Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Establisl CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,18) BRYAN PREACHES GOSPELOF HOPE Says He is Qualified To Advise Democratic Party Columbus. Ohio, May 23.?William Jennings Bryan, brought a message ' of hope and cheer to members of the Jefferson Club at their picnic here today. "If anyone' can preach the gospel of hope it is the man who has been resurrected so many times that death seems commonplace," Mr. Bryan said, in reference to his appearance. Leading directly up to his subject "Democracy's Opportunity," Bryan mentioned five mediums through which he said the Democratic party ipight rise to,success, a national bul letin for dissemination of unbiased political news and party opinions, prohibition, reduction 'of taxes, a proper aligning of monopolies and disarmament. . "The most crying \ need of the country.-.today,is the maintenance of unpolluted channels of information so that the" public, may know what is going on at. Washington," he said. , Mr. .Bryan suggested a tentative J?an-for Jais proposed national bulle tin and added: . : "We, ;<?on*t want a . congressional record; we don't' want a paper such ?s Qeorge Creel published during the war, though both are good, we want a; daily paper' to be issued by the government, whose. news columns shali'vbe non-partisan, but whose ed itorials shall be bi-partisan." " ? On prohibition, Mr. Bryan said: ? "The ^Democratic party can not avoid the part it has had in bringing prohibition to this country, 1 am j>rou&:'of its part. 'But. I am not proud of the-part it has played in pbio:" Discussing monopolies. Mr. Bryan paid, that where there was any ex cuse for" the-existence of one it should Ije ; taken over by the government. jHrtocracy he said/ was the breeding . -j^ij^fpf - revolutiOTi.: - '^'^.?Bryan's chfef hopes, for the fu ture of -the4 Democratic party lie' in thei matter of; taxation, he'said. And it^ is ^J^e^'p? &d^.ed. that he ex ^Wi^d'-tp" Sie*' a new leader of tlie pixte*arise. :? :'? ' r: ' . ' ^'if^tne Democrats take a firm and for the rights-of the common ?ari/jtoVman who pays for the wars ?'?d fights them too, then they can hot, help .but go back into power with a bigger' landslide than they went wefct.out with.' Affairs in Egypt j Early Dispatches Reported Alex andria .Quet, But Later Dis orders Recurred Alexandria^. May 24.?Quiet pre vailed here last night after serious rioting Sunday night and Monday morning.. The curfew order was well .Observed. The casualties officially re ported today were twelve Europeans and thirty-six natives killed, and 191 persons wounded. Business house3 are closed and the street cars are not running. Officials consider the na ' tive movement anti-Greek, rather than against Europeans generalb*. London. May 24.?A dispatch from Cairo says there has been a slight recurrence of trouble in Alexandria and demontsrations have now begun ?in the provinces. The message ?says the casualty list shows eleven more Egyptians dead. j Cairo.- May 24.?Quiet has been re stored at Alexandria after serious rioting Sunday and Sunday night. A number of persons have been arrest ed and several who engaged in the rio<s which resulted in the death of upwards of thirty persons have been Hogged at police headquarters. Strikers Must Get Out Those Who Are Not Residents Given 48-Hour Notice Portland. Maine. May '23.?All su ik ing seamen in this city who are not residents of Portland were ordered to leave Within forty-eight hours today. ?,The orders, issued by the chief of po lice, were directed by Mayor Charles .B. Clarke, in a letter in which he said the seamen's strike had led to so much ( violence at this port, including a murder which he connected with it. that shippimr strike agitators should be run out of town or arrested. Chief of Police Irvings s. Watts, immediately served notice of the de mand to quit the city on iocal head quarters of the seamens' union an nouncing that it applied to all strik ing seamen or leaders not residents oZ Portland. New Policy Needed Manager of Finance Corporation Recommends Change to Meet Changed Conditions Atlantic City, May 26.--The de velopment of a national policy to meet the new conditions that figure in trade and finance, is urged by Eugene Meyer, managing director of the war finance corporation, _? ted April? 1850. "Be Jost i 11. FORDNEY TARIFF UP TO PRESIDENT Long Fight Over Emer gency Measure Ends With Adoption of Conference Report Washing-ton. May 23.?The long j battle in congress over the emerg- j ency tariff bill was ended today j when the house by a vote of 245 i to 97 adopted the conference report I to which the senate already has agreed. The measure was sent to the "White House, where it is ex pected to be signed by President Harding soon after his return from New York. The emergency tariff measure, passed in the closing days of the last session, was vetoed by Presi dent Wilson but immediately rein troduced with the opening of the present extra session. As finally passed it carries tariff duties on 30 odd products of the farm with compensatory duties on the articles manufactured from them. It also empowers the secre tary