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■ / THE PEOPLE, , o. GOUMUTEE HUES BUI FOR LOSS ' FIFTY PER CENT INDUSTRIAL] LOSSES la!d AT DOOR OF MANAGEMENT & i'- r .f 7 [■ FIDOS ID RUES COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE RECEIVES AN UNEXPECTED VISIT. A SIX FOOT W^lL OF WATER * WAS FIRST OF SEVERAL TO STRIKE DOOMED CITY LABOR CAUSES 25 PER CENT Hoover Appointed This Committee at j Time he wee at Hea<fof American Engineering Council. : . \ ’ " •» WANTS LOWER FREIGHT RATE i Direct and Bold Couree Taken by Mr. | Harding Will Bruch Aelde for all Time a Technical CHtlolem. REAM M. WHITEHEAD Juctioe of the Peace Reah M. White, head of Kinge County, Washington, on the bench. She wae formerly a ste nographer in a Seattle law office. St. Louis, Mo—Respooslbllty for more than 60 per cent of the waste In Industrial processes, which is causing enormous annual losses to the nation, can be placed at the door of the man agement and less than 26 per cent at the door of labor, declared a report of j the American Engineering Council’s | oommlttee on elimination of waste in ! industry, made public at a meeting of i the council’s executive board. The committee was appointed by Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, when he was head of the council. The report showed, that the margin otnn.mployment « "or. | Wa.hlD.loi. - America coD.ldere ttam a million men that blllloa. of lb , olute „ valld her t|u . w tlle Qw . EQUANIMITY IS UNDISTURBED Title to the Ships was Obtained by President Wilson After Passage of Special Act of Congress. doHars were tied up In Idle equip ment; that high labor turnover was a rough index of one of the commonest waetee, and that waste of time and en- , ergy and money through duplications and estimates and bids in building trades ran into millions of dollars an nually. Both employer and employes re strict output, it was said Both capi tal and labor are blamed for existing abuses. From four to five million workers were idle during January and Febru ary of this year. Telephone Company Wins Suit. Raleigh, N. C—The Corporation Commission handed down Us opinion in the petition of the Southern Bell ! nnquestioned. As for a German claim man ships seized in American ports about the time of the outbreak of war with Germany. Dispatches from abroad, stating that the reparation commission would e'xamine whether the ships should be tyraed over to that commission as a portion of German assets, failed to dis turb the equanimity of official opinion Tfirthe subject. No claim has as yet been made for thq ships, but if it should be presented, the United States government will take the position that tltlo to the ships was obtained by President Wilson after the pas sage of a special act of congress au thorizing him to seize the ships. So far as domestic law is concerned, our government’s '‘rights to the ships is Telephone company cese increasing the rate for residence phones 25 cents for each phone and allowing a 10 per cent Increase for business phones pro vided that the increase of the business phones shall not be less than 25 cents and not more than 60 cents. for the return of those ships, the American government finds nothing in Washington. — President Harding has taken his first important step to ward solving the railway problem. He has in effect asked ^he Interstate Com merce Commission to reduce freight rates. He didn't do so directly—-he managed the thing very tactfully aad diplomatically. For a President Isn’t suppossed to ask the Interstate Com merce Commission, which is a ques- judicial body, to render any decisions. Woodrow Wilson had some informal conferences once with members of the Interstate Commerce Commission and was severely criticised for trying to Influence the commission to revise rates. President Harding adopted a much more direct course and even bolder course, which unquestionably will es tablish a precedent and brush aside for all times the technical criticism that a President can't communicate with the I: C. C. Mr. Harding walked to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion building and told the members that he recognized that , the commis sion Is the rate-making agent of con gress and that, inasmuch as he had the official right to communicate to congress any message he pleased, he therefore felt free to oommunicate di rectly with the agent of congress. PRINCE HIROHITO Heir te the Japanese throne who received a tumultuous welcome on hie vleK te England. HH COTIF I3II.NMN U. 8. Railway Labor Board Completes Its Work of Scaling the Wages of Employes of 104 Railroads. Must Return Black’s Car. Miami. Fla—Return to Harry Ft. Francis Block, New York millionaire, of hla private Pullman car, aeised in Miami last March, when over 400 quarts of Intoxicating liquor were found aboard it bv federal and state officers, was ordered by the trial court. Suggestion to Japs by Britain. Tokio—Great Britain. The Nlchi Nichi declares has suggested that Ja pan permit the Anglo-Japanese alll- .. „ . ... .. ance to continue another year. The h. V.rMllle. tr-aty which pormit. two MUon , d9flnUely n6g0tuu „ Germany to make such a claim as the aW _. Berlin government, gave away all her ; rights to the ships in that treaty. Secretary Hughes will instruct the American representative on the repa rations commission to express the Errtsrvts of Ex-Ruesl»n States. Helsingfors.