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OFT OF FINE HOSPITAL TO THEOTADEL A Generous Unilamed Donor to Pay For Building- Co Sting Sixty Thousand Dollars For Use of I State's Military Col lege Charleston, %.pri'l 1 0.?Through an "unknown, donor" a gift of $60, 000 for a hospital at. the Citadel, in Kampton Pak. has been made, the announcement coming through Mr. John P. Thomas, Charleston, member c.'the Citadel board of visitors and chairman*of the build ing committee. It is not stated whether the donor is a Citadel alumnus, as the donor earnestly desires not to be identified. As a result of this handsome gSt, a. splendid- hospital will be erected.in the. southwestern section of the Citadel property ouite near the main barracks building. The hospital will be ready for the corps of cadets in the early autumn. Its plans and specifications will be drawn at once. RUSSIAN HOME WRECKING Shops of Odessa Full of Art Treasures and Costly Garments essa, March 14.?More of old Russia's apparently 7 inexhaustible supply of art treasures* are being thrown upon the market under the new free trade policy combined with the increasing need* of money to buy food." Here, as in Moscow and Petrograd, the shops sell for the most part second hand jewelry, of gold and silver. ?*~The bitter story of the home wrecking revolution is told in any shop window. The majority of these things are going abroad. Among them are collections of plate, paintings, Swiss watches and Sevres vases which were imported from the western countries in the last 200 or 300 years or taken 4as loot in old wars, especially wars to the south and to the east. Hundreds of articles bought in France during its great revolution and brought to Ttussia are now finding their way home again, bought up at low prices by for eigners. Loot from Poland~has"gone back. Part of Soviet Russia's war indem nity to Poland ine^ded" diamonds requisitioned from&h*iold Russian rich who in their turn may have obtained them for. Poland long ago. Second-hand weddings rings are plentiful in the shdps, for wo men are parting with this last tie that "binds them to tfteir loved ones. " Dozens of newly opened com mission shops here"-display a wealth of old wedding dresses, richly brocaded in gold .and silver thread, Persian shawls', silk shawls of the time of Catherine the Great, babies' clothes, satin sappers, ball gowns cut into pieces and sold as scarfs or shirtwaists, handworked bed linen, mellowed old laces, sil ver daises of the debutante and priceless old silken.' "fans from France and Japan, handpainted by Watteau and like .artists. The men. too, have sold their imperial^ regimental watches H and decorations, their pipes, their gold cigarette cases, their little gold and Ivory ikons. Musicians have placed on sale their instruments, masters their black conductors' batons in scribed by admiring friends with silver and gold dates in memory of "their triumphs. DENBY OPENS WAR ON NAVAL MEASURE Secretary Takes Rap at House Committee?More Men Are Wanted Washington, April K.?Secre tary Denby tonight launched a fight on the naval bilL, as reported to the house, taking flat Issue with the contention that it will provide an American navy t>n the ratio of 5-5-3. In a formal statement, and in a communication to the house na val committee, made pubiio today .for the first time, it is disclosed that Secretary Denby and the na val experts contend that by the reductions of personnel proposed in the bill the ratio actually will be five for Great Britain, three for Japan and two and a half for the JCnited States. Five of the eighteen battle ships allowed to the United States by the naval limitation treaty. Secretary Denby says,-will have to go out of commission for lack of crews to man them; th<- Euro pean station will have to be aban doned; all the twelve-inch gun ships will be included in those laid up; all submarines of the second line will have to be put out of commission, as will all small craft used for training reservists. With an enlisted force of 000 men which the committee pro poses instead of the ?0,060 asked by the naval establishment, the United States navy, Mr. Denby says, will be reduced to two-thirds of the force of Great Britain and less than Japan. i ? ? ? When a thief grabs a lady's hand bag she loses^her complexion. f Sometimes a woijjan kisses an other woman , as if she would like to bite her instead. NATIONS : GATHER i AT GENOA ! Delegates of Thirty Three Nations As semble With Hope' of Restoring' World \ to Normal Condi- j tions - By ths Associated Press. j Genoa, April 10.?The delegates' J of thirty-three nations represent-! ! ing four continents, met in this an- { ! cient city today and began efforts ; j to restore the world to normal! ' conditions at the great economic | I congress, generally regarded as the j : most important and significant I since the Versailles peace confer-! j