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Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
US. ENIOINS WESTERN UNION
British Cable Layer Had Been Warned
That Attempt To Land Cable Al
Miami Would Meet Force

New YOrk.-Injunetion proceedings
10 prevent the Western Union Tele-
graph company from landing its cable
from the Barbados. at Miami. Fla,
were instituted in the federal court
in New York recently. The object
OF the suit is to prevent the landing
on American soil by a British com
pany, in cooperation with the defend
ant telegraph company, of a cable
which now extends from the Barbados
to Brazil.
The government alleged, in its
pleadings that the contemplated cable
is monopolistic, as it holds an ex-
elusive franchise from the government
of Brazil, which provides that no 9TH
er company may connect by subma-
rine cable any two of the points with
in Brazil touched by the lines OF the
British company.
The pleading also recited that the
policy of the government for the past
80 years has been to secure Tor Amer
lean citizens the right to MAINTAIN
and operate cables between the Unit
ed States and foreign countries on
basis of equality with citizens of 9TH
er nations.
The practical effect of the Brazil
ian monopoly, it is alleged, is to shut
off the right of an American compa-
nv in the future of laying a direct ca
BILE between Brazil and the United
States; this would preclude the pos
sibility of connecting Rio de Janeiro
and other cities of the Brazilian sea
board directly with the United States
by submarine cable.
In the absence of permission to
land the cable on the Florida coast,
in August, 1920, the Western Union
Telegraph company, the pleadings al
legged, caused the British ship Colonla
to proceed to Miami for the purpose
of connecting that point with the Bar
BADGES by cable. Naval officers, act
ing under orders from the secretary
of the navy, boarded the British ship
and gave warning that any attempt to
land the cable on American mainland
would be resisted by force. Thereaf-
ter the Colonia proceeded to lay the
cable up to the three-7nile limit. One
end of the cable remains three miles
off the coast of Florida, while guards
are still maintained to prevent sur
price landing at Miami.
To circumvent the failure of making
a landing at Miami, the defendant
company spliced the Barbados line,
making a connection at Cojimar, four
miles from Havana, Cuba, thence to
Key West. President Wilson then re-
voked the permit for one of the ca
bles, and issued modified permit,
which directed that the lines should
not be a connecting link with Brazil,
where rights of entry by American
cable Companies are denied.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
MARINE CONTRACT
WILL BE PRoBED

Washington. - An investigation OF
the contract between the lnternat1o-
nal Mercantile Marine company, an
American corporation, and the British
government, will be conducted by the
shipping board at an early date, 1t
was announced after meeting OF the
board. An opportunity will be given
A. P. S. Franklin, president of the
company, and others interested, to be
heard.
Existence of such a contract was
first brought to public notice by Sen
ator Jones, of Washington, chairman
of the senate commerce committee, IN
an address before the annual conven-
ton of the National Merchant Marine
association. The senator said that
under it's terms the company agreed
to pursue mo policy injurious to the
interests of the British Mercantile
Marine or of British trade.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
WILSON SEEKS
PACT OF POWERS
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION rs BEN
EFlcENT IN ITS MAIN
PURPOSES"
DEPLORES ARMY INVASION
Wilson Declares That Armenian Peace
Rests Entirely On Russian
Problem.

