' * 1 " vTHE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Esti ? V CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 FREE STATE IRISH ELECTING PARLIAMENT : ? _ South Ireland Hold mg^Election To-day For Members of Parliament Under - Anglo-Irish Treaty Dublin, June 16.?The voters ^of Southern Ireland went to the polls today to elect an Irish par liament, as provided under the terms Of the Anglo-Irish treaty. London. Jane 13.-?The Anglo- ! Irish treaty, signed last December, -under which fhe Irish Free State is being created, provided for the formation of an Irish parliament. The act to give the treaty effect, ; passed by the British parliament in March, stipulated that elections to ? provisional parliament for the Free State should be held "as soon as may be"-after the passage of the j act. These are the elections be ing held in Ireland today. The parliament so elected is to pass up- | xm the- constitution^ for the Free j State under which a permanent parliament for Southern Ireland, will be chosen. ' Lacking any constitutional di vision of the country into districts ' ?. j It was contemplated by the"Brit- j ish - government, and originally by i -the Irish provisional government headed by Michael Collins, that to-j day's elections should be free!yv contested and should virtually con ^stitute a plebiscite of Southern Ireland on the qnestion of the treaty and the proposed constitu-; lion. The opposition to. such a, plebiscite on the part of the Re publican faction, led by Eamonn de Valera, was so determined, however* that late in May an agree .ment was reached between the Col lins and de Valera factions that candidates previously agreed up on should be nominated by the two. factions, comprising virtually an official slate, the members being ~ ?hosen in the proportion in which the two factions are now represent ed in the Dail Eireann. or with a slight preponderance for the Col lins party. The new parliament will form a coalition cabinet, drawn from the pro-treaty faction under Michael " Colliins, and the anti-t&aty forces under Eamonn de Valera. An agreement reached in Mlty by Col lins and de Valera provided, among ?other things, for a cabinet or" eleven members including, the pres ident and the minister of defense. The nine other members will be selected five from the majority party and four from the minority party, each party to choose its ?rm nominees. The factional agreement of May brought about a halt in the ag gressive fight being waged by the de Valera faction against the pro ? visional government. At the same time it was received with some thing like consternation in British governmental circles. It was believ ed in England that it struck at the basis of the treaty in preventing a free expression of Southern Irish ^ opinion on the pact and that it might represent also the yielding of the Collins faction to the mili tant anti-treaty party, which has been insistent that the fight for a 'republic be kept up. In this situation the British au thorities asked the leading repre sentatives of the provisional gov ernment to come to London for a conference, and lengthy conversa tions between cabinet members and the Irish representatives took place there during the week of May 28. As a result Colonial Sec - retary Winston Churchill, in a speech in the Britsih House of Com mons on June 1, announced what was virtually the decision of the .British government to let the elec tions proceed as arranged by the two factions in Ireland. This was coupled, however, with the warn ing that if any of the members of the coalition government for Ire land, representing both factions, ' constituted upon the basis of the I new elections, should fail to sub-i scribe to the declaration of ad- j herence to the treaty, the British ^government would consider that' this constituted a violation of the treaty. The British government would feel free in that cas \ he j said, to resume full liberty of ac-! lion as to reclaiming the powersi ceded to the Irish authorities un-! der the treaty. It was broadly j hinted by Mr. Churchlil indeed. I 'that this might mean a military | re-occupation of Southern Ireland by the British. Mr. Churchill said also it had been explained by the Irish repre iblished April, 1850. im._ SPOILS ROW PESTERS THE EXECUTIVES Blair Dover Contro versy in Treasury Breaks Out Again? Congress Takes a Hand Washington, June 16. ? The Blair-Dover controversy in the treasury threatened to break out afresh today when became known that a petition had been circulated among the Republican members of congress asking President Harding to uphold the policies of Dover. The petition, it is learned, has re ceived the signatures of about one hundred and fifty members. Plans are being made to present it to the president within the next forty-eight hours. Circulated with the petition was a document giving the names of