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The Watchman and Sovthro . Entered at the Postoffice at Sum 5_w, SrCVas S?eo?d<!__'Mattcr. PERSONAL. Mrs. F. E. Renfrow and son re turned home Friday after spending several -weeks in the New England ? states and Canada. wv Mrs.' Lawrence Bentz, formerly Miss. Lillian Pack, of-Greenville, is ^?srting.Mrs. HL L. Scarborough, op North Main street. Messrs. Frank Mood and Claude Scarborough of Summerton, were in the city Monday. * Hughson Green is visiting , friends in- Bibotts. - Miss-Eliza Timmons, of Manning, is the guest of Miss Florence Hurst r- iMiss Lela M. Davis is visiting her sister, Mrs. Geo. E. Dargan in ? Darlington. Chief J. M. Barwick went to Charleston Friday morning, rela tive to nationalization papers, of Jim Nickles. Mrs. J. M. Fleming and mother, Mrs. Hail ieff today for a visit to Marion and Myrtle Beach. Mrs. J> R. McAlpine has return ed to her home in Hartsville after . a visit- to -her mother here. Miss Katberine Flowers has gone -to Charleston for a week./ -Mr: Sam Nettles went to Kings tree Friday morning to visit rela tives. Mr. W. L. Hasty and family have gone to Isle of Palms. ; .Misses Mary Holman and May Clarke left Friday morning to visit Mra. Allen Smith of Abbeville. Mr. A. C. Phelps went to 'Co lumbia. Friday on business. ?Mrs: Atlee Bradaam is spending Some time, with her niece, Mrs. D. M.. Campbell. Mrs.r Isabel Allen, who has been visiting friends in Florence has re turned to Sumter. She is with her brother, Mr. M. H. Beck of Po calla Springs. .-.Mrs. E. M. Self, Mr. Lothrop Self, -Miss Julia Husbands and Master Hugh Putnam of Florence spent, last Thursday at Pocalla Springs. . Miss Sophia Wells, who has beenv visiting Miss Opal Thompson of Olanta, has returned home. Mrs. Raymond Miller of Allen town, Pa.; is the guest of Mrs. R. C. .Bradham. - >Mr. R, E. Cross of San Diego, California and Mrs. Charles Dun bar of Atlanta, arrived on the early - ntorjiing.train from Columbia Sat urday morning, and are visiting the family of their brother, Mr. G. F. Cross of the-Sumter Herald force. The two brothers had not seen each other during the past thirty-seven years and the meeting was indeed a happy one. Mrs?. Geo. E. Bruner has re turned . home, having visited rela tives* in Virginia. - Mrs; Frank Williams and Miss Kathleen Costin,- after a pleasant y4Srt to Mrs. Clyde Benson in.Char bsston, returned home . Friday cl^ot. Jirss L?he Gregg and Miss Rosa Brogdon left for Asheville Thurs day morning. ??'?'?. Mrs. T. N. Holeombe has **e turaed.-to her home in Valdosta, ?fa.. having spent some time with Kr?. S. J. White, * Mr. E. S^ Carson went to Colum bia-Saturday morning on business. Miss Helen Burnetfe, who has been visiting Mrs. John J. Riley, returned to her home in Spartan burg Saturday morning**? -Mr. O. H. Folley went to Colum bia* Saturday aiorning for. the day. .. -Mrs. L. D. Jennings and daugh ters. Isabelle and Augusta, have Cone to Rock Hill; to spend several days. . Mrs. John Wilson left Saturday morning for Columbia for a few days. . Mr. W. G. Bat etna n went to Co lumbia Saturday morning for sev eral days. . Mr. and Mrs. R. A.- Stevenson have returned from Oce-tn View. i'i Mr. and Mrs. C. D. ScawarLs a?e leaving Saturday night .for New I-ork, The former in the interest of the Schwartz Stores. ; Misses Grace and Elizabeth ?Pridgeon have returned to their home at Delco, N. C, after a pleasant visit to Miss Mary Darr on EL Calhoun St. Mrs. Louis Darr and daughter. Miss Mary, are spending their vaca tion in North Carolina with friends and relatives. . Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Sease and two little, daughters, Esther and Edrie and Mrs. L L. Zeigler have returned to their home at Ehrhardt after a pleasant visit to Mr. and Mrs. R, L. Jackson. . Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Converse of Florence spent the week-end in Sumter. Mrs. T. S. Sumter is spending some time in Florence with her daughter. Mrs. F. F. Converse. Miss Ruby Broughton, a nurse of the Tourney Hospital, returned to Sumter Monday to resume her duties after having taken a two weeks* vacation. ^Mrs. Fletcher Hoover and Mis3 Jessie Stewart spent Monday in town with friends: They were re turning to Columbia from a visit to Lake City, and stopped over for the day. ? 