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MAY BE / CONTINUED HQ Believed That Definite: Break Has Been! Avoided. Outcome i Uncertain as to Rus sians Reply Genoa, May 11 (By,the Associat ed Press).?Russia's reply to the allied memorandum, . which was presented today to Signer Schan ker, president of the economic con ference, is generally regarded as '' coaciliator>\ At 'least^'it is consid - ered basis for further negotiations. ? Its suggestion that all the tan gled financial problems be submit ted to a mixed committee of ex perts named by the Genoa confer '?"3ce provided ;t means of escape } from the present superheated at- j mosphere which appeal** to be un- j ' favorable for the settlement - of j myriad questions arising from the i Russian situation. "England :.-ega%ds the- reply as j moderately conciliatory, so also < does Italy. -The Italian foreign i ininster has been working day and ; night-to prevent a break which! seemed imminent through the op- i position of France and Belgium to j the settlement of the property! question which Great Britain and j the* lesser powers will approve. France expresses , great disap- I pOintment at the reply and Bel- j gkrra is far from satisfied. M..Barthou, head. Of the French j delegation, declared af,ter a*n exami nation of the text* that the reply did not get anywhere and was not really an answer at all to the al lied proposals. Consequently it will I not be certain until after he has' Conferred with the government in ! Paris whether the Russian propos- ' als will be accepted hy the French ! as a basis for continuance of the i dismission. In the meantime the future of} the conference is highly uncertain.? Scone of the delegations believe; that *it v.ill close p*ecipitatly or; perhaps it would be. truer to say I that they hope it will. Other del- j egations predict that*, it will hist; six weeks longer-ahd go; into the Russian financial tangle in great! detail. The latter seem to be in ? the tnajorif^.arfd indications to- j rr"ght are that the conference may j b? prolonged indefinitely. Genoa, May 13?As the result ? of the meeting of the economic con- * ference subcommission oh" Russian : affairs, the situaii'on-has become" so ! critical, that it seemed doubtful j whether the French and British po-j sitions could be reconciled. The j British delegates ^announced *hat j a serious, though friendly discus-; sibn occurred. WATERGoS" OVEM LEVEE No Immediate ganger of % ^'V:' Sreak, Official Says -? " r*|> New Orleans. May Levee en gineers here were notified late to day, of the caving in of a section of S the" Mississippi river.. levee at aj ?p*>mt on tlie west bank of the j vHream. one and a half miles below j ?t^J antes station m St. James Par- j :ish. 50 miles above -$&y: Orleans. j " Three sloughts coming in quick; succession \vere/ lollonOtd by waves | four feet high that rolled over the ' levee onto the land behind it. Two i cl the swells were about SOO feet i in length, according to Hector A. j Himel. in charge .-of that levee j district. Mr. Himel reported, he believed i.here was r.o immediate danger of the-levee breaking. It was statea by engineers here ! that a break at htat point would j inundate St. James Parish and j probably would spread to sections ; of St. John the Baptist; Assumption j and La Fourche parishes. Several' towns of importance would be af' ' fected. SURPLUS OF GASOLINE Reserve Stores on Hand April | First Near Billion Gallons "Washington. May 14?A new high! record for the national stock off gasoline, increases, in the price of ? which have been ordered investi- j f ated by the senate, was establish - . ed April 1, according to statistics rna#b public tonight by the federa tion bureau of mines fallowing sup- I plies of the commodity on that date j aggregated 854.232.0?? gallons. The stocks on hand April 1 were i ^np-roximately 47;$0?yf)00 gallons greater than on March 1. when the [ previous high mark of SOT.000,000 ? gallons in storage was mad.. The official figures confirmed j statements made in the senate that j.resent supplies and those of re cent months were greater than ever before in this country. Further increases in the reserves of gasoline may be expected, the bureau's statement indicated. The bureau reports that kerosene ?tocks decreased about 10.000,000 gallons during March, while a de- ', crease of 125,000 gallons for i in stored reserves of the same date j last year was shown. MA J. JOS B. CUM MINGS DEAD Veteran of Augusta Bar Dies at Age of Eightv-Six Augusta. May 1"?Major Joseph] B. Camming, a Confederate vete- ; ran, and a pioneer member of the ! Augusta bar. died here today at i th'o age of eicrhty-Si^. FRANCE IGNORES _R?SS1A President Po in care Refuses to Enter in to Negotiations with Representatives o f Soviet . Paris. May VI (By the Associated Press).?Premier Poincare late tor nigM renewed and also strengthen ed .his original instructions to M. Barthou at Genoa. He is understood to have told M. Barthou that he must not enter into any negotiation whatsoever with the Russians. He also told M. Barthou to make clear, both in the subcommittee and in the plenary committee, that the view of the French governrient is that nothing more is to be gained by prolonging the conference. The French government will not agree to French experts sitting on any commissiohs with the Russian experts, being of the opinion that exchange of views with the soviet de'r, ;.