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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Esta CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 RAILROAD i SIGNALMEN i NOT TO STRIKE _ ? i Federal Railroad La bor Board Prevents Extension of Strike by Agreement With Union Leader Chicago. July 6 (By the Asso ciated Press).--A threatened exten sion of the strike cf railway shop men to include 12,000 signalmen was prevented today by members j of the United States railroad labor j board when D. W. Helte, head of j the Brotherhood of Railroad Sig-j nalmen, which has been taking a! strike vote, promised to maintain the status quo pending further con ferences. It was the second time that in tervention of board members has averted an extension of the walk out, a threatened strike of main tenance of way men having been prevented Tuesday through the ef forts of Chairman Ben W. Hooper and W. L. McMenimen, labor mem ber of the board. Meanwhile, railway circles ex- j pressed strong hopes of a quick set- [ tlement of the shopmen's strike. B. M. Jewell, head of the shopmen, today reiterated former statements that the shopmen were wi?jjng to consider a settlement proposition submitted by any - authoritative body. { The situation is improving so far i as the strike is concerned, Mf.j Jewell said, asserting that he had j received reports from several points that "what few men that did re main at work last Saturday and Monday joined the walkout Wed nesday/* Mr. Jewell said he had received a-telegram from J. F. Valentine of j Cincinnati, head of the Internation- j a! Moulders* union, authorizing a ] walkout of moulders employed on railroads. He also exhibited tele grams, from heads of the "ladies; auxiliaries" of the shopmen's or ganization in which it was stated that the women were doing picket duty. ? Mr. Jewell did not reply today to the letter of Chairman Hooper, which was considered conciliatory in some quarters, bjett said he ex pected to make reply after studying! It closely. Mr. Hooper, in his let ter advised the shopmen to cooper ate with the labor board. The sixth day of the shopmen's strike was marked by little violence except for a few sporadic outbreaks in widely scattered sections. At Albuquerque, N. M.. where two men were beaten, one last night and one today, Mayor Walton appeared before the railway shop strikers today and urged them to conduct the strike peacefully. A warrant had been issued for the ar rest of one shopman. The Santa Fe chops here are working' full force and officials said 100 men had been turned away because no more help ers were needed. The Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul railway water pumping sta tion at Madrid near Perry. Iowa. was broken into last night and put out of commission. According to railroad officials here, vital parts cf the pumping engines were re moved and stolen. Montgomery. Ala.. July 6.? Twenty-five special officers of the Louisville & Nashville railway were being held virtual prisoners inside the road's property at Albany by striking shopmen on picket duty! tonight, according to reports to the Montgomery Advertiser. The shop men were estimated at 1,500. Railroad officials appealed to Governor Kilby who promised pro tection for the property. The gov ernor was in Clanton tonight but it was said he will return here to morrow and decide whether to send national guardsmen or special state officers. According to the report received here the . railroad special officers have been threatened with arrest for carrying concealed weapons if they leave the company's property, but so far as could be learned there has been no violence. The sheriff of Morgan county is in Missouri and no one else in the county ha> the authority to depu tize special officer.*, it was. said. The Louisville & Nashville shops at Albany employed approximately 1.800 shopmen before the present strike. Slater. Mo., July 6 (By the As sociated Press).?The Chicago & Alton railroad shops here will re main idle until protection is fur nished by county or state authori ties. J. L. Marquette. division su perintendent, who was in the shops yesterday when union men took strikebreakers from their work, announced today. He ?nid he did no* consider it safe to send outside men out litre under present con ditions. ?