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THE SOFTER WATCHMAN, Est a" ? '??-'-' CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,11 SEVERAL I KILLED IN i g MINE FIGHT Fatalities of Last v Night's Fighting May Run Over For ty.: Miner. T el 1 s Graphic Story o f B Battle Herrin, 111., June 22 <By the As- ! ^ soctated Press).?The death toll in the disaster last night and today when 5.000 striking union miners attacked the Lester !^strip mine being operated under guard of im ported workers, may run past .the 40 mark, it was said tonight by , those in touch with the situation. ^ although thus far only 27 positive ly are known to be dead. In the Herrin hospital are eight > wounded men. only one a miner, j and rix of them are believed to be j . latally injured. There were nine, but one died. A miner told the Associated Press correspondent that he had seen 15 bodies throw*, info a pond with rocks around their necks to * day. About 20 imported workers are missing. Checking the death list has proved almost impossible. The vic tims, all but three of them import ed workers, so far as known, were found scattered over an area within several miles of the mine. Some were lynched, some were burned when the mine was fired, others were beaten to death and the ma jority fell before the scores.of bul * lets poured into them. "Bloody Williamson" county, so called because of several riots, to i night was outwardly calm, but * there was a noticeable undercur rent which kept everybody on edge and wondering if further trouble might be expected.* The correspondent talked with score of miners today and about half of them were certain that there would be no further disorder if there was no attempt to reopen the mines., while the other half said they were afraid some of the men might not Jfe& held haaek^- Offi cially, the situation was reported 'I tonight by county officials to be ? quiet. The scenes of death today were very gruesome, as in a real war. Bodies, many with limbs shot away lay along the roadside or were strung from trees, mexi wounded and dying were stretched out on roads and in fields with none of the hundreds of passersby able to lend a helping hand. Attempts to assist the wounded in the early part of the day brought rebuffs from the spectators, backed in cases by drawn guns. Later the feeling quieted down and some of the wounded were taken to hospitals. It is understood that there will be no attempt to reopen any of the mines until the strike is settled. - - When the strikers went over the top into the besieged mine this morning there were some 50 or 60 workers and guards there. What has become of those not in the known dead and wounded list can not be said. Some of them were seen today in Heids running with miner sympathizers pursuing them with guns. How many : escaped could .not be told. C, K. McDowell, superintendent of the. imported workers at the mine, was among the dead. It was said, that he was the first selected to 6e shot after the mine was captured and that he vt-as given no opportunity to escape. Hundreds of men, women and little children. vsome as young as four years surged through the morgue today to view the bodies, which lay side by side on the floor with no attempt to straighten them out. Most of them bore no identifica tion marks. All were mangled. Officials' of Williamson county to day expressed deep regret over the affair as did many miners, but sev eral, of the latter fold the writer that while it was rcgretable, "no other course could have been taken." NEW TRIAL REFUSED FOR MAJOR COART! Man Under Life Sentence Will Appeal to Georgia Supreme Court Columbus. Ga.. June 23.?Maj. I^ee K. Coart. under life sentence on conviction of> having slain A. B. McNiece. was refused a new trial here tonight by udge George P. Munro at the end of a hearing in superior court. Counsel for the de fense announced an appeal would be taken to the state supreme court. The hearing was marked by j sharp tilts, one a colloquy between counsel two days ago that he was "going to rule against us" and b> a clash between Solicitor General McLaughlin and Mr. Palmar. Both attorneys apologized after Palmer j had branded as 'untrue'* charges! that the defense was filibustering, j Cincinnati. June 24.?For the third successive year the American Federaiton of