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Urges Formation of Cotton Ex ports Corporation By - ? Southern Men ALL PLANS IN READINESS j , FOR ORGANIZATION General Reduction Estimated 20 Per Cent, Cut in Fertilizer 30 to 50. New Orleans, May 15.?After an address late today by Governor W. P. ? G. Harding, of the Federal Reserve Board, in which he urged cotton in terests in the Southern belt to "get together" and support the formation ^of a $100,000,000 cotton exports cor - poration, delegates assembled here to consider plans for such an organiza tion, were told that a proposed char ter, for the concern, would be sub mitted to them at once. The announcement came after a conference betweeen Mr. Harding ?and the full committee empowered to draft the charter. - ? Mr. Harding" declared in his ad dress that the cotton interests of the South would, by establishing the ex ports corporation, "be doing not only a great thing" for themselves but for their country, which he said at thii time "needs your support." Pointing out that there is small chance for further governmental aid, Mr. Harding said there is a splendid chance for the South to progress on its own initiative and ability. The war finance corporation, he said, should prove of assistance to the cot ton corporation, provided the new concern-is soundly financed and ably managed. "The war finance corporation." Mr Harding declared "can loan funds only on good security and it expects to get back every dollar it pays out "Requests for assistance are cer tain to be- heavy from many and va ried interests, and the nature o things is bound to be a long waiting list after the door is shut." The speaker ^ read an interview quoting Frank , A. Vanderlip, of the National City Bank, New York, to the effect that conditions in Europe art badly unsettled and likely to continue so for a long time. "America," continued Mr. Harding *'must do the world's financing ur.tr the word gets back on its feet. We have become the creditor nation o; the world and the net credit to us is approximately $100,000,000,000 today. The .volume of domestic commerce is.bound to exceed foreign trade bw foreign trade is the best index to ou: prosperity. "Gratifying as these figures ma} be from a feeling of national pride they confer a solemn obligation upor ua It is very necessary for us to con tinue and expand our foreign trade Conditions in Europe are chaotic. We also have the problem of the return ed soldier and the reopening of /plants formerly engaged in war pur poses." . Mr. Harding concluded by saying that ordinarify the floating of a $100,000,000 corporation, to be finan ced in the South, would seem a gi gantic problem, but he averred it is "entirely practicable, if we get to gether among ourselves." The value of export cotton, he said ought to be $1,000,000,000 a year. The general reduction, it was esti mated, would be about twenty per cent. Use of fertilizers, the report: showed, are reduced from thirty to fifty per cent in States where it i: Used. The crop is estimated to be between twenty and thirty days later. The following figures were giver, from official reports furnished the committee by State commissioners oi agriculture: Texas, 2*0 per cent reduction; Georgia, 20.5; 'North Carolina, 20.2. South Carolina, 26.1; Tonnessee, IS: Mississippi, 15, and Louisiana, 15 tc 20. No official reports were received from Arkansas and Oklahoma. Commissioner Frederick W. Davis, of Texas, commenting on the agricul tural situation in his State, said acre- J age in wheat and oats there has in^j creased "enormously;" that on land ! where cotton formerly was grown j nothing now could be seen but fields i of grain. Many fields, he declared.! are producing 100 bushels of oats to I the acre. Prepared For Emergency j Allies WjH Permit no Material j Modification of Treaty _ i London. May 17.?Earl Curzon, government leader in the house of lords, speaking at ihe Primrose! League, said, if Germany refused to j sign the peace treaty the allies were! not unprepared for every emergency [ and would permit no substantial mod- j ification of the treaty. Allies at Smyrna Naval Forces Concentrated There to Take Over Admin- I v1 istration ! Paris. May 16.?Extensive allied naval concentration has begun at] Smyrna in connection with the man-j date to Greece to administer the I city. i Athens, Wednesday. May 14.?Greek I forces landed today at Smyrna, the j news being received here with great I enthusiasm. <? Navy Officials Keep in Touch With Trans-Atlantic Fly ers Enroute to Azores THREE SEAPLANES MADE -RECORD TEViE r They Followed the Prescribed Course and Were Reported at Intervals by Destroyer Patrols Washington, May' 17.?Cryptic ra diograms from the seaplane division on its way to Europe, picked