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VoL LXXII No. 1301 Union, S. C., Monday Afternoon, February 13, 1922 3c Per Copy
HUSBAND AND
WIFE SLAIN
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Waco, Texas, Feb. 12.?The lifeless
bodies of Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Barker,
the former with a bullet hole in the
head and the latter with the head
cleft open with an axe, were found at
their farm house at Concord, seven
miles northeast of here today. Homer
Turk, 13-ycar-old boy, was found with
his skull crushed, but still alive.
Seven negroes have been arrested
and a number of Mexicans are under
surveillance. Thoso suspected are all
employed on farms near the scene of
the tragedy.
The only witness who is in a condition
to talk is Willie Louise Barker,
four year old daughter of the murdered
couple.
"They shot daddy in the lot," she
told officers, "then two men came to
the house and asked mamma for mon
py. She handed them something:, then
they shot her. The men looked like
Mexicans, but talked like neprroes."
The child said the attacks occurred
about 10 o'oclock last night.
Turk had gone to the Barfler home
from his home about 300 yards distant
last night to play dominoes.
When J. L. Turk, his father, missed
his son early today he immediately
went to the Barker home to investigate.
He found Barker's body in the
yard near his store. The body of Mrs.
Barker was found in the kitchen, a
$1 bill clasped tightly in her hand.
The boy was discovered lying in a
poor of blood on the bedroom floor,
while the little girl, unharmed, was
found on the bed.
A double /laded axe belonging to
Barker ana stained with blood, was
found in the back yard with the handle
broken off about a foot from the
head.
EXPORTS LOWEST
IN SEVEN MONTHS
Washington, Feb. 13.?January ex1>orts
aggregated $279,000,000, the
lowest in seven months, imports fell
off $22,000,000. ,
Import Much Liquor
W n ?Viln otnn PoK 10 TJimim
? ports during the past year increased
! by nearly $1,500,000 as compared with
1920, while shipments of soft drinks
into the country fell off by more than
$200,000 during the same period, according
to foreign reports made public
tonight by the commerce department.
During 1921 the total spirits, wines
and malt liquors imported aggregated
$4,711,000 compared with $3,269,'000
in 1920, while mineral waters and
other beverages entering the country
amoutned to $347,000 as against $569,000
in 1920.
A Day With God
This special day with God service
that will be held Wednesday at the
Presbyterian church by the different
ministers of our city will be worth
Ihe attendance of every Union citizen
that possibly can arrange to be there.
The services being conducted on the
evangelistic line and the different
ministers choosing their own subject
for this day will put some life into
our church-going people and bring
nnr phnrclips to n plnaor rotation with
each other. The special children's
meeting that will be held at 5:30 to
f?:30 will be conducted by Mr. A. D.
Cooper and Mrs. Ben L. Berry and
they have some good things to tell the
children and will make this service
an enjoyable one for the young people.
The first service for the day will
commence at 9:30 with Rev. Chandler
of the Unity Methodist church as
speaker. Rev. Chandler is one of our
newest ministers in our city, having
taken Rev. Byers' place in December
of last year and the public is urged
to attend this first service of the day
and hear Rev. Chandler.
Senator Swanson's Home
Damaged By Fire
Washington, Feb. 13.?Fire originating
in the basement of the home
of Senator Swanson, of Virginia, last
right drove the guests from the dinner
table into the street and did a
thousand dollars damage.
Irish Situation
Has Become Acute
London, Feb. 13.?The Irish situation
which semed to be improving
has become acute as a result of Clone's
affray Saturday. Developments are
awaited with the utmost anxiety.
To Wed In April
Santuc, Feb. 12.?Mr. and Mrs
James Parham Jeter announce the engagement
of their daughter, Polly, to
Curran Sloan Easley of Greenville,
the wedding to take place in April.
Jas. L. Carbery left yesterday foi
Virginia to attend the funeral of his
aunt.
