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NORA B?YES TO BE STAR OF PALMAFESTA Coraty Queens t6 Make Head quarters at Jerome Hotel and See Opening Game of Baseball Season, 1921 Queen Returns to Palma festa Columbia, March 30. ?Nora Bayes, famous stage star come dienne, producer of well known talking machine records, and one of America's foremost entertainers has been secured as the stellar at traction of Palmafesta. the big estate-wide spring festival to be held in Columbia April 17th to 22nd. Miss "Bayes will appear at two mat mess, and two evening perform ance's. The cataiog of the Victor Talking Machine Company has this to say of her: "Nbra Bayes, with her inimitable foolery and clean fun. her admirable imitations and clever and witty sogns. became in a very short time one of the great est '.favorites on the American stage, and she continues to hold the attention as well as the ad miration of her audiences, through' sheer talent. 4tMiss Bayes is the life of every . production with which she is con nected, and gives a zest to every moment she: is on the stage." The county contests for candi dates for Queen of Palmafesta, now running in 4"> counties in the state Will close April 8th. The young ladies receiving the highest num ber of votes in each county .will spend Palmafesta week in Colum bia at the expense of the Palma - festa Association. A whole floor of the Jerome. Hotel has been re served fo rthe county queens who will be chaperoned by a group of prominent Columbia society ma trons. Reserved seats/.^at the opening game of the South Atlantic baseball season in Columbia on April 20th. have already been set aside for the 45 county queens. Miss Sarah Kiirkpatrick. of Chester, queen of the 1921 Palmafesta, will be in Co lumbia, for the big wcok as the guest of the Palma fest?. Association and will take a prominent part m the queen's crowning and the va . rsous parades and other features. Many counties, in South Carolina are entering floats in the big Pal mafesta parade and competing for the $500 prize offered for the best covnty float. The task of decorating the big steel -building at the State Fair - grounds, where Palmafesta will be staged, is practicably finished and exhibitor:; tu"c beginning to pre pare their booths. Space has been sold in a wide variety of business concerns in Columbia and else where and a wonderfully interest ing exhibition is. promised. Com mittees in charge of the fireworks, fashion show, exhibits, music, pa rades and other features report that plans are progressing rapidly and promise the most comprehen sive and interesting ?<ala week ever, herd in South Carolina. ???... <? , ,,., THE NEW CITADEL Grading Campus and Athletic Field Now Under Way Charleston, April 3.?The cam pus and the athletic field of the New Citadel are- being put into final shape preparatory to occu pying, the new plant this fall. The CrtH field was graded last year, and now the general appearance of the grounds ;s being greatly improved by work now in progress which ?will remove several unsightly ir regularities. The road at the main entrance is being elevated and the engineering course will re member this hole as the location of their first problem .in contour map Ping. The . driveways . through . the campus arc to ,bo graded and relo cated in such a way as to give di rect access to all of the buildings. The road running around the edge of the high land will be retained and improved. Now that the un derbush has been cleared'away, this drive gives a good view of the sur rounding country and of the cum ?ptis and buildings. The athelctic field on the north rfdc of the Seaboard Air Line's The athletic field* on the north track is now being graded. When finished there will be ample room for a football and baseball field, and ultimately for a quarter mile running track. This will bo an excellent field when it is properly packed and sodded, and with the ?progress that is now being made on the grading it will be in first class shape for use by the football team this fall, thus providing what the cadets have never heretofore enjoyed?an athletic field in the immediate vicinity of barracks and owned and controlled by the in stitution. It will be of interest to former engineering students of the Cita del to km>%v that'all filed and of fice work In connection with plan ning the roads, grading rthe cam pus and athletic fi<dd, and other work on the ground's is being done by the engineering section of the senior class. Surveys, maps, es timates and the actual laying out and supervising of the work is in charge of members of this class. In addition to the experience which they get, there is a. considerable ?aving in money to the instituion and the further * satisfaction of knowing that the cadets themselves are having ? part, in making the new plant in its external aspects a truly "greater Citadel/' ? mm Soon we shall forget this trival discussion of empires and turn again to the more vital matter cf umpires.?Creenville News. m m> ? Young John I>. says it is bard to give away