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COTTOS ?ACTURERS ENDORSE TBE DUKE PUS '.Continued From Pago One.) rency bill a provision that-will enabel the South to finace its cotton, tbe best collateral In the world. But the cur rency bill, merely lay* the foundation. The Duke plan completes tbe plan, and dovetailB into tbe currency bill. Mr. Parker conclude! with an exor tatlon that the character of tbe stock] be made, such that it would be ac ceptable nil over the {world. John Q. HarriH, tile well known Crcenvill? county planter, who lives at home and eats at the ?aine place,. made s ringing speech in ad?opa<?y| of tbe bill. He deolafed that it would I make matters lighter for the byjiks and thati they would! be able to ea ten d thei farmers morel attentions / He urged the manufacturers to put this through a? a blessing to the farm ers. Co). C. S. Webb tbe well known cotton merchant, made a few remarks on the. idea that the warehouse should be located at points of substitution and concentration. Stewart W. Cramer of Charlotte replied to this that it is pro posed to utilize Hrst the. warehouses that are - in existence, and whenever it beepmes necessary to build or do ex tension work, the new! warehouses will be put up it points of concentration and substitution. This was accepted by Col. Webb, who as a cotton mer chant declared himself in favor of the proppsition. i } Wn. Adgejr Law ... W. A. ; Law of Phlluuelphia spoke heartily in favor on the proposition, from thai standpoint [of tbe -manufac turer. He said that It will fit in With . the federal reserve ^ct. It will b? ' ? good investment. It would bo n qplok asset, better than a bond, he said with reference' to cotton worehouse certifi cates, i Aug. W. Smith of Spartanburg and Greenville, declared ;that tbe present] system Irksome to'the mills. When] tbe season comes onithe mills are us ually low in money and can't buy as they would like. The whole trend of the last few years bas been to en courage tbe farmers jto hold their cot nsirshii^sp system woum not only enable the farmers to do this, but would help the mills to boy when buying time cqmes. He moy?d that the? plan be uuiy^ui or approved. This wob carried and] thi meeting further,approved the sug-J gestion ?f Mr. Cramer of Charlotte, j that the proceedings pf the North Car olina manufacturers i be. ratified. This was approved. The I matter is Jtbetftr fore now* left in the hands of a com mittee os seven to bei shaped up. The committee consists qt 'Stuart W. Crr, mer, John W- <JahnoB",' WY." COUpMlV and C. S. Hutchinson of North Caro lina; John A: Law, J. D. Hammett and . L. W. Pprker of South Carolina. It ) was* decided to add' Utter three farm ers to" tbe list. This committee is to work out with Mr. Duke the details of thin mstfer,aJuUJ*r*K&^ ther ratification. The board of-govorn^t* OL Carolina ^JWUSKBtttf3" *eld a mcelinR r dorsed tbe plan of Mr. TJu ' - ernors! oedlded to have the annual meeting ytfChiob. Springs on the 15th of July, and all members of the asso- ? elation wla be ?rgep\f%> bf?l?MW?j vives. , _ J * * * S7* * * *ff-* .'* * THE DAY IN CONGRES? * ******* ****** MARCH 17, 11M. (By Associated Press.) Senate?Met at noon. Senator Borah predicted that con stitutional amendment tor wotnan suf frage would not bo adopted until the fifteenth amendment was-repealed. Adjourned at 5: 25 p ' WednesdjaM Housed Judlc?.y wmml ferred on {the report on the McDer mott chptles In the lobby investiga tion. I i J ; v price ' Took^JTrfti><t andl.^bors appro priatlon .mil .'with ligrfeAafent for nine hours ana fifteen'minutes" general de \ bate. fff Representatives Kahu^of California and Moore! of Pennsyjraula' opposed repeal of tolls exemption clause of the Panama cana? act and attacked adoil ' nistrations foreign policy. Adjourned at 5:6 . p. m. to. noon Wednesday. ' ' -. Postnutsiers Nominated. v Washington, March 17.?the follow ing l^tniaeteTs are ' nominated for South Carolnla: P. T. 8apoch. Blacksbuing; Luther McLaurta. Mc Coll; A. R. GaJTmO^nmasvilie, Francis M- Cross, Wesmlnster; G. B. Balloy, Greenwood Urges fel&r&S* ?er Exposition Washington prS^ Administration's Attac&ed by &&lm (By Associate' Press.) Washington. March ^~AttacWn? the administration's foreign D0**5?' the fruit of which he.e*& 5L1Sr^ mlsuaderata*aini:, distrust, vacUla t?ofi ?ad hsfmll?a?inr. Representative Kahn, of Calfornls. today warne? tbe house agaia*^ thtf^ljtaow SlntaiaW ST^peal?