The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 27, 1921, Image 1
BALLTEAM
More Big Games
;1a?s'Weefc-Harts
[>-ffie Here Thursday,
' JYiiiay, Saturday j
.iSumter baseball team
Recently re-organized
Heath as backer
fuck Burns as busi
and Cliff Ciuwford
manager, now has an
hew line np and baseball
iavejhad a good chance dur
se past two days to size np
jw men, during the games
Charleston. There is no
ri that* Sumter now has an. Al
and one that can go up
any amateur team in the
and hold their own.
two Sheely brothers are star
'round players, and sluggers as
These boys are liable to \
i& up a gamo at any time
lout a. moment's notice. The
catcher, Kemp, is a find, and
lias a habit of knocking
i and three baggers and
. runs. Crawford is playing
usual good game and hitting
as are also the rest of the
and with the bunch hitting
they are now it will take
good team to keep them
com scoring. T^e boys play to
jther- weli with plenty of fighting
?P?lit and during the games witn
^^Maxlecion hardly an error was
maSe. Yesterday's game was
practically won in the first inning
when Snmter began hitting Ber
:master with the first ball pitched,
id continued to lace the ball all
the field bringing in eight
before the inning ended,
iarleston then put in another
itcher who did better, allowing
few safe hits and one more
for Snmter in the third in
ig. Sheeky pitched a fine game
" $umter. He all kinds of .speed
* the Charleston boys found it '
to. impossible to locate the '
They_iaade one run in the
winning ending the game with
of 9 to t-in favor of
iter. Aside from the first in
the gas>e was very closely
and was interesting. Char
's star center fielder made a
or more sensational catches
t?day which* brought applause
from the grandstand. This boy
covers a lot of territory ansi if a
.Tiatr goes anywhere in, his direc
tion inside-: the fence it is just the
4Same as gone. With Martin and
-Sheely Sumter has two good
Richers who are steady and can
h^ relied upon* Another, a south
":#aw, who has been hired is e?:
*l>cet?d to arrive today. With this
;$B&k to . represent Sumter there
fs^aljs^Tutely>^6:'doubt but what
w shall have -some interesting
passes -the balance of the season
and it is up "to the home fans to
5s$ppert the team if they want
good baseball in Sumter. Mr.
Heath, says he is willing to lose
some-, money in getting this team
together and started and it is sim
P^y.-hpi to the people as to what
Icindjof baseball Sumter has in the
"?rare, depending entirely on the
support the team receives. When
Bartsville sta rts tomorrow with
the first of three games of the se
ries to be played here this week
. you may watch out for some hot
jy-contested games as they are re
ported to have won the last nine
games they have played, so be
tirere"tomorrow at 5:30 and you
-wiXK. get your money's worth of
real '-'baseball.
G?OD PRICES
FOR TOBACCO
Weed Brings Average of
15 Cents at George
town
Georgetown, July 2S.?The to
bacco warehouse did a good bus
iness today, about 9,000 pounds
ootming in for sale, the price run
ning from 3 to?x0 cents, with a
' large number oi.:buyers present,
representing the largest dealers in
the market.
v The average price was about 15
cen?^^ud all farmers selling today,
have expressed satisfaction at the!
? way their products have been han
dled, here and while they realize
th<t prices are not what they de
sirod, the Georgetown market is
ruling higher than at some other
places.
- W. G. Pruitt, the manager of
the Georgetown warehouse, has
the Confidence of all who have
heretofore done business with him
and is: making friends daily for
his warehouse.
DTEING OF YARNS
AT GREENVILLE
'eat Saving to Mills in
This Section, It is
Thought
Greenville, July 26.?Announce
ment -that the Franklin Process
Company,, one of the largest yarn
|?yeins concerns in. the world, hav
ing plants in Providence, Philadel
>hia and Manchester, England,
i, establish a large plant in
[e in the almost immedi
future was made public here
iy, by three executives of the
tklin company,, who have been
is.5 conference with B. E. Geer.
leading cotton mill executive here,
for several days. John Ervin. Jr.,
& Phatteplace and E. S. Graves,
officials Of the Franklin compa
ny, are now studying suitable lo
cations here and expect to have
?he plant completed and in opera
tion ^shortly after the first Of the
year. At the start iOO persons, or
njore wrll 'be employed, and this
E&mber will gradually increase as
the business and plant is expand
ed. This move "means a great sav
ing for "Southern cotton mills, tex
tile executives say/since yarn may
dyed without the necessity of
tg heavy freights, to Northern
"astern a&nts.
