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TWO CLEIH EXPERTS ADVISES! FARMERS TO TOON TO GRAIN, HDDS farmers in Rich Section Around North Plan to Cut Cotton Acreage and Will Sow Wheat and Oats As Soon As Present Crops Are Gathered---Not One Hundred and Fifty Bales Sold at North, Where Nine Thousand Bales Are Handled Every Season. WALTER E. DUNCAN, Staff Correspondent, Th« Auguata Harald. North, S. C<—Throughout this stat' 1 , n the poatofflcea, banka, and pronril lently displayed in the show window* ►f supply merchant*, large poster* nearing a vital message to the farm ers of South Carolina have been placet! By Mr. W. W. Ding, state agent and Ureotor of extension of Clemaon Col lege. The message resile: "Those are times when you must act, Let others do the talking. You cannot afford to let your farm lie Idle this fall and winter. It Is the time when you must use the cold months for both making and saving money. Anyone who tells you what to expect of cotton next year la guessing. Nobody knows. "After careful consideration we give the following courses ns prof itable for you at this lime. D o these things now: "Heed oats as a market crop and enough wheat to supply home con sumption on cotton lands these crops can best he seeded with one horse grain drills or certain makes of fertiliser distributors can be used instead. They can bo used In ' October, following tha cotton pick ers. "Build hog pastures and raise hogs. Hogs can be put on tile market within the next year at big profit. Don't’ be afrnld of hog cholera. Clemaon will furnish se rum at cost and a man free of charge to Inject It, If you will no tify llte college ns soon as you hesr of sn outbreak in your com munity. "Pay especial attention to poul ! try, which can be made a enures of large revenue. “He sure to give attention to a winter garden. Nothing pays a farmer heller at this season of ilia year than s good garden. "To do these things will require • the least amount of labor and ex pense. "The nations «1 wer must he fed. We can lake advantage of high prices offered for foodstuffs and turn this period of depreaalnn Into one of great profit. "We have the men who can fur nish detailed Information ns to how to carry out theae suggeg tlons. You are paying their aaJ arles and they are anxious to serve you. Write to Clemsnn College. The main thing Is to act now." To Adopt Suggestion*. • Many farmers sround North snd throughout this rich farming section of Orangeburg county sre planning now to act upon the suggestions of the Clemson expert. The big cotton planters of this section are outspoken In their determination not only to curtail their own cotton crop* next year hut to exercise their Inflic noe to Induce the smaller farmers to cut the acret down to one-half. Among the leadera In thle movement, all of whom farm extensively are Mr. 1.. K. Kth redge, who run* between twenty-five and thirty plows: Mr. John Hall. Mr. 1). E. Soarliorough, Or. W. Alder man and Mr J. A I.lrlngston. Small Crain and Meat Products. Attention will now be turned In this •teflon to small grain and meat pro dticls us the salvation of the farmers. As soon ** the present cotton crop Is gathered. wheat and oata will be sown and hundred* of arree which this yenr ttave been as usual given over to cot ton will be plsnted next spring In corn. "If everybody raise* big crops of NEWS FROM NEARBY TOWNS REPORT STARTING OF WORK R. R. NEAR ORANGEBURG Orangeburg. 8. C.—lt la understood that work haa l*rnn nmmiiivnl cm tha Savaunah IVeetArn Railroad at Bowman In thta county Thla road wae only re cently chartered and It la proposed to build from Hampton to Itranchvllla. It la alao reported that work haa baen cummrnt-al at BnutrhvlUe. It la atated that tha town o( Hrtuirhvllle haa agreed to aid tha project to the eatenl of sto,- tIOO aa ami aa one mile of track haa barn Uld. An effort haa alao bean tnade to obtain aaalatance ft* the road from Bowman. The new road. It la understood will build a line It mllea In length to con nect wtth the road from Hamrtnn which now itoea Into Hmoak'a Cross Koada The project alao contemplataa. the taking over of the Bowman railroad It la un deretood. and thla will lie matte a stand aid gage road From Bowman. It la aald the road will be continued on and will cniee the A. v™ L. at or near Mtlll ran and on arruaa the Santee river and Into Sumter. SUGGESTS TO MOULTRIE FARMERS A WAY TO SAVE Moultrta, Oa.