The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, November 19, 1919, Image 3
COAL UNIONS
RENEW DEMANDS
?_
Operators of Outlying Fields Re
fuse to Merge Their Interest j
?Hold Separate Confer- ,
ence
?? . . .. .. r ' ? - ?' ;- I
1 Washing-ton, Nov. 15.?Coal miners'
?and operators' meeting here today
could not unite upon the proposal of
Secretary Wilson to negotiate a na
tionwide agreement, but did unite
lupon a plan to negotiate an agree-J
,Aaent covering the mines in the central ]
Competitive field or western Penn- j
sylvania, Indiana. Ohio and Illinois.
.Meanwhile, the mine owners of th e j
. outlying fields whose refusal to merge,
their interests with those of the cen- !
tral territory caused the separation, j
went, into a separate conference to]
determine how far the central terri- j
tory's scale agreement, if negotiated;
would serve as a basis for agreemeuts j
in their respective fields,
TJie division, came after a stormy!
morning of the joint session of opera-!
tors* and miners' representatives i
, called by Secretary Wilson in which
John L. -Lewis, acting president of i
the mine workers exchanged charges
?of- bad fa'ith with several spokesmen \
for the operators. F. W. Lukens,!
speaking.for the operators, in outly- i
ing fields* presented their refusal to j
comply with Secretary Wilson's pro- i
? posal for a national agreement, on j
the ground that its negotiation would !
take time that could not be granted \
in view of the need for coal. Presi- j
H' dent Lewis, having accepted Mr. Wil-!
so?'? plan*, scored the operators for ]
refusaL j
Secretary Wilson then advanced an.;
alternative sitg^estio? for a wage scale:
" negotiation ni the central fields which |
finally was accepted, though President j
Lewis again./arraigned operators in i
certain field3f\3*or violation of law and i
demanded governmental action against]
them. >v ? j
Representatives of miners in the;
outlying field? contended they were
entitled to representation in any ne- j
gotiations* regarding the central field.;
since this would be used inevitably'
aS ja, basis for their contracts, and j
the operators, at Secretary Wilson's re- |
que?t, agreed to consider a possible \
course,.and the joint conference broke;
up,,: ,., '? " \
Ja the wage scale committee con- .
1 ferenee with the operators, the min- I
ers* leaders presented again their de-1
mands.made originally at the Buffalo!
conference consisting of a 60 per cent]
increase in wages< a five day^week and
a sdx-?ourr- day. The operators then
-decided t?f"confer among themselves;
and the conference adojurned until:
Monday. ^ j
Operators in outlying districts, i
meeting separately after the confer-;
\ ence.;adjourned,- declined to make a j
definite answer to the question asked j
? by Mr. Lewis as to whether the cen-i
. tral.com-petitive field agreement would j
^^^p^^jnr^basic form to other districts. J
The- answer was] withheld until the !
views of. o^her operators not in Wash- !
v ington can-be learned Secretary Wil
son Joined .in the meeting at the re-]
quest .of the, operators.
Operators from western Kentucky \
stated at the meeting that they stood -
\>willJng. to.; accept' the wage scale |
? j agreed te*- by- the, central competitive |
"field as-.a? .basis. Central Kentucky;
>miner?^feelined to commit themselves!
?until, the results of the conference ofj
the--central-territory committee was;
<lcn"?wn, wbut announced their willing-j
.nes? to begM* negotiations with the !
workers in their own district.
Simulation Led to Crime.
Dansville, X. Y.. Nov. 12.?Alonzp
j. Whiteman. foi^tfer millionaire,
State senator of Minnesota and mayor
of Duluth. whose business and poli
'iicaf reverses more than 25 years ago
[led to his entry upon a swindling ca
jreer wiiich made him known to the
[police of the entire country, has come
i back to his old home town. Danville,
a broken-down ' old man" of 58, to
j end his days in the county alms
house. Although sentenced to '.prison
i terms aggregating fifty years, he has
j served only two sentences, a brief one
j in Chfe&go and one of five years in
this state.
j After graduating from college and
j a law school in Xew York State, he |
j went west to work in a bank and
j look after his father's lumber inter- i
ests in Minnesota. Successful in pol-1
jitics in 1888 he made one of the i
speeches seconding the nomination of!
