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COTTON MARKETING CAMPAIGN -> ? Drive For Pledges of 400,000 B?es Near mg Successful Con clusion Columbia, Aprli 24.?Confident . . that the end of the -week will find .their efforts of the past seven months crowned with success work ers in the cotton co-operative mar keting movement today entered on -ihe final week of vbe campaign to Sign up 400 0 00 hales before May 1. t Officials of the SouthrCarolina Cot- ! ton Growers* Cooperative Associa- ; rion said today that the stage was | all set for victory and that Hard ? -and consistent work"on the part of] every one connected with the move- { ment would insure success. Last week saw at; records smash- ! ed in the number of bales -signed . and almost every hour in the day now brings reports of large num bers of bales signed. Over 3.000* bales were signed at a barbecue in Anderson Saturday sending that big county to approximately 11.000 bales. Over 9.000 bales were' sign ed in Orar.geburg county during the /week, while 4,200 bales were signed at a barbecue at Laurens Friday. It is estimated thava* total of over -"v?3,000 bales was signed during the; week. Tomorrow is "Cooperation Day" j in South Carolina b$ proclamation j oX Governor Cooper and the may- I ors of over 35 cities and towns have j issued special proclamations calling I 'on the business men to assist ac-i lively in the canvass during the; ? day. In some cities there will be a ? - partial suspension- of business for; Ahe day and in nearly every city and ] town of any size there will be some [ - observance of the day. ) ^-Bankers and business men of; '/.some counties are planning to de-; ? - vote as much time as is necessary this week to putting their counties: - over the top. . :a NATIONAL ! ACADEMY OF SCIENCE . _ i Million Dollar Building To Be: Erected in Washington _-. "Washington, April 24.?Plans for; "erection of a million dollar build-i ing as the home of the Xational i Academy of Sciences and National I . '. Research Council and center of; American science in all fields werej ! announced by Dr. -C. L. "Walcott, I president of the National Academy, I at the opening session of its meet- j ing. The feature of the building for visitors will be a coelostat . telescope on a dome which will throw a large image.of the sun on a white surface and demonstrate to the actual vision of layman the natural phenomenon of sun shots. ? <- . ? TSie most extensive assort ment of Wash Fabrics in Sumter for the present and -coming seasons, are on display at.The Sumter Dry Goods Co. Advertisement. FREIGHT RATES ARE NOT FAIR Agricultural Products Are Required t o Bear Undue Share o f Transportation Costs ?Washington, April 22?Transpor tation rates on products of agricul ture aa on many other commodities now '"bear a disproportionate rela tion to the price of such commodi ties" and should immediately he re duced, according to findings of the joint congressional committee of agricultural inquiry announced to day by Chairman Anderson. Not only should these freight charges come down, the report declared, but in the future rate -making bodies and railroad traffic offices should give "greater consideration to the relative value of commodities in the making of rates'* and let ex'sting charges on high priced finished products stand, if necessary to re move cost burdens from basic ma terials. Exhaustive review of the trans portation situation has con vinced the commission, Chairman Anderson said, that "pyramided per cent, advances of freight rates dur ing the war and following years," caused dislocation of long stand ing relationships between rates on agricultural and industrial pro products and between competitive enterprises and competitive terri tories," which dislocation should now he removed. The object of rate "making bodies should be, he said, in presenting the commission's views, "to readjust rates so far as , practicable . . to relationship existing prior to 191S." Effects of freight rates are em phasized it was said, because on perishables "they amount normally to one-third of the selling price and frequently two-thirds," and "'pur chasers and farmers are dependent in a marked degree upon trans portation charges" in prices. The general result of increased rail road rates and depressed commod ity prices was to bring railroad rates on farm products in Octo ber, 1321, to an index average of 