Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TEE SUMTER WATCHMAN*, Est; CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 is RTED1N T VIRGINIA No Information For Outside World From Battle. Sheriff is Silent ?Charleston, W. Va., Aug. 25?Re ports of a gun-battle today be tween Logan connty deputy sheriffs said to- number 300, ands;a. large body of armed men at.Blair, W. Via., were received here tonight. Efforts to confirm these reports through Sheriff Don Chafin of Lo gan county, who., was reached by long distance telephone, were un successful When/,asked ;by. an As sociated Press correspondent whether there had been* any fight ing at Blair today his rejgly q*as: "I can not say anything-about it; we are not giving out any informa tion.'" He then hung up the re ceiver. Reports from Racine tonight were that several thousand march ers who left Marmet shortly after last: midnight avowedly bound for Mingo county to protest -martial law, in force ther*, were still en camped alongside Indian jcreek just outside the town. These; reports j have given rise to the belief , here I that the Mannet marches had no part in the reported Blair engage ments. Blair is 20 miles south- j west of Racine and in-order for} tis marchers to reach there they! would have had to pass through J Madison. Several residents of Mad ison reported tonight .th&t. none bad passed through that ~town to day. . Prosecuting Attorney H. W. B. Mullins of Boon* county, -sjrho re sides at Madison, repeated-.to Char leston by telephone eacfcr. tonight that hie had been advised by pass engers - on a Chesapeake & Ohio passenger train from Blair, that "0* deputies of Logan county, were bat tling ? large body of armed men when the train left that place. Mui lins added that the passenger told him the inhabitants of Blair were preparing to See when the train left. . Washington, Aug. 25?Renewal of restlessness in the West Virgin ia coal fields, manifested in the march of a large band- of armed men toward the Mingo district, re sulted today in an appeal from Governor Morgan for the aid of !.1,000 federal troops and in ? de .:eis?on by the senate investigating committee to resume the inquiry into conditions in the coal regions September 19 at Williamson. Receipt of the West Virginia governor's request at the war de partment was followed by orders from acting Secretary Wainwright to Erig. Gen. Georgia W. Read, commander of the Fifth corps area,. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, to hold troops available for quick dispatch to the region of trouble, and in the sending of Brig. Gen. H. H. Bandholtz. former provost marshal general of the A. E. F., and now commander of the Wash ington, D. C. district, and Jieut CoL Stanley H. Ford to Charles ton. The two officers *were in structed to make a survey, of the situation and on their report to the department will depend the re commendation to be made to Pres ident Harding. President Harding was, made ac quainted with the governor's re quest and with advices received by the war department from Maj. Charles H. Russell, a regu3ar army officer in the affected region. The president several months ago re fused to order federal troops * to West- Virginia, holding that the state authorities had not. used all the available facilities in preserving order. Chairman Kenyon of the senate investigating committee-. in ??.n nouncing resumption of the Mingo inquiry said members of the com mittee felt that a visit to ?he dis turbed area might have a quieting effect. Governor Morgan in his appeal which was not made public by the war department, said the band of armed men numbering 4,000 men had left Mannet for Mingo and Logan counties and in their march were raiding stores, engaging in thievery, forcing state trains to give them transportation and disarming state peace officers. The governor suggested that the federal troops be composed of strong machine gun detachments, signel corps troops with radio outfits and some one-po^inders, and that they de train at St. Albans and Marmet. Pittsburgh, Aug. 25?Sheriff J. L. Hill of Boone county tonight told the Associated Press over the long distance telephone that all wires between Madison and Blair had been cut and that he was without information concerning a reported engagement between marchers and deputy sheriffs at Blair. Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, O.. Aug. 25?The Nineteenth infantry Is ready to move into Mingo coun ty. West Virginia, within an hour's notice, it was announced here to night. CaleVlta, India, Aug. 28?Nearly seven hundred members of insur gent bands were killed in fights with British forces in attempting uprisings near the city. iWished April, 1850. 