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Whipped to a Frazzle in First , Round and Out in . Fourth CHAMPION POOR FIGHTER St: Fourth of July Prize Fight Had Small Attendance and Was One Sided Affair Toledo, July 4.?By virtue of one of the speediest and most onesided battles that ever decided a big fistic event. Jack Dempsey today became .the world champion heavyweight box er. To all intents and purposes he ?whipped the huge Jess Willard, fav orite in the meagre betting, in one K| round. Dempsey thought the referee H|'had announced him winner and ac Hfe'tually left the ring. Bu: he was call ed back and the butchery continued ?hfor two more rounds when Jess, sit ting in his corner, with a bewildered look on his swollen face failed to re spond to the gong for the fourth . round. "It was no use to continue." said ;; the ex-champion. "My strength went gg.from me in the first round." He sat there, apparently the most surprised man in the United States at the mo ment His right eye was closed and Gpiis right cheek swollen cud blue with - 'bruises. Blood covered his. body and his arms b.ung so helplessly over the " ropes that it seemed as if. a . child Hkmight give him further abuse without rousing his interest. Rk Dempsey was breathing hard when the fight ended, but it was from exer BBTtion and not from punishment. The new champion, whose full voting name is William Harrison Dempsey. es caped almost unhurt, but as he had i been using his arms like trip ham- j mers on the anatomy of hijs opponent for nine crowded minutes in a sun that sent the thermometer to 110 de grees, his heart was still pumping at high pressure and he appreciated, the breathing spell. In the first few seconds of the con test it looked as if the experts who had been assigned to keep detailed account of all blows struck might come measureably close to doing so. but it was only for a fraction of a moment. After that the experts did well to count Jack's blows, let alone take^ote of how each was made. The - challenger knocked the big follow down five times in the first round and had him hanging helplessly on the ropes or draped over his own should-'! ers most of the time when he was not i taking advantage of the count. The crowd thought the fight was over hi that round. Willard was down for the seventh time and the count was. apparently about to end when the gong sounded. It was a modest gong which could not make itself heard before so many people and even j Dempsey did not get it. He crawled through the ropes and was headed out onto the shoulders of screaming fans when the truth was broken to him* and he was hauled back. Such fighting as the Kansas ranchman produced was placed oj>-j exhibition at the onset. H^-hrrd'"stood t ..in his?cerrrer a picture of confidence, j His smile seemed that of one who had j a brief and -not unpleasant task be- j fore him. He certainly was all set j to go, for just before time was called , he was heard to remark: "Let's get this thing over." - He Ttneasured the attendance, which disappointed estimates by about 50 per cent, with an appraising eye. Dempsey presented a contrast. None of the confidence of his training camp statements appeared in his bearing. The man across from him outweigh ed him 40 pounds and looked as big, and ^impregnable as a metropolitan J bank building. The mood of the chal-1 lenger was plainly thoughtful and! more than one ringside gazer whisper- j ed: "He's licked now." When they were introduced Jess] sauntered over with the cordial man-J ner of one desiring to reassure a youngster and took his hands in the j friendliest way. Jack's handshake was friendly, too, just then, but it was the! last .token of friendship from those Vgioves. A minute or so after they' were using Willard for a chopping! block and some in the crowd were! crying. "Stop it! Stop it! It is plain] murder." Dempsey's first effective blows, and the ones which apparently settled Wil iard's fate, were a right over Jess's shoulder to the jaw. a left to the bodyj and a right to the jaw. Jess stag " gered. His eye was closing and lv reeled, and the challenger, with all the energy of his pulsing youth, began hitting him at will. The attendance was below expecta- j tions. Seats were buiit for 80.000 and ! the estimate was that not more than j half of these were occupied. Specula- j tors lest heavily. They resold their tickets at anything from S3 to $15 un- \ der gate prices. No betting was re- j ported at the ringside nor was there ? much elsewhere as far as could be ascertained. The heat of the day was terrific, in-1 tensified as it was by the vast acreage! of green lumber. During the prelim inary bouts which lasted from ! 1 ; o'clock till 2.30. a thermometer ex-j posed as were the spectators and fight ers jumped to 120 degrees which -was the limit of what the instrument r.-.::!