Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Fort Mill Times Established in 189L FOBT MILL, S. 0., THUBSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1919 $1.26 Per Year. RATIFICATION IS UN f URGEN1JE1ND HITCHCOCK SAYS TREATY HAS BEEN IN HANDS OF ENEMY FOR FIVE WEEK8. ; DOCUMENT IN C010 STORAGE High Coat of Living la Very PropeHy Connected With the War and First Relief Reata With Commitete. Senator Hitchcock'* statement wired here from the senator's summer hbme at Swampscott, Mass., was made public through the local office ot the league to enforce peace. "The treaty ratification situation," the statement said, "changed somewhat during the past week. A new issue was raised when I asked t*e chairman of the foreign relations committee and majority members when they proposed to get action. "I took this course after consulting with a number of senators. There has been a growing demand for action by the committee. It has had the treaty sinco July 10. For five weeks, therefore, the treaty has been in cold storage without a vote or any other action. "The senate is waiting, and the country is waiting, and the impatience Is increasing. Every one knows that the enemies of the treaty and opponents of the league of nations control the committee. "Every one also Vnows that they do not control the senate. Public sentiment resents the suggestion that the opponents of the peace treaty might keep it locked up in committee, and this greatly delays ratification" "Every one now realizes that we are still suffering from war and that the first step toward relief is to ratify the treaty. "The President's address served to arouse the country to the importance of the treaty ratification as one of the steps necessary to reduce the cost of ll.l. ? UTUig. I ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR PAYMENT OF THE RAN80M. El Paso, Tex.?An official statement was Issued at military headquarters her* signed by Brig. Qen. James B. Brwin, district commander, announcing that Ma], L. A. Walton, commander of the aero unit at Fort Bliss, had received a message from the two missing aviators, saying they had been captured by Mexicans and were being held for (16.000 ransom. The ransom must be paid by August 18, according to the message. Arrangements were being made here to obtain $16,000 gold coin and to send It to Marfa early for payment of the ransom. This action was dfiomod nd liable to protect the men. C08TA RICA'S FLEEING i PRESIDENT IN JAMAICA. Kingston, Jamaica.?Federlco Tlnoeo, who recently abandoned the presidency ot Costa Rica and fled the country, arrived here on board the steamer Zacapa, en route to Europe He said several attempts had been made to assassinate him and that his brother, Jose, minister of war, was hot In the back of the head the night v before the president left and later " ft died. & HOG IN cold storage twenty-five year8. Detroit?Agents of the investigation * branch here of the department of Jus* E tlce said that In one cold storage * ft plant visited a frozen hog was found ^ H which they were told had been In ft -storage for 25 years. H ft The officials declared that while $Lft. they believed that if the hog really TO^'ft had been held for that length of time t||f t, ** waB through an oversight. They K Intend to investigate further next S^^Hkweek. Msteamer editor launched at seattle, washington I Seattle, Wash.?The steamer Edl^ftT' named by the United States ship. '^fawdng board In honor of the newspaper ftnt* women the United Statet ^Hftnd Canada, was launched here ir ; -lyQNrHae prsence of cheering scores o: gf-^M^ftembers of the National Editorial AsEnSj^gftmiatlon gathered in Seattle from all IftHFti ?f the country to attend the aaKnH1'"0"'" 1919 convention. Quy U. Hardy of Canon City. ??' 8P?n80re(t the boat. mwm*" ASKED TO AVERT HHral REPROACH FOR AMERICA ^ftftftHflftihlngton.?Former Attorney GenftP aftjftftgWlckersham. In a statement liBSBWf through the League to Enforce called upon the senate to ratify ^ftftftHflieace treaty with the league of covenant and then prepare to the document by amendment the assembly and conncll BH^^HHKue. In the same manner, as he out, the framers of the conftfftfflMJpk provided for Its amendment ranHLuua Hli K || ! tween the races. Cashier Commits Suicide. Camden.?Henry P. Clybum. n well known citizen of Kershaw and cashier of the Peoples Rank of that place, ended his own lifo at his home. He had been unwell for some tlmo, but went to the bank as usual. Upon his return to his home for breakfast he went into his room and placed a pistol to his mouth and fired. He Is surTired by his wife, who before marriage was Miss Rosa 8tover, and three children. He also leaves four brothers and one sister, all prominent clttions of this county. New Dally Paper. Orangeburg.?The