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Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15
DRILLERS ARE
 ENTHUSIASTIC
 IN CRAICHEAD
Much Confidence in Cham Der of Commerce We'll Drillers Have Trouble Isom We'll Shut Down.

The Jonesboro Evening Sun in it's issue of Monday says of oil well drilling in Craighead county:
 '1n the opinion of experts gush- CT is certain to be brought in at Chamber of Commerce we'll Weeks or months may elapse before this comes to pass. The well is now 1850 feet down. The drilling is q rough proposition. In the last 4 weeks only 30 feet have been drill- ed. The bit broke off five times. The strike is not likely to come be- fore 2,000 or 2,200 feet is reached.
 "A formation of the hardest rock yet is now being encountered. Last week the drill passed through 12 feet of chalk. This chalk was just where Geologist Harter predicted it would be.
 Those who profess to know state that few small pockets of gas have beenM found, but this is the case in almost every well, having happened at both Harrisburg and Paragould. It is no sure indication. It is the general formation and strata, as the geologist knows it. that has raised the hopes of J. F. Scott and all these connected with him.
 50 well does J. F. Scott like the prospects in Chamber of Commerce well No. l, he is getting ready now to start another well somewhere in Craighead county at an early date. When the geologists selected the site for the C. of c. well they SC lected two other sites and stated that it was the toss of the coin as to which of the three were the best. The new well will go down on one of the originally selected sites, but location will not be announced un- til work is ready to start.
 Isom We'll Shut Down.
 Work on the Isom well near Bono is still at @ standstill A drill bit is hung crosswise in the well at depth of 1900 feet. A slide of rock has wedged the bit into such position that it's removal is present. ing d serious problem
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15

over while he is realigning the in field and outfield of the American League champions He believes this is the only way to size tip the new 10 stack it up against the tested article and then draw expert comparisons.
 The Yanbs will be oyerstocked with infielders His April outfield, minus Ruth and Meusel, is very akimpy. It consists of Elmer Miller, Frank Roth, Wilson Fewater and a flock of untried youngsters
 Huggins will have third basemen and shortstops to spare, Their in- field is as badly crowded as it was a year ago at Shreveport. Mike Me Nally, Norman McMillan and Glenn killinger are Bakers third base rivals. Scott's understudies at short are Johnny Mitchell and Kingdom, the latter a clever performer from the Eastern League.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15

placed on American vessels by the Shipping Boards Sea Service Re cruiting Bureau were Americans, it was stated this week. When the bureau first began 10 function less than 10 per cent of the men placed were Americans. As the time pass ed and the idea of having all-Amer- ican crews aboard ships flying the United States flag grew the number increased gradually.
 Last fiscal year 6S.8 per cent oi the men placed were Americans. From July to November, 1921, the number increased so that now there are ships which have 100 per cent American crews aboard.
 The final goal is to have every ship manned by all-American crews. with the shore establishments equaE/ ly representative of the Unitcd' States.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15
MINERS STARVE AS WORK IS
 BEING HALTED
Coal Diggers Destitute Be- cause of Idle Mines Dur ing Past Two Years; Fam lilies Are Suffering.

tGy International News Scrvlcc)
 Athens, O., Feb. Nurses and other relief workers who have pene- trated in 10 the coal mining camps of the hills in the Hockin5 Valley report .Iiteraly hundreds of cases of Restitution among the families of the coal diggers. Families have been found, scores of them, with no food in the cupboard; barefooted thil- dron in rags, hudding around wood fires, as they even have no fuel coal
 Reports from Columbus indicata that seYeral thousand dollars for relief have been sent into the Hook ing district by the union miners CT gauization, but this has not gone far Merchants in mining towns have carried the men "on their books" until the danger point was reached and passed long ago. The State Highway Department is pro viding work for several hundred men in the Murray City district the miners working in three-day shifts Reports yeterday from Huchtel stated that at least half of the L200 people of that village are in need. There has been about six months work in that district in the past two years.
 No mines about Athens are work ing save those which have received orders for railroad coal, and every mine Of this sort is crowded with men as the turns afe shared, These mines are working perhaps two or| three days a week The savings off the miners were long since exhaust cd. Operators report that they have no orders. and many of the mines have been closed, pumping and water is filling the works.
 A railroad tapping the West Vir- 5inia coal field to the south extends l he full length of the Hooking field. . md its tracks are daily filled with ! oaded coal trains. Production in he Rocking field, however, has lropped to the lowest point in sey- .ral decades.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15
TANKS UP FOR TRAINING
 TRIP S0UTH
Players Leave Tomorrow . For Hot Springs-Status
 of Babe Ruth Is In
 Doubt.
UBy international News Servtcc)