5 Capt. W. M. Spann of the infan try; U. S. A., who is stationed at Camp B?nning, Ga.. is visiting his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Spann. Misses Louise and Ellen Siddal have gone to Asheville to attend the music festival. * Mr. D. W. Cuttino and family have gone to Hendersonville to spend some time. Mrs. H. B. Clowney. of Olanta, spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. Stewart on Harvin street. Mrs. W. C. Hatebell and little daughter. Julia Mae have return ed to their home in Darlington, af ter visiting her husband at Mrs. Stewart's on Harvin street. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Do Hard have returned to the city, having spent a very plensnnf week on Sullivnn's Islnntf. Tt. K. I)oLfirm?\ brother to Mrs. W. K. Tavel, who came to Day t<>na a short time ago from Sum ter, S. C, has taken charge of the insurance department at the R. L. Smith & Company office on South Beach street.?The Daytona Daily News, Daytona Fla. * . - Mr. O. H. FoHey returned from Columbia Monday ' morning. Mr. and Mrs. Geo^ W. Rawls, Mr. W. M. Folsom and Mr. Jack Moore spent Sunday in Columbia traveling by auto. Mr. E. H. Rhame left Monday morning for Greenville to attend the Baptist Summer Assembly. Mr. J. L. Sibert left Monday morning for McCormick. 0 Mr.- E.-S. Carson returned to the city from Columbia Monday morn ing. ? Miss Sallie Rembert left Mon day morning to visit Mrs. Julian [Dixon ht Bishoprille. Mr. D. F. Kirven went to St. Charles Monday morning to spend some time with relatives. [ Mr. R. F. Kolb visited relatives in the city Sunday. Misses Esterlena Reardon and Aline- DuBose, of Manning, were visitors of Mrs. Stewart, Sunday. Miss Irene Dennis, of Columbia? spent the week-end with her par ents on Harvin stree.t Miss- Marie Stewart aitd - her brother, Ellie, left for Columbia* Sunday morning to visit relatives and friends. The many friends of Miss Nettie DuBose will be glad to knbw^ thai shp has returned home, having been operated on several ? weeks ago. j -Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mclntosh! were visitors in the New Zion sec-I tion last week-end. . SENATEREJECtS TARIFF INQUIRY Proposed Investigation Killed ?Vote in August, as Sug gested by Both Sidles, Will Be Blocked Washington,. Aug. 4.?For four hours today "the senate wrangled over the Gooding resolution propos ing a board investigation of the iri teresfas of senators*, newspapers and others(- ih the passage, or defeat of the pending tariff bill,- but action on it was postponed indefinitely. SeftatOr Caraway (Democrat) of Arkansas, who- ottered the- original j resolution proposing an investiga tion of the financial interest, if any,.-of senators in- the tariff schedules, told the senate that he realized the investigation was "dead." A charge by Senator "GoOding (Republican) of -Idaho that Frank A.vMunsey, owner of the New York Heald, was opposing the tariff -bill in the interest of his investments in Europe and sharp exchanges be tween Senator Lenroot (Republik can ) of Wisconsin and Harrison I (Democrat) of Mississippi marked; debate on the resolution. Senator! Harrison insisted ,that Senator f Gooding and other senators charg-1 j ed in newspapers with having ma- j I terial. interest in the tariff, ached-! j'ules should have an opportunity to ["clear their skirts." Senator? Len ,'root insisted that the inquiry \ proposed would involve large, ex penditure and would be without re sult. . > ; S . After the debate on the resou tion died down new proposals for unanimous consent agreement for a final vote on the tariff bill on [August 17 were put forward; by i Senators McCumber (Republican) I j of North Dakota, in charge of the (measure, and Simmons.(Democrat)' of* North-Carolina, the minority leader. Senator X?enroot, whose objection yesterday prevented sqch^ ja? agreement, stated privately he j would not give his consent" to a final jvote on August 17 or any other date until after important com mittee amendments had been dis posed of. The senate finished up commit tee -amendments on . paper and j books. There was only one real j controversy, the Democrats making ' a strenuous fight against the pro | posed duty of 35 per cent, ad va I lorem on stereotype- matrix ma terial or boards. Senator Walsh (Democrat) of Montana proposed a substitute of 25 per cent., but j thfa amendment was rejected, 28 to i i IS, and the committed rate ap-j ! proved. ? j Opposing the "So per cent duty, j Senator Simmons said it was ad- j [mitted that the Wood-Flong com- ] j pany