\
CHAIRMAN
FORDNEY OP
POSES TAX
Proposal Made tovvPenal
ize Extravagance by
Taxing Personal Ex
I penditures
Washington, July 26.?The sales
tax as a method of raising any part
of the four billions of revenue
needed by the Federal government
next year is opposed by members
of the House ways and means com
mittee Chairman Fordney said to
day at the opening of tax revision
earings.. Only four days have been
set aside for the hearings and 'Mr.
Fordney suggested that witnesses
refrain from consuming time in
dicussing such a tax.
Imposition of a "purchase tax"
repeal of the excess taxes on candy
and bottled soft drinks and amend
ment of the estate tax provision
were among suggestions made to
the committee by witneses. In ad
dition, the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, in a com
munication urged a general turn
over tax on all businc^ stransac
tions as a part of. general tax pro
gram advanced by it as the result
of a final referendum vote among
the commercial and industrial or
ganizations within its membership.
Other recommendations of the
Chamber of Commerce were re
peal of excess profits taxes and
war excess taxes, both these on
transportation and communication
and these levied in relation to par
ticular businesses. In the place of
these taxes, a tax on all turnovers
was urged.
Would Penalize Extravagance.
A tax on personal expenditure
was urged by Representative Mills,
Republican, New York. He told
the committee tha tsuch a tax
would encourage thrift and penal
ize extravagance. A somewhat
similar proposal was presented by
C. P. Landreth, a Philadelphia
manufacturer and E. P. filler, a
manufacturer of Dowingtown, Pa.
They suggested a tax on all pur
chases by individuals, partnerships
and corporations and estimated on
the basis of curent bank clear
ances that this tax would yield ap
proximately four and a half bil
lion dollars annually.
Amendment of the estate tax
provision of the revenue law so an
estate would not be required to pay
more than one tax in five years
wa urged by U. C. Deford, a law
yer, of Youngstown, 0. The' wit
hes cited an instance where thru
the death of a husband and his wid
ow within a period of nine days
the same estate had ben taxed twice
within that time.
METkODISTTO
INCREASE FIELD
Organization For Busi
ness Methods in Church
Work Being Sought
Chicago, July 25.?A plan has
been inaugurated by L. P. Bower,
of Chicago, director of Lay Activi
ties of the Methodist Episcopal
cnnren, wnich promises to open up
a great fieid of opportunity for
laymen who desire to devote all or
a large portion of their time to
churcn work, according 10 a state
ment issued today Dy tne Commit
tee on Conservation and Advance
of the Church.
Tne idea, according to the pros
pectus is to obtain some man of
national prominence in some held
of work, to head tne committee' of
laymen m each area of the church.
In the case of the Buffalo area, tne
first to announce a head to their
lay committee, Howard S. Kenne- !
dy, a retired financier and busi- j
ness man, has been obtained.
The statement says: <
"It is tue present area admin- j
istrative plan whicn renders pos- i
sible the formation of a corre
sponding laymen s organization !
and thus provides a number of
oennite positions with large re-!
sponsibilities and opportunities to
wnicn laymen or ability can be ap- ?
pointed and in which large service
can oe rendered to the cnurch. 1
"The activities or the layman j
association win include primarily ,
tne great program oi our church, j
Particular stress will be placed !
upon personal evangelism, stew- ]
ardship and religious education.
The great value of the plan will |
be in the addition to the present
administrative agencies of a num
ber of able lay executives through
wnom the bishops, area secretaries
and district superintendents will
be able to mobilize and utilize as
never before the great latent
icrces of our church.
"With the decline of class meet
ings and lay preaching tne number
of positions of service in the local
church has declined and our
cnurcn has never provided any po
sitions tor lay activities larger
than the local church except lew
memberships oh boards or offices
in organizations representing a
small portion of the entire pro
gram of the church. The admin
istrative organization heretofore
has provided no positions ade
quate in opportunity or responsi
bility for laymen of large execu
tive or administrative aoilities.
