The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, October 07, 1915, Image 7
COTTON JUMPS UP
;. ^GOVERNMENT ESTIMATES CROf
f W AT TEN MILLION BALES
r
m ,900,000 TOTAL GINNED
Total Bale? GtniMd are Lees Than
Year’s by Half MlUion—Price
p, " ’Ik. _ 4 ' ■
Leaps upon New York Markets—
' ■’
Census Bureau Reports on Volnine
■ j
of Staple Brought In.
A heavy decline in the condition
of the growing cotton crop almost
doubled the average decline of the
last ten years during September,
has decreased the production pros-
n pects forecasted previously. The
Department of Agriculture estimat
ed the crop at 10,060,000, equiva-
, lent 500 pound bales which would
be the smallest crop since 1009.
The second cotton ginning report
of the season, compiled from reports
of census bureau correspondents and
agents throughout the cotton belt and
issued at 10 a. m. Monday, announc
ed that 2,000,007 bales of cotton,
1 counting round as half bales, of the
growth of 1915, has been ginned
, prior to September 25.
\ This compared with 3,392,752
,' bales, or 21.3 per cent, of the entire
_ . crop, ginned prior to September 25
last year, 3,246,655 bales, or 23.2 per
cent. In 1912 and 3,007,271 bales, or
22.3 per cent, in 1911.
Included in the ginnings were 32,-
263 round bales, compared with 3,-
394 last year, 26,983 in 1913 and
^ 19,574 in 1912.
Sea Island cotton included number-
«
ed 19,094 bales, compared with 13,
297 bales to September 26 last year,
10,570 bales In 1913, and 3,051 bales
in 1912.
Qinnlngs prior to September 25, by
states, with comparisons for the last
three years and the percentage of the
entire crop ginned in those states
prior to that date In the same years
m
follow:
Alabama.
Bales.
PC.
1915
309,676
• • •
1914.
392,217
22.6
1913.
.. . . 325,735
22.0
191?
182,210
14.5
1915
60,957
• • •
1914
99,347
9.9
1913
70,086
6 8
1912
41,428
Florida.
5.4
1915
19,000
• • • •
1914
25,679
28 2
1913
16,367
24.5
1912
9,770
Georgia* ’
16 6
1915
715,927
• a
1914
768.095
28.2
1913
491,611
20.9
1912
272,325
16.0
1915
114,366
• • • e
1914
94.119
20 8
1913
77,865
17.8
1912
73.99
Mlaalaalppl.
19.7
1915
179,986
• • • •
1914
163,298
■12.4
1913
.. .. .. 120,593
9.6
1912
57,393
North Carolina.
6.6
1915
82,918
• • • •
1914
'84,517
8.7
1913
49,952
6.0
1912
101,683
Oklahoma.
11.2
1915
2,130
• • • •
1914
104,154
8.4
1913
148,979
17.7
1912
77,394
Houth Carolina.
7.7
1915
259,070
• • • •
1914
303,794
19.5
1913
193,318
13.6
1912
174,251
Tennessee.
14.2
1915
9,143
• • • •
1914
16,032
4.2
1913
18,359
5.0
1912
990.
Texas.
0.4 x
1915
1,143,486
• • • •
1914
1,334,342
30.4
1913
1.727,63,9
45.8
1912
All Other States.
43.1
1915
. . 3,362
. • •,
1914
8,258
6.0
1913
6,251
5.2
1912
U .. 2,740
3.0
The condition of cotton on Septem
ber 25 and 60.8 per cent, of a nor
mal, indicating a yield of 168 pounds
per acre. Conditions and indicated
acre yield by state follow:
Acre,
Condition
Yield.
Virginia
260
North Carolina ....
. .70
248
South Carolina ....
. .63
208
Georgia . . .'
. .61
168
Florida r . r, ,■
, .42
112
Alabama
140
Alabama
. . 57
140
Mississippi. r . . . .
180
Louisiana
159
Texas
145
Arkansas
176
Tennessee
202
Missouri
..72
288
Oklahoma
, .63
176
California ..... ..
. .95
499
AH other States ..
. .—
—
Immediately after
the
govern-
meat's crop report,
Indicating 10,-
#50,000 bales, the
smallest since
1009, the New York
cotton
market
<MWII IF V. S. TIAK
OTEI IN ENWSI NOTE
w uht is tir
assumed Considerable activity and
strength. Futures advanced more
91 per bale In a few minutes
all prices were soon up from 58
to M points over Saturday's daring.
