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Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
FORD PROPOSAL TO CONGRESS
A Keen Interest in the Matter Has
Been Manifested by Large
Number of Members.

ashington.-Prompt action mark
ed the reception by congress of the
Ford proposal for lease and purchase
OF the Muscle Shoals, Ala, nitrate
and water power projects as referred
to the house by Secretary Weeks for
it's decision and afterwards for con-
sideration by the senate. Speaker
Gillett sent the offer Immediately upon
its receipt to the house military af-
fairs committee while members of the
interstate commerce committee indi-
Gated they might seek change Of
reference to their body.
Chairman Kahn, OF the military COM
mittee, contended, however, that the
report had properly been referred to
his committee and pointed out that
it's members already had conducted
hearings on the Muscle Shoals ques-
ton, were entirely familiar with the
projects involved, the ground occu-
pied and several personally had in
spected the site and works.
For Inat TSdSOu, MI. Mann Sdlu, CA
peditious action by his committee
could be taken and in the event hear
ings we're held, they would not be pro-
tracted. With the exception of Sec
retary Weeks and probably Mr.. Ford
himlsef, who might be called to testi-
fy, few other witnesses were under
stood to be under consideration in that
connection.
Evidences Of equally rapid action
by the house itself, after the commit
tees report with reference to recon-
mendations that the proposal be ac-
cepted or rejected is made to the body,
were somewhat more dimmed.
A keen interest in the matter al
ready has been manifested by large
number of the house members and in
dications were that they would discuss
the question at some length before a
final vote could be reached.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
NAVAL TREATY IS APPROVED
Ready to Hand Back China the Lease
Hold of Wei.Hai.Weii Japan to
Withdraw.

Washington. - The Washington ne
gotiations for limitation Of armament
reached their consummation when a
plenary session of the arms confer
ence gave definite and public approval
of the two treaties limiting navies
and restricting the use Of new agen
cies of warfare.
One of the covenants thus sealed
after eleven weeks Of debate estab'
fishes a fixed ratio Of capital ship
strength between the five great pow
ers and the other pledges them against
unrestricted submarine warfare and
the use OF poison gas. Within a day
or two the plenipotentiaries OF the
United States, Great Britain, Japan
France and Italy will formally affiX
their signatures.
At the same session the far east
ern wing OF the conference moved
forward toward completion Of its task
by announcing officially the terms
of the Shantung settlement and by
giving final approval to nine OF the
resolutions adopted in committee IN
regard to Chinese problems.
The agreement on Shantung already
has been put into draft treaty be-
tween Japan and China, and the other
far eastern settlements are to be EN-
bodied in at least two general con-
ventions which will come before the
conference shortly.
AS soon as Japan's intention to
withdraw from Shantung had been
definitely stated, the British an
nounced formally for the first time
that their government was ready to
hand back to China the lease-hold OF
Wei-Hai-Wei. The French let 1t be
known. however, that they expected to
treat directly with China over possible
retirement from their leased territory
at Kwang- Chow Wan, decision which
appeared to becloud the prospect OF
any general conference agreement re-
garding the Chinese leased territories.
Two other conference projects. one
relating to the Chinese eastern rail-
way and the other to the p. ohibition
of importation OF arms into China,
also encountered serious obstacles
when the committee work OF the del
egates were resumed. The Japanese
made some technical objections to the
Chinese eastern proposal which, coup
led with Chinese and French opposi-
ton to some features resulted in ap-
pointment OF a Japanese French Chi
nese subcommittee to consider a COM
promise. The Italians and Japanese
presented such pertinent reservations
to the arms importation resolution
that it was virtually decided not to
press it for adoption.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
Plan TO Erect Potato Houses.

