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Smyrna times., 1922-05-31

Personals.-Mrs. Anna Day has
been visiting relatives and friends in
Wilmington.-Mis Margaret Moffett,
of Newark, is visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Moffett.-Mrs.
Jennie Hutchinson has been entertain
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Graham and
their daughter, Virginia, of Milford
Mrs. Cora Spencer spent Thursday
with friends in Wilmington-Mrs
Louis Bell and her daughter, Frances,
are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Ford.
Mrs. Hannah Poore and her son,
Preston were entertained last week by
Mrs. f. Truitt in Philadelphia.-Mrs.
ElwoOd Montgomery and aunt, Mrs.
Fred Taylor, were in Wilmington
shopping last week-Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward S.Leyshon and their daughter,
Frances are guests of Mrs. Leyshon's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William E.
Clark.-Mrs. Thomas Downing, who
has been on the sick list, is improving
nicely.-Mrs. James S. Cobb and her
daughter, Virginia, were in Philadel-
phia last week shopping.-MTs.M VI. f.
Diehl, of Wilmington, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Joseph Miller.-Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Baldwin have returned
from a two weeks visit in Ohio.-Mrs.
Anna Ford has been visiting her par
ents, in Sun Hill-Mrs. Daisy Ely
was a recent guest of friends in Do
ver.-Mrs. George Ross and children,
Mary and George, were motor guests
over the weekend with relatives in
Wilmington.-Mr Norman S. Hof-
fecker has returned to his duties in
Wilmington after being home sick
Misses Lena Saxton and Elsie Will
liams, who have had the scarlet fever
in mild form, expect to soon be out
Rev. Claude Clark and family visited
friends at Church Hill last week.-Mr
and Mrs. J. J. johnson have returned
TO their home in Bridgeville after a
very pleasant visit with Mr.. Lewis
Hurd and family.-Mr. Oscar B. War
rem has been visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. r. B. Warren, at Viola.-Mr
and Mrs. Samuel Pinder spent Tues
day in Philadelphia.-Mrs. William H
Thompson is visiting her son, Loui;
Thompson and family.-Mrs. William
Hollett was in Philadelphia last weel
shopping.-Mr. Harry Rector, of Eas-
ton, Md, is the guest of Mr.. William
Blair and fahily.-Mr. and Mrs. Wal
lace Powell, of Wilmington, are guest:
of Mrs. Annie Allen-Mr. John L
Graham, of Philadelphia, was home
over the week-end.-M and Mrs
Edgar Harrington, Mr.. and Mrs. Shell
by Harrington and their children, Ed
gar and Shelby, were motor guest.
last Sunday with Mrs. Mary Kelle.
at Frederica.-Mrs. Lewis Wright Wis
tied friends in Philadelphia last week
Mrs. Rudolph Snyder, of Philadel
phia, is the guests of Mrs. Charlie!
Hanratty.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
Long Stories of Big Events Told
in Brief Paragraphs for
Quick Reading.
NATIONAL CAPITAL SNAPSHOTS
GIeanings of Interest From Washing
ton-Late Happenings In the Realm
Of Sports-Foreign and Do
mestic Occurrences.
WASHINGTON

Recent railway rates reductions Will
amount to approximately $90,0O0,OOO.
The United States, JaDan and The
Netherlands fall heir to Germany's
former Pacific cables, under a tenta-
tive six-Power treaty brought forth in
the arms negotiations.
The Arms Conference begins the
new year with most of its members
looking toward a final adjournment
two weeks hence, despite the prospect
of having yet to clear away several
troublesome issues.
Contracts covering "experimentaf'
scrapping of IL Shipping Board wood
en- vessels were signed in Washing
ton by President Powell, of the United
States Emergency Fleet Corporation,
and representatives Of six firms deal
Ing in waste material. Upon the re-
suits Of this venture, 1t was said, will
depend whether the board will decide
to scrap the remainder Of the wooden
feet, numbering about 200 vessels.
The Root plan for regulation of the
use Of submarines provoked an all-day
debate in the committee on limitation
of naval ornaments, with the United
States again lined up on the side of
Great Britain, but with Japan and
Italy this time siding with France.
Senator King of Utah, who was out
spoken in his praise of the conference
when it first convened, issued state
ment bitterly assailing the gathering.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
ALL CHINA CALLED TO
BOYCOTT AGAINST JAPS
Commercial! Delegates in Wash
ington Declare Toxic Has Preju-
diced the Conference.

