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? Manager of Aspirin Trust Was Master Spy of Huns in ! America New. York, April 25?Under "the master spy," Dr. Hugo Schweitzer, German agents in this country re ported to Berlin by code every de tafl of America's business life, kept from the allies 435,000,000 pounds of explosives and sent overseas the for mula for the deadly mustard gas which laid low thousands of Ameri can soldiers, according to Francis P. Garvan, alien property custodian, who delivered an address at the annual banquet of the National Cotton Man ufacturers* Association tonight. . Mr. Garvan declared he had for 19 months been making a "study of German industrial life and its mani festations in the United States." As a result he said, he was also able to re veal the far reaching machinations of Br. Schweitzer, former president of the Bayer Chemical Company, which was taken over and reorganized by the alien property custodian. **True it is that the Hamburg American line and the North German Lloyd kept faithful tab for Berlin on a. thousand details of our- business life which came under their obser vation; that not a ship left our har "oors, not a cargo was loaded oa un loaded but that some member of its1 organization watched and reported every detail to be sent by code to the German government," said Mr. Gar van. "But greater than all and forming the foundation of her entire espion age and propaganda system, stood the dye industry. As long as you were supplied by the "big six" your busi ness-had no secret unknown in Berlin 2 i?i Berlin you will find a card index. - system which recites every fact con nected with each one of your con < cetns that can be of any possible value to your-rivals over there. "The head of that system in this j country for years before the war was . Dr. Hugo Schweitzer, president of the Bayer Company. He was given his secret service number by the imperial minister of war?963,192,637. He came to this country, became a citi zen on the instruction of the German government, eventually was made the head of the Bayer Company, and Jed the espionage and propagandists movements here down to the day of his sudden death in November 1917. "Schweitzer was the inventor of the idea of the purchase of the New York Evening Mail. Schweitzer was the inventor of the idea of the Ger man Publication Society. Over 30. trained chemists, his lieutenants are! now-interned." Assertinf Dr. Heinrich F. Albert, conii?ercial attache of the German embassy in Washington had turned o^er, ^aboJt $1,500,000 to Schweitzer, Mr. Garvan said the latter had form ed, the chemical exchange, by which aH available phenol supply in Amer ica was turned away from the mah . -^on?actm^ picric acid for e^losTe-eftl for. ta# allies with a . profit out of America's pocket to Germany of 850,000. In* praising Schweitzer's work, Al bert is quoted by Mr. Garvan as say ing "No one should picture to him self what a military coup would be accomplished by an army leader if he should succeed in destroying three railroad trains of 40 cars, containing .4,500,000 pounds of explosives." J?ifr. Garvan added ? the Germans "Ifoped to corner" bromine, produced i only here and in Germany, and deadly in its effeit whei combined with nitric ga?k "At Bogotta, N. J., in the New Jer sey Agricultural Chemical Company Dr: Schweitzer employed Dr. Walter ScHeele, who was the inventor in that little town of New Jersey in 1913 of mustard gas, the formula of which he. transmitted through Captian von Pafcen to Germany as soon as the war broke out." continued Mr. Garvan. "This is the mustard gas which laid low your brothers on the plains of France." Investigation Completed Findings as to University Mat ter to be Reported May 7 Columbia, April 29.?Investigation into the affairs at and the condition of the University of South Carolina was completed today by the organ ization committee of the board of trustees of the institution, composed of Governor Cooper, L. P. Hollis. of Greenville, and D. R. Coker. of Harts ville. The committee put the better part of two days into their work. The investigation was the result of a petition, signed by 16.? students of the university, recently filed with the board of .rustees, asking for the dis missal of Dr. William Spenser Cur rell, president of the institution, be cause, alleged the petition, he was temperamentally unfitted to remain as its executive and would throttle its growth. A statement as to the outcome of the investigation will be presented to a full meeting of the board of trus tees, called for Wednesday, May 7, by Governor Cooper, ex officio