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RADIOFOR TRINITY CHURCH Columbia Church-Plans Instal lation of Wireless For Ben efit of Members . Columbia, March . 7; ? Trinity Episcopal church of Columbia, is considering the installation of a wireless . telephone oi^oadcasting . station, with which the sermons of its rector, Dr. Henry D. Phillips, would be sent to aged and invalid members of the -congregation and other shut-ins .o'. the city "who would be interested. in receiving . them. A radio expert 4s in Colum bia and is figuring with the offi . cers of ibis-church In regard to the . matter, though the matter is as yet in .the .embryo stage. If this plan is 'carried into execution, Trinity ? will "be the first church in the sourhr. to. adopt the radio jnethod of reaching its shut-in members with the Gospet message. * GENOA IM&G FOR APRIL 10 ?Paris. March 6.?April 13 has been definitely set upon as-the date for-the opening of the Genoa eco nomic conference. Italy, from, whom a request for delay had been expected awing ..to the extended cabinet crisis last month, inform ed the foreign office today, that she "would be ready on that date. , ? The French g?rerma?Bt wiH have five representatives at the open ing of the conference, one . of whom is quite likely to be Pre mier * Poincare himself, but for a few days only. The Itahan note announcing readiness to proceed on April 10 'cause? mild surprise at the French foreign office, as it had been unoffi cially said that Italy would not be willing to enter the conference dur ing Holy Week, regardless of . whether she- was ready, but the news is greeted -with satisfaction, sc& it is realized that the problems 'to be discussed are momentous and imperative.. It was officially stated that should a request for delay come- from; any o^utrter, France wou-ld. acquiesce -after Great Brit ain -ha i agreed, but would not en dorse-s?*ch- request previous to its acceptance by Great Britain. 2?. ^ ? * Wilson, X. C, March S?Local hospitals, where nearly a score of persons injured were taken yester day,, following the stocro, report that all would recover. Frank Batts, \vrf e and six children are the most -seriously injured. The prop er^' damage, including destruction of ten homes and many barns may reach seventy Svo thousand dol lars. * The human race wlil not be lost cr won until it is over. 0 0 9 : Some, business men -think it is .called a ?period of readjustment ?ecaase a-perrod means a full stop. TOBACCO MARKETING ASSOCIATION Certified Figures Showing Amount of Tobacco Pledged to Association M - Florence, March 7.?A public ac I countant has just finished the audit j of the books of the South Carolina branch of the Tri-State Tobacco [ Growers' Cooperative Association. His report shows some interesting figures as to the sign . up in this state. Georgetown leads the state with I the largest percentage of signed I tobacco?she having signed 74 per I Cent of her tobacco to the assbcia | tion. The -Second district shows I the banner county for total number [of pounds sighed. Williamsburg county having signed 7,022.159 [ pounds. Florence county in the I First district is running a close I second with 6,S94,90S pounds j -signed, i Williamsburg .county also' leads, as to the number of actual signers with 1,561 names. Flor ence county shows 1,102. The six thousand signers in this state show the following- total amount' oZ' pounds by counties: First District. Florence?6,S94,90S pounds. - Dilhon??054;052 pounds. Marion?2,252.690 pounds. Horry?2.1C.1,650 pounds. Georgetown-^1,395, TW pounds. . jMarlboro-?77,100 .pounds. Second District- - Williamsburg?7,022,159 pounds. .Darlington?5,03-2,300 . pounds, j Clarendon?1.90S.450 pounds. Sumter-^495,l5t) pounds. . Lee?199,400. ? Dorchester?197.100. t Berkeley?IS8,440 pounds. Bamberg?103.500 pounds. Chesterfield?97,300 pounds. Edgefield?46,647 pounds. Orangeburg?26,400 pounds. Allendale?17,C00 pounds. Lexington?1^700 pounds. I Saluda?12.000 pounds. Aiken?4,000 pounds. Bichland?3.500 pounds. Total?31,2 7 5,146 pounds. ?EL? WORK AT GRANITEVILLE ; Augusta, March S.?The mill au thorities are working to relieve the ^homeless and-those injured in yes terday's storm swept area at War ronrille and Stapleton in the Horse Creek valley. Approximate ly two hundred are without shel ter. Funeral preparations for the five victims at Graniteville are be ing made and seven of the injured :are .in the hospital at Aiken. All I are expected to recover, except) Harry Munday. The others injur- ] ed are: Mrs. Josie Hardy, Bufus' Boyd, Owen Wood, Joe Green, i Mrs. Henry Wood, Franke Clark, j I The reckless are not wreckless: j the wreckless are not reckless. MULE RESIST ED OFFICER Deputy Sheriff of Orangeburg Kicked When He Attempt ed to Make Levy Orangeburg, March (;.?.1. W. Gillam, deputy sheriff, and well known local'man of this city, was painfully kicked by a mule today about 1 o'clock, at a small negro settlement called New Brooklyn. It seems that Mr.. Gillam went there to serve some papers and secure the mole, over which a mortgage existed. When he arrived, a ne gro woman, who was at home, raised a lot. of fuss, and when Mr. Gillam went into the lot or yard, the mule kicked Mr. Gillam and would have' probably killed him. bur. he had presence of mind to roll under the water trough. Mr. Gillam was brought to the city at once and given treatment. TO USE HOT TAR ON HIGHWAYMEN Town Organized into Vigi lance Committees Camdcn. X. J., March C.?Tar ring and feathering will be punish ment for highway robbery at Wood lynne, near here, .in the future Mayor Wm. D. Kramer announced tonight. Many residents of the community recently have been held up and robbed of small sums. "We have obtained a big tank ' for melting tar." said the mayor, "and a bountiful supply of feath ers. The next man caught in a hold-up will be tarred and feath ered and carried through the streets as an example to the com m?nity. "In taking this step the citizens of Woodlynne believe they can break up the practice within a short time." The town has been organized into vigilance committees who hold themselves in readiness to respond to calls for help. Mayor Kramer added. CRAVEN HALL BURNED Columbia, March' 7.?Insurance adjusters are today checking up the loss entailed by the tire of last Saturday morning which destroy ed Craven Hall, Columbia's com munity center. The building was ruined by the flames. Craven Hall is a dance hall, and recreation, center, located in the very center of a city block.- with er nance on Washington street. It has been the scene of many social and the- \ atrical affairs, among which was the first Columbia automobile j show. The directors of the cor- j poration owning the building will meet in a few days to determine j what is to be done, whether the j building will be rebuilt and on j what plans. Hat and Frc A clever combination of frilly tu models. The frock is an exceeding!} and the new tight bodice. The hat, i thickly clustered with colorful fruit PORTRAIT OF GOV. COOPER I i . Laurens Lodge to Make Pres-j ent to Grand Lodge Columbia, March 7.?A handsome j oil portrait of Governor Cooper will j be presented to the grand lodge of] Masons, meeting in Charleston this! week, from the Masonic lodge at ' Laurens. of which Governor Coop er is a member. The portrait is now at the governor's office, having been sent to Columbia for the governor to see before it is sent on to Charleston, to be delivered to the state Masonic body the last of the week. The portrait is done by a Baltimore studio. Governor Cooper will attend the Grand Lodge meeting in Charles ton, leaving Columbia, according to his present plans. Wednesday night. He will attend the Thursday ses sions of the order. ick Match J >ck and hat are found in three Claire r girlish thing with a very full skirt ike most of the new summer hats, Is 3, flowers and foliage. NEGRO DIES FROM WOUNDS Salley Wiley, a negro woman, is iii the county jail here. being held for trial during the next term of i 'court for the murder of Alonzo ! Thompson, a negro man living near I Remberts. It seems that there j were no eye witnesses to the 1 I shooting which occurred on Feb ! ruary 27th, but there was a strong j chain of evidence presented against j the negro woman, iSallie Wiley, at ! the coroner's inquest which was } he! din Sumter eouniy on Monday i night. Thompson did not die in ! stantly as the result of Iiis wounds i bur lingered until the sixth day of I this month. Suilej' Wiley was ar i rented in Camden and turned over j to the Sum?cr county officials. <b ? ? j .Grass widows of Denver object 'to-beii:.c: called that in the Direc tory. Nothing gr^en about a gross I widow. DISTRIBUTION OF CABLES Pinns Presented to Number of Ambassadors