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TOE SUMTJBil WATCHMAN, Esta CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,11 T??STRONG FOR THE ! LEVEES Mississippi River Eat-j ing It's Way Rapid-] ly Through Big Dam! at Old Town, Ark. Helena, Ark.. March 31.?The; situation at Oldtown, Arkansas, j where the caving in of the first | line of 1cv.-es- of the Mississippi ffciver began yesterday, was describ ed, today by government engineers as critical. Two more feet caved in eariy today, and a strong cur rent, from the Mississippi is side is said to be eating its way under; the leveee on the Arkansas side, j Memphis, March SO.?Heavy j rains in the territory between Cairo, j III., and Memphis yesterday and j last night will delay the arrival of \ the crest of the Mississippi river! Hood -at Memphis until. Saturday j ?oi3>ms. the United States weather ! ^gLfrgeu here announced -r tonight. * This rainfall vrt\\ also bring a maxi- | mum stage of 42.7 or 42.S here. ! J. H. Scott, forecaster, announced j and win prolong the passage of the f crest in this part of the river. The sloughing off of the ap proaches to the old front levee at Old Town. Ark.; twu.miles south of Helena, for a short distance was the only l?vo trouble of import ance reported during-the/day. The cave, in at Old To-wn ?was dis covered before more than 50 feet of the approach had, sloughed and prompt measures prevented the sit ation from becoming serious, Maj. L. T. Jverr. ?nited States, engineer in charge of the levies in the White river district reported tonight. Telephone messages-from Helena ; tonight said the situation there was well in hand and/the?wojrk of re inforcement progressing rapidly. Workmen <frill kceijf*. on the job all night and Major-Kerr. said that by morning ?he levee at that point should be safe, unless the swift current off this point ^should cut into the old- levee at- some other place. _ Levee engineers here say that the next 48 hours wilt%rbbably de termme whether or 't?X\ serious le vee trouble will develop between Osceoia. Ark., where Xthe crest of the flood passetr^this nWrning.^and the;, Mississippi line. v;\tp to 6 o'clock Old Town ^&Sthc only point reporting any? .t&t&dc. Vicksburg. Miss'., v&arch 30.? Showing a rise of ifojSfetenjths of a foot since 7 o'clock '#kis morning the Mississippi river $ad reached the stage of 47.3 feet'&ere tonight. Reports from aH poInf??ih the third Mississippi river distant to head quarters here stated liia-t water was i well up on the lev^esi^Vut. that no ? weak points alvn^ih'^ax^m had ! de\*eloped. - I Helena, Ark.. March -30.?Sever al hundred men -are working to nic: hi in a driving rain by the light of improvised torches to reinforce with sand bags the section of the \ front levee approaches at Old j Town, below Helena, which began * sloughing away into the river early j today. The downpour of rain ist weakening the embankment and unless there is a change in the j weather serious trouble is feared i tomorrow. A nine mile current ! driven from the Mississippi side I of the river is sweeping against the ' -front levee and according to re- j ports received here tonight less j than /our feet of the Crown of this '? fevee remains for a distance of 50 ? feet. Workers say that this strip will probably not be widened unless th; sublovccs of sund bangs fa'il to hold buck the flood waters swept j against them. The roar of the cur- | rent as it strikes against the shore j here can be heard-J^ttne distance ; j-way. Levee workers late today I cut down trees and ^attempted to I place them tbefiver in. front of j the levee to break the force of the j current but they were quickly i swept away down th*e river. Efforts of the workers tonight is directed to preventing the <-using away of the earth under th** ban- ! ouett?. I* this can be done the I I' -.' v will bold; they gay. GOV. RUSSELL'S CHARGES ARE UNFOUNDEDl Jackson. Miss.. April 1.?The! legislative committee that is inves tigating Gov. Rtfesell'S charges : that lire insurance companies had i tospired the hundred thousand dol-j fc?r seduction suit against him. in stituted by Miss France* Birk-1 head, reported to the house today j that the investigation failed to j substantiate 'Governor Russell's j charges. FLOOD HELD IN CHECK BY SAND RAGS I Helena. Ark.. April \.~ Work-i men returning from the Oldtown ' levee where caving occurred last! night said that the water from the flooded Mississippi had gone \ through, the gap in the front levee] but Is I"':ng held by the sub-levees built of sandbag*. >lished April. 