Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-08-19
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at a caucus "Wednesday y a'stt ht PRenIb-
Themselves to vote again. VI 'Le a,Ntnd q
jifati tax revision bill, an.~ "uu a. sI1re
resolution declaring that the S~Sie\ that
was "subversiVe of the prlncl:S,n,,o ,ort
should govern taxation for the : Euti,,n
of this government me reso-. <rM
charged that the bill "relieVes p ~
.Hteers and taxpayers Of large Tincom,
:From their lust share of the IOad. OF
faxation and leaves an Unfair portlsh
of the burden to be borne by the peo.,
ple of moderate means. II Nlolates,
The resolution seoHtinued, ''Une pfonise
st,of aif parties. to Tekorn' and TeVlse the
system gof gtaxationy sog that eaR cttlfeAs
sand corporations shall pear a just Poi
ztion of the tax load"
!, Washington, August II: Approval
I: of Henry Ford'stoffer for the purchase
!: of the Muscle, Shaals, Alabama, nitratg
:. today. by JamesCA SMITH of; St Louis
!, vice president OF the Mississippi VAL
: lev Waterway dssooiation, and other
ference ference With StGfetafy Weeks. Mr..
: smith and his associates said they
!. fully endorsed the Ford plan lhat II
weuId he financially beneficial to the
government and would assure the ue-
velopment of waterway ana ; Eah0 IN.
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valley. If the plants and, dams are
completed and their operation assured,
. he said. more than $50 innes of land
rich in iron. coal and other valuable
denosits opened to development along
the upper Tennessee river, secretary
Weeks said he was not prepared 10
give a final decision at. this time
Attorney General Daugherty has
started an investigations TO find what
becomes of liquor seized BY govern
T. ment officials. In reviewing many pro
hibition cases, which come TO ms uesk,
: MIR Daugherty said Tuesday he had
hegun TO wonder what became Of the
vast quantities of alcoholic beverages
seized by the government i4 the pros
! ecution of bootleggers. &sWsfIe 1t was
the departr1ent's duty to attend 10 the
PROSECUTION of liquor violations, he de-
clared he had, become, interested, In hie
bdssiB{fity T'6f putting 'tohdcntneed
Iioifors to some practical use and at
the same time to save the heavy ware
house bills. Attention was directed py
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes TO-
q tlay TO the practice of certain .porpfle-
tors of bonded warehouses and bond
ed storerSoRns' OF re rtfnring cNSneS from
the. bonded premises for the use OF
themselves and their families without
permit and for beverage purposes. III
y letter to all federal agents he de-
clared that all such offenses would be
severely dealt with in the future.
ANY householder could have home
brew under interpretations paced up
on an amendment to the Wlllls-Caiilp-
tFFlABSeG'biir approved Tuesday by the
house The Amendment, adopted as Il
substitute for the senate provision,
would require federal agents to nave
warrants before entering homes in
search of liquor. 1t provides, however,
that no warrant shall be issued for
search of a home unless there Is rea-
son to believe such dwell ing is used as
4 place in which liquor is 'manufIc-
turcd for sac or sold" Representa-
tive Fields, Democrat, Kentucky, de-
''Sfaring' thee Kouse" amendment would
virtually ,sanCtiOn "home brew, pro-
NVYded 'it 'w;fs s7not made to be SOLD, at
tempted to have the words Tor sale
stricken out. but his motion. was re-
= jected 96 10 54. Representative Vol
stead. Republican, Minnesota, authoL
IF 'Se the Sos! S'5''' as "a%isd at f@F''''
More than eleven and quarter
billion copies of daily newspapers ar"
printed annually in the Inlioll ,S'aJcS
rvatsrat1al .eps yphty ~ day 'fQri every
three and one-fifth persons of the
country's total population, latest sta
tistics Of the bureau of the census
show. Circulation Of the nations .
433 daily newspapers aggregated 81
1887 copies daYCTtn yincCcnse OF l3.S
per cent in the five years since 1911
The cireqlqtI9of ,bh bh% E, 0S2 3;sS snnaaE na aE
newspapers was l9v29,SSf copies eacr -
pcr cent. The aggregate circulation OF
,L,.o oil,,. ,nyi, Sunday ..nCWSpa OerS
tReTe theTefore 1StSSaS3}} Tas 3fS copies, on
1866 copies speiJ cap1p ifor the year
Total circulation Of the cOuntry's 90
43l newspapers and periodicals aggre-
gated 15,475, ,14G1O2 copies for the year
an increase of 7 per cent per issue IN
five years. That includes daily sun =
daN tri-we&f ifcmi, weekly. weekly
;mohthiy quartel9{ ana AZ Other news '.s,,
, 'papeLs. and periodicals. The printing
and Publishing induS,ry'S products
were. valued ,inH 1919 at $l,52S,S5G.5O3
of which newspapers and periodicals
contributed $SOS.O66.O35, and newspa-
pers alone, $6l2,7lS.515, an increase OF
1850 per cent. in five Years. News
papet Subscriptians and-sales aggre-
! gated S2O4, ,9583l4, an increase of 1913
per cent. Advtftfsing to.aIed $iO7,-
76O,3O1 an increase of 121.5 per cent.
Three people were killed and eight
were wounded in Augusta, Ga, last
Tuesday, as the result of a murdcrous
'rumbage induleHd in by Il negro named
Walter SmalleN The dead: Ben 7
Hightower, white, manager of local
wagon works: wv. W. Moore, police Of
ficer and Walter Smallcy, negro chauf-
feur. The wounHed: William f. Britt,
police chauffeur; G. Wa Hardeman
police Officer; w. Z. Redd, chief of de-
tcctivcs: l.. :. Stewart, automobile
mechanic; Grover &. Reid. automobile
mechanic; J. IL. Stanton, wheelwright;
i. y Blackstone, occupation unknown;
\. Evans. mechanic. Smalley was
chauffeur of Dr.. w. w. Beatty, promi-
ncnt physician of Augusta. During the
morning Smalley called Ben II. High
tower, liar and. IiighIp}ser. struck
him. Later while DT' BETTY %aS talk
ing TO Mr. HightowCr the negro re
turned with Il shotgun. and shot and
killed Mr. Hi-htOwcr DR.. Beatty teic-
phoncd for the police Smallcy left the
wagon works. went out on the side
walk and began firing. al every white
person he saw. ., The police arrived in
two wagons and ShdrtoNi fred at both
of them. woundinT Officers Britt and
Hardcman. Then Smailcy fled 1,
Rcrry's bottom, 4 ncE'd settlement and
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