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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-09-14

There are 4l.600,o00 men. women ana
children who work for salaries or wages
in this country.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
DEMAND FOR skilled
LABOR NOW GREATER
THAN DETRO|T'S SUPPLY
(By Associated P-ess)

Detroit, Mich, April 22.-Factories
here have absorbed all skilled work
ers and the demand for mon of that
clas sis greater than the supply, the
weekly report of the Employers as
sociation stated today. So far as
skilled men are concerned, the re-
port added, the unemployment prob
lem here has passed.
The association membership in
cludes 70 manufacturing concerns
which employ about two-thirds of the
industrial workers of the city.
Pay rolls of these plants now con-
tain the names of 145,234 workers, of
whom only 1869 are working on cur
tailed schedules. This total repre-
sents an increase of $500 during the
week ending April 18. The associa-
ton records show that $4,000 men
have been re-employed since October
1, last.
The report gives no figures on un-
employment of unskilled workers
an demphasizes the fact that many
unskilled men have come here re-
Gently to find no jobs waiting for
them.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
Sneak Thief Gets
Watch and Money
at Stockton Home

Walter Hubbard, a young white
man, is in the county Jail to await a
hearing on the charge of larceny as
a result of the robbing of the home
ofh Fred Stockton on Thirteent
street Thursday morning about 10
o'clock. He confessed to the theft
after a watch he had stolen from the
Stockton home had been identified.
The bold daylight robbery was
committed while Mrs. Stockton went
to a nearby store to make some pur-
chases. Her trunk was entered and
purse with small amount of
money and a watch were taken. Hub
bard was arrested the following night
on a charge of being in disorderly
house, and when it was noticed by
the officers that he had lady's
wrist watch it was at once suspect
ed that he was the thief who had en-
tered the Stockton home. Mrs.
Stockton Immediately identified the
watch when it was shown to her, and
Hubbard is alleged by the police to
have. confessed. He said he threw
the purse away after taking the
money from it.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
CORONER'S JURY FREES
MAN WHO SHOT WOMAN
BECAUSE he WAS Drunk
tBy Associated Pressl

Chicago, April 22-The recommen-
dation of coroner's jury that con-
fessed slayer be released on the
ground that he was Intoxicated and
therefore not criminally responsible
will be investigated today, Peter NJ
Hoffman, coroner, announced. The
verdict of the jury, returned yester-
day, recommended release of Fritz
Meinshausen, who had signed affida-
Wits acknowledging the staying Of
Mrs. Anna Peters, dressmaker. She
was shot and killed on April a while
fitting Meinshausen's wife.
"The law makes no allowance for
intoxication in Killings" said Coroner
Hoffman," so this verdict easily be-
comes the most astonishing any cor
oner's jury ever brought in during my
period in office"
Deputy Coroner Seese, who conduc-
ted the inquest, suggested that the
jury was actuated by "a sense Of pro-
test against prohibition and the moon,
shine liquor which has followed its
socalled enforcement"
Police say that they will recommend
that Meinshausen be hled to the grand
Jury on a murder charge.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
AN NUAL MEETING
COMMERCIAL BODY
ON MONDAY NIGHT
Officers Will Be Elected
for the Coming
Year
COs;M|TTEES TOREPORT
Work of Chamber Since
Last September to Be
Summed Up

Preparations are almost complet-
| ed for the Chamber of Commerce
banquet to be held at the Putnam
House Monday evening, $50 o'clock
marking the beginning of another
year as we'll as the election of pres
ident, two vice presidents, a treas.
urer and five governors for the en-
suing year.
Rumors are current that the pres
ent board of governors of nine rep
resentative business men will come
out for reelection. Some officers
are practically assured of contest
Four names have been mentioned for
the presidency, and there is one as
pirant for the shoes of a vice presi-
dent. In all probability two local
business men will enter the race for
places as governors. .... --.......
President W. P. Merriam asserted
this morning that it was entirely up
to the membership so far as he was
concerned in continuing to head the
civic body. He was not seeking the
place, he said, nor Sinking duty
"Palatka usually knows what she
wants, and under stress goes out and
gets it," he said.
All the committees are required, to
submit reports Monday night of their
activities for the period September
Is to date, which covers the time the
Chamber of Commerce has been in
existence. The =, secretary is also
compelled to furnish a detailed state
ment of his operations.
While these various reports will
indicate sincere and enthusiastic de-
velopment of the Palatka spirit, dis
cussions around town have more to
do with candidates for the offices.
There is a remarkable increase, it is
said, in the number of men anxious
to get into the race, and some close
contests are anticipated. Next years
operations, it is claimed, explain the
anxiety to serve.
Chef Collins, of the Saratoga, un-
til recently dispenser of delicacies at
the Hotel Martin, has been engaged
to feed the hungry.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
Check Swindler Is
Caught at Madison;
Left Trail Here

