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$HE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Est 2 > CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 REDUCE I5 Meeting of Farmers Held in Columbia Reeomends Plant ing Only 1-4 of Land in Cotton Columbia, Sept. 13.?At a meet ing of the South Carolina Division of the American Cotton Association held Friday at Craven Hall,, reso lution were adopted as follows: ' Urging a reduction of the re discount interest rates vof Federal Reserve banks to 3 1-2 per cent on bonds and 4 per cent on agricul tural and commercial paper: Favoring the increase of the membership of the Federal Reserve Board to twelve members and a1 change in the personnel of the \ members. The resolutions also favors the creation of an^ advisory board of twelve members and urges * agricultural finance for American farmers. The resolutions ask that j average length of loans to growers i be made from six to twelve months ang- to cattle raisers of the West1 ttiree years; asks reduced freight 'rates declaring them to be imper t^__i/ative in the economic transporta tion of raw products: asks federal legislation for economic reforms in baling of American cotton; urges creation of a board of awards and establishing a hall of service in the j I Agricultural Department of the! United States; favors appointment i of a federal commission to enlarge foreign trade for cotton and other ] staple agricultural products: asksj appointment of a scientific re-! search commission for combating | the boll weevil; endorses revival' of the War Finance Corporation: favors acreage reduction of cotton; urges slow marketing, cotton. The convention went unanimous ly on record as favoring the-plant ing of'only one-fourth of the cul tivated lands of the cotton growing ! states in cotton. Anouncement was made that a; referendum vote taken by . the j American Cotton Association f. throughout the belt on a. number j .of plans submitted to the farmers j for next season had resulted, in a j - '4s?mimdiiUig-4iia5ority for the plan ~ of planting only .one^foujrth^ of the \ cultivated land in cotton next' year. | President J. Scottowe Wanna maker, of the American Cott?>n As sociation, presented some statistics compiled by his organization. He said that an investigation - of the amount of untenderable, or lowest gra^i e, cotton spinnable. cotton in the stacks of cotton held in the r:: "warehouses and at compresses in this country by the United States census bureau showed that it was 24 per cent of the. whole. An in vestigation by the crop reporting bureau of non-tender?ble grades, including snaps and hollies, held farms from the IS-20 crop" showed that they amounted to 13.5 per cent of the total. "Based on these statistics", said Mr. Wannamaker, "the actual sup plies of tenderable cotton in the country for the next twelve months can be ascertained with a fair de gree of accuracy. "The total estimated carry-over on August 1, 1921. was 6,499,108 bales; in warehouses, compresses, etc., 4,840,459 bales, less 24 per cent untenderable. 1,161,686 bales; on farms and elsewhere, 1,558,749 less 13 per cent untenderable, 223, 931 bales. This made the net ten derable carry-over on August 1, last 5,113,491 bales. Total esti mated available supply 12,145,401; estimated domestic consumption and/exports for twelve months end In Aug. 1. 1922, is 12.000,000 bales, leaving a forecast of a net available BQfj&ia on August 1, 1922, of 143, 2 bales." United States Senator Ellison D. ismith addressed the convention briefly. Cotton Stocks and Consumption Statistics of Old Crop Given Out by Census Bureau Washington, Sept./ 14.?Cotton consumed during August amounted to 467,103 bales of lint and 50, 801 bales of linters, compared with 483,560 bales of lint and 49,412 bales of linters in August of last year. Cotton on hand on August 31 i. consuming establishments amount ed to 1,002,981 bales of lint and 118,937 bales of linters; in public storage and in compresses o,4 80. _'?83 bales of lint and 241,333 bales ~"of linters. Revenue Agents Collect $12,000,000 Washington, Sept. 14.?Twelve million delinquent taxes have been collected by special drive agents, who discovered that frauds were few, while there were.many errors. ? ? ? Veterans Condemn Ka Kliix Klan Minneapolis, Sept. 14.? The Unit ed Spanish war veterans meeting here in convention adopt a resolu tion condemning the Ku Klux Klan, "and declaring that profiteering in le of war was a felony. iblished April, 1850. [881. i Family Committed to the Penitentiary Judge Sease Sends Lexington ! County Murderers to Prison Columbia, Sept. 15.?Mrs. Julia] Cook, Mimie Cook, her daughter; i Wheeler and James Barfield, Sr., Ira Cook, her son, and Henry j friends of the family, were all landed in the state penitentiary this afternoon, sentenced by Judge ? Sease in the Lexington court on Thursday morning on a charge of having killed