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| $2.00 Per Year in Adavance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1922. Established in 1891.
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V Tax Reform is Being j
* Neglected Somewhat
Columbia, Feb. 3.?Chances forj
- complete success of the tax reform
? programme of the present legislature,
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tlhe burden of whose work is alevia,
tion of the tax burden, appears at this
K date in the session to be somewhat
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gramme has already carried.
None of the bills has passed all
stages in the process of legislation
and several of them have apparently
NJ struck snass. |
? The gasoline and the inheritance
tax bills have gone further than any
of the others. They have both passed
both branches of the assembly and
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are now in the house for action on
x j amendments made by the senate.
Both will pass in some form.
The corporation license tax bill has
v developed strong opposition. It was
called up in the senate Thursday
night, but it ran against a snag thej
first thing. A motion was made to
h strike out its enacting words, which
would have, if carried, laid it to rest
? for this session. However, this motion
was withdrawn to allow the bill
to go to tWrd reading, subject to
+ amendments there, and for deoate at.
that final stage. There are senators!
? ? strongly opposed to it and who pro*
pose to fight it.
The income tax bill* which passed
l the house, is on the senate calendar,
and has been for a good while, for
second reading, and it seems to be
t standing still.
k The luxuries tax bill has been re^
ported twice by the ways and means!
committee with favorable reports. It i
* . went to the committee the second {
time to allow for public hearings, it
is being opposed but will likely pass.!
The hydro-electric power tax bill
is in the hands of the finance committee
of the senate4 where strong opF
v position on the part of manufacturers,
large and small, has been regis\T
tred. There are members of the fi'?
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with this (ax and a strong lobby is
f; being waged against it.
The bill to create a tax on moving'
picture films is also in the ,v hands of
% the senate finance committe, not having
as yet been reported bach.
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BOYS POINT WAY.
Youngsters Produce Hogs, Cattle,
^ Corn, Cotton and feas.
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Two thousand and ten members
of boys' clubs in South Carolina grew
crops and animals in 1921 valued at
?v:;'v $89,565.35, according.to the report
^ of L. I. Baker, supervising agent.
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concerted value of boys' club work.
The instructional and inspirational
values are inestimable.
Club work was conducted in 27
counties in 1921 and tbe total membership
was 260 more than in 1920.
f :? - . The work included corn clubs, cotton
3 clubs, peanut clubs, and pea clubs
among farm crops, and pig clubs and
dairy cattle clubs among live'stocs.
The membership in each of these was: j
Corn clubs, 733; cotton clubs, 31;
peanut clubs, 84; pea clubs, 91; pig
Z ~ . clubs, 1,039; dairy cattle clubs, 32.
Of the corn club members enrolled
299 sent in complete records showing
a total production of 14,611 bushels
with an average yield of 48.8 bushels
K Per acre and an average cost of 43
cents per bushel. The total value of
this yield was $11,231.40 and the
profit $4,861.19. The estimated to
tal value of the corn produced by
% members not completing reports was
$12,204.09.
Of the 31 members enrolled in cotton
clubs 13 turned in complete recirds,
showing a total production of
\ 21,318 pounds, the yield averaging
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* costof 2.3 cents per pound. The total
value of their cotton was $1,7*1.71
and the total profit was $1,278.43.
< The total value of all crops pro^
duced by club boys was $34,151.85.
One hundred and forty-six pis club
members reporting completely produced
12,036 pounds at an average
i cost of 10 1-3 cents per pound, the
' total value being $8,718.52, and the
Z . total profit $3,623.54. The estimated
value of the production of members
* not reporting completely was $40,610.
Fourteen members reporting
i completely in the daily cattle profilmed
animals valued at $2,945. of
which $1,011.47 was profit. The total
cost of production of all live stock
club members was $7^091.40, the
\ total value $11,563.52, making a total
profit of $4,736.02.
Borneo is cut midway by the equai
tor.
LEXINGTON MAN KILLED.
Olin M. Price Staggers Prom Drug!
Store and Expires.
Lexington, Feb. 2.?Olin M. Price,
white man 25 or 26 years old, was
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o'clock this afternoon, two .loads of j
large sized shots having been fired
into his body while he was in the j
drug store of Dr. Rice B. Harmon. ;
There were no eyewitnesses, but i
after an inquest had been partially
conducted, Dr. Harmon was lodged in
jail, pending further investigation.
