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OF ACRES COTTON MAY ROT AS RESULT OF SHORT AGE OF NEGRO LABOR-EF- FORTS TO HOLD THEM FAIL.
NEGROES MOVING NORTH
Think Negoes May Get Frost bitten Next Winter and Will Then Return to Their Old Masters in the Sunny Climes.

WASHINGTON, D. C., August IT. Thousands upon thousands of acres of cotton in the south now whitening in the summer sun, probably will rot in the boil this year because of lack of hands to gather the crop, according to word reaching the department of agri- culture with the opening of the cotton picking season there.
 The South is pictured in these re- ports as being in the throes of the worst labor shortage in it's history. In few communities, it is reported, com mon labor has virtually moved away, migrating north of the Mason and Dix on line. In other sections from one quarter to one-half of the negroes are said to have gone north to mills and factories of industrial states lured by wages, the likes of which no cotton picker ever saw before. In all sections the shortage is pictures as being dis dressing proportions.
 Four hundred thousand negroes have moved north since the beginning of the year, according to estimates sent the department and the move ment appears to be increasing at the present time. One estimate states that fro m2,00O to 5000 negroes are leaving the South daily. These figures probab- ly are high, but there appears little doubt that the migration approximates 5O, 1000 a month.
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TWO DOCS KILL CHILD
SAVAGE GREAT DANES ATTACK LAD AS IS TRYING TO GET
 FOOD FROM PICNIC TABLE

NEW YORK, August 17-With half dozen men pounding them with rocks and sticks, two Great Danes to- day attacked nine-year old boy so savagely, that his jugular vein was severed and he bled to death.
 The boy, Joseph Genatt, Jr., mad slipped through the amusement park fence in hope of getting something to eat from picnic table. AS Joseph un- latched the wooden gate to the park and slipped in, two Great Danes, sta toned as guards against intruders leaped at him.
 Before Joseph screaming his horror could turn back to the road the ami mals had bounced upon him and beat en him to the ground. me boy struck back desperately, but his weak blows had no effect on the dogs, as they sank their teeth into his face, hands and body.
 For an instance Joseph managed to squirm lose. But he was so weak with his wounds that he could not scram- ble to his feet. He started to crawl Imply toward the gate, when the en- ragged animals threw themselves on him again
 By this time perhaps seventy-five persons had rushed to the park Auto mobilists hurried to the fence. But only half a dozen men tried to save the boy. They pounded the dogs with rocks and sticks and a few went at the snarling animals with their hands. Joseph had quit struggling, but the animals continued to mangIe his face and threat.
 The police arrested the owner of the park and the dogs, Adolph Bentz, on a charge of manslaughter.
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WALES SHIPS FINE
 STOCK ID CA|IADA

CALGARY, August 17-Proffessor W. L. Carlyle, manager of the Prince of Wales ranch, at High River has just returned from England, bringing with him shipment of purebred race horses, cattle, sheep, and ponies with which to stock the Princes ranch.
 Included in the shipment sis Will Sommers, one of the best-known race horses, from the stables of King Geo., and consistent Derby winner on the British turf. This horse, it is believed may carry the Princes colors on race tracks in the United States and Can ada, and in addition, will be used in the stud. Shorthorn cattle, Shropshire sheep, and Dartmoor ponies complete the shipment.
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CHINA'o oF0REIGit! <. AFFAIRS I.)IjI \
 CHARGE IF V!OO
FORMER MINISTER TO WASHING TON RELUCTANTLY JOINS CAB NET TO sTABALIzE HIS coUN- TRY's GOVERNMENT.

