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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Establisl CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2, 181 FAKE PLEDGE OF REPUBLICAN: Senator Harrison OpensJ Democratic Attack on j Failure of Republi cans to Redeem Promises j Washington, June 14. ? Senate j Democrats today launched a broad side against Republican claims of . achievements during the first three j months of President Hoarding's ad- j ministration. Led by Senator Pat ! Harrison, of Mississippi, who held the j floor for more than an hour with a j characteristic speech bristling with J satire and invective, the movement ' toore all the aspects of a concerted j attempt to precipitate a general po- j litical^ debate, the Republicans declln- j ed the challenge and made no re- j ply. On President Karding. Senator Har- i rison's attack was frontal, as he be- ! labored the Republicans over the pas- i sage of the emergency tariff bill, I ?which he characterized as an "utter ! violation of party pledges" in its in- 1 ception ar?d "an admitted failure" in ' enactment; for their difficulties 'in j the little job of passing a resolution 1 of peace" with Germany, concerning which he taunted Senators Lodge and Knox, the Republican senate spokes men on foreign affairs; and for the ?_ alleged failure to get together with the- president to : reduce taxation. President Harding, he asserted, "in vited tariff lobbyists for conference" to Washington, and administration appointment, including those of Gov ernor Bone, of Alaska, and Chairman Lasker, of the shipping board, he held up to scorn, winding up with satirical reference to Gen. Sawyer, the presi dent's personal physician. Speaking from the center of a group of Democratic senators, who pointed his barbs with questions and suggestions, he lashed out by name at. Republican senators, who refuser!' to be stung into retort. Only once Senator Kenyon, Republican, Iowa, interrupted "because there is so much laughter on the Democratic side I can't hear the jokes." '.'Strange political acrobatic per formances" they were exhibiting, Senator Harrison told them, remind ing them that 'the distinguished Sen ator from Washington, Mr. Poindex ter. ;n charge of the naval bill, came away from the White House with gloom on his face, "because Presi dent Harding could not sustain the Borah resolution for naval disarma ment. "And then, like-a clap of thunder . out of a clear sky. the whole crowd over there," he added, pointing to the Republican ranks, "changed right ?around." i "You promised to establish peace nght of the reel," he told them, "yet your simple little resolution is not .passed yet. The senate resolution .framed by Senator Knox. of Pennsyl vania, supported by your majority leader. Senator Lodge, whose name is a household word, is demolishing in the house. They have offered you an insult and it is said the house reso lution, not the senate's has President -Harding's favor." "Yes," chuckled John Sharp Wil liams, of Mississippi, "they have mix ; ed the babies up." The emergency agricultural tariff, which was offered to "raise the cost jof everything on the working man's table*" Senator Harrison said had tlone "no good to the farmers, of the country, though you wouldn't let us take the tariff off the things the farmer has to buy." "You pass a resolution by Senator Lenroot (Republican, of Wisconsin,) to investigate agricultural conditions looking for something to relieve the lar.'uers,' lie continued, "admitting the tariff cannot brine: the goods. An -agricultural bloc of Senators and Rep resentatives keeps meeting constant ly nere trying to do something for the farmers of the country because they kn'ow they are in distress." Senator Gerry, Democrat, of Rhode Island, interrupted to read a state ment by Senator Reed Stnoot. Repub lican, of Utah, that taxes might have to be increased. "Oh, the people will find you out sooner or later." Senator Harrison resumed gleefully. "Where are your campaign pledges to reduce taxation and expens'-s of government'.' You are passing the biggest deficiency ap propriation bills that have ever gone through ?here wtih one exception." SenatoijjffgSKellcr. Democrat, Ten nessee, supplWfce-nted this with the as sertion that "hills for more clerk hire" and for "more jobs" were :?? ing put