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THK SUMTER WATCHMAX, Estab Consolidated Aug. 2,1 FUEL ORDER Restriction on Coal Consump tion as Rigid as During War DR. GARFIELD ISSUES DRASTIC FUEL ORDER Many More Non-Essential In dustries Required to Curtail Consumption "Washington, Dec. S.?Vic-wing- with alarm the steadily dwindling: <bitu ? minous coal supply due to the miners* strike. Fuel Administrator Garfield by an order tonight restored for the entire nation most of the drastic restrictions on lighting and heating which were in effect during the coal shortage of 1017-10IS. The limitations which arc applica ble to consumers of bituminous eoal and coke were made effective tonight with issuance of the order and are to be enforced by the railroad ad ministration. Consumers of anthra cite coal, gas and other fuels are not affected by the order. All the street lighting, other than that necessary for the safety of the public must be curtailed and stores, office buildings and industrial plants, with a few exceptions, arc put on a reduced ration as to both lighting and heating. Another of the restrictions pro vides that all manufacturing plants except those engaged in th.- making of necessary products shall reduce their operations not to exceed three days in any one week. Electric railways are requested un der the fuel admin.stration order u reduce schedules to minimum re quirements and no heat shall be pro vided in electric ars during the rush hours. The restrictions were announced through the railroad administration as follows: . Xo ornamental lights, white way 01 other unnecessary street light, out line lighting, electric signs of illu minated billboards'. *;how windows or show case lights are to be operat- j e'd. This does not affect street light- j hag necessary for the safety of thc public. Xo cabaret, dancing hall, pool hai* or bowling alley shall be permitted j to use light except between 7 p., m. i . d 11 p. a. Stores, including retail stores but | excepting stores selling food, and ! warehouses must not use light (ex-j cept safety lights), except for six , hours per day. Manufacturing piants ! shall be allowed to use light 'only ^-during the time prescribed for the use of power. j Drug stores and restaurants may remain open according" to present schedules, but must reduce lighting one-half. Railroad stations, hotels, hospitals, telephone, telegraph and newspaper offices are not included in so far as necessary lighting is concerned. General and oflice lights must be cut off not later than 4 p. m. in of fice buildings except necessary fed eral. State and municipal offices, and except where office operation of vi tal industries is involved. Dairies, refrigerator plants, bak eries, plants for the manufacture of necessary municipal products, water - work.s sewerage plants, printing plants for the printing of newspapers only, battery charging outfits in con nection with plants pr >ducing light or power or telephone, telegraph or public utility companies are ex empted. Only enough heat may be used in offices, stores, warehouses and manu facturing plants-to keep the average temperature at CS degrees Fahren heit, and then only during the hours for which light is permitted. Dur ing other hours only enough heaf is to be used>to prevent freezing of water pipes or snrinkler systems. in manufacturing plants or plante coming under power curtailment rules heat (to 6S degrees Fahren heit) will be allowed only during that time prescribed for "use of power. XO. manufacturing plant or factory shall be furnished bituminous or coke or heat. light or power from bituminous coal or coke furnished by <?r through the United States fuel Administration for operation in ex cess of throe days a week on the ba sis of present working boars. Tin exceptions are dairies. r< frige rating plan's, bakeries, plants for the man ufacture of ns cessary food products of necessary medicinal products, waterworks, sewerage plants, printing plants for the printing of newspapers only, battery changing outfits in con nection with plants producing light or power for telephone, telegraph or puidV utility companies: Elevator service must be Curtail ed as much as possible; to accordance AVith above regulation on use of heat, lie;IiT and power. Electric railways shall reduce schedules to minimum requirements of service under revised hours of heating lighting and power :*s here in provided. Xo heat shall