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Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
BRIEF news NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT couN.
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parts OF The
Globe And Told In Short
Parasraphs
Foreign

Eamon de Valera has issued a man.
ifesto. signing it himself, launching
a new Irish organization, a republican
association, and asks financial and
moral support of it.
A full grown jackal ran wild through
the streets in the heart of Vienna re-
Gently, terrorizing the population. The
beast pursued pedestrians charging
right and left and biting many persons.
1t finally was killed. An examination
revealed 1t had been suffering from
rabies.
Lady Alice White, who was found
unconscious in her room in a London
hotel recently, died. A burglar is be-
lieved to have inflicted the fatal in
jury, fracture of the skull.
Official announcement was made
from the vatican that Pope Plus had
extended to extended to fifteen days
the interval to elapse between the
death of a pope and the session Of the
sacred college to elect his successor.
Spanish forces continue their sue
cesses against the Moroccan rebels
despite stiff resistance. The latest
official statement says: Three col
umns commanded by General San
jurejo have occupied Ichti Side Salam
ana other positions which dominate
Aroaf and Tikermin. The enemy
fought desperately along fifteen kilo-
meter front but was repulsed and pur-
sued Tanks and armored trucks aid
ed in the pursuit and defeat Of the
enemy, whose resistance was tena-
cious.
Prime Minister Lloyd George and
Marquis Curzon, secretary for foreign
affairs, will be among Great Britain's
delegates to the Genoa economic con-
ference, It was announced.
The proclamation of the sultan,
Ahmed Fuad Pasha, as king Of Egypt,
was accompanied by the firing of
salvos of 101 guns in Cairo, Alexan-
dria and Port Said, and Of 81 guns
in all the other provincial capitals.
dlty SLlhS again iii CdlSAS "
plunge Fiume into anarchy. Immedi-
ately after the fall Of the Zanella gov
ernment, partisan feeling subsided, all
joining in choosing Major Giovanni
Giuriati as head Of the government,
but now that he has refused the po-
silion, each party is again rivalling
the others for control Of the city.
Striking gold miners have practical
ly surrounded johannesburg, South
Africa, and are attacking desperately
in an attempt to seize the city before
the arrival Of reinforcements which
are being rushed to the aid of the
beseiged government troops and volun-
teers.
Reports sent out from Johannesburg,
South Africa. say that the rebellion is
practically over. The government
forces have about driven the mine reb-
els into subsection.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
Washington

Sewage may solve the gas engine
fe ulproblem. Word has reached the
department OF commerce that success
full expericents have been conducted
in Birmingham, England, with suldge,
the mud of common drain pipes.
Rates on grain and grain products
from St. Louis, and Cairo and Thebes,
Ill, to Little Rock. Pine Bluff and
Fort Smith, Ark, and Memphis, Tenn,
were held to be unduly discrimina-
tion against other cities in Arkansas
under a decision issued by the inter-
state commerce commission.
General Semenoff anti-Bolshevist
leader, who has been permitted to land
at Vancouver, B. c., will be required
to appear before immigration inspec-
tors and satisfy them as to his eligi.
bility before he can enter this coun-
try.
Recently there have been just two
developments in the soldiers bonus
muddle. One was the filing by the
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee of the majority report of the
compromise bill, which it was estimat-
ed would cost the government a to-
tai Of s4,09S,719,350. The other was
the circulation Of petition by Repre-
sentative Lineberger of California, a
former service man, for conference
Of house republicans to discuss the
bonus legislation.
The retail price investigation of the
department Of justice is practically
completed. A few prosecutions are
anticipated but the benefits claimed
for the investigation have been large
ly psychological, officials said.
For every dollar per capita which
the United States is spending on her
army, France is spending seven and
Great Britain is spending four, ac-
cording to figures made public by the
general staff.
Herbert Hoover has declined to ac-
cept the director generalship of the
quicentennial exposition to be held in
Philadelphia in 1926.
The vote in the senate on the pro-
posed Robinson amendment to the
four-power Pacific treaty has confirm
ed belief that the decision on ratifi-
cation will be extremely close. While
not conclusive the vote revealed the
extent of the opposition to the pact
The amendment was rejected 55 to 30
Since only majority was required
the defeat of the amendment was
overwhelming.
The Central of Georgia railroad has
applied TO the interstate commerce
commission for permission TO issue
SS25,O00 in equipment trust certifi-
Gates.
Secretary Mellon appeared before a
meeting of the house banking COM
mittee and voiced opposition 20 plac-
ing dirt" farmer on the federal re
I've board.
Passenger traffic of railroads in
1921 was 20 per cent less than in the
preceding year. according to report
filed with the interstate commerce
commission.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
HeJns Aiken People.

