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THE STJMTER WATCHMAN, Est; CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,3 SEVENTEEN DROWNED AT FORT WORTH Trinity River Flood Most Serious iri His tory of Texas City? Damages Exceed a Million Fort Worth, Texas, April 25.? ? Seventeen probably dead nnd prop erty damage estimated at ap proximately $1,000,000 is the toll oC a flood which swept Fort ..Worth ? early today, carrying before it scores ?f residences and small buildings, overflowing hundreds of acres of land and inundating sev eral city streets. The estimate of possibly 17 dead was made by L. G. White, in charge of Red Cross relief. The flood was confined chiefly to the lowlands ad joining the tributaries of the Trin f ity river. Marine. Sycamore. Ciearforks and the Trinity river were swollen, overflowing the bot toms nearby. * The flood is the most severe in the history of the city, according to old time residents. Trinity riv er stood at 36.7 feet at noon and was still rising. The gauge meas ured only seven feet yesterday. i With the break of the East First street levee late today it was be lieved the water on being releas ed would spread out. losing some of - its force. Coming on the heels of rains, the heaviest in the history of Fort AVorth, and a wind and electrical storm, the flood took scores of j people by surprise * The lowlands adjoining Sycamore creek were the first to suffer and at one time wa ter was standing level with* the roofs of residences. *r Word reaching here tonight from points north of Fort, Worth indi cates that a further rise of the wa? L ter is expected, ?Ttescue workers "* are laboring tirelessly' in bringing j relief to flood sufferers. With boiler rooms of the city power and light plant flooded, res idential Fort Worth is spending a night in -darkness. No drinking water has been . .available- since early morning. - - - With the city facing a night oiTj r darkness 500 members of the American Legion ..were patrolling the streets, augmenting the polico force. Mafe- highways were covered with water, cutting off traffic. ? 11 Fort Worth. April/ 25. ?John J. McCain. Fort Worth city engineer. issued a statement tonight, in which he declared that the levees around the rivers which broke here early today and flooded lowlands of this $ city were "d>'namited by unknown parties/' and that an investiga tion by a grand jury would be de manded immediately. **It is our opinion that the levee did not break of its own accord but was dynamited and as soon as the situation is relieved we are going to place the facts before the grand jury and demand an inves tigation." McCain declared. - 'This decision is based uoon a ^?report made to me by John J. Lyden, held supervisor and a member of the levee board for the \ last 12*years, in which he "declared he had men patrolling the levee all Monday night and all day Tues day and that it ^as his opinion that the levee was dynamited. "We are not placing the blame upon any one but we are going to i j place the facts before^ the grand; W jury." St. Louis, April 25.?More than; 3.500 persons are homeless and at least 1,500 homes in the Trinity valley between Arlington Heights and Fort Worth, Texas, are in undated, according to advices re ceived by the Southwestern division of the American Red Cross here tonight. ^ Xew Orleans, April 2."??The Mis sissippi river rose one-tenth of a foot here today, the gauge stand '.. ing at 22.? feet. The previous high record here was 22 feet in If 12. A maximum of 22.4 has been pre- i "dieted by May 15 to 20. Official reports of satisfac tory i levee conditions continue to come in to federal, state and parish levee | engineers today. Topping i * blanketing of low enbankments j was in progress throughout the day all along the lines, but flood eon-j trol agencies declared ho serious" s~ dit?culties had been encountered ' at any point. ' ? I Natchez. Miss.. April 25?A sc-i rious slough appeared in the Mis- { sissippi between Byrne and Buck-! ridge, about 11 miles above Xew ellton. La., today. A crack about 4*' feet lon^ with clear water show-' ing developed. The threatening c ondition caused great apprehen-| sion for a time and men wen- rush ed from adjacent points to combat the new trouble. Late reports from Xewellton stated that the levee ij now in a satisfactory' con dition. Engineers stated that all levees in the Fifth Louisiana levee district arc holding. ; , i Fort Worth, April 2t>v?The rain continued to fall today, mak-j ing the flood comi:*:-*>ns more men-! acmg. with the contipued rapid rise, of Trinity river. F<gar<? are express ed that the death ibii, placed at iblLshed April, 1850. 881. 