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Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-27
Prer1iers Discuss The
 Genoa Conference
tBy The United Press,

Boulougne, France. Feb. 25.-- Premiers Lloyd George of England and Poincarre of France are holding their meeting here today in regard to the proposed Genoa Economic Conference.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-27
Aged Statesman To
 Marry Young Woman
(RY The United Press)

Chicago Feb. 25.-Lee Mantle, seventy years of age and former United States Senator from Mon tana, is soon to marry Miss Etta Daily, aged twenty-five and a recent graduate of the University of Ne braska. It is said the wedding will take place in this city in few days.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-27
Accused of Removing
 Mortaged Property

Jonesboro, Feb. 25.-G. w. Cain was placed in the county jail here yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Wes Haywood, charged with removing mortgaged property. He will be given a preliminary hearing today before justice of the peace in the eastern part of the county, where the arrest was made.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-27

The effective range of a sneeze. from the germ point of view, is three feet
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-27

It takes as much ability to know what advice is good as it does tQ think up the solution yourself. ,
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-27
DOUBT STORY OF MURDER OF
 VIM. TAYLOR
Officers of Los Angeles Be- lieve That Fields Simply Seeks to Get Out of De- troit Jail.

Los Angeles, Feb. 25--District Attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine yes terday stepped into the investiga- tion of the drug ring" theory in lthe William Desmond Taylor mur- der mystery.
 And this is the only good that Harry M. Fields, under arrest in De- troit, the man known SIS Harry Lthe Chink," .who says Wong Lee committed the murder. The depu- ties working under the direction Iof Undershoriff Eugene Biscailuz Ihave quit trying to verify the state ments by Fields, believing them pipe dreams" bat they are check ling up on the theory that enraged narcotic peddlers slew the film di- rector because he sought to protect from them a movie actress whom he loved
 Sheriff Coffin of Detroit continues to telegraph new statements made by Fields. He seems convinced that Fields is telling the truth, that Fields was in Los Angeles on the night the murder was committed. He declares that rent receipts in possession of the prisoner proves this fact. But Biscailuz and his men are .skeptical.
 Clever Scheme Suspected.
 ''lt appears to me-" says Biscailuz, that Fields wants to be brought here, Then he could get out on a visit and it would not be possible to take him back to Detroit legally. He would put up the defense that he was taken from the state of Michigan against his will We have nothing on him here. A clever scheme and that is ali"
 Woolwine, Biscailuz, Capt. David l.. Adams of the Police Department, and others who have been working on the case for more than three weeks without uncovering a single real clew, have become pessimistic lately They do not believe, they say, that the murder will be solved soon, if ever.
 Miss Normand Not Dying.
 Mabel Normand is not ill ':to the point of death'' as has been report ed. Officials at the Mack Sennett e,t,, elk ;c fering from a cold and that she is expected to begin working on new picture within few days.
 The hunt for Sands, the missing valet, still continues and new clews to his whereabouts continue to come in. The sheriff's force is also seek ing chinaman known to be gun man and smuggler, who has ais appeared since the murder This man is not the Wong Lee mentioned by Fields in his confession" but the man the deputies believe Fields had in mind.
 The deputies do not doubt that Fields has been in Los Angeles and that he knows hop peddler or two, or that he is a drug addict himself. They believe it possible he may have heard the true story of the murder, but that he has not told it.
 w. A. Pinkerton head fo the Pinkerton Detective Agency, visited the sheriff's office late yesterday afternoon. He denied, however, that he was interested in the unraveling of the murder mystery, except cas- ually.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-27
The Solipl,one

or factlOnnl "Eangs" and sO-caAed political "1end- ers." It's n newspaper.
 standing for the best in- tercsts of the community.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09
CRISIS IN
PROHIBITION
ENFORCEMENT
Commissioner Haynes
Asks Appropriation
Of SO, 9,000, 900 For En-
forcement N e x t
Year 300 Agents
Now Employed

