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\VY- \W I rt i u)|()| i it *"* : | *^tTTFi UlTNlliON JPlAtLY TllVIES iisSS^i; pppae I ??? rw? tXion Pail. Tim? Oc toW?r 1.1?17 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY | ' 1111111 '' J I DA.LY EXCEW SUNDAY iMUHiniiiii m*h>- ' ^ ' . ' * ^"" ' 3c Per Copy -uu.l_._i l " ' - uniq? s. c.T Friday A?l*r?HX^?cen'b<!r '? Vol. LXXIII No. 1561 I1*1 - - - -" " n a ? - ? r/uuiLK KAPS ON KU KLUX KLAN White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Dec. 14.?Prohibition and the Ku Klu* Klan were considered prominently at the 14th annual conference of governors at sessions today and tonight. Gov. John M. Parker of Louisiana in an address late today declared prohibition was a flat failure and denounced the Ku Klux Klan. He was joined in his attack on the secret ' organisation by Gov. Ben W. Olcott of Oregon, who referred to the klan in an address tonight as "a national menace." The Louisiana governor said hs referred to the subject of prohibition becduse of the intention of President Hard in fir to call the cnvnmnrn in con ference next month "regarding the matter of prohibition enforcement.*' Declaring that prohibition was almoat a farce, he said it was infinitely better to abolish the saloon, permit light wines and beer to be sold and have the government regulate the manufacture and dsitribution of liquor with penitentiary sentences for those who defied clear and explicit liquor laws. Both the prohibition question and the Ku Klux Elan, Mr. Parker said, were black clouds threatening law and order. The khui, he continued, was spread. ing over the United States and working under mask and cowl, was rising ,' ^ supreme to law and order. He asked that the governors put themselves oi) record at the conference as advocating that America should be ruled by her judiciary, and not by an invisible klan; that no masked men should be allowed to parade the streets, and that federal legislation be enacted to - tequire secret organisations to file semi-annually with the department of justice sworn lists of their membershin. "The boast of the K. K. K.," said !!? governor, 'Ma a boast of 100 per cent Americanism, but not once has the klan offered assistance to the department of justice or tendered information to officers enforcing- law and order." Governor Olcott . challenged the klansmen to snssdE. Yesterday the club asked you for baskets to pack the goodies in and for articles of elothing snd specified several things. * For fear you did not see the needs, the club publishes them again. No. 1. A coat or mackinaw for a nearly grown boy. No. 2. A coat or middy suit for an 11-year-old girl. No. 3. A coat or dress for a 16 or 16-year-old girl. No. 4. Clothes for little children. No. 5. A sweater for a man. No. 8. Any article of clothing you have put one side?shoes or stockings. Everybody knows how hard it is to keep children in shoes and if the mother and father are both sick and unable to work, what are the little folks to do? This is an extract from a letter the club got this morning: "I enclose 33.00 to help relieve the tragedy of the empty stocking. We all know that business is not as good as it once was, but it is all the more reason why we should see that the little children are not disappointed and that all of them get a visit from Santa Claus. I could not enjoy my own Christmas goodies if I felt that ?" not heen done in reliev J f*" * , ing the empty stocking." Wont you help, too T If you do not wish to Join the club, play Santa Claus on your own account and help make somebody happy this year. Ambassador Harvey Coming Home London, Dec. 15 (By the Associated Press).?Ambassador Harvey ha* been called home for a consultation according to a statement at the American embassy today. He will sail 01 December 28rd. Cradits for Farmers Is Live Topi? Washington, Dec. 15.?Group meet i?fs for discussion of cooperative marketing problems featured today'i session of the national council o: fanners cooperative marketing asso elation. Various government official snoke on the subject of credits for th< brum. Runaway Union Boys Caught in Spartanburi Spartanburg, Dee. 15.?Clyde Mc liswaa, James Wells, Joseph Herlon and Dewey Millwood, runaway Ur ion boys, were taken from a freigfc train here today. They said they ha started for Florida but when a