ence. The delegates expect their ! conclusions to lead to the economic reconstruction of Europe and the rehabilitation of Russia particular- i ly. The formal opening was held i at three o'clock this afternoon in ! the historic palace of St. George; built in the year 12C0. The Genoa Economic Conference I ; was formally opened by Premier; i Facta, of Italy. SUMMER HIKE FOR CADETS! . ? Squad of Twenty-Five Willi j March From Greenville to j Blue Ridge Conference j ,Clemson College. April 8.? About twenty-five members of the ; j Clem son College "Y" will hike to j j the Blue Ridge conference in June, i i leaving Greenville June 12 for the' : ten-day conference at Black Moun- I tain, which begins June 14. j The baseball season is getting; j well under way and three games j i were played on the campus this; ; week, against Presbyterian college, ! the College of Charleston, and the ; i Citadel. P. C. put up a good ; j game but were beaten 5 to 0 by the '?? j Clernson lads, on account of i j Clemson's heavy hitting. On ac I ; count of the absence of the varsity, j ; which had gone down to Athens, i ; Ga., to play the University of Geor- j j gia, the scrubs had to play the | ! College of Charleston. The second j string men did not fall down on ! the job, as they pulled off a 2 to 0 I victory. The game today with the Citadel I was the best, so far this season, as j^>oth teams put plenty of pep into jit. The score ended 11 to 3 in ; favor of Clernson. The be?t hit- j j ting was done by Neely of Citadel;! ?who knocked two three baggers! land Turnipseed. Herron. Reams an<> I j Woodward, of Clernson. Stanly I Weinberg of Sumter played left j j field for Citadel and managed to | ; get two or three singles, i The next games will be: Wof- J j ford at Anderson. Erskine at Clem- | ! son. Furman at Clernson, Carolina! J at Clernson and Davidson at Clem- j 1 son. v j The track team departed yester ; day for Athens, Ga., where they are j I to run against the strong Univer- i j sity of Georgia team. Last year I j Coach Stewart's team won every I : track meet by a wide margin, and j an equally good team is expected ithis year. Jack Chandler of; Sumter, is just recovering from a hurt back, but is already outrun ning speedy little Sally, who clean | ed up everything in the 100 and1 1220 yard dashes last year. Ed ; ward Buck of Sumter is also on i the team and running the two mile, I having made the cross country )team last fall. j Dr. D. W. Daniel, head of the ; English departmnet here, is just ] back from a speaking tour of the state, where he has been electri j fying audiences by his speaking, on I the co-operative marketing of cot i ton. Dr. Daniel was recently nom I inated for governor of South Caro ; lina. PATRICK ' MANSON DIES IN LONDON - I Father of Tropical Medicine? First Studied Mosquito London. April 9.?=The death of Sir Patrick Manson in London on Saturday is announced by the Lon don Times this morning. The Times refers to Sir Patrick as "the father i of tropical medicine" and says the completion of the Panama canal 'was made possible by the appli cation by Maj. Gen. William C. Gorgas, of Sir Patrick's discoveries. Sir Patrick Manson was dis tinguished as a parasitologist. He 'was the, first to enunciate the hy pothesis that the mosquito was the I host ot the malarial parasite at one stage of i.s existence and thus an [ac ive agent in diffusing disease. IRISH FEAR A BLOODY I EASTER |Day May lie the Time Set For Another I prising London. April 10.?Tin- question ? whether the extremist Republi cans of Ireland will observe the anniversay of th" Master- week up rising against England in 1-9 Hi again this easier to oust the pro | vision.11 government and establish : the Republic is being seriously dis cussed in well informed circles in England and Ireland. Every child comes into the world endowed with liberty, opportunity, and a share of the war debt.? Mansfield News. Anyhow, the world has made 1 j more progress toward peace than j grand cp^ra has.?Detroit Ne~s. , RUSSIA MAIN SUBJECT AT GENOA MEET Recognition of the Soviet Government I Will Probably Be First Question Con sidered Genoa. April 0.?The recogni tion of Russia is a dominant ques tion in the Genoa conference and will probably be the first subject taken under consideration. All discussion will begin and end with Soviet Russia, whose 150,000,000 inhabitants and territory compris ing a large fraction of the earth's surface overshadow the smaller states which make up the mass of representation at Genoa. The supreme council's Cannes resolution of January G, from which the Genoa conference grew, announced that steps must be tak en toward the economic recon struction of Central and "Eastern" Europe in order to restore inter national commerce and develop the resources of "all" countries, which (dearly includes Russia. The agenda, which later devel oped from that resolution while