al most a hundred and fifty office holders in the treasury and internal revenue bureau, who are declared to be Democrats helding key po sitions. Many of these, the repub lican house. members who are cir culating the petitions said were disloyal to the present administra tion and through lack of coopera tion are holding up the work of government! I sentatives that they considered it virtually impossible to hold free elections at the present time. They expected militant opposition from the opponents of the treaty, and this would prevent voters from registering their free choice. The list of candidates for elec tion, issued in Dublin, leaves the present composition of the Dall Eireann only slightly altered. There are 128 se?ts in the coun ties,, boroughs and universities of Free State constituencies, for which 124 candidates appear in the panel. The other four, form ing the constituency of Dublin University4* a re left uncontested by the coalition on the presumption that they will be returned unop posed. ' Although 125 seats are repre sented in the panel, only 124 can didates, will be nominated, be cause Commandant General Dan Breen was selected for both sides in the division formed by East Tip perary and Waterford County and City. . The panel gives 66 seats for pro ponents of the treaty and 59 for Republicans. rn County Monaghan, Dr. McCar biile was selected by the Republi cans in place of Sean McEntee. who is a. strong, opponent of the treaty. P. O'Kelly was nominated in Dub lin county for the seat made va cant through the recent death of Frank Lawless. Independents probably will con test 20 constituencies. The Irish Farmers* Union has between 20 and 30 candidates r?ady; the Labor nominees number 20, and half a dozen candidates will run in the cities of Dublin, Cork and Limer ick on behalf of business interests. The Republican list for Kildare and Wicklow contains the names of Robert C. Barton, Erskine Childers, Art O'Connor and Dan I Buckley, the only pro-treaty can I didates in that constituency being j C. M. Byrne. Several Ratepayers' Association I candidates will appear unattached, j while the Independent nominees j include the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Alderman Alfred Byrne, for the City of Dublin and E. Mac Lysacht for County Clare. & Irish Election Tame Rory O'Connor Condemns New Constitution . Dublin, June 16.?The universal verdict tonight was that, with the exception of one instance in Dub lin. Ireland never had such a tame election as that which took place today to choose members of parlia ment. In the city, raiders, headed by Rory O'connor of the irregu'ar Re publican army, made off with the documents and tally sheets of the National University polling pre cincts. Elsewhere in the city and County Dublin the day was devoid of incident. The voting was some what more brisk than had been expected. A large number of wom en cast their ballots at the polls. The general estimate tonight was that about 50 per cent, of the voters ; on the register exercised the fran chise. The publication of the constitu tion evoked no expression of opin j ion from Eamon De Valera. leader of the Republican faction. Mr. De Yalera declined to speak concern ins: it on the ground that he had not had time to read the document. Rory O'Connor, however, was bit ; ter on the subject. "This thing is I too rotten to talk about." he ox | claimed when asked his opinion on j the constitution. Ship Subsidy Bill Considered Soon Washington. June 17.?Chair man Campbell of the house rules committee, after a visit to the j White House today, expressed con fidence that steps could be taken to meet the president's request for prompt house consideration of the ship subsidy bilL "Be Jest and Fear ' TAXI MURDER TRIO EXECUTED AT DAYBREAK ! - I Kirby, Fox and Gap pins Went to Elec j trie Chair Early This Morning Columbia. June 16.?Kirby, Fox and Gappins, the famous murder trio were electrocuted in the state penitentiary this morning at 6 o'clock. Taking the curious public by surprsie. The execution was 9taged at an early hour, whereas the crowd had expected it to hap pen at noon. The execution of the men took i about fifty minute:-!. Kirby feign-1 ed insanity. He pulled his hand ! I from the arm strap before the! ! rest of the electric apparatus was I adjusted. This interference with I [the officers' plans deprived Kirby! jof his privilege of making a final; . statement. The officers tried to [remonstrate with him, urging that he take it easy. He continued to resist, and the officers then took the situation in hand, forcibly strapping him into the chair and i immediately sending the current through his body. Hundreds of people wanted to see the electrocution, and made ap plication to the penitentiary offi cials to be admitted. It was thought that the execution would take place shortly before noon, as is usual in