enwood-Discussion Ut plans 10
erect sweet potato curing houses with
a capacity for 100000 bushels Will
feature the next meeting OF the d.
rectors and advisory council OF the
chamber of commerce, according to
statement recently given oGt. with
ten sweet potato houses slrcady IN
operation or proposed, indications are
that next year will see the potato In
dustry a potent factor in meettu,s boil
weevil conditions.
According to L. B. Altman, county
agent, farmers who this year had po-
tato houses are realizing good profits
from their potatoes. A cooperative
potato house at Hodges in this 2oun'
ty, with a capacity of 10000 bushels,
is being operated successfully, and the
potato association there has been OF.
fered above 81 bushel, run OF house,
f. O. b. Hodges, for the entire con-
tents of the house. Other potato
growers have been offered $1.5O for
cured sweet potatoes.
A number of small towns and coun'
try communities in Greenwood coun'
ty plan cooperative curing houses.
Ninety-Six is planning a $4,000 bushel
house. Kirksey, Woodlawn and other
communities are also contemplating
the erection of houses of large ca
pacity.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
Millions Lost in Fires.

New York. Three hundred and
thirty-four thousand dwellings at $5,-
900 each, sufficient to house 100000
persons, could be built with the money
lost in fires in the United States from
1915 to 1920, according to figures given
out by the National Board Of Fire Un-
derwriters.
The board places the national fire
loss during the five-year period at
S1,672,722,677. based on an examina-
ton of over 100000 reports Of fires.
Matches and smoking hazards are
held responsible for $90,O0O,0 900 of loss
es, according to the report. Next
comes electricity, which caused fires
costing $S6,0OO000. Stoves, furnaces,
boilers and pipes caused a loss Of
S63O00,000 and exposure" which
means communicated fires, $2S3,000,-
900.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
CARDINAL RATTl NAMED
HEAD OF CHURCH OF ROME

Rome. - Cardinal Achille Ratti,
Archbishop of Milan, was pro-
claimed elected Pope in succession
to the late Benedict XIV. He has
taken the name of Plus XI. The
thousands waiting in front Of st.
Peters for the wisp of smoke, that
would tell of the election of new
Pope, or the failure Of the sacred
college to reach a decision, gave
a mighty shout when a thin wisp
of smoke came from the chimney
leading from the Sistine chapel.
1t was then known that the Cath
olic church had duly elected a
Pontiff. AS soon as the two-thirds
vote for Cardinal Ratti had been
verified Cardinal Vannutelli, as
dean of the Sacred college, arose
and proceeded to the throne Of
the chosen one, accompanied on
either side by Cardinals Logue and
Bisteli, respectively deans of the
Cardinal priests and the Cardinal
'deacons. He was asked in Latin
by Cardinal Vannutelli, in accord
ance with custom, if he accepted
the election to be Supreme Pontiff
and the new Pope answered with
the formal: Since it is the will
Of God, I must obey"
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
HARDING PRAISES
BUDGET BUREAU
SEES PROSPECTS OF SURPLUS
INSTEAD OF DEFICIT IN THE
GOVERNMENTS FINANCES
GIVE FIGURES ON SAVINGS
President Addresses More Than One
Thousand Officials at Government
Business Meeting.

Washington.-Pres at the Sec
ond business meeting Of the govern
ment, President Harding announced
! that instead of a deficit in government
| finances, as was forecast in Decem-
Der, there now were prospects OF
surplus of receipts over expenditures
when the books are balanced at the
end of next June.
The President further announced 1t
had been possible to reduce the gov
ernments expenditures from scale
based on $4,50O,O0O,O00 a year to a
scale of S3,974,OO0,OO0 and declared
that even in it's formative period the
budget system has justified our most
confident expectations
More than a thousand officials from
all the departments and establish
ments of the government met with
the President and received the report
Of the various co,ordinating agencies
transmitted by Director Dawes, Of
the budget bureau, whom the Presi-
describes as the genius who made
possible the cut in expenditures.
The President and Director Dawes,
of the budget, who followed him, an
nounced to the meeting that direct
savings of $32,000,OO0 and indirect
savings of more than S104,000,000
had been accomplished in less than
six months through the operation
alone OF the budget bureaus co-or-
dinating agencies.
Mr. Harding expressed the further
opinion that the efforts on the part
Of the government toward economy
had been reflected among the people
at large.
81 cannot but feel that the govern
ment has in this budget organization
set an example Of care and thrift
that has helped greatly to make saw
ing fashionable. If to some extent
the government has been leader IN
so praiseworthy cause, we ought all
to be gratified to have had a part in
the affair. Much of the extravaganza
of government has been due to lack
of sense of individual responsibility,
and the same is true in the corporate
businesses and the private affairs OF
the people. If our efforts here shall
set a standard and inspire an ambi-
ton for greater economies and higher
efficiency, we shall have served not
only the government, but the whole
public particularly we'll, perhaps our
example will be Of service to the
world"
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
SHANTUNG TREATY SIGNED
BY FAR.EASTERN DELEGATES

