THE SOIXER WATGHMAX, EstJ CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 LLOYD GEORGE - DOMINATES CONFERENCE "English Preffiier Brings French and * Russian Delegates Together at His Res idence Genoa. April -14.?The Bolsheviki delegates and the representa'ives of France to the economic confer - ence broke bread together today at the residence of Premier Lloyd George, and there has been an ap preciable rise as a consequence in - the expectations that the confer ence may have good results, ever in the most pessimistic quarters here. The occasion for the meeting of the Soviet and French delegates at table was a conference which be gan at 10:30 o'cloek this morning and lasted throughout the day, in which French. Russian. Belgian. * Italian and British representatives participated and during which Mr. Lloyd George invited all of them to luncheon. * The meeting was called by Mr. Lloyd George for a. discussion of the Russian problem with the pur pose of clearing up uncertain points in the London experts' report be lore the Russians present their 1 final reply to it. . Thfcj carrying of the most vital part of the business of tho confer ence into ^uch an informal gather -ing, where personal contact may possibly remove much of the ani mosity that has been displayed in the public sessions, has created a general feeling in conference cir cles that a compromise may be ar ranged on the Russian problem which will afford a i^atisfactory working basis for the reconstruc tion of Russia. The keynote of the allied posi tion at the conference today was that Russia first must satisfy past .pledges before obtaining any con " co'ssions for the future. In other words, Russia must recognize the debts of the Czarist government before Soviet claims against the allies can be entertained. Tomorrow morning the experts of the four inviting powers, who were present at today's meeting, again will gather at * Mr. liiqyd Octrrge's * villa, and in the- afternoon they probably will he joined.by the prin cipal delegates of the five coun tries. Germany has not been ask *ed to attend these private confer ences, as she was not a party to the making of the London experts' report. The straightening out oi the moot points in the report will "be effected at informal-meetings before Germany is called in. It had been expressed that Russia would make her reply to the re . port of the experts tomorrow, but thio reply now has.been postpon ed indefinitely. The Russians have caused a statement to be circulated through * M. Rakovsky, the , tlkranian pre mier, and other delegates, to the effect that Russia already has en acted laws and made court reforms and regulations affecting foreign era residing in Russia which meet . many of the criticisms of the Lon don experts' report regarding the Soviet government, and that they also have expressed a willingness to acknowledge pre-war debts and ~ signified their purpose to erase their claims against the allies aris ing from the operations of the Wrangel, Denekin and pudenUch armies against the Soviet regime if the allied war claims against . Russia are wiped out. Russia Most Act. London. .April 14.? (By the As . sociat^d Press).?A Reuters dis patch from Paris tonight says a French semi-official statement, ijr.-ucd at the close of today's meet ing of the "big four" of the Genoa conference, quoted Pritfie Minister Lloyd George as having declared that unless the Russian delegation had given a favorable reply by 11 . o'clock tomorrow to tho proposals presented this week the Genoa con ference, so far as tho Russian question was concerned, would be ended. MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS IN ARMENIA Alexandropol. Armenia, April 15. ?After baffling expert mountain climbers for years, the great Mount Alagheuz. among the highest in the * Caucasus has been ascended by Roy Davis, of Monticclio. Ark., and R. H. Anderson of Connecticut, college athletes. Davis was the all round athlete at Ersklnc Coll?g?. WHISKEY SURPLUS REDUCED Fardstown. Ky.. April ID?Si;\'en hundred twenty barrels of whiskey were destroyed by a fire believed to be of incendiary origin which destroyed the Mattirigly and Moore distillery. Belfast. April 15.?