881. WBWM??i??WWW Husband and Wife Shot From Ambush Aged Negro in Florida Loses Life While Wife is Mortally Wounded Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 28.?Par ties in ambush early this morning: shot and killed Joe Long, aged negro, and fatally wounded his wife, after setting fire to the barn on their farnr a few miles from Dinsmore near here. Long, awakened by the flames, started to investigate. He was shot several times as he approached the barn and hs body fell forward nto the flames later being found burn ed to a crisp. His wife leaned out of a window upon hearing the shots and received two shots in the head. Neighbors said a fusillade of shots was fired. ? ? ? ? ? Pinchot Assails Ford's Proposal Former Chief Forester Would Modify Terms as to Time and Purchase Price _? Washington, Aug. 28?Henry Ford's terms for taking over the Muscle Shoals power and nitrate plat were assailed publicly today by Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester and conservationist. Mr. Ford's ..offer, Pinchot de clared, was equivalent to interest at only 3.6 per cent, on the invest ment; that it proposed no payment for water power; that certain ma chinery in the plant was worth more than the Ford offer for the whole, and that it took too little account of the production of ferti lizer. Mr. Pii.chct said he did not be lieve that Mr. Fordis offer should be rejected, but that it should be revised to provide for the return of the property to the government in 50 years, if wanted; that Mr. Ford "pay for the property of the people something approaching what the property is worth," and to "make clear what it offers to farm ers beyond doubt." Experimenting to In crease Production ?? Russian Factories Urged by Bolshevik Government to . Increase Output Riga Latvia, July 27.?Many ex periments are being introduced in the management and supply system of Russian factories in an effort by the Bolshevik government to in crease production in order to ob tain products to exchange with the peasants for food. Some tme ago a piece work scale was introduced in the hope that this world incite indiidual work men to increased efforts. Accord ing to a Moscow dispatch, all fac tory managements have been or dered to carry it into effect urgent ly and immediately. In many industrial concerns ? collective rationing plan has been substituted for the old system of granting individual rations. Under the new method a whole factory is granted a monthly allowance of foodstuff and money on the condi tion that it turns out a stipulated amount of goods. If the factory is able to produce this quantity witn a smaller num ber of workmen than estimated, the surplus of foodstuffs and money can be distributed among the work men as a premium. The All-Russian Council of Trade Unions has issued a circular point ing out that increases of wages in money payments are inadvisable at this time because this would ne cessitate an increase in the output of currency'which the government is even now unable to print in suf ficient quantities. The government is said to have been printing until lately about 200,000.000,000 of rubles of paper money a month. This amount has been increased to the maximum possible output of the ? printing machines. Posse Shoots Negro Victim Had Wounded Three Officers Bristol. Va.-Tenn., Aug. 28?Af ter wounding three officials in a pitched battle late tonight, r n un known negro was shot to dearth at Morristown, Tenn., near Knox ville. Led by Sheriff J. F. Keg ley, a posse fired more than a hun dred sho*s at the negro in the railway yards. A. F. of L. To In vestigate Deposits Atlantic City, Aug. 29.?The American Federation of Labor pro posed an invesigation of the use worker's savings by banks and in surance companies alleging that such funds were used "to crush and destroy the union movement and impoverish the workers." politicalVrisis in germany Berlin. Aug. 29.?Political con ditions in Germany which assum ed grave aspect following the as sassination of Mathias Erzberger, is being considered by the cabinet today. "Be Just and Fear Five Arrests Follow Killing _______ Unexpected Return of Hus J bands Precipitates Fight in Residence in Roanoke Roanoke, Va., Aug. 28?J. H. j Rutledge was shot and instantly; killed and J. H. Whitlock suffer- ' , ed a wound through the foot at an [early hour this morning in the I home of J. M. Waiden, a railroad, man of this city. Immediately af- ( I ter the shooting "VValden and his! wife, . Whitlock and Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Fisher were placed under ar rest. It is alleged by the police that j , Waiden fired the bullet which end-j ! ed the life of Rutledge and that j J Whitlock was wounded by a bul let from a gun in the hands of Fisher. The four men involved I in the case are employed by the j [Norfolk and Western Railway com- i pany, it is said. I According* to the police, Mrs. j j Fisher was spending the night at i jthe Waiden home during