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/ » * 1 I t • PAGE TWO THE BARNWELL PEOPLE, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. ©The • American legion (Copy for This Department Supplied by the American l.eglon Kewe Herylce.) “FIGHTING JOE” IS NATIONAL CHAPLAIN ■-w r~ “riKhUng Joe” Is the title which ha» been bestowed by general consent on Rev. Joseph I.onergun of Itunind, 111., recently elected national chaplain of the American Legion. And the title Is not airy tinsel, either. It has a background. For It harks hack to kid days when as a boy with two fists who knew how to use them and Father Joe some! lutes found employment for them in ways other than earning money by working on railroad tracks to go to <miege. The story goes back to the time when he was a famous •totball star, “the miracle halfback* el St. Viator’s college. The nickname recalls a baseball ca reer culminating iifc a batting average for his last year of .44#, rather a big league average. It carries a picture of Father Joe, the ecclesiastical stu dent at Montreal, tying up his priest ly soutane above his knees and slid ing bases like Ty Cobb. It Is remi- nlscent of the young priest at Aurora, 111., who appeared In the pulpit one day with a bulging black eye—fruit of too strenuous endeavors to show SUNDAY THRONGS WITNESS FATAL CRASH IN MID-AIR. •Santa Monica, CaliL—A man ami a woman were killed and two other persons were seriously injured hero when the airplanes in which they were .r&eriopsly injured here when the airplanes -jn which they were flying collided in mid air. The dead: Ralph Hugh Jennison and Miss Ruth G. Wilson, both of Pasadene, were about to make a landing in their commercial piano when it collided with another ma chine. piloted by Leslie K. Traugh- ber. a lieutenant in the army air reserve. Traughther and hi* pas senger. Sergeant Gilbert R MoMur- rin. of the army air service, were taken to a-hospital in Sawtelie, near here, where surgeons said they had a fair chance to recover, Spectators said the two planes ap peared to sidle into each other and then fell 200 feet to earth with wings locked. Both machines were completely wrecked. SORRAT SOUNDS .WARNING DECLARES FUTURE MENACE NON WHITE RACES; FEARS ASIA TIC BLOC. BANKERS EXTEND ! AMERICANS AND BRITISH UNDER WRITE $15,00T000 FOR THE RAILWAY. New York.—Financing German's 'railways reconstituted under the ! Dawes plan, were taken by American and Hritish hankers, who placed a credit of $15,000,000 at the disposal <jf the German State- Railway company. One-third of the- loan will he in pounds sterling and will he under- ! written by a London hanking group, headed by J. Henry Schrocder and e^mpany. The New York banking sydicate, headed by Speyer and c orn- pauy, includes the Equitable Trust company, the Chase Securities corpor ation. Blair and company, 'the Hank of the Manhattan company, and J. Henry Sc hroeder Ranking corporation. Organized in accordance with the Dawes plan to take over the opera tion of German railroads under pri- j vate management, the German State I Railw ay c ompany constitutes what is | said to be the largest railway system, in the world, having 23,000 miles of read. Two-thirds of the equipment, THREE MEN KILLED IN AN AIRPLANE ACCIDENT. . Greenfield. Ills. Three men were killed when an aeroplane from St. Louis fcdl into a bac kyard garden two blocks from the town square. An examination revealed that the gasoline tank was empty and it was believed the plane fell when the, engine was stopped by the lack of fuel. The victims: George Walker. 43, a newspaperman, of Jerseyville, Ills., and two fliers from St. Louis, said to he H. G. Tilley, 22. and Ole Hagen, 25. The three fliers had hern hired by a Jerseyville mer chant to distribute advertising pur poses and were returning to St. Louis when the crash came. GIANT ZEPPEUN 'THrHMDAY, DKC. 4, iHeadNoisesandDeafnessI 1 PrMuentlg go together. Some people only suffer from Heed Noises. LEONARD EAR OIL relieves both Deelinees_ end Heed PROHIBITION HELP TO NATION —consisting of 31.000 locomotives. 70,000 Paris. Albert Surraut, former min- passenger cars, and 750,000 freight istcr of the- colonies, former governor cars, is less than 10 years old. The general of Indo-China and a member original cost of the system, whose of the French delegation at the* Wash- lines extend into every part of Oer- ington arms conference in 1021, sound- many, was $6,200,000.