PEKING, August 17--Wellington H. Koo, who recently assumed the port folio of minister of foreign affairs, ac- cepted only after repeated urging by Wu Pei Flu and Tsao Kun, North China, military leader and in spite of the continued reluctance of Wang Kemin to take the portfolio as minis ter of finance. Dr. Koo has acted as minister from China to Great Britain and the United States.
 Tsao and Wu apparently are desir- Ous that the present semblance of gov ernment be maintained pending some arrangement for the erection or a new president. There is little prospect of such an election in the near -uIure.
 Agitation for the assumption of the presidency by Tsao has subsided in the face of his seemingly determined resolution not to acquire the post ex- cept through regular procedure
 Wang Kemin, notwithstanding the issuance of a decree appointing his finance minister and assurances of support by Tsao, does nos want to take up the burden, entaiiing as it does the raising of much money for administrative military expenses. An other deterrent is said to be the pres sure of financial interests which want him to remain in charge of the Bank of China for the good of the institu- tion.
 NOnpayment of Chinese diplomatic representatives abroad and their ap- peal for funds are giving the framers of the cabinet so much anxiety that the latter are repeatedly appealing to Wang 10 assume office
 Failure of the powers to agree on a concerted plan for aggressive action toward China as result of the bandit kidnapping episode ana the prospect that only indemnities viii De exacted has removed one of the greatest ob- stacles which hitherto has restrained Dr. Roo from taking office. It is ex- pected that the cabinet will have the of it's portfolios flied.
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P0INCAPEE SEES
 CRAVE DLVGER
 FROIN GERMANY
FRENCH PREMIER RAPs LLOYD GEORGE FOR PLACING PARIS
 AND BERLIN GOVERNMENTS ON
 THE SAME PLANE.
VILLERs- -COTTERETs, France,

VILLERS-COTTERETS, France, - Premier Poincare yesterday spoke at this place at the unveling of monu- ment to the soldiers who fell in war He made no allusions to the British note concerning reparations.
 MT. Poincare began his address with a dramatic outline of the French of fensive in the summer of 1918 and then replied to the recent speech of Lloyd George, former British prime minister, describing the prosperity of France. A considerable part of the speech dealt with the German general staff's monster program of economic annihilation of France, drawn up in 1916, by specialists.
 To place France and Germany on the same plane as MT. Lloyd George did, was ubiquitous" Mr. Poincare declared. When Germany rebuilt her mercantile fleet, developed her rail- ways, and dug new canals, was she re- pairing damages or undertaking new improvements? Was she paying for these improvements with available re- sources or to the detriment of pay ment of her debt to the allies? the premier asked. All of this might be "amusing," as MT. Lloyd George said he found it, but for France it was sad even unbearable.
 why didn't they go into the Ruhr with us?" asked MT. Poincare. "They would better understand what the real dangers of tomorrow are"
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Five Power Treaty Signed Today
U. s. Will Scrap Old Warships Immediately
SCHOONER CAROLYN FRANCIS
 SAILS FOR THE kUSkOkWIM

SEATTLE, August 1.-The schoon- CT Carolyn Francis sailed for the Kus- kokwim this morning with number of passengers including Miss Jean Doreen Shinabarger, University of Washington Junior, to become teacher at Quinhagak, E. M. Forest, Supt of the Kuskokwim School District, Doc tor and Mrs. Rirestone, for Akiak, L. German, Robert Henderson, traders, and Hi Kershong, of the Nixon mine, returning to the country from the 1st trip out in twenty-six years.
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WI. ROCKEFELLER
 LIFT LARGE ESTATE
BROTHER OF JOHN D. WORTH
 S102, ,25o,000 AT TIME OF DEATH

NEW YORK, August 17-Wm. Rock efeller, brother of John D. Rockefel- Ter, Standard Oil King, left an estate of gross value of more cnan S1O2,- 25O,OOO, it was shown today. The re- port of the state tax commission show ed the estate was valued at more than sixty-seven million after deductions were made for administering expens-- es, funeral expenses and commissions to the executors.
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RALPH DE PALMA, FAMOUS
 RACER, SLIGHTLY INJURED

CHICAGO, August 17-Ralph De Palma, famous racing driver was in- jured, and several spectators were hurt here last Sunday when the car driven by Louis Chevrolet smashed h. to his racing car, forcing him through the fence on the back stretch or the mile oval dirt track at Hawthorne. De Palma was not seriously injured.
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FLOWERS DESTROYED

Henry Phaben, who has such a beau tiful flower garden on Fourth Avenue is considerably riled up by unknown parties helping themselves to the best and largest flowers in the yard, break down more than they pick. MT Phab- en warns everybody to keep out of his yard while he is at work.
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PRES. COOLIDGE E
 OPPOSED TOPROBE
 MERCHANT MARINE

WASHINGTON, D. C., August IT. Coolidge, acording to those close to him, is deposed to probe Lasker's handling of the merchant marine.
 At present there are two groups ad- vancing different methods of operat- ing, and the president proposes to ter minate the deadlock.
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HEIHESS WEBS MlH y'HO
 MIXED SET DRINKS

