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FARMER BELIEF IS UPPERMOST ISSUE A SPECIAL .JOINT COMMISSION OF CONGRESS SWINGS INTO AGGRESSIVE ACTION. INFLUENTIAL AGRARIAN BLOC Pending Investigation Will Proceed by Authority of Resolution Offered by Lenroot of Wisconsin. Washington. As a special joint 9 commission of the Senate and House swings into aggressive action in Its ninety-day investigation of the farm ing industry in the United States, some 6,000,000 Americans wno raise the na tion's food and who produce most of its clothing, are waking up to the fact that the present Congrestj, with its sturdy "agrarian blocs" in both branches seems to be more favorably inclined toward agricultural legisla tion than any that has preceded It during the last decade. The pending investigation, which was ordered by the passage of a reso lution offered by Senator is to remain in continuous session in Wash ington and elsewhere for the next three months. Immediate and effective relief for the agricultural industry is the pur pose of the Inquiry, but, according to Chairman Anderson's expressed hope, the investigation is to be used to car ry on the work already launched by many members of Congress. Civil War Feared in Italy. Rome—The threat of tivij war hangs over Italy, but there Is every prospect that It will be averted. Feel ing between the Fascist! (the extreme nationalists) and the Socialists and Communists Is at fever heat. Train Bandit* Being Trailed. St. Louis, Mo. A sheriff's posse was trailing six armed train bandits through the lowlands of Arkansas. The sextet held up a Missouri Pacific train near Vandale, Ark., and looted the mall car of a registered mail sack and the express safe. Russian General Arretted. Vienna—Belgrade reports that a Russian general named Konilsaraw, a well known anarchist, was arrested on the charge of being Implicated In the recent attempt to assassinate Crown Prince Alexander, of Serbia. American Ships in Callao. Lima.—The American mission to the centenary celebration of Peru's Inde pendence arrived in Callao on board a special naval squadron consisting , of the battleships Arizona, Oklahoma 1 and Nevada. Give Railroads to Ford. Hart, Mich.—A petition to President. Harding asking that the railroads of the country be turned over to Henry I Ford, the automobile manufacturer, | for operation, signed by 400 fruit | growers of Oceana county, was mailed. To Sicze Several Steamers. New York —Agents of the shipping board waited for the arrival of big steamers chartered to the United States Mall Steamship company. In order that they mighe add them to five' seized. - /- Ulster Not Much Concerned. . Delfast.—Ulster at the moment Is not concerned with the negotiations | being carried on by the British gof-i 'ernment with the Sinn Fein, It Is do-' clared n unionist quarters here Spaniards Suffer Setback. Paris.—A serious setback has been , suffered by the Sapnlards In the fight-, tag with the rebellious Morocrtin tribesmen, says the Madrid corres pondent of the Journal. Dublin Hopes for Peace. Dublin—The Impression Is growing that the Irish peace offer made by Premier Lloyd George to Eamonn de Valera, the republican leader, will! work out In a settlement. Oil Tanks Burn at Beaumont. Beaumont, Texas. —Fire, which has j destroyed $500,000 wor'.h of oil In four tanks belonging to the Magnolia Petroleum company and the Sun Oil company, was believed to be neatly controlled. Lord Northcliffe In New York. New York. —Viscount N'orthcllfTe, British publisher and political power, arrived on the steamship Aqutaiarila, on the first leg of an extensive tour, I the prime purpose of which Is to study j international problems In the Pacific. • More About Freidrlch Wilhelm. London. Freidrich Wilhelm, for-; mer German crown prince, has sug gested that be may ask permission to go to the United States for a lec ture tour. No Arrests Yet Made. Hattleeburg. Miss—No arrest* have been made In connection with the lynching here of Caaey Jones, con denned to be hanged for the murder of Mr*. J. 8. Mosely, wife of a mail carrier. A coroner'* Jury spent a busy day investigating. WASTE ALSO ANOTHER FACTOR ' Acute National Shortage of Housing 1 J Ascribed to Practically Prohibitive ■ Cost of Construction. ■ New York. —Half a billion dollars a year in wages is being lost in the building industry through unemploy ment, declared a report made public by the committee on elimination of I waste In industry of the American En- Council. , I The committee, appointed by Her bert .Hoover when he was president of the council, asserted lack of work I; was the outstanding fjjet In this Indus j try, whose, critical • condition is at tributed primarily to high costs 'of I construction. ■ The report said that waste was j causing huge losses in "building ' ; which. Including all trades and com- J ' mon labor, ranked second among in ' dustries and contributed more than ' ! $3,000,000,000 yearly to the wealth of '. the nation. \ The annual economic loss due to ac 'jcldents was estimated at high as ! $120,000,000. ' An acute national shortage of hous -1 ing exists, the report stated, because prohibitive construction costs to ' householder and banker. A Divorce at Age of 91, Chicago.—Ambrose J. Rose, grant (l ed a decree of divorce from his third _ I wife, asserted that "women were get ting worse with every generation.", "My first wife was pretty good,'' he .'said, "my second was just medium and . the third Is no good at all." He as serted that he is througti with them all." ;l . Women's Citizenship Bill. [ Atlanta.—The woman's citizenship I kill, removing civil disabilities of wo men and permitting them to hold of . flee In Georgia, was passed by the r state senate. The measure stipu lates that women shall not perform , jury duty, police or road work. Poplar Bluff, Mo. —William Abner I Bishop, Missouri's oldest resident. Is , | dead at the age of 115. He lived long 'enough fo attend the funerals of his , wife and all his children, though he i himself passed his last days on a farm. Crisis In Sileslan Affairs. j Paris. The Anglo-French contro versy, which, has arisen over the de | mand by France 1 that Allied rein forcements be sent to Upper Silesia, , Is still regarded by the French press In the light of a crisis. Senate Now Has Tariff Bill. i Washington.—Passed by the House jby a vote of 289 to 127, the Fordney tariff bill was expected to reach the Senate finance committee, where It i will be subjected to open hearings and an indefinite stay in committee. Railroad to Stop Operating. ! Harrison, Ark—J. C. Murray, re -1 reiver and general manager of the : Missouri and Northern Arkansas rail troad, announced that steps were be ing taken to discontinue operation of | the railroad here t midnight, July 31. Final Settlement With Roads. Washington.—Proposed terms for a final Bettlemont between the govern ment and the railroads are understood to have been before the cabinet. It was Indicated that some definite an * nouncement on the subject was im minent. j Ocean Freight on Cotton. Washington. Ocean freight rates | on cotton moving fron> North Atlantic ports to Great Britain were approxi mately 50 per cent lower July 1 this year than November 1 last year. Make a Compromise on Silesia. Paris. —A compromise has been ef ! fected between Franco and Great ) Britaain regarding the SHeslan Issue a result of new exchanges. Pre mier Brland. it was announced, will probably agree to a meeting of the i supreme council about the middle of ! the first week in August and with -1 draw his demand for a meeting or experts. In return for this Great Britain has . been asked to join with France In ; requesting free passage through Ger many of reinforcements. Soon to Complete Work. | Washington —Civil service examina tions to fill 2,294 vacant postmaster ships will be concluded by August 27. the commission announced. To Transport Phosphate. Tampa. Fla. —F. L. D. Carr. repre senting a shipping organisation operat ! Ing forty Shipping Board vessels, has j opened offices here for the purposes of handling phosphate shipments from t this port to foreign countries. The i vessels are operated from Gulf to j European ports. Taft Names Secretary. Washington.—Chief Justice Taft an nounced the appointment of Wendell W. Michler, Cincinnati, as his secre tary, continuing an assoclaton begun seventeen years ago when Mr. Taft 1 was Secretary of War. Died at Age of 100 Years. Fort Meyers. Fla —Funeral services j were held here for Mrs. Caroline A. Holland Goodno, who died at the home iof her son, E. E. Goodno. wealthy South Florida cattleman, nt the age of j 100 years. " HAS NO INTENTION ' TO IGNORE LEAGUE rlt INVITATION FROM THAT BODV 10 j RELATING TO WORLD COURT □ DULY ACKNOWLEDGED. >t j I OFFSETTING PUBLIC STORIES it x ■kl 3 " Secretary Hughes Powerless to Deal l * With League Because of Position >f of President and Senate. g i ' l- Washington. The