The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 12, 1922, Image 1

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? - ? _Sl. THE STJMTER W?TCHMAST, Bsti CONSOUDAl^D AUG, 2,3 WOULD DEFER ISSUE TO ENDSTRIKE BLardiii>g Suggests That Strikers Re turn to Work?That Railroads Take Them On, Leaving Dispute t o Labor Board .Washington, Aug. 7^(By the As - sociated Press).?As a "final call" 'from the government for imme diate settlement of the rail strike, President Harding today com municated to railroad executives and heads of the striking shop craft unions proposals that \ the men sent be back to work, that the managements take them back and j ' that adjustment qf the crucial se niority issue be left to decision of, the railroad lafcor board. . Though the president was said j ' to consider this the only practical j course the government could take. | union spokesmen, indicating its.re- j Section, summoned their associates j to meet here Wednesday to pass j upon the proposal and further call- j ed to Washington for general con- j -ference Friday the heads of all j railroad labor organizations to con- j aider methods of - co-operation thatj ? Slight make the strike more" effec- ] tive. The rail executives had made hoj response to the White House to- j night though press dispatches indi cated that they also would meet j ? to .frame a collective answer. B. M- Jewell, president of the! railway department of the Amer-! 2can Federation of Labor, with W. j > H. Johnston, head of - the ma chinists' association, i and J. H.! Noonan,- comprising a committee! representing the striking unions, j took the president's communica tion into conference late, today, | calling in H. E. Wills of the en- i giheers, Paul Stephens of the train- j ' men, and Arthur J. Lovell of the i firemen and eginemen. all three "being Washington representatives of "brotherhood" , organizations in . the train service "Which have" actual ly acted apart from the labor unions in other Branches of service. The union' chiefs, following the meeting, gave out a statement which was taken as foreshadowing their course and copies of a tele gram to W. G. Stone, chief of the engineers, and to E. J. ManionV president of the telegraphers, ask ing their cooperation in the for mulation of a program which would provide for its purpose "pro tectipa of the public, preservation of the railroad industry and an honorable basis of settlement." ? "Messrs. Xoonan, Johnston and Jewell have been in conference sev eral hours considering the pro posal made by the president to day," the statement said. "We have' requested the chief executives j of all the striking shop crafts unions and the stationary firemen and oilers to meet us here Wednes day of this week. "We have also urgently request ed by telegraph , and telephone that a conference of all executives of railroad labor organizations be held in Washington Friday, August 11. - j "We have requested this confer-j ence because we recognize thatj railroad ^employees not now on strike will in defense of the travel-! ing. public and themselves, neces- j sarily have to decline to operate the defective locomotives and cars now in service. "It is clear to any unbiased per son that railroad ^?equipment is] growing more1 unsafe each day j and relief must be had through an! honorable settlement. Employees ] now on strike are firm in their po- j sitzon and will continue so as long j as the Association of Railway j Executives declines to accept rea- j soneble terms of agreement." In their message to Mr. Stone, j the three union officials emphasis- i ed their conclusion that "the gov- j ernment has authority to settle i 1 the strike on the just, fair and I reasonable basis proposed by the president July 31." "However, it is now apparent i that no constructive program is being proposed." the'?telegram con- j tlnued. "and that unless the rail-, road employees can offer addition- j a! counsel and advice, the lives and j safety of employees and the travel- j ing public, already endangered by ? the continued use of defective rail road equipment, will be imperil!