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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Establis CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,18 FLOOD ATPUEBLO Colorado City Still Cut Off From Outside World?Other Reser voirs Break and Rush ing Waters Again In undate Flood Swept Areas?People in Dire Need Pueblo, Colo.. June 5..?Three times during the last 4S hours the waters of the Arkansas river. breaking from their course, have inundated the greater part of this city with the resultant loss of probably not more than 250 lives and property damage estimated at $10,000,000. This loss is attributed chiefly to the ? first flood of Friday night and Sat urday morning. The second and third floods of this morning and af ternoon found little of value not al ready ruined by the waters and were looked upon with concern only be cause they hindered rescue and re construction work. First estimates of the dead, based upon reports from excited eyewit nesses who told of seeing hundreds of bodies ^wept through the streets of the city, are considered greatly exaggerated. While no officila count of, the fatalities has been attempted, it is said the death list probably will not exceed 250, if that high. One hundred bodies have been re covered, but it is feared that when the mud and debris which fills the streets and buildings In the flooded area are cleared away more will be found. Relief work is progressing under the direction of Red Cross officials and Governor Shoup. The greater danger at present is from pesti lence. Food vis being rationed. Those without funds with which to pur chase provisions are being cared for by xhe Red Cross and other agencies. To those who have funds, military permits are being issued allowing rhe holder .to buy only a limited amount ^jfood from local stores. Pure water is at premium. ? Peo- : pie have been warned to boil water before drinking. * In anticipation of a typhoid epidemic,, a large quantity of typhoid anti-toxiri ha3 been called for and.will be administered as soon as- available. Five-hundred persons are in tempo rary hospitals as a direct result of the flood, according to J. E. Moor head, secretary to the governor. There are cases of chickenpox, ty phoid pneumonia, diphtheria and one or two cases of insanity. The entire city is under martial law and 150 troops are patrolling the city with orders that all persons are to be kept out of the restricted area and to shoot if necessary. Troops have received orders to pre vent all visitors from entering the city. No persons not members of the national guard will be admitted. The Red Cross today cooked a car load cf meat to keep it from spoiling and this will be distributed to the needy. Governor Shoup returned this af ternoon by automobile to Colorado ! j?prings from which place he ex pected to answer the message from President Harding and Senator Nich olson at Washington in regard to the measures needed to help the situa tion. - . Col. Pat Hamrock, adjutant gen eral, commanding state troops here, said tonight it soon would be pos sible to ascertain something definite on the disaster. # It is impossible to obtain any ac curate information on the number of dead or the number of bodies recov ered, as military headquarters is without communication with the east and south sections of the city. When the first report of the new flood came this afternoon soldiers conducted a hurried search of build ings and in one found a woman standing in water up to her armpits and holding above her head a baby five hours old. The mother and baby were taken to a hospital, where it was said they could not live. Three United States army air planes are on the way to Pueblo to night from Dodge City. Kan. According to Colonel Hamrock the machines will be used for observa tion atid scouting to verify reports of further flood dangers. Fear was expressed tor the safety of'people living in towns on the Ar kansas river below Pueblo. There was no way of spreading a warning from here. It was impossible to get into other sections of the city or out of the city from the south. The heavy rains today and tonight again made the roadsgjllmoa impas sable. Just before the afternoon flood, the military rushed seven soldiers across the viaduct to the south side. The As sociated Press correspondent accom panied the troops, the journey being made through sonn- of the worst de vastated districts. Qn either side the ruins of princi pal structures, twisted and torn by the