m?hen*. He ought to have taken a short cou*se in instruction from the United States Shipping Board.?New York Trib une. MAY SIDE-TRACK MR. FORD'S BID Suggestion Made That Deci sion in Muscle Shoals Mat ter Be Postponed Until December Washington. March 31 (By the I Associated Press).?Postponement i until congress convenes in Dccem ; her of a decision respecting the ac ceptance or rejection of Henry ! Ford's and other offers for private j operation, lease, purchase and com i pletion of the government's war i initiated projects at Muscle Shoals, j Ala... appeared probable today with ! the return of the congressional del i egation from an inspection of the ! properties in Alabama. S Senator Norris of Nebraska, i chairman of the agriculture com j mittee. announced he would intro ! ducc a measure for appropriating I money with which the army engi nccrs could begin work of complet ing the Wilson dam this summer I and for the construction of dam ? No. 3 on the upper Tennessee river, i He declared the dams should be j brought to completion as soon as ! possible.* and on this point other (senators and members of the house I military committee. who visited I the projects, have expressed their approval. The agriculture chairman said he was very doubtful that the sen ate would be able to decide upon the acceptance or rejection of the private proposals at this session of congress because of the heavily loaded legislative calendar. It was his plan, he explained, to give the : offers a thorough study while the j construction work was in progress land decide later, probably in the j next congress, whether any of ; their number should be accepted j or whether the government itself ' should complete the-work and put . the projects in condition for oper ation under its supervision. Chairman I#.hn of the house military committee issued a call I for the committee to meet tomor row- to discuss the offers h has been investigating for more than a imonth and determine at the same ! time upon a program of future pro i ceedings. Senator Norris prepared . to present his plan to the agricul i ture committee at its regular meet j ing on Tuesday. OPPOSED TO HIGH TARIFF I Cotton Seed Crushers Ask < Congress to Lower Tariff On Vegetable Oils ???. Washington. March 31. ? The ! South Carolina Cotton Seed Crush i ers* association, which some time I ago favored the high tariff on cot j tonsced oils contained in-the Ford j ney bill as it passed the house, is I now insisting that the tariff be ma ; terially lowered. / ' The secretary of the association. JlV. B. West, testified today before the finance committee of the sen jatc. i He argued that if the high tariff i prevails, Europe, which now buys j American cottonseed oil as an? edi j ble oil. and for it pays h?ndsoine j ly, will buy Oriental oil and thus i deprive the American product of a i lucrative market. He contended : that if the tariff is very low Amer | ica will consume the Oriental on ?in baser purposes' and thus leave j Europe open for the American pro : duct. I It is regarded as probable that j the committee will follow the ad i vice of Mr. West. Apparently it j wishes to give Southern protcction j ists just what they desire for their ! products. j -^ >University of Michigan Alumni Detroit, Mich.. April 1?What is (described as the largest university ! ali.aini in the world's history is to I take place the night of April 25. j At that time graduates of the Uni ; versity of Michigan, numbering j thousands and scattered between j the Atlantic Ocean and the Rocky 'Mountains will hear again the strains of "The Victors." and "The ; Varsity" dear to the heart of every Michigan man. played by the L'ni j versity band. They will hear the same college yells that for years j have resounded over Ferry Field and the campus and listen to talks by Coach Fielding H. Vest, for -'1 years the most striking figure in fCoHege football. l>r. .Marion LeRoy BUrton. president of the University, and others. All Michigan men and women j in the prescribed zone will parti : cipate in th'* reunion who are for tunate enough to possess radio ' phone receiving sets. Ac-cording to word received here many thousands I of the graduates will avail them selves of the opportunity and "lis ten in" either by means of individ ual receiving sets or gather in groups to hear the voices caught out of the air by larger receiving apparatus. The reunion will start at eight p. m.. and continue for two hours. Tlie list of speakers includes re presentatives of many branches of University activity, as well as of the alumni and the students. Willie Ueston. former All-Amer ican halfback and who he.tped write American gridiron history, win speak for the alumni. Ernie Vick. baseball captain and All-American center last year. Captain Duke Dunne of last year's football team, football captain elect Paul Goebel. and Regent James (?. Murfin are ?>u the program. What v." iiH'ii is :< radiophone that will enable us to se?? a musical comedy "without hearing it.