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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-20
NO LOCOMOTIVES
 TO RUN TRAINS
Bolsheviki Have Claimed Traffic Was Stopped Because of Spread of
 Spotted Fever
By Associated Press

By Associated rfoss I Stockholm March 1S.-passengeT traffic on Russian railroads has ceased ostensibly because Of the spread of spotted typhus, but really because there are no locomotives to spare and be- cause there is asgreat shortage of fuel, according to I. Hessen, the former edi- tor of the Petrograd Rjetsch Thanks to heavy bribing he has just managed to leave Petrograd, which he said was in desperate straits.
 At the Putiloff works where for merly 15,000 men were employed only a very few are now to be seen," said MT Hessen to the Associated Press Sabotage prevails. Locomotives canS not be repaired nor constructed. The only one the bolsheviki have is valued at four million rubles.
 Tn Petrograd q piece of fire wood costs four rubles, bread 20 rubles pound, meat 30. sugar 120 and butter the same. Maxim Aiorky, the novelist. has at his disposition 10000, 900 rubles for printing books and supporting au- thorities and tutors, but no books can be printed as log as paper is five rubles a pound
 "Why the bolsheviB regime has not fallen puzzles everyone, particularly the bolsheviki themselves. Time after time they have expected their Tall and prepared to quite but each time some thing happened that improved their chances Last autumn when Jerm was taken by the Szechs, when armed forces threatened from the Ukraine and the Narva and British warships ap- preached in the Baltic every one was sure it was the beginning of the end. And then, instead, came the invitation to Princes Islands.
 Not even one per cent of the popula- tion Is in favor of bolshevism. Bolshe- vik troops 1 ght without knowing why, but continue for fear of being shot if they dsobey. If given an oppor- tunity they desert at once. An example of this was the action of what was considered a model regiment in Pe- trograd. The men, 5000 of them, were sent from their barracks to the rail way station to entrain for the Narva. When the train arrived there were just eight men who had obeyed instructions to entrain.
 If there is no intervention soon pure anarchy will rule Russia. Trotzky and Lenine are gradually being pushed aside and real criminals will succeed to the places of power"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-20
WANT AMERICA TO
 PROTECT ARMENIA

London, March 1S.-''we ask America simply to assume a burden. to perform a service to humanity" says Prof. Gtl- bert Murray of Oxford university, in 8 statement advocating that the United States accept mandate of the League of Nations to administer and protect Ar menia.
 Armenia has been saved from the Turks and Kurds after suffering one of the most awful prosecutions known to history" adds Professor Murray. "A remnant of Armenians still alive can be reconstituted into nation; but they will be too weak and disorganized to maintain independence or internal order unless they are helped and protected by some other ration.
 "The protecting nation must be very strong, absolutely disinterested, known and trusted by the Armenans, and not already overburdened by other duties else where. There is no nation in the world except America which satisfies these four conditions.
 If America will accept the mandate the Arrnenians can still be saved as peo- pie: if America refuses. one more great region of the world is in danger of slip ping into anarchy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-20
TURKS THREATEN ID
 DESTROY ST. SOPHIA
Steps Already Taken to Re- store Famous Church to
 Christian Religion
sy Assccisted Press

London, March 24.-Warning that the Turks had threatened to destroy the Church of St. Sophia in Constantinople if any movement was undertaken to re- stcre that church to the Christians has been received by government officials of Great Britain.
 House of Commons the other day when Arthur J. Balfour, the foreign minister, was asked if he had received communi- cation from Constantinople stating that the Turks intended to blow up the Church of St. Sophia If any public expression Of opinion took place in the United King dem in favor of the restitution to Chris tendon of one of the oldest Christian churches in Europe
 Mr. Balfour replied that no official communication to that effect had been received, but that such information had been conveyed by interested parties He announced that Admiral Galthrop, British commander in Constantinople, had been instructed to take measures to protect the building and that he would see that these instructions were carried out.
 Despite the warning. there is a definite movement looking to the restoration of the great cathedral church of ancient Constantinople to the use of the Chris tian religion. Erected at first in 360 A. U. and reDullt m ooi as CnriStidn ca thedral St. Sophia was appropriated by the Turks as a moslem house of worship, and is now the principle mosque of stam- bout.
 A memorial signed by the archbishops of Canterbury and York and others has been sent to Premier Lloyd George, urg- ing that, while the great imperial mosques of Constantinople should remain in the hands of Islam, justice requires that the Christians of that city, who form large majority of it's inhabitants, should have their priceless building est. Sophia) re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-20
SEEKING FACTS
 OF CARS DEATH
Nicholas and Children Were Thrown Into Pit, Where
 Bombs Were Hurled