Labor went on rec t#rd ;js against the recognition of the soviet Russian sovwament, illsbed April, 1850. VIEW BODIES ! OF STRIKE BREAKERS, _ Crowds ?Gaze on Vic-j tims at Herrin With! Marked Curiosity, j But Words of Pity Are Not Spoken Herrin, TIL, June 23 (By the As sociated Press).?Herrin's unhon ored dead are piled cold and stark tr in the- vacant store building that has been pressed into service as a morgue since yesterday's mine bat tle. Past them filed an unending line of men and women, young and old, barefooted boys and little girls, bright in their summer j clothes. They lifted muslin cloths and I peered at the pale faces and at the j wounds -left by pistol bullets, rifle \ balls and buekshot. They lingered, then reluctantly j pressed on to some adjoining hor- j ror, eager to miss nothing. Never j a word- of pity from the crowd! These we*=e the enemy slain in a labor war. . These < were the men who came to take away their jobs. Outsiders, enemies. "Well, it served them right." That was i the attitude of-the town as ex-! pressed by its men and women and its children. Tears, none. Sym pathy,, not much. These were the enemy. The dead of a half dozen nation alities, with sloping foreheads of the Slav, high profiles of the na tive born, the long moustaches of eastern Europe, lay at peace for all the crowds, the laughter and the sullen looks. Bricks beneath their heads for pillows, pick boxes for their beds, they lay waiting the call of friends and relatives who loved them once and have lost touch with them in the viscissi- j tades of transient labor. Most of them, it is safe to say. will be forgotten in the potters' fields, their meagre courses run, their stories finished. They came here because they,wanted a.living and because other, men wanted* to make mon ey.,- ; ? - & ; . ?? They, died, hunted across the! fields, stoned, .shot, at* .tied and| dragged down dusty country roads, b?ecaus3ie- other thousands feared these men would take away their living. " The trees are green in Herrin i and the birds are singing and the crops ripening in the summer sun. I Prom the morgue the crowds drift, to the billboards in front of the ] picture show, to see what the pos-! ters. promise; to the drug store for' soft drinks, then home for supper. } Only the outsiders show surprise j and horror. People here say: j "This is our business. Sorry, but ? it** done. Let us alone. -We will i handle this all right. We're good j people to get along with?good as: anybody if you mind your ow n bus iness. We'll attend to ours." Investigations were conducted today by several slate representa tives from Springfield and the cor oner started his inquest by swear ing in the jury. It then adjourned until Sunday. State's Attorney Dury said he probably would rec ommend . a grand jury investiga tion but that this would depend primarily on what the inquest un covered. - AH officials were of the opinion that ho evidence would be obtainable. The casualty list was still indefinite tonight. Twenty-two bodies were in morgues. Several others were re ported still in the woods or ponds. Estimates-ran as high as 40 but had no confirmation. Nineteen were kncwn to be wounded. Attempts to sift through the maze of rumors, reports, contra dictions and facts of the mine war to obtain an uncoloreTd account of the events leading up to it tonight, after everything was quiet, brought two authentic reviews of the af fair, one from a union official and another from a state military of ficial. Hugh Willis, district board mem ber of the miners' union, in the first statement from union officials concerning the massacre, told news paper reporters the blame lay squawly on the coal operators who imported strike breakers. He declared the first shots were i fired by the strike breakers und j that these shots were without prov ocation and that one of the chief! causes of the disaster was the high j handed manner in which the im ported workers "hHd up private j citizens and refused to let them traverse the public highway by the mine." Hf made no attempt to deny that the affair really was a massacre, but insisted it was not started by miners. Cob Samuel iTurner of the state adjutant, general's office, reviewed his official investigation of the dis aster, the following being the sa- i lient points of his report: That Colonel Hunter on half a dozen occasions asked the sheriff j and other local county officials if j they wanted troops sent her" but was told each time?even after the fightin:: started?that the local au thorities could handle the matter.! That he urged the mine officials to close it down ??? avert a disaster) but the request was refused. That an indignation meeting of i ?;uo miners was held just outside of Herrin the day before the fighting j started. That he persuaded the besieged I workers to run up ;> white ting and obtain consent t'?