REGULAR MEETING OF OTYCO?NCIL! - - - - ? , I ? j Contract For the City Abattoir Awarded j ?Proposal T h a 11 Shavings From the Lumber Mills B e Used as Fuel For Lighting Plant Ar a regular meeting of council held Tuesday evening there were present, Mayor Jennings, and Couneilmen McCallum and Raf Setd... ? ?< The minutes of the regular meet ing-of 31 ay "3rd and special meet ing- of June ?th were read and ; approved. ! k \ Dr. S. H. Edmunds, superintend- j ent of the City Schools, appeared j before council and asked that the j schools be given a lower rate on | electric current which was being j consumed by them. Council took ; the position that it made no ma- j ierial difference what the rates to the schools were, as-it had to j be paid by the citizens at large any- j way. For this reason it .was de- j cided trot to make the change. Dr. i Edmunds also requested a donation; of '$100 to pay for a collection of j children's books, which had been j purchased by the Carnegie Library. I This request was authorized, Mr. Gabel of the Gabel-Chris- \ ta! company, a local business enter- I prise engaged in the manufacture j of boll weevil traps, appeared be- ! fore .council and asked that a Ii- i cense "be fixed for his company. ! Council Sxed the license at $20 for the balance of the year. - " Mr. Josey of a cigar manufac turing concern also appeared and ] asked for the usual exemption of taxes and license which is cus tomary to allow manufacturing es tablishments. His request-was re fused since the greater part of his output' was sold locally, and a Ii- I cense of $10 was'ordered'for the j balance of 1522. ? B. W. Levan, representing aj number of ice cream dealers in the ] city, appeared before council and! asked that the license for ice cream | peddlers be reduced. Council de cided that it would be best to j make no change.at the present; v time.' Mr. H. L. Tisdale together withi Dr. D. Q. Browning next appeared] with bids for the proposed munici- j pat abattoir. Bids were received j from J. W. Haiper and Son and G. j P. Knowles, two local contractors.*! :After a careful consideration of the j bids in hand. Mayor Jennings and I Councilman McCallum voted-to be-i gin the construction of the a hat-\ toir at once. Councilman, Raffield ; stated that while he was not op- i posed to the construction of saicLt abattoir, he thought it best to wait ] until the next meeting of;!council j in order to look into .the matter of j financing the proposition. The i contract was awarded to Mr. j Knowles, he being the lowest bid- j &er. . \ .Mr. C. F. Korn of the Sumter j Hardwood company, together with i Mr. Doughty, manager of the City j Lighting plant, made recommen- ! Rations to council, that-the city ! ffi3flL.ja its lighting plant, as fuel, j ?*??e ? shavings which were being, accumulated daily by' the Hard- j wood company. Mr. Korn stated to council, that this was ah experi v ment which was to be made at the expense of his company, and if <-:ty council was not satisfied as to the efficiency of this fuel, he would correct ail changes which rjbte had made at the lighting plant. _and put said machinery or parts back in their original state, with out making expense for the city. Mr. Korn further stated, that if the t! ruel proved satisfactory he would I r.gree to furnish the city with this' : jel at a cost of one dollar perj loa for the balance of 1S22, and in! \^e. future at a cost of one dollar! an dthirty cents per ton as long as' ; he hardwood mill was-located in~j Sumter, which would be a substan tial .saving in the cost of fuel used ui the lighting plant. Council agreed to Mr. Korn's proposition, provided all experiments be made under the supervision of Mr Doughty. Mr. W. W. McKagen, superin- j tendent of the water works recom mended that a small water main be j placed on Jenkins street at an ap- j proximate cost of $23.00. Mr. Mc Kagen also recommended that wa-! ier and sewer lines be placed on j Dingle street from Salem Avenue! .to South Purdy street at an ap-! .proximate cost of $325.00. These' improvements were authorized by: council. Mr. McKagen brought up tlje i question of extending the water; mains to the Sumter Hardwood; company. It was decided that a \ six inch main be placed on Bee! street from the corner of Harvin j street to First Red and White street, approximately * ?00 feet. From this point to the Central i railroad a four inch main will be placed, at which point the Sumter Hardwood company will connect. It was also agreed by Mr. Korn of the.Sumter Hardwood company,; that his company would bear one- ? half of the expense of constructing said main, and upon completion of same would deed their interest; back to the city. Mr. McKagen was; directed to order the material and proceed with this work at once. Dr. Browning, city health offi cer. appeared before council to ask .what disposition should be made of; transients