The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 01, 1921, Image 2
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IADY TO SUH?
LENDER FIUME
Mayor Appeals to Italian Com
for Suspension of
Hoatilitien
Kom* D*?. II.?The mayor of
sTUune ha* oak ml of the Commander?
of to* regular Italian forces for a
>n Of hoeftltUea, says a
dispatch It is ejected that
of surrender will be agreed
m at ? raeetutg today.
.W AGAINST
TAX EXEMPTION
CwaTtU?tiMiiaJ iUttnioncmt Pro?
bt H?tts* IVDay
? 1' i"
Wmahlngton. Dec . tl?A const 1 tu
amendment to prevent the is
i of any taut exemption eecuri
by the federal government and
ex any county or municipality
proposed in the bouse* today by
m gtoFaddea Of the banking
AND
COMMERCE
Harding; Continues His
Ctarforaicdsi IWUa experts
'Marlon. Dee. II.<?Sen it w Hard*
tag ogpoeted today to discuss financial
with Senator McCumcer of
Harth Dakota, and foreign commerce
fram donor Straus*
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WAS PAID VOR IN SVH AXCK
Mefsaroisi ltsvoxanruda
Now tssjdalatlnn.
ColasnMa? Doc. 31.?Insurance
paid by South Carolinians
tttl. for which year State insur?
ant* Commissioner Mc*wain has just
sound' bar report, touted more than
tWerrry-oue million dolUurs. which was
aanrty #v4> million dollars, which wan
sjs*a*juaaa written la lilt.
. tat* i insurance premiums totaled
lor the one year 919.013,103. which
On** on tocrnoee of |9,ft94,?4l over
1?II UfO premium*. PI re Insurance
grotusaatO totaled lt.19l.IKI. an in
aarrsail over ill! of 11.916,610.
Prosaluras on miscellaneous meur
anee totale*- Il.l0i.7f0 an increase
eyeet ltdi of 1111.914, the total in
i Orease for the year being. 14.179.
Tbe total insurance premiums
m the suite last year was 121,
?4t\ttr.
BKim* of the insurance de
it. paid into the state treasury.
II totaled 1411.Ill, an in?
let the year of 1110.749.
In ate annual report to the legts
iro inwuroncO Commisnloner Mc
makes) certain reeommenda
ssjsv terlp'utfon. He urges the
"~ ' ,*V ? . *
Injfme to the present statute,
[jgtyilll ImltytdSiaJ insurers to ro?
te the conwrtisoioner any trons
wtfh unttcehaed insurance com
, and to piy a fee of four per
?crrv (be preouunt. in addition to
one-tenth of one per cent of
a a4*u*t>d. The Idea is to pre
Operation, of '?utlaw lnsur
osmrpanUo.,r
lloa to require Insurance
whose itceaeea hav? not
boon renewed, to report seml-?Jinua>
ly the amount ot renewal premiums
by pontpsmles trnneacttng
in the state,
la don ' to put oe supervision
of laweetrnesjt comp? ..es under the
asjsotney genonsL
X^sristaUoa to make the license tee
ol etf laeuraneo companies of other
stale* or eo an fries three hundred dol
A law to require ail schools and
*a 11 terns to devote a small amount of
tame ewch week to instruction in Are
and a eel dent prevention.
Bofl Weevil kf VtUian
?*V*7c: bre< l*>U Weevil," ie the
of an entertaining and instruo
ljro-re>d nim hist released by ti e
itee Department of Agrt<
fr JSoll Weevil, deetroyer
iA -r >*r>* to the extent of
mill wans dollars a year, ia the
ivy** viillan Its appen.s several
tJniie individually in the course of
thio Iheiy production, but tie princi?
pal part hi dsvoted to the activities
of the hero of the sketch. Mr. Cal?
cium Araenate. who is aided and
?betted by the department in his ef?
forts to bring abOAtt Mr Weevil'*
overthrow. '*Car descends upon Mr.
Weeni from a battery of honse-drawn
maoblneo. of which forty aro shown
in on* ?pect tcubji scene taken in
early summer Work s shown in the
deaartmenfs laboratories at Tullu
i ' Lav. and In Waahlngtoh. D c.
e the methods which save cotton
e/w IJO.toom)u or more snnuully
wet devised.
