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Methodist College Campaign Drive To Be Made to Raise $33,000,000 for Education .-i rw| 1 Within the next three weeks Meth odists of this community, together with all members of the great South ern Methodist Church, will have the opportunity of striking a blow for Christian education and making a drive against atheism. , Sunday, jfcay 29th, they will be called upon to subscribe to a fund of $33,000,000 to be used in enlarging and improving their ninety-one edu cational institutions. This will be done through the Christian Educa tion Movement, which was authorized by the general conference of 1913. The movement is well under way and the outlook. for all the objectives is vtry bright. ? The quota for the Methodists ofj South Carolina, to be subscribed Sunday, May 29th, through Sunday,; . . June 5th is $2,267.000, to be paid Uj>; -within a period of five years. The! quota for the South Carolina Confer-! f;/??ce to which all the Methodist j ?\churches in the lower half of South j Carolina belong, is $1,149.500. The quota for the Upper South Carolina Conference is $1,117,000. The edu cational secretaries are: Rev. G. E. Edwards for the South Carolina Con ference, located at Orangeburg, and ? ? Rev. J. C. Roper, of Chester, for the Upper South Carolina Conference. The "financial directors in South Car olina are: Hon. C. C. Featherstone of Greenwood, and Leland Moore, of. Charleston. Southern Methodist Colleges and I universities which will participate in the Christian education movement are located as follows: Five in Alabama, four in Arkansas, one in California, two in Florida, nine in Georgia, seven in Kentucky, two in Louisiana, six in Mississippi, five in Missouri, eleven in North Carolina, one in Oregon, one in Oklahoma, seven in Tennessee, thir tfen in Texas, ten in Virginia and West Virginia, and the seven in South Car olina, as follows: Wofford College, Spartanburg, $500, 000; Wofford Fitting School, Spartan burg; $75,000; Carlisle School, Bam "bery, $75,000; Columbia College, Co ' lurnbia, $300,000; Lander College, Greenwood, $300,000; Horry Industrial School Aynor,. $75,000; Textile Indus trial Institute, Spartanburg, $50,000. Silver Trophy Cup Won By Sumter Scouts The silver trophy cup which may be seen in the winrtAw of the Boston j Candy Kitchen' is. the fitting token and the I material representative of merit which -was attained by the su perb work of the Boy Scouts of Troop 1 in their recent athletic meet in Florence. This cup was awarded to the Sum ter scouts of Troop 1 by Mr. L S. I Sulzbacher, who, coincidently, was I born in Sumter. The Sumter scouts under the lead ership of Scoutmaster Wendell M. | LevL made a clean sweep in the boy jscouts events incident to the three day encampment in Florence, win ning 240 first points out of a pos sible 260, points. The Sumter troop \ras also awarded 100 per cent for their personal appearance and bear mg 1O0 per cent for their appear ance while in parade. The behavior and mien of the thirty scouts repre senting Sumter was a source of many splendid compliments from the Flor ence citizens. " The second bugle and drum cprps, composed of 5 bugles and 2 drums was given the district honor of leading the parade. The Sumter scouts weer also highly prais ed for the perfect and orderly ar rangement of their tents and camp at their encampment grounds. In charge of the inspection were Dr. John D. Smyser and Charles S. Gardiner of Florence, both of whom are ex-service men. Timmonsville was given 80 points on inspection and 90 points in pa rade. Florence troops 2 and 3 were giv en 60 points on inspection and 90 in parade. The scout, roundup was a source of great fun for the boys from Sum ter. Marion, Timmonsville, Lake City and Florence which furnished 2 troops. Friday night the women of Florence served them with a big sup per. Saturday the boys were enter tained in the homes of Florence peo ple. The .Central graded school grounds, where the scouts are en camped, resembled a regular army camp. Saturday morning was taken j up in athleti cevents, which resulted j as follows: Running high jump: Cuttino, Sum ter, first; S. Ryttenberg, Sumter, sec ond: Morrison, Florence, third. Fifty yard dash: Ryttenberg. Sum ter, first; Evans, Marion, second; Lyons. Sumter, third. Running broad jump: Evans, Ma rion, first; Cuttino, Sumter, second; Ryttenberg, Sumter, third. Leap frog relay. Marion, first; Flor- i ence, second; South Carolina Indus trial school, third. | Pole vault: Cuttino, Sumter, first; ! Hodges, Florence, second; Rytten- | berg, Sumter, third. Standing