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^<I??m????????W m -* m m ? *W^ k~ wF _^__^ ^ ! = ! The Union D4ily Times j =f * i DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Established in 1850?Converted to The Union &.tl7 Times October 1, 1917 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY I ! > ! 'I1 ! ! 'I't ! _ -JEI lli:.:;ilII1III1ll|? > Vol. LXXII No. 1369 Union, S. C., Wednesday Afternoon?^lay 3, 1922 3c Per Copy SECOND RACE FOR BETWEEN The city" primary came off yest voting was strong, but the order wa little bitterness. The interest was intense in the second primary. B. ] race in Ward 1; J. W. Gilbert and R. The mayor's race on yesterday resi Morgan, seeking re-election, and O. close in the second campaign. Morg day. 0 The votes that Went to the < 418. It may readily be seen that be close. The following is the tabulatec election: Lake Ward 1 28 Ward 2 55 Ward 3 52 Ward 4 19 TWol ?VV?? . lUi ALDERMAN WARD 1 Berry ..91 Cooper .. 34 Culp 91 Humphries 23 ALDERMAN WARD 2 Bobo 25 Gilbert 129 Hollingsworth ! 64 Harris :. . * . .84 Smith 5 ALDERMAN WARD 3 James 227 O'Shields 42 Whitener 120 COLEMAN ELECTED MAYOR COLUMBIA W. A. Coleman carried eight boxes in tour waras yesieraay ana won tne race as the Democratic nominee for mayor of Columbia over John W. Richardson by a plurality of 511 votes. Coleman polled 2,540 votes against 2,029 for Richardson. Coleman gained 400 votes in the second primary while Richardson showed a gain of 76. Moffatt B. DuPre led the race for _council and crossed the tape with 3,064 votes to his credit. * Sam L, Sweeney ran second, having polled 2,549 votes. L. N. Drake came third with 2,012 and R. J. Person tailed the ticket with 1,466 ballots in his column. Mayor Blalock, Councilman Coleman and Councilman Rice will have served their four year terms on May 16 and the newly elected city officials will be entitled to take their seats on and after that date. W. A. Coleman won the race for mayor yesterday ?rft?r having engineered the most ialf?ting and exciting campaign ia Um history of city politics. The RichArdson forces were lined up for a strong fight and the campaign waxed warm. Much was ppoken and written during the last several weeks and tne candidates indulged freely in the use of printers' ink. Enthusiastic supporters of Mayor elect Coleman secured Yarborough's band and let the city hall to serenade the victor. He and Councilmen-elect DuPre and Sweeney were heard. Case Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction Jackson, Miss., May 3.?The attorneys of Miss Frances Birkhead, stenographer, who is suing Gov. Lee M, Russell, her former employer, for $100,000 on alleged seduction, has forwarded to the clerk of the United States district court, of Oxford, a duplicate bill of complaint seeking tc have the case tried at Davidson ir the northern district. The case was dismissed yesterday for want of jurisdiction. Stubborn Fre on Roof of The Treasury Building Washington, May 3.?For the sec ond time in three months the firemer battled a stubborn fire on the roof ol the treasury which for awhile as sumed menacing proportions as th< flames were burning through the long superstructure leaped high and cast t threatening glow on the White House while the sparks wafted across the surrounding terrace. The President and Mm. Harding were awakened and watched the firemen battle with the flames. The treasury officials placed th< loss at $15,000. The origin of th< fire is unknown. Investigation is un der way. Max Oser Declines To Discuss Report! Paris, May 3.?Max Oser, the Swiss riding master, declined to discuss th< reports of his estrangement witl Mathilde McCormick. John D. Rocke feller's granddaughter. Oser is sur prised at the failure of Mathilde t< answer his cable messages. MAYOR 1 MORGAN AND SMITH erday without untoward incident. The s ^ood and, so far as noted, there was . tense, however, and promises to be L. Berry and F. B. Culp run a second H. Harris run a second race in Ward 2. Lilted in a second race