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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-08-06
VESSELS SHAKEN
BY EARTHQUAKE

On Board L. S. S. New Mexico, Sat
urday. Aug 2 (Wireless to the Asso-
ciated Press).-Six dreadnoughts of
the Pacific fleet were shaken severely
by a double earthquake shock at 4.lS
o'clock this afternoon 20 miles off the
coast of the State OF Colima, Mexico.
None of the warships reported any
damage The New Mexico tremoled
from bow to stern, as if she had
struck an uacharted reef and the navi-
eating officer sounded collision
quarters on the hagship's siren. Sail
ors in the foretop said the basket
masts Of the warships swayed like
poplar trees in gale.
Officers on the quarter deck hur-
ried to their posts and the crew and
marines took their places. Meanwhile
all water tight compartments on the
New Mexico We're closed and inspec-
ton parties were sent into the holds
to see if there had been any damage
to the hull.
Admiral Hugh Rodman. command
ing tie feet, quickly recognized the
cause of the disturbance.
When the first tremor Of the ship
was felt those below hurried on deck.
The faces of some Of the recruits
showed alarm as the men stood at
quarters awaiting orders. while the
flagship rolled and pitched in the
heavy swells that followed the shoc~s.
Admiral Rodman kept the crow ct
puarters for l5 minutes ard then or
dered the secure signal to oe
sounded
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American Army in Europe Will
Be Directed From Ger
man City
ANTWERP TO BE
A BASE PORT
Grand Headquarters at Paris
VIII Be Closed About August
Twentieth

Coblenz, Saturday, Aug. 2.-That
Coblenz will become the headquarters
of the American forces in Europe
when American grand headquarters
at Paris are closed about August goth,
became known today when Gen. Per-
shing arrived on a final tour Of the
battlefield. Antwerp will be the base
for the ammunition contingent that is
to remain on the Rhine indefinitely.
Gen. Pershing intends to sail from
Brest about September 1st.
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protocol to the Versailles treaty con-
taining a number Of supplementary
provisions and Chairman Lodge pu;
into the record IN a@Bee 1.,e,s: hitner-
to unpublished II .tn.s c5;.ltry in
which Mr.. Wilson, M. Clemenceau and
Premier Lloyd George had embodied
certain regulations for the government
of the Rhine provinces. Mr.. Lodge
also presented copy of the treaty be-
tween the big FIVE powers and Po-
land, not yet submitted to the senate
for ratification. The only address il
the senate regarding the Versailles
treaty was by Senator Fall, Republi-
can, New Mexico. who opposed the
league and criticised President Will
sou for his course in the Versailles
negotiations.
Before the foreign relations COM
mittee Bernard M. Raruch economic
adviser to the American peace dele
cation, replied to number Of ques-
tions regarding reparation sections Of
the treaty.
President Wilson's message trans
hitting the protocol follows:
"To the Senate: I have the honor
; to transmit to the senate herewith
accom- panied by a letter from the
secretary of state, a. brief protocol 70
the treaty Of peace with Germany.
The certified copy which I transmit
has just been received by the de-
partn,ent of State and am transmit
ting it without delay.
The protocol originated in writ
ten interchange Of views between the
representatives of the allied and as
sociated powers and the representa-
tives Of Germany as a result Of which
the representatives Of Germany re-
quested that certain explanations o:
methods and facilities which 1t was
proposed should be accorded the Ger
man government in the execution OF
the treaty, should be reduced to writ
ing and signed by the powers sigma
tory to the treaty so as to form de-
finite and binding memorandum.
(Signed) Woodrow Wilson.
He said he doubted whether Ger
many ever could pay the amount OF
indemnity that would be assessed
against her, and maintained that ever
if the United States were to receive
no part Of the indemnity it was
important in dollars and cents" tha:
there be an American Representative
on the reparations commission which
is to supervise collection Of the biz
from Germany Mr.. Baruch will con-
tinue his testimony tomorrow.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-08-06
FIRE IN CHICAGO
Race Riot Dwindles to Several
Minor Disturbances