-Ir. Marquette said the nonunion r-^en expelled yesterday were kick ed and beaten, and one man knock ed down with a missile. Several of the imported workmen were taken to a garage across the street and later groups of strikers took them away in automobiles. The charge that there was vio lence was denied by Union officials. "Observers" from union forces rcd"v wer? posted around the yards. Throughout last night and today inspection of trains going through Slater continued. Springlleid, 111., July V?Follow ing reports from Decalur that au Wished April, 1850. 88L_ STRIKE ! DISORDERS INCREASING Leader JewelLof j Striking Shopmen! . Maintains Concilia-) tory Attitude Butj Outbreaks and Dis orders More Num erous During Clos ing Hours of First Week of Strike Chicago, July 7.?With B. M. I Jjewell, still maintaining the con ciliatory attitude he assumed after the shopmen's strike got underway, but declining to make the first move toward 'negotiations for peace, an increasing number of outbreaks and disorders marked the closing j hours of the first week since the shipmen walked out. The picket ing of shops continued in numerous parts of the country, while the roads continued to employ new men to take the place of strikers. The ultimatum tc return to work next week or lose all seniority and pension rights, stood effective in shops throughout the country. - i Augusta, Ga., July 7.?The strik- j ing shopmen of the Charleston & Western Carolina railroad are giv en until next -Monday to i;?)ort back to work without prejudice or "loss of seniority in an order is sued today. Jacksonville. July 7.?The .strik ing shopmen of the Atlantic Coast Line who do not ieturn to work by 7" ..o'clock July 10th will be consid ered permanently out of the ser vice, according to bulletins posted in the local shops today. x Albany, Ala.. July 7.?After de claring that "both sides have con ducted themselves decently" May ors Paine and Nelson, of the twin cities of Albany and Decatur said today that calling out troops in con- j nection with the shopmen's strike ' in the Louisville ,& Nasbville shops J here has hot been' considered. Topeka, "Kansr-Jtrrj* T.^-A state I warrant was issued today against T: Huntington, president, and Thos. Hilleyer, secretary of the Federat ed. Shop Crafts Union of Topeka. charging them with violation of the Kansas industrial court act in issuing strike orders which result ed in a walkout of shopmen in the Santa Fe shops July 1st. HURT IN i ACCIDENT I Mr. and Mrs. F: E. Kennemore of Greenville Injured Greenville. July 7.?Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Kennemore of this city were j badly hurt late this afternoon when an automobile in which they were \ riding collided with a street car on Augusta street, near University street. Mr. Kennemore was driving the car, which he had had only a short time. The car was badly damaged by the impact. Mr. and Mrs. Ken nemore were rushed to the hospital where they were unconscious for a time. The exact nature of their injuries had not been determined tonight. ?? m* m ' Gov. Harding Flays Critics Washington. July 8.?Gov. Hard ing, of the federal reserve board, in a letter to the senate today struck back at Senatorial critics who assume complete responsibility for recommending the circulation of the speech of Senator Glass, de fending the board. Harding de clared; the charges aaginst the board were "misleading and un true." Without mentioning names he said some Of the senate charges "would be resented as libellous," but for constitutional immunity of i senatorial in the debate. Call En Blanc Session i Columbia. July 7.?An order was i filed in the supreme court this af i ternoon calling an en banc session ! of the court. September 1. for the i purpose of hearing the motion of j Assistant Attorney General Daniel j for a reversal of the Lee case of 1907, under which the precedent 1 was established that a circuit judge j may errant a new trial on the ! ground Of after-discovered evi ! dence. outbreak threatens as the result of the Wabash shopmen's strike Adjt. (Jen. Carlos K. Black ordered two troops of cavalry and five compa nies of infantry to assemble at their armories prepared to move at ;j moment's nctici. Kast St. Louis. July fj.?A tem porary restraining order forbdiding striking shopmen from interfering with the operation of Illinois Cen tral ti?iris. hindering employees of the v>>'i<\ arid from establishing "un lawful" picket lines, whs issued by Federal Judge English here late to day. Th<> order, returnable July IZ?, .was issued :ifi?