The government’s figures were con
siderably under previous private esti
mates and canted a large buying
movement.— In announcing the condi
tion report and production estimate,
the crop reporting board mad* this
I
Great Britain Answers
She Is Attempting to Steal
"Cream of World's Trade.
Great Britain's answer to reports
widely circulated in this country that
she had been interfering with legiti
mate trade of the United States with
neutral European nations for the ben
efit of her own exporters is given in a
note handed to Ambassador Page at
London by Sir Edward Grey, the for
eign minister, and made public by
the state department.
’ Data and figures are quoted at
length to prove that where British
export* and re-exports have Increased
the growth of Similar trade from the
United States has been many times
as large, while In many cases there
have been vast increases of American
exports from, the United Kingdom.
The note, which is in response to
the British ambassador’s report of a
reference at the state department to
the unfavorable impression created
In Washington by reports of increases
in British trade with northern Euro
pean countries since the war began,
suggests also thgt statements con
cerning Great Britain’s policy have
been inspired by German agents.
August 13 Is the date of the docu
ment, which was transmitted by mail
Instead of by cable.
THREE HOSTILE ARMIES
PLAN TO ATTACK SERBU
Premier Denounce* Her "Uu-
ThinkaMe Treachery to Hlaric
Cause—Must Act or Disarm.
Sergius Sazonoff, Russian minister
of foreign affairs, declared to the
Associated Press correspondent last
week that If tbs Bulgarians persist
in their present traitorous course
they must answer to Russia.
"The situation In tbe Balkans is
very grave. The whole nation Is
aroused by the unthinkable treach
ery of Ferdinand and his government
to the Slavic canse. Bulgaria owes
her independence to Russia and yet
seems willing now to become a vas
sal of Russia's enemies.
"In her attitude towards Servla,
when Servla Is fighting for her very
existence. Bulgaria puts herself in a
class with Turkey. We do not be
lieve that the Bulgarian people sym
pathize with the action of their rul
er. Therefore, the Allies are dispos
ed to give them time for reflection.’’
statement: ,
"The cotton crop condition declin
ed 8.4 points during the month
August 25 to September 25, which
compared with an average decline in
the same period in the past ten years
of 4.5 points. The estimated condi
tion of 60.8 per cent, of normal on
September 25 forecasts a yield per
acre of about 168 pounds and a total
production—allowing a reduction of
one per cent, from planted area for
abandonment—of about 10,950,000
bales. Last year's production of 16,-
135,000 bales and the 1913 crop 14,-
156,0110. A crop less'than 11,000,-
000 bales would be smaller than any
crop since 1909.
"The unusual deterioration has
been due principally to the extreme
of weather conditions; periods of ex
cessive rainfall, cold weather and
drought having characterized the sea
son in most of the cotton belt. Lack
of fertilizer, and poor quality of that
used, has been an unfavorable factor
In the eastern portion of the belt.
There Is little promise of a top crop
except In the northern portions of the
belt, due to the cllmatiiFconditions
and the usual activity of the boll
weevil; and where a top crop is set
ting in the northern portions of the
belt, the latest report of the crop
there makes realization dependent
upon future weather and late frost.
“The month, much of it warm and
dry, has been generally favorable to
picking and a much larger percentage
of the crop Is ginned to this date than
in the usual year. In much of the
southern portion of the belt ginning
1? far advanced and In some sections
there, picking is practically com
pleted."
Caari Shut up Tight.
Additional earth slides. It was an
nounced at Washington Monday, win
eaose the Panama canal to be closed
until the first of November.
RUSS ELTUATIJI TO HIUARU
E9 AT TW6 MONDAY
FUSENT EVIDENCE T9 SMW
rERSEOmw Of ARMENIANS
Facta Brought to Light by Coouafttoe
Who Dououace Wont Horror of
One Thousand * Yean.
BREAM MENACE
EN6LAND PIS TORE AUTO
PROTECT HER COMMERCE
NO DEFINATE ACTS YET S CONFIRM EARLY STORIES
York by the committee formed by
Charles R. Crane, Cleveland H.
Dodge end others to investigate the
facts of the Armenian massacres and
to aid sufferers.
The committee states that the evi
dence was collected from sources.that
French Troops Land in Greece, Who
Seize Macedonian Railways—Bul
garia Denounces Allied Misstate-
London Says Germans, Austrians and
Bulgarians are Massed for
Simultaneous Assault.
