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THE STKTEK WATCHMAN, tsts CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,3 RAILROADS PRESENT SOUHRONT They Will Help Each Other to Overcome Strike Conditions New York. Aug.* 3.?As proof to President Harding that the rail roads are united in a determina tion to keep trains moving regard less o"f the shop craft strike, sever- ! s? reads today pledged themselves I to send crews of mechanics to thej rescue of four Southern roads! jwh'o*fe shops have been hard hit by j the' strike, it was announced by L. j F. Loree, chairman of the Eastern j presidents' conference. . . Crews of '-"picked", men. recruit ed, in shops or road9 in the Metro politan district of New York, are al- ? ready on the way south. Mr. Loree j afcerted. The first detail was said j to be en route to Richmond. Va., where it was expected to arrive i tomorrow morning. -Although they subscribed to the j rejection of President Harding'sj peace plan when it^came before \ the American Association of Rail-[ way Executives last Tuesday the j _our roads to whom other lines are: now contributing mechanics "fankly disclosed their condition," said Mr. Loree. They were the Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & "Western, Virginian and the Louis ville & Nashville, it was disclosed. Shipments of men were "as .^sumed" by the Eastern leaders, to j be, en rcute also from. Chicago and; other "Western labor centers to lo comotive and car shops at division .points of the four Southern rail roads. The present plan,.it was said, was to send men to Rich mond .and Roanoke and Russell ville, Ravena. Covington and Cor bIn,Ky., and Portsmouth, Ohio. " Union leaders%t.t the Eastern strike committee headquarters, to night characterized this latest move of the roads as "another bluff to keep the president from interfering with their policy." Chicago. Aug. *-.(By the ;UVSso ciatsd Press).)?Western raulfoads with headquarters in Chicago add ed 25,2-59 shopmen to their .forces } ^between July-_a-u^^Ofgzst^,' a j .statement .issued^, today "By the' "W^tern presidents* committee on public relations, of * the ^ssociatioa of Railway Executives said. On July 25, ? according to the state ment, Western roads had 44,501 men in their shop*? and on August 2 : the number was 59,760.: The daily increase of men returning to work or being riired, the statement" indicated, ranged between 1,600 and 2,000 men. "Despite widespread rumors of a settlement of the railway shop men's strike prior to the action ?,f the executives at New York and on basis which would ignore the rights of loyal employees and involve the discharge of the new men who have been hired to take the place of strikers," the statement said, "all of the roads whose headquar ters are in Chicago today reported a steady increase in the number of men at work in their shops during the first two days of August when these rumors were feeing, circulat ed. f "The fact that practically all of ?the western roads haveT>een able to meet their traffic demands has resulted in the careful selection of new employees, the roads accept ing only those men who give sat isfactory indications of becoming permanent and useful employees.** Railroad executives of Western j roads returning from - the execu- i tive3' meeting in New York, which on Tuesday rejected President Harding's proposal -to restore se niority to striking shopmen, said that the president's suggestions were impossible of acceptance. Cincinnati. Ohio, Aug. 3.?The Brotherhood of Clerks will go along with any plan for a confer-} ence of the leaders of 12 railroad unions not on strike, E. H. Fitz gerald, president of#the Brother hood of Railway and Steamship Clerksf, Freight Handlers, Station and Express Employees, announc ed today. Mr. Fitzgfierald stated in all prob ability the conference, if sufficient acceptances were received to attend j it, would be held in Chicago. R. R. Commission To Regulate Coal j Columbia. Aug. 4.?Governor Harvey and Chairman, Frank f Shealy. of the railroad commis-j sion, held a conference Friday afternoon, and they talked on the j telephone with B. E. Geer, ot Greenville, chariman Of the gov ernor's fuel emergency committee, and following the conference the governor issued a statement in which he announced that the fuel situation, regarded as serious, is to be handled entirely by the1 railroad commission. Mr. (Jeer's! committee will handle the question ! of profitable profiteering but all! matters pertaining to the sup- \ ply of fuel and the public's demand, j will be handled by Mr. Sheaiy's! board. The statement whs repeat-! ed Friday that there Is not more' than two weeks" supply of coal in j the state, according to reports j gathered by the railroad commis sion. Chautauqu? Summer School be gan in 1ST 4. tbttshed April, 1850. m. _ SOUTHERN SHOPMEN I SILENT N ------ t ~ ' - I Decision of Locals, If I Any Has Been! Reached, Not Re-| ported td Company i Washington, Aug:. 