-r counsel for the Il linois Gentejal presented affidavits th;ii there nad been violence at Mounds. "Be Just and Fear 3 ROADS PLANNED: TO REOPEN ! SHOPS MONDAY ? . - '? . " i - Carriers Warn Strik ing- Employees t o Return to Duty or Forfeit Ail Right Troops Are on Duty Chicago, July 9.?With soldiers on active duty in Illinois and troops mobilized in five other states, the ninth day of the strike of railway shopmen passed quiet ly while many railroads prepared to resume active operations of their shops tomorrow, several car riers having warned striking em ployes to return by that date or forfeit seniority rights. B. M. Jewell, head of the rail way employes' department of the American Federation of Labor, had nothing to say at strike headquar ters here and no news was forth coming from either the carriers or the United States Railroad Labor Board. While the Sunday holiday was' uneventful, the rest of the week was fraught with possibilities. To morrow members of the board who averted a strike of 400,000 main tenance of way men and 14.000 sig nalmen through negotiations with union officials last week, are ex pected to confer with E. H. Fitz gerald, head of the clerks' union, in an effort to prevent the issuance of strike orders to this organiza tion. Confidence was expressed here tonight in quarters close to the labor board that the clerks would follow the example set by the maintenance of way and sig nalmen employes. With the carriers urging striking employes to return to work, prep arations were complete on a score of lines to attempt to resume ac tive shop work tomorrow. Vacan cies in the ranks, according to the railroads, will be filled by the hir ing of new men. Realizing the possibilities of trouble with such a program, some of the railroads have asked for soldiers to protect their shops, while others expected to afford private protection to those who worked. While the railroads predicted that many strikers would flock back to work when assured that protection would be afforded, union headquarters here have maintained that the strike is daily becoming more effective. With the federal courts already intervening in a number of places to prevent picketing by the strik ers, the week was also expected to I reveal to a large extent the at ! titude of the department of jus | tice toward the strike. From* I Washington came the announce | ment that the department was in ! vestigating reports that strike dis ! orders were interfering with the ! mails and Charles Cline, United j States district attorney, said yes [ terday he has received instructions I from Attorney General Daugherty I to use force if necessary to keep j the mails and interstate commerce moving. At Clinton. 111., where the troops were sent after a boy had been I killed and two men, one a striker, ! had been wounded in a clash be ! tween strike sympathizers and II j linoia Central guards, all was re } ported quiet today. State cavalry j and infantry were mobilized for duty in eight down-state towns, however. The entire state guard of Mis 1 souri has been mobilized, w-hile in ! Indiana. California and Kansas j state trcops have been ordered to j be prepared for an emergency, and i the Michigan state police at Lan sing. Mich., received orders to be j ready- to move if the occasion arises. _ ! Chicago. July 10?The crucial stage of the railroad strike was reached today, the tenth since the shop men's nationwide walkout. Shop and roundhouse whistles ehrieked the final notes of the rail road ultimatum, cancelling senior i ty. and pension rights of the strik i ers who refused to return to work j today. National guardsmen are on I duty in Illinois and under arms in j several states. United States mar i shals are in charge of law enforce j ment machinery at various points. I while at other centers roads relied ! on Federal injunctions and local ? authorities for protection. iGOOD PICKINGS IN RUSSIA Immense Land Grants Offer ed as Bonus For Railroad Building Hague. July 10?Russia is ready to grant concessions for new rail J road lines and nine million, eight j hundred thousand acres of land for j agriculture, it was announced by ; the Russian delegation here today. ? ? m y ? Remarkable Freak of Lightning j Child Killed While on Grand i mother's Lap ? Hartwell. (Ja.. July 10?While 'seated "ti her grandmother's lap ? yesterday the seven year <>ld daugh j tev of L. T. Gilbert whs killed by ? lightning. Her grandmother was I not hurt seriously. Vet?Let all the ends Thon Aims't a _Sumter, S. C, Wedi REPUBLICANS \ \ FAIL ON i i CL0T?R \ --. mm [Vote on Motion Re-j suits in Count of Forty-five to Thirty f i v e ? Democrats Stand Solidly in OjH position j Washington. July 7.?Defeat of[ the Republican motion for cloture j on the administration tariff bill and I a dramatic attack on that measure I by Senator La