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HASPLAN TO BEVEL?P ; POWER Senator Norris, of Nebraska, Thinks of Muscle Shoals _ 7 Washington, March 10.?Mem bers of the house military commit , : tee. which has been investigating offers for the . government's war projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala., de elined to comment on the an >;. no.u.neement in the senate today by [ Chairman Norris of the.sefti'te ag i.. ricultural committee that he was drafting a bill to create a govern ment owned corporation to de velop and operate the power and t?trate plants. Some of the members, however, , professed, to see iu the Nebraska \ . senator's announcement several features which they said might not be in harmony with the admin istration's policy of keeping the. government out of private business. Senator Norris, in making the an nouncement, explained it was not ? his. intention to favor government operation. as against private oper ation of the plants, but that he considered his proposal worth the * senate's study. Another development today was j * the decision of senate leaders, i ' made public by Senator Norris, not to make their trip ot Muscle; Shoals until after a vote on the four; ;- -power treaty. The prevailing 'j opinion was that the visit would be delayed about ten days or two | weeks on that account. Chairman Kahn of the house! committee also declared he would not go to Alabama to inspect Mus cle Shoals. He said the" trip would not be of assistance in visualizing ; - the-various proposals the commit tee has been studying nor did he conceive/how. it would help in ad justing the legal complications the committee has revealed in contracts executed by Ihe war department with the Alabama Power company and the Air Nitrates corporation giving those concerns optional rights on the Warrior power sta ? tion- and nitrate plant No. 2 in . the event they were ever sold by . the. government. ? The committee confined its ef ..forts today to an examination of ? Col. John .W. Joys of the ordnance : bureau, war department, who de fended the contract executed with the power company, contending it was a reasonable and just con tract, otherwise he would not have approved it. . . He will complete his statement tomorrow. Senator Norris'* announcement came after Senator Hefiin (Demo crat) of Alabama had spoken on the offer for purchase and lease of the shoals properties made by . "Henry Ford, and had charged that Chairman Kahn's statement advo cating t'ie creation of a commis ??fcion to take charge of Muscle Shcals development, by lease or sale, was a move to delay develop ment of the project. NEW FIGHT IN I PROHIBITION; ??? j ! Proposal to Have Assignments j - Made by Chief Justice J Brings Objections ! Washington, March in.?a new) t fight involving enforcement 01* i>ro-j hihition. opened today in the sen- j ate during consideration of a bill I to authorize 19 additional federal district judges. Democratic sena tors opened fire on the bill.imme-i diately. some opposing more judges, j others criticizing the assignments proposed for*.he extra judges and1 others opposing a. provision which it wxui said, might place. "dry" } judges in "wet" stales, or vice Iversa. The prohibition enforcement i question was brought up by Sena | tor Broussard (Democrat) of j Louisiana, one of the leading op ponents of the Volstead law. He said the bill's provision authoriz i ing the chief justice of the supreme court to assign district judges to work in other than their own states | might result in trials by judges I who were "not in accord with the j ideas of the community." . Senator Caraway (Democrat) of ? Arkansas said, he had been ap proached by a man urging support of the Hill .and told that "the only excuse" for the assignment pro- j vision was to meet a situation caus ed by refusal of certain judges toj enforce the law. Senator Cummins (Republican) of Iowa, .in charge, of the meas ure, said that never during its con sideration by the committee had he heard any suggestion-Jthat some organization was behind the bill for the purpose cited by Senator j Caraway, adding that he deplored [ "any narrow or sectional view" in j dealing with the bill and lack of I confidence in the chief justice. He could not assume the assignment : power would be. abused.* "If I believed that I would want to.abdlish ail courts," said Sena tor Cummins. The extra judges proposed. Sen ator Cummins said, Were needed urgently to correct present "shame ful" administration of justice, and the condition of federal court dockets. The bill went over for further consideration. SURPRISED AND PERPLEXED Paris, March Il-^-.