-Two British warships arrived at Lough Swil ? ly. county Donegal. London re ports it as a precautionary meas ure in view of the Irish situation. i Wished April, 1850, 881._ IMMUNITY ! FOR COSSACK BUTCHER Semenoff Cannot Be Tried in American Court Says Federal Attorney New York. April 16.?Neither the ! federal courts, the state courts, nor (the military courts of the United {States army can now try Gen. j semenoff for murder committed in Siberia, Federal District Attorney William llayward informed Senator Borah by telegraph tonight. "If the army of Semenoff was re cognized by our authorities at the j time, the murder was committed," j Mr. Hayward sadi. "the only appeal would have been to his military su periors there. "If his army was not recognized our military authorities had the right to capture, try and punish I him at that time, but not now." Mr. Howard's telegram said in part: "I have your telegram asking whether Semenoff can be held re sponsible, for the murder of Amer ican soldiers in Siberia, lie is not subject ,-t.o prosecution in federal courts ort he Unitec States because his acts do not come within the well-defined limit of their territor ial or admiralty jurisdiction. No state court, could try him as they all depend for jurisdiction on the venue of the crime. "The general jurisdiction of mil j itarv tribunals extends beyond the I army to several enumerated j classes of persons, namely, camp followers, spies and those giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Semenoff, of course, falls within none of these classes. So far as 1 can learn he was part of an inde pendent army acting with the con tingent of the United States. If that is a correct statement of his position it would seem that he would be punishable by his own military superiors, but not by our government. "If we recognize his army as an independent unit worthy to fight with our soldiers for whatever cause tl-ey fought in Siberia, 1 as sume that the proper and only course was to protest to his su periors at the time and demand his punishment by them. If wo did not so recognize his army he was then and there subject to capture, trial and punishment by our mili tary forces as a guerrilla. "Therefore, I conclude no Amer ican court can now try Semenoff. . _ .. Wc expressly denied Mexico's right in 1880 to try an American citizen for libel committed in Texas and intervened and demanded his release. See Cutting case and opin ion of John Bassett Moore. "In my opinion, Semenoff would be subject to prosecution under any government now or hereafter maintaining sovereignty over ter ritory where the acts were com* 1 mitted, and by no other." DETROIT'S* RAILWAY WAR _! j Effort to End it After Thirty Years Existence Detroit. Mich.. April 17.?!>?? j troit's special municipal election j being held today will decide wheth | er the street car war. waged almost j continuously in one form or anoth ? er for nearly 30 years is to be ! brought to a close. The voters today were deciding whether the city should purchase ! at a cost of $-19.850.000 all th* line {of the Detroit United Railway !within the city for incorporation in the municipal railway system. The j citizens also were called upon to vote $4.000.000 worth of street rail way bonds as the first payment to the Detroit United. The remainder of the purchase price would be paid at the rate of $1.000,000 a year, under the agreement signed some I time ago by company and city oh"i cials. The tight between the city and street railway company bus come j to be an institution in Detroit. It j has colored virtually every munici ? pal election for nearly a generation. ; If the voters-adopt the sales plan i at the polls today Detroit will have I the largest municipal railway in the ? world. The system would com ! prise 17G miles of trackage. ! Tlte effort in behalf of a niunici | pally owned street railway system j bore fruit about two years a^o when [the voters approved a plan for a j concern intended to operate in com j petition with D. U. R. A., series of j suits were tiled by the I). U. It. [contesting validity of the election. Many of them were carried to high courts of tie- state and nation but the city won in eaeh case. About 100 miles of city owned track has been laid and the mu nicipal system has its own cars fand other equipment. At present j city and company owned ears arc J operated jointly on two important (lines upon which the com pan}- fran chise expired some time ago. Saginaw. Mich.. is votinu for the ninth time today on a proposition to spend $2,800.000 for a n< w \\ ;i t--1 ' works system. i _ _ I These days all roads lead to I roam. Let's be omptimists and say that tiie best race to be '>n i.> the hu man. "Be Just aud Fear ! RECORD VOTE ! ON NAVY BILL i EXPECTED i _ _ j j Amendment Would Increase E n 1 i s t-| ed Force to Eighty Six Thousand Washington. April IT.?The tak ing of a record vote in tho house this week on the amendment of the navy bill increasing the en I listed force during 1923 ro eighty six thousand was assured today when the leaders announced them j selves in favor of a poll. COOPERATION DAY PROCLAIMED |Gov. Cooper Calls on People to Support Cooperative Marketing I - Columbia. April i 7.?Governor I Cooper today issued a proclama j mation setting aside Tuesday, April 25 as "Cooperation Day*' in South i Carolina and calling upon the busi ness of the state to assist that day ! in tho campaign to secure signu I tares to the cotton co-operative I ! marketing contract, i An effort will be made to have ! every merchant and business man i in South Carolina (dose