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TBE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Est CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2, ELIGIBLE FOR CITIZENSHIP United States Su preme Court De cides Xjong Pending Case of Japanese Asking for Natural ization Washington, Nov. 13.?Japanese ran not be-naturalized in the Unit ed States and can not become citi zens of this country, the supreme court of the United States decided today in its first construction of federal statutes bearing m on the ! subject. The decision was the first delivered by Justice Sutherland as a member of the court and was handed dowp in a case brought by Takao Ozawa, who in 1914 applied for citizenship in Hawaii. The ruling is expected to attract wide attention not only in the United States but abroad, notwith standing the failure of the court to make any reference to its diplo matic significance. The case has been long^pending in the supreme court and last term when reach ed for argument during the con ference on limitation of armament and Far Eastern questions its conT sideration was postponed at the request of the department of jus tice. No reference is to be found in the decision ot the "gentle men's agreement," under which Japanese immigration into the country has been regulated. In the Ozawa case the court stated that "there is not implied ?either in the legislation or in our interpretation of it?any sugges tion of individual unworthiness or racial inferiority. These consider ations are In no manner involved." "It also referred to the "com plimentary" terms used in describ ing in the. papers presented to the court "the culture and enlighten ment of the Japanese people." With such an estimate the court said it had "no reason to dis agree.' Such matters, however, Justice Sutherland stated, could not enter into the decision of the case. "We have no tunction- lit the- mat ter," he said, "other than ascer tain the will of congress and de clare it." The two questions decided by the court were whether the general nat uralization act of June 29, 1906, was limited by the provisions of Section 2169 of the revised statutes authorizing the naturalization of free white persons and those of African birth and descent, and whether, if so limited, Japanese were eligible to naturalization. In an exhaustive analysis of the leg islation the court held that Sec tion 2169 was in full force, and that under it Japanese could not obtain citizenship in this coun try. The court stated that "in all of . the naturalization acts from 1790 to 1906 the privilege of natural ization was confined to white per sons, (with the addition in 1870 of those of African nativity and des cent, although the exact wording of various statutes was not al ways the same. "If congress in 1906," it added, '.'desired to alter a rule so well and so long established it may be assumed that its purpose would have been definitely disclosed and its legislation to that effect put in unmistakable terms." Declaring that it is duty of the court **to give effect to the intent of congress," the opinion proceeded to determine the "intent" by giving the words their natural significance. In passing on the long establish ed policy of congress to restrict naturalization under Section 2169 the court found it "inconceivable that a rule in force from the be ginning of the government a part of our history as well as our law, welded into the structure of our national policy by a century of legislative and administrative acts und judicial decisions, would have been deprived of its-force in such a dubious and casual fashion." Having sustained Section 2169 the court then proceeded to discuss whether Japanese are free white persons" within the meaning of the statute. It was the meaning, the court held, "to'confer the privilege of citizenship on that class of per sons whom the fathers knew as v/hite and to deny it to all who could not be so classified. "It is not enough," it added, "to say that the framers (of the law) did not have in mind the brown or yellow races of Asia. It is neces sary to go farther and he able to say that had these particular races been suggested the language of the act would hve been so varied as to include them within its provis ions .. .. If it be assumed that the opinion of the framers was that the only persons who would fall outside the designations ?white' were negroes and Indians this would go no farther than to demonstrate their lack of sufficient information to enable to foresee precisely who would be excluded by that term in the subsequent ad ministration of the statute." Having ascertained whom "con gress intended to include, "it fol lows," the court added, as a nec essary corallary "that all others are to be excluded." If you ever talk back to your wife don't let her hear you. ablished April, 1850. 1881._ GERMAN CABINET i RESIGNS Chancellor W i r t h Gives Up the Fight Against Unfavor able Conditions Berlin. Nov. 14 (By the Asso ciated Press).?