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soils APPROVE
MANY MEASURES
LARGE NUMBER OF LOCAL MEASURES
AND A FEW STATEWIDE
APPROVED.
BOTH HOUSES ARE BUSY
Revenue Act is Being Beaten Into
, Shape and Fnai Vote is Expected
Seen ? Many Changes Made.
Columbia.
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Both houses of the general assembly
are showing speed and numerous
measures are being eliminated either
by ratification or the striking out
of the enacting words. Only a few
of the statewide measures have been
disposed of but action is expected very
soon .
Bills providing for a revision of
the code of the government of dental
surgery, requiring the Southern
Bell Telephone company to reduce its
rates, for the teaching of fire prevention
in the public schools, and permitting
Clemson college to borrow $150,
000, were approved by the house and
? sent to the senate.
The Sapp resolution, providing for
a constitutional amendment placing in
the jurisdiction of the general assembly
the establishment of a system of
raising an equitable revenue unanimously
was passed to third reading.
Bills provid)ng a schedule of auction
fees for the disposal of tobacco,
placing trees, plants and bulbs for
propagation purposes under the state
pest commission, and providing a system
of reporting for paroled convicts
were introduced.
On a compromise, the senate bringing
tc a close the most heated and
prolonged debate to the present session
of the assembly, passed the Miller
bill revamping the present railroad
commission, increasing its personnel
frcrm three members elected by the
people to seven members elected by
the general assembly, one from each
congressional district. The bill would
have been rejected had the author not
submitted to the three elective members
remaining in office, with Frank
W. Shealy, of Lexington, as chairman.
at their present salaries.
Should the bill pass the house four
members of the commission will be
elected by the legislature this year
on a per diem basis.
The telephone bill, which was introduced
by Representative M. C.
Foster, of Spartanburg, was given its
, third reading and sent to the senate
without opposition, having come
through unscathed the fire of opponents
'debate on second reading. This
measure, which provides that the telephone
rates which were in force
t throughout the state January 1. 1921,
shall be the maximum charges to be
asked in the state, would reduce telephone
rates approximately 20 per
cent, according to Mr. Foster.
The tax resolution, fathered by Sen
ator M. P. Wells ot Edgefield, was
also sent to the senate despite me
opposition of Representative Belser,
the only record vote on the measure
showing a majority of 49 to 41 in favor
of the resolution. The house
amended the resolution in minor details
on second reading and therefore
its final passage sends it hack to the
senate for action on these amendments.
The bill is imperfect in its
present form on account of an error in
its title and the senate is therefore expected
to refuse concurrence in the
house amendments so as to throw the
resolution into free conference where
these errors can he corrected.
The Pickens and Anderson delegations'
measure to require the clerks of
cqurts of the various counties in the
state to issue and collect for motor
vehicle licenses and to empower the
county authorities to retain 85 per
cent of the moneys so collected was
committed to the ways and means
committee, which now has under con
sideration a bill to accomplish much
the same end. The motion to commit
the bill was made by Representative
O. A. Hydrick of Orangeburg.
A divided majority unfavorable report
was made on the bill establishing
a board of examiners for chiropractors.
The joint resolution to provide for
loans to Clemson college was also
passed on third reading and sent to
the senate with minor amendments.
The unamended bill has already pass^
ed the senate.
The Sapp bill to provide for the
creation of a board of engineering ex|
amincrs was ordered recommitted to
the judiciary committee for amendments
The bill as originally framed
received a majority unfavorable report
from the committee, but with the j
amendments to be proposed it is expected
to receive the unanimously favorable
report of the committee.
Favorable committee reports were
made on the Leopold bill, placing a
, license of $50 a day on cotton and
stock exchanges; on the tax luxuries;
requiring executors to enter into bonds
the same as administrators, and giving
priority to artisan's liens for
boring and equipping wells.
Unfavorable reports were made on
the bill allowing graduates of the CharI--A
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lesiuil .1:*;UH(1I cunrnc mcuor miuuiu
standing the state medical examination.
and 011 the bill making insur
anee polit ies incontestible after two
years.
Tax Money Slow.
State taxes are not coming in at
a desirable rate and the machinery
i Table to be dogged and with the
indications strongly pointing to an
extension of time, little hope for a
? s-needing up of taxes is held out by
S T. Carter, state treasurer.
South Carolina has several eoodv'zed
notes coming d ie during Feb
ri'.arv and a lot of money will bo
needed to meet these obligations.