Washington. - A public and SOL
emn" engagement among the great
powers not to violate or to permit the
violation of the territorial integrity
of Russia is regarded by President
Wilson as the sine quo non of an at
tempt at the pacification Of Armenia
and the other states bordering on the
once great empire.
The Presidents views are set forth
in a note transmitted to Paul Hymans,
president of the league of nation as
sembly, by Acting Secretary Davis un-
der date of January IS, and made pub
lie at the state department.
The "distressful situation" of Ar
menia, which has been invaded by
both the Turkish nationalists and the
soviets, is only one detail of the vast
Russian problem, the president says,
and he most earnestly urges, his
conviction that is only by a general
and comprehensive treatment of the
whole problem, only by full and gener-
GUS cooperation of the principal pow
ers that a hopeful approach to the pac-
ification and independence of Arme-
mia can be found
The president says that he never be-
lieved that the problems raised by
the Bolshevik coup dictate could be
solved by military actions from the
outside and he expresses the hope
that the recenttragical events on the
Polish front and in the Crimea have
convinced all the world the armed in
vasion is not the way to bring peace
to the people of Russia.
Mr. Wilson adds that these events
have only strengthened his conviction
that the Russian revolution, "benefi-
Gent in it's main purposes" must be
developed to a satisfactory conclusion
by the Russians themselves, with
such help from the outside may be
voluntarily received.
The problems, he says, is one of re-
lations between central Russia and the
surrounding smaller national groups.
Bitter and mutual distrust, he states,
is the cause of the unrest and inabili-
ty along the border; the struggling
new Nationalist, formerly part of the
Russian empire, are afraid to dlsarm
and return to the works of peace be-
cause they distrust the Bolshevikl
while the Soviets contend that they
are afraid to demoblize because they
fear new attacks.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
GOV. HARDING TO QUIT POST
Selected Because OF His Expert
knowledge OF Both Domestic
And Foreign Finanes

Washington. - Announcement has
been made by the bankers informa-
ton service that w. p. G. Harding,
governor of the federal reserve board,
will resign as soon after March as
President-elect Harding can name his
successor, and will become head of
the new hundred million dollar for
eign finance corporation recently or
ganized in Chicago under the Edge
act.
According to this announcement
Harding Will withhold his resignation
until the new president takes office,
rather than to give President Wilson
the unpleasant alternative of sending
a name to the senatew hich the SEN
ate would not confirm, or of leaving
the post vacant for the remaining
weeks of this administration.
Governor Hardings' action is expect
ed to have a very important bearing
on the formation of President Hard
ing's cabinet.
The effect will be to give the presi-
dent-elect two important financial
DOSlS 10 iii, lHolSdu VI OhC INC oCSA c
taryship of the treasury.
In other words, he will have posts
of practically equal importance for
Charles G. Dawes and A. w. Mellon. or
Dawes and ex-senator Weeks, or
whichever two of the candidates for
Secretary Houston's place he may de-
eide upon.
Governor Harding's present appoint
ment runs only until 1922. but the
man succeeding him now can, Of
course, be reappointed for ten years.
By many in Washington, as well as in
national financial circles, the post at
the head Of the reserve board is re-
garded as quite important as that at
the head of the treasury itself.
Harding was one of the original
members of the board when it was
formed in 1914, resigning the presi-
dency of the First National Bank of
Birmingham to accept the appoint
ment. He was made governor of the
board two years later.
He was one of the initiators of the
bankers movement leading to the for
nation of the new exporting corpora
ton of which he has just been tender
ed the presidency.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
CHARGES PLOT To
DESTROY Marine
ALLEGED BRITISH SHIPPING IN
TEREST ARE BY CERTAIN
U. S. PARTIES
ATTACK ON SOUTH'S PORTS
Criticism OF British And Foreign Ship
ping Interest Permeates
Convention

ashington.-Direct and implied
criticism of the attitude of British and
other foreign shipping interests to-
ward the newly created American mer-
chant marine permeated the sessions
of the second annual convention OF the
National Merchant Marine Associa-
ton.
Senator Jones of Washington, chair
man of the senate commerce commit
tee. in the course of his address, ac-
cused the chamber of commerce OF the
United States and its magazine the
Nations Business" as well as the
New York state chamber of commerce,
Of "wittingly or unwittingly' aiding
British shipping interests in their
fight against the American merchant
marine.
He declared these organizations
sought with eastern trunk railway Oh
ficiaIs to cancel the present equallza-
ton of export freight rates from cen
trail freight association territory TO
Gulf and South Atlantic ports.
Accomplishment of this, he added,
would turn exporting and importing
busines from the Gulf and South At
Iantic ports to New York, where, ne
asserted the British shipping interests
are centered.
THE excerpts quoted from an agree
ment of August, 19OS," Senator Jones
opined, do not leave any question
open to doubt as to where the inter-
national Mercantile Marine company
stands as regards British interests. The
question then naturally arises where
do ritBish shipping interests center in
the United States? The answer is
that they center almost entirely in the
port of New oYrk, where their large
terminal investments are located ana
from which most of their tonnage on
this side of the Atlantic sails.
consequently whatever helps the
mort of New oYrk benefits British ship
owners. A monopoly of expotr freight
sent drought the port of New YORK
spells greater profits for these Brit
ish owners. 1t follows then that the
British shipping men are IN accord
with the Eastern Trunk Line railway
officials who seek to cancel the pres
emf freight rates from Central Freight
association territory to Gulf and South
Atlantic ports"
{ Increased use of western and south
sleft4L by steamship lines was ad-
vocated by Harry H. Merrickk OF Chi
cago, president of the Mississippi Val
ley association.
at is up to u.s. he said, ito see
that the ships are properly distribute
ed and not controlled by any one or
several ports. We, of the Mississippi
Valley. see no reason why the distri'
button of our shipss hould be controll'
ed by the British admiralty or the
British board of trade"
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Hoover Warns OF Liverpool Dominance

