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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-04-01

IS, 1922.
H. r. Burke, President.
Passed the Board of Aldermen,
March %, 1922.
F. F. Marbury, President.
Teste: Daniel R. Stansbury, Clerk.
Approved March %, 1922,
James NJ. Duncan, Mayor
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
CIAL SESSION E NOT PROBABLE

Little Rock. Dec. 30 That there is very little probability of the { Gpvernor:'s calling special session of' the legislature for the enactment of | severance tax was the opinion expressed yesterday by. state off scials In comment upon the recent filing of petitions for such a ses- sion. While the governor, who is out of the city, has not committed himself specifically upon the sever ance tax. his attitude toward calling special session of the legislature Sis we'll knowAs
 The present movement for a spe- { cIal session has It's origin in Se- bastjan county, whose residents have aent three petitions A much strong Sr movement was inaugurated in t1nicns county several months ago, w6en requests for an extra session we're denied by the governor.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
Almost Lost Knife, Says
 Tot Rescued From Well

Mammoth Spring, Dec. 31.--Dor- othy, the little five-year-old daugh- ter of Mark Whitman, a prosperous farmer living near Wirth, Ark, had miraculous escape from a tragic death Thursday when she lost her balance and fell in we'll The little girl had obtained case knife and turnip and was peeling the turnip while sitting on the well curb, when she fell backward into the we'll. Her mother missed the child and on going out into the yard looking for her detected sounds like the child's voice from the well, where she saw the child at the bot tom of the well with her head just above the water, holding to, the iron pump pipe. Her mother sim ply told the child to hold on tight until her father could be sent for. The child's father was soon noti- fled and rushed from the field to the house, where he cut srope swing from the limbs of a tree and tied loop in the rope, lowered 1t to the baby and told her to get hold of the rope and hold tight, which instructions the child obey led, with the result that within 30 minutes from her fall she was safely drawn to the arms of her parents When safely to shore again the child brought out from under her little arm the knife and with child Ii ish innocence handed it to hei mother, saying tMuvver, here's your case knife. I tum very near drop ping it in the we'll"
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
ILL LUCK PURSUES
 SPANISH PRINCE

New York, Dec. America, in- stead of land of promise and pros
 perity, has proved a province of
 disappointment and pain to Prince
 Louis de Bourbon, who today IS lying in Bellevue hospital cot, badly injured. He came to the United States last spring as repre- sentative of a syndicate seeking to stimulate trade, asserting he was a half-brother of King Alfonso of Spain
 | Shortly after his arrival announce ment was made he was to marry
 Mrs. Bertha K. Archibald, widow of l a wealthy Englishman, and resi- dent of New York, but in August there was statement from Mrs Archibald that the engagement had
 been broken.
 Wednesday night Deputy Fire Chief Smoky Joe" Martin was speeding to a fire on Upper Broad 1 way when, near Forty-fifth street l tt ll1dn AuIIlcu OuL II thS Sdi v disregarding the bell. He seemed not to realize his danger until tho machine was almost upon him, anc then he stopped. He was hurled
 40 feet, his left shoulder was broken | and he suffered internal injuries
 It was Prince" Louis.
 i He based his claim to his rela ltionship with the Spanish sovereign i on an affair between King Al fonsO XII of Spain and q beautiful girl, whose son was born in 1884 This was two years before male
 heir to the throne was welcomed by the royal household of Spain
 Spanish authorities here have no taken seriously the mans claims t
 dipect kinship to Alfonso, but hav'
 admitted he might be scion 0
 another branch of the Bourbon fam fly.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
SLAYER ELECTROCUTED
 AT THE PEN

