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$2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1921. Established in 1891.
HOUSE PASSES
NEW TAX LAW
MEASURE SUPPORTED BY THREE j
DEMOCRATS.
I Goes to Senate Monday.
Fifty Party Men Join Democrats in
Asking for Repeal of Income
Surtax Above 32 Per Cent.
Washington, Aug. 20.?The tax revision
bill of 1921, estimated to cut
$818,000,000 from the nation's tax
burden by 1923, was passed late today
by the house, 274 to 125, on an
almost straight party vote.
Three Democrats supported the
measure and nine Republicans voted
against.
Compared with the number of Repulicans
were 50 who voted for a
Democratic motion to recommit the
bill for elimination of the provision
repealing the income surtax rates
above 32 per cent. This motion was
lost, 169 to 230, with one Democrat,
Campbell, of Pennsylvania, voting
against it.
The bill will be sent Monday to the
senate, where it will be taken up
after the end of the recess on September
'21. Meantime the senate
finance committee will hold additional
public hearings on the whole tax
question and probably revise the
nearly 100 committee amendments,
measure in a number of details. As
finally passed by the house with
the bill is estimated to produce a total
of $3,470,000,000 revenue this fiscal
year, or $221,000,000less than the '
estimates under the existing law.
As repeal of the excess profits tax
and higher income surtax rates
would not become effective until next
January l, the full force of the measure
will not be reflected in government
receipts until the calendar year
1923, but Republican leaders say that
through repeal of the transportation
and other taxes the reduction in the
tov hin in thp nPYt calendar vear will
"be approximately $512,000,000.
Principal Changes.
The principal changes in present
tax levies made by the bill as passed
include:
Repeal of the excess profits tax.
Increase of the corporation income
tax from 10 to 12% per cent., effectk
ive next January 1.
* Repeal of the income surtax rates
B from 32 per cent, to 65 per cent, inW
elusive.
f Increased exemptions to heads of
| families, effective as of last January
I 1, to $2,500 for incomes not in exr
cess of $5,000 and additional exemption
for dependents to $400 from
$200.
Repeal of the transportation taxes,
effective next January 1.
Repeal of the tax on life, fire and
marine insurance policies and impo
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sition oi tne corporauuu ia.\ ui 1^72 1
per cent, on all such insurance companies,
except fraternal, effective next
January 1.
Repeal of the taxes on 'fountain
drinks, ice cream and other beverages
and the substitution of manufacturers'
taxes as follows:
.Four cents a gallon on cereal bev-i
erages; 5 cents a pound on carbonic j
acid gas; 2 cents a gallon on fruit
juices of soft drinks; 3 cents a gallon
on still drinks, exclusive of mineral
and table water, and ten cents a
gallon on fountain syrups. These
changes would go into force on enactment
of the law.
Repeal of the stamp taxes on perfumery,
cosmetics, toilet preparations
^ and proprietary medicines upon enactment
of the law.
Repeal of the 10 per cent tax on
base ball, foot ball and basket ball
equipment, skates, toboggans, snow
shoes and skiis, and reduction of the
10 per cent, tax to 5 on tennis, golf
and polo equipment, games and the
like, the whole to come into force on
enactment of the bill.
Exemption from the income tax of
the first $500 of income from investments
in building and loan associations,
effective at passage of the law.
Candy Levy Reduced.
A reduction of from 5 to 3 per cent,
in the levy on candy, and of from 1 0
to 5 per cent, in the levies on fur
l articles and art and art works, and
I repeal of the tax on electric fans.
I A reduction from 10 to 5 per cent,
f in the tax on all yachts with motor
or other craft less than 32 feet in
length or of less than five tons carrying
capacity exempted from this
tax.
k Exemption from the income tax of
? all allowances from the federal govB
ernment for the service of the beneP
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SHERIFF LOSES BIG STILL. j
Outfit Stolen Friday Night and Hauled
Away in Automobile.
Greenwood, Aug. 20.?Xo developments
had come to light tonight in
the robbery of a 50-gallon still from
the sheriff's office, a few hours after
its capture. Officers declare they
hnrt cIups which misht lead to ar
rests. The still, the largest ever
captured in this county, was taken
boldly out of the front door of the
court house and hauled away Friday
night.
The copper outfit was in full operation
when captured Friday afternoon
on the Greenwood county side
| of Saluda river, a short distance
above Smith's bridge. A negro,
Chester Hawkins, according to officers,
was catching the liquor in a
jug as it ran from the still. Hawkins
was arrested and admitted to j
Jailer T. W. McMillan tha ' e had
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been helping make liquor <*t the i
still. Besides the still, 20 gallons of j
corn liquor and 24 60-gallon mash!
barrels, all but 11 of which had
been run, were captured.
