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DRIVE ON MIAMI BOOTLEGGERS . Forty Prohibition Agents and Eight Flying Squadrons Mai(ng Raids 77 Miami. FlaV. .March - 20.?Forty -special gover'nnjent agents, eight Ai?fmij soaadr?ns of five men each ?'??aetfng under Vke personal direction of Col." .L.' G?;tNutt, head of the ^narcotic dhns^t>n of the internal -^revenue de'j^rfrhent launched today a nation-wi^e jitiu-or clean up with ianii ras tnW%Lrting point. The raider:? Ar^r^ed fast,- covering a ter ?~ritory of .'20 'square miles, and at :?|*?ightf all' lt?d /'Seized liquor in 25 -. places and ei^i'eeted to visit a score more befo^e^tfley quit for the day. About ,20arrests" were made dur ing the' daV'.^Tne prisoners were halted beforeTTnited States Com ' -missioiier X' M.^Graham, who fixed bond for tlieif 'hearings, generally - -at ? >?V: .The' raids yyere the culmination :%.of.a. sweeping* fen day investigation, .'-^tiuring Sfrrrich^Vhne a mass of evi e.dence was emsrpiled by the 40 in ... vesUgators. ^Colonel Nutt declared tonight that ^sensational revelations i..jgoyld: 'be ''n$ade. later involving prpminent', /inkers, whom he .^charged with:rfi&ancing the bootleg indusUT ftere'?n a wide scale. Ep> Colonel' Nutt 3.oday made a 700 -word reporf-oii' his activities here to Federal '' ^Prohibition Commis ..?sioner H?yr?^&t Washington. He. a declared" that-the openness with .whichr transactions in hquor. were' carried on-'hef^' had. startled him. His. agent* ^frere directed to boot-' leggers w^thx^the same' frankness that a policeman .would direct a; . straager-a?nd "had ^purchased liquor in various^ places, even winning it on punch- boards. In instances, he | said, bootleggers gave bankers as) reference. - 'In*two cases." he de-j . claredr .^ftw.V-negotiations were . closed, leading shankers held the purchase <im*difU5t "and signed con tract to thafr.effect." Touching-on,- smuggling opera tions he declared that it was a mi nor matter, cfon, the many boats op erating off- tfee-t: coast to bring in liquor from b the ?ahamas, or to meet schooners spff the keys and to make purefcagesy Bootleggers braz enly deUyere^fiit to any place de sired, once ^Teached Miami, leav ing it in;; freight cars and con descendingly :1 buying vegetables to camouflage-^rfwiih. The first squadrons of- raiders sal lied forth long.,-before dawn this ^/jcaoming and-J^-pke in upon the late revelers a;t ajijoumber of inns and road housesat the outskirts of the city. Before, n go n they began com ing back to make their reports to f .^Colonel NutCgJ^eadquarters. All ' .of the men lurpught in various j am?antsiOT.baBifed liquor. "The raideiSTy worked quietly, simply^ entering the selected places, asking- -for the proprietor, ^and .reading.':cot:him the search warrants :w?>ick had previously been issued?:'fTaey then gathered up all th? lisjiior they could find! and with*" it *tsok* their prisoner be-? | Iz^c Oonittiissioner Graham. It; ' \J?2& evident; Colonel Nutt said, that : a ~tip" had', gone forth- In-one! place, he said. ?a waitress had in- i ,? formed theitie^i that the proprietor* '< had. been-'Mftaftfeed and had gone away withkfc liquor. Colonel 1??*?iideclared that this is .only the'; beginning of a series of raids' fwitf?R* he will direct in . overy city iS;tft&* country where the liquor business*rs thought to flour ? ? ? # ? ?? RECEIPTS FROM FERIAL TAXES Income JfeKJ^ney Paid to thej - . - ; ? -Comment !? . WashtngtcmtiiMareh 20.?Further j reports of payment of March 15 insta?ments-'?*:Smcome and profits] . taxes received tt>day by the treas ury showed?$5:ttf,000,000 on deposit .so. far with-federal reserve banks. Deposits through last Friday ag gregated ?2'S6,"0o0,000. . Reports Trtuir outlying districts wilt not be?received for several . days, treastft-jr ofliclals say, and un til then it will> tfe impossible to de-: termine whBfher Secretary Mel y ion's 'estimate*- of $460,000,000 in] ^ income and prolits tax receipts for the quarter "will be obtained. Collect,iOnS',dBring March of last ? year aggregated' $727,000,000. SAYS PRICES WILL DROP -Cheaper Sugar Predicted by Refine^ President. . New York.5- March 20.?Claus A. Spreckles. president of the Federal Sugar Refining'company, who has . . just returned- -from Europe, to - night predicted an early drop in su gar prices."' The