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PENITENtlMY FOfc HAYWOOD District Attorney Declares Time Has Expired For I W. W. to File Appeals Chicago, Dec. 18.?District Attorn ey Clyne announced today that he would ask the United States circuit court of appeals to issue ? an order remanding to the federal peniten- i tiary at Leaven worth, Kan., William J D. Hay wood and 16 co-deef ndants, officials of the L W. W., who were convicted of violation of the espion age law before Judge Landis in 1917. Failure to file, "briefs for; the appeal of j their cases within the prescribed] time was given as the reason for ask-] ing the return of the defendants to prison. He said the defendants have . ex ceeded by 20 days the time allowed under the law for the filing: of the briefs in.the upper court. Haywood and his associates have been at liberty on bonds for several months pending the appeal of their cases. INTER-CHURCH CONFERENCE Distinguished Churchmen Meet in Columbia - Columbia, De&,..l_9 .?After entering j into a wide scope of subjects relative to the inter-church world' movement' during the three days session here, the | conference prepared for the cosing j sessic-n this morning by hearing three 1 ablead^esses on subjects vital to the! movement The last meeting will be] held tonight. During ^the meeting over one hun-j dred prominent ministers and leaders; of church Work have been in attend- j anee. Among the speakers are. the; best known'men.-in the country. 'Yesterday afternoon and night Dr. Miles Fisher of New York, prominent niissionaiy leader, and Charles Row land, president of the Soirthern Pres? byterian toymen's movement, address-, ed. the conference. This morning Dr. Fisher led in the discussion, bri the '^tt^onary I Education;" Dr. Fred j Galbcaitfc . o?. Chattanooga,. Ten'n., ? spoke on "The Slew^dship Message and Program." Dr. Fisher delivered his second address of the day: Just before the noon hour on "The Enlist ment arid Training of Life.'l SevenJ important matters ixe to be considered this, afternoon and to night. -A spirit of, . cooperation has been mkaifested all during the con ference and it is believed every phurch in the State will jo?j...in the inter church world nxovement. ERAIi FRENCH Attempt Made to Assmate Gov ernor of Ireland Dublin, Dec. 19.?-An attempt wasr made this morning to assassinate Vis count French, Lord Lieutenant of5 Ireand. Gem French was driving when the snot was fired. A civilian nearly was-killed fey the bullet and a policeman wounded. MIlijERAN^ TO SITC OM CI^^ He Wilt Be Foreign Minister as Weil as Premier Paris, Dec. 19.?Alexandre MiUer and, former ?minister of war, will succeed Clemenceau as premier, says The Echo de Paris, quoting semi-offi cial reports, it is asserted that. M. Mlllerand will, in addition to being premier hold the portfolio of minis ter of foreign affairs. Stephen Pich on, the present foreign minister, is considering retiring on account of iU health, it is said. . HIGH PRICED CLOTHING. ^wrnment Officials Will Take Steps to Check Advance. Washington,. Dec. 19.?Steps to I check the rising prices of clothing] wfll be discussed at a .conference here j next month of persons interested inj production or* wearing apparel from j Producers of "aw materials to con- j sumera. The conference announced today by1 Assistant Attorney General JFlgg, who said in addition to effect ing economies in the operation it w?s planned to provide for production of} standard quality cloth and 'armentsl fop sale, at reasonable, prices as an in-1 dueement to the public to check ex- j trvaganee in purchasing. Information Wanted. The Red Cross Home Service Sec tion has very important informa tion for the persons whose names are given below. Allotment checks, have been sent to some .of these people and have, been returned unclaimed and j the government has asked the Red Cross to try to locate these parties so that the checks may be sent to them. Those whose names are given below are asked to call at the Red Cross office, 602 City National Bank Build ing and anyone who has any infor mation eonerning these parties i= asked to give that information to Miss Mamie JV Chandler, Home Ser vice Secretary, Sumter. S. C. Sarah Jane Montgomery. Annie Belle Jackson. Malvina Easley Cuttino. Lela Brown. Louise Jackson. Albert Davis. The> main building of the negro Industrial Institute at Mayesville was destroyed by fire early Tuesday raorn ingr The building was a mass of ruins after the fire had subsided. For tunately^ Only the main building was destroyed. At times the entire