Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 1

WEATHER LORENCE Middling 1220 Cotton Market LORENCE WEDNESDAY MORNINC NOVEMBER 17 PRICE IVE CENTS KU ANGLE SEEN testimony will the I I able testify "reasonable A set for Seven Killed 27 Injured In Double Wreck and Railway Near Hendersonville Tenn New or any had been let that has COMES IS SPUR TO LDOEICE MEN RANK 0 MEN OBCO OEmiON III SHOOTING OICES JOHNSON war time rcasscm Oil MILES PAVED HIBII NOW CERTIINTT with an of his LORENCE SENDS DELEGATES TO ROTARY MEETING WORK MEETING GETS STARTED TODAY HOWLE 80 PASSES AWAY TROUBLE LOOMS IN PHILIPPINES LAST LINK IN TESTIMONY Nov 16 of prosecution case to offer witness Thurs 10 to damage to the track end right of way Trains tonight wore being operated via Memphis Junction and Bowling Green pending its' repair BE HEARD THURSDAY COURT RECESSES HALL CASE CIVIL COURT GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS DIDN'T WRITE EXPERIENCES ALCOLU CHILD DIES HYDROPHOBIA MR JOHNSON STILL IN CRITICAL CONDITION SHOT IN ROW OVER McPherson case 20 meat under summoned from TWO NEGRO CHILDREN TO DEATH Large Crowd Hears Cham ber of Commerce Au thority at Banquet as the the outskirts of crowded half of public ser At a meeting of the Rotary Club yesterday Waters and Hicks wire elected a dele gates to represent the lorence club at the Greenville meeting at which Internation'i) Rotary Pres ident Rogeir will be the guest of honor Delegates from every club in South Carolina will attend the meeting on the roster fur hearing at term of the civil court Th court is scheduled to for two weeks State Highway Department to Put inal Okeh on Projects Tcday cd home for not acting promptly when articles offensive to dignity were publiMhed in news papers in Argentine capital train wreck at BENNETTSVILLE NOW ALIVE WITH METHODIST PREACHERS OR LOWER SC CONERENCE Committees Busy New Ministers to be Ordained at This Session Statement Is Termed as Dangerous by War Department the Piu of American Metho speaker called atten background of Meth confined himself al the early Draft Boards Not Ordered or Duty Indications Are That Many Ministers Will be Trans ferred This Year HAVANA Culm Nov lO Hr UHuny tonight apologized to Cuba for statements made by Alfredo Gtmnl Uruguayan dilrgslr to the League of Nations which Cuba re garded ns darogilary her national honor and which caused Cuba to sever diplomatic relations with Uru guay today The nnniim'sinent of the apobgy was made by the state department tun Ip lt CUBA SEVERS DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH URUGUAY DANVILLE Ill Nov Under the branches of a rod hnwtree etched against ci gry November sky the body of Joseph Gurney Cannon was committed to the grave today with simplicity which belied his century and more vice In keeping with of ostentation the man who serv ed for more than two score years in Congress who held its scooter for almost a decade with A hand of iron was given the humble rites a private citizen But not even the desire of his family for simple funeral could quench the spontaneous tribute which followed Unde body to the family lot among the roll ing hills of Vermillion county Officials of the stitc and na tion mingled at the grave outpouring of thousands townsfolk Long before the hour the funeral St Junius Methodist Church overflowed with the throng which converged at Ver million street and swept down past the Cannon home to the (Continue on page 8) NEW ORLEANS Nov Hl our d'ys ahead of the trapping season the Si Bernard Parish trappers' war blnzezd forth anew today claiming one life and 1 I injured ns the mingled smoke of machine guns rifles shotguns anl revolvers died away Close On tile heels of the out bre'k of hostilities Sheriff Meu rcnuc of St Bernard parish vis ited federal officials here lute thin afternoon and requested federal Intervention on the ground tint a federal Injunction prohibiting trapping on lands involved In the squabble had been viol fed This was refused however fed eral authorities declaring that it JHAT fear Captain rank Barnwell may have a few desertions in his young army just organized we make haste to call their at tention to a complete denial of any such mobilization plans by the war department PORTLAND Tenn Nov 1G ive men were killed and 21 injured six of whom art ex pected to die in a collision be tween two rail motor curs car rying Louisville and Nashville railroad crews here tonight in the movemenu assemble res cue workers at the acene of the Pan American Hendersonville One crew of II Ashworth Mitchellville Sumner county had reported to Portland and receiv ed orders to