between R. P ( E. Smith. The race promises to be ;an led Smith by only 89 votes yester ather candidates yesterday aggregated the vote in the second primary will ^ I result of yesterday's city primary Morgan McLure Smith Wilburn 99 19 53 42 11 114 30 68 43 ] 140 51 128 15 , 192 43 207 22 f 545 143 456 122 < ALDERMAN WARD 4 ( Lybrand 297 ^ O'Shields 142 1 Royster 48 ^ COMMISSIONER PUBLIC WORKS I Hames McNally ( Ward 1 138 106 \ Ward 2 181 130 ^ Ward 3 194 189 Ward 4 335 148 -j Total 848 573 I FLAMES ATTACK : TREASURY BUILDING i I Washington, May 3.?Flames which 1 f burst from the roof of the treasury i department shortly after 1:30 a. m. today, eating their way through a , superstructive and spreading to the J. central portions of the roof, were 11 brought under control after threaten- ^ ing heavy damage to the building. i The flames lit up a large part of the downtown section and sparks were wafted across the street to the White i House lawns. Awakened by White , House attendants, President and Mrs. ? I Harding dressed and watched the : I progress of the flames from a window, i The Are broke out at about 1:45 ^ a. m. today. Rapidly gaining headway k in a low superstructure on the roof, c the flames in a few minutes were i leaping 20 feet in the air. Following an explosion of chemicals * i stored where the fire originated, the flames appeared to be rapidly gaining headway. Four alarms had been turn- 1 ed in 15 minutes after the fire was " discovered. Several smaller explosions oc- 5 ' curred in quick succession as the * i flames rose to a height of 30 or 40 1 s feet and appeared to be enveloping ' t the entire central portion of the roof, i Sparks from the fire were being swept c bv a light southeast wind in the cren- 1 ' eral direction of the White House, but it was believed that structure was in 1 ' no danger. ' i Thirty minutes after the fire began N i the glow of the leaping flames was * ; lighting up the entire downtown sec- * tion of the city, casting a dull light over the White House anr the Wash- c ington monument. c General Conference of \ Methodist in Session v P Hot Springs, Ark., May 3.?The 8 election of new bishops and the uniti- ?l cation or Northern and Southern bodI ies are among the many important v i problems before the 19th general con- * ( ference of lthe Methodist Episcopa ( Church, South, which convened here i j today for three weeks' session. ' Legation Investigation Report \ I Peking, May 3.?General Chang 1 Tsao Lin's headquarters announced ( that General Wu Pei-Fu, the central t Chinese leader, was killed in action. < The foreign legations are investigat- a | in*?- 1 Bandits Rob Bank i i 1 ; Denver, May 3.?After firing nine ? i shots of nitroglycerine and wrecking t t?: i XT-.a.: 1 r> ? i. - * r _ * n ~ , uic rirni iNi?tiuimi dunk oi L?aiHy?'i.l<',| S ! near here, bandits escaped with $21,-'1 000 in currency and Liberty bonds. : ? i Anniversary of s Hampton Institute ? ~ t New York, May 3.?A delegation of men and women have left for Hnmp- 1 ton, Va. ,to attend the 54th anniver- 1 sary of Hampton institute, the object ( of the pilgrimage being to link more i closely the North and South in developing the institute. * Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Whitaker are 1 occupying the Arthur bungalow on Mill street. Mrs. J. F. McLure left this morning ? for Spartanburg to attend the Music i Festival. HOSPITAL BONDS SNOWED UNDER Union County voted yesterday lpon the question of issuing $75,000 n bonds to purchase and extend the lospitul here. The move was made >y the directors of the institution. A lebt of more than $30,000 rests upon he institution. The directors offered he property free from all debt for >50,000. The cost was $72,000. It vas the plan of those offering the lospital to provide for extension of he present plant. The vote yesterloy was more than ten to one against he county taking over the institution, md is tabulated below: 'recinct Yes No Jnion C. H 102 002 donarch 27 207 tonesville 2 232 Santuc 102 Sross Keys 97 Carlisle 59 [loleraine 31 Yilburn's Store 2 35 Heador 36 Vdamsburg 4 45 velton 165 Slack Rock 5. K. Mills 14 146 Buffalo 10 "160 Bibbs 29 ..oekhart 29 36 >Vest Springs Ill Total . . 