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WARRANTS FOR STATE AID TO
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' $290,000 IS APPROPRIATED
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Inspector ParVinson Says Many High
School Districts of State Are in
Need of Funds.
Columbia.
Blanks on which to give information
concerning high schools pupils
eligible for tuition paid by the state
are being mailed from the high school
inspector to the 178 state aided high
schools of the state. As soon as these
blanks are returned and the information
which they give is properly
checked, warrants for state high
srhnol aid will be issued by the state
department of education to all schools
qualifying for such aid.
The last legislature appropriated
$290,000 to meet the state's obligation
to the high schools. It is believed by
officials of the state department of
education that this amount will meet
the state's obligation to the high
schools in full. The state allows only
$3 per pupil per month tuition for
this sesion. Seven dollars per month
was recommended by the state superintendent
of education, but not allowed
the legislature.
B. L. Parkinson, high school inspector,
said, "Many high school districts
of the state are in need of funds and
are anxious to receive their pro rata
of state school aid. For this reason it
is hoped that high school officials
throughout the state will realize the
importance of a prompt return of
data relative> to pupils eligible for
tuition. Warrants for high school
aid wfll be mailed to county treasurers
within ten days after the last
tuition blank properly filled out is
received."
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Twenty Children Reported for Help.
Twenty children throughout the
state were reported to the child placing
department of the state board
of public welfare as needing hopes
during the month of March. In addi
tion to this number there were three
children on hand at the first of the
month. Thirteen of the children reported
were investigated and five of
them were received for placement.
In all, seven children were placed in
either in temporary or permanent
homes during the month of March.
Twenty visits were made to homes
where .children had already been placed
and four homes of applicants for
children were investigated. One hundred
and four interviews were held
relative to cases and ?7 applications
for children were received.
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Teacners to Get Larger Salaries.
John E. Swearingen. state superintendent
of education, has returned to
Columbia from Rock Hill, where he
attended a financial meeting of the
board of trustees of Winthrop college.
* Mr. Swearingen said that the most
important action taken by the board
was the increasing of the salaries
of teachers. The salaries of women,
who are at the heads of departments
at Winthrop, were raised from $2,000
to $2,500, Mr. Swearingen said. There
ar? 12 in this group. 'The salaries of
associate professors were arranged
as follows: First year, $1,400; secrmrt
vesr SI.500: third year, $1,650.
The mall heads of departments. Mr.
Swearingen said, already gets $3,000
and a house, rent of which is estimated
at $300, and no changes were made
In these salaries, he said. 'Some additional
compensation for work in the
summer school may also be received
by some of the teachers, he said.
The increases in salaries go into effect
as of January 1. 1922
Charleston Man Granted Parole.
Thomas Ard. convicted of assault
and battery before Judge Ernest
Moore in Charleston county in February
of 1921 and sentenced to serve
three years in the penitentiary, was
paroled by the governor during his
good behavior.
Hearon Continues With Commission.
Charles O. Hearon. of Spartanburg,
member of the state highway commission
until recently when he resigned,
has withdrawn his resignation
and Governor Cooper addressed a letter
to Mr. Hearon accepting the withdrawal
and reappointing him to succeed
himself. Mr. Hearon resigned
following the demand for the resignation
of Engineer Moorefleld by certain
legislative leaders after Mr. Moorefleld
had addressed a letter to the federal
government officials in regards to legIhlation
against highway department. ,
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State May Lose Thousands.
South Carolina may lose something
over $150,000 because the legislature
did not provide for the enforcement
of the motor vehicle license laws of
the state, according to figures compiled
by highway department officials
for the close of business on the first j
quarter of the year.
'This big loss is now staring the department
in the face, and unless some
action is taken by the counties, there
1,1 ?11? V. ? r.Un wnrt f A nrnt tVlO*
Will iiuruiy ue a taautc kkj gcv wmv
money. The loss comes about from
the decrease in motor vehicle registrations.