Three great armies—German. Aus
trian and Bulgarian—are closing in
on Serbia ready for a combined and
simultaneous smash and drive
through the Balkans to Constanti
nople.
West lies the reinforced Austrian
army, north are gathered the Ger
man forces said to comprise eight
army corps. Southeast the Bulgarian
legions are assembling two hundred
and eighty thousand strong. More
than one million men will be Involv
ed In the supreme effort to crush the
little kingdom of Serbia. All three
await the signal for the Invasion of
Serbia, and that signal, according to
dispatches received from Nish, will
be received within two weeks.
The massing of the three armies
for the attack was discovered by
Anglo-French aviators who have been
sent as one contingent of tbe armed
relief which the allies are sending to
Serbia In her extremity.
Great masses of Germans wsrs
seen between the Save and the Drlna
and others, regiment after regiment,
were spied pouring Into tbe Hun
garian district at Banah.
SAZONOFF SAYS BIL6ARIA
MUST ANSWER TO RUSSIA
merits—Germans and* Austrians
Mass Troops to Cut Way to Turkey.
Petrograd reports Monday: Unless
Bulgaria has conceded fully the de
mands of Russia concerning thp
breaking off of relations with the
central powers by two o’clock Mon
day afternoon the Russian minister
at Sofia and his staff will depart.
However As Russia draws a dictinc-
tlon between the Bulgarian govern
ment and the Bulgarian people, no
repressive measures will be adopted
against Bulgarian subjects In Russia.
Sofia reports Monday a formal de
nial that German officers have taken
control of the military affairs of Bul
garia and that Germany is supplying
that country with funds are contain
ed In an official statement Issued
through the Bulgarian news agency.
The next of the statement follows:
"In view of erroneous and frankly
mendacious statements circulated In
the foreign press regarding the situ
ation in Bulgaria, we are authorized
to deny in the most formal manner
all these rumors: First, concerning
the arrival in Sofia of German offi
cers who are alleged to be taking a
hand in the administration of rail
roads or the command of the army;
second, concerning alleged statements
of Premier Radoslavoff that as long
as the war lasts Bulgaria will receive
regularly from Germany fifty.million
francs—ten million dollars—month
ly; third, concerning numerous ar
rests which are said to have been
caused by internal disturbances.
a, As to the assertions of certain
newspapers that the Radoslavoff cab
inet will not be qualified to direct the
destinies of Bulgaria because U will
not have a majority we must observe
that in a parliamentary country
which Bulgaria, undoubtedly is, tbe
government which Is said not to have
supported the premier with a suffi
cient majority In the Sabronje would
not be able to remain In power."
Petrograd reports that even *M.
Madjarlow, Bulgarian minister, will
not be expelled. His passports will
not be given to him and he will be
permitted to remain undisturbed, al
though no official relations will be
maintained with him as the repre
sentative of King Ferdinand.
The foreign office explains that
the fact that Russia aloae sent an
ultimatum to Bulgaria was due to
voluntary recognition on the part of
her allies of this nation's predomi
nance In the Brikans and of her
moral claim upon the gratitude of the
Balkan peoples.
Whether England, France and
Italy will withdraw their repi esent^-
ttves at Sofia in case Russia takes
this position has not yet been de
cided. Russia felt compelled to
make this move. In view of the fail
ure of all effort to bring pressure
through other means on King Ferdi
nand. It is the view of the Russian
government that the recall of Its min
ister would convince* the Bulgarian
people that King Ferdinands policy is
dangerous.
Athens. Greece, reports Monday:
All doubt as to the entrance of
Greece in the war on the side of the
Entente allies has nqw been disposed
of. The official organ of the gov
ernment •says that tho landing of
French troops at Salon ik I la for the
purpose of assisting Greece..
In regard to the landing of the
French troops, the governmental or
gan says that If for the present the
government considers the assistance
of the Allies as premature it is none
the less to aid and support Greece
that the Allies at Salonikl. France
and England enter the Balkans as
traditional friends of Greece and not
otherwise.
The Greek government has seized
the -Macedonia railroads, of which
two are Austrian and one French.
Rome reports that a telegram from
Athens to the Trlbuna says that Gen
eral Sir Ian Hamilton, British com
mander at the Dardanelles, has been
at Salonikl to Inspect arrangements
made for the landing of troops.
Paris, Monday: Concentration of
the Bulgarian army has begun, a§-
cordlng to a dispatch from Athens to
the Havas News agency. The corre
spondent asserts he has authoritative
information to this effect. The total
effectives of the Bulgarian army en
gaged in this movement are estimat
ed at three hundred and fifty thou
sand.
