The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 21, 1921, Image 1

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\*THE S?MTER WATCHMAN, Est; %~ fc?^SOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 COMMITTEE FINISHES TAX MI Revision is Virtually Completed by Sen ate Finance Com mittee Washington, Sept. 16.?Revision of the house tax bill virtual -was completed today by the senate fin ance committee, which, under the present agreement, will report to the senate a measure having these outstanding proposals: Repeal of the excess profits tax as of next January 1, as proposed by the house Reduction of the income surtax rates from a maximum of 65 per cent to 32.per cent, effective next January 1. An increase in the corporation income tax from 10 per eent to 15 per cent next January 1, ir stead C 12 1-2 per cent as proposed by the house. ? Repeal of the corporation capi tal stock as of next year. Retention of present rates on ex press packages and oil by pipe ^and retention of the taxes on ight and passengers for the cal endar year 1922, only at half the present rates of % per cent and 8 per cent, respectively. The house proposed repeal of all of those taxes as of next January 1. In agreeing to the house maxi mum surtax rate of 32 per cent, the senate committee adopted today a rearranged-^chedule of rates under which individuals/having incomes of from $.5,000 to $6,000 will be re lieved of the present surtax of 1 per hent. Beginning with incomes of $6.000 and ending with those of $20.090, the rate in each bracket would be reduced . 1 per -cent. In the brackets from $20,000 to $34, 000 the existing -ates would be in creased 1 per cent, and in the brackets from *34,000 to -$$6,000 the present rates would stand. In comes of $66,000 or more would be taxed at the maximum rate. Members of the committee ex plained that through this plan and the increased exemptions allowed to heads of families and on account of dependents there will be a re duction of the income taxes all _a|cmg the line except in the case ^SS^?ft^i!'- iRe.il TTaving -incomes of $5,000 or less. The loss in revenue through the rearrangement of the surtax rates was estimated by treasury experts at $18,000,000, making the total an nual loss in individual income taxes \ $178,000.000. including $90,000. 000 through reduction of the maxi mum surtax rates and jfc'7.6,000,000 through increased exemption to v heads of families and on account of dependents. A final .vote 6n the bin was de ferred today until next Wednesday, but the committee will hold anoth er session tomorrow to gather up loose ends. At that time Senator Snoot will offer his substitute bill and Senator Calder, Republican, New Icik, plans to introduce his proposal for a cax of $5 a' barrel on 2.75 per cent beer. ' The committee reconsiderei to day its decision to include in the; . bill a manufacturers' tax of 2 peri cent on proprietary medicines, and adopted the house proposal to re ' move all taxes on these articles, j Its, proposal for' a 4 per cent tax on cosmetics, perfumes and toilet preparations in lieu of the present stamp taxes, effective next Janu ary 1, stands, however. In order to make the taxes on soft drinks uniform, the committee voted to fix the tax on finished fountain syrups at 7 l-2c a gallon, . instead of 10 cents. The house plan to impose a 5 per cent' manufacturers* tax on the entire wholesale selling price of a number of articles if sold in excess specified amounts was amended ::so mat the tax would be paid only on that portion of the selling price In excess of fixed sums. The house proposal for taxing life insurance companies was ap proved, except that they would be required to pay a 15 per cent tax on their investments income, effec tive as of last January 1, instead of a 12 1-2 per cent rate. The present taxes on premiums would be repealed as of next January 1. Fire, marine and other insurance companies, would be taxed as at present. , except that the higher corporation income tax would be imposed. Conference on Ford's Offer Secretary of War Makes Ap pointment With Represen I: tatives of Ford Washington, Sept. 16.?Secretary of War Weeks and Henry Ford's representatives will confer Monday concerning the Ford offer to pur 'chase the Muscle Shoals property. ?? ? ?? ? U. S. Ambassador Reaches Japan :JJew Representative of United States Lands at Yokohama Yokohama. Sept. 19.?Charit R. en, the new United States am dor to Japan, has arrived with wife and three sons. He was ??t zy embassy officials and ar rangements for the presentation of credentials are in progress. iblished April, 1850. .881. LLOYD GEORGE PUTS CASE UP TODEVALERA Premier Says Confer ence Impossible Un _ less Sinn Fein Claim of Independent State is Withdrawn London. Sept. IS.?David Lloyd George, the British premier in a telegram