To date, including figures for the
close of March, only 67,521 automo-(
biles have been registered and this Is
a decrease of 15,842 automobiles alone
from last year. The time for registreing
machines ended February 1 and
the highway department believes these
15,842 automobiles are "somewhere in
South Carolina" without license plates.
The average cost for a license for a
car. is $7.50 and this gives a loss of
$118,815 because of the failure to
have inspectors to enforce the law.
A total of 5,713 trucks have been
registered so far and this gives a decrease
of 1,484 from last year. The
average for a truck license is $17 and
this means a loss of $25,228.
Only 23 trailers have been registered
to date, this being a decrease of
36 from last year. Trailer licenses
are sold for $12 and this brings a
$432 loss.
So far only 375 motorcycles have
been licensed, which is a loss of 3S5
from last year and at $3 each, a monetary
loss of $1,155.
Dealers have dropped in number
also, only 416 being registered so far.
This is a loss of 253 and at $24.05
each, the average, a monetary loss of
$6,204.90.
This gives a total of $151,834.90
that the state stands to lose this
year, according to highway officials,
who are not very well pleased with
this prospect now facing them. A
strong effort to get the counties to
enforce the license laws and thereby
get the money is being made and this
may have a good result, although
nothing definite has as yet been accomplished
except in one or two counties.
Last year two inspectors were
maintained and they brought in thousands
of dollars that would very likely
have otherwise been lost. The salary
was Sl.SOO each. No money was
provided by the legislature to employ
inspectors this year.
Governor Signs Telephone Bill.
Governor Cooper signed the Foster
telephone act restoring rates and
charges on all telephones in the state,
except companies in one or two counties,
to their status as of January 1,
1921. The chief executive had announced
a hearing on the act, passed
by the recent session of the legislature,
but called off this hearing in view
of the fact that he had already reached
a conclusion.
The act that became law is one of
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tne most important pieces ui icgioiution
put through by the legislature at
the 1922 session. It makes hull and
void increases in telephone rates allowed
by the railroad commission and
puts these rates, charges, tolls, etc.,
back to the same status they were
before the railroad commission allowed
the increase in March of 1921.
The act also re-establishes the telephone
exchange radius or alleged
"free toll" service thai was abolished
by the general assembly. .
Month of April for Education.
The month of April, the beginning
of the new church year for Presbyterians,
will be devoted to the cause of
Christian education and ministerial
relief, according to the progressive
program of the Southern Tresbyterian
church. This program calls for a new
cause each month during the year and
it has been decided that special efTorts
will be made to interest Presbyterians
in this particular line of work during
April.
Some interesting facts hare recently
been prepared on this branch of
church activity. It was shown in the
previous year 169 candidates for the
ministry were given aid, six candidates
for medical missions and 23
young women candidates for home and
foreign mission work were assisted;
20 young women and 63 young men
were loaned money for their education,
and over 100 ministers and 172 widows
and 26 orphans of ministers were
among those receiving relief. In addition
nearly $700,000 was added to
the endowment fund.
Place for Batson.
Governor Cooper appointed George
\V. Batson magistrate for Greenville
township to succeed his father, Eugene
Batson. who died last week. Mr.
Batson is a veteran of the world war,
having served with distinction in the
Thirtieth division. He was awarded
a distinguished service cross here
when the Thirtieth division paraded
Main street soon after its arrival at
Camp Jackson.
Mr. Batson was recommended by
Senator Proctor A. Bonham of Greenvilla
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(BUREAU IS CLOSED T
10 COUNT STOCK
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TEMPORARY SHUT DOWN AFFECTS
OVER THOUSAND
EMPLOYEES. , I
BIT ORDER OF THE SECRETARY
Secretary of Treasury Calls For In
ventory of Stock Valued at Millions
of Dollars.
Washington.?Part of the bureau oi
engraving and printing, which was re- |
organized under an executive order
by President Harding, removing Jas. .
L. Wilmeth, its director, and othei I
high officials, was ordered closed by
Secretary Mellon for an inventory oi
the stock valued at many millions oi
! dollars.
