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Evening star., 1923-02-08

HE ambassador of Spain
and Sonora de Riano VII!
have small company din
ing with them this evening
at the embassy
The Secretary of Laborr and mrs.
James ]. Davis will be hosts at dinner
this evening.
Evening star., 1923-02-08

Mrs. Edward C. Walker has had as
her guests for few days Mai. Gen
and Mrs. A. w. Brewster
Evening star., 1923-02-08

Mrs. Clyde b. Aitchison entertained
at luncheon yesterday in honor of
Mrs. Bertha Clark Hughes and Mrs.
Belle Musser. who are guests OF Mrs.
Robert StuntZ' in her home at 1885
Park avenue.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
LIQUOR SCHOONER
LOOTED BY PIRATES
500 CASES AND $1,000 TAKEN.
SUPERCARGO KIDNAPPED
AFTER WOUNDING SHIP.

HALIFAX, N. S.-When the Var
mouth schooner Eddie James, which
recently sailed from here to the Jer-
sey coast with 900 cases of liquor,
locked here today she was minus her
cargo. but the crew accounted for this
with a startling tale of daring pirates
and gunner encountered while the
ship peacefully rocked at anchor off
the New Jersey coast, near Highland
light, March End,
Armed with pistols, the rum pirates
boarded the schooner at dusk, the
crew said, and fired volley OF shots.
wounding Supercargo Phillip Knowles.
Then. at the point of pistols, they
looted the ship OF the 900 cases OF
whisky. $1,000 in cash and escaped,
taking with them the wounded super
cargo.
With tha cargo gone the schooner
made back to its home port to report
the piracy and the kidnapping OF
Knowles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
BOIL WEEvIL TO BE
FOUGHT FROM THE AIR
AIRPLANES TO OPERATE SPE-
C1AL APPARATUS. EXPERT
MENT IN LOUISIANA.

The boil weevil, which has with
stood numerous onslaughts aimed at
their eradication, now will be attack
ed from the air by army planes in a
new method of warfare.
The u. S. department of agricul-
ture called en- the war department for
loan of several airplanes and three
specially equipped machines have been
furnished
Active work against the boil weevil
will start in June at the experiment
station at Tallulah, La, where last
year effective results were accom-
plished by the same method against
the cotton leaf worm.
Special spraying apparatus will be
attached to the planes which will
scatter poison over the fields. Agents
of the department believe this is the
most practical method yet advanced
for the control of the boil weevil and
early experiments indicate that the
system could be adopted with bene-
fetal results over the entire cotton
belt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
AN ENTIRE FAMILY
OF SIX FOUND DEAD
KILLED BY VAPOR OF ACID
USED AS DISINFECTANT TO
RID HOUSE OF reaches.

CHICAGO, Ill-An entire family
of six was found dead today, killed
by the vapor of an acid used as dis
infectant by the proprietor of res
taurant under their apartment.
Peter Vordabyak, the restaurateur,
and O. w. Hail. local manager OF the
National Hygienic Corporation OF
Cleveland, who had undertaken to rid
the apartment of reaches, were arrest
ed. The bodies we're discovered by
William Powers, member OF the
state Legislature, who roomed at the
Kratzenberg home. Powers left his
windows open last night and was the
only person in the apartment to es-
cape the deadly fumes.
DIR. Joseph Springer, coroner's ply
sician, who examined the bodies, said
the gas would cause death within
four minutes. Hall told the police that
before placing the pans of acid in the
restaurant last night he warned the
occupants of the apartment to keep
their windows open.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
FOR SALE: BLOOD!
APPLY AT HOSPITAL
STUDENTS AT JOHNS HOP
KINS ARE LITERALLY EARN
ING BLOOD MONEY.

