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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Ests CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,3 MINER IS KILLED Fired On From Hills While on Their Way to Work. Removal of Wounded Men Presents a Problem Bridgeport, Ohio, June 27?One miner was killed and another "wounded this ? mornings when they were fired on from the hills while on their way to work at the strip mine of the Catherine Company at Uniontown, according to informa tion reaching here. The victims were in an automobile when the shooting began. Herrin,. J1L, Jane 27.?The re moval to safety from "bloody" Wil liamson county of wounded non union men now in the hospital zone are problems following m the wake of last Thursday's mine mas sacre. Twelve wounded survivors of the band of non-union workers are still in danger, according to information reaching the state and federal investigators. SAVED FROM WATER TO DIE AT HOSPITAL J. P. Pressly of Due West Res cued From Greenwood Pond Succumbs to Hemorrhage - Greenwood, June 26.?J. P.: Pressly of Due West, member of the Seaboard Air Line bridge con- : struction force, died here last night j after being almost' drowned in a; bathing pond in four feet of water j yesterday afternoon. After being \ under water seven minutes Mr: ! Pressly was brought to the surface = and respiration restored. He was taken to a hospital and treated but died from hemorrhages just before midnight. With bathers all around him, in only about four feet of water, Press ly suddenly sank out of sight. Ef forts of those* ^-ounrt :.h?m~to -bring him to the surface pro^ef? fruitless ttM fe WAS rescued when two men; on the bank of the pond dived in after him. The dead man;-was 38 years of age. He is survived by his wife, one brother, R. C. Pressly, Due -West; three sisters. Miss Matilda Pressly, Due West;" Mrs. H. T. Sharp, Due West, and Mrs. jT. B. Woolrich. Americas. Qa. The fu neral services were held from Bethlehem church near Due Wesfc this afternoon. %?\ MELLON ASKS RULING AS TO PROHIBITION Formally Requests Attorney General to Pass on Liquor Question and Ships Washington, June 26.?Secretary Mellon has formally requested At torney General Daugherty for a ruling as to the legality of the sale of honor on shipping board vessels outside the three mile limit,' it was stated today at the treasury. It has been officially held by counsel for the prohibition ..enforcement unit that the treasury regulations, as^now drawn, do not prohibit sjich rales, but the ruling when made will definitely determine the ques tion. Request for the ruling, it was sadi, was made at the urging of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes and an early reply from Mr. Daugh erty was sought in order to settle finally the controversy precipitated by Adolphus Busch, 3rd, in con nection with the shipping board's practice of operating bars at sea. Accompanying the request, high officials said, was a brief prepared by Solicitor Mapes of the internat ional revenue department review ing previous opinions of the depart ment of justice which have held that the prohibition laws follow the flag aboard American vessels at sea and also the recent shipping board vessels along with foreign craft, so tar as sea stores are concerned, from the operation of the recent supreme court decision banning in transit liquor shipments. Only a decision of a court could overturn any position the attorney general might take. > LOCKED UP IN STORE Would-Be Burglars Fails in Attempt to Secure Cash Chester, June 26?The burglar n burglars, who had evidently hid in the department store of the S. M. Jones company and was locked up inside Saturday night, failed in the elf ort to secure cash, as the drawer that he went into- contained no money. Whether he made way wirh any goods has not been fully de termined. The first intimation of the burglary was the finding of a rope dangling down from a back window, by which the marauder had let himself out, after failing to get out at the door. Sir Oliver Lodge is working on a way to make it rain; but having your suit pressed is as good as any. ifclished April* 1850. .881. DEATHS AT MINE BRINGS CHARGES t - Two House Members! Debate Tragedy.j Not in Agreement [ - Washington, June 26.?Two si?es to. the Herring III., mine killjjigs were presented today in the house during debate in which Representa tive Goodykoontz of West Virginia and Representative Denison of Il linois, both Republicans, partici pated. Mr. Goodykoontz called upon of-, ficers