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TUE S?MTEtt WATCUMAX, Est; CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,: PARTY LEADERS WORRIED OVER BONUS DEMAND - B?publicans Hard Put to Discover Ways to Satisfy Both Sol diers and Big Busi ' ness Washington. Feb. 13.?The po sition of the administration as to * how the funds for the soldiers' bonus should bo raised may be made known to congress tomorrow. President Harding and Secretary Mellon had a conference today and ~ were understood to have discussed the question. Two plans have been suggested by members of congress charged with the reporting of bonus legis lation. One by Republican mem bers of the house ways and means committee contemplates? special taxes, while under the. other put forward by Chairman McCumber and Senator Smoot of Utah, rank ing Republican pn the finance com mittee, short .time treasury notes or bonds Would be* issued, during the time that the cash, payments were, made to the former service nieh. . . * After the White/ House confer ence'today it was ijifiUcated in some administration quarters that lhc treasury secretary.: held the same views with regard to issues of notes or bonds that he expressed irt his recent letter to> Chairman . Fordney of the ways and means committee. On tne other hand, congressional leaders said oppo sition to the levying of additional taxes at this time was increasing. lIt was understood, that the tax .'?program, drawn by the houso sub "VvC?mmiiteo met wtth instant oppo sition when it was presented to ma jority members of the .senate fin ance committee. Subcommittees were-'.named to thresh the matter out and after a conference with -Secretary Wecks?- they - were un derstood to. have presented the two proposals to the president. /While the president.was consid ering the-matter, the subcommit '.^ees, marked time today.. Senator ; McCumber said he expected to get the president's views tomorrow, but added thaot he was not advised 5c* to how they -w\*nld "be ebmhiurrr cated. The bonus question was discussed today..uoth in the "Senate and house, Senator Borah i Republican \ of Idaho brought up. the subject in the senate, declaring ?h*X the de mands for a bonus for former ser vice men who were not impaired physically or mentally as a result of their war service might em barrass the government in taking care of wounded and disabled rficn. ' The Idaho senator declared that $73,000,000,000 was at conservative estimate of what it would cost the government to care for all disabled men before the government's obli gation to them would be "discharg ed. He said that, i:: his judgment, it would be a matter -of only ten years before congress would be ap propriating ?1,500.000,000 annual ly for the necessities of disabled men. The bonus was bro-jght before the house by Representative Mc Gregor (Republican) of New York, who urged that the funds for it be raised by means of taxes on light wines and beer. Senator Edge (Republican) of Xew Jersey in a formal statement declared that whiie he had not yet taken a final position on the bonus legislation "if the billions necessary to pay the proposed bonus are to be raised through further taxa tion upon business and industrial enterprises then 1 am against it. and. in my judgment, we are sim ply putting off just that much long er a resumption of industrial and business activity n-cessary to les sen present unemployment." "If congress wonld adopt as the method of raising revenue." he added, "a general ?lies tax. so that everybody, rich and poor, accord ing to their expenditure would thus pay their proportion and the policy of the sales tax be placed on tho statute books, so that it could be used for obtaining neces sary, governmental revenue in the future and permit congress to cut down the high surtaxes and busi ness taxes already paralyzing busi ness energy, -here might be more justification for passing the bonus bill." Washington. Feb. lt.?The sol dier bonus question is before Pres ident Harding tod;?y and was brought up at the cabinet met ing. A decision as to how the proposition is to be financed is ex pected later in the day. Washington. Feb. 14.?President Harding is unalterably opposed to the enactment of special taxes as suggested to finance the soldier bonus or -eturn to taxes already repealed, it was officially announc ed at the White House. His atti tude on the question to be made clear : .