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New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1919-07-12

Recent Investigations show that
it costs the government $500 to
bury a dead Congressman. Some
Of our exchanges are inclined to
complain Of this extravagant out
Law: but it is a fact that there are
several that the people would glad
" see buried even at that cost
Exchange.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1919-07-12

Wnuted.-A white girl. twelve to
sixteeu years old. to live with family OF
two. Gear town. A good home and no hu.
initiating con ditions imposed. Reasona-
bic wages to suitable applicant. Opper-
tun,ty for study and mental improvement
IL desired.
Apply by letter only, for personal inter
view to Post Once Box $40, New Iberia.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1919-07-12
FOR SALE

Two nice comfortable homes
one ON st. Peter Street. the other
IN iberia Street.
TRERIA BUILDING ASSN.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1919-07-12
Cow and Calf For Sale.

Good mixer. Price reasonable.
Apply j. s. Brown. 116 Hacker
Street.
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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
CITY IS FLOODED
WITH CDUNTERFE|TS

Gash registers in Main street stores
especially sthe south end, have baen
ilooued for tho past two or three DAYS,
became known Thursday night with
" bank notes that lave been cieyerly
raised TO Si0 by eounterfeitors whose
display OF art Ia considered marvellous
by secret service operators.
WINE the secret service men have
been busy for two or three days, the
police did not get into the hunt for the
eounterfeiters until negro Thursday
night endeavorod TO pass one of the
raised notes on Mrs. Bessie y Burch-
sted, b2O Vance avenue, on duty at the
TICKET office OF the Grand Central sta
ton. She shrewdly observed that the
money was queer and called to men
nearby to catch the negro, who fled.
He had asked for ticket to Chi
Jcago, and laid down two OF the 81 bills
that had been raised 10 $40 The secret
service operators who were already on
the mail of the coupterfeiters, are
sure that calling for n ticket to Chi
oagoI was ruse and that the negro
and his confederates are headed for a
gulf port. kilograms were sent TO
New Orleans to catch them when they
arrived there,
Tho negro lodged past several men
and darted across Main street, running
through negro restaurant whore the
chase was lost by the crowd and sew
erai policemen
Besides the two raised bills recovered
ny MRS. Burchsted's sharp eyes, the
secret service operators Friday had II
from 81 70 $40
They had turned up In various stores
and pawn shops on Main street and
Beale avenue.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
NEGRO CONFESSES
STEALING AUTOS

since Frank Weeden, negro, 10 years
old COL Court avenue, was tucked away
~ cell at the central police station
Thursday night Memphis streets
should be much more safe for unguard.
ca automobiles, According to Detectives
Bell ana Williams who interrogated
Weeden Friday. the negro confessed tc
the theft OF three cars that had been
lice "D ~
Patroimen Hume and Melton were
attracted by Weeden In a car Thurs
day night that bore Mississippi license
as Wen as Memphis city license. They
charged MIN with violating traffic
The negro's actions aroused the sus
piclon OF the detectives and they held
q session with him Friday resulting
In placing three charges OF stealing
automobiles against the prisoner.
Weeden~ admitted, so the detectives
said, that he stole the automobile Aug.
garage. Monroe avenue, from the en-.
trance Of the garage. When his sup !.
ply Of gas run out he deserted the car
on Wellington street, two days later.
There is where 1t was found by police.
men.
He stole the car Of r. J.. Davis,
ann,as.ss aorniase' s Msiss.' office officers allese he
IL, and drove to Marion, Ark.
where he abandoned 1t. Detectives
Bell and Williams recovered the car
there a few days ago.
The negro took the car OF J. w, Pi.
per, the detectives aver, from Second
street and Adams avenue, In the
shadows Of the Central Police station
on Aug. 49, Driving It to bayou out
on Jackson avenue the negro threw the
license numbers In the wntef and sub.
stituted the Mississippi tags. He ac-
companied the detectives Friday to the
bayou and himself waded In and fished
out the tags.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
WIGGLY IS
STARTED ON TOUR
ALL OVER WORLD