T. S. Bellflower, who recently
flooded the local market with fake
checks, has been arrested at Madison,
Fla, and will be brought back here
Monday for trial on dozen or more
charges. He is alleged to have left
at least twenty-five of the fake
checks here, amounting to several
hundred dollars.
BelEflower is said to be one OF the
smoothest swindlers seen here IN a
long while. He came to Paiatka
presumably to buy a local insurance
bpsiness. He represented himself as
bpinp connected with an insurance
concern in Savannah, and it was
checks supposedly sent him by TINS
oor,nory that he cashed here. Those
who he touched said that he haa a
habit of getting his mail and opening
If while talking to the prospective
victim, and, taking out checK ap-
parently from his home Office would
ask that it be cashed for him. Inc
checks were printed with the com
nanv,s name on them, and were en-
closed in printed envelopes and with
regular letterheads.
The warrant on which Bellflower
was arrested was sworn out oy .. W.
Ware, Bellflower has only one arm'
and was easily picked up.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
Industrial Froth Gone
and Business Is On
Un Grade
EASY MONEY HAS LURE
Average Person Inclined
to Speculate in Good
Times
(By Associated Press)

Gainesville. Fla, April "a
warning against a growing tendency
towards speculation throughout the
country as business conditions inn
prove was sounded here today by
Comptroller of the Currency Crissin-
ger in an address before the Florida
Bankers association. He urged the
bankers to advise their clients to-
ward sound investments and to use
their influence "to prevent fly-by-
night schemes"
Recent reductions in interest rates,
Mr.. Crissinger declared, have been
too generally regarded by the specu-
lative public as sign of easy profits
in sight when at the present time it
was of supreme Importance that
money and credit should be available
to sustained renwed business activi-
ties.
"The present." he said, "is most
appropriate time for bankers to ad-
monish their clients against over
confidence in speculative invest
ments. The world needs a restora-
ton of opportunity to produce and
consume things needed for human
progress and bankers should keep in
mind that the first call for liquid
capital must be made in behalf Of the
farmer, the manufacturer, the ex-
porter, and in general, the industrial
and commercial community. 1t is
equally important that banks be kept
from over-extending themselves by
too liberal accommodations to specu-
lative clients"
Mr.. Crissinger declared that he
was glad to bring to the south real
message of assurance that the coun-
try was indeed around the curve and
moving steadily and surely forward
on the road to more prosperous con-
ditions.
''The business outlook for the
whole country" he continued, "is
brighter and more encouraging than
it has been for the past two years.
we are we'll rid of business and indus
trial froth, and in position to go
forward on sound and substantial
lines. We are ready to start, to be
off, to be doing. Business, industry,
agriculture and commerce need only
the awakening of American pluck,
courage and initiative to insure the
re-establishment of prosperity.
"The banks which come under my
supervision, in the main, are in con-
dition and prepared to finance every
productive enterprise, but should
have nothing for speculative adven-
ture. There has been wonderful i'm
provement in banking and financial
circles; money is easy and cheap, and
as in the past the banks again will be
the bulwark of prosperity and the
sheet anchor cf national progress"
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
ROYALTY BREAKS BREAD WITH BOLSHEVZK;
BEWARE SPECULATION WARNS CRLSSZNGER
DlVER FIGHTS FOR LIFE THIRTY
FEEL BENEATH SURFACE OF WATER;
WAS ATTACKED BY GIANT OCTOPUS

on he was able to pierce the body of
the devil fish, and at last, with man
and monster still struggling desper-
ately, McCray was drawn to the sur
face by his assistant and other men
called to help.
While Richard Burnett, dock
watchman, stood by with drawn pis-
tolls, unable to shoot because the div
er and devil fish were so completely
tangled, others attacked with what
weapons there were at hand and fin
ally the devil fish released its hold
and disappeared beneath the water.
The devil fish was one of the larg-
est ever seen in these waters.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
Believe Conference a Farce.