Some $4,000,000 was borrowed in 1921
;>*vl a large part is yet to be paid.
More borrowing may be needed.
The Sapp resolution, which is identical
with the similar measure now
before the senate, would provide for
the amendment of the stale constitution
so as to empower the general assembly
to establish a "just and equitable
system of raising public revenue."
This amendment, which will
be submittc-d to the qualified electors
of the state at the coming general elec- j
tion, should the resolution pass both |
houses, would empower the legisla- j
ture to vary the tax rate upon different !
classes of property taxed. The reso- !
lution had hitherto been held up on <
the calendar on the objection of Representative
L. C. Wannamaker of
Cheraw. Mr. Wannamaker withdrew
his objection and the measure was
passed without further opposition.
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bill was also passed on third reading
and sent to the senate. This measure
would continue in existence the board
of medical examiners, but carries various
changes in the present laws governing
the practice of dentistry in the
state. It would allow a dentist to quit
the practive of dentistry in the state
upon notification to the hoard of examiners
and would not provide for
the cancellation of licenses if ihe holders
fail to practice for a period of 18 j
months as under the law now in
force. The bill would also require
that applicants for admission to the
practice of dentistry in the state pre- ;
sent uncontestable evidence of their I
identity before they will be allowed
to stand the examination.
The act to require tobacco warehouses
to pay an annual license of j
$5,000 if they handle or sell ungraded
and untied tobacco was among those
ratified. This $5,000 is said to be j
practically prohibitory. The fines I
would go to the county school funds. |
Penalties of not less than $1,000 nor
more than $5,000 and not less than
six months or more than one year are
provided in the act.
Senator Lightsey's bank slander
measure, providing for punishment of
ail persons who circulate false state-1
ments in regards to the solvency of1
any bank, was also ratified. If any
person so circulates an oral statement, !
wilfully and with intent to injure, if
convicted, the punishment will be not
less than $100 or more than $500 or
not more than cne year in prison.
Senator Williams' measure to appor- j
tion fines imposed by mayors, magis-1
trates, intendants, etc., where part of
the sentence has been imposed was j
ratified. This act provides that if a j
prisoner has served part of his or her
-1 J ^ nnt, tKa fin o !
lime awi iaeu wains iu yaj uic nuv,
that a proportionate part of the fine
shall be reduced.
The bill to permit graduates of the
Funnan university law school to be ;
licensed for the practice of law in |
the state without examination before !
the state board of law examiners, was
recommitted to the judiciary committee
upon the motion of J. R. Bryson,
of Greenville, the author of the meas- !
ure. The University of South Carolina
law school, the only state law school, |
is at present the only institution so j
favOed by the state, applicants from
all i her law schools being required
to stand the regular examination. Mr.
Bryson proposes to amend his bill
to provide for the admission without :
examination of the graduates of all
accredited law schools, approved by
the state board of law examiners.
R. I. McDavid. of Greenville county,
is the author of a bill to provide that j
insurance policies shall be incontestable
after they have been in force
two years. Under the provisions of ;
this measure policies, when they have
been in force two years, can be cancelled
only when some of the provisions
of the policy are violated or the
premiums not paid. The bill was referred
to the committee on banking
and insurance.
Representatives Hydrick. Glenn and
Kennedy are the authors of a bill to
repeal the present military code of j
the state. The bill was referred to
the committee on military affairs.
I WO IKCW 1/nanci a.
The Carolina Piggly Store, of Green- j
wood, was chartered by the secretary ;
of state with a capital stock of $60,000.
Officers are: A. W. Allison, president;
N. S. Allison, vice-president; J
R. O. Fochall, secretary and treasurer.
The Weiner Construction company
of Charleston was chartered with a
capital stock of $5,000. Officers are:
E. P. Weiner, president; Judah Weiner,
vice president; Ila Weiner, treasurer;
Archibald Weiner, secretary.
Cooper Names Tax Commissioner.
Governor Cooper appointed J. F razier
Lyon, of Columbia, former attorney
general of the state, as a member
of the South Carolina tax commission
to succeed A. W. Jones, its chairman.
whose term of office expired.
Chairman Jones, with the other
two members, W. G. Query, of Spar- i
tanburg, and J. P. Durham, of Con
way. have constituted the personnel
of the commission since it was established
by an act of the general i
assembly in 1915.
Williams Gets Third Reprieve.
