The Hays free press., 1921-09-29
CLIPPINGS

Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, will
give personal aid in the campaign to
check wage cuts in the textile mills of
Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Alabama.
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Collection of approximately $12,-
100000 in delinquent and additional
sales and miscellaneous taxes by the
government as result of a special
drive ending September 8, was an
nOunced recently by Commissioner
Blair.
Hery Curran, Coalitionist-Repub-
hcan, now president of the borough of
Manhattan, will be Mayor Hylan's
opponent at the polls in New York
next November. Curran won the Re
publican nomination in the primary,
polling 31,OS4 more votes than the
cOmbied votes of his three rivals
10000
A demented man was arrested re-
Gently in st. Peters cathedral in
Rome, while insisting that he be ad-
mitted to the vatican. He said he
had been invited TO dine with the
pope.
10000
A general improvement in postal
savings deposits throughout the coun-
Try was shown by August reports, the
postoffice department announces.
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Fines collected under the Crabbe
liquor enforcement act of Ohio, since
it became operative on November 3,
1920, now total half million dollars,
half of which has gone to the counties
IN which collected and half to the
state.
The Canadian board of railway
commissioners has declined to order
general reduction in freight rates
throughout the dominion. A minor
.ty of the board favored a reduction
# ten per cent.
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Quebec voted itself wet last week
by an overwhelming majority.
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One man was shot and two wound
I'd in a sensational dash for liberty at
the Joliet, H., penitentiary in which
"a Chicago gunman and a companion
made their escape Another convict
was killed while attempting to scale
the wall
10000
BoiIermakers, blacksmiths, machin-
ists, electrical workers and sheet
metal workers employed by var
lous railroads have voted to
strike in protest to the wage
reduction ordered by the U. S.
railway labor board. two rail-
road representatives of the A. F. of
l.. report
Inauguration of permanent policy
10 combat unemployment throughout
the country in future years is said to
be one of the purposes of the admin
'stration in assembling in Washington
national conference of unemploy-
ment
Membership of the League of Ma
lions will be increased to fifty if the
assembly adopts the recommendation
of the political committee which has
decided to approve the admission of
Letvia and Esthonia, Hungary's ap-
plication Will not come up until later.
10000
Postmaster CSaparal KallauyaV Of
Great Britain has just opened at Lea
field, OXfordshire, the first station in
the imperial wireless chain which,
when completed, will link up amost
every part of the British empire.
10000
Crown Prince George of Greece
narrowly escaped capture by a band
Of mounted Turkish irregulars while
en- route to Brusa, Asia Minor, from
the battle front.
10000
Premier Lloyd George of Great
Britain, is not expected to come to
Washington to attend the arms con-
ference There are too many big
domestic an5 International issues
hanging fire at home TO permit him
taking the trip to the United States.
1t is likely A. ]. Balfour will head the
English delegation.
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William Howard Taft, chief justice
of the United States supreme court,
on September Is, celebrated his 64th
birthday anniversary by entertaining
about 100 neighbors at his Summer
rasidence at Murray Bay. Quebec,