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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
GOVERNMENT READY
TO SPEND BILLIONS
U. S. Treasury Will Give Out
About S8,5OO, 600 in Cash
Daily for IL Months

washington, July 2.-Uncle Sam
started out today, the beginning Of
the new fiscal year, with little more
than s3,O0O.OOO,OOO to spend during
the next IL months.
That is the amount appropriated by
Congress to carry on the business of
the Federal Government, provide for
the maintenance of army and navy,
and pay interest on the public debt
until June 80, 1914. 1t means that for
the next year the treasury will be
handing out cash at the rate of $S,5OO,-
900 day.
approximately two-thirds of the 49,
OOO.OOO,OOO appropriated for the fiscal
year 1923-24 must be used by the Gov.
ernment in meeting certain fixed
charges, such as pensions, payments
to or on behalf of veterans of the
world war
To give a better idea of just how
this money will be spent, the budget
bureau has figured out receipts and
disbursements in terms Of the average
dollar.
The expenditure of the average dol.
lar, however, scatters it over a wide
area. The treasury gets the biggest
slice-39 cents, but % cents of this
goes to pay interest on the public
debt. The war department gets 8.4
cents and the navy 8.5 cents, though
1t is figured that the Government
spends SO cents out of every dollar
for military functions, of which 13
cents is for the national defense. I'm
der the head Of military pensions, pay
ments to world war veterans, and sim
liar fxed charges, 10 cents is set
aside.
The postoffice department will re-
ceive 1916 cents, but this is usually
balanced by postal receipts.
The veterans bureau gets IL cents
out Of each dollar, the department of
agriculture cents, and the interior
department, 8 cents. One cent is used
to pay the expenses of Congress.
The commerce department, the de-
partment Of justice, the labor depart
ment, the department of state, and
the District of Columbia, have to get
along with total of less than cents.
The smallest amount goes to the labor
department which gets only two
tenths of a cent
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
OFFERS 100000
FOR WORLD PEACE
Edward w. Box, Former Editor
OF Ladies' Home Journal,
Makes This Offer
JUDGES TO DECIDE WINNER
Competition Open for American Ideas
On AVerting War-Hopes Unit
ed States Will Lead Way
To Universal Peace.

New York, N Y.-One hundred
thousand dollars awaits the American
who can conceive the most practical
plan by which the United States can
cooperate with other nations to
achieve and to preserve world peace.
Announcement was made that this
sum has been given for the purpose
by Edward w. Box of Philadelphia,
former editor of the Ladies' Home
Journal, who retired several years
ago to devote himself to welfare work
and self-expression.
The prize-one of the most prince
ly ever offered for a non-commercial
idea-is to be known as the Ameri-
can Peace Award. 1t is to be given
in two parts, $4,000 to the author of
the plan as soon as 1t has been
chosen by the jury OF award, and the
remainder when the practicability
has been decentralization II has
passed the United States Senate, or
when the jury shall decide that an
adequate degree Of popular support
has been shown for it.
Conditions are under formulation,
but competition will be open to every
American. Plans will be received un-
til the middle of November. The per.
sonnel of the jury of award will be
announced before September 1.
Mr.. Bok's purpose, it was explain
ed, was to give all Americans an op-
portunity to express themselves "up-
on problem for which we have not
been able to find the answer through
political avenues or through the ef-
forts OF interested special groups"
1t was hoped to obtain a workable
plan that would be acceptable to all,
or most, or the various groups,
which, while differing as to the best
method Of international cooperation,
agree in the desire to find some way
by which the United States can do
its share in preventing war and es-
tablishing good will among nations"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Groom browns In China

Greensburg, Participating to sail
for Yoschow City, China, and with
everything arranged for her wedding,
Miss Helen Young OF near Mt. Pleas
ant is grief-stricken, as are the Rev.
and Mrs. e. " Laubach OF Scottdale,
parents OF James a Laubach, who was
drowned in Lake Lung Ting, China,
while crossing in a boat, and was
buried at Yoschow City. A cablegram
was received from Theodore Winters,
a friend OF young Laubach, giving the
news. Miss Young had everything
arranged for her wedding and part OF
her personal belongings shipped to
China
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Three Killed, 2a Hurt.