Washington Destruction OF the
New York and New Orleans cotton
exchanges would transfer the hedging
practice to the Liverpool market and
make Liverpool dominant. Herbert
Hoover made this assertion before the
house agricultural committee, which
is considering bills looking to the reg
ulation of future exchanges. The re-
Iationship of the Liverpool market to
the two American cotton markets, he
asserted, needs careful inquiry smut
ting down consuming countries woulo
depress the price of cotton.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
r. M. HOUSTON, cHATTA-
NOOGA, TENN. CITIZEN,
MAY GET CABINET PLACE

Miami. -President-elect Hard
ing plans to write his inaugural adj
dress during his stay in Florida, ac-
cording to Frederick w. Upham, ma
tional Republican treasurer, who has
arrived to help "shoo away the
crowds" as he expressed it.
Mr.. Harding is expected to arrive
soon. He will come here from st.
Augustine on Senator Frelinghuysen,s
yaNaht. ~ No
A. T. Hert of Louisville and r. M
Houston of Chattanooga, Tenn, will
doubtless be chosen for cabinet posi-
lions, said Mr.. Upham.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27

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A 35-cent bottle of delightful
"Danderine" freshens your scalp,
checks dandruf and falling hair. This
stimulating "beauty-tonic" gives to
thin, dull, fading hair that youthful
brightness and abundant thickness
All druggists ADV.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Doesn't Remember Fight With Hinton

Rockaway, n. Y.-Recovering suffl-
GENTLY from the effects of his recent
balloon trip to the frozen north, Lieut..
Stephen A. Farrell appeared before a
naval board of inquiry and testified he
had scarcely any remembrance Of
coming to blows with his comrade.
Lieut.. Walter Hinton, on their return
TO civilization. The court had heard
Lieut.. Louis A. Kloor, balloon COM
mander, skirt the incident after Far
rell had learned the newspapers had
published letter from Hinton to Hin.
tons wife.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Seek Site To Make Potato Sugar

Washington-A party of government
officials from the bureau of chemistry
is now in Georgia inspecting various
sites in the southwestern part of the
state for the erection of an experiment
station to test the making of sugar
from sweet potatoes. Quitman and
Boston are among the towns anxious
to secure the station, and at the re-
quest of their boards of trade, through
Senator William j. Harris, the de-
partment of agriculture has directed
the party to visit these places before
returning to Washington. The deci-
sion will be made here by the officials
when the places have been inspected
and the claims considered.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
m skE pcs NOT UsE DRUes,
hHEYRE NOT THE KIND
FoR WEIGHT REDUCTION

Richmond, Va.-Malinda Ogden,
weight $50 pounds, scored clean
beat recently over Lieut.. Archie Holt,
amateur wrestling star of the Rich.
mond police force, when the officer
tried to arrest her single-handed for
alleged traffic in drugs.
Finding the task insurmountable,
Holt sent out an S. o. S. call and
another policeman rushed to his as,
sistance. The two officers managed
to get strange hold on her, pinning
her to the floor. Fearing they might
need a derrick to get their prisoner
into a patrol wagon, they decided to
walk to the first district station.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Amorous Urges Reserve Bank Loans

ashingtOn.-WaTIIH O"''
cotton producer of Marietta, Ca, toid
the house banking and currency COM
mittee that adoption of the joint reso-
luton directing the federal reserve
board to permit their member banks
TO make loans to cotton farmers
ON n basis of 25 cents a pound mig
ding on warehouse receipts, would
enable the growers to meet cost OF
production and bring relief to the
business world. Cotton growers are
not getting within 10 cents a pound
the cost OF production, he stated.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Net Increase In Mill Wages After GU

