Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i " ?'' >_ | >'-' " r _4v.- ' '; r ',< . . '? '; ?**/**"' ' v^'-j ? Xst&blkhed in 1891. NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD mmatoMii of important hap. pkninos qathrrkd from ovbr thi worlbl FOR THE HUSY READER TIM Owmtmmm Of l?vw days ?Ivm la Aa Bpltemlsed Farm Far Quick Reading Foreign? Viscount Peal, former British undersecretary of the war and air ministry,1 and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster in the present ministry, has been appointed secretary of state for India. A full grown Jackal ran wild through the streets in the heart or Vienna recently, terrorising the population. The beast pursued pedestrians charging right and left and biting many persons. It finally was killed. An examination revealed it had been suffering from rabies. Lady Alice White, who was found unconscious In her room in a London hotel recently, died. A burglar is believed tn hum InfllMait ? >" aM..v%?u ?uv tnMM UlJury, a fracture of the skull. Official announcement was made from the Vatican that Pope Pius had extended to extended to fifteen days the interval to elapse -between the death of a pope and the sessioh of the sacred college to elect his successor. Spanish forces continue their successes against the Moroccan rebels despite stiff resistance. The latest official statement says: "Three columns commanded by General Sanjurejo have occupied Ichti Side Salam and other positions which dominate Aroaf and Tlkermln. The enemy fought desperately along a fifteen kilometer front hut was repulsed and pursued. Tanks and armored trucks aided in tho pursuit and defeat of the enemy, whose resistance was tenacious. Prime Minister Lloyd George and Marquis Curson, secretary for foreign affairs, will be among Great Britain's delegates to the Genoa economic conference, it was announced. The proclamation of the sultan, Ahmed Fuad Pasha, as king of Egypt, was accompanied by the firing of salvos of 101 guns in Cairo, Alexandria and Port Said, and of 21 guns in all the other provincial capitals. Party strife again threatens to plunge Plume into anarchy. Immediately after the fall of the Zanella government, partisan feeling subsided, all **. ' \ Joining in choosing Major Giovanni ' v\Giurlati as head of the government, but'now that he has refused the position, each party is again rivalling -^the others for control of the city. Premier Poincaire of Prance said, at a banauet at tha dnui ?? "wi?? Week" in Paris, that If wine were bad tor the health It would hare been known since the days of the Romans, the Greeks?since Genesis." ' Military occupation ot Plume has been ordered by the Italian government. Occupation ot Plume Is considered as necessary to the application of the treaty of Rapallo, which charges Italy with the policing of Flume. Washington? Sewage may solve the gas engine fe ulproblem. Word has reached the department of commerce that successful expericents have been conducted in Birmingham, England, with suldge, the mud ot common drain pipes. H?fM nn mill ' ? ?MVI B??IU |ii UUUflB from St Louis, and Cairo and Thebes, 111., to Little Rock, Pine Bluff and Fort Smith, Ark., and Memphis, Tenn., were held to be unduly discrimination against other cities In Arkansas under A decision Issued by the interstate commerce commission. General Semenoff, anti-Bolshevist leader, who has been permitted to land at Vancouver, B. C., will be required to appear before Immigration Inspectors and satisfy them as to his eligibility before he can eater this coun) try. Recently there have been just two developments In the soldiers' bonus muddleN One was the filing by the chairman of the ways and means committee of the majority report of the compromise hill, which It was estimated would cost the government a total of 94.09S.71B.SS0. The other was , the circulation of a petition by Reprev sentattve Llneberger of California, a former service man, for a conference of house republicans to discuss the bonus legislation. The retail price investigation of the department of justice Is practically completed. A, few prosecutions are antbilMtwl *?? ' ? uwieiiw claimaq for the Investigation hare been largely psychological, officials said. For every dollar per capita which the United States Is spending on her . army, France Is spending seven and Oreat Britain Is spending four, according to figures made public by the > general, staff. - Herbert Hoover has declined to accept the director generalship of the quicentennlal exposition to be hold la Philadelphia la ltM. The vote la the" senate on the proponed Robinson amendment to the four-power Pacific treaty has conflrmi ed belief that the decision on ratltl rM UUU ?HI b. extremely <**?. WbU? I , mi conclDtir* ttaa to to ntmM the , ostoot of tho ofpooMloa to tbo poet , Tho omeadmoot woo rejected U io SO. jaoo ^ooty o w^Nr^MfM required ^ . V ' ' ~ MaJ. G?n. Geo rge O. Squler, chief lipil officer of the ermjr, hes filed Mtt against the America* Telephone