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New Britain herald., 1924-03-06

Joe Dugan's trick knee, which gave him much trouble last season, is said to be fit again as result of an oper- ation performed during the winter. A sudden twist would often cause the knee to slip out. Dugan suffered great pain at such times.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
ONLY HALF CROP OF
CORN is EXPECTED
SHENANDOAH VALLEY OUT
LOOK is FOR SMALLEST IN
so YEARS. LACK RAIN.

HARRISONBURG, Va.-The She
nandoah Valley, known as the Gran
airy of the Confederacy" during the
civil war, will harvest its smallest corn
crop in so years, farmers and crop
observers report. The total, they say,
will not be more than half the normal
yield.
Wet weather in the spring, late
planting and the summer drought are
blamed for the corn crop failure. Many
fields, because of failure of stalks to
take root, have been laid almost on
a level by winds.
Drought Plays Havoc.
From Harrisonburg to Winchester
the drought has played havoc with
the growing grain, and it seems as il
the farmers would not raise enough
corn for seeding purposes. From Har-
risonburg to Stanton the stand OF
corn is much better and the yield will
be greater. From Staunton to Roam
oke the corn stand is still better, but
across the Blue Ridge, from Char
lottesville to Washington, the yield is
as very poor.
Virginia normally produces 50,0OO,-
900 bushels of corn. Early estimates
this year placed the crop at 35,0OO,OO0
bushels. Some farmers now believe the
yield will not be above 3O,00000O
bushels
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
WIFE CHARGED SIS
TO $40 FOR KISSES
WEALTHY RETIRED FARMER,
50, ASSERTS BRIDE, 81, WAS
COSTLY; ASKS DIVORCE.

VINTON, Ia.-Whether kisses put
a dent in his bank roll is not set forth
by Morgan Shelly, 82-year-old bride
groom. who filed petition for divorce
in the district court here against his
wife. Lillian Richardson Shelly, but
he did not object to paying S. and
$40 each for them, he said The specific
charge against his wife is cruel and
inhuman treatment. He alleges she
threatened to kill me with an axe
and beat my brains out with a club;
Mrs. Sheely was a pretty widow, 81
wears old, clerking in the cigar coun-
ter at the union station in Cedar Rap
ids when Shelly met her, about
year ago.
He says a rift soon came in their
happiness and every time he asked to
kiss her she wanted SIS for the kiss
and finally raised the price to $40. He
asserts that he furnished her large
sums OF money for pretty clothes. He
also asserts that she married him for
his fortune.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
u. S. Grows Rare Chaulmoogra
For Treatment of Dreaded Leprosy

searching for chaulmoogra trees.
Tracing chaulmoogra history, Mr.,
Rock found that its seeds and oil have
been known for centuries to the ma
tiyes of Burma and southeastern Asia
in general as palliatives in leprosy and
other skin diseases, and were employ
ed by them both externally and inter
nally."
Control of Malady Is Hope.
There are about 500 lepers in the
United States, as nearly as can be as
certained, says the United States Pub
lie Health Service About 225 are in
one colony at Carville, La. A small
colony which was located at Buzzards
Bay in Massachusetts, was merged
with the Louisiana colony in 1921.
There are about 800 registered lepers,
and it is estimated that around $50
have not been identified.
Those afflicted are looking to chaul-
moogra oil as their salvation, and the
results achieved thus far with it lead
sanguine medical men to foresee the
day when leprosy will be added to the
list of maladies man can control.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
NEW VOTERS MAY
DECIDE THE ELECTION
YOUNG ELEMENT MAY DETER
MINE PRESIDENTIAL CAM
PAIGN. 100000 IN ALL.

Those who will vote for the first
time in the elections this fall will de-
eide who is to be president of the
United States, according to Simon
Michelet, Washington Cd. c. lawyer,
organizer of the National Get-Out-
the-Vote club.
Mr. Michelet calculates that there
will be 100000 young men and young
women who will vote for the first time
this fall
Largest Plurality on Record.
Mr.. Michelet shows that the largest
plurality ever given any presidential
candidate. was that of 100000 for
Harding in 1920. Ordinarily the plu-
rality is much less. That of Wilson in
1916 was only 1000.
He figures that the result will be
rather close this fall and that the army
of new voters will decide the result.
Taking the pivotal states, he shows
that Indiana normally gives a candi-
date a plurality of $4,000, and the new
voters in that state number l99,63S.
Other states show the same prepon-
derance of new voters over the ordi-
nary plurality.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
BEETLES $50 YEARS OLD;
1900 ARE HOMELESS