190 2093 Jonesville News Jonesville, S. C., May 1.?H. G. >Vaters, Wardlaw 1-iong, Misses Manie Cudd, Josephine Scott, Dorothy Scott and Mrs. M. S. Geer represent !cl our high school during High school Week in Columbia. Wardlaw _ong and Miss Mamie Cudd were he speakers from our school. McDonald Youmans, of the high ichool, has been quite sick for seviral days at the home of his sister, drs. W. W. Hames. His many riends wish for him a speedy recovry. Mrs. H. G. Waters has been caching for him. Many homes are having some memler of the family confined with an ittack of flu. Mrs. W. W. Wood attended the itate U. D. C. meeting at Clemson College. She represented the John tames dhAJrtwr; ? , Robert Holcomb leaves Tuesday for spartanburg for a minor throat opration. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Harris and hildrcn, of Atlanta, are guests of he lutter's mother, Mrs. S. L. Craword. L. G. Southard and family of Spar anburg, were guests, also, of Mrs. ?. L. Crawford on Sunday. Miss Annie Aycock, of the Easley ichools. stopped with her parents, dr. and Mrs. E. R. Aycock, as she eturned to her school from High school Week in Columbia. Mrs. Ed. Wilkins, of Cherokee ounty, was a recent guest of her nother, Mrs, Mary Harmon. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cudd, Mr. and Urs. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jpscomb composed a party which risked Ixsckhart last Sunday as delefates to the Baptist Sunday School Convention. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Fowler and hildrcn were guests this past week if relatives. Mrs. Frank Hudson, of Timmons'ille, will arrive this afternoon to isit her mother, Mrs. W. C. Coleman, drs. Coleman is very ill at present ind her friends have been most mxious about her. Mis. E. F. Kelly was a guest last trnnb nf \f re IK a rv Po?i jaui i t ^sitnv. anburg. Mrs. .John Alman spent last week n Cherokee County as fhe guest of ler mother, Mrs. J. C. Pridmore. The Presbyterial of this district vill \meet Tuesday at the Joncsville " resbyterian church. A number of lolegates are expected and the homes >f all the denominations are being hrown open to welcome the guests. )n Tuesday evening a returned mislionary from China will give an adIress. This missionary has been a o-worker with our beloved missionary from this church. Miss Crncc ^arr. Miss Farr was born and rearid here. She is entering upon her hird year of foreign missionary lervice. Her field has heen a Pres>yterian mission of southern China. The many friends of Mr. Ed. Gault ?nd his family are grieved over his mdden death. Notice! The county Sunday school convention, announced to met at Cane Creek thureh on the first Sunday in May was a mistake. The meeting will br held on the first Sunday in June, not ibe first Sunday in May. The meeting will be held at Cane Creek the first Sunday in June. J. S. Betenbaugh. District President. Mrs. J. A. Beckham and little son left yesterday for Ninety-Six when they will make their future home. Mr Beckham is in business in that town raper pulp ana sirawoonra are now . mnde from oat hulls.' 'COURT DISMISSES J GAPPINS' APICAL The supreme court yestemw dismissed the appeal of Jesse ftppins, one of the ltrazell murder tHo, fol1 lowing the motion in the mo&rirg bv Solicitor Callison in open cofcrt for a dismissal. The court dismissed the appeal for lack of merit, ang Jin the course of the hearing Chief Justice Gary heavily scored lawyffs foi i what he termed as apparen&trilling with the courts. Under Itule JO the court <|in dismiss appeals where no metf! exists and it was under this rule ihi , Solic iter Callison made his molitaa in the morning. The order dismistliig tlr appeal says that everything fthat. ar. officer should do is presuiiredJ.to have been done unless proved , otherwise. This was in regard to the .'fcit plea of Gappins for a new triaLon the j ground that the grand 'jujV which indicted liirn was not sworii so fu? ; as the minutes of the courraphowe;! A motion to quash the HlSirtment would have been in or<?er m\ these grounds, the court says, n' no grounds for an appeal are Attained in such a plea. In dismissing the ap i peal the court orders the wnittiUr sent to the clerk of court avl/exington in order that a new dqwmay b< i set for the carrying out of lhc death j sentence of the lower court,.