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New-York tribune., 1920-07-26
Police Are Asked
To Aid Search for
Miss Kitty Marion
Advocate of Birth Control,
Missing Since June l3,
Left Note Behind Which
Aroused Fears of Friends

The police have bounded Kitty
Marion to her death, friends of the
stately. auburn haired suFragist end
birth control advocate believe. They
have not seen her since June 13, and
asked the police yesterday to search
for her. After she had left the office
of "The Birth Control Review" where
she was employed a note written in
melancholy vein which aroused the
kecnest anxiety was found. The note
was addressed to the manager of the
sales department of the magazine. It
follows:
Dear Mrs. Kennedy: I absolutely
can bear things as they are no longer.
quencc of the most unjust police per-
secution to which we have been sub
jccted, am a nervous wreck, and the
arrest and fine Of the man at Coney
Island is the last straw.
az would rather be dead than treated
like dumb, driven cattle by certain po-
lice anarchists who have no respect for
the law Of the land
"Please. dispose of my belongings as
best you can. All have belongs to
birth control.
"Goodby. Yours for a better human
ity. KITTY MARION."
For months Miss Marion had been
vending copies of "The Birth Control
Review" along Broadway in the theater
district.
She was arrested once for selling the
magazine, but refused tc be supplanted
in the district she had picked out. The
police frequently warned her not to cry
her wares.
Her friends learned that after leav-
ing the Office of the magazine on June
u Miss Marion did not go to her
hornc at 245 West Fourteenth Stree.
She has not been there since that da5e
Miss Marion was forty-eight years
old. Her career as a militant suf-
fragist in England dated back TO 1909,
when she was arrested for breaking q
window in Newcastle.
Her last arrest in England was fol-
lowed by a sentence of three years i'm
posed upon her as one of the suffra-
gettes who set fire to the grandstand at
Hurst Park. She served only about
four months, and established a record
in England by being forcibly fed 232
times
In May, 1916. about a year after she
came TO the United States to escape
the persecution she suffered in England
as a German subject, Miss Marion dis
appeared from the sight of her friends
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont and others
searched far and wide for her, She was
discovered the following August working
as maid in a Harlem boarding house.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-26
Shipping News

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rs Morse Havre nsr9''J Jonabore si%a19'" iDan'
,rrellsburg Cape Henry. Va, July u
Passoa Passe IN for Baltimore s,rs selFose
New York. Passed out from Baltimorc3
VA Newport News skogheim tNor) Nor
B7l Hamburg and London Scsus lNor1.
Teia, Ordunte Mendi tsp}. Blboa Jake
'nlar1n 1s, snn Ipan q,, Gcwee bostoni Fra.
Elsipore Fort de France
;. RossToN, July 25-Arrtved. s,rs cewan.
Tampa MEXICAN. New York.
CHARLESTON. c. Jn,y 35--Arrived
Str Joaiaf Macy. Port Ar:h,:r
6'AlNEsT,oN. July 25-A-rived oA:h'
Str sors roka a. :, !L} NaPss; est Sa.'sa Srs so--
Mex.capo. froia Texas City fer Tampieo.
JACKSONVILLE July 25-salled St
Fourth Alabama Galveston.
NORFOLK. July 2S--Arr.veds strs
Aneon, A. New yo:k Augus::n sspj- Ro'tr-.
lBr,. st Nazai-e. oibb.e Bridge ,sHs
gaos.n sa!yss,gn ;A11 Eaiiwq0d HSl3 ,s]. s e
kronstad INor>. Stockholm 1ot Now port
News: Lake Buckeye, New York. Lake
yeF sna Noun: ps9saaqa A}bes Mq5avA BTags o.
Newport News oinda port BARK. =
Pananan. New York Polar Star Portland
heim lNorl. Baltimore schsocn. New
York; Tatjama .Norl. skei7 soF New9o =
Sailed; Strs Amagisan Maru IJap} Monte
vldee: Altagus New York. A-gonne Phila-
peak. Antofagasta Copenhagen (panN.
New York. Darlington (Br}. vhentos.
Uruguay; Orleans Bordesq P'll9n ,,srl
Quebec Sierra Miranda tNo- oa-k3 ko~-
y
New-York tribune., 1920-07-26
THE TIDES
ARRIVED YESTERDAY

Note.--The above figures are standard
WING and rot New York State time.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-26
Farmhands Call Off Strike

