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MMCMBRttf 3KMNB>£MK THE PEOPLE, BARNWELL, 8. 0 PROPOSALS MADE TO OBREGON MUST EVENTUALLY BE AC CEPTED BY HIM. HARDLY A MATTER .OF CHOICE Failure to Grasp the One Fundamen tal May Cost Mexican Government and Obregon a Great Deal. Washington.—The Mexican situa tion has simply resolved itself Into a question of time. The United States confidently expects the Mexican au thorities to come round to the view point expressed in the proposal for a new treaty of amity and commerce. The Mexicans have begun arguing but eventually they must accept the pro posal made or remain outside the fam ily of nations. The Mexican officials whose state ments have been published do not yet know how firm is the attitude of Sec retary Hughes. They imagine it is a subject in which there can he end’ets bickering. Hut Mr Hughes Insists on' one fundamental. Failing to grasp i MRS. RICHARD W. CHILD Mrs. Richard Washburn Child, whose husband has been appointed United States ambassador to Italy. WEEKS TO REMOVE FRICTION Mitchell Declared to be One of the Most Brilliant of Our Flylnfl"*Of- ficera and a Pioneer Aviator. I Washington.—The relief of Briga dier General Mitchell as assistant that fundamental may cost General ;Chief of the air service has Been re- Obregon a good deal. The fundamen- quested by Major General C. T. Meno- tal is simply that the Mexican const!-j her, chief of the army air*service, In* tution is or is not satisfactory. If it ■ SIMS IS AG! IN TROUBLE DENBY CABLES INSTRUCTIONS TO HIM TO EITHER AFFIRM OR DENY RECENT TALK. DISCUSSED IRISH QUESTION “Many Persona Are Americans Wherf In Quest ef Money But Sinn Fein- era When on the Platform.*’ * Isn^t, then a treaty should be negotiat ed to prove the point. If the Mexi cans persist in refusing to interpret or change their constitution so as to re move all doubt about confiscation of •foreign property lawfully acquired written recommendations to the Sec retary of War. Repeated public statements by Gen eral Mitchell urging a united air ser vice, made since President Harding addressed congress in opposition to then recognition will not be extended, sut* unification, was said to 'have been one of the. reasons prompting • the request that the officer be relieved Should Take Initiative. of his present assignment. Osaka. Japan- Resolutions provid-j secretary Weeks, , in announcing Washington.—Secretary Deu^y in structed Rear Admiral Sims to advise the Navy Department Immediately by cable as to whether he was correctly quoted in press accounts of an ad dress he made to the English Speaking Union pt a luncheon In London June 7. Washington. — Senator McCormick, republican, Illinois, complained form ally to President Harding and Secre tary Denby about the address deliver ed in London by Rear Admiral Sims, in which he discussed the Irish ques tion. Ou loaving the White Hodse Senator McCormick declared that the admiral's address, which was delivered before the English Speaking Union, was “disgusting and un-American." Admiral Sims was quoted in press dispatches received here as having said that there were many persons in the United States who technically were Americans ,but “none of them Americans at all." They are Ameri cans when they want money, the ad miral said, but Sinn Feiners when on the platform. DR. Q. WIRTH Dr. G. Wirth, for years loader of the German Centrist party, who ac cepted the poet of chancellor, formed a new cabinet and submitted to the ultimatum of the allies on repara tions and disarmament SAFEGUARD AMERI Signing of Treaty Would Au >matically Accomplish the Recogniti n of the Mexican Governmen' Search For Hospital Site. Washington.—Director C. R. Forbes of the war risk insurance bureau, noU- Washington. — The American goT ernment has proposed a treaty of am ity and commerce with Mexico, it was announced at the state department in which Mexico will agree to safe guard the lights of property io that country held by American citizens which attached before the constitu tion of 1017 was promulgated. \Tlie signing of the treaty automatically would accomplish American recogm tian of the Mexican government. , Formal announcement of the Ad ministration's policy toward the south ern republic was made after the sub fled southern members of congress ject had been discussed at the regu- that the government was desirous of lar cabinet meeting. President Hard ing thst a petition he sent to the^Jap- t k e re q Ues t f or General Mitchell's re- nnese government asking it to take | ea8e Ka |j jjg wou id no t ac t until he it!*! rrea^RriKTln hft< ^ thorou S hl > r investigated condl- secur i ng a site of 300 acres for the ling and his advisers had before them f th ' -mi’ . ponfer tlon ® ln th * a,r servlce - Dec * arln K I erection of a hospital for the treat- a communication from President Ob- f„r th. POT** 0 ',™ th.re apparently wa. aerlou. friction mcnl of c. wr.lc. men .ulterln, from ence relathe to disarmament h »'e,b e t ween the administrative officers. been passed unanimously by the dis- .gg^rgtary Weeks asserted emphatical- nrmament committee of the Chamber jy would “remove the fric- of Commerce here. tion.'