Shington.-Delegate Of the most
powerful commercial and civic organl-
cations in China cabled from Washing
ton calling for a new nationwide boy
colt of Japan by the Chinese people.
Only a boycott, these delegates as
serted, could reveal China's righteous
mitigation" against Japan's policy In
the Washington conference. Japan, de-
clared their cable, had "blocked at ev-
cry turn the decisions which the con.
ference might have taken in favor of
China" Boycott must be the answer,
they declared.
The organizations to which this
cable has been despatched include the
Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the
Workers Union, the Students Gen.
trail Union, twenty-siX civic organiza-
tions in Tientsin and the Provincial
Assemblies of Shantung and Shansi.
The cable is signed by representatives
of all the organizations. Their mes
sage reads as follows:
The Japanese have adopted policy
Of obstruction to China's aspirations
at this conference and have blocked
at every turn the decisions which the
conference might have taken in favor
of China, particularly in the question
of our tariff autonomy, which is a vital
necessity for our financial reconstruc-
ton,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
NATIONS BUSINESS

During the year 1921 total Of 49,
0S9 stock companies, with capitaliza-
tion of $657, 1856 645, were incorporated
I'm New York State.
Comparison of the year-end reports
with those for the corresponding month
In 1920 demonstrates the continued
upward movement of business and in
dicates gradual restoration Of normal
conditions, the Federal Reserve Board
said in review of general business
and financial conditions during the
month of December.
Yale & Town Lock Manufacturing
Co., of Connecticut plans to construct
q plant in Germany.
Directors of Illinois Bell Telephone
Co. approved appropriation Of $2,149,
615 for new plants.
Department of Justice, In an effort
to readjust retail prices Of the neces-
stiles OF life, will rely on aid of the
attorney generals of the various states,
Attorney General Daugherty announc-
ed.
One important development of the
last few months is the increased busi-
ness of mail order houses Recent
reports show that business is on the
uIturn. Thee concerns have been hard
hit by the stagnation in the agricul-
tural districts.
American bankers are working out
plans for utilizing the cooperation of
the Department Of Commerce in the
placing Of loans in foreign countries.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
SPORTING

Texas A. & NJ. College defeated
Centre College ct football at Dallas by
the score of % to IA.
One of the rockies booked to train
with the Chicago Cubs next spring IS
George Stueland of Sioux Falls, S. ID.
Stueland, pitched for the Sioux Falls
team in the South Dakota League last
season and his work impressed Cub
scouts. He's Highlander and husky
In build.
George Cutshaw, Pittsburgh Nation
al League second baseman, has been
purchased by the Detroit Tigers.
Bill Tate, Chicago, won on foul
over Harry Wills, Of New York, in the
first round Of a scheduled ten-round
bout at Portland, Oregon. Both are
negro heavyweights.
Joe Lynch stopped AL Walker at the
Pioneer Club, New York, in one minute
and twenty seconds of the first round.
Forty thousand persons saw Uni
versity of California and Washington
and Jefferson College football teams
play scoreless tie game at Pasadena,
Cal.
Scott. the newcomer with the New
York Yankees, who captained the Red
Sox last season, may step right into
Peck's shoes and take over Rogers
captaincy as well as the shortstop po-
sition. 1t is foregone conclusion that
Peckinpaugh will serve as captain Of
the Red Sox.
The Quaker City hockey team was
defeated at the ice palace, Philadel-
phia, by the University Of Toronto by
a score of 10 to 5. This was Toronto's
seventh consecutive victory.
Colgate University, Of Hamilton, N.
Y. defeated Des Moines University at
Des Moines, Iowa, in a basketball
game in which an extra five minute
period was necessary. The score was
"a to %.
Sheriff "Slim" Sallee, the elongated
southpaw of the worlds champion New
York Giants, was Internationally re-
leased.
An announcement from Carlisle, Pa,
to the effect that Glenn Killinger, the
star quarterback of the Pennsylvania
State College football team, has been
chosen as coach of the Dickinson Col
lege squad, develops the fact that this
prominent gridiron and diamond col
lege star has not as yet attached his
signature to a Yankee contract.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
20 MILLION MONTHS
LOOT OF RUM RING
Day Charges Withdrawal Plot In
voIving Forgery, Mail Frauds
and Possible Bribery.

