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The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1921-10-29
BEATEN, HE SAYS.
Negro Complains He Was Taken From
Jail and Floqqed.

Jackson, Miss.-Robert Price, ne
gro from Amite county, called at the
governors office recently with com
plant OF violence at the hands of four
known to him. Price stated that he
was arrested on Sept 20 and placed in
the county jail at Liberty about noon.
That night, the negro claims, four
white men came to the Jail and took
him out and beat him numerically
and then carried him home and left
him. He says he was accused of
stealing two hogs, but no trial was
had. Price was still showing evidence
of injuries.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1921-10-29
Hardina's Cousin Weds.

Paterson, N. miss Jean Guthrie
Harding, second cousin OF President
Harding and the only daughter OF Mrs.
John H. Harding of Paterson, was
married hers to Warren Ridgeway
Smith, SON Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Ridgeway Smith Of Paterson.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1921-10-29
NEW EDUCATIONAL PLAN.

New Swarthmore President Would
Separate Brilliant and Mediocre.
Swarthmore, Pa.-Separation OF the
brilliant students from those in the
mediocre class as a means of elevat-
ing the academic standards OF tho
American colleges was urged by Frank
Aydelotte, the new president OF
Swarthmore college, in his inaugural
address here.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1921-10-29
GIRL A CHAMPION.
Looms Up as Such in Catching BIC
Bass

Olivet, ch.-Eleven-year-old Irene
Dyer, daughter of Harry M. Dyer of
Olivet, is runnerup for the Michi-
gan championship in bass fishing. Her
eight-pound black bass already has
won for her prizes offered by a na-
tlonal sporting goods manufacturer.
and her record has been filed with
Field and Stream, which will make a
national contest of the same kind.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1921-10-29
Edoar Allan Poe Statue Unveiled.

Baltimore, Md.-The late Sir Moses
Eziekels' statue of Edgar Allfn Poe
was presented to the city at yelling
ceremonies by the Edgar Allan Poe
Memorial Association, through it's pres
ident, Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1921-10-29
Many to Share In Estate.

Lancaster, Pa.-About a hundred
persons will share in the estate Of
Franklin S. Becker. of Lititz. adjudi-
Gated recently, which shows balance
OF $4,600.15.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1921-10-29
CIRCUIT RIDER MISSING.
Young Girl Also Gone From Village
G1 Mombaccus,

c. Mombaccus.
Kerkonhonson, N. Y.-"The circuit
rider of the Catskills" is believed to
have eloped with 26year-old choir
singer of one of his charges, leaving
behind his wife, to whom he has been
married for 81 years, and a grown
daughter.
The circuit rider is the Rev. George
w. Budd Of this town and the girl
is Mary Terwilliger. the belle OF Nom
baccus, in the mountains north OF
Kingston.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1921-10-29
Individual Contribution
Income In Other Countries.

Both the total national income and
the per capita income are larger in
the United States than in any other
country. The report estimates this as
the relative standing Of the four cOun-
tries named at the outbreak Of the
war:
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1921-10-29
Sources Of Production.

Az for the sources of national In
coree. the bureau finds. taking a gen.
eral average since 1910, that agricul-
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1921-10-29
The topics to be taken up and de-
cided include:

cided include:
Inviolability of mails on land and sea
In wartime; international organization
of labor In sea and river navigation; !;
international law on freight contracts; !;
regulations for the use of submarines
during war; rules for the recognition
of "de facto" government by foreign
states, and international responsibility
of the state for damages that may be
suffered by foreigners during the prog
ress OF civil wars.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1921-10-29
BARS TRANSIENT LIQUOR.
United States Can Seize Trans Ship
ments, judge Rules.

New Notwithstanding liquors may
:rans-shipment from one foreign coun-
try to another, Federal Judge julius
Mayer decided in a decision in the
suit brought by the Anchor Steamship
line to prevent authorities from seiz-
ing shipments of whisky bound from
Glasgow to Bermuda.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1921-10-29
WOULD REGISTER ALIENS.
Secretary Davis Wants Government 70
Aid Foreign Citizens.