- j ed to a greater extent. Believing i that the chief executives of each j of the standard railroad labor or- j ganizations, as a result of their] years of experience, broad public: viewpoint and sincere desire for in; dustrial peace, can. by conference j with the officers of the shop crafts. | formulate a program having for it's j purpose protection of the public, j preservation of the railroad indus try and an honorable basis of set- | tlement for the managers and the 1 employees, we urgently recommend' that you. as chairman of the rail-] road organizations, wire each chief; executive requesting htm to at- j tend conference in Washington Friday, August 11. ?'We do not expect that strike action will be suggested at the gen eral conference." said Mr. Jewell, j speaking for his associates in ex-j plaining the purpose of its call, "but v. c do consider that it will j shortly be necessary for other em-1 sb?Aed April, 1850. im. _ DRASTIC ' TREATMENT FOR GERMANY , ?France Proposes t o Exercise Complete Control of4 Finance I and Industry If Mo ratorium is Granted I . London. Aug.. 8.?Drastic meas j ures of financial control in Ger ? many are provided for in Premier Poincare's draft of conditions un der which France is willing that the Reichsbank shall have a morator ium, to the e,nd of the present year. The conditions are expected to in clude the exploitation of German customs, mines, railroads, forests, control ;of Reichsbank and Ger man bank notes, press supervision, foreign currencies, _as well as ex ports, and imports. They will be considered by the financial com mittee of the allied conference to day. COTTON YIELD ESTIMATE I Greenville, Aug. S.?In order to I determine as far, as possible the ; expected cotton yield in the opin ion of leading cotton men of the South, Cooper & Griffin, well [known cotton firm here, today sent telegrams to 116 leading peo ple in the cotton business in every section of every state in the cotton belt, asking on the basis of the present outlook and with average deterioration from now on and average frost date, "what is your opinion of the indicated yield in number of bales yo?r state?" Re plies were received from 104, and total indicated yield of 10,303,914 bales. South Carolina's figure is .given at 746,571. ployees to refuse to work on de fective equipment." Mr. Jewell declared that the three men who received the pres ident's communication and attend ed the White. House conference would nqt^be empowered to give a rejection or acceptance of the pro posals until heads of all the seven striking unions had arrived but that "nobody ought to get the I idea that the shop federation will accept." The telegram to Mr. Stone, which was repeated in part to Mr. Manion. also declared the striking unions had made the only conces sions to date for settlement and as serted that the rail executives, "ob viously acting under direction of those who . exercised the financial control and dictate the labor policy of railroads, repudiated the promise given by their chairmen to the president and -defied the spokes man of the American people." The alleged "repudiation"' by the execu tives had reference to previous pro posals of the president suggesting that they .give the men complete seniority status on their return. The president's communication to both parties to the strike were made public shortly after noon, af ter a visit to the White -House of the three union* leaders who waited over after meeting him Saturday. An administration spokesman explained the president's belief that paralysis of transportation, espe cially in; coal.regions, was threat ening the industrial and agricultral I fabric of the country. No formal ; conferences with railroad execu ? tives had preceded the formulation ' of the new *>asis for settlement of ! the strike, it was said, and it was I entirely the government's plan built j up from the position which the I president has maintained between j the contesting parties, j Moved by the continued repre sentations concerning the state of railroad equipment, the senate today passed a resolution by Sena tor King (Democrat) of Utah call ing upon the interstate commerce commission to report the exact con dition in which it find** locomotives i and cars. The commission through its safety'bureau maintains an in i spection service to determine I whether legal standards are met jby operating lines, j Southern railway officials who I have sought a settlement separate : ly from other roads with striking ! shop craftsmen in its employ, also i met a union committee today. For I the road, agreement was asked on ! the terms of President Harding's i offer of July 31. and the return ; of full seniority status to all strik ers, but adjournment until tomor ; row was asked by the union I spokesmen because of the national j settlement discussions pending. Chicago. Aug. S.?Acting on j President Harding's new suggestion jfor ending the rail strike the United States railway labor board today stood read promptly and readily to consider the seniority 1 ou^stion. the sole remaining bar rier to peace on the railroads. A majority resolution was adopted tonight asserting the hoard's wil lingness to reopen healings. Cleveland. Aug. S.?Warren H. Stone, president of the flrother hood of Locomotive Rnsrirw^rs. to day telegraphed sixteen chiefs <>r the railroad brotherhood asking them to attend a eonferen?