Times and Democrat. one of the most enterprising county newspapers in this state, has decided to Issue a dally newspaper at Orangeburg boginnlng September 1. This paper was organized In Orangeburg by Jas. L. Sims, United States marshall. The paper Is now published by Jas. Izlar Sims and edited by Henry R. Sims and Hugo S. Sims. The Times and Democrat promises to get out an interesting daily paper and its success will be watched with great interest. ? NO AUTHORITY TO FIX FARES In Matter of Columbia, the General Aaeembly Only Hae Power to Interfere In Street Car Rates. Columbia.?Morris C. Lumpkin, assistant attorney general, has given an opinion, in which he holds that the city council of Columbia has no authority to amend the franchise of the Columbia Railway, Gas ft Electric Company so as to regulate street car fares. * Recently thu company increased its fares from five cents to seven cents. When the matter was referred to the city council the council found that there was no provision In the franchise which empowered the council to interfere with rate making. An ordinance was immediately introduced to grant the council this authority, which ordinance is now pending. Before taking final action, the attorney general's office was asked for an opinion. The streets of Columbia are the property of the state and the original grant or franchise was given by the state legislature. The. original franchise was for a period of 30 years. This expired in 1912 and was then renewed in perpetuity, and the opinion of the attorney general is opinion that any authority to interfere with rate making would have to come from the general assembly. Columbia.?B. P. Campbell of Newberry was accidentally shot by his brother and was brought to the Baptist Hospital later in the evening. The bullet took effect in the abdomen. His condition Is thought to be serious. St. George.?There was a gathering of representative farmers from every section of Dorchester county in St. George for the purpose of organizing a branch of the American Cotton Association. Clemsbn College.?The extension service at Clemson College is attempting to bring farmers together for co-operative purchase of carload lots of wire fencing as a further step in advancing live stock growing in South Carolina. Greenville.?The strike of shopmen and sub-station tenders of the southern division of Piedmont a d Northern lines, caused the suspension of all freight and through train passenger service, except betweon Greenville and Anderson. Orangeburg.?Work will soon commence upon the erection of an annex to St. Paul's Methodist Church Sunday school building, which annex will be known as the "R. E. Wannamaker Sunday School Annex." This building will cost approximately $10,000 and will fill a needed want. Columbia.?Approximately $240,365 was lost during the July floods and over $450,000 saved by timely warnings of the United States weather bureau says the July report of Richard H. Sullivan, meteorologist, issued recently. The largest damages were wrought in the Edisto River basin with estimated losses of $207,250. Charleston.? Three arrests have been made by federal authorities of Atlantic Const Line employees, who are charged with larceny of Interstate freight. There may he other arrests in connection with this case, which is said to bo similar to one in which several Seaboard employees were convicted at the June term of court. Rowe8ville.?During a severe thunder storm lightning struck Rowesvillo cotton warehouse and set Are to the cotton. The warehouse and contents were destroyed. It is understood that over S00 bales were In the warehouse at time of Are. The warehouse was under state supervision and all cotton was insured. Gaffney.?Mr. and Mrs. Z. B. Sarratt received a message from army headquarters at Douglas. Arir., telling them of a fcerlous injury to their son. Walter, which had Just occurred in an automobile smash-up. None of the particulars were obtainable, and Mr. and Mrs. Sarratt are almost frantic. The young man hns been in the army about 18 months. Negro Celebration In Cheraw. Cheraw.?The negroes of Chesterfield and Marlboro counties held a celebration here in honor of more than 200 soldiers of their race recently returned from France. Addresses were made by Col. E. W. Duvall and the Rev. A. H. McArn and Bishop Clinton, a negro preacher of Charlotte. The latter gave his race some advice and urged goodwill and co-operation be GUST^ I Herr Gustav Bauer, who has suo> ^ ceeded Schiedemann as premier of the German republic. ]{ ANOTHER PLAN MAY BE TRIED? t Aside from Fact That Many Oppose v Any System of Military Training, c Cost Cannot be Overlooked. s Washington.?The hight cost of unl- ? versal military training aa revealed p In the testimony of General March, e chief of