be provided on elec tric cars during rush hours and heat ing during non-rush hours shall be curtailed as much as possible. Electric railways and manufactur ing plants. st??res ;?nd offices are re quit, d to cooperate in arranging. Afced April, 18*0. NE BY FLOODS Death and Destruction Report ed in Alabama and Mississippi IPRATTSVILLE IS UN DER WATER TODAY I Thousands of Persons in Mis ! i sissjppi Driven From Their ! Homes j Atlanta, Dee. 10.?Reports of heavy j damage by rains in Alabama. Missis i sippi and Georgia continued to come ; in today. There are three known I deaths and various points have un ! confirmed reports of a few other fa italities. Railroad traffic in the flood ! area is badly interrupted, trains over some lines having been suspended. j Frattsville, Ala., is reported under nine feet of water this morning. Tele-: 'graph and telephone offices are in-, j undated and abandoned. Citizens east j of Selma are using boats to go from, house to house. Thousands of per sons in the vicinity of "Meridian, Mississippi, have been forced to de sert their homes, on account of high water and are without shelter. They are expected to suffer from the cold weather expected tonight. EPISCOPAL CHURCH ADOPTS NEW PLAN , New Method of Administration Will Make New York Headquarters ! New York, Dec. 9.?The new meth i od of administration of the Episcopal I church, adopted at the recent conven ? tion in Detroit will make New York j City to that denomination in many re i sneets what Rome is to the Catholic ! church, says the New York Herald, j According to the Herald the Episco-j pal'church's affairs will be directed by i ja presiding bishop and a body of! twenty-cne known as the council ofj j the Protestant Episcopal church. The j presiding bishop, it is stated will be; I bishop Thbs. i-\ Gailor of Memphis, [bishop of the Episcopal diocese of] ! Tennessee, who will come here soon! ! to take up his new work. Eishopi I Gailor's functions are said to corre- i I spond in many r< spects with those of i i the pope in Rome, and those of the' i council with the functions of the Ro ' nia? Catholic college or cardinals. Bishop Gailor wil hold office for six j years when the election of his sue-: ! cessor will be held. PREMIERS MEET IN LONDON CIcmenceuu and Lloyd George to Discuss Serious Ques tions ? Paris, Dec. Premier Clemen i ceau will go :o London tomorrow to : confer with Premier Lloyd George on I 'he "serious questions of the present hour." according to the newspapers 1 Amerongen. Dee. 0.?Reports are I current that a house will be built j near Amerongen for one son of form I er Emperor William. It is declared that this son will probably be Adal ! bert. who is now visiting his parents here. within the provision of the order, schedules, days and hours of work to permit the maximum utilisation of transportation equipment. Many of the restrictions contained in the order ha v.; been in force in .-one- States some days, having been placed in effect by regional coal com mittees and State authorities. Tim order issued tonight which will af fect more persons than any coal ra tioning measure taken since the strike began more than five w- eks ago. wil! make it.-.elf felt, however, h. every community in Dm nation. Issuance of the eider, officials ex plained, did not mean that hope of settling the strike possibly tomorrow, at Indianapolis, had been given, but restrictions were necessary as :i pre cautionary measure. This was ex plained by Dr. Garfield in the follow ing portion of his announcement of the order. A careful survey of the coal situa tion indicates th:n even if tie re is a prompt settlement of the coal strik< i; will take some time to adjust the country to a normal basis ami thai therefore certain restrictions will bxtve to be placed on the \.u of bituminous coal and of light, heal and power derived therefrom, so that urgent domestic needs may be cured for. 