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BASEBAhL ('ASES OFF CALENDAR S(vte ikes New Mve in hicago. Te1o Seiek inid Ietmnent s. Chicago. Mlarch 17.-Iniiedilate 1iFiosniition of Chicago tWhite 'Sox .Baseball playe's and others indicted in collnectioln With the alleged throw 'int. W, lt, 191!) word series collapjsedI Loday wIe the statet. thla rging cor-. TuPtiOln of its ehief wittess, dropped The cases against seven of the play era and .Jutdge William E. Dever took :the otlirs. off the court calendar. Tonigit. however. the state plunged dinto the task of preparing a new case With aillounlcement that the matter smould he placed in the hands of a gnand jury again tomorrow and re idictnent of the players whose 4aaes were (ropped. .Robert E, Crow, state's attorney, took charge of the case today aind anl 'nounced that he would handle it from 'mliav on1. lIe ordered thie cases dis nisa 2 attr his plea for six imloiths it wIicl to gather new evilencee had been den ied hy .1u dge Dever and .\Iay 2 set as the date for trial. T i. in a formal statement, 'Mr. piow" il ced the blame for the ~offxp:e the cases on his plrede e s'' i:r ollice. cliarging they had l :h l t improperly; on anl alleged coII, lit ::v which he s;aid had de feat.tj: : it' i t l orr( 1t . o a .ine'k son I, [,d!lIe Clotte and1 1 . 1('lnd WVi1 liams, the men who colnfessed to tle eaud jiu:y. lIe annoutneed plans to 4<J :persona lly hefore tlie gral jury tomiorlr to se'. k novIit iledictetsi*IN t. t it pod. l hic el to "ueever-y m an case to justice, declaring that many guilty persons had not been inflictel -by the randt jury -and that import ant witne. ss. W e v vr. : , we hib WnM (n1hih wo h :1. %Ir. Crowei's action today r-ele-asedI W illiams-. !ve \\ ~vr.ON r -i , Iromn custody of the law, their cases binii disis sed. rThe case a tai nst Chiick Gandil, I lal ('hase, .lose h .1. Sullivanl. Hachewl llrown, Ala A tel Umi( W'illiam i h r , fihe latterl .IN(, chaLre'l witinginetring the alleged world .;eries deal, :re taken off tle alendar but may be iroughtiup again. The cases disissedi wre those of men who Iad .mirrederd and gitvn bail. 'Tlherte was little pros pect or the meurtutrnliiiiig to bastball, howenc r, ill bein bath uiconditioial ly releated and on the inleligible list. Cepper as Money. It is not su very long ago that cop ;Ker was used Ihi wedeni as the chief owium of exchange, and at times mer chi nts liaRd to take wheel barrows with them when they went to receive pay ment of considerable sums. Renew your health by purifying your system 'with Quick and delightful re.. lief for biOUress. colds, constip aion1, headaches, and ster.-ach, liver and bloc z troubles. T. *. ..e sold only , 5 packages. Avoid imnitations. xi;E 1LJLE-GREIENW11101) MUTUAL I NSUM~ANIE ASSOCIATION. Orgailzed 18:)2. P'ROPE IIT i NS~it:l l 0,5,l00 WiRI'TE ORL CALJL on the undersign adl' &or anyi: information you may desire about our plan of insurance. We inisure youri property against de Btruction by FIRiEF, WfIDSTORM OR LIGHTNING. and do so cheaper than any cotmpany In existance. Rememiber, we are prepared to p~rove to you that otri isi ithe safest and Checapetst plan of insurance known. Our Association is no(w licensedl to write Inuuranice in the counties of Abbeville, Greenwood, McCormIck, *Edgefhid, L'aurens, Sahuda, Lexington, Reichand, Calhoun, and Spartanburg. (reenv ille, l'ickrns, l lainberg, I m-n.. 