broad jump: Evans, Ma- 1 rion, first; Morrison. Florence, sec- ! ond; Ryttenberg, Sumter, third. I The encampment closed with a mass meeting at the opera house to day. Chattanooga, May 12.?More than four thousand ministers from the Southern states are here for the sixty sixth annual convention of the South ern Baptists which opened today. Youngstown. Ohio. May J 2.?Fire here early today caused three-fourths of a million loss. The old Mahoning Valley power house, a lumbre yard, ten houses and a garage were de stroyed. Baton Rouge, May 12.?Lonnie Eaton, the negro whom the sheriff forgot to hang on the day set for his execution was delivered tc the state penitential warden here today to be gin a life sentence. The Helicopter A New Airplane that Rises From the Ground Like a Bird Paris, April 14?The French avi ation world, governmental and pri vate, is deeply absorbed at the pres ent time in the rapid development of the recently invented helicopter, j the airplane which is designed to rise .'straight from the ground. The French 'government, after a careful investiga j iion by a commission of experts, has 'officially accepted the machine and j has set aside a substantial sum 'of 'money for immediate improvement of the invention. The Marquis R. Pat eras Pescara., of Aregntina, is credited by some air plane experts with having actually proved its practicability, but several Frenchmen, among them is M. L. Fiiipi, have since constructed heli copters with as much success as Pesi ! cara. Experimental work is now being I done near Paris at an army aviation 'field, through which the government I hopes to perfect the new airplane. !As yet the helicopher is in the same stage of development as were the tirst flying machines constructed by the Wright Brothers. At the Aero Club of France, where the helicopter is the chief topic 01 conversation, experts pjredict that within two years the new airplane will be a practical reality. Considerable surprise was express ed by these same experts that the United States government had appar ently not taken up the new machine inasmuch as it may materially affect sea warfare. The helicopter, described simply without attempt at technicalities, is a machine constructed of a series ol horizontal planes revolving in oppo site directions. On the Pescara ma chine, a base similar to that of a low slung automobile is used. On this is built two series of horizonal planes, each series composed of ten planes. The usual airplane motor starts the planes and the effect is to make the m?chine rise straight from the ground. ' In the experimental work, a small gas bag has been used for safety pur poses but the work is so far along that these bags are being abandoned. It is hoped that the perfected ma chine, which is expected within two years, will be able to rise from the deck of a battleship in mid-ocean. Pescara is conducting experiments at Barcelona. Spain, where the French army commission has spent several weeks in observation. His career has been romantic. Employed in experi mental laboratories of the Italian government before the war, Pescara came to Paris soon after the begin ning of the war and continued his work under army supervision. He was credited with hundreds of inventions among them a dirigible which flew over the enemy lines and dropped bombs at stated intervals. [ Suddenly at the height of. Pescara's success, the French police arrested hini as a spy and he was kept in pris on for several months. The French ministry of war protested his inno cence and obtained his release on condition that he be deported. He left for Spain and soon after the armistice began his helicopter exper iments. llU\V SHALL- WE HONOR YOU, MOTHERS OF MEN? (By Berton Braley). How shall we honor you, mothers of men? How shall we speak our praise Of you whose tenderness follows us Over the wide world's ways? For pain you suffered that we might live For struggle and sacrifice? How shall we pay you, mothers of men, For things beyond all price? "We seek no glory children we love, Wrhat payment could you make So sweet to us as to know our gifts Can still be yours to take?" So we give our faith and our love and trust And ask no more than this? A smile that shows you understand And, now and then, a kiss!" Oh, a woman bore the Son of Guu The world of men to save; And His heart was the heart com passionate That Mary, his mother, gave. And the nearest love to the Savior's love, "Which changes not nor dies. Is the love that leaps in a mother's heart And glows in a mother's eyes! Paper is Scarce in Russia. Warsaw, April 30.?Paper