(By International News ScrviccD
 New York, Feb, 14.-The first group of New York Yankees will en- train tomorrow for Hot Springs. Arkansas, where they will boil the kinks out of their muscles before moving to the regular training camp at New Orleans. The players were finishing their packing today
 In the party that has been ordered to be at Hot Springs on February r will be Carl Mays, Waite Hoyt Bob Shawkey, Joe Bush sam Jones, Al DeVormer, Babe Ruth. J. Franklin Baker and Everett Scotl The en- tire club will assemble at New Or leans on March 1,
 The training of the early van guard will consist of road work and hot baths during the first week with daily workout at the ball park, which, during the second week, will be followed by hot min eral water baths, They will join the main squad on March 5
 The Early Squad.
 Manager Huggins has ordered the following players to report at New Orleans March 1: Pipp, Ward Me Nally Mitchell, McMillan, Kingdom and Killinger, infielders MeuseL Mil Ter, Fewster Roth Haines and Skin ner. outfielders Hoffman and Schaug. eatchers; Harper O'Doul, Tecarr George Quinn, Jolley, Will son, Murray and Culp, pitchers.
 While Ruth is scheduled for the carly lineup it is doubtful if he wiI report, The Bambino is "cleaning lp" in his vaudeville sketch, and it. Is believed that he can be booked up to April at $2,00O per week if he so desires. Ruth believes he can start training early in April and be in good shape by May 20, thei late his suspension as ordered by Judge Landis, will be lifted
 Will Watch Youngsters.
 Huggins will look his youngsters,
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15
More Danger In Moonshine.

Huoston, TeXas.-Lyc, fusel oil, and wood alcohol are not the only poisonous substances in bootleg whiskey, according to Deputy Sher-
 if Frank Hampe. Hampe. Harris county deputy, who claims the state .stiIl-capturing championship, is con sidercd the local bootleg authority. Not only do fuscl oil and lye exist in poison moonshine whiskey, but frequently cockroaches, mice and wood insects go into the deadly coD- coction," Hampe said. Barrels used for fermenting mash arc left uncov- cred" according to Hampe. This allows the rodents and insects to fall ill and die. Monoshiners make no efforts to take the dead animals and bugs out" A dead pig was found in barrel of mash destroyed on one of his raids, Hampe asserted
 It took 20 minutes for Miss Phooo be Fargrave to descend 15,200 feet by parachute at Curtis Field, Minn.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15

got uneasy and filed reeeiYership proceedings
 After Judge Landis had asked many questions about Bschoff's army record, the latter objected, saying he didn't see what his army record had to do with the case.
 Perhaps there are lots of things you don't see now, but you will later" replied the judge. "I'll de- eide what is relevant in this exam nation"
 Judge Landis asked Bischoff's mother if her conscience felt clear over SG0,000 building Bischoff bought, and which was in her name. After discussing it with ner husband she replied: Tt is mine legally"
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15
Training Work Continued.

