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FRIENDS OF TREATY WIN FIRST VOTE Only Twenty-Six Democrats and Four Republicans Join in Move to Alter Pact? Vote Stands 55 to 30 "Washington. March 14.?-After anorher stormy debate in which possible political consequences of the administration treaty program were discussed from several angles, the senate late today rejected by a divsion almost on party lines the. first two of the proposed amend ments to the four-power Pacific treaty pact. At the peak of their strength with eleven short of the full mem ; feership present and voting, the opposition to the treaty marshaled twenty-six Democratic and four Re publican votes, within two of a third of the full senate member ship, but three less than enough to overcome the two-thirds needed tor final ratification, if all sena ^-ibrs.participate in this vote. Lead l era on both sides conceded, how ) ever, that the division was but a poo rindex to senate sentiment on tlSe question of ratification itself. The first of the two amendments, offered by Senator Robinson. Dem . Ocrat, Arkansas, provided that the four powers should refrain from aggression against non-signatory as welLas signatory* nations, and that aqfinterested nations whether signatories to the treaty or not, should be invited to any conference over a Pacific cnot roversy. The proposal was lost 30 to 55. Later a similar amendment in different form was presented by Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, and was voted down 27 to 50. On both roll calls four Republi cans, P.orah, Johnson, of Califor nia. France and La Follette, vot ed in the affirmative while an equal number of Democrats, Pomerene, RansdelL Underwood and Wil hams, of Mississippi, joined the op position. loi the debate preceding the first vote nearly all the issues of the treaty fight were revived and both both Democrats and Republicans indulged in prophecies of what might happen if the arms confer ence treaties become an issue be tween the Republican and Demo cratic parties. Lisbon, March 14.?-Over one hundred arrests have been made as the result of bomb explosions in projected Socialist uprisings. ANOTHER MURDER MYSTERY i " I John T. Brunen, Circus Pro I prietor Killed, Wife Suspect ed of Crime Riverside, X. J.. March 15.? County authorities are investigating a letter written by John T. Br?hen; the circus proprietor, who was slain at Los Angeles Friday to a sister in Illinois, that told of an attempt on his life by his wife and his intention of making a. will cut ting her off with one dollar. NEGOTIATIONS j ARE OFF 'Railroad Executives and Workers Fail to Agree I _ j New York, March 13.?Negotia ! iions between executives of fifty |two Eastern railroads and repre ] sentatives of conductors' and train I men's unions looking toward a new j agreement as to wages and work ing condit ions were broken off . late I today without any settlement hav I ing been reached. Announcement [of the breaking off of negotiations was contained in the following j statement issued by the bureau of information: j "The conferences between certain j carriers represented by the confer I once committee of managers of 1 Eastern railroads and conductors |and the trainmen represented by 'the Order of Railway Conductors and the. Rrotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, which have been held on various dates beginning February 10, 1022, were adjourned today, it being apparent that a mutually satisfactory agreement could not be arrived at and, as previously agreed, all propositions made by either side in the hope of a set tlement are to be considered as though they had not been pro posed." AMENDMENT OFFERED TO PACIFIC TREATY Wa hingt on, March 15.?Sena tor Hitman, Democrat from Ne vada, has introduced an amend ment to the four power treaty providing that in future all con troversies outside of nations having Pacific interests would be called into conference for consideration of the subject. Charter Xo. 10660 Reserve District Xo. 3 REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE National Bank of South Carolina of Sumter AT SUMTER, IX THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLIN A, At Uxo Close of Business March lO, 1922. RESOURCES: ? a Loans and discounts, Including redis counts, acceptances of other hanks, and foreign hills of exchange or drafts sold with indorsement of this tank (except those shown in b and c.? l.?S7.211.15 Total loans._.-??- 1,387,211.15 Deduct: 2. Overdrafts, unsecured,.$3,1*8.69 3.16S.69 4. U. S. Government securities owned: a Deposited to securD circulation (U. S. bonds par value)._ 200,000.00 b All other United States Govern ment securities. 