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TSE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Est a CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 WOLVES I IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING - j Progressives Find That Beveridge and Pinehot Are Hand in Glove With Stand - Patters - Washington. June 12.?The shouting over the alleged progres sive victories in Indiana and Pennsylvania has scarcely died away when it becomes apparent, that the voters who supported Bev eridge in one instance and Pinchot n thetoher, have been misled . or were self-deceived as to what they were voting for. It is becoming "plainer every day that the contest .between the former progressive .leaders and the present reactionary leaders in those states was not for - or against any set of principles but was for factional control of the party machinery for use in 1924. The men and women who voted for Mr. Beveridge in Indiana and for Mr. Pinchot in Pennsylvania, were unquestionably Sincere in the be * lief that they were voting for pro. gressive principles and policies of government in some instances or registering a protest against the re #actionism of the present Republi can Congress and the administra tion, in others. Mr. Beveridge is no sooner nomi nated than Senator James E. Wat son of unenviable notoriety in the Mulhall lobby expose, who voted to confirm the purchase of a seat in the United States Senate occupied by Truman. H. Xewberry. who is exploiting the infamous Profiteers' Tariff bill as the perfection of Re publican economic legislation, who openly advocates in the Senate a return to the corrupt spoils system of making federal appointments, and who rushed headlong to the defense of Attorney General Daugherty, is selected to make the keynote speech of Mr. Beveridge's campaign. Not.only>this, but Mr. Beveridge appears upon the same platform with him and eulogizes the reactionary Watson as "Indi ana's own gifted son. statesman and* matchless orator," with a pean of praise for the record of the reac tionary Republican leaders in Congress. In the case of Gifford Pinchot, one of his first acts after being as sured of his. nomination was to ask Attorney Generfal Alter, his opponent in the primaries, repre senting the most sinister element in the Republican party of Penn, sylvania. including the contractors' combine against which Mr. Pinchot presumably was waging war, to a conference to arrange for the sup port at the polls of the element he was pretending to fight in the pri maries. Mr. Pinchofs attitude was well defined by John A. McSparren, Democratic candidate for governor, wTien he said: "The people of Pensytyania will look at our friend Pinchot and ad mire him for his fine fight on con servation in state and nation and will hail with joy his announced determination to clean up at Har risburg, if made governor. "Then we shall see standing with him Joe Grundy, the exploiter of child labor and the leader of the powerful Manufacturers' Club, which has for years blocked all legislation taxing capital stock even when roads and teachers' salaries were at stake. They will see Devin, the Penrose henchman of Phila delphia, at his side. They will see Johnson of Montgomery, earnestly piling up votes for him. They will see Bill Griest, the straddling boss of Lancaster county, in the bunch, and Bill Flinn, the contractor boss, from Pittsburgh, as one of the bell wethers of the block." With the Xewberry and Xat Goldstein scandals still assailing the public's nostrils. Mr. Pinchot admits that he and his wife spent upwards of $100.000 in his primary fight and defiantly asserts that he would do it again. Xewberry. at least, claimed in justification of the huge sum spent in his behalf that it was spent without his knowledge. It would appear that when it comes to the expenditure of huge sums of money for the purpose of controlling election, re-! suits there is no difference between j the methods of the reactionary and j the so-called progressive leaders. Even the reactionary members of the Republican Senate, in the resolution seating Senator Xew_ I berry, felt obliged to condemn the | practise and point out the dangers, as follows: 'The expenditure of such exces sive sums in behalf of a candidate, either with or without his knowl edge or consent, being contrary to sound public policy, harmful to the honor and dignity of the Sen ate, and dangerous to tb? perpetu-j ity of a free government, such ex- j eessive expenditures are hereby severely condemned and di*ap-| proved." j During the primary campaign j both Beveridge and Pinchot were apparently opposing everything, which the reactionaries under the leadership of President Harding endorse and stand for. The night before the election in Indiana the campaign manager for Senator Xew issued a statement saying that in none of his speeches has Mr. Beveridge praised the work of this I blisbed April, 1850. 