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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Establis Consolidated Aug. 2, ] MARSHALL MAKES ADDRESS Vive President Speaks at Annual Meeting of Associated Press New York, Apirl 20?Vice President 'Marshall was aplauded by member*; of the Associated Press at their annual meeting" today when he advocated freedom of speech and press as guar : anteed by the constitution but favored "soaking it to the fellow who causes trouble in the American republic by what he says.' He drew a distinction as to rights of free speech between those who ? were born in the country and others. Native born, he said, had the right to .advocate alteration 6f the government by constitutional means to socialism v or a moriarchy, but those who sought a haven in this co?ntry had no right to propose a change in the system of government. The vice president was the chief speaker at the luncheon of the mem bers in connection with the annual meeting, at which the retiring five di rectors were re-elected by acclamation and, advisory boards and auditing and ^nominating committees were chosen. After deprecating the great amount of publicity given to crime and sug gesting that newspapers pour oil on the troubled waters of unrest by - speaking of the fine things in Ameri ^;J?an life, Mr. Marshall told the meet ing what he thought would be real news, namely, "a clarion call from ev ery newspaper in America for men to stand for justice, for freedom, for right, for the maintenance of the old j constitution and the old principles up V>n which the republic was founded." Not Going Back. "There are a great many people who think we are going back to where we were before August 1, 1914. We are not going back there, gentlemen. I wish to God it were possible to go ?back to 1849, but we live in the year of grace 1920, and we are not going back . . . and ycu know and I know, whether we close our eyes to it or not, that 10,000,000 men did not agon ize and suffer and die upon the far flung lines of Flanders and France that the world might be what the world was. "The problem for the Associated Press is as to whether it is to act as a mere machine or .whether with the opportunities and the privileges the Associated Press has it will assume some of the responsibilities for bring 'i^g peace and q[uietude.and good order at last to America if not the world." The vice president counselled against being discouraged at high prices. He recalled the days after the Confederate war when he said flour sold up to $20 a barrel, quinine for 120 an ounce and calico for SO cents a yard. Going: to Extremes ? ""Let's get down from the theory." he said, "that we must either make All the money that we can today for tomorrow we die, or we must spend all the money we have today for fear there will be none tomorrow. Let us /understand that American prosperity can not continue if the farms and fac tories-of this courttry are to producci less and people are to increase and consume more and what is the use talking about congress, or courts or any other human instrumentality set ting aside the plain laws of nature?*' The luncheon opened with a toast to the fully restored health of Presi dent Wilson, proposed by Frank E. Noyes. president of the Associated Press. Briefly reviewing the work of the Associated Press, Mr. Noyes said it had become a "hall mark of accu racy whether the event recorded is : the election of a president, the sign ing of an armistice, a derision of the supreme court or the death of a pope." He introduced Vice President Mar shall as one whom the people wero appreciating more and more because .of his delightful personality, his res olute cheerfulness and sturdy good sense. In concluding their busines meeting the members adopted a vote of thanks to the directors and officers for their efficient service during the last year, and Victor F. Lawson of the Chicago Daily News gave a short talk on tho public responsibilities of publishers and the success of co-operative news gatehring by the Associated Press. Melville E. Stone, the general man ager, was called on for a speech, and said: \ "Don't shoot the organist. He's do ing the best he knows how. He's go ing to continue to do the best he knows how." GEN. OBREGON AGAINST CARRANZA Uprising in Mexico Spreading and Gaining Strength Agua Prieta, Sonora. April 21.? The whole State of Michoacan has joined the rebels, according to Mexi can Carranza General Pesquiera. Gen. Obregon commands the Michoacan revolutionary tioops. according to American army intelligence reoorts. ELECTION IN CUBA Republicans Nominate Senator Artola Havana, April 21.?Th?? Republican party has nominated Senator Artob? as their candidate for President of Cuba, hcd April* 1850. "Be Just i .881. ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY KILLED Fatal and Destructive Tornado Sweeps Through Three j States I Birmingham, April 21.?One hun-l j dred and eighty were killed, scores j I of injured, and property damage run i ning into the millions wa3 caused by I the tornado which yesterday swept {parts of Alabama, Mississippi and ijTennessee. Sixteen bodies have been! jibrought into Hamilton, Ala. Red! I Cross relief parties and special trains!' ' were rushed to the stricken sections,! carrying doctors, nurses and food. ! Appeals for aid have been received j from many small towns and plans j I have be,en made to rush tents and j j food to ' hundreds of people whose i i homes were destroyed. Late reports j make the list of dead over one hun j dred and sixty. I MEMORIAL FUND DRIVE i ? ? - . ? Campaign to Raise Funds for Memorial Building Is Be ing Pushed to Con clusion Columbia. April 21?According to the information received here today by the South Carolina Memorial Com mission, -Lancaster, Heath Springs and Kershaw yesterday raised $3,500 for the erection of the memorial building. Col. Leroy Springs, of Lancaster, supplemented his former subscription of $1,000 by an addition al $500. i The renewed campaign for the sol icitation of $400,000 for the memorial building,, which started yesterday and will terminate on April 30th. is at tracting" a deal of interest in practic ally every county of the State. Berkley, Allendale, Calhoun and Richland counties have reached their quotas. Williamsburg, Lee. Sumter. Chest er, York, Bamberg. Anderson. Orange burg. Greenwood. Saluda. Chesterfield. Colleton, Edgfield, Lexington. Chero- j kee. Newberry, Jasper. Marlboro,! Georgetown. Aiken, Lancaster. Abbe ville, Beaufort. Florence, McCormick. Marion. Horry, Oconee. Barnwell. Darlington. Union. Kershaw and Fair field counties commenced their solici tation campaign yesterday. Greenville. Dillon, Hampton. Lau rens, Dorchaster. Pickens Spartanburg Clarendon and Charleston counties will be able to start their "drives'* within the next few days. American Cotton Association ; ! Columbia. Apirl 20.?The American j Cotton Association which met last j week at Montgomery. Ala., has taken | j steps to co-operate with the Nation- j j al Research Council, of Washington. | looking to a scientific investigation into the greater use of low grades of cotton in the manufacture of textiles. Conferences on this subject were had during the convention between the Association officials and Harrison E* Howe, the representative of the coun cil. So impressed were the officials of j the Association with the Council's! proposition as presented by Mr. Howe that it has been decided, it was learn-j I ed today, to name a member of the I Association as its representative on a committee of the council which will i j undertake to find means and methods) j to make "sorry* cotton more largely j used in industry- I Prof J. E. L>uggar. director of the Alabama Experiment and Extension | Service, will in all likelihood be the i i ? ; Association's representative on the j j scientific committee. Professor Duggar was also named j J by President Wannamaker as one of i the members at large to investigate j i and repoit on a plan of co-operative j I marketing for the Association. Speak-j j ing ori this latter subject and the re- j I suits of the convention, Professor j Duggar said: "The sessions of this convention ! have been chock full of constructive; work. This work has not been chief-1 i ly in public, but has been effected in the interesting work of numerousv committees. Probably there never! was a former convention held in thq ; South at which committee work was more arduous. Among the most i constructive steps taken were thosd! toward the more general installation j of bonded warehouses. Marketing! was the main theme of the convention, j including, as it does. warehousing, classing and prevention of present j wasteful methods of handling. "The convention was notable in that j it did not pass hot-air resolutions, but; mapped out only such work as seemed; of definite accomplishment and prac-i ticable. Probably the most interest-1 ing subject presented was that of the j California delegate, who gave the re-J. suits of the experience of co-opera-j tive marketing by the Pacific Slope > fruit growers. Committees received much helpful suggestions from these i plans, but refrained from hasty en dorsement of them. Instead the As sociation appointed a committee on co-operative marketing to work out a place that can be adapted to Southern conditions as they now ex ist, or as we may reasonably expect.' them to improve within the next four years. 