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Vol. LXXH No. 1289 " Union, S. C., Monday Afternoon.^ January 30, 1022 3C Copy
THEATRE ROOl
KILLS It
Washington, Jan. 30.?The death ol
Miss Mary Forsyth of Washington
brought the death list from Knickerbocker
theatre disaster to 108. All
the dead and injured are being removed
from the Christian Science
churches which served as clearing
house for the victims. There is little
hope for the recovery of Edward H.
Shaughnessy, assistant postmastw
general, who, with his wife and children,
were injured in the crash.
Washington, Jan. 30.?With a total
of 107 dead and 103 injured, removed
from the ruins of the Knickerbocker
theatre early today the reserves arc
still struggling with the heavy wreckage
left when th? snow-laden roof of
the structure collapsed Saturday
night during the showing of a feature
comedy^ .
Brigadier General Bandholtz, who
is in charge, said it might be another
24 hours before the work would be
completed. It is believed, however,
that the section remaining to be explored
would yield few additions to
the awful list of dead and injured. A
party of rescuers is still struggling to
release from the wreckage now being
overturned, one man believed to be
still alive, although imprisoned for 36
hours.
Washington, Jan. 30.?The burial of
two of the victims of the disaster,
John and Elizabeth Jeffries, children
of L. E. Jeffries, general counsel of the
South Railway, will take place Wednesday
at their old home in Selma,
Ala., it was said. While district offirinlQ
lv.ivo sfnrnrl invpotifrotinn Son.
ator Capper introduced a resolution
calling for an inquiry by ttye senate.
Civilians have .relieved- the soldiers
and marines who have been on guard
at the scene since the disaster occurred.
Only odds and ends of the debris
remain,-and will be removed and
r.o more bodies are expected to be recovered.
Washington, Jan. 29.?The toll of
... ** made of the city hospitals and all
of the several emergency medical stations
which had been established to
care for the victims. This was said
to include everybody thus far recovered
from the ruins. The list of injured
totaled 134 tonight and of these
14 were recorded as having sustained
serious hurts.
Of those in hospitals home sustained
injuries in many cases of such
^ character that the victims, if they re'
cover, will be maimed for life.
Ninety-two of the victims had been
identified when the force of volunteer
workers, 24 hours after the disaster,
approached the end of their long
search of the debris.
Nine additional bodies of those who
had succumbed to injuries after rescue
lay in city hospitals.
The large majority of-the victims,
both killed and injured, were residents
of the cify, although many came recently
from other places/ Exploration
of the ruins went on unchecked after
dark but those in charge believe few
additional bodies would be found
Without regard to their own risk soldiers,
marines, sailors, police, firemen
and citizen volntneers had fought
their way beneath the wreckage over
practically the whole floor sp^be of
the auditorium.
Washington, Jan. 29.?An avalanche
of broken plaster, bricks, snow, splintered
wooden and twisted steel beams
catapulting upon the audience while
the orchestra played and a comedy
film ground out Is the description of
the Knickerbocker theater disaster
given todny by Representative John
II. Smithwick of Pensacola, Fla., He
was in the balcony of the theater
when the roof collapsed un^pr the
weight of snow and escaped unaided?
just how he can not recall?jtfith more
or less serious hurts.
'The orchestra was playing beautiful
music and a comic film was run?!
II IJ ?I- 1<rin/? in
nill^y HH1U im* Qiiuwamvn; i/oig
his bed, bandaged and with his face
and hands covered with cuts. "Suddenly
theYe was a sharp crack. I
looked up and saw a great fissure
running across the ceiling. It was
right over my head. I instantly realized
what was happening. The plaster
began to fall, dropping down in
large and small 'chunks all over the
theater, it seemed to me. While I was
looking up a great piece right over my
head started to fall. I ducked, crouching,
Involuntarily, I suppose down between
the seats. The piece struck the
seat right where I had been sitting.
The force was broken by the seat, but
it pinned mg down where I was
crouching. The noise was awful. It
was a great, tremendous roar. It was
simply indescribable. I never can
forget it.