>r a truce from a miner official but that this was "Be Just and Fear I COALMINE OWNERS TO SUE UNION Will Be First Test Case Under Recent Coronado Decisions by Supreme Court? j Mob is Chargedi With Killings Chicago, June 23.?'Legal action for the recovery of damages sus tained by the Southern Illinois Coal company as-the result of the] mine riots at Herrin and the de struotion of the company's strip i mine there will be started imme- j diately against the United Mine j Workers of America and the Coun- i ty of Williamson in behalf of the j company and the families of itsj dead employes, Follett W. Bull, at- j torney for the company, an- j nounced tonight. The suit against the United Mine Workers, the attorney pointed out, will be the first test suit under the recent Coronado decision by the supreme court holding labor or- j ganizations liable for damages. The i suit against the United. Mine! Workers will probably be filed -in | the federal court at Indianapolis Mid that against Williamson coun-; ty at Marion, 111., the county seat.-. | To' "Show Them Off." I Herrin, 111., June 23 (By the; Associated Press).?The massacre; of non-union miners in the woods , near the strip mine of the South- j era Illinois Coal Company, where i they were employed, was the act j of a mob which got beyond the control of the cooler element.; which wa's attempting to escort the! captives; to Herrin, to "show them' off to the boys," according to in formation gleaned today. The leaders, it was said, finally were compelled to yield to the Clamors of the mob that the pris- ; oners "beat it." The fleeing men; thereupon were shot down, beaten \ to deaTh, and one was known to j have been hanged: Although a number of the miners j shudder at the slaughter, a*II say ! they got "ju'st what they deserved." j As soon as the forty-four strip j employes surrendered yesterday j morning a cry went up for the j lives of the captives, persons who \ were witnesses say. The cooler i element marched jU3t behind the j prisoners, who were at the head of : the procession, and! the disorderly' element flocked behind and beside' them. ? ?*>?? TAX MUST WAIT, DECLARES BO YD j North Carolina Judge Rules With Railways Greensboro. N. C. June 23.?,i Judge James E. Boyd in United J States district courtk here late to- - day announced his decision, con- j curring with Judge Edmund Wad- j dill. Jr.. of Richmond. Va., in | granting a stay against the collec- j tion of the North Carolina fran chise tax for the Southern Railway j company, the Seaboard Air Line, Atlantic Coast Line. Norfolk Southern and Atlantic and Yad kin railroad, pending, the appeal of these railroads operating in North Carolina to the supreme | court of the United States on their ad valorem, franchise and income taxes in North Carolina. The effect of the decision is that j North Carolina can not collect; franchise taxes amounting to ap-j proximately $210.000 for the year: 1921. from the five railroads until! their appeal for an interlocutory j injunction against the collection of the ad valorem franchise and in- j come taxes has been heard by the United States supreme court. Judge H. G. Connor of the Eastern dis trict of North Carolina and Judge Waddill of Virginia had previous ly agreed that a stay should be granted against the collection of the ad valorem tax. which goes to the counties and cities. They had disagreed however on the franchise tax. Judge Waddill holding that the stay should be granted on this tax but Judge Connor holding that it should not be. 