The headquarters OF the PlEgly wig
s.y corporation are being moved Ia
washington, u, G., and Clarence Saun .
ueIs, presloent and originator OF the
system Of self serving retail grocery
S,oLes with the funny name and the big
Me ,,., ls on the road TO make good
World" 20" ." 'Nef Vne
The latest Piggly wiggly news Is that
Clarence Saunders will personally have
charge OF the chains OF new stores TO he
opened within the next few months In
washington, New York and Philadel-
pnlM, From those cities the chains will
radiate into every other large city in
tne bast and into Canada, Territory
Sanaua probably will be licensed by
tne parent company just as has been
done throughotu the South, Southwest
ana west, whore there are piggly Wig
Fly stores now In many cities Wash
ihkton VIII have 100 stores.
The stockholders OF the parent cor
poration are to meet next Monday, and
hrooaoiy VIII vote to increase the can
,tal stock by several millions OF dol
lars, TO take care OF the proposed ex-
Pansion o. the business, and num-
per OF big business men In the three
urge cities mentioned probably will be
come interested with those now own
ers OF the stock Mr.. Saunders pre
tsFred on Friday not to forecast the nc /.
ton Of the directors,
lie has already bought a fine home
" washington and the corporation has
also bought q large warehouse.
A. Inc headquarters offices win be on
me tweiIth floor OF the Munsey build
ing, on pennsylvania avenue, and most
ot the executive officers, clerks and
stenographers In the Memphis Offices
viii 20 to Washington
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
UNCLE SAM FAILS
AS RETAIL GROCER
-
One Clerk Not Kept Occupied
Selling Surplus War
Rations.

surplus foodstuffs Of the war depart-
uleht recently authorized by Congress-
70 De distributed through the most :
Nl,ee department is not In demand III
a. Ssillpnis ,l ~ large quantities. Orders
iur H. % ,nese articles are coming In so slow
Y curing the. past three days that the
enVre time Of one clerk Is not required
20 handle the business. During the
rueh or The first few days the allotment
ot rice, canned cherries and two-nout,d
cans OF baked beans were exhausted
Snee that time tabulatons have mot
MNnrH McK nlsde and Friday morning II. &.
mas charge Of the sales, stated he was
unahle TO say what percentage OF the
allotment had been taken up, '~
respite the fact that the pricea
quoted by the government are below
actual cost IN many instances II APP
unwilling to tie their money IN FOR fhe
length Of time required in order 10 se-
cure these articles OF food and In All.
ullioh pay drayage charges upon ar
rival when they have no car Of their
G W, Metcalf, the postmaster, has
ner In which shipments will be made Ia
nun IN order that he can make proper
arrangements for distribution when the
1000 arrives here. II is probable that
2 suitable warehouse will be rented ara
notice given through the press of fhe
arrival OF the goods, and then those
VINO have placed orders may call ana
secure the goods ordered,
Postal officials are much disco,,r-
aged over, the apparent lack OF interest
m the sale, as they had anticipated 4
DIG demand and felt reasonably ssr@
That the entire allotment would be ex-
hausted within Il few days, Under pres-
ent plans the sale will continue for sev-
erll days ~ s0s~
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
EMPTY CARS SENT
OUT OF MEMPHIS
ARE NEEDED HERE
Situation Becomes Serious to
Shippers and ManufaCtur-
ers-0ther Sections Seem
To Be Favored.

with the local car shortage so acute
that several local lines are compelled
to unload their inbound merchandise
cars before they can load their out
bound merchandise freight from tho
depots, and with many large local IN
dustries unable to get cars to move
tnelr commodities, the federal railroad
administration Is sending out OF Mem
phis hundreds OF brand new empty box
cars, manufactured at Jhe Bfnghamton
pant OF the American Car Foundry,
Usfs M, Whlch nave stood idle on Mem !.
phis side tracks for months awaiting
tne order of the railroad administra-
tlon' About 80 days ago these idle
cars llleu some ~ miles OF local track
age,
The cars were then assigned 10 the
santa Fe railroad, and as fast as the
cars could be stenciled they have been
delivered at the rate of from 80 10 SO
per day, 1t win take about 30 DAYS
70 complete the. delivery Of the cars,
u Is SAID. The Binghaniton- plant built
s'yV0 cars for the government. OF these,
l.oeo were assigned to the Santa Fe,
ana the remainder went 10 roads In the
Soutneast, Not one OF the cars was
assigned to local lines.
Not only are the new cars being sent
out empty, but many old cars that
have been stored here in bad order
are being sent north and west empty
as fast as they can be repaired.
II ls claimed that the need for these
cars for the movement of grain is inn
pefatiVe, and justlfies the movement
of the cars out OF Memphis emptv In
order. to, save time in delivering them
Although MOI 900 new freight cars
we're built for the government during
the past year, the snortage all over
the country 10 said TO be acute, and
especially so in the South and West.
4 ne movement OF gram, however, now
has the right Of way over all other
commodities.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
18TH WARD LEADS
IN REGISTRATION
Incomplete Returns Indicate
About 1900 Qualified.
One Third Women.