the ab- j sence of the husband, who was' supposed to be out of the city with Waiden on a fox hunt. Up- j on the unexpected return of the; husbands, it is alleged, the shoot- ? ing took place. Rutledge being .killed in a bed room of a home! and Whitlock suffering his wound ' while attempting to escape through j a window on the second floor, j Both Waiden and Fisher were {released under bond this after-j noon. Whitlock and the two wo men are being held for further in- \ j vestigation. Thousands Attend Memorial Service i ______ Major General Edwards Speaks at Services at Pier in Hoboken Hoboken, N. J., Aug. 28.?The largest crowd that has yet attend ed a memoral service for returned soldier dead, gathered today on , the army piers to honor the bodies of 5,795 soldiers that arrived re cently in the transport - Wheaton. More than 10,000 attended the! ceremonies, it was estimated. Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, j commanding the first corp area,' Boston, was the principal speaker.! The bodies* which-were threatened with cremation by a fire on the piers last week will be sent to their j former homes this week. \ * j Troops and Miners Clash in Darkness State Police Headquarters, Ethel. . W. V., Aug. 28.?Five men fell in an ! encounter early this morning be jtween an armed band and state jtroops on Peach creek, Logan coun ty, near the Boone-Lagon county ; line, Capt. J. R. Brockaus, com jmanding the state police, and dep juty sheriffs reported this after inoon. There was much shooting on j both sides, he said. Whether all the men who fell were killed, Cap tain Brock us was unable to state. He added that after his men ha^l seen those ... who had been picked up and carrred away by their com panions, the state troopers and dep uties retired because some of their number were in civilian clothes and jit was difficult to distinguish them j in the darkness from the men com | prising the armed band. The clash 'was at close range, according to I Captain Brockus* report, the men 'firing at each other when but eight to ten feet apart. Prior to the fight. Captain Brockus said, 11 prisoners had been taken by pa i trolling parties which set out from .Logan yesterday ostensibly toward ' Blair and Sharpies. Four of the prisoners escaped during the en gagement, it was said, and one of them is believed to have been killed. ? ?? ? ? Turks Divide Greek Armies Paris, August 28?(By the Asso ciated Press)..?The right wing of the Greek army, which was attack ing the Turks along the Sakaria river in Asia Minor, has met with disaster and is completely severed from the main body of the Greek troops, according to a dispatch from the correspondent of L'lnfor mation at Constantinople. The dispatch adds that the entire Greek army is thus placed in a most difficult strategical position. The Turks are attacking and seem to have plenty of ammunition. Constantinople, August 2S? (By the Associated Press).?After three days of fighting the Turks i have forcecd the Greeks to retire across the Sakaria river into Asia Minor. The Greeks lost many can non, prisoners and much material besides transport wagons. The entire plan of campaign for mulated by the Creeks lias been temporarily held up. The Greeks L.e said really to have been defeated by the desert i and lack of water and many have j been stricken with malaria. j MILLIONAIRE DOOR MAN DEAD New York, Aug. 29.?Bon Vi vants of bygone days learn today of 'the death of James W. Hebron, who [made a fortune as doorman at Delmonico's restaurant investing in i tips in the stock market winning a imillion dollars. Not?Let all the ends Thou Ainis't Sumter, S. C, Wednesd* Skull and Flatiron Collide in York Laundry Utensil is Fractured in Combat While Owner of Head Goes to Court York, S. C, August 29?When a I large smoothing iron wielded by i the strong arm of his irate wife j and the skull of John Kelly, negro, came into collision the other night, j it was the iron and not John's era- i nium that was damaged. True, 1 John was temporarily put hors du I combat, but his skull was so un yielding that the weapon was cracked by the impact and he can now boast that he is the man who put th sad in the sad-iron. The whys and wherefores of the rows and concomitant domestic in felicities were aired before Judge Fred C. Black yesterday, it devel oping that Josephine Kelly, John's wife is determined to abandon the role of eclinging vine and essay that of an upstanding oak. "Dat ol' nigger's too lazy to go wid me to night preaching', and he don't 'low me to have no escort coming back," she declared. "Last night he tuk and raised a row wid me as Ah got home. Ah took and struck him on de head wid my smoothin' iron an' dat nigger's head wuz so hard dat it cracked my Iron right in de middle. Ah's 'cided to stan' up for my rights at las', for wimmens kin vote now and is good as mens, dey is." John had brought the charge of assault and battery against his wife, but as it appeared that he was only temporarily hurt, whereas the iron was permanently damaged, he got off with the costs of the case and a lecture by Magistrate Black, which was shared by his pugnacious half, that they dwell in peace. Two in Florida Shot From Ambush Robbery Supposed to Have Been Motive Tampa/ Fla.. Auer. 28.?Rube Jones. 