Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-06-06
Scraps and faets.

THOMAS P. Gore, United States seha,
for from Oklahoma, has INTRODUCED
a hill in the senate ito amend tne Pute
food law, approved March 5, 1919, 81
as to include wrapped meats eS ehcloSeSS
in paper of other materials as prepares, :,
Nv manufacturers thereof for sale.
This is intended to bring wrappeo
hon and bacon, now included, INTO
the same category and subject 10 the
49, resnlations as other package
Sonds which are compelled by law 10
mini the net contents on the OUTSIDE
of the package. Hitherto, the pack-
ers have succeeded in de1eatlnS a.
tempts to bring wrapped meats uauto 60
This ruling and consumers nave hau ~
pay for paper and puriap ,9 a. 'ie
price as for the meat itseH.
The conditions Of the cotton Ti' eTop
WAS 7b.6 per cent of Norman on Ma'
Ok the department of agrlcuitere al
nounced last Thursda" In lts his. Sc tho
port Of the season. NO es1r,lia Iat viii he
area planted was made. Ihat wiz 70
annonnced in July. Conditions py
states follow: Virginia SO; North car
oiina IS: South Carolina rs; GeorS;ta GlsS;s
Of. FLORIDA TO; Alabama 1S; Missie
sipni 73: Louisiana IA; TeXas TO-. 90
srlnsas SS. Tennessee "a; Missouri w.
oLlahoma 65: California 81; Arizona w
-. New Mexico -. The agriculture ue
nartment's first cotton conoi.io, W
port of the season ISSUED at - torast
todey was awaited with keen lnteres'
.ou -. cotton industry as an authorl-
tative indication of the prospects VI
this years crop. Private estimates Vi
the condition have ranged from go W
776 per cent of a normal, with lne n,a ,nIa
jority from IT'S per cent upWaru. M
Condition of the crop last year on MAJ
25 was 1928 per cent OF normal WIZ
in 1917 it was 69.5 and In lSlo II was
77.5. The ten year May 20 ave aS
condition is 1872. No estitnate 'iu VI ' he
average of the acreage piahteu aSricuie @
made by the department Oh as[icu
ture until the July report. The acre
age figures have been the source Oh
much speculation in view OF the Ell
forts throughout the south tor re
auction of the paintings. Onoi,icial
Estimates of the planted area nave
placed the reduction around 1o anu
per cent.
Following Is a summary OF the
conditions of peace as presented W tne
Austrian plenipotendarles at st. Gvi 1n
main -En-Laye last THURSDAY: Ins
. conditions of peace OF the Alleo anu
associated powers, with tne eASIpsiO ;oI aOd
of military, reparations, nnanclal anu
certain boundary clauses, We're manu-
ed 10 the Austrian peace delegates at
81 Germain today. Those clauses
which are not yet ready for presenta-
tion will be delivered as soon as pos
sihIe the Austrians in the meantime
having the opportunity to begin Work
on the greater part or the treat! IL M ai
EFFORT to facilitate final decision. ne
Austrian treaty follows the same oue,
line as the German and in many places
MI
change in name. Certain speclnc
clauses which applied only to Germany
are of course, omitted and certain
clauses included, especially as resaIu'
tho new states created out OF the FORM
or Austro- Hungarian empire, ana the
nrotection of the rights in the rauicai
religious and linguistic mnorlt!es 40
Austria, Czecho-SloVakia, Rouniania
and the Serbian -Croatlan- slovenian
atote Austria is left by the treaty
state of from six million or seven mil
lion people inhabiting TERRITORY VI
hetveen 1000 and 5000 square miles
She 10 required to recognize the lnae-
nandence of Hungary Czecho -SloVaKla
state and to cede other terrltoTles
which previously, in union WIN nei
composed the empire OF Austro- hup
cary with it's population OF over oV'-
900 people.
Atlanta, Ca. June 2: IelephoIe
employees, chiefly operators Oh the 10
cal switchboards of the two companies
here went on strike today, dernaholilS
reinstatement of about dozen work
arc who they assert have been uiS,
charged for union activities. A. :;
Tovnsr. spokesman for the union, sa!o
se6 voung women operators ana. lou
male employees of the two companies
were out tonight. j. Epps bTOwh'
president of the Southern Bell leie
phone and Telegraph company, saiu
late today that 125 employees naa Waih-
ed ont. these, he said, were III young
s,o,,,en six men and two boys. There
are approximately 900 operating room
employes in the two telephone COM
nanies and about 800 clerical empioyes'
Mr. Brown said. The strike had peeh
tbreatened as one which would Involve
union telegraph and telephone WORKERS
throughout the country, put freSIueh'
Konenkamp, of the Commerclal Iele
graphers' union Of America, announG;eu
in washington today that the strike
1vor,d he localized to telephone em-
ployes in Atlanta for the present It's
q fipht to the bitter end" c. r. Mann
q vice president of the telegrapher
union. asserted in a speech late touay
at a mass meeting of those VINO quiS
work. It's the beginning OF the emu
for Postmaster General Burlesoh, ne
added. He told the strikers they mao
the backing of labor throughout tne
country. Telephone service was con-
tinned during the afternoon, the com
many admitting it was working under
q handicap, but saying it would con-
tinue to give the best service IL couiu.
No out -of-town operators VIII pe
brought in to fill the vacancies. Pres
ident Brown said. Postmaster lnspec-
tors began to busy themselves getting
data from both sides in an ef1ort lo
clear up the discrepancies.
Washington June .: Radical agl-
tators tonight apparently attempted 10
inaugurate another reign OF terrorism
thro1gh the country through the plant
ing of Internal machines near the resi-
dences of prominent men. Wlthn q
few minutes after the explosion or
boomb at the dooS OF Attorney HeneISi
Palmer's residence here, with the Kill
ing of one man, evidently the person
planting the bomb, reports were re-
ceiyed from Boston, Pittsburgh, rat
erson, n. j., and Cleveland OF similar
eYplosions. Attempts on the lie OF
Attorney General Palmer were made
tonight through the planting OF a bomb
which wrecked the lower portion OF
the Palmer residence in the northwest
portion of Washington. Mr. Gaiiher
and all members OF the FAMILY escaped
without injury, being on the second
floor at the time Of the explosion. One
man. thought to be the person who
planted the bomb. was blown to bits by
the force of the explosion. Police belleve
that the bomb exploded prematurely
before 1t could be placed under the
house. The bomb, the police said was
contained in a suitcase hlled WIN
clothing Portions of the clothlng oi
the man killed, it was said. Indicated
that he was roughly clad: The force
of the explosion was sufficient to shat
fer window glass in residences for
block on each side of the Palmer home
The residence of Senator swanson OF
Virginia, next door to that of the at
tornev general was not badly dam
aged. Police picked up along with bits
Of clothing of the man killed copy !'o OF
"Plain Words" a radical publication
This. in connection with the report OF
an explosion at the home of Justice
Albert F. Hayden, of Boston, caused
authorities to fear another widespread
ho,,h ,>lot siDoilar that which radl