tBy Associated Presst
enoa, April 22.-Henry Wickham
|ed, correspondent of The London
fes, wires The Times today that
Important American financial au-
Pity had confided to him Thursday
/ he had been trying to discover
economic basis of the Genoa con-
fnce, but had failed.
PIE had begun to suspect" Mr.
Ed added, "that the whole thing
a sort of farce. / reminded him
at Rapallo and in the city of Ge-
representatives of the principal
foleum interetss of the world were
|eging the bolsheviki, who thus
Fe placed in the position of dis
||sers OF favors to suppliants. But
puld not disguise the fact that the
basis of this conference was po-
fal and must be sought rather in
Flsh home affairs than primarily
fhe condition of Europe"
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
Oser May Be Left
Waiting at Church
Try Associated Pressl

Chicago, April 22.-Ihe announce
ment of Max Oser, former cavalry
officer, cabled from his home IN
switzerland that he would be welded
to Miss Mathilde Mccormick, OF this
city, in June, was today met with a
statement that Miss Mccormick and
her father, Harold F. Mccormick
had made mo plans of any sort" re-
oard;np the date of their departure
from Chicago. So far John D. Rock
efeIler grandfather Miss McCor-
mick, is not known to have given his
consent to the marriage.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
OFFICERS,
TO ORLANDO NEXT
Samuel A. Johnson, of
Orlando, Is Named
Commander
BANQUET LAST NIGHT
Brilliant Gathering at
the Putnam House
Big Event

Selecting Orlando as the place for
holding the twenty ninth annual con-
clave of the grand commandery, and
electing grand officers, the twenty
eighth conclave of the grand COM
!mandery, Knights Templar, adjourn
ed today after being in session two
days.
The new grand officers elected
were as follows:
Samuel A. Johnson, Orlando, grand
commander.
R. J. Kispaugh, West Palm Beach,
deputy grand commander.
E. Writ, Barlow, grand generals
simo. .-~
Harry L. Brown, Lakeland, grand
captain general.
George A. Dame, Inverness, grand
senior warden. ..
F. w. Schultz, Sarasota, grand ju-
nior warden.
Rev. Dorses H. Rutter, Daytona
Beach, grand prelate.
W. S. Ware, Jacksonville, grand
treasurer.
W. P. Webster, Jacksonville, grand
recorder.
James w. Eley, Pensacola, grand
standard-bearer.
J. Lloyd Head, Jacksonville, grand
sword-bearer.
Warner T. Hamm, Palatka, grand
warder.
w. L. Marshall, Tallahassee,
grand captain Of the guard.
Following the business session this
morning the knights were taken for
a trip around the city, viewing the
manufacturing industries and later
We're taken to the potato section
that they might see the fields in the
midst of the busiest part of the har-
vesting season.
The election of Warner r. Hamm,
commander of the Palatka COM
mandery, was high compliment to
the Palatka commandery, and also
to Mr.. Hamm, and a recognition of
the splendid work he has done.
During their stay here the visit
ors have won the admiration of all
who have come in contact with them
Representing, as they do, the very
highest type of citizenship, the
knights honor any city when they
gather in their annual conclae. Pa
'atka has done her best to make the
visitors feel at home and to enjoy
themselves and the expressions of
many in attendance indicates that
the visitors have thoroughly enjoyed
themselves.
Much credit is due the committees
which had charge of the arrange
ments for the conclave. They are as
follows: t "-..
Reception Committee-Sir E. E.
Haskell, chairman, and Sir Samuel ].
Hilburr, Sir Morris B. Cochrane, Sir
R. R. Wilkinson and Sir Charles E.
Rowton.
Ladies' Reception Committee
Mrs. Laura e. Hamm, chairman;
Mrs. Alice H. Haskell, Mrs. Eleanor
J. Smith, Mrs. Blanche c. Randolph,
Mrs. Maude X. Ross.
Finance Committee Sir E. p.
Ross, chairman, and Sir T. E. Mobley
and Sir S. S. Browning.
Entertainment Committee - Sir
E. E. Haskell, chairman, and Sir W.
g. Tilghman, Sir Louis Kalbfield, Sir
j. W. Darsey.
Ladies' Entertainment Committee
Mrs. Alice H. Haskell, chairman,
and Mrs. Lucille Wilkinson, Mrs. An
toinette 7. Brown, Mrs. Lottie G..
Rowton and Mrs. Ethel A. Garrett,
Continued on Page 81
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
Lenine Keeps Off
State Affairs to
Conserve Health