su perficially dealing with financial and commercial questions seems impossible of discussion without consideration of the basic political problems. Article 1 of the agenda makes reference to "examination of the best methods for the execution of the principles contained in the resolution passed at Cannes by the supreme council on January G." The Italian delegation, to whom the direction of the conference has been entrusted, explains that this article is the pivot on which the conference must work. Referring especially to relations with Rus sia and her recognition, a consor tium was mentioned at Cannes. This plan was stoutly resisted by -Russia, whleh has been joined in this opposition by Poland, ffestho^ nia and Latvia, which nut with Russia at the recent Riga confer ence and signed a protocol pledg ing themselves to stand for Russian recognition and unite in opposition to a consortium. This attitude of the Baltic en tente against the proposed con sortium was based on the belief that the great powers contem plated infringing their sovereignty through financial control and hoped to place them in the position of colonies, much, it was argued, as had been done with China. Article 2 of the agenda speaks of "the establishment of Euro pean peace on a solid basis." This section, according to the Cannes discussion, aims at "finding a means whereby controversies be tween nations can be solved with out recourse to the barbarous use of arms." This article naturally will bring about a discussion of land arma ment, which was impossible at the Washington conference owing to French opposition. As most of the European nations are finding excessive military budgets ruin ous this has great financial im portance. Russia asserts that she is will ! ing to reduce her army if Japan evacuates Siberia and Rumania evacuates Bessarabia and guaran tees for the security of its boun daries are given. France contends ; that she cannot reduce her army j because Germany is not complying I with the Versailles treaty, j Article 3 of the agenda refers , to "essential conditions for the re \ establishment of confidence, with out affecting existing treaties." : This, according to the Cannes [discussion had to do with the in allied debts, which were not men tioned because it was teamed such tuen;ion would prevent American participation. The clause "with j out affecting existing treaties" was insisted upon by France in order to prevent revision of the repara tions provisions of the Versailles treaty. Artcile 4 deals with finan cial questions: j First, currency: second, central I banks; third, public finance in con nection with, reconstruction: fourth, exchange, and filth, organization I Of public and private credit." Article "> of the agenda covers "economic and commercial ques tions: First, facilitations and guaran tees for export and import "om merce; second. legal guarantees for the resumption of commerce; third, protection of industrial, lit erary and artistic property: fourth, consular regulations; fifth, admis sion and status of foreigners in connection with their participation in trade; sixth, technical assistance t<> be given in th<- work of recon t met ion. Article t; of the agenda deals with "transportation." BRITISH TROOPS IN _DUBLIN First Appearance of Armed Force Since Truce C auses Sensation Dublin. Aprll 1 (> The appi :ir an<.f armed British troops in the streets of Lublin yesterday for the first time since the creation <?i the Irish truce, caused a sensation. And so the Armenians w:U move. Apparently they are beginning (<? think t!i.' Turks don't want them ill-en!. -AlcKeespori Record". Instead of "The sick man of Eu rope" Turkey seems to be "the slick man of Europe." .Men who sleep on the job are ?"cured. FARMERS SECURE WAREHOUSES Tobacco Marketing Associa tion Will Be Able to Handle This Years' Crop Florence, April S.?More than ? half of the active warehouses of I South Carolina, representing an 1 aggregate value of nearly $1,000; I 000. were tendered the Tri-State Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Mar j keting association here today when ; representatives of the association [conferred with a thoroughly rep resentative gathering of the own ers and operators of warehouses. . Save La Ice City and Florence, ev , ery market pledged its warehouses j in part or in full as nearly as one , could ascertain by an early and [preliminary cheek of the returns ; from the meeting". Warehouses signed today are as follows: Nich ! ols. Planters' warehouse; Marion. ; People's: Summerville, Summer jville warehouse: Conway. Horry j warehouse: Aynor. the Farmers. ; tlie Huggins; Georgetown, George i town warehouse: Hartsville, the I Farmers': Muilins, the Brick: ? Pamplico, the Farmers', the Brick; : Kingstree, Central, Scott's, Wil ; kins', Farmers', Nelson: Lau a. i Formers': Dillon, Liberty, Pann iers'. Palmetto: Lake View. Farm