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THE SfOITER WATCHMAN, Est: CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2, THE FINAL WORD FROM HENRY FORD Letter to Chairman Kahn of House Mil itary Committee Embodies Final Pro posal For Muscle Shoals Washington, June' 1.?Two com ? roittees of congress today resumed v study of plans for developing the government projects at Muscle Shoals. Ala., with a view to pre senting completed proposals to the house and senate for f^ial dispo sition. In the house military committee developments pointed to a quick de r cision by that body, delivery there of Henry Ford's final proposal and the presentation of a letter from him to Chairman Kahn calling for early acceptance or rejection of the tender as a whole,- stimulating action among the committeemen. After an executive meeting during which the new language added by Mr. Ford to the committee's coun ter offer was carefully studied, an / other meeting was arranged for tomorrow^ when W. B. Mayo and J. W. Worthington, representing the Detroit manufacturer, will join the x^ommittee in what may be their last joint efforts to adjust existing differences. That : the meeting tomorrow might result in the committee ac ceding to Mr. Ford's request, agree ing to include the Gorgas steam plant among the other properties to be disposed of at Muscle Shoals and formally approving his modifi cations of the committee's plan, was predicted by some members. Others however, remained firm in their op position to such an agreement. Before the senate agriculture committee Mr. Weeks declared his belief that speedy action could not be had in congress while the house and senate continued to move along what appeared to him to be op posite paths in seeking to find a so lution of the problem. Reply From Ford. Henry Ford's reply to . the coun ter .proposal draped, by- the. house military committee for develop ment of the government projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala., was presented today to the committee by J. W.; Worthington. a representative of ? Mr. Ford, immediately upon arrival "here from Detroit, where he con ferred with the motor manufac turer. . Mr. Ford's answer, made in the form of a letter to Chairman Kahn, definitely rejected the provision in the committee plan which eliminat ed the steam plant at Gorgas, Ala., ?from the properties; to be disposed of by the government, with the Muscle Shoals properties. The full text of Mr. Ford's reply follows: "I have carefully exatnined the amendments made by your com mittee to my proposal dated Janu ary 2 5. 1922. for the lease and Pur^B chase of the government's Muscle ?Shoals properties and observe with surprise and regret that you have rejected that part of the modified proposal relating to the govern ment's Gorgas steam plant. 4'The greater portion of the other changes suggested by your com mittee have been approved and are incorporated in the accompanying corrected proposal. 2>lore than afl month ago Mr. Mayo presented to me certain clarifications in the pro posals of January 25, to which your committee desired my agreement which was promptly g^yen. Mr. Mayo explained that while some of your committee were unwilling ;to accept that part of my offer which included the government steam power plant at Gorgas. certain other members of the committee had requested him to ascertain if I would agree to accept an assign ment and transfer by the United States to everything now owned by the government at Gorgas under its contract of December. 1917. with the Alabama Power Company, to which I assented, and Mr. Mayo was instructed to advise your com mittee that the offer would be re vised accordingly. I have been in formed that this revision was ac cepted by your committee, but later, upon reconsideration, you decided to eliminate the Gorgas plant. Gorgas Plant XecessarjV "I can not consent to eliminate the Gorgas plant because it is necessary to the economical opera tion of the Muscle Shcais properties. If my revised offer for Gorgas is re jected then I must understand that the acceptance of my offer for Muscle Shoals 'as a whole and not in part' is refused. "I am pending a final proposal containing all the amendments sug gested by the committee to which I can consistently agree. In doing so and in ^iew of the fact that my f-rst proposal was signed July 8. 1921. nearly a year ago. and in or der to bring these negotiations to a clo?