rush to Henderson ville on top of rise thie miles south of here This crewbung ing to their southbound motor then travelling at 40 to 60 miles an hour ran head on into an other motor load of 20 men sum moned from ountain IcaJ un der William Hindman to bu sent to Hendersonville also Star Witness Will be Able to Attend Court Doc tors Say RALEIGH Nuv Two negro children were burned to denth and their mother suffered probably fatal injuries when their home was destroyed by fore here today ALCOLU Nov lor ence Louise the 1 1 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs IL Brinson died Sunday ev ening at 6:30 o'clock after a few days of intense suffering as the result of being attack ed by dog suffering with rabies October 1 The little girl was severely bitten about the face and ear and while the treatments were prompt given it is supposed that the dose proximity to the brain prevented the treat ments taking the desired ef fect We concern our selves too much about the difference in politics when the indifference to things political that is the curse of the country ather of and Howie of This STRESSES VALUE UNITED EORT Poc Tull tow Ku ml BoB 6oT 'AuTo 1oXICATioN'J But I'se Tull'n' MOS' LVY BODY 'MCTEP PAT MEI oPY VE5E DAYS' VOL XXXII No 30 I South Carolini: Increasing cloudiness and warmer Wednes day followed by rain Wednesday night nr Thursday colder Thurs day and Thursday night MANILA Nov 16 Manuel Quezon president of the Senate Speaker Roxis of the house of representatives ef offi cio members of the Insular Board of Control which was abolished list week by an executive order of Governor General Wood today notified the chief executive they would ignore his order The legislators announced they would to act as members of the board until the law under which it was created is repealed bv the legislature or annulled by Congress or voided by the courts A test of the controversy prob ably will come Saturday when there will be a meeting of the National Coal Company The board of control has authority over the directorate of this com pany ami other government cor porations Another Negro Held as Ac complice in What Looks Like a Plot Al proposed visit to Charleston may test the oft advertised hospi tality of this historic South ern city It may also test the magnetic personality of the man that rose from the slums of the east side to the most popular man in the east A A startling an nouncetneiit came over the wires last night that the war department had notified all draft boards to hold them selves in readiness for an emergency call This followed dispatches about threatened trouble with hte ilipinos and unrest in Cuba WASHINGTON Nov (VP) War department officials were visibly perplexed tonight to what might have led to the an nouncement in Philadelphia by Jo eph Cushman president of the Amcrcian Civil Legion that selective draft boards had been requested to reorganize ami pre par for an emergney They stated flatly that there was nothing in recent depart ntal correspondence regard ing moiiiizntton plans other aspect of the national de fense that could have created the impression that the draft boards might be bled Although some study given the question of proposed legislation to set up a peace time draft machine it was pointed out that nothing concrete ever hud emerged from this line of thought and (hat only the gen eral surface of the idea hud been scratched Therefore depart ment officials' believed the Phil adlephinn statement was based on a dangerous misconception of pluiiR which are far from biking definite steps hero HENDERSONVILLE Tenn N6v 16 Two met instant death and others were seriously injured when the Pan American fast passenger tiain of the Louisville and Nashville railroad crashed into an automo bile at a crossing here late to day The train dashed the motor car against a switch handle op ening the track and derailing the engine and seven of the train's eight coaches The dead: Luther Payne 35 and Walter rakes 40 both of Sandersville Tenn and who were occupants of the demolish ed automobile The injured: Mrs Stub bins Birmingham Ala broken leg sprained ankle and shock Mrs (ngram Ghilicothe sprained ankle lacerated knee and shock our negro dining car employ ee" all of whom were scalded All of the persong injured were occupants of the dining car Steel cars prevented heavy loss of life railroad officials said Traffic was badly delayed by Mrs Sister Says Saw Victim Kiss Reverend Hall COLUMBIA Nov huge raving program for South Carolina in 1927 loomed tonight as a certainty The state high way dep'irlinent announced today Hint arrangements hail already