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Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04

Miss Laura Steele, a FORMER
teacher in the Perth Amboy public
schools. died at her home at ais
High street yesterday afternoon.
Death came as the result of a long
illness. Funeral services will be
held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock
from the late home of the deceased,
the services to be in charge of Rev.
Northey Jones, of st. Peters church.
Interment will be in the family plot
at Somerville.
Miss steele was a teacher in the
local schools many years g but
has been retired twenty-five years.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04
TO PLAN FOR OUTING

At the regular meeting of The
provement Hall tonight plans viii
bs completed and hnal arrange
ments made for tho sail to Loi!e
Island which Is to be held OF Sun
day. August 6. Those who have not
sig up for the trip and wish to
do so are urged to see Charles loft
or Chris Jensen before Sunday. The
sal, will be started early Sunday
morning, and the club will make a
long day of it, returning lats In the
avcning,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04
Gebhardt I'm Race

NEW BRUNSWICK, Aug. A.
Fred Gebhardt. of this city, a former
Republican member of the Board
of Freeholders, and who 10 seeking
reelection to that body this fall,
made out petitions this week and has
them in circulation, Mr.. Gebhardt
was a freeholder from 1918 until
1921 and was defeated for renomi-
nation at the primaries last year.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04
Trapped Slayer KilIs Two

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. A.
Trapped by a police detective detail
after he had been hunted through
OUT the country Since early In June,
Walter Castor, suspected of the MUIR
der of Mrs. Anna Wilkens, shot and
killed Detective Timothy Bailey. his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Robert Castor,
and himself in the home of his
mother, Mrs, Minnie Castor. here.
Detective Ernest Gable also fell with
a bullet wound in his head as the
manship and is fighting death.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04
SEWAREM

Mrs. Roy De Ronen is spending a
week with former Normal School
classmates in South Orange.
\ Misses Clara, Adelaide and poro-
thy Nelson are spending a few days
at iAsbury Park.
Miss Ethel Sullivan left today to
spend a month with relatives in
Pennsylvania.
held at the Land and Water Club
tomorrow night.
Mrs. F. T. Howell will entertain
the Sewaren Bridge Club next We'd
nesday.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04

CHICAGO, Aug. 4.-Wholesale
prices for hams have gone down Is
to 20 per cen in the last thirty days,
and hams are relatively cheap COM
pared with other foods. according
to Edward Norris. president of Nor
ris and Company. He said today
that consumers have so far failed to
take advantage of the decrease in
costs.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04
To Meet at Washington

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-Repre-
s~entatives of the six striking shop
craft unions on the Southern Rail-
way will meet in Washington tomor-
row with H. w. Miller. vice presi-
dent in charge of operations of the
system to consider proposals for set
Element of the strike on the basis
suggested by President Harding to
the executives of all the railroads.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04
Hits Mt

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4:-Frank
A. Munsey, owner and publisher OF
the New York Herald, was charged
today in the senate by Senator
Gooding. of Idaho, chairman Of the
Republican agricultural tariff bloc,
with fighting the administration tar
iff bill in the interest of his invest
ments in Europe.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04
PLAN BASKET PARTY

Plans have been completed for
the annual basket party to be held
under the auspices of the Workers
Cooperative Society, Sunday after
noon in Pine Grove. There will be
races for old and Young. as well
as dancing. Refreshments will be
served.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04
CITY BRIEFS