'The matter was thereupon referred to Judge Boyd and his decision today makes (he stay effective until the whole mat ter of the taxes sought to be col lected by the "state of North Caro lina from the five railroads operat ing in t lie state is. heard by the United States supreme court. broken, by whom he did not know. Doth reports termed the armed jruarUs at th? mine ??gunmen." Chicago. June 24?Counsel for the Southern Illinois <"oal Com pany whose mine was burned on Thursday and hoh union miners slain at Herrin, today sent a tele gram to Adjutant General Black requesting troops be sent to Wil liamson county. Attorneys charged that the sheriff i* still refusing to do his duty. Carbondale. June 24?Mor? than ,i hundred and fifty miners from the Herrin district passed through hep- early today; Ooing out of coal fields. They are believed to be union men. Those that could be approached would give no reason for their exodus and the names of the men were likewise not avail able. S'ot?Let all the ends Thon Ainis't a Sumter, S. C, Wedn MINISTER ! IS GUILTY OF j MURDER Rev. J. E. Wilbum Convicted of Mur der in Second De gree at Charles town, W. Va. Charlestown. ? W. Va.. June 2S j (By the Associated Press).?The! Rev. .1. E. Wilbum, charged with | fatally shooting a Logan county! deputy sheriff in the miners* ] march of last August during labor i disturbances in the southern coal | fields, tonight was found guilty of murder in the second degree by a! jury in the Jefferson county cir-j cuit court. The jury wa3 out for! one hour and 35 minutes. The de- ' fendant received the verdict in the j same calm manner that has mark- \ ed his bearing during the past two! weeks. GERMAN J MINISTER i MURDERED Dr. Walter Rathen^ j Shot While Leaviiig His Home in Berlin. Murderer Escapes in Automobile ? Berlin. June 24. ? Dr. WaJLter Rathenau. German minister' of j foreign affairs, was assassinated to- j day. He was'shot and instantly j killed as he was leaving his resi dence in Grunewald, a suburb; "fbr! the foreign office, in an automobile i His assassin escaped. Official An- j nouncement of his deaht was made in The Reichstag. The murderer, j who was driving in a motor car,: slowed up as he was nearing Dr. ] R?thenau and. shot twice, then put- i ting on high speed", the assassin j escaped. Rathenau was a guest at j dinner last night of American' Ambassador Houghton and this: morning the American embassy j promptly hoisted the flag to half; mast on account of the assassi- j nation. ** News of the assassination caused pandemonium to break out among' various party groups at the Reich- : stag. In the commission on taxa- ' tion which had just convened, two; socialists jumped up shouting to Dr. j Karl Helferrich. "You are the as-; sassin." Helferrich hastily left j the committee room. The fatal shot struck Rathenau j [ in the chin, and a half dozen oth j er bullets perforated his back j ; His assailants also threw hand '< I grenades injuring his body. Follow ! ing the assassination it was an-1 j nounced this afternoon that the j government immediately issued a! I decree establishing extra-ordinaryJ j courts for the trial of the national i : plotters. t? j ! BOY'S BODY IS FOUND IN POND Thomas Roach Drowns Near; Williamston?No Marks of Violence Discovered Anderson, June 23.?Thomas! Roach, a young boy about 12 years.j of age. was drowned Thursday, the; body being found in the bottom of a pond near Williamston. A young playmate saw the clothes of the boy on the side and, j j upon trying to find the owner, j I could not and gave the alarm. It Iis supposed that the boy went in j swimming and had cramp, but. as j no one was with him. it will never be known just how he was drown ed. When the body was found he had been dead for more than an hour. A physician examined him j and stated that he had no marks i of violence on him and was evi dently drowned, so no coroner's in I quest was ordered. ] TO SEARCH j FOR POISON 'Two Bodies Taken From Georgia Graves ! Atlanta, June 23.?Vital organ? of the late Charles W. Wilbanks, j first hi':-b;ind of 1 lie present wife e-C ; Dr. J. O. Saggus, who being held in the Washington. Ga.. jail [ in connection with the deaths ol | Wilbanks and the physician's first j wife were borught to Atlanta late today for chemical analysis. 