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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-08-25
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
TIMBER AND STONE ACTl
Department OF the Interior,
u. s. Land ONCE al Jackson. Miss.
July 20. 1922 !

July 20. 1922
Notice Is hereby given that Binkle Patton
Heidelberg. whose postoffice address is Pas
oagoula. Mis- sissippi. did. on the Path day OF
April 1922. fie In this office Sworn statement
and Application No. 0877s. to purchase the
N W OF Lot 2 or N w Ia N w u
Section % Township North Ranger West st.
Stephens Meridian. and the timber thereon,
under the provisions of the act OF June 3. 1873
and acts amendatorv. known as the Timber
and Stone Law" at such value as might be
fixed by appraisement. and that. pursuant to
such application, the land and timber thereon
have been appraised. at One Hundred Twenty
Dollars. the timber estimated 10000 board feet
at $500 per M. and the land $4,000; that said
applicant will offer final proof In support of
his application and sworn statement on the
7th day of October 1922
before the Circuit Clerk OF Greene County. at
Leakesville, Mississippi.
Any person is at liberty TO protest this pur-
chase before entry. or initiate contest at any
time before patent issues. by filing corrobo
rated affidavit In this Office. alleging facts
which would defeat the entry.
w. f. CUMMfNs Register.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-08-25
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the Fall Exam
nations for teachers will be given on the fol-
lowing dates;
LIST. White August 81, September /. 2. 1922.
lst Colored September Z. 8 and o. 1922.
end. White September Ia. is and is. 1922
2nd. Colored September 21, % and rs, 1922
A primary examination will be given ON Fri
day and Saturday with each white examina-
tion. All applicants for Primary Licenses
must have the equivalent of fifteen units OF
High School work.
Signed; L. L. TURNER. supt..
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-08-25
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION


County. Miss,
by virtue OF writ OF election issued to the
undersigned Commissioners of Election of
Greene County, Mississippi by r. d. Cochran,
clerk OF the board of Supervisors on August
10th. 1929 ordering that an election be called
and held at the School honse In the Buffalo
school district. on the
End day of September 1922
for the purpose of authorizing the Consolida-
ton OF said school district with the McLain
Consolidated school district
And responding to said writ of election we
the undersigned Commissioners OF election of
Greene County, Mississippi. hereby give due
notice as required by law of said election to
be held at the School House in the Buffalo
School district on September End. 1922.
Given under our hand on this the 18th day
OF August 1922.
W. G. Churchwell
Geo. b. McRae
Commnrs. of Election, CIR, enc county. Miss.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-08-25
vardaman Spoke At Calhoun City on
Aug. 10th.

Hon. Jas. X. Vardaman made a
speech at the big Vardaman rally at
Calhoun City on the 10th. The
principal speakers were Hon. L. NJ.
Burch and Judge d. W. Houston,
and Vardaman only spoke II minutes
but his speech had the old time ring
and he was given great ovation by
the immense crowd that had gather
ed from seveal counties to hear him
The crowd was estimated at 5000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-08-25

Wilson's majority, 5,387
The above may not be quite cor
rect but is relatively so. We tried
to get the official canvass OF the dis
rict but did not succeed
The official couat in the 9th. Con-
gressional district gives Ross CD
Inns 10. 1896, Floyd Lopez 1854 aud
Mrs. ]. E. Arnold Mr. Col
Inns majority was 133 and was de-
|clared the nominee.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-08-25
Vardaman's Lead Over 5000
Other Editors Chatter
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Dawn of Light, Walnut Grove.

Dawn of Light, Walnut Grove.
We would have taken more inter
est: in the election OF Senator Ward
aman but we found the Clarion
Ledger and Jackson News against
him and we thought that sufficient
to elect him.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-08-25
OFFICIAL RETURNS.
Circuit Judge 10Th. District.

y " Hf1IOI u1uJONIV lou
SUPREME CoURT JUDGE.
w. H. Cook 31242
e. Nj. Lane 20870
Cocks Majority 10372
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-08-25

Majority for Harrison. 6,1l8.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-08-25

oommnrs. of Election, CIR, enc county, Mis-
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Miniature Gun Defined
AS Dangerous Fireworks
importers and Retailers of
Tiny Pistol Fined for Sales
Without Permit

