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w 9 *1' ' .=r7: The Union Daily Times 1117 PRESS DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY E?t?bliihMlj/m 1850?Converted to The Union Daily Times October 1, 1917 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY i ...... i , i, . m i J i ? ? J mi i - . . ? i i i BMBgaeen i i ifrliin i?i ljl_ . { Vol. LXXII No. 1303 Union, S. C., Wednesday Afternoon, February 15, 1922 3C per Copy COLUMBIA STREET CAR MEN STRIKE Columbia, S. C., Feb. 16.?No street cars are running here today and there is nothing that indicates the resumption of service any time soon. The men voted to strike early today following the discharge of 21 employes bv the company yesterday. There was for work beginning today, saying in a statement issued this morning by A. A. Gerald, president of the union, that notices given 21 employees, members of the union, yesterday "can only be construed as a virtual lockout of ine employees ana a desire on the part of the company to cease operation of its street cars." P. H. Knox, president of the Columbia Railway, Gas and Electric company, when called on the telephone at 2 o'clock this morning, said that he had nothing whatever to say. Approximately 140 men are affected by the union's decision. The union men, following the discharge of 21 employees yesterday, met at their hall early this morning and there discussed action to be taken, deciding unanimously in favor of the strike. The discharge of the men. they claim, is "clearly in violation of the rules heretofore existing by and between the company and its employees." The employees say in their statement that they are "ready and willing to submit the differences to an unbiased board of arbitration." The meeting lasted only about half an hour, no opposition being raised to the proposal to consider the discharge of the 21 employees a "virtual lockout," and at 2 o'clock this morning the decision not to report for work was reached and announced. The meeting was attended by approximately 120 of the 144 members of the union, all members absent being excused be / tnuac ui iiinctsa ui uubciicv lrum nic city. There was not a dissenting vote on the proposal. All cars were carried to the barns will, under the decision of the union men, remain there unless otherwise operated by the company. The first car would have left the barn at 5 o'clock this morning.?The State. Young Men's Business League Organizes An enthuiastic meeting of the young business mon of the town was held last night in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce. The organization was perfected, 85 of the 70 present entering the organization and the officers id directors were chosen as below shown. The new organization took over the proposition made by the old Chamber of Commerce, agreeing to assume $408 liabilities of the old concern and taking over the furniture, fixtures and everything that belonged to the old organization. The following is the list of officers and directors chosen: W. H. Perrin, president. C. W. Cain, 1st vice-president. D. N. Wilburn, 2nd vice-president. L. B. Woodward, secretary. W. W. Alman, treasurer. Board of Directors W. H. Perrin, two years. D. N. Wilburn, two years. I. K. Brennecke, two years. W. W. Alman, two years. E. M. Garner, two years. J. W. Wilbanks, two years. Stuart H. Smith, one year. C. C. Cooper, one year. R. H. Harris, one year. S. D. Leake, one year. C. W. Cain, one year. T. J. Glenn, one year. Membership Committee. I. K. Brennecke, T. D. Truluck, Frank Hart, Emmon3 Isreal and V. L. Fowler. Finnnce Committee. E. M. Garner, H. D. Cranford, C. Kemper Morgan, P. E. Wilburn and B. T. Gibson. Entertainment Committee. C. C. Cooper, Phil Flynn, F. W. Goudelock, E. R. Ashford, J. Fred Jeffries. Publicity Committee. L. B. Woodward, M. F. Storm, W. C. Lake, O. E. Smith, T. Claude Jolly, Jr. Sunday School Claaa Entertained Mrs. Edw. S. Reaves entertained her Sunday school class of 'teen-age girls at a Valentine party yesterday afternoon. Though the weather was gloomy outside, inside the house was bright with electric lights and the rooms were decorated with numbers of hearts. Cupids with drawn bows were in evidence