through. Democrats got revenue bills into senate "inside of thirty days." Sen ator Harrison continued, "hut Repub lican committees have been working months and months at the revenue and tariff measure- promised and they haven't gotten out yet." Senator King. Democrat. I'tah. said something about tariff lobbies, and Senator Harrison said: "They are swarming here. Presi dent Harding invites the lobbyists to come here for conference, and they are coming. Bm I don't blame them so much as I do the Republican lead ership which invites them. "President Harding offered the place of chairman of the shipping "board, to the head of the Stanard Oil Company?, and to the head of the United States Steel Corporation, He waited months, and then he turned to a Chicago advertising man who led April, 1850. Be Just a 51. Trainmen Held For Manslaughter! - Engineer and Conductor To Bcj Tried For Killing Firemen at ? i Crossing: - i Perts Amboy. X. .1.. June 1$.?En- j gineer Brown and Conductor Ridge ivay have been arraigned, charged with manslaughter, growing- out of the death ol* seven firemen who were : killed when an engine struck a tire truck at a grade crossing. -: \ Labor Unions Have J Soviet Leanings _ i Two Unions Demand That Pres-j ident Gompers Reaffiliatc j With International _ j Denver. Colo., June 1*5.?Two inter- j national unions have introduced reso- j lutions directing President Gompers [ to reaffiliatc the American Federation ! of Labor with international trade j [Unions. The United Maintenance of [ Way employees and railway shop la- j I borers will make a light for rein- ; 1 . Istatement. [ ! Federal Courts Need Reorganization! i [Attorney General Appoints' i j Committee to Formulate Plans J For Clean Up of Congested Docket ;, - i ! Washington, June 16.?The com-j I mittee under the attorney general's ' plan for reorganization of the federal I j judiciary to clean up the liquor cases I [ pending, begins work at once on rec- I I ommendations to congress. Three, i i federal judges and two district attorn eys comprise the committee. j j_________ It Pavs to Advertise -_ ?Banks Advised bv Federal Re ! serve Official to Go After Business I ! Atlanta, Ga., June 15?Approval of j advertising by banks was voiced j i before the financial advertising as sociation of the Associated Adver tising Clubs of the World here to | day by M. B. Wellborn, governor of! [the Atlanta federal reserve bank. I "I like to sr.- .he Panks advertise. I especially our member banks," Mr. [Wellborn said. 'I have noticed that [advertising increases deposits and I when deposits a: " increased our re serves are automatically increased." I The day was-given over to inter I department meetings and late in j the afternoon The delegates were en tertained at a barbecue al the South ; eastern fair grounds at Lakewood. Xo general session was held tonight. Supporters of the two chief candi dates for international president of I the association were working hard [again today. Backers of Charles H I McKinloss of Chicago claimed to j have a majority to elect him tomor row, but friends of George W. Hop : kins of Xew York appeared to be I equally confident. Several divisions held electionsto ! day. Norman M. Parrott of Balti Lmore being chosen head of the ad ! vertisin.tr clubs' secretaries: L. J. iBoughner, Chicago, head of the Na j tional Association of Classified Ad vertising Managers, and Louis Blum i "n&took. St. Louis, president of the Retail Advertising conference. Mr. Blumenstock: urged members of the [division to discontinue the use of "comparative prices." meaning the custom of advertising articles and: : mentioning their price* before the : recon drop. "The use of misleading compara- ! five prices is certainly the most! d?fficult problem confronting retail advertising today," said Mr. Blumen stock. "Merchandise is 'worth no more than today's wholesale price plus a legitimate margin to cover prolit and the cost of doing business.*' Anti-Blue Law League Big Parade Planned to Be Pull ed Off in Washington as Pro test Washington, June _f?.