> congress in a communica tion is expected soon. The presi dent's attitude is disposed to be fa vorable to the bonus for sane and sensible conditions and for the ful fillment of promises made, without disturbing the desired return to financial stability. Another nickel ei^';,r ban dropped from N to 6 cents. + lblishcd April, 1850. im. politics I disrupts i commission - .Fight on State High way Commission Results in Resigna tion of Chief Engi neer and One Mem ber ! Columbia. Feb. 15.?The South ?Carolina state highway commission. ? at its regular meeting yesterday, ao j cepted by a majority vote the res ignation of Charles H. Moorefield, [the resignation to become effective I March 1 at which time R. T. Brown I will become acting state highway engineer. At the present time Mr. Brown is field engineer and is in charge of the eastern division of the ! stare. I The acceptance of the resignation [cZ Mr. Moorefield comes as the cul | misiation of a series of events which [have attracted considerable aften ! tion and comment over the state. I About a week -ago Mr. Moorefield ?submitted his resignation to R. O. I Rhett of Charleston, chairnu n of I the commission. The resignation of Mr. Moorefield came soon arter he had submitted to the ways and means committee of the house a copy of a letter which he had writ ten to the chief of the federal bu reau of roads and this letter was ! deemed by certain leaders in the j general assembly an indiscretion on I the part of Mr. Jloorefield. The I letter was written shortly after a I bill had been introduced in the leg islature for the purpose of reor ganizing the department and was published in full about a week ago. I Since it became known that Mr. I Moorefield had submitted his res jignation, there has been consider able talk as to whether or not the [highway commission would accept it. The meeting yesterday was executive and no official statement was given out at its close. It was gathered that tho vote to accept Mr. Mooreheld's resignation was not unanimous. L. H. Thomas, secre i tary. when asked for the vote of feach member, refused to give it out for publication. After the commission had been in session tor some time, the mem jbers w ent * to the state house and had a conference with Governor Cooper. Another session of the commission was held at the hlgh {way department's offices, and at its [conclusion it was announced that ]Mr. Moorefield's resignation had been accepted. After the meeting. Charles O. Heuron. member of the commission since it was organized, mailed to Governor Cooper his resignation ifrorn the commission. When asked why he resigned. Mr. i Ilearou said: "I resigned from the {state highway commission because j the commission accepted the resig nation of the state highway engi j j neer. Mr. Moorefield. 1 could not 'appreciate the governor's point of j view in demanding his rseignation. j^nd of course being out of sympa i thiny with the administration. I re f signed. I "As I said the other day. I think I Mr. Moorefield has been made the goat. And it amazes me that grown I up men should get so balled up po I litically. or otherwise, as to make ? this sort of thing necessary. There j is no sense in the thing as I see it. "I hope the department well an * j will continue just as much interest ed in the development of tin ade quate system of state highways un i der proper maintenance, .as a pri [vate citizen; as a member of the j state commission, j "I simply could not see the .'sense in accepting Mr. Moorefield's resignation and when it was ac I cepted I resigned. That is all J there is to it." j Delegations from several coun j ties came before the commission asking- for federal aid for various ! projects. I L. V.". KelbT. supervisor of Ab ! beville county, and .1. M. Xickle. member of the county highway {.commission of that county, present j ed a petition for federal aid to as j sist in the construction of the road j from Abbeville court house to the iSavannah river by Calhoun Falls j and for the erection of two bridges ion the road. The road is about ! ?> i miles long ami will cost about $5. i 000 a mile. Request was also [made for aid in building ;i bridge iat Calhoun on.ck. to cost, approxi i mately. $55.000. Tin- commission '?gave the delegation assurance that the petition would be cared for When furxls were available. J. G. Hut son of the Beaufort j < onnl;.- highway commission and W. ;J. Thomas sought additional fed eral aid in the sum ot .000 foi the road from Beaufort tu Bocatali go. The commission gave its ap proval to the petition and this mat I ter will take precedence over other [allotments when the funds are j available. j A delegation from I ?Orchester j county sought federal aid in the sum of $r0;5l>0. which is one-half I ot the estimated cost o; tin four j miles of r. cd between Revv.