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Starch Factory Blows Up Cause of Accident Not Deter mined.?Twenty or More Persons Killed i Cedar Rapids. Iowa, May 22.?A |^core of persons were killed and a hundred injured in an explosion at r .the Douglas Starch Works tonight. Of the 150 men and boys who. had just gone to work in the night shift, few escaped injury or death. The en tire plant was burned by resultant fire which was confined to the Doug las plant The loss is, $3,000,000. The number of dead could not be estimated for some time by firemen, who began to extract dead and wounded from the debris hastily to avoid incinerating. So severe was- the explosion that persons were thrown from chairs a mile away. The cause of the acci dent could not be determined, but is thought to have been due to either a defective boiler or spontaneous com bustion. The blast blew in windows many blocks from the Douglas plant, and persons within office buildings suffer ed from the shattered glass. With the fire raging cries were heard coming from the drying room! of the plant but firemen were unable to cut their way in, and it was be lieved that the death toll would grow. Several discharged overseas soldiers : aided in the rescue work. Exposions from the oil rooms scat tered the burning wreckage and lire-, men were hard pressed to prevent the spreading of the flames to nearby, in dustries. Men covered with starch were tak en from the ruins by their comrades and many thrilling rescues were made. Some of the victims were stark mad and did not know what had hap pened One workman, his head cov ered with his own blood, insisted that he was not. hurt and that his rescuers should allow him to go back into the fire where it was warm. Water mains were cut by the force of the explosion, making the work of ?i firemen harder because of the lack of water. An engineer, who was blown out of the building, said he believed his boiler Itad exploded. Geneial Manager Lenders, who ar rived a: the plant a few minutes af ter the explosion, would advance no theory as to the cause. Every win down in the central part of the city was broken. Chimneys caved in on families; at the supper table and guests n the dining rooms of hotels were thrown from their chairs. A Chi cago traveling man dining' at thej Magnus Hotel had his nose cut almost off by broken glass. The front of the city hall and Y. M. C. A. building were shattered Ticket sellers in moving picture theatres were injured by fall ing' glass. ; The Red Cross established first aid stations near the wrecked plant and did all that was possible for the in . jured as they were brought from the wrecked plant. Frank Sodom an was taken out of the plant alive. His legs were blown off. He begged the crowd to kill him. When Will He Return? Speculation as to Date of President Wilson's Departure From France Brest. May 24.?President Wilson's ship, the George Washington, is not expected to sail before June 1st. Of ficials refused to say whether they have received orders from the pres ident. Six transports have sailed with six teen thousand troops including the last contingents of the SOth Division. Steamship Burned Bay Line Ship Virginia a Total \Loss Norfolk. May 21.?The steamer Virginia of the old Bay Line from Baltimore to Norfolk was burned to the water's edge off Smith Point, Chesapeake Bay. early this morning. The survivors were picked up by the other vessels. The steamer Virginia carried one j hundred and fifty passengers an 1 a . general cargo. The survivors reached i here this morning on other steam ers It is believed that three negro j firemen perished. Face Murder Charge ! - I Three Negroes in Laurens Jail j Accused of Serious Crime j Laurens. May 23.?Sheriff Reid has j made twb other arrests in connection with the murder of Wash Reeder at Clinton last Saturday night, Charley (Ferguson and Arch Pettis. negroes, being jailed after further investiga tion of the affair. It is stated officially j that Ferguson has admitted his eon-| nection with the killing of Heeder and ! in making his statement implicated j Pettis. who was arrested at Newber-1 ry, and Sam Rice, who was held un der suspicion from the time of the dis- i covery of the body in the sewer Sun- j day evening. All parties are negroes, i Reeder worked in a cafe and after j being paid off Saturday night he was struck down with a bludgeon, robbed and his body concealed in a sewer j opening. j Returns From Spa - German Delegates Kept Busy j Running Between Spa and Versailles Paris. May 24 (Havas)?Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the Ger man mission, and his colleagues con ferred yesterday at Spa witn Ger man leaders, and later left for Ver sailles, Methodist Fund Growing Best Proportionate Record is Achieved by Florence on Face of Returns Columbia, May 22.?The Methodist centenary missionary fund yesterday j showed an increase of S70.47S.70 in [ the South Carolina conference, ac ! cording: to reports received by Mr. Inland Moore yesterday. Florence district is leading both in amount and in percentage of contributions. j One interesting feature of the cam- [ paign is the number of individuals j who have contributed. A large per centage of the membership in the State has contributed, according to re ports from all sections. ! The Bennettsville church, though, has one large contribution. The allot ment for the church was between S15.000 and $20.000 and already $98. 000 has been subscribed, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Kirkwood contributing $00,000 of that amount. The campaign wii not close until Sunday, and to the last the effort will be made to carry the conference as far over the top as possible. The re ports yesterday were as foTiows: District Reported Total Charleston ..$7.475.60 $216,735.85 Sumter .. 5,779.00. 15S.800.00 Oangeburg . . 5,207.50 239,067.50 Marion .... 700.00 1S2.360.00 Florence .. 46,334.75 2 6S.508.25 Kingstree .. 4,918.85 183,437.35 Totals .. .$70,478,70 $1,25S.908.95 The allotments and percentages for the conference is as follows: District Allotment. PC Charleston.$169.200 128 Sumter. 152,400 110 Orangeburg. 173.100 14 0 Marion. 169.200 108 Floence.. .. 46,3f4.75 268.50*.25 Kingstree. 150,500 122 Beer Production Will Continue Federal Judge Grants Injunc tion in New York New York, May 23.?Uninterrupted production of "war beer" until the courts have passed upon the claims of the United States Brewers' Asso ciation that the beverage containing 2 3T4 per cent, alcohol is nonintoxicat ing was assured today when Federal Judge Mayer granted an injunction restraining government interference with its manufacture. The court declared that his decision had been influenced by President Wil son's message to congress recom mending repeal of the war time pro hibition act in so far as it relates to beer and wines, and by Federal Judge Hand's ruling hist week that the law placed a ban on the manufacture only of liquors that were, in fact, in toxicating. Judge Mayer said he would sign the injunction Monday. Athbugh United States District At torney ? Caffey, represent the govern ment, oposed granting an injunc tion. Judge Mayer said he believed such action would contribute to a fair settlement of the questions raised by the brewers under the emergency pro hibition act. The injunction, a tern- i porary one. would be effective, the , court said, pending review by the cir- j cuit court of appeals, or. if the gov- j ernment should decide to let it stand, j until the brewers' suit p.ermaently to enjoin prosecutions for manufacture of the 2 3-4 per cent brew, could be tried in the district court. District Attorney Caffney pointed out that if ix>ssible a decision on ap peal should be obtained before July 1, when prohibition of the sale of in toxicants becomes effective, unless congress follows the suggestion of the president for repeal or amendment of j th?? law. The injunction granted was in the suit of the Jacob Ruppert Brewing Company and is intended as a test case. ! Washington. May 23.?Since feder al authorities have not interfered with production of beer containing 2 3-4 per cent, alcohol officials here said tonight thai determination of the New j .York federal district court to issue an injunction against interference I would not have any immediate practi cal effect in the controversy over the legality of the brewing of the bever age. The government has contended that beer containing one-half of 1 per cent or more of alcohol was forbid den but has not taken active steps to stop brewing. ?rew**rs have been j warned that if the court eventually! hold the brewing of this beer ilb-gal they will be liable to prosecution. Ohio Dry To-night End of License Year Will Be Celebrated with Jchn Barley corn Parties Columbus, May 24.?Although con stitutional prohibition does not be come effective in Ohio until Tuesday, the State becomes, pacticaliy dry at midnight tonight, the end of the 15- i cense year Farewell parties for John Barley Corn will be given tonight in practically every wet center. The Bravest American Sergeant York of Tennessee Winner of Highest American and French War Honors Washington. May 24.?Sergeant Al vin C- York, of Pall Mab. Tenn.. , wearing the congressional medal of ! honor and the French war cross, with palm, called on secretary of War [:a | ker today, being introduced by Cnn j gressm.'in Flui!, of Tennessee. "Yuu iareabrave man. I congratulate y<K,." \ said Secretary Raker. After leaving ? the war department Sergt. York visit led the White House, meeting Secre jtary Tumulty. Trucks For State Roads Highway Engineer Makes Ap portionment Columbia, May 22.?J. Roy Pennell. State