Grover Cleveland for the presidency. I
Whiteman was a candidate for Con- ;
gress in Minnesota, but was defeated.'
He then went to Chicago and in 1<S&0
bought a seat on the Board of Trade
where speculation in wheat and lum
ber cost him his fortune. Then White- j
man turned to the race tracks where
he forged a check on a bookmaker j
and counterfeited pool tickets, the;
first steps in wh t was to prove a long
career of crime.
Hohcn/oHern's Daily Life .
. Amerongen. Kolland, Oct. 10.?'
Hollander who recently dined with
the former German Emperor at Ben- 1
tinck Castle told the Associated Press j
correspondent that the exiled ruler j
almost monopolized the conversation i
at the dinner table.
Speaking on all manner of interna- |
tional subjects, he gave little oppor- !
tunity for the other diners to speak, j
and, after dinner talking about the;
defeat.of the Russian armies early in'
the war. he.illustrated w?th maps just;
how it was done.
There/ has been but little change in j
the daily routine xof Amerongen's ex- !
ile sineTa he crossed the Dutch border ;
r.early a year ajio. H> breakfasts
rather early with his wife. Then, if !
the weather permits, he saws wood in
the garden or walks with the em- j
press, his aides or his secretary. ;
Luncheon is generally taken alone i
with his wife in their apartments, j
Dinner,, at 8 o'clock, is the state func- j
tion of the day. Frequently the bur- j
gomaster of Amerongen is a guest, |
and. now and then, relatives of the'
Ben ticks who live near .Amerongen.
are invited.
Since Count Kohenzollern has pur
chased the. House' of Doom, he has
made frequent automobile trips about j
the countryside, generally in a closed
car. but. now and then, his bearded!
face is plainly visible to the peasants, j
when, on fine days. ? away from the j
?villages, the top of the car is let!
down.
.Admiral Kolchak Gives Thanks. I
Omsk,-Sept: 15.?(Via Vladivostok) j
Oct. 5.?A lighted church in a little \
village Jour miles behind the lines at-1
tracted the attention of Admiral Kol-',
ehak. head of the All-Russian govern-!
raent. as he passed by in his train dur- j
mg a recent inspection of the terri-1
tory just cleared of Bolsheviki. Told .
that a service of thanksgiving was in j
progress he alighted with his staff, j
made his way through the crowd of,
peasants to the altar, received the j
blessing of the churchman, and for an I
hour participated in the service.
Doubl? Trouble.
Our idea of getting hit twice fa the
same place is to receive a wedding
Invitation marked "Postage Due 2c."
SENATOR DIAL
BLOCKS MOVE
Objects to Extending Embargo
on Dye-Stuffs
Washington, Nov. 15.?Senator N. B.
Dial has thrown a bombshell into the
cam]) of those who have been trying
to get the embargo on dyestuffs ex
tended and Inade absolute. He has in
terposed objections to the considera
tion by unanimous consent of a reso
lution to prohibit their importation
until Jan. 15 next pending action on
permanent legislation for the protec
tion <>f domestic dyestuff producers. As,
the law now stands, the,embargo will
go out of effect on the proclamation
of peace.
Senator Dial was asked by The News j
and Courier correspondent why he had
objected and replied that he was in
favor of proper protection of the
home dyestuff industry, but was op- j
posed to any step that might run the
price of cloth to an unreasonable
height and thus injure both the de-,
mestic and foreign trade of this coun
try. He explained that he would be
willing to see the present system ex
tended giving the government power
to admit foreign dyes by license and j
thUvS regulate the trade in the just
interests of all.
