Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE SUMTES TtATCHMAN, Estab -;-: Consolidated Aug. 2,1 BAPTISTS RAISE SIX MILLIONS rev Seventy-five Million Drive in South Carolina Goes Over the Top -t THE STATE'S QUOTA HAS BEEN EXCEEDED Indications Are That State Will Pass the Seven Million Mark Very Soon Columbia, Dec. 2.-~Wiih reports far from complete a total of $'5,858,S76 had been reached by South Carolina Baptists in their drive for $5,500, ??? up until ? late hour last night. ; These figures give the denomination! more than the amount asked by over $300,006 and.reports are still coming] Tfcirty-threo associations had re ported last night, leaving five yet to send in figures and it is confidently believed that when these figures are received oyer $6,000,000 will have been reached. Out of the 33 associations reporting many were incomplete, as many as 20 churches in some of the districts fa".!- J ing to report. Leaders of the care ? I ycJgn last night predicted that the1 T7,000,O0O mark would be passed be fore next Sunday when the drive of ficially ends. Enthusiasm is still running high afar! churches that had already raised their quotas were at work all day yesterday and this will continue until ] every member from the large city to j tfee remotest hamlet is reached. The Rev., Thomas J. Watts, publicity di ?-?Ctor, said last night he was confi ? that when final reports were liable for the work Sunday they would show that at least $G,0C 0){ had been raised on that om -.y j alone. No relaxation will be manifeste:! { during the remaining days of tb.ej drive, and every indication is that, the j State, will exceed its quota by a mil-4-' lion and a-half dollars. "Keep the! <d?ffi&'3&*lte rgs?ng?. plackeaiiig^ ..of 'I $Zcel* is the advice given to teams j s;id"';t?ttvaissers here last night. Only fiye associations have faiici j to'make any reports and they are ex-i pected to send in their statements to day. Of the 33 already accounted for j lttttch more money will be reported as j the work is progressing in all church j communities. Yesterday the First | church at Chester raised its Sunday i aiiiount of $67,000 to $SO,000 and wasj *i.Jil working. The -Citadel Square j church at Charleston reported $158,-' 000 and the First at Gaffney $85,000. j Lawtonville at Estilf reported $21,8?>0 1 the Central at Greenville reported I that it would reach the $100,000; Jnark. { In Columbia teams of canvassers were at work all day, but no money j v a> counted last night. The canvass- i lug will continue all week despite the j that Columbia churches like j most others k have already oversub-1 scribed. Leaders announced last! night that a mistake .had been made j in the fluota of the Second Baptist \ church of Columbia and instead ofj $35.00 the amount should have been i $25,000. This latter quota the church j will reach before the end of the week, j Below are the amounts so far re- j ported by the 33 associations, bring- j ihg the total to $5,85S.S76, this being j incomDlete. however: Charleston j $343,734; Saluda. $445.000; Moriahj $140,000: Fairfield, $285,183; Green-! ville. $023.000; Spartan, $239,143:] Barnwell, $202,330; Ridge, $310,000;! Orangeburg, $212.315; North Spartan burg, $89,407; Reedy River, $124,0**0: ! Florence. $165,000; York, $75,000; I Piedmont, $32,000; Lexington, $34, 649: Welsh Neck, $275,000; Laurens.! $33r-,700; Savannah River. $96,66$; ' Broad River. $189.000; Twelve Mile* River, $11,750; Edgefield, $126,000: | Southeast. $65.000: Santee, $261,0000; j Edisto, $60.000; Union County. $157,-j 325; Abbeville. $:;50,000; Pick ens, i $16,656; North Greenville. $61,000; 1 Kershaw, $47.978; Pee Dee, $150.000; ! Chesterfield, $22.633; Colleton, $1,999: ; Aiken, $40.000. Incoming reports yesterday show ed-Greenville still leading with th*] S&luda second. EARTHQUAKE IN ASIA MINOR Several Villages Destroyed and Many People Killed London. Dec. 2.?A serious earth quake occurred in Western Asia Mi nor Thursday. Several villages in Sorna and Balikesri districts being destroyed, according to Constantino ple advices. Many were killed and in jured. HOLD HOPE FOR A COMPROMISE French Newspapers Expect Sen ate to Agree on Treaty Paris. Dec. 2.?The newspapers in commenting upon the convening of th<-* United Slates Senate, express the hope th.'U -t compromise on the Ver sailles treaty will be reached shortly. teAe? April, 1850. "Be Just i .881. S" HUNS REFUSE TO I SIGN PROTOCOL 1 The Peace Conference in Paris Has Been Notified to That Effect' COMPLETE TRANSFORMA TION OF HUN SENTIMENT They Are Encouraged to-'This Course By the Action of the U. S. Senate Pari?, Dec. .''