Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-23
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task. Col Bingham is SO years Of aST'
Between 1000 and 1900 people los7
their lives at the chemical products
plant of the BSmSR &fnakhr! l'abrik :
company at OpEau, on the RhIh'' III
Germany, last Tuesday, The plant was
devoted largely to the manufacture VI
nitrous -sulphate." OF Which 1t rs saiol
1000 tons were involved in the cXpio-
sion. Where, the main portion OF the
plant stood. there Is hole As va rds
deep and 135 yards wide. For DIS
tance of several hundred yards not!
wall was left standing, and all the
doors and windows tWitbin three miles !
of the place were blown in. The nolN"
was heard apd the jar was felt over 4
distance of forty miles. Besides tne
killed, more than u thousand people
were injured
- There were 36,617,5Sf cotton SPIN |
dies in the United States at the begin
ming of the cotton Eear,>Apgust l. -lhe
census bureau announced. WeuheSudS' |
OF that number 33059,2l1 SpindleS
were operated at some time during the |
month, the aggregate number of SPIN
die hours being 1919, 9,916,931. The reg |
ular hours Of operation per week In the
cotton mills, the report said, vary from
4S in a number ofistatcS 10 las hgh as
60 in others. Comparing the nunper
of spindleS with the prevailing hourS
for the several states, it is fou2H ,thal
thefaverage work day for the entire
country is practically Sc hours. Based
on activity of 81 days for Sc hours per
day. the number Of sp:ndlcS operated
for July was 3l,52i,190. MaSsachu
setts leads with 11,S1O,563 spindieS and
1898, ,565, ,497 spindle hours. Eorth car
oliu.a is second with 5,22S.2GG spindIeS
and 1900, ,591.162 spindle hours. South
Carolina is third, with 5,013,53S SPIN
dies ana 1,216.966,S93 spindle hours.
Warning that the making Of fntoXi-
eating home brew" is Illegal was :
issued Tuesday night by ProhlDj'ion
Commissioner Haynes. Numerous In
uuiries have been received recently, ne
said, concerning the home manAiac-
ture of fruit Juices growing out of re-
ports that head of a household was
entitled to make 3O0~Earons of'wine
wear under permit The prohibition
units attitude ON the home brew putS-
ton was defined by Mr.. Haynes as
follows: Misunderstanding fruit Juices
can be made in the home. lntnNTallnG
wine home brew and distilled Splllta
may not be made. Two. hundred gal
Ions of non- n-intOXicating fruit Juices
may be manufactured taN-flCc by the
head of a family registcrihg with
collector of internal revenue. THIS TAX
exemption provision has been In"
source Of confusion. The cffrtt-0f this
is not to allow the manufacture OF 2OO
gallons of Intoxicating wine. free from
registrations Of the national .prOhlbl-
tion act, but merely to allow the manu-
facture of 300 ssal lIeHsa ,ssf. ..lnl.azln oNl-
eating fruit juice free OF tax.
According to diSPatchc# from Lon
don. the British government i& ve'Y
u fNas ly So
tile operations of the SoViC; govern
ment against British interests. The ,
government has information that Rus
sin has emiSSaTCS iE Persia, Aighanl:-
tan and India. stirring UP the discon-
tented clements into revolt. &Gd' ;rSo
the British cabinet is accusing the So
Wet government Cf having mad" ir"u-
be in Turkey that has prevented III"
settlement of the Turkish situation in
accordance with the programm" OF Tn"
Anics Il is stated th"t the I'I'ish
government has sent to the Soviet GOV
ernment sharp note in regard In. IN"
matter II is not understood, however
that the note threatens or suggests
war: but rather it is to the effect that
unless the Soviet government shall
cease its annoying activities the Brit-
iSb government will proceed 70 annuI
the commercial agreements between
the TWO governments, 80 l'' 80 -
known, the Soviet government docs not
appear to he at all worried about l'rlt-
ish representations or objections
~ riot featuring police brutality in
which hundreds, including women ana
children, were .ClubbCd, kicked and
knocked 'sowtk sts chsrEing mounted
and foot police. marked the opening al
Urban LedQuN'S campaign tn feed
New YOrk'S army of unemployed last
Tuesday The riutuG and interference
H. the police caused LrduuN to ahan-
don his SChCmc of 2uCtInnHE oil l"h-
less men from the StCrS oi til" tuplc
Library on Fifth Avcnu" at midnight
LcICuX was stunned b. the demon
srration and bitterly asaailcd the police
f,r. what he termed a violation uf his
constitutional rights. Il mus wait
until the conscience OF New York
awak.ns," Rciead.T IL tlGuFJ J ar "Mr.
Zero" reached Bryant Park just bct0f"
| o'clock with, IN s"CNIl Ol QCtSc'iE'S,
reporters and phOtOgr2p phCrS VINO hlu
been following him about the city an
morning IL was his intention to h"id
a meeting and EiVG'futd 10 the JobIeSs
in Bryant Hall. Before the party
reached :thc park, ,GEtc at sixth Avenue
&CluSS from the hall, hundtCdS ol J"p-
less men ran in all directions to Led
ouy Then q special squad OF police.
afout and mounted, charged. Inc
sEricks of the ioblc%s rarG cut rs they
hurled themselves into I wh:rling mass
a,d fought for u place beside LcdouN.
H%x, 1E% ''S:EI,'T; VIII" Tw;aiEcPuth f8rgSsng ucgan
Of the bomb squad ut his side.
The department nf Justice IS con- .
sidcring whether federal action ShaII
bc taken in cunu-otiun with tn" acti- /.
yitics of the KUl' KiUv Khan. Attorney /.
General Daugherty said Wednesday,.
Mr.. Daughcrty said hc would confer
with Director Burns. of the bureau al
investigation. who has been directed .
to look into the. question. ana II lhr
facts warranted Would seek " grand
inrv investigation of the Ku kllN Khan
i'm some district and urGc hIhtcim"ni
against any members where justified.
The attorney general discussed the
matter with District. Attorney Hay
ward, uf New York, and several of the .
assistant attorneys as to whether th"
federal government 3Luaid take part IN .
the Ku kIux question had ncrn reach
ed. ANY federal action against the
klan, Mr. Dughcrty said. would prob
ably be- und"i. some stalut""c"TerIhS
conspiracy, hui. ths legal problem IN
VOWED. ne added was somewhat c"M-
pick. ON its face. he explained, the .