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WAR TALK IN PEACE CONFERENCE France and England Have Reached the Stage of. Making Covert Threats Against Each Other Washington, Dec. 28.?Efforts to j limit the naval strength of the j powers in submarines and auxiliary j warships cameto an abrupt end to day after they had drawn the French and British arms confer ence delegates into a plain spoken exchange over the possibilities of a j future -scar between France and the j British empire. The French,-acting under renew ed instructions from their govern ment, told the conference naval oommittee with an air of finality that France must remain free to build a submarine flotilla nearly three times as great as that" she now possesses and to construct, in addition, cruisers, destroyers and other auxiliary craft up to a ton nage of S3D,000. To the proposal the Americans. Japanese and Italians replied with expressions of 'surprise and regret, while the - British charged openly that such a -building program must be regarded as a menace to British shores. Arthur J. Balfour added that he had no doubt, if occasion arose, Great Britain would be equal ; to it, but only if she reserved com plete freedom of action as to the) construction of all cypes of auxil iaries which'might be useful against S i* underwater warfare. j . Agreeing that further argument! wonld be useless, the committee j turned its attention to colatteralj subjects, including regulations for! future use of submarines, proposals j for limitation?; of the size and ar- I ^ mamer.t of individual auxiliary ves- j seis, and details of the agreement j already sealed in principle regard-j ing capitaj- ships. For the American delegation j Ebhu Root proposed a joint decia- j ration reaffirming the .obligation of I submarine commanders to warn ? merchant ships before attack, to re train from sinking vessels whose j crews and passengers could not first ] bv. placed in safety, and to conform j f in general to all the established { practices of international law. In! addition, !Kr. Root also suggested a i change in existing usage to pro- j hibit attacks on merchant vessels j altogether and to make submarine | commanders who violate the regu- j 3a$ipn liable to trial as pirates. General -sympathy for the pur- j poses of these proposals was ex-! pressed by the representatives of j all the powers, bet definite action ' was ;deferr<sj. Should an agreement be reached, if* is to be submitted to all civilized" nations with an in < ritation for T$orld-wide adherence. Under a. further proposal present- j ed by the&roiferican delegation and j given general but not final approval j by the other; plenipotentiaries, no i auxiliary vessel of more than 10,- j 000 tons could be constructed by! any of the powers, and no airplane j carrier could have a tonnage of: more than 27,000 tons. A maximum ! airplane carrier tonnage of 80.000 j for the United States, 80,000 fori ?Great Britain, 48,000 foV Japan, i . J2&..00? for France and 28,000 forj Italy al *.was suggested by the! Americans and will be further dis- ? cussed tomorrow. ' The net 'result of the day's de liberations, so; far as actual prog ress is concerned, was an agree ment that in future no gun of more than 16-inch caliber shall be \ mounted on a capital ship and [ -.none of more than 8-inch caliber j shall be inclMded in the armament! of any auxiliary vessel or airplane carrier, Along with their demand for increased submarine and auxiliary 1 - tonnage the French delegation pre- j sented to the committee in definite f form, but with a reservation -t tached. their acceptance of the cap- j ital ship ratio under which France j is tc have a first-line battleship | fleet of 175-U00 tons. The reserva- j tion provides that the French be ! permitted to break in on the ten- 1 year naval holiday so as to begin ! construction of replacement ton-1 nage in 1927. four years before thej holiday ends. In most quarters this exception j. was not regarded as likely to en-) danger in any way the capital ship ] agreement, but it was characteriz- { ed by Mr. Balfour in the commit-' v tee session as a serious interfer .ence with the holiday plan. The proposal is under consideration by the naval experts of the other pow ers, and an effort to reach a de-, cision regarding it probably will be made in the near future. Albert Sarraut, head of- the French delegation, presented the submarine and auxiliary estimates j of his government to the commit- j tee in a speech declaring that the figures suggested were a minimum required for national defense. He % emphasized that highest French naval authorities as well as the French cabinet had made a defi nite decision on the point and in- | dieated that further attempts to j secure recession would be futile. Under these estimates, France would have a submarine tonnage I Of 90.000, as against 31.000 which! she now possesses and which it j was proposed that she retain un-j changed under the status quo plan of the American compromise. The i United States has