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VOL. 25. OHERAW, S. C^THPESDAY, MARCH 25, 1921 NO. M. APPROVES POLICY ON REPARATIONS CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES OVERv WHELMINGLY VOTE TO IMPOSE PENALTIES GERMAN PROTEST ANSWERED Premier Brland Explains How German Failure To Observe The Treaty Clauses Sanctions Advance Paris.?The decisions of the London reparations conference, the occupation of Dusseldorf and other German cities and the application of the allied economic penalties on Germany were approved by the chamber of deputies recently by a vote that was virtually unanimous except for the Socialists and Communists. The vote as officially given out was 491 to 66. Premier Briand, replying to former Minister of Finance Klotz and former Minister of War Lefevre, who respect ively insisted upon lurtner Jignt as 10 the government's intentions with regard to execution of the treaty of Versailles and securing the disarmament of Germany, took occasion to answer German's protest to the league of nations against the allied occupation on the ground that it was a violation of the treaty. He called the attention of the chamber to the fact that at the same time this protest was sent Germany had refused, on the summons of the reparations commission, to execute the clause of the treaty calling for the payment of twenty billion gold marks. "Germany," he said, "has violated the treaty in three essential clauses? disarmament, reparation and the trail of the accused officers. Thus the sanctions as provided for in the treaty are applicable and just, as we have applied them." The allied commission of control, he declared, was working under the advice of Marshals Wilson and Foch, and might be depended upon to satisfy the requirements of M. Lefevre as to the disarmament of Germany. M. Lefevre said that since he declared in a previous debate in the chamber that Germany was making a new machine gun capable of shooting fif teen hundred bullets a minute its ex' had hepn nroven. The (Tuns - ife>?ad been found in Koenigsburg, he dedteKd, along with a new type of siiE&." InclMamnon, proving that the Germans qi?. -T-i n'v-i mil n "'?T place that destroyed under allied control. He said that material had been discovered in cellars of the Spandau /arsenal sufficient to manufacture 6,000 field guns. Fire Insurance Scrap In Mississippi Jackson, Miss.?The five fire insurance companies which entered Mississippi for the transaction of business : after 167 old line companies with- ! drew, following the filing of a billion dollar anti-trust suit against them by the state revenue agent, have been made defendants in a similar action. It is charged that the five companies are using the same rate sheets as those former.y used by the old line companies that quit business in the state. Mapother To Head L. & N. Railroad Louisville, Ky.?Wible L. Mapother,: first vice president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad company, was 1 elected president of the road at a meeting of the stockholders in New j York recently, it is announced at the road headquarters here. He succeeds the late Milton H. Smith. Mr. Mapother, who is 48 years old, has been with the Louisville and Nashville for many years. His first employment was as office boy in President Smith's office. British Navy Head Corrects Quotation London.?Lord Lee of Fareham, first lord of the admiralty, declared recently that his reference to the United States in his discussion of naval matters at a meeting of naval architects ' had not been quoted correctly. What j he really said is: "We see the naval committee of the United States senate laying down the principle that America shall maintain a navy at least equal to that of any other power. That is a claim to equality which this coun-; try never has accepted save in connection with the great English speaking nation which sprang from our loins." British Factories Wroking For Russia London.?British factories are humming, turning out products for Russia. This is the result of the trade agreement recently entered into with Russia. Rotary Meeting Addressed By Wireless Pittsburg.?S. C. McFarland of the Pittsburg Rotary Club employed the wireless telephone to address a session of Rotarians at Charlotte, N. C. Mr. McFarland was to have attended the meeting in the South, but found it impossible to leave Pittsburg. ^ /?..???nla Writer.) ^rtuppp. nip? i~ranrv vjwhohmiu, ?? ? .., ? .-? Chicago.?Frank Gunsaulus. 