(»00. Present ed-a note af alarm before a distinguish- capitalization consist of 3.095.000,000 ed audience in Paris, declaring that common stock, issued to the German the real menace of the future lay in government or the German states and the non white third of the world's 2,620.000,000 first mortgage reparation population. bonds, guaranteed the German govern- “No one eo nthink without misgiv- men which have been issued to a ing,” he said, “of the preparations trustee appointed by the reparations Japan is making to head an Asiatic commission. The company also is au- block against the European bloc*.” thorized to issue $476,000,000 in pre- He hoped that the leading spirits ferred stock and $22,500,000 second of Japan and the United States would mortgage bonds, avoid a conflict, "far more* terrible in — Rev. Joecph Lonergan. his eighth-graders in the school longue he organized how to take ’em he»t (iff the hat. , Then comes the time when Father Joe took up his work with the Eighty- sixth divisWtn organizing at Gamp Grant. He was without military status and without salary, but he car ried on. While there he lectured to all officers at Gamp Grant cm the ne cessity of religion. Shortly afterward be got a commission as tirst lieuten- I ant chaplain, and began his extraordi nary activity In the fighting game. It ; was lie who spoke at Gamp Grant's greatest day, July 4, IfilS, when lie addressed '41,000 of the division gatli- ered there. A sentence stood out, | which was flashed over the country; I “A man never became a man until he got a gcvocl punch on the nose.” Then the Argonne and the Vosges. Father Jop says that when the* shoot- j ing was close* he became Dugout Joe, but the boys don't, say that. They j think he's aI) man. The chaplain re organized a hand fop the Twelfth c-n- --glugmcv—Thc band with a pcTsonaHty.-”- choseh by the* French mission to ac company them when they took over Alsace and Strassburg from the Ger mans. He was transferred, to the Ninetieth division and remained with them until he* was disehargeel. Membership in the American Legion followed soon and then his election as department chaplain for Illinois in Ifi'J'J. in l'.t'_*| he* was unanimously named national chaplain That's the More of '‘T ightin’ Joe' Lonergan. whose- record at the* front with the men endeared him to all veterans and makes him a very popular “padre." effect on the world than the w ar of I 17 Drowned When Freighter Sinks. 1924.” 1 London Much damage was done The steady increase in the colored ‘ by a furious gale which swept both peoples had located the center of the the east and south coasts of England world's importance somewhere in the and inland points. Seventeen persons Pacific ocean, he continued, and a were drowned when the freight steam- colossal struggle between Japan and i er Hartley, a vessel of 2,000 tons, sank the United States was going, on for toff Portland. Only two men of the control of that ocean. ‘ ‘ crew were rescued. There were many The colored element in the w oriel's minor casualties to toast wist shi/ population he placed at 550,000.000 of ping a total of 1.750,000,000 and described The c hannel steamer Dieppe ground them as having been taught their pow- ed at the* mouth of New Haven harbor er by the World war. in addition to an da lug which attempted to rescue being worked by religious hatred and her .was smashed againsj the hreak- Russian Bolshevism. water. The Dieppe was refloated — after her 66 passengers frani France Paris Prepares to Refund Debt. had spent five hours of misery on Washington. — Reports that tho hoard. The cruiser Galliope. was sent French government might initiate pro- from Portland to assist vessels in dis- ceedings before long looking to a re tress in the English channel funding of that nation's debt to the ‘At Southampton, the Royal mail United States, were received here, de- liner Almazcra. of the Buenos Aires spite that members of the American service, broke her moorings and swung debt commission declared they had no about dangerously. She narrowly definite information that Paris officials escaped smashing a naval transport, were moving definitely toward such The* vessel was eventually warped into negotiations. * her berth