Washington. Dec. 6-More diff
ferent issues Of counterfeit money
were found during last year than
in the previous two, Chief Moran
of the Secret Service told the house
appropriations committee. accord
ing to reports of the hearings made
public today Much of it was used
by bootleggers in buying whiskeJ.
Linuor in distilleries and bonded
warehouses on, June Goth totalled
3S.826,195 gallons. the internal rev.
enue bureau told the committee.
This was a reduction Of nearly
three and a half million gallons
in the year.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes
in his testimony before the commit
tee declared that a crisis has been
reached in prohibition enforce
ment. He said thirty eight hun
dred men are now employed. He
asked for nine million dollars Tor
next year, saying reduction from
this sum ought to be possible :, N
five or six years. Convictions in
federal courts OF liquor law vio-
lators totalled over twenty thou-
sand in the year.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09


during the year amounted to ST.
100000, while in the fiscal year
s22,50O,000 was received by the
Indian tribes from royalties on oil
produced from indian owned lands.
Reports Of the governors of
Alaska and Hawaii. summarized in
the interior report, review the pro-
gress of the two territories during
the year.
Governor Bone, of Alaska, noted
that a steady increase in exports
and imports foreshadowed re-
turning prosperity and. said that
with encouragement a strong tide.
Of immigration might have set in.
He added that however. until min
ing was inaugurated On large
scale and industries started the
population could not be expected to
increase greatly The governor
submitted a long list of recon-
mendations urging that jurisdiction
over the whole of Alaska ex-
cepting the fisheries be vested in
the interior department; that
branch lines and spurs be built to
the Alaska railroad; that all law
enforcing agencies be consolidat-
ed under the department of jus
tice:: that control of the fisheries
be taken over by the bureau OF
fisheries of the department of com
merce. and the formulation Of
colonization plan.
Governor harrington, of Hawaii.
reported that during the twelve
months, ended last June the Pacific
territory passed through one o.
the most critical financial periods
in its history and that while gen
eral business conditions had i'm
proved the agricultural labor sit
uation still was serious. One Of
the foremost of his recommends
tions was passage by congress Of
the Hawaii emergency labor reso-
luton or some similar legislation
to provide workers and at the same
time bring the racial population
Of the territory more nearly into
balance.
Production of helium, the non
infamable gas substitute for hydro
gen in lighter-than-air craft. is un-
der the jurisdiction of the interior
department and under legislation
notable progress has been made by
the bureau of mines in perfecting
methods of separating helium from
natural gas. in which it occurs.
The most serious situation fac
ing the department is the low scale
Of salaries. the secretary asserted
One of the bureaus of the depart
ment was organized in 1912 and
another in 1882 and since those
dates the salary schedule for en-
ployes has not been revised Be-
cause employees can earn more in
other departments and in outside
industries, the loss and turnover
has become demoralizing. Speedy
legislation to increase salaries is
sorely needed, he said,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09
TEN BIG
B00TLECCERS
INDICTED
LIQUOR Runners Be-
fore t h e Federal
Court in Charleston,
South Carolina

Charleston, Dec. 5.-M. S. Sulli-
van, C. B. tTobie) Hernandez. A.
II. Walker and H. E. Walker of
Charleston, Edward Trattner Of
New York, Louie Kantor of De-
troit, Fred e. Cummings and Pete
Cross, addresses not known, were
today indicted inzsthe, United States
district court for conspiracy to vio-
late the national prohibition laws.
The government charges that
these men have been handling Ii
quor on very large scale.
These cases grow out OF two ma
jor seizures OF Whiskey near Char
lesion, June S3. lighter loaded
with more than 200 barrels Of
whiskey. camoufaged as white po-
;atoes. bearing a. produce farmers
brand, was confiscated by state and
federal enforcement officers off
Stono river. July IA, a solid car
load of whlskey, shipped as luna-
Der apparently to- a Canadian
town, was confiScated up the Coop
er river. More than 1900 quarts
were netted in these two seizures.
Sullivan, as a resu,. Of the light
er seizure. was charged in the
United States court with violating
the prohibition law and in the state
court of violating the terms of a
SUSPENDED sentence resulting from
a plea of guilty in the circuit court.
At the hearing of the latter sulli-.
van was declared TO be absent from
Charleston but the hearing pro-
ceeded in his absence. 1t was Ia
ter ruled that Sullivan should
serve his penitentiary sentence.
He, has taken an appeal to the
state supreme court. At this hear
ing it was charged that Sullivan
had approached a prohibition Of
fcer for the purpose Of saving the
liquor cargo.
In connection with the conspir-
acy case. hearings have. been held
in Chicago and New York for
Kantor aid Trattner, respective
~. District Attorney j. D. Ernst
Myer and: State Prohibition ofiicer
John HeaIey efhcial..l attended
the hearings. The government
charges that the accused men have
been smuggling whiskey from for
eign ports and that a very great
quantity Of contraband has been
destroyed.
It has mot been announced
whether Sullivan and the other de-
PENDANTS will be tried at this term
of court.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

