davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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think 1t advisable to send them because
OF the virulence of the disease, which is
only indigenous to America now, so far
as we know.
All Were Infected.
However. a culture of bacterium tu-
OF Preventive Medicine in London and
all or the personnel, three in number,
VINO were conducting experiments with
the infection in guinea pigs, contracted
the disease. A British medical journal
stated in February that with brave dis
cretion' the institute had decided to
discontinue the experiments and wipe
out the infection In the laboratory"
bacterium tularense, the organism
which causes the disease of tulara emia,
in 1912 by DIR. George w. Mccoy. now
director OF the hygienic laboratory. and
DR.. G. w. Chaplin, also of the public
health service. They were engaged in
bubonic plague work at the time. This
work entailed the examination of
glons. DR.. Mccoy found about twenty
two squirrels which presented the
superficial characteristics of plague but
which did not prove up bacteriologically.
'plague-like disease" and later isolated
the bacterfum which caused 1t, naming
1t bacterium tularense, after the county
Wnere the squirrels were found.
Prevalent I'm Utah.
While this disease was being car
ried on by the squirrels in California.
a similar disease of man, known
popularity as 'deer-f1y fever" was be-
coming more prevalent in Utah and
neighboring western states. In 1919
the state board of health of Utah
asked for man to be sent out by
the public health service to investi-
gate this disease. DR.. Edward Fran
els was sent.
There are two ways of conducting
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such an investigation" DR.. Francis
said In describing the beginning of
the work. "One way is to go out
with a note book and pencil and in
terview all the doctors, patients,
patients relatives. midwives. and gos-
sips and write up a fat collection of
their opinions, calling it report on
deer-f1y fever That's the old way of
the epidemiologist. Another way is
to take syringe and some guinea
pigs along and say nothing to any
body. That's the way of the labora-
tory man. All he wants is a SOU
venir from a patient in his syringe
which can be transplanted into the
guinea pigs and form basis for
study"
"The story of the discovery of
tularaemia from the finding of the
bug in California in 1912 to my
recognition of the human disease in
1920 is good illustration of the ac-
tual way in which scientific dis
coveries are made" DIR. Francis con-
tinued We don't set up dragnet
IN a laboratory on Friday and say,
Now, by Monday we shall have dis
covered something Most scientific
discoveries are made in searching for
an explanation of some observed
phenomenon"
Tried 1t on Pigs.
DR.. Francis planted the souvenirs
(serum), which he took from the hu-
man patients into his travelling COM
panions, the guinea pigs, opened them
up when they showed the usual
symptoms of the disease, and imme-
diately recognized the condition de-
scribed by DIR. Mccoy in the ground
squirrels in 1912. He wired for the
| literature, which confirmed his con-
clusions, and, after contracting it
himself, carried on series of labora-
tory experiments in Washington,
which have proved conclusively the
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identity of the disease of man in Utah
and the disease of rodents in Cal
fornia
That the deer-f1y is not the onIv
agent of transmission, has becrt
proved in the laboratory. Almost
any blood-sucking insect which bites
both man and rodents serves to carr
the disease, such as the squirrel flea
the louise, the bed-bug and the stable
fly. In the west the infection is di
rectly traceable to the dcer-fy
Chrysops discalis. which feeds upon
horses without injecting them, bc'
which carries the disease from sick
jack rabbits to man by means Of an
infected proboscis, or mouth
known to Market Men.
Although tularaemia is thought .
be exclusively indigenous to Amerlca
it is widespread in America. existing
from coast to coast. 1t has becn
found in Washington, and is known
to market men as rabbit fever
Immediately upon the appearance ~
DIR. Francis first article on tula.
raemia in an American medical jour.
nal a Washington physician shove
him an ex-patient who gave a COS
| tive blood test for tularaem;a. prov.
ing that he had had the disease.
This man dressed rabbits at a stan
in the market and at Christmas tilnt
the year before had contracted a few
! and swelling of glands which Il,
diagnosed himself as rabbit fevtr
He had recovered after a long IL
ness. and was immune. Examinati,.,
of the rabbits he was cleaning a ycal
after the infection showed the pr.
ence Of the disease in animals whi,t
had come from Tennessee, thus H.
eating focus in Tennessee. A pres
ent DIR. Francis is carrying or an eS
I h n al " ur-nh Fny-
used in combating the disease whfcf
! he discovered,
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Smashed Bottles
To Balk Pursuit ,
Driuer Charged

