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Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
PILOT LFAPS. To DEATH FROM PLANE

Hundreds Of persons saw Frank
McCusker, Of New York, pilot Of a
mail airplane leap 200 feet to his
death from a burning machine at
Cleveland, Ohio, last Sunday. Fifteen
minutes before, he had announced
that ne would attempt to establish
record on his flight to Chicago.
The cause of the accident is not
known. Witnesses saw puffs OF black
smoke come from the rear, of the De
Haviland. When the machine was at
a height of between 800 and 400
feet McCusker was seen to climb from
his seat to the frame. Then the air
plane plunged ard the pilot'was seen
to leap. The machine flew forward
200 yards before it plunged TO the
ground.
McCusker died in a police patrol
while being taken to hospital His
skull was fractured and his neck
broken.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
MODEL Town FOR NEGROES.

A model town. constructed by the
government exclusively for negroes.
was formally opened May 18th and
1rux'on, Virginia, as the new town
IS kCown, took its pace on the map
as suburb Of Portsmouth. Built
primarily for war purposes, to house
employees at the great Hamp: on
Roads naval base, the PA buildings
in the little town will be rented at
from SIG to SO monthly. The town
is one OF the "a housing projects the
u. S. Housing corporation is rapidly
completing throughout :he country
representing returnaLle value OF
more than $25,0O0,0OO and consist
ing Of 5000 houses and I'd apart
ments, which. by the end of June will
be returning $2,500,OOO year in
rentals TO the Government.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
SEEKING KING TOBACco'S SCALP.

Nng tobacco must walk the plank
~" that King Alcohol Is on the to-
boggan
lhis was the sentiment but not
'"e language of set of resolutions
1oopted by the General Synod Of the
ne'ormed Presbyterian Church at its
"ee'ing i'll the Seventh Church, Phil
'oeiphia, recently.
t,, me Rev. John Parks, of the Fifth
Nnurch, offered the resolution. He
"a,o the war was responsible for an
,aI.r EARNING increase of the tobacco
~ o"''l' and also in an increasing use
W W profanity, as well as great deal
~ on sabbath desecration, drunkenness
and crime"
,u; "a committee was appointed to pc
~ r",oh Congress to disregard Presi-
th" "t Wilson'S recommendation that
w wartime prohibition law be
Senaed Saaed so as to permit the manu-
lure .ure and sale OF wines and beer
after July 1st.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
REPLIES TO CRITICISMS.

General Pershirg has informed
General March, chief of staff, that
the orders issued from American
headquarters in France that firing
vas to be continued to II a. m. No
vem5er II, 1918, along sectors helc;
by American troops were based upon
good military reasons. The COM
mander-in-chief's report, made pub
lie or the 25th, at the War Depart
ment was in reply to an inquiry from
General March, prompted by cciti-
cisms in Congress and elsewhere,
that the order caused an unneces-
sary sacrifice of American lives.
these ORDERS" said General PERISH
ing, were dictated by the necessity
for taking every opportunity to ZEN
der certain complete Acceptance by
,he enemy Of the amistice and were
undoubtedly concurred in by the AL
lied Commander-in-chie General
Foch) who himself ssued orders to
the same effect.''
The report said that with the ex-
ception of one small unit, which fail
ed to receive instructions until lilo
a. NJ, all firing ceased exactly at the
minute Of the armistice. and that no
American soldiers were subsequently
killed iii action. If British or
French officers orderel l cessation of
firing on ther fronts before II a. m,
General Pershing sail, they did so
without proper authority.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
VICTORY LOAN 0VER-SUBSCRlBED.