who were found to be affected with a contagious disease. He stated that at the present time the facilities were very poor for handling such cases. Council di- ; reeted Dr. Browning to investigate ?the matter further and to report at a later date the best way to handle the proposition. it was also decided By council, on recommendation of Mr. Doughty that the construction of the white, COLUMBIA Y. W. C. A. GIRLS GO TO CAMP Twenty-two Leave For "Laf a-Lot" Near Hagood Columbia, June 13.?Twenty-two | enthusiastic Girl Reserves left yes terday for a week's stay at the Y. j W. C. A. camp, "Laf-a-Lot," near I Hagood, under the supervision of ; Misses Eliza Wardlaw, girls' work i secretaiy of the Y. W. C. A.; Miss i Maude Sanford, industrial girls' j secretary, and Miss Allie Cohb, camp counsellor. The girls left the Y. W .C. A. at 9 o'clock in an automobile and will return next Monday, at which time another group of girls will go to the camp. This is the only girls' ! camp anywhere near Columbia and ! was started by the Y. W. C. A. three years ago. Each year a larger number of girls apply for a week's vacation at the camp and each year the camping time ha> to be ex tended to accommodate all of the girls. Miss Gertrude Chenoweth, general secretary of the Y. W. C. A., said yesterday that several hundred girls will go on the camp this summer and that the camp will be open probably until the'last week in August. There will* be different counsell ors and hostesses each week and under the guardianship of Misses Wardlaw and Sanford and "Plumie," the camp cook, there seems to be no doubt as to the j welfare of the girls. Last summer I every girl who went camping was taught to swim and the same pro gram will be followed this sum mer. Twelve of the girls who went yesterday were from the Epworth .orphanage. There are still some more orphanage girls to go. There j will be also a number of industrial I girls, business girls and other Co- ! j lumbia girls to take advantage of ! this camping trip. ATTACK ON LLOYD GEORGE Premier Wins Another Battle ' in House of Commons i London, June 13.?(By the As-I sociated Press.)?Premier Lloyd I George successfully resisted another powerful attack in the house of! commons today when a proposal to j I reduce the cost of his cabinet sec- ! retariat was rejected by 205 to 111 i amid, scenes of excitement. The majority was considerably smaller than customary and occasioned shouts of "resign!" The secretariat consists of the premier's private secretaries with a large staff, cost-, ing about 33,000 pounds yearly. It is an outgrowth of the war and in the opinion of the opposition par ties, is no longer needed, giving the premier too great an executive control, especially in the domain of foreign policy, besides destroying i the traditional cabinet secrecy as! the members of the secretariat now J attend cabinet meetings and take j notes. 1 ?Mr. Asquith attacked the system ] mainly on this ground, inasmuch as j it destroys the confidential nature j of cabinet councils. Austen Chamberlain, defending j the vote, said he had experience j with both systems and greatly pre- i ferred the new one. He would not; think of returning to the old un-1 businesslike practice, when the i only record of cabinet discussions I i was a brief letter, perhaps from j i the premier to the king. * Mr. Lloyd George, in discussing the subject, predicted that no' re sponsible minister in the future would east away this new machine, j He denied that the secretariat ex- ! ercised mysterious functions or usurped the funcitons of parlia ment or enabled the prime minis ter to override the parliament de cisions. The secretariat had noth ing to do with politics, it had no control over foreign policy. He as serted that the world wanted new methods, and ridiculed the idea that there should be a return to the old system, which had plunged the world into war. ? m ? APPEAL STAYS SENTENCES Harrison and Jeffords Not to Be Electrocuted at Peniten tiary- Today Columbia. June 1"?.?Official no tice of the. appeals in the Ira Har rison and Frank M. Jeffords case was served on Col. A. K. Sanders, superintendent of the penitentiary, yesterday by Solicitor A. Fletcher Spigner. Until the serving of the notice yesterday the penitentiary had no official notification of the appeals to the supreme court. .Harrison and Jeffords were \ scheduled to be electrocuted today, but the notice of appeal automati cally stays the sentence and they will not be put to death today as originally sentenced._ way be handled under his super-; vision instead of by contract as was formerly agreed upon. This change was authorized by council. Reports of the police depart-! ment and Civic League Nurse for month ?