?? ?? _
GOVERNMENT TO
BUY MUTUALLY
By the Associated Press
Washington, July 27.?President
Harding signed an executive order
to co-ordinate the purchasing for
the army, navy and hipping board
and permit the transfer of surplus
supplies from one ?government
agency to another.
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We need self-steering auios that
will sh* at pedestrians.
Sumter, S. C, Wednesday, July 27,1921
ABOUT THIS TIME 6 THE YEAR
yf a\a/ rFT?" ' HO"
V?^7 ^ CORK/OK TH&
f Iff/ f > C0B
CLOSER COMMUNITY
OF INTEREST
Swift & Co., Organize
Employer and Em
ployee Association
For Mutual Benefit
Chicago, 111., July 26.?Closer
community of interests between
employe and employer and a real
Ishare in management problems
are the objects sought in new co
operative plan, just adopted by
Swift & Compaay, Chicago's pack
ing plant. A miniature joint gov
ernment is . provided, whereby
problems which affect the em
ployes in the plant may be taken
up and disposed of satisfactorily !
to both sides.
The plan provides for an assem- '
bly composed of equal numbers of j
elected representatives of the em- ;
ployees and appointed representa-1
tive of the management, acting I
t in detail through committees of
! the Assembly. The Assembly will
} discuss and make recommenda
tions on all questions referred to
it or raised by it, relating to th?
joint interests of the company
and its employes and to working
conditions in particular, such as
wages, hours, safety, sanitation,
and like matters.
When any decision of the As
sembly of joint representatives 5s j
reached by a two-thirds vote it
will be sent to the management
for action and will have binding
effect upon both employer and
employes, unless within 14 ,?days
the board of directors of the com
pany or 'he employes' represen
tatives request the assembly to
reopen 4-he matter for further
consideration with a view to reach
ing an agreement.
"When after such reconsidera
tion in the assembly it is deemed
impossible to arrive at a collec
tive agreement by joint confer
ence on any one issue," says a
description of the plan, "the
?management and the employes
are at liberty to take such action
outside of the plan as they may
think desirable. But such action
[Will not of itself terminate the
j general use of the plan which
I shall continue in full force so long
as it ;s desired by employer and
employe."
The description says further:
"No favor or prejudice may be
shown either by the company or
by the employes towards any "em
ploye in the matter of voting or
in any other matter by reason of
Ihe employe's race, religious
creed, political belief, membership
or nonmembership in any labor
union or other organization."
SHORTAG^ '
IN ACCOUNTS I
Ninety-Six Postmaster in I
Jail at Abbeville
Greenwood, July 26.?J. W. !
Stalnaker, postmaster at Ninety
Six, in this county, has been ar
I rested by Postoffice Inspector E. J.
?Mansfield and Deputy United
'?States Marshal J. L*. Adams.
I charged with a shortage of $3,200
in his acocunts.
j In the absence of United States 1
j Commissioner Moreland Crymes,
of this county. Stalnaker was tak
en before Commissioner C. E. Wil
liamson, of Abbeville, who fixed
his bond at $4.0ft0. Pending ar
rangements for bail he is being
held in the Abbeville county jail.
Investigations were begun by
the Postoffice Department follow
ing complaints of mail order
I houses that remittance for C. O.
D. parcels had not been received.
Stalnaker is alleged to have ad
mitted taking the money to pay
debts, intending to pay it back.
Stalnaker has been postmaster at
Ninety-Six a iittle more than a
year. His mother is temporarily
in charge of the office.
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- One effect of present day femin
ine styles is to make an ugly man
a good-looker.? jreenville (S. C.)
Piedmont.
NO RECESS
AT PRESENT
Members of Congress
Must Stay on While
Longer
Washington, July 26.? Repub
lican leaders in Congress gener
ally were of the opinion it would
not be possible for the* senate and
house to recess for several weeks,
although there was a clamor in
some quarters for temporary sus
pension of activities before then.
indications were that the sen
ate about the middle of August
might recess-until the .tariff and
revenue bills are ready for its con
sideration. The house, it appeared
probable, would remain in session
? week or so longer in order to
dispose of the tax measure. Pres
ident Harding: is said ro favor the
recess plan provided it would in
no way delay fiscal legislation. He
is .understood to have been as
sured the revenue bill would be
whipped into shape by the bouse
ways and means committee by
August 6 and that its passage by
the house would be onlv a matter
of a few days.