Albuquerque, N M.-Three persons
were killed, two probably fatally in
jured and a score of others more or
less seriously hurt shortly before mid.
night last night when Sante Fe pass
enger train No 8, known as the Nava-
10, plunged over a 30-foot embank-
ment on a sharp curve, mile and
quarter west of Domingo. N. M. Both
engines and the baggage car went
over the embankment and the chair
car and a smoking car turned over,
but six Pullmans remained on the
track. Engineer Joseph Blevins and
Fireman Earl Hall, Of the second en-
giue, were thrown 70 feet from the
track and both were killed. One man
is missing.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
old BOOM TOWN
RAzED BY FIRE
Woman Missing, Many Hurt
and Hundreds are Made
Homeless
OTHER TOWNS OFFER RELIEF
Only Six Buildings Remain in His
toric Gold Boom ToWn-"Boot-
leegers" Feud Blamed
as Cause.

Tonopah, Nev.-Goldfield, Nevada,
last of the Vests old-style gold min
ing boom camps" with the exception
of six buildings, burned to the ground.
One man is dead, woman is missing
and is believed to have perished and
several persons were treated for
burns as the result of the confiagra-
ton now believed to have been of in
cendiary origin, started as part of a
bootleggers feud.
Fire Chief 1. N. Galliac of Goldfield
declared that he believed an enemy of
a known bootlegger started the blaze
in building in the rear of the Brown
Parker garage.
Residents were returning from the
mountainside, where they fed with
their belongings, and telephone con-
nections have been restored. Food
has reached there from Tonopah. All
Of the local supplies have been de-
stroyed.
A group of abandoned miners
shacks on the outskirts OF town, left
when the boom passed, are being re.
habilitated under the direction of a
relief committee.
Goldfeld is one OF the last of the
gold boom towns of the West, and has
a history as stirring as that of any
OF its predecessors. Situated in the
Nevada desert, in the sink of the
Malapai, credited with being the era.
ter of an extinct volcano, it has seen
its population swell over night to
more than 10000 and then fall away
to a few dwindling hundreds as the
boom died down.
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snveloped by Flaming Fluid /;
Three in Serious Condition .
and Likely to Die
CHILDREN AMONG VICTIMS
Explosion of Gasoline Tank at Filling
Station Throws Out a 3O-Foot
Stream of Flame
Injuries Five.

Marietta, C.-Explosion of a gaso--
line tank at a filling station in Wade,
80 miles north Of here, may cause the
death of three persons and the MAIN
ing of two others. The victims are:
Mark Brown, 40 years old, of New
Matamoras, o.; Joseph Brown, 10
years old, Of New Matamoras; John
Yoho, 45 years old, of Wade; Raymond
Brown, 6 years old of Wade; George
Brown, 4 years old. of Wade.
Mark Brown, Joseph Brown and
Yoho are expected to die. Joseph
Brown is son of Mark Brown, Ray
mond and George Brown, who were
seriously burned about the face, arms
and body, are sons of Carl Brown.
who left the station just before the
accident occurred.
Without warning there was a deto-
nation and a flash. Burning fluid
spread in every direction and persons
nearby rushed to the aid of the five
injured, who had been knocked to the
ground. The explosion wrecked the
filing station and destroyed the auto
mobile which the Browns had parked
while obtaining gasoline. Yoho was
rushed to the Marietta Hospital
The tank did not burst, but shot a
3O-foot stream of flaming gasoline out
through the connection. The fluid en-
veloped Yoho, teamster, driving a
moving machine 80 feet away, and
the three children, Joseph, Raymond
and George Brown.
Mark Brown was burned in the
fhrnn fnf 20 nf fnx
extinguishing the flames.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Deal Involves sac. 600 .onn

New York, N. Y.-Negotiations for
the purchase Of the Steel and Tube
Company Of America by the Youngs-
town Sheet and Tube Company we're
completed by the payment in full Of
S38,OOO,OOO which will be used to re-
tire the Steel and Tube preferred
stock at S1tO share and accrued di-
vidends. Funds for the purchase were
provided by a syndicate of bankers
headed by the Bankers Trust Com
pany.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
French War Hero Honored.