Lloyd A. Grimes, colored, of 2123
L street northwest, has the follow
ing charges to answer in Traffic
Court when his case comes up We'd
nesday morning:
Exceeding the speed regulations.
reckless. driving. breaking glass on
the streets. falling to give proper
signals and failure to obey the sig
nails of traffic officer.
He was arrested Friday night
after long automobile chase and
is alleged to have scattered bottles
and jugs of corn whisky along the
street while the enforcement
officers were in pursuit.
Assistant District Attorney
Thomas Lodge has issued a war
rant for Edward Wormsley, who Is
alleged to have been in the auto
mobile with Grimes.
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HE|RESS INDICTED
IN BIC RUM DEAL
Denver Society Woman Ac-
Cused With Priest and Man
in Dry Act Violation.
BY the Associated Press.

ny the Assoc1ated PreSS.
DENVER. Col, June 16.-Warrants
for the arrest of Mrs Katherine
O'Connor, daughter of ]. X Mullen.
wealthy Denver miller, and John r.
Walsh, former Colorado ranger and
brother-in-law of Father Walter A.
Grace. pastor of a Catholic church at
q suburb, for alleged violation of the
prohibition laws. were received at
the office Of the United States mar
shall here today.
Mrs. O'Connor Is a prominent Dem
Ver society woman. Bond for her
and Walsh was set at $1,000 each.
Father Grace. who was indicted by a
FEDERAL grand jury~at Pueblo for al
legged violataion of the prohibition
laws. surrendered today and was re-
leased on s2,500 bond.
Il. III. McClenahan, federal prohibi-
tion director of Colorado. and four of
his agents, also indicted at Pueblo,
were arraigned and released on bond.
Three Charges Made.
Three indictments were returned
IN connection with the Father Grace
affair, Marshal w. A. Doliison an
nounced. One Indictment was re-
turned against Father Grace. Mrs.
oConnor and Walsh. The second
was returned against Father Grace
and the third against Walsh.
The indictments are based on a
charge of conspiracy in connection
with the disappearance some time ago
or S2O,000 worth of whisky from the
prohibition office here. Father Grace
was charged with presenting forged
application to Director McClenahan
70 bring the whisky into Denver from
| Is kentucky. ostensibly for use of
charitable organizations.
Mrs. O'Connor. in the joint indict-
ment against the three. is charged
with consplrIng to violate the Vol
stead act. The penalty under this
eharge is Imprisonment for not more
than two years or a fine of not more
than $4,000. or both. Ten overt acts
but Mrs. O'Connor is only mentioned
in two of them.
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r. "1 let an attendant clean the place up
once" DIR. Francis explains, but the
result was disastrous. In the first place,
he assorted all the test tubes according
to color, blue ones here, yellow ones
there etc: then he switched his broom
handle around and knocked over d rack.
liberating enough germs to put every
farmer in the state of Maryland to
bed"
This is very virulent bug. Every
one who comes in contact with il con-
tracts it. Here in the laboratory all of
us who were working with it. two
doctors and four attendants. came down
with it.
I'VE have requests from medical
schools all over the country. and from
Japan, Australia. Mexico. Brazil and
other foreign countries for strains for
experimentation, but DIR. Mccoy (direc-
tor of the hygienc laboratory does not
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den," as 1t Is known by his

"tularaemta den," as 1t is known by his
associates at the fygienic laboratory Of
the United States public health service
In Washington. He has one large labora-
tory room where he and his five immune
assistants carry on their experiments
with animals in the light of day. but his
holy of holes is small dark room at
the back of the building, about twelve
feet square, with one window, two
series of shelves and drawers, a heavily
encumbered desk and door.
The shelves are Uttered with rack
upon rack of test tubes, cotton tufted,
containing cultures of bacterium tular-
ense. Watch glasses, a Bursen burner,
more tubes and mysterious apparatus
cover the shelf in front of the window.
The capacious desk is Smothered under
a storm of papers with row of bot
tied specimens against the wall.
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LOS ANGELES BROKER FAILS.
Man With Offices in Many Cities
Involved in Crash.

