The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-06-17

court upheld the conStltutlOnaltty Oh
the 2 per cent severance tax on iurs.
This decision means the states VIC
tory for tax on raw hides sent out
of the state, which is collected and
used principally by the Department
Of Conservation. 1t is estimated that
more than 100000 annually will be
derived from this tax.
Atlanta. Cal NJ Blumenthal OF
New Orleans and A. T. Hunt OF
Hodge, La. have been awarded the
scholarship gold ''T'' at the Georgia
School of Technology this year out Of
a class Of twenty-five students. This
is one of the highest honors awarded
and is given to only per cent of the
junior class who have made the nigh
est standing in all their class work
during their first three years at Tech.
Baton Rouge.-The annual meeting
OF the Louisiana Anti-Tuberculosis
League was held here. The feature
Of the gathering was visit to the
Greenwich Springs property which has
been purchased by the Anti-Tuber-
culosis League, the first link in the
chain Of hospitals planned to provide
for the control and determination OF
tuberculosis. The property consists
OF 34S acres Of timbered land situated
on the Amite river, with hotel won
derfully adapted for the care OF tu-
berculosis patients. With little or no
expense, the place could be made to
accommodate at least 100 patients.
Covington.-The Boy Scouts camp
will be open here June IA and will!
continue until September 10. A per-
manent mess hall building will be
built and the troops of Scouts will oc-
cupy the camp during the summer.
The site owned by the Scouts is an
embankment on the Bogue Falaya
river twenty-five feet above the sur
face of the water
New Orleans.-Prohibition enforce.
ment officers exchanged shots with
rum runners" at dawn in Bayou st.
John near Spanish Fort. The Way
farer, a 30-foot launch, it's skipper
Charles Peterson, So St. Charles St,
| and forty-five sacks Said to contain
24O quarts Of whiskey and champagne
were captured No one was hit by
bullets.
| New Orleans.-Ten babies have died
| in New Orleans the last few months
for lack Of proper care, according to
Miss Mary Railey, secretary OF the
Child Welfare Association, which is tC
send out letters to all its former sub
scribers asking help for the children
of the city Every one Of these chill
dren might have been saved with
little care" said Miss Railey.
Baton Rouge.-A local option kind
ergarten bill is to be introduced in the
Legislature The bill has the back
ing Of the Kiwanis. Rotary and Lions
Clubs of Shreveport in addition to 6
number of other civic organization.
of the North Louisiana city. The bill
provides that parishes or school dis
tricts of parishes may conduct al
election for the voting of the kinder
/, garten tax, which to carry must re
ceive not only by majority Of thu
voters but majority of the assessed
valuation.
: Baton Rouge.-The fight to stol
the waste Of natural gas in Louisian;
by curbing the use Of this product il
the making Of carbon black, opened a
public hearing Of the Senate com
mittee on conservation.
Shreveport.-MissD Dorothy Schulz
, Of Monroe was unanimously electe
, president of the Louisiana Federation
: Of Business and Professional Women
7 Of Shreveport, who after three year
: in that office, pleaded stress of bus
ness to escape further service.
t Monroe.-Thousands Of flood ref
{ gees in Catahoula and Concordia pal
: ishes must be cared for until autumn
S il suffering is to be prevented, is tn
: opinion of Capt. W. w Cooper, con
: mander of the Monroe National Guar
. Company, who has returned here
Capt Cooper said that 5000 person
e in the Black river flooded area, for
e distance of so to so miles aroun
n Jonesyille, are receiving rations at tn
q Red Cross depot there. In Harrison
: burg there are $500 refugees, he sait
: who are being cared for, and there ar
J. approximately 1900 at Cicily Island
) Covington.-A Committee to inve
}, tigate the cost and feasibility Of
! causeway over Lake Pontchartrail
$ linking Orleans and st. Tammany pa
0 ishes, was appointed at mass meetin
Of citizens Of st. Tammany, Washing
ton and Orleans parishes, called
discuss the project. The causewa
i was endorsed in resolutions adopte
. at the meeting as the most feasib
way of providing short route acros
the lake between "the ozone belt" an
l. New Orleans It would be approx
l. mately twenty-five miles and cost SIT
100000
u New Orlahns-The New Orlear
e Red Cross chapters fund, for foc
q refugees has passed the $4,000 mar
New OrleanS.-Prineess Ivan Tsc
l. ernitschew of Russia, who was a
& mitted Internationally into the Unite
Il States by Secretary Of Labor Dayj