trai came going the other way they d< - cidad to go West Miss OlUe Mae Pollard of I^andi College will arrive today for tl Christinas holidays. SOUNDS PRAISE H AT FIRST MEETING Washington, Dec. 14.?Indorsement of cooperative marketing was ex- cu pressed by President Harding, Secre- co tary Wallace of he department of tie agriculture and Dr. Julius Klein, chief vii of the bureau of foreign and domestic ir< commerce of the department of com- tie merce, and by a number of represen- ad tatives of farmers' organisations at ta< the first meeting today of the national pr council of farmers' cooperative maf- do keting associations. National organ- 1 izations marketing major commodi- iss ties were represented by several hun- A4 died delegates from 36 states. re] In a message of greeting, read by tia Senator Ernst of Kentucky, the pros- th 'dent declared he knew of "no single th movement that promises more help to- *h wards the present relief and the per- th manent betterment of agricultural ch conditions than the cooperative or- Be ganization of farmers to market their tia ; nroduct" ?' F" The system, Secretary Wallace said, should act to avoid glutting markets sic wHh farm products and at the same th time to obviate periods of scarcity, so thus pi evening both ruinously low ciu j prices to producers and high costs to kr consumers. ro "If we can avoid these periods of ca feasts and famine," he added, "the th farmers will benefit more by a fairly im stable price and the consumers will be he able to buy what they need at more t{< I i ensonable prices. Hence; as I see it, st I the organization and successful conduct of fanners' cooperative associa- en tions result in a benefit both to farm- th ers and he people who consume the ne products." # pa The department of agriculture ! - fu vards marketing as essentially a pari ir.< < f production, the secretary said, "and it Beems to us just as much our ad business to help the farmer market ie hi: crops intelligently and get fair ? prices for them as it is to help him produce them in the first place. A pi productive agriculture must be a pi prosperous agriculture." al Declaring he wanted the govern- m inent to do "everything within reason, tu anr sound procedure" for the afjd of B; the farmers, President Hardtop 'jInI# he was "still more anxious that tiie el farmers shall themselves cooperate to m Death' of Joe Fant tt p< Joe M. Fant, w#ell known 700ns hi man of this city, died euddenly Satuiv d< day night while en route to a Char- n< lotte hospital, death being caused by tr acute indigestion. Mr. Fant went to Charlotte to attend a lodge meeting. Gi After the meeting he went to a cafe sc and ate lunch, and went from there T to the Southern passenger station to &< return to Concord on train No. 80. vi He decided to walk to the Stonewall in Hotel to wait, and just before reaching the hotel was stricken. The phy- tt sician who was called to attend him SI ; tar ted to a hospital with him, but he R (.Med en route. r< The body was sent to Townesville, sj S. C., and the funeral services were q. held there Sunday afternoon at 2 e> o'clock. /ill Mr. Fant was about 30 years of tx , age, and is survived by his mother, Mrs. J. M. Myers, of* Townesville; his M wife, Mrs. Mary Scarboro Fant, and . , one child. His wife anther parents, [ Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Scarboro, are in Townesville now. ^ Mr. Fant was a painter and had made his home here since his mar- ^ riage several years ago. He was a graduate of the Cedar Springs School for the Deaf and Dumb, and had also w t taught in various deaf and dumb l* ( schools in the South. " The announcement of his death was 131 received with sincere regret by his many friends here.?Concord (N. C.) ** . News. P' 1 4 Mr. Herbert Fowler of The Tlmae T 1 force was a school mate of Mr. Fant's H 1 Springs and he was well t! * known in Union. Several years ago ai ' he did considerable work for the Un- c< 1 ion-Buffalo Mills Co., and general regrot felt over his sudden death. a ? ?? a In Appreciation b ' tl . . _ . .. . f mere are two aear oia <jnnstian la- . * dies, one 78, and the other 82. They *1 8 are sisters, Mrs. Frankie Foster and r 8 Miss Mary Jane Clarke, living near Mount Vernon church, about five miles from Union, near Whitmtre 1 road. They are known to many, and t 9 loved by all who