sent today to Eamon De Valera declared that unless the Irish leader's claim to the right to meet the British representatives as the head of an independent sover eign state is withdrawn, a confer ence with the Sinn Fein delegates is impossible. The text of his telegram follows: "I have received your telegram | of last night and observe it does not modify the claim that your del egates should meet us as represen tatives of a sovereign and inde pendent state. "You made no such condition in advance when you came to see me in July. I invited you then to meet me. in the words of my letters, as the chosen leader of the great ma jority of Southern Ireland, and you accepted the invitation. "From the very outset of our! conversations I told you that we j looked to Ireland to owe allegiance to the throne, and to make her fu ture as a member of the British commonwealth. That was the basis of our proposals, and we cannot alter it. "The status you now claim in ad vance for your delegates is in effect a repudiation of that basis. I am prepared to meet your delegates, a* I met you in July^in the capacity of the chosen spokesmen for your people to discuss the association ! of Ireland with the British com monwealth. "My colleagues and I cannot j meet them as representatives of a ,' sovereign and independent state ; without disloyalty on our part to : the throne and the empire. 1 must j therefore repeat that unless the ! second paragraph of your letter of the 12th is withdrawn., a confer ence between us Ls impossible." The second paragraph of Mr. De j Valera's letter of September 12, to; which Premier Lloyd George al- I ludes in his latest telegram, is as! follows: "In this final note we deem it our duty to reaffirm that our posi- j tion is and can only be as we have i defined it throughout this eorres- | pondence. Our nation has for- i mally declared its independence 1 and recognizes itself as a sovcr- i eign state. It is only as represent- i atives of that state and as its chos- j en guardsmen that we have au- j thority or powers to act on behalf i of our people. As regards the prin- j ciple of objective by consent of the j governed, in the very nature of j things it must be the basis of any ; agreement that will achieve the I purpose we have at heart?that is. j the finanl reconciliation of our na- j tion with yours. We have suggest- j ed no interpretation of that prin- j ciple, save ns every day interprcta- i tion, the sense, for example, in which it was understood by the plain men and women of the world, when on January 5. 1918 you said: " 'The settlement of Europe must j be based on such grounds of reason j and justice as will give some prom- j ise of stability. Therefore it is that i we feel that government with the consent of the governed must be ! the basis of any territorial settle ment in this war.' " $200,000 Fire in | Columbiaj Destructive Fire in Business! District Sunday Morning j i Columbia. Sept. 18.?Fire origi- . nating in the Quality Auto and Vul canizing company shortly before midnight completely destroyed the three story DesPorles building, corner of Main and Hampton j streets early this morning, entail- j ins: a loss estimated to be $200.000, ' including Kaltiwanger's, the Wing-| field Drug company and the Elks' home. I Shortly before ') o'clock this: morning the fire was under control] after destroying the two stores and j the Elks' home, the stores ad joining these being saved any se rious damage. The fire at first appeared to be nothing but a slight blaze between the metal ceiling and tin roof over the rear end r?f Wingfield's drug store and the Quality Auto Tire and Vuleaniingr company. hut spread rapi<^y to cover Haltiwan ger's and then engulfed the Elks' home located above these stores. "Washington. Sept. 17.?The pro curement of a dirigible of the Zep pelin type from Germany to replace the lost ZJt-2 and the continument of construction of ZR-1 at Lake hurst, X. .1.. are recommended by president of the national aeronau tical committee. -?.'-o A third dog for the White House. Now has anyone else ;, dog he'd like to get rid of??St. Paul Pion eer Press. ' ? ? ? Judging by results in Russia the undertakers' union ought to be strong for the Soviet form <g.' gov ernment ever\-where.?Burlngton News. / "Be Just and Fear DEADLOCK CONTINU WITH IRI De Valera Makes No Move to Clear Up Differences With Lloyd George Dublin. Sept. 19.?Do Valera may be content to leave the Irish situa tion as it stands and discontinue j further correspondence with Pre- ! inier Lloyd George in an effort to I clear up the differences of opinion | between the two parties. It seems | certain that the paragraph in the September 12 note, to which Lloyd George objected, could not be with drawn, without the consent of Dial Eireann. which approved it. <? ? ? Georges