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The Washington times., 1922-08-24
THREE KILLED AS TRAIN
HITS AUTO At CROSSING

DURHAM. N. c., Aug, eb,-Col.
James Mark williams, United States
coast artillery; his wife. Mrs. Anna
NJ. Williams, and a Miss Ann vii.
Iiams sister OF the colonel, all of
Montgomery, Ala, were instantly
killed late yesterday when a South.
ern train crashed into their automo-
bile at a crossing near this city,
I The train, II was said, was two
hours late, and was running at high
speed when II struck the automobile.
completely demolishing II.
The Washington times., 1922-08-24
COLLIE GIVES LIFE TO SAVE
CHILD FROM cENTIPEDE

PUEBLO, Col. Aug. 24.-Moate, a
pet collie, in death here Is being
mourned q hero.
Spying a big centipede resting on
the shoulder of four-year-old Otto b.
Thum, jr., while he played beneath
a tree on a picnic ground here yes
terday, the dog shot out his paw,
knocking the centipede from the
child.
The child was unhurt, but. despite
the efforts of the physicians, Moate
soon became paralyzed as the result
Of poisoning and succumbed today.
The Washington times., 1922-08-24
MEXICAN PRISONERS UNION
PLEADS FOR RECOGNITION

Even the jailbirds in Mexico want
the United States to recognize the
Obregon government.
1t was learned at the State Depart
ment today that the Union Of Mexi-
can Prisoners, composed of all per-
sons south of the Rio Grande who
have served terms in prison, has Pc
titioned President Harding to extend
political recognition to Mexico as an
anniversary present.
The anniversary of Mexican inde-
pendence is September 10.
The Washington times., 1922-08-24
SANDBAo, "WET BY DEW"
LOOKS QUEER TO JUDGE

AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 24.-The bag
Of sand william Russell carried was
wet. That II had been out ''ln the
wet dew all night" was the explana.
ton offered by Russell when arrested
by Acting Chief Of Detectives Ed
Mcdonnell, who found Russell turk
ing In the shadows" on Broadway
with the bag OF sand in his hands.
Police Judge Marsh fined Russell
81 and sent him to the workhouse for
thirty days.
The Washington times., 1922-08-24
WESTERN PACIFIC BRIDGE
IS DAMAGED BY FLAMES

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 24.-Par-
tial destruction by fire of the West
ern Pacific railroad bridge over the
Humboldt river east Of Elko, New,
was reported to railroad headquar-
ters today.
A rigid investigation Of the cause
of the fire was ordered. Western
Pacific traffic was maintained by de.
touring trains over the Southern
Pacific lines, between Elko and
Deeth, New. a distance Of twenty
miles.
The Washington times., 1922-08-24
COAL LoADINCS TUESDAY
GIVEN At 17,772 CARS

Coal loadings on Tuesday totaled
17,772 cars, according to reports to
the Association of Railway Exccu-
tives today. Except on Monday, when
1908 cars were loaded, this was the
biggest day for coal loadings since
the mine strike started on April |.
It was pointed out that loadings on
Monday are always larger than on
any other day because Of the accu-
mutation of cars over Sunday.
The Washington times., 1922-08-24
2 DEAD IN EXPLOSION
ON FISHING VESSEL

SAN BERNARDINo, Cal, Aug. ~.
Two men were probably fatally
burned and a third narrowly escaped
death In an explosion on board a
fishing boat off Point Vincente early
today when the cannery tender
"a. r." was destroyed by fire.
The men were picked up by IN
Austrian fishing boat which rushed
to the scene when members Of the
crew saw the blazing tender.
The Washington times., 1922-08-24
REBEL TRIO
A 7 BAY IN
COU \ 7 RY
NEAR CORK
Erskine chiIders and Mary
MacSwiney With Chief Of
IrreguIars.
Nv international New. Service.

by international News Service.
DUBLIN, Aug. 24.-EamOnn do
Valera, Erskine Childers and Mary
MacSwiney, chief leaders OF the
Republican Irregulars, were re-
ported to be surrounded by Free
State troops near Cork today.
The Free Staters were not max.
ing any effort to capture the rebel
chiefs. The rebel leaders have
only handful Of followers with
them.
The Washington times., 1922-08-24
Ill HAVE EN- BOTH O.KEEP.
Walls ma IN LOVE TANGLE
BY HELEN ROBERTS.
International Nam. S.rrtca

OAKLAND Cal Aug. 24.-"If Rod marres Mrs. Wake
field III have them both to keep They both rrespons
BILE. Neither of them has grown up"
That was Mrs. Rodney Kendrck, speaking, the
mother of the for whose love two waging
q battle as primitive as life itself.
The Washington times., 1922-08-24

