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Fourteen Persons Now Being Eeid Not Under Penitenti *> ary Sentence Columbia, Aug. lT.-r-The state mitehtiary-. today has fourteen so Llled ''safe keepers'\ the greai number ever held in the state >rison In many a ycar^ it i* sai.t. *ese are prisoners net under pen ventiary'term sentences, but being ld^here\ iinder special dispensa i?n,"as ? matter of precaution, to >rotect ^ them from violence or the?, In cases where county jails not* adequate, or suitable. In ?xx>e" batees the "safe keepers" are In for their health. 'Included in this number is S. J. Kirby, one of the three men charg ed with kilftng William C. Brazell, Columbfa taxi-driver. Another ' is the negro; James Mark, # brought | from Florence Monday afternoon and charged with attempted crim inal assault on a young white girl. Still another /is Pink Griffith, tn ?:. the death cell, ^ sentenced to be ^ ielectrocuted'on Septmber 2. ' In the death cell with Griffith is Edmund Btgham, convicted of the murder of his brother. Smiley, and charg??" with murdering also , his mother; and his sister and his sis 's two adopted children. Another well-known "safe keep er" at the penitentiary is Thomas B. McLaurin, of Bennettsville. who is heKrpen'ding ah examination by psychiatrists, fcllpwihg hi? disap pearances/ from home last year at a.tinrff'wheh the bank of which he was president had financial trou bles. The lack of the state funds for fraahcmg the state's part of the tovestigatkm is said to be holding up tli&^case'. The other "safe peepers'*the prison are held for ^various charges, rar ging from al-1 murder down to robberies. ? ? ? ?' ?junction ~ ! Against Union Bluefieid, W: Va., Aug. T7 ? Judge Herndon, of the county cir cuit court, has signed a bill mak-i ing permanent the temporary in- ? junction' granted the Pocahontas-, Coal Company, against the United Mine *workers, restraining them ! from the unionization of Mercer cocnty. t . ? % ? Mob at Augusta ~ Augusta. Ga., Aug. IT.?-A moh of mfcs&ed , men * broke into the University Hospital, seized the corpse* of -Walter Smalley, the ne-~ gro who killed -.two '?vhite men and vfounde?rfotn'others last night and who ws;s killed by officers, and car ried it*he;gonjd theoky limits,- burn ed it .at stake.- The charred body was then returned to the. hospital KIuxKlan Chicago, - Aug. 17.?Over two ; thousand Chieagoa*s -were initiated fest tot? the Kuklux JClan with ' elaborate ceremony on the city's" outsk&?L*^ Twelve thousand are estimated-.to' have attended. Ca?ft?li MiHs Running Again Charlotte^' Aug.: 17.?Over one ? third of fhe twenty-two hundred f. employees of the Cannon Mill at *Kannapons/ reputed to be the larg est towel factory in the world, re turned-to work without disorder. Every department of the mill is op erating/' SUMTEft TAKES SECOND GAME In one of the most exciting games *tnat, the two team* have played t?>,date Sumter vedged away with another victory at Hartsviile with a\ final score of 3 to 2. Hall, the new?twirler for Sumter pitched a wonderful' game and the Harts vttle batters were practically at his mercy: 'Up to the seventh inning he struck' out man after man and no o?e re?ched first until the sev enth when two hits brought in the only scores that Hartsviile made. Sumter made one run in the third and One" in the fifth. Hartsviile got two in'the Seventh, tieing the score and no-more were made until the ninth" When Sumter got one more. The game was fast and clean from start to finish with very few errors, and the 'closeness of the score kept interest a^, fever heat until the last toning. The hittirig of O'Neal. . Hawkins, Crawford, Phillips and the two O'Connor brothers were features of the game tha?. helped bring'home the bacon. The local boys have- improved wonderfully under the management and coach- i ing of Hail and-when they play1 here tomorrow, fans will hardly recognize the team that played here last. There were several cars from.Sumter at the game yester day. - e; Batteries: Hartsviile, W" alters and Bajnks; .Sumter, Hall and Haw kins, v . ? WOMAN TO BE ON DIS A?Jtf?lV|ENT COMMITTEE Washington, Aug. 17.?Officials of the'national league of women voters-urged President Harding to1 appoint ra woman on the American disarmament conference delega tion. The delegation attacked Representative Alice Robertson, who said a woman qualified us a delegate would be hard to find. The league officials said the president indicated that a woman would be appointed in some capacity. MILLION DOLLAR BROOKLYN FIRE New York, Aug. 17.?Ten factory buildings in Brooklyn burned. * The loss exceeds a million dollars. j Fighting For Life of Woman I Divorced Husband of Madalyn I Obenchain Will Resist Every Step of Prose cution Los Angeles, Aug. 17.?Ralph Obenchain. attorney for his divorc ed wife, who is charged with im