Mr. Price staggered out of the
drug store, into the funeral parlors j
of Charles Hi. 'i'ayior, in an adjoining j
building. He was bleeding profusely |
from an ugly wound in the chest, but
managed to request that a physician
be called. His efforts to -give explanation
of the tragedy resulted in only
agonized gasps. He expired within ten
or 15 minutes, although three physicians
hastened to his side to give any
possible medical relief.
The trail of blood led to the rear
of the drug store. There two empty
shells were found, rfhd holes had been
pierced in a screen door in the rear
of the store by the loads of shot. The
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ternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
Following the testimony by several:
witnesses, Sheriff Roof went to Dr.
Harmon's home and placed him
under arrest. Dr. Harmon made no
statement.
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| BURLEY WAREHOUSES OPEN.
I Farmers Get More in Advance Than
For Whole Crops last Season.
j Lexington, Ky., Jan. 30.?Four i
j million pounds of tobacxk) were deliv- j
ered to the warehouses of the Buriey
Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Marketing
Association when those outside
Lexington were opened today for the
first time this season, it was announced
at headquarters tonight. -As was
the case wihen the houses were opened
last week, it was said that growlers
received more money in advance
for their crops this year than they
sold them for last season. No reports
of dissatisfied growers were received.
Tobacco buyers tonight contrasted
conditions as they existed today with
those of the opening day for marketing
the 1920 crop. Low prices paid
for the weed then caused so much
dissatisfaction that in several cases
the warehouses . were closed for a
time.
LONG FEUD ENDS.
Judged Words Break Barrier Between
Mountaineers.
Members of the Benge-Martin feud
factions, seventy-five of whom made
peace and shook hands in the circuit
court room in Manchester, Ky., last
week, returned to their home shortly
afterward. Dread lest their homes be
burned or riddled with bullets during
the darkness was gone from the
hearts of many mountaineers.
Peace came unexpectedly at the
close of a four-day hearing on peace
bonds, more than one hundred of the
clansmen having been summoned into
court, while fifty National Guardsmen
were on duty in and around the courthouse.
Judge Hiram Johnson, after
placing forty-six of the men under
bonds ranging from $500 to $3,000,
lectured them, urging them "to act
like men, shake hands and become
friendly neighbors again.''
Then, almost before the spectators
could realize what was taking place,
the line in rival camps in the court
room was crossed and, following the
example set by the igrey-bearded leaders,
the feudists were clasping each
other's* hands and calling each other
by their first names.
The feud followed the slaying of
Wood Benge by Steve Martin after
the men had quarreled over a shot
gun stolen from the former and sold
to the latter. Six men were killed,
sixteen persons, including two children,
were shot, and more than fifty
homes shot up. On Christmas day
three men were shot to death in a
battle in which a dozen participated.
Still Going.
Winchester, Va., Feb. 3.?A motor i
truck loaded with more than 1,000
pounds of dynamite skidded on ice.
plunged over a retaining wall on tne i
Shenandoah Valley pike today at I
Fisher's Hill and rolled nearly sixty
feet to the bottom of the hill. The
dynamite did not explode, but the negro
driver who is said to have escaped
unhurt has not been seen since the
accident.
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Human Skeletons j
Line Snow Trail
An Associated Press dispatch from
Volga, Russia says:
When tihe snows melt next spring
the Russian stenDes will be strewn
with skeletons. They will resem-!
ble the high prairies of the American
cow country in tihe days when!
big cattle outfits had insufficient hay ;
to carry their stock through a hard i
winter.
But among the skeletons of cattle
and camels there will be boiies
of hundreds of thousands of men,
women and children who fell exhausted
in their quest for bread;
who lived the simple lives their peasant
ancestors lived for centuries and
had little conception of the political
upheaval wihich made this famine
more terrible than that of 1891.
They wandered, and millions of
them are still wandering. There was
nothing to eat in their homes, so they
started on the trek for bread. Some
drifted westward to the Volga and
found death in the typihus-ridden railway
centers, or among the horrors of
refugee camps along the Volga; others
started for Turkestan; still others
moved eastward toward Siberia,
the land of gold and wiheat which
has always been so alluring to the
Russian moujik, who heard little of
a_ a. o T* rl Ua
liS vasiliess, XLS Udiuaui^o auu i
heartlessness. The peasants knew
nothing of modern ways. They were
unable to get rides on the trains,
burdened with the Red army and food
for Moscow and Petrograd. When
their animals dropped dead the families
walked on always hoping that
food lay over the next knoll.
