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THE SUMTER DAILY ITEM WEATHER Partly cloudy and slightly colder tonight Tuesday fair and colder COTTON SUMTER Spots 1930 Nw York Spots 2005 New Orleans Spots 2053 FIVE CENTS A COPY SUMTER MONDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY 18 1926 VOL LXIII NO 80 GOV McLEOD ISSUES CALL TO PEOPLE TAXATION ON LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM Alleged Bootlegger Is FINANCE Arrested By Alec Norris DOMINATES GOVERNMENT Walter Addison Moorer who i neighbor who passed by Mr 4 BODIES RECOVERED IN TROLLY TRAGEDY COMMITTEE EFFICIENCY ECONOMY Body is Taken From Ohio River in Pittsburgh WRECKED CAR TO BE FISHERIES PRODUCTS LAW SUIT Victims of Stock Swindle Ask Courts to Force Promoters to Disgorge Their Ill-Gotten Gains South Carolinians Have a Pa- Second Week of Session Opens Mc-i gives his address as Columbia was' so shortly after 9 I arrested Monday morning by Ru- he rode down to investigate En- Senator Wheeler Charges the ral Policeman Alec Norris and gaging the driver of the car in con- charged with transporting liquor versation Mr Norris finally asked Moorer was arrested while work- him what he had done with his li- ing on his car which had stalled quor Moorer unaware that he near Mr place was talking to an officer replied on the road from Wedgefield to that his partner had carried away Btateburg the load of 70 gallons early in the Mr Norris was informed that a morning The man was then plac-Cadillao touring car had broken ed under arrest and a pistol was down early in the morning by a found in the car but no liquor Baltimore Jan 17 CP) triotic Duty to Discharge in Connection With the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial EXAMINED FOR FAULT Tomorrow Most of Preliminary Work Disposed of and- Major Problems Taxation and Appropri-irtions Can Now Be Taken Up Motorman Who Escaped With Bruises and Lacerations Says Brakes Failed to Work on Slippery Tracks Legislative Committee Makes Definite and Specific Recommendations For Abolition of Useless Departments and Reduction of Expense of Operating the State Government Final Drive For Sale Of Coins Begins This Week Never has he legislative power un- der the constitution been flouted I and defied by the executive as it has been in the last few years Sen-I ator Wheeler (Democrat) of Montana declared today in an address at the Baltimore open forum of a of the people by the people and for the Senator Wheeler said ve have a government by propa-1 ganda and by executive order transmitted through the medium of i lame ducks and other servile ap- Columbia Jan 17 G43) De claring that unless South Carolina purchases its entire allotment of Stone Mountain Memorial Coins Columbia Jan IS (A1) With the likenesses of Hampton An- most of the preliminary work of derson Kershaw and Gary will be ike session disposed of during the omitted from the cavalcade of the 1 first week the legislature entering South's heroes to be carved on i its second week tomorrow is ex-Stone Mountain Governor Thomas i peeted to direct its attention to GMcLeod in a proclamation made I the major problems of the session public today calls upon citizens of taxation and appropriations the state to make a concerted ef- The ways and means committee fort to dispose of their quota he- originator of the majority of rev-fore January 23 Thursday the enue raising and money spending governor states has been desigpat- i bills is expected to settle down to ed as the day upon which the 'business this week according to a campaign must be concluded statement made last wek by Chair- throughout the SoMth man Carroll Nance of Laurens Governor proclama- 1 Mr Nance did not indicate wheth- New York Jan 16 Suit to compel Thomas Hayes and Raymond Anderton to rescind a transaction where it is alleged they realized more than $6000000 from the Fisheries Products Company was filed In the Supreme Court in Brooklyn today The plaintiffs are Walter Meal and John Weskett receivers of the company in both state and federal courts In North and South Carolina It is claimed that Hayes and Anderton president and secretary of the company respectively sold the plants leases and options on property in St Phillips Lewes Del Norfolk Va East Hampton and Promised Land to the company and took stock in exchange This stotek the complaint asserts was later sold by them for $6000000 in a tension Both Hayes and Anderton deny the charge and asked dismissal of the complaint Justice Dike reserved decision fcirs The result of the campaign the association announcement said are satisfactory Images of both Gen Lee and General Jackson appear on the coin An all southern hall is planned named by the president to honor upwards of 1000 south- to of enormous power in ern girls who have been active in departments ard bureaus the campaign as participants in the I have government by intim-ConfederaleMemorial appreciation! Nation by which members of con-contest THe ball will be held in I gress aild government employees Atlanta on the birthday of the fora- i who have revealed fraud or inef-most Southerner George Washing- ficency are punished by octarcism or dismissal fiom the service ton 22 Atlanta Jan 18 UP) This week which contains the birthday anniversary of