65, nationally known writer, educator and lecturer, died here recently of heart trouble. He was head of the Armour Institute of Technology, having held that position since i?92. Doctor Gunsaulus entered the ministry in Columbus, Ohio, at the age ot 19 and later was pastor of churches in Baltimore and Chicago. He held prgfessorships at several Ohio colleges and at Yale university. He was known ail over the world as one of the best writers of English. BOARD TO AIDJGULF PORTS R Capital Declared Already Interested, . But Action Awaits New Board J Appointments I Washington.?Obstacles in the way (Nof further allocation of government ( tonnage for operation in the New Orleans-Brazil trade have been removed, former Commissioner Sutter of the ? shipping board announces. The action fL was taken, notwithstanding the refusal of the board to allocate ships to the Co United States Maritime and Development company of Detroit. On the protest of the Mississippi Shipping company, Mr. Sutter explain- ^ ed, the board refused to allocate ships t?E to the Detroit company. But, on March * 3, he adds, the board by resolution, gave the Detroit company the stand- ed ing of an operator, which would enable gta it to apply for government ships, upon j the showing that they will not be op- the erated in competition with established mil routes. ing t*.- ?.1 'a nion \fr Sutter derlar- W'il X uc uvui u a [/mil) *?*a ? _ _ _ ed, is to build up the shipping in the * gulf ports for the benefit of the Mis- nai sissippi valley section, so that products *n originating there will have a more di- Bta rect route to the foreign markets than ^ by way of Atlantic ports. me "The solution of the American merchant marine problem," he says, "lies ' in the Mississippi valley, where 770 per an cent of the country's foreign commerce C01 originates." ^ Detroit and St. Louis capital is al- me ready interested in the operation of cr government ships out of gulf ports, Mr. Sutter asserted, and the board hopes ex< to dispose of a number of its vessels aPl through creating a market for ships C01 in the Mississippi valley. 1 Allocation of sufficient tonnage to res gulf ports, he said, would enable pro- rel ducers as far north as the Great Lakes an< to send their goods by rail or inland co> water routes to the gulf and thereby su< avoid the rail shipment to the Atlan- the tic. Development of this project, he adds, would be pushed, but definite ao- the tion would probably await the appoint- Qa ment of the new shipping board by or President Harding. for the Negro Lynched By A Florida Mob po: Tampa, Fla. ? William Bowles, ne- pe< gro, was lynched by a mob near Eagle j Lake recently. The mob took the ne- t,y gro from two deputy sheriffs who had 8ic arrested him on charges of insulting in a young white girl. He was hanged Ap to a tree near the roadside. ? I / .- ; ~ /T - Hardwood Tlmbermeen Hold Meeting ret MemphiB, Tenn.?Hardwood lumber- pe< men and executive officials of the pr< principal lumber carrying railroads of an the South met here to discuss read- int justment of freight rates on forest ] products which hardwood producers th< declare imperative, especially on low at grade timber. sio pr< Coal Man Urged As Ambassador Washington.?The West Virginia Kr delegation in congress are urging the 1 president to make I. T. Mann, a West dei Virginia coal man, ambassador to noi Spain. After seeing the president, ar3 members of the delegation indicated hai belief that appointment, will be made. ^y tre Russian-Polish Pact To Be Signed Is*1 Riga.?Poland and Russia conclud- lov ed their peace conference here on the |?v ha( 15th. The treaty was signed March ^ 18 at 9 a. m. The agreement includes provisions for payment of thirty million gold rubles in reparation for Poi?> Rei ItftUU* 1 Ka Former Grar.d Vizier Of Turkey Shot me Berlin.?Talaat Pasha, former grand as vizier and minister of finance of Tur- ter key, was assassinated at Charlotten- mii burg, a western suburb of Berlin. He wa was shot to death. The murderer, an cer Armenian student, was arrested. The err student accosted Talaat Pasha in the Ma street and then fired the fatal shot. cor He also wounded Talaat's wife. 8UC of Ireland Observe Sad St. Patrick's Day SWl Dublin.?Ireland observed her sad- ?