*_-s will lead to nothing, but in deferring to certain susceptibili ties the French delegates might ac cept an early m ?eting in some other city between allied experts commis sioned to study the best methods Of dealing vith the Russian prob lem. It is also felt that represen tatives of the United States should be present at.such meetings. Should France take the initiative in winding up ?*he conference, ac cording to information received here. Belgium, Poland and Dei - mark, and probably other powers, would follow her lead. Genoa. May 12 (By the Associ ated Press).?So gravely at vari ance are Russia's communism and the order of things obtaining throttghout the rest of Europe that a general. immediate agreement with Russia appears tonight im probable. This conviction is deeply disappointing to those, who expected quick and big results at Genoa but the sentiment is tempered by the belief that the creation of one or more commissions to pursue a" study of Russian problems will prove efficacious in finding a means to reconstruct Russia and bring her back into the Europe family.. Furthermore, Premier Lloyd George and the Italian leaders are convinced that the signing of an Europe truce as a preliminary to a general non-aggression pact will go a long way towards tranquiiizing Europe. Hopes of eventually ac complishing something generally constructive for Russia were in creased tonight by an announce^ ment from-the French delegation that France favors the appointment of a commission for investigation of questions like credits, debts anu the treatment of foreign private property and approved also a gen eral truce, provided it is under stood that while th;* commissions are engaged h: their labors the powers will no*, fellow in the foot steps of Germany and make sepa rate treaties with Russia. The French r"sent accusations that they tried- to dominate the conference. They assert that the present situation justifies their views that the Russian problem has not been sufficiently studied and that something more should have ''been don^ to approximate the views of the ..Russians w.?th the repre sentatives of non-co.aamunis?: states before hoping to reach a general sweeping accord i t Genoa. In other words they believe that the Russian problem through hv/estigalion by a commission which will probably visit Russ?a is bei us approached now in a proper and logical manner and they therefore appro v.* the contemplated pr -et du re. The French apparently prefer an investigat.on by an international commission without Russiar.s sit ting thereon, yet tonight , a French spokesman said that Franc would not oppose the presence' of Rus sians. This question will be iron ed out tomorrow when the sub commission on Russian affairs meets to consider thj Russian re ply. JOE JACKSON PLAYS AGAIN Former Big Leaguer Plays - With Estill Team Varnville. May 11.?How the mighty have fallen. Joe Jackson, once the hero of thousands, has com?' ba<-k. Jackson played with the Estill team against Varnville Tuesday. Varnville winning in spite 02" tin- ferne r White Sox star's presence by the score of 2 to i. Varnville protested against playing with Jackson it! the line-up. but Bstlii refused to play without his services. Adult School Funds Columbia. May 15.?Thirty-live county treasurers are today receiv ing cheeks fron? the state depart ment of education for their appor tionments of tin- adult school funds, to pay tiie salaries of teach ers of adults. The money was sent to 201 schools. Th<- largcsl amount went to 1 lorry county, ??>-. i:?:.'. tin- second largest amount to Spartanburg, $1.411. and the third in size to Greenville. $l.v25. ?'ol leton gets *!?<??_'. Richland $567, Oconce $485. Lancaster $441, Georgetown $439, Marion $-433. Greenwood $429. Anderson $416, York $4V7, and Union $363. Flor ence gfcts $162, Orangeburg $60. and tin- other coimtes varying amounts, ranging from -S1'J up. Tight-fisted men never grab as much as they could with their bands opcu. STILL LOCATED IN PAST?R _ !No Sunday Cessation of Moonshiners Ac tivities Deputy Sheriff H. G. McKagen was forced to spend the greater part of Sunday in the search of J stills, as a telephone call coining 'to him at about 9:30 o'clock in i the hiorning from Mr. Horace Avin, I living: about ten miles from Sum i ter in the Privateer section, com [ pelled him to make an immediate [trip to that section and caused j him to put in many hours of this [day in the nearby swamps. Mr. I Avin and a young Kolb boy ac companied Deputy Sheriff McKag | en into the swamps and aided him 'in