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BRIEF NEWS NOTES WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING WEEK THROUGHOUT COUNTRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE ftatfisrsd From All Parts Of Thf Globs And Told In 8hort Paragraphs Foreign? Eamon de Valera has issued a manifesto, signing it himself, launching a new irisn organization, a repuDiican association, and asks financial and moral support of it. A full grown jackal ran wild through the streets in the heart of Vienna recently, terrorizing 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 to have inflicted the fatal injury, a fracture of the skull. Official announcement was made from the vatichn that Pope Pius had extended to extended to fifteen days the interval to elapse between the death of a pope and the session 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 an9 other Dositions which dominate Aroaf and Tikermin. The enemy fought desperately along a fifteen kilometer front but was repulsed and pursued. Tanks and armored trucks aided in the pursuit and defeat of the enemy, whose resistance was tenacious. Prime Minister Lloyd George and Marquis Curzon, 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 Fiume into anarchy. Immediately after the fall of the Zanella government, partisan feeling subsided, all joining in choosing Major Giovanni Giuriati 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. Striking gold miners have practically surrounded Johannesburg, South Africa, and are attacking desperately in an attempt to seize the city before the arrival of reinforcements which are being rushed to the aid of the beseiged government troops and volunteers. Reports sent out from Johannesburg, South Africa, say that the rebellion is |/iuviivau; v ? vi . i u v ? vi UIIIVII? forces have about driven the mine rebels into subjection. Washington? Sewage may solve the gas engine fe ulproblem. Word has reached the department of commerce that successful experlcents have been conducted in Birmingham, England, with suldge, the mud of common drain pipes. Rates on grain and grain products from St. Louis, and Cairo and Thebes, fll., 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 eligif bility before he can enter this country. Recently there have been just two developments in the soldiers' bonus muddle. One was the filing by the chairman of the ways and means com mittee of the majority report of the compromise bill, which it was estimated would cost the government a total of $1,098,719,350. The other was the circulation of a petition by Representative Lineberger 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 anticipated but the benefits claimed for the investigation have been largely psychological, officials said. For every dollar per capita which the United States is spending on her army. France is spending seven and Great Britain is spending four, according to figures made public by the general staff. Herbert Hoover has declined to accept the director generalship of the quicentennial exposition to be held in Philadelphia in 1926. The vote in the senate on the proposed Robinson amendment to the four-power Pacific treaty has confirm ed belief that the decision on ratification will be extremely close. While not conclusive the vote revealed the % extent of the opposition to the pact. The amendment was rejected 55 to 30. Since only a majority was required the deieat of the amendment was overwhelming. The Central of Georgia railroad has applied to the interstate commerce commission for permission to issue $835,000 in equipment trust certiti tales. Secretary Mellon appeared before a meeting of the house banking committee and voiced opposition to plac ing a "dirt" farmer on the federal re ye board. * Passenger traffic of railroads in }<i2i was 2?t per cent less than in the preceding year, according to report filed with the interstate commerce commissi"" MaJ. Gen. George O. Squier, chief signal officer of the army, has filed suit against the American Telephone and Telegraph company charging infringement on several patents he holds for wireless devices. The house subcommittee on appropriations now framing the navy bill for next year is planning to reduce the enlisted personnel to 65,000 men, whereas Secretary Denby is outlining j the needs of his department has declared 90,000 enlisted men and the present officer total would be required to keep "the treaty navy" on its toes. The senate passed the deficiency appropriation bill, carrying a total of {136,895,000 or {28,358,000 more than was appropriated by the measure as passed by the house. The principal amendment added by the senate was an appropriation of {27,468,000 for use in repayment of illegally collected taxes. me crop stabilization commissiuu being agitated before congress, and which prominent politicians say will pass, would be composed of the secretaries of agriculture, commerce and labor and prices so fixed cannot be less than cost production. The life of the commission would be one year, but would be continued if ,it proved to be beneficial. Domestic? 