Those that hate the bonus
most will live to bless it. Dis
tribution of two, three, or five
thousand millions in cash is
just what this country and its
business need. The soldiers are
young men and you can rely
on them to distribute the
money.
There need and ought to be
no tax at all about the bonus.
The country needs more cur
rency. The nations credit Is
good for ten or fifty times the
amount of the bonus. The
Government can print nice new
money and hand it to the SOL
diers, without paying interest
to any bondholders, or taxing
anybody. And at its leisure
can retire the money, If It
chooses, just as it would be
compelled to retire bonds.
The wise will shout "infia-
ton and ruin," but paper cur
rency is the nations note Of
hand. II John d. Rockefeller
printed a hundred millions of
money with his name on it,
anybody would take it.
Why is not the United
States, which owns John D.
Rockefeller, good for a hun
dred times as much?
This column asked, "How do
rats carry away the hens eggs
they steal?" Many readers
have written solving the mys-
terry. One saw a rat holding
a hens egg in his front paws,
pressed against his chest, bal
ancing himself on his hind legs
and tail, hopping along like a
kangaroo. He was chased, made
to drop the egg and break it.
He has witnesses.
Another saw a rat lying on
its back holding the egg against
its stomach with four legs.
other rats were dragging II
along by the tail. using the rat
on its back as a sled.
Another saw a rat nibble a
tiny hole in the egg shell, put
in a long tooth and drag the
egg gently away.
The rat is more ingenious
than we had thought-Aa most
versatile animal. By the way,
rats steal eggs from a kitchen
table without breaking them on
the floor. Perhaps some reader
can explain that
We are referring the matter
to the Smithsonian Institution,
the Geological Garden, and the
Museum Of Natural History.
The Washington times., 1922-08-24
White Plague Hangs
Like Pail Over Strange
Case of Mrs. Kendrick

ALAN EDA, Cal, Aug. "a
Another angle, that Of the great
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The Washington times., 1922-08-24
DEBT HELD
INDIVIDUAL
OBLIGATION.
Statement Considered AZ Re-
ply to Recent Note by
Lord Baffour.
BY international News Service.

Great brltalnS ln0eDteoneSS 10
the United States, now totalling
81, ,135, 100000, is entirely a Brit
ish-American transaction, and it
has no connection with Britain's
other debts, or with money owed
to Great Britain by other. counl
tries, or with German reparations,
it was declared today by Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon in an Of
ficial statement.
Considered Significant.
Mr.. Melons statement was re-
garded as the most important
declaration that has yet been made
by the Government defining the
status of foreign loans. 1t was held
to be particularly significant at this
time-on the eve Of the coming Of q
British debt mission to negotiate
settlement terms.
Throughout the lengthy statement,
Secretary Mellon made 1t clear that
the United States looks to Great
Britain 10 liquidate her Indebtedness
to this Government independently Of
Europe's financial entanglements
and involvements.
In this respect, the statement was
regarded as constituting an Amer
lean reply to the recent Balfour
note. which suggested that Great
Britain could only take care OF her
Indebtedness in relation to the
amounts owed her by other nations.
No basis exists at all. II was said,
for that portion Of Earl Balfour's
communication which set forth that
1.-The United States had insisted in
substance. X not In form" that
Britain guarantee the debts of other
allies.
Contention Denied.
Such an assertion, II was stated
officially at the Treasury, is con.
troverted by the memorandum
made public today.
The intimations frequently set
forth In the British press that Great
Britain contracted her Indebtedness
in the United States on behalf Of her
other allies as. in effect controverted
by Secretary Mellon.
The advances to the British gov
ernment, evidenced by it's obliga-
tions, were made to cover it's own
purchases" said the statement, and
advances were made to the other
allies to cover their purchases"
In celebrating on the understand
ing which this Government had with
Great Britain, Secretary Mellon
made public two hitherto unpublish-
ed official documents-one a memo
randum from the Treasury to the
British ambassador in June. 1918,
setting forth that no one OF the allies
would be requested to guarantee an.
others purchases: the second, a
memorandum to the British ambassa-
dor in June. 1920, specifically setting
forth that the British debt had no
relation whatsoever to reparations or
| to other allied indebtedness.
The Washington times., 1922-08-24