Senator Dial has received a number
of telegrams from cotton mill men in
South Carolina and elsewhere o.l j
which the following is^a sample: "Very:
important for cotton mill industry'
that fore'ign fast color dyes are admit-1
ted without further delay . or hind
rance. Cotton mill manufacturers
have $1.500,0000,G(rO'>Kirtnig cloth re
quiring-'these dyes. Unable to deliver
without them. Meanwhile many mil
lion dollars of these shirtings wirh
fast dyes have been recently bought in ;
England for importation to this coun
try. Our print works have many thou
sand pieces held up for lack of fast
coo Irs. Will certainly lose export
trade in shirtings unless permitted to I
secure dyes available to foreign com
petitors." '
Some compromise in the matter, is
probable. In the meanwhile ihc junior)
South Carolina senator has the wheels
stopped by the utterance of only two !
little words, "I object." . .
Marriage Announcement.
Mr. James Francis Glenn announces1'
the approaching marriage of his niece, i
Miss Margai-et Louise Will if or d, to
Mr. William Richard* Webb, on Mon
day. November 24th, TJfl9. Sumter.
South Carolina.
Asylum Needs Nurses.
Because the war made so many new
openings in the ousiness -world for
highly trained women, thousands have
been drawn from the field for nursing,
resulting in a great shortage of nurses
in all hospitals throughout the State,
declares Dr. C. F. Williams, Superin
tendent of the State Hospital for^the
Insane, at Columbia He also points
out that the situation is becoming so
acute at the State Institution that he
has been forced to send out a call
for young women.
"In order that our patients may re-,
ceive the proper nursing and care,"
he asserts, "we must have more young
women." While they are in* training
many advantages are offered them
which no other profession offers.
Young women between the ages of
18 and 3"> are needed badly. At pres
ent there are many openings, and
those who desire to learn the pro
fession of nursing have..a; -splendjid. op
portunity to do so. . .
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POSSE CHASES
RED CRIMINALS
Large Party of Officers- Seek I.
W. W.'s In,Tfteir Hiding
Place
Centralia, Wash.. Nov. O.?A posse
of loggers and former soldiers left
here ihis morning for Hannaford val
ley. IN miles northeast of Centralia.
! to renew thy search for a number of
\, Industrial Workers of the World, who
j are believed to have participated in>
the shooting of members of the Amer
ican Legion during the armistice day
j parade last Tuesday.
Bert Bland, believed by the au
! thorities here, to be the man who shot
I and killed Warren Grimm, commander
of the local American Legion post, on
[ armistice day, and a man named Haii
(?son. also suspected of com
plicity in the shooting, are reported
i to be among those hiding in the val
j ley.
Hansen was named in an alleged
-^confession of L. Roberts, an I. W. W..
I as having been in the group which
j tired on the Centralia _paraders.'
I Little was made public today re
I garding a reported clash yesterday
! between two posses and alleged I. W.
i W.
Reports said one posse member, be
lieved to> be .Ibhn Haney. a rancher
of Tenino, aged 69, was shot during
I ?.he shooting. Today it was stated
Haney was dead and his body lying
near a cabin with the radicals inside
repelling-, all attempts of the former
soldiers to reach it.
A posse of 40 men today scoured
the country in the neighborhood of
yesterday's fight and a special detail
of men had boen charged with the
recovery of Haney's body. Members
of the first posse said it was probable
the recovery of Haney's body would be
attended by further bloodshed, because
of fact that he fell within 100 yards of
Hn'nter's cabin, wherein the I. W. W.
were believed to be .still lurking. The
place is surroundcd-by dense woods.
Every outlet is being guarded.
Capt. Lloyd Dysart, local command
er of the posse in the district, was di
recting today's operatons.
"We have verified ? the fact , that
Haney fell when fired upon from am
bush-," sard Dysart. "A comrade saw
him drop tit- the- first volley.
"Hamry. with three other men. had
become separated ifrom the main
party and they \vere workin;? their
way toward Hunter's cabitt, where, ac
cording to information which we had
obtained Bert Bland, Hansen, -alias
LoughtenorT. and one other radical
,were hiding. A" volley rang .-?out and
Haney. who was ahead. v/&8> <feen to
fall. The firing became general and
bullets whistled all around our posse
men. One of whom sprained his
artkle was forced to drag himself
away. The other two- were unable to
continue the fight unaided and with
drew as- they could not locate the
sources of the fighting accurately in
the semi-darkness of the woods.