chairman. The statement will be prepared by Mr. Coker, who will transmit it to Gov- j ernor Cooper and Mr. Hollis for ap proval or amendment. The governor stated today that the members of the committee had agreed on the sam nt parts of the statement, which proba bly will be made public through the , press when passed on by the: board j at its meeting next Wednesday. These are all sorts of slackers but ! the worst of the tribe is the man who i has money and refuses to lend it to j the government oecause he can exact j usurious interest from less fortunate; neighbors. Lots of rich men wh<? imagine they are leading citizens and think they have the respect - of the .people are marked down as tight wads and slackers . by their ? fellow citizens. ? Government To Sell Shipping interests Immense Plants Built Up in War Emergency to Go into Private Hands Washington. April 27.?Import ant steps toward disposing of the tre mendous shipping interests built up "by the government during the war were taken today in the creation by Director General Piez of a new sec tion of the emergency fleet corpora tion designed to supervise the dispos al of millions of dollars worth of in vestments to private concerns. The new section will be known as the plant disposal section, with B. E. Grant, engineer of the shipyard plants division, in charge. Sale of the cor poration's interests in wood yards, concrete wards, steel yards, and fabri cating plants will be effected under Mr. Grant's direction, with a view to putting the immense shipbuilding plants into private hands as going concerns so they may continue for the benefit of the economic welfare of the communities in which they are locat ed. Termination of the war brought about cancellation of contracts wich wood yards and these will be the first ! interests to be placed on the market by the new section. Big Mass Meeting j In Rome Solemn Oath Taken to Insist Upon Demands Rome, Monday, April 28.?Demon strations in Rome today in support of the government's stand on the Adri atic question culminated in a great mass meeting, convoked by Prince Co lonna, the mayor, on the Capitoline Hill. The citizens at the meeting adopted unanimously a resolution ask ing the annexation of all territory given to Italy by* the treaty of Lon don and also Fiume. The resolution also urged the government to remem ber the "sufferings and hope of Spala to and Trau." The assemblage took a solemn oath to remain united as the famous Capi toline bell was rung. Prince Colonna presided at the meeting and munici pal officials attended. A procession afterward went to the Quirinal, where the King and Queen appeared on the balcony of the palace. With them were soldiers who had been wounded during the war. The crowd cheered and cried "Fiume! Dalmatia." England Sends Envoy to Italy Lloyd George Takes Steps to Conciliate Signor Orlando -Paris, April 29 (By the Associated Press)?The British prime ntinister has again intervened in the Italian situation by sending one of his trust ed associates to communicate person ally with Premier Orlando at Rome. While the desire is to conciliate Signor Orlando, yet the premier is advised against the inclusion of Fi ume under Italian control, as likely to make a settlement difficult if not impossible. The person bearing the message was a member of the Asquith cabi net with Mr. Lloyd George. Salary of League's Secretary ? Virtually Decided to Meet inj Washington Next October Paris, April 29.?The salary of Sir Eric Drummond. secretary of the! league of nations, is to be $25,000 j yearly, with a similar amount for} the expenses of the office, including! the clerical staff, according to the; representative of Reuters Limited in j Paris. It has been virtually decided that | the first meeting of the league shall J be held in Washington next October. Pisgah News and Views. Pisgah, April 25.?Crops have! about all been planted and notwith-j standing the wet weather the first of the year the land has been thorough ly prepared. The cold spells have severely injured the fruit crop and tender vegetation has ben nipped and cut down. The small grain crop is not as good as last year and not so much will be made. Gardens generally are very good. Some people have cabbage to eat. Last year there was a dearth of win ter greens. Hardly think it will be repeated. Labor is more plentiful than last year but much higher. It is bad that these loafing negro soldiers can't be put to work. They go about like they owned the world, telling big lie*s about what they did to lick the Ger mans. Officially peace has not come and Washington's advice is being seen ev