Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-06-03
Scraps aud faets.


The Jury was out 35 minutes and then
returned the same verdict as that OF
the Williams jury-murder with re-?
commendation for mercy, which auto
rnatically carried a. life term. F.. Mar
vim. Underwood, employed by a group
Of Georgians to represent Manning,
made a. motion for a. new trial ana
Judge John B. .Hutcheson fixed the
hearing for July 80 at Decatur VII
liams also is seeking a ne" tr!ai.
Manning was tried on the speclhc
charre%of, the murder of Lindsey Pc
terson. of whose murder Williams was
convicted and. today he calmly reclted
The. story he told at T he Williams trial,
claiming he and another negro killed
II farm hands on Williams orders.
Later Manning claims to: ehave slain
the other negro. Peterson and two
other negroes were. alleged to have
been brought into this country at nlSht
from the Jasper county farm ana
drowned. Under:G eorgiaalaW Manning
could not have been held accountable
had he been able to convince the jury
he killed the men elEough fear for his
own life and the defense based It's
case on this while the state sought to
show the negre was "a willing accom-
plice."
William C. McAdoo, speaking Mon
day at the dedication of the tablet to
the men of Huntington w. Va. who
served in. the WORLD war denied tine
ignoble assertion that. we fought
merely to sanesss 9Hrs sogn;. skins and
because we were sffIs to fight"
IT denounce as a =calumny the state
ment that the brave men who. fought
and died for America did SO solely TO
save, the United States and most re-
luctantly and laggardly at that. Mr'
McAdoo said. ''These men 1ought pe-
cause they loved liberty and were NOT
willing to have it swept iFom me
earth. But we lost, on the oattielieio
of politics, the victory over war ltseil.
Autocracy was left dead on the pat
tlefield, but Mars, the God of War,
was "re-enthroned :: in the polltlcai
arena" Declaring the problem OF
world peace was great and overshad-
owing. he asserted that~the world was
in many respects in greater turmoil
and misery than when the armistlces
was signed- -becaiise; !. the United
States had not done its part to"aro
bringing about. that orsanlzallon vi
the nations which, he said, would nave
assured lin the largest possible meas
ure their united coopefatlon:m m neaeC r,,,a of
tion of membership in the league OF
nations, he said, was a grave mistake
and he urged, its, proponents. to en-.
deayor to obtain q Reconsideration OF
the verdict. He advised entering into
an agreement WITH Great Britain ana
Japan for arbitration of naval ar1na-
ments as an important step TOWARD re-
lieyine the burdens of taXatlonS 1e4l p9
all nations.
Postal prohibitions against the
o,;1Uoukee Leader and the New York
call, two Socialist newspapers. were
withdrawn Tuesday by POSTMASTER
Havs. who restored them to second
class mailing privileges. The action
was in line with that recently taken III
the case of the Liberator, perooicli
published in New NSrk city. oraers
canceling the second class naming
PRIVILEGES of the publications were Is
SIZED by Postmaster Gepcral Burtcs9n
ia+e IN 1e17 after an INQUIRY which Mr..
Burleson said had..shown.: that through
articles published each had violated
provisions Of the, espionage act. Inc
i,iberator--a successor to 1.-THE MASS
es"-ceased publication soon after
ward. the publishers. announcing they
we're unable to bear the addltlohal
burden imposed by the thlrd eItSS
rates. Both the Leader and Ihe S.li
carried their fight to the courts. ne
Milwaukee paper upon re1usal ol Ine
supreme court Of the DISTRICT et ~
lumbia to issue writ OF mandanluS
to compel the postmaster general "
restore the conceled priVlleges, ap-
nealed to the supreme court OF the
fTnited States, where the lower court
was upheld. The Call won in the low
or courts of the District of Columbia,
whereupon the postoffice departmen.
onnealed and the case was adJucEeo
~ have been decided by that involving
The T,eoder. No formal order was IS
>sned hy Mr. Hays, the departments
action being carried out by an lnlof-
NAL notification to the newspapers III
terested and instructions TO the poS.-
master in the respective cltleS ol pun
lication. Postmaster General rays 10
understood TO have proceeded on Liz
theory that the previous admlnlstra-
t;on of the department had erred in
withdrawing low rates and yet per-
mitting the papers to be distributed.
IF barred at all. they should have oeen
barred entirely. he is said to nave ue-
c;Ged Whether the 'postoffice' depart
mont will voluntarily refund the eN-
cess charges occasioned by the Bufle-
son order was not stated today. In
the case of The Liberator, Mr. Rays
said a refund would be ordered, the
amount due that puDllC;tlloil peihS -"
timated at more than $1,000.
An estimated four: hundred mil
lion dollars will be slashed from the
nations railway wage bill when an or
der cutting wage on an average or IL
ner cent, to be handed down Wednes-
day from Chicago by the United States
railroad labor board, becomes effec-
tive July /. The order affects mem
hers of 81 labor organizations, en-
Moved on 1O4 railroads. While the de-
crease is specifically applied only 10
the roads whose cases have been heard
hv the board, the decision says 1t may
later be applied to any other road ASK
ing a hearing under the provisions OF
the Esch- -Cummins transportation acl:
Percentages of reductions computed
NV members Of the board gave inc
average of u per cent. and the same
source estimated the annual reduction
in wages at approximately Sl0O'ou"'-
600 The decision grants rcducliol
varying from five to thirteen cents an
hour or from five to eighteen per cent.
and in the case of section lahorers
completely wipes out the increase
GRANTED that class Of employees by the
$500 900 900 wage award of July 20
1920, For section men the reduction
was approximately is per cent.
Switchnlen and shop crafts wore given
a nine per cent reduction. while .he