Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Watchman and Southron Pnolte^ Wednesday and Satur day by -Qsteen JE*ublisMns Company, Sumter, S. C. Terras: $2 60 per amium?in advance. . Advertisements: One1 Sq-trsre, first.,Insertion ?.$1.0C .JEtvery subsequent insertion .5C Contracts for three months oi logger' will be made at reduced rates. Ali! communications which sub serve" private interests will Je charged, for as advertisements. . ]r .^bltiiayies . and tributes of re spect will bev charged for. 'TJke~~' Sumter Watchman was founded.ifi 1S50 and the True Southron* in T^0 Watchman and Southron, now has the com bined circulation and influence of bxsth. of "the old papers, and is man ifest]?' th> best advertising medium in .Sumter. , . ._. -^POS^^Ii- SAVTXGS TtEEORM. The promised plans for improv ing. the~r postal savings service are Hfider way, and as soon as con gress-reconvenes legislation is ex -. peeted to snake the plans effective. Under a bin which has been proposed "the interest rate on pos tal ..deposits will be increased from two ;per cent to three. The max imitxij.'allowed a single depositor is to. be raised to $3.000. Deposi tor!^ cf0c.es are to be ncreased; trust and joint accounts accepted. Circulars and notices in foreign languages., will acquaint the im migrant population with this form of" "saving. Interest will be paid on deposits held less than a yet and a finger print system, of identi -fiiajUon installed for the illiterate, -la encouraging postal deposits more favorable regula sAt is not intended to put the pp?to?ce, in, competition with the &?E?ES-- -Mr. Hayes, explains that tbe'Hdea as- to create new deposi tors among people not yet educat trust, in private banking in stitutions. The postoffice reaches many cit izens to whom banks and banking are Etile k-nown. It is largely from these ranks, that the financial dupes ^'objects, of mean thievery arc lye found. In- encouraging these le to save and keep their mon ey".,Jn. safer and mere profitable "places than the sock, the mattress and *the old trunkr;. the postoffi.ee detriment can perform a very ac 'tuj& "jseryiee. STTTUTXOX DAY titution Day falls "on Sep tember -17. The president genera] ?f tfee^D. A. R. has sent out a mes sage "to all the branches of that organization of patriotic women ^askiag that, the day have specia] observance, for she holds it no less ?rtaht an anniversary than July Tt is hoped that the example set the D. A. B. will have a general >wrcg throughout the nation. There are many loyal and pa triotic Americans to whom the Con stitution iaf little more than a scrap of paper* so far as any real know ledge of Its contents is concerned, there are sarcastic citizens who love to- speak lightly of America and her institutions, though practising good citizenship, otherwise, who would have, their foolish tongues stille&-by a cas*eful perusal of that great, document and a little honest consideration of the growth which has ^ahen place under it. There are aliens who will be made either ... ?? ? loyal Americans or dangerous en emies accordingly as they see Am erica. If rirey can be taught to un derstand the Constitution and all tbatait guarantees and permits, the road- to citizenship will lie plain before them. The president of the D. A. R. is right in feeling that the date is im portant, for the Constitution made workable the idealflL on which the nation is founded, is the instru ment by .which the workmen shap ing" ?he fat? .of America.^give con crete expf^ssFon to the idea in their minds. " It permits freedom, yet, pre'vejjis,license, and a better know ledge of it means a great respect for the Constitution itself and for the naii?h' whose guide it is. ; - - * ? ? - HE LEAGUE'S CHA XC ? Arsevere blow was dealt to the League, of Nations when the Allies revived their Supreme Council. That- body, an informal council of the premiers of the four leading allied powers, 'with the president of the United States or hs repre sentative, was formed during the war for quick, effective action in vi tal matters. It was expected to die a natural death when the Versailles treaty went into effect. The League ofXations Council was looked upon as its-natural heir. The situation was "changed, however, when the United States refused.to enter the League.