receWf price advance in raw sugar, he said,-; stimulated further sugar pr?rf?ctfon In Europe, with the result that prices in America will decrease wath falling off of the Europea... denialnd. "I look at th? recent advance as a 'flash in'*the: pan," Mr. Spreckl es said. Reaction is inevitable. AH European" " countries will be self-suppoVtirtg "as regards sugar within ? few months and the de mand for" export sugar from the Western Hemisphere will de crease." Killed While on Duty. Chicago, ijl.. March 20.?Twenty r.ne police officers were killed while cm duty during the past three years, according t<> the committee on po lice c?f the Chicago Crime Commis sion. Of th&se six were slain in 1921. ten in 1920, and nine in if'IM. Among the, yjerjmes last year was Detective Sergeant Patriot O'Neill, fatally shc>t.>while trying to arrest Tommy. (J' a no.r. _ HARVEY JORDAN TO VISIT WEST In Effort to Have Cotton Acre age Restricted - St. Matthews. March 20.?Col. j Harvey Jordan, secretary to the j American Cotton Association will leave tomorrow for an extended trip through Texas and Oklahoma in the interest of a restricted cot ton acreage for the present year. The trip is inspired.by information obtained during his recent trip to New York from which he has just returned. CoL Jordan states that he interviewed an aggregation of cotton brokers with the view of getting their sympathies enlisted in the movement to keep the acre age within manageable bounds and was met with the cold-hlooded and very frank reply that they were interested only in making what they , could out of' the cotton crop and that the more bales-there were on the market oh which they could speculate, the better the field of op erations* on the exchange. ' He states that he asked them if they were not concerned with the re habilitation of , the : south and if they were not willing to lend a hand / to restore the -country to a oasis of normal .-living., and their reply was that the present depressed condition in the south did not ap peal to them at aU; that they were only interested in . returns from speculation- Col. Jordon states that these . speculators are en couraging an increase of twenty per cent in production west of the Mississippi and his . trip to this sec tion is in the effortto '-offset this influence. : ; . " While. on ;his - way " home,, Col. Jordon -stopped in Washington,' and after a conference, with a number of senators succeeded '? in .getting the promise of the.- introduction of. a bill in ^ongres? to'' limit' the amount of broker's commission to ten per cent. The commission now, charged, he states is twenty-five per cent He looks for the intro duction of the bill at ?n early date. CARLOS OQ^ETT LOSES IN APPEAL Orangebur?.Man to Face Jury Again on Murder Charges Washington, March 20.?-The su premec our today, for want of jurisdiction, dismissed the case of Carlos Corbett. plaintiff in error, against the state of South Carolina,} defendant in error. The effect of the dismissal will he that Corbett will have again to face \ a charge of murder. j Corbett, killed three men near j Salley in Orangeburg county more I than a year ago by firing separate and distinct \ shots at the different men. He was tried for the killing of one. of- the men. and .acquitted. When arraigned for trial on a sep arate indictment for the killing of another of the men, he interposed a plea of former jeopardy. Counsel for the state demurred to this plea. The circuit judge overruled the de* murrer. The state appealed to the supreme court of the state of South Carolina. That court rendered its decision in October, 1921, reversing the tnal judge and remanding the case to the circuit court for trial. Application for. a writ of error to the supreme court of the United States was then presented by coun- j sei for Corbett and allowed by Chief Justice Gary of the supreme court of South Carolina. The state of South Carolina moved that the case be dismissed by the supreme court of the United States for want of jurisdiction for- the following reasons: (1) Because there had been no final judgment rendered in the case. (2) Because even were judg-1 merit final, it would not be review able by writ of error. I (3) Because even were the! judgment final and. reviewable by j writ of er.ror, ? the supreme court j had in numerous 'cases