45, of Port Richey. former marshal of Tarpon Springs, and Bert Scott, 39. also of Port Richey, were shot to death from ambush at Stevenson's bend, n^ar Weeckiwat chee springs jn western Hernando county. 18 miles from Brooksville. just before nightfall last night. Robbery' was the motive, appar ? ently. as Jones was known to carry a roll of about $2.000 in cash. This money and a large diamond ring which he wore on his l?ft hand w^re taken. A diamond stud in his shirt was overlooked as well as $34*.which he had in another pock et. v Sheriff Cobb at Brooksville stat ed tonight that it is his belief that two. possibly three men, had part in the ambush and murder as 14 empty shells found on the roadside where the ambush occurred were of three sizes?12 and 16 gauge shotgun "and 32 and 20 rifle. Fifty eight bullets pierced Jones' body, most of them made by buckshot. Scott's face was fairly blown away. Deputy Sheriff j Slain by Negro Palm Beach, Fla., Aug. 29.? I Deputy Sheriff G. C. Douglas of j Base Boach, Palm Beach county, was killed by an unknown negro Saturday night at the lock site, at the head of the Miami canal. His son, Howard, was seriously injured ! by the same negro. It is stated that the negro was making his es cape after having been placed un der arrest. Word of the shooting was immediately spread to the ad joining counties and bloodhounds placed on the trail of the negro. It is believed that the negro who did the killing was a member of a gang of employees of the South land Steamship company, which is putting in a lock at the head of the Miami canal. A row in the negro camp which the deputy sheriff attempted to quiet, is alleged to have been the cause of the shooting. Business in Some Lines Improving Cleveland, Aug. 29.?Iron, steel, automobile and coal business im proved during the past few weeks, the Fourth Federal Reserve Bank announced here today. OFFICIALS WAITING NEWS OF W. VA., WrAR Charleston, W. Va.. Aug. 29.? Authorities are anxiously waiting confirmation of the reported battle yesterday between the State offi cials and armed men near Logan, Boone County line, when from four to fourteen said to be wound ed. New York, Aug. 29.?Eleven thousand industrial workers are affected by inolvent national thrift bond corporation now in the hands of state superintendent of banks who said that seven hundred thou sand dollars worth of bonds out standing with workers who pur chased them by weekly pay envel ope. Tacoma, Wash.. Aug. 29.?Mrs. Helen Stubbs, who as Maude Moor?', was convicted of the murder of Leroy Harth at Knoxville and escaped while at liberty on bond two years ago, only to be arrested here is schduled to leave today for Knoxville. f on at be thy Country's. Thy God's and ty, August 31, 1921 Revolution Throes Seize Nicaragua Public Schools Close and Sal aries of Government Em ployees Cut in Conse quence Managua, Nicaragua, Aug. 23.? Heavy fighting between government forces and revolutionists is report ed to have taken place at El Sauce, ' which is situated CO miles north of Leon. The government now has a large force of men under arms. Many persons have been arrested for political activities. The gov- i ernment has issued a decree an nouncing a 20 per cent reduction in the salaries of government em- j ployees and for the closing of the public schools. These steps are to be taken as measures of economic necessity because of the revolution. ; Public use of the telephone and telegraph service has been discon tinued. A strict watch is being kept on the Costa Rican frontier. ? ?? Meeting of Sum ter County Farmers Very Good Spirit Shown by Everyone This morning the meeting of the farmers of Sumter county was held in the Court House to consider the situation brought on by the boll weevil and how this condition can be remedied. The meeting was called to order at ten thirty by Mr. R. B. Belser, who acted as chair man. There was a large number i of farmers present at this meet ing and the whole community seemed to be very interested. In teresting speeches were made by Mr. Belser and Mr. Jennings but by far the best speech was made My Mr. R. M. Cooper who went into the dairying situation at length. Mr. Cooper, who is an advocate of the pure bred Guernsey said he had become convinced after ob servation in seventeen states that the Guernsey was the most profita ble and most sought after breed that was being raised and