Abram Williams. 55-year-old negro, i
convicted in October of attempted ;
criminal assault on a young white girl
of Orangeburg and sentenced to death,
was reprieved for the third time.
Sentenced to die in the electric J
chair Friday, the governor today ordered
that the sentence be reprieved
until April 7.
The negro was convicted in October
and sentenced to die October 2S. The i
sentence was deferred to December 4,
and then to February 3.
Parole for Martin.
Stepney Martin, convicted of violat- i
ing the prohibition laws in Georgetown
county in March of 1921 and sentenced j
to serve IS months, was paroled dur- I
ing his good behavior by the governor.
Martin has served 10 months of his
sentence, it was said at the governor's
office.
Judge Memminger who heard the j
case and imposed the sentence, stren- !
uously objected to any parole or reduction
of the sentence Ho wrote
that lie thought th? sentence was just
ana should he enforced.
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HIS FIRST LOVE.
Synopsis.?With his grandfather,
small Ramsey Mllholland is watching1
the "Decoration Day Parade"
In the home town. The old gentleman,
a \eteran of the Civil war,
endeavors to impress the youngster
with the significance of the
great conflict, and many years afterward
the boy was to remember
his words with startling vividness.
In the schoolroom, a few years
afterward. Ramsey is not distinguished
for remarkable ability,
though his pronounced dislikes are
arithmetic, "Recitations" and German
In shorn rnntrast to Ram
fev's backwardness is the precocity
of little Dora Yocum, a young lady
whom In his bitterness he denominates
"Teacher's Pet." In high
sciiool, where he and Dora are
classmates, Ramsey continues to
feel that the girl delights to manifest
her superiority, and the vindlctiveness
he generates becomes
alarming, culminating In the resolution
that some day he will
"show" her. At a class picnic Ramsey,
to his embarrassment, appears
to attract the favorable attention
of Miss Milla Rust, a young lady
of about his own age and the acknowledged
belie of the class.
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CHAPTER IV.?Continued. *
"I don't see It," lie murmured husktly,
afraid that she might remove her
hand. "I can't see any fish, Milla."
She leaned farther out over the
bank. "Why, there, goosie!" site whispered.
"Itight there."
"I can't see it."
She leaned still further, bending
down to point. "Why, right th?"
At rliis moment she removed her
hand from his shoulder, though unwillingly.
She clutched nt him, in fact,
bat without avail. She had been too
amiable.
A loud shriek was uttered by throats
abler to vocalize, Just then, than Milla's,
for in her great surprise she said nothing
whatever?the shriek came from
the other girls as Milla left the crest of
the overhanging bank and almost horizontally
disappeared Into the brown
water. There was a tumultuous splash,
and then of Milla Itust and her wellknown
beautlfulness there was nothing
visible In the superficial world, nor
upon the surface of that creek. The
vanishment was total.
"Save her!"
Several girls afterward admitted
having used this expression, and little
Miss Floy Williams, the youngest and
smallest member of the class, was
unable to deny that she had said, "Oh,
God!" Nothing could have been more
natural, and the matter need not have
been brought before her with such Insistence
and frequency, during the two
remaining years of her undergraduate
cureer.
Ramsey was one of those who heard
this exclamation, later so famous, and
perhaps it was what roused him to
heroism. He dived from the hank,
headlong, and the strange thought in
ills mind was "I guess this'll show
Dora Yocum!" lie should have heen
thinking of Milla, of course, at such
a time, particularly after the little
enchantment just laid upon him by
MUla's touch and Milla's curls; and
he knew well enough that Miss Yocum
was not among the spectators. She
was half a mile away, as it happened,
gathering "botanical specimens" with
one of the teachers?which was her
Idea of what to do at a picnic!
llnmsey struck the water hard, and
in the same Instant struck something
else harder. Wesley Render's bundle
of hooks had given him no such shock
as he received now, and If the creek
bottom had not been of mud, Just
there, the |op of his young head might
have declined the strain. Half stunned,
choking, spluttering, he somehow floundered
to his feet; and when he could
get his eyes a little cleared of water
he found himself wavering face to face
with a blurred rtsion of Milla Rust.
She had risen up out of the pool and
stood knee deep, like a lovely drenched
figure In a fountain.
Upon the bank above them, Willis
i'arker was Jumping up and down,
gesticulating ' and shouting fiercely.
"Now I guess you're satisfied our
tishln* Is spoilt! Why'n't you listen
me? I told you it wasn't more'n three
foot deep! 1 and Heinle waded all
over this creek gettin' our bait. You're
u pretty sight!"
