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gp| VOLUME NO. 52. ' LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17,1922. NUMBER 30
I Court Will Meet
If Monday Morning
fc;'. Court of general sessions will con- i
Ik vene here next Monday, May 22, with
Judge J. W. DeVore of JEdgefield preaiding,
and the outlook now is that
E the session will continue for two
? weeks, as there are a number of im
Iportant cases awaiting trial and it it
the intention of Solicitor Callison to
insist on them being brought up at
this term.
' It was stated this morning by T. C.
Sturkie, who represented Gappins at
the trial and in his appeal to the
Supreme court, that in all probability
the three men, Kirby, Gappins and
Fox, would be brought to Lexington
during Monday for resentence to electrocution.
These three men were
convicted at the fall term of court of
murder in the killing of William i
Brazell, the Columbia taxi driver, and
sentenced to die last October, but
their apepals to the supreme coun i
stayed the sentence.
B|V For trial at the coming term ot i
Hi-court there are seven murder cases,
Kpfc several of assault and battery and a
'number of cases 01 a more or less
ig|v tniuor nature. The murder cases tha*;
Bp7 will probably be called this term are:
Newt Kelley and Frank Goff.
fc. ( charged with murder in the killing oi
H David Shull in New Brookland over a 1
ago, which has been continued J
time tQ time. Solicitor Callison i
|p states that ths case will be among the
Bpytfarat called for trial.
Swygert of Leesville, charged
B?|: Withhilling J- C. Nicholson in
streets ot Deesville last year. This
K|^ ease Was brought up at the last term
&*?)?'courtapd resulted in a mistrial.
B. Harmon, charged with
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tric^ for murder i rt e ^ W*1
KT- lie fjreen at Batesburg in May, 1920.
pf" Henry Corley, negro, charged with
g[ killing hie mother-in-law last fall.
I Other cases of a less serious nature
| that will come up for trial are: George
|p W. Miller, who shot and seriously
Br wounucu xj , jcj. XlCllUlliVllU at VIAA M\/i I |
gT, some time ago, is charged with assault I
and battery with intent to kill. J. F.
' Kelley, white, charged with bigamy.
There are also a number of whiskey
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The following jurors have been
f drawn to serve for the two weeks:
First Week Jurors.
J. Hamp Hutto, Frank S. Oswald,
Julian E. McCartha, Eugene C.
David, D. E. Shehane, Silas F. Sturkie,
Drewry S. Smith. George W.
McCartha, Brodie E. Kneece, Sam P.
-Roof, Hugh E. Summer, J. Monroe
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Koon, A. Frank Swygert,, Marcellus
M. Smith, Arthur Ellisor,.G. T. McDowell,
D. Webster Koon, Doyle L.
Keisler, L#onnie B. Kyzer, Elijah Hall,
Jacob F. Rawl, J. Drafts Boozer, J.
A. Shealy, C. M. Swygert*. S. S.
George, Godfrey R. Whitt^ker, W. D.
Huffstettler, A. Killian Harmon, Elen
B.' Craps, Esther T, Koon, H. H. j
Kyzer, D. Pickens Roof, Cromer A. i
Shealy, R. J. Hook, wyiie L. Hook,;
W. E. Humphries.
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Second Week Jurors.
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Henry D. Hughes. Thomas J. Hall.;
R. L. Oxner, S. Raymond Younginer, j
Harry D. Wessinger, W. Carlisle'
Smith, H. Reed Addy, Sam G. Miller,
William J. Kyzer, L. Wash Rieard. A. !
Ti "Rnof .John J. Senn, Ben P. f
Kneece, Robert B. Slice, Lonnie K. 1
Fulmer, Ed R. Shull, Herbert W. J
Wingard, Walter James Lindler 1
Yancey Cockrell, J. Paul Martin, C. '
Wilbur Price, Elbert P, Kyzer, Morgan
W. Craft. Bennie D. Gable, Willie;
S. Long, Martin L. Keisler, H. H.
Haltiwanger, A. A. Mclver, Baylos P.
