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The Washington times., 1924-03-15
ORLANDO BOARD APPOINTS
FULL-TIME SECRETARY

With the appointment of a full
time secretary. the Orlando FIa.)
Realty Board is making arrange.
ments to install the multiple listing
system. OF interest is campaign
just completed by. the board warn
ing owners Of property, Of a recent
city tax sale. Following $500 worth
of abstract work, the board notified
some 800 people residing in over
twenty States Of the proposed sale.
AS a result Of the boards activity,
ouly fifteen pieces Of property were
sold publicly, though eighty.one
parcels were scheduled to be sold.
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
RED-HEADED ARE ASKED
TO FRATERNITY DANCE

Epsilon Mu Sigma, national fra
ternity, believes st. Patrick was
red headed. Therefore they are
going to allow all red headed people
in Washington to come to their
annual st. Patrick's day dance at
half price.
The person at the dance who is
judged to have the redest head will
be given IS in green 81 bills.
The dance will be at the Raleigh
Hotel from to /, st. Patrick's
day next Monday with music fur
nished by the Sangamo orchestra.
Katherine e. Smith, popular radio
blues singer, who has broadcast
from WRC, several times recently,
will furnish the entertainment.
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
Severe Earth Quake
$500 Miles Away
Reported Here

An earthquake of pronounced
intensity" occurred this morn
ing about $500 miles north of
Washington according to rec
ords at Georgetown University
here.
Father Tondorff, the seis-
mologist, announced that the
quake started at 5:44 a. m. and
continued until $3.50 a. M, re-
porting its greatest intensity at
6:31 a. m.
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
SCHOLASTIC VIEW OF WAR
IN CHURCH TO BE AIRED

The scholastic view on Funda-
mentalism and Modernism will be
set forth in a discussion led by Prof.
f. E. Richardson, at a meeting VI
the Society for Philosophical In
uuiry, this afternoon in the public
library auditorium at 4:45 o'clock.
The subject is one in which pra"-
tically all scholars have a keen in
terest. Prof. Richardson Is presi-
dent Of the society; Kepler Hoyt,
secretary, and William c. Lee,
fraa SIIrar
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
CONCERT

BY the U. S. Soldiers Home Band
Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, be.
ginning at 5:46 o'clock. John
8. M. Zimmerman, BandmasteR,
The program:
Overture. Guy Mannering" BisOp
Moroccan for strings, "Slumber
Song" (from Masanielle) Auber
Selection, after the Girl". .Rubens
Fox Trot, "Who?". 80. .Friedland
Valse Song, I'm the Days of
Finale, Parade of the Wooden
Soldiers" .................Je ssel
1.-THE Star-Spangled Banner"
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
300, 343,3oo TONS WERE
HANDLED AT U, s, PORTS

NEW YORK, March 15.-The ID
justed tonnage of the Atlantic and
Pacific and Great Lake ports Of the
United States was 800 ,343,399 tons
in the calendar year of 1922, and
had deposited pending the DISPOSE
ton of their cases. All seemed to
be tenants who had paid disputed
rent into court while battling their
landlords under the emergency rent
Laws
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
Egypt's Parliament Opens.

CAIRO, Egypt, March 15.-Flags
and triumphal arches filled the
streets today In honor of the open.
ing Of the first Egyptian national.
IT. parliament.
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
Ethics and Advertising

Recently the foremost advertisers met in
New York Convention and adopted standards
calling for truth, clarity and honesty in retail
advertising.
These standards are most commendable; it
is pleasing both to commercial and civic Wash
ington to note that representative Washington
stores were at the convention.
It is most gratifying to know that Washing
ton merchants, through the Better Business
Bureau are pioneers in the movement for hon
est and clean advertising. The Better Bust
ness Bureau organized for Truth in Adver-
Using" for the protection Of the public, cele-
brated recently it's fourth birthday.
Standards for advertising have been and
are being enforced by the Better Business
Bureau since it's inception. These standards
are available for the public and to the mer-
chant alike upon application
The Better Business Bured1
:. Washington, D. c.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Virgin Islands Swept
by Deadly Hurricane