com munity seemed threatened. GOT. BTGKETT IRE? - ?UCES SENTENCES Life Termers in North Carolina Penitentiary Will Be Re leased After 30 Y?ars Raleigh, X. C. Dec% 19.?Gov. Thos. W. Bickett today issued a sweeping order commuting to 30 years each, the sentences of all the life termers in the Xorth Carolina State prison. "I am opposed to eternal punish ment in this world," said the gov ernor explaining his action and insist ing that the prison sentence depriv ing a man of his freedom should not also deprive him of: Ins hope. Included in the commutations are: 35 prisoners, 23 negroes and 12 white.: The whitep risoners include two wo men, one, Sara Wykoff. convicted in1 1879 of murder. The life terms of! Ida Bel Warren and Samuel Preston Christy whose trial and conviction in WinstonrSaIem in 1916 attracted na tional attention are "among those com- j muted. - PUBLIC MONEY THROWN AWAY Senate Committee Makes Re port of Investigation Washington, Dee. 18>-Inefficiency, carelessness and a disregard of the j provisions of the act under which it; operated were charged against the] United .States Housing corporation by the senate public buildings and grounds investigating subcommittee j today m a- report recommending- that j steps be taken to reeover many; thou- I sands of dollars alleged by " the sub-j committee to have been expended im-: properly by the. corporation. Mismanagement by the corporation, the report as submitted to the senate J charged, resulted in its: failure to have j ready foroccupancy a single build ing until almost two months after the armistice was signed, or oight months after, the passage of the appropriation Although citing specific expendi tures sufficiently grave, to warrant the government in entering civil suits for restitution, the report expresses thej opinion that in most of these cases> j the persons who profited win restore voluntarily the alleged unearned mon ey^ ?. ?- _ - ' \. '.. ? Other recommendations made by the subcommittee, provide that ar chitects whor it is charged, were paid excessively, for "overhead expanses, be caned.-upim-to give.the committee; an. exact statement of amount of their i overhead expenditures." These em- j p!oyee4 of the corporation, the com-i mittee believes, were not parties to: intentional violation of the law and | "if. they are actuated by the patriotic: principles attributed to them they; will refund the sums paid them in ex- i cesef of the exact cost of the over-! head." The amount the committee considers recoverable from this source j is placed at $50,000. . Civil suit to recover $20,000 spent for "extras" and 515,000 charged to subletting of labor by a contracting firm , also was recommended by the committee in the event of a failure to return the money, voluntarily.. The "extras!' were charged as incident to the construction of the dormitories in Washington for women war workers, in connecton with, which.... it was al leged original estimates were radical ly..altered indicating a- willingness to 'substitute the contractor's demands for. the estimating- division's: judg ment/' Regularity of a loan for $560,0.00 made to the Springfield Consolidated Water company of Philadelphia also was questioned in the committee's re port together, with ; other loans io railroads; street railway^, and utility companies/' The latter concerns were not iden tified. Scrutinization of. the loans by the treasury depaxtment was, recom mended with demand -for additional security, where inadequate collateral had been provided. Charges of inefficiency and bad management were more prominent in its report than references to over- j payment, while attention is called to the denials of the officials of the cor poration that they intended to let con tracts for more than the appropria tion act provided, the report declares, the officials had planned, according to the records secured by tro commit-j tee. the expenditure of $145,175,50+, I although the amount of the appro priation was $100,000,000. Practically all buildings erected b> the corporation were of a permanent character, the committee reported, notwithstanding the provision that they be of a. temporary character. The failure of the corporation to pro duce a completed house until the first of the present year- was pointed to by the committee as indicative of the nature of the organization. , FIVE KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK Ten Other Passengers Suffer Injuries Walton, Va*. Dec. IS.?Dr. Charles Austin Hamiln, of High Point.. N. C, and the Rev. Bernard R. Green ofj Louisville. Ky., and