know them. They 1 have ministered to many, without rJ r<oney and without price. ] To get their wood and other com- C 1 forts we needed $25.00. Of this C amount $2.50 was previously given. * - At this morning's men's prayer meet- \ K ing, Salvation Army hall, their cause c i- was presented. Mr. Warren Arthur t it suggested an immediate collection, i d The generous response was $21.17. n We needed $26.00: God gave, through I u kind hearts, $26.67. He still answers i prayer. / 1 Happy Christmas to you, who ha4e ] nr given this help te Sincerely yours, 1 J. Fi Matheson. ' < , [OPE HELD OUT F AT CONFERENCE Lausanne, Dec. 14 (By the Assorted Press).?Although Turkey was ^ nciliatory today on the great que*- iri >n of accepting some form of super. tl sion from without on the general lf satment of the Christian popula- N ?ns inhabiting Turkey, she proved amant in insisting upon the depor- <-< Lion from Constantinople of the suerne patriarch of the Greek Ortho- {c t. U b< a vnuivu. This is one of the most important c ues of the Lausanne conference. c kMMid it surge all the historical and ^ ligious differences between Chrtsinity and Mohammedanism. Since (* e Turks consider Constantinople ^ eir city they resent that its soils P1 ould serve as the permanent seat of ?* e pontiff of the Greek Christian ul urch, they maintain that Athens o> '} >me or some other avowedly Chris- l:< m center should be chosen as his w ace of residence. At the meeting of the subcommis- in >n on the exchange of populations o1 is afternoon the allied delegates mewhat diffidently brought up the UI estion of the Greek patriarch, towing full well the dangers sur- ai unding any discussion of this deli- ai te religious problem. Immediately e Ottoman representative arose and al slated that the petriarch must go, cause he had been mixing in pollas, to the detriment of the Ottoman G ate. A debate of considerable asperity '8 sued. The Greek delegate warned w e subcommission that Greece would iver agree to the deportation of the n itrioarch and would probably re- p) se to sign any treaty which author- ll ed such a step. 11 The meeting was somewhat hastily a Ijourned, but another attempt to P ach an agreement will be made in tday or two. F Although there are five orthodox <? itrioarchs in the Orient, it is the itriarch in Constantinople who has ways been given the rank of prists, because he has resided for cenirAes in the ancient capital of the ysantine ftmpire. [ Wben llte probable return of Con- r antine^le to the Turks was an- a mpng the Athenians, who foresaw ^ ie possibility of the patrioarch's de- t jrtation. Former Premier Venixelos t u received countless messages from svout Greeks, imploring him to make > surrender of the issue of the pais rch. i By announcing today her intention ? F joining the league of nations as on as peace is signed at Lausanne, r urkey virtually admitted she would v ?cept the league of na$ons' supersion over the Christian populations Q i Turkey. The subcommittee for the study of t te future administration of the j traits of the Dardanelles and the t osphorus is steadily making prog>ss and today's developments, de- ] lite the Turks' implacability on the t lestion of the patrioarch asnd the cchange of populations, have created t ie impression that peace really will f i signed at Lausanne. lias Eunice Thomson to Spook The special meeting that is being ild each Sunday afternoon at the slvation Army hall will be changed 8 om 3 o'clock to 4 o'clock, this sug- 1 9stion being made in the last Sun- a ?y's meeting, which was so largely ttended. The Sunday school hour * ill remain the same at 8 o'clock and * te special 4 o'clock service will be 1 lown as the Sunday afternoon s raise service.; 1 Miss Eunice Thomson, the eiBcient * >okkeeper at the Eagle Grocery com- t any, will speak next Sunday at this ' o'clock praise service. While Miss ' homson has not been before the pubc much as a speaker yet she has 1 r.t ability to please and interest an udience and the public is urged to i jtT?e out at this hour and bear her. < Last Sunday when Mr. Long spoke < t this meeting most of the largi ] udience was composed/of man and oth men and women , are invited to ( bis service. Come and bring your riends with you and get blessed , plough this afternoon service. 