Mr. Mellon's order applied only tc
J the divisions of the bureau which han
die trie paper useu m iuuiwu& uaun
notes, stamps and government securities,
it being explained that a quickei
and more accurate check of the paper
I stock could be made by a temporary
shut-down of all paper work. Aboul
1,500 employes of the bureau force
of 6.000 would ordinarily be affected
by the order, officials said, but aboul I
600 will be used as counters and all i
others having annual leave to their 1
credit will be given the benefit of it <
According to Assistant Secretary ol 1
the Treasury Wadsworth, in charge '
of the bureau, the inventory is to bt
taken as a check of the stock on hand '
In the plan against the books in much
the same fashion that stock i3 taken '
by a manufacturer for the year.
Check of the bureau's store of bank
notes, stamps, government securities,
paper, plates and other supplies, which
officials said, total an enormous
amount in value, will be begun by a
committee appointed by Mr. Mellon,
representing all the departments
which have work done &t the plant,
and a staff of justice' department
agents. Mr. Wadsworth said he ex
pected the count to be completed within
a week at the outside.
Kills Three Children; Shoots Himself. 1
Charlotte. ? Driven despondent and
perhaps insane by an incurable stomach
malady, John Helms slew three j
of his own children with a wood-axe ]
and then ended his life by blowing j
*tr ?Vio ton nf his head with a single- i
barrel shotgun, at their home on the <
Bob Rice place, at the 11-mlle post on *
the Lawyers road. He was 40 years 1
old.
The only eye-witness to the trag- 1
edy was his 13-year-old daughter. Miss
Ruby Lee, who with Mrs. Helms and
an eight-year-old daughter, Wilma, escaped
from the madman. 1
The little girl, although broken- '
hearted over the terrible affair, told '
a most lucid story of it to relatives 1
who called at the home and to rep- 1
resentatives from the office of Frank 1
Hovis, the coroner, at whose under- 1
taking parlors the four bodies were (
carried shortly after the tragedy.
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Building Records Broken.
New York. ? Building expenditures
of 109 cities of the United States during
March totalled $194,661,072, the
greatest amount ever known in any
one month in the country's history, according
to Bradstreet's.
The biggest increases were noted in :
New York, Chicago. Philadelphia, j
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, , Rochester,
Louisville, Milwaukee, Fort Worthy
Houston, Oklahoma City, Atlanta, Baltimore,
Washington, Denver. San
Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Ore. i
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Police Guards Rockefeller.
New York.?Police precautions were t
taken at the first services in the new t
Park Avenue Baptist church to guard
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., whose presence
in the congregation it was feared,
might attract the criminally inclined, t
The edifice cost more than $1,500,000 t
and will take the place of the Fifth <
Avenue Baptist church in which the j t
Rockefellers have heen worsnipping j
for years. The elder Rockefeller Is (
still in the South. 3
Diplomats Protest Move by Officers.
Washington.?Representations have
been made to the state department, it i
was understood, as the result of an al- \
leged violation of diplomatic immu- <
nity when five prohibition enforcement l
offcers were said to have stopped ]
the automobile of Senor Buena Vista,
a secretary of the Peruvian embassy, <
by firing three shots through his au- i
tomobile and ransacking it for liquor. <
The incident was said to have occur- j
red near Hyattsville. Md., when the j
secretary with his chauffeur was re- i
turning from Baltimore. , )
Raid New York Cafes.
New York.?Disguised as tourists,
their motor car covered with mud and j
dirt and their faces red with dust, 1
TTInatoin and Mop Smith. New i
York's most versatile prohibition ]
agsnts. raided nearly two score cafes,
arresting 26 proprietors and employes ]
and seizing liquor valued by them at
$30,000. I
Seven nationalities were represented
in the list of prisoners, who were i
rounded up after several hours' work.
The biggest haul was made in a for- j
mer saloon at 335 Amsterdam avenue, j
Pennsylvania Finishes Second.
London.?The University of Pennsylvania's
quartet of diminutive mile 1
runners finished second to the Cam- (
bridge team in the three-cornered relay
race between Oxford, Cambridge
and Pennsylvania in England's first
relay carnaval at the Queen's club. ^
The Penn runners finished only ten ,
yards ahead of Oxford.
