The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15
ARKANSAS DEPUTY
BEGINS FIGHT TO
CHECK OUTRAGES
Bald Knob Officials Say Other
Arrests Are Probable.
Warnings and BurningS
Continue.

! Continued activities of night riders
(, In burning of cotton gins where the
! owners insist on continuing opera
tons, are reported In dispatches
Friday. The first drastic effort MADE
by officials to check these occur
rences Is reported from Bald Knob
Ark. where eight white farmers were
arrested on charges Of conspiring
10 burn cotton gins which had ig-
nufed warnings to close until the
price OF cotton is higher,
New warnings were posted on gins
Mt Truman, Ark, threatening destruc-
ton of the gins and violence IL the
owners insist on running the gin.
Activities of night riders are re-
ported as increasing In the Carolina
sections. In Tennessee and Missis-
slppl there has been but isolated
cases where gins have been threat
ened or destroyed.
Deputy Sheriff l.. r. Plant, who
made the arrest at Bald Knob. Ark,
/ declared others are expected TO be
{ taken into custody at any time.
I'VE are just beginning our work,
but we have gone far enough to dis
cover that these men are In a wide
spread plot to destroy property and
TO do violence" he said.
Deputy Plant could furnish the
names OF but six of the arrested
men. He gave these as: Charles
Meachem. j. w. Fuller. Frank w,
Weathers, Irving Vreciston, Walter
Bone and Luther Bone.
IL il said that practically every
gin In White county has been post
ed with notices warning the owners
that unless the plants are closed they
win be burned. Thus far only one
has closed as a result of threats.
an invasion of the threatened Sec
and Dock Yarbrough, of Blount coun-
ty, Ala, indicted by Cullman coun-
~ grand jury on a charge of threat
ening to commit arson. were ar
rested.
The indictments returned against
these two men. according to Sheriff
j. W. Lambert. of Cullman county.
resulted from the alleged visit of the
men to a gin near Fairview. Cullman
county, where the operators were
told to shut 1t down or suffer the
consequences.
The refusal of farmers to sell and
ship their cotton is responsible for
the removal of three freight trains
a week from its local service between
Macon and Americas, Ga by the
Central of Georgia railroad, II was
announced officially,
Definite steps 10 round up persons
threatening to burn cotton gins in
South Carolina. II there be such,
were taken by W. A. McSwain. state
insurance commissioner who called
in his inspectors in preparation for
an invasion OF IN threatened sec
lions.
The ginnery at Lanford station. Il
miles north of Laurens, S. c., was
warned to close down after Oct. 20.
A. at Mountville, where the ginnery
was posted Tuesday night. threats
were ignored and the gins were in
operation at both places today.
2 warning to shut down It's gin
in Fayetteville. N. c.. was received
by the Mcneil Milling company. The
notice. sent through the mails and
Fayetteville" read:
''Notice: II you value your prop
erty, shut down your sin until 40
cent cotton. First and last notice
p. r. ASSOCIATION"
All cotton mills in Union, S. c.,
will be shut down on Fridays and
Saturdays. Market conditions were
assigned as the reason for the short
er time,