-svill. and Doranc on the Charleston Augusta highways Tie dHt-gation was assured that rim aid would b< forthcoming when the un d- were needed. Senator Bad get t Col let on county asked the eojonifssfon to turn over to that county u-nexpend ed license funds of lf'l'1 and that ''Be Just and Fear CITY OF SUMTER WINS LAWSUIT IN COLUMBIA Court Awards Verdict of $218 in Suit Against Paving Contractor and Guaranty Company Columbia. Feb. IS?Tin- city of Sumter won its ease in civil court bore against the United States Fi delity and Guaranty Company and Ii. W. Waring, contractor. The amount of the award being $21$. The plaintiff claimed $650 was due for the cost of the repairs to pav ing put down under a five year [guarantee by Mr. Waring, the bond j being furnished by the Guaranty Company. i The defense claimed that the I paving had been subjected to un j usually hard usage and that the three and a half inch concrete base. as called for by the specifications I was not sufficient to carry the load. The jot), it was further claimed, had j been accepted by the city engineer i of Sumter. Mr. W. Loring Lee. SAVAGERY PREVAILS IN BELFAST ! i Irishmen Resort to Most j Brutal Methods in Their Fighting j Belfast, Feb. 15.?Shooting was ! resumed early today west of Bcl | fast after a temporary lull. One i man was found dead on the side I walk. An armed gang tied the j hands of James Rice behind his I back, put a coat over his head, tied ?a scarf over his eyes, then kicked ?and beat him, and ended his suffer ings with bullets. The total deaths iI in present scries of outbreaks now i number ??">. \ i London. Feb. 15.?Twenty-four \ hours of calm on the Ulster fron tier, where forces of north and 'south were gathered,.brought some ' relief today in the tension of the ? Irish situation. -? ? ?? POSSIBLE CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR I Miami. Feb. 13.?William J. Bryan, responding to Inquiries as to ? whetlo r or not he will be a candi date for the senate fronr Florida. ' issued a statement saying that if I the Democrats called on him he "would consider the matter from ja standpoint of duty." But had no thought of entering contest for ' office. - j Columbia. F?tb. 15.? Represcnta i tive Simonhoff, of Charleston, has i i introduced again his bill to require j health certificates as requisites for ; marriage licenses. j part of the 1922 funds noi needed j for maintenance to be us d to re jimburse the county for money spent j in building the Waltcrboro-Jack sonboro road. The request was ap :proved. j Federal aid in the sum of $25. I 000 was allotted for the building of a section of road from. Kingstreo to the Santee river bridge, j The highway commission will of ? fer to Florence county federal aid j in the sum of $20,000 for aid in constructing the road from Efling [ ham to Lake City. The estimated cost of this road is $80,000. Charleston county requested fed eral aid in the sum of $250.000 for j the Ashley river bridge. The ap plication was approved tentatively 'and will be granted when funds I become available. Action was postponed on the re quest of Charleston county lor $70,000 to continue the paving of the Charleston-Sji van nab highway. Federal aid in the sum of $21. 000 was granted to Colloton county for the bridge over the Kdisto be tween Waltcrboro and St. George. Federal aid in the sum of 0OU was granted to Greenville coun ty fur tie* construction of a bridge mi Kay's bridge road from Anderson county line to Princeton. Tlie request of Berkeley county for federal aid in the sum of >!?*.. 000 on tic- road from Monck's cor ner to Bonnoau was approved. The commission also granted $25.00? to C?i.n\vood county fo assisl in con structing the road from Greenwood to ihe Abbeville county line. A delegation from l^iureiis coun ty wanted assistance in top soiling the road through (;ray Court. Tin cost will i.e approximate!} $2.000. The commission allotted $ l.50t> on condition that tin- com munity raise J50?. The $ 1.500 comes from the 2.0 per cent, of li censes collected which is set aside for t!i.- construction of roads and bridges. A committee from the Calhoun Highway association, headed by .1. 1 ". Jacobs. Jr.. requested fed* ral aid in '.in* construction of several bridges. The commission i^mip il tile committee tli:it federal \\<>uld be allotted ;is lands were available and were needed. i >1 !:'-r routine business was <li - posed of befor? 