is so scarce in Russia that a special Soviet government institution has been cre ated in Moscow and other towns to deal with the shortage. Thousands of women have been employed by the government, according to travelers coming over the frontier recently, to search in old archives and record of- i fices for clean sheets of paper, or| paper used only on one side, which may be utilized for Soviet office cor-' respondence. I Tl>e Workingmun's Parlor. London, April 30.?The question whether a parlor is a necessary part of a workingman's house has caused heated argument among several of the local councils organized to promote building of such homes in the indus trial centers of England. Many women members of the coun cils argue that the workingman's daughters need parlors to receive th :ir callers during the courting period. Those opposed declare that the workingman's "best room" is little more than a '?cemetery for waxed flowers". The Welcome Suitor. Wealthy Bachelor (paying call)? I can't stand these very clever wo men; I'll never marry one. Matron (aside to daughter)?Look Stupid, dearie.?Le.s Varities. A Triple Crop Flower Bed Tulip beds which often give us trouble to keep them attractive all season, may be made to yield three distinct and handsome crops of flow ers with little difficulty. Sprinkle the beds early with seeds of the double annual or opium poppies. As soon as Hie weather permits, plant verbenas in some convenient ? seed bed. When the tulips have finished blooming, cut off the seed pods and thin the little poppies, which will be up thickly all over the bed, to about a foot apart or not closer than eight inches. It is a good plan to mix the seed, which is fine, with three or four times its bulk of sand before sowing, in order to get. more even distribution and not have the poppies coming up in streaks and thick patches. These poppies make a gorgeous dis play while they hist but their season of bloom is short. I The verbenas will need to be trans ! planted from their seed bed in order : to give them a chance to get a good 1 start. Pufi up tho poppies when they ! are done blooming and replace them with verbenas, at least a foot apart and eighteen inches wouldn't be any too far as the verbenas run over the ground and grow rapidly. In a short time the tulip bed will have disap peared, tho yellowed tulip stalks can be pulled up and the verbenas will make a solid mat of foliage covered thickly with bloom that will last until a killing frost ends thir activity. Germans Like American Soldiers. Coblenz, May G.?The Germans of Joblenz have been speculating with deep interest on the possible effect of the Knox resolution in congress declaring that a state of war no long er exists between America and Ger many. Whether the adoption of that res olution would cause the withdrawal of the American forces in Germany has been the main subject of dis cussion in the German press of the occupied territories. The correspondent, after interview ing the most representative Germans of all classes in Coblenz, can say that to the majority of Germans here, the withdrawal of the Americans would be regarded as regrettable. In administrative and political cir- j cles, they have been living in dire fear of the French taking over the area which would be abandoned by th Americans. "If we must have occu pation let it be American,' is the consensus of opinion. Among tradesmen and shopkeep ers the feeling of regret would be unanimous. "The tailor next door has become a mi'lionaire," said the ! book store proprietor with mingled i feelings of admiration and c . t, to the correspondent. "That book j store man is sure reapir.g a mpei j mark harvest," was the way tho tail lor put it. There is only one class of the pop ulation which looks upon the pres ence of American soldiers darkly. They are the young men who did not participate in the late war. Between them and the average doughboy there i is no love lost and no fraternization. I From time to time there are even a j few clashes. The doughboy has i: that the young German is jealous of j the former's popularity with the. frauleins. Others who look deeper say the larger cause is that tlusse young men relatively have not suf fered from the war and they are look- j ing to the future in a spirit of re- j ver.ge. Boycott Against Belfast by Sinn Fein. Dublin, April 6.?The boycott against Belfast by the rest of Ireland, officially ordered by the heads of Sinn Fein, is being enforced with all tho power of the Irish Republican Army, and daily reports are received of at- ! tacks on traders who continue to do business