— Hon i. It Norman, of Norman Bark who wae In Moultrie to day, tlitnka that farm ere are making a nitetake to aetl all of their cotton aeed at preaent price#. In a statement to a reportar ha aald: *T have given Instructions to tha men on all my farms to reserve at least one half of their aeed to tie need In making corn neat year. Ferttltswa may not be obtainable naat year, cw If obtalnabla at all will probably be high. The corn crop will be the Important crop neat year, and there la nothin* better to fer tilise corn with than cotton seed.” AN AIKEN MAN KILLED IN ATLANTA RAILROAD YARD Aiken, 8. C.—Mr II B IVlngard, son of Mr. J T. Wtngard of thie town, wae killed Monday night while at work In the railroad yards In Atlanta. Mr. (Vlngard waa a man of much premia# and wae rapidly climbing In lilt chosen Aofesston. This announcement will be t shock to Me malty friends and to hts relatives He l« survived by a wtfe end three rhlldren, fat her and mother, one sister o>d ala brut here Funeral aervioea and Interment will lake piece In Atlanta today. corn next year, all of us may not be able to sell ,lt” 1 heard one far mer bore say to another, "but all of uh won't tare to sell it. We can feed It to our stock and to our hogs, ami we can always turn our hogs Into good money." Good Corn and Hay Crops. Tha average farmer In this section, I am told, haw been making enough corn to supply his own needs and, in addition lo cotton, splendid crops of peavlne hay are now being gathered. More and more attention lias been given to bogs, but only the bigger farmers have emancipated thamselves from the smokehouses of the West. Home few cattle are raised, but on a small and inconsiderable scale.. As in the Denmark section a few miles south of North, half a dozen or possibly a greater number of farmers have been successful in raising mules. At North Thursday I saw apros ous negro farmer, who, 1 am told, Is a laml-ownor and has splendid credit, who has been raising mules for several years. He had dikven two of these, worth at least $250 apiece. Into town and had one or two others at home. This negro. It Is Interesting to note, has sold none of Ms cotton this year, but has a surplus of several hundred dollars In cash In the bank. Mule Dealers Make Offer*. This, however, Is not a general eon-' dltlon, but though an unusual case serves rather as an Illustration of what can lip done. There are at North three sales stables and many mules are sold here and distributed through out a wide section of country. The three dealers. Dr. W. 11. Aider man, Mr. .1, A. I,lvtngaton and Mr. l.lgon Reeves, with thousands of dol lars out. have announced that they will accept cotton on account at 10 cents a pound, and hold the cotton, al though nil are farmers and have their own crops to hold off the market. There la a disposition among the stock dealers lo help the farmers a* much as possible—-to let them keep the mules and raise another crop with them If, unable to pay all even In cotton this year, they will apply enough cotton on their account, at 10 cents, to en able the dealers to satisfy their cred itors. Handles 9,000 Bale* a Year. North 1* In the heart of one of the richest cotton-growing aectlons of Houth Carolina, and though a small town, 1s the cotton market and trad ing point for a wldo area. On an average of 9,000 bales of cotton are handled here each season, despite the fact that North has no warehouse, lip to Thtirsduy not ISO bales had been sold here. Hundred* of bale* have been shipped to Columbia for storage, but the bulk of the crop that has so far been gotten out Is held here, nt the homes of the farmers. The Hank of North, of which Mr. J. D. Key Bath Is president and Mr. Rob ert Jones 1b cashier, and the People's Rank, Mr. E. C. Johnson, president, and Mr. Paul K< huenherg, cashier, are granting extension on farmers' notes and helping them hold their cotton when warehouse receipts are depos ited. Tile North high school began a new term Monday with a large enrollment. Prof, 1-essly Jones of Halley, the prin cipal. haa a very efficient corps of assistants, the teachers being Miss Hula Hutton of Roanoke, Va. Miss Maul Parr. Mias I<urlllo Richards, Miss Florence Allan and Miss Della Living ston. STATE SENATOR SWEET BOOSTS BUY-A-BALE PLAN Way cross. Os Urging the Importance of the erection of warehouses through out the South to atd tn storing cotton until such time aa a good price can lie obtained for the product. State Senator J. 1.. Sweat today leaned a statement In which he pledged hta support to the "buy-a-bale" movement end pointed out to waycroea the opportunity now offered this city. NEGRO GOEsiAcirrO THE DUBLIN GANG Dublin G*.