only 95.000 tons! and Great Britain 82.000 tons, and | each had offered under the com promise proposal to reduce to 60,- \ 000. All the powers expressed their { disappointment over the French de- i cision, even the Japanese, who had j themselves declined to accept the compromise plan, declaring they had hoped, until today that an agreem ?nt could be worked out along the lines of the earlier American reduction plan. The most extended reply to M. Sarraut, how ever, was delivered by Mr. Balfour. France, declared Mr. Balfouv, al ready had insisted on retaining: the largest army in the world, and had i been allotted a capital ship strength which, instead of reducing I her present standing as a naval power, actually elevated it. In I these circumstances, he continued, j it was difficult to believe that the proposed increase in submarine and j auxiliary tonnage was designed as a defensive move. He charged that the purpose of j so large a submarine fleet was to make an illegitimate attack on merchant shipping in war time, and added that the whole proposition must be viewed with "anxiety and disappointment" when it was seen that the new building program was to be carried out at the very door of Great Britain. In a speech replying in turn to the British statesman, M. Sarraut declared the French government was free from any militaristic de sires, and had no desire to carry on illegitimate warfare. The French, he said, were merely pre senting a program based on their national needs, whereas the other powers had sought to "authorita tively determine" an allotment for her without consulting her just re quirements. The submarine regulation pro posals laid before the committee by Mr. Root were in the form of a se ries of resolutions, first setting forth the principles now generally accepted in international law, and then suggesting ' changes which would further restrict submarine operations. The first" of these changes would prohibit use of un der-water craft as commerce de stroyers. The second would provide that any submarine commander who violates the rules of war, "whether or not such person is un der order of a governmental super ior," shall be liable to trial for an "act of piracy." With the general principles ex pressed in the resolutions, all the delegation heads expect their ac cord, but there was no attempt- to take definite action on the question. It was indicated that if an agree ment were reached regarding sub marine usage it would be embodied in the five-power treaty that is to contain the capital ship agreement, and that other governments would be invited by separate declarations to join in the new regulations. The proposal to prohibit con struction of any auxiliary vessel of j more than 10,000 tons, and to lim- j it such vessels to guns of eight j inches was presented by the Amer ican delegation, and that proposing to limit the armament of capital ships to guns of 16-inch caliber, was laid before the committee by Lord Lee, of the British group. Both were given general approval so far as the armament features were concerned, but only the Brit ish definitely accepted the 10,000 ton auxiliary limitation plan. The Japanese, Italians and French all said they must await further in structions. ? ... . ( General Shot to Death Reyna Executed by Mexican Firing Squad Xogales, Ariz., Dec. 26.?Gen. Francisco Reyna, who had figured prominently, in revolutions in Mex ico in the last ten years, was exe cuted by a firing squad in Xogales, Sonora, across the international line from here late today. He was alleged to have been caught dig ging rifles, saddles and ammunition from the ground near Canosa, So nora, 15 miles west of Xogales. General Reyna, who has been ; living in the mountains in Santa ; Cruz county, Arizona, ten miles I northeast of here, was captured j about 8 o'clock this morning and was taken to the Xogales, Sonora, j jail, where he was tried by a mili- ! tary court. Reyna's chauffeur also i' was arrested. Mexican officials said that after j Reyna was captured* soldiers un earthed 30 rifles. 30? saddles and about.4,000 rounds of ammunition at the spot where he was digging. Reyna and his chauffeur were ar rested by 15 Mexican soldiers un der the command of Capt. Fran cisco Gonzales. I' Reyna and about 200 followers, it is claimed, planned to launch a rev- ' olution January 1. He also was ' charged with having had connec tion with leaders of another pro posed revolution. The alleged lead ers of that affair were arrested in j Xogales, Sonora. about a month j a*go and were executed shortly af- J terward in Hermosillo, Sonora. : Reyna was arrested- by United | States officials here at that time j but Iater*jvas released. Robbers Enter Marlboro Stores Bennettsville, Dec. 26.?Two rob beries were committed here last night. Jacob Isaachohn's store on south Broad street was entered and I goods, silk shirts, silk shirtwaists, silk hose and silk sox. to the esti- j mated value of $1,500 taken. En trance was made by removing a large plate glass from the front door. A