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Pocahontas star herald., 1926-06-24
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Pocahontas star herald., 1926-06-24
MIDDLEBROOK

Uncle Thomas Jones has been on the
sick list the past week.
G. Il. Lindsey, Tom w. Odom and
Joe Hamm had business at Pocahon-
tas Saturday.
Averil Luter and family visited Geo.
Green near High Point Saturday night.
Several from here attended church
at Pitman last Sunday.
s. w. Lindsey has been on the indis-
posed list for the last few days.
Miss Opal Brow is visiting relatives
here for a few days while en- route ia
her home at DOniphan after a visit in
POcahontas.
Uncle Bill johnson was transacting
business at Maynard Saturday.
Orie Hagood is in Missouri this week
visiting Toy Springer and looking out
a location.
Aunt Caroline Lindsey happened to
very serious fall last week but is
better at this writing.
+. X. Barkley, one of our hustling
merchants, was looking after business
at Pocahontas Saturday.
Most all of our farmers are cutting
oats this week.
Dewitt Hagood was a county hub
visitor one day last week.
Bathing suits, latest styles and
colors at Johnston's.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-06-24
Tax Assessors Notice

Notice hereby given that will be at the following name
days and dates here indicated for the purpose
assessing personal per capita of Randolph county, Ar
Kansas for year 1926, to-wit:
Demun at Pocahontas Wed to Sat- June 1916
Notice further given that the law provides that al PROP
in the township in which is located anu
further the provides taxpayer allowed to own one
dog without paying And further the law says all men
between the ages 21 and So inclusive shall road tax
All ladies who desire to vote in school and general eecOn
should be assessed with poll tax
Given under my hand this March 80, 1926
w. E. TIMER Assessor.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-06-24
sICKLY, PEEvIsH CHILDREN

Children suffering from intestinal
worms are cross, restless and unheal-
thy. There are other symptoms, how
ever. If the child is pale, has dark
rings under the eyes, bad breath and
takes no interest in play, 1t is almost a
certainty that worms are eating away
its vitality. The surest remedy for
worms is Whites Cream Vermifuge.
II is positive destruction to the worms
but harmless to the child. Price 35c-
Sold by Palace Drug Store.
STAR HERALD WANT ADS PAY.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-06-24
PLANTS

Yellow Yam Sweet Potato Plants,
$2S5 per thousand. Earliana Tomato
Plants, $1.75 per thousand. Ship
promptly. James G.. Grimes, Waldo,
Ark. Hot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Il BLAST VICTIMS
TAKEN FROM MINE
Alabama Camp to Bury Its
Dead Today-Shaft Soon
to Be Reopened.


BIRMINGHAM. Ala, January go
Mossboro, Shelby County, mining
camp, tomorrow will pay the last
mark of respect to q of its number
who were killed in mine explosion
yesterday. 1t will be a day of fu-
nerals in the little town, located In an
isolated secti n Of one of Alabama 5
many mineral hills. In place of the
regular services in the various
churches OF the community, burial
rites will be held.
Rescue crews at daybreak today
had removed the last of the bodies
II white and 16 negroes. Fer weary
hours the crews worked IL waist
deep water among twisted steel and
heaps of fallen stone to extricate
by the conclusion which resulted
from a windy" shot. Seventeen of
the "A men in the pit emerged alive.
virtually unhurt.
The blast loosed a pond of water
used for washing coal. This flowed
to all parts of the pit and made haz-
ardous the rescue work.
When the day of sorrow Is past,
the camp will turn its mind to re-
sumption Of work. Lessees of the
property-the Premier Coal Co.-ex-
pect to put the mine in condition for
operation Immediately and many Of
the former workers will be ready to
check in when the call comes
The explosion was described as very
severe" most of the victims being
killed instantly. A charge of black
powder is believed to have blown
backward and In the misfiring set off
coal dust or gas. The ever-present
black damp after such blasts was
quickly cleared by fans which were
not disturbed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
TELLS OF PLANES USE
IN PROTECTING COTTON
House Member Outlines Work
Against Boil Weevil and
Other Pests