egates to the conference and hun.
dreds of cotton men from sur
rounding states.
Mr.. Wallace admitted that the
cotton problem, so far as his de-
partment had gone into it, had
proved larger than had been e1-
pected.
The problems Of the cotton men
in the south are of almost equal
importance to the people of the
north for whenever anything oc-
cured to cut down the cotton crop
of the south the purchasing pow
re Of the people Of this section was
corresponding1y reduced and the
result was felt by the manufac-
turers and farmers of every other
part of the country, he said.
'In nearly every section" Mr..
Wallace said, "there seems to be
an almost continuous crisis with
respect to the dominant crop. es-
pecially during the last 18 months.
during which we have experienced
one of the greatest agricultural de-
pressions in many years"
And. he declared. "each section
thinks that it's problem is the
worst
The secretary told the delegates
that the south. so far as its agri-
cultural products are concerned.
had recovered first and that cotton
was the first crop to get back to its
old time prices.
Discussing the insect pests which
have ravaged the cotton crops of
the south in recent years, Secre-
tary Wallace said that he viewed
the situation as hopeful" and
urged the cotton men not to get i'm
patient. He asked for the passage
of more stringent state quaran-
tine laws. which he said would aid
the department in stamping out
or preventing the spread of many
pests.
secretary Wallace assured the
delegates that when the scientific
men of the department get to-
gether on the problems involved.
the result of their Investigations
would be submitted to the practical
cotton men for their approval and
will he modified as much as SEEM
ed necessary
Then. he concluded. I'VE will
have q cotton policy which can be
confidently backed by all of us.
Plans for extension of the facili-
ties for warehousing cotton under
the provisions of the federal ware
house licensing act were explained
to the delegates in an address at
the terminal warehouse here by II
S. Yohe of the federal warehouse
| license bureau.
Mr. Yohe explained how the
warehouse man could benefit under
the provisions of the act and went
into details regarding the issuance
of negotiable certificates by bond
ed warehouses and the methods
adopted under the act for grading
and Classifying cotton.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09
BANDITS
CAPTURE
SHANTUNG
Territory That Japan
Has Held Now the
Stronghold Of Rob
bers

Hentsin. Dec. 5.-The Chinese
bandits have taken control Of
Thing-tao Shantung port in Kiaw-
chow, according to reports receiv-
ed here. The population is report
ed to be fleeing. Police sent from
here are reported to have been
driven out. The bandits. the tele-
grams say, demand one hundred
thousand dollars ransom for the
officials and police they have cap
tured. KiaMchow was seized by
Germany in 1898. as the result Of
the Boxer troubles and was to
have been turned over to China to-
day by Japan.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

= r'f
point out that they are holding
positions which are absolutely un-
tenable. 49,
NJ. ChiSherin concluded than any
solution based on the presence OF
the forces Of certain powers in the
straits, and which tends TO create a
preponde derating situation fer one
power or q group CT powers, will
encounter not only the determined
opposition of Russia ard her all
lies. but also the opposition OF tho
public opinion of all those coun-s
tries which wish to remove those
causes OF conflict in the Near East
which constitute permanent nen-s
ace to peace. s;1ss.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09
BECOMES
A COMMONWEALTH

Dublin, Dec. 6.--IreIand today
became a commonwealth. Parlia-
nent and cabinet of the Irish Free
State took charge and the British
flag was furfed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

Washington, Dec. 5.-President,
Harding broke precedent today
when he failed to deliver has mes
sage on the second day the new.
congress was in session. AT the
White House 1t was said the date
for his appearance is unset bet
it is expected the address: viii be
completed before the week end.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

Football backs are very forward
young men.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09
The Federal Court

Charleston. Dec. 5.-True bills
were returned against the follov- :
ing defendants charged with vic-
lating the anti-narcotic Jaws: r. NJ.
Tidnaarsh. Richland county; Chas.
IS. Kngsmore, Sumter county:
Ernest v. Keene. Sumter county;
Sterling B. Merriman. Sumter
county. and Charles Herriott Sum-.
ter county.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