New York, N. Y.-Welcomed by
cheering thousands with the strains Of
martial music, General Henri Joseph
Gouraud, one-armed soldier of France,
arrived on the liner Paris to be the
guest Of the Rainbow" division for
six weeks. A welcoming committee,
composed of army officers, Govern
ment and diplomatic representatives
and members of the Rainbow" divi-
sion, boarded the liner at quarantine
and accompanied the general to the
pier. ..-.... ..-....t.e j--y-'
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Flre pestroYa Rualnesa nInnL

Hardwick, Vt.-Fire wiped out the
heart OF the business section OF Hard
wick, destroying FIVE business build
ings and two tenement houses and
driving 10 families from their homes.
The loss is estimated at $15O,OOO. The
fire is believed to have started from
an explosion OF fireworks in a barber
shop. The flames, when discovered
shortly before midnight. were beyond
control and were soon sweeping
through the business section. the
greater part OF which had been razed
before the fire was controlled.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
ButIer Needs Farm Labor.

Butler, Pa.-Butler county farmers
are in serious need Of wOrkmen to
help harvest the crops of fall grain
and hay, due to drain made by the
buildig trades and the industrial
plants Of the district at higher prices
than the farmers can afford to pay.
Farm tenants are leaving the farms
and going TO mills to work for S8
TO $40 a day. One farmer I'm the
Butler district has offered one-third
Of his 40 acres Of fall grain to any
one who will cut and thresh the
crop, which is above the average
in his community for this season IN
quantity yield and quality Of grain.
but he has no takers.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Uses Oil To Put Out Fir.

Beaumont, Tex.-When a pressing
machine in a tailor shop blazed up
suddenly an employe picked up a
bucket Of gasoline. believing It to be
water, poured the oil on the machine
and started a fire which virtually
wiped out Orangefield, village in the
Orange Oil field, near here. Thirteen
buildings were consumed The loss is
estimated at s5O,O0O First reports
that an oil we'll was aflre were In
correct
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Killed I'm DIVING

Morgantown, w Va.-When his
head struck a rock in diving from
the stern Of a rowboat In the Mo-
nongahela river at Brady, this county,
William Cooper, aged 25, machine
operator in the Brady mine, at that
place, was rendered unconscious and
drowned before help reached him.
When the body was recovered a short
time later, large cash was found in
the dead mans head, telling the story
Of how the accident occurred.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
browns While ESCAPING.

Morgantown, w. Va.-Retribution
came quickly to Pete Cininol, miner.
near here. After he had shot and
killed his boarding house boss, Felix
Colendo, he attempted to escape by
swimming across the MOnongahela
river. When he reached midstrearn
he became exhausted and drowned
A fight occurred at the boarding
house of Solendo and in the mixup
Ciniol shot Colendo Waving his
pistol, Ciniol ran to the river and
plunged in. Weighted down by his
clothing, he drowned while scores
looked on.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
HIaher plvoree cost urned.

ST. Clairsville, O.-An increase in
the cost of divorces is recommended
as a result of a state examination
into Belmont county affairs. An ex-
aminer advised that the So deposit
now required of persons filing peti.
tions for divorces be increased to at
least $40. This deposit is required
to cover costs. The examination also
revealed that Belmont County has as.
sets of over 100000 with Debts of
$1,124,7OO, mostly special assessme ents
for village and city Improvements.
The report lists s1,3S7 as paid with.
out lawful authority for damage done
TO sheep Dy dogs.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Hldea lInuor under earhane-

Franklin, Pa.--AlthoUgh he had
adopted an ill-smelling garbage wa
gon as a means to transport several
hundred gallons Of liquor. thinking
it would disarm suspicion, James q,
Rice, aged so, was seized by County
Detective Russell and party of
deputies on Galloway Hill, several
miles from Franklin Rice, who is
a garbage man. was on his way from
Two Nile Run 20 Franklin, he told
officials, to deliver the liquor
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Jack Johnson Races.