"In the mirst of the roaring were
shrieks and cries of women and children
and a few shouts of men. There
were cries for help, groans and worst
of all, the moans of those in terri
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! ble pain. It was awful. 1 can't dei
scribe. I see it all the time?those
poor children and men and women
1 cryinK and groaning there.
"There were only a few of us in
the balcony. Luckily there weren't
more. The balcony gave way and
crashed, soon after the veiling began
to fall on those on the lower floor.
> They were caught the worst. We in
the balcony were more fortunate.
"I guess there was a lapse of maybe
20 seconds, hardly more, before tho
balcony fell. Funny but it spun
around, kind of twisted as its support
gave way and it swung down on those
below. It didn't go straight down,
just kind of slid sideways and slanting,
I suppose, from the\veight of the
debris that had fallen on us upstairs.
"I don't know how I got out from
where I was crouching under that
chunk of plaster that had fallen on
me. I really believe it weighed all
of 500 pounds. ^And I think I moved
that plaster with my shoulders. Anyv
ay, I crawled obt between the seats
to where I saw a small hole in the
plaster above. I forced myself up
through that hole, wiggling and shoving.
Then I crawled out over the
! snow and plaster, oyer the tangled
debris, to the doors on the Eighteenth
street side.
"Across the aisle from me when the
crash came was a little fellow?I never
saw him again and I wonder if he
I is dead?who laughed and roared at
every especially funny part of the
| film. I don't know what became of
him or the others in the balcony after
we were showered with plaster.
"As the ceiling broke the plaster
fell first in chunks. It was j'ust like
an ice pond breaking up. The roof
didn't give way on one crash. It
peemed to break up everywhere. That
let in the snow which came in
through the broken places where the
ceiling had given away.
"It's queer, but I was conscious all
the time when I was pinned down under
there by that great piece of ceiling;
mind, when I saw the ceiling
kneto I was hurt some, but J^didn't
know how badly. It seemed that my
time had come. I lived n year, I tell
you, pinned down between the seats.
"It wasn't until I got outside that
1 noticed blood falling from my face
and hands. I get out myself. No one
helped me. I crawled over the broken
seats and plaster and snow to the
door. On the way I saw a young fellow
lying half curled up moaning and
crying for help. I leaped over to lift
him and then everything went black.
The next I remember I was at the
door wiping the blood from my eyes
and mouth. I don't know how I got
out. I didn't see any other injured
ones as I crawled out. I can't remember
about that part of it. My only
thought then was to get home before
I should die. My chest pained me, my
back seemed broken, my face was
dripping with blood. All I wanted to
do was to get home and tell my wife
and little girl what had happened
and how I was hurt. I thought I was
going to die."
Representative Smithwick, who
lives about a block from the theater,
said he staggered home without overcoat
or hat through the snow drifts.
Physicians were summoned immediate,
who found him suffering from
shock, bruises and possibly internal
injuries.
"I think it was a miracle that I
came out alive," said tha Florida con1
gressman. "But think of those pool
children and men and women who
were not so fortunate. I don't see how
any who were under the balcony escaped.
If thpse below could have seen
I the ceilincr breaking thpv wohIH have
had time to rush out through the
door, but I guess they couldn't see like
we could in the balcony. Those underneath
us had no chance, I guess."
Attention, Folks!
Here's hoping that Friday, Feb. 3rd,
j will bring us fair weather and a big
! crowd of folks to our benefit concert,
to be given for the Salvation Army,
i The entertainments will be held in the
High schoo] auditorium, a watinee at
j 3:30 p. m., and the evening performI
ancc at 8 p. m. There will be two
I entirely different programs, and we
I believe if you come to the matinee you
will be so pleased that yoAwill come
back to the evening perfort^nce. The
prices for admission are out of all
proportion with the delightful entertainment
which you will enjoy, but
j we want everybody to "get into the
game." The matinee tickets are only
| 15 and 25 cents, and the evening tickets
are 25c and 50c.
All who are to take part in these
programs, please phone your numbers
, to the chairman at once. The entire
program will appear in Wednesday's
limes. Mrs. W. T. Beaty,
Chairman.