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, now in its eighth week, was revived recently, when the state board of mediation and conciliation, basing its action on the passage of the Lavander fortyeight-hour bill. Mrs. Madalyne Obenchain and Ar: thur C. Burcb are on trial in Los Angeles, Calif., for the shooting of J. Belton Kennedy. John T. Brunen, circus owner, who was shot to death in his home at ! Riverside, N. J., is said to have been ! the victim of an "inside" job. The public prosecutor believes tnat nis chef did the shooting. In a daylight pistol battle. Policeman McMail 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 four automatic pistols and a dagger ; were found on him. A big fire in the Chicago wholesale district in the section bounded by j ; Canal. Van Buren and Clinton streets ! and Jackson boulevard destroyed much ' property and goods. New York clubwomen are up in arms against Frederick McMonnies' de. piction of "Civic Virtue"?a nude young man enthusiastically kicking | the prostrate forms of two sirens, rep: resentatives of urban temptation and vice. The 18-year-old son of Mrs. Dora i Cornitz of Lynn. Mass., appeared in court as her defendant in the case brought against her of making and selling home-brew. He made a dramatic defense of his mother, but admitted that she was guilty of the charge. Derailment of fourteen cars of Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic freight train No. 73, from Manchester, ; Ga., to Birmingham, Ala., tied up pas| senger traffic between these points, i in the second wreck over the road of | the company. Eleven persons, two of them Atlan- i i tans, are dead, and sixteen others, j nearly ail Atiantans, are in nospuais i suffering from injuries, as a result of the wrecking of one car of an Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic train which 1 left Atlanta, Ga.. recently for Fitzger- ! aid, when it dropped 30 feet from a trestle into Camp creek, 13 miles from i Atlanta, Ga. Derailment of the car which plunged from the trestle was blamed by road officials on the bursting of one on the car wheels. A new situation recently developed 1 in the Rhode Island textile strike, now at the end of its seventh week, when B. B. and R. Knights, Inc., owners of many textile plants in the state, announced their decision to close their Natick and Pontiac mills indefintely. Accompanied by a woman who drove them to Charles Friebgens drug store, Amsterdam avenue and 120th street, four bandits help up the dents, and disturbed by the screams of two worn- j en customers at the soda counter shot and killed Samuel Hadas, the cashier. That the "pay-as-you-leave" plan adopted at Bend, Ore., by two motion picture theaters is resulting in bigger houses and at least as large revenue as formerly wa3 the declaration of the i manager of the theaters. 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 Jan1 r.ary. She married Crane two years ago. Three women will sit on the Jury which will try Fatty Arbuekle for the killing of Virginia Rappe. This is the third trial. Demands of anthracite mine workers were recently placed in the hands of the mine owners in New York city. It is stated that a substantial increase I in wages is sought. Mrs. \V. D. Edmondson of Decatur, Ala., has thrown her hat into the ring to oppose Congressman Edward B. Alman for representative in congress from the eighth district. Isaiah Moore. 32, in jail in Indianapolis, Ind.. charged with bigamy, embezzlement and grand larceny, who U reported to be 'he husband of thirteen wives, makes this statement : "My one desire is to lead a Christian i life. I always wanted to enter the ministry, and so I want to become an evangelist when I get out. I am going to warn other boys." mnjuijisn *i'm mrojrwwrwn |-. v.j*n> 1?-? :-"i-v 1. President Harding and part Florida from New Smyrna; his p Robinson of Arkansas, whose ami Ti<rhe nresentine Secretary Hughes inent. NEWS REVIEW OP CURRENT EVENTS Four-Power Pacific Treaty to Bi Ratified by Senate Unless All Signs Fail. MARGIN AT LEAST FIVE VOTE! Allied Reparations Commission D< cllnes to Pay Bill for American Expenses on Rhine?Fighting in South Africa?India in Ferment. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN THE four-power Pacific treaty, I was asserted last week, would b rutified by the senate, unless all sign should fail. A margin of at leust tiv votes was predicted. It follows tha the other six pacts of the armamen conference will be approved as a mul ter of course, if tbe treaty is ratifiec An agreement to vote was reache Wednesday. It was further agreed t take no more votes on amendments o reservations before the final vote, an A-v ||*?|? .lAkn?A 1? 1nc.fr ?..AA kU 11 All 11 uriuuc. 11 ll/UACU lU^k n CC as If Senator Underwood, minorlt leader, would couie across with a least eleven votes, Instead of the elgh he was expected to deliver. Early In the assaiilt on the treat came the charges that the treaty ha been frnmed by the British and Jape nese; that secret negotiations had bee concealed, and that the American dele gates had been Imposed upon. Secre tary of State Ilughes thereupon state that he wrote the treaty, that ther was no mystery ahout the treaty an that it was a good treaty. lit* wa modest about It and lie was plain spoken. Ills statement was made i the form of a letter to Senator Undei wood of Alabama, ope of the fou American delegates, who as minorit senate leader Is charged with th onerous job of delivering enoug Democratic votes to assure the ratificn tlon of the treaty. Secretary Hughe said, among other things: "The treaty itself is very short an simple, and Is perfectly clear. It ft quires no commentary. Its engnge ments are easily understood, and n ingenuity in argument or hostile critl clsm can add to them or make ther other or greater than Its unequivoca language sets forth. There are n secret notes or understandings. "In view of this, the question o authorship Is unimportant. It wa signed by four powers, whose dele gates, respectively, adopted it, all hav Ing made various suggestions. I ma; say. however, with respect to the ger era I course of negotiations that afte assent had been given by Great Britaii and Japan that France should be i party to the agreement, I prepnred i draft of the treaty based upon th various suggestions which had beei exchanged between the delegates. . . . should add that, In order to avoid an; misunderstanding I prepared a memo randum to accompany the treaty wltl respect to Its effect in relation to th mandated Islands and reservlni domestic questions. "At this stage, while It was no strictly a conference matter. In orde to Insure publicity at the earliest pos alble moment, the treaty, as thu agreed upon, and before It had beei aigned. was presented by Senato I.odge to the conference In plenar; aesslon find Its Import and limitation stated. His statement met with thi acquiescence of all. i nere is uui me niigiiiesi mjsirr, about the treaty or basis for susplcloi regarding It. It Is a stralghtforwan document which attains one of th< most Important objects the America] government has had In view, and 1 of the highest importance to the main tenance of friendly relations In thi Far East upon a sound basis. As tin President recently said, In his com rnunlcatlon to the senate, It Is an es senilul part of the plan to create con dltions in the FRr East at once favor able to the maintenance of the pollcle: we have long advocated and to an en TYPHUS SPREADS IN RUSSIA Epidemic Is Now Raging in Many Bi( Cities, With Death Rate Above Forty Per Cent. Moscow.?Soviet Russia Is onc< more under the shadow of an epldemli wave of typhus fever and recurrent ty phus which has been spreading slnc< November last. The Volga famine arei Is chiefly affected. In the center o Russia the epidemic has Invaded tin tig towns of the Moscow and Petro 9 ^MM4NM ?^?J^^^S1S?R!5!SH3BS^5!!5S?^^^^^^^JHP &mmK.:SW. .....-.. .wXv/v/>^ VMM*??->?**?*..x*w?,^v<*. .vi?v?s. y on houseboat Naiueoka at the s*art of i lans then were to leave Florida for Was endment to the four-power treaty was vol > with gold shears on behalf of the news] during peace. In view of this, and in view of the relation of the treaty to the results of the conference, its - 1 J U* ?A?klMn ?.Vw. -f a# a ? ranure wuuiu ue uumuig ouun ? ? " national calamity." | The senate dehnte over ratification confirms the wisdom of the President's choice of Senator Underwood as a cons ference delegate. There are those who ' consider the senator from Alabama one of the ablest men in public life. He certainly had a large opportunity for his skill as a debater when he attempted to round up his recnlcitrant followers for ratification. The first t day he stood for three hours before the } Democrats he has led In so many