Use Of the airplane in combating
the boil weeVil and other pests that
attack cotton We're outlined in the
House yesterday by Representative
Wilson, Democrat, Louisiana.
He spoke of the advantages the air.
plane affords over other combattive
measures, and declared agriculture of
fered an attractive field for the devel-
opnent of commercial aviation
LAS an evidence of the widespread
interest in this question of control by
airplane," he said, there have been
curing the past year representatives
Of seven different countries in this
country. They have studied and oh
served the results obtained by the
tests and experiments at the Delta
Laboratories at Tallulah, La, and five
or these countries are now carrying
cut tests based upon information re-
Ceived while here
The outstanding feature of busting
by airplane, he said is the speed of
the application, adding that last year
one commercial concern applied 3i7,-
GOO pounds of powdered calcium ar
senate on cotton, peaches, pecans and
sugar cane with satisfactory results
and at cost for operation of S55 per
hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
PANAMA GIRL GOING
HOME WITH FATHER
Blanche McG|one, Starting to
Toledo After Hearing in
Juvenile Court.

Blanche McGlone, who Won fame
when she smashed into a lamp-post
riding through a snowstorm clad in
pajamas and a bathing suit, starts on
her way home to Toledo. Ohio, with
her father today. sadder but wiser
young lady.
With a strict boarding school and
the watchful eye of the Toledo pro-
baton officer facing her. the youthful
defendant of both the Police and
Juvenile Courts, prepared to take the
outgoing express this morning.
1t was only the word of her father,
who said she was IA, that caused
Judge Macdonald In Police Court yes
terday to transfer the jurisdiction of
the case to the Juvenile Court, and it
was also her fathers pledge that he
would take care of her in the future
that caused Judge Sellers, in the Jul
Venile Court, to be lenient.
Judge Sellers accepted the girls de-
NAL of charge of being intoxicated
while driving, saying that the charge
OF driving without a permit was
enough for the Juvenile Court to hold
her, if the court SO ruled.
The defendant pathetically admit.
ted that she was ashamed of her con-
duct and that her parents were Won
derful to her. in every way. Judge
Sellers told the young defendant
frankly that she was on the wrong
road and admonished her to do better.
Representative William w. Chal.
mers. also of Toledo and a friend of
Mr.. McGlone, was present at the
trial, but made no appeal.
Previous to the transference of the
h.
was heard behind closed doors in the
Police Court. Reporters were barred,
and four almot. found themselves
cited for contempt of court because
they maintained their right to congre-
gate in the corridors while the star
chamber sessions were being held in
the probation office and the chambers
of Judge George H. Macdonald. Judge
John P. Mcmahon, who was presiding
In court across the way. ordered them
removed under pain of contempt of
court.
During the trial before the Juvenile
Court judge it was brought out that
Blanche had run away from home.
leaving an invalid mother 1t was also
brought out that what her sister SUD-
posedly had claimed to be "embas sy
refreshments was only corn whisky.
Replying to why she was in a bath
ing suit, topped by pajamas and
coat, when she had crashed into a
lays ago. during a snowstorm. Blanche
stated that she had just gotten up and
had not time to change.
Blanche was incarcerated ul the
time since her arrest because of fail
ure to give bond IF $500 at the House
of Detention, where she was forced
to scrub floors early each morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
TWO VESSELS WRECKED.
Crew Of One Ship Drifting in Liefboats
on Florida.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Janu-
airy 80 R.-Two vessels were wrecked
near Palm Beach by the gales that
swept the Atlantic during Friday
night, according to radio MESA ges
picked up at Rainbow Pier this after
noon.
Efforts were being made to rescue a
part Of a crew left adrift in lifeboats
IL miles southeast Of here.
The messages were received by the
Palm Beach Radio Co.
The steamship America picked up
the captain and three Of the crew of
the Inflated Triton Of Boston, a four
masted schooner. which turned over
In the gale, the master Of the America,
a Norwegian vessel, wirefessed.
He said the remainder of the crew
were left in lifeboats. A later message
said he will land the rescued sailors at
Havana. His message expressed the
hope that the drifting crew may be
saved
The tugboat Endurance was wreck
ed miles out, according to a radio
message from the America. ALI OF the
crew were saved, he said.
The tug was left with all lights
showing.
Capt. Gus Jordan's Cowboys of the
sea" prepared, Immediately after the
messages were received, to go after
the crew that was adrift.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
WARD. IRKED BY MONEY