>i" -May 1922 were read and; ordered liled. A letter from the firm of Epps & j Levy, attorneys in the case of the city of Sumter vs. C. H. Wheeler) Manufacturing company, was read, asking thui their fee be fixed by; city council. Council allowed a fee $25 in connection with This case. communications were rend to city council reporting tin- result of the ?hction June 13th. 1!?_2 for a member of the City Board of Edu cation. The following ballots were cast: Mr. Bartbw Walsh . 2-?. Miss Edith DeLorme .... 3 Mr. Walsh received a majority of the votes cast and was therefore declared elected. Council then adjourned. j STRONG FIGHT j ! AGAINST SHIP I i SUBSIDY BILL; - I Unqualified Condem-j nation is Voted by the American Fed eration of Labor Convention Cincinnati, Jur.e 13.?Unqualified condemnation of the ship subsidy bill was voted unanimously today by the delegates at the American Federation of Labor convention al most simultaneously with Presi dent Harding's dispatch, of a letter asking congress to pass the meas ure under threat of an extra ses sion. The convention also voted to send a protest against passage of the bill to senate^ and house leaders. The bill was termed by the reso lution adopted by the convention as a "cunningly devised scheme to enrich certain classes of so-called American ship owners at the ex pense of the truly American tax payer and also to proviue patron age which is certain to be used for purely political purposes." ? The resolution concluded with the state j ment that the bill was "condemned as inimical to the public interest, and particularly destructive to the I nation's hopes for sea power." The action by the delegates was [ their first attack on the Harding I administration, which it was indi cated by the federation's executive council report would be the brunt of other attacks during the two weeks' convention. All other mat ters were laid aside for consider i ing the shipping bill, but the only j floor discussion that came while the measure had the right of way i was from Andrew Furuseth, presi | dent of the Seamen's Union. While the action on the shipping bill was the outstanding develop ment of the convention, interest among the delegates also was cen tered in the first movement for a contest of membership on the fed eration's executive council. Joseph A. Franklin, president of the Boilermakers' Union, announced his; candidacy for treasurer, opposing Daniel Tobin, president of the Teamsters' Union, who is a candi date for reelection. Mr. Franklin's announcement came after a meeting of the chiefs of eleven rail unions, which control about one-third of the convention vote, and the candidacy of Mr. Franklin was regarded as a move ment to give the rail organizations a representative on the council. No j claim of strength was made by Mr. t Franklin, but he and his friends1 began a campaign that will end : on the last day of the convention, j almost a fortnight away. The move is the second in recent j years by the rail unions to win a < j place on the council, they having i ja candidate in 1920 in William H. J Johnston, of the Manehinists' Un ion, who opposed Jacob Fischer, of the Barbers' Union, for a vice j presidency. Although Mr. Frank- j lin's announcement said he would j oppose Mr. Tobin, it was later said j among delegates that he might j switch and oppose Mr. Fischer. ? ? ? Negro Attempts To Assault Girl j -__ Alleged Assailant Captured, by Camden Mayor?Taken | to State Penitentiary Camden. June 14. ? Bradford j Boyd, a negro youth, said to be about eighteen years of age. was arrested here today by city officers [and placed in the county jail, be-] ing charged with attempted crim- I inal assault upon an eleven-year- i old daughter of a white farmer.! The alleged crime was committed i in Riehland county, just across I the line from Kershaw, and occur- j red about 8 o'clock Wednesday j morning. Enraged citizens from | Camden and both counties joined; officers from this county and Rich- ! land in a man hunt. A descrip- j tion of the negro had been tele- j phoned to Camden. and Boyd j caught a. ride to Camden with a white man. Upon reaching Cam- I den he attempted to have a check I cashed at the Bank of Camden. j and upon being asked for his en- I dorsement on the check he readily I subscribed his name. H. G. Carrison, Jr.. the cashier, who is also mayor, took the negro j in charge and placed him in jail I .until he could have him positively identified. To avoid any possible trouble from enraged citizens the negro was spirited out of town by [auto and it was thought he was taken to Sumter from here, there to be carried to the state peni- j tentiary for safe keeping. It is'be lieved that the right negro has been caught. Aside from " the fright and shock the young girl was uninjured. FIRE AT BISHOPVILLE \V. H. Folsom Loses Residence and Household Furnishings Bishopville. Juno 13.?About 4 i o'clock yesterday morning fire com pletely destroyed the residence of W. H. Folsom and practically its entire contents. The origin of the fire is not known, the family being asleep when suddenly they were awakened to find the front portion j of th?