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Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
THE WORLD OVER
Interesting Items Of Present
Important Happenings.
EVERY ITEM A NEWS ITEM
Relating to the Latest Happen
iRgs of Interest Just Now
Throughout the World.
EVERY ITEM A NEWS ITEM
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Agreement for a 3O-day recess of
congress beginning August 20, contin-
gent upon passage by the house before
that date of the tax and administration
agricultural credit bills was reached
at White House luncheon conference
between President Harding and Sena-
tors Lodge and Curtis.
Reductions of approximately $780,
600, 900 in taxes and $525.00O,O0O in
government expenditures this fiscal
year we're agreed upon at conference
between President Harding, Secretary
Mellon and republican leaders of the
house of representatives, including
members Of the ways and means COM
mittee
Major General Leonard Wood, it has
been authoritatively stated, is TO be
selected by President Harding for gov
ernor of the Philippines and to have
expressed his willingness to accept the
post. A bill designed to remove all
doubt of eligibility of General Wood
for the governorship was introduced
by Chairman Wadsworth of the senate
military committee and understood to
have been suggested by the admins
tration 1t provides that active army
officers shall be eligible for civil of.
fices of the government in administer.
ing it's territorial possessions"
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25

VXTASHINGTON. - The government
w obtained $1,269,OOO,OOO in rev.
enue from personal income taxes in
1919-an increase of $141, 100000 COM
pared with 1918-according to pre-
liminary report by Internal Revenue
Commissioner Clair.
The commissioners report showed
there were 5,338,760 personal returns
Med In the calendar year 1919, repre-
senting a growth Of 907,646 from 1918,
while the total amount of net income
reported for 1919 was $18,859, 900, 900,
an increase of $3,934, 100000 over the
previous year.
The average net income per return
for 1919 was $3,724.O5, the average
amount Of tax $238.O8, and the aver
age tax rate $50 per cent.
There were 65 returns of net in
come Of S1,OOO,OOO and over; 189 of
$500,0O0 to $1,OOO,OOO; 425 Of from
100000 to 100000; 1884 of $15O,OOO
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25

frieslGnd demonstrated the hard, cold
fact that the battleship can be quickly
sunk with heavy bombs dropped from
the air, and that the dreadnaught can
be disposed of by dropping bombs into
the water, without even hitting the
ship.
The airplane carrier, a gigantic
naval vessel, larger and speedier than
any warship afiOat, fast as the de-
strOyer, and carrying a cargo Of many
planes-pursuit reconnaissance, and
bombing-is regarded as the best way
to meet this new aircraft bombing
menace to the battleship.
Those in charge Of naval aviation
plans think the navy should be pro-
vided with eight hirplane carriers,
each to carry 80 planes ready for in
slant action, and SOan knockdown con.
dition, ready to be assembled at once.
Each carrier would cost S2s.6OO.OOO.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
Query: Does He Really Carry a Gun?

after Braun. Women spectators
shrieked. Mrs. Johnson was the first
to act. She threw herself upon her
husband, holding his right arm,
screaming: mo, you must not do
that"
A second later Representative Pet
ers Of Maine, chairman Of the COM
mite, tackled johnson football fash
ion. Two more of his colleagues, Rep
resentatiVes Flood of Virginia and
Luhring Of Indiana, rushed to his as.
sistance. Johnson, struggling with the
fury Of a madman, was on the verge
Of shaking of his captors, when a
husky captain of marines went to
their aid.
Meanwhile Sergeant-at-Arms Joe
Rogers started to lead Braun out Of
the room. Johnson cursed with the
vehemence Of a pirate.
"Am / not going to have a chance
to settle with that-7" he shouted.
won't this committee let me punish
him; that f1ag-hating-W
The committee and Mrs. johnson
and the marine captain held him tight.
AS he left the hearing room, johnson
said: 81 would have killed him in an.
other second If 1 had not been held
back"
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
Fund to Fight Open shop.

