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Bishopvilie Xevrs Items. Bishop viile, Sept. 25. ? The -weather has been very favorable for ?picking, cotton aria gathering hay, and our farmers are. making good use* of it. Nearly all of the cotton is;but of the fields. The hay crop is unusually good. The corn crop . also is very good. Pinders are fine and being gathered. Potatoes promised well, but the dry weath er will cut the yield. The old veterans and the girls of the 60*s were delightfully entertain ed at the elegant home of Mrs. M. R, McCutehen by the U. JX C.'s from A to C p. m. The exercises . -Were opened with prayer, by Dr. M elver, pascor of the Presbyterian church. Among the honored guests was our next governor, the Hvn: T. G. McLepd, who made us aa excellent address. Then we en joyed most excellent music,, both vocal and instrumental by accom plished nausicians, after which de lightful refreshments were, served, all o.v which we enjoyed to the fullest and our old hearts were made glad. Among the visitors were Mrs. J. J. Dargan of. State burg and Mrs. C. C. Reid of Char leston. It was. very pleasant to meet ?ome of our old friends and aev o^uaintances-. whom we had not met for yeais. A number of the moth ers and daughters were debarred from attendance by age and in firmities. Wet. are holding , our third pri xsi^rj today to elect one member of the house. The race is between Mr. Chewning and Mr. Mooie, which will soon be decided: Court, was of short duration here this..term, only lasting one day. . Our schools have the largest at tendance we have ever had, and do in^ .excellent, work. As a result of the election to day. Chewning \V3S elected over JU. A. Moore by near 40.0 majority. Three, boxes to be . heard from, which will not affect the count very ..much. . , The competition between the gianers was so great that they are no^ ginning for one dollar per bale without, or. two dollars with "bag ging; and ties added. -Mr. L. P. Harroll of Cheraw visited at the home of H. W. Scott today. He is an old traveling man and reports business as improving. Most of our people are very much pleaded at .the. result of the .elec tion. ... The S?mter County Fair. : (By "E. I. R.") The Sumter County Fair Asso ciation has purchased a large tract of land just outside the city, limits on West. Liberty street for the Greater Gamecock County Fair, but ns this land is leased until Decem ber 31st, 1922, and the directors not being able to make satisfac tory arrangements with- the party leasing this land whereby imme diate possession can be had, it has feeen decided to hold the annual ?922 Sumter County. Fair at the present fair grounds in Sumter, Xovember 21st. 22nd, 2Srd and 24th. Beginning January 1st, . 1$23, the buildings will all be mov ed to the new fair site; additional buildings for cattle,, horses, mules, hogSi and a race track for horse tend automobile racing, and per '?aianent foot ball and baseball grounds will be constructed. ?' (The capital stock will be increas ed to thirty thousand dollars. 5Pwentyrtwo thousand dollars have hiready been subscribed, including jfche original capital stock of seven tfeous? nd dollars, and only about eight Thousand remain to be raised jwhieh wilt be done. The Sumter Chamber of Com - jaerce. Young Men's Business League, Kiwanis and Rotary clubs. Retail Merchants' Association, Igpme Demonstration clubs, County Agent, Civic League, City Council and other organizations are back log up the fair association, and the larmers of Sumter county and their families wilt be in line also. Fur ther particulars later. Watch out for some interesting details..' ? ? ? The concrete bridge at White's . Mill is nearing competion, but bridge work in Scape O'er and Rocky Bluff swamps, on the Mayes ville road is still far from comple $ipn. ' Snmter county has no school at tendance officer to enforce the compulsory school law. and the duty of enforcing the law devolves pj>on the.trustees of the respective pchooi districts. Unless the trus tees pay strict attention- to the pro vision of the school law requir ing them to enforce the attendance of children of school age, the en rollment and average attendance will fall off. The Sumter Gas and Power Co.. have moved their office and show room from South Main street to their new office, recently completed, on West Liberty street, next to the Anchor Motor Co. The new" "office is well equipped and the show room presents an attractive appearance. Mr. L. D. Jennings shipped a car load of hogs from his farm to Baltimore a few days ago. Preparations, for the annual Sumter county fair are being speeded up and a first clnss fair will be held, it is planned to* hold the fair on the old grounds on West Liberty Street. 