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American Cotton Association Gives Facts in Detail f?; Regarding Crop 1919 ACREAGE IS 28,252,051 Investigation Shows Boll Wee vil! Conditions Most Serious on Record ? . . ? St. MatthewV June 26.?The fol lowing* report made by the American "/ Cotton Association Js probably the ?most accurate re~port ever issued on crop coriditi?ns~h?t being in ihe form of an estimate, as is the case wjihitet ?of an estimate, as is the case with the government reports, ? but being based tm actual facts and conditions. The American Cotton Association has a more thoroughly organized and larger representation in every section of the cotton belt todaj- than any private .reporters, and employs a far larger ' number of representatives- than the .: government. Through these personal ? representatives, and with the assist ance of leading experts, it has se eured the most direct and correct in formation that is possible to secure otherwise concerning the cotton crops. Through these sources, the associa tion has completed its detailed con dition report up to June 25, which is as follows: "Condition of cotton crop for the entire belt up to June 25, G?.2 per feent? Abandonment of acreage planted 6.5 per cent. In our last re port issus? May 25, acreage planted ,/*?tt 1919 is shown as ?0,216,097. The abandonment of 6.5 per cent must be deducted, ..that is 1,964,046 acres, which brings the total acreage in cot ton planted in 1919 down to 28. 252,051 ac*es. "The growing crop of cotton is two to three weeks late throughout the . belt As a result of excessive mois ture the plant is diseased and under sized. Plants show the result of a 'lack of tap roots and diseased root system." Throughout the section of the belt using commercial fertilizer, ?ute plant plainly shows the result of laf-k* of potash. The fields are very f -"Iiabor. is.extremely short and con ditions are highly unsatisfactory. The l?b?r situation renders these condi ,^ions even more serious. The great . demand for labor will be far more * pressing- in' the harvesting of the crop. The farmers realizes that he ^facing a condition which is im possible for him to solve. Even with an ex'tremely,small crop with present labor conditions it will be absolutely impossible, to harvest same without serious loss: "It has been impossible to prepare lands properly or to properly culti vate the plant on account of ex treme shortage of labor. "With reports that the boll weevil conditions were the most serious on record, special investigations were made by leading experts throughout the entire cotton belt. As a result they report as follows: ?i^TBoll "ive?vi:damage will exceed all previous records artd^jtvill. oovi>r^ar^fcrv greater territory in the belt than i: was thought possible during the pres ent year. This is probably due to a mild winter, wet spring and late start of the plant. The damage from the boll weevil will r?<luce the cotton crop to a far greater extent than in any previous year. Over a large section-of the belt inroads of boll weevil will bring about a crop dis aster. There is also considerable damage from root lice and root rot." The trade should give special at tention to the fact that considerable terttory, especially in Alabama., i? planted this year in cotton, which territory has absolutely been abandon ed for the planting of cotton for years on account of the serious in roads of the boll weevil. The unratis factory price for peanut oil resulted in the planting of tiics^ lands in cot ton this season. Reports show that the boll weevil is rampant in this ter ritory and the damage is enormous, and that the acreage so planted can not possibly swell the production oi' cotton to any extent. "The condition of the r^Ufornia crop being very high results in rais ing the general condition. The acre age planted in California being very small, it cannot affect production to any material extent. J. Skottowo Wannamaker. President American Cotton Associa tion. A Greenville Tragedy Man Shoots Two Neighbors; Then Surrenders Greenville, June 26.?Special: Ar crding to his own story, George S. Smith, aged forty-four, shot both John pnd Pink Gosnell, his neighbors, an Callahan mountain about 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon, then jumped into the saddle on his horse without wait to ascertain the extent of their j injuries and rode a distance of twen ty-five miles to Greenville to surre*- j der to the sheriff. Telephone messages! received. later in the night from the! remote home of the mountaineer were j to the effect that Pink Oosnel, agel about sixty, died almost instantly from his wounds, and that John Oos- ? nell. age twenty-two. was in u very i serious condition. The Hague. June 27.