But the country districts have no
grain, or if peasant families have a
small supply they conceal it in the
effort to prolong their own lives until
another crop is harvested. In the
larger towns there is food for sale at
fabulous prices but the starving refugees
have neither money nor goods
to exchange and can only sit down to
await death or trudge on until they
sink of exhaustion.
The bodies that lie along the rail
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roaus are cuucuicu uu o w...
ed to centers where they are piled in
frozen, snow-covered heaps to await
burial. Freezing refugees remove all
garments from the dead, so the frozen
bodies are nude when the scavengers
collect them.
Families drift apart and wander
aimlessly on tjheir inevitable fate.
Human instincts are lost and they become
little better than beasts. The
cities and town populations are so
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little moved by the misery whidh lies
all about them. Death seems more
merciful in the country for the refugees;
they sink into the wihite covering
of the endless plain, And wolves
strip their bodies.
, From Perm and Ekaterinburg to
the Caspian sea death is stalking
over the steppes. Russians, Cossacks,
Kalmucks, Kirghiz and Tartars alike
are meeting tjheir end with hopelessness
and patience begotten of centuries
of unequal struggle against political
extortion and unfavorable climatic
conditions made worse by ignorance
of scientific methods of tilling
the soil. t
American corn will be too late to
save many of these wanderers
through the steppes as well as the
families who lhave elected to make
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1 their fight in tneir villages /romvro (
j from the railways rather than endure j
the ("hardships and death their neighbors
have suffered along the main I
lines of transportation.
Entire village populations have j
died in the provinces east of the
Volga and the animals which survive
are so weak it is impossible to get
adequate horsepower to deliver food
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to tne tnousanus cu siiu *y uuuuu uvu^.
1 tute settlements far from food stations.
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Curtis Franklin Electrocuted Friday.
Columbia, February 3.?Curtis
Franklin, Aiken county negro,
convicted of. criminal assault
upon a young white woman, was electrocuted
in the state penitentiary
shortly before noon Friday.
Abraham Williams, aged colored
man from Orangeburg county, who
was to have died the same day, had ;
his sentence postponed to April 7, J
to allow the pardon board to give
complete consideration to ms wac, o i
petition having been filed with the
hoard for commutation of the sent
ence to that of life imprisonment
This is the third postponement he
has received.
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DOWN ON CAMOUFLAGE.
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Old Time Laws Held Women Under
Close Watch.
Had a young woman in the present
day attire endeavored to get married
in the city of Chatlotte when tihis
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piace was a tiny vuiase> uuuci iuc
rule of the King of England, not only
would the brazen maiden have seen
her nuptial knots untied later, but
she would have been in danger of iher
life as well, According to a discoverey
by B. F. Wellons, Charlotte attorney,
who found it in a set of ancient laws
governing all English subjects that
was enacted in 1670 and continued in
vogue for many years.
The funny thing about the whole
matter is that right here in Charlotte
there was a time when a girl who
wore high heeled shoes could be con*
victed of witchcraft! And possibly
executed! And cosmetics! Well, if
anv vouns: woman sauntered forth in
search of a ihusband with paint on her
cheeks, she had to keep three jumps
ahead of the sheriff. The law held
t/hat woman is a dangerous animal,
and that the male species must be
protected. It said that if any woman
caught herself a spouse, she must do
it by showing herself in her true light.
She could be convicted of sorcery if
she even allowed perfume to be on
her person when her beau called to
A nhi', nf foleo toafli nortain
OCC UC1. A JJO.ll Ml luxo\J <,uvvu .~.aaa
ly meant the gallows, foy this was
the greatest trick to gain a husband
of all time. No one tilling was permitted
that might in any way deceive
the poor fellow who might fall in
love.
And certainly the King of England
believed that love is blind, for he unreservedly
allied himself with bh.e
amorous suitors of the land and declared
that there was no woman alive
who could play a trick on them and
get away with it. He required their
faces to be as free of powder and
paint as that of a nanny goat, and
insisted tihat/every curve in the human
outline had to be the real thing;
The following is the law that was
passed by his majesty as recorded in
the ancient statutes that governed
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his subjects around tihe yeaT 1700
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ana iaier;
"Be it hereby declared that all
women, of whatever age, rank or
profession, whether virgins, maids
br widows who shall after the passing
of this act impose upon and betray
into matrimony any of his subjects
by scents, paints, cosmetics,
washes, artificial teeth, false hair,
Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high
heeled shoes, or bolstered hips, shall
incur the penalty of the laws now in
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force against wituuvian auu. owiw;,
and such like misdemeanors, and that
the marriage, upon conviction, shall
stand null and void."