Marcellus Cook, hus band of Mrs. Julia Cook, on Aug ust 5, the verdict was by consent of attorneys for both sides and was directed by Judge Sease. The old man was killed by his son, who cut his throat from ear to ear. Mrs. Cook was back of the deed, her daughter and Henry Wheeler held ! the old man's feet. James Barfield ! is said to have plotted the crime. I South Carolina News Items Daily Chapter of Accidents and Suicides Newberry, Sept. 14.?A negro j girl, 14 years of age, was shot and j killed on Mrs. Claudia Suber's place, three miles north of New berry, yesterday. The evidence taken at the coroner's inquest indi i cated that it was an accident and the .iury so found. The pistol had been left at the house by Son Ed die Coleman, negro, who claimed I he found it at the camp where the i soldiers stayed while they were near here last week. On the recommendation of the I coroner's jury a charge of carry i ing a pistol was made against Son Eddie Coleman today before Mag i istrate Douglas and he was fined \ $75 or 30 days on the chaingang. He will probably have to take the ! days. Contractor Shoots Himself. Anderson, Sept. 14.?Columbus j j Shelton, construction foreman ? at | Orr cotton mill, took his own life < today at the home of his sister, Mrs. Galloway, in Piedmont. The family had gone to the front of the j house, and when they heard the re- j port of a pistol, rushed back to i find Mr. Shelton lying on the floor with his head in a pool of blood. He had fired a 32 caliber ball through his head. No reason for the rash act can be given as Mr. Shelton had not seemed in the least depressed. j Killed at Grade Crossing. . Greenville. Sept. 14.?Ed Hart- j man, driver of the automobile J I which was struck by a Piedmont & Northern freight train near Camp J Sevier yesterday afternoon, result- j ing in the death of Frank Wheel- j er. 19, was released from the coun- J ty jail today upon instructs: ns of Coroner Arthur A'aughn. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hill, a newly married couple, and Embrellas Bailey, 12 year old girl, who were also in the car when it was struck, are still suffering from bruises sustained in [ the accident, although only one of them, Mrs. Hill, is being kept at the hospital. A coroner's jury was empaneled today and viewed Wheeler's body. The inquest will be held on Tuesday and all four surviving occupants of the car will testify. The accident occurred at a cross ing near the United States public health service hospital. According to Mr. Hill's version of the acci dent, just as the automobile start ed across the track the freight train came suddenly into view mov I ing, he said, at a rate of about 35 i miles an hour. Victim of Texas Flr?od. Anderson, Sept. 14.?George W. Sullivan of Williamston received several message stoday from Rock dale, Texas, concerning the drown- J ing of his son, Hewlett Chiles Sul- j livan. The mayor of Kockdale j sent one stating that there was no j hope of finding Mr. Sullivan alive, and that all efforts were being made to find the body of Mr. Sul livan and his partner. Bailey Turn er, and that 300 volunteer work ers are looking for the bodies of the young men. m * ? Race Trouble in _Tennessee j Officers Having Trouble in Protecting Negress Who Shot Four White Women j Chattanooga, Sept. 15.?A negro j family is under arrest, while other families of the negro colony are fleeing, and posses of deputy sher iffs are seeking to hold in restraint ; irate armed white avengers, while Edna Barnett and her three sis ters, wounded last night by shotgun fire by Jewel Clipper, a negress, li< seriously wounded in their home at Montlake, a mining village near here. ? ? o Regulation of Packers Department of Agriculture Organizing Separate Unit j to Enforce Law I Washington. Sept. 15.?T;he es tablishment of a separate , unit to i administer the packer regulation j act is in process of organ Ration by I the agriculture department. *4Be Just and Fear Kirby's Wife Ap peals to Gov. Cooper Effort Being Made to Save Slayer of Brazell From j 'Death Chair ! Columbia, Sept. 15.?Mrs. S. J. Kirby, her 11 year old daughtei and other members of her family and her husband's family sought j executive clemency from Governor Cooper yesterday for S. J. Kirby, ! convicted of murder and sentenced to death by electrocution for his part in the brutal killing fo Wil I liam Brazell, young Columbia taxi j driver. Mrs. Kirby told Governor Cooper I that her husband, S. J. Kirby, was i subject to temporary spells of in I sanity and that she believed he was irresponsible for his part in the crime. She told the chief executive that her husband often appeared to be suffering from insanity and she I pleaded for his life. Mrs. Kirby is [ in hopes that the governor will at I least commute the sentence of j death against her husband to life imprisonment. After the visit of Mrs. Kirby, the governor said he did not care