-^ in Washington Friday to consider the railroad situation- throughout the country and endeavor to avert the impending calamity of a collupse in transportation. "Be Just and Fear SOUTHERN RAILWAY'S POSITION I President Harrison Makes Statement i Relative t o Shop men's Strike Washington, Aug. 8.?Fairfax Harrison, president of the South ern railway, appealed to all em ployees of the railroad system to day to assist the management in performing its duty to the public i and to the company. The railroad executive declared " the Southern i railway had "more than fulfilled" i its duty to striking shop employees ] in endeavoring to get them to re j sume work under terms of Presi | dent Harding's strike settlement offer, which was rejected by the [shop crafts' committee today, j In rejecting the offer the shop ; men's representatives told the j railway executives in conference j here that the strike was national ; and must be settled nationally, j The conference was called at the 1 request of Vice President Miller of j ' the Southern railway and the j shopmen were; informed that the j Southern railway and the Mobile & j Ohio were willing to agree to a j i strike settlement under President j I Harding's terms, which left senior j ity unimpaired until the railroad; I labor board acted, i Mr. Harrison's statement, ad | dressed "to all employees of the j I Southern railway system," follows: I "I have delayed communicating | with you, hoping that I could fi- | ? nally report that our shop crafts, J had returned unembarrassed to j j their former positions. Striving j ] for this result, no conditions have j been created to prevent the return j j of our men with seniority rights un- j impaired, but the door has been, j j and now is, open and unobstructed j to them. "On August 1 your shop craft's j committee was invited, to confer with out officials to consider the j j return of our men upon the terms j : proposed by the president on July J 1.31, and subsequently accepted by] the representatives of such crafts, i j After delaying answer until August j 3, the committee agreed to meet! our officials on August 5. on which j day they asked postponement to August 7, and then asked further j j postponement to today. Though ! ! recognizing the efforts of this com- ; j pany in the protection of the seni- j ! ority of our men. we are told this j morning by your committee that i they will make.no adjustment with j the Southern rahway system, as the i ! strike is national and must be set- j ] tied nationally. "Our duty is to our employees. ; j the public and the company; the I ? duty to our striking employees we i I have more than fulfilled, and I now j i call upon you, whatever is your oc- j j cupation. to assist -the manage- I ment in performing its duty, also i to the public and to the company, j This obligation calls for unimpair- j ed transportation service* and this we will perform." Mr. Miller, vice president in j charge of operation for the South- j era. had nothing to add to Mr. | Harrison's message, when asked if j the railroad now intended to em ploy new men and ? attempt to i oreak the strike. The Southern i acting outside the Association of! Railway Executives, accepted Pres- j ident Harding's original offer to j i settle the strike *by giving all strik t ers seniority rights on their return, j During ifche course of the contro versy it has hired no new men and j has made no attempt to break the strike. * Mr. Miller made the following statement: "After delaying nego tiations for a week, the shop crafts' committee of the Southern railway I system and Mobile & Ohio railway today advised the officers of those companies that they will not make any adjustment of the strike with the Southern or the Mobile & Ohio, j as the strike is national and must ! be settled nationally. In saying; jthis they recognized that the South- j j ern and the Mobile & Ohio railway , have kept the door open in the J matter of seniority and have agreed j ! to the oth^r terms which were pro-j j posed by the president July :>1 and j ! were subsequently accepted by.the ? national representatives of the j j shop crafts; so that there is now, j no obstacle to settlement created ! lor maintained by the management i of the Southern or the Mobile & ; j Ohio." NO CONTRACT YET _ iWateree Approach Matter; j Bein-? Held Up j Columbia. Aug. S?No contract] I has a;: yet been signed !"