From this it is obvious that when
George Washington took the measure
of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown he
saved the necks of the feminine part
of his posterity. And had not a more
considerate king ascended the throne
of England and later abolished the
law, the gallows would be working
overtime in England today.?Charlotte
Observer.
Another Core for "Flu."
New York, Feb. 1.?Here's another
cure for the "fiu." Health Commissioner
Copeland says:
"Remain for half an hour in wa- [
ter as hot as you can stand it. The j
water should be kept running so
that fc'he heat can be maintained.
While in the tub, drink about a q,uart
of lemonade, so? hot you will have
sip it slowly. Dry ofT well an'1
get in bed between blankets. Remain
there for an hour. The perspiration
will then have ceased. Get up,
sponge off witih cold water to close
the pores and get back into bed, this
time between sheets."
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Off some wnere.
For several minutes the young man
did not speak. His heart was too full.
It was enough for him to know that
this glorious creature loved him;
that she had promised to be his wife.
With a new and delightful sense of
ownership he feasted his eyes upon
^.er beauty and realized that henceforth
it would be his privilege to provide
for her welfare and happiness.
His tgood fortune seemed incredible.
Finally he whispered tenderly
"How did it happen, darling, tha<
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sucn a Dngnt, samiug augw ao j<ju>
self fell in love with a dull, stupic
fellow like me?" %
"Goodness knows," she murmered
ihsently. "I must have a screw loos?
j somewhere." 1
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Manila is the greatest hemp mark |
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Jimmy Says Economy
Gossip is All B
Washington, Feb. 6.?Declaration
that the economies which President
Harding and Director Dawes of the
budget announced yesterday at the
second business meeting of the government
were largely of "paper" variety
was made by Representative
Byrnes, of South. Carolina, a Democratic
member of the house appropriations
committee, "who, in a formal
statement voiced the "fear that Mr.
Harding had been so absorbed in
other matters that he was not conversant
"with the existing situation"
in government finances.
/'According to the press," Mr.
Byrnes's statement said,"a direct siving
of more than 1104,000,000 had
been accomplished in less than six
mbonths. The fact is that against
this alleged saving the president at
the instance of the budget bureau,
has recently submitted requests for
additional appropriations as deficiencies
amounting to $108,704,286 and
within a few days the congress will
commence consideration of another
deficiency bill to tafee care of this
cVinrtoora in fnnHc This amount is
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in addition to the urgent dificiency
bill appropriating $50,556J?22 and
the first deficiency bill appropriating
$105,277,443. If the $180,704,286
now asked by the president is granted,
it will make the total deficiencies
to date $336,537,9553.
"I rejoice that the president reiterated
his opposition to deficiencies because
I hesitate to think what amount
would be requested of (he were not
opposed to deficiencies."
Representative Byrnes said that if
the amounts mentioned had been saved
the treasury should show it. He
declared that no such showing, however,
ihad been made, and added:
"I fear the reason f why it is not
done is that the alleged savings in
most instances consist only in the
postponement of actual expenditures
until the next fiscal year."
Mr. Byrnes declared that the supplemental
estimates for the next fiscal
year, amounting to $80r083,220,
added to the total amount requested
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lor C06 IlSCd.1 y KiHL 1? 40, wuuiu jxicant*
that total $109,296,365 more than
the amount appropriated for the current
fiscal year.
PREHISTORIC AMERICANS.
Sensational Find in Ruin of Ancient
Dwelling in New Mexico.
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The tomb of a prehistoric warrior
who apparently fell in combat has
been discovered in the ruin of a large
Pueblo community dwelling near Aztec,
New Mexico, which is being explored
by the American Museum of
Natural History.. A description of
the burial chamber and its contents
has been received from Eari H. Morris,
in charge of the work of evacuation,
according to a New York dispatch.
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"Beneatn me aeons auj^cui,
the famous painted room opened in
i 1920, there has been found a second
chamber perfectly preserved in every
detail," he writes.
"In it was found the body of a warrior
over six feet and an inch in
height and death .had come to the
stalwart defender of the village when
he was in the prime of life and in the
height of his glory as welL
"A fallen chamber not far distant
from the warrior's tomb contained
thirteen skeletons, and the thirteenth
was one of the most extraordinary
which has come to light in the entire
ruin. The remains were those of an
old woman and a stout splinter from
a broken ceiling timber had been
hewn to a point, then driven completely
through the pelvis and well
into the earth beneath."
ALLENDALE LAD SHOOTS MATE.
