Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, September 29, 1921, Image 2
FINANCES BETTER
DECLARES HARDING
GLOOMY FOREBODINGS IN FINANCIAL
SITUATION NO
LONGER EXISTS
MUST PUSH FOREIGN TRADE
Although Process Of Readjustment Is
Not Completed?Evidences Show
That Most Acute Stage Reached
Charlotte. N\ C.?Gloomy forebodings
of last winter with respect to
the banking situation are no longer
justified and can be dismissed, Governor
Hardinsr, of the federal reserve
board, declared in an address here
rcntly at th Made-in-Carolina exposition.
"The banking situation has greatly
improved." Mr. Harding said, "and
although the process of readjustment
has not been completed, evidences are
multiplying that the corner has been
turned and that we have passed the
most acute stage of the readjustment
period.'*
Governor Harding said that in the
immediate /uture much would depend
on agricultural developments and the
manner in which this year's crops
were marketed.
"With proper co-operation on the
part of merchants and bankers," he
said, "those engaged in agriculture
have opportunities and prospects
which were not anticipated a few
months ago and it is of vital importance
that this co-operation be given.
"It should be remembered," Governor
Harding continued, "that in
order to maintain our production we
must push our foreign trade. We cannot
maintain our foreign trade on the
basis of the gold stock of other nations
and some means must be devised
for extending long-time credits
abroad or of interesting American investors
in foreign properties and securities
in order that the exchange
rate which now runs so heavily
gaainst other nations may be corrected.
"We must continue to buy from
foreign countries those things which
they can produce better or more
cheaply that we can and exchange
commodities with them. If we determine
to do business with and for ourselves
alone it seems inevitable that
we must reduce out production to
meet merely American requirements."
The recent advance in the price
of cotton was in no way due to any
increase in the loans of Federal Reserve
banks or to any expansion in
the currency. Governor Harding, declared,
but to operatioo of the inevitable
la wof supply and demand. Fed
eral reserve notes actually in circulation.
he said, were about $500,000,000
less than when cotton reached its
lowest point last spring.
PHYSICIANS TESTIFY
AT ARBUCKLE HEARING
Evidence At Preliminary Considered
Very Damaging To Arbuckle's
Defense
San Francisco.?Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuekle
latest fight was on the sec- I
ond line of defense.. The man sat beside
his pretty wife, "Miss" Minta Durfee.
and listened to his attorneys
wrangle and struggle in the courtroom
to prevent Police Judge Lazarus
ordering him to trial before the superior
court on a charge of murdering
Virginia Rappe, of Los Angeles, as an
aftermath of his Labor day "party" ;
in a San Francisco hotel. Fatty's
famous baby eyes dimmed and he
turned his head away when a big
photograph of the body of Virginia
Rappe was handed to witnesses for
identification. Then he turned to his
wife and she patted his hand and
clenched his arm a little tighter. Fatty
straightened up?he was fighting a
life and death battle and his first love,
the girl from whom he had been separated
for two years, was standing by
him. The e\idence at the preliminary
Hearing was uauiagiug iu rtruucme s 1
defense. Doctors testified that only
one thing?external force?a blow or j
a fall?could have caused the death I
of Miss Rappe.
Miss Stirling Victor In Championship
Ottawa.?Miss Alexa Stirling, of Atlanta.
recently eliminating Mrs. W. A.
Gavin, of New York from the Canadian
ladies' open golf championship
tournament, 4 and 2, the recent
match between the American contestants
attracted the largest gallery.
Mrs. Gavin, who long has cherished
the ambition to vanquish the United
States champion, began in brilliant
fashion by taking the first and second
holes Miss Stirling being weak on the
first green and being clearly outplayed
on No. 2.
Lee Highway Meet'ng At Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tenn.?Official announcement
was made here recently
that the annual convention of the
Lee Highway association would be
held in Chattanooga at an early date
in a communication from I)r. S. M.
Johnson, general director of the or
Ionization. It was further announced
by Dr. Johnson that a national oh
servance of the birth of General Robert
E. Lee would be held at the same
time. C. H. Huston, of Chattanooga,
assistant secretary of commerce, is
president of the highway association.
Two Cents Damage Awarded To Wife
Salisbury, N. C.?Two cents in damages
were awarded to Mrs. Melissa J.