General Robert Lee tomorrow and Gen Thos Jackson Thursday has been proclaimed Stone Mountain Con-fed rate week by Southern governors an announcement by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association says The week will mark the end of the harvest campaign for the sale of Confederate Memorial Half Dol- tion is as follows: as a director ex-offi-cio of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association I attended a conference of gov- er or not his committee would hold the usual hearings preparatory to framing the state supply bill but it is expected that various agencies of the government will be February ernors in Atlanta on July 20 1925 i permitted to explain their needs to Pittsburgh JAn 18 C45) The death toll resulting from the fall of a street car from a bridge into the Ohicj river here last night was increased to four today with the recovery of the body of Gilbert Schell conductor of the ill-fated trolley The body was found in the river a short distance from the scene of the accident body was recovered by men working with grappling hooks The wrecked car was dragged from the river this morning and wag hauled to a side track where the sand box grates' and other safety devices were to be examined Rescuers continued to drag the river today searching for additional bodies Their work was hampered by dense fog and ice Two investigations were under way One by railroad company officials and the other by Coroner 8 McGregor Harry Curshun the motorman who escaped with bruises and laceration said the ear got bgyond control on a grade leading to the bridge and that the slippery rails made the brakes useless Company officials expressed the belief that something on the tracks caused the car to Jump and crash through the guard rail at a curve and plunge into the water 44 Persons Killed In Traffic Smashes Columbia Jan 18 Creation of a state board of control to exercise general supervisory control over all state activities and to be composed of the five constitutional state officers and the chairmen of the senate finance committee and of the house ways and means committee abolition of the state department of agriculture commerce and industries and of the state board of public welfare the duties of which would be devolved upon other state departments are proposed as chief of the recommendations of the joint committee von efficiency and consolidation the report of which was made public yesterday in Columbia Bills to effect these changes and others of creation and destruction roposed have been prepared by the committee headed by Representative Thomas Peeples of Columbia and will be introduced by committee members in both houses of tie general assembly have fully realized the re-ponsibility resting on the committee sets forth have tried at all times to be conservatvie and those who may look for the radical or sensational in our report will be disappointed hope that the general assembly of South Carolina will give as serious consider-? ation to our report recommendations and bills as we have endeavored to give to their The proposed state adminlstra- mmem? at which time we took charge of the allotment Of 2500-000 Confederate Memorial Half Dollars as Governor of South Carolina I officially pledged my state to purchase its quota of 100000 coins and assumed direction of and responsibility for the campaign to sell them and The conference of governors adopted a resolution de- the committeemen A number of measured having a bearing on these Problems are in the hands of the comrhittee having been brought over from the 1925 session One of them is the revaluation bill sponsored by Senator Stewart of Lancaster and others which passed the Senate A bill to repeal the state inheri-ance tax also passd by the senate is likewise in possesson of the com- NORRIS SAYS COOLIDGE BREAKS LAW Nebraska Senator Charges That President Has Been Using Appointive Power For Partisan Purposes have government by blackmail for the details of which I refer you to the experiences of Senator Couzens of Michigan The executive branch of the government in the contest for supremacy with the legislative branch is dominated today by the great financial industrial and commercial interests There was a time when the of and the captains of industry came to Washington by night and hell secret conferences with the White House day is past They now come in the full light of day breakfast with President Coolidge or spend a week-end on the Mayflower at government expense actual governmental business of Washington is executed through the departments and bu- Supplies Are Sent By Dog: Team Nome Alaska Jan 18 UP) Arnold Castell of Nome left here yesterday by dog team for Point Bar-row with more than a quarter of a ton of provisions which were left here in 1922 by Roald Amundsen's exploration ship Maud which made an unsuccessful attempt to drift over the North Pole He was accompanied by an Eskimo The trip was expected to take a month At Point Barrow Castell is to offer the supplies to Captain Geo Hubert Wilkins who leads an airplane expedition about over the Arctic Ocean in search of a continent between Alaska and North Pole Battle to Aid State Raleigh Jan 16 UP) Immediately following advice from Governr Al Smith that an extradition