The Irish Tragedy.
Wicked Judge Gary.
Here Comes the Bonus.
How DO the Rats DO It7
y ARTHUR BRISBANE

tcopyrisht. ls23J
A tragedy beyond description
Is the murder of Michael Col
Inns, who, at thirty, made him
self the leader of Ireland's
forces against England, who
won the fight for Ireland's free
dom, and after the death of
Grifith was Ireland's great
hope. ....
The cowardice of the MUIR
der is almost hidden by the
stupidity Of it. Civil war is
bad enough. There is no word
to describe the murder, from
ambush, of such a man as Col
lins. ..
The Washington times., 1922-08-24
DE ALERAREP0RTED SURROUNDED
Clerk Falls Down Steps, Dies

Y
The death
Of Michael
Collins,
Irish leader,
has shattered
the romance
of Miss Kitty
Herman,
his fiancee.
They were to
have been
married as
soon as the
fight for Ire
land was at
an end.
They met six
years ago,
when she
saved. his life
by creeping
through
woods and
warning him
Of the pres.
ence of British
troops camped
near her
home.
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The Washington times., 1922-08-24

The bonus is coming. and
will not be stopped by all the
efforts Of patriots that cheered
the soldiers in war and would
cheat them in peace.
Bitter tears have been and
will be shed by big taxpayers
In vain.
They are the same near
sighted crowd that fought the
Federal bank system, declaring
that it meant imitation and ma
tional panic.
The Washington times., 1922-08-24

Judge Gary raises the wages
OF 10000 day laborers. Two
other big steel companies under
Schwab begin to follow suit.
ESQ shines a good deed in a
naughty world"
The Washington times., 1922-08-24

Gary's action. First, it is part
Of a scheme to destroy labor
unions by convincing workmen
that they can get better pay
without unions.
Second. it's a plot to help
the railroads win their strike
without yielding on seniority.
Third, it is just a preliminary
to the raising of all steel prices.
The ~orkmen will get a little
mo-e. the public will pay $40
for every dollar the workmen
get.
Fourth. it is an effort to
make the new high tariff pop
ular.
The workmen will say, "You
see, they have high tariff and
we get our wages raised. Three
cheers for the high tariff"
What the public sees and
cares about is the fact that
Judge Gary gives, directly to
$4,000 men and indirectly by
his example to many thousand
others, a wage increase of 20
per cent, which means better
living for at least a million
women, children, and men.
The Washington times., 1922-08-24

The full tert of Secretary of tn,
Treasury Melons statement o,
Udr debts folLotUs:
The Washington times., 1922-08-24

Unsettled weather with
showers and prob q bly,
thunderstorIns tonight and
Friday; no change In tenn.
perature; moderate south
erly winds.
The Little River news., 1922-07-26
KILLED BY FATHER.IN.LAW
Miller County Youth Was Fugitive
 From Pen at Time.

Texarkana,J July 22.-C. R. Vandever, aged 55( was arrested at his home last night by Sheriff Strange, eight miles south of here, on a charge of killing his son-in-law Tillman John son aged 2S. Vandever was brought here and is held in jail pending a hearing scheduled for Monday. John son is separated from his wife.
 He is alleged to have gone to Van dever's home where she has been liv- ing for the last several months and to nave attempted by force to take his two small children from their mother After warning Johnson to leave Van dever got his shotgun and fired two charges of buckshot into Johnson S body causing instant death.
 Johnson was sent to tlie Arkansas penitentiary from here last December for violating the prohibition laws. He escaped after serving few months and has since been at large. The Grand Jury last month returned an indictment for arson against him in connection with the burning of his father-in-law's house, but he had not been arrested on this charge.
The Little River news., 1922-07-26
Would Preserve Memphis,
 Dallas X Gulf Intact

Little Rock, July 23.-Attornev Cen eral Utley yesterday was instructed by the Arkansas Railroad Commission to De in readiness to file suits to pre- vent junking any part of the Mem phis, Dallas & Gulf Railroad, as soon as the sale of the road is effected
 The Interstate Commerce Commits sion recently granted permission to the receivers of the road to abandon parts of the line. This overrules q former action of the Arkansas com mission, which, several months ago denied petition filed by the receiver asking permission to abandon and Junk part of the line The receivers petition was denied, after extensive hearings had been held here and after the members of the commission had made tour of inspection of the road The petition alleged that the branch could not be operated at profit. but the commissioners alleged that an in crease in truck farming and other in dustries in the section necessitated the road as an outlet to market. and that a better distribution of the over head expenses would permit a profit on the branch.
 The receiver appealed to the Inter- state Commerce Commission and re- gently obtained a decision favorable to junking. The Arkansas commission contends that as the road operates only in intrastate traffic, the Inter state commission has no Jurisdiction The sale will be held in St. Louis August 18th.
The Little River news., 1922-07-26
1922 HOOCH IS DEADLY MkANp

