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TSE ST7MTER WATCHMAN, Esta CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 andI franceon i ragged edge . --^ .-r - - ? , ? I ... v. ' , . . 1 Differences Ovet* Rus- j sian Situation Bring! Allies Almost to the! Breaking Point Genoa, May 8 (By the Associat ed Press).?Optimism \ws still! professed tonight by Premier LloydM Ceorge. The little Welshman was I still smiling, but most of the dele-1 gates no longer have the heart to smile. "Many difficulties more than this) have been passed and -we shall pass j this one,"- said Mr. Lloyd George to j the correspondents tonight after a | frantic day, in which he conferred j with ? nea^fe^^ the leading figures J to"Gefl^^fM^M^Vnme such diffk-ul- i ties,^^^^^^^rhy have the con- ' Genoa echoed with all sorts of rumors, about the breaking up of the entente and the imminent dis solution of the economic confer ence. The French and ; Belgians j stand firm in their opposition to 1 the property clause of the' mem- f orandum to the Russians, and in- j sist that failure, of the Russians to accept the memorandum will mark the end-of the conference. The Russian delegates, after con ferring with Premier lAo$d George, issued a statement denouncing the! French and Eelgians for their at tempt to break up the conference and calling attention to the fact that these two countries are trying to make it appear that evei*ything hinges on the Russian reply, while they themselves have not indorsed the very document they are dis cussing. Both Mr. Lloyd George and the j French delegation denied . reports j in the Briitsh papers that the in- | terview between the British prime | minister and the French foreign minister on Saturday was a stormy one and terminated with the dec-j laration by Mr. Lloyd George that] this disagreement meant -the end j of the entente. The Russian's attack on the Bel gian position created roy.Q&jlLscus- [ sion. among both the" Frenc"h and! e'ginn delegates and apparently ! ey will not reply. * j Signor Schanzer .and othar Iral-j r representatives labored ail last evening and today trying to recon cile the disagreements* but seem ingly with no success. Genoa, May J? fBy the. Associat ed Press).?Premier Lloyd George himself appeared this afternoon at a meeting which had been arrang ed for the British and American correspondents apparently for the purpose chiefly of denying reports appearing in British and French papers that Mr. Lloyd George and M. Barthou came near the break ing point.Saturday and that the British prime minister had vir tually announced that the entente! was finished and that France and Erjland must go their separate ways. ^Mr. Lloyd George declared that the difference between him and M. Barthou in no sense constituted a break between the allies and that the stenographic record of their conversation did not disclose any such statements as attributed to him. London, May S.?Henry Wick ham Steed. The Times* representa tive at Genoa, says he is entirely j unmoved by Mr. Lloyd George's j denial to Austen Chamberlain, the government leader, of the grave! statements he made to M. Barthou Saturday. 4 lr can only be a matter of form," adds Mr. Steed. "There is no doubt whatever that the premier clearly gave M. Barthou to under stand that inasmuch as France had preferred Belgian friendship to Britain's he must not be surpris ed if Britain regarded the entente as at an end and considered her self free to pursue and conclude other friendships. It appears that M. Barthou in duty bound telegraphed immedi- j ately to Premier Poineare that Mr. j Lloyd George's employed language of exceptional gravity - . . There j is no shorthand report of interviews j like Saturday's. The persons pres ent take notes or make minutes; from me?iory, in which the spirit of the statements made often dis appears and actual phrases are sometimes toned down. I do not j hesitate in' affirming that the sub- I stance of Mr. Lloyd George'., words ; on Saturday was as I gave it. and he ? afterwards repeated his state ments o others. Indeed, he has I repeatedy made analagous or iden tical statements both privately and officially during the conference." London. May 8.? M. Barthou. re- j sponding to Premier Lloyd Geoge's appeal for his testimony regarding j the much commented on coriversa- i tion on Saturday has written to the] British premier, according to Reu-j ter's Genoa correspondent, as fol- j lows: '?Vou did not say that the en tente was at an end. nor that your I advisers were pressing you to come; to an understanding with Ger- \ many . . - Vou did not pro- j nounce one word which could be j interpreted as expressing an inten tion to break the friendship which united our two countries, and 1 re tain alTmy confidence in that es sential union." blished April, 1850. SSI,_ RVE MILLION DOLLARS FOR ! LIBERIA! Republicans of House! Railroad Bill Au-j thorizing Loan Toj African Republic Washington, May 10.?A loan by the United States of $"?,000,000 to the Republic of Liberia was author ized in a resolution adopted to night by the house. The vote was taken after the house had defeated a motion to re commit the resolution to the ways and means committee with in- i struetions ,4o report it forthwith with an amendment providing that no parV- of the amount loaned should be used in paying the in debtedness of Liberia incurred j prior to August 1. 