of the treasury to employ pen alties in staving off dumping of foreign made goods, continues the war time control over importation of dyes and operates to clarify tangles in the assessment of duties which result from foreign- exchange rates. At its first appearance and through the long debates that followed, op ponents of high tariff predicted re taliatory action by Canada, %y the South American countries ami by some nations of Europe. Chairman' Fordney of the house ways and means committee, which drafted the bill said, however, that no protests had come and that he had seen signs of only a few moves in retaliation. Only a slight flurry of opposition appeared as the bill, went into the roll call today. Bepresentative Gar ner of Texas, a Democratic member of,the- ways and means, restated the position of. a majority of his . party and again declared the bill could?do no possible good; that, it was .a "sOp" to the farmers.. and that'the Bepubiicans had not rushed the bill to-, passage until it hadnbeen madk "to take care of their industrial in terests by compensatory duties." Opposition to Sales Tax Characterized* as Scheme Tc Shift Burden From Rich to Poor Washington, May 24?"Indignation meetings will be held in every city, town and hamlet in the country." in protest against the sales, tax if it is adopted, the Senate finance commit tee was told today by Edward F- Mc Grady, who said he was rtating for Samuel Gompers the position of the American Federation of Labor. The federation has taken a positive stand against the proposed tax, Mr. MeGra dy declared. "Five million of the now idle and many other millions of those whose wages have been reduced from J5 to 60 per cent are now called on to a3 I sume the added burden." he said. "Big ! business is now attempting to shift ; the burden of the war and the cost of I government from their shoulders to [the backs of working men and wo ; men." Mr. McGrady declared that the j housewives would join with organized I labor in opposing the sales tax and jsaid, "that their verdict will be final." i He said it might require some time j to awaken the country to the issue. ; but predicted that the consumers, i once aroused, will not permit Congress I to compel them to uo down into their pockets to pay the government's .' wa v. i . ? "Those who have to count pen j nies wiU send up a mighty roar of j protest." he said. * They will refuse. j to submit to such taxation." t D. G. Wilson, chief of the tax divi I sion of the American Mining Congress I characterized the sales tax as an at I tempt "to transpose the taxes on the , luxuries of the rich to the dinner pail I of the poor?a tax off the diamond 'shirt stud and onto the bone collar ; button!" 1 "The real solution of the f<-d^ial j tax: problem is lower taxes, not iug | ged taxes." he said, i ???????? ? Fredericksburg's Birthday Oldest Town of V ir^inia Cele brates 250th AnniYcrsary Fredericksburg, Va.. May 23-- - This city, probably the second oldest in the country, is celebrating iis LTiUth anniversary as an established town ship. Although records show Captain John Smith landed here in 1608 or sixty-three years previous, the cele bration included the dedication of a monument to the early settlers and he unveiling of tablets on historic spots the pagent depicting the his toric development of tlm town and a parade. Washington, May 25.?President Harding and party returned to Wash ington today aboard the yacht May flower from New York. The vessel was delayed by bad weather. md F:ar Not?Let all the ends Thou A SUMTER, S. C, SATURD WOMAN KILLS Denver Woman Made Short Work of Man ! Who Attacked Her j on Street Denver. May 26. ? Mrs. Jame3 i Cash, wife of a patrolman; shot and j killed a. man who attempted to seize j her as she returned home. DUBLIN CUSTOM HOUSE FIREi Important Papers and Records! Relating to London Lost? Number Killed and Wound ed in Fighting With Many | Persons Captured I Dublin, May 25 (By the Associated Press).?The Dublin custom house is tan ruins tonight and all the most im portant documents of the govern ment relating to Ireland, with pa pers and records, the value of which I <ran not be estimated, have been de [ stroved. This Dublin Castle officials an nounced, is the work of Sinn Fein forces, which at an early hour this afternoon, made the most formidable attack against government property that has been engineered since the present rebellion began. The employees of the various de partments housed in the building were made prisoners, vast quantities ; of petrol were poured- over the in terior of the building and the light was applied. Soon military lorries appeared and a pitched battle en sued. The Sinn Feincrs occupied the cus tom house and from the windows met the soldiers with a heavy tire. Machine guns and rifles responded and-a strong cordon was thrown around the building. When the /lames became too hot the raiders.-attempted to make their escape through the various doors, tmt several were shot down and kill * 2d and many were wounded. Accord-' ing to ? the official statement., seven civilians were killed. 