881. ?)V. HARVEY WILL NOT SAVE CRIMINALS Effort to Defeat Ver dict of courts in Gappins' Case Will Not Succeed?Jus tice Must Be Done Columbia, June 13.?A strong effort i*; being made, as is often the case in capital punishment cases, to have at least two of the trio sen tenced to die Friday of this week for the murder of William Brazell, slaved from the electric chair. However. Gov. Harvey has indicat ed that he will stand, against changing the sentences of death imposed in these cases. A petition was presented to the governor Monday, asking that Jes se Gappins' sentence be commuted to life imprisonment. Mrs. Gap pins, mother of the boy, and a young woman, who stated to the governor that she was engaged to marry the young prisoner, have both been to see the governor, ask ing that the boy be allowed to live. A prominent Columbia woman has also taken an interest in the young criminal, and has had much to do with the petition for executive clemency. But Gappins is not the only one whose friends have been at work for him. Mrs. S. J. Kirby, wife of the leader of the murder trio, has called on the governor, with a prayer that her husband might be given an examination into his sanity. Mrs. Kirby told the gov ernor that Kirby has a silver plate in his head and was subject to spells of insanity. She told remark able stories of his periods of mental weakness and the harm he worked, j The governor ordered an investiga gation, but he will not change the ! decision of the court in Kirby's case. The petition which was present ed for Gappins was signed by twenty-seven people, eleven of Ithem members of the jury that convicted the trio, and that heard the three men tell unblushingly of their murder of the young Colum bia taxi-driver, whose car they 'wanted to steal and sell. Governor Harvey is being warm ly - commended throughout the state for his firm stand against the idea of free use of the pardons in such cases as these. The governor has not issued any formal* state ment as to what he will do with these petitions, but he has made it known that he will not interfere with the decision of the courts. Xo reasons have been set forth why these men should not get the dues ordered by the jury of their peers, the governor stated. Funeral Services Disturbed by Fire Home Burns as Late Owner Is Lowered into Grave Laurens, June 12.?Today short ly after the noon hour as the bur ial exercises of the late Capt. Jo seph B. Humbert were being con cluded at Mount Bethel church, the late home of the deceased was totally destroyed by fire. This sin gular and distressing incident oc curred just about the time the I benediction at the graveside was pronounced and hundreds of peo I pie at the funeral hurried to the scene of the fire, two miles distant, and many of them assisted in re moving the furnishings from the 1 dwelling. McKissick Re-elected. Columbia. June 13.?J. Rion Mc Kissick, of Greenville, was reelect ed president of the University Alumni Association at its annual meeting here today. A big program is in progress. Governor Harvey, Dr. Coker of Hartsville, Dean Ba ker, Senator George K. Laney. and President-elect W. D. Melton are \ among the speakers. A barbecue and water carnival are in progress during the afternoon. j administration. Pinchot. ostensi bly at least, was fighting the old Penrose machine, an adjunct of the Harding administration. But no sooner is the campaign over than both are making advances for Harding administration* support, land administration organs are as serting that the president is dc jsirous of being the missing link to J connect the so-called progressives with the hard-boiled reactionaries. Such a coalition or connection must inevitably result in the domination of the Old Guard both, in the mat_ ter of party machinery and party policy. Only upon such terms is it reasonably to assume that the so called progressives can get Old Guard support, for if they. the Progressives, are permitted to con trol the party machinery and dic tate party policy, what becomes of |Mr. Harding's chances for renom ination in 11*24? Without reac tionary party control there is not j the slightest chance in the world j that Mr. Harding can be renomi I nated. It is obvious that the people who voted for Mr. Beveridge und Mr. Pinchot in the belief that they were [advancing progressive principles have been fooled. The question now is how lontf they will continue to be forded, in view of the proposed entente between their leaders and the Old Guard leaders? "Be Just and Fear J IBIGHAM ! APPEALS AGAIN i _ ' ? ?? j Refusal of Judge Shipp to Grant New Trial on Manufac tured Evidence Serves as Excuse to Stay Execution _ Florence. June 12.?