, 1921-10-13

by n heavy storm off h west coast
of Portugal. 1t is recalled that when
the Quest started out from England on
its voyage of exploration to the Ant
arctic, dispatches from London stated
there was not a 'single able-bodied
seaman in its crew."
Weakness in the transverse Orders
of the dirigible ZR-2 had been revealed
long before the fatal flight when two
score British and American air sailors
were killed. the coroner declared in
summarizing the testimony given at
the inquest. Weakness in the trans
verse Orders had been shown in tests
in May, said the coroner He based
his declaration upon evidence intro
duced from experts in the form of de-
positions.
GENERAL
Every Kiwanian in the United States
was urged to add n more employee
to your payroll this winter to aid in
solving the unemployment problem, by
Harry Karr of Baltimore, international
president of Kiwanis clubs, in an ad-
dress before the meeting of the Penn
~sylvania district mt Pittsburgh, Pa.
The first of a series of suits by the
big packers to recover large sums for
alleged losses on war contracts, was
started in the Federal Court of Claims
at Washington. Swift & Company
asked damages of S1,500,000 for
claimed losses on a four million
Mound bncon contract and If 10 undar
stood by officials that other suits be-
ing prepared will push the total up to
$4,000 600.
Pattie Perdue, a woman, and Leon
Niverett, both negroes, were convicted
at Forrest, Miss, of the murder of AL
fenced to he hanged Nov. 4. After
Page was killed his body was hacked
to pieces and after efforts to burn the
remains they were buried in a 9
cemetery. After the arrest and confess
sion of the couple a special term of
courtw as held to avert a lynching.
New York state has 721 ,4Ss auto
mobiles, or one to every fourteen of
its residents, according to an an
nouncement by Secretary of State John
J.. Lyons, covering the registration for
the first half of this year. That New
York state residents have been buying
cars this year is shown in the fact
that the registration for the first half
of this year exceeds all of last year
by approximately $4,000 cars.
A prize of 100000 for the discov-
cry Of a medicinal remedy to relieve
cance has been offered by an anony-
nous donor through the Cosmopoli-
tan Cancer Research Society of Brook
lyn. The reward will be known as the
Cosmopolitan cancer prize and was
made in anticipation of the observance
of national cancer week, Oct. 80 to
Nov. ., when physicians, surgeons,
chemists and scientists will hold ma
tion-wide clinics and conferences deal
ing with the disease. Requirements
of the award call for method of treat
ment, formulas and full Information,
with therapeutic proof In ut least
fifty cases.
Trapped by n fire In their home,
two sisters We're smOthered to death
In Detroit. They were Irene Badnick,
4 years old, and Eleanor Badnick, Z.
A 12-year-old brother jumped from a
second-story window with n baby sis
ter in his arms. Both parents es-
capped.
Eight children were seriously in
jured when II flying swing device at the
fair grounds ut Brockton. Mass, gave
way, throwing one of the swings into
the crowd. The children were taken
to II hospital and several other per-
SOM We're treated at an emergency
station.
Walter Bernard Sullivan, 30, part
owner of the Charlotte. y. C.. OBJ
server, died In his hotel apartment
after n brief Illness. A widow and n
young daughter survive him. He went
to New York II few days ago. on his
way home from Denver, Colo, to see
the world series.
George IL. Brennan, described by
the police as an owner OF racing
stables who once had amassed IA for
tune on the truck, shot and killed his
wife in her apartment in New York
and then committed suicide. Bren-
an, 63, and his wife, 4s, had not been
living together for several years.
A dispatch TO the Central News from
Rome quotes the Idea Nazionale as de
clarlng that the Jugo-Slavs made an
other attack against the Albanians Mt
Boda, to the north Of Scutari, but met
with repulse, losing seventy-siN men.
Albanian women and children partlcl-
pnted In the fighting, according TO the
dispatch.
william Hohenzollern has been noti-
fled by the Dutch government that he
will no longer be permitted TO com
munlcate with supporters in Germany
by letter, and that telephone and tele-
graph messages will be censored.