=The cabinet of Chancellor Wirth resigned tonight after the United Socialists had vot ed not to participate in a coali tion ministry which included mem bers of the German People's party. Dr. Joseph Wirth has been chancellor of Germany since May 10. 1921, when he took the head of the government on the resigna tion of Konstantin Fehrenbach. The Wirth cabinet tendered its resig nation October 22, 1921, but was reformed with a new personnel, headed by Wirth, two days later.] For some time Dr. Wirth faced troublous times owing to his min istry's program with regard to rep arations, the stabilization of the mark and Che general economic and internal and external ques tions, to'which the opposition par ties in the reichstag objected. A reorganization of the cabinet had been in contemplation for sev eral weeks, but the stumbling block was encountered in obtaining a working arrangement between the Socialists and the People's party. President Ebert last Fri day authorized the chancellor to en ter into immediate negotiations with the leaders of the various par ties in the reichstag with* the pur pose of inaugurating steps for the early reorganization of the cabi net. The action of the president was in accordance with Dr. Wirth's desire to extend the basis of his coalition ministry, with a view to increasing its parliamentary pres tige. The authorization has been deferred until the reparations com mission had concluded its inquiry into the Qerman situation in Ber lin last week. Late in October the reichstag voted a recess of two weeks in or- j der that the chancellor might ad just^ the .differences between the members of the cabinet regarding the adoption of measures calculat ed to prevent a further slump in the mark and to straighten out other matters which presaged a crisis. The United Socialists had openly expressed their impatience with the other coalition parties in connec tion with their attitude relative to financial and economic problems, especially the grain requisition bill and the government's failure to adopt prompt measures to curb speculation in the dollar. Some of the liberaV newspapers professed to see in the attitude ,of the radi cals an unmistakable indication of a **tired feeling" on the part of the Socialists and an obvious desire . to withdraw from < the coalition with the purpose of reentering the reichstag arena as an opposition factor. On Monday the Serial Demo cratic party addressed a letter to Chancellor Wirth declaring the sta bilization of the mark was the most urgent question of German policy and that the party would partici pate in a new cabinet only if it energetically pursued such a pol icy. A dispatch from Berlin said the fate of the Wirth government seemed to depend on the chancel lor's ability to effect an early re conciliation between '? the United Socialists and the German People's party by inducing the latter to make a specific declaration of its attitude on the stabilization pro gram demanded by the radicals. Berlin. Nov. 15. ? President Ebert today faced the task of nam ing a new German cabinet. The Wirth cabinet resigned after the United Socialists refused to partici pate in a coalition ministry with the peoples' party members. Among the solutions of the difficult situation seemingly most favored was one for a cabinet of business men unaffiliated with any party. Recognition of Jefferson Davis j?ntil Facts Are Generally Known, True History of South Cannot Be Written Birmingham. Nov. 15.?Unless Jefferson Davis receives proper recognition the history of the south will never be correctly told, Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler, president general, told the Daugh ters of the Confederacy, in her an nual report to the convention here today. She said it is hoped his life and letters of Jefferson Davis, now being published, will establish him in his rightful place before the world. The statement was made in urging the completion of the mon ument at Fairview, Kentucky. Great progress has been made to establish the Jefferson Davis high way, she reported, calling it the (greatest memorial any organization ! had ever built. She recommend I ed that short and concise defintion I of the war between the states be adopted so that the term civil war I will fall into disuse. Only smoke nuisance now is how to make a smoke. "Be Just and Fear RAILROAD i RATES NEED REVISION - ! Secretary ^Hoover Will, Bring Matter to At-} tention of Congress With Request For Legislation Washington, Nov. 14.?Need for a reconstruction of the railroad rate structure of the country?in some cases with upward readjust ments?will be brought to the at tention of congress by Secretary Hoover, it is understood, in his 'forthcoming annual report. Some relief both to the railways and to the farmers in the secretary's view, may be obtained through such a reorganization. Mr. Hoover's report, according to drafts already completed, is! planned to present a comprehen- ! sive discussion of the national transportation, car shortage, reg ulations, weaknesses in the trans portation act, rates, and labor reg ulation. Losses through short transpor tation, Mr. Hoover finds, are a tax upon the community, stifling pro-1 duction, introducing speculation and