staff of the army, may have f the effect of defeating any attempt at c passing legislation providing for such n a policy as a permanent American ? policy. f( It is possible, of course, that some j other plan can be devised that will i s not confront the nation with an an-Id nual expenditure of $900,000,000 for,*" an indefinite period. The general staff bill or whatever it was Secretary Q of War Baker transmitted to Congress t a few days ago would provide for a c permanent regular army of 627,000 f officers and men, which would furnish e the necessary overhead for the training of boys of 19 years from year to A year to the extent of approximately 650,000. This training would last for three months. ., Probably every senator present at In General March's hearing held the view ' t( of the chiof of staff that if such a a system of training had been in effect (n in the United States a few years prior g to the outbreak of the world war. It i B would have ended much sooner than^ it was. The United States would have ? open in position to mobilize a huge i. army at once, every man prepared for' n active service after a short period of p flnal training. It But universal military training and preparedness at $900,000,000 a year, many times the pre-war army's expenditure, Is a horse of a wholly different color. Aside from the fact that large numbers of persons are oppos- 11 ed to any form of compulsory mill- u tary training and more especially fi compulsory service, the matter of ex ^ pense cannot be overlooked. v o 80ME RATHER IMPORTANT G DEVELOPMENTS IN FIQHT 1 Washington.?Important new de ^ velopments In the government's fight to reduce the high cost of liviqg have been announced. One of the most interesting was ^ the announcement by Attorney Qeneral Palmer that the first federal con- * victlon for profiteering had been ob- 0 tained. District Attorney Lucey tele- t graphed from BInghampton, N. Y., 9 that a retail grocer had been fined n $600 for selling sugar at 15 cents a 9 pound. No details were given. 8ECRETARY BAKER PAYS A C HIGH TRIBUTE TO MARINES Washington.?Tribute to the performance of marines In France as "a E new and heroic demonstration of the * unconquerable tenacity and dauntless jP courage of the American soldier." |v was paid by Secretary Baker In a let-le ter to Acting Secretary Roosevelt of 9 the navy department. e 8EIZURE OF HOARDED . A FOODSTUFFS AT TAMPA. Tampa.?More man a million eggs, hundreds of thousands of tins of ^ canned goods and about 30.000 pounds 11 of sugar figured in a seizure of food-;*1 stufTs here by department of Justice n agents operating under Federal Dls- i trict Attorney H. S. Phillips. Six'*' wholesale concerns were served with papers libeling huge stocks of goods, ri the charge being that the goods so n libeled are being held for an advance in prices. r< HINES WILL NOT DEAL C WITH SHOPMEN ON 8TRIKE. Washington.?No dealings with representatives of the railroad shopmen now on strike will be made by the ^ railroad administration. Director Oen- Cl oral Hines repeated, in a letter toia James Hamilton Lewis, former sena- *< tor from Illinois, who telegraphed the 11 administration. . > "The strikes which have taken place hare not been authorised aa- CI cording to the laws of the shopmen's t< organisation. *3 ATTORNEY GENERAL [fl ASSIST_ STATES OSITION IS MADE PLAIN BY PALMER IN ISSUING ORDERS TO OHIO OFFICIALS. 'LAY SHUTTLECOCK SYSTEM / administration Hopes for But Little from Congress Unless the People Prod Their Representatives On. The opposition to any oxtension, in he control act, is growing on the sente side. Several democratic senators. Imith, of South Carolina; Smith, of leorgia, and Ransdell, of Louisiana, locked action on the Palmer suggeslons for moro power. The senate is to be the storm cenjr of the resistance to the efforts to ring the food profiteer to justice. The ght to stay the President is already 1 n. The administration hopeB for very Ittle from Congress unless the people irod their respective members on. It s feared that great food handling gencies will be able to delay first, nd then defeat any remedial legislaion. The serious nature of the opposition ras shown in the senate and house ommittees on agriculture. The attorney general will assist tate officials in routing food hoardrs that cannot be reached under loal statutes. He will not nermlt the ackers and other big interests to vade the law by removing stored ood from one state to another to esape penalties. His position was tade plain when he Instructed the epresentatives of the department in ihio to make seizures of stores of ood reported there by Governor Cox. mmediately upon being told of this upply of meat, and tho conditions unor which it is held, Mr. Palmer diected his agents to act. This mean? that