flood, stood in mud and stagnant water. High water marks showed the flood had reached nearly to the second story. In the union station the high water mark was 14 feet. At the. congress hotel hundreds of per sons we?e fed,- coffee being made with lithia. water. The eggs ran out early" this morning and nam. a*>d ?teak was on the menu. Tonight bed April, 1850. "Be Just i 81. NO DEFINITE j NEWSOFFLOOD 'Scares Dead," Morgues Are Overflowing, All Emergency Hospitals Caring For Injured, Food Supply Almost Exhausted, Railroads Washed Out and High ways Impassable j Pueblo, June <>.?An accurate esti I mate of the loss of life and property ; from the flood in stricken central Col j orado is impossible. The morgues ; were overflowing, and rehef stations i have been improvised to assist the 'hospitals to relieve the. sick and 'thousands of homeless. I Red Cross estimates that a hun j dred bodies have been found. The .'governor's secretary said that 600 are : being treated in the hospitals. Food j is being rationed. j Floods of lesser magnitude are re I ported in the course of the Arkansas ) river. Las Animas was partly inun 1 dated, and a score of lives lost when jihe Platt river broke its banks, j The food supply of Pueblo is said j [ to be oniy sufficient for three days. ' ! The railway lines being washed out | and the roads impassable make the | situation menacing. J The federal and state governments 1 are rushing aid. (Seeking to Limit I Armaments - j House Foreign Affairs Commit tee Reports Joint Resolution j Washington. June 6.?As a substi I tute for the Borah disarmament pro | posal the house foreign affairs com j mittee have reported a joint resolution J concurring in "the declared purpose" j of President Harding to call an inter J national confetence .to limit arma Uoenls. . ^_ ? -.- ? WANT LOWER WAGE SCALE - j Railroads Petition Labor Board For Reduction Chicago, June G.?One hundred and seventy-rive railroads have petitioned] the railroad labor board for a reduc tion in wages in one or more classes of their employers equal to that given any other railroad by their decision; effective July 1. there was chicken, cold roast beef and ham sandwiches. No one has had a bath or a shave since the rtood. It has been impos sible even to wash one's face and hands or obtain u. change of eloth 1 ins. I Eyewitnesses Tells Story of Flood, i Pueblo, June f..?A graphic story J of flood wag given to the Associated j Press today by M. J. Valley of Den ! ver. a Colorado and Southern rail ! road engineer. Valley was marooned with four other men for 12 hours. At one | time his companions had to rub his j limbs and body to keep his blood in circu'ation so he could stand alone. "I had been in a garage with a friend to get his car," Valley said, : "when the flood waters swept into the garage. We climbed into the ear. then on !<>p of it: i **The flood waters reached us even there and we climbed into the sec i ond floor of the building and when that became flooded we smashed a 1 I hole in the roof and stepped out on it. j j "The water crept on us tin-re and jit looked as it the burlding might go so we stepped out on a pile of debris j [which had been stopped by tele phone wires. For three hours we , Stood there in the t ain and dark ni ss which was lighted up only by [several tires. Then the improvised ; raft gave way and we climbed back mi the garage, finally cutting a cable \ from the telephone wires, and with the aid of this got on to a higher; building. "From here ami with tin- aid of the < able, we rescued three men wie? w >-v> being swept pa*t us by the current. ?"Hot--. - were being swept down the street pact us, many of them with people inside crying for hejp. f don't know 'now many of them there were nor how man.\ of them escaped. "We were rescued by a boat crew j at '.t o'clock Saturday morning. In the Union garage one man was rescued Saturday. H> had lloared with the flood to the ceiling of the build ing and had pounded a hole through the roof big enough ?o put his hea through lor air. Tie- water line within three inches of the sec ond floor. Another man with him might have saved his life had be kepi h;s face up. His body was found jammed between tie' rafters. His name was Schoelble. He was the owner of a lar^e shoe store. A rise of 11' feet here, which is re ported to be the crest of the flood waters in Colorado, would inundate much c? the business section of Dodge City and would put the electric light and power plant out of commission. Colorado Flood Reaches Kansas i _ Men on Horseback Warning People To Flee to the Hills Town of Amity Washed Away I Topeka, June f>.?The first wave of |the Arkansas flood is sweeping from [Colorado upon Kansas. Men on hoqgp ! back are patrolling the river west" of ; Syracuse warning the people t?