* i The appeals of S. J. Kir* and C I O. Fox, the other membeK of tlv I Rrnxoll mntvfai* fviri V?nvo i completed and it is undenkod tha Solicitor Callison will movefibr a dis missal of these alleged appals befor< the May term of the court & general session of coudt at LcxingtB. During the hearing on ifee motion of Solicitor Callison, Chin Justice Gary strongly scored attfeieys foi apparent trifling with the Shirts and declared that if the prucifc. of law hecoms trifleu with the lawyers w'V be brought before the 1 mt of the court and disbarred from Jpctice. Chief Justice Gary sp?e of tht number of murders, thcftyhnd other crimes over the state aJfEVeitcratcd his statement of some daE.ago that the court would fix the mufivnum limit for bail on criminals. ^* . The chief justice made it pain, thai the court is becoV*ng so many appareiuN triftitt^SBKita -The HgWt ing to maintain its dignity if Wr have to disbar the lawyers from practice," Chief Justice Gary declared Chief Justice Gary said Rule 80, tin rule whereby appeals of no apparent merit can be dismissed, had b.'en adopted by the court in an effort to i bring about justice. He added that the court thought the attorneys would I appreciate this rule and not try t' evade the ends of justice. The chief justice said he was not referring to any particular case. Associate Justice Watts then sp.ik of the appeal of C. O. Fox, anoth " one of the Brazell murder trio, and :? *i,ta ; wtvmmi II min nuv Vilnius ?* -ill the courts he did not know what was Solicitor Callison presented the mo tion to dismiss the (iappins appeal, claiming: that the appeal was with out merit. He said lie was anxious for the court to decide the case prioi to the middle of May when the next term of general sessions court begins in I,exington. Mr. Callison pointed I out that the appeal is based solely on the grounds that the minutes of tin j court do not show that the grand jury : was sworn, it being claimed that this made the trial of Gappins illegal. Mr. Callison said the grand jury had heen sworn, and that the matter of the minutes not showing this was the smallest irregularity possible. Mr. Callison said the appeal should be dismissed, in his opinion. T. C. Sturkie, attorney for Gappins, resisted the motion, declaring that tfte appear was made in good faith He declared the matter of swearing the grand jury was vital. At this point Justice Watts declared that he I UoiirvVtf t Van n/uirl n/mil/l K<i cfnlfi . fyinjr itself if it said that the circuit judge had held an entire term of court without swearing the grand jury, one of the lirst thinggs he is concerned with in opening the court. Little Girl Hurt Mnnnie, the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Edwards, was run over l>y a car driven by Mr. W. T Powell's sort. From what we can gather the little girl stepped out just in front of the car from behind another car that was standing near It. I/. Fowler's store, where the accident happened. The little girl was considerably bruised but it is hoped that ' she is not otherwise injured. Both wheels of the car ran over her. 1 Sharp Fighting at Kilkenny Kilkenny, Ireland, May 3.?Sharp fighting is in progress here today. The free state troops are trying to recapture Ormond Castle, which Is 1 held by the irregulars. NEW BREAK IN LEVEE FEARED New Orleans, May 2.?Disquieting reports from flooded areas of the Atchafalaya river basin, especially from St. Martin in southern Louisi ina, were received by Red Cross officials here today. A c< mmittee was iispatched