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THE NEWS
OF THE DAY
A delegation lent to Palestine
for educational and relief work by
the Anglo-American society has re
ported by cable to the society’s
headquarters here that they hare
JL, reached Jerusalem. According to
* the message, the high cost of liv
ing has reached its zenith in the
capital of Christianity. Hotels
charge a maximum of $100 a week
■ and travelers he*' ’heir rooms as
best they may, as coal is unobtain
able and the Tur’s burned every
thing wooden in sight.
William D. McCracken, head of
the delegation, reported that Pales
tine is infested with Turkish and
German agents, who are engaged
in organized' propaganda against
the British authorities. Mr. Mc
Cracken said these agents made
special efforts to reach American
tourists and spread fictitious re
ports of uprisings ’n Egypt and al
leged imperialistic aims of Great
Britain.
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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 43.
HEART OF DIXIE
AMER1CUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 30,1919
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PRICE FIVE
STRIKE ORDER lllf
Remember Grace Lusk, the Wau
kesha, Wis., nurse whose trial
for the slaying of the wife of Dr.
David Roberts, who had made love
to her, was a national sensation a
few years ago? Miss Lusk has
now been a convict in the state
prison for some t !n ee, but Dr. Rob
erts has only begun to pay for his
culpability. One year at hard la
bor in the House - f Correction at
■ Milwaukee was imposed on him a
few days ago, folic wing his convic
tion on charges involving Miss
Lusk.
Again, the woman really pays.
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Portugal has made no concession
for a naval base to the United
States in the Azores, Secretary
Daniels says, and the navy depart
ment has no intention of establish
ing one there. Mr. paniels point
ed ont that much of the eequipment
of the temporary base established
in the islands during the war had
been given to Portugal.
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Warning .mothers that the girl
who allows young men to kiss her
standl the least chance of winning
met husband, Dr. Charles E. Barker,
Yiygicne expert, lect-red to several
hundred women at Joliet, Ill., the
other day, the subject being, "A
Mother’s . Responsibility To Her
Daughter.” ..
“It isntt>.neoassary to be prud
ish,” ho said. "A girl can Jrp. a
good fellow withe*! allowing fa
miliarities.”
Doctor Barker advocated anti-
kissing‘as a law in the home and
protested against ' e teaching of
sex hygiene in the public schools,
asserting the place for that in
struction is in the home.
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A wagon load of alfalfa seed'
which W. B. Stead hauled to Em
poria, Kans., Is said to be the most
valuable load of farm products ever
marketed.
Stead received $1,927.25 for the
102 bushels of seed in the wagon.
The seed sold for $19 a bushel
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ANOTHER BOMB
PLOT NIPPED,
6ARE ARRESTED
Explosives And Red Lit
erature Also Captured
By Police
CLEVELAND, Oct 29—(By Asso
ciated Press)—Discovery of a radi
cal plot to spread terror throughout
the nation by another series of bomb
explosions next spring was announc
ed by the police here today follow
ing the arrest last night of five men
and one woman suspected of having
planned the destruction of the Cen
tral Police station. The arrests were
made in four simultaneous raids.
. With the prisoners the police cap
tured a quantity of high explosives,
one complete bomb, several incom
plete bombs and anarchistic litera
ture.
Peach Shippers Get
Rebate From Exchange
Virtually every member of the
faculty of Princeton University will
be given a substantial increase in
salary, effective now, President
John Grier Hibben, of Princeton
University announced at the fall
meeting of the board of trustees.
President Hibben said:
“All instructors who have been
with us one year or more will re
ceive a minimum salary of $1,500;
all assistant professor preceptors,
a minimum of $2,000; all profes
sors, a minimum of $3,000. In ad
dition all members of the faculty
whose salary is mire than $9,000
will receive an increase of $500.
...
The maximum penalty of the
Michigan law—life imprisonment at
hard labor—has been imposed on
Mrs. Stanislaw Lypchinski at
Leland, Mich., following her convic
tion on a charge of slaying Sister
convent of Isadore, near here, more
Mary John, ,a Felician nun, at the
than twelve years ago.
Mrs. Lypczynska, housekeeper
for Father Bienowski, pastor of St.