>e. I ask that your committee to consider this proposal a* final, and that no further changes should be expected. I further request that your committee send this final of fer to the house so that its mem bers may vote for acceptance or rejection. This request is made with the understanding that power to dispose of the plants at Muscle Shoe's is vested in the congress. If the secretary of War. after his nego ablighe? April, 1850. im. _" ITp. pollock of cher?w died today Was Prominent Citi zen of Cheraw Who Served in the United States Senate For Short Term and Was Candidate for Gov ernor i_ Columbia, June 2.?Hon. W. P. j Pollock, of Cheraw, former United I States Senator and once prominent candidate for governor died at his home there at seven o'clock this morning. Death Due to Apoplexy. Columbia, June 2.?F o r m. e r United States Senator W. P. Pol lock, of Cheraw, died from apo plexy this morning. ? ? ? COUNTERFEIT ING CHARGE Against Man Who Worked Under Secret Service Offices - Cleveland. June 3?John Maybee, a government employee operating an elavator in the Federal Build ing, ?was taken into custody today by Secret Service Agent Harper, on a charge of counterfeiting after he had made a present of one of the bogus bills- to a girl friend in the lobby of the postoffice. Maybee.is said to have confessed to raising one dollar bills to fives and tens in the basement of the Federal Building directly below the Secret Service and Department of Justice offices during his noonday lunch periods and to having ad mitted presenting two of his friends With counterfeit- bills. Folkstone, England. June 3.? French airplane flying from London to Paris, fell in the English chan nel. A boat picked up two bodies with, one carrying a passport in the name of Gordon Lay. tiations relative to the first offer, did not have the power to accept or reject it, you Will probably agree that your committee has not the power to accept or reject More | over. I do not believe that your committee or any member of it wishes to assume the responsibility of accepting or rejecting this final proposal, involving as it does " a matter of such great national im portance. "If congress votes acceptance of my offer; we will get on the job at Muscite Shoals at once: but If con gress rejects it, that will be but the beginning of a more determined effort on my part to save Muscle Shoals for the benefit of the public. "I wish to thank you and each member of the committee for the courtesies shown by representatives during the negotiations of the past three months! "Very truly yours. "Henry Ford." The committee was called into executive session to consider the letter within a very few minutes af ter Mr*. Worthington delivered it to Chairman Kahn. W. B. Mayo, chief of Mr. Ford's engineers, did not return, here today with Mr. Worthington. but remained in De troit and is expected to arrive to morrow. The committee, therefore, decid ed to alter its schedule and request Messrs. Mayo and Worthington to appear later, basing their discus sions today wholly on the letter I from Mr. Ford. Washington. June 1.?Represent ing the recent national conference of the Southern Commercial con gress at Muscle Shoals former Sen ator Hoke Smith of Georgia, Dr. Clarence J. Owens, director general of the Southern Commercial con gress, and a representative of Thomas K. Preston of Chattanooga. Tenn.. president ?f the Southern Commercial congress, today pre sented to the house committee on military affairs, a memorial adopt ed by the Muscle Shoals confer ence. The memorial says in part: "National progress and national j existence itself depends upon our , soils fertility together with adequate provision for our national defense. "No single human endeavor in the United States affords such promise of advancing the national welfare as does the uncompleted Muscle Shoals project. The problem has been under consideration by the people of this country for more than a year; the facts are now well known: the issues is clearly defined and the time for action is at hand. "Therefore, we do earnestly urg^ the president and the congress to end the delay and suspense by early !and decisive action accepting the [-offer of Mr. Ford." FURTHER CON SIDERATION OF FORD OFFER Washington. June 2.?After a J conference with Henry Ford's I representatives on the Muscle' I Shoals proposal the house mili tary