The Short Crop and Great De
mand Place Speculators
* In Quandry
THE WHOLE WORLD IS
HUNGRY FOR COTTON
Exchange Gamblers Who Have
Sold Short, Face Tremendous
. Loss ^
- Columbia, Nov. 13.?J. Skottowe
Wannamaker, president of the Am Cri
mean Cotton Association, declared in
a statement issued today that based
upon supply and demand, the price
fdr which the manufactured product
is selling", the cost of production and
the price of other commodities, cot
; y; ton is cheaper at 50 cents per pound,
basis middling, today than it was
from 1890 to 1895 at five cents per
pound, basis middling, j
Mr. Wannamaker declared that
leading, manufacturers had admitted
RR.that cotton was worth, based upon
. * the manufactured product today, from
I 60 to 75 cents per pound, basis mid
dling, and that based upon supply
and demand, even higher prices
could probably be paid before the
1920 crop became available. A strong
? appeal is made by Mr. Wannamaker
to the farmers to hold their cotton.
" He declared that the Ajnerican Cot
fggrton Association is going to carry out
its purpose of retiring two million
hales of cotton and see to it that the
staple is marketed more gradually.
"The cotton producer for the last
sixty years" said Mr. Wannamaker,
**has ignored the marketing end of the
proposition. Instead of warehousing
? his cotton and slowly marketing it
over, a period of twelve months his
cotton has been rushed upon the mar
ket. To a large extent he has mar
keted his cotton as fast as* gathered
and has sold it regardless of the price.
As a result of his cotton passed into
the hands of the speculators and
brought great riches to the specula
tor and in fact to every line of the
cotton industry in the world where it
is used commercially except to him
self; to himself he brought poverty.
Supply and Demand.
? '.'We are facing the greatest demand
for raw cotton which has ever exist
ed within the last sixty years. Com
pared with demand we are facing the
shortest supply that has ever existed
in this period. There will not be suf
licient cotton to ?11 the pressing wants
of the manufacturer from either the
cotton on hand or from the
growing crop, so that we are facing
the absolute certainty of an exhaus
tion of the supply of cotton before the
J^O^^rop i>ecomes available. Should
the 1920 crop meet with unfavorable
weather conditions or a crop calam
ity, the result would prove truly a
world calamity.
Price of Manufactured Product.
? "Profits of manufacturers have
reached such proportions that their
ability to pay for good grade cotton
has created a bullish factor of ex
traordinary potency. A profit of $100
per bale or 20 cents per pound on the
manufactured goods is really moder
ate at this time. Narrow print cloth
sold jthis week on a basis that would
give the manufacturer a profit of
thirty cents a pound or $150 per bale.
Wide print cloth sold on a basis that
would provide a profit in excess of 35
cents per pound or $175 per bale.
We find in our investigation a few
cases in which goods of a special con
struction, which for this reason- were
quite scarce, are returnning a profit
of 84 cents per lb. or $370 per bale.
The cotton used in the manufacture
of these special goods is strict mid
dling, one inch cotton.
Future Commitments.
"The manufacturers have sold an
enormous amount of goods for which
they must have good grade cotton.
Manufacturers the world over are
extremely short of cotton. In addi
tion to this there are only 22.000 bales
of certified cotton now in New York.
2,200 bales of this amount being low
grades, which leaves a balance of only
20,800 bales of tenderable cotton. In
addition to this Europe has hedged on
the New York and New Orleans ex
change all cotton in transit. The de
livery of this cotton has caused them
a tremendous loss. Another matter
of vital importance and far-reaching
consequence is the fact proved by the
actual investigation that there are 1.
000.000 bales of cotton bought in the
New York and New Orleans exchange
fcr early spring months, including
January. In addition to this Europe,
as fast as her finances would permit,
has bought cotton on the Now York
and New Orleans exchanges, for her
? future requirements, so that the actual
co.ton now bought on the exchanges
for which Spot deliveries will be de
manded are in excess of the possible
renderable cotton to be secured from
either the cotton on hand or the
growing crop. The result will be
startling. In all probability as a re
sult there will be days on which., not
a contract can be bought on the New
York or New Orleans exchange. The
bears in their desperation t<> escape
the inevitable exchanged close months
for distant months and today are
cau&ht in a trap from which it is im
pels ble t<> extricate fhemselv? s.