<?;? the; Wateree bridge approaches in Sum- j i ter county, due largely, it was in- j dicated yesterday at th*> highway! department, to flic failure of Rich land to provide the. promised $10.-j ! 000-. The Columbia chamber of , j commerce guaranteed th?- $30.000. j i but ???(? far the money has n<>t been! raised :ind the time is growing lato, j I Cnlcss action is had by August i 1." the l'id offered some days asro j by Simons & Mayraht of Charles ton may be withrawn and ??? long delay encountered. Highway ??ft"i <ials h<?!>?- that no delay will re sult, bui some affirmative action is; necessary before Suihier county will sigu the contract, it wa^ said. ' Sot?Let all the ends Thou Aims't i Sumter, S. C, Ss RAIL STRIKE NO NEARER SETTLEMENT Leaders o f Unions Desire Another Con ference With Fed eral Officials 0 ? Shopmen's Strike Washington, Aug. 9 (By the As sociated Press).?Heads of striking railroad unions marked time here today while awaiting the arrival of executives of other transportation labor organizations who hove been invited to the general conferehce Friday to consider the shopmen's reply to President HardingV la tent proposed basis for settlement. Congressional leaders meantime were considering the possibility that President Harding in the event of the failure of his effort might seek a legislative remedy for the country's admittedly serious indus trial ailment. Republican leaders at the capi tal, however, held the view that the president had no definite leg islative program in mind when he suggested to them the desirability of maintaining full membership at tendance when the house reassem bles Tuesday. Their inquiries atong this line, these leaders 'said today, have satisfied them that congress would be called upon if the situa tion warrants such action in the view of the executive, to enact remedial legislation. It was the understanding in Republican cir cles that congress would be in formed of the actual situation in* a presidential message, if. and when it was called upon to act. President Harding, according to union spokesmen, took cognizance of the development at Joilet, where train service employees walked out today because of conditions arising from the shopmen's strike, by calling H. E. Wills, W- N. Doak and Arthur J. Lovell, Wash ington agents of three of the four brotherhoods, to discuss the new situation with Secretary Davis. The president also was given a view of the position taken by non striking railroad shop employees, when a delegation of workmen on the Pennsylvania system was re ceived at the White House. The delegation asked that its seniority rights be not subordin;Ued to se-1 niority rights of strikers in the attempt to bring about a settle ment. B. VL Jewell, chairman of the leaders' group of the seven striking unions, predicted that the presi dent's final offer of a basis of set tlement for the strike might await! an answer until Monday or Tues day. Mr. Jewell declared the unions were attempting no deal- j ings with the government in the meantime, that all separate co?i ferences between railroad cum- j panies and strike organizations j were off because the strike would1 be d,ealt with on a national oat Is and took every occasion to roiter ? . . ? . ,?? ? ------- ? ate charges that railroad etiuip-1 ment was deteriorating to a dan gerous point on account of the! strike. Chief executives of the striking; unions?machinists, boilermakers,, sheet metal workers, electricians, j blacksmiths, carmen and sationary! firemen?held their preliminary conferehce late today but Mr. Jewell said there would be no an- j nouncement until Friday when the five train service organizations | called in by Warren S. Stone, the four brotherhoods and the switch- J men, and the spokesmen for the'; organizations of railway clerks, of [ maintenance of way employees.; signalmen, telegraphers and train dispatchers, go into session with the strike leaders. At the same j time, the shop craft leader an nounced every communication from j strike centers called upon the lead-' ers to reject The proposals. So impressed were the Republi- ? can leaders today that there would; be no strike legislation immediate-' ly upon the reassembling of the house that they decided not to j send telegrams to Republican mem-, bers insisting upon their attend-! ance. They will permit their Re- j publican colleagues, it was said, to! determine for themselves whether' they will be present. Upon being advised of the presi-i dent's suggestion, however, Repre-1 sentative Garrett, the Democratic! leader, from his home in Tennes-j see sent telegrams to all Demo-; cratic members urging them to be! present when the house meets Tuesday. - i Cincinnati. Ohio, Aug. H (By the Associated Press).