- The conven tion of the anti-blue law league of America, which meets here in Octob er plans to parade from the White lions" to the capital as a protest against national blue laws. framed that wonderful campaign slogan: 'We arc done with wiggle and wobble.' Wanted to compensate him. 1 presume and lie made Mr. Lasker chairman^ '"Then Scott Pole-. the publicity man for the Republican campaign, is compensated by being appointed govei nor of A taska. "And how about Dr. Sawyer, his personal physician" What would the country do withoui Gen. Sawyer? lie is to build a new department here, of public welfare." A considerable number of Republi cans were In the chamber when _Iie Democratic attack began, and some half dozen stayed to the finish. Sen ator Lodge rnd Senator Curtis the Republican whip, walked off t<? lunch. Debate was resumed on the packer i i'ili when it subsided. i nd Fear Not?lie* all the ends Thou A SUMTER, S. C, SATUB Thirty Years For Killing Father Arthur Miller of Winston-Salcjn Entered Plea of Guilty and Escapes Gallows Winston-Salem, June 16.?Arthur Miiler was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment after pleading guilty to killing his father. Destroyers at Los Angeles Forty-Three Will Engage in Tor pedo Practice Oft* Santa Cata lina Island Los Angelees, Jun i*>. ?Forty-three ".st royers. accompanied by four cruisers, are here to engage in tor pedo practice at Santa Catalina is land. The battleships New Mexico and Mississippi will pose as targets. StiLtH^ United States Will Take No Pirt in the Deliberations of th Council of the League of Nations Washington. June 16.?The Ameri can government dees not contemplate participation in the deliberations . of the council of the league of nations, considering the problems arising out of the allocation of mandates. Quarrel Over Spoils - Republican Leaders in Bitter Wrangle Over Decision of Patronage I Washington, June 15.?Senator j Lodge cf Massachusetts, the Repub lican leader, ami Senator Willis of I Ohio, who nominated President Hard ing at the Chicago oenvention, are Ion the war path over some of Ihc ! recent appoint ments. i Senator Lodge has expressed dis satisfaction with the nomination ox" ! Prof. Julius Klein of Harvard uni versity to be director of the bureau of foreign ami domestic commerce, and requested the senate commerce >committe to defer confirmation >?c ! the nomination until tomorrow when mi executive hearing is expected. Professor Klein was chosen by Sec I retary Hoover and it was reported : today that the president had sent [the nomination to the senate with out consulting Republican leaders. !-Senat or Willis is continuing his op i position to tin: appointment of Charles H. Xauts of Toledo to be col lector of internal revenue for the (Tenth Ohio district. Both he and Senator Lodge were White House callers todayi but neither saw the president. On leaving the White [House Senator Willis declared he would oppose Mr. Xauts to the end. The Ohio senator inquired today ?how confirmation of Mr. Xauts might be blocked and was informed that if he regarded Mr. Xauts as "personal ly objectionable," the senate would follow a time honored custom of refusing confirmation. Senator Wil lis has filed a memorandum against Mr. Xauts with the senate finance committee, which expected to take I up the case Monday. it is to hear Senator "Willis, the nominee, and Walter H. Brown, the ?.president's representative of the de partmental reorganization commit tee, who is understood to have recom mended Mr. Xauts. Another patronage row reported brewing is over the nomination' ot Frank A. Linney. Republican state j chairman of North Carolina, to be federal district attorney for North Carolina, tie was indorsed by North Carolina Republican leaders, but is i encountering opposition from influ ential senators close tothe admin istration because of an alleged letter opposing voting last November by negri >es. These and other patronage trou bles were said to be the cause of some friction between the capitol and White House, but Republican leaders were confident no serious re sults were probable. Several of the patronage rows were said to have been charged to Attorney General Daugherty. who had clashed with Senator Frelinghuysen over en couragement given to a New Jersey man who Senator Frelinghuysen op posed. This is said to have, been ironed out, however. James M. peek, of Xew Jersey, nominated today for solicitor gen eral, was said to have been selected without prior reference to the New Jersey senators, but Attorney Gen eral Daugherty wrote a letter which was understood to have satisfied them. Mr. Peck. ;t