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JT AUU A n V SHIPPING BOARD IS DEFENDED BY JOHN T. MEEHAN Has Already Investigated Over Two Thousand Charges Against Various Persons; Obtain Six Indictments New York, Nov. 12.?Details of steps taken by the United States Shipping Board to suppress "irregularities" being investigated here by the Walsh congressional committee's hearing today by John T. Meehan, deputy chief of the board's division of investigation. He said that after investigations conducted under his personal supervision, six indictments against alleged transgressors of the law had been obtained, while another half dozen were indicted on evidence obtained through investigations which fco VinH not nersonallv directed. Mr. Meehan said that the twelve indictments had been returned after sifting down something like 2,400 charges against various persons, each of which he declared, had been thoroughly run down and either . verified or disproved. The investigator remarked that his force of assistants which had once consisted of sixty men had been reduced to twenty-four. Afany of the cases investigated Mr. Meehan said involved charges of fraud against contractors preferred by 'citizens desiring to protect the government" or by employes on shipping board vessels. He testified that the first order to reduce his staff came in 1919 and that now, after a succession of cuts, his corps of workers included ten in vestigators. Questioned regarding a complaint said to have been referred to his office concerning a firm of life boat Guilders, the witness referred to records which he said were on file in the offices of his department. These records included a report covering an investigation- of the case by the military and naval Intelligence services with whom he said he had al. ways worked in close harmony. The report he added, showed that the building firm had but "one man who knew anything about boat building," and that because of inferior work turned out boats instructed by it were rejectecf upon delivery. "In 1920," the witness went, on, "we were advised by the military intellimamaa n/??nMA/k 4-V? o + +V*A c-Qmn "firm genet: oci vac iuao uic ooiuc AHUI was buying life boats from the salvage service of the navy at $10 each and reselling them to the. ship>'v ping board for $110.'\ A second cable from the mainland to Vancouver Island is to be laid immediately at a cost of $350,000. / The Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture is experimenting with the manufacture of motor fuel from dried leaves. i j j ,'WHAT MORE CO | j FOR THAN A Sj COMPL I | A beautiful face?a j go 5.HIUU111 \ei\ej-v skiu?arc 33 ed gifts tu womankind. 11 Here you find Uie best $ I \ luelured bv the leading * ; J manufacturers. Toilet ( 1 2 ] fumes. Toilet Waters, L * il I Powders. Toilet Soaps, E 1 ' 1 Ij Austin-Perr (] Phcne 107 RimjunirimirdTdfia^fiatfa V ,U '"i THINKS SILESIA WILL CAUSE BIG EUROPEAN MIXUP Warsaw Newspapers Predicts If Plebiscite Held In Upper Silesia War With Germany Will Result Warsaw, Nov. 12.?The declaration that war between Germany and Poland would be inevitable if the plebiscite to be held upper Silesia gives that region to Germany is made today in the Gazette Porranna in discussing the plebiscite. The newspaper predicts that another wnrlH war would result with France and Belgium joining Poland and Great Britain siding with Germany. It adds: "If England should enter this war it would mean, perhaps the end of Britsh world power." f The newspaper contends that J Great Britain has shown certain I leanings toward Germany in Silesian , affairs and warns Britain to keep her hands off. The date of the plebiscite in Silesia has again been postponed indefi: nitely. Meanwhile unrest in the refgion continues. The Polish miners, factory workers and rural laborers are dissatisfied with the German landlords and capitalists and constant friction is reported. A dispatch from Beuthun today says that the allied authorities seized a carload of German artillery, mine throwers, machine guns and ammunition. The polish mark today reached its lowest figure at 455 to the dollars and some of the newspapers attributed its drop jto Germany influence seeking to injure Polish credit because of its affect on the Silesian Uftfp SAYS STEP-MOTHER WAS \ ? KILLED BY HIS FATHER London, N. H., Nov. ' 13.?An abandoned well on the farm of William B. Whitney, which had been filledi with rock and debris, wps reopened today by county authorites in a search for the body of Whitney's second wife. The search was ordered by founty Solicitor Henry N. Hurd, as a result of a declaration made to. him by John Whitney, 15 year old son of William