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Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
StanfeId Says Poca
Merchants Undersell all
Others Without Exception

Comparison Of service, comparison Of
quality, comparison of policies, com
parison Of prices have proven this to
be an undisputable fact; a conclusion
that is acknowledged for fifty miles
around. Why buy from the itlnerant
peddler or the far-away concern when
they don't have any interest in you.
They don't build churches in your com
munity or maintain the schools. Why
pay more for sight-unseen merchan-
dlseg You don't get more. You only
have the thrill of paying postage.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
Baptist Ladies Bazaar

On Saturday, Dec. Is, the w. M. 5.
will have on sale at Poe's Store a mis-
cellaneous bazaar consisting Of many
beautiful and practical articles such
as lingerie, caps, aprons, collar sets,
pillow cases, linens, two beautiful, we'll
made comforts, one quilt and tops. All
very appropriate for gifts. A commit
tee In waiting will serve you.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16
Eastern Star To Elect

officers for 1927 will be elected at
the regular meeting Of Red Cross
Chapter No. 40, o. q. s., tonight, Dec.
10th.
Hosts for the social entertainment
will be DR.. w. Il. Hamil, o. G. Mock,
Zan schnabaum, DAILY Thompson and
Ben f. Mays.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16

We are notified to change the ad-
dress of Mrs. Jennie Brown from Peach
Orchard to La Jolla, Calf, where she
will spend the winter with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Earl DuLaney.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16

YL. W. @. will broadcast the stand
ing of the Ave leading contestants Of
the Famous Cash Store and New Lead
er at the Swan theatre Friday even
ing.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16

Buy Christmas Seals. The good
they do depends on you.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-16

Eighteen years experience in drawing Insurance con-
tracts"
Evening star., 1926-12-14

somewhat higher than the same ratio
in England.
In comparison to SO per cent in the
country as a whole only 68 per cent
of the residents of New York City be-
lieve in God. In like manner. while re,
turns show AZ per cent of the resi-
dents of the entire country believe
in the divinity of Jesus, only 81 per
cent of New York City residents share
that belief, and while 70 per cent of
the country at large are active church
members. this is true of only AZ per
cent of New Workers..
Cities Less Religious.
THE figures indicate that interest
in religion differs greatly in various
parts of the country" said Rev.
Charles Stelzle. director of the ques-
tionnaire. I'm the South the people
are extremely orthodox in their views.
very generally accepting such doc.
trine.i as immortality and the divinity
of Christ. and much the same is true
of the smaller cities of the Middle
West. But in the larger cities the re-
turns show greater indifference
toward religion"
Answers to other questions in the
questionable showed 80 per cent be-
lieve the Bible as inspired work: 70
per cent regularly attend church
services: 70 per cent would not want
their families to grow up in church
less communities IL per cent send
their children to schools for religious
instruction, and so per cent believe re-
llglon in some form a necessary ele-
ment of life for the individual and the
community
Evening star., 1926-12-14
19 KILLED, 70 HURT
IN CHEMICAL BLAST
Sudden Rise in Temperature
Causes Chlorine Tank to Ex-
plode in France.

BY the Associated Press.
DIGNE. DEPARTMENT BASSES
ALPES, France, December 14.-Nine-
teen men are dead. most of them hav-
ing been asphyxiated, in consequence
of the explosion of 10000 Kilograms of
LIQUID chlorine in a factory at ST.
Auban. Seventy other men were in
jured, 80 of them seriously.
Those who met death included six
Frenchmen. The remainder We're AL
gerians, Russians and Portuguese.
A sudden rise in the temperature
after an extremely cold spell is given
as the cause of the explosion of the
chlorine. At first the belief was held
in some quarters that it was due to
sabotage. This. however, is said to
have been completely dissipated by
n preliminary investigation, which
showed that the explosion was due
entirely to natural causes.
1t is considered marvellous that more
men We're not asphyxiated. as 500 of
the 1.500 workers employed were in
the immediate vicinity Of the tank
when it burst.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
u. S. Workers Get
Assurance of Half
Day Christmas Eve