such cases. Hundreds of people were gathered at the prison gate at 11 o'clock today, expecting to get some sigbt of the doomed mer . But the prison of ficials had thwarted the gaze of the morbidly curious. The electro cution was staged at 6 o'clock, and nobody but a'few officials, newspa per men and members of the fam ilies of the doomed men knew any thing about it, There was great surprise when - it was announced early in the day that the three men had been sent to the other world early. The sun had not been up long, whemhe saw three corpses brought from the' death house, Kirby, Fox and Gappins. and South Carolina's sensational murder story was ended. Young Brazell was murdered the night of August 7, last year. The three men engaged his car to take them to Augusta, whence they were to go to Florida, to sell the car, after they had black-jacked the driver and left him on the road side. The young driver was black jacked as the party traveled through Lexington, county, but the black-jack broke. Then to com plete their job then ^had to put the chauffeur out of the way. Kirby devised the scheme of killing him. He ordered Gappins to inflict the death wound, but the young man refused. Then Fox was ordered, j and he obeyed, the knife being jabbed into the young Columbian's body and twisted around, several times for each operation. The body was thrown in the under brush near the road and the three men proceeded on to Augusta. After leaving Augusta a short distance, the men had tire trouble, and stopping to get help, Kirby told of their criminal act, and they were arrested. The next day, August 9, Kirby was brought back to Lexington and he assisted offi cers in finding the body of young Brazell. Later he was brought to the penitentiary, escaping efforts of; a band of men to get him. \ Fox and Gappins were held in Augusta. A mob stormed the jail in an effort to get them. Later they were taken to Savannah, and' thence in dead of night they were smuggled to Charleston, and sever al days later still they were brought to Columbia, after a mob had searched trains and automo- j biles and guarded roadsides fori days, in an effort to get hold of the two men. All three of the men confessed to the killing. On the witness stand in Lexington, when they were tried last September, they told, un-l flinchingly, the horrible details of the crime, and then on September 14. they were convicted and sen tenced to the electric chair, Octob er 21 being set as the date for their execution. All three appealed, however, and their appeals stayed their executions. The appeals, without merit, were never perfect ed, and on motion of Solicitor Callison in Lexington on May 2C. i they were again sentenced to die. j this time June 1C being set as the' date. ? l And June 1C has come, and into the eternal yonder the three men. who brutally killed another young man. have passed, their lives being wiped out by the revenging arm of the law. the future of their souls left to a forgiving God. i Vain attempts have been made' in recent weeks to have the gov-j ernor save the lives of the prison ers. Petitions for their commuta tion have been presented in behalf of Gappins and Fox. these signed by som;- of the jurors who eon- i victed them.. But to all these the] ! governor turned a deaf ear, and the | justice of the law was maintained,! ;:nd a crime that shocked a com-j j monwealth was requited. i 5 SHOT TO DEATH AT BELFAST Belfast. June 17?Four men and ; one woman were shot dead and two men were wounded today in the vicinity of Bess Rock, known as county Armagh's model village. The houses of three loyalists were burned. Sot?Let all the ends Tbou Aims't Sumter, S. C, Wednesc GOV. HARVEY DISCUSSES LAWLESSNESS _ So Called Good Citi zens Who Make a Jest of Law Have Heavy Responsibili ty ,_ ; Asheville. X. C. June 16.?-We; who sit in positions of influence Land affluence, we who have vested; ' interests in the material welfare of I the. state, who who by education and environment are the leaders ! in our respective communities, j [?should ?ee to it that by precept j I and example we can consistently land honestly call for the observ ance of law and order." This was i the theme, as he said it, of the I address delivered last evening by jGov. Wilson G. Harvey, before j the convention of the South Caro lina Bankers' Association, in Ashe ville. ; The governor rapped hard the man who will patronize the boot legger and then expect the boot legger to be punished for violation of the law: the man who carried a gun and then wants to be excused for violation of the law: the man ?who sneers at the enforcement of j laws. "If we ourselves, by sneer or jeer j or jest set at naught that law or rlaws which fail to meet our.un. j qualified approval," the governor I asked, "if we go further and are j actually particeps criminis in. the j violation of laws, how can those