1850. Ml._ fii 'I OF CAPITAL I AND LABOR: i Miners' Union Deter- j mined to Prostrate! Industry of Nation I If Necessary to Carry Their Point Indianapolis. Marcff 31 (By the Associated Press.)?Coal produc tion was stopped tonight ? by the union miners, who quit their day's work in the mines of 20 states with the avowed policy, of remaining idle indefinitely in an effort to force the i operators to accept the miners' terms for new wage contracts. Officials at the headquarters here of the United Mine Workers of America declared the suspension would not only include a half mil- j lion workers but also at least 100,- 1 000 non-union men would join inj the walk out. No last minute in- ; structions were issued from head- i' quarters and the only significant conference held during the day by; President John L. Lewis was with ! Lonnie Jackson, president of the Kentucky union district, where 5. 000 union men will continue at work because their contract with i operators has another year to run. j During-the day Mr. Lewis de-j clared the suspension of work by | Kansas union miners would not be j averted by the action of the Kan- ; sas industrial court ordering that! wage scales of the last two years be continued for 30 days, in a formal statement tonight the union chief declared the nation-wide; w;alkout. would affect "hundreds of thousands of citizens" not directly; engaged in the coal industry, and; he .reiterated his charge that the ; operators had forced "the strike j upon the miners." . j In addition to the Kentucky min- j ers. union men in Nova Scotia will remain at work but those in the i Western Canadian provinces were j expected to join the suspension, j The conference over the Kcn<u--jky| situation was said by its .partici- J pants to have been a general re view of the situation there with . President Lewis taking the .position ? that the union must obey its con- , tract with the operators. Numerous reports from tin* coal j fields of the country also reachctf! headquarters,.which Mr. Lewis de-| clared indicated a complete tie up j of all union fields. These reports j also showed that 13.000 union men: would be left in the mines to pro- j tecL. the property from damage and j the only trouble between operators J and miners in this connection was reported from Washington where : operators were said to be object ing to paying the wages provided j for in the contracts that expired rt i midnight. Mr. Lewis' formal statement rc- : garding the suspension of work ; follows: "The strike upon which the United Mine Workers of America j are entering is not a question of j small magnitude nor one to be j lightly considered by the American1, people. It is fraught with far! reaching consequences and serious responsibilities as affecting the pub- j lie weal. The withdrawal of in j excess of C0-0,000 men from thy j mines of the country constitutes a j serious problem. Aside from the inevitable coal shortage which will ensue, to the profit of coal opera- j tors and to the detriment of the; public, it will cause a dislocation of : industry throughout tin- nation, j affecting hundreds of thousands of i citizens in other walks of life. "This is a deplorable condition j and constitutes a sad commentary j upon the relationships of employer, and employee in American indus- j try. Every thoughtful man recog- j nizes that in the end a settlement i of the problems of the mining in- j dustry must perforce be effected. Such settlement must come through Joint conference with accredited representatives of thv mine work ers of the nation. "It is most unfortunate, because j of the arbitrary attitude of the coal j operators, that such a meeting e;<nj not be assembled until the conn-1 tTJ has endured the agony andj convulsions involved in m Indus-: tria.' strike on such n gigantic scale, i In the present issue the pub-lie bus. been lulled in a sense of fals*? so- I curity by the soothing statements! of those who will profit through a strike. "The mine workers repeatedly; have called attention to those faces and our statements have gone] unheeded. The responsibility must' therefore be with those who have brought about the present situa tion seeking io push the miner? i backw aid. "As self-respecting citizens w< j are resolved to stand in opposition: to those who deny us a living wagt j and our proper aspirations for an ' American standard of living." Indianapolis. April !. Confldyut that the suspension <>i work be gun at midnight by ilie union coal miners would rvsuh in a complete j tieup of ill*- country's unionized fields, mine workers officials await-; ed repoits showing the exact of-: fectiveness of :iie shutdown. They' expected six hundred thousand i