* Whether that would necessi- • tate the removal of any officers re- Hundred Miners Trapped. !main to he determined, he said. . I*“ni. 111.—More than 100 miners are The secretary praised the work of trapped In .the mine of the St Paul General Mitchell, declaring he was railroad at Mark, ten miles south of one of the most brilliant flying offl- bere, by fire A rescue crew, equip- cers in the army service and was a ped with helmets. Is attempting to pioneer flyer of the army. r“arh the level where the majority of — <he mea are believed to lx* caught I Sire of 0ur univerae. tubercular and nervous disorders. Commander Galbraith Killed. Indianapolis, Ind.—F. W. Galbraith, Jr., national commander of the Ameri can Legion, was killed Instantly an<l two other men were seriously Injured when an automobile in which they 'were riding went over a 20-foot am- bankment here. Ruth Spent Day in Jail. New York.—Babe Ruth, home run Cambridge, Mass.—Our universe Is king of thw New York Americans, was 30 000 Acres Devastated. a thousand times larger than has been sentenced to one day in the city prison Cairo. Egypt. — Tremendous rains believed, and the earth, far from be- fined 2*00 in magistrate’s court for have fallen in the province of Daka- login the center of things, is 360 quin- atiUmioWle speeding. liyeh. In the Ninth delta region, north tillion miles from the center the of here, and a dispatch from Man- universe, according to discoveries dls- surch. capital of the province, says cussed recently by Dr. Harlow Shape- thxt 30.000 acres of cotton an’d whp'’t ley, noted astronomer, have been devastated The Geld Dust Twins. Washington R«ar Admiral Rims and Ambassador Harvey were de scribed in the senate bv Senator Htr- rison, Missiasippi. as ' these two gold dust twins’ who now represent the government of the United States in 1 England.” Decrease Unfilled Tonnage. New York The monthly tonnage report of the United States Steel Cor- , poraMon showed 6.482.4S7 tons of un filled orders on hand May 31. Two Drown at Wrightsville. Wilmington, N. C.—E. J. Kates and C H Me Bridge, special examiners of the Interstate Commerce Commissfon. were drowned while surf bathing at 1 Wrightsville Beach. Laaker Goes on Shipping Board. Washington.—Formal announcement of the appointment of A. D. Laaker, a Chicago advertising man, as chair man of the Shipping Board, was made 4 at the White House. regun relating to the proposed treaty, which was presented to the Mexican president by George T. Summerlin, the American charge d affairs at Mer ico City, May 27- The text of Obregon'* reply has been withheld and administration of fleers decline to discuss It or to make any comment as to the relation to it of the announcement of policy made public by Secretary Hughes. Two Die ki Airplane Flight. Hampton, Va.—Flying Cadets Noel R. Thompson and C. A. Bowen were killed at Langley Field when a De Havlland 4-B plane in which they were making a bombing flight struck a tree- top and became ignited * Thro, nr Three or four bombs being carried In the car riage were detonated and blew the machine to bits. Pieces of the plane were thrown great dietances by the first explosion, which occurred about a minute after the machine had made a straight dive Death of Aivin T. Hert. into an oafc tree on the edge of the - Washington.—Alvin T. • Hert, of flying field. i Louisville, Ky., republican national 7 — committeeman from that state, died Mere Gotten at Bremen.' suddenly at the New Willard hotel Washington. — Gotten arriving at FLORENCE ECONOMIC Mew Board of Aldermen hat Declared War on Former Scale of Balariaa Raid Ite City Employee*. THE ARTIFICIAL STIMULATION OF DOMESTIC PRODUCTION BY * GERMANS WILL' FAIL. $4,000,000,000 IN SUBSIDIES Tha Artificial Condition Upon Which The Hun* Ara Leaning la Slender Reed Which Muat Snap. Waahington.—Bursting In the bub- die of inflation by which it was de clared Germany is seeking to stimu late her domestic production and for eign trade artificially was predicted at a conference between Secretary of Commerce Hoover, Secretary of Agri culture Wallace and republican and democratic senator*' composing the "agricultural bloc.’ r . It was explained that Germany is now expending the equivalent of |4,- 006,000,060 in American money in subsidizing her industries by artificial means. Her exports are underselling those of the United States In South American markets for example. The cheapness of her products is one of the chief causes of the falling off in American exports. Bat the opinion was expressed that Germany will fail in her efforts to corner the world's markets. Just as ske failed to make herself_the military and naval mis tress of the world. Florence.