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Average weight of a woman's brain
is 44 ounces, 6 ounces less than that of
men.
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DASHES TO DEATH
TO ESCAPE FLAMES
Clio, Jan. 29.?Fire near noon today
destroyed business establishments
in Clio and entailed a loss of approximately
$125,000.
A tragedy in connection with the
fire was the death of R. D. Quick,
who collided with a truck as he dashed
to safety from a falling wall and
was killed almost instantly. The truck
was driven by P. H. Lipscomb. The
body was placed in a nearby building
nnd the coroner notified. The official
empaneled a jury and will conduct
an inquest at 10 o'clock Monday morning.
The tragedy is greatly deploj-ed
but could not be avoided by Mr. Lipscomb,
who is deeply affected by it.
Just how the fire originated is not
known. The first evidences of it were
in the Blackman & Mclnnis Drug
store about 11:30 o'clock and for more
than two houre it raged with the resultant
loss as follows: Blackman &
Mclnnis Drug store, $8,500, with $3,000
insurance; Covington company,
$76,000, stock insurance about 60 per
cent.; Covington company's buildings,
$25,000, partially insured; Wright &
Powers, stock $6,000, with $2,500 insurance;
D. K. Wright's building, $5,000,
partially insured; J. C. Covington's
building, $5,000 partially insured;
Southern Bell Telephone company's
office equipment, unknown. J.
E. Harrison, telephone operator, lived
over the drug store and all his personal
effects were lost, as he and
Mrs. Harrison were away when the
fire was discovered.
Bennett Hedgepeth Hardware company
had a loss by moving out their
$8,000 stock which was covered. Damage
to the Melinda building in which
Bennett HedereDeth wero wna
considerable from the falling wall of
the ovington company building.
A lot of cotton ignited from falling
sparks at the Atlantic oast Line depot,
which is a loss to the railroad,
as it was covered by bills of lading,
10 bales being damaged.
The fire department from Bennettsville
came to the rescue and rendered
i much asaistance.
TURNS TURTLE
A Cadillac car in which a party of
young people were riding yesterday
evening turned over in a six-foot ditch
opposite the Hall place, half a mile
above the corporate limits of Union,
and the six occupants had a very narrow
escape from death. The party
consisted of three young ladies. Miss
Elizabeth Arthur, Miss Fannie Duncan
and Miss Mary Locke Barron. The
young gentlemen in thg party were
Mr. Stuart H. Smith, Mr. Wannamaker
of Orangeburg and Mr. Montgomery
of Spartanburg. No one was
seriously hurt, but their escape is miraculous.
Several members of the
party received cuts on the face and all
were cosiderably bruised. m
6,000 WOMEN
AIIT AM CTDIVI?
UUI UI1 J1 1\1!\L
New York, Jan. 30.?Six thousand
women and girls are ordered on a
strike by the Ladies' Waist and Dressmakers'
union as a protest against the
proposed 25 per cent,wage reduction.
Baltimore Clearing
Away the Snow
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Baltimore, Jan. 30.?Baltimore and
suburbs are clearing away the snow
and transportation facilities are returning
to normal conditions slowly.
Concert Tonight at
High School
Messrs. Rodeheaver and Matthews
will give their concert tonight at the
High school auditorium at 8 o'clock.
All who have heard both these musucians
at the services of Mr. Sunday
ot Spartanburg need no introduction
to either Mr. Rodeheaver and Mr.
Matthews.
The nropram is made un of saereA
secular and operatic music and the
humorous readings are splendid, and
trombone solos by Mr. Rodeheaver. It
is said that Mr. Matthews has played
before more people than any other
pianist. Both have had the best training
in this country and, also, abrdad,
and it is an opportunity that one cannot
afford to miss. <
?The admission price is only 50c foT
children and 75c for adults. This concert
is brought here under the
auspices of the Grace Circles.
Preparations Under
Way to Elect Pope
Rome, Jan. 80.?Preparation has begun
for the convening Thursday of
the solemn conclave at which the cardinals
of the Roman Catholic church
will choose a pope to succeed Pope
Benedict.
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Armenia is the oldest Christian nation
in the world.