One tereoting feature Is the lab?
oratory work by which bolus **eeetl
extevminator* ara detected. The oe- |
eond part of the film. tak .?n In the
tall, shows thcu?ende of acres of
anowr cotton u.-ids with colored
pickers gathering the snowy bolls.
Two or thre? C4 ntrests are shown
berween Melds where calci um arae?
nate dust has hevn applied and ad?
joining rows whi n were negleoted.
Prom actual experience' the saving to
one I.eOO acre planter Is given at
more than 1*4 per acre. The him
to designed primarily for demonstra?
tion work in the south and is one of
about lot Olm? covering more i ban
10V *ut>J?cte showing different phae
e* of the work of the de|i*itn ent.
J'ople* of the film may bought
9rom the department by institutions
and organisation* Interested In boil
weevil extermination Its use \h sug?
gested for state agricultural colleges,
ifds of corhm? res etc
f%u1**. Dec. 2* ftOfl 'f? received
hero declare that the wound suftur
ed by D'Annanaio at Flume was caus.
od by a tragtnent of a shell which
Cell on his h*edu,oart*t *.
FIGHT OVER TARIFF
BEGINS IN SENATE
Harrison Assail* Measure as
Most Iniquitous Piece of Leg?
islation Yet Tried
Wuahkn?ton. I Joe 27? Indication
I of the fight to he had over tariff leg?
islation wroe sriven in the Senate to
iday when several houra apirited die
bate and two roll caJla were required
to effect the formal, routine action of
referring to the finance committee
rhe emergency tariff bill puaaed lust
week by the house.
1 Democratic forces split , in the
opening clash, five minority members
voting with the solid Republican
strength against a motion by Senator
Hitchcock, of Nebraska, acting Dem?
ocratic lei der. to refer the House bill
to the commerce instead of the fi?
nance committee. After defeat of the
Hitchcock motion and severe Demo?
cratic attack on the bill, parried by
Republican defense, the Senate voted
unanimously to Send the bill to the fi?
nance committee.
Senator McCumber, of North Da?
kota, acting chairman of the finance
committee, announced durng the de?
bate that the bill would be taken up
In committee early next month and
given "fair and adequate considera?
tion." There were' indications that
the Republican decision against hear?
ings would be revoked.
The House bill was denounced as
an "embargo" bill and "suicidal" by
Senator Hitchcock, who charged that
Senate machinery was set to rush it
thrrugh. American commerce should
be aided he contended, and not ham?
pered by tariff barriers.
Senator McCumber denied that the
bill proposed embargoes and was sup?
ported by Senator Smoot. Republican
of Utah. The North Dakota Senator
declared the measure gave practically
no projection to wheat and said that
ha> wo Id not support rhe bill as
drafted.
Senator Harrison.. Democrat, of
Mississippi assailed the bill as "the
moat Iniquitous piece of legislation
the country hud ever seen." Fie de?
nounced what he termed "Republican
hypocrisy," referring to Republican
campaign statements as to lowering
the cost of living. The tariff meas?
ure, was designed to enhance living
costs. Senator Harrison asserted, add?
ing that the bill *as a "sop" to West?
ern formers and would r.ot aid them.
WOODROW WIL?
SON'S BIRTHDAY
Washington. Dec. 28.?President
Wilson celebrated his* .sixty-fourth
birthday today. He received numer?
ous messages of congratulation- Two
of his daughters, Margaret Wilson
and Mrs. McAdoo wars with him for
the occasion." v
FATE OP LOST
BALLOON SURMISED
Supposed to Have Falko in
Canadian Wilderness
Ottawa. Dec 28.?Canadian au?
thorities ! have announced that they
bellcVe the missing United States na?
val ballooon which left Rock away De?
cember 19th descended near Lake
Temlekaralag, 800 miles norh.west of
here. They declared that a careful
analyst* of the wlnda and other con?
dition* during the flight made it |
nearly a certainty. The bo. icon hm
thjree officers.
najpolkonu csnten XIa l.
Aaaerkaan Participation Invited In
CeeebrattoB.
New York, Dec. 28.?American par?
ticipation in the celebration by France
of the 100th anniversary of the death
of Napoleon on May 6 next was In?
vited here today by Profeeeor Wil?
liam Mulligan Sloane, of Princeton,
N. J., apeaking for the French com?
mittee headed try Marshal Koch. A
feature or the affair whose objects,
it la stated. ?re "to bind up th?s wounds
of FTance" will be a great exhibition
of Napoleonic relics at Malmaiaon.