-?General chair-' men on the Chesapeake & Ohio and Xor/olk ?V: Western railroads where; ;i strike of rail clerks is in pro-j gresS have been ordered to go to j Washington to appear before the! heads of the l?> rail unions who arc t<> meet there Friday to dis-| cuss "the general strike situation,** it was announced here today ;tt" the headquarters of the Brother hood of Railway and Steamship Clerks. Freight Handlers, Station j and Express Employees In making the announcement! brotherhood officials pointed outj that rail union chiefs are desirous j of obtaining first, hand information .?is to the strike situation on the ? Chesapeake & Ohio ;<nd Norfolk i Western, which are the principal' it be thy Country's. Thy God's and iturday, August 12, 1922 FORECASTS ! OFCROPFOR YEAR LARG i i ?_ 1.3,000,000,000 Bushels Corn Yield Pre dicted ? Fourth Largest Tobacco Crop Ever Grown Estimated by De partment f Washington. Aug. 8 (By the As sociated Press).?Bumper crop production in general this year, resulting from highly favorable! growing conditions during July, was indicated by the government's August crop report issued today. 1 A three-billion bushel corn crop, for the fourth time in the history of farming in the United States, ; was forecast. A record crop of hay estimated at 93.000,000 tons is being har- j vested, surpassing the record made in 1910 by 1.300.000 tons. The second largest crop of wheat and potatoes ever grown was re ported in prospect, the total pro duction being forecast at 440,000, .000 bushels or 2,000.000 bushels less.than the record crop of 1917. Sweet potato production this year "probably will make another record according to the August forecast which equals the record crop of 1920. The fourth largest crop of to bacco ever grown is forecast with a total production of 1.425,000,000 pounds. Another 200.000,000 bushel crop of apples, the eleventh in 33 years, is indicated with this year's pro duction more than double ,that of last year. Peaches are a plentiful crop with a total production this year sec- j ond only to the record year of! 1915. July weather ' influence on the growing crops was said to have j been extremely beneficial, as in- { dicated by the increases in fore- ? cast of production this month as compared with those of a month! ago. Spring wheat showed an in- ! crease in its production forecast amounting to 15.000.000 bushels:.! corn. 157.000,000 bushels: oats.- 64,-* 000. 000 bushels: barley, 10,000,000 bushels: white potatoes. 11,000.000 bushels: tobacco, 10,000,000 pounds: apples, 12.000,000 bushels! and peaches. 1.700,000 bushels. Condition of the crops of August j 1. was announced as follows: Spring wheat 80.4 per cent of a normal: all wheat, blank: corn 85.0: oats. 75.6: barley. S2.0: buckwheat. S9.7. White potatoes, 84.3: sweet potatoes. 86.3. Tobac co. 80.9. Flax. S4.7. Rice. 86.9. Hay. all. 90.S. Sugar beets. 85.0. Acreages announced were, buck wheat. 707.000: hay all, 76.7S0.000. Oats remaining on farms. August I, estimated at 6.9 per cent of last year's crop about 73.204.000 bush els. ?? ? ? Baptists to Raise Million Dollars Twenty-five Thousand Recent Additions to Church Will Be Given Opportunity Greenville. _'. jg. 8.?At a call meeting of the Baptist general board here today it twas decided by the body to raise $1,000,000 by December 3. in addition to the sub scription made three years ago of $7,600,000. This decision was made in view if the 25,000 additions to the Baptist churches of the state since that time. Dr. C. E. Burt3 of Columbia, general secretary of the $75,000,000 campaign, stated at the meeting today that practi cally one-half of the apportion ment of $5,500,000 to be raised in the state at the outset of the drive has been raised. A bright outlook was reported, by a majority of the members of the hoard present who represent practically all of the as sociation.* in the Baptist organiza tion of the state. Not in Favor of Fight 10,000 Pounds Sterling Sub scribed by Unions New York. Aug. S.?It is unlike ly that Tex Rickard and Frank Flourney, promoters of ail big re cent boxing championships would undertake to promote in South America a liout between Jack Dempscy, and Luis Angel Firpo. leader in that class below the equa tor. coal carrying roads for the West | Virginia and Kentucky fields where ;i large per cent of the nation's coal supply is being mined in the i present coal strike. Officials at clerks' headquarters assert thai reports from the gen eral chairmen of these t?