The long-legged Cambridge runners
made four miles in 18 minutes 7 2-5
! seconds, clipping four-fifths of a second
from the former rBitish record.
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! TEXAS TOWNS SUFFER
FROM FURY OF STORM
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Dallas.?Seventeen persons are
reported dead and more than 80
I injured as a result of tornadoes j
which swept from west Texas, east ;
into Okalhoma toward Arkansas.
Reports from some of the stricken I
towns are meagre, officials said.
The list of casualties reported
| showed:
Runnels county, near Rowina,
Texas, 9 de&d, 20 injured; Oplin,
Callahan county. 4 dead. 20 injured;
Blectra. one dead, several injured:
Cleburne. Texas, 1 dead. 1 injur- ,
ed; Lawton, Okla., 2 dead, 17 in- j
jured; Dallas. 5 injured; Cisco, 1
Texas. 2 injured; Ranger, Texas. 1
injured; Caddo. Texas. 6 injured;
Whitewright. Texas, 1 injured;
Echo, Texas. 6 injured: Breckenridpe,
Texas. 3 injured; Graham,
Texas, 1 injured.
WILL DEPORT ALIEN "TIGERS"]
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HOUSE VOTES THREE TO ONE
ncDORTATlON l)F ALiEN J
"TIGERS."
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Described by * Prohibition Advocates
As Step Toward Better Law
Enforcement.
Washington. - By a vote of more
than three to one, the house passed
and sent to the senate a bill authoriz-;
ing the deportation of aliens bonvicted
in the state or federal courts on
charges of having violated the narcotic
and Volstead acts.
Described by prohibition advocates
as a step toward better law enforcement,
and characterized by Represen-:
tative Graham, Pennsylvania, ranking
republican on the Judiciary committee, j
as "a monstrous piece of legislation," J
the bill as presented by the immigration
committee stood up against all attacks.
A motion to re-commit so that the j
provision relating to conviction in the j
state courts might be eliminated was ;
defeated and the measure was put
through, as framed. 222 to 73.
Representative Walsh, republican.;
Massachusetts, a member of the judiciary
committee, which wrote the
original Volstead act, and who offered j
the motion to recommit, declared he
believed now that the enforcement law
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was made IUU uiasur III xut.t.
Warning was sounded to prohibition- [
Ists by many members, including Representative
Mann, republican, Illinois,j
a veteran in the house, that they are
going too far, that there was danger j
of disrupting the whole system of law j
enforcement and that jurors would
be unwilling to convict thoee who (
ought to go to jail if it also meant
deportation.
There were many references to the
Anti-Saloon league and Wayne B.
Wheeler, its general counsel. Representative
Hill, republican. Maryland,
charged that "the American bootleg- j
gers' union" and the league were
standing hand-in-hand and fighting un
der one banner to get the alien boot-1
leegers out of business. Mr. Walsh
said that Mr. Wheeler could not be
classed by the bootleggers as an en?mv.
"since he is the man who has
made it possible for them to ply their
trade."
Heads Smashed With Axe.
Concordia, Has. ? Theodore Tremilay.
18-year-old farm boy, was slain
ivith an axe and three younger brothers
and the father, L. J. Tremblay, a
trustee of Shirley township, were inlured
by unkhown assailants in their
inmp np.ir here.
Three of the younger hoys are near
ieath, with their heads crushed.
The body of Theodore was found un- j
conscious on the porch of his home, J
lis head injured and his feet bound i
tvith wire. He" may recover.
The body of Theodore was found in
he barn with the head crushed and
he body badly burned by fire.
More Jobs Are Open.
Washington. ? Employment condilions
throughout the country continue
o improve, according to reports "revived
during the past ten days by
he President's conference on unemployment,"
Arthur Woods, chairman
if the emergency commission, an-!
louneed.
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New Judge Wanted.
Washington. ? Authorization of an I
tdditional federal judge in Florida was !
trged in the Benate by Senator Fletch-:
?r (democrat) of Florida, speaking on
lis amendment to the bill providing
L!) more judges.