been completed for the expendi ture of 110625000 under the Velinburyement feature of the highway act of 1921 as a begin ning Tind hut the agreements be tween county and stale authori ties for the program would ba formally ratified at the Novem ber meeting of the commission tomorrow and Thursday Cal culating the cost of hard surfac ing a road at $30000 a mile it wjs pointed out that some 350 miles would be paved under these apiueineiits Other counties are expected to negotiate additional agreements in the near future it was indicated With the reimbursement agree incut already negotiated and their validity est iblished by a rul ing of the supreme court the next step will be the issuance of bonds Ly the counties or highway dis tricts to be secured by the agree ment" and actual construction activities it was said will get un der wny in a comparatively short time The principal project agreed upon and to be ratified at tho approaching meeting is tho hard surfacing of practically the nntiro coastal highway from the North Carolina line to the Georgia line A i proximately $7500000 of the $10625000 program is to be de voted to this development Two highway districts have been formed to administer the coastal highway project the coastal highway district embracing six of the counties through which the route passes and the mid coastal district composed of the other two counties Charleston and Ber keley The major district will issue bond" of Hound $6000000 while tile Charluston Berkeley district will flout an issue of $1500060 Other reimbursement agreements already perfected save for tho Armnl confirmation are as fol lows: Greenwood county $1000000 Pickens county $075000 Marion county $650000 Spartanburg county $500000 of the place choir 250 MILES TO BE COASTAL HIGHWAY The first two days of the week having been set aside for the hearing of equity matters before Judge DeVore In th court of commrn pleas trial of civil cases will begin this morning when the Jury for the first week will re port There was not a great deal of business in equity and tire court adjourned early yesterday afternoon It is understood that a number of interesting cases ore on the roster fur hearing at this Stressing the value of a well organized and adequately sup ported chamber of commerce from a financial as well as a working standpoint' Colvin Brown chief of the organization service of the United States Chamber of Commerce addressed a gathering of nearly 150 repre sentative business ami profession al men of the city of lorence at a banquet served by the associa tion 1 night at the Atlantic Coast Line restaurant A pleasing and convincing speaker and an undoubted author itv in chamber of commerce work which means city building along the most approved and lasting lines Mr Brown delighted his audience nd there is no question but that the work of the lorence association has been given a tre mendous impetus and importance because of his visit to lorence Marshal Bridges acted as toastmaster for the occasion Af ter prayer by the Rev Poy nor and general singing led by Roper Brown's Singers a fa mous quartette of lorence col ored men rendered a number of selections a feature to which Mr Brown alluded with expressions Of appreciation Secretary Lyle Urmsbec in in troducing the speaker spoke of the work of the lorence associa tion had jkeu in the past ami had outlined for the future and announced that the commit tee ua program of wprk was now seeking suggestions frbm va rious numbers as to what they doemped the most advantageous ami necessary lines to follow ollowing Mr address several questions were propound ed by the members present and Mr Brown gave answeit in illumi nating and informative manner The meeting was one of tho most successful the chamber commerce has attempted It was (Continued on page 3) STUDEBAKER CORP WILL HUY COTTON 1 SOUTH BENI) Ind Nov 16 M) A Erskine president of the Studebaker Corrmratinr today announced that for car sohl during Xoveniner December in the cotton Studrbiker will purche a Two Rescue Crews Hurrying to Aid of Wreck of Pan American Limited Run Together in Dark GUARDS AND TRAPPERS ENGAGE IN PITCHED BATTLE ONE DEAD LOS ANGELES Nov Holding a Bible in one hnnd and gun in the other a mnn who bad pronounced ideas about the merits of the Airnee Semple McPherson story shot and probably fatally woundedlamed Mansfield 69 jfoimier Boston policeman officers learn ed yesterday The wounded inan said he had met his assailant and another man in a park and had been shot after having engaged in nn argu ment with them over the cose He did not seek medical aid at one and blood poisoning