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m DANIEL ROPER TO RESIGN. 1 Former Maribor0 Man to Give l"p Big Position with Government. Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of internal revenue, has informed officials of his intention t0 resign shortly. Although his formal resignation has not been received at the White Mouse. the matter of his successor is understood to he under consideration. Be>ond the fact that he plans to return to private life, no information ?Ui lO I Hp HUlire plans CM -Mi. uupn was available here tonight as the commissioner was absent from the city. The resignation, however, it was ascertained, will not become effective for several weeks, Mr. Hoper having consented to remain at the head of the revenue bureau until after income tax returns for the past year had been field and the collection] of such taxes the first installation of which is due March 15, is well under way. ljong Public Career. In retiring to private life, Mr. Koper will wind up a long public career as the administrator of the great est tax collection agency ever organized which last year gathered approximately 18,000,000,000 in gove/n ment revenues. He became commissioner of internal revenue in September, 1917. just as the war emergency caused abnormal increase in all federal taxes and necessitated the expansion of the bureau from a small npace time affair, concerned chiefly with imports on alcohol and tobacco,! into the pockets of millions of citizens for increased income taxes and j into the records of corporations and. partnerships to take their excess! profits for prosecution of the war. I In administering this task, Mr. Rop er followed an original policy as exemplified by his statement that a man sought and obtained cooperation of business interests and expressed the hope that he had been able to make tax paying more popular than it was. Evasion of the tax laws were punished inexorably. Mr. Roper is a native of Marlboro county and went to Washington about 25 years ago as secretary to J no. L. McLaurin then a member of congress. His rise in publid life has been rapid. o F.ALliS FIVE MILES AM) LANDS SAFELY. ('limited ;5(? nuo Feet Before Oxygen J (lives Out and Plane Plunges. ~ I Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 28?Major R. W. Schroeder, chief test pilot sit McCook Field, who yesterday fell more than five miles in an airplane afte" shattering the world's altitude record miraculously escaping death, is II CDP1 |J>1 IV Friday THE / % II OC MUI e seasoi find s Sp While c Hundreds oi IUUJC I O iu ft F \ IU recovering today front partial blind'ness in the post hospital. Mayor Sehroeder climbed 30,020 > I feet and then plunge^ more than five | miles when he lost control of the ma ichine-after his oxygen supply became! exhausted. He lighted th0 plane' 'when two thousand feet from the! ground and made a graceful landing. When the plane settled, attendants; who rushed toward it found Major, !Sehroeder sitting erect in ihe machine' i, Vnr ;i brief time.! ai/paiciu,. ...v... residents of Dayton were surP a com-1 jet had appeared in thp sky. They had !mistaken the trail of vapor escaping! |from the machine as it sped down-j I ward for a "stranger in the heav-j jens." Thousands of persons gazed skyiward watching the plane which had ascended two hours before the plunge downward. His senses numbeed and his eyes frozen shut in a temperature said to have been 67 degrees below zero. Schroeder regained partial consciousness when 2,000 feet above the earth Iin time to right his machine and prevent it from smashing to the ground, out of control. Only Speck With Tail. The thousands of spectators were unaware at the time they were witnessing a "drama of the sky." They saw a speck of black silhouted against the blue sky to which was attached a "tail of grayish color. Gradtiniiv the nhiect was enlarged as it hurled to the earth. When but a few thousand feet above them those watch ing saw that it was an airplane, turning in a tail spin. It was at this point that Major Schroeder regained control of his plane and headed it toward McCook field. Here Major Schroeder made a safe landing and collapsed. He was blinded and his limbs were numb, despite the electrically heated suit in which he was encased. He was suffering from the effects of a lack of oxygen. When nearly seven miles above the earth, his oxygen tanks became exhausted and it was this which robbed him of consciousness and caused1 him to fall. Mechanics and officers at McCook; field lifted Major Schroeder from thei plane and he wtjs given first aid treat-j ment and later being removed to the! post hospital. where it was said his blindness will be only temporary. It i wil. be several days before he will | be able to use his eyes, according to( Dr. Howard V. Dutrow, an eye spe-1 cialist called int0 consultation. Thei the mometer on Maj. Schroeder's ma-j chine registered a temperature of 55 degrees blow zero Centigrade or 67. degrees below Fahrenheit. Altitude figures from the biograph, ' ? * r AAA reading indicated a neignt 01 oi,vw feet and when calibrated by Capt.l Harrison W. Flickinger, showed an j ;ng r and Sai LADIES nrt> rnri Sp 3? 