to make any statement at this time as to what he would do. He told Mrs. Kirby, who said a physician had been treating her husband, to send the doctor to confer with him. No appeal to the supreme court is expected by the governor, al though this is not certain. Mem bers of the Gappins family are also said to be thinking of appeal ing for Jesse Gappins, but nothing was done yesterday as far as is known. ? ? ? Promotion For j Postal Employees Postmaster General Hays An nounces Policy of Advan cing Those Already in Service Washington, Sept. 14.?As evi dence of the desire of the depart ment whenever possible to fill va cancies in postmasterships by pro motions in the service Postmaster General Hays announced today that of the 878 appointments sent to the senate for confirmation up to September 10, 426 or close to 50 per cent, were promotions from the classified service. Of the other 452 appointed by nomination, 345 were No. 1 on the civil service eligible list, 75 were second and 32 were third, the department having the privilege of appointing any one of the first three on the list. A total of 4,809 vacancies have been certified to the civil service commission, Mr. Hays said, and as fast as the names of the three highest competitors in each case are submitted to the department appointments will be made. Whenever employees now in the service qualify, they will be given preference. The postmaster general announc ed that in the future publicity will be given to the names of those seeking postmasterships. As soon as the date for entry closes, he said, the full list of those applying will be made public. Also after the civil service commission has rated the competitors the names of the three highest on the eligible list will be given out. Heretofore the names of the applicants and the successful candidates have not been divulged. ? ? ? Citadel Cadets j Win High Honors Tie For First Place at Camp Perry, But Lose Decision on Distance Shots Charleston, Sept. 14? Citadel men were gratified today in re ceiving the news that the cadet rifle team at Camp Perry had tied the University of Michigan for first place in the R. O. T. C. match. He cause the Michigan team made the better score at the longest range, it was awarded the honors of the match, which accorded with the rule in such cases. However, the I shooting of the Citadel cadets was of high quality and equal to that j of the University of Michigan on j points. The cadets were in compe j tition with many large institutions J having R. O. T. C. units and with i R. O. T. C. camp teams. Maj. L. I S. LeTellier, commanding the Cit ! adel squad, telegraphed the an nouncement of the cadets' accom plishment. I Immigration Ques ! tion Not on Program ; Japan Will Probably Not In | sist on Discussion of This Problem Tokio. Sept. 15.?Indications that j Japan will not insist upon the dis cussion of immigration problems in i the disarmament conference ;it Washington, as the subject was not i mentioned in the nute from Sec retaryaR ughes. suggesting the pro gram. Chicago, Sept. 13?Until all striking workers return to their jobs there will be no rehearing ol" the \V;ige dispute award. Jud^re K. M. Landis, the arbiter, announced in an effort to adjust the contro versy, which for four months has tied up the Chicago building indus try. Sot?Let all the ends Thou Aims't i Sumter, S. C, Saturday GOMPERS THREATENS ILL STRIKE Leader of Federation of Labor Announces Invasion of South to Foment Strike Sentiment New York, Sepf. 13.?Samuel j Gompers will invade the south in I an effort to check the wage cuts ! in textile mil!:- in Georgia, Tennes | see. North and South Carolina and [ Alabama, he tlod the convention of United Textile Workers of Amer cia. adding that the textile indus try will ha/f a fight on its hands unless organized labor is recogniz Slump til Condition j Continues Unabated i Deterioration During the Past Two Weeks Heavily Ex cessive?Cotton Open ing Rapidly Memphis Commercial-Appeal, Sept. 12th. Reports to The Commercial Ap peal, under the average date of September 8. indicate that deter ioration of the cotton crop con tinues unabated, and has been both j general and excessive .-.ince August ! 25, the date of recent condition es j timate. From reports compiled it is esti mated that the deterioration ! amounted on the average to not far j from 10 points after August 25, I whereas for the entire period from I August 25 to September 25 the 10 ! year average deterioration was only i !