666 Cures Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever. It kills in* gems* Minutes City Council. The regular meeting of council ?was held in the council chamber at six o'clock Tuesday, there being present, the mayor and both coun cilmem The minutes of the call led meeting of September 19 th ! were, read and approved as.correct ed. The paving.'bond ordinance was ? given its second reading: ... 1 In connection with the work of 1 paving to be ]done in accordance * wi{h this ordinance, it was de jcided by council to advertise for j bids from engineers, such bids to be received, up-.to 6 o'clock p. m. Of October 10th, .1922.. ! The following resolution was of fered by. Councilman Raffield and j approved by council: j ..Whereas,. God," . in His infinite wisdom, has removed from pur midst Mr. August Schilling, and Whereas, Mr.. Schilling. has . for many years discharged. with faith fulness his ..duty., as pumper in charge of the municipal , pumping station ,of the city of Sumter, therefore, be. it resolved: First, That. in the death of Mr. Schilling the "city .of Sum.ter has; lost a valuable employee who was ever faithful to his duty, and {whose loyalty to his employers and j fidelity to duty we would .com - I mend. ? -.. I Second, That a copy of these j resolutions b.e. made a, part of . the {minutes, of this .meeting ? of City Council, and .that a .copy, attested by the clerk, be sept to the family of Mr. Schilling. .... The clerk was authorized to ex change, the Wales/adding machine now in use in the cterk's; office,, for ia. new machine , of the same make, jto cost $360, les3 an allowance, of I $100 for the old machine, and 2 Jper cent, discount for cash. In connection with the collection of taxes under execution by the chief of police, .council directed that the chief of police be placed under a bond of $1,000.00. . After, a discussion of other rou-.. tine matters, council adjourned. A Fall Weeding. (Columbia, State). One of the . foremost society events of the .autumn is heralded by invitations which were, issued yesterday by. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene C. McGregor to the marriage, of their daughter Margaret Wells, to Thomas Belton Boyle of Sumter, at Trinity church on the evening of October 12 at 8:30 o'clock. This will be the second, big wed ding in Trinity., that; week, Miss Grace Gibbes; to Ralph Xesbit; of Georgetown being two nights be fore. The two brides are close friends and Miss McGregor is to be one of Miss GibbesV bridesmaids. Attending Miss McGregor, will be her sister, Miss Daisy McGregor, as maid of honor, and the following; bri^smaids: Misses Adele Westom Isabel- Wells,' Keel Reynolds of Greenwood, Mary Grier of Green wood, Gulie Melton, Leila Elliott, Elizabeth Heath and Marie Mat thews. Barnes Boyle of Sumter will be his brother's best man and the oth er men of the wedding party will j be Roland Boyle of Sumter, an | other brother; Edward Tatum of McCoil, Carlisle Stuckey of Dalzell, Richard Singleton of Columbia. Gray. Moore of Greenwood, George B. Wells of Columbia, A. T. Moore j of Ridgeway, O. B. Simmons of Laurens. George Carlisle of Rocic Hill and Henry Fair, Jr. The wedding will be followed by ;a small reception at the home of i Dr. and Mrs. McGregor on Pick I ens street. Forfeits Fifty Dollar Bond. Daisy -Harris, colored, who was jI arrested on the charge of storing and selling liquor and released on J $50 bond, failed to appear for trial I in Recorder Harby's court Tues day, and the bond was declared j forfeited. i ' i" Council of- Farm Women. ! The Sumter County Council of Farm Women will hold an im j portant monthly meeting at four j o'clock, next Saturday afternoon, .September 30th at Sumter Cham I ber of Commerce at which mat j ters of more than ordinary im j portance will be presented for conr jsideration. Mrs. L, E. LeaveH, j president of this council urges evi I ery member to be present. The j Sumter County Council . of Farm j Women is a very valuable organiza l tion and has done some mighty j fine .work in helping to solve do j mestic, social, , and general eco i nomic problems. The system .of? hard surfaced ! highways that are now being con jstructed in this county will, when I completed, extend to every section j of the county, ten roads radiating j from Sumter to the county line. I The system as planned will have j between one hundred and one hun j dred and thirty-five, miles of pav | ed roadway. The roads are being j built with a width over