-?Bal timore Sun. If Gompers is looking for new worlds to eompi? r be should es tablish union hours for housewives, doctors and poker players.-? Hosten Soo*t and Le?th**r iceporter. ;NEW HOPE FOR j IRISH UNITY __? Conclusion of Agreement Be tween North and South Opens Better Prospect of Peace j Lohdon, March 31 (By A?so- I j ciated Press.)-?Troubled Irish his-! tory today entered a new phase with the- double achievement of the; free state bill safely reaching the 1 statute book and the conclusion of j the agreement between the North and the South and the imperial government opening a better; prospect for eventual Irish unity. j If Premier Lloyd George was the ; ' hero of the Irish treaty. Winston : Spencer Churchill, secretary for the : colonies, admittedly is the hero of j ; Thursday's agreements Mr. Church- ; I ill has been the recipient of uhiver j sal tributes of praise and admira- j turn; beginning with Joseph Dev ! lin's speech in the house of com- i mons Thursday evening, as mainly : I responsible for bringing th? op- ! posing parties in Ireland together j in a conference which had such j j speedy results. Austin Chamberlain, in a speech [ j delivered tonight, in Birmingham, ; joined in the chorus of plaudit? ! when he said of the coloniai &ecre I tary: "Mr. Churchill displayed pa | tience and parliamentary skill ' which places him right in the fore i front of the parliamentary lead ; crs.'' Warning voices, however, are j heard in the press, especially in ? Belfast and Mr. Churchill himseK ; in the house of commons today i j begged the house not to indulge ! in optimistic delusions, but on the {-Whole the disi?osition seems to be : to take a hopeful view of the sit uation. ; Iti Dublin today the signing of ; the agreement was received with great rejoicing. There seems to : be an impression that Micha? 1 Collins, head cf tin- ^provisional i government in Iceland, and Su James Craig. the Ulster premier, j would hardly have signed the agreement without having first ar rived at a tacit understanding as ; how best to deal with the admit I tedly difficult problem of activities ? of flie Irish Republican army in j Ulster. The attitude of the follow j ers of Eamon De V?lera gives the i greatest cause for anxiety, but on 'this subject little reliable opinion j could be obtained today. London, March 31.?A dispatch to The Daily Mail from Belfast j says the Republican committee has ordered a secret mobilization of the Republican section of the ; Irish Republican army for Sunday j possibly witli the intention of vio I lent action. '. The dispatch adds that the pro j visional government has issued a ; warning to the men. I "SHAKE DOWN" I CHARGED i Rickard Said to Have Declar ed 'I Won't Pay a Cent' New York. March 31.?A charge j that agents for the Children's So I ciety sought to "shake down" Tex j Rickard for $50.000 before his re cent trial and acquittal on eom | plaint of a fifteen-year-old girl and ? a counter-charge thai the affair was i concocted to create a favorable at ; mosphere for the accused promoter I during his trial, wer?- reported to i . * day as involved m the suspension of two agents of the society. The report was issued by Assist i ar.t District Attorney Pccora, who I prosecuted Rickard. He said the suspension of the two agents had l>"<Mi announced to him by General ! Manager Coultre. of the society. i Th" suspension was for "failure to Ireport what appeared to be an at ! tempt tu shake down Rickard.*' j Pecora declared he had been in ] formed. : Pccora said in a statement he I 1 und"rsto<?d the agents were sus pended tor deliberately withholding : the facts of their meeting with I Rickard. This meeting was in a saloon j February 27. according to an ac j count of it which Pecora said was , given to him during the recent trial 'by William Kelleher, agent for the : Children's Society. Kelleher's story, . he said, was that Rickard met four j of tin- agents; thai their spokes ; man told the promoter that for j $50,000 they could gel the girls to I change their stories, thereby weak f ening the case against him. As. the ; story goe<. Rickard said. "I won't pay a cent. I'm inno |Cent," and walked out. WOLFE SEEKS RE-ELECTION i _________ I Attorney General Will Offer For Second Term Columbia. March 30.- Attorney i General Samuel M. Wolfe today au . nounced that .he would offer for re election in the primaries of the i coming suminer. Me stated that ihe had been e.msid-Tm."; the mut ier fur a long time and has also considered entering tie races for (congress from the Third district, j Mr. Wolfe being a eitti-en <>; An , derson county, but he has conclud ed that he can best serve the state at Uiis time in the o_Ij< e of attorney genera!. .Mr. Wolf" today issued a statement to the press, announcing his intention of offering for re election, and :u thin statement he e.iilis attention t?? the tact that there are stil! several very import ant state cases pending, cases which lie started and with which he is familiar, and he feels that it is ins duty in the suae t?? offer Ins services t.6 the slate as long as these eases are pending Mr. Wolfe has made an fxcel lent attorney general. I!