the location of two places where : stills'had been in very recent op j eration. At one location two bar : reis of mash were found and two! I empty barrels and Mr. Avin stated! j that he had seen the copper still in operation at this place early in j I the morning. Another location was 'found further on, in the pasture of : ! Mr. Peter McLeod, a renter of Mr. j Hal Harby. Four full barrels of I mash and four empty barrels were found at this place and the worm j of the still found here but again the still itself had been, moved and ! could not be located. A fence had been built around this location in i the swamp, within the pasture, to keep the cows that were in 'the pasture from the still and mash. AH of the barrels and the mash was destroyed, the barrels being | burned from a fire kindled from i the fat lightwood gathered togeth er at the sitll for its operation.; j Mr. McKagen returned to Sumter ;at about 3 in the afternoon after! his day's work in the swamps. SLOW DOWN i ORDINANCES AMENDED ! Protest of Seaboard Air Line Officials Gets Results Columbia, May 15.?The town j 'of "Woodford, in Orangeburg coun- j ; ty. on the (Seaboard, between Co-| jlumbia and Savannah, has yielded j 'to the appeal of the railroad for ? an amendment to its ordinance re-j i quiring all trains passing through ' the town tj> slow down. Several [little towns on this railroad passed f ordinances requiring slow speeds, j j The railroad complained, on the j jground that such a speed made I taking the grades at several points I i almost impossible, and increased j j operating costs. The railroad com mission went to VYoodford. near I j Columbia, a few days ago. and of ficials of the road attending urged' [that the ordinance be repealed. SQUANDERING OIL RESOURCES Independent Producers Pro test Against Gift of Naval Oil Reserves to Trust j Washington, May 13.?A petition; j to the senate protesting against j government leasing ot naval oil re-; !serves, received from the National I Association of independent Oil] ! Producers, was read in the senate jtoday by Senator La Follette, Re-1 I publican. Wisconsin, whose reso ; lution for an investigation of the: leases recently was adopted. I The petition declared that the j I "delivery of the naval reserves to \ I the Standard Oil-SUiclair-Dohcny j [interests constitutes a return to' i the era of land grabbing and car-! I pet bagging whose hydra-head of j [iniquity was crushed by the policy I of President Roosevelt almost aj ! decade ago." W. H. Gray, prcsjd nt of the in-j dependent producers, of Tulsa, Okla., signed the petition and ad vised Senator La Follette that the [association had authorized a con;-, mittee of oil experts to assist in I the forthcoming senate investiga tion. The petition; it was said. [ was drafted at a recent meeting at , Tulsa of the association's direc tors, j Protests wer" made in the peti tion against the policy of the See-| retary of the Interior and the Sec- I retary of the Navy, "in opening! the naval reserves at this time for I exploitation," and especially against the 'ease given the Sinclair inter ests in the Teapot Dome, Wyoming, district. The petition urged also' against .any policy "which would tend to perpetuate a monopolistic control of the oil industry." "There exists no emergency or necessity which would warrant the opening of the naval reserves, there being already ab<*ve ground and in storage iln> greatest amount of <>i! that has been in storage in the history of nil times." The petition continued: "The turning over . of govern ment lands to la$gc pipe line inter ests, for exploitation will have ;in direct result of depressing the priee <>i" crude <>il without in any way re lieving the people of the onerous and burdensome high prices of re fined products. "We ask that tie- committee in vestigate the contracts referred to with a view ro determining wheth er or not they tend to perpetuate ;i monopolistic control of the oil industry and whether or nol thej tend to violate the spirit of the anti-trust laws of this country and whether or not the effect of those contracts will !><? to create a mo nopoly of the oil trade with the navy." The petition declared that the department <u' the interior* was pursuing on.- policy in limilih;; de velopment of I t!?It;t ti oil lands ;ti Oklahoma and another in reference to the naval reserves. The lini:!.; tio?i upon the leases in Oklahoma, the petition >.iid. Im^ demonstrated wisdom of such .? policy and also that there was sufficient capital, ?utside of the large concerns, to ?!? \ ? i?