committee decided to consider j further the differences between the ! Ford offer and the committee pro | posal on which they were unable to agree. "Be Just and Fear RACE WAR j REPORTED IN j TEXAS TOWN jMobs of Whites and Blacks Formed? Telephone Wiresi Cut Between Kirvin and Other Points?J Two or Three Killed! Dallas, June 2.?Conflicting re ports as to a siege, which officers and white citizens are said to have established about a house full of negroes near Kirvin. following the killing of Leroy Gibson, 19, negro, after officers had arrested him in connection with assault and kill ing of Miss Eula Awsley. school j girl, near-Kirvin, May A, were re-I ceived here tonight. ! According to a report from Kir- j (vin between 75 and 100 negroes' j armed and barricaded in a house on the Powell farm, 3 1-2 miles south of Kirvin, are resisting/ ef forts of a crowd of armed white men to dislodge them, j A Fort Worth dispatch said that reports of the trouble were exag gerated and that the negroes said to be hiding on the farm could not be located. Calls for men, arms and am munition, said ^he report from Kirvin, brought hundreds from Corsicana, Mexia, Stree tman,! Wortham, Teague and nearby towns, who were said to be gath- j ering in Kirvin ready to go to aid j the officers. The dispatch from! Fort Worth, however, said that the j crowd was not organized. Killing of a negro by a white i man and the killing of the white man in turn were reported from 'Streetman. This report said the | white man, after killing the negro, left; the body in a field. Telephone J operators at Streetman said to- j night, however, no bodies had been! found. - Nearly all stocks of guns arid! ammunition in hardware stores at Kirvin have been exhausted, it was reported. More than 1.000 men were reported gathered at! j Simsboro' and near the Powell j ! farm. ...... One 3fan Killed. j Mexia. Texas, June 2.?One white man was "reported killed and two others seriously wounded by negroes at the John . King farm, j two and one-half miles south- j east of Kirvin, this after- j noon. The white men are report- i ed to be relatives of Mis3 Eula J Aw3ley, whose slaying recently was followed by the burning of; three negroes and the hanging ofj I another at Kirvin. Mr. King, grandfather of Jfiwj Awsley, was reported among tne'j wounded. The number of negroes said to be involved has not been determin- j ed, although it was . said to be a "good many." Four automobile j loads of county officers have left j here for the scene to assist officers of Freestone county. j An unconfirmed1 rumor gave as the cause of the attack the reported shooting of a negro. Officers said "bad feeling" had existed in Kir vin between whites and negroes since the burning of the,three ne groes. -? it jj MORE MURDERS THAN IN CANADA Proportionately Eight Tiroes Greater in United States Than in Canada New York, June 2.?Murders are proportionately eight times more frequent in the United States than in Canada. Judge Marcus Kavan augh of Chicago, declared today at the close of the New York hearings of the law enforcement committee of the American Bar association. The committee, which will report to the association at its annual meeting in San Francisco next August on the results of its na tionwide crime symposium, sent Judge Kavanaugh to Montreal and Toronto to observe conditions across the border. Judge Kavanaugh said that in Canada there were only. 13 murders J a year for every million population. I In the United States there are j about 100. j By way of illustration, he re I counted the story of a gambler's quarrel across the border. "Just wait until I catch you in the United States and I'll shoot your head off," was the threat of one. Frederick H. Whitin. secretary of the committee of 14 to suppress vice, urged volunteer law enforce ; ment committees to curb crime. { J. Noble Hayes, chairman of the law delays committee of the Coun-I ty Lawyers' association, opposed a I suggestion that the laws of evidence be revised to lessen crime. "I believe in the right of a citi , zen to carry arms." he asserted. | I " Let it be understood that a citi-j i zen has a right to protect himself j j by shooting down these holdup; ! men." Blaming the movies for much crime, he suggested exhibiting films j j showing only Sing Sing convict:- j {doing hard work. This brought! from former Governor Whitman the comment: "They don't do any hard work