107,642.55 Total .-. 307,642.50 5. Other bonds, stocks, securities, etc.:. 1S.9UO.00 6. Banking House, $31,551.1 C: Furniture and fix tures. $l.St>2.7S_. 33,413.94 R. Lawful.reserve with Federal Reserve Bank. 27,942.45 "9. Items with Federal Reserve Bank in process of collec tion (not available as, reserve). 33,697.94 10. Cash in vault and amount due from national banks. - 40,3s$.4s 13". Checks on other banks in the same city or town as reporting bank (other than item 12). 6.3?3.5?' Total of Items 9, 10, 11. 12, and 13 S0.479.52 14. Checks on banks located outside of city or town of reporting bank and other cash items. 1.317.41 I*. Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer.:. !?)-.*:?0.?0 Total .--.$ 1,870,105.71 LIABILITIES: 17. Capital stock paid in.$ 200.000.00 j.S. Surplus fund . 230.000.0O 19. Undivided profits. 53.242.51 a Reserved for interest and taxes accrued . S,532.59 * i b Reserved forbad debts.. 13.059.1S 74.s24.2S c Less current expenses, interest, and taxes paid ,.. 9,236.7S 65.597.50 20. Circulating notes outstanding. 199,995.00 21. Amount due to Federal Reserve Bank (deferred credits) . 11.7S4.S6 22. ' Amount due to national banks. 4.475.04 23. Amount due to State banks, bankers, and trust com panies in the United States and foreign countries (other than included in Items 21 or 23). 3,141.38 24 Certified checks outstanding.-. 77.23 25. Cashier's checks on own bank outstanding. 6.252.92 - Total of Items 21, 22. 23, 24. and 2.5 .. 25.732.44 Demand deposits (other than bank deposits) sub ject to Reserve (deposits payable within 30 days): 26; Individual deposits subject to check _. 333.509.56 2S. State, county, or other municipal deposits secured by pledge of assets of this bank. 54,117.12 20. Dividends unpaid._. H9.no Total of demand deposits (other than bank deposits) subject to -? Reserve. Items 2?;. 27. 2S. 29. 30, '% and 31._- 357.736.03; "* Time deposits subject to Reserve (payable after 30 days, or subject to 30 days or more notice and postal savings): t 2j2. Certificates of deposit (other than for money bor rowed .. - 180.938.35 34. Other time deposits . .... ._... 242.271.27 Total of time deposits subject to Reserve. Items 32. 33. 34. and 25 432.209.62 401 Notes and bills rediscount* d. including acceptances of other banks and foreign bills of exchange or drafts sold with indorsement of this bank.... . 141,075.24 44. Liabilities other than those above slated: Advances from War Finance Corporation ... S7.759.23 Total._,_.$ 1.870.105.71 State of South Carolina, County of Snmtor. ss: I. EARLE LOWLAND. Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the- above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. EARLE ROWLAND. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before mt- 11.is 14th day of March. 1922. W. M. STATES. JR.. Notary Public. Correct? Atio^t: ISAAC SCHWARTZ, W. B. BURNS. MITCHELL LEVI. Directors. (SEAL) STATES HAVE REMNANT OF RIGHTS LEFT Interstate Commerce Commis i sion Has No Authority Over Intrastate Railroads j - i Washington, March 13.?The in i terstate commerce commission was I held today by the supreme court to be without authority to authorize : or compel the abandonment of a strictly state railroad. The decision, which was handed down in a case brought by the state of Texas against the Eastern Texas Railroad company to pre i vent that ra:'road fro dismantl ing under an order issued by the j commission, declared that where a ? railroad lies entirely within a singlp state, is owned and operated by a .corporation of fvat state, and is not a part of another line, and where its continued operation can i not be of more, than local concern ; the commission Is without juris I diction. ?interstate and foreign commerce . will not be burdened or affected \ by any shortage in the earnings nor : will any carrier in such commerce have to bear or make good the ; shortage" of the Eastern Texas I railroad. Justice Van Devanter ! stated in delivering the opinion, to I which there, was no dissent. "It is not as if the road were a j branch or extension whose unre ! munerative operatiom would or ! might burden the main line," he added, "and thereby affect its util ity of service as an artery of inter I state and foreign commerce." For the courts to hold, the de icision said, that congress in au j thorizing the interstate, commerce ! commission to regulate the exten sion and abandonment of old lines intended that the commission j should deal with the abandonment ! of such a road as te intrastate as well as interstate