3 PARISHES FLOODED IN j LOUISIANA - Break in Levee at Lake Concordia| Forces Thousand?! to Flee For Their Lives - Natchez. Miss., April 27.?The; flood waters of the Mississippi Riv- j er which broke through the Wee | coma levee at Lake Concordat,; ! entered the town of Ferriday. Lou- ! isiana with a population of five hundred, today. The flood having to i travel four miles before reaching: ! the - own gave residents ample time j t to escape. Vidalia. La., which is in the path of the released waters,' has two thousand population and the only means of communication j with Concordia and Catahoulaj parishes is by boat. The flood wa- j ter is expected to cover parts of; Texas, Franklin and Avoyelles par-1 ishes. comprising a rich farming I area devoted to cotton. Former, service men of Natchez post of the. ] American Legion are erecting tents; for refugee camps. New Orleans, April 27.? \ break has occurred in the Mississippi levee at Poydras, ten miles south of here, and three hundred and fifty families are fleeing for their lives. TEXAS FLOOD SUBSIDING Fort Worth, April 27.?A reces sion of the Trinity River flood was! noted today and officials are turn-; ing the attention to a search for: the sixty or more persons reported i missing and the reconstruction nec- | essitated ?Vo the result of the three j days' fl bo J which inundated the low: outlying sectoins. .. The Trinity river is well within! was restored today. The dead and' feet over night. Street car service; was restored today. The dead and I missing here are-listed at forty-j nine. The levee board has offer- j ed five hundigld dollars reward for: the arrest of -anyone convicted of > illegally dynamiting the levees dur Bug the' flood. TENURE OF COUNTY OFFICERS; Attorney General Renders De- j cision That is Important to ; Hold Overs \ i Columbia, April 27.?Tenure of j office in several county oflices I throughout the state will likely j come under the provisions of an opinion rendered by the attorney generalis office today in connection i with the election of a coroner in j Piekens county, the attorney gen-! eral holding that the present cor- j oner, elected in 1920, at the end of j the term of office of an interim! appointee does not have to offer f >r re-election this spring. It is said that the office of sheriff in Union, j Charleston and Cherokee counties are in the same situation, and probably other offices throughout j the state. In Piekens Coroner Mauklin wast elected in 101S. He resigned and Coroner Durham was appointed to succeed him. D. Mauidin' term j would have expired in'l!*22. but when 1920, an election year, came, j Coroner Beasley wasyelected to; succeed Mr. Durham, the interim appointee. \ow that the year has come when Coroner Mauldin's term would have expired, there is talk of another election. The attorney general's office, however, holds that this is not necessary: that the term of office is four years, and an opin ion of the supreme court bolus that the man appointed to succeed j Mauidin in the middle of his term, could only serve until the next elec tion year. The governor cannot Jill i an office, except temporarily, when the constitution makes the office i elective, the attorney general holds, j It is understood that in several j counties candidates are entering! the field, for offices filled by eh e- ! tions which eaiue in the middle of what would have been a term, I had the offices not been vacated,] according to the attorney general's] ruling, no race is necessary for such offices tint i] 11?24. WOMEN FAVOR FORD'S BID ! Expected to Pass Resolution t rging Accept a nee Baltimore, April 27.- The Xnt ional League of Women Voters i> expected t<> vote a resolution rec ommending that the government accept Henry Find's offer for Mu.s Cle Shoals. twenty and a property damage of several million, would be increas ed. Extensive sections on the northwest and southeast side of; tie- city are inundated. ftesponsi I is awaited to the appeal of the Red Cross for forty thousand dollars to care for the sufferers. John IT. McCain, chairman of the levee board, is expected to retiuesi a ! grand jury investigation of alleged dynamiting of the levees. Former! service men are patroling the streets. "Be Just and Fear UNUSUAL SEA DISTURBANCE OFF CAROLINA IL S. Hydrographie Office Receives Data of an Ocean Earth quake Washington, April L'T.?An un usual phenomenon in the form of a [general ground-swell, subterran ean disturbance, earthquake or ! snbtorrestial shifting, which oc I currod off the North Carolins coast ! was reported to the hydrographic office by the naval coll'er Prome theus. Sounds showed u> i>ofiom ! at one hundred and thirty faihonis. ! Thousands of porpoises leap* 1 into ithe air during a disturbance iast I ing two hours. WARNS OF RED DISGUISES - Bolsheviki