decided the I question raised contrary to the con- I ter.tion to the plaintiff in error. Corbett was represented by Wolfe j & Berry, Cole L. Blease. Mendel L. j Smith. J. Leroy Dukes, B. J. Win-i gard and James H. Fanning. The state of South Carolina was repre sented by A. J; Hydrick. Adam H. Moss. T. M, .Raysor, Charles A. Douglas and Hugh'H. Obear. Massachusetts Mill Cuts Wages Lawrence. Mass.. March 21.? The Pacific mills cotton worsted plant, employing ten thousand op | eratives today announced a wage ; reduction of approximately twenty j per cent. This is the first cut in this j big textile center since the wage reduction movement began. Pawtucket, R. I.. March 21.? Orders instructing organizer to de clare a strike in Lawrence has I been issued by President McMa i hon of the United Textile Workers. London. March 2.?The man j behind the scenes in the Italian j political crisis i? a Silician priest, I Don Luigi Sturzo. 37 years old. j He is the founder of the Popu ? iar Party which was responsible ifor proportional representation in j Italy?a form of election which ! gained the party 1?0 seats in the ; Chamber of Deputies in the last ??}??< tion. He leads the party without a seat in Parliament, says the Central Xvws. He had three represents ? rives in the Bonomi cabinet The hundred members of parlia j mem obey his dictates faithfully I and he has the power to make or j enmake governments. He never appears on the public platform 1 but is the man who pulls the ' string.*:. ? Gloom and Pessimism are ? com j binatioo in restraint of trade. to investigate cotton market Evidence to Be Placed Before Grand Jury Today New York. March 2.0.? Evidence in-a recent "John Doe" investiga tion of the American Cotton Ex change, accused of operating a hucket shop will be presented to a grand jury tomorrow. District At torney Banton announced today. Assistant District Attorney Sim mons who will present the case against the exchange, announced the hearing would require several days. It is understood that all wit nesses who testified at the "John Doe." hearing or who may be called during the grand jury investiga tion, will receive immunity from prosecution. Several of these wit nesses, by their own - admissions, were involved in the alleged un lawful practices of the exchange. Involuntary petitions in bankruptcy were filed today against Randolph Rase, Jr., who. traded under the ? name of Rose & Son against Rose ?z Company, a firm consisting, ac cording to the petition, of Randolph. 'Rose, Sr., and Ceiia Manassee. Rose & Son were among firms whose ac tivities Chief City Magistrate Mc Adoo said will be laid before the grand jury after they had been in volved in testimony at the "John Doe" hearing. .The. petition against Rose & Son estimate the firm's liabilities at $150,000 aid assets at $125.000. That against Rose & Company es timated liabilities at $107,000 with assets undetermined. A. W. Graham, president of the American Cotton Exchange, de clared the exchange was not af fected in any way by the Rose failure. Randolph Rose. Jr., had previ ously-resigned from the vice pres idency and directorate of the ex change,-he said. The -failure automatically sus pends the firms, he added. Counsel for Rose issued a state ment attributing the failures to pressure following the "John Doe" hearings. Rose and Son paid out more than $100,000 in an effort to stem the bankruptcy menace he said. germany^ told to cut I expenses) Must Raise Sixty Billion Marks Additional?Bomb- j shell in Berlin Paris, March 22.?A partial j moratorium ha pbeen given Ger i many for her reparations pay ments in 1922. according to a do- ; cision of the reparations committee, ! made public here today. The plan carries with it a speci- j fic obligation on the part of Ger- j many to raise 00.000.000.000 marks. I I paper, in additional taxes: to float } an internal loan to balance her budget-, to stop the exportation of capital and make the Reichsbank independent: to radically reduce expenses; to submit to a system of supervision through obligatory consultations with a commission on guarantees, and either to float an international loan or make a levy on capital to raise a substantial sum for reparations. The mortatorium is conditional Upon the fulfilment of the condi tions of the commission by May 31. which may be revoked later if Germans* does not continue to comply with them. The commis sion calls for the executieja of the Cannes agreement. pro".i?tng for the payment of 720,000.000 gold marks and of 1,450,000,000 marks ? in goods during 1022. As Germany ? has paid about 280,000.000 gold marks in ten payments, there re mains a balance of 43S,000.000 marks due. The balance is payable 18,000, 000 marks on April 15, 50,000.