- has handled some Ol ?ie most import. - ant crises iu which thr- ??Laie has ever been involved, and he has won most 4?;' them. So Jar r." op position i" Mr. Wolfe ha? be??n an nouneeij. WASHINGTON MERELY WATCH ING BIG STRIKE Government Will Take No Action in Coal Strike at Present Washington. March 31.?Con vinced that every reasonable effort has been made to prevent a nation al coal strike in anthracite and bit uminous coal mines tomorrow, hut believing thai although these ef forts have been without avu.il. c> feting conditions and surplus coa! assure price protection and cur rent supply for the general pub lic, official Washington settled back tonight to await the event with considerable calmness. In a final White House discussion it was said that the government's loop negotiations with the parties to the controversy and continuous study of the industry's production volume had convinced the admin istration that immediate interven tion in legal or extra legal ways would be futile and unnecessary and that while the future might sharpen the breach between em ployer and employee in the min ing camps, for the present even! action looking to the preservation] of peace was unnecessary. President Harding* was visited by a delegation representing the Pro testant Federal Council of Church ?of Christ and the National Cath-j olic Welfare council to make a fur jthor attempt to get operators and miners together and to set up a commission to adjust, their differ ences. At the White House, how ever, it was said later that no ac tion was advisable at this time, j A house committee also was told by Edward O. Tyron. coal produc tion statistician for the geological j survey, lh.it 63.000,000 tons of ; coal, equivalent to a T>! day sup I ply for every consumer, was in ^storage at this time. These stocks, [officials estimated, will be supple {mented indefinitely by large out j puts from non-union field's in West ] Virginia and elsewhere, where op erators asserted today that miners j would pay no attention to the j union's attempts to have them (cease work. Labor department of j ficials also were interested in re ports from union fields in western Kentucky, where it was estimated that approximately 6,000 miners j were considering staying on the 1 job under a local wagt- contract, [notwithstanding the national or I dors for walking out. Federal reserve bank and geo | logical survey statement.- were is j sued today bearing upon the recent t overproduction of coal which has jbulked largely in White House .and I labor department assurance that j moderate prices and a plentiful [supply of fuel were assured. The !reserve bank statement said that I bituminous users recently had so j amplified their stocks that even ! the fear of a strike had not suf : ficed to prevent a falling off in de I mand und a weakening of prices. The geological survey asserted that "even though most of (ha ] coal mines in tin.- country should ; remain closed down for three I months citizens of our larger cities ] need fear no interruption of light j and power services." Its queries during recent weeks have disclos ed large public utilities whose i slock piles will last for 160 days, while averse stores have run be j tween 4.s and 71 days in poten tial capacities. Railroads, manu I facturers and dealers alike hav: reported similar conditions fur of fice records." ; This situation, marking the pres ent coal strike as different from former ones, was unofficially ekis.s ed as being responsible for a rat li ier cool acceptance of the strike in , informed labor union, industrial land official circles because, 'strike ! or no strike, it was tending to pro duce a fairly widespread suspen sion of coal mining, particularly in i bituminous fields. SERIOUS SPLIT I IN IRISH ARMY j2,000 Men Leave the Five j Dublin Battalions Dublin. April 'Z.?Serious extent !of the split, in the ranks of the Irish i Republican army was repealed this [afternoon when from five Dublin j battalions which had been ordered lout to take a "new oath of allc ? giance or an oath with new impli cations." not less than 2.000 men obeyed the Republican appeal and marched to Smithfield. There, in jibe presence of Liam Mellowcs. 'Roderick O'Connor and other not ed heads of th<- Republican move jnient. thex took the oath ?f allegi ance to fjee themselves from any [other further responsibility to the ! Dail Eireann. The extremists tonight expressed j entire satisfaction at the response to their appeal. A large crowd, in cluding contingents from the wo men's organizations, witnessed tin parade of tin- battalions, hut ga c no demonstration of sympathy be yond their presence. O'Connor in an adores.-- to the men e< mplainod bitterly that Rich ard Mulcaliy. minister of defense in the ??.??! Eircann, !;.!<! caused the seizure of the Republican muni tions and grenade factories in Dublin and elsewhere, Liu he -aid the Republicans had replied to this move \,\ :i sei/.ui ? at C^rk of u British ship laden with explosive* and machine guns. SWIMMER FOR OLYMPIC GAMES N'ev. York. April .'