Follette of Wiscon-! sin, a Republican member of the I committee that reported it. fea ? tured today's proceedings in the j senate! The vote to invoke the ex i is^ing cloture rule was 45 to 35.1 i or nine less than the necessary j : two-thirds majority. The Demo- j ! crats were a unit against the mo- j j tion, which was opposed also by; j five Republicans. .. j The Democrats voted solidly j j against the motion and were joined! ?by five Republicans. The roll call j ; follows: For the motion: j Republicans ? Ball. Brusum. j ; Calder, Capper. Curtis, Dupont.! j Edge. Elkins, Ernst. Fernald, J I France. FreHnghuysehi Gooding. j ; Hale. Harreld. Johnson. Jones of * j Washington. Kellogg, Keyes. Ladd, i ! Lenroot, Lodge. McCormick. Mc | Cumber, McKinley, McLean. Mc INary; Nelson, Newberry, Nichol son, Norbeck, Oddie, Pepper. Phipps. Poindexter. Rawson. Short ridge. Smoot, Spencer, Sterling. I Sutherland, Townsend. Wads worth, j Warren and Willis?-45. ..?.-. I ' Against the motion: Republicans?Borah. Brandegce, J ! La Follette. Moses and Norris-r-5. i Democrats?Ashurst, Broussard. j Caraway. Culberson. Dial. Fletcher, j Gerry, Harris. Harrison, Heflin, j I Jones of New Mexico. Kendrick, | ! King, Myers. Overman, Owen, Pitt- J j man, Pomerene, Ransdell. Robin- J j son. Sheppard. Si-ields, Simmons, j Smith, Stanley, Swanson, Traui-: j mell. Underwood. Walsh of Mas sachusetts and Walsh of Montana : ?30. j Total against. 55. ! Four senators, all Republicans, I were present, but unable to vote ; because of pairs with absent Dem- j I ocratic senators. They were Cam- j eron, Dillingham. New and Wat- i son. Twelve senators, six Repub* j licans and six Democrats, were ab- I sent. j ! Delivering the first of a prom-1 i ised series of attacks on the tar j iff, Senator LaFolIette declared the j j only way the Republican party j j could be saved from defeat in the ! j congressional election in November! j and "from disaster" in the presi- j j dential electino in 19^4 was to re-I i commit the bill for rewriting on 1 the basis of "the old Republican: j principle" of merely equalizing the j j difference in the cost of production j I at home and abroad. If that could ? i not be done, he added, the legis-1 lation should be abandoned, j Before the vote on cloture. Sen- i ! ator Watson of Indiana delivered j j a vigorous address in support of i the cloture motion, charging that I the Democrats were conducting an j "adroit" filibuster so as to prevent S passage of the bill Until just before j the November election without j time being given either for the ef- ? j fects of its operation to be felt or j for the Republicans to explain it; (adequately to the country. ! Senator Watson declared the: j question at issue was whether the I I senate was to function, whether; I the party which came into power | j with a majority of 7,000.000 voters i was to keep its pledge to the people that the tariff would be revised. This question, he contended, was! more important than the tariff, or J the soldiers' bonus or the ship sub sidy, which, he said, were only "mere incidents" in the life of the i nation. After the cloture question had! been disposed of and before Sena- j tor La Follette began his three] hours' attack on the bill the sen ate disposed of a number of com mittee amendments. jPROPOSAL FOR MINERS CONTINUE WORK j President Harding SubmSts j Plan Calling For Original; Wage Scale Until New One ! Has Been Made ', Washington, July 10.?President ? Harding submitted today to bit - I uminous and anthracite operators ; a miners' proposal that miners re i turn to work at the wage scale I existing when the men quit April ! 1st. and continue to work on that j scale until August 10th, meanwhile i the arbitration board is being ap j pointed to negotiate a new scale. The Railroad Strike ! Attorney General Daugherty Confers With Railroad's j Attorney J Washington. July 10 ? Attorney | General Daugherty. on his return to Washington this morning after! a week's absence in Ohio, immed- j lately to??k up th*> consideration of the railroad strike with Alfred P. Thorn, general counsel of thej association of railroad executives. [ am) t be thy Country's, Thy God's and nesday, July 12,1922 TARIFF FATAL TO REPUBLICAN Senator La Follette Warns Stand Pat Leaders That Tariff Bill Means Defeat For Party Washington, July 7.?In an, at tack on the administration tariff bill. Senator La Follette of Wis consin. Republican member of the finance committee, declared today in the senate that passage of the measure would mean the defeat of the Republicans