The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 23, 1922, Image 1

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SHE STTMTEB WATCHMAN, Eert CONSOLIDATED AUG? 2, cantey crieT against Clarendon County Candidate For Gov ernor Charges That Secret Caucus Pick ed Candidate at the May Convention Abbeville,' Aug. 17.-?About six hundred voters heard candidates for state offices in Abbeville to day. Candidates for commission ? er of agriculture spoke first and * much bickering took place between George Wightman and B. Harris the former saying; that the bad advice given the farmers by B. Harris had caused many bank notes \ to go unpaid and had cost the state many times the expense of | the office. He also said Mr. Har- j ris had voted for him for lieuten- j ant governor four ? years ago and j would be supporting him now if he i were offering for any other office, i Cole Blease made his usual sir \ tack on high taxes and compared figures of ten years ago with costs of government- today. He said the ? people wanted good roads, but why pay sixty thousand dollars for a / mile of road when they could cut the graft and build it for forty thousand. J. J. Cantey of Summerton again today went after 'the scalp of Blease. All this talk about taxes was empty demagoguery. Adam paid no taxes. The Indian pai l j ho taxes, nor did the baboon pay any taxes. If the people wanted schools and roads they had to pay for them- During the May conven tion the anti-BIeaseites met. Mr. Cantey said, and put one of his! opponents for governor. This se cret conclave had subsidized the j ^newspapers, he charged, arid c this j ; man was being rammed down the-, throats of. the people. A secret conclave was as bad; as Bleaseism. John T. Duncan gave Bleaso a severe rasping because of the fight of the latter on the state tax com mission. Mr. Duncan said the for mer goerhor was tearing his shirt to make it appear that Ire was the poor man's friend. Instead of do ing soinething for the poor man, thfcL former governor was their en: emy in fighting the tax commis sion, which was making the bigiin rerests of the state pay their ;ust proportion of taxes. Mr. Duncan j pointed out that last week the tax) commission called for four thou-j sand dollars back taxes from the j Columbia Railway, Gas and. Elec tric Company. Mr. Duncan al?o answered the statement of ivfr. Blease that seven men were ki'.lel in South Carolina last week. Mr. Duncan said the poor deluded fel lows were no doubt'persuaded mat :f Blease were elected governor they would get a pardon. He also said Mr. Blease was no doubt keeping count and knew just how many men were in the state peni tentiary and knew; what a job ho would have to do if he were elect ed. But the defeat of Blease was ?certain beyond peradventure. He warned the voters to watch out for .the charge from Blease the morn-' ing after the first primary that rhe election had been stolen. William Coleman made his u-aal speech. He was followed by George K. Laney, who stressed the fact that tax burdens were largely local] burdens. The legislature had j nothing to do with counties voting j bonds for roads and extra levies | of schools. A lot of foolish thing.s | .had been done by the legislature. ] but it had not bankrupted the peo- | pie as charged by Blease. Mr. Laney also emphasized the three mill levy for schools was a county tax. but that besides this a million and a quarter dollars was appro priated for the schools out of the state treasury last year. This item, that for Confederate veterans and for the state hospital for the j insane accounted largely for the increase in thev&eneral appropria-. tion bill. Thomas G. McLeod pointed out that the proportion of taxes in Ab beville county is " TjS per cent for t county purposes and 24 for State j purposes. Mr. McLeod came to the defense of the state demonstration' .agents and home demonstration | agents, whose work is being much ! belittled by Cole Blease. Mr. Mc- | Leod pointed out that the state rnade no appropriation for these, but that counties appropriated , where they wished to employ these j agents. Mr. McLeod said he was j in the race on his own responsibil- i fry with ^confidence of thousands j of South Carolinians that at this' crucial period that he could be of j service to South Carolina. MURDER IN BALTIMORE: Baltimore. Aug. 18.?William B. j Norris, secretary and treasurer of! Hicks, Tase and Xorris, inc., j builders, was shot to death at Park I and Madison avenues today by! unidentified bandits, who robbed : him of the company's payroll of approximately seven tno'isand dol- i lars. Frederick Kueth\ book-1 keeper, accompanying Xcrrig, va* j beaten into insensibility. Times are better. Pumpkin pie will he back soon. ablisheo April, 1850. 