and foreign ? commerce, would raise a serious [question as to tin* constitutional validity of the. law. Where a statute is susceptible of two con structions, by one of which grave land doubtful constitutional ques ; tions arise, and by the other such [questions are avoided, it is the duty ? of the court i<> adopt the latter. Justice Van Deventer said, adding : that by giving the section the more i restricted construction its validity . would be undoubted. ? As construed by the court it was i the intention of congress to enact a law to regulate interstate and ; foreign commerce and to affect state commerce as it may be in cidental to the effective regulation and protection of interstate com ; merce.! Justice Van Devanter said ! there were many manifestations of a continuing purpose on the. part of [-congress to refrain from any regu lation of purely state commerce, ! save such as was involved in its ;rightful exertion of its control over interstate and foreign commerce. : Had congress intended to depart : from the accustomed path and j to deal with state, commerce as {such independently of any effect, ] he continued, it would have plain j ly so declared. Congress had not clothed the in terstate commerce commission with : any authority over the discon tinuance of the purely state busi ? ness of a railroad whose situation : and ownership, as in this state, i were such that interstate and i'or jeign commerce would not be bur idened or affected by the business, I the opinion stated. Justice Van Devanter said the : court would press upon the ques I tion of whether the railroad ;company was entitled to abandon ! its line, because that question wa-j presented in this case, the only is sue before the court being, he ex ; plained, whether the interstate commerce commission had ex ceeded its authority in ordering the i railroad to abandon its line. NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY Republicans Looking For Suc I cessor to Francis H. Weston -? Columbia. March 15. -In forma - tion received in Columbia today is [to the effect that the department ! of justice at Washington and lead I ers of the Republican party are I this week looking around for a I successor to Francis 11. Weston, of . Columbia., as. district attorney for the Eastern district of the state, j So far only three applications have been filed with the G. O. P. lead ers, it is said, those of Thos. 11. Peeples, of Columbia, former at torney general: and Messrs. Shimel and Myers, of Charleston. Joseph W. Tolbert. erstwhile Republican leader in the state, is being ??(in sulted regarding the appointment, but it is stated in Washington ad vices that a Democrat is likely i<> ;.r- appointed. The appointment of Major .1. F j Jones, of Blacksburg, as collector [of internal revenue a; Columbia is expected from the White House, for senate confirmation, next week. GOOD BYE TO HELLO GIRLS Automatic Telephone System Installed in Columbia Columbia. March I."..--The new . automatic telephone syst? m, with automatic centrals and no "belli) -girls." will be put into operation in Columbia at midnight next Sat nrday. Columbia has the sinest plan; of kind i t the Southern Iti II s\stem. a<?< Ording t?? tele i phone olll? ia Is. -?????? - Perhaps you have noticed that j "rights" usually take care of them [selves if a man spend- hi: time de I livering the goods. PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT UNDER NEW PLAN States To Be Grouped in Eighteen Districts Under Divisional Chiefs j -; Washington, March 13;?Division I of the country into 18 districts an :the enforcement territories of the I federal force of geneal prohibition ! agents was announqed tonight by j Commissioner Haynes. E. C. Yol j lowly, chief of general prohibition j agents, will be in direct charge of ; the districts. Each of the divisions. Mr. Haynes said, will be in charge of a divisional chief who will be j under direct control of tin- prohibi tion commissioner acting through j Mr. Yellouiy. By April 1 he add led, it is expected there, will have j been a complete relocation of the i general agents forces in aocord | ance with the new plan. ! "Tho force of general prohibition I agents." he said, "under the direc j tion of divisional chiefs will not in any manner, be a part of the forces ; working under the supervision of ; federal prohibition directors but i will be a separate and distinct Or ganization wholly under the control I of the prohibition commissioner. ! Of course, it is understood that the j purpose is that the work of these j men shall supplement the work of j theXield forces operating