3.?Headquar- ! tes of the Southern railway here had received no reply up to a late hour tonight to the invitation of that system that its shopmen re turn to work on .the basis of Presi dent Harding's plan for settlement of the strike. It was reported that j officials of the locals, representing j the Southern's employees, had call ed a meeting to consider the of fer but the decision of this con ference, if any was reached, was not announced. The Association of Railway Executives, in a statement issued ' today, formally announced that the { action of the Southern "does not j in any way indicate a change in the position taken by the railroads in the meeting^ of August 1." The Southern, the statement said, was not a member of the association, had not voted on the president's plan at the New York meeting and ! "unlike the great majority of rail- j roads of ^the country, had employ- j ed no hew men." Richmond, Va.. Aug. 3.?Strik- j ing shopmen of the Southern Rail- I wc-:y shops in this city will meet! tomorrow at 3 o'clock to discuss! the company's proposition to take j back the strikers without prejudice j to their seniority rights. No ac-; tion will-be taken, however, until! word is received from headquarters in Chicago. "We came out in a body and; none will return until we ail re-1 turn," said W. C. Burke, vice pres- j ident of the City Federation of; Shopcrafts, this afternoon. There is no change in the sit- j nation as to the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Richmond, Fredericksburg j & Potomac railways. Washington, Aug. 4.?Represen- j tatives- 6f six striking shopcrafts of j the union - on the Southern RaiN way. meet in^Washington tomorrow with H. W. Miller, vice-presi- j dent in charge of operations of the system to consider proposals forj settlement of the strike on the basis I suggested by President Harding to i the executives of all roads. The j Southern is. acting separately from ; other large lines, and has made no j attempt to break the strike nor ha3 it refused . returning strikers se- I niority privileges. New Union Formed By Textile Workers ! Delegates Meeting in New; York Represent Thousands; of Men and Women New York, Aug. 3.?Delegates! representing 150.000 organized tex-j tile workers in Eastern and South- j ern states today signed the consti- j tution of the newly formed Feder- j ated Textile Unions of America and announced they would direct ? all effort toward helping New Eng land workers win their strike, which has been in progess since last winter. Sixty-six officials of nine crafts, several of them women, attended the opening conference of organiz- j ers. They gWill continue 'in ses- j sion for ?tr?:ee days, it was an-; nounced. electing officers and plan-1 ning a campaign to completely or- j ganize the 900.000 employees inj the textile industry in America. The new federation was describ ed by delegates as the progressive labor element of the industry- It will have no affialiation with 'the United Textile Workers, which claims a membership of nearly 100,000, and it is the reorganized branch of the American Federation ] of Labor but will cooperate with j both organizations in financially : supporting.the locals now on strike, j it was stated. Delegates came from practical ly all Atlantic states, from Maine to: Georgia. ?m ? ? Hit by Automobile ! _ Aged Man Run Down by Un-i known Driver Spartanburg. Aug. S.?An aged I white man whose home is said to be j Brevard. N. C. was run over by a ' speeding automobile at Duncan! yesterday afternoon, the driver j keeping on. the man said, not even investigating to see what damage was done to the man. His name is [McGaphney, and he has a daugh-: ! ter living at Tucapau. He was on j [his way from Duncan to Tucapau and had got in front of the home] of Dr. J. C. Moore at Duncan when he was run down. His body was, dragged for some distance by the car. He was rushed to the Spar tanburg general hospital, where-1 surgical aid was given him. He is! dointr as well as could be expect-1 ed. according to the report today fron? the hospital. The rural police force has been at work in an effort t<> get a clue to the nvane of the driver; but so far have failed. We can forgive Xoah for getting