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DETAILS GIVEN IN CONFESSION Sullivan Tells of Theft of Securitie VALUE IN MILLIONS EAlleged to Have Been Stolen by Wa Street Messengers for Arnster and Cohen. a1:-,ing d ta . trketin of (10 lars to.ere alleged to have bec stolen by Wall street messengers fi "Nicky" Arnstein and "Nick" W. Su livan. forminer mniber of the Consol dated Stock exchange, now on file i the federal court. Sullivan's confession was made i testimon~y taken by United Stat< Commissioner Gilehrist, during ti last month and shows that brokers I whom the stolen sceurities were takt for negotiation obtained loans on thei from reputable banking firms. Stllivan is under indlctment and police searcih for tArntein for sever, months has been futile. .Accoil ing to Sullivan's testi mon about $600.000 worth of the stolen st etirities came into his possession c which he raised $250,000 and gave tl thieves S125,000. The stocks wei rold in small lots and at one-fourt of their market value, changing hant inl aloons. street corners 1and hot rooms inl variou0s cities. Sullivan tol of ieeting wii Artistein and Cohen in Wash ingto rec.-eiving at eacli meeting, he hv stol-n securities that he imme(liatel ple(lge(l as collateral for loans "at banks. Federal an(l cointy oficials here b< lieve that banks and brokerage hou es in the Un ited States and Canlm have close to $2,000,000 of stolen s( cureities on haul but are not awai of 'le fact, owing to the ingeniot iethods in disposing of them as Co lateral for loans. ('7'l"l'ON CROPS AE LAT E Columbia, i.lay 2.-Commissionl Harris has been making a person survey of the crop conditions South Carolina and offers some a vice to the farmers. "Usually by tt ibi oi&vof April," says Mr. Harris, 'v (hil planting of cotton well uinder wa and indeel quite a lot of cottoni abos ground. Th is year, owing to the tit usual weather, very little cotton ht been planted here or anywhere in tI cotton belt. Not over 50 per cent < the average crop has been plant< and a great (leal of the land is y( Ito be prepare(l for the planting. Therefore, in cirdet to make a 'o mial crop, every( day from now hene forth must be ileal cotton weather. 'rhe spilnning tra(le is in the mo: flo rish i ng conlition in its h istor and it is being more generally recop oniz-dl that with the large (1eman for rondIs at present high levels t1 priie Of Southern cotton is relativel cleap. Accotditig to the law of sil ply and lemandi'l, cotton should 1 sellintg for 60 cents, the price that tl Amiieric'an Cottonii Association recon mentded fotr the iremainder of the 101 crop. ''A' fla irs are entirely in the hands< the far'mers and spots holders. they positively r'eftise to take prieset pries it will im medlinately adlvance I ->0 centts and above, as the spinnet will callI the spe'culators foi' delivert as they are miak ing unheard( of pro fit inow. So, I say again, sit steadlyi the lboat andl freeze to youri spots atn they will pay your price. ''Pay no attention to ftiutres ('01 traets prices, they caninot be somt Howe'ver, if you have ino uise fot' yotu mioney'V. if y'ou will hold( y'ouir cot to until .Iuly, 1921, it will pay you a bii, imteirest for after careeftul review o tie firtst cr'oP a nd w'eanthee- repm-oit ( the. sensont, State by State, and afte tomiparison withi pr'i vate~tt rpotts frotr every State in the holt, we havte at riv'ed at the conclusion that thisi CYPRESS SASH DOORS ~ BLINDS MOULDINGS AND MILL WORK 11; n l r oil) n a h 7 d h .\w r Ii V _KlIl to be another seaesol of short yieh and that from the beginning it edoome- to bie a short rIll. in the rew sections of the belt where plant ing has been done, germination is very unsatisfactory mainly because of the low temperature that has prevaile i Sand the first planting went to naug.ht ill large areas. d "In many places in the helt it has t been planted now the third time ibe fore getting a stand. Too much rain ani low temperatures always work injury to the crops, especially cotton. "There has never been a (ime since t eotton has been planted that such a '. bear raid has been made upon spot - cotton, and they have not succeeded1 * in driving it down. I want to say e to spot holders that