Twelve Year Old Boy Receives Bullet
in Back Prom Rifle. "*
Allendale, Feb. 1.?David Johnson.
12 year-old-son of Mr. and Mrs. T. D.
Johnson was injured late Tuesday afternoon
when he was shot with a 22
caliber rifle by John Williams, another
boy about the same age. David
walked out of his gate and John
comin-g up the street is said to have
called to him that he was going to
shoot. David turned around to go
back into the gate when John sho*
him, the ball going through a leathe'
belt and other clothing and into Dav1
vid's back. The wounded boy varushed
to a hospital in Augusta thi:
morning.
The boys had not had any ihan
'eelings towards each other and hav
always been friends and playmates.
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BIGHAM TO APPEAL FURTHER.
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Florence Man Wants New Hearing
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Before Supreme Court.
Columbia, Feb. 6.?Edmund D.
Bigham, Florence county man, convicetd
of murdering his brother and
sentenced to the electric chair, and
also charged with killing his mother,
his sister and his sister's two adopted
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ULLiiuieu, win, it is UUUC131UUU, ap^cai
to the United States supreme court
from the decision of the South Carolina
supreme court which recently
refused .his appeal for a new trial. It
is not known on what grounds the
new appeal will be made.
An order staying the remittur
on the recent decision of the supremo
court has been issued by the supremo
court, Bigham asking for a rehearing
of the case. However the court has
not as yet announced whether it will
gi ant a i cucai 1115.
Bigham was sentenced to die but
appealed, making numerous exceptions
to the proceedings in the su- preme
court recently dismissed tihe
appeal and Bigham will be re-sentenced
at the next term of court in
Florence unless his appeal to the
United States supreme court is allowBigham
is in the death house of * p?
the state penitentiary. His main
comment about his case is in repetition
of the statement that he is innocent.
He talhs very freely about his
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BARNWELL MAN SUICTOES.
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Temple?No Cause Given.
Barnwell, Feb. 6.?Albert E. Hartin,
a local garage owner, took his
life about 7:30 o'clock tonight by firing
a bullet from a .38 caliber revolver
into his head while lying on the *
bed at his home here. No reason can
be given for the rash act, as he appeared
in his usual good health dur- ? yg
ing the day. Tlhe members of the,
family were downstairs tfhen the fatal
shot was fired and the frantic
cries of his wife brought neighbors
quickly to the home. Th^ first to
arrive tound him breathing his last" " ' %
with the pistol clasped in his right
hand. The bullet entered the right
temple, passing entirely through hi*
head. t
Mr. Hartin is survived by bis wife
and three little sons of Barnwell, his
parents, who live in Fairfield county,
and several brothers and sisters. He
was about 32 years of age. He came
to Barnwell a number of years age ^
from Savannah and during the time
that he had lived here made scores of . 5- J
friends. J
TAX POSTPON EMENT CERTAINTY. ,
House Agrees to Bill Sent From;the '
Senate to Delay Collection.
* Columbia, Feb. 3.?The postponement
of taxes this year became a
surety when the house Thursday
passed on third reading and sent back r
to the senate for concurrence'in minor
amendments, the resolution by^
Senator Wells, delaying the maximum
penalties on delinquent taxes
until after June 1. A motion to re- "3
commit the resolution in the house
was lost 49 to 41. \|3
Representative Belser, of Sumter,
led the fight against the bill, declaring
that its enactment would weaken
the state's credit and make the world
believe the state "broke" when it ie
not. He cited figures to sho# that
the state's resources are enormous M
and there is no reason for ;uch ex- v J
treme talk of money scarcity. O
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Soldier Remeipbers After He Got Hit
With. Rifle.
Ottawa, Feb. 1.?Quartermaster
Sergt. William Ball, of the Canadian
forestry corps, reported today at Dominion
headquarters of the Great
Wsr vpferan'a association with a
story of paving had his memory beat- . ]
en out of him in 1919 and knocked J
back two years later.
Ball said he had been beaten and ' 3
robbed in Bordeaux in April, 1919,
and that he 'had lost all recollection !
of his Canadian home. Later he
joined the Spanish Foreign Legion,
j and claimed recently to have recov!
ered his memory after an officer had
iad hit him on the head with a rifle
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butt in a jail in Refa, Morocco.
Ball was posted as a deserter after
his disappearance and the Veterans' ? \
association has been conducting a
search for him in behalf of his wife,
who lives in Port Hope, Ont. I
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Bagpipes are shown on a Roman. c ^
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