1 J A Consolidated Home Demonstration Club The Consolidated Home Demonstra. ion club will meet at the Yonng tan's Business League hall, next faesday, December 19th at 2:80 p. m. tra. Dora Dee Walker, State Food Conservation Specialist, Wtnthrop College, will can sausage and pork nd will make Brunswick stew. Mrs. Valker is authority en all yhesis of annlng, and no hooMvtfa, howtvar inly she may bo, can wall afford to nisa this mooting. Aa thia la the last mooting this yoar t la partknisrly Important that every nimfisr ha ptoasot as plana will bo aado far oarrying on tho wotk no*t roar. " Please romombor tho dato, Doeom>er 19th, bow SdO p. m. and plaeo, Ifonng Man's Business League halt 'LAN PROPOED TO HELP ?RMANS Washington, Decj Appropria011 of $70,000,000 iwf' yieying famio conditions in GMSMOy and Aus ia was proposed lBr*8olution in>duced today b? JPPresentative ewton (RapoblicadjK|Missouri. The resolution, wf|||tj<ieclareti the jople were in detgyfelr^vides that le fund be expmdeftXftPurchase of K>d supplies in theJ^Wvd States, to i distributed by tvprnnierican Red rose with the dpfliBBice of Red ross organization^ praternuiny and wim *?* I "MT^'i-TiL Introduced in bthiif CM 21 members ' congress, the #ee?tion recited tat "widespread sticriMOn even now [evails among the'70y?0,000 people f Austria and GerdUW," and that xless relief is liiiiUljlyy extended, mndreds of iliniiljupM if not mil>ns will die of hna^qfcjpd cold durig the coming wind&rW Bread riots alresAk^ftive occurred i a number of GteranHBies, the res. ution continued. per cent of le children of the tasfMfcuntries are xdernourished, end ? ! death rate 'om tuberculosis, etafebh troubles rid other diseases hiWtPicreascd to i alarming extent." Mi The resolution dte^M that the Hied reparations eoffl^Ksion had esmated 2,000,000 ton^^Kgrain would 3 necessary to prevfjj^mervation in ermany, and that urfj^HfTlow value F the mark twice tj^nnt circuition of paper mont^H^jthe nation ould be requited to WRi it. In a statement mMBMnying the ^solution RepresaH&WI Newton kid that under the the peace reaty Germany ham^HAquired to relinquish milch cqjn^Hfiirs, goats nd sheep esaentiaU^^Hfood suply, and that in JflMB&thc great ulk of her coal taken to ranee and Belgio^HHlE a conseuent shut down ofrfHsilt. roung Men's At a meeting of WBobi Men's (usiness League hel?| EtUft in the (>01X18 of the ofgrfHaMMbn Officers tnd directors werfl ffig fm> the W. 8. Nicholson; pmK3j!w. Vilbanks, vice president; JT, H. Perin, treasurer; Ben T! Gifim, ^ecre. The following new dirniora were hosen: W. S. Nicholson, T. C. Ally, S. D. rruluck, W. A. WalMr, pr. P. P. valley and E. A. Goodwin. | A committee was apposed to arange for an annual banquet in Janiary. The club elected Gipsy Smith honorary member. W. H. PerHn, the reiring president, presented a photorraph of Gipsy Smith, handsomely ramed, to be hung in the rooms of he organization. Short talks were made by the newy-elected officers and other routine lusiness was transacted. Hon. A. G. Kennedy made an interring talk on "Preparedness." The tpeech was made in bekalf of the Vmerican Legion. Young Girl Severely Burned Mrs. Elias Prioleau received a mestage yesterday afternoon that her liece Miss Lizzie Sinklcst has been everely burned. The young lady is attending the iumter High School and makes her tome with relatives in that city; she lad returned from school and was (tending with her back to the fire when her clothing ignited. The meslage stated that she was severely, hough not seriously burned and relatives who ran to her assistance were ilso considerably burned. Entertainment Saturday Night There will be an entertainment it ;he hall over the Mill 8tore Saturlay night, December 16th, at 7:30 /clock, for the benefit of Green St. Methodist Missionary Society. The music will be furnished by the string band. ltpl Ambassador Harvey's Visit a Secret ? <C /T?