up his ! place of business on that day and ? go out with committees of farmers j and canvass for contracts. j The proclamation issued by the i governor follows: I Whereas, South Carolina is es sentially an agricultural state, dc | pending in large measure for her ! prosperity and material progress j on the cultivation and selling of j cotton and j Whereas, The growers of cotton ? in our state have for many years j followed a wasteful, hazardous and Iunbusinesslike method of selling I their product, which method has [resulted in the lo:?s of thousands of i dollars and the consequent impov erishment of our people, the cs t tablishment of low standards of i living in hundreds of our homes, j and in poorly equipped schools and Whereas, Leading farmers and j business men of our state have un i der way a movement looking to I the orderly and efficient marketing of our chief money crop and the j improvement of our financial con ] dit ions, and I Whereas. The success of tbiff j movement depends upon the Whole j hearted co-operation of all of our j people ; Therefore. 1. Robert A. Cooper, j governor of the statt? of South Car ! olina do hereby call upon all the ? business men of our state to de ; vote one day. April 25, to assist i ing in every way possible in se i curing the signatures of c otton ; growers to the co-operative niar j kcting contracts, believing that : such a system of selling will be of j sreat benefit to our producers and ? indirectly to all of our people. MARRIED WO MEN'S VOTES Kcgistration Certificates Ob tained l>efore Marriage Are Valid Columbia. April IT.? Marriage 'after registration will not dis qualify any South Carolina woman from voting, according to an opin ion rendered by Assistant Attorney General J. M. Daniel for the Lan caster county board of registration. The question arose in connection with the registration of a woman voter of Lancaster. W. K. lOstrid^e. secretary of the registra tion board, wrote the attorney gen eral's office and state that a wo man voter had registered before her marriage. She later got mar ried and her name was changed, being then different from the name of tie- registration certificate. "Shall we change the name on tie registration books, register her again or what?" tin.- registration boa i'd asked. In passing on the question the attorney general's office holds that the right to vote though acquired when a woman is single, is not lost when she marries, any more than her lights as to separate property are lost when she marries. "To hold otherwise would be to make marriage an act disqualifying a person as an elector." says the as sistant attorney general's opinion. The attorney's opinion also holds thai there is no statute by which woman can bc*rcquired to re-regis ter after her marriage. CONFERENCES BECOMING HAbMT Experts Believe That at Least Two More Will He Necessary Genoa. Aprli 17.- Experts and delegates alike are agreed that probably it will he necessary t > have two more conferences, at hast, before peace is restored in Europe and financial reconstruction becomes possible. This question i uppermost in the minds of dele gates to the economic conference t mler t he radio regime t ra 1 "-jive luv et her." Not?Let all the cuds Thou A ns t a Sumter. S. C Wednes Dofothy Clark Dorothy Clark, 17. actress, 2$M movie star, for $200.000 charging! honeymoon in Boston with her hu charges of her mother and declare respectful friend. VERDICT IN FAVOR OF FURMAN Waller Subscription is ! Held Valid and Terms Ordered To Be Carried Out fJreenwood. April 13.?A direct' I verdict in favor of Furman Uhi ? versify was returned late yesterday [in the ease of Furman University ! vs. the Estate of C. A. C. Waiter, I in the court of common pleas here. : Furir.an University had brought suit for ?!t.!M)o against Hunter ? Gibbs. of Columbia, and 1 >r. C. B. .Waller, of Spartanburg, as ad I ministrators of the estate of ('. A. jCj Waller, alleging that the late .('. A. C. Waller had pledged $10. j 000 to Furman in the Baptist >7.".. 1000.000 campaign, only $100 of I which had ever been paid. I Tlie verdict returned read: "\\v j find for the plaintiff that the sub-; [ scription was valid and that then is now past, due $U 4aid in j cash and $1.200 a year untli the fifth year, when .> I.aim in cash 'should be paid. The plaintiff was; j represented by Haynsworth & j Haynsworth, of Greenville, and Tillman. Mays & Featherstone. <>C Greenwood. The defendants were [represented by Grier & Park, of ; (; reenwood. --????? NO NEW TRIAL FOR BIGHAM i - Unites Stales Supreme Court j Refuses to Order Rehear ing of Case i _ i Florence. April 14.?Word was ? received from Washington this af ternoon that the United States su preme COlirt had delljei] >,]\e ],,-. J tition of Bdrnund ! >. Bigham for a i rehearing of his ease, which means j that the conviction and sentence of death in the circuit court will I stand. A. L. King, attorney for I Bigham. stated that he would c;c J haust every resource of law. iin?l it ; is likely that the ease will find its I way eventually to the supreme COUrt of the I 'llile'I States. Bigham was convicted for the murder of his brother. L. Smiley , Bigham. Fie is also indicted for ; lie- murder of hi> mother, his sister and tiie hitter's two ad on ted chil jdren. The murder was comniii i ted .ii ;i plantation near I'amplicO in .Ia unary. J 1. LEWIS SAYS MINERS ARE UNITED Says Great Strike Will Not He Negotiated by Districts Springfield, 111.. April !"