-1 000 marks monthly from May to October 15, inclusive, and G0.000, 00 0marks'each November and De cember 15. The goods reparations are. pay able 950,000,000 marks to France and 500,000,000 to the other allies as far as they may place orders. The British will receive 2t> per cent of the import tax on German goods and other similar funds credited against the merchandise account, but if Germany fails to deliver the goods ordered she must pay the balance in cash. Hits Like Bombshell. Berlin. March 22 (By the Asso- j ciated Press).?The decision of the reparations commission on Ger many's request for a moratorium, with the details of the payments to be made and the guarantees to he given, were printed in the after noon papers here today; The de cision foil like a bombshell in the oflicial quarters in Wilhelmstrasse and in the Reichstag created anger and dismay. The news arrived during a sit- j ting of the foreign affairs commit- j tee. which was attended by the ! chancellor and other ministers- j j The sitting was immediately sus- j j pended and a cabinet was sum-! j raoned to consider the situation. I It was asserted in certain well ? i informed circles today that if the 1 decision of the commission is per- j j sisted in the Wirth cabinet will fall ! I before a storm of protest. - j coal strike conference! _ i ????? I New York. March 23. ?- Ah' I eleventh hour attempt to halt the preparations for the nation-wide ? eoal strike was made hy the ar j bit rat ion committee* of the an rthracite miners and operators who t met behind (dosed doors. Upon the . result of the conference depended I whether two hundred thousand an- 1 j thracite workers shall join the four hundred thousand bituminous min-j i ers in the Strike on April 1st. ' Helmet Turban for Soorts i ?A little turban with something or the helmet aoout it! Such a hat is this one fashioned, of Liinyway Brocade, a material admirably suited for sports wear on account of its. durability. Reminiscent of the Berth This Claire frock of palest, lavender canton crepe wears a two*tiered ?emi-bertha edged and weighted with -finely- pleated taffeta._ MONEY FOR MISSISSIPPI HIGHWAYS IS STILL RISING Columbia. March 22.?The South j Memphis. Tcnn.. March 23?The Carolina. Highway Commission is Mississippi river gauge Will show just in receipt of advices from ? more than thirty-seven feet at Washington of the'otssage through {'Memphis tomorrow morning if the the Cnited States senate of the | present rate of rise continues hill appropriating fifty million forlthrough t"..- night, according to additional federal aid for high- j weather bureau forecasts. Tlie rise ways, of this amount the state of [is showing slightly here on account South Carolina will get $70-7,333, lof the water spreading out over the if the bill is passed by th^ house ; unprotected lands, but the official of representatives and is enacted I forecasts still remains for forty ihto law. The bill also provides [One feet here and fifty-one feet for the appropriation of $65,000,-jat Helena, Ark., by next Sunday 000 next year and f<r $75,000,000 | with old river men predicting the the year following. Of the $75,-|stage here will go over forty-three 000,000 this sta-e's share will bejfeet, $1,061,000, and a proportionate] Levees above Memphis all the amount lor next year. \xray to the Missouri line are being ? ? * [patrolled and engineers are watch Frcight is High in. Russia. Moscow. Feb. "M?A large pro portion of the money which Soviet Russia itself lias available for fa mine relief has to be paid to trans port the food which the American Relief Administration is furnishing to 1'.000.000 children and 5:000. 000 adults in the Volga region. This was revealed in a recent speech by M. Kalinin, the "peasant president" of Soviet Russia. The ing tile situation carefully, although they .say that the embankments arc strong and high enough to hold back a much higher stage of water than is expected this year. Plenty of Work and No Poverty in Australia. London. March '?'