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THE SUMTER. WATCHMAN, Est? CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2, ] A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE i F0RPRE1ER House of Commons v Sustains Govern ment Policy* by1 Great Majority | London, April 3 < By the Asso ciated Press.)?The house of com-: - mons tonight after an exciting de- i l>ate adopted by the substantial majority of 278 Premier Lloyd George's resolution calling fori ^ confidence in the. government's pol icy on the coming economic confer- \ enee at Genoa. The vote was 372 to $4. ? X Prior to.this the house by a vote of 379 to S4 rejected an amendment proposed by fehn Robert Clynes, Labbrite. which, while approving - an international economic and fin ancial conference, declared that ? the .government was not compe tent to represent the country at, stich a conference and did not have the confidence, of the ^puntrj*. j This result is regarded as ex- \ ceedingly satisfactory for'the prime i minister as the combined Labor-1 ices and Independent Liberals num- j bf-r about 100 and the "<lie hard:s"| about 30, all of whom might have j ? been expected to oppose the pre-j mier's resolution. The prime minister's speech in-j viting parliament to vote confidence l ? in the . government's XJenoa policy j ?war. noteworthy inasmuch, as it I touched only lightly upon the po- j liticai crisis at home and. oecause it indorsed the French policy to-1 ward* Russia, although Mr. Lloyd1 George himself displayed much sympathy foi an .entirely concilia tory attitude toward Russia and - further, in that it sough; accom modation with the, soviet govern ment, lest by waiting it might eventually be. necersary to deal - with a still more irreconcilable ori militaristic regime, which might' <? embroil the whole of Europe. V While emphasizing that nothing could be gained by waiting fpr the overthrow of the Soviet administra tion th^ prime minister accepted j the French standpoint, denia#4iog guarantees with respect' to Rus ts sia's debts and obligations and stip ulating - a ^period - of?rtr&T?ii?n' o f six-months or a year, but less if Russia gave the necessary., guar r ar.tees, before full recoghition was accorded. The premier indicated his belief in the insincerity of the conversion of Nikplai Lenine and the Soviet to a diluted form of-com munism. Perhaps the most inter - esting of Mr. Lloyd George's pro posals was that exchange should be stabilizc-d at some maintain able rate, but no details were given as to how he proposed to. effect t..is except that it might be attained by some form of international co-op eration and pressure. The debate which followed the premier's speeoh wan' rather tame. It was early realize^ that there; ' would be no breakaway of the Unionists which won) endanger the confidence resolution, hence irr-; terest dwindled until division was ? taken. CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION University Professors Will Speak in Anderson and Orangeburg Counties - Columbia, April 4.?With the slogan, "On To High School and College." professors of the Univer sity are to invade Anderson and Orangeburg counties at an early date in a new sort of campaign. Six professors will compose a "fly ing squadron" and their schedule in each county will bo so arranged that each will address three schools a day. The names of the professors and their schedules will be an nounced within a few days, it is stated at the offices of the Univer sity Extension Department. During the recent state conven tion of teachers, seventy-aix teach ers and school principals from the two counties. Anderson and Or angeburg, met with the faculty of the University., and pledged hearty support to rhi<F"on to college and high school" campaign, jj! Ldfcer on it is planned to wage smiilar cam paigns in other counties, and even tually, if the idea gains the support of the University board, to make, ihis movement cover th?. entire ?t?te. ENGLAND CALLS TO THE ALLIES London. April r>.?The British government has addressed a note to the allies declaring that owing to the fact that Kngland has to pay interest on debts to the United States she receives right to call upon the allies in turn to nay in n-rest on th?dr war debts to Great .Britain. It is pointed out that Great Brita*.