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Evening star., 1921-07-22
BY the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, July 22.-The
master Of the small British schooner
Pocomoke, which came into Atlantic
City Wednesday in distress and with
out her cargo of 1000 cases Of in
toxicating liquors. will have some ex-
planning to do to the British authori-
ties in this jurisdiction. according to
Charles r. Kurtz, surveyor Of the
port.
There is no question the Pocomoke
is the mysterious vessel reported off
the New Jersey coast" Mr.. Kurtz
said today. "All the vessels papers
were taken by Navigation Inspector
Marstellar, who boarded the POGO
moke at Atlantic City. and turned
over to the British consul for In
quiry.'
Mr.. Kurtz said the Pocomoke came
nails. Capt. J. A. Roy, according to Mr..
| Kurtz, said he left Nassau. Bahama
Island. with 1000 cases OF liquor for
Quebec. or the Delaware capes he
! said he encountered storm which
| caused him to transfer part OF the
! cargo to q schooner and to throw the
remainder overheard because the yes
| Kurtz. Capt. Roy said his crew was
discharged and transferred to another
vessel at sea, which Is said to be a
violation of maritime law.
while we cannot do anything about
what he did with his cargo outside
the three-mile limit, the British gov
| ernment can certainly make him give
a more definite explanation Of the
| actions of the Pocomoke at sea-" said
Mr.. Kurtz
Evening star., 1921-07-22
new PLAN TO AID FARMERS
Secretary Hoover Urges Long-Term
Credit Organization.

Senator Capper. republican. Kansas,
last night gave out letter from Sec
retary Of Commerce Hoover in favor
OF "a definite organization" to mobilize
funds for long-term agricultural cred
ats.
Tho long-term credit organization.
Secretary Hoover suggested. might be
organized through "a new department
in the federal farm loan banks and,
he said. was needed and entirely feas-
= ible." 1t should operate, he said, sim
liar to the credit mobilization of
shorter term credits by the federal
reserve and farm land systems.
Such a proposal" said Mr.. Hoover,
"is not paternalistic any more than
are the other two systems"
Mr.. Hoover said that the federal
reserve and farm loan systems take
care of farmers short-term credit
needs, but that for growing and mar
keting crops and live stock farmers
need additional credit facilities for
long-term loans. These. Mr.. Hoover
added, should be secured from invest
ment capital of the country rather
than from the commercial pool"
Evening star., 1921-07-22
WAH Department CUTS
EXPENSES TO MINIMUM
Largo Savings Already Effected
Through Secretary Weeks
Order to Economic.

Secretary Weeks today said that
every effort is being made to reduce
the expenses Of tho military estab-
lishrnent to the lowest limit com
patible with efficient administration.
AS an instance, he said the salvage
branch OF the Quartermaster Corps
already has saved the government
$1.750.000 on two Of its many activl-
ties during the past fiscal year.
Through its various shops and
plants, the salvage branch repaired
47S.9S0 pieces of clothing at a cost of
$1a4.717. The value of the clothing
after reclamation is estimated at
$1.717,94s, and the net saving to the
government. s1.563.231. The greater
part OF these repair activities con-
sisted of current work; that is. where
the article of clothing is repaired and
returned to the original wearer. In
the same period the salvage branch
disposed of the garbage, manure,
dead animals and similar waste ac-
cumulating at the several camps.
posts and stations. netting the gov
crnment s1S2,12O.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
IMMIGRANTS MAY LAND.
Excess of Quota Will Be Admitted
Under Bond.

Immigrants from Turkey. Greece.
Palestine. Australia and New Zealand
who have arrived in this country in
for the month will be admitted under
bond and charged against the quota
for the countries for the fiscal year,
w. w. Husband, commissioner gen.
eral of immigration, announced today.
The bureau Of immigration Is en-
counterng little difficulty in carrying
out the provisions of the percentage
immigration law. Commissioner Hus-
band said, following the working out
of a plan adopted in June. when quo
tas were exceeded, under which
steamship companies are kept con-
stantly advised of the remaining quo
tas Of all nationalities. and are able
to avoid exceeding them except in rare
instances.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
WAR RISK CASES SETTLED.
Speed Made in Disposing Of Sol
dier Claims.

Announcing today the completion
of q drive to settle all claims Of
former service men pending in the
war risk insurance bureau. Director
Forbes said all claims had been
acted upon except those of current
Ming, which would receive action
within the next twenty-four hours.
With arrearage of $4,000 cases in
the medical division on May l re-
duced to $4,000 cases by July I, this
division, Director Forbes said, had
in the last three weeks disposed of
a twenty-four-h hour average of 1000
cases. The compensation and in
surance claims division. where a
monthly average Of $1,000 new cases
Is received. had disposed of these. he
said, and brought its pending cases
to a current basis in this drive.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
OCEAN FREIGHT RATES CUT.