11 j ? - c m mission ad journed. Not?Let all the ends Thou Aiins't Sumter. S. C, Saturday, TOM WATSON STARTS ROW INSENATE j Turbulent Georgian ! Charges Secretary of Treasury Mellon With Violation of Law ! Washington. Feb. 13.?Secretary i Mellon is holding the office of sec- \ retary of the treasury in violation : of the law and can be arrested for' retaining the place if any one sees, fir to swear out a warrant charg- ? iug him with the offense. Senator! Watson (Democrat) of Georgia de clared in the senate late today. Tin- j law which .Mr. Mellon is violating.; Senator Watson said, prohibits th-.* j j secretary of the treasury from en-' gaging in any kind of business j or <?? minore?. Senator Watson told the senate that Mr. Mellon could bo impeach ed "any time we sec fit" and read i to the senate the provisions of Sec-j tion 243 of the revised statutes I which, he declan d. expressly for- j bids Mr. Melbui to retain his place, lie declared that by staying in of- ! fice the secretary was-violating the I Law. adding that it was generally i known that Mr. Mellon was one of! the wealthiest individuals in the! 1 country. The assertiuns by the Georgia! senator were mad" in connection with several speeches of tiro ac-? Icomplishments of the two major' j political parties; He informed the 1 senate in the course of his remar?ts that the law, now listed as Section ! 24*. was passed in the first con - | gress of the United States, and that ; during the administration of Pres- ; ident Grant. A. T. Stewart had j withdrawn after being named sec- j retary (|f the treasury when attcn- ? tion was called to provisions of the ? [act. ) Sustained by Hcflin. j Senator Watson asked Senator! I Hoflin (Democrat) of Alabama for [his opinion on "what the people; (will think by the way our govern-j menl is being run when a. criminal.! 1 unconvictcd.' hut disob?>ymg the; penalty open and notoriously com mitting a crime, is left in charge of j our national funds and the refund-; in:; of debts of $11.000.000,000. Senator lief'in said that Senator i Watson had shown that Secretary.) Mellen was violating the law and ti.at ii was time for senators to-i sp? a k. Mr. Watson stated that Mr. St?"W jart had resigned three days after<! ibis confirmation by the senate and; latter President <.rant had learned I of the provisions of the law. J "And it' Mr. Stewart resigned." ? continued the senator, "why sfroulu j j net Mr. Mellon resign? Why shottid Ibe continue in office in insolent vi- < lolation of the law'.' He knows it: js.o does President Harding know it: ard the Republican party is going] 10 have to answer for it this fall) tor T do not believe the people will stand for open violation of tin- law j k?v a member of the cabinet when'] {persons throughout the country nvr 1 prosecuted for trivial offenses." j Asking why the president did n- t I P*respect the statutes." Senator Watson said that Mr. Mellon was "impudent" for retaining the office! (and ought t?? resign. President Should Act. "If iie doesn't resign." he add "then the president ought to ask ? for his resignation.' ! The Georgia senator referred to [the recent passage of the allied; debt funding bill and said th.vj never before in history had so much money been placed in the hands o; lone man t<> handle, "and that man ! ;s. violating the law every day of his! I life." He challeneged "all of the ; j lawyers in the senate" to refute his i statements relative to Mr. Mcllon's j right to remain as secretary. Mi-. Watson referred t-? Mr. Mel-' ilon as "a colossal figure in the; (business world" and declared that j he had n<> more right to be secre-! tary of the treasury that had "J. ! I p. Morgan or John P. Rockefeller ; lor a member of the firm of Scars-, j Roebuck & Co.. if you please." j He also read from James G. Rlaine's "Twenty Years in C??n-1 igress" a reference to the circum- . jstances surrounding the nomina-j I tion of Mr. Stewart. This told how ? 1 Mr. Grant hail asked congress first; it.. amend the law to exeepi Mr. ? [Stewart and then after it was seen! [that congress v. as unwilling to make, ?the changes tin- president with-: (drew the request and the newly named seeretarv resigned. KILLING GOES ON IN BELFAST One Man Killed and Child is Shot in Street Battle j Pel fast. Feb. 1 -Tie- day o;>- n ed with tie- death Of a live-year-old J child, who w as struck by a bulb-: I whib* playing in the street. A workman in Pally Maearrott area | was shot dead. Tin- casualties number lit. with thirtv-four dead. HARDING WORRIED BY FAKE TELEGRAMS Philadelphia. Fch 1 ?. The sv-nd . ing of many take telegrams to ; President Harding purporting t >| endorse the candidacy of .1. C.. j;? ? \ ?? 