Federal employees in the District
will receive Il half holiday Christ
mas eve.
President Coolidge let it he
known today that he intends to
follow the custom of permitting the
employees To be excused from their
work that afternoon. There Will
be no Executive order issued, but
the President will instruct depart
ment and bureau heads to excuse
all those employees whose services
will not be needed.
The same instruction will go to
the District Commissioners and it
is understood at the White House
that the employees of the District
government will be granted this
holiday also.
President Coolidge indicated that
the employees will not be given
half holiday on New Years eve.
The President does not look upon
the day before New Year in the
same spirit in which he does
Christmas eve and he is repre-
sented as feeling that there seems
no occasion for granting this ad-
ditional holiday. The President last
year declined to sanction a half
holiday on New Year eve.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
SIX DOCTORS FIGHT
TO SAVE YOSH|H|TO
Life of Emperor of Japan
Hangs in Balance, With
Fever High.
By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News


By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
fCopyright. 19"6.l
HAYAMA. Japan. December IL
Six physicians are now working hero
ically with oxygen and by other arti-
fetal means to sustain the spark of
life within the body of Emperor Yoshi-
hito, who. is critically Ill of pneumonia
at the Summer palace here. The
morning official bulletin gave the pa
TENTS temperature as 1923 degrees
Fahrenheit, pulse 1lS and respira
ton 26.
Prince Regent Hirohito Cancelled en-
gagenents he had III Toxic and will
remain ut Fiayama indefinitely. 1t
previously had been announced that
the regent expected to attend cere-
monies at Toxic today and return to
Hayama Wednesday. The changed
plans. coupled with observation of
preparations under way, lead to one
conclusion--that the end is at hand.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
DEBT RETIREMENT
TO BEGIN At ONCE
Billion May Be Cut Off This
Year Due to Failure of Tax
Credit Plans.

While Democrats were seeking
strength today to drag their tabled tax
cut bill out of the House ways and
means committee which buried it
Saturday, Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon planned at once to begin re-
tiring some of the 10000 900 900 pub
lie debt, with the accommodating Fed
eral surplus, which started all the
tax-reduction argument A billion
dollars may be cut from the debt this
year.
Secretary Mellon not only believes
that retiring part of the public debt
will be very good thing to do now"
with the surplus. but he Is committed
Z to the principle of ..searly retirement
of the national debt" for business rea-
sons of sheer economy to the taxpay.
ers. In taking this stand he is blunt
ly opposed by the Democrats, who con-
tend that present taxpayers should
benefit.
Depends OH Old Rule.
The Democrats are hoping to get
their bill out of committee by resur-
recting an old House rule, which pro-
vides that petition of the ajority-
21S members-can bring out a meas
ure for consideration on the floor.
The first dollars out of the sur
plus may flow into public debt retire
ment tomorrow. On that date, De-
cember Is, final tax payment, of the
calendar year is due. 1t is antici-
pated that without prospect of tax
reduction there will be surplus rev.
enues, which may be used for auto
matically retiring the public debt. A
total of about $3.50, 100000 i'm Gov
ernment securities will mature to-
morrow. which the Treasury plans
to meet with balances already on
hand, tax receipts from the Decem-
ber 15 payment, and the 1929 9,000,0 900
of the latest Treasury offering dated
tomorrow. What surplus may be left
after that, it was explained at the
Treasury, will automatically be
applied to reduction Of the principal
of the public debt
Pleased by Committee Action.
Although Secretary Mellon joined
with President Coolidge in recon-
mending the tax credit as a possible
means of leaving the potential sur
plus in the pockets of the taxpayer,
and the Secretary admitted yester-
day it still might be possible to allow
the TAX cfcOlt, he SeeIleu DIedSed
with action of the House ways and
means committee, which would throw
the surplus into the public debt.
The total debt reduction possible
this fiscal year may be nearly n bill
lion dollars, Secretary Mellon said,
explaining that $556000. 900 would be
available from the regular sinking
fund and from war debt payments,
while the surplus, now under dis
pute by the Democrats. is estimated
TO he at least $3S3000,000, with pros
poets of mounting.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
PANAMA CONFISCATES
PAPERS WITH TREATY
Cuban and Costa Rican Publica-
tions Said to Contain Text
of Pending Pact.
BY the Associated Press.