Washington.-Secretary OF Labor
Davis, himself naturalized alien, told
the house immigration committee that
what this country needed was COM
pulsory registration law for all aliens,
Including the millions already here
and those eager to come.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1921-10-29
Natl Income Income

The report is in press, and will be
published early in November.
How the Bureau Is Constituted,
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22
ROMANCE OF PAST
YEARS Barred IN
W0MAN'S LAWSUIT
Claims That Memphis Man
Agreed to Share
Estate

Memphis, Tenn. Fob. .1-Echocs of
n twcnty-year romance wcrc heard in
tho federal district court hero today
ct tho trial OF tho suit OF Miss Molly
ouirk. Milwaukee woman. for n Stco.-
oco share in tho estate OF the late Pat
rick Kallaher. wealthy Memphis man
who, according to the avcrnents Of
Miss Quirk, was under promise to
bequeath her his fortune IN return for
her promise not to we'd during his life
time.
Miss Quirk said Ka1laher won her
promise to marry him in 1899 while she
was a student in milwaukee, convent.
At that timc Miss ,luire vas Is years
old and kallahcr -. Parental objec-
tions prevented tho marriage Hiss
ouirk explained. but during The TWEEN
ty years that intcrvcned until Kali
lahcr's death in 1912 his coJrtship con-
tinued and both held &c tho tioth
plightcd in 49, by mutual understand
ing neither Tarrying. Du,.ng Kali
lahcr's long illness. preccdin, his
death Miss Quirk acted as his nurse.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22
GREENWOOD WARNS COMMONS
that Sim FEIN MOVEMENT
IS SPREADING TO ENGLAND
Claims Document Found Detailing Direction Of
Large Scale Operations
Abroad.''

house that tho Sim Fein conspiracy
was spreading to England and read
memorandum captured at Sim Fein
priation to the Irish Republican army
of $4,000 pounds from Irish American
citizens. The document emphasized
the directing of large scale opera
tions abroad" and scheduled Liverpool
as holding the greatest hope. STAIR
officers it added should be given
free hand and it proposed tho de-
struction of large ships and buildings
by fire, the cutting of telegraph and
telephone lines and signalling systems.
whereby trains and trans should be
wrecked. and tho destruction of farms.
Operations should be made to en-
courage direct action and incite mobs
to looting,'' the document continued.
and the officer In charge should not
be hampered by consideration OF prs
serving life"
The chief secretary asserted that
the reprisals now being conducted in.
the martial law areas were according
to rule and with due regard to the
lives of innocent people. He declared
that the ordinary civil courts were
again functioning almost thruouk Ire
land, but in tho major part of Ireland.
1t had been necessary to hand criminal
cases over to courtmartial because no
civilian Judges were available because
they wo.ld be in danger of their lives.
He Expressed the hope that the
dominion premiers would be able to
attend tho opening OF the Ulster par
Lament in June.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22
NEW PRICES ON WOOL
GOODS ANNOUNCED
TO so PCT. DECREASE
Heavy Reduction Made Under
Price of Last
Fall

New York, Feb. 2f.-The American
Woolen company, largest producer OF
wool goods, today named prices for the
fall OF 1921 on 4 basis ranging from i5
to so per cent below price levels OF
last autumn.
Dress goods lines included many
women's coatlngs while tie ovcrcoat-
ings included nearly - per cen. o.
fancy black goods against - per cent
OF staples. 4 womcn's wear serge that
was priced at S3.91H n yard "A yclr ago
was offered at 81. Products were nf-
fcrcd for delivery thru July only and
prices were guaranteed until Sep
tomber I.
Buying in dress goods was moro az
tive than in mems overcoatngs. The
company's offices in Boston. Rochester
Cleveland. Chicago and elsewhere
sont in good orders during the day,
owing to the strike among New York
clothing operatives, the buying of
mems wear here ~ not up to normal.
Prices appeared to bo satisfactory to
tho jobbing trade.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22
|A|RMAN OFF ON ATTEMPTED
CONTINENTAL "a HOUR TRIP
In Especially Reconstructed De Havland, With Dallas
as First Scheduled Stop, and Jacksonville
as Goal

San Diego, Cal, Feb. s1.-Lieutenant
William D. Coney Of the ninety-flrst
aero squadron. left at o'clock Mon
day night for the North Island avia-
ton station in his especially recon-
structed De Haviland airplane in an
attempt to fly to the Atlantic coast
within "a hours.
The only scheduled stop in his 2,U0
mile flight is at Dallas, Texas.
The officers and men at North
Island, gave Lieutenant Coney a
mighty cheer as the big machine start
ed. He answered with a wave of his
hand.
Tho aviator took package of Of
ficial mail from the commandant OF
the naval air station to tho com
mander OF the naval air station at
Pensacola, Florida He also carried
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22
LIQUOR
AND JAZZ MUSIC
On YANKEE SHIPS
Must Have Means to Compete
With Foreign
Vessels