United States l- government is not intentionally ignor n I ing communications from the league iftot nations and has not failed to note | the invitation to this government to 3- i become a member of the world court b ' of international justice, created by the league. This attitude was made known at ,e the department of state, to ofTset the 0 public stories giving the impression that the United States was somehow offending the league of nations by re- I fusing to tjeal with its letters and com inunications. In the first place, the permanent secretary of the league has , I been sending out printed circulars to j various .governments of the world and I it was but natural that one of the gov .! ernment bureaus filed the circulars l without regarding them in the same j light as formal communications, j But what the secretary of the league |of nations hasn't evidently taken into j consideration is that while all commu nications are duly received and filed P Secretary Hughes is powerless to deal >|wlth the league because of the ex f - i pressed desire of the President of the «> United States that America stay out i-! :i( the league and the evident con " ; curre'nce of tha senate in that vlew | point. Central American Assembly. ! rj Tegucigalpa, Honduras. —The Cen sjtral American constituent assembly, K i the legislative body of the recently s | formed federation of Central American •» j republics, convened here. Represen -1 : tatlves of Salvador, Honduras and were In^ttendance. \ Student: Training at Jackson. >-j \Q>lum)Jui, S. C. —Eleven hundred >- jhign~Scnool young men of the South, -jail between 16' and 21 years of age, ~ | are encamped at Camp Jackson, near 9 ; Columbia, in the second -annual civil j ian training camp for the South since I the world war. I Nationalists Pursued. ' ' London.—With the important rail way junction point of Eski-Shehr In I their hands, the Greeks are conduct j ing a rapid pursuit of the Turkish | Nationalists, dislodged from that city, j and other points. i Convention Gazetted. Madrid. A convention between . Spain and the United States for the f j exchange of postal parcels was ga- I zetted. Tfie convention was the re i suit of negotiations carried on during i the course of last year's postal con ( gress. Hard on Newspaper Readers. ' ! Rio Janeiro. Work in newspaper ' I offices in Rio Janeiro between the • j hours, of 8 o'clock Sunday, morning and 8 o'clock Monday morning is pro | hibited under the provisions of an act | passed by the municipal council. Packing Concern Big Loser. : Austin, Minn.—The actual shortage ' in the accounts of R. J. (Cy) Thom j son, former comptroller of George A. Hormel & C 0.," local packers. Is Jl,- according to figures. Floating Bar-room Reported. 9 . Washington. lnvestigation of the | reported operation of a floating bar 1 j off Long Island, outside the three -9 j mile limit, was ordered by Prohibition f Commissioner Haynes. • r Form Gtrman Consortium. Paris. —The Intransigeant Is author -14 ity for a report that a German consor- I t|um has been* formed under the aus ■" . pices of the Dresdner Bank and will ! be installed shortly In Paris. No Tax on Long Staple Cotton. '•I Washington. Compensatory dnties ''lon textiles manufactured from 'long • staple cotton were denied by the House in line with Its action recently in re fusing compensatory duties on leather products. Mexican Oil Fields Burning. »i Mexico City.—The Amatlan oil fleids ' are on fire, with drilling lowers fall- II Ing off like chaff and workmen fleeing, e according to reports received here de -0 scribing the "greatest catastropbe in ; the history of the oil fleids." Mrs. Kaber in Reformatory, '•j Cleveland. O. —Eva Katherlne Kaber 1 ; was taken to the women's reformatory '- at Marysvllle, Ohio, to negln servtng 9 a life sentence for the murder of her t husband. Daniel E. Kaber, Lals,ewood I publisher. -—— — Sugar Plant Destroyed. 