1" .>n :i ';.?:?!?<! loeoi Waiter, as regisf?-r of the United States ireas I urV is being itrvesti~;<'?-d. t be thy Country's. Thy God's and February 18, 1922 MORE JOBS FOR PARTY WORKERS _ President Harding is! Having Congress to Create Thirteen More United States District Judgeships By Wallace Bassford (Special Correspondence) "Washington. F?*b. 14.? The pres ident is having congress create thir teen more United States district, judgeships?another load for the hacks of the overburdened taxpay ers. Incidentally it gives him an Opportunity to take thirteen mem bers of the agricultural bloc from the senate and place them where lie put Kenyon. Away hack there tt'he nlhC world was young, the Kmperor Tamerlane found that a petty sultan named Bajazet was in his way at times, so he threw the sultan into a cage and hauled him around the eountry for exhibition purposes. The president will soon have thirteen cages ready for the senators who have annoyed him by standing up for the interests of the farmers. Curiously enough there are just thirteen of these senators still remaining in the ag ricultural blue who can be depend ed upon to stand by the people on most occasions?except when there is a soft life-time job to be had Ahe Martin says that his friend Ike Lark has bought a new pair of shoes with sonic fc?oney he had left over from the Wilson administra tion. Perhaps few of the farmers in the country realize that the twe> ty million .dollars which the Re publican congress so generously toted for the aid of a comparative ly small section of Russia came out of the pockets of the wheat grow ers, many of whom are in real need of aid themselves. In othe. words, ir was appropriated from the funds ef the United States Grain Corporation and not from the United Stales treasury. and the funds of the Grain Corporation rep resent profits made off the. wheat growers. These profits amount to more than thirty million dollars. Another phase of the matter is the fact that congress set a precedent in this case, for charity of this kind in the past has been by private ;subscription. In 1845 the country was so mvocd by the distress of i Ireland, ivhere the potato crop had failed under the burden of fur nishing the principal support for the eight million" of people in the bland at that time that millions wejv raised by private subscrip tion, but even then the congress was not asked to make an appro priation. In tho case of Russia there was plenty of food in the [country, but communism does not j run true to its name, and the parts I of Russia w here food was abund ant would not furnish it to the j famine region without a price, and j the price could not be raised by the sufferers. It must give the wheat j farmer, who finds it hard to make 'ends meet, a pleasant thrill to think that he is helping tu feed the Russians, while his own chil dren may be in need of the ordinary necessities of life. The Bible says that he. who does not I ?ok after his own household first is worse than a heathen. The American Red Cross uns an nounced thai it has just spent $100. 0?0 to relieve some of the most urgent cases of actual distress among the people ot certain parts of Montana and North Dakota. : ('ongross took two hundred times that amount of money from the "rain growers for the Russian re lief. Tie- Farmers" Council in this city has received a letter from V. C*. Mansfield of Sunnyxide, Wash ington, telling of conditions in sev eral of the Northwestern States. He writes: "Many farmers are com pelled to ?,''? to the hankers and beg for money to buy a sac); of Hour. Tloir crops were ail mort gaged and taken from them. There are a great many who wer.- unable last fall to seed their summer-fal lowed ground, am. there is no hope of their being abb: to d<> so in the spring." The most of the metro politan newspapers do liol print tlmsi- stories, for they are members of the cabal of publishers who have agreed to print only news in dicating thai th<- administration is .?i success, and to throw on the door all of tier news depicting the trenmdous amount of distress in tic- kind. The Republican national head quarters in Washington is already beginning to play the baby. Their late: f SCI.'i Sent UUt t roUl liefe begins with the words: "It i* the manifest int< ntion of leaders ol the Democratic party not to 1"- fair in the coming campaign." Then the} proceed to refer to the minority report on the tariff bill away back last spring -almost a year ago. When one thinks of all tin sliarpl attacks that Democrats h.sw made in the lasi few months. it iy ? ' maskable testimonial to their fair ness that the high-salaried public ity sharks of the Republican head quarters have to go back to last j spring to find anything which is, even claimed to be an unfair tit-1 tcrance on the part of the Demor crats. And speaking of fairness, j Truth's.