in the elections in .November and in the presidential elfibtion in 1924. rt do not understand," said Sen ator La Follette, "how men charg ed^ with the duty of upholding and pre~erving the principles of the Re publican party, even if they feel no responsibility to the people who elected them, can deliberately force through legislation which they must know means the defeat, if not the utter ruin, of the party. "If the elections of 1910 and 1914 and 1916 mean* nothing to them, then let them look to the Republican- primaries held in In diana, in Iowa, in North Dakota apd other states within the last few months. Powerful indeed must be the influences which can blud geon through this legislation when the political leaders responsible for it know that it means the defeat of their party and the end of the political lives of most of the lead ers responsible for this bill." Reviewing the political upsets which followed passage of the Payne-Aldrich law. Senator La Fol lette declared that had it not been for the resentment of the people against the Wilson administration growing out of the war and what followed, there is no doubt that the Republican party.would never have returned to power unless it reform ed its tariff policy and gave satis factory guarantees that its reform ation was permanent. "It would seem that the men re sponsible for this Republican ad ministration in the light of his tory would with the return of the Republican party to power frame a tariff bill with at least some show of a decent regard for meeting the undoubted will and desire of the vast majority of the people. But it seems that the same interests which fostered the Dingley and, the even worse Payne-Aldrich tariff upon a long suffering public are strong enough to write into the statutes of this country the far worse tariff provisions contained in the pend ing bill. "Do the gentlemen responsible for this bill imagine that the peo ple have forgotten? Do you think that the people will calmly accept the burdens in 1922 which they so decisively refused to carry in 1910 and 1912? There is just one way, Mr, President, in which to save the Republican party from defeat in the congressional election of 1922 and from disaster in the presidential election'of 1924. and that is to return this bill to the committee and rewrite all the schedules of it so that they con form to the Republican principle cf protection by merely equalizing the cost of production at home and abroad, and if they are unable to do so then to abandon general tar iff legislation at this time." Discussing specifically the cotton schedule in the pending bill. Sena j tor La Follette declared the rates as reported to the senate averaged generally from 11 to 90 per cent, higher than those in the "infa mous" Payne-Aldrich act and in ' a majority of instances from 100 to 200 per cent, than in the existing L'nderv.ood law. i The Wisconsin senator said that since he had made his study of the schedule the finance committee ma jority had cut down some of the rates and "slipped out one of the I many jokers that were slipped into I the cotton schedule," but that ev en with the reductions made, he understood that the committee ma j jority intended to reduce the rates to the level in the Payne Aldiicli schedule. He argued that these rates were entirely too high, r To support this part of his ?rgu : menr. Senator La Follette present . ed tables showing the growing ex j port ? and decreasing imports in cotton goods and presented also reports prepared by a Boston brok ; erage firm to show that many cot ! ton manufacturers of the country in recent years have been making : high profits. Senator La Fol!*'tte declared i there never was a falser claim I made by mortal man than that the : tariff wall, w h i c h wall the j bill proposed to erect for the ben?1 ! tit of the cotton manufacturers, i will in any way benefit the laborer ; in the cotton mill. "The cotton manufacturer." he -.lid. "pays his labor just as little |as possible without regard to tar Jiff legislation or to his profits. The I wag" paid in the cotton mills of f fliis country arid the manner in ; which women and children have I been worked in those mills is a nat ional disgrace." Birmingham. July 10.?The fu neral of Edward Ware Barrett, [editor and publisher of the Age 1 Herald, who died suddenly last ! night, will be held at Elmwood cemetery tomorrow afternoon. His ! death occurred as he entered a ! swimming pool at Roebuck coun -try club with Mrs. Barrett and a party of friends. J Troth's." CANDIDATES INDULGE IN PERSONALITIES