~ Jay Qould Hhafflald. a negro, waa carried to tha Laurana coun ty convict gang Tuesday aftarnoon to cotnplat* a long aantanca lor murd«r. of which ha win convicted several years ago. This waa tha cloaa of a rather complicated case from Laurens in which Sheffield had made deeperate efforts to gel off the gang FRENCH PURCHASE~HORSES FOR ARMY IN GREENVILLE Qreenvllle 8. C.—Representatives at the Drench government will be In Green ville tomorrow to purchase horses for the French army This would Indicate that not only have men been killed out In the war In Kurope. but that tha horsea In the cavalry have suffered like wise The two representative* were In Anderson yesterday and purchased about 500 animals In and around the county. The nnlnia i will l>a ehl|>ed to Canada and from there will lie sent to HVance for use In me at my. chargethemTn AIDING ESCAPES London, 12:50 p. nw—The conrespcn dent of the exchange Telegraph Com pany at Oatend says a number of Ba varian Bol.ltere are under arreat tn Brussels charged with facilitating th* escape of a large body of French pris oner). A court of Inquiry ta Investi gating. The number of Frenchmen aald to have gotten away hag been placed at several thousand. The Ba varians are greatly lncenee.l at the charges against tham. This story lack# confirmation from oilier sources. WAR BULLETINS OCCUPIED BY BRITIBH. London, 7:37 a. m.—A Capetown dispatch to Reuters says a Union defense force occupied Luderltzbucht, in fierman Houthwest Arflca, on Beptember 19th. The Herman garrison had previously retreated, blowing up the railway and destroying the wireless installation but otherwise leaving the place Intact. BY 400 JAPB. Peking. 2:16 p. m.—Pour hundred Japanese occupied Wel-Hslen, In the province of Shantung, 21 miles south of the Gulf of Pe-Chl-Ll yester day, following the advance guard of forty men who arrived a fortnight ago. The Japanese have taken over the charge of the railway station. The Chinese troops remained In the city but did not oppose the Japan ese. The foreign office protested to the Japanese legation today regard ing the occupation, as Wel-Hslen is outside both the original and the ex tended fighting zone marked out by the Chinese PRZEMYBL ISOLATED. London, 10:16 a. m.—The fall of the town of Khyrow, telegraphs tha Petrograd correspondent of the Evening News, completely Isolated the Austrian fortified position of Przemysl as regards railroad communica tion. Khyrow is 20 miles south of Przemysl and close to the junction of several railroad lines. HARRAB3ED BY BOTH. Bari, Italy, (via Paris, 7:27 p. m.)- Dispatches from the Southern Al bania says that the population, hdrrassed and robbed by both insurgents and Greeks, are about to ask the Intervention of one of tHe great powers. THROUGH U. S. CONSUL. London, 8:45 a. m.—The correspondent of the Times at Oatend, tele graphing under date of Friday, says: "The burgomaster has addressed, through the American consul here, to President Wilson an energetic protest against the German action In dropping bombs on Ostend, which Is described as an unjustifiable viola tion of the rights of the people. "The consul Is telegraphing the protest tonight.” TAKE GERMAN COLONY. Bordeaux, 11:55 a. m.—The ministry of marine announced today that the French gunbont. Surprise on September 21st took possession of Coco Reach, the German colony In Western Equatorial Africa. DENY RHEIMB PROTEBT. Berlin, (via London, 4:15 a. m.)—Reports In the French press that Pope Benedict had made representations to Emperor William regarding the destruction of tho Cathedral of Rhekna are contradicted tonight in a dispatch to the Cologne Gazette, which states that the Curia, through the Prussian ambassador at the Vatican, Inquired into the matter and ex pressed satisfaction with the reply given. ALL RAZED. Rome, (vis Paris, 7:35 p. m.) —All the houses around Trieste and Fasana have been razed or transfromed into hospitals. Dispatches from Pola say that food there Is scarce, bad and expensive. FIVE NURBES KILLED. Paria, 2:11 p. m,—The French society for the assistance of the wounded announced the killing of seven nurses and the wounding of two others while on hospital duty during the shelling of Rhelms. The five thus killed were members of a religious order; the others were young graduate nurses. Every day announcements are made by one or another of the Red Cross societies of women falling while caring for the wounds within the battle zone. DIDN’T BIN K THEM. London, 3:40 a. m.