Shull, J. Haskell Monts, James E.
Davis, J, Rufus Shealy. I Barr,
Eldridge L. Hutto, Willie *. Pound
Bunion L. Cumalander.
ATTENDING REUNION.
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Messrs. Jas. E, Rawl, Marion D. ,
Harman and G. M. Harman, veterans |
of '$5, are in Darlington this week at-;
tending.the anhual reunion of the Con-!
federate Veterans, where the state:
convention is being held. They will re- 1
turn home the latter part of the week.'
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RECITAL TUESDAY NIGHT.
| The pupils of Miss May Lois Boozer
and Mrs. J. D. Carroll delighted their
friends Tuesday evening at the high
school auditorium with a recital. The.
following pleasing program was rendered,
and the performance attested
the ability of the teachers and the
' pupils:
Program
"Greeting", Paul?by the class; "The
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Katydids", Ashford?Marie Rikard;
duet. "Lullaby", Wharncliffe?Virginia
Nipper and teacher; "Picking Wildr>A
I>aaf Uarv TdiviPs T-Tnl
IIUVV^IO , x/c J
tiwanger; "A Merry Dance", Car?
Heins?Flossie Sox; "Reverie". Preston-*-Cornelle
Nipper; duet, "The
Lioiiv, Q .r'mann?Karl Oswald Jr.,
and 'Time For Play", Anthony?EvK.%/
'?hman; "Convent
Bell", LudoviiK Hendrix; reading?"Changing
V Sj Ethiopian"?
Gaynelle Nipper; "Bbv^j^; Polka",
Wo-lcott?Eleanor Hook; ;ppling
Brooklet", Dellafield?Evelyn Kyzer:
"Two Flowers", Carl Koelling?Margaret
Oswald; "Angel's Prayer",
Bevans?Rhude Meetze; duet, "A
Frolic", Forman?Misses Catherine
Caughman and Sara Dreher; "Whispers
of Love", Kinkel?Ruth Shealy;
"An Old Fashioned Garden", De
Loiyne?Leona Steele; "Tannhauser",
Theo. Osten?Dorothy Oswald; reading?"A
Minister's New Automobile",
?Mary Wallace; "Les Sylphes", Bachmann?Beulah
Fox Wingard; duet,
"Hilarity March", Mero?Misses
Bertha Sue Berly and Gladys Harman;
"Fantaisie Mazurka", Ketterer?Annie
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Lee Corley; a. "Sechs Variai4onens",
Beethovn, b. "La Cascade des" Roses",
Ascher?Ruth George; "Japanese^Lantern
Dance and Tableau",?Misses
Befclah. Fox Wingard, Catherine
Caua&pi&ii, Dorothy swald, Ruth
Geoi?fr Evelyn Kyzer, Annie Lee Corley,
Hatman, Bertha Sue Berley,
E&k Hendrix, Ruth Shealy, Leona
Stetffe, Madgelene Redd.
H.?%DING ArtEJO)S*AM>
ENJOYS MASONIC
Capital recently the President, with
21 Senators and 126 Representatives
attended a meeting of Almas Temple
Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine of North America. This
was by no means the distinguished
tA o nnormAniol r\i
1UA9UI1 O ilOt UOit uv c* vvvi u*v*4m* v/4
this kind.
So many Presidents have been Masons,
starting with George Washington,
who was not only a Mason, bu1
master of his lodge, that there is nothing
novel in the Chief Magistrate of
the greatest country in the world officially
proclaiming his allegiance with
an order which promulgates the universal
brotherhood of man, but not al'
Presdents who have been Masons have
given the time to it which President
Harding does.
Those millions of men who know
from personal experience of the principles
and practices of Masonry find
in President Harding's encouragement
and attendance renewed faith and belief
in the helpfulness of brotherhood
as a force for peace, patriotism and
education. :
DECLAMATION' AND
EXPRESSION CONTESTS.
There will be two contests given
Friday night at the school auditorium
beginning promptly at 8:30 o'clock.