1881. _? HARDING i TALKS TO CONGRESS President Declares That Federal Gov ernment is Determ ined to Uphold Law ! at All Costs Washington, Aug. 18 (By the As sociated Press).?President Hard ing laid the whole story of the rail and coal strikes before the Ameri can people today with a pledge that whatever the cost, government by law will be sustained. Summing up before a joint ses sion of senate and house his efforts toward industrial peace, the pres ident asserted that neither employ ers nor employees could escape re sponsibility for the -present situa tion and that no "small minority" would be permitted by "armed law lessness." "conspiracy" or "barbar ity and. butchery" to override the paramount interests of the public. "We must reassert the doctrine that in this respect the^ first obli gation and the first allegiance of every citizen, high or low. is to his government," said the president. "Xo matter what clouds may gath er, no matter whaj storms may en sue, no matter what hardships may attend or what sacrifices may be necessary, government by law must and will be sustained. "Wherefore I am resolved cd irse. all the power of the govern ment to maintain transportation and to sustain the right of men to work." To strengthen the hand,of the administration **" in dealing with present and future coal troubles, Mr. Harding asked for authoriza tion of a national agency to pur chase, sell and distribute coal, and for creation of a commission to in quire into "every phase of coa! production, sale and distribution." No similar request was made ror for emergency rail legislation, the president asserting that although the railroad labor board had in adequate authority, other agencies of the government were armed with statutes to prevent conspir acy against interstate commerce and to insure safety in railway op eration. "It is my purpose." he contin ued, "to invoke these laws, civil and criminal, against all offend ars alike." One other legislative enactment, a' law to permit the federal gov ernment to step in and protect aliens where state protection fai's. Was advocated by the chief execu tive as a result of what he tertn^i the "butchery of human beings, wrought in madness," at Herrin, HI. Despite the protests of for>ign governments whose nationals suf fered in the Herrin mine battle, he said, federal officials were power less to take in hand the situation created by "the mockery of local inquiry and the failure of justice in Illinois."1 Members of the senate and house received the pronouncement or the president with repeated salvos of applause, and the leaders of bctn 'branches announced later that no time would be lost . in putting bis legislative recommendations into effect. Generally the address won approbation frcm all* elements ;'n congress, although some Demo cratic members were inclined to criticize the chief exectuive's ut terances as capable of a double construction. At the White House it was indi cated that Mr. Harding's reference to invocation of existing statu;es against conspiracy related to the Sherman 'anti-trust law, under which the department of justice already has directed an investiga tion of the acts of some mem be.-s. of non-striking rail unions who walked out in the Far West. Offi cials of the administration were un willing to go into cases tonight, however, saying the president's an- i nouncement of his determination to enforce the laws must speak for j itself. j Throughout his address, Prcn-l dent Harding emphasized his desire that theg overnment should play no favorites as between employers and employees, either in efforts to end the existing strikes or in future j aeJion against lawlessness. "Surely," he sid, "the threaten- j ing conditions must impress the congress and the country that no body of men. whether limited in numbers and responsible for rail way management or powerful in numbers and the necessary forces in railway operation, shall be per mitted to choose a course which so imperils public welfare. .Wither organizations of employer or work ing men's unions may escape re sponsibility." "If free men can not toil accord-j ing to their own lawful choosing, all our constitutional guaranties born of democracy are surrendered to mobocracy and the freedom of a hundred millions is surrendered to the small minority which would have no law." At the same time, ihe president called attention to another element which he said he believed was re sponsible to some degree for strikes ; and for the difficulties of restoring j industrial peace. *T refer," said he. "to the war fare on the unions of labor. The government has no sympathy or ap kBe Just and Fear TROOPS BEING i RUSHED TO j SPENCER i _ j Serious Outbreak of Disorder Reported in Southern Railway Shop Town?Eight Companies Entrain ing: Charlotte. Aug. 19.?