again after three hours of Secretary Mellon, discussing this hard work by tug boats. possibility, said frankly that he be- *—^ lieved thf French government would Hoover Reports Big Progress, take such 0 step, but he hesitated to' Washington -RecommendatUms con- suggest when their action might becoming legislation for, t^he reorganiza expected. Mr. Mellon's view appear- tion of the commerce department, for ed to he based largely, on the recent the control and development of radio callfication of the European situation and aircraft, and for p revision of the The French have made several ges- navigation laws, were submitted to tures toward opening funding negotia- Ptesident Coolidgo by Secretary Hoov- tions. but treasury officials hardly ex er in the annual report of his depart- pcct a definite proposition until after fnent. The sec retary also recommend the New Year. ed that Congress appropriate funds — — for’n department of commerce build iug of sufficient size* to house all branches of the organization, which at present are scattered through a half dozen buildings in Washington. Mr. Hoover's reporj defined the economic progress of the country for Cleveland Cabinet Member is Dead. Cazenovia, N. Y. Charles Stebins Fairchild, S2, secretary of the treasury under President 4'leveland, died sud denly at his home here. Death resulted froth infirmities due the past year setting out as outstand- to old age. it was announced. Legion Posts Aim to Cut Down Fire Loss "The* source of America's largest and most preventable waste is tires, and American Legion posts and depart ments throughout the country are tak- 1 Ing up the* problem with an aim to appreciably cut down the* loss annuaIh of millions of dollars from fire,” do dared Legionnaire J. H. Dulaney. He and W. S. Atkinson are heading the department of Oklahoma's move for: fire prevention. Roth are leaders in ! the Oklahoma Fin* Prevention asso-, elation. The American Legion, de partment of California, lias been ac- | five in fire prevention in the redwood forests on the coast the past year. Mr Fairchiid hud been a life long resident of Cazenovia with the excep- tion of the years which lie spent /* Albany as defhity attorney and attor ney-general of New York State and in ■ Washington as assistant secretary and 6c< rotary' of the treasury. Hi* served as president of tin* V lanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad Company and director of tlv* Eric. Fire Destroys Kinston School. Kinst n Fire of undetermined oric in destroyed the Cra;ng< rll.ah School of this city causing an esti/mated loss of over COO. Insurance cover d ing features the advance of agricul- wl-.iib hail lagged' behin'd llllv ur.i-r-.S- EXHAUSTIVE SURVEY SHOWS AN NUAL SAVINGS NEARLY 200 MILLION. New York ('rime in the United States, in proportion to the popula tion. has decreased, rather than in creased since prohibition went into ef- feet, according to a report made pub lic by the World League Against Alco holism. Savings to the states as a result of the decrease in crime exceed the amount formerly paid as revenue by the liquor interests, the report sets forth, the savings bc;ng "c onsorvatlvV ly estimated” at approximately $200.- 000.000 annually The survey, which the league de clares is the most txntesive ever made on the subject, is based on figures from tht* police departments from 300 of the country's leading cities, and the District of Columbia, every state ex cept North (terolina and Oklahoma be- I ing represented. It covers the total number of arrests for all causes in the last four years prior to prohibition and the first four years of prohibition. “It is true that the number of ar rests of the 'dry' period in the 300 cities is greater than the number for the 'wot..'' it is stated in the report “but when analyzed in connection with the increase in population, which is five million, the findings are contrary to the accepted belief that . wx--are growing more criminaL- "The actual decrease in arrests for drunkenness, since the Yolstead act f went into effect, is 42.3 per cent for the 300 c ities, or a million less cases I of drunkenness each year than there were in the '.wet' period, for the whole riation. Where formerly drunk cases j marie up 32.5 per c ent of the total ar rests of the country they now have been cut to IS.8 per