of New York city had a \ monopoly of the business of mak ing these mats, used by newspa pers, and that it had conducted an **insolent" campaign of propagan da. Senator Harris (Democrat) of; Georgia said Mr. Wood, head of the j {company, had written a letter to j j him undertaking to "deceive*' him j 'about the situation, while Senator! j Walsh (Democrat) of Montana de- ! j dared there was only the unsup- ! i ported statement of Mr. Wood to j ! justify the duty. Senator Freiing- I I huysen (Republican) of New Jer- j ' sey championed the duty, declar- [ j ing it necessary to keep out the j .German product. He asserted it j was a question of protecting Am er ican monopoly against a German i monopoly. -5 Denmark, a country in northern Europe with less than half the area of South Carolina, a much inferior soil and an unfavorable climate, j exports annually more than $125, j 000.000 worth of dairy products, I poultry, eggs and bacon, much of j the dairy products coming to the j United States. In addition to the other unfavorable conditions with which the farmers have to contend they buy great quantities of cot ton seed meal in this country for cattle food. If they can do these things profitably with all these j handicaps there is room for hope that South Carolina run make a success of dairying, poultry rais ing and live stock raising. The reason so many popular sub scription funds are lagging is the fact that there are altogether too many popular subscription funds. ????*? Foolscap cannot understand why some preachers always pick out the hottest Sunday of the year to {?reach about hell. CAMPAIGN MEETING AT PRIVATEER a Candidates For Coun ty Offices, Legisla ture and Solicitor Greeted by Voters The second meeting in the series arranged for the county campaign |was held at Privateer station Fri | day'at-11 o'clock. All of the can didates who are offering for office were present except" Magistrate J. Ai Hodge who has no* opposition for re-election to the office that he has held for a number of years. There-were about fifty voters pres ent, which was considered a rep | resentative assembly <for that sec t tion of the county. Mr. S. A. -Har? [ vjn presided and introduced the I candidates who spoke ? from a stand, erected for the occasion in the sTiade of spreading oak trees. The speakers in their addresses covered practically the same ground in outlining their views on the issues of the day that they did at the Rentbert meeting. Senator Moise, who-did not attend the meet ?ing at Rembert, first expressed his appreciation of the support that he had received from the people of Privateer at every primary during th? eight years he had " been in pubhc life >and had asked for their suffrage.- This- year he was particularly appreciative because of the fact that he was a candi date foF re-election to the senate !without opposition. He discussed the financial, agricultural and in dustrial depression that now bears ddwir upon the country, and Which in this seciton is intensified and aggravated - by the boll weevil. He said, however, that he felt per | fectly confident that the people of } Sumter county, who had surmount f ed ?o many difficulties in the past, would regain financial independ ence and work out. a more substan tial prosperity than they had en joyed in the, former times. He mentioned the system of good roads that will soon be completed throughout the county as a factor that would help greatly in re "estabRshing prosperous conditions because they would facilitate com munication and cheapen transpor tation on the produce of the farms. .Be spoke of the schools and the necessity of supporting the system and improving the educational ad vantages that are provided for the children of today, who will be the citizens of tomorrow. He ad Ivocated the establishment of con solidated schools wherever possible, for that is the way to obtain bet ter schools* and at the same time a more economical system. In ref erence to taxation he said that he stood for economy of expenditure; but not for crippling any of the essential n institutions or depart ments of the state and county gov ernments. He had always stood for .the equalization of taxes so that all classes of property would bear a ^ust share of the burden, and in the burO?n, and in the future he would 'do his' best to serve the people of ^umter county faithfully and ef ficiently. Mr. J. L. Gillis, who did not rmake an extended speech