Carpentier Will Try Again Training For Fight With Tom! Gibbons Begins in Decem ber New York, Sept. 19. ? When Georges Carpentier return.? to the United States in December to begin training for the light heavyweight championship bout with Tom Gib bons, he will probably be accom panied by Madam Carpentier and their daughter. Jacqueline. Carpen tier's trainer has announced. An Outrage in Berkeley County Two Negroes Tortured to Ex tort Confession Orangeburg. Sept. 18.?Claiming to have been hanged by a rope to a tree limb until nearly d? ad in an effort by white men to get certain J information, two negroes of the St. Stephens section of Berkeley coun- I ty found their way to Orangeburj; yesterday to prevail upon Solicitor A. J. Hydiick to take action against the guilty parties. The ne groes, cousins, one about 45 years and the other about 25 years, said about ten days ago they were caught up by a party of white men. known to them, and carried to a wooded place, blindfolded and pull ed up by rope around their necks as if they were going to be hanged, the white men demanding that they tell who it was that shot into the road camj) shortly hfeore this oc casion. The negroes claimed they knew nothing of it and when nearly dead, they were let down. Roth negroes had signs of the rope about their necks yesterday. In telling what they could of the incident, they said sonn? trouble must have come about among hands on the road work that is be ing done by some company in Berkeley county in building a high way near St. Stephens and that some one. according to the white men. shot at random into the work camp and the white men, were en deavoring to find out who did the shooting. -? - Bandit's Break For Liberty Halted by Life Termer's Aim! Little Rock. Ark.. Sept. 18.? Tom Slaughter, notorious Okla- i homa handit, today added another i chapter to his lonz list of crimes; when in a sensational attempt to escape from the Arkansas p<-nu.l farm, he killed one man and per haps fatally wounded two others,! all trusty guards, with a rifle smug- J gled to him by tome one on the i outside. ! Bliss Adkinson, was killed. .lamos Morris and Dwitt Taylor. w< re shot through th^ body and are not ex pected to live. Lilburn Taylor, a convict was wounded in the right l->g by a guard but is not danger ously injured. Slaughter was brought from Tucker, where the farm is located, to tin1 penitentiary here and <o night is being held in solitary con finement. Slaughter. who with Fulton Green, was convicted of the mur der of Deputy Sheriff Rev Brown, of Hot Springs, about a year a^<>. was wanted in Oklahoma. Texas. Missouri. Kentucky and Pennsyl vania, according to officers; for bank robberies and murder. Me had escaped from the Texas peni tentiary jus? prior to the Hot Springs shooting, after striking a fellow convict over the head with a shovel and seriously injuring bin:. Slaughter and Green were captured a; Independence. Kansas. According to the reports from Tucker farm. Slaughter early tois morning obtained tin- rifle smug gled in to him, from its hiding place in one of the large bath houses. where there were more than 100 convicts at ti?<- time, fie ordered the convicts to lie down and through a. wind >w began pick ing off. the guards; Morris was shot first and then Garrett. Crossing t<? another window, he fired <>n Ad kinson. killing him with the firs; shot. Slaughter lit od at several of ficials and then started to mal;" a break for the open. As he reach ed the door, Sam Payne, life tenn er, opened fire on him with a pis tol. His aim was so accurate that Slaughter threw away his gun raised a handkerchief and sur rendered. Sot?Let all t! e ends Thou Aims'! '< Sumter, S. C, Wednesda ? 111 I ? ? ? i?? ?? ?? IBIIIB Appeal Made to the I Public for Sympa thy for Man Heldj For Murder of Wo man j San Francisco. Sept. 19.? Mrs. I Roscoe Arbuckle. "Minta Dufree," I arrived here today to assist in the defence of her husband; who is accused of rerponsibility of the death of Virginia Rappe. She is sued a statement in which she ask ed the people to be "fair" and give her husband a "square deal." She says that vvh< n the tacts are known Arbuckle will be exonerated and i his "good name cleared." j Woirxn Are Questioned i _ New Witnesses Show Up in Arbuckle Case San Francisco. ^Sept. 18.?Several women who heretofore liave not appeared in connection with the charges of jnurder on file here against Roscoe C. (Fatty) Ar buckle. screen comedian, were I questioned today by District At I torney Matthew Brady and his as I sistants. ! Until Brady announces the re sults of today's conferences with women it will not he known wheth er they will appear as witnesses against Arbuckle. Their names were not made public. Arbuckle spent a quiet Sunday in the jail, which has been his res idence since n week ago