169, or roughly, 69 per cent, above I prewar levels, while farm products ! stood at 102. or barely 2 per cent. ( aove prewar levels. Outside of its general cohclu j sions the commission advanced ! three specific proposals to better transportation service for farmers. I the first being the enlargement of I "'competitive avenues of distribu ; tion through which the largest num | her of consumers can reasonably (be reached;" the second was the ? extension of through rates on grain [to points of consumption through? ? two or more competitive primary j markets," the third, the extension j of the principles that coarse grains, j such as corn, should take lower j charges than breadstuffs. Ade quate car equipment should a ?so I be maintained, it was added. On I dairy products and on cotton the j commission concluded that freight {charges had not had so serious an J effect as upon some othe ? larm Istuifs. LIEURANCFS Little Symphony Orchestra A notable organization, presenting classical and popular selections. Affording a wealth of musical enjoyment. FIFTH DAY Redpath Chautauqua Seven Big Days 18 Splendid Attractions SEASON TICKETS ONLY$2.75 IREDPATH CHAUTAUQUA! CHAUTAUQUA WEEK HERE, MAY Gth to MAY 13th TREASURY DEFICIT IS j JERTAIN iRepublicans Are Heading For Na tional Bankruptcy or Greatly Increas ed Taxes By WAETL?CE BASSFORP (Special Xcws Correspondent) I Washington. April 22?Secre I tary Mellon advised congress some ! months ago that the treasury was ; threatened with a deficit of some i fifty millions unless appropriations' i were reduced. The president and j the Republic:! n leaders in congress ; have been vociferating loudly about j the wonderful economies practiced. ' but Mellon is now out with a ; statement showmg that the deficit will he about four hundred mil ! lions instead of fifty. Another year \ of such Republican "economy" will : put Cncle Sam in'the poor house. : If the bonus bill passes the senate ?and is signed by the president, an ' other heavy load is placed on the \ treasury unless a way can be found ! to pay the bonus out of the inter est and principal of the debts owed us by foreign governments. The I chance that it can be paid in this i manner is not promising, as Eng i land is the only one of our deb : tors capable of making large pay j ments now or within the near fu I ture. j The president is now urging that [a loan of five millions be made to . Liberia, the negro republic on the ?West African coast. More money I taken from the taxpayers' pockets ! to throw at birds. Liberia now S owes one and one-half millions with ; practically no chance that it will ever be paid unless it is done cut of the money which the president j desires to advance'. The chief ob ject of the loan seems to be to ! show the colored voter in this country what a great and good '? friend the race has in the White I House. Like the ami-lynching lull, j it is intended to produce a pro ; found effect on the colored brother. The senate republicans are plac ' ing in the tariff bill a duty on hides, '. to fool the farmer. They will proo ; ably discover next November that ? the farmer is not easily fooled: he i knows that a tariff on hides can not compel the puckers* trust to pay ; more for the live steer by rasen of ; the hide which covers it. The pack ; ers bid their price for the steer, j considering him as so much beef land viewing the hide as a by-pro ; due: obtained fur practically noth | ing. It would take an ingenious ? Philadelphia lawyer to devise a \ method of getting around this sit ! nation and compelling the packers I to pay a fair price lor both the I beef and the hide: then begins the problem of preventing such out I ragcous profiteering as compels the ? farmer to pay much more ror a -pair of shoes than he receives for [ an entire beef hide. The Repub licans are not tackling these prob j letns with a desire to solve them: j they are merely attempting to sat isfy the farmer and he can not be I satisfied with bunkum. The farm ? er would probably vt< w with more approval a real breaking up of the ' packer trust. Another ease in which the farm - ? j ers are being handed a prize pack age is in tin- proposal to add a dirt farmer to the Federal Reserve I Board. The Wall Street Journal is i intensely for Hard ing and all his I works, but it is brutally frank a: times, of course it is not read by farmers, but by financiers and [speculators. It