men. including i hundred thousand non-union worker?? would 1"- in cluded in the walkout, l/relimin-1 iary reports indicated that few operators who conduct th- :i* mines on a closed shop basis would at? j "Be Just aud Fear >' BLOOD i FLOWS IN ! IRELAND _ ! Four killed in Sunday ; Reprisals Belfast. April 2 (By the Asso ciated Press).? Four men wore' shot and killed und three children ! were wounded last night in the Sinn I Fein area near the Old Lodge Road ! district. The ages of the men ! ranged from 4'J to 63. The children are two. seven and 13 years old. It was another grim week-end | for Belfast. The shooting-'of the I men is believed to have been in re- i prisal for the killing Saturday of ! Constable George Turner. The as sassin fired at Turner from a va cant house and made his escape. 1 The news of the shooting of th?> j policeman spread rapidly, und de- j spite the curfew hour last night, there were scenes of excitement in the streets, loiter heavy rifle and revolve firing punctuated with the! shrieks of women and children was heard and shortly afterwards the. bodies of the four men were taken to a hospital, where the three chil- | dren also were conveyed. The j father of the children. Joseph Walsh was one of the men who I was killed. All the killings took plaee in the heroes of the victims. Walsh was lying in bed with the two younger children and the' bullet, which killed him. wounded them. Two year old Bridget was shot through the head. Frank Walsh. : on of Joseph Walsh, was stopping with his j grandmother a few doors distant from the Walsh home. The grand- j mother's house Afc'Jso/ was raided. ' The intruders -.rushed upstairs, seized Frank, who wax trying to! make his escape through a window, and pitched him downstairs. His injuries are not serious. The^rrand mother said after the raid at Jo seph Walsh had served five years in the war on the western front. She had 13 sons and nephews* in the war. only two of whom re - turned. "And this is my reward on their return." the old lady sobbed. In the home of a relative of the' Walsh family this morning a bullet passed through the arm of a heigh-; bor holding a baby and pierced its. stomach, wounding it fatally. The body of a young man named Carvcy'was' found lying in the road at midnight last night, three miles from Xewry. There were two bullet wounds in his' head. Orange Hall, near Xewry andi close to the scene of the recent: train burning, was destroyed early this morning. Armed men order ed out the woman caretaker and her four children, threw out the furniture and set lire to the build-, rug. The woman and her children were left in the darkness on the bleak mountainside until they were befriended by neighbors. At Waterford today Protestant Bishop Miller of Cashel. speaking, on the "Terrible Events in North-j Ireland." said he had consulted . with the clergy and men prominent: in all demnominations. who had1 voiced the opinion that '"the namesi of Catholics and Protestants are; being used in connection with j sonic of the foulest deeds that! have ever disgraced a country." ; "All Christians." the prelate added, "are called upon to say tiny I loath< and abhor such activities,! by whomsoever murders are com mitted, and to regard such men as the direct embassaries of Satan." j ?_ ! Dublin. April '-' (By the Asso ciated Press.)?The serious extent] of the split in the ranks of the' Irish Republican amy was reveal-j cd this afternoon ,when from live j Dublin battalions, which bad been ! ordered out to take a "new oath; of allegiance with new im plica- i tions." not less than - M-"J men j obeyed the Republican appeal andj marched to Smithfield. There inj the presence of Liara Mellowes, I Roderick O'Connor and other not-1 cd heads of the R publican move-j ment. they took tue oath of al-j legiancc to free themselves from1 any other further responsibility Lo : the dial eireanni J The extremists tonight expressed| entire satisfaction at the response; to their appeal. A large crowd. ! including contingents from the women's organizations, ?witnessed i the parade of the battalions, but i gave no demonstration of sympalh} 1 beyond their presence. Belfast. April 2.?A bomb thrown I into a house here tonight exploded and wounded two children. During the night a. man named Mallon was shot deud. ARKANSAS LUMBER MILL DESTROYED Half Million Dollar Fire at Pine Bluff rim-bluff. Ark.. April ::. Fire] hr.