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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02

- Maximum fair prices for spot coal
in five districts were ANNOUNCED We'd
ncsday night by Secretary Hoover ar
ter reaching agreements with COM
mitteeS representing those telds, un-
der the plan adopted at the general
conference of operators from produc-
ing fields for preventing runaway
prices on coal at the mines during the
strike. 1t was determined that in the
Alabama district the fair price'should
be rs cents below the final Garfield
scale" or a maximum of $2.20 n ton to
$3.50 u ton. On the Harlan and
Hazard fields of Tennessee and Ken
lucky, and the PocahOntas, New XIV
er Tug River and Winding Gulf coal
fields -(smokeless coal districts OF
West Virginia) the maximum price
was fixed at $3.50 n ton. Costs OF
production have been reduced in the
Alabama field since the final Garfield
scales were determined, Mr.. Hoover
explained. The operators, he said,
emphasized that the price set was
maximum; that anyone might sell be
are necessarily below the levels set
today. In the other. districts, he de-
clared, production costs have in
creased since ethe Garfield scale and
that scale included contract coal which
now sells below the new maximum.
The operators are to absorb a reason
able selling expense at the new prices,
Secretary Hoover said. Fair prices
for the remaining fields which are
producing during the strike are to be
fixed tomorrow after conferences be-
tween Mr.. Hoover and committees
representing those districts which
were appointed after the general
meeting today. The plan adopted at
the general meeting calls for agree
ments between Mr.. Hoover and the
different committees upon fair prices
for coal at the mines in their respec-
tive districts. based upon the Garfield
scale as modified by local conditions.
Moral suasion will be relied upon by
Mr.. Hoover to keep the agreements
in force for the duration of the strike,
it was indicated.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02
WATCHED BY CROOKS
Women Tourists With Gems Are
Carefully Listed.


Carefully Listed.
E,or n short time after the armistice,
saws a London dispatch, most OF the
noted detectives of Europe believed
that the war had broken up the motor
ious gangs of international crooks
who. through smuggling and robbery
had cleaned up handsomely in the
five years preceding hostilities. They
thought also that passport obstacles
would initiate against the forming
again of such rings. But they are
now convinced that the international
crook survived even world war.
Millions in Gems Stolen.
Millions of dollars worth of dia-
monds and other precious stones are
said to- have been stolen by members
If the different gangs in the last three
years. Some of the richest hauls
have been made on express trains be-
tween Paris and the Riviera and Italy.
The latest sensational exploit was the
rifling Of forty or more mailbags on
an express out of Paris which was
said, enormously, to have carried sew
eral British diplomatic pouches. The
Foreign Office here denies that any
such mail was on the train.
The greatest care is always taken
in sending abroad official mails. Dur
ing the war and Since official mail
sacks have been carefully guarded by
couriers, who never leave the COM
partment (always first class and seal
ed to ordinary passengers) in which
the official mail is carried. These
particular mail sacks are porous to
let water in, so that they will sink if
the vessel on which they are carried is
wrecked or is raided by pirates.
An American woman is said to
have helped a British courier throw
several sacks overheard when a ccr-
tain liner was captured by German
submarine in Greek waters.
The record of robberies on the fa-
nous expresses out of Paris in the
hast few years shows that most Of
them were carried out to seize the
jewels of wealthy women journeying
to the south of France.
Society News Scanned.
The crooks or their stool pigeons
keep careful tabs on all reputedly
wealthy women travelling during the
Riviera season. They watch the So
ciety announcements in the daily
press to see when the reputed pos
SCISSORS of famous necklaces or dia-
monds are about to travel, and they
easily spot the sleeping compartments
of such persons. In n careless mo-
ment the dowager or the society queen
is divested of her necklaces and
brooches. Several times lately on
French expresses they have been held
up at the point of revolvcrs while
their jewels were taken.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02
SNAIL is SLOW
1t Took One Sixteen Days to Travel
One Mile from Observation.