.?Germany had de cided not to sign the protocol pre sented to her by the allies as a condi tion-for putting the peace treaty into effect, the peace conference has been notified. Paris, Dec. 3.?This attitude is tak en as confirming' the report of a sharp reaction in Germany during the last I fortnight. Observers of German de- j velopments have expressed to mem bers of the peace conference the view that there has been a complete trans formation of the situation in Germany, I and that it is due to the failure ofj the United States senate to ratify the j peace treaty. Thus far it is stated, I no indications have readied Paris of i any disposition on the part of the Germans to modify their attitude on the allies' insistence for indemnity for sinking the German fleet at Scapa Flow, which is one cause of German dissatisfaction. HIT BY MACHINE LITTLE GIRL DIES ; Leila Ellis, Three Years Old, Succcumbs to Injuries?Au tomobile Party Escapes ? Camden, Dec. 3.?While attempting ! to /cross the highway in front of a car, little Leila Ellis, three year old daughter" of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney El lis, of Yvaterce Mill village, was so badly J#?ur.edf J&>egday.-.,.ni.o.ming. that; she died Wednesday. Xo one knows who the occupants of the car were but a partial description says that it was a Ford and was oc- ! cupied by one man and two women, j and- it was evidently a car from an-1 other State as it had luggage on the i runing board and bore a license tag) with red numbers and the driver slackened his speed but after seeing what had happened he left the scene at a rapid rate, it is alleged, and nothing further has been heard of j the party. j Theer were severe! ??<?- v rnrsfees to j the accident, but no one got the; number of the car and without an ac curate description, the police have lit tle to work on and it is feared they, have made good their escape. One witness testified that the mar, made every effort to avoiu str.kmg the j child. NORMAL INCOMES "I TO BEAR B?RDEN; Glass Makes Tax Suggestion in! ? Report Washington. Dec. 3.? Revision of j the revenue laws, so as to place heav- j ier burden o ftaxes on the normal in- j come was urged by Secretary Glass ! in his annual report today to congress. | Mr. Glass declared that the excess profits tax provisions of the preseut low should be eliminated, and the] revenue thus sacrificed be made t.pj from an increase in the taxes m the average income. Revenue derived from the lower amounts assessed under surtax pro- ! visions of the laws may well be in- j creased, said Mr. Glass, who added! that the topmost amounts listed under j these provisions already had passed their usefulness. The only eonse- j quence of increasing the tax on the] larger sums under the surtav law. be ' said w,buld be to drive ?'possessors of; great incomes to invest t?;eir wealth it- billions of State and municipal se curities,' which are wholly tax es ? empt. The treasury plan seeks to rai:?c more revenue from incomes above ?4.00(> without attempting to dist j b\ incomes of persons whose salaries la rely meet living costs, as anv change in that tax would only ad 1 a burden on a class unable to bear PREPARING FOR BOR DER SERVICE. Army Airship Station to be Organized at El Paso. Washington, Dec. 4. ? The first army airship station on the border will be organized immediately at El Paso, Texas by the Eight Bal loon Company the war depart ment announced today. As soon as the hangar now under con struction is completed one of the two engine airships recently ac quired by the army will be placed ? in service, and experiments in bor der patrol work conducted. md Fear not?Let ail the ends Thon At (JMTER, S. C, SAT USE ELEGAT EDT?CARRANZA Solution of Difficulties With United States Is the Task of Dictator i THE SITUATION SAID TO BE DELICATE | i . n . Mexican Senate Shirks Any Re-[ ; sponsibility in the Jenkins j Affair j Mexico City; Doc. S.?The solution | j of the difficulties arising out of inter-; [national aaffirs with the United States! j lias been intrusted to President Car-; ranza without legislative intrusion byt the senate, at a secret session today, j Isolations with the United Sta.tes were j declared during the session as being j "very delicate." i Italians Occupy Frame -* .1 UNDER TBE TREATY OF LONDON IN! 1915 ITALIAN REGULARS WILL CC- ! CUPY TERRITORY INVADED L.ri?cn, Dec. 4.?The Italian regu lar ttocps wili occupy Fiurae and the territory included in the treaty of Xojidon in 1915 by representatives of Great Britain. France. Italy and Russia, according to a Rcnie dispatch i t< the Exchange Telegraph Company, j D\?mt?riizo's volunteers will "with.