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a,859,900,000 CIGARETTES MADE IN UNITED STATES Qi Number 46,000,000 Were Consumed At Home; Balance Were Exported Washington, D. C., Aug. 20.?Cigarettes numbering 61,859,^00,000 v were manufactured in the^ United States last year, the census bureau's annnal tobacco report issued todaji shows. Of that number 15,934,000,000 were reported, leaving about 46800,000,000 factory made cigarettes Gfti consumption in'the United States, Cigars manufactured numbered 8,720,754,000, and tobacco manufactured, including chewing and ^smok ing and snuff, totalled 413,891,00C ponndf. The year's crop of tobacco amounted to 1,508,064,000 pounds, growi tax 1,894,000 acres. Leaf tobacco, and tobacco products imports were valued at $98,562,000. Revenues' collected on tobacco,. $iCars* cigarettes and snuff amounted tor $294,000,000 of which North Carolina contributed $108,447,000 New York $46,663,000; Virginia $207*1,000; Pennsylvania $20,185,000; y: . New Jersey $18,742,006; Ohio $15,V . N v 154,000, and Missouri $12,319,000. 4 . . ' . ' TAX BILL PASSES . i .-j. i . y Inriiion Meuure To Save Taxpayers $8>8,000,000. Washington? Aug. 20.?The tas revision bill of 1921, estimated to cat $818,000,000 from the nation's tax burden by 1923, was passed late today by the House, 374 to 125, on t , an almost straight party vote. Three Democrats supported A the measure and nine Republicans voted against it. , Compared with this, number of Republicans were 50 who voted for a Democratic motion to recommit the kiH for elimination of the provision repealing the income sur-tax rates above 32 per cent. This /{notion was lost, 169 to 230, with one Democrat Campbell, of Pennsylvania, voting r ^ftuuc aim The bill will be sent Monday to the p iSenate, where it will be taken tip fty.' . after the end of the f&cess.on Septem:r; her 21. Meantime the Senate .Finance | Committee will hold additional pubfie hearings on th^i whole tax question and probably Revise the measure in a number otr details. As finally *; faoed by the House,-with nearly 100 j .. cMamittee amendments, the bill ' is Mtbnated to produce a total of $3,147,001,000 revenue this fiscal, year, mr $221,000,000 less than the estimate under the existing law. ? i' ' |} i. Blodutders Kill Sheriff* . I ( Mutphy, -N. C., Aug. 20?Two depot& sheriffs were killed and another Kzmusly wounded in a pitched battle with blockaders at Kesselburg on Notla River, near, here, / Hot night. Meager details received Sere bore the information that the rfii c i n were endeavoring to arrest TMinffTriners when the latter opened fin with rifles. The men escaped. : WANTS I - 1 WtWL SALE?Dodge Touring car, in food condition. New batteries. " TKs ia a bargain. Apply at Press and Banner office. 8, 19.4tcol. FOR SALE OR RENT?Modern six mom dwelling in Due West, with electric lights, on three quarter acre corner lot with Brood car den ; aad oflcfcard, within two hundred yards of Erskine College grounds. Will trade or sell on good terms. ?. Y. Brownlee, Due West, S. C. 9, 22-4tcol. i ' WANTED?The housekeepers tc know that the curb market is the place to buy the freshest vegetables, the best eggs and^the fattesl chickens at the cheapest price. Op en in store room next door to Eu reka hotel at 9 o'clock every Tues ^ day morning. Demonstration Clul Council. 8, 12-3tcol TOR SALE?Six* room house ox Church street. Electric lights water and sewerage. Extra larg< W. See Dr. Neuffer. 8-3 c FOR SALE?Best quality cream a1 SO cents a pint, also fresh eggs Phone 1. Mrs. D. A. Rogers. 4-ltd * t, ' CLEMSON-CARNEGIE GAME i ,1 i May Be Played in Greenwood November the 11. \ There is a possibility if not a very itrong probability of a football game between Clemson and Carnegie Tech . n Greenwood on November 11. i Coach Doc Stewart of Clemson has [ '.vritten to Secretary W. A. Fridy of i the Chamber of Commerce stating r that if 'Carnegie Tech's expenses from . Pittsburgh to Greenwood will be . guaranteed, in all probability the 5 ganjlr can be arranged. Mr. Fridy Iptytes that.it js not thougnt tnat gate . receipts would be large enough to . warrant the guarantee, but football . fans are much interested and hope that the game can be arranged. They point out that fans from the entire . state would come to see the g&Ti\e and l It would mean a big advertisement [ fot the city. [ : Coach Stewart's letter to Secretary FHdy follows: v j "When in Greenwood last week I [ foi&ot to take up with you the sugt gestion that we play a game of foot\ ball in Greenwood. . 