What do you suppose is the actual
speed made by snail in travelling?
One foot in four minutes, or at the
rate of one mile IT, sixteen days, if
travelling continuously.
These are figures given by George
Zahnizer, civil engineer, of New
Castle, o., taken from actual observa-
ton.
A short time since ZahniZcr was
standing along the Western New York
and Pennsylvania Railroad waiting
for n train. He had nothing in par
ticular to do and KILLED n little time
by timing a snail which was creeping
along the ground.
That snail travelled just exactly ono
foot in four minutes, Mr.. ZahniZc!
says, and compiling distance at the
rate of travel shown, Mr.. ZahniZcr
has figured out that it would require
sixteen days for the snail TO move n
mile.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02
COOPER STANDS PAT.
Former Governor Refuses to Discuss
His Pardon Record.


Greenwood IndeX,Journal, Tuesday:
'T don't intend to explain my pardon
record or the recent pardons which
have been criticised" former Govern
or Robert A. Coopen told a represent
ative of the Index j ournal yesterday
afternoon. The records are m the
governors office and anyone who
wishes may examine them there"
Former Governor Cooper declared
that he thought it would be undigni-
fed for a governor to enter into a
newspaper controversy over an off,
cial act The pardons granted by the
former governor just before resigning
to become n member of the national
farm loan board aroused considerable
newspaper criticism.
"The pardons were granted in the
regular way and the records are all in
the governors office" Mr.. Cooper ex-
planned Many of the pardons were
recommended by prosecuting attor-
neys and court officials"
Thee former. governor said he had
rot been member OF the farm loan
board long enough to know how he
would like the work. At present he
is making an inspection of farm loan
banks in the South and Southwest.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02
Pagee'Eight.
4,au,uruas Department.

A Best Seller.-As the boy who
tended the newsstand was absorb
ed in reading book, hunted
around until / found the magazine
wanted and then approached him.
When / spoke TO him he did not raise
his eyes from the page. but held cut
hiss hand for the coin and dropped II
automatically into the till. 1 said:
-,'sWhere's the changer"
.'What did you get?' he replied
still without looking up.
~ ! told him.
'sHow much is it?" he asked.
Il said did not know.
"Cnn't YOU read 1t on the cover?" he
inquired GROSSLY.
Thus admonished I searched the
cover until / found the price mark
tucked away in the hair Of a pretty
girl picture. When I told the news
feaier he tossed the change over the
counter. One of the coins rolled on
the floor but recovered it while the
boy read on.
ciirious, to learn the nature of the
book he was reading glanced over
his shoulder at the title.
1t was called "The Science and Art
Of 'Salesmanship,"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02
lrNtlR
~

OF the robferies in london IN re-
cent, months, the biggest hauls have
been in diamonds and other precious
stones. The police believe an inter
national gang is busy, but so far lit
tie or nothing has been recovered.
The "internationals" are also work
ing fake lotteries and fake bookmak-
ing CONCERNS. Reports from Belgium
indicate that these lotteries have
brought millions of francs into the
pockets of the internationals, and the
Belgian police are operating with
Scotland Yard to run down the crooks,
Another lucrative, pastime of the
interrational crook since the war has
been the disposing of so-called royal
jewels. If all the Jewels reported to
have belonged to the. Inflated Russian
royal family had really belonged to
them they would have had to carry
them about in suitcases. Neyettheless
a considerable amount of the treasures
once possessed by Europes deposed
royal families and their hangers-on
have gone on to the market, and the
crooks have made big hauls in snug
Cling them tfrom one country to an
other. The American authorities dis
covered some months ago that crooks
were signing on certain American.
mercantile ships as seaman to try to
smuggle diamonds into the United
States.
In pre-war days one flourishing
trade of the internationals was card
playing on Atlantic liners. Although
some of the big liners still display the
beware the Card Sharpers" warn
ing in their smokerooms, few big
coups by the crooks have been report
ed since the war. One reason is the
stringcncy of the American passport
regulations, which have kept at home
many European sharpers.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02
} OIL IN TRAcKs
Escaped Elephant May Be Thanked
for Rich Gushes.

\ huge elephant that recently es-
capped from a circus at Sedro Wooley,
Wash, and enjoyed a few hours lib
erty ambled for time through Tur-
now Swamp and may have been the
discoverer of new oil supply.
Wherever the mammoth tread in
the marshy silt he lett large, deep in
dentures foot across. The next
morning after his capture boys fol-
lowing the tracks found some of the
holes filed with oil seepage. Sticks
dipped init burned furiously.
The news has started a whirlwind
of new incorporations to start drilling.
The region was examined by the Geo
logical Survey years ago and an oil
strata reported, but no one ever at
tempted to verify the presence of the
valuable liquid.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02
SAVE THE RED HEADS
Correspondent Pleads for Protection
of Woodpeckers.

