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VOLUME XXXVII. LAURENS,,SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1922.NUBR3 DIAL MAKES PLE F Introduces Bill To Amend The Cotton Futures Contract Law. Washington, April 8.-Taking the senate committee on agriculture to task because they would take no ac tion on a bill which he introduced, and which has been pending before the committee for almost a year to amend the cotton futures contract law, Sena tor Dial made an earnest plea for ac tion which 1vould relieve the cotton growers of their present perilous po sition. A former bill, he said, cured a great many of the deficits of the then cus tom, but unfortunately it carried the vicious principle of the custom into the law, which law permits the seller of a cotton contract to deliver all of the contract in any one to ten grades instead of 32 grades, under the old custom. . He said this is where they have been slaughtering the lambs and everybody else ever since. His amend ment would make it equally fair to the buyer and the seller of a con tract. Further commenting on this situa tion, Senator Dial said he had intro ducedi a resolution, which has passed the senate, requesting the federal trade commission to investigate the cotton exchanges. The passage of that resolution, he said, need not inter fere at all with the particular bill which he has introduced to amend the cotton futures law. There are many things about the cotton exchanges, he said, which he desired to have investi gated, and he said also he had not the shadow ,of a doubt but of the jus tice of his bill, and about its suffi ciency in affording relief to our peo ple, should it be passed. "In fact," he concluded, "unless we have some legislation to help the cause of cotton production, it will not be more than a year or two until we shall have to offer a premium to get people to raise cotton in the United States. There is the darkest outlook for a crop of cotton which I have ever known. "Congress is unconsciously aiding the cotton bears every hour it allows the present la wto remain unamend ed. "My amendment," Senatior Dial said, "does not interfere with the ten desirable grades, it only classifies them in three classes-A. B. C., with a basic grade in each class. This is similgr to wheat. This amendment will make a contract flexible enough for anyone to trade in, and definite enough to make it worth what it is claimed to represent, thereby the buy er and seller will be on equal terms, and unquestionably' the value of the commodity will be enhanced." W. D. MELTON NEW HEAD UNIVERSITY Succeeds W. S. Currell, Resigned. Is Prominent Attoriey At Columbia. Columbia, April 10.-William Davis Melton, prominent attorney of the law firm of Melton and Belser of Olumi bia, wvas tonight elected presidlent to succeed William Spencer Currell, re -signed. At the same meeting of the board of trustees Dr. Currell was elected dean of the new gradute school re -cently established at the University for post graduate work. Dr. Currell will begin his new duties September 1, and President-elect Mel ton will assume the duties of presi dent some time between July 1 and September 1. Mr. Melton advised the board of trustees tonight of his ac ceptance as soon as the choice had been made. -President Currell tendered his resig nation at the January meeting of the board of trustees but the resignation was not acted upon until tonight. President Currell has been at the head of the University since 1016, and is conspicuously known in the educational world for this scholarship. The new president is a native 9f Richburg; Chester county. From 1887 to 1800 he attended the University of Virginia. lHe then en tered the law school of University ofSouth Carolina from whichi he was graduated in 1892.- He immediately began the practice of his profession in .Columbia in which he has been conspicuously successful. Jn 1890 he marled MIss Caito Belser, of Sum morton. OR QUICK ACTION, HELPLESS CHILI)DI SEES FOUR SLAIN Father Takes Lives of Three Children Then Ends Own Life. Charlotte, N. C., April 9.-Ruby Lee Helms, 13 year old girl, horror strick er and helpless, today saw her father Joki Helms, 40, slay two of her little br)bthers and sisters in succession with a wood axe and then saw him deliberately blow off the top of his own head with a shot gun, according to the story she, the only witness, told Cor oner Frank Hovis. The quadruple tragedy occurred at the home of Heuls, who occupied a tenant house on the farm of Robert Rice, 11 miles east of Charlotte, about 6:30 o'clock' this thorning. Coroner Hovis said the evidence in dicated that Helms had become rather suddenly insane, probably'as a result of continued ill health, as he had been suffering from a chronic stomach dis ease and had appeared deeply depress ed when talking with a brother a (lay or two ago about his "hopeless" coh dition. According to little Ruby Lee Helms, she was walking about in the yard with the nine months old baby, Haze line, while her mother prepared break fast, when her father approached with an