at j Sing Sing. Harding invited the steel mag-1 ; nates t<? a White House dinner; but; j not hint; is missing yet. Not?Let all the ends Thon Aims't i Sumter, S. C, Wed FLOODS ON i GEORGIA i _RIVE$| Continued Rains Put! Many Streams Qut of Banks, Crops Damaged Macon, June 1.?The Ocmulgee; river registered 19 feet herV'at1 9 o'clock tonight, a rise of 8.5 feet in 12 hours, and indications are fif?t it will continue to rise during-the night. Famlies are deserting t"h%fr homes in the lowlands. O'fheV streams in middle and southern! Georgia also are out of their b?ttk?. Rain continued tonight. -"^ The reading of the Ocmulgee riv er in this city was one foot above flood stage at 8:30 o'clock tonight, j A rise of at least three feet dterMg, the night was anticipated. At Miiledgeville, Ga., the Ocon^e river had reached 17.9 feet at 8 o'clock this morning and a cotftiri ued rise through the day and night was expected. ^: Farmers report heavy losses to corn* and wheat crops, and if the rain continues much longer there also will be heavy losses to peaches and watermelons. During the past 24 hours 2.63 inches of rainfall has been record ed here. There have been only! nine days in the past 32 days with-: out rainfall. ' :; I Two trestles were washed out on the Covington branch of the"Ceir tral of Georgia railroad tonight", ff?e to the rise of Bear creek. ? * Water was so high at Comer, I Ala., this morning that the Mac"dh Montgomery passenger train could not get through, passengers being transferred. ' r x Atlanta, June 1.?Streams and j rivers in northern Georgia are 'oU$ of banks a?nd lowlands flooded with ! consequent damage to crops, ?s* '? j result of an unprecedented rainfall in thi3 section of the state during May. i| The uplands have received to<f much moisture, also, and late a?tf i small crops of corn and cotton were" predicted tonight by J. J. Brown, state commissioner - of agriculture. May broke all records here for rain, said C. F. Von Herrmann, section director of the weather bureaxv with a total of 7.95 inches, or 4:53 inches above normal. Every month this year so far has shown an ex cess of rainfall and the totaT is 34.17 inches, or 11.83 inches above thie normal to June 1. There has been no flood damage reported from any northern Georgia rivers. INCREASED RATES BEING PROPOSED Southern Class Rate Hearing Hears Suggestion From Of ficial of A. C. L. Railway Atlanta, Ga., June 1.?Increases in rates on freight from Richmond, Va... to Atlanta, Augusta and Sa vannah, Ga., were proposed be fore the Southern class rate hear ing here late today by J. W. Per rin of Wilmington, X. C, assistant freight traffic manager of the At lantic Coast Line railway. Mr. Perrin proposed that in the general readjustment which the i carriers are seeking that the first class rate from Richmond to Sa vannah be increased 44 cents per 100 pounds, to Augusta 27 oents and to Atlanta 12 1-2 cents. While the rates for first class freight to these points would be raised, he said, the charges would be lowered for some classes of freight. Testimony as to proposed new I rates from Richmond to Georgia points came after Brooks G. Brown of Washington, assistant freight agent of the Southern Railway com pany, had completed his testimony regarding proposed increases from Ohio river crossings to points in the Carolinas. ? ? ? LAND BANK LOANS Anderson. June 2?Applications j for $165.000 in loans on Anderson ! county lands will be forwarded to j the Federal Land bank in Columbia Saturday, according to County j Treasurer Griffin. This will make j the total loans from this source j in this county $1,000.000. There are a number of other applications pending the approval of the offi cials. Warehouse Hit by Lightning! Ridge Springs. June 4.?A ware-! house containing about 400 bales of cotton was burned at Monetta. three miles north of here, at noon today. Lightning struck the building and started the flames. With cotton selling at 20 cents and above, the loss is estimated to b?> between $40.000 and $50.000.; The loss is fully covered by insur ance through the stat?