says: '-It seems ; cruel to set farmers to chasing j such a will-o'-the-wisp as this, i which so many of them have been made to believe would make money , easier for them. The politician dares j not tell them it would do nothing of the sort." Wim: power would ; one dirt farmer have to change or . modify the actions of the re mainder of the Board, sitting i around a lon^ table voting down 1 every change he inight propose? Wiiy doesn't eon?;ress tackle the problem of straightening out the marketing and distributing sys tems? Would they be treading on the toes of too many campaign [contributors? But back oi' the j Federal Reserve Board is what" j The United and interlocking power I of the money kings ot" the country, I led by .1. P. Morgan and Co. Until ; the Federal Reserve Board is made up of representative citizens out side the banking clique there will : be no real relief for the peopio and I their financial problems. Call! ; money for use in speculating on the New York stock Exchange is ob-' I'tainable in unlimited quantities at j ; .". 1-1' per cent, on collateral liable' j to shrink twenty per rent in ;i day,' land it is loaned up to jf? per cent! ; of tie- market value of the stock, bu: i'' a farmer wants a loan on hid [farm he has to pay more than: twice tbis rail-, together with a i commission, has lie- greatest dilti-j eulty obtaining a 1?>::n and then! jean not borrow in excess of fifty ' per eeni of the value <?f the land. In Xew Verl; city time loans on ['collateral are tanging from 1 to 4 1 -2 per cent. In the caucus of tin- senate Re publicans, <igbt senators voted ] j against the board. Tiny are j Calder of Xev. York, VVadsworth of Xew Yrrk. Edge of .Ww Jersey.! j Xelson of Minnesota. Waller or.1 'Maryland. Xewberry 01 Michigan,! ; Moses of Xew Uampshre ami steii j ng oi South 1 Hi kot a. In l!'.''? the people voted for a j I change, .ind there is nothing more certain than that they got it. un ; less it is that they seem t-> have g&tten more than thej bargained! for. Universal prosperity has been ? 1 changed into universal hard times,' which .it fctfst are beginning tu yield to hard work and careful economy, with im tangible help from .i con j gress that dc-s nothing looking to ward real relief. From universal I employment the country reached Iii?* point where six millions of able I bodied men were out of work. Tie j Harding propagandists fooled a i great many people of various class es; they even promised the Italinn j vote that Italy "should have Fiume, but she hasn't gotten Fiume up to I this time. They even made the Germans think Harding would ease them out of their reparations pay j meats, then Hughes told them to pay their bills without help or sympathy fv^nn the 1'nited States. _ The administration continues (o : make no effort to settle either the textile or the coal strike, which : threatens every industry using coal. TRUCE IN IRELAND Reported That Both Sides Have Agreed to Stop Fighting - i i London. April 24?An agreement j has been reached between the mili | tary leaders of the Republican and j Five State forces in Ireland, says ja dispatch to the Westminster Ga j y.ette from Dublin, which will con stitute the basis for peaceful ar rangements in connection with the ; future policy of both sides and pro I foundry influence events in southern I Ireland for the better. The correspondent claims author ity for this announcement and says he understand that in consequence j of the agreement arrived at hostil ties between the rival forces arc ; to cease, although the political is i sue between the two parties is not j affected. The decision, it is added, followed ; negotiations bo;ween the respective i lenders, who have been deeply in fluenced by the fratricidal character [of the struggle as well as by con sideration of the effects on the ua , tional ituaticn. i Mutllngar. Ireland, April 23.? ! Father Kelly and Mayor John Mc ! Kt own last night met representa ! lives of the Free States and Repub licans at Mullingar. lioth sides agreed that there should be no trou | ble until after the peace eonfer lence in Dublin next Wednesday. I The Republicans have refused to ! evacuate the public buildings they [occupy, therefore the administrative ! business of County Westmeath is at Ja standstill. - I Dublin. April 23?Advices re ceived from the country regions in jdicate that there will be universal ; observance throughout