disturbing price levels. De spite the lack of equipment, he maintains American railroad man agement is the most efficient in the world insofar as it is not limited by uncontrollable circumstances. Regulation in some form is nec essary, he contends, but construc tive development of this regula tion?to preserve the initiative of railway executives and at the same time to secure* public protection and assure adequate service?are vital and not necessarily incom-j patible. t "Nationalization would be a so cial and economic disaster," drafts; of the report say. "Free opera- j tion would reconstruct the vicious! practices of 30 years- ago. The present transportation act possess- j es many constructive features and j some weakness. It was the result of compromises in many particu lars, and these very compromises are some of its weakest points." Failure of. the carriers to earn ] the amounts provided under the} act as a fair return, Mr. Hoover I asserts, disproves the "current fic-! tion'' that earnings are "guaran- j teed" while the recapture provision whereby earnings above 6 per cent i would be turned over to the gov ernment to be loaned to railroads would not seem to extend to those} "anaemic carriers who are unable [ to give the government the color of assurance of repayment through! their own ability to produce earn-j ings." Consolidation, however, he suggests might solve the problem, j Rates according to the report are j a "vivid question" in the trans-j I portation situation. Wage.control and strike preven- j tion phases of the act are consid ered unsatisfactory by Mr. Hoover on the ground that failure of the local adjustment boards for1 direct contact between employers and em- I ployes has thrust all labor disputes i upon the Railroad Labor Board, re- j suiting in practically government! fixing of all wages and conditions! of laFor. "There can be no question," the report says, "that action in some direction is imperative, if indus try and commerce are not to be further strangled by a shortage in transportation." Negro Better Off In Days of Slavery Chattanooga, Nov. 13.?That the negro slaves of the Southern plant er in the days before the Confed erate war were better fed and bet ter nourished than the average white person of today and that the negro was better off physically in bondage than he is at present was the statement made by Dr. Seale E. Harris of Birmingham, Ala., president of the Southern Medical association, in his address opening the 16th annual convention of the association here tonight. More than 2,000 delegates are lready in attendance. Dr. Harris, whose subject. "Facts About Food and Nutrition the Pub lic Should Know," introduced his remarks regarding the diet of the southern slave by stating that, in his opinion there is existent a well ! developed process of physical de j generation among the American people. He stated that the Amer j ican people are the most prosper I ous people on the globe and had. for that reason, "learned to favor their perverted appetites. "Turnip greens and pot liquor." daily dishes of the slave. Dr. Har ris stated, contain the food ele ! ment a majority of American peo J pie need to build up their systems, j Besides Dr. Harris, addresses at ! the opening session included H. H. ; Martin of Savannah. Ga., who out lined a brief history of the asso ciation, and Dr. Hubert A. Royster of Raleigh. N. C, who lectured on ?surgery and "surgical sense." In convention with the medical association are: The National Ma laria committee; the Southern Hos pital association: Southern Asso ciation of Anesthetists: Southern Gastro lOnterological association and the Southern States Associa tion of Railway Surgeons. Not?Let all the ends Thou Airas't Sumter, S. C, Saturda FORECAST OF EXTRA SESSION Congress Called:, To Consider Ship Sub sidy With President Determined to Press For Enactment ????? ! Washington, Nov. 14.?Possible j addition of railroad legislation to( the ship subsidy and other admin-, istration measures on the program j for the coming winter in congress was indicated today by White House developments. President Harding was said to have told White House callers that he intended to press the ship sub- -j sidy bill strongly in the house next j week and also through the senate | and this in the face of discourag- , ing reports from Republican con-1 gressional leaders. The president also made an appointment with j Chairman Cummins of the senate interstate commerce committee to take! up in a few days the ques tion of railroad legislation. Amend-' ment of the Esch-Cummins Jaw to j strengthen the railway board. p?s-,j sibly by giving it powers.to enforce) orders upon railroad officials a/id | employees, was reported under i contemplation. The president today made par tial plans for the opening next Monday of the extra session of congress. His opening message, which probably will be in the form of a personal address at a joi;it session next Tuesday, will be. very brief, it was said, and will be de voted principally to the ship sub sidy bill. The opening address j also is expected to urge speedy dis- 1 