cent. -"From 1913 to 1516. there was a yearly average of 58.946 people arrest- ed for all causes out of every million ' of population. The total for 300 cities was 1.756.078. During the first four years of prohibition, arrests for all causes were 2.040.700. or 58,859 per million popujation. The population in these cities have increased 5.000,000 • during the four years. "Applying this ratio of increase to the entire population we have a yearly .total of nearly 1.000.000 less arrests during the dry' period than during the ‘wet,’ ” System to Dodge Coal Famines. New York. A report of the coal storage committee of the American engineering council: made public by | James Hartness. president of the or ganization, outlines a series of com munity plans by which the principal cities of the country, may. through a system of uniform monthly shipments avoid coal famines Mr. Hartness said the* survey rfn which the report is based has repealed that storage is the ZR-3 IS DISPLACED WITH LOS ANGELES AS OFFICIAL LABEL. Washington— A vast gray hulk, roaring northward through the dark ness, the United States air liner Los Angeles, sped to take her appointed station as a commissioned ship of the na\y. but none the less a ship of peace. Somewhere ahead of her in the darkness fled a half score of homing pigeons carrying word tb the Lake- hurst station that, with full pomp and ceremony, the name'of the California city ha dbeen bestowed upon the ship by Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of the nation's President. With that act. the designation of ZR-3 which she has car ried so long, passed off the navy's rolls the name Los Angeles, signifying DON'T DO THIS. I of Dr. J. B. BergMon for care 01 | Hawing,” end o«od in each package., ILeonard Bar OU iafor Bale everywhere I r Intenttini d^chptirmfokSmr I USE ■0NARDI m mi Behind the Scenes A certain actor-manager, notorious for his overbearing, blustering manner, was bullying Ills, property man about gome property bricks required in one of tho scenes in a pantomime. “Sir,” bellowed the tragedian, “do you tl^nk any sane man would'be rie- uch ti palpable immitation eeiveri by the peaceful mission she* has been as- of a brick as that'?” at the same time signed by international agreement, | giving the on** indicated a tremendous blossoms in its place. It was almost a perfect day for the christening. By the time the air giant came nosing out of the blue-gray haze to northward, the sun had itroken through the banking clouds of the morning and was sweeping the sky clear moment by moment. The trip south from laikehurst was made swiftly and the ZR-3. as she then still was, found herself with more than two hours of aerial loafing to do before she came down at the naval air station at AnacostfaT since the President and Mrs. Coolidge* were not" due to arrive before 2:45 p. in. kick. A howl of mingled rage and pain follow ed. He had kick'd a real one. burgh Chronicle-Telegram. Pitt«- MOTHER! L Clean Child’s Bowels with "California Fig Syrup” U. S. Revenue Shows a Loss. Washington With all phases of the tax reduction carried hy the new lew in full force, a decrease of $79 3773,465 was shown ’in internal reve nue collections from July 1 to October 31, the first four months of the cur- ; rent fiscal year. The princ ipai decreases include a loss as compared to the same period j last year of $22,267,692 in income taxes. ,| statement from theogveBbfixfkbgqjfk Total internal revenue collections for the four months covered by a state- ; ment from the internal revenue bu reau were $736,167,423 as compared with $815,540,988 for the period from July 1 to October 31 last year. In come taxes for the last four months were $430,119,549 while for the corres ponding period in 1923 the collections were $452,387,241. Taxes from miscellaneous sources .n the four months beginning July 1 this below the same period las (year. This sharp decrease resulted largel from the repeal of some of the miscellan eous taxes. • Tobacco taxes again showed an in crease collections between July 1 and October 31 being $120,696,495 as com pared with $114,492.0880 for the same period of 1923. - v inchtstrv since the* slump of 1922. the beginning of “sound'^ policies in Ger man rej arafions leading to hopeful :iT asvire of . ecrmcnnic recovery in Eut'cpe; and the complete