1914. The resolution was passed 14S to 139 with six members voting pres-j ent. The motion to recommit was j defeated 1C8 to 123. About 40 Re publicans voted against the bill, al- j though many Republicans in and j around the chamber did not vote, j The Democrats opposed it solidly. In the all day wrangle, charac terized by Representative Tincher (Republfcan) of Kansas as the j "most diabolical political fight in j the house in the last two years,"! there was what some members de- ? scribed as the "remarkable spec-' tacle of Republican leaders insist-! in? that an agreement of the Wil son administration should be car ried out." with Democratic leaders! asserting that the loan to Liberia j was authorized in 1918 "in defiance; of law." Reference to former President! "Wilson by Chairman Fordney of j the ways and means committee, in j charge of the resolution, which Democrats charged was insulting, started a bitter partisan fight which eclipsed for the moment interest in the Republican claim that the government was morally and legal ly bound to step to the aid of Li- I beria. and a united Democratic de nial. While there were many allusions to Mr. Wilson the statement by Mr. j Fordney which aroused Democratic i wrath was made during a sharp passage bearing on the political makeup of Michigan. ''We are intelligent people up there and we know how to vote." said Chairman Fordney. at which the chairman was asked "if you have any school teachers up there." "Xone who received their educa tion in Virginia," Mr. Fordnev shouted. "The gentleman says that a school teacher is not much of a man outside of his own job." said j Representative Lowery (Democrat) i of Mississippi and Fordney instant- j ly broke in. "Not unless he has considerable i training in some other line." the chairman declared. "Take him di rect from school to the White House and he is a glorious misfit. But as a political boss he worked well for a while, but he finally overstepped himself. Let me say that in that connection in 1020 I made this statement?that the then president was going to change his boarding house on the 4th day of March and he did. t said we would say to him what I have heard suns at the close of a school attended down in the back woods. " Goodbye scholars, goodbye school "Goodbye teacher, you darned old foot! " The Republican side rocked with laughter. ' Declaring that he "resented the insult to Mr. Wilson," Represen tative Conally of Texas, who re plied to the attack, told the house Mr. Fordney would eliminate his statement from The Congressional Record. "The gentleman from Michigan, as is usually the case when he ad dressed the house,'" said Mr. Con-j naily, "embraced the first oppor tunity he had to indulge in the same kind of coarse, livery stable conversation about the ex-president of the United States, Mr. Wood row Wilson. "Of course, it does not take any school teacher t> understand that the g?ntl?*man from Michigan in-j tended by his language a nasty! tling at tiie great ex-president who is not able to come here on this floor and defend himself against j the coarse insults thai are from time to time heaped upon his head. That great man is ill. He lies stricken. I think it is unseemly I and unbecoming in the chairman' Of a great committee to regale t he j galleries and his partisan audience here with these low, mean, nastj flings at a former president of the j United States. "There was a time when the now | ex-president was abb- to take care! of himself in his own prop* r way J and during that time the gentle-j man from Michigan and others who have seen fit from time t<> time to hurl at his defenseless load these insinuations and insults would not have dared to use such language." Chairman Forney said the reso- j httion. which now goes to the sen ate, would be passed speedily and I sent to the president. Gasoline Price Raised New York. May 11.?The Stand ard Oil Company of New York to day advanced the price of gas ohne one cent a gallon. "Be Just and Fear 1 NEW PLAN ! TO KILL j BIG PLANT; Republicans Framing! Bill For Semi-Gov-i ernment Corpora- j tion' Washington, May 10.?A