all of thirty feet from ditch to ditch, with an ! eighteen or sixteen foot hard-sur j faced roadway in the center. On i either side of the hard surfaced ? roadway, the road is filled with ; earth, sloping gently to the ditches. ! The weak point of the road is the i earth fills on either side of the j paving and unless they are sodded idown with Bermuda grass as quick i ly as possible there will be the J necessity for constant repairs when ithe soil washes away. It would i cost something to get the grass, but : it would be economy in the long ! run. ? o ? I The books of registration will J be open Monday, Tuesday and j Wednesday of next week, October {2nd. 3rd and 4th. It is the duty ! of every unregistered Democrat to j apply for and obtain a certificate of I registration. SEARCH FOR ! Bf? B?02E ! I Judge Seeks to Eh-j j force Suspend-j ed Sentence on! j Charleston Man j I Charleston, Sept. 27.?Efforts of j process severs have been futile all j day; it was said tonight.in state, prohibition, law enforcement cir-j cles here, in officially serving M. S.: Sullivan, wealthy machinery sales j agency man, with a. copy of an j I order issued by Judge John S. i Wilson in the court of general ses- j ?sions requiring Sullivan to show cause next Monday why he should not be required to serve a four j months' suspended sentence grant-1 ed him in .an alleged liquor law ! violation case in February, 1917. ?] Sullivan is charged in the United! States district court for the East-| ern district of South Carolina with] being, a party to a conspiracy to smuggle into Charleston recently about 7,000 quarts of whiskey, camouflaged in burlap covered ,po- j tato barrels. Condemnation pro-1 ceedings were r instituted by Dis- ? trict Attorney J. Bv E. Meyer herei S-recently also in the name of the j federal government against thcj Swannanoa, a handsome yacht own- j ed by Sullivan,.'in connection with; I the liquor case. I SURVEY'OF ^ u j "'I^AyY YARDS Washington, Sept. . 27?The Sec retary of the Navy Denby has sent the following official instruction to Rear .Admiral Hugh Rodman, chair i.man of the recently appointed spec- j ! ial board which is called to meet i j here next Monday, to consider and make* recommedations concerning: the shore .establishments of the I j navy, "A board of which you are sen ior member, and which Rear Ad-' mirals Ashley H. Robertson, W. Y. Pratt, John D_ Beuret, and Cap-: tains A.. L. Willard, J. T. -Tomp ; kins and R. E. Bakenus, United j j States Xavy, are members,, and Ralph M. Griswoid, commander U. S. X. Recorder, will convene at 10 o'clock a. m, October 2, 1922, at the Navy Department, Washington, D. C. for the purpose of. consid ering and making recommenda tions concerning the shore estab lishments of the navy with a view i to the fixing of a definite and s.ta | blc policy in regard thereto, j "The. board will recommend the : basis, yards and stations it con siders necessary to the mainte I nance of .the efficiency of the fleet arid its effective operation in peace and war. It will report specifically its recommendations as to (a) the. shore stations and parcels of im proved and unimproved real estate j now in the custody of the Xavy I Department which.it considers will j not either in peace or war contrib i uto to the maintenance of the effi joiency of the fleet or .to its effect jive operation. ? "(b) The shore stations that un J der present conditions it considers j should be kept in operation for the j efficient maintenance, and effect-ve j operation of the fleet. j **cT The shore stations that ! should be retained but kept closed j or on a reduced operation basis, yet ready for service in the event i of an emergency. I "d" Shore stations in addition to i those recommended under "b" and (C) above that are in the opinion of the board necessary for the ef fective operation of the fleet in j peace and war including recom mendations as to their location and j characteristics. * ' "e" Shore stations that mty be I closed, reduced or disposed of when ? the shore, stations recommended j under (d) have been created. j . "The recommendations of the j board should be accompanied by a I complete statement. of considera ] tions governing its .conclusions, j "Should the*'general plans of the i shore .establishment recommended ! by the board contemplate the con struction of floating dry docks, it I is directed that the report of the - j board include specific recommen I dations as to the . number and ; size. j "The board will exclude from I consideration shore . stations lo icated in insural possessions where I under the limitation of armament j