recovery" 1 f the nation's own inchtstrv and com merce, aside from agriculture. The ; pa>t year, the sec retary reported, has seen great stability of -prices: . high production, full employment, expand ing foreign trade, and prosperity throughout the busini>ss woi'jd There wen* some mode rat* decre ases in act ivity of some lines during the latter Prize for Student •v It’s time to reward the studious lad j with the bulging cerebrum, as well us the campus hero of bulging biceps, de cided the A. A. Mountain post of the 1 American Legion of McMechen, W. Vn. Accordingly, they offered a substantial j cash prize to the high school student ( whose scholarship record Is best during tha rear. * i the praptiiy to the amount of $vV"0u and c ft rials state that approximately Smntine will he requred t 1 replace* tin school building, erected a year ago. The' destruction of the building throws 4d0 students out of school and efforts are being made to provide tem porary quarters far them in various buildings of the city The sc hool board will moot to decide what defifiite step; a:c* to he taken to care for the children while the* building is being rebuilt. Johns Hopkins Has Big Endowment. Raltimony Dr. Frank J. Goodnow. president of Johns Hopkins uni vet- I - sity .announced that the general edu cational board has offered to gi4L> $1,500,000 for the proposed Wilmcr institute, treatm*>^4-of diseases of the eye, which is to-be established as part of Johns Hopkins medical kchool. President Golhdnow said the remain der of the $3,000,000 needed for found ing the institute would have to lie rais ed in order to take advantage of the $1,500,000 offer. parr of the fiscal year. h< added, but since its close, there has been genera! recovery in these lines. remedy for the nations coal troubles The committee recommends, accord ing to . the report that all consumers purc hase their coal on an annual con tract for .yearly requirements with a provision that the cotH-b^ delivered monthly in equal allotments. Con sumers are urged to provide storage facilities to,meet the t<*nns of such a i-ontract. Tho recommendations tire.* based on the finding that the purchases of coal on a monthly delivery basis will enable coal miners to inaugurate .end maintain a regular production sc hedule and make it possible for c:ar- rii*rs to plafi definitely both schedules md equipment for a uniform move ment of coal. Finally Sunk; Officers Silent. Norfolk. Ya - The battleship Wash ington was sunk off the Yirginia ('apes Beyond the terse confirmation of the jinking and the time, nothing of ficial as to the manner in which the United States carried out the last act of its "scrapping program under the naval armament limitation agreement could be learned here. Any informa tion as to the destruction of the ship, authorities at the Hampton Roads naval base said, would have to come from Washington. Naval officers ashore were inclined to the belief that the Washington's final plunge came"much quicker than was expected and mav have been due i to previous halt ring rather than to. any gun fire planned. She was re- "pi.fTerreery lowTn the water and the Doctors Close Anr.ual Parley. N w Oric'aiis. . Dr. SU*-w ;,re ._L^ob- f rts, of Atlanta was ejected president of the Scnthern Medical a^.-oeiation at the concluding session of the* asso ciativa s annual c invention here. Dr. R. H. McGinnis, of Jacksonville, was chosen first vie* president, and Dr. Homer Dupuy. of New Orleans, second •> ice president. | Man Kills Wife's Employer. —Los Angeles. R. D. Mack, president of the Gold u State Vaudeville ex- chance. was shot to death in Ipis offiefe here in the presence of tfve persons. S R. Southern surrendered to Fee and said that he fired tin* shots. Southern's wife was employed as a stenographer for Mack tint! was in his office at the time of the shooting. theory ashore is that if the ship did not. go down unexpectedly the Texas had little time for carrying out final ex pc rim' nts T ^ Mid-West Paper Indicted. Washington. Indictment in Kansas City of the owner and managing edi tor of The Kansas City Journal-Post is the only one of the three federal proceedings thus far initiated which involves individuals, in the effort to clear up through court action the con flicting provisions of the revenue act affecting publication of income tax