The final financial chapter in Am
erfca's "win-the-war' history was
written Monday when official figures
on the Victory loan subscriptions
were announced. The nation went
about S75O,000,O00 above the re-
quired amount-12,0 100000 sub
scriptions, totaling $5,249.90S.300. 0.
Only two Federal reserve districts
failed to reach their quotas-Dallas
and Atlanta. Because Of the over
subscription Washington announces
that bond orders over $4,000 will
be cut the government having limited
the sum asked for to S4,500,000.000
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
FIFTEEN THOUSAND KILLED BY VOLCANO,

Tie volcano Of kloot, in Java, has
burst into an eruption, wiping out
20 villages in the district Of Brengat
and l in the vicinity Of Blitar, and
causing deaths estimated at $1,000
according 10 . Central News dispatch
received at Amsterdam on May 26th
Java. with a population of about
3O,OO0,OGG including $4,000 Euro
peans. has frequently been visited by
disastrous eruptions. This latest
disaster may rival the ones caused
by the eruption Of Moat Pelee. which
destroyed ST Pierre, Martinique,
with p death list Of 10000 on May
Sth. 1902, and the volcanic earth
quake waiah virtually wiped Messina
off the map on December 2S, 1908.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
CAESAREAN SECTION,

An UNUSUAL operation was per-
formed at the Sacred Heart Hospital,
Redwood last Monday, May 10TH
on Mrs. Walter Fleming, of Rich
wood. She was in labor and 1t was
found that delivery in the natural
way was impossible without sacrific-
ing the life of either the mother or
child and probably both. She was
taken to the hospital and operated on
and the child delivered through the
abdomen. This operation is called
Caesarean Section" and was perform
ed by DR.. w. e. Echols, assisted by
Or. Bennette. The mother and child
are both doing we'll at this time
Nicholas Chronicle.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
AMERICA WINS,

The American Navy seaplane NC-4
Captain A. Real Commander, ar
rived at Lisbon, Portugal late Taes-
Gay, the 9th, after a flight OF about
500 miles from ponta Delgada in the
Azores. thus having won for America
the honor of the first air flight across
the Atlantic to Europe The histori-
cal air voyage started from Trepassey
Bay, New Foundland, on the 10Th
Commander Read and MS crew re-
ceiveG tremendous ovation from the
Portuguese. Every point Of vantage
around the Lrauliful harbor of LIS
bon was packed. Watchers stationed
en- Estoril Hill and at Colares gave
the first signal that tho bird-men
were about to enter the harbor. A
great din was set up, the American
ships in the harbor sending shrill
tlasts of welcome to their courage
Gus countrymen The President Of
Portugal was ready TO bestow med
al upon Commander Read.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
WILSON URGED TO RETURN.

President Wilson was urged to re-
turn from Paris ard deI ote his at
tention to reducing the cost of living
in this country in cablegram sent to
him on the 23rd by Francis J. Fin
heran, president of the Democratic
Club Of Massachusetts, and twenty
six Democratic members of the Leg
lslature. The message said:
THE citizens of the United States
want you home to help reduce the
high cost of living, which we consi Ter
far more important than the league
Of naticnS''
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
TO KEEP 1NTERNED SHIPS,

Official advices reached Washing
ton Monday that full underst anding
has been reached by the Council Of
-Four at Faris by which the United
States will keep all the German ships
seized in American ports when this
country entered the war.
The shipping seized amounts to
100000 tons. Great Britain had pro-
posed that this tonnage, as we'll as
German ships seized in other coun-
tries, be placed in a common pool
allotted/on the basis of tonnage lost
through action Of enemy submarines.
The United States had steadfastly re-
fused to aCcede TO this plan.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
MILLIONS MADE IN OIL LEASES.

to prominent member of the Hamil-
who Uouhty (Ohio) Bar Association,
;pd mas been active in the courts
10 ~ u, as an instructor of law as we'll.
cia, "e central figure in a bit of finan-
grn,,. romance that is bringing con-
Of "iauohs from his friends. A man
cirnny V'y moderate means. this Gin
nnm" n'i attorney bought up a large
Tbnro OF leases on Kentucky land.
mi.t' was just chance that oil
h,s De found That Chance"
IN, ueNeioped into a certainty, and
ho,1""I ""Itorney recently closed out his
n,r" "sS 10 the Standard Oil com
Th, '"r something ike $2,00O,0O0
& -. '.'Ee5 were secured only about
." 'h'hs ago for song"
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
ALLOTMENT oyERsuBScRiBED.

