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THE S?MTKR WATCHMAN", Establish GONSOLIDATEP AUG. 2,18* RELIEF FOR j FMJODJICllMSi Colorado Disaster Being! Coped With?Many Families Destitute Pueblo Colo. June 7.?Plans have' bene mapped out for taking care of I the destitute; establishing of refugee ! camps and centralizing relief work, i The death list includes fifty-two. Four bodies have been recovered and ? twenty-two declared dead in the j towns of Avondale Vineland and ; Boone. Hundred and fifty-two Italian ! families are marooned on the hills i northwest of Arkansas river. Death list now stands at fifty-five \ when three more bodies were found. Denver, June 7.?Ffty-five rersons have: been rescued from a train which turned over in the Pueblo flood Sat urday. Thirteen are still unaccount ed for. Negro Given Five Years For Wrecking Train! William DuRant Declared Guiltyj by Jury in Court Today Charged with wrecking Seaboard I ? Air Line passenger train 23 in which j Engineer Harmon and his fireman Joe Jenkins were hurt, and a number of passengers shaken up, William Du * Bant a negro was today declared guil ty by a jury in the court of general j sessions and sentenced to serve five j years in the state penitentiary. DuRant. it will be recalled, threw the switch at a side track near Flor > ieace derailing the locomotive and one - car of the passenger train. The negro had pasted white paper over the tar get board to cover the red sign and in dicate a clear track to the engineer. Durant had no attorney. He show ed but little interest in his case, be '?}'' yor.d an unsuccessful attempt, as the ' V Jury* saw it, to prove an alibi. When vrh.e> accused man declared that he haadfitnesses- who would testify that he-was- not-in the vicinity of the scene j of, thy.accident at the time it occurred .,r/J1S8ge'-Shipp granted*" the time for "^&ilvsummoning. Two of the wit nesses were brought into court but tfieir testimony-held little weight with injury: Senior Wright, colored, was the- principal witness against DuRant. He teat!5ed to' having seen DuRant bending over the switch thirty min utes before the arrival of the train j heating on it with some heavy instru ment. DuRant had tried to hide from him, the witness declared. V. Columbia Gets Golf Tournament WilBam M. Shand F^cted Pres ident of Association Greensboro. N. C.? June 7.?Com bining their qualifying round with the club team event Greensboro's four today won the right to keep " the P. P. Capers tearq cup for a year and each member of the team had a miniature copy of the cup. Malcolm Jones, Greensboro, captured the gold medal for low score at qualify ing round, Carolinas Golf Associa tion tournament play, with 77. Fred "Hyatt amateur champion of Colum bia, ? s. C, and Fred Newnham. Greensboro, won an exhibition match against Goebel. of Charlotte, N. C, and Phillips, amateur, Pinehurst N. C. One hundred and 46 players have - qualified- The first year's custody of the Pinehurst trophy cup. for best ball, team play, was won by Co lumbia whose balls were as follows: .Columbia, S. C. 66; Greensboro 6!f; j Pinehurst. 72; Charlotte 73; Green- { ville, S. C, 73; Asheville 79; Sails-! bury 81. The annual meeting of the Caro lina Goif association was held at the country club tonight. By unanimous Vote Columbia, S. C., was elected as the place for the next tournament. The tournament will be held on the course of the Ridgewood club, ?ffl- j cers for the. year were elected aa ; follows: W. M. Shand. Columbia, i S. C? president; T. R. Brem, Char- ; lotte, first Viet? president; H. C. : Bridges, Tarboro, second vice presi- ' dent; J. M. Milam, Greenville, s. C, j secretary-treasurer. Search For Hospital ?-? Government Seeks Site in! Southern State Washington, D. C, June 7.?Direr- j tor C. R. Forbes of the war risk insurance bureau, notified Southern ; members of congress this afternoon ! that the government was desirous of i securing a site of 30?? acres for the erection of a hospital for the treat- j ment of ex-service men suffering ; from tubercular and nervous disor- : ders. The climate of the South forced j the construction of the hospital in that section of the country, it was j said.