While Representative Mondeli,
the Republican leader, and Chair
man Fordney. of the ways and
means committee, reiterated pre
dictions today that the bill would
be ready "in two or three weeks"
some Democratic leaders and some
Republicans, including Represen
tative Mann, Illinois, a veteran
in the house, were of the opinion
it would not. reach the bouse for
a month or more.
? Mr. Mondeli, after a conference
at the White House today, said be
had told the President the house
would be able to recess about
September 1.
AVERAGES '
$3.68 PER DAY
To Treat Former Service
Men, Says Public
Health Officer
Washington, July 26.?Hospital
treatment of former service men
costs on the average of $3.6$ per
day per case Dr. C. H. Lavinder, as
sistant surgeon general of the pub
lic health service today told the
Senate " investigating committee.
There has been a daily average of
12,000' patients in public health
hospitals, the highest daily total
being about 20,000.
"The President told us there
were 6,000 beds available for for
mer service men" said Sienator Po
merene, Democrat, Ohio. "Has
there been a surplusage, of beds?
"There has been ho <\xeess" re
plied Dr. Lavinder. "There always j
are vacant beds. Probably so." |
The witness explained! it was:
agreed in hospital work that the I
number of ample facilities unless |
the beds were available where j
needed.
TURKS READY I
TO QUIT WAR
Asks Central Govern
eminent To Intercede
For Cessations of
Hostilities
By the Associated Pi\?ss.
London. .July 2 7.?MtlStappa
Kemal Pasha, head of the Turkish
Nationalist government, sent a
telegram to Constantinople ask
ing the Central government to in
tervene with the allies to obtain
cessation of the Greco Turk hos
tilities, according to an Exchange
telegraph company.
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Perhaps the man who reads
movie captions aloud isn't allowed
to talk;at home.
FAMINE LETTERS
ARE DENOUNCED
Southern States Hasten
to Deny Pellagra Re*
ports
Atlanta. Ga.. July 26.-?Reports
to the effect that the pellagra situ
ation in Georgia is serious^ were
attacked as "damning," in a res
olution adopted today by the state
senate. The press of the state was
called upon to deny the reports.
Great damage would be; done-to
the state ahd its industries by
their spread; the resolution said.
Gradual Decrease
Jacksonville, Fla., July 26.?
There is a gradual decrease in the
number of cases of pellagra in!
Florida according to a statement
today by Colonel R. C. Turck,
state health officer.
Officials of the State Marketing
Bureau declared no semi-famine
conditions existed anywhere in
Florida, that on the contrary, res
idents of the state at this time
probably were enjoying a greater
abundance and a greater variety
of food than those of any other
state in the union.
Records of the state board of
health show only ill cases of pel
lagra in the state in 1921. Jn
1920 cases numbered 113 and in
1919 the total was 15S.
Denouncing Report
Macon. Ga., July 26.?A tele
gram was forwarded to President
Harding this afternoon by the Ma
con chamber of commerce deplor
ing the reports of a threatened
"semi-famine" in the South and
denouncing them and the reported
epidemic of pellagra as false. The
President also was%asked to make
an investigation of the reports and
make known the results of the in
vestigation.
IVO Semi-Famine
Little Rock, Ark., July 26.?
"There is no semi-famine, in Ar
kansas and pellagra is no more
prevalent than in previous years,
according to Dr. W. C. Garrison,
state health officer.
No such conditions as were de
scribed in President Harding's let
ter exist in this state, he said.
Fewer Cases Than Usual
New Orleans. July 26.?'"There
is no pellagra epidemic in Louis
iana." said Dr. Oscar Dowling,
nresident of the state board of
health, today. -*On the contrary,
there are fewer cases than usual
at this lime of the year."
For the wek ending July 23.
only five new cases were reported
as compared with eighteen caset
the previous week.
No Grave Danger
Jackson. Miss., July 26.?Al
though the number of pellagra
cases in Mississippi bus been in
creased to 2,239 for June, of this
year, compared with 1.022 cases
for the sam'* month in 192?'. there
is no grave danaer of a pellagra
epidemic and no semi-famine con
dition prevails in this state at this
time, it was announced today by
Dr. VV". S. Leathers, executive of
ficer of the State Board of Health, j
in discussion the letter of Presi- \
dent Harding relative to relief j
measures for the cotton belt.
