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. ^ Ip . ' ??????? ?W?? BB1? ? ii ?BO? OM g? PQ?Meagp?SOB? ??tnaacp - Ulik-SSJKUSg^MSC ?l it??rrnn r*acc MBB?S3M ?aaaPgPMCag?? I?a? ?EBB?????? ?? VOLUME LVI., NUMBER 66. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1920. TWICE A WEEK, $2.00 A YEAI Ml??-Ill - III! I - - - - - - / ,1111 llll I I HI Illl IHII I IM II ! IIIH'? DEATH IN WAKE ( OF EXPLOSION EYE WITNESS DESCRIBES CRASH FROM CLEAR SKY. Bodies on Sidewalk Discolored With Blood When Associated Press Reporter Arrives. New York, Sept. 16 (By the As- j sociated Press).?"It was a crash j out of a blue sky?an unexpected, j 'death dealing bolt which in a twink- j \ ling turned into a shambje the bus- j \ iest corner of America's financial; v center and sent scurrying to places j * of shelter hundreds of wounded, j * dumb stricken, white faced men and women?fleeing from an unknown j danger." A reporter of the Associated Press, , who was an eye witness of today's: explosion in New York's financial district, thus described the scene. "I "was just turning into Wall street from Broadway," he said, "when I ' first felt, rather than heard, the ex. plosion. A concussion of air similar to that experienced on the subway when a train dashes into one of the under river tubes was felt. Its force was sufficient to all but throw me off my, balance. Instantly following the concussion, came a sharp resounding crash which shook to their foundations the large buildings facing either sici&of Wall street. With the roar ofi&e blast, came the rattle of fallin| glass, and from the junction of "U7oii Moacon nrtri "Rrnad streets?a block distant, screams of injured men and wometa. I Mushroom Shaped Cloud. i "I dodged into a convenient doorway to escape falling glass and to reach a telephone and call the office. Looking down WaJt-itpeet later, I could see arising from the vicinity of the sub-treasury building and the - - ,J. P. MorgaQ- & y?Co. ^ank a luushroom sBiped cloud of yellowish, ' jrreeto smok* which mounted to a I height of more than 100 feet, the . ? smoke being licked by darting tongues of flame. j "I reached the scene a few mo- , ments after the explosion took place.1 The smoke hacT practically cleared , from the street, but from the -Mor- s 7 j gan building there was belching forth through the broken windows clouds of dust and white vapor. In the street an overturned automobile was blazing fiercely and nearby, close to the body of a dead horse, was an-, other fire, evidently from a pile of wreckage. "Almost in front of the steps lead-! ing up to the Morgan bank was the mutilated body of a man. utner. bodies, most of them silnet in death,j lay nearby. As I gazed horror strick- J en at the sight, one of these forms, j half naked, and seared with burns, j started to rise. It struggled, then ' toppled and fell lifeless into the gut-1 ter. Lifeless Forms Seen. I "On the opposite side of the street | were other forms. One of them was j that of a young woman, her clothing: torn and burned away. It was mov- j ing?not in an effort to rise, but in , the agony of death. I started to- j ward her?but as I did, she.became : still. Glancing down I saw that the pavement was discolored with blood, j In plain sight, within a radius of 30 j to 50 feet, were nine lifeless forms.j "The body of the dead horse in the middle of the street showed plain! evidence of having been in close I proximity of the scene of tne Diast.1 It was literally torn to pieces. "The windows of the Morgan j building were blown out and through! the -openings could be seen the' smoke blackened interior of what but a few moments previous had been! one of the handsomest banking rooms ; in the city. Opposite the entrance to ! the newly completed white exterior j of the sub-treasury annex was bat-; tered and torn as if having been sub- j jected to a, bombardment of machine : gun fire. The doorway, with its mas-! sive steel grill work, was shattered j and the stone surrounding the door j cracked and battered away. "By this time the crowd was press ing in, held in check by the hastily i gathering police. At the doorway ox the Margon bank was an uniformed guard, apparently half dazed, but sticking to his post and holding back those who soUght to enter the structure. The crowd was strangely quiet and 9 FARMERS ENTHUSIASTIC j AND DETERMINED IN FIGHT! Decide to Hoid Cotton for Forty Cents and to Reduce Acreage. Quiet and Determined Meeting. There was a large attendance at the meeting of the farmers in the court house on Monday to discuss the cotton situation and to taKe ac-1 tion. There was no display and no harsh word said of any one but a j more determined looking: set of men [' you rarely see gather. They listened ' attentively at all that was said and you could very well read in the expression that their minds are made 1 up that they are not going to sell the 1 cotton for less than the minimum ' fixed by the Southern Cotton association and also that they are going to ] reduce acreage. There seems to be jJ little doubt that they have their 11 minds made up that the acreage will j! be reduced. They are now realizing ! the necessity of such action and be- ! sides it is more expensive to make 1 cotton now than it. was some years 1 1 ^I ago wnen wiese met u^o wvm , : held and resolutions adopted ar.d ; < then every one go along and plant 1 a big crop. Labor is scarce and costs J1 a lot more than it did and besides the 1 boli weevil is here and Mr. Mills ex- i i plained that the one way to fight the j' arrtmal was to plant a small acreage,I i fertilize it well arid then work fast j and thus get a fair ciop before the ^ gentleman arrived. j j Mr. J. L. Keitt as president of the' i Newberry branch ol tne American i Cotton association called the meet- i 1 ing to order and explained in some j 1 detail.the working of the association j 1 and what was done at the convention i i at Montgomery. The object of the meeting is three-} ] fold. ] 1. Flans for holding the cotton s ofr the* market in Newberry county 1 until a fair.-and just price could be j obtained, together for plans for cooperative marketing. j 1 2. Plans for fully utilizing exist-' ing warehouses and erecting aiidi- j tional warehouses and practical plans 1 for financing the corp. j 3. Plans for increasing grain j and other crops and red-icing the j cotton acreage. ! Mr. B. C. Matthews- said he had' just returned from New York and ' other "financial centers and in reply j to a question he was satisfied, he said, j that the crop could be financed if the j farmers would stick together and j agree not to plant too big a crop the cominer year. 4 J' Mr.. T. M. Mills made a practical I talk on the boll weevil and what it j is doing in other places and he said j' that we had the warning now that j? we might expect it to do damage to every cotton fie^d in Newberry coun- j: ty another year and we had just as j well take warning and be prepared i ^ to meet the situation. And the one ! ^ thing to do was to reduce the acre-! 1 age and fertilize and work well and !? make the crop before the boll weevil j had an opportunity to get in his work ' * and this could not be done with a'( 1 Dig: acreage. Dr. W. C. Brown offered a reso-' lution that the acreage be reduced j J 33 per cent. Mr. Alan Jhonstone of- \1 fered an amendment that this reduc-:' tion be made and that in no event j1 more than eight acres to the plow! be planted. Mr. Johnstone made a '1 very very strong appeal to the farm-!1 ers that this was the time to act and ! that in bis oninion the farmers ^ should not only pass the resolution 1: but should act the part of men and i( live up to it and if bv the first of I' j ] April the price had not increase to j 1 something like the cost of production j"1 the decrease be made even more than !1 that and that no cotton be sold be- j' low the minimum fixed, 40 cents, j: The resolution as amended was !1 adopted. Dr. Brown then offered a resolu-, ' tion that no cotton be sold below 40 1 I' over it seemed to hang a leeiing 01 ( awe and horror. At the commands of!: the police, it moved and fell back si-! \ lently. On the steps of the old sub-1 j treasury building, the spot where ,; years ago stirring scenes connected '; with the American Revolution were 1 enacted, stands a status of George J; Washington. Looking down from its 1 pedestal between the massive granite ' < columns scarred by missiles from the j I explosion, the outstretched hand of < the Father of His Country seemed to j i carry a silent command to be calm." I f RIGID INQUIRY WELL UNDER WAY HALF DOZEN AGENCIES INVESTIGATE EXPLOSION. Government Takes Hand on Account of Proximity of Sub-Treasury and Assay Office. Washington, Sept. 16.?Nearlyhalf a dozen aarencies of the federal government were at work tonight in an effort to solve the mystery of the explosion in New York city's financial district and to safeguard government property from similar damage. In an effort to bring to justice any person or persons responsible for the loss of life in the metropolis, agents of the department of justice, secret service operatives of the treasury, inspectors of the postoffice department and experts of the department of agriculture were ordered to the scene of the explosion. Investigation of the origin of the explosion was' ordered by Attorney General Palmer upon rcceipt of the first report from New York