- Without this country, it was assumed that the League lack ed the requisite power and prestige for- effective action, whatever its powers might be in theory. At UoydVs George's suggestion, there fore, the Supreme Council resumed its sittings. It meets still whenever there is occasion, ^and in recent L j months has had the participation <d j the United States, represented by . i Ambassador Harvey, , in matters i concerning: this country. The Supreme Council's authority is not Questioned today any more than it was during: the war, al though it has never been author ized by any parliament or congress, and amounts to an irresponsible super-government ,f there is any such thing. So much by way of record. These ? } facts have a practical bearing on j the recent decison of the Supreme ; Council referring the Silesian dis ,; pute to the Council of the League ! of Nations. It is the sort of thing j that the League Council was in : tended for. Regardless of. what anyone may I think of the League, this should j bring a certain satisfaction to every ' I believer in representative govern j ment. The League Council is di j rectly responsible to the eight na tions it^epreeents, and indirectly to 1; the remaining 40 nations that be ' j long "to the League. Its findings, } therefore, are lkely to be more gen i erally acquiesced in than would be j the decision of an arbitrary group ! of four statesmen. It also offers j to the League Council an excellent j opportunity to make good in a big I issue that'threatens the peace of Europe. If the League handles this job well, observers may feel that it is rea'ly going to amount to some thing. / MORE CONGRESSMEN The 1-920 census figures would I have meant an increase of mem ! bers in the House of ?e^resenta '> j tives from 435 to more than 500, ? j if the old bacis or apportionment '! were kept. The census committee of the House, deterred from adding so many by a. wave of public pro f^t. submitted a bill providing for '?. a.n increase of 48, making the total ? [ 4S3. The House turned down this j proposal, deciding to maintain the ? j old limit. ri It was a rare exhibition of com 11 mon sense where ordinarily nothing J! would be expected but politics. ' j Congress, as the pubic well knows, and as congressmen themselves know better than anybody else, has grown too unweildy for its own good. v Numbers impede construc tive action. The House sometimes seems more like a legislative mob ' than what it should be, a council i of statesmen. It would be far bet ! ter to reduce the personnel than to enlarge it, if that were practicable ?which it is not, because office holders will never vote themselves out of office. There is cost to be reckoned with, though efficiency is the main consideration. Every congressman costs $7,500 a year di rectly for salary, and perhaps twice "hat much indirectly. Now months after the public supposed the matter had been defi nitely settled, the house census committee has come forward again with" a recommendation increasing the membership to 460, by way of compromise. An increase of 25 I congressmen is'not so bad as an in crease of 4S, but it will be hard to persuade the general public that any increase at all is justifiable. DifferentThings As Seen by A. Focus. "Who, by takihg thought,? j Why do you worry, little orte, j And fret over the details of life? I Worry benefits no one? Simply tends to strife. I Wait?wait on things: In due time they will come. 1 Rave no more 'gainst time? Eut think of the journey home. i r ? _?' ; It's no matter if you stand alone; Look with joy to the coming years: I You will reap what you've sown; Be happy; brush away anxious fears, Then let us bravely arouse And drive sad dreams away: Seizing'opportunity as it comes, Let us live in the glad today. res, let us live in the glad today, For this :s all we may claim. Let's be happy today, while we may: And strive not for earthly fame. Riot in Germany : ? _ Several Persons Injured in Street Car Fighting at Coburg Berlin. Sept. 5?Several persons among them children, were injur ed in street rioting Saturday at Coburg ir. a pro-republican demon stration. -? ? ?i i Sunday was one of the hottest, if j not the very hottest, days of the year. In the afternoon, between ! six and seven o'clock, the ther mometer registered above ninety in the shade. -? ?r> ?? T;ie tobacco seasqn is about over I for this year. A number of mar I kets have already