Editor Yorkville Enquirer
In last weeks Enquirer there was a
little item which arrested my attention.
1t was the slaughter of more than y
redheaded woodpeckers in the town by
order of the town police, or maybe he
did il himself.
AS your paper is generally awake on
all things pertaining to the welfare
of the county and town agriculturally,
| am surprised that you did not call
attention to the mistake that was made
in killing the birds.
| aim a member of the Tri- State Au-
dubon Society, located in this city, and
we do all we can to brotect birds, and
| supposed it might be well TO call
your attention TO this matter.
1t would be a fine service rendered
to farmers If you would copy in the
Enquirer the report of government
specialist on the woodpecker. The
conclusion of il is .this--"they should
be protected in every possible way"
Pecking into telegraph post does not
injure the post He is after worms
and ants which will destroy the post.
Making nest in it does not make 1t
decay faster A pair of woodpeekers
have a nest in a post in front OF my
church and | have watched them for
twelve summers. And the post shows
no, signs of decay.
am told on good authority that the
boil wecvil has been in Texas for 100
years and did no damage until recent
ly and the reason is the birds kept
them down in a minority. But the
slaughter of the birds, the cutting away
of the forest and underground pre-
venting their nesting and multiplying
and the introduction of the miserable
English sparrow driving them OIL, gave
the weevil opportunity to multiply, ana
so now he has become menace TO the
entire cotton crop of the South.
T. NJ. Lowry.
Maponbic Tom
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02

On the Safe Side.-A man from
Arizona on returning home was tell
ing of the crookedn.ss of card play
ing. as practiced in Montana.
YM was settin' in a little poker game
with a bunch of fellers up there" he
GRATED, when one guy parks a cud
of Gehewin tobacker in the middle OF
the table. Well,> l don't say nothin''
Then pretty soon another feller parks
his. Still didn't say nothin'. But
when,ya third does the same thing, l
gets fretful. s'"s
i"'say,, says, what's the big idea"
.:"'Pardner,' one of the fellers says
you don't think we're goin, to take
no chances by turnin', our heads, do
your" oa.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02

were found in a whole season in the
last few years.
Henry Armburger of Hunter Station
Il day or two ago unGarthed n den of
fourteen rattlers and one copperhead.
He succeeded in killing all Of them, the
longest of which measured 81 feet.
Near his home he captured a large
Later he heard an awful racket in the
big barrel, and on investigation found
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02

No Cause for Worry.-Althourh her
coffee -colored husband had just COM
pleted an advantageous trade in the
mule, market, Mrs. jefferson Lee was
perturbed.
"Rastus," she worried, 'yo-all toll
Mister jackson dat mule was gentle,
an yo' knows she's regular debbil.
iS'posin' she kicks Mister Jackson.
Den he'll bring dat mule back and
raise fits."
"Lissen, 'ooman," returned her hus-
band TRANQUILITY. ''If dat mule breaks
nah guarantee and kicks Mistah
Jackson, Mistah jackson amt gwine
bring dat mule back. No, ma'am. All
knows dat mules power"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02
MERE MENTION

Bishop John c. Kilgo of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, has been seri-
ously i'll in a Nashville, Tenn, hospital
for some days. His condition was
quite critical. THE Norfolk and
Western railroad has arranged to add
1000 new freight cars to its equipment.
THE thirteen annual American
balloon race to decide the three Unit
Cd States entries in the international
race to he held in Switzerland in Au-
gust, was opened at Milwaukee, Wis,
Wednesday,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02

Quite a Jump.-An Irishman, who
was to return to his native land by n
certain steamer, arrived on the pier
just as the vessel was starting-in fact
she was already on. the move.
Taking a flying leap, he covered the
intervening space of six or eight feet
at bound. but tripped in alighting
and hit his head, temporarily stunning
himself.
When he recovered his senses, the
Vessel was. couple of hundred yards
out a sea.
BE jabbers!" he exclaimed, not real
izing what had happened, what a
jump"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02
Friday June 2, 1922.