- house in flames. A small I portion of the furniture was re moved bur this was considerably damaged. Mr. Folsom's loss is j partly covered by insurance, there ? being $3.000 on the dwelling and I $ri.,000 on the furniture. i Some politicians are learning i that evr-n though the dead speak, j nobody pay any particular atten LIQUOR FIGHT IN CENTER OF STAGEAGAIN Shipping Board's As sumption of Power to Disregard Law Arouses the Prohi bitionists , Washington, June 14.?Sale of iiquor on shipping hoard vessels at i sea will he continued. Chairman Lasker reiterated tonight, until ? a j supreme court decision has been rendered holding such practice il legal under the prohibition laws or until he "has been convinced of its illegality." ! "Mr. Lasker maintained through I out the day the position taken by him in1 his letter to Adolphus Busch, 3rd, vice president of the Anheuser Busch Brewery company. Of St. Louis, despite: indication that it would be made the subject of attack in congress and^ the Anti-Saloon league and other dry organizations. Officials of the department of justice refused to comment on the situation, but in other quarters at tention was called to an opinion on file there which was rendered by former Acting Attorney General Frierson in 1920. Mr. Frierson held that the national prohibition act was effective upon ships flying the American flag wherever they might be. According to high department officials, an opinion of an attorney general remains the official inter pretation of a iaw until it has been revoked by court decisions or by a superseding opinion. Furthermore, they added; such opinion always stands unless request for a review comes from the same department or agency which originally requeu ed the ruling. Mr. Laskcr's stand as to liquor sales on board American vessels was taken, he informed Mr. Busch, on the authority of an opinion rend ered by General Counsel Schles singer of the 'shipping board. The chairman conferred today with Attorney General Daugherty. and while there gave him copies of j the correspondence with the St. j Louis brewer. The matter of li quor sales at sea was not the pri mary purpose of the conference. Mr. Lasker indicated later, but it was brought up incidentally. Refusing to discus:- his talk with Mr. Daugherty, Chairman Lasker I declared he would not ask the de | partment of justice for a new opin j ion. being entirely satisfied with j that rendered by Mr. Schlessinger. I He added that he would not answer 'further letters on the subject: of ; liquor selling. I Representative Upshaw (Demo crat) of Georgia announced pub licly today that he would offer an amendment to the ship subsidy bill providing that no part of the fed eral subsidy fund should be used by steamship lines on whose ships liquor is sold. There was talk tonight that such an amendment would be put squarely before the committee, it self, probably tomorrow, although its defeat there was predicted, i One ardent prohibitionist went I so far as to express the opinion ! that "by next summer a law will [ be enacted prohibiting the landing j in the United States of foreign iships on which liquor selling is per j mitted." ONE BIG UNION IDEA REJECTED - American Federation Votes Down Without Debate Rad ical Proposal Cincirrnati. June 15?Without opposition or debate the conven tion of the American Federation of Labor today killed the resolution proposing a radical change in the form of the organized labor move ment in the United States by the amalgamation of all unions into a single organization, each covering an industry The officers of the rail unions will not interfere to stop the strike of the shopcrafts and maintenance [workers, B. M. Jewell said today, addressing the federation conven tion. He said the workers are ? r*-ady for a test." CONSUMPTION OF COTTON INCREASES I Cotton Growing Section Con sumes More Than 67 Per Cent of Total Washington, June 14.?Manufac ture of eotton in May showed an increase, over April, 495,U74 bales having been consumed, or 4fc,vS3i bales more than April, the census bureau's monthly report today in dicated. Of the increase in con sumption, tin* cotton-growing states utilized 34.4>.?