closed and prac ! tically all the warehouses in the j state will close before the 15th. I The Sumter market is still active, but the two warehouses will not remain open many days. I Sumter Takes First Game - : ' j Camden Held Scoreless in Morning Game of Labor Day j The snappy game of ball played i Monday morning between Camden I and Sumter held many distinctive J and individual features for the j fans who were lucky enough to be I numbered among those present. This was th first game of the doubleheader scheduled for Labor Day between these two clubs of friendly rivalry. The game was called at 10:45,! ! Umpire George Mabry announcing! ! as the batteries for the game: : S Camden, Nunnamaker and Rhame; j Sumter, Luther and Hawkins. Without much ado the Sumter nine trotted out to their positions, and Wilson of Camden took his place at the bat as leader of Camden's ! batting order. Three men up, ; ! three men down for Camden called j ; Sumter's team from field to bat. j ! Gross led for Sumter at the bat. I : Gross made first out. O'Conner, j G. gets hit anchoring himself on j I the third sack. Crawford brings i I in O'Connor, giving Sumter score ! ? number 1, ?and places himself on; ! first. O'Neal brings in Crawford by | j a good hit. Shealy at bat. O'Neal | j caught by Parker of Camden when | ! he tries to steal third. Rhame j j made good peg to third baseman. i The first inning is brought to a j close when Shealy F. knocks out a i clear catch fly. ! The second inning lor Camden: j ended when Lowe's fly was caught ? ; in the field. Mallonee was left on j ! base. O'Conner a. at bat for Sum- | j ter. Caught out. Shealey a. puts j ! the ball over the fence at the.j J three bagger parkings. Hawkns: j sacrifices but scores Shealey. Luth-: j er Is caught out. I The third inning was uneventful; I for both teams. Three men up, ? ? three dow;n. Fourth inning, Camden, Parker ? j out to O'Conner. Snipes out to ' I O'Conner. Patterson out to Craw i ford. Sumter. O'Neal out to Wil- | ! son, Shealey out to Wilaon. O'Con j ner bunted out a grounder. Put I j out when Rhame picks it up and j shoots it to first. j Fifth inning: Camden, Mallonee | i out to Gross; Richards struck out; : j Lowe out to O'Conner. Sumter: j Shealey popped out to Rhame; j j Hawkins put out by Patterson to j first, Patterson gets Luther's | j grounder and he is stopped on first j j by Mallonee. A remarkable fact! was that only six balls w;ere tossed i by Nunnamaker during the two innings of the fourth and fifth. Sixth inning: Camden: Rhame! out by Shealey's to Crawford; Nun- 1 namaker thrown out by close play at first. O'Neal missed his catch I but was backed up by O'Conner, who successfully manipulated the: play. Parker popped out to Craw-! ford. Sumter: Gross put on first sack when walked by Nunnamaker, I O'Conner bunted. Rhame tries a! peg to second which went Wild, j Gross scores. Crawford bunted on j ? third strike and is called out by I the umpire who is on the job. ' O'Neal flew out to Lowe. This was the star catch of the game, being! j executed by Lowe with his unglov- j ! ed hand so bad were his chances at the catch. Shealey is put out a j on first when Nunnamaker fields his grounder and sends it speedily to first. The seventh inning came rapidly to a close when outs were made by' Snipes, Patterson and Mallonee. .Thus ended the game which was j only agreed to be of seven innings. The score stood Sumter 4, Camde-ij I 0. Only one hit was gotten off of Luther by Camden and that was in j j the sixth inning. That single hit; ! goes to the credit of Wilson. The j I game was played in the record j j time of a' little over an hour which j i speaks as nothing else can of the { ; speediness of the contest. Sumter j ; had a little of the odds on Camden ! i at all times. At no time was Sum- j ! ter worried or disturbed at Cam-1 j de.rs possibility of scoring. Luther ? f was in his usual good form and ; ; trim. i Score by innings: i Camden 000 000 0i ! Sumter. 