- The hospital will carry a j monthly payroll of $30,000. The specifications were dispatched ; toniglit into every congressional dis- j trict of the south. Birmingham, June 7.?A heavy vote is /expected at the special con gressional election today of the fourth Alabama district. The fight between the bemocratg and Rerib]?cans is spirited; ted April, 1850. "Be Jost a a. BODIES OF WAR ! HEROSARRIVE Shipment of 45 Bodies,1 Twenty-three of Them j South Carolinians, To Reach Colum bia Today The bodies of one Lieutenant Col-! onel, and one first lieutenant are in-' eluded in a shipment of forty-five bodies of war dead, twenty-three of; them are South Carolinians, which will arrive here today. The bodies are being sent to their homes on the first trains. The Lieutenant Colonel was R. H. Willis. Jr., of Simpsonville, in Greenville County. The First Lieu-j tenant was Louis A. Freeman, of | Spartanburg. The South Carolinians: whose bodies came aboard the funer-J al train were the following: Bartow Haseldon, Andrews, S. C. \ Barney L. Abbott. Darlington, ? Geo. E. McDowell, Dillon. Ernest M. Vogr Holly Hill. Leroy S. Brown, Lake City. Chariton H. MeFadden, Lynchburg. | Walter Jefferson. McColl. . Wiade Thompson, Sellers. ? Frank Gadsden, Sumter. Lieut. Coionel R. H. Willi?, Jr., Simpsonville. Levi Chavous, Aiken. Lee Jackson, Bath. G. L. Painter, Chesne.e. Henry B. Cook, DeKaib. James M. Shu.er, Ellcree. Larkin F. Csx, and Sterling Moore, Greenville. James M. Bagwell, Pickens. j First Lieut. Louis A. Freeman, j Spartanburg. Joseph A. Barker, Wellford Frank Myers, Fairfax. Richard Hays and Henry C. My rick, of Ulmers. Army Bill Fight Not Yet Decided Test in Senate to Be Followed! by Another ^.Washington, June 7.?Committee provision for a minimum army of 170.000 men for the next fiscal year wra? accepted today by the senate in considering the army appropriation bill. The vote was 34 to 30, two Demo crats, Senators Fletcher, Florida, and Myers, Montana, joining with the Re publican majority and 11 Republi- ! cans voting against the amendment. The Republicans voting against the 170,000 total were Borah, Idaho; Har rels, Oklahoma; Jones, Washington; Kenyon. Iowa; Ladd, North Dakota; La Follette. Wisconsin; JtfcNary, Ore gon; Norde'ok, South Dakota; Norris, j Nebraska; Smoot, Utah, and Town send. Michigan. The vote on the amendment fol- j lowed two days of heated debate, j participated in by a group of sena tors who advocated economy in gov ernmental appropriations and argued that the United Stato?'_ at the pres ent time was not in need of an army of 170,000 men. This group after j today's roll call said they would ! seek another vote on the provision j governing the size of the army. The , army at present has an enlisted ; strength of about 220.000 men and ! the bill as passed by the house pro- j vides for an average of 150.000 men. | Th* bill as presented by the senate j miJ^Lary affairs committee, carries a i tof_3 of $305,000.000. Chairman j Wadsworth tonight was hopeful that j a final vote might be obtained before j adjournment tomorrow. Removal of American troops from j Germany was touched at some length ; by Senators Reed. Missouri, and Wat- | son, Georgia, Democrats. Roth de- ? cried delay in passage of the reso- ! fution establishing p?-ace with Aus- ; tria. . ! Bankers Meet Soon Anderson. June 7.?South Carolina ! 'Bankers' association will hold its an- j nual convention at Kanuga Lake, j Hendersonville. N". C, July 0 and 7, ! according to announcement made here toda.v by Lee G. Holl man. sec- j retaiy. _ I Wavhing'.on. Jon*' 8.?International | Revenue Commissioner Blair annonne ??d that regulations governing the prescription of be?-r for medicine' would not be ready for ten days. Denver, June 8.?The prohibition director announced that all liquor restrictions would be bfted for thirty days at Pueblo as an emergency mea.suie. Globe. Ariz, .inne 8.?Red "Whis kers'' Burnett, a notorious outlaw i< sought in connection with the mur der of Mariona Teague, who was .shot and killed by a searching party. Dublin. June fc.?streets here were swept for twenty minutes with bul-j bts. followin_pHie attack on a British lorry with bombs and revolvers, five constables and some civilians v.