at Rem ibert, outlined his- ? platform. He stands for strict law enforcement, and took occasion to endorse the policy that Gov. Harvey is follow ing in the enforcement of law. Her favors adequate pensions for the . Confederate veterans. He stands for the lowest rate of taxa i tion .possible-^aal-avill provide the I necessary support of state and [county institutions. He had ad vocated the enactment of a law j fixing a lower rate of interest, when, I he was a candidate six years ago, jand he still stood for this. He be j lieved in strict economy in public j expenditures, for by this policy j only is it possible to relieve the people of any of the burdens of taxes. Nevertheless he knew that I it would be difficult tq reduce the : taxes to any great extent, without j crippling the enterprises and instfr tutions to which the state and county are committed. He en dorsed the plan of shifting some of the tax burden to other forms of property and the levying of spe cial taxes, such as the gasoline tax, the inheritance tax, etc. He was of the opinion that the cost of gov i ernment is too high and could be i reduced, by business administra tion. He stood for support of col leges and schools, especially the rural schools. ? Mr. Robert Muldrow, who was j prevented from attending the I Rembert meeting by illness in his \ family, outlined his platform j briefily. He said that a reduction I of govern mental expenses is an j absolute necessity, under existing j conditions. Individuals have been forced to cut expenses by the I hard times and the shinking of I their earnings. The government should do likewise. He would stand for no expense that was not absolutely essential. In these times the thing to do is to follow, a con servative policy, spend nothing that is not essential and content, our | selves with holding our own until ! conditions improve. He pledged I himself to give his best effort to the j intelligent und effective service of j the people, if elected to the house j of representatives. I As stated in the introductory re Imarks the other candidates eov [ered about the same ground that jthey did in their speeches at ? Rembert, some of them elaborat ing the ideas advanced in the former speeches. At the conclusion of the speech making there was :i watermelon ! (rutting, a number of tine melons to provide for all the crowd being [furnished by Mr. W. K. Kolb and ? others. j Our idea of fun would be two i .i-oykillers shooting at each other jand both of them crack shots. Chicago, Aug. 4.?A canvass of coal operators in the central com petitive fields, according to an an nouncement by representatives of ! the Illinois, operators, indicated j that only district number eight of j Ohio, comprising about five per j cent of the tonnage of the entire j field would be present at the ' wage conference called for next j Monday in Cleveland by John la. j Lewis, the international president j of the miners. Local coal circles i see little hope of a wage agree i ment. ?' Chicago, Aug. 4.?Illinois, re j stricted tc its own supply of coal, j faces a critical situation according j to Robert M. Medill. the state fuel ) director. * ? ????-? j Athens, Aug. 4.?Responding to j the allied powers' note of July 31, j the Greek government says it has decided to occupy Constantinople in order to bring peace by means of a decisive ? military action against- the Turkish capital. The i reply reiterates the continued de lay in- the conclusion of peace is {bringing fresh calamities to Chris i tians in Asia Minor. - ? j Washington, Aug. 4.?Members, j of the cabinet took to today's meet ! ing reports on coal and rail strikes j as gathered by their respective de I partments. It was indicated the {session would be given almost j wholly to the discussion of the sit j uation in the t-w04ndu3tries. Columbia; Aug. 4.?Jack Schu hmacher, the Elloree county man ! who was paroled and then ? who re> ! fused to reutrn $o* the penitentiary on August 1st, when the parole expired, was brought to the office of Governor Harvey Friday morn j ing by Sheriff Dukes, of Orange burg county, and the young man confessed to the governor that he had been trying to make his es^ cape, but that when he saw how determined the governor was to j have him rearrested, he decided to j surrender, and he came to apologize j for his conduct. Schumacher was itaken to the state penitentiary and j there he will spend . the next two years because of an attack he made upon his mpther when she refused to give him food which he j demanded, for which crime he was ! convicted by an Orangeburg county I jury. > . Washington, Aug. 4.?Frank A. .Munsey, publisher New York, Her [ald, was charged in the senate by j Senator Gooding, chairman of the j Republican agricultural tariff bloc, I with fighting the tariff bill in the j interest of his investments in Bu | rope. Senator Gooding's resolu ; tion for an investigation was 1 re I ported adversely. Staunton, Ind.