The theft of the still from the
sheriff's office is regarded by officers
as the most audacious in the
annals of the county. Thieves apparently
gained entrance through a
window and unlocked the doors from
the inside. The still was taken out
through the front door, loaded in an
automobile or truck and carried ^way
without being discovered. Officers
did not discover the robbery until
they came to the office this morning.
BODY IX RAILROAD DITCH.
Special Agent of Atlantic Coast Line
Charleston Man.
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Florence, Aug. 29.?Missing since!
Wednesday night, the body of J. L. |
Motte, of Charleston, a special officer i
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of the Atlantic Coast Line police de-i
partment was found lying in the ditch j
by the railroad tracks a mile and a j
half north of Xew Hope. Section |
hands who found the body were un- j
able to identify #it. Word was soon
received from Charleston that Mr.
Motte had been missing and the body
was identified by railroad officers who
went to the spot from Florence.
Mr? Motte's neck had been broken
and his body had every appearance
of having been badly bruised. It is
supposed that the officer was.thrown
rrom tne top 01 tne ireigxu nam uu
which he was traveling by some person
whom he was attempting to arrest.
Mr. Motte's pistol and his flashlight
were found some distance from
the body. There were no papers in
his pockets. Mr. Motte had not been
heard from since Wednesday night,
when he left here on a Charleston
bound freight train. That day he;
brought two prisoners here from
Charleston. He was thirty years old
and unmarried.
GERMAN PROPERTY SEIZED.
"Count" Wedel Had 210 Acres of;
Land in Richland. I
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Columbia, Aug. 18.?The first ord-1
er of its kind ever to be received in'
Richland county was that received by j
the clerk of the court from the United
States alien property custodian, giving
official notice that the property
of G. W. Wedel, formerly known as
"Count" Wedel, has been taken possession
of by Joseph M. Bell and John !
D. Bell, in the name of the alien
property custodian, Thomas M. Miller.
Wedel is formally declared a
resident of Hanover, Germany. The
property belonged to him in fee simple.
"Count" Wedel owned two
tracts, one of 125 acres, the other of
25 acres. During the war there was
much^talk in Columbia about certain
construction operations conducted
on these farms.
A cash bonus for ex-service men in
Connecticut has not been granted,
but the state has a fund for sick and
needy soldiers and their families.
ficiary of another in the military or
naval forces of the United States.
Repeal of all the so-called luxury
taxes now collected by retailers and
the substitution of a manufacturers'
tax of 3 per cent, on the following!
articles when sold by the manufac-j
turers at the sums given:
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L3rpClS ctxiu 1 UgS, tpo.WJ a, oviuai g
yard: trunks, S30 each; valises, traveling
bags, suit cases and hat boxes.
$15 each: purses, pocketbooks, shopping
and hand bags. S4 each; port-j
able lighting fixtures. $10 each; um-1
brellas and parasols. $2.."0 each;!
fans, $1 each, and house or smoking;
coats or jackets and bath or lounging
robes. $3 each. j
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I BASE
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THE POST SEASON SERIES. I
B. C. Boland Writes His Side of Controversy
and Pres. Black Replies.
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The Williston Way, of August ISth,
j published the following communij
cation from B. C. Boland, of Springfield:
"Editor Williston Way,
"Williston, S. C.
"Sir:?I have noticed from time to
time that you have devoted considerable
space in your columns during
the past few weeks to the baseball results
of the Tri-County league.
I The season as per schedule closed
on Friday, August 5, 1921; at which;
time Springfield was at the top of
; the percentage columns.
By virtue of the president and
others the last game with Bamberg
and the last game with Barnwell were
thrown out and ordered played over;
after the season closed. And I might
add that the Barnwell game was
was thrown out without protest and
without request of the Barnwell management.
President Walsh of the
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South Atlantic League, so per tele-;
gram of August Sth, states that
games cannot be played off after the'
season closes, however, in so far as
certain ones connected with the j
great Tri-County league are concerned,
Mr. Walsh is no authority on baseball
and consequently Springfield has
been ordered to practically play the!
second half over again in order that j
Bamberg may have another chance (
for the honors.
We have therefore conceded our!
claim to those who must have it and!