Sufferers from the storm in Aiken
county will be assisted by the state
in the amount of $1,000. which Is now
available for the Red Cross OF Aiken
county to be used by this organi1a-
ton in behalf of the people who lost
property in the recent storm.
Senator Wells is responsible for the
amount being given by the state as
when the resolution expressing sym
pathy for the sufferers came over
from the house he moved to amend 1t
so as to appropriate $4,000 for the
people who had lost property. An ap-
propriation could not be made by a
resolution and when the appropriation
bill was taken up the item OF $4,000
was inserted, but the free conference
committee cut the amount to $1,000.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23

grad governmental districts and in the
west the cities of Mnsk, SmOlensk,
WitebSk and in the north, Vologda and
vicinity.
In Moscow itself the epidemic Is
rowing rapidly and the toll which 1t
cNacting from the Moscow popula
lion is already now seven or eight
times larger than that of last season,
and it is feared that before the winter
months are over it might overgrOw the
epidemic of 1919.
In December over 1000 cases Of ty-
phuS were registered in Moscow, while
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23

during the first three weeks Of Janu-
ary, 4,7S3 cases were registered in
hospitals. But the real number of
cases is declared to be much higher
than this figure.
TO cope with the situation, the gov
ernmcnt stopped passenger traffic on
the eastern railways for six weeks.
Baths have been organized in Moscow
railway terminals, and all refugees
and military detachments arriving here
are compelled to use them. In Moscow
itself. bathing facilities were afforded
in all districts.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
SOUTH CAROLINA
SIGNS CONTRACT
PROMINENT MEN WITH COVER.
NOR WHEN HE AFFIXED SIG
NATURE 70 RESOLUTION.
STATE CO.OPERATES IN PLAN
Colonel Sanders, Superintendent Of
Penitentiary, Signs Agreement on
Part Of South Carolina.

COlum Ola.
The State of South Carolina will sell
all cotton grown on the state farms
during the next five years through
the South Carolina Cotton Growers
Cooperative association. Governor
Cooper signed the bill passed at the
last session of the general assembly
empowering the superintendent OF the
penitentiary to sign the association
agreement on the part Of the state,
and Col. A. K. Sanders, the superin-
tendent, signed the contract imme-
diately thereafter.
The governor signed the act in the
presence of Senator Bethea OF Dillon
and Representative Jackson OF Sum-
ter, two OF the authors Of the bill;
Harry G. Hammer, president OF the
South Carolina Cotton Growers Co.
operative association; r. c. Hamer,
chairman of the campaign committee;
Harold C. Booker, secretary; D. w.
Watkins of the extension forces OF
Clemson College; Col. A. K. Sanders,
superintendent of the penitentiary,
and w. R. Watkins, the governors
secretary. Senator G. K. Laney OF
Chesterfield, who with Senator Be-
thea, sponsored the bill in the SEN
ate. wired that he was unable to be
present at the signing because OF pre-
vious engagements.
Colonel Sanders signed the con-
tract for 575 bales, this being based
on the 1920 crop. The agreement re-
ouires that all cotton grown on the
state farms in the years 1922. 1923,
1924, 1925 and 1926 be sold through
the association. 1t leaves optional
with the superintendent the sale Of
the cotton now on hand. He may also
turn 1t over to the association for
sale IL he deems wise.
The Joint resolution signed by the
governor is as follows: THE super
intendent Of the penitentiary be, and
he Is hereby, authorized and empow-
cred to sign the agreement -of the
South Carolina Cotton Growers Co.
operative association and thereby bind
the state of South Carolina by all
the terms and obligations therein con-
tanned and set forth.
Colonel Sanders said that 1t gave
him pleasure to affix his signature to
the association agreement. He be-
lieves firmly in cooperative marketing
OF cotton and expressed the belief
that the best interests Of the state
would be conserved by it's signing the
agreement.
At the headquarters Of the South
Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative
association it was said that contracts
representing over $4,000 bales were
received, smashins all records for the
campaign. Lee county has sent In
5000 contracts in two days, 1t was
said.
A telegram from Bishopville re-
ceived at the headquarters OF the as
sociation, said that w. A. Stuckey, one
of the best known planters in TIE
state. had signed the contract. Before
signing the contract Mr.. Stuckey had
made a thorough study Of the propo-
sition.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
TYPHUS SPREADS IN RUSSIA
Epidemic Is Now Raging in Many Big
Cities, With Death Rate Above
Forty Per Cent.