Of Milla he spoke unwittingly the
literal truth. Even with her hair thus
wild and sodden, Milla rose from Immersion
blushing and prettier thnn
ever; and she was prettiest of all
when she stretched out her hand helplessly
to Ramsey and he led her tip
out of the waters. They had plenty of
assistance to scrunilde to the top of
the bank, and there Milla was surrounded
and borne away with a great
clacketlng and tumult. Ramsey sat
upon the grass In the sun, rubbed his
head, and experimented with his neck
t?> see if It would "work." The sun
shine was strong and hot; in half an
hour lie and his clothes were dry?or
at least "dry enough,' as lie said, and
except for some soreness of I lend and
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PHONE THAT W(
New York Police at First Distrusted
Important Message That Came
From St. Louis.
The telephone has frequently played
Its part in catching thieves, hut here's
a case In which it was almost Instrumental
in letting a man accused
of embezzlement go unmolested?and
all because it did its work so well!
The telephone in the New York
detective headquarters rang one morn
vnjr recently and a voice said. "This is
peteetive Aylward of St. Louis, speaking."
The voice asked the arrest of
a certain man who had pine to one
of the New York hotels, ami that he
be held for further instructions.
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nook, and the general crumpledness of
Ids apparel, lie seemed to he in nil k
ways much as usual, when shouts and s
whistlings summoned nil the party to w
luncheon at the rendezvous. The it
change that made him different was
invisible. v
Yet something must have hcen seen, a
for everyone appeared to take it lor It
granted that lie was to sit next to h
Mllln at the pastoral meal. She her- n
self understood it, evidently, for she
drew in her puckered skirts and with- II
out any words made a place for him s
beside her as lie drlftingly approached l>
her, affecting to whistle and keeping
his eyes on the foliage overhead. He n
still looked upward, even In the act of b
sitting down. h
"Squirrel or something." lie said
feebly, as if in explanation. d
"Where?" Milla asked. s
"Up there on n branch." lie ac- s
cepted a plate from her (she had pro- a
\ided herself with an extra one), lint t
he did not look at it or at her. He I
continued to keep his eyes aloft, be- f
cause he imagined that ail of the class r
were looking at him and Milla, and a
he felt unable to meet such publicity, v
It was to him as if the whole United I,
States had been scandalized to atten- h
tion by this act of his In going to sit v
beside Milla; he gazed upward so long li
that his eye-balls became sensitive un- ii
dor the strain. He began to blink. "I a
can't make out whether it's a squirrel s
or just some leaves that kind o' got h
fixed like one," he said. "I can't make tl
out yet which it Is, hut I guess when s
there's a breeze, if it's a squirrel he'll o
proh'Jy hop around some then, if lie's n
alive or anything." h
It had begun to seem that his eyes I
must remain fixed in that upward v
stare forever; he wanted to bring them h
down, hut could not face the glare of e
the world. Rut finally the brightness
of the sky between the leaves settled n
matters for him ; lie sneezed, wept, and p
She Had Risen Up Out of the Pool *
and Stood Knee Deep, Like a Lovely
Drenched Figure in a Fountain.
for a little moment again faced Ills ,
fellownien. No one was looking at n
liiin; everybody except Milla had other v
things to do. Ij
Having sneezed Involuntarily, he t
added a spell of coughing for which s
there was no necessity. "I guess I j
must been wrong," he muttered thickly.
"What about, Ramsey?"
"About it's bein' a squirreJ." With n
infinite timldRy lie turned his head v
and encountered a gaze so soft, so ha I- t
lowed, that it disconcerted him, and ?
W dropped a "drumstick" of fried n
chicken, well dotted with ants, from
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IIIS pimc. OV.IUICI lit |utotu .1 u|,, uut J
did not oat It. For the first time in g
ids life lie felt that ^ntln^ fried chick- v
en held in the fingers was not to he t
thought of. He replaced the "drumstick"
upon ills plate and allowed it
to remain tliere untouched, In spite of j.
a great hunger for It. I
Having looked down, he now found v
difficulty in looking up. but gazed
steadily at his [date, and Into this
limited circle of vision came MUla's j
delicate and rosy fingers, hearing a ?
gift. "There," she said in a motherly (
little voice. "It's a tomato mayonnaise
sandwich and I made It myself. I
want you to eat It, Itamsey."