semi govcrnnionral corporation for com pletion and operation of the gov ernment's power and nitrate pro jects at Muscle Shoals. Ala., prob ably will be formally proposed to the Senate agriculture committee tomorrow, it was outlined partial ly today by James T. Lloyd. Wash ington. D. C. attorney and former member of Congress from Missouri, j who announced later that the pro- j posal" would be completed tonight] and prepared for presentation voA the committee probaty at its next session. J. 11. Levering, a consulting engi neer of Los Angeles. Cal.. Mr. Lloyd said, had originated the idea and asked him to draft it into the form j of a bill for Congressional consid- 1 oration. It was the intention, xhe witness said, to provide in the bill for cooperation with a directing body of seven comprising a repre sentative for each of the depart ments, war. treasury, and agricul- ! tare, to lease the projects for fifty years, complete those yet in unfin- J ished stages and at the termination i of the lease period, return to the ' government every penny it had ox ponded at Muscle Shoals. Comment on Fowl Offer. Henry Ford's proposed contract for lease and purchase of the Mus cle Shoals projects was made the i subject of further comment today ' by Chairman Nortis (Nebraska) | who requested R. F. Bower, local official of the American Farm Bu- j reau Federation, to criticize the J Senate bill proposing a govern- j meat owned and operated corpora - j tion for Muscle Shoals development, j In reply Mr. Bower said his opin- j ion was that the bill could not be*: passed by the Senate or House. In- j fluences opposed to Mr. Ford's pro- \ posed operation at Muscle Shoals. ; added to those Congressmen who \ were-against government participa tion in business enterprises, the i witness said, would make the bill ? referred ro by Senator Norris a ! dead one before it was started j through the executive mills. Mr. Bower later informed the l committee that his "only hope" to j get Muscle Shoals developed in a I helpful way for agriculture produc ing cheaper fertilizers for the; farmers and renewing fertility of the soils, was in the. acceptance by congress of Mr. Ford's contract. Arguments of the officials of the I Alabama Power Company, includ- j ing Thomas W. Martin, president: and Hubert Pent, council, wen-; heard today and taken under ad visement by Attorney General Daugherty today as a preliminary j procedure to the preparation by him of an opinion regarding the legality of claims made by the power company of the exclusive purchase rights of the purt of the Gorgas Steam Plant, a power unit connecting with the nitrate fac tories ar Muscle Shoals, which was built during the war. PARENTS MUST AID SCHOOLS Cooperation Between Home and School Aid to Education Washington. May 11 (Capital News Service).?Washington has a very full development of the Par ent-Teacher Association idea, which has been developed during the ad ministration of several school su perintendents. The present head of the schools in the National Capi tal. Dr. Frank \V. Ballon, empha sizes the need of interaction be tween home and schools, and points out that the teacher can influence the child only during u few hours a day. whereas the i'rj>me and par ents influence child all the time. If home cooperation is in eking, he points out., the best efforts of tin most skillful educator must fail. At n recent meeting of repre sentatives of all such associations in the city, Superintendent Ballou stiid: "We get nearer to the problem of th<- child when we meet with the parent-teacher organization more than with any other organi zation. The schools need such help. Officers of the school-system need tin- cooperation of the home in furthering education. Most difficulties arise when parents and teachers differ." ZEPPELIN FOR UNITED STATES Germany to Build Airship Un der Versailles Treaty Award Versailles. May 11.? Germany, under award of the ambassadors' council, will manufacture n Zep pelin of seventy thousand meters capacty to replace fh?- one allot ted the United States by the Ver sailles treaty, but destroyed in Ger many. A German crew, accom panied by several Amerean officers, will fly the ship across the Atlantic. Vot?T^et ;?1! the ends Thou Aimst a Sumter, S. C, Sator Exchanging View Jack Dempsey, world's heavywe at the Epsom Downs races with Joe Georges Carpentier knocked out Be ARNETTE j MURDERED ! BY PARTNER jj. M. Jeffords and Two| Accomplices in Jail | For Brutal Murder; of J. C. Arnette at Columbia Filling Station z I Columbia, May lft.?>T. M. Jef fords, a business man. and Ira Harrison and Glenn Tr-eece. two of I bis employees, are in the county! [jail here, held for the murder of,] ; J. C. -Arnette. who, with Jeffords, j (Operated a handsome tilling sta-j ! tion at the corner of Main and] iKlmwood streets. Mr. Arnette's j body was found in his overturned ? car at the side of a lonely road1! 