"Pellagra demands attention,
i the situation does not justify
the interpretation that has been
given ir." continued Dr. Leathers.
IRELAND MAY
HAVE FOUR
LEGISLATURES'
By the Associated Press.
London. July 27.?The possi-1
bility that four legislatures may j
be established in Ireland under j
the Central National Parliament !
ij> hinted at by sketch.
-<fc O m
Disguise
Stranger (winking): Can you
direct me to a good drug store?
Villager: You're talking to ooe
right now.
AGED MEN
HAVE HOBBIES
Three Men of Kansas Fol
low Natural Trend To
Occupy Declining
Years
Topeka, July 26.?The vacation
period of life?years well along !
towards the horizon?has brought j
pleasant occupations to three }
aged Kansas men. Having retired
from active pursuits, each today is
following the bend of his inclina
tions and declares he is enjoying
his pastime immensely?one writ
ing and printing a book, another
collecting insects, and the third as
a sculptor of stone.
Dr. A. N. See, SO, a retired
Methodist preacher, who, with his
wife, lives in the Metnodist Home
for the Aged in Topeka, has just
completed a history of the North
west Kansas conference. He not
only gathered the liistorical data
and wrote the manuscript for a
2 00 page book, but also printed
the pages on a little hand press
and bound the volumes. Dr. See
was a pioneer circuit rider in the
Northwest Kansas conference and
later for many years was superin
tendent of the district. ^
Karl Stecher, 90, of Wichita,
artist and educator, chose to pur- i
sue what he claims always has i
been his hobby?collecting insects.
An extensive collection of cater
pillars, gathered and mounted by !
Mr. Stecher, recently was dis
played in the show window of a
Wichita bank. It includes speci
mens obtained by him on his trav
els through six "countries?Switz
erland, France. Italy, Turkey,
Canada and the United States. Mr. j
Stecher was born in Oberkich,
Germany. He gained most of his
education in Paris where he re
sided 20 years, making art his
specialty. His paintings are con
lined largely to scenes of nature
in the various countries he has
visited, including one of ML Blanc
arid several of New York; By his !
brush he gained considerable rec- j
ognition, both in Europe and
America. He still paints, having
several canvases under way at
present. Several of his paintings
are dated 1920. Mr. Stecher came
to America 48 years ago.
Having made a comfortable for
tune farming since he came to this
country with his father 56 years
ago from his native Belgium,
Charles DeLeye of Emmet?long
since made famous as the town
that produced Jess Willard?de
votes much of his time to sculp
turing and making unique stone
decorations for his house and
lawn. Some of these, which in
clude a large stone gate arch, a
decorative wall, a huge basin sur
mounting a stone base 10 feet in
diameter, are of mosaic design of
vaiu'-coloed stones set in concrete j
and! decorated with the sculptor's |
chisel. ? The decorative wall is 127 i
feet long and inlaid with more
than 200 kinds of rocks.
"In fact the most difficult job
of all was the gathering of the
many kinds of stones," said Mr.
DeLeye. "T have been gathering
them for 22 years. Most of them
came from, within 75 miles of my
home, but some came from Col
orado, numerous other states and
even from Belgium."
In the gate Mr. DeLeye carried
out a design common to Belgium.
His father was a stone mason and j
before they came to America they j
erected numerous decorative stone i
structures, such as arches, public I
park bases, crosses, fish ponds,
well houses and stone designs on
buildings. The gate consists of
two' pillars a foot square, sur
mounted by an arch of solid stone,
the large keystone being carved to
resemble a grotesque skull. In
his yard stands a stone cross seven
feet high, the terminals of the
standard and the cross-arm being
rounded to resemble a gigantic
fleur-de-lis. He also has con
structed a stone well house of
unique design. 10 feet in height,
the top of which resembles a Chi- j
nese temple with overhanging
eaves- In each of the four well
house pillars he has inlaid a glass
beer bottle. "They will be con
sidered real relics in a few years,"
remarked the farmer-sculptor.
PRISONERS RE
LEASE DEMANDED
Secretary Hughes Hands I
Official Demand to Bol
shevik Minister
By tho Associated Press.
Riga. Levia, July 27.?An of- !
flcial demand by Secretary of
State Hughes for The release of I
American prisoners in Russia was :
handed by Counsel Albrecht to !