position of appropriation bills With a view to a clean up of all press ing business by March 3 next and avoidance of an extra session next j spring of the newly elected Soa gress. The president, it was stated offi cially at the White House intends the house to take up the ship sub sidy bill immediately during the two weeks of the extra session preceding the regular December session and requests will be made of the rules committee next week for a special rule to hasten the house vote on the measure. It is believed the president will also in his message next Tuesday submit later recommendations on other subjects. He*4s required under the law to submit the annual budget to congress at the opening of the De cember session and this may be the vehicle for other legislation. Increasing difficulties for the ship subsidy bill are reported by return ing Republicans. The president was said to have been told today . by prominent Republican leaders that : there was little, if any chance, of enactment cf the measure by March 3. The executive, however, was said to feel that he was in duty bound, with his knowledge of the Euro pean and domestic shipping sit uation, to press the bill with all possible vigor. The .administration was said to hope that modifications might ral j ly sufficient support to the bill in j the senate to remove some of the objections. One of the modifica tions reported in contemplation is a limitation upon profits of ship operators receiving government aid, a provision similar to the rail i road earning clause of the trans portation act. Reorganization of government departments is another subject of uncertain status in the legislative I program for the winter. While the president has been planning to present recommendations of the legislative commission on depart mental reorganization to the con gress soon after it convenes there is a possibility of delay. In addi tion to the administration pro gram for the winter there are pros pective demands from the farm group in both senate and house for initiation of farmers' credit legis lation to provide short term loans for agriculturalists. This, with many other group and industrial legislative demands, appears as factor in the possible development of a legislative jam which can not be cleared during the coming short session. Armour Confers With Federal Officials Announcement of a Merger of Packing Industries Ex pected Soon Washington. Nov. 15.?J. Ogden .Armour has conferred with feder al officials about the packing in dustry. It was indicated that some announcement of a merger of the packing interests would be made soon. Dinner for Mr. McLeod. Columbia. Nov. 14.?Plans for a dinner in honor of Thomas G. Mc Leod. to be given the night after his inauguration as governor of South Carolina. to which every Woflford alumnus and ex-student in the state will be invited, were made at a meeting of Wofford alumni here tonight. The governor-elect is a graduate of ?Vofford. The pessimist is never surprised when he Is disappointed. at be thy Country's, Thy God's and y, November 18, 1922 CRIME WAVES FOLLOW THE I EARTHQUAKE 'Banditry and Disor ders in Earthquake Wrecked Regions of ? Chile May Necessi tate Martial Law I Santiago, Nov. 14.?Reports of banditry and disorder in the j earthquake district today caused I the Chilean government to consid 1 er the advisability of sending j troops to the stricken provinces. The indications are that the ca lamity has reached appalling pro I portions. Banditry has broken out ' in Vallenar, the chief sufferer from i the earthquake, where estimates l say one thousand perished. Reports * of robberies and holdups came I from other places. Arrival of war 1 ships in northern ports brought ! dispatches from places previously uhreported. The total of deaths jis now estimated at between 1,500 j and 2,000. MORE QUAKES I IN CHILE I Santiago, Nov. 14.?Laserena, j one of the cities severely stricken by last Saturday's earthquake, was [again shaken last night, according to telegrams received here. Con stitution was also shaken. The town of Carrizal is reported to have disappeared, although no mention was made of deaths. The extent j of the casualties by earthquakes land tidal waves of three days ago j is still uncertain. Six hundred bodies have been recovered from tile ruins of Vallenar. After being j identified all were buried. TOWN OF FERIRINA RUINED BY QUAKE Valparaiso, Nov. 14.?Feririna is virtually ruined with scores of dead as the result of Saturday's earthquake, according to a wire less message from a warship. D. A. R. MEETING AT SPARTANBURG _ i President General of National Body Speak? j Spartan?, urg, Nov. 14. ?The j twenty-sixth annual conference of I the South Carolina Daughters of jthe American Revolution opened Jhere this evening with the formal j meeting in the chapel of Converse i College, followed by a reception in I honor of the visiting officers and I delegates largely attended. The in teresting program of the initial meeting of the conference opened with entrance of costumed pages bearing the flags of the nation and jthe state in advance of the