Propaganda Spread by Apparently Harshless Societies Washington, April 27 (Capital News Service).? Brigadier Gener al Amos Fries, chief of the division of chemical warfare, U. S. Army, Mason and patriot, warns Ameri cans of the dangers lurking in ap parently innocent clubs and socie ties the very members of which are unaware of the sinister purposes behind their organization and the way in which they are used for the spreading of "red" propa ganda. In an address before a congress of Parent-Teacher Associations General Fries said: "There are organizations today working through women's clubs, men' clubs, fraternal, religious, la bor and other bodies to teach com munist doctrines. A number arej operating under the guise of or ganizations for the ' reduction of armaments or the abolition of war. They do not ordinarily admit that they aim at communism and the destruction of modern govern-1 ment." General' Fries quoted from a letter from a worsftra official of an j organziation for 'world disarma-! ment in which she states: "1 have i no confidence in anything short of! revolution, peacepil by all means; if possible, bloody if necessary, in every land, resulting in the es tablishment of the communist idea; in some form to* do away with t war." ' j "Note that while this woman is; talking about world disarmament, she advocates 'bloody revolution' if necessary to put her communism in force." said General Fries. \ "Those who want to live in that] style should work for communism," he continued. "Put those who de-j sire to live as Americans should ; fight every organization tlmt tends! to destroy the family and to make: common property of everything in the world, including human beings! themselves. "We all learn to speak glibly of J communists, anarchists, bolshevists, and soviets. They arc all the same.; They all have their ultimate* aim j the destruction of the home and' to make everything in the world common property. If you destroy! the incentive to work ami build a home civilization will fail." NEGRO WOMAN FOUND DEAD - I \\as Deserted by Husband j Who Forbade Anyone En- ! terini* House on Threat of I Death Julia Shaw, a negro woman liv- i ing at No. "?]?; s. Harvin street, was found dead upon the door when this house was entered by anxious relatives at about It) o'clock on Thursday morning. July Shaw, the dead woman's husband, is said to 1 have treated this woman cruelly deserting her. leaving town about j a week ago and taking out, at that time, all rations and provisions j and forh dding her sist--r or anyone! going near her, saying that if he found it out be would surely kill them. The woman had been sick for some time and her death was I probably du?- to a lack of proper] attention, as her relatives and: friends were kept away through I fear of the fulltillmenl of the threat of the husband. There was no in-| <iuesi held. A warrant for tlo- ar test of July lias been issued and! will be put into effect as soon as! possible. U.S. GRANT'S CENTENARY Birthday of Man W ho Had Honor of Receiving Robt. E. Lee's Surrender Honored Washington. April :.'T The gov ernmental machinery was halt- I today h\ a presidential order lb al low the thousands of federal em ployees and officials, with visitors and citizenry lo do honor to the; memory of (teneral Ulysses S. (;rant at the dedieat ion of the; bronzg memorial .it the Balameali Gardens on the centenary of the! birth - i the great union soldier aadi president. Not?Tx*t all the ends Thon Aims't ; Suniter, S. C, Saturd Air Fl iwer S [ ^ Lawrence Sperry lands at a roads ?ivyer,^it weighs only500 pounds s MEN TAKE i THE FIELD 3,000 Fai mers a n d Business Men Are I Working To-day to I Complete Organiza-: tion of-Cotton Mar-i keting Association | Columbia. April 2."..?Reports to! the headquarters of the South rar-; olina Cotton (Irowers* Cooperative; Association today indicated that! over 3,000 farmers and business i men took the field today to ean-j vass for signatures to the cotton cooperative marketing contract. In; many chics and towns there is ai partial suspension of business for] the day. In Dorchester county all] of the c< unty offices closed for the! day and all of the county officers! went out in the canvass for con-: tracts. AH records fur number of con- I trai ts sign. d in one day appear t-> | have been smashed yest? rday. Prom | every section of the state came re ports of a heavy sign-up and offi- | cials of the association said today! that while they were- as yet unable] to give definite figures they were confident that all records for one day had bcey broken. Today, j however, is exi>ecte<! to see yester day's record broken by many thou sands of b;JeS. flu- interest which the business nvn of the state are taking in the