-, Aug. 4.?The first j hostilities in connection with tak j ing over the mines by the state oer j curred today whcui pickets on guard ' duty were fired on from ambush. The fire was retuned by guards ? and later taken up over the en i tire area and continued for over j an hour. j Chicago, Aug. 4.?The fourth ; day of Chicago's street car strike, saw both sides in an apparent i deadlock over the terms of settle j ment. Meanwhile Mayor Thomp son and the city council are con j sidering plans for the purchase and j opeation of city owned motor j busses. - i Spokane, Aug. 4.?A . thousand j men are engaged in fighting for jest fires from Rocky Mountains in I Montana to the Columbia river; in j Washington, and up to a hundred t miles from the Canadian border. ! Many hundred acres of fine timber ; ha's been burned over. I Nashville, Aug. 4.?Incomplete ! returns from yesterday's primary as compiled by The Banner from 76 of 95 counties of state give Senator McKellar a lead of over forty thousand over G: T. Fitz Hugh. Lemuel P. Padgett, who died this week in Washington was renominated for congress from the Seventh district. Paris, Aug. 4.-?German banks within the last 48 hours transfer red to Holland and Switzerland between sixty and seventy million French francs which have been on deposit in American and other i foreign banks in Paris, the Asso j dated Press learned this after noon. / i London, Aug. 4.?Great anxiety ! is felt today over the condition of ! Viscount Northcliffe.. There was i some increase in heart weakness, j and he is in a state of general ; exhaustion. ! St. Louis, Aug. 4.?With Senator j Reed leading by sixty-eight hun ; dred eighty-seven votes. Breck ; inridge Long based his hope on j the official count being made to j day, to overcome the senator's i plurality. ; - Plymouth, England. Aug. 5.? The executive eommitte of the conservative-unionist association of [Plymouth has reaffirmed its un swerving loyalty to Lady Astor. who represents the Sutton division in the house of commons. Ply mouth liberals have already pledg ed support to her. Winston-Salem, Aus:. 5.?J. L. Parke, who was convicted last night of murder in the second degree for the killing of H. P.. Ashburn-, was st-ntene^d today to thirty years at bard labor in the state penitentiary. Paris. Aug. 5.?The French gov ernment today ordered into ef fect the penalties acrainst Ger iii.-inv Tor failure to pay in full installments on the pre-war debts payment to French citizens. The penalties concern Cerrnau proper ties sequestered in France, certain payments that are to be made to Germany on account of war losses are suspended in Alsace-Lorraine also the indemnities under arbi tration agreements reached "be tween France' and Germany in August and September, 1921. No military action is involved. Hongkong, Aug. 5.?Full reports of a disastrous typhoon at Swatow, two hundred and fifty miles' north of here with estimated loss of five thousand lives and great property damage on August 2nd are await ed here today. The foreign ware house was demolished by the storm and its contents- lost or damaged. Tokio, Aug. 5.?Crown Prince Hirohito, regent, today officially sanctioned the treaties to which the Japanese party at Washing ton agreed to at the. Washington conference. Thi3 completes Ja-? pan's actidft. j New Bern, N. C, Aug. 5.?The I Norfolk Southern Railway is will ing to accept the proposals of the president, guaranteeing seniority rights as a basis of- settlement in the shopmens' strike on that road, j according to a letter to former em ployees by C. P. Pelter, general manager. Washington, Aug. 5.?B. M. Jewell, head of the striking shop f-men together with W. H. John ! son, president of the '.machinists* union and James Noonan, head of the electrical - workers* - union, conferred with the president at rife White House today. At the same time it was learned a meet ing of the general-chairmen of the shop crafts--on the Southern Rait I way and officials of the road had I been postponed until Monday. St. Louis. Aug. 4.?