Little Rock, Dec. 31.-JOhn Henry Price, 20-year-old Phillips county rNgro, convicted in November for the murder of F. c. Moody; Hell ena dairyman, was electrocuted at the state penitentiary yesterday morning at TOP o'clock. Price was visited by two white ministers and several negro preachers during the early morning hours and spent the final hours of his life in prayer and song. The young negro walked un- assisted to the chair and was pro nounced dead moment after the current was applied. His relatives did not claim the body, and it was
 buried in the penitentiary ceme' tery.
 Thursday afternoon, Price said that he had never had so happy 6 Christmas as the one he spent il the death cell. Nothing extra was provided him, but all prisoners al | the walls shared their gifts witf him.
 Price murdered F. c. Moody, pro prietor of the Glenwood Dairy neal Helena. The tragedy occurred earl, on the morning of October l, ant the negro was in custody before
 noon that day. He admitted hi guilt. According to testimony a the trial, Moody and the negro hat a misunderstanding about wages
 which Price said were due him
 Moody ordered Price to leave th
 barn. The negro did but lay Il
 wait for his employer. When Mood!
 passed the negro's room, Price open
 ed fire. killing Moody instantly. The killing of Moody, who was
 member of Richard l.. Kitchens post American Legion, and well knowi lin Helena, caused bitter feeling, bu there was no demonstration agains 1 Price.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
More London Couples
 Becoming Engaged

London, Dec. .30.-This year has seen bUom in engagements, If the experience of jewellers is to be re- lied upon.
 $ An exceptional holiday season which seaside couples have enjoyed may have something to do with this, but there is an even more probable cause. Living is becoming cheaper.
 Tt is always at this time of the year. said one engagement-ring specialist, ..that, we have most in- quiries. Most people imagine that spring is the busiest time, but autumn is the most profitable to us.
 Couples get engaged in summer, and the rush for rings comes later, because the of-the-season girls, I suppose, have to make up their minds more quickly, ssThere are more engagements,
 believe, during a good summer and tennis season than during the danc- ing season. The dance is the means | of obtaining more introductions te partners, but it provides little else Moreover, dancing is much more |regarded as a pastime and recrea ltion,. apart from the filtration op portunities it offers, and fnoderr dancing does not tend to promote sentimental friendships: in the same way as the round dances year ago"
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
BANDITS KILL TWO
 IN FRUITLESS RAID

e Pearl River, N. Y., Dec. 30.--F'oul armed bandits yesterday sweopey down on Pearl River, failed in 1T attempt to rob the First NationG bank, and fled in their automobile after killing two men and probabl, mortally wounding, another.
 One robber, wounded by ono o hiss victims, left a slight trail q blood in the snow, but this was los when he entered the car.
 It was 1a:45 o'clock, the lunc1 hour, when the robbers appeared to carry out what evidently was ( carefully planned hold-up.
 Driving their machine into lun, Der yard behind the bank, they Jeff two of their number in the car The others opened a back window of the bank with penknife anG slipped inside.
 The story of the raid was told tho district attorney by Otto Miller 6 railroad flagman, who was confer ring in an inner office with James F. Moore, assistant cashier, when the robbers appeared, and who to day lies critically wounded in the Mack hospital Only one other person was in the bank at the time Seigfried Butz, clerk, who with Moore was slain.
 Attracted to the bank by the pros; pect of obtaining $7.O0O pay roll for the Dexter Folder Company plan, across the street, the robbers, with out any preliminaries, began shoot ing. Butz was the first to fall When Moore and Miller appeared from the inner office the rain oi bullets continued, with Moore re. turning the fire and wounding one of the bandits
 The shooting was heard by giril in offices over the bank, and it is believed that the scuffling of their feet caused the bandits to flee through the window. investigation showed the robbers obtained noth- ing
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
Safety First.

The wife of the great botanist bsamed at him across the supper ta- ble. But there" she exclaimed. pointing to the dish of mushrooms that had been set before her, "ars. not all for me, Aristotle, are they
 .sYes, Mabel,' he nodded. gathered them especially for yd dd- with my own hands"
 She beamed upon him gratefully. What dear, unselfish husband he was! In five minutes she had de- molished the lot.
 At breakfast the next morning he greeted her anxiously. Sleep all |right?" he inquired.
 "Splendidly," she smiled.
 Not sick at all--no pains?" he pressed.
 "Why. of course not, Aristotle" 7" |she responded.
 "Hurrah!' he then exclaimed. T have discovered another specieA lD mushroom that isn't poisonous. Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
ACCIDENT IS FATAL|
 no MUSIC TEACH