> warehouse! system. -? Los Angeles. June 5. ? Rudolph Valentino, screen actor, whose principal roles have been those of a lov?? hero, was liberated of the ! charge of bigamy here today when the felony complaint against him \ was dismissed after a preliminary) hearing before Justice of the Peace j Hanby. I Ml it;lie thy Country's, Thy God's and nesday, June 7, 1922 ANOTHER MURDERER APPEALS Harrison Intends to Carry Case to High est Tribunal ? Mo tion for New Trial Denied by Judge Townsend "?: ^Columbia, June 3.?Denied a new trial, Ira Harrison, convicted of the murder of John C. Arnette and sentenced to die in the electric chair June 15, yesterday after ' noon served oral notice of his in tention to appeal his case to the State supreme court. The oral : notice of Harrison's intention to [appeal the case was made in the circuit court yesterday afternoon by B. B. Evans, Harrison's attorney. I Harrison will be allowed ten days in which to give formal notice of his intention to appeal and will (then be granted 30 days in which to complete and perfect his appeal. I The serving of this formal notice I of intention to appeal will auto | matically stay the execution of the l Sentence of death. Frank M. Jeffords,, who was con victed with Harrison and with him i sentenced to die. has already served I notice of his intention to appall 'and so stayed the execution of his sentence. Glenn Treece. convicted with Harrison and Jeffords, and sentenced to life imprisonment is now serving his term in the state penitentiary. B. B. Evans, acting as Harrison's attorney, was heard by Judge Townsend yesterday afternoon in ah argument for a motion for a new trial for Ira Harrison. The motion was denied and Mr. Evans then gave notice that his client w:ould appeal to the supreme court I and requested a full transcript of the testimony in the * three days' trial. Jeffords has also asked for a copy bf the testimony. Harrison. Mr. Evans argued, had told the truth on the stand and had, he said, materially assisted the state in the prosecution of the case against Jeffords and Treece. "If any one of the three was entitl ed to mercy," Mr. Evans said, "it was Harrison." The motion for the new trial was. also, based upon I the further grounds that inadmis * sible testimony was introduced at ! the trial and the contention. that j should Jeffords be granted a new I trial and Harrison electrocuted the state would |>e deprived of the testimony of "the man who had l told the truth." "The evidence produced at the ! trial," Judge Townsend said in the i order denying the motion for a new .'trial, "is still fresh in my mind i as is also my recolleciton of the I rulings made during the trial upon j constructions of the evidence and I the rulings therefore made by me in the case. I am satisfied that there is no ground upon which I j should grant the motion for a new j trial and it is therefore refused." j Should Harrison complete his ap I peal, as it is presumed that he will j since he has requested the trans cript of the testimony, the case will probably not be heard before the supreme court until its session next October, unless, of course, a spe cial session of the court is called. TROUBLE ON BORDER j Two Mexicans Killed and Two I American Aviators Arrest | ed ! Juarez. Mexico. June 2.?Two j Mexican citizens were killed, two ! American aviators were arrested I and former officer of the Mexican army detained in connection with the investigation of revolutionary plots in Mexico Tuesday, accord ing to official dispatches received here today. Col. Ernesto Argias and Rosendo Valasouez were arrested at Irapua to Guanajuato on a charge of be ing implicated in plots to make Gen. Felix Diaz president of j Mexico. En route to Celeva for : trial, friends attempted to free I j them. In the attack on the mili [tary escort, two prisoners were [killed and two soldiers wounded. At Jalapa. Vera Cruz, two Amer ican aviators, v. hose names were I not given, were arrested after they i are said to have imported two air j pianos, ostehsibly for exhibition purposes. Federal authorities said they found that the two aviators : had leased the machines to revolu I ti?nrts. Maurico Beltran, former [.Mexican army officer, was arrested j on a charge of being implicated with the Americans. Investigation of what, officers say. they believe to be an extensive 'ammunition smuggling plot was 'begun here today. The inquiry ! follows the discovery of 15.000 irounds of pistol ammunition billed l as farming implements at the lo ical express office. Following receipt of a telegram j from Manuel Teiles. Mexican I charge d'affaires at Washington, i stating that conditions in Mexico ! were peaceful. Hcrmenegildo Val ! dez, Mexican consul at