'he necessary foodstuffs produced and equally essential hebt power und Ii'ur supplied. Already in many parts of the country restric tions us to the use of coal and coke for lighting und heating purposes and for the production of electricity und power for such purposes have been adopted. Regulations were tonight issued to make such restrictions uni form over the country and thus aid in the conservation of coal.' nd Fear not?Bet all the endj Thon Ali FMTE.R, S. 0., SATUItDj : End of Strike Does Not Relieve Coal Shortage and Re strictions Remain WEEKS MAY BE REQUIR ED TO REACH NORMAL j Government Officials Warn Peo-t pie Not to Expect Abundance of Coal at Once j Washington, Dec. 10.?Expression ? by government officials of satisfac ! lion at the settlement of nationwide j strike of bituminous coal miners were I coupled tonight with warnings to the j American people that early relaxd j tion of the drastic restriction on. the j consumption of coal must not be ex j pected. Federal Administrator Gar j held immediately on receipt of word that the miners in Indianapolis had agreed 10 accept the president's pro posal declared thac immediate re> j moval of regulations oh soft coal . consumption was not to be consid i ered. ! Director General Hines in a form al statement asserted that dislocation created by the strike could not be remedied instantly. The public. Mi; I Hines said, will be expected to con ! tinue conserving fuel until normal ) conditions are restored. As Soon as j practical restrictions will \>< rescind^ ! ed or- modified. "As a preliminary to bringing back I normal conditions/' said the director . general, "coal mined will br- allowed j to run as billed except Hie tidewater i nnd import embargo will continue. I Orders placed for coal into western* ; Pocahontas und Alleghahy regions will be cancelled, but coal billed on j these orders prior to cancellation wilt ! be permitted to go and be expedited j so that these cars can be promptly ; released for mines." :| j The railroad administration. Direc- J \ tor Hines announced, would aid in ; I meeting the needs of other consum- ] j era by reducing its supply to a ten j days' margin. The administration j j had been maintaining a 15 day sup-*i ' ply. I While these two government agen-j cies directly concerned with distrib- j ution of the avilable supply of bitu minous coal?which it is estimated has been cut 36,000.000 tons by the! ?Jo day strike?were issuing . their' warnings, White House official in dicated that steps would be taken to carry out the provisions of the presi dent's proposal relating to investi- j sration of wages and working condi- j tions in the bituminous helds by a 1 commission of three. In fact, it was j intimated that the president already had practically decided on the ap pointments to the commission and was awaiting the return of Attorney ; J General Palmer from .Indianapolis before making the announcement, j "The dislocation which the strike j has created in the production, trans-j portation and distribution of coal can-j not be instantly remedied.*' said Di-j rector General Hines in his state- j ment, "and pending readjustment ? it is highly important for the pubh: I ; to continue to exercise great caution ; in the consumption of coal :?:vd A i-- i hoped there will be a due apprccia , tion of difficulties which cannot be im- ! ; mediately, -overcome. "During the strike the weekly })ro- ! duction of coal was cut from 11.000, 000 to 12.000.000 tons to about .".000,-; 000 tons and this much reduced ton- i ' nage was mostly mined in Pennsyl- i ! vania and West Virginia.' Widely distant portions of the country which were ordinarily de pendent upon other coal fields had to ! be supplied from these and other un j usual sources .of supply. The result! i has been that the railroad adminis- j j trat ion been compelled to transport ! j coal over th<' most unusual routes! and for distances far in excess "f the normal hauls. This has resulted in equipment being scattered widely to other parts of the country. A period j of time will be required for the com plete relocation of this equipment [ i and meanwhile U is not to be antici pated that all mine.4 can be supplied with cars to the full normal extent. HUNS TO MEET THE DEMANDS Reply to Council Amounts to Capitulation Paris. Dec. 11.?The German reply to the supreme council's note demand ing the signing of tb<' peace protocol has been received according to the Intransigient. and is being translated by the German delegation. The news paper declares the reply is substan tially a capitulation on the Scapa Flow question and a proposal to discuss other points. SMITH WINS PRIZE Capt. Ross Smith Completes Flight to Australia Port Darwin. Australia. Dec. 10.? ?Captain Ross Smith, the Australian aviator arrived here today from Eng land, thus winning the prize <<\' ten [thousand pounds offered the first avi I ater making the flight, i ns't at be thy Co oxi cry's, Tiiy God'n a ?.Y, DECEMBER 13 19! THE BUSINESS WO MAN IN FINLAND! She Has Invaded Ail Depart- j ments and Holds Responsi ble Positions _ i Helsingfors, Nov. lo.?An astonish- j ing sight for tIi*- stranger in Finland is the number of women engaged in i almost every Held of employment. In j England during the war one became accustomed to the sight of women performing various kinds of work in ; which previously only men were en gaged. But in Finland the visitor gets the impression that the women are doing everything. They even, serve as porters ?