210 001 x The $18 pair of shoes which] was offered by the D. J. Chandler Clothing Co., for the player of j ^umter team making the best bat ting average during the week end- j ing.August 27th was won by Mack O'Conner. The O'Conuner brothers i are real ball artists and it has been authoritatively stated that they have been signed up by the White ' Sox team. They are to report for their places immediately after the completion of their present school year. Remember the afternoon game. Regaining Art Treasures from Auustria Vienna, August 8?Czechoslo vakia is the latest of the states to '? begin the recovery of art and his torical objec ts awarded under the [-treaty of St. Germain and now in the palaces and museums of Vieh-] ,na. A commission has just been: 'appointed for that purpose, j These comprise, among other ; things the almost priceless docu-; ments, historical memoirs, maps, land other material which Thaulow ; Von Rosenthal removed from Prague by order of the Empress ? I Maria Theresa. Then there are the [valuable documents originally con tained in the Royal Aulie Chancel- I lory of Bohemia and the Aulie Chamber of Accounts of Bohemia. ;as well as the works of art former i ly in the Royal ('Chateau of Prague and other castles of the Hapsburgs i located in what is now Czechoslo vakia and which were removed to ''? ienna during the reigns of the Em perors Mathias, Ferdinand II, j iCharles VI (about 1718-37) and [Francis Joseph I. ? ?? ? There is always one dyspeptic at j I least in the family if the cook con I siders every day in the week fry ' day. -t~e^? ' Normalcy is merely a state of mind. State Cotton Report l Government Crop Statistician I Gives Summary of August Condition * Saluda. Sept. 1.^-According to ! report of B. B. Hare, Agricultural ; Statistician in South Carolina for [the Division of Crop Estimates. ; United States Department of Agri culture, condition of cotton in the State on August 25. was 50 per icent normal, against 62 per cent on July 2 5 and 71 per cent on August 25, 1920. A condition of 50 per cent indi cates a total production in the State of approximately 744.000 bales. However, the final outturn will be larger or smaller as condi tions hereafter are better or worse than the average. The total pro duction in the State last year ap proximated 1,040,000 bales, while in 1919 it was 1,422/00 bales and 1,570,000 bales in 1918. The condition for the entire Unit ed States on August 25 was 49.3 per cent of normal, as against 64.7 per cent or. July 25 and 6 7.5 per cent on August 25 last, 61.4 per cent 1919 and 55.7 per cent on the corresponding date of 1918. The forecast of total production for the United States at present is 7.037, 000 bales, against 13,365.000 bales last year. Speaking of the report Mr. Hare says: "The unusual amount of rainfal in southern half of State during July and August was not only un favorable for cotton but was highly favorable for boll weevil propaga tion and infestation. Little or none of the fruit formed during the past thirty days has escaped the boll weevil ravages in the central and southern counties, and for the past fifteen days or more the weevil has been attacking bolls three-fourths grown and younger. Fields person ally inspected show from 40 to 90 per cent, of the bolls have ben punctured in the sections referred to. While no wide spread damage has been observed in Oconee, Pickens. Greenville. Spartanburg, Cherokee and York counties the weevil has made its appearance in this section, and while not so se vere as in the more southernly counties considerable damage is found in sections of Abbeville. An derson. Laurens. Union. Chester, and Lancaster "counties. In sections of Greenwood, Xewberry, Fairfield, Kershaw, Chesterfield. Marlboro and Dillon Counties infestation has been limited, whereas in other portions of these counties it has been more or less severe. In other counties of the State loss from boll weevil damage has been enormous." Condition July 25 and August 25 is shown by counties in table be low: County Condition, Condition July 25 Aug. 25 Abbeville.._66 \ SO Aiken.50 38 Allendale .48 30 Anderson _.67 60 Bamberg _ 53 34 Barn well..50 " 33 Beaufort.42 20 Berkeley .53 32 Calhoun _.58 35 Charleston _L ..50 . _ 20 Cherokee ......69 70 Chester .64 57 Chesterfield _58 53 Clarendon.54 36 Colleton.50 23 Darlington .C5 50 Dillon _.-__R4 . 57 Dorchester .a0 30 Edgefield .62 40 Fairfield .60 52 Florence .60 46 Georgetown _50 , 22 Greenville..67 65 Greenwood .62 50 Hampton _40 25 Horry.61 50 Jasper._40 15 Kershaw ..58 49 Lancaster _59 56 Laurens.63 60 Lee..64 52 Lexington ..00 39 McCormick _60 41 Marion .60 50 Marlboro..66 59 Xewberry _01 46 Oconee .68 66 Orangeburg _58 35 Pickens _.68 67 Richland _56 40 Saluda____61 "40 Spartanburg_66' 66 Sumter ._.57 . 