- Attorneys for E. D. Bigham stated this afternoon they would appeal from the ruling of Judge S. W. O. Shipp refusing him a new trial on the grounds of after discovered evidence. Bigham was carried to Columbia today by j Sheriff Burch and Deputy Sheriff i Connor to be placed in the peni- j tentiary to await electrocution on j jjuly 14. The appeal to the sh-j J preme court, if made, however, will; j automatically stay this sentence. \ [in the county jail at 10 o'clock last j I night Bigham took affectionate j leave of his wife. He speaks bf j j her as "the widow." i ! Edmund D. Bigham^ resentenced j by Judge S. W. O. Shipp to die in the electric chair on July 14, was! brought back to the ,penitentiary j j yesterday shortly after the noon j j hour and again placed in his cell) {?in the death house. Bigham was! i carried to Florence June 3 and i I remained there a little over a j week. At Florence a motion for a new J i trial on after discovered veldence ( I was made by A. L. King, chief at- j 1 torney for Bigham. but Judge; j Shipp overruled the motion and! sentenced the condemned man to j I pay the supreme penalty July 14. i j The motion for the new trial was j i made by Mr. King upon the dis- ? covery of certain letters alleged to j have been written by L. Smiley: Bigham and addressed to Edmund Bigham. These letters, all type-j written, purported to show that j Smiley Bigham was planning to; . kill his family and then end his \ own life. Judge Shipp did not' take the letters seriously and inti- J mated that he thought them to be j frauds. In case the attorneys carry out 1 -their-bitetttion to appeal to the su- \ preme court from the refusal of I Judge Shipp to grant a new trial, it I is possible that the appeal may be j heard early in July. The supreme j court will return to Columbia forj consultation about July 5 and un- \ der Rule 30 Solicitor Casque may I ? move for a dismissal of the appeal j on the grounds that it lacks merit. Only four days' notice is necessary: for a motion under Rule 30. The j (appeal in the Gappins case was! i dismissed under this rule. j The Bigham oa& has been be- ? ! fore the supreme court twice al- j (ready, the defendant losing bothj j times. I CHAMPION ! HIGH JUMPER! ????? j AH Records For Parachute | Jumping Broken by Capt. Stevens Dayton, Ohio, June 12.-r-Capt. A.I W. Stevens, aerial photographer, j McCook field, established a new| parachute jumping record today) when he descended 24,206 fe -t to safety, officials of the field an- j nounced tonight. Another record j was broken at the same time when I Lieut. Leigh Wade, piloted a twin j j motored Martin bomber carrying} three passengers to an altitude of j 24,206 feet, it was announced. Captain Stevens ascended in the same plane with Lieutenant Wade. The pilot, accompanied by Stev, ens and Sergeant Langham. ob server, took off at 11 a. m.. and reached the maximum altitude at 1:05 p. m.. requiring two hours and five minutes to make the climb. Stevens, who has made aerial photographs here for several years, today made his first flight where oxygen was necessary. Reaching the maximum height, the party partook of refreshments and Stevens made ready for his leap. When he left the plane he did not permit his chute to be opened j by the wind and then lift him off, i but leaped over the side and drop ; ped several thousand feet before it j j opened and checked his drop. The oxygen tank which he had sewn to his flying suit was '.orn off in the leap and lost. Thirty minutes were required for the descent. He left the plane! j while over Springfield, and landed; at Jamestown, a small village 2."? j j miles southeast of here, j Flying conditions were ideal to- j j day. The temperature on the' j ground was 7" degrees and zero (was reached at the maximum al titude. So strong was the wind at 24.206 feet that the motor which i were traveling at about !<>'? miles] an hour only served to keep the! ? ship upright and the wind forced] : it backwards at a speed <>r ;ih<>;it ; . 20 miles an hour. Wade said upon I I his descent. # ? m THETACNA ARICA DISPUTE - I Washington. June 13? Informal conversations looking to the es tablishment of a ife\v basis for negotiations in the Tacna-Arica dispute were continued today by the delegates to the Peruvian Chilean conference. iot?Tjet all the ends Thou Ainis't ; Sumter, S. C, Saturd CAT'S PAW OF THE BIG INTERESTS _ i President Harding Is! Called in To Take Up Fight Againstj Muscle Shoals _ ! Washington. June 12 (By the; Associated Press). ? President Harding is understood to hnvej taken a determined stand today j against action by congress at tlii:?; time on pending bills for disposal of the government's nitrate plant! at Muscle Shoals. Aia. The views cf the president as out lined, it was stated to Represen tative Mondell of Wyoming. Re publican leader, at the White; Hou^e, were conveyed to the Re publican steering committee, charged with the task of framing the legislative program of the house. Members of the committee declined to indicate whether they would recommend action on thej bill or let the whole question go over until the December session. There was no intimation as to how the president regarded the proposal of Henry Ford for lease of the property beyond the state ment that he felt the matter was too big to be considered hurried ly and in what members regarded as the closing period of the present congress. LIQUOR SOLD ON SHIPPING, BOARD SHIPS Congressman Galli van Charges That Volstead Law is Openly Violated Washington. June 13.?Attack on the Shipping: Board for permitting the sale of liquor on American ships was made in the house today by Representative Gallivan. Demo crat, Massachusetts. Holding up what he said was a wine list from the steamship Pres ident Pierce, paid for. he