*' ANOTHER RIVAL FOR HENRY FORD Alabama Power Com pany Prepares Pro posal For Purchase and Lease of Muscle Shoals Property Washington. Feb. 15.?Another ot'ier fo*" the. purchase and lease of the Mu... jc Shoals properties was completed today and arrange ments were made by its sponsors, the Alabama Power Company, for its immediai<- tiling with Secretary Weeks. The offer was tendered by Thom as .Martin, acting for the Alabama Company, of which he is president, and with its submission the total number of proposals for the planl was brought up to four. The Alabama company proposes the completion of the Wilson dam. "without further advances or ex penditures by the United States." .and the outright purchase of the Warrior Power plant at Gorgas on the river, which *?*. situated on the ground already owned by the pow er company. The properties would be releas ed for a period of fifty years, un der the plan and would be subject 10 "recapture by government" at tlie termination of that time. They would also be opera ted subject to tie- provisions of the federal water power act under an operat ing license. OIL AT HIGHEST PEAK OF OUTPUT Will Begin Decline in Three Years Buffalo. X. V.. Fob. 14.?Petro leum production in the- United States lias reached its peak and probably will begin to decline within three years. Dr Ralph Mc Kee. professor of chemical engi neering at Columbia university, [declared in an address tonight be for the LJuffalo Engineering socie ty. There is no liklihood of the dis covery of new petroleum fields in this country. Dr. Sfcfcee asserted, j Hut he declared rich oil shale de iposits, as yet practically untouched, ?are capable of supplying nation's ? petroleum needs' for hundreds tf years. Me predicted the extension of oil : from shah- would become one vz the greatest industries in the coun try. "It is not commonly appreci ated how large these shale deposits arc." he said. "If we consider onh those <-il shahs which will furnish a barrel or 42 gallons or better of petroleum per ton of shale, we j have in Lhe Green river section e: IColorado. Utah and Wyoming aton-j 'sufficient to furnish G4.O00.000.O0o I barrels of petroleum, which amount j is i ight times larger than the total ?of the well petroleum that this jenuntry has produced since Col. ? Drake drilled the first oil well in ilsf.:* at Titusville. Pa. It is mere [than five times the total production I of tin- world sine:- well petroleum [became commercial 60 years ago. ! "The demands for petroleum are I increasing in this country at the j rate of 50.000.000 barrels a year. I If this continues it will require each 'year ~? new plants, each handling _ ni.Mt toss of oil shale a day and ? r< presenting an investment of close t,, $1.000.000 each to give suffici ent oil to meet simple this yearly [increase in demand for petroleum. I We have no other source of fuel oil [or gasoline substitute which prom ises to furnish even a minor part of this demand. In other words, we have reason to look forward to ! utilization "f nil shale as a very !profitable chemical manufacturing j which will rank with our largest industries in its labor and capital requirements and in value of out put." POLITICAL STRIFE IN MEXICO M>xieo City. Fei.. 1 *.. Three were killed and one wounded in a series of shootings at Pueblo, as the result of bitterness between the state government and independent political factions._ one is reminded ?"f the millions of dollars sp nt in I've Ia si campaign to ctreuln'e thousands of tens of matter that had no basis of fact. Tin- administration seeking to create a smoke-screen by vocifer ating loudly about the economies in this direction and that. Repre sentative Pyrnes of South Carolina tool, a shot through the smoke (he other day and brought clearly into view the fact that while the pres ident v as balking about a direct saving of .'??'to...Mio- and an indi rect racing <?! ?1 tyf.OOO.euf) in- has recently asked consideration of a deficiency bill amounting to ? 