The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-10-28
sra1E AND DOMESTIC NEWS

sra1E AND DOMESTIC NEWS
Fire losses in Texas for September
aggregated $46S,272, according 10 S'"
tistics compiled by the state IRE mar
shaI Fortv.eight fires OF unknown
origin reported caused a loss oi 9-'''
5o5 Ten incendiary fires. with 'o'a'
loss of SS.715. were reported. Matches
.,usad six fires with aggregate loss
If sSs 143. and five fires resulted from
carelessness with d loss OF $',ooo-
Castoff cigarette and cigar s,uiipo
started six fires which resulted III
loss of $12,6l7.
The American Legion wound up
fiye-day convention at New Orleans
La Wednesday by unanimously eject
ing Alvin NJ Owsley OF IeXas as '''
national commander TO succeed han
ford MacNider of Iowa, who has served
for the past year, and heard plea LOT
international action. which, according
to its sponsors, the wounded men oi
the lnter-Allied Veterans Federation
would bring about werld peace.
Plans for the annual statewide pop
Nv 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 Oh the
auxiliary from state headquarters at
Austin 1t is expected that the sale
will be the most successful ever held
bv the state department, according to
Miss Ada Maddox, state secretary.
The rank of Confederate veterans IN
Texas are slowly thinning. This tact
is shown by the number OF veterans
on the pension lists OF the state me
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 comptroller's department.
just completed. In 1921 there were
1860 pensioners on the list.
Travelling at greater speed than
any human being ever before attained,
Lieutenant r. L. Vaughan, United
States army pilot. Monday at Mount
Pleasant, Mich, set new worlds air
plane speed record by covering one
kiometer 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 H.. A. Strauss, com
| mander of the Inflated ship, the acct
dent was due primarily to the pulling
out of the fabric of the envelope during
! a strong wind, he said.
| The State of Texas Monday recover
| ed title from the Prairie Oil and Gas
| Company to ITO acres OF oil land in
| Eastland county, when District Judge
| George Calhoun denied the company's
claims of ownership, and enjOined il
| from further drilling for oil on the
| tract.
An eight-hour day with overtime
which is said to amount to nearly q
per cent increase in pay, was granted
approximately 1000 yardmasters on q
class one railroads and at six switch
ing terminals by the United States rail
road labor board Monday This is the
first time the board has established
rules and working conditions for yard
masters, who are now classified as sub
ordinate officials and subject to tn,
boards Jurisdiction under the transpor
tation act.
Increase OF the negro population il
the northeastern states caused the cen
ter of the negro population to take
northeasterly trend between 1910 an,
1920 for the first time in history, tn,
department of commerce announce ed
This center is in the northwestern cor
ner of Georgia.