B. Whitney by a former marriage that he saw his father strike down his stepmnthpr in their home four vears ago take her body to the haymow and later bury it in the well. .W H. Whitney, disappeared from town on October 30, after eight years of residence here in which he gained a reputation as a solid citizen. In his wake came bankruptcy petitions against him, and charges that he had duplicated mortgages on his home. With the departure of the father, his son , John, went to the county authorities with the .story which he said he had kept secret under threat of death by his parent. , BRBfgfggftBBfgBfgJfa ULD ONE WISH jj! BEAUTIFUL | EXION | perfect, complexion?a jfi i nature's most cherish- IE Toilet Articles nianu- S| domestic and foreign -ft breams, Lotions, Per- |jj xtraets. Talcums, Face in Drug Co. | Abbeille, S. C. s ilKfSfeKKKfKRiSRIlS t FRANCE OPPOSES GERMANY 1 COMING INTO LEAGUE NOW Wants to Be Convinced First of Nation's Intentions?Great Britain of Same View 1 Paris, Nov. 13.?The French gov- ] J " VI? J A _ ernment is unanerauiy op^waeu mj uiv admission of Germany to the league j of nations ?*t this time, it was stat- ; ed at the foreign office today. , "Some drastic action" would be : a consequence if the league voted to admit Germany, it was intimated. ; The foreign office said there had '.1 ,be?n conversations with Great Bri- ' tain on the subject, and that the British, who had been inclined to favor German membership in the , league, now had accepted the French , viewpoint, allowing the matter to . rest for the present. t Inasmuch as Germany has not ap- j plied for league membership, it is considered unlikely there will be any effort, with promise of success, to 1 get the assembly in Geneva to act favorably on bhe question of Germany's admission at this time. The French hold that Germany must prove her intention to fulfill the , terms *f the peactf treaty and live peacably with her neighbors before seeing membership, and they con- ( tend there has not 1 yet been time 1 for them to become convinced re- i garding Germany's attitude along i j these lines. , The possibility of the admission of 1 Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, is i regarded *in a different light" by the j j French, who have indicated they are < not opposed to membership for these < nations, as it is considered they have < shown good faith. j ] Have you renewed your subscrip- ] tion? / I \ Woi H i . We are p select fr< J. M. KcSWAIN TELLS OF i DEMAND FOR COTTOti ] - 1 Columbia, Nov. 13.?J. J. McSwain of Greenville, arrive^ in Colombia last night. 1 Mr. McSwain said "there will be a neeting of farmers today (Friday) i it 12 o'clock at Cravon Hall. J. i mi _n TIT 1 Oi. I SKOtiOwe *v annamaner uj. ot. Matthews will arrive in Columbia about noon and will address the farmers.' "Mr. Wannamaker," says Mr. McSwain, "says that he has received telegrams from the state department at Washington to the effect that a Mr. Robertson now in Germany can place 1,000,000 bales of cotton if authorized by the American Cotton association to contract for the delivery of the cotton. Another German firm offers a bonus above the market for 1,000 bales middling," concluded Mr. McSwain. COLD WEATHER STOPS HARDING FROM FISHING Point Isabel,, Tex., Nov. 13.? President-Elect Harding's tarpon fishing was interrupted today by a 3 Simile norther that churned the Point Isabel fishing grounds into a tumbling field of foam and drove th? temperature down to( the shivering point. Deciding to stay ashore ,the senator read and rested during the morning in his 4.1.^ V cunogc uvei-iuuiwug une mguuu, uuw hoped before the day was over to take a motor trip to Brownsville for a game of golf. He expressed keen disappointment that unfavorable weather had overtaken his fishing ventures and said he expected to aret a chance to try his luck once more before he leaves here early next week. Mr. Harding's speech in Brown ' ? \ ARE < nderfi TO THE [oliday i lacing our e om at a discc a ^ Trv m r\ n / AJNUtKM rille yesterday was the only one / Iris engagement list during his sfc lere and he expects to do no woi Defore his departure on other ma :ers awaiting his attention. Mail T O A L f It makes no difTerei maj* be. Courtesy, finai * have in service ancLacct depositors alike. I Of course we are gl we welcome small ones Plante "THE FRII ABBE\ % / \ V '..v OFFERIN ,il Vc Li J. %J . s EARLY ShoPPe I I I ntire stock )unt of 20 j )N COM! HHHnaHBmmmm in beginning to come here for him in fl ly quantities but his secretaries are rk filing most of it away and givingit immediate attention only to most ur is gent letters. * /? 1 . 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