plication in the killing of J. Bel tbn Kennedy, declared he would re sist each step of the prosecution to seize the trunk arriving here for the woman and would fight ev ery step made to convict his former wife. Shocking Crime inLexington Entire Family in Jail For Brutal Murder Lexington, Aug. 16.?Ira Cook. 2C years of age, and Henry Wheel er, 23, held in the Lexington coun ty jail on the charge of killing Marcellus Cook last Friday after noon, today confessed to Sheriff E. Austin Roof and two others that they were guilty of the crime of which they are charged, and at the same time implicated other mem bers of the family and barfield. Cook and Wheeler were arrested Sunday afternoon by Deputy Sher iff H. C. Oswald on the strength of a sworn statement made by James Barfield, Sr., who is also held in connection with the killing on tes timony given at the coroner's in quest Saturday, and at first the two men denied any knowledge of the mitrder In their confessions to day they claimed that Barfield and Mrs. Cook, wife of the dead man, had planned the killing, and had first tried to kill Cook by poison ing, and after this method failed young Cook and Wheeler were *n duced to commit the deed on the promise that they would be pro tected from the law, and would re ceive as a reward for the crime qprtain chickens and a cow belong ing to Barfield. In their confes sions they claim that Wheeler held ?one arm. Mrs. Cook the other, the young e,irl held the aged man's feet and that Ira Cook did the cutting. That after Cook died the razor was placed in the dead man's hand ^o indicate suicide. Beth of the men say that Bar field was absent at the time of the killing but came up a short time af terwards. It is also claimed that Barfield bought the poison which they say was administered to Mar cellus Cook by Mrs. Cook on Thurs day before the killing. Warrants were issued today for the arrest ?X Mrs. MarceRuB Cook and Mimie^'Cook, her-16?year old daughter, charging theiri with mur der,! fend they are how in jail ? at Bateshurgi ? When they4 are brought Here the entire household will he confined in the Leximrton jail as a result of the killing, together with Barfield, whose home is in Bates burg. 'Barfield continues to deny that he had.anything to /Jo with A the < killing,*DUt *admits that*'he WugW arsenate of lead which, he claims, was to bemused to poison b.cdL weevils. ? # iy ? Girls Make Good Biscuits Sumter County Has Good Cooks This morning the Better Bread Contest to select a girl to repre- { sent Sumter county in the district contest i.i Florence in September was held at the Headquarters of the Home Demonstration Department. 3$iss Caro Truluck, home demon stration Agent was in charge of the girls' work. Ten girls took part in the contest which was one of the best that has ever been held in the county. Those taking part were: Misses Gertrude" Jackson, Alma Huggins. Ethel Mellette, Inez Hoggins, Selah Watts, Tillie Brice. Evelyn Ramsey, Cassie Hodge, Lois Durtose. Pina Holliday. The judges of this contest were: Miss Snider, Mrs. L. E. Leavell and Mrs, W. T. Harmon. Mrs. Snider, in judging this contest said that the girls' "Technic" was very fine. All of the girls began work, to prepare themselves for this contest, im mediately after the demonstration given in February and it is very evident from the results obtained this morning that they have work ed very hard. The winers in this contest were: first Lois DuBose, score 91 1-2; second Inez Huggins, score 91; third Alma Huggins and Evelyn Ramsey tied with a score of 9(( 1-2. The winners will be presented with some articles of kitchen equipment as prizes. Alien Property Seizure Land of "Count" Wedel, in Richland County in Custody Columbia, Aug. 17.?The first order of its kind ever to be received in Richland countv, was that re ceived by the clerk of the court yes terday, from the United States alien property custodian, giving official, not.ee that the property of C. V/. Wedel, formerly known as "Count" Wedel, has been taken possession of by Joseph M. Bell and John P. Bell, in name of the alien proper ty custodian. Thomas W. Miller. Wedel is formally declared a rcsi dent of Hanover, Germany. The property -belonged to him in fee simple. Count Wedel owned two tracts, one of 125 acres, the other of 8i? acros During the war tnere was much talk in Columbia about certain construction operations conduced on these farms, but the lalk never d.