His own fingers approached- treinu- "
lousness as he accepted tiie thick sandwich
from her and conveyed it to his
j mouth. A moment later his soul tilled
with horror, for a spurt of mayonnaise 0
dressing had caused a catastrophe the
scene of which occupied no inconsider- f
able area of his right cheek, which
was the cheek toward Mllin. He
groped wretchedly for his haitdker- I1
chief hut could not find it; he had lost
it. Sudden death would have been re- '
lief; he was sure that after such gro- v
tesquerle MUln could never hear to 11
have anything more to do with hint; 1
1 he was ruined. v
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So clear was the tone r.s the mnn |
made liis request flint the police were
j at tirst in doubt as to whether tlie | j
: call could have come all the way from ! a
) St. Louis and were inclined to the I fi
theory that they were being hoaxed >
by some New York practical joker, j c
However, detectives were sent out to j p
make a tour of the hotels of the city, 1 1
and in the meantime further particu
lars arrived from St. Louis. I
The man was finally located and
when arrested had in his possession
$1*1,1 MM), according to the police. The j
charge against him In St. Louis was ,
the embezzlement of $14,000 and receiving
stolen property.
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In his anguish lie folt a paper nap- r
In pressed gently into his hand; a *
oft voice said In his ear, "Wipe It off
1th this, ltanisey. Nobody's notic- h
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So this Incredibly charitable creature b
as still able to be his friend, even t,
fter seeing him mayonnaised! Hum- i,
Jy marveling, he did as she told him,
ut avoided all further risks. He ate r
othlng more. v
He sighed his first sigh of inexpress- t,
ileness, had a chill or so along the ^
pine, and at Intervals his brow was
edewed. j
Within his averted eves there dwelt g
ot the-Milla Itust who sat beside him, a
ut an Iridescent, fragile creuture who 8
ad become angelic.
He spent the rest of the day daw- p
ling helplessly about her; wherever n
lie went he was near, as near as posible,
but of no deliberate volition of p
is own. Something seemed to tie him p
o her, and Mllla was nothing loth. t
le seldom looked at her directly, or (
or longer tlinn an Instant, and more c
arely still did he speak to her except
s a reply. What few remarks he
entnred upon bis own initiative near- J,
y nil concerned the landscape, which j
e commended repeatedly in a weak n
mce, us Kinu 01 preuy, uiougn uuee
e said he guessed there might be bugs
i the bark of a log on which they sat;
ml lie became so immoderately per- c
onal as to declare that if the bugs IJ
ad to get on anybody he'd rather
hey got on him than on Milla. She e
aid that was "just perfectly lovely" 11
f him, asked where lie got his sweet e
nture, and in other ways encouraged s
im to continue the revelation, but J
tainsey was unable to get forward
,ith it, though he opened and closed 11
is mouth n great many times in the e
ITort to do so. r
At five o'clock everybody was sum- ^
toned again to the rendezvous for a f
eremony preliminary to departure;
lie class found itself in a large circle,
funding, and sang "The Star Spangled u
tanner.' Ordinarily, on such an openir
and out-of-school occasion. Itamsey
.*ouhl have Joined the chorus uproar>usly
with the utmost blatancy of
;hich his vocal apparatus was enpale;
and most of the other hoys ex? a
iressed their humor by drowning out
he serious efforts of the girls; but
e sang feebly, not much more than 1
uniming through his teeth. Standing '
eslde Milla, he was incapable of his
ornier lnelegancies and his voice was
a a semi-paralyzed condition, like the
est of him.
Opposite him, across the circle, f)ora n
,'ocum stood a little in advance of a
liose near iier, for ot' course slie led a
he singing. Her clear and earnest J1
olee was distinguishable from all
tliers, and though she di<J not glance
oward Ramsey he had a queer feeling a
hat she was assuming more superior- ?
ty than ever, and that she was Icily
cornful of him and Milla. The old
esentinent rose?he'd "show" that girl 1 f
et. some day!
When the song was over, cheers;
re re given for the class, "the good ole |
lass of Nineteen Fourteen." the
chool, the teachers, and for the pic- r
lie, thus officially concluded; and then
he picnickers, carrying their baskets v
nd faded wild flowers and other sou- r
enirs and burdens, moved toward the I s
ilg "express wagons" which were to j n
alee tlieni buck Into the town. Ham- j n
e.v got his gultJir case, and turned to j a
III la.