8 , Beaumont. Texas,—Fire of undeter " mined origin destroyed the Morslhan p sugar factory near New Iberia, La. >'j About one million pounds of sugar was f 1 burned, wfth tin estimated loss of 1300,- IMM the reoort aaW - ' ' ' \ * * 1 THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C. NO SIDETRACK FOR SENATE j . I President Finds Himself in Awkward | Situation of Again- Pointing Out to Congress Former Advice. ' Washington. President Harding may have to take another trip to the capitol or In some other way apply the brakes to the tendency of Congress to appropriate for new purposes all | the money that has been saved, j The Senate is in a snarl again. Al though Mr. Harding pleaded with his former colleagues to sldetrapk not only the bonus but other legislation except -1 ing the tariff and taxation, the bill pro viding $1,000,000 to finance farm ex ports now is up for consideration. It means, if passed', a spending of exactly the amount which C. G. Dawes, dlrec i to of the budget announces has been saved. In other words, just as fast as a saving is accomplished at one end of | the national capital, means of spend ! ing an equivalent amount are at | the other end. And on top of it all the 1 new shipping board finds it necessary i to ask for $300,000,000 to salvage the ' wreck on its hands. Thus the -Presi ! dent finds himself in an awkward sit ! uation of appealing to Congress di ! rectly, or indirectly to concentrate on J the tax program and let alone other 1 matters. . Reforestation in the South. Atlanta. —The virgin pine timber of the South is nearly exhausted and the Southern Forestry Congress, opening its session here, will discuss refores tration in the southern States as a means of providing for future timber resources, according to Henry B. Hart ner, of Urania, La., president of the congress. Governor Small Springfield, 111. —Warrants were is sued for Governor Small, Lieutenant Governor Sterling and Vernon C litis. Grant Park banker, following their indictment on charges of embezzle ment, conspiracy and confidence game through the alleged use of interest on state funds for their personal gain. General Exodus of Japa/.ete. Turlock, Calif.—A general exodus of Japanese field laborers and their fam ilies from this district is taking place following the depot tatloa to Keyes, five miles north, of 58 Japanese male workers by members of a union of fruit and melon pickers, the authori ties announced. , t v • * Baptists Drown Ut Gulf. Houston, Tex.—Eight persons were drowned and three others near death, were rescued when 16 delegates to the Baptist Young People's Union annual state encampment at Patacois, form ing a bathing party, were caught in the undertow of the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of Greensbayu, 22 miles from Palacois. Women to Pay Poll Tax. Atlanta. —A poll tax of $1 a year will be Imposed on women in Georgia under the terms of a bill introduced in the lower house of the general as sembly to revise what is known as the general tax act. ' f Projects Long Trip in Yawl. Los Angeles, Calif. —Harry Pidgeon who single-handed sailed a 34-foot yawl from Los Angeles to Honolulu and back last summer is preparing for a voyage to the South Sea Islands, 3,000 miles southwest of here. Duty on Leather and Cotton. Washington,—Compensatory duties of 10 per cent ad valorem on' all leather goods. Including shoes, and 7V£ per cent ad valorem on all textiles composed wholly or In part of long staple cotton, Is understood to have been agreed upon by the house ways and means committee. Great Peach Crop Harvested. Atlanta. The Georgia peach and melon crop of this year has already broken all records, it was indicated by figures made public by the Fruit Growers' Express, which furnished re frigerator cars for the two products. Peache9 filling 10,264 cars were shipped from the Uracker State this year in comparison with 5,663 cars last year. The melon exports amounted to 10,- 110 cars so far this season. Last year's total was 5,208 cars. Hoover to Pay South a Visit. Washington.—Her\»eri Hoover, sec retary of commerce, will speak in North Carolina this fall. He definitely accepted the invitation extended to him to deliver an adiTress at the Har nett county agricultural fatr. Leaf Tobacco Market Low. Richmond. Va.—Leaf tobacco prices on markets in southeastern North Car olina. South Carolina and Georgia were more than 50 per cent under averages of the opening day last year, accord ing to reports on initial sales. To Sell Cl(ib House. New York. The National Demo crat#: club authorized Its ways and means committee to aell its Fifth ave nue clnb bouse." bought for $175,000 about 25 years ago and for which sl,* 000 has been refused. Further Credit for Farmer*. Washington.