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K - ? A.- 'A ^ vis. <fc-' * . v. HP The Union Doily Times ^ DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY > EitablUhtdlh I860 Coorftod l> TW^Mjjflftfclly Tim? Octofror I, 1917 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY | "g' \ Vol. LXX1I No. 1291 ' ^ pw Copy FUNERALS FOR THEATRE VICTMJ Washington, Jan. 31 (By the As ciated Press).?Washington to<3 held the first of its many funer for the 97 persons who perished S urday night when the roof of 1 Knickerbocker motion picture theai collapsed under the weight of snc Services were announced by a nu ber of churches and other organi; tions. Social functoins and busim conferences ceased in honor of 't dead and the theatres, again in opei tion, sheltered meagre audienc< while hospital staffs continued treat the more than 60 injured st confined. A number of official and unoffic investigations also got under way 1 day and others were announced. Meanwhile, late today, anoth l JJJ: ** a\ _ i -t * " ' nuuuing, one 01 me long sneus 01 i freight depot of the Baltimore Ohio railroad at First street ar Florida avenue, collapsed two mi utes after eight men who had be employed in it during the day h checked out. No one was injure Damage to the shed and the freig it contained was estimated at $21 000. The structure, one of the wal of which gave way, it is believed d' to the effect of melting snow on t! Sloping roof, was built in 1904. Fir men and police immediately begi an investigation. Edward H. Shaughnessey of CI oago, second assistant postmast general, who was one of the most s riously injured in the Knickerbock collapse, was reported steadily ir proving tonight. His wife and t\ daughters also were injured. The funerals today included that Madame Virginia Feraud, sister Dr. Julio Bianchi, Guatemalan mini ter under the Herrera regime, in S Paul's itoman Catholic church. H body will be sent to Ventura, Cal., rest beside that ot her nusoana. Secretary Weeks sent flowers the families residing here of the se en war department employees wl were killed in the catastrophe ai letters of condolence to those not li ing in the city. >- ~ "MS mortal aerrlceg ware held to A in the press gallery of the capitol 1 the Washington correspondents f L. V. Strayer of the Pitsburg Di patch and C. C. Brainerd of tl Brooklyn Eagle, and the law class of 1924 at George Washington ur versity held similar services in hon of two of its members who we killed. Georgetown announces th its memorial services will be held t morrow at St. Patrick's church, number of other churches made sin lar announcements. The city commission today turn over its investigation of the disast to Col. Charles Keller, engineer cor missioner, and the building inspec or's office. The federal grand ju and the coroner's jury visited tl ruins of the theati'e today and it w 1 .1 1.2 iU aniiuunceu nicy wuuiu tuuuuvt tuu ough investigations to determine possible the cause of the accident ai whether any individual was to blanr Payton Gordon, district attorney, r quested the war department to a sign several army engineers to a sist the coroner's jury in its enquit The Capper resolution proposir an inquiry into the disaster was r ferred tonight by the senate to i District of Columbia committee 1 request of its sponsor who said t! committee desired to make a sun' of the inquiries already ordered ai to determine further the scope of t senate investigation. Senator Calder (Republican) New York urged that the inquiry broadened so as to determine wh additional building code should adopted to insure further safeguar< Washington, Jan. 31.?The roof the Baltimore & Ohio railro freight depot at First street a Florida avenue northeast crashed late today. Eight men had jt checked out for the day and no o was injured. The snow had been practicaly 1 moved from the slate roof, it w said, but it was possible, it was ad ed, that the supporting brick pie and oak beams had been weakened the accumulation of snow from t recent storm. But little freight w there at the time. The crash came unexpectedly in the case of the Knickerbock theatre, the roof giving away siidde ly and coming down with deafenii crash. A great mass of debris fill the interior of the structure, whi is 400 feet long