Dr.. William f. Ramsay has re-
turned from Washington. d. C,
where he appeared before the Agri-
cultural Committee of the United
States senate as a witness for the
Carnation Milk Company.
A committee meeting of the Board
OF Aldermen will be held tonight in
preparation for the regular meeting
Monday night, at which a great
amount Of business is scheduled to
come up.
Frank Van Sickle Is experimenting
with a high powered aercplane en-
CINE at his garage in New Bruns-
wick venue with the ultimate in
tcntion OF placing it in his speed
boat.
Boys Work Secretary Fenby Scott
of the local Y. M. c. A, will resume
his duties at the local association
building next week after having en-
joyed a months vacation.
Final arrangements have been
| made for the annual excursion of
the Knights Of Columbus and st.
Mary's parish to be held Monday.
This excursion will so up the Hud-
| son and will stop at Palisades Park.
The trip viii be made in the Clear
mont of the Hudson Navigation
Company. In former years two eX-
cursions were held. but this year
there will be only one.
The regular semi-monthly meet
ing of st. Martins Italian Social
Club, postponed last Wednesday
night on account of the band con-
cert, will be held Monday night.
Rudolph GREER. of 315 Madison
| avenue, who was stabbed in a street
| fight last Sunday afternoon. will
leave the city hospital today, au.hor-
tiles at the institution have an
nouneed. Joseph Perry, a negro
| sailor who halls from Portugal. is
charged with the stabbing.
Two arrests were made by Motor
| cycle Officer Pau Layden this norm
Ing OF drivers in charge of over
loaded trucks. Both offenders were
fined $3.50 each. Those arrested
were. Anthony Degnaro, of 100 Hud-
son street, anu JouH w
sidero. 262 Jefferson street, Newark,
II You Use Perfumes Keep Away
From the Bees
NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-Ever since
a bee census vas ordered in Goshen,
n. ", metropolis OF the buzzing
honey makers. tender hearted per-
SOM have been shuddering at the
thought OF the danger assessors
might undergo in plucking each bee
from its workroom or den and count
ing it. But they might as well stop
worrying, for w. h. T~horndyke, who
knows bees from stem to dreaded
stern. said today that all the census
takers have to do Is count the hives
Even if they did have to number
each bee. it wouldn't be 30 bad" he
said. Some men could count them
one by n and never have to use
a mask. or course. a lot would de-
pend on whether the bees were arts
| ~tocratic blue-bloods. or hybrids. The
| hybrids are usually the fierce ones
| Still, when it comes to getting inti-
| mate with bees discretion Is tie bet
ter part OF valor,"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04

Legion Auxiliary To Meet
The Woman's Auxiliary Of the
American Legion will meet tonight
in the auditorium of the Public
Library at 1870 o'clock. Business
Of importance will be transacted.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04

DR.. William f. Ramsay has re-
turned from Washington. d. G.,
where he appeared before the Agri-
cultural Committee of the United
States senate as a witness for the
Carnation Milk Company.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04

Frank Van Sickle is experimenting
with a high powered aercplane en-
CINE at his garage In New Bruins
wick avenue with the ultimate in
tcntion OF placing it in his speed
boat.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-04

A committee meeting of the Board
OF Aldermen will be held tonight in
preparation for the regular meeting
Monday night, at which a great
amount Of business is scheduled to
come up.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
BRYAN is WILLING -. z. y
'@:,s TO HEAR ,DUTY's CALL
If His Many Friends Insist He Just
Ca1not Refrain From Being
.' A Candidate ~ B..

Miami, Fla, Feb. = 16.-The fol-
lowing statement was given out by
William Jennings Bryan today:
"To those who have been kind
enough to write me in regard to
the Senatorship, greetings:
II have been actively engaged in
politics for more than thirty years,
with the exception of less than sew
en- years my work has been done as
a private citizen, and prefer to
continue to serve the public with
out the cares Of Office. If the Demo
crafts of Florida felt that as a Sena-
tor / could render a service to the
state and to the party in the nation
sufficient to justify them in calling
upon me- to represent them at
Washington I would consider the
matter from the standpoint Of duty
and in connection with other claims
upon me, but 1 have no thought Of
entering into a contest for the Of
flee. ...,..
"The nominations that I have re-
ceived-two for congress, one for
the Senate and three for the Presi-
dency-have been rendered me
practically without opposition, and
I have priced them as expressions
of confidence. No friend will expect
me, at my period Of life and when
my political record is known to all,
to solicit support or to take the risk
of alternating those pledged to as
pirants. I am looking forward to
congenial association here with
Florida Democrats who have been
my co-laborers for a quarter OF a
century, am sure that our rela-
tions will be pleasant SO long as my
plans do not. conflict with the ambi-
tions of others or with their per-
sonal preferences
"With profound appreciation of
the expressions of friendship and
esteem that have come to me, 1 am,
every truly,
civilian Jennings Bryan"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
WATSON CHARGES
VIOLATION Of LAW
DECLARES SECRETARY MEL
LON CAN NOT LEGALLY
HOLD PLACE PLACE-SAYS
TREASURY HEAD CAN BE
IMPEACHED AT ANY TIME