* is now fully pre pared to par the interest due America. -m ? ? Earthquakes in Siberia Belgrade, Apii ">.?Intermittent earthquake shocks are continuing in northern Serbia. iblished April, 1S50. :88i._ TELEPHONE RATE ACT SIGNED ICompanies Have Right to Test Rate 1 Reduction Law in Courts Columbia, April 4.?Governor [ Cooper yesterday morning signed the Foster telephone act restoring [rates and chai-gcs on all telephones ! in the state, except companies own ed in one or two counties, to their status as of January 1, 1921. The chief executive had announced a hearing on the act, passed by the recent session of the legislature, but Saturday called off this hear ing in view of the fact that he had ?already reached a conclusion. The act that became law is one of the most important pieces of legis: .nion put through by the legislature at the 1922 session. It makes null and void increases in telephone rates allowed by the railroad commission and puts these rates, charges, tolls, etc., back to the. same status they were before the railroad commission allowed ithe increase in March of 1921. The [act also reestablishes the telephone [exchange radius or alleged^ "free I toll" service that was abolished by jthe general assembly. I It was indicated yesterday that attorneys for the Southern Bell Telephone company will go imme diately into the courts to determine the validity of the act, the compa ny having fought the measure throughout its course in the legis lature. Provision is carried in the act for the* telephone company to petition the> railroad commission for relief and the commission has authority to reduce or increase the rates to be charged and the rates in effect January f, 1921. The com ; pany may go before the commis sion, but an appeal to the courts is [also being contemplated. S In signing the act, the governor (gave out the following statement in ! regard to the act and the calling off of the hearing: "In view of the fact that I had on request, promised a hearing bc ;fore signing this act, I think it is [due the public and. all parties in terested that I give my reasons for ^dispersing with the hearing. [ "The act is regular c n its face. It is very clear to my mind that should a hearing be had it would consume i more time than I could possibly give to it. But if I had the time or inclination to give an extended hearing, the most that the opponents of the measure could show would be that the rates fixed in the acts are conflscatory. The act itself provides a remedy in case the rates are unreasonable, and I I could not veto it in the face of such a provision. [ In addition to this, I would be very reluctant to veto any measure of statewide interest when the legislature would have no oppor tunity of passing on the veto until January of next year. I think that any person interested in any mat ter pending before any department of the state government is always entitled to a hearing, but where it is so clear, as it is in this case, that I could not have sufficient time to give a hearing, and where there is ample opportunity for the ? same questions to be submitted to another department of the state government, it seems to me that the hearing is not denied by my i acting as I have, but that it is sim ? ply transferred to an appropriate ! tribunal." Provisions of the Foster act are as follows: '?Section 1. P?e it enacted by the general assembly of the state of South Carolina. That no corpora tion, company, firm, person or per sons owning, controlling or operat ing or that hereafter may own. con trol or operate a line or lines of telephone or telegraph whose line or lines is or are in whole or in, part in this state, shall charge or collect or suffer to be charged or collected for their services a great er price ^r sum of money or a greater rate than was of legal force and effect and on file with the rail ; road commission <>f South Caroli na on January 1. 1921: "Provided j that any corporation, company. ( firm, person or persons violating j or attempting to violate the pro visions of this sectiou shall be lia | Me to a penalty of $r>i> for each violation or attempted violation, to ' be recovered in any court of com | petent jurisdiction in this state, at the instance and on the behalf of I the aggrevled party or parties: Pro vided', further that the provisions I of this act shall not apply to lines ! owned ami operated entirely within not more than two counties and owned by eirtizens thereof: Provid ed, further, decisions of said com mission maty he revived by the I court of eojmmon pleas upon ques i tions both of law and fact. With : in 30 Ways aft?-r the rendition of the decision any person aggrieved may commence an action in any court ? ?f compenrtent jurisdiction against the ^commission as defendants to vacate or set aside any such order of the commission or enjoin the en forcement thereof on the mound that the authorization, consent, mir or rates, charges, fares, toils und schedules Cxed in such order are insufficient, unreasonable. unjust or unlawful In which actiem a copy of the complaint shall be served ''Be Just and Fear PROFIT IN COOPERATIVE MARKETING Texas Farmer Tells South Carolinians What the Associa tion Has Done For Texas Members This Year i Columbia. April 4.?"Co-opera I live marketing appeal's to me to be i j the cotton grower's only hope." j declared J. D. Coghlan. of Ennis, i Texas, in a speech at Mullins this : morning. Mr. Coghlan. who is a j dirt farmer is in South Carolina at j the request of the Souih Carolina! j