'near the edge of the city, at an j early hour this morning, j A confession from the three men. ! which officers will not disclose in j detail, pending an inquest tonight, i is to the effect that Arnette was' j murdered in order that .Jeffords might get full possession of the ? business, .and with the plan of giv ; ing Harrison and Treece an interest J in the business for their part in the ; undoing of Arnette. I Arnette's body was taken, in hisj j own car. after he had been killed; j at the tilling station, to the lone-j ly roadside, where the car with the body placed in the front com-j partnient, was turned into a ditch, j I WINTER WHEAT | CROP IMPROVESi I - ! j South Carolina 66 Per Cent.] of Normal, Report Says Washington, May ".? improve ment was shown in the winter' wheat crop during the last month, j the department of agriculture to-j day forecasting this year's produc tion at 5S4..793,000 bushels based j on the May 1 condition. Today's forecast is approximate-! ! ly 12.500.000 bushels more than; was estimated a month ago, 2, 300.000 bushels less than produc- J ed last year, and &.00?.000 bushels, larger than the average production i for the last live years. There was almost 1 <?,ftrtft.ft(>0 ! bushels increase in the production | forecast of rye compared with a month ago. A total crop of 7'.*.-! 152.000 bushels is forecast. Hay promise s a crop about 7.-j 000,0t?0 inns larger than last year's.} the production this year b3ing fore- j east at 103.579.000 tons. Spring plowing and planting both j were behind the average for the] last ten years, while the condition I of pastures was much lower than] (a year ago and also below the ten ; yea r a verage. j The condition of winter wheat on j May I. and the forecast of produc-j ? rioti in the Southern States follow: I Virginia, condition 91 per cent; [normal, production forecast in,- ; 4'i!l 000: North Carolina. '.?1 and! 6.475.000; South Carolina M. ;m<l ; 1 1,21 a.000: Georgia 75 and 1.519,-i (?00: Tennessee 5*3 and 5.t"l?*.OO0: i Alabama. S-5 and 212.000. j -?^ !Southern Whole sale Grocers^ j St. Louis. Miiy 1" A proposal I to change the name of the South- 1 Lern Wholesale Grocers' Association. to American Wholesale Grocers* Association w as discussed at the j convention of the former ogauiza I ? \ ?inn here. Washington. May 10. A marked increase in bituminous coal pro duction during the present week is forecast by government agencies. t he thy Country's. Thy God's and day, May 13,1922 ri on Carpentier ight champion (center) promenading Beckett, British heavyweight (right), ckett before Jack trimmed Georges COLLEGE BOY KILLS_FR1END Tragedy Occurred On College Campus at Stillman, Oklahoma Still-water, Okla.. May 0.?Beck ham Cobb. 2:"'?. of Birmingham, Ala., student ar the Oklahoma A. and M. college here, was shot and killed just outside the campus to day hy Earl Gordon. 2.",. another student, while escorting the latter home at the point of n revolver to demand an apology of his pretty young wife for an alleged insult offered by Gordon. Gordon is held in jail pending an investigation, but tonight no charges had been filed against him. Bertie Sue CObb, 16 year old wife of Cobb. dec hi red tonight that several nights ago Gordon met her on the street and insulted her. She had told her husband, sin- said. Recently, she said. Gordon fol lowed her into a motion picture house and. seated himself beside her. Sin- immediately left, she said. The story of the killing was told tonight hy Alvio Cannon, a friend of both men. Cannon said he came out of the chapel at noon and met Cold* and Gordon talking. Cordon asked Cannon to go to his room, according to Cannon. Cobb walked with them. As they left, tile campus, according to Cannon. Cobb said to Gordon: ''Are you going down there ,vith me?" "No, I don't think 1 am," Gordon replied, Cannon said. Gobb drew -a revolver. Cannon said, and remarked, " guess you will. "Gordon then said: 'Put up your I.iin. I'll go along.' " Cannon declared lie then s:iid: "Well, that lets me out if then- is to be gun play." and turned and walked away. Cobb and Gordon walked on ahout 20n feet and Cannon said he turned just in time to see Cordon shoot Cobb. Cold> tell over a hedge into the corner of a yard anil Gordon tired two more shots. Can non stated. Cobb died instantly. Witnesses reported that Cobb stepped out in front of Gordon just before the shooting began. All three of Cordon's bullets took effect. The palms of both hands w<-re pierced, indicating, i: was said, that Cobb threw up his hands n> protect himself. Mrs. Cob!) said she thought her husband. a World war veteran, had been gassed in France. Sin- declared ;h:it he was not unduly jealous. Cordon did not make a detailed statement. "Cobh was after use," he snid. Cobh's home is at F5ir niingham, Ala. He is survived by his mother. Mrs. I >. Cobb, two sis ters and two brothers. Gordon's home is a! M hi mi. Okla. FOUR KILLED BY GAS IN N. J. Wont an and Throe Children round Dead Near Atlantic City Atlantic City. May 1". Mrs. W. S. Uuzhy and her three children were found dead today from asphyxiation in the home in Veu nor City. FOOD FOR 25,000 Estimate of Number of Desti tute in Louisiana Natchez, Miss., May i". -Distri hution of food ;o .