10S. 71?;.:'>'h which, when added to the j two deucjency bills already passed, makes a grand total up to ibis time! of f.;:;.Mr Pyrnes add ed: "I rejoice that the president r< - iterated nh; opposition to deticicn-'' ijes. because 1 hesitate to think what amount would be requested if he were not opposed to deficien-j THE TRUE SOU FORD HAS ONE ADVOCATE IN ; WASHINGTON _ [Secretary of Agricul ture Wallace is Fa orably Disposed to Henry Ford's Mus cle Shoal Proposal ; Washington. Feb. 14.?Henry C. Wallace, secretary of agriculture. ' "looks with favor" upon Hen y ! Ford's offer for purchase and lease 'of the government's nitrate and wa ter projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala*, j "if its terms are sufficiently definite i and binding to make sure the plant ! will he operated continuously for the manufacture of fertilizer.*' I Dr. Richard C. Tolman, director ? of the fixed nitrogen research lab oratory of tin- department, an . nounced the secretary's position . with regard to the Ford offer in an authorized statement which he read today before the house military . committee. The secretary's views as expressed by the witness were ;that if the terms were as he had ' outlined, the proposal would "re suit, in making available a consider ably increased supply of fertilizer ; in time of peace and give us as "surance of adequate supplies of ex plosives in cave of need." The statement was read by Dr. Tolman after the committee had completed an examination busting ; more than five hours of W. B. Ma ' yo. chief engineer and personal rep i resentative of Henry Ford. Mr. ; Mayo's testimony included repcat ! ed statements that Mr. Ford intend : ed to manufacture fertilizers in ; their completed forms at the max jlmum production capacity of the j Muscle Shoals plants and would j make every effort to manufacture jit at a minimum cost to the farm ers, using every known formula and working his chemists meanwhile i to discover improved methods. Mr. Mayo took issue several : times with committee members who icalled attention to the section of the . offer regarding fertilizer manu j facture, saying there was no pro j vision in the offer to compel the j manufacture of fertilizers, but only of some necessary ingredients. In each instance, the witness declared ?that it was Mr. Ford's intention to execute the contract in the event ? congress accepts it in good faith and j that included the production of fer , fiiizers. ? At one point Mr. Mayo said the j Detroit manufacturer had been In j cited by the government to make I the offer and congress could "take j it or leave it at its face value." ; This announcement followed a j heated exchange between the wit ' ncss and Kcpresentaitve Miller (Republican) of Washington, rc : garding the financial obligations the : government would assume under the agreement. The Washington ? member insisted that the financial 'burden on the country would ox ; ceed by several millions that as jsumed by Mr. Ford while Mr. Mayo I submitted estimated expenditures Mr. Ford would make which totail jed more than SS.OUO.OOO in excess of Mr. Miller's figures. The col j loony ended without an agreement between the two. Chairman Kah:: announced at the 'conclusion of the hearing today j that .T. W. Worthingtnn. another. of i Mr. Ford's advisers in the Muscle Shoals transaction, would be asked to testify tomorrow. Milton Whit I ney, seil physicist and chief of th ? 'bureau of soils of the agricultural [department, also was requested to [appear at tomorrow's sessions, j As the hearings progressed Mr. ! Kahn said it .appeared that the [committee would nor be able to 'conclude its investigations thife week ; and probably the meeting would i be continued over another week. : He had hoped to terminate the 'hearings ami begin executive con sideration of the Ford offer villi ? tlie committee next week. Another event schedule for to morrow is the hearing to he held at the war department by Secretary Weeks on the offer of Frederick C. ; Engst rum of Wilmington. X. C. It Was considered probable that Sec retary Weeks would submit that proposal to congress before the sen ate and house committees had dis i posed of rh" Ford offer. Tin- senate agriculture committee took its first action today on the Ford proposal. It agreed to begin hearings Tuesday with Major Gen en?! Beach, ? liier of army engi neers, and members of a delegation from Tennessee, including Govern or Taylor, who are waiting to tes lifv before the house committee. LOS ANGELES * MURDER Los Angeles. Feb. 15.?