and 40 wide and o story in height. President of Trust Company Indicted for Larcei Boston, Feb. 1.?Max Mitchell, pr< ident of the defunct Cosmopolit Trust Company, is arraigned on i dictments charging larceny of i n lion and five hundred thousand d lars. He pleaded "not guilty" and w released on $50,000 bond. fev. .,* , * *"" ? il cv . f-'t- A 'id . SENATE PASSES IS GASOLINE TAX so- After an all day debate running unlay til 11 o'clock last night the senate ' als pased the gasoline tax bill with at- amendments making the tax on gaso- ' he line two cents instead of 'one as pro- ' tre vided for in the original ways and * >w. means committee measure and another 4 m- amendment eliminating kerosene from * sa- the bill. ' ;ss The vote was reached at 11 o'clock 1 ;he after the upper ho"se had spent the 4 a- day and night in attempting to amend es, the bill and the senate finance com- ( to mittee's amendments. An effort to * ;ill tave off final actibn on the measure 1 was attempted by Senator Bonham of ial Greenville, he twice moving to po^;- * ;o- pone the debate until this morning. * Both motions were lost. c ier This action on the part of the up- 8 he per house makes two new revenue T & measures to get by the senate within c ,d the past two weeks. While a deter t n. mined effort to defeat all the rev- r en enue measures or so to change them 4 nd that no material relief will be given e d. is apparent, but this has been fought ^ ht off by those senators who are con- 1 vinced that some means of reducing ' Us the tax on visible property must be ue found. f At. ~ A A J A- C he v/iic ui uif impuriHiit a murium en us ^ e. adopted was that one-half of the tax c an on gasoline shall be returned to the counties for the building md main- * ,j_ tonance of roads, the amount to be t ,,r returned to be on the basis of the t e. taxable property of the county. F er Senator Padgett's amendment to devolve all the duties of collecting the 1' vo tax and enforcing the law in every J way on the department of agricul- t ture instead of the tax commission s c? was killed by a close vote. h ls It was Senator Padgett's amendment to exempt kerosene from any tax a er and strike out the one cent on this * to commodity that was adopted. a Senator Young's amendment to tc have the reports made before the 20th fi of each month instead of the tenth a was adopted.?The State. ? t arrested' for : embezzlement i " n or New York, Jan. . 31.?Richard N ], Berrien, 47, charged with embezzle- p he ment of $45,000 In Atlanta, Ga., was \ es arrested today in a Broad street brok- y er'a office. He was taken in custody n or at the request of Fulton county, Georre gia, authorities and held on a techni- t at ?al charge of being a fugitive from t o justice. r A ?, ?i- . Atlanta, Jan. 31.?R. N. Berrien, 9 Jr., sought throughout the country on i ed a warrant charging larceny after t er trust of $42,000 in school warrants for s n- which he was acting as broker was t :t- arrested in New York today, it was ry learned at the sheriff's office here. 1 he Governor Hardwick will issue extraas dition papers tomorrow and a deputy ir- will be sent for Berrien at once, it if was stated. He left here last fall about nd the time the warrant was issued and le. later officials received a letter from e- Washington purporting to be signed v is- by Berrien in which the writer said r ,3- he had made a business connection in v y. a large city and if given time would ? >g repay the money. The search was e- continued, however, and the arrest [ts was made when a detective recognized 0 by Berrien from his picture. Z HATFIELD'S WIDOW *? - MARRIES AGAIN ' ^ Williamson, W. Va., Jan. 31.?A marriage license was issued here to,a day to Mrs. Sid Hatfield, widow of the I former chief of police of Matewan, S and Sylvester H. Pettcry, a state f trooper, stationed at Matewan. The t ?