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New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15
Abandon Hope for Lost Aairmen.

Neutrality-suspicious. has practically
been abandoned by the Navy Depart
ment that the five men who left the
Pensacola Fla. air station in free bal
loon A, 1904. March %, will ever be
found alive. according to IN announce
ment made at the department. The
search has not been entirely aband-
oned. the statement said, but little
hope is entertained that either the men
or the balloon will be found.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15
Makes Plea Adam Made.

Salt Lake city, Utah.-E. 4. Ed
wards was arrested for having liquor
in his possession. he said the liquor
belongs to a woman adam tried to
blame his offense of eating the apple
on a woman" said Judge Fred Crock
EFT of the Municipal Court. addressing
the accused, land your plea reminds
be of a similar plea on the part Of u
first parents." Edwards was fined
$40.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15
Boy Given Light Sentence.

Chicago-Franeis J. Carey. employs
Of the National City Bank Of ottawa.
I'LL. who stole se6.Oco. was sentenced
10 one year to the National Training
School at Washington. II. g. by Judge
X. NJ. lands. Members of Congress
sought to impeach Judge lands when
the court blamed officials Of the bank
for the crime because Carey. who IL
10, was forced TO support his mother
on a s90-a-mOnth salary. The Judge
made no m in passing sentence.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15
Women to Rule Town.

Thayer. Kan.-Two widowed grand
mothers, three housewives and a tele-
phone operator will direct the destinies
of this village of 400 for the next year.
An entire woman's ticket vas swept
into power when votes Of the munich
pal election were counted.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15
India Cuts Wheat Acreage.

washington.-A reduction of be-
tween 100000 and 6,OOO,OO0 acres
planted 10 wheat in India as compared
with last year was announced by the
Department of Agriculture in predict
ing reduced production there. Last
wears crop of 317. 100000 bushels, how
has been exceeded but twice.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15
To Form Citizens Reserve.

New York; citizens reserve corps
of the army on the basis of voluntary
service instead II compulsory training,
which it is hoped will be trained un-
der the direction of Gen. John J. Per
shing. is under formation, army Of
ficials announced here. The first move,
they said. would be establishment of
camps. Plans are to make the camps
in some respects an outing, with uni
forms. food and transportation fur
nislled by the government.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15
Driver Blown TO Pieces.

TIominy, Okla.-A. W. Weed, driver
of Il nitroglycerine truck for the Usage
Torpedo Company of Pawhuska, Okla,
was instantly killed when a hundred
quarts of nitro glycerine exploded
about five miles west Of here. Weed
was alone at the time.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15


Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood has been
orederd to the Philippines to study
conditions in the islands, and TO make
a report thereon for the benefit of the
government. The general, as the coun-
try knows. has been offered the gov
ernor generaiship of the Philippines,
but the understanding is that as soon
as his study of the situation is over,
he will return to the United States
and make his report, retire from the
service, and become provost OF the
University of Pennsylvania.
The administration seems to be con
WINGED that things are not altogether
right in the Philippines. BE this as
il may, il is definitely known that the
FilipinoS expected that the United
States soon would release them from
what they probably look on as bond
age, and make of them an %independ-
ent people. Bluntly speaking, there
seems to be no such thought on the
part Of the officials in Washington.
They do not believe that the Filipino
is ripe for independence, and that 1t
will be some time before he can be
turned loose with safety 10 care Tor
himself.
II is charged in Washington that
American officials in the Islands in the
last eight years have encouraged the
FilipinoS in their belief that soon they
r.,,. =. l.. ... Fr.. A1rnllN TIiS ON
couragement, it is said, has had the eff
feet of producing unsettled conditions.
There have been troubles in various
parts Of the possessions, aud the con
slant assertion is that the wards or
the government are acling in advance
rs if they We're no longer subject TO
American rule. These are the charges
made, ana General Wood is going over
TO find out all about il.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15
HAYWOOD MUST
co TO PRISON
DECISION OF SUPREME COURT
DENIES EFFORT AT FREEDOM
FOR !. W. W. CHIEF.
|. ". ". LOSE APPEAL
PLEA FOR GENERAL AMNESTY
WILL BE MADE TO SAVE
l.. w. W. LEADERS,.
Western Newspaper Union N,ws strIlee }

