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BRITISH ARMY MOVES IN JRELAND Colum Advances i n Termanagh ; Done gal Border With In tention of Occupy ing Belleek Belfast, ?Jue S.?A* British mili tary column, comprising, artillery, infantry and engineers, advanced into the Belleek district on the Fermanagh-Donegal border this morning with the reported inten tion of occupying Belleek by night fall.. The Republican forces are said to be failing back before the British. British Occupy Belleek Belfast, June 8?Belleek occu pied "today by the column of Brit ish ? troops, which advanced this morning- to take the salient from the Irish irregular forces holding it ,- - New Townards, military head quarters, this afternoon stated that, j Belleek was retaken without the loss of a life and that no prisoners were taken. IRISH SITUATION GROWS WORSE! Action of British in Sending, Troops to Seat of War onj JJMer Border Arouse South; Ireland I Dublin, June 5 (By the Asso ciated Press).?Michael Collins, head of the provisional^ govern ment, takes a most serious view of the British shelijng of Pettigoe in Free State territory and has de manded from the British authori ties a full inquiry into the circum sranees. It has been supposed that ^ the j Irish troops at Pettigoe, were ir- j regulars not under; control of the j provisional government, but an official communique issued" tonight from Beggars Bush, headquarters of. the Irish Republican army, says that there were no Irish troops in that dsitrict except those of the ? regular Republican army. It is j denied in the communique that the ] JSritish troops were at any time] fired on, and the British . army j statement that in consequence of] tie-shooting of k a motor carj driver, Pettigoe was shelled is con tradicted. The driver, it is assert ed, was not ki?led until long after the shelling when there was an in terchange of shots between the British and the "retreating ?' Irish j trOOpS. j ;* 'r j ? According to the Beggars Bush ! statement, one shell was fired while j the people were at mass \ and eight others without warning^pfc provoca tion immediately afterwards. Sev en of the Irish troops ^ere krlled | and several captured. The British i .at present occupyrthe.hlll ami-van- j tage points for two miles on the j Donegal side, and ail foads are j traversed by British armored cars, i In any circumstances the joint appeal of De Valera ?nd Collins! to" the electors issued this evening; r3s likely to have the effect of dis- | icouraging candidates'.^against the) 3?iSh Fein ticket, and the Pettigoe I incidents are considered an aid in' bringing about solidarity for se curing no contests for many of the ' seats. Belfast, June 5 (By the Asso ciated Press).?Although up to late tonight the British troops have not attempted to occupy either Bel /*gek or Mag-heramenk castle; re- j sumption of activity oh that front! is expected very soob. The Re-! publicans are understood to be j pushing forward large reinforce- j ments. i The correspondent of the Bel-! fast Telegraph estimates the death! list in the recent fighting as high as! 30. The Pettigoe district, where! several more bodies have been found, is still held entirely by the j soldiers, the constabulary and spe- 1 cials being kept in the rear. Cotton May Bring Higher Prices ?? Small Volume on Hand and Possible Short Crop to Ad vance Quotations Washington, May "7?A state smen* rendered Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina by W_ M. Steuart, director, the bureau of the census, department of commerce, today, inspired that senator to conclude that cotton the coming fall would be an exceedingly valuable com modity. According to Steuart there were on hand April 30, 5.226.021 .bales. As an average of 1,000.000 bales are consumed and exported each month, the bales remaining August 1. the beginning of the new cotton year, will be about 2,000. 000. According to Senator Smith. 