box containing hats was ! emptied and the merchandise placed in if. The store of D. E. Odom on Broad street opposite the postof- ; fice was entered from a transom I over the back door. The amount of i goods taken can not at this time be determined. Bloodhounds from Wagram, X. G., failed to follow the trail. Similar robberies were commit- j ted at Tatum, in this county, Christ- ; mas eve. -?? ? ? ? ? ? PACKAGE OF RADIUM FOUND IN TRASH Newton, Kansas, Dec. 2 7.?Ra- ! dium valued at two thousand dol- ; lars which was missing from a lo cal hospital was found in the fur- ; nace ashes where it was thrown among discarded bandages. I DEMOCRATIC CHIEF LAYS DOWNRANS Judge Hall, Head of Democratic Nation ' al Committee Says It is Time to Talk Plain Nashville, Term., Dec. 28.?De claring: that "the time has come when patriotic citizens and Dem ocrats should indulge in plain talking, Judge Cordell Hull, chair man of the Democratic National Committee, in his first address since election to that position, to night reviewed the Republican ad ministration of national affairs since March 1921, and contrasted this with the "unparalleled achiev ement" of the Democrats in the previous eight years. The address was delivered at a dinner given by the State' Demo cratic executive committee in honor of Chairman H?ll and attended by party leaders from every part of the state. It was accepted general ly as the opening of the congres sional pre-election campaign by the new chairman who went into the public questions which he said now faced the government, and ex plained the attitude svhich his party would take on them. Further relief for farmers, ade quate aid for veterans, reduction of taxes to compensate for the "panic conditions" now obtaining and a remedy for the situation resulting from the flood of tax exempt se curities, were among the issues outlined by the new chairman for the Democratic party. "Democrats are the loyal and consistent friends of the ex-service man," he declared. Turning to the farmers' condition, he added that "ever solicitous of his welfare, the Democratic party when in power did more to advance the in terest of the farmer than had been done in all the previous history of the nation and had planned to do much more, if it had remained in power." "The burden of our public debt should be adjusted so as not to be oppressive to the American tax payer laboring under panic condi tions. The states, rather than the federal government should be. urged to deal by a unifoi : policy with the. growing evil of local tax exempt securities." The results of the last national election, Judge Hull asserted, were secured by "criminal malignity and reckless falsehood" on the part of the. Republican leaders. "It was not so much, the Democratic party; it was the American people who have suffered the colossal and incalcu lable losses that resulted from Democratic defeat," he declared. "It is beyond the power of wholesale abuse, falsehood and de-j traction long to dim the glory of the eight years' unparalleled achievement of the national De mocracy. The work of constructive patriotic statesmanship, accom plished by that party will stand out in clearer perspective during the coming years. The Democratic party emerged from that almost superhuman ordeal with flag untar nished, with doctrines sound and I pure, with a record of undying \ fame, and with cheerful hope for 1 the future. "Fundamental principles can not j be assassinated and a great his toric record can not long be fal sified." "If wholesale breach of solemn and unqualified promises to the people constituteu a s tatu ory crime," Judge Hull said, "every re- j actionary Republican leader, state and national, would, under a plea of guilty, be in the custody of the j law tonight. "The disappointed farmer now reads the account of his indus trial ruin by the light of his burn ing corn. Millions of laborers are frequenting soup-houses, bread lines and the auction block :?.s in the days of chattel slavery. Busi ness has discovered that it was crucified on the cross of politics." Under Republican leadership, the chairman said, American * foreign commerce "has slumped six billion dollars in the last twelve months," and an "almost vertical slump in prices in America of from 30 to 50 per cent and, in purchasing power of farm products, of 60 per cent, quickly followed " two years, prior to March, 1921, he said, the only remedy offered by Republican leaders for ?post-war' conditions was "an antiquated high tariff and the archaic doctrine of commercial isolation." Development of a "sound public opinion that will give intelligent and active support to legislatures and congresses in construction of wise, remedial legislation" was de clared by the speaker to be "the first need of the country" at this time. "The country is in sad urgent I need," he said, "of more education j and more cooperation on the part of individuals and business with i respect to our public affairs. An I intelligent understanding a n d whole-hearted co-operation on their part would soon improve gov ernment 100 per cent." The Democratic party is the i only political organization, Judge I Hull contended, which today offers j "a comprehensive up-to-date nat tonal program of policies and prin- ! ciples." The party he said, still holds to its belief in a tariff, for revenue only, for economy in governmental j expenditures, for "equal rights t<>; all and special privileges to nori".'