New York-The existence of high
" organized bootlegging conspiracy,
through the operations Of which about
$20,00O,000 worth of alcohol and liquor
is believed to have been withdrawn on
forged permits here since December l,
was revealed by Ralph A. Day, Fed
eral Prohibition Director. He said that
in the month since he went into office
more than forty instances of fraudu-
lent Withdrawals had been detected, in
volving about $1,5O0,0OO, and that there
is reason to believe that not more than
small percentage Of the forgeries
have come to the attention Of his Of
fee, possibly only one in a hundred.
"And the worst of it is" he con-
tinued, "that even when we discover
the forgery there is practically moth
ing that we can do. The vendor pre-
sents to us a complete set of all the
papers required for withdrawal and
asks us how he could tell they were
forged The vendee has given false
address and cannot be traced. 1nspec-
tors are working night and day on the
conspiracy, but so far about all we
have been able to do is to prosecute
the truckmen."
In every withdrawal fraud which has
attracted Director Days attention the
vendor has shown the postoffice receipt
for the registered letter, the return
card and tie answering confirmation.
Postoffice inspectors are cooperating
with Chief Hugh McQuillan's Internal
revenue men in an effort to run to
earth the whole method.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13

| Postmaster General Hays will decide
| on January Il whether he will accept
position as arbiter of motion picture
| association.
Charles A. Gregory, Chicago prohi-
bition director, announced that doc
tors in Chicago district issued 2,lo9,-
600 liquor prescriptions in 1921.
Two boys held up j. P. Collum,
merchant, of Atlanta, Ga, and es-
capped with $3.50 in cash and valuables
believed to be worth $3.50.
Senator McCumber is slated to sue
ceed the late Senator Boise Penrose as
chairman of the Senate Finance Com
mittee.
Sheriff John Wilson, charged with
completely in the s31, 900 robbery OF
the State Bank at Peoria, ILL.,, was SET
at liberty under $4,000 bond.
Price of sugar has declined to 4.eo
cents pound. ,
Forty stolen automobiles were selzeu
in Connecticut.
New York State Board of Regents
granted DR.. Adolf Lorenz license 10
practice In state.
Sixty teachers are to be employed
by the Board of Education in the Phli-
ippine Islands to teach English 10
Filipino teachers.
A sixty-inch rejecting telescope
abandoned twenty years ago as useless
by Harvard Observatory, proved to De
of decided value.
New York Stock Exchange seat or
Irving G. Knox, deceased, was trans
ferred to Russell S. Hume for $91 1,oOO,
compared with previous sale of $4,000.
James F. Byrne purchased the seat OF
Alexander 81. Brown for 100000.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
WORLDS NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

LONDoN.-The wedding of Princess
Mary to Viscount Lascelles, has been
set for February %, according to the
Daily Mail.
STOckHOLM.-"Swed. could not
accept the banning of the submarine,
which is the most efficient weapon of
defense for small nations" said Cap
tain Gisiko, chief of the submarine de-
partment of the Swedish navy in an
interview.
NEW YORK.-For the first time
since 1916 the pound loaf of bread
was ordered solu for five cents by one
of the largest nation wide chain store
organizations.
HAvANA.-Prize fighting in Havana
is prohibited under a decree issued by
Mayor De Villegas.
BALTIMoRE.-DeIayed by heavy
gales off the Virginia Capes, the mercy
ship Winnebago arrived here from
New York and Immediately began load
ing corn for famine-stricken Russia.
She will carry $500 tons, or approx
mately 25O,OO0 bushels o corn.
Publishing Company, publishers of the
Industralist, convicted of criminal
eyndicaifsnr was given the maximum
fine Of $1,000 by Judge H. A. Dancer
in District Court here.
BELFAST.-Offical figures made
public here show that during the year
no persons including eleven police
men, were killed in disorders, and
that $40 had been wounded by bullets
or bombs.
INDIANAPOLIS.-S thousand
former soldiers from other states af-
flicted with tuberculosis are crowded
into Denver hospitals at present, c. ].
Harris, director of service of the
American Legion, said upon his re-
turn from the West.
MOScOW.-During the four years
of Soviet administration II trllions
in paper rubles have been issued.
WAUKEGAN, ILL. Governor Len
Small was freed of every charge
against him except that of conspring
with Lieutenant Governor Fred E.
Sterling and Vernon Curtis to defraud
the state of 100000 during Mr.
Sterling's term as state treasurer.
LONDON. .-G Grave charges against
the British in Egypt are contained in
kilograms of protest which are reach
ing the Daily Herald, the Labor daily
here. 1t is stated that many Of these
telegrams refer to the tiogging of stu
dents and the shooting of men, women
and children by the British authori-
ties.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
LATEST EVENTS
AT WASHINGTON

