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TEE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Establish CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,18* tWmred 1 lost at sea! _____?? Greek Steamer Struck' Mine in Aegean Sea and Went Down? Only 2 Survivors Picked Up I Athens, June 10.?Many lives are J believed to have been lost in the sink- ; ing of the Greek steamer Bouboulina, ! which struck a mine and foundered in the Aegean sea. The Greek battle- { ship Lemons arrived at Piereaus with i two passengers who were picked up. j It is reported that the ship had two j hundred and forty passengers aboard j and a crew of twenty-five. The Mess of Pottage Disgruntled Democrats Going Over to Republican Machine j To Get Jobs Columbia, June 10.?South Carolina is awaiting breathlessly for announce ments direct from Republican nation al leaders as to the future status of the Republican party in South Caro lina and as to the selection of office holders "finder the Harding adminis tration. It has been made clear that Joe W. T?lbert, national committee man-and former referee, is out of it and that Former Senator John L. Mc Laurin is to be referee. Rumors have even reached the state as to some of ' the possible office holders. Much interest is taken in the con nection prominent farmers have as sumed with the proposed new Repub lican party in the state. Mr. Mc Laurin went to Washington to confer with the president recently in regard to G. O. P.* affairs in South Carolina, and with him went several prominent planters of this state. Rumor from Washington is to the effect that I Former State Senator J. A. Banks, of CaJhoun. county, will be collector of j internal revenue at Columbia and that.W. H. Andrews, of Georgetown, will .be collector of the port at Char leston. It-is not'known which way othe^ plums will fall. It is known that Senator Banks has been displeased with the attitude of Washington towards the farmer in recent months, and he is quoted as having* isaitf several months ago that j he would he interested in affiliation j with a Jiew Republican party in the ! state. - TJie attitude of Washington j foday towards the farmer-is expected ; t$ recruit, interest in the new G. O. P. for South Carolina It ' is said, in reports from Wash ington, that Mr. Tolbert will likely get a "plum," because he voted for Harding :last June. Mr. McLaurin will likely land a big job in Wash- i ington, on some agricultural qommis- I sion. Who will get the other South j Carolina plums, such as the district ' attomeyship for the eastern district j and the two marshall offices, is a mat ter of doubt as yet. ).<?g!|Phe reduction of the South Carolina representation in the national Repub- j lican convention means that South , Carolina Republicansm will be reduc- j fwjalmost to the point of a nonenity j 'J^-inr as presidential elections are ! concerned, unless the party gains j jVbting strength in the various eon- ! -fefessional districts of the state. The j only votes left to state are the four ! at large. . . j . ,-5- I Idaho's Woman Bluebeard! Twin Falls, Idaho, June 11.?Mrs. J Lydia Southard, charged with the j murder of her fourth husband was j jailed here "today. She was brought from vHOhoiulu. The last hundred | and twenty miles was made by auto- ! mobile?to avoid curious crowds. ERSKINE'S PRESI DENT RESIGNS; i Charlotte, N. C, June 11?Presi dent Moffatt of Erskine College, has i declined reeleerion according to mem bera of the executive committee of the board of trustees. Cincinnati. June 10.?Plans for the funeral of Col. Fred W. Galbraith. commander of the American Legion, call for a military funeral, with former service men and regular army troops participating. Scranton. Penn.. June 10.- Thr Pol- ! ish National Catholic church in ses- : sion here has decided to abolish celibacy among the clergy. New Philadelphia. Ohio. June In.? Attempts were made today by bomb throwers to kill Russell Bowers, the 30-year old prosecuting attorney of j Tuscaracas county and L. O. Haug, safety director of Dover, both of whom have bene active in the en forcement of prohibition laws. A , dynamite bomb exploded on Bower's j porch but none was injured. Tb*' ?bomb thrown on Haug's porch did j not explode. Two of the bomb throw ers have been arrested. _-_ Hamilton, Ala.. June 10.?Ralph Talmer was arrested at his home near Hamilton charged with partici pating in the robbery of the Marion county banking company here yester day. J ed April, 1850. Be Just 2 SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION - State Meeting of Sunday School Workers at Winthrop College Concludes To