- of April, with a total of 469.397 hales. That was smalle rthan May exports last year. For tin- ten months ending May 31, however, total exports were 5.451. $00 bales, compared with 4,701.671 bales for the same period a yea;* ago. Health hint: Send your bootk-g gar on his vacation. ! GREENVILLE GIRL KILLED j ON RAILROAD j No Evidences of Foul Play? Supposed to Have Been Ac ! cident - Greenville. June 12.?Supposedly j leaving her home at Donwood some ! time during the early part of last i night for the purpose* of visiting j the grave of her litle sister, who j was instantly killed last Monday i when her clothing was caught on the emergency brake of an auto j mobile and she was hurled to j death in the road, Ellen Ltvings i ton. 17.year old daughter of B. F. j Livingston, was found dead on the j tracks of the Southern railway- be_ j tween Donwood and Graceland j cemetery early this morning. The ! body was badly mutilated and gave I evidence of having been dragged I for some distance under the wheels ! of a locomotive, it was stated, j The father was unaware of the ? absence of his daughter until she \ failed to appear at breakfast, and a search was instituted. Being no tified that an unidentified body had j been found, the anxious parent j rushed to the undertaking estab I lishment and found his child. The I right arm was severed at the I shoulder, the left at the wrist, and i her right foot at the ankle whlie j the skull was fractured and severe ! wounds were inflicted in the right j side. j According to the parents, the .girl had been deeply depressed by I the death of her little sister, to i whom she was devoted, and, al j though prevented from attending j the funeral, had visited the grave I many times. Because she had gone i to the cemetery yesterday morn j ing io place a few flowers on the j grave and had expressed her in j tention of returning in the after ! noon, it is supposed that she crept i out of the house some time after i 9 o'clock last night and met with i the accident between that time and ! morning. Although Coroner Vaughan said J tonight he had gathered no evi ! dence of foul play, an inquest will ! be held over the body at 3:30 j o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Rail j way inspectors have studied the I circumstances surrounding the ! tragedy carefully, but have thus I far been unable to discover what ! train ran over the child. m m WAR DEBTS OF FOREIGN NATIONS i Statesments of Financial Con ditions Submitted by Two Debtors i Washington. June. 12.?Foreign j nations?World war debtors of this ? country?have begun submitting to j the allied debt funding commission j statements of their financial con {ditions in the light of their obli? ; gations to the United States. It was said today at the treasury j that two nations have presented {briefs of their fiscal conditions in j connect ion1 with the debts to their j country. Their names were with I held. Their statements were being j analyzed by the commission, it was, J explained, and would be very help | ful when the negotiations for the j funding of the obligations were j begun. Statements from the othei j debtor nations are expected by the I commissions. So far. it was said, nothing official on the debt ques tion has been heard from Great j Britain since the formation of the j commission although the belief was expressed at the treasury that a [special mission to discuss that na tion's indebtedness might be ex j pected at any time. ! Meanwhile, it was indicated at i the treasury, funding negotiations will be begun with France, whose government has announced the early departure of a special com mission to this country unless earli er activity develops on the part of Great Britain, who owes about $5, 000,000.000 of the total of $11. 000.000.000 foreign debt to the United States. j 'The proceedings of the debt com I mission, when negotiations with j the allied government begin, will ? be carried on with the usual diplo. I matic discretion as regards publici f ty. it was made plain at the treas ! ury. Secretary Mellon was repre i seated as taking the position that i the funding of the allied debts can not be accomplished successfully i 'in the newspapers." and that the j progress of the proceedings should j only be made known through offi j cial announcements. 'JUDGE ERNEST I MOORE DEAD Prominent Citizen of Lancas ter Passes Away in Balti more Hospital Lancaster. June 14.-Judge i Ernest Moore, judge of the. Sixth ( judicial circuit of South Carolina, died at a hospital in Baltimore this afternoon :it 4 o'clock. Judge Moore had been in ill health for some time and while his condition was serious, his death came as a great surprise and the entire com munity is deeply grieved. He was taken to Baltimore last Saturday and placed under the care of a specialist. Tt was reported that lie was doing nicely and the news of Iiis death came as a great sur prise. ?> ? Virginia Terminal Issues Bonds Washington. June 15.?The Vir ginia terminal railway has been authorized by the Interstate Kail road Commission t<> issue nine hundred and nine thousand dol lars in fifty-year, live per cent bonds and turn them over to the Virginian railroad. INCOME TAX RETURNS Internal Revenue fommis sioner Takes Up Returns for 1920 and Previous Year Washington. June 13?Net in | incomes of individuals reported to the government during 1920 in | creased by nearly $4,000,000,000 I and the number of returns by near ! ly 2.000,000 over 1919, while the I taxes received fell off by about I $195,000,000. according to prelimi ; nary statistics issued today by In I ternal Revenue Commissioner j Blair. i Returns for incomes between $1. ' 000 and $2,000 increased by more than 500.000 in 1920 as compared j with 1919. while those for the j larger classes of income dropped j heavily?returns for incomes of ! 