>i >? wounded. Salt Lake City. Utah, June.8. Tie anti-cigarette (aw is effective here.] The store shelves have been cleared and no advertisements allowed. Washington, June 8.?The first in-' stallment list of the war deparunen: draft evaders, approximately lour- ! teen hundred will be published in the Congressional Record. I ad Fear Not?Let all the ends Thou AJ SUMTE?. S. C, SATURE WEEKS AGAINST DISARM War Secretary Says ?. S. Must Be Prepared To Defend Itself Against All Other Nations New York, .Tune S.?Declaring it would the height of folly for the United States to disarm first said War Secretary Weeks in addressing the New York University graduates, he said he hoped to see this nation pre pared to defend its rights, sovereignty and citizens until the day comes when all nations by mutual consent will dismantle their fortifications and scrap their navies. Republican Leader i j Claimed by Death; .?^? i Alvin T. Hert of Louisville, Ky.,' Dies Suddenly at Hotel in Washington Washington, June 7.?Alvin T. ; Fieri of Louisville, Ky.. and Repub lican national committeeman from that state, died suddenly today at the New Willard hotel here. Mr. Hert, who was 56 years old, h*d come here to attend the meeting of the Republican national committee tomorrow. Death was said to have been due to apoplexy. He was taken ill on a train while coming here Sun day night for the meeting and since had been confined to his room. Only recently Mr. Hert had de clined to consider appointment by President Harding as ambassador to a foreign country or as the presi dent's representative on the govern ment reorganization commission. During the last presidential campaign tie was a member of the Republican executive committee of five and at ihe national convention at Chicago was a floor leader for Governor Low den of,Illinois; He also had been prominently mentioned after the elec tion as a cabinet possibility and later as the next Republican national com mittee chairman, but he declared he could not accept the latter if it was rendered to him. In the 1916 presi dential campaign he was western manager for the Republican party. Representatives Langley and Rob ison of Kentucky and John M. Chil ton. a personal friend, were with him when he died. He had remarked that he was feeling better and started to sit up. it was said, when death came. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. Mr. Hert is survived by a widow. Physicians Open Boston Convention Boston. June 7.?Several thousand J members of the Amerk in Medical j association assembled in the Boston j Opera house tonight to open the or- j ganization's 72nd convention by inr stalling Dr. Hubert Work of Pueblo, | Col., as president for the ensuing I year. Dr. Work, who is assistant j postmaster general of the United i States, succeeds Dr. William C. Bruis- ! ted of Washington. The delegates were welcomed to Massachusetts by Cow Canning H. j Cox, and to Boston by Mayor An- { drew J. Peters. J The medical charlatan and the j physician who prescribes alcohol j promiscuously for the sake of the. tec were branded as criminals and a spe cial menace, by Dr. Work in his inaugural address. Deterioration of mind and the "in evitable loss of respect for our in- ' dividual rights our traditions and J our highest ideals through a submerg ing mass mentality," are more to be i feared in the future than war, he t said. _,_m General Hays is Elected Chairman! ! Washingtt.n, June S.?The Repub- ! licun national committee meeting j i 'ected Postmaster General Hays as chairman, anil decided on basis of I representation for southern states. The next Republican national con vention will be' composed of 1,037 delegates under the new basis sub- i mitted by the subcommittee. This . will represent cuts of twenty-three votes in seventeen states. Text of Treaty Is Withheld Washington, June K.?Text of Pres- i idem Obregon's communication re- ? lating to proposed treaty between j Mexico and me United States withheld j safeguarding the property rights of Americans on ?nie condition. MESSAGE SAYS STEAMER STRUCK AN ICEBERG Boston. June 8. Announcement that a steamer had struck an iceberg and was believed to he sinking has