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_ THE SCMTOER WATCHMAN* Estahlis Consolidated Augr. 2,1 DISCORD BEGINS IN CONVENTION ?? Prohibition Issue Will Cause . '? . * Bitter Fight at San Francisco _ STATEMENT MADE BY BURLESON Some Delegates Regard Him as the Spokesman for the White ^ House. San Francisco, Jane 23?The rum bling discord over the prohibition is sue became hourly more'omineous as . the delegates arrived.' in increasing numbers for the democratic national convention. Hope that the storm might spend itself behind the closed doors, of the platform committee has been virtually abandoned" by leaders and they are prepared to face the outbreak of debate on the floor of the convention. Already the overshadowing issue of pre convention conference is the ques^ ; fion of the . platform * declaration against the present bone dry law which took almost the whole stage to itself as the"?deieg?tes heard of Postmaster; General Burleson's an nouncement lor ? modification of the Volstead act By many who regard Burleson as the political' spokesman for the white house, this development is accepted as a warning of which > way the wind of administration in fluence -would blow. Others refused to taken that view, but nobody seemed to know how far the sentiments of the president might be in' accord with those o*f Burleson. War On Illiteracy Every Minister in State Asked to Preach on Education, Sun day, July 4. _ . Columbia, June 23.?Governor Cooper is sending to every minister in v the State" a letter asking that the subject of stamping out illiteracy in the State be discussed on Sunday, July 4th. This is liberty. Sunday," and the governor urges 4:hat it he us? ed as an , occasion to urge for lib- ? erfrom the State's blight of ilhter-:'j -?; acy. ; - ' " " Tile governor's letter is at the sug- i >lje:stion. of the State illiteracy com mission, which is beginning a cam paign against illiteracy, to cover the summer months. The week following "Liberty Sunday" will be observed as "Write-Your-Name" week, and the aim will be to organize classes f$r;j adult illiterates, that every such illit erate in the State might be taught to write his name. Twenty, thousand voters signed the club rolls in the State in >$16 with a cross, not being able to sign their namesi There'are^ also thousands of others who cannot read and write, and it is the aim of the illiteracy department to teach all of these to at least write their names during this summer, and if possible during the week of July 4- 1I-. "Write-Your-Name Classes" and * "Lay-By Classes" are to be formed in every county in the State this summer, with the hope of educating many adult illiterates. These classes will be formed especially during the month of August, when teachers are available, and the teachers are paid for their services by the State. Eight ? eec. counties ba\-e already made plans for intensive campaigns against illit eracy during the month pf August Last year 5.000 adults were enroll ed in the "Lay-By classes' in the State. Columbia Campaign Meeting A Small Audience Heard Candi dates For State Offices Columbia, & C.? June 22.?A small audience heard candidates for State officers here today in the opening meeting of the State campaign. The contest for Lieutenant Governor was the feature of the meeting. Mr. - O. K. Mauldingj and Octavius Cohen and Wilson G. Harvey, of Charleston ma?e several humorous thrusts at each other because of the difference of their communities. Better educa tion was struck as the keynote of the campaign. The four candidates for railroad commission caused slight interest Los Angeles Shaken Again Slight Earthquake Felt This Morning Los JAngeles, Jtane 23.?A slight Earthquake at four o'clock this morn ing was felt chiefly in Southern Los Angeles and Inglewood. No damage was done. Cholera in Japan One Hundred Cases Reported in Southern Part of Country Tokio, June 22.?One hundred; cases of Cholera have been discovered in Southern Japan. ?r ? - ? ' X'^r '?>- '<!??' . ' . . . hed April, 1850. "Be Just 881, r (MWAR IN IRELAND Streets of Londonderry Swept I By Murderous Fire From Marline Guns TERRIBLE SCENES I ENACTED j ^he Number of Dead And j Wounded Cannot Be Comput ! ed Accurately As No Organi I zation for Relief Exists I ?_ ? - Londonderry, June 23 (By the As sociated Press)?Five Sinn Feiners were killed by machine gun fire em ployed to cover the removal of sever al Protestants from Barrack street tonight, acording to a military state ment. There is a lull ,now (10.30 p. m, in, the fighting. ? Scenes of the most terrible descrip tion wer-i enacted here last right, and today. Many-streets were swept by a murderous fire for 16 hours continu ously. One man was killed and ten dangerously wounded in one seetipn of the city Several bodies are reported to be lying in Bishop street Among the wounded was a young girl, and those who suffered slight injuries can not be estimated. j Sniping was indulged in on a large j scale and there was indiscriminate fir j ing of rifles and revolvers a'lT over the city. The principal^ conflict .tooH i place in Bishop street'where there was a large concentration of Sinn Feiners j in the neighborhood of St Columba's