1,000,000 and over falling from 65 in 1919 to 33 in 1920. The average net income on re turns for 1920 was $3,269.40, 'the average amount, of tax $14S.0S arid ' the average tax rate 4.53 per cent., ; while as relating to the entire pop ulation of the country subject to the federal income tax the pro portion filing returns was 6.85 per j cent., the per capita net income re i ported was $223.87 and the per I capita income tax was $10.44. For the calendar year 1920 there I were 7.259,994 personal income j tax returns filed reporting a total i net income of $23,735,629,183 and i yielding a total tax of $1,075,053, I 6S6, as compared with 5,332,760 j returns for a total income of $19, i 859,491.448 and a tax yield of $1, ! 269,630,104 in 1919. Xew York led the states in the i number of returns filed, the amount j of income report and in the tax j yield. Pennsylvania was second I and Illinois third, j Income reported by various states : for 1920 included: Alabama, $156. ; 004,933; Florida, $141.105,124; '; Georgia, $228,619.716: Kentucky, ! $243.S79,230; Louisiana. $237.109, ! 145: Mississippi, $83.954.352; North ; Carolina, $163,799.837; South Car Molina. $109,246,657; Tennessee, i $212,600,105; Virginia, $2T3,235. i 229. In South CaroUna. Washington, June 13.?Accord ing to a statement today by the commissioner of internal revenue. South Carolina, for 1920, paid into i the treasury as income tax, $3, | 326.875. ? The income of those making re 1 turns was $109.246.657. The per ? cent, of population making returns j was 1.96. The average net income was $3,300.09. The average amount of tax per return was $97190. i Since 1910 returns have been as t foiiows: 1920, 33,044; 1919, 37, i 296; 1918, 20,239; 1917, 22,321; ; 1916, 1,204. j I Labor Against Supreme Court i ? ? j Campaign Started For Consti j tutional Amendment to Re j strict Power of Court i Cincinnati, June 14 (By the As j sociated Press).?Organized labor ; indicated a determination at the i American Federation of Labor convention here today that it would start a drive for a constitutional amendment for a congressional veto of supreme court decisions and for the denial of the power of j lower federal courts to set aside a federal law as unconstitutional, j This, the delegates were informed, j would overcome decisions which j labor has regarded as inimical to; its interests. The only formal action, however, was unanimous adoption of a mo tion creating a special committee j to frame a4 policy, which action j was taken after the proposal for i the amendment had been made by j Senator La Follette of Wisconsin. J Other speakers, most of them lead j ers in the labor movement, approv ed the program- as practicable, j while the delegates voiced approval : with applause. j The suggestion of a drive for j the amendment came in .the midst j of a program devoted to condem j nation of child labor. The address ; of Senator La Follette centered j attacks on the supreme court, ! which for a second time recently i declared the . federal child labor j law unconstitutional, j A dissenting note to a program ! aimed generally at curtailment of J the courts was heard during the j day-long program when Florence 1 Kelly of the National Consumers' ; league voiced approval of the sena I tor's proposal but asserted that the ! best strategy was to make a drive ! exclusively for an amendment to jmake possible a federal ban on ^ child labor. However, she de ! clared her enlistment "as a high i private, in the army that will fol low his (La Follette's) banner." j Senator La Follette in his speech icontended that the federal courts I had by a process of gradual en i croachments "wrested sovereignty j from the people" and he cited the child labor tax law decision as ? "typical of the conduct of the fed ieral judiciary." Hisses greeted the ; senator's first mention of Chief [ Justice Taft, but these quickly i changed to applause as Mr. La Fol jlette declared that Taft was re pudiated by the voters wlten a sec ond term candidate for president. **Xo one will contend." said the senator, "that he could have been elected chief justice by the vote of the people." Laughter greeted this remark as j also the senator's statement that i a chief justice of a British court I was hanged Yor attempting to set j aside an act of parliament, and I once in (he midst of a tirade on! court actions a delegate called out i Atta boy. Bob:" "Five members of t ic supreme j eourt," La Follette said, "enact I what shall be the lau." and he] added, "we are ruled by a judi- j cial