officers [and guests to the platform. Fot i lowing the invocation by Rev. W. |H. K. Pendletor., rector of the I Church of the Advent, an "Apos trophe to the Flag, of the Nation" -by Mrs. George Buist of Greenville and a reading. "Carolina," by Miss McBreyer,, of Greenville, preceded jthe formal addresses of welcome ! and responses. The delegates were welcomed to iSpartanburg by Mrs. E. F. Bell, re gent of Cowpens Chapter, who pre Isented Dr.. H. N. Snyder, president I of Wofford College, whose address Iwas responded to by Mr. W. G. ?Peterkin of Fort Motte, Mrs. George j Maynard Minor of Washington, president general of the national (Society of the D. A. R. and Mrs. L. IL. Hunter of Washington, treasur ! er general. Greeting from the American Le gion Auxiliary of South Carolina were brought to the convention by Mrs. James A. Cathcart of Colum bia, president of that organization. The annual report of the state regent, Mrs. Franklin Clark Cain, of St. Matthews, reviewed the work of the organization during the year and stressed the interest of the j Daughters of the American Revolu ! tion in the movement to secure j federal recognition of the Cowpens ! battleground by the erection of a suitable memorial. The reguar sessions of the con vention will be held in the parish ! house of the Church of the Advent, i continuing through tomorrow and I Thursday. A feature of tomorrow's i program will be a visit to Cowpens j battleground fifteen miles north i east of Spartanburg. where histor j ical addresses will be delivered. * ? ? j Turkish Demands Not Satisfactory To British _ I French and Italian Govern ments Are So Notified London. Nov. IT?.?The British l foreign office has notified the ? French and Italian governments ? that the main Turkish demands tc ' come before the Lausanne confer ence are regarded as unfavorable by British, according to a state ment in authoritative quarters. Constantinople. Nov. 15.?The Turkish Nationalists have given the allies formal assurance that the stipulations of the Mudania ar mistice agreement will be respect ed. Truth's." IRISH WOMAN ARRESTED IN WASHINGTON Widow of Lord Mayor MacSwiney of Cork Leader of Band of ! Picketers at British Embassy Washington, Nov. 14?Mrs. Mu riel MacSwiney, widow of Terence MacSwiney, the lord mayor of Cork, who died in prison on a hunger strike and two others of nine women arrested for picketing the British embassy today elected to remain in the House of Deten tion overnight and refused bond for their appearance at a hearing before a United States commis sioner tomorrow. The other six accepted bond furnished by Thom as W. Lyons, national secretary of the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, of which the women are members.' Remaining with Mrs. MacSwiney were Mrs. Mary Ann Nolan of Jacksonville, Fla., who is over .80 years of age, and Miss Minnie Kearney. i The arrests were made soon after the women started their demon stration in protest at the detention of Miss Mary MacSwiney, sister of Terence, who Is a prisoner of the Irish Free State. The police in taking them, into custody acted un der a federal statute by order of; United States District Attorney Gordon after'they had been issued a warning against picketing the embassy. The women refused to heed the warning, however, and armed with banners protesting the imprisonment of Miss Mary Mac Swiney, marched to the embassy on Connecticut avenue, where they were arrested and taken to head quarters ? where bail was fixed at $500 tach. The arrests were made without commotion, the women laughing and chatting with the police who seized the banners while a number of newspaper men who had been informed in advance of the' pro posed demonstrations, looked on as p'ract icai ly'ThV "only* witriessesT 7u st before entermg police headquar ters. Mrs. MacSwiney succeeded in calling a halt and beiijg photo graphed with the banners waving overhead. Mrs. MacSwiney was garbed in black and bore a banner which read: "England murdered my husband, Terence MacSwiney. Will Ameri cans permit the English Free State to murder his sister, Mary Mac Swiney?" Other banners read: "English efficiency, Terence Mac Swiney killed in 74 days. Mary MacSwiney ? ? days " "The Free State is England's smoke screen." "Will America permit England to murder another MacSwiney?" All the women arrested with the exception of Mrs. MacSwiney ^and Mrs. Nolan gave their addresses as Washington. They were Miss Kear ney, Mrs. Bessie Quinlan, Mrs. Sa rah M. Ruhlin, Mrs. Claudia Geary. Miss Louise Manning, Mrs. Mary E. Balhus and Miss Nora Hennigan. Mrs. Nolan was arrested in a suf frage demonstration here several years ago and, refusing bail, was held in jail several days Naval Measure Moving Along No Effort to Cut Enlisted Per sonnel Below 86,000 . Washington, Nov. 14.?Judged by the headway made today by the house subcommittee on appropria tions which will frame it next year's navy budget will sail through unruffled seas. There was no indication at the close of the first hearing behind closed doors of another fight like that which marked the passage of the bill last