—The new city council ^ aas declared war on the salaries of • city employees. In the first place the city clerfc and treasurer who also acts as treasurer of the school board and handles several hundred thous and dollars during the course of the year, has been cut from 3300 a month to |200 a month, and the pay of his as sistant has been trimmed f 25 a motnh. Policemen who have heretofore re ceived 3150 a month are cut to $100 to starl with, but they are promised uniforms at the expense of the city, and increases in six months If they survive the probation period. , The salary of city attorney Is cut In half and this announcement resulted in the Immediate resignation of the present holder of this office, Sam J. Royal, who figures that his time could be spent to better personal advantage, particularly in view of the several matters pending regarding bond Is sues which require a good deal of careful time and attention. The of fices of sanitary inspector and col lector under the gew order of things are combined, saving another hundred a month or so. In the official-call for applications no mention is made of a health officer. It is understood that council wishes to reorganize this de partment. The salaries of all city emTiloyes down to the day laborers have been reduced drastically. the basis of her present inflated In dustrial and commercial striving is beginning to draw near, and the burst ing of her dream must come withia the next two or three months, it was confidentially stated. The artificial condition upon which she is leaning Is but a slender reed which must snap. Dutch Contention Unrecognized. Washington. — The United States [overnment mads it plain that it will it recognize the contentions of the itch government that American in- teresta applied too late for permission to engage in the exploitation of the Djambi oil fields In Central Sumatra. Herd of Antelopo Slaughtered •Swift Current. Sask. — Indignation has been aroused among those inter ested in the conservation of wild ani mals oyer the slaughter of at least half of the antelope in a large herd thaf makes it* home in the open coun try northwest of town _ Divoroes Cause of Suicide. New York. — Divorces, congested living conditions and enactment of the eighteenth amendment are given as probable causes for the alarming Increase in the number of auicides in 1920, according\ to report* received by officer* of the Bave-a-Life League. Must Import Gold Only. here. Mexico City.—Importation into Mex ico of any foreign money except gold, or the circulation of any such cur- reacy, in this country, is prohibited after July 1 by a decree issued by President Obregon Dav of Special Ceremony. Wnvhlngton — Instructions nf by the war department Death of John Goldin. Full River. Mass.—Word- was rg- WPr o reived here of the death at Brooklyn to all of John Golden, general president of I Bremen during the first quarter of the year totalled 330,000 bales as Refugee Camp Established. against 40,000 bales during the flrat Pueblo, Colo. — Establishment of a three months of 1920, accordlag to refugee camp to receive thase made advices to the commerce department. Pueblo’s greatest step tbward restora-i The cotton arriving this year, the tion of normal conditions. advices said, consists for the most part of cotton already sold and contracted for during the fall months. Charleston —A group of business men of this city, who arranged to make a report on the proposed pu*- , chase by the city of Charleston Ternr- The day of Germany a reckoning oa ^ corapany pr0 perty for $1.5004»0, has Issued a lengthy stAtemenL-CQli--. taing a mass of facts and figures, on profits and loss, valuations and gen eral conditions. They suggest If tha purchase is made, that 31.500,000 cash Is too much to pay, basing their find ing on a valuation of the property of about 31,200,000, more or less. * - Denmark.—A laYge peanut shelling plant with the most modern machin ery will be completed In time to han dle this year's crop of peanuts at Den mark. Plans have been perfected by the owners and machinery is expected to arrive at an early date. This con cern has headquarters at Suffolk, Va., and operates other plants of the same kind throughout the South and peanut belt. * ' • c' -m aroa •omniand^rs to mako Flag the United Textile Workers of Ameri- [ Dav. June 14 'a day of epe'dal cere- oa. Burial will lie in this city, his t'onles to encourage friendly rela- home for many years, lions between the army and civilian".." — — Drift Ice In North Atlantic. Washington^—There is-more heavy drift ice in the North Atlantic this year and it is farther South for the season than at any time since 1912, when the liner Titanic was sunk. Embezzlement $100,000. Manila—Charged with embezzle- o: nient of $100,000 of the Imnk s funda- its doors sometime ago, « Filipino note teller, working at the dead from a pistof wound in his home Cashier Kills Himself. Sparta, Ga —J D. Buroett. cashier f the Bank of Sparta,’ which closed was found German Reparation Bonds. .Lofldon - Germany’s new repara tions bonds will be marketed—if they get that far at a price between or be low 45 and 65 per cent of their face value. PMllippine arrested national hank hew^, was here. A coroner’s jury decided it was suicide.. All Forms of Hazing Abolished. Madison, Wia.