>.ols indi cate thai very little coal is being hauled from the mines since the clerks" strike went into effect sey-1 eral weeks ago and that business in tin- large junction points is prac tically :it a standstill. It is t<? give the railroad chief tains this first hand information i>n tht- exact situation ?>n these two large coal carrying roads that th? general chairmen were ordered to Washington, officials said. Truth's." TARIFF ON ! SUGAR GIVEN i INCREASE! Decision Made byj Vote of Thirty-sev-i en to Thirty-five, Four Democrats Fa voring j ? Washington. Aug. 8.?The senate ! approved today an increase of three-tenths of a cent a pound in the tariff on sugar: rejected a plan for the government bounty of $9, 500.000 for domestic, potash pro ducers and rescinded its former ac-; tion in voting an impost of two cents a pound on .white arsenic.! Potash and white arsenic were placed on the free list. The sugar rate of 2.3 cents a,' pound was a compromise between the 2.5 cents duty urged by Lou isiana cane and Western beet su gar producers and* the 2 cents proposed by the house and approv-: ed by the finance committee ma jority. It is three-tenths of a cent above the tariff in the existing emergency act and 1.05 cents above that in the Underwood act. ! The compromise was offered by Senator Smoot of Utah, ranking Republican on?the finance commit- j tee, and was accpeted by the same vote that the senate rejected the j 2.5 cents duty. 37 to 35. Demo-! crats who voted for the Smoot: amendment were: Broussard* and: Jones of New Mexico, Kendrickj and Ransdell. while those 21 who"; voted against the amendment in cluded Dial. Fletcher, Overman, Glass. Harris. Heflin. Simmons, Swanson: Trammell and Under-! wood. Fourteen Republicans also! voted against the amendment. The vote against the bounty on! potash was 32 to 30, with 12 Re-! publicans opposing and three Dem ocrats supporting. The Demo-j crats we*jff Jones of New Mexico, I Kendrick and Ransdell. Before considering- the bounty,! the senate voted, 66 to 1. to strike' out the provision by which a tar-; iff duty would have been imposed | on potash for five years at. the: same rates that it was proposed to pay the bounty, id - The v?te to place "white arsenls on the free list was 29 to 25 with! ten Republicans opposing the duty and one .Democrat,"'Kendrick of Wyoming supporting iL I Because of the operation of the! 20 per cent, tariff differential al-j lowed to Cuba the 2.3 cents rate dni sugar w-ould work out at 1.84 cents | a pound on sugar from that coun-j try? which constitutes practically! all of American imports. The Republican agricultural tar iff bloc voted practically solidly first for the highest rate propose*! and then for the Smoot compro mise.' The committee substitute amend ment proposing to pay potash pro ducers a bounty over a period of) five years led to a sharp fight, dur- ] ing which Senator Lenroot (Re-| publican) of Wisconsin denounced! the propositin as oiie which would! open the door of the federal treas- j ury for a steady drain of the same j sort in the future. Senator Smoot replied that as he! saw the situation it was a question' of whether the L'nited States was] to give its industry an opportunity! to develop or to permit the G >r- j maa and French cartels to have! complete domination. The senate was told by the: Utah senator that S. D. fcrensliaw of Richmond. Ya.. vice presidenti of the Virginia Carolina Chemicay company, had made a ??deal" j whereby 34 American manufadut eri of fertilizer had signed eon-] tracts with the German and French j concerns for their entire supply of j potash for this year to the exclu-j sion of American producers. Senator Reed (.Democrat) of; Missouri declared that to him itj was "utterly intolerable" that j American manufacturers should be: permitted to sign contracts with; foreign concerns that would have! a tendency to exclude .American) products from the American mar-! ket. i "That is trust practice in its worst form." he said, ' and I think j that any American manufacturer j who would do it ought to be sentj to jail for a good long term be-1 cause he not only is suppressing competition but doing it in the in-j terest of foreign producers asj against American producers." SHIP RATE ADJUSTMENT j - i Operators in lnter-Coasial Trade to Meet _ Washington; Aug. S.?Notices j calling a meeting of ship operators' in the inter-eoa^tal trade to work; ? .in m iate adjustment were sent' out tonight l>y Chairman Lasker. of the shipping board. Mr. Lasker announced that ship: ow net s and operators had pro- ', tested t<> him against the contin ued allocation of shipping hoard] vessels in the inter-coastal trade arid had requested thnt the five ships now operating in that serv-j i<-.