and William J. Flynn, chief of the bureau of investigation of the department, left Washington for New York on the first train. The feeling at *the department as well as among ether officials of the government was that the explosion resulted from a radical bomb plot. Secretary Houston announced that the secret service was a4- work on the case because of the proximity of the explosion to the United States sub-treasury and assay office. Officials of the postoffice departr ment declared postal inspectors were ready to cooperate with the other government agencies and David J. * * * ^ - ?? Price, explosive specialist ui cuc v*^partnient of agriculture, left for New i'crk tonight to aid in determining uhe nature of the explosion. The noise of the explosion was .leard in Washington by an official of :he treasury who was talking on the telephone to an office in the Equitable building in N6w York at the time. The conversation was interrupted, he said, by "what sounded like the closing of a large book." Connection was interrupted andjater he was called back, he said, to be told that he had not been cut off, but that chere had been "an explosion nearby." ;ents the pound and it was adopted: It was also decided to set aside 25 per cent, of the best grades of cotton and hold until the first of July, 1921. And the following resolution was ilso adopted: Resolved, That we ask all dinners :o collect 25 cents per bale on each bale grinned, five cents to remain in :he county, 20 cents to go to the state association. It was also resolved, That the negroes be allowed to form an auxiliary cotton association in" Newberry county. It was also resolved, That the president appoint township commit;ees to get pledges signed as to acreage and other matters before the novt: meetinsr. Mr. J. L. Keitt was reelected president and Mr. S. S. Cunningham secretary. It was a fine meeting and the court louse was filied with representative farmers from all sections of the county and we feel sure that this is one time when the producer means business and the man or the farmer evho fails to fall in line and cooperate in the movement will feel the heavy hand of public sentiment so strong in his head that he will either move on or get in line with his neighbors. There was no abuse of any one or any corporation and on the contrary all reference to them were Df a pleasant and friendly sort of ivay, but the cotton producer just feels that the fall in the price of cotton is not because of over production and if it is he will reduce production and hold what he has until he can get a fair price for it. That is all. And ' i 1 ? ~ * ^ V?o ivifVt t.llP die UUHKer> seem lvj w iMi.. farmer in this movement and willing to lend a hand. In fact it means' the salvation of every interest in the South and there should be hearty cooperation of all of the varied interests. It was also decided to hold cotton PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY Young Farmer Weds?Eastern Star Members Visit Saluda Chaper. Students Going to College. Prosperity, Sept. 20.?Miss Cera Summer and Mr. Ryan Feliers were married Saturday evening at the Methodist parsonage by the Rev. J. D. Griffin. Mrs. Fellers is the attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Summer. Mr. Fellers is a promwrtfeinn irftiiriop -fdrmfr n f Nn 0 ^ V/UiiJ, J.MKUV4 W* w. ^ township. A number of the members of the Eastern Star chapter by invitation visited the Saluda chapter on Monday evening. * Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bedenbaugh of Orlando, Fla., Mr. and Mrs. Ben Dominick of Newberry have been visiting Mrs. M. B. Bedenbaugh. s "Miss Lydia Dominick of Columbia was home for the week-end. Mrs. Alice Withsrspbon has returned from Due West. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Caughman, Mr. land Mrs. H. Evans of Columbia | spent Sunday at the home of G. A. [ Maffett. | Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wise had as | their guests for the week-end Mr. j and Mrs. J. C. Taylor of Batesbur?, . Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Rawl of Lexing ton. Miss May Witherspoon of Winr.sboro is heme for a few days' stay. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Philips, Mr. and MJrs. Joseph Sha of Columbia spent Sunday with Mrs. Carrie Leaphardt, who celebrated her 70th birthday. Prof. J. E. McSwain spent the week-end in Columbia. Miss Jose Griffin has returned from a short visit to Monticello. Miss Celeste Singley of Columbia i is home for a few clays. j Mrs. J. J. Gibbon and son. Jack, left Saturday fcr Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Taylor and daughter, Miss Erin, of Bachrnan Chapel visited Mrs. Lois Dominick during the past week. Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Harmon spent the week-end in Ninety-Six. Mrs. J. H. Sease and family were | called to Chapin Saturday on account of the death of his mother. Mrs. J. B. Stockman has returned from Columbia. Mrs. Addie Hodges is home after spending several weeks in Clinton. | Bernard Stone, Tom Sease, Ernest j Dominiek, Jacob Kunkle, Mower j Singley. Olin Long, George Kinard j Dominick, James Roof, Noah Pat Shealy, Misses Ethel and Bertie Saner and Elizabeth May enter Newber'ry college this week. Mrs. M. W. Bedenbaugh- is visiting Mrs. J. S. Miller of Gary's Lane. Thomas E. Hair of Columbia was home for the week-end. ? * i | Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Dommjcc ana daughter of Kinards visited relatives here on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Mayer of Newbefrry have been visiting at the home of P. E. Warner. Messrs. Frank Thrailkill, John Smith and Brooks Smith of Leesville were week-en'd guests of H. L. Shealy. Joe B. Hartman has returned from a business trip to Charleston. I Mrs. Mary Sitz spent the past week i irt flnlnmbia. I "* ~ Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Schumpert of Columbia spent Monday and Tuesday here. Dr. A. G. Voigt of Columbia has been visiting Mrs. C. J. Shealy. I. B. Nates of Columbia was home for the week-end. Robert K. Wise leaves this week ( for Cambridge, Mass., where he is a j law student at Harvard university. Horace Dominick has entered Bailey Military Institute, Green| wood. I Rev. and Mrs. Calvin Counts, Mr. land Mrs. Augustus Padgett of 1 Smcaks are visiting Mrs. W. C. j Barnes. ! Mrs. Horace Counts is spending a j while with Mrs. Carrie Me Waters of j seed for $60 the ton or use them as j fertilizer. Mr. Wicker and Mr. J Johnstone of the Farmers Oil mill advised the farmer not to sell seed at the prevailing price. It was a fine meeting and will result in good for the spirit of cooperation manifest as well as for the accomplishment of the immediate purposes. COX DETERMINED TO ENTER LEAGUi | WILLING TO MAKE REASON j ABLE CONCESSION. I Democratic Nominee Explains Posi tion Fully in Telegram to Prof. Irvine* Fisher. Reno, Xev., Sept. 16.?Assertion that he would "make any reasonabl concessoin," to secure America: membership in the league of nation was made by Governor Cox, Demo cratic presidential candidate here to night at the close of the Nevad campaign. In his statement, a telegram t Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale univers ity, Governor Cox said that the Dem ocratic platform opposed only resei vations of nullification. The gover nor announced that he would "en deavor to meet all reasonable desire for proper reservations which are ol feved in sincerity." The governor's telegram to Profe? sor Fisher, who is working for rat: fication of the treaty of Versailles i was evoked by a statement of Fo: mer President Taft, it was announce that Governor Cox's election "woul mean an unyielding and uncomp/c miring attitude" on the league. "I am determined," said Governc Cox's telegram, "to secure the cai liest possible entrance into the lea^u i of nations with the least possible dc lay and with the least possible rese: vations to reach that result. Th platform adopted by the conventic at which I was nominated permit reservations which will clarify an reassure our people, and is oppose only to reservations which woul nullify and destroy. I have no doub that Republican and Democratic scr af.ovs alike will loyally fulfill th people's mandate which my elect: o w:ll * signify;* I cht'll endeavor t meet all reasonable desires for prope reservations which are offered in s.r ccrity and not merely presented a trumped up for' pol-'tieal purposes My heart is in this fight and I wi. v put foith aii effort and make reasor able concession to win it that we nia sccure membership in the league to America." The governor's Nevada campai r today comprised a half dozj speeches. He traveled farther reached fewer voters and saw les scenery than on any "day of the t\v weeks of his Western trip. J Through the Nevada sage bruS ; and alkali desert, bounded by hi-* b&rren, brown mountains, the govci nor traveled today, delivering ac dresses on the league of nation; progression and reclamation, at Elkc Car)in, Winnemucca, Lovelock a:i 1 Sparks. All were brief rear plat form talks except at Sparks, wher he spoke at the high school, and her i tn a l^rirp frowd in a theate l/V W after arriving nearly two hours laic Peace through the league was th burden of the candidate's Nevad preachments. t . , Columbia. McDonald Williams has returne to Allendale after visiting Mowe Singley. Miss Lucy Schumpert