st. Thomas, Virgin Isands.-At
least so persons were killed and many
injured and numerous houses we're de-
stroyed and other material damage
done by the hurricane which struck
the islands in this vicinity the night
of August % and ragged the following
day, according to reports received
here
The reports say that on the island
Of Montserrat, in the British leeward
group, 40 persons were killed and
many injured.
TOrtola, the largest of the British
Virgin islands, is said 70 have been
devastated. Twenty-eight persons were
killed and 100 injured and most of the
houses were destroyed
On the Island of Nevis, in the Brit
ish leeward islands, four persons were
killed and 300 houses destroyed At
st. Jan eight persons met death.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
REVENUE FOR JULY
FALLS OFF HEAVILY

hington.-Internal revenue col.
lections for July, the first month when
all of the tax reduction features of the
present law were effective, amounted
to $110,S14,S85, a drop of $24, S05, sos
from the receipts of July last year.
Tax payments in June were $412,-
465,251 but this included the regular
quarterly income and profits taxes and
does not therefore furnish a basis of
comparison with July.
Automobiles, motorcycles, and ac-
cessories yielded $1S,126,317 in taxes
in July, 1923, while the collections
last month were only 81, 473,419, re-
flecting, in the opinion of internal rev.
enue officials, the curtaiIment in pro-
duction.
Estate taxes yielded S9,425,749 in
July, an increase of $3,446,2OS over
the same month last year.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
WILL MAKE WAR
ON PRIVILEGE"
Senator LaFollette in First
Speech of Presidential
Campaign.

MISUNDERSTANDING that both
Republican and Democratic parties
have turned over the government 70
interests which are securing "to them
selves the fruits of the labor of the
mass of the American people," Sena-
tor LaFollette, in his radio address,
asserted he has entered the Presiden-
tial rave ito convict that system"
Against Especial Interests"
The senator disclosed his program
for restoring "this government to the
service Of the public to obtain for the
laborer and producer in all lines a
greater share of the product of his
toll, while protecting the consumer
against the trust-fixed prices on all
he buys and to drive out of the gov
eminent at Washington the cOrrupting
influences now so dominant there"
Promises Reforms.
If elected to the White House, La
Toilette pledged himself to "free every
department of the government from
control of special interests; :" revision
OF the tariff and taxation laws; reor-
ganization Of the federal trade COM
mission and tariff commission; repeal
OF the Esch-Cummins act at a special
session Of congress to be called imme-
diately after March 4 4; deal drastically
with the federal reserve act and to re-
store the farmer to prosperity.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
BANDITS AND DEPUTY
SHERTFFS IN BATTLE

Kansas City.-Seven bandits, in an
attempted robbery of the Golden State
Limited, de luxe Rock Island train
from Chicago to Los Angeles, were
ambushed at Meade, Kan, and shot
it out with squad of deputy sheriffs.
One deputy was probably fatally
wounded Another was less danger
ously hurt. One of the bandits was
captured and the other six escaped in
an automobile, pursued by posses of
officers, railroad men and citizens.
The bandits were after a shipment
of government bonds, estimated at
over a million dollars, consigned to
federal reserve banks on the Pacific
coast They had based their plans
on transformation, However, for the
bonds had been sent previously on
the Santa Fe.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Macdonald Expected to
Call General Election

London.-The British labor ministry
intends to resign in November and ap-
peal to the country in another gen.
eral election.
In the last fortnight this statement
has been made confdentially by
Labor party bosses. 1t received con-
firmatlon at the opening of the trade
union congress when President Pur-
cell said:
Il warn the congress that it is well
within the bounds of possibilities that
the opposition to the Russian treaty
may decide the fate of the Labor gov
eminent"
1t is a certainty that the Conserva-
tives and Liberals will unite in the
house of commons in throwing out
the treaty, with the inevitable result
Of a general election.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Only Small Body of
Soldiers at Herrirl

Herrin, Il.-The two detachments
of National Guard troops who were
ordered here after the killings Of a
few days ago have left the city in
charge of IL men under Capt. FL. M.
BigeIow. The troops will patrol the
city until Sheriff Galligan decides the
trouble is over and relieves them from
duty.
After heated dispute between Adj.
Gen. Carlos Black and States Attor-
ney Delos Duty, the troops were or
dered out of Herrin, and only the IT
men left. The states attorney ex-
pressed his complete disapproval of
the move of General Black.
The Minister'S association charges
that both the states attorney and the
sheriff are incompetent. Mr.. Duty,
the states attorney, has issued a state
ment denouncing the association as
friendly to the khan and charging the
adjutant general with being a member
of the organization
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Wheat Crop of World
Less Than Last Year