added, by federal appropriation. Mr. Gal livan declared that under the Vol stead law "we can't get drunk on land, but we can at sea." There was a roar from members as the Massachusetts representa tive read from the list to show that American rye whiskey could be bought aboard ship at twenty cents a drink "and Jamaica rum?think of it?for two bits." Officials of the Shipping Board, when their attention was called to Mr. Gallivan's charges, declined to comment upon them in any way at this time. Declaring that the toping mil lions were deprived of ''the com forts of life" Mr. Gallivan charged that the wealthy still laughed at the Volstead law and the "rich and leisurely tourist finds it a negation and a farce on the ships that sail the sea under the American flag." "Its open violation on the ships of the United States Shipping Board, he said, "makes one laugh when he reads so much about law and order now that the ISth amendment has been adopted. Here and now I desi*e to call attention to and emphasize the barefaced hypocrisy of a government appro priating money to enforce this child of prohibition and at the same time appropriating more money to advertise the violation of its own laws on its own ships the minute they get outside the three-mile limit. "I hold in my hand the wine list of one of Mr. Lasker's sailing de lights. It was formerly known as the steamship Peninsula State ana now bears the name of one of our former presidents ? President Pierc e. It is one of the most prom inent trans-Atlantic ships of the United States line. "When 1 road at times details it is not with, any intention of giving pain or sorrow to those members of congress who voted for the Volstead law. Rather it is to let congress and the coun try know how on American terri tory, under federal appropriations, the law is violated daily." Swinging his arms, Mr. (laliivas: had the house in a whirl of laugh ter as he ran through the wine Wui, interjecting sharp comment after reading the price of the old-time drinks. "Black and White. Johnny Walker. Haig & Haig. bought at 20c ;i drink ami in ihn bottle, too, o!i boy!" In- shouted. With seriousness, however. he declared that the morals of ihe American people had l>e?-n lowered by the law*, with the demand for its enforcement on kind and Its "open violation on tin- water." FORD REDUCES COAL RATES Washington. June 14. --Proposals of Henry Kord to reduce the coal rates on his railroad, the Detroit. Toledo & fronton, originally sus pended by the Interstate Commerce Commission, wore allowed to go into effect today by the commis sion. it be thy Country's, Thy God's and ay, June 17, 1922 IM I s THE RAILROAD LABOR BOARD i I Majority and Minority i Decisions to Be Filed on Question of I Wage Reductions _______ ; Chicago, June 13?The, division in the personnel of the railroad ? labor board which resulted in a I vigorous dissenting opinions on the i wage reductions, already announced j effective July 1st, will make its I appearance again when1- another ? forty millions is lopped off the pay [checks of three hundred and fifty j thousand more railwaymen this ! week. The majority decision of the I board was completed yesterday, but ! the minority opinion will delay the ? announcement of the new order j several days, it was learned today. : PLEASURE j SEEKERS DROWNED ! Braoehridge. Ont.. June 13? I Four lives are believed to have j been lost on Musgoga Lakes during ?the storm Sunday. Charles Drap | er and three sons failed to Te l turn home and are still among the i missing. BEER BARON i CRITICISES I GOVERNMENT j August Busch Writes Letter to President Harding Charging That Uncle Sam is j Bootlegger ! St. Louis. .Tune 14.?Charging ? that the United States is "incom ; parably the biggest bootlegger in ?J the world," a letter written by i August Busch, president of the j Anheuser Dusch. Inc.. while en l route to Europe aboard the steam jship Oeorge Washington, and which j was forwarded to President Hard j ing. was made public here today. j together with an accompanying j letter by Adolphus Busch, third. j his son. A third letter by the An ; heuser Busch. Inc.. addressed to j members of congress, requests an j investigation of the enforcement j department of the government in i relation to the prohibition act. _ m ^ GREENWOOD MAN KILLED j J. B. Bowie Struck by Part of I Pulley Wheel Monday, Dies ! Tuesday i Greenwood; June 13.?Following I injuries received yesterday morn ? ing when part of a broken pulley j wheel struck him in the head in J the weave room of (Jrendel mill j Xo. 1, J. B. Bowie, a second hand, j died yesterday afternoon in a local ; hospital from cerebral hemor } rhage. The pulley wheel and [shafting controlling the machinery j of the entire mill was so damaged : in the accident that the mill has { been shut down since yesterday and j mill officials say repairs will not I be completed until tomorrow. ; The tragedy occurred when Mr. Dowie tried to hold on a belt which he noticed slipped from an immense pulley wheel. The belt became en tangled in trie wheel, tearing it to pieces and damaging the .shafting. A part of the wheel struck Mr. < Dowie