^ tolls Option pre vision of the Panama canal act. He cited sesraral insUtfjcfts ^?teh lu declared *fa$&*r " eland would not yield If sko were in a position to. "Tbls greatest of all tbe world's republic* has grown to be hi one brlei year of democratic administra tion the.'parish of tSa nations,''' Mr. Kahn declared "Under the blight of its foreign policy, we stand today , iso lated, deserted alone. It is a humili ating confession, but its truth cannot be gainsaid." it m Go Oa Strike, March 17.?Appro* - ijnately 700 sjpdejsMs^of the Savannah rh school/'together with a 'few student*, -went on a striker to ..ttecjaene^fnay.^ere- refused per mission I to" Ibarcb' In a St, Patrick's day parade. " ? j^r> Jailed. Sj?Taa*4ahrGa.. March 17.?Three seamen'-Jut the New York scbodner Three Marys are lodged In the Sa vannah jai| on charges of mutiny pre ferred by Captain Gantt of the ves pel. A GOOD IDEA. Gardens Will be Ploughed by (he Company. .... .Ii..?? (From the Comtan.) We are glad to announce to all of the families living In tbe various mill villages in Anderson that the com panies have decided to plough their gardeus free of charge. One difficulty in the average village garden is: the impossibility of getting . the ground well brok?n. ' In reach of the villages ?Eqinox, Brogon. Anderson. Rrver eide-Toxaway. Gluck and/' Orr-v-the company will give the ground one good degp plowing. . SEhern.;.wjll - be noth ing left for. you to do except to' get busy and plant ?uko? t garden. t?et's -show the mill managements for Whom we work that w? appreciate their spirit of co-operation shown in this matter of good gardens by using these gar den spots to the: best advantage. Ev erything will be ready lot you to plant your garden by April 1st. Enlisted Men of In School' Wor. M~-?1?-*- ? -A^ir-Iii (By Associated Press) Washington, M^rch 16.?Not only or? tW enU^ed of tba ??vy dis playing an amaaing interest in' tha edncaili nal work recently Instituted by ^gaw^t^jJBanlels on board; the *g^r^hii^ ducTto officers are apply ing: themselves- with*'great diligence to' the task of teaching the men'. ~ J?n>lhAjaecifflOay. at. smiiH^-the enlh-tcd men were summoned . below decks to listen to the reading of the department's circular outlining the, plan of education and the lines of V???j uio miu cou'd take up. tb4| teal bvM\ of the work, Pegs., to show when "school call" soujided on the fo^pwing day when 4he~n?ea- want, to ti:olr clys rooms, -? Cweali; flisaaaahttsenMs Catafl. I ~ ~i muni' { i| fi ?wiiMWum?ji ni?nu I There is nothing more discouraging than a chronic disorder of the atom :ris. it not eir?tog;t^{fn|any fer for -V?alrf ?wSmh afasn?* ?tf %Bment when a permanent cure Is within their reach and may be bad tor a trifle"? "Abont curat T^Aringo," says P. H. Beck, of Wak?A^MicL., "? bought a package of Chamberlain's Tablets,, and since using them I have felt pretty well. I have previously' us ed any number of diffoTenl';medic.lueB, but none of them were of1 any last ing benefit" For sale by Evans' Pharmacy. ' i.i.i..> (Adv.) 7T-WTI,.,. ' - tt lyil"?' vile >t?> hitfi FUR FOR IflQSUMNER. Sojne of the pretty frocatS'tor" wear after Ea*ter aar touched with fur. Th? newest tjrpd?acsingerie costume is of ettbrofcafeovoet ?oquftes of this fabric alternating with flounce* of plain net edged in battlement effect. The broad sash of turquoise silk ta embv-ildered in yellow, and saber gjre w flocwwwfllr-e-e?f* ne?e. ^^^^ ^ _I ^ V $ VOUl.NO. 52. ffeeklj, Eetftbllahed 1640r Daily, Ja?. 18, 1*14. ANDERSON, 3. C WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH, 18, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. $5.00 PER ANNUM. : . ' I i ?:??-? WORK FOR M?NK Inl^^ ASiicie T*Bm* i* Tfa and Oats and Com; Written f< fi ?WM fOO&jfc --Vir? ??t# David R. Colter of Darlington coun ty, S; ;C has Increased the yield of his acres by carefully selecting . ana { tea ting the seed that be sow*. Ho haa found that plants respond as readily as animals to breeding and that, granted an even chance, pedigree seed will invariably produce larger crops than- seed chosen haphazard. He does not rely upon culturn mlcthoda alone, and he hi convinced , that, without spe?? c?? 