Leonid Stark. B?lshvik minister.
! , Secretary Hughes, it is under
i stood insisted in the message that
i Americans must be released before
j any thought can be given to better i
I relations between the United j
States and Russia. What course |
the United States would take
j should Russia refuse the demand
; was not included.
I TO GO AFTER
ESCAPED CONVICT
?
j Guard Darling To Go To
New York City For
Horace Rollings j
Columbia, July 27.?T. P. Har- J
ling, one of the penitentiary
guards, is leaving Columbia Wed- I
nesday afternoon for New York :
City, where he goes to get Horace j
Rollings, a negro convict, who es
caped from the DeSaussure State
Fawn, at Boykin, Sumter County
in April 1919. The negro is under
j arrest in New York state and au
thorities there have advised the
penitentiary authorities that he is
being held for them. Rollings was
sent up from Charleston county in
1917 to serve five years for bur
j glarly and larcency. The negro '
I will be brought back to the peni
Itentiarv. ^
TO HAUL COAL
BY WATER ROUTE
Barge Canal Connecting
Great Lakes With Ohio
Valley is Suggested
t _
Cincinnati, 0., July 26.?Coal
by direct water route from West
Virginia and Kentucky t ? Chi
cago and the Northwest anu. ore
from the Lake Superior region
by direct water route to the Ohio
Valley states is the main argu
ment presented to the Board of
Engineers in Washington which
now has before it th.? plans for
the building of a barge canal
from Toledo to Defiance, 0.; from
Defiance to Chicane, via Ft.
Wayne and from Defiance to Cin
cinnati.
At the same time the appro
priations have been made and
work has begun on the improve
ment of the Illinois river which
is the connecting link from the
Chicago Drainage Canal to the
Mississippi river. Whet this im
provement is completed there will
be a through deep waterway from
the Great Lakes to the C ;lf of
Mexico.
Between the Eastern waterway
from Buffalo to New York and the
Western one from Chicago to'New j
Orleans, the Central waterway
line advocates desire a - through
waterway from Toledo through
Cincinnati to New Orleans and
give the whole Ohio Valley an out
let to the Gulf and to the Grea;
Lakes.
One of the most impor ant fea
tures the Central waterway pro
ject supporters say, is its branch
from Defiance to Lake Michigan
which would save Chicago, Toledo
and other Lake ports a mileage
of some 4S0 miles, as compared
with the haul via the Straits .of
Machinaw. This route, it is
ciaimed, would be of invaluable
benefit to Chicago and the North
west in securing water rates on
coal from Kentucky and West
Virginia and in like manner it
would give low water rates to
the Ohio Valley on ore from the
Lake Superior region. At pres
ent the Ohio Valley gets water
rates on coal, but must pay rail
rates on ore. In like manner ports
on the Lake get water rates on
ore and are paying rail rates on
coal. Under the Inland Water
ways system the Great Lakes
would have several through wa
ter way outlets to the sea with a
proposition pending for an addi
tional one via the St. Lawrence
river. This inland water way sys
tem would give all points along its
channels an opportunity to make
through shipments by water the
.came as by rail to all paints on
the Seaboard as well as elsewhere
and for foreign shipments :'t would
be the only means of an all water
haul.
j It is estimated that it will re
l quire one year or more for such
a complete* field survey as is nec
essary for estimates on which to
advertise for bids and that it will
then require from fov.r to five
vears for construction. The can
alization of the Ohio river re
quires 5 3 dams and locks. About
three-fourths of them ha^e been
completed and the present move
ment contemplates passing the
improvement of the Ohio river to
completion by the time that the
dep waterway is constructed from
that river to the Great Lakes.
INDIANSTO
WEAR COSTUMES
I _
! In the Centennial Cele
\ hration of Misouri To
Be Held in August
Sedalia. Mo.. July 26.?Indian
tribes from Oklahoma, wearing
the picturesque costumes that the
aborigines wore before oil was
discovered on Indian lands, will
take part in Missouri's centennial
?celebration of statehood, which
will be held here August S to
August 22. Two young buffaloes, \
I presented to the'state centennial j
commission, will also take part in j
the celebration. The Indians and i
the buffaloes will participate inj
the "Pageant of Missouri," in
which outstanding events in the i
state's history will be carefully
depicted.