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TEXTILE STRIKE I
EFFECTIVE TODAY
Boston, Feb. 13.?The cotton mills
;n New Hampshire and Lowell, Mass.,
employing 25,000 operatives is affected
by the strike which is effective today.
There are no disturbances. The
walkouts are in protest against the
wage reductions, in most cases 20 per
cent. The New Hampshire mills increase
the working week from 48 to 54
hours. The strike of 13,000 in Rhode
Island mills is continued today.
Boston, Feb. 12.?Organized operatives
in cotton mills employing about
21,000 hands in New Hampshire and
Massachusetts will go on strike tomorrow
in protest against wage reductions
of 20 per cent. Officials of
the textile unions with which the
locals are affiliated assert that the
mills are well organized. Approximately
8,000 operatives in Rhode Is
ninci textile plants nave been on strike
for the last three weeks in protest
against wage cuts.
Reductions effective tomorrow which
in the case of the New Hampshire
mills are accomplished by restoration
of the 65 hour week will cut the
wage3 of nearly 50,000 operatives in
the four northern New England states.
With the exception of 1,800 workers
in Lowell, all of those who have signified
their intention of striking are
in the cotton centers of New Hampshire.
The Amoskeag and Stark mills
in Manchester, employing 15,000
hands, will furnish the largest quota.
They are affiliated with the United
Textile Workers of America.
Operatives in Maine, Vermont and
Massachusetts, with the exception of
those employed by the Hamilton Manufacturing
company and the Bay State
mills in Lowell, have so far either
withheld action on a protest strike or
voted not to leave their work at this
time. The Hamilton company announced
yesterday that its mills would
not open on Monday. The Lowell Textile
council has sanctioned strikes at
any of the ten mills in that city that
may follow, the example of the two
that have announced a wage reduction.
At Nashua, N. H., the organized employees
of the Nashua and Jackson
mills
company, whicn employs about 4,000
operatives, have voted to strike. The
Suncook mills, with 800 operatives located
in the suburb of Manchester,
and the Corheco mills at Dover with
1.200 will also be affected. The Man
Chester Holders' un'on has announced
that its members will strike in company
with the textile workers.
Twenty-two thousand operatives in
Maine will be affected by the cut, including:
12,000 in Lewiston. Representatives
of the Lewiston operatives
decideh at a meeting: today not to
strike at this time.
Employees of the Pepperel mills at
Bidneford and the York mills at Saco
have voted to take no action at this
time. The two mills employ about 5,500
hands.
The strike situation in Rhode Island,
where numerous disturbances
have been reported, led Governor Sans
Souci to issue a proclamation yesterday
in which he declared that in event
of further violence he would use the j
military to restore order. Last nig:htj
the governor ordered two troops of!
National Guard cavalry held under
full arms at the armory in Providence.
No wage reductions have been announced
in Lawrence, New Bedford or
Fall River, three of the largest textile
centers of Massachusetts. A reduction
will trn into pffeot. tomorrow in
mills at Fitchburg, Ware and Chicopee,
Mass., Great Falls, New Market
and Salmon Falls, N. H., Burlington,
Vt., and Augusta and- Brunswick,
Maine.
Manchester, N. IT.. Feb. 12.? More
than 5,000 of the 17,000 textile mill
workers of this city are expected to
join picket lines which will surround
the Amoskeag and Stark mills here
tomorrow morning, according to Dennis
M. Flemming, president of the
Manchester textile council, and local
leaders in the strike.
Providence, R. I., Feb. 12.?With
two troops of national guard cavalry
still quartered in their armories here
tonight and the governor firm in his
declaration to act of violence in Pawtucket
valley strike region is resumed,
the situation in the textile wage controversy
in Rhode Island remained
deadlocked today. Mass meetings of
strikers and strike sympathizers were
conducted, but no untoward occurrences
maked a day of quiet and order.