PROGRESS MADE
; ON TAX PROGRAM
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Both houses of the Jffneral assembly
made consequential, strides last
week in the advancement of their tax
programs, the senate <ifl[eeing to the
inheritance bill with rnlnor amendments
while the house passed the hydro-electric
tax, the corporation license
tax and the fo?fc4gn corporation
tax bills with littA** if any noticeable
opposition. week also
witneesscd the introduction by the
house ways and meanrf^dommittee of
the luxuries tax, the IgjfR of the series
of eight new revenWjj bills, while
the committing of RefMsentative F.
G. Harris' pool room biqfto the ways
and means committee .If the Wednesday
night sessionsi?irakni as indicating
the possible introduction of
a revenue bill, a tax dtffpool rooms,
the Hubbard-Wells tinrtftr tax measure
introduced in the "abwRte, being
V?o ntnfU
The inheritance tax MA, which was
one of the two revemie measures
passed by the house lastjpession, now
lacks only the concurrence of the
house in the senate Amendments?
and this, it is expected^mill be willingly
given sincje thfeyi involve no
material changes in tha measure?
to take its place on the;.fist of acts
enrolled for ratification Governor
Cooper also is expected [to give his
agreement to the meenire as . it
stands and the tax shoi^d therefore
become a part of the stjte law this
week. Six of the reVenuc measures,
all of which have already-passed the
house, are still on the senate calendar
or in the hands of thf senate fin ance
committee, however, and this
fact is reacting to delay the progress
of legislation in the hptu^ which for
the three weeks of thetoession has
been pushed through with "deliberThe
ways and meana^wmmttee is
several weeks in advam^e of its last
year's schedule of hearths on the annual
appropriation bill jpftd should be
able to report.this out shortly
if no further delay i^ojfeasioned zy
the upper house's protStffion of discal
reductions in the state visible
property levy. Resolutions providing
for the amendment of the state constitution
to erase practically all
truces of the state's former tax system
are pending in both houses.
Passage of the inheriLance tax bill,
the first of the new i-evenue bills to
get by the upper house in two years,
and the sending to the house of a
joint resolution to postpone the time
for paying taxes until June 1 were
the more outstanding features of the
week in the senate.
The inheritance measure had rough
sledding in the senate for a time, bu*
Thursday night proponents of thi
new revenue measures determined to
fight the bill out to a finish and near
midnight a stiff opposition fight led
by Senator D. Gordon Baker of Florence
collapsed and the measure wa*
passed on a viva voce vote.
All the new revenue bills have precedence
over other matters in the sen
ate as the house has already passed
several of the bills and in a way ir
waiting to see what the upper hous>
intends doing. The people over the
state are also looking toward the senate
as the house has already demon
strated that it is in favor of the new
measure, while the senate has failed
to respond in any measurable degree
in speeding up legislation.
The gasoline tax bill is scheduled
to come up Tuesday and another
fight will be on hand as a dozen
amendments have already been -proposed.
The senate finance committee still
has the income and movie picture tax
bills, but they will likely be reported
out this week as hearings have already
been held. Another tax measure
is before the senate, one to tax
timber, having b^en introduced by
Senators Hubbard and Wells.
Under ..he provisions of the joint
resolution sent to the house the time
for paying taxes would be extended
until .Tune 1 with ncnaltien from 1
| per cent in January to 7 per cent be
I ginning June 1, but executions would
not go into the hands of the sheriffs
until September 1. The resolution
also provides that any person paying
taxes within the time set forth in the
resolution shall be allowed to vote
in any general or special election.
The hydro-electric tax bill, which
was passed by the house Wednesday
morning, was the only one of the new
revenue bills, agreed to this year, to
meet with any noticeable opposition
in that hody, the two corporation tax
measures being sent to the senate
i Wednesday night without a dissent
ing vote.
Notice Red Men
The banquet which was to have been
i held on February 3 has been postponed
for an indefinite time for good
and sufficient reasons.
J. H. Eubanks,
J289-41 C. of R.
