Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-03
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RSnau,, tbere was an agreement on
ayard that had been made by feoeral
Tndge Martin II. Manton 10 Nphlcn Ihe
oot3er had been referred. Ilus aWalu
nroy;ded wages of 81 hours a week ;ioI
DO " nressrnen and 45 hours a Weeh loI
5oy, belners and $54 q week LOT nSh.
nressmen and $4S for nghC lneipels.
While the agreement was Ia pfogresss
time was slipping by, and many VI
+he nanets were able to come out
with only eight pages where tney seI le
erally appear with anything iipiit
up to 80 or 40 pages
A heavier infestation OF Don wee
wills in the cotton belt than In any sIs
cent year. SAYS a Washington dlspa tSn
10 indicated for the coming season py
Observations made at the Delta tappois
atory at Tullulah, La, oy eHpen ~ "
the Bureau OF Entomology Oh tne' Ds7
partment of Agriculture, II was a.
nounced recently. TINS ioI -,
was explained, was based lareeLy Ia ga
the mildness of the winter, Ioupr
with conditions last 1an WinSn of
weeviIs to enter liberation. RecenI
records. II was said, have tended tG
verify this calculation Whl!e an
abnorrnally heavy emergency OF Wee
wills was indicated for the spring, ~
was said, this did not necessarily
mean that weevil damage 'woulo Ie
unusually great, since it was p0ssioie
that summer weather co-aoitiohs
might offset the early infestatio H.
I During the next fifteen years tne
Tinted States treasury will snow
saving of $4,000, 100000 as a resh Vt vi
the naval limitation programme aoop.-
ed by the Arms Conference, accoro ING
tosan estimate made by naval exper U.s.
This includes savings through sus
nension of construction, scrappinS oh
canital. ships and cessation OF WORK
ON naval bases and other shore es
tahlishments. The estimate does not
take account of radical Increases In
the cost of capital ship construStlo
orr of the possibility OF some eStraoI
dinary development which mlghI II n
duce the United States to exceed tne
ola nolicy of building two big fight
inr ships a. year. Had competitive
naval building continued our eXpeEIs
are confident the size Of fighting shlIos
would have been considerably largeT,
and that the cost, now about S4O,OO0'-
600 each, probably would have reach-
ed $50 900 900. The much larger battle
shibs also doubtless would nave re-
ouired the widening and deepening OF
the Panama Canal.
- It will be of interest throughout
North Carolina to know that CASTOR
II. Means of Concord, whose name has
been much before the people OF the
state in the case of the killing of Mrs
Maude A. Robinson King and in con-
nectton with the will of that lady, ls
now on the government pay roll con-
nected with the Department OF Justice
as an assistant to William j. Burns,
director of the Bureau OF lnVestiga-
ton his salary being $4,000 Z year. In
noting the activities of Means staH
correspondent of the New York Worid
speaks of 'one of the mysteries OF the
investigations of the Department OF
activities OF Castor b. Meant, former
secret agent of the imperial German
government. The article says that
"Means has been encountered of late
ON errands for the department that
greatly puzzled the person he has been
assigned to interview" His appoint
ment is said to have been on the per-
sonal recommendation of Burns and
at the time that Means was In the
employ of Burns, his work with the
Burns detective agency with which he
has been associated since 1914. Ihe
New York World heads the article
from its staff correspondent thus:
sc. B. Means, eX-spy, turns up as
agent of the Department Of Justice
for the United StateS-Boy- for
mer employe named by Burns to help
investigate war contracts"
Alfred E. Lindsay, the former al
legged New York stock broker, the
latest smooth swindler to come before
the footlights of publicity because ot
his wrong doing has made confess
sion of his operations. For number
of years past he has been through
social and other means, securing the
confidence of various moneyed women,
and having them to turn over their
money to him to invest The list in
cludes scores of women and the
amount of his operations runs up into
the millions. 1t was Mrs. Lillian n.
Duke, the divorced wife of the tobacco
king, who squealed and gave the snap
away. Lindsay says his plan was TO
take the money in whatever amount
he could get and then pay part of 1t
back to the women in monthly Install
ments. He claims that ne paid back
to some of the women practically all
that he got from them and that he
does not owe any of them n Great deal.
He blanes his exposure on Mrs. Duke,
claiming that the probability is that
none Of the rest of them would have
sauealed. Miss Florence Jones,
New York society woman has inform
cd the district attorney that she has
been both victim and an aid: that
she not only gave her own money to
Lindsay but that she worked for him
on commission, and for bonuses. Lind
say met number of his victims at
rocial functions given by Miss Jones
for the purpose.
Washington, March 1.-Taking its
first ratification roll call on the series
of international covenants negotiated
during the arms conference the senate
today ratified without reservations or
amendments the treaty with Japan
confirming American cable and radio
rights on the island Of Yap, the final
vote, 81 to %, representing a margin
of seven over the necessary two
thirds. The 80 Democrats present
divided, 13 for ratification and 10
against, while only three Republicans
voted in the negative. AS soon as the
result had been announced the four
power Pacific treaty, the pivotal
agreement of the arms conference
series. was brought before the senate
for action. The prolonged and bitter
lv fought debate which is expected to
prccede vote on it will begin tomor-