movement is attested; by the genciocs response in most i of the eouiities to the proclamation j of the governor tevtay. h was said.; The eontrae. of II. l'. Dyches. j one of the largest farmers in Aiken i county, was received today. the right of search; - Prohibition Case Appealed tot the Supreme Court Columbia. April 27.?The famous j Louis Kanellos case, in which aj (volumbia Greek, convicted ot* vio- j luting the federal prohibition stat- j utcs. is appealing on the ground! that prohibition officers had no! right to search his automobile. ! where the whiskey was found, is I up for argument on appeal in the! circuit court of appeals in Rich-1 mond on May 1". according ro an 1 nouncyment by L'nited States Dim j trict Attorney Francis Ii. West on. | of Columbia. Mr. West on era rep-j resentative of his olliee will ;n to i Richmond to argue the case for the; government. The customs of this case will settle an interesting point in connection with the right of search under the federal pro. j hibition laws. Rock Hill Won in ! Debating Contest' Columbia^ April L'T. -The Rock i Hill hi.e.h school affirmative de-j hating teams won for the affirtha- ! live side of the state high school j debating eontesi here today, the query being: "Resolved. That the.j ITogram of the Joint Special Com-j mittee on Revenue and Taxation] oilers the Rest Solution of South j < 'a rolimi's Tax Rrohlem." Rock liill was signally honored todav. In addition to the victory 1 by the affirmative team, composed? of Miss Catherine Massey and .Till- j inn Starr, the Rock Hill negative tram also went into die finals. The state high school league to d:i\ re- el.., ['rot*. R. C. Lau ts, of Rock Itili. as president, and a proposal is being considered to :i girl track meet next year, the first t" he held at Wint hrop t "01 lege. Tin- girls' expression contest are! on sliis afternoon. The sine high! school week program will come to climax with a big banquet Friday night, following the tract meet. it be thy Country's, Thy God's and ay, April 29, 1922 tops for Gas ide filling station for gas for his air nd can land in an ordinary street. STREET CAR RUNS WILD IN BIRMINGHAM Twenty-five Persons Injured When Car Runs Away While Crew Are Working on Door Birmingham. April- 27.?Twenty were injured and live seriously in lured when a street car, unman ned, dashed down a steep grade and left ihr tracks and crashed into a pole. The motorman and eon duet or who were adjusting the door were thrown from the car, leaving the controls open. JONES NOMINA TED COLLECTOR Elacksburg Man Has Kis Name Sent to Senate?No Opposition Yet Washington, April 2?.?John F. Jones, of Blacksburg, was today nominated to ho collector of inter nal revenue for the district of South Carolina. There is no indi cation that his confirmation will be opposed, but nothing positive can he sr.id on that point, until Sena tor Smith returns to Washington which will probably he within the next few days. Senator Smith has not been well recently but is practically recovered now. lt. R. Tolbert, of Abbeville, who was for a long time unsuccessfully urged by Republican National Committeeman Tolbert, his broth er,' for the internal revenue collec torship. is now being pushed by the same influence for the federal marshalship of the western dis til.-t to .succeed C. J. Lyon, of Ab beville, the Democratic incumbent, who has been served with notice that le- will be expected to retire wheriev. r his successor is confirm ed, although Marshal Lyon s term is by no means ended. No nomi nation for the marshalship has yet been made, however. Another South Carolina nomina tion sent to the senate todity was tiiat of Henry N. Folk, to he post master at Hamberg, to succeed .\ W. Knight, the Democratic incum bent, who was first on the list of eligibles certified by the civil Ser vice Commission. NURSES TO MEET IN CHARLESTON Miss Frances Bulow Elected President of Association at Convention in Greenville Greenville. April -Charleston was selected as the next meeting place by the South Carolina Grad-| uate Nurses' association at its final I session hero thi:-> afternoon. Al though no definite date w:is set for] the li>2o meeting, it was agreed ihat it should be sometime during April. Miss Frances Itulow of Charles ton was elected president of I he association for Lite ensuing year ! without opposition. while Miss Margaret GuHedge of Columbia' ivas" given the position of first j vice president; Miss l~iur.il Black burn of Columbia w:ts chosen sec ond vice president. Miss Myers of Charleston secretary and Mrs. !'