end Telegraph company charging infringement on several patents he holds for wtsaless devices. Between $170,000 and $200,000 in negotiable Liberty bonds are' missing trprn the Liberty bond branch of the treasury, W. H. Morgan, chief of the secret service, says. Chalrtran McCumber of the senate finance committee, says it is the hope of the committee to have the permanent tariff bill ready for the senate within a few days. As a means of relieving unemployment, the American Federation of Labor soon will put before congress and urge the enaction of bills appropriating funds for development of the Mississippi river basin by control of flood water, increasing of navigability and drainage of lands. A dispatch from Chicago says that a number of leading theaters and theatrical productions of the United 8tates will be merged undbr on centralised management, newspapers in that city printing what is termed plans tor a $100,000,000 coblne. Retail food costs for the average family in the United States during February were 0.3 per cent less than they were during January, according to compilations made by the United States department of labor. Declaration that the United States should insist upon payment of its bill oi fZ4i.uuu.uuu tor keeping American soldiers in Germany were made in the senate by both party leaders?Senators Lodge of Massachusetts and Underwood of Alabama?and Senator Borah of Idaho. Domestic? Death by poison ended the flight of Otta Haider Larsen, student at the Massachusetts Institute of technology. Boston, from the gay party at which Paqjlne Virginia Clark, divorcee, ended her life. His body was found In the Fenway, behind the museum of fine arts, apparently dead only a short time. The Jury in the case of Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain. charged with the murder of J. Belton Kennedy, in LosAngeles, Calif., was unable to agree, and was discharged by the Judge. John L. Lewis, president of the international organisation of United Mine Workers, announces that six hundred thousand union miners In the anthracite and bituminous fields will quit work April 1 unless some unforeseen solution of the present war controversy is offered In the meantime. The motion picture Industry looks upon the demands made upon It by the American public as a challenge which is accepted to the ultimate, declared Will H. Hays, the new chief of the Industry, In addressing a meeting In New York recently. A nlnt to hlnw nn hriitni erty and cripple service of the Virginia Railway and Power company, operating street car lines in Portsmouth, Va? is alleged to have been uncovered by?Norfolk county police. The American Window Glass company of Pittsburg, the Johnston Brokerage company, a Pennsylvania corporation, more than one hundred window glass manufacturers and heads of three labor unions in the industry, have been Indicted by a federal grand Jury in New York City for violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The Fltsgerald (Ga.) Fair association, supported by tjie chamber of commerce, will hold a fair this fall. Two crippled women, a little crippled boy and an armless man appeared in a Brooklyn court as witnesses against John Stefan, who admitted that he employed the four to beg for him. Thirty-four indictments were reported by a federal grand jury at Buffalo, N. Y? in connection with thefts from the New York Central railroad, said to have aggregated more than $2,000,000 in the last year. The second trial of the case of Lonnie Moran and R. T. Shields on the charge of murder in connection with the death of W. H. Johnson, whose body was found near Lynchburg, Va., recently. ? Hope of an early settlement of the textile strike in Rhode Island, nqw1 in its eighth week, was revived recently, when the state beard of mediation and conciliation, basing its action on the passage pf the Lavander fortyeight-hour bill. Mrs. Madaiyne Obenchaln and Arthur C. Burch are on trial in Los Angeles, Calif., for the shooting of J. Bel ton Kennedy. John T. Brunen, circus owner, who waa shot to death in hla home at Riverside, N. J., la said to have been the victim of an "inside" job. The public prosecutor believes that hla chef did the shooting. -In a daylight pistol battle. Policeman Mclfail was killed in New York by a thug, who had retreated into a stoneyard. The thug was wounded so badly that he was captured, and fonr automatic pistols and a dagger were found on him. It is announced that a baby has arrived at the home of Alice Brady, actress, who was divorced from her husband, James Lyons Crane, in January. She married Crane two years ago. Three women will sit on U19 jury which will try Fatty Arbuckie tor the killing of Virginia Rappe. This la the third trial. Demands ot anthracite mine- workera were recently placed In the hands of the mine owners la New York city. It la stated that a substantial Increase la wages la sought. Mrs. W. D. Bdmondaon of Decatur, Abu has thrown her hat into the ring to oppass Csngrsasutas