\ eloped anything ser ious. Billions Escape Taxation Exemption of Certain Classes of Securities From Taxation Increases Burden of Gen eral Public Chicago, 111., Aug. 16.?A deter mined effort to end the tax ex emption of certain classes of securi ties has been started by the Chicago Mortgage Bankers' Association, consisting of concerns in Chicago lending money on city real estate. This organization began its ef forts when the recent National Con tention of Real Estate Boards was held here last month. That con vention adopted resolutions direct ed against the further extension of the tax exemption privilege, and the Chicago organization has en listed a large number of real es tate men throughout the country in its campaign. At the real estate convention the keynote was sounded by Melvin A. : Taylor, a noted Chicago banker, in an address on "The Menace of j Economic Fallacies." Mr. Traylor asserted that, including Liberty | Bonds, there are over thirty billions of dollars of tax free securities j afloat in the Country. These, he1 ! said, a're largely represented by municipal securities, and appeal to J the very wealthy, resulting in keep- j ing general taxation high and re stricting productive industry. He charged also that much municipal extravagance is due to the tax ex- 1 emption feature of municipal se curities. The Chicago Mortgage Bankers' Association charges that tax ex emption causes the diversion of large amounts of money by estates and individuals with large incomes from building enterprises to those which are inert, so far as produc tive industry is concerned. It charges the building shortage to be due largely to the purchase of tax free securities, and that as a result rents" and taxes upon' the general public are increased. A protest against the further lance of tax exemption has been sent by the assication to every member of Congress and the foundation of a national organization of city I mortgage loan men has been form ed. It is purposed through this national organization to demon strate that the extension of the j tax exemption privilege means ex emption for the wealthy only and greater taxation for the general public; higher rents through less building; the continuance of the high living cost and unemployment because of less capital for produc tive industry, and a general halting of industrial development. Attention is directed toward .farm loan bank bonds and joint stock land bank bonds, now tax ex empt, as illustrations of the dan gers of extension of the tax exemp tion privilege and also as class leg islation. If this practice continues I it is feared other classes of the people will ask like privileges. The organization will seek to demon strate to the farmers that they are ultimately the real sufferers, be cause of the resultant slowing down [of industry and the consequent re striction of markets for farm pro ducts, together with the higher 'taxes they must pay. "'Were' the tax exemption privi lege entirely withdrawn," said George H. Traylor president of the Chicago Mortgage Bankers' Asso ciation, "there would be approxi mately sixteen bHlions of dollars, aside from Liberty Bonds, amen able to taxation. This, at the nor mal income tax rate, would yield nearly a billion dollars annuallly and would relieve the people of a huge tax burden and divert amaz ingly large sums from non-produc tive to productive uses. "If the tax exemption privilege is curtailed, then increasingly larger sums will be available for taxa tion, which will at once reduce the general burden and enable indus try to obtain the capital it so urgently needs. If, however, the privilege is extended, we shall have, as Mr. Trajdor points out, greater municipal extravagance, useless public work and inert large for tunes, which will mean the contin iuance of high taxes, little building construction and high prices. We invite the co-operation of all en lightened organizations to help end this iniquitous economic absurdity." ? ? o Decrease of Foreign Trade Estimated Loss of $3,000, 000,000 Washington, Aug. 18.?The de crease of over three billion dollars in the value of the country's for eign trade during last fiscal year is ascribed by the commerce de- ! partment to the world-wide trade depression after the war. Lower prices rather than diminished quantities are responsible for the decrease in exports. Split on Anti-Beer Bill Senator Ashurst Withdraws From Conference Com mittee WashIngton, Aug. IS.?Scnntor j Ashurst, Democrat, announced I that he had refused to participate I in further conferences on the anti- J beer bill because of evident inten tion on the part of his confere.es j to weaken and destroy the effect of the Stanley amendment, which was adopted unanimously by the I senate. ; a.