hearing will be given in Albany Thursday noon January 31 in the case of Thomas Hayes and Raymond Anderton Govert nor A McLean announced today that the State of North Carolina would employ George Gordon Battle of New York to assist counsel in representing North Carolina at the hearing The State is seeking to bring back Hayes and Anderton to face indictments of false pretenses and conspiracy to defraud in connection with the operation of the defunct Fisheries Prctducts Company of which both were officers Small investors in North Carolina lost several millions of dollars in the wmPsmtm Washington Jan 16 President daring it to be the duty of the j-nittee people of the south to respond to of thia years scanty crop the the Confederate Memorial Act in a UcKissick bill which would' alter manner as unanimous and impres- sive as that in which it was passed by congress an it is necessary that South Carolina purchase its entire I allotment of coins in order that the likenesses of Hampton Anderson Kershaw Lee and Gary may not be omitted from the cavalcade of the heroes to be carved on Stone Mountain and Saturday January 23 ha sheen designed as the day upon Which this campaign must be concluded thoughout the south now therefore the basis of raising funds for the operation of the' 6-0-1 law is tfie most important measure before the committee The bill would impose a levy of seven mills in each county instead of four as under the present law to supplement tfie Constitutional three mill levy and would relieve the state budget of -the equivalent of a three mill levy A number of reports are scheduled to come before the two houses in the near future Among them are the recommendations of the consolidation and efficiency committee the report of the 34 Persons Injured oolldge was charged in the senate Thesehave become today by Senator Norris republl- tentacles of the executive power can Nebraska with violating the reaching into every function kws of the land through secret un- government even to the legislative derstandings with his appointees to branch independent commissions law can be presented to con- Speaking in behalf of resolutions gress that affects in any way a de-for the inestigation of the tariff partment and a report had there commission Senator Norris declar- on The departments and subordi-ed that the President belonged to nate bureaus have become the cen- When Trains Crash Heavy Rainfall In Two Piedmont Cities the group that believed the commission should be used for partisan purposes and that he had used his high office to misconstrue the letter and spirit of the tariff law He charged that Mr Coolidge reappointed David Lewis democrat of Maryland to the commis- Greenville Jan 18 UP) Slight-sion for purposes but in more than 3 inches of rain fell bad before the appointment here from Sunday until Monday was made the Nebraska senator morning accordng to offical figures said the President requested Lewis announced by the weather bureau New York Jan 18 UP) Thirty-four persons were injured today in a collision between two Brooklyn and Manhattan Transit trains on the Williamsburg bridge in a heavy fog Twenty of these were removed to hospitals Both were elevated trains An eight car steel train was stalled at the center of the bridge when a train of wooden reinforced steel cars crashed into the rear of it The first car of the wooden train was ripped apart and the second car was telescoped into the first All of the injured were in this train John Simmer motorman of the wooden car train was arrested charged with felonious assault and later was removed to Bellevue Thomas McLeod Gover- nor of South Carolina do hereby Brantley committee on thfe state issue this my proclamation to the penitentiary and the report to be people throughout our State to un- submitted by Goernor McLeod on dertake such a mobilization of the an aalR and investigation of the forces of patriotism and public spir- I state highway department it as will result in prompt success Both houses recessed Friday nf- and I now call upon our people: ternoon until tomorrow night To show by immediate when they will hold -a joint session and liberal purchase of coins our in observance of General appreciation of the magnanimous birthday and at the same time it act President and Congress is expected move to add impetus of the United Stdtes in authorizing tot the campaign now on in South the coinage of fifty-cent pieces in Carolina for the sale of Stone commemoration of the work of Mountain memorial half-dollars carving on Stone Mountain On Wednesday balloting for ah Memorial to the Valor of the Sol-i associate justice of the supreme diers of the "one of the court to succeed the late most generous acts ever performed Fraser of Sumter is scheduled to by government the issuing of a be resumed at noon with a maximemorial coin in honor of an en-j mum of three ballots if so many emy army For the Confederacy are necessary to be taken under was that in relation to the United the resolution governing the elec- Therefore tion Six ballots were taken last Atlanta For ty- four persons were Killed and 240 were Injhred In trafflj: accidents in eleven southern states during the week which closed last night it was shown bjy a survey made early today by the