?. ! >is i claiming responsibility for the miners for the Illinois eoal industry, John ILewis, president of tlie miners, declared in an address prin ciples at issue in the great jstrike will not be eoinpromised by I the mine workers. lie said the operators' dream that miners will : engage in multiplicity conferences j and negotiate independent district I agreements, will ten. materialize. [ flit it be thy Country's, Thy God's and day, April 19, 1922 ? mother is suing Herbert Rswlir.son. he attacked Dorothy, is spending her sbar.d. Karl L. Elms. She denies the s that Rawlinson has always been a COTTON i MARKETING I CAMPAIGN _ Farmers of All Coun ties Are Signing Contracts ?Senator I Smith Joins J Columbia, April 15*.?Tin- signed I contract of United States Sonata*" I Ellison I). Smith was received by 'the South Carolina Cotton Grow lers' Co-operative Association today. : In signing tin- contract he declar j ed that without co-operative mar I keting no effort to help the fann ers can do much good, that in or j der for th^ farmers to help them selves timy must seize this oppor tunity to help themselves. Senator Smith will probably make some speeches in the state next week in behalf of the movement. Announcement was made today that Governor Cooper would mak; several speeches next week, the. places and dates to be announced later. Several well known hank ers are also booked for speech?s next week. Clarence J. Jackson, a well known planter and business man of Sumter. was in Columbia today on his way home from Lexington county where he had been speak ing in behalf of the movement. Mr. Jackson reported that the cam paign was progressing splendidly in thai county. Over 1.50? Three ni"ii were killed while sieep inu' on the tracks of Ihe Texas and Pachte railroad near Tribb-. a freight train passing over their bodies. SENATORIAL RACE IN IOWA < 'bicago. April 1 *. < Tifford Thorne. has resigned as general eounsel of the American Karrii F>u ????;ni Eederation. fie will run fjr the Ueppblican nornmatioi for the United States senate from low i. CRISIS IN IRELAND 1 .ondon. April 1.", - I >e\ elopmeim: in Ireland over Easter is anxiously awaited in view of Republican s?-i'/. ute of Kuur Co.rts in Dublin and Arthur i: rifliJ h'< determination to hold pro-treaty meeting ;it Slico tomorrow over a decri.l the local Irish Republican army Command er. Newspapers describe the sit uation as serious. Cairo. III.. April i". 'Hie levee hi the grand tower was broken by the swollen Mississippi flowing over tiv? thousand acres of cultivated laud. All residetits are beJicved to have reached saCety. out Ti uth's." STILL IN ' DEADLOCK AT GENOA ? I Soviet Delegation Pre sents Bill For 50, 000,000,000 Gold Ru bles to Allies Genoa, April 15.?Tin- deadlock between the Russian and Allied j delegations? to the economic con j Cerence relativ?? to the proposals } for resumption of friendly relations with Russia continued tonight. The j afternoon conversations ended with the delegates clinging to their re spective positions. Present Bill. Paris, April 15 (By the Asso ciated Press).?A Htivus agency dispatch from Genoa tonight said i tin- Russian Soviet delegation to tin- Genoa economic conference pre sented a bill of 50.000,000.000 gold rubles to th?- allies late today. Th.- bill was made up of 35.000, ???.G00 gold rubles, said tlie dis patch for damages suffered in Rus sia from the expeditions of Deni kine. Kolehak. Vudenitch and Wrangcl. and 15,000,000,000 foi oilier damages, including the loss | of Bessarabia to Rumania. The dis j patch added that the Soviet dele ! gates claimed that while recogniz J ing Russia's pre-war debt they were creditors to the allies and I not debtors. I Prime Minister Lloyd George, i tin.