Woodington by a Rowan county superior
court jury here recently in a suit
for $10,000 against W. A. Roseman, a
grocer, whom Mr. Woodington alleged
sold her husband flavoring extracts
which he drank, causing him to
mistreat her. The husband was a
witness for the plaintiff. Roseman
also was burdened with the cost in
the case. The suit has attraction at/
tention all over the country, especially
among prohibitionists.
WILL QUESTION WITNESSES
It Is Believed Some Of The Arbuckle
Witnesses Are Located?They
May Be Returned
San Francisco.?Seven witnesses
were questioned by the federal grand
Jury in an attempt to learn the source
of the liquor consumed at the affair
in Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle's hotel
suite here from which resulted the
death of Miss Virginia Rappe and Arbuckle's
arrest on a charge of murder.
"No indictments will be returned until
all of the federal departments cooneratintr
in the case have completed
their several investigations," Assistant
United States Attorney General R.
P. McComiack announces. The investigation
will be returned by the grand
jury at once.
The latest witnesses were Mrs. Bam|
bina Maude Delinont, Miss Alice Blake,
1 Miss Zeh Provost and Mrs. Mae Taube,
who were present at the party. John
P. Pickett, a bellboy at the hotel, and
Miss Josephine Kessler, a hotel maid.
: Mrs. Delmont swore to the murder
complaint against the film comedian
and Miss Provost was the woman
whose statements to the police caused
Arbuckle to be booked on a murder
complaint. Joyce Clark, another member
of the party, was subpoenaed, but
was not called into the grand jury
room.
"We simply wanted their testimony
perpetuated in the event any witness
should leave the city and to prevent
conflict of testimony in case any of
them should desire to leave before the
case might be brought to trial," McCormack
said.
A telegram to Lowell Sherman, a
participant in the party, was sent to
Chicago by District Attorney Matthew
A. Brady, asking Sherman to come
to San Francisco to give his version to
the affair. District Attorney Swan of
New York also was notiried by telegraph
to intercept Sherman if he arrived
there and keep him under surveillance.
Sherman subpoenaed as a
giand jury witness before he left Los
Angeles for Chicago. Assistant District
Attorney Milton U'Ren said he
hoped Sherman would return voluntarily
and not cause legal steps to be
taken against him.
The authorities anounce that they
believe May Parsons, another woman
who was in the Arbuckle party, had
been located at Fort Worth, Texas.
Chief of Police O'Brien asked the
Fort Worth police to detain her.
Law Enforcement Officers Are Jailed
Birmingham, Ala.?W. S. Knox and
A. F. Crow, state law enforcement officers,
and four special law enforcement
officers or members of a citizen's
posse, are held in the Elmore
county jail at Wetumpka on charges
of murder preferred by Sheriff J. H.
strengm, according to long distance
telephone reports from Sheriff
Strength recently. The murder
charges resulted from- the alleged killing
of Lee Paunton in a fight six
miles from Electric, Ala. according to
the sheriff, who stated that Oliver Dewitt
was seriously wounded at the
same time. Both men are white.
No Violence Occurs In Strike Zone
Bakersfield, Cal.?Thus far the
boast of Walter Yarrow, head of the
Oil Workers' union, that there would
be "neither bloodshed nor violence'
in the oil fields taken over by the
strikers, has been made good. The
district is several hundred square
miles in extent. So completely has
control of the district been taken over
by the strikers?in an entirely legal
manner, they point out?that clashes
were prevented for the simple reason
that there was no one to clash with.
Spain Announces Morocco Success
Madrid.?An engagement between a
small Spanish force and a party ol
Moors at Tirisa, in the Spanish-Moroccan
zone, in which the Spanish
scored a pronounced success, is announced
in an official telegram received
recently from Tetuan. Conditions
in the Melilla and El-Arish
areas are reported quiet.
Southern's Exhibit Get New Industries
Washington.?As the result of the
exhibit of the Southern Railway svsten
at the seventh national exposition
of chemical industries in New York,
which has just come to a close, prospects
are bright for location of several
important industries in the South,
according to a statement given out
by Manager J. C. Williams, of the
Southern's development service.
Army Hospital For Negro Service Men
Washington.?Location in Alabama
of the proposed public health service
hospital for exclusive use of negro former
service men is practically certain,
treasury oficials say. Final decision
probably will be made soon. Sites for
the institution, officials say, have been
offered the government by Tuskegee
institute and also by the town of Tuskegee.