<l record. It showed 110 degrees when j Willard and Dempsey entered the ring. ? When Dempsey was proclaimed j winner the crowd surged onto th?- mar! hi a wild scramble to shake the hand of the new champion. At times some of them toppled over onto the tele graphers and reporters just below who were struggling in the mad dis Bankers Predict Advance in All Lines of Staples v ____ EUROPE MUST HAVE FOOD AND CLOTHES Federal Reserve Beard Issues i i i j Warning to The Public Washington, July 2.?In warning [that still higher prices ana a greater ! shortage of supplies might be expect ed in the United States if foreign pur chases are permitted to continue on the same basis as in the last year, the federal reserve board in its July j bulletin made public today declared j that the war period in exportation had ! come to an end and that it now was ! the duty of the investing public to finance shipments needed by Europe. "There is a shortage of many essen tial materials and' commodities in the j world at large." the board said. "In creased credit ^demand for goods for ! export necessarily implies relatively j decreased supply of goods for j domestic use. Demand and supply I automatically equalize by changes in j price, but such changes in prices are in the circumsta.nces herein under consideration necessarily upward. If a large export* financing process is conducted by banks out of credit, the result is to place the fluid credit of the country at the disposal of foreign ers in purchasing and settling ior do mestic products which they obtain from American producers." Such an addition to credits not bas ed on genuine savings, the board pointed out. would mean inflation im plying an increased tendency toward the bidding up of prices. In order tc avoid the recurrence of such a men ace, the board recommended,that the I basis for exports should b? found in ! the investment market that is in the j savings of the people and not at the tanks. "The amount of export trade secur ities to be held by banks must neces sarily be limited to a minimum fig ure," the board asserted. Requirements of export financing probably have been over estimated, the beard said, adding that some part of the export demand likely would disappear when actually commercial security was required for the protec- j tion cf shipments. "It is quite probable also." the; board remarked, "that as European j countries succeeded in reestablishing themselves, their recovery toward self supporting basis will be much more rapid than has been expected. Far more is required for the expenditure of great sums in the purchase of goods than is generally comprehended. Ex penditures to be made for peace pur poses or for reconstruction will re quire care and patience i:' they tire to yield returns under competitive bus iness conditions. They can not be pverhastily made, and this will in it-j self ease the urgency of the pressure for expert financing. When all these elements have been eliminated there j will remain a very great residue of urgmt industrial requirements abroad and thes*b. it is both economically and otherwise sound and desirable to finance as promptly and effectively as possible in order that foreign demand for our goods may be maintained, our markets conserved, and our genera! j trade protected. St. Johns. July 3.?Vice Admiral Kerr announced that he had aban doned the proposed trans-Atlantic flight in the Handley Page bombing machine and instead he would fly to Atlantic City, probably starting this afternoon if the weather permits. i London. July ?.?Field. Marshall von Hindenburg, former chief of staff, declares that he is responsible for ibe acts of the German main heaclquar-1 ters since August, 1D1G, and also the proclamation ? of Cornier Emperor i William concerning the waging '>; warfare. He asks President Ebert to inform the allies to this effect, ac cording to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Co. _ I - One of Charleston Distinguished | Lawyers and Citizens Charleston, .July (?.?The Hon. ! .fameS Simons. l"m: a leader oi the ' Charleston Bar, chairman <>f the! board of school commission: rs, presi- j dent of Tire Xevvs and Courier Com- j pany and former Speaker of the I House of Representatives at Coluro ! bia. died at 7.30 o'clock yesterday morning at hV home, 172 Broad Strc ?; lb- bad been ill for several months i and the family bad known for several days that the end was near. r\!r. Simons was in his eightieth year and until last fall had always i enjoyed remarkable b";!?h. leading a m??st active life, not only in the prac-"*} t:ce of his profession, but in all the ! affairs of the community. i Lima, July ? Augusto I', r^egula! today assumed office as provisional ] president of Peru and took up his J residence in the governmental palace, j as a result of ike successful oven.h**ow i earlier in the day of President Pardp. President Pardo. aj his ministers and! number of high officers <<;' the army! and navy a?"<- in j>i i.