last night. Arbuckle when he was arrested on a charge of murdering Miss Virginia Rappe, motion picture actress, who died, according to accusers of Arbuckle, after a drinking party in his ho tel suite here and as a result of mistreatment by her host. Arbuckle will remain in his cell until Thursday, when his prelimin ary examination begins on a mur der complaint, which was sworn to by Mrs. Bambina Maud Delmont, a member of the party in the ac ] tor's rooms. District Attorney Matthew Brady and his aides today visited the suite of . cms in the Hotel St. Francis, where Arbuckie's party was held, j Tin- furniture, according to Brady, [was arranged exactly as it was I found when the suite was vacated. Twin beds in the rooms which ha<i been re-made, were ordered ! disarranged by Brady. This was ! done l>y Mrs. }'.. M. Delmont. Miss j Alice Blake and Miss %<di Pre | vost. women members of the Ar l buckle party. The beds were put in the sain" condition, the women said, as they were when they enter ed in response to Miss Rappe's cries. Brady said he had gone to the hotel t:> "get the lay oJ the land." Dr. Arthur Beardsley, house physician of the hotel, who was called ifj treat M;-" Rappe at the party, telegraphed od ay that he was on a hunting tri 11 in Mono county. California., and had just [earned that Arbuckle had been ar rested. Ele said he would start for San Francisco immediately. I. pen information 'from Los An geles that Lowell Sherman, film actor, who attended th" Arbuckle party, had left the city and start ed for the east, District Attorney Brady tonight telepgraphed au thorities at Sah Lake City and many other -towns to intercept and return hi*:: to San Francisco. Brady announced also that im had tele graphed District Atromey ar Los Angeles to locate and place under survDIancc Al SeumaeTfer; Fred Fishba'-k and fra Fortlmiis, mem bers of the Arl>u< file pa rt v. Brady said 'he wished to have Semnacher. Fishbach and Fortlouis watched io pi.>\.;d their leaving the jurisdiction of the California court. Mr. T. }]. Coker has sold the FTartsviUe Messenger newspaper and j? 1? printing plant to Mr. A. L. M. Wiggins, of N'orth Carolina. At any rate, good intentions would make suitable paying for the road back to normal. ?t he thy Con nlry's. Thy God's and iy, September 21, 1921 Railroad Shopmen Vote For Stride Action is Deferred However! . Until Labor Board Promul gates Labor Rules _ Chicago, Sept. 13. ? Railroad i shopmen belonging to the Six Fen crated Shop Crafts union have vot ed to strike against the general railroad wage reduction of July 1, 1021, but will defer any action un i til the promulgation of working rules now pending before the Unit- | ed States railroad board, when a I further vote will be taken on ac- j cepiance or rejection of the rules. This announcement was official- j ly made by R. M. Jewell, head of j the shop crafts organization, at a i mass meeting of Chicago shop J workers today. belief that a stronger fight j could be matte if a strike is called. | with preservation of the shopmen's I working rules as one of the goals, I led to the decision to withhold a \ strike call for the present. Mr. ; Jewell said. Me and other union! pP'-akers counselled the men to i fcvait until the entire.wage and rules ' [situation was before them rather than rush into a strike which. Mr. | .Jewell declared, the railroad man- j agements desired. j "We can make a real fight on the j rules proposition when we might I not have the full support of other! branches of railway employees on a wage tight alone," Mr. Jewell : raid. "'If we want to protect our ! best interests, we must wait until) the time is opportune. Rut if the j labor board releases all the remain ing rules to be acted upon at one time, then we will have the whole matter before us. We will need only vote?to acpept cr reject the rules?to determine wh.it will be done." / This announcement was greeted '.vith applause and questioners jumped up in all parts of the hall to press for further details. An swering one question, Mr. Jewell asserted that the shop crafts would have the cooperation of other or ganizations, including the big four brotherhoods, if a strike were call ed, and uregd his audience to pre pare for action. The strike vote, completed Aug ust 1, was announced as showing a constitutional majority against the wage reduction which went into ef fect July 1. This was the first of ficial confirmation of the result, i which has been rumored for some time. Condemnation of the oper ations of the labor board and of its decisions was voiced by ail speak ers at the meeting. Mr. Jewell charged that the railroads were at tempting to use the board to take an unfair advantage of the indus trial situation. The board's meth od of drafting rules to supplant J the national agreement, a war time I