three other pas sengers were instantly killed, and ten persons injured here early tonight when Xorfolk & Western passenger j train Xo. 26, known as the "Memphis Special." collided with the rear end of XOrfolk & Western passenger train Xo. 4, Columbus to Xorfolk. The victims were in three wooden coaches on the rear of the latter train, two of the coaches heing demolished. The wreck, which is said to have been the result of misunderstood signals, occurred at a water tank a half mile! from here. The bodies of the dead and the injured persons were taken to Roanoke tonight. Washington, Dec. 20.?President Wilson has again nominated John Skelton Wiliams as comptrcllei of the currency. AMERICA TO?SLOW England and France Wilt Pro ceed to Make Peace With Turkey London, Dec. IS.?Without any dis respect and without wishing to deprive America of the honor of sharing in the guardianship- of Christian com munities, the allies have decided to make peace with Turkey at the earl iest possible moment, Premier . Lloyd George declared in the house of com mons today. Mr. Lloyd George said there was complete agreement among the allied on the question of non-intervention in Russia, but-that.discussions wece pro ceeding between the United Stated j and Japan concerning future action ' should the Bolsheviki advance reach to any considerable degree east ward. Premier Lloyd George said it was| impossible to make peace with Russia | because of the civil war existing; there. If the Bolsheviki wanted to speak for Russia, he added, they' must summon a national assembly; based on a broad . franchise that; would represent something with I Which the allies could make peace. Mr. Lloyd George said the agree- j ment to guarntee France against | wanton aggression was subject to rat- j ification by the United Sttaes of that! particular, point. If-the United States j should not ratify the guarante to! France, he stated, Great Britain would j be free to reconsider her position. The. premier began by defending a \ certain reticence in-negotiation, in-' staacirig the danger of: dropping a word- calculated to kindle inftamma- J tory opinion in Italy regarding Fiume,J but contended that this was not secret diplomacy and pointed out that the j publicity given. to all decisions of the ; Paris conference was unprecedented. 1 With reference to the Anglo-Ameri-: can-French convention he said thatj the British government had given no, undertaking on the subject for the simple reason that it could not im agine that the United States would dishonor the signature of its great representative. H? admitted that for! Great Britain to undertake the charge! alone would; be a serious obligation,! whicn he . would not-enter upon with- j out the consent of parliament. j . Adding to his Rus^n .s^tement he ! said it was a dismal. prospect but all j that could be done was to deep vigi-j lant watch until Russia issued from its present darkness with a stable gov- j ernment to carry on negotiations.; The premier, referred to... the assist- j anee the allies were rendering Aus-1 tria,in food, .coal and other-supplies! which he described as a mere s^ttpj kitchen policy to mitigate a situation j requiring large methods. j "Put."- the Premier continued, j ??England alone already is severely j burdened and can not undertake the i task of restoring the shattered world) and I fail to see what can be done un less America comes frankly to take! her fair share." ! Mr. Lloyd George defended the de lay in making peace with\ Turkey on j the ground of the necessity .to know j what the United States intended to do. France and Great Britain he declar-1 ed already had heavy burdens while j the United States was under no great; extraneous burdens and had her gi gantic resources. /. y \ It would have been precipitate and ( lead to misunderstandings'and suspiq-i ions, Mr Lloyd George sadL^Vhad-}k?s^ not awaited Americans decision.. We | are no.w entitled .to. say that .we have waited -up to the very minute weprqm ised America and there is no prospect of America coming in." . It was here that Mr. Lloyd. George declared that without nay. disrespect and without wishing to. deprive the} United.States of the, honor of sharing] *? the guardianship of Christian com-; m unities, the allies , had decided-to j make peace with Turkey at the earl iest possible moment. STILLS CAPTURED! Rural Policemen Waging War; on Moonshiners Rural Policemen Boykin, Newman and Norris are very successful in their attempt to decrease the number of stills in Sumter county. Yester day they made a raid on a house near