Westinghouse table published re
Gently says that if the maximum wage
cut of % 1925 so far reported from
any cotton mill were applied gener-
ally in the industry to 1920 scales, 1t
would leave an hourly wage 2.5 times
as high as prevailed in 1913, or Ia
times as high as 1918. The 1920
figures, the table shows, were SO
times as high as in 1907; 80 times
as high as 1918, and is times as high
as in 1918. The average full time
week for mule frame spinners in 1920
was 50.7 hours a week.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Tells OF Plane Wreck In Wintry Gale

Tells OF Plane wreck IN WlhtTy Na'e
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.-Lieut
H. V. V. Baugh, commander of the
seaplane NC.5, which was wrecked
and sunk when it ran into tremen'
dous hurricane, about forty miles to
the north of this city during it's at
tempted flight from San Diego, Cali
fornia, to Balbao, Panama Canal Zone,
told of his experiences recently to the
newspaper men. The seapiane was
one of the twelve which left San Diego
in December, 1920, for the canal
zone, and the weather was the worst
the lieutenant had ever encountered.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Eun.ra, or Ex.Kaiserin stirs Germany

Doorn.-Doctor Kan, secretary gen
eral of the Dutch ministry of the in
terror. has arrived here to discuss
matters relating to the former kaiser
ms illness, it is announced. Much
discussion has been evoked by the
reported determination of German au-
thorities not to permit burial of the
former kaiserin in Germany should
she die here. The authorities are re-
ported to have feared the pomp of a
royal funeral might awaken the mon
archists, and cause some sort of an
uprising.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Only Community Not In 1920 censu

Washington.-Disc has been
made by the census bureau that the
village of Longbeach, N. Y, Rs not
included in the 1920 decennialWensus,
no enumeration of population having
been taken there, Director Rogers has
informed Representative Siegel OF
New York. The village, which has
less than thousand inhabitants, is
the only community in the nation left
ont of the census, so far as the cen
sus bureau has determined up to this
time. 1t is not stated whether the cen
sus of the village will be taken.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
IL Not Now When?

Judge Ito old man)-Are you not
ashamed, such an old man, to steal?
Old MAXWELL. your honor, when 1
was young l was asked if l was not
ashamed, such a young fellow, to
steal? And when I was full grown, I
was asked if l was not ashamed, such
an able-bodied man, to steal? When
is a fellow to steal?
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
whiskerless Workers For N. Y. Cars

New York.-"A word to the wise
is sufficient" wrote George J. Muir
ply superintendent of the Third Ave-
nue. railway here, prefacing his quota
ton from Poor Richard" with an or.
der that all employees should appear
for work in proper uniform and be
shaved of all facial growths, from
moustaches and whiskers to the taw-
dry two-day growths.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
..,d,.. sIav 2 r. r. Men; Get $4,000

Toledo, ohio.-Six bandits killed two
railroad officers here after holding
nm an automobile and Selling $12,-
0oo belonging to the New York Cen
trail railroad. Louis Schroeder and A.
cccE Long were killed in resisting the
biphwaymen. The bandits intercept
ed the automobile coming up town
from the union depot with passenger
fare receipts. The six outlaws, in an
automobile, pushed the railroad auto
mobile into the curb and Immediately
fired a fusillade upon the railroad Of
ficers with the results stated
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Arrest Follows Killing OF Five People

Florence, S. edmund Bigham'
brother of L. S. Bigham, who was sup
posed to have killed his mother; his
sister Mrs. Marie Black, and two
adopted children, and then committed
suicide at Pamplico, near here, was
arrested on orders from the coroner,
who has been conducting an investi-
cation of the tragedy. Bigham was
brought here and placed in jail. Sew.
oral negroes will be arrested and held
as material witnesses, 1t Is learned
from the coroner. There is much IN
dipnation over the killing.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Claims Piece.Work System Is Best