El Paco to day gave out a statement mini mizing the importance of the va rious revolutionary plots rumored I in the southern republic. Chicago. June 5.?A Xorthwes I tern train struck an automobile j truck carrying eight persons near Blodgvit station today. Four per sons are reported killed. TruthU" REAL WAR RAGES IN IRELAND! Town of Pettigoe Sub-j jected to Heavyi Bombardment and! is Recaptured b y Crown Troops Fromj Sinn Feiners London, June 4 (By the Associat- J ed Press).?Infantry, cavalry. a*r- j tillery and whippet tanks took part j in the first offensive action of the : British troops on the Ulster border- j land early this afternoon when Pet tigoe, which straddles the line, though a large part of the town is j in Free State territory, was storm- j ed and retaken from troops of the Irish Republican army who enter- j ed on May 30. Reports ' from Belfast described,! the border countryside as swarming i with khaki, while the British gen- j eral directs the operations from i headquarters on a hill outside the tcwn. " "When it became evident that the British were moving in force against "Pettigoe. the Republicans j began to withdraw. Consequently there was little resistance to par- ! ties of soldiers in motors and on ; foot who dashed through the town j shortly after noon. It is semi-officially announced j that the Republicans suffered fairly! heavy losses, but the sole casualty: on the northern side was the driv er of a motor car. Besides the Republican com mandant and staff, who were tak en prisoner when the troops enter ed the town, it is reported that a large number of Sinn Feiners were captured in a later clean-?p of Pet tigoe. Of three columns of troops which last evening began advanc ing into the section of Fermanagh county, occupied by the southern ers, two columns operated toward Pettigoe. the other in the direction of Belleek. which the Republicans had occupied. Belfast, June 4 (By the Associat ed Press).?Military forces today captured Pettigoe and captured Re publican prisoners, as well as a large quantity of arms and am I munition. ' - - One account says that afte,r "a heavy bombardment the British' troops stormed Pettigoe in the af-! ternoon. A hot machine gun fire was poured on the attacking forces, but the only casualty was an auto mobile driver, who was shot dead. The commander of the Irish Republican army , and his staff are reported to have 'been captured. A semi-official version of the fighting is quoted by the corre spondent of the Belfast Telegraph, who *says: "The military entered Pettigoe shortly after 1 o'clock in the afternoon and were fired on by the Republicans. The artillery came into action and the Republicans are believed suffered fairly heavy losses. The military have consoli dated the position. t Iis said that the commander at Pettigoe* was a Mayo doctor. Driver j Bobson was sitting with comrades j after the capture of the place when | the Republicans opened fire with a machine gun from a concreted position, riddling hhn. Border firing was resumed today by. Republicans at Lifford, in the direction of Strabane, in the course of which a specail constable was shot while on duty at Camel's Hump. KILLED AT i CROSSING! Union, June 3.?Four people | were killed and two others possi-j bly fatally injured today when a; Southern Railway passenger train crashed into an automobile where a community road crosses the rail- ! road. The dead are: James Vaughan. B. J. Vaughan. Miss Laura Austin and Miss Min nie Austin. John McKeown and Ben Alton Whitlock are thought to be fatally injured. Two of the"occupants of the car; were pinned to the locomotive by: parts of the wrecked automobile! and were on the pilot when the en- ; gine was bought to a stop. The1 parties in the wreck range in ago! from nineteen to twenty-five years.; INJURED IN AUTO WRECK! I - Chester. June 4.?E d w a r dl Barney of Lockhart, about 19 miles i west of Chester, sustained serious} injuries in,an automobile wreck to-j day. He and four others were re-] turning from a ride. In making a sharp curve a rear tire exploded.; hurling the touring car and party j down a steep embankment. Thej other members of the party are} saMl to have been bruised but not1 badly hurt. Barney's face was so: badly crushed that he had to be| carried to Atlanta to a specialist, i The automobile was practically wrecked. The accident occurred1 about a half mile from the Ches- j