The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 18, 1920, Image 6
Care of Immigrants
To America
I AND SUNSHINE
IsANNED FOR ARRIVALS!
,1
Hid Decent Treatment For
All la Demanded by ComTnis
a?oner Wallis
New York. Sept. 14.?Sweeping
Ofcotifet are being made at America's
?sjetetrey?Bills Island?by Immtgna
taot? ( omroIsatoner Frederick A Wal
tta> I'&o propoeea to make the big
taaosl gmttaa station morn comfor?
table for th? newcomers to the I'nit
#4 Statte.
Freedom and sunshine Is being
planned foe the new arrivals by the
oattinlsasoner who haa .tust an
ced plsns for improving condl
in general on the island. Larger
hotb irm* are to be asked he said, san?
itary conditions improved, additional
cot? provided for those unable to get
bed* and many other conveniences for
the Immigrant are to be Installed.
Blind and decent treatment for all
now arrive hi has been demanded by
Commissioner Wallis who hss already
ahnt ooeed the discharge of some of
veteran attendants for alleged
the** or Inefficiency In reoelvlng
IS/ranta Their place? have been
' by more courteous, attentive
end) younger men.
"1 propose to make this receiving
Station representative of all America
pwOJAtae* he sold. ,
0 tit WtsSl oner Wallis asserted thut
he I > tanned to Install baths at the Is
tOJUk in order that vvery individual en
OOffl?g the country will he given a bath
aal have his clothes sterilised before
fee Utters the station.
"fnoy made our soldiers do this."
hg told, "so why not make our Inv
aOSronta This aril! be a big step to
wwd preventing disease from enter
Nil OUT gates and will have a great
shorai ana phystcolosiral efTsct."
t?aO af the latest Improvements by
OnioJnnniOner Wallis has been the
mfiag of warm milk to mothers
tablet This was Jone aa soon
oi the eOMmtestehtr learned that
?t* ml,k m*Ag th* lnfmnts sick.
?i?*n he learned that hundreds of
fajftMrfratftts were jammed in the de
flnon pens the commissioner ordered
1 liberation of the occupants and
to tnoto the freedom of the large
Itftiaotton. hall.
^missiotiet Wallis has appealed
ington to remove the alleged
and anarchists detained at the
for deportation, because ot;J
ded condition* at the Immigra?
ted station
/'They are a defiant lot and should
a* deported.' he said. 'They occupy
a room that could aecemmodate a
couple of hundred Iramtgranta."
] R?ltroads have also been aaked by
It* oommlastoner to provide better
traaoportation U< i I It ich for the 1mmI
giants and stop employes from ' graft
Um" from the newcomera He also
Wants thorn to be properly fed while
bring detained for ?ut rainment.
While funds are not immediately
available for improvements at the Is?
la td. Commissioner Wallis said, he
will ash congress to* provide the mon?
ey. Ho said that he had already asked
parte Isston to raise funds by public
?'tboortpUon if the necessary money
?. laid not be provided by the govern,
snoot
1 Tu Epidemic
_This Winter
J left* a Department Predicts
Recurrent e In Mild Farm
Colombia. Sept. 14 ? The Influenza
?pt?\emlc will return this winter, in
mill form, state health authorities.
1>r. James A. Hayn*, atate health oftV
otr, says that a recurrence of the epl
tletaio In mild form msy be expected
iluring the neat few months. Already
u few esano hoes been reported from
arious ports of the state.
Hit I people died from "flu" in the
?ale during May; seven dlsd in June
end none lo July. Reports for Aug?
ust have pot vet been compiled at the
state health department ofloee. Hi
It la, accord ing to Dr. Hayne, there
were tit deaths from influenza, und
there ere is also I.17& deaths from
pneumonia and other diseases result?
ing from Influenae, in 1911 there were
tit deaths from influenza and 3,678
frort aisaas?? ekln to influenza. The
number haa been on the decrease and
the epidemic this year It expected to
he much milder than for any recent
Jtnr.
?
Soviets Begin Drive
on Brody
Strong Forces Said To Be
Marchinx on Lemberg From
Galieian Border
London. Sept. 14.?The nusaian
soviet forces, according te Moscow re?
ports, have taken the offensive on both
sides of Brody. near the old Oalh-lan
border, and are marching on Loot*
berg, an Exchange Telegraph flerlin
dispatch aaya The Pollnh and Uk
ralnlan troops hsve been driven ba< k
by Russian cavalry.