j drunk, but we can never forgive his failure to take a swatter aboard. I ?Be Jnst and Fear 1 RAIL STRIKE IS REAL CRI Other Unions, Includ ing B i g Brother hoods, Now Evinc-| ing Interest in Shop men's Walkout Chicago, Aug. 5.?The compara- i tive claim that was prevalent in j the rail strike situation today gave way to renewed activities on both! sides for ending the walkout and ! making it more effective. New j peace conferences are pending in I Washington and pew 'strike threats j came from maintenance of way ? men and other union workers .for; the purpose of presenting their j views of the strike. Eastern roads j have sent detachments of shopmen ! to relieve the roads in the mining district of Virginia, West Virginia, j and Kentucky. New outbreaks and violence have been reported. Permanent In junction Against & Strikers Judge H. A. M. Smith Will! Not Tolerate Unlawful In terference With Workers / - Charleston, Aug. 4.?Judge H. A. M. Smith of the federal court to day issued an order, following the | return of federated shopmen, de fendants. to show cause, contin uing the -temporary injunction he issued July 24, on petition of the i Atlantic Coast Line, and concerning: i the petitioner's premises and em- j ployees at Charleston and Flor ence. This afternoon he issued an order of temporary injunction ] along similar lines, on petition of j the Serboard Air Line company.' and set August 11 as the date fori the return by the defendants. The ' Seaboard alleged tue same general: grounds in their petition for a re- j straining order against striking! shopmen as those in the petition of the Atlantic Coast Line and named -Andrews, Charleston, j Hartsville and' Caj^re as points in ! this state, where they asked that I the order apply. The main effect of both orders is to restrain striking j shopmen from "picketing" or! otherwise interfering with em- ! ployees of the complainants. In j his order on the Atlantic Coast Line j petition and the defendants' re- j turn. Judge Smith stressed the j fact that in refraining from work. I the former railroad employees i were acting within their right.-, but that in attempting to force ar- ! guments upon others who were un-j willing: to hear them they were in- j yading the rights of the others, j He stated that in issuing an injunc- j tion he was not determining thai i any man was guilty of an infraction j of the law, but that he was acting j upon the general circumstances, j and upon representations from the I attorneys for the defense he insert- j ed in his restaining order th:* words, "in any manner forbidden by law," in that portion where tho j defendants were restrained from j "wilfully and knowingly^ persuad- j ing others to quit work, etc. RAIL WORKERS BADLY BEATEN Seaboard Employes Kidnap ped by Masked Men - Raleigh, Aug. 4.?Twenty-five masked men kidnapped five Sea board Air Line shop employes and one guard at Manly, near Southern ! Pines at dusk dark today, carried them two miles from that point and severely beat them, one. it was believed, fatally, according to re ports to the Seaboard office here. The Seaboard workmen had been sent from Raleigh to take down the i rods of a disabled locomotive pre- j paratOry to brining the engine to [ Raleigh. The party consisted of five workmen and two guards. Part | of the work had been completed when the attacking force arrived in eight automobiles, kidnapped the entire party with the exception of I on<* of the guards who was not j present at the time. All of them were sever* !y beaten. They receiv- j ed medical attention at the hospital; in Southern Pines and lat*> tonight j will be brought to Raleigh. Sheriff Blue, who had just re- j turned to Southern Pines after a wild ride to the Raleigh prison with three negroes to escape a1 crowd bent on lynching them, im mediately started an investigation; and hit" tonight stated the iden-1 tity of some of the masked men! were known. According to Sheriff ] Blue, they are striking shopmen of *ii*> Seaboard shops at Hamlet. GOOD CROPS ~ j IN RUSSIA j Moscow. Ans:. 