* "The recent Democratic admin- j istration has not yet received cred it for its many Kr? at accomplish- ' ments," h?? said. "But whatever its defamers may s:iy in the future, even the school children will soon' learn that in 1'.' 1- our national j wealth was SlST.uOO.OOO.OOO and iu j 1920, when the Republican admin- 1 r istratioji was chosen, it was $330,- ;' 000,000,000; in 1012 our foreign' trade was $3,850,000,000 and in 1920 it was $1 3.000,000.000. A year after the war the value of manu- j faetured goods exported in one j month, equalled the amount export- j ed in an entire year under Taft's administration." -? m m- . j Busines Men Inter ested in Legislation Retail Merchants* Association Will Propose Laws For Tax Relief _. ? Columbia, Dec. 29.?The South Carolina Retail Merchants' Asso ciation will, through its legislative committee, take an active interest in several important matters to be considered by the general assembly at its session which starts January 10, according to a statement issued today" by L. H. Wannamaker, Jr., secretary of the association. ^The tax situation will be the cfiief matter before the merchants in the way of legislation, and the second most important measure will be a proposed new law against i the issue of bad checks. "The tax burden which the mer- i chants have been compelled to car ry has been heavy and is out of pro- I portion to that imposed upon other I classes of property," according to! the statement of Mr. Wannamaker. "The merchants will contend for equitable treatment this being the chief objective. We believe the leg- ! islators can be shown that the mer- j chants are being discriminated | against, and we believe appropriate ; action to remedy the situation will) be forthcoming." Regarding the proposed bad check law. Mr. Wannamaker states j that reports indicate that the mer-j chants of the state have been the j victims of bad checks in larger I numbers this past fall than ever: before in a like period. The gen- ;' eral opinion, Mr. Wannamaker states, is that the present law is! inadequate and that more drastic' action is necessary to deter peo- j pie from issuing checks which are .not backed up with money, for ob taining money or goods, or credit, j "Arrangements have already been j made," Mr. Wannamaker states, "for the introduction in the house j and senate of bills providing for! stringent handling of persons tit tering false checks. The proposed law will be" copied after a new law enacted by the legislature of Ala bama recently. Sol Kohn, of - Co- ! lumbia, is chairman of the legis lative committee of the merchants* association. The special campaign for mem bers of the state retailers' associa tion will be renewed next week. Mr. Wannamaker going into the Piedmont section, when the ob-1 jects of the association will be pre sented to the merchants of Green ville, Anderson, Gaffney and other places. J. W. Kirkpatrick, of j Greenville, is president of the s-> I sociation. -. ? ? ? Highway Bond Plan Columbia. Dec. 29.?Many letters! of aproval of the proposed thirty four million dollar road program, i as advocated by Governor Cooper' in a statement issued ten days ago, j have been received by both thej governor and the state highway do- j partment. and there seems to be a strong sentiment throughout the state for such a program, accord ing to information received today from the offices of the state high- I way department in Columbia. Secretary H. L. Thomas, -of the highway department, states that his office has received many let ters expressing strong approval of i the proposed road program, es- j pecially as the proposed plan does not call for the levying of any ad ditional taxes to take care of it. Citizens in all parts of the state have approved the proposed plan as feasible and reasonable. The highway department, as well as Governor Cooper, is pleased with the letters approving the road program. Hope is expressed that the plan will be launched during' the 11*22 session of the General Assembly. Officers of the Automo tive Trades Associations of the state have expressed interest in the plan and have sent copies of the program to many persons. It is expected that Governor Cooper will lay the details of the program before the legislature next month, in his annual message, j which will probably be delivered on I the opening day, January 10. The strong feature of the gov- j renor's program is that it does not call for any increase of the tax burden to provide it. The program Would cover six years and would Create 2.400 miles of new high ways, which added to the mileage to be completed this year would make a system of 4,000 miles. Under the proposed plan the money would be pro-'ided, over a: period of. six years, from the fol- ! lowing sources: 1. Federal aid, about $1.100.000 a year, or $6,600,OOC in the entire period. 