NEW YORK, January 80 P.-The
gigantic bakery merger under the
presidency of William b. Ward, which
filed a charter today in Baltimore was
termed by the sponsors a merger
with a soul"
The charter application specified
that the profits, after limited divi-
dends on preferred stock are paid,
may be used to promote the welfare
of the American child, and make 1t
fit mentally and physically for citizen
ship. This philanthrophy may be
carried out before dividends on the
common stock are paid.
Friends of Mr.. Ward quoted him as
saying to the lawyers who drew up
the papers:
Il have SO much money I don't
want any more. / want to give 1t
away and do it in such fashion that l
won't be eternally talked about
The profits may be used in build
Ing hospitals. recreation grounds and
in helping establish child welfare or
CARNATIONS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
FOUR CLAIM MONEY
WIEDEMEIER ABANDONED
Missouri Court to Deciae Owner
ship Of $15,2e3 Held
by Detective.
By the Associated Press,

by the Assoclateu frtss
ST. LOUIS. January 30.-The Mis-
souri, Supreme Court will be asked to
decide a four-sided controversy over
$l5,293, abandoned here by John V.
Weidemeier, following his arrest Octe-
Der ID. with the wife of a prominent
Chicago furrier.
The money Is held by Robert Kaiser.
chief Of detectives. Kaiser was order.
ed by the Criminal Court of Correo-
tons to turn the money over to the
sheriff. He declined, fearing contempt
of Circuit Court, as four persons,
claiming they were duped by Wiede-
meier, brought attachment suit in that
court.
Following Wiedemeier's arrest sew
eral women in various parts of the
country claimed to have been victims
of his money-raising schemes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
DILLON co. OFFICIAL
HELD ON FRAUD CHARGE
Kastel, Reputed Head of Bankrupt
Brokerage Firm, Is Arrested
in San Francisco.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 80
Philip Kastel, held In San Francisco
on an indictment charging use of the
RAILS to defraud in bucketshop opera
ton In connection with the bank.
ruptcy of the brokerage firm of Dillon
& Co., in 1921, was arrested today by
a postal inspector. Kastel, known as
Dandy Phil" to the habitues OF
Broadway's night life, was held in
S. 900 bail pending receipt of requisi-
ton papers from New York.
NEW YORK, January 80 UO.-The
brokerage firm of Dillon g. Co., in
connection with the bankruptcy of
which Philip Kastel was arrested to-
day in San Francisco, failed in 1921
for 100000. Kastel, member of the
firm, was alleged to have withdrawn
a total of $150,000 from the firms ac-
counts. In the bankruptcy proceed
ings William ]. Fallon, criminal law
yer, testified that kastel was mot
only the real head Of Dillon & Co.,
but the company itself"
Fallon himself later-in August,
1924-was tried for conspiracy to de-
fraud in connection with the failure
Of the brokerage firm of Z. M. Fuller
& Co, and was acquitted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
$2,ODD,0D0;O)D FOOD
FIRM IS CHARTERED
Huge Combine to Give Large
Share of Profits to
Philanthropy.
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, January 30.-A char.
ter for the Ward Food Products Cor
poration, assessed at an authorized
capitalization of $4,000, 900, 900, was
filed with the State Tax Commission
today. William B. Ward, chairman of
the board of directors of the Ward
Baking Corporation, is named as pres
ident of the concern.
The new corporation has a total
capitalization Of 10000, 900 shares of
no par value stock, half Of which are
preferred and half common, but all of
which carry voting rights.
A clause of the charter authorizes
the board of directors from time to
time to make contributions from sur
plus or net profits Of the corporation
for the purpose of erecting or main.
tanning one or more hospitals, infirma-
ries, dispensaries or homes for invalid
or aged employees of the corporation,
or for producing healthful surround.
ings for employees"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
M. D. WHITMAN MARRIED:
FORMER WIFE ALSO WEEDS
Tennis ExsChampion and Lucilla
De Vescovi, Concer Singer,
Wed in Massachusetts,.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BROOKLINE. Mass, January 80
Malcolm D. Whitman, former United
States tennis champion, was married
here today to Lucilla De Vescoyi.
daughter of the former Baroness Elisa
Cleria of Trieste, France, and now of
Rome, Italy. The bride Is a CONCERT
soprano and has been studying and
singing in New York the last few
years.
The marriage was performed at Ra-
venSknowle, the estate of the bride
groom's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam Whitman.
Mr.. Whitman practiced law for
many years In New York, but recently
Joined the textile firm of William
Whitman and Co., Inc, as vice
president in charge of the New York
office. His wife's rather was the late
pietro de Vescovi, professor of natural
science in the University of Rome.
simultaneously news came from
San Francisco that Wh!tman's former
wife. Jennie Croker Whitman, mar
ried Robert B. Henderson, president of
the Pacific Portland Cement Company.
She Is a sister of Templeton Crocker,
the composer, and was divorced from
Whitman in Paris last Summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
ARCTIC PLANES SHIPPED.
Will BE Taken to Alaska for
Final Tests,