. The human hydroplane, John Weiss-Mulier of la* Illinois Aathleiio club who ha* broken ii?*arly n score of swimming records m the last six months, is being develo7,ed t.. represent rhe. SAYS SHE WANT ED TO SCARE LAWYER Witness Declares She Wanted to Make Kinkhead "Right That Wrong" New Y..rk-. Mnnh 31.? Admit ting authorship of letters in which threats were made to kill Ellis Guy Kinkhead. former corporation counsel of Cincinnati, for whose murder last summer she is on trial. Miss Olivia M. 1'. Stone today told a Supreme Court jury that her sole intent was t<> scare the lawyer into leading her to the altar for a ceremonial marriage. It has been her contention that Kinkhead refused to go through the ceremony with her after their al leged common law marriage almost four years ago. from time to time, he promised to. she said, but put off the day and finally he aban doned her and married another wo man. Marie Louise Gromley. "No matter what extravagant language you used, your only in tention was to make right that wrong, wasn't it?" she was asked by her lawyer. "Yes. I swear by all that is good and holy that that is the truth." she said, raisin-: her right arm above her head. "'God knows it's true." she add ed, but her answer was stricken out. save for the mere "Yes." All day the trained nurse was Ion the stand, weak' and distressed to almost constant tears. She ad joined writing the letters during cross examination, and explained their purpose after her counsel took up th" questioning. Her lawyer brought out that she went to several Cincinnati lawyers with her trouble, that she took them to the dean of the Cincinnati Law School where Kinkhead was an instructor, and that he subse quently lost his position. Because or Kinkhead's standing in the pro fession, she said, she got little en ? couragement from the lawyers. This statement was clminated from the :record. Kinkhead was forced to resign from the law school '"on account of tlie Gromley woman." she said, [but this too was ordered erased. The trial will be resumed .Mon day. THE MISSISSIPPI N RIVER FLOOD The Levee System is Being Subjected to Severest Test Memphis. March 31.?The flood situation, so tar as the levees be tween Cairo and Memphis holding ?safe, has resolved itself into an en jduraace test, engineers say tonight. With the en st of the flood expect ed at Memphis tomorrow when the iriver hep- is expected to reach a [stage of feet, lev; '- officials say 'that there is no danger of a break above Memphis during the present Rood. Continuous rains thrcrugh : out th^ central valley during al most the entire week have madr certain a second rise in the lowei river, engineers say. increasing the necessity for closest watching ol the er..'ire levee system for a week .or more, until the second rise ha* passed down tie- river. A new situation has developed during the last :*,<'? hours, who:: le-avy rains in Arkansas and Missis* sippi have brought about flood ['conditions in a number of the trib utaries of the Mississippi to tin smith and to a large extent shift ing the danger zone south of tub city. The Arkansas. Sr. Francis. Whib and otlu r rivers in Arkansas arc out of their banks tonight and an. rising fast. Thousands of acres ol farming land in the valley of these streams are under water. Farm? ?ers. according to reports, were aid* to get out their livestock but mucl of the work done on crops will be ; loss. Telegrams from Marianna, Ars. jsay that refugees from the bot toms along the Le Angtune are ar riving there. Considerable lane ,along the St. Francis and White rivers is also reported under watei ? and thousands of acres in the bot jtoms ahm-; the Yur.oo and tribu Maries are Inundated. At OIc Town. Ark.. where considerable trouble had been experienced bj the sloughing off m hhe front le vee on accounl of a strong eddj :which hits the shore at that point ri telephone message tonight say: that the workers who have beet continuously busy there- for ?">' hours have n turned to Helena, i sandbag embankment to the top ol .the levee having been completed jThe Fnited States engineers her-, tonight sent a quarter b'?at to Oh [Tow n, on which the workers on th? levee will be housed until the dan i ge r i.-' over. Do!she\ ic Propaganda. Moscow. March 10.?An appea !).?)??? been issued by the congress ol ; far Eastern peoples to the peoples j Of China. Japan. India and nil tin Pacific islands to declare ;i "hol\ struggle" against the nations whicl rub- them. A mandate drawn up by the con gress had for its slogan: "<?u! from the East. Imperialists." The congress decided that tin Washington conference on limita tion of armament had failed t< settle any Eastern problems. Tin- congress of far Easterr peoples w;is 111 -1 ? I under the aus pices of the Third Internationale and wiis composed of I H delegate including Korean^, Japanese; Chi nese. Mongolians. Kalmucks ami one resident of Java. Mos? ?.