-The demand by the United States for reimburse ment to the extent of two hun dred and forty, one million dollars for the expenses of its Rhineland forces before any reparations are paid has prooked surprise and per-1 plexity jn French official circles, j The allied finance ministers met today to consider the situation created by the demand. -Strange what some well-meaning parents named-their children. PUTS BAN ON CARNIVALS: ? Measure to Prevent Exhibi-j lion of Tented Shows of Cer- j tain Classes Now Law I _ I J Columbia. March 10.? Governor] ICobper yesterday signed-a number j.of acts passed by the general as sembly,* chief among these being] t)\Q Please law to prohibit carnivals or like tented shows from exhibit ing in South Carolina except at state and county fairs and then when no gambling devices or games of chance are allowed. This a* t does not affect circuses, as they may be licensed for 4.>; hours at any one* place in the state. Chautau ouas, "Billy Sundays." dog and pony shows are not affected, the en tire object being to rid the State of carnivals. The text'of the carnival act, which became law with the signa ture of the governor, follows: "Section J. Be it enacted by the geenral assembly of the stale of South Carolina, That on and after the approval of this act. no carni vals ami no traveling shows ex hibiting under tents shall be allow ed licenses or allowed to exhibit within this state: Provided. That the provisions of this act. shall not apply to circuses, which may be li censed for a time not exceeding 4S hours' at one place in any one year; and provided, further, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to chautauctuay and carnivals at state and county fairs: Provided That only carnivals to which no games of chance or gambling de vices are attached shall be allowed to exhibit in this state, provided this shall not apply to dog and pony shows. ?'Section 2. Any person violat ing the provisons of this act shall be fined not more than three months for each day said tent shows and carnivals are exhibited. "Section 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are here by repealed." * GANDHI PLACED UNDER ARREST India's Leader is Faced With Charge of Sedition Bombay, March 10.?Indie's, non cooperationist leader, Hohandas K. Gandhi, has been arrested ar Ahmedabad, 310 miles north of Bombay, "fie is charged with sedi- | tion. London. March 10.?Mohandas K. Gandhi, the Indian non-cooper- t ationist leader, has been placed un-. der arrest. This announcement was j made by the India ffice tonight. ! Xo details were given .'is to the { place and manner of his arrest, but j the announcement says there' was} the announcement says there has bee no trouble so far. The "Off-the Loatn to forsake that chanhii new hats are modifying it for this hat, ?netal cloth, silk or straw, Sla BRITISH OFFICER KILLED Belfast, March 10.?Lieutenant. Bruce of the Seaforth Highlanders ?was murdered in the Fall Road dis trict this evening by n parly of mem supposed to be Sinn Feiners. The greatest military activity follow ed the killing. Lieutenant Bruce was wearing civilian clothes and the motive for the murder is not known. Constable Cullen, who was shot in an attack earlier in the evening died later from his wounds. An official statement issued to night says that since February 11; 22 Roman Catholics and .17 Protestants have been killed in Belfast. The total number of fa talities since July, 1920. is given as 12"i Catholics and 42 Protest ants, Any used car is a pleasure car to the man who runs a repair shop. They say the worst is over in Europe. Clad it. isn't over here. Treaty: An agreement between nations. Antonym: Borah. Sometimes, however, the tender touch of a woman's hand is a le gal tender touch. -Face" Line ;g off-the-face line, designers of the season's millinery. Practically every its slightly away from the face. SALUDA FARMER TAKES OWN LIFE _ Saluda, March 0?Hodge Tim merman, a white man and pros perous farmer about Go ro <;."