5. -The soviet government announced today that' owing to excellent crop prospects] the foreign trade department is| instructing its bureau abroad to. cease buying hour and sugar.] Americans who recently arrived] from Constantinople contend that j Moscow is now iIip most expen- j sive of the larger European cities in which to live. Sot?Let all the ends Thon Ainis't i Sumter, S. C, Wedr NEW ELEMENTS 1 IN RAIL STRIKE SITUATION i Mil I ? Brotherhoods Send Representatives to Washington to Con fer With President Harding j Washington, Aug. 5 (By the As- j seriated Press).?Negotiations to j end the strike of railroad shop i craftsmen were resumed today by j President Harding and B. M. Jew- j ell. president of the railroad em-! ployees' department of the Ameri can Federation of Labor; W. H. johnston, president of the machin ists, and J. P. Xoonan. head of the ! electrical brotherhood, left the; White House after an hour's con ference with the chief executive. ! expecting to be recalled Monday, j It was not disclosed whether the 1 president had communicated again j with railroad heads, where refusal , this week to grant his proposal to | give returning strikers back senior- i ity status terminated the first set- , tlement attempt, but the strike 1 leaders in cheerful mood, said af ter the conference that the propos als, as originally outlined by the president constituted their, "irre ducible minimum in seeking honor- ! able settlement." Likewise, H. E. Willis, J. Paul Stephens and Arthur J. Lovel. rep resenting respectively the engi neers, trainmen and enginemeri and fireiien. three of the four brother hood organizations, saw the pres ident at the instance of the nation al chief of these orders and of the switchmen's union and presented the possibility that grave prospects of further rail unsettlement were in sight unless the shop situation was straightened out. May Refuse to Work. It was understood that while they did not set up a possibility of sym pathetic strikes by their member ship, they declared that the con dition of railroad equipment, loco motives particularly on many roads, was growing to be such that train crews might refuse service. Xo public statement of their re port was made, other than that contained in the message from the brotherhood heads under which they acted in going to the White House and nothing was given out officially. They made it plain, however, that they made no re quest of the president for a confer ence with the brotherhood chiefs. DR. CLARENCE POE TO SPEAK Four Speeches to Be Made F or Cooperative Marketing As sociation Columbia. Aug. 7.?Dr. Clarence Foe. editor of the Progressive Farmer, will make four speeches in South Carolina this week on the cooperative marketing of cotton, Harold C. Booker, secretary of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association announced today. P'riday morning at 11 o'clock he will speak at Bishopville. Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock he will speak at Camden: Saturday morn ing at 11 o'clock at Bennettsville and Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at Chesterfield. Large crowds are expected to hear him at all of these points. Plans for a state-wide speaking campaign extending into every county in the state will be mapped out Tuesday at a conference be tween association officials and of ficials of the extension forces of Clemson College. It is planned to hold at least one big county-wide meeting in every county in the state during the month of August. Douglas McKay, state counsel for the association, returned to Columbia Saturday from Dillon where he spoke at a big meeting Friday. Other speakers at the meeting were Harold Jeter of the field service department of the as sociation and A. Victor Bethea of Dillon, member of the board of directors. Senator P. L. Bethea. county chairman, presided. Mr. McKay said that the attendance on the meeting was good and genuine interest was manifested in the do ings of ih<-- association. Dillon is expected to furnish a heavy sign up in the new drive. Xew contracts were received dur ing the past week from Orange burg." Edgefield and Darlington counties. While the campaign does not actively begin until August the canvass has begun in some of the counties already. Confidence that 160.000 additioal bales will !)?' signed up. giving the association :t t?s:;j 1 of ?O?.OG? bales was ex pressed today by association offi cia Is. The association is now establish ed in the new headquarters in the "Cotton Cooperative Building." l Main street, having moved last week from its temporary head quarters in the Liberty Bank build ing. Washington. Aug. 7.? President Harding today called upon the striking railroad shopmen ?<> re turn to work as requested and the railroads t<> assign them to work. Fie asked railroads and workmen to submit the disputed question of se niority to the railroad labor board. it be thy Country's. Thy God's and tesday, August 9, 1922 TERRIBLE j WRECK ON ! RAILROAD Thirty-Eight Killed in Rear-End Collision on Missouri-Pacific i Sulphur Springs. . Mo.. Aug. 6 (By the Associated Press).?Fail ure of an engineer to heed a block j signal caused the rear end col lision on the Missouri-Pacific here last night, in which 38 persons 'were killed and 137 injured. 