ter county line, over in Union j county. It was difficult to stop the: flow of blood from the cuts inj Barney's face. The more crops come up, the j more prices go down. m o> m A meteoric career usually tias aj meteroic finish. ? txnu. ? \ THE -TRUE SOt1 ILL BRING FORD FIGHT INTO OPEN Military Committee to Report Proposal to House With Gorgas Plant Eliminated? Action Taken by 12 To9 i_ Washington, June 3. ? Henry Ford's proposal to develop the gov ernment's vast power projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala., was given con ditional approval by the house military committee today and or dered reported to the house with a recommendation that it be accept ed in the form agreed to in com - mittee. The action was taken by a vote of 12 to 9 in executive 'ses sion and was interpreted by com mitteemen generally as being in effect but the preliminary skirm ish to what promises to become a bitterly contested battle, between the proponents and opponents of the Ford ?fter in the house. In. arriving at its final decision the committee decided to eliminate from the properties covered in the Ford offer the steam plant at Gor gas. Ala., and agreed with W. B. Mayo and J. W. Worthington, rep resentatives of the Detroit manu facturer, upon, new language reg ulating the manufacturer of fer tilizers. In all other respects the Ford offer was fully approved. Mr. Mayo declared when advised of the committee action that de spite elimination of the Gorgas plant he regarded the results an nounced as a decisive victory, for Mr. Ford and that a more deter mined effort than ever before now would be made to obtain the prop erties. To agree upon every de tail involved in the negotiations, except one,- was a distinct achieve ment, Mr. Mayo added", particular ly since the discussions had been extended over so long a period of time. Two other developments in con gress affecting Muscle Shoals oc curred-while the committee wa3- in session. The house Instructed its conferees on the army appropria tion bill to report back to it what decision they reached with the sen ate on ^the amendment providing $7,500,000. .for consideration fo work on the Wilson dam so that a separate vote might be had. j In the senate agriculture: com mittee* Oscar C. Merrill, officer of the Federal Power Commission, testified that the . Muscle. Shoals projects should be completed and put in operation preferably by pri vate enterprie. ? If the govern ment decided to operate the prop erties, Mr. Merrill said, he believed jthe bill by Senator N/orris, of Ne braska, chairman of the eommit-' tee, probably offered the best method of dealing with the pro jects. The house committee also de cided to meet again Monday for the puipose of preparing a report .reciting its opinion of the Ford and other proposals which will be' submitted to the house member ship when the Ford offer is pre sented, probably early next week. In all probability the committee will write two reports, one by the majority memb^s and the other by those who advocate the acceptance of Mr. Ford's tender with the Gor gas plant included. SOVIET DICTATOR STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY Moscow, June 4 (By the Asso ciated Press).?Confirmation -was obtained today of the report that Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik pre mier, had suffered an apoplectic stroke. It is declared his condition is serious but that he is improv ing. The physicians attending M. Le nine have issued a carefully guard ed bulletin revealing that the Bol shevik premier has suffered some sort of ? stroke and though he is said to be improving, his associates make no secret that his condition is serious. The following official bulletin w?s issued on June 3: "On May 24. M. Lenine was tak en ill with a sharp gastric enteritis, which was followed by high tem perature. Because of previous gen eral overwork his illness develop ed a nervous condition and a mi nor disorder of the blood circu lation, which, however, wnhin the next few days began to improve. 1 "At the present mo'ment M. Lenine's temperature is normiL He feels better and the patient, for whom was prescribed absolute rest during the near future, is now on the road to full recovery." The bulletin was signed by Prof. S. Forester Kramer and oth'?r phy sicians. PHILLIPS TO DEMAND HEARING Philadelphia. June 3. ? John Lewie Phillips, of Georgia. Republi can state chairman, for whom a warrant was issued in Washington charging conspiracy to defraud the government on war contracts, said today he would return to Washing ten and demand a hearing. He said he knew nothing about the charges against him. , THRON, Established Jane 1. 