Chicago, Aug. 2-An incendiary
fire, hich the police declare was
started by negroes, early today swept
through the district bounded by West
Forty.third, West Forty-fif /, South
lincoln street and South Hermitage
avenne, destroying 100 homes Of Pol
ish and Lithuanian employees Of the
stock yards and causing a property
loss Of more than 100000. Three
persons are missing and a score was
injured in the confagration.
The homes burned were chiefly
those OF Lithuanians and Polish FAM,
lilies and the governor thought re-,
ports indicated radical labor men had
started the blaze because the foreign,
els had not supported their plans.
Troops were on duty tonight at the
ere raans and IN the negro residence,
districts. Schools and rest stations
haEa Deeu. opened to. families y. q. 3 3
Coroner Hoffman stated today that
no marks of violence had been found
oil the body Of Eugene Williams. a
negro youth. who was reported stoned
ard knocked from raft into LAKE.
1NtSHiSoH lASS oa-toe1!<: a. q Ia e't1t-S
beach. the act precipitating the riots,
The coroner. stated that the negro had
net been Struck by stones, but had
been drowned. George Staloer, wiiite,
is held by the police on charge OF
murder in connection with Williams
death
Ong a few minor disturbances oc-
Cured today The federal, State and
city Investigation of the riots and fire
continued and at least 250 negro sus-
poets and several score OF whites
|, were taken to Jail.
cSass:o attorneys are preparing dam
age sits against the city. tader the
State law persons who 90 not partic-
ipste in riots can recovei, from the
nauniei pality for damage .;,.stained.
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BOMB OUTRAGE
IN CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Home Destroyed by
Internal Machine Placed
by Anarchists =
=,
OWNER OF PROPERTY
. WAS FATALLY INJURED
Former Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Victim Of Outrage Perpe-
trated in California

Los Angeles, Aug. Oscar LawlsT,
former assistant United States attor-
ney general FOR the interior depart
ment, was pl obably fatally burned and
Mrs. Lawler was badly burned when
their home was destroyed early today
by what the police believe to have
been a gasoline bomb.
Shortly before O'Clock this morn
ing, according to Information gathered
by the police, a man irving an auto
mobile stopped in front OF the Lawler
residence at New Hampshire Street
and Wiltshire Boulevard, in an exci:1-
sire residential district. He dropped
something, Ieaped into the car and
rapidly drove away.
An explosion followed almost imme-
diately. The house burst into flames.
Mr.. Lwier, his wife and one child
were trapped within. TWO men, who
were driving past the house, seized a
ladder and rescued Oscar Lawler, Jr.,
five years old.
:. Mr.. Lawler dragged his wife to q
window and in the midst Of flames
lowered her from an upper story until
her feet touched an awning over q
window on the ground floor. Then he
leaped to the ground. They were re-
moved to a hospital.
II Two other Lawler children, Charles
and Jane, were visiting at Pebbly
Beach.
Revenge for the par 14e played in
the prosecution of. a group of dyna-
rniters in the Middle West several
years ago was assigned by. the police
here as the probable motive for the
attempt on the life Of Mr.. LAWYER.
A thorough Investigation by city
county, state a9d federal authorities
lied to the belief that the bomb was
placed between two five. gallon cans
filed with gasoline or some otfel
highly. inflammable liquid: Experts
working on the case found fragments
of the bombs sufficient to reconstruct
it. They said it had been. made Of g
piece of iron pipe about ten inches
high and Six inches in diameter. Two
discs OF metal had been placed as ends,
apparently held in place by two bolts
passing through both ends and the
pipe itself. They also found the two
five gallon cans that had: contained
the liquid.
Physicians attending Mr.. Lawler
and his wife announced tonight thar
his chances for recovery were about
even. Mrs. Lawler, they SAID, would
recover.
Mr.. Lawler served as assistant Unit
ed States attorney general for the in
terror department for two years be-
ginning May l, 1909. He resigned and
returned here to practice law. He was;
a special prosecutor of the alleged
dynarniters whose trial at Indianapolis
a few years ago attracted Internal
ional interest He also served local
ly as an investigator and prosecutor
OF men accused, Of similar crimes.
MIR. Lawler who was born in Iowa
in 1875 is a director Of one OF the
leading banks here. 1t was found
that the force Of the explosion was
so great that shreds Of metal which
fitted into the larger pieces of the
bomb were scattered at q thousand
feet away.
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PERMANENT
ARMY PLANS
Regular Force of Half Million
Men and Universal Mill
tary Training