| ! h? m w ere st udvnls. The South Carolina Co-operaiivi Livestock A'-sociai ion. which was organized here Saturday:, is the on< thing, if properly utilized, needed put the live stock industry or; the road toward substantial de \ elopim-nt on a large s< ;( |< . THE FIGHT ING IRISH Meeting Addressed by Michael Collins Broken Up by Re publican Army Dublin, April 3.?A meeting ad dressed by Michael Collins last night at <'as?P I.a r was stopped l>y members of ibe fourth western di vision of the Irish Republican army after stormy scenes in w hich a woman was woVtnded. TO SAVE BILLIONS Move to Establish Art Indus tries in America Chicago. 111.. March 31.?The ? United States in normal liens sells I "approximately two billion dollars I worth of raw materials to the art centers of Europe and buys it back in manufactured, artistic I forms, sie h as textiles, wall-paper and crelons of the best design, for some six billion dollars." says Col. ; William Nelson Pclouze of this city. j president of tin- new association of Arts and Industries. "Our organ ization seek*.? to help the country ? save the four billions it pays for i European industrial art. We sha-1 j work chiefly in the middle West." j The association h:is just been form ed by the amalgamation of the Al jfiance.of Art and industry which I was originally the Art Alliance, j with the National Art Service I League. j While making its argument in j financial terms, the organization represents both manufacturers who ; want better business and artists and ! art lovers who want a. more artis tic America. The board of direc ? tors includes on the one hand John j M. Glenn of Chicago, secretary of , the Illinois Manufacturers' Asso i ciatiou and George R. Meyercord of i 1 Chicago, former president of the ; same body, and on the other Rob ert Harshc and Frank G. Logan, j director and vice president respec tively of the Art Institute of Chi ? cago. "We must train American arti sans and designers in order to i survive competition <> t h e r w i s e j ruinous." says Mr. Loga it. "Eu rope has numbers of schools for ?this great purpose: America has ? been singularly negligent. At last i the manufacturers are beginning to ? wake up. This'is a great hour for : American Industry." The program of the association j is three-fold. Primarily it Peeks the establishment of an industrial art. school or schools in the Mid idle West. Meanwhile it will seek j to make the most of the American ! talent already trained, chiefly through the placement section de I signed to bring together the de signer and the employing manu? j facturer: and to "educate" th? [ public taste. The association looks to rnanu ; facturers for the support of school* tor departments of schools which teach Indus tri?' arts. it ber..ved the placement sec Lion will enter a field hitherto hardly scratched. Executives oi the organization, who are communi cating with existing employment [agencies with a view to their Co operation, say that the other day a Chicago agency received an appli : cation for work from a designci ! in steel and wrought iron, a type I of craftsman who is somewhat un ,' familiar. This is believed to in idicate that there are (ruined de signers the country of various j types though there are no channel* specifically tor placing such person; [with employer.-;. The organization j will avoid the wmd "employment j bureau." holding that the title j''placement section" will seem more I dignified to the artists and crafts ; men who are fitted to do the wort demanded. When the war threw ; America on its own resources, ac cording to members of the associa 1 tion. if was discovered that then j was tah-ni hi America, equal to iht : task.-, formerly delegated to Eu j rope. i In the "education of the publU ! taste" leaders of the movement so? tone of their hardest tasks. "Gne lion in our path/' says Col I Peiouze, "is the infatuation ol consumers with the words "mad* I in Europe." We mean to destroy i this lion through lectures, litcra I ture. and particularly exhibit: ! which will prove that Americ: can produce artistic things as wel as Europe. W? must also teacl j people who buy American-madl i goods to demand the tasteful rath ! er t ha n the t rashy." FOOD PRICES ARE LOWER In Sixteen Principal Ameri can Cities Washington. April Z.?Food cost: .,: retail continued t;: decrease it: all of the I1! principal Americai ities where observations arc main tained by Labor Department dur ing the month ending March 1 ~> According to the monthly report is sued today, the average of dcelini since February 13 on the data given amounted to ?'! per cent, one in De troit. Philadelphia.. Rochester. Salt I..'!;-- City and Scniuton. two pei ? ? m in Norfolk and San Francisco! and on<- per cent in Chicago, Cin cinnati; Columbus. Little Rock, Louisville. Mobile. Minneapolis New < Uieans and Sr. Paul. For the year ending March 15. 1 the department placed the to tal dec rase in retail feed prices a; between 8 and I" percent, aecord ing to Ideality, but estimated that eosrs still remained from t" 10 per cent above i v I'.' levels. Many a community would be bet -; if it had less local pride ami more I?