I merely wish to state further that!
when we entered the league, it was!
not our understanding that any one!
team should be the winner and that'
we regret very much the unfortunate,
occurrence which is bound to be a
backset to good baseball hereafter.
However, we are withdrawing on;
top in the percentage column and we;
hope that Bamberg and Williston are :
both contented and that no further
steps shall be necessary in order for
them to battle in peace.
Respectfully,
B. C. BOLAXD.
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J. B. Black, Jr., of Bamberg, presi-j
dent of the Tri-County league, sent
fVia fr?11r?Ti'incr ronlv t/"? flip flhflVP PflTTl- !
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munication to the Williston Way on
August 20th, with the request that
it publish same:
"Aug. 20th, 1921.
"Editor Williston Way,
"Williston, S. C.
"Sir:?I read with regret the letter
from Mr. B. C. Boland, of Springfield,
published in your paper of Aug.
18, regarding the unfortunate ending
of the Tri-County league. As Mr.
Rnlami is misleading the Dublic in re
gard to some of the facts, as he is not
stating all of the facts, I feel that in
justice to myself as president of the
league and to the gentlemen managing
the teams of Williston, Denmark,)
Bamberg and Ehrhardt, the public
should know the whole truth and!
then I will leave it to them as to!
whether Springfield or the Tri-Countyj
league was at fault.
"The facts are these: In the last)
half of the Tri-County league season, i
Springfield used a pitcher named Gil-!
liam against Barnwell and Bamberg,)
and Springfield won both games, i
Bamberg protested the game that
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VjUUPUi piLLUCU VLL Aug. Oil! aomuoi
Bamberg, and on Aug. 9th the case
came up before me. It was proved
beyond any doubt that Gilliam had
pitched professional ball for Newport
News Va., and for Griffin, Ga. Spring-1
fiel'd did not even refute this testi-l
mrtrnr Thp Priitnr nf Thp Snnrfiner
News, St. Louis, Mo., gave us this in-j
formation and it was verified by the
owner of the Newport News club. I
Therefore it became my duty as presi-!
dent of the league to throw out this!
game. The directors of the league j
also requestd me to throw out the j
game that Springfield had won from ;
Barnwell when Gilliam pitched. All |
of the directors were in favor of this 1
except the one representing Spring-!
field. As there is a rule in this i
league that a game does not have to
be protested by the losing team but,
that any director can bring a case up
before the president, this game was
also thrown out.
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"Springfield then contended that the
season had closed on Aug. 5th. and j
that she would not have to play these!
games over. If this'had been a fact'
Springfield would have won the pen-j
nant for the second half by percent- i
age with six victories and one defeat!
against Bamberg's seven victories and |
BALL ' II
WILLISTOX TAKES PEXXAXT.
Wins Three of Five Post-Season Seiv?-m:
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By winning the game Friday afternoon,
Williston won the championship
of the Tri-County league, having
defeated Bamberg three games to
two in the post-season series.
It is a pleasure to state that this
important series was played without
a kick from either side. Hyde Smith,
from Orangeburg, umpired the entire
series to the satisfaction of both
teams.
While the home team was a little
disappointed in not winning the pen-|
nant, they have no excuse to offer
nor do they wish to take any glory
from Williston for having defeated
them. The home boys were pretty
confident of winning over their opponents,
as Bamberg was conceded
to have the better team, but base
ball is a very uncertain game and the
life of the national game is the uncertainties
of it. Williston played
hard and won without question and
the Bamberg team, as well as the
fans, wish to give three cheers to
their opponents for the honors they
have won. They are a clean set of
ball players and fans and it was a
pleasure to play ball with them, not
only in Bamberg but in Williston, as
well.
Third Game.
The third game of the series was
played In Bamberg and resulted in a
victory for the visitors by the score
of S to 6. While Bamberg out hit
Williston, having secured 12 hits to
their S, the visitors secured their hits
in the pinches. Bamberg had three
men on bases in the ninth inning, but
could not score.
Score:
Williston ....010 110 203?S 8 3
Bamberg 101 000 400?6 12 2
Batteries: Brown and Dodge;
Whiteside and Large.
Fourth Game.
Bamberg won the fourth game
with ease. Radcliffe, pitching for
Bamberg, only allowed two hits in
the six innings he pitched. He was
taken out after Bamberg had the
game on ice. Warren and Whitside
finished the game. Cawley, pitchins
for Williston. was hit hard. In
the fifth inning Bamberg scored seven
men on seven hits and one error. ,
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Williston ..000 100 220? 5 7 4
Bamberg ....003 074 OOx?14 17 3
Batteries: Cawley, Lott, Sherlock
and Dodge; Radcliffe, Warren, Whiteside
and Large.
