Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-10-29


Dynamite has no terrors for Police
man Edward MacVengh of Chicago.
who pulled the fuses from six sticks
of the explosive just in time to prevent
an explosion that would have wrecked
the cafe Of Gus Maggas.
Denial OF reports circulated in the
United States that Candid Aguilar,
son-in-law of the late President Car
rama, has entered Mexico to organize
a revolution was made by Minister of
War Gales at Mexico City.
Angered because Miss Rosalind /.
Reynolds, a school teacher in Chicago,
had reprimanded her son, Mrs. Car
mila Rindoni visited the school and
shot the teacher twice. She will re-
cover. Mrs. Rindoni was arrested.
The application of the railroads for
authority to increase demurrage
charges on five days notice was de-
MED by the interstate commerce com
mission. Application, however, may
still be filed to increase the charges
with the statutory thirty days notice.
A telephone conversation, over 4,100
ing what was said to be worlds
record, was held between Avalon,
Santa Catalina Island, thirty miles off
Los Angeles harbor, and the steamer
Gloucester, 200 miles off Philadelphia.
Proposed rates, ranging from 2h
cents to 8 cents per 100 pounds on
lumber and other forest products from
Missouri Riuar 70 In
ton In Illinois. Iowa, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, South Dakota and Wisconsin,
were suspended by the interstate COM
merce commission until Feb. p, 1921.
Charles Rowan, under Indictment for
fraudulent use of the mails nt Nil
waukee, in an alleged "get-rich-quick"
scheme, In which he advertised that
fortunes could be made in deals
through him In guinea pigs and rnb.
bits, wns refused bail of $4,000 by
United States Judge r. e. Geigsr,
when he rendered the amount in cur
rency.
Fearing to leave any question ns to
the citizenship of their expected child.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Bynm came
from Montsvideo. Uruguay. to Omaha.
and little Joeann first blinked her
eyes in an American hospital In that
city. Mr.. Byam IL manager of the
Norris Packing Company plant in
Uruguay and accompanied his wife on
the S.000-mils trip.
WASHINGTON
Approval Of proposal to organize
a $10O,000,0OO corporation to finance
the nations foreign trade was given
BY the American Bankers Association
In convention at Washington.
The self-propelling steel barge Birm-
ingham has been accepted by the gov
ernment representatives following n
trial trip and will leave on its first
trip In the st. Louis-Eew Orleans
service. The vessel Is of 1900 tons
capacity.
Resolutions demanding immediate ac-
tion by the Polish government to end
reported discrimination against the
Jews in that country were adopted at
a conference of the provisional or
ganixation, American Jewish Congress
in session at New York.
one-flfth of the appropriations of
100000 made the Red Cross for the
nef Of sufferers in the famine area of
China will be transmitted Immediately
through the State Department, it was
announced At National Red Cross
headquarters.
Members Of the National womnn's
k@lA
tion 10 Washington, beginning Feb. IS,
and continuing six days. Miss Alice
Paul, national chairman, announced.
Approximately 500 delegates will be
called. the statement said.
An expression Of thanks to the
American government and people for
their courteous reception was issued
by the delegates from Great Britain
to tercentenary of the landing of the
pilgrims at Plymouth and the first
Legislative assembly at jamestown, Va.
Issuance of treasury certificates of
Indebtedness to the amount of at least
$4,000 for the purpose of facilitating
lonns to farmers was advocated to-
day by George p. Hampton, managing
director of the Farmers National
Council, who said he had written to
President Wilson seeking his co-opera-
t1on.
Explosive tests viii be made with the
old battleship Indiana in Lower Chesa-
peake bay, by placing bombs in vari-
Gus parts of the ship to demonstrate
their destructive effect had they been
dropped from the air. After the bomb
ing experiments the old warship will
be anchored In Tangier sound as a
target for ships of the Atlantic fleet.
Brig. Gen. John Biddle will be re-
tired at his own request on Dec. 1,
when he will have served forty-three
years in the army and be eligible for