highway engineer, was advised j from Washington yesterday afternoon j that the first allotment of trucks to be used in building federal aided per manent highways in South Carolina were ready for shipment. In this initial lot there are 79 trucks of the following capacity and make: Two \ two ton Internationals and 11 three (ton Gramm-Bernsteins, Atlanta; 14 [three ton Aviation, Baltimore, and 52 1 two ton Nash quadruple drive, In- j Idianapolis. Immediately upon receipt ! of the telegram, Captain Pennell made j the distribution among the counties, where federal aid is being met for I permanent highways, and instructed the department of agriculture where j to have the trucks shipped at once, j The trucks shoujd be. delivered im- \ mediately. The highway department has received assurance that 296 trucks j to help in highway construction in ! this State are to be made available i as soon as possible. Nine counties do l not receive any of the present ship ment of trucks, as some of these counties have made no provision to meet federal aid. Several others are not yet ready for the trucks. The counties not included in the first al lotment arc: Abbeville. Anderson, Barnwell, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dar lington, Dorchester. Jasper and Marl boro. The following is the distribu. I tion: Aiken?Two three ton Gramm Bernstein, Atlanta. Allendale?Three three ton Gramm Bernstein, Atlanta. ? Bamberg?Two three ton heavy Aviation trucks, Baltimore. Beaufort?One two ton Nash quad ruple drive. Indianapolis. Calhoun?Two two ton Internation al trucks. Atlanta. Charleston?Two two ton Nash quadruple drive, Indianapolis. Cherokee?Three two ton Nash quadruple drive, Indianapolis. Chester?Two three ton Gramm Bernstein trucks, Atlanta. Chesterfield?Two three ton Gramm-Bernstein trucks, Atlanta. Colleton?One two ton Nash quad ruple drive, Indianapolis. Dillon?Two two ton Nash quad ruple drive, Indianapolis. ! Edgefield?Three two ton Nash quadruple drive. Indianapolis Fairfield?One two ton Nash quad ruple drive, Indianapolis. Florence?Two three ton heavy Aviation trucks. Baltimore. Georgetown?Two two ton Nash quadruple drive. Indianapolis. Greenville?Three two ton Nash j quadruple drive. Indianapolis. Greenwood?Two three ton heavy! Aviation true Baltimore. Hampton?three two ton Nash quadruple drive. Indianapolis. Horry?Three two ton Nash quad ruple drive, Indianapolis. Kershaw?One two ton Nash quad ruple drive, Indianapolis. ? Lancaster?Three two ton Nash quadruple drive, Indianapolis. Laurens?Three two t?n Nash quad ruple drive, Indianapolis. Lee?Two two ton Nash quad ruple drive, Indianapolis. Lexington?Three two ton Nash quadruple drive, Indianapolis. McCormick?Two two ton Nash quadruple drive. Indianapolis. ! Marion?Two three heavy Aviation j trucks. Balimore. Newberry?Two two ton Nash quad- i ruple drive. Indianapolis. Oconee?Two two ton Nash quad- j ruple drive. Indianapolis. Orangeburg?Two two ton Nash j quadruple drive. Indianapolis. Bickens?Two two ton Nash quad ruple drive, Indianapolis. Riehland?Two two ton Nash quad- j ruple drive.. Indianapolis. Saluda?Two two ton Nash quad ruple drive. Indianapolis. Spartanburg?Two two ton Nash quadruple drive. Indianapolis. . Sumter?Three three ton heavy! Aviation trucks. Baltimore. Union?Two two ton Nash quad ruple drive.. Indianapolis. Williamsburg?One two ton Nash, quadruple drive. Indianapolis. York?Two two ton Nash quad- j ruple drive, Indianapolis. j Quick Demobilization j More Than Sixty Per Cent of j Army Has Been Returned to ! Civil Life ? Washington. May 24.?Revised plans for the return of overseas forces provide for the sailing of all troops except the regular divisions by June the 12th. General March an nounced that more than sixty per cent j of the army has been returned to civil ! life. Cuban Molasses Wasted Apparatus Invented To Use It; As Fuel | _ i Havana. April 2">.?Great quantities | of molasses are wasted by the sugar! mills of Cuba. Attempts have been made to Utilize this waste product as fuel for the boilers of the sugar) mills and now. a Cuban inventor I claims he has invented an apparatus which will permit the use of the mo- ; lasses as fuel without choking the' furnaces. All the sugar mills produce more ' molasses than can be marketed and. it is asserted. twice the amount needed to furnish fuel for steam pow er. Riots in Bilboa Striking Spanish Workmen En gage Bloody Fights Paris. May 34.? Severe rioting oc-! ourred Friday at Bilbao. Spain, where; thirteen thousand factory workers arcj ?triking. according to a Madrid wire less message. Fire broke out durihjjH the rioting causing heavy loss. Cleaning Up Constantinople Allies Trying to Make Ancient Metropolis Into Modern City i _ ? j Constantinople, April (15 By Mail) ;?Constantinople is bein?