of the United Mine Work ers of America to assist in prose cution of those responsible for the disorders even though found among the union membership. Other wise, he said, the United Mine Workers* organization "will never i be able to rise from the low level to which its members have caused! it to fall." He added that the j people "are crying out against the enormity of the crime and strong men in the union should take note : of the injury crime is doing their cause." Mr. Denison, in whose district the disorders occurred, replying to the West Virginia member, set forth in detail the conditions which led to the killings, declaring that the ''most unfortunate affair" was due to the employment of non union men "armed with rifles and machine guns" to mine coal in vio lation of an agreement entered into with the union miners. The Illinois representative con tended that newspaper reports of the disorders in many cases were "very inaccurate" and said that ac cording to the local papers of Ma rion, his home, "not one-fifth of the press reports to -the metropoli- S tan newspapers were true." He^ said he regretted the "repulsive and horrifying details" contained in some accounts and added: / "I know that many of the re volting, gruesfl^ne details- are not reliable and not true in many in stances. If the people of the coun try were better informed about the circumstances which led up to the tragedy' they would take a differ ent view of it." While, not excusing the resort to force by the union miners Repre sentative Denison said it was well fen own that whene\'er non-union miners were taken into southern Illinois to mine coal there had been a "tragedy.** Representative Goodyknoontz as serted that" the "coroner's" - jury verdict- indicated that "the union miners have even control of the processes of the law there." He recited- conditions in Logan county, j West Virginia, and declared that j property there would have been de stroyed and the law ignored, as he insisted it had been in Illinois had j not thex authorities of the county and state taken prompt action. COURT TERM NOT NEEDED Dillon Lawyers Ask For Ses sion of But One Day Dillon, June 26.?The Dillon County Bar Association held a meeting here today and it was de cided that it was unnecessary for the regular summer term oPcourt to be held in Dillon. A request is being made by them to the gov ernor that J. M. Johnson, of Ma rion, be appointed a special judge for one day only in order that equity cases may be disposed of. All jury cases will be postponed. The following resolution was unanimously adopted: "We, the Dillon County Bar Association, ap preciating the moral probity, and acnowledging the legal qualifica tions of our brother attorney, W. H. M?ller, hereby unanimously en dorse him for circuit judge for the Fourth Judicial circuit to succeed the late lamented Edward Mc Iver." Business Organi zations to Regu late Coal Supply ? i t Washington, June 27.?Business J organizations affiliated with the j chamber of commerce of the United I States were called upon today by j Julius Barnes, president of the ! chamber to lend their cooperation ' in an effort to prevent a runaway jcoal market by setting up machin j ery for coordinating the distribu tion among their local individual customers. Each of fourteen hun dred organizations affiliated were urjijed to appoint a fuel committee to make an immediate survey of the local coai situation. ? ? ? Compromise Plan For Coal Miners t - Washinjrton, June 27.?Realizing; a deadlock existing between mine ! i operators and union miners which j wiH not voluntarily be abated by j either party to the coal strike, ad ministration was prepared today, responsible officials intimated, to! ! offer a compromise plan for nego- j ;tiating of the differences wh!eh it ( j is believed eouldn"t be rejected by ! i either faction to the strike. The j coal situation in all its ramifica tions is understood to be ot?c of the chief topics to be taken ap by the president at a regular cabi net meeting. "Be Just and Fear I FATE OF AMERICANS ' IN DOUBT No Word Comes From Mexico as to What May Have Happen ed to Two Score Employees of C?r tez Oil Co. Washington. June 28. ? What may have happened to 40 Ameri can employees of the Cortez Oil Company, captured by rebels near Tampico and held with the com pany's property for ransom, re mained a mystery tonight, although rebel raid occurred last Sunday morning. No further word has come from Consul Shaw at Tam pico or from any other official or j unofficial source