—Telegraphing from Berlin the Amsterdam cor respondent of Reuters says a telegram received there denies on compe tent authority that the Russian cruiser Bayan sank a German cruiser and two torpedo boats In the Baltic. PASSENGERS ON DAY'S 6 LINERS WERE FEW ■ I ■II I ■!' - I* Kerrnit Roosevelt and Wife Going to Buenos Ayres. British Cruisers Keep Watch Off the Hook Nsw York,—The British auxiliary cruiser that used to be the Cunardar t’aronla continued today the strict watch ehe kept yesterday at the door of New York. She lay aa if at anchor off the llook. Her companion of yes terday, tit# British cruiser Lancaster, weighed anchor during the night,, however, and disappeared. Six tranß-Atlantlc liners were due to leave port today, among them being the White Star Liner t'retie, whose nailing was suspended on account of fire. The others were the Olympic for Glasgow; the America, of the Italian Line, for Naples; the Zeeland of the Red Star Line Line for Que bec; the Oameronla, for Olasgow, and th# Mlnnewaska. for txmdon. All had light passenger lists The Roosevelts. Among the Olympics's passengers were Kermlt Roosevelt and his wife, bound for Buenos Aires by way of Manchester Mr. Roosevelt said hts mission tn Bueos Aires was to open a branch there of the National City Bank. Hts sister Mrs. Richard Derby, also was a passenger on th# Olympic, accompanying her husband, a physl alan, on his way to Parts to do hos pital work. She aald she would probably help as a nurse. Six other surgeons who responded to the cull of Dr. Joseph A. Blake, the Ameri can surgeon In charge of the Ameri can hospital corps, attending wound ed In Porla, also were on the Olympic. No trans-Atlantic, liners were due to arrive today. SAT 'MONOPOLY' IN COTTON SEED 1 ' " 1 • Charges Laid Before Depart ment of Justice By Hughes of Georgia and Abercrombie of Alabama Washington.—Charge# that a •'mo nopoly" had rut in half the price paid Sou them farmer# for cotton aeed were laid before the department of Justice today by Representative Hughes of Georgia and Representative Abercr ombie of Alabama. They conferred with Q. Carroll Todd, asslatnnt at torney general. In charge of trust prosecutions, urging that aom# action be taken. Mr. Todd promised a thor ough Investigation. Mr. Hughes pointed out that the demoralization of foreign staple mar kets had Increased the dependence of Southern farmers on receipts from the sale of cotton seed He estimated that this year's crop of seed would be worth 1200,000,00<l If purchased at the price prevailing a year ago but said that where farmer* had expected an In crease In price on account of the war they had encountered an unexplained reduction from fit a ton to 14 a ton. THE "AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. Daily Pattern WB.- a STYLISH DRESS. Costume for Mlzzet end Young Women This attractive model holds several new style feature*. The yoke tunic is especially popular. The waist fronts are cut low lo outline the chemisette A Jaunty revere collar finishes the neck edge. The sleeve Is attractive in wrist length, with it* deop cuff, and is also pretty with Ole neat shaped cuff, tn short length. The design is good sot caenmeve, velvet, velveteen, combina tions of woolen, cloth and stlk and vel vet. The pattern Is cut tn four atzes- It. 16. 17 and 18 years. It requires 5W yards of 44-Inch material for a 16-year size. A pattern of this Illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cent* In sliver or stamps No Size - Street and No CTty state SEEK LESS STRINGENCY. Washington.—Acting Secretary Lan sing said today that the state depart ment waa negotiating with the Brit lsh government for the removal of acme of the stringent regulations Im posed by British censors on commer cial cablegrams SENT FIRST MESSAGE. Washington. D. C— Marking the open lug of the new wtreleee station et Mar shall. Call., which will work with Ka huko. Hawaii. President Wilson todav sent the following message to the gov ernur of Hawaii ‘ May God bind th« nation* to**thor In thought and purpose and lasting peace." SOUTHERN BANKS DEI MILKED Secretary of the Treasury Complains at High Interest Bates Which Northern Bank ers Are Charging Washington.