VIENNA, July 25-The farm labor
ers yesterday called off their strike
after having been granted an increase
ir wages of 40 per cent The seques-
tration of crops has ceased
New-York tribune., 1920-07-26
Il. S. Ends Year
With a Surplus
OF 20l Million
sum Represents Excess of
Ordinary Receipts Over
Disbursements Made by
the Treasury Department
Bic Security Redemption
Gross and Floating Debts
Continue To Be Reduced
From Wartime Peak

r-o,- The Trihane's WdShtrofcn Burcou
VASHINGTON. July 25.-The Fed,
.rsi government closed It's business at
ere end of the fiscal year with sur
rIus of s2e1, ,221,547.O7, Secretary of
ERE Treasury Houston announced to
ssv This sum represents the excess
Of ordinary receipts over ordinary dis
Aursements
sbowu. However. the surplus is al
srecisl deposit of the War Finance
Corporation, resulting from its re-
aemption OF government securities.
Mr. Houston stated that both the
r,oss and floating debts were dimin-
Shed between June ) and July Is. Dur
;rg that period almost q billion dollars
worth OF Treasury certificates were re-
t,red Further reductions during the
rresent fiscal year are expected.
|. will be necessary TO offer furth er
;sspes of Treasury certificates from
time TO time. Mr.. Houston said, to meet
the current needs of the government.
The amounts of these issues hinge to
ores. extent on how large a burden
vii be imposed on the Treasury ny
tbe governments guaranty of railroad
earnings for six months after their re-
turn to private control.
Expectations Are Realized
"My letter Of June 10. 1920, to banks
ard trust companies, in connection
with the offering of Treasury certifi-
eates of Indebtedness dated June Is,
cslled attention TO the fact that Treas
ury certificates to the amount Of nearly
s. '0O0, 900 900 would mature on or be-
fore July Is and stated, first, that the
completed operations for the fiscal year
ended June so, 1920. should show
little. if any, current deficit; and, sec
ond. that both gross debts and floating
debts would be further greatly re-
duced by the operations incident to
the handling of the Treasury certiti-
cate maturities from June Is to July
10" said Mr.. Houston. The results
show that the Treasury's expectations
have been realized.
"On the basis of daily Treasury state
ments the total ordinary receipts for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920
amounted to S6.694, ,565, ,3SS.S8 and cur
rent ordinary disbursements amounted
to S6.766.444 461.09, leaving net cur
rent deficit of only S71.879, ,072.21 for
the fiscal year 1920, the first full fiscal
years after fostilities ceased.
After taking into account the spe
cial deposit of the War Finance Cor
New-York tribune., 1920-07-26

1918, from the home OF his parents, %
Thatford Avenue, Brooklyn. Max kap-
Ian, nine, Of rs Thatford Avenue, fell
from the roof Of his home into TIE
yard. He was taken to ST. Mary's Hos
pita1, where surgeons say he IS not
expected to live.
Max thought he could obtain a better
view OF the funeral from the houseA
top. As the body Of Dr.. solevei wax
beiae carried from the house the I'D
leaned toe Tar over the ledge of the
roof. falling into the yard
The service for Dr.. SoIevei was cor
ducte0 by ;he Rev +. II. Finklesteir
OF the Thatford Avenue Temple. Thirsy
troopers from the 22d Iafantry were
present and several American Legion
pests were represented, including the
Warwick post. which is in the Thatford
Avenue reighborhood. Burial was ~
Washington Cemetery.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-26

