The St. Mary banner., 1922-10-28
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS

Fire losses in Texas for September
| aggregated S468,272, according to sta
tistics compiled by the state fire mar
| shall F'Orty-eight fires of unknown
origin reported caused a loss of $295,
500 Ten incendiary fires, with totaI
loss of $S.7l5. were reported, Matches
caused six fires with aggregate loss
of $50, 143, and five fires resulted from
carelessness with loss of $7,30S.
Castoff cigarette and cigar stumps
started six fires which resulted in a
loss of $12,617.
The American Legion wound up a
five-day convention at New Orleans,
La, Wednesday by unanimously elect
ing Alvin NJ OWsley of Texas as its
national commander to succeed Han
ford MacNider of Iowa, who has served
for the past year, and heard a plea for
international action, which, according
to its sponsors, the wounded men of
the Inter-Allied Veterans Federation,
would bring about world peace
Plans for the annual statewide pop
py sale on Armistice Day, November
II, by all units of the Texas depart
ment of the American Legion auxiliary
have been sent out to units OF the
auxiliary from state headquarters at
Austin. 1t is expected that the sale
will be the most successful ever held
by the state department, according to
Miss Ada Maddox, state secretary.
The rank Of Confederate veterans in
Texas are slowly thinning. This fact
is shown by the number of veterans
on the pension lists of the state. The
number of pensioners at the close of
the fiscal year ending August 81 total
ed 1852, or approximately 100 less
than the number at the close of the
preceding year, according to the an
nual report of the pension division of
the state comptrollers department,
just completed In 1921 there were
IA, $3.50 pensioners on the list.
Travelling at greater speed than
any human being ever before attained,
Lieutenant R. l.. Vaughan, a United
States army pilot, Monday at Mount
Pleasant, Mich, set new worlds air
plane speed record by covering a one
kilometer course at the rate of 24S.5
miles an hour.
The dirigible CO, the United States
army's best and largest "blimp,' on a
return transcontinental flight from
Ross Field, Cal, to Langley Field, Va,
was burned at San Antonio, Texas, |
Tuesday, injuring seven persons. Ac- |
cording to Major II. A. Strauss, COM |
nander of the il-fated ship, the acci- |
lent was due primarily to the pulling |
)ut of the fabric OF the envelope during |
l strong wind, he said.
The State of Texas Monday recover
I'd title from the Prairie Oil and Gas
company to 110 acres of oil land in
county, when District Judge
George Calhoun denied the company's
.laims of ownership, and enjoined it
rom further drilling for oil on the
ract.
An eighthour day with overtime,
which is said to amount to nearly 25
'er cent increase in pay, was granted
pproximately 1000 yardmasters ON %
lass one railroads and at six switch
ng terminals by the United States rail
DAD labor board Monday This is the
irst time the board has established
ules and working conditions for yard
masters, who are now classified as sub
rdinate officials and subject to the
oard' S jurisdiction under the transpor-
alton act.
Increase of the negro population in
he northeastern states caused the cen
er OF the negro population to take a
ortheasterly trend between 1910 and
920 for the first time in history, the
apartment of commerce announced
his center is in the northwestern cor
er of Georgia.