'The keynote of the convention^ eonelr-io was that the seller must) on ;m 'quality with the buyer and: therefore have more to say than in j the past regarding the price to be re ceived for bis cotton." tnd Fear Not?Let all the ends Thou A 3UMTER, S. C, SA.TTJE BRYAN ALSO RAN IN NEBRASKA _ Hiram Johnson Choice of Repub licans and Hitchcock of Democrats ~ Omaha. April 21?Incomplete re turns from the Nebraska presidential primary election show Senator John son leading for the Republican nomi nation, with General Wood second. Senator Hitchcock overwhelmed his Democratic opponents, with three Hitchcock delegates at large leading, j and Bryan took fourth place. FRENCH TROOPS SAVE WORKERS Turks Driven Off From'Aintab Asia Minor Constantinople, April 21.?French troops have entered Am'tab and re lieved the situation. American relief workers sent messages from there last week asking for assistance. CLEMENCEAU HOME AGAIN Former Premier Returns From Visit to Egypt Frais, April 21.?Former Premier Clemenceau has returned from visit ing Egypt. AVIATION AS SPORT Professional Flyers Have Am bitious Program For Next 1 Year i New York. April 21?Air event* planned for 1920 promise to make it a big aviation sport year, according to the American Flying Club. The ?first event of importance will be the j flying field day of the Intercollegiate* Flying Association at Mineola Field, N. Y.. May 7. Eleven colleges and universities will be represented in a varied program of flying stunts, which will be concluded with a cross-coun try flight. In this race each will be permitted to enter two airplanes and a cup will be awarded to the wiuner.' The start will be made. at Mineola -"Field, where the race also will end after a circuit that probably will in clude Philadelphia and Princton. Arrangements also are being made by the club for a seaplane race around Long Island. This probably will be held curly in the summer. The club is co-operating with the training and operations group of the United States army air service in planning for 'trans-continental air race between New York and Alaska, a distance of 4,870 miles. In the tentative pians the course is mapped out from Mineola across United St- tes territory to Min ot, N. D.. crossing to Saskatchewan. iCanada, and across the Dominion to Fort Egbert or the Alaska border. In Alaska tho route runs to Circle, Fort Yukon, Fairbanks, by way of Fort Gibbon, thence to Nulato and Nome. 'Compulsory stops at an average of each 150 miles will be arranged. Flying events of a sporting nature, i will not be confined, however, to the United States in 19 20. In France a ! flying meet is scheduled to be held at Juvisy, near Paris, May 22 and 2'i. (The British aircraft*exhibition will bql held at London in July. In addition! the British government has offered j several million in pounds as prizes j for various airplane sporting events] to be held during the year. The Cape j to Cairo route is being blazed. Between j the two points the distance by rail, boat or ground transport is approxi-1 mately 6,223 miles. The aerial line is j about 5,200 miles. CARRANZA IS LOSING OUT Desertions From His Ranks General Washington, April 21.?Further de-j fections from ranks of Carranzastas j are reported in official and unofficial i advices from Mexico. Private ad-i vices said General Gomez with 3.000 j men had occupied Tuxpam and was; threatening Tarn pico. { FLOOD AT CINCINNATI! People Moving Out of the Lower! Part of City Cincinnati. April 21.?Persons liv ing along the river are preparing to j move should the lowlands become in- I undated by the rising waters of the' Ohio river. j MURDER WILL OUT Top-do. April 21?The police are' working on a clue that is expected to. solve the mystery surrounding the dis- : appearnce of .Anna Moffard. two j years ago. After arresting a restaur-j ant keeper detectives started excavat ing. WOMEN DON OVERALLS Washington. April 21. Six young.j women congressional secretaries have donned overall trousers. i Jms't at be thy Country's, Thy God's a ;DAY, APRIL 24 1920. AMERICAN STEAM ER WRECKED Susquehanna Goes Ashore on the Dalmatian Coast?Pas sengers Are Saved - Triests. Aprii 21?All the. passen-1 gers on the American steamer Sus quehanna, which went ashore on the "Dalmatian coast, are safe, according! to messages receiver, today. THE NATIONAL GUARD CAMPS _ ! State Militia Will Receive Train-; ing at Camp Jackson - i Columbia, April 21?Camp Jackson! has just been decided upon as the lo cation of one of the National Guard .training camps to be conducted by the army this summer. This is the four-day school for officers and non commissioned officers, and is prelim inary to the general National Guard camp to be held either at Camp Jack son or Mt. Pleasant, probably Camp Jackson, for fifteen days during the summer. The exact date for the fif i teen-day carnp has not yet been de cided. The Adjutant General's office is in receipt of advices today from the Southeastern Department at Charles ton, to the effect that Camp Jackson has been decided upon as the place for the four-day school. In addition to these two National Guard schools, there is also to be a training period for R. O. T. C, this also to be held at Camp Jackson, and !to be attended by more than 2.000 student soldiers from all parts of the Southeast. There is also to be a training period for regular army offi cers of the Southeastern Department The fifteen-day National Guard camp, to be held at Mt. Pleasant or Camp Jackson, will likely be an ex clusive South Carolina affair and will be for the entire National Guard of the State. The cost of these