Arkadelphia, Dec. 30. Mrs. E. B.
 McNutt, aged 57. veteran music
 teacher of Arkadelphia. died about sS o'clock yesterday morning from
 injuries. received Wednesday night when tSuck h,ssn ssatonn'Sirs man seventi snd Pine streets. Her skull Twas fraSfured, and she was injured |internally The accident was un- ayoidsble, it was said, and no cor |;oner's inquest will be held
 Mrs. McNutt had lived in Arka- delphia since 1ss7 She taught music in Quachita College five years following its opening. For the past IS years she has been teacher oi music in the local public school EFShe was ; vice president of the A , ,AnSas State Music Teachers' Ass&- tie lion Representing the Camdef,
 v <fS TtlI}5 .@ fst ftrYss.r .,&
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
Blosys off Top of
 Head With Shotgun

ropfsf Bluff, Dec. 3O.-Jasper 5 sYiaIiitn tnE. s7s years old. for 50 years ' repldei1t Of this county. commit xod suicides Wednesday evening at Mi ,hcnSs cf E. Powell, ! farmer, tn tsht miles south Of Roplar
 glIs ' iks | 2 %
 e1d ding had been making hii jz { with the Powell famiiy for < k2& years. The act was thought < bx despeHdency from i'll < md the infifmitiess of old < ,1ga IIs hAd often c0rnplained oi ton9ch stropble, The weapon wal M m lah6tgun. which ,be placed if 4 1euth pushin& thn trigger wfth
 5i1 ' {. 3is body was found by ' ' Y Y s6Well; yip near tho ftonl
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
U. s. Soldiers Camp
 On Brink of Volcano

Hilo, island of Hawaii, T. H., Dec, 1. tBy Mail. Jon the brink of one of the worlds wonders--th he ever-active volcano of Kilauea on this islandthe soldiers and sailors of the United States stationed in Hawaii have remarkable health resort that might well stir the heart of multimillionaire to envy.
 Realizing that troops stationed in the territory needed occasional change to cooler climate, citizens of the island of Hawaii subscribed q large sum of money recently and erected Barracks and other aeces- sary buildings on a tract of 50 acres overlooking the spectacular volcano and commanding full view of the nefghboring dormant volcano of Mauna Loa.
 A long lease was obtained and the property was offered without 'charge to the army and navy for use of their personnel. Major Gen. eral Charles P. Summerall, com fnander of the Hawaiian department. accepted and immediately arranged that detachments should make the short steamer journey from Homo lulu and visit the Kilauea military camp for a period of 10 days 1t . time.
 The camp is at an elNTo6 5000 feet above sea svei. 1e -vtsits Of fhfs d ng change 1t affordef from life in the semi txoa climate that prevails in the rest of the archipelago, has proven of great benefit to the health of the troops, according to medical officers attached to the department surgeon.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
N hny Young Girls
 Are Feeble Minded

I(By International News Scrvice)
 Detroit, Dec. .--"Sixty-six and ohe-half per cent of the delinquent girls who passed through our hands yhis year are feeble minded. accord- fing to figures, says Miss Mae Mur. ray, head of the woman's division of the Detroit police department.
 It Is the young girl who goes wrong, says the woman police chieft
 The age of the girls averaged between eighteen and nineteen declared Miss Murray. They are the prey Of UnseSupuloas men,"
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02

London, Dec. 30.There are ap- proximately 11,0OO,0O0 moro fe- males of the white race than males today, as compared with an excess of 10000 before the war, accord ing to statistics just made public here. The four million excess was swollen by the war to nearly three times it's former dimensions, and the greatest proportional increase was in women between the, ages oi twenty and sixty years.
 In another twenty years or 60 this excess should practically dis appear by the action of natural sez increase if no disturbing factor should occur.
 The problem then will not be ths want of balance of the sexes, but the pressure of population in tht Old World, where, unless ernigra- tion takes on a more even sex flow there will still be an excess Ul females, while in the New Wcrlt the opposite condition will stH prevail.
 Ten years ago the only parts q Europe in which males wors in 1 majority were the Balkan states Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania, Serbis
 (and Bosnia -Herzegovina) and Lux emburg.
 Every other country showed greater or lesser excess of females Numerically, it was greatest in Rus sia and in Great Britain, propor ltionally in Portugal and Norway. Ireland, Germany, Finland, Sved
 en and Switzerland all showed
 persistent decline in the ratio Q female excess. In Austria-Hungary and tho Meth erlands a sharp rise from 1880 t 1890 was followed by fall [ i1910, while in Scotland . marks ] fall in the period 1881-91 was fol
 lowed by a less marked rise [ ! 1911.
 England and Wales. Belgium
 Denmark, France, Italy, Norway Portugal and Spain all showst
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
WHITE VOMENOUTNUMBER MEN BY ELEVEN MILLIONS
 AS RESULT OF WORLD WAR
Females of White Race Had Majority of Only A.
 OOO,0OO Before Late Conflict, Which Brought Number to Nearly Three Times That ManyF Greatest Proportional Increase Among Wom-
 en 20 to so Years Old. Z