LOS ANGELES, June 16.-Failure
of A. w. Coote, Los Angeles stock
broker, and member of the Chicago
Board of Trade. the Los Angeles and
San Francisco stock exchanges. was
announced today. Cote had offices
in eleven western cities, Chiago and
New York.
The failure was attributed to the
financial difficulties of Knauth, Nhchod
,G Kuhne, members of the New York
stock Exchange, who also failed to
open today.
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BY Easy Stages.
From the Houston Post.

Tom the HOuston POST.
You're at the wrong place" said
Cerberus. This is the gate that leads
to the Internal regions. while this is
a passport to heaven that you have
handed me-"
II know it." said the departed shade;
vTearily, but it allows me a stop-over
here. You see I'm from Texas. and
I've got to make the change gradu-
ally"
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DR.. Ed,Uard Francis In.
uestigatiOns ShO,U In
sects Play Part
SYMPTOMS FOUND
MUCHLIKE TYPHOID
Farmers Chief Sufferers
From, Disease Indi-
genOus to america.
BY JUDITH CLARK.

new disease of peculiar interest TO
farmers and market men, known popu-
larly as "deer-fly fever" or rabbit
fever" has been tracked to its lair by
DR. Edward Francis of the United
States Public Health Service and desig-
mated as tularaemia. His Investigations
have been carried on since 1919 and
illustrate the progress which medical
science has made since the war.
According to DIR. Francis himself,
"tularaemia is a specific infectious dis
ease due to bacterium tularenSe, ana is
transmitted from rodents to man by the
bite of an infected blood sucking insect
or by the handling and dissection of in
fected rodents by market men or labora- =
tory workers"
After the bite of the insect the onset
of the disease is sudden. 1t is attended
with pains and fever prostration and a
swelling of the lymph glands draining
the bite. The fever itself presents
symptoms very like typhoid or septic
infection, lasting from three TO six
Curously and fortunately, it is seldom
fatal, only one death having been re-
ported so far 1t assumes a serious
aspect, however, both because OF its
virulence and because it is a disease
which affects the farmer in his busy
sea son.
Disease of Country.
THE chief interest in tularaemia s A
disease of man." DR.. Francis says.
''arises from the disability which ac-
companies the illness: a disa bling illness
which overtakes the farmer in the busy
season of midsummer causing two or
three months of sickness in the harvest
season, is a serious matter. Tularaemia
is disease of the rural population.
particularly attacking persons who work
In the field. 1t occurs during the sea :
sonal prevalence of chrysops discaIis
jack rabbits are diving from an epizootic
of tularaenia. The reservoir of infec-
tion is in the sick and dying jack rab-
bits"
In order to get the dramatic story of
the discovery of tularaenlia it is neces-
sary to visit DR.. Francis himself in his
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Some men would work if given a
chance, but there are others who re-
fuse to take chances.
Smyrna times., 1923-03-28

