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ISSUE NOW BETWEEN BIG FORCES __ " ;" I - Question of Nation-! wide Rail road Strike Put Up to the: Labor Board by! Union Leaders Cincinnati, June IS (By the Asso ciated Press)?Formal notice was { served tonight on the railroad labor ! board by the chiefs, of ten railroad ! unions of their intention - to go I through with a strike in event^one j is authorized by the 1.225.000 work- ? ers whose wages are to be reduced j on July l on orders of the board, j Coupled apparently with the ac- j ?tion of the rail union leaders was a j statement that the "railroad work ers have no alternative except to fight," made by John L. Lewis, leader of the striking coal miners, who will meet with the rail union leaders Tuesday to consider joint j - strike action. He also pledged the j miners' aid to the rail men, but j declined to state definitely what aid | might result from joint action. The notice was sent to the rail road labor board in the form Of a letter reiterating the rail union i leaders' attitude on the threatened j walkout, which was first definitely j asserted in their statement issued j here. Thursday night. The pre- : vious statement also includes the) declaration that, an overwhelming! vote was being cast for the walk- j out. In their letter to the. board the rail men said: "When there occurs a miscar riage of justice of such colossal and permanent injury to railway labor as your decision will bring about, the only means of remedy which the injured parties have *s to refuse to accept your decisions. This procedure is perfectly. legal, j While it should only be used as j a last resort, our membership may i decide it to be fully justified by your j denial of elementary and long es- j tablished right and by the serious- j ness of the situation which you j have created. Your decisions have j been submitted to a strike vote t of our membership and we are j awaiting the results of their action. : Should our members decide not to ! accept your decision or in other j words to strike, we shall sanction their action and advise you ac cordingly.- - _Mr. Lewis, the miners* 'chief. wii?e " asserting unwillingness to discuss the outcomer> of the con* | Terence with the rail men, said the i miners "will do anything' that is j helpful and constructive for the j railroad men and for * the miners j themselves." . v *T am convinced," declared" "Mr. j Lewis, "that the railroad men and I the. rank and file of the railroad ' organizations frankly ? recognize i the necessity of making a fight re- j gardiess of the consequences. - And in: that fight they, will have the whole souled and active : coopera- ; tion of the mine workers. Tb#. na ture of that cooperation defends i upon circumstances, but* .tfee^help j of the mine workers will ~*n<?t be j ot small consequence: Tfee. -presidents of the rail unions j said in their letter te the labor board that they had done every- j ?*hmg 7 to avert, a strike, pointed I &utr that no appeal was possible j Trdni* the' board's decision and as- ! serted that the union's contentions j were that the transportation' law required a living wage for em- j ployees at the bottom of the scale j of occupations, with higher rates for other workmen, according to i their skill, hazard of employment, ! responsibility? training and experi ence. . ' In making wage reductions, the i hoard was told that it had estab- ! lished the principle that . "just j wages must await the complete s-^t- j isfactlon of railroad ownership in j the matter of rehabilitation and ' profits." Further, the board was! to'id that in its last decision to cm j ike wages of clerks, signalmen and ? irtationary firemen it had stated as j a "basis of action the theory, that; labor can not be completely freed S from the economic .laws- which I likewise affect the earnings of cap ital/' ? "This means nothing more or less," the letter said, "than :he j treatment of labor as a commodity i whose value fluctuates acsording to j the demand for an dthe supply of labor." GfRL'S LEG BITTEN OFF Star Swimftier Dies in Water at St. Petersburg . St. Petersburg, Fla.. June 17.? Miss Dorothy McClatchie, high .school swimming star, was bitten to death this afternoon by a bar racuda while swimming a mile off I the municipal pier. Miss Mary* Buhner, also a high .school star, towed the injured girl more than a half mile before her cries for help were heard. A boat was sent out and she was brought to the pier but bled to death be fore they could get her to land. . "Kiss me. Mary: my leg is gone arid I am gone," Miss Buhner said the McClatchie girl told her when the fish attacked her. ?'