Mr. Palmer is to ake a hand in carrying on the spirit f state cold storage laws, to prevent he shuttle cock system of hig conems, which in sending their stocks rom state to state to hold them longr, and dodge the state laws. kPPEAL IS ISSUED TO FARMERS OF COUNTRY. Washington.?Farmers throughout he country were appealed to by the ational hoard of farm organizations o protest by petition and ballot gainst "tho unfair and un-American methods being used against farm oranizatlon engaged in the collective ale of their farm products." ConTeSs and state legislatures were calld upon to clarify the purpose of the ntl-trust laws in order that the farmer shall have the right to unaistakable terms to do collective barainlng in accord with the original inBnt of the law." "IN MAY BE IMPORTED FROM GERMANY NOW Washington.?Tin, in pig or alloy, aay now be Imported from Germany, nder war trade board regulations lsued which still further modify the j lockade which existed during the' rar. Restriction neainst imnnrtntlnr I f goods into the United States from iermany now only apply to the coal ar products, drugs and dyestuffs. <A8 SEVEN LIVING WIVES, GOE8 TO 8ING 8ING PRI80N v New York.?Convicted of bigamy on is confession that he has seven llv-! rig wives, one of whom he married wlce, Charles Hugh Wilson, 48 years Id. former Y. M. C. A. secretary evanrelist and traveling salesman, was : entenced to three years and si* tonths in Sing Sing prison where he nnounced he will take up prison rearm work. lHARLES DECLARES HE IS STILL KING OF HUNGARY Berlin.?A courier has arrived in tudapest, according to reports receiv-, d here, with a letter from former Em- j eror Charles to Archduke Joseph, in rhich Charles declares he is still the rowned kin* of Hungary and commldlona Joseph to take oyer the soverlgn power until his return. ? MORE DEFINITE 8TAGE 18 REACHED IN NEGOTIATIONS Washington.?Negotiations between lemocratlc and Republican senators joking to ratification of the peace reaty with reservations reached a lore definite stage. Democratic leaders, feeling out senIment on the Republican side, were sld that the treaty never could be stifled without qualification but that lore than 20 Republicans wanted to ee It accepted In the near future with ; Bservatlons. LOSE COOPERATION BETWEEN THE STATES AND GOVERNMENT Washington.?Close co-operation beireen state authorities, who possess stalled Information of food and price ondltlons, and the attorney general nd his staff of assistants, empowered > enforce the food control law, Is boig established as a part of the govrnment's fight to reduce cost of living. Instructions went out from Attorney eneral Palmer to the two district atirneys In Ohio to proceed Immedlater to assist Governor Cox. "cleaned up" except In Chicago and a few points in New England, where it was expected the men would return to work before the end of the week. Conferences with Director General Hines over the men's wage demands will start Immediately after all the men have returned to work. i HOMER 8. CUMMINGS 8PEAK8 TO A8HEVILLE AUDIENCE. Asheville.?Speaking here Homer S. Cummings declared that after traveling 12.000 miles, from the Atlantic < to the Pacific, he had found sentiment > 1 strong for the league of nations and 1 President Wilson. "No man and no party Intentionally . placing obstacles in the way of a i league of nations will survive long enough to outlive the memory of such < an offense against humanity and civil- ] izatlon," said the speaker. i SIR ERNEST PEARSON Sir Ernest Pearson, who was recently decorated by King George for his services during the war.?Sir Ernest is one of the foremost English engineers. SYSTEMATICALLY PLUNDERED Stock Aggregating $450,414,000 Paid As Bonuses and Many Millions As Dividends Paid on.Same Since. Washington.?The railroad brotherhoods through their counsel, Qlenn E. Plumb, laid before the house interstate commerce committee their i charges of corruption in the management of the railroads under private ! control. The charges, announced as forthcoming a week ago, were that many of the great railwoy systems had been plundered systematically, by the financial interests and that the railroads illegally held millions of acres of public lands. Eighteen representative railroads of the country, the brotherhood attorney asserted, issued stock aggregating $450,414,000 between 1900 and 1910 as bonuses and paid millions of dollars in dividends on these bonuses. 