ers*, Liberty, Planters*; Heming ! way, Center Brick, Big Four: An I drews. Farmers', the Brick; Tim | monsville. the Farmers' Banner: I Johnsonville, Center. Brick: Bam-! berg, the Farmers': Loris. the] I Brick, the Farmers': Lamar. Farm-1 ! ers' Friend: Darlington, Dargans, j j the Carolina. Price. Center and j Brick. The first check showed actually | 41 houses pledged to the associa-j ! tion either for sale or for lease on j jthe terms of the association. The, j total values as placed by the own- , j ers of the houses were $900/000. i j Individual values ranged from j 000 as the smallest to $50,000 as j the largest, there being two of jthem valued at S?O.OfaL ! Dr. .J. Y. .loyner of Raleigh. X. j C. who has been a moving spirit | j in this organization since its incep-j j tion. opened the meeting and pre | sided. Mr. Sapiro presented the uni-: j form contract which the Tri-State I association has signed with North i Carolina and Virginia warehouse-! men, and is similar to the contract used now in the Kentucky belt. J Other representatives of the as-: sociation here for the occasion in-: ! eluded M. O. Wilson of Raleigh, secretary of the association, F. C.; I Watkins. Jr.. of South Boston. Va.. I chief of the warehouse division of (the association, T. B. Young, direc tor from Florence in the associa-1 [tion. Bright Williamson of Dar jlington. who has been a leader in ; the movement. The plan of operation to pur i chase or lease the warehouses is for ! the association to issue its stock and bonds to cover the liability.' i They will be serial or in classes, redeemable over a period of years. I To retire these, a small assess ! meat will be made on the tobac co which the association handle;; ! for the individual grower. As these 'outstanding obligations are ab sorbed their equivalent in com ' mon stock will be issued to the in dividual grower in proportion" to Ithe tobacco the association ha'n I dies for him. The association [wants to do tlve fair thing by tho ? warehousemen, Mr. Sapiro empha sized many times in the course of ; his talk. Mr. Sapiro's presentation of the contract impressed his audience generally as very fair and attrac tive. He did not hold out any I promises or false hopes or give any false information, as one could best judge about the affairs of the as [sociation its ability or plans. Il< said frankly the association is go \ ing to build warehouses where it i can not procure them and it may j need them. It has $1.000,000 of fered them now for this purpose land will build one at Wilson. N. C, land one at Danville. Va. It will j not build them where it can pos sibly avoid the necessity. Also it j wants the services'of the best of the warehousemen, who are popu I lar with the grower, who know the j local .conditions and tobacco and j have the experience. I Raleigh. N. C. April 8.?One ; hundred and fifty warehouse own j ers in the Carolinas and Virginia j have tendered the nse of their prop erties to the Tobacco Growers' Co operative association and have I signed the contracts to seli or lease .their warehouses to the organiza tion of 70,000 tobacco growers which extends throughout the three states. Forty c"t of the 7;> warehouses I in Sontl Carolina were signed over to the association today at the meeting of warehousemen and di rectors of the association held in Florence, according to M. <>. Wil son, secretary of the association, with headquarters ai Raleigh. To day's meeting marked the success ful close of a scries of confer ences, which began April at South Boston. Va., resulting in the sign-up of warehouses in 28 out of the dark and bright markets of that state, in the tendering of more than 80 North Carolina ware houses to the organized growers of this state and in the final addition; of 4" warehouses through today's meeting. This gives :i total of tnO marketing centers for the associa tion, which is ample to secure tie needed facilities for handling a major.:y of the tobacco in the three states now under contract with the marketing association. Following this week's successful series of meetings, there will be an important conference of the direc tors and officials of the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative association v ho w ill r*n< el in Baleigh w it h Judge Koberl VV. Ringham or Louisville. Ivy., leader and organ izer of the successful pool of Bur ley tobacco growers, and James C. sioih-. manager of the Ihn b y f'i rowers' Marketing association. Officials of the Carolina-Virginia1 association who are expected at this conference in Raleigh April ? LEADER OF ! HUNS DEAD! Gen. Von Falkenhavn Was! Chief of Staff at Outburst of World War j Berlin, April 0 (By the Associat- i Press).?Gen. Erich von Falken-1 1 hayn, former minister or war and J one time chief of the general staff.! died Sarurday at Wild Park, near; Potsdam. General von Falkenhayn was ap- j I pointed war minister of Germany