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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
Woman, While Asleep,
Is Swept to Her Death
By the Ocean Tide

NEW YORK.-Mrs. Margaret Ha-
zleton, sixty-eight years old, a guest
at the Seaborne Hotel, Coney Island
died at Coney Island Hospital after
being rescued unconscious from the
surface. Mrs. Hazleton, who is said
to be a woman of wealth, is believed
to have chung to an anchor chain OFT
shore for many hours to prevent beng
washed to sea. Three other deaths by
drowning were reported during the
day. The Sunday crowd numbered
10000.
Persons along the shore are report
ed to have heard feeble cries for help
between 10 and II o'clock at night,
but answering shouts of boatmen and
guards, trying to fix the locality from
which the cries came, remained unan-
swered. A few minutes after | o'clock
Mrs. Hazleton was found struggling
feebly in less than three feet of water.
She was unable to speak when dragg-
ed from the surf by Thomas Smith, OF
West Thirty-ffth street and Canal
avenue, Coney Island, and Alfred Os-
borne, of 339 Marion street. Brook
Ign. Mrs Hazleton was fully dressed.
Removed to the Coney Island Hos
pital she died within an hour.
According to information obtained
by the police Mrs. Hazleton left the
hotel saying she intended TO sit on the
beach because she had been unable
to sleep in her room.
She is believed to have fallen asleep
and to have been overtaken by the
tide. Carried beyond her depth Mrs.
Hazleton is thought to have chung to
an anchor chain OF one of the fishing
boats anchored off shore and to have
cried for help until exhausted. She was
swept ashore by the returning tide.
An investigation was begun by detec-
tives attached to the Coney Island
station to determine whether Mrs.
Hazleton. was accompanied when she
left the hotel for the beach.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
Master Prowler, Who
Robbed 1000 Homes,
Says Crime Doesn't Pay
Man Who Served rs of His AZ Years
In Nine Different Prisons Always
Overcome by Lust for More.

Overcome by Lust tor more
A weary-eyed man, AZ years old,
but looking 90, sits in the jail at De
troit Mich, waiting for the call which
will take him before judge to receive
his sentence for breaking and enter
ing homes. When he begins his SEN
tence he will start serving his twenty
sixth wear behind the bars. At the age
of II Samuel Belts, alias John Les
fer. first came into the hands OF the
law. The first sentence was light. FOR
a time he worked, and then bad COM
Danions 1ured him from the path again
and he began his first series OF ROB-
berries in Canada that stirred dozens OF
police departments. 81.
Betts has had little freedom in the
wears following his first sentence OF &c
months in Toronto for burglary. But
during his brief periods of freedom ne
has been a master prowler, entering
he saws. more than a thousand homes
getting loot that ran into SIX fgureS
Betts has served nine terms Tor our-
p1arv and theft alone, spending "a
Years behind the bars of various nsti-
tutions. h;o
Several times when he made Dig
hauls he disappeared and decided 70
leave for a foreign country, but eacn
time the lust for more drew him Dac .i
and he tried again, always to lose witn
fine law. Belts has had gun and knile
fights with dozens of police othcers
but he says he never tried to shoot al
officer or citizen. TN,
"I'd shoot to frighten, not to KILL
was the laconic explanation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
Thomas Cadillac Tray
eIed From Detroit, Mich,
To Australia in a Crate
Investigating Cat, Shut Up in Box
With Automobile, Consumed the
Grease and instruction Books.


