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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1921-11-09

day afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock.
Rev. H. d. Hart, pastor of
the Southern Methodist church
at imboden aud Exeter, was n
visitor to the Gap on Monday.
a. ID. Owens has been sick
with stomach trouble for some
time, but is some better now.
j. V. Love, Of East Stone
gap, spent The weekend with
V. +. Garrett, Jr., in the Gap.
Miss Martha Hugh spent the
Weekend with friends in Bris
toll.
Coming The Little Shepherd
or Kingdom Come" by John
Fox, Jr adv.
Mrs. Shannon Miller. Miss
Clarke aud Cred Taylor motor
ed over from White Gate and
spent the week -.ud with sir
Tay lor and Mis-. Beverly TAYLOR
IN the Gap
Rev. Hall, of Lynch, spent
the week-end in tht Gan.
b. T. W,lrno,h left Monday
morning for his home in Bristol
after spending II week with Ills
sister, Mrs. + b. S one.
Rev. T.. n. Wolfe will preach
at The Methodist church at Ca.
Diet Friday night, November IL.
at 200 o'clock. Everybody
come out and hear u good ser
mon.
Mrs. j. NJ Young, of Stonoga,
spent Saturday and Sunday in
the Gap visiting relatives.
|. 7. Gilly has purchased a
new four cylinder Buick tour
ing car from H. l.. Gilly at Nor
ton.
MIR. and Mrs Ike Richmond
and children, of Appalachia,
spent the week end with MIR
and Mrs W. a. Head.
DR.. and Mrs. q. G.. lIoncycutt
and son, q g., .Ir are spending
his week with relatives in
Scott county.
Miss Georgia Bostwick came
over from Bristol and spent Sun
day with her m1thcr and sister.
Jack Pickfori in "'rhe Little
Shepherd of Kingdom Come is
coming soon.-adv.
Miss Mable Smith. WHO spent
several days in the Gap visiting
her aunt, Mrs. w. II. Wren, re.
turned to her home in Chilhowi,
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs Dan Hill. Miss
Anna Bounds and Earl Schlei
cher, motorcd to the Cove and
took supper with Mrs. Hills pa
rents last Tuesday night.
Miss Alverta Neeloy and sis
ter, Miss Pnrilee, spent Sunday
at Roda with friends.
Ernest McCullry returned
Monday from visit to home
folks in Bulls Gap.
Brand new six room cottage.
two lots. in town for sale
$2I50O0; water, saver. electric
lights. -Goodloe Bros. Co Inc.
-adv.45tf.
Circle No. >, of the Woman's
Auxiliary of the Presbyterian
church will meet Mt the home
of Mrs. j NJ Smith, Thursday
AFTERNOON at O'Clock.
Misses Anna Bounds and
Susie kilgore attended the
Christian Endeavor social given
ut tho Log Cabin Monday
night.
Circle No. 1, of the Woman
Auxiliary of the Presbyterian
church will meet at the home of
Mrs. S. III Goodwin, Thursday
afternoon ut 3 o'clock.
Go to Workingman's Barber
Shop. Haircut 35c, shave l5c
Near Parrott's Restaurant Elk
pert workmanship. j Matt
Harris, Prop. adv
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1921-11-09

Miss Rosa Bruce, who is TAX
ing a business course in Bristol !,
and Miss Alice Bruce, who is
teaching near Coeburu, we're
called home Monday on account
of The death of their little neph-
ew, Jerry Cummings.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1921-11-09

Miss Eula Tackett, who has
been working in the office of
the Electric Transmission Com.
pnny in the Gap for n number
of years, resigned her position
and left last week for New York
where she will visit her sister.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-30
BUSINESS BOOMS .
THROUGH ENGLAND
Wage Reductions Effected i'm Important
Industries-Cost Of Living
#a- Is Falling