.he fainted into the arms of Miss Buhner, who started to tow her to shore, more than a mile away. Miss Buhner collapsed tonight and is under the car** of a physi cian. Amundsen has gone to the North Pole and won't have to pay any income tax for five years. A man would rather spend a month raising a radish than a dime buying a bunch of them. Thanks to radio, a man can stay ' at home and claim he has been to j church,_j FRANCE SENDS DELEGATES TO THE HAGUE If ^Political Questions Are Introduced IVance Will With draw Paris, June 19.?France will take part in the conference at The Hague with the Russian delegates, beginning June 26th, it was offi cially announced at the foreign office this morning. If political question's are introduced, however, the French delegates will prompt ly withdraw. WILLIAM ROGERS DROWNED IN POOL Sank While Attempting to Swim From One Float to Another. Relatives Present Columbia, June 18.?William Anderson Rogers, 17 year old son of Julien C. Rogers, vice presi dent and cashier of the Liberty National bank, was drowned at Bauer's beach, near Camp Jack son, at 6:30 o'clock yesterday af ternoon. The boy could swim only a little and after calling for help went down about .40 feet from the shore in sight of his father, mother, brothers and other rela tives who were standing on the bank. Many other persons?prac tically all children?were in the pond at the time, but none could swim well enough to rescue the drowning boy. William Rogers with his father and brothers had been in the pond and William, who could swim a little, had gone beyond the safety rope and was attempting to swim from one float to another., Just about half way from his goal he called for help, asking that some one bring 'the boat." The water where he first sank was hardly over his head. Persons untied the boat and row ed out to where the boy had last been seen. Hanging by one hand to the side of the boat Mr. Brun, who lives near the p?nd, located the boy's body with his feet and brought it to the surface. Artificial ref^uscitation was tried. Physicians were summoned immediately and a pulmotor secured, all efforts however, proving futile. /? Mr. Rogers, the boy's father, was unable to swim and there was no one else nearby able to, swim to the boy's rescue. The body was recovered after it had been under water only about seven or ten minutes. The funeral will be held at the Shandon Methodist church at 11:30 o'clock this morning, the funeral services to be conducted by the Rev. Robert F. Morris, pastor of the Shandon Methodist church. The body will be carried to Spar tanburg this afternoon to be inter j red there in Oak wood cemetery. William Anderson Rogers was j born July 2$, 1905, and only this year he had received his diploma from Carlisle Fitting school at Bamberg and was preparing to leave in September for Wofford college. He had been a student at Carlisle only two years, having at tended the Hastoc Fitting school for one year before going to Bamberg. He was a popular boy and had taken considerable interest in the Epworth league and in the Y. M. C. A. He^ was a manly young j boy though not an athlete. Surviving him are: His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julien C. Rogers; three brothers, Julien C. Rogers, Jr., Frederick R. Rogers and Ed ward Turnipseed Rogers. Mrs.% W. A. Rogers, his grandmother, and Miss Annie Rogers, his aunt, both of Spartanburg, were also witness es of the tragedy. The news of the tragedy spread through Columbia last night, bring- i ing sorrow to the many friends of! the family and the boy and last ] night hundreds of friends called at j the house to extend syympathy to the bereaved parents. Minnesota Primary Held To-Day St. Paul, June 19.?Minnesota | voters went to the poles today to nominate party canddiates for sen- j ate. congress and state offices, in a primary election that will deter mine to a large extent the effec- j tiveness of the new party conven- j tion law. ? t - i This topcoat, made In herringbone weaves, tweed mixtures or linen will protect you from dust, damp and drops in the thermometer on your summer excursions into the country. LAST HOUR ! PLEDGES i ARE FILED Several Candidates j For Office Enter Names at Columbia Just Before Lists Closed at Noon To Day _ Columbia. June 19.?A number of new candidates filed their pledges at the last. hour, before the lists closed at noon Mondaj\ Two new