_ 1L. A wasmngton, uec. w wo nw ciated Press).?The itate departmenl officials today confirmed the Londor announcement that Ambassador Har \ ey had been called borne "for consultation" and declined to explain th? specific questions Secretary Hughei vr^nta to discuss with him. In tin absence of official exp]anation the im pression gained currency that he hat beep called here in connection witl the German reps rations aituatioi which is now threatening a break be tween England and I'ratjce. The nature of the consultation i unknown at the embaaey. It is pre sumed the discussions will cover tit whole range of European affairs, in eluding the alien war debts, rspara tions and ktnired subject*. Harve baa bean 111 with a cold for severs days. His visit will coincide with tiu of the British debt eenmiasion. ' it \ GOVERNOR WILL ** NOT INTERFERE Governor Harvey will not interfere with the sentence of death against Frank M. Jeffords, according to his reply to a personal letter from Jeffords, made public at the executive ?dices yesterday. "Interference by me solely on the grounds of kindness, sympathy and good will, would be to flaunt the duly provided sysiem of trial provided by law," the governor says in his letter to Jeffords. The letter was written in response to a personal plea from Jeffords in the form of a letter and a petition for clemency. "My heart goes out to those who love you, and I only wish some real justification warranted me in being of help to you," the governor says. His full letter to Jeffords is as follows: "Dear Mr. Jeffords: Your letter received. You will never know just how sorry I am for you?how I feel for you and your dear ones, and how I would like to give you some hope in your trouble. My heart goes out to those who love you, and I only wish some real justification warranted me in being of help to you. The governor is not given the power of clomncy, based on sympathetic grounds. There must be some reason, not known to the court. You were duly tried, according to the law?the hlgh<r courts have passed on the legality of the acts of the lower courts?appeals through the regular channels hove all been exhausted, and interference by me solely on grounds of kindness, sympathy and good will would be to flaunt the duly provided system of trial provided by law. It is not easy for me to write his. It is heartrending to me?and I am thinking of you, my poor fellow, many times when you *do not know it. I have my solemn duty to perform, whatever it costs me, and I would not be doing you fairly^ if I answered you otherwise. "I was silently praying that your case would be carried beyond my term of office. I am truly sorry for you and to you and yours I have naughl but good will and kindness, and 1 I could give you something that wa costs me personsdly in griew and sor row. "Yours in all kindneas, "WilsohG.Har vey, "Governor." Today's Cotton Market Oiv>n 2:00 n. m December 25.50 25.35 January 25.66 25.47 March 25.72 25.64 May 25.80 25.72 July 25.48 25.48 l ocal market 25.7( Athletic Association Meets in GreenvilU Greenville, Dec. 15.?The Southerr Intercollegiate Athletic association ir a meeting here today suspended th< Chattanooga University for violating the freshman rule. Poincare Is Optimistic Paris, Dec. 16.?Premier Poincar< today told the chamber of deputiei that he was leady to withdraw il the chamber thought another cabinet than his would do better work foi France. He sketched the reparation! and Turkish peace problem optimis tically. Personal Mention Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Alverson of S?< dalia will have aa their guests during the holidays, Mr. and Mrs. Charlei Goforth and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Go forth and children, -of Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Lampley w children of Laurens will spend th< holidays with their parents, Mr. i.p< Mrs. J. V. Askew. Misses Elisabeth Matheson am Elisabeth Peake, of Chicora Collegi will arrive Wednesday for the holiday vacation. Martin F. Hullender, Jr., who ha a* iL _ TT T> If'IU Dcen wnn me u,-d. iuiiis euuifiauy iu sometime, has accepted a position 01 the road with the Southeastern Ex press Co. He will be located in Char : iotte. Mrs. B. H. England and daughter t will leave this week for West Win t held, New York, to spend the Christ mas holidays. Mrs. J. T. Sprouse (Blue Eyes) an I Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Haraea left thi i morning for Harwich, Pa., where the i will reside in the future. Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Graham c 1 Waco, Texas, will spend the holiday i with relatives in Union county, i Mrs. Dora Dee Walker, sta< - demonstration agent, will be in Unio this week, assisting Miss Mahal dSmith, the local agent, in the demoi * stration of canning meats, e Miss Agnes Breeden, of Bennett i- villa is expected to arrive this ?m - to spend past of the Christmas hoi y days with college friends. d Miss Kathleen McGee of York wi it spend the Christmas holidays wH Miss Mande Goforth. HOUSE TAKES UP ARMS QUESTION Washington, Dec. 14. ? President Harding, according to a statement made in the house today, "has been * engaged for several months" with the f ' uestion of negotiating with the big I powers abroad relative to limiting the ? construction of warships under 10,000 tons, which he is requested to do r under a provision of the naval supply i oill. 1 This information as to the reported attitude of the president waa given t by Representative Lineberger (Re- a publican) of California, during a ii brief flurry of debate, while Chairman r Kelly of the subcommittee, in charge o of the measure, was seeking to ex- ? plain the reasons for the request. It i was admittedly a surprise to the com- b mittee, which had not consulted the ? president prior to presentation of the t. bill. b Mr. Kelly had just declared that n vhile the arms conference had af- o forded a net saving of $128,000,000 u the general staff of the navy had recommended a projected program, un- f der the 10,000 ton limitation entailing c the expenditure of $331,000,000 when t Mr. Lineberger interrupted. "The gentleman is requesting the ' president of the United States to do a something which we and every one i knows he has been engaged in doing i for several months past," said Mr. t Lineberger. "Would it not be much s better verbiage to approve that which a the president is now doing rather ^ than to request him to do something ' that he has been doing for months?' The only other reference to the 1 president was made by Representative ? Byrnes of South Carolina, ranking Democrat of the subcommittee, who 1 said he had not known what Mr. Line border told the house, that "the pres. 1 ident is now at work upon some plan < for the calling of another conference < for the limitation of armament." "I assume the gentleman has the information from the president," Mr. ' Byrnes added, "and I am delighted to i know this is true." , Many questions were directed at t Mr. Kelly as to what the other na1 t'ons had done in the matter of naval i. had already begun to scrap before the conference,'* he raid. "In other words there have been no results thus far?" asked Representative London (Socialist) of New York and Kely answered, "No." Chairman llutler of the naval committee broke into the discussion. "We have accomplished just this," he said. "We have traded the lfi-inch fcun for two eight inch guns," and Representative Britten of Illinois, . ranking Republican of the naval com' mittee declared, "We have lost the opportunity to become the first naval power and ?vo shall probably be the * second or third." 1 Generally, the bill had easy sailing. 1 Yr. Byrnes and Representative Oliver - > Democrat) of Alabama, another t member of the subcommittee, discuss od tlie measure in detail and explained now the arms conference had affected building progrems. i Taking up the bill item by item, the i house had covered one-fourth of the f distance when it quit tonight, and it t will be held in port tomorrow while f an election contest is given right of ' v ay. Rural Police Active On December 6th Thos. MeDaniel, t . V. E. Lawson and S. R. Garner der s troyed 120 gallons beer on Thos. Me> Nally place. On December Oth Thos. MeDaniel and Jas. G. Faucett destroyed 240 ] gallons of beer on Mrs. Smith's place. ? On December 14th Thos. MeDaniel, i S. R. Garner and Henry Roberta destroyed 600 gallons beer on the A. C. f Lyles place, near Pride, S. C. s , , 1 ' f British Parliament Adjourned Today R r London, Dec. 16 (By the Associated ii Press).?British parliament adjourn ed today until February 13th. The effort of the Laborites to block adjournment pending the finding of a s solution of the unemployment situai tion failed. * Bandits Rob Messenger d s Philadelphia, Dec. 15.?Six bandits y robed a bank messenger taking the payrolls to manufacturing establish>f r:enta of $20,000 at Darby, a Philars delphia suburb, today. It was learned later that the robas hers got $10,?00. n 1 ' ia Bandits Get $10,000 l- Caddo, Okla., Dec. 16.?Five men neld up the Cadoo State Bank here to. day and stole $10,000 in Liberty ?k bonds. They locked 14 persons in a 1- vault. 