-; draw from Flume it is sa,id. under the ! term;- of the agreement reached as! a result o1" negotiations beLv/eeix-Lon- i den ai d Paris. -*r PLEAS ENTERED BY TWENTY 8EFESB?8IS Grand Rapids. Mich., Dec. 3.? Twenty defendants, many of them j prominent in the'official life of Michi- j gan appeared before Judge C. Ses- ; sions in federal court today to plead j to indictments charging corruption, fraud and conspiracy in connection I with the nomination and election pf{ Truman H. Xe wherry. United States j senator from Michigan. With one ex-] ception the defendants who include a prominent clergyman, either stood ? mute or pleaded not guilty and werej released on $1.000 bond. Willis V. Capron of Frankfort.! Mich., pleaded guilty to three of six j counts dealing with activities in the : primary campaign. Others of state- ,' wide prominence who appeared for arraignment included: State Senator Charles J. Deland of ? Jackson, and William M. Connelly, | Spring Lake: Thomas Bigger, a for mer Stale senator, now boxing com- ; missioner: Samuel (TDell. Sheeiy, member public utilities commission'; John W. Dunn, of Sandish. for 2') i years judge of the Arenack county > probate court: Karl J. Davis, a lead- j ing attorney of Saginaw; Albert IL ? Verger, a Benton Harbor manufactur er; Rev. J. B. Heulet of Flint; James] Deeyey, Antrim county clerk; Tim-; othy Ryan. prominent Jackson busi- ? ness. man, and William B. Wilson, an officer of the Grand Rapids Typo graphical union. Mr. O'Dell. who is a former state treasurer, requested an early trial and issued a statement denying charges that he had anything to do with the Xewberry campaign. It is understood O'Dell was charged with urging' James W. Helme, former dairy and : food commissioner to enter the pri mary race against Henry Ford, pre sumably for the purpose of splitting j the Democratic ranks. fn his state ment. O'Dell declares he did suggest that Helm." s"k nomination hut. with out intention of aiding the Newberryi campaign. Helme has also' declared j in a statement, that his candidacy was not for the purpose of aiding New berry bur to give the people a choice of candidates as "between the money barons and a real representative of the people." COAL SITUATION Officials Continue Optimistic Although No Increase in Output Washington. Dec. 3.?Continued optimism was apparent in official cir cles today, although the coal produc tion figures available showed no in crease in the <i:illy tonnage. This now is estimated in semi-official reports as being forty per cent of normal. CABINET MEET ING POSTPONED Members Will Go to Capitol to Hear President's Message Washington, Pec. 2.?The regular meeting of the president's cabinet was postponed today as the members plan- j ned to go to the capitol and hear the president's annual message. na-1 at be thy Country'a. t'.n? God'a AY, DECEMBEK 6, 19 Record Price Today on the New York Cotton Ex change ^DECEMBER CONTRACTS SOLD AT 40 CENTS An Advance of One Dollar and : F'*fty Cents Over Yesterday's j Price. _ ; New York, Dee. ?Another record price was -tablished on the New York cotton exchange today, when Decent - .her cotton contracts sold at forty cents per pound. This was an ad vance of one collar and 3fty cents a bale over yesterday's closing, and an increase of approximately five cents per pound over the low levels of last September. . -IRISH NOT TO HAVE I TRIAL BY JURY. London, Dec. 4. ? The British cabinet according to the Dailv N^'.vs'has decided to suspend trial by jury for crimes of violence in Ireland and substitute trial by com rpission of three Judges. &?" * ' * :':.r / . ? WILL ABANDON SUGAR I CONTFOL. { - ..Washington, Dec. 4. ? Aban donment of governmental attempts to control distribution and sales of sugar was announced today by Attorney General Palmer. ANNOUNCEMENT AS TO IRISH PROBLEM. London, Dec. 4. ? The govern ment's measure dealing with the Irish problem will be ready for in troduction week after next, Prem ier Lloyd George announced in the house of commons todays SENATE TO HEAR LAN SING AS TO MEXICO. Washington, Dec. 4, ? Secre tary Lansing will be called before the senate foreign relations com mittee before action on the reso lution of Senator Fall requesting that the President sever diplomatic relations with Mexico. The com mittee hopes Secretary Lansing will appear before it today. THE HOUSE REFUSES TOJNTER HE W Washington, Dee. 3.?The plan of Republican senate leaders to declare a State of peace by concurrent resolu tion of congress struck a snag today in the house. Chairman Porter of