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Masked Men Slay
Negro in Texas
Tcxarxana, Texas, Feb. 12.?The
. body of N. P. Norman, negro, who was
i taken from the custody of Deputy
, Sheriff Will Jordan by a group of
masked men near here last night, was
found today about a mile from where
' he was seized. The negro had been
? shot three times in the head and once
in the breast.
SEARCH CONTINES
FOR MURDERER
Los Angeles, Feb. 13.?Although a
legal holiday, investigation by the
district attorney's office in the William
Desmond Taylor murder will proceed
today, Thomas I/Ce Woolwine,
district attorney, announced witnesses
would be summoned for questioning
hereafter only when preliminary work
of the officers indicated a discovery of
more than usual importance. Woolwine
in a statement condemned "faked
and fraudulent interviews" on case.
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb.12?The investigation
of the slaying of William
Desmond Taylor, a motion picture
director, proceeded today with what
chiefs of the inquiry described as "a
checking up of remote possibilities."
Detectives of the police departments,
district attorneys and sheriffs* offices
were despatched upon missions, and
most of them reported before nightfall
that they had reached the same
blank wall encountered in previous
investigations.
Thomas Lee Woolwine, district at
tomey, said he felt that little progress
had been made.
"We have several lines of investigation
upon which a check will be
made probably tonight but it is impossible
to state whether they are
vital to the case," the district attorney
said.
Both the district attorney and Capt.
David L. Adams, head of the detective
bureau, said the man they were
most anxious to locate was Edward
F. Sands, former secretary and butler
of Taylor, who has been missing
since August. Captain Adams said
he thought there could be no doubt
now that Sands "is hiding for some
good reason of his own."
"I can not for the life of me see
why he should remain in seclusion if
he has nothing to relate about the
Taylor case," the captain continued.
"It is true he was accused of grand
larceny by Taylor and that we still
have such a charge on him, but he is
an intelligent man and must know
what the ultimate result is upon the
death of the complaining witness to a
charge of. such a character. While
rn?mmiuiu uiwin,
upon an undismissed charge, Sands
can not but realize that he stands in
no danger of conviction upon the
charge made by Taylor.
"I believed in the beginning that
Sands was the man we wanted and I
see no reason to change my belief."
Neva Cerbcr, film actress, who pre
viously stated she once was engaged
to marry Taylor, discussed today in
an interview with the Los Angeles
examine.*, tne cnecK wntcn, sne
said, "Mr. Taylor gave mo from time
to time."
"During our engagement," she-continued,
"Mr. Taylor gave me an automobile
as a Christmas present; that
is, it was understood between Mr.
Taylor and myself as a holiday present.
"The machine was not all paid for
at one time, and in order to prevent
gossip from misconstruing the spirit
in which the gift was made, Mr. Taylor
simply made out checks to me, so
I could pay for the car in my own
name.
"Numerous other checks were for
distributing charity to the poor in his
behalf.
"The last check?for $500?given
me a short time before his death, can
be accounted for very simply. Mr
Taylor was always looking after my
career and doing all he could to help
me make progress in the fdm world.
He knew I was temporarily in financial
straits at that time and voluntai
ily sent me $500."
Miss Gerber cashed the last check
three weeks before Taylor was mur
dered, it was said.
Evacuation of British Soldiers
Suspends Sailing of Steamers
Dublin, Feb. 13.?The evacuation of
British troops from Dublin unexpectedly
suspended today's sailing of
steamers for Holy Head and Liverpool
with contingents, cancelled. It
is thought it might be due to events
in Ulster.
Further Decrease
In Food Prices
Washington, Feb. 13.?Further decreases
in retail food prices is shown
by figures for the month ending January
15 issued today by the Department
of Labor for 27 countries and
larger cities.
Chinese Tong War
Breaks Out in West
San Francisco, Feb. 13.?Chinese
tongmen throughout the West are reported
on guard today, the result of
an outbreak of a tong war last night.