Bdward B. Almaa for represeatatlre in congress \ "+ m OFFICERS TO BE CUTTO 11,000 HOUSE READY TO PLUNGE INTO FIGHT OVER ENLISTED o i nsnu i n. WILL 60 INTO EFFECT JULY 1 Vote on Proposal to Slash Personnel From 133,000 to 115,000 is Expected Soon. Washington. ? After approving a clause in the army bill which provides that by July 1 the number ol regular army officers must be reduced from approximately 13,000 to 11,000, the house adjourned as It was about to plunge Into a fight over the enlisted Btrength. A vote on proposals to slash the enliBted personnel, which now appropriates 133,000, exclu sive of 7,000 Philippine scouts, to 115,or less. Is expected to be reached . Standing by the recommendations of the sub-committee which drafted the bill, the house In quick succea slon rejected three amendments which sought to fix the officei strength at different levels. By s vote of 142 to 68, an amendment bj Chairman Kahn of the military com mlttee, to provide the coming fiscal year, was defeated. An amendment by Representative Sisson, of Mississippi, a democratic member of the sub-committee li charge of the bill, to cut the num ber of officers to 9,000 was snowed uuuor, xou iu lv, woue a proposa by Representative Hull, Iowa, a re publican member ot the m^litarj affairs committee, to fix the max! mum at 12,000, was voted down, lit ti 65. When the house quit work for tb< day it had before it a series ol amendments which would increase allowance for the officers' reserve corps. The bill carries $250,000 foi salaries?an inadequate amount in the opinion of Representatives Hill, Mary land; Crago, Pennsylvania, and Rog era. Massachusetts, all republicans who proposed increases of the iteix in varying amounts. Once these amendments are dls posed of, the house will be ready foi a skirmish over enlisted strength. Th< /ram era of the bill have provided foi a reduction to 115,000 men. exclusive of the 7,000 Philippine scouts. Mr Kahn, who has declared his approva of the war department recommenda tlons for 150,000 men, has indicated he will offer an amendment to providt pay for a force of that Rise, while Mr Sisson has announced he will propose that the enlisted personnel be cut t< 100,000 men. Suggests Federal Control. Ban Francisco.?Edward N. Hurley former chairman of the Shippint Board, in a statement made public re cently, urged liberal government pay ments for actual services performer by shlDDins: oneratorn na n mooria n reviving American trade. Mr. Hurley offered Ave suggestion! for federal support. They were: Federal control and operation bj government employes of the wlrelesi service on American ships; the lnau guration of a system of cadet train ing for merchant ship officers undei federal control, the establishment o: federal training schools on every mer chant ship to provide engineers ant other specialists for those ships; lib eral payments for mail service 01 American ships and the adoption o: a super-cargo system to provide gov .ernmental agencies to follow up car goes and encourage purchase o: American goods. Must Make Request Soon, i Washington. ? Requests from near ,est relatives for the return of Amerl can dead overseas will not be favora bly considered after March 31. th< war department announced. The gov ernment, It was stated, had affordet all reasonable consideration to inter ested relatives in permitting them tc have nearly four years in which tr decide whether the bodies woul ! bt returned to this country or rest ir Fram e. France to Pay Debt. Paris. ? President Poincare author ised confirmation of the statement he made recently to the finance commit tee of the chamber of deputies in ex ecutlve seston that France intends tc pay her debt to the United States. M. Polncare's statement presum ably was impelled by the utterance of M. Laucheur, former French mln later of reconstruction, in a speech at Lyons last month when he declared that France would never be i?ble tc pay a cent to the United 3tutes on the French war debt account Rsduotlon In Naval Estimate. Washington.?Drastic reduction In u?17 uviKiriiuQut. Biiimsiei lor me next fiscal year have been made bj the house sub-commtttee on appro prtatlons in framing the navy bill. Instead of providing funds for an enlisted personnel of 90.000, as urged by Secretary Denby, the committee. II was said, fixed the total at 65,000 and authorised the commissioning of about 125 of the 641 members of the June graduating class. In round number* the bill will can rjr something like 1200,000,000. Credits Asked by Bulgarians. Washington.?Bulgaria, first of ths enemy countries to claim the prirtleg*, has applied to the financial committee of the League of Nations for an attention to Its business men of wktch KUtWi K M of the Int MM , ORT FORT MILL, 8. 