Omsk, Siberia, February 12-Serious ef- fort will be made to determine the exact details of the assassination of the Rus siar imperial family which occurred in a house at Ekaterinburg. Various accounts of the affair are still current at Omsk. where at present reside two tutors, one English, the other French. who were at tached to the family of Czar Nicholas, and who were with the unhappy mon archs until they were removed from To- bolsk to the house at Ekaterinburg, where they were subsequently, murdered.
 Official personages who visited this house and who had some opportunity Of gleaming details accept the story that the former Emperor Nicholas, his wife and their children were thrown into a pit or cellar and there half stffocated, wounded and finally killed under a hail of missiles, including bombs. They believe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-20
WORK OF Y. M. c. A.
 ON RUSSIAN FRONT

Omsk, Siberia, February 10.-E. T. Heald of Davenport. Ia., who is in charge of the western district of the American Young Mems Christian association work in Siberia. has returned to Omsk after visit to the battle front and reports that the r. M. c. A. is doing everything pos sible to tighten the hardships of the sol diers. Two American secretaries are working, he reports, at the fighting line. They are H. l.. Tinkam of Pennsylvania. who is at Ufa, and c. W. Riley, recently graduated from Northwestern university at Chicago, who has a club car further north on the line. MT. Riley brought the first Y. M. c. A. supply train out of Vladivostok.
 Twenty-Five American secretaries are row serving in the western Siberia zone and have organized 20 canteens. gen. eral supply department is now being or ganised for the local purchase of but ter. cheese and general dairy products for which Siberia is famous, but which the soldiers have difficulty in obtaining.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-20
SAYS FUTURE OF
 SAMOA IS BRIGHT

Auckland, New Zealand. February 15. Col. Robert Logan, the New Zealand ad- ministrator of former German Samoa, says the future of the colony is very bright Cattle raisers and cocoanut grow ing are two important industries.
 Colonel Logan said that former German Samoa had been self supporting since New Zealand military occupation. In 1917 trade increased over that of 1916 by over $1, ,0O0,000, and the figures for 1918 would have been a record but for the epidemic of influenza The increase in trade is now nearly all with the United States. Opia. said Colonel Logan. needs basin and wharf where vessels may discharge their cargoes in any weather instead of hay ing to discharge in the open roadstead-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-20
Schoinrs. WiU DeLue m
 q Libraries Of Turkey
f Writings Lost to the World Are Expected rthed When Antiq quarians Penetrate Gel 1T Great Churches and Palaces of Turks
By Associated n -ess

perm ssion from the Sultan to spend a week in those cellars. In that time he was able to make only a very superficial examination of the manuscripts, but his search, short as it was, revealed many booka in Greek and Arabic of great vaiue. AmorEg the discoveries he reported were the lC Crst books of Livy, the great Roman histo1ian. N
 Anbng celebrated British scholars who are IIlanning to go to Constantipole to deive among the long-hidden manuscripts is Si1 Edwin Pears, the historian, who has spent many years in Cohstantipole. Sir EH Hwin told the Associated Press cor respondent that at least six months would be rel equired-for the investigation. He does hot think the libraries have been damaked by the Turks, who, he says, are utterly indifferent to their value. His
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-20

Lcv atT --Antiquarians and
 oE TOW n have for the first Uraa sia fur took possession of c5t b -t.aop' he opportunity for mak- ins aftas 4 4 investigation of the liter sH tres stored away in the great
 .ies there.
 The contents of the bookshelves of the St Sophia and Palace libraries are known, but in the cellars under the Palace library there are many manuscripts in Arabic, Greek, Latin and eastern languages These manuscripts are in hopeless confusion and no person with special aptitude for re- search work has been permitted to yex- anime them in recent years. About % years ago a German dragoman obtained
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-20
Petrograd Has Culture League

Petrograd, via Russian Wireless to Lon don, March 20.-The League of Proletarian Culture, founded in February, 1918, has celebrated it's first anniversary. The que, which has several branches, em- braces plastic art. dramatic art and music and has publishing offices, clubs, etc. Each branch has rooms for practical training and studies in which workmen can practice the new proletarian culture. The literary branch has issued a dozen publications including a monthly review. The theatrical section. which numbers 800 members produces plays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-20

stored to them. It has no special sacred ness for moslems. Its value in their eyes is merely political.
 The great church is now in serious condition and must inevitably collapse if it is not placed in capable hands, says the memorial The glorious mosaics, a precious heritage among the artistic treasures of the world, should be uncov- cred from the defacement which Is neces- sarily imposed so long as the building, constructed and decorated for one faith, IS alienated and devoted to another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-20

Having learned that the Australian gov ernmtnt is compensating contractors on the cancellation of the construction ot wooden ships, the shipwrights union arc claiming that they also are entitled to cnmnenSation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-20
ELEVEN

that the bodies were secretly transferred to the forest and buried. Special investi- gation is being made of the tale that one of the jewels of the former Empress, diamond, was found in forest recess.
 A story that Nicholas was stabbed with a pognard by a sailor while being trans fcrred from one place to another, and that, kissing the hem of the sailors gar ment, he pleaded for mercy, is not ae- cepted as vouched for by any historical data of serious nature.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-09-04
LOWER PRICES COMING.
Vigorous Action Promised Against
Produce Profiteers.