j less responsive to the dictates of right be expected to uphold the law or have any regard whatever for even those laws which we may sanction and approve?" . Continuing, the Palmetto state governor said: "Can justice con sistently send to the chair the vio lators of the law, with the impre cations of a horrified and out j raged public, and wink its blind folded eye on the acts of men sit ting in high places, enjoying .the : confidence and respect of their fel I lowmen. yet are daily setting an j example of absolute disregard for I law and order. Shall the man who I desires the right to carry deadly j weapons be excused for disobeying j the law? Is he not amenable to j the law, irrespective of his dis i approval of the right or justice Of i that law? Shall the disbeliever in the policy of wisdom of prohibi tion be given carte blanc to dis obey the law of his state and of his nation?" In concluding his appeal for ob ! ?ervance of the laws and for the building of a sentiment for law observance, the governor said: "May I not say as a firm oon j viction that the crime wave will i recede, that bootlegging will cease to be profitable, that greater re j spect for law and order will im I mediately prevail if those who by } their position in a community are j immune from punishment will cease to become parties in crime and to furnish the incentive for ? law-breaking." Want America To Aid Chile and Peru Ask State De partment to Help Washington. June 16.?The tan gled skein of negotiation enmesh ing the Chilean-Peruvian confer : ence finally was handed over to the j American state department today ! for unraveling. Chile, following a lead taken by Peru more than a week ago, took the step necessary- to insure Ameri can participation in the discussions when Chilean Ambassador Mathieu visited the department and laid the Chilean side of the case before Sec retary Hughes. Just what the ambassador told Mr. Hughes was kept secret, but [there was an understanding in well informed conference circles that the Chilean position should be outlined in such conciliatory terms as to make department officials highly confident of a final settlement. It would occasion wide-spread surprise here if the Chileans, hav ing gone thus far toward adjust ment of ihe generation-old quarrel over Tacna-Arica. did not in the end accept a formula of arbitration giving to the arbitrator broad authority to determine finally to whom the province belongs. Such a formula, of course, would take into account the plebiscite provi sion of the Ancon treaty, but it > might also recognize the conten tion of I*eru that to hold a plebis- I cite at this late day would not ac cord with the real purpose on the I treaty. I CAMDEN VOTES BONDS Two Hundred Thousand DoI-| Jars For Paving - Camden, June 16.?The election i held here Tuesday on the question of voting $2oo.0(tn for paving! some of the streets of Camden was carried l>y a vote of 154 to 21. j Bach of the six wards in the city voted in favor of the bond issue; The plan is to pave Broad and De Kalb streets. the principal streets through which the travel over the main highways passes through town and also a portion of But ledge street. it be thy Cou ntry's,. Thy God's and [ay, June 21, 1922 NEGR?ESNOT WANTED IN GERMANY General Allen Says Troops of Lower Civilization Unde sirable Berlin, June 16 (By ihe Asso ciated Press).?The ? presence of troops of "lower civilization" un der the conditions of military oc cupation is undesirable not only ?n the Rhineland but anywhere, in the opinion of Maj. Gen. Henry T. Al len, commander in chief of the Ameriean army of occupasi^/). as expressed by him in conference with the American representatives at the embassy. He was be:.ng in terviewed regarding negro troop units on the Rhine. General Al len will return to Coblenz tonight after a two days' social visit to Berlin. General Allen said that in his connection with the Rhineland high commission he had been pres ent at a number of conferences with Germans with regard to the presence of colored troops- in Ger many?first with the clergy then with university professors and la ter with the newspaper men?in all of which it was emphasized that it would be better if these i units were replaced. General Allen said most of the actually black units already had been deported. All the Singalese had gone and only a part of the Madagascar troops remained. However, there were about ?5.000 colored troops still on the Rhine, composed of north African units, among whom a number of what are known as "black soldiers" are enrolled. None of these were under his command, .he added, and there was no pros pect that any would be. \. General Allen expressed the hope that shortly no troops at all I would he required on the Rhine. He declared the occupation of Ruhr was "too terrible to think of" land a move that nobody wants, i "Even the French