25 j seriously, according to John Can ! non, assistant general manager of the road. I ? Train Xo. 4. a fast passenger ye< ; tibule steel train, running at full j speed, crashed into Xo. 32, a local, I composed of five wooden day coaches, a. baggage and an express [car, as the engine was taking on j water with the coaches stretching j back on a trestle over Glaze creek. The impact hurled two of the lo i cal coaches down a 50 foot era I bankment edging the Mississippi (and telescoped four.other coaches, j crushing a number of passengers ito death in their seats. Both trains I were behind time, the fast passeng I er, running from Fort Worth. [Texas, to St. Louis, carrying 180 ? passengers, and the local 100 per i sons. \ According to Mr. Cannon. Matt j ("Ginger") Glenn of St. Louis, en . gineer of the fast passenger, fail j ed to heed a block signal warning I him the track was not clear ahead, i Glenn. 57 years old. an engineer ?for 35 years, without a black mark ?against his record, was killed when j he jumped from his cab just be I fore the crash. Edward Lindley, [also of St. Louis, fireman of Xo. 4 j remained at his post and was in Ijured seriously. j ? Engineer Glenn, shortly before I arriving in Sulphur Springs, re | ceived orders 'on the run" to pull j over on a siding at Cliff Cave, ten I miles north of here, to allow "Sun i shine Special Xo. 1," en route from \ St. Louis to Texas points, to pa&?, land Mr. Cannon explained, the en i gineer failed to heed the signal be cause he apparently was reading these orders when he passed the block. The orders were found near ! his body. ! Ghouls appeared on the scene ? shortly after the crash and robbed ;the dead and dying. Only one was ?arrested and he said he was Wil ! liam Hall of St. Louis. Several ? pieces of wearing apparel taken ! from the unfortunates were found 1 on his person and a Bible was in ! his waist. The Bible, it was said, j had been the property of the Rev. V. 0. Pensley of De Soto, one of ; those killed. The dead and injured were ? spread over an area of several city j blocks. This little village of 150 I inhabitants was unable to care for i the injured and they along with the i dead were taken to St. Louis and ;De Soto. Dr. YV. TV. Hull was the ; only physician administering to the ! injured for several hours until re : lief trains arrived. "Had I had some assistance we ! might have saved some of the ! dying," Dr. Hull told a represen tative of the Associated Press. "At one time I was trying to treat j 25 persons simultaneously." INVESTIGATION OF MISSOURI TRAIN WRECK i 1 I Sulphur Springs. Mo., Aug. 7.? j Eye-witnesses were summoned to ' day before the coroner's jury at l De Soto to recount the details of \ the rear-end collision of two Mis j souri-Pacific trains here Saturday ' night, when thirty-seven persons lare known to have been killed and a hundred and thirty-eight injured. I Coroner Eiders promised to make a thorough investigation of the circumstances causing the disaster. ! PRIMARY IN OHIO _ j Administration on Trial Be fore Ohio Republicans Columbus. Ohio. Aug. 7.?"VVheth ]er the national administration is to I receive th? indorsement of Ohio j voters will be determined largely ; in the success of Thompson of , Cleveland, in tomorrow's primary. [.Thompson, ? former United States I treasurer, who has been closely identified with the Harding admin ; istmtion is one of nine Republicans j running for the gubernatorial nom ination. All the present congress men, except Charles L. Knight, of the Fourteenth district, and S. D. ? Fess of the Eighth, candidates re spectively, for Republican guberna ; tonal and senatorial nominations, j are seeking re-nomination. Klansmen on Trial ; Los Angeles, Aug. 7.?Thirty iseven Ku Klux Klansmen charged [with assault with a deadly weap on, with intent to commit murder, kidnapping and fals** imprison ment, growing out of 'hp raid, on April L'l'. on the home and bonded winery. <<i" Fidel & Mathias Elduay an, :it Inglewood, were docketed for trial today. The defendants who were set free under forty-rive thousand bonds, include William s. Coburn. of Georgia, formerly grand goblin of the Klans of the Pacific domain. Truth's." CONFERENCE 1 OF ALLIES IN LONDON! ._ j Representatives o f | Powers Assemble to | Discuss War Debts J and Reparations London, Aug. 6 (By the Asso ciated Press).