45 Union .59 56 Williamsburg. __52 23 York ._62 62 Condition in other states is as follows: Ya.63 X. C. _. 62 Ga. 41 Fla._. 59 Ala. 48 Miss. __._ 57 La. 45 Texas._ 42 Ark. 63 Missouri.. _._ 78 Oklahoma._ 48 Cal. 83 Ariz._. 85 Cotton Company Chartered Chas. E. Dukes & Company New Firm in Sumter Market Columbia, Sept. 5.?A charter has been issued by the secretary of state to ('has. 10. Dukes <?r Co.. of Sumter. The company will op erate a eotton business. The cap ital stock is $10.000. C. E. Dukes is president: H. K.. Skinner is vice president: A. B. Bradham is secre tary and treasurer. No Labor Day Parade New York. Sept. 5.?For the first time in years there was no Labor Day parade here. Unemployment and the lack of funds caused the abandonment of the parade, it is stated. |The Cotton Situation Now is the Time For Farmers and Other Holders of Cot ton to Sell Cautiously Editor Daily Item: I am enclosing a letter written by Mr. T. B. Stackhouse. which I ask that you will publsh in your paper. I think this letter points out very clearly, one danger that lies ahead of us. Conditions have changed since j last fall and the best authorities I conclude that cotton deflation has j been completed, and that the bot ! torn has been reached, j Even allowing for exaggerated statements of deterioration and ! damage by boll weevil, it seems cer j tain that the crop will be a small ! one. The estimates of the "carry over" are being reduced. The trade does not seem to realize the extent of loss in the cotton carryover from country damage, fire, et cetera, to say nothing of the cotton which is of too low grade to be consumed in manufacturing. On the other hand, there is a gradual increase in the number of spindles that are running, increas ing consumption, both foreign and domestic, and if, during the period of extreme depression during the past year, ten' and one-half mil lions of bales were consumed. I think it is reasonable to expect the consumption will run twelve to thirteen millions of bales: besides, this, the facilities offered by the Federal Reserve Banks and the War Finance Corporation for fi nancing cotton, provide for a grad i ual and orderly marketing of it. I With these facts before me, I I cannot see anything but higher prices ultimately. I My only fear is that, the farmers want to see more money, and banks, anxious to have notes paid, more cotton will be rushed to market than can be absorbed by the de mand. If cotton is rushed to market. I fear that prices will go to a point too low to enable borrowers to pay their debts. Losses will be fixed and banks and all creditors who j loaned money on cotton will suffer <as well as cotton growers. I am writing you thus fully, ask ing you to think over this matter ! and point out to the farmers and j banks the advantage which will come to us from pursuing that ;course, even though it requires pa ; tience and restraint. j I am not urging the holding for j any specific price, but rather, sim ? ply to sell in a slow and gradual j way as demand warrants. If our banks and farmers can : see this danger and realize the ad vantages to them of the gradual and \ orderly marketing of cotton, so as ? to maintain prices, I believe that jWe will enter on a new era and . see prices that will bring us pros [ pefity. i . The banks have done a splendid part, and have done all they could I to bridge over this depressed pe jriod. But, I think it will require further, patience and further efforts to avoid heavy losses this fall. 1 am satisfied that the Federal Reserve Banks and the War Fi nance Corporation are especially anxious to see this course pursued, and will go to the limit to aid "member banks in adopting this course. Yours very truly, Richard I. Manning. Columbia, S. C, August 27. _ft Mr. Stackhouse's Letter One of the very largest cotton dealers in the south both for ex port and domestic consumption made the following statement a few days ago: If as much as four mil lions of bales of cotton from the 102T crop plus the leakage from previous years is sold by produc ers during the months of Septem ber, October and November mid dling cotton will sell at ten cents or lower before December 1st, and! htat in his opinion, every possible ' agency should be employed to in- ! sure a slow and orderly marketing of cotton