11] Mr. and Mrs Ralph Henry 'Lilian th Sumner) will return from their honeymoon journey this week. I t / JURY HEARS OF MINE SLAUGHTER ' Marion, III., Dec. 14 (By the As. ociatod Press).?The march of sevral hundred armed men driving beore them through the streets of errin, six blood-stained prisoners nd the finding later of 20 bodies was Inscribed to the jury by several witnesses today at the trial of five men u Id in connection with the riots of ast June. Beforp a tense audience who packed he somber court room to the doors ind overflowed into the hallway leadng to it and the corridors below, witnesses for the state pointed out three f the nn flontn O- *' *- 1 - ?an men nicy naa een with weapons in their hands the looming of the tragedy. Six of the odies, according to the testimony of Marshall Lentz, a Herrin real esate dealer, and T. N. Lentz, his rother, who is a blacksmith and a member of the United Mine Workers f America, were bound together with i single rope about their necks. Four, n nother dead or injured victims were ound just outside the Herrin city emetery on the outskirts of the town, hoy testified. Marshall Lortz, the first of the two 0 take the stand, testified to seeing crowd of several hundred men passng before his house in Herrin early n the morning of June 22, the day of no killings. He said the crowd was houting and singing and looked like 1 mob and that "about six others vith bloody heads were being driven ihead." Later, ho said, he had gone with us brother through the woods at the :dge of the village. "What did you see in the woods?" le was asked. "Fourteen n.en who had been shot lown and some armed men." He add?d that, he had then gone toward the :ity cemetery. "What did you find there?" asked Delos Duty, states attorney "I found six men in the middle of the road tied together with ropes ebout their necks. Three of them were still breathing I think." "Did you see anything else of wounded .or dead men?" o* those he had seen with gunr ex- eept Herbert Walker, who is not one of the defendants in the present case, sn indictment against him having been set aside at the request of the prosecution. I. N. Lentz corroborated his brothels' testimony regarding the finding of the bodies. Georges Harrison, who has a farm at Herrin, near the scene of the slayings, told of seeing a group of about 25 men with a single prisoner near his farm. Mr. Harrison pointed out Bert Grace, one of the defendants as one of the men he had seen with a gun ir. bis band. He also said he had seen Otis Maynfiid and Dallas McCfi neither of whom is a defendant. May l ard, he said, had no gun. .YIeCree, according to the wiv n ss with three other men, whom hi *is unable to identify, came up to : is bam and told him they wanted > ? g* ;! rough the lot "to head off some men who had gotten loose." Impeachment Proceedings Against Daugherty Washington, Dec. IB.?The house judiciary committee today planned to proceed with impeachment proceedin. ?o n <rn Inct .inn .... I ?n*o fimuiivj unciiHU Daugherty in spite of the fact that Representative Keller of Minnesota, vho made the charges, has refused to rssist further. Keller is to be put under oath and asked for the information he claims to have. The committee adjourned shortly after the session opened when Keller failed to appear in answer to the summons served on him by Attorney John H. Ralston, representing Keller, but sent a letter to the committee by John A, Vasey, a Boston lawyer, asking the postponement until tomorrow. Chairman Volstead said the letter failed to give an excuse for his non appearance. Representative Graham, a Republican of Pennsylvania, suggested that the committee report to the house recommendation for contempt of action against Keller. Other members suggested that a postponement be granted. Vasey told the committee that Keller's appearance to- ? morrow would depend upon advice given by his counsel. i i r.? ? *"? "* H.WW...U.UB And Prohibition Agent Slain I.*xington, Ky., Dec. IB.?Bob Ballard, leader of the Menifee county moonshiners ganf;, and Guy Cole, a prohibition agent, were slain in a battle between 20 officers and moonshiners today, according to word received by Prohibition Director Sam Commins. Charles Ballard, the alleged i moonshiner, was wounded. The gang was sought for the killing of two offlcers last week. , _ j 0