'well, Clarendon, .'ut r, Lee K<ersha w Vihesitrfield, Laneuster. The ofilcers are: Gen,. J. Fraser 1Lyo-n, President, Columbia. S. C.; J. R. Blake, Gen. Agt., Secty. and Treas., Glreenwood, S. C. IRECTORS: A. O. Grant .......Mt. Carmel, S. C. J. M. Gambrell .. .. Abbeylile. S. C. J. Rt. Blakoe.. ....Greenwood, S. C. .A. W. Youngblood .. . .1Hodges, S. C. J. Fraseor Lyon . . . . ColumbIa, S. C. R. H. Nicholson .. ..EPdgefield,El. C. W. H. Wharton .. .....Waterloo, S. C, W. C. Bates .. .......Batesburg, S. C. Greenweood, 8, 0. Jan. 1. 1920. TlEASUlRY TURNS TO TAX REVISION Formulation of Policy 1ins Been Started. Ready for Congress. Was-blington, March 17.--Fornfula tion of a treasury Policy on tax revi ston has been started and probably will be really for submission to con gress when it convenes April I1, In ex tra session. Treaury experts have been engaged for some days in making a survey of revenle sources and the extent to which earch lay be tappod inI bringing money into the govern ment's vaults. It was indicated today that while Secretary .lMellon had not taken eb lie stand with ,respect to the question of whether revenue or tariff revision shotudi have precedence in congress he is declared to have the necessary (lata on the subject ready for use should congressional connittee call. Air. Alellon said that no decision had been reached on a question pertinent to the forms of new tax laws but in ternal revenue experts were under stood to be preparing to make recoml menidatiots onl sone whases of the im portant problem. Formler Secretary Illot's were that taxation imcastres shouild be consider.ed allead of all other l' islation bveeause of the effect on busIa n1s of challgod tax laws. There has been no indication of a cange ill policy ;In fthat respectI heraulse, 1 -v of the ollicials conneluted with tIhe taiulon vide of the treasury ha've bien, rlieved. .\mong the ques.i ans into which the VelWV1S have boven delving is that 0; :I .-:1c; tax which hla.; threatened sev .nl ti nl to (;lu1 e a um t10 11n11 o :-; o",f eo re'Ss who'.et opinions v:arcy widely. Th treasury 13 C CCt to havre entuple11vte . :ite rpielso h hoing t a11ount ti:tt can be ex reted frome kuch tax Iog:ethler witl data concernn1g its effec t on ic.. Charges in the rates on largnr in comes and 110MLses in extItion. also are under colsideration with a view' to detet ining the aggregate aimont t of revenue. There has been an insistent demand for Oi the exeml ption of tle lower salaried, now,% placed at $2'-,000 for married mwtea atml $1.000 for single persons. Repeal of the excess profits tax Which has been particularly odious to isilles al. alt rs to he assur'd. Ree ominwndations to that end were inade by S'(rotary ('slass and lloustn;a, au Mir. .\hellot's attitude is ulndirst: i not to be differtent, a1ltugh it had n1O. beeni pulicly stated. This tax,.ie line officials assert, has been di llic!It of (003 lleion and hlaVl aled ,a: a o onl commer111cial developmlentf. In addition to ithe salos tax, th, e. ports aIr investigatinlg the rE'en producinlg 11ti:1lities of higher i-miury ta xvS. .