>cal shame. ?Kansas City '; a r. V'oUva says the sky is a dorn?- ot -olid material. It is evident that idie domes of solid material are not on lined i the ?ky. Wilbur - Mar ion Star. PROBE OF COTTON GAMBLING Indictment of Directors of American Cotton Exchange Will Lead to General Investigation New York. March 31.?On evi dence given at a recent ".lohn Doev investigation before Chief Magis trate McAdoo and presented to the grand jury by the district attorney, the American Cotton exchange, largest of Urs kind in membership in the country, and six of the di rectors were indicted today, charg ed with violating the penal code by "bucketing" orders. The individuals named in the bill. Randolph Kose. Sr.. of Kose & Son. vice president 6f the ex change; G. VV. Pratt, secretary;; Angelo T. Jennings, Martin Goulko, Edwin L. Patton and Raymond Palmer, each were held in ? 1.000 ! for pleading before Judge Kosalsky] in general sessions court on Mon day. Two indictments were returned.; one of which. Benjamin F. Schrei ber, assistant district attorney, to--, j night revealed. Jointly charges the [exchange as a corporation and the six directors with having, since January 1. "crossed sales by mak ing contracts on the basis of the [market quotation without intend i ing to buy any cotton." The other indictment, Mr. Schrie ber said, accused Patton and Jon j nings "with permitting and induc ting the bm keting of orders in that too October 3. 1921. they made a : contract between themselved to I purchase 390 bales of cotton at the market quotation without any in j lention of making a purchase or delivery." The John Doe inquiry, which led ; to the indictments, was an out growth of District Attorney Bah ! ton's investigation into bucket shop I operations in the financial district land the snares set for the investing I public by get-rich-quick promoters. I Testimony given before Magis trate McAdoo concerning the alleg ed irregularities practiced by ccr i tain members of the indicted ex change caused him publicly to cx ? press his amazement and upon hit* ' recommendations the evidence was i carried to the grand jury, j The American Cotton exchange e ns originally known as the Amer ican Cotton and Grain exchange, j It was organized by Joseph C. Coop I or. a Southern promoter, who is ;s;iid now to have a claim of $300, i 000 against the exchange. It was I incorporated in New York state ! Augusl 24. 191?. Ii was brought out at the John Doe inqu'iry that many membership* I had been sold in the South for 'prices as low as $125. payable on [installments. The market value of membership on the exchange today ?.ens said to be undetermined. A ? minimum price of ? 1.000 was fixed at the last meeting of the exchange. A. VV. Graham, president of the ! exchange, was the only official to j testify at the John Doe hearing be : fore Magistrate McAdoo. who stated tthat he considered Graham merely as a figurehead in its administra : tion. Mr. Cm ham asserted in a state ment tonight that "the exchange. : its officers and brokers all stren uously assert that they are entirely innocent. ? ? ?? ?? GOVERNMENT INSURANCE Service Men to Be Asked to Reinstate Lapsed Policies Atlanta. Ca.. March 31.?Service men in Georgia. North Carolina. South Carolina. Florida and Ten nessee will be asked by the United States Veterans' Bureau to rein state $10.000,000 worth of govern ment insurance duing April, accord ing to Joe Sparks. Liason Officer, ! National Headquarters American : Legion. The instructions for the !campaign which j.s- to be staged April 10 to 17 have been sent to , the Fifth District organization by Mr. M. Bryson. District Manager. ! Chambers of Commerce, civic or ganizations and service bodies have I been asked by the bureau and the American Legion to give assistance. "I consider this an important move." said Mr. Sparks, "because all service men should take advan ' tage of the government insurance. T am urging all Legion posts to sup port the movement to the limit. With the proper effort at least no<000.000 worth of insurant should be reinstated. It is a very simple matter for a service man to take advantage of this generous of fer by the government." The siate commanders of the le gion in the several states have been asked to support the movement. Governors of the several states will be asked to issue proclamations urging service men to reinstate their insurance. District Manager Bryson will place the full machinery of the Veterans' Bureau back of the cam paign. Gov. Cooper ItcacJics Decision in Telephone Kate Matter. Columbia. April 1.?Gov. Cooper toda.\ announced that he had de cided to cancel the hearing set for April 4:h on the telephone rate re duction act. and he so advised J. Lpps Brown, president of the tele phone company, at Atlanta. The governor advises timt he has reach* d a decision as to the act .