oligarchy." Lending money is a fine way to improve your memory. ? ? ? Eskimos never battle. That's why Eskimo kids look so happy. LIQUOR, THE CAUSE OF FRATRICIDE Peter Shaw Shot to Death by Eugene Shaw in Anderson County Anderson, June 12. ? Eugene Shaw shot and killed his brother, Peter Shaw, at the Shaw home near Beiton this morning. Peter Shaw was at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. C:, C. Shaw, about seven miles from Anderson, near the Beiton-Anderson highway. At the inquest it was testified that he was standing near a well with a baby in his arms when he was shot from the doorway by Eugene Shaw. According to evidence in the. coroner's inquest the two men had some difficulty. trouble having been brewing since Saturday. Mrs. C. C. Shaw, the mother, said that Peter owed Eugene for some peas. He was to have been paid back Saturday, and they were fussing about this. j Clarke Shaw testified that he was not at the place at the time his two brothers were fussing, and when Eugene shot Peter, but he knew that they were at outs and that Eugene told him at 1 o'clock this morning that he was going to kill Peter if he didn't make a set tlement. Clarke said That Peter owed Eugene for three sacks of guano and that lie owed Eugene four sacks and he had made ar rangements for Peter to pay the guano to him, which was not sat isfactory to Eugene, and Eugene is alleged to have said that if Peter ' did not pay him, to, he would kill j Peter. * i Clarke Shaw also volunteered j the information that Peter owed Eugene for whiskey, but this was not recorded. He also said. "The truth is Eugene is the father of this liquor business and he claim ed Peter owed him $660 for li quor." Mrs. Peter Shaw ?aid that when she got to her husband, who was about a hundred yards from her home, that he was breathing and lived about 20 minutes. She said that she believed whiskey to be at the bottom of the trouble. She had warned Eugene, she said, not to let Peter have any more whiskey, if he did she would tell on him. Reed Shaw, another brother, was a witness to the shooting and said that the men were fussing in the house and that Peter went out and had ? gone about 15 steps in the yard when Eugene called him back. He said that he told Eugene not to shoot that he. might hit the baby, and Eugene said with an oath. '"Let 'em die together." Reed testified that both men shot, but Peter did not shoot at Eugene until after he had been shot. The baby that was in the arms of Peter when he fell is a little girl 21 months old, and had gone to sleep on her father's shoulder, i Her head was bloody from the wounds of her father and her clothing also blood stained, but she was not hurt. There are two oth | er little girls besides this. Peter j Shaw was 36 years of age. Eugene Shaw was arrested at j Beiton after he had telephoned j the sheriff to come and "get him j and was brought to the Anderson j jail. He was slightly wounded by a bullet which penetrated the skull. This wound was attended by a physician in Beiton. Shaw expressed great regret, saying: "Nobody hates it any worse than me. I did it to save my life. They were both shooting at me at the same time." The funeral of Peter Shaw will be held Tuesday afternoon at the Second Baptist church in Beiton. WANTS TRAIN KEPT ON Chamber of Commerce Enters Vigorous Protest * (Columbia State) f A vigorous protest is being made j by the chamber of commerce to the South Carloina railroad com mission against the proposed dis continuance'of trains No. 68 and No. 69 between Columbia and Sum ter over the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. The commerce body asks the commission to consider the great importance of these trains to the territory they serve and requests that the traveling public not be made to use the 5:40 a. m.. train which would be the case if the one leaving at S a. m.', was taken off the schedule. The chamber of commerce be lieves that the towns served should appear before the commission and enter their protest in an effort to maintain the present service to and from Sumter. ? ? ? Monument To Francis Scott Key Honor Paid the Author of the Star Spangled Banner ? Baltimore. June 14. ? Francis St ott Key's memory was honored today with the unveiling of a mon ument to him erected by congress in historic Fort McHenry. The ceremony made the fort the mec ca for thousands who gathered there long before the hour fixed for the arrival of President Harding, who accepted the memorial for the nation in an address this after noon. NEW LIQUOR RULING Treasury Department Will Call on Attorney General Daugherty For Opinion Washington, June 15?That At torney General Daugheriy will be asked for a new ruling on the ques tion of the ?ale of liquor on ship ping board vessels, was indicated today by the treasury department. I FEDERATION OF LABOR I _ \ Samuel Gompers Says Labor j is in No Mood to