under the i direction of the state directors and j will be a very great aid to the re j epective directors In their work. " Also one of the chief objects I of this newly announced plan is ? to secure the largest possible, meas j ure of economy in the operation j of this force, it will very mater ! ially reduce traveling expenses and other expenses incidental to these J agents' operations, inasmuch as t3i? I investigation trips will be. circum scribed by a definite boundary rath I er than covering large scopes of ter : ritory." I The disticts include: Fourth dis j trict, West Virginia. Maryland, ! Delaware and part of Virginia. ! Fifth. North Carolina and pan of I Virginia. j Sixth. South Carolina and Geor ! gia. j Seventh. Florida, Puerto Rico 'and Virgin Islands, i Eighth. Alabama. Mississippi and j Louisiana. Ninth; Tennessee, and Kentucky. TELEPHONE ! BILL NOT YET j SIGNED I Gov. Cooper Still Holds Foster Bill Under Consideration Columbia. March ? Oovfrnor !Copper has .not as yet signed.the j Foster telephone hill, which be came an act in the closing days of j the recent legislature. The govern j or will sign it. however, he says, j but he Is holding baek the action, j in order to give a hearing* in: the i matter. He has indicated that the. hearing will not effect his actjc?n in j the matter, but he simply wants j to grant the wishes of tthe ^Teie i phone company in lu-armg their I arguments why he should nat sign j the act. Both sides to the ques i tion will probably" bo heard. i ! The Foster act would put the j telephone rates back to the prices in effect the first of IS2L before j the rates were increased, under au thority of the railroad commission. [The act is regarded as rat,her dras i tic and unusual legislation, in that it lixed prices. It is stated that tin- telephone company has already I put the matter in the hands of its i lawyers, for testing in the courts. I on the ground of the company's al i legation that the act is uhconstitu ! tional. -? m ? 1 RESERVE i BANK UPHELD j Collection of Checks at Par is Approved ? Atlanta. March 13.?Collection at 'par by the Atlanta Federal Re [serve Lank of all checks payable ion presentation which are deposit ed f<>r collection was upheld by !Judge Beverly 1). Evans in Federal District Court here today. The decision rendered in the case of tin- American Bank and : Trust Company, of Cordole, Ca., jand other State banks of Georgia, ?also held that the reserve bank-was hot inspired by any desire inaug urating its par clearance rule to coerce or injure a non-member bank. Judge Evans" previous decision on par clearance had been upheld by the Court of Appeals hut the Supreme Court ordered a new trial last April on" the claim of die pe titioners that the reserve hank had sought to embarrass institutions which insisted on being paid c.\ i ha age on checks. It has been indicated that an appeal would be taken on today's decision, which not only upheld tn.tr section of the Federal Reserve Act prohibiting reserve banks fr< in paying exchange on checks the;, tender on non-member banks, but ruled that the reserve banks may publish a list of non-member b'inks not charging exchange, provided such institutions agree. $f0O.O0O Verdict tor Boy. Atlanta, March lOl iff Wal raven, a 1A year old boy, vva;i awarded $.!-0o;i.?(?0 damages by a jury in Judge W. I?. Ellis' branch oi Fuletoji county superior court today against the Georgia Railway and Power company for injuries sustained in a srreol car accident The jury returned the i aftei litt minutes delihernl ion .1 :od: Sprati could eat no fat: hi wife could <at no lean. Voii see they spent their money for ihe jitney gasoline. REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS IN A HOLE Pledge to Hand Out Bonus to Soldiers Cannot Be Re deemed Without Bank- j ruptcy Government _ ; Washington. March 13.?Re pub- j j lican lenders were confronted to-; [day with the possibility that theyi ? might be unable* to bring about a j vote in the house on the compro-j i mise soldiers' bonus bill under sus i pension of the rules next Monday. With a favorable report by the; ways and means committee promis ed by Chairman Fbrdney they gen-j i erally were agreed that the bill j should be disposed of early next! week. Inability, however, to ascertain] i whether Speaker G-illett, who is in ! Florida with President Harding would entertain a motion to sus-i j pend the rules, which would require I a two-thirds vote for passage of the bill and would automatically bar all amendments, coupled with the reports that he might deelinei to do so, threw the whole ques-' [tion of