Washington, Feb. 16.-Secretary
Mellon is holding the Office of Sec
retary of the treasury in violation
of the law and can be arrested for
retaining the place if any one sees
fit to swear out warrant eharg-
ing him with the offense, Senator
Watson Democrat) of Georgia de-
clared in the senate late. today
The law which Mr.. Mellon is violat-
ing, Senator Watson said, prohibits
the secretary of the treasury from
engaging in any kind Of business
or commerce. ~. =.
Senator Watson told the senate
that Mr.. Mellon could be impeached
"any time we see fit" and read to
the senate the provision Of Section
243 of the revised statutes which,
he. declared expressly forbids Mr.,
Mellon to retain his, place. He de-
clared that by staying in Office the
secretary was violating the law,
adding that it was generally known
that Mr.. Mellon was one Of the
wealthiest individuals in the coun.
try. '.....E w. l-..
2 The assertions by the Georgia
senator. were made In connection
with several speeches of the accom-
plishments of the two, major politi:
cal parties. He informed the SEN
ate in the course Of his remarks
that the law, now listed as Section
243, was passed in the first con-
gress Of the United States, and that
during the administration Of Pres
ident Grant, A. T. Stewart had
withdrawn after being named sec
retary Of the treasury when atten-
tion was called to provisions of the
act : -.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
si4o, 600, 900 sWINDLING CASES
Take One Judge Million Years to Try
Them, Daughersy Says .

Them, Daughersy Says 9
Washington, Feb. 16.-Dockets of
the federal courts throughout the
country are swamped with fake stock
swindling cases in which more than
S140,OO0,000 has been taken from
ineautious investors, Attorney Gener-
al Dsugherty said today. There are,
he added, total of 480 of these
cases in the federal courts in which
S74 persons have been arrested or
indicted.
"It would take one judge, working
twelve months a year, 100000
years to clean up the docket" Mr..
Daugherty said.
That most of the cases, be explain
ed, were fake oil stock companies,
although the swindling schemes rang
ed from bucket shops and mining
stscks to patent elephant catcher"
promotions. Rich harvests are reaped
by swindlers, he asserted, because
people do not take pains to investi-
gate what they put their money into.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
REIGN OF TERROR
POSSIBLE PLAN
EIGHT MEN ARRESTED IN LOS
ANGELES-NAMES OF ALL
CONCERNED KEPT SECRET.
BELIEVED TO BE ExToR,
TIONISTS' ..- g..

Los Angeles, Feb. 16.-A terror
ist program of international scope
may be revealed through the ar
rest here last night Of eight alleg-
ed menlbrs of a. band Of extortion-
lists, it was said tonight by federal
and other officers who participated
in the arrest.
Three men arrested recently in
widely separated cities are believed
to have had in their possession "'un-
mistakable evidence of afihation
with the men taken into custody
here, it was said.
These three men were arrested in
Salt Lake City, Des Moines and
Cleveland, officers said, and they
further declared clock bombs and
duplicate written instructions were
found on all three. r +
The eight men caught here last
night were trapped by federal
agents, sheriff deputies and private
detectives after an attempt to ex-
tort $25,ooO, from prominent Los
Angeles business man under
threats of death, and after it was
charged they had obtained large
sums from other men through simi-
lar means. .,. ~. 49,,
X It was said at least 20 residents
Of Los Angeles have received
threatening demands for money
and have had their homes under
guard for, week. s.@'r '' ).
Names of the men involved as
well as the names Of the officers
working on the case are withheld
by the authorities for fear venge-
ance will be exacted by friends of
the men under arrest. Efforts to ar
rest other alleged members of the
band here were continued today,
officers failing to find trace Of a
ninth man they believe they wound
ed last night. ..
It is said that the extortion phase
of the alleged operations here,
while on large scale, was only a
"side issue" with terrorism as the
main objective. Postal inspectors
said today that for weeks they had
been holding warrants charging use
of the mails to defraud for the
men caught last night. -.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
BAIL FOR BANKER R
IN BIG FIGURES !;
J. L ARMFIELD RETURNED FROM
MEXICO CITY-oNE HUNDRED
AND sEvENTY.FIvE THoUs-
AND DOLLAR BOND REQUIRED
IN NORTH CAROLINA. ...