Bucharest reports: Two hundred
and fifty thousand Austro-German
troops with two thousand guns most
ly withdrawn from the eastern front
already have arrived on the Aus
trian frontier and preparations for an
attack being hurried forward under
the direct supervision of Field Mar
shal von Mackensen, who has estab
lished his headquarters at Versecz,
says the correspondent of the EpoCa.
Milan, Italy, reports: While R'ou-
manla keeps one hundred thousand
troops on the Austro-Hungarian fron
tier, says a Bucharest dispatch to the
Corrlere Della Sera, the Germans
have withdrawn the infantry massed
along the southwestern slopes of the
Carpathians %ut have left a strong
force of artillery. On thp other hand,
in the region between Kronstadt,
Transylvania and Hermenstadt, north
Roumanla frontier, there Is a con
stant coming and going of German
officers.*
According to reliable, although un
confirmed information, one hundred
thousand German troop* have been
moved from Bukowina to the Serbian
frontier and there are now several
hundred thonaaad nan stationed la
are unquestioned as to the varacity
and authority of the writers, but that
for obvious reasons their names can
not be given, and in most cases
names of towns and cities must be
concealed.
Quotations are given In the com
mittee's report from twenty-four
sources, some of which describe In
detail Instances where Armenians
have been put to death, women vio
lated and children slaughtered, of
robbery, torture and death by star
vation. and of terrible privations en
dured in long marches to the desert
regions to which the Armenians have
been exiled—crimes described by the
committee as surpassing "in their
horror and cruelty anything that his
tory has recorded during the past one
thousand years.’’
CHEAT BRITAIN’S FH1UIES
% FAIL TO CIAN6E 0FFICUIS
Authorities Say New Note Does Not
Alter the General Situation In
Regard to Trade Matters.
Great Britain’s attempt to Justify
her own trade increases by citing fig
ures showing that Americans also
have benefltted in the Scandinavian
markets is not going to have much
weight with the administration.
Officials at both the White House
and state department made it very
plain that the British note of August
18, made pnMlc at the request of the
British foreign office. In no way
changed the general situation.
The note is accepted as a defense
to tbe direct charge made by Consul
General Skinner at London that the
British government la trying to carry
off the "cream" of the Scandinavian
trade, leaving the "ektm milk" for
the balance of her trade competitors.
. The figures cited by tbe British
government were tent to the depart
ment of commerce to be compared
and checked up. Until a report Is re
ceived the department will not com
ment on tbe note.
NEWS OF “UTMOST IRAVITY”
FROM RUUAR1A, SAYS (RAY
Arrival of German and Austrian Ot
to Direct Bulgurs Taken
to Mean Early War. /
Foreign Secretary Gray announced
In London that German and Auetrlan
officers were arriving In Bulgaria to
direct the Bulgarian army. Tbe sec
retory said this was a fact which tbe
Allies regard "with tbe utmost grav
ity.” The foreign secretary author
ized the following statement:
"Information has been received
that German and Austrian officers
have been for several day| arriving
In Bulgaria with a view ip taking an
active part In directing the Bulga
rian army. This action Is precisely
similar to that token In Turkey,
where German officers forced Tur
key to make an entirely unprovoked
attack upon Russia laat year.
"Since the allied powers are bound
to support the states which are
threatened by such proceedings in
Bulgaria, this news is regarded as of
tbe utmost gravity.”
Hungary between Panscova, Weis-
sklrchen and Verscse. Two-thirds of
this army Is said to be composed of
Germans. It is estimated that the
artillery numbers twelve hundred
guns between Panscova and Weis-
skirchen alone. The greater part of
these forces are neawly formed regi
ments with the best troops from the
Belgian front. These soldiers are in
good condition. Most of the men are
under thirty, the majority of the Ger
mans being Bavarians. There is only
one officer to each battery, most of
the lower commands being entrusted
to German non-commissioned offi
cers. Field Marshal von Mackeusen
is reported to have arrived at Temes-
var, seventy-two miles northeast of
Belgrade.
Amsterdam reports: Protesting
against Sir Edward Grey’s warning
to Bulgaria that she would be held
strictly accountable for aggressive ac
tion against the Allies’ friends in the
Balkans, the Hamburg Nachrichten
professes not to understand the ex
citement w-hich has been caused In
the Entente nations.