Washir gton.-Forecasts of wheat
production received by the Depart
ment of Agriculture from 81 countries
give an aggregate of 2,171,0000OO BUSH
els, compared with 2,449,OO0,00O last
year. These countries produced 80
per cent of the crop of the northern
hemisphere in 1923, exclusive Of Rus
STA and China. OF the u countries in
creases are shown only in the United
States, Bulgaria, Yugo-Slavia, Morocco
and Chosen (Korea).
The forecast for Yugo-Slavia is 6S,-
$4,000 bushels, compared with a pro-
duction of 61,069,000 last year. Swift
erland was among the countries in
which smaller wheat and other grain
crops are forecast.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
SIX DEAD, FIVE
HURT At HERRIN
Pitched Battle RACES in
straightforward Served
on Sheriff.

Harrisburg, IH.-Nine men, all al
legged members of the -Ku Klux khan,
were brought to the Saline county Jail
here from Herrin. where they had
been arrested on charges of murder in
connection with the recent disturb
anceS.
Eleven Under Arrest.
Marion, Ill.-Sheriff George Galligan
of Williamson county admitted that
his deputies arrested eleven men
charged with the murder of Deputy
Sheriff ]. Ii. Bud" Allison, and Ches.
ter Reid.
Sheriff Galligan and five of his dep
uties were served with warrants,
charging them with murders of three
persons killed in the rioting.
A warrant for the arrest of States
Attorney Duty, charging him with con-
spiracy in the murders. has also been
issued.
Killed and Wounded.
Herrin, Ill.-Six men were shot dead
and five known wounded, two of them
seriously.
Two companies of state troops dis
embarked from special train from
Carbondale and from a motor caravan
from Salem, patrolled the streets, dis
persing clusters of men.
Hundreds of armed members of the
rival organizations-the Ku Klux khan
and the Knights of the Flaming Cir
cle-came hurrying in from Mount
Vernon, Benton. Marion, and other
nearby towns.
The dead in the battle are: Deputy
Sheriff ]. HI. Bud" Allison, Dewey
Newbolt, Chester Reid, Green Dun,
ming, Otto Roland, Charles Willard.
The wounded: Herman Phemister,
bailiff of the Herrin City court, shot
in the head and expected to die; Dep
uty Sheriff Ora Thomas, Carl Shelton,
Harry Herrin, Charles Benham.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Conditions in China
Worry State Officials

MISREPRESENTATION at Shang-
hal, China, are becoming graver hour
ly, the State department is advised.
Telegraphic dispatches from Con-
sui General Cunningham at the Chi
nese port added that the military had
taken over the railway stations
"Hostilities there appear to be al
most certain" the American consult
at Marking reported.
In view of the gravity of the situa-
ton American and British gunboats
are proceeding to Shanghai from Che
foo and Weihaiwei and the diplomatic
corps at Peking sent a note to the
Chinese foreign office declaring China
would be held responsible for injury
to foreigners or their property.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
GERMANS AGREE
ON PREPARATION
Reichstag Accepts Dawes
Plan by a Vote of
314 to 127.

Berlin.-The German reichstag ac-
cepted the Dawes reparation plan
agreement, adopting by a vote of 314
to 127 the railway bill TO put into
effect the provision of the London
conference agreement.
The German Nationalist, whose
open opposition to the agreement and
whose attacks on it during the debate
had made the results of the voting
problematical, voted in favor of the
railway bill, but they voted against
the banking bill, another OF the Dawes
measures, which. nevertheless, was
adopted by vote of 295 TO 172, a two
thirds vote being unnecessary.
Debenture Bill Adopted.
The industrial debenture bill, the
third of those provided under the
Dawes plan, also was adopted by the
necessary majority. The vote on the
railway measure provided 20 votes in
favor of the bill in excess of the
two-thirds majority required. more
than two-thirds of the Nationalist
favoring is acceptance.
Up until ten minutes before the
vote was taken on the all-important
railway bill the outcome of the voting
ON the London agreement had been
wholly conjectural, although persons
in well-informed circles had learned
of a peace pact said to have been
concluded between Foreign Minister
Stresemann and the Nationalist.
Force a Compromise.
The price which the government
paid for the support of the National
lists is reported TO be a promise that
the present cabinet will be recon
structed in the near future to include
several Nationalist.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Financial Position of
Farmers Is Improving