>i> the la nds. CHILD LABOR LAW VOID [iL S. Supreme Court Holds That Law is Unconstitutional Washington. May 15.?The child labor law was held by the su preme court. as unconstitutional and not valid. The decision ren dered in this rase was brought by j the Drexel Furniture company of! ['North Carolina and was one of ! three eases brought by that stale 'testing the validity of the child la-j ; bor law, in all of which the Unit- ; led Stales district court decided' 'against the government. ELECTROCUTED AT EASLEY Lightning and Electricity Kill Three Easley People _ I Greenville. May 3 3.?Clifton D. i ! Bolt, superintendent of the Easley j ! Water and Light Plant, and his as- ; j sistant, A. Cal McMahan. were] j killed by electricity in some mys terious way this afternoon at the! j Easley pump station, near Easley. | ! these making the third death from ! electricity in Easley today, the first j being that of Miss Ollic Brown, of i Glenwood Mill village Who was j j instantly killed about - o'clock, j while standing in her room in her] residence, when a bolt of lightning; hit the transformer outside the] I house. I Messrs. Bolt and McMahan had j I gone io the city pumping station, j [supposed to fix something that had j j gone wrong with the plant. About I three-quarters of an hour later a I passer-by saw the bodies of the! j two men and immediately reported I the gruesome discovery to citizens j of Easley, Who went out to the scene. The body of Mr. Bolt was lying on the ground just outside i the building, in a corner, in a sit ting position, with a crowbar in his band. Mr. McMahan's body show ed bad burns, but there was no j mark of violence on Mr. Bolt, at-] though Indications, were that he had writhed on the ground before dying. The pumping station is operated by a 2,300-yolt current! and the supposition is that Mr. Mc-j j Mahan first came in contact with, I electricity in some way. and that) j .Mr. Bolt, coming to his rescue, was ? [also electrocuted. A severe electric: : atorm passed over this section dur ing the afternoon and it is thoughtj j that a bolt of lioitning might have ! been conveyed to the pump house j while the men were iti it by one of ! the wires. An electrician, who arrived or. , the spot immediately after, warned j the crowds to stay away from the ? I buiiding, saying it was "charged . j with electricity." and disconnected ! i the station from the electric lines.. ! An investigation is going forward. 1 Miss Ollje Brown was standing; ; in a room with several persons be-: heath, an electric light, and with; j her hand on an iron bed. when -a | bolt of lightning struck the trans-1 ' former. She fell dead, although j no one else in the room v.as hurt. SENATOR DIAL IS INDIGNANT i i - Amendment to Cotton Futures Act Held in Committee Washington. May 13.?Senator ! .V I?. Dial today expressed great indignation in a speech to the Sen ate against his inability to get his rcotton futures amendment out of committee. The South Carolina j Senator said in part: "l want to say. speaking of slavery, that we, ! have not gotten out of that Condi- j ! t.on yet. In fact, the war freed the colored population, hut soon there-' after the whole South became en slaved by the custom and then the! I law of selling cotton, and it seemsi j that I am not making much prog ress in getting these shackles re-, moved. ''Last year I introduced an amendment to the cotton futures ; contract bill, which has been pcud- 1 ing before a subcommittee of the! agricultural com mi tee of the Sen-! ate for over twelve month*, and I cannot get a report of the Senate. "We speak of the pauper laborer i of Asia. We have a living example I of it righl here and the Congress; : of the United States is responsible lift a great extent for this condition! J of poverty and Illiteracy. While we! ' are her:- Irving to provide means of' i lending money to the people of the j country we are doing but little to i .' ?] them in getting a proper return! for the products of their labor. ? I charge the Congress with ? being in favor of the bears on the cotton market, unintentionally, of. ?curse, but the disastrous result to, the farmer is the same. The law' simply amounts to confiscation, and i am making every effort in my power to get the agricultural com mittee of the Semite t" report this, tun ndmenr. If it should be report ed 1 believe there will be little ob-j jection on tin- floor of the Senate. I! we can get it enacted tr?to law it will help the condition of the la boring people of mv section of the country more than anything else' ??r perhaps everything else, we I . ould do in their behalf It took thirty years for Congress t?> pass j the present law. I trust it will not take quite so long to pass my I amendment. If the subcommittee prefers not ! ? report my amend ment 'favorably' 1 that it report something or just send it back." Foreign Trade Slumped in April Washington. May IT??Foreign trail ? slumped in April?l'ter recent advances, according to reports of j the Commerce department. LYLE CONVICT ED AT A IK EN Judge Rice Imposes Sentence of Four Years vn Check Forger Aiken. May 13.?While Judge Hayne F. Rice was passing sentence upon Milton T.yIconvicted of for gery and uttering a forged instru ment *?ii an Aiken bank, before a crowded court room this-afternoon the fire alarm spunded and through the windows o' the court room a i loud of sn;r.;;.