Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-04-05
VIRGINIA NEWS

Four thousand families in DalTille
nearly went without breakfast sat
urday morning as Il result Of q Suo-
den strike of laborers ar me cit!
gas works at l. o'clock Friday ni@ht'
this decision being reached when the
containers were at their lowest eoD.
The ten men who constitute 1he
night force had been showing D!
their recent diffidence that troup1e
was brewing. They appeared before
the foreman and said that they were
| striking for S. day more than they
are receiving now. The foreman de-
clined to yield and telephoned the
superintendent, Frank Talbot, who
was attending good government
meeting. He went to the works at
once and addressed the workmen
pointing out that he did not intend
to allow further imposition on the
city works; that they could quit II
they wanted to.
Suffolk is disturbed over bad CEN
sus taking No official figures have
yet been given out, but there IS
abundant evidence that the census
was taken in careless, even sloven-
" manner and that hundreds Of
names have been left off the lists OF
the takers. The Chamber of Com
merce has taken the matter in hand
and the secretary has reason to be-
lieve that the chambers request for
a complete recount will be complied
with. If it is the officials of the
chamber will see to it that a suffic-
lent force is put on the job and that
no whole families shall be overlook
ed as has evidently been the case in
the recent count.
Miss Anna L. Jones was arrested
Friday night in Norfolk, charged
with ENLIGHTENMENT Of trust fund
amounting originally to $1,000. She
was formerly one of the leading bus
mess women of Lynchburg. She left
there soon after America entered
the war to be secretary Of the Viz
ginia Food Commission at Richmond
For five years she was business
manager and secretary of Sweet
Briar College, resigning that posi-
ton in 1906. Her accuser is Miss
Elizabeth Blackboard formerly of
Lynchburg, now Ct Washington, who
| alleges Miss Jores m:sused the fund.
which she controlled by icwer Of
attorney.
Four young men are locked up in
a barn back Of the Welfare League
Home. Staunton, because they we're
too gallant. The youths went to
church, met four girls, and gallant
" volunteered to escort them home.
When they reached the girls home
they went inside. And in the home
was a 2 months old baby. which is
believed to have smallpox. DR.. j.
B. Catlett, town health officer. heard
of the visit and promptly ordered
the young men confined in the barn
Cots have been provided for them,
and they are taking their meals
with the horses.
Through the activities of Rich
mond police. more than $4,000 names
have been added to Richmonds CEN
sus. Patrolmcn made house to
house canvas in each district Of the
city, and through their efforts added
many names that had been overlook
ed by the government ,enumerators.
When Clarence E. Bowles, a
ticket seller at the Union Passenger
Station, at Lynchburg. struck along
with other Norfolk and Western
clerks, his wife promptly accepted
his old position and became strike
breaker. !, This she. did in spite Of
her husbands protest. Mrs. Bowles
is the daughter of NJ. T. kulp, the
ticket agent and she formerly work
ed in the Office. Mr.. kulp and Mrs.
Bowles will undertake to handle
| the three eirht hour shifts in the