^-Eight com panies of Xorth Carolina guards men are entraining for Spencer this morning where, it is reported se- | rious outbreaks are threatened, j j Capt. Melvin Cajdwell, of the Hor- j net's nest company here, is rnar-j shalling the troops to leave imme- i diately* on a special train. The! I Durham, Winston and Concord j ! companies are also under orders j ; to report at Spencer immediately.; I according to information obtained] i from local officials of the Southern i j Railway. j ;- j jT?ops Moving To Spencer! i Raleigh, Aug. 19. ? Adjutant! j General VanMetts has announced ' (that the Charlotte. Concord. Bur-i j lington and Mount Gilead infantry, ? jthe Durham machine gun company j and the Lincolnton and Hickory : 'troops of cavalry and a medical, j detachment from Graham, have j been ordered to entrain for Spenc ! er. Governor Morrison has declar ! ed the situaiton there still tense i and he "became nervous and is ? i afraid that a tragedy may take i place in spite of the cooler heads ? I and that the honor of Xorth Caro- j j lina may be degraded." Among j j the reasons for Ordering troops to ( I Spencer is the Southern shop strike, j (FOREST FIRE I j IN MINNESOTA; ! Duluth. Minn.. Aug. 1C?Fears ! that the death toll from forest fires 1 '? now raging in northern Minnesotaj ] will go beyond the report of twelve,: ! when additional advices are receiv- I Jed from the flameswept areas, ex-' pected today. -. Scores of refugees are arriving here hourly. ? A fifteen mile northwesterly gale fanned the forest fires in\the' Kelsey, Cotton and Whiteface dis- \ ! trict placing the three towns in a' {more precarious position than yes-: j teday. All available men of the' j Duluth tank corps have been or J dered to Kelsey fcr relief work, j ] proval for this element of discord; j in the ranks of industry. We rec- j ' ognize these organizations in the j j law, and we must accredit them' J with incalculable contibutions to' j labor's uplift." i Discussing the coal strike speci- ! 1 fically, Mr. Harding warned con-! i gress that although the skies now! appeared to be clearing, more! trouble can be expected when wage j contracts are renewed next April j j unless the executive is provided I j with adequate authority. He de-j ? clared tha t except for coal j j from non-union districts "the coun- j ! try is. at the mercy of the United i j Mine Workers." and detailed how j [settlement of the present strike hal i j been delayed for many weeks al-! J though evidences had come to the j [White House that in many loeali- j Jties the workmen were "anxious to : return to their jobs." j Arrangements for the president's [appearance before congress, which j once had been postponed to await j developments in the conference of j rail executives and union chiefs in ; session at Xew York, were com- j ! pleted only an hour before he went! [to the capitol and during the! j morning his manuscript underwent j ja last revision after a session of the I i cabinet. It is understood that al-j I though the Xew York meeting was] j not mentioned in the address, the' [decision to go to the capitol with-' i out further delay was reached after! lit had become apparent no final agreement ending the strike would j be possible for several days. As the chief executive was on I his way up Pennsylvania avenue inj [a White House automobile another j contingency developed which for a' time threatened to overturn en- j tirely the plan for a joint session; to hear the address. Republican j i leaders in the house, hurriedly ar-; i ranging for a passage of a resolu- | i tion authorizing the "m body to sit! with the senate in special session.! ! were stopped abruptly by a ' point of no quorum interposed by! i Representative Hudleston t Dem- j jocrat) <>t' AJabama. Before the be-j [ ginning of the roll call, however, i j which would have required up-i (ward.