persistent rise in the proportion of females in the popu- latiofi
 Practically all the countries which had an excess 4n 1911 will show an increase of that excess in 1921, and in many cases, notably Germany, France, Austria Hungary and Bel kium, this increase will be, in con- sequence of the war, an entirely disproportionate one. Italy may not be 60 much affected as would other wise be the case, as so many ltal- ians returned from America to en- Toll, but evon then the increase will presumably bs very large one.
 Further, 1t is probable that the excess of males in the Balkan states will have completely disappeared.
 Aitofether tho figures show an
 Sxcess of females among the white lraces of some eleven millions at ItAs present time and make it clear that tho emigration of women can nQt OTlu& dOOuL UaidAOo VI ttiS
 aexas 50 far as those races are |coHeernetl.
 It is true that in Europe large proportion of the excess of women B ras, ,as hes been shown, at ages over sixty and that in America the rreponderancs of males obtains |throuxhout life.
 But the proportion in Europe has materially fallen through the war. lsna 1t is doubtful whether of the estimated 5,os0,ooo excess males in Ihalf millions are between the ages Iof twenty and sixty, as an offset against the 13,00o,0o0 excess wom- eR at those ages in Europe. ! Nature. we are told, will right l the balsnce in time, but this, even |if true, does not help to solve the present problem. And it is worth
 while asking, is it true?
 In the countries examined it is only in, the case of France, that an lincrease in the excess of females in tths population was due to natural .ihcrease.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
Blackening his faee and attempt-

Blackcning his face and attempt ing to masquerade as negro was the unusual disguise with which C.. c. Green, aged 37, Howard county fugitive from the state convict farm at Tucker. attempted to keep out of the clutches of the Little Rock police. Green. who escaped from the farm Monday, was arrested by Patrolmen Hays and Hopkins Tues day night as he was crossing the Rock Island bridge from North Little Rock, with Joe Lyon, ne- gro. The officers picked up the pair as vagrants and sent them to headquarters. There Greens dis guise easily was detected.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
AlyDII IS
 DYING FOR E MINISTRY
|national News Seryice)

national NeWS SefVicel
 CaA ry, Col, Dec. 9.--From banditiy the ministry is the |jump Cha les Clinton, notorious |bank robbd and gunman, hopes to make.
 Clinton $ serving a twelve-year term in tn state penitentiary here. He was ca1tured in Colorado Springs |after a sehsational battle with po- |lice office}s, following a series of |crimes thlt started police of half a dozen Western cities on his trail. Snugly aensconsed in one of the |cells of tM Canon City state prison, each evening sits Clinton, middle |aged andl prematurely gray, con- |stantly re}ding by the light of the one dim hmp which illulnines the cell he isl forced to call home. Every dsening when the day of itoil is en.Ed he peruses his books scarcely kting his eyes from the printed bges as the hours pass until all lights are extinguished and 1.-the priso1lers are required to retire Ito their cSts. And th1 books that Clinton pores over so diligently are the Book of Mormon. ind other sacred books of lthe Chur of the Latter Day Saints file ist p1 Inning to enter the min Iistry.
 Less Han year ago a daring bandit, ornful of God and man alike, h terrorized the entire mid. Idle we, until Colorado Springs officers Fought his career to an end land sta led the legal proceeding which se1 him to the penitentiary Warden Thomas J. Tyran has au thorized Sthe statement that Clin l ton desi4es to become a minister of the gtspel.
 'Crimefhas brought me nothing,' iClinton Is quoted as having tol( ] Warden Lyman. ''It lost me m! wife and baby. It brought me herr
 and I have nothing to show fo' the yeare I was violating the iav and fighting the authorities.
 T aml going to study while am here( I am going to improv' my timel I am going to enter tn ministry upon my release-and shall tell the world the awfulnes of the Wears of criminality; I cal ltell the1i as no one, else can. fo IT Kn0wy
 l Warden Tynan declares that Clin ton is ali ideal prisoner. He neve breaks ithe prison rules and peaeeable and obedient. And eacl might when his day of labor 1 lover he lis back in his cell, reading land reaAing an appetite fo books tl|at is almost intatiable. Ev cry pamphlet, every document, ever volume he can secure that pertain Ito Morhonism he devours assiduous ,Ily.1
 I And, he declares, when he is re leased from prison he will go to Sal Lake City and enter the work Q 1.-the Mormon church.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
ARMS P PARLEY
 IS NOW IN THE ]. ]
 DOLDRUM|
Naval Committee Meetil Degenerates Into a 1t pute Over Phrases Prk ress 1t Standstill.
PARAGOULD SQ