Isadora church, wus charged with
killing the nun because she was
jealous of her and with buryi.ig the
body under the church. Evidence
introduced at the trial showed that
the bones were later removed from
the place of Interment and rebur
ied outside the church.
Dr. Henderson, 111 At
Home Here, Out Again
\ Dr. Leroy Q. Henderson, pastor
Jl$f the Albany Presbyterian church,
»ho was until recently pastor of the
Presbyterian church here, and still
resides here because of having no
available residence in Albany, has
been confined to his bed with chills
,n 'l fever for six days, but was able
to be out for awhile today.
A manse is being built by the Al
bany congregation, qnd it will be
January at the earliest before Dr.
Henderson will be able to remove
"is family from Americas.
The Weather Forecast
kMftl
For Georgia—Partly cloudy and
Moler tonight; Thursday cloudy.
A rebate of $10 per car to all
peach growers shipping their peaches
through tho organization is being
distributed by tfie Georgia Peach
Growers exchange. Checks were re
ceived today by a limited number of
Sumter county men who marketed
through the exchange the past
son. The rebate is made in the form
of a dividend. The exchange charges
the shippers a fixed rate during the
season for handling their fruit, and
at the end of the season, after pay
ing all expenses and setting by a
surplus fun<l for emergencies, divides
the balance among the members and
shippers.
Most of the local growers sold
their peaches this year direct‘to pro
duce agents who shipped indepen'
dently of the exchange.
GARFIELD, FUEL]
CHIEF, IS CALLED
TO WHITE HOUSI
Settlement Of Threatened Strike Without WaOaafl
Likely, Say* Administrator, Who Still Hto
Power To Act, As He (Confers With Tumulty—
Union Chiefs Called For Dec. 13 .
BULLETIN 3:15 P. M.
INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 29.—(By Associated Pres*.)—ly
strike order «df the United' Mine workers stands. After two 1
discussion at the conference here today of union officials, it wz
nounced they had no idea of modifying the order. It waa
President Wilsons pronouncement had no defender in the confe.
_ WASHINGTON. Oct. 29.—(By Associated Press.)—Fnav
Fuel Administrator Harry A. Garfield, who still has authority «».
function aa fuel administrator, expressed confidence today that
settlement of the coal strika would be reached' without
or the miners. /
Mr. Garfield, who was summoned here today, discussed the
Ki ’S’JXS T "” ,ly “ ““ w* iw h, ,
2 More Crawleys Are
Arraigned in U. S. Court
ATLANTA, Oot. 29.—Felix and
Frank Crawley, brothers of George
and Decatur Crawley, now under sen
tence of death for the murder of a
United States deputy marshal, won
aralgpcd in the United States district
court today on a charge of harboring
a deserter from the army and assist
ing in his escape.
Frank Crawley also will be tried on
a charge of violating the selective ser
vice laws by failing to register for the
draft.
Felix Crawley was tried recently
with George and Decatur on a charge
of being implicated in the murder,
but when the defense proved he was
not present at the time the deputy
was killed, the jury returned a ver
dict of acquittal. He was rc-arersted
by federal authority's on a charge of
harboring an army deserter. His
brother, Frank, was arrested some
time ago, on the same charge and also
for failing to register September 12,
1918.
Several other cases charging viola
tion of selective laws will be tried
during the next thn e days. All the
cases will be prosecuted by Gordon
M. Combs, United States assistant dis
trict attorney, who has been active in
rounding up violators of the draft
laws in this district.
$5,000,000Ready For
Building Big Plane
CITY TAX MONEY COMING IN.
Over $500 in city taxes have been
paid into the city treasury. Clerk
and Treasurer Eldridge stated to
day, although the books have been
open o.:ly a few days and money
cornea in slowly it the start. Mr. El
dridge asks, however, thst the public
do not wilt until near the close of
the books for payment, and thns
create a rush.
The Colton Market
• LOCAL SPOTS.
Good middling 37 1-2—37 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Prev.
Close Open High Low Close
Dee. 36.72 36.90 36.96 36.63 36.60
Jan. 85.98 86.02 36.07 35.76 35.81
Meh 36.80 85.10 86.15 84.82 84.85
May $4.66 $4.40 34.65 34.26 34.28
16-MILE RIVER
FRONTAGE TOONE
FARM IN SUMTER
Sixteen miles of Flint river front
at Flintaide is now owned by W. M.