Gaillards Cross Roads, about three miles-from DalEell. In this raid they secured two barrels of mash and a complete still. At the time of the raid the still was not in operation. A ne gro named Edward Carter was arrest ed and placed in jail here, but was later released on bond. The second raid on the day's pro gram was directed against the home j of another negro named Ashley Har-1 vin. near, the gas plant. This raid, which was also conducted by the ru ral . policemen,. was even more suc cessful than the . first. Harvin was caught in the act of running the still. The mash was being made into whiskey. He was. arrested and is now in jail. The rural police are on the job and! more captures may be expected in the I future. WHOLESALE EXECU- j TIONS IN RUSSIA j Three Hundred and Fifty Put to j Death in Petrograd Helaingfors, Dec. 19.?The discov ery of an anti-Bolsheviki plot is re- j ported in Petrogrnd. Nine hundred J persons have been arrested and three hundred and fifty have been executed I following trial by the revolutionary j tribunal . j Onawa. Muio.e. Dec. 20.?Fifteen persons were killed or burned to j death and many sustained burns and j injuries today when a freight train | collided with a speical train carrying' emigrants westward from St. ... John, j Xewbrunswick,. on the Canadian Ba-j cific railway near hce. The engine] and forward cars of the emigrant! train were telescoped and the wrec?-*j age burned. REPUBLICANS PROMISE ECONOMY Chairman of Appropriation Committee Says Expendi tures Wifl Be Re duced Washington, Dec. 18.?All general appropriations for 1921 will he pared down "in accordanec with strictest' economy" except the postoffice depart ment and pension estimates which are less than for the present year, Ma jority Leader Mondell, Wyoming, told the house today when the first urgent deficiency bill of this session was brought up. Greatest reductions; would be made in the army and for- j tifications estimates, he said, the former request totaling $982,800,020, and1 the latter $117,793,330, an in crease of more than $106,000,000 over the present appropriations. The. balance of estimated libalities over receipts, Mr. Mondell said, is $3,- j 050,508,574. Estimates of expendi-1 tures, he said, would suggest exces-' siveness. This, he explained, was: true, adding "at least we must make] it true by reductions of hundreds of millions of dollars." Total estimated receipts for thej year, he said, are $6,038,850,000. "These official estimates of the re ceipts,'' he added,, "are notable that they carry no estimate of receipts on acount of interest on our loans of, nearly $10,000,000,000 to foreign gov- j ernmenp3. This interest, if paid, j would increase our receipts and light- j en our burdens for the year by nearly i $500,000,000." Funding of interest on foreign ob ligations for two or three years; would increase foreign loans at least $2,000,000,000 abcve the present fig-! ure, Mr. Mondell said. "The fact that such action has been taken by the secretary of the treasury," he,explained, "reduces our inocmes or increases our outlays, half a billion dollars annually." "Congress should cut the estimates! at least $100,0*00.0(10 and refuse every I request which is not imperative," he! added, i No provisions fo * increased pay for officers of the army and navy and for the nurses corps and ^estimates for loans, bonuses or development pro jects benefiting e::-service men are made in any of the appropriations. /'Proposals of appropriation "in be half of men recently composing our great armies run all the. way from a plan which would involve the expendi- j lure of perhaps $100,000,000 an-! nually for some ye&rs.'to plans which would involve expenditure, of several billions, and. one plan at least which, would involve obligations of tens of I billions of dolars," he said. "It is for congress to determine," j he continued, "whs.t is to be done in ; all these matters, but in arriving at; that determination let us remember that we have passed the period when, under the stimulan: of war enthus iasm, the instinct of self preservation and the determination to finish a great job gloriously, we could spend bil lions without a thought as to where the money was to come from, who was to pay it, or when i: was to be paid. "The coming fiscal year will wit ness the culmination of the growing burdens of the wars aftermath.. It presents financial problems as serious in their way as any we met during the period of the war., We can not in crease taxes.; We should . not "issue bonds. We. have no alternative but.: to