2. A slight increase in the au tomobile licenses, to bring them, by the end of the six-year period to the average maintained in other states. This would produce $1.-; 300,000 additional a year, or $7,- j 80O.000 in six years. 3. The present two mill property | tax for highways. which would yield it $6.200.000 in the six years. 4. A tax of one cent per gallon on gasoline, which would in the six years yield $3.400.000. 5. A state bond issue of $10. 000.000, the interest on which j would be taken care of by a part of' the revenue. -? ? ? JOHN DAS DAUGHTER SECURES DIVORCE j Chicago. Dec. 28.?-Mrs. Edith McCormick. daughter of John I >. j IRockefeller, Sr.. was granted ;i di rvprro from Harold P. McCormick, president of the International Har vester company. She claimed rle s"i'ti?>fh which McCormick has admitted. I Tests To Aid Schoolma'ams Prediction Made Trainers Will Do With Minds What Bur bank Does With Matter '?Intelligence Tests" are among the most prominent educatic.i fac tors of the day according to Dr. Frank P. Graves, the Now York Commissioner of Education, who addressed the New York City Schoolmasters' Club recently. He declares these tests are no longer a matter of theory, any more than Burbank's experiments with matter are, and that properly^ipplied these tests will enable teachers to do more with the minds of the pupils ! than Burbank is doing with plants. ?Dr. Graves divides intelligence into three groups?abstract intelli gence, mechanical intelligence and social intelligence. The last he de fines as the ability to understand and manage men and women?this, he said, was the most important. | Here are some excerpts from his i speech: "Don't worry if the child is precocious. He will be precocious when he is your age. If he is the slowest at 15 he will be the slowest at 50. "The time will come when we will do the same thing with intelli gence that Burbank has done wi;h vegetable life. "It is a terrible calamity that we try to push through college r. boy with an intelligence quota of 85. "What is sometimes calkd low intelligence is lack of education. "We used to hold that a rich man was both good and intelligent and made him trustee of our universi ties, put him in the vestry of our church or gave him a place on the board of deacons. Now ' we are swinging the other way." He told that once as a test he j asked a class why it wanted .an education. A little hand shot up j promptly. "Well, my boy." he said, "what do you want an education for?" "For my dog," was the answer. ? ?? & Hunter Loses Leg _ j G. W. Moore Wounded While ! on Hunt _ ; Kingstree, Dec. 26.?G. "W. Moore, who was accidentally shot j by Tom M. Kellahan last Tuesday j afternoon while bird hunting, is reported to be improving at the Kelley sanatorium, where he was taken immediately after the acci dent. Mr. Moore is visiting here from North Carolina. As a result j of the accidental shooting his legi had to be amputated at the thigh. Mr. Kellahan is deeply grieved over the*affair. Boy and Girl Commit Suicide _ Decide to Die Because They Were Too Poor to Marry Passaic, X. J., Dec. 27.?Thomas Brands, aged 18 and his sweetheart, Matilda Rist, rged 17, took their lives by poison in a suicide pact. The boy said they were too poor to j marry and decided to die. ? ? ? Bandit Gang Arrested St. Louis Police Round Up Big Cr 3\vd of Crooks , East St. Louis. Dec. 2 7.?Nine; men who have been arrested here! are believed by the police to be j involved in bank and payroll rob- , Oeries totalling one hundred and forty thousand dollars. It is claim ed that six have been identified. Five Killed by Troops Cairo. Dec. 2G.?Five persons! were killed and four wounded by | f.oops who were called out during' an attack on the police station in the Mousky quarter this morning. j The troops opened a heavy fire on J the rioters. One rioter was killed and anoth- ' er injtired at Suez Sunday, and two rioters were killed and two wound ed at Port Said. Xaval units are stationed at Suez. Ismailia, Fort Said and Alexandria. Minor ac- j counts of sabotage to telegraph and j telephone communications are re ported in lower Egyptt. A majority of the government of- j ficials have decided to go out on i strike, but it is not expected that they will remain out long. Cairo is without local means of transporta tion, even the cabs suspending ser vice on account of attacks by ru:' nans early in the day. It is estimated that thus far fourteen persons have been killed j and about forty wounded in the j Cairo district. The French and I Italian consuls are reported to have ? made a protest to the authorities' against the attacks on the proper-) ty of their nationals during the rioting. ^ - ^ * ? * Anglo-American Ar- j rested by Russians London, Dec. 27.