Chicagos Dec. 6.-The soft coal
operators and the miners union
representatives today reopened the
wage scale negotiations at meet
ing here. On the outcome Of the
conference depends the possibility
of another strike next April.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09
FREE STATE
PROCLAMATION
King George Issues Formal
Notice of Inaugurationeefs
New State

London, Dec. 6.-King George
today signed the proclamation
giving effect to the Irish Free state.
He formally appointed Timothy p,
Healy ts be Irish governor gener-
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-25
BROTHER ISAIAH TO
RESUME TRIAL
MONDAY
'Fdith Healer" and Adherents
to Medical Science Will
Clash OUer Case
United Press Leased Wire

Los ANGELES, Feb. 25.-Two dis
tinct factions-believers in ''faith
healing' and adherents of medical
science-will clash again Monday,
when "Brother Isaiah, so called
"miracle man." resumes his fight to
clear himself of manslaughter charges
arising out of the death of Mrs. Mar
garet Dunbar, one of his patients.
Superior Judge Shenk's court is the
battle ground over which will be
fought this, the strangest battle ever
waged in local courts
"Brother Isaiah, Immediately
garbed in white from his hoary head
to his bare feet, is supported by a
faithful band of followers who last
summer braved the California sun to
watch him perform his feats on Mir
acle Hill -
Opposite him, and in striking CON
trast~to the array of halt and lame,
sit his accusers, the two sons and the
daughter of the woman whom the state
claims died as a result of his 'Scrude
manipulations of her limbs. =
Dignified spectators, austere attor.
news and rows of relatives and friends
of the dead woman, listened to the
testimony of the two sons.
Continued on page two.)
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-25
JAMES OLIVER JAMES FOUND GUILTY OF
KILLING BRAWLEY JAPANESE DRUGGIST
Jury Gues Verdict of "Guty of Murder Second Degree at
Ten O'Clock This Morning After Delberating OUer EUi
dence Since TWo O'clock Yesterday

perior Judge Cole Wednesday, morning
for sentence, which. under the indeter.
inmate sentence law, will run between
10 years to life. Attorneys Utley and
Holton, who defended James, are unde-
cided whether an appeal viii be taken.
James was accused Of numbering
foshifuku in an attempted robbery Of
the Japanese drug store at Brawlcy.
He was disguised in Hindu false. .beaya
and mask, evidence indicated, and
these disguises, found together with 4
revolver, and an empty-shell linked the
chain OF circumstance about him.
He was led back to the county jail
still protesting his innocence. Deputy
District Attorney Charles z. Scott con
ducted the successful prosecution.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-25
NEAR EAST RELIEF
DAY FOR Ell. CE'NTRO

Tomorrow is "Near East Relief
Day" for FL Centre and vicinity. Field
Representative, Rev. Charles V. La
Fontaine, who was formerly pastor of
the Methodist church at Holtville. has
been i'll the city for the past few day
completing, with the local committee,
the program for tomorrow in the FL
Centre Churches.
AT the Christian church, Miss Elsie
Truran of Akhalkalaki Russia will be
the speaker and at 9:45 a. m. will ad-
dress the Sabbath school, At 1920
will speak before the Mems Bible class
in the Palace Theatcr, at HOO O clock
will address the congregation of the
Christian church at Seeley. In the
evening Miss Truran will be with the
b. Y. F. U. of the Baptist church at
$3.50 and before the evening congre-
cation of the Baptist church at 1880.
Miss Evelyn Trostle of Marash
Turkey, will speak to the SUNDAY
School of the Methodist church at
9:45 a. m, the Baptist Sunday School
at l0:l5, before the congregation of
the Methodist church at HOO clock.
the Presbyterian congregation at
1900 noon, and at the Epworth
League of the Methodist church at
$780,
Rev. Charles V. LaFontaine will ad-
dress the Community Church Sunday
School at Imperial at 9:45 and 11:00
a. m. and to the congregation of the
st. Paul's Episcopal Church at 1900.
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President at which treaties were dis.
cussed.
Willis said he would support the re-
servation.
9 don't think it is necessary he
said, "but don t think it will do any
harm. If it will help satisfy anybody
it is satisfactory to me. y
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-25
STATE TO COMPLETE
0BENCHAM CASE
WEDNESDAY
United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25.-The state
expects to complete it's case against
Madalynne ,Obenchain, charged with
completely in the murder of John Bel
ton Kennedy, by Wednesday, it was
announced today by Deputy Prosecut-
ing Attorney Asa Keyes.
Monday the jury will visit the lonely
Beverly Glen cottage, scene of the
murder, and the mouth Of Santa Mon
lea CANYON where Charles A. Summar,
leading states witness, will be asked
to illustrate how he saw the car he
saws bore Arthur c. Burch to the scene
of the murder.
Following Keyes' announcement that
the state s evidence would be cOmplet-
ed Wednesday, Attorney Judd r. Rush,
Madalynne s counsel, stated that once
started, it would require from ten days
to three weeks to Wesent defense testi-
mony
His statement was verified by his as
sociates on the case, Alfred F. Mac
Donald and William b. Beirne, who
added that they are "ready to 60 at
any time. -
The jury will not visit the Russell
Hotel where it is alleged Burch kept
death vigil over Kennedy, from a
room opposite the latter s office.
During yesterdays s court session, the
state by it's testimony placed NADIA
lynne with Burch across the street
from Kennedy's office eight hours
prior to the murder, and placed Burch
in a roadster in Santa Monica canyon
near Beverly Glen.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-25
BRITISH FLAVOR
Ten YEAR
TRUCE
Want Limitations of All
Land Armaments
Is Plan
FRANCE ACTING SHY
Lloyd George and Poincare
Go Into Secret Confer
ence to Discuss Plans
FRANCE ACTING SHY
United Press Leased Wire