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, n. J.,
January 80 P.-The Foller mono,
planes in which the Detroit Arctic
expedition will hop off in March Oh
polar flight We're shipped today
from the plant OF the Atlantic Afr
plane Corporation.
One of the planes has a wing
spread of "A feet and viii he pro
PEELED by three Wright motors The
other. with a spread of 81 feet, is
equipped with one Liberty motor.
When the planes reach their rail
destination at Seattle, Wash, they
will be forwarded by water 10
Seward, Alaska. and thence by rail
to Fairbanks, Alaska, where they
will be set up and tested.
Pilots of the expedition will take
them to Point Barrow from which tho
flight is scheduled on March 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
P. R. R. BACK ON BLOCK.
Discards New Train Control Sys.
tenn After Experiment.

The Pennsylvania Railroad will dis
continue the experimental train-con-
troll system on it's Lewistown branch
in Pennsylvania and use TIE info~rna-
ton worked out in the train control
experiments on its heavier traffic lines,
the road announced last night. The
electricaF and mechanical apparatus
used In the train-control system will
be removed from the track and en-
sines, and the former method of op-
GRAFTON bv block signals resumed.
The installation on the Lewistown
branch, according to the road, was
never intended to be permanent. but
was put in merely for test and ohser-
walton purposes with view to trying
out various features of train control
and developing and improving them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
WILL TEACH JOURNAL ISM,
Two Selected for Courses at Knox
College.

GALESBURG, Ills, January 80 up.
President Albert Britt. former editor.
of Outing and several Munsey publ
cations, and Walter w. Whipple,
managing editor of the Evening Mali
here, will have charge of the, journal
ism courses at Knox College the coma
ing semester, it was announced today.
Harold WEIGH, head of the depart
ment, resigned to go into newspa pei
work in New York. DIR. Britt will
have charge Of the advanced courses
and Mr.. Nipple the elementary snd
practical work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
BREWERY is RAlDED.
Nine Arrested and rs Barrels of
Beer Seized.

CHICAGO, January 80 CP.-Nine
men were arrested today and IS bar
rels Of beer were seized in a raid by
prohibition agents on the Pfeiffer
brewery. Five men escaped after a
lookout had fired a shot of warning.
Several sawed-off shotguns were found
in the brewery.
During the day Federal Judge Adam
c. Cliffe also issued temporary injunc-
lions against s private residences. 12
soft drink parlors, a drug store and a
road house. restraining those named
from violating the prohibition laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
MOTHER LEAVES BABY
WITH STRANGER HERE
Child Given New York Police by
Woman, Who Says She Was
Asked to Hold It.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January S0.-Mrs.
Fanny Griffin, negro, of 240 South
First street, Brooklyn, today turned
over to police of the Bedford Ave
nue. station a 4-month- old negro boy
who was left with her by a strange
negro woman Friday in the Union
Station at Washington. d. c.. ac-
cording to the police.
Mrs. Griffin's train started for
New York before the unidentified
mother came back tn get her child.
SO she brought the infant nlOng with
her, Mrs. Griffin said. Police placed
The baby boy in care of the city
nursery and communicated with
Washington police in an effort to
locate the mother.
Authorities here were unable to
suggest the identity of the baby re-
ported carried to New York. No re-
ports of missing babies have been
made 10 the police. it was stated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
ROUND UP ELK HERD.
Between 500 and 700 Captured in

GREAT FALLS, Mont, January 80
P).-Cowboys have rounded up be-
t"'een 900 and 700 elk in corrals on
the national bison range near Mis-
soula. Mont, for shipment to Massa-
chusetts, officials of the Federal Bio
logical Survey declared today.
The elk are to be turned loose on
the NemaSket range at Middieboro,
Nlass., a 500-acre preserve.
Contrary to reports, the elk are in
good condition and have not been af-
fected by storm or famine. There is
no snow on the bison range, where
the Biological Survey maintains bison
and elk herds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
ROW AT RIVERA MEETING.