- Lieut. John Bigelow Dodge, a grandson of John ' Bigeiow, the fust American am has sador to France, hns been arrested . by Bolsheiki as an alleged secret British agent. Dodge was born in America but is n naturalized Eng- I lishman. - SENATOR DIAL SPENDS XMAS AT LAURENS! Washington, Dec. 20.? Senator .V. H. Dial, with the adjournment of congress until after the Christ inas holidays, has gone to his home at Laurens. He will return to Washington in time for the re-| convening here on January 2. Soviet Approves Economic Policy Largo Faction of Communists Not Enthusiastic Over Change of Methods Moscow. Dec. 2*>. (By the Asso ciated Press)?The ninth all-Rus sian Soviet congress today approv ed of the new Soviet economic pol icy as outlined before that gather ing yesterday by Premier Xikolai Lenine. This approval was given by accepting Lenine's address, which was presented as the report of the council of commissaries of the domestic and foreign policies of j the Soviet government. A large faction of Communists, j who disiake the government's j change of capitalistic methods, joined grudgingly in acceptance of j the new economic policy. One rea- j son why they approved it at all, it I was explained in some quarters, was because they had no alterna- j tive to offer. Although they de- i test the terms, "money," "capital sim" and "trusts" they received their leaders' apologies that the economic change was only a pre- i face to construction of a real Corn- j munistic government. Confidence is not general among the Communists in the supreme economic council. Their prejudice j appears to be directed against the council rather than against the j government's general policy. M. Dogdanoff, council chairman, and Leonid Krassin, Soviet trade representative, apparently are not generally popular with the Com munistic masses, and failure to in terest foreign seekers of conces sions in leases atid to get industries j going is charged against them, j Moreover, they are regarded in la bor circles as being indifferent to : the workmen's interests. There is frequent assertion that trusts, whether under the Russian govern ment or under the management of j foreigners, will work hardships to jthe workmen. Furthermore, the; laborers are discontented on ac- j count of their claim that Soviet j nationalization has not wiped out I : the bourgeoise. - > Rotarians Remember i Woodrow Wilsonj - j (Columbia Club Sends Birth-; day Congratulations I Columbia, Dec. 28.?The Colum bia Rotary Club Wednesday sent to ; President Wilson, in Washington, a I telegram of congratulations for his j birthday. December 2Sth. Former! Governor R. J. Manning proposed j the telegram, and made some re- j marks about the treatment accord ed the former president by the j present administration, regarded j generally throughout Democratic ; territory as "little." The Columbia Rotary message toj the president follows: "Eighty members of the Colum bia Rotary Club, in session, unani- j mously extend to you their con- j gratulations on your birthday, and j an earnest hope that you will soon i be restored to complete health and i strength. As citizens of your old home, we rejoice that your pro gram for World Peace and security is being vindicated so speedily, and that those who come to scoff re- I main to praise." The committee which drafted the i telegram was composed of Former ! Governor R. I. Manning, David G. ! Ellison and Former Senator Chris- ! tie Benet. ? ?? Care of Feeble-Minded _ ! Legislature Will Be Asked toj Revolutionize Svstem i Columbia, Dec. 2S.?Recommcn-; dations for the complete revolution of the state's system for caring for its feeble minded are to be made; to the legislature which starts in I January. The recommendations' will be the result of the mental \ survey of the state, just completed j by the mental hygiene committee ; working in this state under the nat ional committee supported by the ; Rockefeller interests. The commit- j tee, headed by Dr. Frank J. j O'Drien, will recommend the en largement of the school for the j feeble minded at Clinton, and the ; establishment of a farm colony fori the feeble minded. The recent sur- : vey shows that there are over 10, 000 feeble minded people in South Carolina. South Carolina Lowest Deaths From Cancer Highest in Massachusetts Washington, Pec. 27. ? Deaths from cancer in the death registra tion area of the United States in 1920 totalled approximately 73,000 according to a report today by the : census bureau, which on a basis of] proportional population estimated the total of deaths for the entire country at 89.000, or an increase of I 4.000 from the estimate for 1919 j The upward trend of the cancer, death rate, the report said, is ac curately shown by the increase of s:b4 per 100,000 population in the registration area in 19l'?i from a] rate of S0.5 per 100,000 in 1919. Among states in the ratio area. Massachusetts showed to the high- ' est on an adjusted rate "98 per | 100,000, while the rat?