Two Chinese were killed, one killed in
Seattle, one slain in Butte Mont., One
shot, probably fatally, in San Jose,
Calif. The shooting was done characteristic
of the ton war fashion.
MANY COLLfGE
CIRLS POISONED
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Columbus, Miss., feb. 13.?Three
hundred girl student# recovering today
from ptomaine poisoning said to
be caused by eating chicken salad
served yesterday.
Columbus, Miss., Feb. 12. ? More
than 300 students of the Mississippi
State College for Women here are
suffering with ptomaino poisoning as
a result of eating chicken salad which
was served at the evening meal at the
college tonight. Every physician in
Columbus was called to the institution
and late tonight it is stated that
all the students are ojbt of danger,
although a large number are still verv
ill. I
Dr. J. C. Fant, president of the institution,
said that the poisoning was
undoubsedly caused by | the salad, as
those who did not OM it were not
affected. Dr. Irene Fatheree, the college
physician, made thie same statement.
A thorough investigation will
be made by the college Authorities tomorrow.
The students were thken ill within
an hour after finishing supper and
first aid treatment was given those
affected until physicians could be
summoned. The remaining students
acted as nurses under Dr. Fatheree's
direction. Dr. Fant stands that a number
of the milder caS^s have fully
recovered and are assisting in caring
for those more seriously ill.
The school has about, 900 students
and fully one-third of< this number
were affected.
RECOMMENDS
CUT Iff NAVY
Washington, Feb. 15Secretary
Denby, before the bo?F > naval commitee,
recommends that he naval personnel
for fiscal year !>< j fixed at 9Q,000
men and 6,000 apprentices, compared
with 100,000 ah3 6,000 respectively,
now authorized. ( He asks no
reduction in existing stngth of line
officers. First class iiTMtoolia to be
graduated and apalso
recommended that a hundred destroyers
be placed out of comfL^aion
and estimated a $70,000,000 saving in
next year's budget.
Will Store Liquor^"
In Own Buildings
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Washington, Feb. 12.?Vacant govcrnment
owned buildings throughout
the country will become monster cellarette
under plans being worked out
by the budget bureau. According to
a report from Director Dawes to President
Harding, arrangements have
been practie Jly completed whereby
intoxicating'|flmiors seized under the
national prra^mon act will be stored
in vacant army and shipping board
buildings at an estimated annual saving
in rentals of about $170,000.
Notice .
All men between the ages of 21 and
40 interested in the organization of
a Young Men's Business League are
requested to meet in the rooms of the
Chamber of Commerce tomorrow
evening, Tuesday, February 14th, at
fi o'clock.
This organization is not one clique
or faction but for all interested in the
upbuilding of the industrial and civic
welfare of our city. Come out.
Valentine Program
Come to our valentine program, do!
All sorts of sweet things will be waiting
for you. To admit you the price
is a smile; so never fear the miles,
just wear a smile and come out to
Cedar Hill school auditorium Tuesday
evening, at 7:30 o'clock, where a
hearty welcome will bid you stop.
Come out and bring your friends,
all are cordially invited to attend.
Ada Betsill,
Gertrude Orr,
Teachers.
Failure To Halt
Will Draw Fire
Schenectady, N. Y., Feb. 12.?Police
tonight were ordered to shoot in
case any suspicious appearing person
failed to halt when challenger in the
river front district where they have
had seven fires of unknown origin
since Friday.
There were foud fires Friday night,
two last night and one today, with an
estimated total damage of $100,000.
Tho buildings where the fires occurred
were store houses, a broom factory
and the junk shop.
Police said they had received reports
of a man whose actions were
suspicious having been seen in the vicinity.
Honor Roll Meador School
Seventh Grade?Fred Crosby, Frances
Crosby.