until conditions become more normal. Others engaged in the cotton business and familiar with existing conditions of both the domestic and foreign demand for cotton, concur in the opinion of this large dealer. The Federal Reserve Banks at Richmond, Ya., Atlanta, Ca., Dal las, Tex., St. Louis and Kansas City, have recently sent out letters { to member banks advising that said | banks will go as far as the law per- j mits in aiding the south to market j the 1921 crop and the carryover' from previous years in an orderly manner. These banks have practi- j cally put cotton on the same basis, as they have heretofore put Uni ted States Bonds, in that they will handle for non member banks notes secured by the 1921 cotton , crop. Notes of member banks se-i cured by 1920 and 1921 cotton are! eligible for rediscounts at said re- j serve banks. In addition to this ae- . tion on the part of the Reserve Banks, the war finance corprotaion is empowered under a bill recently passed by the Cnited States Senate, to lend as much as one billion dol lars on cotton to individuals, lirms, or corporations and the feeling in ! Washington is that the House will also pass the bill and there seems to be no question of its approval by the President. The Government, through the. Reserve Banks and the War Fi nance Corporation, has made every provision that any reasonable man j can expect to aid the South in or- ! derly marketing of the cotton now j held in the South and securing a fair price for same. Domestic mills are and will probably continue to buy cotton sparingly and only as needed. Feoreign mills are buying the same way. and under such"con-! ditions cotton merchants buying cotton can protect themselves only by selling futures which depresses the price. If the 1921 crop is rush ed on the market together with the leakage from previous crops, seven to ten cents cotton seems certain, while, if cotton is marketed slowlv, or as the spinning world I is forced to have it, fifteen to twen j ty cents seems equa'lly certain. If the facts are as above stated. I it looks reasonable that creditors ; will assist in keeping cotton off the i market and thus enabling debtors ito pay up when the cotton is sold. The 1921 cotton crop has been pro i duced without the expenditure of much actual csah'. It assuredly can I be held by the farmer without j much cash if his creditor agrees that he hold and sell gradually. The difference between eight and fifteen cents for the 1921 crop and the carry over spells the difference between adversity and prosperity. It is up to the grower of cotton and the banks as to which it shall be. T. B. Stackhouse. ?? ? ? Camden Takes First Game Darkness Helps to Stop the Game i _ ? Camden beat Sumter Thursday ' in the first game of the five game series that is to be played in Sum ter, the last game being on Labor day. Sumter came from behind in the seventh inning and got one score ahead of Camden. making j the score five to four and then in j the eighth Camden again got the j lead and won out six to five, Gib ' son pitching for Sumter was hit i pretty frequently but kept his con j trol and never went wild. X,unna j maker, pitching for Camden, pitch ; ed a good game until he hurt his ' finger in the sixth. Phillips is back ? in the game for Sumter and batting i in his old form. Mack O'Connor J continues to pound the ball almost I every time he comes to bat and j holds down the third bag in fine j form. The Sumcer players hope to get the last two games this week and to take both ends of the double header on Mondny. Luther will pitch one of these games although no information has been given out : as to which one he will pitch. For several days past it has been rumored that there was a White : Sox scout in the city looking over I some of Sumter's crack players and ; this was confirmed Thursday when ! Sumter's famous pitcher, Luther, i was signed up by the scout of the I White Sox to play for them after he : has finshed collie. Luther first j became famous as a player pitch | ing for Xewberry College and he ; has made good playing semi-pro ' fessional ball and many claim there j is no better pitcher in the state. * Luther is not only a great pitcher I but he hits almost as well as he j pitches and many a time he has i been called upon to win his own j game with his bat. Sumter fans ' will have an opportunity to