procedure into the air. Republican members of the ways and means committee who at the j morning meeting decided to pro-! : ceed with their plans for a report ipf the measure at the meeting of j the full committee schedule for : tomorrow despite objections to itsj ! provisions voiced by Secretary Mel i Ion and Comptroller of the Cur-i I ren.cy Crisslnger, held a conference j later in the day with members of the Republican committee and sev eral others including Representa I tive Walsh of Massachusetts, aet j ing speaker, and Representative Fess of Ohio an<t Representative ; Towner of Iowa. It was agreed at this meeting not to make final decision as to procedure until the.views of the speaker could be learned. other developments of the day 'in the bonus situation were the is suance of statements by two mem \ hers of the house. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, a Re-J publican member of the way.-, and ! means committee, and Rcpresen-j Stative Hawes (I>emoerat) of Mis souri, both of whom expressed op position 10 the f>onus till, ai.tt the ; announcement ? ? Representative' Froar of Wisconsin, a Republican1 member of tin-, ways and means hcommittee. that he had written Secretary Mellon -replying" to the I letter of the treasury head to Mr. ' F?rdney. Mr. Treadway declared it was ["apparent that an effort to pass a 'bonus lill at this time, is futile tn : less financed by a sales tax." The : people, ho contended, want less, i rather than more taxation. SMUTS IN CHARGE IN AFRICA _ j London, March 13 (By the As sociated Press)?Latest advices from Johannesbug tend to show that .the situation, which last week j was extremely grave, with many I hundreds of casualties on ail shkr. in the fighting, is now well con trolled by formidable forces of the government which were devoted to, ; the task of suppression after the [proclamation of martial law. The! prompt quelling of the disorders; was largely due to the free em-; ploymeni of bombing airplane.?, to [disperse the rebels and drop food I and ammunition to besieged loyal-j ists. Johannesburg, which on Satur-I day was invested on three sides, is I ? at the present time quit'- safe, j Krugersdorp, the western limit of, the fighting, 1ms been captured by the troops. With the capture of j j Benoni and Dunswart announced) I tonight it is believed most of the resistance has been oercome. General Smuts, the South Afri [ can premier, after a perilous auto-! mobile totir in the battle area, he-j ing shot at and having a narrow! escape, has himself taken personal! charge of the situation at Johan-rj ncsburg. lie expresses the opinion that peaceful conditions soon will be; reestablished. The fighting lias been aceom- j panied by the most exciting inci dents, such as airplane engage ments, a visitors' escapes after great j risks and daring and gallantry on the part of besieged police and j troops. In some eases loyal forces j have been hemmed in for two or three days before airplane relief enabled them to figl.t their way! out. BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP, Columbia. March If>. ? The high school basketball champion-: ship of the state will he decided in a game here Thursday night, when' Charleston's team, champions forj the lower half of the state, meets; the team from the Spartanburg high school, champions for the up per part of the state. tin- final' game to he played on tin- Univer sity floor. i The championship will he de cided in the one game, unless Spartaiiburg wins, in which event the team from the Greenville high; school team will com. i<> Columbia Friday afternoon to play the Spar-: tanhurg team Friday night. The man whom Progress drop ped behind some years ago finds some consolation in scolding about 'ignorani u.a jo> ii ies." The Irish dtouldn'l ir\ to sett Very thing at once. Think of the urn to he had lighting about Con stitutional amendments. On the matrional :? a G.e hand that rocks the cradle ver> sei dorn rocks the boat.?Athuii? News. SECRETS OF GAMBLING EXPOSED Fight on Little Exchange Brings Out in Court Some of the Methods Now York. March 13.-?Criticising methods or' operation of tin- Ameri j can cotton exchange during the 1 ??John Doe" inquiry into its affairs today. Chief Magistrate McAdoo de clared !'