- of an hour and which thej ! leaders said might in ilu? end reveal \ [that no quorum was present. Mr.' I Hudleston withdrew his objection I upon th*? request of the Democratic! [house leader. Representative Gar-! j rett of Tennessee. For the most part, there was no '< party division in the reception ae-J [corded the president's declara Itions, the applause sweeping thej entire floor and the galleries as he, 'pronounced deliberately his warn-j ing against lawlessness and swell ing to a prolonged ovation as he concluded with the pledge to 'use all the power of the government to maintain transportation and sustain the right of men to work." * Not?I^et all the ends Thou Aints't Sumter, S. C, ^e?nc WILL USE ! POWER OF ! GOVERNMENT j _ President Stated at Joint Conference He Will Maintain Transportation arid Sustain Right <3f Men to Work Washington; Aug. IS.?President Harding today told congress and the nut ion he had resolved to use the power of the government to j maintain transportation and sus-j [tain the right of men to work in iaddressing the joint session p>f,,the i house and senate on the ijadus Itrial situation. He declared the ; right of employees and employers' alike to conduct their business must be recognised and deplored' jwhat he termed a warfare on.labor j unions. The president declared.a, ! national investigation for construe- I tive recommendations as to the con-j duct of the coal industry was im perative and recommended to the government a commission of fair j wages and better conditions for la- i bor. He urged an immediate legis- .' lation establishing a national,90aL; agency with capital to purchase,' sell and distribute coal. Oth$r.,|?Cr j ommendations were the amended i transportation act to make..thej railroad labor board's depjsiops; enforceable against carrier and .em- j ployee? alike for the better pro-j tection of aliens. -m m m Dial Opens Fight fM I On Hoover ?! - .. j Washington. Aug. 19.?Senator, Dial today took the bull by thej horns in the coal situation and j made it plain in a conference,.with ! Chairman C. C. McChord of ^ejj&H terstate commerce commission..that! ns one of the senators from South! Carolina charged with the duty of looking out for the welfare of his[ people, he would not further stand! by and see any agency, no matter; whether it be the govern ment itself, send coal which has^ been honestly contracted for to oth- j er sections of the country. Such' a step, he said, could not result ( other than in great loss to South? Carolina manufacturing concerns; and hardship and suffering to hun-j dreds of people who will be thrown ( out of work if this practice con -; tinues. Senator Dial informed Chairman ? McChord that the matter became SO serious during: the past w??ek I that he had sent word to the cotton j mills of South Carolina to send a j representative here and John W. j Arrington of Greenville came to; Washington. Mr, Arrington was j requested "by Senator Dial upon : arrival here to get in touch with i Chairman Frank W. Shealy of the ; South Carolina railroad commis- j sion. and this he did. "On account of the acute oondi- i tion of the coal strike." Senator Dial said. "I did not want to say anything publicly for fear that my views might be misunderstood. I I have no sympathy whatever with 1 these strikes, and did not want to even apparently encourage them. 11 am unalterably opposed to any fuel \ administation in Washington and Ii expect to fight with all the power j in my command to defeat any such legislation. What I want and what ; T insist upon for my constituents i is that transportation be furnished j them for the coal which they have ' contracted for- If our cottonseed ? oil mills can't get coal the seed I will heat and ruin. In addition to j this, if our fertilizer plants can not 1 get coal they will have to cease: manufacturing fe-tilizer and agri-1 culture will be seriously retarded I and great disaster will ensue. What j we ask is that the industries of this . country be furnished facilities to j operate that we need not be hamp- j ered by governmental interference | in our business. "We are living under a constitu tional form of government and the j rights and duties of the different I Officials, even cabinet officers, are! prescribed by law. I am unalter- - ably opposed to any further con- i centration of power in Washington. ! for to do so would simply add red tape and expense. It would be a i sad story for the industries of this country if the distribution of coal 1 were centered here. ??I advise all parties who have contracts t? insist upon their rights . and demand delivery, both from the operators and the railroads. And jt* they do not get what they are en- j tilled to they have their remedy. "Diverting eoal would encourage the operators in not using their best j efforts >n production and there would }>" no inducement for legiti- . mate business to make contracts, j If this practice is allowed business will he paralysed." -^ 4* * Washington. Aug. 21.?President