been received in radio message at the navy yard. i The freighter, "Sen pool" which struck an iceberg was making for St. Johns, with forefoot broken ana, forepcak fuil of water. ' I nis't at l>e tby Country's, Thy God's ai >AY, JUNE 11, 1921 OCEAN F?LL OFDRIFTICE; Conditions Worse Than! at Any Time Since the I Titanic Distaster Washington, June 9.?There is j more heavy drift ice in the North At lantic and farther south now than at any time since the Titantie was sunk, ! according to Hear Admiral Chandler, 1 head of the naval hydrographic sei - ; vice. Broadcast reports have been ' sent throughout the world. Newberry Case Called Up Again! Senate Inquiry into Hen ry Ford's j Protest Washington, June 'i.?Senate in quiry into Henry Ford's contest for the seat of Senator Truman H. New berry of Michigan, growing out of the 1918 election, began today and ran through & brief but stormy ses sion. John S. Newberry, brother of the senator, testified that because of "love affection and loyalty" he had opened his bank account through an agent for unlimited and unsuper t'Jsed campaign expenditures con cerning the amounts of which he j had never inquired, and the manner of which he knew nothing except j as ne read it in the newspapers. The I total drawn was placed at $99,000 I by the witness. j Henry B. Joy, a Detroit capitalist, j was called but an attorney presented a physician's certificate declaring j the absent witness was suffering] from a heart ailment which might ? kill him if he were put on the stand. | Alfred Lucking, counsel for Ford, 1 jumped to his feet, with the de- I mand. "We want Mr. Joy." "He was out on his yacht when the pro cess server sought him." Mr. Luck ing continued: "He gave $45,000 to j this campaign and he is a brother- | in-law of Senator Newberry. I'll | never agree to proceed . without " his j presence." Aiter three lawyers and five sena tors got into' the discussion a ten tative agreement was announced by Chairman Spencer under which two heart specialists will be deputized ro examine Mr. Joy, and determine whether he can be called without endangering his life. There was a partial agreement to the effect that the Newberry cam paign and advertising expenditures j were to be classed as "very large" and that the committee should take I he record of the criminal case j ay.:iii)i:t Senator Newberry, which j was invalidated by the supreme court I last month, as to the facts, with Mr. Lucking permitted to prove larger j amounts than the $^76.000 admitted j there, if he could. Small Army Men Score in Senate I\Tot Less Than One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Washington, June 8.?Rejecting i committee previsions for a minimum j army of 170,0oo men for the next ] '?seal >rar. the senate today passed j the army appropriation bill carrying j a total of $334,000.000 and making provision for an army of not less ? inan lrt?.ouu men. The house had j previously provided for an average j ..trength of 150,000. Advocates of economy and a smali ) army came to the front in the final .hour of debate, poure a hot attack i >n the committee provision for an j enlisted personnel of 170,000 and then j mustering their forces voted down, { 36 to 32 the committee amendment. ! By a like majority of four votes. J the senate yesterday had accepted i the 170.000 figure, so ;hat today's! vot'- constituted a direct reversal. The army budget now goes to con- j ferenee for the compromise of senate j and hiai.se differences. The house bill j carrieJ appropriations t o t a 1 1 i ng ! about $14,000,000 less than the senate measure. Two Democrats. Senators Fletcher Florida, and Myers, Montana, voted | with 20 Republicans to support the ; military affairs committee as to the ; size of the army. Thirteen Repub- j licans voted with 2J Democrats : against the 170.000 figure. Committee amendments other than for the pay oi enlisted men were accepted and the senate added an j appropriation of $200.000 to prepare i plans fi>r development of the Great Falls of the Potomac as a source of hydro-electric power for Washing-; ton. * I Senator Dial. Democrat. South Carolina, attempted to attach an, amendment prohibiting use of any of the appropriations to pay Ahum ? i lean troops ir. Germany, France and Belgium, 9" days after approval of tic act. II was voted down by a chorus of noes after Chairman \Va.dt= worth had characterized it as "most unwarranted interference in the in ternational affair-: of the nation." PRES. OF TEXTILE WORK ERS DIED IN BROOKLYN Fall River. Mass.. June 9.