treaty the status quo at the same j of signing of the treaty must be j maintained." j A. A. GERALD IS WINNER I Columbia. Sept. 26.?With ap j proximately 75 votes still unreport Jed A. A. Gerald, of Columbia, was i today reuominated to the house : or representatives with a majority ! of S.4r> votes over his opponent j White Evans, of this city. Ger jaki received 2,<>7K votes and Evans j 1,833. Representative Gerald is one of j the labor leaders of Columbia and j is president of the local street car i men's unions. He has had exten jsive legislative experience as chair } man of the railroad committee of j the house. Mr. Evans operates a j nlllng station here. \ Los Angeles. Sept. 2a.?lnsantty I will be the defense of Mrs. (Mara i Phillips, charged with beatinr? ! Mrs. Alberta Meadows, twenty j year-old widow to death with a i hammer, was disclosed when her ? counsel submitted copies of. Inter- ! j rogaiories addressed to residents in j Texas regarding the alleged lapses lot, sanity on the part of the de [faadafit. TURK LEADER WILL RESPEC. NEUTRALZONE ' \* S" V " '?" ' ? ? ~ ^ -?? ~ ;3 'c- i^. r> ? " \ .. '? v Kemal Pasha Sends Conciliatory Reply to Allies But His Troops Proceed to Dig Ehtreirchinents: .. . ? . . , . '???CK T . . Constantinople, Sept.'27 (By the Associated Press) .?Possible war. between Great .Britain and Turkey was. at least temporarily averted this afternoon by an 11th hour decr .laration.. of.. the Kemalists that, they would respect the. neutrality of the straits, pending an armis tice conference. .. The declaration relievos the sit uation, which even the British had admitted was critical.. ' . . In a message to Kemal Pashii at. Smyrna, General Harington urged an early, meeting of the British and Kemalist generals at Mudani-i. or Ismid as the most effective way of reaching an amicable under standing in the present difficult sit uation created by the,Kemalist ad vance in the Dardanelles. Th^ message, which was mo?t ! conciliatory in tone, declared ir would be a pity at the present juncture to allow local occupations on the straits to jeopardize peace. Prior to announcement that the Kemalists would respect the neu trality of the straits. Hamid Bey, ; the Angora, representative, said to ! the correspondent: "The Kemalists ' naturally will come across the so called neutral zones, but thoy have, not the slightest intention of firing upon the British occupying those zones. If however, the Brit ish move against us, we will be *oreed to reply." General Harington replied to Kemal Pasha, thanking him for the declaration that he would re spect, the neutrality of the straits and that he wished to avoid a conflict. The British commander added that the destruction of which Kemal complained was prompted by military necessity and de:!ar j ed that no shot had been fircd_ ! against the Turks in anger nor [would be except under his orders [ He concluded by expressing readi j ness to meet Kemal at any con j venient place to discuss an under | standing. . Smyrna. Sept. 27 (By the Asso-' ciatedj Press).?Yussuf Kemal Bey the Nationalist * foreign minister, left for Angora today with the I draft of the Nationalists* reply to the allied peace proposals. It is understood to embrace the follow ing conditions: i: Prior to the opening of the peace conference the Nationalists shall occupy all strategical points in order to achieve the provisions of the Nationalist pact regarding i Thrace. j 2. All British forces now' en j route shall be recalled and the j British shall abstain frGm fortify ing the neutral zones, i 3. The Nationalists shall ooeu [ py Thrace before the peace con s' ference. \ 4. The Nationalists reserve the right to contest certain other points in the allied proposals. 5. The Nationalists object to the i demilitarization of Thrace and Mar [mora, but no objection is raised to j fortification of the Dardanelles. 6. Soviet Russia, Ukraine, and iall countries bordering on the Black j sea shall be represented in the [conference. j 7. . In the event of acceptance jof ihe foregoing conditions the j Nationalists agree to an armistice i conference at Mudania with the al ? lied generals. j S. Three days after the Mu jdania conference the proposed j peace negotiations shall begin - at j Smyrna. !. Isma Pasha, commander-in j chief on the western front, will 'represent the Nationalists at the j armistice conference, while Mus I tapha Kemal Pasha will be spokes Irnan at the. Symrna conierer.ee. t ., . . i Constantinople, Sept. 27 (1L P. J M., By the Associated Press).