Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-06-17
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ing to John Foster, former secretary
Of the GiantsS who has been in big
league baseball for more than 80
years, and BY Alex Nrunfoe Elias, base.
ball statisticiah.' The distance from
home plate to the center-field fence at
the Polo grounds is 416 feet. Ruth's
hit carried 20 feet over this mark,
making a total distance Sf 436 feet, a
new worlds record. Several years
ago Joe Jackson, of the Chicago White
Sox, hit bafsover fhe + right field
fence between the. ".hrstt and second
poles. This was considered the long
est :hit ever >naas..ata thaa aRaln~gr rounds..
Another long hit on the. historic field
was made by Fred Merkle, who drove
the ball over the aeft-f field fence, q dis
tance Of 400 feet.
.--Goyernment: employees who actit
vely oppose the administrations gov,
ernment reorganization !. plan will be
dismissed, the president fahd his cabl-
net decided Tuesday. The decision
was said to have Iesulted ssfrom acti-
vities Of some employees in spreading
propaganda against the reorganization
policy. Specific orders are to be pro-
miIlgated Immediately. by department
heads. g 1t is understood; they will be
who are said to have been bringing
influence to bear onfcongress to pre-
vent a readjustment" OF their particular
bureaus. In the discussions at the
cabinet meeting the president and his
advisers are said to have agreed that
much of this opposition was due, to a
fear that the reorganization would re-
suit in -abolishing- many high salaried
officers. Mr.. Harding is understood
to have been EMPHATIC iR-his lnstruc.
tions that any. one using his Official
position to tighten. his,i hold on MS
salary envelope should be dismissed
Immediately At the. same time the
president is said to have declared ne
did not wish this policy to interfere
with free expression OF lndlVlouai
opinion. :.
Nearly 100000 bales of cotton eX-
elusive of linters, held in public stor-
age in this country on May 81 were
not tenderable on future contracts, the
census bureau reported wednesday 10
Secretary Hoover. Cotton not ten
derable it was explained includes 4
grade of white cotton, tinged cotton,
yellow stained. blue stained and any
cotton ;bluer than low middling white.
Total cotton Of all grades, exclusive
cluding pubIics warehouses compress
ed and public cotton yarns, amounted
to 4,639,06S bales on May 81, the re-
port said. Nearly million bales or
this was not graded, the report stat
ing that warehouse men as o rule be-
ing interested in the price per bale
and not in the quality. Data return
ed from storage places reporting
placed the total of American cotton
held at 3,974,974 bales of which "a
per cent. of 970,230 bales was report
ed. as not tenderable on future con-
tract, In computing the amount OF
untenderable cotton only American
cotton was considered in arriving at
the total of 4,6S9IosS bales OF all cot
ton held in Warehouses;. There were
1OO,73S bales Of foreign cotton also
held on May 81, bringing the total cot
ton in public storage and at compress
es to 4,739,S51 bales.--.~...-.--
- Chicago, jun II. Timothy D.
I'Big Tim") Murphy, labor leader and
fbrmer member OF the Legislature, who
Mds named in two -faHegel c9ntesss
sI6ns today as the leader in the .S35Hs
600 Dearborn station mail robbery.
April s, was held in jail tonight in de-
fault Of 100000 bond. Vincenzo Co.'S
nano, Murphy's lieutenant, also was
held, his bond having been fixed at
$4,000, which he was unable to fur
nish. The two were sent to different
jails, Murphy being held at Joliet and
Cosmano at Waukegan. SOthers being
held by the police were Edward
Geirun, Murphy's chauffeur; Peter
and Frank Gusenburg, both under in
dictment for robbery; :. George w.
Hecker, mail clerk; Ralph Teter, for
mer government clerk and Paul Bol"
anti, q grocer. At least II other ar
rests were expected soon, according 10
A, E. Germer, chief postal inspector,
who said that the men sought lived in
different states. Although he. asserted
that several confessions had been op-
tanned, he MISUNDERSTANDING, eXcep-
ting Geirun, had made admissions.
Murphy, it was said, took no part IN
the actual robbery but watched ms al,
legged companions hold up the mail and
then flee in an automobile. Murphy
was said to have paid Peter S100 be-
fore the robbery and $500 afterwards.
Murphy and Cosmano, it was asserted,
received the greater part OF the loot'
the rest being split $4,000 in bonds
and $1,000 in cash to each man.
Among the stories coming out of
Russia is one to the effect that all OF
the Soviet leaders realize that their
days of authority are about over ana
that they are making their arrange
ments against stormy times to come.
There have been uprisings among the
peasants and HfutiRies lin the army
and it is said that many of the high
bolshevist officials have already nov
ed their families to CZecho- -Slovakla
and the Baltic states, and have smug-
gled their platinum, gold, silver and
Jewels out of the country for deposit
in British and American banks. Ac-
cording to secret agents of the French
government who are said to have made
their way back to Paris from Russia,
large numbers of airplanes have
been collected at Moscow and Petro-
grad, and they are being kept ready
for flight at moments notice. The
populace is being told that these air
planes are being collected in anticl-
patton of war with the Roumanians
and the Czecho- -Slovaks; but every
one says that the real. reason Tor
these airplanes is O. means for quick
flight and to that end skilled avlators
are being kept on constant duty. ii
is said that there have been numer-
Gus instances where starving peasants
have burned freight cars assembled
to transport grain. the reason for the
destruction being the fear that the
removal Of the grain will make con-
ditions still worse for the people by