Dr. Robert Moton. president
of the institute, has asked the treasury
to locate the proposed hospital on
the institute irrniinds If will cnat oKmit
a million dollars.
U. S. Submarine R-27 Safe Arrives O. K.
Washington?Safe arrival at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, of the American
submarine R-27, which, while en route
from Coco Solo. Panama canal zone,
to Guantanamo, sent out a distress call,
i is reported to the navy department.
The dispatch reporting the safe arrival
of the R-27 says she came under
her own power, but gives no details
as to the trouble experienced by
the submersible and which led to the
distress signal. A sea-going tub has
been ordered to repair to the assistance
of the R-27.
Egg-Sized Hailstones Fall In West
Anoka, Minn.?Hailstones as large
as eggs fell near here on the afternoon
of September 20, doing heavy
damage to crops and buildings. Reports
are that the country for four miles
north is covered with hailstones that
fell like snow. The wind and rain
that preceded the hail also caused
some damage. Buildings on a farm
seven miles west of Hugo were moved
from their foundations and trees uprooted.
Severe storm conditions in
nearby towns were reported. No loss
j of lite is reported.
BORAH OBJECTS I
TO DELAY TREATY
"IRRECONCILABES" REAR HEADS
WHEN CONSIDERATION OF J
NEW PACT IS BEGUN
voices fearTobligations ;
Sa/8 Might Entail Necessity of Maintaining
U. S. Armed Forcer
On Germany
Washington.?Reservation may be
made to the treaty of peace President
Harding has negotiated with Germany.
Thy would be designed to prevent
American entanglement in the affairs
of Europe and are considered necessary
by those who led the fight
against the treaty of Versailles, notably
Senator Borah.
A suggested reservation is the same
as one Senator Lodge, chairman of
the committee on foreign relations,
offered when the treaty of Versailles
was before th senat. It would prevent
participation of American representatives
on international bodies
created by the Versailles pact, unless
the express consent of congress were
obtained. Another safeguard desired
by irreconcilables i sthat there be a
definite stipulation that in ratifying
the new treaty, American assumes no
obligations to assist in carrying out
provisions ox me v ersames ncat>.
Senator Borah directed the attention
of the committee on foreign relations
to these points when it met recently
to consider the treaty. He
based his objections on the fact that
the treaty accepts certain provisions
of the Versailles pact.
Borah contended that approval of
the treaty would entail a moral and
probably legal obligation on the part
of the United States to baintain troops
in Germany.
He argued also that unless there
were a provision to the contrary, the
executive might name American delegates
to sit on the various bodies set
up to administer the peace of Versailles,
notably the reparation commission,
to which there was particular
objection from irreconcilables. It
was argued that American participation
in the affairs of the reparations
commission would entail involvment
in European political affairs for years
to come.
The reservation of Senator Lodge,
which it was suggested might be revived,
would forbid the president to
name any American representative to
sit on any niternational body without
consent of congress, and it would require
the confirmation by the senate
of any person named.
Lost Mail May Have Happened Thus
Washington.?Immediate inspection
1 of two million mail sacks and four hundred
thousand pouches sent to depositories
in various cities for storage or
: distribution has been ordered by Postmaster
General Hays. The order was
prompted by information that an average
50 parcels and 20 letters are found
daily in mail sacks sent for repair to
the shops here. Orders have been is1
sued that postmasters are to be held
responsible hereafter to see that all
sacks and pouches are emptied. He
hopes to make them more careful.
(
Ku Klux Enters Debate In Senate 1
Washington.?The Ku Klux Klan
and religious intolerance entered into
the debate on the floor of the senate
| during discussion of the beer bill. (
Senator Watson, Democrat. Georgia, ' ]
asserted that religious liberty had not 1
been abolished in the United States (
under the charter granted Lord Haiti- J
more while Senator Stanley, Demo- '
crat, Kentucky, insisted that "there '
was only one place in all the civilized '
' world where man could worship his 5
God at the dictates of his conscience '
and that was in the provence of the i 1
Catholic nobleman. Lord Baltimore."