ery day. Maybe President Wilson will see after awhile that a league of na tions to keep a world's peace is an im possibility, for the Scriptures say there wiil be "wars and rumors of wars until the end of time."' It is a pity our nation is mixed i up with European broils. From in- j dependence to now we had only two main foreign wars. That with Eng land in 1812, in which she got her second licking and that with Spain in behalf of Cuba, a righteous war. She too got her spanking. The one with Mexico in 1S47 and other little bruslies were mere breakfast bites. To say that Germany could come here and whip us if she won is mere baby prattle and suitable for intellects of that kintl. Miss Sadie Rogers has returned home after a pleasant visit with friends at Providence. Miss Madge Rogers is visiting at Rembert. The 30th Division Plans for Permanent Estab lishing at Camp Jackson War Department plans for the per manent establishment of the 39th Di vision at Camp Jackson are well un der way. This division, the continu ation of the old Hickory Division, is to belong to the Carolinas and Tennes see and is to be recruited up to full I peace strength from among the young jmen of these States. It is hoped by (the authorities that this Division will ! husband the glorious traditions of the old Thirtieth and that the support of he people of its home States will be as spontaneous as in the past. The Forty-eighth Regular Infantry has already been designated as of the Thirtieth Division, and is busy recruit ing to its full strength from the men of the overseas organizations that are constantly returning to Camp Jackson for demobilization. These men are just the men for the job, it is said, both because of their splendid record in France and because nearly all of them are residents of the States that are regarded as the home of the Thirtieth. *' Though not fortunate enough to ; go overseas, the Forty-eighth Infan i try has had a highly important role j and an enviable record all during- tbe ! war. It was selected as the regiment to guard the Port of Embarkation at Newport News, Va., under Major Gen eral Grote Hutchison; who was award ed a distinguished service medal for j the efficient work done at that port in getting men, overseas. In Septem ber, 1918, the regiment became a part of-the Twentieth Division, at Camp Sevier, and waj training for overseas service when the armistice was sign ed. Since then it has been doing gar rison duty at Camp Jackson. The 48 th Infantry is and always has been a live regiment. Its football team defeated all comers at Camp Se vier last fall; its baseball team at present leads 'the Camp Jacken league. Of equal interest to all are the fully equipped athletic teams of each company, and the rivalry be tween them adds spice to the sol dier's life. Keen competition is also beginning to be felt in the coming target practise. But all is not play for the doughboy. Drill has been re duced to a minimum, of course, but the War Department intends to offer an hour or two a day of vocational training to guide those who wich to I improve their leisure time in learn ing a trade. More than a school, ! more than a club, the peace-time ' army is a home for its members. Well administered company funds provide a first class mess for every -company, with recreation rooms furnished with pianos, talking machines, pool tables, ilbraries, and. other amusements. YOUTH LOSES LIFE. Claude Fleming Loses Balance and ' Fails to Death in Water WheeL ? ? . ? .' ? ? .Anderson, April 30.?Claude Flem ing, 19 year old dynamo tender at the Southern Public Utilities Company power station at Gregg's Shoals, met a horrible death Tuesday afternoon when he stepped through a hole in a bulkhead and fell into the water behind the trash screens and was sucked into the water wheel of one of the turbines. The accident oc cured about 5.30 o'clock and the body was recovered 40 minutes later, when .'the water in" the lake had been re leased and a crew went down into the 'turbine to find the body. Young Fleming was the son of W. C.Flem ing of Abbeville and had been em ployed by the power company for some time at Gregg Shoals. Large audiences saw the moving pic ture "The Price of Peace," but few of them were favorably impressed | with the exhibition. I Copenhagen, May 1.?The ring of' [government troops is closing around! ; Munich, according to Berlin dis-J i patches.. The villages of Schongou Tand Umfing have been captured from I soviet forces without loss. They are about forty miles northwest of the 1 city. Germans Need Leather Coblenz, March 20.-?Among the Germans in the American occupied j area, leather is nearly as greatly inj demand as butter, bacon or soap. At! Kesselheim, on the Moselle, recently a servant girl was held up -at the point of a gun by a German and compelled to take off her shoes and giw them toj him. (Cotton Killed in The Piedmont Cotton Association Request Farmers Plant Corn Instead Columbia, April 27.?A statement given out by the South Carolina Cot ton Association says that reports by {representatives from (the Piedmont 'section indicate that all cotton in i that section that was up had been j killed by frost which fell on Friday land Saturday night; that it would be '-necessary to replant all of the crop ithat was up. The statement is to the j effect that frost was general over the j Piedmont section! An urgent appeal j is made by the association to the I farmers whose cotton was killed not to replant cotton but to plant corn in stead. "The farmer who plants cotton is taking two big chances," says the statement. "The first the possibility of having labor to cultivate the crop and to pick it. The second is in be ing able to secure a price for the staple next fall that will be any I where near the cost of the produc tion. "The labor situation is extreme ly acute over the State, and in fact. : over the entire cotton belt. It bids 'fair to become even worse. I "Corn- is much easier to cultivate I than cotton. It requires less labor. jCorn is bringing a splendid price now land bids fair to continue to bring a Igood price. Europe has gone back on jwar rations. The chances are that ? bread is going to be scarce for many, many months to come. The price of I corn will therefore be very high, j Europe is unable to buy both bread j and clothes. It has to have bread, it j can get along some how for many J months without more clothes. It has I to have bread. A big cotton crop this I year means a repetition of the condi ! tions in the South that prevailed in j 1914. The farmer who goes ahead jand plants as much cotton as ever is j flirting with disaster." i. 5* . jBritish Get Out of Fiume ?' ? Geneva, Aprli 28 (By the Associat jed Press)?The battalion of British r troops which occupied Fl .ne with I the Italians after the armistice, left i Fiume when the Italian delegates to 11he peace conference left Paris, ac cording to advices from Agram, capi tal of Croatia and Slavonia. The reason for this action by the British is reported to be a desire to avoid friction with the Italian troops. ! The despatch adds that the Ital (ians are reinforcing their troops in I Central Istria. Cotton Market LOCAL. P. G. BOWMAN, Cotton Bfe/er. (Corrected Daily at 12 o'clock Noon) Good Middling 27 1-4. Strict Middling 2G 3-4. Middling 20 1-4. Strict Low Middling 23 3-4. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. ^es'td'y Open High Low Close Close May . . 28.30 28.65 2s.12 2S.60 28.05 July . .26.40 26.91 26.33 26.91 26.2;" Get . . 25.05 24.53 25.05 24.4$ As the result of the closing of the stores yesterday afternoon from 3 to 5 o'clock while the 30th Division Spe cial, otherwise known as the Victory Loan Trophy Train, was at the A. C. L. passenger station, there was a very large crowd present to hear the speeches delivered by . Congressman Lever and the Victory Loan cam paigners. There was nothing es pecially striking or inspiring about any of the speeches; but they all did the best they could to work up en thusiasm and to impress upon the people that it is their duty to sub scribe for bonds as long and as often as the government calls upon them to do so. Which fact most people know and will admit when cornered, but upon which comparatively few act up to the limit of their ability. The crowd was very evidently more interested in the war trophies on the train than in the speeches, but there were so many people present and i the time left after the speeches so I short that ?iot many had an oppor t jnity to make an intelligent inspec tion of the contents of the train. Mid-Summer Display of Millinery A most attractive assortment of large black hats in combinations of Moline and Jet or feathers whch is suitable for after noon and evening. WHITE MILANS IN ALL SHAPES Braid and georgette crepe combinations in all the pasted shades? MISSES WADE Second Floor McCollum Bros. Sri Redpath Chautauq?? 4 \ Mme. Lenska, Grandt 1 Opera Singer, has scored notable successes in New York, Chicago and European Musdca1 Centers. / ALSO THE ? Great Lakes String C?mm \ Foot Musicians of attainment . ^ who accompanied President j Wilson on two voyages across i :j the Atlantic on the IL S. Jv - George Washington. 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