-William Davis. Mabel Normand's chauffeur, u.is rcquestioned in the search for clues for William Desmond Taylor's murderer. Rewards totaling four thousand five hundred dollars have been offered for information lead ing to arrest and conviction of lite murderer. NEW YORK IS BURIED IN SNOW New York. Feb. 13.?Greater New Votk today experienced its heaviest snowfall of the winter. Six inches had fallen after the storm bad been in progress a few hour-. THRON, Established June 1, IS66. _VOL. LIIL NO. 2 BLOODY WAR IMPENDING IN IRELAND Strife Between Ulster Unionists and South I Ireland Republicans Seems Unavoidable London. Feb; 13.?The Iri<h.sit uation since the raids over the Ulster border has steadily become worse and no secret is made of the ? grave alarm with which it is viewed I in official circles in London. Win ston Spencer Churchill, secretary for the colonies, declared in the house of commons this afternoon that the shooting of tin- Ulster I special constables at Clones has Igreatly aggravated the situation. ! The Evening Standard asserts [that lr< land is on the brink of civil j war and quotes a member of the government as saying while the government hesitates to do any thing which the S*nn Feinors could interpret as provocative, swift mil itary preparat ions have already been made to prevent an armed in vasion of Fermanagh and Ty ' rone. In the light of the devclop | ments of the last few days much I significance is attached to the sus | pension today of the evacuation of | British troops from southern Irish ! ports. The Irish office explains thai suspension was ordered pond ing a decision regarding the extent of tiie reinforcements to be sent to Ulster. Sir James Craig. Ulstex premier, announced tonight that the Ulster garrison of British troops was to increased from ten battalions, the previous /lum ber, to 14. Tim week-end rioting in "Belfast was continued today. Foe death roll from Saturday being about FJ kill ed and 20 or more wounded. The curfew was reim posed tonight. The shooting affrays in Belfast dur ing the last 24 hours occurred over j a widely extended area. The gunmen have kept well under cover and the police and .soldiers I patrolling in armed cars are having difficulty in locating them. Sir James Craig, the Ulster pre mier, telegraphed the British gov ernment tonight asking what action 'other than dispatching tncssages to Dublin" the government was taking or had taken to secure tho return of the kidnapped Loyalists. Michael Collins, head of the pro visional government, in a message to the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Re public, charges that a coup de etat is being planned against the pro visional government and warns the association against assisting any attempt to destroy the new gov ernment. Mr. Collins informed tl" associa tion that tlm alternatf'e to the treaty is renewal of tlm warfare and declared that the provisional government wanted th- people I themselves to decide the i<- u \ add ling that if they decided for war there need not be any d >' bl as to w here he would stand. Belfast, Feb. 13 < By the Asso ciated Press).?A bomb thrown in Weaver street tonight killed one child and seriously wounded three other children that aiv not-expect ed to recover. There were numer ! ous other casualties from the bomb but as ambulances carried the in jured to hospitals the exact number or the nature of their injuries is not known. Belfast. Teh. 1 I.?Snipers con tinued their grim work in the dis jturbed areas, the deall} roll since [Saturday being increased?to eigh teen by the deat.hr of t\\<> tuen who [ were victims ef, flying bullets dnr ! in^r the noon hour. The wounded j number approximately fifty. I THE ISLAND j OF UNREST ! London. Feb. M.?Michael ColT j tin's disclosure of an alleged Re j publican plot to overthrow the pvo ? visional government, the sudden 'and unexplained suspension of s British military evacuation and the dangerous tension between north, and south have combined to pro duce a most serious situation in Ir,% ; land. I BELFAST LOOKS FORWARD TO WAR Belfast. Feb. 14. -Correspond {.cuts say that Ulster opinion is that ; unless the kidnapped unionist lead ers are released the situation may ! lead to war. SIXTEEN KILLED SINCE THURSDAY i j Belfast. Feb. 14.?Deaths in the disorders since Saturday tnm; si\ ; teen. Four children were wound/ red in a bomb attack, dying during j t he night . I RIVER AT AUGUSTA IS RISING FAST Augusta. ?Jh.. Feb. 15. ? Three ? inches of rain which fell during i the j.;(s? forty-eight h*>m*s in the i shed above Augusta will send the [Savannah river here to a stage ot j thirty feet by tomorrow morning, j according to the weather bureau j forecast. Parin lands on the Caro I Una side below Augusta will be ia { undated, it is stated.