This sum will be divided, Colonel Forbes said, into seven composite branches of soldier relief work. For Vocational training, the sum of $167,50O,00O for medical and hos pital services, the sum of $64,600,- GOO; for payments on war risk term
 insurance, the sum of $S1,700, ,000; for l.. s. Government life insurance, the sum of $5,700,000; for soldiers compensation, the sum of $lGi,900,- GOO; for retroactive government al- loWances oil proven and cXtant claims, the sum of $2,000,000, and for salaries and expenses, that is administration, the sum of $3 1,50O,- 000. These figures total $514,000,- GOO, from which Colonel Forbes de ducts tho $5,700,O00 to be paid in United States Government life in surance claims, on the ground that it is a seif-supporting branch Of the bureaus activities.
 Of the $167.500,000 allotted to vocational training Colonel Forbes believes that not more than $3,000,- 900 will be used for administration expenses at the governments camps training schools and recon struction centers. Thus the major portion of that allotment will go to pay the eX-service men an average of $115 per man per month while in training,
 $115 Monthly Is Average.
 He pointed ont that $1t5 was an average, declaring that the pay ments vary between $50 and $170 per month per man The greatest will be expended for men at Camp sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, In addition, it will pay for the for mcr soldieds stationed at the bu- reau.s six additional large training centers and forty-one small training centers
 The administration. or salaries and expenses, item will include sala- ries and expenses of the bureau I office, its fourteen dis trict offices, its 126 sub-offices and, as well, the salaries of all teachers.
 Colonel Forbes declared that the bureau is handling satisfactorily 203,000 compensation claims, for which the $161,000.000 has been al lotted; and 150,000 insuranc celaims for which the $S1,700,000 has been set aside.
 50000 Being Educated.
 The bureau, it's director contin- led to explain, is maintaining slightly more than 50.000 former soldiers in American public and pri- rate educational institutions and an
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15
raining in industrial schools.

training in industrial schools.
 tional schools is 5,035, 150 of whom are at Camp Sherman. In govern ment and private hospitals the bu- rcau is taking case of 30,300 dis ablcd veterans some of whom are also tcudered vocational training, and some of whom are also on the insurance and compensation payrolls.
 In round figures, vocational train ing is being afforded 125,0O0 vcter- ans, Colonel Forbes declared.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15
FIX SOLDIERS TRAINED
 TO OPERATE VESSELS

Washington, Feb. 10.-The goal of merchant marine manned by ex- clusiyely American seamen is draw Ing near according to reports on the subject recently compiled.
 During the past few months more than 95 per cent of the seamcn
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15

cGnceins related to power develop ments as well as agricultural nego tiations Further examination of Mr Mayo will be conducted by the House committee today
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15
To Sell No Power

Questions by several committed men developed that it is Mr. Ford's intention to Use all the power de- yeloped by the water projects and other plants fer his own purposes at Muscle Shoals. T. is not the intention. Mir, Mayo said. to estab- fish power selling company to compete with commercial companies engaged in that enterprise
 X part of the power created he said, would be utilized in the manu- tacture oi "automobilc parts from raw materials This revealed for the first time that it was the in tention to operate the Alabama plants in connection with MT. Ford's automobile business and was con, srued as implying the production of light metals possibly of aluminium, which would enter into the con struction of automobiles at the De- troit factory.
 The Ford offer is scheduled for consideration today by the Senate Agricultural Committee That body will decide upon a program of hearings of it's own Many re- quests to be heard have been re- ceiyed by the committee from in- teresting persons and commercial
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15
FORD IS NOT
 WILLING ID
 ALTER HIS BID
Refuses 10 Tie Himself Up With Amy Specifi C ''Pledges" Other Offers Are Discussed.