Lexington, N. c., Feb. 16.-J. l..
Armfeld, former president Of the
Bank of Thomasville, N, c., which
failed August %, was brought back
here today from Mexico City by Chief
of Police George B.. Wimberly, to
face charges of embezzlement, abb
straction and misapplication of the
banks funds. Chief of Police VIM
berly arrived here shortly after mid
day with his prisoner and after Arm
field had remained in the Office of his
attorney for several hours he was
taken to jail in default of bonds in
the sum of $175,000.
1t is understood that habeas corpus
will be brought before superior
court judge at an early date in an
effort to have the size Of the bond
reduced. .. .,.
In describing his arrest and return
from. Mexico Armfie1d is alleged to
have told Sheriff Sink that "I have
been through help and burst into
tears several times during the re-
cital of his experience. Armfeld de-
clared the Mexicans who arrested him
read no warrant to him and did not
tell why they wanted him. He was
held incommunicado, he declared,
the last night he was in Mexico City
being confined ina room that he said
was practically dungeon. It was not
until he was delivered into the Gus
tody of the sheriff. Of Webb county
Texas, Armfeld said, that a warrant
was read to him. That official, it was
stated; had been proided with extra
dition papers and turned Armfeld
over to Wimberly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
DEATH CLAIMS 4. ].
ABLE;ATT.ORNEY
P. "A. WILCOX DIES AFTER A
BRIEF ILLNESS-TRUSTEE OF
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CARO-
LIMA AND COAST LINE so.
LIcITOR.

Florence, Feb. 16.-Philip Allston
Wilcox, general solicitor of the legal
department of the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad, and recognized as one
of the ablest lawyers of the South,
died here this morning after an, ILL
ness of three weeks. He was 55 years
old. The funeral services will be held
at the Methodist church of which he
was member at 8 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon. FIl Z j-sl i
Mr.. ,Willcox's death was due to a
combination of diseases which offered
stubborn resistance; to the efforts Of
his physicians, who passed days and
nights at his, bedside and exhausted
all known means. KS
News Of his death was received
here and elsewhere with profound
sorrow and regret. Hundreds of tele-
grams of sympathy have come to. the
stricken family today. Mt. Wilcox
was held in love and affection and
esteem everywhere he was known.
He was greatly admired for the bril-
liancy of his mind. AS lawyer he
had few, if any, equals in the state,
being a master of the law as science
and a trial lawyer of the highest at
tainments as well. He was man Of
the broadest culture. His library is
one of the finest in the state and it
was his pride. One of the finest
traits Of his character was his inter
est in young men, many Of whom he
had helped to procure. an education.
At the time of his death he was a
member of the board of trustees Of
the University Of South Carolina, an
institution very dear to him and
from which he graduated IN the class
OF. 1887. - " '..l s.a-
Mr.. Wilcox was. prominent in the
South Carolina Bar association and
the American Bar association, in both
of which he had held Office. He was
president Of the South Carolina Bar
association in 1919 and 1920. He was
a valued member Of the Rotary club
of Florence. Florence is mourning
today the death Of true and loyal
friend in whose passing the city and
the state have sustained a distinct
loss.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
A SIX INCH SNOW 80 Is, =
= FELL IN VIRGINIA
Weather Disturbance Of Cape Hat
teras is Moving North
...', . eastward .. ~.

Richmond, Va, Feb. 16.-Crip-
pied telephone and trolley service
in Richmond and vicinity, and SINH
lar conditions in many other parts
of the state were reported early
today, as the result of last nights
snow storm, which resulted in six
inches depth.
Fears were expressed by the To-
cal weather bureau director that
damage has been wrought to trees
in Virginia's fruit belt. ST.
A disturbance of considerable in
tensity is central this morning off
Cape Hatteras and moving rapidly
northeastward. There have been
SHOWS and rains within the last "a
hours in West Virginia, Tennessee
and in the south Atlantic and east
Gulf states. Rains are heavy in the
Chrolinas and Georgia; freezing
temperatures prevail this morning
as far south as extreme northwest
Florida. The temperature will rise
Friday in the east Gulf states and
the interior of the south Atlantic
states. Storm warnings remain dis
played on Atlantic coast at and
north Of Cape Hatteras.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
CLASS
MAY STAY ASHORE.
NAVAL COMMITTEE SAID 10.
HAVE DECIDED TO TURN
GRADUATES BACK 70 CIVIL.
LIFE-HoUsE HAS PLAN TO
SAVE MONEY !, u