Associated Press The pf accidents covered in the survey were those by automobile motorcycle train and trolley There were no outstanding accidents during the week Florida with 12 killed took first place North Carolina followed 7 Arkansas was the only state reporting no fatal accidents Florida also led in the number injured with 40 Georgia followed a close second with 39 South Carolina reported three injured had the lowest number in that column The calculatiohs by states follows: Virginia killed 3 injured 29 North Carolina killed 7 Injured 24 South Carolina 1 killed 3 injured Georgia 5 killed 39 injured Florida 12 killed 40 injured Alabama 5 killed 13 injured Mississippi 3 killed 15 injured Louisiana' killed 35 Injured Arkansas none killed 11 Injured Tennessee 4 killed 19 Injured Kentucky 1 killed 12 injured COMMITS SUICIDE IN CHARLESTON to give him a blanket letter of res Ignation which the President would be able to execute at any time Although Lewis refused to give the Streams are again normal Savannah Jan 18 UP) v-eus Baker tax assessor of Chat -ham coanty is desperately ill letter the Senator added the ap- Hope of his recovery has been pointment was made abandoned He is Irvin wonder how many more res- father-in-law ignations President Coolidge is car- rying around to hold oVer members independent he D1V6 Oil VOlStCJMl is a very forceful of influencing TjRW i llpfl the report of the joint committee of the General Assembly on efficiency and consolidation which was made public this morning is the minority report of Senator 'J Howard Moore of Abbeville Sena- tor report many points of RADIES which have been embraced in bills introduced by him in the senate of continued method The South Carolina should show equal week three on Thursday and the generosity in recognition of this I number on Friday but little Washington Jan 18 UP) The as wen as in contributing to the change was shown in the rela-unofficial house committee for mod- ification of the Volstead act AUXILIARY BAPTIST CHURCH I OCCU11U 1 Ladies Auxiliary of the First headed by Representative Hill Re-I natural leadership last week contains seventeen rec- Baptist Church will hold an in- publican Marland today issued aa movement We fired the first and etnte Senator John'G Stabler of A- nnAn 1 nl awi Voa nror DlalC Dvuatui last shots of the war Let us unite I najhoun 42 to end the campaign on birth-! Representative McColi of day and thereby lead all the rest juarlboro 3S To gratify the cherish-j Judge Henry Johnson ed desires and wishes of the re- Qf Allendale 33 maining men who acually fought Former circuit Judge Pur-the war their wives and widows dy Sumter J6 and daughters who bore the suffer-j Clrcuil Judge john Wilson of ings of that period Manning ommendations These include the spirationul meeting Tuesday after- appeal signed by 56 members urg-reduction of the salaries of all 1 noon at 4 in the Baraca ing other representatives to join in state hoads the eduction in room i an atLemPt to liberalize the law at abolition of the aboMtioTi of eight commissions and sttae boards the reduction in finds it might lie best to lie to her i public hearings to consider sug number of members of two Theiabout a few things gestions for proper liberilazatior report also recommends that all 1 i before agreeing on a bill for mod- state farms be sold and convicts 1 Game Warden and provide ification 1 Alwyn Ball Shlot Himself in the Chest stltutions of higher learning and the creation of-a loan fund instead tuition fees in all instances to be increased 50 per cent Reduction of the number of employees of the legislative engrossing department which would be placed under the jurisdiction of the attorney general and the clerks of the two houses and the prohibition of the giving out by the department of copies of bills in advance of their introduction Deposit of state funds only in such banks as will pay the state in-terest on the daily balances Negotiation and making of all state loans and only its Amendment of the -so as to place into enforcement under the state railroad commission instead of the state highway depart- ment Appointment of game wardens upon the recommendation of the chief game warden with the consent of a majority of the members of the respective county delegations Passage of a resolution requiring the secretary of the state historical commission clean up the papers and records now in a state of disorder in the basement of the state capital before proceeding further with the compilation of any historical Abolition of the office of state hotel inspector Passage of a resolution requesting the code commissioner to comply with the layv by getting out the acts of the general assembly within the time specified Amendment of the automobile license law to require applications for licenses to show the address of the applicant and his school district that all automobiles licensed may be recorded for other taxation Enlargement of the purchasing powers of the joint committee on printing In addition to these recommendations were also submitted various suggestions among them: Abolition of the county chain-gang system Abolition of the state inspectoi of mill schools A state income tax law divorced from the tax law Abolition of the school of phar-mey at the