Mrs Walter Frazer and r. D Nc
witty as registrars In the second pre-
clnct OF the seventeenth ward probably
are entitled to the honors for the larg-
est registration OF any one booth. Re-
turns are incomplete but they placed G53
names on the rolls as voters, while
their colleagues in the first precinct
OF the same ward enrolled 6l9 making
a total OF Lac for the entire ward,
of which 654 are white men, 5S2 white
women, l3 negro men and 23 negro
women.
With only small proportion Of the
registration books returned to the elec.
ton commission Friday morning, indi-
cations were that about one-half OF
the voters of Memphis, men and wom-
en-, had registered. General estimates
have. placed $4,000 as the probable fig
ure for the Registrations total, and judg-
ing by the precincts turned in some
thing like 1900 voters have registered
complete returns from Is precincts
show that about oneZthird Of the reg
istrants were women, about 2S to 20
per cent being white women The reg
lstration of negro women was prac-
tcally nothing, amounting, according
cent of the total registered. The fig
ures include three precincts with heavy
negro population at that.
Check on the totals OF the 10 pre-
cincts which were first in Friday morn
ing showed a total of 4,166 registra-
tions, or this number ,406 were wom-
en-, ,l46 of them being white women.
The first precinct OF the eleventh
ward, heavy negro ward, showed 645
registrations. or this number 257 were
women, about SIS being white women.
A total Of 298 men-were registered, the
proportion here in favor of~the negro
being about three TO one.
In the fifth another heavy negro
ward, the first precinct showed 313 reg
istrations, eight white women u ne.
gro women, 250 negro men and the bal
ance white men, The second precinct
of this ward showed 246 total, 25 white
women, 26 negro women
Other totals showed, first of tenth
ward, So registered, 10 OF them women;
second OF twenty-first, total 293 with
30 white and rs negro women; sixth
ward, first, 2l1 total, 53 white women,
two negro women, Il negro men, the
balance white men; the eighteenth
ward, both precincts registered a grand
total OF 453, OF which PIT went to the
first and 236 to the second: the first OF
the twentieth showed a total of 342.
Precinct two Of the third ward reg
istered only 10& while 15l registered
was the total in the first precinct Of
the second ward
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
East in Good shape.

Elevators in the West are said to be
| closing because they can not get cars
70 move the grain on hand. REPORTS
from nhes west of st. Louis and Chi
oagq showed a falling off of traffic last
Week The movement OF merchandise
was normal, but the movement of grain.
flour, live stock and steel was less, due
largely to labor trouble Reports show
that there was a pronounced decrease
IN the movement OF wheat from farms
cage
The coal mine operators of Illinois
ana Missouri are making vigorous
protest against the order of the rail-
road administration diyertinR a large
portion of the coal cars of The Vest
ern lines to the East 1t Is pointed out
that the mines in the Western states
nave nave not peen operating steadily and
that a. coal famine threatens In the
East s''o
According to the New York journal
OF Commerce, the delivery of anthra-
cite for the four-month period ending
ju!y VI was 2,00O,000 tons in excess OF
the. deliveries for the same period of
1916, which the national fuel admints-
tration accepted as normal. The local
bituminouS demand in the East has
been filled, 1t is claimed, and Eastern
producers have trains of coal loaded
waiting Tor export, Western operators
protest against cars being sent from
lheir lines FOR storage purposes for
export coal by Eastern operators.
The local situation is said to be worse
than during the time of the big short :
age In 1917. With the movement Of
cotton Just beginning and the prospects
bright for the biggest lumber business
IN recent years, ana all other Mem
phis industries working at capacity,
local railway officials and business men
are greatly concerned over the situa-
tion.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
F|RST-HANDS STORY
OF TREATY GIVEN
Prof. Williams Tells Solons
About Jap Grant Allowed
by Allies.