* wedding will take place at Matewan t a(! tomorrow night, it was said. Mrs. 1 " Hatfield's fust husband was C. C. Tes- < in terman, mayor of Matewan, who was shot and killed in the pistol fight bene tween residents and private detectives f in May, 1920. Shortly thereafter she *e- married Sid Hatfield, chief of police as at the time of the fight. Hatfield was Id- killed last August on the steps ot ira the court house at Welch. by ' he Mine Workers Willing ns To Stand With Railroads ? / i; as Indianapolis, Feb. 1.?The United ( ;er Mine Workers of America are willing , !n" to unreservedly pool their interests with the railroad organization, and ] e<l stand with them in resistance to the eh proposed attacks upon their wage roe schedule, John L. Lewis, international president of miners, declared in making the announcement that an invita- 1 tion do participate in the meeting with 1 miners had beon sent to officers of 16 1 ?f , i major organizations of railroad work? era. * 6S- . an Mrs. Mary Rice Feaster of Green- I in- wood, accompanied by her two chil>11 dren, is visiting her mothor, Mrs. ol- Lewis M. Rice, who for the past week ras has been quite sick, but is now im- ( proving. . ' < I I I dlTB mi tm r 'u WLrfAMMt THREE INJURED T IN AUTO CRASH Thomas Dowling of Timmonsville, his wife and her nephew, Joe Temple, 14, are at the Columbia hospital where Jiey were taken at midday ye'sterday ifter the car in which they had started for Timmcfnsville had been bumped >ff the road by southbound Seaboard .rain No. 301 at Blaney as the car was ;rossing the track. Blaney is about nidway between Columbia and Camien. None of the three is supposed to be langerously injured at the hospital, he wounds being confined to bruises ind cuts. It appears from available informaion that the automobile was going oward Camden on the Columbia-Cam len highway and that a store on the ilde of the thoroughfare hid the lorthem stretch of track from view ?f the driver. The car, which is said o have been traveling at about 12 niles nn hour, was almost across the c rn rV wlion fT>o nnur 4-1*** v.tv vv ?? VWVVIIV& VA VUC Y mgine struck the right rear wheel, vhirling the machine around in the oad, crtlshing two wheels and turn- i ng it over. The train is scheduled to stop at n he station and was probably going t ilowly or otherwise a much more seri- t >us accident may have resulted. Passengers and crew soon extricatd the party from the wreck and the ! rain brought them to Columbia where hey were taken to the Columbia hoslital. . Mrs. Dowling told attendants at the . tospital that the car engine fell on . 'oung Temple, while she herself was . hrown through the windshield, she , ustaining an ugly gash on the fore- . tend and numerous bruises and cuts. Mr. Dowling, who is 67 years of ,ge, refused at first to retire upon , caching the hospital and walked . iround until about 6. o'clock when he , egan to feel badly and consented to . ;o to bed. He is somewhat bruised md cut but is not thought to be dangerously hurt, though the car was esting upon him when removed by escuers. * . . Joe Temple sustained cuta and ^ iruie^s about the face but ia not ' bruifht ti I n intimnltr lnfnfnri le had given no signs of such up to t ast night. The boy's father, Joe Tern- ^ ile, Sr., was an engineer on the Atantic Coast Line railroad and was :illed in a wreck just out of Savan- , i ah. The party left Columbia shortly afer 11 o'clock yesterday morning for _ heir home in Timmonsville from the . esidence of Mrs. James A. Summerett, sister of Mrs. Dowling, 23?C jr*?rk 11 treet. Mrs. Summersett had been visting the Dowlings and they had irought her home Sunday and had . tarted again for Timmon*ville yes erday morning. ^ MASKED MEN FLOG EDITOR , I Drumwright, Okla., Jan. 31.?R. L. r iloore, editor of the Drumwright Post, t vas seized by a band of six masked t nen last night, taken to a thickly g wooded spot .a few miles shouthwest ii f the city and severely flogged with a lack snake whip, police said today. t Moore said he asked the members t f the band why they had seized him, g iccording to the police, and was told t ( was because he had been printing adical editorials advocating over- t hrow of the city, county and state r rovemments. I Auxiliary Meeting r The Woman's Auxiliary of the 'resbyterian church will meet in the >unday school rooms at 3:45 Monday iftemoon, February 6. This will be he last opportunity to meet obliga- < ions on Haichow Fund and Mountain < Mission Work. All members are re- j lues ted to be present. Mrs. B. B. James. ^ Regimental Band to Hear Billy Sunday The following business houses of he city will furnish transportation for J he First Regimental Band on the . tpccial train tomorrow to hear Billy J Sunday at Spartanburg: Bank of In inn r.ififena Matinnal RonV >lson Bank & Ti*ust Co., Wilburn Dry 1 [Jooda Co., The Battery, Union Hardware Co. and Eagle Grocery Co. 1 Five Sack* of Mail Stolen by Armed Bandit* Chicago, Feb. 1,?Five sack* of 1 nail, believed to have been registered, 1 were stolen by three armed bandits ' who stopped the mail clerk en route 'rom the depot to the postofflce, ac- 1 wording to police report*. 