"Well?g'hy." j }
"Why. no," said Mllla. "Anyway,
iot yet. You can go hack in the same
vagon with me. It's going to stop at r
he school and let us nil out there, r
ind then you could walk home with 0
ne If you felt like it." ?
"Well?well, I'd he perfectly will- *
ng," ltainsey said. "Only I heard we
ill had to go hack In whatever wagon n
ve came out In, and I didn't come In 1
he same one with you, so?"
Mllla laughed and leaned toward him ^
i little. "I already 'tended to that," r
he said confidentially. "I asked ^
ohnnle Fiske, that came out In my
vagon, to go hack In yours, so that 1
nakes room for you." 8
"Well?then I guess I could do It." 3
Ie moved toward the wagon with her. ''
I expect it don't make much differ- 1
nee one way or the other."
"And you can carry my basket if 11
on want to," she said, adding solicit- ?
msly, "unless it's too heavy when you 1
.1 ready got your guitar case to carry, s
tnmsey."
This thoughtfulness of hers almost ,J
ivercame him: she seemed divine.
"I?I'll he glad to carry the basket,
oo," he faltered. "It?It don't weigh
nythlng much." ,
"Well, let's hurry, so's we cun get
Jaces together."
Then, as she maneuvered him ' n
hrougli the little crowd about the r
ragon, with a soft push this way and *
gentle pull that, and hurried him up s
he improvised steps and found a place
rhere there was room for them both ;
o sit, Itamsey had another breathless e
ensatlon heretofore unknown to him. tl
Ie found himself taken under a dove- .4
ike protectorship; a wonderful, inex-| u
ressihle Iteing seemed to have become ' r
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"Isn't this just perfectly hively ?" : 0
he said eozily, el use tn his ear. : jj
lie swallowed. hut found tin words,
or lie Inn I tin thoughts; lie wjis only j ^
n ineulierent tiiinnit. This was his ,
i '
irst love.
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"Isn't it. Ramsey?" she urged. The | (j
ozy vuiee had just the hint of a reJ'
irnneh. "Don't you flunk it's just
crfeetly lovely, Ramsey?"
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The acquaintance progresses,
Ramsey and Milla openly n
" kecpir.r company." 0
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The Panama canal was not affected nai
/ the earthquake of recent date. The jud
movement was not strong enough to ?
e apparent generally, but was regis- am
ered by the seismographic as a pro- per
Dnged tremor. to
A general strike of 260,000 German 00C
ailroad workers, called for recently cur
ras expected to tie up all long dis- tre
ance and Berlin passenger and freight ma
raffic. pai
Famine has reached such a terrible
egree in the Orenburg district of Rus- '
ia that people are killing each other 1,0
nd parents are eating their children, 235
ays a telegram recenved at Geneva, ve(
rom a representative in Moscow of ^
)r. Fridjof Nansen, head of the inter- 1
iational committee of Russian relief. reI
Preparatory to an invesion of Soviet aPI
tussia, Herr Stinnes is conducting a tei
omprehensive economic survey of Pr<
hat country through a number of m'
lerman experts representing many C01
allings and professions.
The spokesmen for the German peole's
party are unhesitating in accus- 8^li
ng Chancellor Wi:th of breach of ]
aith in appointing Dr. Walter Rathe- ?
iau as minister of foreign affairs with- pr<
ut awaiting the outcome of negotia- tll<
ions for the extension of the present "*a
oalition to the inclusion1 of the peole's
party led by Gutave Strassman.
Release and deportation of foreignrs
now serving sentences in Cuban "
irisons and pails, as part of the gov- (
rnment's economy program, will be pe
uggested to the chief executive, it or<
fas announced recently by Manuel Al- j8.
onso chief inspector of prisons. The ?
neasure, it is added, would serve to ^
vitate complaints by foreign governnents
concerning the treatment of ^
hese prisoners who, with Cuban of- pr
enders, are alleged to be suffering ^
rom the action of the many state con- Th
ractors in refusing to furnish supplies .
ntil their bills are paid.
The Prince of Wales arrived at In- Bq
lore, British Ind'a. He received a cor- ^
lial welcome, thousands of persons ^
ining the streets to greet him.
The president of the Italian senate r<?
nd chamber of deputies have advised
Cing Victor Emanuel to ask former
'remier Giolitti to form a cabinet ini
n succession to the Monomi ministry, ce
I is understood, says a Central News vii
lispatch from Rome. of
Five hundred ruble notes are no tei
onger legal tender in Moscow. A
ecent decree of the Moscow soviet an- co
ounces that hereafter street failways bil
nd other government institutions will pr
ccept nothing less than 1,000-ruble at
lotes, worth half an American cent at er;
he present legal rate of exchange.