-Frederick William Hohen2011ern. former Ger man crown prince whose escape from Holland to Germany had been report ed, was still at his residence on the I Island of Weiringen this morning. This! was officially announced this after noon.5 ; Millions of Dollars Sent to United States to Finance Revo lution ATTEMPT TO DESTROY AMERICAN DEMOCRACY . .. j Congress At Last Begins to Rea lize the Danger That Menaces I Our Country j Washington, June 26.?Provisions i for vigorous steps by the federal government against bomb throwers j and other anarchists and radicals? ! declared by governmental officials to Ibe plotting overthrow of the govern ment, and spending $2,000,000 month !ly to that end?were made in the ? sundry civil appropriation bill as rc | ported today to the senate. Among I the measures recommended were large j additional appropriations for the de Jpartmentof justice and legislation I continuing permanently the war reg ? illations as to purchase, storage, I manufacture, sale and distribution ,>f ! explosives. j In reporting the bill the senate ap j propriations committee increased from i $ly400,00o to $2.000.000 the fund of j the department of justice for gener jal suppression of crime. In addition, jit added $300,000 for a special fund to [enforce the law against alien anar ; chists through deportations. The amendment added to continue the explosive regulation law -after dec laration of peace provides for stric licensing and supervision of all sales of explosives under the bureau of ! mines. j Intention of governmental officials to deal vigorously with all anarchists and other law breakers was disclosed in statements made at hearings on ! the appropriation bill made public i late today. Francis P. Garvan of ? the department of justice bureau of {investigation told the committee that ! with increased funds proposed, tue ! department plans an active campaign; j "We have found in the short time ??that we have been at work," said Mr. i Garvan. "that conditions are quite se rious throughout the country. We sire ? asking $2,000.000 and we nave eveiy j reason to believe, that the K?sian Bol shevik are pouring money at the rat? lof that much a month." ' Mr. Garvan was asked especially ; whether there was an organized effort j to destroy the federal government, to j which he replied: j '.'Certainly. We have evidence to (show that, and that is also shown by ? the tremendous amount of money i they are spending. The condition is j serious throughout the country." j New York, Chicago and Patertson, j X. J., he said, are centers of Xnxi ? Ichistic activities. When asked if the department has information that an j other outbreak of bomb outrages i? ] planned for July 4, Mr. Garvan said: ! "There is a great deal of talk tfi that effect; The number of radical j papers Xfound in the mails; has in j creased over 150 papers since the ar j mistice was signed. We have to take J now over 4 50 papers, read and digest ! x'sem." j Mr. Garvan uz-ged the funds for de portation of alien anarchists be in fer eased, adding: "If we can ii:: it ix Ithat we can round up those men anJ j upon proper proof can push th^m ihack to Europe, you will find this agi j tation will subside very rapidly." ; Acting Secretary of State Polk in j formed the committee thai the sfat? 'department was doing everything pos j sible in "guarding again.';: having j those people dumped here." j Willard-Dempsey Bout j Referee .and Judges Selected for Prize Fight J Toledo, June 27.?Ollie Pecord will 'be the referee of the YVi;lard-Demp fsey bout. Tex Riclcard and Major Drexler Diddle will serve with Pecord Jas judges of the contest. Jack Skel j ley has been chosen alternate referee land Warren Harbour official time j keeper. i Pecord will he in complete charge of the boxers while they are in the i ring. If the contest results in a [.knockout he will have solo charge- of i the counting. Should the contest go J tin- limit, two judges will attemp* .to I decide the winner and failing Pecord will cast the deciding vote. One Prohibition Bill i _ I All Enforcement Legislation Embodied in One Law Washington. June 27.?The house ! judiciary committee voted today in re port all prohibition enforcement leg islation in one general bill. The war time enforcement measure will be Part One. Washington. June 2 7.?Final ap proval was given today by congress to the repeal of the daylight savings law in the adoption of the conference re port on the annual agricultural ap-! propriation bill to which the measure! is attached. The bill also contains an amend-! ment for labelling as well as thf in-' spection of horse meat. Crown Prince Located Official Report Asserts That He! Is Still in Holland The Hague, June 27.?The fact; that Former Crown Prince of Ger-j many is still at Weiringen was dis-j closed by an official investigation by the Dutch minister of the interior. A Conspiracy Planned by the Scheidemann Government Revealed j WERE TO STRIKE AT THE ELBE Plan for East German Slate Fail ed Because of Jealousies Among Leaders Berlin, Thursday, June 20 (By the Associated Press)?The German gov ernment headed by Phillip Schied mann had.planned 10 refuse to sign the peace treaty and to permit the al lied troops 10 march into Germany as far as Elbe, where it would bo at tacked by "strong German forces, the Danzig correspondent of ihe Tage blatt declares in a dispatch describ ing the details of a secret plan 10 cre ate a separate state in Northwest Germany. The plan failed because of jealosief and difference of opinion betwen th? government and the army leaders, the correspondent says. (A report from Geneva Thursday night said Hen Schiedemann had arrived in Switzer land after crossing the frontier on foot.) The last proposal made by the con spirators planning to oppose the allie? it is said, was to ask Poland to com bine