Fifth Game.
The fifth and deciding game was}
played in Bamberg Friday afternoon.
Bamberg got to Smythe in the fifth;
inning for four hits and this coupled
with an error netted them three
runs. Bamberg made one run in the
second inning. Williston scored one|
run n: the fourth on three hits and |
made three runs in the sixth on three
hits and an error in the field. The
game was tied up until the ninth,
when Williston put across four more
runs on three errors and two hits.
The score:
Williston ....000 103 004?8 8 5
Bamberg ......010 030 000?4 8 6
Batteries: Smythe and Dodge;
Radcliffe and Large.
two defeats. It was then up to me j
to act and according to the by-laws
governing this league it was perfectly
clear what I had to do. Realizing,
however, that I was a Bamberg man,
I decided to put this question up be
fore the board of directors. At this
meeting each team in the league had
one vote except Barnwell, which did
not have a representative present.
Mr. Boland insinuates that I had quite
a hit to do with ordering the games
played over. However, I did not even
have to vote at the directors meeting
as it was so plain tnat springneia i
was wrong in her contentions that
the vote stood 4 to 1 against her.
"The telegram that I received from j
Mr. Walsh, of the South Atlantic'
league, read as follows: 'In ourj
league no games can be played after j
the close of the season.' However ij
have been informed that the by-laws1
of the South Atlantic league call for
the segson to close on a certain day.
Naturally then they would be breaking
their by-laws if they played a
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game auer tne aay set iui mc tiuam6
day. This telegram was shown the
directors at this meeting but had no
bearing whatever on their actions as |
HAN DLES 30,000 BALES COTTON. ]
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Exports and Imports Corporation Has j
Fair Profit.
Columbia, Aug. 17.?During its;
brief existence the American Prod-1
ucts. Exports and Imports Corporation, j
a? i'a% f rxflrwdTy^ nr PiVhor/1 T i
Manning, of South Carolina, is the;
executive head, has handled more!
than 50,000 bales of cotton, two-1
thirds of which was for exports, and |
has made a fair profit over expenses, i
according to a statement from the J
president of the corporation this afternoon.
Joseph Walker, general
manager, is now in Europe, looking
over the export field and conferring
with the corporation's representatives:
thorp Regardless nf COniDeti
tion, the corporation pays the market
price for cotton and more than \
$1,S00,000 has been paid out to South
Carolina farmers for cotton since the
inception of the enterprise. The corporation
has at least 5,000 stockholders.
the majority of which are residents
of North and South Carolina
and some of them from Georgia.
Relative to the financial condition of
the enterprise, the statement follows:
"A stock of cotton equal to that
subscribed to the capital stock of the
corporation and the liberty bonds
subscribed to the capital stock have
been kept intact. The cash paid in
011 subscriptions to the capital stock,
amounting to $133,529.23 has been
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established good lines of credit. We
have paid out to the cotton growers
in South Carolina more than S1 ,S00,000.
We have paid off all organization
expenses amounting to $20,700,
have paid all operating expenses and
show a satisfactory profit to July 1.
We have made good foreign connections
and have our representatives
abroad.
BURIED CITY EXCAVATED.
Will Be Feature of Mexican Centennial
Exposition.
San Juan de Teotiliuacan, Mexico,
Aug. 5.?A force of 300 workmen is
engaged in rushing to completion the
excavation of the buried city here in
an attempt to make it one of tne
show places during the Centennial
Exposition opening next month. The
most modern scientific devices are
being used to dig out the city which
thousands of years ago before it disappeared.
boasted of a population of
at least 100.000, according to Manuel
Gamio, in charge of the reconstruction.
When the excavations are complete
the city with its streets, temples, residences,
stores and baths surrounding
a huge plaza will be exposed. The
government is giving liberal financial
assistance to the work.
One Drawback.
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IS ) UUt uuouauu a ?uuu w ? nivi,
Dinah?"
"Yessum, he's a good providah all
right, but I'se alius sheered dat niggah's
gwine to git caught at it."?
0. E. R. Bulletin.
they had their own by-laws to go by.
"Th^ by-laws of the Tri-County
league that made every director, exppnt
Snr in afield. feel it his duty to
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vote that these games be played over,
state that the 'season shall commence
on May 31st, or as soon thereafter as
practicable,' and further state that
'the season will consist of twenty
games divided into halves of ten
games each.' They also state that
all games thrown out by the president
of the league on account of a protest
being upheld must be played over.
