Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-01-26
Domestic

of Motion Picture Producers and Dis
tributors Immediately after March f."
it was announced recently at dinner
at which the postmaster general was
the guest of group of motion picture
officials in New York Mr. Hays for
NAL resignation from President Har-
ding's cabinet will be presented soon,
it was said.
After an all-day investigation, fed
eral officials at Mobile, Ala, probing
into liquor smuggling on the Gulf
coast, announce that the probe will
continue several days. Nine arrests
have been made, six on the Gulf coast
and three in Mobile. The investiga-
tion of liquor smuggling will extend
from Miami to Mobile.
Beautiful, temperamental Geraldine
Farrar has put it up to New York to
guess why she has suddenly announced
her abdication of the queen privileges
and prerogatives which she enjoyed
throughout the fifteen years Of her
stardom with the Metropolitan Opera
company. Next year Miss Farrar will,
in the patter of the vaudevillian, "hit
the grit as lone trouper, in a con-
cert tour which may earn her a quar-
ter of million dollars.
President Harding, it is learned in
Newark, n. j., has ccmmuted the pris-
on term imposed upon Frank H. Noble,
one of the group of men sentenced by
federal judge in New York for vio-
lation of the Sherman antitrust act.
> A good, warm cell in penitentiary
is preferable to liberty these zero days
in Utah, according to Jim Wilson, alias
Martin, an escaped convict from the
south. Martin walked into the office
of Chief of Police Burbridge at Salt
Lake City, Utah, ard asked to be TAX
en- back to the North Carolina state
prison.
The jury trying Arthur c. Burch, at
Los Angeles, Cal, for the murder Of
j. Belton Kennedy reported itself un-
able to agree on a verdict recently and
was discharged.
Severe earthshocks were felt in
many sections of Los Angeles, Cal,
recently. shattering window glass in
some quarters and shaking frame
buildings.
Lillian Russell sailed on the steam
ship George Washington, from New
York recently, determined to get at
the heart of the American immigra-
tion question.
Unable to reach an agreement on
the railroad wage question. the man.
agement of the Nashville, Chattanooga
and st. Louis railway and the Order
of Railway Telegraphers will submit
jointly their proposals to the railway
labor board for final action, it was an
nounced recently by w. P. Bruce, gen.
eral manager of the road at Nashville,
Tenn.
Reports that a large store in Chi
cago had opened window display in
which living and unclad reproductions
of Helen of Troy Venus and Cleo
patra were the chief points of interest,
attracted such crowds that traffic was
blocked, and police sergeant and five
aides rushed forward. "Come on, men
it's all right" he mumbled TO his aides.
who still were staring in the window.
Those are just wax figures, but way
back in the rear Of the window that
way, they sure did look real
Daniel G. Buntin, AZ, of Nashville,
Tenn, real estate operator, at Nash
vile and in Chicago, shot and killed
himself recently at his home in West
End. the act being attributed to i'll
health.
This year of 1922 will be "a good
year for remembering, above all, busi-
ness is business and not speculation"
Herbert P. Howell, vice president of
the National Bank of Commerce, re-
Gently told delegates to the convention
of the National Wholesale Dry Goods
association, at New York.
Rev. W. Z. Robb, sheriff of Polk
county. Des Moines, Ia. has resigned
his pastorate at the Urbandale Fed
Grated church, because. he said, he
does not wish the church TO be sub
jected TO criticism when he hangs two
murderers this spring.
Donation of 500 by Cordcll Hull Of
Tennessee. chairman of the Democrat
ic national committee. to the Wilson
foundation fund was received at Nash
vile, Tenn, by the foundations chair
man in this state.
A proposal by Mayor Ainslie Of
Richmond, Va. that the controversy
between the Virginia Railway and
Power company and its employees be
arbitrated. has been rejected by T. S.
Wheelwright, president of the cOmpa-
ny, upon the grounds that the plan
does not include a definite assur-
ance that the company's revenue will
be considered by the arbitrators."