Ocean freight rates on wheat and
cotton moving from north Atlantic
ports of the United States to the
United Kingdom were approximately
so per cent lower July 1 than on
November /. 1920. according to a
statement compiled from data re-
ceived by the Department of Agri-
culture from the Shipping Board
The decline corresponds, it was
stated, substantially to the price de-
clines of those commodities during
the same period. so that the ratio
between the freight rate and prices
remains relatively the same.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
Finds New Tobacco Disease.

LYNCHBURG, Va.-A new disease
which has infected tobacco plants in
several parts of the tobacco section of
Virginia has been discovered by DR..
F. L. Fromme. plant pathologist of
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, who is
now on a tobacco inspection tour of
the state. The disease is said to be
first noticed in the stem of the plant.
gradually working up to the tip. curl
ing the leaf so as to make it unfit for
use. There is an almost total absence
Of wildfire in this section, DR.. Fromme
said
Evening star., 1921-07-22
FIGHT "BARGAIN DAYS."
Retailers Seek Aid Of Commerce

Efforts are being made by retailers
to induce the government to aid in
abolishing bargain days" and seduc-
tive bargain prices, according to Sec
retafy Hoover.
Representatives of retailers. he de-
clared, have sought the cooperation Of
the Commerce Department in cam
paign to persuade merchants to main
tain a general price level without re-
ducing some articles to draw trade.
However. he added. the Commerce
Department would take no part in the
movements.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
Pre..e. 5000. 900 Suit.

TRENTON, N. J.-Claiming $1,000. 00C
charging conspiracy and fraud. Shelly b
Hutchinson Of Ypsilanti, Mich. renewed
in the United States district court here
part Of the litigation which continued
for three years between the presen,
complainant and the stockholders of the
Sperry & Hutchison Company, a trading
stamp concern.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
ASKS AID OF DRUGGISTS.
Commissioner Haynes in Drive or
Fake Prescription Blanks.

Steps are being taken by Prohibi-
tion Commissioner Haynes to cope
with noticeable increase" of fraudu-
lent prescription blanks for LIQUOR
making their appearance in a number
of states.
In letter to federal prohibition di-
rectors Mr.. Haynes said that "in de-
tecting the offenders our only hope
lies in the faithful cooperation Of the
retail druggists" and urged that their
aid be sought to apprehend persons
attempting to use such blanks.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
Hunt Negroes With Bloodhounds.

MEMPHIS, Tenn.-Sheriff's deputies
and city police with bloodhounds were
called to Whites Station. suburb east
of Memphis. where it was reported that
a young man who was returning to the
city with a girl friend had been held up
by two negroes. The man was robbed
and the girl was dragged from the auto
mobile by the negroes and carried into
the woods nearby. where she was at
tackled. according to the report to the
sheriff's office.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
STAMP OFFICE CLOSED.
Revenue Branch Being Turnel Over
to Collector TAFT.

The stamp Office of the internal
revenue branch at 1922 Pennsylvania
avenue northwest closed at l o'clock
today and will remain closed until
Monday. This action Is necessary dur
ing the transfer of the office from
former Collector Joshua Miles, for
this district. to the new collector,
Galen L. TAFT.
During this period revenue stamps
may be obtained at the main city
post office, and at the branch postal
station at 18th and H streets north
west.
Evening star., 1921-07-22

o. course, |bein' a sparrin'
partner is more hazardous than
bein' tn husband O a prominent
woman, but when it comes t
glory Their hain't much differ
enCe.
One nice thing about prohibi-
tion is that a newspaper reporter
is almost certain t remember
what wuz said at banquet.
Copyright National Newspaper service.)
Evening star., 1921-07-22
Would Revive Journalism School.

NORFOLK. Va.-Resolutions indors-
ing the reviving of the. r. -. Lee
School Of Journalism at Washington
and Lee University at Lexington. Va.
were adopted at the opening session
Of the Virginia Press Association:
keld at Ocean View. Sixty editors of
newspapers from all over the state
are attending the meeting. James
Wright Brown of Editor and Pub
Usher In an address quoted statistics
to show that the advertising rates OF
Virginia newspapers were lower than
those Of neighboring states.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
WINS SEAT IN HOUSE.