11 were wound ed and 111 captured. Four of the auxiliaries were wounded. Crown forces in a sortie entered the building and made many cap tures. Some of the raiders were saturated with petrol and it is be lieved that several met their death in the raging flames. I London. May 2b (By the Associated Press>.?The Irish office tonight is sued the following official report on the custom house fire at Dublin. "Three tenders carrying auxiliary cadets and accompanied by an ar mored car, approached the Dublin custom house shortly after 10 o'clock this morning. As they ap proached the building a number of bomb? were thrown at the leaders j from the railway bridge, while re I yolver fire was opened on them from j the windows of the custom house, j which was occupied by a large force I of Sinn Feiners. j "The cadets dismounted under I heavy fire and surrounded the cus I torn house which was seen to be burning. Fire from the auxiliaries and the machine gun of the armored ear was poured into windows fof the custom house from which the J rebels replied vigorously and a se ries of desperate conflicts followed between crown forces and seven or eight parties of rebels, who rushed from different doors of the building making dashes for liberty and firing as they ran. The first party to I emerge consisted of three men. only one of whom escaped, the rest be ing killed or wounded. "Some of the auxiliaries then stormed the blazing building, where many of the rebels surrendered. ! Some of them were found to be sat juratcd with petrol and several were j probably burned to death before the j crown forces entered.' i j "The firemen were hohl up at the 'first station by rebels so that the lire I engines dhl not arrive until 2 o'clock. j by which time the fire had taken hold jof the entire building. I "At the conclusion of the fight. ?dead and wounded rebels lay about on all sides of the building, where the ground was strewn with broken (glass and empty cartridge cases. "Four auxiliaries were wounded: ! .seven civilians were killed. 11 * wounded and about 111 captured." PRISONER SAVES OFFICER'S LIFE ! _ j Alleged Burglar Attacks Deputy j in York County Jail j York. May 25. ? Alex Childcrs. 'serving u jail sentence following con ! viction in the United States court for I distilling, probably saved the life of \ Deputy Sheriff Tom Quinn at the 1 county jail today when the officer was attacked by John Hudson, alleg- ''? ed burglar, while he. was feeding the j prisoners. The deputy sheriff was j shot in the stomach and left thigh in j the scuffle over his own pistol. The j bullet, however, barely grazed the ! flesh. Childers, seeing the officer j about overpowered, knocked iHudson down and helped hold him until an other officer arrived. Unat at be tby Country's, Thy God's a AY, MAY 28, 1921 DUBLIN BATTLE WASBLOODY Custom House Smoking Ruins?Twelve Bodies Found After Fight _ By. the Associated Press. Dublin, Hay 26.?Smoking ruins mark the site of the customs house burned yesterday by a raiding party of civilians. The British arrested fifty men after a pitched battle. The bodies of twelve men have been ! found. The number of wounded is unknown. Dublin, May 26.?Over sixteen thousand rounds of American am- I munition have been captured in the Dublin district since March. PANDERING TO ANARCHISTS ! Postm Mcr General Hays Grants Mailing Privileges to News papers That Were Disloyal in War Time Washington. May 25.?Laws safe guarding the integrity of the free dom of the press "must and shall be also scrupulously observed." Post master General Hays declared today in announcing the granting of an application of The Liberator, a monthly magazine of New York, for second class mailing privileges. The application has been pending since February 11, li>18, the date of its founding, and the postmaster gencral said the records of the de partment showed every issue Rince then as offered monthly for mailing had been accepted at -the third class I rale of postage. The Liberator will be refunded $11,277. the difference which it paid over the second class rate. The publication is edited by Max "Eastman, who also Is editor of The Maisses. The postmaster general announced also that The Call of New York and Victor Berger's paper. The Leader, had filed applications for reentry un der the second- class mailing privi lege, and if they were found to com ply with the law, the applications would 'be granted. The- Calls pre vious action brought against the de partment for denial of certain mail ing privileges is pending before the courts. "The postoffice department holds no brief for The Liberator or any lotiie" publication." Mr. Hays declared. J "If there is on foot a conspiracy to destroy our established form of gov ernment by force and violence claim ed by the department heretofore as ; a reason for not granting these per ; mit?, and if this publication is in volved in it lh.cn the department will Ideal promptly and effective within . the manner prescribed by law." j_ I Investigate West Virginia War j Congress Decides to Take ; I Hand in the Matter?Commit tee Sent to Scene ; Washington. May 26.?The senate education and labor committee today voted to investigate the recent disor ders in the coal mining region along the Kentucky-West Virginia