'training ,any. f?rmer can do as he has done by following a simple meth od of breeding plants for pure seed. ; During the ten years in which Mr. ] Coker has been engaged in plant< breeding be haa kept the educational features of his work to the force. He judges the yalue of the r?sulta he has obtained in his plant breeding work ] la proportion as they improve agri culture in South Carolina. In season and out of season, by ; lectures and bulletins, he strives to impress upon t?o farmers of his state,the necessity for selecting .their, seed, stock cure fully and testing it thoroughly. "TO breed a pedigree variety," said; Mr. Colter, "I select individual plants th?t' possess the desired qualities by nature rather than by nurture. First j I try these selected individuals by the planty-to-a-row method, then in -ex perimental plants and in variety tests. :-I propogate from the seed of the plant that: proves Itself best in these teats, j as shown-by the .valuable qualities it exhibas in even , competition with- its fellow. It takes from three to tire years to produce a pedigree variety; of J a deld crop by this method. I con sider u consistent reccid of higli pro duction and adherence, to type In var iety tests for three consecutive years1 an absolute guarantee of superiority | In a pedigree "strain of seed." Mr. Coker began active work in plant breeding in 1902 and soon his experi ments became so extensive tbShAe em ployed assistants. On his farm were conducted a number of the cot ton breeding teBts of Dr. H. J. Webber, formerly of Cornell. 1/nlverslty,. then; of tho plant breeding bureau of the United States department of agricul ture,', now of he school of tropical bot ,4ajag?,Ot the University of California. ; 'Dr Webber originated" from short' staple types two excellent varieties of lojsaV 'w?da^-?tem?Weeiiaa ahA.^r tumbia?the staple- length of. which rur.i. !iytu x ??is inches to 1*3-8 tnch iesiunder varymg/>coaa1Mbns .of. soil and climate. . air. Coker hlSAset? haa I bred two wldcl7 known varieties of liong staple cotton of high productive - ,chy~rtartsMlek dftd '" Webber--?-, rhihave in ths main been s;.fis?**-. to plan tors andrsSJtt?.so to apln *Tho Plant breeder** method." sir. Coker; in explaining now be bred his pedigree strains of cotton, corn; oats and rye, "is simply the se lectlou of a number of productive planta whteh ffcSjaess ,fn some measure the ctorscters he wishes, and the in tensification and fixing of these char acters.by Sfsveral years of selection." Color or Weight. -The seeds of ?ach plant selected are kept separate from all others anti the product b? those not showing im provement is discard*!. MjSMftp >r "The Columbia Known In Andersen "The cotton I : dal lb'- ? ' amall aluminum'comb.'wi\h which he | combs out the lint to \ test^.its length," continued Mr. Colt?r. "He ' keeps accurate records of. thV charact ers of each indlvidua pliant used for breeding in.each generation..' {Surpris ing variation may be observ characters 'of d?ffe?%at cbilop. o'.-ani-^ growing in the ??i*Tle .field.1 ? ht found That: they' viry-'rti-y.. productiveness, in length, fineness and I percentage of lint, In size of seed, boll I land leaf, and.in many reacures of the! j stalk. It lo conoeque- ,i;y compara tively ^casy for any Intellgent cotton | I planter to obtain material with which | to begin a system of Dtaedlcg." Moat farmers, If they try to im prove their seeds al nil, simply go in-! to the field and gather the product of the plants that appear to be produc-j tivc. Tbeae mixed seeds are planetd together in a patch. Mr. Coker bas proved that very little made by his pian of proccdurt. , 11 the seeds from each plant .-.elected by the farmer vere planted lu a row to themselves and the product of the var ious rows .gathered separately., the yield from the different plants would be found Uv-tYAfy .ffttf""^TO?iFiTii' in both (?ual itynlBo^quiaOT^r Tho value of testing individual plants to find out which, are high yielding may readily be seen from the following figures.' taken trom Mr. Coker's record of hip plnnts-to-a-row tosls of Webhor fcotton last season: Breeding . v. Yield I Number of Seed |of Plant ...Cotton 2-1 ..qjsmW& . .. <^^^^H[ 2-3 ..... . 34.0 10- 1. ,..28.5 11- 2. 14-2.ot^..35.2 18-2 .29.0 20-2. 