partisan battles, arguing that they should forget party lines and join with the s- administration forces for ratification. It was almost exclusively a Democratic show, with the Republicans sitting on the sidelines and watching the astute minority leader fight It out with his unruly followers. The anti-treaty Democrats were trying to trap him into an admission that the treaty in It effect constituted an entangling ale liance. But he Insisted on "conference s agreement." Some of them "heckled" e their leader. Only the unfailing good ,t nature of the Alabaman staved off a !t stormy session. It was a situation t- that only an experienced and able man I. could meet. d Next came an assault on the treaty o by Senator Ilorah of Idaho and Senar tor Johnson of California, Republican d Irreconcilnbles. They questioned the k authorship of the treaty, despite the y letter from Secretary Hughes. Senutor t Lodee of Massachusetts, majority it leader, made them admit they had not meant to reflect on the veracity of y Secretary Hughes. In effect the two j senators assailed the treaty as a t. "quadruple alliance." Senator Lenroot n of Wisconsin answered them.' >- The pro-treaty forces scored a vlc? tory Tuesday when they voted down d an amendment by Senator Joseph T. e Koblnson of Arkansas designed to d wreck the treaty. The Itohinson s amendment would have had the effect i- of converting the four-power pact Into n a league of nations. It pledged all the - signatories to respect each other's terr rltorlal Integrity and to commit no act y of aggression against any nation oute side the pact. Furthermore, It provldh ed. In case of disputes, that outside nnt tlons Interested should be Invited to s participate in conferences held under the terms of the four-power pact, d The vote was 55 to 30. Eleven mem> hers were absent. Six were paired. ^ The five unpaired absentees are all o ' counted for ratification. Four ItepubI llcans, committed against ratification, n voted for the amendment: Borah of [1 Idaho, Johnson of California, La Folo iette of Wisconsin and France of Maryland. Four Democrats voted against f It: Underwood of Alabama, Pomerene s of Ohio, Ransdell of Louisiana and u Williams of Mississippi. Later similar amendments by Senators Walsh of y Montana and Pittman of Nevada, both i. Democrats, were voted down by subr stantinlly the same vote. Then a Q series of amendments and reservations a was dumped Into the hamper to be a ready for presentation before the final e roll call. r? I T IFE to Uncle Sam Just now must y J-/ seem just one treaty after an> other. Anyway, he presented last ft week to the allied reparations commlse sion in Parts a bill for $1141,000,000 for ? the expenses of the American army of occupation on the Rhine up to May 1, t 1921. The allied commissioners regisr tered frozen horror, but thawed suffli clently to stick the hill on a spindle, s You see, they were engaged in dlvldn Ing up among themselves n reparations r payment of 1,000,000.000 gold marks by y Germany and naturally regarded the s presentation of the American claim? e which to date Is something like $260,000,000?as very bad form. They therey fore washed their hands of the matter [i and referred it to the allied govern3 ments. e The French press sets forth what Is i presumably the allied view: The Unlts ed States declined to ratify the treaty - of Versailles, hence It has no legal p claim to navment under its terms. The p United States made Its own separate i- treaty with Germany; therefore it - should do Its own collecting from Ger many. The British press?some of It ? - thinks that, while Uncle Sam has no s legal claim, he may have a moral - claim, hut why didn't he speak up ^ grad governmental districts and in the west the cities of Minsk, Smolensk, j Witebsk and In the north, Vologda and vicinity. In Moscow itself the epidemic is rowing rapidly and the toll which it i? exacting from the Moscow populate lion is already now seven or eight - times larger than that of last season, ? and it is feared that before the winter i months are over it might overgrow the f epidemic of 1011). ? In December over 4,000 cases of ty phus were registered in Moscow, while ' *' ' ' Jpr < *: .: WEZZd "; :" '" ' j; ^tt ^ fc r- ^^sKKO/KKb^I^^S^^mIM fl| J/ |^^^^lj|| " *+^**.-..-.-./s.-,MCv/.:*>,w.v<v>>v<v<M. *&+**wiVMkteift .^//w/lvw A>>;-:<>U> V'' i voyage down the east coast of ihlngton Friday. 2. Senator J. T. :ed down, 55 to 30. 