Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-19
Scraps and facts.

sale price for sugar and that retailers
ought not to ask more than IL cents.
He wants all consumers who are asked
TO nav more than IL cents TO notlty
him at once. giving him the names and
addresses Of the parties from whom
they purchased and the amount pur-
chased.
Cotton consumed during July was
5O9,793 bales Of lint and 21,177 OF Ent-
ers according to the census bureau. In
( July last year 541,457 bales OF lint and
l07,s05 Of linters were consumed. COZ
ton on hand July 81, in the consuming
establishment was 1,30S,601 bales OF
lint and 265,477 of linters, compared
with t.465,22S of lint and 13S,1OS OF
lintcrs a year ago, and in public storage
and at congresses 2,212,49O bales OF
lint and l96,3s4 of linters, compared
with 1.734,965 of lint and 236,S09 bales
of linters. Imports during July were
19,40S bales Of lint, compared with zo,-
002 In July last year. Exports were
SOS. .e02 bales of lint, compared with
21S's77 bales the July before. Cotton
SINNERS active during July were 81, =
407, compared with 3S,657,S92 in July
last year. Cotton consumed in cotton
growing states in July was 272,sTi
bales OF lint; on hand in cosumlnS es-
Establishments 59S,749 bales and IN pubic
storage and at congresses 1,9S4,5O
bales. Spindles active were 14,oso'-
427.
= Great Britain dealt body blew to
prospective profiteers last Thursday
when, after sitting as a committee OF
the whole since o'clock Yesterday
afternoon, the house of commons pass
ed the bill against protiteering' @ Inc
bill was passed at 5:47 o'lock. The
one provides for the prosecution OF di-
rectors Of corporations, with a penalty
OF three months Imprisonment and
fine Of $1,000. Another aiming at COM
bines, empowers the board of trade 70
make Investigations at any time ana
fix maximum prices. The amendments
also provide for the establishment OF
a central costs department and the ad-
mittance of women to membership In
the local food costs tribunals. Labor
members jeered and laughed when an
amendment was adopted providing
that the bill be applicable only to pro-
fiteering committed after the bill be-
comes a law. Lord Robert Cecil, for
mer minister Of war trade, and Sir
Donald ,MacLean, liberal leader, Joined
in the attack, declaring the amendment
left the profiteers in possession OF
enormous profits they had made since
the armistice.
Two American army aviators, Lieu
tenants Paul II. Davis and Harold G.
Paterson, are being held somewhere in
Mexico by Mexican bandits, presuma-
bly, under the lead Of Chicano Cano'
who are demanding ransom OF $15,-
600. The information came to Major
General Joseph T. Dickman, COM
mander Of the southern department OF
the u. s. army at San Antonio, Texas,
in letter from the captive lieutenants.
The letter, Of course, gave no informa-
ton the bandits did not want the
Americans to have. 1t merely told that
the lieutenants were prisoners, and
that unless the ransom money was paid
to Dawkins Kirkpatrick, storekeeper
at Candaleria, by Monday, August 1S,
they would be killed. Information OF
Sunday from El Paso, Texas. was that
the money had been sent. Lieutenan-
ants Davis and Peterson are part OF
the Fort Bliss aviation corps, and were
on duty with the Big Bend district mil
itary headquarters at Maria, Texas.
They were sent to patrol the Rio
Grande, and are believed to have wan
dered or by mistake along the Conchas
into the interior Of Mexico. 1t is not
thought that troops will now be sent
/. across the border as the ieutenants
could be located.
= The cost of living in the principal
cities of the country has risen approx
imately eighty per cent. in the last four
years from December, 1914 to June,
this year, food and clothing showing
the largest increases, bureau OF labor
statistics figures indicate. The south
was as heavily hit as cities OF the
north, while the Pacific coast suffered
less than other. sections. For various
cities, the increase in the cost of living
ranged from rs to 81 per cent. Norfolk,
Va, showed an increase of S7.05 per
cent, Savannah 1916; Jacksonville
77.4S and Mobile 1854, while in New
York and San Francisco 65.5S. Statis-
tics were not issued for all cities OF
the country, but only for the ship
building centers. Statistics for other
cities showing the increase in the cost
of living from December 1917, to June
this year, were announced. They
show the increase in Atlanta was 23.-
81 per cent. food and clothing alone
showing an increase Of 40.69 per cent;
Birmingham 1918, with food and cloth
ing 1884; Memphis 1925 with food and
clothing 1888; New Orleans 20.73,
New Orleans 20.73, with food and
clothing 4S.S3, and Richmond 1850,
with food and clothing 1929. In the
shipbuilding centers during the four
and a half year period food and cloth
ing showed large increases. At Nor
folk they were 104.7S per cent: Savan-
nah 1925; Jacksonville 1876; Mobile
9S.29, while in New York they increas-
ed 1880; Chicago 157.07; and San
Francisco 134.64. The advance in
mems clothing was greater than in wo-
mems clothing in Norfolk, Jackson
vile and San Francisco, while wo-
mems clothing showed large increase
in cost in Mobile, New York and Chi
cago.
A statement attacking England and
America, demanding that Hungary be
united with Rumania under the soVer-
eighty CT King Fedinand, and threat
ening to strip Hungary if the Ruman-
ian army is forced to withdraw from
that county, has been presented to
Archduke Joseph. head Of the Hungar-
iar government, by the authorized Ru-
mainian representative at Budapest, ac-
cording to dispatches received al
Vienna. The text of the statement
according to report, follows: There
are $4,000 workmen in Budapest who
are only waiting for the Rumanians
to leave Hungary to Immediately take
the situation into their own hands,
which means the return OF BolsheTlsm
The Hungarian government cannot
depend upon the entente powers for as
sistance. for those powers have With
drawn all their troops from Russia, and
America is unwilling to send "a single
soldier. We do not trust the entente
which wants to only humiliate us. we
are willing to withdraw our troops, II
necessary, starting tomorrow morning
but we will carry off everything and
strip. the country just as Field Marshal
MackenZen did Rumania. The only
grudge the entente has against US Is
that we refuse to have English and
American capital dominate Rumania
Hungary must follow Rumania's po--
Icy in not accepting English and
American capital. Whatever would
remain after the Rumanian's retreat
would be taken by the entente, any
way. The entente idea is to leave Ru-
- mania and Hungary to fight and des-
troy each other, the entente thereby
getting all. There is only one policy
for Hungary to pursue, that is juno
tion between Hungary and Rumanla
ruled by the Rumanian king. We dc
not care what the entente or Premier
Clemenceau of France wants to do OF
is doing. We will follow our own po-
lipy