The Ordway new era., 1921-10-14

there was not single able-bodiet
seaman in its crew"
Weakness in the transverse girder>
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 tile testimony given At
the inquest. Weakness in the trans
verse girderS 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 one more employe
to your payroll this winter" To aid in
solving the Unemployment problem, by
Harry karr OF Baltimore. international
president of Kiwanls clubs, in an ad-
dress before the meeting OF the Penn
| sylvnnia district at Pittsburgh. Pa.
The first of q series of suits by the
| big packers to recover large sums Tor
alleged losses on war contracts. was
started in the Federal Court of Claims
at Washington. Swift x Company
asked damages of SI.5OO,O10 for
/ claimed losses on a four million
pound bacon contract, and it is under
stood by officials that other suits be-
ing prepared Will push the total up to
S1OOoO,000.
Pattie Perdue, woman. and Leon
Yiverett. both negroes, were convicted
at Forrest, Miss, of the murder of AL
ton Page, white citizen, and We're SEN
fenced to be hanged Nov. J. After
Page was killed his body was hacked
to pieces and after efforts to burn the
remains they We're buried in a negro
cemetery. After the arrest and confes-
sion of the couple Il 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
]. 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 5000 cars.
a prize OF 100000 for the discov-
cry of a medicinal remedy TO relieve
cancer has been offered by an anony-
nous donor through the CosmopoI-
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. 8, 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 at least
fifty cases.
Trapped by a fire in their home,
two sisters were smothered to death
in Detroit. They were Irene Badnick,
4 years old, and Eleanor Badnick, I.
A 12-year-old brother jumped from a
second-story window with a baby sis
ter in his arms. Both parents es-
capped.
Eight children were seriously in
jured when flying swing device at the
fair grounds at Brockton, Mass, gave
way, throwing one of the swings into
the crowd. The children We're taken
to a hospital and several other per-
sons were treated at an emergency
station.
Walter Bernard Sullivan, SO, part
owner of the Charlotte, y. c., OBJ
server, died in his hotel apartment
after brief illness. A widow and
young daughter survive him. He went
to New York few days ago. on his
way home from Denver, Colo, to see
the world series.
George Fl. Brennan, described by
the police as an owner of racing
stables who once had amassed a for
tune on the track, shot and killed his
wife in her apartment in New York
and then committed suicide. Bren-
an, 90. and his wife, 4S, had not been
living together for several years.
A dispatch to the Central News from
Rome quotes the Idea Nazfonale as de-
claring that the Jugo-Slavs made an
other attack against the Albanians at
Boda, to the north of Scutari, but met
with repulse, losing seventy-six men.
Albanian women and children partici-
pated 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
municate with supporters in Germany
by letter, and that telephone and tele-
graph messages will be censored.