>?No man is unemployed in Victoria. Austral ia, and no man need be poor there, declared John McWhac. the new Agent-General for Victoria, who po aid ost sums expended by the Russian gov- has arrived here to start an emigra ernment for transport of tin- Am-jtion campaign, erican food from the Baltic to the actual famine areas. .M. Kalinin, almost equal th of the food. l.'p to date, he declared! Russia has. spent 15.000,000 gold rubles, or about ?7.500.000 for transport ing food t?> tile Volga, and. in H?22, will have to spend not less than 10,000.000 gold rubles, which, lie added, is not less Thau tlie Amer ican Relief Administration itself, spends. Ii.- says that Victoria is opening up its irrigable land and lias about l.OOo.OOO .ores of crown lands suitable for wheat growing. In is months or so. lie announc ed, tie- government will be ready ?with a big scheme to provide work for many men on one. of the largest electrical undertakings in tin- world. A deposit ?*f brown coal of enor mous extent i> being developed and Florence, March 22. recommendation t<? nier vcrdiel reached ;h? ?ase of VV. A. Quick, v. ii today t or 11 <? murder <? Munn "ii tin- hitter's pi ?ffingham January oi Sentence will not be p.: tomorrow morning. T ?arries with it a sen imprisonment in the ?\. L. King, attorn onighi Ii? would (Juilty w it li ey was the jury in the ? ? was ; ried ? f J:. Hiram lantat ion a; ?t" this year, assed until riie ver?b i nee to life ? penitentiary, for Quick. said ke no effort i< li.illlll.tM ing sp< ap ? a! e. ?h. ii poiin? at -on ; lectrie n sterlini ?Ian I th. are be produee hole "Fastest humans are P. and Kirks, y." say spoil writ* ? fastest human is th i y : ho iddock rs. We <? man mar i: 111 is a fine mot to. but ?el a new trial for his client. prance wants a motion nia< bine in < "ongress. gel a gi>o?l eomedy from iu\ motions that pass. BAMBERG PHYSICIAN IS KILLED Dead When Automobile Was Lifted From Body, Not Far From Home N - Bamberg, March 21.? Dr. F. p. ( Rente, highly respected physician of j this county, was killed tins after | noon when Iiis, car skidded and j overturned in a deep ditch al>out j eight and one-half miles below j Bamberg, on the Hunter's Chapel highway. Dr. Rente lived In the neighborhood where the accident ! occurred and was returning home j from Bamberg at the time. So j one was in the car with him. He was pinned beneath the car in wa j ter in a deep ditch. His neck was broken and he was dead when the I car was lifted up In a very short time after the tragedy. A small j dog which was in the car with Dr. j Rente escaped without injury. There was only one witness to ; the accident. D. W. Smoak, coun ; ty supervisor, happened to be j nearby, as a road gang was work ! inj? in that section. Mr. Smoak j and others rushed to the wrecked car, but Dr. Rentz was dead, either j from drowning or from having his j neck broken, before the car was i removed ? ? ? State Endeavors To Hold Meet Columbia, March 22.?Sumter will be largely represented at the Statt Christian Endeavor conven jtion, to be held in Greenville April' I 7, 8. 9 and leaders in the En | deavor movement in the state in- i dicate that this will be possibly! i the biggest religious gathering of I {young people ever held in the; '{ slate. A strong program has been I ! prepared. j Dr. Daniel A. Poling, of New! York city, associate president of! 'the United Society oft Christian En- \ j deavor, the national organization j I of young people of the Endeavor ! ? societies, is to be the chief speaker j ! for the Greenville convention, j j Other speakers are Dr. .J. P. Mc-1 i Cailie, of Chattanooga, a noted | j educator: Dr. R. F. Kirkpatrick, of i Anderson; Rev. R. A. Lapsley, of jTarboro. N. C; Rev. Donald W. j j Richardson, of Cnina: Mrs. Darby; J Fulton, of Japan, now on a fur-; i lough in Spartanburg; Rev. Stan- \ j ley R. Grubbs, of Columbia; Chas. j \ F. Evans, of Chattanooga, general J : secretary and S- Wilkes Dcndy, j ; field secretary of the Endeavor i i movement in the south. Marshall | ;\Voodson, of Columbia, will be song! ! leader for the convention. The Greenville Endeavorers have ' ; planned a number of social affairs ? for the convention, including a ; banquet for senior