with Eastern Germany in^the for mation of an independent republic The offer, it is declared, was rebuffed by the Poles who. asked why it haC net been offered ten years a"o. The Danzig correspondent of thr Tageblatt says it was the intention tc cooperate with the Grand Duke oi Mecklenburg in the establishment 01 a republic cr a monarchy to include East Prussia, West Prussia and Pozen The plan, he says, was favored b> Adolph Von Batocki. President oi East Prussia; Herr Schnackenburg president oi West Prussia, and Hen von Buelow, president of Pozen. Hen i Wig, the national commissioner foi Pozen and the two Prussian prov inces, the correspondent declares, wa; to head the movement and was t( be Sil charge of the military force; which were to make an immediate'at tack, as soon as the peace treaty wa: signed. The plan was disclosed, it is added when various generals interested hac a conference with the government leaders at Weimar. General Groener at present the chief commander, it i: declared, was the first to decide if. abandon the plan. Mathias Erzber gor, head of the German armistice commission, and Herr I I oersing, tiv. commissioner for Upper Silesia, alsc were involved. Gustav Noske, th< minister of defense, the correspond ent asserts, had a difficult task ir persuading Erzberger tb give up the plan. The government, it is declared feared that Hoersing instead of oper ating against the Pole? with th< troops under his command, would turr about and march on Berlin in an at [tempt to reestablish the former env j peror on the throne. I ?-? I French Textile Wages _ j Cotton .Industry Has Sufferec Damage From Huns Front reliable sources the Nation al Foreign Trade Council has jusi obtained the following inf?rmatior regarding the textile industries in th< invaded regions of France. Whereas the average pre-war tex tile wage was 4 francs per day. the present average wage is 10-12 francs The French system of demobilizatior is providing the labor necessary for resumption of the textile industry. The linen industry, being one in whirl, Prance held" a considerable ad vantage- over Germany, was dam aged more than the ether textile trade, it is estimated as 1-:; des troyed; 1-3 tauten to Germany; and t-JL robbed of brass and copper. France, ? moreover, is not is a posi tion to manufacture new linen ma chinery. Cotton machinery has been dam aged less than linen machinery, it is expected that 25 per cent should resume operations in C months: :.?!! should resume operations in two years. i Th<- toj;:i damage to all text'le plants in the invaded area is estim ated at 50 per cent. In 1913 there were 2221 such plants in this area. An added element of cost in the operation of the restored textile in dustries will be the high cost of fuel coal. Mining wages have risen fv-n !.t; francs for surface work to 12.5* and for underground work from H.:] francs in 11)13 to 15. francs in 1310. -. German Present Credentials Peace Delegates Received at Versailles Versailles. June 2S.?The creden tials of Dc Herman Mueller and Johanpes Bell, the German plenipo tentiaries sent here to sign the treaty of peace were approved this morn ing. Baseball in Paris Canadians Defeat Americans 2 to 1. Stadium. France. June 2S.?Canada defeated America at baseball :.' to l l od a'". The contest was the only event at Iii?- Stadium. It was :< well play ed game and was heartily cheered by the American section. HISTORIC SCENE ; AT VERSAILLES i Formalities of Declaration of i Peace Staged in Hall of Mirrors j WILSON SIGNED FIRST FOR ALLLIES I - j Then the Five Great Powers j Followed in Order and the Many Small Powers in Alpha betical Order Versailles, .lune 2X.?The world war was formally ended today by the signing- of the peace traaty with Ger many. An epochal meeting in the Hall of Mirrors began at 3.10 and the \ German delegates were first to sign, i They were followed by American dele j gates headed by President Wilson and ! by plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, [France, Italy and Japan. Representa j tives of the minor' powers signed in i alphabetical order. Army Again Reduced I House Over Rules Senate and Fixe^ Army at Minimum Strength - Washington, June 27.?Senate and house conferees on the army appro priation bill late today reached an agreement to fix the average size of the 1020 army at 325.000 officers and : men. This total is 75.000 less than that proposed by the senate and 2.". Otfo more than the strength authorized originally by the house. The agreement, reached after the members of the conference committee had talked with General March, eh?-f of staff, means that for the last nine months of the year ending June 30, 1020, the army bill will be composed cf 225,000 officers and men, made necessary by the surplus above 325. ? 