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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
AUTHORITIES ARE
FOILED In EFFORT TO
RUN DOWN MOBBERS
Masked Men Who Lured Alabama
Man and Beat Him Are Still
At Large

Birmingham. Ala Dec. 29-Citv
and county authorities had made lit
tie headway they reported, in an Cf-
fort to run down members OF mask.
ed mob who lured W. +. Tumlin. well
Mountain Tuesday night and beat
him until blood strcamed from score
OF decorations en- his Lody.
Tumlin was enticed from his office
by a youth who pretended that the
lawyer was wanted by a patient in a
Red Mountain sanitarium to draw up
a will When he reached lonely
spot in the hills Tumlin reported 10
Solicitor Tate he was seized by
masked men who bound and gagged
him. The lawyer reported to Solic-
tor Tate that he was told he must
promise TO re-marry his divorced wife
or death would be Immediately in
flicted. He refused to make such
promise, according to his report to
the prosecuting attorney and the mob
set upon him with laths After the
beating members of the mob depart ed
leaving him too weak to walk for
some time. He,fnally found his w&y
back to telephone where he sum
moaed aid. AS soon as he was able
yesterday he reported the matter ia
the authorities.
Records in the chancery division OF
the circuit court show that on Octo-
Ter 10, 1921. a decree of absolute di-
vorce was granted Tumlin On tbs
grounds Of cruelty and voluntary
abandonment.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
CAROLINA PAYS
SILENT RESPECT
TOEX-COVERNOR
Death of Thomas Walter
Beckett a Severe Shock
To the People Who
Without Regard To
Race Or Political Afil-
iatior Shower Honors
Upon His Bier

Raleigh. y. c.. Dec Thousands
e his fellow citizens, irrespective OF
race or political affiliation. paid ST
lent respect ta the memory of Thomas
Waiter Beckett, former governor of
Ncrth Carolina, who died at his home
here yesterday following brief i'll
rcss. as they viewed his body which
lay in sta.e in the rotunda of the cap.
ito here fer two hours this morning.
The flower laden casket bearing
the j. DIV Of the former governor was
removed frCm his home to the capitol
carly to-day ard at nine oc'ock the
four entrances to the building were
Thrown OTen and the crowds filed by
the lier to get last glimpse of the
states former chief executive. Tears
were observed in the eyes of mann
persons as they passed cut Of the
bui ding. The casket rested on bier
directly beneath the dome Of the cap
itOl and was drapCd in the American
and state flags. Flowers banked on
either side covered the walls while
designs rested on the coffin.
At II o'clock the doors were closed
and the body was removed just across
tIlC SilttI " NHIlSl T4piSN Dpdl NIlhl II
cf which MIR. Beckett was a member.
Funeral service will be held a.
11:30 .. m. conducted by Rev. Milton
A. Barber and Rt. Roy. Cheseboro.
Members of the supreme court. mem
hers of the wake county bar associa-
ton and former Secretary of Navy
Josephus Daniels. were included in
the honorary pail bearers, while the
active pail bearers were from among
the governors relatives.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
FEDERAL
ICE COMPANY Is
NOW COMPLETED
Lakeland Ice Delivery Company
Will Begin Local Service
Next Monday