25 per cent, of this amount will be non-commercial. According to the estimate of Steuart, the new crop will number 7,977,778 bales. "The cotton on hand," said Senator Smith, "will be. therefore, less than 10.000,000 bale*. The average consumption is between 13.000,000 and 14.000,000 bales. "As a result of the law of supply fnd demand, it Is evident that there will be a legitimate and tangible shortage. Thus cotton, unless all signs fail, will be a most valuable commodity. In this con nection, it must be remembered that the rainy weather to be fol lowed by the depredation in Ju'y of the boll weevil will in all prob ability further militate against pro duction. - No doubt Mr. Morse has another $25,000 salted away in case a par don becomes necessary* STATEMENT OF RAILWAY OFFICIALS Presidents of Six Big Lines Do Not Be lieve Strike Will Be Called Chicago, June 7.?Declaring that there is no talk of a strike among railway workers, the presidents of six Chicago roads tonight issued a joint statement charging that all threats of a walkout were being in spired by union leaders. The statement, which was signed by H. E. Bryan of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Hale Hold en of the Burlington, W. H., Finley of the Northwestern, J. E. Gorman of the Rock Island, C. H. Marham of the Illinois Central, and S. M. Felton of the Chicago Great Wes tern, follows m part: "Threats of a strike, made by, leaders of the railroad labor unions; are ? appearing with such fre quency that the time seems oppor tune for questioning the soundness of their talk. There is a very good reason for doubting whether the men themselves, that is, the 1 ail road employees, really are in sympathy with resistance to the decision of the United States rail way labor board. "The'truth is that the men have been expecting a reduction in their wages and have made, or are mak ing preparations to meet the new scale. There is no talk of strike among the men. The disturbing j statements read by the public are j prepared by leaders of the unions, j whose viewpoint has been distorted ;1 by months of effort before the board to resist the inevitable down ward trend, of wages. The em ployees, on the other hand, are in the main sincerely interested in taking care of their jobs and homes, and few employees in any industry have more good reasons for doing so. "B. M." 'Jewll, spokesman for these railroad labor unions, has severely criticized the decision of railroad board awarding the reduc tion in wages of shop employees, Jewell says the decision will cause employees to believe the board is "not an impartial court created to help the railroads carry out their labor policy.* He attacks the wage j award also on the ground that the proposed scales are lower, than the i f?dnimum required to support the average family according to Amer ican standard. ?j "The public should not overlook the fact that in deciding the pro posed wages of these employees, maintenance of way and shop, the labor board, which is a government body, said, 'After the reductions made under this decision _ _ - these employees on the railroads will still be receiving as a rule a wage in excess of that paid to sim ilar employees in other industries.' The board held in its opinion that measured by the present cost of living, the average hourly wages of machinists, for instance, after July 1, will still have 19 per cent, more purchasing power than in De cember. 1917: those of the carmen 46 per cent, more purchasing power, and those of common labor ers 45 1-2 per cent. That is to say, measured by the cost of liv ing, their wages will still be these percentages higher than at the end of 1917." TO ELIMINATE DEADLY GRADE CROSSINGS President Harding Expresses Sympathy With Campaign Now Instituted Washington, June 8 (Capital News Service).?The Interstate Commerce Commission compiles statistics of accidents involving loss of life or injury in which railroads are involved. According to these figures, last year 1,072 persons were killed and 4,81 S persons injured in accidents at grade crossings. Most of these were automobile accidents. As a result, a campaign, having as its slogan "Cross-Crossings Cau tiously." is being instituted by the American Railroad Association which will endeavor.to impress up on all who use the road which passes over*a railroad track, both in this country and in Canada, of the need of stopping, looking and listening and of letting the train go by first. Of this campaign President Hard ing has said: "The complete scope of such an effort would mean the saving of thousands of lives, the prevention of many more thou sands of injuries and incidentally the prevention of a great property loss. "Of course, the ideal solution is elimination of grade crossings, to which all possible energy and means should be unceasingly directed. But the extent of our country and its railroad mileage make apparent that not for many years of utmost effort could this be effected. "There should be constant pre** sure for eliminaiton of the danjr?? spots, particularly in the more populous areas, pending which there is need for just kind of pre ventive effort that your association is planning. "Among these measures the most effective would seem to be to i