Washington, Feb 14. Efforts of House Military Committee members to exact a pledge for the manufac- ture of fertilizer during the 10c- year life Of the proposed contract by Henry Ford for purchase and lease of the governments properties at Muscle Shoals, Ala, failed yes terday. w. B. Mayo, appearing be- fore the committee as the represen- tative. of MT. Ford, said the Detroit manufacturer is not willing to mod fly his offer, unless it is tos clarify language.
 Committeeman also failed in their attempt, during examination of Maj. J. +. Burns, chief of the Ammuni- ton Division of the army Ordnance Department, to adjust differences of opinion between ordnance officers and lhose in the judge advocates generals department with regard to tha Warrior power plant. Major Burns insisted that the government is obligated to sell that property to the Alabama Power Company, or remove 1t from ts grounds. He said it could not be sold to Mr. Ford as a part of the Muscle Shoals project unless the government vio- lated a contract with the company.
 Previously officers of the judge advocate generals office had said the contract was uncomfortable.
 Necessary Part Involved.
 Statements by Major Burns that the Warrior plant was not essential to the Ford plan were countered later by MT. Mayo, who said the power developed there is needed, and that MT Ford would demand a clear title to that unit as specified in his offer. This situation was re-. garded by several committee mem- bers as interposing a difficult Ob struction to he overcome before they can return the Ford offer to the House for disposition, while others said they could see no solution un less the contract with the company is violated
 Secretary Weeks continued study at the War Department of the other offers he has on Muscle Shoals. He notified Frederick Engstrum of Will N C., that he would give him a hearing Wednesday morning, after which he will submit his offer to Congress. The secretary has said that the Engstrum proposal asI appeared better than it was as originally submitted.
 Mir. Mayo told the committee MT Ford intends to manufacture fertil- izers in d finished form, and would not produce exclusively their nitrate ingredients. He also said that not more than 8 per cent profit would be imposed and that it is MT. Ford's 10 deliver the finished product direct 10 the farmer, pre- venting purchase by agencies which might buy it and possibly fix thel price before if reached the farmers hands.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15
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Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15

Sunday being expended by the Government for the eX service their dependents. Supporting this an swer Uncle Sam points to budget estimate expenditures be made directly for the benefit of ex- Warriora which calls for half a billion dollars,
 Colonel C. R. Forbes director of the United States Veterans today outlined for International News Service expenditures his bureau contemplated for estimate, in numbers, calls for $510,-
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15
50,000 Being Educated.

The bureau, it's director contin- ued to explain, is maintaining slightly more than 50,000 former soldiers in American public and pri- yate educational institutions and an average of 39,000 in placement
Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-15
I1ILL LION DOL,LARSD DAILYIS
 SPENT UPON SOLDIERS
Half Billion Expenditure for 1922 Aimed to Pro-
 vide For All Relief.
By WEBSTER K. NOLAN

(IntCrnationa News Service staff Correspondent)
 Washington 14-Jn those who cha financial disabilities dollars includ
Arizona republican., 1922-01-26
WILL ATTEND STATE
TEACHER INSTITUTE

Elsie Toles. state superintendent
of public instruction, left last eve
ming for Tucson in the interest OF
institute work which will be car
ried out in the southern part of the
state along the same lines of the
institutes recently held in Mohave,
Yavapai and Yuma counties under the
direction of Miss Toles.
The speakers at the Pima county
institute will be Or. Henry Curtis,
head of the physical and health de-
partment of education of Oberlin col
lege, and DIR. c. o. Hoyt, head of the
department of education of the Mich
igan state university. Following the
institute in Pima county. the same
programs will be presented in Santa
Cruz. Cochise, Graham and Green
lee counties, DR.. Hoyt being replaced
by D.. George F. Freeland of the
state normal school at San Jose. DIR.
Freeland is the author of several
books on education and is recognized
as one Of the foremost authorities in
his work.
Under the old institute system each
county was allowed $500 for obtaining
speakers. out of which their travelling
expenses were paid Had this plan
been continued the amount would
have been wholly inadequate, while
under he present policy of a series
of institutes the best educators of
the country can be secured through
the state TO appear at a series Of
institutes. The institutes not only
reach the teachers, but the commune
ties as well and have brought out
arge gatherings wherever held.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-26
DEPUTY SRER|FFS
ARE JUST IN TIME