measure under which the em j ployees work at present, was as serted to be impractical because only seven of the 186 rules have been substituted. Mr. Jewell said he would de mand of the board that "for once, it meet a situation in a practical way" and announce the remaining rules simultaneously instead of piecemeal. "W hen the board announces the substitute rules, our committee will fake a ballot." Mr. Jewell said. "If the rules are not satisfactory and the ballot says so, we will take the result of the railroads. If they re fuse to grant our reasonable de mands, they will have to stand re sponsible and answer to the Amer ican people." X. P. Good, chairman of the Pennsylvania system federation of shop crafts, said he thought that the Pennsylvania had been select ed to make a fight for the open shop as the first step in such an agreement on all roads. Condem I nation oi th^ piece work system was made by Edward Tegmeyer. vice president of the blacksmith's union, who said the attempt of the roads to reinstate piece work was an aggravation to strike. "The railroads have been expect ing us to strike" he said. "They want us to strike so they can put us out of business. We want your suggestions and advice and when the time comes, tie your hats on. We're down the line and going all the way." General charges that the rail roads were opposing demands of the union as part of a movement which, President Jewell raid, was backed by $9,000.000.000 or more" were made. The object, he said, was "to crush organized labor." Me cited alleged unfair action by the railroads in ottering to negotiate rules on each individual road and then failing to agree. Only five agreements had been completed among the 3J:> carriers on which substitute rules were to be drafted. The unions see]; to retain the present national agreements intact and the shopmen, according to the union officiaIs. will make a harder ficht for retention <>f these rub s tb.au in opposition t:> reduced wages. Cotton i Fp $5 a Bale Market Which Has Been Weak Takes a Turn For the Better Ww York. Sept. 19.?Cotton ad vanced about five dollars a bale or approximately a cent a pound. UNEMPLOYMENT CON FERENCE TO CONVENE Washington. Sept. 19.?-National unemployment conference will meet Monday next. Truth's. CHICAGO Police Arrest Fiv Men in Act of Blow ing Up Repair Shoi ?Quantity of Ex plosive Taken Chicago. Sept. 19. ? Fourteen hundred sticks of dynamite and : hundred sticks of T. N. T. were seized by the police, following the capture of five dynamiters in the act of bombing a shoe repair shop. One prisoner was shot by police, who surrounded shop for ten hours following a tip that the bombing was contemplated. One bomb was thrown before shot felled the dyna miter and the explosion tore the front of the shop out and shattered windows for blocks. The wounded man alleged he manufactured the bombs for certain labor unions. ?? ?? Cotton Market ing Association Meeting of Organization Com j mlttee to Ee Held in Colum I bia Tuesday i _ i j Columbia. Sept. 3 7.?Harry G. Kammer, president of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Coopera tive Association, has. called a meet ; ing of the organization committee I for next Tuesday at noon in the of ; fices of the association, Liberty j National Bank building, this city. , Important matters affecting the j campaign now being waged in this : state will he discussed and a full i attendance of the committee is ex pected. ! Members of the organization I committee are: 11. H. Brown, of j Westminster; T. B. Butler, of Gaff i ney; I";. B. Anderson, of Moore: ! F. W. Eubanks. of Travelers Rest: A. G. Westbrook, of Edjemoor: J. ! E. Craig. of Lancaster: L. D. Fri day, of Walla^eville: J. B. John son, of Rock Hill: P. L. Bcthea, of : Dillon: R. B. Lancy of Cheraw; B. , D. Dargan. of .Darlington: R. B. ; Belser, of .Sumter;. W. A_ Stuckey. j of Bishopville: Alfred Scarborough. I of Eastover: John T. Mackey, of Camden: IL C. Hahn, of Aiken: W. , M. Kennedy, of Williamston: J. P. Guess, of Appleton: Dr. A. R. i Johnston o? St. George: J. C. Tal bert, of McCormick: J. S. Stark, of Abbeville: D. A. Geer of Anderson: j B. R. Tillman, of Trenton: R. C. I rlamer. of Eartover: Wm. Elliott. I of Columbia; J. Ross Hanahan, of ] Charleston; Alah Johnstone, >f i Newberry and Thomas G. M^Leud. 1 of Bishopville. Officials of the South Carolina as ' sociation said yesterday that the ! campaign in this state was being i watched with greal interest in oth ! er states. Yesterday a letter came | to headepuarters from Dr. Clarence ; Poe. of Raleigh. N. C. asking for i information as to tire progress be I ing made in securing signatures to | the contract. Dr. Poo was one of ! the leaders in the campaign in | North Carolina in which state the minimum number of bales neces : sary to perfect