The smallest pistol in the world was
defined as fireworks by Magistrate
Simpson in the Municipal Term Court
yesterday morning, and the defendant,
Karl Guggenheim, Inc, of AS West
Seventeenth Street, the importers, and
the Bankograph Company, Inc, of 636
Sixth Avenue, the retailers, were fined
$50 and S6 respectively.
The defendants were before Magis-
trate Simpson on a charge Of selling
fireworks without permit. James
Callaghan, the complaining officer, had
told the, court the little weapons were
being sold throughout the city without
g permit.
These miniature Berthas, designed
for use as a watch charm when other
wise employed, have a barrel a quarter
of an inch long, with bore the size of
large pin, and shoot blank cartridges
of proportionate size. They are made
in Austria.
Magistrate Simpson based his de-
cision on Sec. II, Article I, of the
statute defining what constitutes fire.
works, ruling that any article causing
explosion or detonation or works of
fire is fireworks. 1t came out that 3
man who carried a box of cartridges
for the tiny weapon had dropped them,
and is now in the hospital.
Mr.. Lederer, of the Bankograph
Company, Inc, retailers, who pleaded
guilty, admitted the pistol to be a
dangerous weapon, for he had fired it
at q telephone book. Eighteen pages
were burnt through and the book set
on FIRE
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Mother Denies Boy Was
Taken With Her Consent
Declares Supposed Kidnaper of
Bark foungstcr Had Been
Warned to Remain Ay.x

Mrs. Anna Caponi, mother Of n;,.-
year-old Theodore Bark, who i. ds
eiared to have been kidnapped and taken
to farm at Beaver Creek by Otto
preussler;, q globe trotter, and som a.
,lmes chef, denied yesterday thai oh .
had given jermission for the bow to he
taken away. IVY W oe
Preussler is in Jail In default .,
sio,oo0 bail. Theodore is in the cave
OF the Society for the Prevention If
Cruelty to Children. Preusslar hea %
SAID that he took the boy awav for a
vacation and with his mothers consa,t
with an infant in her arms and an
other on the floor at her feet NJ
Caponi said yesterday that Preussler S.
mad taken away the boy once before.
with gifts of candy and money. She
SAID he had taken him to Conev Island
Tor two days then, and that for an
other tw odays Theodore had been
with Preussler in furnished rooms an
forty-fourth Street near Fourth Ave
nue..
She told Theodore, she said. not TO co
with Preussler again, and that she had
also told the chef when he had asked
ner whether he might take the bow to
the country that she did not want him
to take the boy anywhere. The day
before school closed Preussler found
the boy on the streets and took him, Il
Is charged, to the farm.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Man and Wife Attacked
by Band i'm Doctors Home
Husband i'm Serious Condition
in Birmingham Hospital; Re-
ceive Threatening Letters
Special Dispatch to The 7'r;,,,,no

special Dispatch to The Tribune
BIRMINGHAM, July 10. M. Bout
well is in serious condition at local
hospital and his wife is slightly in
]ured following an attack upon them
to-day by band of men at the resi-
dence of local physician where they
MADE their home. Mr. and Mrs. Bout
well and the physician are said to have
received anonymous letters demanding
that they leave the city. The physician
was away when the attack was made.
boutwell, was struck over the head
with blunt instrument, and his wife
showed evidence of having been
choked, police who investigated the
case declared. Mrs. Boutwell, said she
and her husband and the physician ha d
received many threatening letters and
telephone calls since they had been
living in the home. The residence was
damaged by fire, supposedly of incen
diary origin, about six weeks aro,
Mrs. Boutwell, said she knew no reason
for the attack.
The attack upon the Boutwells is the
latest of a series of such outrapes
which have been committed in Bir-
mingham during the last six months,
and which eliminated in an attack
upon DR.. j. D. Bowling, city health
off1cer, about month ago.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Two Held Responsible in
Staying of Brother-in-Law
Coroner Finds They Shot Busi.
ness Partner; Saloonkeeper
Blamed for Chum's Death