State Campaign Be gins to Liven Up as Candidates Go Af I ter Each Others Records i - St. Mathews, July 7.?The spir- j i ited and sarcastic grenade of Sam- j uel W. Wolfe, attorney general, j against the rapid-fire tactics of his j I two young antagonistics. Harold : I C. Eubanks and TV. M. Winter of j Columbia; the exchange of compli- j ments between John F. Swearin- j gen, state superintendent of educa I tion, with J. H. Hope, an opponent, j (and the exceptional exposition of i I bis theories of government by Sen- j ator George K. Laney, of Chester- j field, in the race for governor, en- j livened the meeting here today, j which was attended by approxi- [ mately 300 people in a large grove i at the school building here. John T. Duncan of Columbia, the j first speaker for governor today, j scored Cole L. Blease for an al- j leged speech made to negro troops.! D. M. Winter of Columbia, in the race for attorney general, criti- ? cized the appropriation for the of- j fice to which he aspires as being'' excessive. Of the $20,000 appro priated last year. $9,000 of the! item was for outside legal assist- j ance. he said. He claimed that of j the seven important cases handled j by the attorney general the state-] was assisted by paid legal assist- j ants. He charged that James P. j Carey of Pickens was paid for a j ten-minute speech in the Sandel! case, in which the state was Oeing] sued for the death of a girl from j typhoid vaccine supplied by the | state laboratory, the vaccine being; claimed to have been contaminat- : ed. He alleged that Wolfe's first j appearance in'public life was in ; the house of representatives and,; on the first day of the session, hej introduced 19 revolutionary meas-; ures. one of which was a divorce' iaw for South Carolina. . In 1919,- charged Mr. Winters. | the attorney general in his report to the general assembly, recom mended the enactment of a law abolishing capital punishment, i "Suppose." said the speaker, "one of your women relatives jr one of mine had been assaulted by a ne gro, and we knew that his con viction would mean life imprison ment which would be the case if Mr. Wolfe's recommendation had carried, what would you have done? What Would I have done? What would any red-blooded South Carolinian have done? Taken a shotgun and have killed him." Harold Eubanks of Columbia made charges similar to those voiced by Mr. Winter against the attorney general. That he was not on the stump primarily to oppose his young op ponents, said Samuel M. Wolfe, the attorney general, but to expose some of the "absurd" charges these boys were making against him. He claimed that his business at Co lumbia kept him in his office, but, on the solicitation of his friends, he thought he had better come into the campaign. Mr. Wolfe said that he had only one assistant, probably the only state in the Unino in which this condition was found, and the gen eral assembly decided to appropri ate $4.000 for outside assistance when needed. An item of $10.000 of the $20.000 complained of. is for the Columbia Canal Commission, attorneys for which he inherited from the previous administration of Thos. H. Peeples. J. Frazer Lyon of Columbia is one of these attorneys. Mr. Wolfe said that he was long opposed to capital punishment, but. as he was not the executioner and the general assembly had not adopted his recommendation, he could not see what that had to do with his race. Twelve states of the Union, he claimed, had abol ished capital punishment, j As to the divorce law. several men in Anderson county who wanted to get rid of their wives asked him to do that, he said, but when the bill came up in the legi islature. many of the members feared their wives would get rid of them, so it was defeated. Mr. Wolfe showed the endorse ment of his candidacy from the 1 4 solicitors of the state and Chief Justice Gary, reading the one from Solicitor A. F. Spigner of Colum bia to show that the charge of Mr. Winter yesterday that he got them when he was contemplating run ning for congress was unfounded on fact. Mr. Spigner said that h*? was supporting Mr. Wolfe f<?r at torney general, according to the letter. "I wish T had the ability these two young men think they have, intellectually, physically and mor ally." said the Attorney General, "and 1 would make my fortune." Continuing, Mr. Wolfe remarked jokingly that these young men want capital punishment. If I am ever elected governor of South Carolina and cither of them are convicted of a capital crime I will Take great pleasure in signing his death war