* dest St. Patrick's Day on the 17th. It was inaugurated with the attacks on military lorries. Residents within ^ sound of the firing were thrown into as! panic, fearing the inception of repris- re1* als for the six executions in Mount i Soi Joy prison. The generally expected re-' 192 prisals, it is feared, will precipitate dei serious fighting. , ite: Revival Shown In Financing Condition Ex | New York.?The sharp revival in the ^ automobile industry during the last ur3 few weeks is indicated in the fact 6ta that no Ford financing of any char- sul V61 [ acter is expected at present, states the u n | Dow-Jones financial news service. "If goJ the Ford business continues at the nU( present rate, it is possible that the ^ ! renewal of existing nana ODiigation ; ey will meet his requirements. The policy is of the company is to speed up produc- ex] tion to meet the improving demand." me Good demand is reported. poi U. S. Demands Settlement Of Row Bo Washington.?An urgent demand I that the government of Panama imme- th( diately settle its boundary dispute with cal Costa Rica is made by the United soi States in a note dispatched to Panama tin and made public by the state depart- in ment. The note concludes with the noi assertion that the United States ex- hoi pects Panama to indicate definitely its ter intention to comply with the repre- ; by sentations made by this government, cei The note insists that Panama abide sta by the boundary decision of Chief Jus- his [ tice White. wo a of state traffic and in unjust distil ination against interstate comrce." The Georgia commission, following announcement by the interstate nmerce commission in 1920 fixing ? rates In state and interstate com* rce permitted a 25 per cent incase between points in Georgia on > classes and on all commodities :ept those named. The carriers' plication for an increase on these nmodities was denied. itates fixed by the state authorities tult in a general disturbance of the ationship between the Georgia state i the interstate rates on cotton, the nmlssion said. As an example of :h disturbance the commission cited 5 following: 'The rates from Georgia points to > ports of Savannah and Brunswick, ., are 25 per cent higher for export interstate movement beyond than > local shipment, the result being it cotton is now billed locally to the! rts that otherwise would be ship1 at the interstate or export rate." Flallroads in Florida were ordered the Interstate commerce commis>n to raise state rates to the level effect in Interstate trafic, effective ril 26. rhe commission also held that rates' ?; - T ffi 'wrnte trfttrrr^TT?ftrrrTTffr mlted in "undue prejudice to shlprs in interstate traffic, in undue Terence to shippers of state traffic d in unjust discrimination against erstate commerce." Passengers rates were referred to in ? win nf thp rase, hut it developed the hearing upon which the decin was based, that no question was ;sented with respect to them. onstadt Falls To The Soviet Troops ielsingfors.?Kronsadt has surren ed to the Soviet forces. This anuncement is made by the revolutionr committee of Kronstadt, which i arrived in Finland, accompanied eight hundred soldiers. Before resting from Kronsadt the revolutions blew up the warships Petropavsk and Sebastopol. General Kosskie, leader of the revolutionists, 5 also arrived in Finland. The arofall of the revolutionists is re ted as complete. cess Appointments By President .Vashington.?Edward C. Finney of' nsas was given a recess appointnt by President Harding recently first assistant secretary of the inior. A recess appointment as comssioner of the general land office s given by President Harding rettly to William S. Spry, former govlor of Utah. D. H. Crissinger of rion, Ohio, took koath recently as nptroller of the currency and as :h automatically became a member the federal reserve board. He was orn in in the presence of members the board. ks Review Of Eugene Debs Case ' ' ^ 1 J T_T koa vasnington.?rresiuem nammg uao ced Attorney General Dougherty to riew the case of Eugene V. Debs, cialist presidential candidate in 10 and now serving a sentence un the espeionage act in Atlanta penntiary. perts At Work On Tax Revision Vashington.?Formulation of a treasr policy on tax revision has been rted and probably will be ready for imission to congress when it conies in extra session, April 11. Treas,* experts have been engaged for ne time in making a survey of revee sources and the extent to which ;h may be tapped in bringing moninto the government's vaults. It understood that internal revenue ?erts are preparing to make recomndations on some phases of the imrtant problem. nar Law Leaves The British Cabinet ^ondon.?Andrew Bonar Law, lord of ; privy seal, has resigned from the linet. Ill health is given as the rea1 for his resignation. He also rees from the government leadership the house of commons. This an uncement was recently made in the use of commons by the prime minisLloyd-George is deeply affected this resignation, saying he had reved a letter from Mr. Bonar Law .ting that he had been warned by j i physicians that if he continued he ; uld run the risk of a collapse, j ATES ON COTTON (NO BRICK RAISED TRASTATE SHIPMENTS IN Gfc.UK3ia to carry same freight as intrastate traffic ORIDA RATETARE HIGHER mmlssion Cites Example Of Disturbance In Traffic Which It Alleges Present Rate Cause iVashington.?