re turns. * The indictment of The New York T^rilmne company, and that several day4 ago involving The Daily Post, both named the publishing ccrpc rations themselves as defendants, 'n each case, it is understood, the pur- 1 pose has been .to develop a different the tax publication question to .bring about a complete test of the law', which opens tax returns to public ispection in one section and prohibits their ( publication in another. "“V. Even if cross, feverish, bilious, con stipated or full of cold, children hoe the pleasant last** of "California Fig Syrup.” A teaspoonful never fails to clean the liver and bowels. Ask your druggist for genuine “('all- year were $306,047,874 or $57,105,772 .fprnla Fig Syrup" which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle. Mother! You must say “California” or you may get an Imitation fig syrup. “Work” in Heaven Dr. Charles Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard university, in a recent ad dress on •Religiort for the Modern Youth,” said:. “I have never seen any description of beacon which was even tolerable." Doctor Eliot intimated that ho bad no belief whatever in heaven as a place «.f refuge from pain or rest from monotonous drudgery "Joy in work is my ideal of happiness here or hereafter," he added.’"find r* peaterily discounted the idea that heaven and idleness would bine^iny thing ’in common.. \ Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh should be in every home. Unexcelled for Cuts, Rums, Wounds and Sores Heals qui< Lie. Iltree si/e*-; all stores.— Adv. Fine Ending ."No one.' declared a high school miss, "can doubt that this, book br.- a happx ending.' . ’ TTeF father picked up tit*' book end examined it. It was a treatise on algebra. Where rioosjJ In happy eii*ltiia come in':” inquired iTe. “Look at tlie bail, o, the book." Ho looked at the hack of the* bool and there found a-n-we.r> to all tho problems. ' f A tori'M livrr prevents po por food nssje.llA- tl' n Tour up your liv-r v ilh \VrJt'hI'*> fndlnn Vegetable I'll Is . :c7-2 St. N, V .Vlv. Dispute Over Seed Wheat Ft S. Johnston, a fanner at Morton 'Vasli,. is pointing with pride t<> .1 ■wheal crop which In* mys originated from sood taken from a bury ing place in the* Nib* \ alley He says be >tnri Raltimore ( .,| | liv experiment four y'ears ago and that the* grain from Ins present erop is “white mid' eery hard, .the straw short arid the heads prolific." Some scientists dispute* the elaini. saying that seed so long dormant, as it mu-i have b****n if it < nine from Hit* tomb, would n<>t grow. Three Killed in CracH. Columbus, nhto. Three people were killed and one* seriously injured at -Fleatown, threa miles south of New ark. when an automobile in which they were returning- from a party at Ruckeye Lake skidded and crashed in to a ditch eight feet deep which was partially filled with: water. The dead all from Newark are: Sidney Jones, 32; J J. Speigle. 34 and Harvey Plummer, 27. Mrs. Katheryn Davis, 28, of Dayton, is in a hospital at New ark suffering from a crushed foot and jpossible internal injuries. Killed in Gun Fight. Chicago.- One notorius gambling house and Saloonkeeper was killed, two other men probably fatally wound ed and a fourth less seriously hurt fol lowing a gun fight in Cicero. Eddie Tanol, known to police as a power in gambling circles, was slain in his saloon and gambling place in Cicero during a revolver fighL, MyJejj' (Klondyke) O'Donnell and Leo Climax probably were fatally wounded and Martin Sinet. a waiter in Tanol's sa loon, was wounded slightly by a stray bullet from the gangsters' weapon*. Yields 100 Indian Skeletons. Moulton. Ala.— Skeletons of more than 100 Indians were found in a found. One tomahawk was pronounced near here according to Dr. Garard Fcrwkes, representative of the Smith sonian institute The intpinri is be lieved to have been the work of the Cherokee Indian^. Numerous copper beads, pottery and other relics were found. One tomahawk was proncuno- ed the largest ever unearthed. Dr. Fewkes has also excavated two Indian mounds on the Tennessee river Where valuable relics were sound. > Hairs Catarrh Medicine Treatment,both local and internal, and has been success ful in the treatment of Catarxh for over forty years. Sold by all druggists. 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