Suddenly becoming violently ineane, ni:
member of the pontifical choir creat- lo1
d a sensation in the Sistine chapel m)
uring the celebration of solemn re- pa
uiem mass for the late Pope Bene- ha
ict XV by shouting "Down with the
ope!" He was finally overpowered p0
y the Swiss guards. fir
Berlin repbrts are to the effect that co
lerman civilians and French soldiers N?
ecently had a clash at Petersdorf, Stasia,
in which several French soldiers Jo
rere killed and several Germans se- Zii
iously wounded. The allied commis- to!
ion has ordered a state of siege each th
ight between 8 and 5 o'clock in the w<
lorning, to prevent future disturb- tai
nces.
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Washington?
Reports compiled by the eastern bu- as
eau of the department of commerce th;
ecently indicate that there was a loss
if population in Sovit Russia of 18,- tei
>00,000 people in the period of 1915 to mj
921, the revolution-torn years. po
Bootleggers throughout the country at<
,re evolving a new Industry?the rec- 1
Ification of denatured alcohol?pro- ha
tibition officials said recently, which vil
irobably will necessitate a complete ce
evision of the government's system of re*
listribution.
Plans to form a federation of Cen- be
ral American republics have collap- N<
ed. according to word received by the of
late department recently from Amer- m<
can Minister Morales, at Tegucigalpa, ur
londuras. inj
On the eve of delivery to congress 1
>y Secretary Weeks of Henry Ford's tic
ffer for the government properties at po
luscle Shoals, Ala., Frederick E. Eng- po
trum, of Wilmington, N. C., presented re!
he war secretary with an amended Co
proposal to complete, lease and oper- an
te the Muscle Shoals properties. !
Payment of $10,000,000 on surplus set
upplies purchased after the war was set
nade to this country recently by Hi
'ranee. Mc
The nomination of Arthur G. Froe. ]
egro attorney of Welch, W. Va., as trt
ecorder of deeds of the District of foi
'olumbia. was indicated recently by en
lenator Elkins, cf West Virginia, af- tei
er a call at the White House. 50i
CO!
The charge of certain railroad executives
that the government "ruined"' 1
lie roads is groundless, William G. Mc- foi
Ldoo, former secretary of the treas- pa
rg and wartime director general of kn
ailroads, told the senate interstate wa
ommerce committee recently in con- cir
luding his testimony in its inquiry dU
rito the transportation situation. thi
Secretary Weeks directed recently j
hat Jackson barracks, Louisiana, be soi
>ased to the authorities of that state ma
nder a revocable license transferring fro
lie post to the jurisdiction of the ad- sot
atant-general of Louisiana. be*
The campaign lor enactment of a t
o-operatlve marketing law was open- bui
d recently in the senate by Senator ; Be
iellogg, republican. Minnesota, who 1 pis
eclared one of the greatest move- esc
tents in modern times for the relief wit
f the agricultural population was str
hrough the foundation of co-operative oui
marketing associations. is
Exports to Europe during the past
ir fell off by more than two billion
lars, as compared with 1920, while
?orts to South America declined by
re than three hundred million dols,
is the statement of the commerce
)artment recently issued.
The bill authorizing the refunding
the eleven billion dollar foreign
)t into securities maturing in not
re than twenty-fiye years has been
ised by the senate?39 to 25. Final
ictment of the measure must await
fustment of differences between the
lse and senate, which is expected
hin a week or ten days.
Senator Kenyon of Iowa, leader of
i agricultural bloc and chairman of
) senate labor committee, has been
ned by the president to be circuit
Ige for the eighth circuit.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
lounces the offer of an issue of 4 3/4
cent three-year short-term notes
the amount of approximately $400.>,000.
The issue is to provide for
rent expenses, the retirement of
tttsury ceruncaies 01 inucutcuucoa
luring February 16, 1922, and as a
rt of the treasury's program for reIng
notes maturing May 20, 1923.
The independent ofices approprian
bill carrying a total of $494,304,1,
most of which is for use by the
terans" bureau has been passed by
s house and sent to the senate.