Atlantic City, N. Jack Johnson,
former king of heavyweights, almost
staged Fourth of July battle of his
own here and all over debt OF $3.50.
year old. Max Mallin, proprietor OF
a shore garage, washed and housed
Johnson's $4,000 automobile during a
visit here last year. Jack took his
car away and failed to settle the bill.
He arrived in town to keep a theat-
rical engagement and put up at a ho-
tel at Margate City, just below this
resort. Mallin, with private detec-
tiYes, attached Johnson's motor, put
ting a chain around the wheels.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Boy Killed in Auto Crash.

Clarksburg, W. Va--Peter Audia,
aged 10, of Wilsonburg, was killed
and his father, Antonio Audia, was
seriously injured when an automobile
in which they were riding went over
an embankment on the Bridgeport
pike. The older Audia is in a hos
pital here. Two others in the car.
Genovieve Windon, aged 13, and Mrs.
Pearl Moroscoe, aged 26, both of
Clarksburg, were slightly injured
The machine was wrecked.
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Canoe capsIzes. Man browns.

Monogahela City, Pa.-Thrown in
TO the Monongahela river when his
canoe capsized, John Koshula. aged
26, Of sos Sixth street, was drowned
beforg three men who were stand
ing on the bank Of the river could
reach him. Koshula got the canoe
to take his wife and a friend out in
to the river and he had padded out
in the river while waiting for his
wife 70 come to the river. The canoe
overturned and KOshula, who was
unable to swim, was thrown out.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Hunter Finds woman's Body.

New Castle, Pa-While hunting
groundhogs near Watson Park, south
OF here, Cyrus Gallagher came upon
the body Of Mrs. B. J. Cole, aged 81,
lying i'm the woods with a revolver
at her side. One bullet had entered
her right temple and another had en-.
tered her head behind the right ear.
Mrs. Cole and her husband resided
in Watson Park and Cole worked at
night on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road
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PIunalna Auto Kills Man

Greensburg, Pa.-Seated on a cuL
vert at the side of a road In Bovard,
mining town east OF here, Harry b.
TAFT, aged 56, OF that place, was struck
by an automobile said to have been
beyond control of the driver, and IA
tally injured this morning. TAFT died
one hour after the accident In the
Westmoreland Hospital. His body
was crushed. The driver of the auto.
mobile which struck TAFT failed to
stop and police have been unable to
ascertain how the accident occurred.
TAFT leaves his wife and eight chill
dren.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
3. & o. Employees Get More PAY.

Baltimore, Md. = Conferences be-
tween the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company and representatives of
the Brotherhood of Railway and
Steamship Clerks. Freight Handlers,
Express and Station Employees have
resulted In an agreement for in
creases in pay Of employees in those
branches of the service, officials of
the brotherhood announced The In
creased rates are 10 cents a day for
the clerical force, and range from 1
cent an hour to 212 cents an hour for
the other classes covered In the
agreement.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Boys Cause Cantnre-

Beaver Falls, Pa.-Two boys, detect
ing the odor OF alcohol coming from
a truck, the driver OF which had asked
them about detour on the Stefin
Hill road here caused the arrest of
two men who said they we're Louis
Viny Of 1902 Bedford avenue, Pitts
burgh, and David Cohen of Cleveland.
The truck and It's load Of what the
police say we're 300 gallons Of alcohol
were confscated. The liquid was in
so fve-gallon cans inside pasteboard
boxes.
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To Bring Back ExpIorer,s Party.