w.ms said, would be supported generally hy the Re publican membership, although some were disposed to criticise him in connection with litigation against la bor leaders. Meddling With South American Federation of Labor Asks Investigation of Cotton Mill Situation in South Denver. .June 1 ??.??The American Federation of Labor convention adopted a resolution calling: for ;i congressional investigation into the condition o? cotton mills in the south. ims't at be thy Country's., Thy God's a DAY, JUNE 18, 1921 Greek Offensive Held Up I : - j King Constantino Says It Mayi Net Start For Several Weeks ! " I ! Smyrna. June V>. The Greek of- j fensivc against the Turkish national-j isis wiiI not begin, probaly. for sev j oral weeks, King Constantine said. ! The Greek army numbers two nun- j dred thousand lighting men, with aj hundred thousand reserves. _ I Coal Mine War j Prevented I Miners Who Were Preparing to! March into Min go County i i Turned Back ! Chariest en. W. Va.. .Tun? !?>.- -The j miners win* were reported to be eon j cent rating in the Kanawha coal fields , preparing to march to the aid of the ,'Mingo county miners, have been sent j back home, according to they an nouncement of District President I Kecncy. - j Absorbing* Ger man Bonds I Federal Reserve Board Says j Purchase of Reparations Bonds by Americans is Inevitable - Washington. June L6.?The federal [reserve board says that the absorp j tioti of substantial blocks of German j reparations bonds in American finan cial markets is "unavoidable." Th" ; board terms th" termination of the ? German reparations controversy an j economic triumph, opening up a i promising outlook for future Euro i peans adjustment. _____ ! Denies Power of President ! Counsel For United Harness I Company Tells President ! That He Cannot Cancel Order _ j Washington. June lf?.?Frank Ho i_nn. counsel lor th" United Harness [Co., has filed a "brief" with Presi dent Harding in vvhiCn it is argued [thai the chief executive is without !authority to order the cancellation of i contracts between the company and i t lie wa r dcparl meat. Disagree on Army Bill I Senate and House Committees Reach a Deadlock : Washington. June 15.?Conferees on the army appropriation bill reach led a deadlock today on the size of ! next year's army and decided to I report the disagreement to the i house and senate with request tor ' lUrther instructions. Secretary Weeks appeared at to | day's meeting of the oenferecs to urge an agreement on the senate ; provision i<<v a. gradual reduction [during the next fiscal year to a. mini : mum army of 1&G.00U enlisted men j out tin- house managers refused to : yield from their position in favor ? of a quick reduction to thai figure. Tin- senate conferees wer?- repre ! sented as standing for a reduction : from tie- .20.000 total in serv.ee in jouly to a minimum of lf?0*0O0 which !they said could be accomplished b> ! next May. The house conferees. I however, were said to be insisting :that. the reduction be carried out by October J. Secretary Weeks was understood to hav.- tola the conferees that should the position of the house managers pr< vail, he wouid not accept re sponsibility for what might happen to the army, as he said it was im possible to reduce the garrisons in the Philippines. Panama and Hawaii, and striking 50.000 from the rolls within three months would render ;h - forces within the United States impotent. Agreement was r? ached on all the other provisions of the bill. The disagreement as to the method of reaching a strength of 150.000 men was reported first to the house. National Guard Election No Choice For Lieut. Colonel of First Regiment Columbia. June 16. There was no ' election for the office of Lieutenant colonel of the first regiment of the South Carolina National Guard and a s.ud ??lee:;.mi has been ordered by the adjutant general's office for the ?.'?'ill. whieh is next Monday. M. i'. v"onTresckow, of Cahiden. received i't? votes; 1.. C McFadden, of I; Uill. received 17 and .1. B. Keith, of Timonsville, received Two pos sible v otes Wei e not east. Th" SCCOnd election in the nice for major of the Third battalion will also be held on the l'iiiIi. The two candidates for this office who are tied are Alfred M. McLeod of Camden ami Murray Mack of Fort Mill. 1 nd Truth's." THE TRUE SC Former Cuban President Dead Body of General Gomez Will Ho Taken Front Key West to Havana \'<-w York. June 1 ?'