/ A Fair Price Cotton
' Based upon supply and demand.:
the nrice for which the manufactur- I
ed product is selling, the cost of pro- '
deerjon and the price of other com - !
modities cotton is the cheapest com- i
mouity in the world today. Based ,
Upon these conditions it is cheaper at .
50 cents, per pound, basis middling.;
than it was from 18A0-95 at 5 cents,'
per pound, basis middling.
Manipulators Active
For the first time in sixty years
HIGH COST
OF LIVING
ErTorts for Relief Inaugurated!
in Several Countries By
Government
i
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I Washington, Nov. 12.?That the!
[whole world is struggling with the in- j
i creased cost of living, is indicated in
.'reports to the State Department. The
'increases in Europe . are particularly
I high although in Latin-America the
I governments are anxious over the
j situation and are trying to find means j
j of combatting the difficulties presented |
by the high prices of commodities)
! deemed essential.
In Portugal the government, in an !
attempt to lower the cost of living,!
jhas placed, through the Minister of |
! Fiance, a part of its gold reserves in
ithc banks of Lisbon,
j- In England. the cost of living
j above pre-war level is ggfr^u at 110
[percent for September and 120 per-j
Icent for October, as to actual ntces
Jsities of life and based upon average j
'living cpou?ti?ns of wage earners. A
? more distinct rise has occurred in the
'cost of commodities so far as the other
i elements of population in Eng'rjvl
Jare concerned, being unofficially esti
jmated by some at^ approximately 135
jpercent with a steady upward trend,
j In Sweden, figures furnished by the
; Swedish government indicate that the
icost of living has increased 157 per
'cent over the cost in June 1914. In
jthe cities the increase has been very j
I much greater than the average forj
jthe country
The Argentine Government has sug- ;
? gested to other South Ainerican coun
I tries and discussed with them an in
ternational arrangement with a view
!to doing away with import duties'on
unmanufactured food' products as one
means of cutting down high cost cf
living. Information which has reached
the State Department regarding this
plan is to the effect that a suggestion
has been made that a conference be
called by the Argentine Minister for
Foreign Affairs to discuss this ques
tion of exchange of real necessities
of life free of customs charges.
In Brazil the tariff! is being revised
with a view to reducing the cost of liv
ing in that country. In Uruguay the
percentage of increase of present cost
of living over the cost in June, 1914,
is estimated by the Uruguayan gov
ernment at: food 52 percent, fuel 48
percent, light 75 percent, rent no in
crease.
I DIES FROM INJURIES
? __________
J. Ford Prioleau Succumbs, Fol
lowing Accident
Charleston, Nov. 15.?J. Ford Prio
leau, formerly of Beaufort, who was
seriously inpured Wednesday after
noon, in a traffic accident, died early
this morning at a local infirmary. He
was 38 years of age. The remains
have been sent to Beaufort. One other
j fatality from accident was reported
j today in the death of Miss Mary Britt,
j of Enston Home, who was overcome
by gras. She was 59 years of age. A
little colored girl. Rineart Murray, was
probably fataHy "burned, when she fell
into a fire place.
! THE CAPTURE OF
OMSK DENIED
iBolsheviki Insist That They
Hold City
London,. Nov. 17.?The capture of
Omsk by Russian soviet forces which
was unofficially denied in advices
through Scandinavia yesterday, is re
? asserted in a Bolshcviki communique
received by wireless today from Mos
cow. Severe street fighting preceded
the capture and more than on thou
sand prisonrs were taken by the Bol
sheviki, it is declared.
jthe manipulators, '.che have accumu- j
{lated vast wealth as a i*esu!t of their
'prearranged and concerted efforts to
beat down the price of cotton, arc j
facing the absolute certainty of being,
not only denied the privilege of suck
ing, the life-blood from the producer
as well as the consumer, but in addi- j
jtion arc facing the inevitable certainty!
j of fabulous losses.
!Steps Taken by the Producers Under
The American Cotton Association
"As a matter of self-preservation
and self-protection the producer has
[adopted the safe sound method of
[warehousing his cotton, and remov
ing, from the market two million
bales of good grade cotton, this cot
ton to be held off of the market until
inext June, July and August. He will
{market the balanc*- of his crop slowly.