- of 45.9 for South Carolina was the lowest. Race comparison for various sections under the adjusted rates, the report said, show the white and negro races to be equally suscep tible to the disease, with both ap parently less susceptible in tin south i ban in the north. Mexico City. Dec. 2s. -Francisco | Villa's six hundred soldiers will each be given fifteen acres of land by the government. Villa is living j peacefully or. the farm the gov ernment gave him. Shooting1 Spree at Allendale Lewis Davis Shoots Earl Frampton and Then Takes Poison Allendale, Dec. 27.?Earl Framp ton, a prominent farmer and a pop ular young man of this section, was shot and probably fatally wounded about two miles from here this af ternoon by his cous.in. Lewis Davis. Davis immediately after the shoot ing took about 15 grains of poison and lies in a desperate condition at a hotel here tonight with a doctor in attendance. There is a possibil ity of his recovery, doctors said to night, as the period of greatest danger has passed. His recovery is considered remarkable as the dose taken was unusually large. Frampton, the wounded man, was taken to a sanitarium in Char leston this afternoon. The general opinion was that the wound would prove fatal, he being shot through the abdomen, the ball entering near the left side in the rear of the body and coming out in the front on the right side. The weapon used was a .38 automatic. The details of the motive of the crime are very scant. It appears that Frampton, who is a first cous in of Davis, lived in the home of Davis together with his father and l vo sisters. Davis' only statement ter the shooting was that it was due to family troubles. Members of the family of the wounded man were so excited that no coherent statement could be gained at the home where the shooting occurred. It was some time after the shooting before the news reached Allendale. although the place where it oc curred is only two miles from here. A resident of Allendale happened to pass the home after the shoot ing occurred and coming on into Allendale reported the news to Sheriff Dennett, who immediately went to the scene of the crime to gether with several deputies and a doctor. Immediate a**ention was given to Frampton and he was taken to Charleston by Allendale physicians this afternoon on the Charleston & Western Carolina train. Davis, who did the shooting, was found upstairs in his home with an empty bottle that contained poison by his side. He stated that he had taken the entire bottle and requested to be allowed to stay in the room a few minutes as he be lieved he would be dead at the end of that time. He was taken in charge by Sheriff Bennett, however, and brought to Allendale. He was having convulsions when he reach ed here but after attention by a physician he appeared to have slightly recovered and is resting fairly well tonight. At the request of physicians he is being allowed to remain here to night instead of being removed to the Barnwell jaii where the Allen dale county prisoners are being kept. He will be removed there early tomorrow if his condition warrants the removal. Xo news from Frampton has been heard since his removal to Charleston this afternoon. The father of Frampton made a state ment after the shooting that Davis had made odd threats and appear ed in other ways to be mentally un balanced during the past six months, but that he knew of no di rect motive for the alleged crime. Both of the parties in the difficulty are prominent in this section and Davis is reported to be very wealthy, having just completed a large and expensive home. Foreign Exports Shows Decline Washington. Dec. 27?American exports to Europe declined forty three million dollars in X'ovember compared with October, according to the department of Commerce summary. Only to Africa and Oc eania were ' exports greater. Im ports from Europe increased three and a half million dollars. Wall Street' Not Worried Xew York, Dec. 27.?Wail street is undisturbed over reports that German scientists have discovered synthetic gold and some chemists arc skeptical. Good Cooking Pays Philadelphia, Dec. 2S?Because he liked her cooking, Samuel Ih ling left Mrs. Anna Sounder, his housekeeper, sixty thousand dol lars and an automobile in his will. ? ? ? Murder and Arson McRae, Ga.. Dec. 2S?Elisha and Dave Bishop, brothers, have been, arrested charged with murder and arson in connection with the burn ing of the home of .1. W. Knight, their stepfather, and cremating eis body. Big Bill For Toys Xew York. Dec. i'S.?Over one hundred million dollars were spent by tli" American people for toys and games during the last year, the National City bank estimates. MARRIAGE AS A BUSINESS Geneva. Dec. 28.?A business woman, finding difficulty in obtain ing passports has paid seven men to marry and divorce her as soon ;is she establishes citizenship in their countries. FORMER GOVERNOR BICKETT DEAD Raleigh. Dec. 28.?Former Gov. niekett. of North Carolina, died here today, without regaining con sciousness, after a stroke of paraly sis last night. Overturned Auto Kills Columbian* : R. C. Elliott Loses Life in Accident on Chester Highway j