at once to investigate eonlitions there. The Atchafalaya river flood, which ilready covers large areas of rich 'arming land, threatening to break hrough the levees at a number of dates, especially at Meville, is bein; augmented by flood waters coming from the Ferriday, la., crevasse. vVhat will develop when this added volume of water reaches the lower :*iver basin, where unconfirmed reoorts today placed the number of .tomeless at C.JOO, is omy a matter of conjecture. The food situation at the Louisiana efugee camps, which had become ritical through the practical depletion of all food supplies, was relieved today with the arrival at Rhinehart, I .a., of provisions sufficient to provide for 0,000 persons for ten dayIn addition two car loads of foods were today dispatched from Alex andria, l a., to Lasalle parish, where several hundred refugees were reported in need. Torrential rains which have been 'ailing intermittently in the lower ea< hes of the river for the lust 24 loins have handicapped the more than 20,000 workers on the levees. The rains have weakened a number t" places, reports said, necessitating closer inspection to prevent dangerous developments. The Red Cross state flood relief commission, national gugard, American Legion and civilian relief organizations were today con inning their efforts to rescue families marooned in their flooded homes, in both Mississippi and Louisiana n manv eases those marooned pre ferret! to stay in their romes, and did so, despite the pleadings of theii would-be rescuers. With the do pletion of the scanty stores these people have on hand, the rescue workers will face another task in providing them with food and cloth ing. Because the Poydras crevasse, 12 [.miles below New Orleans,"^s serving >s ,a spillway, speeding the exit of watel'S Ul river^ New Orleans will probably not have a return of the river to the level that existed prior to the crevasse, 22.7 feet according to an announcement by I)r. I. M. (Mine, weather bureau forecaster, late today. Dr. Cline had noxiously forecast a stage of 2M.4 feet here, "if the levees held." Jonesville News May 2. 1022. Tiu' farmers of this community are badly behind with their work but nope if it stays pretty weather tlm will soon catch up. There was a large crowd at the Sunday school convention at Gault school house Sunday. Mrs. Burts of Spartanburg gave us a fine talk. The Gault school will close Friday with a picnic at Gault school house. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Harmon spent Sunday in Jonesville with their mother, Mrs. Sallie Harmon. Miss Mae Gregory spent Sunday with Miss Lena White. Mrs. W. W. White spent Monday with Mrs. 1). C. White. A. D. Pit xico and D. C. White sp nt Monday in Union. M iss Mae Miller spent Sunday with Miss Beuna Plexieo. Mrs. Clyde White spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Gregory. Harry Tweed spent the week-end with his sister. Mrs. F,. W. Palmer, on Dnion Route 5. Beveridge Leading in Contest for Senator Indianapolis, May 3.- Albert .T. Beveridge is leading Senator Harry S. New in a contest for nomination for United States senator over 4,('00 votes. Cottage Prayer Services East side of Union mill Thursday afternoon, Mrs. C. W. Blaekwell, No. 7 Herndon street. Vrirluif nfti rnrMtn 3 *510 M Prntxtf Vincent. Friday evening, 7:30, Mr. Jim Arnold, Mill street. Above evening services conducted by Mr. C. F. McCall. West Side of Mill Wednesday evening, 7:30?Mrs. J. S. Oglesby, Second avenue. Thursday evening, 7:30, Hassie Surrett, T.awson avenue. Friday evening, 7:30, Mrs. Neely Dunlap, West Main street, conducted by J. B. Chick: Mrs. I., (i. Young and Mrs. Hunter Gilliam left today for Spartanburg to visit Mrs. Bobo Burnett and attend the Music Festival. SEVERE FIGHTING I AT POINT AI Mad Dog Killed On Monday evening while Mrs. R T. Mehan was preparing her evening meal her little haby was sitting or a blanket in the stove room and th< dog was lying on the blanket hrsid' the baby as was usually the ease When all at