OTTAWA, August 17-Miss Monica Mosseau, drug clerk, recently fell heir ess to a share in $1,500,0OO estate left by her aunt, but she remained true to Eudorde Gubord, with whom she has mixed soft drinks for years. She married him.
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TRADING VESSEL
 coNFIscATED BY sovIETs

NOME, August 1.-The American trading schooner Belinda, of Nome has been confiscated by the Soviet au- thorities and converted into gunboat Her entire cargo was seized
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WOULD ESTABLISH F|SHER|ES ADVISORY BOARD FOR ALASKA BE COMPOSED OF MEMBERS OF FISH COMMISSION UNDER
 GOVERNOR BONE

JUNEAU, August 17-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover proposed the appointment of a fisheries advis- ory board, headed by Governor Bone, to assist in the solution of the terri torial salmon fisheries problem, it was revealed through the publication of a telegram from the Commerce Secre- tary to Governor Bone.
 According to the telegram the pro- posed board would consist of the gov ernor as chairman, and all members of the territorial fish commission.
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GOVERNMENT WILL ATTEMPT OBTAIN
 RELEASE GRIFFITH
WILL ALSO DO ALL IN ITS POWER TO BRING BACK BERGDoLL,
 DRAFT EVADER

CINCINNATI, August 1.-The U. s. government will not only do every thing in it's power to obtain the re- lease of Lieut. Houver Griffiths and Hamilton from prison in Germany, but will exert all it's efforts to bring back Bergdoll, the draft evader to America. This is the gist of a telegram from Secretary of State Hughes to Lasance, National Adjutant of the Disabled American veterans of the World War
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FREED OF CHARGE BY JURY

SEATTLE, August 17-Mrs. Maude Sweetman, member of the legislature, has been freed of the charge of disor- derly conduct, and has charged in court that the police had "jobbed" her.
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JAPAN PROTESTS
 AGAINST WIRELESS
 STATIONS IN CHINA
SENDS NOTE TO CHINA AGAINST WIRELESS CONCESSIONS TO
 FED TELEGRAPH co.

TOKYO, August 17-Japan again protested to China against her recent wireless concessions to the Federal Telegraph Company of America, where by five wireless stations will be erect ed in China, for commercial purposes.
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CUNMAN SLAIN BY
 DETECTIVES TODAY

ST. PAUL, August 17-Edwin Rust, gunman, and slayer Of Sheriff I. c. Fuller, of Aberdeen, South Dakota, for whom police have been searching for two months, was killed by detectives here early today
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TWO IRISH PRIESTS KIDNAPPED
 HANKOW, China, August 1.-Two Irish priests were kidnapped today when bandits pillaged Tsaoshih, and burned the Catholic hospital.
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COMMUN|sTIC TROUBLE
 IS STILL CONTINUING

AK LA CHAPPELLE, August IT. Communistic disturbances are contin- uing, resulting in eight more deaths and fifty injuries in collision be- tween Communists and police
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THINKS FRANCE WILL NOT
 PAY HER DEBT TQ J. 5.

WASHINGTON, D. C., August IT. It is understood that Secretary Mellon is returning from Europe with the re- port that France has no intention of paying four billion she owes to the United States.
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WASHINGTON NAVAL TREATY BECOMES
 EFFECTIVE TODAY

WASHINGTON, D. C., August 17-| The five-power naval treaty negotiat- ed at Washington Armament Confer ence and the four power pact, conclud ed here in December, 1921, became eff fective at noon today.
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ACTUAL SCRAPP|NG
 FIRST LINE SHIPS
 WILL BEEN AT 0NCE
UNDER TERMS TREATY ANGLO JAPANESE ALLIANCE TER-
 MINATED

WASHINGTON, D. C., August IT. The actual scrapping of first-line ships under the new naval treaty begins i'm mediately, and by the terms of the Four Power Pact, the Anglo Japanese alliance is terminated automatically, by todays deposit of ratification.
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK
 SHELBY CLOSED DOORS

GREATFALLS, August 1.-The 1st National Bank of Shelby, has closed it's doors by order of the directors. De- posits total $577,000.
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STEEL WORKERS 0N BASIS
 EIGHT HOUR WORK DAY

PITTSBURG, August 1.-The work CTS in most of the steel mills of this district were placed on an eight-hour day basis today.
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Laboratory on Wheels.