Cotton Growers' Co-operative As sociation to tell of the workings j of co-operative marketing in Tox I as. He declared today that already j that state had seen the wonderful ? results coming from it and he de clared thai if every state was or- | j ganized there was a chance for the j farmer to git a fair profit for his j j staple. Mr. Coghlan declared that j the farmers- in Texas, who are | members of the association, have, received an average of three cents 1 ?a pound more for their eotton than j j the farmers who are not members ! have received. Fom all over South . } Carolina come reports of heavy J sign-tips during the past three days. , I Many of the leading farmers have i j signed within the past 24 hours.' i Announcement was made last night j that John T. Maekey. of Camden. one of the best known farmers of j the state and also a prominczu j banker had signed the contract. I Probably the greatest spurt made j by any county during the past j [week is Orangebur*;. One of thej last counties in the state to launch its campaign, the movement has; gained impetus in that county dur- j j ing the past week and the leaders ! now expect a sign-up of approxi- ; 1 mately 35,000 bales in it. SUICIDE AT GREENWOOD Sets Table For Breakfast and Then Drowns Herself Greenwood. April 4.?After plac ing wild violets and honeysuckles in. a vase and arranging the table j for the breakfast of her husband j and four small children, Mrs. S. F. j Eskew. 33 years of age, plunged j to her death sometime before dawn today in Gaddys Pond, a short dis tance from the city limits of Greenwood. The body was found I about 7 o'clock near the dam in ten feet of water. No note or mes sage was left to explain the deed. Her husband stated that she had j previously made threats lo "fall off ? into the pomj some day." According fo her husband. Mrs. ! Eskey had been in ill health "-for I seven years, since the birth of their youngest child. She had been de spondent over the condition of her health and over financial affairs, and that is supposed lo have been the motive for her alleged sui cide. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that "Mrs. Eskew came to her death from drowning at her own hands." IPIGS ALSO NEED VITAMINES j Fifty Million Dollar Loss This Spring From the Cause Birmingham, Ala.. April ? Pigs valued at over fifty million dol lars died this spring as the result of disease resulting from insuffi cient vita mines in their food, ac cording to .1. S. Hughes and 11. 1'.. j Winchester, of the Kansas agricul tural college in a report pre sented to the biological section of j the American Chemical Society. j with the summons, and no order or determination of the commission I reducing any rate, fare, charge or t<dl shall he enforced during the pendency of such action if tie telephone company affected shall [execute and tile with the clerk of court a bond or undertaking in su< h [sum as tin* court may prescribe, to [be approved by the court, condi tioned i?> secure the refund to cus tomers, patrons or subscribers of 'any sums that may he collected m excess of the rates, fare, eharg?s ?r 'tolls that shall l>e finally adjudged lawful and valid. Any party to an> such action in the court of common . pic;js shall have the right t" appeal !;?? the supreme court in accordance .'with th<- existing law and proce dure: Provided the railroad com mission is hereby required to pub lish, promulgate and. and <<n re 1 quest, furnish the schedule <?!' rates existing and effective Janu ary I, 1921. And provided, further, j the railroad commission may, on 'application, after investigation and in th<- manner now provided i>y ? law. alter; modify, raise or reduce ihr rates in effect January t. Provided, further, the rat? s in ef fc? t January 1. 1921, sln.il l>c held rand construed to include the lele l phone exchange radius existing on said date, and the said radius is hereby restored. "Sec. 2. All acts or parts of acts Inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed and this act shall !??? ef fective immediately upon approval by the governor." Not?JjCt all the ends Thou Aims't at Sumler, S. C, Satur On Royal 1 Princess Mary and Viscount Las their honeymoon. Here the princess at Weston Park, the estate of the E weeks of their honeynaooij, NEWSPAPER MEN TO HOLD CONFERENCE i Printers of Seventh \ District Meet in Co lumbia Friday t oj Discuss Business! Matters j Columbia. April 4.?There will! be a conference of newspaper men ' [and employing printers, for (lev Seventh congressional district, next Friday afternoon at four o'clock, j [The conference intends to discuss? I nothing but business matters." At; the same time the conference is being held at i.Vjo Senate street,' ! the executive committee of the; I South 'Carolina press Association' will meet to consider the plans fori1 the next annual meeting. : j The congressional district confer- i i ences that are being