Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, March 23, 1922, Image 3
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
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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" 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.
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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
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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
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PROMINENT MEN WITH GOVER- 1
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STATE CO-OPERATES IN PLAN ;
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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
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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