—Secretary McAdco to day sent telegrams to the chairmen of the clearing house associations in New York, Chicago, Boston and St. Louis, complaining of high interest rates In those cities and appealing for aid in remedying that condition. The telegrams said: "X have receiv ed camplaints about the high rates of Interest which are being charged by the national banks of New York, Boston, Chicago, and other serva cities. It is alleged that the New York banks are requiring their correspon dent banks throughout the country to pay 7 per cent for loans, and to main tain a balance with the New York banks, which makes the money cost the correspondent banks the equiva lent of 8 per cent or more. Specific caseß have been brought to my atten tion where banks In cities of the South have been required to pay these high Interest rates. Rates Very High. "If New York charges the equiva lent of 8 per cent Interest to the cor respondent banks of the South, these Southern banks must, in turn, charge a still higher rate to the small banks, which are, in turn, their correspon dents, thus making the money cost the ultimate borrower very high, if not exorbitant, rates. From all the evidence before me I cannot feel that the charge of 1 to 8 per cent interest by the New York banks is justified In the circumstances. Within the past six weeks I have approved the issu ance to the national banks of New York City of more than $140,000,000 of new or additional national bank cur rency. This was done for the pur pose of easing rates and helping the situation generally. I have taken the position with all the banks of the countr; that I will not knowingly Is sue additional national bank currency to ffr deposit government funds with banks which charge excessive rates of interest or which are refusing to meet legitimate demands for reason able credits. I have also taken the position that I will withdraw govern ment deposits from national banks which are hoarding money and re stricting credits through the mainte nance of excessive reserves. Charging High Interest. “The New York banks generally have not been hoarding money or maintaining excessive reserves, but they appear to be charging higher rates of interst than the conditions seem to justify. I am using eevry Just effort to persuade the hanks throughout the country to extend rea sonable credits and at reasonable rates of Interest to meet the existing unusual conditions created by the Eu ropean war. and which, it dealt with In a helpful spirit by all concerned, should quickly ameliorate. I should like to see the New York banks take the lead In establishing and maintain ing moderate rates of Interest for ac commodations, as their example al ways has a large Influence upon the banking action and sentiment in the country. If this course Is pursued by the leading hanks In New York and other great money centers, a real pub lic service will be rendered and a re turn to normal conditions of business will be quickened. I have been using to the utmost every power of this de partment to assist the general busi ness situation and the banks, and I ask only for co-operation on the part of the banks in an unselfish and pa triotic spirit.” 8,000 LEAVE DURING WEEK Departure For United States of Americans Since War Began Now Totals Ninety-Three Thousand---Three Hundred Due From Rotterdam Tonight London, 1:20 p. m.—The American relief committee expects to continue its activities without a diminution of. staff and in its present quarters for at least another week on account of the increase in the number of Amer ican refugees arriving in England from continental porta. Three hundred refu gees are expected to arrive here to night from Rotterdam. H. C. Hoover, chairman of the American relief com mittee, reports that during the past seven days 1.200 Americans have ar rived in London from the continent Of these 731 were assisted financially. The departures for the week. Including today's sailing* for American ports, i total 3.000. This makes the total of departures for America since the war began 95,000 persona Of this number 9.368 hare received financial assist ance. LONG OR SHORT TO SEE IT THROUGH London.—Spooking today at a meet ing of his neighbors held at Criccleth, Wales, Chancellor of Exchequer Lloyd-Georgs declared that the war waa quite unexpected. He never dreamed it would occur, he said, until a few days before hos tilities began. He never thought any country could be so devilish as to pre tend great friendship and at the same time make elaborate arrangements to attack. Indeed he thought war was so far away that ho had made ar rangements to spend August and September at Criccleth. It took fifteen years to break Napo leon, the ohancellor continued He said he didn't think It would take any thing like as long to vanquish Em peror William, but long or short. Eng land was going to see It through. TO RELIEVE THE COTTON STORAGE K SITUATION SOUTH Interstate Commerce Commission Perfects Arrangements, in Connection With the United States Treasury and Federal Reserve Board, to Help Conditions—Regulations Issued Washington. Arrangements were