Business in the southern Florida
listrict. Senator Fletcher declared,
warranted a judge which was not rec- j
jmmended by the judiciary committee
n drafting the pending bill. He cited
statistics of federal dockets in other j
states to show that there was need'
for another judge in Florida.
Patricia in Again.
Tk? PoHopal nrnhihittnn
iNfW iuin, i uc a vuviu. r. I
igents seized the yacht Patricia for
the third time and reported the con-'
Sscation of 75 cases of assorted |
liquors.
The yacht, which reached here from
Florida, was seized at anchor off a
Brooklyn dry dock, operated by James
3hewan, who is owner of the vessel. |
The Patricia was ordered released j
twice after being seized by federal
authorities, once in San Francisco I
in February and again off Miami, Fla.,
in March.
Bail Jumper Finally Found.
New York?A man who spent 51,800
and 10 months looking over the country
for an alleged bail jumper, whose '
$500 bond he had signed, appeared in 1
magistrate's court with the object of
his search.
Michael Eisenstein. who spent the
money, said he tracked Louis Zimmerman
to Chicago, Boston. Philadelphia
and other cities before locating hiin
recently in Baltimore on his fifth trip
to that place.
He had. determined to spent his last
cent to get Zimmerman, he said.
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6 PERSONS KILLED
AS PLANES COLLIDE
AIRPLANES ON PARIS-LONDON
EXPRESS ROUTE CRASH
TO EARTH.
2 NEW YORKERS AMONG DEAD
The Entrire Personnel of Both Planes
Meet Death, Except Pilot Duke
of the English Craft.
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Paris. ? Six persons were killed
when airplanes on the Paris-London
aerial express route collided over the
village of Thieulloy, 70 miles north
of Paris, and crashed to earth.
The dead are:
Bruce Yale, a New York exporter,!
and his wife, who were homeward
bound by way of Engiand in the
French machine.
M. Bouriez, another passenger in
the French craft.
Aviator Mire, pilot of the French
machine.
Mire's mechanic and cabin boy of |
English machine.
The entire personnel of both planes, j
except Pilot R. E. Duke, of the Eng- j
lish craft, met death in the crash
or in the flames that followed it.
The aerial express service between {
London and Paris was started in
the spring of 1919 and has come to
be regarded as one of the dependable
means of transportation between the
two capitals. At first only patronized
by travelers of an adventurous
turn of mind, wljo wanted to have!
the thrill of air travel, it has devel-;
oped within the last two years, with j
the element of danger reduced to the :
minimum into a steady daily route.;
The trip is made in a little more than
two hours and at least half of the
passengers have been women.
Prominent officials have frequently
availed themselves of the air route
onnfflronppQ
IU aumu imam/ kaireu wuie. vuww ,
in either Paris or London. During
the peace conference Bonar Law. of (
the British delegation, made his hur-'
ried trip back to London to attend
to routine official business, often returning
the same day.
Bill to Provide More Judges. !
Washington.?The bill to provide a i
score more federal judges, advocated '
as a measure to relieve congestion in
federal courts and opposed as a polit-,
ical patronage "pork barrel," was passed
by the senate and sent to confer- ]
ence wjth the house.
Twenty-three more federal district
Judges distributed throughout the
country and one more judge, for the
fourth circuit are provided by the
senate bill as against 22 district
Judges under the original bill passed
by the house last December.
The senate vote on final passage
was 44 to 21, with party lines
broken. Eight democrats. Senators
Ashurst, Arizona; Fletcher, Florida; ;
Hitchcock. Nebraska; Myers, Montana;
Pomerene, Ohio; Trammel,
Florida;'Wal3h, Massachusetts, and
Walsh, Montana, voted with the 34!
republicans for the bill. The opposi-;
tion included eight republicans and 13
democrats, the republicans being |
Senators Borah. Idaho; Capper, Kan-!
sas; France. Maryland; Ladd, North
Dakota; LaFollette. Wisconsin; Mc-1
Nary, Oregon; Norris, Nebraska, and
Townsetfd, Michigan.