Washington, April l2.-Nllllam u
Haywood and seventy-nine other III
,IuStrial Workers of the World con-
yicted before Federal Judge Lands OF
Chicago in 1918 of attempting to OBJ
struct the governments prosecution oI
the war, must return To prison as Il re-
sult of the refusal of the supreme
Court Ia review their convictions.
Haywood. Il former secretary OF the
/. W. W, and fourteen others were
sentenced 10 twenty years each ana
fined sums ranging from SECOND to
S35.oOu. They and others were sent
10 the federal penitentlary al LehNell-
worth, Kan. but were released on BAN
bonds aggrcgating S5o0,oo pending
the outcome of their appeals.
The trials resulted from Il RAID on
the offices and homes of members VI
the |. W. ". by the Department OF
Justice on Sept. !, 1917. \ total of l66
men were brought into court ON
charges of violating the selective serV-
ice and espionage acts and nlnetN-seN-
en- were convicted. Some served their
sentences. In appealing 10 the SUI
creme Court the men argued that Inc
principal evidence used against them
was illegally obtained in that il was
seized by federal agents during the
raid without search warrants.
Chicago.-A request for general am
ueSty viii be the neNt step III the Ell
forts to save from prison William D.
Haywood and his associates.
This was announced by otto CHRIS
tenson. attorney for Haywood. He
said he would attend the meeting TO
be held at Washington at which mem
bers of the Socialist party intend to re-
quest amnesty for Eugene '. Debs ana
other prisoners.
The appeal for amnesty for Hay
wood. he said, would be based on he
ground that he is ii political prls-
oner."
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15
Wilson's Health Improves.

Woodrow Wilson. former President
Of the United States. has been living
for some little time In the residence
to which he moved directly from the
White House on the Harding Inaugural
ton day. Reports from the former
Presidents physicians, and from his
friends, is that Mr.. Wilson has made
more rapid progress toward recovery
of his strength In the month Of March
than he did from the time that he was
stricken until the day that he cropped
the cares of Office.
1t probably is something TO get ones
mind free. There are no worries. or
presumably none, In the American
home with its pleasant garden brieked
in with walls covered with glistening
English ivy. The Wilson home today
is the center of a good deal of public
interest. Visitors 10 the capital In
large numbers walk by the house to
see after what manner a former Pres
ident Is domiciled. and Washington
residents themselves frequently make
s street a Sunday afternoon thorough
fare
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15
Strong as Gibraltar.

Officials of the War department
realize that because of the isolation
of the Philippines ordinary fortiiica-
tions would be of comparatively lit
tie use If there should be a sudden Mt
tack by an enemy. Corregidor, forti-
fled as ii is, has changed the whole
face of affairs as far as ease of APP
proach to Manila is concerned. If the
Spaniards years ago had been given
the sense 20 fortify properly this rock
island AT the entrance TO Manila bay,
Dewey might been shut out from his
victory of May, 1898. Army officers
aud naval officers have said that Cor
regidor is as strong as Gibraltar.
All the work that the United States
has done in the philippines in the way
Of constructing fortifcations has gone
on with comparatively little notice.
All the work has been done by Amer
leans, no foreigner eve having been
allowed 10 take part in II, ever TO the
extent of digging a spadeful Of earth
or blasting a rock. If the American
fleet should meet with disaster in
eastern waters. Manila bay would
prove to be a safe place for refuge
for the vessels that manage TO escape
destruction
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15
Wood Goes to Philippines.

pretty tightly chained to his Washing
ton office.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15
Wood May Break News.