the organization has i already been secured, i Dr. Poe declared that in this j matter no farmer can be neutral. "Suppore you could all be neu | tral and wait and see your brother | farmers make a success of coop- r | ative marketing before goin^ into j it yourself," he says in an add rex.; to the farmers of South Carolina who have not signed the contract. "Even then I don't' believe you ! ought to do it or would want to do it. You would not want the other people to do all tiie work and then after everything was safe, you g^t I all the advantages without having j done your part. "But my main point now is that this is a thing al>out which you can't he neutral. If you do not sell your crops with our brother farm ers then you are throwing your crops into the speculative market to break pricc3 for your brother farmers." - ??.?.?? State Federation Of Trades Annual Convention to Be Held in Greenville Columbia. Sept. IJ. l^>. Bailey, of the Columbia Typographical Union, mis announce d his eandi dacy for the office of secretary of the State Federation of Trades, which holds its staff convention in Greenville Monday and Tuesday James Coles, of Charleston, v. ill be unopposed for president, it is sr.-ir_ ed; A large delegation will attend from Columbia. Speakers for the convention include j G Lawson. of the general board of streu railway employes: James Ogelstree. organ izer f<>r Mm the carpenters and joiners union of North America, and other prominent labor leaders. <? c Sinn Fein Cab inet Meets Session Held Tochiy and An nouncement Promised Tonight Dublin. Sept. 10.?Dail cabinet held a full meeting lasting an hour. Announcement expected tonight. THE TRUE SOC3 Wholesale Prices Ad vanced 13.5 Per Cent. Since August) of Last Year?Farm Products Drop Washington, Sept. 10.?Whole sale prices increased 2.7". per cent during .August over July levels, wholesale food prices leading in the advance with an increase of 13.5 per cent since August of last year. Farm products have declin ed near' forty-seven per cent, and clotj ng forty per cent. State ssociation of ounty Officers I Audit* md Treasurers To ! Hold h seting in Columbia - Columbia., Sept. 13.?A state as I sociation of county auditors and I treasurers is to he organized at' ; a me< ting in Columbia Wednesday j and Thursday of this week, and a 1 large attendance of these county I officials is expected. I The meeting will be held in the i state library in the capitol. Waiter ' B. Duncan, comptroller general, ! will call the meeting to order. Gov. .; Cooper will deliver an address of i welcome. to which a response will be delivered by J. R. Watson, of I Dillon, if. E. Neil, of York, will j tell of a similar organization which j was launched in South Carolina a : number c years ago. but which did t not conti.iue in operation. The ! Wednesday aft'-rnoon session will I close with a round-table discussion I of the problems of these county of I licials. j At the Wednesday night session I there will be an address by Rut \ ledge L. Osborne, of Orangeburg, J former comptroller general, on 1 '"The Tax Penalty. Its Assessment 1 and Coli? ction." a discussion of ; Executions, led by County Treas ,ur- r XV. A Ellison, of Greenwood; ' and a discussion of the work of the state ta*> commission by W., G. ' Querry. a member of that com ? mission. Following this there will I be the election of officers and ; 'permanent organization of the as ! sociation. There 4will alr-o be a Thursday i morning session, with an address by L. A. Searson, accountant, on "Audit '"f County Offices." Plans are being made to give the visiting i county officers an automobile ride over- thi city while they are in Co ' lumbia. I Already about seventy-five of the auditors and treasurers have ex pressed their intention of attending the me? ting in Columbia, and more j than this number are expected to i attend. There are $2 of these of ; licers in the state. I ? ?? ?t?o j Farm Loan Agency - Government Will Advance i ! Money For Agricultural and Live Stock Purposes i : Columbia. Sept. 19.?A new era in the financing of agricultural pro i ducts in the couih is predicted by members of the Agricultural Loan j Agency of War Finance Corpora tion for South Carolina, which has just opened an office in Columbia, through which will be handled, j with the tanks of the state. loans ! for agricultural or iivo stock pur j poses. "This new system," state . members of the corporation's agency committee here, "will mean I that farmers will obtain better j prices for their products, and at : the ?ame time the banks will be relieved from tying up their re sources for long terms. Improve ment i: the south's business will result." The members of" the South Caro , lina committee for the war finance j.corporation are J. Pop*3 Matthews. . of Columbia, chairman: William ! Barn