candidates for lieutenant governor were filed, E. B. Jackson, of j Wagener, and Dr. E. C. L Adams, j of Columbia. Two candidates filed ! their pledges, to run for the of fice of attorney general, in oppo sition to Attorney General Sam M. Wolfe, these, being Harold Eu banks and L\ M. Winter, both young attorneys of Columbia. A candidate has entered in opposition to Walter E. Duncan, incumbent, for the office of comptroller gen eral. T. Hagood Gooding, of Hampton. Two new candidates filed ion governor, William Cole man, of Union, and J. J. Cantey, of Summerton. Paul Moore, of Co lumbia, withdrew from the race for state superintendent of educa tion. There are two bonnets in the ring, those of Mrs. Bessie Rogers Drake, of Bennettsville, and Mrs. Martha Wallace, of Columbia, for state superintendent of education. State Treasurer Carter is the only state officer without opposition. -R. S. Hutto, of Dorchester, filed his pledge as candidate for con gress from the first district, also J. J. McSwain of Greenville and W. F. Stevenson of Chesterfield. TO SETTLE COLONY ON THE COAST Charleston Capitalists Exper imenting With Reclaimed ; Coastal Swamp Land Columbia, June 19.?Mount Hol ly, in Berkeley county, is soon to | become the seat of a model farm | colony, according to plans made J known here today by Captain L. M. Fisher, director of malarial con trol work in the state, as conducted 1 by the United'States Public Health Service and the state* department of; health, Captain Fisher having re cently completed the initial ma larial survey of the lands where the colony is to be" founded. The plan is to-bring Hollanders to settle the farm .colony. The Mount H,oily Development *Co.,! headed by R. L. Montague, of j Charleston, is promoting the farm colony plan. The company has j purchased eight thousand acres of swamp land, and proposes to dem onstrate that it can be reclaimed and used for agricultural purposes. It is said that $250.000 has already been spent in reclamation work, eight miles of ditches being in cluded in the work done, f A colony of about 100 families of Hollanders will be brought to | this country to settle the land, it i is said: the land to be sold in tracts! of from 40 to SO acres, on long! terms. There will be about 500 Hollanders in the colony, it is said One requirement will be that .the '? holder of the land lfve on it at least two years. It is said truck will be j raised, and the Mount Holly com pany proposes to utilize other lands in the same way, if this ex periment is found to be success ful. INDICTED FOR CONSPIRACY Col. Marcellus H. Thompson! Charged With Shipping | Arms to Ireland Trenton, X. J., June 19.?Col. j Marcellus H. Thompson, vice pres- ] ident and active head of the auto' ordnance company, of Xew York, has been indicted by the federal j grand jury here on the charge of! conspiracy to ship arms to Ireland j in violation of the neutrality laws. I The announcement wal? made to- j day by Assistant United States At torney Arrowsrnith. An indictment was also returned j against the Auto Company :md j seven other individuals in connec- j tion with the seizure of machine j guns on the freighter East Side at j Hoboken last July. MANY FIGHT FOREST FIRE Battle With Flames Goes On j Unabated Albuquerque, X. M., .Tune IS.? I More than 300 men today were j fighting a forest fire in the Mo- i gollon mountains, in the Gila na- ! tional forest, forest service offi- , Icials announced tonight. Arrange ments wer? made today for 12a j miners to start work to assist in [the fighting of th?> fire. Fully r?00 j men are expected to be on the scene l>y Monday. Large numbers j of the workers have fought for more than iliree days ;ind today I were compelled 1<> take rest and sleep. So far the lire has not been ! brought under control. ! People who say nothing is impos [ sible never tried keeping a real ; boy's face clean. [ American tourists in Germany j say they are charged too much. ! The Germans want them to feel at ! home. I They discuss the political unrest as if there were such a thing as : political rest. _ Close Finish of Women's Race Mrs. Elliott Lyne, Aberdeen (Scotland) University champion athlete, finishing first in a half-mile rim at Paddington Recreation Ground. Second is Miss Winnie Jones, 16. Honoring Canine\War' Heroes ( Miss Myrtle Kennedy p:aces a wreath on the monument in-the car.inc cemetery, Hartsdale, N. T., soon to be'dedicated to the valiant dogs who lost their lives in the- World War. Ker net, "Buster." is buried there. ^ Where They Get