-"M. Order to report what had happened.! Police eventually dispersed them by hustling Dempsey away. Willard was taken to an automobile and disap peared from view of the crowd which1 then itself began* th?> task of cover ing the four miles from the arena to j the city as best they could by street ; car, automobile or on foot. I I Tactics of Hungarian Minister Reported to Council [ Of Five ! OBSTRUCTING RELIEF l WORK IN HUNGARY Allied Troops May Be Sent Ther to Assist Food Council I Paris. July 3.?The reporl from the [inter-allied food council on the tactic ! of Bola Kun. foreign minister of Hun garian government, in obstructing re lief work in Hungary will be submit ted to the council of five tfiis after noon. It is understood that presenta tions will be made to Bela Kun that if lie persists in his tactics a small force o^' allied troops will probably'be j chrown into Hungary to assist in re I lief work. Army dars London. June 5, (Correspondence of j The Associated Press.)?American larmy motor transport in England has j not eost the United St:tt--s government anything for machines, according to figures prepared at army headquar j ters here. Astonishing prices have been paid here for machines the army J has placed on auction, touring cars in scores of instances bringing more than the original cost even though they -hove seen rather hard usage for months. The army purchased a number of cars of a light popular type for $-150 each and these have sold for as high as $1.000 after being used eight ? months. Another machine the average purchasing price f<?r which was $!, 085 has brought as much as $1,890 at the auction sales. The prices bid for touring cars lias been absolutely amazing. Major J. C. Weiler, head of the motor transport work in the Quartermaster Department here, told The Associated E*ress, a great deal higher than wc would have dared ask on straight sales. Altogether the army had 502 tour ing cars, trucks, ambulances, motor cycles and bicycles for its work of transporting about 1.000.000 men I through England. Only ;i dozen <>f these have been reserved ?to be used ! in the final clearing out of head quarters in London. Good prices have been obtained for the trucks and .ambulances, exceptionally good ! prices when compared with what second-hand motors bring in the Unit ed States, t>u( the greatest demand has been for Lhe touring cars, motorcycles and bicycles. England never did build such vehic les in Quantity and during the war none were built for private use Xow the demand is so great th.-'J actual values have been almost discarded entirely. Some observers place this demand in the same category with tri'- insat iable desire <>f women for the finest Of finery at unprecedented prices which even* thou the shops cannot supply, oi- other luxurious demands of people who would hardly hav< thought of such things before the war. Editors' Meeting Brought to Close Greenville. July :;.?Annual election! of officers, a cross country automobile trip to Hendcrsonville, X. and ;i ; sumptuous dinner at the Kentucky! ?lome. a banquet tonight at which Dr. j W. J. McGlothlin. president of Furman University, spoke and several ad dresses by newspaper editors at the] morning ocssion characterized the clos ing day of the 43rd annual convention^ of tile South Carolina press Ar.-oe a-! tion. The t ody will meed next year! at Kock Rill. Anderson or Columbia..] these three cities entering bids. The oxeeutiv?- committee will decide upon' the hext pneetirig place. The following officers were elected:'] President, A. ?. Jordan. Dillon Her-. aid; first vice president. 11. C?. Osteen, Sumter Item; sacond vice pres ident, .1. Rion McKissick; Greenville! Piedmont: secretary. Mason C. Brun sen, Florence Times: treasurer, Aug ust Kohn; exective committee. S. J. Leaphart, Lexington Dispatch;: < >. l\. Williams, Rock Hill Record; I*.. H Peace. Greenville News. Ii was the sense of the association ;hat no officer shall serve for more than one year. .Mr. Jordan was ele vated from ihe chair of firs! vice pres-: id "hi 'o succeed J. L Mirns of the! Edgfield Chronicle, retiring president.! J. Rion McKissick, chairman, stated J that the committee w;is net ready to i report on the permanent home which j may be founded as ;i resort for news- * paper men and their families and j which was referred Jo asti possibility iu a speech by i>r. W. W. Ball, editor of Th" State, in response to the ad , dress ol welcome. The dues of membership ir. the as sociation were raised from :>; to S2j Ed II. DcCamp read the report of lhe | nominating committee which was! unanimously adopted. A committee -,v:!s appointed to take necessary steps j to promote a campaign for the ex-pan-j sion of foreign advertising in week lies and s?ivi-weeklies of the Stale, j More t Ti.. ii 100 composed the party that made the frit) to flcndersonvil lo j :m<l there wns not :i single incident} to mar the pleasure of the ^urirur. i The caravan of dust covered cars rolled in about 6 o'clock and the] the newspaper nun. after refreshing! i themselves with :i facial application-] of cool Paris Mountain water, wee;; into special session for the transac-? tion of business that was carried! over f!