in the head but the injury j wa sat first thought not to be se j rious. lie was able to walle to j his home hiiL later had to be car ried ta a hospital where an oper ? at ion was performed. CHILD LABOR DENOUNCED ! _ j American Federation of La bor Devotes Day to Discus ! sion of Problem j Cincinnati, June 14.?Organized I labor again raised voice at the j convi ntion of the American Fed ! e ration of Labor today against [child labor, coupling with this the (observance of Plag Day. The day's I speeches w ere devoted to child la bor. A resolution was also intro ! duced for the amalgamation of ex i ist ing unions by industries into a : single organization. Another resolution was introduc j ed which declared the Kn Klux j Klnn was "detrimental to the best interests of the working people and directly opposed to the constitution I of tin- United States." -? *- m New Power Plant j For Asheville Washington. June 14. ?Proposals [for the development of ten thou sand horse power to operate a pro posed cotton mill near Asheville are contemplated by the Carolina Power and Textile company under an application filed with the feder al power commission. Truth's; the hague meeting to open today: International Confer-; ence Arranged to Consider Russian Problems The Hague. June 14.?Two nota ble meetings will be held in The Hague peace palace tomorrow. At 11:30 o'clock the first annual ses sion of the permanent court of in ternational court of" justice will open, and at 2:30 in the afternoon the conference arranged to consider Russian problems will begin its ef fort to settle those questions which the Genoa conference abandoned after weeks of unsuccessful wran gling. Two more dissimilar meetings it would be difficult to find under the name roof. The first will be purely judicial, with the solemnity and re strictions which the ermine casts about its doings, while the second will be a continuation of the spir ited sessions at Genoa, devoted to attempts to untangle vexatious problems arising from the war. The Hague is not especially pleased, particularly the officials of the capital, in having the Genoa troubles transferred.here and shel tered under the peace palace. P. A. Van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of foreign affairs, will extend a wel come to the conference, and then turn it over to the representatives of the various European powers Which have sent-delegates. ? Until the Russians arrive and begin participation in the confer ence on June 2C interest in it will probably not reach a great height, as the interim will be devoted chiefly to arrangements prelimin ary to dealing with the Bolshevik delegation. Great uncertainty and lack of organization in affairs of the conference, to which Holland apparently doex not wish to give great publicity or prominence, as the Dutch did not seek the confer ence, but merely offered neutral territory for the meeting, without desiring herself to direct or influ ence its development. Delegations- from the major countries arrived today or late to night, but some of the represen tatives of the smaller countries will not reach The Hague until after the opening of tomorrow's meeting. The British delegation, headed by Sir Philip Lloyd' Graeme, numbers ?fifty, and the Italian delegation, headed by Baron Avazzeno.. form er ambassador at Washington, twenty-five. Some of the smaller countries, like Czecho-Slovakia. may not dispatch representatives until June 20. when the meeting with the Russians will begin. Bar.ai Avazzeno remained in Paris for several days to discuss the Italian viewpoint at a confer ence with French officials /endeav oring to bring about harmony and close cooperation between the two countries. The Japanese delegation is headed by M. Sato, councillor of the embassy at Paris, who is a son of Aima'ro Sato, former ambassa dor to the United States, and one of the Japanese representatives at the Portsmouth peace conference. Hugo Stinnes is expected to ar rive here tonight from Berlin. The new European economic con ference which opens today in the Peace Palace at The Hague is call ed to consider questions relating to Russia in her economic relations with her neighbors. It is virtually an adjournment of the Genoa con ference, which came to an end the latter part of May without having reached any solution of Russian problem:-. The decision to post pone action concerning Russia was induced largely by the desire of the European powers to persuade the United States to participate. But the American government is not to be represented at the Hague any more than it was at the conference in Italy. While the Genoa conference was nominally economic, it soon de veloped animated political discus sions! The Hague gathering, com posed exclusively of experts, is de signed to l>e confined solely to the consideration of economic questions. When the American government declined on .May 15 the invitation to. be represented at The Hague, this decision was received with ex pressions of regret in Europe, par ticularly from Great Britain and Prance, for it was felt abroad that nothing of a permanent and inter national nature could