The paper declares Germany and
Austria have no purpose except the
temporary occupation of the Serbian
bank of the Danube in order to as
sure necessary supplies for Turkey
since Roumanla refuses to permit the
transit through Its territory of. such
war material. . .-
“If therefore Serbia Is prudent,"
the Nlchrlchten explains, “she will
save blood and powder by withdraw
ing her troops somewhat to the east
as the goods destined for Turkey
never will harm Serbia and mean
while she will rectify the wrong she
did to Bulgaria In the. summer of
1913."
Accuse Bankers of Perjury.
The president and vice-president of
the Riggs National Bank, which in
stituted the suit agqlnst Secretary
McAdoo., have bean arrested on a
charge of perjury and lava given
Wed.
New Methods of Defence and Offense
Bender Waters Around British
. Isles a Very Dangerous Place for
Submarines to Operate — News
Comes to Washington.
Great Britain has discovered and
put into effective operation means of
combatting submarines which, ac
cording to official reports to the
United States government, already
have resulted In a loss estimated at
between fifty and seventy German
submarines. The reports declare that
the British admiralty confidently be
lieves it has crushed the German un
dersea campaign.
New methods of offence and de
fence that may revolutionize naval
warfare hare been adopted and high
British naval officers are of the opin
ion that unless the effectiveness of
the ■ submarines Is increased, it no
longer will be a menace to commerce
and battle fleets.
The British censorship has pre
vented the disclosure of details con
cerning the developments. Within
the last three weeks, however, confi
dential reports to various govern
ment departments from representa-
tibes In European capitals of neutrals,
as well as belligerent countries, have
confirmed the Brttlfh admiralty re
port that an effective means of deal
ing with the submarine has been
found.
These reports are being closely
scrutinized on account of the bearing
they may have on the naval policy of
the United States. They reaffirm of
ficers of the navy In their conviction
that the dreadnought still Is the
mainstay in warfare’ on sea.
According to the reports destruc
tion or capture of fifty submartn
actually had been reported several
weeks ago. and It was regarded as
possible' that the number might have
reached seventy. A dinner was given
recently In London, which, while not
a formal state effelr, was attended
by high government officials, in cel
ebration of the destruction of tbe fif
tieth underwater enemy. Reports of
the dinner apparently were supp
ed by the censor.
While the greatest secrecy la
thrown qround the means employed,
the United States has Information
concerning the principal methods. A
submarine telephone has boon devel
oped by which it is possible to detect
tbe approach of a submarine from
observation boats or stations planted
off shore connected with points in
the mainland.
For capturing craft whoso pres
ence has not boon detected or oven
suspected the government’s report?
describe how hogs nets have
stretched across the channels and la
open water near steamship lanes or
In the vicinity of warshlpe, nets sus
pended between floats have
spread broadcast.
Armed patrol boats watched and
when tbs floats disappear beneath tho
water, showing that a submarine has
become entangled, tho patrols con
gregate at the place, and whan tho
victim comes to the surface, as it in
evitably must to disentangle Itself,
It is destroyed or captured. A spe
cial type of mins also has boon de
vised which has been very success
ful.
The German methods of supplying
submarines with oil and provisions,
either at sea or from concealed places
along the coaats of the Britlah Isles,
have been ferreted oat and dispelled.
This compels the boats to return to
their bases at more frequent Inter
vals and leaves them only a com
parattvely short time for effective
duty.
Destroyers, the reports declare, be
come expert In the game of subma
rine hunting, and armed trawlers
also bav.e proved effective. But the
greatest single factor, It la said, hks
been a newly built fleet of small sea
going motor boats, armed with one
or two three-inch guns and possess
ing high speed; These boats liter
ally swarm over suspected expanses
of the water, and cover almost every
mile of the channels of commerce
adjacent to Great Britain.
As a submarine must rise fre
quently to renew Its air supply and
recharge the storage batteries by
which it Is propelled when submerg
ed, one in the territory covered by
the scouts Is almost certain to be
eventually seen and destroyed. These
small boats have been built In large
numbers in England, and it is re
ported that about five hundred are
being constructed in the United
States and Canada to be shipped In
sections to Great Britain.
Petrograd say? the Russian minis
ter has been ordered to leave Softs «
unless within tweaty-fosr hours tke
Bulgarian government openly breaks
with Austria and Germany and sends
away Austrian and Qenima officers .
now In Bulgaria. vt
A semi-official newt agency gives
the following note the minister at
Sofia has been ordered to hand tb Mr.
