The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-04-14

HE Wv AKNUAUN LEADER,
AS the result Of a canvass made
by the George Loane Tucker studios,
/ it is learned that more than 5000
| American and Canadian churches are
now equipped with projection ma
chimes and are showing moving pic
lures regularly to their congrega-
tons. Catholic, Protestants and
Jewish pastors are winning over
"backsliders" with cinema exhibitions
in school halls, rectories and even in
church auditoriums.
Special investigators sent from
Washington in connection with the
theft Saturday at a Chicago sta
tion of mail pouches containing cash
and securities believed to total more
than $500,000 were proceeding on the
theory that the robbery had been
carried out by national gang Of
mail thieves, who obtained advanced
information Of money shipments
from postal employees
BY the provisions Of the will of the
late Champ Clark, made public rec
emily, the bulk Of the estate Of the
former speaker Of the House Of Rep
resentatives is left to his widow and
| the two children, Bennett Clark ana
Genevive Clark Thompson, His Ii
brary and manuscripts will go to his
son after his daughter has selected
200 volumes.
John j. Mcnamara, serving a 15-
year sentence for murder in con-
necti0n with the dynamiting of the
Los Angeles Times building in 0c-
tober, 1910, will complete his SEN
tence and leave the penitentiary May
10, according to prison officials.
Mcnamara has been a model pris-
oner and earned all the credit allow
ances Of his sentence.
Charles H. Craig, vice-president
of the First National Bank of Mem
phis, was elected president of the
Bankers Club at the regular meet
ing Of the club at the Hotel Gayoso
in that city Saturday He succeeds
Dwight M. Armstrong, vice president
of the Commercial Trust and Savings
Bank.
By his will, probated in Columbus,
Ohio, last Friday, AL G. Field,
minstrel, leaves his minstrel show to
I brother Joseph E. Hatfield, and to
Edward Conard, relative. The es-
tate was estimated to be valued at
$150,000, real and personal property.
He requested that the minstrel show
be continued.
Enrico Caruso, whose life was de-
SPARED Of for several weeks follow
ing an attack of pleurisy, has tried
his vocie for the first time since he
was stricken, and those who were
privileged to hear him declared his
voice still possesses all its old-time
beauty and richness.
Secretary Of War Weeks announced
Saturday that he had recommended
to the chairman Of the senate and
horse military committees that he be
authorized to sell surplus army food
supplies to starving countries of
Europe.
A 25 per cert. reduction in the
nrice Of bricks was announced in
Chicago Saturday by the Illinois
Brick Company. Bricks that formerly
cost SIG thousand will be reduced
to $12 a thousand, to be effective
Monday
A bill legalizing the practice of
Christian Science was passed by the
Nebraska house last week. The bill
subjects Christian Science practice
to state quarantine laws. An amend
ment TO make the practice subject to
state public health laws failed.
Reappointment Of Col. R. G. Chol-
meley Jones as director of the war
risk insurance bureau was announced
Saturday by Secretary Mellon.
Appointment of VIM. D. Ritter, Of
Salt Lake City, as assistant attorney
general, was announced last Thurs
day at the White House.