once the dog began U have fits and run all over the room Mrs. McMehan took her baby and rar in another room and closed all th( doors and cried for help. In the mean time the dog went out of a windov and ran around the house howling ant staggering and jumping back into th< house through the window and trying to get into the room where Mrs. Mc Mehan was. Frank Bobo and T< tnnn Briggs came to her aid and Mr. Bobt decided not to kill the dog as by thi; time the dog began to show norma condition. Then by a heroic act Mas ter Tommy Briggs caught the dog bj the neck and tied him with a rope. Bt this time Mr. McMehan and Mr George Royster arrived on the scent and Mr. Royster killed the dog, as 1 was too much risk to wait to see i the dog was really mad. It all could have witnessed thi: scene they would surely be carefu with their dogs around children. Children's Day Services Children's day service at Greei Street was a success Sunday night The program was as follows: "All Hail the Power of Jesus i\nnu*" Harry Hallman, Rebecca Og leshy, Hazel Stroud. "Give of Your Best to the Master -James Miller. Ezell Willard, Lilliai Fowler, Mabel Prince. Mary Stroud Margaret Miller, Clarabell Pool, Lou ise Parker. Ethed Surrett, Mirian Oglesby, Doro Thompson. "O Master Workman of the Race"? Ray Lawson. "Soldiers of the Cross"?eight boys Recitation- Mary Letha Shipmar Recitation?Billy Jenkins, Frost Os ford. "Holy Bible, Book Divine"?Mar Emma Lybrund, Elizabeth Sproust Louise Willard, Wilsey Mae Stroud. Recitation?Nancy Ward. Closing song, "O, for a Thousan Tongues to Sing." ' DttTirig "-the - hour <. the service wy turned over to the children. It seem that the church and everybody in i belongs to them. Green Street has live set of youngsters and that th foundation of the church. If th older people will only turn out to hea and see them they will realize the; have themselves been sleeping an dreaming of the church, rocking t and fro from the foundation on vvhic it was built. | Some years ago there was a ma who drank; his wife was waiting fo him, although she expected him to h drunk. She was anxious about bin She wanted him under her care be cause she loved him. At last he cam and she met him at the door as usua He staggered in, turning he scar e her from head to foot and said, "Wife how came you to get drunk?" H put his arms about her neck and sai( "I would not have thought you woul get drunk." Just so with us growr up; we sometimes think the church i going down and we put our aim about her in the form of our littl children to hold her up and we. :i drunk men, can't see that the ehure is standing on the same, solid founds tion and it is we who are staggerln in and can't see ourselves as other see us. Blue Eyes. Georgia Men Sought Milledgeville, Gu., May 2.? Th Baldwin county sheriff has been ur able to locate Cleon Johnson of Wast ington county, whom he says he want in connection with the slaying of I .or nie Griffin, 21, son of John Griffn early this morning. The sheriff als says that Charlie Hitchcock of Mai cock county is being hunted in th same case. The killing occurred at a cand pulling and dance at the home of V B. Renfore in Baldwin county. Youn people from three counties were in a tendance. Novel Way of Catching Fisl Londong, May 2.? A novel way < catching fish by Arabs was describe by Lieutenant-Commander A. S. S uroll.^Iiitfnn in /loanrihinor tho u/nrb t "V" MVBV. VIIV "V. II * I he British gun-boats on the riv< Tigris above Bagdad. The natives there, he said, laid groundhait of lumps of dough coi taining a snial quantity of opiui The fish swallowed that and, beeon ing stupified, floated about with the white bellies uppermost. Arabs wei in pursuit of them on blown-oi sheepskins whieh they manoeuven with their feet whilst the hands we free to hold the landing net. J. G. I/ong is in Washington, I). ( on business this week. AKES PUCE .ONG HUN HO RIVER ? , Peking. May 3.?The advices of the i Aim kiiii military attaches to State General Wu's main army appears to ri have engaged