.. M. Sjgmond of Chester treasurer.' The convention lias been in session , in this city for two days and has enjoyed an unusually pleasant and pro?tabh- meeting. i Knox Trial is Now Under Way Monlros-s. Va.. April 27. The trial of Miss Sarah Knox. the nurse charged with th<- murder of Mrs. Margarei Fastlake at Colonial Beach, got tinder w.t) after Judge Chinn had ordered all women from the court room. ti utirs." FINANCIAL ! ! DEPRESSION ! i IS SERIOUS I ________ ! I Secretary of Amer-1 ican Cotton Associa tion Writes of Ob servations Amom;* Banking" Interests Investigations among leading! banking and business interests of ? the metropolis of the nation con-' i vinco me that the present financial I J condition of the country and the I i enormous losses resulting to agri culture and business as a result of the drastic deflation policy inaug urated in 1920. is being viewed with deep concern in this section of the ! nation's concentrated wealth. With twelve billion dollar hisses' by the American farmers, most of j which is still unpaid, the depre ciation and sacrifice of Liberty bonds by the masses, and the wreck and ruin of a multitude of bank ruptcies, this condition has gener ated a nightmare of serious alarm in the minds of many reading financiers ia the East. These mul tiplied billions of losses, now being held in check in many local depart-; mnets of trade and small banks, must inevitably find their way into I and he unloaded on the strong i boxes of the great centers of fin I a nee. There.- can be no escape from j this ultimate result. The farmers are unable to pay off debts con it ractcd in era of unparalleled-i inflation with deflated dollars and a continuing period of low markei values for staple farm products.1 The truth is gradually finding; lodgment in the minds of our big financiers that withOUi credits or i cash farmers can neither stimulate production nor liquidate past due: obligations. j It is npw generally conceded,! even in Wall street, that the de-j baele of artificial deflation went! too far and that the distribution of! the enormous losses in the agricul tural sections can not be held in' suspense much longer. When the day of final settlement and liqui Idatiori comes, the verllow of loss es upon the sum It streams of the country must automatically be ab sorbed in large measure by the j great financial centers of the na-j iton. because ultimately the decks' now loaded with debts must be. ch ared and the final toll of defla- ' tion accounted for. There is strong outspoken senti- : ment in Wall street against the in-, jauguration of an agricultural bloc j ! in congress. This is neither sur-i i prising nor unexpected. The poii I cies of the government have so! 'long been controlled by big busi-i ness concentrated finance in the! East that any attempt by congress] to enact measures of real benefit; for the south and west is looked] upon with suspicion and undis-j guised objection. Farm legislation; of any kind in congress, particn- j larly if related to finance, arouses j beih indignation and resistance] I among those who breathe the at mosphere flowing through the sky-: scrapers of lower Manhattan. This, is not due to any sentiment anlag-; onistic to the welfare of the farm-i ers as individuals or to the agri cultural industry as a whole. It bespeaks a jealous fear that tie.-, enactment of federal legislation re lating directly to agricultural fin ance may encroach upon the right:*; and emoluments of centralized banking interests of the nation.. Some of the big trade papers of; Wall street, reflecting the senti-! ment of big banking interests in] j thai section, bitterly assail the sen-; j atorial agricultural bloc and every I agricultural measure introduced In] congress which in any wise tends; j lo bring financial relief in farmers.! j ?wen in this crucial hour of their j j financial distress. The new system of agricultural | j credits for short term farm loans I now pending ia congress will doubt- j I less in vigorously opposed by these large banking interests, their satel i lites and supporters. Wall street. I banking interests appear to be j obsessed with the idea that the [ destinies of American finance is a] divine heritage which they alone must exercise for the benefit of ev ery department of American life; and thai any encroachment noon sta ll ri his by government even fs [ an ifhpardonable sacrilege. ? Wall street bankers have uh j duobiedly rendered a great ser j vice t?' thousands of local banks ! throughout the agricultural sec-; j tiorts of America, but there has j never at any time in the past been i displayed anv spirit of altruism to I ward the sections to which such i j hanking services have been ivi| : tiered. The nation's demands for ! a broader and mote comprehensive system of finance have grown be j yond the fixed set rules ami regula-' i tions of Kastern finance. Tin I farmers of the nation can no long-j t er look with safety to the hank : vaults of the Kasi nor to the fed I era! reserve banking system as now [dominated by Eastern banking in terests tor satisfac-tor\ short term agricultural credits in the future. I-The} have their eyes turned upon the < oxide.