^. Captain Dysart sai<l thaf all day
would be required for the relief pos
se to reach the scene of yesterday's
batthv and that the proposed new at:
tack on the hidden outlaws will not
feegin probably before Monday morn
i mg. x
[ The purported, confession of L
I Roberts, who gave himself up last
| Friday morning and who said he was
Ohe of the three nieh who#had fired on |
the armistice day parade... from Sem
inary Hill, was to thf effect that his
companions had been Hansen and
another man known as "Curler."
Roberts' detailed statements have
practically identified this man as
Bland. Assistant Prosecutor Roberts
said today.
Ben E. Moore, assistant United
States district attorney, and Walter P.
Chritensen. assistant attorney general,
spent the day at Ch?-halis question
ing alleged I. W. W. held for murder
in connection with the Centralia in
cident, in an effort to connect that
tragedy with propaganda carried on
from Seattle^...
I -.
Cotton Market f
j (Corrected daily at 12 o'clock by
Chamber of Commerce.),
j Good Middling 37 1-2.
Strict Middling 36 3-4.
I Middling 36.
j Strict Low Middling 31.
j Low Middling 31.
K3BW TORS COTTON MARKET,
i YWtd'y?
Op*n High Low nie?* Close
|.Tan . . 34-.75 35.50 34.55 35.49 34.85
jMch . . 32.90 33.91 32.90 33.91 33.00
May . . 32.69- 31.81 32.69 32.03
iJuly . .. 31.80 31.00 31.75 31.30
j Dec .361*0 36.92 36.03 36.88 36.35
Xeiv Orleans.
! Jan . .34.75 35.60 3 1,60 35.54 35.00
I Mob . .33.00 34.08 :;3.03 :i4.05 33.45
'May . 32.10 33.01 32x0* 32.93 32.49
'July . .31.40 32.05 31.10 31.72 31.49
'Dec . . 36.^5 37.53 36.25 37.53 36.S5
New Orleans spots 39.50.
? i i ?
j .Mrs. Richardson Coming to Address
Stimtcr Women,
j Plans for combating the rising cost
j of living will- be presented to a repre
sentative gathering of Sumter women
j tomorrow hy Mrs. F"dora Ramsay
! Richardson. Mrs. Richardson is di
! rector of the woman's division of the
? War Loan organization in the Fifth
Federal Reserve District. Mrs. Hor
[ace Harby is acting chariman on ar
. rangement for this meeting, which
wiP be held at her home on 113 West
Calhoun Street, at 4 o'clock. It is
hoped to have representatives of all
the leading women's organizations
hear Mrs. Richardson, who is a speak
or of much ability, with extensive ex
perience in the government's big thrift
campaign. Mrs. Richardson is a na
tive South Carolinian, and was before
her marriage Miss Budora Ramsay,
daughter of Dr. David M. Ramsay,
now president of Oreenville Woman's
<'oIlege.
President Leaves White House.
Washington. Nov. 17.?-President
Wilson was taken.,on the White
House lawn in a wheel chair today,
ft was the first tini?1' h*v has left the
White House since he has been ill.
A Patriotic Englishman.
London. Oct. j 6.?Lord Lecenfield.
who donated his home in May-fair for
use. as an American. officers" club for
two years, has given Scawfell Pike,
the highest mountain- summit in Eng
land, to the- nation in honor of British
soldiers of the world- war. No monu
ment will be placed on the summit,
but a suitably* inscribed rough stone
may be placed ?ri the existing cairn.
Court adjourned on Saturday after
the case of Frank Robinson against
the A. C. L. Railroad was completed.
The plaintiff who was. represented by
Messrs Harby and' Jennings, was
awarded a verdict of $2,000 by the
jury. The A. C. L, was represented
in Council by Messrs. M. Reynolds.