DR.. c. J. Gahan, of the Natural
History Museum in London, is
faced with grave housing prob
lem. With more than 3,O0O,0OO,O0O
insects already accommodated in
l4Pr nartment he is puzzled with
wIi~ nth 10000 just sent
him for research. DR..
Gahan points o.. hat there are
roughly 100000 species of insects,
of which the museum has about
ten specimens of each. Some of the
beetles, for instance, are $50 years
old-or rather years dead" They
appear to be in good condition, he
says, and should last another $50
years, though we use no preserva-
tive. The specimens are kept in
sealed bottles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
CIRCULATION OF BAD
MONEY ON INCREASE
ACTIVITY AMONG COUNTER
FEITING BANDS REPORTED.
BOOZE" IS EXPLANATION.

Booze" is the explanation for the
increase in the amount of counterfeit
money in circulation, according to Of
hcials of the United States secret SER
vice. 1t is reported that since prohi-
bition went into effect there has been
pronounced activity among coun-
terfeiters.
Years ago, say secret service men,
counterfeiters had much difficulty in
passing bad money. The most they
could pass at one time was $40 or
$40 bill. To pass more was to incur
suspicion. The bill would be scrutin-
lied and perhaps the counterteiting
detected.
Now it is possible to pass as much
as $4,000 in bad money and get away
with it. The counterfeiter passes his
money to the bootlegger
Money Handed Over in the Dark.
A bootlegger, it is explained, lands
on some isolated spot on the Atlantic
or Pacific coast with cargo OF iq-
uor. The man who buys the liquor is
there to meet him. 1t is the dead OF
night. Everybody is in a hurry The
liquor is loaded on a truck. The mon
ey-S1O,OOO or $15,OOO-is handed over
It must be casino checks in this
game. The bootlegger stuffs it into
his pocket and everybody scurries
awav, for revenue agent might be
coming along at any moment.
The boot1egger does not know the
money is counterfeit until he takes it
to his bank. He then learns the bit
ter truth. But he does not squeal. 10
do so would be getting himself in bad
with the authorities. So everything is
hushed up, the bootlegger finding
himself with a small fortune in bad
money on his hands. And the only
wav the bootlegger can get rid OF 1t
is to try and pass it along to other
persons.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
WOMEN FIGHT TO
GET VIEW OF BABY
WILD SCENES AT FAIR WHERE
HEIRESS' DAUGHTER WAS
CONTESTING FOR PRIZE.

AURORA. Ill.-A showing today
at the central states fair better babies
conference of the baby daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Norris, OF ST.
Charles, ILL.,, who, as heiress to the
$40,000,000 left by the late John w:
Gates, is among the richest endowed
children of the world, caused greatest
excitement and confusion. Hundreds
of women gathered about glass
house in the womans building where
the babies were shown, pushed and
fought to get glimpse OF the child
and had to be driven back to save the
house. Eager photographers who
found a way into the babies house
touched off flashlights to get pictures
and so startled mothers they wept.
The babies as one broken into cry
ing. The examining doctors got ex-
cited and one of them grabbed a
photographer by the arm, while an
other summoned the police Mrs. Nor
ris ran out of the house with her baby
CRYING: 81 won't have it. | won't have
this publicity. They've frightened my
baby into Mysteries"
She trembled violently. Nurses who
ran to her aid gave her blanket to
wrap her baby in. A sweet little thing
with brown eyes and curling golden
hair, it soon ceased crying and the
mother shortly regained composure.
The examination Of the child was then
resumed.
The baby achieved great distinction.
She scored above 90. Whether she is
the prize baby will not be known,
however, until the end of the week
when all the 900 other babies in the
show will have been scored.
The Norris baby is 8 months old.
Her entry card revealed that her name
is Lavernex Gertrude Norris.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02

