Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-04-15
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afraid because Of the possible effect OF
the Mohammedan populations of ASH
and Africa. Russia is helping tn
Turks both morally and materially, AM
of course sSe has in mind eventua
control Of Constantinople.
After the Newton county, Ca
grand jury had found true bills agalns
5 $Huland Leroy and Marvin Williams
! for the murder of negroes on the farm
, : of their father, John S. Williams, l
!deyeloped that the boys could not o'
found. They had skipped. Governor
Dorsey has offered rewards OF SoV0 toi
? each of them. 1t is announced ina
; CLYDE Manning is to be tried early II
/ ;May. If he is convicted there Will nc
! longer he any available witness agalns'
the Williams boys.
) Great Britain is bending every ci-
fort to escape from dependence upon
the United States for raw cotton, ac-
cording to report to the department
of commerce at Washington Tuesda!
from commercial attache Dennis at
London, To this end, Mr.. Dennis
said. England is encouraging the pro-
ductlon of cotton in the former uer-
man possessions in East Africa ob-
tanned under mandates and in her
own colonial possessions. "While our
. own people have been considerably
aroused by the so-called British 40
.mination of the worlds petroleum re-
sources" Mr.. Dennis said, little at
tention has been paid TO the OBVIOUS
fact that as a result of the war IN
creased opportunities for the produc-
; tion of raw, cotton have developed
: within the British empire. The Brit
ish have seized upon that fact ana
systematic efforts are being made by
the empire cotton growing committee
to stimulate cotton growing within
the empire"
Funds sent TO China to date
through the American Committee for
China Famine Fund, total S2,992,0l2,
according to an announcement last
Sund1: night by Vernon Munroe'
treasurer Of the American committee
from the headquarters at Bible house
lG Astor place, New York. Contrlbu-
tions received from states whose total
is now more than $4,000 amount to
se,21o.SSs, as follows: California $62,-
323; Colorado, s10,3TT; Connecticut.
s2S,137; District OF Columbia, s2l'o13;
Illinois s1O7,170; Indiana, $1S,700;
Iowa, $31,993: Kansas, $35.1l7; Ken
lucky, S3S,O9S; Maryland, S1O,653;
Massachusetts, s1G0,S99; Michigan,
S62,272; Minnesota, S71,SG4; Missouri,
s2S,657; Nebraska, s23,952; New Jer-
sey S6S,OSO; New York, SS5O,5e2;
North Carolina. S5S,SSS; Ohio. $131,-
626; Oregon" s12,1O6; Pennsylvania.
$2S0,752 South Carolina, $1l,75S:
South Dakota. sl1,615; Texas, S15;Go1;.
Virginia, s24.O15; Texas, S15,6O1; Vir-
ginia, $24,O15; Washington, Sl3,644;
West Virginia, slO,959, and Wiscon-
tin $1S,5y3.
y III lIlG "bl oil NIiASiSSl - >lPN'e
does, especially those who parFicades
themselves and "shoot it out" with
the police, there will soon be ready
for use two portable steel pill boxes
or shields. Encased in one Of them,
officers can safely move up to the
door OF the beSieged house and smash
their way in. The novelty and prac-
ticability OF the device lies largely in
the patented bullet-proof glass, an
inch in thickness. Tests made at
short range prove that this glass turns
off Il .3S-calibrc bullet, while Il as
bullet -mashes itself flat. Repeated
shots at one point with IA pistol
chipped the glass slightly, but did not
crack it. The shield proper consists
of two Slabs of sheet steel. impcrvious
to Il .45 bullet at forty feet. \ hinged
plate protects the inhabitant OF the
pill box" from fire from an upper
window. There is nine-inch win
dow of the bullet-proof glass for the !
officer who guides the pill blk" and |
n number Of inch holes for the |
rifle or revolver Of the officer who is |
doing the attacking. 1t rolls on three /
small wheels, and the entire contri- |
vance weighs but 100 pounds.
Approval Of an application for Il
loan of 100000 for financing COT
ton exports was annouced "Wednesday |
by the War Finance corporation En-
port Of 10000 bales of cotton to Eng
land, France, Italy. Portugal, Japan
and Germany is involved in the trans
action, according to Eugene Meyer
director Of the corporation. The ap-
plication, Mr.. Meyer added, was 4 di-
rect result :Of q recent conference in
New Orleans with Southern bankers.
for the loan, he said, was
made by an export financing corpora
ton: Discussing the recent confer
ences in Washington. Atlanta and
New Orleans with exporters, manu- !
lecturers and bankers, Mr.. Meyers de-
,lared the results were considered sat
Sractory by all concerned. The most
result, he said, was that the
bankers are going 10 approach the
problems of exporting cotton and
,thcr Southern products from II new
,oint Of view and in 4 more energetic .
manner. Discussion developed, h -
continued, that in the general op;y:it ~
tocks Of manufactured goods IN hn
lands T retailers and Who'll ,,ovs ms
veil as manufacturers - "r,.nrr ,IIr
cry low in this count &c .,l,r n,j
/ is not. however. any ,bn nro.
0 attempt to ir' finance r",r sc Ar.
1eyer assert" .huencc busine' .,1risr
usincss n d. not cNcn nauct thcir