devel oped Why not a chair of face artistry at our female colleges Teach tho flapper grads how to properly apply their complexion The way it goes on the fact these days you tell whether they are wearing a mask orwhat A new angle was given the shooting of officer John son by Robert Bentley 20 year old negro in nn investigation prosecuted yesterday by the po lice department of a statement coining to the police that the pistol with which Bentley shot the officer had been handed to him a moment before the murder otta assault by another negro who was in the Paradise Cafe on North Dargan street when shooting occurred It was the assumption this negro whose identity not been established was the in stigator of the attack Although the police devoted the entire day to probing the report and ex hausted every line of investiga tion they had not been success ful last night in following it up closely enough to warrant action other than the holding of Jake Kinder who was nt rested on sus picion for further developments Several other suspects were examined during the day but lit tle headway was made in the ef fort to establish the report that the shooting of the officer was the result of a plot Late last night Mr Johnson who is at the lorence Infirmary with thiee bullet wounds in his body was reported being still in a critical condition His physicians are awaiting develop ments ortunately the neces sity for a of blood ceased yesterday Mr Johnson recovered to a largo ex tent from his state of shock Ad ditional men were tested for type during yesterday morning but the case happened to be one of those rare ones in surgical prac tice where it seemed impossible to find the correct type of blood to match that of the wounded man The wounds from which the officer is serious danger were inflicted by the bullets which pnetrated the abdominal cavity (Continue! on page 8) was nppmvnt there hail been no hupping Guards for the Michael nil er ests owner of th' lands ns well eg the fighting trappers armed with nuuhinu guns In to fray in addition to shot guns and other miscellaneous wrnuollH 'I he light occurred when 10 guards for the Miehnei Interests passed group of 200 trapputa on the banks of Gentilly lluyotl near De Croix Island this morning Stories of how the fight started were at variance how ever Members of the party of guards mid that the trappers opened file bell' halo of cutton at market prieos store it for at least six months Advertisements will be publishel'i throughout tho South In which this plan will bo nn null need JOSEPH CANNON IS LAID TO REST Gray Velvet Casket Match ed the Gray Skies That Cloaked the Scene President of Senate Ignores Executive Order of General Wood BENNETTSVILLE Nov 1 6 (Special) The city of Bennettsville is alive with Meth odist ministers and lay delegates to the session of the annual con ference opening here tomorrow morning Various boards and have been in session today and much pre conference work has been done The board school board with Dr of missions with Dr Mc Leod as chairman the Sunday Brabham as chairman the board of church extension with Rev I Herbert as chairman the Epworth League board with Rev II Tucker as chairman have all been in session today Bishop Mouzon ami Iho presiding elders have also been in session today looking over the field in order to ascertain the number of changes necessary among tu pas tors' The anniversary of th histor ical study of the conference was hold tonight at 7:30 o'clock Rev IL Hodges is president of this society Rev Rod gers and Rev A Betts are vice president" Rev IL Shul er is secretary and treasurer Tho meeting was presided over by Rev 11 Hodges He was assisted in the opening service bv Rev McCoy the pastorii the local church and Rev Banks who read the Scripture and Rev Dibble who led the prayer Rev McGee of Inurens was the speaker of the occasion Mr McGee selecting a his sub ject I rancis Asbury neer bishop dism The tion to the odism but most exclusively to days of the movement in Amer (Continued on page 6) Orderly Marketing Could Have Saved Southern armer Is Belief ST LOUIS Nov The soft dr'wl of the South and the harsh eurling twang uf the North resounded from the liinw platform in pledge of fraternity in a common cause today when farmer organization leaders of 12 states equally divided met for the time tn formulate per manent agricultural policy After a day of oratory during which no new plan for remedial action wast put forward but In which the condition of the South ern cotton planters and rice grow era was declared to be nt least on a purity with of farmers of the middle western grain