according to a Bolsheviki wireless. The message says that all officers who refused to surrender were shot by their own soldiers. DEBATE GOES ON Effort of Democrats to Apply Cloture in Senate Fails Washington. D. C, Nov. 13.?An at tempt by Democratic senators to in voke the cloture rule to limit the de bate on the foreign relations commit tee- reservations to the peace treaty failed today in the Senate. la* Tratfc'L* THE TRtTJ 19. GOMPERS ABOVE |THE GOVERNMENT I Sits His Opinion as Paramount Rule of Conduct For Workers j STRONG ADVOCATE OF FREEDOM OF ACTION j Criticises and Condemns Gov | ernment For Undertaking to Rule Against Strikes i - I Washigton, Nov. 10.?Abjuring loy ! alty to a "temporary" administration I which violates the principles of de ; mocracy, Samuel Gompers, speaking for American labor at a dinner ^'.ven I tonight lor delegates to the interna j tional Federation of Trades Unions declared that "we are tied to no ad ministration, but we are free men and propoose to exercise this freedom of our judgement." Mr. Gompers told the representa tives of foreign labor that he did not believe that a true understanding of the coal miner>" strike had reached the President because of his illness. Responding to the American labor leader's address Leon Jouhaux, lead er of the French labor delegation to the international labor conference, declared that ''it the workers of the United States need the assistance of the workers of the other countries they will get it." as, he added, "fron tiers cannot separate the interest of workers and private interests cannot separate workers." i "We are engaged in the greatest j work of today," said Mr. Gompers, the greatest that has ever been en trusted to common people of Amer ica?to secure right and justice and j a better standard of life and the prin I ciples pf freedom and humanity. "Whenever and wherever there is an attempt made by the employers as : employers or by the government as a government to depart from the funda mental principle" of freedom and de mocracy it is not only the right, but ,the duty of the men and women of labor to stand up and protest regard less of what the consequences may be." ! D. A. R. CONVENTION State Society Holds Session For Year in Cheraw . _ I Cheraw. Nov. 12.?The State con vention of the Daughters of the Am ' erican Revolution of South Carolina ' opened at Cheraw Tuesday evening 1 with an address of welcome in behalf of Old Cheraw's chapter by Mrs. J. A. 1 Spruill. regent, and an address of wel come on behalf of the town by W. P. Pollock. The response by Mrs. J. O. Bailey, a delegate from Clinton, 'bringing the greetings not only from all sections of the Piedmont, but from (all sections of the state, was interest ing and eloquent. Patriotic songs by i the young ladies of the high school land a vocal solo by Miss Sadie Long I was an interesting feature of the even jing's entertainment, after which there ? was an informal reception, followed [by a short meeting of the committees, j Today Mrs. George Thatcher Guern sey, of Independence. Kan., president i general. National Society of the I Daughters of the American Revolu tion, addressed the meeting and while it was in the nature of a report on 'the work of the D. A. R. in the world [war, it was of added interest in that j she brought a message from the wo .men of the West to the women of the j South. f j Miss Emma Crowell of Philadelphia : national secretary of the Daughters I of the American Revolution, is at if-nding the meeting and is the guest lof Mrs. E. Walker Duvail on Green 'street. After a short address by Miss Crowell a luncheon by the hostess I chapter was served at the Covington j hotel. The afternoon session today was a j business meeting, at which reports j were read by the various state offi cers. This evening Mrs. Ruf us Fant, j president of the Federation of Clubs i of South Carolina, addressed the meet ing. She was followed by William Godfrey who delivered a sketch of [the campaigns of Cornwallis and .'Green in this section of South Caro lina and the Southeastern section of ; North Carolina. PROHIBITION OF FICERS NAMED Ohio Attorney Charged With Enforcement of Law i j Washington, D. C. Nov. 12.?Jno. : V. Kramer, nn attorney of Mansfield, i' 'liio. has been appointed federal pro i hibition commissioner in direct charge ' of the enforcement of wartime and constitutional prohibition. KING ALBERT HOME AGAIN King Albert and Queen Eliza beth Arrive at Brussels Brussels, Nov. 14.?King Albert. Queen Elizabeth, and party arrived here today. mm. ? SOUTHRON, EetaMtabed ioas, 1 *?