-Freight rates on coti, cotton linters and brick within > state of Georgia fixed by the state :horities were ordered by the interte commerce commission to be raisApril 23 to levels in effect in interte traffic. 5assenger fares were referred to in ! title of the case'heard by the comssion, but it developed at the hear; that no question was presented :h respect to them, tates charged on the commodities lied, the commission held, "result undue prejudice to shipers of interte traffic, undue preference of ship ENGLAND RA^ES BLOCKADE First Entente NJtt&wvrb Resume Commercial RelatW,V Guarantees Freedom Tagolriet Ships London.?-Grant jfihtain, first great entente nation tfc^Jift ube commercial blockade againSj^oviet^ Russia, has signed an agrtMaent wNh representatives of the Mdadow government permitting the exchange of commodities between the taro (countries and guaranteeing Russianivessels the freedom of the seas. ,J' Completion o{ the negotiations, which began sevelal months ago, was announced recenf y; The step, which is one of the moid significant acts that has taken place' iftice the armistice, has aroused not |jly tremendous interest throughout ;J?urope, but a wide difference of sent ifcent in Great Britain. The British gov irnment, accused of having extended.^ krough dealing with Lenine's emissaifl >s, a tacit though unofficial recogjji Jon of the Soviet government, statef'as it has declared throughout the ppjuee of the negotiations that the agreement implies nothing but the righd<to do business between the two ci&ntrles, and denies that recognition M any sort or description is imijild by its signature to the documen^'l j The Labor ptfji. and the bulk of British merchantiftfew the agreement as a businesslikeF move, which will permit English bacerns to step into the Russian matlet in advance of any other nation^ tad obtain the first fruits and first wantages that such a relationship wotd bring. It is regarded by these iijotia victory for common sense de< ing with an international probleri > On the other hgi I, those who ieo in the agreement a y rtial recognition of the Trotzky and tine regime inveigh against it as deh ?g with a government "blackened r every crime and agents of which J a actively plotting the destruction^ af every civilized state"?as the AiAlng Post remarks. It is announcedithat the treaty Includes Russian J&ranteea!v that the Soviet will r&ri%Z?0]p anti-British activities In Asjpbespeclally in Afghanistan and Inflt In return, Great, Britain pledges hlrself not to carry on any anti-Russia activity in stateb formed out of the^mi^^^eian emib regard^^^^Reasure ^hicK wil bring tremendou/lbpport to the Len ine-Trotzky goveL Rent. In fact, tbe life of tbe present Soviet probably bat been indefinitely < xtended as a result of the successful work of Krassin ir overcoming all tt e obstacles to tbe project. It is becoming more and more ap parent that tbe Kronstadt rebellion far from being a revolt against Com munism, is purely political in every aspect and seeks ,raerely to exchange one set of leaderd for another. It ie foredoomed to failure because it lacke the impetus of general atni-Coramun1st sentiment throughout the country. The ability of Lenine and Trotzky to cling to power depended almost entirely upon the success or failure ol the British trade negotiations, accordKnot nninlnn hprp_ Ill ? IU IUC UVWfc ?Washington.? England, through her trade agreement signed with Russia, will become the middleman for American good9 sent to Russia?and get most of the profit, says Senator France, Maryland, leader of those Republican forces favoring resumption of United States trade with Russia. France, who will Immediately reopen his demands for ending American trade aloofness in so far as Russia is concerned, expressed little surprise at the announcement made in London. Small Boy Caught Selling Narcotics New York.?Charged with playing hookey to vend drugs, Paul Sproika, a 15-year-old schoolboy, was taken to children's court for arraignment. He was arrested in a Bowery alley by members of the narcotic squad, who said they saw him sell "deckB" of drugs for $1 each. Concealed in his school books, the police say, they found a supply of narcotics. Later the boy took them to a place on the lower East Side, removed a brick from an old wall and xposed his cache. Russian Dancer Asked To Head Revolt New York.?An invitation was received here by Ivan Narodny, Russian dancing master and author, to go immediately to Kronsadt to take charge of the anti-Bolshevist rebellion there. Mr. Narodny was a prominent leader of thp Kronsadt rebellion against the czar in 1905, and later escaped to the United States with Maxim Gorky, The invitation was sent, Narodny