Washington, Feb. 16.-The house
naval committee in trying to dis I
cover some way Of reducing appro-
priations for the naval establish
ment next year was reported today.
to have agreed informally to rer.
commend that the first class as An-s
napolis, to be graduated in June, be
turned back to civil life without
commissions in the navy. g t
Although members declined to
discuss this proposal, it is under
stood that, such d reco1mendation
probably viii be made along with
the further proposal that the num-s
ber Of men to be- admitted to the
academy each year be reduced from
five to two for. each menber Of;
congress. Secretary DENLY propos-
ed that they be Cut on q congres-
sional Allotment from i've u shfse.f
There are about $40 members Of
the first class, all Of whom natutal-s
" expected to be sent to sea. ASs
committeeman, urging that the en-
tire, class be dropped, declared final
decision ON this question would be-,
reached at the earliest psssible
time in order to let midshipmesn5
know whether they oould expect to
remain on the government pay
roll ~ i' so Z;
While the committee continued
today to hear naval experts ten of.
the needs for the next fiscal year
under what they described as the
treaty navy house members were
canvassing among themselves in anf
effort to find how much could be
cut from Secretary Denby's esti-.
matevof $35O,OOO, 900 for the next I
fiscal year. On all sides it vas ad-
mitted that the drive, for reduc-5 !
ton from, that figure was gaining
headway, although many leaders, |
insisted that to cut much under the.
Denby estimate would put the navy
below the ratio rating fixed by the
arms conference. ss2.' ~ y s
The figure most persistently men-
toned as the most probable to be-
set by the appropriations commit
tee which will frame the navy
bill, was s25o,Ooo,ooo. There we're
many claims by s'little navy men,
demanding drastic cuts that the
house, at least, would not stand for.
more than 1920, ,O00,0
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
THE CALHOUN CREEK BRIDGE
$35, 900 Included Bridge Over Lit
.. tie River Also

In the announcements that were
printed in The State, The Press and
Banner and elsewhere this week in
regard to request of Supervisor
Keller for federal aid. it was said
that he asked for $4,000 to place
bridge over Calhoun Creek. This
was mistake. The request was fot
$4,000 to. build bridges over Cal
houn Greek and Little River, which
is an entirely different matter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
COMPULSORY WORK
FOR ALL THE WOMEN
To Be Imposed By Bulsar;.n Pe..-
ant Government-Tri;ed ts
First in Sofia.

Sofia, Feb. 16.-Compulsory.
work for, women is to be imposed
by the Bulgarian peasant govern
mentl The peasant women who do;
manual labor, say partisans Of the
law, will take pleasure in Seeing
those ladies in silk stocking rustle
about bit. -"
Premier Stambolisky, justifying
the new law in a recent speech,
said: ~. .H
"A peasant woman works in the
country, blowing the ground, often
doing more than her husband. She
spins the wool and weaves the
cloth for the family's clothes. What
does the town lady do? She walks
and chats and does not give birth to
children. We must, at least, COM
pei her to labor for the state"
The law is to be applied first in
the. capital, Sofia, and then in the
smaller cities and eventually in the
villages and country, where, how
ever, custom and necessity leave
few idle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
HAS FINGERS TAKEN OFF

J. C. McLane is recoering from the
ordeal of having one of his fingers
amputated. This was done by DR..
Gambrel Monday and the young man
will soon be his usual lively self
again. Some time ago ]. C. was bad
ly burned by an electrical shock
while at work for the paving COM
pany and as a result of thesburn on
his hand he has had to have his
third and fourth fingers on his right
hand taken off.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
SAVANNAH RIVER ... ..
IS STILL RISING

Augusta, Ga. Feb. 16.-The Sa-
vannah river will reach a stage of
between 33 and "a feet here this
afternoon, and but for the. levee a
large section of the city would be
covered with water. This is the
statement Of Meteorologist E. D.
Emigh, of the weather bureau here.
A river stage was reached in the
Augusta flood of 1918, before the
levee was built.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
MIR. BROWN DIES

I. C. Brown and Asbury Brown
left for Anderson this morning,
following receipt last night of a
message that their father, an old
Confederate veteran, and former
resident of Abbeville, had died
there yesterday afternoon. Mr..
Brown lived here several years
with his sons, moving to Anderson
three or four years ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-17
RECEIVER is ASKED FOR
A RAILROAD BROTHERHOOD

Toleda, O., Feb. 16.-Appoint-
meM of receiver for the United
Brotherhood of Maintenance of
Way Employees and Railway Shop
Laborers is asked in a petition filed
in federal court here late yesterday
by the Bacon Brothers. Company of
Toledo, it became known today.