-o:n the morning. The visitors will leave for home to morrow. Former German Emperor Will Soon Have to Face Charges Lloyd George Says ANNOUNCEMENT MADE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS Premier Said Tribunal to Try Former Emperor Would Sit in London. I London. July 3.?-The Cornier Ger I man Emperor will soon be placed on i trial. Premier Llcyd '. "v;: - made ibis ! announcement in the house of com { mohs today in his report on peace I aogotiations. The premier declared the tribunal which would try the former Emperor would sit in Lon don. The German army, the premier said, was at present inadequate to di? j turb peace for feeblest of neighbors 'of Germany. The terms of the treaty j with Germany in some respects were terrible the premier said, but terrible : deeds justified it and still more ter j rible would have been the cor.se j quenccs if Germany had succeeded. I Form Council of Five j - j Lansing, Pichon, Baifour, TH toni and Makino i_ i I Paris. July 1.?Premier Clemenceau. ? Secretary of State Lansing. Foreign ' Minister Baifour. Foreign Minister Pichon, Baron Makino and Viscount j Chinda of Japan and Foreign Minister j Tittoni of Italy decided this afternoon ; to constitute a new council of five. ; This council of live will have as its i members Secretary Lansing. M Pichon j Foreign Minister Baifour, Foreign j Minister Tittoni and Baron Makino ihead <>f the Japanese delegation. The council will temporarily assume I direction of peace conference affairs The council of ten will not be consti tuted at pr< sent. While the council received the im pression from Sighor Tittino today that the new Italian delegation will be more considerate than the old. it was a distinct disappointment when Tittoni oxpn ssed Italy's desire to have ail the territory taken from Aus tria definitely allotted in the .Austria.*: ! treaty, as this makes it unlikely that fthe Austria:! treaty can be concluded i (ii's week and foreshadows a lengthy discussion of the question. The council decided to appoint im mediately a committee to execute th< German treat;.*, and also a committee for the execution of reparations, and still a third to outline the Bulgaria: frontier. The council tomorrow will hear the remaining delegates and M. MaklakofI the Km dan ambassador at Paris, on tin- Rumanian boundaries, atfd espe (dally the disposition of Bessarabia, large part of which Rumania claims and is at present administering, much against the wishes of the Russian com mittee in Paris. The Russians insist that Rumania seized this territory un der the guise of a specially creat? iocal government, which Immediately ceased to exist after the Rumanian gained control. M. Pichon the French foreign minis ter, will be the presiding officer of the council. A plan has been outlined when by the work of this body may be hastened. Hereafter all communi cation'; to the conference will be for warded immediately to exp? ??! cmimis sions, and nol considered by the coun cil until the commisions have report ed thereon. It is hoped m this way to eliminate much unnecessary discus sion. Eleven Men Confess According to Alabama Asistant Attorney General Montgomery. Ala., July 2.? Confes sions have been obtained from 11 of the 12 men in jail at Birmingham, charged with being members of a mob that entered iln- ,iail at Bay Minctte and shot to death Frank Foukal, it was said, hero tonight by Horace Wii Icins. assistant attorney general, who has been investigating the case, lb said he had written statements from the 11 men. Sixteen arrests hi all had been made. Mr. Wiikenson said, and later advices tonight from ''.ay Mincttc were to tin effect that another arrest had been made. The seventh arrest, it was said. ( Evas ii:-;t of Devcreaux Xclsoii of Point Clear. Mr. Wilkinson left tonight to return to Bay Minette to continue the inves tigation. Foukal at the time he wasj killed was in jail charged with the I murder of Robert Bishop after a quar rel over a trade. Fran Greta Darbiissh in Precarious Condition Sec. of German Peace Delegation] Was Struck With Stone After j Leaving Versailles Berlin. Wednesday. July 2.? Frau G rota Dorl blush, one of the German! peace delegation secretaries who was; said to have been struck on th? :?? id j by ;i s;on<- after Leaving Versailles, is reported to be in ;: precarious condi tion. The Mow on her head is said to have caused unconsciousness. Coblenz. July 3.?The United States ?rmy Of occupation will hereafter be. known as the "American Foroes :n Germany." Upon orders from gener-1 ol headquarters the third army in! came only, wq? dissolved todav. Build