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the union Daily times ESTABLISHED IN IBM-CONVERTED THE UNION DAILY TIMES OCTOBI^ 1, 191? wMamw 1920.^' ^ /|\ 6c PK1{ COP1E PEACE COUNCIL TO MEET TODAY Brussels, July 1. (By the Associated Press).?The United States will be informally represented here tomorrow at the meeting of the traveling peace conference, which after having sat in the three other countries most affected by the war, will assemble here in the Palais des Academies. W. C. Boyddn of Chicago, and Col. James a Logan, the American unofficial member, will come along with the reparations commission, which will sit at the same time as the supreme council. The Americans will give advice regarding financial problems, particularly concerning reparations to be paid by Germany, which are to be settled before the allied conference with the Germans at Spa. M. Delaceroix, the Belgian premier, will preside over the conference. The British premier, will be assisted by a party of experts and -aides numbering 140 ;M. Millerdnd, the French premier and Marshal Foch by a party of 50; Viscount Chinda of Japan by 12; and Count Sforza, the Italian foreign minister, by ten. The first question on the program for the conference will be report of financial experts and leading members of reparations committee on the division of the reparations among the remains to be fixed by the supreme council. It is understood that a reply to the Turkish peece terms note will be taken up and that the Russian situation will.be discussed. King Albert will give a banquet for the leading delegates at the palace. Burgomater Max will receive all the delegates at the city hall, and Brussels is preparing to honor the United States particularly by a special celebration of independence day of Saturday. Londan, July 1.?A dispatch to the London Times frdm Brussels desarib" ing the allied jnissionB for tomorrow's conference announces the arrival of "small unofficial American delegation < riijtfy aai. BIO. REWARD OFFERED FOR EXPRESS ROBBER Augusta, Ga., July 1.?A reward of $1,000 was offered this afternoon by the American Express company for the apprehension or for evidence sufficient to convict the bandits who yesterday morning on the outskirts of Augusta looted the express car of the Charleston & Western Carolina railroad of $59,725 that was being transferred from Atlanta to Parris Island to meet the semi-monthly payroll of the marines stationed there. No arrests have been made. The lone ban dit who bound and gapped the messenger and guard and threw from the train the safe containing the money and his accomplice or accomplices who, the evidence shows, were waiting with an automobile outside, have so far escaped the nets set for them. A half dozen express company detectives, aided by local city and county officials are working on the case. UNION ROUTE 2. Little Simpson Young had a birthday party last Saturday evening. The little children certainly did enjoy themselves. Ice cream and cake was served. We have preaching every day at 12:40 down at the Excelsior Knitting Mill. If it is a short sermon is sure is fine. Remember God is watching you, For whether wrong or right No child in all this busy world Is ever out of sight. He who blessed the little ones, Is marking all you do; Then let each word and thought and deed . Honest, brave and true." George Washington. Miss Lunette Kirby will leave to morrow for a visit to friends in Raleigh, N. C. Mrs. Herman Wray (Aurelia Gallman) who has been the guest of friends in Union will leave tomorrow morning for a mountain ^trip by motor,. Mrs. Ben E. Wilson of Sumter will arrive tomorrow afternoon to join her husband and make this their home. Mrs. C. E. House of Sedalia was among the shoppers in the city this week. . Miss Anne Tinsley has returned from a fortnight4;, visit to New York city and other points of interest. Miss Tinsley joined a party of friends for this sight seeing tour. SEEK LEADER TO OPPOSE M'ADO( San Francisco, Julyl.?The atterop at a combination against the naminc tion of W. G. McAdoo was still, bein carried on when the convention wen into its night session, but is was sti without any definite result. Lack c headway was ascribed to the absenc of central control and to the feel in; among many of those importuned t join that it was really directed agains President Wilson rather than wholl; at movement agpinst McAdoo. Tha feeling, its managers agreed, was it weakness. Another real difficulty was tha many of the supporters of candidate have enthusiastic followings, chiefl; Palmer and Cox, orgued that the; should not be asked to desert thei candidates until it had been develops whether they can gain strength. Ii these camps were scattering delegate who preferred McAdoo to to any dar] horse. The promoters of the otemptei combination against McAdoo wer