<^ j - ? j Barnard Baruch says the world is looking to America for moral di rection. Well, let's show *em the "Black Sox," "Fin* and Beauvas." "the r. S. Shipping Board" and the "Eighteenth Amendment enforce- I ment." Those ought to set 'em on the right road.?New Orleans i Times-Picayune. THE PEACE OF THE WORLD Premier Lloyd George Says United States and Japan Hold the Key London. Aug. IS.?Premier Lloyd George declared in a speech in the house of commons today that if the United States and Japan could agree on the Pacific problem the peace of the world would be guaranteed. ? ? o ence?members of the delegation expressed their gratitude to the governor for his decision to address a mass* meeting and for their re eeption at the summer capitol. Gov ernor Morrison ^issued a statement that he was impressed with the manner in which the delegates made their representations. Governor Morrison made it plain tonight that he is not to act in the role of mediator qT the difficulties j between capital and labor as he j considers the Concord and Kan- ! napdlis situation the outcome of an J Economic condition. He is em-j phatic, however, In his statement I that peace must be maintained in ' the stae and the right of every man to work where and when he chooses permitted without inter- i ferehce. In his address he will j present the rigiits of strikes and of those going into the mills to work and he will explain the duty of the j government to protect the right of every man to titter into any con tract that he may see fit. so long as such contract does not constitute a violation of law. Morrison Takes Hand in Strike Governor of North Carolina Speak to Strikers at Concord Asheville, N. C, Aug. 17.?Gov. Cameron Morrison will address a mass meeting on the lawn of graded school No..-2 at Concord. Friday afternoon at-3 o'clock, ac cording to announcement made this afternoon at the summer capitol. This statement followed a two and one-half hour conference with the gove rnor by James F. Barrett, president of the State Federation of Labor; L. M. Baratiart, only Southern member of the Internat ional Textile union council; W. G. Walter, business manager of Kan napolis local; F. M. Sloop, president of the Concord Textile union; Hub Sullivan, member itrotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and G. O. Worley, secretary-treasurer of the state federation. At the conclusion of the confer Virginia Lynchers Unknown Richmond, Aug. IS.?The special; grand jury, which has been insti gating the lynching of Lern John son, a ,negro, returned a verdict that no evidence had been found on which to base an indictment. Governor Davis ordered a rigid in vestigation. -? ? ?- . Gen. Semineof f Vladivostok, Aug. I.?General Semlneoff whose officers recently proclaimed him Supreme Ruler of Siberia, made his mysterious "get away" from Vladivostok by hiding on the bottom of a motor ear which was escorted by two auto mobiles containing Japnaese sol diers and arms. according to a statement Issued by the press bu reau of the Vladivostok govern ment. The statenient continued: "The presence of the armed Japanese guard prevent the Kappel forces from detaining Ataman Semine off. Information has been receiv ed recently that Semienoff had ar rived at Xikolsk and is staying at the headquarters of one of his de tachments. "It is r?^)orted from authorita tive sources that Semienoff intends to proclaim himself supreme ruler of the Maritime Provinces, to es tablish a government of his own, to requisition all government stores ami goods, and to control the railway traffic to Grodelcovo. The Maritime government is indig nant with the Ataman for his flight and had decided to summon him to a court trial for leaving Vladivos tok willfully, and going to Grode kovo, in spite of the fact that he was strictly forbidde n by the gov ernment. "The Maritime government be lieves that the Ataman was ren dered assistance in his escape by some officers who are supposed to lie Japanese, without tin- consent or knowledge of the Japanese com mand. Being asked about the at titude of the Japanese command with regard to Semienoffs flight, Captain Fukuda, a member of the Japanese military mission, said that the Japanese command advised tin Ataman not to violate the govern ment's orders. The Japanese com mand did not render any assist ance to Semienoff in his flight, and was informed about the Ataman's department, only when he had left the city. "In view of the persistent ru- j mors being circulated In Vladivos- , tek. to the effect that tin- Japanese ! command assist, d the Ataman in Iiis flight witli the help of some Japanese officers tie- Japanese command is making investiga tions ab< lit the.matter. If the ru mors prove to be true, the guilty Officers will be tried by a court and punished." - ? ? ? Washington. Aug. 16.?The sen ate interstai commerce commit tee has refused to ? all former i Railroad Director General McAdoo for expert testimony on the rail- j road bill. BERGDOLL GOLD BOUGHT ARMY OFFICERS Secret of the Escape of Notorious Slacker Gradually Coming" Out Washington, Aug. IS.?Furnier Acting Judge Advocate General An sell, Colonel .lohn E. Hunt and Colonel C. C. Cresson, are charged with conspiracy in connection with the escape or" "drover Cleveland Bergdoll, in the report signed by the three of five members of the special