0., THU ? TROOPS ON RHINE I TO BE nRAWN I ^ r . u THE ENTIRE FORCE OF APPROXIMATELY 2,000 MEN TO RETURN FROM GERMANY. TO BE OUT BY JULY FIRST Orders Issued by Weeks, He Say*. In Compliance With Policy Already Announced. Washington.?All American troops will be out ot Germany by July 1 under orders issued by Secretary Weeks by tbe direction ot President Harding. ' About 2,000 officers and tnen are directly affected, as the remainder ot ' Major General Allen's command in tbe Coblens bridgehead sone on the 1 Rhine already were under home orders. Tbe announcement ot the decision for complete American evacuation of 1 occupied territory in Germany was ' made by Secretary Weeks as his first act on return to the war department 1 from a three weeks' vacation in Flor' Ida. 1 He indicated that the step was ordered in compliance with tbe policy previously announced of withdrawing ' the Rhine forces as quickly as possible. f It had no relation, he said, to the 5 wrangle in congress over further re' ductlon ot the Bize of the army, nor did it result from the correspond' ence between the state department 1 and the allied commissioners over the American demand for a share in Ger' man reparations payment on account " of the maintenance ot troops in * Germany. The war secretary made no expla1 nation of steps that would be taken 1 to turn the Coblens sector over to the 5 allied commanders for policing and ' to hold the bridgehead as a means r for furthering advances into Germany > to enforce treaty obligations. The * three bridgehead positions were taken up under the armistice for this * purpose and thelrt occupation oon1 Armed in the treaty of Versailles and the treaty between the United States * and Germany. It was admitted at the war de partment that the rfctlon of the United States in completely abandoning the Rhlneland position might have some effect on the negotiations resulting from Secretary Hughes' action in submitting a request that the United States receive a share in German reparations payments already made to cover maintenance of the armleB on the Rhine. It was insist> ed. however, that the step was not a direct result of those negotiations since complete withdrawal was forecast before the note calling attention , to the American bill in excess of . $241,000,000 on this account was transmitted. 1 Postofflce Appropriation Bill Passed. 1 Washington.?The postofflce appropriation bill, carrying $623,773,000. 3 was passed by the senate after a heated fight. The measure carries $63,' 309,000 more than as passed by the house. $60,000,000 of the Increase go* ing for federal highway aid. The bill also carries provisions for f restoring to service ,the New York I pneumatic mail tubes and for continuing the New York to San Francisco 1 air-mail service. The vote on the - tube amendment was 36 to 19 and > came after a bitter attack had been ' made on the proposition by several - democrats. Tbe $50,000,000 was acL cepted by the senate without debate f and without a roll call. Raider* Start C'.csr. Up. Miami, Fla.?Forty special government agents, eight flying squadrons of five men, acting under the personal ^ uiivuuuu ui ^ui. Li. v. nun, nettu 01 the narcotic diviaiou of the internal | revenue department, launched a nation-wide liquor clean-up, with Miami j as the starting point. The raiders } worked fast, covering a territory of 20 square miles, and at nightfall had t seised liquor in 25 places and expected to visit a score more before they quit for the day. Will Succeed Baker. Washington. ? Trusteeship for a third of the world's gold supply changes bands when P. B. Scobey, of San Antonio, Texas, succeeds Raymond T. Baker as director of the mint. Gold assets of the mint servfee institutions aggregate $3,000,000,000. The world gold supply is estimated, at approximately $9,000,000,000. Mr. Scobey, when he takes the oath of office, assumes supervision of the government's coinage institutions, and tons of precious metals, bars of gold and silver coins comes under hia charge. v8ubmlts Resignation. , Washington.?William Grubert, at' tached to the Staunton, Va., prohl bition enforcement office, whose name has been mentioned in connection 1 with disclosures regarding the opera' tlon of an Illicit still there, has sub TnTTteaniB TemgnanoirrvommiBflioner Haynes announced. Action by prohibition headquarters upon the dlsclosures will depend upon recommendations to be made by Federal Prohibition Director Fulwlder, ot Virginia, Mr. Haynes added. Recovery of Sonde Announced. Washington. ? Recovery ot all the Liberty Bonds, amounting to 1176,009, stolen from the branch office ot the treasury department, was announced by the secret service agents. , already ipskp Mill R8DAY, MARCH 23, 1922. SOUTH CAROLINA SIGNSJONTRIICT PROMINENT MEN WITH GOVERNOR WHEN HE AFFIXED SIGNATURE TO RESOLUTION. STATE GO-OPERATES IN PLAN I I I Colonel Sanders, Superintendent of Penitentiary, Signs Agreement on Part of 8outh Carolina. Columbia. The State of South Carolina will sell all cotton grown on the state farms during the next five years through the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co-operative association. Governor Cooper signed the bill passed at the last session