with Belfast. The fact that all this pressure is necessary shows unwillingness on the part of traders to sever their rela tions with Belfast, which does an ex tensive and varied business with the no-t distant Nationalist districts, iho bread supply of many of the towns in Connaught is baked in Bel fast and delivered daily by train. SevJ oral consignments have been followed! up and destroyed. In some of the towns as far away as the County of Clare the local trad ers are served from Belfast, and many of them have been warned against disobeying the Sinn Fein or der. At railway stations in that coun t ty Belfast goods have been destroyed I in the stores. I It is impossible to obtain accurate information as to how far the boycott i ha3 proved effectual. Belfast citizens admit it is an embarrassment but not ' a very serious attack on their trade. Sinn Feiners insist that it will cripple Belfast. There are many kinds of trade which Dublin could do as conveniently for the rest of the country as Bel fast. The boycott affords Dublin bus iness men a chance to capture some of this extensive trade, but so far ap parently it has not appealed to them as a business proposition, and there is no apparent sign that capital is being invested on th2 prospect. the PRICeToF shoes Washington, May l -.?The high cost of footwear is bound to fall sharply, if figures given out today by the Quartermaster Corps are any indication of readjustment in prices. When bids for 500,000 pairs of shoes Cor the army were opened in April, r.'L'1?. the average price was found to be $6.73 a pair. Today, with bids calling for 250.000 pairs, the contracts have just been award ed at an average price of $3.43 per pair, a cut of practically fiftj p?-r cent within twelve months. ! Such prices will save the taxpay ers millions ??f dollars in shoes Cor the troops. Boston. May 12.?The engineers and firemen :-i harbor tugboats, who quit last week in support of the sea men's strike, returned to werk to.lay. The leader said their return would not affect the strike. JOIN ? CCWEMflYE BULL ASSOCIATION S?et Way to Rapidly Envelop Find Milk Cows. Clenison Sollege, May 9?The pur* pose of buh associations is to bring about the rapid development of pro ductive milk cows of good conforma tion. Tiils is accomplished principally by the joint purchase, ownership, use,, exchange, and sale of good purebred dairy bulls. A recent census report shows 203,000 milk cows in S^th Car olina. Most of these cows are not kept in dairies, but are used on farms and in villages to furnish the family milk supply. Not more than one-half of one per cent are purebreds. The ma jority of these milk cows do not carry eno?igii dairy blood to give them a tendency to produce milk profita bly; therefore the families owning such cows are without milk, exccp? j for a few months after their cows j freshen. By introducing tlae blood of highly developed dairy cows through their sons the calves from our pres ent milk cows may become handsome ly profitable cows. The Organization. A bull association consists of three or more communities owning at least three high class bulls. Each commu nity is known as a block of this asso ciation. The number of members in each block will depend on the number of cows owned. Since each block should consist of 30 to 60 cows owned within one and one-half to two miles of the community center, one man owning 40 cows might form a block alone, while the next community might ;:#Te 20 members owning a to tal of 5C cows. The association is managed by a board of directors con sisting of one member selected from each block to serve one 7ear. This board of directors manages and con trols all the business and the associa tion, makes proper arrangem&t of the blocks, selects, purchases, and sells the bulls of the association, fixes the rate of compensation for bull sev. vice, arranges for keepers and their compensation, and for the care and handling of bulls. How to Organize an Association. The success of a co-operative bull association depends largely on the care used in its organization. Before an organization is attempted, the far mers interested should obtain as much information as possible regard ing the plan of operation. This in formation can be secured from the county agricultural agent or from the Extension Service of Clemson Col lege. Active work by the county agri cultural agent is necessary ha order to perfect a bull association, since it takes the time of some one very much interested to see the members of the communities and get them to gether in a county organization. After those interested have