McLemore and Moise. . The. plaintiff
brought's?ftvfof $2vQD3.^ '
Uncofrr** "tont Speed**
-Oft the twenty-nivithr of May, fh 1S5$
lArxeohi made a speech at] the' first
Sepublicah state convention in Illinois
that Fs remembered its" Lincoln's "Lost
Speech." Lincoln, who was-one of the
delegates, was suggested for governor,
but lie proposed that William Bissell
shoti.W be nominated instead The sug
gestion was accepted* and-. Lincoln ad
dressed the Convention for one: hour,
speaking with such fire and eloquence
that the surprised and interested re
rforters- forgot to take notes arid his
great speech was never recorded.
Eastern "Mad-Sttmcs.,r.
In eastern cotmfries raBies? Is treat*
fd by ttie "tabash eer," or some other
form of what are indlfferectly called
"snake stones," or "madstones," and
which are believed to be a specific for
all forms of poisonous bites or wounds.
"Tabasheer" is a porous, stony accre
tion found i? the stalk;) of bamboo. It
was used in Persia so Ions ago as the
tenth century, and is carefully de
described by the French traveler Tav
ernier, who visiited India in the seven
teenth" crntury,
Desf and Dumb- Language.
The .Encyclopedia Bntajinica says;
"Wo hjive converged by signs wltfi.
deaf people from ali parts of the Brit
ish Isles, from France, from Norway
and Sweden, Poland. Fiirtatid> Italy,
Russia, Turkey, the Unlteu^States* arid
found that they; aye indeed ? iradfrlcfc1
wide means of communicatrbn . . .
Deaf people in America converse with
Red Indians with ease, thereby show
ling how natural the generality of even
del Epee sign* are.**
Ireland Still JOTedlevaf.
In Ireland we arc still medieval*
and think that how to live is more
Important than how to get a livings
When 1 was ar young rn?fn lt. I an
nounced that I intended next iit?rnmg
at break of day to 'start on- sora? en
terprise of amirsem.ent, or it might be
of high duty, the whole fattvily would
get up to see me off ; but if it were on
some matter of mere com*?ierdal gain,
I would breakfast in the care of the
servants. It was thus through the
whole of Irish. life.?John Butler
Ycafts;
ttfhi on ?as Globe*.
To clean gas- globes, wasb with soap
aod warm water in which a little salts
of lemon has been mixed. The great
dl?c'?lty in the way of getting the
grotmxt glass" used' for some? globes to
look white is the grease which* sets
elosely. in tire rotrgfcness.
Women Live, Longer Than Men.
Records show that more women live
to be centenarians than men. When
the census of tire United States was?
tafeen hi 1900. it was found that 6,208
persons between the ages* of ninety
ffre aM ninety-nine were living, and
oir* this number S,32& were women.
Three capital Crimea
ttWhen I was a boy," states Mi
Patch in Stockton Herald, "there were
three capital crimes?murder, bla*
pfreroy, and lying abed in the morning.
Of the three, mucder and blasphemy
might sometimes be forgiven, but late
rising never! One of my grandfftthers
frequently got up at four o'clock on a
winter'morning, built a fire in the cook
stove and then would sit down by it
and go to sleep."?-Kansas City Times.
TBBE TO- ACT.
Don't Wait for the Fatol Stages of
Kidney Illness. Profit by Sumter
l'cople's Kxpcricuccs.
Occasional attacks of backache, ir- j
regular, urination, headaches and dizzy j
spoils are frequent symptoms of kid- \
J ney disorders. It's an error to neg
j lect these ills. The attacks may pass
off'for a time but generally return
with greater intensity. Don't delay a
minute. Begin taking Doan's Kid
neq Pills, and keep up their use until
the desired results are obtained.
Gootl work in Sumter proves the ef
fectiveness of this great kidney rem
edy;
; " Mrs. K. D. Briggs, 312 W. Liberty
j St.,' Sumter, says: "I had a slight
j tou?h of kidney trouble about two
' years ago. Headaches and dizzy
(spells bothered me a great deal. I
j felt languid and tired and wanted to
: sleep the time. My kidneys acted
i irregularly and I felt bad all over.