William KOhn, secretary of the ex
ecutive committee Of the Cleveland
Building Trades council, announced
that he had been elected president
OF the International Upholsterers
union in place of James r. Hatch, re-
signed, and that the first act of the
international union under his presi-
dency would be to collect a national
anti-Open shop fund of $25O,OOO.
AS another precautionary measure,
we are going to organize all women
employed in the upholstering trade in
the country" said Kohn. TN the
event of strikes against the open shop
we plan to establish cooperative
shops in all localities where strikes
occur"
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
Need of Navy Now AirpIane Carriers

THE destruction by army air bomb
ers of the German dreadnaught
Oestfriesland has convinced leading
military and naval strategists that
control Of the air is now the most
urgent need Of our national defense.
The best of these experts, even those
most enthusiastic and forward looking
in their claims for aircraft, do not
concede that the battleship, as the
fighting bulldog Of the sea, has been
made obsolete, but they do insist Wig
orously that battleships, as the strong
right arm of national defense, are go
Ing to be worse than handicapped un-
less they can be accompanied to sea
with sufficient aircraft to drive of en-
emy bombing planes.
sect airplane carriers and get them
quickly" exclaimed one prominent
naval officer who witnessed the sink
ing Of the Oestfriesland. England al
ready has six airplane carriers" he
continued. Japan is getting two. The
United States has none, except the old
collier Jupiter now being turned into
one, and unless congress changes its
mind, win possess no adequate car
riers for some time to come.
''In the naval appropriation bill con-
gress refused to heed the recommends
tion for two airplane carriers. That
was before the bombing Of the Oest-
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25

pletely extemporized or materially re.
organized upon the occurrence of an
emergency, the new law provides that
they shall be allOcated by territory,
that their officers and men shall be
assigned to local units, and that as
funds become available provision shall
be made for the training of these off,
GERS and men.
"As the law provides for a military
expansion by reinforcement of the
regular army from the organized citi.
zen forces, the President directs that
these forces shall be developed to the
fullest extent and that the maximum
practicable number Of carefully select.
ed officers of the regular army be EN-,
plOyed for that purpose"
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.


Dallas, Texas, Monday received Its
first rain in 35 days.
Italian citizens in the United States
wish to pay a tribute to Secretary
of State Hughes, so he has agreed to
pose for a painting by Giuseppe Trotta,
distinguished Italian artist, which is
to be presented by Italians in this
country to their home government.
The will of Tom Cooper. fatally
shot at Fort Worth, was filed for pro.
bate today, bequeathed 100000 to his
wife and made her sole executrix.
Mrs. Cooper was charged with her
husbands murder. pleading self de-
tense.
Tom Knode, civilian aviator of Enid,
Okla, and Miss Acme Jane Campbell,
Is, passenger, daughter. of Mr.. anil
Mrs. Herman Campbell of Norman,
were killed instantly when an airplane
In which they were flying crashed
400 feet to the ground near Granite,
Okla.
r. 8. Cousins has been elected su
perintendent of the city schools of
Houston. Prof Cousins was elected to
fill the unexpired term of Superinteud
ent p w. Horn. Professor Cousins
was for six years State superintendent
of the public schools of Texas and left
that service in 1910.
A young man believed to be Schuy
Ter Adams, an aviator, was fatally in.
jured by a plunge from the fourth
story of a hotel at Portland. Me. He
had registered as H. S. Adams, Boston,
U. S. N. Papers in his suit case indi.
Gated he had been in the air service at
Fort Worth and other places.
Representative Young of North Da.
kota, author of the emergency tariff
bill, has introduced in the house
bill to extend the life of the emer.
gency measure for two months. Agree.
ment was reached by house members
yesterday at the White House to ex.
tend the law over until a permanent
tariff act is passed ~ congress.
County commissioners court of Dal
las County fixed the tax rate for cur.
rent fiscal year at 871a cents on the
800 valuation, which is 1212 ceLts
higher than last year. The increase
represents a 13-cent tax for retiring
$6,O0O,O0O worth of road bonds. add
was agreed to by voters when the
bonds were issued two years ago.
Numerous isolated dwellings and
small settlements lying between River
Hebert on the shores of Crignecto bay
and oxford have been wiped out by
a forest fire, which swept that sec.
tion. Driven by a i0-mile wind, the
blaze spread over nearly 100 square
miles of territory and scores of per.
sons in its path were forced to flee
for their lives.
The southbound Sunshine Special on
the Texas and Pacific Railway struck
a man and woman who were watkins
along the track near Marshall. The
man was so badly injured that he died
a few minutes after the accident. The
woman was carried to Marshall to the
hosplral. The mans name was Ray.
mond Reese, but the name of the wO
man is not know, here.
Ths steamer Stockholm from Goth.
enburg has arrived with 58 cases OF
gold bars, valued at $1,8OO,OOO, con,
signed to the National Bank of Com
merce.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
Only a Shelf.

