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PAGE EIGHT News Review of Current Events the World Over President Hoover Speaks to Farmers-—Roosevelt and Smith Bury the Hatchet—Insull Brothers Indicted— Japan Ignores Lytton Report. * . ’ I <? * By EDWARD W. PICKARD H. H. Lehman B OTH Republicans and Democrat* derived Kreat encournKement from developments of the week, and seemingly with the best of reason. The former hailed with glee the warm reception given Pres ident Hoover In Iowa. Before enthusiastic thousands the Chief Executive delivered In Des Moines his first speech In his campaign for re-elec tion. addressing him- self especially to the corn and hog raisers who have been show ing such decided dis content that their shift to the Demo crats was freely predicted He de clared the program offered by his rival would mean ruin to American agriculture *and laid down one of his own that Included the maintenance of high protective tariffs on farm products, the amelioration of the farm mortgage sliuatlon and the use of annual payments on the foreign debt to advance foreign markets for American farm products. Both Air. Hoover and Mrs. Hoover, who accompanied him on the trip, are natives of Iowa, and the people of the state gave them a cordial wel come. The President was so encour aged that on the way back to Wash ington he made back platform speeches In ten towns in Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Democracy's glee was caused by the reconciliation between Franklin D. Roosevelt, its Presidential candidate, and Al Smith, who had been holding rather aloof In the campaign. The tiatchet was burled In the New York state Democratic convention where both Roosevelt and Smith were fight ing to bring about the nomination of Herbert H. Lehman for governor against the stubb*rti opposition of Tammany Mall leaders. Going to the platform to place Lehman In nomina tion. Smith grnsptd the hand of his old friend with a smiling “Hello, Frank." and the governor responded with cordiality as the cameras of the press photographers clicked madly and the crowd yelled approval. Roosevelt said: “Al. this is from the heart." And AI replied: “Frank, that goes with me, too.” Tammany Hall was utterly defeat ed and Lehman was nominated, with W. M. Bray of Utica for lieutenant governor. Senator Robert F. Wag ner was accorded a ronoinination. The Republican New York conven tion nominated Col. William J. (“Wild Bill") Donovan for governor; F. Tru- hee Davison, assistant secretary of war. for lieutenant governor, and George Z. Medalie for United States seiwtor. At the notification cere monies Colonel Donovan dec In ml himself In favor of repeal of the Eignteenth amendment. «« M Sec’y Stimson der Chinese sovereignty. The details of Us status are to be agreed upon at an advisory SI no-Japanese confer ence following the recommendations of the league and with the league council sitting as arbiter. It holds up practically* to ridicule the Mukden incident of September 18, 1931, over which Japan Jumped off to the occupation of Manchuria. It In timates the whole thing was planned. “But even in Japan,* says the re port In a tart passage, “appropriate means must be found for attainment of every end.” 1 HE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA ?E! THURSDAY. OCTOBER 13. R ESTED by their long summer va cation, the venerable members of the United States Supreme court re sumed their labors and one of the first masters to come before them was of great Importance to all states along the Great Lakes, Including New York. Attorney General Gilbert Bettman of Ohio, acting ‘on behalf of Ohio. Wis consin, Minnesota and Michigan, pre sented an application for the appoint ment of a receiver, commissioner or United States marshal to run the Chi cago sanitary district and carry out and make effective the decree entered by the court In April, 1930, restrict ing the withdrawal of water from Lake Michigan by the drainage canal. The purpose Is to force Chicago to hasten the building of sewage disposal plants and thus reduce the diversion of water. Instead of the eight years allowed for building the works before the diversion is cut to 1,500 feet In 1938 it will require 37 years at the present rate of construction, the ap plicants’ brief declared. IIT'IIEN Samuel Insull, former pub- lie