morrow Rock Hill, June 10?Dr. D. B. Johnson. president of Win throp . college was elected pres ident of the South Carolina Sunday School association tonight at the clos ing session of the three day conven tion held at Winthrop college this week. H. L. Bomar of Spartan burg was elected vice president; W. E. Willis of Cottageville. second vice presi dent; S. T. Keid of Spartanburg. treasurer, and J. T. Fain of Rock Hill, recording secretary. The work of the interracial com mission and the interracial task facing all of America at the present time was the theme of the address made this morning by Dr. Plato T. Durkam, dean of the Candler School of Theology, Emory university, at the closing day's program of the South Carolina Sunday school convention. This interracial task is facing all America, but more especially this section of it. Dr. Durham said. The negroes and white men of this time know less about each other and have less sympathy with each other than in time of our forefathers. He spoke of a conference at Book er Washington university with prom inent negroes of the country and of the facts learned from that confer ence and through investigation of the interracial commission. He said that, he found that the negro does not look forward to a mixing of white and negro blood. He wants to develop his own race into a strong one. He does not want to be a pensiooner on the bounty of white men. but does want to be admitted into the working forces of the world. Facts from government authorities show, Dr. Durham said, that, in pro portion to the population, for every son of the white man who followed his flag during the war, there was a son of the negro. The negro gave one out of every five dollars to the United States treasury and in all* the courts where men of different races were tried for disloyalty, not once was the loyality of the negro to the flag questioned. Dr. Durham said that he realized perfectly that he was speaking on a so-called dangerous subject, and that he had been warned to give it up, but he made an urgent plea for the negro, saying that he believed that if the problem is not met, America will fail and democracy fail. *Tf no way can be found where by the black man can walk the earth and receive justice and square deal ing, we have failed," Dr. Durham said. "The, negro is deserving at our hands and 1 believe that we will meet the problem,'' Dr. Durham "said. Dr. W. L. Ball, pastor of the First Baptist church of Spartanburg, also talked' at the morning session, his subject being. "The Missionary Chal lenge to the Sunday School." "Money is not so much needed now as men,' Dr. Ball said. He spoke of the pe riod of restlessness existing now and said that people are in too much of a hurry trying to do everything at once. He made a strong plea to the Sunday school. The association has received invi tations from Anderson and Converse colleges and also from the University of South Carolina to hold the r.ext convention at one of these places. The chamber of commerce of Colum bia has offered to finance the conven tion should it meet in Columbia. The prayer and praise service of the morning session was led by the Kev. John C. Kailey of Ebenezer and the Rev. Tracy Walsh of York led the services at the afternoon session. Dr. Patterson Wardlaw. dean of the school of education of the University of South Carolina, talked at the af ternoon session on the subject, "Reli gion and the School." Dr. Wardlaw. describing tin- actual facts of human psychology as seen by him, talked of the world hunger for God. "Man feels the need of something iminite on which he can depend." he said. Miss Freda Hose, superintendent of the young people's division of the Alabama Sunday School association, talked on the '?Challenge of Youth." She said that this challenge is big ger today than ever before and that men and women are being challenged by young people, first for an example; second, fen understanding; third, for the right to grow; fourth, for com radeship. Dr. Watson II. Duncan, pastor of the Main Street Methodisl church of Dillon, spoke at the closing session in the evening on the subject. "The Youth of the Church Trained for Ser vice." Dr. W. A. Brown of Chicago, one of the prinicpal speakers through out the convention, alsom ade a talk at the evening session. Sixty-eight certificates wera pre sented at tin* afternoon session to those completing the reading course. Virginia's Gift To England Richmond. Ya , Jute- II. A copy of the Washington statue which is to he presented to Great Britain by the Virginia commission is sailing tu nid Fear Not?Let all the ends Thon A