state medical college Reduction of the number of state highway commissioners from 14 to not more than seven Increased appropriations for the of county The report was signed by Representative Thomas Peeples of Columbia Representative Sam 15 King of Greenwood Representative A Dobson of Gaffney Senator James Richardson of Greenville Duvall of Cheraw and Mclver of Greenville Senator Howard Moore of Abbeville dissenting filed a minority report in which he recommends divers abolitions and consolidations bills to effect which he has already introduced which Is to exercise general supervisory control over all th functions and activities of all administrative departments boards commissions and all officers of the state and state institutions would be great step toward the ultimate plan of reorganization when that plan comes into full the committee declares desiring to point out general benefit which must accrue to our state through the consideration of state affairs by the cabinet provided whereby all important matters could and would be duly considered and proper cooperation of all departments could thereby be The board oof which the governor would -be ex-officio chairman-would include in addition to the chief executive the state treasurer the comptroller general the attorney general the state superintendent of education and the two finance committee heads In proposing that the state department of agriculture commerce and industries should be abolished the committee has not it declares been unmindful of fact that agriculture is chief of the state The department of agriculture however it is set out is more than an inspection and tax collecting and long since ceased to have anything to do with Its duties the committee recommends should be divided among the state warehouse commissioner Clemson College the state board of health and the state veterinarian No criticism is made of the state board of public welfare the recommendation that it be abolished being predicated solely upon the declaration of the belief all of these duties can be performed by other departments of the state government without crippling the efficiency of the work and effect a rqgre economical arrangement" The board of public activities the committee would allocate to: the board of directors of the state penitentiary the state superintendent of a io the state board of health and the board of regents of the state Included in that section of the report devoted to the discussion of the board of public welfare is yet another recommendation of more than usual import though not listed as one of its 15 major recommendations by the committee This is the poposal that as soon as conditions the state should cease to support the John de la Howe school do hot the committee declares the state of South Carolina should have ever adopted the John de la Howe schoiol as a state institution Many such institu tions might be very nice in a modern Utopia but neither necessary nor advisable for an efficient economical state Others of the committee's 15 listed recommendations as contradistinguished from a smaller list of suggestions are: Abolition of the free tuition and scholarship system in the state in- carving of gigantic figures Senator Stabler had gone into Fire in Court House Does Little Damage Charleston Jan 1G Alwyn 70 prominent cotton factor of Charleston and president of the Dill-Ball company this morning shortly before noon shot himself in the chest in the sanfple room of his office and is now at Riveslde infirmary in a critical condition A note said to have been written by the wounded man before the shot was fired would indicate that his act was premeditated Mr Ball has enjoyed excellent health despite his advanced years and no motive has been advanced for his attempt to take his life on the face of the greatest flrgt oyer Representative Mc-mountain of rock is not an idle who led on lhe fir-jt three bal- dreftm Many of our happiest pos- sessions in fact most of them are i 1 the realizations of i dream tlys is a dream it is ope very dear to the hearts of the Confederate soldiers perhaps their last but one that is capable of Philadelphia Jan 18 C45) The realization They will have every death of Elizabeth Holmes 16 shot reason to be sorely grieved and dis- through the heart yesterday at the appointed if their sons and daugh- i home of James Hurley was prob- tors fail to bring about this me- ably due to an accident police said morial either from indifference Or today Quick Work Sunday morning shortly after 11 saved the I Court House from a bad fire The flames broke out in the office of the Clerk of the County Board on the east side It is believed that an electric wire under the floor became short circuited and caused the blaze Part of the floor was burned and some stationery and a few records destryoed but nothing of any great value was lost The window panes on the side of the fire were all broken out by the heat and the office was pretty well smoked un chemicals were used in extinguishing the flames Although the investigation was stiH incomplete the authorities said the circumstances surrounding the shooting and statements of eye witnesses led them to disbelieve the murder theory They have not however entirely abandoned their negligence