- cleaned up I by the allies and soon it will be like j a Western European city. The re ! generation of Turkey is commencing with a general sanitary campaign in jwhich the American Red Cross Com mission to the Balkans has been ask ed to aid. "American sanitary engineers of the iGoethals type are badly needed cut j here," declared an American physi cian. "Sewage systems must be in stalled throughout the Near East in hundreds of towns. Constantinople must be cleaned up till it looks like la Swiss housewife's kitchen- Mosqui | to netting by the millions of bales j must be brought over. Local doctors ! do not believe in the screening of ?ick j beds or of hospital windows. They I must go to school again in their pro fession. Swamps and unhealthy val leys must be drained. The people must be driven out of the filthy cen ters of disease into the open countj-y where the sun can get at them ard where they can engage in healthy farm work. "Sometimes," said the Red Cross doctor, "I feel an iresistible desire to gather ten thousand of these unfor tum te wretches together, strip them of their crazy-quilt bundles of ver j min-infested rags, force them all into I a vast pertoleum pool, then into a great tank of clean water. I would ; give them one and all a pair of Amer ican shoes; a pair of overalls and a ' sweater. "The roads over which we are try ing, to get our automobiles, filled with Red Cross supplies for the underfed of central Serbia, arc quite impas sable. From Saloniki to Belgrade the roads arc lined with tens of thousands of skeletons and rotting carcasses of animals. Soldiers' graves, thinly screened with earth, skirt the high ways. No wonder there are dozens, of cases of typhus in every cijy in Serbia. "What the Near East needs is sev eral divisions of American plumbers, railroad men, sanitary engineers, doc tors, nurses, white wings, building contractors, druggists and prescription clerks, farming machine salesmen, I experienced cootie mill operators, army bakers and coat and pants sales men with East Side experience. The I first boatload to leave Toulon or New j York should contain the plumbers, de clared the physician. Irish Shut Out j _ j Were Denied Hearing at Peace Conference i I ? j Paris, May 24.?Representatives of American Irish societies elave to day, having failed to secure the as sent of British authorities for a hearing for Prof. -Devalera and other representatives of the Irish republic. Final Entertainment of the 1910 Chau tauqoa. The closing night at the Redpath Chautauqua was a real joy night. Al ton Packard, the humorist and car toonist, was the chief attraction. Mr. Packard kept the Sumter people laughing for two hours. Mr. Pack lard is an artist with a gift of humor and a keen insight into humorous na ture. His humor has a rare quality of being supremely humorous and may be best described as genial. Equally attractive was the Metropolitan Quartet in their grand concert. The personnel: Miss Hazel Silver, soprano: Mr. Waiter Peterson, tenor; Miss Esther Muenstermann. contralto; Mr. Curtis W. Johns, bass; Miss Laura Clenden I en, pianist. i The afternoon program was as fo! j lows: ? 1. Carmina?Quartette. ! 2. Loch Lomond. 3. Going to Press. Soprano Solo?""A Birthday"?Cow len?Miss Hazel Silver. I Encore?"The Americans Come"? I Fay Foster. I Solo by Mr. Curtis Johns?"Ma j cour \11 a "?McMurrow. Quartettes?"Red. Red Rose"? Lester: "The Verry Dance." Tenor Solo?"The Star"?Rodgers; "Jean"?Sprose?Mr. Peterson. Contralto Solo?"What's in the Air Today." Encore?"Three Little Chestnuts." ?Miss Muenstermann. "Voices of the Woods?Rubinstein. "Quartette from ftigoletto." Piano Solo?Chopin's Revolutionary Etude?Miss Clendenen. The chautauqua was a success in every way and the people of Sumter thoroughly enjoyed the week. Never before has the attendance been as large and never before have we receiv ed such favorable comment. The management was requested by the j government to put on certain subjects this year, such as the government ownership of railroads, etc. Next year! the program will include two or more; plays and promises to be even big- j ger rind finer than the one this year. The sale of season tickets amounted to more than ever before, being 1.029 adult. 197 high school and 194 chil dren's tickets. The Sumter Y. M. ! C. A. realised a fair sum. and desires|, to thank the people for their support I in making the 1919 Chautauqua aj success. To Plant Memorial Trees. _ i Washington, May 22.?At the coin-; mencemenl on June .16, old George town University will plant and dedi cate sixty trees in honor of her grad uates who gave their lives in the world war. The trees will be marked by the American Forestry Associa tion and registered on the national honor roll being compiled by the as-? sociation. As each tree is placed and the marker with the name put. around the tree a hero's name will be called out and while a Georgetown aviator cir- ! cles above. Irmo Safe Cracked Yeggmen Rob L?rick Company Of Money and Valuable Papers Irmo. May 23.