perfected today by the Interstate | Commerce Commission in connection with the treasury department and the federal reserve board to elieve the cotton storage situation in the south. These branches of the government have joined in assisting cotton plan ters and railways of the south in meeting the extraordinary demand for the storage of cotton occasioned by the European war. New Tariff. The commission in an announce ment of new tariff and transportation regulations made today, says that "for the purpose of providing temporary warehousing space for the storage of cotton, under arrangements approved by the secretary of the treasury and the Federal reserve board; and for the purpose of permitting the carriers to recognize the warehouses as points for the storage of cotton, in order that such points should be given the ben efit of transit privileges the Interstate Commerce Commission has authorized the carriers of the south to publish and file tarrifs establishing on their lines rules, regulations and charges governing the storage of cotton dur ing the cotton year ending August 31, 1915.” To Planters. The regulations issued by the com mission are expected not only to re lieve the storage situation but, more importantly, the financial situation which, to cotton planters, has become serious on account of the difficulty in marketing the cotton crop. With warehouse receipts for their cotton the planters will be able to realize at once upon it and then may await a favorable time for forwarding the crop to final destination. The expense of the shipments and warehousing has been fixed at a minimum. Following are the commission’s reg ulations. which the railways are au thorized to put into effect immediate ly upon filing of the necessary tarifs: Regulations. "1. Cotton shipped for warehouse ing and reshipment 'must be consigned to the warehouseing point and freight thereto paid on basis of the full local rate, upon which the delivering agent will give paid freight receipt, which the holder of the cotton should re tain for the purpose of securing ship ping privilege.. "2. Upon reshlpment from the ware houseing point the shipper will be re quired to surrender to the agent of the line bringing the cotton into the ware houseing point the paid freight bill covering that identical cotton. The number of bales, marks and weights of cotton, as forwarded from the SIMPLY CANARD SAYJAPANESE Embassy Issues Statement Denying Troops Have Com mitted Any Excesses As Cables Have Reported. Washington—The Japanese embassy Saturday Issued this statement, based on official reports from Tokto; “Recent cablegrams from China caq only be credited with a grain of salt. There are sinister efforts now being used In China, as elsewhere, to give color to domestic newspaper reports and telegrams going abroad. Ground less reports designed to cast a slur on the reputation of the Japanese sol diers are thus more or less dissemi nated. “The alleged ruthless conduct of Japanese troops in Shantung, said to be contained in a letter coming from Laichau, is nothing more or less than a mllicious canard. Rigid Discipline. “A dispatch addressed to the Shang hai Mercury, by a foreigner living In Plngtu, says in part: 'The rigid dis cipline of the Japanese army and the decorum of the rank and file are sim ply laudable. After the landing of Japanese troops the citizens are at ease and markets are calm. As to Chinese women, the Japanese are tak ing scrupulous care not to annoy them in any wise. The Japanese soldier* are received everywhere with hearty welcome.’ “In fine, the Japanese soldiers are living up to their reputation as es tablished at the time of the Russlan- Japa/tese war and the Boxer trouble. The strictest maintenance of military discipline and the utter abstention from unnecessary molestations are their code of behavior.” ASOEWTRIAL IN GDDBEE CASE Extraordinary Motion to Be Argued in Augusta, October Third---Petition Alleges That Juror Expressed Opinion. Millan, Ga.