Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-06
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Postmaster General viii Hays has

signed 6yc0ntract 10 DecOIne QlTeCloi
general or the National Association OF
..ihe Motion Picture Industry at SAL
! 'ary OF $l50.000 a year, according to
the New York World. The contract,
which runs for three years, the news
paper says, was signed more than
! week ago. Mr.. Hays, The World add
ed, has arranged a conference with the
fnational leaders of the motion picture
industry in Washington January IA, at
which time he will make public on his
own account his decision to accept the
post.
= - Approximately SS,O00,00o gallons of
whiskey are stored in warehouses
throughout the country, according to
Testimony, of Millard F. West, deputy
3 commissioner Of internal revenue, AT
s tecent hearings of the house sappro-
&priations committee, verbatim reports
4 az which were made available, We'd
Hesday The reports also showed, Mr..
Y West estimated. that on July l. last,
x 3there were in distilleries and general
> bonded warehouses, 39,961,000 gallons
D on whiskey. $4,000 gallons of rum,
8 GS5, 600 gallons of gin, 200,170 gallons or
s. f,igh wines, 640,946 gallons Of alcohol
3 and 100000 gallons Of neutral or CO.
4 Ipgne spirits-a total of 42.257,116 gal
s Ions. Ills
Z g. Attorney General Harwell G. Davis
& of Alabama, is advising all solicitors TO
prosecute for murder, persons arrested
for manufacturing liquors which might
cause the death Of any human being.
: This advice Is being issued on the
strength of recent developments In
Blount county, where a man Is under
arrest for the alleged manufactuTe
and sale of liquor which Is said TO
have caused the death of Clyde Smith.
Smith, who died about the middle OF
December. was said to have succumed
10 the effects of some liquor he had
consumed. Following receipt OF this
report Attorney General Davis au-
thorized an examination by competent
, chemists of Smiths stomach and the
chemists report is said to have dis
closed that his death was caused by
violent poison. Three persons are
said to have partaken of the same IL
! auor, Smith died and the other TWO
Swere desperately i'll as a result.
z - Debate on the Dyer anti-lynching
s bill was opened in the house Wednes-
day by Representative Dyer, after the
consideration of the question had been
STAYED off for three hours by filibuster-
ing roll calls pressed by Representative
Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic lead
ar of the house. Representative Dyer
urged the imperative need OF federal
nrotection for persons liable to suter
/ violence at the hands Of mobs. He toln
OF a number of lynchings for alleged
criminal assaults, where the man IL leo
had rot been guilty. He paid tribute
TO theI service bf finefro soldiers in the
war. Mr.. Summer, Democrat. OF "eXaS,
attacking the authority for NUMBER
OF Mr.. Dyer's statements or statistics
on lynchings,2 declared passage OF the
bill would Increase rather than de-
craa 90 mob violence and would have q
tendency to engender race hatred he
a assailed the mea sure on constitutional
grounds contended il would he an IN
Vasion of state rights, and devoted
much of his time TO discussion OF the
constitutional phase Of the question.
The debate was sidetracked yesterday
for the treasury appropriation Dill,
which has the. right ofNway until sent
10 the senate.
Great Britain intends to hold Mes
opotamia at all hazards. This was d.
Yulged few days ago. according 10
London dispatch, when II was declared
that the government Is proceeding
with great haste to build and equip an
aerial army" which will effectively
SBlaee Irak under iron, military rule.
There are now under construction, 1t.
is said, 1850 troops carrying aero
planes, each heavily armored and
capable of carrying ten soldiers each
with adequate supplies The ma
chimes via cost. 10, 900 each and will
be dispatched eastward at the earliest
possible moment. The Royal Air Force
has been ordered 70 take over the MI
litary~ command Of the new state on
February / when. practically all OF the
military units will be withdrawn, II Is
reported. Under the new organization
1t will be possible to transport bat
TALON of troops eco miles or more in
one flight to rquell uprisings among
the tribesmen. According to a Brit
ish newspaper Winston Churchill is
responsible for the i"hrst highly impor-
tant experiment OF q practically un-
diluted air defense" the same paper
mehtions the alternative that the
government should evacuate Mesopo-
tanria at once. and thus save the eS-
penditure of any more millions"
- There developed quite a sensation
in Washington last Monday when the
newspapers sprung on the public alleg-
ed correspondence that took place be-
tween France and Japan during the
latter part of December 1920 and the
first part of January 1921 looking to-
the formation or an alliance between
France and Japan whereby plans Of
the United States to strengthen Ameri-
can influence in Eastern Siberia would
be frustrated The scheme hinged
around the possession OF the Bolshevik
republic OF Eastern Siberia. The idea
was 10 have General Wrangle, repre-
senting the old Russian regime to-
eyacuate the Crimea and to take
possession of the Bolshevik republic,
after which because Of the assistance
Japan would give, the government
would be turned over to Wrangle's
Russians and everything would be un-
der Japanese supervision. The French
were TO have full recognition at the
hands of the Japanese and the Japan
ese were to have full control of all
concessions of whatever nature, when
control would be exercised in such
manner as TO hamper any plans the
United States might have for increas-
ing its influence in Siberia. The
printed correspondence included letters
between France and Japan and looks
very much like the real thing. AS soon
as the correspondence was published,
however France denounced it as for
gerry. The exact means by what the
state department at Washington got
hold of the correspondence has not
been made known; but 1t is understood
10 have been furnished by the Bolshe-