—Poland will shortly Invite representatives of Finland. Lotvla. Estbonia and Lithuania to a conference In Warsaw to discuss as entente of all states formerly belong ing to the Russian empire for a revision 6t newspaper says. the' alliance, the Chicago.—Wheat for* May delivery made a sensational upward swing in price as a result • of demand from shorts who had waited until the last of the month before fulfilling con tracts. Little was for sale and the market ran up 12 1-2 cents a bushel to $1.82 as compared with finish. The United States Railroad Labor Board completed work on the decis ion. cutting the wages of employes of 104 railroads. Eventually the new rates to be established will apply to every road in the country. Advance estimates.of the slash to be ordered by the board place ^e fig ure somewhere between 10 and 15%. A 10 per cent cut would subtract some $300,000,000 from the nation’s railway wage bill. The decision, effective Joly 1. Just 14 months after the $<00,<KH).000 in crease 6t last year took effect Makes Bonds Legal Tender. Washington.—Federal bonds would be. made legal tender under a bill in Refuses to Resign. Fan Antonio, Tex.—Hugh H. Rob _ AmoH.an if onv claim ! ® rt,Km - halted FUtes district attorney j troduced iySenator Watson, demo- ■hoDld D« made for the Oeymma ,bh>t. * or «>• •«<«™ of T,x.. .D- c „ t . gdo^ who de^Ur-d the don nounced he had refused a request of! eral Industrial and financial depree - — ■ I A • »— »»--•» *- * Senate Passes Relief Measure. Washington.—Another farmers’ re lief measure, the bill of Senator Cur tis. republican, Kansas, to loan up to $50,000,000 to federal farm loan banks Attorney General Daugherty that he resign. Committee to Report Bill. Washington.—The house judiciary committee agreed to report out the Police Were Ambushed. Cork. Ireland—District inspector Stevenson, a police sergeant and four constables were killed and four offi cers ▼ere seriously wounded when a police patrol was ambushed, by 100 armed men at Carrowkennedy. to distribute amoug farmers at not Volstead bill which would prohibit more than 5 1-i per cent Interest, was M ] e Q f beer en physicians’ prescrip- passed by the senate with assurances | t j on f or nBe by the sick of early house approval. sion to be due to contraction of the circulating currency ♦ • King Boris to Visit us. . . , Sofia. Bulgaria-Premier Ftamhnli- <lr# * 8 ror D * a ‘ wski, of Rnlgarla. declared here King Boris would vielt the United States Salesman Shot by Young Girl. Texarkana. Ark.—Claude Dunagan, aged 35, clothing salesman, was shot and killed by a 14-year-old girl, when, according to the girl’s story to the po lice, the man appeared at her bed room window as she was about to un- Psper Mill Striks Ended. Green Bay, Wis.—The strike of 600 employes of the Northern Paper Mills here was settled at a conference of mill officials and union representa tives, ft was announced. Russia Helps Turkey. Constantinople—I^arge quantitiee of machine guns and cannon have been received by the Turkish nation- during the coming autumn and that alists from Russia. Gold aad silver he would accompany Boris, bullion is also being sent into Asia Minor by Russia and will be minted by the Turkish nationalist govern ment. Siberian Revolt Spreads. Peking.—The anti-bolshevik revolt in eastern Siberia, which began with Port of Petrogmd Ooened. Riga.—A radio dispatch from Mos cow said the port of Petrograd had been opened. Byng Offered Pest? Montreal—Lord Byng, of Vlmy, has the capture of Vladivostok and near-^ been offered the Governor-Generalship by towns by troops formerly com-1 of Canada to succeed the Duke of De manded by the late General Kappell. j vonshire, according to The Gazette. Harvey Offers a Prize. London. — The American Ambassa dor, George Harvey, is offering a prise of 25 pounds for an essay on the con stitution of the United States. The competition is open to undergraduates of the University of London of liot more than ten years' standing. Senate Approves Amendment. Washington. — Committee amend men's to the appropriations Shipping Board were approved by the senate. has spread to Blagovestchenek, capi tal of Amur province, it is said. King George to Be Present. Belfast —The News Letter says it has learned ’’on very good authority An official announcement of his k]>- pointment may be exepeted in a few days. Only $5 Fire Loss. Ft. Petersburg, Fla.