in hall and dining room. After playing a number of lively games a salad course with hot chocolate cake and candy was served. Bald-headed men are partial to mohair. tr . Sfe v HUNDREDS HIT SAWDUST TRAII Spartanburg, Fob. 14.?More tha 1,000 went forward tonight at the ir vitation of the Rev. Bily Sunda after he had preached on the unpai donable fin, taking his text froi Matthew 12:31, "Wherefore I say unt you, all manner of Bin and blasphem be forgiven ointp men but th blasphemy agaiflst the shall m*t be foTgivcn onto pEBfcfrgP stro^wt spiritual sermons, sponse was prompt when the invits tion was given. Converse college, the Shriners' clu and the garage and filling station me and other organizations attended th service in a body and aftm: the servi< Mr. Sunday and his party were entev tained at dinner by the Shriners. Mr. Sunday, refreshed by a day -.rnight of complete rest, this afternoo: began the sixth and last-week of hi campaign here with a powerful an appealing sermon on * "Christ i Agony." The sermon was based o the hours spent by Christ in the gar den at Gethsemane, and the evangel ist drew a vivid picture of th Savior's agony over the sins of me: in His last hours. It was the kind of a semon mos appropriate to the closing days o such a campaign as has been conduct ed here. Christ loved the world an the people in it, the evangelist said, t such an extent that he gave His lif to wash away the sins of men. Christ suffered agonies at the lasi he said, but not because of the man ner of death that He was to endur< but because of the knowledge tha some men would reject Him and flaun the sacrifice He was to make. Turning a moment at this poim Mr. Sunday went on to say that th only ieal suffering Christians endur comes from the knowledge that som of their own loved ones will rejec Christ. The suffering caused by re jection of Christ, he said, is the nios poignant in the world, and if me would just realize the suffering the are causting their loved ones by th coldness toward religion they woul be moved to better lives if by no otjie 1 reason. The text was the 44th verse of th 22nd chapter of Luke, "And being i' agony he prayed earnestly, and hi sweat was as it were great drops o blood falling down to the ground." Some of the skeptics, he said, hav ridiculed this text and have said man could not sweat blood, but h proved by his medical books that me within recent years have been know to sweat blood when in great mentr agony. The fact as recorded by Luk is literally true, he said. Christ's sul fering was so great that He literall sweat blood. George Arnold, a business man c Faterson, N. J., who was converted i Mr. Sunday's campaign there, ac dressed the Christian men tonigl after the service and urged preparj tion for the time when Mr. Sunday i gone. Negro Is Accused Of Stealing Horsi Officer F. II. Johnson this mornin arrested Will Brannon, a negro fror Union, with a horse which is allege to have been stolen from anothe negro in Union County. The negro went to Dillingham' c+nkla anrl nfforntl tn kpII tho horse t F. L. Robertson, and Mr. Robertso got in touch with Mr. Johnson. The spotted the negro, following him n n distance until he got near wher he said the horse was. Mr. Roberl son and Officer Johnson caught u with him and the former said, 'T take a look at that horse now." Th man became suspicious and said tha the horse was in another pnrt of th town. Officer Johnson arrested th negro, who then said he was the on wanted for stealing the horse. H then took them to the horse. The Union authorities were com municated with, and an officer is ex pected here this afternoon to tak Brannon back?Spartanburg Journa TODAY'S COTTON MARKE1 Open Clos March 17.90 17.9 May 17.70 17.C July ; 17.02 17.1 October 16.57 16.7 December 16.40 16.6 N. Y. Spots 18.2 Local market 17.0 Mr. Chanter Greer is critically i at his home a few miles below Unioi He has been sick for ten days and hi friends are alarmed over his conditioi Mr. Greer has hundreds of friend throughout the county who will t grieved to hear of his illness. There will be no prayer meeting n the First Baptist church tonight o account of the all-day meeting of a the churches at the