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THE PEOPLE. BARNWELL, S. 0.
Legion
(Copy tor Thla Daportmant Ruppllad by tha
Amarlca.. LaKion Newa serrica. I
"MYSTERY MAN”
IS IDENTIFIED
Oklahoma’s ’’mystery man," who for
/our years baffled efforts of American
Legion and Ked Cross officials to es
tabllsh his Identity, has been recog
nlzed as Arthur Mttleswlft Frazier ot
Winner, S. I). IncldeJitally by bis Iden
tification. he may receive $2,000 In
back pay due him from the govern
ment, and a Legion post named In his
honor will have to seek •another hero
to commemorate.
Frazier, or Green, ns he was known
then, was discovered In the woods
near Ponca City, Oklar, existing; on
berries and roots, living in a tepee con
■trueted principally of remnants o'f an
American (lag. He was taken In charge
by the authorities and on recommendn
tlon of the American Legion was sent
to a government hospital, as he had
established the fact tlult he was a
World war veteran.
.... Then began it long, quest for clues to
his Identity. •, Every relief agency and
government bureau exhausted Itself
, In efforts to learn who the man was.
but tO L py ..avail. He was |>ositlve!y
"""‘‘Identified’’ on severa! occasions by.
various persons only to show no signs
of recognition when put to test.
In the meantime, back in the South
Dakota town where he hud lived, his
" parents, Mr. ami Mrs. Charles Frazier
received official notice from the gov
ernment that their son had been killed
Ip action In the Argonne late In Octo
ber, 1918. ° He was mourned as dead,
and In order to pay him full respect,
a post of the Legion was named In
his honor.
Hy chance a I>eglonnnlre residing In
Winner saw a photograph of the Okla
homa “mystery man,’* us he was known,
because he had no recollection of his
past, and the parents went to Musko
gee to Identify the man. There, he
was claimed as their son. and they
returned to the Dakota Ipome.
If this man was Frazier, then he was
entitled to hack pay because he bad
never been discharged from the serv
ice. Compensation checks sent him
were fraudulently cashed in Chicago
at one time.
Because Frazier is suffering not only
from his mental disability but tuber
culosis hastened by the poisonous
gases and exposure, bis Legion friends
appealed to the Veterans bureau for
aid. He was sent to Minneapolis,
where he was met by two comrades,
and he recognized both of them im
mediately ns “buddies" in bis overseas
outfit. Both said the man bad served
In the same Minnesota guard nn ; t with
which they served in France, and testl
fled to their belief that be was Frazier
The man has no recollection of any of
his previous life, save a dog. who had
been his companion In earlier days,
and who apparently recognized him
the moment lie set foot In the Frazier
home.
FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA,
FIRE DAMAGE $300,000.
THREE YOUNG GIRLS
KILLED IN ACCIDENT.
Farmvtlle, ~Va.—Fire of unex
plained origin which has gained
considerable headway when discov
ered, destroyed two large tobacco
sales warehouses and damaged tho
annex of the Presbyterian church
here, with an aggregate loss esti
mated at $300,000.
The tobacco houses were two of
the largest operated by the city.
Dnue, operated by a concern affl-
lated with the Co-operative Tobac
co Growers association, contained
a large quantity of tobacco which
was consumed, while the aecond
had but little In storage.
LIFE MSMCE
BILL ORDERED SENT TO THE
HOUSE BY WAYS AND MEANS
COMMITTEE.
LOANS AFTER FIRST TWO YEARS
GALE HAS SPENT ITS FURY
Provision For Cash Payment to Veter
ans Entitled to Only Fifty
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Camden, Ark. — Three young
women were killed and one man
was probably fatally Injured when
the automobile in which they were
riding was struck by a fast pas
senger train of the Missouri Paci
fic Railroad at a crossing here.
The dead are Misses Grace and
Lulu Vaughn, sisters and Georgia
Allen, telephone operators, employ
ed in the local exchange. Jet
Vaughan, brother of the two women
killed, was not expected to live
through the night, according to at
tendants at the hospital to which
'he was taken. I
MINISTER KILLED
BY
REV. M. F. DANIELS KNOCKED
DOWN BY ONE CAR AND RUN
OVER BY ANOTHER.
WHILE GROSSING THE STREET
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HURRICANE WHICH SJWEPT
ATLANTIC COAST.
Eight Lives Lost in New York City
Alone By Storm Tying Up Trans-
< portation.