The by-laws say nothing about when
the season shall close except that
twenty games shall be played.
"As Springfield had only played
seven games in the second half she
had three more to play. The directors
were perfectly right in ordering
these games played and when Springfield
refused to play them, she automatically
withdrew from the league
and forfeited one game to Ehrhardt,
one to Barnwell, and one to Bamberg.
"These are the true facts concerning
this unfortunate occurrence, and
I sincerely hope that the public will
see them as the directors of the Tri
County league did. If Springfield I
had stuck to the by-laws and had not I
played an ineligible player this {
trouble would never have come up.
But it was her own fault, so she must
suffer.
"I will appreciate it if you will
give this letter the same publicity
that you gave Mr. Boland's. i
"Respectfully,
"J. B. BLACK, JR.,
"Pres. Tri-County League."
BURNS HURLS LIE
AT MICHIGAN MAN
T TUBULE XT SCENES EXACTED IX
HOUSE.
Caused By Great Speech.
Takes Exception to Statements Made
By "Jimmy" in Debate?"Free
for All Fight" Threatened.
Washington, Aug. 19.?Turbulent
scenes were enacted in the house of
representatives late last night and
again this afternoon by sensational
clashes between Representative
James F. Byrnes, of South Carolina,
and Chairman Joseph \\r. Fordney,
of the ways and means committee,
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bill to revise federal taxation. Many
members exchanged fiery challenges
across the inter-party aisle and it
looked as if there might be a "free
for all fight.''
Mr. Byrnes last night was making
one of his sweeping and very effective
speeches attacking the Republican
bill, saying nothing unparliamentary
and using no stronger language
than has frequently been used in the
course of debate by other speakers.
But the way in which the South Carolinian
put the case in the course of
colloquies with majority Leader Mondell
and Representatives Longworth,
Greene and others, seemed to irritate
Chairman Fordney who advanced up
the aisle and pointed his finger at
Mr. Byrnes, after the latter, who was
making his speech from the wall of
the house in front of the speakers'
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rostrum, delivered tlie following onslaught
on the tax bill and its Re- ^
publican authors: \
Take Burden Off Rich.
"You reduced the taxes on Mr.
Mellon and Mr. Rockefeller $500,000
and $600,000 and you levy a tax on
medicines, on soft drinks, on candy,
on moving pictures, and on many of
the articles that are used by the people.
You do not reduce the tax on incomes
from $5,000 to $66,000. You
take all off the rich people of this
country who contributed to your campaign
last fall." (Applause on the
Democratic side.)
Shaking his finger at Representative
Byrnes and interrupting without
permission of the chair, Mr. Fordney
declared that the statement of the
'South Carolinian was untrue and that
he knew it to be untrue when he
made it. Chairman Fordney repeated
this, looking straight at Byrnes. Then
the latter, also throwing aside parliamentary
rules, called Fordney a
liar.
Pandemonium reigned for some
minutes, and it looked like serious
trouble, in which many would have
participated, but Majority Leader
Mondell finally obtained recognition
and suggested that both the gentleman
from Michigan and the gentleman
from South Carolina had used
unparliamentary language, and asked
unanimous consent that the obpectionable
words be expunged from the
record. This was done.
It was supposed that the incident
was ended, but this afternoon Chairman
Fordnev took the floor and proceeded
to make a speech, iD which he
repeated what he had said the night
before to Representative Byrnes. The
latter, who was present, then arose
to say that, in the circumstances, as
the gentleman from Michigan had
seen fit to repeat his offensive language
of the previous evening, he
fRvmoci n.-nnlH also reDeat and de
nounce the statement of Fordney as
a lie.
Again everything was in an uproar
and at fever heat, and it looked
like a fracas of a widespread nature.
This time Representative Mann, of
Illinois, formerly majority leader,
quieted the tempest by declaring that
the gentleman from Michigan had
used unparlamentary language, calculated
to exasperate any man, and
that the record ought to be immedi'
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offensive terms. Again this was done.
It rests with Mr. Fordnev whether
there shall he another repetition of
the unpleasant controversy. Representative
Byrnes feels that there was
nothing elsf- for him to do but reply
to the unparliamentary attack in.
kind. The two men have hitherto
been quite friendly personally, in
cnitp nf thpir nnlitical divergence of
views. Representative Byrnes was
today informed that Speaker Gillett
had appointed him a member of the
joint committee of the house and
senate to investigate readjustment of
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pay and allowances in the government
service.