Surrender j Privileges f j _ Cincinnati. June 12.?Facing a fight that leaders of organized la bor regarded as one for the exist-* j ence of unions, the American Fed eration of Labor here today opened its forty-second annual convention, which was marked by the presen tation of many issues that are to be considered during the next two weeks, and a speech by President j Samuel Gompers, declaring "we do i not fool ourselves in any fancied* J security." The issues were brought. ' before the delegates by the report j of the federation's executive coun ! cH. "We are not in a mood," said^ Mr .Gompers. **to have those rights and privileges guaranteed to us by our constitution taken from us by any subtle reasoning or assump i tion of power no matter whence it j emanates." i v;j j This declaration of the veteran j labor leader was greeted with ap : pLause, also bis statement that or I ganized labor would "go onward j and forward more determined than* j ever that there shall not be im j posed upon our brow, upon our j backs, the type of the 'man with j the hoe." \ The speech by Mr. Gompers } came after a program of welcom I ing addresses by Mayor George P. j Carr'eU, Secretary T..J. Donnolley of* i the Ohio Federation of Labor, and J others. The big armory of the t Ohio National Guard was filled by i delegates and spectators,. while, above their heads were hung a .thousand American flags. Mr. Gompers declared that ? or igan ized labor only asked employes to meet with the union leaders in j conferences for the settlement of J any disputes, but he said that a j genuine conference was impossible' j unless both sides stand on an equal footing. The "open shop," he .added, is not the result of con ferences. Mr. Gompers concluded, with a reference to the disarm ament conference, asserting it made a beginning toward abolish ing war and that labor through 1 out the world made the "greatest i contribution toward that purpose." ; The convention session also were j marked by presentation of ja. re ? port by Santiago Iglesias. pj^sident' of the Free Federation of Work jers of Poroto Rico endorsing the 1 administration of Emont Riley, as Governor Of Porto Rico. Iglesias" ; declared that Governor Riley had j dealt fairly with organized labor in j Porto Rico.; . j While the "executive council's re | port centered around many qaes I tiops that will come before the ?Convention it also showed tluit the j total membership of the federation j is 3.195,635. Although this is a I loss of 710,893 in the last year, j members of the committee pointed j out. that it was a. gain of more jthan 1,100 over 1916, which year j was followed by big gains during* ;the war. Further the report told j of labor's accomplishments of the j last year, which, it said, was I marked by "unusual strife" and Ufi-> j usual industrial depression." j .-? ? ? SPoincare Discards Diplomatic Language ftain Spoken and Somewhat ? Acid Note to Great Britain > on Hague Conference Paris, June 12.?Premier Poin care, in his note to the British gov-v ernment. in reply to the recent British memorandum of June 1 with respect to The H^gue con j ference, he insists that if the l powers come to an agreement in J advance and present a united front (io the Russians at The Hague andt j not permit them to stray from the : point, they can and ?'will accept all ! required of them. As proof of this, j*M. Poincare instances what they j have done for Italy in the treaty* \ just concluded. The French document, although i lengthy and businesslike, is devoid j-of diplomatic circumlocutions and I literary grace. The tone is some | what acid: disparaging references to the Genoa conference are* i frequent and there is what appears jto be an uncomplimentary allusion to the bankers' commission. When j speaking of the question of credits* I to Russia the reply refers to^.the ; demands formulated by prospec I tive leaders with regard to certain i countries whose prosperity^ and i economic future could not be j doubted." j WOMAN SHOOTS ' NEGRO M AN \ Black Advancing on Her With Brick i Hamlet. X. C, June 12.?Mrs j Branson Millikin shot artd in ; stantly killed William McGhee. ' negro when he attempted to assault i her at the Millikin home four miles ! from here Sunday. The ndgro had : previously threatened both Mrs.? ) Millikin and her husband and when j he entered the home Sunday and i continued to advance on her with ia brick in either hand, the intend-, j ed victim seized a gun and fired, I the negro being killed instantly. I Mr. Millikin was not home at the I time. LOWER BANK DISCOUNT IN j CALIFORNIA ' Federal Reserve Bank Would Reduce Rate to Four Per Cent Washington. June 15?The fed j eral reserve banks of San Francisco j has asked the federal reserve board j for a statement of its attitude upon* the possible reduc?on of the Cal ifornia bank's rediscount rate from four and a half to four per cent s |1