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FINAL COTTC MORE TH/ pwnmisipr? ?raahington, Dec. 13.?The cotton crop this year will amount to 3,899, 403,000 pounds, which is equivalent to 8,340,000 bales of 500 pounds gross, the department of agricultui*e announced today in its final estimate. The average weight per running bale is estimated at 497.9 pounds. The price paid producers Decem ber 1, was 16.2 cents per pound. The estimated production by states, in equivalent'500 pound bales, Virginia 16,000 North Carolina 800,000 South Carolina ? 760,000 Georgia ? 840,000 Florida 13,000 Alabama ? 635,000 Mississippi 870,000 Louisiana ' 295,000 2,200,000 860,000 Missouri 78,000 340,000 530,000 74,000 i 40,000 states 13,000 Placing the Blame. In announcing its final estimate of cotton production for this year, asi bales, which is 1,800,000 more than given in the esti in the season on "persistent! widespread propaganda at plant as to acreage and lack of funds which prevented statis of the government from per inspection ancT^ checking re The crop reporting board, the de-! partment of agriculture announced, "was forced to accept growers' re ports of acreage reductions, which were based by propaganda and gen believed." a statement issued with the estimate today, the de of agriculture said: "The December cotton report, fore a total crop of 8,340,000 is much in excess of earlier es ? : r, . ?. ' Fr ?. Abbeville SouthFCarolii I. i] t Realizing night[|our: Christmas.! )N FIGURES KN EXPECTEi , i . ' I! 1 ' w ' pjj ' * '1 ! timatos during the growing seas It may be well, therefore, to expl the principal factors which acco' for the difference between the ea promise and the last estimate. Acreage. 1. Persistent and widespread p paganda at planting time for a duction in cotton acreage of from to 50 per cent as compared with IS 2. Propaganda supported by lai carryover from previous season, 1 prices below cost of production 1920, reduced foreign consumpt and demand with great financial 1 to growers in 1920, and lack of cr it at planting time. 3. Acreage reduction reported planting time by growers affected propaganda. 4. Lack of travel funds preve ed statisticians of the bureau fri personally inspecting f and checki acreage in their states in 1919, 19 and first half of 1921. , * 5. Crop reporting board fore to accept growers' report of acres reductions, which were based by p pagarrda and generally believed. 6. Since July 1 field statistics have been able to travel and th reports indicate that the growers' ports on June 25 exaggerated the duction in acreage, it appears tl while many growers actually redi ed their acreage, others took i vantage of the propagar sentiment for the reduction and vp ceeded to include their own ac ages - 7. The- estimate of the acreage cultivation of June 25, was corr when checked against data submitl by growers at that time, but it n appears that the data upon wh the estimate was based were rr leading, the acreage was under e< mated, and the crop reporting bo? was deprived of the check afforc by personal travel and inspection iieia suiusjLiuiaiHs uuui luc last u I of the crop year. y iirs la AL\ Opei that many store will 1 jfShop Earl] BMHlMIIMilhilB'lliiaiBllilllWl! JL BOARD WELCOMES INJUNCTION SUIT Important That Authority in Rail way Matter* Be Finally And Definitely Fixed Chicago, Dec. 11.?The injunc tion suit of the Pennsylvania rail road n^ninst the United States rail to re 33 120 rge ow in ion oss ed at by nt am ng >20 :ed i ge ro ins eir re re lat road laibor board is welcomed be cause it will definitely decide the board's powers and the manner in which its decisions can be enforced, Judge R- M. Barton, chairman of the railroad labor board, said in a statement tonight. Asserting that it is important to all and particu larly to the general public that the board's powers be fixed, Judge Bar ton's statement said: "There are two conflicting views as to the proper construction and effect of the laibor section of the transportafion act. One is that the board has only advisory powers and that its decision can only be made effective so far as approved and enforced by "public opinion. The other is that they are legally bind ing and can be enforced through the courts. Whichever view is cor-' rect it is important that the board's powers be definitely and authorita tively settled." / The injunction issued yesterday by Judge K. M. Laijdis, enjoining the board from handing down a de cision in disputed shop crafts cases affecting the Pennsylvania,, expired the State D day by Am< Ensenda M< The "Mai leased after amount of; sul Burdett* crew had b< pending the fine. The nounced it 1 to the Obre co City on t The Olga can registrj with machir lbefore it wi were then j 'bed (by the l the "Tecate The Americ today and was not continued when t"he board promised to hold its de cision an abeyance pending a hear ing on Decemlber 21. Savannah, Ga., Dec. .11.?An_ nouncement (was made today by L. ^e(j Downs, general manager and vice precedent of the Central of Georgia railway that the shop crafts have asked the Central of Georgia and other roiads to go back to the old wage scale of 85 cents