-ill the relief camps in the Hooded area is under way. It is estimated that twenty five thousand persons in the area flooded by the Weecama crevasse in Louisiana must be provided for. Truth's.*' IN CONGRESS Representative Wood-I ruff Threatens to! Start Impeachment Proceeding's vs. At torney General Washington, May 0.?In a detail ed statement concerning the prose cution of war frauds eases, prepar ed at the request of the president and transmitted today to the house. Attorney General Daugherty de clared that examinations so far Completed disclosed in each in stance "sufficient indication that a crinie has been committed to war rant submitting them to a grand jury." Presented on the eve of a Repub lican caucus, called to consider a legislative program including a Re publican resolution for investiga tion of chargca of alleged laxity in prosecution by the department of justice, the attorney general's let ter provoked a partisan row. in which Representative Garrett, the Democratic leader, broadly inti mated that it was intended to smother the proposed investigation. Representative Mondell, the Re publican leader to whom Mr. Daugherty's letter was sent, by the president, did not indicate, in reply! to a question on the floor as to whether it meant the resolution al ready given privileged status by the) rules committee never would be! heard from again. Taking issue v. itlj the attorney! general. Representative Woodruff; (Republican) of Michigan declar ed the former was requested six j months ago to appeal to congress for $500,000 to clear up his war! time docket, and that he never act-] ed until Republicans had assailed the department in the house. Mr. i Woodruff reiterated that unless thej attorney general allowed the court j to decide the pending case against! the Lincoln Motor company '"on i its merits, 1 will move his im- j peachment in the house of repre- j sentatives." The M ichigan representative as-j .-tried that a Republican congress] could "not face the'country in an j election unless it clears up war fraud eases which smell to high: heaven." Charging that "little or nothing" ' had been done by the former ad-; ministration to bring war robber- j ies to light. Mr. Daugherty wrote! the president the country would; soon have reason to know that "in* i fluential personages in the govern ment who had knowledge of these transactions and were in a posi tion to make disclosures, were per sonally interested in concealing them.'" The department, he said, was handling upward of 200 war contract cases and if recoveries were obtained in all, the total would reach ?l00^000,000. It was a terrible thing, the at- I torney general said, to charge a! citizen with robbing his own gov ernment and for that reason, he j said, he insisted upon a painstak ing investigation of all cases in-j voicing charges of criminality. It ! was regrettable, too. he declared, j I that public attention "should have; been so strongly focussed on these [eases on the eve of their prosecu tion." I Given special fund of $500.000 and with the passage of pending bills for 23 additional judges and an additional grand jury in the Dis trict of Columbia. Mr. Daugherty said the work of clearing the dockets would be .accelerated. Two cases of the first magnitude were ready for prompt submission, he said, adding, however, that it showed others lurking in the "shadows*' and involved in the un lawful transaction, and that prin ! cipals and different groups of in dividuals in other parts of the country might be soon indicted. Mr. Daugherty reiterated what he said recently concerning the east- of the Lincoln Motor company involving "alleged irregularities in connection with the adjustment of j a contract with that company for I the manufacture of Liberty mo I tors." j At the conclusion of the reading j Mr. Mondell said that the attorney j gem nil's wishes would !?