since the consular j dispatch of Monday saying that; lives of the 40 Americans and j $250,000 in .destructible property were held as security on 48 hours' ! notice for a payment of 15,000 pe sos. Department officials would not admit in any formal way that they felt any uneasiness because of the lack of Information. It was indi cated that delay in a complete clearing up of the situation was not regarded as unusual. There is known to be considerable perplex ity here, however, over the fact that Consul Shaw has not inform ed the state department as to steps taken by the Mexican federal au- ( thorities to obtain release of the Americans. . The period granted by Gorozave, the rebel chief, for payment of the ransom had elapsed even before the department's advices were made known here. Directions to the em bassy in Mexico City and to the consul to insist on adequate protec tion for all - American rights and interests and upon punishment of the raiders went forward at once. So far as was known late today no further word had come from any quarter to disclose what developed Tuesday morning when the time! limit expired. The Washington government to- ] day still withheld any step that; might pave 'the '^ayrfowar<r more' emphatic demands that the Mexi can government accord the Ameri cans in jeopardy full protection. The attitude taken at the state department was that the meager reports now available, serious as the situation appeared to be. did hot justify as yet dispatch of war ships to Mexican waters or any similar step/ Nothing has yet come to hand indicating that the Obre gon government is not, as it is ex pected to do in the circumstances, dealing with the Gorozave coup in a way to safeguard American lives and property. Until recently there were ap proximately 15,000 Mexican feder als in the Tampico district. The troop concentration there was one of the largest in the Mexican army indicating the importance attach ed to maintaining firm hold of the oil regions by the Mexico City au thorities and also, presumably, the condition, of unrest prevailing in that region. Labor and other dis turbances to the south of Tampico a,short time ago resulted in the movement of considerable troops to other points. The result was a heavy reduction of the available forces near Tampico and it was this condition, it was pointed out here today, which probably gave Goro-; zave his opportunity. In view of the serious conse quence to the Mexican government which any injury to the captive Americans would imply, however, it was argued that the Obregon government would feel it necessary to rush its forces back to the Tam pico region in sufficient strength to guarantee protection of foreigners should that course be pursued. It seemed more likely to officials here, however, that the payment demand ed by Gorozave would be made ond ultimately be assumed by the central government rather than that'any untoward event should bring a rift in negotiations with Washington for diplomatic recog nition of the Obregon government. Release of A. Bruce Bielaski, held for ransom by bandits near Cuenaveca, cleared that situation. Charge Summerlin reported Mr. Bielaski's release late today say ing he was "rafe and well" and was expected to arrive in Mexico City tonight. Mexico City. June 2S (By the As sociated Press)C?A- Bruce Bielaski, the American who was captured several days ago by bandits in the state of Morelos, was delivered by his captors to friends at Chietla this morning, following payment of :i ransom of $10,000 in gold. This afternoon Mr. Bielaski with his party was reported to be proceed ing by train to Mexico City. Ac cording to the meager information reaching the capital, the release of Mr. Bielaski was without untoward incident. With the Bielaski kidnaping ap parently entt ring its final phase, attention now is being centered on the Tampico oil region, where 4i Americans are being held by the rebel general. Gorozave. for ran som. Confirmation of reports that Gorozave had captured the Ameri cans reached here today in a pri vate message from Tampico. The message paid money for the ran som of Americans was being for warded to Gorozave from Tampico. The dispatch did not designate by whom the money was sent. tot?Let all the ends Thou Aims't Sumter, S. C, Satui FIRST STEP TOWARD BIG R.RJTRI8E Report Says Presi dent of Union Has Authorized Cessa tion of Work Satur day Morning Chicago, Jun? 29.?The United States Railroad Labor Board' to day cited ihe national officers.of-six shop craft unions and railway