An appropriation for the enforcement
of prohibition during the next fiscal
year amounting to $9,000,000, per-
haps slightly more, as compared
with the Treasury Departments re-
quest for an appropriation of $1O,-
100000, will be recommended to the
House by its Appropriations Commit
tee, it was said.
While practically all the machinery OF
the Arms Conference stood still over
the New Years holiday, the unoffi-
ciaI delegation of the Far Eastern
Republic took advantage of the lull
to press their charges of secret
French-Japanese understanding.
Not in all the brilliant social history
of the White House has there been
more picturesque and colorful scene
than when the first New Years Day
since 1912 the doors of the executive
mansion were thrown open and
President and Mrs. Harding well
coined all who came.
Hiah officials and leaders of both
parties Joined in expressions Of re-
Penrose, for quarter Of century
an outstanding figure in Republican
councils. Both branches of Congress,
upon reconvening Tuesday, adjourn
ed for the day out of respect to him.
The British assert that the French
reservations in regard to capital
ships will not affect the principle
of the ratios prescribed, but may
affect the naval holiday.
Strong hope that an agreement not to
use submarines against merchant
ships under any circumstances will
be reached by the five naval powers
attending the armament limitation
conference, is held out.
Secretary Weeks recommended the
purchase at an estimated cost Of
$111,ooO of seven tracts of land in
Europe for permanent American
cemeteries.
Ereioht cars and locomotives at Hog
Island and Bristol have been offered
for sale by the Emergency Fleet Cor.
poration.
The position assumed by France is con-
sidered as negativing much of the
oood that has come from the confer
ence, although there is no real dis
position to donreciate itkveeomplish-
ments in other directions.
Cha:aes that contract entered into
with Germany by thirty-four fertil-
izsr concerns would produce vio-
lation of all of cur anti-dumping
laws were made by Senator Smoot
of Utah.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
FOREIGN

The British Air Ministry is building
$50 troop carrying airplanes as part of
the plan for creation of an aerial army
to maintain order in Mesopotamia.
The engagement Of the Prince of
Wales will be announced before the
end Of the month, says London Daily
News. Identity of bride-to-be was not
revealed.
Three Berlin banks, the Barner
Bankverein, the Allgemeine Deutsche
Kreditanstalt and the Rayerische
Hypothekenbank, have formed union,
raising their combined capital to the
sum Of 1,OO0,OO0,OO0 marks.
Legalized gambling In the Casino
in Salisbury, Austria, has been voted
by the Provincial Diet in an endeavor
to secure funds with which to balance
the provincial budget of salzburg
The plan of David Lloyd George, the
British Prime Minister, for an eco
nomic rejuvenation of Europe, and the
results of the meetings in Paris by
bankers and business men Of the al
lied countries, were outlined to George
Harvey, the American Ambassador to
Great Britain, by Sir Laming Worth
ington- Evans, the British Secretary
for War.
For the present the French govern
ment is unable to see its to any
recession from the attitude taken by
its representatives at Washington on
the submarine question, it was said
in official circles.
Canada's commerce declined heavily
In the twelve months ended November
1921. as shown in report just issued
by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
Although no compromise between the
opponents and advocates Of the Anglo
Irish treaty in the Dali Eireann has yet
been attained, future plans designed
to avoid wrecking the agreement are
being considered.
The official result Of the general
census Of 1921 gives the population
of France, including Alsace-LOrraine,
as 39,4O2, ,739, of which 1,550,449 are
foreigners. The population in 1911 was
80 6O4 ,992, including 1,132,O96 foreign
ers.
The Banca Italiana di Sconto of
Rome closed its doors following the
announcement by the Government of
n modified moratorium permitting the
SUSPENSION of payments Of the obliga-
tions of certain corporations through
court decree. The bank, protiting by
the announcement, suspended pay
ments pending court proceedings.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
GENERAL