proceeding desultorily and one afte another they continued to bring for ward such names as Former Speake Clark, Vice President Marshall, Home S. Cummings, Broinbridge Colby, am even William Jennings Bryan. Clearly and admittedly there was m name about which they could rall> The Cox and Palmer leaders laughe ot the idea of "swapping off" at s early a stage and asserted it ha dno been demonstrated that Mr. McAdo commanded a place in the running t cause them to fear him?it was witl them plainly a case of waiting to b shown. While the real leaders were dealini with the platform discussion, thos who for one reason or another opposei McAdoo, Palmer and Cox kept up thei informal conferences. Many contended that a few ballot would easily show the impossibilit; of nominating either Palmer or Co: and the bitterest administration op ponents warned delay in effecting i program which mlffht brinfr thereat nounced convicions embarrassed thes leaders by demanding to know wh; it was that a combination was neces sary . In many instances this force the admission that the principal argu ment hy they thought Mr. McAdo should not benominated was that h was the son-in-law of the presidenl The administration clearly as in cor trol of the convention and this ex planation was clearly unpopular i many quarters on that account.. All factions have been canvassin the state delegations to determine th actual strengh for each of the leadin candidaes. The returns do not agre but the nearest to an impartial est mate obtainable showed that on th first ballot the strength of Palme would be about 278, with McAdoo fol lowing ith 274 and Cox in third plac ith 160. This left 411 delegates seal tered among the other 11 candidate placed in nomination. UNION HOSPITAL REOPEN: After a month's vacation the Unio Hospital opened yesterday for worl Miss Mayme Darby, the superinter dent, spent the month with relative T Aunnunill. 1 tl. 1X1 ui/fTt jroTiucf ajiu ICtUlllCU IAJ Wii city yesterday to begin her duties. ANOTHER COTTON BLOOM Reuben Rice of Sardis sent us cotton bloom and C. F. Gregory c Cross Keys sent another in the sam mail. We are coming. CLUB MEETING The Midway club will meet Satui day afternoon at 4 o'clock at the horn of Mrs. Jo Holcomb. Miss Irene Eisoi who is a member of this club will giv an account of the work done at th short course at Winthrop College. The Sardis club for Women an Girls will meet at 3 o'clock Monda afternoon at the school house and ir teresting demonstration# will be givei Mahala J. Smith, County Agent. SERVICES AT FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURC] The communion services will b celebrated at the First Prcsbyteria church Sunday morning at 11 o'cloc and preparatory service held th evening at 8:30 o'clock. Every men ber of the church is invited to be pr< sent. I , hardest ww ' of a g (By The Associated Press)* ggj it San Francisco, July 2.?A day M 11 hind schedule and the. hardest /'SpM ,{ most important work is still ahellj e The convention resumed work ttodf^ g at 10 o'clock to hear $he report of & o platform committee ahd free thp *j it evjtable floor fight over prohibitum! y as well as the fight over the lei^M t of nations and the Irish question. forts to compose the differences oy3 the wet and dry issue in the plaWqifl^ t committee failed after hours of s gument and announced finally that;idl y proposals will be brought to the opep y floor of the convention. Under tlw r program agreed upon, Bryan will ptfM d sent his side in a speech limited to &C n minutes, and Secretary of State Ctflfa s will present the committee managprt k side in another 30 minutes. The a d rangement, however, does not coal^i e the discussion to one hour, for anyqgc r recognized by the.chairman can speJ| - for 30 minutes. The convention *6r day faced thfl possibility of the"j?n>r gram that might carry it far into thi d night session after probably a brill recesB for dinner. Whether the fl4{rt o battles will be ended in time to t* ji r. up balloting for a nominee before t ft d convention will have to quit fiffifc o sheer exhaustioh was the question^ 0 San Francisco, July 2.?The recoil" 0 tions committee draft on the platfem h was laid before the convention tt($fcS e for adoption. Conflict in the cottfrifbtion is regarded as certain. The Rpri p sympathizers among delegates aer^Mi e notice that they would seek to 3 that plank rewritten to include r declaration for diplomatic recofttP1 tion of the Irish republic. Decisijpclj 8 defeated in efforts to enforce a nil y dry declaration into the. commMs x structure, Bryan announced the wg* pOHe of renewing the battle on % a floor, fje also had 1 ' " ? d ( San Francisco, July 1.?Furiout warfare over the prohibition plank bee gap late today in the platform cqm t mittee of the Democratic national convention with every prospect that il would be