'Wfl I banks' body was exhumed near Commerce, Ga.. earlier in the day. The body of the first Mrs. Saggus I was exhumed Tuesday in Talliafer ro county and the viscera is now being analyzed by the state chem ist to determine if there are any traces of poison. It has been charg ed that l>r. Saggus administered poison to Wilbanks in order to pro duce death so that the doctor could marry Mrs. Wilbanks. Tokio, June 23. ? Japun evacuate Siberia by October next, it was learned today. will 30, t be thy Country's, Thy God's and 1 esday, June 28, 1922 COLUMBIA MAN COMMITS SUICIDE E. K. McQuatters Shoots Himself Through the Head at His Home Early This Morning Columbia, June 24?E. K. Mc Quatters, a well known Columbian, committed suicide this morning by shooting homself through the htad with a pistol. He went to the back porch at G o'clock and when his wife heard a shot she ran to him to find the body lying on the porch with the pistol in his hand. Mr. McQuatters is survived by his I widow and 'several grown children including Mrs. H. W. Carney, Mrs. Arthur Reams and Mrs. S. J. Strick land . of; Bishopville. DEATH OF WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER Brother of John D. Succumbs to Pneu monia at His Home Early This Morning ?Ill Since Sunday Tarrytown. X. Y.. June 24.?? William Rockefeller, oil magnate and brother of John D. Rockefeller, died here shortly before 7 o'clock from pneumonia. He had been ill since Sunday, but word of his con dition was not made public. Prac tically the entire Rockefeller fam ily were assembled at the bedside. THREE DEATHS IN BRIEF STORM Scores of Persons Hurt in Manitoba Winnipeg. Man.. June 23.?Three known deaths, scores of injured and extensive property damage was the i toll of a half hour electrical storm of hurricane violence that passed across Manitoba early today. The province was recovering tonight from the short but fierce blast which swept down from eastern Saskatchewan, striking Brandon. Portage. La Prairie. Winnipeg and Lydiatt, then passing over the On tario boundary. Brandon escaped without serious damage -but Portage felt the * full force of the blow. Public build ings, churches, hotels and residences suffered severely. Snapping of high ! tension wires started a fire that destroyed three grain elevators of the Metcalfe. Forsyth and Prem ium companies. The Methodist. .Anglican and Presbyterian churches were unroofed and other wise badly damaged. An infant girl- was crushed to death in the collapse of a house in Portage. Accompanied by a rainfall of tropical violence, the wind struck Winnipeg at 84 miles an hour with terrifying electrical disturbance. Terrific gusts of wind shook the ciiy to its foundations. Roofs were carried"" away from many structures. An ice warehouse top pled in a heap, hundreds of trees were uprooted or stripped of branches, windows were driven in like paper, telegraph and tele phone wires were broken down, adding an element of danger which later in the morning cost the life of Gar field Price. S. who grabbed a live wire and was instantly kill ed. In a half hour the storm passed on. ,\t Lydiatt, where the home of Mrs. Pauline Kormire was dismantl- J ed. her nine mnoths' old baby was | killed and Mrs.- Kormrie and an older child were brought to Win nipeg seriously injured. The Ca nadian Pacific railway station was shifted from its foundation, a rali way sleeping car was overturned and several employees injured. Farm buildings and crops also suf fered. The rain was accompanied by hail in some areas, causing heavy damage to crops. The damage in Portage will reach the $1.000.000 mark, accord ing to a report received here to night. No estimate of the dam agf in the outlying areas is avail- ! able. CROWN FORCES AMBUSH REPUB- j LICAN ARMY MEN! _ I Four Killed and Several Are' Wounded at County of An- j trim Belfast. June 24?Four Irish re publican army men were killed and several wounded at Cushen Hail in the county of Antrim, when they were ambushed by a party of mili tary and special Ulster constables. The crown forces suffeerd no casu rruth's." NAMELESS DEAD SENT TOGRAVES Sixteen Labor War Victims Buried at Herrin in "Potter's Field" Herrin. 