For 40 days Thomas Cadillac, cat,
was penned in a crate containing an
automobile that was being shipped
from Detroit, Mich, to Sydney, Aus
tralia. During the entire journey
Thomas Jared on a three-course menu
-lubricating grease, engine oil and
books OF instruction, How to Run
Your Own Motor Car. When the con-
signees received their car it was found
that eight of Thomas lives had gone
by the board and that about SO pei
cent of his ninth had vanished.
Thomas arrived recently in San
Francisco on the steamer Sonoma, not
in a crate, but in a new cage, under
the protection of a valet and maid, a
5000 insurance policy around bis
neck and the prospects of receiving
kindly greeting when he reaches De-
troit again.
Last January Thomas climbed into
a box one day on scouting eXpedi-
ton. Just then there was bang and
darkness. He found that he was
hemmed in crate containing a motor
car. Next followed weeks of travel,
during which Thomas sped over hun
dreds of miles of railroad tracks and
then was swung into the hold OF a
steamer.
Thomas was always hungry and dur
ing the trip he cleaned out carton OF
grease, licked the oil cups of the ma
chine and finally consumed all of the
instructions on the art of operating an
automobile. When the crate was open
ed in Sydney only a spark of the cats
life remained. With careful nursing he
was restored to health and is now re-
turning to the factory, but amid diff
ferent surroundings
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
THE CRIME WAVE IN
UNITED STATES COSTLY
LOOT OF COUNTRY'S ARMY
| OF CRIMINALS IS VALUED
AT $1OO,0OO,oO0.

A $100,000,000 hitherto unmentioned
item to Americas war cost is added
by William B. Joyce, president of the
National Surety Company of New
York city. This huge sum is the esti-
mated. cost of the 1920 crime wave,
which Joyce says is traceable to the eff
feet of the war on humanity. 1t is a
constantly growing figure, he points
out. for, if the present ratio is main
tanned, crime losses for 1921 will be
equally as large.
Unemployment Is Big Factor.
More serious than money, he says,
is the unprecedented addition to the
ranks of Americas criminals. Joyce
based his $l0O000,000 estimate upon
the embezzlement and burglar claims
paid for 1920 by 80 of the country's
leading safety and burglar insurance
companies.
These companies paid claims aggre-
eating $15,813,672, while in 1918, be-
fore the outbreak of the war; claims
for only $3,328,78o were paid. But
Joyce says that approximately 90 per
cent of burglary and embezzlement
losses are not insured, and that in
many instances where full claims were
paid the insurance was far too small
to cover the actual losses.
The spread of discomfort during and
after the world war was greatly aug
mented by the oft-repeated reports of
enormous profits piled up during the
war, according to Mr.. Joyce. Men ask
why these war prohteers" should live
in luxury, he said, while they are hard
pressed for enough to live on. Unem-
ployment in cities, due to the war in
fux, is another tremendous factor,
Joyce finds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
Hundreds of Thousands
In Europe Nearly Naked
Price of|Pair of Shoes Brings Hunger
To Average Family Month.

People in central Europe are near
er nakedness" than at any time since
the Napoleonic wars, according to re-
ports of observers summarized by the
Red Cross headquarters. The situation,
it was added, would reach climax
this winter.
Food conditions are reported improv-
ed. The depreciation of currency, the
summary says, requires a university
professor in Vienna to work three
months to buy a suit of clothes, while
a pair of shoes in Poland cannot be
bought without bringing hunger to the
average family for a month.
so desperate is the situation" the
summary added, that babies are born
with no provisions made for clothing
them and the sick in hospitals are de-
pendent upon paper bandages."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02

BERLIN.-An official of the Ger
man government who is an industrial
of international reputation
and who gained distinction during the
war as an organizer, says: 1T is inn
possible to save the Russian people
from the present famine"
Because of depletion of the worlds
supplies and the breakdown of the
Russian transportation system the
twenty million starving Russians can
not be reached, even if the necessary
supplies could be obtained, this Ger
man official believes.
He estimates that two pounds OF
food daily, or 100 pounds for three
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
WATERFRONT Sweeps Auto
Over 400-F cot Precipice
Two Are Killed and Three Are in a
Hospital as Result.