executives now meeting here, and officers of four other railroad unions to appear before the board tomorrow afternoon in an inquiry into the "threatened interruption of traffic." Chicago. June 20.?The first ac tual step toward a strike of rail road workers in protest against the decision of the railroad labor board was taken last night when J. W. Kline, president of the Internation al Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers, sent a telegram to members of his craft, numbered among shop workers, au thorizing a cessation of work at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, ac cording to news stories published here. Strike orders signed by the .six shop craft presidents of the rail road shopmen's organizations .was sent out today to the general chair man representing four hundred thuosand men. authorizing a strike at ten a. m., July 1st. "on all rail roads" and "Pullman shops" in the United States. Letters of instruc tion regarding the progress .and conduct of the strike are being pre pared at general headquarters-here today and will be mailed out. tOr night. "Issue is clear cut with no strings attached," says B. M. Jew ell, president of the rariiroad union's section of the American Federation of Labor. "It's up to the railroad executives at their meeting today." MARINES KEPT BUSY Maneuvers Held. at Gettvs \, burg* Camp Gettysburg, Pa., June 28.?Man euvers kept the two regiments of marines in camp here steadily on the go today, the sea soldiers being taken out by companies for special work in attack formations. The heavy rain of last night drenched the historic battlefield arid much of the work was done in soggy ground. Despite this, efforts were made to speed up the action.. ; Machine guns were used in to day's formations and rapid prog ress was expected in developing the men for the sham battles of next Monday and Tuesday. The body of Sergt. G. R. Martin, killed in the airplane accident on Monday, was sent to his home in Buffalo today. It was taken to the train with full military honors. Richmond, Va... June 28.?Gov. E. Lee Trinkle and Mrs. Trinkle will leave Friday for Harrisburg. Pa., where they will join Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania prior, to going to Gettysburg where the ma rines from Quantico, Va., will maneuver for several days. Gov ernors Trinkle and Sproul with other members of the party will meet President Harding at Gettys burg. Will Fight Bigham's Motion For Appeal Columbia, June 29.?Solicitor L. M. Gasque, of Florence, is expect ed to make a motion before the supreme court for a dismissal of the appeal of Edmund D. Bigham, now in the death house at the pen, on the ground that the court has already reviewed the question of fact involved in the case, and the solicitor predicts that the court will grant his motion and throw out the appeal. Recently the supreme court adopted a new rule, whereby it re fuses to review a question of fact, as distinguished from a question of law and judiciary discretion, once the lower court has passed on the facts in the premises. Under this rule the solicitor may move, after ten days notice to the attorn ey on the other side of the case, to dismiss the motion for a new trial and get an answer without waiting for the tedious processes of the court. "1 intend to avail the state of this rule." the solicitor says. "If the supreme court follows the rule it has laid down, as there is no reason to think it would not do, the Big ham case will not hang in the su preme court a year longer." A. L. Kins:, attorney for Bigham. filed formal notice of in'ention to appeal last veek. He has forty day-; in which to perfect the appeal. Afier that Mr. Gasque will have ten days in which to perfect his notice to dismiss the apni-.?). if F.igham thus loses his appeal, be will have t obe rescntenc^d. Seventeen Irish Troops Captured Dublin, June 29.?The irregular Irish forces have captured seven teen troops of the provisional gov ernment in the Dominick street area, according to an unconfirmed report this afternoon, it be thy Country's, Thy God's and day, July 1, 1922 FORTY I AMERICANS I _SEIZED I Employees of Cortez Oil Company Held as Security for Ran som of Fifteen Thousand Pesos i i ????