PONZl'S RIVAL
IS ON THE JOB
Chicago, Fob. 12.?Raymond J
BischofT, taken into custody yester- j
day after involuntary proceedings in i
bankruptcy had been instituted i
against him by creditors, today ad- j
mitted that he owes about $4,500,000,
representing the savings of 6,000
Chicagoans, mostly foreigners. Ia-ss ,
than $1,000,000 worth of oil and gas :
stock of doubtful vulue is available i
to meet the obligations, it was an- <
nounced. i
BischofT, whose financial operations i
apparently rival those of Charles
Ponzi, the Boston "wizard," express- <
ed relief when taken into custody by ;
deputy marshals. He had received i
threats from those he is alleged to 1
have fleeced, he said, and was afraid <
to venture into the southside and
westside districts, where most of his .
victims live. I
The Central Trust company was ]
yesterday appointed receiver for i
BischofT. Gelix Streyckmans, attor- i
ney for the creditors, said he believed <
BischotT's liabilities will run near :
$7,000,000 and that the receiver will
be lucky to idealize half of the face value
of the stock held by him. BischofT
is 25 years old. By paying larer |
returns on money borrowed in a few
particular instances, he gained a reputation
as a financial wizard among |
the people with whom he dealt, ac- |
cording to federal agents. Profits of
50 per cent on short time loans were
said to be common.
According to Mr. Streyckmans, <
only the creditors that objected t<>
long waits were paid in actual cash.
The rest, he said, were content to accept
their alleged earnings in more
notes. Some of the people sold almost
all they owned to give BischofT
money, Mr. Streyckmans said. One
man, he said, sold his home for $7,000
and turned over $0,200 to BischofT.
James J. Kelly, attorney for BischofT,
today asserted that his client had
violated no law, but has simply lost
money by speculation.
Creditors may receive ten cents on
the ,?<jollar, Mr. Kelly said, 'when
fwasnobasis for prosecution.
HUGE EAGLE
KILLS SOLDIER
Santiago, Chile, Fob. 13.--The story
of a soldier's struggle with a huge
eage in the mountains in which the
soldier shot the bird and thinking it
dead approached it only to be furiously/attacked,
was told here today. The
eagle s claws clutched the trigger, discharging
the gun and killing the soldier.
World Tribune
Opens Wednesday
The Hague, Feb. 12.?Plans are taking
shape for the opening in the peace
palace next Wednesday of the permai
ont court of international justice created
by the league of nations.
Robed members will make solcm i
entrance into the great hall of justice;
directors of the Carnegie Foundation
are to escore to their seats Queen
Wilhelmina, Queen Mother F.inma and
Prince Consort Henry; the registrar
will then read the oath which all
judges shall repeat in their order of
precedence.
Speeches are to be made by Foreign
Minister Van Karnebeek, representing
The Netherlands government, The
Hague burgomaster speaking for the
municipality.
Dr. D. T. C. Lower, president of the
court of justice, will make an address
of welcome, using an attractively
nnvnl nvn<jr>ntr>fl hu T.pvden
university. The gavel bears a motto
< f William the Silent, Prince of
Orange: "Calm is the raging water."
Prayers were offered in all churches
today asking divine blessings on the
work of the court.
Enter Opposition
To Soldier Bonus
Washington, Feb. 12.?Industries of
the country oppose cash appropriations
for a soldiers' bonus "as being
socially unwise, an economic absurdity
and politically preposterous," aecordingto
a statement issued tonight
by John E. Edgerton, president of the
National Association of Manufacturers.
That millions of former service men
"can have their votes at the November
election bought by a paltry dole
of $500 or $60, payable $50 a quarter,
beginning at some time in 1923,
is such an insult to their intelligence,
and an outrage to their sense of decency
that in my opinion it will dc
feat for reelection every member of
congress, house or senate, who supports
this iniquitous mensure."
Tie added, however, that the industries
of the country were not opposing
"the most generous and liberal
care" for the disabled veterans of the
world war or the dependents of those
killed in it.