New Yorkc—The captain of the
Ward Line freighter Santiago and 24
of his men are believed to have been
lost at sea with their vessel in the
snow-freighted hurricane which swept
the Atlantic coast, taking eight lives
in New York City alone.
After raging at 80 miles an hour
along the eastern seaboard from Cape
Hatteras, where the Santiago went
down, to Eastport, Maine, the gale
appeared to have spent its fury. Its
path on land and sea was marked by
scores of disabled craft, enormous
property damagke and a long list of
dead and injured.
Transportation, power distributing
systems and lines of communication
were moet seriously crfppled. The
storm inflicted upon Brooklyn a com
plete tie-up of its rapid transit-lines,
stranding hundreds of thousands of
commuters.
1 Ten men were reported rescued and
25 were missing from tho freighter
Santiago, news of whose sinking 60
miles south of Capo Hatteras was car
ried in a radio message Intercepted by
tho Charleston (S. C.) navy yard sta
tion.
Hqw the Santiago sank was not told.
Tho first message, signed by the cap
tain of the Nnrweigian steamship
Cissy, simply said:
“Picked up' lifeboat" containing six
sailors, throe -firemen, one carpenter,
from the steamer Santiago, which
sank GO miles from Hatteras. No
other life boats seen, proceeding Bal
timore.’’ ~ ,
Local officers of the Ward Lfne,
listed tho other 25 members of the
o.ew as "probably missing,’’ includ
ing the captain, J. S’-ffcrtdwt-n;
Washington.—The new soldier bon
us bill was ordered sent to the house
by the ways and means committee and
a plan was generally agreed upon by
the committee to push the measure
forward under a*'suspension of the
les which would permit a vote in
one day and prevent amendments.
The new measure, differing mate
rially from the bill passed last ses
sion and vetoed by President Harding,
limits the bonus to paid up 29 year
endowment life insurance poliejies but
provides cash payments tf/'Yeterans
not entitled to more than $50.
The same basis of adjusted compen
sation allowed in the old bill, $1 a
day for home service and $1.25 for
overseas service, is provided. In fig
uring the face value of the policy,
however, 25 per cent is added to the
adjusted service credit and also the
interest on'the total amount com
pounded annually at 4 per cent for
20 years.
Loans after the first two years
would be allowed on the policies up
to 90 per cent of the paid up value.
Revised estimates showed the maxi
mum total cost of the measure would
be $2,119,000,000 spread over a period
of 20 years. _
Chairman Green declared careful in
quiry had shown the cost could be
i met by the government from current
i revenue without additional tpxes.
TO DETERMINE MANNER IN
WHICH HER HUSBAND’S PA-
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PERS GO TO PUBLIC
Recently^ Resigned as Superintendent
of Home Missions in the 19. C.
Presbyterian Synod.
Attorney Advises Hey She Has Legal
Rights in Publication of His
Papers.
‘ Washington.—Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
has decided to avail herself of her
legal rights to check publication of
selections from her late husband's
letters and manuscripts until she can
determine in what manner the war
President’s papers will be given to
the public as a whole and in an auth
oritative way. ^
It is Mrs. Wilson’s intention, as ex
ecutrix of the President’s estate,
either to have his letters and manu
scripts assembled 4 n( Y published by
Some one who will act on her author
ity; or to gather them into a collec
tion of Wilsonia and make it avail
able to the public probably by deposit
ing the papers in some national in
stitution such as the library of Con
gress.
Mrs. Wilson has been advised by
her family attorney that as executrix
of Mr. Wilson's estate she has legal
vu.m, w.tuuu. rjgi lta in the publication of his let-
In computing the adjusted serwiea..
. ‘ - „ , « . , ters and manuscripts, not alone under
credit the first 60 days of service . , , . ,, ... . , . r
/ A the law and authorities, but under an
would not be counted. All veterans,
amendment to the copyright law. now
Greenville, S. C.—Rev. Milton F.
Daniels, of Charlotte, N. C., who re
cently resigned as superintendent of
Home Missions in the North Carolina
resbyterian synod to enter the evan
gelistic field, was killed almost In
stantly here when he was knocked
down bv one automobile- and run over
by another, as he was crassing the
street to his hotel after the conclusion
of the evening service in his first
engagement as an evangelist. *
Neither of the machines stopped
to render assistance to the stricken
man, who was hurried to a hospital,
where it was ascertained that his
condition was hopeless, and where
he died almost immediately. His wife
and their two children are now said
to be in Savannah, Ga. The police
have been unable to get any informa-
j tion that may lead to the arrest of the
men responsible for the accident.