border. The subcommittre will probably begin i hearings at Williamson, W. Va., next j week. I The committee later decided to bc ! sin thf hearings of Williamson about j June 10th. j Two Killed, Is Report I Fighting on West Virginia, i Kentucky Zone Resumed i Williamson. W. \"a.. May 25.?State ; police headquarters here received re | ports tonight that a West Virginia ! State trooper and a Kentucky Nat I ional Ouardsman were killed at No | lan. west of here, when fighting in the Tug river trouble zone was re sumed. Capt. Norton, of the State police. ! sent the report of the killings to I Capt. J. It. Brockus. the latter said, j Private Kackley. a West Virginia (trooper, and Mauley Vaughan. of the j Iventcuky militia., wer?; killed, and i Georg?? Crum. a civilian, was wound led, tin- advices said. When word of the shooting was re I ccived state police othcials ordered j the Norfolk and Western railroad 'company to prepare a special train [for an immediate run to Nolan. ! Nolan is located on the West Vir iginia-Kentucky border, on the Tug I river, opposite the line which divides iPike and Martin counties. Kentucky, j Captain Brockus said hi* reports I from Norton indicated that two men, Victor Elkins and Clyde Harper, had I been arrested in connected with the jlight. They were charged with carry ing arms, the captain said. Railroads Are Well Managed Washington. May 2?.?The rail loads of the Cnited States are being j operated efficiently. President Byram of the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul declared before the senate com mittee. I FIRST GERMAN FOUND GUILTY Sergeant Heine Who 111! Treated Prisoners of j War Sentenced To j Ten Months of Imprisonment - I By the Associated Press, Leipsic, May 26.?Sergeant Heine, j a German, accused of ill-treating) British prisoners of war in Herne ] prison camp, has been sentenced to j ten months imprisonment. He is the ! first German officer to be tried on | criminal charges arising from war I conduct. _ j Escaped Convict Captured in Camden j i i Back on Sumter Chain Gang Af-' ter Nearly Six Years A. W. j O.L. John Tucker, a negro Convict who made good his escape from the Sumter county chain gang on July I 22, 31*15, was brought back to Sum ter Tuesday afternoon from Camden by Engineer Jeffords and Rural Of ficer Newman and has been placed back on the gang to serve his 15 months of unevpired time. Tucker was caught in Camden by Special Of ficer Jim Calvin on May 24th, who identified the long absented negro convict from a description that he happened to have of the negro. The | negro was positively identified by j Officer Newman and made a full confession after he found out that it j would be useless to deny anything j further. Up until this identification he had denied everything. Tucker is now on the gang double shackeled and well guarded and at hard labor. He stated that since his escape he has roved about in various towns of South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. The hand of the law was laid on Tucker just When he had be gun thinking that his convict career - .as a thing of the past. Tucker was convicted in the courts of grand larceny of live stock and had been sentenced to a term of 20 months. Five months of that time he had served on the Sumter county gang before his break for liberty. The escape of this negro was effected in the early pan of the night of July 23, 1915 when the gang was located near a big swamp of the county. He managed to cut his chains during the day and so was able to get away from the gang while they were all togeth er and fastened to a common chain. Tucker had not been heard of since that date until h's sudden turning up at this time. Before his final arrest and conviction in the court. Tucker has the killing of a state blood hound to his credit. This hound was being used to trail the negro through the swamps after he had broken away from the first officer who arrested him prior to his trial. The negro was later caught again and sentenced. I Cotton Makes Progress j In Central and Western Part of i Belt?Wet in Southeast l j Washington, May 25.?Cotton made very good to excellent progress in Texas arid fair to very good advance j in the Mississippi v ?Hey. while some improvement was reported in Ala bama and Georgia during the week just ended, according to the national weather and crop bulletin issued to day. The week was mostly warm and dry in the central and western por tions of the cotton belt, but was cooler in the eastern portion, with j some heavy rainfall in the southeast, j Heavy rains were detrimental in j some Southeastern districts and j growth was slow in the Carolinas on j account of cool nights and cloudy weather. :' ditions generally were favorable t'oi farm operations and cultivation and chopping advanced in the southern portion of the belt, while planting and replanting made satis- j ! factory progress in the northern and j northwestern portions, except in the ; jdry areas of Texas and Oklahoma. I Owing to previous unfavorable i j weather the condition of the crop] I continues unsatisfactory in much of I the belt, with many complaints of j j poor stands. Condition is very good i I in the southern half of Texas and j I squares are forming in the lower j jcoast counties. Weevil are reported; ! from portions of Georgia. RECORD BREAK ING FLIGHT I 1 Redwood City. Calif.. May 26.? j [Captain Rickenbacker, the American! j ace b*f| at daybreak on what he hopes ? ill be a record-breaking flight j [to Washington, which he expects to I j reach Friday night. j American Golfers Are Defeated Hoylake. May 26. ?The last Amer- | i ican was eliminated from the British i ?golf championship when Darwin beat; F.ederiek J. Wright. San Jose. May 26.?Adherence of i Costa Rica to the Central American j ' republics was approved by a major- j [ity of the foreign relations eommit 1 tee. ?THRON, Established Jon* 1, 18??. VOL. LF, NO. 29 WAR ON B0??