(By the As sociated Press.)?With only 81 precincts to be heard from United States Senator James A. Reed to night has a lead over Breckinrige Long of 5.700 votes in the race for the Democratic senatorial nomina tion. - - Yosemite, Cal., Aug. 7.?Miss Elizabeth Jones, the seventeen . year-old daughter of Prof. L. W. Jones, head of the department of chemistry, Princeton University, met a tragic death in the Yosemite valley late yesterday when she slip ped and fell over a cliff into the j swirling waters of Merced river. Richmond, Aug. 7. ? Virginia faces a coal famine and unless the miners' strike is settled soon -the, state's industries will be forced to suspend operations. Alexander For 'ward, fueL administator, announced 4today. Cleveland, Aug. 7??Coal oper {ators and union leaders are nieet | ing here today for a w?ge confer j.ence looking toward the ending of j the soft coal strike. It was virtual | ly agreed to ask all absent opera j tors to join the conference Wed nesday, for the purpose of reach j ing wage agreements. ' Chicago, Aug. 7.?E, F. Grable, j head of the maintenance of way) men, left today for Washington to I attend a conference of- the lead ers of the union men not to strike, to discuss the situation of the shop crafts strike and to petition President Harding for an audience. I Columbia, Aug. 7.?Henrietta j Todd* eleven year old orphan at ; the Epworth Orphanage here was I this afternoon run down by an au- [ j tomobile driven by T. F. Phillips,.! { merchant,' and she died within a j j few minutes. The little. girl step i ped from the rear of a grocery i j truck, where she had been buying [ ! an ice cream cone, and stepped di- [ ! rectly in front of the moviftg car. j : The girl was originally from Wal- i ! halla. i - ! j Nashville; Tenn., Aug. 7.?That ! ' two companies of state guardsmen | j at Elizabethon were held ready to- j i day to be sent to the Mingo mine ] fields, of Claiborne county, if the } j situation necessitates, but no plans { have been made ? yet for sending ; them, was stated at the governor's [ office. The Mingo fields have been i the scene of disorders for the past few weeks. The sheriff states that [ armed bands are terrorizing citi I zens. ?- ' 1 Charlotte, Aug. 7.?Bishop Kilgo is reported in a dying condition at j hia home here, after another heart J attack last night. maMeTnews I ? , I - ?, j (Furnished by R. J. McCarley, 118 South Main St., Correspondents j of H. Sc B. Beer, Members New ! Tork and New Orleana Cotton Exchanges.) j COTTON MARKET NEW YORK COTTON Testdyi Opea High Low Glow Cloa* ! Jan .. _ 20.93 20.93 20.53 20.73 2t.06 iWarcta. 20.93 20.95 20.57 20.77 21.03 ; May .. .. 20.87 20.87 20.54 20.72 20.96 Ort.21.05 21.05 20.60 20.82 21. !0 ! Dec. 2T.?5 21.05 20.62 20.83 j spvts off. 21.10. _ I NEW ORLEANS COTTON reswyt ! Od? Hte* tmm n?*? n*?** i Jan . .. 20.42 20.47 20.20 20.33 20.62 Marcb 20.42 20.42 20.2? 20.25 20.0/ Way 20.25 20.25 20.20 20.20 20.45 Oct. 20.52 20.52 20.10 20.33 20.62! Dee _ _ 20.50 20.50 20.15 20.34 20.65 Spols IV. off. 21. Marriage Licenses. Colored: .lames H. Dural and Mirander Du Pre. of Sumter. Charlie Davis and Annie Slater | of ? ?swego-, I Xnming Pullmans is ruining our I alphabet. I B?Y1?LLED HIS FATHER AT KERSHAWI Eighteen Year Old Paul! Gregory Riddles Fathers With Rifle Bullets Kershaw, Aug. 4.?A. Jeff Greg- i ory, prominent farmer and former- : ly . cotton! -weigher at Kershaw, was i shot and killed by his son, Paul i Gregory, at his home a few miles! from Kershaw. at about 8:30 o'clock this morning. Young Greg ory used a .38 calibre rifle, four bullets taking . effect to cause al most instantaneous death. Young Gregory, himself, gave j the aJarm, telephoning to friends! in .Kershaw that he had killed his j father. He was taken into custody! by Sheriff .Welch within a few j hours after the killing and is now in the -Camden jail facing trial on a charge of murder, the coroner's jury investigating the homicide having held him responsible for the death of his father. Young Gregory is about 18 years old, but is small for his age, having beert crippled by an attack of infantile paralysis.. The only eyewitnesses of the patricide, if any, are members of the immediate family and these with PauL Gregory .have declined to- make any statement with ref erence to the shooting. Paul Gregory's younger brother and a: sister, officers have been informed, j witnessed the tragedy,. Neither; j however, testified at the coroner's j inouest, the jury's verdict being j based upon admission of youngj Gregory. The boy, after having confessed firing four shots to per sons first reaching the house, has refused to make any. further state ments, : officers say, - except to claim that he acted in defense of bis mother and , sisters. The first persons reaching, the house after the killing found a loaded pistol grasped in Mr.. Gregory's hand. The revolver had not been fired.. 