is a stud en of the AVoman's college. Due West. Mrs. J. D. Lorick and Mrs. Walte Wise have returned from Columbia. F. J. Black Jias returned to Geo: gia Military academy, Atlanta, i j Mrs. Roscoe Snealy of Savannah j Mrs. J. J. Crooks of Pomaria an ! Mrs. Luc-ile Hardeman of Newberr i orPov rimrtlfs of Birmingham ar i anu iiwj v* ? w J visiting Mrs. R. L. Rankin. I Rev. and- Mrs. W. A. Rieser of Au ! gusta visited the latter's brothei ! Rev. Chas. J. Shealy, during the pas week. Mrs. Kener.th Baker and daughtei i Miss Mary, of Greenwood are guest ' - - - nr "TTT ol Mrs. hi. w. vv cms. ! Miss Rosa May Mitchell left Sat | urday for Sumter where she teache 1 this session. I Miss Ophelia Connelly returne< i Tuesday to Columbia, where she i 1 matron at the Lutheran seminary. Mrs. J. D. ' Bedenbaugh and chil dren are visitirir Mrs. Birge Wise. I\Iiss Bess Bowers of Clemson col j lege is visiting her many friend j here. I Mi's. J. P. Wheeler had as he ' .ir.icsts Wednesday Ivlesdames Henr Parr and James Wheeler of New bet ry and Mrs. Robert llruce of Florida 'sparks circus will exhibit here soon i i j Sparks Three Ring Circus Will Show j At Gilder's Field on Monday, October 4. t Years may come and go, times and i customs change, 'out a circus is al- j ways a joy to young and old. So al-i j I will be delighted to know that Sparks j three ring circus is on its way and j will exhibit in Newberry on Monday,! G October 4. j n s Certainly this is one of the greatest shows that has ever come to New-! berry, if"includes almost everything | ? i in the way of entertainment from the ! j I ! champion high jumping horse of the | world, to Madge Evans, a dainty lit tie miss who puts a herd of monster . elephants through their paces twice daily. Then there are feats of! . strength ana oaiancing tnat seem to | ( . defy every law of gravitation. There j g is the flaring Kenova, "upside down J . man," who ascends an entire flight of 112 steps while balanced on his head and the great Matok^ in his thrilling.: T slides for lifa on a slender wire ex-j tending nearly the entire length of i the "big ten." There are truly won- ; j derful exhibitions of bareback riding, , j post graduate high school and danc-; a ing horses, the flying earls, the Con- j nors in tight wire evolutions and fel-; lowers of the "silent drama;" will; t find in Miss Irma, a living replica of | Mary Pickford?in fact her aesocir.t- ; c es in the termed world acclaim her to be "the Mary Pickfprd of the h:';h, wire." Than there will be the aerialj 2 Yorks, the Ezuma troupe of oriental! n acrobats, the three Guices and the j s Cornalla's family of European aero-! d ^IT nfViov in i i;ai/0 mm un vie ??n?i umi ... , "! presenting death defying stunts. j 1 ... ! " ! The Sparks circus has-ihe reputa-; " tion of giving more for the mor.ey j !" than any mother circus in the tei.ceu | field and all the features will be soon j n in the glittering, bewildering, two' 0 j mile long street parade at 10:l;0. r i o'clock on circus day. i-; s i Fur man's Opening. 5 I Greenville, Sept. 20.?Furman I 'I j university has liad a most auspicious! j opening. Three hundred and forty j y! men have reported, and others will j r ' or.tpr in the next few davs. The en-; i "" " ' | roIn\er)t will probably go to 375. All | n j the faculty are present, among them j. 11! several new members. Prof. Lueco , *, | Gunter of Columbia, Prof. W. II.! s \ Coleman of Mississippi, Prof. R. N.! o ; Daniel of Kentucky, Prof. F. K. j j Pool of North Carolina, Prof. Living- i h I stori T. Mays of Texas, Prof. E. K. j h J Plyler of Greenville, and Prof. George ' - i W. Wilkinson, also a Greenville : [-1 county boy, constitute the new mem-; | bers of the faculty. They are all; >, j men who have had extensive training j d J in the leading colleges and universi- > 1 ties of the country and have had ex- i e j perience in teaching:. Three of the i e ! former professors studied in North- j r j ern universities this summer; namely, i i. | Professors Cox, Vass and Bower., e : They are here to take up their wcrk a i with renewed vigor. f Work progresses on the new dormi" | tory and also upon the central heat^ I ing plant. It is hoped that the heat- J , | ing plant will be ready by the time j 1 | cold weather sets in. If not, the j t; present apparatus for heating the j j various buildings which has been j r ! used for several years will be em-j ' | ployed again, as it will not be re- j | moved until the new plant is in- j j stalled and ready for work. A tem-' ^ j porary building was erected by the j f| j Minter Homes company, in which a ' - - 1 i- J i "'number of students are locaieu. hk-i y ' I building is thoroughly comfortable