economise to the limit." CUBAN SUGAR AT CHARLESTON Tine Hundred The usand Pounds Arrives From Island ?Charleston, Dec. 19.?Direct from Cuba "by .rail" 900,100 pounds ofi granulated sugar, to be distributed to j wholesalers in North and South Caro- j lina, has arrived and duty on this 12 j ear consignment has been paid at thej Charleston customs house, $10,000 be ing the import tax. Tiis city will re-! ceive only about 5 per cent, or 45,000 pounds of the sugar, which is to re- ; tail for 16 cents a po'ind, and which will be available to the consumer On Tuesday, retailers getting their al lotment from the wholesalers Mon day. The local sugar equalization board is handling the distribution of this very welcome shipment, and will apportion it out equably among wholesalers of the two States. The cars in which this sweet freight ar rived were loaded in.Cuba and trans ported to Key West on lighters, tak- j ing the rails there, anc coming direct to Charleston, where they officially "landed." Other shipments of Cuban; sugar are expected later, which will serve to relieve a general shortage of the popular granulated. The sugar is j in 300 pound sacks. MAKE WHISKEY FOR FOREIGNERS Distillers Make Great Effort to Export Stocks New York, Dec. 19.?Distillers and other owners of acoholic beverages are seeking to export millions of gal lons of whiskey and other liquors I from this and other eastern ports be-j fore January 16 when the national: prohibition amendment becomes et-! fectiye but are meeting with great: difficulty in getting freight and cargo j space, it was learned here today. Customs house officials state a . heavy export movement already is un der way. Liquor exports have been j increasing steadily for many months! of distilled alcohol, spiritous and malt; liquors reached $1.307.27?? as compar ed with only $?99.774 during the samel period last year. Agents for the Dkcie and Mer chants and Miners" steamship lines re- I port they have prepared to transport! "MOO,000 gallons of whiskey from j Norfolk and Batlimoro. - Destructive Birds Investigated. Now that the beneficial species of birds are fortified by ample protective legislation, the importance becomes apparent of perfecting methods for protecting crops against damage by birds, says the Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture. A policy j of bird conservation that will best j serve the interests of the farmer, he \ says, involves not only a thorough ap- j preciation of the value of beneficial species-but adequate attention to the ' control of troublesome ones. Follow ing out that line of endeavor, inves tigations have been made of a nurn- | ber of species complained of as trou- j blesome, and in some cases special I rulings have been made under the mi- j gratory bird treaty act to permit con- j trol measures. I It has been determined that bobo-1 links, protected under the migratory bird treaty act, are as destructive as ever to rice when opportunity offers, and in order to control them an open season has been declared on bobo links in Pennsylvaia and the Atlantic Coast States from New Jersey south ward to and including Florida. Cer tain species of wild duck, also pro tected under the act, were found , to be destructive in the rice fields of Cal ifornia, and a special order was issued permitting rice growers to kill them out of season. In the Arkansas rice fields a special order had to be is sued permitting the shooting of; ducks at night. Meadowlarks in South Carolina were found to be in flicting severe damge to sprouting corn and oats. In order to afford proper relief, says the chief of the survey, permission has been given farmers to drive the birds from the fields with shotguns, if necessary. Complaints were received from Lou isiana that night herons were a men ! ace to the frogging industry, and it was suggested to the bureau that per mission be granted to shoot them. In j vestigation, however, showed that j about 96 per cent of the food of night I herons is crawfish; not a single frog ' was found in any of the stomachs ex amined. Other birds, not protected under ^the migratory bird treaty act, were I also reported to be inflicting servere j damage in some instances. Red winged blackbirds in Ohio were found to be very destructive of sweet corn and even of field corn. Poisoning methods, effective for small fields, ! were devised, but it is necessary to j discover more economical measures i for large fields. Complaints of depre 1 dations by eagles were investigated.