One amongst the boys and one
amongst the girls of the high school
department. Those who will speak
in the boy's contest are as follows:
Odelle Harmon. Lever Caughman.
Roscoe Hallman, Daniel Shull, Charles
Harman, John Roberts, Willie Har-I
num. The following girls will speak
in the experssion contest: Katherine
Whitten. Amy Frunklow. Mary Wallace,
Edith Roof.
A gold medal will he awarded to
the one making the best speech in
each contest. ?
The public is cordially invited.
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LEGION MINSTREL WAS
LARGELY ATTENDED.
The minstrel given by the Lexington
post of the American Legion last
Wednesday night was attended and enjoyed
by a large house, and the receipts
for the evening were highly
satisfactory. The rrinstrel was scheduled
to appear in Batesburg Friday
. night, but on account of unavoidable
circumstances was postponed.
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Commencement
Begins May 26
Commencement for the Lexington
pubiic schools begins next week, May
26 to 29. A play entitled. "A Big
a do about Bettie", will be given by
the tenth grade pupils Thursday and
Friday nights. May 26 and 27. The
kAnoonlonrcoto CPrmnn tx'ill n pi IV ?
ered Sunday morning, 11:15 o'clock
at the school auditorium, by the Rev.
P. D. Brown, pastor of Ebeneber
Lutheran church, Columbia, S. C.
Special music will be rendered for
that occasion.
Graduating exercises will be held
Monday night, May 23. Each member
of the graduating class will have an
individual part to carry out in the
program. The baccalaureate address
will be delivered by Gov. Robert A.
Cooper. The governor will also be
asked to award the diplomas. The
trustees medal and The Dispateh-Xews
medal will be awarded to the pupils in
the grammar and high school grades,
respectively, making the highest mark
in scholarship.
The public is cordially invited to
attend all the exereses.
ENTERTAINMENT AT
CALVARY BRANCH.
There will be a school entertainment
at Calvary Branch school house,
Friday night, May 19, 1922, beginning
at 8 o'clock. Have songs, speech
es and dialogues as, "Oh, You Teacher!*,
"A Foolish Habit," "Scatt!", "In
a Doctor's Office," "A Proposal in
Grandma's Day," "An up-to-date Proposal,"
and a "negro minstrel". Refreshments
will be sold after the program
for the benefit of the school.
The public is cordially invited.
RE VIVAD SERVICES.
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. The revival services which have
been in progress ,
himself to all by his beautiful and
heart touching solos. j
Many strong: blows were struck at
the forces of evil. It should be
easier to do right and harder to do
wrong. The visible results were four
additions to the membership of the
church.
FLOOD DAMAGES
STATE DINE CITY.
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Bristol. Va.-Tenn., May 12.?Damage
estimated at $600,000 was caused
in Bristol and this seotion tonight by j
high water from Bea^r. creek, which
flooded a dozen stores/in the center of
the city, numerous iiusiness houses
and homes.
The creek began rising about S o'clock
and by 9:Z0 o'clock had inun-'
dated sections of Moore, Sycamore,
Cumberland. Lee, Water. Front, Shelby,
Seventh, Broad, Williams and
State streets. About 35 stores were
flooded and many persons were forced
to leave their homes. The high waters
began to recede about 11 o'clock and
an hour later had fallen back from i
many streets, leaving ^hem cov-J
ered with debris.. The Virginia postoffice,
several department stores, the
hotel Bristol, and a number of stores!
on State street near the creek were |
flooded. Basements filled with water
and a dozen houses on James row
were flooded. The Virginia courthouse
was entirely surrounded, but lit- J
tie water got inside.
Many merchants on State street |
saved their merchandise by having it j
moved to upper floors. Barricades of j
sandbags were used to keep the flood!
from many stores.
Heavy damage to farms north of
Bristol were reported.
Reports reaching The Horald-Cou-j
rier said that the storm originated in
i cloudburst which occurred near WalVa..
about 7 o'clock in the eve-!
ning. Warning1 was given here by
telephone and many merchants began
to prepare for the flood whle the
creek whch flows through the cehter)
of the cty was at normal stage.