[Franco, to which colleotiona will be
loaned from all ports of the world.
Professor Sloane, who for 42 years
held the chair of history at Princeton
and latterly at Columbia University,
eaid that French statesmen, soldier?.
and men of law and letters as wed
ae other profoWons compose the com?
mittee which Is arranging the cen?
tennial.
"Making all allowance for every se?
vere criticism of Napoleon's career,"
he continued, 'It is still true that h s
work unified France, saved it fro:.\
partition among its foes and. in civil
life, prepared alike the foundation,
and structure of the society Which in'
the world esar saved France and
'helped to save all western civilisation,
ft wss by his impulse and guidance
that the unsocial credit of France
was restored, that the magistracy and
administration took definite shape,
that the civil code was promulgated,
the Rank of France created, the Uni?
versity of France modelled on that
of the state of New York and the
council of statr* organised.
"He made private property safe.
Opened pubt l charges, great and
email, t.? all olaseea founded schools.
cOH'egea and secondary schools, buiit
magnificent highways, dug an elab?
orate system of Internal waterways.
Improved transportation of every
sort, and above all, reorganized in Iiis
Ifistiutions the commanding position
I of belles leturee, the fine aits and
j natural science. The superb inheri?
tance of order, p.Dgress and prosper
Irty which he bequeathed Made the
France of 19 i 4.
"The French committee especially
desires American participation by
contributions, by ihe loan of Napol
eonu from American collections and,
above all, the moral aupport of Intel?
ligeal interest on this side of tho At
laatte."
. i.*
Lansing, Mich., Dec 2s. KIre de?
?troyed the 1'rudden odlce building
h?re today. The loss is more Iftas I
ball milUou dollars.
McADOOHAS A
BIG JOB
Goes to Mexico to Reorganize
Affairs of Mexican National
Railroad
Mexico C y, Dec. 28.?Local news- ;
"papers ui\ giving much publicity to |
the exported arrival this week of I
Willsam McAdoo. who is said to be
representing the stockholders of the
Mexican National railway. Some as
Bert that Mr. McAdoo will play an
important part in the contemplated
return Oi the railroad by the gov?
ernment to its original owners.
WHY RISK WET FEET. |
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Bureau of Chemistry* tT. s. Depart?
ment of Agriculture. (Jives Recipes
for Waterriroollng Footwear That
Will Make, It Weather Resistant in
Mildly Dad Weather.
Nothing is much' more uncomfort?
able than going about with wet shoes,
yet even the most forehanded are
caught occasionally in a storm with?
out rubbers and wet feet la their por?
tion; as with those who dislike and
seldom wear overshoes. Although
rubbers overshWs and boots will
keep water out, they also keep the
perspiration in. Moreover they are
cold in winter and hot in summer.
For these reasons, as well as because
Of their excessive weight, rubber foot?
wear is objectionable to many peo?
ple; but dependence for keeping the
feet dry must be placed on rubber
overshoes and boot* or waterproofed
leather shoes and boots. The bureau
of chemib!ry, United States depart?
ment of agriculture, has recently com?
pleted a series of experiments on the
caw and use of leather and recom?
mends waterproofing the shoes that
are worn in the winter and Bpring
months.
Not Wholly Water-Tight.
Leather shoes and boots, as they
are made nowadays, when treated to
make them water resistant, allow the
entrance of some water owing prin?
cipally to the difficulty of completely
waterproofing the seams. Such foot?
wear can not be expected to keep the
feet perfectly dry If worn for a long
time in wet weather, nor will it take
the place of rubber shoes or boots
for walking in water, slushy snow,
or very soft mud. They are very
satisfactory, however, for protecting
the feet during rain or snowstorms
and for use on wet pavements or
wet ground. They also keep the
peiT-piratlon in, but are not as objec?
tionable as rubber In thin respect.
The application of oil or grease to
yllghi-colored or rusaot leather dark?
ens it. more or less, and also makes
any leather more difficult to polish.
Where this is objectionable, only the
soles of the. shoes should be water?
proofed. The uppers can be made
qutto water resistant by the frequent
application of g6od Ava? polish.