BOULOGNE, France, Feb. 25-Lloyd
George, in his private conference with
Premier Poincare, which began here
this afternoon will propose 10 years
truce in Europe, it was learned today
The British premier has plan fol
limitation of land armaments somewhat
similar to the Washington proposal of
Secretary Hughes concerning navies,
which he will urge upon Poincare if
initial conservations which deal with
the Genoa conference, are successful
British experts who are here with
Lloyd George but not taking part in
the conference, confirmed the fact that
the British premier has an ambitious
scheme to promote European peace and
reconstruction which is based on ten
years truce.
French experts said that if Lloyd
George counted upon French army re
ductions as a basis for the scheme he
would be disappointed, for Poincafe
would never agree to these cuts.
The conference was adjourned at six
p. M. and both premiers departed. A
communique was to be issued later.
Premiers Lloyd George and Poincare,
in their conference here this afternoon
agreed to ask the Italian government
to postpone the Genoa economic con-
ference until April 10.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-25
SALES TAX IS
APPARENTLY
DEAD
British Bonds Favored as
Means of Raising Bonus
For Soldiers
WANT BONUS CHANGED
Some Want sSelective Bonus
While Others Favor In
surance Plan
BY CARL ID. GROAT
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. The
House ''fslm boc' favors paying the
soldier bonus chiefly from sale of Brit
ish war debt bonds, an issue of which
will probably be given the United
States by early summer.
Its position will be made clear to
the House way and means committee
at an early moment, and its recommen-
dations will probably include, besides
the bonds, suggestion for use of money
from the sale of war supplies and for
utilization Of any savings on appropria-
tions which may be accomplished by
army and navy cuts.
Unless President Harding blocks it
the House ways and means committee
is likely next week to vote for pre-
senting a soldier bonus bin minus the
definite means for raising the neces
sary funds. 49,
Despite President Harding's opposi
ton to a bill without the requisite
money getting machinery. some con
gressmen were today talking of firing
ahead and even passing the bill over
his veto.
Harding has strongly indicated that
he would veto bonus bill which did
not provide the means for raising the
money necessary to pay it.
If a bill comes ont minus a money
raising provision, it will be necessary
subsequently, for congress to vote an
authorization for use of available trea-
sury funds or to specify application of
British bond funds.
The subcommittee vote against the
sales tax has not daunted the House in
its determination to have a bonus.
Today there was also a strong senti-
ment for eliminating the cash bonus
and putting in some more attractive
insurance offers. The United States
Chamber of Commerce bonus poll shows
an overwhelming business sentiment
against cash.
Some wanted "selective bonus, -
aimed at giving cash to those actually
IN need thereof. In this connection, il
was deemed significant that Represen-
tative Fish, member of the soldier
bloc has such proposal ready to
present, and Representative Ansorge of
New York has already brought forth
a selective scheme.
Neither the insurance nor the selec-
tive plan, however, meets the wishes of
American Legion spokesmen.
The bloc regards the sale tax as
dead.