The pageant will be presented j
in . an arena 600 feet by 150, and i
will employ a cast of more than j
5,000 persons. It will trace Mis- I
souri's history from the time the
state was a primeval wilderness
down to the present era. Crown
ing a llight or' 50 wide steps will
be a row of columns, and a
"throne" upon which the "Queen
of Missouri"' will be seated as part
of the pageant.
It is planned to have on exhibi
tion the first railroad locomotive
operated in the state and a replica
of the steamboat "Zebolon B:
Pike." said to have been the
'';st steamboat to dock at St.!
Louis.
National guard troops will pa
trol the state fair grounds, where
the celebration is to be held. A
"tent hotel" to accommodate 15.
; 000 visitors is planned, and Se
dalia homes will be thrown open.
' Matrons will be on duty at the
railroad stations day and night to
j aid women visitors.
The opening day of the cele'-ra
tion. August S. has Been desig
nated as "press day." when news- j
\ paper men are especially invited j
i to be present. August * 'is to be j
"homecoming day." foi former j
I Missourians; August 10 will be
the "President's day. v-hen Pres:
[dent Harding has hen invited to j
I be present, and August It and 12 j
are Kansas City and St, Louis |
.lays respectively.
President Harding will press a j
button at his desk in Washington I
August S which will swing open j
the gates of the fair grounds.
NEW YORK HOTELS \
LARGE LOSERS
By the Associated Press.
New York. July 2 7.?New,
York's large hotels each lose $50-.-j
000 annually in thefts of silver-I
ware and linen, a manager of oa?
announced. *^Ktt?
; "Villa Gets ReligiojMS^8:
, line_Tiiwiftn'-iT'" v^M^SSBm^^m
Army
Was!
tion of
peace-tij.
men will'
31, in ac
cision oL-col
to appropriate
greater forc<
With the
Weefcs annol
would be a g<
troops, practi<
seven of the g
cantonments,
organizations
and skeltonizj
materially
The cantoi
doned "at
date," as am
Weeks, are
chusetts; ?.
Arkansas;
South Carol
land, except
ment, and
Those
plan of
New
Washing
The
his pla
troops f]
vacatedj
part of j
nis puf
land, a
the utl
such
terns ;
these
propri;
sion
ing cai
Thei
among
found
would
mark'
had b<
men
Weeksl
iently
from
in Ju
fore
Seer]
strud
comm;
withii
to :
cation!
pay tj
.bonus!
n aril y HBP^Te liir.
pired. HTCie resignal
poureJpPTn'"and cans]
tary~to revoke his oi
month was ended. M
today tha. the;--?]
ready received, won]
enlisted strength u
mark by. July 31. U
period of time for
chinery to care fcrj
involved in the
manv men.
FOUR PLA
wm
Gandil, Weav{
and Felsch
Stt
Chicago. July 2i
in the baseball tril
least four of the fl
White Sox players^
conspiracy to thro!
world series to Cim
witness stand to tej
own behalf, it was i\
night. V
Chick "GandrrrTTanii
witnesses as one of thej
of the alleged $100,00]
Buck Weaver, third
"Swede" Risberg, short
"Happy" Feisch, cenj
are the men, it
positively would U
Eddie Cicotte, Jo<j
Claude Williams, tl
ers who confessec
jury last fall that
to throw games, al
stand in their cwi
The state will
morrow.
The defense
came after the
cotte, Williams
been read to tht
Previously it
that the defens<
trying to disproj
of the testimony*
other state . wif
ments from. Chi
nati players ta'i
wrong with? ~~
and or. the con
there was a cc
games, it neve}
and if it was it _
Most of th?T
have been called'
"Dutch" .Rentner^
Brooklyn, but who
first game of the -1319
Cincinnati, was subpoen
defense. The actual trar
the confessions varied, hi
from the frequently pu
norts of them. Cicotte's $
ed some of Bill Btirns' ?
mentioning the meetings;
aid wore held in New Ye:
cinnari and Chicago,
mention of Burn himseli j
er players said to.have .
ent was stricken out.
The confessions of
of Williams told how
given $5.?00 each'aft^r
ga mo. beiiu- . promised j
each. Both denied?''maki:
tional errors. bJLsai&'theJ
have tried harj
r
ne>
noi
pitcl
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Cobienz,
:an aviatoi
|her. of I>
Rogei
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