--t night destroyed die sawmill of ih?? Arkansas Short Leaf Lumber j company. Th? loss n*>* about half! a million dollars. tempt continued production. Foi !!:?? Ilrst rinie in history, officials -';i<!. both the anthracite and Lit-, un lino us tields arc t i <-?i up and they estimated thai six thousand <>; the nation's seventy ;iv> hundred mines-;' iot?Let the ends ThourAiius't at Sumter, S. C, Wedn< Russians Fight foi Russians fighting for transj>ortat They crowd into trains and occupy t PROGRESS ! BEING MADE ON ROADS Construction Com-! panies at Work on County Roads,.Also; Bridges Being Built; The work of grading <?u tho'j Manning, road.and of the laying of. curbing and tlie making.of gjuttcrs for one-half mile .list beyond the limits on this "ua< is reported us advancing very satisfactorily. The hard surfacing >f this road for three and one-tenth ihiles is in the' hands of the AdamsrEVaris Con struction Company. <>f Jackson-I' viUe. Fin. This construction com pany was also granted the con- ,' tract for the paving of the three j ami ohe-tcnth miles on the Bishop ville road and the work of grading has also been begun on this road, i Tin- contract for the building of the four miles of hard surface road on the Maycsville road was let t<> the Slattcry and ITenry Construction j Company, of Greenville, and a' great deal of the grade work on ; this road has been almost com-: pleted! i Tin- bridge work. which was, necessary with the hard surfacing! of tin- roads, was placed with the Mallard Lumber Company, of Grccleyville. The first bridge to he! begun by the company was the! bridge over Green Swamp on the Stateburg road. This bridge, a ! three span bridge, is expected to be! completed within the next ten; days. The work on 1 >??ii 1 the j bridges and the roads has been j very much impeded by the rainy; weather, but much good progress j is now being made during the fair' weather l>v all of the construction! i companies at work in the county.! hi addition to the building of the I Green Swamp Bridge, the Mallard Lumber Com pan v is ai work on * ' l several of the bridges of the Rocky Bluff Swamp on the Mayesyille ] road and is also at work with the j laying of a culvert over the mill1 race at Whites Mill on the Bishop-! ville road. TOO MANY COAL MINKS; Legislation Proposed to Pre-] vent Over Development of In (I us try _* j New Vork. APri-l J'.- < 'ougrcs- I sional action to prohibit the over-' development of the coal industry is ! proposed by Philip Murray, vice president of tlie United Mine Workers as ;? cine for the "great evil which has America in the grip j of ;i nation-wide strike/' lie said Hi" men an required to live a year on the earnings from forty to two-' hundred days" work, because of j over product Ion. ! BOMB THROW ING IN BELFAST i Belfast. April 1. ?.\ bomb Was ' thrown into the family circle m a ] laborei named l>onnelly. killing in* three-year-old sen. and woundingi! two ?.? tii? r children and Uontn*ily. Kour shots 'a er.- then tired at Mrs. l.>onnelly. who was nursing an In fa nr. without effect. Putney. Bnghind. April I. <'aai-'. I'Vidge won the annual boat r..j, with ' ?xford. I be thy Country's, Tuy Cod's and ' esday, April 5, 1922 r American Food ion to American food relief stations, he roofs of coaches. DIAL ATTACKS SHIPPING BOARD ? - -_ South Carolinian Calls! It Most Incompetent Set of "Giggling School Girls/' Big Losses Shown Washington. .March 50.-?Assert ing that he is' opposed to -'throwing iiway more money on such an in conrpetent set as the Shippingj Board." Senator X. I'. Dial opened! an attack on ship subsidy today' with the following remarks to the] seriate: "I notice that the Shipping] Heard has come to congress asking for subsidies. I am hoi surprised that t hey should ask for help con- j sidering the manner in which they have carried on the business en trusted tu their cure. I have had occasion to familiarize myself ro some extent with their methods and I must s: y thai I know of no government officials who look upon their duties as lightly as do members of the^sbipping board, al though several of its operatives arc drawing salaries as high as ?5o. 000 a. year. ^ "They were before the commit tee on commerce some time ago and I never was reminded more forcibly of fourteen-year-old gig gling schoolgirls than 1 was on that occasion. "I noticed in the newspapers a day or two ago that they had some 1.6-1 ships tied up in ih<- neighbor hood of New York and the report stated that they had 600 .guards and yet they" allowed something like $400.000 worth of government property to be stolen from those sh ips. "The fact is that instead of try ing to look out for business they have tied up ships t<> keep from carrying on business. I believe that out of something like I.5M0 steel ships they were operating some time ago only :bsi'. i; is even claimed that t-heV did not have enough ships for commission to carry th<- corn which we donated to the starving people of liussia." Senator Dial is a member of the committee to which the ship sub sidy bifl is referred. His attack was not answered but it was noted in t h?