Harding in an address to citizens and soldiery from Camp Meade, de clared he favored military training for "more than a hundred thou- i sand civilians annually, not for ag- ' gressive warfare but to preserve i peace." He called attention to the .; fact that 28.000 civilians could afford training this year. - If a speeder knew he was going] to jail he wouldn't drive so fast. . it be thy Country's, Thy God's and ~i-; slay, August 23, 1922 GEORGIA AGAINST G00DR0ADS Appropriation of Nine Million t o Match Federal Funds Kill ed at Night Session Atlanta. Aug. IS.?The 1022 ses sion of the Georgia general assem bly ended at 5 o'clock this morning, after an all night sitting which was. punctuated with stormy debate. Many bills of more or less import ance were crowded out. The final session appropriated two million, four hundred and fifty-one thou sand dollars for Confederate pen sions during the next fiscal year. The bill wiped out the present dis tinction between old and new pen sioners. ? The good roads bond issue for nine million dollars to match federal appropriation was killed by the house. The bill providing for biennial sessions of the legisla ture was also killed by the senate. SENATE PASSES TARIFF BILL Washington, Aug. 1!) (By the Associated Press)?The administra tion tariff bill, officially "the tariff act of 1922." was passed by a vote of 4S to 25 late today by the sen ate after four months of debate. It now goes to conference. Senator Borah of Idaho was the only Republican to vote against the measure. Three Democrats? Broussard. Kendrick and Ransdell ?voted for it. Senators Harrison and Pomerene. who were paired, announced that had they been permitted to vote they would have voted against the bill and the same announcement was made in behalf of seven Demo cratic absentees: Caraway. Har ris, King. Owen. Pitt^man, Watson of Georgia and Williams. It was stated also that had Sen ators LaFollette and Xorris been present they would have voted against the measure, while the oth er 12 Republican absentees would have voted for it. .Senators Lenroot and Jone? of Washington (Republicans) an nounced that they supported the WD because of the provisions giv ing the president broad authority to increase or decrease rates and in the hope that the senate and house conferees would reduce rates which they considered excessive- Senator Lenroot said that if this were not done he would vote against the conference report. Immediately after the passage of the bill. Serrritor Cummins of Iowa, president pro tempore, an nounced the appointment of the senate conferees: Chairman Me Cumber and Senators Smoot of Utah and McLean of Connecticut. Republicans, and Simmons of Xorth Carolina and Jones of Xew Mexi co. Democrats. Senator McLean is the fourth ranking Republican on the finance committee and was j named in {dace of Senator LaFol lette, who. .under the usual rule would have drawn the assignment but who is opposed to the bill. The measure will be returned to the house Monday with a formal request for a conference. American valuation will be the biggest issue in conference, but the general belief at the capitol is that the house will yield on this, ac centing the senate ??flexible" tariff plan as a substitute. Chairman Fordney said today he would hold out for American val uation, asking instructions from the hou.se. Under this plan the house would decide the issue by a direct vote and the conferees then would proceed with their work of adjust ing the two houses. Mr. Fordney thought the work could be com pleted within a month and the same view was entertained by senate: leaders. THE SIZE OF COTTON CROP j Pendlet on. Aug. 20.?B. Harris, commissioner of agriculture for South Carolina, made the following statement today: I have just heard of a private cotton report, issued by one of the biggest cotton brokers in the Unit ed States, whose name I cannot give. Condition on the 19th of August. 58.6 per cent: estimated yield. iU>{K>,000 bales. I have just received a letter today from Dehtoh, Texas. Drought not broken yet Temperat?re from 100 to 108. Crop j too far spent for rain to do any J good. Cotton deteriorating veryj rapidly. Bar Le Due. August 21 ? France J will not consent to a moratorium of any character for Germany unless' the German Stare .Mines, of Ruhr and the National Forests are placed ! in the hands of the allies as guaran- j tee and no matter what happens] France will not depart from this policy or this position outlined this j afternoon at a meeting of general ! council measure by Premier Poin Dublin. Aug. 21.?National army forces have captured Bandon and Dunmanway. two of the remaining rebel strongholds in South Ire land, and the irregulars are hastily retreating. 