Inspiration Writers at the Authors' League Venetian Carnival, New York, will gaz<- on Louise Ford in this unusual bathing costume. The man with a business mind j The average man usually thinks minds his own business. j he is above the average. Very few dollar bills have been j Neyer put off until tomorrow the n a' collection plate. fly you should swat tod?y. H?tiWe?theriWeai\for Men V*> COPYRIGHT 8Y CALLS Summer house coats and loung av\ tt^/^W/ r? J irio rcbes are of substantial silks? w to fdv Si ! w c\ !A ? ioulard is most popular. Shantung T is used, too, with foulard collar and cuffs for contrast. Pajamas are of lightweight cotton materials as well as radium, hatutai and other AMERICAN j KILLED IN MEXICO - [State Department Calls On Authori ties To Arrest Mur derer Washington, June 19. ? The i American embassy at Mexico City j was instructed today by the state ! department to request federal and [ local Mexican authorities to make j every effort to apprehend the mur I derer of Warren D. Harvey, an I American who was killed Saturday I near Tampicp. Harvey was pay | master for an oil company. ; WEATHER CAUSES DROP FOR COTTON j _ I ? ? j Favorable Conditions for Cul tivation Offset by Increased Demands Xew Orleans, Jun el8.?A re ! actionary tendency took possession j of the cotton market last week ! mainly because of the advent of I dry and hot weather in the belt, j and prices were lower from the i opening, although there were strong i recoveries in the late session and [ highest prices were reached on the j last session of the week. Prices j were under the closing level of the j preceding week the whole week I through, standing at their lowest I !>G to 104 pointa?. under and at j their highest 18 to 518 points under land closing at net losses of 26 to I 32 points. July traded at 21.44 ; at its lowest^ -came' back to 22.20 i at its highest and finally closed at. j 22.1(J. In the spot department : middling closed at-21.88, showing a ?net loss of 27 pomts. A year ago j middling closed at 10.75 cents a i pound. i During almost the" entire week j the greater part of the belt experi i enced dry and hot weather which, ! according to reports to local i brokerage concerns, allowed the S cultivators of the crop;to make fast ; progress and was considered to be j favorable weather for the plant as i well as the most effective thing to j hold the activities ot the boll wee vil down. Toward the close of the j week rains in south-Texas caused j buying flurries which carried the j market to its highest levels. The : better turn in weatfter conditions I was mainly responsible for the sell | ing of the week and much liqui ! dation of the long side came, j New selling was not carried on I aggressively because of the showing ? of statistics. The census bureau j report on American mills for May i brought the market support as its ! consumption 495,674 bales against j 440,714 during the same month I last year. Further support was de ; rived from British board of trade I returns for May, pending textile ! exports from England at 14.200, j 000 pounds of yarn against 8,500, i 000 pounds the same month last j year and exports of cloth at 443, ! 000,000 yards against 146,000.000 j while some oftheheav h m m m ! while some of the heaviest buying ; of the week followed the posting: I of the weekly cotton statistics on Friday in this market. Accord ing to the statement, world takings j o#228,000 bales against 130,000 I this week last year while the tb | tal visible supply of American cot *ton in the world was reduced to j 2,666,954 bales against 4,313,827 a j year ago. i SHIP LOADED WITH LIQUOR j Prohibition Agent Finds Ten j Thousand Cases on Incom ! ing Vessel New York, June 18.?The de ! stroyer Hahn of Chcle Sam's pro j hibition navy has -been detailed to patrol the waters of the Atlantic, across the sea lanes ridden by Xew I York bound liners, to observe the j activities of incoming vessels from j Europe while beyond the 12 miles I limit. j Prohibition Zone Chief Appleby j of Xew York and Xew Jersey be j lieves the big liners are maJcing a j practice of bringing costly cargoes ! of whiskey which they discharge j to lighters and tugs while beyond ? the legal 12 mile line. Mr. Applebly declared that he ; dispatched one of his agents on a I tug a few days ago to meet an in : coming liner. - He claims to have ; boarded the vessel as a prospective [ purchaser of contraband liquors Jand to have been shown 10,000 cases "of whiskey 'tween decks. According to Mr. Appleby the ! laws van