000 during the next three months. In announcing that 325,000 was the Gg . ure agreed upon, Chairman Wads , worth of the senate military com mittee, said it was the lowest num ber that could be named and still . keep the army within the limits pre scribed by the national defense act ; which required the maintenance oi an army of 225,000?. With the si:v- of the army disposed cf the conferees made rapid progress in considering the bill today, but an other meeting will be held tomorrow at which the appropriations for avia . tion, ordnance and other remaining . items will be considered. Efforts of the house conferees to reduce in creased senate appropriations' in part were successful, the senate appropria ; tion of $15,000.000 for barracks and j quarters being cut in half while -?tat , of $3,500.000 for the signal corps was reduced to $3,250,000'. The sen ate appropriation of S-l:>0.000 for the [ military intelligence branch was re ducer! to ?400,00f?. The senate amendments fixing the , salary of C. W. Hare, director of sales and in charge of disposing of surplus ; war materials at $12,000 a year, and the senate appropriation of $140,000 for the Washington-Alaskan military cable were accepted by the house managers. Tin- house provision to \ make Fort Sill, Okla., a small arms school, but eliminated by the senate, !! was restored by the conferees. The Hour of Peace I - j Germans Signed First and Then Americans ] Washington, June 23.?nfTlcial im ports transmitted to the State de partment said the president and American delegation completed the signing1 of th*"- peace treaty at ~.14 o'clock Paris time. It was signed by [?Dr. Muller at 3.12 and Johannes Dell u' 3.1:; for th*- Germans. Smuts Signed Under Protest j South African Objected to Some Provisions of Treaty Versailles, June 2.v? Other dele gations headed by tlu- British signed after American plenipotentiaries in the order set forth in the treaty. General Smuts, one of the delegated [representatives of the union of south Africa signed the treaty under pr? ftest. He objected to certain terrhor j iol settlements. ! Peace News Flashed To America i [Message Was Sent by Special i Circuit From Versailles to America Washington. June 28.?News of the signing of th*- peace treaty was re ceived in Washington over a special government circuit between Versailles ;iv.<\ Washington. Instantaneous iransmission came to department with London. New Foundland and Xew| York. the only relay points on the long stretch. China Stays Out Refused to S?gn Treaty and Delegates Absented Them- i selves Versailles. June 2x.?China's dele gates did not attend the sessiem, de-j dining io sign the treaty because they were not permitted to make rcserva ? " lg:/ Build Build Build Build Build Make times good by building NOW Own a home for your children's sake. Build now schools, churches a.id road3. Build now the homes the war has stopped Set your mon^y te work en building a home. Construction adds to the wealth of the country. Booth & McLeod, Inc. Building Headquarters Negroes Inquire About Company Ask Questions as to Entrance Into National Guard - Columbia. June 28.?While white! men over the .State are displaying a reluctance to enter the National Guard tinder the present regulations -which require a six year term of enlistment, negroes in some counties are making application for permission to organize. Only a few days ago, there canto to the attorney general's office a letter with regard to the formation of a company of National Guard. The let ter was turned over to the adjutant i general's department. While the ! writer does not say that the company which it is planned to organize is of negroes, it is supposed by Major Frost, assistant adjutant general, that such is the ease: The letter is to the general effect that tin; writer has seen that several cities have- been granted the privil ege of forming a National Guard company and that such companies have been equipped with rifles and uniforms. The letter, continuing, says. "We have hen- in Bamberg county 300 men fresh from the battle field who have seen actual service and they are anx ious to stay in practice. Now since you are granting their, th'is privilege in other pares of the State we are asking for the same privilege, as sucri an organization wouid prove beneficial, to this part of the State." In reply to the letter, the adjutant general's office says that it has no National Guard law at present to ac cept any more organizations than those already undertaken and that until congress acts on National Guard legislation it will not be in a position to entertain any more applications for crganiaztions. Many years have elapsed since there was a company of negroes in the Na tional Guard, and the indications are that none will ' be organized in the near future. Woman Accused, Of Arson Mrs J. W. McFarland Charged j With Setting Fire That De stroyed Five Buildings Greenville, June 27.?A sensation was created here today by the arrest of Mrs. J. W. McFarland, college grad aal?', author of a published book of poems and former city school teache>\ who is charged with complicity in starting the fire that destroyed five buildings on * Rhett and Pendlstou streets here last night. That Mrs. McFarland is demented on the sub ject of fires is the be'lief of Sheriff Rector, who stated that in addition to the confession he claimed Mrs. Mc Farland has made to him that she started last night's tire, he has evi dence to show that she was respon eible for the burning of the Colonial Apartments about two months age. .Mrs. McFarland in the cell tonight Emphatically denied that she had con fessed to setting fire to the Rhett Street buildings. Friends said Mrs. ?JcFarland was asleep and that they waked her when the tire occurred last nigh:. Prominent persons