~~N~~~ O~---&-~~--N
"Nerve" on the Gallows' Edge. Re-
calls the Conduct of Other Con-
demned Men in Last Moments.
CHICAGO.-"It's very seldom that
two men ever are hanged together
without one of them showing up yell
low"
The speaker is guard at the Cook
county jail. True to the hangman's
code he insists his name be not used
in connection with talk of executions,
but he qualities to discuss the sub
ject by his record of participation in
"a hangings here in the last IS years.
Leopold.
Whether Richard A. Loeb and Ma
than F. Leopold, jr., if they are
brought to actual capital punishment
for the murder of Robert Franks, will
maintain their pose of stoical cold
ness our hangman refuses to predict
But he will not be surprised if the
nerve fails at least one of them.
"They won't feel like making any
big speeches, anyhow he insists.
If the two boys are executed they
will he scheduled to die in the same
corner Of the county Jail and on part
of the same scaffold where eighty
two other men have been hanged
since 1873. Before that date hangings
were either public or in the court
house-not in the jail. Some of the
planks of the old jail gallows still are
used in the revised and rebuilt, mod
ern, demountable death trap.
Negroes Nervier.
In the original gallows the trap was
sprung by an intricate series OF opera
tons resembling the invention sketch
of comic artist. The hangman pull
ed a trigger which released a weight,
which fell upon a razor-edged chisel,
which cut rope, which allowed the
trap to fall, and it took nerve to keep
his voice steady for that
Zone of the nerviest | ever saw,
though, was fellow named Smith.
He walked right up and gazed UP at
the rope and got in position to make
it easy as possible for us. And-aH ne
said was, please get it over as quick
in general, think the ones who
were tough guys outside are the soft
ones when they come to go. And OF
ten the quiet ones outside are the
nerviest under the rope.
THE biggest hanging | ever saw
was nv first one, when five men went.
Two OF those were mean and surly
right up to the last. And one collapsed
and had to be carried through with it.
1T seems to me they get their nerve
screwed up just to certain point, and
are able to go to the limit. But they
haven't much reserve. They are sort
of walking in a daze, all OF them"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
WOULD KEEP JEWS OUT
OF A FLORIDA TOWN
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SEC
RETARY URGES PEOPLE TO
ACT. TWO FACTIONS.

Florida is divided into two factions
as result of the declaration by James
Coad, secretary of the chamber of
commerce at St. Petersburg, that the
future of the city depends upon the
exclusion of all foreigners and Jews"
Coad made his remark during an adj
dress before the St. Petersburg XII
wants club, which applauded but took
no official action. The Optimist club,
however, has adopted a resolution
heartily favoring" Coad's stand.
81 was speaking as an individual and
not for the chamber Of commerce"
Coad later said, but l hope the cham
Der will support me- l believe that the
influx of foreigners here, and | class
the Jews as foreigners, is detrimental
to the city and would tend to produce
slums and destroy the neighborly feel
ing that is now an asset here.
an speaking as l did, l intended to
start a movement among the citizens
against foreigners and Jews"
Jews Strike Back.
Jewish residents of the city struck
back, condemning Coad's remarks as
unfriendly and un-American.
The Ku Klux Khan, having 1000
members, has taken no official action,
but many klansmen are believed to be
members of the Optimist club.
Officials of the Tampa Optimist
club have asked that the charter of
the ST Petersburg club be revoked
because of its action.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
TO Be TAXED LONG TIME
FOR DEBTS OF EUROPE
PEOPLE OF U. S. MUST DIG
UP BILLIONS TO RETIRE
BONDS FOR THEIR LOANS.
EUROPE is TAKING OWN TIME
Government Cannot Count on Pay
ment of More Than One Fourth of
Principal in Next Thirty Years.
Debtors Seem Little Concerned.