Build Build Build Make limes good by building NOW Own a home for your children's sake. Build now schools, churches and roads. Build now the homes the war has stopped Set your money to work cn building a home. Construction adds to the wealth of the country. Booth & McLeod, Inc. Building Headquarters Army Regulations Make It Un lawful Cor American Soldiers to Marry German Women - UKTTL RATIFICATION OF PEACE TREATY Lhese Marriages Illegal On The Ground that ? S. is Technical ly Still at War With Germany Coblenz. July .V? Marlagcs be tween American soldiers and Gor man women arc forbidden by army regulations per. -ing a ratification of the peace treaty by tl" United States. The judge advocates department of the American forces on the Rhine to night handed down a decision dcel ir ing marriages under present conditions are illegal on the ground that the tSates are technically still at war with Germany. Anna Eo^rard Shaw i Dead Philadelphia. July 2.?Dr. Anna Soward Shaw, honorary president of the Nation:;] Woman's Suffrage As sociation, died at her home, in Moy Ian. Pa., near here at 7 o'clock this evening. She was.71 years old. Dr. Shaw also was a chairman of the woman's committee of the council of national defense and recently was i awarded the distinguished service :nedal for work during the war. She was taken ii] a! Springfield. 111., about a month ago while on a lecture our with former President Taft and President Lowell, of Harvard Univer sity, in the interest cf the,-League of: Nations. Pneumonia developed and for two weeks she was confined to her room in a. Springfield hotel. She re- j urned to her home abcul the middle ; of June and apparently had entirely reco vered. Last Saturday she drove to Phila delphia in her automobile and upon her return she said she was feeling' ?"tine." She was taken suddenly ill > again yesterday with a recurrence of I *h^-disease and grew rapidly wcrse j until the end. Her secretary. Miss Lucy E. An thony, a niece of Susan P-. Anthony, who has been with Dr. Shaw for thirty years, and two nieces. Misses] Lulu and Grace Greene, were at her; bedside when she died. Dr. Shaw had long been identified! with the woman suffrage movement and was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Associa tion for eleven years. In 1915 she de clined a renomination and was then elected honorary president. She had spoken in every State in SUBMIT TEXT ; SIGNING i Rumanian Prime Minister Does j Not Care To Take Responsi I bility Himself I MUST FIRST SUBMIT I TEXT TREATY - I Would Refer Matter to His Gbv j eminent and Guage Public Sentiment Paris; July 3.?M. Bratiano, prime minister to Rumania, left last night ;for Bucharest to submit to his 'govern I ment the text of the treaty regarding that country. Public opinion in Ru mania and Transylvania is such that j M. Bratiano considers it impossible to take upon himself the responsibility : for signing without first referring the j matter to his government and guag : ing popular sentiment toward the j convent ion. Township in Union Disposes of Bonds j Union, July 2.?The highway com ! mission of Pinkhey Township of I Union County sold $S0,000 of road im provement bonds at a premium-of j $1,200 yesterday to the Hauch?tt Bond Com pay of Chicago. The bonds bear <; per cent interest payable in Janu ary and July. There were seyen bids i considered, the lowest carrying a I $900 premium: the bid next, the high es:, was only $2.13 below the success I ful one and was made by the Sidney Spitzer Company of Toledo, Ohio. J. Roy Fant, chairman of the Pinck [ ney highway Commission, saj-s the j commissioners hope to get everything in readiness f<?r road building at an [early date. Shot By Brakeman. i While Assaulting Conductor Richmond. July 3.?While assauljL-, ing Conductor Wilson of the Southern Railway at SVfattox, Va.. an unidentifi ed negro soldier was shot and killed by Brakeman Spicer. the union, before many State legisla tures and committees of both houses of congress in the interest of suf frage. I She was a member of the interna tional woman suffrage alliance, inter national council of women, league to enforce peace and national society for broader education. Dr. Shaw was born in Castle-on Tyne. England, and was brought to America, by her parents when four years of age. The Haina! Bank Gl South Carolina of Suroter "With 5 of our men returned from the Service and with Assets $2,000,000.00 VVc arc hotter prepared than ever to Serv^You C. c. ROWLAND, Preside it. ?: E. HINNANT. Cashier. NEILL O'DOXXETX Preside at j[j the r;Hs rriAnoriAL saw | 1 It O, I. . YATES. CasTiicr A Satisfied Customer Is the best asset that any 3Ier cantilc or Banking Institution can possess. If your Banking arrange ments arc not perfectly satisfactory come in and Tell Us Your Troubles And If \rc can help yon, be assured that it will he our pleasure to do so. The First National Bank SUMTER, S. C.