-? I Kemalist forces have occupied, {without opposition, positions in the 'regions of Dumbrek, i-\mpsaki, j Yaghjilar and Sangakeli, all in the I neutral zone of the , Dardanelles. iThis is the fifth violation of the j zone. j Remonstranees by the British (officers failed to stay the advance fbf the Turks. British flags were i posted throughout the invaded ter ; ritory. j Turkish cavalry from Eren Keui [with reinforcement:* is advancing I to the northeast upon Asmali {Tehe, apparently to out off the j British advanced post at Kephez. I A British column supported by {artillery has left Chanak to coun Ster the threat. - j Ahmedabad. British India. Sept. I 27 (By the Associated Press)?A i largo meeting was held today :it j which resolutions were adopted protesting against Great Britain sending forces to Constantinople and ihe Dardanelles. Threats were made to aid the Turks by joining them on the battlefield if war was declared against Turkey. Thomson. Gal. Sept. 2S.?Beneath a clear sky and blazing sun the body of Tuited States Senator Thos. K. Watson came ho:b?- and was had to rest in the soil of XfcDuf fu- county as hundreds of his coun trymen from Georgia's backwoods, united with the prominent officials in paying the last tribute to his memory. Brief and simple were the funeral services at the Watson home, but every honor within the province of the town was paid to the departed senator. War Scare Fails To Shake Markets [Developments During Week Reasonably Satisfactory? Wheat Prices Higher ?$?New York. Sept. 24?-Despite* nervousness in the security mar kets, domestic industrial and finan cial developments. during ,the, past week continue reasonably .satisfac tory. ' .? ? . Talk of war in . Europe over Turkish troubles, which conserva tive quarters, considered over drawn, was a disturbing influence, 'but served to rally grain prices ap-, preciably. December wheat rose as high as 1,0:9 .3.-8, ten,cen^s above the decent low. This advance , was j accompanied not only by. a change,) in speculative sentiment, but by ! considerable foreign buying, wli5oh. j.is quite natural at at this season.! Further gains have been reported j by the steel industry. More blast furnaces have been placed in op-] eration and. steel making has, in- j creased to approximately .65 peri "cent of capacity. . This . recovery.! .which is better than had .been an-d tieipated, has been accompanied by! .a settling down of the ste.el market in . prices. Recent extreme pre miums for quick delivery, are dis appearing and a more stable basis ol' business developing, The pres ent rate of production while below war expanded, capacity is greater than in any year- before the war. The .improvement ia steel oper ations has - been made possible by an easier coal situation. Bitumin ous production has been pushed well beyond, ten million tons . a week and supplies are now fairly comfortable. Recognition of this fact appears in the Interstate. Com- ? merce Commission's, lifting of cer-i tain of its priority restrictions. _ j Car loading statistics also;. arej satisfactory, indicating that the railroads are still expanding in traffic movement .to/new high lev els since the fall of. 1920. While j ithe number of cars loaded during the week ended September 9, is nearly 100,000 less than in the pre I vious year,, the loss is more than ?accounted for by the Labor Day holiday. Taking the figures as they stand., however, the movement of general .merchandise . and rate- ! cellaneous freight was 408.000 cars! greater than durTng the corrqs-i landing week a year ago. Disregarding a rise in the sensi tive call money rate, on the Xew York Exchange to 6 per cent, which seems to have been due to tax col lection operations, the tone of the money market has become slightly firmer. .Bankers' acceptances com mand one-quarter of 1 per cent] ;more now than a few weeks ago. I The explanation lies partly in the j increase, in the volume of bills, j which has been contributed to by; heavy importations, which are sea-! j-sonal and some of which ;haye been j in anticipation of the change *:i the tariff. At the. same time it would appear that foreign balances {have, been. .withdrawn from i;hi3 j market, probably for use in pur j chasing grain and raw materials. I 'Xo sharp rise in money rates is, j 'however, anticipated. I Confirming previous indications, j the bureau of labor's index ofj I wholesale commodity prices for A.u- i I gust, shows no change.. Fuel and! j metals were practically* the only j groups to advance, and the effect iof the^se increases was offset . oy ! losses in food and farm products. Death. I - ? j Mr; John A. Scarborough died ;at the Toumey Hospital Thursday] j morning after a long