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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08
By JESSE HENDERSON
 Special Correspondent of The Age-H Herald Copyright. 1921, by The Age-HeraId)


 Copyright. 1921, by The Age -HeraId)
 New York, January Trim tweed knickerboekers and a thin black ei- gar have been jostling for place in the limelight this week. The knick- erboGkers appeared at the skating ponds Surfing the cold snap, and their appearance on women skaters was not unusual But, from the ponds. they and the women wearers wan dered to the campus of Barnard col lege, the girls section of Columbia And from the campus they pro gressed to the streets roundabout Columbia, as the girl students scam pered from classroom to boarding house to skating pond.
 Which means that ere long the trim tweed knickerbockers are going to be seen upon women shoppers or strollers along the avenue. And once again the critics will raise scandal fzed eyes to heaven and demand to be told whither the modern woman is drifting, anyway.
 The critics are already lifting scan- dalized eyes over the thin black ci- gar. Scarcely have the ultra -conser- vatives begun to recover from their horror at sight of the cigarette in feminine lips when. To and behold. titSSS ieHiiHlHe IDS Close r0Sily about Yeritable stogie. There has been dismay in certain circles lest women adopt the tiny pipe so fashionable at present in London. With what deeper emotion then would these anxious ones have viewed the sprightly lady in orchid chiffon who, after dinner in fashionable hotel last evening, selected a long, slim cigar from a sil- yer case, and, despite stares of wait CTS and guests, smoked 1t to the sup posedly bitter end. Cigarettes pipes, cigars--the only he-accessory which milady has not yet added to her smoking outfit is the cuspidor. The chances are she would add this also if some jeweler turned 1t out in gold and emeralds.
 Justice There Is
 Now and then a long-haired orator climbs a soap box in Madison Square to tell the world that there is no justice in New York. lie Is mistaken There were two shining examples of justice recently. examples over which the town rocked with approval and merriment Nobody loves a landlord, but dislike is pale word for what tenants in one Bronx apartment house felt for their renting agent The
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Rheumatism is pain only.' Not one case in fifty requires Internal treatment. Stop drugging Rub soothing, penetrating "St. Jacobs oil" directly into your sore. stiff joints and muscles and relief comes in- stantly, "St. Jacobs Oil" is harm less rheumatism cure which never disappoints and cannot burn or dis color the skin.
 Limber upl Quit complainingl Get
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ing their confidence on the ch,meri- cal plans and imagination of the Brit ish prime minister
 While we await results we keep our lawyer--in the present state of Europe this Is our military strength but don't call us imperiaIists. That would be neither exact nor just.
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slble to work in Russia in it's present state. Lloyd George. however does not think these objections important.
 There Is little probability that is certain that the separations prob lem will be complicated. That Is what Shines and Rathenau hoped for, bas-
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Sl RHeuMAT0c Jo0NTs F AfzH1 Rub Pain al9ht Out Try This! 4g5; 45;

small trial bottle of old time St. Jacobs oil" at any drug store and In just moment you'll be free from rheumatic pain, soreness and stiff ness. Don't suffer! Relief and a cure awaits you. "St. Jacobs Oir' has cured millions of rheumatism suffer- CTS in the last half century. and is just as good for sciatica, neuralgia, lumbago, baekache, sprains and wellings.--Adv.
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AMERICAN CLUB IN RIGA
By Associated Press


 Riga, January 7.-An American luncheon club has been organized in Riga, with a charter membership of 30, most of whom are here on gov ernment, American relief administra- ton or American Red Cross business. II. L. Groves, the American trade commissioner, Is it's president. The American colony in the Baltic states is constantly growing through arrival here of business men interested in Russian trade.
 The condor is commonly thought of as a South American bird. There is, however, a giant North American con- dor that lives in the remoter moun- tain fastnesses of California.
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en Secretary Hughes suggested
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-07
BURIED WITH
ROPE EAR0UND
THEIR NECKS
Gl.uesome Testimony
Brought O u t i n
Hearing. Before the
Senate Committee