axe and with the handle knocked the baby from her arms, then he went into the house and with the axe brain ed two children in bed while she look ed on through a window the two be ing Brocho, aged six, and Bleeker, aged four. le then grabbed a shot gun, went out into the yard, placed the muzzle against his cheek, the gun standing on the ground, reached down and pressed the trigger with his thumb, the load blowing off the top of the head. Mrs. Helms and another child, in addition to Ruby Lee Helms, escape(d without injury and gave the alarm. Soon neighbors were on the scene and later Ooroner Hovis. The baby did not (lie instantly, but was taken to a hospital in Charlotte, where it died about two hours later. It was said that Helms was formerlf a cotton mill operative at Charlotte, but recently moved to the farm. LITTLE HOPE FOl PROSPEIIITY-COX Attributes Business Adversity To Failure of U. S. Entering League. New York, April 8.-Directly at tributing our present dlay "business adversity" to the failure of the United States to join the League of Nations, former Governor James M. Cox, of Ohio, in an address here today, urged at continuation of the campaign to have this country juin the league. His address was made before the National Democratic Club. Asserting that "as one surveys con ditions at Washington he finds little ground flr hope of a stable pros perit~y." Mr. Cox declared that "the average person of the average com munity believes there is something radically wrong in Washington and that it consists chiefly of a lack of leadership. There is no captain of the ship. Governor Cox told his audience that while there is mauch regret through out the country over the aimless way in which things are dirifting, it is not fair to criticize the presdent of the United States. "He Is simply keeping his contract with the people," Mr. Cox said. "He was open and frank In expressing his opinion as to what the function of the executive is. The campaign waged by his party was largely -directed against the alleged autocratic policies of Mr. Wilson. . In. marking the distinction which both he and his party made as between what had been and what was to be in this regard, the republican candidate specifically promised what he would do. He has kept faith. He doubtless believes his performance is In precise harmony with what he ac cepted as a mandate adopted by seven mnillion plurality." Habitua Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days "LAX-F0S WITH PEPSIN" Is a- specially. prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxatlve for Habitual ConstipatIon. It relleves promptly but should be taken regularly for 14.to 21 days to Induce regqiar adtlon. It StImulates and Regulates. eVery Pleasant to Take. Co pi btilo. CHESTEI VETERAN KILLS ROOA1MAT: Richard Peay Shot To Death In Glad den Apartments By Joseph P". Queen. Chester, April 10.-Richard Pea a well known young man of this cit and a veteran of the World war, Wa shot and instantly killed by Joseph I Queen, also a veteran of World wat about 2:20 o'clock this morning a the Gladden apartments4, condtucted b Mis. Maggie Adams, a sister of th ileceased. One shot, which was evi clently the first, struck Peay in t nose and penetrated the brain; anl other went through the heart; a thir pierced the abdomen. Any one of th tiree, perhaps, would have prove Fatal. Another shot went wild. Coroner j. Henry Gladden was noti [ied at once of the homicide, and re minded a jury, which viewed the re n'ains, and will meet tomorrow morn ng at the court house at 9:30 o'cloc -o hold the inquest. The young men both roomed at Mrs Adams' and were roommates. Th ragedy occurred on the landing be ,ween two flights of steps, one con nunicating with the street and th >ther with the rear. Peay had n veapon on his person, bul; there wit i small stick lying at his side. Quece vas armed with the two revolvers. Officer Gregory wias near when fou EAS *Easter Ties Easter Hoe Easter Cap LAURENS, S. C. shots rang out, followed by screams, and hurried to the spot. le met Queen ,who surrendered. - Mrs. Adams has made conflicting statements- about the homocide. To one of the oflicers she made the state , nient that Queen had killed her broth er ,but that he had been forced to do it, and in one stetement gave some particulars as to the relative positions of the men at the time of the shoot t ing. To Coroner Gladden she made the statement that she was not an e eye-witness of the shooting, but was - on the spot in a moment after the e shots were fired. She was, of course, - very much excited and overcome by I the terrible tragedy. It is believed that liquor was at the bottom of the trouble, as the police ound a gallon or more whiskey in - the room said to have been occupied - by the two young men. Heads, I Win; Tails, You Lose. "What 1am1 I doling? I'm SpInning at M( -.. If It's headls. I'll go to the lodge. If It's taIls, I'll go down to th 3 billiard hall. If the dIme stands on - edge, I'll stay home with you."-Atchli - son Globe. Crabby. 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