>.4 points. ? It is further indicated, while de i terioration is still in progress, it may be expected to be somewhat , less rapid from this time forward, because that portion of the crop which has a chance to make is al ready reasonably safe. Boll weevil is the chief com plaint, although boll worms, army worms, shedding from causes oth-. j er than weevil depredations, sharp ! shooters, red* spider, bad stands, I late starts and stinted use of fer tilizer are frequently mentioned. I . Drouth has been a leading con ! tributory cause in reducing the i Mze of the crop of Texas and Okla j horna and a factor of some import ! ance in North Carolina. Boll wee i vil depredations are especially se ! vere in Arkansas and Mississippi i and damage during the past two j weeks was probably greater than I during any other period of equal I length since the season started, j Picking has been started to I about the northern limits of the j belt, but it is not yet general. ? Cotton is opening rapidly. There ! is much complaint of premature I opening. On the average the bot ? torn crop is about all that is expect j ed. The middle and top crops \ have been prevmced by boll weevil I and shedding from a variety of ; causes. Weather conditions have j been such that cotton on the more I fertile lands presents a handsome j weed, which continues to flourish i without setting new fruit. ! The present outlook is that the t frost date will make little differ i ence, and an early frost might be beneficial. On light lands most of. j the croj) is already open, while the i heavy foilage on the richer lands would be better for the crop if it could be removed, for which rea son some growers rather welcome ? the appearance of army and leaf j worms. j A few balt-s have been ginned in I . almo;.t every locality and the I prospects are that the crop on the ? whole will be ginned early: ginning ? has not yet become general. I Weather conditions have been 1 favorable for maturity of the crop, j and rather favorable for picking, : except that it has been too hot for I picking, especially in cotton of j ranks growth. Few blooms are to j be seen anywhere and the amount i of new fruit being set is negli j gible. j The crop, it is judged from re | ports, is relatively poorest in Geor | gia. Oklahoma, South Carolina ;jnd j Texas and relatively best in Arkan j sas. North Carolina and Tennessee, j with Alabama. Louisiana and Mis I sissippi somewhere in between. ? ? ? I Honeymoon I Trip to America I - ! Former Greek Premier Takes a Wife and Will Spend Six Months Over Here London, Sept. 14.?Eliuetherois Venizelos, the former premier of Greece, has been married to Miss Helena Siholiz"zi. the daughter of a Greek business man, and they are going to America on a six months tour. Railroad Claim Settled Washington. Sept. 14?The rail road administration lias settled all claims growing out of federal control with the Virginian Rail way Company for two million one hundred thousand dollars. it be thy Con ntry's. Thy God's and , September 17, 1921 NATION-WIDE" RAILROAD STRIKE Decision of Big Four Brotherhoods to Be Made at Chicago Meetings Chicago. Sept. 13.?The decision as to whether the nation will face a general railroad strike may result from two important meetings which are impending. Represen tatives of five hundred thousand shopmen will meet Sunday and representatives of the engineers, jjswitchmen and trainmen will meet September 22nd. Unofficial reports say that the men favor a strike. Hearing on Colum bia-Sumter Train R. R. Commissioners Again Refuse Request to Discon tinue Nos. 68 and 69 Columbia. Sept. 14.?People don't like to get up too early to catch trains, and the South Carolina rail road commission recognizes this and doesn't want to see train No. 68, between Columbia and Sumter, taken off, which would require the many users of this train to get up in time to catch a 5:40 train in stead of catching No. 63, which runs at 7:45. The Atlantic Coast Line railroad has been told so, too. The railroad commission had a conference Wednesday afternoon with W. H. Newell, of Rocky Mount, N. C, general superintend ent of the Atlantic Coast Line, re garding trains No. 68 and 69. The railroad wants to discontinue these trains. The commission told Mr. Newell, nothing doing, unless he would meet the traveling public half way. The commission made Mr. Newell a proposition. It agreed to allow the discontinuance of No. 58, if the railroud would change the schedule of the train which now leaves Columbia at 5:40, so as to have it leave here later, after folks are all up, and make con nection, as it does now, at Flor ence, with the fast train for the north. This would mean the ad justment? of the scheduIe~oT"Trie fast train from Jacksonville to Washington, so as to reach Flor ence at a different hour, but Mr. Newell said he would take the proposition under consideration. He will report to the commission later. The matter of discontinuing sev eral small agencies on the Coast Line was discussed between the commission and Mr. Newell. The commission will allow the railroad to post notices of the proposed discontinuance in each case, and if there are no protests, the stations will be closed. If there are pro tests, then the commission will call a public hearing in each case. Working For Strike in Textile Industry Union Plans to