-r?Allied statesmen j are gathering in London tonight for the opening tomorrow of what j seems universally regarded as the j most momentous conference since. peace was concluded. The immediate concern of the conference is> the question of rep arations and Germany's request j for a moratorium; hut since the; delivery last week of the note of,' Earl Balfour it is assumed that the ! question of interallied indebt- { edness can not be excluded from I the discussions, especially as Ray-; mond Poincare,. the French pre-1 mier. is credited with bringing to j London a plan for the extinction; of the German reparations bonds, in exchange for a cancellation of: the French debt to Great Britain, j This plan meets with little; sympathy in England, because it i is contended these German bonds, j being admittedly worthless. Great1 Britain would gain nothing, but by. forgiving the French debt, would j lo'se the last weapon she possesses; for bringing pressure to bear upon France on the question of arma-: ments. or on any policy in which j France might ^run counter to Brit- | ish ideas. The situation is further compli- j cated by the ultimatum France de- j. livered to Germany concerning j Germany's payments on account of! clearing her debts and the' meas-' ures which France already has or- j dered taken in this connection. . 1 Little hope seems to be enter-1 tained here that the conference I will be a successful one, although j it is fully recognized that in view j of the swift fall in the value of the! mark, which threatens to bring j Germany in the wake of Austria! and Russia financially, a situation has been reached in which half- j way measures no longer will be of j avail. ? * 11. v- ' ' - ? Paris. au$. 6": (By the Associat ed Press).?The reparations com-j mission tfyjj a vote of 3 to 1 last \ Thursday rejected a resolution j which would have accorded a mor- j atorium to Germany for the re- ? mainder of the calendar Tear on | reparations.. It also rejected Ger- ? many's offer of payments of 500,-j 000 pounds monthly on balance j of her pre-war debt. A communication to this effect j I was issued tonight by the repara- j tions commission. The resolution.] which would have accorded a mor atorium to Germany and accept ance of Germany's offer of the payment of 50(1,000 pounds month ly on her pre-war debt, was offered by Sir John Bradbury, the Britten delegate. The announcement says the commission has decided to post pone further action until after the j London conference. MAY MAKE TEST CASE IN STRIKEj _ 100 Men Would Return and I Ask Seniority Rights Chicago. Aug. 4.?(By the Asso- j ciated Press.) ? Despite reports j from Washington that the govern- j ment' would take no further action j in the strike of railway shopmen i at the present time, union leaders | and rail executives tonight reiterat- j ed former assertions that the next; move so far as peace is concerned will be up to the government au- ; thorities. B. M. Jewell, head of the strik- j ing shopmep, said tonight he had J no reply to the message to Presi dent Harding in which the union's j accepted the President's proposals for ending the strike after placing ; their own interpretation on the ? propositions. In' union circles most I interest seemed to center in the J President's reply to the acceptance ' of the shop crafts leaders. The railroads with headquarters | centering in Chicago maintained j that transportation conditions were : nearly normal and that new men 1 were being hired and former em- j ploy es were returning t^ work. J The fifth week, of the strike ended tonight with each side apparently prepared to stand firm on the is- j issues involved for an indefinite I period. i There were^/reports today that the shop crafts leaders might or der 100 shopmen back to work and: then have them appeal to the Railroad Labor Board to retain their former seniority rights in or der to make a test case, it being \ pointed out that these shopmen j could not make such an appeal so j long as they were on strike and therefore not employes of the road. Mr. Jewell would not comment on this report. ? Jacksonville. Aug. 7. ? A soft spot '< in the sand of Pablo Beach brought] Lieut. J. H. Dolittle's attempt to hop off to San Diego with single: stop for fuel at San Antonie.?. t ? an ! abrupt end last night. A wing! and the propeller of the plu"e we:*; wrecked. Lieut Dolittle was un- \ injured. It has not been detenu in-, ?>d when another attempt to get away will be uiade. THE TRUE SOTT! NO AGREEMENT IN SENATE ONTARIFF Effort to Bring the Bill to a Final Vote Defeated by Sena tor Lenroot Washington. Aug. 3.?Upset ting plans of Republican and Dem ocratic leaders for a final vote on the administration tariff bill on August 17. Senator Lenroot (Re publican) of Wisconsin gave notice today in the senate there v.