Although the American government
expects to maintain its policy of re-
fusing to consider cancellation of war
debts of European nations calculations
of treasury officials are being made
on the theory that not more than one
fourth of the principal of the $40, $780,
100000 owed us will be paid back
during the next thirty years, says a
Washington dispatch.
This means that if the $21 ,250,000,-
600 debt of the United States is to be
retired in something like thirty years
the American people must be taxed
81, 500,0 100000 or more to retire bonds
represented by the foreign loans be-
sides caring for the domestic part of
the debt This would average in ex-
cess of $250,000,000 annually
Notwithstanding this attitude, how
ever, it is recognized that America
cannot compel the foreign nations to
pay their debts any more rapidly than
they choose The British government
is the only one of the larger nations
which has funded its debt, and under
the agreement payments are to be
made over a period extending until
1884, and it is assumed that when
ever France and Italy and Belgium,
the three larger debtors, propose a
funding arrangement it will not be
any less favorable to themselves than
the British scheme.
Under the British debt agreement
Great Britain commenced its annual
payments on account of the principal
of its $4,000, 100000 debt at $23,000000
and will increase the amount gradual
" until the final payment of principal
on December IS, 1884, amounts to
$175,000,00 The payment in 1858, af
ter a period of thirty years from the
present time, amounts to only $60,000,-
600.
Debts Of other nations as unfunded
amount to $5,970,000 900, not includ-
ing accumulated interest. If all the
other nations were to duplicate the
British agreement and commence pay
ments at once it would mean that not
more than one-fourth of this total, or
somewhat less than $l,500,000, 600,
would be paid in the next 80 years.
years.
If none of the other larger nations
pay anything during the next thirty
wears it would mean that American
taxpayers would have to pay in ex-
cess of $9,3OO,OOO0O0 to retire bonds
representing foreign loans in case the
debt is to be wiped out in anything
like thirty years. This would be an
average of about $312,000,OOO year.
Government officials hope that with
in a few years most OF the European
nations will begin to fund their debts
and make some substantial payments.
The probability is that the treasury
cannot count upon getting much more
than $4,000 100000 in payment of prin-
cipal during the next thirty years un-
der the most favorable circumstances.
This would mean a total OF $o,5OO,-
900 to be raised bya taxation, or an
average OF $283,OO0,000 annually.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
WIND MOVES RESIDENCE TO
ANOTHER LOT; NONE HURT

BRUNSWICK, Ga.-Tearing its
way through Brunswick at We
locity of more than rs miles per
hour, a wind storm lifted one house
from its foundation and carried it
some distance before depositing it
gently on the ground without in
juring its occupants.
The home of E. A. Poulson, To-
Gated on Gloucester street, now sets
on lot which the owner of the
house has not yet purchased. Lifted
from its pillars, the occupants OF
the house rode through the air for
some distance. Mr.. and Mrs. Poul-
son, occupying one room and their
two children another, were awak-
ened by the movement OF their
dwelling.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
CROSSING TOLL IN
1923 WAS OVER $500
DEATHS SHOW AN INCREASE
OF 20 PER CENT MORE
THAN IN 1922.

NEW YORK-That 1852 persons
were killed at railroad grade crossings
during 1923, an increase OF ~ per cent
over 1922, is the official announcement
of the United States bureau OF public
roads. This finding has led the bureau
to insist upon the elimination OF grade
crossings on federal aid projects wher-
ever practicable.
Many dangerous crossings have al
ready been eliminated with the CO.
operation of state highway depart
ments through the construction OF
steel or concrete overhead crossings
or under passes and by relocating the
highway so as to avoid crossing and
recrossing railroad tracks, the report
states.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
Scientists Prove That Fuel Is Stored
Far From Shore, and Mechanics
Will Find Way to Pump 1t.

Oil wells at the bottom OF the sea-
Drillers CARRIED in divers armor. Der
r;cks whose crown blocks are washed
bv the waves. This may seem to be a
distorted dream, but tourists lew
generations hence may survey Cah-
fornia's oil fields from the vantage OF
slass-bottomed boat.
Scientists have proved, they declare
that oil exists under the floor OF the
seas along the California coast on
the north coast of the Caspian sea,
and in the Gulf of Mexico, near the
mouth of the Sabine river. :,
This is not all. At Summerland,
near Santa Barbara, oil wells 25o to
500 feet from the shore in the sea
some day the mainland oil wells
will go dry, Then will come the time
for a test Of the scientists. theory that
iii can be found under the floor OF
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
A HORRIBLE DEATH FOR
CHINESE WOMAN BANDIT

SHANGHAI, Aug. %. -"Old
Mother" Djao, said to be the most
notorious and bloodthirsty bandit
the province of Shantung ever pro-
duced, has been executed at Ichow-
fu in Shantung. The dreaded femi-
nine bandit underwent that most
fearsome of Chinese death penal
ties, the ling-che or, in English, the
slicing process. Ling-che is simply
vivisection done by experts in such
a manner that the victim survives
in conscious state through hours
of terrible ordeal.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
CHILD LABOR ISSUE
CONFRONTS COUNTRY
FORCES LINE UP FOR AND
AGAINST PROPOSED AMEND
MENT. GEORGIA REFUSES.