Washington-The Shantung trea-
ty, ending the long controversy
which threatened to wreck the YER
sallies peace conference and was
instrumental in defeating the
League of Nations in the
United States senate. was signed
by delegates of Japan and China.
In the Hall Of the Americas OF
the Pan American building, be-
meath crystal chandeliers, six men
affixed to the treaty in Engllsh
their names while Hughes and Bal
four, who had brought the group
together looked on ir ,erestedly.
From the four corners of the hall
shields stood forth prominently
with the significant word, Pax
Peace"
For Japan, Baron Kato and Dele
gates Hanihara and Sidehara sign
ed, while for China, Doctors koo'
SEE and Wang acted.
There were two copies, eacn III
English, and the delegates signed
their names in English. When this
had been done SEE leaned over
and whispered his thanks to
Hughes and Balfour, followed by
Kato, who mumbled\ something
about gratitude in an almost unin-
telligible murmur.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
Reject Sales Tax Plan.

Washington. Republican house
leaders are understood virtually to
have abandoned the idea of financing
the soldiers bonus by means of a
general sales tax, program which
has been freely discussed with more
or less! favor at both ends Of the cap
itol.
Opposition among the majority
members, mostly from the Middle
West and Far West, to sales tax is
said to be so strong as to threaten
defeat of such program. The align
ment against it is understood to be
practically that which forced accept
ance of the so per cent income sur,
tax voted into the revenue bill by the
senate.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
ARMS CONFERENCE
. COMES To AN END
MENACE OF WAR IN PACIFIC is
ABOLISHED AT LAST
SESSIONS.
HARDING TO DELIVER ADDRESS
Reviews Work of Calling Conference
and Treaties Accomplished Del
egates Say Goodbye.

Washington.-The arms conference
made the last entry on it's record OF
achievements and adjourned sine die
At a four-plenary session two more
treaties and a half dozen supplemental
resolutions were passed through the
final stage of conference approval and
then the delegates exchanged farewell
courtesies in series of speeches ex-
pressing universal satisfaction over
the results of the history-making II
weeks of negotiations just ended.
Mondays session was decoted en-
tirely to formal signature of the con-
ference treaties and to an address by
President Harding voicing his ap-
praisement of the work accomplished
by the conference he called into be-
ing. Most of the foreign delegates
left Washington on Monday.
The two treaties accepted formally
at the last session both relate to China
one providing for a revision OF the
Chinese customs system and the 9TH
,er embodying Elihu Roots -four
points, and the amplified open door.
Some of the separate resolutions not
on the record deal with collateral Chi
nese questions, but included in the lot
was supplement to the four point
pact, excluding from the scope of the
agreement the principal islands OF
the Japanese empire.
A few hours after the plenary ses-
sion adjourned the Japanese and chi
nese met and affixed their signatures
to the treaty by which Shantung Is to
be returned to Chinese control. Al
though the long debated Shantung
question occupied keynote position
in the conference program the negotia-
tions by which it was settled proceed
ed outside the conference proper and
only the two Oriental powers were
made parties to the resulting treaty.
Every delegate had voice in the
final session of oratory that really
brought the work Of the con-
ference to a close and every spokes-
man predicted that the negotiations
of Washington would bulk large in
the history of the world. Secretary
Hughes for the United States and Ar
thur ]. Balfour for Great Britain hailed
the conference accomplishments as
ushering in a new era" Of interna-
tional understanding and Albert Sar-
raut for France eulogized the record
of achievement as constituting the
"loftiest precedent Of mankind Sim
liar expressions came from all the
other national groups.
What the negotiations had done FOR
China and for peace in the crucial area
of the Pacific and the Far East was
the keynote of nearly all the conclud-
ing addresses. Japan renewed her
pledges of fair treatment for China
through Baron Sidehara, who solemn
ly declared his government wanted
only to aid in bringing the Chinese
nation to it's proper place in the
world, and Minister SEE Of the Chi
nese delegation asserted that his peo-
pie would look upon the decisions
reached here as the animus OF a new
inspiration to 60 forward to orderly
development.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
To Meet in March.