[This plan is not only the one followed
[by all business organizations but in
addition'to this it will result in the
jbilizing to a certain extent the cotton
! market, protecting the producer
[against unfair pr5 s being paid for
I off-grade cottc, .nd will result in
[bringing a fair price for his product j
[based upon supply and demand and
[the price of The manufactured pro- j
duct. This same system has practi- i
jcally been enforced by the manufac- i
turers with the finished product for)
the las: sixty years. Had it not been
for the manipulation referred to
above, and wen- the law of supply
and demand permitted to function
this would not have been necessary.
[Before this decision a painstaking in
vestigation was mad'-, the matter was
taken up with the various lines of the
cotton industry, and leading manufac- !
turers confirmed the statement as to \
svpp-y and demand, price of the man- i
ufacUired product and also the state- 1
ment ;is to the conditions on the ex- J
change. Leading manufacturers stat"
ed th.it cotton was worth, based upon ;
the manufactured product today. I
from ?>0 to 75 cents per pound, basis
middling, and that based upon supply
and demand, even much higher prices
should probably be paid before the
1920 crop became available.
"Hold your cotton for ??< fair price, i
To sell under the above conditions!
you will enrich the speculator, the
other lines of the cotton industry, and
continue to bring prosperity to oth'V
sections except the South. Much
higher prices are an inevitable cer
tainty, as certain as death and taxes."
THE CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE -:
County Fair Bureau of Infor
mation
Special efforts arc being made to
make the big American Cotton As-:
sociation meeting a success during the j
county fair this week, when at 11.30.!
a. m. at the grand stand at the fair]
grounds every member of the Sumter
County Branch of the American Cot-,
ton Association, and that means ev- \
cry member of every township branch 1
of the Sumter County Branch of the
association is expected and urged to
be present. Every member is par
ticularly urged to bring one or more
msn who have not yet joined this as
sociation which has been largely re
sponsible for putting up the price of
cotton from 20 cents to 39 ."-i cents
because of the partial and systematic
temporary organization of the farm
ers and the holding of so much cot
ton off the market to cause the uni
versal law of supply and demand to
function in the interest of the cotton
growers. Permanent organization and
cooperation me:tn permanent living
prices for cotton.
Every member of the association is
invited to visit the booth of the Sum
ter County branch of the association
in'the main building of the county
fair. The State headquarters of the
American Cotton Association, working
in conjunction with the Sumtcr Coun
ty Chamber of Commerce, has suc
ceeded in getting Mrs. IL R. Clink
scales, general State secretary, to
come here for three days from Co
lumbia to take charge of the associa
tion interests at this booth. She will
have an abundance of printed litera
ture and statistics, and other interest
ing information to furnish the farm
ers, merchants, bankers, lawyers.
I doctors, land owners, employees, and
all others who wwl visit this attract
ively decorated bocth. Look for the
big signs: "The Sumter County
Branch of the American Cotton As
sociation," side by side with the signs
marked: "The Sumter County Cham
ber of Commerce Bureau of Informa
tion and Boll Weevil Buckers."
A campaign to "bust the boll weevil
lines" and to murder low prices for
1 cotton will be started in Sumter Co.
i at our fair this week.
Every member of the Association
has been sent a card by County Sec
retary E. I. Reardon, inviting him to
attend the meeting next 'xhursday.
Secretary- Reardon says that he
doesn't expect more than about ten
per cent of the members to read these
cards, as the average member of
any kind of association never bothers
to read anything about his asociation,
andi if he does he forgets all about
it in five minutes. That is one rea
son why farmers don't get any more
for their cotton than they are get
ting. They are not organised as they
should be and each farmer is a sep
arate unit working to and for him
self, while the forces he goes up
against are organized with plenty of
human brains, intelligence, system,
capital and cooperation, working to
get what the farmer has to sell for
las little as possible and then resell
it to the farmer for four times what
they paid the farmers for it. Come
to the big meeting next Thursday and
bring your friends with you. This
means not only farmers, but mer
chants, bankers, lawyers, doctors, real
estate and insurance agents, manu
facturers, clerks, and all ether em
ployees, land owners, and every body
interested in securing right prices
for cotton in which we are all inter
ested in the South.
Mr. J. A. Evar.s. assistant to Dr.
Knapp, and in charge of States Rela
tions Service in the South, of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture, will be
here for several days during our fair
and will lecture each day at the
grand stand on diversification of
crops necessary to combat boll weevil
conditions. Other experts of the gov
ernment from Washington and Clem
son College will be here also to lec
ture.
