Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-09
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ton. and Ensign Miller of the Bureau
of Aeronautics were drowned In the
Potomac River at Washington Friday
when their naval seaplane crashed
into one. piloted by Lieut.. Command
er CS..Y. johnson in command of the
Anhcostia. Naval Air Station, and MS
mechanfcian. C.. w. Jacobs. The last
two escaped uninjured. Lieut.. Selden
was said to have been trying out a
new propeller and was about 50O rect
up when the collision occurred. His
seaplane fell into the river, just De.
low the naval air station, while that
of Commander Johnson flew OH put
made a forced. landing In the riyer
and, was wrecked Johnson ana ia
cobs were picked up by boats. 80
- yicksburg, Miss, May Z: The Mis-
sissippi flood relief committee at
meeting here today adopted a resolu-
tionssto request President Harding 70
issue an appeal for public contripu,
ton to the fund for the relief pi;looo
sufferers in the Yazoo basin, %nee
10000 men, women and children, ma
rooned or driven from their homes oy
the Mississippi river flood, were de-
clared to he in absolute need OF .heip.
after III had; been found by the COM
mNtee that available funds were IN
ADEQUATE to take care Of the rapidly
increa sing number of destitute hood
< yiGtitns.f Reports submitted by q score
of field Red, Cross secretaries today
showed that, the number to be pro.
yided for this week would be 2O,0OU
compared with 1900 last week when
the issuing of rations was started.
The board of health, basing Its esti-
mate jf6rs "a balanced ration recon-
mended a. per capita ration or Sl:eo
a week. bat members of the commit.
tee said that funds on hand would
permit the5 allowance of but 20 Genus
per, week. J. The. board OF healths es,
tinnate, lit Twas said, included medical
supplies. for preventing disease. Mrs
r. S. Butler member OF the commit
tee from Ishuana county. reported the
loss of several lives in, her field and
a heavy loss of livestock.
-aThe Miller 3Biil, designed to stop
import and export OF, all narcotics ex-
cept crude opium and cocoa leaves
and providing for creation OF FEEDER
al Narcotic Control Board to, admin
lister the law, has been passed unanis
mously by the house and sent to the
senate. Crude opium and cocoa leaves
could be imported only for medicinal
and legitimate Nuses and under regu-
lations prescribed by. the board. The,
bill would permit shipments from the
United States yonly to- those countries
which, have ratifed the agreement Of
the IrternatisAaL Convention of 1912,
for suppression of opium and other
drugs Transshipment through the
United States would be prohibited
and aliens convicted of violating the
law would be deported at the expira-
tion of their prison term. Heavy
penalties are provided for citizen OF
' tenders. The control board would be
composed of the secretaries Of state,
, treasury and. commerce. Representa-
tiye Watson (Rep., PENN said that
reliable reports based on reports from
New York City showed an increase or
! nearly 500 per cent. had been noted
in the number of drug addicts since
the advent of Prohibition. !. He. esti-
mates there were 5000, zoe persons In
the United States subject Ito -addic4,
tion" to drugs and 100000 confirmed
addicts.
! Edgar Lytle and Hugh Bradshaw,
young married men, saged 2E Years,
we're drowned in lar&e$5HiA8iAl$ lake
~ miles north of HICKORY late last
night, and Clement Gcitner, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles III. Geitner,
swan 120 wards to safety after the
motor boat in which they were .re3
turning from shooting, frogs 'cppsfzedt
,and sent all three Into more than 20-
y feet of water. The bodies were re-
covered shortly before noon today.
Lytle, who was linotype operator on
The Daily Record, was changing his
position in the boat when it capsized,
the heavy motpr soon causing 1t to
sink. The boat, Of metal construc-
;tion, was northern made and had been
IN. use for several months. Young
Geitner walked mile and a half to
a telephone, gave the alarm and as
sisted searchers in finding the bodies.
Bradshaw and Geitner were good
swimmers. and Geitner believed Brad
shaw had m8des the shore. Lytle is
survived by his widow and two chill
dren, besides fIis parents and one sis
ter. Bradshaw married Miss Alice
Adams of Asheville, last September,
and she was on a. visit to relatives at
,the time of the tragedy. Mrs. Lytles
land children were Svisitingg the par,
,ents of her. husband in Norfolk, Va.
Bradshaw was the manager Of bus
incssDhouse here. .1''.- 49,, .--Ss
, L Senator Borah. of Idaho, has chal-
le1ged Boris Bakhmeteff, Russian
AmbassadoE--te, waive diplomatic. i'm
mmlfty and tell the senate what he
l1Sd tp;Res%iehs ahsvisisto this coun-
try Of Gregory Semenoff, Cossack
chieftain, ran9 how he spent $1S7,000,-
O0p Fhieh tie United States loaned
thea kerenskt &government. If Bakh-
meteff is. acting in good faith he will :.
do this. Rptsh ldeelared in the SEN
ate Saturday. Borah charged Semenoff
visited America to; foment revolt
against theS Soviet, and that While
here Semenofff had visited Bakhmeteff.
Borah saidsfthe diplomatic immunity
extended to Bakhmeteff by Secretary
Hughes was unwarranted, since the
ambassador represented a government
which had ceased to exist: that Bakh-
meteff never was the properly ac-
credited representative of the Keren-
sky government; that he had been
accepted on the presentation of cabled
word from Russia. Borah charged
Bakhmeteff had converted to his own
use some of the money loaned by this
government, a charge he offered to
stfbstantiate' by evidence. He assert
ed funds from the treasl ~ were paid
for the upkeep of the Russian EN-