Make Demand For a Forty-Four Hour Week New York. Sept. 14.?A cam paign to make the 44 hour week the standard throughout the textile industry was launched today when delegates to the annual convention of the Textile Workers of America adopted a resolution giving the executive council full power to act and "issue a proclamation to em ployers." The economic strength of the or ganization the resolution provided, should be utilized in obtaining the shorter working week, instead of asking for legislation. It was claimed that unemplyoment would be materially relieved by shorter working hours. In connection with the campaign the delegates went on record as giving their full support to South ern textile workers who have been on strike in numerous factory cen ters. In the south, and a few oth er scattered regions where work ing hours now total .50 and more weekly, the lirst effort will be to obtain an agreement for a 4S hour week. In the places where 48 hours is the standard a movement will be conducted for 4 4 hours and in the centers where the 44 hour week has ai*vady been established, the organization will exorcise its strength to prevent a change. Plans for a drive for closer or ganization in North and South Car olina w?-re announced. Ofil *ers stated that President Samuel Gompers of the American Feder ation of Labor, who is now in At lanta, had promis? d to give support to the movement. Textile points in Canada where long hours have been established in woolen ami cot ton mills will also l>e centers for activity. Camp Bragg Retained Army Will Use North Caro lina Cantonment as Artil lery Post Washington, Sept. 15. ? Camp Bragg. X. C, will be retained l>y the army as a permanent station and will become a field artillery post. Truth's." Hardened Criminals j in Death House d _ Slayers of William Brazell Show No Remorse For Their Crime?Wish It Were All Over Columbia, Sept. 14?"I wish it j were all over with." The speaker, with a drawl in his i voice, sent these words through grated bars. The words came from i the lips of a man who is spending 1 his remaining days on earth in the j penitentiary's death cell. The j speaker was S. J. Kirby, one of the j three sentenced to die in the elec- j trie chair on October 21, for the i murder of William Brazell, Colum- j bia taxi driver, who was stabbed to j death on one early Monday morn- j j ing in August. Kirby and his two partners in { crime, C. O. Fox and Jesse Gappins, i j are three of the most famous pris j oners the state has ever held. Their i careers have been marked by re markable events, the murder of a j young boy to steal the car he drove, i chased by a mob for several days j over two states, held in Charleston ' under heavy guard to escape lynching, secretly brought to Co I lumbia under heavy guard and lat er taken to trial in Lexington un der heavier guard, the three men j are now stoically awaiting the day of their doom, and their loved ones ! cry about them and plead for mer !cy. ! The three men are very talk i ative for men under sentence of death. Through the bars of their ; cells in the death house they talk j to their friends and talk to officials ! and they even appear slightly ! cheerful at times. Mr. and Mrs. Fox, parents of the , young man sentenced to die, have j been frequent callers on their son I at the state prison, since the trio I was brought Tuesday from the Lex j mgton court house. They are nice ? looking old people and their loss ! excites the sympathy of onlookers, i Mr. and Mrs. Gappins, the father j of Jesse Gappins, have called on i their son, too. Mrs. Kirby and I Kirby's little daughter have !ike I wise seen the man to whom they ! will say good byt on October 21. I Gappins is a Columbia boy. Vox j came from Stanley Creek, N. C, j the home of his parents. Kirby I came to Columbia from York coun j ty. His first visit to the capital I was as a prisoner, in 1917, when he j was sent to the pen under a two ! year sentence for a crime commit J ted on a man in York county, y-whomr. it is said, he beat" into in sensibility and robbed. The vic | tim of that crime was left In the woods apparently dead. However l he regained consciousness but ? could hardly move from the ! ground. He reached a small sap j ling, and bending it over, hung his coat on it. Then he waited until j a passerby saw the waving coat j and rescued the suffering man. j Kirby served a year of Iiis sen ! tence and was pardoned by GoVer j nor Manning. -? ? ? I Further Cut in American Army Important Changes Ordered by the General Staff Washington, Sept. 14.?Import ant changes, involving considerable ! reductions in the size of all branches of the army, have been ordered by the general staff, with the approval of Secretary Weeks, in placing the army on a basis of 150,000 enlisted men, it was learn . ed today. The changes involve not j only reductions in the units, but a redistribution of troops throughout the