illness, aged j about sixty-two' years. He was a ! son of the late Xewell B. Scar (borough of Elliotts and spent his j early life in Bishopville and vt i cinity, but .had been a resident of j this city for a number of years, j He is survived by one brother, j Mr. W. W. Scarborough of Elliotts' and one sister, Mrs. Theodore! I Richburg of Clinton, S. C. He :was j i twice married, his first wife who j was Miss Hattie Rogers, of Horns- j [dale. Pa., living only a year after! j marriage; his second wife, who was! j Miss Alice Spencer, died in 1920. '?The funeral services will be held j at the . Bishopbille Presbyterian j cemetery at 11:30 o'clock tomor row, Friday, morning. Sunday School Officials. Spartanburg, . Sept. . 23.?Hugh Magill of Washington, D. C, aj prominent Methodist layman and] professional educator, has beeni elected general secretary of the' International Sunday School organ-! j izati.on at its . recent quadrennial j j convention and has accepted .the! j position. Marion Lawrence, for! j.many years general secretary , of j the association, has been elecfed consulting general secretary for life] land will cooperate with Dr. Ma-i j gill I For several years past Dr. Ma gill has heen field secretary of the j National Education Association land is well known in the educa I tional world. His election as gen jeral secretary of the International Sunday School work is considered an accession to the Sunday School [Association work and is meeting with general approval. State Su perintendent Leon C. Palmer of the] j South Carolina Sunday. School As sociation expects to have him visit this ?t?te at an early date, j Marriage License. Colored?Louis Murray and Phil j Iis Heese, Stateburg. Washington. Sept. L'S.?A pen j sion increase from fifty to seventy two dollars a month for civil and 'Mexican \v.-?r veterans was planned by Republican leaders in congress. The bill for providing the increases] has passe dthe senate. Senator Bur-J sum. Republican, of New Mexico, the author, says it has been prom ised that it will be passed by the house soon after it convenes. There is a big prune crop. Heaven] help the boarders? . ' jSHOUIJ) EXTEND THRE#MM^IT Attorney For Anti-Saloon - . v. League X3ives Opinion...... j Washington,?? Sept. 26.?The at tention the officials of the Anti Saloon League are giving the ac tivities of the prohibition navy out side the three-mile limit is evi ! denced by the dissemination from I league headquarters of an opinion [ of Wayne Wheeler, general counsel, : supporting the "right, of the Unit Led Slates to extend the fhree-m?.le ! limit to prevent liquor smuggling." -. : Washington, Sept. 26.?The cab inet decided to restrict, prohibition enforcement operations within the /three mile.limit, except where ships beyond are in communication with the shore. BEQUESTFOR THE -ROPER HOSPITAL ' ?> ? ? Charleston: Woman Leave? : Part ef Estate J?or Ctea?y Charleston. Sept. 25..?The? will of Mary Jane Ross, a wealthy woman I of this city, , who died August 1G, was filed for probate today, and its ! feature was the provision made for iRoper hospital of Charleston, I which is bequeathed through the ; Medical, society, of South Carolina I $100,000 in cash for the construc tion of a branch to be known. as ! the Ross-Henry branch of Roper ! hospital; the surplus income from I property of the estate in this city, j after certain payments are made ill j maintaining the Ross Memorial, 41 [ public museum to, be. established ! at- the Ro3s residence on. th? bat* Itery,. and in addition the hospital f is to get one-half of the residne* j which.is said to. be very large, one i unconfirmed report estimating the I total. value ;6f the estate at. around [$2.000,000. The. Presbyterian: hos j pital at Philadelphia gets $20,000 ' and the other half of. the residue* Other hequests include $25,0=00 to the S6uth Carolina. Historical so ciety, $25,000 to the Historical so ciety of Philadelphia;..and $100, 000 or so to individuals. No official estimate of the value, of the estate was available today, but apparent ly Roper-, hospital will eventually benefit,impressively. .,Alfred Huger of Charleston is one of the execu tors, the two others being a Phila delphian, Charles Sanderson, and a trust company of that city. The asphalt paving was finished on the Manning road Saturday and the contractors shifted their asphalt workers to the. BishopviHe road Monday morning.