-L?rick Com-j j parry's store was entered last night I by forcing the front door and the safe was blown open. Evidently two ex- \ plosions were necessary to get into the I safe, the outer door first being blown I off. A considerable sum of monev. I all notes and mortgages of recent! tfate. books of all recent accounts j and other valuable papers were tak-l en. A shop hammer," a small pipe wrench, a piece of pipe about 15 [inches long, a small chisel, a screw j driver and a pick were left near the Isafe. j Severalt persons were awakened by the explosions, but paid no attention to the reports. The work evidently was that of perhons* who have had some experience at safe cracking and some who must have beep well ac quainted with the contents of the safe, as all of the old books and notes were not moved from their places in the safe. Korea Criticises Japan Japan Was a Nation of Naked Savages When Koreans Were Civilized Seoul, Korea, April 4 (Correspond ence of The Associated Press)?Uni fication of the Japanese and Korean races is impossible, asserts the Or ganizing Committee of the independ ence movement in Korea in a state ment which it has issued setting forth the grievances of the Korean people against the Japanese. The two chief reasons for Korea's effort to obtain emancipation from Japanese rule are set forth by the committee as follows: "Korea is much the older of the two nations for it has a history of or ganized government extending over a period of 4,300 years. -During a part of that time Korea sent tribute to the court of China, but this was noth ing more than an outward expression of the relation between the Imperial families of the two nations. Korea was ever the sole possession of our Korean race and was never under the "-ual control of any foreign nation or government. "The Japanese nation is an entirely distinct race from the Korean. She is an island people and her naked ness of body and mind could be cov ered by the civilization she received from Korea and from China during the centuries of the past. Her cus toms, her literature, her very cloth ing came to her through Korea. Of late years she has added to these the face-powder of a Western civilization; thus sh^ becomes the whited sepulchre of the East. She gives no evidence of moral force, her actions toward our nation has proven her to be the em bodiment of cruelty. The evidence is complete that the unification of the Japanese and Korean races is an im possibility." What are described as "five con spicuous injustices on the part of Ja pan toward Korea" are summarized in the statement. The, committee as serts that although Korea aided Ja pan in the war against Russia, "the dog has bitten the hand of him who fed it." It is alleged that Japan has broken her promise to pay honor to the formerly Imperial family of Ko rea: that it is impossible for a Ko rean to obtain fair treatment in the courts when opposed to the Japanese; that liberty of speech does not exist I and that the Japanese arrested thirty three men who signed the manifesto of independence on March 1 last. Modern Farming in Classic Lands American Experts At Work in Island of Crete Crete. April 10.?American scien tific agriculturists are now completing a survey of the soil possibilities of Crete in the same thorough fash ion in which th^y surveyed the Greek mainland. American farming ma chinery and up-to-date methods are needed and arrangements have been | made to educate farmers of Greece I and Crete so that they can increase j their yield of crops. , Major C. G. j Hopkins, of the Illinois Agricultural j Department, and Lieutenant G. J. liouyoucos. a native Greek educated in America and a former instructor at Michigan Agricultural College, are in I charge of the American Red Cross ag-j ricultural survey of Greece and Crsie. iSljf Famous Plays Discarded Berlin, April 15.?The actors of the municipal theater at Dortmund com pelled the management to remove Schiller's "Maid of Orleans" and i Kleist's "Prince of Homburg" from J the theater's repertoire. on the j ground that "the noncomformity of i, the e plays with the spirit of the ar^j is an insult for modern theater-go^Jg and further because actors C;inn0'j?||8 called upon to play roles whose Jsjgjg tell'dual content is in opposi?