LONDON, July &c. -Settlement of the
coal strike, after more than three months
idleness. the, return of cotton operatives
to work, and the last minute agreement
in the engineering industry have COM
pletely Transformed the business, indus
trial and economic aspect of Great Brit
ain, says the American Chamber of Com
merce in its official monthly summary of
trade .-e..
Wage reductions have now been effected
in practically all important industries
including coal. cotton. wooden, road trans
port. tFamwayS, gas works. engineers and
railwaymen. The cost of living. mean
while, continues to fall according to Off
cial figures. During June the index figure
fell from 12S to 1I9. a decline of nine
points. $50
The bank rate has been suddenly re-
dueed to g per cent. This is believed to
be due to action of Federal Reserve bank
of New York. which reduced its discount
rate to 6 per cent. The policies of the
Bank of England and the Federal Re
serve bank have run on parallel lines for
some time. ... .s. .... .ar .r. s-s
The British government will give a
grant of SJ,OO0000 to foster cotton grow
ing in the British empire. This viii re
place the former promise Of $250,000 a
year for FIVE years. The grant will
come out of the profit made in marketing
Egyptian cotton during the war. g.. s..E7
September 30 has been fixed as the COM
mencing date for the new anti-dumping
bill. Discussions in committee point to
the fact that a tax of 66 % per cent may
be, imposed by the act and that under the
deprecated exchange section a duty of
800 per cent will be necessary in some
cases. ~ f.
The effects of the coal stoppage and
general trade depression are reflected in
the revenue returns for the quarter ending
June 30, which show deficit of 81 mil
lions sterling, revenue being less by Ill
millions as compared with the same period
last year. 80
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-30
RYAN FORCED TO REST
0wsiey Takes Hsi Place on LegiOn's
AmericaniSm Commission

INDIANAPOLIS, July 29.-Henry j.
Ryan, national director and chairman of
the Americanism commission of the
American Legion. has been granted an
extended leave by John {. Emery. ma
tional commander, on advice of nlysi-
clans, and Alvin NJ Owsley of Dallas,
Texas, assistant director of the Ameri-
canism commission, will become acting
director, it was announced yesterday at
the legions national Headquarters.
Mr.. Ryan suffered a nervous break.
down following an automobile accident
here last June in which he was injured
and f. w. Galbraith, jr., then national
commander of the legion, was killed.
Mr.. Owsley served as divisional adiu-
tant of. the thirty-siXth division over
seas. He announced yesterday. that one
of his first, acts would be to present
personally to President Harding the le-
ions views on the delayed passage of
the adjusted compensation measure. He
will also confer with government Off.
cials upon the Bergdoll case. the revi.
val of German propaganda and Bolshe
yistic activities ........ ....... ........
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-30
CHICAGO BUILDING
LAKE PARKWAY
Starts S40,000,O0O Project
to Beautify Five Mile
Lake Front
WILL GIVE 800 FEET
OF FILLED IN LAND
Lcng Lagoon for Bathing and Regattas
to Be Observation-Disclosures Missing
Link of 40 Mile Drive Along Lake -
Is Part of Chicag0's Plan. sr s

CHICAGO, July f30.-Blocked from
the lake along more than half its south
side, Chicago has started work to jump
the intervening railroad tracks by build
ing q five-mile parkway out in the lake.
This is to run from 18th street to 10th
street, connecting downtown lake front
improvement with Jackson park. and add
ing the missing link of a 40-mile drive
running along or within stones throw of
Lake Michigan.
\ start is being made this summer on
the initial film on the present shore line
and on a necessary breakwater. 1t is
hoped to complete the first part of the
shore fill before the year runs out. This
will eventually add a strip of land about
600 feet wide and five miles long beyond
the railroad tracks. The made land will
be converted into a park H..
The much larger task of construction
of long, narrow park in the waters of
the lake may be started next spring 1t
will be built about 1.S00 feet from the
present shore line Its east side will give
Cmcagoans the uninterrupted view of
the lake on the south that they have long
wished for. Its side toward the city will
enclose long lagoon furnishing an adj
mirable course for regattas. 1t will be
600 feet wide.
At intervals along the outer shore line
bathing beaches will be built. with the
purest water obtainable, ever free from
any shore wash.
The cost of the entire project is esti-
mated at around $4,000 900. Work is
being started under an initial S.. 600 600
bond issue already voted.
The undertaking Is part of the Chicago
plan. drawn up in 1908 and promoted
since then by the Chicago plan commits
sion, which is supported by municipal APP
-.-.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-30
COLUMBUS
TO HONOR VETERANS
Many War Workers Will Attend Con-
ventiOn i'm San FraneiseO-A
Memorial Wreath