The new ice plant of the Federal
Ice Refrigerat.ng Co. is practically
completed. and is now manufacturing
ice This large plant i said ia be 'he
largest in the Southeast and is equip
ped with the most up-i date machin-
cry tor the making and hand ing o!
ice. 1t has daily capacity Of $50
tons. with a 10000 ton storage arca.
Two large oil engines furnish the
power for driving the compreSsors. A
small engine is used to keep down
temperatures on freezing tanks AMI
forage when the larger ones are no,
needed. lee will be made from their
deep we'll water in 400-ronnd bloh&
Two freezing tanks are used each
equipped with electric cranes that
pull seven books of ice at each pull
After ice is pulled 1t is conveycd by
gravity to the daily storage room
where it can he either placed in TIL
adjoining large storage or conveyed
TO their long refrigerator car icing
platform or into carload lots For'y
refrigerator cars can be iced at one
spotting from the icing platform and
six carloads of ice can be loaded from
the carload platform al one time
Ice is conveyed to these platforms
by = system Ct chain convayors.
With this mammoth ice plan; hun
dreds G. cars OF fruits aHd yege ables
cap be taken care of daily. and all
Aoints in MS vicinity can he supplied
with caYload ice where needed. Ny
w. c. Ludwig CT Chicago will MANAGE
the local affairs OF this company. The
Lakeland lee Delivery Company vii!
distribute the retail ice locally. un-
der the management OF o. G. stone of
Lakeland. for the last thirteen years.
agent of the Fruit Growers EXnress
Company. a fleet of trucks will be
used for delivery in charge Of white
drives. Mr.. Stone states that it is
their intention to see that full weight
and proper service is given to the
pubic. A. soon as the city routes
are established. arrangements viii lie
made 20 make IN afternoon delivery
on all the important roads leading
from the city. On account Of the
rlant nct being centrally located an
ice depot Will be centrally located
where a supply of ice will be main
tanned ny those not reached on the
rural routes. Delivery VIII begin next
Monday
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
THE WEATHER
GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS

The low pressure area which WAS
over the upper Mississippi valley
Wednesday morning has moved rapid
~ eastward to New England. 1t has
caused light snow in the lake regicn
and the northeastern states. There
Mas light rain in Georgia and Ala
bama. but elsewhere over the eastern
half of the country there has been
little precipitation. IT. is warmer this
morning generally east OF the MiSsiS
sippi.
In the west. the high pressure area
from the plateau region has advanced
to the Middle Plains states. causing
colder weather over the Plains states
and the Rocky Mountain region. The
weather in the west has been general
ly fair. except for light rain on the
North Pacific coast.
Indications are for fair weather in
the vicinity of Tampa tonight and on
Friday 1t will be somewhat colder
Friday
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
Lieutenant Governor and
Vernon Curtis, a Grant
Park Banker, Included
In Charge of Embezzle-
ment, Must Face Trial
January 9, Is Ordered

Waukegan, ILL.,, Dec. 29.-(By The
Associated Press. Judge Claim G..
Edwards of the circuit court of Lake
county today upheld nine of the
counts in indictment charging Cow
ernor Len Small with embezzlemen:
of 100000 of state funds, Lieutenant
Governor Fred E. Sterling and Vernon
Curtis, a banker of Grant Park, ILL.,.
with conspiracy and operating a con-
fidence game involving S2.000000 in
state money.
The court ordered the governor to
trial January on the $5o0,000 EN-
bezzlement charge.
Judge Edwards sustained the attor-
neys for the governor and Mr.. Curtis
in part by quashing an indictment
: charging them. together with Mr.
Sterling, with embezZl ement of $780,
900 and quashed three counts charg
ing conspiracy and the one charging
confidence game in the other joint in
dictment. As a result Mr.. Curtis will
face trial only on the nine remaining
counts of the conspiracy charge.
The decision was marked by q
scathing arraignment of Charles W.
Byers, county clerk of Sangamon
county, who admitted on the stand
that the records of his office contain
ing the minutes of the county board
which selected the grand jurors who
subsequently indicted the governor
and his fellow defendants had been
altered. The charges against the
governor and lieutenant governor and
Mr.. Curtis centered around alleged IL
legal practices during the term of
Governor Small as state treasurer,
1917-19z9; and the term of Lieut.. Gov
ernor Sterlin as state treasurer. 1919
1921. The alleged Illegal operations,
according to a special report" re-
turned by the grand jury and made
public by Judge E. S. Smith of San
canon county. consisted of the de-
post in Grant Park Bank" at Grant
Park. a town of about 500 population
in Kankakee county a few miles from
Governor Small home, sums of state
money aggregating S10.000000. which
were then loaned to Swift G. Co.. and
Armour G &C., Chicago packers, on
rotes paying to per cent interest.
Not more than 2 per cent of this in
terest was paid to the state. the
grand jury claimed. and the defend
ants are charged with retaining the
remainder.
The Grant Park Bank the grand
jury said. was a private institution
which ceased to function in 1908, and
which had at the time of the alleged
conspiracy iony one deposition, THE
State of Illinois.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
FOOTBALL PRINCIPLE
TOPIC AT CONVENTION
OF COLLEGE ATHLETES