Endeavorers j ; and one for intermediate young j j people, several luncheons, a re- j 1 eeption, an auto ride over the city i [and possibly to Paris Mountain. - I A strong committee of business i { men and church leader's in Green i ville is in charge of plans for the j convention. \Y. P. Conyers is j chairman of the committee. I The Endeavorers of Columbia i j are planning to have a special car 'to take their delegates to the 'convention city. It is expected that ! there will be between three and j four hundred delegates at the con j vention, and with the Greenvflfa ! delegates, the convention registra ! tion is expected to reach about sev | en hundred. There are over two i hundred Endeavor societies in the ! city, and besides an official dele 1 gate from each, many other Ett 1 deavorers arc expected to attend. 'COLLECTING IN HERITANCE TAX! Columbia, March 23-?Plans to collect the newly created stare in heritance tax arc being put into ef- j feet by the State Tax Commission, instructions having gone out from the commission's offices here to \ the probate judges of the state, i through whom the assessments for J the tax will be made. It is probable that a test case j will be brought in the courts to set tie a question that has arisen in connection with the tax: whether; or not the tax can be collected from estates that were in process j of distribution at the time the in heritance tax act became a law.j There are a number of estates now in process of settlement in various j parts of the state, where the tes- . tators died before the enactment of | the inheritance tax law. The ques tion has been raised in connection with such a case in Richland j county, that the estate is not sub-, jeot to the tax. This case will 1 probably be taken to the courts to i settle the point in question. The i inheritance tax became a law Feb ruary 2:>. 1922. Blank forms on which reports of estates and beneficiaries are to be, made have been sent by the tax commission to all probate judges, and instructions for reporting the] amount of estates have also been sent. The state tax commission Is a busy agency these days. It's of fice force is being increased to take! ear*- of its work, more than doubl ed over night by the recently en acted revenue measures. Collec tion of the gasoline tax. the income tax and inheritance tax, as well as the equalization of assessments against other classes of property, is now the work of this commis sion. Cases to test the constitutional ity of the state Income tax and the -est case in regard to the inheri tance tax are probably to be brought, but the commission will proceed with its duty, as provided by the new law, according to a statement today by the tax com mission. -? 0 ? Chorus girl says slo- married a millionaire for lark. Nvw he is :i pretty bluo bird. PRIZES FOR BEST ESSAYS ON ROADS Highway Department of South Carolina University Interested in Contest Columbia. March 22.?The state highway department and the Uni versity extension department are interested in the participation by South Carolina high school stu dents in an essay contest to be conducted throughout the nation, the prizes for which run into the thousands of dollars. Tin* subject of the essays win be "How the roads are developing in my com munity." The contest is being con ducted under the bureau of roads, at Washington. A state committee will pass < n the essays and send the three best to the national com mittee, to be entered with essays from other parts of the country. WHAT IS A COLLISION? Queer Cases in Automobile Insurance Topeka. Ivan.. March 21.?"Col-! lision?The act of striking together: j the striking together of two hard objects; a clashing. Synonyms: j clashing, encounter, opposition-"? [ "Webster. Automobile accident insurance '?? being comparatively new. Kansas j statutes and court reports are far j from replete on enlightenment as j to what is and what is not a col- I lision. So the state insurance de- j partment, according to Frank L. Travis, state superintendent of in surance, finds it necessary to hark hack to fundamentals in determin ing disputes over the scope of the collision clauses in auto insurance policies. "We have to get out the old dic tionary and interpret the law as J we see it." said Sam Carrol, insur-: ance department attorney. Two of the most interesting: cases that have been carried to the j insurance department for a decis-j ion were one in which an 'enraged i bull attacked a car painted bright i red. and another in which a $4.000 | motor car came off second best in j a bout with a game cock. In each of these cases the opinion of the I insurance department was in favor J of the car owner. It was a col-i lision. Likewise', the car owner} won in a ease involving "a col-.