Southern J Ireland of the one day general 'strike called for tomorrow. Trains from the north are not expect ed to pass over the boundary and I the. sailing of cross channel vessels [ will be suspended. ) The postmaster general decided i to maintain a limited telephone and 'telegraph service for officials and j hospital purposes, but the. postal union has objected to this. 1 A mass meeting of the labor I party will be held tomorrow. Ad j dresses in denunciation of militar ? ism is Ireland will be delivered j from their platforms. De Valera is due to address a j meeting at Roland Mills, on. the occasion of the anniversary of the j battle of Faster Week. ]'.?It;. De \ Valera commanded a division dur ing this battle and was the last ? man to surrender. The only protest against the strike has come from the Repub lican, the Sunday newspaper. The Plain People, which is said to sup port the Republicans, prints prom | tnently today an order to Republi j cans not to obey the strike order. [This newspaper denies that recent night shooting in Dublin are att"* butablc to Republicans. It srys they have been displays of "disap ; pointed fright fulness." Tie- attack on Michael Collins in j Dublin last Monday morning is ri diculed by the newspaper, which challenges Mr. Collins to bring to trial Sergeant Murray, who is ai : leged to have fired at him and who : was arrested by Collins. Murray is still on a hunger strike in the ! Mount Joy prison. ! The loCal authorities regard I night time as dangerous. The sec ; rotary of the postoflice today issued ja notice in consequence of the dis- ' turbed conditions in the city at : night. it has been decided as a precautionary measure to make cer I tain alterations in the work of the ! telegraphic staff. This will involve ja cessation in the delivery of public-j i and press telegrams after 10 o clock. The night staff also will , be cut dow n. This will reestab lish the conditions that prevailed '? during the curfew time. Last nigh; there was consider able tiring in the vicinity of Marl- : borough Hall, which was formerly, I occupied by the auxiliaries, but ! now is used as quarters for the oih cial troops. GREEKSDE FEAT TURKS Heavy Fighting Renewed in Asia Minor Constantinople. April 2-1.- The capture of Sokia and Scalanova, 40 miles south of Smyrna. Asia Minor, b\ Creek troops i- confirmed by a Turkish Nationalist communique received here. The Greeks have begun an advance southward, and the Turks are rushing rtoops for ward in great numbers Heavy lightin.-, i.- reported in the Italian "Ope. Irish Strike Causes Cut Off London. A pi il 2 I The h ish Five State is e:t> ofi front the mit side world, even I'lster. as the re sub ?>:' tlii great twenty-four hour general strike ol labor agaimt milita ri> :n. -o ? He who gets his stan at the race track is often finished there. MISSISSIPPI BREAKS LEVEE Engineers Abandon Hope of Closing Gap But Will Try to Prevent Widening Xew Orleans. April 2:).?Hope of closing the break in tin- Missis sippi levee which occurred at Myrtle Grove, 30 miles south of this city. Avas abandoned today after it hud widened to approximately 12 0 feet despite the efforts of the levee engineers to clcsc*hc gap and con fine the river to its regular chan nel. Engineer:-* hope to be able U> "tk-" the ends of the levee with tarpaulins and let tin- water rim through over the already inundat ed land. While it is impossible to esti mate the damage done by the break at Myrtle Grove, plantation men to day expressed the opinion that at least $I.00-u.G'(?0 damage had al ready been done. The Deer Range Plantation company is the heaviest loser. This company owns about tL?OO acres of land in the inun dated area, planted mostly in sugar cane. Owners of the plantation say it will r< cpiire at least three years of harvesting before enough soe<l can be raised to proceed with the conduct of the plantation on the scale maintained before tin* flood. oyster and shrimp beds and trapping are other industries which will suffer largely as a result of the break. Ajs a protection to plantation set tlements, back levees were cut in several places but the flood waters continued to spread over large areas of land with no appreciable let up. Memphis, April 23.?Many plan tations back of Reelfoot levee, south of Hicknian, Ky., are desert ed tonight, following additional caving of the river bank outside the levee, near the first cave