in a drive towards I Tientsin. Severe fighting has oc, curred along the Hun river. The , Fengtien army under General ('hang Tsao-Lin has temporarily withstood ( the drive on Chnngsintion, and stop| ped General Wu's movement toward Peking. The cost, however, is heavy, , Changsintien is being filled with wounded and many dying. I Peking, May 2iliy the Associated . | Press).?Heavy cannonading was in r progress today at various points along the front extending from Machang, south of Tientsin, across the , \icinity of Peking. Severe fighting s occurred at a point along the Hun 1 Ho river, 30 miles south of this city, . where 40,000 troops of Gen. Wu Pei Fu, the central Chinese leader, en, deavored to force a crossing in order . to gain control of the Peking-Tient. , sin railroad. t Gen. Chang Tsao-lin, governor of f Manchuria and head of the opposing fortes, from his headquarters near s Tientsin, ordered trains to convey the 1 main body of his 100,000 soldiers to the front south of the great wall > Two Manchurian airplanes flew over Tientsin and proceeded westward. Later airplanes dropped bombs near the station of Hwangtsun, only n a short distance from here. Advices received by military attaches here said Wu Peo Fu was >' sending troops northward at the - greatest possible speed. Fifty thousand of his troops, con cent rated at Poatingfu, are being reft inforced from the Yangtse provinces I. Twenty thousand others, recruited - from Shangtung, are marching ft against Chang Tsao-lin's southeastern stronghold at Machang. Two thousand dead and wounded were found on the field after the bat> tie at Changsintien, outside of Pe' king. The booming gof cannon was * heard in Peking all last night, but the cannonading ceased this morning. Dey spite the continuation of trench war' fare many foreigners, including legation guards, went outside the city to view the hostilities. ^ Corporal Mason, an American ma rine from Colorado, was shot in the hut not seriously wounded. s French employees at tht*-lo*?motive * works at Changsintien narrowly es11 caped when a bomb, dropped from an e anrplane, destroyed the works. e Cen. Wu Peo Fu is continuing to 1 move troops west of Peking in an ^ endeavor i.? en.elop General Chang's '' northwestern wing. This precipitat,l> ed fighting which lasted all night at 1 Fengtai, ten miles from Peking. Read Admiral Joseph Strauss, ' commander of the United States Asi1 atie fleet, was due to arrive in Peking tonight to confer with Jacob Gould Schurman. the American minister, regarding measures for hte protecj tioti of foreigners. Peking is eonsidered thoroughly protected, since the city's gates are closed at night and the streets are patrolled by Chinese J I l oops. Of Interest to Baptist is t s During the first days of last week 0 Dr. T. M. Bailey, the beloved, was a s very sick man, and for a while it ^ seemed that his time of departure had j. come. But as the week drew to its ^ close he rallied remarkably; and at ,s the time that this note is being written we hope to have him with us foi further service and sunshine. At times during his serious illness he would not know those about him and could not understand the things told him. But in these periods he was \teaching his Sunday school class and cpioting Scripture; and if any one misquoted a passage he could correct them instantly. Blessings on Dr Bai' ley. He is in his 92nd year and gave ' his best years of work to South Carolina.? Baptist Courier, le m . Notice y * A special communication of Union ^ Lodge No. 75, A. F. M., will be held in the Masonic Temple Thursday, May 4, 1922, at 11 o'clock a. m. for ^ the purpose of conducting the burial service of our late brother, J. E. Gault. The body will be buried at i(,j (.iilend cemetery at 10 o clock p. m. By order, . J. Gordon Hughes, ' Wm. C. Lake, W. M. ?r ' Secretary. n' TODAY'S COTTON MARKET n. a- Open Close ir Mav 111.71 19.77 fit January 18.97 19.03 L,t July 19.00 19.04 October 19.10 19.14 ro December 19.10 19.19 N. Y. Spots 20c I^cal market 18.00 1