of the general assembly empowering the superintendent of the penitentiary to sign the association agreement on the part of the state, and Col. A. K. Sanders, the superintendent, signed the contract immediately thereafter. The governor signed the act in the presence of Senator Bethea of Dillon and Representative Jackson of Sumter, two of the authors of the bill; Harry Q. Kaminer, president of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative association; R. C. Hamer, chairman of the campaign committee; Harold C. Booker, secretary; D. W. Watklns of the extension forces of Clemson College; Col. A. K. Sanders, superintendent of the penitentiary, and W. R. Watklns, the governor's secretary. Senator G. K. Laney of Chesterfield, who with Senator Bethea. sponsored the bill in the senate. wired that he was unable to be present at the signing because of previous engagements. Colonel Sanders signed the contract for 675 bales, this being based on the 1920 crop. The agreement requires that all cotton grown on the state farms in the years 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925 and 1926 be sold through the association. It leaves optional with the superintendent the sale of the cotton now on hand. He may also turn it over to the association for sale lf%he deems wise. The Joint resolution signed by thb governor is as follows: "The superintendent of the penitentiary be, and he Is hereby, authorised and empowered to aign the agreement.of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative association and thereby bind the state of South Carolina by all the terms and obligations therein contained and set forth. Colonel Sanders said that it gave him pleasure to affix his signature to the association agreement He believes firmly in co-operative marketing of cotton and expressed the belief that the best interests of the state would be conserved by its signing the agreement. At the headquarters of the South Carolina-Cotton Growers' Co-operative association it was said that contracts representing over 27,000 bales were received, smashing all records for the campaign. Lee county has sent in 6,000 contracts in two days, it was said. A telegram from Blshopville received at the headquarters of the association, said that W A. Stuckey. one of the best known planters in the state, had signed the contract. Before signing the contract Mr. Stuckey had made a thorough study of the proposition. Helps Aiken People. Sufferers from the storm in Aiken county will. be assisted by the state in the amount of $1,000, which is now available for the Red Cross of Aiken county to be used by this organisation in behalf of the people who lost property in the recent storm. Senator Wells Is responsible for the amount being given by the state as when the resolution expressing sympathy for the sufferers came over from the house he moved to amend it so as to appropriate $2,000 for the people who had lost property. An appropriation conld not be made by a resolution and when the appropriation bill was taken up the item of $2,000 was inserted, but the free conference committee cut the amount to $1,000. Would Enforce Law. Efforts to provide for the enforcement of the state motor vehicle license laws are to be made by the state highway department in conjunction with the counties, as no provision for the enforcement was made by the legislature at its last session. Officials of the highly department are in hope that an arrangement can be made with the counties whereby inspectors can be placed in the field to enforce the law and to bring in much revenue every month. Officers Qlven Recognition. Federal recognition was extended to the following National Guard officers of South Carolina: Capt. James G. Collier, Company I, One Hundied and Eighteenth infantry, Rocx Hill; 8econd Lieut. James Lewis Comer. headquarters company, Third battalion. Rock Hill. Lieut. Howard E. Danner waa appointed by the adjutant general to be summary court officer tor the Four Hundred and Twenty-seventh company of coast artillery. Beaufort. Governor Signs Highway Measure. Governor Cooper signed the F. O. Harris measure amending the state highway act so as to prevent any olty or town from charging an automobile driver's license In addition to the 11ofnase how required by the state highway depurtafceut. tacoepfta the case'of iKndwetlSeHhF So h2f ?T the eeaat* this mJfcfldad hot dbee and att#0t ^ . . * . 