> years old, committed suicide at his home in the Good Hope section of the county Wednesday afternoon be tween 12 and 1 o'clock. It seems he got up from the dinner table and went out on Urn porch, seated himself in a chair and removed his left shoe and sock. Placing a shotgun to his forehead, he pulled the trigger with his toe. The load blew the entire top of his head off. Attention Teachers. All those who expect to attend the Stare Teachers Association in Columbia, March lCth to ISth must secure identification from me. All teachers who have not received them should wire or write at once. No reduced rates without them. H. C. BURTS, Secretary. Fish are coming out of a Cali fornia oil well. Fish usually go into oil wells but rarely ever come out on top. As a matter of fact, statesmen i know the way out. i*ut if they! bowed to the inevitable til once, I they wouldn'be statesmen. LEE COUNTY JURY CONVICTS WOMAN _______ Negress to Serve Five Years For Killing Husband BishOpville. March 9.?Gourt ad journed yesterday, having dispos ed of everything on the docket that was ready for trial. Sam Turley, negro, charged with Stealing an automobile, was allow ed to plead guilty of grand lar ceny. He was sentenced to serve three months on the chaingang. The trial of the two white men from Florence, who are also in dicted in connection with this same offense, was continued on account of the illness of one of the defend ants. The only case to bo tried by a jury Wednesday was that against Janie Stepney, negro woman, charged with killing her husband. This case resulted in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. She was sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary. Tiie negro woman, who stated that she was 1!' years old, told of the crime with far more intelli gence than is usually displayed by others of her race under similar circumstances. She claimed that the three years of married life with her husband had been very unhappy, that he frequently beat her, that three times she had left him, and upon the day of the shooting she said that he came home mad, abused her and fold her that he was going to kill her. He got his gun and loaded it, placed. it in the door, and then went into the yard on an errand. He called her to the door and when she responded to the call was con fronted with his pistol, whereupon she seized the shotgun and fired, her husband dying shortly after ward. She admitted on the stand that she originated the story of suicide, by placing the gun be side the dead body, and that she acted through fear and under the stress of excitement REMOVAL CAUSES MUCH CONCERN London, March 10.?The remov al of Lord Reading as viceroy of India is believed in some quarters will be the denouement to the publication of the India govern ment, due to the effect the af fair will have on the position of Lloyd George. It is considered momentous and some believe that the chances thoc he will resign have been increased. ? ? ? ? If it weren't that fools rush in where angels fear to tread, there would be no necessity of traffic co i is. ? ? ?? The art of gardening may be Iosi. but the beautiful vegetables on the seed catalog cover persuades us that the art of lying hasn't been. Beet" doesn't "just grow ' ir has \ reached its present sta ting as a I central article in the J >-t because ; the men behind the ii iustry put much thought and woi and money \ inro the business. "ft-ars ago before ? ir country was settled as ihiol .is it is to day, beef cattle w< raised near large cities To-daj. -cording to government figures, ty per cent I of the beef cattle the United [states r<- raised we* of -the .\*:s jsissippi river Seventh per cent of j the beef is eaten east of that river. ; New York and New England j would have about six beefless days ja week were it not that Iowa and I j rer sister states a thousand or more miles away specialize?in the rais-1 j ing and fattening of live stock. The middle western and western j farmer thus does his share in feed- i j ing the East. , But the middle western farmer] ! would be of no benefit to the meat i eater of the city were it not !<<r jthe fact that between the farmer and the retailer has growr up a long-range industry that takes the j western steers and turns them into jthe attractive, clean and inspected' ! meat, and then transports this meat j j to the city markets, j Only a very small amount of beef i is frozen. "Most of it reaches the j consumer as fresh meat which has ! been merely chilled so that it will i keep fresh and sweet while it is on ! its journey from the packing house ] to the consumer. i Not so many years ago a great ? majority of live animals were ship ped a thousand miles in order to ! feed the eastern states. They I 'shrunk weight, many were bruised, j i many died. It was