National Milliners To Hold Convention
Chiicago, 111.?The Millinery Jobbers
and Manufacturers' association
at a special meeting of the board of 1
directors unanimously voted to hold (
their semi-annual fall convention in }
Atlanta ocmmencing on November 2,
for a four day's session. There will :
be discussed at this meeting some of '
the most important matters affecting <
the millinery trade that have been 1
acted upon in years. i
Whiskey Is Cheaper Since Prohibition <
Seattle, Wash.?Good liquor is
cheaper and more easily obtained in :
the state of Washington now than be- I
fore national prohibition went, more <
or less theoretically, into effect. The I
I answer, of course, is greater organ- I
ization of the bootlegging industry 1
from wet British Columbia. Perhaps i
at no point along the line from Quebec 1
to the Pacific ocean is booze pouring i
across the line in such quantities as i
here. The strange part of it is that 1
the price is as cheap as it was in the
I old days of the saloon. <
Senator Wadswr>rth Praises Treaty I
Syracuse. N. Y.?United States Senator
James W. Wadsworth, Jr., in his <
keynote speech as temporary chair- <
man of the New York republican state ]
convention, recently ..said that no 1
"finer stroke of diplomacy adorns the 1
annals of our state department" than ]
the new treaty with Germany. Had
tho Harding administration done nothing
else, he added, "its achievement
in thus untangling and setting aright
our foreign relation would justly en
title it to fame" ? proving that the
! league of nations was not the only way. i
Bobby Jones Beaten By British Champ
St.Louis Country Club, Clayton Mo.
?Here's a toast to wee Willie Hun,
ter, a stout-hearted little fighter with 1
courage to battle alone and unaided, 1
who doesn't know when he is beaten,
and, gentlemen and ladies, a true son 1
of John Bull and a while of a golfer.
Hunter, the British amateur champion,
fought his way into the semifinals
of the national amateur golf
championship here recently by defeating
Bobby Jonen, the scintillating Atlanta
youngste |i
II. S. SENATE FACING JAM
Ire Of Leaders Aroused By Many Ab
sentees On The Opening Day?
Sharp Skirmish On Beer
Washington.?The senate finds itsell
In a legislative jam at the outset o
the post-vacation session.
Four major matters are before It
clamoring for attention?
1. The revenue bill, called up ir
the senate by Senator Penrose, chair
man of the finance committee, wit!
the announcement that consideratior
would he pressed.
2. The anti-beer hill, also called ui
in the senate, which Senator Sterling
says he will push at every opportunity
.1, The Panama canal tolls repeal
unfinished business in the senate, or
which there will be a vote by agree
ment October 16.
4. Peace treaties witn Germany
Austria and Hungary, immmediate rat
ification of which has been asked bj
President Harding.
The tangle of business creates a sit
nation that is taxing the ingenuity o
Republican leadership and which is
causing considerable concern. Adding
to the difficulties is the small attend
ance?33 Republicans and 21 Demo
crats answered the roll call when Sen
ator Lodge, Republican leader, mad<
the plea of no quorum. Leaders in the
majority are displeased with the largr
number of absences.
The revenue bill is conceded in a]
quarters to be entitled to precedence
but it is feared that other matters wil
interfere with its uninterrupted consid
eration. The intention of leaders is tc
"sandwich in" the treaties, resorting
to night sessions if this becomes nec
essary. If night sessions were held
questions not pertaining to the treatj
would be rigorously excluded.
Senator Penrose reported the reve
nue bill as soon as the senate met, anc
announced that he would ask for i
beginning of discussion when the com
mittee's report on the bill had beer
received from the printer. Senator Un
derwood, Democratic leader, said the
minority would require seven days ir
which to prepare its report on tht
bill.
The determination of drys to push
the anti-beer bill means that it maj
bob up to provoke debate at any time
Senator Stirling called it up, and start
9d a sharp parliamentary fight. Sena
tor Reed, enemy of the bill, made a
motion to adjourn, which was defeat
2d. 33 to 107. Then Reed argued thai
It was unfair to insist on consideration
2f the bill, when many senators whe
wished to oppose it were not present
because they had thought the senate
would not be in session. He said there
was no filibuster against the bilf, bul
that one might develop if drys were
Insistent. The dispute ended when
Senator Curtis moved for an executive
session. At one time Stirling persuad
2d the senate to send the sergeant-at
irms in search of absent members be
tiause there was no quorum.
33' Mason In Mississippi Goes Hence
Meridian, Miss.?Oliver Lee McKay
33", grand secretary-recorder of Mississippi
Masonic bodies; president ol
the Meridian board of trade and Me
ridian cotton exchange; vice president
3f the chamber of commerce; past
;rand master of the Mississippi grand
lodge of Odd Fellows, and executive
jeneral agent of the Mobile and Ohio
ind Southern railways in Mississippi
lied here after a brief illness. He was
Identified with numerous public enter
prises.