-—Further credit for the purpose of harvesting and marketing" the coming cotton crop will be extend ed la whatever amount may Ifpitl mately be required, it was announced Ib» die federal reserve board. DISTRIBUTION OF FUND FORJIREWEN INSURANCE DEPARTMENT PAYS $29,495 TO A NUMBER OF FIRE DEPARTMENTS. CHARLOTTE HEADS THE LIST *' Amount Paid by Insurance Companies This Year for This Purpose More Than Double That of 1918. Raleigh. Charlotte again draws the biggest share of the firemen's relief fund which the insurance department col lects annually from companies operat ing in the state, and pays out to the 92 fire companies of North Carolina. The amount sent to Charlotte, ac cording to the figures givea out from the office of Commissioner Wade, is $2,812.66. against $2,192.43 which the Mecklenburg capital received last year. The total amount distributed this year is $29,495 against $24,352.74, and it la more than double the 1 " fund distributed in 1918, $12,547.97. I After Charlotte! the amounts dis tributed to the larger cities follow: Winston-Salem, $2,404; Wilmington, $2,137; Asheville, $1,724; Greensboro, J1.49i; Durham. $1333; Raleigh, $1154; High Point, $864; Wilson, $776; Rocky Mount. $762; Goldsboro. $699; Oas tonia, $610; New Bern, $590; Fayette ville, $541; Greenville, $512; States ville, $450; Henderson, $428; and Kin ston, $483. Extra CongreMman Probable. The eleventh congressional district of North Carolina, to furnish the extra congressman from the state authoriz ed in the Seigel bill pending in Con gress, Is mighty apt to be created by the special session of the legislature when it meets. Rome of the democrats an/1 all of the republicans want the additional district and the emergency which calls the lawmakers here to straighten out fhe municipal and school finances will provide also the onportunity for redis ricting the state into eleven congres sional districts. I May Appeal to Higher Court. Cotton mill respondents to the Southern Power comoany's peition for higher rates, partially granted in the recent order of the corporation com mission, will exeunt from the order and ask the commission to revise the rates It authorized. This step, according' to announce ment of counsel is preliminary to an appeal from the commission to the state courts and. most likelv. the he ginning of additional litieation to be finally settled by the United States supreme court. Senators May Split on Linney. Washington. (Special). Senator fverman said he thought be woutd vote for the confirmation of Frank A. Linney when the time comep. He and Senator Simmons have not yet talked the matter over, but it looks as If their votes wou'd be one for and tha other against. The delay is irritating Mr. Linney and his friends. Postmaster Examinations. Washington. (Special).—The civil service commission has been request ed to hold examinations of applicants for appointment as postmasters at the following places: , Angler. Badin. Banners Elk. B?y --boro. Black Mountain, Candler, Candor. Caroleen. Clarkton, Cleveland, Cliffside, Connelly Springs, Cooleemee, Council, Garrysburg, Greenville, Hope Mills and Hunters y • -- ■ ■ nm, - A* Invitation to Coolldge. Washington. —Vice Presi dent "Coolidge. Senator «\shurst, Ari zona, Chairman Page, of the tarifT com mission. and chairman Fordney. house ways and means committee, were In vited by E. P. Wharton, president of the North Carolina division, to speak at a congress of the Southern tarifT as sociation in Greensboro. N. C., August 15-16. Counties Collect BchoH Money. Counties collect all the school money In the state except the SBOO,OOO equal izing fund, and the state directs its expenditure Is all the difference that Superintendent E. C. Brooks finds in this .year's school law and that in ef fect a year ago. An analysis of the present law.' and an application to present conditions Is contained in a statement, somewhat supplementary to the statement made by Governor Morrison, in his call for a special ses sion of the genera) assembly to con vene on December 6. Analysis by Dr. Rankin. Taking seventy-one people as a frac tional unit of the population of the state. Dr. W. S. Rankin, head of the state department of health, told the teachers at State college summer ,school what would happen to the 71 in the course of a year. One of the unit will die during the Or car. two will be sick in bed during the entire twelve months; 30 will be In Impaired health; 25 will be healthy, and ten in Tigorvaa health That, he declared, la the average health of Nwth Carolina ~~ r District Unit Road Plan. Plans for the maintenance of approx imately 5,000 miles of state roads in North Carolina were formulated at a conference of district Ifighway