Infected With Leprosy.
Richmond.?William M. Skipper, 27, j
who was brought here from Marion,;
S. C., for examination, has been found
infected with leprosy, according 10 me
city bureau of health. He has a wife
and one child.living in East Marion, i
S. C. Aid of the federal government
will be sought to have him removed i
from this city.
Wheat Production Forecast.
Washington.?Winter wheat produc-1
tion this year was forecast at 572,974,000
mushols, and rye production at
09,667,000 bushels, by the department
of agriculture in its first estimate of
the season issued recently and based
on the April 1 condition, which was j
Winter wheat 78.4 per cent of a normal
and rye .S9 per cent.
In Need of More Policemen.
New York. ? Police Commissioner
Enright planned to go before the
board of estimates, outline crime conditions
as they are in New York
and request an additional 1,912 men
for his department. The present police
force numbers 11,506 officers and
men.
Because of the drain upon the
force for various details the actual
number of men available for patrol
duty is too small to afford ample protection
for the city when crime is at
its height, the commissioner said.
New Speed Records.
Daytona Beach, Fla. ? Driving his
specially constructed ipotor car at a
rate of ISO.27 milee an hour, Sip. '
Haugdahl of Norway negotiated a mile
on the local beach in 19.97 seconds, j
The trial was conducted under the,
auspices of the Internationational
Motor Contest association.
The world's record as sanctioned by
the American Automobile association,
is held hy Tommy Milton at 23.07.
Haugdahl exceeded records held by j
Minton for the kilometer, five mile
and ten mile straightaway course.
Thief Steals House.
Pasadena. Cal.?Somewhere in Pasadena
is a thief who loves a home so
much that he Is stealing to get one.
For weeks he has been collecting
the component parts.
For some time past hardly a night
that some small quantity of building
material?a door, a window or a bath
tub?was not stolen from some house
under construction."
Then ? indicating, the police said,
that his house was built and he was
putting In his sidewalk and driveway
?came a serlee of thefts of cement.
NEW CAPITAL BANK
ENTERED BY BANDIT
Washington. ? The Merchants
Bank and Trust company, a new
institution, opened its doors within
a block of the United States
treasury and invited the public to
make an inspection of its quarters.
Four hours after the doors swung
open an unidentified man entered,
joined the other guests, but, unlike
the others, grabbed a package of
bills containing $5,000 as he passed
the paying teller's window. j
The paying teller leaped from behind
the counter and with a pistol
pursued the hold-up man up Fifteenth
street, shooting in the air
as he went. Hundreds of govern- |
ment clerks, out for noon hour, I
pursued the fleeing bandit and a 1
pedestrian walking casually along j
heard the tumult, saw the man
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running ana earning iu?uiu mm. n
grabbed him. He held him until ji
the teller and police arrived and n
the $5,000 was recovered and the ]
uninvited guest at the bank's open- j
ing was sent to police headquar- j
ters. The prisoner told the police
he was Edward Royton, 28, New (
York City. ,
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LASHER BEFORE COMMITTEE!1
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house* And senate committee i
hold joint hearing on
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MEASURES. i
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Says That Shipping Board is Standing
Fast by the Administration's j
Program. I,
Washington.?Enactment of the ad-; I
ministration's ship subsidy bills with-j I
out radical change is the hope of! 1
President Harding and shipping board !
officials. Chairman La6ker told mem-1 ]
bers of the senate commerce and 1
house merchant marine committees at i i
the opening session of joint hearings I
on the measure. 1
Declaring that the shipping board |
"stands fast" for the general princi- (*
pies embodied in the program en-1'
dorBed by the President, Mr. Lasker 1
expressed the opinion that "any radi- j
cal change in tlte proposals might re-! I
suit in the destruction of the whole."!'
