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Tl U4/41 WW** * y , _ ' TWO SEEK PLACE . ON COMMITTEE 1 Fifkt Among Democrt* Narrow* Down-?Tariff Cfcief Inne. Washintgon, April 9.?On the eve of the Democratic caucus ,it is indi cated that Representative Peter Taa*ae of Massachusetts will be elected tomorrow to membership on the ways and means committee or Representative Carl Hayden, of Oklahoma* ' On account of the fact that al] Democratic members of that com mittee are Southerners it' has been ''determined that no Southerner shall offer for the vacancy. Thus exeunt as candidates Representative Henry B. SteagaU of Alabami and Repre > tentative Fred Dominfck of South Carolina. The light will not only be between Easterner and Westerner but between the supporters of the soealled peanut tariff bili and its op ponents. The former are grouped f behind Hayden and the latter behind Teague. The margin of difference fetween the two factions is small. The bitterness which has long been .among Democrats because# of the split on {he emergency tariff meas ? ure, will find expression in. the fore going scrap exclusively, me peanut tariff men have withdrawn their op position to reelection of Representa tive Kitchin as ranking Democratic member and minoriy leader, and th6 opponens of the peanut tariff scheme have withdrawn their opposition to . the relection of member of the com mittee who would have protected peanuts thus Representatives Crisp of Georgia, Garner of Texas and a ' few others are safe. The peanut tariff bill, incidentally ft ready for reintroduction Monday, v and the Democrats may be asked to 1 morrow to pledge themselves as" a party against its nactment. If a two tUnb majority is required for fich pledge, the movement will fail, it is indicated. * The Indication!) are that Repre sentative Dominick, whose name will not be presented as a candidate for th ways and means committee, will be elected to the committee on in - M j terstate and foreign commerce which, because of the' prominent place that transportations will have in the ensuing session, is one of the very important .committees of the house. The South Carolina delega tion with-all members present, cau cused today and agreed to support Kr. Dominick. Representative y Byraea will be reelected a member of tiie ppropriations committee. PLAY AT ANTRJEVILLE V \ * . There will be a play, "After the Game," given by the tenth grade at Antreville school house Friday night, April 15th, at eight o'clock. Admission 15 cents and 25 cents. ?Watch the label on your paper and renew your subscription promptly. ' ' Notice La VADU will tak< * Highway Cc beville County, Si permanently con! through your pro -the* highway that ed by the nighwa This is to giv< | you should not pi | the recently sur ' your properly or t placed thereon bj > gineer, for it is tr l Highway Commi road completed gather same. Highwa] Abbf V PRICE OF WIVES ADVANCES 300 PER CENT IN INDIA Not the H. C. L. but the H. C. W. (high cost of wives), is worrying In dia, according to Myron 0. Insko, Methodist missionary pnd head of the Methodist publishing house at Luckhow, India, in his address be , fore students of Northwestern uni versity, Chicago. "Once you could get a good, wife for $25" said the misionary, quoting a Hindu. "Now the price is up to $75." t .. The missionary told of asking a Hindu about his wife's health, and the Hindu replied: - . "My buffalo is well, my -buffalo's emir is wen, ana my wue ia weu al so." ' ' > "He laughed when I remonstrated with him for flaming his wife last "Why not?" he replied, "My buf falo is worth 8 rupees, my buffalo's calf will be worth 80 rupees; but I paid only 5 rupees for my wife and that was more than SO years ago." BANDITS TAKE MAIL AS CROWDS LOOK ON Chicago, April 7.?While scores of pedestrians watched what they be lieved' to be a 'movie" robbery and 50 railway and postal employees i 4-1*att* itonrlo. in ! K/Ullglll&ljr Otwu ITlItU UHUUkf ?* the air, fiv% armed bandits seized three sacks of mail at the Dearborn" street railway station today and es cped. The mail was for the Monon train known as the Hoosier Limited. Later it was said that one of the sacks of regisered mail contained approximately $50,000 in money and securities. The robbers, it was said, spent the afternoon playing ball in front of the station while they waited for the appearance of the mail truck. There upon they threw down their gloves, bat and ball, dashed across to the patform and one of them shouted: "Stick up your hands everybody." More than fifty railway and postal employees who "were around the track complied in the belief that a motion picture scene was being taken. Three sacks of mail, one a registered pouch, were thrown into, the bandits motor car, when one of the bandits became attracted at see ing a policeman and fired ? shojt at him. The robbers then leaped Into the machine and sped away* at top speed. Five bullets were fired at them by the policemen. * GOOD TO THE LAST SCALED TMS ONLY \*r yooftceoaas MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE ; !_ 'n ? & ind Owners!! / ; notice that the >mmission of Ab Duth Carolina, will struct' a highway perty, same being has been survey iv pnmnppir IJ V1A0JIAAW1 ; you notice that ant any crop upon veyed portion of o move any stakes j the highway en le intention of the ission to have the before you can r Commission iville County. WARNING AGAINST FAKE SCHEMES IS MADE BY BANKERS New methods of operation utilized by fraudulent promoters in Virginia and the Garolinas in victimizing in vestors, especially those with small savings, in take schemes and in which bankers are made unconscious i assistants are outined in a recent communication sent 'broadcast by the Virginia Bankers Association. < The letter says in part: . "There is understood to have I been of late an alarming increase In the number and amount of so-called investments by citizens of Virginia, largely farmers and laborers, in shares of stock in enterprises most of which it is entirely proper to call questionable and many of which ar$ fraudulent throughout It Is estima ted that through schemes of' this na ture, several millions of dollars have been withdrawn from North Caro lina and South Carolina during the past twelve months and one of the most* serious features of the situa tion is tfiat certain of the promoters have obtained licenses to sell stock in Virginia. # ?' "The