Chester, Dec. 2?.?R. C. Elliott, i aged 32. of 1420 Assembly street,, I Columbia, said to have operated a I grocery store in the capital city j along with his brother, D. O. El I liott, was instantly killed early ; Christmas morning when the Ford : runabout in which he was riding j turned turtle, pinning him to the ' ground, on the highway to Colum i bia about five miles from Chester. ? The tragedy will ever be veiled in a cloud of mystery as no one wit : nessed the accident, and when^ found most of his body was cold. ? The part of the car, near the j steering wheel, appeared to have I caught him in the chest, probably ; causing internal injuries. The car ; was not badly damaged as it was j able to successfully navigate the j distance to Chester on its own pow ; er. The windshield was shattered j and the steering wheel badly dam : aged. The accident seems to have ; occurred about 7 o'clock Christmas j morning or earlier as when :hev j tragedy was discovered the lights ! were still on. ? As soon as found the body was j brought to this city and it wzjf j some time before his identity could ; be established, as there were no ! papers about him, save a deposit j slip of the Carolina National Bank j of Columbia for $200 and it was j dated October 20, 1921. After j several hours' strenuous work, 'his ; identity was established and his ; brother from Columbia, D. O. El i liott, was communicated with and ! in a short time the brother hiur- c. j ried here in an automobile. ! Mr. Elliott was on his way to j Waco, X. C, to spend the Christ ! mas holidays with his parents, llr.^. j and Mrs. D, H. Elliott. Debs in Washington He and Attorney General Daugherty Make Contradic tory Statements I Washington, Dec. 2G.?Eugene V. i Debs, the Socialist leader. whoe<s^' ! ten year prison sentence for viola ? tion of the espionage act was com? ! muted on Christmas day, came here j today direct from the Atlanta fed$ oral penitentiary and called upon President Harding and Attorney General Daugherty. . Mr. Daugherty said that Debs ; came of his own "volition," while Debs declared his visit to Wash ington was at the "request" of the attorney general and that he was given a railroad ticket- to the cap ital by the warden of the penitenti ary without choice of destination, . although he had planned to go im^ j mediately to his home at Terre* Ilaute, Ind. ? After his conference with Debs., the attorney general declared in a* statement that there were no un usual conditions attached to the commutation of the Socialist leader's sentence, that no advice was offered to Debs, nor was any requested, and that he hoped Debil would direct his talents to a uie* iful purpose. j No statement was made at tha j White House after the conference i there but upon reaching his hotel j Debs broke the silence he had i maintained from the moment of ; quitting , the penitentiary and de ! clared he would devote his time tqf i the freedom of all prisoners. He I added that he had discussed his i opinions with President Harding in order that there might be no* 1 misunderstanding as to his princi ples and ideals. Debs reached Washington at 9 o'clock this morning. He left Atlanta in a day coach, giving the extra fare to Russian relief, but about 10 o'clock last night, accord* ing to friends who accompanied j him. he changed to a sleeper. With j him on his journey were his broth ier. Theodore, Miss Clelia Roter, of jthe Debs freedom conference. Mist i Lucy Robins of the American Fed? ^ j eration of Labor and a number ?f < newspaper men. I He went immediately to a hotel ; for breakfast and then called upon , 'the attorney general, walking to I the department of justice with his 1 friends and a group of newspaper men, unnoticed as he passed along the streets. From the department he walked over to the White House and then back to his hotel. He first planned to leave Wash ington as soon as his calls had been 'paid but tonight it was decided to* : remain over until tomorrow night to confer with friends. One of his first visitors, after his return from 1 the White House, was Samuel^ Compers. president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, who de : clared that the work for freedom ? in behalf of political prisoners" would go on. Until he had seen the president Mr. Debs maintained a complete silence regarding his visit to Washington and his future plans^ although he chatted freely on othej topics and evidenced keen enjoy ment of his freedom. His onlj| ; comment upon the statement v?M sued by Mr. Daugherty after thew conference was that he came here at the latter's invitation. Schwab advises us to smile. It shouldn't be difficult. , with Schwab's income. You can't fix a ruined reputa tion, but you can fix the jury, and that seems to work about as well. Live so you can write a $o check ; without worrving. m ? ? In the old days, the home-corn^ j ing ships would make port. No\JjM I they merely bring it in. -^SP Looking at a ton of coal mak*s ! us believe that even, big dealers do j j business on small scales.