1 ^ Panama Canal Not Affected by Earthquake < Panama, Feb. 1.?The Panama ( Sanal was not afTected by the earth- < luake yesterday. < TARIFF BRINK HIGHER HOCE Philadelphia, Jan. Sl.^jhe Ajgier an valuation plan, as tli sending tariff bill, willdtetm |igki srices for commodiiies v*fcd mjlke mpossible for this crmxwy to mark< ts agricultural product^abroa^K^l >ur W. Stewart, presidwb of the Nt ional Association of >f America declared toAyat.^he oj ning session of the or?nsatiott'a.ar mal convention. *' 31 "I hope a way mayj^^fannd," h laid, as suggested by iMjUunt Hare ng, that will make fo^wutiity an ilas^icity so that ra{|t2s&Mf$be a< usted to meet unus\uj|. jfcn<l changin onditions which ?th norhe accurate y anticipated at this ttjjh In accordance with jptojew rulin hat no freakish or s^mdienal suit ould be shown at'exhibi ielp in connection wfcH^SMfenventioi he fashion committeajrtonight rule ut several garments tv&fce lines wer tot in keeping with tlHfcihjkm ntanc irds of the associatjoijy JPne of th uits disbarred had pochKffaps sharp y pointed at the end, atnMBther wa m evening suit with "aiftpnne" lapel Che exhibit will be v^'iW' the publi omorrow for the ftrat tw&i the hit ory of the organisation;*. The clothes for sprify^will be dc igned, the fashion cdvfaittee sail o be easy to wear. The Jack coal, ir luding the one and twg&mtton vari ;ty, and the ample trojjjfcr will pr< lominate. The trouaar "wmf is rapidl osing its popularity andHnth its pass ng the suspender agaftAHQ come int ts own. Demonstration at the e> libit showed that loo^mknd cufflec rousers soon become JKftlas* whe lependent for suppcra^fefc! tbe be ilone. Extreme pointi^B^els, am n fact, everything: fl^mc wa rowned upon by tfajPaBfr maker Hues and browns aWwBb the lead ng shades for spring.!! The fulV dress coat naflg&ld by th ommittee to be tbe ojjs BgreUt cm nent for affairs Iodic vear evening dregs. .y. he Wm. Wallace Chapter, U. D. C teld its first meeting of the year i he high school auditorium with Mr I. F. Alston, Mrs. J. T. Bradley, Mn L. B. Brannon and Mrs. W. II. Bui is as hostesses. Much business ws ransacted, after which the historiai Irs. W. W. Alman, took charge of th iterary program. The program con nemorated Lee and Jackson and cor isted of: * ? "A Talk on Lee"?Dr. Kilgo. "Parents of Lee"?Mrs. J. I Arthur. "Matthew Fontaine Maury"?Mrs E. S. Reaves. "Sword of Lee, Father Ryan"?Mia ifabel Garrison. Mrs. T. C. Duncan and Mrs. J. V .fixson gave splendid reports on th latesburg convention. Wm. Wallac eceived honorable mention for seven hings at the convention and won th nnner for the third time for th rreatest increase of membership dui ng the year. Wm. Wallace will continue the tes ile scholarship, and one of the daugl ers who wishes her name withhel :ave to the chapter the first quai erly payment. ' Mrs. C. H. PeakeXtjajy hair man c he silver tea commifHe, reported ?eat little sum from the tea held i ifrs. Foster's on January 19th? rWO FRENCH SOLDIERS K1LLEI Berlin, Feb. 1.?Two French so liers were killed and 25 wounded i lisorders in Silesia, acordir.g to r< >orts received here. iVILL ELECT POPE TOMORROW ?? a Rome. Feb. 1.?The sacred colic? vill convene tomorrow in conclave f( he election of a new pope. The Ita an, French and Spanish governmem tave informed the Holy See semi-o: IciaUy that they have no desires in ti natter. . r wo Witnesses Remain In Arbuckle Tria San Francisco, Feb. 1.?One ph; tician and one handwriting expert ai ;he only remaining witnesses in t) rial of Roscoe Arbuckle for mai daughter. 