Washington, Jan. IA service
employee, who prepared bodies OF
American soldiers for shipment
from France told the senate COM
mirtee that on three OF the bod
les disinterred he found q rope
around the neck and black cap
over each face. He said the bodies
were those Of two negroes and one
white man. They were identified
by cross on the outside OF the
coftins and that the black caps We're
not removed before shipment to
the United States
Major Opie, OF Staunton, Va.
commander of the third battalion
Of the one hundred and sixteenth
infantry, was present with counsel
10 enter formal denial OF the
charges made by Henry L. Scott,
Ohio, that he shot and killed two
soldiers in France.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-07
COTTON
FREIGHT :
REDUCED
Railroad Commission
Puts New Low Rate
into Effect as Of
January lst on Both
Intra-State and In
ter-State Shipments

Columbia, jan Additional
reductions in freigh. rates on cot
ton were announced by the South
Carolina Railroad Commission to-
day. The new rates are effective
from January / and are cent or
two per hundred pounds lower
than the low rate ordered by the
railroad commission last fail. The
new rates were voluntarily submit
ted by the railroads operating in
the state and are put in fer S pc.
riod Of six months as q trial. The
new rate, for example, for ship
ments FIVE miles or less is IS cents
per hundred pounds. as compared
with the December rate OF l9 cents
per hundred, which itself was a
reduction OF several cents under
the rate effective several ms nths
ago. From this the new schedule
graduates up TO Sixty-nine and a
half cents per hundred for ship
ments of three hundred miles, as
compared with til, December rate
Of seventy-one aud half cents for
shipments over three hundred
miles. The new rates are the
same as the railroad commissions g
low rate of the past few months.
These new rates are effa tive for
the Carolinas. Georgia .lad Ala
bama and are both interstate and
intra-State.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-07
HIGHWAYMEN
SHOOT COLLECTOR

Spartanburg, Jan. 2.-J. Edward
Whisonant, collector for Wizards
real estate agency, was shot twice
BY two unidentified negroes who
attempted to hold him up and rob
him early this morning on BruaI
street. Mr.. Nhisonant was carried
TO the New General hospital. where
an X-ray was used to as, -,tsip the
extent Of his wounds.
One bullet entered Mr.. Whiso-
nant's left arm. The other bullet
struck the left side OF the abdomen.
but physicians were unable TO de-
termine on haSty examination
whether this bullet penetrated any
OF the abdominal organs 1t is be-
leved that this bullet penetrated
only a short distance below the
skin. and then glanced outward.
inflicting 4 painful but not neces-
sarilv serious wound. 1t is this
bullet that necesSitated the N-ray
examination at the hospital. the
r-su,, OF which has not been an
uOunCed.
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Florence Farmer
Slain by Tenant
D. Hiram Mum Dies. Soon,
After Shooting

Florence, Jan. I'D. Hiram
Mum, farmer and business man OF
Florence. died in hospital here
early this afternoon. Mum was
shot in the shoulder with q shot
gun by H, "A. Quick, tenant.
Quick has surrendered and is in
Jail here.
It is alleged that Mum and
Quick were having an accounting.
of the years work and that a dis
pute arose over certain farm uten-
sils. Disagreement over the dis
position os some cotton had been
settled, II is said, on Saturday
through legal proceedings. Reports
Of the actual shooting differ widely
and the facts will not be known
until the coroner's inquest. which
will be held tomorrow laorr ins.
Quick alleges that .Iunn was
about TO attack him with aa axe
when he fired the fatal shot. 1t
is said that eye witnesses who had
not been subpoenaed tonishy might
tell a different story.
Mum was married arsl leaves q
wife and one daughter, S:rs. Jamez
r. Schipman, wife Of an atlantic
Coast Line dispatcher here. Two
brothers also survive him, \. 4.
Mum of Pamplico ana george
Mum of this city. The dead man
was we'll known throughout this
section. He has been candidate for
sheriff twice.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-07
Big League Game
For Sumter
Detroit and Rochester to
Stage Exhibition Game On
March 23rd With All
Stars in Game

Walter z. Hapsood, representing
the Rochester club Of the Inter-
national league Of baseball clubs
was in Sumter today and made ar
rangements with those interested
here to stage q game Of baseball
in Sumter on Thursday, March
23rd, between his club and the De-
troit team of the American league.
The contract stpiulates that Ty
Cobb, the leader of the Tigers, will
play and that Harry Heilmann.
champion batter Of his league. will
also be in the game. Archdeacon,
reputed TO be the fatest man in
baseball. will be with the I;och-
ester club in centerfield. 1t is eX-
pected this game will draw a large
crowd from here and surrounding
towns and cities and arrangements
will be made TO take care Of the
crowd
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-07
TREATY
TO LIMIT
NAVIES
rive Power Agree
ment Fol, Limitation
of Naval Armament
Almost Completed