planned are I ; for the discussion of business mat-j j ters. One of the delegates, who 1 ?is coming to the conference in Co ! lumbia this Friday, has outlined I j some of the matters on which he thinks the conference will have: discussions, something like this: j j "The cost of advertising, sub- ' scriptions and job work. "What is the fair price per inch} j for advertising? For subscriptions? For different classes of job work?j ; "Should we establish a state i credit bureau ? ! ?'Should we issue a state priee-l I ? ? ? list for advertising and job work .' j "Should we buy co-operatively? j "Would it he practicable to em ploy an advertising expert to de-.j velop advertising in the state? To j ; buy supplies in hulk, etc. How often should district meet-! i . mgs be held? ; In other words, printers and; publishers must understand each J ! other better if they are going toi I make a decent living. For in- j Stasice, a good man in a noighhor-l irtg town prints certain classes orI j woru at a loss because he doesn't j j know the cost. If I undertake to] .; noint out to him the losses he! j thinks I have a selfish motive. We I I don't want the work at a loss: we don't handle it that way: it is bet-J ! ter to close clown your plain. Now j ! my idea of these meetinjts is to get ! the printers and publishers to un derstand and trust each more-" These are only the*views of one' I of the delegates. The central idea ? is to get together and discuss mat- i ! ters as do other business nvm. INVESTIGATION OF TRAGEDY : Killing of Army Officer by \ Oil Man Starts Three Inquiries ! Oklahoma City. April "?.- Prep-j arnlions have been made to launch three separate investigations of the I events surrounding the death of! : Lieut. ('ol. Paul Ward la ck, pi- ' ? oneer army aviator and assistant commandant of Post Field, Fort Sill, who was killed by Jean P.I Day, a wealthy oil operator and ; prominent Oklahoma attorney; at the hitter's home early yesterday j when, according to Day, l?eck was: found struggling with Mrs. Day. A civil i a ?? st igat ion will bo made ; by county authorities to determine' the charges to i>r filed against Day.; ? The military commission of Post ! Field is expected lo also probe the 'killing. The state prohibition di rector began lo chve'K up to as- \ [certain whether Ihru?r was involv ed in the party preceding th<- kill ing. The coroner's inumv^i i.? i scheduled for Saturday. Plans For Gettys burg Reunion ("ettyxburg, l'emi.. April ~>. Civil] war veterans have statted ;t movo meni for i he eclebral ion of t he sixtieth anniversary of the battle Of Gettysburg with another great re union here in July next year. : be thy Country's, Thy God's anil day, April 8, 1922 honeymoon Celles are having a quiet time on is feeding carrots to "Flying Fox" arl of Bradford, scene of the first SWEARINGEN NAMED FOR GOVERNOR State Superintendent of Education En dorsed For Higher Office b y County Superintendents Columbia. April 3.?That John Eh Swearingen. state superintend ent ol education, would have no lack of backing in school circles should he east his hat into the gubernatorial ring this summer was made clearly evident at the meet ing1 of county superintendents of education recently held in this city. The resolution, which was adopt ed almost unanimously by the county superintendents of educa tion, has just leaked out and yes terday when Mr. Sweartn'gen was asked about if he expressed the wish that nothing be said about it. as ho has yet ma.de no announce ment that he would run for gov ernor and he said he feared the schools might suffer from the ru mor. It has been the custom of Mr. Swearingen Cor a number of years lo assemble tin- county superin tendents of education in Columbia soon alter the close of the meeting o!" the legislature, so that he might discuss with them the now laws which had been passed with regard to the public schools. These meet ings have been found very helpful and have been well attended. This year every county in the sratc, ex cept about 11. had its superintend ent of education at the meeting. It is understood that at one of the conferences a county superin tendent arose and proposed that the meeting of superintendents go on record as indorsing Mr. Swear ingen's candidacy for governor should he enter the race. At the time Mr. Swea ringen was in the chair and he at once ruled the motion out of order and it did not come to a vote. Later during tin- meeting, when S. J. Wall, su perintendent of education of Ma rion, took the chair, the mattet, was again broached, and the res olution was adopted heartily. Since Mr. Swearingeu had not announced any intention of running for gov ernor, ii was agreed, according to rumors on the street, to make no mention of the resolution through tin- public prints lest tin- sehojls should suffer. When Mr. Swea ringen was ap proached yesterday and asked about i lie rumor, he was found willing te