out of the air by the naval radio station at "Bar Harbor, Me., indicated that the planes were in the vicinity of the destroyer Thatcher, at station No. 9. nearly 500 miles-from Trepassey Bay soon after midnight. The three machines left Trepassey at 6 o'clock last night and were of ficially reported as passing Station Ship No. G, 300 miles out, a little more than 4 hours later, and the next report of progress was the messages reported by Bar^Harbor. The Bar Harbor station sst a hew ^record in catching the signals of the "planes at a distance of mere than a thousand miles. The XC-1, flagship of Comndr.. John H. Towers* aerial fleet, was" calling the Thatcher in the i message the Maine station overheard. Navy officials assumed that the Thatcher was still ahead of the air planes which have passed other de stroyers in the long line closely bunched and all making speed in ex cess of the 60 mile rate, they had ex pected to maintain. If no accident in terferes, it was said, early this morn ing there is every reason to expect the planes will reach Fonta Del Gada '.round midday today. The most dif ' ficult leg of the whole trip from ? Rockaway Beach, _. I., to Plymouth. England, was more than one-third ' covered when the signals from the ; NC-1 were intercepted. The planes were making tonight 1 the only portion of the trip that wil require them to fly in darkness. Ap parently they were keeping dead or their course down the long lane oi destroyers which were dropping as jtern of them swiftly as they sped east ward cn their epochal journey. Washington .May 16.?The Ameri can naval seaplanes enroute on the j first attempt to reach Europe from America by air passed Station Shir : No. 6, the destroyer Ward, 300 miles from Trepassey Bay, at 2.05 Green wich time, 10.05 p. rn., Washington time, according to a massage receive'" late tonight by the navy department. The dispatch to the navy depart ment was sent by the war ship to the U. S. S. Prairie at Trespassey Bay j which in turn relayed it by radio tc St. John's, N. F.. whence it reached j Washington by cable and telegraph The means of sending they message back indicated that the U. S. S. Arocstook already had left Trepas sey and that the destroyer line be hind the swiftly flying planes was rapidly breaking up. A delayed message over the same j route said the planes had passed sta ! tion ship No. 3 at 8.03 p. m., flying with 12 minutes' difference between the passing'of the first and the las of the trio. The NC-1 was leading when station ; ship No. 3. the destroyer Bucannan. j was passed. Navy officials estimated the speed made by* the seaplanes division up to the time they passed station ship No. 6 at 70 miles an hour. At this rate they would reach Ponta del Gada about on the schedule of 19 hours, or 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon (Wash ington time). j The radio station at Bar Karbor; I Me., intercepted direct messages from two of the seaplanes shortly after J midnight. One message pic-~ed up a? (12.27 o'clock was from the NC-1. call- i ?; ing station ship No. 9, approximately I j 500 miles from Trepassy Bay. j The first message from the Bar j Harber station to the navy depart-1 j meat said: "At 12.10 a. m. heard the NC-? j sending on four fifty metre, sav: I 'Passed 414.' Signal verv weak." I Ir was not certain at the depart- j f ment what the figures ,4T4* meant. ; I The second message read: "At 12.2$ i I heard the NC-5 'oil Cape Race (Brit-I I ish radio station): 'Am. receiving in-j terference. Go .'.-head again.*" "At 12.27 heard the NC-1 call No. 9 and cay: "Answer:* *' j Officials here said that tlvs inter ception of communication between I the planes and destroyers by the Eai Harbor station at a distance of ap proximately 1.000 miles broke all rec- j ords for radio communication^of this nature. Vote on Treaty German Government Plans to Hold Plebiscite on Peace Terms _ j Berlin. May 17.?The German gov-I ernmens has arranged for plebiscite, ii j the allies refuse to make concessions! in the peace treaty, according to the Zeitung Am Mittag. j Italy Relinquishes Claim - Withdraws Demand for Aegean; Islands in favor of Greece j Paris. May 17.?