1S?*? VOL. LH. NO. 33 WARRANTS ISSUED FOR GRAFT Chairman of can Party in Charged With frauding the Govj emment ^ ..... >? Washington, June 4.-^-AL.: rant has been issued by- XJ States Commissioner Hitt ior arrest of J. L. Phillips, chalg?&Bk of the Republican national J?^^i committee for Georgia, cl fraud in the execution of war tracts. . Beyond confirming that the warrant had been isst^E%. Commissioner Hitt refused toi to dsicuss the case. Phillips, as a member of of Phillips & Stevens, obtait^y contract soon after the' from the government to surplus lumber left from ment and camp constructs m other war building deveh the firm having been d< by a conference of lumber d? to act as their agent. lOv Representative Woodruff,: " publican) of Michigan in a ? recently in. the bouse asserted official reports had been "mfedj? government auditors in SeJ 1321, showing, -that Philln Stevens still owed the under this-contract more 350,000, and that so far learn 4*no proceedings had been instituted in th? nection. Although, it had been g? reported during the first we? the special grand jury now\:^ here on war fraud case^?aj?? engaged in considera^oir*^es|3 de nee dealing1: with sale of surplus lumber, thei been no statement from any? source to indicate whe^ex?; Phillips & Stevens cottfiact'4 been among those preser^ 3 So far as could be learn^;^?? grand jury has yet to hand dor first indictment, and warrant prior to indictme^wwspg^ cl?red by some ofllciajiJ.o -&$js&jl unusual, though not ?unprex^^^e-^ ed procedure. ''J?'-' The lumber contract* ?! Phillips & Stevens, posal of ?pruce, pine, h? fir lumber ??ly, report cited b^ Woodruff. He asserted, h< that the firm had obt sold surplus supplies of 'vit&gK 50. .varieties, including mscB ?" able hardwoods. Mr. Phillips resides iii:.~ ville, Ga.. ih which section ported to own extensive trstt^^j^ timber.- Hfc also has a 'hdnS^ * business ih Philadelphia.: Senate Favors Increase in* Washington,- June 2. an appropriation of $341??3*M> the annual army appropriation was passed late $oday by ate. It fis?s the size of tfee for the next year at an aj 12,530 officers asd 1*5.0*0 Passage Of the bill which without a -record v?,' ^iq^ quickly after a test vjSte by whi the senate Accegited. 41 to 29^ committee's - action ih merits the house ^figure on the :siz& >i the arniy from 115,000 to 53$ enliste men. ^ ThS strength of 530 officers compares with* l&e as voted, by the housed The; senate disposed of the. speedily, 'the measure being up for the first /time todajT passed within six hours. All mit tee amendments except^: amending the size of the army acted upon within three constituting .what was regai almost a record by the senate, Some opposition was expre; the 133,030 enlisted strength. Chairman Wadsworth of the tary committee, in charge of bilL pressed for the committed'; ure and was sustained, as was' committee on every other ment to the house bill. The measure now goes to eolCferf ence with, the house, but it is not: expected that the discussion w^ gin before Tuesday. Next to the question of ?he. sia4> of the army, the proposition .ca^^ ing most discussion was thet a?iji! ment submitted by the agric. . committee appropriating ^&lM 000 for continuation of work Muscle Shoals federal power ject, which the senate accepted without a record vote* after a par liamentary tangle which lasted more than an hour. The Muscle Shoals amendment promised for a time to reopen the whole question of the govern! policy with respect to the p< project but Chairman Norm Gf ine i. agriculture committee declared no policy had been determine and that to delay work further' on dam No. 2 in the Tennessee, riv er would be an "economic crime." * Party lines were broken when the test vote on the army bill w3& taken. Nine Democrats voted with the Republican majority.?j upholding the senate committ^. while six Republicans were count ed in the negative. Democrats vot ing for the 153,000 array in eluded Ashurst Gerry, Hefiin/Kea drick, Myers, Sheppard. Smith, Underwood and Williams: Repub licans who voted against the prop-,, osition were Borah, Capper. Ladd, j La Follette. Norris and Willis,