The minister had Just emerged
from the First Presbyterian church,
I where he had preached the evening
sermon, and was -crossing the street,
wl\en an approaching automobile
struck him and knocked him to the
pavement. Before he could regain
iiis feet and seek safety a second car,
approaching from the opposite direc
tion, ran over him, fatally injuring
him. The drivers of both cars sped
away in the darkness before bystand
ers could learn their identity or se
cure their license numbers.
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including officers up to and including
the rank of captain in the army and
marine corps and lieutenant in the
navy, would be eligible for the bonus
and also dependents of veterans who
have died sinre the war.
The cost of the measure would be
much less, committee mepnbers said,
than the bill passed in 1922’, which
p’art of the revised statutes or the
United States, which provides as fol
lows:
“Section 4967: Every person who
shall -print or publish any manu
script whatever without the consent
of the author or proprietor first ob
tained. shall be liable to the author
. . ... . or proprietor for all damages occas-
provided four options-cash payments d hy su( . h injury ...
Form Club to Save for
- Trip to French Capital
Another savings club, deposits of
which tire destined to be used for a
trip to Paris in 1928, has been started
hy Legionnaires In Unlontown, Bn.
“Goat'' Davis, an nctlve member of the
post, and ohe of the most earnest
boosters for the proposal to hold the
national convention of the American
Legion In the French capital on the
tenth anniversary <ff Armistice day, Is
responsible for the club
Davis proposes that each Legionnaire
put away at least $2 each week from
now until 1928. which will give suffi
cient funds to make the trip and re
turn
Sentiment In the Legion clearly in
dicates a desire to ho&d such a conven
tion In Baris. At the first national
convention, a committee was author
ized to study feasibility of a Baris pil- j
primage which would he In theynature
of a visit to the battlefields where the
Americans trod In 1917 and 1918, ns
well ns for administering business of
the Legion. A number of posts have
’already formed savings clubs along a
line similar to that suggested in
Unlontown.
Legion Posts Provide
Radio fajr Disabled
Use of the radio for entertainment
of disabled soldiers in government bos
pltals Is one of the principal activities
of several posts of the American Le
gion In larger cities.
“Legion Night on the Air," estab
lished by the Kings county (N. Y.)
posts of the Legion, Is one of the
first and most popular of these. Art-
1sts well known throughout |he coun
try sre frequently heard on this pro
gram. Recently, all posts in New
York combined In a great program
which was broadcast by the powerful
WEAF station. One of the headline
attractions was the singing of Chris
tian Uoltum. himself a disabled man
and Legionnaire, wbo since his retard
from service has4-J>een giving concerts
throughout the country. Thais Ma-
grane, so A. E. F. entertainer, and
president of the auxiliary unit to the
& Rankin Drew post of the Legion,
gg all theatrical post, also read *ev
ara] numbers on tbt program.
France to Get Huge Bank Loan.
New York.—Establishment of bank
ing credit of not less than $100,000,-
000 in favor of the Bank of France
has been arranged by an American
banking group, headed by J. B. Mor
gan and company, it was announce'd.
The loan Is fully secured by goM
held in the vaults of the Bank of
France, which is acting for the French
government, and will be •used to estab
lish French exchange and for such
other purposes as the French govern
ment may determine.
In View Of. the excellent security
behind the loan. It Is believed the in
terest rate is well below that of some
of the recent foreign loans floated
here in the form of bond issues,
The groiijv is limited to bankers of
New York and. neighboring cities, ap
plications to share in the loan exceed
ing the amount required by the French
government.
In connection with tho credit, the
governor of the Bank of France has
issued a statement which sets forth
the following points
1. Complete measures are being
taken to better the financial situation,,
2 The French government is in
sisting that the senate shall ratify
the newv tax measure, which means
balancing the budget, and shall ap
prove the policy of stopping new ex
penditures. * *
3. Until the financial situation has
been greatly bettered the government
new 'borrowings
funding ex
isting floating indebtedness^
4. After such Improvement in the
financial situation has been shown
the government will make no, 5 new
loan, even for re-construction in the
liberated /teg'iojis,' without being as
sured that the budget will cover the
service of such new loan;
5. The Bank of Franc©, will con
tinue to envisage and assist the slt-
m-tion.
to those not entitled to more than
$50; adjusted service certificates, sim
ilar to the present life insurance poli
cies; vocational training aid and farm
or home aid. «.
Senate Rejects Farm Loan.