Tho occasional use of castor oil on
shoe iippus will increase their wa?
ter resistance, as well as their flexi?
bility und durability, without great?
ly Interfering with their being polish?
ed If the oil is applied lightly to
the clean, dry shoes' and rubbed In
until the leather is dry, they may bo
polished Immediately, although it Is
better to wait until the following day.
If the oil is applied too heavily, it efu'l
be difficult to polish the shoes and
the shine will not last very long.
In summer the groaae used for wa?
terproofing shoes and boots roukt be
harder than that used in winter.
Since heavily 'greased shoos have a
tendency to cause the feet to p'-roplre
and swell In hot weather, and there Is
also less need for the water-resistant
shoes in summer than in winter and
spring, it Is rarely advisable to put
as much grease on the shoes at
that time of the year. In summer,
the Quantity of grease used should
not exceed the amount that the leath?
er will take up without leaving its
rurfacc greasy. In winter, especially
if it is desired to get the groat eat
voter resistance, a mixture of grease
and oils that is not too hard when
co d Is required; more of this grease
than the leather will absorb may be
used. An excess will do no harm
sind will malte the leather more wa?
ter rositunt.
Waterproofing Formulas.
For waterproofing boots and shoes,
nothing better than the following
simple formula is known to the de?
partment of agriculture. While the
department believes that those formu?
las do not infringe on any existing
ijatcnt or pending applications for
patents, it can assume uo responsibil?
ity.
Formula 1: 8 ounces of neutral
wool greusso, 4 ounce dark petrola?
tum, and 4 ounces parattln wax.
Formula 2: I pound potrolatum, I
ounces levswax.
Formula %\ 8 ounces petrolatum.
1 ounces pa ratlin wax, 4 ounces wool
grease, and 2 ounces crude turpentine
gum (gum thus).
Formula 4: 12 ounces tallow and
4 ounces cod oil.
Shotild be Melted Togclhor.
In each case the ingredients of the
mixture should be melted together by
Warming them carefully and stirring
thoroughly. Detter penetration Is ob?
tained if the grease Is applied warm.
(Ait it should never he hotter than
the hand can bear.
Grease thoroughly the edge of the
sole and the Welt, as this is where
Shoes leak most. The sole should also
be thoroughly impregnated with the
grease, thereby increasing Its water
resistance, durability, ami pliability.
The side can be most conveniently
Waten*romed by letting the shoe stand
for about 16 minue sinasha mm m
tfor about 15 minutes In a shallow
pan containing enough of the molted
Waterproofing material to-cover the
entire sole. Rubber heels, however,
should not be allowed to stand In the
gTease, as it gofteni th| rubber.
There are too many non-producers
in Sumter county for genuine pros?
perity. Take a mental census of the
common loafers and tho more re
epeetabie leisure class who live with?
out labor or vitflhlo means of support
and you will get tho idea of who is
GERMANS ASHAMED
OF CRIME
Official Protest Against Moving
Picture of Execution of Edith
Cavell
Havana, Dec. ftft.-t-The German
minister to Cuba protested against
showing a moving picture film por?
traying the execution of Edith Ca?
vell by the Germans in Brussels. The
state department sent an unofficial
communication to the theatre man?
ager who biter announced that the
film would not be shown.
HOMELESS AND
HOPELESS
Graphic Picture of the Suffering
in the Near East
Columbia, Dec. 28.?K. O. Black,
treasurer for South Carolina of the
Near East Relief Fund yesterday re?
ceived the following telegram from
Cleveland H. Dodge, national treasur?
er:
"There is no such compelling want
In the world anywhere today as in the
land where Christ was born. While
the rest of the world is at peace, war
has never ceased there since 1914.
While elsewhere in the world there
are governments which are to some
extent able to protect and care for
the helpless ftmdng their people, in
the Near East there is no stable gov?
ernment. While irt Europe friends
and relatives may send money and
clothing and food by post, in the
Near East there is no way to send j
anything to the suffering peoples save
through the agency of the American]
Ne? r Baal Relief,
'Trom the Mediterranean to the
Caucasus Mountain, from the 'Aegean \
to the Caspian and the Rod Seas
thousands upon thousands of human
being Christians are rmndering home?
less and hopeless in the dead of win?
ter. Little children are dying by the
roadsides, little lost children who
have forgotte n their names and whose
boyhood has boon one long marty
dom of exilo and flight like that lllght
of old in Egypt.