> flee* The town of Amity is reported *to 'have been washed away when the )dam broke, with possible loss of life, i Farmers are driving their livestock to '' the hills! j Big Fire in Pittsburg ;3ussines Section Damaged To Extent of Million Dollars Today : |2 . J Pittsburgh, Jon?' H.?Damage esti ; mated at between five hundred thou j sand and a million dollars was the re j suit of a fire in the business section I today. I - Contract For Santee Worjt , Approaches and Treaties WiB Be Built Columbia. June 6.?Bids for the 'construction of the approaches and 'trestle work on the Santee river bridge ; will be recived up until noon on June I ::2, the highway department antnoun j ced yesrerday. This contract will be ? one of the largest, if not the largest j ever let for bridge work in South Car ' olina, totalling between $600,000 and I $700,000. I Work on the big steel spans of ! (he Santee bridge has been in prog ; ress for over a month and with the .awarding of the contract for the ap proaches the bridge will soon be I under construction in its entirety, j The embankments alone will rej i quire morf* than COo.uOO or 8<?u,?6 yards of dirt._ \ ? Tire- trestle will be rnore"" than".a j mile long. I Several other highway projects art I going forward rapidly. Work on the !:;?ind Bar ferry is progressing nice j ly, the first concrete being poured ; last week. Engineer Moorefield has 1 just returned from a visit to sev ; eral pieces of bridge and road work, [among these being the Sand Bar I ferry structure. A. J. Twiggs. the contractor, has erected a siding right at the bridge and is making ex t re me - I ly good headway on the bridge, Mr. j Moorefield reports. The Hardaway Construction com pany has already begun work on the j Wateree river bridge, having been j engaged in preliminary activities for I several days. The company expects [to finish the spans this summer. Lexington county has just complet ! ed arrangements to spend an addi tional $l?.??? on the Charleston road j and the contract for this work will ; be let soon, it was announced yester day. For this $15,000 the county is to be reimbursed with $15,000 of fed-! [eral aid on the Washington-Atlanta [highway, this plan being agreeable to tiie county commissioners. Engineer- Moorefield spent several"! ; days of last week going over some of the roads in the western and south-: j western part of the state and reports highway work everywhere going for-j ward ar a rapid clip. The reduced] I prices are aiding in this work and Mr. Moorefield is well pleased ai the I amount of construction now in prog- j ress. i Accident on Warship One Man Burned to Death and Another Seriously Injured ! - Portsmouth. Va.. June 6.?While at-: tempting to light a fire under the: furnace aboard the New Orleans, R. J. Jamieson. was burned to death, and ! James Quinn seriously hurt. The Price ofaWife ! - British Government Fixes Valu ation of Five Pounds in Treaty j With Liberia London. June 6.?Five pounds will be tbe price ot ;< wife, according to tbe convention between <ii?-at Britain, and Liberia, regulating the relations or the tribes on the border between Liberia and Sierra Leone. Norfolk Water j Front Guarded' __ i No Trace of the Men Who Raid ed Ship and Heat Crew Found .Wwport Xews. June 6. Guards1 along the water from have been strengthened, but none of the masked party who beat up the crew <;f the Steamer Mi'.chell has yet been found. fDEMPSEY TAKING IT EASY j Atlantic City, N. .)., Jam- 6.- Demp-j : rev has laid aside is boxing gloves un [ til the gash over his eye heals. He ; continues -road work and bag puncii I ing. i ims't at be tby Country's, Thy God's a CSDAY, JUNE 8, 1921 ???????????????????????? Famous Aviatrix I Falls To Death ! Laura Bromwell Loses Life When Plane Crashes?Held World Record i _ Mineola, X. Y.. June .".?Miss Laura Brornwell, holder oi* the loop the loop record t ? women, and one of the ! best known women pilots in the world, was killed at Mitchell held this afternoon. Miss Brornwell was flying at .in altitude of about 1,000 feet. She had just completed one loop and was about to make a second when some thing went wrons with the plane and it eiashed to tin* ground. Miss