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WORLD FAMOUS
EXPLORER PASSES
Montevideo, Uruguay, Jan. 29.?Sir
Ernest Shackleton, the British explor ,
er, died January 5 on board the steam-1
ship Quest, on which he was making1
another expedition into the Antarctic J
regions. Death was due to angina:
pectoris and occurred when the Quest
was off the Gritvicken station.
The body was brought to Montevideo
on board a Norwegian steamer
and will be taken by another steamer
to Europe.
Capt. L. Hussey of the Quest will
accompany the body home.
Sir Ernest Shackleton was born in
1874. He was a third lieutenant it) r
the British national Antarctic expedition
in LOOP and in 1907-1908 commanded
an expedition which got to'
within 97 miles of the South pole.
He made his third quest of the pole
in 1914.
, The expedition in which he was engaged
when he died was to have cov- (
ered 30,000 miles of uncharted sec- j
tions of the South Atlantic, the Paci- j
fic and the Anta^tic seas.
On board the Quest, a little 200 ton j
ship, Sir Ernest set sail from Eng- ,
land lust September on what was tQ j
have been a two year voyage. Large;
crowds gathered on the docks in Lon-1
don to wish the party a successful!
voyage.
The voyage had as its objective not
only oceanographic research but the
exploration of a petrified forest and
the location of a "lost" island?Tuanaki?the
adjacent waters of which
had not been sailed for more than
90 years. In addition soundings were
to have been taken of the ocean
plateau surrounding Gough's island in
an effort to determine the truth regarding
a supposed underwater continental
connection between Africa and
America. .
Sir Ernest, for his distinguished
services, was made a knight in 1909.
Various societies throughout the!
world honored him for his work.
Asheville, N. C., Jan. 29.?Vilhaljmuj^^f^Bcn^irctic^a^orer^w^
Ernest Shackleton, wnowf ne termed
the greatest living: nntartie explorer,
when informed tonight of his sudden
death aboavd the Quest.
OFFICERS AND
CREW MISSING
St. John, N. F., Jan. 30.?The commander,
five officers, steward and five
.firemen of the Norwegian steamer
Mod, which sank in midogcan a week
ago, are unaccounted for, according to
a wireless message received from the
steamer Melmore Head. Other members
of the crew were saved.
Washington Digging Out
From Two Feet of Snow
Washington,
Jan. 30.?Washington j
is digging out from under more tha 11
two feet of snow which fell during
Friday and Saturday." Fair weather
followed the snow which the Weather
Bureau officials said was^noving snf< ly
seaward, with the center near Cape
Cod. The street ear service is being
restored, and trains are said to be running
practically normal again.
Boundary Dispute Decided
Washington, Jan. 30.?The supreme
court decided the boundary line be-;
tween Georgia and South Carolina
shall be midway between at normal
flow tide in the river where there are
no islands, and where there are islands
shall he midway between islands and
Smith f'sivnlirin shore.
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Mississippi Mob
Lynches Negro
Pontotoc, .Miss., Jan. 28.?Will Bell,
20, a negro, charged with an attack
on a young white woman near here
last night, was taken from officers
early today as he was being transferred
to Jackson, Miss., for safe ,
keeping and was shot to death by a
number of unidntified men, who in'
tercepted the officers near town as
they were taking the prisoner to a!
train.
At Batum on the Black sea dock
laborers get 80,000 rubles a day, equal
4 sv /t/\M 4 o 4 1% *x a f 4 tif a nnim/lo
iw i nm: pi ivv \r*. enu pwunun i
of bread.
The first shipment of apples from
the Pacific Northwest to Europe by
ocean steamers this year will total
10,000 barrels.
More than 00,000 people visited the
Sequoia and General Grant National
parks this year, the largest number
of visitors ever recorded.
Nova Scotia's first woman lawyer
1 Mrs. Florence Seymour Bell, a McGil!
j University graduate.
Miss Virginia Briggs of Columbia
spent the week-end with her mother,
Mrs. W. R. Briggs.
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NEXT PLATFORM
BEING DISCUSSED
Washington, Jnn. 29.?The address
of James M. Cox at a Jackson day
dinner in Ohio Thursday night has
Democratic politicians in Washington
deeply engrossed with a problem involving
political expediency.