rant. The Attorney General said that the only reason he consented to enter the race was to finish the Columbia canal litigation. "Roth his opponents, he stated, claimed THE TRUE SOTH RUSSIANS CAUSE STRIFE AT THE HAGUE Delegates of Other I Nations Shocked by ! Bolshevik Propos als As to Property \ _ I The Hauge. July 7.?The Hague j conference, following the dramatic ! pathway of Genoa's famed con clave, came very near a rupture to j day, the issue on which the confer ence threatened to split being the i treatment of confiscated property I in Russia. j What Russia proposed to do in j the way of restitution, as explained officially by Maxim Litvinoff. the j Russia spokesman, fell like a cold \ shower on the expectant dele i gates. Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame. of j the British delegation, arose and ! declared it was ; perfectly absurb to continue the discussion unless more satisfactory assurances were j forthcoming. Only M. Krassin? I "Krassin, the conciliator," as he is I beginning to be called?saved the I day by suggesting mildly that con ; troversial matters be left aside for [the moment and a real effort be ' made .to find a common ground : based on mutual advantage. Who Owned Properties? The difficulty started at the af ternoon session of the conference when M. Litvinoff read a long list of oil and other concessions which ; Russia was ready to give to for eigners. M. Cattier, Belgium, sug gested it would be "nice" if M. Litvinoff would explain whijeh of the properties listed were under foreign ownership previous tG their confiscation, and what foreign properties were excluded from the list. ! M. Litvinoff replied that he could not Say whether, th^ properties be long previously to foreigners or ! Russians. It was difficult for Rus sia to identify foreign properties; all that could be done was to pub j lish the list and let foreign owners identify their property if they I could. j The Russian spokesman made j the statement: j "We do not go back on what we said at Genoa namely, that the J first option on concessions would j be offered to former owners.*' j A long, exciting discussion fol ? lowed, with frequent murmurs of ! astonishment or d^apfrroval. j * * * j Crisis in Berlin For Government , I F?ll of Administration May Be Near ! Washington, July 7.?The fall of ? the German government is threat j ened and stringent measures have I been enacted for the protection of ? the republican regime, the com ; merce department was advised to | day in a cablegram from Cora i mercial Attache Herring at Ber jlin. { The political crisis resulting from ! the assassinaion of Foreign Min [ ister Ratheneau. Mr. Herring re j ported, has aggravated the period j of currency depression inaugurat jed by the failure of the foreign I loan negotiations and the feeling i is now general that Germany j faces grave political complications ! with the fall in exchange, which j dropped to the lowest level in his I tory today. ; "The consideration by the reich j stag of important legislation." he j said, "including the forced loan bill ' and grain subsidy measures, was in terrupted by the Rathenau inci dent and by the consequent con sideration and exactment of strin i gent measures for protecting the j republican regime. These measures I provide the death penalty or life ! imprisonment for c o n s p i r a c y ' against the republic, j "Bavaria, where the anti-repub lican feeling is believed to be most [prevalent, refuses enforcement of i these protective measures, alleg ! ing that no necessity for them ex : IStS >v ! / "Intense party feeling prevails in Germany, being manifested in j numerous assemblages under police supervision. An anti-republican ! agitation is being suppressed. A ! strike among Berlin printers has I resulted in the suspension of nearly ? all newspapers. j "The passage by the reichstag j of a grain subsidy measure provid j ing for the assessment of large j quantities of bread grain from ! farmers at prices appreciably un i der the market level has aroused j bitter opposition from the agrar ! ians and the national party which ; threatens the fall of the govern I mnet." Scottsburg, L'nd.. July 10.?Three ! persons were killed and two injur ! ed when an inter urban oar demoi ! ished an automobile at a grade I crossing here tod:'.v. that they would employ no legal I assistance and neither of them [could practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. Enci | dentially. he remarked, in hand ling the Sandel case, if they should I win the general appropriation bill n?