>n sleeping cars. Not only are they at heavy manual : work in fields and factories, but *h .\v have become skilled as mechanics and j have invaded business ollices to an ? extent that is probably undreamed of; in any other country. j In banks, the proportion of women ; employes to men appears to he about | !10 to 1. In the biggest financial in-, institutions in Helsingfors. women hold j positions involving great responsibil : ity and calling for exceptional abil ! ity. i At the Finnish Foreign Office, the ! Associated Press correspondent notic-'i led thai women were holding offices! 'that would be entirely beyond the as-i j piralions of their sisters in the State; ? Department at Washington or'thei j British Foreign Office, j This change has come about almost i ^o ernight. Finland's man power has I been greatly depleted, and a large1 j part of what is left is required for J [ military, service. ! The Finnish business woman is re- j Imarkably keen and intelligent. She I i has a kind of masculine interest and j (absorption in her work that seems to! j admit of no margin for sentiment or frivolity. She dresses simply and j .smartly, as do the majority of the, !city-bred women of this country. An! c [American walking through the prin-.j j oipal streets of Helsingfors might well' j believe, judging from the costumes; j and brisk walk of the Finnish women. I that he was in the heart of Chicago. ! I_ I iAIRPLANES IN" SOUTH AMERICA! I - ! I Will be Used to Survey and Map Amazon Valley ! - Para, Brazil, Nov. 4.?Airplanes ! may be employed to map the valley I of the great Amazon river. If the j French are successful in their effort ? to use aircraft for surveying the ' routes of the rivers of French Guiana. 1 Et is understood the Brazil hin govern ment, will apply the same method to ' the survey of the Amazon and its af | fluents. A French company is said I to have been formed in Cayenne, with I hangars on the Maroni river, and ! French aviators with Hying experience gained in the war are being employed to run the twenty-five hydro?irplanes said to have been furnished by the government. In addition to making maps, the machines will be employed for carry-, ing valuable freight, mails and pas sengers. There are immense rivers in ! French Guiana which, because of the presence of many rapids, are now : only navigable in canoes which take weeks to transport freight over dis-'. Lances which the hydro?irplanes can cover in as many hours, with always J large stretches of smooth water of- : fering a suitable surface for landings; and ?"take-offs." The freight charges arc said to be high, and the traffic is expected to J consist mainly of gold, balalo and es sence of rosewood, which arc the principal exports of the colony. The' passenger business is not expected to . be heavy. These hydoaifplanes will also be used for prospecting the forests for balato trees which grow in groups so j that the foliage can, it is said, be readily distinguished by aviators fly ing low over the terns of the forest: trees. In the past the securing of fresh sources of balato has been a work of much danger and difficulty.; Specially trained balato worker's, well j armed, traveling in bands of fifteen or twenty, have been employed to ex plore the forests and they had to ear-1 ry with them supplies to cover many months. RED~CR?SS WILL LEAVE ENGLAND Will Enroll All Americans In England London. Nov. 17.?The American Commission for Great Britain and Ireland, which has carried on the American Red Cross work in England during the war, is finishing its labors and planning to return to America. In future the organization's inter ests in this country will be looked after by the London Chapter of the society of which the American Am bassador. John W. Davis, is honorary president, Viscountess Harcourt, chair man, and LttV/r >ncc L. Tweedy hon orary secretary: The London Chapter is trying to enroll every American in England. Debasing < hu:< lies. London, Nov. 14.