Chicago.-Testimony in support of
the railroad contention that the piece
work system is more efficient than
the hour basis in wage computation,
was given by c. B. Radcliffe, general
car foreman OF the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad, before the railroad la
Dor board, which is hearing the rules
and working conditions dispute be.
tween rail employees and the roads.
Under the national agreements now
in force and which the railroads wish
abrogated, piece work was aooi-
ished.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
n,souised Woman Pawns Stolen eooes

BaItimore.-Mrs. Helen Wilder tint
ed her hair a different color each
time she visited pawnshops to dispose
of stolen articles valued at thousands
of dollars, according to information Sc
cured by the police today Mrs. VIII
der and her husband, Carl L. Wilder,
and William Braid of London are held
charged with many robberies. Wilder
has confessed, duplicating his wife and
her makeup outfit has been found. In
their visits to pawnshops police were
given different descriptions Of the
woman who pawned the jewelry.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Lower Rates Sought On Lumber

Memphis, Tenn.-A campaign for
lower freight rates on all grades OF
hardwood lumber was inaugurated at
the annual meeting of the Southern
hardwood traffic association here. I'm
der plans adopted the matter will be
taken up with railroad officials at
once. Under existing freight rates, 1t
was stated in resolutions adopted, it
is impossible to ship the lower grades
Of Southern hardwoods to the princi-
pal consuming markets in competition
with corresponding grades from North
ern producing points.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Trade Body Attacked In senat,

Trade Body Attacked In Senate
Washington federal trade com.
mission was attacked in the senate by
Senator Sherman, Republican of ILL.
nois. on the ground that it had "se-
riously impaired" American export
trade in meats by circulation abroad
of its reports charging the big five
meat packers with monopoly. In a
lengthy address opposing the pending
hill for federal regulation of the pack
ing industry, Senator Sherman declar
ed that the trade commissions re
norris were intended" to injure the
American packers export trade.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Planter Charged with Wife Murder

Aberdeen, Miss.-W. T. Thwe4tt, a
planter arrested here on aagHrant
charging him with murder id cRnnec-
ton with the burning to deathf his
wife December last, ,yhapman I'M
mary hearing. and sator of mamnA on
bond to await theMuseum of NatufS22-
roe county grandk. The Chinese gova
rest followed tAfed to cooperate with
I 1ef Jury which mas Ocen lnVestasaC-
ing the death of Mrs.T eatt since
her charred body was 4 pd in the
ruins of their home. Thu Jury held
Thwaett responsible for he% death.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27

Accept california" Syrup of Figs
only-look for the name California on
the package, then you are sure your
child is having the best and most harm
less physic for the little stomach. liver
and bowels. Children love its fruity
taste. Full directions on each bottle.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
CHICAGO Police Hunt For "Perfumer''

Chicago.-The police hunt for the
perfume witch" has redoubled fol-
lowing the finding of Mrs. Meta
Cherne, 23, bound hand and foot, be-
hind the piano in her home. The
Young woman's last recollection be-
fore Inconsistencies is that of an
encircling arm reaching from behind.
She may have been drugged. She
was not attacked. Her home was RI
fled. Miss Marie Francke, saleswom-
an, reported to the police an attempt
bv the perfume witch" to induce her
to smell an Oriental perfume"
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
Wouldn't Stay After That.

Billy went over to play at Arthur's
house but returned so soon that his
mother was surprised. "Why did you
come home so soon?" she inquired.
ooh, Arthur's father said somefin'
l didn't like an l coined right home"
"What was it he said?' questioned
mother.
"He said: Tell that noisy kid to
go home"
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
If This Bill Passes, Harding May Quit

Washington.-The president and
even senators and representatives
might have to take the streets to en-
low cigars, cigarettes or pipe as an
aid to statesmanlike reflection If a
hill offered by Senator Smoot becomes
a law. 1t forbids smoking in govern
ment departments or ANY independ-
emf establishment of the government"
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
ase.Huntlna Profitable Business.

In the swamps Of Florida the hunt
ing Of "bee trees" is profitable bust
ness. Record of wild honey deposits
of more than 300 pounds in hollow
trees has been noted. The trees are
located by hunters who follow the
flight of the bees. 1t requires keen
eyesght and n compass.