First Presbyteria church today. Miss Nan Fowler and Mrs. Luc Gallman spent the week-end with ? A. Farr in Spartanburg. MEASURE CARRIES L FIVE MILL LEVY n The general state appropriation i- bill, carrying a five mill levy and an y aggregate of $5,671,684.47 for the operation and maintenance of state den purtments, institutions and agencies, o was introduced in the house of repy resentativeu by the ways and means ? conlwiiU^p Inst nfgfyv * The totftLhfc^ less "than t^e "ft ftm6u1921 app'ropvia - tion mc.'isjjOt, carried a 12 mill i- lovV/'VLi Ijjne bill also carries a reduction ^^^794,555.48 under the $6,466,th 240.? recommended by the governor n 'in the 1922 budget* e The measure, which was given its 0 first reading last night, will be placed on the desks of the members in printed form this morning and will prob'1 ably be made, a special order for n Thursday night, according to E. T. - Hughes of Marion, chairman of the d ways and means committee. The apn propriation bill last year was intron dueed in the house, given three read'* ings and sent to the senate in three " dpys. e The five mills provided for in the n bill levied on the $425,490,600 taxable property in the state, according to Chairman Hughes, will rease $2,262,X 453 of the $5,671,864.67 appropriated, while departmental and institutional ^ fees and collections will bring in ? $031,000. This will leave a deficit of 0 $2,478,231.67 to be raised for the remaining portion of the fiscal year by ' the new revenue measures, now up ^ for consideration in the senate or in ^ the hands of the conference commit | tees. "The amount so estimated as derivable from the new tax sources," t Mr. Hughes says, "is extremely cone* servative and if all the revenue bills sent to the senate by the house are agreed to by that body and become . law it is probable that the conference , committee may be able to reduce the t levy by one-half or one mill. If, n however the revenue bills agreed to y by the house are killed by the senate e just in such proportion will the levy have to be raised by the senate." The r appropriation bill, were none of these naw-xeveaue sonrcea-made available, e Mr. Hughes said, would require a n state tax levy of 10 1-2 mills as coms pared with the 12 mill levy of last f year. The ways and means committee in e the bill have seen fit to reduce the a clerical help of the state receiving e over $1,200 annually, 10 per cent of n their salary, except in a few inn stances. The salaries of state offiil cers are not reduced, nor do the menie bcrs of the general assembly prune f- their own salaries. In at least one y case, that of corporation clerk in the office of the secretary of state, the >f position is entirely abolished. No n appropriation is made for extra auI ditors under the comptroller general it to review county books. The wages i- of all porters in the State House were is reduced, some of them by amounts as large as 50 per cent. Among the larger cuts, compared with the appropriations of 1921, were e the comptroller general's office, $18,000; the Citadel, $290,000; State j* Medical College, $12,000; John de la n Howe school, $19,0000; school for d deaf, dumb and blind, $55,000; supcrr intendent of education, $350,000; state hospital, $85,000; state penitentiary, 's $10,000; industrial school for boys, - Kf? AAA* o f nv nonr rA Knue 0 fyyjvuu p * civ/i niuvvi j *V4 ??vb ? v "i n $18,000; law enforcement fund, $14, y 000; state board of health, $71,000; it state warehouse commission, $16,e 000; state electrician, $33,000; state t- highway commission, $44,000, and p Confederate infirmary, $31,000. 