-Italy has relin-j quished her claims to the Dodocanese . Islands in favor of Greece, thereby!, ending one of the acute controversies before the peace conference. Member of Peace' Mission Ad mits That Germany Cannot Escape Signing Treaty HELPLESS IN HANDS OF ALLIES "On the Ground, With Your Knees on Our Stomach and Thumbs in Our Eyes." Versailles. May 6.?The distinct impression that is prevalent among some of the subordinate members of the German peace mission that the I Germans will sign the treaty is re flected in a remark of one of the sec retaries who is quoted as saying: i "What else can we do but sign'.' W I are on the ground, your knees are on ! our stomachs and your thumbs in I our eyes." tU tlr mi Democratic Members Being Hide Bound by Precedent Se lect Clark for Leader OUTLOOK FOR PARTY IS VERY DARK If the Party Had Able and Pro i gressive Leadership It Might Do Something. Washington. May IT.?The Demo cratic members of the new house today smoothed out their differences which threatened to develop a tight on Champ Clark for Democratic house leader and at the party conference the former speaker was chosen ioi leadership by acclamation. Governor Takes Action Child Welfare Commission Ap pointed for South Carolina Columbia, May 10.?Goy. Cooper has appointed a child welfare com mission for South Carolina, at the re quest of the State Board of Charities and Corrections, under the direction of and in conjunction with which the work of the commission will be car ried on. The members, who are serv ing voluntarily and without compen I sation, are: - B. Harris, Commissioner of Agricul ture. Commerce and Industries; Mrs. R?th' A. Doda, children's bureau. State Board of Health, Columbia; j Walter B. Wilbur, president of the 'South Carolina Juvenil- League, (Charleston: Miss Sylvia -Allen, instruc jtor of the feeble-minded in tic- public j schools, Charleston; A. T. Jamison, j superintendent cf Connie Maxwell Or phanage. Greenwood; C. .7. Kimba?, judge of the juvenile court. Colum bia: T. Frank Wat kins, STa:e senator. Anderson: L. B.'Carrigan, member of the House of Representatives, Society Hill; Mrs" W. c. Caihcarf, secretary, j Children's Home Society, Columbia, and John L. Davis; director. Cnited I States Employment Service, Ccium bia. Cotton Seed Market State Food Administration Ac tively Interested in Finding Market for Unsold Seed i\ ithm the past month mere has been considerable activity in the cot tor, seed market and a great deal cf the seed left in the .hands of the tarmers has been taken by the mills, i It is stated that exec pi in the middle j and eastern counties cf liie Sta*e lit-] tie seed remains in the hands of! farmers ana stivers, in Sumter. Lee..| Clarendon and tb Pee pee count:er j there is Mill a Largo unsold surplus! of seed. A rsprcsontative of the State fond admimstVat ion Is now making aj tour of Lhvestig'ation of the eastern i section of the State and In- was in the! city Thursday night. He stated that the demand f-oi seed is now more j active, and that the food administra-j tion is doing (\ orythiog? within its] pow ?:? to bring the farmers and seed buyers who have unsold seed on hand and tie- mills that are in the market] aid also that in thej ends in this vicinity ke all of ; he seed of-1 e possible find a together. H event that t.: are unable to fered it weak market in near-by States. He asked! ih.-.t tin- newspapers publish an ur^r-j eat re'prest that ail farmers and seed I buyers who have seed for sale write! immediately to the S at - Food Ad-i ministratiom Columbia. S. G statine tb.- amount of :?? ??? d ?<:i hand, tb ? post office address and the shilling point! of ?!?.?.? seed owner, [f this is none once the Food Administrator will be in a position .o assist in finding an immediate market for tie- surplus seed. ! London. May LS.?Serious fighting ?! between Serbians and Croatians ati Agram. the Croatian capital is report j: cd in a Vienna dispatch to the Ex-M change Telegraph. Many are report-?! eel killed. ? < I - ! Associated Powers Will Be Re quired to Ratify the Treaty With Germany TEXT NOT YET MADE PUBLIC (The Full Treaty Will Be Pub lished in Installments Begin | ning Probably Tonight. I - Paris. May 16.?The German peace I treaty, it developed today, contains a ! clause not yet made public, providing ; for its ratification by Germany and I three of the principal associated j powers. The text of the German treaty will probably be made public by installments. Jt is reported that the financial und boundaries sections of the document will be released to night. Holy See Expresses Opinion on Plan For Church Unity EPISCOPAL BISHOPS RE CEIVED BY POPE Cardinal Gospari Papal Secre tary of States Discusses Church Unity Home, May 17.?Pope Benedict yesterday received five American Episcopal bishops and cordially thanked them fer their call. Cardinal Sasparri, papal secretary of State, talked with them and said ' rather than a reunion of Christian churches. Lhe Holy See aims at the unity ofithe church, which, in the opinion of Rome, can only occur by all return ing to the Catholic church." Want Vaughn Examined i _ j Grand Lodge Odd Fellows Pe titions Governor Cooper L - i j Columbia. May I"..:?A resolution j calling for an investigation into the j mental condition of T. U. Vaughn, j former superintendent of the Odd Fel | .lows' Orphan home at