New York Dec Football was
the principal topic for discussion at
the convention of the national cole
giate athletic association which OPP
ened today.
One of the proposals will be an al
lance of intercollegiate athletic assc-
Citations and sectional conferences
throughout the country with the n
C. A. A., in order to give it admins
trative powers, its present powers be
ing limited to recommendations
The question of joining the new
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
MORE HORSE POWER
ON FARMS IS URGED
BY WAYNE DINSMORE

Washington, Dec 29.-Waync Dins-
more, secretary of the Horse Associa-
tion of America today told the Ameri-
can Society of Agricultural Engineers
in session here that farmers in sew
eral states had failed to aid the mo-
tive power most used on farms and
That this should take precedence over
work to bring outian populafize new
motive poWersat *sast.ss
Mr.. Dinsmore quoted, figures which
showed that there were more thar. II
million horses and Inli les sor, fafips In
1921 compared with IA. .149 tractors
end ia. .lee trucks, 3 Z 81
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
SPAIN URGED TO ADOPT
DEFINITE NAVAL polio

Madrid. Dec % The adoption of
definite naval policy for Spain mus
ao undertaken immeda' ely declares
FL Debate today in discussing the
Washington conferences 1t argues
that a further conference musj be-
held the coming year in Europe ii
nrder to decide uron the strength of
the naval forces in the Mediterranean
ana that Spain must be prepared for
such a conference since she can not
he excluded from its deliberations. as
in the case OF the Washington gath
erinS.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
EIorida Stations
C., c. & o. ROAD IS GRANTED
SIX MILLION DOLLAR LOAN

Washington, Dec. 29-The Carolina
Clinchfield and Ohio railroad was
granted loan today of $4,000 900 to-
day Ey the interstate commerce com
mission. The period of the loan will
Re five years ard $5,OOO,O0O of the
amount will be used to pay off mort
gage indebtedness of the railroad,
while the balance of $1.000.000 will be
used to pay eff one year loan al
ready made to the railroad by the gov
errment. The railroad will depcsit
bonds with the government to secure
payment of the loan.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
COURT UPHOLDS INDICTMENTS AGAINST GOVERNOR
LEN SMALL OF ILLINOIS FOR EMBEZZLING FUNDS
BRITISH PAPERS SEVERELY CONDEMN
FRANCE FOR IMPERIALISM SHOWN AT
The WASHINGTON ARMS CONFERENCE
DEBS RESTING AFTER
RETURN TO HIS HOME

Terrc Hauto. Ind, Dec - l:IacN"
Y Debs. socialist leader. p3rolcd ~cv
oral days ago fr m federal prison.
was resting 1T his home here tcd1y
following . rousiug home comiue
obration rendered him la~i night
H. lhopsands cf his followers aat
fellow jownspcoplc Relatives an
rounced that for the ncNi lew d:rs
MI Debs would probably remain In
the seclusi of his home. Persons
i'll the Zig crowd which formed about
The DehS home were bcdcckcd with
rcd hats, carrying brands of rod frp
and plAcards in Thinning red co o-or.-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
SILENT ON ROBBERY

Tampa, Dec. 2e.-Sheriff Spencer
and w. j. Eve, local agent of the
American Express Company, today
refused to make any. statement re-
garding the alleged robbery of ex
press company's messenger here yes
terday of $1,000, other than to say
the suspect would be held for invest
cation.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
JUDGE EDWARDS QUASHES SOME OF
THE COUNTS But LETS The MAIN
CHARGE AGAINST OFFICERS STAND
MILITARY TRIBUNAL
TO TRY MARINES ON
CHARGE OF KILLING