investigating committee, filed with the house. The report characterized Ansell as the "master mind" in the plan by which Berg doll was released from military prison under a guard to dig up a pot of gold and recommended that he be disbarred from practicing in the courts of the natior. The minority rep?rt said it had no testimony to support the charged that Ansell conspired to eff?ct BergdoU's release or that his mo tives were improper. The majority report said that Col. liunt. was directly responsible by his failure to provide an ade quate guard and accused Col. Gres son of only a pretense at prosecut ing Hunt. Major Bruce Campbell, who is accused of accepting a bribe from Mrs. Bergdoll was ex onerated by majority, who recom mended the dismissal from the jus tice department of Karl B. Wood for failure to wan; the war de partment of BergdoU's escape. -? <t-< Mob Lav/ in Massachusetts Crowd Surrounds Jail Where Man is Held for Assault Wareham, Mass.. Aug. 1 8.?A crowd of two hundred persons gathered around the jail today threatening injury to John Dies, a native of Cape Verde, charged with attacking a young white wo man and larceny. The police fin d shots in the air, dispersing the crowd. o <? o More Exports Less Money Decline in Prices Cuts Down Trade Balance (By the Associated Press) Washington, Aus. 18.?Exports of both cotton ami wheat increas ed in volume.- but declined in value during July,- as compared with the same month last year, according to the commerce department report. Cotton exports amounted to five hundred and seventy thousand bales, valued at thirty-two million dollars, compared with last year.of two hundred and eleven thousand bales valued at fifty-four million dollars. SMALL GAIN IN COTTON MARKET New York. Aug. 17.?Complaints of too much rain in central and eastern sections of the belt caused moderate advances in the cotton market early today, hut prices weakened later under liquidation and south* rn selling prompted by a more favorable weekly crop re port than expected. December contracts broke from 13.50 to 13.10. or Into new low ground for the movement and (dosed at 13.19 com pared with 13.41 the previous day. The general market (dosed steady at a net decline of l!l to 24 points. The opening was steady in re sponse to rather better cables and Uie unfavorable weak map. First prices were one point to two .points higher and market showed net ad vances of about eight to ten points during, middle of the morning with October selling at 13.08 and Jan uary at 13.54. Crop complaints continued to reach here from the southwest including mail advices 'claiming that almost whole crop of South Texas will be open by August L'S, while there was bullish comment on the wet weather east of the river and and some scattered buying on expectations of a bullish weekly report from the weather bureau. Reports that the demand for cotton goods was becoming less active owing to the recent ad vance of prices and the irregularity of raw material markets, had a ten dency to restriet buying, however, and offering increased during the early afternoon. Evidently the weekly report of the weather bu reau was a disappointment to early buyers, and stop orders were un covered o'n the decline which car ried October off to 12.75 and Jan uary to 13.20 or Ln to 25 points net lower and to the lowest prices touched since the advance on tin end of July crop indication. Last juices were within 2 or .'> points of the lowest. There were reports of inquiries in the ocean freight ] market for room for shipment from local stocks to China, but nothing definite developed in that connec tion and some traders considered the irregularity of foreign exchange as an obstacle to export business. ?? ? Tax Revision Bill Washington, Aug. 18.?Thn gen-I oral debate on the kopubliean tax revision bill was continued in the house, with Democratic opposition pledged to abide by the result of 1 lie party caucus. Democratic leaders said it would lie a fatal mis- j take for any member oi the party ! to vote for the bllL De Valera Demands Separation - Irish Loader Approves Any thing Save Complete Inde pendence Dublin, Aug. 16.?Ac the open ing of the first public session of I the Irish republican parliament, j Eamonn !)