\I#); treastry olicials who have stildiod th , luxuiry taxe.s believe that many of those now ill eflfet should be repeald, partiiculaty those similar to the soda fouintain drinks levies. The expeinse of coliecting such taxes, it has been said, has run out of all p)roportions 1.0t tihe revenue13 rC (Iivted Ill the last two yeats while tile pl)lic was (omptelled at the0 3allm timeIl t(o pay the amoun131ts eetcribed bjy law. One of the ma1an 1oin1ts iln the ef forts of theo treasur ty exptert s now is to avo'(id inlvol ved and( te hn ical ta xa tiotn meIthlods. Ii1gher oileialis itn the depar1 ttmlent h(ld thle ('nforcemten t andl (llectiont (of taxes untder initticate lawvs is much(1 more33 expensiave to thei governmenl and1141 tnot ats ip odutIve!P l;X 'iUC-S'i TI i l-"iS ON lIl:.\ Al'-.\Ai able1 (expI'ss shipment~lts alleged'( to have beenstolen bytmessengrl eeue lou pay(1oker detsco l'te inl 11ame mess55eIer inlformeld ai july inl United States dlistrict (0ourt here this aftert nloon inl the trial (If morte thban .W pe: sonls on elharges of conspiracy to) 8tea1 frotm the I nited States govermnen1(lt, It (leve loped that Ii ugh~es ha~s .been under10 g11arId for som11 time and1( that thte court1 hats ordered that he le )0C lose ly gtatrded thlroulghoutt tile tili, be aen o(f atllege'd thlreats tha1t have been mtade upon01 his life If he gatve damnagitng testimlony at the trial, iilughes sid that lie had had( con-l versat iotts with all bitt two of the dle fondant in t rIlegard~ to stealintg ex press shtipmentls, lie talIkeod rapidly attd( coolly, r'epeating w ithl the utmlost Comn plosutre theC thteft. of thloutsandls of (10! 11ars worth of goods. On one occai~on Iiutghes said tha-t C. R. Hakee, a condultctot nlego tited with hitn for 'the pu rchase of a bp Cycle and that the wheel was carrieel up1 andl~ (down the road by C. IR. 11rin son, -whio wast 01n an oippOSiteC runt, fail ing to mlake the dlelivery t'o linker on each trip. "Otte day," saidl IlIughes, "Biaker's trinil met mine and 11e tsuIck his head1( in lmy rdooe anel fur-iottsiy yelledl: 'Where's my -bicycle.' "I signaled 'to hilm to keep. (quiet." "Next day," the witness continued, "I met Baker and told him1 that he Slayed hell, that there was a route aent in My (ar. 'I don't care,' he rluot-d laker as sayinol, 'I want that bleycle,' %.e iad a .big laugh over it. ie declared Baker nyas so furioins that lie would not pay him more thani $25. Prior to the fall of 1917 imessengers were 'eir'(ed to account for all ship nenits l("t, ho said. lie toll of the in creases in shipmnlits after that time anid tie impos'hiity of keeIping rec ord.. hevause.of 1 lth colgestiol. Ile said that he tOIe from the fall of I.)1 7 until Angu:t. 1921), when he was arrestod. Nineoty-nine tlies ot of, a hundredol he said. he divided the shipment w-ith the defenlants pres ent. Through shipments were easidr to take than short haul shipnient lie d eelared. The witness related how doors be tween the express Cars w6re thrown open on trips. "That gave us two cars We Proved It t< SDo not fail to vis 1 LO ('.O'N i Yard; wde :-mio No. 2.50, Hi50 Euality: lig I. Price. 1;e(r holt .... .... ... Ailli).: I V II.I-- -S;& did fqualit. Snow white tWill. The kind elijoy sowing oil. Sold for 651 as you want at. per yard .