GIRLS CAN SMOKE
BUT NOT IN ROOMS
New York, Feb. 12.?Smoking by
graduate girl students in the dormitories
of teachers' college, Columbia
university, is banned on architectural
rather than ethical or moral grounds.
This announcement was made on
Morningside Heights today by .Miss
Margaret Kilpatrick, president of the
student body of Whittier hall, in giving
out the news of the readmission
>f two girls expelled in the fall
semester for violations of the "no
smoking" rule.
"The girls here smoke?we all do,"
said Miss Kilpatrick, but "we do not
ill smoke here in the hall. The
rooms are too small and that is really
the reason for the rule against
milking in Whittier.
"Why, the place would soon be a
smoke stuffed den if we allowed the
girls to smoke whenever they pleased.
It would be entirely too stuffy and
unbearable. Smoke would be oozing
from under the doors into the hallways
so that the girls could not even
sleep at night.
"They all smoke wherever else they
want to, but not in the halls."
Miss Kilpatriek said the girls expelled
were both under 25, and added:
"There was no row about their being
readmitted to the hall. They
have been an example for the other
girls. They happened to be the ones
who were caught. Now, whenever a
girl smokes in the hall, she knows
she is doing it at great risk. We
won't have our rules defied."
Can Get Justice
Only in South
Spartanburg, Feb. 12.? Billy Sunday
concluded a serinon to 8,000 negroes
here this morning with the declaration
that the South is the homo
of the negro and it is no wonder that
thousands of negroes who have gone
North and West are coming back to
their Southern homes and their Southern
white folks. The South can not
get along without the negro and the
negro can not get along anywhere else
in the world as well as he can in the
South,
- "Xev can't make me believe," he
said, "that the descendants of the
slave holding regime of the old
South will ever be unust or unkind
toward the descendants of those thousands
of slaves who stood guard in
the households of the men and women
of the South in the days of the
Confederate war."
He told the negroes they had made
wonderful progress in the last 50
years and called their attention to the
sufferings of other races. He asked
them to look at the Armenians and
to consider the fate of the Jews
driven from their native land and
seeking shelter under the flag ol
every nation. He declared the negrc
in the South had the blessings of s
Christian civilization to shelter ant
shield them.
Mr. Sunday has preached thret
times today and each time to more
than 8,000 people, who have crowdec
every nook and corner of the tabernacle.
A feature of the morning servict
was the singing led by Homer Rode
heaver, the choirister. Mr. Rode
heaver and Mrs. Asher are going tc
Columbia tomorrow.
Frighten Yeggmen
After Explosion
Macon, Ga., Feb. 12.?Robbers wht
touched off two charges of explosive:
in the safe of the Crawford countj
l ank at Roberts early this morninf
were frightened away before thej
touched off the final charge to get tt
the bank's cash. They left a brant
new automobile in front of the bank
Bloodhounds, after an all day chase
late tonight located two suspects neai
Reynolds, Ga., according to report:
received here. The men will be taket
to Roberts for identification.
Martha Chapter O. E. S.
Meets Tuesday Evening
A regular meeting of Martha chap
tor, (). K. S., will bo hold in the Ma
sonic hall Tuesday evening, Fob. 14
at 7:30 o'clock. Degrees will bo con
forrod. All members arc urged to b<
present. Mrs. Geo. T. Keller,
Mrs. H. V. Frierson, W. M.
Secretary. 1
"A Daughter of the Sun"
The latest play of the Hawaiian Is
lands, "A Daughter of the Sun," j
story of an Hawaiian Butterfly come
to the Rialto theatre this evening. Th<
company arrived from Greenville thi
morning. This play is from the pei
of I,orin .1. Howard and Ralph T
Kettering and is under- the manage
ment of The Mutual Play Co. Th
company carries a troupe of nativ
Hawaiian players. The cast is a larg
and carefully selected one and th
scenic equipment is a marvel.