3Ir. Gregory was about 50 years old- and. is prominently connected and well known in both Kershaw and Lancaster counties. He, is sur vived by his-widow, five daughters and .two sons. - Attorneys -for young Gregory, it is understood here, are intending to make an effort to secure bail for their client. :, ~. HAIL ST?fcM RUINS CROPS Serious Damage Reported in Piedmont Section of State j Greenville, Aug. 4. ? Heavy j damage to growing crops, amount ing in many cases to complete de traction,, was ? wrought over a 'large area in lower. Greenville, Lau-f rens, Anderson and Greenwood counties last night by the severest hail storm that has visited this section in many years. The storm j covered a section about 30 miles in length and approximately fen miles wide, according to reports received here today. Hailstones as large as guinea eggs fell thick and fast for an hour or more, stripping all vegetation of every semblance of leaves, killing large numbers of birds and chickens that were roost ing in trees and in some cases t smashing open watermelons. Heaviest sufferers appear to -be in lower Greenville county in the Toney creek section, where a num ber of large farms were swept so completely that not a plat was left that had not been stripped of every leaf and beaten down to the ground. A scene of utter deso lation was presented and a great many farmers and their families lost everything they had and are in a pathetic situation. A movement is under way here, it was understood, to secure some relief measures until it is possible that the legislative delegation will consider the matter at art early date. DOINGS OF THE DUFFS FOR GONG JOHN J. Mc DIAL REPORTS TO COMMITTEE Washington, Aug. 4.?Before the subcommittee of the judiciary com mittee of the Senate which is con sidering the nomination of the Re publican national committeeman, Joseph W. Tolbert, to be federal marshal for the western for the western district of South Carolina, Senator X. B. Dial today made a fiery attack on Tolbert and re viewed the data which he has laid before the committee to show why the nomination should not be con firmed. ^ The subcommittee, which is composed df Senators Shortridge. of California, and Ernest, of Ken tucky;. Republicans, and Ashurst, of-Arizona, Democrat, desired fur-' ther information on several of the gravest charges presented against the nominee, and Senator Dial said that this would be forthcom ing. It is doubtful what the subcom mittee will do, but it is likely to take action one way or the other soon. Even if it should report in favor of Tolbert, the chances are apparently against his confirma tion by the Senate itself if Sen ator Dial keeps up his fight. King George's new son-in-law has quit work; but George hasn^. any more daughters left. ? '9 9> m . j j ?... j The price of silence is IacB: of j trouble and peace. ? Golf keeps one out in the open; but nut paying Te?t-does the sanier Something to Laugh About. - The upper hand which' appetites get over dainty young misses on ^ camping trip. - Candidates Cards ? FOB CONGRESS. -~ <- , I hereby announce ? mygeff a candidate for Congress from the Seventh Congressional BistrM/sQti? ject to the rules of the Democratic party. I also wish to take tbifcepr portunity to say that if elected J shall endeavor to faithfully\-tf?ffcT charge the duties of the ofj^e.and to merit the confidence and sopc* port of the people. ANDREW J. BETHEA, ^ ? Candidate for Congress For House of Representatives. %'. I hereby announce that. I -fpn^a"' candidate for the House of Repre^ sentatives subject to the rules of the Democratic Party. -: E. W. DABBS, JR. A * M^ETTTRUE jVe?file* [ HA ! * SveieeTT.ii.. COOtC " t~T' Vvts, aor A ?Bvreiii rve cor ? 13>ith b\ by allman ^tt'S AS WARM IT UNTILYtftfRE! A little , ' 3*J if*. justus IN1NGTO K)V^it! (come on IM now I tell you- fM v# i nearly fbo2EM: