Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-26
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ION of the Veterans Bure au. Every
fo,,mar soldier i'm the country VINO mas
deye,oned almost any Kind OF trouDle
charges it. to his being ga;'seu' ooi
Patterson said, when- as a matter vi
fact no more of this can be- traced 10
Sassinp, than any other cause. lhiS Is
esnecially true of respiratory ,'rouoles'
he said. Those who develop Iespha
forv troubles at this late date nave ho
basis for claims that tneir nIsAi a,,,,o,.;
yere the result Of their war eXpefi-
snce. such disabilities would propaoiy
hove deveIoped If they had never peen
in the service at all. If year or so
hnses from the time Of gasshlg untl
symptoms develop, it is quite p,opa
ble that gas has nothing to 90 Win 'rS ne
matter. provided that. the lungs VI
such claimants were clear at lhe' 'iii'
Of their discharge" 81,
Major. w T. Blake and two Eorl
panions started from the airdrome a
Croydon, England at 3:O5 O'Clock W.
nesday afternoon on an attempted o.
iij00 mile airplane flight around the
world. The three aviators, MAJ. biahe'
Cant. Norman Mcmillan and Lieuten-
ant Colonel L. E. Broome, MADE thel,
start in the d. HIS airplane equlppeu
for their trip without the atlenuahl
plant With photographers and moSins
picture operators, which IL hau uee.
planned to send with them as haL 90
'Athens as II was found Impossible to
oct the second machine ready on time.
.AIaiorE Blake expressed confidence vi
making fhe world tour within 9o days.
saie hoped to be on American soii eaits
en- August. A crowd assembled W
watch the departure, with every one III
..Aofiday attire for the occasion, bi-
spire day, showered mascots on the avi,
tators. These included black cat anu
n rabbits foot Messages rec3Ve1 ps
Major Blake included one from k1ns M
,George,s secretary, reading Ia Ia
.srnajesties wish you all goospeeo anu
good luck" ~s
d. Some days after the discovery OF
the dead body of Clarence Pexers
marine, in a thicket not far from NeS
Rochelle New York, Walter D. warn
told the police that he did tne kllllnS.
siWard is the son OF a milllonaiie o~e ,,,a 9
N'of the Ward Baking company, ana was
chairman of the New Rochelle ponce
commission. He told story that re-
terseand others had been blackmallihe,
He had paid them large sums; put
when they wanted $4,000, ne TOOK re-
ters and two others out in the country
in his automobile to talk the matter
over. During the conference Peters
made a threatening move to shoot anu
Ward killed him with an autonatlc;
After telling the story Ward reslsneu
from the police commission. ihseo VS..
.Satio1 seems to bear out Ward's story.
yrhere is a bullet hole in Peters coat
and shirt. but no sign of where II en-"
.yared his body. Ward has not SHOWN
.,ny of the blackmailing letters ne
claims to have received. There Is no
trace of the two other meYaliegea a'eoaaS 10
have been connected with the aIIeSse
.:hIackmailing. Tho police asked Ward
styhat became of the pistol or the aeao
man and Ward has not said Ihere
was no blood about the spot whefe tno
body of Peters was found The matter
As still under careful investigation
Reductions in freight rates aver.
sap;nr about 10 per cent were ordered
TUESDAY night by the Interstate Coni-
'merce commission in decision result,
ing from it's inquiry into the genera
.Satc structure of the nation. The cut
;n freight rates was fixed by the conf
y,,,issjon at IA per cent in eastern ter
Sitory and 12 1-2 per cent in the south-
SaIn and mountain Pacific territories.
.,Au reductions ordered are effective On
1uly and constitute a greater @ oul
than was generally expected. The
.Sommission in ordering the decreases
(which are on a horizontal pasls-
hold that the nations railroads are en-
titled to earn 5 1-3 per cent on @ t,ie
value of their property rather than inc
approximate per cent hXed as ted 70
.s6n.hIe return in the transportation
act of 1920. Transportation charges on
nassenger travel and Pullman charges
were left unaffected by Tuesdays de
,cision. Agricultural products VIII not
ne affected by the reduction granteu
iinder'the commissions order Ine re-
duction of Is 1-2 per cent made IN tne
western hay and grain rates last ran
and. the voluntary 10 per cent CUT
made in all agricultural products Dy
railroads January / will be substituted
<fofrtheedecision on these commodities
y Democratic members of the senate
finance committee may be callea upon
to break a deadlock among the hepup
1icans of che committee over tue sol.
was brought up Wednesday at meet,
ing of the majority and 1t developed
that there was a five, to five DIVISION
tfn the socalled McCumbec plan-the
amended house plan-and the Smoot
proposal to issue to service men PAID
mn insurance policies in lieu of all COM
nensation options heretofore proposed.
Chairman McCumber SAID a1ter the
session that he probably would call
meeting of the entire committee Tor
this week. The meeting probably VIII
he deferred until the return from IN
dianapolis of Senator Watson (Repuo-
Gcan) of Indiana, who has had seVeral
conferences recently with president
Harding on the bonus question. The
action taken by the majority was the
appointment of a subcommittee con,
sisting of Senators Curtis, Mclean ana
Sutherland TO hear Representative
Mondell of Wyoming, the RepuDhcah
house leader, relative to substituting
the pending reclamation bill for lhe
land settlement feature of the bonus
measure, which the senate committee
Republicans have agreed TO strike out
of that bill. Mr. MOnden suggested
that if it could be Incorporated In the
bonus legislation it probably could be
enacted at this session.
= Jim .Denison, twenty-year-olu
Geargia negro, who is under sentence
f6Tehanged on June 16 for criminal
assault alleged to have been comnST-
ed Jthree years ago, has been having
an exciting time with would-be Geor-
gia lynchers who got after him in the
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