poration resulting from it's redemp-
tion of United States securities tho ~ ..
ordinary disbursements for the fscsi
year 1920 were S6.403 .34S ,sAl.2l. )eav-
ing an adjusted surpins texcess Of or
uiuarN receipts over net ordinary dis
oors.mentsl of 1921, ,22l ,5a7.67 Cor the
hscal year
he operations incident 10 the hand.
iing OIL the maturities of Treasury GER.
uheates from June is TO. July IS have
now been completed and have resulted
IN lutther reductions IN both the Gross
debt and the floating debt @. the United
states. The gross debt Of June sc, le2C
on the basis OF daily Treasury state.
ments. aniouuted To $24 200 80. .a6T OF
AS against $25. ASA 500, Ice O5 a, She ead
% the previous fiscal year on Jurc go
,9la. -'nd S26.596, ,To1 ,64S0. On Angus,
II. 1919, when the gross deb, was a,
'tS peak. Ia other words. the gross
deot on lane 10, 1920. has beer re-
uuced by 81 .2S7 $50, ,lS0o4 from It's peak
on August 81, 1919, and by $l,s55.iS4,
692.ss from the figure on June so ,e,s
On July 70, 1920, on the basis of daily
treasury statements, the gross deb,
amounted to s24 .26A ,309 .821 "a. show:ac
'ur1ner reduction of about S35 900 D0C
Altef taking into account the S20..06i,.
ouo face amount Of Treasury certif
Gates issued under date of July is.
Changes in Floating Debt
The floating debt on June so. 1920
an mounted to S24s5,552 500, as again st
S5,267 ,S1S,500 at the close of the pre-.
ylous 1iscal year on June 80, 1919, and
$5. .93S ,225 900 on August 81, 1919. On
July 20, 1920, the loan and tax certih
Gates outstanding amounted to $2,453,-
94o,oOO, showing a further reduction
of about SSl 100000 as the result Of
the redemption of loan certificates since
the close of the fiscal year 1920 in the
amount of some $3.50. 100000 and the
issue OF loan and tax certificates dated
July Is in the amount of some S201.-
100000
Further issues of Treasury certif
Gates will be offered as necessary from
time to time to provide for the cur
rent requirements of the government
and to meet maturities of Treasury
certlficates now outstanding. The
amounts of these issues will depend
IN large measure upon the extent of
the burdens imposed upon the Treasury
oy the transportation act, 1920, in con-
nectlon with the return of the rail-
roads to private control. including par
tlcularly the liability on the guaranty,
which is as yet ascertainable.
While, as the result of new issues
of Treasury certificates in the inter
walls between the large income and
p1otits tax installments there may be
temporary increases in both gross debt
and floating debt. the Treasury ex-
poets. though it is impossible to speak
positively, that both gross debt ard
floating debt Will, during the first TWO
quarters of The current fiscal year, be
reduced below The figures outstanding Z
on June 80 1920, and that unless addi-
tional burdens should be imposed by
legislation, there will be an important
ters of the fiscal year"
New-York tribune., 1920-07-26

AMERICAN PORTS
BALTIMORE, July 2s-Arrived: Strs
lake Annetta, Portland Me; City Of Me-
New-York tribune., 1920-07-26
Doctors Find No Poison
In Witwer's Stomach
Author Will Be Able to Leave
Hospital in Few Days,
L. statement

Physicians at ST. Johns Riverside
Hospital last night said that an ex-
animation of the contents of the stom-
ach OF Harry c. Witwer. author, who
was taken to the hospital Friday night,
showed no traces of bichloride of mer-
curry.
An early report said that Witwer
had swallowed bichlorde of mercury.
His condition Saturday night was re
ported TO be critical.
Witwer is reported to have told the
physicians that he didn't know what he
had taken and that he wasn't sure that
he had swallowed any sort of drug.
The physicians say Witwer will be
able to leave the hospital within few
days.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-26
be eliminated by the proposed vehicu-

be eliminated by the proposed vehicu-
lar tunnel.
MFR. Hubert announces success In his
policy of reconstructing "m.scella-
neous wharfage into deep craft wharf
age, tc relieve congestion. hese
piers are al Fifth Eighteenth, Iwen-
ty-hfth, Nineteenth ano Twenty. sixth
streets, Eas, River, ard at Thirty
Fifta Street, North River
He estimates 8, s15o.ooe the cost OF
proposed street cleaning disposal
plant, PIE, and shed sno open v-hsr,-
age platforms under Brook,yA Bridge.
A new $4,000 pie. project q, pyck-
man Street is to provide facilities for a
rapidly growing Residential. district
The repor, also discusses Jamaica
Bay. the Harlem River and dredging
in small waterways Of the metropoli-
tan district.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-26
Career of Human Fly 10.
Ends i'm Fractured Skull
Boy Attempts tc Scale Wall of
School Building; Gets 10 Feet.
Loses Grin and Falls

Julius Munter, ten years old, decided
yesterday that his training as climber
entitled him to attempt q human fy'
stunt, and he selected Public School
4, 1880 Jackson Avenue. the Bronx, as
the scene of his first cndeavor.
He surmounted without difficulty the
eight-foot fence which surrounds the
school, and he mounted the wall of
the building to a height of about ten
feet, when he lost his grip and fell
His skull was fractured and he was
taken to Fordham Hospital. His home
IS at l105 Fulton Avenue. the Bronx.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-26
Boy Falls From Roof
While Watching z Funeral

While watching the funeral yester-
day Of DR. Samuel Solevei. lieutenant
in the A. f. F.. who died in France in
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-04
Inve..:lons Suggested by Nature.