49,498 BATTLE DEATHS IN U. S. OVERSEAS ARMY. Washington.? Final casualty reports from the central records office of the A. E. F. in France, made public by the war department, gave the total battle deaths as 49,493, total wounded 205,690 and prisoners 4,480. "Only slight revisions" will be made in this report, it was announced. Recent corrections in the list of missing have reduced the number to only 127. names, as compared with 264,000 for France and 121,000 for England. To July 1, the army had reported 149,433 cases of disabled soldiers to the war risk Insurance bureau. It was estimated that the final total would be close to 200,000. BRITISH GOVERNMENT IS CRITICIZED ON ARMAMENT8. London.?In the house of commons the ministers had to listen to strong criticism of the extravagance of the government in the matter of armanvents, but Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary of war, in a general defense of th? government, said he was able to compromise considerable retrenchment In this direction. His speech betrayed that the government was trying as far as possible to meet the popular demands for greater economy. MR. BAKER DISAPPROVES OF AVIATION CABINET MEMBER. Washington.?Concentration of the air activities of the United States, civilian, naval and military, within the direction of a alnel? mvommortii agency with an official holding a place In the President's cabinet at the head is recommended by the special American aviation mission, headed by 1 Assistant Secretary of War Crowell, j who has been studying aircraft developments in Europe. STRIKE OF SHOPMEN ABOUT "CLEANED UP." Washington.?Reports to the railway employers' department of the American Federation of Labor indlcat- ; ed that the strike of shopmen was ALMOST ULTIMATUM SENT TOJARRANZA DEFINITE MOVE MADE TOWARD LONG EXPECTED CHANGE IN OUR MEXICAN POLiCY. BREAKING POINT APPROACHES Action Taken Because of Continuance of Series of Murders and Outrages of Citizens of United States. Washington. ? The first definite move tov ard the long expected chanifb in policy in dealing with Mexico was disclosed. Carranza has been warned that if the murders and outrages of Americans continue, the United States "may be forced to adopt a radical change in its policy with regard to Mexico." With the announcement at the state department, however, came no authoritative indication of how far the American government is preparing to go to enforce what lacks only the diplomatic technicalities of an ultimatum. The government announced its action by publishing an exchange of notes with Mexico City, and prefaced its official statement with the explanation that the diplomatic representations referred to had been taken "in view of the long series of murders and outrages of American citizens in Mexico, culminating in the murder of Peter Catron in San Luis Potosi last month, and the perpetua tion or other acts in disregard of American lives and property." FLOOD OF FOREIGN GOLD BLAMED FOR HIGH PRICES. Washington.?Haled before the bar of the federal electric railways commission, a billion dollars in foreign gold was arraigned by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale university, as the chief culprit not only in bringing American trolley lines to bankruptcy, but in sending prices generally skyrocking to undreamed of high levels. The flood of bullion, he said, came before the war. sent over to meet purchase by belligerent powers in the United States. JAPAN NOT TO SEND TROOPS TO AID ADMIRAL KOLCHAK. Tokio.?It has been learned that the Japanese government after mature deliberation both by the cabinet and diplomatic advisory council, has informed the government of Admiral Kolchak that Japan is unable to accede to its request to send several divisions of troops to assist Kolchak. CAR REPAIRERS DECIDE TO CALL OFF STRIKE Chicago.?Delegates representing 25,000 car repairers employed by Chicago railroads by a rising vote decid ed to call off the strike and return to work. The action was taken at a mass meeting of the delegates called to consider the question of the strike, after an address by International Vice President J. M. Patterson, who vigorously denounced those responsible for the walkout as radicals. TO SUPPRESS ALL SINN FEIN ORGANIZATIONS Liondon. ? The government announces that owing to Increase In crime In county Clare. Ireland, It has been decided to suppress all Sinn and kindred organizations in that country. TWO N. C. MEN KILLED BY BOILER EXPLOSION Suffolk. Va.?Three men were killed outright and seven others were badly Injured when a boiler at the plant of Caulborne brothers' mill near here, A 1 r-%% - rAji.uuru. i no utwui nre; i muno Hampton, Roduco, N. C.; Carlton Parker, Eurn, N. C? and Rufus Johnson, colored, Savannah, Ga. EIGHT PERSONS KILLED IN CAR AND ENGINE COLLISION Parkersbnrp:. W. Va.?The death list, ss a result or tuo crash between a street car, crowded with women and children enrouto to a picnic, and a railroad engine at- Parmanco, two miles north of here, was Increased to eivht when five persons succumbed to their Injuries in hospitals. The street car. property of the Monongahela