'XTf FTipT^ ^ . . . .. . JO. Tim . i? Tim* Exttqdtd on Inoomo Tax. The South Carolina tax commission xranted an axtenalon until May 1 (or all peraona and firms aubject to pay stata Income tax. Under the new law the state Income tax ot one-third the amount of the federal tax was due the same time as the federal tax. not later than March 15. This Included the return and the first Installment. It would have been lmDoaslble for the tax commission to have enforced this as it gave only two days to complete the task of setting up machinery tor the enforcing of the tax. Under the terms of the law the tax commission has authority to set such time as it may see lit to take the returns and under tblB authority the commission extended the time to May 1. j This year only an affidavit of what was paid the federal government will be necessary, but in future years a duplicate of the federal return will have to be filed with the sta'9 government. J. Fraser Lyon and J. P. De*ham, members of the tax commission, issued the following statement in granting the extension: "All persons, partnerships, corporations and fiduciaries whose fiscal year ended on December 31. 1921. or January 31. 1922, including all persons who have nu fiscal year other than the calendar year, who are required to make returns under the state Income tax act before March 15, 1922. or April 15, 1922, respectively, are with regard to their Income tax return or affidavits to the South Carolina tax commission and with regard to the payment of the state income tax granted an extension until the first day of May. 1922. This extension is granted under authority of "act .to ralBe revenue for the support of the state government by the levy and collection of a tax upon incomes," approved the 13th day of March, 1922." State Highway Commission Msefr. At the meeting of the state highway commission. Charles H. Moorefleld, state highway engineer, was requested to continue to serve aa engineer for the present year and Mr. Moore'field consented. It will be recalled that Mr. Moorefleld resigned as engineer several weeks ago when there was a fight on in the legislature. At the request of the commission he agreed to remain at his post for the present. Two delegates, one from Abbeville county and one from Aiken county, came Before the commission in the interest of road work. L. W. Keller, supervisor, and H. B. Humbert, county engineer, composed the delegation from Abbeville. They sought fedsrol aid In the construction of a proposed project from the Anderson county linn via Lowndesvllle, Latimer and Calj houn Falls to the McCormlck county I line. The commission was f the opinion that the road from Abbuvill* to'Calhoun Falls was of greater Importance than the other. The delegation from Alkeo was composed of C. J. Hill, Dr. W. A. Wbitlock and E. A. Yaun, members of the county commission, and R. D. Clowe, county engineer. The delegation sought federal aid on tho r?ad from Salley to Monetta and requested the adoption of this road into the highway system. As the new federal aid law provides that not more than seven per cent of the roads may be include! In the federal aid system and as that percentage 1b already Included, ^he admission of another road would necessitate the elimination of some ether road. It was decided to eliminate the road from Trenton to Augusta from the system and to give aid to the former project when funds are available. The commission received a communication from the United Daughters of the Confederacy asking that the highway from Cheraw, Camden. Columbia to Augusta be designated as the Jefferson Davis highway and this road will be so named on the maps. The request of Bamberg county for federal aid in the sum of $20,000 for improving the road between Bamberg and the Orangeburg county line was received. The commission had already apprdved $15,000 for this section and the additional $5,000 was requested for allotment at the present time as ' the countv la rnndv to match the 120. 000. The commission approved the request provided the county make arrangements to construct the bridge over the Salkehatchie river. No action was taken on the request of Oreenvllle county for federal aid In the sum of 170,000 for the road from Travelers* Rest to the North Carolina line in the direction of Brevard. Efficiency Men Get Mere Money. An additional $3,786.74 for Griffinhagen and associates, efficiency engineers of Chicago, is carried In the annual appropriation bill under approved claims. These engineers made an investigation of the state government last year and submitted their findings to the general assembly which has adjourned. According to a previous statement, the experts had already been paid a little over $12,000 and this additional fund brings the amount to over $15,000 for the investigations. Two New Charters. The Marlboro Potato company of Bennettsville was chartered by the secretary of state with a capital stock of $8,000. Officers are: G. W. Evans, president; C. S. McColl, vice president: T. F. Everett, .Tr., secretary and treasurer; F. V. ?'rane. general manager, * The Palmetto Sheet Metal Works of Florence was chartered with a capital etock of $1,500. Officers are: B. Q. Gregg, president: R. L Wyatt, vice* president: D. O. Gregg Jr., seer* ,tary and treasurer. Signs Textile Bill. Governor Cooper has slgnld the 55* hour act and the measnre Is bow a law of the state. Under the provisions of the act B6 hours a week and 10 hoars a day are the legal hours la textile plants In the state. fedenU. recognition was granted to 0a?t James