>.? Funeral ser- j vices for General Gobez, late Cuban ; president, will be held here. The. ; body will be taken t<> Key West where i it wiil be transported by ;> cruiser to Ifa\ ana for burial. __ Gun Fight in Kentucky John Fallis Shoots Six Persons and Escapes From House That Police Surrounded ! Frankfort. FCy... June it*,.?John Fal j Iis. who shot six persons while resist \ in? arrest for interferring in an al ternation between a policeman arid Fallis' son. escaped from the house i which the officers hail surrounded. I The house was burned when bullets set inflammable material alire. Cotton Statistics ? Report on Consumption During Month of May I _ " Washington, June 1 Cotton con sumed during Way amounted to 439. [i>H4 bales of lint and !7.:0'.r> bales of [Jinters. the census bureau announced ! i oday. Consumption in .May last year amounted to .', ll.:;T7 hales of lint and ;;_\(>72 of iinters. I Cotton on hand .May 3] in cons?m j ing establishments amounted to 1. j 279,31 -1 bales of lint and 215.* S3 bales 'of .'inters, compared with 1,69S.S33 |of lint and 2-S2.SS1 of iinters a year rago, and held in public storage and at compresses, 4.739.S51 bales of lint ;and *5-9,198 of imters, compared with 2,5SG,SS8 of lin: and 393,372 of | iinters a year ago. Imports during May amounted to ,10,542 bales, compared with 15,767 j in May last year. E: porio for May were 473,049 bales, [including 4,340 bales of Iinters. com ! pared v.ith 364,904. including 5.550 of i Iinters in .May last year, j Cotton spindles active during May numbered 32.631.051. compared with 34,069.744 in May last year, j Statistic;-, for cotton growing states i follows: I Consumed during .May 26S.I31 bales, compai with ::in.i i''< in May j last yea r. I On hand May ?". 1 in consuming es tablishments 573.350 bales, com pared with S78.224 a year ago, and [ in public storage and at compresses j 1,257.199 bales, ocmparcd with 2.264, j 207 a yea r ago. I Cotton spindles active during May numbered 14.66t.S91. compared with j I5.06?KSS9 i? May last year. ! Lancaster Mill To Close Doors \ Fig Plant Refuses to Grant De mauds of the Union Lancaster. Time 11.?There was a ? special meeting of the Textile union i held ;n the Lancaster court house has} night, ai which Mr. Dean und Mr. ? CalJahan. union organizers, were 1 present and made iiddresses. after ( which the public was excluded and a secret session of the union held. At [this meeting a committee was ap I pointed to call upon the Lancaster cotton uii 11s and make certain de i mauds. This committee waited upon [officers of the Lancaster cotton mills j"today, and tic demands were refused j and the following notice was posted j thro- ghout the plant: "The textile union having made de mands upon the Lancaster Cotton j mills which cannot be granted! there ; fore. !"> avoid any friction tins mill will ( lose down indefinitely one week I from t !i is date.** j These nods, of which Col. Lcroy [Springs is president, have 140,000 [spindles and 3.000 looms, employ [about I.S09 operatives and is one of the largest, if u'?t the largest, pVint [cloth mills in the south. Murder and Suicide i ]). Preston Berry of Oranireburz Kills Wife and Self Orangeburg. June 1 '. - 1 >. Preston Berry, n youne, farmer of the Neoses section. Sunday nigh! or Monday morning sho* and Instantly killed his Wife and then committed suicide i>y tiring a bullet through his brain. ii is alleged that Berry was en - raged tiirough jealousy and shot his wife probably eat iy Monda\ tttorrt- ' ing. Th< father and mother were found e; rly Monday morning by a "seven \ o; r old daughter, tin- mother lying as asleep in th bed. her baby in her arms, with a bullet thrmigh her ten;pic and the father sprawled out upon the floor with a pistol ball through his brain. Only two un loaded shells were found in the pis tol, and it was the pistol of D. IV Perry. The sh/>oring created ?iuite a stir in th .t community, and one spires was arrested, hut the authori ties generally believe that Berry shot and killed his wife and then took his own life. They weif white peo ple of good standing in their com munity. Tb?- shooting took place aboui ?5 miles from Orange burg, just j out of the town of Neescs. ?UTHRON, Established June 1, 1866. VOL. OL NO. 35 500 Modern Machine Guns and Es tra Parts Found Abc|ard Ship Bound Fir Irish Port New York. June 15.?