Catholic college and Nazareth home. Sand bags were thrown up from which a strong fire was directed at the I Unionists in Barrack street. There was a vigorous exchange of fire and many -casualties resulted on both .sides. I Meanwhile trouble, had broken out on an extensive scale in the region of Longtower street j arid Bishop's Gate, j where there were fierce and prolonged exchanges. Sinn Feiners occupied po sitions on r?ofs, sniping isolated Unionists- The soldiers and police were on duty but were unable to in tervene effectively The police* in Bis hop street barracks, within the battle zone, were virtually besieged.. Many passersby were wounded, and it is re-, ported some were killed but it is abso lutely impossible to get correct details During the course of> the night.there was savage .fighting in the Waterside district and the rival factions were intrenched in the Cross Street and Bond street, both of which were barricaded. Snipers were busy until 1 o'clock this evening and contingents of troops had to be moved into various streets, which, until then were impas sable to citizens. The streets had the appearance of a battle ground. Sand ! bags were thrown up with sleepy soldiers "almost in a state of exhaus j tion after the night's vigil. It is ex (pected that troops are coming by I road but no reinforcements have yet j arrived. [ There is fighting in the outlying districts from which Unionists are" J pouring* into the city. I The outside world has little idea of ; the reign of terror Londonderry has [been experiencing without respite "since Fiday last. The casualty fig ures from day to day are alarming enough/ but they picture only the shadow of the grim reality. The truth is none of the 40,000 inhabitants had been safe since the rioting began The city is virtually controlled by ex tremists of the Unionists and Nation alists who , probably number under 500. They fire volleys down the streets without warning and apparently with out reason and the citizens are thus put in a state of continuous panic, sallying forth only when the procure ment of food becomes absolutely nec essary. Many shopkeepers have sus pended business and have taken refuge on the top floors of thier busi ness premises for safety. Men who are compelled to be in their offices sleep there rather than risk stepping into the streets. x The military so far has confined its efforts to keeping the two sides apart but witho"iit great success. Every one arriving in the city is challenged for credentials and is searched for arms and amniunition. The real test for a visitor, however, comes when he is held up by either the Sinn Feiners or Unionists. With hand* in air, star ing into the muzzle of a revolver he is thoroughly searched. Some have come out of the examination rather badly. Each morning the engagement of the night before is resumed Heavy barricades have been thrown up and groups of armed men go from one place to another, either on the offen sive or defensive. How many persons have been ? killed is not known now. After the first day or two it became impossible to figure on the victims as the dead are removed, and many of the injured are treated by their com rades and carried away. A proclamation was issued by the magistrates tonight warning all citi zens to keep indoors.* The constabu lary and military, the proclamation announces, have received instructions ! to take prompt measures and if nec j essary disperse by force all assem blies. The magistrates stroiply con demn Dublin castle's inactivity. In addition to the erection of barri cades, trenches have been dug Ttf some of the streets within the battle zone. !A special train carrying two compan ies of soldiers arrived at the Great ?? I II I ' * * and. Fear Not?"Let all the ends Thou 2 SUMTES,, S. C, SATD MURPHY AND Prospects Fine for Prohibition Fight MANY RUMORS PREVALENT Leaders Refuse to Talk Politics For Publication i -" San Francisco, June 24.?The pre liminaries of the convention Got into the period of hurry and scramble/1/' j day with the appearance of one sfter i another of the men who will play the leading parts. . ' . In the whisperings behind the scenes the question of the Party policy toward prohibition continued to be' the big theme of'the agitation with pros pects * for a fight ou the Convention floor growing better and better. The discussion of possible presiden ,tial candidates is still well in back ground. Two new arrivals today ,\t "tract particular attention, one was Senator Carter Glass fresh from Washington and generally reported to have brought the Presidents >own draft of a platform. The other was Charles F. Murphy, Taihany reader, who came direct from a conference of old line party strategists, at French lick, Ind. Both ^are as busy as Bea-' ver but"are silent and as cagy as mice. Refusing to talk politics. Many Are Indicted By Grand Jury Oil Men Charged With Using Mails to Defraud New York, June 24.?Four oil companies, ten brokerage houses and about fifty individuals have been iad^ cted by. the Federal Grand Juris"; charged with using mails to defraud investors, out of millions. Federal agents throughout the country rflire now engaged in rounding up the m'to indicted. They