n live grounding in with the snake. A
fight had started, and as Mr.. Armbur-
ger watched the contest, he was sur
prised to see the wOodchuck grab the
snake by the neck and hang on until
the rattler succumbed.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02

The information Bureau.-A guest
hurried up TO the hotel clerks coun-
ter. He had just ten minutes to pay
his bin, reach the station and board
the train.
tHang it," he exclaimed. I've for
gotten something. Here, boy. run up
to my room-No. 427-and see il left
r:y pajamas and shaving kit Hurry,
I've only five minutes now"
The boy hurried. In four minutes
he returned out of breathn
Yes. sir" he panted.E You left
them"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02

The Way 60 Do lt.-In an engineer
Officers training school the senior Of
ficer had his own ideas about exami7 (
nations. He lined the applicants up
and pointed to the open doorway, be-
yond which lay pile of s"nd and
PROSTATE flag pole Suppose" he
dauianded, "you were captain of a
company and you wished to erect that
fagpole How would you go about
it?'' The further he got down the
line, the more complicated became the
answers. Finally he arrived at the
last man. "Sir, If / was captain of
the company" replied the candidate,
"and wanted to erect that f1agploe,
I'd call the top kicker and say: Ser
geant, put up that aagpole. and be
snappy about it,"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02

A Cheerful Giver.-A colored revival
was in full blast, and one old fellow
was eXhorting the people to contribute
generously.
'Look what de Lawd's done fo' you
all, bredren!" he shouted. Give Him
a portion of all you has. Give Him a
tenth. tenth belongs te. de Lawd!"
@Amen!" yelled a perspiring mem
ber of the congregation, overcome by
emotion. GLORY TO de LawdI Give
Him mo- Give Him a twentieth"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02
The Common Conversation.-"Sc

The Common Conversation.-"So
you want to put a radio outfit in
Crimson Gulsh?"
That's the idea" Answered the af-
fable stranger. "You can sit down OF
on evening and hear what's goin' on
for miles around"
THAT wouldn't interest anybody
much All we'd be likely to hear fur
miles around would be gimme three
cards or that's good or some such
remark"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02

Immobie.-Clarence-'Its easy to
see your people came from Ireland.
Terence,-%"Ap' that's where ye're
wrong. They did nothin' of the kind"
Clarence-"What? Didn't they come
from Ireland? With that brogue?'
Terence-"They did not. They're
there yet"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02

In the hope Of building up n sturdy
race the government Is aiding the
back -the-soil movement for native
Hawaiians. A demonstration farm Is
in operation on MOiuKal Island.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02

81 Italy will have a total of 1871 300
hydro electric horse power capacity
when new central stations under con-
Struction are completed. This Is
double the amount five years ago.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02
PLENTY OF SNAKES

Pennsylvania Crop is Said to be Very
Good.
The crop of snakes promises to be
unusually large during the season just
now opening, says a Clearfeld, Pa,
dispatch. Reports from various parts
of the county by fishermen travelling
the trout streams are to the effect
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02

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The New York herald., 1922-01-26
RUSSIAN COOPERATIVES
SEEK SOVIET LOAN HERE
Committee in Berlin to Get
Ships for Relief Work.

BERLIN. Jan. 25 (Associated Press) -
A committee represeting the All-Russian
Cooperative Association. with $4,000
branch organizations in Russia. which
has arrived in Berlin to negotiate for
German shipping with which to carry
on relief work, has announced that its
efforts soon will be directed toward Sc
curing In the United States a loan for
the Soviet Government. The committee
also expects to negotiate with English
interests in the hope of opening up trade
relations between Great Britain and
Russia, but its chief work will be d.
rected toward the promotion of com
merce with Germany.
M. Tschinczuk, chairman of the COM
mittee. said: 1--WE have been in commu-
nication with a number of German CO.
operative associations, export and i'm
port houses and also representatives Of
the German Government, but thus far
the conversations have been of af purely
informative character. However. we
have worked out plan through which
We expect to promote important rela-
tions between the principal countries
by delivering monthly fixed quantities
of excess Russian raw materials"
NJ. Tschinczuk declared he had discov-
cred difference of opinion among the
German interests as to whether COM
mercial relations with Russia should be
carried on comparatively or individually
by the Germans. He said this, however,
was none of his business and that he
would seek to come to an understand
ing as quickly as possible with countries
which can offer the best credit arrange
ments." He added that while acting
as a private organization the committee
had all the moral support and sympathy
of the Soviet Government
The New York herald., 1922-01-26
JAPAN GETS HARDING
TO OFFER SOLUTION
Continued from First Page.

