Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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That- Last-Minute IBIST S GIFT Is still in our store. We know how hard it is to make selections, but we are always ready to help you in every way possible. We still have many articles in Leather Goods and Fine Jewelry ! That will make handsome and useful pres ents---ones that will be appreciated by those who receive them. GOLBERG'S Next to Rex Theatre. SUMTER, S. C. How Can This Bank Best Serve You? If you are spending too much money and want to turn over a new leaf, we will aid you to become a saver. If you see an opportunity for the further development of your business, and the matter of finances bothers you, we may be able to remove the ob stacle from your path. * If you are considering an investment and are a little doubtful of its wisdom, our advice may prove of value to you. If you haye an opportunity for any kind advancement, and feel any degree of hesitancy, perhaps a suggestion from us will remove your doubts, one way or the other. / Solving perplexities is an every day business with us. SH ome Bank and Trust Cornnany. TWENTY MiLON DOLLARS Of U. 8. MONEY FOR STARVING House Passes Measure to Relieve Dis tressed * People of Russia-Plan to Feed American Hungry is Re jected. Washington, Dec. 19.-A bill au thorizing the President to expend $20,000,00 out of the funds of the United States Grain Corpora tion for relief of the distressed and starving people of Russia was passed tonight by the House, 114 to 51. Opponents of the measure fought it to the last and forced a roll call on the ground that the vote as an nounced (lid not include a quorum of the House. The roll call re sulte( 181 to 71 and the bill now goes to the Senate. In wrangling over the measure the House attempted to chop it to pieces with amendments. The first actual test was on an amendment by Representative Bankhead, Dem ocrat, Alabama, to reduce the amount from $20,000,000 to $10,000, 000, which was defeated 78 to 69. There had been two solid hours of debate during which a flood of eloquence was let loose on the arg ument that the starving children of Russia, regardless of the Bol shevik reign that had brought about their distress should . have their cry for bread silenced with American food, when a new fight was started over proposals to tear the bill to pieces. Protesting against the use of funds for the people of any foreign nation, Chairman Madden, of the appropriations committee, declared it was easy to vote a tax on the backs of the American people, and cry at the same time for economy. 'There are conditions of distress in this country which would ap pall Congress if I dared relate them," Mr. Madden shouted, adding that information to this effect had been laid before him confidentially. "But I can not see my way clear to vote money out of the treas ury," said the chairman, "when it is not to be used to relieve the distress of the people we were sent here to serve." When the time came to receive amendments more than a score of members, jumping to their feet, de manded recognition. In the midst of the flood of them Representative Goodykoontz, Republican, West Vir gini, stepped forward with a new paragraph which would direct the President to spend $20,000,000 for relieving distress among the "starv ing, hungry and unemployed citi zens of the United States." It was howled out on a point of order, but the West Virginia Republican stood his ground. "'My amendlment may not come withim the rules of the louse," Mr. Goodykoontz declared above the din, "but it at least has the merit of coming within the Consbitution of the United States." After that amendments were set up In rapid succession only to be knocked down. About all that was ta'eked on to the original bill was a direction that grain for the Rus sians be purchased in the United States and sent to Russia in Amer ican bottoms, and a direction that a report of all expenditures be made to Congress by the end of next year. The House refused to include Ar menia in the area to which relief would be sent. MOSCOW BLAMED FOR TIE NEW YORK EXPLOSION Wolfe Lindenfeld,'Agent of Third In ternationale, Arrested in Connec tion With American Disaster Says P'lotters Intended to Get Morgan. WVa rsaw-By the A ssoc iatedl Press. A man by the nnme of Wolfe Lindeni fel, alIias William Li nde, has been arl rested lby the P'ol ish poli1ce here as a suspect in connection with the Wall street exlplosion in Newv Yor1k, Sep tember 16, 1920. The Warsawv Police said they made the arrest at the reqtuest of the A meri can D~epartment of .Just ice. Tlhey clmmnedl to have in their possession the man's full confession olf beiny conne'ctedl with the dIisaster. LindIen feld is described as a cou sin .of Rosa Luxenmburg, the German radlical Socialists leader, who was shot to death in Berlin early in 1919, after having been beaten by a mob. 11 is con fession, the police state, gives the names of the ring leadlers and the New York city acdress where the bomb was manufactured, and says also that the bomb was intendled f'or J. P. Morgan, but explodedl prema tur~ely. Silvester Cosgrove, an A merican D)epartment of Justice agent at whose reqiuest, in be'halfI of the de( partment, the arrest, of the suspect was brocught aliout, (decaredi that Lmidenfeldl has agreed to turn States evidlence and~ is willing to returin to America, wvhere h(e has a wife and two children in New York. The ,suspect's written confession, accordmng to the agent, says that $30,000 wvas promised for1 the job to) be divided among four or five per sons, andl that the money wvas reeeiv edl by New York Communists from the Moscow third internationale. Lindlenfeldl left New York early Inst spring. The Polish police say he wvas exposed in Warsaw in 1906 as a Russian secret agent, fleeing to American shortly afterwvardl. According to Cosgrove and Paul G. C. COOPER, Licensed Optometerist EYES Carefully Examined, Glasses Fitted, Broken Lenses Duplicated. Satisfaction Guaranteed. SUTMER. S. C. Altendorf, who trailed Lindenfeld, the suspect in his confession names five principals now in Europe who ihared the money for the job. One > fthe principals, the confession shows, was a woman, who, from a window opposite Mr. Morgan's of fice, observed the financier's move ments for days and from her re ports the bomb was timed to ex plode about the usual time Mr. Mlorgan came out for luncheon. The confession, as described by the American agent, terms the pre mature explosion "a mechanical mis take," for whic hthe bomb makers are blamed, Lindenfeld estimat ing that the bomb exploded from ten to fifteen minutes before the intended