engi neers wi|h state engineer, Charles M. Upham, and within the next 30 days every mHe of road accepted on the •state road man will be under constant supervision of engineers who will be responsible for its upkeep.. In furtherance of the plan to main tain the roads taken over by the state, every truck and other road building machinery let out to contractors on lease will be called in and apportioned amohg the nine districts for use in the upkeep of roads. More than 300 trucks and crews are available for this work, and Mr. Upham expects to dou ble that number with new allotments from the war department. Under the plans worked out, road maintenance will be carried on under the district unit. County lines will be wiped out in so far as maintenance goes, and maintenance districts that will give the maximum use of men and equipment established. One crew will •be given charge of a restricted mileage that will be maintained constantly by that particular crew. Maintenance districts will be erected. t Cotton Farmers Join Bureau. The movement to organize the cot ton farmers of &orth Carolina into bodies pledging themselves to sell their cotton through co-operative agen cies affiliated with similar agencies throughout the cotton belt is proceed ing with the great momentum since the convention of North Carolina busi ness men in Raleigh a few days ago sanctioned the movement and adopted resolutions favoring the movement as one likely to help settle the cotton problem. This is the opinion of W. Bruce Ma bee, one of the field agents of the state department of agriculture. From Baltimore to New Bern. Washington, (Special).—ln confer ence with the war department. Con gressman Ward, Congressman Brinson and Frank A. Hampton, secretary to Senator Simmons, were assured that the barge line from Baltimore to New Bern would be not only continued but extended to Philadelphia, and that it is contemplated to add Elizabeth City to the ports of call. Contrary to recent published state ments, there is no disposition to inter fere with direct service from North Carolina points to Norfolk. a t ( To Defend State In Ray Suit. Governor Morrison has named W, J. Brogden, well known Durham lawyer, as assistant to Attorney General Man ning in defending the suit of Mrs. James Ray, Alamance county woman, who is asking damages of the officers and men of the Durham machine gun company for the death of her husband during the Graham shooting last year. FocLocal Self Government. Health administration in North Car olina, like the administration of the schools, will be returned to a basis of loc%l self government as a result of a conference held here by Dr. W. S. Ran kin, secretary of the state board of health, and 35 or 40 of the part time health offices employed in as many counties. Members of State Board. Leonard Tufts, of Pinehurst, and W. F. Carr, of Durham, were named as members of the state board of voca tional education by Governor Morri son. The other member of the board is Miss Mary Arrington, of Rocky Mount, and Dr. E. C. Brooks, state superin tendent, is chairman ex-officio. Hospital Contract Awarded. The building committee of the state hospital at Raleigh has awarded the contract to Mr. J. E. Beaman, general contractor, Raleigh. This contract covers construction to cost $600,000 and includes, afnong other work, two conjugate dining rooms of nine hundred and fifty ca pacity each. fc Woman Official Resigns. Miss Daisy Denson has resigned her position with the state board of chari ties and public welfare having served the state continuously for 18 and one half years. Miss Denson served as the execu tive officer of the board through the administrations of Governors Aycock, Glenn, Kitchin and Craig. Fair Week for Cotton. Washington, —Tempera ture averaged near normal in the cot ton growing states during last week and showers were general except in parts of Texas, according to crop bul letin of department of agriculture. . The plants are blooming and fruit ing well in Tenneesee and Oklahoma and made very good advance in Geor gia and North Carolina. The conJi- | tlon is fair to very good in nearly all sections of Texas, except in the east and central coast sections. The weather was favorable in Arkansas. State to Back up Gun Compar-.". "The state will back up the Durham machine gun company to the limit," declared Governor Morrison when he confirmed the report that the state would undertake the defense of. the members of the company who are be ing sued by the widow of the late James Ray, of Graham, killed by a member of the company when a "mob stormed the Alamance county jail. "I think the state ought to stand be hind its mflttta," declared the gover nor. Otherwise, there la no law and ■nthoritv." MILLIONS BEHIND SMUGGLING DEAL FEDERAL AUTHORITIES ALONG ATLANTIC COAST TAUNTED BY WHISKEY RUNNERS. BUM HUNTING FLEET WANTED Fishermen Along the Coast Are Reap ing Rich Harvest by Running the Forbidden Cargoes Ashore. New York.