Anna Thompson. Miss Huhn, sixth
-Perfect-Millard Green, Char
les Harris, Henry Shapley, Franklin
Stats, Stuart Wilds, Ethel David,
Reba Keiffer, Dorothy Riggs, Dorothy
Robinson, Maud Still. Good-Charles
Brown, William Keiser, Frederick
Lamb, William Stanley, Harry Virdin,
Miles Walraven, Francis Yeates, Mar
vim Spohn, Jackson Yohn, Sarah Pratt,
Ruth Savin, Helen Virdin. Miss Thorn
ley, seventh grade-Perfect-Frank
Broadway, Goodwin Garrison, Walter
McClain, Toward VandegrOft, Ethel
Bartlett, Beatrice Cole, Anna Green
well, Lillian Robinson, Mary Slaughter
Muriel Maree. Good Ollie Baggs,
Edward Burris, Edward Casson, AL
bert Urian, Clarence Boyer, Walter
Donovan, Norman Hutchins, Hazel
Reed, Frank Plienka, Stacy Savin,
Marian Heinold, Mary Hynson, Ada
Rawley, Ethel Still, Myrtle Councill.
Miss Beckett, eighth grade-Perfect-
Mildred Burchard, Laura Lee Corley,
Katherine David, Corinne Shapley,
William Robinson, Hazel Dougherty,
John Dougherty, Allan Mofitt, Alvin
Stillwell. GOod-Charles Blendt, Irv-
ing FAIRIES, Raymond Pusey, George
Smith, Frances Adkins, Elsie Daniels,
Louise Denney, Meryl Cunning, Elva
Lambdin, Margaret Slaughter, Mary
Virdin, Rebecca Williams. Mr.. Co.'S
den, ninth grade-Perfect- Margaret
Bistram, Amelia Hawkins, Catharine
Carey, Mary Jones, Marietta Malcom,
Lillian Alfree, Paul Donovan, Stanley
Wright. Good-Lillie Lefner, Hazel
Virdin, Elizabeth KINNEY, Alberta
KINNEY, Joseph RagOlia. Miss MOf-
fit, ninth grade-Perfect-Ruth Col
Inns, Elizabeth Hill, Mildred McClain,
Evelyn Stokesbury, Anna Stats, Flor
ence Stats, Mildred Sherwood, Paul
inc Thornley,, Wilds Donovan, Cheston
Knots, Russell Walker. GOod-Paul-
inc Chilcutt, Carlton Blendt, James
McClain, Medford Sparks, Thomas
Tucker. Miss Holland, tenth grade
Perfect-Frances Alexander, Florence
Arts, Ruth DAILY, Hendietta Rothwell
Louise Spruance, Linden Shapley
Elizabeth Thornley,, Hazel Thomas
Carolyn Van Pelt. Good kathryn
Bartlett, Samuel Cohen, Laura Lane
Carl Prettyman, Eva Stehley, Gladys
Truax, Anton Vodvarka. Miss Daw
. son, eleventh grade-Perfect - Mar
garet Carter, William Danes, EvelyI
Harris, Margaret Hill, David Lloyd
Leslie Moore, Edward Richards, Mar!
Robinson, Helen Roadway, Julia Skri
, van, Sophia Streets, Margaret Thomp
, son. Good-Franklin Corley, Ralpl
, Deakyne, Roberta Denney, Clara Good
: ing, Gilbert Lurty, Helen Scout Louis
l Sevil Mr. Webb, twelfth grade =
4 Particularly Attix, Mildred Boyer
( Edna Conner, Esther Ford, Hele
: Johns, Edythe Meredith, Esther Mum
Y bers, Bertha Skrivan, Editha Spark.
=, Virginia Sparks, Adelaide Stevens
Smyrna times., 1923-03-28
PASS APPROPRIATION BILL
BY PARTY VOTE IN HOUSE
SPEAKER CULVER RULED BILL
PASSED-EXCEPTION TO IT
Representative Nelson Offered Amend
ments Increasing Some of the
Items Which Were Adopted

After Representative Nelson had Of
fered several amendments,all of which
tended to increase the sums named in
the original appropriation bill offer
ed by Representative Collins last week
all of which were adopted; and after
a large number of amendments offer
ed by Representative Little, Republi-
can floor leader, had been killed the
House of Representatives took action
on the biennial appropriation bill
Wednesday afternoon. Owing to the
fact that the Republicans thought that
some of the cuts made in the appro-
pration were aimed at worthy causes,
and that the savings made were false
economies, none of the Republican
members voted on the measure. After
the vote was announced Speaker Cul-
yer ruled that the bill had passed the
House. Representative Little called
the attention of the Speaker to the
fact that it required twO-thirds vote TO
( pass the bill. This it had not receiv-
ed. 1t is likely that the Democrats
will reconsider their action and a
compromise be affected. They have
not the votes to pull the bill across
without the Republicans aid.
The bill as introduced and read pro-
vides for a total appropriation of ST.
05,854.85 for the first year, ending
July 1, 1924, and S1,480, ,164.85 for the
second year, ending July 1, 1925.
The Nelson amendments all of which
were adopted, provide for an increase
in the appropriation for associate
judges of from $4,000 to $4,000 each
year; contingent fund of the Secretary
of State from $1,000 to $4,000 each
year; appropriation for Americaniza-
ton work from $4,000 to $4,000 eacF
year; appropriation to the State BOarc
of Agriculture for the eradication Of
tuberculosis among cattle from S32,
500 the first year to $4,000 and from
, $50, 800 the second year to $4,000.
The amendment also strikes out al
appropriation of $3.50 a year to tn,
. cannery inspector, for contingent ex
penses, and adds an appropriation o
, $500 the first year and $500 tn
Smyrna times., 1923-03-28
SMYRNA SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
Those on the Honor Rolf for the
Month of February, 1928