The daily concerts by the famous
Royal Scotch Highlanders Band of
23 artists, and the song solos by four
or five splendid artists of. this great,
bond, featuring Bobby Brolliere, the
ivorM renowned Scotch tenor, this
band playing two concerts of two
and one-half hours each for three
days of the fair, November 19th to
21st, inclusive, will prove a veritable
musical festival in fact.
The famous Delemcade Troupe of
acrobatic, aerial and comedy artists,
featuring the live beautiful and ac
complished Earle sisters in their dar
ing, death-defying, spectacular per
formances on the high revolving
wheels and double revolving ladders,
will prove very interesting and enter
taining. The band concerts and the
Delem< ade Troupe will be absolutely,
positively and certainly, outside, open
aii- and free attractions to every one
within the fair grounds for four days,
for the Delerneade Troupe and three
days for the band.
There will be plenty of good things
to eat. substantial, all round square
meals, and also light refreshments,
and plenty of things to drink, from
simon pure water right on down or up
the list to constitutional limitations
marks.
WAS IT A FRAMEUP?
Slate Department Information from
Mexico City Today Points That
Way.
Washington, Nov. 17.?Consular
Agent Jenkins ;it Pueblo was detain
ed ;\: the penitentiary for two hours
after his arrest en charge of collusion
with bandits who recently kidnapped
him. according to Stau department
advices today from Mexico City. He
then was released without bail and
?s now restricted to his own home.
A corporation has been formed in j
Sumter for the purpose of handling j
aeroplanes. The see}-, tary of Si;ire. j
YV. f\ L?ove on Friday commission-j
ed this corporation with a capital
stock of $5.000. The promoters of the'
concern .,i: e L. I >. Jennings and J. j
Craig Hurst. The concern content- j
plat.s doing ;i general aircraft bus!- i
ness. This is one of the first con-1
corns in the state to organize. '
Lumber !i
Flooring.
Ceiling:,
Siding,
Casing,
Mouldings,
Framing Lumber,
Rod Cedar Shingles.
Pine and Cypress Shingles,
Brick,
me,
Cement,
Plaster.
Fire Brick,
Fire Clay,
Sewer Pipe,
Stove Fine,
mg
aterial
Metal axsd Composition Shingles, Terra Cotta Thimbles
Doors. Sash and Blinds, Mortar Colors and Stains
Porch Columns and Ballasters, Water Proofing Mineral,
Beaver Board. Corrugated Metal Roofing.
Valley Tin and R:dsc Roll, Asbetos and Composition Roofing.
Hardware,
1'As
amis
Locks,
Hinges,
Nails,
Grates,
Saws,
Hatchets.
Hammers,
Door IIaTigei*s.
Carpenter's Tools,
Paint Brashes.
Pa?nts and Oils.
Jitside Decorations,
CaLsomincs and Cold Water Paints,
P
WIRK FENCING, IRON AND WOOD POSTS
EVERYTHING FOR THE HOUSE
Booth & McLeod, Inc.
SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA
j BOSNIA RECOVERS SLOW
LY FROM WAR -EFFECTS
Sarajevo. Bosnia, Oct. 6.?Bosnia
! may be a iong time recovering from
jthe effects of the war. Factory pro
duction is almost at a standstill, rail
iroad transport is irregular arid uncer
tain, stores are bare of stocks, im
[ports are much reduced, clothing and
{food are-/high in price and there is
j much idleness among the people. The
'crops this year, however, are abun
dant and there is sufficient food to
'meet all needs.
i The German and Hungarian signs
j which* formerly appeared above the
I store windows have given place to
[placards in Serbian, and Sarajevo
has taken on quite the appearance of
la Serbian town. The Serbian inhabi
tants are of course quite content with
the Belgrade government. but the
(Germans. Austrians and Turks are not
j quite so happy. There is a disposi
tion, however, to accept conditions as
ithey are and to hope for a resumption
jof the commercial activity and advan
I tages which the people enjoyed at
jthe hands of the Austrians. The
friends of the Serbs and Jugo-Slavs
IhopY that with time the Serbian gov
ernment will be able to match th*
! prosperity and progress which the
?Austrians and Germans brought to
(the country. }
Among the population America en
i joys great prestige and respect
j This is jargcly due to the timely help
? brought to the country by the Ameri
j can Red Cross and the United States
! Food Administration. Until the arriv
|'al of these relief agencies. Americans
[had never before appeared in Eosnir
in any considerable number. The
[presence of officers cf the Red Cros?