.se5
 New York, July 23.-Deaths from acute alcoholism have, increased near ly 27 per cent over 1921 and nearly 89 per cent over 1920, it was learned to- day from the chief medical examiner.
 The jump in the mortality is attri- buted by health and medical officials to the poor quality of liquor being sold. Three-fourths of the whiskey New Workers are drinking is hooch hastily manufactured to supply the demand that has not decreased, while federal authorities have clamped down the lid on importation and withdrawal of bonded liquor.
 The records of the medical examiner show that so persons died from acute alcoholism in the first six months of 1922. r The total number of alcoholic deaths investigated by the medical examiner in 1921 was 127-33 less than the total will be this year at the rate to date.
The Little River news., 1922-07-26
CONTRACT FOR HIGHWAY
 WAS LET LAST WEEK
Haney & Company of GurdOn Was Awarded Contract On No. G.
 Begin Soon.

The commissioners of Road Im- provement District No. 6 completed the checking up of the bids on the proposed improvement Friday night and awarded the contract to the Hay nie Construction Company of Gurdon A large number of bids were entered The bid covers all construction work On the main road from Ashdown to Mills Ferry on Little River and four mile lateral west from Wilton The price for the construction of the road and bridges will aggregate about $76,- 900. The district will purchase the gravel, and this with other items of expense which the district will bear, will bring the total cost of the inn provement up to about $103,000. The commissioners say that by waiting until now the road will be built at about $75,0OO less expense than it would have cost had it been built a few years ago. The successful bid der was some $4,0OO lower than the next lowest bidder.
 IL is understood that the work will be started within the next few days, and as soon as the contractor can get men and machinery on the ground.
The Little River news., 1922-07-26
Ku klux Klan to Aban=
 don Masks in Public

Atlanta, Ga., July 22.-The Knights of the ku Klux Klan have been ord cred to discard their masks, robes and other regalia except when in their lodgerooms it was announced here tonight at headquarters of the organization.
 The order first was made public in letter to Governor Hardw ok of Georgia, from E. r. Clarke, i'm perial wizard pro tenn, mentioned only Georgia Klansmen, but later it was said the order was general.
 The imperial kloncilium, or gov erning body of the Klan passed a rule more than year ago, 1t was said, prohibiting the wearing of the masks and regalia except by permis- sion of the imperial wizard, and ii was said tonight the present order means that effective at once no such permission will be granted except for parades.
 Ciarke'S letter to the governor however, said that he had issued ord. CTS forbidding all further parades ol 1 the use of the klan in the state oi Georgia except in the lodgerooms, un- til further notice.
The Little River news., 1922-07-26
SPPORTS HARDING
Farm Bureau Head Says Labor Board
 Rulings Must Be Enforced,

Chicago, July 22.-President Hard- ing is assured of the undivided sup port of the farmers in his efforts to settle the rail and mine strike, J. R. Howard, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the greatest organization of farmers in the country today indicated when he sent two long telegrams to President Harding, urg- ing him to take whatever steps were necessary to maintain transportation and mine operation.
 ''The federal law" said President Howard, must be respected. The interests of the whole people are greater than those of any part or parts-greater than those of the min CTS or the mine owners-greater than those of the railway unions or the railroad executives.
 Therefore, We believe We have an absolute and legitimate right to de- mand that the law be upheld; that the decisions of the Railway Labor Board be enforced"
The Little River news., 1922-07-26
LABOR BOARD ENDORSED
Texarkana C. of C. Asks Citizens to
 Respect Rights of StrikebreakerS.

Texarkana, July 22.-The Texar.
 kama Chamber of Commerce yester.
 day afternoon, by it's Board of Di-
 rectors, unanimously resolved That
 the Texarkana Chamber of Commerce
 supports the decision of the United
 States Railroad Labor Board, as an administrative branch of the United States government in the peaceful set clement of disputes between railroads and their employees supports the in alienable right of every American cit izen to work in lawful occupations without interference, threat or vio- lence from any one; and hereby calls upon all citizens, including peace of ficers and other authorities of nation- al, state and local governments, to as- sist in extending full protection of law against interference with the right to work on the part of any per son. The attempted boycott of the local press and merchants, if success full, would break down the very prin- ciples upon which this Democratic nation has been founded in that it would deny the constitutional rights of American citizens to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We therefore call upon the press and merchants to fearlessly stand for law and order and to extend to every American citizen the rights to which his citizenship entities him.
 The railway strikers have been con- ducting themselves in lawful man. ner from the beginning of the strike, it is said, and no acts of violence or lawlessness having been reported. It it said, however, that industrious eff forts are being made by the strikers or their sympathizers to induce mer- chants, hotels, rooming houses and others from selling goods or afford ing accommodations to any of the strikebreakers, a boycott being the supposed penalty for refusal to meet the demands of the union strikers.
The Little River news., 1922-07-26
Supreme Court Behind.