\ PION (. NtNlAAl---Ilhe het' Sold for 30c and :15c. Som1et y 'il.... ................ 2,000 yards 27-inch D)ress Gingh; Pl'O 1NS ---it) pieces, sollel col greeln, gray and1(i blue; forime: 60 cents, 3ar'd.... ...... 8' pieces PotplIinI, colored plalds. S etc. 50e anditi~ 6c tual ity, yar I1A.\M ilt-I.:ESS LINEN---SC)meicth anld niew iln iWvhito, hello and( l'0vent Sale Pice.......... \OI L&- foft chiffon finIsh andl ei fIiih, in white and all ti: colors. Sold for~ 60e to 75c, Rose and lihue Silk Stripe vol hing dlainty 'ind airy. Ileg $1.25. Big l'vent Piceit... Priiers 01n th' now silks art for the I( i'VENT SAGNl'. -0ood Clua:li'y Sheeting. 1I P'I iLLOW l'ii',Nt; ---12 Inch wid *CL~i'AlN .IATIih lA b-We h'ave) witet, ac ru anld eamin; also aniid eon ventilial boriders. - colored't eta:in inIe for sidhe drla i tor youri 'P0rch dlecorating nIo warm~ daiy:; are(11 coing. P' to une0 inI comiihInation01 ,, ith I for table ruifner's, anid thle bed s preads thlat. are 4) o ue right atPt resenlt. I'N\Iit All''I" NS- -lieady ma'de saves thlt busybo hosewIfe mantl L ook it over whenOI you1 co)1 theo lig IAvtit Sale. I THURSDAY'S SPECIAL Double "S & H' Green Stamps All Day 10 S. & H. Green S of shipments to look ovor to see if there Iwas anything that we wanted," Ie eplained. "Then we often played Poker together on the runs. I played frequently with J. L. Johnson, C. F. McMillanl and C. \'V. 1Pearce,@three of the defendants. "We didn't talk much about steal Ing while wer were .playing, but when one of us went broke we had to get soniethitng out of the shlipments to sell to the winning players so thai we could get more money with which to continue the game. One of the play ers arolid buy sometin g from the one that wvent broke, if we could find :onie thing that he 'wanted." Lu1ke 1111113- S1ys, "The lnt .0lled le. fore Rleleclilg the Rtiver" "Since moving near the river two years ago, .we've always used RAT-i SNAP. Watched at vicious water rat, nibbling at RAT-SNAP outside the house. About 15 minutes later he darted off for the water, to cjA his1 burning stomach, but he died before reaching it." Three sizes, 35c. 05c, $1.25. Sold and guaranteed by Lau rens Hardware Co., Putnam's Drug Store, and Kennedy Bros. .:&I Hunreds of Cust at the Opening of 2he Big Sa it us this week and i ith tiniE, S* - of nice: venl S:.'o wiH pll(le you. 111. yard wvide. .qJI Nil. !' l' ck and I pm wIll 'l'hse %vill makeI [; as nii it t Skirts .... .... 29c iade that 1i aci and 1 ling niivv. and trivothie.'i. Jm .... ..623ewa t fom thl ti .... .. Se k 'i to th (very 3Is, 1Ose,1 1y ()~uuti (korgette andl Tric 'lV ;M anid ...........39c olo' ihte utin StrIpe.,t n yltw ng classy lotii'd'se pink. Big 01 ~Oa h i .........3(- A leSijde i:p smoothSit.Veont e wVanted ~ O~~ iu~aw yard( . . .. J2c tae aoigi s. Some--adcod as Ihar -price - 't'otI . eolr ....