"The only help, the only hope of ,
these people is In America. With pa?
thetic faith they look to us to save ]
them. We can do it. The Near East
Relief appeals to every American
family to take one or more of the or?
phans whom American charity is
keeping alive into its bosom In the
name of that other homeless child
born ID20 years ago."
Detective Agency Hut? to Pay for
, Wrong Information.
Geneva. Dec. 28.?M. Wader, a
wealthy resident of Blenno, Switzer?
land, ha? just sued a detective agency
for wrongly recommending an im?
moral man as husband for his daugh?
ter and has obtained a verdict of
140 pounds with costs against the
agency.
The prospective father-in-law en?
gaged the agency at a cost of BOO
pounds to investigate the reputation
and habits of the young man who
hud asked for tho hand of his
daughter. The detoctlves reported
that thtf youth was worthy, reliable
and sober.
After six months of wedded life,
the bride returned to her father's
home with the information that the
bridegroom had dissipated her dowry
in riotous li\ing end. gambling.
Tile Southern Commercial Congress.
Columbia. Dec. 28.?The 15>21 meet?
ing of the Southern Commercial Con?
gress will be held in Washington, D.
C, March 1-3, according to an?
nouncement made today by Qovernor
Cooper, actio;; on advices received
by him from Clarence J. Owens, di?
rector gonenal of the congress. The
meeting will be just ahead of the in?
augural ceremonies in Washington.
Governor Cooper is invited to at?
tend the congress. The chief busi?
ness Of the 1921 congress will be the
consideration of reconstruction legis?
lation before the national congress at
that time.
During the Commercial Congress,
the first to be held in Washington
Rime 1910, there will be elaborate
ceremoalej attendant upon the pre?
sentation to tho department of agri
eulture of a portrait of David Laib In,
the great Italian agriculturalist, and
a portrait of General William Craw?
ford Gorgas to the surgeon general's
office.
The largest attendance in the his?
tory of toe Southern ''ommercial
???ongross is expected for tho Wash?
ington meeting, it is stated.
DUTt H-GKKM AX SMl'GGLIIltS.
Amsterdam, Due, 2f,?The Han
delehlad's correspondent at Cologne,
Gortuajiy, gives surprising statistics as
to the amount of smuggling at the
Dutch-Gorman frontier. During a re?
cent week, he said, 1.5 25 smugglers
were arrested In the Cologne cus?
toms distriot alone, and among the
goods confiscated in that period were
793,000 cigarettes.
< poraic to Determine Criminal'* Tou
dciieio.
Jackson, Mich.. Dec. 28.?The Mich?
igan State penitentiary here has set
what is said to be an Innovation In
prison management by the purchase
of an x-ray machine with which to
photograph the skulls ol* inmates and
{determine if surgical operations
might cure the patients of criminal
tendencies. This work has just been
undertaken at the prison.
When it is found that a part of the
skull is pressing on the brain an Op?
eration is to be performed in the pris?
on hospital by Dotmtt surgeons who
have volunteered to cooperate,
If the operation is believed to have
cured the prisoner the judge who sen?
tenced him v in be oak et] by Warden
Harry I.. Hulbun of tho prison to
bring about bis release. A number
of Judges in the state have agreed to
accede to any such request made by
the , warden, he announces.
I
LEAGUE OF PEACE
OR BIG NAVY
Secretary Daniels Tells Congress
That Safety of America De?
pends Upon Disarmament
of Strongest Navy i
Washington, Dec. 2 7.?The Unl ed !
HtaK s, |{ it does not enter the league j
of nations, should initiate B move- 1
ment looking- to an international con- ',
ference for the reduction of arma- |
ments, Secretary Daniele Of the navy'
raid today. If an agreement is not
i t ached by all nations on such a pro?
gram, the secretary added, "the
United States should have a navy
second to none."
The question of disarmament also |
i was discussed in the senate today,
! Senator Johnson, Republican, Cali?
fornia, declaring that a disarmament
agreement by the nations who con?
stituted the five allied and associated
powers in the world war would con?
stitute, "the one great step that could
be taken toward the promotion of
peace and the prevention of all fu?
ture wars."
HOLL WKKVIL POISONING.
Suggestions Ami Outlook in Soutli
Carolina for 1921.