PANAMA, December 14.-Severai
copies of FL Heraldo de Cuba of Hav
ana and of the December issue of Re
portorio Americana, a Costa Rican
publication. have been confiscated by
the police while being distributed by
news vendors. 1t is alleged that they
contained the complete text of the
United Panama treaty, which
both the Panaman and United States
Governments agreed not to publish
until congressional action had been
taken upon it.
The treaty is expected to go before
the Panaman Congress early in Janu-
ary. 1t is said to definitely determine
the sovereignty of the Panama Canal
Zone. Another provision is that the
United States shall not set up com
mercial establishments i'm the Canal
Zone to compete with the commerce
of Panama.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
u. S is SHOWN MORE RELIGIOUS
THAN BRITAIN BY NATIONAL QUIZ
Replies in This Country List 80 Per Cent
Believers In God-Cities Less Inter-
ested Than Rural Areas.
By the Assocfated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 14.--Amer-
lea possibly is more religious than
wide religious census indicate. and the
rest of the country has greater faith
than has New. York City that there
is a God.
Eighty-nine per cent of 10000 read
ers of $50 newspapers in 40 States
have replied in questionnaire that
they believe in God, while in similar
campaign only 73 per cent of the
readers of, the London Daily News ex-
pressed belief in personal God. :"
Commentators. however, call attention
to the more limited definition of the
London questionnaire.
The American auestionnaires We're
sent out in connection with d cam
paign on religion by the church adver-
Advertising Association and were
drafted by 100 clergymen. Answers
are TO be received for another week
Replies on Immortality.
The question do you believe in inn
mortality" brought response of IS
per cent in the affirmative, while the
same question in the London Daily
News brought 10.161 affirmative an
swers and 3.17S negative answers.
The ratio of belief to disbelief was
almost the same to all questions pub
lished in the QUESTIONABLE in this
country and in nearly every case was
Evening star., 1926-12-14
II DIE IN MEXICAN FIGHT.

MEXICO CITY, December IA CP).-
The war department announced last
night that Is Yaqui Indians were
killed and 22 wounded and Federal
soldiers were killed and wounded in
battle with the Yaquis near .Orez
state of Sonora. when 400 of the In.
dams abandoned their mountain
strongholds and descended into the
valley for foodstuffs.
Gen. ManZo. military commandant
Of Sonora. is personally directing the
pursuit Of the fleeing Indians.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
Cold Snap Is Due
In Capital Tonight;
Drop 10 "a Likely

There will be sudden change
in Washington weather about sun
set. which will send the tempera-
ture below freezing tonight-to
minimum of about "a
1t may even so lower. The cold
is coming broadSide on the Middle
Atlantic States from the Middle
West. RI came out of SaskatChe-
wan yesterday, spread over the
northern Rocky Mountain region,
and Immediately started. East.
The mercury stood at 4S at noon.
During the afternoon il will go
down q trifle even under the warm
sun. Early this evening the de-
cline will be rapid
Evening star., 1926-12-14
BILL TO PURCHASE
TRIANGLE PUT ON
SENATE CALENDAR
Smoot Plan, Providing for
s25,000,0O0 Project.
FavorabIy Reported.
VARIOUS SENATORS
APPROVE OF MEASURE
Delay in Acquisition Would Be
Uneconomic, Backers of
Program Believe.

The bill authorizing purchase of all
the remaining private land in the tr1-
angle between Pennsylvania avenue
and Il street in connection with the
Federal building program in Wash
ington was placed on the Senate cal
endar today. having been favorably
reported late yesterday by the COM
lnittee on public buildings and grounds.
Senator Smoot, chairman of the Pub
lie Buildings Commission. plans TO ask
for action on the measure at the first
opportunity. and indications are that
the Senate will approve the bill. SEN
ator Smoot has talked with a number
of Senators and thus far has found n"
opposition to the plan of the building
commission TO take in all of the tri-
angle in the interest of economy.
Delay Feared as Costly.
The Public Buildings Commission
and the Treasury Department in rec
ommending this additional legislation.
acted on the theory that it will be to
the Governments interest to ACQUIRE
all of the triangle at this time instead
of carrying out the building program
in piecemeal fashion. 1t has been
pointed out that to delay acquiring
the remaining private property in the
triangle until the first group of Fed
eral buildings have been erected would
serve only to increase the cost or the
land to the Government.
The promptness of the public build
ings and grounds committee in re-
porting the bill to the Senate indi-
Gates the interest members of Con
gress have taken in the plans of the
Public Buildings Commission to make
adequate provision for the Govern
ment establishments in Washington
and at the same time clean up the
area lying between the Treasury and
| the Capitol.
Would Authorize So. 100000
f; The pending bill authorizes $4,000.
I 900 to complete the purchase OF the
! triangle, but the appropriation Will
not be sought until negotiations have
been started to buy the land. These
negotiations will not begin until Con
gress enacts this authorization.
! A similar bill has been introduced in
! the House and is expected to come
i before the public buildings and
grounds committee tomorrow.
i Members of the Senate had the en-
| tire plan of the Public Buildings Com
! mission clearly outlined to them by
Senator Smoot last week and gave
evidence of being keenly interested In
the project. The Smoot bill was re-
ported to the Senate by Senator Len.
root, chairman of the public buildings
and grounds committee.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
CRISIS IN EGYPT FEARED
DUE TO SLUMP IN COTTON
Ministerial Body in Heated Debate
Over Proposal for Government
to Enter Market.
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, December IA dispatch
to the Daily Mail from Cairo. Egypt.
says the slump in cotton threatens Il
ministerial crisis.
The correspondent says there was a
four-hour heated debate in the cham
ber Monday regarding the suggestion
that the government enter the cotton
market He adds he understands that
the cabinet is against the suggestion.
but that majority of the members of
the chamber favor it.
The session was adjourned until
Wednesday. and meantime the cabinet
is to make a final decision.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
TWO DIE IN AUTO WRECK.
Third Seriously Hurt When Car
Turns Over in Florida.