are charged wilh making misrepresentations regarding {the oil-properties and paying dijri j dends out of the money obtained t'rjjm th* stock sale. Jf ?;-? Communists Would Cripple Shipping I Call on Transport Workers To Refuse to Load Ships Washington, June 23.?A proclama tion issued by the Central Executive committee of the Communist party of America, copies Of which were re ceived by the Department of Justice, calls on all transport workers to re fuse to. load and transport apy materials for Poland, Japan or other country that is fighting Soviet . Rus sia. Missouri Republicans Meet 1 I Will Investigate Distribution of 1 -"*> i Lowden Funds in the State Sedalia, Mo., June 24.?Republicans from throughout Missouri met here j today to consider whether action should be taken against the "party leaders involved in the distribution of $38;000 of Lowden Presidential campaign funds in Missouri. President Demands Immediate Action Railroad Controversy Must Be Settled at Once Washington, June 24.?President I Wilson has a reply today from the iRailroad Labor Board in Chicago '.'promising to expedite the wage : award in railroad controversy. The message was in reply to one sent by j President Wilson. ?????a??j^gMg?? .Northern ailroad station this evening, j The county inspector announced that la detachment of soldiers was leaving j Belfast for Londonderry. He also said ;he proposed to telephone the author j ities in London on the true situation j- Tonight firing again broke out in Bishop street and there was vigor | ous sniping from the- hill overlooking I the city. A detachment of soldiers I moved to the spot and soon firing I ceased- A military field kitchen re ; turning from its round conveyed three I soldiers with heads and arms band j aged. No bread was delivered in the city j this week. Hotels and homes are run I ning short of supplies. No gas is being produced at the gas works, and when the present supply is exhausted the city will be without lights Londonderry, June 24.?More British ; troops have arrived and their activity 'in their efforts to protect life and (property had a quieting effect. An j occasional shot was heard after mid night and two snipers arrested. The ' number ^killed and injured in the fighting yesterday and last night has not been determined. The Hospitals are filled with the injured. i Urns't at be thy Country's, Thy God's i RDAY, JUNE 26, 1920. WARRANT ISSUED FORMURPHY Boss of Tammany Hall Indicted by Special Grand Jury on ' Charge of Conspiracy to Defraud DELEGATE TO * CONVENTION Five Others Involved in Case Which is Alleged to Have Been an Attempt to Falsify Income Tax Returns New York, June 23.?Indictment of Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tam many hall, and five others oh charges of conspiracy to defraud the Uunited States' by falsifying income tax re turns and attempted intimidation of Louis N. Hartog, a wealthy manu facturer through criminal prosecution, was announced here today. The indictments, which were returned seetetly by the extraordinary grand jury yesterday camer as a great sur prise. Murphy is now on his way to the Democratic national convention at San Francisco. r Others "indicted with Murphy were Assistant District Attorney James E. Smith, one of the central figures in the "vice war" between the district attorney's office and the police de partment; John A. McCarthy, former business partner of John Murphy, I brother of the Tammany leader; 'Arthur J. Baldwin, a lawyer; Ernest B. Waiden, ^yice president of the Corn Products company, and the Corn Pro ducts company itself. Bail, for each defendant was fixed at $1,000., Murphy is charging among other things^ with trying to intimidate Har tog into settling a $10,000,000 damage ? suit brought against the Tammany " 'leader after the . latter is alleged to have withdrawn promised financial . support in a glucose product firm in which Hartog was interested. The indictment alleges' that Murphy threatened to accuse Hartog of arson, to expose to his wife his alleged secret delations with another woman, send ' him to jail for offenses he did not i commit, and ruin his- business. -Hartog^ the indictment - sets forth, -procured a $7,000,000 cruder for his product from the British government during the war. He found difficulty in acquiring the neccessary amount of glucose to complete the order. He then . enlisted the aid of Murphy through whose influence, the indict ment recites the needed ingredient was obtained from the Corn Products company.. Hartog and Murphy later disagreed over business matter arid Murphy sued Hartog to recover $125,000 in vested in the manufacturers company. Then Hartog sued Murphy, the Corn } Products company and Baldwin to recover $10,000,000 profits he said he had lost through withdrawal of Murphy's pledged support asserting he could no longer get'-glucose from the Corn Products company. Hartog was summoned to Assistant District Attorney Smith's office while these court actions were pending. Hartog alleges Smith summoned him* to force him to pay Mur,phy his $125, 000, but Smith claims he issued the summons solely iri the interest of prosecution of sugar. profiteers. Har I tog's "brother was fined $5,000 in fed | eral court for sugar profiteering, but Srftith gave Hartog himself a clean | bill. San Francisco, June 24.?Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, ac- ! j companied by Gov. Alfred Smith of! j New York, came to town tonight, but i ! he had nothing to say. The New York j j delegation' and the Tammany hosts are j i due here tomorrow. "I have been ouf j j of touch with politics for several I days," said Mr. Murphy, "and can't j say what _.the New York delegation' j will do until we have a caucus. As to !a plank in the platform to amend the I Volstead act, that is a matter that i will have to be fought out on the con jvention floor." j Mr.; Murphy's attention was called I to a story of his indictment in New ! i York On* the ground of conspiring to > j coerce Louis. Hartog, a maufacturer, i j to return $125.000 which the Tam j many leader invested with the Hartog j company. j "That's a business suit." said the ' ! Tammany chieftain, "and alt I will I say about it is that Hartog got the $125,000." j -_ Greeks Advance On Turks i ~? ?Advices Received From Smyrna j Indicate Early Battle - j j Smyrna, June 24.?The Greek Army j lhas begun an offensive against the Turkish Nationalist forces according jto the Greek Army headquaters offici- j I-al statement _ Explosion in Springfield i .-J v : Two Were Killed and Four Injur ed in Powder Explosion , i Springfield, 111...June 24.?Two men j were killed and four injured seriously I in an explosion at the Western Cart ridge Company plant here today. ind Truths." THE TRUE S TENNNESSEE MAY RATIFY SUFFRAGE Special Meeting of Legislature Called by Governor WILL VOTE ON QUESTION Uncertainty as to Whether the Ratification Would Be Consti tutional or Not i j Washington, June 24.?Assistant ! Attorney General .Frierson has advis ed Governor Roberts, of Tennessee, that the legislature of that state could j ratify the suffrage amendment with i out submitting ; the issue fo the [people. The question of constitution ality hinged on a clause- in the st?Te consitution which provides that any action on a federal amendment must be taken by a legislature elected after tne amendment had been submitted to the state. Gov. Roberts announced last night that he would call a special session* to act on the amendment but was in doubt whether ratification would -be constitutional. Attorney General Frierson Beld that the re cent decision of the supreme court in the Ohio referendum case invalid ated that clause in the constitution.: Cooperative Marketing Tremendous Advantage to be Gained by Producers ????\ \'. Columbia, June 24.?The tremen dous economic advantages of co-ope rative \ marketing will be stressed in every county in South Carolina in the' intensive campaign to be conducted by the South Carolina division of the American Cotton Association; the South Carolina Warehouse Commis sion; The U. S. Department of Agri culture and the extension forces of Clems?n College. In Arizona the members of* the American Cotton Association have al I ready organized cooperative market ing associations and have found the beneficial results of them. A lettei received by J. Skott.tve Wannamak er, president of the American Cottor Association, from the head of . th< Arizona division says: ' "C?operat?ve marketing has prov en a' decided success in Arizona, as compared to individual marketing. Odd and unusual as it may seem, ztii marketing association has succeeded, time after time, and without excep tion, in securing for its members not only better prices than the prevailing local market alt all times during the season, but has, in addition, on nu merous occasions secured better prices for small lots for single indi viduals than they themselves were able to secure?and from the same buyers for the same -lots of cotton. "These are facts, not dreams, as can be shown by the records of the asso ciation, and by >the testimony of many individual members. Not only did the association, in making actual sales, top the market for both seed and lint throughout the season, but by keeping the membership informed as to the actual value of their cotton, enabled many to more intelligently market their own products and thus secure better prices for themselves. ."All authorities on marketing cot ton, or any other farm product, are agreed that, in common justice, the man who sells should know as much about the value of his farm product as the man who desires to buy it. Given this information, and with pro per financing, . the. farmer is placed in position to demand and secure a price that will give them a fair profit. - based on the cost of production, Iiis I own and hired labor costs, land rent al or interest on the investment, and every other factor that ; modern ac j counting takes into* account in figur ! ing costs. Lacking" this information, j the farmer is at the mercy of the I plausible buyer, whose only object? and it is a legitiimate business ob ject?is to buy at the lowest possible figure and sell- at the highest pos sible profit to the next man in the j chain of middlemen that stand be- j tween the producer and the user 0 "It is this matter of accurate infor- j mation that is the cornerstone upon