- The laying of the sheet ashpalt on the Camden Statebarg road is progressing rap idly. The asphalt work was start ed at Shot Pouch branch, and is proceeding toward the city limits. ??? Married life in-a.ilat has a tend ency to become that ^way. RUSSIAN REDS WARl? ALLIES Moscow Soviet Demands Thatj They Have Voice iarNear East Settlement Mpscjow, Sept. 26.?Soviet Rus- | sia, in a note addressed to Eng- ' land, France, Italy, Greece, Ru-! mania, Jugo-Slavia, Bulgaria and j Egypt, proposing an immediate I conference designed to find a solu- ] tion of the Near East situation, j warns.the European powers against j ignoring the interests of those 1 countries directly interested in the i freedom of the Dardanelles, j The note, which was dispatched j by Acting Foreign Minister Kara kh?n, declares that, as none of the! [ European powers is taking proper i I steps to prevent developments j which appear likely to draw the j j entire series of countries addres i ed into war. the Soviet government j j considers thai~ ?nly an immediate' 'and powerful intervention can k> j caoze the affair and possibly save j southeastern Europe from a new i outbreak of bloodshed. The note reiterates that Russia will refuse to recognize any de cision unless she is'a party to the agreement. . "The Soviet government," says the note, "considers the basis of events in the Near East hinges ou the question, which is recognition for the Turkish people's right to the actual restoration of Turkish sovereignty over the Turkish cap ital of Constantinople and the Straits." . . . "The freedom of the Straits,** the note continues, ."is necessary pri marily to the Black sea ports,, to Russia and- her allied republics,., j and embracing the.greater part of j the Black sea coast." The note details the Russo-Turk ish agreement of .1921, which de clared for the . international statue of the Straits foi* trading purposes. About the time this agreement was reached, it adds, the victorious pow-' ers. of r the world .war had recog nized only their own interest so far as the Straits were concerned, dis regarding Russia altogether. ' ? ? m m ? I Marder Rather Than Pay Taxis Fare. j Columbia, Sept. 2G.?"Startling j announcements" are promised , by i officials in connection with the ar t-rest of two white men hare,.charg-, led with the murder of a negro taxi I driver, Cannon, in March off1921. The two men are Andrew Roberts and Jesse Cooper, the former a, nine-months convict ra the peni tentiary, the latter held now in the ? Richland jail, have both, confessed to the killing, but each says the other fired the fatal shot They. ' killed the driver when they found they did not have $ 15 ^djIth which to pay the taxi bill they had ac cumulated on a long ride with him. .' in search of liquor, which they ! expected to selL TWO KILLED K'IN;?Ll&fl^? WITH^RAH* -? Two Cfiarlotte Men tose Life ill Antomob?e Wreck - Charlotte; Sept: '26.-?Twh v#har-~ ?Otte men, Robert G. Haj^B, 245 i; West Tenth street and 'George Blum.-70S Worthingtoa avenue, were killed when the -automobge in which they. were riding was struck by. Southern passenger train . Xo. 37. near Lin wood Crossing, be tween Spencer and Lexington ?flfy Tuesday. Their Liberty automombile, be lieved to be owned by Blum, wa^ entirely demolished. The men were, identified by let ters and other papers in _ their pockets. './A '. It was reported at the office^ ol the Southern- RaHway. here.that persons., standing /near the c.rossijis: tried to .stop. th% automobtlej./**ct their warnings were seen too late to be heeded. Mr. Hayes was killed out-rf?ht and Mr. Blum ^ied white . being < taken to a. hospital in Salisbury. ". The identity of Blum was efcfat - li^hed through, the records a?'t??> city hail of the automobile J^nW ^ numbers. The machi?^ -bore '~JJL * Charlotte license No. 4225,^ w^bd was purchased by Bmm.._ . . _. \ Mr. Blum is agent for..the Trlv umph Electric eompany, of Cin cinnati, and the Packard Eleetricx' company of Warren, Ohio? .Be has-, office space in the Electric; Jpoaa struc.tion company's bu?ding ?ti West Fifth, street" He' .left. .CharJotte' Tuesday mori- : ipg. enroute to V Greensbo>{> y%Q& j was expected-.to .. return VFr^y/v morning. It.was Jstated at his ^if- " . fice that some one from Qhati&Ge;. I was to make.'.th*: ?'.trtp^,vi&.fl^iB^: '. but the man's /. name wasl not known. ?-.'_. ' ? ? ? ? The patientsX -and- ?urses . of ' I Camp Alice wish to thaak * th^-x. w ho so .liberally contributed" to\ -3x$-r'. ; chair fund. .. ... -. ?w *>, ?? -? ' - Prof. Becker has wrkteh ?yfe-vfe tory of our. Independence. . One?agei? ; calls it an ancient history. v 'f-f'l Oh: what -is so rare as a. quiet day in Ireland? * ;' CONSTfel?? Stomach" Trbul^:'" -: 1 - /??- , -?? mr< Sumter County For The H. 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