been in formed as to the plans the county agent should call a Dieting in each community sutable for a block. At this meeting the plan of operation of the bull association should be gone over and explained by the county agent, a dairy specialist, or a member of an association already in opera tion. Those present desiring to be come members should sign an agree ment somewhat like the following: "We, the undersigned farmers of _county, realizing the need of more profitable dairy cows and the importance of purebred dairy bulls of good breeding, hereby agre? to become members of the proposed co-operative bull association, provided that satisfactory constitution and by laws can be drawn up and adopted, and that a block can be formed with in reach of our farms." At this community meeting a ?ele? gate or director should be elected to attend the county meeting at which a constitution and by-laws are drawn up and directors elected. . This county meeting is held after all the communi ties interested have held their local meetings. The assessment for pur chasing the bulls is levied by the di rectors equally on each block. fThls assessment may be apportioned to the members of the blocks in either of two ways. If there is a rather thick cow population among the members, the assessment may be made on each cow subscribed. If the members have only a few cows each, the assessment may be made on the "share" basis, each member taking an equal amount of stock. For example, suppose $300.00 hulls are to be purchased. If there are ten members owning 30 cows in one block, the assessment on "per cow" basis would be $10.00 for each cow subscribed. On the "share" basis, it ! would lake $30.00 worth of stock for each member in that block. By using these high class bulls one after another the farmers can rapidly develop fine milk cows. The calves from the first bull used will carry 50 I per cent improved blood. When they in turn are bred to the next bull, their utlves will carry 75 per cent improved blood. The next cross carries S7 per cent and the next cross ?G per cent i improved blood. j Some Advantages of Bull Associations. 1. Better and fewer bulls at less cost. 2. Opportunity for line breeding by purchasing bulls suitably bred to i breed to one another's daughters, j 3. The exchange of bull-' - very two i years, by means of which continued [use of the hulls can be had until their lvalue as breeders is proved, j 4. The Introduction of purebred rows. r>. The establishment of one breed in a county. (DARK DAY FOR ORGANIZED LABOR Chief Stone of Engineers' Bro therhood Says One-Third of Members Are Without Jobs Cleveland, May 11.?Organized la bor is lacing the worst crisis in its history, Warren S. Stone, grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers, declared today in his report submitted at the opening of the organization's triennial con vention. Twenty thousand members?almost one-fourth of the total?are. without jobs, he said. Mr. Stone refrained from comment on the wage reduction cases now before the United States railroad board. He reviewed the brotherhood's wage movements in the last three years and declared that had not Woodrow Wilson been strick en on his western trip, "conditions would have, been different." He said the former president had promised that upon his return he would place "the entire power of the government behind the movement to curb " the constantly increasing cost of living and profiteering." The question of affiliation with the jAmerican Federation of Labor, au thorized in 1918, was referred back to this convention. Mr. Stone ex | plained that several conferences" in jl919 failed of agreement as to terms, j W. F. McCaleh, manager of the } Brotherhood's cooperative national j bank, reported on its growth. De I posits increased from $650,000 No jvember 1, 1920, to $7,000,000 today, j Establishment of similar banks in I other cities, the. first to be in Chicago, j was recommended. Extension of financial aid to the j state of North Dakota was discussed j at today's session and it was pre I dieted the Brotherhood would in crease its purchase of that state's ! bonds. Cincinnati, May 11.?The American Federation of Labor will oppose any attempt to repeal the present system of excise of "luxury" tax and substi tute a sales tax. This policy was decided upon by the executive council of the federa tion in session here today. The coun cil also decided to carry on the fight to obtain the repeal of the Kansas court of industrial relations law and to urge that the federation take steps to have anti-strike and anti-labor legislation