~ TOCONTIN?E House Adds Two Hun dred Thousand Dollars For Law Enforce ment Washington, May ?After heated discussion of the prohibition question during1 which Commissioner Kramer was bitterly eriticis l and as vigor ously defended the bouse today voted an additional ?2on.0oo for enforce ment of the Volstead act until July 1. Representative Volstead proposed the increase in the total of the'deficiency. appropriation bill which the house was considering to permit retention on federal prayrolls of 7.00 prohibition agents, who Mr. Kramer had an nounced, would be dropped for the remainder of the fiscal year because, of shortage of funds. The Volstead amendment was adopted 77 to 38. less than one-fourth of the house membership being on the floor at the time, but another vote on the increaw can be demand ed before the bill is passed. Even the-members who favored the amendment, however, doubted whether it would afford relief in time to be of much value, inasmuch as the bill after passage by the house must go to the senate. ? ./ During the wrangle over the ques tion. Chairman Good of the appro priation committee who opposed the Volstead amendment, said Mr. Kra mer had violated }. <mal provisions of law by incurring a defict and "had made himself lial ' * to jail sen tence." t "I want Mr. KilUmer to obey the, ? law just as-much a-** bootleggers," heV.V declared, "adding that $6.900,000 al ready had been appropriated for prohibition enforcement during.the current fiscal year." Representative Madden, ^Republi can, Illinois, said Mr. Kramer should have appealed for funds to congress through the secretary of the treas : ury instead of through the. newspa | pers and asserted that he "ought to [be discharged." - Mr. Kramer, o- the other hand, i was defended by Representative Byrns, Tennessee, ranking.... Demo-. erat of the appropriations committee as a conscientious official doing? his best to enforce the law. iThe Ten nessee member said he never, bad heard it charged thafc; Mr. Krarrl^r^" was not conscientiou^and was ~guil ty of malfeasance in office. ' Mr. Volstead defended Mr. Kra j mer's administration declaring there I was no ground for criticism. ! WANTS LEVER LAW REVISED Dial Advocates Change in Inter est of Cotton Producers i _ I Washington. May 24?-Revision of the Lever cotton futures trading law in the interest of cotton producers was advocated today before the Sen i ate agricultural committee by Sena ! tor Dial. South Carolina, a cotton % I planter, and mil! owner. He declared I j the law did not work "honestly" and ; I added: j "I'm surprised that it has been al | lowed to remain on the statute books." i Senator Dial produced figures to [show that through speculative future trades in one year there had been sold on the cott?n exchange eight times the total cotton actually, produced. The Senator said he was not attacking j the exchanges or he said that fu ture speculative tiding should net be [ allowed to affect*i:he prices of spot cotton. He expressed doubt whether !maintenance of exchanges was neces sary to the cotto.' trade. A specific bill which Senator Dial suported as a remedial measure was his bill to^amend the law relating to performance of future contracts. It would give the seller as well as the buyer the right to deliver one-half of the contract in two or more grades. This, said Senator Dial, would tend to steady and regulate spot prices and place sellers on a closer plane with buyers. The committee deferred action on Senator Dial's bill. T. H. GOODING BEFORE COURT Asked to Show Cause Why H<5 Should Not Be Ousted Columbia. May 25.?T. Hagood Gooding appeared before the state supreme court today in answer to a writ to show cause why he should not vacate the office of auditor of Hampton county and turn it over to \V. Jesse Thomas, who recently was appointed to the position by Gox'er nor Cooper. The court reserved i*s decision. Mr. Gooding was renominated to succeed himself in the Democratic primaries last summer, but Irs rean pointment was contested by Senator J. Fred Lightsey, of Hampton, on the ground of alleged irregularities in the auditor's office, due. it was raid, to an improperly and laxly kept system of accounting. The governor, after several hearings, refused to respyoinfc Mr. Gooding and appointed M>*. Thomas. Mr. Gooding refused 'o relinquish his office and Mr. Thomas brought ouster proceedings against him in the state supreme court.