SUMTER, S. C, WEDNES BOLD BANDIT I ROBSJFHCERS ;En Route to Prison Roy j Gardner Overpowers Two Deputy Sher iffs, Takes Their Guns and 200 Dollars ) Portland. Ore.. June 11?Roy ? Gardner, the mail car bandit, es i caped wjiile enroute to prison, after holding up two officers with a pis tol which he had concealed in his shirt. He took their weapons and two hundred dollars in cash. -. Homicide in Clarendon County j Negro Playing With a Rifle Kills Aether on Farm of Jas. T. Brogdon Alvin Jackson, colored, has been committed to the Manning jail on I he findings of the coroner's inquest for the killing of Belvin fngram, also ja negro. The homicide occurred Sun j day on the farm of Mr. Jas. T. Brog don. who lives just on the line be tween Sumter and Clarendon county, the house in which the killing was done being on the Clarendon side of the line. Alvin Jackson claims that the killing was accidental, that he was playing with a rifle in a house in which several negroes were gathered, and that the rifle was accidentally discharged with fatal effect to Belvin Ingram. It is stated that Jackson was handling the rifle recklessly, aim ing it at different ones of the negroes and snapping it repeatedly. On the strength of the testimony taken at the inquest he was held for trial and com mitted to jail. It seems, on the face of the reports received, to have been another case o fthe deadly unloaded gun. Suit Against Murderer W'jnston-Salem, June 13?Mrs. Taylor, widow of the police chief, kilied by Dr. Peacock of ThomasWlle, sues him for forty thousand dollars damages. Shaver, who was wounded by shots, sues for twenty-five thou sand dollars. Dr. Peacock was ae clared insane by a jury at the time he fired the shot. j Another Hun Acquitted Leipsic. Germany, Juno 11.?(By I the Associ^.ed Press).?Max- Ran j dohr, a Leipsic student was acquitted j today by the court trying war crim inals on the charge of having i 11? I trated and imprisoned Belgian chil dren at Grarnmont in 1 i* 17. Randohr was released and the im perial treasury will pay the cost of the trial. The case was brought at ! ihe instance of Belgium. j Tolb^fc Continues Fight ! Washington. June 11.?Republican I National Committeeman and State j Chairman J. W. Tolbert is continuing ! his determined effort to have his i brother. It. R. Tolbert, of Abbeville, j appointed collector of internal reve j nue for South Carolina. J. W. Tol j bert called on the president today land on tl ? latter occasion R. R. Tol i bert ; companied him on the visit. j NEW PROHIBITION OFFI CER ASSUMES DUTY Washington, June 11.?Roy A. i Haynes. of Hillsboro. Ohio, entered i today upon the duties of national pro I hi bit ion commissioner as the success ; or to John F. Kramer, of Mansfield, ; Ohio, the first federal prohibition en forcement officer. He said that while ! he had not as yet formulated any ? general policy, he brought to this new ; office the best of his energy and abil | ity. Upon relinquishment of the post j which he has held since November 17. 1919, Mi-. Kramer issued a formal I statement setting forth some of the ? more important problems before the j new commissioner. To make Mr. ! Haynes' burden easier Mr. Kramer j suggested that congress enact a law j giving him authority to limit the I number of prescriptions for whiskey which physicians may issue and the i quantity of whiskey which may be manufactured and imported and to I prevent the use of whiskey in medl i eines ?in which alcohol has custom arily been Used. Killed Near Dublin London. June 13.?The London prt ss association of Dublin dispatch said the Thomas Rush shot dead by crown forces is believed to be an American navy pensioner. London. June 13.?Great Britain's attitude regarding the conflict be tween Turkish nationalists and Creeks is one of neutrality Govern ment Leader Chamberlain has an nounced in the bouse of commons. Edinburgh. Scot la nd. .1 une 1 X. [.Upwards of five bundled [Inited States delegates are attending the In ternational Association of Rotary 'Clubs in convention here. ims't at be tby Country's, Thy God's a IDAY, JUNE 15, 1921 Cotton Mills Are Rushed With Orders j Business Has Improved and! Some Mills Cannot Keep Up J With Orders ! ? I ! Columbia, June 1J?Thar business; !with the cotton mills of South Caro lina has improved to the extent of the ! j manufacturers hardly being able to! ! keep progress with the orders, is the i j statement issued to the press. Busi ; ness has seen a great increase in re jeent weeks, it says. Of a total of 1S."