The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1922-10-05

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Guilty, by loans from the American
people, who had no reason TO expect
that they would not be repaid. He
also drew attention to the American
suspicion that If the loans were for
given the money thus released might
be used In new wars.
CONRAD H. SPENS, railway Off
~ clal of Chicago, who was appoint
cd federal fuel distributor under the
act passed by congress, started in by
warning the various states that his
powers do not extend to coal mined
and sold within Il given state and
their officials must look after that
end Of the proposition. He then asked
eight leading railway executives to
serve rs an advisory committee in the
fuel transportation emergency and
named 13 prominent business men as
members of an advisory committee for
industry, to keep in touch with the
distribution of fuel supplies for in
dustrieS In their respective districts.
Large industrial consumers are asked
to confine their purchases of coal un-
der present conditions as closely to
current needs as safety permits; to
suspend accumulation Of advance
stocks Of coal until the present emer-
gency pressure on production is re-
licved; to unload coal cars immcdl-
atcly ana return them to service and
to promptly furnish material required
for new railroad equipment or repairs.
THE grand Jury in Marion, ILL.,,
L which investigated the Herrin coal
mine massacre, indicted 76 men for
participation In the outrage, "A OF
them for murder. All Of the latter
group have been put under arrest, and
Of the total 20 are still ut large. Eight
of those accused Of murder are held
without bail. The others were re-
leased on bonds, which were furnished
by the leading citizens of Marion.
The defense Of the men, rs already
outlined by their lawyers, will be, in
brief, that this Is private persecu-
tion by political boss and labor
hating organization" the alluslon be-
the Illinois Chamber Of Commerce.
EEDERAL JUDGE WILKERSON in
! Chicago formally entered the tenn.
porary injunction obtained by Attor-
ney General Daugherty against the
railway shopmcn, having sustained 1t
on nll points. The proceedings we're
perfunctory md the attorneys for the
union did not concern themselves
with the form of the order. Thev
said they hoped to be permitted TO
take the cnse direct to the Supreme
court of the United States on appeal,
G ONE twenty thousand veterans of
- the Civil war assembled in Des
Moines, H., for the fifty-sixth national
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Hepublic On Wednesday three.
foorths Of these grizzled warriors 20.
corted by two regiments of the repu-
lar army, marched In the yearly
p"rade--an event that grows more
ana more pathetic as the years pass
Ihey were reviewed by their com.
mander-in-chief, Lewis s. Pitcher, and
Dy flanford MacNider, national com.
mandef OF the American Legion. One
tragedy marked the occasion. M r.
A1ackcnhausen of White Bear Lake
Mimi, dropped dead after two ho,,rs
of marching. Judge J. w. Willctt Of
rama, Ia, was elected commander-in.
chief for the coming year.
NHOMAS T.. WATSON, Unitod
= States senator from Gcorpio ono
OF the most fiery political figures Of
.ne time died suddenly of asthma
tuesday in Washington. For DO
years he was active In state and M.
tiohal politics, and he was the Populist
nominee for vice president in 1896 md
FOR President in 1904. The popnl,sts
elected him to the house of repre.
sentatives in 1891, and in 1920 he wos
elected senator. He was opposcd to
woodrow Wilson and his policies and
was especially against the League of
Nations
a CCORDING to tie Freemon,a
journal Of Dublin, Eamon da
Valera has abdlcated as leader Of tho
Irish republicans and Liam Lynch hos
succeeded him. The newspaper says
this destroys hope Of rational peoce
rs Lynch is driving his followers to
hight to the bitter end. The renub.
iicnns are keeping up their guerrilla
warfare, but the Free Staters ore
steadily cleaning thn,,, ~