Moscow.-Soviet Russia is once
more under the shadow of an epidemic
wave of typhus fever and recurrent ty-
phus which has been spreading since
November last. The Volga famine area
;S chiefly affected. In the center of
Russia the epidemic has invaded the
tIg towns of the Moscow and Petro-
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
Would Enforce Law.

Efforts to provide for the enforce
ment of the state motor vehicle IL
cense laws are to be made by the
state highway department in conjunc-
ton with the counties, as no proVis'
ion for the enforcement was made by
the legislature at it's last session. Or
ficials of the highway department are
in hope that an arrangement can be
made with the counties whereby in
spectors can be placed in the field to
enforce the law and to bring in much
revenue every month.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
Governor Signs Highway Measure.

Governor Signs Highway Measure.
Governor Cooper signed the F. @.
Harris measure amending the state
highway act so as to prevent any city
or town from charging an automobile
drivers license in addition to the IL
censes now required by the state high
way department, except in the case OF
autos and trucks for hire. Under an
amendment placed in the bill in the
senate this amended bill does not ef-
feet cities having populations in ex-
cess of $4,000 inhabitants, or in other
words, Columbia and Charleston.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
Efficiency Men Get More Money.

An additional $3,7S6.74 for Griffin
hagen and associates, efficiency engi-
neers OF Chicago, is carried in the
annual appropriation bill under ap-
proved claims. These engineers made
an investigation Of the state govern
ment last year and submitted their
findings to the general assembly
which has adjourned. According to a
previous statement, the experts had
already been paid little over $4,000
and this additional fund brings the
amount to over $4,000 for the investi-
cations.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
Time Extended on Income Tax.

] lme EHtcnQco OF iHSono iaN'
The South Carolina tax commission
granted an extension until May for
all persons and firms subject to pay
state income tax. Under the new law,
the state income tax Of onethtrd the
amount of the federal tax was due the
same time as the federal tax, not later
than March Is. This included the re-
turn and the first installment.
1t would have been impossible for
the tax commission to have enforced
this as 1t gave only two days to COM
plete the task Of setting up machinery
for the enforcing of the tax. Under
the terms Of the law the tax commits
sion has authority to set such time
as 1t may see fit to take the returns
and under this authority the commits
sion extended the time to May l.
This year only an affidavit Of what
was paid the federal government will
be necessary, but In future years
duplicate OF the federal return will
have to be filed with the stare gov
ernment.
]. Fraser Lyon and J. P. Derham,
members of the tax commission, is
sued the following statement in grant
ing the extension:
"All persons, partnerships, corpora
tions and fiduciaries whose fiscal year
ended on December 81, 1921, or Jan.
uary 81, 1922, including all persons
who have no fiscal year other than the
calendar year, who are required to
make returns under the state income
tax act before March Is, 1922, or April
Is, 1922, respectively, are with re-
gard to their income tax return or
affidavits to the South Carolina tax
commission and with regard to the
payment of the state income tax
granted an extension until the first
day Of May, 1922. This extension Is
granted under authority Of At to
raise revenue for the support OF the
state government by the levy and coli
lection of a tax upon incomes, ap.
proved the 18th day Of March, 1922"
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
Slams Textile Bill.