I
Horrible Crime Laid To Maniac's Door
Dowagiac. Mich.?A blood - stained
L-lub, nail-studded and a bloody fingerprint
were the clues by which the au
horities hoped to clear up the mur
ier of three persons and the serious in
jury of another, a child, in their home
lere. William Monroe, his wife and
:heir 17-year-old daughter were found
aeaten to death with the club; in the
same room was found Ardith Monroe
10-year-old daughter, who had beer
jeaten on the head until unconscious
The little girl was made blind by the
Mows.
Joyful Welcome Greets Gen. Pershinc
Paris.?Acclaimed joyfully at Havre
vhere he land, amid a wild civilian
lemonstration and with an impressive
nilitary greeting, Gen. John J. Pershing
was happy to step ashore tc
:he welcoming handclasp of Gen. Fran
;lies Desperey, who, in Pershing's own
.vords, "introduced him to the world
tvar."
Serman Town Wiped Out By Explosion
Mayenee, Germany.?A great explosion
at the chemical products plant ol
:he Iladische Anilinfabrik company al
Dppau, on the Rhine, wrecked the
iown and spread death and destruc
[ion on every uauu. me numuur ui
killed and wounded in variously esti
mated at from one thousand to fifteen
hundred. One report says that three
[housand men were on the spot at the
moment of the explosion, and it is be
lieved about half of these were killed
More than a third of the houses were
completely destroyed,
Ledoux And Police Reach Compromise
New York.?Urbain Ledoux, whose
activities in behalf of New York un
employed have been combatted by the
police, announces that he and the po
lice have arrived at a compromise. He
has promised, he says, to ahandor
plans for holding a modern "slave auc
Lion" here, and the police have agreed
Lo aid his efforts to feed the jobless
Carrying out the terms of the corn pro
mise Ledoux appeared in Ilryant park
kvith a police escort and began distrib
uting tickets good for breakfasts in
restaurants.
Highway Improvements; Tax Rate Cul
Athens, Ga.?Improvements on the
"No-Where," Newton-Epps bridge, anci
Jefferson roads, will be made by the
Clarke county convicts and employees
it was decided by the county coinmis
sioners at the meeting held recently it
the county court house. Other matters
handled by the commission at theii
meet was the adoption of the tax lev>
in Clarke county, which reduces countj
taxes from ten to eight mills per thou
sand dollars, one of the few counties
in the state of Georgia which has con
Bidered a reduction in taxation.
1 IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
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? IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIJ
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SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
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Brief Paragraphs
! Foreign?
Miss Alexa Stirling, of Atlanta, re
cently eliminated Mrs. W. A. Gavin, o
New York, from the Canadian ladies
' open golf championship tournamenl
4 and 2.
Owing to the dumping of Russia]
? diamonds on the Dutch and Belgiai
3 markets by the Lenine government
' more than 4,500 local diamond worl
* ers have been thrown out of emploj
' ment.
General Evangeline Booth, head o
3 the Salvation Army, is making a tou
1 of fifty Swiss towns to strengthen th
3 organization.
Penetrating the fog of poisonou
? vapor which still hovered low ove
Oppau, scene of the greatest explc
1 slon disaster in German historj
" rescue corps, gas masked, recentl
3 fought for the lives of possible sui
' vivors, while reports came toack tha
* the death roll would total at leas
1,500. Five hundred bodies have bee:
7 extricated from the shattered ruin
about the synthetic nitrate plant o
' the Badische aniline works, near Luc
1 wigshafen, which was destroyed tc
1 gether with the little town of Oppat
by a series of terrific explosions.
1 Immediate intervention by the ai
lies to prevent the Serbo-Albanian dis
' pute flaming into a new Balkan wa
1 was asked in a note addressed to th
* powers of England, France and Ital;
by the council of the League of Na
1 tions recently. The threatened confla
gration in Middle Europe's powde
box, where the slightest flare cai
start another of the interminable Bal
kan wars, may be averted by th
1 council's action, but the league itsel
' has been split into two factions by th
introduction of the dispute betweei
1 Albania and Jugo-Slavia in the assera
* bly,
Sir John Foster Fraser has added an
! other chapter to the criticism writtei
! and spoken by Englishmen of Amer
' ica's alleged prohibition, in an artich
! in the London Daily Chronicle. "Th<
1 whole situation is pernicious; the Unit
' ed States is dry and will never be we
again, but the growing disrespect fo
all law constitutes a super-evil," h<
says.