| Federal authorities along the Atlantic coast redoubled their vigilance over tramp Bhips fol lowing disclosures of evidence indi cating the existence of at two gigantic international whiskey smug gling rings, one having headquarters in this city and one in Atlantic City. Aid of the Navy Department was also being sought in an effort to build up a rum-hunting fleet, capable of cop ing with the mysterious ships and their allied fishing smacks, which are alleged to have landed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of contra- band lquor at sefcluded points under cover of darkness. A tramp steamer cruised saucily outside the three-line limit of Atlantic City, according to reports received here, and taunted federal agents by breaking out pennants saying: "I-ay down your money and come and get it." The tramp slipped away as night fell and it was thought she was headed for some deserted point, where fishing vessels could work unhamper ed at the task of lightering her cargo ashore. Fishermen along the coast, accord ing to Mr. Ross, are reaping a rich harvest running the forbidden car goes ashore. They work almost en tirely at night, he said. , .. _:—— v s>'l Greeks Follow Up Victory. Athens (Greek Official Xgency).— The Greeks in Asia Minor have been following up energetically the victory they gained over the Turkish Nation alists In the fighting brought on by the attempt of the Kemalites to re capture the key position of Eski- Shehr, on the Bagdad railway. * Government Gets Two-Thirds. Washington.—People who are mak ing a' million dollars or more net income are paying the government practically two-thirds of it in taxes, according to preliminary statistics of income for 1919 issued by the Inter nal Revenue Bureau. Linney Gets Favorable Report. Washington.—Favorable report was ordered by the senate judiciary com mittee on the contested- nomination of Frank A. Linney, republican state chairman of North Carolina, to be a federal district attorney. Maharaja to Visit America. Paris. —The Maharaja of Holkar, ruler of Indore and one of the wealth iest princes of India, plans to visit the United States this fall it the im migration authorities will permit him to bring in his two wives. On Way to Frozen North. Sydney, N. S. W. Donald B. Mac- Millan and his party of explorers have sailed from North Sydney for the far north where they will spend two years among the snows of Baffin Land. Villa Deals in Oil. Mexico City.—Francisco Villa, one® Mexico's most noted bandit has started dabbling in oil. A company was organized to exploit some lands 1 in the Laguna region and Villa is said to have invested $200,000 in the company. / Child Has Ar.-ived at Rome. Rome. Richard Washburn Child, newly-appointed American Ambassador to Italy, has arri'ed here, accompa nied by his family and his secre.ary. No Agreement With France. London.—Great Britain has not, aa had been reported here, sent a note, to France agreeing, with reservations, to the dispatch oi: French troops to. Upper Silesia. Auto and Tri lley Smashup. Burlington, N. f. Three persona; were killed and a fourth probably Ak tally injured whet an automobile in. which they were l iding collided with, a trolley car runni ig between Camden and Trenton. Governor Sma'l Still Defiant, Springfield, 111.—Governor Small re turned to Springfle il unchanged in his, determination to resißt arrest on warrants chargng htm with embez zlement and conspiracy to defraud the state. 1919 Personal Income Taxes. Washington. —1 he government ob tained a total o! $1,269,000,000 in revenue from per tonal income taxes in 1919 —an of $141?900,00Q.« compared with 19:,8. Serum Cure For. Blindness. New York. k serum which Dr.. Erasmus Arlingtoi. Pond, Brooklyu eye specialist, claims 'ias cured nine cases of blindness caused, by atrophy, wlli soon be demon«tr*tel. before the, Academy of Medliine and the Ameri can Medical awc"i«tiOA.
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