Doai.'s Kidney Pills were recommend
| ed to me by a friend who had used
them with good results, so I tried
j some. A few doses brought me fine
I relief and it wasn't long before I was
j cured."
' Price 6Cc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy?get
Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that
Mrs. Briggs had. Foster-Milburn Co:.
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. t.?Advt. j.
Keep Tour Liver Actrtrc? "^?tir
System Purified and Frse jfrom
C?ids by fakfn* (fefbt-abs-,
the Nansealess Cafosriel ?
Tablets, that are iJc~
lightful, Safe-and* <
Ssrc.
Physicians and Druggists' arc rvlris
iug their friends io keen- their system.1?
purified and then* organs in perfect
?working order as a protection. aj^aJastf7
the return of influenza- -They; Jcno'.v
that a cib'ggr-d* up systcur anvr1 a Eazy
Jiver favor coids, inflacriza and serious
complications.
To cut' short a cold ovcp'fi^ht .and tor
prevent serious compilations take one*
Calotab at bedt ime wStTi ^swallow, of?
I wator?tbat'salh No saSt^no nauseas
no griping, rip sickening' afte%effects.
?Next mora big youf --'cold. has- $anished,
your, liver is active,'your sysiciu: is puri
fied and' rcfrc'sliecf and you-arc "feeSng'
fins witb a hearty appetite for broak^ /
fast. - Eat what you plcasc-r-no *lzng&r.
? Calotabs arc sold ouly in. original
seaJo?T: packages, price th"frty-nS*e' cents.? .
ICvery druggfet is authorized to refnad?
your money if you arc not perfec?y;.
dcliahted with Calotabs.?(Adv.) . .
D'ANNUNZIO RAIDS
DALMATIAN COAST
ftafiah Fiiftrasterer Starts on"
Adventure
Paris. Xov. 15.?Tiie American
peace delegation has received a. tele
gram from the American Coaisui at
Trieste giving reports that rrAhminzio
had left Fiume on a torpedo boat and'
has landed on tlie Dalmatian coast,
where ,,hc is engaged in another ad
venture.
tfANNUNZIO
LANDED AT ZAR A
Trieste. Nov. 15.?D'Annunzio has
landed at Zara on a new expedition-. ?
BOLL WEEVIL NEWS.
The Cotton Pest Now Covers . South
Carolina-.
Clemsom College,. Nov. 13.?Owing
to the continued warm weather and
the. scarcity of squares, migration of
the cotton boll ^cevil is still in prog
ress and unless stopped by cold weath
er there is no'Way of knowing-at; this:
time, where this migration wilr end,
sa#s Professor A. F. Conradi, of the
Crop Pest Commission.
At this writing (Nov. 12") the weevif
has been found at Hartwell. Ga:, a
little south of Anderson and at Lau
rens and Kershaw. The northernmost
point reported by North Carolina is
Chadbourne. ?
No boll weevil maps arc be-rft- issu
ed at this time because su-*h maps
made one day would become obsetete
and misleading by the next. The line
indicated below is a current one and
may have changed by the time this
article reaches the reader. The line
on November 12 would run approxi
mately as follows* /
Hartwell, Ga, Andersen. La?rens,
Kershaw/ S. C, and Chadbourhe, N. C.
It would not be surprising, however
to find weevils at some points much
further north than this ImC "Within
the next few days. Weevil movements
are governed by weather, by abund
ance of squares and by abundance of
cotton. In sctions where cotton is thin
weevil migration is more rapid.
In order to protect the little free;
territory which is still ours, the safety
line run^s through the following points
approximately:
Mountain Rest, Pickens,' Pacolet
and Rock Hill, and joins the North
Carolina line approximately at Van
Wyck. There is no longer any need
for the quarantine zone.
Washington, Nov. to.-?Secretary
Daniels, before the Senate Naval Com
mittee, disapproved the bills1 providing
for the repeal of the appropriations to
construct a large dry dock at the
Charleston 'Navy Yard, saying such
action would be a backward step.
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