-ould be no unanimous agreement for a final vote at least until all important committee amendments to the measure had been discussed and acted upon. The Wisconsin sena tor said he was anxious to limit de bate and proposed an arrangement under which beginning today dis cussion would have been confined exclusively to the tariff with each senator limited to ten minutes' talk on amendments to the bill after August 11.. Senator Lodge of Mas sachusetts, Republican leader, ob jected to this, however, and the effort to come to an understand ing in the open senate ended. Subsequently, however, private negotiations looking to at least a curtailment of discussion were re opened and some, Republicans were of the opinion that these might lead to results. Certain Democratic senators, however, were represented as objecting to limitation of debate until after votes on the sections dealing with duties on sugar and hides. Tl\e Democratic proposal for a final vote on August 19 and the Re publican counter proposition for a vote August 17 led to a long dis cussion during the first "morning hour" the senate has had sine*; tlit tariff bill was taken up. In tho midst of the debate Senator Good ing of Idaho, chairman of the Re publican agricultural tariff bloc in troduced his resolution directing a special committee of five senators to inquire into and report to the senate on: "The financial interests cf sena tors in the wool and shesp in dustries. "The financial interest of Frank A. Munsey in European industries which compete with American in dustries: the amount and percen tage of his income derived from advertisements placed in his news papers by the importing depart-' ment stores which have financed* a campaign of defamation against the pending tariff bill and which will profit by the defeat of the bill. "The number of senators owning or controlling or financially inter ested in newspapers, the amount of revenue obtained by the newspa* pers from importing department stores which will benefit financial ly by the defeat of the pending tariff bill. "The financial interests of all members of the senate or their im- j mediate relatives in any American industry or in any property in any community in the United States which may be affected directly or indirectly either by the passage or defeat of any proposed schedule in. the pending tariff bill." Senator Gooding's resolution was referred to the committee on con tingent expenses. Members of the committee said a report would be made tomorrow but indicated the resolution would be modified. Senators Harrison of Mississippi and Simmons of North Carolina (Democrats) contended that the Gooding resolution seemed to pro pose an investigation of no publi cation other than the Munsey news papers and suggested that the in quiry be extended to all Republican dailies attacking the tariff. Mr. Gooding replied it was intended to apply to all newspapers. Senator Harrison , introduced a resolution declaring that senators interested personally in tariff and other legislation should not par ticipate in senate proceedings on such legislation. He asked for its immediate consideration, but at the recuest of Senator McCumber (Republican) of North Dakota, in charge of the tariff bill, it went over and the senate returned to discussion of the unanimous con sent agree arrangement. Objection by Senator Lenroot to the fixing of a date for a final vote was made after Senator Simmons, for the minority, had agreed to ac cept the Republican substitute date of August 17. Mr. Lenroot explain ed that while he was anxious to j see an end to the consideration of j the tariff bill he could not consent. to any arrangement under which! important amendments might be! acted upon without any discussion at all. He referred particularly t othe proposed flexible tariff pro vision giving the president broad authority over customs duties and to the proposition to giant a sub sidy to potash producers for five years in lieu of tarilt protection. Coal Distribution Plans Perfected Washington. Aug. ?.