11 Of the colleges, the university gets c an increase of $7,000 over the approit priation for 1921, Clemson college an e increase of $16,000 and the state nee gro college an increase of $4,000. e Winthrop college was cut, approxie mately $2,000. Among the items allowed the university was an approi priation of $2,000 for plans and estimates on a women's dormitory to be e erected there in the future. The en1. tire building program of the Citadel was disallowed.?The State. rc QUIET REIGNS ON 1 ULSTER FRONTIER 5 2 London, Feb. 15. ? Twenty-four '2 hours of calm on the Ulster frontier, J where forces north and south are '0 gathered, brought some relief today in ^ the tension of the Irish situation. HEAVYRAINS ; IN AUGUSTA Augusta, Oa., Feb. 16.?Three inches of rain during the past 48 hours in it the shed above Augusta will send n Savannah river here to stage 80 feet U by tomorrow morning, according to n the Weather Bureau forecast. Farm lands on the Carolina side below Augusta will be inundated, it is stated, y . J- The girl who weds furnishes a real case of miss-taken identity. catholic pftest i held for Murder Montreal, Feb. 14.?T^c Rev. Adelard Delormc, a Roman Catholic v priest, was arrested tcMight on a b charge of having murdered his half ii brother, Raoul Delorme, an Ottawa v university student, whose body was h found in a suburb of th* tity January s J3? with ^10 ^0U(' custody after a coroner's jury. v concluding its invcMjlation, had ,\ found him criminally IjKroonsible for u his brother's death. V i w The long missing wi?|of the stu- b dent, who took out $25^|0 insurance 11? at the alleged direction in the clergy- it man just four days befdfirc his death. J was found today in the jbffiee of No- y tary Belanger, and discl&ed that the C Rev. Adelard Delorme v&s chief heir tl and administrator of th? estate. p The hearing today, at which Father a Delorme took the witness stand and jt calmly related what he knew of his o brother's movemen^^on> the day preceding his death dfclled with j tense moments. Tp^pwlic was ex- h eluded, officials pcrmittljtf only a few ]j newspaper men to be present. The w priest went over the previous account ir he had given of how thjM young man had left home for an jMYening's en- ,| joyment after which h*did not sec r, him again. jf t.( The excitement was intensified v when J. C. Walsh, M. P.adjpsignated by the attorney general?^office to 0 conduct the inquiry, began to ques- (] tion the priest about his brother's a will which had been missing until to- ? day althought police had searched for s the document. Father Delorme stated that the Si will had been left at the office of a lo- a, cal notary and when it was produced a he suggested that it should not be n read, contending that should it be found that he would benefit by its s terms, his position would be "pe- fi euliar." The contents of the Will were then f divulged and by its Iwtgrisions Father j, Delorme was found to^eithe princi- t pal beneficiary of theSeA student's t ortato, yielding annuttse, ^ than $10,000 a yeast If* T Police officials testified that when they asked Father Delorme about the will at first he said it was in Ottawa. then at the office of a local notary. 0 and finally that he did not know ^ where it was. I Their testimony also showed that bullets in the young man's head bore the same barrel marks as those fired | from a revolver found in the priest's ' car, and that soap had been used in an apparent effort to remove blood stains on the seats and1 cushions of the machine. Feathers found in the car also were described by witnesses ' as similar to those on the automobile v wrap covering the victim. Coroner Mahon cautio^i the ju- ' rors that although Roman Catholics ' they were not to be influenced by the fact that a priest and a servant of 1 the church might be affected by their f decision. They stood seven to one on their verdict finding him crim- | inally responsible for hijjrdialf brother's death. Father Delorme was unmoved by the verdict and walked briskly to the automobile in which he was drvien to I police headquarters. - s j ANOTHER FLOOD VICTIM FOUND 1 Pueblo, Colo., Feb. 15.?A woman's skeleton, believed to be a victim of the flood of June 3rd, wai found yesterday on the banks of the Aakansns river. Eighty-six bodies have been recovered. HALF MILLION DOLLAR FIRE Iowa City, la., Feb. 15.?Fire early 1 today destroyed half of a city block. ; The damage is estimated at half a million dollars. WORLD COURT IS IN SESSION Hague, Feb. 15.?The peace palace, which cynics during the war labelled "close*! owing to bankruptcy," was the scene today of an inaugural of perA/\nwf /?