?? Valera, republican I leader reiterated Ireland's claim for separation from Great Britain, declaring the only government the people recognized was- a ministry of the Irish parliament. LEXIXE'S SPEECH. Plain Talk to the Peasantry. Riga. Latvia, July 21.?The Mos cow Pravda, official organ of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist I'arty, recently printed the complete text of a speech by Lenine, before the Summer c? nfer enee of the Communist party, out lining frankly the reasons for tne recent changes toward freoi trade J in Russia. j "We openly, honestly and frank ly say to the peasants". I&mne is [quoted as saying, "that, in order u> f keep on the road to socialism, we ! make many concessions to you, I peasant-comrades, but only within certain limits, and to a certa'.o. < x tent and, of course, these limits and the extent we will determine ourselves. The con cessio, is bear upon the distribution of th> burden, the greatest part of which hitherto i iell to the lot of the proletariat, fd.ut not on the peasantry, j "During the three and a half years of the dictatorship of the ; proletariat, the latter took upon it self more hardships than did the peasantry. This is an obvious truth and cannot be challenged. "The question as to the mutual relations between proletariat and peasantry stands as follows: Eith er the peasantry comes to an un derstanding with us, and we accord ; them economic concessions, or it i is a fight. That is why all other I arguments are nothing but undilut I ed nonsense. "Every other road leads in reali ty only to Muliukoff, that is, to the restoration of the estate owners and capitalists, but we say that we are willing to make any conces sions so long as they are within the limits of a policy which tends to support and strengthen the i proletariat, which, if unfaltering, in spite of all hardships and ob stacles, make for the destruction of class distinction, and for the ulti i mate establishment of commun ! ism." ^ ^ ? Dance at Country Home. Last-Tuesday eyer.frig Mrs. W: W. j Mellette gave a dance at her at tractive country home in honoV of her charming house guesfs^ffbm Congaroe. ? . ' * ' At one end of ' the 'wide vine oovered porch was placed a table, banked with potted plants from which, during the .dance intervals. I delightful punch was * served, by [ Mrs. V. R. Dinkins. , .. Opening upon the.-porch was the spacious dance hall in which a col-: or scheme of grey .and..pink -was pleasingly worked out withSpanish moss and cut tlowrrs. Th.e sitting i room was decorated with a pro fusion of cut flowers. Among those who enjoyed Mrs. Mellette's hospitality were: Misses j Mary and Annie Jones of Congaree; I Misses Susie Kirk and Sarah San j ders of Hagood; Misses Alda Craw | ford, Serena Evans, Emma Rey ! nolds, Alice Bynum, Hoyt; Dona j Mims, Jeanette White, Isabel and Augusta Jennings, and Antonia Pitts of Sumter; Messrs. Odel Cain of Privateer; Charles Sanders and j Vr-adon Pitts of Hagood: Hugh Ryan, Dwight, and Weinberg of ! Wedgefield; Hamilton and W. R. I Jones of Congareee Louis and Al | fred Pitts, Marion and Elwood My ! es of Sumter. j Assisting the hostess in the en | tertainment of her guests were Mr. ! and Mrs. V. R. Dinkins. Mrs. J. M. I Allen, and Mr. Burwell Moody. Posse After Fleeing Negro Charged With Killing Police man Brown Tuesday Night Columbia. Aug. 17.?Up to a late hour tonight the negro who about ! midnight last night shot and in stantly killed IT. F. Brown a police man of this city, had not been ap prehended although posses num bering approximately 500 m* n, in cluding Sheriff Heise, his deputies, rural policemen of Richland coun I ty and many members of the Go j lumbia police department were on Iiis trail. He was located several times near Blythewood, a town several miles above Columbia, but managed each time to elude his pursuers in the thick undergrowth. Bloodhounds placed on his trail j were not very effective. Policeman Brown, who was ope of the house men at the police bar racks, left duty la .1 night at (1.30 o'clock and proceeded to Ins home in a northern suburb of Columb . . When he got near his home hi saw a negro loitering in tin- darkness, j He hailed the negro and the black began shooting. Policeman Brown dropped, a bullet through his heart. Wie n examined Brown's revolver ? had five chamlx rs emptied and it is supposed he had a pistol duel. A passerby, Boy Leonard, who j .-?aw the policeman fall, attempted j to follow the negro, but was met I with a volley of shots ant had j to desist. The negro stole a mulo from a ; brick- yard ^orth of Columbia and) drove it for a number of miles when be was forced to abandon It about L! o'clock this morning and take to tie- underbrush because of. the closeness of the pursuit. It is feared ? hat : hould the no- j gro be captured l ' ihe posses now h nting him, he .vtll b* lynch- d. J Georgia Wants ? Apology For Mob Gov. Hardwick Will Send Judge Hammond's Letter to Governor Cooper Atlanta, Aug. 16. ? Governor [lardwick anno meed today that he would forward the letter of Judge Hammond of Augusta, to Gov. Cooper of South Carolna. for "such expression as lie may c*re to make." The letter requested that Gov. ; Hardwick demand an apology for \ the "invasion" of the mob into : Georgia in an effort to seize C. O. j Kox and Jess< : Gappin, who are; charged with murder, and demand! at least that one member of the i mob be surrendered to Georgia for; trial. Gov. Hardwick said that if j tiie names of men in the mob are j furnished he would start extradi- j tion proceedings. 