Bromwell, whose home was in Cincinnati, was L'3 years old. She established her loop the loop record May IS when she executed 1 199 loops in an hour and 2o min utes. The same afternoon she pilot ed her airplane over a two mile straight away course o.t the rate of 135 miles an hour. Military observers who witnessed the flight declared the girl's air plane motor stopped abruptly as she was making the upward turn of The loop. Suddenly, the machine fell backward into a tail spin and dropped like a plummet into a road just outside the field. Hundreds of spectators gasped as plane fell and then rushed to where it struck the ground. The girl's iifeless body was found in the tan gled wreckage. Miss Bromwell had tested her machine before engaging in her stunts, army officers said, and she pronounced it in good condi tion. Miss Bromwell's machine went Through the rirst loop wirh the grace of a bird. She had just started a second when suddenly the hum of the motor stopped and the plane lurched sidewise, rt seemed to remain sus pended a minute and then starred its meteoric drop. A dark object flew from the ma chine and many spectators, thinking that the straps holding the aviatrix in her seat had broken, shuddered and turned their heads. It later prove to be a seat cushion, released when Miss Brornwell was swung clear of the sear as the plane started to fall, upside down. . Experienced 1 aviators (fecl?re'rt the girl's apparent inability to manipu late the control levers in an effort to right the plane probably was due to having swung from the seat so far she could not reach them. She was flying high -enough, they said, to have brought rhe plane ?rafely to earth, although the motor had stopped. Mineola. X. Y? June 5.?R. H. De pew, manager for Miss Brornwell at Mineo'a, issued the following state ment : "Miss Bromwell's own plane was out of order. She borrowed a Cana dian training plane, a type which, because of Miss Bromwell's small stature, she was unsuited to stunt. I warned her not to attempt to loop it but she disregarded the instrue tions. In the middle of the second loop the cushion she sat on fell out and she evidently slipped out of reach of the controls and was unable to right the plane. "Examination of the wreck dis closed all controls to be in working order." Aid For Live Stock Men _ j Fifty Millions in Loans To Cattle Raisers Washington. June 5.?Legislation | authorizing Secretary Mellon to makf available to the war finance corpora-j tion $50.000,000 to be loaned cattle j .aisers was recommended to congress j by the federal reserve board in a formal statement issued tonight by Governor Harding. The recommen- j datian was made. Governor Hurtling! explained, with the concurrence of th? j secretary to meet "the peculiar emer- | gency existing in the live stock in- j dustry." The hoard's proposal whs announc ed by the governor before leaving fui : n two weeks' tour of ine cattle pro ducing sections of the country. Me 1 .\ii: stop at Des Moines. fa.. Cheyenne. J Wyo., Albuquerque. N. \V., El Paso.' San Angela. San Antonio, and Dallas. Governor Harding had just com-j pleted a tour of the agricultural see- ; tion of Middle West. "The board feels," the governor added, "that the financial emerg? nc\ | which menanced the country during] l'JL'i) has definitely passed." He added, however, that additional credit facilities are urgently needed j by producers of some highly essential! products, particularly in th?r stock' i aising indust rj. Amendment to the reserv e a< r mak-j mr. one ami two year cattle paper 1 eligible for rediscount, instead or thf j existing limit of six months as means 01 providing the longer term ? red it required i?> the necessities 01 the live stock industry, is deemed advisable by the board, the gover-i noj declared. Such loans, he asserted,] could be made through reserve hanks i as fi.s. a I agents for the war finance, corporation rather than as Panks *.?! ' discount, fie suggested that the lim for making these advaaices to stock-! men be limited to three years from the passage of the enabling legisla tion "with a view to having the funds rhus advanced ultimately returned to the treasury." Rubber bathing suits are the newest style this year in eastern* ports. Vul canising stations should be c?iivefii-, entiy located.?Kansas City Star. ? nd Truth's." THE TRUt SC J Smith Leads Fight For F? ;mer Relief Appointed by Senators to Con ler With Mellon?Talks With President Washington June 4.?Reduction of federal reserve