arouse in the minds of drivers a I sense of their personal responsi bilities. When thoughtlessness is ! allowed to usurp the place of vigi j lance, as too often happens, the j scene is set for tragedy. Remind ! ers and still more reminders of the need for caution at railway cross ings are needed." Professor Wharton says success and getting there are synonymous. Mz-. Whartcn, meet Mr. Bryan. HOOVER AND THE COALSTRIKE Efforts Made to Bring Operators and Coal Miners Together With View to Set tling Strike Washington, June 7.?Efforts of the government to bring opera tors and miners together with a view to settling the coal vtrike now in progress were disclosed for the first time today by Secretary Hoover in a statement sent to the senate in compliance with a res olution of inquiry introduced re cently by Senator Walsh (Demo crat) of Massachusetts. "Infor mally and repeatedly," Mr. Hoover's statement said, "suggestions as to propositions on which the dispu tants might well confer and hope for a settlement have been made through the department of labor and this department or both, but thus far these suggestions have been without result." The secretary prefaced his state ment with the declaration that the efforts had been made despite his belief that "governmental agen cies have no ' legal authority to terminate ?-or intervene in the strike." Measurable success has been ob tained, however, Mr. Hoover added, in the government's effort to pre vent large price increases resulting from the industries tie-up, through informal conferences with the op erators. He made the same point clear in a * telegram sent from Youngstown, Ohio, today to the coal section of the commerce de partment, in connection with press reports that Senators Borah (Re publican) of Idaho and Walsh (Democrat) of Massachusetts had held conference with a delegation of retail coal dealers with a view to restraining" coal prices. "If congress will provide a bet ter emergency method," said the telegram, "I will indeed be glad if they would do so, as the adminis tration has no power but persua sion and the willingness of the ma jority of the operators to cooper ate. In the meantime, as many re tailers have upwards of 30 days' supply on hand of pre-strike coal, much of it from districts of short rail haul, I hope the senators will get the retailers to comply with my request that the retailers do not mark up the price of this coal to the public." The report sent by Mr. Hoover to the senate, answering the ques tion as to the department's infor- j mation on "the present supply of i mined bituminous coal," said: "As there has been considerable industrial recovery from the situa-1 t?on of 1921 and less activity than J 1920," Mr. Hoover added, "our; rough guess is that the total con- j sumption from April 1 *to June 4 was about 65,000,000 tons. Upon! this data the stocks of coal re- j rnaining on hand for the week j ending June 4 should be about! 32,000,000 tons and in addition coal in transit may amount to 10, 000,000 tons." ? ? ? ? ANDY BETHEA TO OPPOSE FULMER Withdraws From Race For! Governor, Out For Con-, gress ??? Columbia, June 7.?Andrew J. | I Bethea, of Columbia, who announc- j , ed some time ago that he would be j in the race for governor, formally i withdrew tonight and filed his pledge for congress from the Sev i enth congressional district in op ! position to Representative Hamp ton I?. Fulmer, of North. The withdrawal of Mr. Bethea leaves i six announced candidates in the i race for the governorship?form er Governor Cole L. Blease, of: Columbia; State Superintendent of j Education John E. Swearingen; j Senator George K. Laney, o/ i Chesterfield: Thomas G. McLeod, j of Bishopville; William Coleman, j j of Union, and John T. Duncan, of I Columbia. There are two other prospective j gubernatorial cadidates who are j being urged to run but they have not yet made any definite decision i ?Judge Mendel L. Smith, of Cam- I den, and Solicitor Ire C. Black weil of Spartanburg . wood, of Spartanburg. Although he has made no de- ! cisive announcement, ex-Governor 'John Gary Evans, of Spartanburg, probably will not be in the race. The Democratic campaign for ! federal (except United States sen lator) and Stale offices will open tat Columbia on June 20. All the members of the house of repre sentatives, half the state senators and practically all county officials will have to be re-elected this year. Senator Laney has been in Co : lumbia- today visiting his friends land he announces that he is in the race to the finish. He will leave J tomorrow for Charleston. BISHOP