Recently a fire in North Delaware
street nearly destroyed the home Of
one of the residents. 1t was all new
and interesting to one of the little
neighbors, who heard some one say
"there was nothing but a she'll Of the
house left" All excited, he ran to his
mother saying: "You know that house
that burned? Well, there's nothing
left in 1t but shelf."-Indianapo
News,
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25

The Homestake Mining company
whose mine in the Black Hills is one
Of the great gold producers of the
world, has announced a general reduc-
ton In the wages Of its hundreds of
employees of 90 cents a day.
In announcing the reduction, the
company issued a statement calling at
tention to the present economic condi-
tiOns throughout the country as justi-
ficatiOn for the reduction.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
Women Rln Wane.Earnern.

A glance over the income tax re-
veals large number of women who
are earning very large salaries. They
shine In the moving picture and theat-
rical professions, as well as in fnan-
cial and business undertakings and
positions Of great responsibility.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
Spanish Coal Miners Nav Strike.

The coal miners in the district of
Asturtas, Spain, are threatening a
strike for higher wages. A strike
would affect 1000 men. The miners
committee has issued manifesto say.
ing that the owners make a profit of
100000 pesetas on the 100000
tons of coal mined.
The miners are demanding wage
increases which would raise the cost
Of production by 24,OOO,OOO pesetas,
they say, which would leave the own
ers profit of S3,OOOOOO pesetas, or
p per cent on the capital invested.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25

lee Raise In New South Wales.
e New South Wales federal basic
commission recommends consid-
BE Increases in wages to an amount
'ng ia Sydney and other capital
from f517s. to f5.6s.2d. in Bris-
a The recommendation is based
the Increased cost of living, prin-
ily Of house rent. If the recon-
dalton Is adopted, it is estimated
the wage bill Of the Common
lth win be increased by 100000
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
roronto Prlntera Royeott.

ploying printers Of the Toronto
hetae have declared a business
3tt upon al houses which have
as FAR as to meet the demands
e employees by cOnceding a n
week AT a special meeting Of
employing printers It was voted
the defense committee recon-
that no member patronize any
operating 90 the 44-hOur basis
eonceding union demands,"
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
FOREIGN NEWS.

A former officer named ozsermyak
has been arrested in Hamburg, charg
ed with the assassination of Count
Tisza, former Hungarian premier, &C
cOrding to a statement published in the
Hamburg Fremdenblatt.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
d EmpIoYeee on Piece Work.

40 Employees on Piece Work.
ayments for actual production by
the employees, clerical as well as
ory workers, has been established
permanent system in the machin-
factory Of Priestman Bros, Ltd,
dulls England. The plan, which
been In operation since April, 1917,
originally adopted for the duration
he war, in order to increase pro-
ton, but has proved successful
ugh to warrant its being retained
bout modification.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
chlId Lahor condemned.

tf Child Labor Condemned.
BOT even poverty furnishes a valid
lse for child labor. Child labor
st as much a cause Of poverty
poyerty is a cause Of child labor.
re would be much less poverty
rs. did all we could to give the
loH en- a fair chance in life. Studies
,los Of the reasons why children
Az school show that less than one
~ leave because of poverty. Cases
Ptual need should be cared for
y. not as charity, but in JUS
e 80 the child.
exports from the Juvenile court
It, that so per cent Of the children
item into that court are between
~ teen and sixteen years of age who
j not attending school at the time
heir arrest, Because Of these con-
ns no community can afford to
4 its children on the streets when
should be in the school. Chicago
News.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
A Bad outlook.

Wife with newspaper)-It says here
that a New York bridegroom tainted
at his wedding.
Hub-The poor fish What will hap
pen to him when the first months bills
come in?-Boston Transcript.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
FRENCH METAL WORKERS
VOTE TO JOIN "REDS."

A majority of one vote in IA
vor Of adhesion with the Third
(MOscOw) InternatiOnale was
given by the congress Of French
Metal Workers, in session at
Lille. The vote stood 118 for
adhesion and 112 against, with
President Merrhein, an anti-cOm-
munist, refusing to vote.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
BINE to-
REDUCE COST
tef Part OF New York's
ioman's Garment Concerns
Under One Roof.
SIMENT OF S2O,OOO.OOO
sfAk aRpement, Il Is Announced, Com
tsiy Does Away With the Old
me ASweatshOp" Evils-Ampls
osisicn for the Comfort Of En-