London, April 22.-Although off
cial statements by the Russian SOW
let government have reported Pre-
mier Lenine's health satisfactory, he
continues to keep away from state
affairs, says Reval dispatch to The
Times.
M. Tsuriupoff, who has hitherto
acted for Lenine as president of the
council of peoples commissars, was
taken i'll on April 8 and has been
succeeded by the first vice president,
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
HHS AssOcisted Pressl

Tacoma, Wash, April 22.-Bat-
Ting for his life fifty feet beneath
the surface of Puget sound, Walter
McCray, a diver known in marine
circles from Alaska to California,
came out victorious here yesterday
over giant devil fish.
The monster wound its tentacles
so tightly about McCray that the
diver was unable to reach the knife
he carries for protection. When one
tentacle threatened to cut off the air
supply, McCray, through the subma-
rine telephone called for short
steel wrecking bar. With this weap-
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22

coal and vegetables from their farm
to Key West by boat, through g the se
wangrOve NJ channel. The small craft
struck ar a submerged piece of wreck re,
o@a os.a,H and the boat began to sink. They
dSu s;yed 10 overheard, but it was out OF
the question for them to SWIM no 70
,ard Ine The man in the watch tower
at ,a''tl the naval station had witnessed
a.. a. ~, nisbap, however, and hydro
rlsne rns,r was quickly dispatched to their
rescue. They were we'll nigh e@,
h.nsted when the plane swOOpeo
down and picked them up.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
Five Dead From
a Gas Explosion
in Los Angelo:
UBy Assecsetea Press)

Los Angeles, Cal, April 22.-Five
deaths were reported early today in
hospitals at Downey and Artesia,
near here, as result of the explo-
sion yesterday morning of a gasoline
tank and gasoline tank wagon while
scores were fighting fire in gas
oiine filling station at Downey. Five
others seriously burned, were re-
ported in a critical condition.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
Over Half a Million Men
to Vote Whether to
Go Out
RESENT CONTRACT JOB
Say Railroads Farming
1t Out to Defeat
Union

Chicago, April 22.-The railway
employees department of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor (shop crafts
employees) has voted at its biennial
convention to send out strike ballots
to it's 100000 members. The ques-
ton involved is the farming out of
repair work by the railroads.
B. M. Jewell, president of the
railway employees department, said:
eff there is a strike and l feel sure
our men win vote solidly for it, it
will be in protest of the action of
railways in ignoring decisions of the
United States labor board.
Complaints of the railway en-
ployees in connection with the farm
ing out system are now pending be-
fore the railroad labor board A de-
cision is expected next month, after
the conclusion of the present wage
hearings.
There are now several thousand
men on strike on the Western Mary
land railway against the farming
out of maintenance of way work.
Mr.. Jewell declared that the pre-
else wording of the strike ballots is
yet to be determined. The question,
he said, is simple--whether to strike
or not to strike. The ballots proba-
bly, will be sent out within short
time and the result should be known
within sixty days, Mr.. Jewell added.
The vote to send out the ballots
was taken yesterday and officers de-
clared that it was counter move to
can effort to crush our organization
completely"
"The carriers have arbitrarily re-
duced wages in defiance of the
board" said Mr.. Jewell. "They have
restored the piece-work system and
resorted to the. farming out system,
which is mere subterfuge by which
they dodge the labor board decisions.
"a year ago our membership was
overwhelmingly in favor of war in
protest against the IL per cent re-
duction already then announced and
given effect last July. When the date
came, however, we favored peace be-
cause of assurances given by the la
Dor board that no further wage re-
ductions would be considered for
some time.
"But this time, l am sure, the is
sue will come to a showdown. So far
as we are concerned it is a fight for
existence"
Mr.. Jewell charged that the roads
are "dodging the boards rulings" by
letting out shops to contractors, who
are not technically within the juris-
diction of the labor board.
"The carriers have been getting
away with it thus far" said Mr..
Jewell. eve are going to find out
whether they can continue to do so.
"The board, it must be remember
ed, has no real power to enforce its
decisions. 1t must rely solely upon
the influence of public opinion"
There has been a strike for some
time on the Western Maryland
railway against the farming out of
maintenance of way work.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
81, ESQ, 600 BOND ISSUE
PROPOSED IN DADE COUNTY

