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DEF3 3DERAL INMENT; Charles Wl^rse and ?ssoci-j ales In$c?e4. on Complaint j of .Shipping Board WahsingtonV Feb. 27.?Charles W: Morse, New Toxk shipbuilder, his - three sOhsy- 32rvin, Benjamin id Harry Morse, and eight oth s, alleged to have been associat ed, in connection with war time shipping contracts, were today in-, ted by tlie-'feaersl grand jury on. charges of-"conspiracy to defraud." - ; the ? United States and the emer v gency fleet corp^ation. jj&I 'Those indicted in addtion to Morse -and his s&hs were: Colin H. LiviiJgston, former ideiit Virginia' Shipbuilding ccr-* poration, anct " president of tue: - Boy Scouts of -America. 'George M. teur&ett, attorney for the Morse interests, especially the United SmteS Transportation Co., Inc. 'A Neheiruab H;>?Camp?bell of New York, assistant^treasurer, United -?? States Transportation -company, ? -rnc. -Rupert M. Mulch, Augusta, Maine, assistant treasurer Virginia Ship - building corporation. ^ \Y. VvV Scott;*Washington, D. C, attorney for; Virginia Shipbuilding corporation. Philip Reinsliradt, auditor for the United State's fleet corporation , at -Alexandria,' Va. Leonard D:: Christie, treasurer ?Virginia Shipbuilding corporation. Robert O. White, assistant treas urer Croton iron works and pres->, ? ident United States Transport com ? .puny, Inc.' Two indictments were returned, , ? both covering identical transactions and. accusing :the same persons..; One charges a* conspiracy. to de fraud the United States and the other a conspiracyv to commit an offense against the United States by defrauding1 the United States shipping board. '"l United-'Stales Attorney Plymp ton Gordon, it was stated, will re quire the defendants to appear in the ^District of Columbia supreme court for arraSghment, when they can be released under % 10,000 bond in. each case. ;;?'? In a statement after the indict ments were 'returned Mr. Morse charged that ? "'the indictment, which is terribly*?unjust, as-will be proven later, Ty believe, was secured - because cf personal feeling against me on.the part Of Attorney Gener : al Daugherty^ <?id certain present officials of the' Bnited States ship ping board." Mr. Morse's attorney, Wilton J.-'Isambert, said that in dictments against Mr. Morse and - his - associates- "ivould never have been reiurilfe<P3iad they been per mitted to appeal before the grand jury."-and thatvthe defendants all will-be promptiy^cquitted as soon as the "real- and actual evidence" is presenthe'dt: ;j''"' The contracts' between the Emer - gency F!e?t: corporation and the Groton Iron trofks and the Virgin ia Shipbuilding*0 corporation on which the Charges resulting' in the indictments wiere based, involved an amount '^sala to approximate .$40,000,0W.~"i'"^o estimate was jmade, howe^OSr, ih the indictments tyf'the full ^nfe^nt which the de - -fendants/aije' ^ats^rged with having ;: misappropriated^ and Fletcher Dobyns of Chjeago. special assist -----ant ot the a&tof&ey general who prosecuted . the.,investigations for ?/B "g"0Vei-nmenCldeclined after the a JBdic!mems: wetre. returned, to es . .4ima?* .the-.ai?>ounts of money out of:which it. is alleged the United State* was defranded, but it v. as ..understood the sterns which the gov ernment alleged -, were misappro priated, amomttea to several mil >' Jlon dollars. '*} ? The mdictmeats charged the de .... fenttarne -specifically with falsely pretending to tfee shipping board and the fleet ? corporation that the . ..shipbuiidmg-corporaiipns they rep resented would: be* able to erect and . V. eouip- from tSieir own funds ship building plant&> of sufficient size to enable them to! carry out contracts i .given. them.'iiy' the fleet corpora tion, <and to proceed without delay - So tb*-constructiioa of vessels. The intention of'the; defendants, it was ? alleged, was - toobtain large sums ? of-nmney from.: the fleet corpora ^ ,zl?Ok by falsely.;.: -representing that said amounts Iwould be used for construction.-of Vessels, and to di vert large sums from the ship con .struecion and nsd-the same for tin* erection an4 4 equipment of plants and housing facilities and thus . . .convert the^funds to the use of the shipbuilding. corporations and . .themselves and. to delay ship con struction. - ' -,... The indictments further charge that the defendants falsely pretend ed that iarge sums of money were dtse from the :fl?>et corporation as progress payments, and obtained tfche money when t*iey "well knew it was not due." .