that it would be to the advanage of the farmers to concentrate on this particular breed. Mr. Cooper stat ed that according to statistics compiled by the government that if akl. the Jersey buyers in the coun try would go out to buy at the same time that there would be three Jersys to every buyer but that if all the Guernsey buyers would buy at one time that the:<3 would be seven, buyers to every Guernsey. He also said that South Carolina was six hundred thous and cattle short of the quota allot ted to do it. A moton was made that all the farmers pledge themselves to raise two full bred cows to a farm. The motion seconded and carried. The motion was also made that the meeting endorse the Guernsey cow. This motion was seconded and carried. After some discussion it was de cided to try and get the farmers to pledge themselves to raise at least one acre of Irish potatoes and one acre of beans to every plow. A grreat majority of the meeting pledged themselves to this. Mr. L. D. Jennings told a little of the way in which he was running his hog farm and of the manner of feeding the hogs. Mr. Jennings extended an invitation to everyone present at the meeting to come out to his farm and look over the hogs. A great many of the farm ers accepted this invitation. With no discussion a motion was made and carried that the meting en dorse the Duroc-Jersey hog to the farmers of Sumter county. Mr. Charles Cuttino made a mo tion that the meeting adjourn until a wek from today whn anothr meeting will be held. Motion was carried and the meeting was ad journed. ? ??> Appointments Are Made by Harding Washington, Aug. 2 9?Charles W. Pugsley. of Nebraska, has been selected by President Harding as assistant secretary of agriculture, succeeding Elmer D. Ball, resigned. Miss Mabel Walker Willebrandt of Los Angeles to be assistant attorn ey general of the United States. ? ? ? - BROTHERS CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING Florence, Ala.. Aug. 21b?George Lee and Doyle Lee. brothers, held in connection with the alleged kid napping of eighteen year old No vella Hale, of Woodland. Ala., who disappeared a week ago while en route to HuntsvUle. The father of the girl says the letters he received from his daughter were not writ ten by her. -? ? ?i TEXTILE WORKERS RETURN TO WORK Charlotte, Aug. 2!??Fourteen hundred employees of the Johnson String Cotton Mills of Charlotte and Rock Hill returned to work today. -o -4? BELFAST HAVING RIOTING AGAIN Belfast. Aug. 29.?Armored cars were called out to quell rioting when shooting and bombing re sulted in two casualties. Truth's." Mill Operatives To Return Today _ ] Employers Say Hours and' Wages to Be Same as When Strike Was Declared - i Charlotte, N. C. Aug. 28.?Tor; the first time since June 1. when a score of textile mills in Mecklen burg and Cabarrus counties were closed down by a general strike, all i the plants of the Highland Park | group of 7 mills, except one, will j be in operation tomorrow, according to official announcement made to- j night. j The exception is a very small mill here which recently was struck by lightning which, it is said, put the electricacl machinery out of com mission temporally. Of remaining six mills, the list was completed by . the announcement that the Anchor mill at Huntersville, near here, would reopen tomorrow, the strik- ' ers there numbering 300, according to announcement at the time of the , strike, having voted at a meeting! Saturday to return to work Monday I morning. The Highland Park, or Johnson, j chain, is the largest group of mills J affected by *he strike, approximate- | ly 1,700 operatives having walked . out June 1, it was announced at that time. C. W. Johnston, president of the company, declared tonight that no agreement had been reached be tween the strikers and the company and asserted that no conference be tween the officers and the strikers' representatives had been held. He said further that those who return ed to work would do so on the same asis as to wages and working hours as had obtained when the strike oc^ *red. No statement could be obtained from textile union officials as to the basis on which the strikers will re turn to work, except the brief as ertion of EdgarSmith, district man ager of the local union, in which most of the Highland Park workers here hold membership, that an "ad justment" had been effected. The Mecklenburg mill and two of the Chadwick-Hoskins group here will be the only mills of the score affected by th general strike which will not have resumed operations by tomorrow night, according to in formation available tonight. Fighting the Boll Weevil in Sumter Xews and Courier ! In Sumter, where the boll weevil has been more or less active for three years aud where this year its activities have been disastrous, the cotton crop has been cut from 60, 