DEL NORTE, Colo.-Mrs. Ernest
Glesecke, of Honolulu, and Miss Ber-
tina Glesecke, of Denver, tourists, were
killed near here today when the auto
mobile in which they were riding was
struck by waterspout in Wolf Greek
pass.
his wife and their 14-year old daugh-
ter, Bertha, of Denver, Colo, and Err
est Glesecke and his wife. The party
was a tour from Mesvaverde national
park. The occupants of the car who
saved their lives are in a local hospital
suffering from injuries.
AS the automobile was going
through Wolf Creek pass its occupants
suddenly behld the waterspout ahead
1t swept toward the car, occupying
about fifteen feet of the roadway. II
struck the motor car with great force
and hurled it over precipice 400 feet
high.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
MILLIONS ARE. DOOMED TO sTARVE.;
RELIEF FOR RUSSIA is HOPELESS

months, for each person is necessary in
any adequate relief undertaking. The
total food that would be needed for
the next three months would be 4,000,-
100000 pounds, or 100000 tons.
The only steamships available for
carrying food to Russia, this man says
are craft of 1000 and 5000 tons. Al
though the harbors at Archangel and
Petrograd will be ice free for three
months more they have no facilities
for unloading and there are no facili-
ties of Russia for distributing the food
to the affected areas.
Millions of Russians are doomed to
die of starvation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
SAYS COURSE IN MATRIMONY
SHOULD BE IN SCHOOLS
Too Many Children Marrying Without
ANY Idea of Its Obligations.

CHICAGO, Il1.-A course in mat
rimony should be part OF the curricu-
lum in every Chicago high school,
Judge Harry A. Lewis, OF the superior
court. told Edwin S. Davis, president
OF the board of education, in an open
letter today.
"The number of cases wherein chill
dren have contracted marriage with
out ever having been informed OF the
magnitude of their obligations appear
so often that | want to see some way
of overcoming this danger in the com
ing generation" Judge Lewis wrote.
In a ten months term in court Judge
Lewis has heard more than Z,0J0 d.
vorce cases.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
MY Old Kentucky
Home Bought by State

LOUISVILLE, KY. = Federal
Hill, near Bardstown, the old
southern mansion where Stephen
c. Foster wrote MY Old Kentucky
Home" is now to all intents the
property of the state of Kentucky.
The state commission, which re-
Gently appealed ito Kentuckians at
home and abroad" for funds with
which to purchase the property,
today reported contributions of
S6O,8O0, which covers the purchase
price of $4,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
Holds Bug Club Has
The Right to Talk

CHICAGO.-Judge Fisher to-
day issued writ restraining South
Park commissioners from interior
ing with the meetings of the Bug
Club, an open air gathering, which
meets nightly in Washington Park
~ attle the problems of the world.
Ter orders from the com
misses. city drove TIL e
bugs" from In announc-
ing his decision ~. Ter said
he had frequently been vited to
address the club and had never
heard any seditious speeches made
as charged by the commissioners.
Members of the club who appeared
in court included heads of half
dozen industries, a wealthy inventor
and several lawyers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
FOUR THOUSAND ARE
FIGHTING OIL BLAZE

PITTSBURG, Pa.--Four thousand
men, working at top speed III slx-nGuI
relays, are striving to prevent lui nc nc
spread of the oil fire which since las laJ,
Wednesday has caused damage WHY
amounts to millions OF dollars IN tlie
American oil fields OF Mexico, acIolu-
ing to advices received by Plt.spuls
oil companies operating in the heid'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
1872, 1868 German
Fighters Killed in War

BERLIN.-Germany lost 1872
36S men killed and 4,246,S74 wound
ed from 1914 to 1918, according to
a revised compilation OF the Ger
man casualties during the war. In
addition 100000 men still are re-
ported missing.
Losses in the navy, which are IN
c1uded in the casualties given above,
were 34.256 men killed and 5l,OSo
wounded.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
WALL OF WATER SWEEPS
DOWN A DRY STREAM
Auto Containing Party Of Six Over
turned. One Is Drowned.

LAS VEGAS, New Mexico.-Mrs
Nv. G.. Fly, %, wife OF a prominent
druggist, Amarillo. Tex. was drowned
last night when a wall of water swept
down a dry stream at Apache Springs
near here. and overturned the auto
mobile in which she and her brother,
II F. Ford, and her four children were
returning to Amarillo.
Mr.. Ford plunged into the water
and rescued the children. but Mrs. Fly
was swept away before he could reach
her.
Mrs. F1y's body was found today
lodged in a fence about mile from
the scene of the accident.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
Debts in u. S.
Show a Big Increase
T,S ages on Farmers Property More
lan Doubled in Last Ten Years.