| lision" with a rifle bullet which! shattered the"'wind shield. In still another case, however, it was different. A man drove his car through a puddle of water on a paved street. The icy water splashed up on the heated' engine, causing the easing to crack. "It was a collision with the wa ter," contended the owner. "Xo." decided the insurance de partment officials after due delib- : oration, "that was a case of the ef- [ feet?the chemical effect?of cold 1 water coming -in contact with the hot engine." The owner of the ill fated rea car made the mistake of going to a cattle sale on a farm, in his car. There were many Other automo biles there, but only one red one. Singling it out. a bull broke away from the sales ring and charged the red hood. Again and again he rammed the vehicle with his j hornless head until the ear re- ; senibled a war relic. The assault by a game rooster ! was provoked by observing his re flection in the hignly polished ex terior Of the brand new car. The owner had just driven the car home for the first time and parked it in the dooryard. The battle evidently had been on for some time before the farmer discovered what was going on. Mr- Rooster circled the vehicle seeking an aperature which would permit him to "get at" his adversary. Naturally enough, the adversary followed. Bach time the rooster came in contact with the car he left marks of spurs and beak until the highly polished sur face was sadly disfigured. The insurance company disputed the owner's claim for damages, but following the decision of the insur ance department, stood the ex pense of restoring a perfect exter ior finish on the car. WORKING IN OLD STYLE i Xew York. March 21.?Joseph : Zettled. fifty-five, awaiting grand jury action on charges that he violated the Volstead law, is today unique, in the view of police and prohibition officials, as the one known Manhattanite to have re susciatcd the pre-war free lunch l counter. Police officers who invaded his J Washington street apartment yes- j terday claim to have found a fa miliar brass rail before a length of mahogany, with a table stand- ' ing to one side, heavily laden with bologna slices, boiled ham, corned beef, rye bread and the indispensa ble and now neutral pretzel. More-! over, claimed th? detectives, they; wer?* served with two drinks of ] whiskey at a total cost of twenty five cents, upon payment of which ( they were invited to partake of the free lunch.. The judge who held Zettled for; grand jury action was told by the liquor sleuths that they confiscated three stilis and a quantity of Win and whiskey found in the apart ment. Florence. March 22.??Six mem ber of the < ity ehaingang made their escape this afternoon when Ham by Harris, a Convict, held the guard at the point of a pistol. Har ris had taken the guard by sur prise and disarmed him. Two of the convicts have been recaptured. One decided not to run and gave himself up. The gang was work ing on the outskirts of the city when the negroes made the break for liberty. HUNTING ELEPHANTS IN INDIA P"or the Entertainment of the Prince of Wales, Mysore. India. Feb. 1 <>.? The-wilrt elephant hi'ml witnessed here by the Prince of Wales was one'of the most picturesque und exciting of the numerous events' arranged for his entertainment while on his toi r of India. saw only the flhid stage of it but that was the most exciting part of the hunt. Mounted on an elephant and accompanied by the Maharajah, the Princew as an interested spect? tor when 28 wild inhabitants of the Jungle were rounded up and driven into an enclosure to be. fet tered. The herd was captured by the kheddah system, the usual method followed in this part of the coun try. It involves relays of thou sands of beaters who force the herd selected for capture to follow a particular course, .generally lying on the usual line of march, until the elephants are driven 'into an enclosure about 400 