lalk about the schools of the st&ti and their prospects, but would say little as to the possibility of his run ning for governor this summer. His jirst thought was the effect of any si.'eh announcement <>n the schools of the state, which, he says, a r?? facing no easy path. Mr. Swea ringen is widely known over the state; he lias hundreds of friends in every county, and if he decides Lo make the in. Iiis pres ence is sure to be felt, as he is not a mincer >>i words nor is he reti cent as i<> expressing his opinions in regard t<- various issues. JOYOUS HOLIDAY FOR COAL MINERS Alleged Poverty Stricken La bor Serfs Buy Round Trip Tickets to Europe Wilk's Harte. iVnu.. April ~>. ?? The suspension <?;' operations in the anthracite fields <u' IVnnsyl is hailed by the average min er as an opportunity for i vacation nod mosi of them are planning to thoroughh t-> enjo.* the holiday. The younger nor! .urn to athletics as a means breaking the mo notony, others aiv planning long fishing trips. Many left for visits i<> their old homes in Kurope, ninety per cent buying round trip tickets, expecting i<> return to work ai tin end of the strike. J Ti ulh's." BOLL WEEVIL i ! CATCHERS ! - ANDPOISONS !County Agent J. F.; Williams Makes! Suggestions Based j Upon Practical Ex-' perience The time has arrived when you 1 can mil oft" no longer the tirst sum - ? mer spray for the peach borer. All of the blooms have shed their shucks and the spray will he ef-' fective. Use one pound of pow dered arsenate of lead and two] pounds of lump lime to a barrel I of water. Repeat this every two j weeks until the peaches start to! swell to get ripe and then spray ' them with a one per cent lime sul-' phur solution, that is one gallon concentrated solution to eighty to a hundred gallons of water and still use the pound of arsenate of lead per barrel, if you have not .noiten rid of all the borers from around the trees, keep gougiving them out. Xo trunk no tree. The young trees ihat have been set out and headed back to fifteen to eighteen inches, now need all of the I j Puds or lea -es rubbed except four I of the top ones. The four top buds j will make the head of the tree or main limbs. When these four limbs are about ten to twelve inches long, j I the buds from each of these four I limbs should be pinched. This will > help to give your tree a strong i frame on which to build. Keep in: mind the fact that you want your trees shaped like an inverted urn-; brella. so that the sunshine may: color your fruit and kill disease j sports. Also that the height must l he kept down to where the trees' can be easily sprayed and the fruit, easily picked. I see that there are being offered : for sale in Sumter county boll weevil catchers ami brushes for! knocking or shaking the cotton | stalks and thereby distributing poi son early. So far as attaching' something to the plows or single-' I trees to agitate the stalks and shake off the punctured forms, this is a practice in common use way back j in old weevil territory. but the poisoning of weevils is stiH in the experimental stage. Any farmer who is in doubt about results oh-' rained from poisoning with calcium i arsenate. can satisfy himself by calling up over the phone Mr. .1. F. Bland at Mayesville and Mr. K.: f J. Mayes tit the same place. Both! j of these gentlemen tried out dust ! ing with calcium arsenate last year ; and they are both of the opinion that they were not benefited any ja; all. They tell us that it was; our wet season thai prevented get-j i ting results. Down in the old wee-! vii territory, they tell nie that they! can make cotton dry years with-; out anything, and if the calcium; arsenate will not help us wet years] then it seems 10 me that it would; he risky business investing in anl unknown probability. The South-j ern Cotton oil company is going to ; conduct several experiments in! poisoning this year. 1 am glad to' [see these gentlemen do this work.) As .-! general rule the farmer is not able to conduct experiments. 1 trust that Mr. Fishburm- who will look after these experiments in Sumter county, will put up some! placards so thai we shall all be able! to observe them and if there is any real value in poisoning we only : have to be shown and we shall spend our money for poison just"! like we have always spent it for commercial fertilizers. As to the I machines for catching boll weevils, j i seriously doubt if any of these I machines are being offered for sale down in Alabama. Mississippi and i Tex; s. and three or four years from j now we Shall settle down to a pot I icy of good farming, rotating our I crops, growing some liv<- slock for sale, growing some truck crops for sale, with commercial peach or chards in western part of county We shall farm more economically in the future than in the past. Morestttiition will be given to the j making and handling of barn yard manure; legume crops will be i looked upon as a necessity, and jn-rly ail of our farms will be surrounded by good fences. You will hear very tittle tail; about boll I weevils. j Because of the fact that the boll j weevil hibernates in such different 'ways and has such peculiar habits thai he will cat up one field this I year and next year leave it com-: > paratively ahme until late in the season. < U: this account he of-' I fers the best opportunity for I farmers to draw their conclusion ! how to handle him. and by the way these conclusions are changed each year. I know that in some fields on my place they did not do nearly s'i much damage a.