- galleries as tin- beginuinit of :i hitter fight over the subsidy proposal of the administration. la?.so> During I'cbruary. Washington. Mandl 50. - The Shipping Uoa**d suffered ;i net loss on the operation of ships' of >?'!. 06!*.45!' during February. Chairmwn Laskcr announced today. This, h said, w;is the lowest recorded since the governmoni engaged in the commercial operation of it> ves sels. ?-?? ? m Bill to Complete Muscle Shoals Introduced Washington. March SI. -The roniire.-neeni.vnl ??!' work t" eoin plet?- the Wilson Dam ami construct !>;iui Number Three at Muscle Shoals itnd?T government appro- ? pri.it i.-e and Supervision will be proposed !?? the Senate by < "3 :;s: r ni.-in Norris. the agriculture com-j mitte?' announced after an inspec tion trip. It is estimate.1 that sev ?ii million hundred thousand dollars will be n???*??ssary for the first years work. j A ["ruth's/' 1NERS WILL WELCOME IN VESTIGATION President Lewis of the Miners' Union Makes Statement at; Congressional Hearing Washington. April '?)?The union' coal miners who suspended work Saturday in the nation wide strike arc declared by John L. Lewis, pres-j ident of the United -Mine Workers' to be desirious of suspension ot* strike operations at the earliest; possibly date, but the resumption of production depends entirely up-J on the future attitude of the coalj Operators. Mr. Lewis before the' house labor committee hearing on the ('.land resolution for the ap pointment of a. commission to in-, vestigate the mining industry, said; his Organization would welcome any impartial and judicial investigation of general conditions in the bitum inous and anthracite industries. Indianapolis. April ?,.?The first j test of strength in the nation-wide coal strike came today with the be- . pinning of the suspension Satur- j day. th.e annual holiday among the. miners having failed to determine the exact effectiveness of the walkout. United Mine Workers headquarters expressed confidence that the day's developments would confirm the union estimate that six hundred thousand men. amon? j them a hundred thousand lion-; union workers had. laid down their, tools for an indefinite period of idleness. The tacit true- between the miners and operators is count-: ed (in. apparently to make thej union estimate, a certainty. Few ? if any of the operators in the.big; coal centers which are strongly; unionized, are expected to attempt an early resumption of operations. The situation, however, is in doubt: in non-union and open shop dis tricts. -? ? *p ?225,000 FIRE LOSS AT UNION _ i Almost Entire Block of City'] Destroyed by-Flames Union. April I.? Union was visit ed thi* morning at 3:30 o'clock; with ?an- of the most disastrous fires since U>05. when the same; block, known as the Townsend j block, was completely wiped out. j an'! which .was destroyed this; morning with the exception of the. Bailey Duilders Supply building. Late estimates show that on con servative basis the loss of property known as the Townsend block ami. People's Supply Company by fire; early this morning will amount toj S'2.25.000. with about 40 1 er cent j insurance. The fire started in W. 15. Green's j place of business and spread ori either side until the buildings oc cupied by .1. E. Helton, fash Gro- j ery Company and People's Supply .1 Company were completely destroy ed. This js one "f the most im posing business blocks in the city < <>f Union and is tlx- first block east{ of the Southern Uaihvay. Over the business concerns burned were the. .home of the Elks' Lodge and also the armory. The Elks' hon;e was one of the most complete homes in this State i itn! was only partly insured, while the armory had about a % T.nOOO supply i'i armory' stock on hand ? and a machine gun. ami very little insurance was carried on this. w. E. Green was insured icti about ?"'? per eenfc of tlie value cf his stork am! buildings and had 108 ' ears 1 turned. .1. L. Boltn's garage, who has the' Ford agency for this county, was insured for about GO per cent. The building was owned by Mi-. P. I.. McNally and insured for $10.000. Mr. MeXally dropping .ui1'i insur-j anee on tlie building last week. The People's Supply Company, whose handsome building was also: burned, had their stock of grocer ies, vvawrons and buggies insured j fully, but carried nothing like the value of tin- building in insurance.] This handsome !