Representative Harry B. Hawes.
democrat, is entitled to retain his
seat as a member of the House from
the eleventh Missouri district est.
Louis). a House elections committee
ruled Yesterday, throwing out a con-
test filed by Bernard p. Bogy. Hawes
republican opponent at the polls last
November.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
NAMED POSTAL DELEGATES,

The Post Office Department has
announced the selection of o. K
Davis, secretary of the National For
eign Trade Council. and Edwin
Sands, superintendent of foreign
mails. as the United States delegates
to the second pan American postal
congress, to be held next month at
Buenos Aires.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
REWARD FOR PARoLED MAN,

Capt: w; D. Peak. acting superin-
tendent OF the Jail. has issued hum
dreds of circulars Offering a reward
OF $25 for information leading to the
arrest Of Thomas Montero Bo1reo,
wanied fer violating his parole, and
Charles r. Johnson. colored, who es-
capped from the Jail. johnson was
serving term of one year when he
escaped.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
NEW COMMERCE LAW HEAD.

Secretary Hoover has announced ap-
pointment of Archibald ]. Wolfe, New
York, as head of the newly created
division of commercial law of the
Commerce Department, designed to
keep American exporters in touch
with the codes and regulations of the
various countries in which their
goods are marketed.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
Cut in Price of Granite.

BARRE, VIA reduction Of Is per
cent in the price of finished granite. ef-
fective Immediately, is announced by the
Barre Granite Manufacturers Associa-
ton. The cut was made in an effort to
bring the monument business back to
normal conditions.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
TAX ON SPENDlNGS.

The mass Of tax bills and sugges-
tions piled up with the House ways
and means committee. which Is to
begin hearings on tax revision Tues
day, was further augmented yester-
day by a bill. introduced by Repre-
sentative Mills. republican. of New
York. providing for a federal tax on
spendings. 1t is designed to super
sede certain of the income tax pro-
visions at present in force and to
avoid taxing money invested or saved.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
with a recent reduction made to Balti-
s15,Ooo. 600 Extension Planned.

s15,OOO.OOO Extension, Planned.
MONTGOMERY. Ala.-That the Ala
bama Power Company expects to -ex-
pend. in the development OF its cleo
trical lighting and power system IN
this state during the next tweive
months between SIT, 100000 ana W.
O0O. 900 was the statement made be-
fcre the Alabama public service COM
mission Thursday by Thomas W. Mar
tin. president Of the. Alabama rover
Company.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
A..nil. .sreacher Hoboes.v

DURHAM. N. CDR. E. c. Brooks.
state superintendent of instruction,
addressing the students of the Trinity
College Summer School. declared war
on teacher hoboes." whom he vtgor-
ously asserted annually harass the
educational program of North Caro-
lima. He threatened to prosecute such
~imposters" in the courts of justice.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
Brother and slater DROWN.

FLORENCE. Ala-Dov:e, thirteen
year-old daughter, and Willie j.,
eleven-year-old son of Bud Cum
mings. government motor boat opera
tor on the Tennessee river. were
drowned when the little girl fell from
Evening star., 1921-07-22
Auto Thief Give. Himself In,

MOBILE. Ala.-H. r. Armstrong Of
Chicago. who escaped from the county
convict camp on August last. while
serving a sentence of one year for
stealing an automobile from Judge
Claude A. Grayson Of the circuit court.
surrendered to the police here by calling
the police station over the telephone.
After arriving at the police station he
changed his mind and gave the wrong
name. but police officials identified him
and turned him over to the authorities
Evening star., 1921-07-22
Two Insane Patients in Each Room,

MILLEDGEVILLE.G Ga.-Seven hun
dred Of the states insane patients are
confined. two in room. at the
trustees found from the report Of the
superintendent. There are $500 pa
tients in the institution. The trus-
tees will ask the legislature for an
appropriation with which to relieve
the congestion.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
cS8.Oc5 Idle In Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG. PA total of
2S6.O25 persons were out Of work in
the principal cities of Pennsylvania
on July IS. according to figures COM
piled by the state bureau Of employ :
ment.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
Raid Prominent Re.idences.

MOBILE, Ala. - Alabama law-en-
forcement officers created a sensation
residences of prominent citizens in
quest OF liquor.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
Reduce Rates on Grain.

MOBILE. Ala.zA reduction Of cents
per 100 pounds on grain for export from
points in Illinois to Mobile and other
gulf ports will be made by railroads, ef-
fective August Is. The cut is in line
Evening star., 1921-07-22
Murdered ;oe. to Chnir.

OSSINING, N. Y.-John p. Bulge, ne
gro. who murdered an aged coupe in a
Brooklyn apartment on July 4, 1920. was
put to death in the electric chair at Sing
Sing prison last night.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
COL. KILBRETH ASSIGNED.