Managua, Nicaragua, Dec. 2g-Fif
teen officers from the United States
cruiser Galveston have arrived here
to form a military tribunal to hear
the cases against the American
marines alleged to have been impli-
Gated in the killing of three Nicara~
guam policemen and for committing
excesses against Nicaraguans. The
proceedings will be he'd in public at
the American legation.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
WOULD RESTORE DISABLED

Washington, Dec. 2e.-A group of
educators and scientists were here to-
day at the invitation of Col. Forbes
of the Veterans Bureau to discuss
ways and means of Finding the best
methods of returning to society more
than hundred thousand men dis
abled in mind and body by the scourge
of war;"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
NIGHT WATCHMAN FOUND
MURDERED in BASEMENT

Norfolk, Va. Dec. 29-Almost com
r!etely covered with waste paper and
hand in reclining position with
the hands across the chest, the body
OF W. X. Towe. night watchman for
a big department store. early this
morning was found in the basement
Of the store at CRANKY street and
College pace. He had, it is believed,
taken his own life.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
PRELIMINARY HEARING

Seville, Fla, Dec. e9.-Arthur Pre-
Witt, merchant, will be given pre-
liminary hearing today as the result
of the shooting to death of Make
Clifton here yesterday. Authorities
said the shooting grew out of an en-
nifty of several years standing.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
Last Minute Briefs
DEATH LISTS COMPLIED

Belfast, Ireland, Dec. 29.-oHicial
figures made public here today show
that during the year 11o persons, in
cluding II policemen, were killed in
disorders, and that $40 were wounded
by bullets or bombs.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29

American Olympic Association and
whether it shall join in organizing the
new National Athletic Federation pro
posed by Secretary Weeks also is on
the program
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
Say French Are Follow
ing the Germans In Mil
itarism-Minor Ques-
tons Relating To Aux
iliary Craft Taken Up
When Submarine Prob
lem Battles the Dele
gates.

London, bee, ~. -rBy the Associat
cd Pres~l News of Frances actions
hefor" the WASHINGTON armament con
ference in refusing To accept subma.
rines in less than 90.uoo tons was
printed in the London newspapers
today under the captions; "Disap-
pointment" The Times, while avoid
ING any re"rimnation aaainst France
dcplores her decision. which II thinks
may have reerettahle effect upon
the attitude of the American people
toward many important problems"
and claims that Great Britain will be
obliged. however reluctantly. to build
hoih submarines and light cruisers to
an amount commensurate with the
French figure Frances attitude is
strongly condemned by the liberal
newspapers which regard her as hav-
in" adopted imperialistic aims such as
sAe attributed to Germany.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29

A Pottsville. Pa. woman paid $3.50
for some land in Miami, Fla, eighteen
years ago. buying it as joke, Last
week her daughter refused $S50,000
for 1t.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-29
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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-08-18
Mechanicsville stems

Miss Marie Dubois is n visitor at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Herbert.
Mrs. l.. ]. Sothoron is visiting her
mother in Virginia.
Master A. Il. Holmes, Jr.. is spend
ing q delightful visit in Washington.
Miss Hazel Sinclair, of baltimore,
is visitor OF Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard
Burch.
At Old Fidelis' festival and dance
Mechanicsville was we'll represented by
the young folks.
Miss Josephine Wilson, of Charlotte
Hall. is visiting her sister, Mrs. w.
w. Burroughs.
Mr.. Sylvester Adams spent a few
delightful days the past week down ut
Trent Hall beach.
Miss Anna rrice has returned home
from u delightful trip to College Park.
The Mechanicsyille juniors defeated
the HughesvilIe team on Friday last
by the score of y To- 6. IL was the 9Th
game that the juniors have taken Out
Of the ten played. The features of the
.nr were the two double plays made
NV First Baseman Hayden and Second
Baseman Burroughs and the batting
of Hill for Mechanicsville and the
fielding of Knott for Hughesville.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-08-18