United. States and its posses sions. P. T. Ha'yne Dies Chairman of Board of School Trustees at Greenville Greenville, Sept. 14. ? P. T. Hayne, for many years chairman of the board of school trustees and prominent citizen of Greenville, died here early tonight a^ a result of a stroke of paralysis, which he suffered yesterday morning. Mr. Hayne was 75 years of ago. For about forty years he had been ir the tire insurance business here. He is well known throughout >outu Carolina. The school authorities recently paid a tribute to hte ser vices in behalf of the city schools by naming one of the new >em>(jis of the city for him. More Trouble For "Fatty" Volstead on Trail of Arbuckle For Transporting Liquor San Francisco. Sept. 15.?Roscoe I Arbuckle will be prosecuted as a {violator of the Volstead act if the j evidence shows that he transported i liquor for his party. Prohibition agents are investigating the situa ! tion, according to reports. Woman's Tongue is Cut Out Mexican Bandits Perpetrate Hon ible Outrage in Arizona Bisbee, Ariz.. Sept. IT).?A band of .Mexican bandits attacked a woman ranch owner today and out out her tongue. They made their escape. THE TRUE SOU Senate and House Cannot Agree Federal Tax Revision Bill Being Rewritten in the Senate Washington, Sept. 14. ? Many house proposals for tax changes were rejected or sharply modified today by the senate finance com n ittee. Probably the most i'ar rcaching decision of the committee was that to restore ail transporta tion taxes but with those on freight, passenger and Pullman accommo dations in force only for 1022 and at half the present rates. The house bill provided for repeal of a!) of these levies on next January .1. While agreeing to the house plan to repeal stamp taxes on perfumes, cosmetics, toilet preparations and proprietary medicines the commit tee voted to impose a manufactur ers' tax of 4 per cent on toilet ar ticles and 2 per cent, on proprie tary medicines, and to restore the 3 per cent, tax on tcib1 soaps and powders which the house bill pro pose to repeal. Five per cent, reductions in the taxes on fur articles motor boats and yachts, portabl? electric fans ai cl works of arts agreed upon by th .- house were disapproved by the committee which voted to continue the present rate of 10 per cent, in each case. The section of the house bill re ducing the tax on candy from 5 per cent, to 3 per cent., was amend ed to provide that candy sold at wholesale for more than 40 cents a i.otind should bear a tax of 10 per cent. In accepting the house reduction from 10 per cent, to 5 per cent, in the tax on sporting goods, the com mittee decided to make taxable skates, snow shoes, si:i:.s. toboggans and baseball and football and bas ; ketball equipment which were ! eliminated by the house. I Under a new section added to the I house bill, the committee proposed j th. i the tax on chewing gum be I reduced from 3 per cent, to 2 per j cent. The house measure made no I change in this levy. The house provision repealing all ; of the so-called luxury taxes was j accepted, but the committee defer , red action on the proposal to im ! pose : manufacturers' tax on a j number of articles on which a re tail tax is now imposed, j .Sections of the house bill ac 1 cepted without change included j those relating to taxes on cereal ? beverages and soft drinks; repeal ! iiig- the tax on eyeglasses and t spectacles, eliminating the license levies on yachts and motor boats of ? noj more than five tons or not over '32'feet in length and imposing a '? tax of 10 per cent of camera lenses. ! The beverage tax changes were ac j ce'-ted, however, subject to pos j si'fie amendment after further in ! formation on this subject had been i furnished by treasury experts. ! While the senate committee was : revising the house measures, repre sentatives of manufacturing inter ests in conference here decided 'to support and work for a revision program substantially the same as that which Senator Smoot of Utah, a Republican member of the finance committee, has announced j ht will offer as a substitute for the pending measure. Tne main fea tures of the program are: Enactment of a new general j manufacturers' tax. detention of present income ! taxes on individual with revision of j surtaxes. ! Retention of the present income j tav of 10 per cent, on corporations. Retention of existing taxes on to . bacco, narcotics and oleomargar.ne. I Retention of existing inheritance taxes. ? Spokesmen for the manufactur ! ers explained that the proposed ! manufacturers* tax was not a gen ? era! sales tax, inasmuch as it would ) b? "levied, assessed, collected and j pr d upon every commodity man i ufactured, produced or imported. . when sold, leased or licensed for j consumption or use without fur j ,r process o.' manufacture." j The rate of the proposed man ' ufacturers' tax was not agreed up on, but it was stated that discus sion