> I cotton hiills. only 15 were closed down on June l, and a majority of | these have resumed operations since June l. It is now necessary for many j of the mills to fill orders from reserve stocks in storage, says the statement, j "A superintendent told an inspec I tor for the department," says the statement, "that his mill does not ex i pect to reduce wages as present eon jditions are satisfactory.*' The statement also refers to the j sanitary conditions and conditions j pertaining t<> the employment of chil dren and also pertaining to the amusements and conveniences' ?fur nished to the mill employes, and says that these were never so good as now. Building State Highway Several Counties Are Pushing Construction Work on State System Columbia, June 13.?With the ex cellent progress made in construction of highways in South Carolina, rapid strides are being made in the build | ing of several important cross-state roads. The Washington-Atlanta highway is rapidly approaching a state of com pletion. From the North Carolina line to Aiken only about four miles, in Sa luda county, is incomplete or not con tracted for. and a survey is to begin on that stretch this week. The Co lumbia to Camden liak will be com pleted soon, and contract for the Camden and Chesterfield section will j be let July. The Columbia to Myrtle Beach highway has been completed through Horry county, and through Marion. Florence and Darlington counties the work is under way, and it will soon begin in Lee county. Bids for the links between Bishopville and Cam den are to be received within two w<?ek.s. j Work will start this week on the j Lexington county link of the Colum ; bia-to-Charleston highway. j Bigham Case Argued ( _^_ Attorney Claims Jurors Ex pressed Opinions Before Trial j Florence. June 12.?A. L. King, (attorney for E. D. Bi%ham. who is in j the penitentiary under death for the (murder of his mother and brother .and charged with the murder of his : sister, and the latter's two adopted children, execution of sentence having j been stayed by an appeal to the Su I preme Court, yesterday argued before j Judge S. .W. G. Shlpp a motion for a j new trial for Bigham on the ground "that two of the jurors had made re j marks prior to the trial which tend j ed to show that they had made up j their minds as to the guilt of the de ! fendarrt before they were sworn in |as jurors. Mr. King also referred to ja statement in the Florence Times i that the jury had preceded its consid eration of the case with the reading i of the seventeenth chapter of Deuter ? onomy indicating that the jury had j tised this particular passage of the 'Scripture as a guide in arriving at a 'verdict. Mr. King contended that by i this the jury had undertaken to subst itute the Mosaic law f?r the law pro j vided in such cases and that it show led bias and prejudice against tl i ac cused. For the State P. H. Arrow ! smith introduced in rebuttal affidavits I from Mr. Ifaselden. foreman of the jury declaring, that if he had made any such statement as to the use of I the Bible such reading was done only for the jury to determine its duty. : Performance <?f duty was uppermost jin his mind in considering the case land his conscience was clear. Affi davits were introduced denying that |Geo. B. White had made such state ments as he had been charged with. I Judge Shipp has deferred decision pending a study of the east and the , affidavits. Woman Killed j Small Boy i Detroit. June 13.?The trial of Mrs. Lewen for tin- murder of six-year-old i .Max Ernest is scheduled to begin to day. Tin- state contends- that Mrs. Lewen killed the boy for revenge against bis father, following a quar rel over tli?- purchase of a home. Religious Riot in India Simla. India. June 13.?The gov- j ernor reports that the Sirihi riot re sulted from offering a human sacri- j fice. An old woman was being btirn ed alive when troops attempted her : rescue. The crowd attacked the ; troops with knives and swords, but 1 scattered when shots were rired. S?-v cii persons were killed. Mexico City. June 13. -The secre tary of rh<- treasury announced to-, day that tin- payment of interest on the Mexican foreign debt would ><e resumed July 1. 