<? complied j with to "the end thai all who ! sought to detrain! the government I would be brought to justice." ??The attorney general comes i along now after 14 months." said ! Mr. Woodruff, "and asks congress j for $500,000 with which to prose [ cute war fraud's. The chairman of j the war investigating committee, ! Mr. Graham, more than six months I ago wrote the attorney general and ! urged him to a?k congress for suffi ! . ient funds for the purpose. The j attorney general is doinx today just exactly what many other heads Inf departments have done in the past?passing the lan k 10 con , gress." ! North Carolinian Attempts Suicide I New York. May 10.?D. A. Raits. ! of Wilson. X. (.".. attempted suicide lai the Hotel McAipin by stabbing j himself three times in the neck I with a pen knife. He was remov i ed to a hospital i'1 a serious eondi j tion. In a note addressed to his friends the reason for suicide is not announced but he requested that n telegram he sent the sheriff of Wil son apprising him of the act^ TflF. TRUE SOn BUDGETBUNK ! IS EXPOSED BY BYRNES I _ I Extravagant Claims of Savings by Dawes Shown to Bej Nothing But Jug-! gling With Figures i Washington, May S. ? Sharp (Democratic attacks were made in ! the house today on the report by ! Director Dawes, of the budget bu j reau, transmitted to the appropria ? tions committee by President ; Harding setting forth reductions in i government expenditures. ! Representative Byrnes, Tennes see, ranking Democrat of the com > mit tee, who had asked for specific ! information in a resolution, ' charged that careful analysis of the ! report showed that the figures were ; "plainly deceptive." and that they j had been '?manipulated in an effort to mislead the public info the be I lief that some economy has b^on I effected by the administration." Joining in the attack, Represen I tative Byrnes, Democrat, South Carolina, also a member of the ap propriations committee, declared if i the president had had opportunity ito examine "the itemized state ment of alleged savings constitu ting the total of $130,000,000 he ? would discover that it is pure hunk." Defending the report. Represen ! tative Mondell. Wyoming, the Re | publican leader, asserted that Mr. Byrnes (Tennessee) was "rtuib I bling" as ;o details of saving ef fected, and that "some of the eco nomines had resulted quite as much from the vigilance of congress as j from the activities of the budget ! bureau director." j Chairman Madden of the appro J piratinos committee said "some | body had raised the question of ve j racity," and that while Mr. Byrnes I had mentioned deficiency estimates ! for this year of $447,000,000, it was a fact that only $12,000,000 of this total could be attributed to the j Harding administration, the bal ance being a hang-over, j Such a multitude of figures were j hurled at members that few seem ed able to grasp them off hand. Mr. | [Byrnes enlivened the proceedings,) however, by informing the house that Director Dawes had claimed a saving of $20,000 on "the salaries of congressmen." and then asked \ .1 they could say where. "Here's an illustration of what Gen. Dawes saved the taxpayers," the South Carolina member shout ed. "He claims a saving of $7,500 authorized to be paid the widow of Senator Proctor, who died in 1WS. .Mrs. Proctor declined to accept it. j She died some years ago. There is no one to whom it could be paid?and yet he saved it." In the same fashion, Mr. Byrnes continued, Director Dawes claimed to have saved $19,000 "in building | a canal from the Atlantic to the { Pacific," and $100,000, authorized some years ago and which can not j now be used, for enlarging the ! capit?l grounds. I Characterizing "alleged savings las budget hunk," Mr. Byrnes said j it was regrettable that the presi l dent should be misled by claims ! of savings "of the paper variety." THE STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION j Meeting to Be Held in Colum bia Next Wednesday j Columbia. May 10?The state j Democratic convention will meet in i Columbia next Wednesday. It is 'not known whether there will bej ! any local contests presented, but it j is understood one or two counties ' will send protests against action of j the county conventions. These ; protests, however, have not yet : reached H. N. Edmunds, secretary of the state committee. The first primary comes on Aug- ? i \ist 2ft. The campaign will start [probably the last part of June, the i dates ami the itinerary of eandi-| ? dates to lie provided for by the j state Democratic committee, which! I will meet in Columbia Wednesday j ; night of next week, following the ! state convention. SEN. REED ? SYMPATHIZES WITH WILSON Cape Girardeau, Missouri. May] 1". -Senator James A. Reed, who is a candidate for reelection, in a campaign address here, declared that he regretted mentioning the name of Former President Wilson, but he had a profound sympathy for him in his ilness. "There has been much misunderstanding about my differences with Mr. Wilson.