0U0 bales last year to not. over 15,000 bales this year. Sumter is dependent upon agriculture to a greater extent than any other com munity of its size in the state and cotton has always been the main crop of the county. Naturally there is great concern among the people there npt only as to the present but for the future. "If business is ? to go on," says the Sumfter Item, i "some other crop or crops must, be substituted, in a very large measure, for cotton." i The question is, what? A county \ wide conference has been called for I next Monday, at the initiative of I Mr. R. B. Reiser, to consider the iwhol* situation and try to map out I a program. The Item is not down I hearted but confidently maintains that other places having readjust ed themselves to changed conditions such as are now faced by Sumter, and having become more prosper I ous than ever, the people of Sum ter can do the same thing. That is the right talk. Sumter county .has an agricultural population far ; ahead of that of most places. Its j people have a record of pulling to gether. They have as The Item j says, "every natural resource of soli jand climate,1" and they have be sides "better marketing facilities, due to the nearness to the great j markets of the eastern section of I the country, than the other boll weevil sections." I All this must count. Sumter, in I common with good part of the rest I of the statte, has a hard ligh. . ahead, but her people are bound to win. Their efforts will be fol I lowed with sympathetic interest'by a wide public long accustomed to j look to the Game Cock county to j prove its mettle in every emergen cy. ? o ? Burial Service by Wireless. j Liverpool, August 6?During a recent voyage of the Carmania from America a request was received in the ship's wireless room from an ther vessel asking for the transmis sion to her by wireless of the words .of the burial service. I The reason for this unusual re Iquest was that a fireman on board j the Canadian Government steamer I Canadian Trapper, had been taken ill on the voyage and had died and the captain discovered that there was no copy of the Prayer Book on board. Th.- Carmania operator tele graphed by wireless the whole of the burial service. ANOTHER AMERICAN KILLED IN MEXICO Washington. Aug. 29.?David I. Richards, American, was killled by Mexicans at Chivela Friday. TREATY WITH HUNGARY TO BE SIGNED TODAY Budapest. Aug. 29.?The treaty of peace between Hungary and the United States will be signed today. THE TRUE SOI7 REPLY SUMS I UP IRELAND'S SITION De Valera Says It Must Remain Unchanged, j in Address at Opening Dail Dublin, Aug-. 2C.?Address ing the opening of the Dail Eireann Eanapnn De Valera declared that the reply to Lloyd George sums up southern Ireland's position on the Irish question "which is and must remain unchanged.'" The Dail Reelected De Valera and the mem bers of the cabinet and sanctioned leans of five hundred thousand pounds in Ireland, and twenty mill ion dollars in America. London, August 26?Eamonn de j Valera in his reply to Lloyd George says that the British government j peace proposals which were laid before the Dail Eireann which re j jects them unanimously but it is willing to negotiate on the princi-. ' pie of government by the consent ' of the governed. The letter pro i poses that Britain and Ireland ap j point representatives wdth plenary j powers to negotiate the details on j this principle. j BRITISH CONSIDER DE VALERA'S REPL1 London.. August 2G?The Brit ish cabinet met today and consid ered De valera's reply. The an swer will probably be drawn today. ! 1,500 Shots Fired into Will Allen's Body I Offered No Resistance?Grin I ned When Asked Why He Killed Frick Fifteen hundred shots were Wed nesday, shortly after 2 o'clock, fired j into the body of Will Allen, negro near Chap in, in Lexington county, j by a posse of men who took him 'from officers of Newberry and Richland counties, and lynched him, in revenge for the killing of Noah Frick, white farmer of Chap in, who died from gunshot wounds inflicted by the negro Tuesday af ternoon. I "Why did you kill Mr. Frick." the men asked the .negro just before he was shot. The answer was only a grin. 1 "Please give me time to pray," were the negro's last words and the only words spoken after being found in a swamp near Chapin at 2 o'clock Wednesday. If he prayed, :he must have done it quickly, it was stated by on-Iookers. ? o ? ? I Finds Few Cases of Tyhpoid Fever I -? Only Two Reported During August, Only Twenty Dur ing Year in Columbia j Columbia. August 25.?Columbia j i3 practically free of typhoid fever I at the present time, .according to Dr. Jean LaBorde, city health of I deer, only two ca^es having been . reported to his office during Au I gust. Two cases were also reported ! during July, so that for these two summer months only four oases are on record at the city health j office. I This record. Dr. LaBorde says, j is unusually gratifying. When it I is remembered that swimming I pools have been more popular this I year perhaps than ever before in j the history of Columbia and that j practically all swimmers swallow . .some water: and that the summer j season with its out door living and ; trips beyond the city limits give the alert typhoid germ a pretty good opportunity to find a host, the record for practical freedom from typhoid is the more remarkable. Robbers Get ? Much Booty ? Quarter Million Stolen From I Chicago Masonic Temple I Chicago, Aug. 29.?Four un masked robbers who looted the safe deposit vaults of the Masonic [Temple ?'