yards in diameter. There, surrounded "by a ten-foot trench, the animals can Tie kept indefinitely. Fires are Eaht ed on the outside to prevent them from crossing the trench. Finally, the herd is driven'into a small en closure, only 40 feet wide where they are fettered. The whole operation', from the time the herd is first siffhted and tracked until it is finally Impound ed in the kheddah, takes-several weeks. The wild herd ' of 2S included bulls and cows and four calves. The leader was a heavy tusker -.who gave fierce resistance to capture.. Two of the animals had been in captivity before and were still w-earing parts of the shackles they bore when they escaped," These also gave considerable trouble. When the captives had been se curely bound they wereled' out and picketed in the forests. Austria Obtains Loan From Other Nations. Vienna. March 1.?It ' is" \ estimat ed that about ?4.700,0'oV sterling will be available from the three credits. Czech, British arid French, now seemingly assured Austria. The ?tuestion is now raised by Aus trian newspapers whether this ?amount "will be sufficient to mere ly pay ,the invalid's hospital bill until convalescence can begin or whether it will finance his recov? - *, -? . *" ' " ? v.. ^w?ro3!Ssf erv. ; It is agreed in all quarters that the money must be used to Stabilize the krone and not frittered away or thrown into the same rat holes that heretofore have swallowed advances. That the British loan at least and probably the French" also, is to be under the meticuious'ad ministration of a British controller, .Mr. Young, is regarded as assur ing 4ts use in only- such direction* as the lender approves. Tiie press generally expresses considerable resentment at^rhis fea ture of the loan and indicates it is shared in governmental circles* Such terms as the 4*Otta"moniza?tion'* and "Tunisization of Austria'.'' "a foreign colony" and similar phra ses are used and the fact that the , famous Gobelins, in part at le,ast, are in pledge for the British" loan has come in for its share of denun ciation as "pawnbrokihg deal.v The- immediate effect of the an nouncement of the loans >and the discussion as to woo* level the krone shall be standardized:was to harden the Austrian :currency against foreign exchange. Financiers, economists and pub lic offcials fill the newspaperTwith. advice regarding the figure of stan dardization. These range from eight Swiss centimes (normally about 3 1-2 cents)'for 100 kronen to as high as 20 (normally about 4 cents). Dr. Rosenburg, mittl re cently financial advisor to the gov ernment, warns against a basis any higher than the internal purchasing power of the krone. Warnings are given by many economists that the,, country cannot stand a too rigorous I deflation in its present social' and ! economic condition. It is understood that all the cred its involved in the present negoti ations are eventually to be consol idated into that proposed by the League of Nations. ; Monument Krccted to Pedigreed ! Hogs. Dlue* Kail. Ohio. March 21.?A monument is to be erected here to commemorate the beginning oT the I practice of writing pedigrees for ! hogs. The first such pedigrees.. I oldest records show, were written - |in 1ST" for Poland China hogs-on the farm ownect here by W. ?- C. j Hankinson. Part of the necessary ' funds for the monument have been raised by the Ohio State Poland china Breeders' Association and i the Hankinson estate, which still owns the farm, has consented t? the erection of the monument ob the property. The monument is to be dedicated in August. i ? ? ."..-,i>5 . -? ? ? : Wider Highway Tendency shown in Road Building. Of 6,500 miles of completed fed eral-aid load for which statistics have been collected by the Bureau of Public Roads. United States de partment of agriculture, one-half has been eonstrttcted of 16 and IS fool width, 2". per cent of a greater width, and 25 per cent of a less width. As would be expected the wider roads have been constructed largely in the more populous states although some of the less populous states are building wider roads*for the main highways. There is a general tendency, it is said, to build wider roads to meet $he needs of :he constantly increasing traffic, as shown by the 25 per cent of the mileage over 18 feet in width. 7 por cent being 24 feet o.r wider. * -