C A UP^FTHAXKS.
Mr. .1. Frank Lowman and daughters
desire to extend hereby their sincere
thanks for all kindnesses shown
during the times of the affliction and^
death of his wife and their mother.
Lecture Friday
Baptist Church
Leon C.; Palmer, state superintendent
of the Sunday school association,
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will give a*-lecture in the Baptist
church Friday afternoon, May 3 9. at
3 o'clock, to- which everybody is cordially
invited. Mr. J. D. Carroll,
president of the county Sunday school
I associationLis very anxious that all in
terested iff - Sunday' school work at tM
tend this lecture. It will be interesting
and instructive, for Mr. Palmer
is a lectured of known ability, and a
Sunday school worker with unlmited
energy. ^
Durng past twenty years Mr.
| Palmer ha^s lectured in Alabama, Ten|
nessee, M|ssissippi, Florida. Georgia |
North an<$ South Carolna, Ohio, Illi-1
j nois, Wisffifesin and New York. He
| has giveTvjipecial series of lectures at
I the Uniye$?ty of Alabama, the Alabama
Polj?echnc Institute. Winthrop
College, Efitie Kidge Christian Workers'
Training Conference, and the Internationa&Training
School. Lake.
Geneva.&jAuthor of "Lesson Build-'
ing," editftfc of "The Sunday School1
Promoter,ffand contributor to current
relgious aftil educational 'publications.
Among ps best known lectures are:
"Oyer Foflro Hill," "Secrets of Success,"
"Wlfere Did We Get Our Bible?"
"The BiblK'as Good Literature," "How
to DoublprYour Sunday School," "The
Big Boy ?Problem," "The Teacher's
Power, YyflBftellgious Education and
Americana&emocracy," "The Rights of
the Chiltj^.'/'Building Christian Citizenship,
T??The Challenge of the Present
CrisisS^The Best Paying Business
Amon^jfeie more prominent ministers
and.wg|cators of the state who are
in heartjjffi%mpathy with the work ht
ijjp doing|BMf' endorse his lectures, are
tire folljMro^vrho have signed this inM
Aafcd of Introduction.
y^^^^ffi^itroduce Mr. Leon C.
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| wltlL H4S wtOK ana any courtesies eii
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tended to him will be appreciated by
us."
(Signed) J. E. Swearingen, State
superintendent of education; W. S.
Currell, presdent University of South
Carolina; 3V. M. Riggs. president
Clemson College; D. B. Johnson,
persident Winthrop College; Robt. P.
Peel, president Converse College; John
E. White, president Anderson College;
H.N. Snyder, president Wofford
College; W. J. McGlothlin, president
Furman University; S. J. Derrick,
presidentNewberry College (Lutheran.)
R. C. Grier, president Erskinej
College (A. R. P.); Watson B. Dun- |
i can, pastor First Methodist Church,
Cheraw; Wm. L. Ball, pastor First
Baptst Church, Spartanburg; Wade
H. Boggs, pastor Arsenial Hill Presbyterian
Church,-Columbia; W. H. K.
Pendleton, pastor Episcopal Church,
| Spartanburg, ana cnairman t>oara 01
j Religious Education, Diocese of S. C.;
j W. S. Patterson, pastor A. R. P.
| Church. Lancaster; D. S. MaoDonald,
pastor Christian Church. Sumter: A.
j E: Driggers, pastor Methodist church,
I Clemson College: W. W. Long, direr- j
i tor Extension Work, lemson College: |
I Christine X. South. State Home Deni- !
| onstration Agent, Wnithrop College.
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PLAY FOR TWO NIGHTS
OF COMMENCEMENT.
A play, "A Big Ado About Bettie."
will be given by the tenth grade pupils
! on Thursday and Friday nights of j
commencement,-May 2ti and 27. The j
play is given under the auspices of the j
Ladies'School Improvement league,!
and the funds derived from the play'
will be used for school improvements. {
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Prices for admission will be 25 cents
for children and 5 0 cents for adults.