Charles B. Warren, the new Unitei
States ambassador to Japan, arrivei
s at Yokohama, Japan recently with hi;
, wife and three sons on board th<
. steamer Golden State.
P ??
! Washington?
| Reservation may be made to th(
treaty of peace. President Hardini
has negotiated with Germany. The;
would eb designed to prveent Amer
' ican entanglement in the affairs o
Europe, and are considering necessar;
bv those who led the fight against thi
treaty of Versailles, notably Senato
Borah.
The tangle of business in the sen
[ ate cerates a situation that is taxinj
the ingenuity of Republican leadershi]
and also causing considerable con
corn. Adding to the difficulties is th(
small attendance?33 Republicans am
21 Democrats.
I The determination of the drys t(
I nush the anti-beer bill in the senati
i neans that it may bob up to provat<
, debate at any time,
i The department of justice is con
sidering whether federal action shal
i be taken in connection with the ac
tivitles of the Ku Klux Klan, Attor
ney-General Daugherty said recently.
I Carl R. Tabb, an American employe*
of the Mexican petroleum company
' j was shot and killed recently "by Me*
i ican soldiers" in the oil fields nea
1 j Tampico. the American consul a
Tampico reported recently to tin
> state department. It is claimed th<
shooting was accidental.
China's dual government?the rec
1 ognized regime established at Pekir
' and the unrecognized authority center
ed at Canton?affords the forthcom
ing Washington conference a possibh
guardianship problem second only t(
that in caring for the rights of Russia
The Russian question has been solvet
by a decision among the powers an
nounced by the state department re
cently, to establish a moral trustee
ship in protection of legitimate Rus
sian interests. What will be the fina
course of the conference toward Chi
na, if the two governing bodies now es
tablished there cannot co-operate tc
their common interests, is a delicat*
and difficult question, a solution o!
which, for the moment, cannot be accu
j rateiy iorecasi.
, ! The Ku Klux Klan and religious in
, ! tolerance entered into the Jebate or
j the floor of the senate during discus
! ; sion of the beer bill.
As the result of the exhibit of th?
Southern Railway system at the sev
i
enth national exposition of chemica
I industries in New York, which ha.'
! just closed, prospects are bright foi
| location of several important indus
: tries in the South, according to ;
statement given out by Manager J
1 C. Williams of the Southern's develop
j nient service.
i ! There were 36.617.5S4 cotton spin
, dies in the United States at the be
i j ginning of the cotton year, August 1
! the census bureau announces,
i Immediate inspection of 2,000,00C
mail sacks and 400,000 pouches sent tc
i depositories in various cities for stor
age or distribution has been ordered
by Postmaster General Hays.
Four major matters are before the
senate clamoring for attention?the
revenue bill; the anti-beer bill; the
Panama canal tolls repeal; peace trea
ties with Germany, Austria and Hun
Kary.
Recommendation* on the question
of a pardon for Eugene V. Debs, socialist
leader imprisoned at Atlanta
for violation of the war laws, may be
| sent to President Harding soon, Attorney-General
Daugherty said recent1
ly.
Location in Alabama of the proI
posed public health service hospital
for exclusive use of negro former
service men is practically certain,
treasury officials said recently. Final
decision will be made very soon.
!The safe arrival at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, of the American submarine
R-27, which, while en route from
Coco Solo, Panama canal zone, to
Guantanamo, sent out a distress call
recently, was reported to the navy department.
The tax revision bill will be sent to
the president by the latter part of
October, Chairman Penrose predicted
!- recently in announcing that the senf
ate finance committee had formally
5' approved the house measure as amendt,
ed.
Announcement of the names of
n thirty-five men and three women who
n have accepted President Harding's
invitation to take part in a national
r. 1 *. A la KAI.1
uunenipiuynieui tuuieieute uc uciu
' in Washington at an early date, was
made recently by Secretary Hoover.
lf The treaty with Germany probably
r will be submitted to the senate by
e President Harding very soon after
congress reassembles. The submis3
sino may be accompanied by a brief
r message, but it was indicated that
there was little probability that the
president would appear before the
senate in person to urge ratification.