-? i Washington, June 27.?Seizure of \ 40 American employees of the Cor ? tez Oil company at Tampico, Mex j ico, reported to the state depart j ment today, as security for, a ran | sora of 15.000 pesos created a stir I in official circles 'in Washington. Lacking further information as to what bas happened behind what is apparently a rigid censorship at I Tampico, however, there was little ?to indicate tonight whether- the in j cident would lead to any change of I attitude here toward the Obregon j government in Mexico. I In fact, at the White House It was said that the relations between the United States and Mexico were j not likely to be affected in any way by the bandit outbreak and the recent kidnaping for ransom near iCuernavaco, some 60 miles from Mexico City, of Bruce Bielaski, j formerly chief of the bureau of in | vestigation of the department of justice and more recently identified ' with American oif" interests who j have property in Mexico. Until it is known that the inci dents are not a matter of domestic politics in Mexico conceived by ene mies of the Obregon government to embarrass its relations with the United States, or until that gov ernment has been proved unequal to afford such protection of Amer icans and'their property as the oc casion demands, there appears to be no disposition here to move in any other than a diplomatic way. Beyond a brief report stating that in addition^ to the two score American employees, a quarter of a million dollars' worth of destruc tible property of the Cortez Oil company was being held as secur ity for the payment demanded, no other word has reached the state department tonight concerning the bandit action in Tampico. Both the embassy in Mexico City and the : consulate at Tampico were prompt j ly instructed to press for immediate 1 action by the Mexican federal au ! thorities. asking protection for ! Americans and American property j and punishment for perpetrators jof outrages. The consul reported that the reb el general, Gorozave. with 240 well armed men, held the property and the 40 Americans and had given 48 hours from Sunday morning, j when the raid occurred, for pay j ment as demanded. The time limit ! elapsed this morning. It was ex j pected that further word would I come at any moment showing what j finally had occurred. Gorozave is a new figure in the Mexican situation. Neither at the ! state department nor the Mexican j embassy was his name recalled. ? Whether he is a neW bandit start - i ing out on a career of outlawry or I one of the group in the Tampico region formerly headed by General Paleas, who controlled the oil ter ritory for years, levying tribute on oil operators, was not known. Paleas abandoned the field some time ago, however, and is now un ' derstood to be in the United States. I There were indications that state j department officials were not ex actly sure just what sort of a sit | uation they had to meet. Some j elements in the meager official ac } count inclined them to move cau j tiously beyond prompt insistence ! that the Mexican federal authori I ties protect all American interests ' absolutely. At least so far as known the j state department had not tonight reported the Cortez company in cident to either army or navy offi cials or inquired as to the advisabil ity of navy ships to send to the scene. There is no available kno.wn American warships now in waters J adjacent to Tampico. the Galveston I being at Guantanamo, Cuba, and l Bear Admiral Coles, with three ships of his special service squad ' ron in Canal Zone waters. For this j reason the navy department had ! not report of Its own of the seiz i ure of the oil camp and its Ameri j can employees. i The new situation in the oil re I gion overshadowed for the moment j the seizure, of Bruce Bielaski. No j word had come from the embassy j today to show progress of the ef J forts of the Mexican federal au thorities to obtain the release of ; the captive. The delay caused lit tle surprise here, however, as the region is mountainous, and it was j recognized that the Mexican gov j ernment must move cautiously if dealing with reckless outlaws in { order that the life of the prisoner ? might not be jeopardized. i Mexico City, June 27 (P?y the As jsociated Press)?Representations to ; the Mexican foreign office urging j immediate action to secure the re j lease of 40 employees of the Cor i tcz Oil company held by the rebel j General Gorozave were made last night by George T. Summerlin the American charge d'affairs. it was 1 announced today. At the time the request was renewed for the re lease of A. Bruce Bielaski. former chief of the bureau of investigation of the American department of jus tice, who was kidnaped Sunday near Cuernavaea, and for the ap prehension of his captors. Up to noon today neither the American embassy nor Mrs. .Bielas