3. Matthew F. laper men covering the State depart sooner? All of wlilch lends emphasis t< ttie saying of the Man on the Street "We have all the real money In th< world and for that very reason not i single real friend." Evidently the nev funding commission to see what can b< done about the eleven billions of allle< debts Is In for an adventure. DO YOU remember London Punch'i famous cartoon depicting a fam Ily council of the British Lion's rest less brood during the World war Well, the Union of South Afrcla Is sun restless. Last week saw the cllma: and suppression of the strike of miner: which has held South Africa In Its grlj for more than two months. It had al the hallmarks of an attempt at revolu tlon. The strikers captured half ? dor.en towns and nearly got posses slon of Johannesburg. Gen. Jan Chris tlan Smuts, the premier, proclalme martial law. called out all the govern merit troops and took command In per son. Censored reports show the kllllnj of more than 1,000 strikers, police an< soldiers. Grenades, bombs, maehlm guns, airplanes and tanks figured li the fighting; cities were bombarded thousands of strikers were captured It was real war for a week. Thi South African Industrial federatloi then declared the strike off and denlei complicity In the rebellion. This mai Smuts is a strong man. He has rlsei from a Dutch general In the Boer wa to <>np nf thp leading statesmen of thi British commonwealth of nations, a he calls It. Many believe Smuts to bi the logical successor to Lloyd George NEW tangles mark the complicate* situation In India. The arrest o Gandhi, leader of the non-co-operation lsts, was followed by widespread pro tests from all the Moslem world. Thei Britain was startled by the unauthor Ized publication by E. S. Montagu British secretary of state for India, o a telegram from the India governmen making demands for the restoration o Turkey. This constitutes an appea to the world by a subordinate Brltlsl government over the head of the lm perlal government. Lloyd George cen sured Mr. Montagu and demanded hi resignation. Mr. Montagu resigned but talked back, putting Lloyd Georg and Curznn on the defensive. Lor* Derby was asked to take the secretary ship for India and declined. Tills, com Ing upon the failure of the unionists meeting Tuesday to give Lloyd Georgi a vote of confidence, has rriised agali the possibility of the resignation of th* premier. His political enemies hold 1 Impossible for him to retain the posl tlon. Nevertheless, It has been an nounced that Lloyd George and Curzoi will attend the Genoa couferenci April 10. REVISION of the Republican sol dler bonus bill was finished Tues day by the ways and means committee which thereupon reported the measuri to the house by a vote of 19 to 5. Th< program calls for prompt passage o: Kill K.. !,. la fha u?c mil uy uic UUU9C. ivc^ui t to i??a the senate will not accept the bill as I comes from the house and that a lonj delay In the senate finance commltte* Is Inevitable. The bill provides caal bonuses only for veterans entitled t< less than $50. Four options are glvet to others: an adjusted service certlfl cate. farm or home aid. land settle meat aid, and vocational training. IT LOOKS as If All Fools' Day would be celebrated by a strike of the eoa miners. Secretary of Labor Davis die not succeed lust week in getting th( operators and men for conference or a new wage agreement. Neither sld( appears to care particularly whethei or not the strike comes. The only con solation for the public lies In the prob ability that some of the mining dia trlcts will keep at work. Mary Garden, Chicago's arbiter oi grand opera, snys that some of the high-priced stars must fill the house 01 take less pay or get out. Uncle Sam is reported to be consld erlng the negotiation of treaties with Great Britain and Cuba to put an end to liquor smuggling Into the United States. Radio experts are predicting that th presidential campaign of the future will be conducted by wireless tele^ phone. What's that story about the mayor who was elected because he linnet* ins leg ami uie vmvrs .->n?> I him? during tin* first thret? weeks of Janunry, 4,78.'t eases were registered in hospitals. Hut the real number of cast's Is declared to be much higher than this figure. To cope with the situation, the government stopped passenger traffic on ! the eastern railways for six weeks, Hatha have been organized in Moscow railway terminals, and all refugees and military detachments arriving here are compelled to use them. In Moscow itself, bathing facilities were afforded in all districts SOUTH CAROLINA i SIGNS CONTRACTi s t PROMINENT MEN WITH GOVER- 1 NOR WHEN HE AFFIXED SIG- t NATURE TO RESOLUTION. * I f STATE CO-OPERATES IN PLAN ; i! Colonel Sanders, Superintendent of Penitentiary, Signs Agreement on 1 Part of South 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. 