—AU forms of hazing have bees abolished by the student senate of the University of Wisconsin, it was announced, following severe In jury of eight freshmen and soph- mores in a class fight. ‘ Would Let Germany Enter. Geneva.—The assembly of the Union of League- of Nations associations adopted a resolution in favor of the admission of Germany to the League Declares Initial Dividend. New York - The Pacific Oil com pany, organized when the Southern Pacific railroad relinquished contr >1 ■of its oil properties, has de-iarod an initial dividend of $1.50 a share. Negress Dead at 107. Chester. S. C.—What was probably the oldest person in Chester county passed away when Jane Hemphill, a negro, age 107 years, died very sud denly at her home. Forest Station Fine Asset. Washington.—The forest experiment, of Nations. 1 station planned for Asheville about the first of July will develop into a| . Five Constablas Wounded, very valuable asset to the South. Its Dublin.—Dublin streets were awept Preposition to Insurgents. Berlin.—An emissary of the Mos cow Soviet haa made overtures to Adelbert Kofanty for the creation of a communist state in Upper Silesia if the Polish insurgents are repudiated by both Warsaw and Paris, it was learned from a reliable sonree. Awaiting Shock of Combat. Athens.—Atbehs stood tense await ing the shock of renewed combat with the Turkish nationalists in Asia Mi nor. The approach of a decisive campaign was heralded when King Constantine departed for the front. Great Dam is Endangered. Durango, Colo. — Heavy rains and rapidly melting snows nave driven the Lasanimas river out of its banks, endangering the huge Eletra dam, 17 miles north of Durango. Many bridges have been hashed away. Johnston.—A large shipment of Irish potatoes left here. The pro ducers are pleased at their splendid produce and there is a good market. The shipment has been delayed some as the barrels were )ate in arriving. The grading and packing is being done mt one of the warehouses, and it is an object of interest to see this in action and view the long rows of filled barrels. Anderson.—A camp for girls will be opened at Tamassee. where the moun tain school for girls, under the patron age of the-D. A. R. organization nf South Carolina, Is located. The Rev. I. E. Wallace, of Seneca is planning the establishment of this camp, and will be ready for girls from the ages of 14 and 18 years during the month of July. ■. Sumter.—June the 14th, the propo sition as to establishing a county court In Sumter la to be voted on. The * local bar association which la back of this bill,, has appomteu « committee to arrange for campaign meetings that the public may thoroughly under-- etand both sides of the question. Abbeville.—Governor Cooper ap pointed Maj. R. B. Cheatham of Ab beville to be treasucer of Abbeville county. ' - The appointment of Mr. Cheatham, veteran of the war, was made upon the recoin ihendatfon of Senator J. Howard Moore of Abbeville. - scope will be from Pennsylvania to with bullets for 20 minutes following Alabama wherever the great hard woods of the section included in those outlines lie. Deficiency Appropriations. Washington.—Deficiency apnropria- an attack with revolvers and bombs on a police lorry. Five constables were wounded. Lady Churchill Loses Foot. London.—Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill, was forced to undergo amputation of ohe foot at the ankle as the result of a fracture sustained in a fall down stairs. .. ' Charleston.—A steamship arrived, the Buchan Ness, to take a cargo of 6.000 tons of coal frpm Charleston to Faltmouth, England. This Is the first cargo of coal ever sent from this to a British port, and ibis new business Ik attributed to the miners’ strike In that country. • ' ■ Think Gavarnm’ent Is Cure-All. Washington.—President Harding is Trestle was Dynamited. | To Seek Adjustment. Fitzgerald. Ga—With an explosion Wilmington, Del.—The Department tions for the shipping board wore that was hoard in Fitzgerald, a treble 0 f Labor will attempt to adjust the encountering the full force of the tidal fixed final!'- at $517000.000 when the on the A. B. & A. railway was blown dispute between the Pullman company wave.which rises out Of a distressed senate receded formally from its up four miles east of Fitzgerald. A and its employes, the_locai federation economic situation and unmlstakeably amendmen , to add $50,000,000 to the crew was put to work immediately i 0 f Pullman workers was advised from Man Died a Second Time. Newark, N. J.