Southern farmers will be interested
in knowing that the retail price of potatoes
increased 24 per cent during the
month of August.
'[ Chairman Lasker of the shipping
|. board announces that the board is now
getting in sight of the end of the need
, for asking great sums. The board,
' under the Harding administration, has
i already drawn three and a half billion
j. dollars.
r The senate finance committee failed
e to reach final decision on the Smoot tax
y simplification bill, embodying a manul
facturers' sales levy, and on Senator
L. Calder's proposal to impose a tax of
r $6.40 on all alcoholic liquors withn
drawn from bond other than manufac[.
turing purposes.
e Oil is so plentiful in some sections
f of Bolivia that natives take it from
e surface holes in buckets for local use,
a according to department of commerce
i* information. The accumulations result
from natural seepage, and are most in
i- evidence in the country lying east of
a the Santa-Cruz-Yacuiba trail.
2 Domestic?
?
Good liquor is cheaper and more
1 easily obtained in the state of Washr
ington now than before national pro2
hibition went, more or less theoretically,
in to effect, according to a
1 United News Staff correspondent.
1 United SStates Senator James W.
3 Wadsworth, Jr., in his keynote speech
2 as temporary chairman of the New
York republican state convention, recently
said that no "finer stroke of
diplomacy adorns the annals of our
state department" than the new
a treaty with Germany. |
y Official announcement was made
y at Chattanooga recently that the an -
nual convention of the Lee Highway
f association would meet in that city
y at an early date.
a Two cents in damages were awardr
ed to Mrs. Melissa J. Woodington by
a Rowan county superior court jury
i- at Salisbury. N. C., in a suit for
I $10,000 against W. A. Roseman, a
[> grocer.
r The evidence at the preliminary
3 hearing of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle.
1 at San Francisco, was damaging to
Arbuckle's defense. Doctors testified
3 that only one thing?external force?
2 a blow or a fall?could have caused
3 the death of Miss Rappe. |
Willie Hunter, the British amateur
golf champion recently defeated Bobby
1 Jones, Atlanta golfer at the St. Louis
Louis Country Club, Clayton. Mo.
The Millinery Jobbers and Manu5
facturers- association at a special
meeting of the board of directors unanimously
voted to hold their semir
annual fall convention in Atlanta at
t an early date.
i Gloomy forebodings of last winter
? with respect to the banking situation
are no longer justified and can be (lis
missed, Governor Harding, of the fedt
eral reserve board, declared in an ad
dress at Charlotte. N. C., recently at
j uie Aiaue-in-i aruiiua expusiuun.
5 Urbain Ledoux, whose activities in
' behalf of New York unemployed have
been combatted by the police, announc:
es that he and the police have arrived
at a compromise?he promising to
abandon plans for holding a modern
slave auction and the police agreeing
." to aid in his efforts to feed the jobless,
Due to a heart affection, Oliver Lee
McKay, 33? Mason, grand-secretary- I
j recorder of Mississippi Masonic bodies,
> died recently.
f Clarke county, Georgia, has gone on
. record as having reduced the tax levy
from 10 to 8 mills per thousand.
Engineer M. S. Bennett of Louisville,
i Ky., was killed, four persons severely
-1 injured and several others less seriously
injured when Pennsylvania passen- 1
; ger train No. 327 en route to Indian- |
. apolis from Louisville, went through a
I bridge into Blue river, Indiana.
The nation, from president to hum!
blest citizens, paid tribute to the mem
nrv nf sixteen brave men at New Vnrir
- September 17. These were American
i otficers and men of the ill-fated dirigi- !
. Lie Zlt-2 whose disastrous plunge into I
- the river Huber put two nations in
mourning.
A twister windstorm hit the business
- section of Zanesville, Ohio, and damaged
the main business section, damaging
business houses into the hun>
| dreds of thousands of dollars.
> Fields of corn were washed away,
homes were flooded in the lowlands
I of McMahon Creek Valjey, Ohio, in
! a near cloudburst.
; A blood-stained club, nail-studded,
- i and a bloody fingerprint were the
clues by which local authorities hoped
to clear up the murder of three per
sons and the serious injury of another
. in their home at Dowagiac. Mich
NEW IRISH CRISIS
CAUSE Hie
LLOYD GEORGE'S LATEST REPLY
PORTENDS MOST SERIOUS
DEVELOPMENTS.
| POPULACE IS STILL HOPEFUL
Lord Randolph Churchill, Speaking to
An Audience at Dundee, Scotland,
is Pessimistic on Situation.