camps is borne by the United States government. STRiKL AT DEADLOCK Chicago Railroad Men Refuse to Vote on Question Chicago, April 21?Striking railroad men refused to vote on the question of returning to work. The efforts of the committee of strike leaders to ob tain action failed. STRONGER ARMY IS NEEDED Germany Wants Force to Keep Order Paris, April 21?Germany has ask ed permission to maintain a larger armed force than permitted by the peace treaty. The request said it is necessary to have a larger force to preserve order. ANDERSON MAN IS DROWNED Anderson, April' 21?W. L. Conwell was killed when the bateau taking him and E. G. Partain across the Savannah river became unmanage able and was swept over Cregg shoals dam. Partain escaped injuries by grabbing a friendly rock as the craft was demolished. SOLDIERS' RELIEF Republicans Framing New Pen sion Grab Washington. April 21?The Repub lican leaders, following a conference, said the house would consider soldier relief legislation on May 3rd. BUYS SHIPBUILD ING PLANT City C .mission of Jacksonville Takes Over Eently Plant Jacksonville. April 21.?The city commission has voted to buy the Bentley shipbuilding plant. STRIKE AGREE MENT IS MADE Railroad Men Return to Work at New York Washington. April 2 1?The agree ment with railroad brotherhood un ions under which the strikiuu rail road workers of Xew Yoi k will re turn to work was announce 1 by Ed- j ward McHugh, their spokesman He said he had abandoned :.he effort to have the rase taken up separately by j the Railroad Labor Board. SCHOOL CONFER ENCE IS CALLED Washington. April 21?Commis sioner Claxton has called eleven re gional conferences in various parts of the country to consider rom'mcrcuil training schools. nicl Truth's." THE TRUE S( HORDES OF TAX DODGERS Government Agents Find That More Than Three Hundred Thousand Fail to Make Honest Returns Washington, April 21?Despite the government's war time appeal for tax! payments as a patriotic duty, morel than 300.000 firms and individuals'i failed to make honest returns under j the revenue law in the last two years,; the bureau of internal revenue an nounced tonight. In a six months' j drive, which ended February 1, $19, I 051.000 in delinquent taxes were col lected, Commissioner Williams report ed. "The amazingly large number" of I persons who did not respond to the, I government's appeal has caused treas j m y officials to consider the delinquent j tax payment problem a grave one. A new round up of alleged delinquents j has been instituted to cover the tax ? period on which returns were made March 15. j Of the total delinquents 131,386 i had not paid any income taxes and an additioal 44,260 did not pay th^ full amount of taxes due. From these two sources approximately $11,000,000 was collected. Discovery was made also, the report said that 164,590 firms had not turn ed over to the government the entire amount of the so-called luxury taxes on sales and admissions. In some cases, firms failed to make any returns of the collection. Internal revenue colectors, in all cases, forced the de linquents to make good the entire amount as well as pay a heavy penal jty, Mr. Williams said. I The bureau estimated that for the present year mere than 7,000,000 firms and individuals will pay federal taxes. It is utlizing every avenue of information to check up on "tax slackers, and an average of 2,200 per sons wil carry on the government's investigation of suspected delinquency FttlPINOS THREAT EN REVOLUTION They Will Appeal to Arms to Se cure Immediate Inde pendence Manila, April 22?The Democratic party will join the nationalists in de j manding the immediate independence j of the Philippine Islands, even using j force of arms, if necessary, according j to Senator Sandiek. SIGNS OF MA- . RINE DISASTER Coast Guard Cutter Unable to Find Disabled Steamer O'Brien Boston, April 22?The coast guard cutter Acuhenet, which has been searching for the disabled steamer O'Brien, reported having found the sea covered with fuel oil and the name board of the steamer drifting. j HORRID CRIME j IN QUEBEC ???? j Woman Sentenced to Death for j Torturing and Murder of Girl ! Quebec, April 22?Mrs. Marie Gag j tfion, who has been found guilty of i torturing and murdering her sixteen j year old step-daughter, was sentenced i ?.o be hanged on October 1st. The evi j dence disclosed that the girl was burned with a red hot poker, made to ! walk barefoot in the snow, and forced i to drink poison. ; >_ i ALL-AMERI CAN LEAGUE i ? ??????* President of Uruguay Proposed Organization of American Nations for Mutual Protection Monteviedo, April 22?The forma tion of an American League on the basis of absolute equality between ail American nations for common action against aggression threatening in any form by outside nations, is proposed by President Brum. of Urugauy. CYCLONE VICTIMS Twenty-Three Killed In Madison County, Ala. Huntsville, Ala., April 21?Madison county reports twenty-three dead and several others so seriously injured ? hnt thev may die. Preparations have been made to bury the dead and re uuiid the devasieu area. WHEAT CROP POOR Farmers Advised to Increase Planting of Spring Crops Washington. April 22 The poor condition of th?