^ with the actor's own views." j England's Housing Problem i - f London, April -2.?In many dis-! tricts. and particularly in Yorkshire where the dearth of houses is acute.! the practice of paying "key money" J is growing. So keen are prospective! tenants to get into a house directly it is vacant that as much as $50 to $100 is offered to the occupier for th? key, this transaction generally carry ing with it the understanding that the landlord will accept the succeed ing; tenant. Dirigible Balloon Establishes Record Brought to Stop on Top of Ho tel to Drop Two Passengers Cleveland, May 23?For the first time in the history of flying in Ameri ca a vehicle of the air was brought to a convenient stop in the heart of a lareg city when a dirigible balloon landed on the top of a prominent ho tel here this evening to permit two of its five passengers to alight. The 160 foot dirigible, the A-4, landed on a specially constructed platform thirty^ by thirty feet. The landing was; made * after many attempts. The balloon, piloted by James Shade, made the trip, from Winsfoot iLake, naval air station near Akron, approximately' 35 miles, in. a .little more than one hour despite the fact that it faced a still wind. .. ! R?lph H. Upson, world's champion j balloonist, winner of the last inter I national balloon race, which was held at Paris in 1913, and Maj. C. H. Maranville, flying instructor at the training station, were among tijte passengers. Bolsheviks on The Run I Campaign Against Petrograd Meets With Initial Success London, May 23.?The operations of non-Bolshevik forces against -Petro grad are having great and rapid suc cess, according to various reports , re ceived here from Helsingfors. T-he correspondent of The Dailyv Mail ,at the Finnish capital says that the Bolshevik resistance sems to be \ broken and that they have lost sev eral thousand prisoners and 30 guns. ; A great number of machine guns. and. live armored trains also were cap tured. A North Russian corps cooperating with the Esthonians successfully,-a^.i tacked the Bolshevik position at the Gatchina railway station (35 miles south of Petrograd). Thousands of Bolshevik soldiers in the Gatchina area and in the coast region west of Petrograd who sur rendered with their arms and ammu nition the correspondent adds sub sequently joined in the attack on their former comrades. It is reported in Helsingfors from Petrograd that the Bolsheviki are pre pared to defend the city and that all \ the workmen have been armed. The j defenders are said to number 390,000. ! The Bosheviki have '. begun the evacuation of Moscow, according., to reports brought from Petrograd to Copenhagen by travelers and for warded by the Exchange Telegraph ; Company. Typhus is raging in Mos ; cow and the situation there is con sidered desperate. The railroad lines between a num br of places in central Russia hayo been dismantled, the report says, in order to improve the main line serv ice out of Moscow. London, May 23.?On the Murmansk front in north Russia allied forces j have captured Medvyejayagora, at the northwestern end of Lake Onega, after a series of actions in which "the Bolshevik rear guard suffered severe ly, a statement issued by the British war office tonight says. The rapid retreat of the BolsheviKi, it is added, prevented them from seriously damaging the port works. The allies have occupied the heights surrounding the town. The Mongolian Revolt _ Japanese Deiry Charge That They are Implicated in Move ment Tokio. April 15 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?The Japanese government has issued a denial of re-, ports that Japanese are implicated in ' the Mongolian independence move ment. The statement characterises as a "gross canard" the charge that Jap* anese military officers are taking conjoint action with Colonel Semenoff and declares that from what Japanese military authorities ? have ascertained that Colonel Semenoff. the Cossack leader, emphatically denied all con nection with the independence move ment. Two leaders of the Mongolian In dependence Party arrived in Tokio in the latter part of April to inaugurate a movement for the political inde pendence of Mongolia and Manchuria and to unite those two Chinese prov inces in one State. Another Resolution Introduced Today Washington. May 23.?A resolution declaring it sense of senate that the covenant of the League of Nations, be separated from the peace treaty when it is submitted for ratification, was introduced in the senate today t)y~ Senator Sherman. Republican, from Illinois. Chinese Delegates To I Sign Peace Treaty Paris. May 23.?The Chinese dele gates to the peace conference, it is understood, have decided to sign the peace treaty, with reservations rela tive to Kiao ('hau and Shan Tung. Washington. May 24.?Chairir.ar. Fordney. of the ways and means com mittee, announced in the house today that committee hearings would be held soon with the view of a complete revision of the tariff, prior to which the committee would consider the repeal of various consumption taxes. Cedar Rapids. Iowa. May 23.?The death list at the fire and explosion yesterday of the Douglas starch plant here numbered ten today. Fourteen are listed as seriously injured ami many fatally.