^Similar charges were mad<* that " wtwm defendants'represented that the4r corporations had invested large amounts in shipbuilding plants and~rbf*"tflat reason alleged ? the plants weVe""adequate security for loans and advances, they ??de frauded, all the time knowing in truth and in fact the corporations *?' would not have Invested in their said plants the large imms attriD nted to them." ? -Large quo mi ties of material were obtained from the fleet corporation by the defendants for the construc ? - tkm of vessels and later, the in dictments charged, the defendants sold great masse* of the material . and converted the proceeds of the sales to the corporations and them selves. ; - NEW REPUBLI CAN SECRETARY Washington, Feb. 28.--Geoige Block wood, publisher of the Mu nice, Ind., Press and of the Nat ional Rep?Wio**r has been ap pointed acting secretary of the Re-i publican National, committee. BeXandiag our Loans to Foreign GoTewimonts. The problem of Europe's indebt edness to the United States will be a live issue for many years to come, the National Bank of Com merce in .New York believes. Be cause of the present world-wide business depression, the confusion in international trade, and the fin ancial difficulties of a number of the nations of Europe, refunding, legislation does not settle the large question of intentational obliga tions, the bank says in the March number of its magazine, Commerce Monthly. "Foreign governments owe the. United States approximately $ll,-: 000,000,000, largely payable on de-; mand," it adds. "On February 9 the president signed a bill creating a .commission to arrange the re funding of these obligations. The commission is specifically empower ed within three years to refund and extend the time of payment of the principal or the interest of any obligations of any foreign govern ment arisng out of the world war,, now held or hereafter acquired by; rhe United States. The converted; obligations jnay not have a matur ity beyond June 15, 1947, or an interest rate of less than 4 1-4 per cent. Authority to cancel any part of the indebtedness or to substitute the obligations of one .country for another is specifically withheld from the commission by the terms of the ac*. "It seem-; reasonable to predict that the commission will extend as lenient terms to our former allies in. the matter of refunding these debts as are possible under the terms of the present legislation. In the country at large there are two well-defined opinions as to the ques tion of ultimate payment?ons for and one against full cancellation of the debts. "The case for cancellation v. as well stated in a recent address by Mr. Justice Clarke of the United States Supreme Court. The argu ments run that for three years the allies fought the central powers without our assistance. Our ad vances went to further tho com mon victory and were nothing less than our share in the war, sj that in equity there really is nothing owing us. * ; ' But assuming that the allies can 4 pay?so runs the argument? may it not. be a question whether it is to our best interest that they do so? It is not necessary to dem onstrate that our debtors must meet both the yearly interest payments and amortizations chiefly by send ing good's?manufactured goods? into this countrj*. The annual in terest alone on. our foreign credits at 4 1-4 per cent, comes to a round half .billion dollars. Our favorable "trade balance of last year was about $2,000,000,000. If our allies are able, io meet thejtr interest obliga tions, our trade balance will prob ably show a rapid readjustment during the next few years. The bal ance may shift to.a so-called un favorable one, with imports exceed ing exports conceivably by as much as a half billion dollars. Such a j sudden readjustment, such an in j flux of manufactured goods from ! abroad, would possibly entail se I rious consequences, prolonging for j a long period unsatisfactory busi 1 ness conditions. If, however, our ' investors should purchase foreign securities on a large scale, read justment may be .partially arrested. Such are the main points of this ; phase of the case. "One of the most forceful of the arguments ef the procancellation forces is only incidentally moral or economic. They held that if we press for the collection of these advances, we shall in the years to come gain the reputation of being the ShylocK of international fin ance. They point to history to demonstrate that the repayment of .huge international debts, whether tribute or borrowings, usually breeds a soirit of mutual distrust, suspicion and ultimate liatred be tween the parties involved. And they raise the question whether for a nation with a large foreign trade, the possibility of such an outcome is wprth the candle. "Those who wish to see our loans collected in full present counter arguments. They hold that the war was primarily the war of Eu rope, precipitated by European