< was: visible three or four blocks away. Immediately sentence had been passed some one announced that Judge Rice's home on south Boundary was in fire. Court was hastily adjourned and the crowd went to the scene. Tbo roof of Judge Rice's home was burned. Tin- origin of the fire is not known, but por-sibly came from defective wiring. The jury had been out since 1 o'clock. Shortly after 4:3') o'clock this afternoon if was announced that a verdict had been reached.! This was rendered as guilty. Lylej then went into the dock Ho receive flic sentence of the court. Under the law Judge Rice told him the i extreme penalty was seven years.) The sentence of the court was fourj years at hard labor on the public) roads of Aiken county, or in the I penitentiary. Lyle heard sentence passed upon him and his counsel immediately! gave notice of a possible appeal. There are two more charges' against Lyle. both similar to that I on whi? h he was today convicted for passing forged instruments up on the FirH National bank and the Bank of Western Carolina lure. In: addition there are charges pending against him ar several other points in Georgia ami South Carolina. Th. conviction of Lyle means that J. C. Westbury and Sam Padgett will also be tried for forgery, passing) forged instruments and conspiracy.) Assistiq^ Solicitor It. L. Gunter) were p. F. Henderson and T). W.; Gaston. Jr.. and for the defense the i counsel was William Smcak. Claude! JO. Sawyer. Herbert B. Gyles: S. j; i Hale of Trenton. Ga., and W. A. McClure of Chattanooga, Tenn. THREE MURDER TRIALS IN COURT Richland Court Will Hear Arnettc Murder Cases Columbia. May 15.?Three mur der trials, one of a trio, are set for trial in Columbia this week. The trio is composed of F. M. Jef fords. Ira Harrison and Glenn Treece. charged with tin.' murder of Ji C. Arnettc. wh?^vas prbpricTorl of a filling station on Main street. This crime was ? committed last Tuesday night. The tri)I of th2 three v. ill start next Tuesday morning. Prominent Columbia \ lawyers are representing the de fondants. The men have confessed.! according to officers, that they kill ed Arnettc to get his interest in the business, and then pushed his automobile, with his body, off ah cm bank men f. Another sensational murd- r case is that against Theodore Aughtry, Columbian, charged with the mur- j der of "Silas Gladden, whom he kill-1 cd. following a quarrel between j the two over a dish one family had borrowed from the other. The third murder ease is against Robert! Wilson, also of Columbia. CHUCH OF j CHRIST IN JAPAN Will Have Deputation at the Presbyterian General Assembly De:-- Meines-. May 11.?An event of notable interest at the approaching meeting of the Pres byterian General Assembly here May I8.-2G. will in- the appearance oi* a deputation from the Church of Christ in Japan headed by its Moderator, the Rev. Dr. Masahisa Centura, distinguished as the pres ident of a theological seminary, edi tor of an influential religious news paper, and preacher to a great congregat ion. The occasion of his coming to America is the fiftieth anniversary of the Church of ('brist in Japan, which is an independent sister Church of the Presbyterian and Reformed family, and with which .-ili tin- Presbyterian and Reformed Churches that have work in Japan i ooperate. A recent letter from the Rev. Dr. J. B. Hail, of The Japan Mis sion, reports thai this first organiz ed Protestant Church has in fifty years grown into 1.22-1 organized churches, of which 35f are entire ly self-supporting. Besides the churches there ar" 1.3-3-S places where preaching is regularly held.! There are 750 < hutch buildings, and church property is worth C 75r8.02.9 yen ( >:;.:;:cj.i'1.".?. In HCO: there were over 11.000 baptisms. There arc 137.8:13 communicants, and in lf'20 these Christians con tributed I.1G1.57-5 yen for all pur poses. The Hon. I >. Tagawa. member! of rh<- Japanese delegation at the) recent Washington Conference, aj member of the Imperial Din. and a! Presbyterian eider, publicly de-, clared: "If we are to make ,-i free, Japan, we are to make a Christian! Japan. "Only the Christian Church with it- program of redemption! ->*n.l righteousness, individual and \ social, can victoriously combat the unseen forces of greed, fear, and hate which so largely cause the de pressing disease of which the world! suffers." Old-fashioned uirls are hard to find because no girl wants to be out of fashion. P.oston painters arc seeking a five-day \\e,.