SAN FRANCISCO. July 30-World
war veterans, living and dead, will be
honored by the thousands of delegates at
tending the Both annual international SUI
preme council of the Knights of Column
bus here Aug. ,, 9 and 4.
Many of the visiting knights served
during the war in American and overseas
camps in educational and war activities
of the Knights of Columbus and will
meet soldiers with whom they served.
Hospitals in San Francisco and Palo
Alto. near here, where many wounded
soldiers and sailors are being treated.
will be visited by convention delegates and
gifts viii be left for the men and enter
tainments presented for them.
At Palo Alto. Albert G. Bagley, depart
ment director of the Il. of c. war and edu-
cational activities, win take the visitors
on a tour of the hospital and tell how
the order is carrying on its hospital work.
One event on the convention program
will be the placing of memorial wreath
to the men killed in the war. This will
take place at the San Francisco civic
center and the ceremony will be attended
by leading city officials and officers of the
order.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-30

End yesterday.
The five men, who said they lived nj
Brooklyn, ". u, were trapped in a gar
age after police officials had been notified
they were coming.
; They gave their names as Frank Cos
tito, Bruno Miles, Frank Scafed, An
tonic Salcone and John RiZzu.
a suspicious sag to the springs of the
automobile inspired the officers to tear up
the hoorings in the trucks and they
found 100 gallons of alcohol in cans
The seats in the touring car and coupe
served to hide another 40 gallons .
The cars bore license plates for New
York, Massachusetts and Connecticut
BY the pushing of button the plates
could be interchanged at will. yts
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-30
VINCENT HANDED
= IN RESIGNATION
WinOOski Mans Health I'M
proved So Fast However
He Stuck to His Job

II felt so miserable and nearly played
out that i had given my resignation to the
foreman and told him ] would have to
give up altogether" said Alphonse &.
Vincent, "a River street, Winoosli, VT,
an employe of the American Wooden Com
pany. ss
Luckily for me he held the resignation
up for few days and in the meantime |
began taking Tanlac, and it improved
me so much that l notified him of it and
stayed on the job.
My headaches. dizziness, pain in the
side and, in fact every bad feeling disap-
peared. | have a big appetite now, and L
eat anything | want and never feel the
slightest distress from gas or sour stom-
ach afterwards. | am as well and hearty
and active as boy of 90 and if / talked
from now until the end of my days l
couldn't say half of what / would like to
say about Tanlac 1t has just made me
feel like a brand-new man all over
TanIac is sold in Brattleboro by the
Brattleboro Drug acknowledgements.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-30
TO AVOID SECRET
PREL|MINARIES
America Insists on Open
Farley at Disarmament
Conference
ENGLAND ANXIOUS
FOR DISCUSSION
She and Japan Would Like Conference
With United States Before China Is
Admitted - L. :. Insists Making of
Program Open to All. ..,.. .e's,s ILL.,.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
Especial Dispatch to The Reformero)
CODvright 1921.

BY DAVID LAWRENCE ..
Especial Dispatch to The Reformero)
Copyright 1921.
WASHINGTON. July 30.-The United
States government means to deal fairly
by all the powers invited to the disar-
mament conference and therefore is
frowning upon the suggestions of pre-
liminary parley.
Right at the start the American gov
eminent has put its feet down hard
on one of the things that brought such
a demge of criticism on the Versailles
conference, namely the practice of a
few powers getting off to one side and
framing a program which became a
source of suspicion on the part of the
other nations who were not in on the
secret preliminaries. "a
President Harding and Secretary
Hughes are outlining principles of pro
credure which are American rather
than European. Having invited all the
great powers to a conference the Amer
lean government would not feel that it
was exactly. fair to have preliminary
gathering of a few nations ahead OF
time. Tie United States is anxious to
hold the conference at a time that is
convenient to all but nothing will be
gained by Il hurried meeting early in
the fall in which matters would be has
tilv discussed. Whatever discussion
there is on the agenda or program must
be available to all powers There viii
be no secret understandings, alliances
or ententes within the conference.
No Doubt About L. s. --.--
Expressions from American sources
along this line We're so emphatically an
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-30
plalnteressed SPECTATORS.