Washington—The senate, despite
President Coolidge’s indorsement, re
fused by fi vote of 41 to 32, to auth
orize the proposed loan of $50,000,000
to farmers of the spring wheat belt
to finance their start in the poultry
swine and live stock industries.
In disposing of the ’ proposal, car
ried. in the Norbeck-Burtness bill as
the first of‘’several special agrarian
relief measures, the senate divided
along geographical ^rather than party
lines. 'The^result showed 23 Demo
craftsr and Ts Republicans opposing )
and 20 Republicans, ten Democrats
and two Farmer-Labor members sup
porting the bill.
i. Leaders, of the farm bloc " insisted
that the result of the fight for the
Norbeck-Burtness bill did ont indi
cate the senators’ sentiment toward
remaining relief bills.
Since Mr. Wilson's death some of
his letters have been published, some
others have been offered fgr sale, and
still others were in process of publi
cation and widely advertised, until
Mrs. Wilson determined upon her ac
tion. One publisher whose output runs
into millions of copies, made aver a
whole number of his publication after
it was on the presses, and is now tak
ing steps to recall copies which al
ready were on their way to circulation
During Mr. Wilson's last days hr
expressed some annoyance at the
writings of various authors. w T ho he
said he felt were representing them
selves as having been in his confi
dence and in position to relate “the
inside" on various impflrt^nt affairs
Since*his death, his widow has told
intimates that she had the same, feel
Ing, but she contemplated no action
until her atorney called her attention
to her statutory rights as executrix.
New Occupants on 5th of Farms.
Washington.—Almost a fifth of the
- country’ farms had new occupants in
1922. Nine Southern states showed
changes in more than a quarter of
their farms, the Department of Agri
culture announced here after a sur
vey of the situation. an<\, only six
states, all in New England, showed
less than ten .per cent change in
their farm occupants. In most of the
corn belt and western states changes
ranged from ten to fifteen per cent.
The chief cause of the- turnover is
believed,by agricultural experts to be
the attractiveness of new land, which
in the past has set up waves of migra
tion among the fa*m population. An
other caiLse is seen in the extent to
which farm land has been bought and
sold for investment and speculation.
In addition, the rapid industrialization
of the United States, besides produc
ing a steady movement of population
to the cities brings about constant
changes in market opportunities' and
necessitates readjustments in systems
of .fanning and in sizes of farms, whila
different classes of farmers in this
country move considerable number
from one agricultural status to an
other.
Some shifting is more or less aim
less, they concede but much of the
.fluidity represents desirable economic
and social readjustment.
P HYSICIANS have prescribe^
Gude’s Pepto-Mangan for 30
years because of its supply of
iron. They found that it was readily
absorbed, did notdrritate the stom
ach and quickly toned and strength
ened the system. At your drug
gist’s, in both liquid and tablets.
Free Trial Tablets
value of Gude’s Pepto-Mangan. write today
for generous Trial Package of Tablets. Send
■ no money — juat name and address to
M. J. Breitenbach Co., 63 Warren SL, N. t.
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Allays irritation, soothes and heals throat
and lung inflammation. The 'constant
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remedy fjr colds, coughs, bronchitis and
especially for lung trouhl s in millions of
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seven yea s, enab'ing the patient to obtain
a good night's rest, free from couching
with easy expectoration in the morning.
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i Coolidge Asks Action.on Tax Act.
- Washington. — President .Coolidge
made request of Tongress to adopt
immediately a resolution making of
; fective the 25 per cent reduction in
Woman Mysteriously Slain.
Thomasville N- C.-—Chief of Police J personal‘Tncome taxes payable this
bill
I, C. Jenkins, of this city, formerly on year, now^arried in the revenue hi
the Charlottf police force, was’ held but It met with an unencouraging re-
responsible by a coroner’s jury here sponse. This reaction was especially
frr thr\killing of a woman whose dead pronounced in the house, where such
i body-bathed in blood was foiind in r> legislation would have to originate
room he^e, guarded by a five year old and where leaders turned down at-
girl who ^says the dead woman wak tempt to obtain such action,
her mother and who savs her father The President-Lirged through a mes
was in the room when her mother was }, a g e to Cong-ess That the proposed
shot. ' ,j cut be m^ide. effective before Saturday,
j ■ According to the verdict. w of the vvjion first installments on th6 taxes
coroner's jury, the woman came to her must he paid. *
I death from a gunshot wound Inflicted
from a gun In the hands of L. C.