# iiiaf Soa nnvnAwaf AttA a/ iimiirut vi/ui i* u& juouvc, nvi avuuc w? the league of nations. The members of the court represent twelve nations of Eastern and Western world. Representatives of the United States is John Eassett Moore. NEWYORicls SNOWED UNDER New York, Feb. 15.?Greater New York today experiencede its heaviest snowfall of the winter. Six inches had fallen after the storm had been in progress a few hours. MINE HELD IN THEATRE DISASTE! Washington, Feb. 14.?Nine me /ere ordered held for (he grand jur y the coroner's jury which brougl n a verdict tonight in conncctio /ith the collapse of the roof of th Lnickebocker theatre January 28, rulting in the death of i>8 persons. The nine men, all of Washingtoi ,*ore: It. G. Geare, the architect r he building; J. II. Ford, the engince .ho designed the roof structure lorris Hackler, building inspectc nder whose authority the theatr as constructed; Frank Wagne uilder; Donald Wallace, superir undent of the Ilammett Fire Prool ig company, which built the walk ohn L. McDonald, the contracto .'ho erected the steel; Thomas 1 'ostigan, engineer and computer fo he District of Columbia building di artment who passed on the plain nd B. It. Bower, the assistant builii ig inspector when the building wa (instructed. The inquest was begun last Tues ay and scores of witnesses wer card before the jury began its di berations behind closed doors. 1 'as hours before it returned its fine lgs. The coroner's jury in its verdic eclared that "the collapse of th oof was due to faulty designing on onstruction and inadequate supei ision and inspection." It also submitted a number of ret mmendations, one being that heatres and places where the p.. i ssembled be closed and kept close ntil such time as their safety is as ured. District Attorney Peyton Gordo aid tonight that the case would b ubmitted to the grand jury as soo s possible. That body is in scssio ow and the opinion was expresse iformall^that it would be in a pc ition to take up the Knickerbockc ndings by the last of this wee! 'hose who were recommended hel or the grand jury were not take nto custody tonight but it was sai hey would be given an apporlunit o appear at the district attorney ?ko thing in the. morning rheir bond, Mr. Gordon said, woul ?e $5,000 each. The coroner's jury in its finding ecommended that there be a thoi ugh revision of the building code i he District of Columbia with heav lenalties provided for violation o iny of its clauses. SRYAN WOULD RUN AGAR Miami, Fla., Feb. 16.?William 3ryan in response to inquiries tods vhether he would be a candidate f< icnator from Florida issued a stat nent saying if Democrats called c lim he would consider the matti Tom a standpoint of duty, but hr 10 thought of entering the contest f< iffice. MINISTER TO CUBA HAS RESIGNEI Washington, Feb. 15.?Boaz Y Long, American minister of Cul Lnce 1010, has resigned to take oflfe itonce. Wedding Announcement Friends in Union have received tl following invitation: Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Osborne request the honor of your presenc at the marriage of their daughter Annie Mae to Mr. George Alexander Bonner on Sunday morning. Febrnury tl twenty-sixth at nine o'clock Calvary Baptist Church Washington, District of Columbia Friends in Union will read with i terest the above anriounoeme as Miss Osborne was reared Union, where she lived many yea and has a large circle of friends. Guild Meeting The regular monthly meeting w held with Mrs. C. R. Robertson, wh after the business was over, serv< delicious tea and cakes, assisted 1 her daughters, Misses Carol ai Agnes. There was a large attendance wi several visitors present. The report of the. treasurer show the organization to be in fair con< tion nnd several voluntary oflferin were made toward furnishing t Guild Room nnd the Parish House. The committee selling sandwich at the schools reported a reasonal degree of profit and decided to cc tinue the sales, as the school autho ties and the parents had express their approval. It was decided to celebrate Shrc Tuesday as usual. Coulda nightmare he called trance-formation ? MORE KILLED ! IN BELFAST RIOT " Belfast, Feb. 1"?.? Sleeting was i y sumed early today w st "f B< lfast afd tor a temporary lull. One man w n found dead on tlie sid"\vn1k. An anno gang tied the hamls>of .Tames Rice be hind his hack, put his coat over his head, tied his scarf over I,is eye; . b kicked and heat him an 1 ended his >t sufferings with bullets. Total deaths !l' in the present series of outbreaks S number 2"?. ?r 'v* T.ondi n, Feb. 11. Shout no contintied throughout Tuesday in Ih'Ifas.. I- Four persons wen- killed and lnanv i- were wounded. Trm I -i.d casualties b since last Saturday up tonight were 22 persons ki'led and m than <*> ' wounded. The wounded li t does net i' embrace the eases of many ; t sutTei inir from minor injuri> s. >, British troops were brought into I- Belfast today t^ rcrl re oi d r. They s hardly had assumed their duties hefore one of the soldiers wfis shot and i- wounded. a In the political sphere the principal >- news of the day was an announcement II by Michael Collins, head of the pr<I visional government in Ire land, to Winston Spencer Churchill, the Britd isli secretary for the colonies, that e Mr. Collins was in a position irnnvdld ately to secure the release of a num> her of th? kidnapped Ulsterites. Mr. Collins started from Dublin for I.on - don tonight in order to consult with 11 the British government in the situaic tion. d The general convent ion of the Finn t- t'Vin has been set for February 21. and it is considered in political cha^c n here that a mnority vote in favor of e the treaty between Trelandand Croat a Britain will result. n I.or.l Birkenhead, the hh'h i Vance' (1 'or. in a speech d< livcred in th" h ?*v >. of lords today, said that al'hou< h the government had authorised sasp ai. ^ sion of the military evacuation in tj Ireland it would continue the noli ,n of holding the scales even betvo a the , c.a> . i '.t/wances for the difficulties of the ?s provisional government. Tie maintain? ad that it was his belief there would Ij Tie an u 1 fima!e~fie a eofuTseHMfchcht of the controversy. r- ANOTHER OFFER y FOR MUSCLE SHOALS Washington, Feb. 15.?Another offer for the purchase and len<-e of the Muscle Shoals properties was couplet . 'd today a???l arrangements made f< l| its sponsors, Alabama Power coin pony, for immediate Piling wi Seen j tary Weeks. The offer w: s tmidere. IV by Thomas Martin, act in for Ala j'j. bama company, of which lie is ]>v _ dent, and with 'ts submission the totn1 m number of proposal for the plants wa pr brought to four. The Alabama com uj pany proposes completion of the AViI 3r son Dam without further advances o expenditures by the United Stales an the outright purchase of the Warriru Power plant on florgos river, whir! is situation on the ground already owned by the power company. Tin properties to hp leased for a perio of 50 years under the plan and h ^ subject to "recapture by government' ,;l at the termination of that time. Tb<-\ <*t will also be operated subpeel to tin provisions of the federal watcrp. win et under operating license. Resolutions Adopted 10 We, the women of the Auvi' : y < the Church of the Nativity. I nion wish to place ourselves on ? <1 a 0 favoring the passage of the Sinx n'.: hill. Wo feel that wo art* performing a: act of Christian soeial scr\ice whoi wo urge upon our legislators the 1'av 10 orable consideration of a matter t such vital import to society. Wo are also in favor of the wor' do?ie hy the State Board of Health am ' the State Board of Public Welfare am n" we urge that those boards bo kept in tact, functioning as they have bee? 1,1 doing since their establishment, fo the good of the community and tlx commonwealth. Grace Circles Lyceum Course as CJrnee Circles will give their fourtl io, lyceum number at the High schon od auditorium Tuesday evening. Febru by ary 21st, 1922. This concert is ii nd (barge of the Bell Ringing Male Quar tet. They are making hits everywhere th and crowded houses are meeting an< greeting these musical lads. There i ed a lot of fun in their program, too li- and lots of c]ever character skete gs work. he This class of program never fail as a veal novelty attraction, and i ies 'ounds a diversified entertainmeri de that always pleases. The b^autif' ?n- harmonies and wonderful tone comb' ri- nations of the Swiss bells are a dc ied l'Kbt to their audiences. This concert is in line with th ,ve other