belt in the need of relief committee was named to outline state ment of principles to be laid be fore Congress rank Lowdon foiiner gov ernor of Illinois stressed the val ue of cooperative marketing but insisted he was not favoring "any particular remedy" "I say only there is a farm problem of the gravest inipor (Continued on Psg 8) uEDITATiON3 11 I' Alky Here is George Combs Jr 27 yeur old congressman elect from 5th District of Missouri who will go to Washington as the Member" of Congress He ran for election to the same office when mdv 25 but was dnfwrted Thomas 11 Howie the father of iiowle and Howie of this city died suddenly lfon day afternoon at the home of hfz daughter Mrs Mackinville near Hartsville He was in his 80th yer Mr Howie was a Confederate veteran and during the served for a time at the federal prison known stockade on lorence Mr Howie had num bers of friends in lorence who will regret to learn of his death The funeral services will be held at Swift Creek church near Dar lington it 11 o'clock this morn ing The deceased is survived by six sons and daughters as follows: AV Howie iLIIowle and Mrs 1 Mackinville all of Darlington II Iiowle and Howie of this city and Mrs Smith of Charlotte Did You Ever Stop To THINK? By A ZEIGLER WHITE PLAINS Nov 16 (A Newspaper ar tides bearing the name of rances "Peaches" Browning iig author ami describing her life with her husband Edward Browning tv i re not writ ten by her and slle seldom read them the girl wife's at torney declared today nt a hearing on her application for $4000 a mont hniinmny ami $25000 counsel fees Su preme Court Justice chauser reserved decision on the claim for alimony and counsel fees HAVANA Cuba Nov () Cuba hag servered diplo matic relations with Uruguay The Gillian government today re called Ricardo Gtircin its minist er to Uruguuy because of the failure of the Montuvidean gov ernment to give satisfaction for an alleged Insult to Cuba's dig nity voiced by the Uruguayan delegate before tho league of nn tlons at Geneva Senor Garda wag instructed to leave Uruguay immediately and thu Cuban min ister al Buenos Aires Manuel Dv Ln Vega Calderon was order Accepts Invitation to Visit I libcrnian bocicty on ot Patrick Day The Mornu At it iQlte yews oftheKto ld onwPoo if GIVEN ffllTIOI IT GHIRLEST8N Why argue about whether to give a man life imprisonment or electrocu tion Why not build a Chi nese wall around Herrin HI and put in the rest of the murderers Let them salis ly their lust for blood among themselves It would save rope and electricity BIG PUBLIC MEET I BEING PLANNED CIlAniKSTON Al Smith of New York has acceptt'il an invitation from th? Hibernian society of Charles Ion speak at its annual St Day dinner here March 17 Reports to this effect Ihvs been confirmed by President John Cosgrove of the society While Governor Smith ia com ing to Charleston us the guest of the Hibernian Society a big pub lic meeting is being planned at which it is expected that he will "tutik This will be Governor Smith's first visit to Charleston' and his address here will be hh first in South Carolina "We want Governor Smith to he the guest" raid President Cosgrove "ami our plans are to hnve a puldie recep tion for him to which the entire sta'e will be welcome" SOMERVILLE Promise in the llall Millg Mrs Gibson as a dav morning nt day caused nn adjournment of the trial until that hour Mrs Gibson a wmnnn farm er who raised pigs near the spot where the bodies of the KeV Edward Hall nnd Mrs Elea nor MilU were found more than four years ago is expect') ed to testify she wns in tho im mediate vicinity where the minister nnd singer were alain and recognized one of th defendants Alexander Simpson special prosecutor in asking for an ad join nmOut until Thur) day told th court today he had the as surance of Doctors that Mrs Gibson ill for ten days in a liA it i I 1 wrtitLI liu HIM OUR uhL nnil limLrim 11 I'l nsidr yji in inn fi Thursday Simpson indicated that with Mrs testi mony his case will be virtually closed More than 75 witnesses have been placed on tho stand in the effort of the state to con ned Mrs rances Stevens Hall and her brothers Henry and Willie Stevens 'with the murder of Mis Mills Over objection of tha liefenao the state today succeeded in of fering two witnesses in an ef fort to show that detectives working for Mrs Hill made ef forts to suppress testimony A diary previously identified a having been written by tho slain minister and found in the home of the choir singer after her death was reml to the jury as was a copy nf prayer thu Rev (Continued on page 8) (Couvrluht nee tv ti ii lHi 11 it A JL.