>lo<k of build ings, valued at $22-?.000. is now :?. ; mass of ruins, ami tie- Union fire company, with mill companies, did a splendid work in keeping the fire, under control. 'fie- plate "lass windows of the Carovei building, just across, were broken i.y the heat from the fire, j and the stock of the Cash Grocen Company, is ruined from water. London. April 3?Premier Lloyd 'ieorge is to address the I Tons.- ot Commons today to :isk for an ex pression of confidence in the gov ernment's policy toward the inter national economic conference at te non, it i:- expected to receive a iibstuntial majori tj. I lelena. Ark.. A pril '?' Furt her a\:nu in tie- levee at Old town on he M issis.-ippi river was reported j od ay developing a serious situa-j ton. Men aic being recruited and! ush.-d to the scene. Texarkana. Ark.. April -The Vlice Theatre and other buildings ?alued a: half a million dollars vere destroyed by fire a; an early] tour today. j THE TRUE SOin TEEPHONE RATES TO BE REDUCED - Gov. Cooper Signs the Telephone Rate Re ducing Act Passed by the Last Legisla ture Columbia, April 3.?Governor Cooper today signed the telephone rale reduction act passed by the last legislature. The act puts back into effect the telephone rates which were operative {Ik- first of last y< ar. prior to the action of the railroad commission in allowing the rate increase. The governor is issuing a statement this afteqpon explaining his action. The tele phone company is expected to im mediately take action to prevent! the enforcement of the act. [njunc- I tion proceedings will probably be j instituted, though, as yet, no move j has been made. STARVATION IN CENTRAL ARMENIA Disease Stalks in Trail of Pov erty?Some Resort to Human Flesh Diet New York. April 2.?The ravages) of hunger among the inhabitants j of mountain villages in central Armenia were described as appall ing in a cabled report from Near Kast Relief investigators, given out today by Charles V. Viecry. general secretary of the organization. With the break of winter, the dispatch said. K. A. Downer of Kingston. X. Y.. made a live days' visit by horseback to 20 villages having a popuplation of 25,000 and found that 19 out of every 30 per sons were afflicted with disease due to malnutrition. Foodstuffs through out the area were exhausted . ?"Several cases were so desperate that the people resorted to eating of human flesh," the report "-aid. "which practice was sharply pun ished by the authorities. Officials said that they are doing all they can to prevent it. but the people Jos" their senses from hunger." In many of the villages visited. .Mr. Dower reported that the chil dren had lost their hair during the winter. Bread was being made from al! kinds of substitutes in cluding flax, chaff and sawdust, and children were being fed with indi gestible materials extracted from refuse. ? o ? NAVY MAKES AVIATION SAFER Wireless to Be Used to Minv imize Danger Washington. April 2.? Xavalj aviation regulation governing naval air craft in flight are devised to cut the risk to machines and fliers; to the lowest point possible, it was asserted today in an explanation of naval practices made public by! Secretary Denby. The regulations include provisions for enabling the planes to keep constantly in touch by radio with ships or shore sta tions alang the route insuring prompt assistance in case of disas ter and minimizing the danger of losing a plane and its crew at sea. No naval plane is dispatched over a route where it will be .at any time completely out of touch with the radio stations at one end or the other of the route, the ex planation said. The power of the radio equipment in any plane se lected for "such a lligiit must he j sufficient, under the regulations, to ispan a little more than half the to tal distance of the flight ordered. If a thousand mile's is to be cover ed, the radio plant in the plane must be sufficient to communicate more than 30.0 miles." Where there is any possibility of a. forced landing between tin- start and the end of the flight, two planes must be sen* together. In case c-ie- is forced do\'. n it is assumed that the other will be aide to hover aboVQ and report and then make a landing itself-to aid the di*sabled machine. As another precaution position reports must be sent by the ma chines in flight at regular intervals while making the passage. Should some extraordinary accident force down both planes simultaneously and silence their radio calls, res cue parties can be rushed to the place of the hist position and begin tie- search with reasonable hope of picking up tii" aviators in a com paratively shortly distance Horn thai spot. As a final precaution all naval planes are equipped with rocket pistol's to tire color signals at ni^ht to guide rescuers to their aid. LARGE COAL PRODUCTION Output at Maximum Just Be fore the Strike Washington, April 3? ?