The ram Of the modern man-of-war
is the device of the swordfish Of the
Indo-Pacific ocean. It's upper jaw has
a long beak or ram, by means of which
1t can pierce not only fish but the sides
OF timber-built ships. Even the plants
have forestalled human inventions
Nearly everybody perhaps has won
derea why the stems of nearly all
plants and the trunks and branches of
trees are round instead of any other
shape. The existence of tall plants
and trees depends largely on the wind
force And tree with square trunk
and branches would offer so much re-
sistance to the wind that it would be
continually having it's branches
snapped. 1t is for the same reason
that engineers build tall chimneys and
piers for bridges round in section in
preference to any other form
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-04
NO RAISE IN H. C. |. DUE TO new Rates

shirt about two-thirdS of one cent. The
old $3.50 shirt is selling for $500 and
up
Clothing manufactured in Chicago
could be shipped to Jacksonville fol-
S1.83 per hundred pounds or less than
IL cents for suit which with its
share of the packing weighs six
pounds. The new rate is $238 IL per
hundred pounds or about IA cents on
the six pounds ready-made which for.
merly was offered for $4,000 but now
cannot be taken home for less than
| $4,000.
Coming to articles of food the rate
on fresh beef from Chicago to Bir
mingham was 80 cents per hundred
pounds, less than one cent per pound
The new rate is $1.06 IL per hundred
pounds or slightly more than a cent
per pound. Beef that formerly sold
for twenty cents per pound has been
bringing IS cents.
Sugar was shipped from New Or.
leans to Greensboro, N. c., for So
cents per 100 pounds or just about
half cent per pound. The new rate
is 60 cents per hundred pounds, still
less than three-fourths of cent per
pound And sugar which formerly
sold for five cents per pound has been
selling above thirty cents per pound.
These illustrations which are of
articles and commodities, taken at
random, may be considered as fairly
representative of the addition to the
transportation cost of articles used in
the South which will result from the
increase in rates. Similar illustra
tions could be made on almost every
article used in the household, except
coal, which being shipped and sold by
the ton, will show relatively higher
transportation cost in proportion to
its value.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-04
The Cuckoo.

There is probably no division of the
'ird family that has so many different
members as the cuckoo. In fact, they
ire so numerous that some localities
mother adjoining district may have an
entirely different name. although it is
he identical bird. For instance, the
caroline cuckoo is known as the
Iellow-billed cuckoo in different sec
ions Of the United States, and quite
mike its European Cousins it hasn't
he bad habit of placing its eggs in
he nest Of some other bird to be
iatched while it iies around and en-.
oys itself
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-04
RAILWAY wage and RATE liner Asses
That Six Per Cent Return

In many quarters there seems to re.
main some misunderstanding as to
the provision of the TRANSFORMATION
ACT OF 1920 which makes it the duty
of the Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion to authorize rates which will
give the railways of each section of
the country fair return on the value
OF their property. devoted to transpor.
tation purposes, and, for the two
years following the passage of the
Act, set the reasonable return" at
3 IL percent with another IL percent.
to be devoted to improvements, at the
option of the Commission.
Some persons have gotten the idea
that the Transportation Act guaran.
tees the railway companies six per-
cent on their stocks and bonds. The
fact is that the Act says nothing about
any return on capitalization and no
railway is guaranteed anything. The
volume of stocks and bonds which any
railway company may have outstand.
ing will have absolutely TO effect on
the return it will receive
While the Act makes it the duty of
the Commission to authorize rates
which will give the railways of each
section an aggregate fair return on
the aggregate value of their property,
there is no assurance that any indi-
vidual railway will get a return of
six percent on the value of its prop
erty. or any return at ALL What 1t
will get will depend on the business
it secures, and the efficiency with
which that business is handled
Under the new rates, if a railway
earns more than six percent, it must
divide the surplus with the govern
ment; If it earns less than six percent
or earns nothing at ALL the loss falls
on its owners.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-04
What Becomes of the Revenue De.
rived From Recent Advance
in Railway Rates

