The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-09-22
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The third assembly of the League OF
I Nations was formally opened at Ge-
/ neva on September 4.
The crop report of the Bureau of
I Agriculture issued mst week forecasts
a wheat crop OF SlsOOO,OOO bushels.
One hundred thousand Greek troops
have evacuated Smyrna, and d, Turk
ish civil administration has been es-
ltablished there.
/ Col. Robert T.. Lee. grandson OF Gen
! eral Lee died at Roanoke, Va. on
/ September 7. after an Illness of many
months.
Cotton ginned prior TO September 1
Eamounted to SIT III running bales
{ compared with 4S5,7s7 bales TO Sep
TENDER l last year.
/ Lieut.. Belvfn w Maynard, known
J as the Flying Parson." was killed
/ while flying at the fair at Rutland.
VT, on September Z.
Short measure selling of gasoline Is
estimated by the National Motorists
/ Association to be costing the public
s9000O000 a year.
/ William II woodin, President OF the
American Car and Foundry Company
has been appointed fuel administra-
tor for New York State. .....
Commercial traffic through the Pan
anna Canal during the. fiscal year OF
1922 showed decrease in tolls coli
lected Of approximately $4,000.
During the first seven months Of the.
present year the railroads of the coun-
try ordered IS 1893 freight cars. APP
proNimately half of this number being
coal cars. IT.. -.
Automobiles entering Canada from
the United States for touring pur-
poses in the last calendar year totaled
617.2S5, compared with 9S,30O for the
previous year. .@". ....E.
France has spent since the war Ca
0O0. 100000 francs for reconstruction
Of devastated regions. The entire
amount has been borrowed from the
French people alone.
The United States dollar was quot
ed at discount of one quarter OF one
per cent in Montreal last week, the
first time in seven years that it had
been sold below par. '-..
All Congressional nominees in Okla
homa's eight Congressional districts
whether Republican or Democratic,
have announced their intention OF
supporting prohibition. .... ... II
The constitutionality OF the Shep-
2ard-Towner maternity law has been
attacked by the State OF Massachu-
setts in a petition filed in the Supreme
Court OF the United States.
II Austria is given a moratorium 10
i've years on her war indemnity pay
ments, group OF English bankers
agree to offer her a loan OF from thirty
0 forty million pounds.
In the run-off in the Mississippi
Democratic primary Hubert D.Steph-
ms defeated James X. yardaman to
ccecd Senator John Sharp Williams.
who will retire next March. /
One hundred blind children from
the American SHOOT at Harpoot have
arrived at Alepno Syria, after a Ave !
hundred mile hike across the Turkish
interior, lasting for thirty days.
Associate Justice John H. Clarke re-
signed from the United States Su-
creme Court last week. and President
Harding appointed former Senator
George II. Sutherland, OF Utah. to sue
ICED him.
Lightning struck a ship loaded with
$50 tons of INT while II lay in the
docks at Jacksonville, Fla, on Sep
tember . stunning several of the crew
and splintering the mast, but doing
10 further damage. ....
The Gordon Bennett balloon race
committee have announced that the
recent race was won by Lieut.. de Muy-
er. OF Belgium, instead of Lieutenant
Honeywell of the United States. as
was first announced.
Georges Salem, an Egyptian stu
lent, fired shot at an automobile in
Paris on September s. believing the
car to be President Millerand's. Pres
ident Millerand was at his country
residence. some miles away.
The grand jury at Herrin. Ill. has
eturned IS indictments against the
triking miners at that place for con
lection with the riots at that place
ecentIy in which number OF non
Inion miners were killed.
Approximately 500 OOO, 900 gold francs
of the French gold on deposit with
the Bank of England since 1916 as
guarantee for credits advanced to the
French government are to be return
ed to France Immediately. \
The work of melting down the treas
pres confiscated from the Russian
churches by the Soviet government
has begun. To June 20 there had been
requisitioned S57 pounds of gold and
ilS.776 pounds of silver.
One hundred women physicians,
representing seventeen countries, at
tended the international Congress OF
Women Doctors in Geneva last week |
The meeting was presided over by Dr.
Esther p. Lovejoy, of New York.
The Costa Rican National Assemb-
ly, called in special session for con-
sideration of the Central American
treaty of peace and amity, signed at
the recent conference aboard the
United States steamship Tacoma, has
refused TO ratify the pact.
Peru did not name any delegates to
the present assembly of the League OF
Nations and, according to her Foreign
Minister, viii not take part in any fu-
,ure deliberations of the body unless
he United States should decide to
DIN the League
Lieut.. James ii. Doolittle, army avia
tor.. last week made the coast to- coast
trip from Jacksonville, Fla. to San