repealed and renew its drive to prevent the passage of fur ther anti-labor legislation. Bridge Site Dispute Florence, May 11.?Engineers rep j -esenting the state highway commis sion, the federal aid department and Marion county will go to the Great Pee Dee river Friday to inspect the site of the proposed Pee Dee river bridge as recommended, and also the old Mars Bluff ferry site which Ma rion county interests are contending for, in tho effort to compose the]dif ferences of opinion which have arisen as to location. This step was taken after an exhaustive hearing here to lay before the Pee Dee bridge com mission during which the merits and demerits of the two sites were set forth. The visit, to the sites was suggested by R. G. Rhett, who was present as chairman of the state highway commission. The engineers were requested to make a complete j examination of the two sites and re port at a meeting, the time of which will be duly announced. In the mean- I time as a result of the meeting here j today the plans of the Pee Dee bridge j commission to press the work at the site recommended by the state high way commission will not be pressed and all due consideration will be given to the contention of the Ma rion representatives that by building the bridge on the old ferry site hun dreds of thousands of dollars could j be saved. Marion also contends that j the site selected by the highway com- j mission is not feasible. It was made | plain by spokesmen for the Marlon j side that the only reason in tho world j they object to the site selected j was because of their belief that it would cost several hundred thousand dollars more than would a similar bridge built at Mars Bluff ferry and this they declared they would be in a poeition to prove. It was also made plain that everybody wanted j the bridge and that any obstacle j which had been placed in the way of j starting work on it at once were not j due to prejudice or feeling of antag- | onism or anything else of that kind j but were for the best interests of all. | J. M. Johnson, well known engineer, presented the case for the Marion county, interests and made a strong showing for the .Mars Bluff ferry site. Messrs. Moorefield and Parker of the state highway commission ap peared in support of their plans to place the bridge above the railroad bridge. The hearing began at 10 o'clock and lasted until this after noon. It was entirely amicable and demonstrated that all concerned were sincere in their desire to approach the matter in a businesslike and prac tical manner. After all was said and done the hearing resolved into a matter of engineering. It was realiz ed that the Pee Dee bridge commis sion could not reach a decision with out expert advice. There were rep resentatives here from all the coun ties of this section. Washington. May 12.?The German acceptance of the allied reparations demands has promptly stimulated in terest in American business in Ger man trade pot Abilities. There has been a.*marked increase in the num ber of Inquiries reaching the state de partment concerning trade restric tions. With the exception of a few restrictions Americans may carry on trade with Germany freely. Orangeburg. May 11.?The court of) general sessions for Orangeburg county is in its second week's ses sion and a number of cases are being tried. Two murder cases of county interests were those against John F. Sawyer, charged with the murder of his brother-in-law, Erskine Hall, and that of Julius Jeffcoat. charged with the murder of Estes Cook, Roth of tnese defendants were acquitted. Irish Guerilla Warfere Reports From Irish Cc mmanders of Attacks London, April 6?Insiie st'tffcs of the ambushes laid by th-> JtUh IH* publican Army to trap and tail s<iaad3 of British constables in Ireland-Sf ft disclosed in the reports from Irish brigade commanders which have. Jus? been given out at the headquarters. o? the Volunteers in Dtiolin: Most sf these attacks have been reported. fcy the British but the Irish accounts^ar* now given for the first time,. They give the details of desperate fights in which, sometimes,' the Uttis British commands have been deci mated and at other times the Irish I have been driven off with several loss es for the Irish volunteers occasionally run into counter trap and find them selves exposed to the withering"" blast of a machine gun. These reports show the method* employed to carry on .the guerilla fighting, the hurried calls to assemble the Irish attackers, efforts to surprise '< the British constables in some Isolated [spot and tell of the use of mines*-tQ block the passage oT motor ears.