26.5 44-1 . i^v? 40.0 "No on,, can ?eil surely by mere ob servation that the seeds of a produc tive plant will fellow the bent of the ^ar-J?t," declares Mr. Coker. "80me ! Plants are potentially j prs^skitive that IS, they have the Inherent power of reproducing plants ot unusu ai yielding capactffe / Other plants are1 ?c Hlogna Which 8ecrHnry Bnrnett Apply Ui igute a Finer Variety Sof Cotton D. Oliphant, Who la Well accidentally productive?that la, they' are productive only because they have greater distance or more fertiliser than their neighbors, and the charact eristic of large yield is not transmitted to their progeny. The, only way to discover if productiveness Is an inher ent or an accidental feature la to test] the seeds of each pisai is rows side by side, a=d Tvcigh accurately the yieiu of each." Mr. CoHer aae bean disap-j pointed because he has been unable as yet to Impress upon the farmers, cyeal those in bis immediate neighborhood] the importance- of piatrttug pedigree' seed. 'Although he is constantly urg ing them to do so, very tew farmers in South Carolina have'takea up plant breeding on their own account. "In buying oats tor .-zud the aver age farmer will almo->c fnvarlably se lect s light, highly colored grain in preference to heavy though darker colored grain," said Mr. Cokur. "For years he has been buying his seed oats mostly by color, ?t/ln;r prefer ence to grain of a. lemon-yellow shade and overlooking the faqw that the heavier grain is the more it will yield and that In heavy grain one. variety or strain may greatly outyielU another. Weather conditions at the lime of har vest play a large part in determining the colo*- of oats if they are sound the color does not utfoet their seed value at all, though the lightest shades of grain may have been cut before ripe enough to make good seed." It is Mr. Coker's opuifcu that there are vast possibilities In hybridisation, but so far he has not obtained better results from this metho,:! than fro:n simple selection. So long as there Is sr.ch a treendous held in selection he ?oes not consider hybridization a I promising lino of. work in the field crops of the south. The selection method, too, cap* be used readily by the average farmer, as it requires no such scientific knowledge , as Is neces sary to. successful hybridisation, and 'the subsequent' fixing ol "jz'.lorm types.' Some KentftrksbTt Yields. 80 far as I know Mr. Coker is the only man in the south v ho Is breeding pedigree rye and oats, uie former an ideal cover crop in the south and the latter long a forage crop of import Tn?? We kr" Is I sing in the Mill Vflkage* ghiaM, nty A.so. unco. For five years Uo has worked] with AbruzzI rye. a 'Variety imported from Italy by the United State? depart-1 ment or agriculture and be bsa found that it makes heavier growth during | the winter than any other cover crop with which he Is familiar. In addi tion, th" pedigree strains he has bred will produce from 20 to ">0 bushels of grain to the acre under fair Held con ditions. For a cover pr grazing crop he plante AbruzzI rye in September or! October, between bis cotton rows and on stubble land, at the rate of a busb-l el or more to the acre, covering it with a sweep or harow. For a grain crop he has found that about half a bush el of seed on good land, or three pecks on light lapd, sown about November 15 with a grain drill, will give the largest yield. Last fait he planted AbruzzI rye between the rows of cot-I ton In his fields with the idea that It I would ake. up the usual residue of fertilizer applied to the cotton, use what plant rood became available dur ing the winter, keep tho land from washing and the fertility from leach ing and supply valuable fertilising ma terial and humus when plowed under in the spring. I In 1912 Mr. Cokcr obtained what he considers a remarkable yield from1 i the pedigree AbruzzI which waa then; only three years from the parent [strain. The results of his rye variety tests for that year, made under expert-1 mental conditions as nearly identical] las possible were as follows: j Variety Acre Yield i or rye. ' (bushels.) j AbruzzI pedigree. 59.0 j I AbruzzI general-,. 49.4 1 Virginia.\. 21.5 North Carolina.18.3 Mr. Coker's plant-to*a-row tests of pedigree Abruxxt rye in the season of 1912-13 sb in'the case of his Webber cotton, illustrate tho necessity of test* ing seed in order to find out their true worth : Row Acre Yield number. (bushels). 5.68.1! C . 64.3 7. ..... G0.8 8. 68.? 9. 60.4 10 52.6 15.46.3 i ? ' -Jl ko r. ?1. 