if the weather Y keeps good for a week or so they will drive October and December con e tracts much lower, but this will not e. effect the spots if the holders will -not get pan icky and selli. "'Freeze to your spots. D~on't sell until the price is reached. It will come if the fa rmers will not release a pound until it gets to 50 cents and t alo-e The price of goods justifies 0 it. If you di(on't get your price don't s bla me' the other fellow. Did you know t Ihat the spinnable cot ton is not enough s t rn te ills of 0theP wor i~iCr a than five or six months, and that if the ('otton to be grown this year shoul be withel from the marketj - until December I then the majority .of' the mills would have to close dlown r* on aecout of' lacek of cot ton to spin ? i ell,. those arie facts, and the prxo ducerxs of cotton never had the opplor f unity in the ix hands at they have f today. "'I hope that thbe prod uceris will' real i ze tha t this is a faet a nd thut -thley will make up their mxindls not to' tiut any new rotton on the iiharket un.. t il ecember. Then' 4 ma rket sparxingly andt you can naxme your ownx price. owI want to urge every farmer so to arra':fie his farm thIiis yeari that }ie wvill make plen ty of supp~jl ies, such as corn, hogs, hay andl syruip. D~on't nglct phl~0tingx a Pot corn piatch and pl'anuts so thbat the children may amuese thiemselves on r'ainy days and .n thbe long winter evenmilgs. "Remiexmber, the tarme('r that makes all his home suppjl i'.s his half financed his cotton cro0p to b egin wit h. ('AMlPAIGN 01' lO'R I)AYS New Y ork, May 2.-T-lhe "flying s iiandrion'' su ffragis ts recruited from Vious015 Staltes to invade Conec'ticut tom~orr'ow for a four-day camnpaign in anl effort to win it as the last State for rati ficat ion, recei ved final ,inlstrue li 'ns hereI tonight at a d inner given b v Mr xs. Carr1' ie ha pman Ca tt, pri-'' dlent of the4 Nationxal Womanl.11 Sulffrage A sIocialt ioln. Thel( fleminine sp~ellbind ('is w',ere 'oachxed careftully behind closed doors5 by Miss Kalther'ine' Lad ngton, President of thle Connecticuti Womanl ufra;-c,..\ 1 -~.o : 1ai~. f NA CONIElRCE CONFERENCE Paris, Ma.y 2.-World problems Suel. aS thle h'igh1 cost of living exchange commercial transportation aerial com. mcrees and national debts are on th( program of the international parlia men01tary Conference of commered whichl is to be in session at Luxemi bourg from Mlay 4 to 7. .- Two hun dred delegates have already arrived aniothers are on their wvayN. Belgium, Braizil., China, Finland, Great Britain Greece, tily, Japan, Poland, Portugal Rtunania, Czecho Slovakia and Jug< Slavit wi!!, be represented while an offlicial invitation hasg been sent to the United Stattes to send delegates, no answer hasg been received. Ami bassador Wallace, howeyVer has desig nated a commercial attache of th< tembassy to attend the sessions as ob Server. - -/ IOIDIOVER(HU(NGERTlERSE elas, May 2.-Wo(ld proesscie Press.)-hihct-five i moehanger strikers were nreoavebtfromte oneth sxniene woneavne ofe comeaei whhe pas two beayns. sina ue G eorgaMurnaha, aredyricit edo agohers aresteb theg ilgiar thm i morning, landbouh Get Britfast. 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Thd ae )u1ite re tme ti grn Ii Iher Lettackinf Ai These ar therl~fore,4(I toicitenn ad nonish al nIig la.h ide An lCeior of the saidkholdius of beood,~ at.,theceosedcethftIthey b and lpear beforennin, inth C.,ou riday roatpe3, 1o920el at 2anningk non the .7th dayjs of coynxtiafer publica 'on hery vr ic i a corporation a n l o7m Let a nrnnr ng a Ion AL nC noon, to show cause, i any they have, why the said, Admin 'tration should granted. / Given under m lla' d this 22nd (lay of April Anno iomi i 1920 J. . indham, pd. Judge'ofJrobate NOTICE OF DISCHARGE I will apply o t e Judge of Probate for Clarendon C nty on the 17th (lay of May 1920, at 1 o'clock A. M. for detters of disel -r as administrator of the estate Sep mus Logan, de ceased. JL I Jeratt L ogn pd. Ad inistrator. . Pinewood, S. C., April 16, 1920. H'!ICH ESTER -vs"PTLUS ~IHT IND BRAND.A Ls.diesi Ask yourDugIs for 11111s In Red and Gold metallc~ * osm seated with Blua Ribbon. 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