Humber and hia father, it was stat
ed today, following the announce
ment of the purchase by W. M. Hum
ber of 053 acres contiguous to land
already held by him from the Terrell
Land company.. This gives the two
Humberr. 4,200 acres in a single tract,
a large part of it bottom land of fer
tility unsurpassed in southwest Geor
gia. Three-fourths of it or more is
under cultivation. The tract is
slightly less than 4 miles in length
up and down the river, the 16-mile
frontage being due to the winding
character of the stream.
It la the intentioi. of the Humbers
to operate the land as a cotton plan
tation.
Firemen Find Black
Cat Bad Omen Twice
A black cat has appeared in the
doorway of the city fire department
for the last two nights, and before
day on each occasion the depart
ment has been called ont only to seo
the buildings ablaze totally de
stroyed.
Early- Tuesday morning, following
the visit of the ebony colored feline,
the 8awyer machine shops burned;
at 3:65 o’clock this morning a negro
house on Prince's Alley, near the
north boundary of the city, burned
down because of It being to far from
city water and the fire having too
much headway to be controlled by
the firemen's bucket brigade.
The firemen kept the blaze from
spreading to other structures.
Brennan To Stay Month
Negotiating For Use
. Of Field
Although receiving his discharge
from the Air Service Monday, ex-
Lieutenant J. D. Brennan, who has
been stationed at Souther Field as
engineering officer, will not return to
his home in Boston with his family
at this .time, but will remain here at
least a month he'says, while negotia
tions -^rs going on with Washington
relative to the erection of the gigan
tic passenger-carrying plane which
has been Invented and patented by
himself and Sergeant Walter Deal
ing, of Souther Field.
We have been assured of capi
tal up to five million dollars to start'
the manufacture of these gimnt
planes,” said Lieut Brennan, as he
drew from his pocket a sheaf of
papers. “Here are the papers giving
us the use of up to that amount of
money, arranged by Baltimore inter-
SUMTER’S QUOTA
TO AGNES SCOn
FEDERATED UNION HEADS
CALLED TO CONFERENCE.
WASHINGTON, Oct 29—(By As
sociated Press)—Chiefs of the na
tional and international unions affili
ated with the American Federation
of Labor were called to meet here
December 18. “To formulato such ac
tion as may be essential to safeguard
and promote the rlghta, interest! and
freedom of wage-earners.”
The call declared that labor la con
fronted with “grave dangers affect
ing tho very foundation of Ita struc
ture.”
BE VISITED BY
GEN. PERSHING
IS ONLY HALF IN
“We want to bnlld the first ma
chine at Souther Field. Negotiations
are now on with the government for
permission to do so. An effort is be
ing made to shift us to McCook Field,
Dayton, O., bnt there would not be
the alightest advantage to ua in go
ing there; instead there would be
many disadvantages. The chief rea
son we want to erect the plane here
la that the open winter will make it
possible to continue the work unin
terruptedly.
“Some idea of tho enormity of the
task of building this big plane may
be had from the statement that we
estimate that by work’ng 200 men
in three shift! of 8 hours each, mak
ing 24 bonrs of work every day, and
beginning on January 1, we wonld
be ready to launch the first plane by
July 4”
This gigantic plane, which la of a
By Mrs. L. G. Council
(Local Chairman Agnes Scott Drive)
Only $1,090 has been turned in to
tho committee to date in tho Agnes
Scott endowment fund drive.
We must wind up the campslgn at
once. I will send my reports in on
Friday night. Subscriptions will be
^received by the ladles today, Thurs
day and Friday. We will appreciate
those who have not yet subscribed
calling either myself or Mrs. T. O.
Marshall.
All of the committee who have
been canvassing are requested to
turn in their cards and subscriptions
to me by noon Friday. The ladies
have done everything possible to
raise Sumter's quota of $2,000, and
we hope yet that some others will
subscribe and prevent failure.
The campaign in Albany is over
and they have gone over their quota.
We cannot understand why Sumter
can not do as well. It is no fault of
the committee working nnder me.
They have worked hard and well.