do not want to I occupy the Rhur. except in case of j direct necessity." General Allen as serted. He intimated that the j danger of disorder in case of such I occupation w:as too great for it. to i be lightly contemplated, j As regards the withdrawal of I American troops from the Rhine, ; General Allen said he had no idea how long the remaining contingent would stay. For the present the American soldier was satified and it had become a standing byword in connection with penalties to | ?say: "You go home on the next j boat!" General Allen made it clear that j though French troops were being i brought in, his sector would con ; tinue to be distinctly American. SMALL NATIONS PUSH FORWARD i Insist on Representation on I Committees at The Hague The Hague, June 16.?The pres j sure of the smaller European coun tries, especially those adjacent to land having vital political and com mercial interests in Russia, today forced The Hague conference to form sub-commissions of thirteen instead of eleven members, as had been planned by the allied lead ers. This is interpreted by all the delegates as indicating not only a determination not to be shut of the important discussions by the greater powers, but as manifesting eagerness about the future of the disorganized Russian state. The pressure surprised everybody by its force. Foreign Minister Van Karne beek, of Holland,' was entrusted by the conference with the task of naming the members of the three subeommissions. and the personnel will be announced Monday after noon, to which time this after noon's session was adjourned. Van Karheheefc already has hegrun ne gotiations with the smaller powers, especially the Baltic states, in an effort to satisfy all nations in the formation of the committees of the conference; Virtually all the twenty-nine countries now represented at The Hague have signified their inten tion to join the main Russian com mission. France has reserved her decision regarding participation un til aller the meeting in London be tween M. Poincare. the French premier and David Lloyd Ceorge. the British prime minister. HAS BROKEN NECK Barney Flowers Seriously Hurt by Diving Columbia. June 17.?X-ray ex amination yesterday at the Baptist hospital showed the neck of Barney Flowers, broken. Mr. Flowers seriously hurt himself in diving at Caughman's pond Wed nesday night and at that time no definite extent of his injury could be ascertained. It was reported :it the hospital yesterday that Mr. Flowers was resting quietly. London. June ?>.?The admiralty announces that the drifter Blue Sky which left Portsmouth June 12 for nvergordon, Scotland. is presumed to be lost with all hands. The vessel carried a lieutenant, two midshipmen and eleven men. Truth's." LIQUOR MAY BE SOLD , AT SEA Treasury Department Issues Ruling That Prohibition Law Is Not Operative Be yond Three Mile Limit Washington. June 16.?Sale of liquor on shipping board vessels outside the three mile limit is per missible under new treasury regu lations issued today, according to [ P. A. Vise, general counsel for the prohibition unit. This interpretation was taken as settling for the time being the controversy over liquor on govern ment ships precipitated by Adol phus Busch; 3rd, the St. Louis brewer, when he wrote President Harding that the government was engaging in the bootlegging tusi ness by permitting sale of alcoholic beverages on shipping board ves sels. Solution of the problem, Wayne B. WheeleV, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon league, declared tonight, lies in "excluding all ships that sell liquor from Amer ican ports." Legislation to this end is being considered, he said, asserting that by putting both American and I foreign vessels on an equal footing with respect to liquor the com petitive feature of the question ! would be removed. I The new regulations were not l drafted with the intention of set tling the question of liquor on ship ping board vessels, Mr. Vise said, and in fact were written before that question arose. As drawn, however, he said, they would ap ply equally to American and ^for eign ships in permitting intoxicat ing sea stores within the three mile limit under customs regula tions which provide that, while in American ports, all liquors on board a ship must be sealed up. It was freely predicted tonight at prohibition headquarters, how ever, that an early opinion would be forthcoming from Attorney General jDaugh.erty_ definitely ruling on the question "of IIQUor on Amer ican ships. Chicago, June ? 