The subscriptions to the Centenary
fund of the members Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, of the Mt.
Hope charge far exceeded the allot-
ment.J The charge was asked to sub
scribe $2,570.05. When the sub
scriptions were made they were found
to exceed allotment by $4,89495,
the total subscriptions amounting
to $7,465. The church at Macdon-
aid perhaps leads the entire confer
ence in the percentage Of oversuh-
scription. Their subscription is
above 400 per cent of their allot-
ment.-Mt. Hope Leader. 10. s
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
THE TENNESSEE.

WHAT appears to be the culminat-
irg Stage Of the sixth period in the
worl'::s ma. al architecture was inau-
gurated on April 30th, when ,'the
giant uper-dreadnough Tennessee
was launched at the New York Navy
Yard, in Brooklyn
simultaneously with hte birth of
this --latest of floating fortresses.
three others which, in their day
scarcely more than two decades, ago,
were considered the last word in
fighting machines-thc Indiana,
Massachusetts and Iowa-were put
out Of commission by the navy de-
partnent as too antiquated for mod
ern warfare
"Sic transit gloria raundi!" (Thus
passes the glory of the WORLDLY
The Tennessee is 624 feet long;
81 1-2 feet beam; has $4,000 tons
displacement, and its boilers will
generate $4,000 horsepower. She is
calculated to make twenty-one knots
speed.
Her value, as she slid down the
launching ways, was about $1,000
600. By the time she is completed,
armed and equipped she will have
cost above $15.00O,0OO
She is to have twelve fourteen-inch
guns mounted in four triple turrets
for an elevation giving a range OF
eighteen miles; ard her secondary
battery will include fourteen five
inch guns, four six-pounders, four
three-inch anti-alrCraf= guns and two
submerged torpedo tubes
Her personnel will consist Of fifty
eight officers and 1924 men.
The sister-ship of the Tennessee.
the California, is under, construc-
ito nat Mare Island, and three other
Super-dreadnOught will soon be on
the ways. and to these are to be as
signed the names of the three which
have just been retired,
What a lesson in "the survival OF
the ittest" the Indiana, Massachus-
etts and Iowa affords!
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
HAWKER AND 6RlEVE RESCUED
IN MlD.0CEAN. #,

Missing LOT SIX uayS, anu virtually
Given up for lost, Harry G. Hawker,
and his navigator, Lieutenant Com
mander Mackenzie Grieve, British
airmen who essayed flight across
the Atlantic ocean, from st. Johns,
\ F.. TO Ireland, without protection
against disaster save what their frail
airplane afforded, were safe. Sunday
nigh: the 25th aboard British war
ship off the Orkneys. The next day
they reached the mainland and pro-
ceeded to London.
Some LILO miles out from New
Founiland and 500 from the Irish
coast on Monday, May 10th, the avia-
tors. making the best of an engine
which was failing to function prop
erly, were forced to alight on the
water. The little Danish steamer
Mary bound from New Orleans aud
Norfolk for Aarhuus, Denmark,
picked the way farers up and con-
tinued on her northward voyage.
Lacking wireless outfit, the cap
tain of the steamer was obliged to
withhold the good tidings of the res
cue until he was opposite Butt Of
Lewis. where the information was
.igna:led by means of flags. that
Hawker and Grieve were aboard his
ship.
Immediately word was flashed to
the British admiralty, which sent
cut destroyers to overtake the Danish
vessel and obtain confirmation. This
was done and one of the destroyars
took the airmen off, and later trans
ferred them 70 the Flagship Re-
vengc. .s
From this safe haven, Hawker
sent message tina: his machine had
stopped owing tc the blocking of the
wlte: circulation system. t}r%
II was officially announced by the
admirait ity that the aviatIors were
picked up in latitude 5000, longi-
tude $3.50, having alighted close to
the Danish steamer Mary, owing to-
stoppage Of circulation in the wat
or pireS between the radiator and the
water pump. -
The airplane, Sopwith, was not
salvaged. ~ -
The first report of the aviators
since their Jump off" Sunday, the
18th, came when the Mary, which
was bound from Norfolk to Aarhuus
rounded the Butt Of Lewis last Sun
day and ~igwagged the fact that
she had Hawker and Grieve aboard.
Saved hands of Sopwith air
plane was the signal.
rs it Hawker?" was the question
sent out by the flags from the Butt,
which is the most northwesterly
point Of the Hebrides group off Scot
land. YES laconically replied the
Mary.
Hawker made this bold attempt
with three main objects: % to beat
america in making the first fly
across the Atlantic, (2) to win the
London Daily Nails offered prize OF
soo,OOO to the first aviator who sue
eeeded and (3) to add to his already
great fame as an airman.
HaWker Is an Australian.
The London Daily Mail, which Of
'erel purse Of $4,000 for the first
"'sht by heavier-than-air craft
"cFoss the Atlantic ocean, will give
''a"ker and Grieve a consolation
Prize of 5000 pounds-$24,3OO.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
STEAMER BURNED.