Farmers and capitalists, hitherto
considered political enemies, have eff
fected truce between them to kill
the proposed child labor amendment
to the constitution of the United
States.
The proposed amendment provides
that Congress shall have power to
limit, regulate and prohibit the labor
of persons under Is years of age"
The present limit is 10 years.
The Farmers Stand.
The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
has taken action against the bill which,
if saws in a recent resolution, encour-
ages "id1eness by law" The National
Farm Bureau Federation and the
Grange also oppose the measure.
The position of the farmers is that
the bill would prohibit the labor OF
647 900 BOYS and girls between 10 and
Is wears who are now helping out
with the light work on the farms. 1t
would also prohibit the labor OF
countless others of 10 and II years.
Manufacturers Oppose Bill.
The manufacturers of the country
also oppose the bill on the ground
that it would prohibit the labor of
BOYS and girls OF 10 and II years
who are now doing part-tine labor
during school vacations and after
school hours.
The American Federation of Labor,
the League of Women Voters and
other organizations, to the number of
46. are sponsoring the measure. These
assert that the bill could be invoked
to stop certain classes of labor in GER
tain localities where child labor has
became an evil and a menace to the
community, state and nation. The pur-
pose of the bill is not to make it OF
universal application in stopping the
labor of all persons under Is years, it
is claimed.
Arkansas Ratihes Measure.
To date three states have voted on
the bill. Arkansas ratified it and the
legislatures of Louisiana and Georgia
rejected it. The endorsement OF SO
states is necessary before the amend
ment can be made law OF the land
bv the national congress.
Massachusetts will submit it to
popular vote this fall and in AZ 9th
er states the measure will come UP
before the legislatures.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
Oil Fields Under the Seas May Be
Common Attraction of the Future

the sea. Divers will become drillers
or drilIers will learn to be divers. On
seeking expeditions will set forth in
submarines.
lust how oil under the sea may be
located and how, when located, it may
be pumped out are problems for the
future. Scientists have furnished proof
that oil exists there, and mechanics
are expected to do the rest of the
work. Experts of the oil business,
however, are confident that when the
world needs oil from under the sea
the American continent will furnish
some man who can show the way to
find and obtain it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
Big Task Every Month;
Mails Half Million Checks
Pension Bureau Has Pen That Signs
10 Slips at One Time.

~ OAAC0 ~
efficiency" in the ultimate degree
* TO be noted in the Office of the pen
sion bureau in Washington, d: T.,
ont of which more than hah million
checks come every month in payment
OF pensions to war veterans.
Since the abolition OF regional OF
fees all pensions have been paid by
the pension bureau in Washington.
Until a year and half ago pensions
were paid every three months.
In July 52O,l02 checks were sent
out. The payments totaled $18,44O,-
354.27. The task of printing the names
on these checks, with the amounts to
be paid of placing a signature on
each, of putting the checks in the en-
velopes, and addressing and mailing
them is done so efficiently that more
than half million pensioners receive
their checks on the fourth OF every
month.
By means OF a pen that signs ten
checks at one time the labor OF plac-
ing the signatures on the slips is great
ly reduced, one clerk being able to
sign 10000 in a day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
n Spots Are Increasing,
U. S. Observer Reports
lie Has Just Passed Minimum,
Says Prof. George H. Peters.
I'D Soils getting the measles"

Says Prof. George H. Peters.
Pld Soils getting the measles"
Petween February and August of
year the sun had minimum OF
u.s. Prof. George H. Peters, of the
pea States Observatory at Wash
Eon' has observed. The number of
Is now is increasing and will in
Use Tor a number of years. The sun
cycle occurs every Ill years,
1 Professor Peters, and has just
Eea the minimum, with the next
gllnum IN prospect for 1884.
LII LII number of days during the
Fule OF 1928 no spots were seen on
sun S disc. Just where the zero
u Tor sun spots is gives rise to a
|Eerence Of opinion.
turing the period of sun spot max
Ihe intensity of the northern lights
IuIe lower ATTITUDES gives evidence
intense magnetic conditions. Some
T. 20 not produce marked northern
E.S' while others do. Just which
n caused probable increase in the
EEoJIoTn,colored aurora is a problem
:" rfoiessor Peters is working on
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02
r MILLION LESS CATTLE
ARE TO BE MARKETED

" Ire viii probably be around $780,
, "ead less cattle marketed from
I So5stern region during the last half
-, -. than were marketed during
., ,"illlar period last year, according
ts. esumate issued by the United
nh. department. of agriculture. The
at tsI to be shipped this year is es-
oo s1 at 100000 compared to A.
WV marketed last year.