we 11, Columbia, vice chair | man: ( L. Cobb. Rock Hill. H. ' L. -yfcCoTl. Bennettsville: J. C. Self. Greenwood: W. Latta Law. Jr.. of Columbia, is secretary of i the committee, ivhich has opened ! offices ?n the Palmetto National iBank. Application blanks for, I loans < an be received from the Co- ' i lumbia ?u!';--e. --9? Starting: New Developments [Attorney Announces That He , ? Expec ts New Evidence in ; . Arbuckie Case ; San Francisco. Sept. \ ?.?Federal j indictments under the prohibition law, apropos tkrt Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckie party, will not be asked. ; as intended. Robert McCormack, j the prohibition spokesman an | nounced, adding that he had de ; cided to delay, because he expected ? "startling new developments." j Arbuckie*:: wife. Mrs. Mima Dur ; fee. is expected to see the come dian to- f.v. having reached Sacra i mento last night. There will bo several women delegates to the conference on un employment. It takes a woman to set a man to work. - Omaha World Herald. "HROIn*, Established June L 1866. VOL.LIII. NO. 11 Writes Letter Contra d ict in g* Statement Made in Senate by Senator Class Washington. Sept. 19.?Rear Ad miral Sims feels that the safety of the navy in time of warfare de pends upon a merchant marine, and declares that Senator Glass, of Virginia, was mistaken when he declared, in the senate, that Ad miral Sims had told hi... in London that "the United States ought not to undertake the development of a merchant marine of its own." The admiral made kncrwn his views in a letter to the National Merchant Marine Association, which asked if. he had been correctly quotej?. -v o Jail Delivery in Orangeburg; - Seven Prisoners Escape Sun- ' day Night by Sawing Through Door Orangcburg, Sept. 18.?Seven ne gro prisoners escaped from the Orangeburg jail here early tonight. One of the negroes had been pre viously tried on the charge of arson and sentenced to life imprisonment, but his case was appealed and a new trial ordered. Another was being held on the charge of mur der, while a third was awaiting trial on the cha.se of placing ties cn the railroad track in. effort to wreck a train. The other four were being held for minor offenses. The escape was discovered about. 11:30 o'clock tonight by Sheriff R. Fulton Dukes when he arrived here from Columbia with Abraham Mays, who has been in the . state penitentiary awaiting trial on the charge of criminal assault. The prisoners sawed through a door and then climbed down .the sca/lold which surrounds a new section which is being built to the jail. , Those escaping were: Hoj^r?T' Dannily. awaiting a new trial on the charge of arson; Arthur Moore, : charged with murder: Spencer OL ver, held on the charge of placing railroad ties on the railroad track; Walter Buyck. Ben Green, Alon.o Cannon and Emanuel Bradley. Russian Interests Guarded' State Department Conveys Promise to Russian People "Washington. Sept. 19.?Assur ance that "legitimate Russian in terests" will be carefully guarded at armament conference have been conveyed to the Russian people by State Department. -f ? o Big Whiskey Robbery. Masked Men Raid Distillery and Get Away With 88 Barrels Bloomfield. K>\. Sept. 19.? Twenty/ masked and armed men overpowered the guards at B. Mc Clasky & Sons disullery. and escap ed in 7 touring cars with - eighty eight barrels of whiskey. s? O C' Institute For Adult Blind Columbia. Sept. 19.?Announce ment is mad;, today of plans- to make a stat??-wije institution, of the Columbia Institute for the Adult Blind. An executive, whose name will be announced later, will be selected, and new departments are to be added to the. present institution, which serves as a local, institution. A broom making department and alco a mattress factory are to be established, where adult blind people can be taught useful occu pations. At present the Institute for the Blind has a home and a manual training shop on Calhoun street, in Columbia, and here within the past few months fifteen adult blind people have been given instruction which puts them in a place of use fulness among their feUowmen. "'It is estimated that there are.a thou sand blind people in the state, and the plan is to give these instruc tion which will fit them for work and self-support. The transforma tion of lives, from dread loneliness to a sphere of usefulness and hap piness is the aim of the associa tion. The board of the institute now is composed of some of Columbia's best business men. Christopher .Atkinson is chair-nan: A. B. King. .J. B. Spillman. .Uev. II. A. Mc Cullough, and others are among its members. SIXTY-FOUR IN GOLF FETE Sr. Louis. Sept. 19* -Sixty-four of the best amateur gc fers of the world teed off today a: St. Louis Country club for the national ama teur championship title now held by Chick Evans.