in last week. The levee is still intact, bot the sloughing off of the bank, throwing tin- current against the levee caused many to move, taking their live stock and household goods with them. At all other threatened points north of Vieks burg, engineers report the situa tion well in hand. Practically the entire population of Hickman and surrounding terri tory worked all day on the Reel foot levee which protects 7S.O?0 acres of rich farming land. A call lias been issued for workers to strengthen the point where, caving occurred last week, but the ap pearance of sloughing at the new point caused all efforts t" lie con centrated in that sector. An en tirely new levee is being built back of the caving' area and work on it will he eontinued on it until it is declared as safe by engineers. At Tunica. Miss., where serious trouble was reported yeterday, en gineers said it was now hoped that further trouble at that point would be prevented. ? ? KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE Fatal Collision With Buggy on Rock Hill Street Rock Hill. April 23?Fred Hutch, ison. aged t.",, unmarried, who re sided in the India Hook community eigiit miles from the city, was al most instantly kille?', last night when struck by an automobile driv en by undentified persons. The accident occurred on Oakland ave nue, near Winthrop college. A mac driving a Ford car was seen to strike tin* buggy in which Mr. Hutchison was riding. The car was backed out and turned back to ward the city, no notice being tak en of the man struck. The victim was dying when spectators rushed in his aid and lie expired in a few minutes. The coroner's inquest was held today and the verdici was to the ef fect that Hutchison came to his death as a result of being hit by an automobile driven by a party un known. Two negroes were some distance away and saw the eolfis sion, but were not close enough to recognize the driver or car num ber. Efforts of officers to secure a clue to the identity of the party so far have failed. The buggy was little damaged, one spoke in rear wheel being broken. One light ol the automobil?- was broken out by the impact. The funeral was held this afternoon, with burial at Eber no/.er. FORMER CON GRESSMAN DIES Brother of Judge Landis Passes Away at Asheville Ashoville, April 24.?Charles B. Landis. a former Indiana congress-, man. and a brother of Judge K. M. j Landis, died here today, lie came! here from Chicago a week ago for; his health. Landis was a graduate of Wab- | ash College, editor of tie- Logan sport. Ind.. Journal and a mem-i her of the fifty-fifth and sixtieth congresses. Steamer Believed Lost on Superior Sanit Stemarie, April 24.- The. steamer Lam}?dea, v\ it h a crew of | seventeen, is believed to have- been] sunk in :i Lake Superior storm. of tin- worst forms of auto i rouble is tie- advice y.? family | ?fives you while you're trying !<? lo-j ? at.- i he eng tie knock. -? * ? SOgjrosted stock-in-trade e riti-] cism for musical comedies of the usual soi t: "The < art a in was j snh-ndid a real work of art." 11 denied ro> alt ies en songs sent by tireless, authors of popular songs ma> step writing, we read. Radio is a great invention. TROUBLE IN NICARAGUA _ President Charaorro Orders Arrest of Three Hundred Liberals Mexico City. April 24.?The ar i rest of over three hundred mem [ bers of the Nicaraguan Liberal I pai iy because of revolutionary ae ! tivlties has been ordered by Presi I dent Chamorro, according to ad ? vices received here. j Two Kinds of Noises j Mar Radio Concerts j New York. April 22?With the re-i cent spectacular development of the j radiotelephone as a means of com munication and entertainment and j it.-- amazing popuarity wiih the American public, experts are nowi busy devising methods of elimin-1 ating the interfering noises that! ? often mar radio concerts. One of the latest methods is the! j scouting ??detective" automobile,] equipped with a sensitive wireless! ? set and a loop antenna, and em-j ployed to ferret out interfering ra-j ilio stations. The problems of static and other j l interferences that constantly inter-: rupt lectures by series <>i strange ?noises are discussed in the May is-; I sue of Popular Science Monthly,1 i which savs: j j 1 hese radio interferences may, j come form one or two sources. ; ! Many of them arc due to ameteurs j with powerful regenerative set;- I j who operate without