Washington, Aug. 4.-Plans for the
permanent peace time army OF five
hundred and ten thousand officers and
men and system of universal mill
tary training was transmitted to con-
gress today by Secretary Baker. Pro-
motion by seniority would be abolish
ed. the war having shown the system
to be defective.
Also provides for compulsory three
months training for all nineteen-year-
old youths.
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RIOTS IN LIVERPOOL
Troops Charged Mob With Fixed
Bayonets

Liverpool, Aug. 4.-The riofons
crowds were driven from the streets
Of this city this morning by troops
charging with fixed bayonets. The
rioters filled the streets during the
night and not Until dayhreak Were
the soldiers ordered to charge. rhe
cruiser Valiant and two destroyers
were moved into the Mersey river 10
protect the docks.
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FOOD PRICES
ON DECLINE
Big Break in Provision Market
Today

Chicago, Aug. 4.-Grain and pro-
visions had a severe decline today.
Corn prices dropping 1-2 to 8
cents bushel and pork dollar and
a-quarter a Darrell. The break is at
tributed to the widespread agitation
against the high cost of living.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-08-06
NEW TARIFF
MEASURE PASSED

Washington. Aug. 2-The house to-
day passed the first protective tariff
measure to be acted upon since the,
Republicans regained control Of con-
gress. The measure levies high du-
ties on chemical glassware and appa-
ratus. 1t now goes to the senate.
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Counsel of Anti-Saloon League
Says Opinion Of Elihue Root
Is Not Good
PROHIBITION LAW
IS CONSTITUTIONAL
He Also Denies That An Anti
Tobacco Campaign Is to Be
Started

Washington. Aug. 4.-Mayne B.
Wheeler, counsel Of the Anti-Saloon
League Of America, took issue today
with the opinion rendered by Elihu
Root, William D, Guthrie and Will
liam L. Mar bury, counsel of the Unit
ed, States Brewers Association that
the proposed prohibition enforce
mefat act is unconstitutional. He de-
MED: that the league forces intended
20 start an anti-to bacco campaign.
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Los Angeles. Aug. Oscar Lawler,
former assistant United States at
torney general, who was seriously
burned yesterday in the fire following
the bomb explosion which wrecked
his home has "a chance Of recover,
according to his physicians this morn
ing. Mrs Lawler who was also
burned, seemed certain Of recover.
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Washington, Aug. 2.-DlSSatlShed
with President Wilson's proposal TO
have congress create. a special body
10 pass On their demands, or consider
them in connection with the high cost
OF living problem, the railway shop
men began today to take an Official
strike vote.
B. N. Jewell, acting president OF
the Railway Employees Depa- tment Of
the American Federation of Labor,
said tonight that Director General
Hines had been informed by thescom-
nittee., representing the shopmen of
their dissatisfa ction with the sugges-
ton that congress intervene.
Acting in behalf Of six allied
crafts, a committee was appointed tc
report to Director General Hines ask
ing for an adjustment of wage sched-
ules.'' Mr.. Jewell said. 'On February
S. the question was referred to the
board of. adjustment Of wages and
working conditions. During March and
April the whole question was thrashed
out at hearings Of the board and on
July Is the board made its recon-
nendation to the director. general
Following "a conference with Mr..
Hines on July % we believed that the
question had finally come to head
and expected decision. The letter
from Mr.. Hines to President Wilson
followed and that solution we have
positively rejected.
I'VE have now decided to send out
the call for a strike vote, returnable
August "a at midnight, to 100000 en-
pIoyes Of American railroads, and the
10000 employees of Canadian railroads
affected. The, shops craft ask for a
minimum of IS cents al hour foG
mechanics. an increase Of IT cents, a
minimum of so cents for helpers, an
increase OF. Is cents, and SO cents an
hour for apprentices.
The Canadian employees are in
yolved by reason Of the fact that
their wage and working conditions,
usJer an agreement reached with the
.ailroad board, are based on standards
as they are adopted here.
we shall continue to settle the de-
n1ands by arbitration with the rail
road administration penang recelpi
of the strike vote, that when taken
will put the power Of calling strike
IN the hands Of the committee.
The call for strike vote viii
probably end the present strike which
has taken out considerable number
Of our members in different parts OF
the country who have been impatient
over the long delay. We expect tha:
they will return to work when they
see that the organization is at work
in united fashion"
All blacksmiths, machinists and
helpers, boilermakers and helpers
sheet metal workers, electrical work
ers, and railway carmen Of America
are involved in the controversy.
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AT BUDAPEST