Washington. ID. c.. Feb. 2l.--Liquor
and jazz music were variously suE-
gested to the shipping board Monday
as a means of enabling American pas
senger ships to compete on an equality
with foreign liners. The proposals
were advancing at n conference held
by the board with reprcsen tAtivcs OF
the Pacific coast ports on the alloca-
ton of new ships to the west coast and
tho establishment of trade routes to
the Orient
Il. +. Blaine of Seattle. said he did
not believe American ships were Go-
ing to be well patronized II there were
soft drinks. prayer books and
hymnals in their salons" while Roger
ID. Pinneo, of Astoria, Oregon. de-
clared people of his district werc of a
different opinion regarding liquor
and az to the hymn books we could
put n little Jazz music on board and
keep within the law"
James a. Emery of San Francisco.
said he agreed with Mr.. Blaine. with
the qualification. that tho ships
ought to be dry but tho passengers
wet"
Recommendations for the distribu-
tb,n Of tho eleven now 535-foot com
bination passenger and cargo vessels
built by the board among the Pacific
ports were presented by representa-
uves OF Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle.
Astoria, and san Francisco.
The new ships are needed to dew
clop trade with tho Orient. the port
representatives argued If this country
is to compete with the Japanese and
British shipping lines.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22
COMMITTEE BEGINS HEARING
ON LANDIS IMPEACHMENT

Washington, d. C.. Feb. 2i.-Right of
federal Judge to accept outside en-
ploymcnt while on the bench was
sharply questioned by members of the
house judiciary committee Monday in
considering impeachment charges
against Judge Kcncsaw Mountain
Lands.
After Representative Welty, Demo
crat OF Ohio, had outlined grounds on
which he asked for the impeachment
because OF the judges $4,000 a year
contract, as arbiter OF organized base
ball. members insisted that the COM
mttec should go thoroiy into the case
With this in view, Chairman Nolstead
announced that the question would be
taken up Wednesday. 1t will he left
for the committee composed of lawyers
to decide whether there lis sufficient
ground to justify presentation of the
case to the house. Should the house
vote to impeach the senate would sit
as the trial court. Three Republicans
of tho committee. Representatives
Hustled OF New York. Goodykoon.z of
West Virginia and Boise OF Iowa, ex-
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22
SEARCH WARRANTS OUT
ON CAPUL|N ROBBERY

Special 10 Tho Chieftain.
Ia lara, Colo, Feb. .1-Nery little
definite progress has been made so far
in finding $4,000 worth of merchan-
disc stolen from the Macarone store at
Capulln nine miles west of this place
last Tuesday night. II is thought now
that the stolen goods were not carried
far in the wagons which were loaded
at the store. Tho Supposition Is that
tho loot was divided up among the
participants in tho robbery shortly
after tho four wagons reached the
Gun Barrel road three miles from
Capulin and is now hidden In the
homes OF the robbers. Several search
warrants have been asked for and 4, is
thought possible that some of tho
stolen goods will soon be located.
It has developed lately that the
robbery had been very carefully plan
ned for some time in advance Of its
execution. Some time during tho
week prior to tho robbery most of
the noisy watch dogs in Cnculin arc
reported TO have been poisoned and on
the whole IL appears that tho robbers
We're extremely familiar with tho
habits Of the people of the town as
the arrangement OF the stock of goods
i'll the store.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22
NEW YORK DIGGING
FROM SNOW DRIFTS

New York, Feb. .i.--tiroatcr New
York succeeded only partly Monday in
freeing itself from the winters thick
est covering OF snow.
Monday night the weather bureau
predicted the probable arrival by down
OF another blizzard.
More than 10000 workmcn struggled
to release the streets and railway
tracks from the hard packed snow and
high drifts that clogged them. They
began work Sunday before tho storm
that lasted almost ~ hours had died
down.
Baby snow piows OF other winters
we're augmented by huge caterpillar
tractors that shaved the thick whitc
beard off the streets, scooped II into
cars and dumped II into
large trucks. More than so OF these
tractors we're used.
The New York Central sent out
locomotives equipped with a now melt
ing device to bum snow off its tracks.
\ steam jet running from the en-
gine boilers TO the rails furnished tho
heat,
Brooklyn and Staten Island seemed
to suffer most from the storm. Staten
island was without milk and the food
supplies were dwindling. Transporta-
ton there was practically suspended.
street cleaning Commissioner Leo ask
cd the board of estimate for an ap-
preparation for $1,000 900 10 pay for
the warfare against snow.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22