'and the Food Administration has hac1
ja splendid moral and educational ef
fect among the Bosnians. Much of
ithe rancor and harsh feeling engen
idered by the war has been removed
j and through the work of these Am
.oricans the larger part of the people
new look upon the United States as n
: friend, not as a foe.
j -
i Bolsheviki Weakening is Opinion of
British Military Experts.
London. Oct. i?.?British military
! experts believe Russian Bolsheviki
cannot withstand the onslaughts of
(their enemies longer than two months
[and that something definite is likely
jto happen in the Russian campaign by
: December 1.
j It i" pointed out that the Eoishe
jviki hn'io employed German tactic?
jin moving men from'one front to an
joiher with mere or less success but
'that recently each success has been a
j little less marked than the previous
<>ne and that it is reasonable to sup
jpose that such tactics in the end must
ibreak down unless one enemy is com
pletely subdued. When the Bolshe
viki centered against Folchak some
: months ago and drove him back 70U
miles, their southern front was left
?'\yeak whereupon General Denikinc
started his advance which has result-:
cd in clearing up south Russia,
j The Bolsheviki have withdrawn
rinany men from the Kolchak front. I
Iflfiving the admiral :? chance to ad-1
j vance. In the meantime the western!
j .front has become a menace to Bol-j
jshevism. The British experts be
[licve peace was broached to ;be Bal
tic states because the Bolsheviki real
ized they no longer could hold back
[tin ir enemies on three sides and main
tain the force in northern Russia al
[sq.
A Xcw Largest Battleship.
: Glasgow: Oct. 10.?A new "largcsi
! battleship in the world'' will soon slip
{down the wa;rs to establish new rec
: ords in the annals of naval construc
tion.
The ship, a battle crvi^cv. is the
I Hood. She will '>?? launched in Xovcm
; her. it i? announced. Her builders say
j she is not only the largest in the Brit
ish Xavy. !>u' the Iargesl warship ever
constructed. Not even the four super
arendnaughts b ?ing buili for the I'nif j
ed States Xavy. ships of 12,000 tons
approach the enormous bulk of the
Hood, hcv normal displacement being
it."00 tons, and at full load, about!
4$.000.
Pitted with oil-fired boilers and j
reared turbines, which develop 144.
000 shaft horsepower, the Hood is ex-j
pected to show speed of thirty-one J
knots in her trails. HVr armament
and anti-torpedo protection is so elab-j
orate that she is said ro be the nearest
approach to the "non-sinkable" ideal
which constructors have been endeav
oring for years t" attain.
Details of the Hood's gun power, it
is claimed, will cause i sensation when
made public.
i railroad confer
' ence postponed
j _
j No Hope of immediate Settle
ment With Brotherhood
Heads
.
! Washington, Nov. If;.?Hopefor an
i immediate settlement of 'the four
'great railroad brotherhoods demands
I vanished today. When further ses
j siens of the conference becween di
j rector General Hincs and the Brother
hood heads were postponed indeii
j nitely.
I race trouble
in delaware
I Negroes Kill One Policeman and
Wound Another
j Wilmington. Del.. Nov. 14?The sale
! of firearms here has been stopped and
i negroes have been warned to keep
j off the streets as the result of race
{trouble here last night, following the
j murder of a policeman and the prob
j able fatally wounding of another by
I negroes. Fearing that enraged citi
Jzens might attempt to lynch the three
negroes charged with the crime, the
! police rushed them from the city. The
j prisoners are brothers, and arc now
in Philadelphia.
prince of wales ;
at white sulphur
Needs Rest to Recover From
Washington Reception
?
White Sulphur Springs. West Va..
Nov. 15.?The Prince of Wales and
suite have arrived here .for a three
.lay stay. He will remain incognito!
luring his visit and will attemp to re
cuperate from the effect of his strenu-j
>us Washington reception.
the bolsheviks !
lose heavily!
_
General Yudenitch Captures!