1 "Personally, I believe it would very . desirable from fe financial point of vim* Tt. be imnoHsible. how ever; to consider the Furman-Clemson g&me at Greenwood' We are negotiating with Carnegie Tech for a game and there is a possibility that sukji a guarantee as would pay Carnegie Tech expenses from Pittsburg to Greenwood and return might in duce them to play there, oh Novem1 ber 12th. I am taking thitf up with 1 Carnegie Tech officials today. "Carnegie Tech's proposition to us was to play in Pittsburg on November 11th. I have tried to get, the Orangeburg'Fair Manager to change the date of the 'Citadel game^ from November 10th to November 9th, such a change would perm it of our appearing in Pittsburg on November 11th, the date on whicH Carnegje Tech asks for us vin Pittsburg. If this can not be done and the opinion is^that it is too late to get approval of this change then it is possible that Carnegie Tech may agree to come South."??ndex-Journal. / PALESTINE SOON TO HAVE PLENTY FINE SCHOOLS London, Aug. 20.?So comprehensive is the education plan of the government of Palestine that, at the present rate of progress, the whole country will be provided with schools within four years, it is announced here. Since January, 34 new village schools providing elementary education for 1,360 children, have been opened, while 46 state-aided (Schools provided in villages by the inhabitants have been taken over by the gov ernment. An additional 35 schools will be opened during the current financial year, it is announced. Measures also are being taken for the development of the two training colleges for teachers. Teachers are also being appointed to live among ;he Bedouin tribes and teach their children. A central education committee has been formed, consisting of four Moslems, three Jews and three Christians Under the arrangements now in force the people of the villages proTide the buildings and furniture and keep them in repair, while the government pays the salaries of the teachers and otker costs of mainte nance. . / ROUND UP VAGRANTS * Spartanburg, Aug. 21.?This section is overrun with vagrants. Eight were sent to the chaingang yesterday by a local magistrate and two by the recorder. Six or eight are rounded up every day. There is a , lot of caaftreakmg and pettty larceny There is hardly a night that box cars at Hayne are not entered and small stores on the outskirts of the pity are the prey of the wanderers. Yesterday afternoon, while Mrs. J. L. Keller, former school attendance officer, was away from home, some one entered the house and proceeded to eat and carry away all she had cooked. The parties sat at the table and helped themselves to what she had prepared for the family's supper, and then took off what was left except a half cake of butter and a cake of cornbread. A whole pound cake disappeared, as did all the bis t cuit, but tbe cornbread was not . touched. Of the ten rounded up yes-! f t:rday but one was a negro. \ J MANY CHANGES IH TAX MEASURE TO REDUCE LEVY ON CEREAL BEVERAGES AND PLACE FIRE AND MARINE (INSURANCE COMPANIES ON SAME BASIS AS LIFE INSURANCE. Washington, Aug. 20.?Elimination of taxes on proprietary medicines was agreed upon today by the House Ways and Means. Committee, which approved more < than sixty changes in the Republican tax bill. Subsequently, the majority members of the committee voted to reduce the tax on. cereal beverages from the nrouosed six cents a gallon to four cents and to (bring fire and marine insurance companies .tinder the 12 1-2 percent corporation income tax on the same basis as life insurance companies. The majority also approved an amendment exempting from taxation corporation donations made to charity provided they do not exceed four percent of the corporations' net income/ Under another change the proposed five percent manufacturers' tax to be substituted for the so-called luxury ana nuisance utes wuuiu iiuu aypiy on goods already contracted for. These changes in the bill will be taken up tomorrow by the full committee. Meantime, the House went ahead today with consideration of amendments framed yesterday by the majority and approved tyday by the whole committee. f One of the principal amendments approved today iby the whole comr mittee provides for creation of a tax investigating commission which would inquire into the effect upon the. federal revenues . of ,ta$ exempt state and municipal securities, effect of existing differences fin law between the federal taxation of individuals and partnerships and of corporations; the taxation of expenditures and the-reduction of the tax rates upon sayings, as means for raising revenue, stimulating thrift, and redistributing" the burdens of taxation; and the effects of income l ' j and profits taxes, accumulation and ; investment of liquid capitals. The commission would make yearly reports to both the President and I Congress and consist of nine member of the House, appointed by the presiding officer, and three representatives of the public, appointed by the President. Senator New, (Republican, Indiana who offered the amendment, explained that the surplus now in hand from former appropriations together wi% the $25,000,000 of the appropriation in the bill which it is proposed to make immediately available would be sufficient for all improvements plan*?A*t 4-Vift nov4- oiv TMAnflva oif UCU XVI bUO UCAV OlA 1UVUVUO) C*w n'UiVU time $50,000,000, the remainder >f the appropriation carried by the bill would