.White Expects Maine
i to Support League
New Tork. h>pt. 14.~ Democratic
Chairman White today ?ald that the
Republican vtstory In Maine would
not be grudged thent but claimed
that thousands who voted for Park
st?ret will support the league of na?
tional la November.
FW. n ? , *
MARINE OFFICERS
ARE GRADUATED
Shipping Board Training School
Successful
COURSES BEGUN AT
VARIOUS COLLEGES
America Plans to Have Well
Equipped Men on Well Equip?
ped Vessels
Washington, Sept . 8.?More than
l '.000 merchant marine officers have
been graduated from the Shipping
Boards training schools since their es?
tablishment three years ago and 72
per cent of the graduates have been
licensed for service at sea on records
of the board's recruiting service show.
Officers for the government owned
merchant marine are trained at Camp
Si-Iii rt Va., San Francisco and Seat?
tle. Four wooden ships operate on
the Atlantic coast as combination
training ships and cargo carriers.
Each has a capacity of 200 appren?
tices and 1.200 tons of cargo.
On the Pacific coast one wooden
ship carrying 1,800 tons of cargo and.
116 apprentices and u new 1,800 ton
steel' vessel with space for 146 ap?
prentices operate on the triangular
run between Seattle, the Hawaiian
Islands and San Frsnclsco.
Extension and development of its
syst?gn of training Americans to com?
mand the craft of the merchunt ma?
rine Is planned by the Shlping Board.
It Is suggested that shore station be
maintained where men from all sec?
tions of the country can be asserableil
and given instruction in seamanship,
host drill and other preliminary work.
The men would then be sent to sea
in modem steel freight ships which
would be utilised as combination car?
go carriers and training vessels, car?
rying about 125 apprentices. It is
planned to place the ships in a trade
which would insure a voyage out and
return In about 80 days, 4 vessels on
the Atlantic and 2 on the Pacific.
Concurrently with the sea tralnim;
the recruiting service plans the *??|
tabllshment at colleges and universi?
ties near the principal American ports
of a maritim?? commerce course which
would- Include accounting, business
correspondence, business principles,
economics, elements of statistics, mar?
kets,, transportation, principles of for?
eign trade, exports and imports, lan?
guages, railroad ard maritime rates,
business administration, business law,
admiralty law. advertising, ship op?
eration and 'other basic subjects.
The y?ar would be divided into four
three-month periods, the first one or
two quarters to be spent in college
work and the subsequent quarters in
practice under competent supervision
in the offices of steamship companies
and on board ships. The men would
be paid for their services while em?
ployed In offices and on vessels and
thus would be able to obtain their ed?
ucation without financial cost to them.
Carolina Cotton Day
Meetings To Be Held in Every
County in South Carolina
i ? m .
i Columbia. Sept. 14.?Monday,'Sep
'ember 20. has been set aside as ?Cot?
ton Day" in South Ca - o'.ni snl o i
that day farmers and business and
professional men in every county in
South Curollna will meet at their
county seats for the purpose of join?
ing in the 80uthwlde campaign for 40
cent cotton, basis middling, and a
prosperous people.
Governor Cooper has issued a proc?
lamation setting aside the day as
"Cotton Day" In South Carolina and
urging the people of the state to at?
tendee! the meetings in their respective
counties und to take part in .them ac?
tively.
At each county meeting the follow?
ing three subjects will constitute the
outstanding features of tbe program.
1. Plans for holding the cotton of
the county until fair and just prices
can be obtained, together with plans
for co-operate marketing
2. Plans for fully utilizing ware?
houses and warehouse facilities of the
county and for erecting additional
warehouses with speclul emphasis in
this connection on practical plans for
financing the crop.
3. Plans for immediately increas?
ing the acreage in fall sown small
grains, also cover crops, as the one
wise and certain plans of effecting a
reduction in cotton acreage, pledges to
this effeot to be taken.
A special Invitation to the bankers
md business men of the state to attend
these meetings has been issued by
President ft. C. Humor of the South
Carolina Division of the American
Cotton association.
Negro Surrounded
Lynching Will Follow If He Is
Found
Montlcello, Ca., Sept. 14. John
Spillers. the negro who killed James
Faulkner, and probably fatally wound?
ed John Fuulkner, farmers, was still
surrounded today In a swamp near
here. A lynching is) being free y pre?
dicted If he is cuptuied.