- 1>?> withdrawn. Commissioner Chamberlain and ] Vice President Love of th^ Bmer srency Fleet Corporation will hold hearings on the question of the; protest, probably this week, I THE TRUE SOT. RUPTURE OF ENTENTE INEVITABLE, Irreconcilable Differ ences Between the French and British Premiers Are Lead ing to Break ???? \ Paris. Aug. 8 (By the Associated ; Press).?Prime Minister Lloyd George tonight expressed the opin : ion that a rupture in the entente j was probable if not inevitable, ac | cording to some of the French I newspaper correspondents attend ; ing the allied conference in Lon ! don. One of whom is "Pertinax," ? political editor of the Echo de j Paris. The. British premier added that 1 this was regrettable, both from the I English and French -viewpoints, but that Premier Poincare's atti tude left no option, j The correspondents say that Sir Edward M. Grigg. Mr. Lloyd \ George's private secretary, sum moned,the British, newspaper men \ to the prime minister's official res | idence in Downing street and , made a statment to* this effect ? ? . I London. Aug. 8 (By the Associat ed Press).?The proposal made by I Premier Poincare of France for I control of Germany's finances, in return for a moratorium for Ger \ many, seems not to have found fa I vor with the British and Italian fi nancial experts, mainly because I they foresee that the plan would I involve the allies in embarrassing j political entanglements, which I would not be justified by what ; might be gained financially, j This developed today during the j discussion of the Poincare plan by . the financial experts when there were several animated tilts. There i was no meeting today of the con ! ference proper, the time having j been entirely devoted to consid i eration of the French proposal toy i the committee of experts. They I did not have time to conclude their ! deliberations, and will reassemble i tomorrow morning, when they j hope to be able to draft their re ! port for submission -to the con i ference in the afternoon. The com ' niittee's task is merely to study the j proposal with regard to its appli I cability and its probable yield, I without passing judgment on it. I Among the new points examined I today were the possibility of estab | lishing customs barriers on the eas i tern boundary of German occupied territory?whether it would be practicable to tax everything en tering or leaving the Ruhr region; the question of seizure of state owned mines, forests and domains on the left bank of the Rhine and also whether the 26 per cent, of customs duties provided for in the agreement of May. 1521, which now goes to the allied treasuries, could, instead, be paid to the repa rations commission, thus forming part of the reparation fund. In today's discussion the Bel gians strongly supported the French viewpoint, in "opposition to thfe British, while the Italians lean ed toward the British position, which appears to be that it may easily be possible to resort to measures of such stringency as to defeat the object in view, while running the risk of ultimately dis organizing German's economic life. London. Aug. S (By the Associ ated Press)?Drastic measures of financial control in Germany, are provided for in Premier Poincare's draft of the conditions under which France is willing that the reichs bank shall have a moratorium to the end of the present year. The conditions by the financial committee of the allied conference today are expected to include ex ploitation of the German customs, mines, railroads and forests, con trol of the reichsbank and the Ger man bank note press and supervi sion of foreign currencies as well as exports and imports. All these would be under the active control of international committees sitting in Berlin. German industries would have to surrender to the allies 26 per cent, and in some cases more, of their capital, while as a major measure to enforce compliance, the occu pation and expropriation of the Ruhr coal field would be kept in reserve. An indication of the attitude the British may take toward these pro posals is given by the Daily Tele graph's diplomatic correspondent, who says a British diplomat re marked that it would require the "enthornement of Jove in Berlin to insure their execution." The financial committee is head ed by Sir Robert Home, British chancellor of the exchequer. Revolutionists Sentenced to Death Moscow. Aug. P.?Fourteen of the thirty-four