a wasteful j I system. To-day packing houses located j near the producing sections buy the j live animals, convert them into ? meat, saving all by-products, and j then by means of their highly ef- j j fective distributive organizations, ! I market the meat products where they are desired. j Swift & Company has prepared two maps, one showing where the j j beef cattle are raised, the other! j where the beef is consumed. The! :maps furnish a graphic illustration i iof the difficulties which would con- 1 : front both the consumer and pro- | i ducer if they were forced to de jpend entirely upon the smaller local j j packer for their meat supply. The larger packers have estab- j ilished hundreds of branch houses; jand many car routes which radi-j i ate from supply centers. M?st of i j us know that branch houses are 1 ! really sub-supply-stations which j ! carry packing house products. The Cr* ?an car routes ;xrc really traveling branch houses; they supply small- | er towns and villages where there are no branch Louses, and the. methods insure a constant supply j of fresi meat. A saleman visits each town along a certain line of railroad at least once a week. The orders are sent in promptly. When he has covered his route the or ders are loaded into a refrigerator car and this traveling ice-box stops at the towns where orders have been f?ken; the retailers are thus, enabled to get such supplies as they need, in the best of condition. It is a complicated process but one on which the country has come j.i depend and take as a matter of % ' it con rse. Mrs. James H. Danes Dead.* Mrs. James Hurrel! Dawes, an active social worker, died yester day in her home. 3300 Arch street, after a long illness. Mrs. Dawes was a native of Sumter, S. C. and daughter, of the late Mary Bren nan and James P. Brennan, wfca served in the Confederate army.. Until two years ago. when hc? health began to fail. Mrs. Dawes > was active in charitable work and in .raising funds for scholarships for the education of girls. She was particularly active in the edu cation, of persons living in the mountain districts of the southern states. . * . \; Mrs. Dawes was a member of the Southern Industrial Education al Association, the Philadelphia .;, Chapter of the L'nited Daughters of the Confederacy, the Philorau sian Club, the Southwark Settle ment a?id the Ethical Society Her home, the old John C. Sell ers residence, a landmark in We: Philadelphia, was frequently for charitable benefits. She is sur vived by her husband and two chil dren, Dorothy Dowling Dawes and James Hurrell Dawes. Jr. Thn sisters also survive. Funeral ser vices will be conducted from her residence at 2:30. p. m. Wednes day.?Philadelphia Bulletin. STEEL EXPORTS INCREASE Washington, March 11?Exports of iron and steel during ? J?nuary totalled one hundred and sixty thousand nine hundred and twenty tons compared with one hundred ^ and twenty-nine thousand, nine hundred and twenty one tons i? \ December, the department of Com merce annouoced today. Bich bachelor who married . his cook now has a fireless cooker. >*- "' -w MARCH 1 st to APRIL 15th VALUABLE PRIZES TO THE THREE COUNTY SCHOOLS SENDING IN THE LARGEST NUMBER OF CASH SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THIS PAPER. 1st. $125.00 Model Pathe Phonograph 2nd. $25.00 In Cash 3rd. $15.00 In Cash Besides the Prizes for the Schools we are allowing the boys and girls who get subscriptions an extra cash commission for themselves. ? GIVE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO SOME SCHOOL BOY OR GIRL IN YOUR Every school will be interested in getting this beautiful S125.00 Model Pathe ? "NEIGHBORHOOD WHILE THIS CONTEST IS ON AND HELP THEM WIN Phonograph. Finished in.Mahogany, with universal tone arm and perfect tone ONE OF THE PRIZES. control. Will play any record except Edison. The Pathe, the phonograph with The yearly subscription rate of the Watchman and Southron has been reduced the sapphire needle which is guaranteed to play a thousand times without chang from $2.00 to $1.50 during the contest. Take advantage of this reduced rate while m Siz of machine is 18 inches wide, W '?> inches deep, 4P ., inches high. Can it is on. s - be seen at Mclnvaill & Zeagler Furniture Co., Sumter, S. C. , _ , . . s. Closing Date of Contest, April 15th. All Subscriptions must be in before this date to count. OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 14 WEST LIBERTY ST. COMMERCIAL PRINTERS \ND PUBLISHERS SUMTER, S. C.