* VoLXLIX. No. 27. I THREAT. AGAINST BRITISH INDIA i Lenine Forming Combination With Turkestan Against English * j COMMUNIST CONQUEST IS PART OF THE PLAN i f _________ I * . I Bolshevik Leader Says He Then j Will Begin Struggle Against j Imperialism _ j London, Eng., Nov. 13.?Nicola Le ; nine has sent a letter; to Turkestan j Communists in which he says that res i toration of communication between j Soviet Russia and Turkestan "opens i the way for a struggle against univer sal imperialism,' headed by Great Britain. The message is interpreted here as a hint at operations in the i directions of British India. LONDON OBSERVES ARMISTICE DAY Address to American People Presented to Ambassador Davis London, Nov. 11.?-The English-/ speaking union gave a dinner here to night in celebration of Armistice Day, the first anniversary of the signing of the historic pact that ended hostilities of the world war. The chief event of . the dinner was the presentation to John W. Davis, the American ambas sador, for transmission to President Wilson, of an illuminated address to the American people testifying to the excellent relations which existed be tween the British people and the American troops, who were quartered in this country durmg the war. The ! address bears the signatures of1 the Lord Mayors, Lord Provosts and the mayors of the churf cities and towns in the British Isles. The dmner was held in the*famou9 Connaught rooms in Great Qu&h Street, Earl Reading, I/drd Chief Jus tice of England, presiding. The ad - dress presented to Ambassador Davis follows: "To the People of the United States ? of America: j "Be it known by these presents that J we, the undersigned Lord Mayors, I Lord Provosts ana*. Mayors of the un dermjeitioned cities and towns in Great Britain and Ireland, while re joicing that, with the cooperation of the American Navy and Army and ! that of the Allies, the war has been j brought to a victorious conclusion, do (hereby declare or. behalf of the peo : pie of these islands our deep regret t at the consequent departure from j among us of the American naval arid j military forces, who have fought side ! by side with our soldiers and sailors with so much gallantry and success. "We are sorry that we in this coun try have not been able to welcome as many of the American land forces i as we should have liked owing to the J exigencies of war. Those of your j men, however, who have resid [ed with us have made countless friends I among our people, and we shall always i retain the happiest memories of their^ ? visit. The standard of conduct which they have set has indeed been a high j one. and we can only say that we i hope they will take away with them; j some of those feeligs of affection j which tiiey have inspired during theirv I sojourn with us." The signatories to the address are the Lord Mayors of London, Liverpool^ Norwich. Sheffield and Belfast; the.. Lord Provosts of Edinburgh and Glas gow; the Provost of Renfrew and the Mayors of Stamford, Salisbury, Ox- ? ford, Lincoln, Chester, Southampton. .* Dover, Derby. Portsmouth. Bucking ? ham, Grantham Oldham, Andover,-.. ! Doncaster and Eastbourne. HIGHWAY C0MMIS SI0N RECEIPTS - j 67,650 Automobiles Bring in Sum of $362,926.56 j - j Columbia, S. C, Nov. 11.?Accord j ing to the report from State highway % department for the year up to Novem ber 1. the total receipts for the period are J390.S75.61. Of this amount $362.926.56 was for 67.650 automo lers* licenses; $1.532 for '1 motor- : j cycle licenses and $?*j for 1,802 j transfers. Of the total amount col ;lected for the year. $305.812.36 was [returned to the counties. ROUMANIA DE i FIES ALLIES Sends Evasive Reply to Demand That Hungary Be Evac uated i Paris. France. Nov. 12.?Rumania's : reply to the allied note, recently pre sented, in which it was again demand : ed that Hungary be evacuated, is re | garded in peace conference circles as j wholly unsatisfactory. The note, which I was considered by the Supreme Coun j eil today, is characterized as extreme 1 ly evasive.