By fairly decisive votes the senate
used either to require congressional /
proval of the agreements to be en ed
into with debtpr nations by the
jposed allied debt refunding comssion
or to limit the authority of the
mmisslon in the matter of deferring
} time when interest payments on
3 eleven billion dollar foreign debt
all begin.
Railroads which earned more than
per cent upon the value of their
aperty used in transportation during
2 period from September 1, 1920, to
nuary, 1921, are required, under orr
of the interstate commerce comssion,
to turn half of the excess so / _
rned over to the government.
Anent the recent Knickerbocker
jater tragedy. Washington newspars
have gathered in tabloid the rec1
of many theater disasters in the
st seventy-five or eighty years. They
low: 1836, Lehman's theater, Petroad,
700 dead; 1847, Carlsruhe, Peigrad,
200; 1876, Conway's Brook),
293; 1887, Opera Comique, Paris,
); 188S, Banquet, Oporto, 205; 1895,
ont Street, Baltimore, 23; 1881, Ring
leater, Vienna, 640; 1891, Central
ieater, Philadelphia, 100; 1887, Tem3
Theater, Philadelphia, 170; 1903,
>quois, Chicago, 617; 1908, Rhodes,
yerstown, Pa., 170; 1911, Canonsrg,
Pa., 26; 1913, Calumet, Mich., 72;
21, Rialto, New Haven, 6.
domestic?
E. Lee Trinkle, of Wytheville, was
augurated governor of Virginia rently,
succeeding Westmoreland Das.
Judge Joseph L. Kelly, president
the state supreme court, adminls
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rea me utuu ui uuiue.
Discovery of a. tellumicra gasoline
mpound, which increases automole
mileage one hundred per cent over
esent gasoline fuel, was announced
the research laboratories of the Genal
Motors company at Dayton, Ohio.
Nine bodies, crushed to an unrecogzable
mass by a fall of slate folding
an explosion in the Gates
Ine of the H. C. Frick Coke comny
a few miles from Brownsville,
ve been brought to the surface.
Counterfeits of the familiar 2-cent
stage stamp have appeared for the
st time since 1895. One of the new
unterfeits came into the hands of a
iw York collector.
Wilbur Burr Voliva, successor to
hn Alexander Dowie as overseers of
on and head of the Christian Aposlic
church, Zion, 111., has completed
e fixing of dimensions of his flat
irld, existence of which is now
ught in the Zion schools. (
Fifty tons of Birmingham slag from
in furnaces at Birmingham, Ala., is
w being shipped to Florida for the
ondatlon of 33 miles of standard
phalt roads, which will be built In
at state at a cost of $6,000,000.
Jonas Marsh Libbey, editor and inrnational
authority on industrial
itters, plunged to his death from a
int high up on the twenty-fiv^- ,
)ry Municipal building at New York.
The Southeastern Express company
s extended its lines to take in Nash*
lie, Tenn., according to a wire reived
at New Orleans, La., dffices
cently from Atlanta, Ga.
Evelyn Nesbit, once one of the most
autiful leaders of the gilded life of
?w York, central figure in the killing
Stanford White by Harry Thaw, but
jre recently one of the tragic figes
of Broadway, is missing, accord*
S to published reports at New York.
Twelve companies of Kentucky nainal
guardsmen were ordered to Newrt,
Ky., where a strike in the Newrt
Rolling mills has been in prog*
3S for sometime. The tank corps of
vington was ordered to move in
d take control of the situation.
Solon H. Borglum, nation - wide
ilptor, and head of a school of
ilpture at Stamford. Conn., is dead
s most recent work was at Stone
luntain, Ga.
Mew owners of the Tennessee Cenil
railway h?ve agreed to take over
$145,000 rolling stock and prop:y
which was not included in the
tos of the sale of the road for $1,*
3,000 recently confirmed by federal
Lirt at Chattanooga, Tenn.
William D. Taylor, director in (.'all*
xia for one of the largest film eomnies
in Los Angeles and nationally
own in the motion picture industry,
s found dead at him home under
oumstances that the police said incited
murder. He had been shot
-ough the neck.
K mine explosion killed four pep*
is and may have killed or entombed
my others at Layman, twenty miles
m Pineville, Ky. How many peris
were in the mine has not yet
jn determined.
V woman bandit entered a Chicago
tcher shop run by Mrs. Rebecca
11, felled her with the butt of a
tol, took $240 from Mrs. Bell and
:aped. The robber threatened her
:h death if she made an outcry, then
uck her down and calmly walked
t of the store to freedom. There
no clue
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