111.. June 25 (By the As sociated* Press).?The unknown dead of Herrih's labor war went to their graves today. Sixteen of them were buried in the "Potter's field" while union men who had dug the graves leaned on their spades and held their shapeless hats in work gnarled hands. The summer sun beat down on the long grass of the Herrin cem etery, the daisies and red clover and the', singing of meadow larks mingled with the words of the four pastors vgho conducted the brief service. Perhaps 75 persons were present, most of them miners who had dug the 10' graves since dawn today. ^ Senator William J. Sneed, in khaki overall*;?he had been dig ging, too?was there; the mayor of Herrin. George Pace and Col. Samuel Hunter of the adjutant general's staff. The caskets of the unknown dead bore stamped plates of aluminum, "At Rest." Xo more is recorded on the marker of the graves' head fchan that each died June 22. 1922. * The preachers spoke and pray ed. The miners shifted sometimes, for they were tired from digging in the sun, but there were no signs of disrespect. The 16 dead were borne down the road to the ceme tery jn ambulances and hearses. This afternoon several thousand turned out to honor a young union man shot Wednesday near the ill fated mine. His deaht was un provoked, his friends declared. HARDING ' MAY ACT IN COAL STRIKE Lewis in Washington on Un announced Mission Washington, June 25.?A con ference with President Harding on the national coal strike was under stood to be the purpose of the visit here today of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. Mr. Lewis re fused to discuss his trip to Wash ington but tj^e impression was gained that Ife had. come in re sponse to a request, from Secretary Davis of the labor department. Neither President Harding nor Secretary Davis were in town when the miners' leader arrived and. so far as could be learned, no ar rangement was made today for Mr. Lewis to go to the White House. Mr. Harding was not to return from his week-end visit to the country home of Edward B. McLean. Washington publisher, at Leesburg. Ya.. until tomorrow. AlthoYigh Mr. Lewis would not discuss his expected meeting with the president, in "circles generally conversant with the. coal strike sit uation it was believed that the con ference might be the prelude to a general meeting between the miner leaders and the operators, under White House auspices. Some officials of the miners' unions and some operators are un derstood to believe the time is ripe for some attempt at approach ment. On the other hand the sen timent in the operators' organiza tion is said to be against any at tempt at settlement except through district and local agreement. The miners, it was declared, to day would welcome now?as they assert they would have from the first?a general conference with the operators and would participate in one if called by the president. They have not receded, it was said, from the program adopted at their convention last February and arc ready to present it at such a con ference. Washington, June 2 5.?Produc tion of soft coal in the United States took a sharp upward turn during the 12th week of the strike, which closed last Saturday, ac cording to the. weekly bulletin just issued by tne geollogical survey. The rate of production for bitumin ous coal for the first four days of the week indicated, the bulletin stated, that the total for the week will be in excess of 5.000.000 torn? and might reach 5^500.000 tons. On the other hand, production of anthracite during the week re mained "at practically zero." ? ? ? Place Blame For Death of Sir James Wilson London. June 26?A verdict of wilful murder against James Con nelly and James O'Brien was re turned this: afiernoon by a coro ner's jury in an inquest into the killing of Field Marshal Sir James Wilson. The accused men didn't attend the hearing on advice from counsel. Chautauq.ua. X. Y.. June 26? Conferences on public welfare, mu sic and American citizenship occu pied the attention of delegates to the biennial federation of women's clubs here today. Women's founda tion for health was featured in addresses on puttie welfare. THE TRUE SOW. SENATORS EXCHANGE WORDS Glass and Heflin in Sharp Clash. Wat son of Georgia Pre vails on Well Known Southerners to Take Seats Washington, June 22.?During the course of debate in the senate today Senaotr Glass (Democrat) of Virginia was called a "liar" by Senator Heflin (Democrat) of Alabama after the Virginian had declared that a statement by Sena tor Heflin was false. Senator Watson (Democrat) of Georgia called the two senators to order and they took their seats. Senator Heflin was seeking unanimous .consent for immediate : consideration lor a resolution i