. appears that the exchange "had no cotton on which to base its trading unless it purchased across i the street from the New York cot . '"ii exchange." ?"The American exchange pur chased 15,000 bales from the New j York exchange simply for use by [the brokers in checking the wheel ; so it would step at a winning num ; her." he added. ! These comments were evoked by I testimony of former Judge A. W. [Graham, president of the American exchange, who spent the afternoon on the witness stand, i Mr. Graham disclaimed knowl I edge of a petition, offered in evl [ dene- in whi< h exchange officials i were advised by members that "the state of trading on the. floor is ter ! riblc" following withdrawal of a I Arm which customarily had held ! IO.00G bales to cover 'brokers who ' sold short. j The petition urged the purchase ; times in the trading when the buy jof 15,000 bals to sell at opportune era* demands exceeded sales so lar I as to halt trading and force prices upward. Revenues of the members \ would thereby be "doubled, trebled and perhaps quadrupled," the peti tion said. Mr. Graham was ordered by the I magistrate to present to the di? triet attorney tomorrow "names of \ a half dozen Southern planters who benefited by the chance to specu jlate, offered with the opening of the exchange." This order was based upon testi i rnony that the exchange was found j ed hi the open market by using ten i bales as the minimum unit of trans lations, thereby openinr/ the field j to smaller growers eliminated from the New York cotton exchange nod tthe New Orleans cotton exchange jbya 100 bale minimum unit. Questioned concerning the. duties of his oilice as president of the ex change, Mr. Graham tej!ttl#d ho ! "opened the mail, presided at moet ? ings of the board of directors and I attended to litigation instituted to ??rid the exchange of certain rascal i ly brokers." ' The witness presented little ! knowledge of the actual workings 'of the institution, lie did not know j what ticker service was used; how price quotations jwero based; or j how ii might be determined what [cotton sold actually was delivered, [he said. He was chosen president of the. exchange, he. asserted, fol lowing three years as an appointee of the Tinted States treasury de j pari mope to enforce the cotton fu , tu res act in New York. lie said he was the son of a North Carolina cotton grower, but that he had no personal experience with cotton and "never bought or sold a bale of rotten on the exchange." i "In other words," Magistrate Mc Adoo interposed, '?you were elected j president,of this exchange ?and drew a salary of $8,000 a year because of the moral effect upon its cus tomers of your name as judge and ! former official of the treasury de part ment." Mr. Graham declared that sev eral member of the exchange had been expelled recently on charges [that they had "taken their custom ers' money without delivering any thing for it." Another firm was expelled, he said, for ?'knocking the exchange" in letters to customers throughout the country, warning them to discontinue their accounts with the American exchange on tho ?-round thai iL was unreliable. The witness also claimed to have uncovered a plot of the New York cotton exchange and the New Or leans cotton exchange, to pur the American cot on exchange out of business. The hearing will be re sumed tomorrow. HUGHES WEAK ON GRAMMAR Senator Ashurst Raises Laugh in Senate at Expense of Hughes and Lodge Washington. March 13.?The sen ate paused for a laugh in the midst of the solemn treaty debate today while Senator Ashurst of Arizona exhibited a grammatical error in its terms for which he declared "any school boy would be marked dow n." Senator Ashurst referred to the. use of the word "between" instead of "among" when reference was made to the United States. Great Britain and France. "If Arthur Jame-, Ralf our and Henry Cabot Lodge don't know how to use the English language nobod} does," >.iid the senator from Arizona, "and yet here in a solemn treaty we lind this egre gious blunder for which any school boy would be marked down." "It ma> not be of any moment." rejoined Senator Lodge, "but 1 con lend that the use of 'between* as referring to three or more persons is just as good as among." With thai Senator .Johnson n sumed his attack on the four power pact. ? ? ? Charleston Hanker Hies. Charleston. March 13. Mr. Ernest II. Pringle. president of the Rank of Charleston for more than thirty years, died suddenly a> his home here of heart failure last night lb- was one o1' the ablest linanoiers of South C .e'ma. It i.-. understood, of course, that those who don't really need the bonus will decline it as a matte!