1 wher many pret i was selei ne of the ; ring C if our opening * ' pretty and a lake their pure LAKE official altitude of 36,020 feet, a newworld's record and a variation of less I than 1,000 feet. The mark set by Major Schroederj again gives him the record which! Roland Kohl first won from him Julvj 30. 1019, with an official altitude of 30,300 feet and later increased in a1 second flight t0 31,000 feet. It also bleaks the record of Adjutant Casale. a French pilot, who was credited with | an unofficial record of 33,137 feet, j Major Schroeder was dresses heavthan anv nnl ir pvnlnrci' wllO eve.'-I set forth. He literally was wrapped in flexible electric heaters. His fly. ing suit was lined with the fur of Chinese Xuchwang dogs and between th(, fur and outer lining, flexible electric heat units, connected by silk covered wires with the dynamo of the1 engine heated the entirp suit. I In a like manner his headgear, gloves aiid moccasins were heated. Major Schroeder wore an oxygen mask of his own design. Capt. Harrison W. Flickinger chief calibration officer of McCook field, said Major Schroeder's record j would be first sent to the War De-; Dartment and later to officials of the! Aero Club of America. The Aero j Club of American, recognized by t he j Federation Aeronautique Internation-1 al, will be asked to certify the record of the world. o AMERICAN FAVORS VILLA. Pictures Bandit as Friend and Protector of Americans. Washington, Feb. 28?Francisco Villa was pictured as the friend and protector of the Americans in Mexico by George C. Carother, of New York today before the Senate committee investigating Mexican relations, while Pfesident Carranza, the witness said, always gave an impression of antagonism toward Americans. Carothers was American consular agent at Torreon from 1900 to 1913. Carothers, who traveled through1 Mexico with Villa for two years as President Wilson's r presentative, tes-; tified that in 1912 he witnessed the slaughter of 303 Chinese'at Torreon by Madero troops. The massacre, h thought, was staged largely in order that the troops might gratify their desire t0 kill. Introducing in the record letters to him from William J. Bryan whil Secretary of State, regarding thP occupation of Vera Cruz by American forces in 1914. Carothers testified that Bryan's letters judical d the occupation was in agreement with tin1 great European Powers, on a basis that sonie major power must restore order. I o Subscribe to The Dillon Herald, j WILLI turday, OF LAKl dially invi ring Millir Tomorri Satur March t we will h ty spring I ited with t r* x rinesi crec ioods don't fail to ttractive pattei :hases without pv r.n Ill uv VIEW, SO HARDEN HINTS. l Prepared liy County Home Demonstration Agent. With March conies ihe spring, the most wonderful season of all the year| perhaps. Winter is past, and now we l?e.uin to look forward to warm, balmy days. New Iife bursts forth every-1 where. There is something that pulls us out (loots, and of ail the interesting things we find without the vegetable garden is not the least interesting to both young and old. It not only furnishes valuable food for our tables but when there is a surplus it be omes a money making proposition. March is the month for all active seed sowing--as garden peas, cauliflower, early cabbage, onions, celery, spinach, parsley lettuce, vanish, beets asparagus, carrots, salsify, mustard, kohlrabi, etc. (aurilen l*eas. There are two varieties of garden peas?the smooth and the wrinkled. Thp smooth is the hardier of the two and should be planted as early as possible. The wrinkled variety can be planted now. There are two classes of wrinkled peas, the dwarf and the tall. Examples of the dwarf are the Alaska and Excelsior, and the Telephone and Champion of England represent the tall. In order to have a continuous supply of peas plantings should be made every ten days or two weeks until warm weather. Peas should be planted 2 or 3 inches deep in rows 3 or 4 feet apart. It is a good idea to plant them ih double rows if they have to be supported. The two enemies which may attack peas are powdery wilddew and plant bordeau mixtures. For plant lice spray with tobacco tea or one tablespoon of creoline diluted in two gallons of water. \ Onions. For very early bunch onions it is the common practice to plant sets in drills 12 to 14 inches apart and 2 to 3 inches apart in the raw. The sets may be put out in the autumn or as early in the spring.as the land can be prepared. In thc. cooled regions of the South the sets will need some protection if planted in the fall, and hay or straw may hp used to keep them from freezing. For dry onions, sow the seed thickly in drills about 12 to 14 inches apart in the spring as soon ;.s danger from har(j frosts is over. For early bulbs thp seed may be planted in a hot bed and the young plants transplanted to the open when conditions are favorable. unions require irequeiu snuiiuw cultivation, and il may bo necessary to resort tn hand weeding. It'hen (he (opr ' egin to die and the bulbs are full j,rown, the onions should be NER> Marcli 7 VIFW -# r m, a s ww a ted to att* iery Openi )W and day h and 13tl ave on