WASHINGTON, Aug. ga first.
mana story of the negotiations, which
resulted in the treaty provision Rlyinp
Japan control of Shantung province
emma, was told to the senate foreign
relations committee today by Prof E
y Williams, formerly the state de-
partments expert on Far Eastern af-
fairs who acted as technical adviser
70 the American peace delegates.
Prof. williams said he had objected
very strongly to the Shantung settle-
ment but that his resignation from the
70 his opposition.
on April ~, the witnessS said, Presi.
dent Wilson sent for him and asked
MIN which OF the proposed alternatives
would be less injurious to China--the
transfer OF the German Shantung rights
TO Japan or insistence on the execu-
uon or JHpan's treaty with China
of 1915.
Il replied" continued Prof. Willjams,
that ! hoped neither course would be
found necessary. The president said
that unfortunately Great Britain and
France were bound by certain engage
claims in Shantung and that Lloyd
George said he would bow only on the
consideration that the 1919 treaty was
executed.
Tho president added that the war
seemed to have been fought to establish
the sanctity Of treaties and while some
OF them were unconscionable 1t looked
as though 1t would be necessary to
recognize them"
The witness said he suggested that
since the 1915 treaty was exacted by
force 1t ought not to be binding, but
that the president replied Japan might
not be willing to recognize that they
were made by force.
Prof, williams then suggested that
the treaty have a blanket provision
that all German property in China
should be turned over to China and
that any rights taken from Germany
by Japan should be returned to China
within one year.
Later the expert advisor OF the Brit
ish French and American delegates
Joined In memorandum saying that
the transfer Of German Shuntung
rights to Japan would be the more de-
sirablo Of the two courses suggested.
Prof. Williams, and McClay, a British
expert, Joined In memorandum say
ing China ought not to be compelled to
accept either alternative.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
Pursue Only ClelU
To Speeder Whose
Big Car Killed Boz

Little progress had been made Friday
by the police and detectives toward
establishing the identity of the negro
driver or occupants of the big automo-
bile that crushed to death Frank Cole.
I years old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
e. Cole, as the boy stepped from the
curb at Seventh street and Greenlaw
avenue, Wednesday afternoon.
Three different license numbers and
as many different makes of cars have
been turned in to the detective depart
ment by witnesses, as being the
automobile that continued at higher
speed out the street after killing the
boy.
One woman said the car contained
three negroes. Other persons told the
police that a negro was driving and
two white men were in the rear seat.
The latter clew resulted In Hulet
Smith, chief of detectives, Thursday
night sending Detective W, J, Griffin
to town In Mississippi a short dis
tarce from Memphis, to investigate the
whereabouts of o certain automobile at
the time Cole was killed,
The funeral OF the little victim was
held Friday morning from the Cole
home, 625 Greenlaw avenue. Burial was
in Calvary cemetery.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
Is MILLION EGGS SEIZED AT
AIRMEN RESCUE NOT VERIFIED
AMERICANS TO KEEP
UP BANDIT PURSUIT
DICKMAN DECLARES

SAN DIEGO. Aug. a2.-LIeut. r. p.
~, of Rockwell field mIsunderstood =
conversation In the office Of Col. Han.
~, 1ieid comn1andant, today, and notI.
eIa MISS Georgia Waterhouse that hsr
pIetHel Lieut.. =. 3. Waterhouse and
lieut. G. y Connolly, nnlssIno sviators
patrol. sN'S@h cavalry
Miss Waterhouse said Lieut.. r. n
rroH, OF Rockwell field, teIephoned a
SAtekIco cavalry patrol had located ths
a.ators and found them safe but was
unanle to bring them In. Fox SAID. as.
cofulng to Miss Waterhouse. Ne nh-
ssined his Information from the csIexIoo
oavalry patrol. The Information mas rot
yet neen verified here. ''N>
Coi' Hanion later declared no word
naa oeen received at Rockwell field
concerning either pilot.
IN SEA, Tex, Aug. 22.-As lono as
we n.~rierican punitive expedition con.
tnues TO follow a hot trail, il win re !.
mAln IN Mexico, unless orders To the
Oonkrary are received from the war de .
partnent, Nal. Gen. Joseph T. Dick
man. commander Of the southern IA.
payment, announced here today.
Gen. pickman DID not sean con.
cerneo over the protest of the Mexican
government against the presence OF the
punitlve expedition, saying that Il was
usual fall protest.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
AND DENEKlNE
CONTINUE OFFENSlVES

LONDON, Aug 90 (By the Associated
Press) --Advices received by prominent
POLES In London are to the effect that
Generals Petlura and Denelkine are
continuing their operations respective
y IN West and South Russia against
BosheVits and with striking success
+, The correspondent was Informed that
zen penakines advance probably soon
troops which would be the signal For
the rising OF the entire Ukraine against
Bolshevlsm and the driving baek Of
the Bolshevikl into the desoIate regions
of Central Russia "'0''S
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22