Lieut.. Col. John w. Kilbreth, field
artillery, in the office of the chief OF
field artillery, War Department, has
been ordered to Fort Sill, Okla. for
duty.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
browns In Y, M, C, A, Pool.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Shaffer,
seventeen. was drowned in swimming
at the Y. NJ. c. A. pool here. The body
was not noticed until another boy.
diving few minutes later. happened
to touch 1t.
Evening star., 1921-07-22
Bury Florida,. Oldest Woman.

FORT MYERS. Fla.-Funeral serv-
ices were held here yesterday for Mrs
Caroline A. Holland Goodno. who
died at the home Of her son. E. E.
Goodno. wealthy south Florida cat
tleman, at the age of 100 years. She is
believed to have been the oldest
woman in Florida
Evening star., 1921-07-22
TRANSFERRED TO G. q,

Rev. John Z. Meagher, professor of
philosophy at Loyoia College, Baltimore
has been transferred to Georgetown Uni
yerSily
Evening star., 1921-07-22

Three Hurt in Trolley Crash.
PETERSBURG. Va.-Three pas
sengers were injured and a score or
more badly shaken up when two cars
on the Hopewell and Petersburg cleo
trio railroad had a head-on collision.
One car is said to have been complete
ly demolished, while the other was
considerably damaged. Both motor
men saved their lives by jumping. a
Evening star., 1921-07-22
Master of Alleged Mystery Ship
Must Explain|O odd Actions at Sea
Three Hurt in Trolley Crash.

a houseboat into the river and the boy
jumped in to save his sister.
Woman's enterprise., 1921-11-18
was at flood sta Ce.

sugar houses blew the end of the
first watch, and the first sun
beams woke up to a new delight
in this beautiful land. The grey
mists of morning floated up from the
blue, blue river, laden with the per-
fume of crushed cane. The amber
autumn sun that shone down at early
morning on the frosty green fields,
and later on the long beautiful rows
OF purple cane with golden roads be-
tween. Our dear beautiful southern
land, and the sunshine that touches
all the "China trees" to gold, the
"shumac" hedges, and down on the
coast, the orange groves.
The men come trooping in from the
night watch to breakfast, whiting
little paddles for to "to tas" the new
syrup with when we 60 down, telling
us Of the "strike," which does not
mean an uprising of labor, but the
number of barrels of sugar success.
fully "taken off," Those banquet
spread breakfasts, topped off with
buckwheat cakes and LA Quite" thai
make the modern "menu" maker con
slider, think, enough for a weeks sup
ply. All is excitement; we set tn
housemaids to work shelling pecan'
and walnuts for pralines. Then th'
neighbors begin to come in, all, all i!
Woman's enterprise., 1921-11-18

spired by Bore's firmness, asked to be
his sugar maker, and his was the
first voice to cry out in Louisiana, "1t
graduates" These words rang
through the country. He sold his
sugar for twelve and half cents per
pound, and his molasses for fifty cents
a gallon, and made a profit Of twelve
thousand dollars. In 1895 Etienne
Bore died on his plantation, twenty
four years after the first crop was
made, leaving each of his three
daughters one hundred thousand dol
lars. Bore was the first Mayor Of
New Orleans, the grandfather Of our
historian, Judge Gayarre. These
things happened during the gracious
rule of his Excellency the Baron de
Carondelet, and Governor Johnson. l
have taken the facts from Prof. AL
Gee Fortier's "History of Louisiana" D."
Much curiosity has been felt about
the quite small and old sugar kettle
turned bottom upward on the campus
at the Louisiana State University.
Colonel J. w. Nicholson told me that
was the kettle used by Bore. The sir
up de battery. Exactly who gave it
to the State Of Louisiana he does not
recall, but it was the property Of the
State, and was in the Capitol grounds
until the civil war. During the wal
Woman's enterprise., 1921-11-18

it was used by Mr.. Dent, the brother
in-law Of General Grant, to make rum
in. Afterwards it was bought at auc-
ton, or a sale of old iron, by Messrs.
Hill and Blackie, East Baton Rouge,
for their new foundry, but knowing
it's value, they did not break it up,
and in 1890 or 81, at the solicitation
of Colonel Nicholson, these gentlemen
gave it to the Louisiana State Uni
versity, and Colonel Nicholson had it
placed on the little mound where it
now is. 1t is to be regretted that
there is no tablet marking its his
tory.
l have to write this in little chap
ters as memory comes back from
childhood of the "Sugar House" up
to the present time. After Bore's
time, from the Tunica Hills to the
gulf, the sugar making season" was
one Of delightful festivity. The very
heart Of it was on the "coast" about
Baton Rouge and even down among
the orange groves of the slower
coast" when "Mammy" would dip
peeled oranges into the boiling syrup
and set them over night in the frost
for ,"my chiles good tas' in de morn
in" Oh! halcyon days, Oh! Opal
days of sugar making season, from
the dawn when the whistles from the
Woman's enterprise., 1921-11-18

