Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-20
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seized the film, taking it into the stree'
and burning part of it. F. u. BuZzetti
manager of the theatre, said today
that representatives Of the Purity
League had visited him earlier in the
day and asked him not to run the pic
ture. 81 had the picture booked ane
saw no reason why should not run
it," Buzzetti said. Il refused the re-
quest Of the Purity League representa-.
tives because l believed | had righl
to run the picture and did not need
their advice" No damage was done tc
the theatre other than shooting up the
screen, Mr.. BuzZetti said, and no at
tempt was made to injure him.
= The home makers cottage at the
Oklahoma A. and NJ. College, at Still
water, is complete, for 1t has baby
the one essential which in years before
instructors in home economics have
complained was lacking. David, the
college baby, was adopted this year, OF
rather borrowed, from the Oklahoma
Children's Home at Oklahoma City
He is to be kept for the school year
Plans are under way to make this boy
whose mother died when he was ten
days old; month after she was desert
ed by the father, the most scientifically
raised child in the state. Half dozen
will make the home makers cottage
their own, cook the meals, make the
beds, prepare Davids diet, make his
clothes-in short, play foster mother.
to him. Meanwhile an experienced
matron will keep a practised eye on
the cottage and David.
More than 10000 Americans will
rest forever in the soil of France, near
the battlefields where they fell, Secre-
tary of War Weeks has informed the
American Legion's legislative COM
mittee here in response TO an inquiry
Bodies of American eXpeditionary
forces dead to be returned to the
United States total 4S,670 the secre-
tary added, with more than 10000 OF
them now in this country. The 3O,l62
members of American forces who were
killed in action or who died in France
will be buried in six French cemeteries
an done in England, according to the
war secretary. The cemetaries over
which the Stars and Stripes will for
ever fly are the Meuse-Argonne at
Romagne, the Aisne-Marne at Belleau,
the Somme at Bony-the Oise-Aisne
at Seringes- ct 7Nesles; the st. Mihiel
at Thiaucourt and the Suresness near
Paris The permanent American ceme-
terry in England will be the Brookwood,
near London.
District Attorney Brady Of San
Francisco, has announced that the state
is ready TO proceed against Roscoe c.
(Fatty) Arbuckle on the charge OF
murder AS the result of the jury OF
inquest four charges were brought
against Arbuckle, two of manslaughter
and two of murder. One Of the jury
men submitted a minority report in
which he said that while he was con-
vinced that the woman, Virginia Rappe,
had come to her death from violence,
he was not sure at whose hand. There
fore he sought only to charge man
slaughter. Attorneys for Arbuckle
sought to secure bail, but were unable
TO do so, the judge holding the case not
bailab.e. The body Of Virginia Rappe
was taken TO Los Angeles for inter-
ment and her friends made big fune-
raj for her. Further proceedings in the
case against Arbuckle were postponed
until next Thursday. The prohibition
enforcement officers have information
that Arbuckle carried twenty quarts of
liquor in his car from Los Angeles and
further they have information that
twenty more quarts were delivered to
the party in the hotel.
First official action by local au-
thor-ties against the activities of the
Ku Klux Klan was taken in Chicago
Saturday II came in the form Of a
definite declaration from Chief of Po-
lice Charles Fitz Norris that parades
of members of the Klan or other or
ganiZatiOns whose members appear
masked will not be permitted in Chi
cago streets. Reports have reached
me that loop parade of clansmen is
oh taf
permit will be issued for such a par
ade. If clansmen, or other masked
persons attempt to march, the police
will break up the parade. roughly If
necessary. Masks are all right in ball
rooms, lodges, or in other private
places. but they will not be permitted
on the streets" While the chief was
stating his attitude, the Illinois COM
mittee Of the National Unity Council,
recently formed to fight the Klan, was
drawing up lines of battle at a meet
ing in the Morrison Hotel. Former
Gov. Edward +. Dunno. chairman of
the organization. stated that II was
growing with the same astonishing
rapidity with which the Klan has
swept the nation.
Decision to resist all attempts at
further deductions of wages in the
textile industry and to inaugurate q
permanent campaign to organize the
nom union workers of the South was
ANNOUNCED in Atlanta, Ga, Saturday
after q conference between more than
200 Southern leaders and Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor. While the As
hour week was not mentioned in the
announcement here dispatches from
Washington said it would be one OF
the subjects to be discussed at a con-
ference next Tuesday in Washington
on wages and working conditions in
the textile industry. Charlotte, n. c.,
is to be headquarters for the campaign
and meeting of leaders of the United
Textile Workers of America will be
held there September - to formulate
a definite plan of action. 'It is not n
declaration OF war;" said Jerome
Jones. editor of the Atlanta Journal
of Labor, who acted as spokesman for
the conferees, "but it is a step toward
active resistance TO the effort to re-
duce textile wage scales below liv
ing figure" South Carolina was to
have been represented at the confer
ence, but the edelegates failed TO
arrive. LAS for the trouble in the
Southern textile districts ! expect
TO witness soon a great ameliora-
tiOn of present conditions" Mr..