Washington.-The financial position
of farmers, as measured by the ex-
change values of their products for
nonagricultural commodities, is graou-
ally working toward a prewar parity,
according TO the agricultural review
issued by the Department of Agricul-
ture.
AS a result of the recent rise IN
grain prices and the fall in price of
nonagricultural products, the combined
exchange value of sixteen leading farm
products for the former class of COM
modities on August / had an index
rating of SO, taking the 1913 base as
100.
This was said to have been the high
est point reached in AZ months.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Civil War Said to
Haze Begun in China

Peking.-I 1t is officially reported that
fighting has started at Quinsan, near
Shanghai, operation on the Shanghai
Marking railway has been suspended
and the Shanghai-Hankow telegraph
line cut.
This amounts to the first action in
the threatened civil war between
troops of Gen. Chi Hsieh Yuan and Lu
Yung Hsiang whose armies have faced
each other across a neutral strip 30
miles from Shanghai
The Chinese cabinet has reaf1irmed
the pledge given America, Japan and
France by Acting Premier Koo of the
preservation Of the neutral zone in the
Shanghai district, including Woosung.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Army Captain Accused
of BolsheUik Le0nings

New York.-The United States army
has begun an inquiry into the fitness
of Capt. Paxton Hibben to retain his
commission in the officers reserve
corps, because of his strong bolshe-
vik views, which he has frequently
discussed in speeches and articles. AL
though Brig. Gen. William Barclay Par
sons, president of the board Of in
CURRY invited Captain Hibben to take
the stand and talk over" his beliefs
and connections with the members of
the board, counsel for Captain Hibben
refused to permit him to be questioned
before derogatory evidence was first
adduced from other witnesses.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Formal Arrangement
to Enforce DolUes Plar,

London.-The pact drawn up at the
recent international conference here,
outlining ways and means of putting
the Dawes reparation program into
effect, was signed by representatives
of the various nations.
Premier Macdonald being in Scot
land, the assistant undersecretary for
foreign affairs, Sir Eyre Grove.
signed for the British. The ambassa-
doris, ministers or charges d'affaires
acted for the other countries, while
Ambassador kellogg Cooked on" for
the United States.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Notify Mrs. Ferguson
of Her Nomination

Temple, Texas.-An immense con-
course of Mrs. Ferguson's admirers
came to Temple, amid blare of bands
and trumpets, amid the flare Of torch
professions and the huzzas of twenty
thousand voices shouting. me for ma
and ma for me. She beats the khan
and Felix d." And so they notified
Ma" Ferguson that she is virtually
the governor-elect of Texas for the
Democratic nomination is tantamount
to an election.
Mrs. Ferguson read brief address.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Japan Keenly Watching
DEVELOPMENTS in Chino

Tokyo.-Commercial circles in ia
pan are watching the civil war devel-
opments in China with deep interest.
Already many cancellations of orders
are coming from Shanghai, where
trade already is heavily checked.
The militarists also are keenly
watching especially the developments
of the Manchurian-Chihli clash. There
are vast Japanese interests in Man
churia. The possibility Of Russia as
sisting on one side or the other also is
grayely considered.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Big Railroad Merger
NolU an Assured Fact

New York.-Completion of the 81, $780,
100000 nickel Plate" railroad merg-
er, engineered by o. P. and NJ. ]. Van
Sweringen of Cleveland. was assured
when director of the Pere Marquette
Railroad company ratified a proposal
to enter the new system with four
other roads, which already had ap-
proved the plan.
Lines of the Pere Marquette will
be linked with those of the present
nickel Plate" Erie, Chesapeake &
Ohio, and Hooking Valley in one of
the greatest consultations in railroad
history, creating a new eastern trunk
line with more than 1900 miles of
track.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Inquiring Into Death
of Government Witness