16. ? Adoiphus Busch has "put one over" and his present position in reference to enforcing the prohibition laws on American ships is "above reproach and deserving of the highest com mendation," Virgil Hinshaw, chair man of the. prohibition national committee, said today in a state ment. "It is a sad commentary upon our government that it has remain ed for America's foremost former brewer to reveal the big leak in the national administration of the pro hibition amendment," continued the statement. ; FIGHTING - IN CANTON Body Guard of Sun Yat Sen Refusea to Surrender When City Fell Peking, June 17?While the troops of Gen. Chen Chiung-Meng had captured Canton, the capital of the South China Republic, the body guard pf President Sun Yat Sen are still fighting from the pres idential palace, according to a Canton dispatch. President Sun Vat Sen is supposed to have escaped on a gunboat. CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO Several Large Contracts Are Signed in This State ! Raleigh. June 16.?Contracts and reports from South Carolina reach ing headquarters Of the Tobacco ! Growers' Cooperative Association today indicate that the sign-up with I the big cooperative association in South Carolina is rapidly increas ing. Announcement that members of the association may choose their delivery point from among the thirty-eight markets of the'asso ciation in the South Carolina belt and the further announcement of Their ability to borrow money on their participation certificates in addition to the liberal cash ad vances promised the growers on delivery of their tobacco has re sulted in the signing of important contracts this week. Since George Holliday. of Ayn or. a leading merchant and plant er of 1 lorry- county, became a member of the Tobacco Growers' Association. J. C. Davis, of Cen tenary, and Warren Godbold, of lower Marion county have signed up large acreage with the big co operative association, according to word received from C. <>. Dixon, of Mullins. manager of warehouses for the association in South Caro lina. Makes Reply To Senator Heflin Washington. June 17.?Disclaim er oi any political motive in cir culating a speech by Senator Class, defending the federal reserve sys tem was made by the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank in replying to the resolution of Senator Heflin. THE TRUE SOU i LABOR LEADERS DENOUNCE j COURT RULING f _ j Decision in Colorado I Coal Case Will Not j Be Accepted by the Unions Cincinnati. June 17.-*-Labor's in i terpretatoin of the Supreme Court ' decision in the celebrated Coronado [coal cases, holding international i unions subject to damage suits un I der the Sherman anti-trust law was I presented today to the American j Federation of Labor convention by ' j its executive council, composed of jits eleven officers. "The supreme ! court cannot crush the labor move 1! ment without endangering the ' \ foundations of society," declared ! the report. "Workers will not ac ! cept slavery, therefore, will not ac ; j cept that which makes slavery ?! possible. They will preserve those 1 j liberties they have and gain more." j MILLIONAIRE'S j SON IS HELD FOR MURDER \ - I Walter S. Ward Committed to Jail For Killing Peters - ? White Plains. N. Y., June 16.? j Arraigned before Supreme Court i Justice Morchauser on an indict i ment for the first degree murder j of Clarence Peters, former sailor, (to which he pleaded not guilty, Walter S. Ward, wealthy baker's son, tonight was locked in a com mon cell of the Westchester county jail with admirable prospects of spending the summer there. To Ward's counsel, who pleaded i for an early trial, Justice Mors I chauser replied curtly that Ward I would have to take his turn with ? other prisoners awaiting trial, j among whom he mentioned in pass j ing was one negro who had been ; awaiting trial for several months ! and who would got his day in < court ahead of Ward, j Justice Morschauser said his term in White Plains ended June j 30 and be was not inclined to stay ?'Lover to try Ward's case. If the I defense could induce District At j torney Weeks to move for an early {trial, it was possible Justice Tomp : j kins could be induced to try it in ! j July, he said. j Mr. Weeks announced later, i however, that it probably would be I October before he would be ready j to proceed with the trial. In the j meantime Ward, who is accused of I j a non-bailable offense, must remain in jail "unless he succeeds in get ting the indictment against him dismissed. It was intimated his counsel ' might try this by the expediency of applying for permission to inspect the minutes of the grand jury which indicted him and then ap plying for dismissal on the ground the indictment was based on in sufficient ^evidence. District Attorney Weeks hopes j to begin building up his case j against Ward further next week j at a special inquiry before Justice j Morschauser into the question j whether Ward and his relatives, in I eluding his father, have conspired i to defeat the ends of justice. ? ?? ? j Tornado Causes i Several Deaths i _ ? t jSix Dead, 100 Injured, Daro j ? age Heavy Glenwood City, June 16.?From a wreckage-strewn countryside be lated reports trickled tonight, showing that the