Liquor valued at nearly $4,000 was
seized on the Canadian steamer Har-
binger at Eastport, Me.
Four negroes held up the proprietor
of a Kansas City loan office and es-
capped with jewelry and cash valued at
$4,000.
Bo Mcmillan, football star of Center
College, was married in Fort Worth.
Tex.
An earthquake occurred at Panama.
lasting about one minute. No damage
was caused in the city or to the canal.
A heavy flood was registered at Gatun
Lake and several of the spilIway gates
had to be opened to let the water out.
According to figures collected by
Donald Wilson, general freight agent
of the Long Island Railroad, 1000
houses were built in Long Island dur
ing 1921, not including Long Island
City or Brooklyn.
Thirty orders for withdrawal of
liquor, none for less than 1000 cases,
and all of them fraudulent, involving
as many as six forgeries on one sheet
of the dozen letter, receipt and postal
registry forms copied have been used
to withdraw Illegally alcoholic bev-
erages worth at present retail prices
about $3,0OO,OO0 from liquor ware
houses In the last thirty days.
The Governments tax claim against
the Lincoln Motor Company has been
reduced from S4,5OO,OOO to less than
s500,000, according to unofficial, but
definite, advices from G. E. Holmes,
the New York tax expert, and Harold
Emmons, the company's attorney in
Washington.
Details Of the line of action to be
followed and legal weapons to be
used by the Department Of Justice in
it's recently begun fight to lower the
retail costs of foods and other neces-
saries Of life were discussed in Wash
ington by United States Attorney Gen.
eral Daugherty.
Thomas Walter Beckett, former gov
ernor of North Carolina, died at his
home in Raleigh, N. G.
DR.. G. NJ. Koates, negro physician
of Leavenworth, Kan, was recon-
mended to President Harding for ap-
pointment as minister to Haiti.
Cooperation Of voluntary associa-
tions with prohibition activities of the
Internal Revenue Bureau must be ab-
solutely distinct from law enforcement
measures, Commissioner Blair de-
clared, commenting On the reported
formation of a nationwide business
mems organization by S. S. Kresge of
Detroit.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
NATIONS CROP VALUES FALL

U. S. Department Notes Vast Decrease
in Principal Farm Products.
Washington.-The important farm
crops of the United States for 1921
were valued at $5,675,S77,000 by the
department of agriculture in its final
estimates of the year. That is almost
s3.4OO, 100000 less than last years
crops were worth and $S,0O0,0O0,0
less than the crops of two years ago
when high prices prevailed for farm
products. The values are based on
nrices paid farmers Oh December 1.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
AVERT CHICAGO BANK CRASH

Fort Dearborn lnstitu.ion's Assets I'm.
paired by Bad investments.
Chicago.-Two Chicago banks, with
resources of mora than $S5,OOO,0O0,
were sold after the Chicago Clearing
House Committee had conducted an
examination and found their assets
had been impaired by bad loans and
investments.
Members of the Clearing House
Committee pooled guarantees totaling
Sc, 100000 to protect depositors against
any loss.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
SEES MENACE OF DISEASE
Health Service Warns Of Peril When
immigration Bars Drop.

immigration Bars Drop.
hington.-Warning Of disease
with the wave of immigration after
restrictions are modified was issued
by the Public Health Service. Point
ing out that until typhus and plague
subside in Europe there will be a
menace of vermin-bearing immigrants.
the health service asserted that even
with the danger over it will continue
to insist that travellers must be rea-
sonably clean.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
SURVEY SOFT COAL SITUATION
Staff of Unemployment Conference tc
Conduct Work.

MISUNDERSTANDING Hoover an
nounced that survey of the entire
bituminous coal situation is to be made
by a special staff of the Presidents
unemployment conference. Funds for
the survey, he said, which was recon-
mended by the conference, have been
contributed by the coal interests and
the members of the staff will be an.
nounced in a short time and at once
take up the work.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
SHERIFF UNDER ARREST
Charged With Sharing Proceeds of
Panam1 (IIIl Robherv

Charged With Sharing Proceeds Of
Panama UII.) Robbery.
Chicago.-With the arrest Of Sheriff
John w. Wilson of Bond county and
two others and with trails leading de.
tectives to Chicago and st. Louis,
States Attorney j. N Allie of Green
Vile, ILL.,, declared that he had prac-
tically cleared up the robbery of the
bank in Panama, Ill, on December II,
when $4,000 in cash and securities
was taken. The names of the other
men were not revealed.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-01-13
BANK BANDITS KILL TWO

Three Men Rob First National at Pearl
River, N. Y.
Pearl River, N. Y.-Three bandits
held up the First National Bank in
the heart of this little village shortly
after noon, shot the assistant cashier,
Mr.. Moore, and the bank bookkeeper
a man by the name of Butts, to death !;
wounded DIR. r. r. Sulter, a depositor,
and escaped with "a small sum Of
money"
The highwaymen left the scene in a
small automobile,