--Word j war received here of the death of ' John Golden, president of the Unit- : ed Textile Workers of America in Brooklyn. 1 ad Truth's." THE TRUE SO GOETHALS TO | BUILD ROADS ! .-? , Willing to Take Charge of Work in Cuba to j Employ Idle Workers Havana. June 9.?Major General j Goethals, who has gone to New York, j is reported to have expressed a wil lingness to take general charge of the ; government's project to build a sys- ? tern of Cuban highways to relieve un- I employment. i Memorial at Hampd?n-Sidney: ** Hampden, Sidney. Va., June 9.? j Ground has been broken at Hampden- : Sidnye college for memorial gates in i honor of the men who gave their lives in the world war. Long Trial in Prospect j Prosecution of Postoffice Rob-j bers Will Take Three Weeks Toledo, June 9.?The prosecution estimates that the trial of the eighteen ? suspects in the million dollar poet office robbery will take thi-ee weeks. \ j - j Prison Sentence Imposed on Bates I - i Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement Charges j Charleston, June 8.?W. T. C Bates, i Jr., of Columbia, pleading guilty be I fore Judge H. A. M. Smith in fed eral court here this afternoon of an indictment for embezzlement of j [over $150,000 from the Liberty Na- J j tional bank, of which he was assis-j j tani cashier, was sentenced to pay a fine of $5.000 and costs and to'] I serve five years in the federal prison j [in Atlanta. On plea -of his counsel, j spokesman for whom was Mendel L. j [Smith, the sentence was suspended; j 2u days under bond of $20,000 to al- j I low the defendant to perfect a peti tion for pardon. Mr. Bates will be [ in custody until the bond is turn- ; I ished. arrangements being under j ; way to do this promptly. Mendel L. Smith made an eloquent plea on behalf of his client. Other attorneys representing the young j man ?wer?.? E. C. Mann and D. O. Herbert. Attorney Smith stressed { the facts in mitigation that the | shortage was not detected but be- . came known only wher: the defen dant had called the cashier's at tention to it, that he had made a full confession of the situation, had made all reparation possible, that the money abstracted had not been used in speculation, but was absorb ed in an automobile business in which the defendant was interested, j that the bank suffered no inter ruption c>f business, and that the de- | r'endant had paid back a large pro portion of the shortage from his own resources, other arrangements, com- I ?pleting protection of the bank's in- ! terest so it had lost nothing. Mem bers of Mr. Pates' family were with j him in court. He made no state- j ment and accepted the sentence j calmly. - ( Whitewash for Newberryj . Senate Resumes Investigation 01! Michigan Election Scandal Washington, Jun?* 9.?The senate j committee today resumed taking testi- j mony in the Ford-Newberry election j case. The Newberry witnesses are ! being examined. ' I The Cause of Mai-Nutrition i Specialist Says American Hustle; is Hard on Children Boston, June 9.?American hustle; is one of the chief causes of malnu trition among children, according to Dr. Weder of St. Louis in a statement before the American Medical Associa tion. TO DISCUSS OVERSEAS TRADE SITUATION Washington, .June 9.?Secretary How. er lias instructed commerce de-j pattment representatives to report to Washington to discuss the overseas trade situation. FLOOD DAMAGES TO HIGH WAYS AMOUNT TO 20,000,000 Denver. June 9. -Estimates of twen ty million dollars will be required to repair the highways and bridges as a result of the recent "flood. Mrs. Paul Reynolds is visiting her: friends and relatives in Atlanta. _ If we get any rights on Yap, let it r e understood that there is to be no $25^000,004 come-back.?Toledo News Bee. ' LTHRON, Established Jaii? 1, VOL. LH. NO. 33 um um in i ii ii in i Ii ini ? ?iIi ii sts wami um h mn\ imimii n SUBS MS BY