-The gov ernors of various states were ask ed today by Federal Fuel Dis tributor Spencer to concur in the steps outlined by the federal gov ernment for emergency distribution Of coal. The letters sent to the governors today carried the central committee's plans and forms to be used by state committees in apply ing for emergency coal. FHROX, Established Jene 1, 1S66. VOL. LH. NO. 51 CMP. TOBACCO MARKETS OPEN MONDAY NEXT, Arrangements. Perf: fected to Finance Crop ?Cash Ad vances to Be Made on All Tobacco De livered by Members Raleigh, Aug. 3.?The tobacco growers* cooperative association will open its warehouses to re ceive the tobacco of its members next Monday, August 7th, at ever? South Carolina market, according: to today's announcement from as sociation headquaters at Raleigh./; Cash advances for all tobacco de livered will be paid the gro:s*e? members at the 65 warehouses of the co-operative association. The sales committee of the tobac co growers co-operative association* has arranged with a committee of Suoth Carolina bankers, represent ing the banks which have offered loans to the association, for cash advances on each grade of tobacco / at figures satisfactory to the j.-i-v sociation ofijpials. These advances which the. asso ciation will pay its members for each grade, will be posted at every association warehouse next Mon day, when deliveries begin. That it is freely predict?.-! that the association will secure better prices for its members than- "th">se . indicated-by the loan values placed' upvn the product by the bankers, for the. big co-operative has the ad-, vantage of almost unlimited stor age and redrying plants to pre pare a well graded product in quan tities to meet the demands of the. - trade. A full force of warehousemen; graders ; and book-keepers will be at each'association warehouse in the South Carolina belt to com mence receiving the first deliveries of new tobacco Monday. Receiving points of the association will open only oh Mondays, "Wednesdays and Fridays of each week, in order that proper.attention may .he given Jro each, pile of tobacco, and all mam- . bers be assured of uniform, grad . ing: < ~ ^-.i^- ? L*~JL ; *j. Over 200 applications to join lire marketing association, and - re quests to open the membership,^ books to tobacco growers from all*; parts of South Carohna foHbwedV ? the first day of auction sales which , proved unsatisfactory to many, growers throughout the belt-;- - Although no active campaign of mass meetings like that which recently brought in 3.0ft0 members' .to the association will be "he**, the eo-operativo warehous^rr.-sa set every market ip the belt will con tinue to receive new signers -dur* ing this week. No contracts for this year's j crop will be accepted by the 'asso Iciatiou after the, opening of .its [warehouses next*Monday. Fai*m j ers are strongly urged not to rash, ' their deliveries tor the co-operative markets and not "to bring tobacco ? in soft order. Dissatisfaction .with the - opeuirigt sales oh the auction floors and tire application of hundreds of growers to join the marketing association indicates anothert landslide to the co-operatives during the next vm> ? days like that which took place July 31st when the active cam paign f or signers closed. President George A. Norwood\f&t :$. the association.:.who came direct^ from South Carolina to Raleigh headquarters today, predicted that close to a thousand more^tobitcco growers would join the association during the two days which remain for them to sign. * COLUMBIA NOW INTERESTED IN STATE F?IB (Columbia State. Aug. 5.) ? ! Decision to call a general naassv; j meeting for next Tuesday nlgSj: I the Columbia theater in an. effort% to raise sufecient funds to guar ! antee the state fair association sup I port in it's plan, for a greater fair* \ was reached at a meeting of rep resentatives of all the civic bodies of Columbia last nignt at the chamber of commerce. The meeting will be held at 8:30 o'clock and the-50 odd mer. j present last night pledged them I selves each to have five additional j men present, Tuesday, which alone i will guarantee a crowd of nearly* 300. but many more are expectec, for the call is urgent. It means either the state fa'r will remain in ** Columbia or will go to some other town. This was brought out forci bly last night. The fair association ? is not .pulling a joker, but-on the other hand has a royal flush and . will go to Sumter. Greenville or some other city that has made an ; attractive offer for the fair. 3?R. M. i Cooper. Jr., president of the as sociation, frankly told the meeting'* last night that Columbia wasw not. behind the fair as the city should be and several other speakers handled the matter with gloves pfC.^* pointing to the fact that Columbia^ had never done anything for the fair, and nonx* when only $25,0'>0 is asked the city falls flat. Hong Kottg, Aug. 7.?The casual ties in the typhoon, and tidal "Save which last Wednesday swept Sol tow, 250 miles north of here, kre now estimated at ten thousand.