1 ud Truth's." THE TRUE SC Weevils Spreading Over Cotton Belt - But Prices Move Down?Weak ness in Foreign Exchange Used to Force Selling i New Orleans. June- 12.?Fluctuations of the last week in the cotton market; 'carried the price of the most active I contract months to 25 lo 41 points I higher than the close, showing net losses of :} to 15 points. The market J moved over an extreme ragne of 4G i to 51 points, July trading as high as j 12.27, al low as 11.80 and closing at j 11.86. In the spot department mid dling lost 25 points in the net results, closing at 11.38, which price com pared with 41 cents as the last price this week a year ago. Much of the selling of the week was due to an unfavorable opinion of trade, to the weakness in foreign ex change and the breaks in the stock market. The failure to settle labor troubles in Great Britain was also urged against values. Great numbers of boll weevils being found in vari ous parts of the belt, notably Texas and Georgia also affected the market. There was also much talk of weevils in North Louisiana, in portions of Mississippi. Alabama and South Caro lina. Because of the numbers of the weevil reported at this early date the heavy showers of the week over large areas in the belt were regarded as highly unfavorable and as likely to cause a further spread of the pest. Some localities, which had plants far enough advanced report weevils at tacking squares as fast as they formed and both Alabama and Georgia sent in word that farmers were plowing up cotton, the weevil was so numerous. One of the most sensatiinal state ments regarding the weevil was found in the weekly crop review by the government, which stated that the in sect was spreading everywhere in Georgia. At thd end of the week considerable liquidation came upon the market, ap parently been use of talk of large ten ders of spots, against July contracts, this talk having its foundation in the large stock of certificated cotton new held there, the stock having increased .o 65.000 bales. Selling of July by spot interests was accepted as evidence that much tendering would be done in that month and this coming week the market will be closely watched for evidence concerning the probable de velopments in_the coming spot months. Weather conditions and the activi ties of the boll-weevil will doubtless engage much of the atention of the trade this coming week but the gen eral opinion seemed to be that the British labor situation rapidly is reaching point where a settlement ot some sort will be forced and the trade will follow with great interest the voting by the coal miners on the ques tion of accepting the most recent proposals to end the strike. This will be of all the more interest in the cot ton market because of the claim that British textile workers now on strike j will shape their course acording to I the outcome of the coal strike situa I tion. ____________________ DENBY ORDERS SIMS HOME I Result Speech Attacking Sinn Fein Sympathizers Washington. June 11.?Rear Ad j miral Sims was ordered home from j London today by Secretary Denby as I a result of his recent speech attack ! ing Sinn Fein sympathizers in the i L'nited States. The secretary ex i plained that he had received, no reply ! from the officer in response to his J message inquiring if press dispatches j had quoted correctly excerpts from the i speech and had decided to revoke the j remainder of the admiral's leave and j order him to report here immediately. The order, however, was not ex pected to expedite Admiral Sims' re j turn from England as he had already I planned to return on the liner Olym pic which saibt next Wednesday and is the first available ship for passage. The naval secretary's cablegram j sent today to the officer, said: j "Remainder your leave revoked, j You wiil return to the United Spates immediately and report in person to the secretary ot the navy. Acknowl 1 edge." Not to Change Plans. London. June 11.?Rear Admiral William S. Sims received the first I news of his recall by Secretary of the Navy Denby from The Associated i Press after attending a dinner given j in his honor by the Royal Thames ? Yacht ^lub this evening, j Thxi admiral said that he had not i yet received a cablegram to this ef i feet from Secretary Denny, and ac cordingly declined to comment on the ; text forwarded here by the special I dispatches. At present, added the ad miral, he had no intention of altering the date of his sailing, which was June 15. MAN NOT PUNISHABLE FOR BURNING BARN Mobile. June 11. ? A man has the right t<? burn down bis own home provided the home is not contiguous to and does not endanger other prop erty and further, provide^ that there is no insurance on the home, accord ing to it ruling of Judge X. It. Clarke in the Inferior Court here today. The decision was given in the cast* of Ar thur Lane, a resident of the county charged with arson. Lane's wife charged that he set tire to and burned down the home after a quarrel with her. The defendant was dimissed. )L THRON, Established June 1, 1866. VOL. LIL NO. 34 Plans War Against Southern States Massachusetts Republican De termined to Cut Representa tion in Congress I Washington, June 