4o Apoliglee are Due Safe McAdo Washington, Feb. 1.?Measures tal ?n during the federal control of rai roads calls for no apologies,, yniliai 3. McAdoo, wartime director genera declared before the senate intents rommeroe committee today. ' 'ma ' 'begins discussion s on bonus bill 1- Washington, Jan. - 31.?Discussion ie of the long pending soldiers' bonus r bill was renewed today at both ends it fit the capitol. Before the house ways st and means committee, which by 1- agreement of Republican leaders in I- congress reopened hearings on the rs measure, officers of organizations of >- former service mon urged immediate i- Action on the bill and in reply to questions said the problam of raising ie the necessary funds was one for conl gress to solve. In the senate Repub-J d lictfn leaders frustrated attempts by ! the Democrats to add the bonus bil! B to the allied debt refunding measure. I 5- After a brief but heated debate, the senate adopted, 42 to 28, 9 motion ? by Senator Watson (Republican) to 58 lay on the table an amendment offered by Senator Simmons (Demo crat) of North Carolina incorporat d ing the "five way"" adjusted compen>e sation plan. The amendment would have provide ed that the bonus be paid out of the interest on the foreign debt and that 18 if this should prove insufficient the 8* secretary of the treasury should islC sue certificates' of indebtedness to be redeemed out of -future interest payments, or with the approval of the nrpsidpnt. to soil so mnpli nf tVio for eign bonds as might be necessary. J" Later the senate rejected, 42 to 21, an amendment by Senator Jones ' (Democrat) of New Mexico which y carried the "five way" plan but had no provisions for raising funds. ? In offering his amendment, Senator Simmons declared that when he IS had proposed the bonus bill as an ^ amendment to the tax revision- measj ure he had been told that it was the * desire of the majority to act on the bonus in connection with the debt fe. funding bill but that now the Republicans had decided in party confer[C ence that the bonus measure should ^ be acted upon separately. The North ^ Carolina senator went on to say that tjto administration had now decided that it would not be feasible to use f -the interest on the foreign debt for i * -Tn??-11*" ^ the ways and means committee had B proposed a tax on gasoline, Senator 3> Simmons said this would place the whole bui-den of the bonus on users IS of that commodity and would be class v legislation in its worst form. ie Opposing the amendment Chairman McCumber of the finance comt_ mittee declared it had been decided to have the bonus bill originate in the house because it would be a revenue ). raising measure and that everyone knew that adjusted compensation leg3. islation soon would be enacted. He deprecated what he called the injecis tion of party politics into the question and said he objected to attaching J. it.to the debt refunding bill, that it ie might not provide funds for immedi:e ate payment to the soldiers. ' EFFORT TO CHECK r- FLU EPIDEMIC New York, Feb. 1.?Seventy-five policemen have been assigned to special duty with the city health department f~ enforcing the house heating and sanitary rules in an effort to check a * further spread of the influenza epi. demic. it , M Agreement on Far Eastern Resolutions Washington, Feb. 1.?The adoption \ of the Far Eastern committee reso" lutions affecting China and formal announcement and adoption of Shan1 tung agreement between China and in Japan ^featured the first part of the 2- arms conference session today. Secretary Hughes, in presenting the naval treaty, said the original American proposals as to capital ships had been adopted substantially except that tr retention by Japan of battleship Mut J su had been permitted by the United States' right to complete two dreadfe naughts of the West Virginia type, >r whereupon the battleships North Da1 kota and Delaware are to be scrapped. ts ' ' f. Charlotte Postmaster Dead Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 1.?J. H. Weddington, for nine years Charlotte's postmaster, died here today. A TODAY'S COTTON MARKET Open 2:40 p. m. v. March .. .. .. ...16.00 >6.38 re May .. .. .. .. .. 16.41 16.10 ie July .. . : 16.00 15.84 it- October .. .... .. 15.58 15.40 December . . 