Clemeon College, Dec. 23.?Answer- !
ing inquiries in regard to cotton boll
Weevil poisoning in South Carolina in
15121, the division of entomology gives
the following information:
The dusting work of the govern?
ment, conducted over an extensive
acreage in 192U, showed advantage in
j favor of the poisoning, and gives fur
Ither encouragement for the probable
' ultimate success of poisoning when
(the material is properly applied under
good farming conditions and more fa
Ivocable seasons than those of 1920.
It must be remembered that this work
was conducted with the most approv?
ed machinery, under the most skill?
ful direction of capable entomologists,
and mainly in the Delta region, where
farming conditions are markedly uni- |
form.
in AJabarta the work was conduct?
ed under the direction of tie Alabama
etata entomologist and showed in gen?
eral favorable results. Similar re?
sults were obtained by the Sea Is?
land Station, Valdosta, Cra.
The work in South Carolina show?
ed variable result with no material
gains, but it must be remembered
that the weather conditions for pois?
oning in South Carolina in 1920 were
about as adverse as possible; and it
must be further remembered that
the machine situation was handicap?
ped and that we had everything to
learn.
Poisoning is a serious and compli?
cated problem, and our attitude must
bo conservative. The danger of over?
doing it in 1921 is fully as great as
in 1920, because the weevil has reach?
ed the injurious stage over a larger I
area. A number of details must yet I
Ibe worked out before poisoning can
I/o generally recommended without
limitation! to the average farmer.
If there is one thing that we have
'earned more decidedly than anything
else, it is the great necessity for the
planter to study the problem -with,
much greater seriousness and person?
al attention than beret- ore. The
planter who intenda to learn some
ihir.g about poisoning is urged to se?
cure a moderate priced approved ma?
chine and be prepared to apply the
material thoroughly and sstrictly ac- j
cording to direction, with a view of I
learning fundamentals involved.
The machine situation is not yet
Battled, and farmers are advised to
study this phase of the question with
great care so as to avoid serious
mistakes.
The plans for 19?! in progress in
clude experimental and educational
work, and unless weather conditions
are entirely unfavorable, it would ap- i
?pear possible to develop the poison?
ing system to where it QOUld be em?
ployed more generally by the average
farmer With reasonable assurance of j
success.
A llOND ISSUE INSTFAD OF TAX?
ATION.
Columbia, Dec. 28 ?A bond issue
for public buildings instead of state
appropriations for permanent im?
provements for the state's institutions,
will be one of the loud notes sounded
during the early part of the legisla?
tive session which starts in Columbia
on January 11. The University. Win?
throp, the. Citadel and other state in?
stitutions are asking the legislature
for appropriations to cover the cost
of new buildings, but it is likely that
these will meet with tough sledging.
Raven I. McDavid, of Groenville,
prominent member of the house of
representatives, in a statement today,
advocated a bond issue for public
buildings, instead of appropriations,
and it is understood Governor Coop?
er is |n favor of such a plan.
"1 will have to vote against appro?
priating tax money for permanent im?
provements to our state institutions
! this year," said Mr. McDavid in bis
statement regarding the need of
new buildings. "They will be able
to finance themselves until the bonds
can be voted to take care of the need?
ed improvements. They are built for
posterity, and posterity should pay
part Of the cost."
Mr. McDavid also expresses him?
self as favoring a survey of tin- needs
Of the State institutions. "1 would
like to see the state employ a com?
petent engineer make a survey of all
present state property and buildings,
to submit "Stimates of the needs of
the various institutions for the next
ten years. We COUld then see just
what we have and also get a verj ac?
curate idea Of what tile state needs
and the amount of bonds the state
should issue for the purpose."
' Kstill. Dec. 27?While out hunting
? with several little friends, Thomas
LflWton, aged 12, son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. l Lawton. accidentally shot htm
'>.*lf this morning, the load tearing
Jawnj narl of the tight hand and ? hin
,ind fracturing his lower jaw. Tin
little fellow was rushed to Savannah,
where an operation wtni ^shrfonnad.
His condition is r
FOREIGN DEMAND
FOR COTTON DROPS
Exports During November Were
Much Less Than in Same
Month Last Year
Washington, Dee. 27.?Cotton ex?
ports dropped $90.125,900 on Novem?
ber as compared with the correspond?
ing month last year, according to
figures made public today by the de?
partment of commerce. During No?
vember cotton valued at $91,183,872
was exported, whiie a year ago the
total was IUI,301.271 The figures
show that in November 357,718.716
pounds of cotton were exported,
while for the same period a year ago
exports totaled 478,545.337 pounds.