social revolutionists accused of high treason against the soviet government have been sen- i teneed to death by the revolution ary tribunal! Among the con demned are several who turned in formers. Three others were ac quitted and the remainder were given prison sentences from two to ten years. THRON, Established June 1, 1866. VOL. LH. NO. 52 CO-OPERATIVE TOBACCO MARKETS Two Million Pounds Received at Forty ^Co-operative - Mar * kets?Farmers Well Pleased Florence, Aug. 7.??Close to 2,-_ 000,000 pounds of tobacco were, handled by the 40 receiving points of the Tobacco Growers' Coopers^ tive association in the South Caro-% lina belt today and from every" eo^ operative market come reports of successful cooperation and satis^ faction on the part of the member growers. Never was there a more orderly opening of tobacco "markets than~ took place today on the warehouse floors of the^ growers' association throughout South Carolina. With the precision of clockwork the ma chinery of the big cooperative plan' moved in to action without a hitch,, and orderly marketing wa3 at tained at their first day's triaL In contrast to the shouts of buy ers, the trampling of tobacco, the shifting of piles and the hurried in spection of the growers* product,, a golden stream moved continuous ly today from wagons to jjraders; from graders to weighers -arid on to the ever accumulating piles - of the weed in the storage rooms of the association. Posted conspicuously in every warehouse were the advance cash payments to be made for each - grade and as the tobacco , passed by the weigher's windows it paid tribute to the growers in the torm of checks and. participation receipts which were made out according tb' the weight and grade of tobaccoJFor each grower member. The careful and thorough grad ing of each pile as it passed through the hands of experienced graders in every market was the feature that especially pleased the growers and?' the unifo:rmity of grades and prices on various mar kets were notable. Richard R. Patterson, .manager of the leaf department^ T. C. Wat kinsi^aanagervisf;; .warehouses for the association, A. R. Breeding and C. B: Cbeath?m of the 1^1 department and other officials of the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative association visited, the co-opera-5 tive warehoustis'ln Lake City. Tim monsville. Kingstree, Darlicgtoa? and Olanta, personally assisting" the graders in . thejr work. Com plete satisfaction was expressed -by the great majority of the growers, who were greatly impressed by tile orderly system. of marketing an? the first cash advances paid today, The first advances on all grades were a welcome surprise *o wthZ-gZ the growers and ranged from $15.75 to $140. . Many growers staged that they had received more on their first" advance from the co-operative plan than last year's' average for their entire crop. - ? f ?- ? ? Assistance Comes To Storm Victims Greenville Legislative Dele gation Appropriates Ten 3 Thousand Dollar Relief Fund Greenville. ,Aag.-?.?At a special call meeting-of the Greenville county legislative delegation this morning. $10.000 was appropriated for the relief of the sufferers from the disastrous hail storm in the lower section of the county last week. The relief is to be available at once Of the amount appropriated $6,- - 000 is for cash disbursements among the people of the stricken area and $4,000 to he used for the building of a top soil road from J. C. Cothran's place to Hollidayis bridge, providing employment for a large number of persons and teams of that section. The action of the delegation fol lows* a meeting held yesterday ai West Dunklin, at which time the situation was canvassed thorough ly and a number of talks were made in which relief was promised the hail stricken people. Statistics will be secured at once by the clerk of court to enable the cash to be distributed on a fair pejr capita basis. Mob Beats Negroes In Florence Yards Florence. Aug. 7.?A gang of about 20 white men caught three negroes working in the yards of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad com pany this rooming and severely beat them. One of the negroes es caped the mob and made for up town. Fearing that his pursuers were about to capture him. he finally dived into- the Busy Bee restaurant. The proprietor was able to keep the crowd from-going inside. Officers were called for and two city policemen were dispatched. Chief Mclver said later that no arrests had been made and he did not know who composed the mob which assaulted the negroes. Since the Indians struck oil Lo, the pool* Indian, lives high.