> winter wheat crop and the continuous world demand here caused the Department of Ag riculture to advise farmers to revise their planting plans and increase the production of spring crops. ? )?THRON, Established June Voll. n< LLOYD GEORGE? CONTRADfi Statement Comparing Confederacy With Irel Challenged by Sons of Veterans Atlanta, April 21?In a statei issued here today N. B. Forrest, mander in chie? of the Sons of Cc*;, federate Veterans criticsed recent i terances of Premier Lloyd George Great Britain in connection with '? Irish question in which Lloyd G? compared the Irish republic to Southern Confederacy .and Eamon 1 Valera now touring the South, to ? ferson Davis. Res-'utions condemning the; marks of Lloyd George were adoj at a meeting of the executive ol of the Sons of Confederate Veten in Washington last week, according to Mr. Forrest, who said: "In comparing the Irish republic the Southern Confederacy and De V; era to Jefferson Davis, Lloyd Gepi has offered, unconsciously, perhaps, gratuitious insult to the Southern States in the American union and to the splendid sons of the Southern'Con federacy who fought and distinguish ed themselv n the fields- of France in the woi^u ar. It is remarkable that a statesman holding the high of fice of premier of Great Britain would be so ignorant of the political h?ftory of America. "Ireland has not the "iatus o' atf independent State as was the'-^ease with the American colonies. Ireland has not been a self-determining-, re public. De Valera, without discredit ing his status, is not the elected pre* sident of a confederation of states, called as was Jefferson Davis, fc?-'the high office. There is no para?^ in which the status of* the so-called re public of Ireland and that of ^.'.pre sident correspond to the Southern Confederacy and its chief executing." RICHLAND HIGH WAYPL? Capt. J. Roy Pennell Elected En* gineer?Columbia-Camdea %: Road to Be Paved v Columbia, April 22.?Capt. X....; Pennell, chief engineer of the?: Highway ^Department, who wilLrc from the department as soon as th? new commission elects an enigheer, has been engaged as engineer for'ui?; Richland County Highway Commis sion, charged with the building of j2, 000.060 worth of paved roads iw^* capital city's county. Announcement to this effect is made here todayr fol lowing a meeting- of the county high-, way commission held Wednesday af ternoon, when Capt. Penneil was se lected as the county's road engineer. At the same meeting the commis sion adopted a policy which is said to be spreading throughout the country ?to hold up on its road work as much as possible now, while ? money and building conditions are in a somewhat doubtful situation. The Richland commission decided to use federal funds now available,. I [matched by county money, for the j paving at once *of five miles of coun ty highway, possibly the main high ! way from Columbia to Camden, known as the "Two Notch Road," but to pave no other roads at the present until it was ascertained what the real cost of the work on the first five miles proved to be. In other words, - the /five miles to be paved will serve as a j sort of experiment, on which' will- be based the further actions of the com mission with regard to the paving program. This course was found necessary be cause of the fact that the act author izing the $2,000.00'00 bond issue in Richland specifies that the roads pav ed shall be 16 feet in width and that none of the paving shall cost more ' j than $30.000 a mile, j John J. Earle. prominent Columbia ; attorney, was chosen as attorney for j the commission. / j Capt Pennell. as engineer for the ? j county commission, will have charge j of the surveys and the work of pav j ing. Survey parties will be put on j the roads at once and the five miles I will be completed as soon as possible. ! In adopting its policy of conserva I tive expenditures the commission call j ed attention to the fact that in many, i parts of the country road programs' ! are being abandoned, until the cost of i materials and labor is reduced arid ! until conditions in the money market ! improve. It is stated by the commis ! sioners that in future the money put I into roads will prove a better invest i ment. The commission does not know whether it can build all the roads called for in the highway act for Richland at the cost specified or not. j This will depend on the result of the work on the first five miles. UNION IN CHINA Hianghai. April 21.?The dominant elements of Northern and Southern Chma will merge and organize a new parliament, according to Wu-ting Fa ng. REPRESENTED AT SAN REMO Washington. April 21?Ambassador Johnson at Rome has been instructed to attend the Allied conference at San Remo as the American official obser ver. He will not participate .In the discussions or deliberations.