66.8 Since 1909 Mr. Coker has been breeding oats from red Appier stock, j Tug first year he selected zt> planta, of which seven proved, worthy In the plssi-ie-a-rew tests. The second year two of the seven were discarded The third year only two strains were kept, and last season, the fourth year from the time the oat breeding began, Mr. Coker punted his main crop of R. A, No. 24, the strain that proved the better of these two. In variety tests during the. sast three years four of Mr. Coker's pedigree strains of oats have led. in production, which be con siders added proof that breeding tells. Some of Mr, Coker's most important erpnriments have been with a view to determining tho proper quantity of bats to use for seeding. In ?. bulletin he Issued to thousands of farmers in this section he says: ''During the year 19! 1 345,000 acres of oats were planted in the state or South Carolina. Most of these were seeded in the fall or early winter. Most of the termers in this state used at least two bushels of seed to the. acre and many of them ] as much as five bushels. We may fairly presume, therefore, that about 1,000,000 bushels of seed oats were planted in South' Carolina in 1911. . : *'our. fesre ago *d begaa a sc-ries of experiments to learn ,if possible, the rate of seeding to the aero that would give best reBults. For three years we tested rates - of seeding of three, pecks, six pecks and nine peeks to the acre, spacing the grains in the test plats carefully by hand and using the greatest care to have everything done with scientific accuracy. For three years in;-succession the thinnest seeding, three pecks, gave the best results, yielding an average of five bushels to the acre more than the six- peek seeding and three snd a half bushels more than the nine peck seed ing, mm "Last fall we had out a much more elaborate experiment, seeding at the rate of from one pesck to one bushel to the acre. The' results of this test coincide closely .with the previous ones, the three peck seeding giving a yield of nine bushels to the acre more than the next heaviest yielding plant, which was seeded at the rate ot two pecks to the acre. Larger Yields With Less Seed, All Mr. Coker's test plats were seeded during November, so they give no indication of the correct amount of, seed for summer oats. If the farm ers of Sooth Carolina would follow bis advice it would save them about 760,000 bushels of seed oats every fall, if they plant as heavily as In 1911 and would Increase their gram yield by at least 1,500,000 bushels a veer. Mr. Coker's experiments in oat seeding lead him to believe that much less seed is. needed on rich thsn on poor land. ?mee 1907 Mr. Coker has bred a pedigree .variety, of corn which, on ac count fit Its hardness, is practically proof afcaiust the boring of weevils. Incidentally the corn la high in pro tain content since the germ and its horny endosperm have been developed at the expense of the starchy part of the grain, which is more readily bored by the corn weevil. From nts first eAr-tto-a-row test Mr. Coker produced two vary fine strains of Williamson corn, from which his later pedigree et rain a are descended, la variety tests during the pats five years these two' strain* hava either led or have stood aa high as any oth er variety, in production. Mr. Coker has found, too, that the Williamson method of corn cultivation?-planting in deep fiten furrows six feet apart, storting the planta off slowly and fer tilising and working rapidly after the corn gets about knee high?results In an average Increased yield of 16 or 20 per cent, over the best of the old methods of corn culture. To get rM of a distressing' tendency bis pedigree strains of corn showed to decrees* tb?tr yi?M h. i^brtci'.z^. Mr. Coker resorted to detSsseling. He invariably tdund that crossing two strains gavt, a higher yield, the Afat swHmBli year. Last year bo bad a splendid corn crop from hybrid seed and bits cron crop of this year -will bo planted from seed hybridized this season. Last e?ason he had about ten acres of corn of which every other row was detassel od. In 1912 his detassellne tests worked out as follows, tho yield of the hybrid being always larger tban that of cither of the parent strains: Acre field Strains in tost pi.it lot corn. (bushels.' |E 1 .t. 43.4 !k i by E 6.44.1 E 5. .40.:; Williamson. 40.0 Wllliamsson by Hogers .. 43.1 Rogers.40.8 E t-3.4 O.r, E 1-3 by E 5-ft'l....44.fi E 5-R 1. 