‘Radoslavoff, the Bulgarian premier:
"The events which are taking place
in Bulgaria at this moment give evi
dence of a definite decision of King
Ferdinand's government to place tbe
fate of its country In the hands of
Germany. -
“The presence of German and Ane-
trian officers at the ministry of war '
and on the staff of the army, the con
centration of troops in the zone bor
dering Serbia and the extensive fin
ancial support accepted from our
enemies by the Sofia cabinet no long
er leave gny doubt as to the oblect of
the military preparations of Bul
garia.
"The powers of the Entente, who
have at heart the realisation of the
aspirations qt' the Bulgarian people,
have, on many oetaalona, warned M.
Radoslavoff that any hostile act
against Serbia would be considerod
as directed against themselves. The
assurances given by the head of the
Bulgarian cabinet in reply to then*
warnings are contradicted by the
facts.
"The representative of Russia,
which is bound to Bulgaria by the
Imperishable memory of her libera
tion from tbe Turkiah yoke can not
sanction by his presence preparations
for fratricidal aggression against a
Slav and allied people. The Russian
minister therefore has received or
ders to leave Bulgaria with all the
staffs of the legation and consulates
if the Bulgarian government does
not within twentyfour hours openly'
break with the enemies of the Slav
cause and of Russia and does not at
once proceed to send away officers
belonging to armies of states which
are at war with the powers of the
Entente."
U. S. IS NOT SATISFIED
WITH LATEST MERMAN NOTE
Germany has failed to satisfy the
request of the United State? that the
slaking of the Arabic with n tons of
American lives be dlaavewed and lia
bility for the ae« aesnnul hr the taw-
pedal government.
This became known after a con
ference between
and Secretary lanalng at
secretary submitted a
Satasday la New York by Const
Bernstorff, the German amt
No anaonacement was made after the
White Hones conference.
Secretary laaalng merely said that
it was inadvisable to comment
situation while negotiations <
confidential. He declined to say
tbs next move would be. bat It
learned later tbe German
dor would be asked to come to Wash
ington to receive the view which the
American government takes of the
last German note.
Count von Bamstorif is filly au
thorized by bin government to con
duct the submarine negotiations. Tbe
negotiations are being conducted
without publication of tho text? of
the notes,' messages or memoranda
passing between the two governments
thus permitting frank discussion.
FLAN JOINT REUNION
Blue and Gray Will Gather in Wash-
% -
ington if Confeds Agree.
If the plans of Col. Hilary A. Her
bert, former secretary of the navy,
are adopted Confederate and Union
soldiers will meet in Washington In
1917 for a grand reunion and re
view. The G. A. R. men in conven
tion in Washington this week unani
mously approved the plan and if the
Confederates concur a reunion will
be held In Washington that will sur
pass the fiftieth anniversary of Get
tysburg held two years ago when
thousands of veterans on both sides
met and discussed the great battle.
Entombed for Six Days.
Six miners were rescued from the
shaft of n caved in min# at Lunsford,
Pi., Sunday pad after examination
Monday wore la good shape la spite
of their Mx days satombmoat.
HAVE IMPORTANT POSTS
Take
South Carolina
Front Rank on
South Carolina will taka a more
commanding position In the coming
session of congress than any other
time since the War Between the Sec
tions, unless the present plans for
committee asaignments go wrong.
Congressman Whaley Is slated for n
place on the powerful judiciary com
mittee and Mr. Byrnes may be given
n place on the appropriation commit
tee to succeed Former Congressman
Joe Johnson. Congressman Aiken, It
Is said, is being groomed for an im
portant chairmanship and Congress
man Nicholls, tbe new member from
the state, will he well taken care' of.
Mr. Lqver is already chairman of the
agricultural committee and Mr. Fin
ley ranks second on post offices and
post roads.
HOPES FOR PEACE
Bulgaria Says She Intends to Threat
en None of Her Neighbors.
Bulgaria is threatening none of her
neighbors and still hopes for a pact-
(Is settlement which "will taka her.
Interests to account." says a semi
official statement issued Friday at
Sofia and sent to Reuters.
The statement was issued because
of the attitude taken by the French
and Russian press. It declared Bul
garia mobilized to face a new,situa
tion and assnre her national exist
ence as well as her future.
lb Bend Bulgaria Joint Notoi
Rome, Italy, says the Impression 1a
that the Quadruple Entente win soon
present n Joint not* to Bulgaria |
lag for an explanation of her
Preach Avii
A squadron of
anroplnasn attacked the
tioa at Voallotu.
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