If. Wallace. Company B, thirty^thtrd engineers, Sooth Cum Una National Quart, and to first Lie* Uftlejohn and to '"II eMM - * rO TRAIN HEMS!1 HI CHICK SPRINGS; / UNITED STATES VETERANS' 8U. REAU LEASES GREENVILLE PROPERTY. TO BE EFF^TWE OUUT FIRST District to be Served Will Include thf Two Carol I nee and the State of Georgia. Greenville.? government training center (or disabled soldiers will be established near Greenville within 60 days, official announcement having been obtained here that the large Chick Springs property, now used as a sanitarium, has been leased by the United States Veterans' Bureau (or Ave years and that an additional large brick building Is to be erected there by the leasing companies, the Chick Springs Water company and the Steedley Sanitarium before the grounds are turned over to the government May 1. Leasing of the property represents an outlay by the government, it Is understood, of around 1160.000. The signing of the leaae brings to a successful conclusion a great amount of work In behalf of Greenville, covering a number of months past, by Major G. Heyward Mahon, Jr., J. A. Bull. Fred V. Graham and others connected with the chambe^ of commerce and the American legion. The training center will be the only one of Its kind In this district and one of the largest In the South. Two hundred and fifty men and instructors will be brought here when the property is taken over, and this number will be increased later. The new training center is to have no connection with the public service hospital at the old Camp Sevier site. Veterans of the world war, sent to this training school, will be taught a number of trades. They will come here from points through this district, which comprise! North ana South Carolina. Georgia, Florida and Tenneeaee. The present building, which was formerly the Chick Springs hotel, will be used for a dormitory, and the new building will be used for claas rooma and workshops. Death Penalty For Two. Greenville, March 15.?In the court of genera! sessions here Judge Frank ii. Guty Imposed death sentences.upon Cliff Hawkins, white, convicted of the murder of William Morgan, on the night of July 9, 1921, and upon Will Wood, negro, convicted of the murder of G. W. Smith, at Poe Mill September 21. 1921. Both had been under death sentence pending appeals to the supreme court,, the appeals being dismissed. Both were re-sentenced to die in the electric chair on April 2, between tha hours of 11 a. m. and 4 f. m. Marlon Sella Bonds. Marion?The municipal bonds to the amount of $100,000 for paving and other improvements in the town of Marion brought 97 with a 5 per cent rate of interest when the bidding was opened at the city hall. The bonds actually weul at 31. but the hocus offered by the Marion National bank for the deposit brought them up to 97: A. T. Bell A Co.. of Toledo, Ohio, was the Arm that purchased the bon^s. Representatives from some aeven or eight Arms were present and made offers ranging from 92*4 to 94V4. As soon as the money is placed with the Marion National bank, the town council will be in a position to go ahead with the letting of the contract for the construction work. The engineering Arm of Johnson A Roberts has been engaged to supervise the work. Farmer Breaks Leg. Anderson.?Jones Williams, a farmer, had the misfortune to break his leg when he Jumped from a buggy to stop a pair of runaway mules. Mr. Williams fell in a ditch and his leg was so badly fractured that amputation may be necessary. He lives on the Hammond farm near Wllliamstou. Must Muzzle Dogs. Manning.?Two small children .were recently bitten by a mad dog while they were walking along the street. Arrangements were quickly made to give the Pasteur treatment by local physicians, and the results have been 'satisfactory. The town council haa ordered all dogs appearing on the streets without being muzzled to be shot. A number of dogs were bitten by the mad dog that bit the children and officers are aiming to clear the town of all dogs without muzzles. New Bank Organised. Anderson. ? The Carolina Natipnal bank was organized with a capital of $200,000. At the meeting the offioers were elected and E. P. Vandlver was elected president; J. W. Norwood, of Greenville, vice-president and chairman of board of directors; JOhn A. Horton, vice-president; T. Sloan Banister, cashier; D. E. Crown, assistant cashier. At the meeting for the organisation Q. Pierce Browne'was made chairman and John A. Horton, secretary. Fourteen members were elected on the board of directors. Mertbore Farmers Pledging Cettea. Bennettsvllls.?E. W. Evans, chair man of the committee in chargo of seen ring pledgee for the Co-operative Cotton Marketing association, reporf ed for Marlboro oomnty pledgee amounting to M.M4 bales. Mr. Evans Ihn * jl * ^ > vW ' 't ,y^^H ??> * Avt^H is9nai?