Valley Traction Company, crashed into a railroad switch engine. EX-GOVERNOR FERGUSON AT HEAD OF NEW PARTY Port Worth, Tex.?Two factions of Texas Democrats, dissatisfied with the present party organization, met here and determined upon separate lines of attack to accomplish a return to "the principles of JelTerson and Jackson" In state and federal governmental affairs. One faction headed by former Governor James E. Ferguson, left the present Democratic organisation and formed the "American party." GOOD MEETING IN FLORENCE^COUNTY ADDRESS IN PART OF QEORGB W. WHEELER, MANAGER OF S. C. L. O. ASSOCIATION. MILLIONS UNIMPROVED ACRES Reclamation of Fertile State Lands la Task for Both the State and Federal Governments. Florence.?Great interest was manifest in the several subjects discussed at the annual meeting of the Florence County Agricultural Society hold here. The president of the society, R. E. Curren. opened the meeting and introduced the speakers making introduo tory remarks which were in themselves very instructive. There are 11,000.000 acres of rich fertile idle lands in this state that can be reclnimof? nn/i ?i?~ ? - ? "?V4 nmvio |Muviuiu?f auu put on the tax books of the state ua improved and revenue producing land, according to George R. Wheeler, manager of the South Caroltnn Land Owners' Association, who addressed tho meeting on tho subjects of getting ready for the coming of the boll weevil and increasing the taxable wealth of the state. He said as there are approximately only G,500,000 acres now on the tax books, as improved revenue producing lands, the way is clearly shown how to go about increasing the taxable wealth of the state thereby causing a greater annual revenue from taxes which will enable the state either to reduce the tax levies or to spend greater sums in the upbuilding of the state. He said 1.500.000 acres of idle land need drainage. That is a vast area and the reclaiming of such an area is too big a Job for any group of men. one or more counties or even the state. It is a Joh that will require federal aid. The federal government goes in partnership in hutlding roads; it goes in partnership in the employing county agents, and ho said It should go in partnership in draining the coastal plain. Barnwell.?Sheriff J. B. Morris of Barnwell county tendered his resignation to Governor Cooper. In his letter the chief ofTlcer said he was entering business in Barnwell and asked that his resignation be accepted. Anderson.?Anderson county road bonds in tho nmount of $290,000 will he offered for sale on Septomber 9, and the remainder of the $1,450,000 will be placed on sale next year, according to ft decision of the Anderson County highway commissioners, Greenville.?Tho names of the officers of the Hejaz Temple, tho new Shrine Temple to be instituted here with Jurisdiction over nil of upper South Carolina, were announced by Potentate Qoorgo T. Bryan. At the same time, Mr. Bryan announced that October *3 has been chosen as tho date for the first ceremonial of Hejaa Temple. Barnwell.?Tho first bale of the 1919 cotton crop was ginned here for B. J. Brown, a progressive negro farmer of Barnwell. The bale weighed 430 pounds and the staple graded middling. This is two days later than last year's record, when H. W. Sanders of this city marketed the state's first bale on August 9. Cotton is opening rapidly in some sections now and the local gins will soon be running at full blnst. Laurens.?At a picnic held Jointly by the Woodmen of the World, the Woman's Circle, W. O. W., and the Masons at Mount Oallagher Friday, A 1 J uie priiiuiptti Birounoin ui mo aay were Major Henry C. Tillman, of Greenwood. and Oapt. John J. McSwnln, of Greenville, two officers In the armies of the American Expeditionary Forces and both eloquent and popular publlo speakers. First Bale 1919 Cotton. Charleston.?The first bale of cotton of this season sold on the local market brought 49 cents at auction, after lively bidding. It was grown near McClellanville, this county. Edgefield.?A charter has been procured for the Dixie Highway Hotel Company, of Edgefield. The Incorporators made a canvass of the town and $28,000 wan subscribed to the capital stock. In a few dayB the subscription will run to $50,000. This assures Edgefield a first-class hotel. Would Know Hsr Profiteers. Greenville.?In order to ascertain whether there Is profiteering in Greenville in any line of business, a central committee composed of business men representing various businesses and other citizens representing the public was appointed by Mayor H. C. Harvley at the request of the wholesale and retail dealers of the city. Just what procedure will be taken by the committee has not yet been definitely decided upon but will be worked out within the next two or three days.