#eA4aOH TOT 6nS SomtoFG OF SF1-
ative. yees.
rie4
|ly WI greater part Of the women's
IL cirent industry of New York is now
;sb;ne q in the largest combined manu-
ring and exhibition buildings in
fprld, the Garment Center capitol.
nc der this arrangement, through CO
hoI ative buying of materials, lower
| md OF floor space and other ecOnO-
|sItu@, the manufacturers claim the
re r0f wOmen's apparel will be con-
|bara ably reduced.
|nsS e new garment center, erected
cooperative movement to i'm
manufacturing conditions in the
.iiS lstry, Is located several blocks
ing "a Of Times square, In Seventh ave
OF It consists of two towering sky
peot tbers covering two city blocks,
|,o-orh represent an investment Of
Il 100000.
a. ffty-eight separate manufacturing
Germs with upward Of 10000 en-
yees are concentrating their fac
haies in these buildings. Practically
70 of these firms are from the Mad
raca square and lower Fifth avenue
|o-otrict, where the garment industry
and formerly scattered in numerous
|d-b. dings.
IN Of the "sweatshop" arrange
Z ats Of the past have been complete
eliminated. Provision has been
|Ver-.e for the welfare Of employees
|smoFhe fully-equipped clubhouse on the
| e ID Of one Of the skyscrapers. This
Equipped with modern gymnasium,
omming pool and roof garden. A
win equipped hospital and a system
restaurants have been installed
fughout the buildings.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
coke worker, Waoea cut.

N@AN@ NNNAFNSt NNeANF|8 SAAs
able 9roximately 1000 coke workers
I Independent plants Of the Con
8 is ille coke region were affected
,r;sts 10 per cent reduction in wages,
second announced this year. The
~ rate is about 33 1-3 per cent be-
ne the rate paid January 1, but, ac-
ack9ing to coke men, about 45 per
e higher than the prevailing rate
ack 1912. Only about Z per cent of
ev Independent ovens are in opera
I mere are now two scales for the
work in the Connellsville field
at paid by the Independents and
0 c scale of the 81. G. Frlck Coke
my, the latter having become op-
May 16 and being somewhat
than the new Independent scale.
Of the coke ovens Of the Frick
my Is in operation. All the coal
~ mined is shipped to the BIZ
Tor, It Coke plants.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
NATIONAL, CAPITAL,
f1dq f1idq AFFAIRS ES1B
Poor Uncle Sam Has WeIl-Of Nephews

20 S0OOsUOO; 2,OS3 of 100000 to $780,
600; 1890 of $4,000 to 100000
87,477 of $4,000 to $4,000; 162, ,4s5
Of $4,000 to $25,OOO; 1855 of $4,000
to $4,000; 1,1SO,4Ss of $1,000 to
$4,000; 1,569,741 of $1,000 to $1,000,
and 1,924,S72 of $1,000 to $1,000.
Wives making separate returns from
husbands numbered 1854; single
men, heads of families, 1852, 1877; single
women, heads Of families, $685.; sin
gle men, all other, 1,6O2,277; single
women, all other, 361, $3.50.
New York filed the greatest number
Of returns, 683,OS5, or 12.7S1 per cent
of the total. The amount of net in
come reported by New York was $3,-
436, ,343,179, or 1871 per cent of the
total, and the tax paid was S399, 1922 :
351, or 31.49 per cent of the total.
The per capita income for New York,
according to the population of the
census for 1920 was S330.99.
Individuals with net incomes of
$1,OOO,OOO or more mounted from go
in 1914 to 12O in 1915, and then to 2O6
in 1916. From that year they have
decreased annually, there having been
141 in 1917, 81 in 1918 and only 60
In 1919.
The net income of individuals in the
class from $1,OOO,OOO to $1,5OO,OOO is
given as $41, 1,G6S, ,483; from $1,5OO,OOO
to 100000 as 500, ,1O6,9O6, and $2'-
100000 and over as $S8,874,S5
Evening star., 1921-09-11
PURSUING BANDIT GANG.
Special Dispa atch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
GRANTSVILLE, Md. September 10.
The authorities have been making
every effort to apprehend the bandit.
gang of five that terrorized the vii:
lage of Somerfield. on the national
pike a few miles west of here, early
Thursday, after robbing the Baltimore
and Ohio station and the Young Auto
Company garage. Chief of Police
Bledsoe is looking after the interests
of the railroad company. The loot. it
is said. would inventory about $1,000.
Some fifteen tires We're stolen from
the auto company.
Carl Tissue, owner and manager of
the garage. sounded the alarm in the
early morning. when the men were
seen emerging from the garage He
first observed a fashlight going on
and off. Summoning his son Paul, he
went to the store. Both carried auto
matics and they opened fire, and for
twenty minutes the entire neighbor-
hood was treated to a bit of real gun
play. 1t is estimated that forty-fiye
persons, participated in the battle.
Tissue feels certain one Of the ban
dts was hit by bullet from his re-
volver. The bandits escaped in a
high powered car in the direction of
Cniontown.
Evening star., 1921-09-11
find WOMAN'S PURSE
AND HAT NEAR NIAGARA
Police Unable to Connect Miss
0rr's Disappearance With
Body Passing Over Falls.
By the Associated Press.

NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y. September
1O.-A woman's hat and black leather
purse were found on bench on the
state reservation following a report
made to the reservation police that
body had been. seen to pass over the
brink of the American falls at 6
O'Clock last night. The purse and
hat, according to inscriptions written
on a memorandum inside. were the
property of Miss Beatrice Orr of
Cleveland. Ohio.
The authorities are not certain
whether there is any connection be-
tween the finding of the hat and
purse and the passing of the body
over the falls. This will not be de-
termined until the body is recovered
or Miss Orr located.
In addition to the memorandum the
purse contained an order of deporta-
tion from Canada, showing that Miss
Orr had been .deported from Athel-
stan, Quebec. because she did not
quired of all persons entering the
Dominion.
G. E. Sharp of Cleveland and his
brother, w. w. Sharp of Kansas City
Mo-. are authority for the statement
that body passed over the falls
They told reservation officials that
while they. stood at Prospect Point
brown-clothed body, with one bare
arm extended upward, pass over the
falls. They We're unable to state
whether it was the body of woman
or man. The body reappeared in the
lower river soon afterward and boat
to recover it. But they were unable
to do so. and the body passed on
down the river into the whirlpool rapids
and was lost to view.
Evening star., 1921-09-11
REPORTS BUMPER CROPS.
Successful Farming at Moundsvil1e,
W. Va, Penitentiary.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHARLESTON. W. Va, September 10
Farming operations this year at the
state penitentiary at Moundsville ZAP
pear to be very successful" and other
state institutions may be supplied with
corn, hay and oats, according to an in
formal report received by James s.
Lakin, president Of the board Of control
from Warden J. q. Terrell.
The report follows: "Our farming op-
erations this year appear to be very
successful. We have just threshed our
crop Of oats, which yielded Lis bushels
Am arranging to have the straw baled.
and think we will have enough to last
us for bedticks for year at least. Am
also arranging to bale about thirty
tons of hay. which we will have for
sale, leaving US about twenty tons
loose for feed. From present indica-
tions we should have about 1000
bushels of corn.
1--WE have bumper crop Of beans and
tomatoes. Have been feeding them for
weeks, and it is the intention to can
about 5000 gallons of each. Sweet corn
will be very plentiful. The only thing
we are short is late cabbage. The
drought killed about half we had plant
ed. Have had all the fifth cut from
pasture land, which has increased our
milk supply to thirty gallons per day
from our herd of fourteen cows"
Evening star., 1921-09-11
ROCKVILLE.

ROCKVILLE. Md, September 10
(SpeciaD.-The Montgomery County
Federation of Women's Clubs has
awarded to Miss Elsie orme Of
GAINESVILLE scholarship in the do.
nestle science department of the Uni
versity of Maryland. She was selected
as result of a competitive examina-
ton.
Miss Orme graduated from the Rock
Vile High School in the class of 1921.
The amount necessary to pay her ex-
penses at the university was con-
,ributed by the various organizations
belonging to the federation
Early Thursday morning the barn
on the farm of Mrs. Frank P. Stone,
in Potomac district this county, was
destroyed by fire, together with sew
eral hundred bushels of wheat. a num-
Der of farming implements and other
things. The loss is placed at about
$4,000 and is partially covered by in
surance. What caused the fire is not
known.
Among the couples married in Rock
vile. within the last few days were
Miss Grace Agnes Bailey and Herbert
Cole. both Of Washington, Miss Sarah
y. Cation and Albert L. Dove, both of
Fairfax Courthouse. Va: Miss Dorothy
NJ. Inscoe of Forest Glen and Eugene
H. Allison of Friendship Heights, Miss
Elsie v: Dietrich and Harry w. Hol-
land. both of Danville. Va.
Licenses have been issued by the
clerk of the circuit court here for the
Chevy Chase. this county. and Norwell
O.. Moses of Lexington. Va; Miss
Florence Epps of Virginia and Taylor
Kurel of Washington, Miss Matte E.
Barry of Seneca, this county, and John
Curtis of Washington.