the foreign af fairs committee said his committe ha?I i o intention of reporting out such a resolution and it was indicated that house leaders supported this position. The position taken by the house Re publicans was said to be that repeal of the war time legislation which ex tends until peace is established would be a more aceptable method of re storing normal conditions, and that the ci.icMion of peace was one which the president and the senate, consti tuting the treaty making power, should* determine. The stand ol house Republican leaders was accepted as at least blocking the plan of Republican sen ators to have the house act lirst on a peace resolution. In the senate such a resolution has been presented ny Senator Lodge, the Republican lead er, and now is in the hands of the foreign relations committee. Mem bers thought tonight that the com mittee probably would not take it up when it meets tomorrow for the first time in the new session. In ih< senate resolution faces stub born Democratic opposition and i: was predicted by .'any senators that no effort t<> bring it t.< a vote would be made in the immediate future. It was explained that while Chair man Porter opposed a concurrent res olution, which requires the presi dents' signature. Democrats said the president never would sign such a. resolution and that it could no* be passed <?v< i* his veto. .Washington. D. C, Dec. 2.?Repre sentative Alexander, of Missouri, has been selected by President Wilson to be secretary of commerce, suc ceeding Secretary liediield. act? s Xcatirg." THK TRCI 19 DISCUSSING GER F ! MANY'S ATTITUD Peace Council Spent the ! Day Considering the Matter _ i Germans Declare they Can not Sign-? They Object to Reparation for Ships Sunk and Other Features. \ - ; Paris, Dec." 4.?The Supreme Council spent most of today's ses-; sion discussing Germany's atti-i tudc toward signing the Protocol putting the Peace Treaty into ef-i feet, Germany's representatives! declaring they eohld not sign in! jits present form, including pro-' I vision for reparation for German i : warships sunk in Scapa Flow, and; other features objectionable to; I them. The Council decided to give small powers which possess: Iseacoasts a few of the smaller Ger main torpedo boats. ? FORMER KAISER BILL NOT WORRIED ? _ Does Not Think He Will Be Tried or His Future A?ected i i London, Dec. 4.?Former Em ;'p?ror William does not believe ! that lie will be tried by the Al jlieSj or if he is tried that his fu ture will be affected in any way. 'says the Berlin correspondent to tlie Daily Mail. Various friendly sources have suggested thai he 'surrender to the Allies, the cor respondent says, but he appears ;too lethargic to take auy steps. I Berlin, Dec. 3. - On Wednesday | disorders in 'various places in It- j aly assumed revolutionary aspects I according to advices received here. CROWD FIRED % BY ITALIAN SOL ; ' HERS I Rome, Dec. 3.-?Italian soldiers fired upon' the crowd here last nignt after they had been attack ed with knives and daggers. One j workman was killed and twelve others injured. PALM PEACH TRAINS DISCONTINUED Washington, Dec. 4.?On Ac-! count of the coal situation, rail-! roads which operate special trains; between Xew York and Palmj [Beach during the winter have j been ordered by the railroad ad ministration not to inaugurate the service for the present at least. Rome. Deer. i.?The .situation in j .\f:\:i. on account of the general < smke, is grave, according to advices v.-i-f. vrd here. j GERMANY MUST NOT MIS?NERSTAND Paris. Dec. I.?rFank Polk, head j <>?' the United States delegation to the : peace conference summoned Kurt von l .'. ??>:.??). chief of the German repre-] snt&tlvos at VersaiUes Monday, and! toil! him Germany should not interpret as being in her favor any delay en- j comiicrcd in ratifying the Versailles: treaty at Washington, according to Ui*v. s; apers here. ENGLAND WILL BACK FRANCE, RE GARDLESS Paris. Dec. I.? The terms of the tripartite treaty, guarnteeing France a-ahist unprovoked attack by Ger-j y. v>-;l! be carried out by Great Britain regardless <>f whether Jhe Fulicd States and other participants ratify the pact, according to news papers here, which state reg?tiationsl i'? this end arc ahnost completed be tween France and Great Britain. V. 0. FRENCH OPERA HOUSE BURNED rCew Orleans. !).?<?. 4.?The historic Fv?