-..-; of Libert} towering, above the eapitol at Washington: where the authorized representa tives of the people sit in judgment; upon I he naf ion s affairs. It has been a long drawn out I struggle, ami the great masses oj the people have hol lle llle SUffel"- i ing and trials o? financial oppres . ion until they are well nigh ex-1 TFT F. TRUE SOT TARIFF BILL ! IS LOADED WITH DANCER _ I I Sen. Simmons Points Out What It Means to American People j ?Rates Are Exces sive - j Washington. April 2<l.? Summing [lip a three hours' attack <>n the J pending tariff hill today in tin- scn i ate Senator Simmons (Democrat) ! j of North Carolina declared that it j I was his "deliberate Judgment" .hat ! the- measure was "fraught with ! more danger i?> the people of the! I country and the institutions under] I which they live than any hill which ? ever crossed rhe threshold of this j chamber.*' j The senator said he supposed ,'i!n- measure would be passed, not! because it met tin- judgment of the ;senate. hut because a considerable part of tin- majority of the senate | ?"are willing to forego their oppo sition to what they regard as un just impositions upon the people in I order to get concessions for those in whorn thev are especiallv interest- j j ed/' ! Departing from the text of his i [address, which had been prepared after what he described as careful .study of the hill, the Democratic! leader said there should he no de liberate delaying taeties on the mi nority side, hut that there must be j full and free discussion "to make ; eh-ar what this bill if passed will mean to the American people." Will Double Rates, j lie declared that the rates inj [ the bill were from 40 to 50 pert j cent, higher than those of the "ill i la ted Payne-Aldrich" tariff bill and ; were double those in the Under | wood law. Enactment of the ; measure, he asserted, would result in higher costs of living increased unemployment and the "further monopolization of American indus tries." The senator charged that the rule followed by the finance com-j mit fee in determining rates, t-j-I gether with the superadded rate making powers conferred upon the ' president, "makes rate fixing al most as much a matter of political and personal patronage as the dis tribution of federal offices." After Senator Simmons con cluded. Senator King (Democrat) of I'tali continued his analysis of tite chemical schedule, begun yes terday. He charged that the pro vision in the bill making it unlaw ful to import dyes in containers or packages bearing the trade mark of dyes registered in the United States was "a joker" added to the measure in the interest of the "so called chemical foundation of which practically all dye manu facturers in this country are mem bers." Matter of Dyes. The Utah senator asserted that] the chemical foundation claimed} to own all the patents and trade marks on dyes as a result of the sab* to it of such patents and trade n arks seized by the alien property custodian during the war, and de clared that a "decent regard for treaties and international law for bade such seizures. "The only thing to do." he added, ?is to restore the seized property to the German nationals. We are not pirates nor are we brigands." Chairman Met'umber of the fi nance committee defended Ameri can business men from what he said had been the attacks made on ; them by Senators King and .Tor.es J (Democrats) of New Mexico in ad- t dresses yesterday. He toia the ? senate that he hail seen printed ! warnings to Americans traveling abroad t<> beware of the merchants of certain foreign countries because they .vould rob the American tour ists. He added that no such warn- \ ing had ever been given about } American business men. in opening1 his address Senator! Simmons told the senate that aj study of the bill in connection with | existing conditions in this country I aad abroad made it "perfectly! clear" that it was framed with a view to enable the industries pro tected to advance further present '?excessively high prices." TROUBLE BREAKS OUT IN CHINA Marines and ttluejackets Call ed to Guard American Idea tion Peking. April 2 7.? Measures to \ protect American interests are be- ! in;: taken in view of the threat ened hostilities between the forces j of Cens. Chang T<o-Lin and Wu-.j 1'eid l-'u. Bluejacket:* ami marine* I are expected today to reinforce 'he ! guard of tin- American !?