—ATIow record — v/uiuiai<.i.«e BiBonu- J th ^ t | B gjj probability King George will | for fire damage was established hers deficiency hill granting y j glt neifaat for the purpose of open-1 in May. the loss amounting to five of $76,040,000 to the rr fVw* TT1«f r> w rva vU o rrw*r» # 4e% Unionists Get Fsrty Seats. Belfast — With the election of P. O'Neill, nationalist for Down, the Ul ster parliament- It is made up of 40 JIaionists, six Sinn Feiners and six Nationalists. ing the Ulster parliament in state on June 21.' Transfer Washington. Oft Reserves. ’ President Harding White House of Confederacy. Montgomery, Ala —The first White an executive order transfer House of the Confederacy, was dedl- ring the naval oil reserves from the rated bore by the Sons and Daughters jurisdiction of the Navy Department, of Dixie. [ — To Abandon Yacht Race. New York. — The trans-Atlantic yacht race for the cup offered by King Albert of Belgium, probably will be abandoned this year because only two boats have been entered. dollars. Release 1600 Prisoners. Lisbon, Portugal.—About 1,500 roy alist political prisoners nave been set lowest quotation on Ssldisrs Killed in Ireland. Cark. — Feur soldiers were killed, and twelve mortally wounded, when they were attacked while marching fyom the Youghal barracks to the rifle fan inge. Olympic Games at Paris. Geneva.—The international Olynv pic committee awarded the 15121 Olym pic games to Paris. Amsterdam was awarded the 1928 games. Tide of Failures Recedes. New York. -The tide of business failures continues to recede slowly. free under the vote of general amnes ty for all such men pgssed by Parlia ment on April 9. Liberty 3'/ 2 s Drop. New York.—Liberty 3 l-2s tax ex empted bonds, dropped to $87.50, their the stock ex change. Other issues of that group were also heavy. American Woman Decorated. Madrid. — King Alfonso decorated Mrs. Joseph E. Willard, wife of the American ambassador^ with fhe Or der of Noble Dames of Maria Lt’lsa at a dinner at the Americtn embassy. Crew of Esperanto Rescued. Halifax. N. S^-The crew of the Gloucester schooner Esperanto was Bone la. Governor of Alaska, Washington.—Scott C. Bone, a for mer Seattle publisher and who was Race Clash In Oklahsma. Tulsa, Okla.—Nine white men are known to have been killed in the race clash with Chief of Police Gustafson estimating the negro dead as 65. In addition, scores of whites and negroes have been wounded. Bakers Arrested In Chicago. Chicago.—Five union bakers were arrested when striking employes of a «*° nb >-‘ h *«'ouo M . P - U b, lc « y m.D«;;,„rt;; struts for May. These showed 1.3S3 ..... H 1Br e e naamg company were said to Itdemendous ldss in lives Leas of Property Through Flood and Flame in Stricken City Estimated «t $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. Pueblo, Colo.—An 18-hoar reign of terror in Pueblo is gradually coming to an end. National guardsmen, state rangers and hundreds of civilian population who escaped are now restoring order. Nightfall finds the city at the mercy of the elements, igjth bodies floating nere and there on the ebbing waters. The city is without gas, electric lights or drinking water. The eastr ern section of the city is isolated. The business district is blackened and charred with filthy water flowing in and out of the ruins. People are ma rooned in every section of the city where they escaped death by climbing to the roofs of tall buildings. Refu gees are now housed in schools, the courthouse and in churches. Hundreds of persons, ignoring the warnings of rising waters, were trapped in the downtown sections and drowned like rats when the flood of the Arkansas and Fountain rivers broke over the city. Here are some of the outstanding features of the Pueblo flood: Death toll, 500 minimum, 2,000 max imum. Estimates vary. Martial law proclaimed with rang ers and national guardsmen in control. ’ Two-thirds of city under water, whole business section destroyed by fire. Property damage estimated $10,000,* 000 to $20,000,000. filffltitMPUIFEIMUl Club Bay Graduates From Membership In Loos I Club to Goners I Lssdsr and Purebred Hog Breeder. Clem son College.—A good example of the evolution of A club boy into a leader of his comthuaity and of the influence of such \ young man upon parents end others Is found in the case of G. T. Ligon, a Cherokee Cos*- ty club boy, who is graduatiag from club membership Into purebred hog breeder and general leader in his com munity. Ounty Agent H. K. Sanders re ports that young Ligon, though Just nineteen years old, is now starting out with three brood sows to raiso purebred pigs to help develop the purebred swine industry in his county and section. Last year Ligon was in the Chester County pig and corn clubs and was successful in both. His com was first in the county club work In 1920 and won second place in the single-ear class at the big Pee Dee Corn Show at Florence. He was beat en in this show only by the man from whom he secured his seed corn. He used all of his 1920 prize money fa both phases of the club work from prizes won at the County Fair and at the State Fair as well as at the Pee Dee Corn Show to’ bny enough wire to fence in about ten acres, whioh he is now in process of making into a good hog pasture. Sanders reports that this enthusiastic young graduate of club work says that he reports that he is no longer young enough to stay in club work but declares his inten tion to be heard from in the adult classes ih the local and state fairs. Find Skeleton of Mastodon. Arlington, Ore.