not be applied to vessels ! engaged in this practice. Those j removing the liquor for smuggling : into the country, he declares, are j the only ones that may be held. ; STATE INCOME TAX LAW Held to Be Constitutional by j Supreme Court rolumbia. June 17.?The South ! Carolina Supreme Court today ; handed down an opinion declaring the recently enacted state income [tax law to be constitutional, and j dismissing the temporary restrain ! ing order granted to the Santee .Mills, the Winnsboro Mills, the ! Ca ion Buffalo Mills and the Pa | cific Mills, as well as denying the plea for a permanent injunction as j prayed for by the plaintiff mills. ? ? ?F If some people could be in half ; a dozen places at once more of the I six would be home. ? ? ? The average life of a coin is ; only ?5 years. That's what it gets j for traveling fast. UNDERWOOD FAVOR FORD'S PROPOSAL Muscle Shoals Again The Subject of Sharp Debate i n Senate Washington. June 17.?Senators supporting and opposing Henry Ford's offer to purchase and ..lease the government's war initiated pro jects at Muscle Shoals, Ala., clash ed today in a two hour"heated dis cussion over ways and means of developing the projects for peace time operations. Senator Underwood of Alabama, j I Democratic leader, proclaimed j j himself "a Ford man" and asked j an opportunity to vote for th% ac- ; i ceptance of the Detroit manufac- i Iturer's proposal before congress j adjourned. Senator Xorris, chair- j man of the agriculture commit tee which is investigating Mr. Ford's proposal in connection with other offers for Muscle Shoals, also went on record. He declared he was opposed to the acceptance of the Ford tender or to any other which would have the effect of selling properties "costing the ^peo ple $106,000,000 for $5,000,000" and leasing those not sold to pri vate interests for a period of 100 years. Senator Hefiin of Alabama join- \ ed his colleague in a way that lef;t no doubt as to his position ami precipitated a sharp ' verbal ex change with Senator McXary (Re publican) of Oregon and with Sen ator Xorris when he saidv Mr. Ford had promised to manufacture fertilizers and sell them at one half their present selling price. The Oregon senator denied that Mr. Ford had made such a prom ise and he protested "against mis statements." *",Wfi; House-leaders plan to vote prob ably next week on the senate amendment to the army bill 'ap propriating $7,500,000 for continu ation of work on the Wilson dam.. The conferees on the part of the house, it was believed, would bring the amendment before the .house at that time in accordance with th? agreement they made when the bill was given them for conference consideration. HIGH DIVER DIES Barney Flowers Had Neck Broken at Caughman's Pond Thursday ?? Columbia State. June 19. Barney J. Flowers of 1420 Di vine street, who had his neck broken when he dived in shallow j water at Caughman's pond Thurs day night, died at the Baptist hospital at 2 o'clock yesterday af ternoon. Mr. Flowers was taken to the hospital Thursday night as soon as it was discovered that he was seriously injured and had been under treatment there since that time. Mr. Flowers had gone to the pond Thursday night for a Green Street Methodist church picnic and was hurt, according to witnesses of the acciden. when he dived off the pavilion railing to the water 15 feet below. Flowers was not fa miliar with the pond and had no ticed others diving from the edge of the pavilion into deep water. The water, where he struck in the front of the pavilion, was only about two feet deep. Friends standing a few feet away noticed that after his dive he did not come to the surface and, not knowing that he was hurt, pulled .v him to the surface. It was then discov" ered that he was injured and phy sicians were summoned. Lenine's Health Improving Moscow, June 19.?Premier Le nine's condition is* given in a bul letin signed by the German Dr. Plemplerer, and other- physicians under date of June 16th. as Improv ed. The bulletin said the patient had left his bed, feels well, and is impatient over the orders of the doctors. Trouble with living in the coun try is you have to go to town for your vacation. Bridal gowns of satin have yielded this year to crepe ones. t)uU Ivory Is most popular. Silver brocade ta worn, too. Sleeves are soft aid clinging, neck lines round or batetu? Satin Is Passe comscHT trv ?rouxs READY TO WITHDRAW FROM CHINA Japan Has, Notified Other Powers o f Willingness to Re move Troops Baltimore, June IS (By the As sociated Press).?Japan