0tttl Truth's.1 DISORDERS CONTINUE IN i RAIL STRIKE Peace Negotiations Have No Effect Up on Disturbances in Strike Centers I Chicago, Aug. 21.?Disorder coia ! tinued to flare up in the railroad strike during the early hours of . the eighth week, despite the peace negotiations pending at Xew York and assurances by.chiefs of the big four brotherhood that no sympa thetic strike of train service em ployees is intended to bring about the complete paralysis of railroad transportation. On the Atlantic side new disorders occurred at j Columbia. S. C. where eleven I workers were attacked by strike J sympathizers. Spencer. X. C. Aug. 20.?De velopments in the railroad shop strike situation here today included the blowing up of the 12 inch wa ter main, which supplies the South ern railway shops and the hundreds of locomotives that are used out of Spencer, the burning of one or more bad order box cars near the yard limits while the water supply was cut off. and the arrival of 25 re cruits for the working force at the shops. The water main apparently was blown up by dynamite. The explo sion occurred at a point inside the shop yards, between the fence sur rounding the property and a row j of box cars and at a point about 75 feet from a picket stand. The lives J of several pickets, it is said, were; endangered by the explosion, which i awakened many of the citizens of Spencer, entirely blew out a section j of the pipe and tore a hole in the1 ground the size of a small house.' A stream of water flooded that sec-, tion of the property until the water: could be cut off. The cutting off of the water sup-i ply resulted in several hours delay to main line trains between Wash ington and. Atlanta and also to] Branch .line trains, as engines could not be provided to take these' trains ouj. of the terminal here. Through the day Sheriff. J. r.Jjf.j Krider and Southern officials have made vigorous efforts to fix respon-! sibility for the explosion but said [ early tonight they had obtained no clue. . Xo charge has been pre-; ferred against anyone. Strikers are reported to have told the officials j that the work was done "from the; inside." and that none of their men j had anything to do with it. The explosion, which occurred! about midnight or shortly thereaf- j ter. stirred Spencer as no other in-; cident since the strike began. Promiscuous firing near thej picket lines on the East Spencer j side just before daylight startled: numbers of citizens as far away as j Salisbury and caused nurses at the' hospitals there to make ready to j receive injured personsv they andi I others in Salisbury believing a riot j had occurred. Authorities have,1 been unable to determine who did j the shooting. .1 As a result of the developments! of the last 24 hours, with the in- ; creased tenseness, it was expected j that Colonel Don Scott, in com- i mand of the. 500 national guards.-! men encamped three miles from I Spencer, would place troops on: guard duty around the shops, but j this had not been done early to-' night. Master Mechanic McBride. j in charge of the shops, said early j tonight that while the occurrences j of the last day and night would; justify him in asking that troops be] placed on guard duty the matter; would be determined by subse-1 I quent developments. Colonel Scott i said that hitmen were ready for j instant service when called upon I by the sheriff. Covernor Morrison, or Southern railway officials. Salisbury. X. C.. Aug. 20?The; blowing up of a section of the 12 j inch main which supplied water to ; the Southern railway shops at) Spencer and the living quarters of; the now workers employed to take the strikers* places, combined with the very tense general situation, led \ Col. Don Scott, in command of the j eight companies of the national; guardsmen encamped near here. to. consider today the advisability of, placing troops on guard duty at the shops and^ elsewhere it struggle j points. iJIte this afternoon, how ever, it was understood thai this! action would not he taken 'oniglitj until there was an outbreik. actual: or imminent. Meanwhile the i.00 j troops are kept in readine-.-* tor; instant action, with transportation facilities ready to move, them with-; out delay. Salisbury people were excited out 4 o'clock this morning wh?