Greenville, who [was convicted some years ago of stat utory criminal assault on one of the I girl inmates, while he was' head of j the institution, was adopted at yes terday's session of the Grand Lodge ! of South Carolina Odd Fellows' meet ling here. Following his conviction and sentence to be electrocuted, a 1 commission of alienists examined Vaughn at the State penitentiary here, a.ai, .'Kling upon their report, the condemned man was placed at the State Hospital for the Insane for ob se ration. Governor Cooper i'; called upon to hav< the examination made. and. if [Vaughn is declared sane, to see that i lie is electrocuted. Copies of ike pe j tition, which are to be filed with the Governor and Samuel M. ''.Volte. At t j romey General, had not been receiv i ed by them up to this afternoon. Thr resolution war offered by Cole Li Blease. former Governor of south Carolina, and only cue member is said to have opposed it. The resolution reads: "Be it resolved; That we respect-j fully petition the governor to inves tigate personally or appoint physi cians, who arc not residents of or who are nor. connected in any way with j the State Hospital for the insane, to j make a. thorough and competent <??'?-] amination of the present mental con-: dition of T. U. Vaughn, and if he. the governor, finds Vaughn a proper sub ject that he see that the mandate of the court is carried out."' Birmingham is Headquarters! Southern Baptist Educational! Hoard Organized Atlanta. Ca.. May 17.?The newly j create;! educational board of the Southern Baptist convention will *>ej local: .-' at Birmingham, with Rev. -I. J W. GJothiin. of Louisville. Kentucky.!, as its executive head, a.-: the result of the action of ihe convention here ?0 da v. Appeal to Pope Episcopate Petition Him to Usej* Influenc to Mitigate Peaceji Terms Rome. May 17.?In response toj the petition Crom tin- entire German! - Episcopate begging ids good offices in ! securing the mitigation of tin- peace terms. Pope Benedict has taken :tens to communicate with the heads ->f one of the important peace dcle-|c nations with a view of getting the!] conditions modified. -\ BUILDING MATERIAL Build Now Production depends on Construction U. S. Dept. of Labor W. P?. Wilson Secretary Rough and dressed lumber, brick, lime, cement, plaster shingles; in fact everything for the builder. BOOTH & McLEOD, INC Legislation to Be Considered by Special Session of Con gress Agreed Upon APPROPRIATION BILLS TO BE FIRST Then Follow a Number of Other Important Measures Includ ing Budget System. Washington, May 1G.?The legisla J tion to be considered by the house j immediately after the annual appro priation bills are disposed of was agreed upon today by the Republican steering committee, subject to the approval of the conference of Repub lican representatives tomorrow night. The program includes the imme diate repeal of the tax on semi-luX uries. legislation for the return of telephone and telegraph companies' to private owners, railroad legislation, deter miration of the national shipping policy, passage of the woman suffrage amendment, inauguration cf the budget system, means for reducing the government expenses, tariff leg islation, measures benefiting returned soldiers and sailors. Charleston Political Row Petition of W. Turner Logan to Open Citib Rolls Denied Columbia. May 15.?The State Su preme Court, in an order signed by Chief Justice Eugene B. Gary this afternoon, refused to grant the pe tition of W. Turner Logan, of the firm cf Grace & Logan, attorneys of Charleston, ashing that the tem porary restraining order issued by rhe court yesterday prohibiting the Dem ocratic executive committee and the city convention of the City of Char leston from performing i;s functions ' be so- modified that the scheduled en rolment of the voters of Charleston ; could begin May 20th. The following is the text of the pe tition to modify the injunction: ??The petition cf your petitioner re spect fu 11 y shows: "(a) That heretofore, to-wit. mi the 14 th day of .May. 1919, the peti tioners-plaintiffs herein filed their netition for a writ of ceriiorari here in, and obtained, pending tbe return upon tbe rule of this honorab!" court to show cause why said writ ceriio rari should not issue, directed to the defendants-respondents herein, a tem porary Injunction ordering and re straining, among other tilings. the chairman, vice chairman or members of the city Democratic executive com mittee of Charleston. S. C. from j meeting or taking any action as such. "(b) That the rule herein was is sued as not returnable-until May 23, 1010. That pending such return the defendants-respondents, their agents md servants of the Democratic party, [having arranged under the rul^s. con stitution and laws governing such '.matters, for tbe opening of the club ??oils in the various ward clubs in the City of Charleston r>n May 20, 1010. which is the exact date fixed by law for such procedure, assuming that the election is to bo held on August 12. 