After he had read a lengthy state- j'
ment in which he contended that gov-f
ernment operation not only had 1
proved a "costly failure,'' but was,1
driving private owners off the seas,'
the shipping board head became the 1
target for a rapid fire of questions, (
most of them from democratic mem- j *
hers of the house committee. Frequent
verbal clashes between Mr. Las- 1
ker and Represnetative Hardy, Texas,; <
ranking democrat of the house committee,
marked the cross-examination.,!
Quizzed by Representative Briggs.;'
democrat, Texas, as to the board's!
experience with 6hip operators, Mr.!
Lasker said he had a "suspicion that j
a few operators have purposely abus- 1
ed their operation privileges" to prove
government operation a failure. The
chairman added that he would not
make any specific charges on this J
point. ' }
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Guard Shot Down by Bootlegers.
Baltimore.?A band of bootleggers
motored up to the Gwynnbrook Dis-1
tillery, 15 miles northwest of Balti- }
more, summoned a guard to the door, (
calling him by name, and shot him ,
down. He died within an hour. Po- )
lice of Baltimore and Baltimore coun- ^
ty were rushed tq the distillery. It }
is believed no liquor was obtd:red ir. 1
the raid. }
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Pays Bill After 51 Years.
Utica. N. Y.?Because he left Col- 1
gate university in 1871 unable to pay <
n hnard hill of S7. Frank S. Lyon, of! (
Wolverine. Mich., has sent to the I
treasurer $27.42. which is equal to $7 J i
and simple interest for the 51 years i
intervening. 11
The amount was owing to Byron ]
Richardson, who conducted a board- 1
ing house and Lyon requested 1
that the money be turned over to
him, if living, or hts heirs. After the
letter from Lyon was read to the student
body, Harpld B. Anderson, of i
Hammond, Ind., now a freshman, at (
the university, informed the treasurer i
that he is a grandson of Byron Rich- i
ardson. I
Maryland Passes Bonus Bill.
Annapolis.?With only four dissenting
votes, the house of delegates pass* t
ed the state soldiers bonus bill. The 1
measure having passed tho senate, (
now goes to the governor t
The bill provides for a J?,0C'iU"?0 t
bond issue, which 's to be submitted j t
to the people. If the bond issue is ap- i
proved at the polls the money will
be distributed to ex-service men in t
Maryland as follows: Ten ^dollars a t
month for every month of service for I
all Marylandera in the army, navy, t
marine corps or nurses corps. f
Failures of Month.
New York.?Business failures in the
United States during March increased *
in number over those of March, 1921, ^
but decreased in the total amount t
of capital involved .said a report is- r
sued by Bradstreets. c
There were 2.307 failures, for a to-, f
tal of $57,513.590 last month as against t
1.500 for a total of $68,698,350 in ' r
March, 1921. jf
For the first quarter year, there 1
were 7,111 failures for $230,219,350 in t
March, 1921. t
Moore 8erv?s Term. I
Indianapolis. ? Isaiah Moore, selfconfessed
spouse of 13 wives, was sen-! n
tenced to serve from two to 14 years e
in the state reformatory on a charge i
of embezzlement and was fined $1,100 k
and costs and disfranchised for five
years. f
Moore was sentenced to serve from 1
two to five years in the state prison t
on a charge of bigamy. He pleaded f
guilty to the bigamy charge.
Moore is said to have embezzled e
$512 from Miss Harriet Evans of Mep- 't
ico, Ind. C
BIG INCREASE MADE
II EMPLOYMENT
SOUTH INDICATES GENERALLY
IMPROVED EMPLOYMENT
TONE.
MORE PROGRESS PROMISED
North Carolina Textiles Increase
Their Forces?Leading Cities Report
Surplus Labor.
Washington. ? Increased employment
ranging up to'28 per cent over
fho nreMrlinv mnnth wan renftrted to
the employment service of the department
of labor, from 43 to 65 representative
cities for the month ending
March 31. The automobile and
illied industries, iron and Bteel and
their products and lumber headed the
trades showing improved activity.
The net increase for the country, figured
on reports from 1,428 firms, was
2.5 per cent.
Denver led the reporting cities
with an increase in employment in
March of 28.2 per cent. Memphis was
second with 18.1.