- of patriotism. NEW R. R. COM MISSION MEETS First Meeting For Purpose of Organization to Be Held Wednesday Columbia, March 14.?The new railroad commission, of. seven members, will hold its first otfjcial meeting in Columbia Wednesday. Numerous matters will come before the commission, but possibly the most important is the Colombia Street car strike situation, which a gathering of citizens requested the commission to consider. The at torney general has ruled that under j an act of 1020 the railroad commis ; sion is authorized to regulate ser j vice of electric lines, suburban as well as interurban, whether the ; commission will take up this mat ter Wednesday is not known, but Chairman Shealy stated that the matter will be considered by the cum mission at an early date. ^fhe first meeting of the c.ommis j sion will have to do largely with : the organization of its work. The : recent legislature not only gave the railroad commission the work of the former public service com i mission, which was abolished, but I it authorized a rate department of the commission, to handle freight ; rate matters. The setting up of this j department will probably come be ; fore the commission Wednesday. Under the new railroad commis sion act the four additional mem ; hers are to receive a per dient, of ! $10 a day each. Tin? legislature ! appropriated $">.<;40 for the pay of j the four new c o m m i s s i o n e r s. ' which mean they will get paid for Ml days during the year. At ! the meeting Wednesday the com | mission will decide when ir will ? have regular meetings. The. riew members of the com mission are Ii. J. Wade, of Mont morenei. in Alken county; John C. j Coney, of Reevesville; E. R. Eller be. of Latta; and Jas. N. Pearman, of Anderson. The three hold-over 'members are Frank W. Shealy, Lex ington, chairman; IL II. Arnold, of : Woodruff, and James Cansler, of ; Tirzah. The three hold-ever mem ! hers serve on their former salaries, ! $J.G<>0 each, until the expiration of i their terms. TO INVESTI GATE PRICES Combine to Boost Fertilizer Costs, is Charged Washington. March 13.?-The de | 3>artment of justice will investigate complaints that there is a combi nation to raise fertilizer prices. In response to statements from Black - ville and other points in his district j that the companies within the past : ten days had simultaneously put : up the. already high price of fe-r ; tilizer *2 a ton and thai if the at ? torney.general would send an inves ; tigator ?o the spot the evidence l would be furnished. Congressman '?? James F. P.yrnes wrote to Mr. I Daugherty expessing the hope that I the request to send an investigator I would be granted. Today tlie congressman received an answer informing him that this would be done, and that the de partment would let him know j whether or not the investigation revealed a situation warranting the. government in proceedings against the fertilizer companies. MAY DECLARE BOYCOTT j . - Labor Federation is Behind Striking Textile Workers i Providence, R. 1.. March 13 ? The decision of the American Fed eration of Labor tu stand firmly behind the striking textile work | ers of lihode Island announced by [Samuel Compels, president of the federation, in speeches yesterday I here ami in Pawtttcket will result j in union garment workers of the j Cnited Slates being called into the ! contest, it became known here to day. Garment workers' unions af ! filiated with the American federa tion will lie asked to refuse to cut ?goods manufactured in Rhode ls ! land mills where wage reductions have been made. It was further stated by strike leaders that work ers in union textile finishing plants in other states will be requested [ to refuse to handle the products of . such mills. Three mill companies in lihode Island are mentioned specifically iti connection with the proposed "boycott" by garment workers. These are tin- Lonsdale Company. Lonsdale. owned by Ooddard Bros, the United States Finishing Com pany. PawtucUet and Silver Springs and the Imperial Printing and Finishing Company, Bellefont; These plants have been Kept in op eration during the strike. ? ? ?? FORDSBURG CAPTURED BY GOVERNMENT Red Revolution Boing Wiped Out in South Africa Johannesburg. South Africa, March 15?Advices from Fords burg report that government in fantry arc clearing the streets after the capture of the town from the rebels. Many prisoners were tak en. Leaflets were dropped h> air plane-- warning women and chil dren to leave before the town was hornhardt <i \ correspondent asks whether it i< right to say "The man was hung" or "The man was hanged." The modern version is: "The jury disagreed." PLANT NO, 2 IS WORTHLESS Former Technical Advisor of Government Says Nitrate Plant is Obsolete Washington, March 13.?Charles L. Parsons, consulting chemist and former technical advisor to the government on nitrate fixation, testified