spring. The navy de partment, the budget bureau and Chairman Kelly, of the subcommit tee, conducting the hearing, were in full accord on the enlisted per sonnel 86.000 and the same num ber of ships as are now in com mission. The construction program will continue and the question of scrapping holds over until all the powers have ratified the naval treaty. It was understood the total ap propriation asked for would be in excess of $398,000,000 shown on the face of the last bill, principally because there was an expended bal ance on hand of $40,000,000 July 1. due to the cessation of con struction at the time of the arms conference. This $46.000,000 was not shown in the appropriation bill as having been made available for the present fiscal year. Whatever new construction funds are pro vided in the bill for the next year will be an actual outlay of the cash. London. Nov. 15.?British voters swarmed to the polls today to elect the fourth parliament of the reign of the present King George. Fore casters- still regard the results as uncertain, although Premier Bo nar Law asserted in his closing speech that he expected his party to gain a working majority. THE TRUE SOU AUTOMATIC AIRSHIP I "Mechanical Pilot" Takes Place of Man in Airplane Washington, Nov. 14.?Develop I ment of an automatically. con : trolled airplane, which has been flown successfully in flights of more than ninety miles without a living person aboard, was announced here today by the army air service, following a lopf series of experi ments. x I Declaring the invention constitut ; ed "the most important post-war development of the many novel ideas of new engines of war," the , statement added that the experi i ments conducted had shown it to i be possible "to shoot" bomb-lad en planes, without pilots, as tar gets on or off the ground with astounding accuracy. Tests of this automatic pilot, ac cording to the statement, hun dreds of take-offs have been suc cessfully accomplished, and nu merous flights of ninety miles and more have been made, from which results it has been determined that the mechanical pilot will operate under any kind of weather condi tions and will hold the plane on an absolutely true course, regardless of fog or other adverse conditions, keeping it steadier than could a human hand. ; A small machine has been used in the tests, one having a wing span of. twenty-feet, a sixty-horse pow er motor ,and capable of. carrying a useful load of 250 pounds. The "pilot," however, it was announc ed, can be mounted in any type of plane made. With the limited gasoline supply of the test plane, sufficient for: two and one-half hours, in the experiments the con trol machinery held fast to its I course until the fuel was exhaust-, ed, except for the natural devia tions, due to shifting air currents, it was declared A wide field of. usefulness for the pilotless airplane in . military oper ations was predicted by air service officers. Slow Election Returns County Election Commission ! ers Have Not Forwarded [ i Reports to Board of j Canvassers I Columbia, Nov. 15.?Whether South Carolina went Democratic in the election of last week is as jyet a matter of legal uncertainty, [though it is taken by all South I Carolinians that it did. However, the results of the election have j never been declared?in fact, they ' have never been reported. The law ..requires that the board of election J ! canvassers meet within two weeks j after the election and declare the j result, and while the board will meet next Tuesday, the last day .on which it can meet, there will j hardly be full returns in by that j time. As yet only a half dozen |coun!ies have reported. I The board of canvassers is com j posed of the secretary of state, the j attorney general, the state treas j urer, the comptroller general, and the chairman of the state senate i committee on elections. This com ! mittee will meet next Tuesday, but I if the returns are not all in from j the counties, it will adjourn, to j meet later at the call of the secre i tary of state, who is the chair man. The most important item of the i election, so far as the election de j cisions go, are the proposed con-1 jstitutional amendments to the state ] constitution. There were thirteen ?voted on. It is presumed that j they all carried, but it will be sev jeral days before the result is cer jtain. Most of these amendments I were to raise the bond debt limit in school districts, though one was I to empower the town of Greer, in [ Greenville county, to assess abut-j ting property for street improve-1 ments. and another would empower j the county of Beaufort to assess property for road improvements. The title of the act, providing for. {the vote on the Beaufort amend i ment. did not specify that the act was for the one county alone, and there was some fear that voters i might think it a state-wide meas-1 ure a nd vote on it according to I their own feelings, whereas it af J fected only free-holders in the one' county. The verdict of the jury of in quest in the case of Henry Smith, colored, who died Monday morn ing after having been knocked down on the street Sunday night by an automobile, was that Smith: came to his death from heart dis ease, superinduced by alcoholism; and shock. The autopsy perform ed by Dr. S. W. Burgess disclosed the fact that Smith had a serious organic heart trouble?the heart being tremendously enlarged, fcmith was very drunk when the! accident occurred and when taken to thp hospital was in a stupor. Dr. Rurgess lound a large bruise j on the thigh and a small bruise onj the forehead, but no bones were | broken. 