WHILE protected from permanent
w loss through delivery of bad
rails by the steel companies, rail-
road may suffer serious temporary
embarrassment from the necessity
for rejecting and returning a con-
siderable part of a rush order which
does not come up to the mark. One
road has met this situation quite sue
cessfully by taking the whole onus
of testing the rails off the railmaker
and placing this responsibility upon
it's own shoulders. "a
A TRAVELLING testing plant has beeif
installed by placing all the neces-
sary equipment in a standard pas
senger coach. and this runs about
the lines from place to place. drop
ping in upon the various railmakers
and testing their raw materials and
finished product on the spot. The
testing plant comprises a very COM
plete chemical outfit as well as stand
ard apparatus for physical tests of
metals. This rolling laboratory really
protects the steel company quite as
much as 1t does the railroad by in
suring the former against using up
it's valuable labor on rails that will
be rejected by the buyer.
Evening star., 1923-07-08

early in the radioactive period of
human" iron-that is to say, iron
handled by men continually. re-
r elted, reformed and re-handled in
the industries. 1t was as If new, in
dependent magnetic" life must get
its start, so to speak, from animal
life, as animal life is supposed to
have begun from plants.
uese early scientists (say, 800
yeas from the present time in which
we live) were astonished to find the
violet rust-like stuff a kind of metal
lie pro torlasm.
| Which, brings us to Targ. the last
man.
Rosny's terrifying work begins
with dwindling humanity already
huddled 10000 years in it's cases.
Young and in love, Targ is denied
marriage by laws which are univer-
sally respected and provide for all
continE, encies. Though there have
been no earthquakes for years, the
water of the oases in which he lives
h owered, so that its population
m, be kept at exactly 1000 persons.
total population Of the world
had sunk to 1000 souls, in five GASES
situated thousands Of miles apart;
| but distance is nothing to their great
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quake period of a changing planet
changing, but not dying.
~ \
TN the sp1endor Of the proto-atomic
i age the population of the earth
had risen to $4,000, 900. 900. all living
law-abiding lives of luxury and cul-
ture.
Skip $1,000 years of catastrophes.
The population has fallen to 4,000,-
O0O, 900. The oceans, sunk into their
deepest beds, occupy only one-quarter
of the earth's surface. Rivers and
lakes have altogether disappeared.
Armed with titanic powers, men
struggle frantically. Matchmaking
does not last 1000 years. They return
to pipeline reservoirs and wonder
full economies of irrigation. You un-
|derstand, they have unlimited free
motive power. They have metal
making on the spot where needed.
They have vast and multiple ma
chimes, whose work is all but human.
But rain ceases. .
Domestic animals perish. During
]. 900 years It Is imagined that they
have evolved more hardy species; but
the evolution energy seems finally
worn out. Plants and birds remain.
Plants become miraculous food pro-
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tinue with other misunderstanding
up, completely, from each other, ever
greater bodies. to form. finally. in dis
tant ages magnetic-metallic intel
lectual giants!
One night Targ's reveries were stop
ped by a slight earthquake shock.
BY noon all the waters of their three
deep wells were subsiding slowly!
In two days they had cut vast reser-
voirs, this time, from rock. AS the
first was pumped full, the last of the
three wells went dry
The only water remaining on earth
could now be measured!
X X " y
COLD, impassive. the grand council
~ gave it's orders.
1--WE are 1000 persons" said Rem.
''Three thousand must take the eu
thanasia today. Five hundred will
die by the end of the month, and
the remainder will decrease from
week to week. so that fifty can main
tain themselves five years. By that
time. if no new water be discovered. it
will be the end of humanity"
He added: -
Two oases have been utterly wiped
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Tennis Ball Scales.