im perialism, to which her opponents contributed as well as Germany. Our sole interest was to insure the defeat of Germany so that in fu ture years we. should not have to oppose her alone. We asked no assistance in maintaining our armies in the line; the funds bor rowed from us by our allies to maintain their armies are their just and due obligations; and they should expect to repay them. The cancellation of international obliga tions is a dangerous precedent to establish. Furthermore, the spoils of war in the shape of land ac quisition and reparations in kind and money have gone entirely to others; we asked nothing in this connection. "On the economis side of the ! question, the opponents of eancel ! latent maintain that, if our govem ' ment can collect from its debtor yearly interest of a half billion dollai*s or more, our taxes can b<? j c?mmensurably cut down. Light ened taxation is in turn expected to give a decided impetus to busi j ness revival. Howevej opinions may differ as to the positive in fluence of taxation upon business activity, all sides will agree that taxation is at the present time ab sorbing a larger share of the nat ional income than is desirable. "In any case it is certain that this refunding legislation does not settle the large question of inter national indebtedness. The present world-wide business depression, the confusion in international trade, and the financial difficulties of a number of the nations of Europe will make the problem of external national debts and eosequently the general question of the adjust ment of accounts between the na tions live issues for many years t<> come.*' ? ? ? Prohibiting jazz by law would be a fine way to make it popular. i CHICKEN FIGHT ENDS IN ROW [ Young White Farmer Alleged to Have Been Killed by Negro Greenwood, Feb. 27.?One man is dead and another shot through the heel as a result of a brawl at a barbecue on the banks of the Sa j luda river about two miles below Dyson near the Xewberry county j line this afternoon between 2 and j 3 o'clock. The row is alleged to ! have followed a chicken light to ?which participants had come from j Laurens, Xewberry and Green wood counties. The dead man is Moadors Williamson, a white man, who is alleged to have been shot by Coon Abrams. a- young negro. The wounded man is C. H. Seog gins, white, of Greenwood. He is said to have been shot through the heel in the general melee which followed the shooting of William son. According* to information ob tained by telephone tonight oi'Ii ] cers with bloodhounds and a posse } are in pursuit of Abrams, who is reported fleeing into the river swamps. \ Violence is feared if he is caught. Sheriff E. M. White*, of Green wood, stated tonight that from in formation he could obtain at the scene of the killing, there had been a chicken fight with much drinking by the participants. Two negroes are said to have first start ed to fighting and were separated by Williamson and other bystand ers. Williamson is alleged to have struck the father of Coon Abrams over the head. Abrams is then al leged to have fired on Williamson, shooting him five times with a pistol. Several bullets took effect in his body and one broke an arm. Death was almost instan taneous. According to information from Dysons, a general fusilado followed, in which Seoggins was shot through the heel. No other casualties have been reported, though the father of Goon Abrams is said to have been se verely beaten. Williamson was a young farmer, having a wife and two children. Abrams was about twenty-one years of age. BIG FIRE IN ? AUGUSTA Augusta, Ga., Feb. 27.?Fire starting here at 12 o'clock tonight in the Montgomery building, in the heart of the business district, threatens the block. . A general alarm was sounded and the fire is burning from all sides and through top of the four story building,, where the fire started. The place where tonight's fire started was only two buildings' dsrant from the spot where the last conftagraton was checked. The Augusta Trunk Factory, a leather goods store on the first floor of the building, has been completely gutted and the flames are bursting from the roof and -windows. It seems at this time, however, that the fire will be controlled be fore it ignites nearby buildings, fire walls serving as barriers. The wind is very light, blowing gently o the east but the flames are not counting high nor are sparks fly mg as fast as they did in the con flagration November, last. All of the engines of the city's [fire departments, are in service with the exception of the neecs i sarj' reserve. $200,000 DAMAGE IN AUGUSTA Augusta. Ca.. Fob, 2S.?The Augusta Trunk Factory and sev eral minor establishments were de stroyed by