ki has received definite word of Mr. Truth's." REPORTED THAT GENERAL CHEN WAS WOUNDED Chinese Paper in Cali fornia Credits Hong Hong Cable San Francisco, June 29?Young China, a Chinese language newspa per published here, anonunced to day that they, had received a cable from Hong ffcong reporting that Gen. Chen Chiung-Ming as being shot and wounded at a meeting with the leaders in his own troops near Canton. Chen Chung Ming is Assassinated Manilla, June 29.?Chen Chung Ming, whose recent coup de'etat drove from Canton-Sun Yat Sen, president of the Southern China re public, has been assassinated, ac cording to a cable dispatch receiv ed here from Shanghai. Reuster's Agency fails to confirm the report. CHINESE LEADER FAVQRS UNION "United States of Chum9' May Be Name of Reorganized Republic Peking, June 28 (By the Asso ciated Press).?Wu Pei Fu, domi nant figure of northern China, to day indorsed the recent suggestion of Gen. Chen Chiung-Ming, out standing leader of the south, that a federal system be adopted for re united China, patterned after that of the United States of America. General Wu suggested that the re organized republic be known as i:he "United States of China." The majority of the provinces al ready have signified their approval of the proposal to reunite the coun try under a federal governor at Peking with each province en joy ling rights similar to those accord ed the separate state of the Amer ican union. General Wu said. The quiet little man who drove the Mancurian war lord, Chang Tsao Ui^? ^ut^jom . the gates of Peking, and[ recalled to office the constructional president Li Yuan Hung, declared^ that sentiment is growing in favor of the United China program with American ideals as its guiding star. "Wu asserted that he had no oppo sition in predicting that as China traveled the road of progress she would be found copying and put ting into practice America's ideals to an extent not reached by. any other country. In the south. Wu said, where Sun Yat Sen's followers had been accustomed to Western methods, the new leader there, Chen Chiung Ming. who recently drove Sun from Canton, was a particularly strong supporter of jthe\ "Americanized China" program. Support for the proposal that China adopt Western ideals is said to be strong in Peking, owing to the presence there of many Chinese of ficials who have been educated in America. Leaders of this class are Dr. Wellington Koo, who is acting as financial adviser in the reorgan ization plans;# Dr. W. W. Yen, acting premier and foreign min ister, and Drv Wang Chung-Hui minister of justice. In their fol lowing are many minor officials who gained theri education in the United States by means of the Box er indemnity' funds returns to China by the Washington govern ment. OBREGON BRANDS STORY AS FALSE President of Mexico Says Re port of Americans Kidnap ped Absolutely Baseless San Francisco, June 29.?Presi dent Obregon, of Mexico, in a tele gram to the San Francisco Chron icle, asserted that news from Tarn pico of Americans held cap tive by bandits was "absolutely baseless." He characterized the dispatch as "only one of many ma licious deeds to create an unfavor able opinion between the two na tions." ? ? m Solicitors Meet in Columbia Columbia. June 29.?Practically all the thirteen solicitors of the state are in Columbia for the an nual conference called by the at torney general, which takes place here tonight. The solicitors will be the guests of Attorney General Wolfe at a supper at the Jefferson Hotel tonight. During the supper the prosecuting attorneys will dis cuss the law enforcement work of the state. John P. Thomas, of the Columbia bar. will be a special speaker. The chief theme of dis cussion by the solicitors and the attorney general will be the sup pression of homicides. Pielaski's release although it was anticipated by both that his release doubtless would be effected today. An abundance of money to meet all ransom demands was available in Cuernavaca yesterday and the en tire day was spent in futile ef forts to make contact with the bandits. THE TRUE SOI TO STRIKE ! IF WAGES JREC?T Four Hundred Thou sand Shopmen Will Be Called Out in July Unless Rail ways Agree to Stay Reduction i _ j Chicago, June 27 (By the Asso ciated Press).?A strike of the j 400,000 railway shopmen of the j country will be called for July 1 'unless the railroads agree to .stay the $60,000,000 wage cut due the shopworkers on that date and to re store certain working conditions formerly in effect, it was made known tonight