in j \ 1 f?13, succeeding General von Her ringen. Shortly after the outbreak j ; of the World War he was appointed j chief of the general staff, succeed-j ing General von Moltke, who at J the time was declared to be ill. In August IMG Von Falkenhayn j was supplanted by von Hindenburg and shortly afterward took the Held in Transylvania against ihe Rumanians. It was said at the time of his removal from the po sition of chief of staff that he had been diminished for urging Emper or William to abandon the Balkan campaign and shorten all the Ger man lines. Falkenhavn defeated the Ruman ians in the campaign of 1916. La ter he went to Asiatic Turkey where he commanded the Turks. NEW HOME FURNISHING DEVICES Equipments Combine Luxury and Convenience Chicago. Aprl $.?The hidden trap-doors, secret chambers and underground passages of the old romances are rivalled by ingen ious novelties in home furnishing which are being produced this year. A house fitted throughout with the new devices would have all the mystery and surprise of a fictitious Gothic castle, but with modern ness and domesticity as the key note. This new romanticism in dwelling-house equipment was evi denced at the annual Own Your Home exposition in the Coliseum here. \ For in these days twin beds swing into the clothes closet; an ironing board unfolds at the pres- \ sure of a button; a seat emerges: from a panel secreted in the wall of the kitchen and the rear door may be equipped with cabinets in the lower panel for the delivery of groceries, with a set of trick locks! to prevent the reopening of the ' door, and with automatic signs to indicate when the cabinets are full. An e 1 e c t r i ??. double-spindled sewing machine masquerades as an , assembly of card tables or book ; cases. A substitute for swing-doors has been devised which slides gent ly from view, apparently into no ; where. Bathroom devices include a half- ; [length tub arranged to enable one! j to bathe in a sitting posture. A ' ledge in front extends a fool deep er than the rest of the tub. form ing a foot-basin. There are show i er attachments: ! Inventions intended to simplify ! kitchen work include a detachable spout for the faucet, which may bei ?Used in spraying lettuce or rinsing! dishes. To meet vacation demands there; : is a summer home in the form of a j j tent house which can be put upon j [a permanent foundation, it is rep-! ! resented, in a few hours. It is said ! i to be popuiar in the East. In tin new devices cultural and ; esthetic cravings as well as utili-J ; tarian needs are remembered. In i ; one, music from a talking machine .; is synchronized with that from an' automatically set and electrically ; operated player piano. Among numerous novelties in I heating is a hot-water heating I [system with a furnace and tank I smaller than an ordinary stove! |and adapted for a place in the; ! kitchen of a four-room house. An-1 : other heating device is a fan in i tended to push the air from hot-1 air plants into the rooms before! 1 ? ' ? heating the radiator flanges, and i ' which is claimed to reduce the 1 time required to heal a house by 20 minutes. An automatic heat i regulator U designed to cut off the draft when the temperature of a room reaches 7<? degrees and to start it when the temperature falls. PIRATES STAGE BIG HOLD-UP Sail into Bahama Islands and Take Away Money Miami, Fla., April S.?Shades of pirates bold, once regular inhabit ants off the waters of Florida, hov ered over the Bahama Islands this) week. . I Several days ago a strange boat: mantled by five or six men sailed up to West End. Grand Bahama and east ashore at a convenient i distance, so the story goes as told by a local shipping man who re turned today from the island. Not! long afterward it approached land; and moored safely to :; dock in such a way that a quick getaway could be made. The men, unmask-; ed, but heavily armed, sauntered J into Jthe settlement. They entered the liquor hoii-e ot* Carter De CJregory. lined on tie- proprietor! and all within, collected $6.000 and j stripped the place of arms. Boldly walking our, they entered) two other places in which they i bound and gaged the attendants.] they got :il>oiii $;i,00o more, hut-j ried back to their !>o;it and shoved oil to sea. B.i ha ma us are of tb<- belief that it;.