rediscount rates and Linie extension of loans on agricultural paper were favored at a meeting to day of nineteen senators of the new agricultural "block."A bill by Senator Capper, Republican, Kansas, to add the secretaries of agriculture and commerce to the federal reserve board also was endorsed. Senator Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, was delegated by the "'bloc" o discuss such legislation with Sec retary Mellon and other government j officials. The senator has drafted a I tentative bill amending the federal reserve act to make the time limit on agricultural bains one year, in lieu of the present six months' limit, when secured by warehouse receipts. Senator Smith has discussed with President Harding the question of re lucing the rediscount rate on agricul tural paper to f> per cent, as well as >btaining more credits for agricultu rists. He received a letter today from he president in reply to resolutions adopted by the cotton consultation amfeionce in New York last month. The conference recommended reduc tion of the rediscount rate to 5 per rent and also increased credits hrough the federal reserve system. ?re:ident Harding, in response to he resolutions, wrote Senator Smith in expression of "application of the expression made by the conference." The president added that "many of be suggest ons are receiving the at tention of the administration in the most effective way possible." Senator Smith gave out a statement ieclaring he had found the president ?enthusiastic in his desire to relieve ?s far as possible the present unfor 'unate and disastrous condition in which the agiicultural interests of the country are." "The administration seems desir ous," said Senator Smith, "to extend credit to the cotton producers and to open up the farm markets as rapidly And as extensively as possible." Every department of the govern ment having to do with finance and 'omtnerce tnat "has visited, he added, ire earnestly at work to meet this iesperate situation and to relieve it. Harvey's Speech Severely Flayed - Slander to Mothers Who Sacri ficed. Says Daniels Anderson. S. C. June ..?"Xot in the history of diplomatic relations has any man so slandered the American na tion and people as the present am bassador to the court at St. Jame*? j when he recently said in London that America entered the war not to save! bleeding Europe and the world fori democracy, but to save her own in- i ?eres's". declared former Secretary of j the Navy Paniels, in addressing the voung women graduates of Anderson ! College at commencement exercises j here. "It is a sin'?'0!' aimed at every Vm*?riean mothv who sacrificed and; worked that her son might go to the ; front to fight the foes of democracy.! freedom and equP.y among nations of i the earth." he 'continued, "and my j h-art is glad to see the American j ; press, the people and the party of j j 'his man are. not behind this scandal, j this man are not behind thus scandal-; [ cms statement. j "Our boys in colleges are weighing, j he constructive idealism of Woodrow] ! Wilson and measuring it with Presi- j I dent Harding's announced opposition ; ' io theories and practical tasks fori ' practical America." .Mr. Daniels as serted. I "Failure of the United States t<> ! ratify the peace trea'y is responsible! for the anxiety in America today, de pressed conditions, and the low price! of cotton." he said. ! ?-?- J I Boys Provoke Dentist i By Calling Him "Buttermilk" Uses Profane Language York. June 4.?Rather than pay a? tine of $li> imposed following his conviction in mayor's court here of using profan?> language on the streets. Dr. V Jthew w. \\'bi:e, wealth} den rist, was committed to jai] today. He was sentenced by May"'? A. Halt to serve tc-n da:, s in ju.il in lieu of a fine. White's defense in mayor's court was that lo' had been annoyed be yond endurance by James Mc- j Dowell, sun of Dr. James 1?. Mc Dowell; Georg* Ferguson. son <>i Lewis Ferguson, a butcher, a nd others who constantly ealb-d him "Buttermilk." Young McDowell was tito'd $1 in mayor's court this morn ing for annoying the dentist while young Ferguson was discharged. Dr. Wbire has been accustomed for years to selling citizens butter milk as a sideline, hence the ap pelafioa hj th** boys. to- White declared at tin- county jail i Iii- afternoon that "Jesus Christ was crucified for principle" and he "was also willing to suffer imprisonment for principle." He de clared thai Mayor Hall had not giver, him the relief from