'j- ? ^ Jefferson Davis Memorial _ ! Monument to Ee Unveiled at Birthplace, Fairview, Ky. j Louisville, ky., Aug. 0.?The Jefferson Davis obeii.sk, crowning monument to the president of the Southern Confederacy, will be un veiled June 3, 11)22, at Davis' birth place in Fairview, Ky., on his 114th anniversary. The Davis homestead is about 14o miles from Hodgenvffle, Ky., where Abraham Lincoln was born. The obelisk, which will be 175 ; feet high, is today within five feet ; of completion. It was planned S originally to erect a shaft 350 fe<t, I to be excelled only by the Wash I ington monument, but the Jeffor I son Davis Home Association dc ! cided to hasten the unveiling in ac : cordance with the wish of Con I federate veterans. Anxious to par {ticipate in the ceremonies, the thin ning ranks urged completion as ' aoon as possible. The work was [started in 1017 and interrupted by ! the world war. Profiles in bronze of Mr. Davis and his daughter, Mrs. Margaret ! Davis ITay? a, one of the most J beautiful women of the South, orn ament the base of the monumer.t, (which is 43 feet square. It contains ! a room for relics. ! The shaft is situated in Jeffer i j son Davis Park, which takes in j part of the farm on which the president of the confederacy w,as I born on June 3, ISO8, less than a j year before Lincoln. The park j comprises about 22 acres. The j town of Fairview gains its name i from one of the most beautiful j landscapes in the South. Cost- of the monument to date is 'iab?nf.>$ion,oo!?);?? which was raised hy>!popular;subscription. Mrs. Roy :McKhutoy, of Padueah; Ky., res ident general of the United L ugh iers of the-Confederacy at the i ead :of . a committee of -Daughters md Confederate veterans, orgr izcd every county in the state i* :om [plete the shaft. i t' ? Gen.-William B. HaHem; for fgierljti owner with Col.'-Henr ? Wat .Urrson of Louisville Court - Tour [jiai; vi&;.: president of- ? rson {tyayiSOdfome Association, ceed ing thtvkue Gen. Pennett I . oung of Louisville, four time s 'om mander-in-chief -of -the ited Confederate Veterans. Gen. ?orge W. Littlefi. ld ,of Austin, cxas, and Gen. Julian S. "Carr of Dur ham, N. C. were promoters with Gen. Young of the original concep tion. Care of the monument and park will be supervised by the State of Kentucky after the unveiling, by act of the 1920 legislature. ! Two other monuments eom i meliorate the Confederate presi I dent, in in Richmond, Va.. the cap ital of the Confederacy, and the other in New Orleans. Both were built through, efforts of the women of the South. -? ? ? [ Texas Grov < rs Benefit ^Through Pooling Cotton. [ How demonstration work in co operative cotton marketing is aid ing farmers during the current season is illustrated by the story of a pool formed in Texas, as re ported by the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates of the United States Department of Agriculture. Three hundred bales of cotton were placed in this pool. Individ ually the growers had been offered from 3 to 7 cents a pound for the cotton on tfieir local market. The entire lot was classed by represen tatives of the Federal bureau and grade cards issued, to the owners. The samples were then forwarded to Dallas and the cotton trade in vited to bid. The lot was sold at 1 o.2r* cents a pound average. On the classification made by the Bureau's representative the pool averaged 75 points off middling. The middling spot price at Dallas on the day of the sale was 10.35 cents. The growers' accounts were settled on the basis of the grade cards issued for the individual bales, using the Dallas differences for tlie day. -? ? ? CLYDE THOMAS TO HANG SEPT. 15 (Vnterville. Ala.. Aug. IT.?Clyde Thomas, negro, sentenced to bans: ! on September 15th for attacking and murdering a fourteen-year-old j white gin Troops with ma chine guns surrounded the court house during the tral. W00DR0W WILSON'S HEALTH IMPROVING _ j Washington. Aug. IT.?Wood- j row Wilson today conferred with clients in his law office for the lirst ; time. His friends say it indicates his improve*. ..ealth. Pellagra in the South Surgeon General Insists That Disease -is on Increase Due' to Rest ricted Diet Washington, Aug. 15. ? Ftoc-d shortage Lu.the southern states has assumed the proportions of a famine only in a "scientific, re stricted sense," but undoubtedly has been 'accompanied by an in crease in , pellagara, the public health service reported to Presi dent Harding today as a result of the speciai investigation undertak en at his request. The findings of the public health officials, '(He report said, were based largely on incomplete statistics submitted by southern state health commissioners at a recent confer ence here. In a letter to the pres ident Sur^on Cieneral Gumming declared that despite the criticism of som.