Washington, Jan. (By the AS
soc;ated Press).-The five power
naval limitation treaty, which Will
explicitly define the agreements
reached by the Washington con-
ference, is nearing completion and
soon will be ready for presentation
to each Of the signatory powers for
approval. When approved it will
be submitted to a special plenary
session of the conference for pub
lie adoption.
In its present form the covenant
comprises number Of sections,
each treating with one aspect Of
the naval question as It has come
before the conference. 1t is un-
derstood they include the follow
ing:
1. (A) Agreement for scrapping
capital ships. detailing time periods
within which vessels must be rem
dered unfit for war service.
(B) Agreement for eventual linn
itation Of capital ship fleets under
5-5-3-1.G6-1.66 ratio.
Co Agreement for limitation of
individual capital ships in size and
guns.
CD Agreement on standard in
ternational unit for measurement
Nof tonnage.
Attached will be replacement
chart setting forth dates of replace
. ment and dates of commissioning
of new ships.
2. (A) agreement for limitation
OF individual aircraft carriers in
size and guns.
(B) agreement for limitation of
individual auxiliary craft in size
and guns.
s. Rules for use by aircraft of
torpedo tubes.
4. Regulations fixing the status
of merchant vessels in war time
and covering their possible con-
version into armed cruisers.
5. Regulations covering building
in private yards Of signatory pow
ers. both On their own soil and by
their nationals abroad, OF Warshlps
destined for other powers. either
of those signing the treaty or the
non-signatory powers.
6. Regulations for the use Of
submarines.
{. Regulation broadly defining
conduct Of Signatory powers in case
of future wars, and especially in
cases of wars with non-signatory
powers.
8. Regulations defining the ex-
act status of ''reftting" a capita!
ship: whether installation Of new
and. later guns will be permitted
for instance, or whether old guns
may only be rebored.
9. Agreement as to Pacific for
tifications.
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Soldier Says He Saw
Twelve Hanged

Washington. Jan. 3.-Testifyins
before the senate committee that is
Investigating soldier i'angings in
France. Herbert L. Cadenhead. of
Mississippi, said he saw ten or
twelve hangings. but did not know
whether they had been tried. He
said one Of those hanged was a
lieutenant charged With attacking
q girl aged seven.
Horace Cooke and Claude Rree-
don. of Covington, Va, Osborne
Ellison. of Pulaski. Va. Lee Col
lins. Of Dublin. Va, and William J..
Eskew. Of Pulaski. testified they
knew nothing about Major Opie. OF
Staunton shooting soldiers in
France. Lemuel O. Smith, CT Dub
lin. who has been in an insane in
s;itution, testified he saw Opic
shoot soldier named William
Woolwine and named foreign men
TO suhStantiate the charges.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-07
Russia Facing
Year of Horror

Moscow, Jan. 5-Russia is fac
ing Il year of unSpeak2ble horror
ter to relieve the terrible famine.
American relief workers estimate
that five million have died this
winter and the nulGber may reach
ter million. Frozen bodies of ty-
plus famine victims are piled high
awaiting burial Several American
relief workers have died and, others
are sick
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-07
OFFICERS IN
LEAGUE WITH
B00TLEGCERS
Former Prohibition
Agents Indicted by
New York Grand
Jury For Conspiracy
To Defraud