or from differences of opinion as to the method of its past present or future management question is after all: Is our love for the Confederate soldiers and women of the Confederacy really genuine calling for be placed highways The To Commissioner the office commissioner to employes of salaries and of this the people To insurance office of the number department to provide department people To railroad instead of of this salaries and commissioner To the members Commission fifteen as now that each by the that the Commission have power and that apportioned out To Budget To Commission of same Comptroller auditors of the To that the State Game Warden be elected by the people "8 To devolve the duties of the Historical Commission upon the Department of- History of the University of South Carolina fix the salary of same "9 the State Board of Health upon the State Medical College To abolish the State Boaid of Charities and Correction and devolve the duties thereof upon the Auditor and Superintendent of Education of the various counties "11 To reduce the salaries of all the state officers and employes To provide that Clemson College cut out the military feature except just enough to maintain discipline To abolish the committee on planting of the State Senate and House of Representatives Recommend to the General Assembly to abolish all nuisance taxes and to adopt a stabilized system of taxation Recommend that the General Assembly abolish the inheritance tax and also either abolish the income tax or' place same on basis of one-third of the federal Income tax That as soon as practicable the state farms be sold and all able-bodied male convicts be placed at work on the state highways To abolish the present scholarship and free tuition system in the state colleges and instead provide a loan system to needy and deserving- students without Fisheries with the State at work upon state minority report follows: consolidate the office of of Agriculture with of warehouse limit the number of this department fix their provide that the head department be elected by consolidate the office of commissioner with the state bank examiner limit of employes of this fix their salaries and that -the head of this be elected by the reduce the number of commissioners to three seven limit the employes department fix their provide that each be elected by the pepole reduce the number of ol the State Highway to three instead of exists provide member be elected people and further provide State Highway only a supervising the funds be among the counties abolish the State Commission: abolish the State Tax and devolve the duties upon the office of the General and the various counties consolidate the State 'rl To devolve the duties of Charleston Jan 17 CP) Alwyn Ball long prominent as a cotton factor died at a hospital Mere tonight from the effect of a pistol wound which Is reported to-j have been received in his office yesterday morning He is survived by a son AI- vvyn Ball Jr who is believed to be in Flprida and daughter Miss I Lilian Ball who lived with Mr Ball Mr health had been breaking for more than a yekr Heavy Rainfall In Two Piedmont Cities substantial expression' or is it i original theory that the girl was merely a beautiful sentiment to slain and are searching for a young be used only in poetic expressions? man who was with Miss Holmes Our action in regard to the pur-J at the time and who disappeared chase of the coins will he the an- shortly afterwards The identity of this man was npt disclosed Wm Corey and Miss Dolly Dean who also were with Miss Holmes when the fatal shot was fired were said to have told the authorities -wot- Let us he up and doing! 1 We do appreciate we will respond to this last call of our fathers "Fourth: On January 19 1925 Asks State Dept to Investigate Case Washington Jan 18 The state department was asked today by Representative Edwards Democrat Georiga to investigate the ease pf Ted Dixon former Savannah newspaperman now in jail in Panama This action was prompted Mr Edwards said in the belief that Dixon had not reeevied a fail-trial by Panama authorities and is being held in jail on a charge of which he was not guilty Mr Edwards said that he had obtained most of his information in the matter from Rowland II Jones of Savannah the first die was struck by the that it was due to an accident The mint and on January 21 the ac- details of their statements were tual coinage began Ori these two not revealed' These two with Hur-days one year later the anniver- ley and his wife were detained as saries of the birthdays' of Lee and material witnesses Jackson whose images appear up- on the face of the coins let our cutive seal at the State House in schools civic clubs and patriotic the City of Columbia this 16th organizations arrange special pro- day of January 1 926 grams in honor of these occasions (Signed) Thomas McLeod Given under my hand unil exe- Governor Anderson Jan 18 UP) Rain-The heaviest rain fell here early Saturday night until 8 this morning measured 205 Inches according to the report of Russell official weather observer fall in this icinity from early this morning Clemson College In 1898 opened the first textile school in the United States The Minority Report Columbia Jan 17 Included in 4.