revolved around a maximum I of 3 per cent. i Action of the senate committee today in voting to recomhlend re storation of the transportation tax j e-r' .ind changes in other proposed I excise levies was taken despite as surance from Secretary Mellon and , Director of the Budget Dawes that ! the $350.000.000 reduction in ex | p< ises agreed upon at the White ' House conference last month would be effected. Senators said they wanted a wider margin between government incomes and outgo than would be provided if the house changes in the present law had been accepted. Revised estimates as to savings promised by the several depart merits for this fiscal year were submitted to the ommittee by Di re- tor Dawes. the indicated saving being reduced from ?330.000,000 to $305.000.000. Under the revised estimates the war department would spend $320; 000.000 this fiscal year, the ship ping board $100.000.000 and the outgo fur tin- railroads would be $4^6.000.000. Xo estimate was im?de of a reduction for the navy department which. Mr. Dawes said, wr.s still under advisement. Continuous executive pressure will J>?* applied in this connection, as well as upon till other depart ments," the budget director prom ised. London, Sept. 15.- De Valera's lat 'st letter to Premier Lloyd George declares his williness to en ter the proposed eon Terence at In verness, but only .is a representa tive of a sovereign state. THRON, Esta Wished Juhe 1, 1866. VOL.LIIL NO. 10 I Ticklish Question Be fore League of Na ? tions Will Not Be Settled For a Time Geneva. Sept. 14.?A decision not te intervene in the mandates ques tion pending: the result of negotia tions between the pricipal mada tory powers and the United States has been reached by a special commission of the league of na tions. O' t* e> ? New York Municipal Primary Results Henry H. Carran Coalition Candidate Wins Republican . Nomination For Mayor New York. Sent. 13.?Henry H. Curran. coalition candidate, won the Republican nomination for mayor today over three opponents, leading his nearest rival, F. H. Laguardia, president of the board of aldermen, by a vote of almost 3 to 1. Judge Reuben L. Haskell, who made his campaign on' a wet is sue, and F. H. Laguardia, president of the board of aldermen, were running a neck and neck race for the second place, with William M. Bennett, former state senator, i a poor fourth. The other principal coalition nominee. Charles C. Lockwood, foF^s comptroller and Vincent Gilrcy, In dependent Democrat, led their op ponents by overwhelming plurali ties. Mayor John F. Hylan and Comptroller Charles L. Craig, were lvno.ninated without opposition in the Democratic primaries. Murray Plulbert received the Democratic nomination for president of the board of aldermen without a con ? test. Returns from about one-third of the election districts in Manhattan indicated that James J. Hines, an ti-Tammany candidate for borough president, would be defeated "by^ Julius Miller, the Democratic or ganization's choice, by about 2 to 1. At midnight an attempt by a band of armed men in three taxi cabs to seize the ballot boxes in the Second ? election district, Twelfth assembly district, Charles F. Mur phy's bailiwick-, was frustrated af ter a fusillade of shots had been fired. The raiders, apparently disap pointed at their failure, then drove to the Anawanda club in Second avenue, a political organization, and broke the windows with bul lets. No one was shot although j the police reported several men in the club had been cut by splinter ed glass. Mr. Hines, in a statement to-vi night, declared he had won the election and would not permit himself to be "counted out." . Mrs. Mabel Faico of Brooklyn, won the Republican nomination for the board of aldermen in the rhirty-third district. Proposes Remedy For Empty Churches Woman Preachers Says More Women in Pulpits Will Mean More Men in Churches Chicago. Sept. 15.?If there were more women in the pulpits there would be more men in churches, Miss Madeline Southard, president of the International Association o? Women Preachers, told the conven tion. The Arbuckle Case District Attorney May Press Charge of First Degree Murder ! _ San Francisco. Sept. 13.?Fol lowing the charge of manslat ghter, ? returned by the coroner's jury, Rcscoe ?'Fatty" Arbuckle charged with the death of Virginia Rappe, today will know whether he is to face the more serious charge of Srst degree murder. The district attorney is seemingly determined to press the latter charge. Argentina Seeks $50,000,000 Loan Negotiations With American Bankers Temporarily Suspended Buenos Aires, Sept. 15.?Nego tiations between the Argentine gov ernment and American banking in stitutions for a loan cf fifty mil lion dollars has been suspended. New York. Sept. 15.?A block of hotels bath houses and amusement places at-Rockaway Beach valued at half a million dollars was de stroyed by fire today. Two '-men are missing.