Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-09-30

The submarine R-6 attached to the
Pacific fleet sank In the outer hnrbor
at San Pedro. tits believed the disas-
ter was caused by water rushing into
the submarine through an open torpe-
do tube.
Letters threatening the safety of
Miss Alice Robertson, congresswoman
of Oklahoma, were turned over to post
al authorities for Investigation, 1t was
revealed by her friends. They said
they believed the letters were the work
Of fanatics
Southern Pacific officials at Ogden,
Utah, received n report from freight
train crew to the effect that the body
of a supposedly murdered man was
found In boxcar which the crew
picked up from IA siding at winnemuc-
ca. New. The report said there was a
still In the car. There were bullet
wounds in the mans breast.
Authority to launch Immediately an
s8.000,000 hospital building campaign
was given in II meeting of the hospital
committee Of the Imperial Council of
the Shrine at St Louis, after which 1t
was announced that the central hos
pital, to cost approximately 81 100000,
win be located In st. Louis, with sub
salaries In San Francisco and Port
land, Ore.
Six named peaks In Montana have
elevations exceeding 1900 feet, and
several unnamed peaks rise to greater
heights, according to the United States
Geological Survey All these peaks are
In ha ~
Carbon county. In the south central
part of the state. The highest of these
Is Granite peak, 1850 feet; the next
highest is Mount Wood, 12,75O feet.
A thrilling tale of an escape from a
burning ship In mid-PacIfic was told
on the arrival In San Francisco of the
steamship Mariana bringing twenty
three members OF the crew OF the Ital-
Ian bark Monteblanco. When they left
the burning ship in lifeboat they
were 400 miles from land. After row.
ing for days and passing through n
school OF sharks they finally reached
an unlnhabited island, where they sub
sisted for fifty-four days on berries.
fish and game.
The Independent Medical Associa-
ton. In convention ut St Louis, adopt
ed resolution favoring beer of 2%
per cent alcoholic content, and de-
nouncing the dry law. The resolution
asserted that the association was "con-
vinced of the necessity of properly
brewed lager beer In the treatment of
patients" and that beer of 2% per
cent alcoholic content would be "ad-
mirably adapted as "A substitute for
stronger alcoholic drinks now con
sumed by our people in large quanti-
ties.'
WASHINGTON
Resolutions adopted recently by the
American Bar Association at CincIn-
natl condemning Judge Landls for ac-
cepting the position of baseball COM
missioner, while serving on the bench,
has been transmitted to Speaker Gill
lett, with a request that they be laid
before the proper committee of the
House. There was no intimation, how
ever, as to what action, If any. would
be taken.
Joseph G. Grew of Massachusetts,
now American minister to Denmark,
has been nominated by President Hard
ing to be minister to Switzerland.
Labor organizations In Great Brit
ain, France, Italy and Japan were
asked to Join in ''world-wide demon
strations for disarmament" on Armis-
tice Day, when the armament confer
ence assemblies, in cablegrams sent out
by Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor.
The Navy Department has neither
authorized nor sanctioned use of en-
listed men as "stool pigeons" by civil
authorities In campaigns against crime,
Secretary DENLY declared in ordering
an official Investigation of reports that
such use had been made of blue jackets
by the police OF San Diego, Calf
Hearty sympathy In the work of the
American committee for devastated
France was expressed by President
Harding in letter to Miss Ann Nor
gan, an official of the committee, who
wrote inviting him to attend a marine
band concert in New York TO raise
funds for French rehabilitation. He
declined the invitation, explaining that
public affairs would not permit his at
tendance.
Former Judge George Van Fleet of
South Bend, Ind, who sponsored the
Harding cause In Indiana In the pre-
convention days, has been named by
President Harding for a seven-year
term as a member of the federal trade
commission. He succeeds John Gar
land Pollard of Virginia. Wilson ap-
pointee.
DIR. ]. ID. Prince, a language profes
sor at Columbia University and presi-
dent of the State Civil Commission of