Washington, Aug. 30.-Unless re-
ductions in wholesale food prices re-
sulting from sharp breaks on the
produce markets are passed on to
the consumer vigorous action will be
taken by the department of justice,
it was said today. Since most deal
ers now are cooperating in the cam
paign to reduce living costs, officials
said the lower wholesale prices should
be reflected on the retail market in
the near future.
Profteering on sugar virtually has
ceased, according to Judge Ames, as
sistant to the attorney general, IN
charge of administering the food con-
troll act. Eleven cents, he said, now
is accepted as the just price by deal
ers throughout the country.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-09-04
APPLIES FOR 5000 REWARD.
Offered BY State of South Carolina
in 1877. for Five Men.

Columbia, Aug. 30.-G. w. Fisher,
of Tryon, n c., inquired of the Office
of Governor Cooper about a reward
of $500 offered by the State of South
Carolina for the delivery of five men,
alleged to have been implicated in
the killing of James Ledford, at
Landrum's Station, Spartanburg
county, S. c., June -, 1877.
James C. Derieux, secretary to the
governor has unearthed a proclama-
tion issued by Wade Hampton, when
Chief Executive of State, offering a
reward of $500 each for the appre-
hension and arrest of John Weaver,
Bud Casey, Frank Moss, William
Ford and Henry Vernon, alleged to
have been implicated in the murder
of James Ledford. The proclamation
was dated July 10, 1877, and was
signed by R. NJ. Sims, secretary of
State.
The letter of inquiry for G. w.
Fisher was written by George A.
Cash. justice of the peace and notary
public, of Tryon, n. c., and stated
that Fisher captured William Beach
and Frank Moss delivering them to
the authorities of Spartanburg coun-
ty and that he has filed application
to receive his reward of $500, al
though he took the matteN up with
former Governors Ellerbe and Hey
ward.
The proclamation of Wade Ffamp-
ton makes no reference to William
Beach and Charles Beach, mentioned
in Mr.. Cash's letter as being two Of
the accused men for whom rewards
were issued.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-09-04
KEEPS Up AVERAGE.
States Homicide Record EXcites
WilliamS'S Comment.

Secretary G. Croft Williams, of the
State board of charities and correc-
tions has been studying the preva-
lence Of crime since the war He
says lie is astonished to find that in
the North and the West homicides
have decreased since the armistice
was signed
Mr.. Williams has received a letter
from the secretary of the State board
of charities and corrections of New
Hampshire. in which was the follow
ing statement: THE situation in
New Hampshire does not appear to
be the same as in South Carolina.
The only indictments for homicides
in this State for the past year have
been for deaths caused by the reck-
lessness of automobile drivers, while
the number of commitments for other
offences has been materially reduc-
ed" There are not dozen counties
in South Carolina that could show so
good a report as this.
"From the press dispatches" Mr..
Williams said, 81 conclude that we
continue to keep our average of one
homicide day in this State. Many of
these homicides are of brutal and
revolving character, showing state
of mind that is depraved and beyond
all call for the common good. A new
factor in the growth of homicide is
the number of accidental killings,
these are usually committed by young
boys that are allowed to toy with
deadly weapons.
t:Why is it that South Carolina
must have killing day when New
Hampshire can thrive without a kill
ing a year? Is it that we have some
superior stuff in us that is manifested
in this manner, or is it because of a
different kind of machinery for the
gaining of justice, or is it the preva-
lence of false notion that honor is
best satisfied at the end of a pistol?
Whatever may be the cause, the num-
Der of persons that have died as a
sacrifice to prejudice, passion and
vengeance is beyond all reason. Ar.
South Carolinians of such a miser-
able breed that it is necessary for
them to be slaughtered at this rate?
It is time that we face this question
honestly and ask ourselves what we
should do about It."
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-09-04
DENTIST UNHURT IN ATTACK.
Policeman Fires Five Times at DIR.
Lucius L. Toole, Columbia.