New York. Jan A BombShcii
was exploded today in New YORK
federal prohibition headquarters.
Breaking of the seals on a secret
Indictment returned some weeks
ago by the federal grand jury in
vestigating the enforcement OF the
yolstead act in this city revealed
1he fact that Harold L. Hart, q
prominent Binghampton attorney
who formerly served as federal pro-
hibition director Of the state OF
New York, headed the list of a
score of defendants. charged with
conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment through liquor Withdrawals.
Immediately public attention. To-
cused on poiso.. .'1uor consumed
during the holidays, which today
claimed it's 18th victim. switched
to the food of real alcoholic which
were alleged to have been loosed
through putative fake drug con-
cerps.
Indicted with Hart were two 9TH
er high Enforcement officials, three
politicians and a number OF the
drug" concerns and their officers.
The list of defendants included:
Thomas Deedy, formerly allied
with the post office department and
department of justice and who Ia
ter served as Hart's assistant be-
fore the latter's resignation last
fall.
McHale ]. Lynch, clerk in
Hart's Office, with key to the
cabinet containing the Serially num-
| bered withdrawal permits.
William A. Orr, private secretary
to Charles S. Whitman, when tine
latter occupied the gubernatorial
.. chair and now engaged in the
insurance business.
Owen 3. Murphy. treasurer c:
the Bronx county Democratic com
mittee.
Thomas +. Duffy, Bronx politi-
clan.
The Indictment. returned after
an investigation Of several months
following complaints Of lax en-
forcement Of the Volstead act
and frequent shifts in federal pro-
hibition headquarters. When
Federal Judge Knox ordered the
seals broken. It was found that
the defendants had been charged
with defrauding the government
by issuing false and fraudulen,
withdrawal permits. whereby IL
liquor exceeding vastly the
amounts allowed any one defend
ant for the compounding OF drug
had been Withdrawn. The offense
alleged TO have involved wholesale
quantities of liquor. ranks with 4
felony and. upon conviction. the
defendants would face three year
prison terms.
Orr. Lynch and Duffy appeared
before Federal Judge Knox late to-
day and entering tentative pleas
of not guilty We're released in So
900 bail leach.
Counsel also entered rot guilty
pleas for the drug companies in
dicted.
Judge Knox granted post
ponement until tomorrow in the
arraignment Of Reedy. Murphy and
former Director Hart
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-07
Associate Justice
In Hospital

Columbia. Jan. 3.-ASSociate JUS
tice K. c. Watts. of I.aurens, under
went an operation at the Baptist
hospital in Columbia today for a
serious kidney trouble, and this af-
ttrnoon his ply state that
be is in 4 grave condition. His
ease is not hopeless. they say, but
he is critically i'll. The Associate
Justice was brought 10 Columbia
late Monday by his physicians.
He was taken i'll in LaurenS early
Nondav.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-07
BETTER TIMES
FORECAST BY
RESERVE BOARD
December Review Of
Economic Situation
Gives Ground For
Hope Of Return Of
Normal Conditions

Washington, Jan. 2.-Continued
upward movement Of business and
the gradual restoration of normal
conditions are indicated in the
comparison Of reports for Last
month with those Of the corre-
spending month o. 1920, according
TO the December review Of the eco
nolnic situation issued tonight by
the federal reserve board.
Net Improvement was found by
the board despite the recession Of
business activity in December as
compared with the same month
last year.
The holiday trade the board
said. is a test Of the soundness
OF preceding business activity. Re
ports from the various reserve dis
tricts covering over half of the
month show that this years de-
mand in the Eastern districts has
registered an increase running as
high as 10 per cent. of that Of 1870,
while in other districts the situa-
ton is pronounced satisfactory.
Manufacturing conditions, how
ever, the board reported as IA.
from uniform, there being a de-
crease OF activity in the iron and
steel industry while textiles showed
little change from previous months
and uncertainty exists as to the fu-
ture Of the clothing industry. due
to labor disturbances and the con-
tinued demand Of consumers for
lower prices.
Freight rates." the board said.
continue as disturbing factor
due to the belief that reductions
already announced as affecting
some commodities may be much
more widely extended in the near
future"
Relatively lower prices for ce-
reals and cotton, the board con-
tinued, had discouraged trade in
the agricultural districts and also
had resulted in retarding the pro-
cess of liquidating frozen loans.
Hardware and related lines also
were said to be in an unsatisfactory
condition, but wholesale prices
ARE showing increased stability. !"
Unemployment conditions were re-
ported by the board as but LITTLE
changed.
"a decided improvement In Eu-
ropean exchanges, the board said.
has tended to some extent to help
the foreign trade situation during
the month of December but the ex-
treme caution in the extension OF
bank credits which was previously
so noticeable a phase Of our foreign
trade still continued. Export fig
ures indicate still further de-
cline of activity in staples. while
imports show an advance.
Disturbed conditions in various
countries of Europe still render a
maintenance of business relations
with them uncertain and haz-
ardouS''
Reviewing the year in the ship
pliIS AHouStlS @iIc OOdiO 0SSId1 S0
that the industry has been through
most difficult period. in which
many Of the weaker operators
have been forced out of business.
and in which reduced freight
rates have resulted in smaller avail
able cargoes and continued high
costs of operations. This condI-
ton has been world wide, although
American companies have felt in
special degree the handicap OF 4
higher scale Of wages than their
foreign competitors have been
obliged TO pay"
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Road Foreman Dies