- bandits were Americans. Clouds now hovering over Ger many ar<- distinctly dun colored. - Norfolk Virginia n- Pilot. I it at < iIi\ er J. Sands of Bich- | rhond. general manager: Richard] B. Patterson, manager leaf depart ment: C. B i'In at ham. assistant I manager l<'at' department, and: President G A. Norwood of uuldc boro. BIG SLUMP IN PRODUCTION Output of Coal Said to Be "Lowest in Modern Coal History"?But Large Sup ply at Mines Washington. April 9.?Produc tion of bituminous coal in the Unit ed States dropped to 3,500,000 tons - he "lowest in modern coal his tory"?while Work in the anthra cite fields "ceased entirely." during the first week of the coal strike, according to a review of the indus try issued today by the United States Geological Survey. Reports received by the survey indicated that from <>0 to f'4 per cent of the bituminous tonnage of the country has been closed down by the strike while of the remain der "a significant, portion has not been operating recently for lack of demand." In the first week of the 191!) strike, the survey said. 71 per cent, of the bituminous fields were closed bur "the anthracite mines operated at capacity." Taking April 3 as the first real test of the effect of the strike, the survey noted that coal loadings ag gregated 11,44;", cars against 38.050 cars on the same day of the pre ceding week. This total was con tinued without substantial change through the next live days, fixing an estimated production for the week of three and a half million tons. Production of bituminous in creased almost to the last shift be fore the strike call, but because of the decline on the last day of the week. Saturday, April 1. the aggre gate prediction of 10,435,000 tons was slightly under that of the pre ceding week. Heavy production also marked the last five working days in the anthracite fields, according to the survey, 36,255 ears being loaded. Bituminous coal production during the first week of the coal strike was estimated at "slightly under 4.000,000 tons" by the National Goal Asoeiation, which declared that while this tonnage was below the capacity of the non-union fields "the only reason for the restricted production is to be found in the in ability of the operators to find a market for their coal." "Thousands of ears of coal are standing on the mine sidings awaiting billing orders," a state ment issued by the association to night said. Reports: from non union fields state that production is running at various rates from 40 per cent to 70 per cent of normal. In the union fields the factor lim iting production is. in general, the strike, but in the non-union fields the limiting factor is described as continued lack of orders. The "f. o b. spot" price of bit uminous is practically at the low est price reached at any time since the United States entered the World War, the statement said, adding that consumers thus, far have displayed no anxiety as to fuel supply. Adapting Japanese School Books to Roman Characters in Honolulu. Honolulu. T. ET., March 12.?(By Mail) ? Roman characters should be utilized in a number of the les sons in text books for the Japa ?c?,c language schools throughout the territory, instead of the ideo graphs now in use, according to the recommendations of a special com mittee appointed by Consuls Gen eral C. Vada to revise the lan guage school text books at the re quest of Governor W. R. Farring ton. 'Other recommendations provid ed for reducing the use of Chinese characters in Japanese writing as far as possible: the elimination of the "sorobuntai," a style of writ ing used In letters and limiting let ter writing to the conversational style; study of Japanese grammar in the higher grades, and the writ ing of composition that would be of help in daily conversations. Children ol* Albania Learn to Play. Tirana, Albania, March 17.?Al banian children are learning to play for the first time since the begin ning of the war and are being taught American games. This has been made possible by funds con tributed by America's children to the Junior Red Cross. Until now the children of Al bania have never learned to play or to laugh. Ten years of war and internal strife denied them en trance into childhood's promised land. But every day now. outside the old Parliament building in Tirana, schoolboys may be seen playing Prisoners' Base, Burn the City. Duck on the Rock. Hop Scotch and other games that have made the American children the brightest in the world. The girls indulge in all the games and frolics popular among their little sisters in Americ. Dur ing school hours they are taught also to sew. embroider and care for the sick. FATHER KILLS CHILDREN Terrible Tragedy Occurs Near Charlotte Charlotte. X. C, April 10?Three small children. Bronche, six: Bleek er, four: Hazeline, nine months and John Helms, the father, who early yesterday killed them with an :i\e. later blowing his own head off with a shot gun. were buried today. Helms is supposed to have been lemperarily deranged. Mrs. j Helms, and two elder children. Ruby Lee. aged thirteen and Wilma aged eight, escaped. The tragedy occurred eleven miles from here in a farmhouse. ? \\ hai's t he Malt? r Wit h t he Moon ."' headlines the Digest. May he the man in it got some moon-j shine.?? Xewspaper Linierprise As sociation, i TURKISH OFFICIAL DENIES REPORTS However, Reports of Armen ian Massacres Continue to Come Constantinople, March is.?Al legations that Armenians in Ana tolia are being persecuted by Turk ish