time. The plotters also accuse the driver of the wagon which brought the bomb to Wall street of having erred in not leav ing the wagon nearer the Morgan >ffice. Further portions of the confes sion referred to by Cosgrove show that Lindenfeld knew of the plans ror more than a week prior to the Lxplosion but denies any active part in the bombing preparations. Ile gave New York addresses of various i-adividuals involved in the plot, most of whom have since left the country, and also gives a New York address where the Commu musts are alleged to have paid over the cash to the plotters. Cosgrove avers that his informa tion shows Lindenfeld had close connections with Moscow, whence lie received finds regularly. Po lish secret service officials asserted that the suspect attended at least oie conference at Moscow of the third internationale; that he was born in Warsaw, hns many rela tives here and carries a Polish passport. For most of the time smnce March he has been living in Warsaw, posing as an American. Not Known in New York New York, Dec. 16.-Local ofli Hils of the Department of Justice declared late today they never had heard of Wolfe Lindenfeld, arrested in Warsaw in connection with the Wall street bomb explosion. It was added that no request had gone from the New York office for the arrest of any person in Poland. Washington Is Mum Washington, Dec. 16.-(By the Associated Press.)-Justice Depart ment officials would not discuss to might the arrest in Poland of Wolfe Lindenfeld in Warsaw as a suspect in connection with the Wall street explosion. It was indicated, however, that official reports from Poland were Ixpected by the departient and that further details would then be aivmilable. COTTON CROP FIGURES The unprecedented variation of Inore than 1,800,000 bales between the Department of Agriculture's Oc tober and December estimates of this year's cotton crop was due to a comii bination of circumstances such as are likely to be encountered only at in frequent intervals. The compilation of accurate statistical data with re gard to the country's staple crops is of such vital iniportance to business, however, that the legislative and executive branches of the Govern ment should at once take effective steps to prevent the repetition of such a ionimental blunder. The real test of such a service as the department seeks to render is not merely its abil ity of function under averofge condi tions. The crop-estinxating service collapsed when conditions chanced to vary considerably from the ordinary, and its egregious failure came just when its aid was most urgently re quired. The fault may not lie with the De piartmient of Agriculture. It is pos5 sible that it lies with Congress, ow A Merry To May peace and joy and g Andi sweet contentm Steal through the slver3 And leave their joy - May every wish of Happy Christmas Season This is our wish to y First National W. C. DAVIS, Presi< A. C. BRADHAM, ~ J. T. STUKES. Cas ing to its failure to provide sufficient travel funds to enable the field agents to check the reports of growers anx ious to create an impression of an ab normally short crop. At any rate, the funyds which were spent for this year's statistical service for cotton were worse than wasted. Private concerns, at an expense amounting to only a tiny fraction of what this ser vice has cost the Government, were able to compile crop statistics that were much more accurate than those of the department's ,Bureau of Crop Estimates. A little investigation can reveal where the trouble lies, and if the conditions have been such as are intimated in the explanation ac conipanying the department's final estimate, it is evident that proper representations should be made to Congress to induce it to abandon its penny-wise policy to provide the country with an adequate statistical service.- -New York Evening Post. TH1E 'I'AX PROBLEM The tax problem simply will not down. It is being agitated from one end of the State to the other. The pressure of public sentiment has been a long time coming, but it is here and the General Assembly that meets next month will be face to face with the bi.ggest. problem it has had to deal with in years. The people have found out that the burden of taxation is resting on the shoulders of a few that visible property is carrying more than its just proportion of the load-and they are demanding relief. Progressive tax measures were intro duced at the last session of the Gen eral Assembly, but they failed to pass. Some died in committee, while others were left on the calendar. Some of these will be revived at next month's session, while new measures will be introduced. The demand is for an in heritance tax, an income tax, an oc cupation tax, a gasoline tax and a small tax on luxuries and amuse ments. It is claimed by well-informed authorities that the State can raise enough revenue from these sources ro run the government and not levy a single mill on real estate. North Caro lina worked out the problem on sim ilar lines, and the State of North Carolina does not levy a tax on real estate for State purposes. The peo ple are almost unanimous in the opin ion that the General Assembly has dilly-dallied with the tax problem long enough and the time has come for tax reform measures that will give the owner of visible property some relief. They will watch this General Assembly and mark the men who block tax reform legislation. TWO CIIILDREN BURNED TO DEATH AT SELLERS Florence, )ec. 1i.- -- ke in each others arims and Charre hed ond re cognition, the bodies of Louuise Oliver, aged eleven ,and Alese Oliver, aged three, were removed from the embers a fter a stubborn cotton fire had burn ed itself out on the farm of Ed Sel lers, at Sellers, Wednesday. Details of the tragedy became known here to day where the mother of the eleven year-old girl, Louise Oliver, is con lined in the hospital, following an operation. News of the tragedy was conveyed to her by Dr. Mcl eod in the presence of 1. F. II. Martina, pastor of the First Baptist Church. From what could be learned here, a number of children were playing in the shelt er of a packhouse. Suddenly the cot ton blazed up, ignited it is stated from the butt of a cigarett dropped by a farm hand. The children iran1 hut little Alcee Oliver, cousin of Louise Oliver, was blocked by the flames and the lit tle girl went bacik through the fire to rescue him. Neither of then was alL' to escape, so quickly did the fam1s... spireadl, and the boy and giril died wvith their a rms intertwinedl. They were buried at Mariet ta, N. C., Th ursda y. Christmas You! ladness, ent, too, with you. your ownl come true this ciu. Bank. lent lice-President jer