Washington. March *'>.?Plans for the distribution of all cables taken over from Germany under the pro visions of the treaty of Versailles were presented today to the am bassadors of Great Britain. France. ; Italy and Japan by Acting Secre I tary Fletcherff of the state depart ' ment. as chairman of the interna ! tional conference on communica | tions which is considering the finai ? allocation of former German lines, j The proposal was not made pub , lie but will be transmitted by I members of the conference to their i respective governments for review. Settlement of the former German i cable lines in the Pacific was af i fected by - distribution of those ! lines among the United Stares. ; Japan and The Netherlands at the j time of the conference on limita ; tion of armaments, but that allo cation was made contingent upon ; division of the three former Ger 1 man cable lines in the Atlantic, j Italy reserving the right to ac \ knowledge distribution of the Pa j cific cables until her claims in the : Atlantic lines had been met. It was understood that the Ital | ian government insisted upon re ceiving one-fifth of all the former German cables, either in kind or in j monetary value, cash settlement to ! be applied toward the consrruetion I of a eablo line from Genoa to the ; Azores. Interest of the United j Stares and Japan was largely met j by the allocation to them in the I Pacific, while Great Britain has ' been operating one of the former I German cables between Penzance, '? England and Halifax. The French j government has control of the re maining' two German cables in the : Atlantie. one running from Brest to New York and the other from Brest to Pernambuco, Brazil, o ? ? R. R. COMMISSION j BILL NOW SIGNED, Columbia. March 7.?Governor j ; Cooper today signed the act en | larging the railroad commission j to seven members instead of three and combining it with the public ! utilities commission. The bill puts | j the members of the commission on [ j a per diem basis instead of salary basis. Senator Miller of Darling- ; ?ton was the author. The act to j I enlarge the board of trustees of the j j University from seven to twenty- | j seven members is on the govern or's desk. He will most probably 1 i veto it sending his veto to the'j j house tonight. If he does not j j veto it today it becomes law with- j lout his signature. Whether the' : measure will pass over the veto or : [not is a matter of considerable! doubt. Age thinks it has acquired will power when it has merely lost its appetite. BANKERS TO SUPPORT MAR KETING PLAN Rock Hill Institutions Advise Farmers of Soundness in Principle Rock Hill, March ?.?That thc Cooperative Marketing association is a #00(1 thing for the cotton growers of the state is the belief of the three Rock Hiil banks and in taking: this position they are backed up by other banking in stitutions in the county. The fol lowing open letter to the cotton growers of the county was issued today by the National Union bank. Citizens' Bank and Trust company and Peoples' National bank: "We have thought it well to pub licly answer numerous inquiries reaching us with regard to the cot ton marketing association now in process of organization in this county and state. "We believe that cooperative marketing is sound in principle, no longer experimental, but on the contrary, entirely practical; It is now being successfully operated in many states in the union. Assum ing that the management is honest and capable, such an association would, we. believe, prove of im mense advantage to coton growers generally, whose present marketing methods are admittedly bad. The warehouse receipts of the cotton marketing" association in other stares are accepted by bankers generally as security for loans. "No cotton grower of York coun ty need fear that he would weaken his financial standing with the lo cal hanks by joining the proposed cooperative marketing association. The plan of the association, provid ing for an orderly marketing of the cotton crop during the current cot ton year, appeals to us as wise, and would undoubtedly te to stabil ity of price. We wish to express our cordial sympathy with this *>nd all' other movements o<* our far uer friends to advance the agricultural interests of York county and South Carolina, and pledge the fullest co operation consistent with sound banking." TELEPHONE RATES TO BE REDUCED Columbia. March 7.?By a vote of 24 to 13 the senate today pass ed the bill of Representative Pos ter, of Spartanburg. to make tele phone rates the same as they were the first of last year, prior to the increase. The senate also passed the bill providing a sliding scale of taxation on foreign corporations. Both measures have passed the house. Crwit Is the handicap of a short armed man telling fish tales. When the times are out of joint, the time-servers are out of luck. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION i ???? i Annual Meeting to ?e Held in j Greenville, April 7-9 Columbia, March 7.?Plans _for ;the State Christian Endeavor Con | vention. to be held in Greenville, J April 7, 8. 9. announced here to jday by officers of the State En jdeavor organization, indicate that ! this will be one of the largest re | ligious gatherings of young people Jever held in the state, and the "pro - | gram which is being pre pared in j dicates that it wiH be one of the j most remarkable conventions held in the stare this year. { Dr. Daniel A. Poling, of New i York C ity, associate president of the United Society of Christian i Endeavor, the National Endeavor organization, is to be one of the ! speakers for the convention. Mr. ; Poling is considered the greatest torator for his agt on the American platform. He is one of the out standing religious leaders of the country. I Dr. J. P. McCallie, of Chatta i nooga. Tenn., head of a big boys j school, is also to be one of the : speakers for the program. He has i spoken in-many parts of America land is considered one of the most j usef ul educational and religious ! leaders of the South. ; Dr. B. F. Kirkpatrick. of Ander* j son. who was until recently a pas jtor in Atlanta and who is yet pree jident of the Georgia Christian En I deavor Union, is also to be one of ; the speakers. He will have charge j of the devotional periods of the j convention: Dr. Stanley R. B. Grubbs, of Co j lumbia. pastor of the First Chris J tian church, who came to the state j recently from Georgia, is listed i among the speakers. i Dr. Donald W. Richardson, of ? China, is to deliver one of the mis jsicnary addresses of the conven- . ition. and Mrs. Darby Fulton, of Ja ; pan, now on a- furlough in Amerl I ca, visiting her parents in Spar i umburg, will also deliver an ad j dress. Chas. F. Evans, of Chatta j nooga, general secretary, and S. ; Wilkes Dendy, e? Seneca, field sec j retary of the Christian Endeavor ! organization, arc also among the i prominent speakers. A strong committee of Greenville i people is in charge of plans for the i convention. TV. P. Conyers, promi | nent business man, who is also ! chairman of the state board of par j dons, is chairman of the conven jtion committee. Registrations are I already reaching the committee j and the prospects are there -will be? j seven hundred young people rep ; istered for the convention, includ ?ing the Greenville Endeavors. A ; banquet, several luncheons, a ride ?over the city of Greenville, and j numerous other social affairs will i feature the convention. -~?? ?:?.?:..?-Jr."- ?':- ".-J 1st to L 15th T ? PRIZES TO THE THREE COUNTY SCHOO TOTH 1st. $125.00 Model $25.00 In Cash IN THE LARGEST NUMBER OF CASH SUBSCRIPTIONS e Phonograph 3rd. $15.00 In Cash Besides the Prizes for the Schools we are allowing the boys and girls who get subscript ions an extra cash commission for themselves. GTVE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO SOME SCHOOL BOY OR GIRL IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD WHILE THIS CONTEST IS ON AND HELP THEM WIN ONE OF THE PRIZES. The yearly subscription rate of the Watchman and Southron has been reduced from $2.00 to $1.50 during the contest Take advantage of this reduced rate while ii is on. Every school will be interested in getting this beautiful S125.00 Model Pathe Phonograph. Finished in Mahogany, with universal tone arm and perfect tone control. Will play any record except Edison. The Pathe, the phonograph with the sapphire needle which is guaranteed to play a thousand times without chang ing. Size of machine is 18 inches wide, 191 L> inches deep, 411 L> inches high. Can be seen at Mclnvaill & Zeagler Furniture Co., Sumter, S. C. Closing Date of Contest, April 15th. All Subscriptions must he in before this date to count. 14 WEST LIBERTY ST. COMMERCIAL PRINTERS kW > S* Ca