W nen the lnlleu states S|uNeInHleIlt,
ms il is almost certain to do. breaks
the news to the Filipinos that they
are not to be set free at once, the
breaking of the news must be done
automatically, and with every precau-
ton to avert serious troubles. If the
job of telling the Islanders the truth
shall fall to General Wood, he prob
ably will be able to do il in a way
which will reduce to the least pos
sible minimum the resentment which
is sure TO follow. Wood has n way
with him" Normally, he is exceed
ingly gentle, but If duty demands he
is stern.
Washington officials, legislative and
executive, when they talk about the
subject AT all. say that the main rea-
son for not turning the Filipinos loose
is that with racial and other condi-
lions as they are in the Islands. free
dom would bring instant disorder.
They go on to say that ever since
Dewey's day the United States govern
ment has been conducting an upbuild-
ing work in the Philippines, the peo-
pie themselves and the institutions
forming the material for the labor OF
construction. 1t is declared here that
the Islanders have advanced wonder
fully. but that they have not yet
reached the plane of efficiency, self
restraint and temperament which will
enable them to be a s~elf-governlng
people. The argument of the OPP
poncnts of immediate liberation is
that il is better To go on with the
work until success is assured rather
thar to turn a people loose who can
not complete the work for themselves.
There is also some fear In Wash
ington that If the Islanders are re-
leased from United States control,
they may be gobbled up on some pre-
- III. l.. ..asl.. ara
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-31
CINNERS REDUCE
PRICE OF WORK
NOW HANDLING COTTON AT
FIFTY CENTS A HUNDRED
INSTEAD OF SEVENTY

Some time ago the Louisiana
ci,nera association met in Alezan-
andria and fixed the price OF ginning
this season at seventy cents per
hundred for lint cotton There were
some newspaper comments on the
price fixed by the association, show
ing that while tn eginners charged
about ninety cents for ginning the
wartime period. cotton was tnen
worth forty cents and better per
pound.
When the seventy-sents rate was
agreed TO cotton was selling for
about ten cents. There has been
material raise in the market since,
and the cut from seventy cents per
hundred for ginning indicates that
there hc- been a disagreement
somewhere or that realization Oh
the short crop yield forced every
ginner to reduce costs in order 20
bring on competition tha is the
life of trade.
The producers are pleased at the
reduction for it represents saving
of one dollar per bale on the cost
of getting their crop ready for mar
keting. Pickers are only being paid
about fifty cents per hundred for
gathering the seed cotton and as 1t
takes three hundred pounds of seed
cotton to make one hundred pounds
of lint, and the harvesting therefore
costs and ginning costs Of one hun
dred pounds of lint represent 81. or
SO for a FIVE hundred pound bae.
not counting the bagging and ties, II
is easy to figure that the producers
re forced to pay large part of the
bale just for those two minor ends
of production.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-31
Death Of Louis Mersch

Died. in New Orleans, at Hotel
Dieu, on last Sunday at 1890 O'CLOCK
B. Louis Mersch, native OF Belgium
a resident of France and for more
than a quarter of a century a citizen
Of Louisiana, aged "a years. The re-
mains were taken to New IBERIA
former home of his wife, where they
were inferred Monday evening.
Mr.. Mersch and family resided IN
Rayne for many years before moving
to Opeiousas. He had rsided here
for the past eighteen months ana
during his short stay among us nad
drawn to him large circle OF friends
and acquaintance. He was esteem
ed by all who knew him. He leaves
a wife, three daughters and two sons
as vel as a number of close relatives
in France to mourn his passing. To
them the Star-Progress tenders Its
sympathies.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-31
MISSISSIPPI MAN
GETS BIG CONTRACT
ON PARISH HIGHWAY
Rumored, However, He May be Dis
qualified and Frank Roberts
Would Win Out