(By the As sociated Press).?More than 500 mod ern machine guns with hundreds of spare parts, suspect^ by government officials i<> have be< v- destined for Ire land, were seised here today by Unit mi Stales customs officials. The arms, found aboard the American steamship East Sine, were subse quently taken from the customs men as they were being carried away from the pier by Hoboken police, acting on a search and seizure warrant sworn out by a man giving the name of Fran!; Williams. No further infor mation concerning him was available at Hoboken police headquarters. He ! alleged they had been stolen from [him June 11. The arms were taken to ! police headquarters at Hoboken and [will be held pending a hearing before , the recorder to d<".. -mine who is en , titled totheir custo^ -. According to reports reaching gov ernment agencies, *wo changes of [crews, brought about by the nation wide marine strike, resulted in dis [covery of the arm-. It is reported j that a member of one of the crews "tipped off" the government investi ! gators. Presence of the arms on board the : East Side was not known to the own >er of the ship, the United States [Shipping Hoard, or its managing op erators, until they .vere informed of I their discovery by federal investiga tors. The East Side cleared today ffor Norfolk, where, according to ?Chief of Police Hayes, of Hoboken. 'she was to take a cargo of coal for a : port in Ireland. i Investigations as to how the arms I came to b-.v aboard, who caused them I to be placed there, and for whom they ; were intended, are under way by of , ficials of the customs service, the de ; partment of justice and the United States shipping Board. One report is that they were smug gled aboard from launches, which {came up to the ship's side at night, and the arms, swathed in burlap bags, ?were hoisted aboard as "engine room supplies/* A curicus member of the ; crew cut into one of these bags with 'his knife, disclosing a machine gun. When a search was made the arms were found concealed in various parts of the ship. They were removed to [the derk and placed under guards, land todav, while be3 ig removed from ! the dock to a custot ?s warehouse, fell into the hands of the police by virtue of the search and seizure warrant -worn out by Williams, j Government representatives would ! make no official statements on th'j ? matter pending con dusion of the in [ vesttgations. Seizui^ by customs men is said to have b--rn made on the j ground that a shipment of arms w-as I being attempted without compliance j with maritime regulations, which call for manifesting all exports. The government investigators also i were informed that after the second icrew had assumed charge of the ship some unidentified persons in a launch ! hailed the watchman and asked per ? mission b> remove from the vessel some "supplies" which had been de i livered aboard the Rast Side by mis [ take. Tin- watchr*an refused to let i lie strangers aboaf|ci the ship with out authority from lie owners. A description of the seized arms and parts, as made by Williams in his application for the warrant, includes 1600 Thompson sub-machine guns. 3u j extra 30-capacity magazines, 5 50-ca j parity arum magazines. "> 100-capac ' ity drum magazines, eighty extra 30 capacity bo* magazines, twenty 50 ; capacity drum magazines. twenty.JtOO j capacity magazines and hundreds of parts of machine sruns. Williams gave [his resi<ienc.> as Hoboken. Veteran Politician Dead Former Senator Mason of Illi nois Passes Away at Washmgrton Washington. ,:unJ '6.-?Represen tative William E. Mason, of Illinois, died here today. lie was formerly senator fi om Illinois. Four Killed in Railroad Wreck Four Sleepers Plunge Through a Bridge Near Crawford, Neb. Omaha N*eb.. .Iura- 16.?Four per sons wer. killed and fourteen injured, sonic seriously, and four are missing in a train wreck rear Crawford.* Four sleepers plunged through the bridge into big Cotton wood creek, after the engine and mail ear had passed safely across the trestle. R. 0. T. C. STU DENTS GATHER Camp Henry Knox Ky.. June 16.? Upward of twenty-three hundred R. <). T C: students from fourth and fifth army corps areas are assembling for a six weeks' c*d? rsc o? intensive training.