which he had introduced which! would direct federal reserve banks to forward to the senate the names of other banks to which they had sent a speech delivered by Senator Glass in the senate in de fense of the reserve system some months ago. Following the clash between the two. Senator McLean (Republican) of Connecticut enter ed objection to immediate action on the resolution and the Alabama senator began an attack on Senator McLean, whom he de scribed as "the defender of bank ing interests in the senate." Senator Glass later addressed the senate in an eftort, he said, tp set it right as to some phases of the con I troversy between himself and the j Alabama senator. He told the scn I ate he had "very carefully re frained from participation in any ; of the discussion concerning the j reserve system since his speech of I last January, although the senator j from Alabama has attempted tc I reply to it for the 40th or 50 th ! time." I The Virginia senator said he had ' no objetion to circulation of his speech by the banks, but denied that he had sponsored it. He said he had sent some of them out himself "in response to literally thousands of requests." i INSURANCE MEN I END CONVENTION I __ j Picnic Dinner \ is Served at j Folly Beach by Local In surance Companies ! Charleston, June 24.?Yesterday, j the second and last day of ttte an I nual convention of the South Caro ! lina Association of ' Insurance j Agents, which held its executive j sessions on Thursday "was devoted ' to pleasure' and recreation spend i ing the day at Folly Beach. The j party was carried over to the! j beach in automohiles furnished by j local insurance men. leaving the i j Charleston Hotel, the convention j j headquarter*, at 10 o'clock in thej ? morning and returning late in the j j afternoon. j It was very obvious that the \ j day was keenly enjoyed by the dele j gates, especially those from' thej I sand hills of the up-country. These j up-countrymen entered enthusias-! j tically into the usual beach sports, ] including a dip in the surf, and: j when they boarded their trains for ? home last night they carried with I them that souvenir which is be l stowed upon almost all visitors to J the seaside?a good coat of sun j burn. j The delegates were served with j a picnuic dinner at noon by the I Southern Home Insurance Company j and the Equitable Fire Insurance I Society. I The matter of selecting a meet j ing place for next year's conven i tion. which, at the banquet on ! Thursday night, was turned over ! to the executive committee, had ! hot been decided last night. How j ever, the general opinion of the i delegates yesterday seemed to be ?that.the 1023 meeting will be held j in Hendersonville. X. C. j Mr. A. G. Furman. of Greenville, speaking in behalf of the local in ; surance board of his city, has sug ; gested that the con-vention be held ? in the North Carolina resort next t year. and. according to a member I of the executive committee, it is j very probable that Mr. Furman's j suggestion will be accepted. , Mr. W. D. McLean; president of . the association, expressed himself i as being delighted with treatment accorded the members in Charles ton, especially praising the local members of the association who arranged for the entertainment of the convention. Similar expres sions from among the delegates were to be heard on all sides. Practically all delegates had "checked out" at the hotels last night and had departed for their homes. TO HEAR*' STEVENSON Fort Mill, June 23.?Definite ac ceptance of the invitation extended to W. Fl Stevenson, congressman from the Fifth disti'ict. by Eli Bailes post of the American Le gion to attend the Fourth of July celebration in Fort Mill and make an address has been received by the committee in charge. The at tendance of Mr. Stevenson on this occasion will doubtless bring many people from points throughout the district. -??1~. rflRON, Established June 1, 11 VOL. LII. NO. 39 BIG LOAN TO TOBACCO Advance of $30,000, 000 is Made operative tion by Gov Agency % Raleigh, June 22.?App& for a loan of thirty miDion to the Tobacco Growers' Coc tive Association was approve terday by officials of the jkt?t finance corporation in Washington. - I D. C, at a meeting with a- comf mittee of directors from, the iarg | est co-operative marketing; asso | ciarion in America, according ;to announcement made today from''. Raleigh headquarters of the ?i> ganization which represents clos? ? to 75,000 tobacco farmers of ginla. North Carolina and South- " '? Carolina. > In addition to the loan of f30> ?000,000 which will enable the big * j tobacco co-operative to pay Jifcs f. j members cash advances^upon defiv ! ery of their tobacco, the war flnr jance corporation further agre^'co, j rediscount loans secured by gre^nf ! or soft order tobacco , for local - banks . throughout the Virginia Carolina tobacco belt. > . -x The war finance corporation 1$ jl to be secured by more than 359. 