BALTIMORE, Md.-Students at
the Johns Hopkins Medical school are
paying for their tuition in blood mon
ey, literally and without invidious
connotation.
They are selling their blood for
TRANSMISSION purposes at $50 a trans
fusion. 1t is an easy way to make
money, according to DR.. John G.
Huck, professor of medicine. All the
students has to do is to lie down, sac
rifce little blood and then collect
the $50.
The Catch.
But the fly in the ointment, from
the students standpoint, is that all
are not eligible to be b1ed. The sub
ject must in the first place be per-
fectly healthy. Then his blood must
measure up to certain standard. "A
red blooded man" for TRANSMISSION pur-
poses must be more than a movie
hero.
Blood Money!
More than 100 students, DR.. Huck
says, have listed themselves as being
ready to sell their blood The blood
of each of these men has been analyz-
ed and classified in definite blood
group. When TRANSMISSION becomes
necessary the student whose blood
group corresponds to that of the pa
tent is called for the operation. Each
student is now limited to three oper-
ations a year, which restricts his
blood money to a maximum of $3.50.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
WET FAREWELLS In
CAPITAL STIR DRYS
BOOZE FLOWED FREELY AT
PARTIES OF SENATORS AND
CONGRESSMAN.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Prohibi-
ton enforcement officials here are ex-
cited over reports which have circu-
lated generally about the capital since
March 4th that the 18th amendment
and Volstead acts were either forgot
ten or deliberately disregarded in fare
well parties of senators and congress
men at the capitol Immediately after
adjournment of congress.
Edgar N. Read, divisional prohibi-
ton chief for the District OF Column
bia, is looking into the situation, but
admits that it is rather late in the day
to get any evidence, 1nasmuch as the
farewell parties" are over and most
of the members are either travelling
outside the three-mlie limit Ell route
to Panama or gone to their homes
for the long Legislative vacation.
But he does believe that something
ought to be done to put an end to
bootlegging at the senate and house
office buildings, where the prohibi-
ton amendment and enforcement acts
were framed. That bootlegging goes
on there on a large scale, as charged
by Representative Upshaw, democrat,
of Georgia, is generally admitted even
by some of its benefciaries, but those
who have been supplying the capitol
with hard liquor have not yet been
apprehended. Stricter watch OF the
capitol buildings, prohibition officers
declare, is to be kept when the next
congress convenes.
Manuel Herrick, member OF con
gress from Oklahoma, who during his
two years in Washington was lnvolv-
ed in many controversies, the latest
of which was one in which he played
the role Of spark plug" lover and
lost the girl in the case, came out
with statement bitterly denouncing
drinking at the capitol. Herrick, who
is an amateur aviator, said he would
be damn glad to get away from
the capitol
Il saw so much drinking around
congress without looking for it, said
Herrick, that it made me sick. I've
seen congressman bring liquor. into
the capitol and I've seen 'em liquor,
ed I'D in the cloak rooms. 1t was all
A palne-those fellows voting dry and
drinking wet. After two years in con,
gress l feel like a person out OF jail.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
TREMENDOUS GAIN IN GEORGIA
BANKING FIGURES INDICATES THE
RETURN OF BUSINESS PROSPERITY
strating the rapid return of the state
to normal prosperity.
Bills and RediscountS

strating the rapid return of the state
to normal prosperity.
Bills and Rediscounts.
For instance, the bills payable and
rediscounts of banks in December
1921, were $40,532,405 while in. De-
cember, 1922, they had been reduced
to $22,049091. These items represent
ed the debts of the banks.
Another very interesting item, or
comparison of items, is in deposits.
In December, 1921, the deposits OF
Georgia state banks outside of the
state were $9,402,831, while the debts
owing by Georgia state banks outside
of the state were $13,340,325.
But in December, 1922, the depos-
its outside of the state were $9,878,786
while, the debts owing outside of the
state were only $9,234,9o7.
In other words, in December, 1921,
the state banks of Georgia owed near
ly $4,000000 more outside of the state
than they had on deposit outside OF
the state; while in December, 1922,
they had on deposit outside of the
state larger amount than they owed
outside of the state.
In December, 1921, the total depos-
its in state banks were $152, 640,825,
while in December, 1922, they were
l$173,250,441.
Another interesting comparison is
between the reserves and the reserves
required by law. In December, 1922,
the banks had total reserves of $47,
''.3S8,923. The total reserves required by
law were $21, 101,01l. So that the ex-
cess of actual reserves over required
reserves was $26,287,911. In other
words, the banks had an actual re-
serve more than twice as great as the
legal requirement.
Reinstatements.
In December, 1922, there were in
state banks total of 355,82o deposits
subject to check, 1878 savings de-
posts and 1881 time deposits, max
ing a total of 562,123 bank depositors
of the three classes.
Superintendent Bennett gave out
these figures concerning bank failures
during the period from October, 1919,
when deflation started, to December,
1922.
"Thirty-seven banks with 1882 de-
positors having total deposits of S3,-
366,377 have been reinstated, merged
or 1iquidated without loss to any de-
positor or other creditor.
Zone bank having 1,187 depositors
with total deposits of $463,095 was
merged with loss of so per cent to
the depositors and no loss to other
creditors.
Five banks having 1904 deposit
tors, with total deposits OF Sl37, 1855,
are in process of reinstatement or
merger, and liquidation is practically
complete without loss to depositors
or other creditors.
Eleven failed banks have been re-
opened, but later re-c1osed, thus MAX
ing a total of forty-nine failed banks
whose affairs have been wound up in
this period"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
TWO BILLION DOLLARS HAVE BEEN
SPENT BY UNCLE SAM IN THE AID
OF SOLDIERS OF THE WORLD WAR