fire in the Montgomery building here early today. The. loss is approximately two hundred thousand dollars. THIEF SATISFIED WITH CIGARS After the lapsing of a short pe riod of time as a brief breathing spell, the petty thieves have .again begun their operations. The ware house of Phillips and Company on .Manning Avenue was entered some time .Monday night or early Tues day morning and some few boxes of cigars stolen. The thief appar ently used a bidder to get up to a small side window which was brok en open and a door of the ware house then opened. Although the entire stock of the warehouse was at the disposal of the thief or [thieves, it is of singular mention, that about five or six boxes of cigars were the only goods found missing after the discovery Tues day morning of the break in. ! AGREEMENT ON PAYMENTS i Berlin, Feb. 2S.?A provisional! j agreement has been reached be tween the allied reparations com-j ; mission and Germany provided for j 1 tli" annual paymem by Germany i j of seven hundred and twenty mil-! lion gold marks in cash and one j i billion lour hundred and fifty mil j lion gold marks in hind. ! FIGHTING IN BELFAST - - Belfast, Feb. L'7.?There was I heavy firing by civilians in the , Short Strand district at S o'clock i this evening. Several persons were badly wounded. The firing follow ed a terrific honib explosion at r. | o'clock this afternoon at the cor-1 ner of Vulcan and !'.*?;.ford streets j ; and Newton Roads, when a four-j [teen-year-old youth was seriously wounded in the legs and head. Tin-re also was shooting in which . there were casualties on Queens ; Bridge and Albert Bridge, two of tin- principal crossings of the riv- j er JLagan. I Jacket and C< So popular are the smart, str, capes that in this Claire model one the two.. _ STATE LINES WIPED OUT Supreme Court Renders Im portant Decision on Liter State Freight and Passen ger Rates ? Washington, Feb. 27.?Declaring that "commerce is a unit and docs not regard state lines," the supreme court today through Chief Justice Taft, and without dissent, handed down a decision upholding the au thority of the interstate commerce eommission unde r the transporta tion act of If) 10 to fix railroad state passenger fares .when necessary .to, remove "undue, unreasonable and unjust discrimination against in terstate commerce." Two cases were presented to the court. One was brought by the railroad commission of Wisconsin and others against the Chciago, Burlington & Qu'incy railroad seek ing an injunction to prevent the I railroads of the state from.,putting into effect on state passenger traf fic the rate of,3.6 cents per mile allowed by the goyeri.ment on in terstate travel. The other ? was brought by the state of Xew York against the federal government, the interstate commerce commis sion and certain Vail roads of that state on the ground that the 3 per cent fare fixed by the public Utility I commission produced reasonable [returns to the railroads upon 'their 'state traffic, fin both states freight rales had been advanced to the in terstate level without objection j from the states. "Congress in its control of its in terstate commerce system is seek ing in the transportation act to make the system adequate to tin needs of the country by securing for it a reasonable compensatory return for all the work if does." tin chief justice stated in the opinion. "The sates are seeking to use that j same system for mtrastate traffic. That entails large duties and ex penditures on the interstate com I mercc system which may burden it unless compensation is received for the mtrastate business reasonably proportionate to that for the inter state business. Congress as the dominant controller of interstate commerce may. therefore, restrain undue limitation of the earning power of the interstate commerce system in doing state work. If can impose any reasonable condition on a state'.-, use of interstate car riers for interstate commerce it deems necessary or desirable. This is because of the supremacy of the national power in this field." Washington, Feb. 27.?The inter state commerce commission in al lowing maintenance of existing railroad rates was declared to be "holding an umbrella over the railroad;-, at the expense of other industries," by J. W. Craddock of Lynchburg, Ya., president of the Craddock-Terry Shoe company, who appeared today for organiza tions of shoe manufacturers, whole salers and retailers. Tie- scheduled must come down, he added, be cause the country was "through the silk shirt era." Mr. Craddock said his industry would not specify what rates should be cut or to what degree, but con sidered that coal freights should be taken en first, and agricultural products second. What was