000,000 pounds of its members' to> bacco now under five . years'; cos^** [tract with the Tobacco Growers^ ; Co-operatice Association which resents a value of over $70,0?fr\?^)^ ; in the first year of operation, "ac-* cording to conservative estimates; ? Among the officials of the Tq??Tv co Growers' Cd-operative Assoti?kV . tion who met with Eugene -Mgy^erR, Jr., director of the "War. Frnaace Corporation were George A.;;2$0? wood. president, banker and'p^an? er of Goldsbovo, N. C, Oliver'J.^ {Sands, general manager of thle as sociation and president of ''.-'"$j*e. American National Bank of Rict^ mond. Va.; James H. C?-a3g. txea&7.. iurer of the association; Richard'El Patterson, genera! manager of-'tbre leaf department formerly manag er of the leaf department of life African Tobacco Company; C. ji Cheatham and F.-G. Willi&ns^M * the leaf department and M. O. WelaOTT;'"se^etary^of the board ipf the directors which consists of -22. tobacco ?planters from VirgtoSav North and South Carolina, and three directors . named by 'tfiwg' governor^ of those states* ? Following the example of. th? Burley Tobacco Growers' Associa tion of-Kentucky, which after se curing a similar credit froinl ?fc War Finance Corporation was \ abled. to gain all necessary fuihi^ from state and local banks, and pay their 90. day .leins of $$.4tHMW? 000 within 40 days officials of toe Virginia-.Carolina association ajps' confident of. obtaining the strjiport of state and. local beniici^fW whom the offer of the War Fin-"* ance Corporation opens a new field of ?,.oiltable cooperation, with tobacco farmers throughout the belt. i->;v For the organized tobacco growl ers and the* thousands of farmers^ from .the three states who- .ajV' joining the associatio r^very month, the action of the War^Fin ance Corporation assures the iafe and orderly marketing of tollaoco which resulted in largely incre?s4' ed profits and new source of credit for Kentucky farmers where~k "or ganization has now sold 70,00o,0.<N*>' pounds of tobacco for highly jsa?pV . factory prices, during one month < receiving an average of 29 cents a pound for tobacco sold throufib . the association, while that sold':* outside. the association brought less than 21 cents per pound <?pdh < the auction warehouse floors.* Close to ?8?F per cent of the i I' bacco. farmer?, of Virginia \h^vO",: joined the marketing associations-.. and North Carolina growers - are j nearihg a 75 per cent sign-up foi-^ lowing the recent state-wide cam paign for members. \ . c A whirl-wihd campaign ^ among: I tobacco farmers of South Carolina I will begin next Monday, June. SSt^: and will continue until every I of the 33 co-operative mark^ti?g-^ 1 points of the South Carolina has been reached with a mass meet-' ing. . LeaderS-Qf the movemeitt frona Kentucky. Virginia" and North Car olina will join, this campaign which will mark the last opportun ity for South Carolina farmers to market this year's cr^P with the j giant co-operative. ' ,> The Tob?cco Growers' Co-Oper*?-'. I tive Association has now secur&V 1206 warehouses where it will re ceive tobacco from its members, as the markets open in three states^ STAGE BIG LIQUOR RAJB B9t ? Greenville Officers / Make Large "Moonshine" Haul Greenville, June 23.?Culminat ing a series of raids in the count^* by county officers. state prohibitiaa. officers and federal officers, seven, persons were last night lodged^ in, the county , jail on liquor charges. 123 gallons of liquor were'destroy ed, four distilling plants demoMpM ed and over 3.000 gallons of%JbjgS# and sweet mash poured out' and/ two Ford automobiles seized: .Up to midnight last night there still one rading party that had been heard from.