attractions given in our lyceui course, and the continued support o the music lovers of Union will he nr a predated. The admission price is 7.r for adults and 50c for school childrei THREAT OF STRIKE BY COAL MINERS Indianapolis, l-\ b. 14.?Throat of a | nation-wide coal strike on April 1 of oi. ii i..luminous and anthracite union iiiiin - was proposed today to the special convention of the United Mine Workers of America by the unions' i ale committee as the weapon to preset v<* present basic wages for soft i .1! miners ami win increases for the . nthracite workers. As soon as the report was presented the convention adjourned by an ' unininuuis vote until tomorrow without any action or debate on he eulo proposal. Likewise the threatened tight in behalf of Alexundct Howat. the Kansas leader who was expelled from the union, failed to conic before the 2,000 delegates i.ut it was said it might develop later. While no debate developed in the onvrn'ion over the scale committee ( port which included a small set of lcrands ami a policy for action by lie convention the delegates held in >:mal conference throughout the lay debating the various proposals. Xppnrontly the majority view coinided with that of the union officials who were said authoritatively to have ought by the report to win public pinion to the miners and also force !; coal < perators into a joint wage i iifc.ence with the union. l.i brief the committee demands ini'ulp the following: l.'e usul to accept any wage rei ti n in soft coal fields, the fight c'ng to preserve present basic scales vi h ut any general increase; adjuston of "inequalities;" differentials i liii and botwoeen districts, entailm, v. age advances for some miners; increase of 20 per cent in wages for i ite tonnage workers, and $1 a lay I r day laborers; abolition of the ulniatic penalty clause for fining lino s or operators violating workng agreements; limitation of the via hour uay to the time ot entry .ml exit from the mine; pay and onei;; 1T for overtime; double pay for Sunday and h liday work; and week y, instead of bi week y r monthlly pay. . As a preface to the demands thi report declared any wage cuts would "edut e miners' pay t;o as to bring 'pov< rty, suff ; ring and degradation n n my mining localities," and add d "\ o do not believe tin public asks hrt ts fuel nerds be supplied at th=? xper.-'c of a degraded citizenship." As an addition to the demands the . open t declared as a statement of k lie;.' that the coal operators must i .u" joint wage conferences with ! > > n'a n "or >tand publicly charged vi'h b:o;uh of contract," a provision existing agreement being cited \ t . ... oitting both miners and operit. i to joint negotiations this year. M' i> direiting that further efforts . n ide to get conferences, the report referred to all agreements endng ? i March ."1. and then made this "cv la ration: "In the event no agreement is va< >d bv A mil 1. we declare in fa i.; ( f a general suspension of mining >}xu .\tions, such action being sub t a referendum vote of the a. mU r.-hip <>f the United Mir.' Wovl. r> of America, such reft rendu vi tto be held prior to March il." REAU ISSUES STORM WARNINGS shine o 01, 1Tb. la.?The Weather Bin i :iu issued warning of a storm o Ira] o er Southwest Georgia movNnrl beast and ordered storm ) \v.ii i'i.r on tbe coast from Miami to i Washington. FFREE KILLED IN MEXICO CITY I Mexico City, Feb. tr?.?Three men vert- killed and one wounded in serious shootings at Pueblo as a result of 1 bitterness between the state government and independent political factions. ; BIG REWARD FOR MURDERER a 1 I,os Angeles, Feb. 15.?William Davis, Mabel Normand's chauffeur, (j was requestioned today in search of ? clues to William Desmond Taylor murder. Rewards totalling $4,.r)00 has h been offered for information leading o a. rest and convictionof murderer. , Arrangements Made for lt Evacuation of Troops ^ Belfast, Feb. 15.?Arrangements for the evacuation of Betiros troops from Southern Ireland was resumed today after suspension lasting for two 0 days. n >f Mrs. E. Marvin Farr spent the >- week-end in Spartanburg visiting her >c 1 rother, J. A. Farr, and attended Billy n. Sunday's meetings.