Since the recent order of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, author
lzing the railways of the country to
advance freight rates and passenger
fares, came only few days after the
award of the Railway Labor Board.
giving increased wages to certain
classes of railway labor, there has
been tendency in some quarters to
confuse the two. A few days ago a
Southern editor was asked: "If the
railway employees receive an increase
N wages amounting to $685.. 900, 900
and rates are advanced so as to yield
$1,000, 00O. 100000 what becomes of the
iifference?"
The difference GOES to help the rail.
ways meet previous increases in
wages which we're granted by the
United States Railroad Administration
to pay increased prices for fuel, cross.
ties, bridge timber, steel rails and 9th
u ndtOA 1oAo VI WnLSA Tic railways use
large quantities and, after paying
lhese increased costs, to yield fair
return on the value of the railway
property, devoted to transportation
purposes. Such return is absolute
ly necessary if the railways are to be
able to attract new capital This
must be had to provide the additional
facilities which are badly needed to
country over, but particularly in the
South where there has been such a
great increase in commercial activity
The petition of the railways for in.
creased rates was filed in May, long
before the award of the Labor Board,
and showed that at that time many
railways were not earning, their oper-
ating expenses. After the award of
The Labor Board was announced, the
railways filed supplemental petition
asking further increases to meet the
additional expense and the decision of
The Commission was rendered after
considering both petitions.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-04
COST OF ARTICLES FOR THE CON
SUMER HARDLY
AFFECTED
FREIGHT COST SMALL ITEM
interesting Comparison Given BY Rail
way on Effect of New Rates

Washington, d. C = Just what the
Increased freight rates will mean
to the average consumer in the way
OF contributing to the cost of neces.
sary articles of clothing and standard
food products is shown in some inter.
esting illustrations made in state
ment issued by the Southern Railway
System.
The old rate on shoes from Boston to
Atlanta was $164 per 100 pounds, max
ing the transportation charge of a pair
of shoes. which, with it's share of the
packing weighs three pounds approx
mately five cents. The new rate is
$2.1S IL per 100 pounds, making the
transportation charge of the same
pair of shoes approximately 62-3
cents. Everyone knows that, the pair
of shoes which formerly sold for $500
is now selling around $500.
Shirts were shipped from New York
to New Orleans by freight for S154
per 100 pounds, making the transpor.
tation charge on a five ounce shirt
about half cent. The new rate is
$2.O5 IL per hundred pounds, making
the charge on the same five ounce
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-04
Beauty and "a River.

There are a thousand things to re-
member and to say about the river,
which seems to be of little use in the
half-dozen miles l know best, after IT
has made itself of great consequence
by serving to carry perhaps a dozen
or 20 mills, of one kind and another.
Between it's dam II has a civilized and
subjected look. but below the last
falls, at the Landing. it apparently
feels itself to be it's own master and
serves in no public capacity except to
carry boat now and then, /
think its chief u''' * its beauty, and
that has never Is rs widely appre-
ciated as it ougl' IS. o. Jewett.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-04

Staten Island Flour "A strictly light
bread flour made from hard winter
wheat. Every sack contains 2415
lbs. Ask your grocer for this -four. #
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-04

Mr.. H. w. Lee, one of Ben HIPS
progressive farmers, spent Saturday
in the city.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-04

Bring us your Eggs and Chickens,
VIII pay highest market prices Will
liams Meat Market. #
The Holly chieftain., 1920-12-02

which = line sketch 10 reproduced here
with. The bright eolOred little stamp
with Ms heartening message, merry
Christmas" and Healthy New Year"
tells of \ e-wide effort to carry on
the great fight against tuberculosis
the prsventable and curable disease
which was responsible for no less than
z.6O Deaths in this state for the twelve
lnnoths ending May l, 1920
The Christmas Seal is NO stranger TO
psbiic- spirited COloradosns. In former
ysan it was generally known as the
Red Cross Christmas Seal because of
the fact that the Cross Of Geneva was
used on II through an agreement he
tween the National tuberculosis Ass0-
citation and the American Red Cross. A
percentage Of the funds thus raised
was allocatsd to the Red Cross, but
owing to mutual arrangement of
these two national organization Ia view
Of the recognized needs of devoting ev-
cry cent raised by the sale Of Seals ex-
elusively to the fight against tubercu-
losis, the Geneva Cross no longer ap-
pears 0n the Seal Instead the double
barred cross of Lorraine alone is used
to symbolic the fact that the money
raised by the sale Of Seals is de
voted entirely to anti-tuberculosis ef-
fort.
The sale of Seals will be carried on
intensively throughout Colorado during
the period from December l to Decem-
ber II inclusive, and the chairman for
the state organization is Thos. +. DAILY
Of Denver. Cooperating with him are
well-known men and women in fifty
town and county Seal Sale Committees.
The system of canvassing the bust
ness and professional groups of coin-
lHunity and of conducting An intensive
house-to-house solicitation of the resi-
dence sections will be followed out
with some notifications according to
local circumstances IN all the organ
ization centers Of the state. Reports
coming to Mr.. Daily from the chairlnen
throughout Colorado indicate clearly
that they anticipate hearty response
from their communities since the peo-
pie who buy Christmas Seals realize
that the funds are devoted to combat
ting q disease which demands special
measures in Colorado.