Paris. Aug. 4-Rumanian troops
entered the suburbs Of Budapest yes
terday, according to dispatch re-
ceived here from Vienna
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Washington, Aug. 4.-Four hum
dred and fifty thousand members Of
the Brotherhood Of Railway and
Steamship clerks. freight handlers,
express and station employees joined
the other railway workers in de
manding that something be done
TO materially reduce the cost Of
living and that wages must be raised
to give immediate relief, The de-
mards were transmitted by President
Forester of the Brotherhood.
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A Quarter of a Million Mer
Have Already Quit
Work
EXTENDING TO ALL SEC
TIONs OF THE COUNTRY
Railroad Administration is Be-
ing Held Up BY the Urgent
Demands of Workmen

Chicago, Aug. 4.-The strike Of the
Federated Railway Shopmen has en-
tered the fourth day and has already
involved approximately TWO hundred
and fifty thousand men. It will soon
spread to every section of the coun-
try local officials of the union dec2ar-
ed today. unless the union demands
are speedily met.
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HOLD CONFERENCE
WITH HINES
Railroad Union Officials Meet
Director General

Washington, Aug. All railroad
union Officials now i'll Washington me-
today with Director General Hines for
a conference on the high cost of liv-
ing
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as lightly as possible on the productive
resources Of the country, that It's rates
shall be stable, and that shall De
constant in It's revenue yielding power,
We have found the main sources from
which 1t must be drawn, ] take 1t for
granted that its mainstays VIII hence
forth be the income tax, the excess
profits tax, and the estate tax, All
these can so be adjusted to yield con-
slant and adequate returns and yet
not constitute a too grievous burden
on the taxpayers. A revision Of the In.
come tax has already been provided
for by the act Of 1918, but ! think you
win find that further changes can be
made to advantage both In the rates
collection. The excess profits tax mead
not long be maintained at the rates
which we're necessary while the enor-
nous expenses OF the war, had to be
borne, but 1t should be made the basis
Of a permanent system which will
reach undue profits without discourag-
ing the enterprise and activity OF our
business men. The tax on i~nheritances
ought, no doubt, to be reconsidered In
It's relation to the fiscal systems OF the
several states, but II certainly ought
10 remain a permanent part OF the
fiscal system Of tho federal govern
ment also.
Many OF the minor taxes provided
for in the revenue legislation OF 1917
and 1918, though no doubt made neces-
sary by the pressing necessities OF the
war time, can hardly find sufficient
Justification under the easier circum.
stances Of peace, and a now happily
be got rid OF, Among these, | hope you
will agree, are the excuses upon vari-
Gus manufacturers and the taxes upon
retail sales, They are unequal In the
incidence on different industries and On
different individuals. Their collection
Is difficult and expensive. Those which
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Big Work Ahead.