see j Luther pitch in Sumter ^again this ! year and next year they will have I an opportunity to read of his pitch ? ing in the snort secton of the large dailies. ( It has been also stated that the; White Sox were trying to secure ['Mack O'Connoi, Sumter's versatile i third baseman, to play for them i next year. O'Connor has been hit ting better than any man on the I I team lately and his work' on third J base is enough in ^itself to attract ; an offer from the best team in the: J country. ? ? ? Boll Weevil Migrating I - I Cotton Pests Now Spreading into New Sections ! Cotton Ppsts Xow Spreading Into Xew Sections I Clemson College. August 30?The : boll weevil, so long as there is food I available in the cotton field, does .very little migrating during the I spring and summer; but beginning ' about the middle of August the pest i is seized" by the migration instinct iand begins a. period of dispersion J which continues until stopped by the first killing frost. This, says Prof. A. F. Conradi, entomologist, 'explains to farmers why they have j been observing a greater number of j weevils in their fields during the j j last week or ten days than at any i I previous time. The weevil is now over the entire ! state, speciments having been sent in by farmers from the extreme upper portions of the Piedmont section. Although the wee vis are j more numerous than we expected, because of mild winter, every farm- j er should put forth his best efforts to destroy the weevil's winter; homes. This destruction consists in cleaning up terraces, ditch banks, fence rows, the edge of ] woods, neglected orchards, and other places where the weevil may ' find proper shelter. Cover crops offer one of the best; weapons in a weevil fight, because j besides their agricultural value in preventing washing and leaching, ' and in adding vegetable matter they serve as a powerful cleansing crop which destroys the weevil's win- ! tre quarters most effectively. -? ? ? Fifteen Years For Harrison Greenville Wife Slayer Sen-' tenced to the Penitentiary Greenville, Sepf. 1.?Tom Har rison, convicted yesterday of man- i slaughter for killing his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Harrison, was sentenced to serve fifteen years at hard labor | in the state penitentiary by Judge R. W. Memminger in the Court of General Sessions this afternoon. The sentence was passed after Col. Alvin II. Dean, senior counsel for Harrison announced to the Court that the motion for a new trial had , been abandoned after Col. Dean; pleaded with the court to make the sentence as light as possible. The case will be appealed to the State Supreme Court and will likely be heard by that tribunal in October. Judge Memminger consented to Solicitor David W. Smoak's requst ih;it the court sign an order re-1 manding Harrison from the coun ty j;til to the State penitentiary at The End of Camp ''' Jaeksoh I Two Regiments of Infantry i Begin Long Hike to Other Camps --. J Columbia, .-opt. 2.?The begin : ning of the ei d of Camp Jackson i was initiated today by the march I ing away of the Sixth and Eleventh : infantry regiments, the Sixth head ? ed for Jefferson barracks, St. : Louis, Mo., and the Eleventh for Fort Thomas, I-Cy. The Sixth num , bers nearly nine hundred men and officers, the Eleventh over fifteen hundred. Saturday morning the Nineteenth and Twentieth artillery regiments leave for Camp Bragg, N. C, at ? Fayetteville, and on the 15th the ! Thirty-ninth Coast Artillery leaves ; for Camp Eustice, Va. By the middle of the month Camp .Ta^k 1 Sun's population will be about 8o0 ? men. Yesterday it was 7,000. The regiments which hiked away ' today are camping just beyond the j city limits for tonight, having i marched about ten miles from i the camp, through the city. The : Sixth will march by way of Augus : ta and, Atlanta, the Eleventh by j way of Greenville and AsheviHe. Nation? ; Radio Show First of ItsfSnd Opens Today in Chicago Chicago. Iii. Aug. 30.?The Na tional Radio Show, the first of its j kind ever held in this country, will : open here tomorrow, with manu i facturers from all over the country I represented, amid the plaudits of jthe many wireless men 'whom the show has dr ?.vn to Chicago. I The Radii Show, besides con taining the (inhibits of hundreds of j manufactures of radio apparatus, j will also sho1v the various develop