3 2.?Determi ! nation to bring about a decrease in the representation of southern states in the house of representatives and ! electoral college on account of what I he charged was disfrarichisement : the>~e of negroes, was expressed to ! night in an announcement by Repre j sentative Tinkham, Republican, Mas I sachusetts, that tomorrow he would j introduce a resolution f or an investi j gation of the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment in the south. Mr. Tinkham already has petition ed for a conference of Republican ! members of the house for discussion I of voting conditions in the south, and I it is expected to be held Thursday J night. : j Defeated during the las*t session j and thus far this session in his at-. I tempts to force the issue on southern j representation, Mr. Tinkham said his ' new resolution would be drawn in j tonformity with the opinion of the i nouse census committee that specific ! instances of disfranchiaement must be cited before a congressional in vestigation can be undertaken. The Massachusetts member an nounced that he would charge that in the general elections last November in eleven southern states, negroes were denied the right of casting bal iots He declared it was "susceptible to prove that in some of the eleven states the laws in relation to regis tration and to the counting of ballots and otherwise were so unfairly and with such partisan partiality admin istered in and prior to the congres sional elections of 1920 as to design edly disfranchise persons constitu tionally qualified to become electors." The resolution, Mr. Tinkham an nounced, also will contain a charge that in all of the eleven, states cited there were in 1920 'many thousands of male and female citizens more than 21 years of age, who did, own forty acres of land or possess a certain amount of property, who had. not paid taxes or poll taxes, and who [ could not read or write- or- under-. . stand and interpret the constitution, as required by various state laws; and i constitutions." . j Requirements of the states will be ;] set forth in the resolution, according . to Mr. Tinkham. He staced Alabama, with a . total of 1.143,295 males and .'females over 21 years of age in 1920, j least a vote of 227,293 for congres sional candidates of the two major . j parties last fall; Arkansas, with- 867,'* ! 292 of voting age cast a vote of 189, [ 410; Florida, with 536,( 14 of. voting1 . age. cast 116,364 vote/*: Louisiana. with 924.1.84 males and females over 21. cast 91,587 votes; Mississippi, with ;J 876.106 of voting age. cast .70.657 j votes; North Carolina, with 1,210.72.7 least 522,287 votes; South Carolina. with 79,991. cast 65.737 votes"; Ten j nessee, with 1.214,947, cast a vote -of 395.946; Texas, with 2.257,003, cast j 405.82S votes, and Virginia, with f 1,207,074. cast 238.803 votes. Com ' parzJive figures for Georgia, Mr. i Tinkham -said, were . not available. I Labor Meeting Begins _________ J American Federati i of Labor Has Important issues Before It [ Denver, June 13..?Unemployment,* ! open shop, wage reductions, relations j with European labor, disarmament, j the Irish question and Soviet Russia, are some of the issues before the ln ! ternational convention of the Ameri j can Federation of Labor, which be ? gan a two weeks' session here today. President Samuel Gon.pers urged more active opposition on the part of organized labor to its enemies. I Greenville Child Killed I . . .. . j Driver Fails to Stop After Hit ting Bicycle j _________ j Greenville, June 12.?J. C. Finley, ? Jr., nine year old son of J. C. Fin | ley of this city, was a? ost instant j ly killed here early ?bis evening when he was struck bjjaan automo | bile, which failed to stop when the ' accident occurred. Joe Dona?too. 16 1 year old youth, driver of the car. ! was placed under arrest tonight af ter several hours' search. i j Four Women Charged With Murder - Cleveland, June 13.?Four women have been formally charged with the ? murder of Daniel Kaber, the wealthy ' publisher, who was stabbed twenty : four times. Mrs. Ermina Colavito w;\s booked on the murder charge af ter stealing revelations made the police said by Mrs. Kaber. her daugh ter and mother, who are under ar : rest. Ringold. Ga? June 13.?The body of 'Otto Smitherman with his head almost severed from his body was found by party nearby. The body of Earl Wil liams was swinging to a tree limb. Jealously over the young woman is said to have been the cause. Albany. June 13.?The body of the fourteen year old white girl with her throat cut was found in a ditch when she did not return from a store er rand on time.