carried later to the conven n tion floor no matter what the commit tee finally should decide. While the convention waited for th< committee's work to be completed ^ wets and drys -\frere locked in a strug e gle which some members thought i1 might take hours to terminate. c Leaving the subject until last be r cause it was the most troublesome o: l_ all, the committee had made its de e cisions on the Irish question and th< t_ league of notions and had cleare< >g away all of the lesser controversiei delaying its report. But so long as prohibition remaine< 5 in dispute, committee members agree< that their troubles were far from over n Aside from the wet and dry issue { the biggest fight of the day was cen ' tered in the Irish plank. Overrulini >s its subcommittee the committee threv e out the administration plonk proposini to leave the Irish problems to th< league of nations and adopted in it stead a declaration of sympathy and i pledge to take whatever diplomatii a action would be in consonance with in tf temational comity. ie In making their decision, the plat form makers also rejected by a two t< one vote the plank proposed by organ ized Irish sympathizers and backed b3 a caucus of about 200 convention dele gater for diplomatic recognization o: r- the Irish republic. ? At the same time in an adjoining room the caucus laid plans for carry e ing its fight to the convention floor 1? But while prospects for floor fights 01 prohibition and the Irish problem wen increasing, all likelihood that th d leogue of nations also would be a sub y iect. nf nnon Vinstilit.ipn virtually /tin i- appeared. The word was passed aroum that most of the administration chief here were content to let the leagui plank stand as it was when it emerge* from last night's stormy committe meeting. H The reference to reservations, adde< at the instance of anti-administratioi >e leaders, was not inconsistent with th n stand taken by President Wilson, hi k managers here believed, nor in con is flict with the party's record. *- None of the administration spokes 5- men on the ground would make a pub lie statement of their views, but it wa El ahead convention nit* to the. committee planks to prent to the convention, he added, but f not disclose them. The commit,rtee platform is silent on the prohibif tion enforcement/ It was a long docI Joment,- more than seyen thousand V Words, efforts to produce brief, em^ phatic statements are being killed at k the outset. A wide range of subjects , ire treated, including agriculture, laIt (jbor, soldier relief, and a score of i .democratic questions, but foremost ? Was the plank endorsing the league of \ nations and condemning the Repub Mean senate and expressions of the I Democratic party's sympathy with the . Irish aspirants for self government. } The Mexican plank urged that the > new Mexican government be recogli nixed when it proved its ability* to . maintain order and signified a willB.bigness to meet the international obli'gationB to protect foreigners. The f dlpims of the Republican public econo fby.were branded as a false pretense. . Another plank discussed the "shockdisclosure of the lavish use of [ liioney" by the candidates for the Re fcublican presidential nomination and i *the convention -of Republican SenaI tor" from Michigan charged with havi fog violated the campaign expenditure laws to draw the inference that ihrn-A is indicated "reentrv nndor fhp I fXH^n fT v""" ' Republican auspices as money is an 1 influential factor in the elections" and I 'fche stern popular rebuke"' is invoked. The Republicans ,the plank adds, con1 trbl the senate only by virtue of the I Michigan election mentioned. t Miss ] 'oily Bennett of Charleston, ? Wi Va.f will arrive tomorrow evening r t? spend a mouth with relatives. ? tffcjM Irene McDow left yesterday a#|emoon for Santuc to spend someS thfipe with her sister, Mrs. L. B. Jeter, fti', i' i ? J PROHIBITION PLANK learned that they were inclined to re guard the modified language of the - plank as acceptable. Chairman Cum mings of the national committee said t that so far as he knew no word had - been received oh the subject from President Wilson and he believed the president was willing to leave it in J the hands of his friends here. , Whether W. J. Bryan would be sat isfied to let the committee's decision t stand without a floor fight was not revealed. He had advocated a declara tion for immediate ratification with f compromise reservations, but in com mittee last night he voted for the a Walsh amendment with the explann1 tion that whil? it riiH nnl ontirnlv 3 cover his views, it would be an improvement on the subcommittee draft. | I Among the other planks completed 1 during the day wos that relating to , woman suffrage, the committee after i, a long argument following the advice - of the subcommittee' by aproving an ? appeal to Democratic officials in Ten<r nessee, North Corolina and Florida for ; quick action on the suffrage amende ment. 3 On the prohibition issue the subi committee made no recommendation c at all, and many members of the com mittee were for steering some middle course in the final platform draft. A . dozen or more of proposed declaraj tions, ranging from ultra wet to ultra ? dry, were brought into the controj versy, however, and the whole scale of . wet and dry arguments as rehearsed f as the debate progressed. William J. Bryan was the supreme f, chief of the drys. He told the com - mittee bluntly that unless there was a positive declaration for preservation i of the present prohibition laws he e would not hesitate to appeal his case e to the convention itself. The wets, - who suggested anything from a wine - anji beer plank to a blanket personal J liberty declaration, showed on equal s determination to fight it out before e the party's final court of resort. 1 To make certain that the commite tee's disagreements should be kept in absolute confidence, Senator Glass of 3 Virginia, the chairman, bonished i newspaper men and specattors to fure ther and further bounds as the day s progressed, throwing a cordon of po lice across hallways and other approoches to the committee room. He - also enjoined all members to strict - secrecy regarding subjects discussed s and action taken | NO PLATFORM YET IN SIGHT San Francisco, July 1.?Shortly after 11 o'clock the committee voted , 39 to 11 to reject a light wines and : beer plank. William J. Bryan had not talked on his bone dry plank up J to that time. The action narrowed i the fight down to two points, whether | the platform would contain a pro- . vision for rigid enforcement or remain silent entirely on the prohibi- ' tion question. . < Auditorium, San Francisco, July 1. ! ?After a futiln nicht imiIam mvoh bver principally to waiting fpr the wet and dry fight to come off, the ] Democratic national convention finally found the platform committee unable to report and without prospects of making a report before tomorrow. It adjourned at 10:20 o'clock until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. While the convention marked time down in the big hall, tucked away in one corner of the big building the platform continued its effort to harmonize its report. After practically closing up the question once, the committee decided to give William Jennings Bryan another opportunity to present aprohibition plank. Apparently Mr. Bryan made such headway with all his arguments that the committee, which it was once thought would soon make its report with a majority determined to leave the prohibition issue out of the document, found itself unable' to make a report at all. Permanent Chairman Robinson had a conference with Senator Glass of the resolutions committee, and it was finally announced that there was little prospects of the committee being ready to make its report "before tomorrow. Amid yells of disappointment from a record breaking crowd, which called for "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan," and "We want to hear Bryan," the convention adjourned until tomorrow morning. The resolutions committee, unable to settle the prohibition issue, had finally decided to let it come to the floor, an dagreed on a program which provided . for one speaker on each side. Williaita J. 'Bryan, of course, was to speak for a prohibition plank and Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state, and an administration leader, was to take the other side of the ar- ' gument. i DEADLOCK feared , j of the platform committee's report j caused a hundred delegates 'to become < Inpatient and many more ready to sup" < port a move to shorten the session on l report. They fear a deadlock in balloting and don't want the convention to run beyond tomorrow. Voting for the nominee begins immediately after , the platform adoption unless a recess < intervenes. There was talk of taking ] one or two ballots so as to get a lineup of delegates ,then take a recess , in order to allow the various managers < to plan for the final drive. FORECAST OF COTTON CROP] Washington, July 2.?The depart- ! ment of agriculture forecasts the cot- ! ton crop of 1920 at 11,450,000 bales. ^ BUFFALO i Rev. Jerome Morris filled his ap- 1 pointment at Putnam Baptist church , Sunday afternoon and preached a fine sermon. The congregation and community feel very Teluctant to give him . up, but wish him success in the new work he is undertaking. Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Brewington and family, of Clinton, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. M. O'Shields. Misses Coleen, Vera, and Broadus West spent a while with Sam West Sunday. I heard someone say that Moxy ought to be a preacher for he likes good things to eat so well: he is al ways writing about good eats. The church at Putnam is to be repainted and the committee is already at work on the plans. Get your pocketbooks ready, for the Lord loveth a cheerful (fiver. A committee has also been appointed to clean off the graveyard and before long we will have things looking ship shape.. Obedience. Miss Louise Glascock, of Catawba will arrive shortly for a visit to Miss Puth Vaughan on Route 3. Mrs. Aaron Smith (Emma Krasnoff) left today for her home in New York city after a months' visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Krasnoff on South Mountain street. ILLEGAL MONEY Budapest, July 1.?The government announces that the illegal money issued by the Bela Kuhn government amounted to 3,719,000,000 crowns. SHARP^WARNING FROM BENSON Washington, July 1. (By the Associated Press).?Warning foreign interest not to attempt interefence with the development of the American merchant marine -Chairman Benson of the shipping board declared today that the board was etermined to build up an American merchant marine as :ontempluted by the Jones shipping ict, despite threats and propaganda >y such interest to defeat the law. "The United States," said, Admiral Season, "in earnest in its efforts to jlace within ownership of United States citizens control of at least part tf its traffic in imports and exports, f it should by any possible means be leld that the departments of the government lack such authority as will nsure their being able to protect \merican interests in such control acblitional authority will be asked by the idministration and undoubtedlly be granted by congress. "Foreign carriers and those in the Jnited States interested more in for:ign than American institutions will lo well to 'let sleeping dogs lie.' Admiral Benson's warning was tounded' in a talk to representatives >f Pacific coast chambers of commer:e and trade bodies and American ail roads who have been disturbed by hreatf of foreign carriers to divert jusiness from American ports on the Pacific coast because of the section >f the merchant marine act premitting i perferential rate over carriers with ;he United States on mrchandise moving in export and import in American vessels. Such a threat the chairman said is "futile and idle." "If such a threat is sincere and the . attempt is made to 60 divert the busiless," Admiral Benson continued, 'the ' ;> shipping board will allocate American ships to .move the business. The ship- -,V ping board and the interstate commerce commission will follow this . $ . ? iction by other steps which woulcfc further protect interests of United States against such foreign effort) to iefeat the purpose of the merchant marine act. . : ? * ?rr wrrife ibout the enforcement of this section sf the law then adoption by foreign :arriers of their threat to divert business from American ports." COLBRAIN DOTS As I have been absent for a while, ivill try to write a few lines to the iear Times. I think it is the best paper I have ever yet seen. The farmers are almost up with their work in this community, and every one seems to have a very good crop. But very few ever thank their Master for what He does give them. Wonder when Moxy is coming out an this route again? Mr. W. H. Harrison, who is better known a? Uncle Bill," doesn't seem to be very much improved. Misses Martha and Carrie Johnson were visiting Miss Nellie Smith Sunday. Mrs. J. Tucker and little son, Callie, were visiting at the home of Mr. Kit Whitehead's Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Banks andchildren were visiting their parents Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Ponder and also Mr. Joe Wicks were visiting at Mr. Ponder's. Little Miss Arrie Sumner spent Friday with her uncle, Mr. H. F. Whitehead. _ Curly Head. SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE 8UN % There is an old saying "there is nothing new under the sun" that the Times reporter wishes to dispute. In talking to three ladies who had been guests at a recent wedding, not one of the three could tell what kind of dress the bride wore, nor whether she had on a - hat or not and did not know whether she carried flowers or not. Is*nt that something new under the sun? It is true, and though a bit startling and very much out the ordinary it happened and the Times reporter can prove n. THREE YOUNG WOMEN KILLED BYTRAIN Tuscaloosa, Ala., June $0.?Three . young women are dead and three seriously injured here today as the result of a collision last night between the automobile in which they tyere riding and a Louisville & Nashville passenger train. The dead are: Gertrude Yerby, Hazel Thomas and Birch Dolling. The injured: Kathleen and Rudora Yerby and Miss K. Thomas. Miss Gertrude Yerby was killed outright and the Misses Thomas and Dolling died during the night. No other deaths are expected. i