-?Conversion of several churches in various parts of England into moving picture theaters h;.s resulted from decreasing church attendance and the consequent dis organization or amalgamation of e? igre^ali??ns. At Torquay one form er place of worship has been turnet? into a lau miry. Rd Track's." THE TBT7E 19. WOlPDRIvFi OUT AMERICANS; Secrets of Anti-American Policy! of Mexico Laid Bare By Investigators ; PRESIDENT WRITES TO SENATOR FALL ! The Constitution Places the i Responsibility Upon the Pres-! ident Washington. Dec. 8.?The resolu- j tion asking President. vVilson to break ; off diplomatic relations with the Car- j ranza government was abandoned to- 1 day by Republican leaders in the sen- j ate after the president had informed: Senator Fall of New .Mexico, its au-' thor. that he would "be gravely con-j cerned to see any such resolution pass! the congress." In announcing, after a conference! with Senators Fall and lirandegee, of! Connecticut, thai, the foreign relations j committee would take no aetion on j the resolution. Senator Lodge said: ! "We wanted to help, but now the) entire Mexican situation goes to the I president. The responsibility is on his shoulders. Let it rest there." Passage of the resolution the presi dent wrote Senator Fall, would "con- j stitute a reversal of our constitutional practice which might lead to very grave confusion in regard tot he guid ance: of our foreign affairs," declaring that the initiative in directing rela-1 tion? with foreign governments were assigned by the constitution "to the! executive and to the executive only." Mr. Wilson said he was confident that] "the only safe course" was "to ad-j here to the prescribed method of the! constitution. "We might go very far afield if we I departed from it." ho said. Senator Fall, in - a statement to- j night, took issue with the president that the sena.te could not advise on matters affecting relations with foreign governments until requested to do so by the president and said there were precedents to support him. He also said he won id again request the com mittee to postpone action on his reso lution "or upon any phase of the Mex ican matter" until the president had bad time to give the subject his con sideration." Before the president dispatched'-his letter the senate foreign relations committee held an hour session for discussion of the Mexican situation in cluding the Carranza oil decrees, which have been the subject of dip lomatic correspondence between the United States and Mexico, but at the suggestion of Sena'or Fall, action on the resolution was deferred until the president had expressed his view. Senator Fall tonight made public memoranda which he sent the presi dent dealing with ;.ho results of the in vestigation by the senate committee of which the Xew Mexico senator is chairman. Part of this information was given Mr. Wilson last Friday byl Senator Fall when he and Senator! Hitchcock, called at the White House! to discuss the Fail resolution. Mr. Wilson's statement in his letter that what the Xew Mexico senator; nad told him of the investigation pre-! pared 'him to lind in the memoran-; .ium matter of "the greatest-import-: ance" was interpreted by seme sena tors as meaning that - the president had not yet had time to study Mr.! Fall's report. Senators noted also that the presi-i dent's letter gave no indication as to. whether a change of the administra-j Tion's attitude toward Mexico was un-| der consideration. During the day ? the State department was advised by) 'lie American embassy at Mexico City! that Carranza's reply to the American note renewing the request for the re-j base of Consular Agent Jenkins was. to be handed to the American charge today. The reply had not been re ceived at the State department tonight. Meantime the investigation into the liberation of Jenkins <>n bail last, week was continuing. Officials read without comment a statement given j out by J. Salter Hansen at Mexico City thai he had acted on his own ;nitia''ve and responsibility in furnish-; b:" LOOO pesos bail for Jenkins' re-j Senator Fall announced today that Iiis committee would continue its in vestigation of the Mexican situation.' lie expects to leave for the border be fore the new year to pursue the in quiry there. The president's letter to Senator Fall follows: "Thank you very much for your kind promptness in complying wrb ivy request that you send me a cop; of the memorandum report <u' ;hc; subcommittee on Mexican affairs of ihe committee of foreign affairs. 