understand- ? ; ing their stations. The remainder come from the most uncontrollable] ? force in the radio universe?static , Collision in the Receiver i ?"The real cause of trouble can1 ! usually be discovered by ar expe- I rienced radio man, but tin blame] j should not be attached to any one' I until it is definitely located. In a j locality which where there are! [many transimttlng stations, signals! . from them may break up a concert, j The allotment of different wave; j lengths to their respective classes! j of transmitting stations thereoreti-l l cally permits the concert and vari j otts messages to go out at the same ; time with as little interference as ! i three trains would create for each j j other if they were all enroute from ' j New York to Buffalo, but going! I via the Erie, Lackawanna and New; ! York Central respectively, in prac-! j tiee, however, collisions occur in: ?the reciever that sound like three. ; trains meeting at a common point while running a mile a minute, j "The remedy, when signals clash, ' j is to find out where they come j from, after all efforts to tune out the intruders have failed. Every I sending station is required by law! j to sign its call letters to each mes-j [sage by transmitting them in code! , or repeating them with the voice' ? so that all who hear the station' may :demify if. If the interrup ting stations does not give its call: Metiers, the district radio inspetcor j j may be asked to focus direction j I tinders on i: and bring the owner to : j justice. Buzzes from Power Lines. "A very efficient receiver will also j j bring in all sorts of hums and buz :zes from eletric light and power; j lines, trolley car motors, and au- J ! tomobtle magnetos. Violet ray: : apparatus may be heard at work in j neighboring boudoirs as may X-rays : boring their paths Into troubled I j human interiors, and lightning-rod j I agents producing miniature elec- i j trie storms. An antenna that runs : ; parallel to wires near by will pick j up current from them and produce; j noises in the receiver, i "The. worst disturber of the ether j I is 'static' Listen in while a thun-! der-storm is approaching and at j the same time watch with the eyes ! for the lightning dashes. Do not: j watch too long! Pull the lightning I switch and ground the aerial be- i fore the storm is overhead. "The instant you see the flash : you hear a grumble, growl, or crash ; in the telephone. This seems to j prove the assertion of the scientists ; that radio and light waves travel at 1 the same rate of speed." ! PROGRESS ON SANTEE BRIDGE State Highway Engineer In spects Work on Big Project and is Well Pleased Columbia, April 23.?Work on the Sanies river bridge at Murray's' ferry is progressing rapidly and the contractors are pushing the job to , conclusion, according to Charles H. Moorefield, state highway engineer, who vstted the bridge last week. Due to the high water last week, work on the big stee l bridge j across the main Santee channel was suspended, but the water did not stop the activities on, the miles <>f dirt approaches. This bridge is the largest rural structure of its kind in the south. Mr. Moorefield said, and is one of the most important in the south. Mr. Moorefield was accompanied by Charles < >. Hoaron of Spartan burg, a member of the highway commission, and both the otlicials were highly pleased with their trip to the Santee. FRANCE " DEMANDS GUARANTEES -= i ?nm\ Willing to Sign Non-Aggres sion Pact on Conditions Cenca, April 24. The French delegation announced that they are willing to subscribe the proposed pact under which the various na tions will agree to abstain from aggression, provided it is backed by proper guarantees and is consid ered especially necessary in view of, the Rosso-German treaty. I Man of New- York is being ?all ?Hi presidential timber. This timber usually conies from the tall and uncut. BISHOP BEATTY PASSES AWAY *m&i+ ^ Head of Episcopal Church in Tennessee Dies. Ill Only Five Days Nashville, April T.).?The Right Rev. Troy Beatty, bishop coad jutor 01* the Episcopal diocese ol" Tennessee, and acting head of the church in the state since 1919, died at his home here at ?':4S o'clock this morning following an illness of five days of double pneumonia. His wife, two sons. Troy and Charles, and his daughter. Fred erieka. a student at Columbia uni versity, ?":-w York, were at his bedside. Although in ill health