Washington. - The 18th convention
OF the national rivers and harbors CON
gress will be held March l and 2, it
was announced here. The program of
the meeting has not been definitely
formulated but the officnial call stated
that perhaps the livest Of the topics
to be discussed will be the proposed
st. Lawrence river canal"
Other topics to be included are the
Muscle Shoals, Panama Canal tolls
and government barge lines on the
Mississippi.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
GUARD INSPECTION
BEGINS MARCH 2
ADJUTANT GENERAL GRANT
FIXES DATES FOR INSPEc-
TloN OF ALL UNITS.
WORK BY THREE OF OFFICERS
Grant, Day and Glen Will Look Over
All Companies Except the Field
and Coast Artillery.

Columbia-Adj. Gen. Rufus w.
Grant issued orders for the annual in
spection of the South Carolina Nat
tional Guard, which is to be made be-
ginning March 2 and concluding
March "a. The inspection will be
made by Col. Frederick R. Day, inspec-
tor-instructor of the guard in South
Carolina, Adjutant General Grant and
Maj. F. w. Glen, United States prop
erty and disbursing officer. These Of
ficers will inspect all the units except
the field and coast artillery companies.
Maj. C.. T. Marsh, coast artillery, and
Maj. Louis G. Osborne, the assistant
adjutant general, will inspect the field
and coast artillery units.
The itinerary of the inspection is
announced as follows for General
Grant, Colonel Day and Major Glen:
Company I, One Hundred and Eigh-
teenth infantry, Rock Hill, the head
quarters company Of the Third bat
talon of the One Hundred and Eigh-
teenth infantry, Rock Hill and Fort
Mill, and Company X. One Hundred
and Eighteenth infantry, Fort Mill,
March and 8.
Headquarters company, Second bat
talon, Basley, March 6, and Company
G, One Hundred and Eighteenth in
fantry, Greenville, March Z.
Howitzer company, Greer, March s,
and Company F, Spartanburg, March
9Th.
Company E, Union, and the service
company, Union, March 10, and Com.
pany A, engineers, Lockhart, Mar. II.
Companies A and B, Charleston,
March 13, at the Mt. Pleasant rife
range, March IA.
Company C, Walterboro, March Is.
and Company D, Orangeburg, March
16.
Company H, Brookland, March II,
and motor transport company No. 11S
at Olympia, March 8.
Company H, Camden, March 90, and
Company L, Hartsville, March q.
Headquarters company, First bat
talon, Timmonsville, March %, and
the headquarters company, One Hun
dred and Eighteenth infantry, Colum-
bia, along with the state staff corps
and department and regimental staff
and state arsenal and depots, March
% and "a.
Coast artillery company No. 42S,
Dillon, will be inspected February %
by Major Marsh and Major Osborne.
Battery D. One Hundred and Fifteenth
field artillery, Georgetown, will be in
spected March l and coast artillery
company No. 427, Beaufort, on Mar. 2.
Provision is made for the inspection
Of several officers not with the various
companies, such as medical officers Of
the state staff corps, etc.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
title Danuer of "Flu" Epidemic.

Neutrality-suspicious. to the United
States public health service indicate
little danger Of recurrence of an cpl
demic of influenza in any Of the 80
states from which the service receives
regular weekly returns. New York
was the only state reporting decided
increase n influenza cases during re-
cent weeks and officials were inclined
to attribute this largely to seasoIal
conditions, which were said to have
been conducive to an abnormal NUM-
Der of catarrhal cases.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
Decrease in Unemployment.