utilities magnate, and his brother Martin Ignored the request of State’s Attorney Swanson In Chi cago that they return from France and Canada, respectively, to asflst in ) the untangling of the affairs of the numerous corporations with which they had been connected. Mr. Swan son became Indignant and promptly presented his cases against them to the grand Jury. Within a few days that body returned three indictments charging embezzlement, larceny by* bailee and larceny. Capiases for the arrest of the brothers were Issued and steps to bring about their extra dition were taken. The first Indictment names Martin Insull alone. It charges that he ab stracted by means of embezzlement,r larceny^ r.nd larceny as bailee $377,720 from the treasury of the Middle West Utilities company and used t'.e money to protect liis personal brokerage ac counts. The second Indictment'charges Sam uel Insull and Martin Insull Jointly with using $00,000 of the funds of the Middle West Utilities company to pro tect brokerage accounts carried in the name of Washington Flexner. presi dent of the Lincoln Printing company. The third Indictment names the brothers Jointly on a charge of ab stracting $104,222 from the treasury of the Mississippi Valley Utilities In vestment company for the same pur pose. Samuel Insull In Paris and Martin In Canada both refused to comment on the news from Chicago. D OWN In Medicine Lodge, Kansas, there was an interesting three- day celebration in commemoration of the signing of a treaty in October, 1807. The pact was between the Unit ed States and the Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Apache tribes, and It ended bloody warfare and permitted the unmolested con struction of railroads and wagon roads to the Pacific coast. In return the In dians were allotted reservations on which they have made their homes ever since. M EXICO’S government and the Catholic church are again at each other’s throats. In a recent en cyclical Pope Pius discussed what he called “the new and legal persecution" of the church and Catho lics In Mexico and an nounced a policy of “formal co-operation” without renouncing principles or with drawing past denun ciations. President Abelardo L. Rodriguez countered with a dec laration that all the Catholic churches in Mexico would be closed to religious use if the Catholic church’s attitude, “as shown in the encyclical’’ should con tinue. This attitude he called insolent and defiant. Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, papal legate to Mexico, took part in the controversy and the chamber of deputies unanimously voted to ask President Rodriguez to deport him. The president immediately complied and the legate was put aboard a plane and shipped to Sun Antonio, Texas. President Rodriguez EUELY a diary of n fortnight's Journey through Manchuria" was the way Minister of War Sadao Araki characterized the.report of (he Lytton commission to the'League of Na tions when the Jap anese cabinet met to consider it. Othei ministers agreed thni it was unWorthy of Japan’s serious ntton tion, and the cabinet then made this curt announcement: “The government has decided tha’t the Lytton report does not constitute cause to alter its Manchurian policy." Various responsible leaders in Ja pan gave notice that their country would continue its dominatim of Mnnchukuo, and the world wonders just what the League of Nations can and will do about it. The Japanese war office issued a statement declaring that if the league acts in the spirit of the Lytton report. Japan will have no alternative but to withdraw from the league and oppose its action with the firmest determinatibn. France has shown decided sympathy with Japan in the controversy and Great Britain has been rather lukewarm in her friendship for China. The Unit ed States, though not in the league, is a most Important factor in the af fair, and Japan insists that Secretary of State Stimson has again displayed his animosity toward Japan and is a menace to the good relations between Japan and America. This is because Mr. Stimson in an address before the Philadelphia Union League club said President Hoover had formulated a successful policy of nonrecognition for territorial gains made by force of arms, add added that the “open door" policy was necessary to preserve Chios’s territorial and