through a telegram j from B. M. Jewell, head of the 'shop crafts, to the Association of Railway Executives, j Decision to call a strike came ' late today after a lengthy discussion ! by the executive committee of the : six shop, crafts based on the strike vote of the men thus far tabulat ed. Should the rail heads arrange an immediate conference, agreeing meanwhile to continue present ! wages, restore working rules modi jfied by the railroad labor board and discontinue farming out rail road work, however, a walkout can be halted, the telegram said. Oth erwise "a sanction of withdrawal from employment on July 1, 1922, as voted by the employees, will be unavoidable." The 2.500 word telegram ad dressed to T. DeWitt Cuyler, chair man of the Association of Railway Executives, threw no light on the actual strike vote beyond saying it was an "overwhelming major ity." Ballots were still coming in, I it was said, as they were return i able until June 30. A two-thirds majority is lequired by the-union by-laws to call a strike. Although the actual call for the waikout was made dependent on the railway executives' reply to I President Jewell's ultimatum, little expectation was expressed in rail road circles tonight that the exe cutives would agree to such sweep ing demands as those made by the \ unions. ? . . I Six international union presi I dents, forming the executive council ? of the mechanical section, railway j employees department of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, were re sponsible for the strike decision, Closeted for two days in ;secret ses sion., they remained silent on their actions until tonight. . Declaring that the railroads have acted on a common program to reduce wages and obtain other advantages, to the carriers, Presi dent Jewell's message pointed out "one benefit mayt come to the car riers and their employees and to the general public from the fact that there are national spokesmen of the conflicting interests who might be able to halt a nationwide withdrawal of men from employ ment in the railway service if the i railroad executives sincerely desired j to avoid this consequence of their previous course of.action." "For this reason," the telegram said, "in behalf of and by the <au thority of the executive council of the railroad employees' department, I am informing you and through you informing the responsible heads of the various railway systems in the United States, and also the -Pullman company, most of which are^ represented in the Association of Railway Executives, that unless an immediate arrangement can be . made: - "(1) To continue the payment of the wages at present in force; "(2) To restore operation under rules 6. 10. 12. 14. 15. 46 and 177. as they existed prior to the amend ments thereof proposed in decision No; 222; and "(3) To discontinue the con ; trading out of work pending ne gotiations between the Association of Railway Executives and the railway employees' department, looking toward adjustment of the existing disputes upon these ques tions, a sanction of withdrawal from employment on July 1, 1922, | as voted by the employees will be j unavoidable." j The three points on which the [executives are asked to meet the j employees' demands are identical i with the three questions on which ! the unions are now completing I their strike ballot. 1 The first ballot covers the $60. I 000,000 wage cut ordered by the j board effective July 1. The second j ballot involves seven rules regard i ing overtime and physical exami j nations, fought principally because j they wiped out time and one-half j pay for overtime and Sunday work, j The third strike question involved the practice of numeious roads in ! farming out certain work, declared I to be in order to avoid the rulings j on wages and working conditions : by the federal labor board. While the union heads expressed ! the veiled hope that the rail ! roads heads might listen to their j last minute truce proposal, the sup i pressed excitement and tense at 1 mosphere around union headquar ters seemed to portend some mo mentous action. Fort Worth. Texas, June 27.? Capt Burkburnett. an oil man and rancher and owner of hundreds of thousands of acres of Texas land, i died at his home her* today, after a year's illness. His land was among the first in Texas to reveal oil. _ j.,-T\\: ... .. - . ' * . *? ;.,? ? (THRON, Established Jone 1, 13*C V?L.LiL NO. 40 WATEREE BRIDGE MAY OPEN IN?UGUSf Will Shorten Distance From Columbia t? IF Sumter by Apgroxi 1 mately 20 Miles % Columbia, June 26.?Thev hrjt?ge over the Wateree river on the pto-' jected Columbia-Sumter highway will probably be open io traffic dur ing August, according to Capt/j. Roy Penneli, engineer of the Rich land county permanent roads com mission. Thisi structure, wh;ehjfill bring Sumter approximately '? 