ments of wireless communication i since the day when -Marconi flashed I his famous message across the At ; lantic. Ancient sets of fifteen and | twenty years ago. with their coher [ ers and detector crystals, will be : displayed alongside of the very lat I est in radio construction, instru | ments capable of sending and re ! ceiving messages half way round ? the globe. j Seated in his chair in the White i House at Washington, President | Harding will talk over a land wire j to the Naval Station a few miles i distant, where his voice will be '? brodacasted by wireless telephone. [The message will be picked up at i the Radio Show, weher it will be ; amplified and scattered through jthe hall by leud speakers. Other | prominent officials in Washington ?will aso be heard by this method. I The entire wireless m exhibit used | by the Greo\ Lakes Naval Train ing Station l the Pageant of Pro gress held 4 ere has been instan ced, and wi? be operated. Fort Sheridan hag sent down a rival ex j hibit. I E. F. Glav'?!-!, inventor of the rad jio controlled automobile, will have I his machine in working order dur [ing the show, demonstrating the 'method of wireless control used on ia battleship during the recent air plane bombjpg tests. Special wire ; less telephfiie transmiting outfits i have been ?et up, and music and 'speeches will be sent out nightly, j An airplane will be equipped with j instruments and the pilot directed in his evolutions by radio. The exhibition is being held in i conjunction with the First National [convention of the American Radio j ; Relay League, a nationwide organ- | ! ization of commercial and ameteur i wireless men.' Addresses will be I [given by Hiram P. Maxim, presi dent of the League and the other I officers. -A long others expected i to deliver t hnical papers are Dr. j Lee de Foipst, prominent eastern radio man, ?Major E. H. Arm strong, Prot? R. V. Achatz, of Purdue University, Prof. C. M. Jansky of the University of Min nesota, and Pro. W. Terry of the University of Wisconsin. \ Four Chinamen \ " To Be Depori - Young Orientals to Be S* Back to Habana After Brief Stay in America Charleston,- Sept. 2.?After spending over two months in the jail here, four young Chinamen, taken from a train and held on charges of being '-contraband" pas sengers, will to morrow leave in charge of Immigration Commission er Smith for Tampa, Fla., on their way to Habana, from where they were shipped to the United States. It has been decided that they are to be deported. These four China men are said to have been the fruit of a movement of smuggling Orien tals into-this country by way of Cuba, but just why the movement is something" of a mystery. It is thought that their labor was a source of profit to those engaged in this odd traffic. However, after a thorough investigation of their status, decision as been reached by the immigration authorities that they be deported. They appeared to be well: satisfied , with their ireatmen while in the Charles ton jail. They were taken into cus tody upon the arrival of their train from Florida. June 25. Their tick ets were to Washington, 'and no-, body seemed to be accompanying, the young foreigners. 'jtr WILLIAMSBURG'S SHEl?. RIFF ISSBtOT Only .pauial news has reaclhed Sumter today of the shooting of Sheriff H S. Gambol of Williams burg which' occurred some/time Sunday night. The particulars, of the affair are as yet unknown fnere. The sheri" ffof Clarendon Cdimty whose name is also Gambol is at work on 'the case. Blood hounds from Newberry passed througYh Sumter this morning while enS route to Kingstree, the scene of the shooting". The fact that the blood hounds are to be used serves as an index that th ewould-be as sassin is yet-' at large. Just how badly Sheriff Gambol is wounded is not known. ? It is 'though that Sheriff Gam bol was wounded in the head. MOVIE THEATRE MAN AGER MURDERED Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 4\? George S. Hickman, managar of the Palace, theater here, was in stantly killed tonight when a man giving his name as Frank Rolling of Chicago .held up and robbed, the cashier's, .office of $800. Rollins was captured after a chase of three blocks by several hundred persona. He was taken to the city jail, . but shortly was removed to the county jail for-safekeeping. 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