15.50 15.23 , Local market .. j. 16.00 ? Mrs. Jack Humphries will leave this afternoon to visit her sister. Mrs. ^ Cotinife in St. Matthews and before ^returning home will visit jier mother, m Mrs. May in Charleston. A, v ... . te Diamonds are now;. cut and polished by machinery. ' m iCT * * % BOSTON NEGRO S SLAYS POLICEMAN Boston, Jun. 31.?Renzy Murray, a 62 year old negro, who stood off 60 ^ policemen for more than an hour ^ early today in a gun battle that centered around his South End home, y( spent tonight in jail, charged with a* the murder of Patrolman Daniel Mc- a< Shane. The policeman, shot by the at negro from a win'dow of his stronghold, died at a hospital at noon. Two w hundred shots are estimated to have been fire before Murray was captured. P William Jackson, a negro who live:- bi in the same house, and Julia Scott, a resident of the neighborhood, were in m hospitals tonight suffering from bul- ^ let wounds and a five months old baby was suffeving from bums sus- a' tained while on its bed in an upper vc room of the Murray home. The fire Pf which nearly consumed the mattress or is believed to have been caused by powder flashes from Murray's revolver. co The trouble started when a woman ^ lodger left the house to tell the police U that Murray had threatened to shoot or her. McShane and three other police- a< men accompanied her back to the res- co idence. They found the door barri- ca faded and Murray shouted an invitation to them to come to a window. They did so and McShane started to a* climb in. He was greeted with three ot shots from the negro's revolver and UI dropped to the sidewalk with a bullet in his abdomen. sf McShane's comrades promptly sl summoned assistance. Lieut. Dunlap ordered out the reserves, sent several n patrolmen from their beats to the- ce scene and directed the dispatch of two riot guns to Murray's barricaded *j? dwelling. Meantime, the fire depart- * ment had been summoned and was prepared to bring out the negro by .. the ude of high pressure nozzles. , From both front and rear the police 5 fired several volleys into the house ^ but Murray refused to come out. Two patrolmen who worked their ^ way through the house finally found him in the attic and brought him w do^^sta^s. ^ ^ ^ fi, crowd which had gathered loudly threatened Murray. There was a g.( rush in his direction and it was with difficulty that ho was landed in the patrol wagon. f0 At the station Murray told the police that he had saved one bullet for yj himself and another for his wife, at ai her request, but that when they got rj into the attic his courage failed him. cc When arraigned for the murder of a( Patrolman McShane, Murray ex- af claimed: g, "Murder! Who did I kill? I did not know McShane was dead." ^ n< RORS RANK | iuv/aw A/mm tn SECOND TIME > Cartersvillc, Ga., Jan. 81.?Enter- T ing the Bank of Cassville for the second time within a week, robbers made away with approximately $12,000 last night, according to word received here today. ? The loot consisted of Liberty bonds, ? county warrants, notes and other papers but no cash, it $vas said, as the c<' robbers apparently made no effort to E,! enter the money safe. -The previous visit resulted in nothing more than 1 tampering with the vault combination c and officials said they thought the p( J first robbers were amateurs and last re I night's visitors professionals. < Officers of the bank, which is at | Cassville, seven miles north of here, (t announced that the theft was- covered i i by insurance and depositors would not al ! be affected. 'f t m i di PATRICK GIVEN J LIFE SENTENCE Y v< Augusta, Ga., Jan. 31.?Throwing ^ her arms about him and weeping bit- r( terly, Mrs. Alice Murrell, In open court today demonstrated her love for p the man who murdered her son. The m dramatic moment came. immediately o1 following the verdict of the jury find ing Carson Patrick guilty of the mur- ^ der of Shaw Murrell on Christinas eve. w The verdict of the jury was that the defendant was guilty of murder with recommendation to mercy of the court. Judge Hammond immediately sen- ^ teneed him to life imprisonment. r ^ L ' ? m Fifth Session of Arms Conference Met Today q Wnshignton, Feb. 1.?The fifth open tl session of the arms conference met for ?