Federicos Vuamantes. Cledonis
Monies and Roberto Ramirez were
comfortably seated around a 15-gal-
lon copper still last night. enjoying
the warmth of the fire beneath it and
watching the slow drip of the dis
tillation, which had just measured
gallon, when T. l.. Meeks. Ernest
Smith and AL Dewitt, deputy sher-
ifs, stepped into the little shack
where the manufacture was going on
and took the three alleged distillers,
the stiil and the gallon into custody.
At the county Jail, where charges
of illegal manufacture of intoXicants
were placed against them, the three
gave their names, but refused to tell
how much white mule they had made
since starting in the business. but the
officers declared that, judging from
the piles of mash in the field around
the little house in which the capture
had been made, they had distilled
many full gallon.
The capture was made on Lateral
IA, about y mile north of the Ari-
zona canal. Six barrels of mash.
all ready for the still, were also taken
by the deputies.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-26
LIFE UNDERWRITERS
ASSN. HEAD IS To
HOLD MEETING HERE

A live wire in the life insurance
business, John Layton Snuff, presi-
dent Of the National Association of
Life Underwriters, viii be in Phoenix
on Saturday, February IL, and will
conduct a sales congress at the Hotel
Adams.
Mr.. Snuff comes to Phoenix under
the auspices Of the Life Underwriters
association of Arizona. A program
is being arranged for his stay in this
city which is expected will be very
interesting one and will attract a
large gathering of life underwriters
of this state.
This western tour of Mr.. Snuff will
start at Atlanta. Georgia, on Febru-
airy and is to conclude at st. Louis
on February 81. Mr.. Snuff will de-
liver an address on "The National
Association and It's Benefits" and
THE Human Side of Salesrnanship."
The program also is to include some
musical numbers and other snappy
features.
Mr.. Snuff has been in the life in
surance business since early man
hood and has made a great record.
For Is years he was considered the
biggest producer of the Union Cen
trail Life. In 1915 he was appointed
postmaster of Cincinnati without So
licitation.
One OF his hobbies is charities and
IL is said that every institution In
Cincinnati, regardless of color, re-
lgion or nationality. is familiar with
his name and deeds. His other hobby
is good roads. He is Ohio commits
sioner for the Dixie highway He
was appointed one Of the committee
to draft the War Risk Insurance act.
He was offered commission to go
overseas during the war. but felt he
could be of more help at home, and
in all drives he was Ohio's most con-
spicuous figure.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-26
EXPOSITION IS To
SHOW PROGRESS Of
CALIFORNIA CITY

Men and women Of other localities
who visit Long Beach, Calf. late
this month or early in February
probably will be surprised at finding
in progress there an impressive visu-
alization of Long Beach's develop
ment as a city of industry.
1t has been only a short time since
that city was known only as a pleas
IRE resort and not big one. at that,
blessed with surprising natural adj
vantages of golden strand. southern
frontage upon the Pacific ocean and
equable climate, but a community
which had not really awakened to its
own possibilities.
Beginning Jan. so and continuing
through Feb. 6, there will be held the
second annual Long Beach Industrial
and Mercantile exposition. the pur-
pose of which enterprise it, to quote
the exposition's slogan. to Show
What Long Beach Can Do"
Under the immense tent, which is
to be pitched on the strand between
American and Locust avenues, will
be interesting and enlightening tes-
timonials to the great strides which
that seaside city has made in man
ufacturing and business way. Some
so or 20 exhibit spaces, occupied by
attractive and instructive displays.
will give the stranger some idea of
Long Beach's advancement to a mu-
nicipality which claims 1853 industrial
concerns, with some 1S,000,0 900 in
vested therein and annual production
exceeding $4,000, 600. According to
data in the hands of the secretary of
the manufacturers association, Long
Beach stands fifth among the cities
of California in point of production
Of manufactured products and fourth
in the number of manufacturing con-
Germs The growth along these lines,
like the increase by millions OF dol
lars annually in the bank clearings,
building expenditures, postoffice re-
ceipts and other figures which serve
as barometers of activity and pros
perity, has been fully in keeping with
the growth in Long Beach's popula-
tion from 1882 in 1900 to 17,S09 in
1910 and to 55,593 in 1920. as shown
by government censsu reports.
At the exposition there will he spe-
cial musical and other entertainment
features and bright spot which is
the cynosure of all eyes Is provided
by the exposition queen and her
court. The coronation exercise is an
opening event of big interest.