Mr.. Bevans Morris and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ogden have returned TO their
homes after u trip tO Philadelphia to
attend an Odd Follows convention.
Mr.. Byran Knott returned home last
week after spending few days in the
city.
Mrs. Paul Dunbar. her niece and
four children, who have bern. visiting
Mr.. Alex Beal, have returned To their
home In Baltimore.
Messrs. Mace and Frank Burch.
Donovan and Freeman Bohanan, and
Melvin Dunbar motored tn the picnic
at Camp Columbus last week from st
lnigoes and James King from Ridge
Misses Mildred, Ivey and Noema
Bohanan were recent guests of Misses
Eva and Catherine Tennison.
DR.. King has recently purchased u
new Ford.
The meeting Of the First District
Farmers Club ut St. InigoeS was well
attended, Farmers are awakening 70
the old adage, United we stand, d.
vided we fall" Only when the farm
ers are as compactly organized as the
men engaged in other industries will
they get what they are justly entitled
to. Then and only then will farming
be remunerative and attractive.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-08-18
GROWERS can SET The PRICE

At a large turnout OF the members of
the Calvert County Tobacco Growers
Association and others held in Prince
Frederick last week. Chairman Thomas
Parran of the Maryland Tobacco
Growers Association appealed to- the
farmers who are not members tn be-
come so; stating that while prices for
the commodity were somewhat salts
factory TO the growers il was yet nee
ceSsary that they organize in their full
strength TO hold to the prices now Of
fered on the market and to boost them
10 higher figures. The association, he
said, had not reached a numerical
strength sufficient TO control the to-
bacco market TO the extent OF fixing
the prices 10 the satisfaction of the
growers The association must either
go backward or forward. To main
tain its stability and hold the conf
deuce of all growers throughout South
eFn Maryian il needed from 10 Ia 80
per cent of all planters enrolled In the
| organization, he said. That number
| has not yet been reached, bat would Do
he stated. after the drive TO be made
for new members in every tobacco
growing county IN October. Regard
| less OF the strenuous efforts being made
by the commission men the association
he cotinued. was now stronger than il
ever has been.
To maintain his contention that the
association has been potent in boost
ing the prices of tobacco the past three
years, Mr.. Parran, stated that the
highest price obtained for Maryland
tobacco in 1919. before the association
came into existance, was % cents q
pound, and that the association short
ly after carried the price up I'd 60 cent:
q pound and held 1t around that figure
The North Carolina tobacco marke
had collapsed, he said, for want OF or
ganization on the part of the growers
and the commodity had dropped to
cents a pound, and the Virginia. crol
under similar conditions, has slumpes
TO Z cents a pound.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-08-18
GAME LAWS

The first open season in the State Is
for shore birds, which Is under the
supervision of the u. s. Department
of Agriculture. The season opened
August 18th and closes November 30th
on the following species: Black-tell-
ed and golden plover, greater and
lesser yellow-legs.
IL Is unlawful to export any game
except wild fowl from the State OF
MARYLAND. However, a nonresident
licensed hunter NAV carry out game
killed by himself 10 tne axtcr. &c Gao
days bag limit. The Federal law per
mits licensed hunter 20 carry out OF
the State wild fowl not 10 exceed so in
any one calendar week.
Shooting from power or sail boats
Is prohibited under State and Federal
laws. The Federal law provides, as
q means for taking migratory game
during open season, with q gun OF moi
larger than 10 gauge, fired from the
shoulder, with the aid OF n dog or the
use of decoys, from q blind or floating
device lother than an airDlane, power
boat, sail boat. boat under sail. Oh
any floating device towed by power
boat or sail boat.
Guests of landowners must have q
| license. Licenses can be obtained
from the Clerk of the Circuit Court.
10 is unlawful TO trespass on AM
property which Is posted against tres
passing without permission. 10 Is al
so unlawful 10 trespass on propert,
which Is not posted without the consen
CT the owner or tenant