Signs Textile Bill.
Governor Cooper has signsd the 55-
hour act and the measure is now
law of the state Under the provis-
ions of the act 55 hours week and 10
hours a day are the legal hours in
textile plants in the state.
Federal recognition was granted to
Can't. James NJ. Wallace, Company B,
Thirty-third engineers, South Caro-
lima National Guard, and to First Lieu.
tenant Broadus R. Littlejohn and to
Second Lieutenant Grantland C. Green
of the same unit. The company In
located at Spartanburg. ;
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
Two New Charters.

Two New Charters.
The Marlboro Potato company or
Bennettsville was chartered by the
secretary Of state with a capital
stock of $4,000. Officers are: E. w.
Evans, president; c. s. McColl, vice.
president; ]. F. Everett, Jr, secre-
tary and treasurer; F. V. Crane, gen.
eral manager.
The Palmetto Sheet Metal Works or
Florence was chartered with capital
stock OF $500. Officers are: B. G.
Cresg president: R. L. Wyatt, vice.
president; e. G. Gregg ,Jr., secre-
tary and treasurer.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
Officers Given Recognition.

Federal recognition was extended to
the following National Guard officers
OF South Carolina: Capt. James G..
Collier, Company I, One Hunhed and
Eighteenth infantry, Rocx Hill;
Second Lieut.. James Lewis Conner,
headquarters company, Third battal-
ion. Rock Hill.
Lieut. Howard E. Danner was ap-
pointed by the adjutant general to be
summary court officer for the Four
Hundred and Twenty-seyenth COM
pany OF coast artillery. Beaufort.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23

State Highway Commission msets.
At the meeting OF the state highway
commission, Charles H. Moorefeld,
state highway engineer, was re1uest-
ed to continue to serve as engineer
for the present year and Mr.. Moore
field consented. 1t will be recalled
that Mr.. Moorefield resigned as engi-
neer several weeks ago when there
was fight on in the legislature. At
the request of the commission he
agreed to remain at his post for the
present.
Two delegates, one from Abbeville
county and one from Aiken county,
came before the commission in the in
terest of road work. L. w. Keller, SUI
pervisor, and H. B. Humbert, county
engineer, composed the delegation
from Abbeville They sought federal
aid in the construction Of proposed
project from the Anderson county line
via Lowndesville, Latimer and Cal
houn Falls to the Mccormick county
line. The commission was Il the
opinion that the road from Abbeyille
to Calhoun Falls was Of greater I'M
portance than the other.
The delegation from Aiken was
composed of C. J. Hill, DR.. w. A.
Whitlock and E. A. Yaun, members
of the county commission, and r. D.
Glove, county engineer. The delega-
tion sought federal aid on tho road
from Salley to Monetta and requested
the adoption Of this road into the high
way system. as the new federal aid
law provides that not more than seven
per cent of the roads may be includsl
in the federal aid system and as that
percentage is already Included, me
admission of another road would nec-
essitate the elimination OF some ether
road. It was decided to eliminate the
road from Trenton to Augusta from
the system and to give aid to the for
mer project when funds are available.
The commission received commu-
nication from the United Daughters Oh
the Confederacy asking that the high
way from Cheraw, Camden, Columbia
to Augusta be designated as the JEFF
ferson Davis highway and this road
will be so named on the maps.
The request of Bamberg county for
federal aid in the sum Of 100000 for
improving the road between Bamberg
and the Orangeburg county line was
received. The commission had already
approved $4,000 for this section and
the additional $4,000 was requested
for allotment at the present time as
the county is ready to match the $2o.-
900. The commission approved the
request provided the county make ar
rangements to construct the bridge
over the Salkehatchie river.
No action was taken on the request
| of Greenville county for federal aid In
the sum of $4,000 for the road from
Travellers Rest to the North Carolina
line in the direction of Brevard.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-11-28