HIS SPEECH Rear Admirai Says He Does Not Repudiate Single Word and See Nothing Un American in What He Said Dondon. June 9.?Rear Admiral Sims said he would stand by' his speech on the Irish question, accord ing to Press Association. "I will stand by all 1 said, every word of it. 1 shunt's repudiate a single word I said, and I see nothing un-American in it," he said. Peace Preservation By Sovereign States Pres. Harding, Delivering Amer ican University Commence ment Address, Departs From Prepared Manu script to Disciiiss Free dom From Strife in Future Washington, June 8.?President Haiding, delivering a commencement address today at American university here found the subject of world peace occupying so prominent a place on the program.that he was prompted to depart from his prepared manuscript and declare for the preservation of peace by sovereign states, without the mterference of world "super power." The president's remarks followed an address by Newton W. Rowell, K. C.. of Toronto, Canada, who sug gested that the best cortribution North America could give to civili zation was "for men on this side -of the water" to stand together behind the movement for peaceful settlement of international disputes. Another speaker who touched on the question . of peace was J. J. Jusserand,' |pe French ambassador, and the general discussion developed such a- trfen*d that Bishop John W. Hamilton, the presiding chancellor, referred to the gathering as a "peace conference."- 4 \ An added touch of the same char acter wa3 given by the singing of song which appeared on the com mencement program under the title of "An International Anthem," and which, rendered to ';he tune of "America," and "God Save the King." recounted how "two nations by the sea, two nations great and free, one anthem raise." ? Before the singing began the American, British a^d French flags had been raised together over the out-door speakers* platform. "I do not 'think I could let the. occasion pass," said the president. -W beginning his address, "without jv ing assent to many of the approp ate and appealing things just uttered by Dr. Rowell. I like his express m. that American and Canadian .id als are in common, and when he ;<>ke about North American eontribu* ;o-. to present-day civilization and to the world, it occurred to me tha* the example of two great peoples r ing side by side in peace in con le ice and in mutual understandi g is about the finest contribution th .: wo nations could give to the world "I have said o., many occasion * it. if all the nations of the earth we as honest and as unselfish as our repub lie, there never would he another war. 1 will revise it today and say that if all the nations of the earth are as unselfish and devoted to their ideals as the ITnited Siates and Can ada, there never will be another war. "But if I say so without a discor dant not1?for there is none in my heart?I call attention to the fact that the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada have dwelt side by side and setfh-d their contro versies satisfactorily without resort to a super-power but by the exercise of th?r sovereignty of free people dealing with one another. If we can commit.civilized humanity t<? abiding righteousness and everlasting justice and inspire them with our example, we will have made a long stride to ward the peace the woild craves." With that Mr. Harding plunged into his prepared address in which he en joined the graduates of this June all over the CJnited States to dedicate themselves to the task of restoring stability in a world? where "almost nothing" remains secure from the attacks of iconoclasts. Humanity, he said, never before had siich need of sober, unselfish leadership. In introducing the French ambas sador. Bishop Hamilton declared that the American and French armies had plighted a: Yorktown "a marriage bond" which actually was sealed years later in Flanders. Another Freighter Strikes Iceberg Radio Distress Message From Off Newfoundland Banks ? Halifax, N. S.f Jnne ?The Ameri can freighter Chariot struck an ice berg two hundred miles off New foundland coast, according to a radio message. The steamship Columbia is proceeding to her assistance,. ,