**] Reed declared. CHICAGO POLICEMAN IS KILLED! Chicago. May 10.?Two police men were shot and killed, another j wounded, and two buildings bomb ed today in disorders the police at-j iribmed to labor warfare. The shootings were followed by a run ning pistol fight. The slayers es caped. HRON', Established .lane l, i?i??. VOL. LII. NO. 20 Underwood Raps Plan ?Sees Danger of Making People "Pay the Price of Indus trial Monopoly" Washington. May 8.?An attack on the flexible tariff plan proposed by the senate finance commission on the recommendation of Presi dent Harding was launched roday in the senate and in the course of the four hours' debate Chair man McCumber in charge of the tariff bill, announced that some of the objections raided to the plan would be considered by committee before final senate action on it.' Senator Walsh, Democrat, Mon tana, opened the discussion with the delivery of a prepared address? in which he cited many authorities and court decisions to support his argument that the provisions were unconstitutional. Senators Under wood, of Alabama, and Simmons of North Carolina, the Democratic leaders, joined him, arguing that for the first time iu the history of, the country it was proposed to protect the profits of American manufacturing. Chairman McCumber and Senator Smoot. Utah, defended the plan the former insisting that if the Amer ican producer raised his price to an exorbitant figure it was not contemplated that the President would increase tariff duties to pro-" tect him. Senator Walsh told the senate that the constitution specifically reserved to Congress the power to lay and collect taxes and import duties and that Congress could not delegate this authority. In this connection the speaker said debate on the bill had dis closed that the committee made no investigation yielding any fruit into the relative cost.of production in this country and abroad, but had guided largely,' if not wholly, by the prices of domestic and for eign articles, in American mar kets. Senator_J*nderwood "told the Sen ate thatr^of~~only was he con vinced the flexible fariff plan was unconstitutional, but that it. was wrong in prinicple And would lead to the "oppression of.the American people" and in tl^e end ruin of the business and prosperity of the country. The Alabama Senator ar gued that if Congress could dele gate to the President authority to levy taxes at the Customs Houses to the extent of 5(> per cent, on the value of imports it could dele gate power to levy it on home con sumption declaring that he knew of no way to equalize conditions of competition in trade except through equalizing prices. Senator Cnder wood declared that the result of such a plan would be to make the consumers of the country "pay the price of industrial monopoly." 3,500 OVER 100 YEARS Dr. Copeland Tells the Rotar ians at Physical Culture Meet ine; New York. May 5.?There are ?.. "?00 people in the United States over 100 years of age, according to Dr. Royal S. Copeland. commis sioner of health of the city of New York. In his address at the Ro tary Club this afternoon. Dr. Cope land said there was no reason why every man and woman in the coun try should not live to be l.Ou. "The chief offenders in wrong living- are you business and profes sional men." Dr. Copeland shot at the Rotarians. "During Physical Culture Week, which is here, make up your mind to do your duty to wards yourself by daily exercises. Many business men work hard at their desks all week Ions and then take a week end and play s or in sets of tennis on Saturday and Sunday and wonder why rhey feel poorly the next week. Daily exer cise is the panacea for what ails you. Make it. an every day affair. Take this advice, even though t don't set a good example myself. "1 weigh more than I should. Multiply the number of inche^-you stand over 5 feet by i; and add 110 pounds, and you will get what your correct weight should be. "A man 50 years of age who is 50 pounds overweight has lessen ed his length of life 50 per cent. This has been proven by statistics of life insurance companies after studying a half million policy hold ers' span of'iife. During Physical Culture Week learn to live r'.ght * by proper exercise and not eating too much." Among the other speakers at the Rotarians* luncheon, which was designated at Physical Culture Day. were: Anthony Kiala. Arctic and Tropical Explorer, who told how Col. Roosevelt kept in good condition. William Muldoon, chair man of the National Physical Week committee, who urged the neces s:*. of a 100 per cent life, normal a i mental as well as physical, and . IU narr Macfadden. publisher of Pr sical Culture Magazine, who ' d the members how to Cat and .ercisO. Now they sad insects talk by vireless. Real radio bugs.