- i lavas dispatch asserted, in formed the Russian:-: that theii claim was unadmissible and was contrary to all reason and justice, It said he requested them to recon sider and bring in a reply favorabh to the allied demands, otherwise there was no object in continuing the Genoa conference, so far as Russia was concerned. Geilnau Satisfied. Genoa, April 15 (By tlie Asso ciated press)?Dr. Walter Bathe j nue, the German delegate, express j ed his satisfaction today with tic good feeling displayed at the con ference; it indicated that European countries were again thinking ot themselves as pans of Europe, as a whole, rather than as friends oi enemies of certain countries and members of certain alliances. Settlement of the Russian prob lem in his opinion, would help the rec ruction of Kurope. but he called attention to the fact that 4.500.000 men were under arms in Kurope now as against 3.500,000 be j fore the war. pnd that Kurope wui I entangled in a chain of debts, j which l he conference could not im i tangle while pledged not to touch land disarmament and repara tions. Genoa, April 1 "> (By the Asso ciated Press)?The discussion be tween the Allied leaders and th? { Russian delegates today centered j on tliree points. First, debts: second, war debts, and. third, restitution of private i property. With regard to the first, the Russians explained they called the "confused condition*' of their peo ple, who believed they had made a new world out of chaos and aftei a terrible convulsion, if the pow ers a.-ked them to pay their old ? debts, it would blight the hopes o( the Russian people. The allied h-ader.s explained that the pre-war d?'bts were not du* primarily to governments but in dividuals, chiefly French. Thev in sisted that no government had ilu j rig lit to wipe out the claims oi ! foreign individuals. j The opinion was expressed to j night that n>> difficulty would bt I encountered in set; ling toe prc-wai debts. Generally speaking th< j French seemed less optimistic that [the British in telling of tic- prog j ress of the allied meetings with. tie. i Russians. The French were of t'c opinion that the Bolsheviki were I disposed to give battle at ever;. > point raised and postpone definiu a nsw fs. In discussing the second point war debts, the allies said this was something where the government, were in a position to negotiate They did not want to be unreason able, because they realized *'.!.? ap palling state of Russin and did not desire to press Russia unduly. But : !; citing damages caused by foreign mili tary expeditions into Russia. : zu* i.ot that everything in Russia i: nationalized. They asked 'now ;* was possible to restore v. mine now under water. Government Wins Shoe Machine Case Washington. April 17. -The gov ernment wen il},- suit in the Su preme ''"nit in case brought bj tin- United Shoe Ma< hitiery Copora lion and others to set aside a re straining order prohibiting the us. <>f certain le:ise clauses in contract: for tie- rental of patented machin erv. The most important matter it 111 ?? w Orld is ^ ray* THE TRUE SOU 1 POWERS _CHARGED Combination Said to Control Railroads, Mines, Banks and Other Industries Washington, April 17.?The ex istence of an industrial, railway ; and banking combination, headed ; by J. P. Morgan & Company and in control of railroads, coal mines, ? banks, and steel and other indus trial enterprises, was charged be j fore the senate interstate com merce committee |>y \V". Jett Lauck, 'economist of the American feder I at ion of labor. DUBLIN CENTER OF STRIFE Armed Men Seize Public Building in Center of City I Dublin. April 14 (By the Asso ciated Press?.?Early this morn ing the biggest coup yet effected by ! the anti-treaty party was carried out. Some 300 armed men march ing in two forces seized the Four Court building, formerly the seat of the national court of justice and the Four Courts hotel nearby. Xo opposition was encountered. Two j or three constables on duty were ' arrested, but were liberated later. Guests at the hotel were ejected and the two buildings were forti ; fied. passersby being pressed intc : service, filling sand bags and piling I up stacks of books and documents. The seizure was reminiscent of ? Easter week. 1J*16. when the same j buildings were besieged and sim ilarly fortified. Great alarm was caused in Dub lin when the events of the earlj ' morning became known, lasting : until the explanations were vouch safed by the anti-treaty men and the building had been taken bo ! cause they were more fitted for ? their headquarters than the pres j ent headquarters in Rutland square. This explanation, however, failed ; io reassure many people who arc apprehensive that the adjourn ; ment yesterday of the peace con ference may prove significant es pecially,- as it is alleged that the i independents gave no guarantee that acts of violence would be ! avoided. ! Commandant O'Connor reiterated tonight his assurance that there would be no revolution: that the ! only reason for the seizures was that the Rutland square premises ' were too small for headquarters. i Four hundred men occupied the seized buildings tonight, many of them having arrived in the course of the day from the couutry dis tricts in cars and lorries. A van load of bread was seized in the street for the use of the oc cupants. Strong guards have been posted outside the court. The provisional and British mil itary authorities in Dublin castle were notilied of the seizure, but ur to tonight no action had been taker.. FATAL SHOOTING NEAJR VARNVILLE Ben Johnson is Dead. Young Abe Peeples Under Arrest Varnville. April 16.?I>n John son is dead and Abe Peeples is ac cused of killing; him. the shootin.c having occurred in the Mount Carmel section near here last night about o'clock. Loth men are white and are well known here. Mr. Johnson was shot but once. th< bullet from a pistol, entering neai his heart. Death, it is said, was almost instantaneous. Sheriff C V. Thomas ami his deputy were no tified :it>our l I o'clock last night and ;roin.er to the scene of tlu tragedy arrested Peeples. An in quest was held today and the ver dict was that Mr. Johnson came U Iiis de.