- they did in oth ers and 1 cannot account for the difference. When we were down in Georgia we heard of u colored fellow who made considerable money out of a solution composed oi lamp black and kerosene which he used and he made n good crop of cotton-. Others used the same remedy and goi no results. Prob ably the colored man who first tried i!n- lamp black and kerosene would; have made just as much cotton had he used nothing. 1 once asked a veterinarian if a certain patented remedy was good tor horse colic ami would il cure it'.' His reply1 was. yes. if the horse was going to get well anyway. So it is with all these boll weevil remedies. If. you are going to make a crop any-j THIS TRI E SOT'r SUBSIDY FOR SHIP JWNERS Pres. Harding Said to Favor Taxing Peo pled Provide Prof its For Capitalists Washington, April 4.?Enactment of the administration's ship sub sidy bills without radical change is ihe hope of President Harding and shipping hoard officials, chairman Lasker told members of the senate and house merchant marine com mittees at the opening session to day of joint .hearings on the meas ure. Declaring 'hat the shipping boai-d "stands fast" for the gener al principles embodied in the pro grarn indorsed by the president, Mr. Lasker expressed t'.ie opinion that ?"any radical change in the proposals might result in the de struction of the whole." After he had road a lengthy statement in which he contended that government operation not only had proved a "costly failure"' but was driving private owners off the seas, the shipping board head became the target for a rapid fire ot" questions, most of them from Democratic members of the house committee. Frequent verbal clash es between Mr. Lasker and Repre- ; sent .tive Hardy of Texas, ranking Democrat of the house committee marked the cross-examination. Quizzed by Representative Briggs (Democrat) of Texas, as to the hoard's experience with ship op erations. Mr. Lasker said he had a "'suspicion tha". a few operators j have purposely abused their op eration priviliges" to prove gov ernment operation a failure. The chairman added that he would not make any specific charges on this point. During the cross-examination, Mr. Lasker praised the seaman's act and complimented the admin istration of shipping board affairs by Rear Admiral William S. Ben son, while chairman of the board. Mr. Lasker said he was nor in fa vor of a material change in the seaman's act, which, he said, was "one of the most misrepresented pieces of legislation on the statute books." CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION Five Hundred Young People Registered For Greenville Meeting coiumhia. April 5.?Five hun dred young people have already registered for the State Christian Endeavor convention in Greenv?le, according t<> announcement by the officers of the Endeavor organiza tion here. The Convention opens Friday afternoon at ?"> o'clock, with an address by Daniel A. Poling, ot New Yerk City and. Boston, asso ciate president of the world's Christian Endeavor organization, considered the greatest orator for his age in Arterica today. With a series of social affairs, addresses by some of the leading religious leaders of the country and numer ous entertainments at the hands of the Greenville Chamber of Com merce and Endeavor organizations. jthe young people will remain in Greenville over Sunday. The con vention will close with an address by Rev. li. A. Lapsley. of Tarboro, X. C. who on May I, becomes pas tor of the First Presbyterian . < hureh of t 'olumbia. j Among the speakers for the con I-volition are Dr. J. P. McCallie, of [Chattanooga: Chas. V. Evans. [Chattanooga: s. \Y. Dendy. Chatta nooga; Dr. Don w. Richardson, of China: Miss Mabel Hall, of Atlanta: Dr. E. P. Quick, of Atlanta: Dr. Stanley R, Grubb. of Columbia: W. I'. Conyers. of Greenville: Dr. II. F. Kirkpatrick. of Anderson, and a si-ore of tin- Endeavor leaders of the State. MURDER NEAR GREENVILLE Greenville. April 4.?John Hem hree. a young white m about l'~< years of age. was shot and killed late last night on the Bun comb? road about 15 miles from Greenville; according to informa tion reaching the city early this morning. Following an investiga tion and the finding of the body, ptlieers arrested Claude McCuen, a young man of tin- Doe mill ?section, charged