>neh opera house, erected in 1S5D. w . : <???? iroyed by fire this morning. REPORTED CAPTURE OF VILLA IS NOT CONFIRMED Mexico. Dec. 4.?Mexican o,Tteir.:s here today are still without cenf?r:vi.ntion of the reported capture of Francisco Villa by mebers of his ewn band, ???l.o arc said to bo holding him ;'',r ransom. VoLXLIX. No. 33. WILL FORM BANK Affiliated With Plan to Export Staple SOME OPPOSITION DEVELOPS Institution to Have $2,000,000 Capital?Bankers Offended, Some Members Hint. Columbia, Doc. 3.?After eopsidfV ahlc, discussion an<Vsomewhat positiv opposition, the South CarolIna^'Cot tbn association hero yesterday after :iccn voted to establish a cotton bank and export corporation with a pro posed capital stock of ?2,000,000; THe ' object of the organization is not only to finance the farmers and enable them to withhold distress cotton from the market, but also to establish^for eign correspondents and to take care of foreign shipments of the stsiple, so as to enabie buyers from abroad to deal directly with the producers. ' L. D. Jennings of Sumter took the floor and his remarks caused consid erable opposition to crystallize. Mr. Jennings emphasized that the pres ent sttae and federal banking facili ties enabled the farmers this year to withhold from the market all the cotton they desired to hold. The only reason any man sold bis cott?n this fail was because he wanted to .sell. Mr. Jennings wanted to see anything done that would mean easier and cheaper money for the farmers, but the plan proposed appeared to be only an extension of the present banking facilities. If this were" true, he saw no reason why the Farmers in each county should not heift/^tV increase Cue stock <>f the present banking hovsc*. The proposed bank would, have to cp< rate, under the existing banking laws, to conform to the same rcquiref mcnts and he could see no possibility of gaining the great advantage the promoters of the idea were advancing If the bank would finance the distress -^ttotrr -the- -money ^vtml^^itvirtt^c^nri^^ from New York or the federal resenf?i system, just where the other banxs. drnw. from. The two things the cot tor, association ought to undertake to do were to build warehouses;adequate to care for the crop and the mem bers, of the cotton association then"""' hold on to their product until t&? price advanced to the agreed figure! L. T. Guion of Lugoff. one of the most prominent farmers and live stock,, men of the Sta e. also wanted infor mation as to the feasibility of the plan. Could this bank get a greater reserve to take care of the cotton than the existing institutions could"* He also wanted to know if the cor poration could guarntee to.export cot ton. These statements- drew some com ment as to banks of the State taking offense at the action of the association in cutting loose from the existing in stitutions. W. A. Stuekey of Bishop ville then made the suggestion that the association agree to cfear its bus iness through one of the large bank ing houses of the State, after the lo cal banks had approved the loans. Such a plan would still retain con nection with the bankers and business men of South Carolina who have heen standing squarely behind the cotton growers this fall in their ef forts to procure better prices tor their commodity. The idea, however., was favored by a majority of the farmers present. J. Skottowe "vVanr.amnker. retiring president of the Somh Carolina Co: ton association and president of the American Cotton association, appoint ed the following committee to. work our the details of the proposed in stil u ion: I\ Hart Moss. Orangeburg. chairman: F. D. Pates. Orahgeburg; John 1.. McLaurin, B* ttsville; D. D. Wannamalcet\ St. Ma" ws; R. 1. Manning. Sumter; L. C. Holleman. Anderson; B. C. Matthews, Xewberry; A. J. W. Perritt. Darlington; D. K. Colema.n, Winnsboro; C. H. Darron.. Columbia; I.. J. Drowning. Union; R. E. Daney. Cheraw. and J. Swinton Vvhaley.' Edisto Island. In attempting to raise 'the stock for the. proposed bank, the State will likely be divided into four section*?' end the stock will be allocated ac cOrding to the cotton production of each section, probably on a basis oX $1.7." a bale of cotton. The stock will he divided, in two series, one of CO per cent, and the other of -10 per cent. Th% CO per cent allotment is for the pro ducer and the A<) per rent for trie banker, merchant and others. Thi* will assure control of the stock by lo cal interests. DEATH OR LONG TERM SENTENCE Probable Fate of Carlisle, the Bandit Douglas^ Wyoming. Dec. ".--Two score years imprisonment, and posst bly death in 'he electric chair, con fronted E?il! -Carlisle, the train bandit, as he lay today in a hospital with a bullet in his chest, while arme 1 guards stood by. Carlisle was shot I down yesterday by Sheriff Roach, as.* tie- bandit, cornered, reached for his . automatic to give battle.