1 The governor signed the act in the . presence of Senator Bethea of Dillon ? and Representative Jackson of Sumj ter, two of the authors of the bill; f Harry O. Kaminer, president of the , South Carolina Cotton Growers' Coj operative association; R. C. Hamer, chairman of the campaign committee; Harold C. Booker, secretary; D. W. g Watkins of the extension forces of Clemson College; Col. A. K. Sanders, . superintendent of the penitentiary, ' ? and W. R. Watkins, the governor's ? secretary. Senator G. K. Laney of 1 c Chesterfield, who with Senator Be3 thea, sponsored the bill in the sen- < j ate, wired that he was unable to be t 1 present at the signing because of pre- < . vious engagements. I i Colonel Sanders signed the con- I . tract for 575 bales, this being based I . on the 1920 crop. The agreement re- i a quires that all cotton grown on the |1 . state farms in the years 1922, 1923, . 1924, 1925 and 1926 be sold through j the association. It leaves optional j with the superintendent the sale of j the cotton now on hand. He may also 3 turn it over to the association for . sale if he deems wise. It The joint resolution signed by the i governor is as follows: "The super , intendent of the penitentiary be, and j he is hereby, authorized and empowa ered to sign the agreement *-of the j South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cor operative association and thereby bind e the state of South Carolina by all B the terms and obligations therein cone tained and set forth. Colonel Sanders said that It gave him pleasure to affix his signature to j the association agreement. He bef lieves firmly in co-operative marketing of cotton and expressed the belief ? that the best interests of the state 3 would be conserved by its signing the >? agreement. 1 At the headquarters of the So".th i f Carolina Cotton Growers' Co-operative ( association it was said that contracts ] f representing over 27,000 bales were 1 received, smashing all records for the j h campaign. Lee county has sent in ] . 6.000 contracts in two days, it was ; i. said. i g A telegram from Bishopville re- ] lt ceived at the headquarters of the as- j e sociation. said that W, A. Stuckey, one i j of the best known planters in the i . state, had signed the contract. Before . signing the contract Mr. Stuckey had j i' made a thorough study of the propo- i e sition. < T I 1 e Hslps Aiken People. t Sufferers from the storm In Aiken - county will be assisted by the state . in the amount of $1,000. which is now i available for the Red Cross of Aiken g 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 symb pathy for the sufferers came over i from the house he moved to amend it f so as to appronriate $2,000 for the t people who had lost property. An apt propriation could not be made by a i I resolution and when the appropriation i bill was taken up the item of $2,000 l 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 j ! state highway department in conjuncj tion with the counties, as no provie5 ion for the enforcement was made by ??.? innidniiirp at its last session. Of I IUC IC5?Di??miv ?? - , flrials of the highway department are ^ . in hope that an arrangement can be j made with the counties whereby in- B . spectors can be placed in the field to a . enforce the law and to bring in much e revenue every month. g , Offloert Given Recognition. i federal recognition was extended to the following National Guard officers * of South Carolina: Capt. James G. 8 i . 8 J Collier, Company I, One Humhed and j I Eighteenth infantry, Roc* Hill; p Second Lieut. James Lewla Comer, t headquarters company, Third battal- e ion. Rock Hill. Lieut. Howard E. Banner was ap- I F pointed by the adjutant general to be J 3 , summary court officer for the Four c Hundred and Twenty-seventh com- p pany of coast artillery, Beaufort. L Governor Signs Highway Measure. S Governor Cooper signed the F. G. 1 Harris measure amending the state ^ highway act so as to prevent any city or town from charging an automobile ^ driver's license in addition to the li- ti 1 censes now required by the state highway department, except in the case of C autos and trucks for hire. Under an l 1 amendment placed in the bill in the li senate this amended bill does not ef- t< feet cities having populations in ex- S I cess of 35.000 inhabitants, or in other I 0 words, Columbia and Charleston. lc % ?? ?? i 11 Time Extended on Income Tex. The South Carolina tax commission! granted an extension until May 1 for' ill persons and firms subject to pay tate Income tax. Under the new law he state income