—The complete skel eton of a mastodon with tusks nine feet long and twelve inches in diam eter, has been discovered in the Butch er Knife Canyon, four miles east of here. All the bones have not yet been unearthed, but it is believed to be a complete specimen. Arlington citizens plan to have the find exhumed and brought here to be mounted and placed on exhibition for automobile tourista. Anderson.—Ernest Ashley, found frailty of manslaughter for killing Policeman and Deputy Sheriff Arthur T. Hughes at the close of a political meeting held in Honea Path August 24 of last yeah was sentenced to servo ten years in the state ^nttentlary or on the county chaingangr The sen tence of the court was at first 11 years, hat an appeal was made to Judge George E. Prince, presiding, te reduce the sentence to ten years so that bsil could be granted by the pre siding Judge, pending an appeal. Peace Delegation Hae Sailed. New York—Ano'her American peace delegation—this time composed entire ly of women—is en route to another peace congress in Vienna. A delegation of forty American wo men delegates to the convention of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, headed by Jane Addams, Chicago, sailed for Europe. Cable Censorship to Continue. Paris.—All cable messages sent from Paris to the United States, Including both newspaper dispatches and ordi nary business cables, are still subject to a form of government censorship. Hen Lays Ostrich Egg. San Jose, Cal.—Mrs. S. A. Hooe be lieves that one of her Buff Orpington hens has a streak of ostrich blood in her veins. The hen has laid an egg measuring six inches in circumference and seven Inches in length. - Chinese Educators In England. London.—Commissioners appointed by the Chinese government to study the United States and European edu cational systems have arrived is Lon don. They have already made an ex tensive tour of the United StaUi. 'v _ Claims Age as 121. Fulton, Mo. — John'Johnson, aigre, who claims he is 121 years old, is blind. Johnson was born in 1799 and t Is claimed that he has papers to bear out his birth record. * African Women Study Stylet. London.—West African women will eooa be wearing the latest English and American fashions, for several native girls are now in London studying dressmaking. etn>#ts for May. These showed 1,383 failures for the month, a decrease of 7.4 per cent. terman Elsie, which had taken them off Uie wreck of their craft Hoover on Warehouse Receipts. Washington.—Herbert Hoover, sec retary of commerce, takes the position Lewis H Machen Resigns. Richmond. Va.—Lewis H. Machen _ , sent his resignation as federal prohi- that credit facilities of the govern- bitlon d'rector for Virginia to David ment should be greatly extended in H. Blair, commissioner of Internal Southern states, and that a warehouse Revenue, to become effective on or be- receipt should pass as actual delivery jm v m fore June 7. Reserve Banks to Lower Rates. Washington—A movement for a general lowering of bank rates will be Initiated by the federal reserve banks during the summer months, it was officiafly announced. u—: —.— He Belfevee in Married Life. Ridgefield. Wash.—“Wedding.JhbUs” ring as merrily for the old as for the young, says Pastor Andrew Jackson Stover, of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, who, et the ege of eighty-five. templates his second adventure (n matrimony » —it ' v ' *" jof cotton. To Reorganize Dry Forces. Washington.—Early and complete ] leorganlzation of the federal prohibi tion unit is planned by the Internal Revenae Bureau. Commissioner Bleir announced. More efficient end lees coetiy administration is sought national committee in 1920 was nom inated by President Harding tb‘ be Governor of Alaska. j Kelley's Ninth Homer. New York.—George Kelly, of the New York Nationals; made his ninth home run of the season, tying with Meusel, of the Philadelphia Nationals, who knocked out his ninth circuit clout ’ have threatened non-union men who took their places. tttnees of Prominent Lawyer. Penescola, Pier—Hon. W. A. Blount, president of the American Bar asso ciation aad eeaior counsel for Ute Florida East Coast railroad loft for Baltimore. Md., where be will ueder- go an operation. May Materially Aid Farmers. Washington.