his tor- i mentors to which he was entitled J as a citizei.. m ?CTHKON, Established June 1, VOL. LIL NO. 32 More Without Jobs Than During April Employment Figures Advance One-Half of One Per Cent Department of Labor Makes Survey * Washington, June 5.?Unemploy ment increased approximately one half of 1 per cent, during May, ac cording to a statement made public today by the d- partment of labor based upon reports from 1,428 firms employing each 501 or more persons in 65 principal industrial centers of the country. The same firms, the statement said, employed 1,578,5-3-8 workers in May against 1,1580,749 in April. The number of employed in to bacco manufacture decreased 5.5 per cent, in May, while lumber and its manufactures feP off 2.9 per cent. The number of workers in the iron and steel industry decreased 2.5 per cent, food and kindred products .7 per cent., metal and metal products .004 per cent., chemicals .1 per cent, and miscellaneous industries grouped together 4.9 per cent. Increases in the number of em ployees were showed in railroad and repair shops amounting to 8.4 per cent., in leather 4.3 per cent., ve hicles for land traneoprtation 3.8 per cent., textile 2.7 per cent., stone, clay and glass 2 per cent., liquor* and beverages 1.9 p sr cent., and paper printing .4 per cent. Cities reporting employment de creases in May were: Chicago, 2.9 per cent.; Boston, 3.2 per cent.; Portland, Ore., 26.4 per cent; New Haven, 15.9 per cent Memphis, 15.6 per cent.; Peoria, 111., 11.8 per cent.; Perth Amboy, N. J, 10.9 per cent.; Louisville. 9.5 per cent.; Paterson, N. J . S.l per cent.; Buffalo, 7.9 per cent.; Cincinnati, 7.2 per cent.; Birming ham, 5.4 per cent. New Orleans, 5.0 per cent., and Richmond, Va., 2.9 per cent. Increases in the number employed were shown in New York, amounting to 3 per cent.; Philadelphia, 1.5 per cent.; Detroit, 13.3 per cent.; Bayonne, N. J., 12.9 per cent.; Se.attgi, 9.8 per cent.'; Flint, Mich., 8.3'per cent; Chattanooga, 7:4 per cent.; Grand Rapids, 7.2 per cent., Atlanta. 6.1 per cent.; Indianapolis, 6.1 per cent. .; Unsatisfactory transportation con ditions, continue t depression in steel and iron, dullness of the foreign trade markets, high cost of construc tion and geheral apathy of the buying public, the department said in ita statement, contributed to the de crease in employment. New Cotton Census Low Grade Staple in Country to Ee Determined, Says See Hary Hoover. Washington. June 4.?A special, cen sus of low grade cotton is being tafcr en by the department of .commerce; under an arrangement reached With Secretary Hoover by Senator Smith, Democrat, South Carolina. The latter declared recently in the senate that government cotton statistics were misleading in that they failed to sho^r the amount of low grade cotton on. hand, and contended that there was a real shortage of spinnable cotton. In advising Senator Smith of the depart meat's low grade cotton cen sus. Secretary Hoover said: "In accordance with our conversa tion the other day I have sent direc tions out to alt of the cotton enum erators to determine the amount of off-grade cotton in public warehouses and such other storage as they can secure. I am told that it is very difficult to get a true statement of' this on account of the fear that such information might, injure the credir of the warehouse men. "In order to overcome this preju dice I have aut'n rized the enumer ators to state thai the the government is anxious to discover the volume of this quality of cotton in order that they might better organize for its disposal, and to endeavor to secure the cooperation of the warehouse people in ^eitinji at the true situa tion." Alabama Pine Used Paper of Good Quality Being Manufactured Tuscaloosa, Ala . June 6.?An o*r der for ten carloads of Alabama pine num a Niagara Falls paper mill,,, marks the first commercial effort in the manufacture of newsprint from this timber. The Niagara Falls mill success fully worked a small "run" of pine cut especially for the experiment^ Samples of th^ paper recelverd here are pronounced by experts to be as good as the product or the spruce. That in order of such size has been placed, indicates that serious atten tion will be given to the utilization of pine in the future manufacture of newsprint, publishers here assert. ESTATE TAX ALLOW ABLE DEDUCTION Washington, June 6.?An estate tax is an "allowable deduction" from the income of an estate in computing net income, the Supreme Court has ruled. ?