|<; but what most painters need is a five-night week. ' DEFENDS TRAIN WITH GUNS - Ten Bandits Who Who Attack ed Train in Arizona Defeat ed With Loss of One Man - Chicago. May ].",.?One member i of a band of ten men attempting i to rob tie Golden State Limited on the Rock Island line:-?. Chicago to Los Angeles, was killed in ;t gun I fight between the train crew and j the bandits near Jaynes. Arizona, I according to dispatches received I here. ; Express messenger Stewart, early today frustrated a spectacular at tempt by eight bandits to rob tin Golden State Limited, killing one ' robber and wounding another and , routing the bandits singlehanded. GREAT ANNUAL BALLOON RACE Will Start from Milwaukee On May 31st Milwaukee. Wis.. .May 1 L?One of the government balloons which will compete in the National Bal j loon Race for l'S'22, to start here 'May 31. will carry a complete and j new radio alignment which will be ! tested here for the first time. For the third time American army and j navy balloons will compete against, 'civilians. Most of the government I pilots saw service in the- World j War. Tim army will send three i balloons and the navy two. but great secrecy appears to surround tin- entry of these balloons. in addition, entries have come j from Ralph II. t'psen. of New j York, who won the international j Gordon Bennett trophy in 1913: J. C. McKibben. of^St. Louis, Mo.: R. j V. Donaldson of Springfield. 111.. H. j E. Honeywell of Clayton. Mo., and J Warren Rasor of Brookville, O. : The races will be one of tin: largest I in number of entries held in Amer I ica. j During the week of May 2'J a I series of plane races w ill be con ducted under the direction of the I Aero Club of Wisconsin, the aero I nautical section of the Wisconsin j Association of Commerce. The or j ganization reports promises from 1 various aero clubs that they will ! send planes to the city to give the j balloons a good send-off. and also promises from army officials that j they will have a number of planes [on hand. Brig. Gen. William Mitchell will fly to Milwaukee from ; Washington. D. C. accompanied by ; two other planes. Thirty or more t planes are expected to be available j for the demonstration, including I some from Chicago, Monmoufh, ! III.. Detroit. Michigan. Minneapolis, Minn.. Dayton. <).. and New York. ! Tin? balloon race will be for dis [ lance, and the pilots must choose the best wind currents at different nhitiudes nv? dispose of tin- bal last and gas to the best advantage in order to land as far as possible from the starting point. This is said to involve hundreds of differ ent problems. It has been estimated that the direction of the wind a.t the time of year selected has aver aged a northwesterly course dur ing the last 4u years. If this con dition should prevail this year it would lake the balloons far into Canada, and all the pilots will carry winter equipment. The races com monly ruti from 100 to 1.200 miles j and last from eight to <>'? hours. I It is expected some of the balloons this year will be in the air four or j five days. One balloon party in the i national race last year was lost for j days. I The Milwaukee program calls for ! an inspection and visitors' day on ! May 30. On this day there will be i a series of aeroplane races around the city. May :j l the balloons will I start. I The Aero Club of Wisconsin has stipulated that each pilot must I carry as ballast 100.000 circulars about Milwaukee and its business I interests to be released from time I to time. It is announced that ex cept for balloons and pilots evcry ! thing in the race will be Milwau kee made: that pilots will use I Milwaukee clothing and outfits ' Milwaukee food and coffee. Milwau | "sam* ns ^aHast, am* Milwaukee Spokesmen of the Aero Club of j Wisconsin say that the race will j draw on almost every talent the balloonist has: on his knowledge of ? navigation and meteorology, exper ience in its application, ability to [size up conditions, judgment in j their interpretation, practical skill i in handling the balloon, firmness ? in adhering to a good plan of ac I tion. I>ut always with eye and mind I open for a better, courage com i bincd with caution, physical endur ance and sportsmanship. j In free-ballooniug. meteorology is . of prime importance. To meteor ology and its newest branch, aero logy, the pilots of free balloons turn to solve the problems of the loca tion and condition of their courses in the air: the racing balloonist s<-eks tin factors of greatest speed and longest fetch of the winds of the low ei- levels: the balloonist try ing for ;i destination seeks the factors of direction while the re < on im is-a nee balloonist seeks the elements of quiet and safety. hi the last five years the study of upp< r-air conditions has made such strides that today, without the in telligent use of the data thereby acquired, it is said no pilot how ever daring, lucky or enduring, can hope to remain in the front rank. CHILE AND PERU MEET Effort to Adjust Forty Year Old Dispute Washington, May >?'?