Republicans Hold Maine
Late Reports Increase Majority
to Sixty-Five Thousand
Portland, Maine seid. 14.- The Re?
publican majority Hi yesterday's elec?
tion whs Inen axed to sixty-live thou?
sand today, with a few remote towns
und districts still missing. Mrs. Mar
garet Dyer, n Democrat, the only wo?
man candidate, was defeated for pro?
byte register of Hancock county.
GALVESTON NOW
RANKS SECOND
n Value of Exports During
Year
NEARLY HALF GO
TO NEW YORK
New Orleans Comes Third and
Philadelphia and Baltimore
Follow
Washington, Sept 14.?Galveston
Texas, took second rank among ports
of tt\e United States in the value of
exports during the fiscal year ended
last June 30. The total value of Its
foreign shipments as given by the de?
partment of'commerce was $598,239,
227 or nearly double those in 19ID
and greater by three times than those
mi 1918.
Nearly half of all the exports from
the w.hole country were sent out of
New York, the value being $3 383,
638,588, or $180,000,000 greater than
the exports the year before and near?
ly $1,000,000,000 more than those in
1918.
New Orleans ranked third with a
total of $589,409,222 or $100,000,000
more than during the year before.
Philadelphia was fourth with $4 49,
691,705, or $40,000,000 less than the
year before. Baltimore was next with
$338,691,433 or $24,000,000 more than
the year before. Savannah, Ga?
ranked next and ahead of Boston with
$311,171,389 or double the 1919 to?
tal. Exports from Boston were val?
ued at $281,614,919 or $16,000,000
more than the year before.
Exports from Norfolk and New?
port News were valued at $226,008,
288 or more than' double those In
1919. Sau Froncisco was slightly
ahead of the Virginia ports with $233.
??34.773 as was Seattle, with $28,186,
694.
Exports from the other principal
ports were:
Tampa, Fla..'$96,154.982 compared
.vlth $51.876.014 the year before.
Mobile, Ala.. $87,782,701 compared
with $50,918,656.
Port Arthur, Texas, $74,765,920
compared with $54,417,354.
Wilmington, North Carolina, $34,
312,142 compared with $11,321,620.
Portland. Oregon, $42,812,891 com?
pared with $30.518,519. *
Charleston. Sduth Carplina, $32,
4?4,6?5 compared with $3,041,315.
Los Angeles, $21,874,135 compared
with $8.790,963.
Railway Executives
Want Cooperation
Of Public and Shippers in Na?
tion's Transportation
New York, Sept. 14.?Cooperation of
the public in meeting the nation's rail
transportation requirements is asked
by the Association of Bail way Execu?
tives In announcing its program to so
cure maximum service from existing
transportation facilities.
The. association urges cooperation
Of the public and'shippers to attain:
An j verage daily minimum move?
ment ca* freight cars of not less than
3.0 miles per day.
An average loading of 30 tons per
car.
itcduction of bud-order cars to a
maximum of 4 per cent of total own?
ed.
An early and substantial reduction
In the number of locomotives now un?
fit for service.
More effective efforts to bring about
the return of cars to owner ro?ds.
/
Back to Atlanta Prison
Year and a Day Prisoners Lose
Case in Court
Columbia, 8ept. 14.?S M. and I:.
M. Bogers and O. D. Wells, the "year
and-a-day" prisoners are being held
at the Blohtand county Jail In Co?
lumbia, pending the arrival of a mar
shall from the northern district of
Georgia, to take them iTack to the fed?
eral penitentiary in Atlanta, the feder?
al court of appeals at Richmond hav?
ing decided that the men must return
to Atlanta and llnlsh their sentence.
The men were sentenced last year In
Columbia, each to serve one year in
the pen. The usual minimum sentence
for the federal pen Is a year and a
day. The men went ISeforj Judge
Blbley at Athens, (la., and secured writ
of habeas corpus, on the ground that
their sentenoes were not legal, having
been below the minimum alleged to
be allowable under federal statute.
Judge Sibley sent the men back to
South Carolina to be rcsentenced by
Judge H. A. M. Smith. Judge Smith
refused to re-sentence them. The case
went up to the court of Appeals, and
decision was handed down last week
by Judge Wat! ins, of Anderson, sit?
ting wim th-e court at Bichnmnl.