—William Carrigan, 59, died thev second time, according to surgeons at St Michael's hospital board's funds. and the damage repaired Farm Loan Act Amended. Price of Sugar Lowered. Washington —The senate passed New York.—A decline of 1-4 cent to and sent to the house the Kenyon hill 4.25 in raw sugar carried prices to amending the federal farm loan act the lowest level in more than four to permit an increase in interest rates years. This new price was establish- on bonds of joint stock land hanks led on sales of 6.700 bags of Costa Ri- from 5 to 5 1-3 per cent. cans, import duty paid. List of Dead and Missing. Pueblo - The local chapter of the Combined Wheat Crop Larger. Washington.—The country’s com- Red Cross which is in charge of relief bined winter and spring wheat, crop work in the flood district in Pueblo, promises to be 43,000,000 bushels larg- bas issued a list of missing persons |er than last year's, based on forecasU containing 437 names. of production. No General Business Revival. ' Washington.—World economic con- Washington. Drop of 51,000,000 Bushels. Washington.—A drop of 51,00*0,000 bushels- in the forecast of production of winter wheat crop as compared with the estimate made a mouth ago, featuring the June crop reports of t|ie Department of Agriculture. Troops, Leave San Domingo. Washington.—A presidential procla mation directing ^withdrawal of the American military forces from the Dominican HepuHlc Is looked for very shortly, Secretary Hayes stated. . \ demands that the government cure all business ills. Violence no Longer Feared. Bristol, Va—Tenn.—Uren Quilltn, d'tinns during May pointed to no im- jl9, held in connection with the mur* ined’ate general business revival, ao-jder and assault of an 11 year old gift co-d’ng to the monthly summary from in Kingsport, was taken to the Blunts- T* f ore‘gn representatives issued by vllle Jail for safe keeping. County of- Brltish Occupy Rosenberg. Oppein, Sellcia.—Rosenberg, a town about 20 miles northeast of this city and located near the old Polish fron tier. has been occupied by a battalion of British troops. Rosenberg was ta- iM •'urcau of foreign and domestic ;ficials said that they no longer feared ken by Polish insurgents during their commerce ‘mob violence. first advance in Upper Silesia. The Price of a W4fe. London.—Five pounds sterllag, and no more, Is to be the price of a wife according to a recently ratified con vention between tfre~governments ol Great Britain and Liberia recently made public. . : District Attorney Removed. Washington.—Hugh R. Robertson, United States district attorney for thg western district of Teasx, has been re moved from office by President Hard ing. \ Would Transfer Military Bite. Washingtoa'.—Transfer-to the state of Georgia of the Point Porter mill tary reservation at the mouth of St. Mary’s river, purchased by the gov ernment In 1812, bat never realized was proposed la a hlkl. introduced b> Senator Harris. X , Wedded Seventy Years. Berlin. — All Germany is bending congratulations to Herr and Frau Friedrich Manns, of Berlin, who are celebrating their seventieth wedding anniversary. The Berlin IJageblatt announces that the spventleth anni versary is the "Radium Wedding Day." Nothing Is said about gifts of radium. Union County Bull Association. Clemson College^—A Jersey bull as sociation, consisting of four blocks has been completed recently in Union county through the work of County Agent W. D. Wood and the Extension Service dairy specialists.- The Extension Service dairy specia- lists report the practical completion of another association also in McCor mick county. By using hig]|i class bulls obtained through the .organisation of such as sociations South Carolina fanners are rapidly developlffg fine milk cows. Protest Against Prohibition. New York. — One-third of a million persons liave asked for a place In the Fourth of July parade hare In protest against prohibition. *' Dangers Ahead for M Dry" Laws. Washington — John F. Kramer, re tiring prohibition commissioner, pre dicted grave dangers ahead for "dry" law enforcement His valedictory, de livered as his • accessor, Roy Haynes, took over control, was severe In its condemnation of those who hold the Volstead law in Feastsr Goes to Orphanage. Greenville.—To accept a position as assistant superintendent of Connie Maxwell Baptist orphanage at Green wood, W. L. Feaster, office secretary of the chamber of commerce, has re signed, the change to become effective July 1. His successor with the local chamber has not been appointed. Mr. Feaster came to. Greenville from Seneca eight months ago. he having been secretary of the'Seneca chamber of commerce. Previous to that time he wap engaged In school