Greenville, Jan. "a. Macy, road
construction foreman. who was
shot. it is alleged. by Calhoun Ware
at the construction camp in An
derson county last Thursday. died
tonight ut a local hospital as re-
suit Of his wound. The negro IS
being held at the Anderson county
jail. AN inquest will b.: held to-
morrow at Anderson.
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him certain papers which he re-
quested.
II. r. Rice, secretary of the mer-
camille company, submitted an affi-
davit in which he told OF the visit
OF Mr.. Jones to the Offices Of the
company. saying that c. D.. Jones
. was accompanied by Ira e. Jones
and Ira r. Jones, Jr., and others.
lie said Mr. Jones was asked to
name the books he wanted. saying
that they would be given him. lie
said Mr.. Jones asked for certain
hooks and then asked for pack
age which contained stock certlfl-
Gates which had formerly belong
! ed TO the L. c.. LaZenhy estate. Mr..
Jones was told that this stock was
treasurer stock. The affidavit fur
ther set forth that soon after Mr.
Jones said he was going into the
vault where he would have access
to all the books he wanted, the per-
sonal encounter followed in which
several blows were passed. 1t was
held that the mercantile company
did not refuse Mr.. Jones the right
to make an audit but that it would
submit the books as they were
called for. Various other afiida-
Wits in which the details OF the en-
counter were given. We're submit
ted.
Leroy Springs, in lengthy af1i-
davit in which be gave the history
of the Lancaster Mercantile COM
pany, said that c. y. Jones paid
5000 per share for $50 shares OF
stock. and that after paying for his
stock oIt OF the properties fur
ni:hed ny him drew out OF the con-
Germ $5l 900 in cash. 1t was set
forth that Jones had drawn Sala-
ries to the amount Of $4,000 since
November, 1917. and that outstand-
Jones and members OF his family,
employees and his corporations
We're more than .00G. 1t was
further affirmed in the affidavit
that Mr.. Jones improperly con-
verted 10 his own use and applied
TO the building Of his residence
approximately $4,000 from the
company and that he executed and
delivered 10 his father 4 mortgage
on this building in TIE sum OF
$o0.6l5. 1t was further affirmed
that lie fradulently converted to
his own use at various times va
rious sums, the property OF the
mercantilec omrany. approximate
ing $50, 600, Tor which he has
been arrested under five separate
warrants charging violation OF the
criminal laws OF the state.
1t was further affirmed by Mr.
Springs that neither one OF the
other Two stockholders have re-
c.ived any dividends or drawn any
thing out OF the business. In
stead OF drawing out anything th.,
other two stockholders have con-
,ributcd their credit and indorst-
ment. which We're essential and
necessary TO keep the business on
lis feet" says the affidavit
II was also affirmed in Mr.
/, Springs AFFIDAVIT hat in the im-
provement OF his home. Mr.. Jones
had used the teams and appli-
anceS OF the mercantile company
and that he had used large guam
titles of coal in his home from the.
supplies OF the company without
making charges against himself for
The SIlDDlies
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Hungarian Royalists
Renew Agitation

Budapest, Jan. s.-Activity is re-
ported TO be increasing among
the royalists supporters Of former
Emperor Charles. The party has
reorganized and adopted plat
form demanding that only native
Hungarian king be elected to the
throne. Efforts are being made
for Charles 10 leave Madeira and
settle in Italy.
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FRANCE MUST PAY
OR MUST D,SiR3

Washington. Jan. = Ecpresen-
tative iseaviS. Republican. of Ne
blaska has introduced 4 reSolu
trn directing the administrators tn
demand payment by France Of
money loaned by the United States
during the WAR as France has in
dicatcd their intention "f spending
larS, sums ON increased naval arm
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Bandits Defeat Police

Binghampton. N y, Jan. g
Five bandits escaped today from
the police station where they
were held after arrest for having
stolen an automobile. They escap-
ed in the machine after q battle
with the police.
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POLICE
PUT ON WATERWAGON

Youngstown. Jan. 3-Mayor Oles
who was elected on the platform to
fire the whole police department
if they didn't obey orders, assumed
Office today, and issued the warning
70 the police, One drink and you're
fired