-so that the attack can be delivered with, greater execution. A typical ambush >s described in--a report of the commander of the Bast County Clare brig .de. Thirty-frve j men, five acting as scouts, attacked a police lorry containing a district in* i spector and nine constables at Glen* j wood Belvoir, killing all but tow? j who escaped. Twenty of the attacfc Sera, it is said, were armed with rifies ;and ten with double barrelled ahot ! guns. They were concealed on put 'side of a road near a stream.. I "As in a previous ambush," . ths commander reports, "the main bQ&s was divided into three parties. Tie position which was occupied-'at [m., was not favorable, but we count* ed on the element of surprise anaYtfce concentrated fire of 15 of the.rifles and the ten shotguns in the first v<>!? (ley to make up for shortcomings ana j in this we were sueeessfuL" ? . : .? They waited, it appears, until tout o'clock in the afternoon before ???0? lorry came in sight. "When the ?SC came into the centre position/*. tJfcs report continues, "it was rafeed wttfe the fire of the 25'guns, most ot *||S police were shot off ^nd the car came to a dead stop. Sorie of the police when they got on th$ road-vxps4e ah attempt to put a figh; but the;?eeoj4. volley, which included all the rides* wiped them out. .. . ./_ What is termed "an exceedingly risky operation as we were half?> ths enemy strength" was the\att?/JJt^iii County Donegal on a m?itaryit^j^ from Derry. According -to the bn* gade commander's report the^atta*4? ing party numbered 26. " Inforraat|?^ was received at 9:20 at. night, the;re port says, that the a^eciaL'trsin^tlrM to leave Derry at 3 a.;m,', th4;1?**$ . morning. ?*> -.>jvV ' ^ "Little time was left , to cl position and get . settled, ^^f^jffi| train was late, giving .us threje' ters of an hour to get rea-ejy.v chose a cutting one aide pi Which on a level with the \c&Tr^^\jiiji^? At the ends of each alders.- ' bombers and rifle men and b^w#4pi were placed the remaking? \ri$#zx&m\ and the others differently araie^'?<i largo boulders were placed. .-.!$&??' rails and the wire fecc-eei at each ?So* were pulled up to ail rd a sale ej?, The station building a short distance away was taken possession ot green light "displayed* . , . .- ,. v.. "There were seven carriages ?Sj train and it was traveling.;** -kjgfcii speed when it struck the etches. "J/' "Fire was opened from both aJ4ea and bomts were hurled through windows. The Are was returned from the cab of the engine, where; > Lewis gun was in posUion. Our ri??* men, at the rear end the train ?9$ down on the line for snfiladins &r% but after about ten minutes.. I was forced to order a retr>s.t to effect the safe escape of our wotK Sight bojafca were thrown, two of which we a** certain landed in can&gea. "In the retreat one of our two gsv* ties was Burrounded twice but faag&t its way through on eacb. occasion, Oss of our men is missing and we belters he has fallen Into the hands of ths enemy. No other casus-ltiea were suf fered on our side and, despHe the*? denial, we have every reason tQ fee* lleve that at least ten men wer? e|t& er killed or wounded on the etvetsy side." INCOME TAX S RETURNS Columbia, May IS.?Thirr^-stgj* thousand and six irtco&ae tax r^?^? were made in South Carolina durijig the income tax period, which ea?ed March 16, being for 1920 inc^ffi^*.. This is announcement made.tod^y W. R. Bradley, collector of Inters Revenue. Of this total 18.55:'? returns wer? made on incomes of le#s than i.o4(^; above the exemption figure. A total of 2.912 incomes of more than t?*$0?t were returned. Non-taxable' Incooaes were returned to the number of It,* 273. Partnership returns were mad.% to the numbe rof '."Si. Corporation returns on taxable ;wcomes nupfoet for the past year 950, Mad non-taxable incomes returned w corporations total 2.360. I-lduciafe/ retvtrae^ - ft>? the state, number 67. The total ot Sf. 006 is four thousand more than for any year of the past, showing that for 1920 South Carolinians either earned more than in any year past, or *rere more honest in reporting their earn* ings to the government. Washington, May 12.?The labor costs of the larger railroads were hun dred fifteen per cent greater last year than in 1917, Julius Kruttschintt of the Southern Pacific, told the set-ate interstate commerce committee. Dur ing the same period the gross ?eY6* nues increased less than fifty-four per cent. London, May 12.--American bassador Harvey was received today by King George and presented to the king his credenr.iala He drove to Buckingham Palace la the ?eya> carriage.