3S.7 I All over the cotton .belt farmers I strip the fodder from their coru about the time the leaves begin to yollow, bundle It and leave the bln dles sticking on the corn stalk until they cure. This custom became gen eral In the south, it is believed, about the time cotton usurped moi? than Its share of the farmers' attention, to tho detriment of .forage crops.. On Mr. (Joker's farms no fodder has been pulled since ho found by a ser ies of tests that doing so meant a marked decrease in the yield of corn. Besides this there Is often a net loss in the coat of pv'ling the fodder and a further net loss in removing tho fodder, which otherwise wold uhave gone to make valuable humus for. suc ceeding crops. Mr. Coker hss found that tho cost of pulling the fodder and tho consequent decreased yield of com always exceeded the value of the fodder as a forage crop. Pulling fodder Doesn't Pay. The tests on Mr. Coker's farms were ' Sade under actual Held condition*, e fodder being stripped from alter nate rowa in the same field. The field from rows stripped of fodder and from those on which i the fodder was left were gathered aeparately. In 1912 the fodder-pulling test on the Coker farm resulted as follows, the figures being the average acre yield for the entire crop: Corn on which fodder was not pulled, 39 bushels. Corn on wulcb fodder was pulled, 29 The increased yield as a result of lesving the fodder on the? stalks averaged eight btinh*!* to the aero in 1911. Mr. Coker's latest test to learn the effect of fodder pulling on the suc ceeding crop showed that seed from rows from which the fodder was strip ped at the usual time yielded about * j 17 per cent less sound corn than seed I from adjacent rows from which tho I fodder had not been pulled. The new Webber and Hartsville varieties of upland long staple cot tons, bred by Mr. Coker. have done much to offset the prejudice mill men bod against Carolina long Btaples: The old varleites were weak, badly gin [ned and poorly graded. Webber cotton is a descendant of Columbia cotton. In 1907 Mr. Coker i was given some seeds from an espe I dally fine plant of Columbia cotton. In 1908 he raised 12 plants from these ceeds and was so much , impressed with the fruitlessness, length of ata- : pie and general character they showed that In 1909 ho Increased all. the seeds from these 12 plants putting two rows i into a variety test with 24 other kinds of cotton. In this vsrlety test eaub row of Webber made more seed cotton [than any other of the 48 rows. In 1919 Mir. Coker planted Wfebbvs? in I checks in a 2R.ser? field ?nH i? 1912 i-r, I planted 60 Oacres. Mr. Coker's Hartsville type or staple cotton has ? somewhat shorter fiber than the Webber, but possesses to a , msrked degree the same qualities of productiveness and vigor. Mr. Coker. expects great things from further breeding of the Hartsville variety of which he now hss new strains that are longer and earlier than the parent type. Mr. Coker hopes also to pro duce a wilt-resistant type of cotton as effective as the Dixie and Diilon Bhort-staple varieties, thefhwagqltonagfbrd sh s sbrdlshrdl The Pan-American Conference Postponed . (By Associated Press.) Santiago, Chill, March 17.?Tho I postponment is announced today of the fifth Pan-American Conference, which [was to heave been held la September. It will not take plsce before the end [of November. Washington, March 17.?No official notification of the postponm.ent of the Pan-American conference nor the rea sons therefor had been received by of ficials of the state department, nor the Pan-American union today, but th? general understanding among the di plomats was that it had been delayed because of the general unrest in Lat in-America. Income Tax Returns Inviolably Confidential (By Associated Press.) Washington, March 17.?Warnings were Issued to ah collectors of Inter nal revenuea tonight that income tax returns are "involuably confidential" ?that the disclosure of returns is in violation of the law, and the slightest Infraction will be punished. The warn ing waa In the form of a lett1 Secretary McAdoo to Commissioner Osborn. _ Train Robber Gets 20 Years in Pen Marietta. Oa., March 17 ?Suspected by the police of having been con nected with various robberies In the south. John Nolan was convicted in the super<er <.turt hero late today of rvuuiiig ui* pa ngera on a western and Atlantic railroad train near here the night of January 10. and " to twenty years tmprtso on the fenced