KILGO GOING HOME 1 Will Be Taken From Memphis to Home in Charlotte Memphis. June S.?Bishop John I C. Kilgo of the Southern Methodist j church, who is critically ill in a ^ hospital here, will be taken to his I home at Charlotte tonight, unless ! there is a turn for the worse in his condition, the physicians stated to day. ?? ? ? - Ma con, Ga., June 8.?The state rested in the case of Richard Wil i lingham, charged with larceny af ! ter trust of a hundred and sixty i three thousand dollars from the i Shippers' Compress company. BIGHAM COUNSEL ASKS NEW TRIAL Alleged New Evidence Pre-! sented to Court in Form of; Letters ! _ j Florence. June 5?In the court i of general sessions here today A. I L. King, attorney for Edmund D. Bigham gave notice of an appeal for a new trial on the ground of j after discovered evidence. Judge I S. W. G. Shipp set Friday to hear' the motion. The after discovered i evidence is in the shape of letters j alleged to have been written by L. I S. Bigham to his brother, Edmund, I while the latter was in Georgia, j and it Is contended by the defense they will tend to show that Smiley Bigham killed his mother and sis ter and the latter's two children and then himself, the killing of Smiley Bigham being the crime for which Edmund has been convicted j and sentenced to death. Formal notice was given by the defense this morning to. L. M. Gasque, solicitor of the court of the approaching contest. At the same time, the defense files with him a copy of the letters, affidavits and 4 other data; which will he offered to the court as after discovered evi dence. Mendel L. Smith of Cam den is expected to assist the de fense in arguing the motion for a new trial. Chief among the letters, all of which are contended by the defense to have been written by Smiley at Pamplico to Edmund in South Georgia, is the following: "Mother and Maggie had the two i signed deeds that had disappeared in their possession. Causing trouble seems to be their pleasure. They i took the money that the post office j department has me charged with j and were the cause of Cleveland i running off, and I had to pay the bond. For years I have had to leave home and pay board to be in peace to make my calculations and) plans. "They poisoned father and tried to poison Leatha's child after her j death when I found them with the ? deeds. I decided to kill the J.a'st one of them and leave no one to toll j the tale. i "I am writing this to. explain why j I did this act. You will never i-ee j me again alive." Signed "I-. S. j Bigham." .j This letter is one of a scries. j which it is alleged w?>e written ?BMQfciiii , pnii.a in ^iiumirna?ai ? ? ?? ?v- ? i BHBB1 'L? ? I B?BOB?fl 1 ?? ? ! during the summer and tue early fall of ll?20 leading up tojha Re turn of Edmund 10 Pamplieo :n the fall of that year. This particular letter does not hear an?' date though .all the others bear dates through June, July and August, possibly some of them being in September. Also, all of them are typewritten and signed in ink. At the same time, the defense is offering a number of affidavits, which would tend to substantiate the letters and the statements contained in. them. Some of these affidavits relate to the genuineness'of the signature. AMERICAN BLUEJACKETS MISSING Eight Men From Gunboat Supposed to ' Have Been Drowned ? Vladivostok, June 8.?Eight en listed men from the United States gunboat New Orleans are believed 'to have been drowned in a sailing mishap at Amurday, Siberia. No trace of the men has been found since Sunday. BANKERS !?P-T(M)AH REFUSE LOAN ! MOONSHINERS TO GERMANY IN RICHMOND I All Idea of Interna-1 Two Big Plants Dis tional Loan Aban-j covered in Subter doned by Committee ranean Den in the of Bankers Heart of City j Paris, June 8.?All idea of an Richmond, June 8?In a raid in I international loan to Germany has (the heart of Richmond tottay fed- " ! been given up by the committee; eral prohibition agents discovered j of bankers. They are meeting today' a subterranean den under a negro ;to agree upon the form of their ! house adjoining a negro church, j note to this effect, which will be j seized two distilleries and quanti- ^ j submitted to the reparations com- ? ties of liquor. It was here learned i mission. *. j that the gas and sewer mains had ? * ?? .* {been tapped, permitting the use of j Washingtn, June 8?President! two gas stoves, and carrying the ; and Mrs. Harding and a party of j mash away in the sewer. I friends left this morning for New j ^ ? ? j Jersey where tomorrow President! 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