which has been built the remarkable success of the Arizona American Egyptian Cotton Growers Association." ' "It has been said that the minds of men run in the same channel and it so came to pass that this group of Arizona cotton growers, looking to thej same thing, the good of the cotton, growers, were organizing after muchj the same plan as the American Cot- j ton Association throughout the^south, j though the distance in between had! prevented the local men from hearing j of that activity. "So it came to pass, after due in-! vestigation that the aims and methods j of the Arizona association and the American Cotton Association were soj similar that they were combined, and i this association is now the South-! western branch of the American Cot-] ton Association, thus adding the re-' markable sources of information of that body to those already acquired, j "It is the firm and expressed belief: of the association that the cotton j growers of the Salt River Valley, as a direct result of the work of the associ-? ation, received last season at least two million dollars more for their cot-! ton lint and seed than, they would \ have recieved otherwise, by virtue of the information received and dlstri-: buted and the sales made. This was accomplished with a membership of OUTHRON, Established Jone 1, 188?. VoLL. No. 38. COUNCIL Meeting Adjourned Leaving Al most All Questions Undecided EXPERTS GALLED IN Matter of German Reparations and Division of Sums ceived Proves Stumbling Block to Allies Boulogne, June .22.?The supreme council of the .allies adjourned%5**aay to meet in Brussels on Juiy-.22, teacv- - ing most of the questibns/.of the gram undecided. The^ermah rep^gjl? rations problem has be*e^referr< experts who will meet in JParis to e deavor to conciliate the view points of' the allies regarding the- divisip?^j|^ -the sums Germany must.:pay.^T^j^ experts have not even reached 'a;de-, cision as to the. total of the repara tions and:the method of paymenfe:. ;'\ i Drowned at/ , Sulivan's Islais?l College Boy From Summerviile; ' Loses Life in Surf ? ' ? ; -; '. r[ Charleston, June 23v.?James Mi-; Taylor of ? Sumfmervilie, a guest of h^ aunt, Mrs. Toippter, en .Sullivan's.. Ts^ land, was drowned early this after noon in the'sjurf;-wh'Ue;--hi/ba^ng wld?^: a young woman from Florence-, ^he?^. un dertow ciughf -Mr'. Tayl or, after ho? made a dive*' .intocomber, ' an^ b)^ was swept to rh^ death. Late thisa^J ternoon the ,*]'ife' saving - crew of Su$? v: li van's Islr^idy-i^^fillsearching' for;;; the body. Hnf Tayloi/w-as a student^. at the Ctollege ^?rVbnarl ex-service man; having been- over seas " He was - an athlfete of abaity/ and recently - played Blackfenrn Hughes of this city for the. local ten-; nis title." This ^ the first drowningf afe> a local beach'.tiws season; Labor Pmd$d On (Railway Board Three Groups in Chicago, June 24.?A. well confirm ed report in labor.circles said that the", railway labor board is divided threSv^ wayt on the wage controversy. The' labor group is holding -out for an award which the company and. public- ^ representatives thought exorbitante and the company - group is refuimi&y to concede an award that the public'^ group held to be reasonable. No Action Taken Situation in Ireland Desperate and May Become Worse London, June 24.-?Sir Hamai Greenwood, chief secretary for 3re- '-. land today received another urgent telegram from the. Londonderry mag istrates expressing, alarm that no ac tion is being taken by the govern ment in connection with the .fight ing, there. They consider the situa tion desperate and fear it-will, become worse. The message adds that fa?d, supplies are running out and the gas' supply is almost * exhausted: ; " No Railroad Strike Called ??.?. Brotherhood Chiefs Deny Rum ors of Impending Walk Out I Cleveland, June 23.?Rumors that jthe Railroad Unions would call a j strike this week affecting all Union men were denied today by the chiefa of the four Brotherhoods. approximately only ten per cent of the total acreage ip the Salt River Val ley. "This season the work of the. asso ciation is being extended in a very -; large way. All the cotton farmers in the Southwest are being offered! the opportunity to join in the bene fits._ At the end of the planting sea son this spring the membership was three, times what it' totaled last year and will undoubtedly pass the 50 per cent mark before cotton picking time. '?Arrangements are being made to have a bonded warehouse in opera- ? tion by the time the cotton crop 'is ginned this fall, to secure the ser vices of a high grade licensed grad er and classer whose services will be free to the membership and a big sales man to handle the sales "So that this year the cotton grow er in this section tfill he kept in formed as to the value of his cottonr present and prospective, it will be , graded and classed by an official grad-. er. means will be provided for war<? housing and financing; by bondedv warehouse receipts, and finally, if the grower so elects, his cotton wilL be sold by the association, at no extra charge and the betting is 10 to .1 . than the organization can secure him a better price than he can himself se cure." ? ? - V-'??^