-n reports of many shots wer - heard from the direction of Spen< er. and ! this i.s believed to have given ori gin to reports widely circulated during the day that a riot had oc curred. However, so far as can be j l-arned here, the authorities have| not been able to ascertain where j the shooting was or by whom. These incidents constituted thej only disorders reported up to an; early hour tonight. Xo casualties; have been reported and no arrests, have been made during the day. - - Xothing makes a grouch mad-1 der than having nothing to kick about. ? ' THE TRUE SO E BRITISH i AGREE TO ! CONFERENCE [No t e Addressed to French and Italian Governments Names Venice a s Meeting Plac^ For Allied High Com missioners j London, August 21?In a note ad , dressed to French and Italian gov ; ernments the British government j has agreed in prinioiple to holding j a conference at Venice between the ? three allied High Commissioners at ? Constantinople and representatives I of Greece and Turkey. BROWNING'S REVIVAL OPENS jMore 'fhan Two Thousand! j People Attend the Opening Meeting _ I The opening meeting Sunday ; night of the big religious revival ?conducted by Rev. Raymond I Browning in the big rent at the [corner of Church and Calhoun ; streets was a record breaker in 'more than one respcet. To start I off with the more than 2,000 people" j present was the largest at any I opening revival session in Sumter. j Sunday night's meeting indicated la big revival in Sumter during the ? next three weeks. I The choir which will be compos I ed of more than 200 male and ;fe ! male voices, was pretty near up re* ?full number.and under the splen did leadership of Rev. Carolyn A. Hosford showed that the couple of I rehearsals had not been in vain. : Everybody in Sumter and adjoining counties was invited to take part in this revival. Rev. Browning and Rev. ,Hors ford had to take some time in outlining the details of "the three j weeks* campaign against sin in I Sumter, and then Dr. Browning j swung into high gear and speeded up his magnificent appeal for Christian unity and a higher relig ious environment in Sumter. He left the beaten trcak of ordinary revival sermons and caught the earnest attention of his large au dience from the start. That he is an earnest man of God and hard worker for Christ no one wh*? heard his unusually interesting and eloquent appeal Sunday night can possibly doubt. No one expected that his first sermon would any ways near approach what he gave his audience, and those who heard hfs were prone to wonder what he will accomplish after he warms up j to the fight against sin in this sec tion of the country. Rev. Carolyn A. Hosford as mu sical and chorus director easily leads her chorus with an artistic and inspiring style and she also gets more "pep" into the large choir and audience in singing than most chorus leaders. She is also announcer in chief or presiding official of the big tent meetings. The following important an nouncements were made by Rev. Browning and Rev. Kosford: Services will be held every night at 8 o'clock shorp, and on Tuesday, Wednesday,. Thursday and Friday at from 10 to 11 o'clock a. m.. to which the general public is cor dially invited. All services will be held undor the tent and nowhere else. There are still some seats left in the big chorus to which any and all singers in church choirs of j Sumter county and any other sing ers whether members of church choirs or not are welcome, and all are invited to see Miss Hosford and have seats assigned them. On Tuesdays at 8:30 a. m., sharp all boys and girls between the I ages of .*> and 14 are invited to meet j .Miss Hosford at the tent. No adults allowed at these meetings. Miss Hosford has her headquarters at the Sumter Chamber of Commerce in city hall, phone No. 200. and* any one wishing to see her will call or phone to that place and Secre- ' tary Reardon will take the mes-j sages for Miss Hosford. Sumter has joined enthusiast!- j cally with Rev. Browning and joins hinten nd his party also in inviting and welcoming every body in eas tern South Carolina to take 'part in this big three weeks revival. The sermons by Rev. Browning and ihe song service under Miss Hos ford's leadership are well worth traveling many miles to hear. Washington. August 21?Chair-j man Winslow of the house com merce committee after a conference today with President Harding an nounced he would introduce imme diately a bill created for fact find ing by the coal commission as re-! commended by the president in hist special message to congress. Saginaw. Mich.. August 21?Op-j evations were resumed in the Mich-| igan coal mines this morning after j a shutdown of almost five months. Indications are that normal produc tion will be reached by the middle of the week. THKOX, Established June 