A suit for damages was being tried
not long ago In one of the divisions
of southern city court. A country
lad seventeen or eighteen years old
was put on the stand to testify. He
gave his testimony In so low a tone
that the Judge. pointing to the jury.
said to him: Speak so that these gen
tleDen can hear you" why" said
the witness. with beaming smile,
Aare these men interested in the case,
tooT-Harper's Magazine. -f
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-30

nounced-tUrfay as to leave no doubt OF
what will be said officially II other gov
ernmemts actually propose to the United
States a preliminary conference as sug
.gested in London press dispatches. Two
reasons are advanced from abroad In
favor of preliminary conference. One
il hat the dominion premIers can
wait until next November and would
like TO talk over matters first at Wash
ington or elsewhere in the United
States within the next month or two
and either come back for full confer
ence later or send representatives who
have been familiarized with what oc-
ours at the preliminary conference. The
other is that meeting OF Few aheau
Of time viii expedite the work OF the
many later ON. III
Would Like to Please Premiers
The United States is willing to oblige
the dominion premiers and move the
date of the conference up to October or
even late. September but under no cir
cumTstaHces will any preliminary con
ference be held which includes only a
few of the powers or which attempts
to dispose of Far Eastern matters, hur-
riedlv while disarmament questions are
indefinitely postponed.
III any of the dominion premlers pass
through the United States on their way
home they will be welcomed and be
given every opportunity for discussion
with the President aud secretary Of
state but positively nothing will be
agreed upon by the United States I'M
til all the powers have been consulted.
Surmising the Reason -s
The London suggestion of a prelimi
nary conference has caused quite a stir
i'm official circles. Officials declined to
surmise what the reasons might be for
such request. On the face of it. the
move springs from a desire to select a
4 IL IL,
minion premiers. But is that all!
Some observers here think Great Brit
ain would like to talk 10 America priH
vately with her dominion premlerss pres
rent and frame program which would
enable Great Britain to proceed dis
ereetly III the larger conference wherein
she viii appear on the one hand as the
ally of JaDan and on the other as the
friend of the United States. This view
| is not shared entirely, however. by an
OF her group of observers who believe
Japan herself by reason of her intimacy
with Great Britain would not object to
a special conference between Great
Rritain's representatives and the
!, United States and Japan with the spe
! ciaI purpose of excluding China. Japan.
! it is contended, would like to have mat
tiers fixed up before China appears on
the scene. The japanese have never
looked with favor upon the inclusion of
/ I HfHd III the UlSclISSioll betduSt4- Oh tit
indication of the Chinese for spelling
the best laid plans of diplomacy.
No Preliminary ..ss
Whatever the inspiration may be for
1.-THE suggestion of a preliminary confer
/ ence, the important fact is that it will
not be held er
America disapproNes and being the
host, the nation, too. which sent out
the invitations, the likelihood is that
In. -
prevail The first round in the newt,
able sIIirmishes between Old World and
New World diplomacy are in progress
and the United States has spoken its
view without equivocating-the smust
be no cliques or private alliances,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-30
REV. G.. F. CHAPLIN
RESIGNS PASTORATE
Congregational Clergyman ~ SaxtOns
River Closes Ministry After Long
Seryice-Is 80 Years Old.

Last Sunday morning Rev. G. f.
Chaplin, for IS years the beloved pastor
of the Congregational church at Sax
tons River. told the people that it had
occurred to him that after so long pas
.torate it would be for their good to have
a change, and accordingly he had re-
signed. He said he need not tell them
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-30
BOOZE RUNNERS
AND CARGO CAUGHT
Boston Police Get Five Men, 24O Gal
..-s~~- Ions Of Liquor and Four Auto
mobiles In One Haul.

BOSTON. July 30.-A tip. a trap and
battle of wits netted the police five
alleged bootleggers. 240 gallons of al
cohOl and four motor cars in the South
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Noted Detectives
Quit Police After
Is Years Service
Casassa and McKenna, Who
Arrested Rosenthal Slay-
ers, Gained Reputation as
Captors of Pickpockets