-uh by ;i gunshot wound *1 the hands of Abe < Young Abe) Peeples. No statement has beer made by Peeples. It is alleged thai the men began joking ;?t a frolh at the hone- of one of the Pceples and ended in the shooting. Tht deceased was married to a relativ? of Pceples. it is said. TORNADO IN ILLINOIS One Person Killed and Scores Injured at Irvington Centraha. April 1.7.?Seven wen kilTed and about thirty-five'injured by .i tornado in this section. Nashville, 111.. April IT.?A tor nado struck Irvington. a town o. three hundred population, kille* one. injured between fifty and sev erry-tive and demolished fifteer residences1 and business houses, ac cording to meager reports receiv ed here. A bald-headed man with wir? whiskers can't sec anything so ver> wonderful about nature. Skirts couldn't get longer so the\ ma> short ly. short'-r anj ^??i longei THRON, EstiWished June 1. 1866. VOL. LIII. NO. 19 AMERICA ACCOMPLISHES IMPOSSIBLE _ Back of the World's Greatest Famine is Broken by Ameri can Relief Organi zation London, April 1 r,?America ha? broken the back of fh^ biggest fa mine in the world's history ac cording to the Easter message vent to America by Walter Lyman Brown, the European director of the American relief administration Two million children are being fed while plans are being initiated t<"> feed five million adults. There is? no parallel in history for the task that America has undertaken in the Volga valley, he said. YOUNG MEN'S BUSINESS LEAGUE j Monthly Luncheon and Busi ; ness Meeting at Clareraont Hotel The monthly luncheon of thfl Young Men's Business League was eaten at the Hotel Claremont Thursday. After the lunch had been disposed of various reports were heard: Mr. J. A. McKuight j told of the acreage l>eing planted j in this county this year in truck, and the number who had joined the trucking association. Mr. F. M. Moise told of the tobacco co operative selling movement and how it affected the warehousing proposition in Sumter. Mr. Brice Waters told of the lines followed in the endeavor to found a box and crate factory in Sumter. President H. A. Moses gave a brief review of the activities of the League dur ing the past month. Mr. Waters was urged to have his group continue its work for a box and crate factory, and also to have it consult with any that might be interested in starting a furniture factory here; all League members who are interested in this latter project were" asked to con fer with Mr. Waters and give him the benefit of their knowledge along this line. The League endorsed the move ment toward co-operative tobacco marketing and expressed the belief that the work should be pushed of having tobacco growers join in this movement. The president was au thorized to appoint committees to this end. The president brought out the point- that it seemed that nothing was being done toward the building of potato . curing house* i in this county; he askeo ait mem j bers to encourage in every way I this movement, especially r!;e de i 1 velopment of community erring j houses. The League endorsed the } idea and by motion asked the ap pointment of committees to furth er this work. Other matters were briefly dis cussed: the lunch and meeting last ed but a few minutes over the j hour the League allows itself for j each meeting. LEVER QUITS POLITICS FOR BUSINESS Former Congressman Resigns From Farm Loan Board j Columbia: April IT.?Consider !able interest throughout the state attaches to the plans announced for the formation of the new joint stock land bank organized for Co lumbia, of which A. F. Lever, for mer member of Congress, is to be . president. The bank will open shortly in Columbia. Quarters ha% in^r been secured in the Palmet to bank building: Tin bank is to be chartered by the federal form loan board. It will be formed with private capi tal. t?> lend moneys on farm lands, and to be a part of the federal sys tem. J. Pop** Matthews, of Columbia, and Frank Houston, vice president of th< Cbemieal National Bank, of New Vork. are vice presidents; A. W. McLean, of tlie war finance cor poration in Washington: W. B. Drake, of the Merchants National Bank of Raleigh. N. C: A. M. Lumpkin. of Columbia: and R. It. Weber, of Watkins