If the party hopes to win in the
congressional elections this year and
the presidential election in 1924,
should it return to the people with
the league of nations as an issue?
Should it go to the people on a platform
bitterly assailing the Washington
conference for the limitation of
armament ?
It is not a question of right or,
wrong. It is a question of expediency.!
The Democratic party is overwhelm-!
ingly in favor of the United States
entering the league of nations. But
by no means is it solidly in favor of
such a course. There are senators of
the United States who think the party
would be certain of defeat were it to
carry the league issue to the neonle.
There are other senators who supported
the covenant when it was before
the senate who think that the
Democrats should go to the people
with an expose of the congressional
and administrative record of the lie-!
publican party rather than with the;
league. They feel that the United!
States will eventually become a mem- j
ber of,the league, but that it is yet;
too early for the people to reverse!
their vote of only 15 months ago.
Senator Oscar W. Underwood, Democratic
leader in the senate and a
delegate to the Washington conference
for the limitation of armament,
while not discussing with this correspondent
the league as an issue, did
express opinion that it would be unwise
for the party U^go to the people
bitterly araigning the president for
having called the Washington conference
or bitterly assailing the results
of the conference.
"It is my opinion," said Senator
Underwood, "that the people of the
country will approve the work of the
conference?the net result.
"There will be criticism, of course,
,fo? what the conference failed to do.
ence could not bring about a rednetion
in land forces. And there are
other omissions for which the conference
might be criticised.
"But for the results achieved by
the conference there will be little criticism
in my opinion. I tl)>nk the people
will generally approve of the results.
"It might be unwise, therefore, for
the Democratic party to go to the people
with criticism of the conference.
There are other fundamental issues
which might be productive of more;
telling results for us."
The speech of ox was construed in
Washington as his first bid for a secrtid
nomination, ox has many friends
in Washington who would like to see
him nominated again. There are other
influential Democrats who would prefer
the nomination of another man.
Interviews to the above effects can not
he obtained. Time is not ripe, it is
explained. The party goes into the
congressional campaign united. Afterwards
factions will bo developed.
W. ("1. McAdoo in this connection is
watching Cox. And Cox is watching
McAdoo. There is a very strong idea
in Democratic circles here that neither
will win the nomination.
RECEPTION HAS
nrrtt nAnnrnAttm
BEiLiN rudirurorji
Washington, Jan. HO Declaring
"Thoro is so much of grief in Washington
today," President Harding
postponed the reception to have been
given at the White House tonight for
the Ohio residents in honor of tin
birthday of President MeKinlcy.
Tickets Fof Musical
Going Rapidly
Tickets for the Union County Musical
to be given at the High school
auditorium next Friday are being sold
rapidly and up to Saturday night W
tickets had already been sold by the
High school girls who are working)
hard to make this entertainment a;
success. The girls will continue to
sell tickets until Friday and tickets
also will be sold at the Peoples Drug
Store, and by C. W. Hawkins at the
Whitener Barber Shop for those who
may not come in contact with the
girls selling them. Don't wait until
Friday for buying your tickets or you
may miss one of the best musical
entertainments Union has ever had.
i A matinee will be Riven at 3 o'clock
which will he different program from
j that at night.
TODAY'S COTTON MARKET
Open Close
March 16.55 16.14
ftfay 16.28 15.91
July 15.99 15.64
| October . . . 15.60 15.24
Oocomber 15.10
N. Y. Spots 16.45
Local market 15.50
COURT OF WORLD
IN SESSION TODAY
The Hague, Jan. 29.?For the first
time in history n permanent world
court will come into actual being tomorrow
when the 11 judges chosdtii amembers
of the permanent court of
international justice by the suffrage
of 51 nations will meet in the peace
palace here.
Its earlier sessions are expected to
be devoted to organization. Later, it
is understood, the court may take up
questions involving the interpretation
of some existing conventions and at"
terward such disputes between state.,
as may be referred to it.