(' ....79e it)....... tightt. over'AtovStI u i' AN C'OSTi 'ls:ls-A'I os also (cut goi5jt(ai t. >tht finish, I (-i ost, :ii ..... I....30e 2.0....... It int plaini ,vith f.oral ' IO'S It S.X .o oif these Ld 'uutlhuhe gt, ef.. 03or'OxOl os 'in vogueo ~ 'iei~7S) o Unfderwe~Var iru itSts ''c y a str'itu'h. a ren.' NLG(OI) NC.RO l) andr 'amp:.Give to Every( C-r. 1 1. . -Ik Tells a Woiderftul L061149 kxperlmcilt. Story Albotit, tats4. ]lead It. "had you i hard tli fit 1110 lios. "For miionths Iy place wis alive pital?" "had I? I lost weight, they with rats. LosIng chickens, eggs, feed. gpvq me a weigh the first thing, and 1''r0n(d told me to try RAT-SNAP. I did. Sqmoewhat disa~ppointed at first not ceeing n yii' dead rats bit in a few diys didn't see a live one. What were not killed 1110 not aroitd my place. HiAT-SNAPI sure does the trick." Three .-Izes, 35c, 65c, $1.25. Sold and guar lltOCd by Lautrelis lardware Co:, Pitt- Money bnci: WithOut U( Olt nam's Drig Store, and Kennedy Bros. If HUN'S BMW falttv n thi ___________Itsrenn-t of ICYI , Elr- L'A0 1,1- 0 WiI 0 ROr, 'r;i TI i., -r 'Cloring out cOothing at oie-half 'thot iching okin diur l -:urlce at ~g'~~.wth~ FREE SCHOLARSHIPS Twenty Free Scholarships for Women. Standard Entrance Requirements. Apply at Once to PRESIDENT OF ERSKINE COLLEGE Box 117 Due fiest, S. C. -Sam= EC""EMM rU e ther Iigoi doo:P e. va 5cn box . Apl t Once to C(C: :>mers Who Came, Saw and Bought Our Sale Saturday. le Continues fet the pick of the bargains we offer. -sirtsi at pr ices that 08 l - - Another lot of that splen Usle .id(h for sprling, light Hose For ladies. Al uniteard-of valde wo lots $1.9s 3mi( $1.19 at the juice. Take a look at tI( :iiaI luhe Silk Poplins. ity. Big Event 'riev. ;w- pair........ Iice light weight 25 dozei1 or good l'lael I lose. The ... .... .... ....249 hi t stocking yott h eit in a long tinc ; for ICi 1I. i: . veit S I, ar ....le avy skiirs inl sorges : t .1 I full ra 9e, i any kind of 0(irt lovellest Itialities ined gaite Itl) dii il ug ( lig Event 9e -day variety (Ill IA)IIJ:N8 RAIN SEN'S-Coat, Cap antI Sn te('110. Those are p retty 4111(l serIvice fleta. (larnwitse. able. Price $7.; sizes to 1.1; hrig olette. Soeio trimmed E .. . . . .w tarnlishedh 3ralds, r~ skItst donie ini the ysPoosKil1 onSt.......2 rk on taffeta; still oy lort ntI)rcs"C ticks, etc. You will l' ootiftt aeVst......e lie siure to get 0on1ey. aii 0kttlt i ts........~ vent PrIce .. .$11.98 Ba inlIls o ~ihrnllc i~ lIght weight Coat wit' ~uhu~Sc5~1li.ift .1 wvant to carry them ChdrnsftytolS, 11klghbit Vs usa a Coat Suilt for adnv~ tiectr........2I the cat, atid on cool Sote(fhhyficy01 xftIieltl035 l'Tey ar mctiade ilupU oa a s o......... .\ann ishi Sere and i0 black an navy. 1, Sl. M-Schu idw iii frttd i 9 ..... ......... ..1.50)j rd~."hWl i lcsd d to..... .... ....$9.9% o lIEIAll tOi s No. 6;7. Inadeul of t13 OTkshoitl.tekidyi 'W .nd( ntiedlilm bust Wl ~ei)hc i:.httd Itlt, )....... ......... ..1.7) 2;Ee 'le..........:9 !ai: toi albove lihe .2 I i iu{''w':.wth e ) .............. ....:; .....).............22 hiiul;and.I hot*lCiIttPtuowe. ..r.for..... .... ............................ Is and .vI 'ity .' i. . I; ai aa rAPtI :(' bx .... ..) f....... .......9 $.... ,..............219 i elyceka 2.5vlie gEei . hi broen lots . ..litgi ititfr..........e A:OSi,' --Aot hlr lit. ofShart aplnl ais it Iu i ~,R Ity. lit ig t ri e 1 er lit air.. ......... c hea s~okig o han seeni uin a longe d sis'pr thsul lk 1r1ta.t; wel faeh gmatch l Thes ar e tt ad ervice ,vent Prc . . . ...o l.. .. . . ..w Boy's PhrousaKnit 'nro Suitsrn ....n ...i.4s Har~~e hoVst Ourn llStore Thldenbl Week