_eati*>n. j - Wild tlowei-s in the woods are la.nte compared with those on hats j hausted and almost mendicants ? upon their own domain. But a] brighter day is dawning, the conn try will rebuild its shattered for- j tunes and enter upon the pathway ' of tin- future w ith renewed hope j and safeguarded by a system of j federal agricultural oodits that will forever protect the agricultural In dustry of the nation from the fear ful catastrophe of the past two years. rmto.N, Ksr.tiiii.-siK-i't June i. lsr.?. VOL. LIL NO. 22 Soviet Delegates at Genoa Create Sen sation by Sending Note to Polish Dele gates Genoa, April 2 7, (By the Asso ciated Press).?Soviet Russia con tributed another sensation to the economic conference today by send ing a note to the Polish delegation remonstrating against Poland's ac tion in joining with the allied, powers in protest against a sepa rate treaty between Russia and Germany. Russia claimed that the peace treaty between herself an.t Poland covers all . relations be tween the two countries, so that Poland, like Germany, shouid not participate in the discussion or* Russian affairs, even intimating that Poland by her present action' in the conference has abrogated the treaty signed at Riga on March 18, 1921. Russia has a strong Red army encamped near the Polish border, and for this reason the Russian remonstrances are regarded by some of the delegates as equiva lent to almost a threat against Poland. The experts on the Russian ques tion sitting without the Soviet del egates today compared notes on the new proposals presented by the Russian delegates at yesterday^ session, and decided to forward their report to their respective gov ernments. It is expected that when the answers are received from the various capitols the powers will submit counter propositions to the Soviet couched in firm language, hi an endeavor to reach a working basis for au accord. 'AVe can not stay hre forever," said a French delegate toniglvi. The French are disturbed over the manner in which the English have interpreted Premier Poincare's ad dress. The French spokesman made it clear that all Frenchmen are alarmed over future military possibilities of the Russo-German treaty" and that 51. Poincare was merely voicing France's genuine disquietude: There are certain in dications here that France with her dwindling population is fearful of the constantly increasing German population; united with mighty Russia. The French, attitude to~ ward Russia is described as like that of Japan towards china each wants an organized and pros perous neighbor but does not de sire that that neighbor be so strong as to loom ui> as a possible menace. Washington, April 21?.- The Rus sian people will never accept the ?evident plan of the allies at Ge noa to partition Russia into colo nies of the European nations'* probably including Germany, Count ilya Tolstoy declared in an address today. Such an atteirraj, he added, would bring great dan ger to the.future and he advised America to keep "hands off' and recognize any Russian government which will guarantee se ?urity to trade, labor, property and persona; rights. Lenine, Stinnes of Germany and Lloyd George, whom <.'onnt.Tolstoy described as controlling the destiny of Europe, each have plans for the settlement of Europe, he said, but the British diplomacy "arms at capturing the. Russian market,," which conflicts with Stinnes* de signs on this market to "mako enough to pay the German indem nity." Meanwhile, added. "Lenine hopes to retain -power by Sellin? Russian concessions for loans to bolster up ihe Rolsheviki. and to permit them yet to take advan tage of a ruined Europe to achieve a world revolution toward com munism." ?*lt is this situation." the s-. ak er declared, "which has '?? 5b about the Genoa conference, cng land and France know that it Oer' many gets the Russian market she will have won the war. So now the plan is to apportion tip Russia's great natural resources among the allies and to make her a seco.nd India. Britain will vget the oil wells. France probably the mines: Germany will be giver, a share to keep her in the plot, and Lenine will get the loans in ex change for these concessions which will keep 'the P.olsheviki in pow* er." Eighty per cent cf the Russian people, he added, were "bitter against the allies and especial!} against Britain," and this, he warned, "spells great danger for the future." SERIOUS FIRE IN. MALAGA, SPAIN Government Ruildini? Destroy ed. Twenty Dead and Many Injured Malaga. Spain. April 2<k?There are twenty known dead, and thirty injured as result of a tire that swept the government building l.-w nijgltt and is still burning today. It was feared it would spread to the customs house where great quan tities of ammunition destined for the use of the Spanish forces in. Morocco are stored.