Miami, April 22.-The board Of
county commissioners of Dade coun-
ty at special meeting next Thurs
day will issue call for an election
on bond issue of s1,750,0O0 to pro-
vide for the purchase of the Central
Grammar school here, the building
of highways and the possible build
ing of county fairgrounds. The
Playground feature viii be decided
upon at the meeting. s,ts
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
IRISHMEN STEAL A GUN

Dublin, April 22-Six men were
seen at midnight last night boarding
the gunboat Helga in Kingstown har-
Dor, says Central News dispatch. A
party of regular troops rowed out to
the Helga, but the raiders had dissp-
peared, taking with them a barrel of
a three-pounder gun.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
fmed Men Try to
Burn Steamer in
| Harbor at Dublin
By As-ocisted Pressl

Puolin, April 22.-Fifty armed
/ today raided the steamer Rath-
Pead, anchored here, shot and
Pnded the watchman, sprinkled
decks and fittings with gasoline,
the vessel aflame and made off.
ne crew, with the assistance OF
|ular Irish republican army troops,
Pnsuished the flames before Sc
rs damage had been done.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
~ SAVED FROM wATERY
GRAVE BY A SEAPLANE

Icy West. April 22.-Nicholas
Ninney and John Role, farmers
|sn adjacent island, have Concrete
Pence of blessing from above.
|ney were bringing a load of char
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
(opes Next Conference In U. S.

enoa, April 22-Hope that a world
Ference, with the United States
ficipating, will be held after the
Oa meeting was expressed by the
lman chancellor, DR.. Wirth, at a
kting of Germans last night.
Ehe Genoa conference itself is a
] forward in the reconstruction Of
world, he said, but this could not
completed without the United
hes.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
French Protest German Reply.

tBy ANsOctBsFs freSab
|enoa, April 22.-The French del
eion to the conference submitted
|rOtest against the German reply
|he allied note in which the Ger
Is stated they would refrain from
|ussing the Russian question set
in the German-Russo treaty. The
hch contend that the Germans,
Ter their reply, may insist upon
|ussing other Russian questions.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22

NJ. Rykov, who is also assistant pres
ident of the council of labor and de-
fense.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
|cialists Gasp When
Chitcherin Accepts
/ Emanuel's Invite
Inference IS FARCE
lis Is Belief of One
American Financier
at Least

enoa, April 22.-George Chitche-
Russian soviet foreign minister,
/ the Italian socialists a shock
" by meeting King Victor Eman-
lon the kings viist here and ac-
ling the kings invitation to lunch
aboard his private yacht.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-08-03
THESE FIGHTING GRAFTERs"

GEORGE NEWETT publisher Ishpemng
Mich primarily writer mining
forcefu and convincing other Occasionally
takes his in hand Kelly
These Fighting poetry:
Jack Dempsey he that
fight with Carpenter
another match his
it? What awful thing He seek
for living He is willing to with
atty All he has money. he
blamed that Fighting
the world has into the
badly beaten his meeting with
dion the equal the
he would for meet
ing anybody.
This country has been too good these
paid fortune fighting million and half
is paid for few
rounds Grady
they throw good money Boxing zine
shametuu abused When minutes
fellows reeait several the yearly
president of the United states they oyerpad
I'm this taledo Dempsey fighter not
the provided
the Dempsey S
The thickness cold
ter is coming-for the Republicans
Bisbee daily review., 1922-08-03

1t was fine idea. told my daddy
OF course, l missed working with
Charlie. But still l saw him lots.
Sundays, after my nap, Charlie and
would go over to see Doug and
Mary Pickford We're neighbors, you
know.
| love them all They play with me
and give me a boat to sail ON their
lake In the warm weather Doug takes
me swimming. He carries me way out
on his shoulders.
He can do most everything. He
taught me how to fence and box.
Doug is much funnier than Charlie.
l don't mean in pictures-but to
play with.
When I'm with Charlie we talk
about serious things. He likes to be
serious,
But with Doug it's different. He
never talks serious,s He's always fool
ing and doing tricks.
Charlie plays a lot Of instruments;
Doug plays lot of sports.
They are so nice-both of them.
Most people are. Take Mr.. Padere-
wski, for example. He's one Of my
best friends He sure can play the pi-
ano-eyen better than Charlie. And
he likes to play with me, too.
One morning l was going to the
studio with my daddy. Our auto
turned over. l got all banged up. They
took me to hospital
II was something like a hotel. But
it smelled medicine all the time.
People were sorry for me. | liked
that.
But l didn't like being in bed so
long
When / might have been breaking
windows like Peck.
tomorrow: my Vacation in New
York;