Tickets for the two nights will go on!
sale at all of the drug stores Friday of '
| this week.
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The F>on Heur Club will meet Friday 1
afternoon at 4 o'clock with Miss Caro
( Bfird and Mrs. J. D. Carroll. Members
are asked to be present.
ATTENDING SHRINE MEET.
John T. Sox. Norman S. Geiger,
Sidney Riley, W. K. Sawyer and J.I
W. Nipper are in Rock Hill for the
Shrine meeting.
FRIDAY'S RECITAL.
The music pupils of Mrs. K. B.
Roof gave a public recital in the high j
school auditorium last Friday night ]
which was highly enjoyed by those j
privileged to be present, and the child-'
ren did themselves and their teacher
proud in rendering the following proj
gram:
"Little Italian". Smith?Geraldine '
| George: "On Wings of Victory". Lanier
[?Royal Keisler; "German Folk Song",
Weiss?Arthur and Helen Obenschain:
"Farm From Home". Spa aiding?Sara
Hampton Kaminer: "The Bugle
Corps", Morrison?Ansel Harmon:
"Birthday Waltz", Ganschals?J. C.
and Royal Keisler: ''Over the Sea J
Waves", Dellafield?Helen Oben- :
schain: "Violin Concerto", Beethoven J
?Emily Oswald: "S.ilute*to the Colors
Marfh" Anthonv?Harnlrl Smith and I
Christopher Kaufman: /'Rosy Fingers J
Valse", Wajch-^-Eleanor Shearouse;|
"Song of the Lark", Tsehaikowsky?j
Rosa Belle Hendrix; Chorus. "May
March". Forman. "At Evening". Satorio?Christopher
Kaufmap: "Meeting
in the Pasture". Farnsworth?
Bertha Caughman: "Mountain
Echoes", Dellafield?Lena Belle
Kleckley; "Glad Hours". Evans?Walter
Clyde Hutto: "The Carnival "of
Venice", arranged by Wiess?James
Dreher and teacher: "Fascination j
Waltz", WachvS?Le\v<is McCravy:
Reading?Christine Roof. Mrs. J. D.
Carroll, teacher; "Dance of the Moon
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Birds", Stastny?Martha Kyzer: "Six
Variations in G Major", Beethoven?
Virginia Evans: "Rustling Leaves
(Idyle)", Lange?Neita Lee Harman;
"Murmuring of the Forest", Braungardt?Christine
Roof; "Wil-O-theWisp
(Caprice Alegant)", de Grau?
Vermelle Hendrix: "To Spring",
Greig?Blon'delle Harmon: "La Gazelle
Polka", Wollenhaupt?Mary Ellen
Caughman; "Gipsies' Chorus", Rockel.
INCOME TAX*ACT 7
BRINGS IN MONEY.
Offcials of the state treasurer's office
yesterday announced that out of
5,000 checks received on the qew state
A <* * ' ' *
til yesterday.
This total of $353,559 .44 is not all
that has reached the treasurer, there
benig some 1,500 or 2,000 additional
checks yet to be computed by the officials.
These checks will carry the
amount to above $400,000, it is believed
.
No definite figure can be placed for
the new tax as a total for the year,
but it is beleved the amount to come
in wll be somewhere near $700,000.
A number of taxpayers have not yet
paid their' taxes and a large number
have paid only one-half of the tax due.
Members of the free cnference committee
on the appropriation bill estimated
the tax to bring in $1,000,000
but from the present indications this
figure will not be reached.
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"THE MASONIC RING."
There will be a play at the Gilbert
school building Friday night, May 19, i
1922, beginning promptly at 3 o'clock
p. m.. the title of which is "The Ma
sonic Ring". There will be refreshments.
Come one and all and enjoy a
good time.
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AXXIVERSARY DAY
The Pond Branch Epworth League,
will observe "Anniversary Day", with
a special program next Sunday night,
May 21, beginning at 8 o'clock promptly.
The program consists of address
es and music. All the members of
the league are urged to be present,
and everybody is most cordially invited
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WILL RETIRE AT NOON
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The State.