20 miles nearer Columbia, has. for years been a subject of discussion among the advocates of good "roads and its opening to traffic will be the realization of a dream which has long been entertained. ? : But a bridge over a river with but indifferent roads leading across the swamps to it is a structure ola. somewhat doubtful benefit, and there is some apprehension feltiest several months will elapse before the approaches to the bridge ax? negotiable. At the location of the bridge on the Wateree, it .so hap pens that by far the greater parrot the swamp area is on the Sumter county side?indeed, there is but about one-half mile of swamp on the Richland county side, accord ing to Captain PenneU. Oh the Richlaad side it is possible now to get within about 100 feet of. the bridge, though ;the motorist cam not get on it as it stands high. iPthe air. The Richland county perma nent roads commission will take up the construction of the swamp road in the near future. There is a %ll , about one-half mile long and. 13 feet high that-.is yet to be built on the Richland side> Surveys --an? plans for this work have already been completed and bids will be advertised for in sl short time.. The Sumter side , of the ap proaches is giving^ some concern. Before federal aid for ^. con struction of the bridge became available the counties had to giv? a. yguarantee that. the approaches would be built. Each of the county" delegations 'guaranteed the con stFtictio*>^of-.U>e Approaches, Cap tain ?enneff said.^ut it was generr ally understood ^that the ftmds would be raided? by private sub scriptions in Sumter and Columbia. The Sumtejf "chamber of commerce and the Columbia chamber of com merce and the citizens of Columbia through th$ mayor assured the del t gat ions and the. highway depart ment that tlie motley would be rafs ed. The Slratiet&county feOar?j?? comm^idfiers "agTeed to put* trf , $7,500 apd- the <?tate highway de partment agreed . to appropriate $10,000 for the coWruction of the approaches provided a total; of $30.0QO was raised, all of which was needed for the building of the Sum ter approaches. The sum of $2,*Sd was also raised in Sumter, so that $20.000 of the $20,000 needed jis provided for. The remaining $10, 000 ifc missing, according to Cap tain Pehnell, and the lack of titfa money, may delay the compfe?on of .the work.. This road from; Co lumbia to tiie bridge will have cost Richla-sd county- approximier $500,000 wiien it is completed^Most of it is hardsurfaced. The. state highway commiasftm allotted $5 0^ 000 of the_ federal aid for building this highway from Sumter to the river. IMMIGRATION * LAW MAY BE V TIGHTENED Chairman of House Commit tee Would Make Restric tions Much More Severe Washington. June 26.?UndeS^a bill designed to tighten up the im migration law, introduced today by Chairman Johnson of the house immigration committee, admissltm for permanent residence in this country would be granted only tt> aliens eligible for citizenship,-:-tftas it was pointed out shutting. - the gates to Japanese, Chinese. Mon golians and others not granted the right of citizenship who desire such residence. The Johnson bill also would re duce on July 2, 1923, the quota percentage from each country from 3 to 2 per cent, based on 1910 census figures. In addition to the 2 per cent, quota ^each country, however, would be given a flat al lowance of 600, the maximum total from 60% flow being estimated at 24.?S)0. . The percentage reduction, according to Mr: Johnson's esti mates, would cut the total quota admissions from around 255,000 to 170.000. .Exemptions are not in cluded in 4hese estimates. Not more than 10 per cent of any country's quota would be admitted into the United States in one month, which would extend the movement over a period of ten months instead of five as at pres . ent. Xo attempt will be made to have the house vote on the Johnson pro posal at this session. It was offer ed at this time, the chairman said, as the basis of a permanent restric tive immigration law and members of the committee said . it would undergo many changes. New York, June 27.?Sir Auck land Geddas, the British ambassa dor, sailed with Lady Geddes on the Mauretanla today for a month's vacation in England. - - ? ~?