Dublin?Kamonn de Valera was re
! ported to have received a oommunij
cation from England wnich portends
' important developments in the Insn
peace situation.
That a new and grave crisis has developed,
which is causing much anxiety,
is apparent.
The populace is hopeful that the
crisis will pass without a recurrence
of warfare, but if is admitten that the
I outlook is now very black.
Winston Churchill, speaking on the .
! Irish situation to an audience in Dundee,
Scotland, declared he saw no
foundation for hope.
"The Irish position is still uncertain,"
he warned. "An Irish republic
means inevitable civil war."
"I am profoundly disappointed at
de Valera's rejection of home rule," 4
he said.
"Our offer is generous and sincere,
but we must insist on allegiance to the
king, whether he be the king of Britain
or Ireland."
Shrinkage in Income Taxes.
Washington.?A shrinkage of more
than $1,000,000,000 in income and excess
profits taxes this fiscal year was
reckoned upon by the senate finance
committee in revising the house tax
bill.
Doug. Fairbanks Off to Europe.
New York.?Arrayed in a white hat,
white spats and a blue suit, Douglas
Fairbanks, the moving picture actor,
sailed for Europe on the liner Olympic,
accompanied hy his wife, Mary Pickford
Fairbanks.
Must Revive Employment Service.
Washington.?Revival of the United
States employment service to aid in
finding work for the millions of men
now jobless is imperative, Secretary
of Labor Davis decided.
Another Aviator is Killed.
Oklahoma City, Okla.?Lieut Arthur
Emerson was killed here while atI
tempting to change from one airplane
' to another at the state fair grounds.
Rioting is Suppressed.
Belfast.?Crown forces gained control
of the situation shortly before
.daight after fierce rioting between 4
Catholic and Protestant mobs had
lasted throughout the day.
69 Cases of Paralysis. '
New York.?Sixty-nine cases of infantile
paralysis were reported here
during the week. This is the largest
number since the epidemic of 1916.
Thousands Die in Morocco.
Paris. ? Forty-four thousand Spaniards
and .Moorish tribesmen have
been killed or wounded in a terrific
battle which raged ten days in
Morocco.
Rough on Chicago Policemen.
Chicago?Fifty per cent of Chicago's
policemen are involved in the illegal
transportation and sale of liquor, '
Chief of Police Charles Fitzmorris declared.
Sail Boat Capsizes. Eight Drown. ?
Sault Ste .Marie, Mich.?Eight persons
were drowned when their sail
boat capsized in a squall on Lake Superior,
about 20 miles from here.
British Relieve Unemployed. ?
London.?More than a million dollars
has been expended by the British
government in relieving unemployment
since November 11, 1918, Wins- ,
ton Spencer Churchill, secretary of
state for the colonies, told a delegation
here.
Auto and Tractor Tragedy.
Ann Aruur, ivutu.? *?iauaicjr rvci no,
of Lansing, and William Graver, of
Chicago, students at the University ?
of Michigan, were instantly killed
when an automobile in which they
vere riding struck a tractor.
Old Navvies Re-enlisted.
Washington.?During the first week
of its recruiting the navy obtained
261 recruits and re-enlisted 228 "old
timers," the department announced,
bringing the strength of the navy 4
proper up to over 114,000.
Woodside is Re-elected.
Detroit.?Captain Robert Woodside, .
of Pittsburgh, was re-elected commander-in-chief
0 the Veterans of
Foreign Wars at the closing session of
the annual convention. Captain Woodside
received 328 votes against 213.
May Expect Flood of Huns.
Washington. ? Unless the German
government discourages emigration, a
flood of Germans may follow the reestablishment
of American consular
offices in that country, Is the opinion
of officials of the department of labor.
Protest Against Wireless.
Tokio.?Japan will protest to China
against the signing of a contract with
the Federal Radio Companw of America
for a wireless telegraph station at
Shanghai, it is declared by newspapers
here.
Japan to Hold Consultation.
Tokio. ? Japan will consult with
other members of the League of Nations
relative to the desire of the
United States to receive equal treatment
in mandate islands of the Pacific
as a feature of the settlement.
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