Columbia, Aug. 2S.-M. C. Sigh,
policeman at Bennettsville, Marl-
boro county, was lodged in Jail, in
Columbia tonight after firing five
shots at DR.. Lucius L., Toole, Co.
lumbia dentist. All the shots went
wild, as several persons grabbed the
infuriated man, who continued to fire.
in the air and into the street.
That no one was hit seems almost
miraculous, as Keith's Theatre on the
same block had just let out from the
first performance and hundreds of
people were passing, many of them
directly by the couple along Main
street. Apparently there was no oc-
casion for the shooting. DR.. Toole
and his family had been to the. show
and were in the act of getting into
their automobile when Sigh, who
was apparently under the influence
of some narcotic or alcoholic bever-
age, began cursing DR.. Toole. A blow
or two passed and Sigh drew his pis-
tol and began firing. Sligh was lodg-
ed in jail, several serious charges
lodged aginst him. He was formerly
a member of Columbia police force
and a tendency to drink then was
manifested, it is said.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-09-04

groes to emigrate from the South to
Chicago, negro employment leagues
have held hope of social equality, and
negroes upon their arrival are taken
to the "roval garden" where they are
permitted to mingle with the debased
white women who frequent that re-
sort. There is no room in any South
ern State for any negro who has been
entertained at the "royal garden" "
His return to the South with
his boast of conquest can on
ly result in exciting the lust
of some innocent negro and
causing his early death. For notwith-
standing all of the efforts that have
been made by the press and pulpit to
discourage lynching, the fact remains
that whenever a negro attacks a
white woman in the South only ex-
traordinary measures can avoid a
lynching. I know that it is true
lynchings have taken place for other
provocations and that is the result of
public sentiment sustaining mob law
for any provocation. But the press
and pulpit and leaders of the South
have always condemned it, and in
my own State 7 rejoice to say that
few lynchings have taken place with
in the last decade. The peculiar thing
to my mind is that while the negro
leaders and many white men of other
sections. join the leaders of the
South in condemning lynching, they
seldom join us in condemning the
crime Of the negro that provokes the
!ynching.'
This speech created tremendous
sensation in the house and leaders
after other parliamentary tactics fall
ed forced adjournment.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-09-04

we'll realize at once their response
bility. Ninety per cent. of the peo-
pie of this country are white, ten per
cent. are black. The negro problem
is no longer Southern problem, if
the negro in recent years has emf
grated from the South to the North.
and the Anglo-Saxon of the North
today has towards the negro the same
feeling as the Anglo-Saxon Of the
South. For years it was truly said
that the North had the principles,
but the South had the negroes. To-
day the North also has the negroes,
and with the coming of the negro,
many of those principles have de-
parted. People of the North have
come to realize that in the absence
of the negro they could believe in
political and social equality Of the
races. but that whenever the negro
in any large number come into COM
munity or State. that belief is swept
away by that which is greater than
constitutional or legislative enact
ment: namely, a new instinct of a
human being. We can provide en-
plovment for every negro who in re.
cent years left the South, but If they
have been inoculated with the doc
trines being preached through the
negro press of the North and as
tertain any desire for social or politi-
cal equality we have in the South no
employment for them and no room
for them.
sTt is stated that il inducing ne
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-09-04
Fatal Wreck at Allendale.

Allendale, Aug. 30.-A. Goldman
a negro ex-soldier, was instantly kill
ed. two white men were painfully in
jured and second negro was, it is
said, fatally injured when log train
composed of two trucks and an en-
CINE, loaded with logs, was complete
Iy wrecked at lumber mill at Mar
tins. Witnesses say the weight OF
the two log trucks pulled the engine
down a grade which it had just climb
ed and this caused the wreck.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-09-04
CONDITION COTTON 5s.2 PER CT.
Results Will Probably. Show Largest
Yield Reduction Ever Recorded.

Columbia, Aug. 2S.-The Ameri-
can Cotton Association issued the fol-
lowing report tonight, placing the
condition of the cotton crop on Aug
ust 25 at 5S.2 per cent. The gov
eminent crop report, giving condi-
dition on August 25, will be issued
September 2. There was difference
of only i per cent. in the last Amer1-
can Cotton Association report and
the government report.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-09-04
RELIC OF BYGONE DAY.
Vest Seventy-Six Years Old Owned
By Barnwell County Man.

BY Barnwell County Man.
Barnwell, Aug. 2S.-S. J. Carroll,
who lives near Long Branch church,
a few miles from Barnwell, is the
possessor of an old vest, that is quite
a curiosity to the people of this gen.
Grafton. The cotton of which it was
made was grown near Reedy Branch
church, this county, by the late Sam
Williams, the thread being spun and
cloth woven by his wife, who also
made the garment. The cloth was
dyed with homemade indigo dyess4d
the color is remarkably well preserv-
ed. The vest is known to be at least
76 years old and is possibly older.
It was given to Mr.. Carroll by his
mother and he prizes it highly for it's
family association.