today before the house military committee that Henry Ford or any other person or com pany would "lose their last pen ny" before they ever produced commercial fertilizers at nitratft plant Xo. 2 at Muscle Shoals. Ala. The plant which has. cost the gov ernment about 500.00(?,000, the W?? ness said, was designed to he oper ated only by the cyanamid process of nitrate fixation, an obsolete method, and was worthless as ? fer tilizer producer. " The cyanamid process was con demned be Mr. Parsons as obsolete and economically impossible, hav ing been superseded, he declared, by the Haber improved mctbo?s. Ir was Ins conviction, he added, that the Muscle Shoals plant could not be redesigned to produce com mercial fertilizers. This judgi^c?t was based, he explained, on a thorough investigation of the cyan amid- plants in Bur?pe, many of which were being closed down by 'bankrupt operators' while "others had gone out of business because they could not compete with es tablishments using the Haber im provement. As to the future use of the. plant at Muscle. Shoals Mr. Parsons rec ommended that it be kept in a stand-by condition for emergency use in war time as he declared that that was its only present value, in so far as its wortn as a fertilizer factory' vvaa concerned. Contrary to reports Mr. Parsons declared nitrate plant No. 1 design ed to operate by the Haber pro cess had been a successful experi ment and could be altered for $1.-, 000,000 or $1,500,000 and used successfully in ihn production of ni trates and fertilizer compounds. Mr. Ford's whole fortune would be dissipated, 'the w it ness added, if he attempted to manufacture fer tilizer at plant No. 2 at a profit, [applying the cyanamid process or any other to which the establish ment might be converted. The cyanamid and Ha her meth j ods were so different, Mr. Parsons* explained, that it would be impos sible ever to apply the latter to | plant No. 2 without removing ic j from the ground. It was the opinion of the wir ' ness that no individual or com ' pany would ever attempt fertilizer ! production on a commercial scale* j by leasing plant No. 2. He urged tlie committee to "make sure" that ? Mr. Ford would produce cheaper ! fertilizers for the farmers before. ! congress accepted the proposal for purchase and le;ise of the Muscle Shoals properties, or that of any other bidder wiu; contemplated ! supplying the nation's agricultur al needs with cheaper soil foods ; produced at the %G0,000,000 plant. BOOZE, GIRLS AND JAIL Son of Dodge Car Owner Placed Under ?7,000 Bond Kalamazoo, Mich.. March 13.?, .John Duval Dodge, son of the late John F. Dodge, millionaire auto mobile manufacturer, was at liber ty tonight under $7,000 cash bail ? after his arraignment today, op charges of driving an automobile while Intoxicated and of illegally transporting liquor. Hearing was set for March 2!. Dodge was arrested on complaint of Miss Fmiline Kwakerneck. IS year old student at Western State normal: Ethel Clemens of Kala mazoo and Sue Stemenga of Grand Rapids. They allege that Dodge and Hex Early invited them for an -nu-romobHe ride as-they -were leav ing a dance hall Saturday night; j that men promised to drive them home, but drove rapidly into the country. The young women's protests were unheeded, they said, and Miss Kwakerneck jumped from the car, injuring her hand. She was* later found by the roadside by an other motorist, who brought her to a hospital here and reported the incident to the police. Officers arrested Dodge and Earl as they were returning to the city with the. other two girls. Accord ing to police, liquor was found in? the ear. Dodge declined to discuss ine case tonight. He had previo'.sly denied that he was intoxicated dur-* ing the ride. Karl is held on a charge of drunkenness. CARNIVALS ATTACK NEW . STATE LAW Greenville. March 1 4.?Holding that the bill enacted last week by the general assembly prohibiting carnivals showing in South Caro lina except during county and state fairs is "in violation of the pro visions of the Ohlted States con stitution, in that it impairs obli gation of contract." and of the state constitution because the act is discriminatory, attorneys for twr?? carnivals served notice tonight that they will seek an injunction Tuesday b.fore Judge Frank ?. Gary of Abbeville to prevent onV ? eis enforcing the law. thereby" making a test case ami sending it 11? the supreme coun. our- idea of fun is a barber trying to tell himself a funny s;--ry while shaving himself. The stars in the heavens are not the only ones that shin,- less bril liantly w hen the light is turned on.