America has a great and honorable
service TO perform in bringing the COM
mercial and Industrial undertakings OF
the world back to their old scope n
swing again. and putting a solid struc-
ture of credit under them. All our leg
islation should be friendly to such plans
and purposes. ,
And credit and enterprise alike will
he quickencd by timely and helpful leg
islation with regard TO taxation. | hope
that the congress will find it possible
to undertake an early reconsideration OF
federal taxes, In order To make our sys-
tenn of taxation more simple and easy
OF administration and the taxes them
selves as little burdensome az they Ii
be made and yet suffice TO support the
government and meet all its obiiga.
tons. The figures to which those ob-
legations have arisen are very great,
indeed, but they are not so great as
to make 1t difficult for the nation to
meet them, and meet them, perhaps,
In a single generation, by taxes which
will neither crush nor discourage.
These are not 50 great as they seem,
not so great as the immense sums we
have had to borrow, added to the i'm
mems sums we have had TO raise by
taxation, would seem to Indicate; for
a very large proportion OF those sums
were raised in order that they might
be loaned 10 the governments with
which we were associated in the war,
and those loans viii, or course, consti.
tute assets, not liabilities. n will not
have to be taken care Of by our tax
payers.
''Ths main thing we shall have 10
are for Is that our taxation shall re-,
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will be opened to our free capital, But
II Is not only OF that I am thinking;
1t Is not chiefly Of that that l am think
ing. Many great Industries Frustrated
by the war wait to be rehabilitated in
nan parts OF the world where what
will be lacking is not brains or willing
hands or organizing capacity or expert
enced skill, but machinery and raw ma
terials and capital. ! believe that u
business men. our merchants, our man
ufacturers and our capitalists, will have
the vision to see that prosperity In n
part OF the world ministers to prosper
fly everywhere; that there is in a very,
true sense a solidarity Of interest
throughout the world Of enterprise, and
that our dealings with the countries
hat have need Of our products and our
money, will teach them to deem us more
than ever friends whose necessities we
seek in the right way to serve.
Our new merchant ships, which have
in some quarters been feared as De,
structtve rivals may prove helpful
rivals. rather, and common ser
wants, very much needed and very
welcome. Our great shipyards, new
and Old, will be so opened TO the use
OF the world that they will prove i'm
mensely serviceable to every maritime
people in restoring, much more rapidly
than would otherwise have been posi-,
in the war. | have only to suggest
that there are many points at which
we we can facilitate American enter
prise In foreign trade by opportune leg
islation and make 1t easy for American
merchants to go where they Will be
welcomed as friends rather than as
dreaded antagonists.
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Continued From First Page.)
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Must Aid Troops.

Il am sure that 1t is not necessary
for me to remind you that there Is one
immediate and very practical question
of labor thai we should meet in the
most liberal spirit. We must see to 1t
that our returning soldiers are assisted
In every practicable way to find the
places for which they are fitted in the
daily work Of the country. This can be
lone by developing n maintaining
upon an adequate scale the admirable
organization created by the department
Of labor for placing men seeking work
and it can also be done, in at least one
very great field, by creating new oppor-
t~unities for individual enterprise. The
secretary OF the interior has pointed
out the way by which returning soldiers
may be helped to find and take up land
In the hitherto undeveloped regions OF
the country which the federal govern
ment has already prepared or can read
lily prepare for cultivation and also on
many Of the cutover or neglected areas
which lie within the limits OF the older
states; and | inc more take the lib
erty OF recommending very urgently
that his plans shall receive the fmme-
diate and substantial support Of the
congress.
Peculiar INT very stimulating con-
ditiens await our commerce and indus
trial enterprise in the immediate future.
Unusual opportunities will presently
present themselves and our merchants
and producers In foreign markets. and
large fields Of profitable investment