at the time. Bishop Beatty made a trip to east Tennessee shortly before Eas ter Sunday and conducted services; in several towns. On his return it' was learned that he had contracted j a cold which developed into pnou-; monia Tuesday. Bishop Beatty was born in Tus caloosa, Ala.. November 12, 1866.1 He began his academic studies at the University of the South. Se wanee. Tenn. He received his de gree of doctor or divinity- from the University of Georgia in HUT. Tie was ordained a priest in 1892, going to Mason. Tenn., in the same year to become a rector. A year later he was assigned to Darien, Ga., where he remained five years, moving to Athens, Ga., in 1897. ? in 1916 the Rev. Mr. Beatty was transferred to Grace church at Memphis, where he remained until three years ago. when he was con secrated bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Tennessee. The bishop ranked high in Masonic circles and in other fraternal and civic or ders. The funeral will be held in Memphis. Tenn.. Tuesday. PLAYER HAS BROKEN BACK Third Baseman Injured in Au to Wreck Greenville. April 23.?Lying on his back in the Greenville city hos pital. Herman Merritt. third base man of the Augusta baseball team, is putting ui) a game fight as the result of an automobile accident this morning when he sustained a fracture of the spine. He is completely paralyzed below the waist and physicians express the belief that the injury will prove fa tal. Merritt was driving a Packard car belonging to Tom Barrett, one of the owners of the Augusta base ball club, along the Augusta road about IS miles from Greenville this morning at 7:3u o'clock when the steering gear is said to have lock ed.^ He was accompanied by Wil bur Davis. Art Trefry, Orion Mas ters and Weidell, Augusta players; but the four escaped without a scratch. Merritt, eye witnesses said, was driving about IS miles an hour. The car turned over once, started over again and landing on the side. The car, it is said, was driven to Greenville Saturday by Barrett, who attended the Greenville-Aug usta game. He left it at a local garage to be repaired, it is said, anil Went to C. reenwood with friends, instructing ihe ball play - j ers to call for the car and drive! it to Augusta. Skilled mechanics! will investigate the steering appar- ? arts of the car tomorrow to de- J termine if it was repaired. The players left here at 7 o'clock this morning. Merritt stated that: he noticed the steering gear was sensitive and accordingly was driv ing slowly. Occupants of the car, including the driver, and two eye witnesses, say th*- ear was not go ing over IS miles an hour when it suddenly began switching in the road and turned turtle. Merritt was rushed to the hos pital and several surgeons and phy- j sicians began efforts to save his; life. Little hope however, is held for his recovery, it being the con ^t'\tau^ of opinion he will probably . linger for severa' days and possibly a month. The wife of the injured player ; reached Greenville this afternoon and his father is enroute from . Eldorado. Ark., arm his mother from Leavenworth, Kan. Merritt formerly lived at Graybull, Mont, but of late has called Kansas City homo. In 22 gamos with Detroit last ! year he batted .'Mo. but this year ! Ty Cobb preferred to retain Bobby Jones on account of his fielding ami "farmed out" Merritt to Angus- ; t. Merritt made many friends ju re on his initial appearance in Greenville. He hit terrifically, having a perfect batting average ? of oight hits for 1bases in th. lirst two games. Tin- Barren brothers and Ty Cobb. who own the majority of stock in the Augusta club. Man ager Xeal Ball and players and fans about the circuit generaUy are heartbroken over the tragic accident. The player was certain ly the most brilliant in the Augusta lineup the ihre?? days the Georgians played here. Members of the Greenville club tonight called to see Merritt and he recognized them. He realizes his condition but is battling game ly. "If l could move my P'us. I'd be all right." he said. His wife is at hedsidf. LEGAL FIGHT OVER MILLIONS Court Refuses Petition of Heirs of Mrs. James J. Hill Sr. Paul. Minn.. April 24.?Pe titions by the contending heirs of Mrs. James J. Hill for the ap pointment of either the Northwes tern Trust company or Louis W. It ill. as administrator of the twelve million estate were denied by Probate Judge Wheeler in a de ci ion tiled today. DEMPSEY