Washington.-The Department of
Justice has started an investigation
into the death recently in Butte, Mont,
of w. w. Rae, a government witness
against Senator Wheeler (Dem.,) Of
Montana. Several versions of the
death have been received here. One
is that a workman dropped a beam on
Rae. Another is that a beam fell on
him. A third is that a flywheeI on a
machine broke, a piece striking Rae
on the head.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
German Civil Service
Employees Lose Jobs

Berlin.-Four hundred thousand of
100000 state employees have been
discharged in Germany during the last
few months, under a law providing for
general reduction of officials to aid
in balancing the budget.
1t is estimated that 100000 gold
marks will be saved for the govern
ment by, the enforcement of the meas
ure, sum constituting about one
seventh of the total state expenditures.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Milwaukee Fire Loss
Placed at $T,5OO,OOO

Milwaukee, Wis.-The dairy feed
plant of the Charles A. Krause Mill
ing company lay in ruins after an all
day fire in which one man was seri-
ously injured and 800 others endan-
gered and loss estimated at $780,
600 incurred. An explosion, believed
TO have been caused by grain dust
caused the blaze.
The injured man, Michael Limisek.
is expected to recover.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Henry J. Case, InUentor
of Farm Machinery, Dead

Poughkeepsie, n. Y.-Henry ]. Case,
eighty-fve, inventor of harvesting ma
chinery died at his home here Farm
ing implements of all kinds bearing
Mr.. Cases name have been in use
throughout the world for 80 years. He
first became interested in machinery
as fireman on a wood-burning loco
motive running out of Batavia, N. Y.
In 1875 he built the first steel frame
twine-binding harvester.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
American Woman Slain
by Bandits in Mexico

Mexico City.-Ar American woman
was killed and her body mutilated by
robbers near Ixtlam, San Marcos, it
was reported from Guadalajara. No
names were given. At the American
embassy it was said that news of
the attack had been received, but that
the consul at Guadalajara had not re-
ported. The region where the at
,ack occurred is infested with bandits.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Kid McCoy's Trial Is
Set for October 20

Los Angeles, Cal.-Kid Mccoy, for
mer pugilist, pleaded not guilty to one
charge of murder. three of assault with
intent to commit murder and four of
robbery. Tie murder trial was set
for October 90
Mccoy is accused of having slain
Mrs. Theresa W. Mors, with whom the
former fighter was living under an as
sumed name.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Tilden Easily ProUes
Superiority at Tennis

Forest Hills, n. Y.-William T. Til
den is still the king of American ten
mis-. The Philadelphia racquet wizard
removed any doubts on this score when
he swept TO victory over his veteran
California rival, William NJ. Johnston,
and won the national singles cham
pionship for the fifth successive year.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Mellon Has Confidence
in Europe's "Coneback"

New York.-Europe's complete re-
Mobilization through the operation of
the Dawes plan was predicted by An
drew w. Mellon, secretary of the
treasury, on his return from an ex-
tended foreign tour
The secretary left the Majestic, on
which he returned, for a Coast guard
cutter, which met the liner at quaran-
tine. He left for Washington at once.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
Continuance in Glenn
Youngs Case refused

Herrin, nl.-Judge L. N. Bowen of
the Herrin City court overruled a mo-
ton for a continuance in the case OF
S. Glenn Young, Ku Klux khan liquor
raider, charged with larceny in cen
nection with the rioting here last Feb
ruary s. Young is now In an Atlanta
(Ga) hospital for treatment. His S.
900 bond was forfeited.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
$50, 900, 900 Loan to
Belgium Is COMPLETED

BruSsels--The Belgian minister of
finance and American bankers signed
the terms of a 25-year loan of S30,000,-
600 to the Belgian government, with
interest at 6is per cent. The money
will pay off the treasury bonds issued
in 1920 in New York TO buy locomo-
tives, which fall due in January, 1925.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
"Worless World" Is Call
to Churches of America

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Armistice
day, November H.. as mobilization
day for world justice and world
peace" the commissioner of interna-
tional justice and good will of the
Federal Council of Churches and con-
gregations in the United States to
launch on that day a constructive
drive toward warless world"