The Old Bay Line steamer Vir-
ginia, cirrying 1856 passengers and a
crew of 62 officers and men, burned
TO tie waters edge in the Chesa-
peakc Bay. off Smiths Point, at the
mouth Of the Potomac, at 12:4O
o'clock last Saturday. As accurate
an a,oounting as 1t was possible to
make that night indicated that all of
the passengers were saved. 1t is
probable. however, that some mem
Der of the crew were lost.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30

Regarding banking institutions de-
ducting from the amount of their
capital stock. surplus and undivided
profits fer assessment purposes
amounts invested in liberty bonds,
State Tax Commissioner Walter S.
Hallahan rules thai this cannot law
fully be done. Banking institutions
can make but one deduction from
their returns tho value of real es-
tate owned by the bank, ne states, i'll
answer to mrny :qu.ries upon th+
subject
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
MOTHERS LETTERS SAVED SoSs LIFE,

Mrs. o. s. Moore, Of Emporia,
Kansas, mas received package Of
blood-staired letters she had writ
ten her son, Charles Moore, with q
letter from him saying that they
were the means Of saving his life.
He was fighting In the Champagne
last fall when piece of shrapnel
struck him in the breast. The letters
in his pocket broke the force Of the
shell. He is now recovering in u
New York hospital
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
TO VOTE ON BONDS.

With all three members present,
the County Court of Fayette county
was in session Wednesday Of last
week for the purpose of approving
petitions for a road bond election in
Quinnimont district. The petition
was approved and Wednesday. June
Sth was the date set for the election
The SUM asked for is $194,00O and
citizens wro were present expressed
the belief that the voters by sub
stantial majority, would approve the
i,sIIe
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30

Federal Judge Mayer of New York
on the 9th, signed three injunctions
identical In form, restraining the
United States district attorney and
the acting collector Of internal rove
nue. of he New York district from in
terfering with production of "war
beer by the Jacob Hoffman Brewing
Company, the Claussen Flanagan
Brewing Company, and the Jacob
Rupert Brewing Company.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
HAD FOOT TAKEN 0EE.

Anderson, the 13-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Fry, of Oak Hill,
while attempting to ride freight on
the Virginian last Saturday, the 18th,
slipped and fell under the car and
mad his right foot SO badly mashed
that it had to be amputated just
above the ankle. The operation was
performed at the Oak Hill hospital.
The boy is now getting along nicely.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
YANKEE TROOPS LEAVING RUSSIA,

Withdrawal Of the American forces
from Archangel Is actually under
way, according to cable advices to
the War department at Washington,
on May 2Gth, which stated that all
members Of the 339th infantry we're
awaiting evacuation.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30
TO VISIT AMERICA.

Premier Lloyd George of Great
Britain, 1t is understood, is consid-
ering favorably a proposal from the
American peace delegation that he
visit America this year. The prem
Ter would so to the United. States es-
pecially to attend the first meeting
CT he League Of Nations in Wash
ington in October.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30

Announcement that virtually all
the wounded men have been return
ed to the United States and that
Brest and st. Nazaire have been
abandoned as emharkation ports for
American wounded was made by Of
iicers Of the hospital ship Mercy,
which docked Sunday. The few
wounded left behind, will be return
ed through the port of Antwerp.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30

The German counter proposals
were probably submitted to the su-
Dreme council yesterday. These
counter proposals consist of very
bulky documents, comprising in the
original typewriter form, so far as
could be judged by hasty glance
SO sheets closely typed.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30