be available. FIND SAFE IN RIVER / ' $60,000 in Bonds and Securities Taken Out. Lake City, Aug. 20.?While in bathing today in Lynch's river at Welch's bridge, about seven miles from the home of S. W. Young, a party of young boys discovered the iron safe containing, it is said $0,000 in liberty bonds and securitiees that was stolen from Mr. Young's home Sunday night. It was hidden under water and only found by one of the boys striking against it. The safe being small, was easily raised to the surface and appeared to have been opened with a cold chisel. All it contained was an account book, a wallet contaaining tax receipts and a bill of sale. The safe was loaded in the rear seat of an automobile and removed to Mr. Young. No clue has been discovered as to the robbers. Can't Find Bergdoll ^JJerne, Switzerland, Aug. 20.? Agents of the American legation here and the Swiss police have been unable to locate Grover Bergdoll, the American draft evader who was reported to have fled to Switzerland from Germany. The police have established that if Bergdoll actually did cross the Swiss frontier he must have done so clandestinely and under an assumed rEigjznmrajiinijmraniri 1] Most An ij w, 1 ? i'?SM I I ^ m \ 1 f Jh wr " J Copyright 1921 H |j It Takes 1 i 4 [ | When you [} satisfaction or i * [} <( We have e: ii & Marx cloth< 1 i! The Rose ij Four Stores Smniannnraiinjiiiaii tVVV V V V W V vv\ \ % V SANTUC \ J . . . > The meeting at Gilgal closed Friday night. The sermons by Rev. C. E. Peelq ware enjoyed by large congregations. i \ Mr. and Mrs. Carl Callahsam and sons, of Spartan/burg, Mrs. John Kay and children and Mrs. M. J. Newell, of Belton, spent Friday night at the home of Mr. M. B. Eay. Miss Willie Ridhey has returned home after a two week's visit to her niece, Mrs. J. R. Haddon. Mrs. Tom Hunter spent a few days this week with her parents, Mir. and Mrs. Joe Afble, and attended services at Gilgal. Mr. and Mrs. John Morrison, of Columlbia, are visiting Mr. W. E. Morrison. The Missionary Society held its regular meeting Friday afternoon with Mrs. J. B. Culbreth. Mr. Miles Morrison left Thursday for a pleasure trip to Columbia and Charleston. Messrs. M. B. and W. F. Kay spent Thursday nght and Friday near Anderson with Mr. and Mrs. Newton Parker. Mr. Carl Sharp left Friday morning^pr North Carolina after a two week s visit here witty relatives. Miss Lyndall Morris on, of Colum-I iigraiamaiziugiEfiararansn! ything Loo HEN IT'S NEX ???MB? %k /_ \ / al f >7 ' if / / H Bj II mm r v art Schaffner & Maa I V ime to Prove Ti / buy clothes fror your Mcmey Bac sclusive sale of h 5S in this city. \ 7 ' v nberg Mcrci Ms figgBgBgftRflgfifBi i>ia, is vetting Miss Lila Morrison. |i Mr. and Mrs. Haddon bad as their guests Friday; Mr. and Mrs. John Morrison, Mrs. Ermie Haddon, Misses Lila and Lynd&ll Morrison and Miss Rosa Lee Bass and little brother. > i Messrs. M. D. Wright and Clarence Kay were business visitors in Donalds Friday. Mr. and Mrs. C. 0. Kay were the guests of Mr. and M?s. J. B. Cultxrebh Sunday. Mrs. John Morrison and Miss Lila ' Morrion were the guedts Thursday afternoon of Miss Lizzie AJble. I STEALERS STEAL STILL i Enterprising Thief Gets Fine Out* I fit in Greenwood ??? 1 In<jex-Journai. * ' With an audacity unheard of in , the history of the county, what offi- ] I cars declared to be the largest still ever captured in Grenewood county, was stolen from the office of the sheriff in the Court House last night, a few hours after its capture on Sa- luda River. Search today by officers ' has proved fruitless and although 1 the county is being scoured, no trace of the still had been found at noon. < The still, a 50-gallon copper outfit, was captured yesterday after- i noon on the Greenwood county side ! of the Saluda river, a short distance < ' i ks Good |! v/ ij : i r~ [l rue Value !j i n us you get a k! jj lart Schaffner h i| isi r I vvnen i gez groweu up, puiu nunc five-year-old Elizabeth one day. "Do you really like him so much?" asked her mother. "Oh, 110," replied Elizabeth. "It isn't that; but he Happens to nice tne same kind of candy I do."?Kansas City Star. I annie to. | my Departments 11 , WziannuafgnnBBtaa above Watts Bridge. Chester Hawkins, a negro, was arrested charged with illicit dietlling. "What are you here for?" Jailer T. W. McMillan asked him this morning. "Makin' , liquor," was the reply. "Were you mixed up with that big copper still they captured yesterday?" he was asked. "Yas suh," Hawkins answered proudly. Twenty gallon of corn liquor Depubarrels were found at the still, all but eleven of which bad been run. Twenty gallons of cor liquor Deputies W. E. Faulkner and D. A. Ppiveq and J. A. Cobb took pait in the raid. It is supposed the still-thieves gained entrance to the sheriff's office through a window and unlocked the doors from the inside. Apparently the still was carried out of the front door of the Count House and boldly hauled away. / A Suitable Match. 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