The three prisoners will proba'my be
taken back to Atlanta this week.
Cudahy Packing Com?
pany Passes Dividends
Chicago. Sept. II. The Cudahy
Packing company passed its dividend
for the first time since the reorganisa?
tion of the company, officials said to?
day.
D'Annunzio Troops
Take Islands
Itomo, Sept 14.?D'Anuunzip troops
have occupied the Islands oi Arbo,
Cherso and Vcglin. southwest of
Plume, reports say today. Italian
garrisons have joined the D Annunzi??
fori ? ?
SOCIALISTS PLAN!
THEIR CAMPAIGN
Private Ownership As Means
of Production
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
CONSIDERED CAMOUFLAGE!
National Office Will Make Cam?
paign as General as Possible
Over Country
Chicago/Sept 14.?The bi<4 issue,
in iho.5sofijili.si campaign ,mH *1,1 is ;,s
usual private ownership of tho moans
of production, Otio Branstetter, na?
tional secretary and campaign manag?
er of the Socialist party, said here
today discussing the Socialist cam?
paign. '
The League of Nations issue was
viewed by the Socialists as "largely
camouflage," he said. The party felt
that the league question had been in?
troduced by the old parties largely to
cloud the Issues and keep the people's
attention off domejtie issues.
Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist pres?
idential candidate, in prison at Atlan?
ta! Ort?, was not advising the conduct
of the campaign to any extent. Use
was being made in party literature of
what he said to Socialists visiting him.
Tlie chief speaker In the campaign
is the vice-presidential candidate, Sey
[m??r Stedman, of Chicago, re-enforc?
ed by 40 speakers or more under the
national organization. He has com?
pleted a tour of the southwest and on
September 1 started for the Pacific
coast. After making a round of the
central states he plans to go east
about October 1 for the balance Of
the campaign. ?
Secretary Branstetter said the party
expected* to be On the ballot in prac?
tically every state where it has pre?
viously luiU :i vote of jiny consequence.
It does not expect* at this time to get
on the ballot In Vermont, Louisiana.
New Mexico, South Da'kota, Idaho and
possibly In several other states in the
south and west.
The throe big states this fall from
the Socialist standpoint, Branstetter
said, are New York, Wisconsin and
Oklahoma. He said the party expect?
ed to poll a larger vote in these suites
than ever before.
A large part of the party member?
ship outside of. the foreign league fed?
erations has come >ack, the Social?
ist executive reported, referring to the
split, last fall which resulted in for?
mation of the Communist party and
he Communist Labor party.
No policy of concentration in sec?
tions where ? Socialist sent'ment is
strong will be carried on by national
headquarters, according *o the party
secretary. He said that the national
office was making the campaign as
general as it could, leaving concentra?
tion to the state organizations, which
could undoubtedly carry on such a
policy In New York, Oklahoma and
Wisconsin. ?
Wilson Will Speak
For Cox
New York, Sept. 15.?President
Wilson will be asked to participate ac?
tively in the Democratic campaign,
Senjitor Harrison, chairman of the
speakers' bureau, announced today, it
also announced that McAdoo will
speak in every state possible for him
to reach before the election.
RIOTS BEGIN
IN PETROGRAD
Counter-Revolutionary Forces!
Start Fighting
RECENT LOSSES CAUSE
DISSATISFACTION
Advices From Paris and London
Show Serious Condition in
Russia
Montgomery, Sept. 14.?Alto Wind- j
sham, white, was lynched near Haiti.I
lord. Ala., for an alleged insult to a
j oung woman.
Rioting in TPetrograd
Bolshevik Commissioners Re?
ported Drowned
London, Sept. 14.?Serious antf Bol?
shevist rioting is taking place in Pe?
trograd, according to reports received
in Berlin, says an Exchange Tele
I graph dispatch. Six Bolshevik com?
missioners have been drowned in the
Neva and others are in hiding.
Paris, Sept. 14.-?Foreign office re?
ports through Copenhagen say there
was rioting at Petrograd when the
news of soviet defeats reached there
and disorders assumed counter-revolu?
tionary proportions.
West Virginia
Legislature Meets
To Provide Voting Machinery
For Women
Charlestown, Sept. 14.?The West
Virginia legislature met today in a
special session to pYovlde voting ma?
chinery for women.