* i "It is evident," says the report of the j chief, "that these powerful birds are j seriously destructive at times and [ their unlimited protection is probably 'not warranted." This applies to both the golden and the bald eagle. Charges came from the South Atlantic coast that the brown 'pelican was respon sible for reduction in the number of mullet and other food fishes. Exami nation of a quantity of regurgitated material showed that of 814 fish eat en only 9 were of species valuable ?s human food. Chicago, Dec. 19.?Ceo Fonte Cam panini, director general, of the Chi cago Grand Opera Company died of! pneumonia this morning. -K- ? 1 *; -iveclif 'Wav K?sic'Insurance. It is regrettable that so ..many former service men are not keeping" up their government life insurance in Washington. The fact seems to be due largely to widespread confusion and lack of information as to the right ol" former service men to per manent government life insurance, and the process by which this insur ance may be retained. The demobilization of our armed forces was so rapid and was attend ed by such uncertainty on the part of service men as to future civil occupa tions and permanent places of abode j that it was not surprising that many I of the men gave little thought to the I matter of insurance. Others doubtless thought the original term insurance (War Time Insurance) ceased when they were demobilized and did noL know it might be converted into any one of the several forms of perma nent government life insurance (con verted insurance). Still others, im mediately upon their return to civil life, felt financially unable to con tinue the insurance. They should now take advantage of the liberal provisions for reinstatement. The government is determined that no former sendee man shall lose his right to government insurance through lack of knowledge of conditions. To this end, the press, the pulpit* bank ers, physicians and other professional men, and the great volunteer agencies of social welfare like the Red. Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Co lumbus, the Y. M; H. A., the Salva tion Army, the War Camp Commun ity Service, the Boy Scouts, and many others are now cooperating with the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in an educational campaign designed to reach the former service men, wher ever located, and tell them the gov ernment is now committed to the pol icy of permanent life insurance for its soldiers, sailors and marines. \ Term Insurance (War Time Insur ance), if it has lapsed, may be easily reinstated within eighteen months from the date of discharge, by stat ing in the application that the ap plicant is in as good health as at. date of discharge, and by the payment of only two months' premiums on the amount of insurance to be reinstated. And this term insurance (War Time' Insurance) may be converted, into one* of several forms of government poli cies. The Red Cross Home Service, 602 City National Bank Building, will give any other information desired in con nection with government insurance and will also render assistance in con verting insurance. City Manager Brown has lined off the street at the entrance to Law Range and states that the auto driv ers must not park within the lines drawn. For the second /time the hydrant at this point has been torn down, thus causing considerable loss of water and expense to replace. The drivers of cars, buggies, wagons, etc., are also, warned that cars are to >. be? parked_in the center of the street and only one deep. The business of parking other than thus prescribed will be prosecuted. Mr. A. J. Rigby of Manning spent Friday in Sumter on ' business. - If you havefasfesror*^ subdivide and sell your property AT AUCTION quickly and profitably for you. . . ..... ?. Farm hak Our Specialty-?Temtory IMnaied Nv:ey-&.ven Tbs?^rJ SixHm^edMrid.Elght^iglit acres, OfTarm Land amounting to over MJLLJO.N DOLl^RS sM in 1.918. Write for booklet of endorsement? and infor mation about our auction methods. . ATLANTIC COAST EEEfl "THZ ilAUt- ?iUKt immi^ \Q\Z*:CQUe*t\EMC& ; Offices: PETESSS?RC. V/L and GREENVILLE, R C Reference Any banlc in Petersburg, Va. or Greenville, N. C. NEELTj OT>ONNELIi, President O. L. YATES, Cashier LETS FORGIVE AND FORGET and make this the best Christ mas yet. We endorse these sentiments. Everybody fall in. The First National Bank sumter, s c. The National Bank of South Carolina of Sumter, S. C. Resources $2,250,000 Strong and Progressiv? The Most Painstaking SERVICE with COURTESY Give us tlte Pleasure of Serving YOU C. G. ROWLAND, President EARLE ROWLAND, Asst. Cashier H. L. M'COY W. Y. YEA DON