*oal pro duction of M.337.0?? ton.-, the high est since December tt'JTO. was reach ed in the bituminous coal industry! ? itii j:sp the week ended March 25, j according to the geological survey.! LHKON, Established June f. VOL. LIIL NO. 15 DETHRONED EMPEROR DIES IN EXILE Former Ruler of Aus tria-Hungary Passes Away a t Funchal,. Maderia Islands Today Funchal. Madeira, April 1.? Former Emperor Charles of Aus tria-Hungary, died here today. Former Emperor Charles and his wife, Zcta, were sent into exile by the entente allies after be mad?- two spectacular attempts to regain the thrones either of Aus ! tria or Hungary. Uthough tlie sit ! nation on the island of Maderia re sembled that of. Napoleon at. S! [ Helena, Charles and Zita occupied a much more comfortable position. Their exile began November 10th last. Charles became ill a week ago, with brouchai pneumonia. PRESS ASSOCI ATION WILL SE LECT PLACE Executive Committee to Meet in Columbia Friday Night ?District Men Confer Columbia, April ?.?The execu tive committee of the South Caro lina Press association will meet in Columbia, l-'riday nicriit to jseWt .:. place for the annual meeting of Che association this year. It is under stood that there will be several in vitations extended to the associa tion. Members of the executive com mittee are L. Wigfall Cheatham of Edgefield: F. C. Withers of Colum bia: It. H. Hilt of Hamberg: A. B. Jordan of Di?ori and B.Mfc getaoe of Greenville. Others who will at tend the meeting Friday night are iL G. Osteen of Sumter. president: J. Rion McKissjck of Greenville, iirsi vice president: O. K. Williams of Jioek H?I. second vice president; Harold C. Booker of Columbia, see cretary, and August Kohn.of. Co lumbia, treasurer. Friday at noon there will be a eonfejrer:^e:.*^jf? 'ail newspaper men and employing printers of the Sev* enth congressional district. This conference v.ill be for the purpose of discussing general business con dit-ions. "Newspaper men and em tploying printers of each of tlie oth er congressional districts will prob ably hold similar conferences dur* ing the month of ApriL ? ???????? PROSPECTS ARE NOT BRIGHT i Sesser. Ills.. April 1. ~TI*e coal ! miners- of Illinois will remain on [strike as long as they can safely J do so. Lon Fox. Ninth District president of the United Mine Workers declared here today: but "we are not going to continue that course until our organization is de j moralized/' he added, j President Fox warned tlie min jers that they are starting on what j may be a long strike - , at a lime when the prospects are Hot bright. Miners Take Holiday. Louisvtuo, April 1.?While six ty thousand miner's of Kentucky took a holiday in observance of th * anniversary of the eight-hour day. reports received tonight report that mining in the state will not i be affected seriously by the suspen sion begun last midnight. The full ! effect rn Kentucky, however, wiil i not be known before Monday. The only field likely to be dis turbed, according to the report?, is the Harlan district in Southeast ern Kentucky; where figures of the state inspector of mines shov '.>.? 0U4 men were employed. How ever, several large mie.es there wo l r not be affected. A telegram from John T,. Lew f is international president, directing ; the men t continue work in sev eral mim-s in the Harlan district j under the recent wage agreement j based on th*' i!' I 7 wa^e scale Wa^ . read at a mass meeting of miners ! at PineviHe today. Union miners in "Westerm Ken* tucky have agreed to rem?.in at work and the Eastern Kentucky ; held is non-union. THE SUPREME COURT DOCKET j Columbia. April .".-- The appeal I of Jesse (?appius. one or' the mur i der trio in the penitentiary death i house, is set for hearing;bjcf?re tho ! state supreme court in the docket i issued l?V Harry McCaw. clerk of I the court, yesterday. The court be gins its spring term on April 11. : Another ease of state-wide interest I is that of the state against K. V. I Mittle, charged with murder. .MP itle killed a civil engineer na:n<?! I Patterson and was convicted. Next j Monday the supreme court?fwITl rft en banc to hear two cases. Osteen vs. the Atlantic Coast Line Rafl ' road, and Tieutv? vs. The Seaboard Air Line. Third eireUi^Tuesday] April IS. two days: i. State vs. Giv*m. 2. Smith ?k Co.. >s. Thompson. Ox weld Acetylene company vs. Chan dler! <?. Wilson et al vs. Post oil