has enter ed into negotiations with the oth er powers maintaining troops" in" China looking to the withdrawal of all foreign troops from that country. Sadao Saburi charge da'affaires of the Japanese em bassy, declared in an address today at the First Unitarian church. Mr. Saburi referred to a "recent order rernaying Japanese troops from Hankow, and declared the Japa nese minister at Peking has been instructed by his government to Stake up tire matter of withdrawal of other troops with the represen tatives of the countries interested.! "Japan hopes that all the other foreign troops stationed in Peking' and other places according to the protocol signed after the Boxer rebellion of 1900 will be with drawn as soon as order is restor ed in China,*-. he added. Japan's policy toward the Wash ington conference, and the result I attained there has undergone; no A j change from the time when the * idea was suggested to the pres- . enr day,v Mr. Saburi said, adding that "the spirit of the head of the New Japanese government is iden tical with that of Premier Hara, under whose guidance the coun try's policy at the conference was formed. "Gr^eat stress has been laid and ? most properly on the economic as pect of reduction In naval arma ; ment," the charge declared. "But i of far greater importance?indeed V ? the greatest benefit of -a.11 those j produced by the conference?is the I spirit manifested by the confor? I ring nations" in Washington. It amounted to a plain declaration j of the 'Will to peace.' The confer i ence gave us reason to hope for f a general advance toward a world ! where good will may be allowed tcr ' keep the peace. j "Before the conference cobJi tions surrounding our xtetititn^ were not what they- are today. / It * j is not, of course, for me to say i that there were in this "country j those who expected war with Jftr ' pan npr tha: there were those In [ other countries who-desired it, but ; I do say that in Japan there wore j many who feared" war between our j two countries-)... .._ There was dis | trust and doubt that our historic j f riendship could continue unbrok j en?fear that a break might come between us and, that trouble might ! ensue. _ _. _ i :> "When wf came to the confer- '-. i ence it was nnder a -dark sky of j suspicion born of ignorance, bat when we' arrived,' we: met only generosity. There wa3/ a spirit -of i conciliation and good will manifestf, at every moment, and after the conference o"r people returned home warm in the clear sunlight of friendship." . ?. solicitors 1 to hold ' 3 conference Law Enforcement and Means-, to Prevent Homicides* the Main Features ?? ? Columbia, June 19.?Attorney' General Wolfe' has announced June 29 as the date for the confer I ence of solicitors of the state, and j he says tht^'main discussion before Tthe conference will be the sup pression of homicides. Every so~ licitor in the state is expected to be present. v Governor- Harvey has been invit ed to meet with the solicitors and he will discuss the matter of co- operation '.between. his office and the attorney general's department, in the matter of law enforcement This is the second annual con- , ference of the solicitors, and the [attorney general states that it wiU ] be an annual event, as long as ho j is in office. ? ' . I Attorney General Wolfe is inter- - j ested in having the legislature pro jvide a detective's office in connec j tion with the attorney general's I office, for the apprehension es ? pecially of murderers. The gov I ernor's office has a state constab i ulary, hut this is used mainly in * j enforcement of -the liquor laws, i The attorney general has asked theS j legislature for such a detective, i but as yet nothing in this direction j has been done. This matter witt j be discussed by the conference of J solicitors on the 29th. ! hughes speaks j for world PEACBj 'Advocates New Sense of Re^ j sponsibility in international' j Affairs Annarbor, Mich., June 19.?A i plea for "a new sense of responsi-" j bility in matters of international : concern" in the United Scare* as i the most certain basis for prcmot i ing peace in world wa3 made Here j today by Secretary Hughes at. th* j commencement ? exercises of the? ! University of Michigan. Constant ' efforts "to create suspicion, distrust j and hatred" must be frowned upon, i he said. Ice isn't as cold this summer as it Was last winer. Prices are up in 15 of thel arger cities. Blame it on returning pro** perity. You can't coast on the road to* success. Running amuck is bad exercise.