The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-03-31

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John Thomas, aged 103, a Confeder-
ate veteran, fell into a well near his
home in Matthews county, Va, last
week and was drowned,
Directors Of the Mitchell Chamber
Of Commerce, Of Mitchell, S. D., voted
for the appointment of committee
Of three to begin statewide COM
paign to secure a constitutional
amendment changing the name of
South Dakota to Roosevelt.
Resumption of full time opera
fions, effective March %, was an
nounced Friday by the Hudson Motor
Car Company. The company has
been operating with a curtailed force
on a reduced working schedule for
several months.
Cattle in the United States were
estimated by the Department of Ag-
riculture in Washington Thursday Of
last week to number 66,191 900 head,
of which 23,431 900 are in dairy
herds, 33,824,000 in beef herds and
8,936,0O0 not classified.
Hubert Work, president of the
American Medical Association and
Republican national committeeman
from Colorado, was given a recess
appointment by President Harding
Monday as first assistant postmaster
general.
Eight sheet mills at the plant Of
the Whitaker-Glessner Company in
Portsmouth, Ohio, will resume Aprh
3, it was announced by company Of
ficials. The mills have been idle for
several months. This resumption
will give employment to approx
mately 75O men.
Farmers Of the United States lost
about $35,000,O00 last year as a re-
suit of hog cholera, the Department
of Agriculture in Washington esti-
mated in calling the attention Of pro-
ducers to the necessity Of vaccinat-
ing without delay hogs exposed to
this disease. Otherwise losses are
Inevitable" the department said.
Highwaymen early Monday blew
up the postoffice safe at Marshall
town, Delaware, and escaped with
$4,000 in cash, stamps and money
orders. Residents aroused by the ex-
plosion, ran toward the postoffice,
but the robbers opened fire and the
residents fled indoors. The yeggmen
are believed to have escaped in au-
tomobiles.
"A new record for an aerial flight
was established Friday, when an
army De Haviland plane, conveying
Assistant Secretary Of War Richard
Wainwright, flew from Washington
to Mitchell Field, at Mineola, N. Y,
in rs minutes. Driven by strong
gale, the plane covered the 225 miles
at the approximate speed Of 17S
miles an hour.
Naval authorities at Pensacola,
Fla, entered Monday upon the fifth
day Of search for trace Of the naval
ballon which has been missing since
last Tuesday, when it took air there
with five passengers. Although still
holding to the belief that the five
flyers have been picked up by some
fishing vessel, officials planned to
continue the search unremittingly.
The first installment Of income
and excess profit taxes for the year
1920, which were payable on March
is, have thus far Melted the govern
nent $626,O0O,OO0, Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Treasury Gilbert an
nounced recently. 1t is estimated
this total will be raised to $650,00O,-
900, which is about $100,000,000 in
excess of the amount treasury of
ficials had anticipated.
Managers Of every motion picture
theatre operating in Oklahoma City
have announced that they would not
consider running now or at any fu-
ture time, pictures in which Clara
Smith Hamon. recently acquitted Of
murder at Ardmore, Okla, is starred
Their announcement follows one by
Tom Roland, Tulsa, Okla, manager
for Oklahoma of national motion
pictr~e avchar~a, that his eamnanv
would not consider for release any
Clara Harmon pictures.
After series of experiments en-
during over Ia years, DR.. Nathan
Raw, M. p, a member of the Inter-
national Committee for the Proven
ton of tuberculosis, announced to
the Royal Society of Medicine in
London last week that he is con-
WINGED he has found means to pre-
vent the development Of tuberculosis
by incubation. He has high stand
ing III the medical profession, is
member Of Parliament from the
Liverpool division, served with dis
tincticn in the war, where he won
the d. S. G., and has written much
on his speciality. DR.. Raw was
delegate to the sixth international
congress on tuberculosis in Washing
ton in 1908.
Heads of all American diplomatic
missions have been notified by the
State Department in Washington
that they must get rid of all nom
American attaches by July l. The
full Americanization of embassies
and legations was provided for in