The South indicated generally improved
employment tone during the
month of March, the report said, with
ndications that further progress
would be recorded in the thirty days.Despite
some slackness in textiles.
Virginia industries were more active
is a whole and the outlook was considered
good.
Lumber and fertilizer shared the
Increase In workers in Georgia during
:he past month. Atlanta reported "a
little improvement in the industries,"
the demand for labor being about 8
per cent over that of January. Sarannah
indicated textile, lumber and
repair shops more active, but not sufficiently
so to assimilate all available
abor.
North Carolina textiles increased
heir forces in March, and the lead??
fonnrtad cnrnlilH 1 fthfir he
?6 VlllOO uw.r.MH
ng rapidly absorbed.
In South Carolina, textiles receded
slightly but improved in lumber and
ihemical trades more than made
?ood the recession. The housing sitjation
in the state has been piuch
elieved. reports to the employment
service said.
Unemployment in Florida was reported
as "confined principally to
:ommon labor," with the demand for
'arm help equal to the supply.
Hardwood mills in Tennessee were
said to be offsetting to some extent
he decreased mining activity, with
'unemployment now prevalent among
skilled rather than unskilled laborers."
Alabama mines increased produc:ion
up to the last day of the month
ted marked improvement was shown
n the Iron and steel trades. The outook
promised a large farm acreage
his season.
Cotton mills in Mississippi were
working "full time with a full forte"
n March and the majority of the
umber mills were on full time, reports
to the service said.
General Semenoff Arrested.
New York.?General Gregorie Atanan
Semenoff, anti-Bolshevik mill- t
:ary leader in Siberia, was arrested
it the Pennsylvania station upon his
irrival here from Washington by She iff
Nagle. In the custody of six depjty
sheriffs, he was taken to the
A'aldorf-Astoria hotel where arrangenents
were under way to have him
eleased on $25,000 bail.
The arrest was made in a civil ao
don involving nearly hAlf a million
lollors on an order issued by Supreme
Sourt Justice Delehanty.
General SeminofT jvas charged with
he theft of woolen stuffs and furs
ralued at about ?47o.uuu, property ui
:he now bankrupt firm, Yourevatn
Some and Foreign Trade company,
uc. The theft was alleged to have
jeen made in or near Chita.
Miss Stone Acquitted of Murder.
New York.?Miss Olivia M. P. Stone,
rho shot and killed Ellis G. Kinkead,
ormer corporation counsel of Cincinlati.
August 5, 1921, was acquitted of
nurder by a jury in the Brooklyn supreme
court.
Work For Veterans.
Detroit.?Edsel Ford, president of
he Ford Motor company, notified
leadquarters of the Veterans of For
jign Wars that he would employ 200
nen daily from the veterans' bureau
or an indefinite period. Only men
vho have resided in Detroit six
nonths or more will be employed.
In his announcement Mr. Ford Is
laid to have made it clear that desitute
men given positions would be
laid their wages in advance until such
ime as they were in an improved
inancial conditions.
Unveil Statute Admiral Peary.
Washington. ? President and Mrs.
larding, members of the cabinet and
tther high government officials, as
veil as Arctic explorers. Joined In
rlbute to the memory of Pear Adniral
Robert E. Peary when a memtrial
tablet was placed at his grave
n Arlington National cemetery by
he National Geographic society. Secetary
Denby and Assistant Secretary
loosevelt, whose family name was
tome by the famous ship ospeciallyjfc
milt for Peary's north pole exploraions,
delivered addresses.
leart of Charles Taken to Australia, ftjj
Funchal. Madeira?The heart of for- ?
ner Emperor Charles of Austria-Hun- 3
:ary was removed. It will be sent
n a glass jar enclosed In a silver caa:et
to Austria. ,
All business was suspendod tot thl
uneral of Charles. Large crowdl
Ined the route of the procession to
he church. The local authorities and
Cing Alfonso of Spain sent wreaths.
The floral piece of Alfonso contain- A
d a ribbon on which was Inscribed
he words. "From Alfonso XIII to
'harles of Haosburg."