During the 11 months ending will)
November cotton exports from thu
United States amounted to 2.765,380,
bOO pounds valued at $1,044,083.523,
While during the ll corresponding
months of Itlt the total was 2,916,
747.?170 pounds valued at |tSt,?22,
974.
While cotton exports for Novem?
ber of this year show a decided drop
BVOT the same month of lust year,
the total for the 11 months was $287,
350.r49 more than in the 11 months
of 1919.
Kxports of food products during
November amounted to $138,989,081,
as compared With $133,457,166 in No?
vember. 1919.
Dl eaflatllfT* exported during No?
vember were valued at $99.777,081. as
contpnred with 171,711,tfl In the cor*
responding month a year ago.
Exports of meat products last
month amounted to $39,211,997, while
In November, 1919, they were valued
at $61,745.198. Cottonseed oil ex?
ports for November were valued at
$3,028.425. nearly $1.000,000 more
than in November a jcar ago. whde
for the 11 months' period this year
the total value was $29.771,389. Min?
eral oils exported last month were
valued at $47,332,738, or about $1,
500,000 more than in November,
1919.
DEAD RETURN
FROM FRANCE
Columbia, Dec. 28.?The remains
of thirty-nine men wh^ lost their
lives In France during the woi\ !
war, will reach Columbia Wednes?
day morning, according to announce?
ment made here by olficers at Camp
Jackson this afternoon.
There is one captain in the lot. Tho
bodies will be distributed from here to
their homes in Tennessee, Carolinas,
Georgia and Florida.
Private Mcndoll Gladden, field ar?
tillery, Lugoff; Private Henry L.
Griffin, field artillery, Swansea; Pri?
vate Chas. G. Givens, 118th infantry,
Walterboro; Private Berley E. Der?
rick, 326th supply train, Steedman;
Private Bruley Iff. Cooper, 402 tele?
graph battalion, Walterboro; Private
James K. Joffcoot, 26th labor com?
pany, air service, LssQVttlO; Private
James Walker, 34 6th labor battalion,
Branohville; Private Walker Kirby,
>3rd pioneer inft.ntry, Gaftn;y; Pri?
vate Martin H. Riddle, field artillery,
Giay COUlt; Capt. Theo W. Galnes,
61st coast arthlery, headquarters
company, Crcenwood; Private Robert
Bo Wen, field artillery. Honea Pr*h;
Private Henry E. Dever, 11th battal?
ion, R. D. A., Lexington; Private
James Burton, 305 labor company, Sa
luda; Private Ollr. S. Crouch, 118 in?
fantry, Saluda; Private William L.
Dickey, 301 engineers. Blairs; Ser?
geant William Flynn, 346 labor bat?
talion, Charleston, Private Harry
Stepheny, 634 engineers, Hopkins;
Private Wheeler Ferguson, 324 quar?
termaster corps, Ridgevllle.
MANY PAY?
ING TAXES
Income and Profits Receipts Ex?
ceed Estimate
Washington, Dec. 27.?Income and
profits tax receipts for the hurt quar?
ter of the year exceeded Secretary
Houston's early estimate of $650,000,
000, according to the daily statement
of the nation's finances for December
23, made public today by the treas
' ury.
. On that date income and profits tax
I nunts for the month amounted to
?65o.602.546. as compared with $?24,
178,191 for the corresponding period
a year ago. Treasury officials declar
ed that some increase in the toj
could be expected, as there was
week to be accounted for,
PANAMA CANAL
TO BE FORTIF1
Plans Being Made to Rj
Waterway Impregnabj
Washington, DOC. 27 (By the Asso?
ciated Pjrese).?Adequate protection
for tho Panama cantil from attacks
from the air, the land or sea Is to bo
provided for In a MU soon to be
drafted by tin- house commiD.ee on
appropriations for fortifications and
?eacoaat de tenses. Members of the
OOmmitteo now are virtually a?reed
Upon a plan to make the canal im?
pregnable.
COLBY AT
MONTEVIDEO
Secretary of State Guest of Hon?
or in Capital of Uruguay
Montevideo. Dpa, 28.- Secretary
Colby arrived today and will remain
until Friday. He faces a busy pro?
gram of entertainment. He jj^gjgr in
Buenos AftrOO Saturday