said, by the council of the Kronsadt rebellion, whose special messenger left Reval, Esthonia, two weeks ago to deliver same. Haunted By Visions Of His Wife Chicago?Every night since he killed his wL'e and their unborn child last June, Carl Wanderer has talked with her spirit, according to testimony given by Dr. Haroldd D. Singer, state alienist, at Wanderer's trial on charges of murdering the "ragged stranger," alleged to have been hired to stage a fake holdup. Doctor Singer said that Wanderer had told him that Mrs. Wanderer had come to high nightly in her wedding gown and holding a child in her arms. The doctor said Wanderer is undoubtedly sane. ROAD INSTITUTE f THOROUGH SUGGE UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED ' GINEERS FROM ALL OVEF THE STATE ATTENDED. ADDRESSED BY THE GOVER! ? Hope Expressed that the State W Thle V?ar Tak* AHuantanf nf Benefits of Federal Aid. Columbia The first day's session of the S Carolina road Institute was a i ough success, with upwards of 10( gineers from all parts of the t present and strong addresses by ] ers in the state highway commlE and prominent citizens of this other states, creating great entl asm and Interest. The meetings were held in the ture room of LeConte college on university campus, with Fran Brodnax, president of the road i tute presiding. * The night session was feature* an address by Gov. R. A. Cooper urged the engineers if they had Influence In their counties to ue to advocate the Issuing of bonds, declared that the federal governr was going to continue to furnish for good roads and he expressed hope that the state would this take advantage of the opportunit benefit by It. Now, he said, Is the opportune to put forth every effort to do all road building possible. Gov. Co said he would not venture to die as to whether top soil or hard sur roads or what kind should be 1 but said he did know that some ferent type from those now in v< ; in the state should be instituted, v." . Commission Names Field Men. ,W. P. hfoseley of Columbia an< G. Heyward of HardeevlUe were pointed field agents of the South \9lina tax commission, these two j dltlonal men being allowed by the geaers.1 assembly. bom mis a oesttKattmi here andna I Mr. MoseWand *r Hovwnr^T Mr. Moseiey was formerly witl * UOlumDia posionice, uui ujuio rc i ly was with the internal revenu : partment as a deputy collector, i Heyward is an experienced ma ? tax matters and the commissioi pects good results from the two agents. Both men will be ser i Charleston to assist the other ai . in checking up property in that ! Books of Game Warden Checked 1 Officials of the state bank e: 1 ner's office have finished checkln the office of state game warden found that.the accounts of the fo warden, Wade Hampton Gibbes. all correct to every detail. Mr. G J requested that the office be che and as a result of the bank exami ' work the retired head of the de ment is given a clean slate. During the eight months of present fiscal year while Mr. G: was chief game warden the total lections amounted to $110,329.2 record never before attained, Relief Asked for Irish. Governor Cooper received a gram from Morgan J. O'Brien, c man of the national committee fo relief of tie Irish, in which he asked to become honorary vice c man of the committee. The mes depicted woeful conditions in In and called the Governor's attenti< the apparent need for aid by Amt MeSwaln Visiting Oil Fields. W. A. McSwain. state insui commisloner, left Columbia for a to the oil fields of Texas. He probably be gone for a week oi days. Game Wardens Appointed. A. W. Smith of Garnett, B. T. mans of Estill and L. B. O'De Easley were appointed game war for South Carolina by Gov( Cooper. Kerr Is Traffic Manager. George H. Kerr, who for the four years has been assistant gei freight system at Atlanta, has appointed traffic manager foi Southeastern Express company. J. W. Bray, formerly div freight agent at Greensboro, N has heen promoted to assistant oral freight agent succeeding Kerr at Atlanta while Paul A. Wi formerly district freight agent a lanta, also becomes an assistant oral freight agent. Water on Trains Examined. E. L. Fllby, sanitary engineer c state health department, has re ed to Columbia after visiting berg. Ehrhardt. Port Ttoyal, Meg and Georgetown. He has been e ining drinking water supplies use railway passenger trains. Thes spections of water supplies usei the trains are made twice anni Mr. Filbv says that lettuce is 1 shipped from the truck section that the producers anticipati I profitable season in that vegetab Food Supplies for the West. I South Carolina imported $11,000,01 I worth of food and feedstuffs fro _ _ the West last year, according to fi