Seattle, Wash.-Enroute to Nome
Alaska. from New York Harold Noice,
who announced in Toronto, Ontario,
last week that he would form an ex-
pedition to bring of a party of ex-
plorers that has been on WrangeI
Island, in the Arctic Ocean, north OF
Siberia, since 1920, has left here on
his mission. Noice hopes to charter
a boat in Nome to go to the island
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Trains Kill Two

Elizabeth, Pa.-John Paluci, aged
80, of this place, an employe of the
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad,
was killed when he was struck by a
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie train near
Lock No. 3, a short distance from
here. An unidentified man, aged
about 45, was killed when struck by
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Rail-
road train on the right-of-way be.
tween Bower Hill and Ridgeyille.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Hlah Official Mnrdsrsd-

Caracas, Venezuela.-Gen. Juan c.
Gomez, first vice. president Of Vene-
zuela and governor OF the federal dis.
trict, was assassinated in bed, says
an official bulletin Prior to the is
suance of the bulletin a report was
current that Gomez had died sudden
". Eight days official mourning has
been decreed He was the brother
OF the president of the republic, Juan
V. Gomez, and was elected to Office
by congress in June, 1922.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
PIttsburaher Held for Manslauahtsr.

Uniontown. Pa.-As a result Of his
automobile running onto a sidewalk
in the business district here, injur-
ing William Hunt, a musician and
mail carrier, who died as a result OF
the accident, Herbert Klein Of Pitts.
burgh. charged with manslaughter,
was held under bond Of $500, before
Alderman Robert Collins, to awai'
action OF the coroner's jury.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12
Girl Leaps Ten Stories.

Philadelphia, Pain sight of hun.
dreds Of persons, Miss Theresa Laz-
zari of Camden, N. J., leaped from
the tenth floor Of the Wanamaker
department store at the Thirteenth
and Market street corner and was
killed. She was employed in the
clothing repair department and made
the leap after telling her foreman
she was going on an errand.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12

Wheeling new brokerage firm
OF Dickerson, Oberman &c Robinson,
Inc, has opened for business.
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Wheeling-J. Nicholas Jochum, %,
ice dealer, died of injuries he received
when an automobile he was driving
overturned on the Bethany pike.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12

Sistersville-Ice Cream prices have
been boosted to 60 cents a quart.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12

MOundsville Tony Ambroski, OF
MOundsville, was arrested by federal
authorities on a charge of violation Of
liquor laws.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12

Dawson-It cost Harry Mitch, coal
miner, $51.6O for striking a Clarl1s-
burg police officer Fine was imposed
in Police Judge McDonald's court.
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Parkersburg-Ten cases of measles
have been reported to local health au-
thoritles. The afflicted persons range
in age from 4 to A.
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FairmOnt-Construction of 20 new
homes in the west end OF the city
is to begin simultaneously. A local
contracting company is undertaking
the project.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12

Martinsburg - James Michael, OF
Morgan county, couldn't swim, but he
ventured into waters over his head
at Sir Johns Run. He drowned, al
though several boys tried to save his
life.
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Huntington-Dr. Charles E. Jeffer-
son, pastor of the Broadway Taber-
nacle, of New York City, opened the
summer school session of Marshall
college here with an address at stu
dent convocatiOn.
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MorgantOwn-Wes Virginia univer-
sity students, especially OF the coed
variety, let "Uncle Sam" do st, when
they left Morgantown for their homes,
with the result that more than $500
parcels OF wearing apparel, books and
other effects were jammed In the local
postofhce. II was the heaviest traffic
here since the Christmas holidays.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12

Chester-When a bumbebee buzzed
and stUng Cecil Swlsher his car plung-
and injuries we're sustained by Swish
er, his wife and two small children.
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HuEtington-A jury Of twelve men
in circuit court placed a value OF S75
urOn the kiss Glen Gilpin, Hunting
ton high school graduate and athlete,
stole from pretty Orma Williams,
when they we're both employed In a
ten cent store on Third avenue.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-07-12

Wheeling-The resignation of Rev.
Percy E. Burt as pastor of the Wheel
ing Presbyterian church has been ac-
cepted by the Wheeling presbytery.
Rev. Mr.. Burt accepted a call to a
church in Sharon, Pa.
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Morgantown-The fire truck came
out first best in a collision between
one of the pieces of apparatus of the
local fire-fghting department and
small roadster. The pleasure car was
driven by Edgar II. Maxwell, who,
like the two men on the fire truck,
escaped uninjured. The fiivver was
a total wreck.