have interested, themselves in Mrs. McFarland's case.! j She comes from a prominent Georgia j family, it is said, and taught in the i ftity schools here, having married a I soldier in the Thirtieth Division in j Srecnviile in the fall of 1017. Her : husband is now in France. I Wilhelm Thinks I - He Is Safe I - I I Contends That Allies Can Not ; Force Holland to Surender Him ' Amercngen, June 2S.?Former Em-] peror William and his advisors are ap-' parently fully confident the Nether lands government will be unable to consent to the entente's forthcoming demand for his extradition. Hamburg Riot Suppressed Strong Force of Goovernment Troops Restore Normal Con- j ditions Berlin, June 2S.?It was officially: announced today that the government' is in complete control of Hamburg.; No fighting is reported in the city and it is said suflicient troops are ar riving to insure the restoraton of nor- t ma! conditions. : ? - . ] Omsk. .Tune 2S.? During the last i fortnight the Siberian Western army has retired from the Viatka river to the Kama, approximately a hundred miles, before superior Bolshevik j forces. CTfa is under bombar&menti from Bolshevik guns. . 1 The Price of Potash Senate Will Not Consent to Ex tortion at-Expense of Farmers Washington, June 2G.?After thor ously investigating the efforts of certain Western congressmen to place the price of potash at such a ilgure that it would be practically pro hibitive to Southern Cotton growers. Senator Smith of South Carolina, who under the Democratic regime in the senate was ranking member on the committee on agriculture, and a fore most authority on this subject, to day gave out the following statement: "A bill has been introduced affect ing the potash supply of this country and quite extensive hearings have been had in reference to it. ?[ have canvassed the situation pretty thoroughly and I think I am safe in saying that no such legisla tion will be enacted. I have had in terviews with members of both par ties in the senate and none of them seem disposed to be a party to put I ting any such monstrous, unwarrant ed burden upon the farmers of this country. T asked one of the republi j can leaders which he desired to pro I tect the great institution of farming ! upon which everything else rested or [a few corporations who have sprung j up under war conditions and who de j sire to be protected from loss while they are experimenting in producing ?something to be sold to the fram^rs at such price as to be disastrous to ; the farmer and through him to the i whole country. In a word, who dll ? he propose to protect, the institution I upcn which the prosperity of the j whole country, rested or an institution ; whose prosperity only effected the ! promoters of the corporation. He 'said he was in favor of protecting j the agriculture interests of this coun try. j 4,Frcm the best source of informa i tion obtainable we ought to receive I foreign potash at practically pre-wii* I prices and in unlimited quantities. A I large part of the territory from which j we receive foreign potash is now in I the hands of our friends, the allies, j "One of the arguments used for thfs j monstrous proposition was that in j case of war, without developing our ! own resources for potash, we wouid. I find ourselves in the same condition j we did in this war. Among other ! good things that the proposed league |to enforce peace will bring about is ! the opportunity for the practical, ap plication of the good old Democratic ! doctrine of free trade. There can be j an exchange amongst the nations of j the things they can more readily pro ; dttce without the threatened danger of war stopping* such exchange and producing distress in that nation or ? among those nations dependent upon ! other nations for certain articles. "I think it is safe to say that all fertilizer ingredients will be treated now as they have been treated under Republican t and Democratic adminis trations heretofore as articles to be placed upon the free list." Virginia Coal Company Eig Corporation Organized at Danville ? ? ? ?? ? Danville, June2 S.?Local capitalists have formed the Merrill Coal Mines Incorporated, to operate the Drift mine at Henlawson. W. Va., "in the bituminous held. The company will be incorporated in Virginia headed by L B. Conway, of this city, as pres ident, with a capital stock of six hun dred thousand dollars, which has been subscribed. Rejoicing in Paris Wilson and Other Leaders Given Ovation by Crowds Versailles. June 28.?As Clemen ceau, President Wilson and Lloyd George emerged from the palace a great crowd gathered outside and swept aside the cordon of troops, cheering madly. Many soldiers broke ranks joining the demonstration while guns boomed and lowering airplanes seemed to till the air. Texas For Suffrage Legislature Passed Constitu tional Amendment Austin. June 28.?Texas today be came the ninth State to ratify the vornan suffrage amendment. Mr! P. G. Bowman yesterday ?ought from Col. Thomas Wilson line hundred bales of cotton, at 32 1-2. basis middling. Within the past Y\v days there has been considerable ictivity on the local market and a arge amount of cotton that has been n storage has been sold. Mariage Licences White. Isaiah Atkins to Delphla Pierson Colored Danie Chandler to Carrie McDonald