administrative Integrity. The Lytton report. Insisting "less oa the responsibility for past actions than on the necessity for finding nmrns to prevent their repetition." calls for the establishment ofanoatoo •mous demilitarized Manchuria oil P RESIDENT DE VALERA of the Irish Free State has brought about the dismissal of James McNeill as governor general, and it is reported in Dublin that he will not nominate a suc cessor. either taking the position himself or cutting the Fr " State J entirely away from the British common wealth. When tie de cided that * McNeill should go tin British government had no alternative to acced ing to the demand. Air.' De Valera on his way home from Geneva conferred with Britishcahinet members in London and It was agreed that tlpj Anglo-Irish economic war, that started over the withholding of the land annuities due the British gov ernment, should be settjed by direct 'negotiation. “TJiis wa» a-wlAory for (he Free State, for the British had previously Insisted the dispute should be arbitrated by an empire tribunal. James McNeill O NE of the heroes of the British conquest of the Sudan, Gen. Sir Rudolph Slatin Pasha, died In Vienna at the age of seventy-five. Born In Austria, he enlisted fpr service with the British army in the Sudan when he was twenty-one years old. Under Gen. “Chinese’’ ''Gordon, he led the Britisli in their bloody war with the Mahdi, Arab chieftain. It was Sir Rudolph’s prowess in beating back the dervish tribesmen in 27 battles which won him the title of “The Hammer of the Arabs." in 1SS5 he was taken prisoner by the Arabs and was held a slave for twelve years. After bis es cape he served under Lord Kitchener. G to BEAT BRITAIN took steps break the disarmament deadlock caused by Germany’s withdrawal from the Geneva conference when her de mand for armament equality was re fused. The British ambassador to Ber lin invited the German government to send repiesentatives to a iour power conference In London to consider the German demand and to pave the way for Germany’s return to the confer ence. The other three powers would lie France, Great Britain and Italy, and the United States vould be in vited to send an observer. The Ger man reply "as that it would he use less to hold the meeting unless Ger many were first given certain guar antees hat her demand for equality would be really fulfilled. Norman Davis, acting .chief of tiie American disarmament delegation, went to Londomto talk about fleet re ductions proposed by President Hoo ver. On the way from Geneva he stopped in Paris to sound oi i the Frenclt on the Franco-Itnlinn obstacle to making the London treaty a five- power pact I RAQ was admitted to a seat as a sovereign member of the League of Nations, the first country In the Arabian world to reach that status, and King Feisal Is now an entirely Independent monarch. Great Britnln resigned her mandate over Iraq and was highly praised for her generos ity by all speakers in the league as sembly. There was an intimation that France should follow this exam ple in regard to Syria, but the French at Genera wer' noncommittal Iraq was formed after the WbrTJ war oat of the former Turkish provinces of Bagdad. Mosul and Basra. Within ita boundaries are vast oil fields, and tbf population U nearly three mllll rN na. >i ' K * • B RAZIL’S civil war. which had last ed for nearly three months came to a close with the unconditional sur render of the rebels in the state of Sao Paulo. Military police replaced the rebel government in Sao Paulo, capital of the state, and the great coffee port of Santos was reopened to commerce.' The’i'evolutlbnary army disbanded and its leader, Gen. Bertoldo Klinger, and other officers were held under arrest at the federal army headquarters at Cruzeiro. Jack Frost is expected next month. The Railroad will get here about the 1st prox. It is whbpered that an independent county ticket will soon appear. Mr. Aquilla Wooley’s bright little baby died near the village on Sunday last. Defeated candidates are invisible. Some are .