MIAMI. Fla, December II LP)--
Two men were killed and another
suffered serious injuries when the au.
tomobile in which they were riding
in Coral Gables today turned over
three times.
Charles Stewart, driver. and an un-
identified companion died at hos
pital shortly afterward, while w. j.
Uardcastle. another occupant of the
machine. was in critical condition.
All were carpenters. in middle age,
on their way to work.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
TRAVELLER IN FRANCE
IMPERSONATES PRINCE
Poses as British Heir in Pyrenees
Towns. Ignoring Denials
of English.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the associated Press.
PERPIGNAN, France. December H.
Just who the personable young man
is who has been travelling about the
Pyrenees as the Prince of Wales is
question puZZling the authorities here
The pseudo-prince went through
Perpignan Sunday to the bows and
smiles of all concerned, and later his
arrival in Barcelona was heralded.
British sources. however, denied that
he was the heir to the throne
Then. yesterday. the prince" again
appeared en- route to Paris, and "a
dinner at the British embassy" which,
it developed, the embassy knew moth
ing about.
In the face of urgent denials that
the Prince OF Wales had even left
England, newspaper men asked the
prince" TO clear up matters.
Very amiable people. the French, :"
was his only reply as he sped away
in the royal" automobile.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
Huge Forest Fires Rage.

NOVOROSSISK, Russia, December
IA R).-The Soviet government at
Sochi, Georgia, has issued a decree
calling out the entire population to
fight huge. forest fires which are rag
ing along the Black Sea coast in the
Sochi at Tuapse regions.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
Quakes Shake Java.

BATAVIA. Java, December Ii R).-
A number of native dwellings We're
destroyed and II homes of Europeans
at Proepoel were damaged when Is
temblors last night shook the neigh
borhood OF Tegel on the northern
coast of Java. Only one person is re-
ported to have been injured
Evening star., 1926-12-14
ALL ABOARD SHIP DROWN.
Norwegian Steamer Reported Sunk
Off Iceland.

LONDON, December II LP.--A
Lloyd's dispatch from Reykjavik, Ice
land. says the Norwegian steamer Bal
holm has been totally wrecked at
Akrar, FAKE Bay. and the crew and
passengers drowned
No details are given.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
ERUPTION PREDICTED.
Tons of Water in Vesuvius Crater
Lead to Dire Forecasts.

NAPLES. December ii R.-An-
other serious eruption Of Mount
Vesuvius is predicted, in consequence
of the recent rains.
Tons of water have gathered in the
crater within the last few days.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
SURRENDER TERMS
BY YOUNG REFUSED
U. S. Attorney Given Declines
Proposal to Reduce Bond
of Missing Clerk.