LL ures compiled by the committee c Jjy banking, legislation and warehocsir of the South Carolina division, of tl American Cotton association. The li EN_ portation of this enormous amount i foodstuffs into the state was mac t necessary by the eagerness of the fa mers to raise cotton, many of the planting 17 acres to the plow. According to the committee stat ment the importation of food ai JflP feedstuffs into South Carolina fro: the West last year, was as follow" Corn $15,000,000; mixed feeds $11 000,000; hay $12,000,000; oats $10,001 ould 000; flour $20,000,000; bacon $20,001 he 000; beef $5,000,000; eggs and butti $3,000,000; canned goods $13,000,00 making a grand total of $111,000,000 "These figures," says the associ '' tion "are purchases from this sta outh only and every item must be paid. f< thor- in cash before the goous are deliver* ) en- together with the freight. state Isud* islon 8o' ExPre,s Company Liable, and The state supreme court hands tiusi- down an opinion of far reaching ? feet in sustaining Judge Whaley i lec. the Richland county court 1" the ca! the of the Terry Packing company v k E the Southern Express company. T1 nsti- couri holds that the Southern Exprei company is liable for damages ar can be sued in this state dlsmissir 1 ky the company's contention that it ht who no property in South Carolina n< any agents upon whom papers could 1 Ie 11 served. nent Attorney for the Terry cumpat showed that they had served the p the pers oe ,n? xgents of the exprei company as set forth by South Car y Una law by leaving the summons ai other papers on the premises of tl defendant's last known place of but time neg8 ui4 Lady street. the oper :tato Passenger Rates Now Higher, face Intrastate passenger fare on all ra built roads in South Carolina will be i dtf- creased to conform with the Inte jgue state charges, fixed by the intersta commerce commission, the charge he effective Mrach 16, according tariffs filed by the various rallroa* j tt with the state railroad commissio ' Attorney General Sam. W. Wolfe Cari now awaltln? a hearing before Judi a(/ H. A. M. Smith in Charleston on i last Junctlon proceedings to prevent tl Won oatorooB*01 ot the interstate m me<l mere# coaxunlsslon's order nnde^hh 1 the ^ increase. cent- ?? e de- Consolidate Highway Districts. Mr- Consolidation of the four distrii n in now in fixfstfinoe into two distri* 1 ex" and a considerable reduction in t new forces in the drafting room as well to in the motor vehicle division was i gents Qounccd by the state highway co clty- mission. The change will, in a lar measure, become effective April 1, though some men have already be cami- told ?ffig up The reduction was made necessa and due to the limited appropriation rmer lowed the highway department by t were general assembly. In the new ord ibbes the state will be divided into two < icked gineering districts, the eastern a ner's western districts, both having he; ipart- quarters in Columbia. the Want Parr Shoals Dam Removed. Ibbes Washington. (Special).?T. C. ' * liams and Frazier Lyon interested ' a the steamship line which operates the Congaree river between Columl and Georgetown, are in Washingt with a complaint regarding the d; tele- at Parr Shoals which they represe hair- is an impediment to navigation, r the They are trying to obtain an int was view with Secretary of War John :hair- Weeks. It is said to be their ho isage that the war department will ore ;land the alleged obstruction removed. m to jrica Loans are Greatly Delayed. Actual resumption of busine ance whereby tbe bank will be able to 1 visit loans will not be befc wljj April 1 and perhaps later than tl , ten date, according to David H. Housti president of the Columbia branch the federal land bank. The land banks all over the count You- bave been tied up for a long peri U 0f and now the radjustment ana tne < dens taining of fund* will necessiate a c< irnor siderable of time before the busine can be picked up again. Visit of Yellowstone Park Man. past Robert A. Putzler, general trav ing representative of the Yellowsto le National park, was In Columbia, st< been Pfng over on his first tour of t ' the Southeastern states. This is the fii trip that any representative of t ision park has made In this section wi . C., the idea of stimulating travel to t gen- Yellowstone park, but Mr. Putzier i Mr. nounced. it was his intention to ma iglit, the solicting tour an annual evei t At- Mr. Putzier said, interest in a gen- travel to the park has been growi recently. | Road Bids Asked For. " * A * I A# >f the Bids ror me ronsirutuuu ui v turn roa(^ *? n,n from Reevesville to ! George in Dorchester county will Ram* opened, the highway department t getts