CHOSEN AS
ATTY. GENERAL

s. Augustine. Fla. Feb. z1.-Definite
announcement that Harry NJ. Daugh-
erty of Ohio. had been chosen for the
attorney generalship under tho COM
ing administration was made here to-
day by President-elect Harding.
st. Augustine. Fla. Feb. 21.-Prcs-
ident-elect Harding began the last
week of his pre-inauguration confer
ences hero today with several import
ant questions regarding the makeup
and first steps OF his administration
still undecided.
Definite selections for three of the
ten cabinet places are yet to be mad
and although there are Indications that
Mr.. Harding has about made up his
mind in regard to two of them he is
understood to be far from a final
choice on the most troublesome of all
tho sccretaryship OF tho navy. He
also has most OF his inaugural address
to write during the week and In addi-
tion must come to n decision on var
ious other subjects with which he will
havc to deal As soon as he takes Of
flee.
Tho president elect virtually has but
six working days left before inaugura-
ton. He is expected to leave here next
Sunday night for Marion. Ohio. whero
he will spend n day finally winding up
personal a1fairs ana receiving n 1orrnai
farewell that has been arranged by his
ncighbors and friends.
The week will bring to St Augustine
several moro Republican party leaders
of first magnitude. probably including
some OF the men who arc to sit In the
cabinet.
The presidcnt-clcct said heswas con-
vtnced that Mr.. Daugherty would
make n great attorney general"
When his attention was called TO re-
cont newspaper attacks on Mr.. Daugh-
crty. he replied:
The opposition to him has made mc
more than ever convinced that I would
like to have him in the cabinet"
The selection of Mr.. Daugherty who
was 'thc Harding prc-convcntion man
agcr had been generally expected.
Besides Mr.. Daugherty. tho pres
idcnt-clcct conferred today with Aver
ell Hartman. OF tho Hartman ship
ping interests. and said afterward he
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22
QUARTET At TRINIDAD
Hello ON AUTO THEFT

Trinidad. Colo. Feb. cf-Three
men and one woman arrested here
saturday in possession of an auto
mobile alleged to have been stolen
near Syracuse. Kansas. last Thursday.
were today identified by s. r. Donne-
gan of Alanosa. Colo, as the four to
hold him up near Syracuse and gagged
him and tied him TO a barbed wire
fence and drove away in his car. The
three men held hero are Salvatore
Bialajno, Gaetano Cugzardo and Tony
Morelli The woman Is the wife OF
Bialajno. sheriff o. T. Jones OF
syracuse, Kansas, Is hero to take tho
prisoners into custody.
Donnegan who is a ranchman at
hamosa. Colo. was en- route home
from Syracuse when no WAS held up.
his experience today he said
he had stopped his car about two
miles out OF that city to make some
repairs whom two of the men Bialajno
and Morelli, advanced on him with
guns. They gagged him with towel
and took him about ono hundred yards
off the road. tied his hands to a fence
post and his feet to the wire after
which tho four loaded up his car from
another car they had abandoned and
drove away.
DonreSan freed himself in about an
hour. he said and walked to a nearby
ranch house and notified the authori-
ties who notified to-rs al the way
along tho route from Syracuse. sat
urday evening the party was arrested
here with the car which was found to
correspond with the description of
messages received by the local police.
After being identified today by Don
negan as bandits who held him up,
the men admitted the robbery.
The prisoners say they live in
Brooklyn. N, ". and were en- route to
California and that tho car in which
they lefs the east having broken down
near syracuse, Kansas, they held up
Donnegau and took his car to continue
their journey.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22
Continued on Page Two)
LABOR BOARD
CONFERENCES
COMPULSORY

Chicago. ILL.,, Feb. 21.-Further
reasonableness of wages on tho
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
railroad. We're ruled compulsory Mon
day by the railroad labor board before
it would take jurisdiction over the
roads wage controversy with its en-
ployes. Tho ruling pointed ont that
previous conferences on a wage re-
duction did not embrace the subject
of the justncss nor reasonableness of
the wages fixed by the board in July.
and deferred any action until the con-
ferenceS arc held.
The case came before the board re-
Gently on complaint of the employees
following n wage reduction notice ef-
fectivc Feb. /. The road gave finan-
cial inability to pay present rates as
the reason. The reduction notice was
ordared withdrawn pending prcsenta-
tion OF the case bofore the board.
When the case came up February ~.
employees maintained matters Of fl
nance were without the boards juris-
diction and should go to the interstate
commerce commission.
The boards decision says in view OF
the fact that conferences on whether
the rntes are just and reasonable had
not been held. the board did not
deem 1t necessary to decide what eN-
n factor in the determination of just
and reasonable ways
In tho judgement of this board. tho
conferences heretofore held do not
comply with the transportation act"
the ruling said for the reason that
no conferences have yet been had be-
tween tho parties with reference TO
the justncss and rcasonablcness of tho
present wages"
1T is the decision of this board that
IT is without jurisdiction to determine
the dispute until section sol has been
compiled with by conference OF tho
parties. tho subject matter OF which
conference shall be whether tho prcs-
ent wages arc Just and reasonable.
The board decides that further
consideration OF this dispute be differ
cd until 1t shall be made to appear
that tho parties have conferred and
disagreed on the question OF whether
present wages are Just and rcason-
able. or until parties have refused
to enter into conference"
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22
VAR LOANS
VIGOROUSLY
DEFENDED