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, July 10
Frank and Augustus Splasani, of STAN
ford, were held criminally responsib ible
for the killing of their brother-in-law
Ignatius Montagnno, on July 3, by
Coroner Phelan to-day and the deci-
sion is referred to the prosecuting
authorities.
The evidence quoted in the finding
shows that Montagnino and Augustus
Splasani had been business partners
for year and there had been litiga-
tion over partition of real estate hold
ings. On the evening of July 8 Mon
tagnino, who had gone by, was called
back by the Splasanis to talk over mat
ters. He carried revolver in coat
pocket. While Frank held Montagnno
Augustus is said to have killed his
brother-in-law with this weapon.
The coroner held James Briggs, q
saloonkeeper of Greenwich, criminally
responsible for shooting and killing
his friend, Arthur Doran, in the saloon
on Sunday, July 2. Briggs carelessly
handled loaded revolver while in
toxicated. Doran was his chum.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Two Held in $40, 900 Bail
For Hold-Up in Hallway
Negroes Arrested When They
Tried to Redeem Missing
Railway Ticket

Duncan Cooper, of 129 West 142d
Street, and Simmie Dudley, 1877 West
l3lst Street, negroes, were held in
$4,000 bail each last night by Magis-
trate Smith in Night Court for their
alleged attack on Arthur Holbrook, of
Detroit, Mich, on the night of July a.
Holbrook, who is one of the district
managers for the Lind Air Company of
Detroit, was waylaid and robbed in the
hallway of 1919 West 142d Street by
four negroes. They beat him and took
Sl25, his watch and chain, bis ring, his
stick pin, his ticket to Chicago and two
baggage checks.
Next day, after Holbrook had in
formed the police and notifd the ticket
redemption Office of the New York
Central Railroad Of the loss of his
ticket, the two defendants presented
themselves with ticket No. 7018 and
asked to have it redeemed. The clerk
called policeman
Holbrook ws able to identify his
ticket and the baggage checks but un-
able to identify the men as his as
sailants.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Actress Fights Indictment
Miss Richman Pleads Not
Guilty: Asks .Jury Minutes

Malvina Richman, former motion
picture actress, who resided at 1877
Riverside Drive, pleaded not guilty
yesterday to an indictment charging
grand larceny in the first degree be-
fore Judge Mancuso in General Ses-
sions. When the plea was entered her
counsel moved for an inspection of
the grand jury minutes, saying that
he would later move for the dismissal
of the indictment.
The complainant in the case Is An
gus K. Nicholson, broker, forty-five
years old, married and connected with
the firm of l.. /. Winkleman G. Co, of
62 Broad Street. He charged that he
had been held a prisoner for three
days in the woman's apartment on
Riverside Drive, and that he had been
robbed Of a valuable stick pin, walk
ing stick and $500 in cash. y
Judge Mancuso reserved decision on
the motion to inspect the minutes and
continued the woman on bail.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Coast Shippers Protest
.narge Southern Pacific With
righting Dissolution Order

x.0 "0aaSSHlNGTON, July 10.-Complaint
ss ~ MED with the Department of JUS
.s;n.s- M so.oay IN behalf of producers and
ias alleged activities of the Southern
asss... a,ae Railway, in endeavoring to
Tia tseste sentiment and action against
dr. aecision OF the Supreme Court or
II sstfs,ag ,hsg. dissolution of the partnership
innauroad mat road with the Central Pacific" !"
ssnad sssn fled was made by the California
ths ha.s.ee s.a. OF producers and shippers,
vas SssIement adding that the protest
pse;ssas sssed "on efforts of the Southern
.,iaI i'as 0,. hallway to stampede CONNER
,ttsmnss organizations into supporting its
'ae,sme % Court decision"
be- ssalahee ssSe was received. the commit
tss,;da, ;sds.o, that the petition would be
sts ste'uered ue by the department prior to
as. As@1 hearing of the dissolution
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Identifies Five Held as
Boardwalk Blackmailers
Philadelphia Business NJ a n
Says They Trapped Him; 8
Are New Workers
Special Dispatch TO The Tribun