tax of one-third the1imount of the federal tax was due the lame time as the federal tax, not later hun March 15. This included the re urn and the first installment. It would have been Impossible for he tax commission to have enforced his as it gave only two days to com- . . )lete the task of setting up machinery or the enforcing of the tax. Under he terms of the law tte tax commistion has authority to set such tim9 is it may see fit to take the returns tnd under this authority the commisilon extended the time to May 1. This year only an affidavit of what was paid the federal government will )6 necessary, but in future years a lupllcate of the federal return will lave to be filed with the sta'e gov-jrnment. J. Fraser Lyon ^nd J. P. Derham, nembers of the tax commission, is?ued the following statement in grantng the extension: "All persons, partnerships, corpora:ions and fiduciaries whose fiscal year ended on December 31, 1921, or Jantary 31, 1922, including all persons who have no fiscal year other than the calendar year, who are required to nake returns under the state income tax act before March 15, 1922, or April L5, 1922, respectively, are with regard to their income tax return or affidavits to the South Carolina tax pommission and with regard to the payment of the state income tax granted an extension until the first lay of May, 1922. This extension is granted under authority of 'act to raise 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 Commlaaioii Maet*. At the meeting of the state highway lommission, Charles H. Moorefleld, ttate highway engineer, was requested to continue to serve as engineer tor the present year and Mr. Moorefleld consented. It will be recalled that Mr. Moorefleld resigned as engl neer several weeks ago when there was a fighf 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 federal aid in the construction of a proposed project from the Anderson county line via Lowndesville, Latimer and Calhoun Falls to the McCormick county line. The commission was ' f the opinion that the road from Abbeville to Calhoun Falls was of greater im-v portance than the other. The delegation from Aike/i was composed of C. J. Hill, Dr. W. A. Whitlock and E. A. Yaun, members of the county commission, and R. D. Clowe, county engineer. The delegation sought federal aid on tho road 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 aeven per cent of the roads may be inclndel In the federal aid system and as that percentage is 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 commu ins of the act 55 hours a week and 10 ours a day are the legal hours In sxtile plants in the state. Federal recognition was granted to apt. James M. Wallace, Company B, 'hlrty-third engineers. South Caixv na National Guard, and to First Lleu?nant Broadus R. Littlejohn and to econd Lieutenant Grantland C. Green f the same unit. The company 1? icated at Spartanburg. ./ aication 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 mproving the road between Bamberg ind the Orangeburg county line was ecelved. The commission had already ipproved $15,000 for this section and the additional $5,000 was requested for allotment at the present time as he county Is ready to match the $20, )00. The commission approved the equest provided the county make arrangements to construct the bridge >ver the Salkehatchie river. No action was taken on the request >f Greenville county for federal aid in he sum of $70,000 for the road from rravelers* Rest to the North Carolina ine in the direction of Brevard. iTTiciency ivien uei more mvimf, An additional $3,786.74 for Grifflntagen and associates, efficiency englleers of Chicago, is carried in the innual appropriation bill under ap>roved claims. These engineers made in investigation of the state governnent last year and submitted their Indings to the general assembly vhich has adjourned. According to a jrevlous statement, the experts had tlready been paid a little over $12,000 ind this additional fund brings the imount to over $15,000 for the lnvesti;ations. Two New Charter*. The Marlboro Potato company of iennettsville was chartered by the ecretary of state with a capital tock of $8,000. Officers are: E. W. ivans. president; C. S. McColI, vice resident; T. F. Everett, Jr.. secreary and treasurer; F. V. Crane, genral marager. The Palmetto 3heet Metal Works of 'lorence was chartered with a capital tock of $1,500. Officers are: B. G. rregg. president: R. L. Wyatt. viceresident; D. G. Gregg ,Jr., secrenry and treasurer. tigns Textile Bill. Governor Cooper has signed the 55our act and the measure is now a iw of the state. Under the provis