Washington, D. C.. Feb. 21.-Foreign
loans extended by the treasury dur
ing the war and since the armistice
were vigorously defended by govern
mcnt officials Monday in reply to
protestations against any further eIer-
cise OF tho governments loan powers.
Secretary Houston resumed testi-
mony before the senate judiciary COM
mite on the Reed bill, directly stop
page OF further loan negotiations with
the debtor nations. Solicitor General
F'rierson responded in court to the
suit brought by William Randolph
Hearst to prevent further financial
transactions with foreign governments.
Mr.. Houston was excused from fur
ther appearance after he had present.
ed correspondence covering negotis-
tions and had pointed out the impos-
sibility OF reading them in full in the
few days Preceding March I. He how
ever. left Nicholas Kelly. assistant
secretary in charge of foreign loans at
the disposal OF the committee.
Mr.. Frierson filed with the District
OF Columbia supreme court a brief re-
viewing transactions with tho foreign
powers and declared there was no nee
essity for injunction brought by Mr..
Hearst as n tax payer as Secretary
Houston had no Intention OF establish
ing additional credits IN favor OF any
foreign powers. He reviewed condi-
tons under which money was ad-
vanccd to the keransky sovcrrmen.
of Russia He also asserted Secretary
Houston did not concedc that tho
plaintiff possessed a status emitting
him TO call in question the varied
credits or that the court had any turis-
diction to determine such a con-
troversy.
Counsel for Sr. Hearst replying de-
clared that tho supreme court OF the
United States had never refused TO en-
tertain "A suit by n taxpayer to prevent
federal official from disposing OF tho
money or property OF the United States
in an alleged unlawful manner. 1t also
was maintained n tax payer has all tho
interest that In required to restrain an
executive official.
Tho senate committee Monday con-
fined its efforts to the French. Czccho-
Slovakia. and Liberian loans and an
nounccd II would examine papers in the
case of each transaction until II had
established whether the loans We're
legally made Secretary Houston said
no did not regard tho arInistico as
causing "a situation which would pre-
vent advances under the law" and
that existing statutes gave him auth
orIty to continue loans until the pres
idcut issued a proclamation OF peace.
Hs added that he did not believe any
nation would ask for new loans.
Tho recent statement of w. G. Nc
Adoo opposing tho general policy of
trtt
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22

letters from officers and men from
North Island, to acquaintances at
Jacksonville.
Lieutenant Coney carried as food
four pounds of chocolate and two bot
ties of hot coffee. experienced aviators
having urged him to take the hot
LIQUID not only for its food value but
as a. stimulant to help keep him from
feeling drowsy in his night flying.
1t was expected that the aviator
would rise to an altitude of more than
1000 feet in the first stage of his flight.
that over the mountains in this coun-
try. He had n So mile wind at his
back to help him make good time at
the start.
Coney told his friends that his
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-22

prcsecd opposition to tho double sorv-
ico of the judge.
Mr.. Hustled declared acceptance Of
so large an outside salary was out
rngcous' but insisted the committee
should have facts on which to draw
an Indictment
Mr.. Boise thought the judge might
be forced by public opinion to quit one
job.
Mr.. GoodykoontS said II Judge L5ndis
course was legally and morally prop
or there was nothing to prevent meat
packers or others employing a man on
the bench to look after their interests,
while acting as judge.
Asked to explain why Judge Land.
had been picked By organized baAoball
Mr.. Welty presented letter from Chi
csgo which purported TO quote ono
magnatc as saying Lands, as a citizen
meant nothing to baseball but that
Lands IA n Judge meant everything
MIR. Welty WIS emphatic in the asser-
ton that this was the real basis for his
appointment
tContinucd on page Twol