Jenkins. '
will undertake no
whatsoever except for
Franc Prices Improve.
New York.—Continued covering qp-
erations by European speculators
brought in thJR price of the French
^ranc which opened at 4 65 cents. A
drop In demand sterling to $4.28 3-4,
an overnight loss of almost a cent,
was attributed to selling for the pur
pose of utilizing funds to cover francs
In the event of sudden advances. Bel
gian francs, selling at 3.90--cents, were
almost 30 points higher.
President to Deliver Addresses;
Washington. — Tentative speaking
engagements for President Coolidge.
announced at the White House,, show
that the executive expects to deliver a
number of addresses during the
spring.
The only engagement at any dis
tance from Washington, however, is
for an address In New York on April
22 at the annual meeting of the Aa-
sociated Press.
In addition, he has a list of proba
ble engagements, two addresses In
Indiana early Ini May,
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To Pay Common Stock Dividend^.
New York.—Directors of the South
ern Railway company declared an
initial dividend of $1.25 on the com
mon stock.
— R-was officially announced that thfe
purpose of tho directors hereafter is
to give consideration quarterly to the
matter of preferred as well as com
mon dividends.
The dividend was announced as a
quarterly payment on the common
stock. ; '
The directors also declared the
regular semi-annuaj dividend of 2 1-2
per cent on the preferred stock.
The dividend is the first to be paid
on the 1.2*10,006 common r shares
iiuce the re-organization of the road
in 1894. Beginning in 1897 dividends
on the preferred stock Have ranged
from one to five per "cTTlTU-EHUiually.
Hurry Mother! Eveh constipated,
bilious, feverish, or sick, colTc Bnhfes
ami Children love toTake genuine "Cal
ifornia Fig Syrup.” No other laxative
Three Found Murdered.
Linden, N. Y—A man and two
women were found murdered in a
^burning house here.
The dead are Mr. and Mrs. Thos,
Whaley and Mrs. Mabel Morse. Neigh*
hors saw flames coming from the win
dows of the Whaley home and they
succeeded in distinguishing the fire.
A search of the house discloaed threa
murdered persons. r~
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starts tire liver and bowels without
griping.. Contains no narqotles or sooth
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druggist and avoid counterfeits. Insist
upon genuine “California Fig Syrup**
which contains directions.
I - Theology ' requires theories, but
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Christianity requires “works.'
Would Let Uncle Sam Fix Income Tax.
Chicago.—Sending the government
& blank check and inviting "Uncle Sam
to write In the amount," is the way
one man extricated himself from the
Income tax dilemma. ;—
•’I am sending a blank signed
check/’ the letter received by the col
lector of internal revenue said, “7
don’t know whether Coolidge is go
ing to cut the Mellon or not but*make
out the check to suit' yourself and if
there is any reduction, make It out
in my favor." v
The n»vne was withhala
House Memkere Pas* Deficiency Bill
Washington.—A deficiency appro
priatlon bill carrying approximately
$155,000.01)0 was passed by the house,
oily 20 members were on the floor
when the measure was sent on Its way
to the senate.
Items In the bill Include $105,487,-
000 for refund of taxes Illegally collect
ed; $13,850,000 for additional coast
guard craft and personnet for use
against rum j^mners, and $5,000,000
for hospital facilities for farmer ser
vice men, completing the authoriza
tion lu the Langley bill. ,
Grain on Farms.
Washington.—Grain remaning on
farms March 1 was estimatedthe
Department of Agriculture as; Corn
1,153,175,000 bushels, of 37.8 per Cent
of the 1923 crop. Wheat, 133,871,000
bushels, or 1710 per cent of the 1923
crop. Oats,' 444.810,000 bushels, or
43.2 percent of the 1923 crop. Barley,
44.844.000 bushels, or 22.6 per cent of
the 1923 crop Of the 1923 crop about
80 6 per cent is merchantable, compar
ed with a ten-year average of 80.1 per
* Girl Kills Father.
Tampa. Fla—“I stamped him to
death with my feet.”
This was the unemotional statement
made by Eva Winchester, 18 year-old
daughter of the dead man, j. E. 'Win
chester, 65 years old, formerly of Gas
tonia, N. C. £is body was found at
the home In Seffner, a village te»
miles east of here.
The girl implicated her mother in
the statement in which she cqid she
was ordered to kilf her father b. her
mother. Both are in the county Jail
here charged with mur£er.
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smear them with Cutlcura Ointment.
Wash off In five minutes with Cuti-
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keep your skin clear by using them for
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