-Mid the hearing will not effect hi> course and is therefore unneces sary. He states also that lie will annou.ic his decision in the matter Monday % Amateur gardeners are digging in places where you cant raise your voice. ? ? ? i.i wishes were antes beggars would run over everybody. VJCT0RY WEEK IN SOUTH CAROLINA Four Thousand Farmers Wm Work to Complete Organi zation of Cotton Asso ciation Columbia. April 3?Next week will be "Victory Week" in South Carolina, and over four thousand farmers are expected to take the field and canvass for signatures to the contracts of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Asso-? eiation. The week, officials of the' Association say. will go down bt the records as a week marking a complete revolution in the agri cultural and commercial life of South Carolina. "Victory Week** will be the whirK wind windup campaign for mem bership in the association and hun dreds of farmers will work day and -.igh? to sign up the necessary, number of bales to make the eon tract operative. Gver 100.000 bales <>f .-otton are-.exepceid to be sign ed up next week. Marlboro county is now! leading the state in the number of bales signed, having passed the 30.000 j bales mark last Thursday. E. Wal lace Evans. th>- county chairman/ says that 40,000 bales will be sign ' ed up in that county. Darlington is second with 21.000 bales and jCalhoun is third with 10.500 while" Sumter is a close fourth with 18. ; 5G0 bales. These four counties promise a total sign up of 100, 000 bales by May 1. Great headway was made in the ' Piedmont section of the state last week, there having been great- ac tivity in that section. Gver 20. 000 bales were reported in one day from Piedmont counties. During j the week many of the most prom inent farmers in the Piedmont sec * tion affixed their signature to the^ contract, including such men as .Tas. R. Anderson of Anderson: II. L. Watson. G. G.'Dowling and J.-. C. Parkinson of Greenwood: D. F. Efird and Son of Lexington: R. L. Gray of Gray Cot>t: W. A. Moore-* head of Goldville and others, Mr. j Moorehead is president of the Ban na cotton mills art Goldville. In a statement issued Saturday. i Harry (I. Kaminer. president of the ; association, said: ! "It is the ambition of every man to render some service to his staL* during his life time. There is. a chance for every farmer in South Carolina to render a distinct ser ! vice next week. Every citizen who ; assists-iu tile canvass for new meiii j bers during-'Victory "Week' wib bo* | rendering such serviced I believe j there are-'Enough ?public spirited 1 farmers* i*** South Carolina to put : this thing across." DENTIST STEPS IN FRONT OF TRAIN Dr. Ixjonard-White, of States ! ville, Takes His Own Life (Charlotte News.) States \ April 1.?I>r. Leonard White.?.fjip^iuore than .thirty years Ja prominent 'dentist in Statesvillo? was struck and instantly killed by I Southern }ytuin No. 21. one mile west of -Sfcuesville about 4 o'clock this aftewfcou; It appears to be * ; clear <-asi-4jf suicide. According to ] the story of the engineer. Tn*. I White was'first seen standing by i the side-of the track and just be \ fore the V-ngum reached him he* stepped- oVer .'and stooped down ? placing' bis 'hands on one of the ? rails. The engine knocked him off I tin: track to on side, inflicting wounds about the neck and head ; which produced instant death. The ' engineer stopped his train immed iately, picked up the body of the dead man and brought it back to the station. Dr. White had to give up his* denial practice last year on ac count of failing health and spent some months in a sanatorium at Morganton. lb- returned to his Imme a few. da>s ago but his health had not been fully re?ocored. No inquest was held as Sheriff Alexander and his attorneys and all who are fa miliar^ with the facts considered if apparent that the deceased came to his death of his own volition. Dr. White was sixty years of age and is survive<i by his wife and two* sons. William White, of Charlotte, and Leonard White, of Greensboro. His wife was Miss Kate Wood, daughter of tin- late Dr. W. A. Wood, for 30 years pastor of the First Presbyterian Church here. Dr. White was a native of Sumter. S. <\ He leaves one brother An thony White, of New York City?' Th-- funeral will be conducted by Rev. Charles E. Raynal. pastor of the Firsr Presbyterian Church. Suuday afternoon and burial will* be in Oak wood Cemetery. UNION STRIKERS FIGHTING FIRE Union Men Respond to Call of Mine Officials Wilkcs?fcirre. Pa.. April 2.?A fire' alleged to have been started by bootleggers who had a still con < ealed in the mine, was discovered today in the Butler colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. D had gained considerable headway and when company officials asked for men to fight the blaze union ? leaders readily consented to a Jarge number of idle miners helping it: tiie work* Three squads were a4 work tonight, but it will take gev- - era! days to conquer the fire. The action of the union leaders was pointed t<> as showing the liendly spirit thai prevails in the ranks < f the nun'.- workers. There, i.- one clung to be soid for the movie people: you never hear them complaining that they .re fore.-d to .-xist on ;1 starvation Marion Star.