^^H *'V tlJBO-TirVK' JVfl * * L^ynnuuH SLOW PR06RESS OK MR ^ Structure Over Catawba Ittvar la Nit.' H Likely to be Completed Oattt' jSg Next Pall* ". . ffi| - \3 York.?Work oa the TorkMwUn* burg steel bridge over tha OU*U ;-^3 river la proceeding alowly, Mcorllu i to York people who have visited tha yf bridge ?ite within tha paat taw daya. * Judging from tha praaaat rata at potraoa tha structure will not be ctapkt ". | ad until tha mlddla of aa&t tall, they 9 aajr. which meana that thara will be q but llttla travel batwaan tha Whita M Rn? town *n<< th* " ??? rn??* W ilia new route this year. ^ J Travel will continue over the Roek " Hill or Oreenaboro routes, each of which necessltatea a wide dotoar and make the distance to Charlotte 41 miles. The bridge will be the means of shortening the distance to only St miles. ? r But even If the bridge were completed. there are no funds with which to improve the road from York to the ' river. There Is an ordinary York county road?good la dry weather but bad during wet spells, and It would not stand up'under a heavy traffic un- iu der unfavorable conditions. $ ( The legislative delegation was petl* tloned to make a special appropriation for the Improving of this road and Its failure to do so canned seme dlsapolntment among the citisens of '&*' York and Bethel townships, which are traversed by this highway. The sol-; >' ons. however, declare It was Unpoe-^' sible to make the appropriation with-' . out Increasing the county levy and s ' they deemed such a step unwise la the face of the buslnesa depression, man- . A ace of the boll weevil and general protests over tax burdens. Although M * many York people were heartily lu favor of building the road they real- * Ise there la much logic to the legislators' views and are not Inclined to raise a howl over the situation. The delegation appropriated tt.004 to build a mile and a half of new road from*the bridge to connect with the 'nearest highway to that point Medical Soolsty to Meed Rock Hill.?The annual meeting et the South Carolina Medical society will be held In Rock Hill in April and the local physicians are engaged in planning for the entertainment features. Between 400 and 600 physicians from all parts of the state ere expected to be In attendance, ahd the program committee is understood to be mapping out a program of mors than usual interest Tha doctors of the state are deeply Interested In Wlntbrop college, and the entertain ment plans will probably call for a reception at the collage. The Fennel 1 v infirmary will be Summer liiifSjSSF^4 zi*~r It is probable that aclinic will be held ' J/ at the first named.1 To Seek Injunction. v , Greenville.?Holding that the bW ' enacted by the general assembly pro* hlbitlng carnivals stowing In SoatV H'J Carolina except during county and ^ state fairs la in 'violation pf the pre*.; visions of the United States constltn* tion, In that It Impairs obligation 6t Is contract." and of theT state conetlta* \ tlon because the act is dlserlmlna* 4^ '^. tory, attorneys for two carnival# safe* rJ?j| , ed notice that they will seek an ffe Junction before Judge Frank B. Garjf of Abbeville to prevent officers entered ./ >' ing the law, thereby making a tesff^.yvR case and tending It to the supreme/^ court Columbia Man nnes wife.i mrum Columbia.?Austin McCrelght. prom* lnent citlsen of Columbia, aged It, was found dead In. the cellar of a hardware store with which' he was connected. y. with his head badly shot as the result of the firing of a shotgun In hie ow^^| hands. No coroner's Inquest was as the family was satisfied it wai^^^^H case of suicide. McCrelght is said to have been^H^NM spondent for'the past few wee^^HPq1 . cause of poor health yr ... f - W' Y , ,;'Takes en Mors -Men. , Charleston, ?* An indication that business is getting better la shown In the fact that the Southern railway shops hers have recently taken on a larger force of skilled mechanics than they used before the reduction was made In personnel several weeps ago. About 100 men .are now on the payrolls where'formerly not more than Ti were employed. Jry Irish Potatoes. - Andrews.?Idealising the difficulties of growing cotton under boll wevfll conditions as a money crop, a great many of the farmers In this section have turned to Irish potatoes for financial relief. Approximately 500 acres of these tubers are now under cuhivatlon In the vicinity of Andrews. This Is a large increase over hist fear's acreage, ae only a very few planted -J then. The acreage In sweet potatoes win ^ also be materially Increased amend hare this year. I Barker Wilt Spehk Here. Greenwood.?Dr. Charlee A. Barker,/ ?j?| former private phyetclan to Wflliam .'*Mj Howard Taft during bis will come to Greenwood March ? ,m| der the auspice* of the local Rotary club to deliver three latturee. Dr Barker will spoak fit the men. la* before the cltr schools, la the after. M noon before a meeting of various wen^jggjl en's clabs of, the ettr and hit night WOgs&H for# a general meeting. Be le. e MKJfg tlouaily known expenent. of .towHH health agd wae foinieilp oai the <Imh|H magna platform. - Cha >1^^" ft^Mae mg ?/ ; ?5*f