Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-11-05

vonec. Greek, tried to swim, fully
clothed. to St Joseph, Mo, $50 miles.
He sank after travelling a mile. Duck
hunters rescued him.
]. W. Patterson, 73, native of Miller
county. Arkansas, reputed to be the
taIfest man in the United States, died
at his home in Bloomburg. He was
feet S inches in height.
Six are known to have been killed
and fifteen injured in the wreck of
the Pacific Overland No. 102 near
Yermo, Calf, according to a message
received from Las Vegas, New.
Seven firemen were injured when
they fell with the floor on the second
story of the Schoemuller and Mueller
Piano Company warehouse at Omaha,
while fighting a fire. The building, a
three,story structure, was destroyed.
Nineteen cases of Canadian whisky,
valued at $3.50 a case, was seized by
federal officer in q carload of furni-
ture being shipped from Canada to
Sweet Springs, Texas. Il. Graham, to
whom the car was consigned and who
accompanied the car in transit, was ar
rested and charged with illegal trans
portatioa and possession
q. L. Rice, a patent attorney of
Washington, filed a damage suit
against Secretary of War Baker and
a number Of officials of the War De-
part,nent, seeking damages of more
than S1o2, ,000,00 Rice, in his decla-
ration, alleges a conspiracy on the
part of the War Department officials
in connection with The use of certain
patents in the manufacture of air.
planes.
A ssockmen's cooperative selling
agency has been launched at Fort
Worth, Texas, with the appointment
of Ralph Harris of San Angelo, chair
man of the organization committee, by
President Turney of the Texas Cattle
Raisers' Association. The agency will
buy and sell all cattle raised by mem
bers of the association. The action
was taken, President Turney said, be-
cause of Increased prices asked by
commission firms
A submarine chaser rescued Navy
Lieut. T. Garnette, four seamen and
five musicians on the open sea off
0ceanside, forty miles north of San
Diego, after the party had spent u
night adrift in a crippled seaplane,
while submarine chasers searched up
and down the coast for them The
plane left San Pedro to bring the mu-
sicians to a dance at the North Island
naval air station. Engine trouble
forced the machine to alight at sea.
WASHINGTON
Suit for s2,353,4 ,416 damages against
the United States Shipping Board and
the Emergency Fleet Corporation has
been started by the Huron, Minneapo-
lis, St Paul and Binghampton Steam
ship Companies. The four companies
allege they lost this amount through
failure of the two bodies to keep an
alleged promise to transfer to Cana
dian registry twelve steel freighters
and to advance $75O,000 to facilitate
the construction of the vessels last
year at the Virginia Shipbuilding Cor
poration yard ct Alexandria, Va.
The War Department answered
charges that the government had suf-
fered great loss through the sale of
surplus war supplies with the claim
that 1t had saved over 81 ,675, ,342, ,SS1.15
to the taxpayers through the sale of
such supplies and Settlements of
claims"
For the first time in more than five
years. the international bridges be-
tween Ell Paso, Texas, and Juarez,
Mexico, are unguarded by United
States troops. The removal of the
troops, 1t was explained at military
headquarters, is due to the restoration
of peaceful conditions in Mexico which
make their presence no longer neces-
sary.
Recruits for the regular army con-
tinue to flock in at record-breaking
rates, Adjutant General Harris offices
announced, and 17,625 enlistments ac-
cepted during October broke all peace
time records for the month. A notable
matter in connection with the record,
1t was said, was the fact that sc
per cent of the months enlistments
were for the full three-year period.
The total strength of the army is now
26S, ,7Si officers aIldd men, of which
15S, S,466 are in the United States.
A bronze tablet, commemorating the
founding of the American navy 145
years ago, was unveiled at Washing
ton with representatives of the navy
and the Sons of the American Revolu-
ton participating. Assistant Secre-
tary Woodbury. of the Navy Depart
ment was the principal speaker
Only one bid for the Hog Island
shipyard, an offer of $4,000,0O0 from
the Barbe Brothers Steel Corporation
of New York, was received by the
shipping board. Chairman Benson an
nounced that the bid would be re-