AS per advertisement and public
notice given the board of state en-
gineers last Monday, at their office
of the Masion Bladche annex, New
Orleans, awarded the contract for
building the link of the Pershing
highway from Bayou Courtableau, at
Washington, north to the Avoyelles
parish line near Gold Dust, "a dis
tance Of slightly over twenty.three
miles, according to the official sur
vey.
A large number of bids we're sub
mitted, there bing wied variation
in the AMOUNTS named each con-
tractor offered to do the work for,
the lowest bid being made by a
Mississippi contractor, and he was
awarded the contract. pending an in
vestigation of his ability ocomplete
the work. In this connection it was
rumored that his bid would be re-
jected, in which event the contract
would then go to the firm represent
ed by Frank S. Roberts, former Ope-
lousas civil engineer. now residing
in Crowley.
The bid submitted by Mr.. Roberts
on behalf of his firm, Wimberly and
Mcbride of Church Point, was
about twelve hundred dollars high
er than the one submitted by the
Mississippi man. Mr.. Roberts and
his firm have had considerable ex
perience in building modern high
ways and it is felt certain that
should they win out in this big con
tract they would make good from
every angle.
There is a well-defined rumo.
afloat that an effort viii be made
to have the contract just let cover
Main street in the town of Wash
ington, that is to say, from the
Bayou Carron bridge north through
the town, and not from the NORTH
side of Bayou Courtableau, which i
outside the corporation of the muni
cipalny. The added distance is less
than a mile but as there would be
considerable grading near the des
cent of the hill to the CarroI
bridge the expense of that link o.
the highway would naturally be grea
ter The idea has been well received
however.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-31
WORK BEGUN HARVESTING
ST. LANDRY CORN CROP

Many farmers report that they
have already started to harvest the
1921 corn crop grown on their
farms. This is somewhat earlier than
usual but they state that owing to
the earliness OF planting and the fact
that this section has been very dry
for the past month or two the crop
is thoroughly cured and is ready to
gather and crib, there being no dan
ger of the grain moulding from ex-
cessive moisture 1t is a hot job and
especially so where the fields are
growing with cowpeas and velvet
beans. Teams and wagons as we'll as
the men have a difficult time pulling
through the tangle Of vines. Those
farmers who do fall plowing will start
their teams and heavy listers to work
right behind the wagons and cover
the rank growth, thus adding vege-
table humus to the soil and insuring
a better crop another year.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-31
SELECTED
ACTING POSTMASTER
TRoscLAlR, RETIRING FROM OF
FIcE, NOTIFIED TO TURN 1T
OVER TO FORMER HOLDER

Goldman L. Lassalle, who acted as
postmaster during the Taft admins
tration and was succeeded by ]. P.
Trosclair, will in turn succeed the
latter who recently resigned to en-
gage in the cotton business.
Mr.. Trosclair received official ac-
knowledgment Monday of his resig-
nation and the department notified
him to turn the office over to Mr.
Lassalle who had been selected act
ing postmaster until regular ap-
pointment can be made.
The cange in administration will
occur tomorrow, Thursday, Septem-
ber /, when the accounts of the Of
flee will be checked over and Mr.. Las
sale finally installed as postmaster
for Opelousas. He is a republican
in politics and occupies quite prom
inent position in the ranks Of that
party in Louisiana. His selection
was a foregone conclusion, ana as ne
made such an excellent official dur
ing his previous tenure of the office
everybody is expecting him to equal
his former record in the same capaci,
ty.
AS to a permanent successor, the
public seems to be somewhat III
doubt. Some aver tina ia civil service
examination will be called while 9th
ers acknowledging the correctness OF
this assumption, state that none
but a republican need apply" Others
are positive that Mr.. Lassalle will get
the full appointment and be actual
postmaster instead of acting.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-31
WEEK
AT THE PRINCESS
LOCAL SHOW WILL CELEBRATE
OCCASION BY SHOWING PIC
TUREs or NOTED ACTORS