ATLANTIC CITY, July 1o.-Robert
Hsney, business man Of Philadel-
pala, appeared here to-day and posi-
a'sly identified five of the seven men
rounded up last Thursday as members
an alleged blackmailing gang which
Heyed upon summer visitors.
Haney was trapped in Atlantic City
On July. a, and apparently acquiesced
"a the demands of the gang by giving
them check for 500 on the Hadding-
tSn n Title and Trust Company, of West
Philadelphia, and the next day stopped
payment Haney, it developed, was the
author N Of the letter signed Fred
,wledeiu which was received by the At
iantie City Detective Bureau and which
FURNISHED the information leading to
the arrests.
Haney formally swore out the war
rants against FIVE of the men before
Magistrate Joseph S. Paxson, before
shom a hearing is scheduled or Friday
evening in the City Hall. The men
were released under $1,000 bail each
rsss saturday at the suggestion Of
f.Cseeutor Tto f. c. Gaskill
NJ me men identified by Haney were
tw ponala "a {. Lloyd, thirty-three years old,
Tt 1ss west Hath Street, New York;
a,l ,u0mas mas Mccarthy, thirty-seven years
ya, loi West 144th Street, New York;
~ Iavara Lewis, thirty seven years old,
huron huron Avenue, Cleveland; Charles
SSseieer, twentyone years old, Flan-
SsLs Hotel, Fifty-seventh Street and
pe'ghth avenue, New York, and Joseph
Ayan, twenty-one years old, 2142
rTste"ood - Avenue, Baltimore.
N;.h, N;.he other two men arrested we're
t,;a tsaoias Vaccarelli and Louis Cuff
'llo, both Of New York.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Bishop, Hickey
Praises Butler
For Louvaill Aid
Home From Rome Confer
ence, Tells of Restoration
Work Being Done by u. S.
at the Belgian University
Rode Last Dublin Train
Gave Spiritual Comfort
10 Man Who Tried to
XIII Self Aboard Cedric

rhs Right Rev. William A. Hickey.
s.m.n Catholic Bishop of Providence.
=, had been to the Eucharistic Con-
,.-,ncs in Rome, returned yesterday
,,ec Queenstown on the White Star
v,., Cedric With words Of praise for
s,.hslss Murray Butler, president Of
ca,umbia University, for his energy
,ra interest in restoring the library of
II. University of Louvain, which was
r,,.d IN the war by German she'll FIRE.
While passing through Belgium on
~, vsy 10 Ireland from Rome Bishor
u;ek.y wen. to Louvain and tarrie5
lans enough 10 make survey of the
..v snd ordain several students far
The priesthood who had come from his
diocese.
The city, he said, was being built
up rapidly and the cornerstone of one
q the wings of the new library Of the
university was recently laid. This
york Of restoration, he said, was deeply
felt BY the BelgiaEs, who expressed
confidence that Americans would com
pete il creditable fashion the big task
tbey had undertaken.
The rebuilding of the library is
rnder the direction of DR.. Butler. who
Is chairman of the national committee
Of the United States for the reconstruc-
tion Of the University of Louvain. A
fund Of 100000 is being raised by
American colleges and universities for
this purpose. Bishop Hickey spoke
highly Of the preliminary work of
rsstorstion, saying that anything which
is headed by Dr. Nicholas Murray But
Ter Is bound to succeed.
The bishop, who was ACCOMPANIED nv
Aonsignor P. A. Foley. chancellor OF
the diocese Of Providence, saw the Pas
sion Play at Oberammergau and was
on the last train out of Dublin for
Queenstown when the railway service
vas interrupted by the civil war in the
Irish capital
On Friday the bishop and Monsignor
Foley were called to the second cabin
10 give spiritual comfort to Patrick
Burns who, suffering from mental de-
rrfssion, slashed his throat and wrists
WITH razor. Burns, who was weak
ened physically and mentally, it was
said owed his life to the attention cf
Dr.. A. G. Elder, the Cedric's surgeon.
and the two clergymen. DR.. Elder
saved the man from bleeding to death
AZ Bishop Hickey and Monsienor
Foley convinced the patient that life
rss worth living.
Burns. who is q widower, had been
abroad with his two daughters, Mar
guar!ts, fifteen years old. and Ellen.
thirteen, and was returning to the
home Of his sister, Mrs. Ann Logan,
.. Bsooklyn, with whom he lived be-
ia,s going to Ireland. The patient.
VIA lad once been employed by the
w fork Fire Departm ent, was taken
Bellevue Hospital soon after the
Cedric docked.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
WestOver to Pilot
u. S. Balloon i'm
Bennett Contest
Winner of National Race
Chosen TO Head the Army
Entrant in International
Event at Geneva, Aug. 6
From The Tribnne,s Wn,hinnton n,r.n..