. two hundred and fif*y thousand >>l!ars. but overlooked forty tin . md the police announ ced toda:-- The robbers are uncap 1 Hired. J? j MANY JTTEND j TOOTBALL GAMES ; London, Aug. 29?Nearly a mil | lion people attended the football ; game through the kingdom Satur j day netting the government $145. ! 000 war taxes. I O "T? SILESIAN QUESTION UP IN LEAGUE Geneva. Aug. 29.?Solution of the Silesian question will be consid ered today by the League of Na tions. THRON", Established Jane 1, 1866. VOL.LIII. NO. 5 STRIKING 1N ERS WILL BE KEPT IN HAND Federal Troops Will Not Be Sent to Quell ; Trouble in Coal Fields Madison, W. v'a., August 26?The ? sheriff of Boone county stated that he was asked over the telephohe-'by Charles Keeney. the leader of the West Virginia union miners, to tell the marching miners to remain in Racine until Keeney and his secre tary could reach" the camp by motor car. A messenger has been sent to meet the miners. The vangard of the marching miners after passing through- Mad-' ison were turned back by Charles F. Kenney and his associate follow ing a conference with war depart ment representatives. After receiving the report from General Banh^ltz describing con ditions in the Mingo coal fields, the war dpeartment decided to with hold federal troops on invasion for the time being. Washington, August 26?It Is positive that no federal troops wili be sent into the coal fields until a report is submitted to the war department by General" Bandholtz who was commissioned to investi gate the conditions. Will Begin Work On Santee Bridge Construction of Railroad Track to Site to Be Started Monday . Charleston, Aug.- 251?Construc tion Supt. Wr. G. Thompson, of the Rolins Construction corporation has made arrangements to begin work at the Santee bridge site Mon day, the first task on the ap proaches job being to build a six mile railroad from St. Stephens for hauling material and equipment to the bridge location. About 35^; AO > tons of material must be moved. It will take a month to lay the rail road, which will cost,, $20,000. A force of 75 men will be used at first. Later, it will be increased to 250 men or more, -? ? ? Dirigible Victim Lived in State Lloyd E. Crowl Enlisted in Charleston After Living; * There One Year . . . '- :. *\~< Charleston, Aug. 25.?Lloyd E. Crowl, one of the American naval [men who lost their lives yesterday [at Hull, England, in the ZR-2'dis-' aster, enlisted from Charleston early in 1918, after having been a resident of this city for over a year, employed as an expert auto mechanic. He came to Charleston from Flint, Mich., and was held in ligh regard by his employers. He enlisted in the navy and soon after ward left Charleston on -a destroy er ior overseas service. His^widow is supposed to be in Engiasid now, having gone across, it is" said, some time ago to be with her husband, who was a member of the crew as j signed to bring the iir fated.' diri Jgible to the United States. Mrs. j Crowl is said to have resided in i Detroit before her marriage. Mr. j Crowl was a young man and had ma>y friends here. His tragic death is generally regretted in ? ! Charleston. ? ? ALBERT L. LOFTIN IS ONE OF VICTIMS Hull. Knsrland. Aug. 26.?Two bodies recovered from the wreck of the ZR-2, one has been identified as Albert L. Loftjn, American. Government to Solve Problem Investigation Requested Re-' garding Unemployment _ Washington, Aug. 29.?Govern ment agencies working out plans for the conference looking t<? se curing work for nearly six million unemployed, following t1\e action by President Harding, are asking Secretary Hoover to investigate the subject. ?? i*x ? METHODIST MADE GREAT GAE, 3 Nashville, Aug. 29.?American Methodist has gained one million, two hundred and fifty thousand mem hers during 'ate pa^t decade. Statistics made public show. PREACHER FLAYS MOTHER-IN-LAW'S Chicago, Aug. 20.?University ed uccation of mother-in-laws "advo cated by Rev. Charles Stevens in a sermon last nig-it, declaring that the mother-in-law problem ceased to be a joke and seventy-five per cent matrimonial discord were due on account of her interference.