1913. which is the (bit.; fixed under the cons*itution and rules of the city Democratic executive committee in compliance with lav.-, are prevented and would be prevented Crom starting ?a motion the machinery of election if relief is nor granted against the temporary restraining order herein, modifying it to such an extent as to : ermit the opening of said club rods, etc.. fur tbe purpose of registration, cn the day named. "Wherefore your petitioners pray that the temporary restraining order heretofore issued be modified as above set forth." Meet Austrian* Monday!; Ceremony of Presenting Cre- t dentials Will be Held h j Paris, .May 17?The Exchange of credentials between the Austrian peace delegation and rcpresntatives of 1 the allies will take place Monday. Five Billion in Gold istria Will Have to Pay Keavi- it, ily for War on Civilization j l _ j:. Paris. May 17.?The indemnity jv rlause of the Austrian peace treaty!a )royie,es for five billion marks gold'o vithout bond. t< iCOTTON GROWERS I FORM COMPANY - Adopt Plans for $100,000,000 Export Corporation to Market Crop POWER TO ACT IN ANY STATE j Concern Will be Authorized to j Begin Business When Fifty j Millions is Subscribed. - [ New Orleans, May 15.?Southern I cotton growers and affiliated inter J ests from the entire Southern belt, at ! a conference here tonight unani | niotisly adopted plans submitted to I them for the formation of a $100, .' 000,000 cotton exports corporation, and the" organization of a permanent j corporation to be known as the j Southern Cotton Association, j The adoption of the plans for or ! ganizaticn of the permanent cotton j association followed approval of the i proposed exports corporation. Minor (differences marked the convention re jgarding certain clauses of the charter j for the exports concern. But these were cpaickly, ironed out and unani mous apprc-'al was given amid cheer ing and applause which continued for' several minutes. The exports corporation, under its j constitution, wilLnot engage in buy j ing and selling cotton for its own ac ! count for exports business. Capital [stock was reduced from $100 to ?50 j so the small farmer might buy a share I with a liberty bond. The., authorized capital stock of the corporation is fixed at $100.000,000 all common stock. The concern, howev er, will be authorized to begin busi-. j ness when the amount of capital istock subscribed reaches $50,000,000 (and when $20,000,000 shall have been paid in. The charter will give the corpora tion power to act in any State, terri tory or possession of the United States, or any foreign country, as agent, trustee, broker, or consignee of others in buying, warehouseing, sell i ing and otherwise dealing with cotton products abroad. The American Cotton Association is designed to protect the interests of cotton growers in the entire Southern ? belt, and will take care of the prob lems growing out of domestic busi j ness entirely. Officers of the association probably will be elected tomorrow and plans for further incorporation of the ex ports concern. Germans Seek Trade Export Firms Answer Before The War Letters Troves. April 16.?To illustrate the German attitude toward the war ?s a mere artificial interruption of trade relations the following incident is cited by the chief Amerncan censor: ' A German firm in the American occupied area writes to a firm In New York, enclosing the Newj York firm's letter of June 6. 1914, and be gan in this manner?Tn reply" to yours of June 0. 1014. beg to state,' etc.'" At the American censor's office here, where all mail from the occu pied zone is passed upon before be ing sent on its way to the entente countries, an average of two thou sand letters a day written by Ger mans have been received, with indica tions of a gradual increase during the next few weeks. Dirigible Not Wrecked Picked Up at Sea and Being* Towed Back to St. John's % St. Johns. May 1th?United States taval dirigible C-3 is said to have >een only slightly damaged when she irokc from her moorings and drift ed to sea yesterday. She is reported :": tow of the destroyer Edwards on he way hack here today. &eady for Another Trial tfaval Seaplanes May Start A train for Azores To-day Tr< passey. May 16.?Seaplanes NC and NC-o and probably NC-4 will lake another attempt this afternoon o take the air on the second leg of he trans-Atlantic flight via the Azores le.chanics overhauled the NC-4 ?hich arrived last night from Halifax nd hope she will be ready to join the ther planes when a start is made late >day.