with the murder of Hem bree. and Palmer Martin of near Greenville, as an accessory. way. the r. m dies will not prevent von. If you persist in buying them, do not blame some one else for causing yon to spend your mon ey and time experimenting. If my of these remedies were success ful in tiie pas: tin re would be -i ?onmy agents recommending them. 1 am sure if anything in the way ?f producing crops were develop ed in Snmier county, I would make i report to Washington and every >ther county agent that is trying to lelp produce similar crops would -.el thai information. J. Frank Williams. County Agent. rHRON, Established Juno I, 1S??. vol. Lin. no. m> PLAN TO SIDE TRACK FORD BID Republican Senators Have Become Con verts to Idea of Gov ernment Ownership of Muscle Shoals Washington, April 4.?Sonate ag-^ riculturo com mit too members w railed upon today by Chairmai Xorris to vote tomorrow on a mo tion to amend the array appropria tion bill when it is acted upon hv the senate in a way that will pro vide funds for army engineers .to resume work on the Wilson ^laiu at Muscle Shoals. Ala., this ,?am> mer. Senator ' Harreld < Republi can) of Oklahoma moved in th< committee meetings today to pjjj? vide $7.300,000 to finance work one year beginning July 1, amending the army bill. The committee also decided to be gin hearings Monday on the pro posals of Henry Ford, the Ala-; bama Power company. Frederick F. Fngstrum and Charles L. Par son for Muscle Shoals development. It was apparent from statements of Senator Xorris and other, com mitteemen that the existing * ses sion of congress would be unable at least so far as the senate was concerned to act on any of the pri vate offers pending before the ag riculture and house military com mittees for decision and reference to their respective legislative bodies for final acceptance or rejection. Chairman Kahn of the house committee requested the members of that body otday to begin indi vidually by careful analysis of the four proposals before they under took to act on them after the hearings next Mnoday. Mr. Kahn said the committee may summon { Henry Ford personally and the pro I pohents of the other bids before a j final decision was reached respect i ing its decision between the offers jand presentation to the house. "Fach of the bidders," Mr. Kahn added, '"will be given an op portunity to appear in person and give the committee his last word before a decision is reached as to ?? the respective- merits of the pro posals and their makers." Senator Xorris told the agricul tural members today that he ex pected to present a bill for theft consideration in connection with the offers already made. The sen ator said he proposed to have the government complete the Muscle Shoals properties and operate them u n d e r government o ." ued and controlled corporation. Tallahassee, Fla.. April 4.?A charter has been granted far op eration in this state of a p:\jpos ed railroad between Muscle shoals, Ala., and Fensacola, Fla. The en terprise incorporated under the j name of the Muscle Sit...ds. Bir mingham Pensacola Railway company is capitalized a: $_\fj(>0, 000 and under the articles of its incorporation in this state its max imum indebtedness must net ex ceed $2.">,000.000. The application for a charter sets forth that the company plans to lay in addition to the main line between the two terminals, branches between ivnsaeoki and the naval air reservtaion and be tween Oateswood Junction and C.ateswood in Colby eoumy. Ala-' bama. John T. Steele of Buffalo, X. Y.. is given as president and treasurer .. I of the road; Eoscoe C. Mandeville, j Elmira, X\ Y.. vice president, and ... I Roscoe S. GVeenaway, treasurer.. I The hoard of directors includes j Messrs. Steele and Mandeville und ?Harold B. Thorn of Xew York.. isiCK OF REPUB LICAN MISRULE Municipal Elections in Mis souri and Connecticut Won by Democrats Kansas City. Mo.. April ."?.? Frank 11. Cromwell. Democrat and the rest of his ticket were swept into office in the municipal elections. Jefferson Cijy Democrats elected four of five candidates for alder man. Returns from St. Joseph in ' dicate the election of a Republican j mayor and the rest of the ticket 'with two exceptions. Democrats deeted mayors at Macon. Butler, . Fulton Carthage and Sedalia. COLUMBIA BANKS SUED I\ S. Hodges of Columbia Claims 850,000 Damages j Columbia, April 5. ? All the j banks of Columbia are defendants in a suit for $50.000 brought by V. A. Hodges, of Columbia, alleg ing breach of contract. The plea ! of the plaintiff is that the Colum bia Clearing House failed to give him financial aid. as they had agreed to do involving the ac ceptance of collateral, which the ! banks claim had decline*? in value. j The case will probably end today. Lawrence, Mass.. April "..?The lower Pacific Mill affected by the textile strike was the special object of mass picketing at the opening hour today.