1, i'S6<J. VOL. Lin. no. a FUEL FAMINE MAY BE JYERTED j Secretary Hoover II Hopes That Produce tion May Be SpesciU ed Up to Needs Washington, Aug. 17 (By the irs jociated Press).?Early resumption of coal production in the union fields covered by the Cleveland agreement was looked to today by administration officials to avert fuel troubles throughout the county 1 next winter. If %the miners in those fields ie-' turn to work within the next few days. Secretary Hoover declare**, there should be no serious 'shortage of coal during the winter. Produc tion of approximately 10.0^0,00?) tons of coal weekly made up of about four-fifths bituminous and one-fith anthracite, will be needed, according to 'Federal Distribute* Spencer. Even with adequate production,-' Air. Hoover asserted, action by con gress will be necessary to enable federal price control temporarily and to facilitate the distribution cf anthracite and to supply the needs of the northwest. "With the resumption of mining,", he said, "the price situation will be quickly over. While' there will be some control of distribution andi [?prices necessary, the matter.- w?i. ' quickly adjust itself." Colla'pse of the fair, price agree ments made with producing opera tors, however, when the Ttnisn mines resume production was indi cated by Mr. Hoover. "There would be then .7* cr 80 districts, - he said, to hold into line as. to price by voluntary means which wtfcl?. be an "infeasible machine"-eon^ sidering the difficulty experienced^, with the mines now in the price ^ agreements. . ? - - - Xevertheless, Mr'. Hoover- declar ed, the results of the fair pricei agreements thus far have constitut ed a "remarkable showing" with 70 per cent of coal now. movisg being handled under the establish ed maxin3^tnv?:.pf from $2.20 to $2.75 a ton. Difficulty in the price situation, he asserted, arc** from the other 30 per cejnt. which ga-re rise to the charges of r profiteering, while Operateurs observing agree ments were passing-tip from S8 to $10 on every-ton of coal solcL - > Emergency pjlpe control legisla tion which . it S'understood Presi dent Harding will suggest in his. message to congress tomorrow would apply-only to coal moving in. interstate commerce, in the . opin ion of the commerce secretary.. Ae^ ' cording to the first advice at hand, he contended, the* federal authority can not extend to coal transporta tion within the states and the con trol of~speeu!ation. and the prices charged by-wholesalers and retail-' ers on itrastate sales would be up to the. state authorities. State authorities, he beheved, would have the power to regulate coal prices during the emergency; especially if the federal govern ment acting nationally gave th? states the framework to build up on. He advanced the opinion that the federal government could con trol prices charged by operators in interstate commerce and could "de liver coal over the state, line at fair prices." after which the price Nob lem would be one for the states; Devices for fixing coal prices, fey federal agencies, Mr. Hoover be lieved, would be left to congress but he gave the impression .that early action upon fuel legislation, was expected. Resumption of an rnracite production, he declared, should provfee for the needs'of the nation's honfes during the winter. It ought to be possible, he said,, to pjrotect the householder, if mining is resumed at an early date, _ through a sj^stem of priority or- . ders which would Insure suffiucient_ hard coal for homes in advance anthracite supplies for industry. MAY SIGN CONTRACT I - ? * - * Columbia. Aug. lS.-^-Simqns' : & Mayrant of Charlesion, low bidders on the Sumter approaches to the Wateree river bridge, have extend ed the time of their bid ten days and it is believed the contract win be signed by the Sumter au thorities bet?re the end of this time. Arrangements have been; made to assure the Sumter officials that Richland county will finish the S 10,000 promised and the opin ion . Ayas expressed yesterday by highway officials here that the con tract would be signed shortly. Inquiry* at the office of the Sumter bounty Board of Commis sioners elicited the statement that some papers relating to the con tract .for the bridge approaches had been received, but there was. nothing to be given out at present Spencer, X. C August 21?Quiet prevailed here today after a Sunday marked by the blasting of a'watir main supplying Southern railway shops and the burning of several box cars in the yards and the early morning outbreak of apparently harmless firing . Lack- of wat^r, caused considerable delay in ,the movement of trains,