I''n Doubled in Last Ten Years.
h; %ruflgage debts of American farm
bftu nofe than doubled in the decade
rs S~een 1910 and 1920, according to a
s rsolt OF the census bureau. The in
|armSsS IN mortgage charges against
|tom' q IIT Z56 by their operators was
Cll3,{$ :! |550,l72,851 in 1910 to $4,O12,-
I'D IN II I6 N l9zO; The mortgages amount
d t II ~ ~ to POI per cent Of the value
Gent 81 arms ], against debts of 27.3 per
ii tbo ol the values in 1910. The value
|sa; u" :, 55a rms in 1920, the report said,
jebt average amount of mortgage
|ll!6 S.. iaFm for the United States in
For t IbsS 45,56l, against $1,715 in 1910.
|the isrmT.' !h-year period the value of
The Minus ,r-iS increased 117.6 per cent, and
owner, OF farms operated by their
|increass.ja and carrying mortgage debts
u 1910 per cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02
Reduction in Cotton
Acreage Reported Large
Cut of More Than Ten Million Acres
In the Principal States.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The ten
leading cotton states--North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia Alabama,
Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ok
lahoma, Texas and Administrative re-
duced their cotton lands 10,l94,00O
acres, or % per cent, from last year,
according to figures compiled and
made public Thursday by the bureau
of markets and crop estimates of the
department of agriculture.
Rice was reduced 100000 acres, or
80 per cent, and tobacco 10000 acres,
or 81 per cent, a total crop reduction
OF 100000 acres.
The bureau says these reductions
are due to the unsatisfactory prices for
last years crops, coupled with heavy
stocks and lessening buying, and are
partly offset by increases in the acre
ages OF staple food and feed crops in
these states.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-02

Smugglers have been known to use
pig carcasses in which to transport
whisky across the Canadian border in
to the United States.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-15
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

Greatest interest in the Presidents message to Congress in his declarations on the question of foreign policy and with reference to the peace treaty and hs position this will be better under stood when rhe details of his plans become known. The intimati6n that it g@illt, be the policy for the United States to- join with her recent Allies, using the treaty of VersaNes as a' basis for arrangements to be made rather than by making separate peace with the Central Powers is reassurihg i ttfi~tsl tttt
 There is no question but that the United States ducive basis and help her again become factor in the world commerce. Unless Europe shall again reach that status she will never be able repay her loan to the United States, will she be able to continue furnish market for American products That she cannot resume without American assistance to be conceded The logical basis for the United States to be of assistance in the read justments is through cooperation with her late Allies and that logically be brought about by using the Versailles treaty the ground for further procedure.
 The Presidents plea for cooperation between labor and the management of the industries and transportation companies for economy in public eX- pendites, and for fair for those who served this country imthe World War and his position on most Of the other matters touched upon will meet with general favor
 Therey' win be some criticism, doubt, his advocacy of t1e Emergency Tarif, because of con victions th9t it is useless other pose than fQ yex some of our best cusomers-like for instances Canada and South American countries.
 It will be strange. all things considered, if the general opinion of the is pleasing to and reassuring to the people.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-15
When West Leads East.
Cincinnati Enquirer. ]