An offer to surrender Damon
Young, former clerk of the quarter
master generals office in the War De-
paftment. who has been missing more
than Il week. and for whom war
rant was issued charging conversion
after trust for alleged appropriation
10 ms own use of portion of more
than $4,000 collected from employees
as Christmas savings fund Install
ments was refused by Assistant
United States Attorney Ralph Given
today, because such an offer was pred
icated on a reduction of the stipulated
amount of bond from $4,000 to S., 900
r. j. Quigley, local attorney, ap-
peared before Mr.. Given. stating he
represented Young. He said he be-
lieved it possible to arrange a surren-
der of Young to answer the warrant
if the bond were not too high Mr..
Givefs stated bond required in the
case would not be reduced
Surrender Is Doubtful.
Mr.. Quigley professed ignorance of
the whereabouts of his client, but
stated tslat he would sec that the in
the bond would not be reduced upon
surrender. He did not state whether
a surrender would follow.
Yesterday afternoon it was believed
Young was III New York, because of
the receipt of a letter by Arthur E.
Moreland, a clerk in the quartermas.
ter's office, signed Damon" and post
marked New York City. referring to
an accounting of funds placed in
Young's care as treasurer of an ath-
letic fund of that office. Moreland
said today the amount was scarcely
more than $100. The letter failed to
refer in any way TO the Christmas
sa wings fund.
Conference Arranged.
Early today, however. word reach
ed the police that Attorney Quigley
had arranged a conference with Mr..
Given.
Detectives Springmann and Tram
nell of headquarters, assigned to the
case, were present during the inter-
view In Mr.. Given's office.
The warrant was sworn out by
Stanley r. Burrows, a Government
clerk. and one of the depositors.
While the warrant charges conver-
sion of less than S308, the scattered
estimates obtained by police from
d1lklSs having money in the fund in
Amks that the fund exceeds $4,000.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
FOG WRECKS TRAINS.
AND HOLDS UP SHIPS.
Cold Wave Reported Moving
Eastward as Wind Clears
Air Again.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, December 14.-Fog,
which for two days has crippled ship
ping, cast the city into semi-darkness
and resulted in several transportation
accidents. was blown sky-high today
by strong west wind.
BY noon the harbOr. glistening un-
der brilliant sun, was churned oy
% incoming ships, carrying 3.oO0 pas
senGers, and ships whose sailing time
had been held up by the dangerous
murkiness footed their whistles Tor
departure.
The Cunard liner Berengaria, load
ed with Christmas mail and passeh-
gers, off Ambrose Light. and the Gu
narders' Andania and Auranla| at
SANDY Hook. lifted anchors and start
ed i'm for quarantine. Others also IN
bound included the American Shipper
and the White Star liner Megantlc.
Ferry boats. delayed in schedules
were again back nearly to norman.
Fog Wrecks Two Trains.
Before it departed the fog was
blamed for two railroad wrecks.
collision of river craft and the deten-
tion off New York Harbor of 20 IN
coming ships.
Nine personS were injured in two
railroad accidents in New Jersey last
night. one rear-end collision be-
tween two express trains on the Penn-
sylvania Railroad near New Bruins
wick and the other derailment or
Baltimore and Ohio train near Ifeh
ton.
The Commercial Express. st. Louis
to New York. ran into the second sec
EtYnrQGG
railing the front truck OF the 81
| Louis locomotive and the rear truck
of the last car of the Atlantic Cit!
| train.
Mrs. barbara Steinmetz of st. Louis
| a passenger on the Commercial eX-
press. who was OH her way To WISH
her daughter, Mrs Elsie Beffa al
Madison. y. j., was taken to the
Middlesex Hospital. where she was
found TO have several body bruises.
Nathan Williams, negro pullman por.
ter. was taken TO st. Peters Hospital
for decorations of the arms.
Several other persons were sllShtly
injured and after receiving treatment
continued their journey on other
trains.
Five Hurt i'm Other Wreck.
two of them women. when a Washing
ton-New York train of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad was derailed at Hope
well Junction, near Trenton Eight
of the nine cars left the rails. Rail-
road men said the dense fog caused
the engineer to miss signal and run
into a derailment switch.
Pilbts last night refused to risk an
attempt to guide ships through the
heavy Jog that hung over the bay
Fifteen hundred persons aboard the
municipal ferryboat Richmond be-
came excited when the boat, plying
between Staten Island and New York,
collided off the Statue of Liberty with
the lighter Sycamore. Twenty-Five
feet of the ferryboat's port side was
smashed and the guard rail was rip
ped away, but the boat docked safely
and no one was injured.
The fog covered the entire metro
politan area and the Jersey Coast and
drizzling rain added TO the murkiness.
Evening star., 1926-12-14
Ten Buildings Burned.

McARTHUR, Ohio. December IA CF).
Fire of unknown origin in the bust
ness district of Macarthur at midnight
last night destroyed 10 buildings, with
an estimated loss of 100000.