dis lats. Out I musuai ca itions of t Arrivi see our line ns that will ? I VI trouble del odjTc >UTH CAR ? pulled and left in the field for a J few days to dry. Then the tops should j be clipped off and the bulbs placed in craies or bags and stored in well ventilated place to cure. Beets. | Sow the seeds in drills 14 to IS inches apart, if to be hand cultivated, J covering to the depth of about 1 inch. |As soon as the plants are well up,: thin them. Make two or three plantings, sous t0 have a continuous sup-, I ply of young tender beets throughout ilie Wttavii. .Vew Vegetables. The Home Demonstration Department recommends the following new J vegetables for t It is year. Chayote. New Zealand Spinach, Diishun. ami Chinese Cabbage. Perhaps we are least familiar with the Chayote: If i.; a vegetable very worthy of our at-1 tention. It is a Brazilian plant. The fruit grows on a vine somewhat like the cucumber and is light green in color with one rather large seed in the center. It can be planted in the spring when there is no danger of | frost. After planting cover with a j mulch until the vine appears. The vine dies in winter but conies out again in the spring. The yield of chayotes for th^ first year is not so great, but they are very prolific the second year. Chayotes make excellent relishes, sweet and sour pickle, marmalads, and jams. They can be creamed, used like a squash in fritters, or mashed, mixed with bread crumbs and baked. o wins la roe prize FOR COTTON YIELD. Sumter County Gets $.">00 and Silver Medal for Ilecord Production Last Year. S. J. White, a farmer of Sumter, county, has been awarded the silver medal and $500 as a cash prize for the second largest yield of lint cotton in the United States for the year 1919. This was one of the 18 prizes offered by the Farm Journal of Philadelphia for the best three yields of six important crops ? cotton, corn, wheat, oats, alfalfa and potatoes. For each of these crops The Journal offered a gold medal and $1,000 a silver medal and $500, and a bronze medal and $250 in prizes for the best yields. The announcement of the prize offer was made in 1918 before the armistice was signed and when it was thought, that the world war would last into 1919, and was for the purpose of stimulating the production of these six crops, to help win 'lie war .Mid feed, and clothe the world when the struggle was ended. The average yield of cotton in South Carolina during the last ten years has been 222 pounds and the yield Mr White was ohniit five times this .'quantity. r OPE 12tn an AND VlCi end our ng ;p/ay stock this re, and yo\ he designe ing Da of beautiful ^ mable the mos ayOflPAN OLINA nHHBnHBBBBI SEABORD TO CONWAY. Talk of Railroad Building From Raines. * There is a general belief on the part of business men in Conway that ihe Seaboard Air Line Railroad intends to build a road into Conway lrotn Raines, Marion county, says the Horry Herald of February 26. Raines y is ar station on the new line of road running through Marion county, and by -a perfectly straight line the dis taiice to Conway is not great, and the branch line from Conway to that point can be constructed in a comparatively .short time, although the f Little Pee Dee river, will have to be y spanned by means of a steel bridge. It is said that the railroad company started the making of a survey front Maine! in this directipn before the war. During the war the work was not prosecuted any further, except that it is well known that a number of surveyors and engineers in the last year or two have spent periods of time here at Conway making observation trips and preliminary surveys of the territory between Conway and Little Pee Dee river. k CREDITOR'S NOTICE. g Having qualified as administrator J of the estate of Bethea C. Dew, de- \ ceased, notice is hereby given that all persons holding claims against the estate are hereby notified to present same duly authenticated within the time provided by law or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. j All persons indebted to the said estate are hereby notified to make immediate payment to the undersigned administrator. ( JOHN T._ DRW 12 26 3t Administrator. , NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. I Notice is hereby given that Mrs. Jennie B. Gaddy, executrix of the estate of John W. Gaddy, deceased, has made application unto me for final discharge as such administratrix ajid that Thursday, March 25, at 10 a. m. in the forenoon has been appointed for the hearing of the said petition. All persons holding claims against the said estate are requested to file them with the administratrix on or before 10 a. m. in the foF^oon on Thursday, March 25, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. JOE CABELL, DAVIS, Judge of Probate, 2 26 4t. Dillon County. Habitual Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days "LAX-' I. WIT I PEPS'N" i. fiallyI prepni t i. ^yrupTonu'-! v:ativ? : 'oitual ; Conr.ii< .*uon. It s p ?. / but | shon' iken re - ' "or1 i days ? . .;.u ? ''.! * !? S .csand Kegulaiw. Vv.> Plea*. ... GOc : per hottlc. II -N1NG1 d 13 th 7V/7T -11 r7?j au \ ? a will r's art. iilir . I,KMiJ iress goods, t particular