Washington. - Unemployment de-
creased sharply in the United States
during January the department of
labor reported and 40 out of 65 cities
and industrial centerS had ID pcr ieht
more workers on payrolls January II
than they had on December 81. The
calculation was made from the actual
reports of 1923 concerns normally err.
ploying more than 500 people each.
Nearly all industries outside OF
steel. textiles and railroads increased
their labor forces.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
Recover 70 Bodies from Wreck,

Toxic. - Seventy-nine bodies had
been recovered from the wrecked
train which was buried by an ava
Ianche at ltiogaw station. Thirty-trree
injured passengers also had been ex'
tricated.
Most of the victims, according to ad'
vices reaching here, were crushed
when the roofs of the coaches coIlaps'
ed under the weight of rocks and
snow. Three hundred ex-soldiers' nre'
men and coolies are still engaged in
the work OF rescue. 1t was belieVed
o dozen bodies are still under wreck
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
New Cure For "Flu."

New York.-Here's another cure for
the flu, Health Commissioner Cope
land says:
Remain for half an hour in water
as hot as you can stand it. The
water should be kept running so that
the heat can be maintained While in
the tub drink about quart OF lemon
ade so hot you will have to sip slowly.
Dry of well and get in bed between
blankets. Remain there for an hour.
The perspiration will then have ceas-
ed. Get up. sponge of with cold water
to close the pores and get in t"d.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
Will Establish Poultry Plant.

Greenwood. - A commercial pouJ-
try plant will be located in Greenwood
in the near future by Will Griffin, OF
Newberry, according to a statement
by Mr. Griffin. Mr.. Griffin proposes
to operate a large poultry farm, hav-
ing selected Greenwood as the best
site in this section on account OF its
unusual railroad facilities. which
make It possible to ship both live and
dressed poultry, day-old chicks and
eggs in many directions with the
minimum loss of time.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
FIRE DOES DAMAGE IN CLIO
Damage Approximately s125,ooo r.
D. Quick Dashes to Death to
Escape Falling Walls.

Clio.-Fire destroyed business es-
Establishments in Clio and entailed a
loss of approximately S125,0O0.
A tragedy in connection with the
fire was the death Of r. D. Quick,
who collided with truck as he dash
ed to safety from a falling wall and
was killed almost instantly. The
truck was driven by P. H. Lipscomb.
The body was held in nearby build
ing and the coroner notified. The
tragedy is greatly deplored but could
not be avoided by Mr.. Lipscomb, who
is deeply affected by it.
Just how the fire originated is not
known. The first evidences Of it
were in the Blackman & McInnis
Drug store about 1870 o'clock and
for more than two hours it ragged with
the resultant loss as follows: Black
man G. McInnis Drug store, $500,
with $4,000 insurance; Coyington Co.,
$4,000, stock insurance about 60 per
cent; Covington company's buildings,
$4,000, partially insured; Wright &
Powers, stock $4,000, with s2,500 in
surance; D. X. Wright's building, $5,-
900, partially insured; ]. c. Coving-
tons building, $4,000, partially in
sured; Southern Bell Telephone COM
pany's office equipment, unknown. J.
e. Harrison, telephone operator, lived
over the drug store and all his per-
sonal effects were lost, as he and
Mrs. Harrison were away when the
fire was discovered.
Bennett Hedgepeth Hardware COM
pany had a loss by moving out their
$4,000 stock which was covered. DAM
age to the Melinda building in which
Bennett Hedgepeth company were
located was considerable from the
falling wall of the Covington company
building.
A lot of cotton was ignited from
falling sparks at the Atlantic Coast
Line depot, which is loss to the rail-
road, as it was covered by bills OF
lading, ten bales being damaged.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-09
Plans Chain Of Stores.

Greenwood. - Greenwood will be
headquarters for a chain Of stores
to be operated in IS different cities
Of South Carolina. North Carolina
and Georgia by the Piggly Wiggly
system of grocery stores, according
to an announcement made by A. W.
Allison, president Of this particular
chain of stores.
Some OF the cities where stores
will be located are Greenwood. Able
Vile, Laurens, Aiken. Camden, Ben
nettsville, Newberry, Sumter, Union
and Rock Hill In South Carolina.