almost the only appeal for lower passenger rates was made today by EL B. Ltd gh ton, repre senting tiie International Theatri cal association. The pre-war sched ule of 1 cents per mile fot travellers should he restored, he declared, because theatrical failures had increased tremendously in number while road shows had de creased, demonstrating thai the charges were loo high for ih<- t ruf lie to bear. COM. McNIDER WANTS BONUS Washington. Fei?. 2S. ? Hanford MacXider, national commander ol the American Legion, con for red with President Haixiing on the bo nus .situation, urging tie- Lmmediati enactment ot legislation. ipe Combined iight-lined jackets and lightweight finds an interesting combination of SOME OF THE LEGISLATORS WILL RETIRE Members of Both House and Senate Announce Plans For Next Year Columbia. March 3.?The legis-, lature will have lots of new faces ! next year, and even now some of I the members are making it known I what their intentions will be re- I garding the elections this Sum- j mer. A number of the members f will not offer for re-election. Some j of the members will be returned but many others will not. It is ? likely that a majority of the faces j next year will be new. Speaker J. B. Atkinson, of Spar-' tanburg, has anon need that he will. j offer for re-election, according to ihis present plans, and it. is practi-j {rally certain that he will be nomi jnated again for the speakership, ; jif he is rc-clceted. j Thomas S. McMillan, of Charles- j ?ton. who is speaker pro-tem of the ! ! Ilous,-, will offer for re-election ! in the elections this summer. It is ' likely that if he is returned next; j year he will be considered for the J 'speakership, unless Mr. Atkinson is j I re-nominated, in which event Mr. ! j McMillan would probably not offer j j for election. j Representative E. T. Hughes, j : chairman of the ways and -means j committee of the House, is not to. (offer for re-election. He plans to; 'run for Congress from the sixth! ?district. j Representative Sapp, of Colum- I j bia, who is one of the floor leaders I of the House, has not indicated) i what his plans are for the elec- i : lions, but he is being mentioned j as possible timber for some other j political of fee, possible a seat in; 'Congress. j SWINDLER ARRESTED! :- i j New York, Feb. 2 s.?- Alfred E. j ! Lindsay, who is accused of swindl- ! ? ing society women of approximate- j j ly one million dollars in fake stock ! deals, has confessed to the many i ? charges, according to District Al ltorney Murphy. Lindsay was j brought here after his arrest at I I Overbrook, Pa., lasi night. { Lindsay accepted all the blame j i for the alleged transactions, Mur- J ! phy said, and declared, when ex-j jposed in the newspapers, he and j his wife had discussed a double I | suicide. He said the amounts he j is alleged to have received from ; j society women had been grossly ex j cessive. Asked if he had received ? j three hundred thousand dollars j : from Mrs. Lillian N. Duke, the di vorced wife of the tobacco king. | i Lindsay said the statement was! : rubbish. - THE END OF j CAMP JACKSON j Columbia, March I.?This date ! Ibas been set as the time for the i | passing of <'amp Jackson as a miii- : I tary post, and within the nexl few [days tin- bulk of the troops now stationed there will leave. There arc possibly five hundred ne u at Camp Jackson now, and .-it head quarters it is stated thai within a few days, according to oxpecta- . tions. orders wiiJ be received for the first battalion of the sixth in-! fantry to leave the post. The\ go to Camp Bragg, at Fayetteville. X. C. This will take* :11 ><? 111 i ii- j listed men and twenty-five officers. The departure of tin- flrsi bat talion "i" lie- sixi.ii infantry will I l?av<- at the camp aboul l?? men and a half dozen officers, who. mostly <d the Quartermaster corps, will have charge of the property j in the camp. They will remain no til the camp is salvaged completely, the date for which is not set. Colonel Jackson will remain :?' ? the camp as commander. < <>!. Faucet; Captain Gates and <\i >!. Pratt, officers nov. at the cam p. will remain there. The three lasi j named are of the quartermaster I ..ores. ... ' N. Y. SWINDLER DENIES CHARGES Broker Lindsay Says Women | Furnished Money to Play the Market Xew York, Feb. 2 ft.?Alfrod Lindsay, alleged swindler of society | women, issued :i statement from his j .-?i ll in Tombs prison today deny-l ing tii.