be undertak en for tlie restoration of Russia without ihe cooperation of the United Stales, whose wealth, re sources ami political power made her indispensable to any great world restoration movement. The Washington government in refusing to go to The Hague, criticized the attitude of Russia as a bar to any settlement and ch?r a< rerized the Soviet reply to the al lied terms as lacking any detinite ness as ;i basis for a parley. Nev ertheless. Washington said, the American government always was ready to join other governments in arranging for an inquiry by ex perts into the economic situation in Russia and the necessary reme dies. ?This government," the Ameri can communication said, "is unable to conclude thai it can helpfully participate in the meeting at The Hague, as this would appear to be the continuance under a different nomenclature of the Genoa con ference and destined to encounter the same difficulties if the attitude THE TRUE SOU HARD COAL STRIKE IS CERTAIN Wage Scale Negotia tions Between Min ers and Operators1 Broken Off New York. June 13?The break in the scale negotiations between the United Mine Workers and the anthracite coal operators appeared irreparable today, as the members prepared to leave. That a sus pension of the hearings means a strike was the opinion on both sides of the controversy. _ disclosed in the Russian memoran dum of May 11 remains unchanged. "The inescapable and ultimate question," the note said also, "would appear to be the restoration of productivity in Russia, the es sential conditions of which are stlil to be secured and must in the na ture of things be provided within ! Russia herself." Secretary Hoover speaking in I Washington May 15 on the Ameri ; can refusal to attend the Hague gathering, said the American gov | ernment still maintained there ! could be no recognition of Soviet \ Russia unless the government of ! Moscow conformed to the princi ples of ..safety of life, recognition of ! firm guaran ?es of private prop i erty, the sanctity of a contract and I the rights of free labor.- Until these things were established and carried out. Mr. Hoover said he held with Secretary of State Hughes that there could be no ' productivity in Soviet Russia. I France, early in June, in a rnem ! orandum to the powers concerned, I demanded that the Soviet Russian i government withdraw its memo ! randum presented at the Genoa I conference May 11 as a condition I for French participation at The I Hague. This note of May 11, pre i sented to the powers at Genoa," de | clared the Soviets' repudiation of ' Russia's national debts and inter | national obligations and refused to [ establish the bases of security re^ jgarded as fundamentally necessary ! for the restoration of productivity I in Russia; it also claimed heavy j financial -damages for the particT I pation of the Allies in military j operations against the Soviet re \ gime. j The.French government set forth ; certain arguments strikingly sim ilar to those which earlier had 'come out of Washington. Premier ! Poincare declared the reconstruc tion of Russia depended upon the j revival of agricultural production and this, he said, could not be obtained without a change in re gime that would assure the peas ants the proceeds of their labor, j M. Poincare referred specifically j to the attitude of the Soviet gov j ernment with respect to its refusal i to restore the property of foreign ers: to idemnify owners for dam ages sustained, or recognize the Russian debt. This debt, he said, should be treated on the same ba sis as the debts of the allies when j a settlement was reached, pro : vided Russia had agreed to the [same conditions as the allies, but j there was no reason to accord j Russia exceptional treatment in re i ducing her war debt, as had been I suggested at Genoa, i Representatives of all the pow ! ers present at Genoa, with the ex ception of Russia and Germany, [have been invited to The Hague, j Among the delegates are Baron j Avezzano. former Ambassador at I Washington, and Professor Gian ! nini, commercial attache at Lon j don, representing Italy: Leonid j Krassin. commissar of foreign trade and commerce in the Soviet gov I ernment, and Maxim Litvinoff, as sistant commissar of foreign affairs, [representing Russia; and Hilton j Young and Sir Philip Lloyd j Graeme, representing Great Brit ; ain. The former is financial sec retary to the Treasury, and the I latter fills in the post of directior of overseas trade. Germany was excluded on ac count of the secret signing of the Rapallo treaty April 17 last with Russia at a time when the Genoa conference was in session. The plan of procedure calls for a. preliminary meeting of experts June 1 r? to be followed by the formal coming together June 26 of two commissions, one to consist solely of Russian economists and the other of economic experts from the states represented at Ge nca. but always excepting Germany and Russia. Each" state concerned will have two delegates present at the preliminary meeting. These representatives, together with a limited number of specialists, will determine jusr what states are to participate