Governor Cooper said yesterdav that !
12 o'clock Saturday was entirely agree
able to him for the "change of gover-'
nors" and this time will likely be fixed
by the chief executive and Lieutenant |
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Governor Harvey when the two confer |
here today or tomorrow.
Tne governor annouiuea i ue&uu> ?ci
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would resign Saturday, but did not fix
any definite time. Lieutenant Gover-1
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nor Harvey suggested noon as the j
hour and this meets with the approval t
of Governor Cooper, he said yesterday.
Cop?"You're pinched for speeding."
Copped?"What's the big idea?
Doesn't that sign say 'Fine for speeding'
?"?Sun Dial.
Leaphart Made
U. 5. Marshal
Samuel J. Leaphart was Wednesday
advised of his confirmation to be
United States marshal for the Eastern
District of South Carolina, the senate
having confirmed his nomination Tuesday.
along with that of J. D. E.
Meyer of Charleston to be district attorney.
Mr. Leaphart will assume
the duties of the office in a few days.
He will have headquarters in Charleston.
but will no doubt spend much of
his time at his home in Lexington.
Mr. Leaphart's friends in Lexington
and throughout the state are congratulating
him on being appointed to this
high and responsible position.
POINCARE TAKES
EMPHATIC STAND.
Paris, May 12 (By the Associated
Press) .?Premier Poincare late tonight
renewed and also strengthened
his original instructions to M. Barthou
at Genoa. He is understood to
have told M. Barthou that he must
not enter nto any negotiation whatsoever
with the Russians.
He also told M. Barthou to make
clear, both in the subcommittee and
in the plenary committee, that the
view of the French government is that
nothing more is to be gained by prolonging
the conference.
The French government will not
agree to Frenc hexperts sitting on any
commissions with the Russian experts,
being of the opinion that exchange of
views with the soviet delegates will
lead to nothing, but in deferring to
certain susceptibilities the French
delegates might accept an early meeting
in some other city between allied
experts commissioned to study the best
mehtods of dealing with the-Russian
problem. It is also felt that representatives
of the United States should
be present at such meetings.
Should France take the initiative, in
wnding up the conference, according
to information received here, Belgium,
Genoa, May 12 (By the Associated
Press).?So gravely at variance are
Russia's communism and the order of
things obtaining throughout the rest
of Europe that a general immediate
agreement with Russia appears tonight
improbable. This conviction is
deeply disappointing to those who expected
quick and big results at Genoa
but the sentiment is tempered by the
belief that the creation of one or more
commissions to pursue a study of Russan
problems will prove efficacious in
finding a means to reconstruct Russia
onri hrin? hpr h.irk into the Europe
family.
Furthermore, Permier Lloyd George
and the Italian leaders are convinced
that the signing of an Europe truce
as a preliminary to a general non-aggression
pact will go a long way
towards tranquilizing Europe. Hopes
cf eventually accomplishing something
generally constructive for Russia were
Increased tonight by an announcement
from the French delegation that
France favors the appointment of a
commission for investigation of questons
Ike credts, debts and the treat 'rfi
t of foreign private property and
approved also a general truce, provided
it is understood that while the commissions
are engaged in ther labors
the powers wll not follow in th<? footsteps
of Germany and make separate
treaties with Russia.
The French rseent accusations that
they tried to dominate the conference.
They assert that the present situation
justifies their vews that the Russian
problem has not been suffciently
studied nd that something more
should have been done to approximate
the views of trie Russians witn
the representatives of non-communist
states efore hoping to reach a general
sweeping accord at Genoa. In
other words they believe that the
Russian problem through investigation
by a commission which will probably
vist Russa s beng approached and
they therefore approve the contemplated
procedure.
The Frenc happarently prefer an v.
nvestigation by an international commission
wthout Russans sitting thereon.
yet tonight a French spokesman
said that France would not oppose the
presence of Russions. Thise question
will be ironed out tomorrow when the
sub-commission on Aussian affairs
meets to consider the Russian reply.
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