j J and attractive and the men will be j ; properly protected until the new dor- j ^ j mitory is ready to receive them. This J ' . will be earlv in the vear, as the archi- i ,t . .1 | tect now promises. Tne session \ promises to be a very fine one. s I In honor of the teachers of the ! j Trinity-Ridge school in Laurens. " j county, the Laurensville Keraid of! 3 i the 17th instant says "a lovely re! ception was given at the school house j ''i last Friday evening by the patrons] 3 j and friends of the school." i'ne pnn-. j cipal of the school is Mrs. Annie Ox- j j rer. daughter of Mrs. G. W. Pear- j son of our city. s On the opening day of school one i bright little miss was arguing with : r her mother on the subject. She told j y her mother she didn't see the use of i "- her going to school as she couldn't l. read. FIGHT WILL COME FROM DRY FORCES ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE TO OPFOSE SOME CANDIDATES. Prohibition Commissioner Tells T ti _ i r / LC?.^[UG 1 nat JLdW ?iiuurwcuicuw Machinery is Not Adequate. ' Washington, Sept. 16.?Declaration was made today by Prohibition Commissioner Kramer that dry law enforcement machinery is inadequate. Coupied with this was a statement by the Anti-Salooil league that the "nation is confronted by a gigantic and vicious conspiracy to discredit and ultimately overthrow prohibition. . Mr. Kramer in making his declaration in an address by the AntiSaldon league conference here ' announced that in numerous communities prohibition cases were being dragged into federal courts at a rate of ten to 20 a week. The result, lie said, was jammed dockets and de -i-i? uiftlfl. lays in inc viliti ux uijr jan ?m. tcrs. *> //a The Anti-Saloon league embodies its conspiracy charges in a resolution which served notice that it would attempt removal of public officials derelict in prohibition enforcement. At the same time, officials of the league made public a partial list of candidate? for; ccr.grc-~s whom it will seek to defeat because of their position cr. prohibition. rvrv'.ni?Vn(>r TCramer frankly told i"he confcrence thr.t his agency in addition to being confronted wi?h a shortage of personnel had within it men who were not "straight." It would li^ve been a "miracle," hef added, if there had -not been some men who had proved to be unfaithful to the oath inasmuch as the dry enforcement corps had Jqcen built up in- about six months. *v 1 Fi;;ht on Official^ While the conference gave Mr. Kramer's organization a vote of confidence and a pledge of support, croakers asserted this stand would ~r rJot "soften" condemnation of officials of whatever rank who did not observe the letter of the law in " J *}. ! searching out liquor violators. The resolution adopted by the confcrencc also called upon congress toadopt "some standard for good behavior" by defining "misconduct" for which appointees, such as federal < judges, might be removed from office. The present laws make impeachment difficult and impractical, the resolution said, and congress was.urged toprovide methods by which those who "wink at violation of law" may be dealt with summarily. The league in its campaign for a continued dry majority in congress will support Senator Watson, Republican, against Thomas Taggart, Democrat, in the Indiana senatorial race, and Frank B. Willis, Republican candidate for senator in Ohio. Included among the present members of the house selected by the league as the objet of its attack, the list showed Representative Porter, Pennsylvania, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. List Not Complete. Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the league, in making public the list of candidates to be opposed, told the conference that dry workers would not know definitely the names of all candidates on its "black and white lists" until all primaries have been held. He explained the league would enter no local fight except where records of the candidates show the prohibition to be an issue. Commissioner Kramer, in addressing the conference, suggested today the organization of local committee ' of a hundred or more" to be built up a sentiment for preservance of prohibition law. "We are having a hard and uphill fight," Mr. Kramer said. "But, on the whole, it is a winning fight. I am doing my best to enforce the law as it was intended to be enforced. "I am not asking for sympathy; I am not seeking to establish an alibi. Nor am I trying to 'pass the buck.' I knew this job was a hard one and would require the utmost that is in me. I say, therefore, that I want only your help." If you just will go t'o the opera house Tuesday you will see "The Great Sinner." It is said to be "a corker." A