-iT he had fleeeed.the women | oni of nearly $l,0O0,0Gu by fake : siock transactions and painting himself as a faithful meal ticket j to those who had lost through his speculations. This statement was in sharp con trast to one issued earlier in the day by Assistant District Attorney Murphy in which Mr. Murphy said Lindsay had broken down and sob bingly dictated a confession that j many of the charges against him were true and that he and his wife had diseu>sed suicide ai a possible way out of their difficulties. All the women who advanced him money did so, Lindsay's state ment declared, with a full under standing that it was to be used for stock speculation and all knew, he asserted, that their money had been "lost honestly." Notwith standing that in- feit he was under no obligation to them, he said, he has continually advanced them money until the greater part of their losses had been restored to t hem. Supporting this contention. he gave out a sample "monthly pay roll" on which the names of eight of his accusers appear as receiv ing sums ranging from $100 to $500 and aggregating SlplTi?. Mrs. Lindsay, ne said, although she knew nothing of the merit of the women's claims, was willing to turn over (o a creditors' committee the handsome Lindsay estate at South. Xyack, which with tin: fur nishings should bring nearly $100, 000. In addition, he said, he was willing to make good any differ ence between the amount so real ized and the unpaid balances on sums the women had advanced him. This lie could easily do if releas ed to carry out a project he had under way. he declared. Lindsay took up each woman's claims separately-, giving his ver sion in detail of the transactions and denying vigorously the mag nitude of the sums some of the women said they had lost. .Mrs. Lillian X. Duke, divorced wife of Jane-s B. Duke, the "tobac *co king," who claims to have ad vanced him about $1175,000; actual ly gave him far less than that sum, lie declared, though he did not give an exact figure. "In IStiZ 1 met Mrs. Duke who gave roe a clmck for $5,000 with tiie understanding that I was to play the market for her," the state ment said. "During April and May of that year she gave me approxi mately ?100.000. By that time Mrs. Duke was sued, or about to be sued for alienation of affections. She was afraid of a judgment against her and sold her stock and gave me the money to speculate wilh. which I did. making reports to her from time to time as to the stocks which I invested in and 1 which she knows "was lest honest ly. "I have always given Mrs. Duke money. I gave her $S'O0 in De cember. 191'1. and as late as Janu ary 20 or 30, i gave her $150. Mrs. Puke went to Europe in 1014 and I gave her the mjnoy to go with. Each letter asked me for more money, which I sent to her. I have been giving her money ever since July of 1013 and if she will figure up the amount I have given her it . will be almost if not .quite ihr* | amount she gave me. During the j life time of John B. Stanchfield, i she consulted him in reference tog this matter and he advised that she ' had no action against me." Concerning .Mrs. Dorothy At wood, who claims to have given him $275.000. Lindsay said: - ?it is absolutely untrue. The matter was taken up by her then j attorney, jit- went over her state-j ment and allowing for profits made : on stocks, the total amount due! her was not in excess of $-^,000. j If i; was all figured out now, in eluding the amounts I have given i her since. I would not owe her: anything." *to m% <V i JAPAN'S MAR TIAL SPIRIT - Gen. Yamanashi Says It Must Ee Maintained to Secure In dustrial Development ! _ Tokio. Jan. ?", (By Mail)?If rhe j Japanese nation is to hold its own ; in industrial competition which is i sure to result from establishment i of world peace, Japan's martial j spirit must be developed in propor I tion as armament is reduced, said : Lieut. Gen. Yamanashi, minister of j war it) a statement to the Japanese j press. j ,?A serious mistake is being made j by some of the political leaders of 'japan," he said, "in their efforts ? to disregard the martial spirit of .the nation which is as essential to ! the peaceful expansion of the peo ple as it is in time of war. j "Tin- Washington conference has I met with the success that was ex : peered of it. Opinion seems to be (divided on the basis for the pro I pos?