MAY FIGHT NEGRO Possibility of Mixed Breed Prize Fight Being Held in London N>w York, April 24.?The possi biltiy of Jack Dempsey meeting Harry Willis, the negro heavy weight contender, in a champion ship conicsc. in London, this sum mer loomed up on the strength of a cablegram from George McDon ald, the English ' promoter, reeeiv-' ed here by English fight manager Dia Dollings. COAL CONSUMP TION FALLS OFF Strike Has Not Yet Affect ed the Supply on Hand Washington. April 23.?Etcjc of demand, rather than strike condi tions, continues to hold down bit - minous coal production according to latest figures assembled by the Ghlted States geological sunvey. On Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, however, the output jumped to above ll.Ouo car loads per day/ against 7.:? I 7 cars on Monday, the low point registered by the effect of Easter holidays. For the ? week ended April 15 the bituminous out-* put of the country was placed at 2.07."),000 tons, and the survey re port observed that "more coal could be produced if the demand in creased, since the full capacity of non-union fields has not yet been brought out." > From the union standpoint, "the strike is running along in a nor mal fashion," the United Mine Workers declared in a statement today. Efforts to get non-union miners to join their organized craft feliows were asserted to be pro-" gressing most satisfactorily, with approximately 80,000 of them now out, "and good reason for the pre diction that the coming week will add 25,000 more." The advance of, the miion into unorganized fields was declared to be most effective in Westmoreland, Fayette, and Greene counties, Pennsylvania, which are sources of s*eel industry coke. Mention of the various legal pro' ceedings resulting from the strike was made in the union's discussion of the situation and reference to the approaching treason trials in West Virginia, where leaders of the so called "miners' army" which ad vanced to clpse non-union coal op erators "w'hffso lawyers are lead ing the cases, rather than state of West Virginia." the mine workers said, "disclose the real purpose* behind these indictments" was to "break up the mind's' union and drive it out ?of West Virginia. The great bulk of non-union commer cial soft coal, the survey report shows is.now from this state." Government agencies indicated some activity last week in connec tion with the price situation. Fol-, lowng the inquiry by Secretary of Labor Davis and Attorney General Daugherty into local and, so far, only slight advances of coal prices, several operators of large non union coal properties came to Washington yesterday and were closeted in various conferences with high government officials.! Si lence was maintained by all par ties to the discussion but it is un derstood that leaders in the coal industry have been told that any development of a "runaway mat-' ket" would alter overnight lh? "hands oft" policy maintained by the administration since April 1, al ter all its efforts to induce opera-* tors and miners 10 confer in ad vance of the walkout had proved futile. The geological survey's report to day dealt largely with the existing soft coal surplus, which is held bv industrial observers to be the price* controlling element at present. About 4,000,000 tons a week is be ing taken from this surplus, whicu amounted to 83,000,000 tons wheiv the strike began, the survey said. Cars of coal on the tracks, but with out buyers on April 1">, numbered 2$.74">, a decline from April when the total was 31.07,1. Car supply at mines, formerly a cause of lowered production, the survey said, wa>" "weli-nigh perfect," adding that all of its figures on coal stocks and productions came iron! sources un concerned with controversial views* of operators and miners. "Consumers are not buying enough to call out full production of those mines which are ready to work" was the survey's analysis of the situation. ? ?* ? Naval Officers , Are Bootleggers New York. April 24.?A hoot-s. legging scheme whereby liquor was smuggled into ints country from Bermuda and Cuba on form er subchasers commanded by ofh eers wearing the uniform of th ? United States navy has been un earthed. The former chaser Re- # namad Fidus was seized with th? commander and a crew of seven, the customs house announces. -? ? ? French May Leave Genoa Rar Le Due. 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