than $2,OOO,0OO,OOO for its former SER
vice men. They ask how it is that the
average cost of vocational training per
man has been in the neighborhood OF
$1,000.
Figures Of the bureau show that to
date it has cost $165,051,734 for medi-
cal and hospital services alone. The
bureau has paid out 1887 ,650,415 for
vocational training, $398,033,737 for
insurance, $432,747,715 for compensa-
ton and 1882, 186,95O for allowances.
The principal complaints by veter-
ans have been directed against hos
pital treatment and vocational train
ing. The latest figures show that IS
600 men are receiving medical treat
ment at the expense of the govern
ment
Hospitals involving congressional
appropriations totaling $34, 900, 000
are now under construction.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
SALVATION ANGEL TO
HAVE STYLE SHOW
WILL BE A FEATURE OF THE
EVANGELISTIC TOUR OF
RHEBA CRAWFORD.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Armed with
a new thrill for the American girls,
Rheba Crawford, late captain in the
Salvation Army, is going west to
preach a modern sort OF salvation to
the young people of the country. And
lust to show that she's one of them
and they need not fear that her type
of evangelism won't fit in with the
modern scheme of things Miss Craw-
ford will take along some OF the lat
est models from Broadway and stage
fashion show for women between
prayer meetings.
Young Folks Need Her.
"The angel of Broadway" whose
corner street meetings in the white
light district brought her national
fame, thinks the young folks out along
Main street need her more.
Miss Crawford's meetings are go
ing to be of the Billy Sunday type.
Its that hollow place that hurts
the morning after that only faith can
fill. That's what my religion is good
for" she said "The American girl is
just in a transitory period. She has
exhausted all the thrills of fapper-
dom. Now she is looking around for
something new. I've got it for her"
Miss Crawford will probably start
her tour, which she expects to carry
on five years, in Ohio. She may go
first to Indiana, where she has been
invited to join revival meetings now
in progress. In time she plans to hit
the Pacific coast and hold meetings
in HOLLYWOOD I'D like to get in some
ticks at what some of my fellow re-
vivalists call the devil in Holly
wood" she said.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
SUES SEAB0ARD
FOR 5O,95O DOLLARS
7. D. RUFFIN INJURED AL
RICHLAND WHEN ENGINE
HIT HIS FORD CAR.

RICHLAND, Ga.-Mr. ]. d. Rut-
fin who was seriously injured here a
few weeks ago when his automobile
was struck by a freight engine on the
Seaboard tracks, has filed a damage
suit in the superior court OF Stewart
county against the Seaboard Air Line
Railway Company for $50,95O, alleeg-
ING permanent injuries and seeking
alleged expenses occasioned by the
accident. ~
Mr.. Rufin and his little son were
in a closed Ford car when they drove,
onto the Seaboard tracks just ahead
OF the engine Freight cars on botn
sides of the crossing prevented Mr.
Rufin seeing the approaching tram
and also prevented the train crew from
seeing Mr.. Rufin's car until the col
Iision had happened. The Ford was
t,rned completely around and knock
ed several feet from the point OF the
collision. The car was badly demol-
ished and is now standing by the
side of the railroad tracks where Inc
accident occurred.
Mr. Rufin's spine was seriously IN
;ured but his son escaped harm. he
Is now in a hospital at Columbus
where it is said he will have to re-
main several months.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Evidence
OF prosperity, almost nationwide. was
given in the last income and profits
and tax payments to the government
treasury, officials clared tonight, bas-
ing their statement on figures which,
although Incomplete support their
earlier estimate OF receipts OF $780,
100000 between March lst and 18th.
One of the reasons given for the
view that business conditions improv-
ed throughout last year and are con-
tinuing ,on the upgrade was thai, al
though the general level of federal
tax rates had been lowered as COM
pared with the rates upon which last
years payments were based, treas
urv figures indicate the aggregate
amount OF taxes collected during the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
Consolidated Statement of Geor-
gia Institutions Demonstrate
Return to Normal Business.