PRODUCE VALUED
AT $500, 900 TO
BE SOLD CHEAPLY

NASHVILLE. Tenn. Aug. Pin
District Attorney Lee pouqIas flIed 4,
lloels against st,76i cases OF epas, IN
round numbers about eighteen and I
naH mllllon epas, valued at $500 600
when were later seized and will 81
SOLO by the government to the public
the owners. p~
The eggs are alleged to have been
SIX persons were injured? several N
act In most Of the cases II Is charged
the eggs have been In storage since
March and April, The list OF owners
Includes several Of the large packing
slderably over half Of the uuantity
stored. Today's action follows auieliy
on Mr., Douglass return from a con.
ference with Attorney-Generai Palmer
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
POLES ADMINISTER
CRUSHING DEFEAT
UPON BOLSHEV|K|
Soviet Forces in Rout All
Along Big Front and Fort
reSS Of ROvno Is Captured
After Hard Fiuht.

COPENHAGEN, Aug. 22.--Pollsh
troops have administered a crushing
defeat on the Bolsheviki and the soviet
forces are being pursued everywhere,
the Polish general staff at Warsaw an
nounces
The fortress of Rovno, in Yolhynia,
northeast OF Dubno, has been captured
py the Poles after hard fighting,
East or Minsk the Poles have reached
the line OF lhumen- Dortyn.
=
Apparently the Poles are advancing
north and south OF the Prlpet marshes,
east OF Brest-LitovsK. Ihumen IL 40
miles east OF Minsls. Rovno Is one Of
the triangle OF fortresses in Southwest
ern Volhynla The other two, Iutsk
ana Dubno, have been captured by the
Poles within the last few weeks.
The advance OF the Poles puts the
bolsheVik front In action from Mlnsk
to the northeast OF ODESSA.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
ENORMOUS SUPPLY or
FOOD FOUND IN N. Y,

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.--Mayor Hylan
turned over to the federal authorities
today report by fire Inspectors shows
Ing that enormous quantities OF food
were stored In warehouses and m
preweries and other buildings hurried
y pressed into service for the storage y
OF toodstuffe,
Half billion eggs, 5000 600 pounds
o. butter, 100000 pounds OF sugar.
IOOO,n 900 pounds of flour, As, 000, 900 (
pounds Of coffee and l5, 900 900 pounds X
OF fresh meat were discovered.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
kyser Gets Aid
In Washington
For Local Fiqht

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 90, (spl)
w. d. kyser, United states district
attorney at Memphis who arrived here
last night for a conference with loffI
oials OF the department of justice, called
this morning on Assistant Attorney
General Ames, who has general super
vision over the fight which the depart d.
ment Is waging against hieh living
costs, Mr.. Kyser went over with hIs
chief the situation as IT obtains in
memphis and General Ames outlined tho
purposes back Of his request for co.
operation by Mr. Kyser with the Mem
phis Chamber OF Commerce in conduct
ing q thorough Investigation.
It was pointed out that the campaign
has been somewhat Handicapped in
Tennessee owing to the failure to re-
tain all tho forces Of the food admin.
lstration there.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
BUSINESS MEN MEET TO !
END LOUISVILLE STRIKE

LOUISVILLE. KY. Aug. 22.--A COM
mittee OF leading business men met to :
day In an effort to formulate plan
by which striking motormen and con.
ductors OF the Louisville Street Rail
end the strike which has entirely sus-
pended street car service here since
Monday.
Unless the strike Is settled within six
days q svmnathetic strike OF all union
organizations In the city will be called
by the United Trades and Labor AS
sembly, according to resolution
adopted at a meeting Of labor repre-
sentatives last night.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
SOVIET WAR REPORT
ADMITS GROUND LOSS

LONDON, Aug. ga Rolaheyib
communication received here last eve.
ming says.
Fighting is proceeding along tht
Murmansk railway, uur advance to-
ward the river Suna continues
on the southwestern front. updsl
tin.
On the front OF Gen. Denikine, ttht
after fierce fighting, our troops are Fe.
tirihg 10 new positions west OF Nubna
we have abandoned korencvoe. Fierce
fighting continues near Uchbokny,
on Admiral Kolchak's front we have
occupied. villagea on the right bank Of
the Ural south OF Lublstchensk. We
are advancing east OF Orenburg."