LEW tennis players know how ten
mis- balls for the tournaments held
under the sanction of the National
Lawn Tennis Association are tested.
1t appears that the machine that one
expert uses to weigh tennis balls is
similar in appearance to an instru-
ment used to find the specific gravity
of a liquid. 1t consists of a long
glass tube in which water Is placed
at IS degrees Fahrenheit. A second
tube, on which fractions of ounces
are marked, with a certain weight
of buckshot in the base and holder
for 1.-THE ball on top. floats In the
waite r.
A ball must weigh no less than
two ounces or more than two and
one-sixteenth ounces to be accepted.
and when 1t is placed in the holder
the tube reveals the slightest irregu-
larity in Its weight.
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Weird, Fantastic Dream of Future
OF the World Comes to Philosopher

out. The two others have lost nearly
all their water and are preparipa. -
die. The last hope OF men is wftn
ourselvesi"
Targ and his wife revolted thai
their children must perish along
with the entire family Of his sister
He knew there must be fifty years
food and several years water still
remaining in the equatorial oasis.
whose inhabitants had hastened To-
die ahead OF the hour of starvation.
But Mano his brother in-law, re
fused to bulge.
Here / die, fearless and agree
ably" he said. THE euthanasia
poisons are delicious. so why perish
miserably?"
So, while thousands absorbed the
sweet poisons. Targ and the two
women fled with the little one
through the blue oxygen of a dead
world.
| Dead? No, thought Targ. glancing
proudly at the family. Once. in the
night of ages. earth held one man
. and one woman. Now. new
] humanity should spring from these
dear children. He would again dis
| cover water,
They lived lonely. happily. in the
equatorial oasis. In his planetary.
| Targ beat up vast stretches Of the
| world for water. How he found il.
after a new earthquake, is part OF
| the heartbreaking end.
fastening across the earth, Tare
| called. joyous, to his family. Silence,
They lay. white and motionless. upon
! their beds-the same earthquake had
let in the ferro-magnetics.
1t happens 10000 years ahead
| from now.
Targ. the last man. lies down with
| his dead TO die. A nine-foot tertiary
rustles in a corner. The magnetlc-
metallic monster, complex. vaguelN
conscious, drags about, communing
lowly in its multiple being. What
erandiose development. surpassine
man, must not evolve in life which
| shares in subtlest powers of earth
! and sun, direct!
| But we need not accept these rev
| cries. No, really! The convictions
of plain Christians are more charm
ing,
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paper to the Polytechnic. and deliv-
cred my lecture by reading it word
for word"
a FTER that l met Tree many times
"A and he never forgot that little
service. In return he invited me to
the GarriCk Club, or to his great room
at the top of His Majesty's, and told
me innumerable anecdotes which
We're vastly entertaining. He had a
rich store of them. and told them
with ripe humor and dramatic
genius which revealed him at his best.
His acting was marred by affecta-
tions that became eXasperating. and
sometimes by loss of memory and
sheer carelessness. / have seen him
actually asleep on the stage. 1t was
when he played the part of Fagin in
oliver Twist and in Il scene where
he had to sit crouChed below bridge,
waiting for Bill Skies. he dozed off,
wakened with a start, and missed his
cue.
Another great figure of the stage
whom ] met behind the scenes was
Sarah Bcrnhardt. when she appeared
at the Coliseum in London. She
took the part of Adrienne Lecou-
vreur. in which she was an uncon-
scionable time a-dying, after storms
of agony and mad passion. / had
an appointment to meet her in her
room after the play. and slipped
round behind the scenes before she
!..ft the stage. Her exit was aston
.sh:ng and touching. The whole
company of the Coliseum and its
variety show-acrobats, jugglers.
funny men, dancing girls. star
turns''-had lined up in double row
to await this queen of tragedy, with
homage. AS she came oc the stage
George Robey, with his red nose and
ridiculous little hat, gravely offered
his arm, with the air of Walter
Raleigh in the presence of Queen
Elizabeth. She leaned heavily on his
arm, and almost collapsed in the chair
to which he led her. She was painting
after her prolonged display of agony
before the footlights. and for a mo-
ment I thought she was really dying
bent over her and said in French
that / regretted she was SO much
fatigued. My words angered her in
stantly, as though, they reflected upon
her age.
Sir" she said harshly, II was as
much fatigued when / first played
that scene-was it thirty years ago
or forty?-I have forgotten. 1t is
the exhaustion of art, and not of
nature"
X X X
As special correspondent of the
"A Daily Chronicle (after spell of
Tree-lance work. l went abroad a
good deal on various missions, and
occasionally took charge of the Paris
Office in the absence of Martin Dono-
hue. who held that post but was fre-
auently away on SOME adventure in
ether countries.