«owing oats—others are gene up Salt Creelcr - Dr. T. S. Lafitte, a prominent citi zen of the county, died a few days ago near Matthew’s Bluff. Married, Tuesday, October 3, 1882, at the residence of Mr. Laurie Groves, by Rev. A. Buist, Mr/Jeff D. Whittle, of Edgefield County, to Mrs. Laura A. Busby, of Barnwell County. The average valuation of land in this county is $3.86 per acre. At its last week’s meeting the State Board of Equalization reduced the assessed val uation of lands n Barnwell 25 per cent. V wisVfcilled by a train cf the S. C>*k W. one and a half miles from His body was teiribly mangled, bemi? cut in two, and his leg.* and arms cut off. An inquest was held by Tnal Justice Bellinger. . . .. At Blackville, on the evening of the 5th instant, while Joseph Knop an Jes.?e Nevils, youthful clerks m th employment of Mr. C. E. Gy es, ^ re playfully boximr the latter received a blow on the stomach from w 'C e died in a few minutes. It is supposed that a blood vessel was ruptured. v Capt. A. A. Henderson of Blackville was in town on Tuesday in the inter est of the telegraph line. Sudden Deaths.—Oh the night of the 2nd instant Mr. Obediah Nevils The Democrats nominated the fol lowing county ticket in the primary elections: For the LegisMute-W. W. Smith, H. J. Kearse, M. F. Molony, G. W, M. Williams, G. Duncan Bellinger. For Probate Judge—B. T. Rice. For School Commissioner—Arthur Buist. -For A uditor—S. W.. Trotti. FoG Treasurer—N. F. Kirlcland. For County Commissioners—H. J- Croft, J. C. McMillan, W. W. Mat thews. C HILE went through another switch in government when Gen. Bartolme Blanche, provisional president, was forced to resign by a revolt against the military regime. He was succeed ed by Judge Abraham Oyanedel who will serve until the election set for October 30. Dr. Harmodio Arias was inaugu- i rated as the fifteenth president of the republic of Panama, and pledged him- l self to economy and the payment of the nation’s foreign financial obliga tions. P ARTIAL failure of the five year plan was admitted by the central i committee of the Communist party of ! Soviet Russia at its annual meeting to formulate policies for the coming year. It decided that quality rather than quantity should he the watchword for 19J53, and outlined this procedure: Improvement of the cities’ supplies of food and other commodities; in creases in the production of goods for domestic consumption and elimination of the speculative spirit by the devel opment of a system of controlled prices and the introduction of labels for man ufactured goods to Improve their quality. / T HERE was more trouble in the Illinois coal fields and detachments of the National Guard were posted in several towns to curb the actions of the striking miners and their pickets. a strike of high school in Kin caid because the Chicago school board rmu XTutti freto n ctunpanj under the $o wage scale. In that town (t was reported that a pa trol of the militia was fired on, though no one was wounded. - 1 i <: / EFIRD’S 17 th Anniversary Sale i ^ . i Sale Starts Thursday Morning October 13th at 8:30 O’clock The Greatest Sale of the Season Thousands of Dollars Worth of Fall and Winter Merchandise Was * i MM f Purchased for This Phenomenal SALE When Cotton Was 5c. Per Pound. We Invite You to Attend This Event and Supply Your Needs AT GREAT SAVINGS. * *> It Will Pay You to Come Many Miles to Attend This SAL£. Tell Your Friends and Be There. a COATS Special for our ANNIVERSARY SALE—One big group of heavily furred Coats in the newest fabrics, $35.00 values for— $24.75 * % ... ♦ SILK DRESSES A Special Purchase of New Silk Dte-ses in all the newest styles and colors. On sale during our ANNIVERSARY-SALE— ■ ; • $3.95 ' Silk Hose Wonderful values in Silk Hose at Anniversary Sale Price— 37c to $1.65 Pair Children’s Coats New shipment of Coats for children’s style- of dress and school wear. Anniversary Sale Price— $1.95 to $9.95 Swagger Suits New Swagger Suits in self tram and fur trim, priced from $4.95 to $24.75 MEN’S SUITS On Big Group of Suits for Men and Young Men.—Special for ANNIVERSARY SALE at— $6.75 SHOES. Sensational values in Shoes for the Whole Family at EfircTs during OUR ANN1VERSAY SALE. \ Cotton Goods Visit our Bargain Basement and see the Low Prices on Cot- V ton Goods during our Anniver- sary Sale. • ' » ► Blankets You will find the lowest prices in years on Blankets here. Priced from— 95c to $6.95 Silks New Silk,- and Woolens for Fall purchased special for our ANNIVERSARY SALE. MAKE EFIRD’S YOUR HEADQUARTERS FAIR WEEK. Main and Taylor Streets COLUMBIA, S. C. i^nrtr /I A**. ^ . , -'■a