For the past three years, says Man
ager Dietlein, the Princess theatre,
together with thousands of motion
picture shows throughout the coup-
try has reserved the first week of
September exclusively for Paramount
pictures. The week is known the
country over as Paramount Week"
and has become a national institution
with motion picture fans as well as
the theatre managers.
'gFhis year." continued Manager
Dietlein, proves no exception to the
thousands of motion picture theatres
in this country, and ninety per cent
of these will show Paramount pic
lures between September 2 and 10.
The Princess theatre has lined up
with the vast majority, as in former
years. and the Management will an
nounce the Paramount Week pro
gram the end of the present week.
'The Famous Players-Lasky cor
poration, producers of Paramount pic
lures. is, without exception, the lead
er in the motion picture field and is
the acknowledged Ieadre in the man
ufacture of fine pictures. During the
past season." concluded Mr.. Dietleir
Give Paramount pictures were chos
en- in a possible selection of the ter
best pictures that were released dur
ing that season"
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-31
COTTON RISES TO
new HIGH LEVELS
BUYERS, REALIZING sHoRTNEsS
OF 1921 CROP, BID EAGERLY
FOR STAPLE AS OFFERED

The impelling influence under the
cotton market is sending the price up
wards every week day, and the most
optimistic bear hasn't been able %
stem the tide and bring on the reac-
tion whereby the spectators could
profit as the farmers caught the
brunt of the rough end of devastat-
ing collapse of price.
Monday the market showed anoth-
er healthy advance of thGrty4seven
points and spots followed suit by at
tanning the IA IL cents price. Old
crop cotton was sold in Opelousas
early Monday at IA IA per pound
and during the day new crop stuff
fetched a quarter cent more. The
bulls are being sustained in their
campaign by government reports and
other reports of poor conditions
throughout the belt and the prospects
of the shortest yield in many years,
The bears have played the carry
over" racket so long that it has worn
threadbare and people and producers
refuse to lend a listening ear tc. th'
siren song of the fellows who prof
only when the producers take a Ions
slide down the toboggan.
The new crop with the carry-oVe'
will represent but about sixteen mil
lion bales and the world can cor
sumo that much without running tn
risk of being overgorged. With tn
1920 and 1921 crops entirely on
of the way and the further prospect
of the 1922 crop being short even thl
far in advance, the south's great MOI
ey crop is certain to get back on
solid foundation again. despite til
efforts of certain classes OF speculi
tors to KEEP it depressed when the
are buying and kited upwards whe
they sell.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-31
BALL GAME BLOWS
UP FOR The SEASON
PLAY OUT AND HIRED
TEAM DIBANDS-LOCAL TAI
ENT LOSES ENTHUSIASM

The ball game for the season is at
an end, so far as Opelousas is con-
cerned. This is sad news for some
OF the fans, and we noted one parti-
cularly enthusiastic rooter, who
hasn't missed a game this summer,
who had long-drawn and haggard
look on his otherwise beaming c9un-
tnance Sunday afternoon. The cause
wasn't hard to guess-no ball game
and no place to go and it was too
"dry" to even try to articulate-so he
said nothing and simply scowled.
The game that was supposed TO
have been played with Thibodaux
Sunday didn't materialize and the
"home boy team that was to play
for opelousas did not go to the La
fourche capital because 1t was deem
cd unwise to make the long trip ana
meet one of the strongest teams in
this part OF the state.
plans are being matured for the
game next season, and by thus TAX
ing time by the forelock the head
knockers of the game in opelousas
expect and hope to organize team
for 1922 that will really prove invinc-
ible. The team the past season was
one of the best semi-pro aggregatlonS
in the state, and while it met seVerai
defeats at the hands of both Lake
Charles and Patterson, it must be re-
membered that those towns nave
been in the game for several years
and the interests back of the teams
have had an unlimited amount OF
money and was thus able to hire the
very best players, including num-
ber of exleaguers, in order to WIN oF-
er the smaller and weaker teams OF
this part Of Louisiana.