Air Mail Contract
Awarded
Lawson Airline Company Gets
Job
Washington, Sept. 14.?The post
olllce department today awarded the;
contract to the Lawson Airplane com?
pany for the air mail route between
' New York and Atlanta via Washington
Baleigh and Columbia. S. C, at a cost
of three hundred thousand annually.
Johnson is Sentenced
Negro Pugilist Receives Year
And Day ,
Chicago, Sept. 14.?Jack Johnson,
negro pugilist, was today sentenced to
a year and a day in the Ueavenworth
penitentiary and lined one thousand
dollars by federal Judge Carpenter for
violating the White Slave act. ,
Alabama Legislature
Meets in Special Session
Montgomery. Sept. 14.?The Ala?
bama legislature met today in a spe?
cial session to frame legislation giv?
ing the women ballot in conformity
i with the federal suffrage amendment.
LABOR LEADERS
ASK MERCY
Want Government to Release
Prisoners
________ v
ATTORNEY GENERAL
PALMER DECLINES
Will Continue Polity of Treating
Each Case Separately On Own
Merits
I Washington. St pt. 14.?Labor lead
'??rs asking for a general amnesty for
j political prisoners were told by At?
torney General Palmer that the gov?
ernment would continue its policy of
'considering cases individually.
Mexican Ambassador
To Washington
Washington, Sept. 14.?George T.
Summerlin in charge of the Ameri
I can embasy at Mexico City, was sum?
moned today to Washington for a con?
ference with the state department.
It is understood that the conference
will pertain to the protection of Amer?
ican richte and oil and agricultural
, interests in Mexico.
American Soldiers
In Plot
- >
Constantinople, Sept. 14.?Six form?
er American soldiers have virtually
confessed their part to thefts, said io
total hundreds of thousunds of dol?
lars from the American committee for
relief in the near east, officials say.
The Investigators declare the thefts
also involve officers of other charity
war organisations who worked tem?
porarily with the Near East commit?
tee.
Chicago Strike
Called Off
_
Chi? ago. Sept. 14.?John Gr?nau,
the leader of the striking swltchmeu,
yardmen and enginemen admitted' to?
day that strike has been called off.
There has ? been no appreciable
change in yesterday's primary shown
L by additional returns. Organisation
candidates of both parties are main?
taining a big lead In New Vorlt. EVehr
man is apparently defeated for mayor
of New Orleans and J. Y. Sanders is
leading for the senate. Senator Smith
maintained a large majority in South
1 Carolina.
Washington, Sept. 15.?Governor
j Harding of the federal reserve board
(today denied the request off gov?
ernmental aid to finance the market
j ing of the cotton crop. He said the
? problem lies with the producers them
I Kcivea.
Paris. Sept. 15.?Marshall Petain,
commander-in-chief of the French
armies, has been married to Madame
Hardon, a wealthy widow, who was a
childhood sweetheart.
The High school boys are already
hard at work on the most important
business of the school \ear?training
I for the football games..
FOR SALE
Two-story six-room house, bam and stables, garage,
fruit trees with eight acres of land, all under fence, loca?
ted three miles from Sumter.
F. M. MOISE
Sumter, S. C.
LUMBER
UMBER
Lucka,
Hinges,
Nails,
Grate*,
Sa ?vs,
Hatchets,
Hammers,
Door Hungers,
BUILDING
MATERIAL
Flooring)
Ceiling,
Siding,
Casing,
Mouldings,
Framing Lumber,
Hod Cedar Shingles,
Pino and Cypress Shingles,
Metal and Composition Shlns;lestCarpcntcr,i Tools,
Doors, Sash and Blinds, Taint Brushes,
Porch Colonins and Ballasters, Pahits and Oils,
Beaver Hoard, Inside Decorations,
Valley Tlu and Ridge Roll, Calsominee and Cold Water Points,
WIRE FENCING, IRON AND WOOD
Brick,
Lime,
Cement,
Plaster,
Fire Brick,
Fire Clay,
Sower Pipe,
Stove Flue,
Tonn "otta Thimbles
Mortar Colors und stains
Water Proofing Mineral,
Corrugated Metal Roofing,
Asbctos and Composition Roofing.
POSTS
HARDWARE
PAINTS
OILS
EVERYTHING FOR THE HOUSE
Booth & McLeod, Inc.
SUMTER, SOUTHtCAROLINA