R. V. Gist of Carlisle was a busi
ness visitor to the city today.
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WOULD EXCLUDE
MOTOR VEHICLES
The South Carolina Automotive
Trade association will ask the senate
finance committee for a hearing on
the luxury tax bill this week and
will urge that motor vehicles be excluded
from the provisions of the bill,
according to a statement given out
by the association yesterday.
"The automotive industry is always
willing to bear its shore of the tuxes,"
says the statement, "but we feel
that we have been almost taxed to
death already. This additional tax
will be a little more than we can
stand.
"The motor vehicle is no longer a
luxury but is now a necessity. Statistics
carefully compiled show that
GO per cent of all motor car mileage
is for business purposes. The same
statistics show that 90 per cent of all
motor vehicles are used more or less
for business.
"There are 94,000 motor vehicles in
South Carolina or approximately one
to every nine white persons. Every
sixth farm in South Carolina uses an
automobile.
"President Harding has declared
that 'the motor car has become an
indispensable instrument in our po
itical, social and industrial life.'
"The New York Times recently delared
in an editorial: 'The automobile
is no longer a vehicle of pleasure.
It is a common conveyance,
necessary to the business man, the
professional man and the farmer.'
"The general assembly has just
voted a two cents tax on gasoline in
addition to the taxes that the industry
has had to pay. And now to add
this luxury tax seems to us unfair.
We merely ask justice at the hands
of the members of the general assembly.
We know that they are confronted
by a grave situation and we
are willing to do our part but we
must ask that we not be imposed on
too heavily."?The State.
New Ruling Aid
To Rum Runner*
Buffalo, N. Y., Feb 12.?The recent
Canadian court decision that it was
? legal to transport liquor fa tho- border
for export purposes has changed
the whole business of rum running
across the Niagara river. The night
dangers are eliminated. The smugglers
now load their fast motor boats
on the Canadian shore under the supervision
of Canadian customs officials
and dart off to the American side,
where they land long before warning
' can be telephoned the American customs
officers.
The Americans have redoubled their
I \igilance but the river bank presents
a long stretch of possible landings
I and so far there has not been enough
f men to check the rush of liquor. Vig1
kA..,A..n.
UUUtC Il4l? UCl'll H'UUWWiVU, UUWl.?* If
1 on the ferry ami on the bridges and
' automobiles are being thoroughly
searched.
' Cannon Will Not
' Stand For Reelection
Washington, 1 eh. 111.?.Toe Cannon,
oldest member of the house, announced
he wil not be a candidate for
tceleetion as a representative in the
' eighteenth Illinois district.
Jewelry Thieves Get Biy Hani
1 St. Louis, Feb. Ft.?Jewelry valued
at $100,000 was obtained by bandits
) who looted safety deposit boxes of
the Washington hotel.
r Another Snag In
Ford Proposal
)
' Washington, Feb. 13.? Existing con
tracts between the government nnci
the Alabama Power company make it
' impossible of giving a title for Warrior,
Alabama Power plant to Henry
1 Ford should congress direct acceptance
of Ford's offer for Muscle ShoaU,
Maor .1. H. Burns, ordnance department,
told the house military committee.
Mary Miles Minter Has
Told All She Knew
Los Angeles, Feb. 13.?Mary Miles
1 Minter issued n statement declaring
she told the investigators nil she knew
of Taylor's life and could not conceive
how any one could voluntarily wrong
the director.
Miss Georgia Mae .Tolly of Green1
ville is visiting Miss Lillian Sumner
^ this week.
To Complete Tower
n Louisville, Feb. 12.?Gen. William
?. B. Haldeman, president of the Jeffer..
son Davis Home association, anP
nounced today that the contract for
e the construction of the remaining 175
e feet of the tower of Jefferson Davis
e memorial at Fairview, Christian county,
had been awarded to It. C. Cregg
of this city. The contract calls for the
I- expenditure of $48,000 and work will
be started within a short time.