1 shall examine it with the greatest in terest and care. What you told me .>;' the investigation, on Friday last. pr? - pares mo to find in it matter of ;!e er- alesi importance "You ask an indication of my de sire with regard to the pending res olution to which you and Senator Hitchcock called my attention on Fr: 'ay. and T am glad to reply with the utmost frankness that 1 should he gravely concerned to sec any s>'ich r??solution pass the congress. It would constitute a reversal of our e in stitutional practice which might lead to very grave confusion in regard to, SOUTHRON, EetabUabed Jims, :*w VoLXLIX. No. 35. FLOODS SPREAD DEATH IN SOUTH Fourteen Known Victims of Winter Flood in Alabama and Mississippi MANY THOUSANDS ARE RENDERRED HOMELESS Streams Still Rising and Great er Damage and Suffering is Expected Atlanta, Dec. 11.?Fourteen des'.hs are thus far attributed to the floods in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and. a property damage running probably into the millions. Nearly three thou sand persons are homeless in Missis sippi on account of the flood?one thousand at Hatiiesburg* and more than one thousand at Meridian. Rail road trathe in the hood area is vir tually stopped. The dead includes three negroe.'i who were drowned at Hattiesburg when a rescue boat carrying nine was overturned. Three were drowned near Atlanta and two were killed in Mississippi when two trains ran into washouts. One negro was drowned at Meridian, and two whites and three negroes were drowned in va rious parts of Alabama. - Hundreds were marooned in various sections on account of high water, some streams are still rising and with the swift cur rent rescue work with small boats is hazardous. 100,000 DOLLARS MARK PASSED Results of Nationwide Cam paign of Episcopal Church Continue to Come in to Headquarters Columbia. Dec. 10.?Latest reports of the nationwide campaign of the Episcopal.. church are as - fofltows:., Atonement, Blacksburg, $115; St. Thaddens, Aiken, $2,200; Holy Apos tles', Barnwell, $625;# Holy Commun ion. Allendale, $4-18; St. Paul's. Sum merville. $.*;,20?; Calvary, Glenn Springs. $681.64; Resurrection, Green wood. $1,350. The negro churches as a whole have undertaken $2.000 a year. This includes a list of 23 congregations. The total /uns up well over the $100.000 mark tonight; total sum to be raised during the coming year, ? 160.535; total sum reported to date from 71 churches. $105.960.95;' re mainder to be raised from 5S churches $54.574.05. CLEMENCEAU'S VISIT IMPORTANT Paris Newspapers Attach Great Significance to Con ference Paris, Dec. 10.?Premier ? Clemcn ceau's trip to London is of great po litical importance, according to news papers here, which say he will dis cuss Adriatic. Russian, Turkish and exchange questions and will seek to bring about cooperation among the entente nations. THE SERBS ARE READY TO FIGHT Jugo Slav Army Will Resist Italians in Dalmatia Mienna. Dec. 10.?Agram tele grams report that two Jugo-Slav army corps are moving toward Dalmatia and northern Albania. Serbia has explained, the message states, that the movement is a precautionary measure against any attempt at the occupation of Dalmatia or Albania by the Ital ians, which the Jugo-Slavs would be obliged to resist forcibly. the gin da nee of our foreign affairs. "I am confident that 1 am support ed by every competent constitutional authority in the statement that the initiative in directing the relations of our government with foreign govern ments is assigned by the constitu tion to the eexcutive. and to the exe cutive alone. Only one of the two houses of congress is associated with the president by the constitution in an advisory capacity, and the advice of the senate is provided for only when sought by the executive in re gard to explicit agreements with for eign governments and the appoint ment of the diplomatic representa tives who ure to speak for this gov ern nent at foreign capitals. The only safe course, l am confident, is to ad here to the prescribed method of the constitution. We might go very far afield if we departed from it. "I am very much obliged to you for having given me the opportunity to t-xprcss this opinion. ''Very truly yours. (Signed) "Woodrow Wilson." "Hon. Albert P. Fall, United States Senate."