*d naval limitations, which is the chief of the problems before ? the assembly of nations: but all are ' of one accord in the spirit of world : peace, which called them toge:h i j or to deliberate on those questions. ??it is matter for regret that in ! their attempt to; win appreciation ; for this spirit of world -peace and I in their anxiety to remove from Japan the charge of militarism, Some of our political leaders have apparently lost sight of the martial spirit of the nation. *it is wrong to consider that a I martial spirit is 'incompatible with the limitation of armaments. In a i certain sense, armament is an ex pression of national power, which j is the sum total of various kinds of i individual energy. .Modern war. ['fare, for instance, deirJands nation al industry besides*shells and bay ? onets. Therefore, if a nation is i to advance and hold its own in the j industrial Competition that must ! necessarily follow on the estab lishment of world peace, its mar jtial spirit must-be expanded and j developed to just a degree as the ['actual armament is reduced." j New York. March 1.?Although j reputed to be worth a half million ; dollars .Molimin n, a recluse living in a shack near Jamaica, .today I Started to serve a ten day sentence j rather than pay ten dollars fine for I violating the sanitary laws. A change has recently l>eon made in the business of Mikel. Sneeden, j Phares Co., Mr. MikePS interest [having been bought by Mr. G. D. ' Phares, Jr.. who is now sole owner I of the business; Mr. Mikel has 'gone back to his former. work as [road salesman for an auto acces ; sory house. -? ? ? Did you ever hear of a golfer i walking to the links for exercise'.' DECISION IN , SUFFRAGE CASE j?nited' State Supreme Court Pules That Nineteenth, Amendment is Con stitutional ? Washington. Feb. 27.?The con stitutionality of the woman's suf frsfee"1 or Nineteenth amendment was sustained today by the supreme court in an unanimous decision rendered by Justice Brandes. ' The challenge came from the state of .Maryland where Oscar Leser and others sought to prevent life registration of two women as 'lua?fied voters in Baltimore. Leser and bis associates contended that the eonstiiution of Maryland linfit ed suffrage to men; that the legis lature of .Maryland's had refused to ratify the woman's suffrage amend ment., and thar the amendment had nof: become a part of the federal constitution. The Maryland stale rcoarts sustained the amendment. The contention that an amend i mehr - to the federal constitution ?relating to additions to the elec I torVite cfcn not be made without the [Consent of the state, the court dis [poi&d, of by reference to the Ijlf Tec-ntrt or equal suffrage amend ment,'declaring that "one can not I be valid and the other invalid/' It ? poirTfed out that the validity of the 'Fi ft ecu tit amendment had been rec I ogm?ed for half a century. The suggestion that several of j the ' 3.C states which ratified the Nineteenth amendment had provi isions in their state constitutions ! which prohibited the legislatures fron'/'ratifying could not be enter j taihed. the court stated, because the state legislatures derived trfeir [powTi in such matters from the ['federal constitution, which "trans I cends any limitations sought io be" . \ imppis'ed by the people of a state." i' The remaining objection that ; the,,ratifying resolutions of Tennes see'and West Virginia were inoper ative because adopted in violation of. the. legislative procedure in those states' may have been rendered - ! '?mim'?terial." the court declared, ' ! by, the subsequent ratification o? ; tile amendment by Connecticut and ? Vermont. The contention was dis- . I posed* of, however, on a broader i ground, the court stated, adding I that" the secretary of state having j issued a proclamation of the rati i i/cauon of the amendment to all intents and purposes had become a part of the constitution. "As.Ten i nesse-e and West. Virginia had p?w \ e"C'f6,7ratify and had officially noti : ficdVthe secretary of state that they . i nad done so, their action was bind : ing jupon the secretary and upon i behig certified by that official had i become conclusive upon the courts. -, ? m ? ; I .* 'A . . " ?? ' ^ . - I Newport News, March 1.?Every j report and rumor is being investi ? 4jU&e*d by the board of inquiry in I connection with the Roma disaster. , ? Chicago, March 1. ? Federal : .rudgVr Julian W. Mack of -New . i York has been selected .to serve j the unexpired term of ex-judge "Lahdrs, resigned. j Chicago, March 1?Mrs. George j ?. itennaj known in circus circles j as*,"Trilby,. the fat lady" is dead ; here. ; Her weight was "nearly five i hundred pounds. 1 "'? L '..-.Washington. March 1. ? The j house in cutting down the appro i prlation for the navy fuel, virtual ly .brought io anchor the..whole J American navy. Or. ttr?Ostdcotiba av.' LdU /Mcfi mMittity ^<??? ;..." in taster yields Ol fr::?.- '? MKM Yield and quality decide profit ?OMK people only take the extra yield from the use of ^ fertilizer into consideration when figuring profit However, thousands of southern farmers know that the big profit they make from better quality crops is due to the use of Swift's llvd Steer Fertilizers. Certainly it is important to consider every factor possible this year. 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