British and American marines have
been landed at the Baltic port OF
Danzig, according TO a dispatch re-
reived from Warsaw. A powerful
fleet. 1t is added, will be anchored oft
the harbor there Danzig is the Ger
nan city which has been awarded to
Poland by the peace conference
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30

In bale Of waste paper received
at paper mill at Charleston was
found a certified check for $12,5OO,
which had dropped on the Office floor
Of a Boston firm and been swept UP
by the janitor.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-30

The S0th Division, made up Of
Virginia, West Virginia aud Penn
ylvaDia troops, is expected at Nor
folk this week.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-08-21
YOUNG LAD Is SENT TO
STATE REFORM SCHOOL

Its mighty hard to see your
boy sentenced to the reform school
for eight years, while the man who
broke up your home sits in the court
room with your former wife, and
you feel they are responsible for
the boys wrong doing" said Sheram
Reals of Omaha, who was in Red
Oak at the hearing in the district
court of his son, who has been in the
Montgomery county Jail for the past
two weeks on a charge of stealing
the Ford car of M. M. McCue OF
Grant, from the streets of Villisca
two weeks ago.
The boy, whose home is in Clarin-
da, was sentenced by Judge e. B.
Woodruff to the state industrial
school at Eldora until he is 21
year of age. He is now only 13
years old and will be IA on the 18th
of this month.
Tears filed the fathers eyes as he
continued. George is good boy
at heart, but he has had a hard life
for the past five years. His home
life has been anything else but what
it should have BEEN"
According to the story of the
father, he and his wife were divorc-
ed five years ago and the five chill
dren were given into the custody of
the mother. She has since married
again. George, the boy commit
ted to the industrial school, is the
baby of the Reals family. For the
past two years Mr.. Reals has been
employed in the Armour packing
plant in Omaha, and his son had a
good position there with him, in
which he was receiving $21 a week
pay. About three weeks ago he got
homesick, drew his weeks wages and
went back to Clarinda. However,
he did not return to his home, and it
was only few days until he got in
to trouble and found himself in the
tolls of the law. The father de-
clares someone was implicated with
the boy in the theft of the car.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-08-21
SHOULD OUR SOLDIER DEAD
LIE IN FRENCH SOIL

The plea that American dead
should lie in American soil is coun-
terbalanced by the conditions. 1t
would be an injustice to the dead,
a shame for their memory, to per-
NIT any of them to lie in German
soil. But they died to save France.
They were honored and trusted by
the people of that nation as no other
boys of French mothers, the COM
rades of French children-respect-
ed and loved because they came to
save France and all that was dear
to the French people. The graves
in which the dead lie are in the land
of these people. They are not
among aliens in anything but name.
No French mother will place a
wreath upon the grave of her own
dead boy without doing the same
thing for the son of an American
mother. Their affectionate care of
the graves of Americans is the
more sacred because 1t comes spon-
taneously from the heart 1t is
not artificial. 1t is not service
which money might buy. 1t is a
service which expresses the feelings
of a mother or sister who gave up
her own loved ones that the hand
of the brutal invader might be
stricken. These cemeteries will be
cared for through the centuries, for
the French are not a race who for
get.
The lessons taught humanity will
be far greater II these cities of the
In otl aInnnnnt
tokens of the determination of Am
erican manhood that justice shall
be rendered to all nations and to all
people, whether that justice is the
defense of the oppressed or the
Stacking of the oppressor Were
the graves Of Americans likely to
become neglected places in which
the dead and their deeds alike might
be hidden in the unkept grounds,
American mothers would be justi-
fed in urging the return of their
loved ones. But there will never
be a place more sacred to the French
people than that in which the fallen
American soldiers lie. France
knows whose valor turned back the
tyrant from the gates of Paris.
France knows whose indomitable
courage drove the barbarian
hordes in confusion back towards
their own land. Historians may
wrangle over technical proofs Of
success; officials may attempt to
analyze campaigns to their particu-
lar advantage. but in the soul of
every French mother and every
Frenchman is the consciousness
that cannot be shaken that Ameri-
can boys saved France. That
service will never be forgotten
Sioux City Journal.