Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-02-25
The senate agricultural committee

sections or the country, II has Clle
power to summon witnesses and COM
pei the production Of books and papers.
Liquor and jazz music were vari-
ouSly suggested to the shipping board
Tuesday as means Of enabling Amer
lean ships to compete on an equality
with foreign liners. The proposals were
advanced at conference held by the
board with representatives OF the IA
cific coast ports on the ALLEGATION OF
new ships TO the west coast and the es-
tablishment Of trade routes to the ORR
ent. E. F. Blame of Seattle. told the
board me did not believe American
d: ships were going to he well patronlZed
If there were soft drinks. prayer books
and hymnals in their saloons while
Roger;D. Pineo of Astoria, Oregon, de-
clared the people of his district were
Of a different opinion regarding liquor
and "as to the hymn books we could
put little jazz music on ooard ana
keep within the law James A. Emery
of San Francisco, said he agreed with
Mr.. Blaine with the qualification that
"the ships ought to be dry but the pas
'sengers wet
Enactment by congress Of law
declaring that labor organizations are
: not t'copartnerships and shall not be: so
treated in law. or in equity" is de-
manded by organized labor in q decla-
ration of:.principles adopted in Wash
inston "Wednesday: by representatives
of national and international unions
affiliated, in the American Federation
of Labor The declaration. which was
approved after an all-day conference at
which Samuel Gompers, president or
the federation, presided, also called TOR
the Immediate restoration of exempt
ion from or the repeal Of all antl-com-
bination and so-called conspiracy
lawsr.; Condemning the use Of the IN
function under. present, laws, the dec
laration asserted that the only I'M
mediate course" through which labor
could find relief '"lics in a fiat refusal
on: the part of labor to recognize or
abide by the terms Of injunctlons
which seek to prohibit the doing Of
acts which the workers have a lawful
and guaranteed right to do. Labor
realizes fully the consequences of such
a course" it was added but in the
defense of American freedom and OF
American institutions it is compelled to
adopt this course, be the consequences
what they may"
-Hazeihurst, New York, February
23:' Eight bags Of mail, dispatched
from San Francisco by airplane at 4.3O
yesterday morning. arrived at Hazel
hurst field here today at 4.50 p. m. es-
tablishing. cross country mail record
Of 33 hours and 20 minutes, with allow
ance for time zone changes in the coast
10 coast flight The mail was trans
ferred from plane to plane in relay
flight ordered by the postofflce depart
ment to establish Il new cross country
continental plane record. The plane
which arrived at Hazelhurst was pilot
ed by E. NJ. Allison. a member OF the
four teams which took part in the
transcontinental' race, two planes leaV-
ing Hazelhurst field. and two starting
from San Francisco at. the same time
yesterday morning. One of the west
bound planes came to grief when Pilot
Leonhard was forced to descend yes
terday at Dubois, Pa, on account OF
bad weather. The second wcstbound
plane reached Chicago yesterday and
was unable to get away today. The
other eastbound plane crashed to eartn
atElko, Ncv., yesterday, killing the pl-
lot Capt w. F. Lewis. Captain Allison
piloted one westward bound plane as
far as Cleveland, where it was taken
over by another pilot on the second lap
of the relay, which ended at Chicago.
He then took the plane in charge al
Cleveland and returned to Hazelhurst
field this afternoon, bettering the time
set for the flight by. the postoffice de-
partment by a margin OF two hours ana
40 minutes.
Hamilton, AlamabaS February %:
Charges against nine members OF the
Alabama national guard, held in con-
nection with the lynching OF VIII
Baird at Jasper on January l3 were
quashed by the state here today and
new warrants charging first degree
murder served on the defendants all oil
whom are members of Company M, OF
Tuscaloosa. A surprise second only to
the arrest Of the national guardsmen
came when Special Prosecutor Horace
c.. Wilkerson moved that the indlct-
ment against Sergt. Glenn r Stephens
who was placed on trial today IN con-
nection with the lynchlng OF WIN
Baird. was mol pressed. NO sooner
had this motion been made thar
the state also proposed that the IN
dicSments against eight other detcnd-
ants, including Sergt. Robert j. Lam
caster, whose case resulted IN mis-
trial, likewise be cancelled. Judge
Wtlkerson then announced that war
rant charging murder had been sworn
out for each Of the defendants, thus
bringing to light the fact that the state
Wilt seek return to the courts OF
Walker county, where Baird was lynch
ed, and will resist any move to take
the new cases from that jurisdiction
Sergeant Stephens, who was IN the
court room was Immediately reaTest-
ed while warrants were served on tne
eight other guardsmen in the Marlor
county Jail. Judge T. L. Stowell ls'
sued an order removing the soldiers
to the Jefferson Jail at Birmingham
giving attorneys for the defense the
right to choose the place Of conline'
ment.
Washington, February. %: Over. a
running fire from the senators Whe
presented detailed objection to lts
proposals for increased expenditures
the senate tonight passed the aGrlcul-
tural appropriation bill carrying ap-
proximately Sal 100000 for the opera
ton Of that department for the yeai
beginning next June. This amount Is
nearly S9,0O0,000 in excess Of appro-
priations for the current year and al
most $6,000000 in excess Of amounts
allowed by the house to which 1t was
sent for conference after the senates
action 81 am going to ask the mex
secretary of agriculture to go through
this bill as soon as he takes Office
and take out of it all the appropriation
that allow work to be duplicated b.
two and sometimes more department!