j nounced. This piece of road wo xam- was advertised sometime ago a d on Patterson and Goodson of Allendt e in- submitted the low bid. but the fii J on did not put up its bond and there lallv. failed to get the contract, jeing Hyde and Raxter of Washingt and bave been formally awarded the cr ng a tract for constructing the Pee D lc river bridge at Mars Bluff. : A GERMAN VICTORY : III UPPER SILESIA ie n of POLAND SECURED ONLY ABOUT 10 ,r. ONE FOURTH OF VOTE IN m RECENT PLEBISCITE fAREA IS 5,000 SQUARE MILES ). Election Will Go Down In History m er ? Momentous Event in Adjustment of European Boundaries. I# ' Berlin.?Germany won an ?veee whelming victory in plebiscite heML In Upper Silesia to determine the tmture national status of that region, aerBtiiPTt* mceifel LUlUlUg WW VftMVftW* - here. Two districts were still missing; at 9 o'clock the moring after, but the ?d count showed that 876,000 votes hac (f. been cast for Germany and 389.M9 In for Poland. 3e Reports from Breslau state that the s. plebiscite was generally without unie toward incidents. 38 Palm Sunday, the day of the sutlng in upper Silesia, seems likely to so ,s down in history as one of the moot ^ - momentous days in the adjustment of 3r European boundaries growing out of the world war. The . day had beec looked forward to with Intense intee'T est by all Germany and Poland as a- well, while evidences of world-wide 98 attention upon the balloting wero not o- lacking in advices from abroad, id The area Involved, comprising mm ie five thousand square miles, was (he ii* largest section of territory to havw its fate submitted to a plebiscite ueder peace trefcty, but even more taaportant than the size of the district jj was the material wealth contained in n] its varied mineral resources, mainly coal, but also including Iron, sine and t. lead- ? to * to 8ixth Largest Cotton Crop. Is Washington.?The largest cotton n. crop since 1914 and the sixth largest Is in the history of the country tnm ;e grown last year. Ginning statistics n- for the 1920-21 season, announced by le the Census Bureau, show a total of n- 13.366,764 equivalentr500-nound A comnri record Is slightly smaller than the Density of Population. :tg Washington.?The average density he of population throughout the United as States exclusive of outlying po?? -a or C anna nan silfm 8ioi1s wus olj.o pel ouuo |/vi ^ m. mile of land area in 1920, as against ge 30.9 in 1910, the Census Bureau aval. nonced. en The density figures for Souther* states were: Alabama 45.8; Florida. iry 17.7; Georgia. 49.3; Loulsania 33.C; ai- Mississippi 35.6; North Carolina 52J>; he South Carolina 55.2; Tennessee 5SJ; ler and Virginia, 57.4. * ?n- . ? nd Plans Coalition Government. id- Copenhagen.?Negotiations looking to the formation of a coalition govern ment for soviet Russia have been opened by Nikolai Lenine, bolshevik premier, with leaders of the Mmskeviki and social revolutionaries, in > on 3ja New Shingle Is Hung up. on Washington.?Formation of a partim nership between Joseph P. Tumulty, rat w^? 8erved as secretary to formerPresident Wilson, and Representative Randolph Perkins of WoodclilT Lake^ N. J., for the general practice of lav in New Jersey was made. 'Pe ler Revenues Exceeded by Cost*. Washington.?Governmental cost*, including interest and outlays for permanent improvements for the 7X7 >38 cities of the country with a popular be- tion of 30,000 ro more, exceeded total >r0 revenues by $8,991,000 in the year iat 1919. ra, Let Out Many American Seaman. Manila, P. I. ? Eleven hundret .Ty American seamen were discharged od from American merchant ships here >b- during the year 1920, according ta rv ra- ports of acting United States ship)sb ping commissioner, Francisco Corrales, just issued. Negro Labor Conditions. el- Atlanta. Ga.?Investigation of ecv ne ditions among negro labor on f&rum jp- in southern counties as conducted by he Federal District Attorney Aieunaa st is commended in a statement issued he by Governor Dorsey. ith ? he Reichstag Favors Disarmament, in- Berlin?The reichstag passed aB ke three readings of the disarmament bid nt. which was adopted by the reichstagnd committee in a form differing from ng the government's original draft of iba* bill. Typothetae Federation Meets. ?' ? he Pensacola, Fla.? me &oauit?auaB 5t. Typothetae Federation opened its axbe nual session here to take np among in- other questions that of the 44 boor rk week. nd ? lie Case of World War Veteran*. m Indianapolis.?A nationwide survey by of conditions surrounding the case of disabled world war veterans has been on started by the 800 Rotary clubs of tke >n- country, according to a letter received at the American Legion's national headquarters.