toll of the tornado that swept through sections of four counties reached six dead, 100 in jjured and property damage that j will amount well towards $l,00'0f | 000. j Veiled by a terrific rain and hail .'storm the tornado leveled or oth {erwise damaged buildings on some 1200 farmsteads, killing livestock, uproot inj? trees, tangling telephone and telegraph wires and doing some damage to growing crops. Recurrent reports of many dead.! duplications and misspelling of ! names, seemed for a time to indi cate a heavy death list, but when ? errors had been eliminated and all ! reports run down tonight, six names j were on roster of dead. I CINCINNATI WOMAN IS ABDUCTED, Mrs. Clara Marshall Charges Husband With Crime i Cincinnati, June 17?Mrs. Clara I Marshall, accompanied by her i brother and attorneys, returned to Cincinnati today from Magnesia i Springs. I ml., where she says she r escaped from an automobile m which she was forcibly abducted yesierday by four men. while play ; ing golf at the country club. She says her husband. Albert Marshall i from whom she had been separated several months, and had sued for divorce, was among the captors. Xo motive was assigned for the act. Paris. June 19.?Premier Poin care, it is understood, has decided to press in parliament for the im mediate ratification of the treaties negotiated at the Washington con ference, without reservation of any character. CHKON, Established Jane 1, VOL. LIL NO. 3tl; WAGE CUT MADE ON RAILROADS Labor Board Makes Reduction of $27, 000,000 in Pay of Railway Clerks Chicago, June 3G (By the As-, sociated Press).?Pruning nearly $27,000,000 from the annual roll of 525,000 railway employees "by cut ting clerks, signalmen and sta tionary firemen from 2 to 6 cents an hour, the United States rail road labor board today announced another wage slash, bringing total reductions u:ider the board's orders up to $135,(iGO,000 beginning July 1st. Clerks were cut 3 and 4 cents an hour, according to classification: signalmen 5 cents and firemen. 2 cents. Approximately 1,200,000 railway employees will share the^total re duction which has brought vigor ous protest from every union or ganization i;.ivolve 000 station * employees. Telephone girls,, who,, the board.declared, have suffered from> improportic^ate in creases and decreases, are given a minimum-wage- of $25 jeUmonth, Signal "~me3T helpers suffer a- ? cents slash. Signal foremen, as sistant foremen and inspectors, however, escaped with no .reduce-, tion. The 5,000 train dispatchers also escaped a cut Stationary engineers, firemen and oilers, numbering 10,000, were, re duced 2 cents an hour. A decision covering 75.000 tele graphers will be" issued by the board later. y Dining car \ employees and tfie culinary workers on the ferries in San Francisco bay will contiiijo to get their present pay. . > Marine workers' wages were un touched. Figures in the decision showed that clerks will receive, under the new scale, an average of 5S.5 cents an hour compared with 34.5 cents in December, 1917, when the""gov ernment took over the railroads. The firemen and oilers have" rei ceived an increase from 2-1.S cents an hour in 1917 to 49.6 cents July Cincinnati,7 June 16 (By the As sociated Press).?No general strike ballot will be sent out by, the Brotherhoods of Railway and Steamship Clerks. Freight Handl ers, Express Had Station Employees, it was announced tonight by B.*H. Fitzgerald, its president, who said no strike would develop among these workers on several, railroad systems. Timothy Healy, presi dent of the Firemen and Oilers* union, said a ballot on the strike would be in the mails tomorrow. Fitzgerald said the general com mittee on each system or road would determine whether to ci'l for a strike vote, and he ad-led that where such votes were ta^en that the men would be bound' by the result. No walkout, be tir clared. would occur ->ti the South ern. Mobile & Ohio. Ch:ea?o. Burl lington & Quincy, Chicago & as ton and a number of other roads due to signed agreements, bindmg the. men on these lines to ;;coc-pt reductions as fixed by the labor board. SWEARINGEN NOW SEEKS RE-ELECTION State Superintendent of Edu cation Withdraws From Race For Governor and Asks Another Term in Office Columbia, June 17.?Hon. J. E. Swearingen, state superintendent of education, today withdrew from the race for governor and an nounced his candidacy for re-elec tion to the office he now holds. Hon. J. J. McMahan. state insur ance commissioner, today entered the race for congress in the Sev enth district, to oppose congress man Fulmer. Senator E, P. McCravy, of Ptete ens, yesterday filed his pledge for congress in the Third district. Chas. H. Seigler filed a pledge as a candidate for state supernitend ent of education. ? ? ? There is little demand for.fairy tales now* but one with that kind of imagination can become a 'war correspondent.