Little Rock, July 25.-When the Su- preme Court took it's summer recess, it was five weeks behind with the docket. September IS when it recon venes there will be 194 civil cases on the docket subject to call. There. are already 35 criminal cases and many others will be filed before the opening of court. At that time court will be about four months behind with sub- missions. This condition has arisen notwithstanding the fact that an aver age of 15 cases per week are decided by the five judges. From November 1920 to May 1921 there were 337 de- cisions rendered, as compared with 37S from November 1921 to May 1922.
The Little River news., 1922-07-26
Negro Stole Mule.
 Chase and Gun Fight

[ Monday night a negro said to live on the Paul Jones farm on Red River stole a mule from Teck Coleman at Pine Prairie. MT. Coleman discover ed ihs loss early in the night and tele- phoned to town for help. R. w. Fur kett and w. L. Perkins went to the Coleman place and helped MT. Cole man track the negro to house where other negroes lived near the poor farm. The mule was discovered hitched some distance from the house
 while the other two did some skirm- ishing at the house. The negro escap- ed and was unhitching the mule be- fore MT. Perkins saw him. He yelled at the negro, who immediately let the mule go and took to the woods. The party remained near the house until nearly daylight when the negroes re-
 maining at the house opened fire on them. The we'll known strategy of lying flat was strictly adhered to. The next move on the part of the three besiegers was to make dive for the timber. MT. Perkins is said to have made tree like Ty Cobb sliding into second base. The party returned the fire. and during a cessation of hostil-
 ities MT. Turquette came to town for endorsements. Two negro men and three women were arrested. The wo- men were released soon after they
 told who the thief was. A party went lto the Jones farm Tuesday to get him.
The Little River news., 1922-07-26
SHIP PEACHES AT
 = HIGHLAND ORCHARD
PleGty of Cars and Ice on Hand for
 Loading Out Fruit-England Plantations Visited.

|. Little Rock, July 23.-Elbertas are Delng shipped from the Bert Johnson torchard at Highland, Pike county. ac- Sording ;0 Loy E. Rast, agrouomist TOT the Southern Soil Improvement committee and secretary of the Ar Kansas Profitable Farming Bureau of the Little Rock Board of Commerce WHO returned yesterday from a trip to the big orchard About 20 persons were in the party, which travelled in automobiles,
 1t was estimated that about 40 per cent Of normal crop of peaches was raised this year. Plenty of cars and nee are on hand for shipping, but the railroads are accepting cars at the shippers risk, on account of the rail- road strike.
 The party also visited the experi- ment station of the Hope Fertilizer company near Hope, where experi- ments are conducted with fertilizing cotton and with dusting cotton with calcium arsenate. The best crops were on land that had been fertilized and dusted with calcium arsenate w. R. Foster, manager for the company, IS keeping an accurate check of ex- perlments, including the cost of fer tilizati tion and dusting.
 MT Foster entertained the party with barbecue in Hope Friday at noon. The experiment. plots, are laid off in one-acre tracts.
 y England Plantation Visited. t FYesterday afternoon MT. Rast head |ep a party of local men on a trip to the plantations of Ed Favor and A. E. Wright near England. Those making the trip were: H. M Bennett, John F. Boyle, c. L. Hallowell, w. G. Hall, Dr. J. H. Estes and E. MFavor.
 MT. Favor has a plantation of 4.2OO acres with 2.300 in cotton. He has so per cent Express and 20 per cent Rowden, and 300 acres in corn He is dusting cotton with calcium arsenate
 A. E. Wright has plantation of 4,S00 acres, with 4,5O0 in cultivation He has 3,200 acres of cotton in one field. He was working 16 3-row dust CTS, 20 2-rCW dusters and 10 hand guns" He bought 65,000 pounds of calcium arsenate for dusting and works 45 men on nights when it is possible to poison the boil weevils Half of his plantation has been pois- oned three times. His cotton is Web CT 49 and Rowden.
 Wright has 300 mules and 900 ne- groes on his place. A tract of 45C 'acres of corn will make 50 bushels tc the acre, according to the estimate made by the visitors.