an hour plus five cents, making a total of 90 cents. The matter, he said, will alf1 probaibQy go to the wage board for I settlement. Not Re - Los Ajnge Anterican fi off the coast Sunday by Tecate has cording to available at Malbel went with usual papers whi Petrich of i reported thi clined recof crew. It wa tion of the based on thi llilliilllllilil m (HOT HUSTLE NAYS ON Every Night Ti people prefer to 1 3e kept open until i and Shop Late XANS SE4ZE BOAT IMP( Co lev, < toaaj lie, ii numb incon recen 'greSs, "P nd Crew Robbed, Ac rding to Report. ;on Dec. 8.?The Ameri bo&t "Mabel" of Los is seized early (this week miles off the Mexican vessel of the Mexican pa other of American regis. ined by Mexican soldiers,, epartment was advised to irican Consul Burdette at chang jxico. >el" was subsequently re a line had been paid the which is not known. Con ? added that three of the i&n held by the Mexicans payment of an additional State Department' an had made representations gon government at Mexi he case. D., the vessel of Amerr r, the message said, fired ie guns on the "Mabel" is seized and the crew roughly treated and ro^ nen of the "Olga D." and " of the Mexican patrol, ans were charged with itraband arms and muni gh this was later changed of illegal fishing. |are n > of the "Mabel" it isj^ar^* id of fresh iced fish valu- ore ) and according to a tele- t^ie Capt. Jacob Bernsten to come i was bound for San turne 9 only is thi marri the ii there make chang heede to fix gover remei is $5, retur Rej $5,00 Jetted, Report Saya. ^ iles Cal. Dec. 7.?The ishing boat Mabel seized ; of lower California the Mexican gunboat not been released ac the best information the port here today. The into Mexican waters United States clearance ich according to Capt another fishing boat wiho e incident here, were de ration by the gunboat s understood that the ac Mexican gunboat was e failure of the American xi" bride tiher's fiahin from fore No from the 1 restn K tmei :r) THE J 0 8 O'di do their C 8 p. m, Shop Till )RTANT CHANGE IN INCOME TAX LAW lumbia, Dec. 10.?W. R. Bhtd :ollector of internal revenue, is r issuing &, statement to the pub i which he calls attention to a ter of important change* in the le tax law, brought about by t amendments passed by con robably the most important je since income returns wrfe last year,"THr. Bradley states, le requirement that every per rhose income is $5,000 or more, , make a return, regardless of Kemptions or his deductions. A whose gross income is $5,000, rho may have exemptions or de ans which woqld excuse him paying the tax, has to make a n this vear. lust the same, and 's a heaVy penalty for failure to this return. This is a radical je from last year, and unless it is id, some good citizens are likely themselves in trouble with the nment. The -important thing to mber is that if the gross income ,000 or over, there must be a n, regardless of exemptions." jarding incomes of less than 0, Mr. Bradley states that there 0 changes in the law in this re "Every income," he says? "of than $1,000 must be returned, 1 earner is singly and every in of $2,500 or more must be re df if the earner is married. The change in this class of incomes at the man or woman who is ied is not liable to tax unless icome is $2,500 or, more." proximately 70,000 women in Jnited States are on- the pay of railroads. is a custom in China that a must not walk across her fa i threshold. g boat?to get a fishing permit the Mexican government be operating in. Mexican mtera. thing was heard here today eight members of the .CTew of label who were held under ar ivhen the vessel was seized. fled. T utes Is aqd an ihe bai v The Sam JR Hejrrin, y06rs < the mo Grc OB c South )ck hristmas Shoj every eveni: MALLEST GOLD COIN ? "tof Nations Fraac Miatad At Geaara. . v eva, Dec. 10.?Wi&at is be- ' ' to. /be the smallest. modern Din in the world has just been 1 here. It represents' the gold on which the budget ot the of nations is to be calculat >-r. . "... octagonal dn form oad o^ ome * , are engraved the initials'. ' (Societe des Nationa). Its is .03226805 of <a gramme, valued at about 2 cents, ?n money. It is estimated would require 13,200 of , Cflirin t/l TWqVo a ipoia. Herbert Ames, financial direc the leagne ?* nations, bas a unique apeciment of the > Erie Drummond, the gener #tary. -ET FEVER CAUSES CONVERSE TO CLOSE UP. tanburg, Dec. 10.?Owing to ' :t that a few cases of scarlet not more than three or four, \ leveloped among students at se College, that institution up for the holidays Friday, ^ j 11 re-open at 9 ,o'clock on Jan- / th, 1922. .. * >: ITS SECURED PAYROLL* T WERE sdoN CAPTURED7 usta, Ga., Dec. 10?Two ban itered the office of the Sibley . acturing company here this ig, held up the paymaster and 11 secretary,, gathered together ick the payroll of $8,000 and hey werg captured a few'min iter after an exciting chase exchange of-shots - between ndits and their pursuers. . > bandits gave their names as lumBJy, of'Augusta, and Jack . gton of Oregon. Rumjbly is jld and Herrington "22. All of ney was recovered^ ^ ig Men's Christian Association undediin 1844. irp I ISA linton, l Carolina aping at \ ng until