Those on the Honor Roll" for the
Month of February, 1928
The "Honor Roll" for attendance at
the Smyrna Special District Schools
has been announced. Perfect Attend
ance," means neither absent nor tardy
any day for a whole month. "GoOd
Attendance" means present 90f6 of
the time, which is 18 days out of 20;
it permits two absences an no tardies.
Miss Griffith, First Grade, Perfect
Henrietta Denney, Pauline Mannon,
Mildred Ryan, Katrina Taylor, Mar
jorie Caldwell, Bobby Cruson, Harper
Jones, Denney Slaughter, Harry Still,
Roland Still, Albert Thawley. Good
Anna Jacobs, Georgia NewsOme, Mary
Rose, Bessie Virdin, Arthur Barcus,
Ralph Best, Alvin Gaulke, Paul Tuck
{ er. Miss Robinson, second grade-Per-
] fect-Hilda Armstrong, Alice Baker,
Martha Cochran, Katherine Davis,
Edna Donovan, Margaret Ann Garri-
son, Gladys McAfee, Louise Pratt, Lu-
cille Robinson, Francis Shapley, Lin
den Boyer William Lamb, Wilson May
berrie, Edward Matthews, ,Hilory Oliver
Good-Mona Cruson, Katie Felintin,
Mary Hartnett, Margaret Hartnett,
Virginia Walraven, Raymond Barcus,
James Bradley, Caryl Davis, Court
land Gaulke, Charles Gears, Stanley
Middleton, Melvin Adkins. Miss Mat
tiford third grade-Perfect-
Bennett, Virginia Cloud, Charles Dick
erson, Hazel Donovan, Isadore Hand
loft, Louise HOffecker, Charles Jacobs
Walter Lane, Violet Long, Margaret
Malcolm Louise Newsome, Ernest
Reed, Julia Robinson, William Roe
Hazel Sapp, Herbert Sapp, Edna
Slaughter, Frank Tunis, Robert Wilds,
Helen Wortz. GOod-Sarah Cohen
Hazel Boyer, Roberta Collins, Anna
Gardner, Evelyn Keiser, Frances Lans-
ford, James Messick, Lydia Robinson
Elsie Robinson Marian Scout, Adella
Wiley. Miss Start, fourth grade
Perfect-M. Virginia Bradley, Anna
r. Jones, Mary Solomon, Berths
Sparks, Helen Pawn, Victor Brown
Clarence Gears, Allan Sapp, Georg,
Smith, Arthur Stokesbury, Charle
Swain. GOod-Mollie Baggs, Flor
ence David, Helen D. Harmonson
Gladys Hutchins, Georgia Wiley, Mar
: garet Gardner, William Mabrey, ,Georg
Best, Frederick Gardner, William
Smith, Calvin Thomas. Mrs. Dewitt
fifth grade-Perfect- Sarah Bennett
Agnes Conway, Mildred David, Ernes
tine Ferguson, Ethel Keiser, Mar
! Newsome, Anna Smith, Blanche Trua
+, Daisy Wiley, Margaret Wiley, vii
liam Doughten, Frank Greenwell, JOS
eph Jefferson, Earl Mattiford, Ralp
Mattiford, Russell Robinson, Gale
Spohn, William Thompson, Frederic
Williams, Malcolm FARRELL. Good
3 Avery Clifton Howard Kemp, Ro
Reed, Norma Coleman. Marie Kolsk!
Smyrna times., 1923-03-28
HIGHER PRICES FOR r,D,,.
Eastern Shore Truckers c.,
vance in Peas and Tom,,an an A