Eighteen nations have agreed to give
the court compulsory jurisdiction over
all disputes that may arise between
them. As concerns all the 51 states
which are members of the leagu< of
nations, the court will have juris lietion
over disputes relating to international
labor ami transit conventions,
to the treaties about liquors in Africa,
the traffic in arms and a protection of
minorities.
The 11 judges composing the court
are elected for terms of nine years.
Although no official cooperation one of
the judges is an American, John Bassett
Moore, formerly counsellor of the
state department, president of the
Pan- American society.
The court must meet at least once a
year, on June 15, or in extraordinary
session on call of the president. That
otliciai. who must reside permanently
at The Hague, will receive a salary of
00,000 Dutch florins, or approximaiely
$24,000, while the vice president and
the judges will get from 15,000 to
400,000 florins, deepnding on the number
of days of service.
The members of the first court, arc
Viscount Finlay, former lorii high
chancellor of Great Britain; Andre
Weiss, jurisconsult to the French
ministry of foreign affairs; Commendatore
Dionisc Anzilotto, international
lawyer of Rome, Italy; Rafael Alt-amira,
senator of Spain; Ruy Cirbossa,
Brazilian statesman; Max Huber of
Switzerland; B. C. Loder member of
the supreme court of the Netherlands:
Didrick Galtrup GJedde Nyho'n
of Bafror Fgypt: Yofozu Oda of Ju,
and John Bassett Moore of the Unit
States, and Dr. Antonio S. de Busta
mente of Cuba.
The four deputy judges are Dumitriu
Negulescu of Rumania, C. W.
Wang, president of the Chines ? supreme
court; Nikhaile Jovanvich ot
the Serb-Croat-Slovene state, and
Frederick V. N. Beicbmann, Norway.
BIG DECREASE
IN EXPORTS
Washington, Jan. 30.?Export.- to
Europe last year fell off by more than
$2,000,000 as compared with 1020, and
to South America by more than $300,000,000
dollars, acording t<> foreign
trade reports issued by the Comnu-ree
Department today.
Eastern National Forest?
Nearly 2,000,000 acres of land ha*
been purchased to date in the East fv
National Forest purposes and inor*
lllflll 1 OOO Ollll fit 1/li t W*n ?i )
1)1*011 ollcrcd for sitlo to the go\cr'
inent. announces tho National l\ r<
Reservation Cominis-ion.
Recently tho commission auth n /.??:
now pm chases nujiieyatmir i-?I. ?"
ueves of cut-oVof la'. at ttti a\
cost of $:?.;?:{ pel a < . Ill West x
giniu the purchase of THJTo a. i
averaging S'2.7.7 per acta . wa.- a? :'n- r
ivftl. Those tracts lie in Tucker, K
dolph, Pendleton and Pocahon
counties and arc located upon th<
watersheds of the Potomac ami .vl?*nongahela
rivers, the latter one of th?
important tributaries of the Ohio, and
subject to floods which have been extremely
destructive property at
Pittsburgh, Pa.
In Virginia, on the watershed of
the Potomac, James ami New rivers,
the latter a large ami important head
stream of the Ohio, the purchase was
nutnorizeo 01 zh.o.iu acros at tpz.gu
l?or acre, situated chiefly in Highland,
Shenandoah, Augusta, Rockbridge,
Amherst, Botetourt, Wythe, Carroll
and Grayson counties.
In North Carolina the purchase of
14,148 acres was authorized at an average
price of $6.41 per acre, located
largely in McDowell, Macon and Madison
counties; in Georgia, 1,359 acres
at $">.40 per acre, in Fannin, Union,
and Rabun counties; in South Carolina,
92 acres in Oconee county at
$6 per acre; in Tennessee, 570 acres
ut $6.28 per acre, in Greene, Unicoi,
and Monroe counties; in Arkansas
5,08f> acres at $4.07. largely in Pope.
Scott, Johnson and Polk counties; an i
5,572 acres in Winston and Lawren
counties, Alabama, at an avei
price of $4.83 per acre.
Notice W. O. C. Circle
The W. O. C. request all its members
to meet at the hall at Jonesville on
Friday, February 3, at 2:80 o'clock
p. m. Mrs. B. J. Fowler.