 Frequent discussion in these columns of aspects of Pan-Amerieansm is justified by of the faet that Pan-Americanism, everything considered is he biggest and most important question demanding at tention at the hands of the American statesmen
 One of MT Harding's first President was ask for the ratification of the treaty With Colombia and, irrespective of the division of senatorial opinion with reference to this policy the fact remains that the President by it's proposal has the confidence of all Latin-Amercan people from the Rio Grande to Chile, convincing them of this nations good will.
 But America stretches from Arctic Circle An tarctc Circle A New York business man, James Carson, is of the distinguished protagonists of the All-Amercan policy His vision of the time when the West shall lead the East is portrayed in terms prophetic eloquence. The new has become old. The Western Hemisphere has been thrust into posi- uon of leadership from which Fate will exact it's need. It is necessary for Americans both North and South to enter on the path which destiny has marked out"
 The peoples the three Americas must respond the spirit of duty and promptings of humanity. This is the great esson the imposing responsibility. the sacred duty which the brings to all Ameri- cans. Here must Europe find her help-food for the starving and raw materials to set unnumbered idle handsto work. Idealism and humanity, interest and intelleetualism all united in support great new and perpetual leadership of the West Here is to be exempifed in its fuIlness the epic of democracy.
 little incident in this connection fits into the progressive development of this great dream of p- erty which had is seeds in the charter Of Leon and that of Magma Charta. The Spansh play rendered by the pupils of Walnut Hills High School is q step on the way 10 hemispherc unity. Spanish in the United States should be generally understood and spoken as English should be throughout the Southern republics Tiridente Sam Martin. Bolivar and Hdalgo Washington Jefferson. Lincoln, Roosevelt, Wilson and Harding should be familiar names North and South. and the real divisions between the peoples of Amer ica must and will be for the future marked by achievement in the realms of the spirit intellect rather than by the tripod of the surveyor
 When West leads East humanity and civilization indeed will march together toward that high CT real of better things for America and all the world.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-15
DEAL GENTLY WITH THE INDUSTRIES.

While the Legislature is searching for methods of raising money for the conduct of the Territory and Considering matters regulation of business and mdustryg II should ,,not forget that the indus tries Tn Alaska are languishing Few of those com panes that are doing business here are thinking of diydends-the gfeat majority of them are struggline for existence None of the large companies arc paying any dividends at all Even the Kennecot recently passed it's dividend Copper mines are ing Canneries which have contributed largely to ner activities in Southeastern Alaska and elsewhere are not opening for business this year Men whc have invested millions in the fisheries business in the Territory have sold their last years packs and they are hard pressed for funds-many of then. for money on which 10 live. If ever there was a time in the history of Alaska when those who have money invested in the Territory entitled to encourage meht and kindly sympathy they sorely need it now.
 We are striving to get capital interested in the development Of our pulp and paper potentialities and in cold storage plants mine prospects and other undertakings What assurance are We to give those whom- w would have invest their money. here that they &oad be treated fairly if they should cast their lots with us? Can We give them better assur4 ance than by doing all within our power to en- courage in the hour of their distress those who have already in, esteG here?
 The Empire has direct interest in any Of these matters Its interes' is solely that of any person institution that is interested in the devel- opment and progress of the Territory The Empire gets its support from the general pubIic-not the large corporations. II ii had 10 depend on the direct support Of the Big Interests it would not last a week. But if the big corporations were de- stroyed it would not last long-nor would most of the other business concerns in this Territory.
 The interest of the workngmeu in this situation is exactly the same as that of the business bouse. and other institutions IT the large mining and fshing companies were put out of business in Alaska
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-15

the boats going south would be unable to accommo- date the fugtives from the Territory--that ls II enough of them could raise the money With when to escape
 The Big Interests" and many independent pro- ducers and business men of Alaska, have been mark ing time and waiting for the better days that are coming. the meantime they have been carrying on furnishing employment to people and making things go best they could. By thelr persistence patience and large drafts upon their faith Tn the future, prosperity has been maintained for the great mass of the people Under the circumstances this is not a time to rock the boat
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-15
PARIS NOT FRENCH CAPITAL.

A peculiar incident resulting from the hurried and arbitrary way things sometimes done during time developed week or two ago when It was discovered by Cabinet that Paris is not the capital of France, and has not been since SeptemDer 3, 1914. On that day, faced by the advancing Ger man army and the danger of the capture of Paris, law passed night making Bordeaux the capital of France. Then the Battle of the Marne and the retirement of the Germans from their advanced positions, followed by the establishment of the IIindenburg line and the entrenchment of the Allied forces in it's front The French Government deciding that Paris longer in danger of cap ture, moved back to Paris, but the law making Bordeaux the capital not repealed.
 The French equivalent for the Department of Jus tice has decided however, that the fact that the laws passed Paris and the official performed there since the return of the Government to that city passed and performed at the capital does not invalidate' them. But the Chamber of De- prties have been asked to repeal the law making Bordeaux the capital to reestablish the of government at Paris