,uTd be looked for annually on the
asiS of figures in hand. This would
e increased if production was main
aimed at the rate it is now going.
The anthracite TAX was counted up
nn To provide means for the educa-
t;onal program and was contentested
on the reports of production and as
spssment of tax thereon for the last
half of 1921, when the tax became
operative. 1t was figured the tax due
for that period from all anthracite
producers would aggregate $3,2O0,OOe.
The reports on production for 1872.
will not be completed until about
March l, and owing to the strike the
tax NAV not run so large as expected
although the speeding up of produ'
ton since the close of the strike may
bring in more than anticipated.
Over seventy appeals from the as
sessment of tax by the auditor genera?
are pending in the Dauphin county
court without Stipulations TO be gov
erned by the supreme court decision
on the chief constitutional points, but
whether they will be prosecuted by
the producers or not is not known
here.
Attorney General George f. Alter.
who defended the act in the courts
and Auditor General Samuel S. Lewis
he chief revenue officers, were i'll
Pittsburgh, but at their offices it was
stated steps to secure payment of the
tax would be taken Immediately.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-11-28
PEkgA. COAL TAX
CONSTITUTIONAL
Impost on Anthracite Upheld by
rs. Supreme Court
70 ipPEALS ARE PENDING
Levy /; Expected to Yield $4,000, 900
Annually to State Treasury-Tax is
w Per Cent Ad Valorem.

Washington, Nov. 2S.---The Pennsyi-
vania law imposing Il fax on anthra-
cite was declared constitutional by the
supreme court, in case brought by
Roland G.. Heisler against the Thomas
ColIiery company and certain state
officers of Pennsylvania.
In 1913 the state imposed an al
valorem tax of 2R per cent on antllra-
cite mined. which was held unconstl-
tutional by the state courts. In l9lo
a similar tax was again imposed. ana
was sagain held unconstitutional.
In3 1921 the legislature enacted the
present law, reducing the tax. to ~
per cent, ad valOrem, and the state
courts sustained it as valid. The tax
waSSadvOcated as revenue measure,
it having been estimated by the state
officials that it would produce annu-
ally over $10,500,000.
1t was asserted in opposition to the
tax that should it be held valid, manu-
featuring states could impose taxes
upon merchandise made within their
borders, grain growing states upon
wheat and corn, and the southern
states upon cotton.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-11-28
Expect $4,000 GOO From Tax.

Harrisburg. Nov. 2S.-Upholding by
the United States supreme court of
PENNSYLVANIA anthracite tax, which
had been upheld in the PENNSYLVANIA
supreme and Dauphin county courts,
will mean an income from that source
of from S6,0O0OO0 to SS.000,00O year,
according to production.
The auditor generals office announc-
ed thus far SS,2SS.5S had been paid
IN anthracite tax and about S6,3QO0 QUO
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-11-28
aITToMORu,H BLUE BOOK

1922 AUTOMOBILE BLUE BOOK
reduced from 81 to 81 SO, while they
last. Hoge and Holder
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-11-28
HeIpIess as Mother Burns.

Lancaster, Pa, Nov. 2S.-With his
mother a veritable pillar Of flame only
, few feet from where he sat in a
chair with broken leg, recently sus-
aimed in a motorcycle crash, Thomas
Cook, of this city, was unable TO go
% her rescue when the woman's cloth
ing caught fire at her home. The
nother. Mrs. Mary a. Cook, died II
St. Josephs Hospital as result of
he terrible burns that scared he.
body from head to foot.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-11-28
ADMITS ATTEMPT TO KILL
Reading Woman Confesses Sending
Poisoned Candy to Neigh6or.

Reading. Nov. 2S.-Mrs Seneca
Beard, % years old. in jail charged
with attempt to murder Mrs. Amos
Chamurs, % years old, her neighbor,
by sending her box of poisoned
cdniy, confessed to Po al 1nSpe 't"r
Valentine ScE0Cnherger, and two city
detectives, Britton and st. Clair. she
sent the box.
She said, after repeated previous
denialS of guilt, that she committed
the offense.
She said she bought poison to
e,.terminate rats, put it in the candy,
mailed it. and then went to see her
husband, who is i'll in Jail. Mrs. Beard.
who has considerable property, has
seven grown children.
The motive, she said, was the fact
she lost most of her petty law suits,
which she and the Chamurs and
others, had engaged in before an al
derman.
She finally decided the law was
against her." and she planned to get
revenge along her own lines.