>\t year would have to carry an i item of ?(?0.000. All the* other candidates for Statt- offices today made excep I tional speeches. Thv meeting tomorrow will be .held at Orangeburg. HBLROX, Established Jone 1, 1S66. ?. ... VOL. LH. NO. 43 ?TRAPPED v I IN DARK I JUBWAY ?Nearly 500 Men, Wo men and Children Caught in Tunnel Are Turned into Frenzied Mob New York, July 6.?(By tmr As sociated Press).?Trapped in a dark subway seventy-five feet below, the street and reeking with gas fumes and smoke, nearly 500 men, wo men and children passengers On ?n East Side train of the interborough Rapid Transit Company today- were converted into a frenzied, shriek ing mob. almost a third of whose members were overcome before they could fight their way, to safe ty. Tluree probably will die. Police officials said it was a miracle mah? were not tramped to death. . A worse/spot for such an acci dent scarcely could have been found than Lexington avenue at Sixtieth street, where the trai^ came to its sudden halt. There^is no express, station between Grand Central Terminal, at Forty-second street and Eighty-sixth street. The express tracks are three tiers" do^sp. beneath the local tube, of the Inter borough Rapid Transit, and the cross-town tunnel of the Brooklyn < Rapid Transit Company, and the only exits are narrow little .spiral stairways at Fifty-third, ' Fifty? eighth and .Sixty-second streets. These were jammed with fugitives from the scene below. A little fire extinguisher, whose contents were turned on a ?iny blaze in a- motorman's control -box was held responsible by police. a?d fire officials for clouds of poisonous fumes and smoke sent swirling ? through the tunnel. More than three-score- ofrthbsa overcome required hospital treaty ment. while about '100 were treats j ed on the streets and in emergency hospitals.; > DEVELOPMENT BOARD PLANS Directorate Reduced and. Or ganization Pal on New Basis Charleston, Jttfy 7.?-Reducing its directorate from" sixty to nine members in order to make expe dite and facilitate the transaction of business, and reorganizing .with a view of entering upon a period of renewed effort and activities; a special meeting of the South CarSe" lina Development Board, held this week in - Charleston, decided upon plans for \the coming year, and elected the "following offers: Pres ident. Niels Christensen, of Beau fort; ?'executive vice president, and Chjairthah of the board of directors, Rc L. 'Montague of Charleston, and secretary, H. E. {Horton. The following directors were' elected: E. W. Durant, Charlestons C. S. Ucker, Baltimore: J. Swin" ton Whaley, Little Ediste: Joseph Schneck. Georgetown: H.~ F:;Bark' erding. Charleston; W. E.-RichArd son. Beaufort, and J. L. C0gg^ Hartsville. Enthusiastic over the prospects for the future, and over the posj sibilities offered by the . coastal area .of this state, the board .Is ?prepared now to proceed1 energki ? cally on an ambitious T^program undertaking .specific ^-objects in, view. The business depression which set in when the. bO^rdj'^ras first organized necessitated <t ?*u*' tailment of plans, but,. Veorsahfeel? and revitalized, the board means to go ahead vigorously. Here ao the aims of the brgKht-. zation as set forth in -the corpora toin character: (a) To promote the livestock~izr-; dustry and other profitable agrric?-i - tural industries in the staje** of South Carolina by means of edu cational publicity and through co i operation among its members and j with other organizations^., associa ' tions or individuals having similar aims. (b) By similar*methods, to ofe; tain the best possible laws and ad ministration in the matter of good* schools, good roads, .drainage,, sanitation, ccnrtol cf animal dis eases, best possible land laws and administration in the matter of j land titles. (c) To promote the establishment of experiment and demonstration farms for the purpose of determin ing the best and cheapest fora?? crops and the benefit of up-breed (d) To ascertain and encourage the best methods of banking best adapted to the rapid and profi table upbuilding of the livestock industry. (e) To induce the settlement in this state of experienced livestock farmers from other sections and the investment of capital in live stock enterprises. (f) To promote in similar meas ures with the intent of bringing about the highest and speediest possible development, the agricul tural resources of the State . of South Carolina. Hoover Wins Diamond Sculls Henley-on-Thames. July S.?Wal ter M. Hoover, the American champion oarsman, won the dia mond sculls here today.