Detectives Frank D. Cassassa and
Richard M. McKenna, probably the most
famous pickpocket sleuths in this
country, retired from the Police De-
partment at midnight last night, after
having completed twenty-five years of
service McKenna retired with the
rank of lieutenant and Casassa with
the rank of detective sergeant.
Casassa and McKenna have an
nounced that they have formed a part
nership and on February I will be the
controlling factors in a new detective
agency.
Casassa and McKenna were the two
big figures in the Pickpocket Squad
when it was brought to its highest
point of efficiency under former Police
Commissioner Arthur Woods. When
Woods organized the squad a band of
expert pickpockets had terrorzed the
shopping district and the uniformed
force and regular detectives had failed
to cope with the situation
From that day until Commissioner
Enright and Chief Inspector William
J. Lahey began the work of destroying
the police system built up by Woods
pickpockets gave New York wide
berth. The two detectives made an in
tensive and intimate study of their
WI n anu W iSht tHIOus tES lkuL-
Lahcy system, they were finally trans
ferred to duties entirely foreign to
them, Casassa and McKenna knew the
names, habits and methoos of practi-
cally every formidable pickpocket In
the United States.
Frank Casassa and Dick McKenna
were appointed to the Police Depart
ment by Commissioner Theodore
Roosevelt in 1895. Since that time they
have won commentator from Judges
of General Sessions, magistrates, dis
trict attorneys, grand jusias and many
lawyers with whom they have been as
sociated.
The first real fame that came to the
two detectives resulted from their ar
rest of "Gyp the Blood" "Dago Frank"
and Lefty Louie" the gunmen who
were electrocuted for the murder of
Herman Rosenthal, the gambler.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Fireman Aboard Runaway
Truck Averts Disaster

A runaway fire truck, with engine
going at full speed and nobody in the
drivers seat was about to crash into
a crowd in Delaney Street Yesterday
afternoon when the coolness of Charles
Scudiari, a fireman on the tiller seat
perhaps saved many lives and much
damage 70 the automobile and other
vehicles. Speed up and hop on this
runway and stop the gas" Scudlari
shouted to an autoist, and almost i'm
mediately the truck was brought to a
halt.
HALF an hour before Scudlari and
Frank McGough, the fireman chauffeur
ol the truck, had started with the ma
chine from the station Of Hook and
Ladder Cornpany &c, at 81 East 114th
Street, to their company garage at De-
ancey and Attorney streets. AS the
truck WAS moving through Delaney
Street eastward, the front wheels
caught in rut at Allen Street and
McGough was thrown to the street
Scudlari seing McGough tumble
from his goat. stcered the truck I. one
t,de in time to escape rlnning over his
company mate. The machine cot-
,nued drivcrcss through Delaney
Street until stopped by the chauffeur.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Detectives Lose Battle
Over Honor of a Family
Father, Mother and Son Beat
Two Who Interfere in Chas-
tising Alleged InsuIter

The Semackowitzes are q fighting
family. Abe, who is twenty years old,
was giving lesson in manners in
front of his fathers store, at ,304 Bed
ford Avenue, Brooklyn last night to
man he accused Of insulting his sister
when Detectives Lawrence and O'Brien,
of the Bedford Avenue police station,
came along.
They didn't know the Semackowitzes
and, in the interests Of humanity, un-
dcrtook to separate Abe from his pupil
Abe ran into the store and his father
slammed and locked the door as soon
AS the detectives, who pursued him,
got inside.
Then the Semackowitzes got busy
Abe and his father. and Mrs. Semacko-
WITT, too. The detectives were backed
against the wall, each with a broken
left arm and thumb. when Lawrence
managed to draw his revolver and fired
two shots through the window, which
brought Patrolman Hummel to the
rescue.
Humme climbed through the shat
tered window and surprised the Sc.
mackowitzes, who were just starting in
on the detectives right arms. His
rightstick was too much for them, and
they surrendered. though protesting
that he should be fighting on the other
side. They explained that they took
the detectives for friends Of the low
life who had insulted Rosie, but Abe
and his father were locked up, never
theless
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Son of Tarzan'' i'm Real
Life Shocks Kansas Citv
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. 90. - A
scene from the play "The Son of Tar
zan," was enacted in real life yester-
day morning on one of the busiest cor
hers in Kansas City, Kan. Women
b]ushed and men gasped in astonish-
rient when a small boy, naked except
for pair of shoes, was seen dashing
wildly out of the Kansas City, Kan,
high school gymnasium at Eighth Street
and Armstrong Avenue.
The boy, red-haired md freckled, did
rot hesitate at the screams of women
passing by, bat ran down the street.
According to the boys of the gym
nasium class, the young adventurer
was Clifford Swallow, fourteen years
old, freshman at the high school. The
nude race was the result of dare,
which developed in the dressing room.
81 heard of the incident shortly after
it happened" said Clarence E. Ryce,
principal of the school. at was gen
orally thought that the boy had seen
an African picture at local thcatcr
and in his great admiration for his
hero in the jungle had decided to try
the life himself. Clifford did not re-
turn to school after the happening and
/ am unable to say what we will do
with him until we hear what he has to
say about his conduct"