—Creation of a. $100,- 000,000 federal farmers’ export financ- w . . j IS V , V'VVU OVMiaaWI 0 w d 1U ing corporation to buy farm products the National Cemetery here by reta in the United States end sell them abroad is proposed in a bill Introduced by Senator Norrte. . Clyde Manning Gets Life Term. Covington, Ga.—Clyde Manning, ne gro farm boas tor John 8. Williams, was convicted of murder in superior court here and sentenced to life Im prison meat—the seme saute nee puss- led uooe Williams. Twelve Theusand Acres Flood*). Woodland, Wash.—Between 400 and 500 persons, farmers and their fami lies, were beleved to have escaped to safety, as the result of warning giv en when a dike near here prottttlhs e reclaimed farm area of 12,000 acres broke under pressure of flood waters. Half Confidence In Hun Cabinet. Berlin.—The Wirth cabinet, which has set for itself the task of begin ning .payment of reparations to the Allies, was given a vote of semi-con fidence by the reichstag. Britain Faces Red Revolution. Many Graves Decorated. Winchester. Va. — The graves of over 5,000 soldiers were decorated in raae of the Confederate and world wars.. .. Of Internattcnal Significance. Washington.—The national capital's memorial ceremonies for American war dead were colored by a new touch of international significaace et sTvlcee held la Arlington Cemetery under the lend of President Harding i Memorial day. London.—Lenin, the agent of Ger many, whe was sent to Russia with ten million dollars of German money with which to remove Russia from ne war, is today working in the interests of Germany by attempting to spread revolution in England. Camden.—The body of Lieut iy. Bratten Delteach. Jr, which has been resting In Tout France, since 1918. arrived in Camden to be laid to rest in the Camden remetery. It wae taken to the home of the parents. Ms. and Mrs. W. Bratton DeLoach, Sr. Members of the' Kershaw Guards. First Bouth Carolina infantrv. and the James LeRoy Belk post of the Ameri can Legion formed a guard of honor. Orangeburg. — O. W. Land. Leroy Benton and J. B. Herring, white pris oners at the Orangeburg county JalL escaped in what turned out to be an easy manner. When the county jailer awoke to make hie rounds he found, all of the jail doors open except the one to the negro cell and soon found out that the three prisoners werw gone. Williston.—The boll weevil ha» made its appearance In this commu nity and is doing considerable dam age. Cotton from the farm of O. A. Kennedy about eight inches tall has all the huds completely destroyed. Every stalk had weevils on it Newberry*—The chamber of com merce received 100,000 Puerto Rico potato* plants from Jessup, Ga.. which had been ordered by farmers from al most every section of the county, through the chamber for planting. Practically every p’ant had been tak en and carried home. c Union.—A three million gallon set tling basin has been completed at the standpipe and the water was turned in the basin. This wKl give Union u large supnly of water at all times. The surroundings have been beauti fied and a neat iron fence placed around it. Spartanburg.—With his heart on his right side, his liver on his left side, and various other internal orghns sit uated in portions of the anatemy just opposite to thoee ordinarily accepted ss the proper locations for such or- ■rans, a prominent citizen of Spartan burg county is causing local physi cians and surgeons much thought. Governor Did Not Reach Puebljf^ Colorado Springs.—Governor Shoup was forced to return to Denver after making two unsuccessful attempts to reach Pueblo. Flood waters droye the Governor and his party back. ——————— ; v -p Married In College ChapeL Washington. — Miss Jennie Mattax Sutherland of Washington and Bur- dett MeKendrie AsbtH of Atlanta are the first and only couple ever married in the chapel of Gaucher college, Bal timore. The groom la a native ol North Carolina. • Marines Facing Court Martial. Charleston.—As a result of armed men aoTvearing at the county jail, at about 1:30 o’clock to , ‘get ,, Wilson G’V'cu. -a negro, who K under arrest charged with seriously wounding Frank Urban, a marine, some nights ago, eight sea Roldlers are locked up the Charleston navy yard U. S. M. C 4 barracks, charged with being ab sent without leave and with conduct to the prejudice and good order of the service. This means that, they w<11 face a general court martial In the next few days. Struck In Head by Axe. Chekter^—Neal Williams, one of CHester’s most highly esteemed and Tyjnu’ar young men. the son of Mr. »*'d W. T. Williams is In a very grave' condition as thie result of haring been in the head by ah axe. He was 1 a poet at his home on York -♦reel whi’e a negro was driving H into the rronnd when the axe accident ly flew off the handle 1 and plowed Its wav into his skull for a distance of over an inch. His skull H *ev«retv fractured. He was much iy Ides of blood iHfer