on the noi^-Russian commission. It is expected that by June 20 the names of the nations and their representatives will be communicated to the secretariat general of the conference, which is being held under the auspices of the Dutch government. The two commissions will study the condi tions existing between the nations and Russia, particularly those re lating to debts, private property, and credits to Iiussia. and endeavor to formulate recommendations. It is provided further that if no joint recommendations are sub mited by the two commissions of experts, the Russian and the In ternational, within three months from June 2k. or if the joint rec ommendations are not accepted by the governments concerned with in one month after the date oi such recommendations, each gov TB HON, Established Jone 1, VOL. LIL NO. 36 UQUORSALEST ON BOARD SHIPS TO BEST0PP1 Representative Bank Ii e a d Introduces Drastic Amend ment to Merchant Marine Bill Washington, June io?Definite steps, through legislation,, .to stop, the sale of liquor on American ships was started today through the pre sentation by Representative Bank - head of Alabama, of an amendment to the merchant marine bill which; would cut off government aid from any ship carrying intoxicating.. li quor or beverages. NORTHERN ~ COTTON MILLS WELCOME Greenwood Names Committee to Emphasize Advantages to Manufacturers Greenwood, June 14.?To Irelp in the encouragement of northern capital to locate ? in South Garo.-. lina, particularly in this section; a* committee from the Greenwood chamber of cmmerce was'last^ night chosen by the directors- and advisory council to keep in touch: with proposed industrial develop ment * and to show the advantages of this section. It was pointed out that the antagonistic* attitude of the South Carolina legislature was working injury to the indus trial development of South CarO' lina and a -comparison of figures for development in North Carolina and South ? Carolina was. given, showing an S per cent, increase in manufacturing^ plants in. South Carolina in recent years compared with 37 per cent, in North Caro lina. ? ' < " 11 The committee from th^.Green wood chamber of commerce-was in structed to present the. favorable inducements of this section to manufacturing Interests. . IRISH C?NSTIT? TION COMPLETED Document Will Be Presented to House of Commons To morrow London. June 15?Colonial Sec retary Churehhill announced in. tna House of Commons that the consti- . tution of the Irish free.state would be made public tomorrow. He said ' it conforms with the /Anglc-Iristi treaty. _- ? ? -_<? emment will be at liberty to male* , a separate agreement- with rno Russian Soviet government con cerning all outstanding questions relating to '^lebts. private proper ty and credits. In the meantime there es?ats over Europe the truce which "was one of the outcomes of the Genoa gathering. Under this the Russian soviet government on the . one hand and the other participating governments on the other* agreed to refrain for .the duration, of The Hague conference and'a: "further period of four months after.its conclusion, from inter^rJtggC^ln any way in the intern?* - atfairs of other states and from suprorfultg financially or otherwise- political organization "work in ?ihWUcaun tries. Each country is^to^sunnross in its territory any attempts to foment acts of violence; ^hich might disturb the territorial and political status ouo; neither "shall any nation make separate agree ! ments with Russia during this .'pe riod of time. In accepting ' the proposal to meet the powers at The 1-IagueCthe Russian Soviet government voiced its protest against the exclusion of. Germany. At the same time it ex-. ? pressed the belief that the appoint ment of two commissions, the Rus sian and the International,, w?Otd perpetuate the Genoa method and lead* to separate meetings, but nevertheless the Soviet government accepted the Hague proposal and the Russian commission of eco nomic experts will be in session by June 26. The Russian conference sessions are to be held in the Peace Pal ace at the same time that the meet ings of the International. Court of Justice take place in " the same building. The court will ?hear tho j arbitration case between the Unit ed States and Norway regarding the indemnity claims for detention Of Norwegian ships during the war. I The Palace of Peace, Andrew Carnegie's gift as a permanent house for the international Court of Arbitration, was dedicated in the summer of 101$. The corner stone was laid in 1007. It stands in a beautiful park of plane trees on the old Schveningen roaH in -a beautiful park of plane trees on the old Schveningen road between the Hague and Schveningen, .the famous Dutch watering place, Ar chitectuarally it is in the style of the chateaux of northern France. Three sides of the building con stitute the assembly hall, which will accommodate about 300 . per sons, while on the fourth is the library. Nearly every nation con tributed something to the. build ing of the Palace, including the United States, which donated fc^; monument for the terrace. Mr. Carnegie contributed $1,500.000?