privately admitted that II is not by ac-
c.dent the big issues of the conference
stand halted just short of conclusion.
1t is an open secret that until Shantung
Is settled, most of the commitments
partially entered into here must remain
indefinite.
The willingness of the Japanese TO ac-
cept an exercise of "good offices"
hitherto declined when offered by Secre-
tary Hughes and Arthur ]. Balfour is
said to have been communicated to Mr..
Hughes yesterday during call at the
State Department of Baron Shidehara.
No official explanation was made to-
night. but the impression was given that
Baron Shidehara's assurances started
the trail Of developments which led to-
day to the White House.
In the expectation that the Shantung
problem will be solved and the way
opened for q windup Of all the other con-
ference issues, the drafting experts are
working overtime to gather the scat
tered agreements. resolutions, declara-
tions and pronouncements of the past
eleven weeks into appropriate treaties.
They are understood to have decided ia
try to include in one convention up
ward Of a score of resolutions which have
emanated from the Far Eastern COM
mittee in connection with Chinese
treaties.
Some Of these resolutions are to be
signed by all nine Powers, others by all
except China, but as many are merely
expressions of opinion, 1t is believed the
complications can be overcome by put
ting such matters in a long preamble
rather than in the body of the treaty
itself. 1t is said preparations of the
treaty in that form would occupy the
time Of the drafting committee for at
least four or Ave days.
The naval treaty, complete except for
the fortihcahons article. received an
other examination to-day by the COM
mittee Of fifteen. but no changes were
made. It now Is regarded as probable
by some delegates that no word regard
ing the fortifications proposal will, come
from Toxic before next week, although
the Japanese Government already has
given its approval to all but details Of
the articles text.
At the Far Eastern committee meet
ing to-day the discussion Of China's
wireless facilities again revolved about
the question OF whether policy Of COM
petition or cooperation should be adopted
for development OF q Chinese controlled
wireless system.
Mr.. Root presented a substitute reso-
luton to the committee after one he
offered yesterday had met with objeo-
tions from Minister Sze who suggested
that its provision for a commission to In
vestigate the Chinese field might lead to
"misapprehension."
Mr.. Roots new resolution does not
include q commission proposal, but
pledges application Of the open door
principle to radio facilities.
The Japanese delegation was UNDER
stood to-day to have completed prepara-
ton Of a full statement on the request
by China for the abrogation of the
twenty-one demands treaty Of 1915. The
statement Is expected to 'be laid before
the Far Eastern committee Of the con-
ference as soon as the Shantung ques-
ton. now the subject of independent
negotiations, Is settled.
The New York herald., 1922-01-26
SAYS FRANCE TREATS
WITH SOVIET RUSSIA.
Continued from First Page.

the Germans still hope It will empha-
size the fact that Europe cannot be
rebuilt until that question is disposed
of. The expectation here is that the
conference will not produce many re-
suits.
But If 1t Is held and there develops
competition between England and
France. the latter will have strong
trading material. She can give In on
the submarine question. which in Ger
man opinion has always been merely
a political weapon against England.
She can also renounce her Angora pact
with the Turkish Nationalists.
One group of Germans who claim di-
rect sources of information believe that
NJ. Poincare will go to Genoa so as to
be as close to the Russians as posi-
Bile. only to yield finally to England
on all issues in return for a free hand
in dealing with Germany. If this should
prove true, Germany might have to
lose the Ruhr region. or even her unity
as the outcome Of the conference.
But most Germans believe too
strongly In England to foresee such a
calamity Not that they expect to see
England turn pro-German, but they do
not believe England will permit France
to enforce economic hegemony over
the richest industrial region in. the
world.