sugar house news. "How was our
'strike'?". Theirs was pretty fair,
pretty fair" With these small words
one could scarce know that fortunes
were made or lost.
You ought to hear "Tatatante" tell
about the old days. She is so stately
and sweet, presiding over an old
southern home, its very gallery shad-
ed up by great magnolia trees, and
her roses, ah! She has gathered three
generations of niece and nephew chill.
dren about her, and the gentleness
and love of the present day take the
place Of the glory behind her. She
who "received in Paris" was thu
friend and correspondent of Lamatin,
and Voltaire. When she tells of tn,
days of the slave owners, who seemed
Princes on their own lands, and live
like them. The aristocrats of Louis
lana, Bonnecaze, Villenerve, Allair
Dubroca, Favrot, Besant and dozen
! Of others. Prince Murat, Governo
Claiborne. How they used to rid
down to the sugar houses in thei
stately coaches, with little "niggers
up behind to open all the gates, ge1
orally a hoary headed "kerridge dri,
er" and a younger darkey to see tn.
all the harness was in order. The
Continued on page seven)
Woman's enterprise., 1921-11-18
TWO LEGENDS OF
IT'S DERIVATION
Of A NAME
RED STICK is THE FRENCH
MEANING OF NAME
OF CITY

There are two legends connected
with the naming of Baton Rouge. Du-
pratt in his history of Louisiana says
Baton Rouge is situated on the east
ern bank of the Mississippi river at
distance of 26 leagues above New
Orleans. "It is there" says he, zone
sees the famous cypress trees, from
one of which a ship carpenter made
two pirogues, one sixteen, the other
eighteen tons measurement. AS cy-G
press is red one Of the voyagers re-
marked that splendid cane or walk
ing stick might be made from one Of
these trees. From that time the place
was called Baton Rouge or Red Stick"
Another claims that the name Red
Stick was given this place by the first
French voyagers for the reason that
poles or sticks painted red were used
by Tunica Indians to mark the bound
aries between themselves and the
Houmas located on the lower
side of Bayou Manchez, formerly
known as the river Iberville.
Both statements are made by early
historians and the reader Of to-day
may make choice between them.
The first concession made by the
French government was to Diron
D'Artaguette but after the failure Of
Crozat, many wealthy individuals
were granted concessions including
the lands given D'Artaguette and en-
bracing nearly al that portion of this
parish fronting on the Mississippi
: river.
} In the year 1853 by reaty the
Floridas passed into the possession Of
the British with Captain George
: Johnston, Governor, who immediatel!
: sent detachment Of troops to Bato1
Rouge to construct small fort AM
= from that time Baton Rouge wa
Continued on page eight
Woman's enterprise., 1921-11-18
HOW SUGAR CANE
CULTURE Was
STARTED
HISTORY OF SUGAR INDUS
TRY IN ALL OF IT'S
BRANCHES
(Sarah Turnbull Sterling.)

The year 1749 marked an event
that was to make a great change in
the welfare of Louisiana. This was
the planting of sugar cane by Jean
Etienne de Bore, and the result-the
first we'll granulated sugar. Others
had tried, the Jesuits, 1751, Dubrls, a
wealthy planter, Mendez and Soils,
chad given some attention to the
planting of that reed', zone of them
boiled it's juice to syrup; the other
distilled it into a spurious liquor Of
a very inferior uality called taffia.'
"Bore was born in Kaskasia, in
the Illinois district, on December 27,
1741. His father was Louis de Bore
Of an old Norman family; his mother
was Therese Celeste Carriere de
Montbrum. Robert de Bore, one Of
the Councillors and Steward Of Louis
XIV household, was one Of Bore's
ancestors.
Etienne Bore received military
training, which may account for the
self reliance and frmness Of his char
acter. He married in 1771 the daugh-
ter of Destrehan, ex-treasurer OF Lou
isiana under French dominion.
Etienne de Bore settled presumably
on his wife's plantation in St. Charles
Parish and later exchanged it for one
about six miles from New Orleans,
which is now Audubon Park on the
upper limit.
Against the earnest solicitation OF
his wife, and friends, who thought
the climate too cold for the cane to
produce saccharine matter enough to
be profitable, he bought quantity OF
seed cane and commenced to build
his sugar house. A gentleman named
NORM who was in New Orleans from
San Domingo, went to see Bore to
expostulate with him, but being in
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