Twelve Thousand
- j
Helsingfors. Nov. ID.?In the course 1
>f the recent offensive General Yuden
.tche's forces captured 1-.000 Bolshe
/iki according to a northwestern army j
report. 5?r>: thousand casualties were;
suffered by the Bolshcviki.
miners still 1
remain idle'
V i
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Waiting on Developments ofj
Washington Meeting
? i
Chicago. Nov. 14.?Only a light in
crease in the amount of soft coal pro-1
duccd throughout the country is in
prospect today. The miners generally,
have showed a disposition to await de
velopments of the meeting in Wash-j
ington o? miners and operators to at-I
tempt to negotiate a new wage agree
ment.
bolsheviks ad
mit defeati
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Driven Out of Brest-Litovsk
After Eight Davs Fighting I
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London. Nov. 1 !.?The Bolshcviki
have neen overthrown in Brest-Lit
ovsk, a Soviet wireless today from;'
Moscow admits. After fighting the in-j
surgenis there for eight days, the dis-j
patch says, the Bolsheviki withdrew, j
fiume block
ade raised;
Italian Government Formally
Lifts Embargo '{
Copenhagen. Nov. l (.?Italy has of-|i
ticially raised the blockade of Fiume.! >
according to advices from that city
receive! through Austria.
San Francisco. Nov. 15.?Raids on!
the I. W W. and other radical organ
izations, as a result of the Centralis i
shooting, were continued during last i
night up and down the Pacific Coast,
resulting in the arrest of scores of 1
prisoners. ' j
HIGHER ADVER
TISING RATES
Southern Publishers' Associa
I tion Calls for Action. News
papers Urged to Increase
Rates at Once
! New York, Nov. 14.?A resolution'
j favoring an increase of 25 per cent, in
i the rates on both foreign and local
: advertising in Southern newspapers
; was adopted here late today by the
i advertising committees of the South
j em Newspaper Publishers' Association
; which met here to plan a $10,000 cam
ipaign for exploiting the South. The in- .
j crease in advertising rates was favor
jed because of the shortage of white
1 paper.
I Arthur G. Newmeyer of New Or
! leans is chairman of the committee
j which also will meet tomorow with
j the advertising committee of the
'Southern Council of the American Ad
i vertising Agents' Association to ' dis
j cuss the ways and means of spending
j $1.000 monthly in the interest of the
; South, contributed by 102 newspapers
'of the association. Mr. Newmeyer suc
j ceeded Walter G, Bryan, formerly of
j Atlanta, but now of New York.
| THE FUNERAL OF
SENATOR MARTIN
; Senate Takes Recess 4o~Eer^it^
Members to Attend
j - . ? ?'.
-
1 Charlottesville, Nov. 14.?Commit
; tees representing the Senate and
I House ore here today to attend the fu
ineral This afternoon of Senator Mar
f tin. The Senate committee is headed
; by Lodge and Hitchcock, the House
! delegation by Cannon. The Senate
; recessed today to permit members to ,
attend. \
! AIRPLANE EXPRESS
i
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! Giant Kadley-Page Making Trip
i
I to Chicago
I ' ' : -
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I Mineola, Nov. 14.?A giant Handley
Page plane, commanded by Vice Ad
miral Mark Kerr, left this morning on
an attempted non-stop flight to Chi
cago. It carries S passengers and 15
hundred pounds of express for the
American Railwaj Express Co.
TWO HUNDRED
PUT IN JAIL
Government Is Making Clean
Sweep of I. W. W.'s
Seattle. Wash.. Nov. 14.?Nearly
two hundred men suspected of be
ing members of the Industrial Work-'
ers of the World are in jails in various,. ?
cities and towns in the Pacific north
west today, as a result of raids grow
ing out of the Armistice Day shooting
at Cciitralia. Washington.
AID FOR YUDENITCH
Finns Decide to Assist
ture of Petrograd
Helsingfors, Nov. 14.?The Baltic,
slates conference at Dorpat is advised
that Finland has decided to aid Gen
eral Yudenitch with thirty thousand*
volunteers, in his new attempt to take
Petrograd within the next few weeks.
This development may seriously in- j
t erf ere with, and perhaps bring to an
end efforts of the Baltic states dele
gates to reach an agreement with the
Russian Bolshcviki.
PRINCE OF WALES
COMING SOUTH
Will Spend Three Days at Win
ter Resort
Washington. Nov. 14.?The Prince
of Wales leaves tonight, incognito, for
it three days' stay at a Southern win
ter resort. His destination is unknown. ?.:
He will make no further public aPr
pearam e until he arrives in New Yof'k.
next Tuesday.
Morganton. West Va.. Nov. 15.?De
partment of Justice agents have ar
rested twelve members of the Scotts
Run Local of the T. W. W. They
brought them here and placed them in
iail.