state authorities are in no, '( way to blame,for this,.for they are administering most effectively the i provisions of the Blue Sky Law. tt is i painfully true that the best-drawn law of the kind must always be in- < sufficient to give one hundred per cent protection to a public unlearn- 1 ed in business methods and eager i for quick and large returns. "Following is a general .outline of i the methods employed Jby operators 1 of the kind, referred to; A stock 1 salesman will secure a list of prom- i inent farmers around on6 of our i smaller towns. He will approach the 1 farmers and endeavor to sell them i stock under the 'Blue Sky Law/ In 4 approaching the farmer he is told by < him that while he is perfectly will- J ing to purchase the stock in the pro- i posed corporation, he has no money J at that time, but if the stock sales- 1 man will take a note, he will take so many shares of stock. The salesman knows that the farmer's is good and therefore takes his note for, say, $&uq and deliver live snares of stock ? to him. . ^ i f "He then takes the note to the 1 bank where the farmer does busi- f ness and persuades the banker to ( buy the note from him but instead 1 of giving him cash, to give him a certificate of deposit, drawn to ma ture two weeks after the maturity of ? the1 farmer's note, Explaining to the ( banker that he will have the' oppor-- E tunity to collect the note before the = certificate of deposits matures<. As i an extra inducement to the banjcer tie allow him to draw interest on'the note of the farmer from the date of maturity, and thereafter, if not paid at maturity and does not require in terest on the certificate of deposit. "Having secured the certificate the company represented by tjie stock salesman uses this certificate of deposit as collateral against its note, borrowing money from some bank other than the issuer of the certificate, of deposit in the hands of innocent holders for value. This prevents the farmer from recovering from the company on his note in the event that the project proves to be a fraud or the company fails and the bank issuing the certificate of course Tedeem it." In sending out this appeal the Vir ginia Bankers association is co operating with the work of the Sav ing Division of the Treasury De partment which is endeavoring though educaton in personal finance and through the sale of safe govern ment securities to protect the small investor from fraud. London has a man who has been working at the same pencil-making J HAOaViKA /a* *?' *! akAMM* 1 aiovuiuc xwi oiAujr-biucc jrcara. MARSHAL FOCH PLANNING VISIT TO AMERICA SOON Paris, pril 9.?Marshal Foch has not as yet been adv'sed of any invi tation extended to him by the Ameri-j can Legion to visit the United States during the coming summer. He had intended, however, to visit Amerca during the present month, but his plans were upset by the nec essity of conferring with the su preme allied council. It is most dif acult for the marshal to make plans in advance. During a holiday of a month in 1920, he was recalled from Br'ttany to Paris three trmes. Marshal Foch hopes, hower, to be | able to find time for a visit to Amer- { ica in the near future. PANAMA REPLIES TO UNITED STATES / Washington, April, 9.?Panama's note iri reply to the 4<>mand of Sec retary Hughes that the boundary dis pute with Costa Rica be adjusted peaceably and on.the basis of the White award is expected here to sug gest a rehearing with the Loubet award of 1900 as the basis of set tlement, The note has been approv ed by the national assembly and is understood to have been despatched by the foreign office but had not reached Washington tonight state department officials said. In commenting todny upon dis patches telling of the act of the na tional assembly in giving its ap proval to the note. J. E. Lefevre, charge d'affaires of the Panama le gation in this city ?ii that if the United States should tefuse an ap peal for a rehearing his country's only course would be quietly to await the next move by osta Rica If " a crisis' could be deferred for a fmw Yia inti-mfttpri. therA!' would be every chance for an ami cable settlement. The attitude of Panama is under stood to be that it is open to convic tion regarding the justice of the po sition taken by the United States but that it would regard , enforce ment. of the demand for evacuation of the disputed * territory of Go?o without a "full discuuslon" of the boundary question as "an act"o? coer eion." Parfcj of a memorandum recently submitted to Secretary Hughes by Mr. Lefevre was made public by the tetter tonight and reported Pana ma's arming to repel possible inva sion bs Costa Rica if a crisis should be precipitated by the reply of Pana ma. It referred to the presence of "numerous Costa Ricars in the Sixa Dla region" and addied ' that the Panama goyernment decided to .re inforce its police -at Roca del Toro so as 1;o bring some tranquility to the population. THE WEATHER The cold wave came in on time Sunday afternoon and the frost 3nn<jlay night played the mischief with boans and iriah potatoes. The ;h<irmometer was at 39 at seven >'clock Monday morning, which is jrotty cold weather for April. A hob-nailing machine for army thoes is now being tested by , the luartermaster department of the irmy. i - . "DELIVE Anyone can pai beautiful worcl pic of good clothes pearance ? but y< not get much wea satisfaction out of words. Our.... Kuppenheimi and Styleplu Good Glothe tell their own 3tory kp<n-?XArliaf a rpal L'Wl ? 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C , I i Suited to The Victrola is alwa; I whether it be said or g your home, you can, at , buds may have to be replanted as a I result of the recent freeze. j Virginia "bright" markets were ' said to be closing up and organiza tion of the growers' cooperative marketing association ^progressing I satisfactorily. .* ' j New England reported that "its i acreage this year probably would be , reduced with much of last year's , crop still in the growers' hands, ; while reports from Wisconsin show- , ^ ed very little tobacco was being pur ; chased and the prices continued low. Watch the label on your paper. \ ys suited to your mood, ay* With a Victrola in a moment's notice, have* ists soothe you or cheer g. Your favorite singers u for you at your will. . ihow you how perfectly records reproduce their ~ i * eEcho f. OQDS". to $40 i-nnf mnHalo