7 nere were no indications of internal injury, and superficial bruises could not have caused! death. THRON, Established Jone 1, 186?; VOL. LIIL NO, 28 WORRY OVER DEBTS CAUSE OF SUICIDE . . fa Charles H. Barron Left Note Saying Insurance Was Only Way to Pay Wfr?t He Owed Columbia, Nov. 14.-r-Leaving.' a note beside him saying tha.t ~my life insurance is the only way I carT pay those I owe," and that "I hsve: cone my-best," Charles H. Bar-, ron, Columbia lawyer, and finan cier, about 1 o'clock this after noon sent a bullet crashing through his brain which snuffed out a life brilliant with achievement; during its short forty-two years. The deceased selected as his death couch a pine carpeted thick et; fringing the placid waters of'a sylvan pond owned by him four,", miles north of the city where he . and his friends were wont to be* ^ sport themselves with fishing,, bathing and dancing in the days ? that are gone. J. H. Lee, caretaker of the frond, and surrounding preserve, saw Mr. Barron in his death throes imme diately following the crack of the ? revolver that sped its deadly mis sile!. Shortly before noon, according to the'lime estimate of Mr. Lee, '< Mr.. Barron passed the Lee , residence l alone in his automobile, and waved his hand to J. W. Lee, son of'the-' caretaker, and went down toward^, the pond: Mr. Lee said that, when he tame to his house for dinner^ his children told him that Mr. Bar ron had gone to the pond. When he .'finished eating and . resting, about an?llour, he thinks^ after;:Mr*P Barron ^.appeared;- Mr. Lee jwent. to the pond to have a talk with him. He said that as he approached the club bouse he saw Mr. Barron tb the. right, ju^it beyond u ,small green, outhouse sitting , in. his shirt sleeves: beneath a small pine tree. He did hot know if Mr. Barron saw him:.* Just as the green outhouse obscured the range of his vision, he said, he heard the sharp report ^^T^u^^e^^^iJl^rrie^ around "jterking, his arms quavering, ahd th*6 blood r gufchin? from his ear/* He immediateiy hurried for help. When y^ei?re^ shortly afterwards, the: body was lying on the back; with*the leg3 stretched out ??d the arms-thrown to the side. To .the left of the body- midway between the hip and the knee and near the left hand, wa& a .32 calibre fij^ volver, loa^ed^with new cartridges^ and one empty shell. The bullet which caused.death entered the left ear. - Mr. Barron say his- friends, was v a mbldextrous. About three feet from the body ( was the coat of the deceased with his hat resting on it. In the hat was the note and over the hat was spread a: handkerchief. This 'not in reality thiree separate notes, was vTitten on the back of a used let ter-sheet -and the handwriting and signature have been identified by; associates as that of Mr. Barron. The note read as follows: - "11-14-2*. My life insurance is the bnljiway I have to pay those I owe, I have done my best. (Signed) "Chas. H. Barron.". Be . s?re^ahd get return .prem iums on policies less than, a jyear old.- %I (Signed) "C. H. B." ''Please ask my good fri<tmd J-'E. Belser to have my loyal friend and partner,' J. Nelson Frierson, aTp> pointed administrator. My estate is solely liable for the firm debts, as alii others ? were on a salary basis and know nothing of my trouble of. the condition of financies. - - ^ (Signed) -"Chas H. Barron.". ? According to the best available ! information to be obtained tonight. Mr. Barroft has approximately , $150,000 in life insurance. Judging from the note left by him some of the policies" are of recent date and contain the anti-suicide clause . stopping- payment. No estimate i could be made of Mr. Barron's in- * debtedness. ? The note was given out tonight ' by one of Mr. Barron's law Npart-: ner, X kelson Frierson. whom it requests, to be appointed as ad ministrator to wind up the estate. VALLENAR VALLEY A TOTAL WRECK Santiago, Nov. 15.?Scarcely a single house remains standing in Vallenar valley, northern Chile, as a result of . the earthquake and tidal , waves of Saturday. Fifteen hundred are reported dead in Atcahia and Coquimbo provinces, and this death toll is expected to be increased. Martial law has been declared. Soldiers are patrolling the strick en towns. The latest reports from Villenar^ say thirteen were killed or injured there and many villages near Copiapo were destroyed. A newspaper correspondent reaching Cop?ipo say that shocks were felt there from Friday to Monday. Friday night a light like flames il luminated the eastern sky. Many a man who hasn't time to vote has'time to cuss Congress. A cook tells us the most misun derstood thing is a prune.