- Chile and Peru, estranged for forty y-ars by the disoute over Tacna and Ariea joined here today in a new effort to ?omposc the differences and remove the problem of the Pacific ?s ai ource of international friction in Latin America* 1 ASKS REMOVAL OF HAYNES Representative Hill Charges Statement Endorses Lynch Law Washington, May 15.?Secretary Mellon was asked by Representa tive Hill, Republican, of Maryland, to order the removal of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes or whoever r ise in his office is responsible for the recent press bulletin which 31 ill claimed constituted official approval of the application of the lynch law to suppression of liquor violations. TO ERECT GREAT BUSINESS HOUSE EfircTs Plans May Call For rive-Story Building of 125, 000 Feet Floor Space (Charlotte News). Plans are being drawn by Louis F. Asbury for the new home of the Efird department store on the lot adjacent to the city hall, purchas ed some months ago by this "firm as the site for a new establish ment in Charlotte and one that is destined to be. according to plan's which are said to exist in the minds of the Efird firm, the largest mer cantile store, in floor spaee. south of the Mason and Dixon line. The plans have not developed yet to the point that contractor.-; arc estimating its cost, but it s iunder stood that eventually the building will represent an outlay of a half million dollars. Whether the firm expects to complete plans ultimate ly held in mind at this time or to build a lesser structure for a few years is one of the phases of the development yet to be determined. J. 15. Efird. president and man ager of the entire Vhain of the 31 Efird stores in the two Carolinas, would not divulge the particulars relating to the enterprise Saturday night. He said that the plans have not yet reached a stage where lie f?>lt he would be justitied in specify positively what would, bo the extent of the development. The Efird's stores are among the best known as retail trading cen ters in the two Carolinas, but the firm is said by commission men in Xew York and other buying centers to be reckoned among the first in the entire south for volume of busi ness handled and for quick turn over in its goods. At present 31 [stores arc maintained by the or ganization. 30 of them having I grown out of the Charlotte store t that had a modest start here at the corner of Trade and College streets only a few years ago. These additional stores are being operat ed in Statesville, Shelby, Lexing ton. Lincolnton. Cherxyyille, Forest City. Laurinburg. Anderson. S. C, Spartanburg. S. C. Greenwood. S. ?'.. Sumter. Rock Hill, Greer. S. C, Danville, Va., Wilson, purhanm, Columbia. S. C. Greenvilie, S. C, Wilmington. Raleigh. Salisbury, Wilson, Rocky Mount. Monroe. Gas tonia. Concord. High Point. Lum bcrton, Burlington, Lenoir. The extent of business annually trans acted by all of these stores runs into the many millions. .1. L. Efird, of Charlotte, is pres ident of the whole organization and general manager of the entire chain. Paul FL Efird is manager of the Charlotte store. The firm also maintains buying organization in Xew York City with Jap Efird in charge. - i. m* ? ? PRESBYTERIANS HOLD MEETING Growth of Southern Church to Be Reported Charleston. W. Ya.. May 13.? A feature of the reports to be sub mitted the 02nd general assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church, to convene here May LS. will be those relative to the total number of additions to the church during the last year and the amount of money contributed to all I causes of the assembly. Statistics presented to the as sembly of L921 showed that dur ing the year closing previously to tiic convention, 24,369 members were added to the church, or a fraction more than- seven members for each of the 3.17."? churches in the assembly^ on the average. Also, tin- reports showed that 21.SS9 members were added by certificate, or an average of six members for each church. Tiic total amount contributed to benevolent causes alone for the year prior to the last assembly was $4,938,55(1. an average of lit : le more than $12 as the per capita contribution of each of the mem bers of the church, the reports in dicatt d. The annual income of the mem bership of the church has been es timated at $150.000.000 the tithe being $15.000,000. Special efforts will be made through the assem bly's committee on stewardship and iiie campaign committee of the Presbyterian Progressive program j officials said, to enlist the entire membership of the church to the point where at least, the tithe of. the income of each member will be contributed to the benevolent cause of tlie organization. If the membership as a whole was en listed thus, tin average per capita contribution would be ?3!*. it was ! pointed out. Russia and Turkey Make Treaty. Constantinople. April 15.?The Russian Soviet government and the Turkish Nationalists .ire planning to hold ;i conference at Kars to draw up a new-treaty providing for the resumption of commercial re lations between TuiKey and tin sum 11 republics of the Caucasus >uch .