FARMERS are to get An ..S 1'S
last years price. for pea. ..'' ea1. sa.s ps
tomatoes, according to -, yo'a a
tive tive of The canning inters,,s lts'e';aa. (;
time ago the Gamers o,.. r,''' Na
Eastern Shore met and 5isc,.,., VI !
prices to be paid this ses,o, a,So,''a +, y
tracts are being drawn up o,' fl. y. va
in fact, most of the can1s,. g W ~. P.i'-
ready contracted for pea ac,a.a. .,,'
an advance of $40 a ton 1as,' aTs. !. !,
years prices has resulted in ~" ;,,.
ed acreage. Around Easto1 T5 1I5l', !.
matoes will bring a create, .e, .5-. D
IN. IN price than the other capDi,s s' ~. -s
While $40 a ton was the ,s sTa-s,. ,'2a
season the Gamers are now ra55-
sign contracts at SIS a n, ''Is y.
corn brought $40 a ton last ys,, ,'
this season the Gamers agree ,T'' ~ =.
Sll. Farmers are not iuy. .,+,s', q
with the corn price, and boos ''' \
packers will see their war cl...
advance this by the time the eos.,. -,
are offered. A prominent pa@s, s',- :.
that the great majority of the na,,,.I
houses have studied the sitvstor :,
believe the market will warsn, : T.
increase for the coming season i.
known that the brokers have son. =,
encouraging statements relative ~.
market, and also urging the Das.s,
to assist the growers as much ars
sible. This is an agricultural r-.
munity, and when the farmers ;,
running behind the business ljfe a 4,
entire community is affected. NJ
prominent in the commercial Iis /
that section have been making g.s
appeals for assistance in behalf Of b
farmers The Eastoa National Bal
has taken a step in answer to ths a
peal by purchasing many thoaai!
Of strawberry plants for espnzH
farmers, the bank agreeing to ear
their notes for The plants for nr
than a year. or until the plants t-
ish a substantial return. As a rel
of this many acres Of s:rav5szi
will be planted. Every efor is bal
made to increase crops used tr ca
ming.
Smyrna times., 1923-03-28
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR PUPILS
At UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
BILL CREATING so BEFORE LEG
ISLATURE TO MAKE TEACHERS
Amendment to School Bill Provides
the Sixty Shall Cost $500 a Year
Each to be Paid by the State


Each to be Paid by the State
A Senate substitute for Represen-
tative HOlcOmb's bill authorizing spe-
cial school districts to purchase
grounds and buildings for schools, and
authorizing the State Board of Educa-
tiOn to sell old buildings and apply
the proceeds of such sales in the
special district, was reported favor
ably, with Senate substitute, Wednes-
day. The substitute provides that in
order to assist in supplying trained
elementary teachers, the State Board
is authorized to create scholarships at
the University of Delaware, not ex-
ceeding go in number, the State to
contribute 5000 a year toward each
scholarship approved by the State
Board of Education.
Jury Trials in Will Contests
The House passed, by a vote of %
to 8, Representative Brogan's bill pro-
viding that a person interested in a
contested will may demand a jury
trial of the case at issue. Robert G.
Harman of Wilmington explained the
provisions of the act and said under
the existing law the register of wills
has the arbitrary power of granting
or refusing jury trial in a contested
will case whereas this bill makes it
mandatory upon the register of wills
to have such trial if the demand is
made.
Held to be Too Drastic
The House defeated, by vote of 28
to 6, Representative Holcomb's bill de-
fning and providing punishment for
the issuing of worthless checks. C. H
Woodwork of the National Associa-
tion of Credit Men explained the pro-
posed law, but objections arose when
he admitted that a check refused in
bank because of no funds or not suf-
ficient funds to meet it would con-
stitute prima facie evidence of the in
tent to issue a worthless check. II
was contended many depositors acci-
dentally overdraw their accounts at
times, but have no criminal intent in
so doing and there are ample laws
now to protect those to whom checks
are given and to punish those who
issue worthless checks.
Corporation Bill Fails
A bill to incorporate the Diamond
State Mortgage Guaranty and Trus
Company had a rough time of it il
the House and finally was lost because
it could not command the necessar!
majority. 1t named Richard W.Crool