\ the presentation of naval limitation t] treaty and special treaties limiting the use of suburbs and poison (as. Sec- \ retary Hughes began with a resolu- ci tion adopted by the Far Eastern com- u mittee providing for a withdrawal of ii foreign post officers and troops from a] China. p ENATE PASSES REFUNDING BILL Washington, Jan. 31.?The bill aulorizing the refunding of the $11,)0,000,000 foreign debt into securies maturing in not more than 2.r> sara was passed tonight by the sene. The vote was 39 to 25. Final enitment of the measure must await ljustment of differences between the >use and senate which is expected ithin a week or ten days. Three Republicans?Borah, LaFoltte and Norria?joined with the solid emocratic minority in opposing the 11. Under the terms of the bill a core. ission of five members, hemic,) b., e secretary of the treasury, would ive authority, subject to the approvof the president, to refund or conrt, und to extend the time of the lyment of the principal on interest, both, of the foreign debt. The date of the maturity of the oblations accepted by the commission uld not extend beyond June 15, '47, and the interest rate could not less than 4 1-4 per cent. Bonds of le foreign government could not be icepted for those of another, nor uld any part of the indebtedness be ncelled. The life of the commission would s three years from the date ?of the tproval of the act and the members her than the secretary of the treas y would be appointed by the presisnt subject to confirmation by the nate. During its life the commison would be required to make anlal reports to congress at the beginng of each regular session in Deimber. Only members of the cabinet and of ingress would be appointed on the >bt commission, according to Senator 'atson (Republican) of Indiana, who Id the senate during debate today at, although he was not authorized r the president to make such an an>uncement, he nevertheless knew at this was the president's intention. Aside from the section in,at interest on the refunded debt 1 >t leas than 4 1-4 per cent whie' as added ?s nr amendment from th lance committee, the only important tange made in the bill., by the aenr.tr hich Would have given the jn authority to settle and refund anj aims which the United States here'ter might have had against "any reign government." Efforts to add a soldiers' bonus prosion to the measure: to limit the ithority ot the commission in deierng interest payments and to require >ngressional approval of the bond freements failed. The senate did lopt, however, an amendment by jnator Walsh (Democrat) of Massamsetts requiring the commission afr the conclusion of each refunding jgotiation to report the results to le senate. Senator Walsh explained lat the object was to give "pitiless iblicity" to the work of the comission. UUKIMd KtTUKI TALES OF HARDSHIP Friesco, Calif., Feb. 1.?More than hundred persons stranded by Calimia's recent record snow along the idge route had been rescued or ac unted for according to a special disitch from representatives of t' ? riesco Republican. The resue litres had provided thirty stranded r.u mobile parties with food, they r?>irted. Many tales of hardship were dated. Wilson's "Five Big Deeds" That Woodrow Wilson has already :ome back"?to use an expressive id, perhaps, inescapable "Americanm"?is made more evident every ly. His policies are being approved v the strongest of all approvals'? nitation, even if the imitation is of in rattier groan uuq nwhwaru. In addressing a meeting in New ork in celebration of the first annisrsary of the Woodrow Wilson Founation, Hamilton Holt made the ar sting assertion that anyone of five reat achievements of the former resident "would assure him a foruioat place in history." W may be f more than passing interest to now se what Mr. Holt set down as these ve immortalizing achievements. He lid, according to a report we quote :om the New York Times, that these reat deeds were: "The coalescence of the heretogen>us ideas in connection with the war ito one idea?democracy; his statelent that in the war we wanted nothig; the driving of an effective wedge etween the Hohenzollems and the erman people; the first outline of th a sis of peace; and the expression <. ve thought that the nations shoul ubstitute cooperation for cornpetion." While he dooa not specifically naa. Ir. Wilson's inspiration and actoo reation of the league of Nations, thi.. remendous achievement may well bt nplicit in the phrase, "the nauon* hould substitute cooperation for etition.?"Columbia State.