-is Georgia and Azerbaidja.n. A treaty to that effect was sign ed bj the Kassians and Turkish Nationalists last fall but has not been ratified by the spates concern-; ed on the ground that it was un workable owing to the abnormal conditions in Russia. UNION LABOR MAN DROPS FROM SIGHT Indicted on Charges of Mur der in Chicago in Connec tion With Reign of Bomb and Gun Terrorism Chicago, May 12.?Escape of one of the eight labor leaders indicted '? with the reign of bomb and gun terrorism and rumors that confes sions, had been obtained from sev eral of the scores of persons still being held by the police marked today's investigation Of recent lav/ i<ss outbreaks which have been I da med by the police on labor war , fare in the building trades. The sudden departure from the I police ken of "Jerry" Horan. in ? dieted with Fred Mader. president , of the Building and Trades Coun cil. "Big Tim" Murphy, head of :he Gas Workers' Union and out on bonds following his conviction and sentence to prison on a charge of mail robbery, and Cor nelius Shea, who directed the 190.4 teamsters' strike, was first noted j when the indictments were returned : today. Not knowing of the more se ' rious charges pending against Ho ran. police had booked him on a j disorderly conduct charge and he j was freed on $."><) bond. When his absence was discovered special squads of police were then sent to j hunt him. but without much hope ! of success. He is believed to have left the city. The admissions obtained from prisoners, according to the police, i directly involve three of the men being held in the slaying of two patrolmen and the wounding of a I third by bombers early Wednesday. It was this outbreak, the culmina ! tion of a long series of disorders, : which started the present investi gation and led to the raids in which : more than 150 labor leaders and al leged gunmen were seized by the police. ? Of those seized, beside the men I under indictment the majority have I been released for lack of evidence. Others obtained their liberty on i writes of habeas corpus. The chief ; of police in a statement accused j the judge of "hampering" him in ; his efforts to wipe out lawlessness ness. The judge replied with a statement upbraiding Chief Fitz morris as having "no respect for . law, order or the constitution," and for criticism ? i the courts "when the decision or ruling of any such court does not please him." The chief was assailed also in j damage suits for $50,000 in eacli ease, ted today by Melville L. I Thompson, an attorney, on behalf ; of himself and four others caught ; in the raids on the Building Trades Council headquarters. The other ; plaintiffs aro . Emmett Flood, an ; American Federation of Labor or ! ganizerj his son, Emmett, Jr., his j daughter, Miss Evelyn Flood, and ; John A. Sweeney, a labor editor, j The suits, according to Thompson, I are based oh false arrest and im* prisoninent. Chile and Peru To Discuss Trouble t ????? j Controversy of Long Standing to Be Considered at Wash ington Party * ! Washington, May 14.?In an at i biosphere of renewed cordiality and hopefulness, the plenipoten I tiaries of Chile and Peru will meet ' tomorrow in the hall of the Amer | ieas to attempt solution of the dif ; liculties that have estranged their ; governments for more than a gen ? eration. Convened in Washington at the : invitation of President Harding, the conference will be opened with an address of welcome and good will by Secretary Hughes, delivered j in the presence of a notable gath ering of government officials and diplomats from every part of th<* world. Response will be made for ? Chile by Luis Izuuirdo and for Peru by Melton Porras, and then the two delegations will retire for pri vate consultation in their effort to j apply the "conference plan" of diplomacy-to international relation | ships of trie Western Hemisphere. Although the seriousness of the problem is everywhere realized, there was a feeling here on the . eve of the conference that the del . egates would come together under conditions notably auspicious. For * two governments whom diplomatic relations have been severed for a dozen years. Chile and Peru, hare approached the negotiations in a spirit of amity regarded in diplo- . matie circles as so unusual as to give much promise of a 'settlement. At the same time, among the delegates themselves and among officials who have an intimate knowledge of the forty-year con iroversy over the treaty of Ancon. there has been apparent a ten dency to warn against over-confi dence. Quick results are not ex pected by thoSe in a position 'to make authoritative predictions. It is recognized that an agreement can come only after many interchanges of opinion, and there arc some wljo believe that in the end the out standing issues must be left to ar bitration. . It now is considered improbable ^ that the United States will in any way be represented in the nego tiations unless arbitration becomes necessary and both delegations agree to appeal directly to Presi dent Harding. TRAM CAR DIVES INTO CANYON Thirlee?! Killed and Seventy Killed in Accident Near Mexico City Mexico Gity. May i;,.?Thirteen were killed and over seventy in jured when a tram car carrying a holiday crowd catapulted into a deep canyon near Santa Fe. :;e^r here, after colliding wiht a ri et her car at the top of a hill. Most of the victim* were women and children.