Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-04
Odd And
Interesting

Interesting
WINCHESTER, virginia, Feb. s.
A motor truck loaded with more than
ten hundred pounds OF dynamite.
skiddetl on Ice, plunged over re-
tanning wall on the Shenandoah Val.
ley pike today Mt Fishers hill ana
rolled nearly sixty feet to tho bottom
OF the hill. Tic dynamite did not cx-
plode but the negro driver, who Is
said to have escaped unhurt, has not
been seen since tho accident
ZION, ILL.,. Feb. S.-The nstrono-
mical teaching of Wilbur Glenn Volt
va, oycrsccr OF Zion-that tho earth Is
flat. surrounded by IA wall OF Ice, ana
covered by CANOPY In which tnc
stars. sun and moon nrc hung Ike
chandeliers. now need only n comrc-
tent instructor to spread tho do"tIne
outside Zion. Mr.. VOliva said today.
He Is hunting for IL man TO cac"
bible astronomy in the Zion schooIs.
II will back the right man mp, give
him IA good salnry and u comfortaoic
home and we will print books ana
pamphlets by the hundreds of thou-
sands and will make these copern6m mn
fools run for shelter" Mr.. VoiiSa
said.
Anybody. that could believe the
Garth is the shape of an orange and
TINT one man is standing on one side
with his head down and I am stand.
ing on the other side with my head
up and that the whole thing ts rotat-
ing on its axis at 1000 mixes an lsour,
moving in Its orbit mt tho rate ci
1877 900 miles IL tlay and everything Il
shooting off tcward hercules. certain
Iy Is sonic chump-tl.at's all hnvc 10
say"
MOSCOW. Feb. 3.-Eivc hundred
rubI, notes arc no longer legal tender
I'm Moscow. A recent decree VI tno
Moscow soviet announces that herc-
after street railways and other gov
crnment institutions will accept noth-
ing less than thousand rublcs notes.
A thousand rubIc note Is worth mil
an American cent mt the present legal
rutc Of exchange.
BERLIN, Feb. 3.-rf,o public cxe-
s,utIoncrs at Karlsruhe and Baden.
Following the lead of their comradc
ar Mannheim, have notified the min.
tstry OF Justice that they Will 20 on
strike unless their pay rs increased.
They declare It Impossible to BE-
head criminals properly At tho pres
ent prices.
DUBLIN, Ca. Feb. S.-Dublin IA
dies who arc accustomed 70 play
bridge for prizes wero told ny tnc
IAurcns county grand Jury today 70
sop Il. Tho grand jRsy Issued .
warning that II the psacfscc consan1', '..
foiiow.
KANoAS CITY. MO-, Eoh. 1.-0ov.
enty.fivo perDoa,s. lncasdine govofn-
mn.s offSclsla, werc imprasooed for 10
utnutes ae tho point OF bayonet y
tho federal buaedink hero lasc yess
day when = pOseofflcc cmpsoyo acI.
dentally stepped ON an cletrsc sWitcn
sixual and tho marine post ON guaru
turned out.
Marines with fixed bayonets guard
Cd every exit from tho building wnile
othcrs searched usc bulidln. 10.
disturbance. Oscar Schmitx, chicf
AGENT for the department OF justice
tried TO leave the building, but was
halted. Ho showed his credentials 10
tho guard but neither that display nor
an sttempt to ''tcll II TO the marines"
gained him permission to leave tne
building until Il was determined that
ths alarm was accidental.
CHICAGO, Fob. 3.-DaAco hall
managers don't want high school stu
dents as cusaOn1crs because their NOR.
ala arc 90 low they have u bad effeCt
upon the regular habitues OF sucn
places, Miss Jennie BinfOrd. investi-
Eator for tho Juvenile Protective aseo-
G1ation. said in an address bcforc the
Chicago Wonncn's club.
II wont say it's trao that their NOR
ais arr that low" said Miss Binforts,
.siyut that's what the managers think.
having high school stV1cnts attend .
series OF demonstrations OF correct
dances
BAKERSFIELD. Calf, Feb. a.
A wildcat oil we'll on tho Hitchcock
ranch south Of Porterville At 1900 feet
Inns begun to prOduce-not oil but
Jisb-acSortiine TO word received hero
today. They were tiny specimens, ap-
parcntly from y subcrrnncan stream.
los ANGELES. Calf. Feb. a.
An old provcrb reads .'Hc travels far
who travels fast and Police Judge
Rny j.. Chc.ebrough adds that tho
terminus OF the route IL likely to be
the rock nile IL the travelling Is done
TOO fast In an autonsobilc.
He hns caused to bc established at
the I.incoln heights police station =
.sprcdcr,' rock pile" and announced
hc ,,ouId send TO II violations OF the
rity's laws.
STARkvILLE. Miss. Feb. a.
Eighteen students Of the sophomore
class OF tho Mississippi n. and NJ. COL
icuc hnyc been expelled for tina a1lcE-
cd violation OF the rules forbiddlnR
IWzinG, IL was announced today. TIC
students will be allowed TO return
ncxt year. II they pledge themselves 10
strict observation OF tho college rules
Tic students were charged with
I,nytug slpa,cd the heads OF members
OF the freshmen class.
CHICAGO. Feb. 3.-Chicngo women