—- Attorneys for Mrs. Florence Godbee, convicted here a year ago for the killing of her divorced hus band and his wile and now serving a life sentence tn the Georgia peniten tiary, have filed an extraordinary mo tion for a new trial. The motion is to be argued before Judge Hammond In Augusta on Oct 8. It la alleged In the petition that R. R. Durden, one of the Jurors that convicted Mrs. God bee. had previous to the trial express ed an opinion that shs waa guilty of | ths kllliiub SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 warehouseing point must conform to the paid freight bill, and in addition the shipper will be required to certify on the back of the paid freight bill that that the cotton tendered is iden tical cotton received thereunder. The shipper will also be required to sur render to the railway agent at the time of re-shipment the bill of lading covering the movement of the cotton into the warehouseing point, unless the bill of lading for such shipment shall have been previously surrender ed to the railway. Through Bill of Lading. "3. Thereupon the agent will issue a through bill of lading to the further final destination at the through rate from the point of origin to such final destination in effect at the time of the original shipment into the warehouse ing point, plus three cents per hund red pounds, provided such further fi nal destination is a point to which there are established through rates In effect from the original point of ship ment vit the warehousing point (pro vided that at the request of any In terested line the minimum through rate will be that from the through warehousing point plus the stoppage charge of three cents per hundred pounds). Where the rate from the original point of shipment to such further final destination Is less than the rate from the original point of shipment to the warehouseing point, the lawful tariff rate to tho warehousing point, plus the stoppage charge of three cents per hundred pounds will be charged as a mlnlm uum. Waybilled. "4. Shipments will be way-billed out of the warehousing point at the balance of the rate, plus the Stoppage charge of three cents per hundred pounds. The distribution of revenue btween connecting lines shall be on basis of through rates and divisions, except that the three cent stoppage charge shall accrue to the line bring ing the cotton into the warehousing point, it being a condition of this priv ilege that the line issuing the bill of lading out of the warehouseing point shall be the line bringing the cotton into the warehouseing point. Switching Charges. ‘‘s. All connecting line switching charges will be in addition to the through rates, and in addition to the three cents stoppage charge and where cotton is redlllvered to a carrier from a storage warehouse for deliv ery at a point in the same industrial zone the established transportation i charge shall apply.” > 1,000 COTTON BALES BLAZE ON STEAMER Panic Created on Board the Oretic, Ready to Sail For Genoa, As Fire Rages. Thousands Gather---Police Reserves Called Out, New York, —Sixteen hundred bales of cotton, stored In the lower hold of the White Star Liner Cretin, oaught fire This morning as the vessel lay at her pier under steam and rsady to weigh anchor for Genoa. Several hun dred Italian reservists, crowded Into the steerage overnight were routed by the smoke and fled In scant attire to the pier. Rapid Headway. ' The fire gained headway rapidly. Within 16 minutes from ths time the first wisp of Bmoke curled up from the second hatchway the blaze in tbs hold appeared to be a roaring furnace and soon smoke hung in heavy clouds over the river. For nearly an hour the fire raged praotically unchecked. Then there came alongside the burn ing vessel two of theclty’s fire boats. They pumped thousands of gallons of water upon the Cretic’s decks. It was not until a half hour later that ths firemen were able to play streams di rectly on the blaze. Confusion on Pisn, Meantime confusion on ths pier among cabin paasengera ready to em bark was so great that panic seemed to Impend. The hundreds there be came thousands wtth the rapid rush to the scene of passers-by. A heavy detachment of police reserves restored a semblance of order. The fire con tinued to burn steadily and the vol ume of smoke spread up and down the river. After 10 A. M. It was after 10 o'clock before the fire seemed to be under control. The ship herself, it was said, did not catch fire and the damage waa confined to the cotton In the hold. Thla cotton was consigned to Naples. Officers of the line said tha Crettc probably would be unable to sail to day. The origin of the fire was not deter, mined, but it was thought it might have been started by a lighted cigar ette or cigar tossed Into the hold. BEARCH FOR AIRMEN. Los Angeles, Cal. —Search Is belni made for Silas Chrlstoffsrson, avia tor; C. Frenah, mechanician, arull Lieut. Morrow, of the Government/ Aviation School at San Diego, who at tempted a flight in an aeroplane yes terday from San Diego to Los Ange les. The aeroplane was last sighted dur ing the afternoon flying over the wa ter near Newport Beach. The ma chine was not equipped with pon toons.