That Georgia is rapidly returning
to normal prosperity is conclusively
demonstrated by a compilation of the
resources of banks under the JuriSdic-
ton of the state department of bank
ing as compiled by Superintendent t.
r. Bennett.
The highest peak of resources of
the state banks OF Georgia was reach
ed in December, 1919, when the total
was $380,000,000, in round figures.
The lowest ebb of resources OF
state banks of Georgia was reached
in December, 1921, when the total
was $23, 100000, in round figures.
In December, 1922, the resources
of state banks had climbed back to
$780, SIS, or an increase in a year
of more than $44,000,000.
But the figures for 1922 do not
show the actual present resources OF
banks under the departments juris-
diction, Superintendent Bennett said,
for the reason that two large national
banks surrendered their federal char
tiers and became state banks on jan
uary LIST, and these and some smaller
additions to state banking resources
bring the present total to more than
$3OO,000,OO0.
Rapid Return Shown.
The consolidated statement of the
state banks and trust companies I'M
der the departments jurisdiction was
compiled from statement of condi-
ton rendered to the department at
the close OF business December 20.
The consolidation contains a number
of facts and figures clearly demon
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
Committee Will Sift Charges of
Waste. Ineficiency and Delay
In Training and disqualification.

With record of $2,000,000,000 al
ready spent for aiding world war vet
Grams, sum which has not yet be-
gun to meet the requirements, the
veterans bureau, a boiling pot OF
trouble since its formation in the ear
ly days of the war, may undergo a
complete reorganization following a
senate investigation, which has been
ordered made during the present adj
sjQurnment Of congress. The special
5 committee headed by Senator
~ aansylvania, himself a war
veteran, 10 the bottom the
various charge waste, ineficiency
etc, which have been aimed at the
whole government program in an
ever-increasing number.
Internal Chaos Reported.
Reports of dissatisfaction and I'M
rest within the bureau have been cur
rent for some time. A special senate
committee headed by Senator Suth-
erland, reported that there were evil
dences of general dissatisfaction
among the officials entrusted with adj
ministration Of the bureau Many had
been removed, others had resigned
and more were ready to resign.
The elimination was reached when
Col. Charles r. Forbes, director Of
the bureau, and the apparent center
of the storm, resigned after he had
gone to Europe for a brief vacation,
President Harding Immediately &C
cepted the resignation and named
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines as success
sor.
Training Is Costly.
The government has spent more
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
NATION WIDE PROSPERITY is SHOWN BY TAX RETURNS

ments for the full year, although the
law permits payment in four install
ments. This, it was asserted, showed
that taxpayers with small incomes
had ready money and had disposed
of their obligation promptly. Most OF
this class of taxpayers, it was figured,
paid their taxes, which were on last
years incomes, out of earnings of the
current year, 1t is yet too early, Off
Gals explained, to forecast what per-
centage of the larger taxpayers had
paid their taxes in one installment.
Should the total for the month only
equal the amount received in March
last year, officials at the treasury
maintained there still remained con-
crete proof of better times. Revert
ing to the difference in rates, they
insisted there could be no misinter-
probation of the barometric readings.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
EUROPEAN MALES ARE
GOLD DIGGERS," GIRL SAYS
American Girls Who Venture Across
Are Targets of Fortune Hunters.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Qeclaring
all unmarried European men are gold
diggers." Miss Grace Ramsey, young
and pretty, returned today on the
Scandinavia-America liner Oscar II
from a six months tour of Europe
just as unmarried as she was when
she left her Somerville, Mass, home.
Her father. DIR. Frank w. Ramsey,
is a prominent Boston specialist.
Miss Ramsey said an American girl
who ventures abroad nowadays is
listed as a potential heiress the mo-
ment she sets foot on foreign soil and
is showered with invitations to tea,
dinner, the theatre and what not. Once
the European male succeeds in be-
coming her host he sizes up her jew
elry and attire and then proceeds
more or less frankly to find out the
extent of her fortune, and if the in
formation is satisfactory he suddenly
proposes marriage.
Il had so many proposals l lost
count of Them" she said. They did
not mean a thing to me. They are one
of the postwar horrors, this pestilence
of proposing busted Europeans
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
SPECTACULAR PARADE
BY THE XII KLUX KHAN
CANDIDATES RECEIVED INTO
ORDER. CROWDS JOURNEY
TO MOULTRIE TO SEE 1T.