Sumter la a rich county. Ita peo
ple are generous, fair and progress
ive, and why shouldn’t this great in
telligent community back it? woman
hood to the extent of $2,0007 Re
member, this college looses the im
mense gift of the General Education
al Board if this campaign fails. Come
along, folks, let’s finish this and give
to Southern womanhood a better op
portunity for educational training.
type heretofore never employed, la
a semi-balloon, in that the wings are
constructed to hold large quantities
of hydrogen gas, making the plana
almost self-lifting. The plane is de
signed as a passenger and freight
carrier, having a capacity of 160
passengers and a grossage tonnage
of 87. Its length is to ho 204 feet,
■peed 180 miles an hour, and pro
pelled by eight 400 horse power Lib
erty motors.
FARMERS OPPOSED TO
“CERTAIN RADICAL ELEMENTS”
HAGERSTOWN, Md., Oct. 29.—
(By Associated Press)—On record
as strongly opposed to "certain radi
cal elements” seeking to tear down
the government, delegates to tho
Farmers Nations’ Congress, In res-
■Ion here, considered additional reso
lutions today hairing on tho indus
trial situation.
Prominent agriculturists will ad
dress the convention dpring the day.
British Commoners To
Belabour Government
LONDON, Oct 20— (By Associat
ed Press.)—National finance was the
topic tor debate in the house of com
mons today. More than a hundred
memUra had given notice of a de
sire to speak and all are understood
to be prepared to belabor tho govern
ment for alleged wapt s and extrava
gance. •
The program called for introduc
tlon hy the government of a resolu
tion which was counteJ as equivalent
to t demand for a vote of confidence.
Italians Worried By
United States* Stand
PARIS, Oct. 29.--(By Associated
Press.)—Dispatches from Romo Indi
cate that/considerable concern
been caused there by a report that the
United States wouM refuse to
cede to the proposals of Italy
gardtng the Adriatic problems. In
Italian circles here it la indicated
there Is also the Impression that the
United States will not agree to the
Italian plan. •
Queen Goes Driving
With Mrs. Wilson
Washington, Oct. 2:» —<py
Associated Press.) —While King Al
bert Inspected the bureau of en
graving and printing todav. Queen
Elizabeth vent driving with Mrs. Wil
son. The Belgians also visited the
meadquarters of the Red Cross to
personally express appreciation for
the society’s work in Belgium.
of a visit to
Is fall of General
commander of tho American
In France, for an inspection off
Souther Field and tho aviation
ply depot here, is seen in the »
nouncement from Washington M
he is shortly to make n lour ef m
country, Inspecting the army odm.
monts, supply depots and mnsOea
factories, and that tho various
properties in Georgia will be - T i
•d by the general making „j<), trma
out of Atlanta. It Is understood tba!
General Pershing will follow Ms m.
spcction trip with a report to fte
Wat Department* on the war pbaAi
to be permanently detained far no
In future emergencies. Ahho^R
there has been no intimation that ta
will inspect the air service
those are a vital part of the me,
and It la believed the ultimate Sm*.
sition of these fields throughout ■■
country will be determined by a min
eral policy to bo arrived at by nreo
such method as thst pursued a tm
sending of General Pershing out hr
a first-hand inspection.
Regarding the General’s i^
trip, and his proposed visit to Cm*.
gia, the Atlanta Constitution’!
ington correspondent wires:
"General Pershing, who
busy completing his final
the work of the American e
ary forces, will visit Atlanta
time this fall Iq a general tear at
army cantonments, supply depots —a
munition factories.
"General Pershing's trip will be flat
the purpose of formulating ,
mondations to Secretary Baker aa to
what portion should be maistaMi
against another national emergvw^.
“Tho tour through the sot
will center largely in Atanta
there is a greater concentratiuw
military activity than at any ad
point. Ho will inspect Camp
Camp Josup and Fort McPh«
possibly visiting Bcnning at
hue and other mUitary activit
Georgia.
“The details of the tour and
itinerary will be made public ia
time.”
GRAND DUCHESS TO
LUXEMBOURG, Oct.
Associated Press.)—Grand
Charlotte of Luxembourg
Felix of Bourbon-Parma,
ried here November 6.