>.southern officials regarding the administration's course the in formation ,collected "fully con firms, in ray opinion, the position of the public health service with respect to .the increase of peilagra in various parts of the south." Detailed figures were not made public, hut..a memorandum of sup-, plemental, information accompany ing the.> surgeon general's letter was summarized as fellows tonight in a statement issued at the White House: "Information indicates a definite increase of pellagra this year in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma,4 Texa* and probably North and South Carolina. Some evidence also indicates an increase in Oeorgia. In Kentucky and Vir ginia testimony points to a de crease. Conservative estimates in dicate r,,0o0 deaths and l?G.?'tft) '' cases of pellagra in the country irr - ? 1921."' "' * * ? Failure1" to diversify crops Ts*:' blaimed by'the surgeon general for the food* situation throughout the' south, which he advised the presi dent was acute in some localities J when considered "from the stand point of a physiologically com-... j plete diet" such as is required to* .. prevent pellagra. - "It quickly became apparent,". Surgeon General Cumming said, "that the Interest of the assembled .. health officers centered principally about two points: ... "1. The basis for holding that ... j there existed an increased prevail ~ j ence of pellagra; 9i I "2. The. use of the word 'famine' in describing causitive conditions, ,., "So Jar as the first point is con-, eerned. all the health officers pres-s. - ent, with the exception, of the state; health officer of. Mississippi stated.' that no reliable morbidity statistics, * were available for their state. In Mississippi, the only state" having * trustworthy statistics, the increase ? ? of the disease in the first she months of the present year was about double in the corresponding period last- year. - .. .: "A number of the state health of ficers, on receiving the call to the conference secured telegraphis re-- ? ports from-physicians in various parts of.-their state, believing that these might serve as an ndex: o? pellagra conditions, though they , had no. comparable statistics for.,. previous years. Others submitted ? statistics showing the number u of ... deaths from pellagra in the first six months of 1921 and.in the cor responding period r?f previous years (These data were admittedly ..Jn>, .. [complete.: A careful review.of all. .the facts elicited by the conference fully confirm, in my opinion, the position of the ..public health ser- ' vice with respect' to the increase of pellagra in various parts of the south. "In so far as the use of the word 'famine' is concerned the public health service pointed out that it had used the term in a scientific, restricted sense, referring to a diet which .lacked some essential ele ment of elements, i "It was clearly brought out that in various localities in the south, conditions were such that the es sential foods required to prevent the development of pellagra were I obtainable only with diffiulty, and in some instances, were entirely be yond the reach of the poorer work ing people. >-It was shown that the situation has been brought about largely by the custom of one-crop farming. . So long as the one-crop paid handsome returns, as in the case of cotton in recent years less difficulty was experienced. At the .., ' present time, however, the food i situation, looked at from the stand point of a idiysiologically complete diet, is acu.te in a number of 10 ' ealities. , i "Tiie object aimed at by the pub lic health .service has undoubtedly. .. Inen brought much nearer to at tainment as a result of the splendid support given by your letter. In no other way could attention have b.en focused so quickly or effec tively on the many different phases of the ' problem. The various brac hes of the federal and state governments will now cooperate to better advantage to control not only pellagra but other diseases in timately related to economic and dietetic maladjustments. It is gratifying to report that all the states feel able to meet any de mands for emergency relief, with- ???? out requiring any outside assist ance." -?? ? ? MeCLURE'S MAGA ZINE BANKRUPT New York. Aug. 17.?Receivers in equity have been appointed for McClure's Magazine. Incorporated, claimants filing claims* for ove~' tw. he thousand dollars, due on notes. Washington, Aug. 16.?Senator I.od^v- has been selected by Presir dent Harding as a member of the American delegation to the dis armament conference. ? ? Dublin, Aug. 17.^-De Valera* the Irish leader today declared positively that the Irish republican parliament would not accept the' ( terms offered by the British gov ernment extending to Ireland do minion status.