MOULTRIE, Ga. Dressed in
robes of white, masked and wearing
peaked hats like those affected by the
crusaders of old, band OF silent men,
members of the Ku Klux Khan, fully
900 strong, marched in pairs about
the streets of Moultrie tonight.
At the head of the procession was
an automobile, in which there was a
hooded figure which was used as a
pathfinder, as the result of a report
that a live wire would be thrown
across the line of march by some OF
those who objected to the parade be
ing staged here. But there was no
untoward incident. Behind the auto
mobile a lone white robed man held
aloft the American flag. He was fol-
lowed by another klansman similarly
dressed who held high over his head
a cross of fire.
Witnessed by Thousands.
The crowd that gathered down
town to witness the parade was one
of the largest that Moultrie has ever
seen. Half of the population seemed
to turn out and hundreds drove III
from the smaller towns and from the
countryside. Every one made way for
the white clad figures and the expect
ant noisy crowds seemed hushed with
awe at the silent phalanx. The pro-
cession marched from the business
district to the old ball park where
moro than 100 candidates for mem
bership were naturalized in public
ceremony and the oath administered
to them They were sworn in beneath
a huge fiery cross.
This part of the ceremony followed
public addresses made by the Rev.
Roy E. Davis and H. Mcdonald and
an imperial officer from Atlanta whose
name was not given. The identity OF
none of the candidates could be learn
ed, for, like all the marchers in the
narade. they wore robes and masks.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
$4,000 ORPHANAGE TO BE
BUILT BY NEGRO MASONS
Work on Structure Was Started at
Americas March 18th.

The Negro Masonic Grand Lodge
OF Georgia has let a contract to X
E. Tharrow, of Atlanta, for the cree
ton of a three-story brick building
on the Masonic orphanage property
in north Americus Tharrow is lead
ing negro architect, and all OF the
plans for the building were drawn by
him. The cost of the structure when
completed is estimated at $34,0Oo
Work on the new building was be-
gun March 18th, the trustees announc-
ed today. 1t is planned to finish build
ing operations before the Grand Lodge
holds its annual session in America;
next June.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
BIG MIGRATION OF
NEGROES TO MEXICO
VANGUARD OF GREAT TREK
SOUTHWARK NOW MOVING.
ENGAGE SPECIAL TRAIN.

The colored people of the United
States are being invited to a new
promised land" in old Mexico. The
movement is sponsored by the Inter
national Community Welfare League
with Offices in Los Angeles, Cal.
Mexico City and Okmulgee, Okla. J
B. Key, colored, is president of the
league.
The league claims that settlement
rights in northern Mexico have been
secured, which includes freedom and
equality for negroes, Latin Americans
and Indians. About Is colored fami-
lies have already left Oklahoma for
Mexico, the party consisting OF tenant
farmers and numbering 100 persons
Secured Large Tracts.
Kew. the president, recently headed
a colored delegation which visited
Mexico City and conferred with Pres
ident Obregon. Settlement rights to
10000 acres of land in the state OF
Sonora, 10000 acres in San Louis
Potosi and 100000 acres on the 18TH
mus of Tehuantepec were secured by
the league, according to Key.
The Mexican government is wholly
in accord with the colonization move
ment and will welcome the thousands
of colored pilgrims" Key said. Elk
penses of the trip to Mexico is to be
paid pro rata by the emigrants. Total
expenses of the Oklahoma colony,
which Travelled in special train car
rving the livestock, farm machinery
and household furnishings of the col
onists. were $4,000. Colored colonies
from other cities throughout the
country are expected to get under
way for the promised land" in the
immediate future, according to Key