PERPIGNAN, France, January 80
NP.-A report was current here to-
night that "a serious incident" oc-
Cured at Barcelona, Spain, today
after a speech delivered by Premier
Primo de Rivera at the military club.
The Spanish speaker dealt lengthily
with the organization of the army.
The nature of the serious incident"
has not yet been learned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
BRITISH EVACUATE
GERMAN TERRITORY
Lowering of Union Jack Is
End of Occupation,
Which Began in 1918.
By the Associated Press.

COLOGNE, Germany, January 30
historic event took place today in
the lowering of the British flag over
British headquarters at the Excelsior
Hotel, denotiHg the end OF British 'oo-
cupation. In place of the Union Jack
the white and red flag of Cologne was
run up. visible symbol of the allies
recognition that Germany had kept
faith according to the Versailles
treaty. and is therefore entitled TO I'M
trammeled possession again of the
Cologne bridgehead, occupied by the
allies since December, 1918.
CuriousIy, however, the long desired
event stirred apparently only faint in
terest in the hearts of the citizens,
and its remarkable feature was the
almost complete absence of ceremony.
Routine of Day.
A wistful "hoch" was raised by the
spectators. then the British anthem
was played and there was a feeble
display of carnival streamers in the
immediate neighborhood of the build
ing. On the part of the British il was
just the rouline of a day, and the
whole thing disappointing show for
the motion picture men turning the
handles of their machines feyerishly
on modest gathering of Germans
watching a small company of imper-
! turbable Shropshire lads making his
tory.
One real sign of the evacuation was
the marching of company of the
King Shropshire Infantry, headed by
their band, after the ceremony, to the
station on the way to Wiesbaden. A
number of British officials and citi
Zens Witnessed the function and fol.
lowed the flag TO the station.
Legal Date to Be Decided.
Although Cologne is officially in the
hands OF the Germans, the actual le
gal date for the transfer still has To
be determined by the ambassadors
council and is expected to be in the
m ddle of February, but the precise
date depends on legal and financla
adjustments.
A big demonstration for the citizens
to rejoice in their new liberty has
been arranged for Sunday evening in
the Cathedral Square. At midnight
the great new bell of The cath adral vii
be rung, and all the bells of the CITY
will join in. ODER Burgomaster AIDE.
nauer will address the citizens from
the cathedral steps, and his spe ect
will be relayed and broadcast in Ber-
lin. Monday will be a holiday for all
the schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Provides Memorial
For 2 Seamen Lost
In AntinOe Rescue
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. January 30.-The
memory of Ernest Hoffman and
Uno Wirtemen, seamen of the
liner President Roosevelt, who lost
their lives in one of the first at
tempts to rescue the crew of the i'll
fated British freighter Antinoe,
will be perpetuated by two sea
mems rooms for the annex to the
Seamen's Church Institute, it was
announced today. Miss NJ. Eliza
beth Lester of Philadelphia is the
donor
Marshall Field, with a donation
of $4,000, is among other con-
tributors to the building fund.
The annex is now under construc-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Radio Bill Reported Back.

The House Merchant Marine sub
committee yesterday reported the
White radio bill back to the full com
mittee for further instructions. The
measure would set up machinery for
regulating the radio industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
CREW PRAISED IN HOUSE.
Resolution Offered 10 Thank Captain
and Men of Roosevelt,

Expressions of appreciation for the
heroic service of the crew Of the
liner President Roosevelt in rescuIng
the crew of the British freighter
Antinoe were made in the House yes
terday by Representative Tilson. Con-
necticut, Republican leader; Fish. Re-
publican, New York, and Stephens,
Republican, Ohio.
Mr. Fish also introduced a resoiu-
ton to express the thanks of Congress
to Capt. George Fried and the crew
Of the Roosevelt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

Having no use for smokestacks be.
cause it is propelled by Diesel oil
burning motors, the Swedish Ameri-
can liner Gripsholm has dummy
stacks in which 1t has placed it's
elevators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
NINE GAlE-LASHED
SHIPS IN DISTRESS,
TWO ARE WRECKED
Continued from First Page.)

years." he protests. IT know what
is to be done"
Yes, but you have a wife and two
children and not enough muscle" said
the Roosevelt's officer.
but l am thinking Of the wives
and children of the fellows over
yonder," the steward protested.