Washington, Dec. 30.--The }mS conference Naval Committee lent tall yesterday debating proposal te restrict submarine warfare. but got no further than general uder' standing to reaffirm existing irin- ciples of international law.
 A dispute over phraseology lock cd formal adoption of an aflrma- tory resolution, and the subje{ wal laid aside for consideration by g special subcommittee on d4ting Tho Naval Committee then pegaI what promises to be prolonged
 debate over the American 4posa to prohibit use Of submarinea bins merchant vessels.
 i Meantime the Subcommi s6 oI v |xA..tft decided to abahdo4 Ay eff fort to limit the airplane kSngtl of tho powers, and to req mfNent Einstead that an attempt mad to agree on restrictions thu woult make air warfare confo1 witl Considerations Of humanit Ever uuch regulations, however, Ire sait to be ccnsidered by sub} mmitte' members n difficult of fo nulatiol orimtals Fail to Aa ee.
 All the other naval and Far East ern discussions before tl confer
 encs rsmsineA at stands jll durini yesteFday. except for an htimatio,
 from tho Japanese that oily media
 iion .'by tho United States and Grea Bsitai4 could savs thet Shantunl
 neSottat ticns from final deadlock It was declared both fol the Japa |ness and Chinese that their gov sfnments have zone as lar as pos sibie toward a csmpromi}, and hop of . settlsment Is only the possi bility that some new ment cal
 be injected into tho coI bversy. There arc indication that tn naval experts of the v3ious power
 are far from an agreement on tn
 proposal that airpland carriers b limited, and all the foreign dele gations are waiting o| further in
 structions as. to the American pro
 posal to establish 10000 tons a
 tho maximum size if any auxil
 tary warship. There hlso is a hal on remaining details bf the capita ship agreement. A jroposed meet
 ine of experts to wbrk out a re placement chart was postponed unti later in the week.
 So far as the capitll ship questiol lis concerned, all theIdelegations ap pear to regard it as| good as settled although several ddails remain t be discussed. FraHe has accepte subject to reservation which sh has not yet fully etplained, so tha considerable discuAion may talk place before even that part of tn work Of tho confeHnce is ready fo final approval.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
Good Way for Fat
 Romans to Exercise

Rome.---Deputy Alfredo Rocco, editor in chief of the Idea Nazionale and Gen. Roberto Bencivenga, 2 regular contributor to the Paese another Roman paper, recently fought duel with double edged swords as sequel to a newspaper controversy.
 They were both wounded in the arms after sixteen rounds and both declared out of combat without de feat or victory on either side.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
Left Motor Running;
 Mayor Fines Him $l

Walnut Ridge, Dec. 31 Bo Smith, young man of Walnut
 Ridge, was arrested for getting out of his Ford automobile on the street and leaving the engine running. On trial last week he was fined
 by the mayor $1 and costs. This he refused to pay and was there upon placed in jail. After staying there from noon until o'clock, he decided to pay and was released.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-01-02
Stork Visits Two
 Sisters at Once

(By. international News Scrvice,)
 Oconee; H., Dec. 30.--Two sisters, occupying the same room at the sarns hour of. the same night, were each visited by the stork The women were visiting at the home of ltlieir father, Henry Bakers, where they had been called on account of his serious illness.
 The sisters. who live in Chicago, ara Mrs. John Fitzpatrick and Mrs. William Welch. All concerned are doing nicely. 2