From The Tribnno's Washinoton Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 1O.-M Maior
oscar Westover, the army air service
pilot, who won the national balloo,,
race, was selected to-day by tho War
Department to head the army team
entered IN the Gordon Bennett inter.
national balloon race, to be held at
Ieneva under the auspices Of the
AeI1 n., S!un OF Switzerland, August g.
WIN MAJOR Westover will be First
lieutenant Charlton F. Bond as aide
ana flrst Lieutenant William f. Con
nelly, operations officer and alternate
pilot. associates in winning the Ia st st
national race
The American team will sail from
New York Wednesday and is schednled
to reach Geneva July 81. The ten days
Intervening will be utilized bv the
american balloonists in the prepara-
llon OF equipment and study of
meteorological conditions. THROUGH
the courtesy of the Weather Bureau q
table has been prepared showing mean
conditions of temperature, air nressnra
and wind direction and velocity at va
rlous attitudes for this general ner;od
of the year. pN'' 'oo
MAJOR Westover has had a varied ex-
perlence IN ballooning and was an
.i'iy III the l91l national race. Lieu
tenant Bond has piloted several lono
distance flights, Of which the most re,
markable was one of $50 miles from
FORT SILL Okla, in training balloon
carrying five passengers. Lieutenant
Connolly has had much ballooninr ex.
perience Pc, and handled arrangements fo,
the army entrants in the national bal
loon races of the last two years.
The balloon used will be the same a:
that with which the national race wa,
won this year. 1t was also piloted t.
victory by Ralph Upson in 1921. The
top Of bag and Is feet in diameter
The capacity of the bag is 10000 cubi,
teet and is rated to carry 1850 pounds
of weight. A distinct characteristic i,
q, ring about TX feet in width arounc
the CIRCUMFERENCE Of the bag, which
steadles it much as deep sea an.
chor" and permits remaining in favor
able air currents.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
German Flivvers Fail
To Hurt Fords Abroad
Cheap Car, Made to UnderseIl
Rivals, Won't Stand Up, Says
Copenhagen Plant Head

George Carlson, manager of the Ford
automobile Company in Denmark, ar
lived yesterday from Copenhagen on
The Scandinavian American liner Hellig
Olav on his way to the Ford neadquar-
ters in Detroit
He said that the Germans threatened
to make cheap car that would under
sell the lowpriced American machines
abroad, but their efforts in this direc-
tion were futile. The German product,
he said, has a low powered motor and
The car itself will not stand up against
any American rival.
Mr.. Carlson will visit his home in
Portland, Ore, before returning to
Denmark. In Copenhagen the Ford
company has just completed an assem-
bling plant that will employ 1000 men
On the steamship Santa Teresa, of
The Grace Line, which arrived yester-
day from the west coast of South
Anne erica, were Mrs. J. J. Morrow, Mel
son Park, American ViceConsul at La
Paz, and Mrs. H. Henneberger and her
daughter, Miss Vera Henneberger, of
Los Angeles,
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11

having been responsible for half 81
dozen or more dumbwaiter robberies.
His scheme is said to have been old
fashioned but successful. He wonld
order groceries. it"is alleged, and ask
tnat change Of $40 or $50 be sent with
them on delivery. He would then re-
move the groceries and the change and
would become indignant at any sug-
gestion that he had failed to put his
own money on the dumbwaiter.
Patrolman Darcy. of the Alexander
Avenue police station, heard him max
ing arrangements last night in gro
gerry store for change to be sent with
ms order. Darcy had been advised to
iook out for some one of Barish's de-
scrlption' Barish, it is said, got $3.50
from one delivery boy, s17.7o from an
other and s27O from another. all in
the same way.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-11
Doomed Slayer Gets Stay
Notice of Appeal Filed for
Anthony Rabasoyich

An order was served upon Warden
Lawes of Sing Sing yesterday staying
the execution of Anthony Rabasovich,
of Brooklyn, which had been set for
August IA. The notice of appeal au-
tomatically stayed the execution until
the Court of Appeals reviews the evil
dence.
The prisoner was adjudged guilty of
killing Patrolman John H. McMail with
shot from a revolver while the DO
liceman was chasing him after he had
held up Mrs. Anna Noyshek, of 266
Watkins Street, Brooklyn.