Nationalists were denied i an interview given by Yussuf Kemal Bey, Nationalist Minister of For eign Affairs, to a number of Armenian press representatives here before he left for Paris to at tend the conference on the revision of the treaty of Sevres. "The situation of Arm,. ;.ans in Anatolia is quite satisfactory," Vussuf told his hearers. "There have never been any deportations of Armenians like those carried out by the Unionists, when deportees were massacred en route. The Christian population in the mili tary zone was simply' removed to the interior to prevent them from going over to the Creek army. Now the deportees are all back in their homes wherever there is no further danger of an enemy invasion." Yussuf further said that th?*re had been no boycott of Armenian products, in proof of which he pointed out that he was wearing a suit of clothes made by an Ar menian tailor. He also denied that any property or lands belonging to Armenians had been divided among Turks or Kurds. He added that the Angora gov ernment had just promulgated a law whereby Armenian officials would in future be appointed in localities inhabited chiefly by Ar menians. He concluded by saying that the exodus of Armenians from Cilicia was '?unreasonable" and that the Kemalist government would hold the property belonging to emi grants in trust for one year. Massacres by Turks in Pontus, Asia Minor, were reported in a telegram received by the Creek le gation in Washington several weeks ago which stated that COO Creeks of Samsum were killed by Turkish authorities acting under the direc tion of Kemal Pasha. A committee of the American Friends of the Persecuted Chris tian Peoples of Asia Minor pre sented to President Harding on March 23 resolution protesting against the massacre, of Christians ::t Armenia and other parts of the Turkish empire and asking the United States to use its influence to put an end to it. The Near Fast Relief announced that some 120.0U0 Armenians who were in Cilicia evacuated that province when they learned that the French troops were to be with drawn and the country turned over to the Turks and have now crowd ed into other districts not under Turkish jurisdiction. . ? ^ ? ? ? ? Race Question Stirs the English Nation. Calcutta, March 1.?Winston [Churchill's declaration at a dinner \ in London and in the House of I Commons that Indian immigration into Mount Kenya Colony, British ! East Africa would not be permitted I by the Colonial Department has [caused a storm of protest in Brit ! ish India. Nationalist leaders in all parts lot the country are making it plain I to the government that they will i resist any restriction of the rights j of their fellow-countrymen in ; Africa. j The Indian Legislative Assembly I at Delhi, after a keen debate, has I passed a resolution condemning the 'policy announced by Mr. Churchill . and det laring that "any failure in His Majesty's*African territories ;to meet the lawful claims of Indians ! for equality of status with all other ! classes of His Majesty's subject will I be regarded as a serious violation ! of the rights of Indians to citizen ship."" The Assembly requested its "em phatic protest" to be sent to the British cabinet. This action of the Assembly was vigorously upheld at a public ; meeting in Madras where Mrs. j Annie Besatit. theosophist leader. ? vehemently denounced the doctrine of superiority of the white race I over the colored and advocated that meetings be held all over the ?country in support of the Indians in Kenya. C. F. Andrews, formerly an Eng , lish missionary, now a leader of I the Indian Nationalists, in a speech Proteste?! against the proposed pro hibition of Indian immigration into Kenya and against the segregation in residential areas. In concluding, lie said: '"It (the British policy) implies that Anglo-Saxon civilization is to dominate the world. The Angle Saxon race is to have a dominating world policy and a dominating world power. This i-; what I have called the cult of the White Em pire, the religion of the white race. "Everywhere in the British col onies in Africa 1 have found this cattle, the White Empire ideal, this same white race religion. To me .Ids arrogance of the white race is detestable. It is un-Christian, It is minima I." POLICE BARRACKS ATTACKED Fighting Started in Irish Civil War London. April 10;?The police! barracks in County Clare, occupied by otiieial Irish Republican Army units were attacked this morn ing, according to Limerick advices. The captain in charge of tin- bar racks was fatally wounded. While dad has a cold the family ?atche% it every night. ? ?? Many a farmer sows tame oats at home while his son sows wild oats in town. PROGRESS IS MADE IN CASE. Prosecution of Arbuckle Will Close Testimony in Rebut tal To-day ? Conference With Lehrman San Francisco, April 7.?Evi- ; ; dence in rebuttal to the defence ; contention that a chronic ailment ; caused the death of Miss Virginia ; Rappe, was introduced by the. I prosecution today in the third trial I of Roscoe C. Arbuckle on a man slaughter charge. Mrs. Joseph R. llardebeck. of j Los Angeles testified she had bee/, ; housekeeper for Miss Rappe in Chicago and Los Angeles and had, known the girl since childhood, j She said she looked upon the girl j as her own child, but admitted under cross-examination that the^ j charges of $25 a week she had j made as housekeeper had not been : paid and that she had a claim i against Miss Rappe's estate for ; more than $1.000. She said that while she was in Miss Rappe's employ the girl had been treated for an unnamed ail ment and "thai, in lf*21 her doctor. I had advised an operation. I Mrs. Hardebeek said that, in her j knowledge Miss Rappe never had ; given birth to a child. HaroldJFord,> former chauffeur i for Miss- 'Rappe; said in his three months of service for her she nev I er had dwplayefi any signs of ili ! ness. R? ? ' V The prosecution announced that j it would'close its rebuttal testi i mony tomiorrow.'| It also was stated I that Henry Lehrman, motion pic ; tu re proifuceri ind former fiancee I of Miss'*l&ppveJ w tomorrow would j conifer with the prosecution re ; garding appearing as a witness. TRUTH NOT TOLD, SAYS ATTORNEY I - * - u Believes Day is Keeping j - Something Back i Oklahoma City, April 7.?County* I Attorney Hughes, in a statement I today giving the result of his in ; vestigation, declared that if Jean i P. Day, wealthy oil operator and attorney, shot and killed Lieut. Col. Paul Ward Reck, army flier, "in defense of his home, and if he , tells the true story of the tragedy ?any red blooded jury will acquit ! him." v Day "saw something that swept j him off \his feet" when he returned j to his home early Tuesday and. j found his wife in the arms of i Lieutenant Colonel Beck, the at torney said he was convinced. I "Beck was not looking at Judge i Day at the" time'of the firing," he I added. *' ' ' ' "It was not in self-defense the I attorney snot Beck down," Hughes I said. "It is my opinion Day has, I not told the whole truth." i Attorneys for Day. howec,?, de I dared he. "had told the whole i truth" and' added that Day and j Mrs. Day would tell at the coroner's j inquest Saturday the same story ! they have made public, "because \% I is the truth.*' f "An important matter, I think, i has been entirely overlooked/* I Hughes' statement said. "It is the j proposition of a 'handkerchief be j ing found in the clenched hand of I Paul Beck.1 What was Beck doing. ? with his handkerchief immediately ; before the gun was discharged?" Day has declared that he re i turned home to find Mrs. Day fight-. I ing Beck. Day said he went up ! stairs, obtained a revolver, came I down and, confronting Beck, I struck' the army officer over the ! head with the revolver when I Beck drew back one har.d. The j discharge of the revolver was ac-. ] cidental, he averted, "Ont^V^S*..**3 absolutely certain j in. nur, ^-ijpf an,d that is that the : gum waAv?BC-h/rged while imme I diately ae-jacem-to the head of Paul Beck." Hughes "declared. "Wheth , er Beck tvas shot from the front or j back is one of the greatest ques ! tions involved in the case. X-ray photographs indicate- Beck was not ? in a pospcion to see his slayer. "Judge Day asserts that he fired in self-defense. In my judgment, if the shot was fired in defense it was in defense of home and not ol life." '' " ?"? Declaring :iJtiy and Beck had been close ffierids ^before the tragedy, Hughes asked: "What extraordinary occur rence changed the mental condi tions of the one towards the oth er? What caused Mrs. Day after the shooting to moan. "Oh, my hon or'?" Hughes asserted in his opinion there was no doubt that "lhiuor had been served at the Day home tlie night of the killing," but he said he believed Day was not under tiie influence of liquor when the shot was fired. "1 do not believe that there were any other parties in the house at the time of th$ firing of the fatal shot except Day* Mrs. Day and Paul Beck," th?' statement said. Mrs. Day was melancholy today, remaining in her boudoir and hav ing little to say to friends. * Turf Tennis Courts Shipped by Ex press. 'i hanks to a secret method of growing turf in strips of uniform thickness, a gardener named Mac Donald, of Kernenden. England, is enabled to ship lawn tennis courts" in crat??s to every part of the country, according io Popular Science Monthly for March. Mac Donald claims that a tennis cour* laid by him in the afternoon, will be firm enough to play upon by the next morning, and will be as level as the proverbial billiard table. I 'or shipment, the turf is cut into strips and packed on shallow* trays. From eight t<> a dozen of these trays of fresh, green turf are nailed into a crate and sent to their destination by express. A late frost is going to nip the ?cciety buds.