Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 77, 10 February 1920 — Page 12
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THE PJCHMONB PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. TUESDAY, FEB. 10, 1920. ....
MAY USE ALASKAN PULP TO RELIEVE PAPER SHORTAGE
' (By Associated Press) SEATTLE, Feb. 10. Alaska wants to throw open her. millions of acres of national forests so that the billions of feet of paper wood of the northland can help relieve the pulp and
newsprint famine, Governor Thomas
Riggs. Jr., of Alaska, declared here recently. Governor Riggs was here on his way
from Juneau, capital of Alaska, to
Washington,. D. C, where he expected!
to help press pending legislation in
tended to remove restrictions ana alow pulp manufacturers to go into the-'Tongasa and Chugach reservations the northern territory's two great reserves. Pulp and paper men are anxious to go to Alaska, and establish mills as great as those oprated in British Columbia not far south of the Alaska j boundary line, the governor asserted. I Under the present laws the pulp makers cannot entti- t;he reservations with any certainty that they will be allowed 'to -stay. . ''V', ' . Jv As Large as Indiana. Alaska's great forests Btretch over 'approximately 34,000 square miles, an 'area nearly equal in size to the state 'of Indiana, according to estimates made by government officials. Several hundred million feet of good ipulp.wood. including western yellow ipine, hemlock, Sitka spruce, white fir 'and lodge-pole pine are on the forest reserves alone. The Tongass reserve, in southeastern Alaska, is especially adapted to the manufacture of pulp and paper, forestry officials have reported. There is plenty of water power, ocean har'bors open the year round, timber skirting the water and weather simiilar to that of the Puget Sound The governor intends to ask Washington to restore the reserves to the joational domain or to open them to the pulp industry.
THIS IS THE MONTH TO STOCK UP ON, NEW SPRING BLOUSES
House Democrats Oppose Military Training in Spile of Wilson's Plea
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SOUTH 8TH FRIENDS WELCOME SOLDIERS
' Services for the returned service men - of the South Eighth Street Friends church, will be : held in the church at 7:30 p. m. Thursday. A simple affair at which the service men will relate experiences of "over there" and receive the thanks of the congregation, is planned No banquet will be held. Charles Jenkins and Dr. N. Sj Cox are in charge of the affair. ' The . Rev. Andrew Mitchell, pastor of the church, and who has been acting as pastor of a church in North Carolina for a month, will return to Richmond this week and have charge of the regular Sunday services.
i : Funeral Arangements i ; -J
Since suits are always the fashionable thing- for spring wear, it means that the separate blouse is an important item in the spring wardrobe. February is the mouth the ne?; blouses make their official appearance, and it is a wise thing to Uock up in light blouses during this
month.
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Feb. 10 Democrats of the house were on record today as opposed to universal military training despite an appeal from President Wilson that they refrain from declaring themselves on the issue until the Democratic national convention in June. The action was taken at the party caucus last night when the house Democrats came out 106 to 17 against uny measure providing for universal
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(.ititci nail; tjiiiiru ui jf rpiuvui o : appeal by viting 8S to 37 against a I
livoposal that action on the measure In deferred. Explaining their action at the caucux, several Democrats declared that
they felt they knew the sentiment of
season was once true enough,, but today the first new styles 'are more likely to be the least expenBive. You hear on every hand this explanation, "We will not be able 'to order these models again at the same prices." Of course, the end of the season always means many sales and excellent quality for reduced prices, but
it is only the lucky person who can
The belief that wearing apparel get wanted size, color, material and
costs more at the beginning of the style in the remnant sales. There-' georgette.
fore if you want a large selection to choose from, and the very freshest, daintiest,, newest styles in blouses do your blouse buying at the February advance sales of spring goods. Here are three very pretty blouses for wear with the new spring suit or later. The lace trimmed one is of voile. The peplum costume blouse is of crepe de chine, and the third
one is fashioned of the ever-popular
Short News of City
TO GIVE RECITAL Mrs. Kathleen Broerman Hayes will give a piano recital, under the auspices of St. Andrew's school of Music
will be held in
auditorium.
JOSEPH DICKINSON DIES Jonathan Dickinson, well known in Richmond, is dead at his home in Boonesvilie, Ark., according to word received here. While never a resi
dent here Dickinson paid the city
..the country on military training bet-mai,y lv!i,t"-. He was a !elative of ter than either the president or their! &mart Dickinson, deceased, leaders I OFFICIALS AT FUNERAL Representative Caldwell. New York, I Several county officials Monday atvno led the fight in favor of the!tended ,he funeral of Joshua A. Allen, rresidenfs proposal, declared that un- i local attorney, who died at his home less there is a change in sentiment on!1" Hagerstown Sunday. Judge Bond, the Democratic side of the house it 1 inu9 Meredith and members of the
Is annarent there are not pnnnarh Rmuui oh assut-iauun were m ai
publicans who favor universal training to include it in the army reorganization bill.
U. S. May Monopolize French Tobacco Trade (Tlx Associated Press) PARIS. Feb. 10. America has Founded France on the subject of the tobacco monopoly for this country beinp farmed out to the United States frr 25 years, according to a report cur
rent on the Bourse yesterday, says the Journal. In exchange, the United States would guarantee, in one way or another, a sum totaling about 60,000.000.I'OO. France, says the newspaper which prints the news with reserve. "If the report is confirmed, it 13 improbable it would provoke much astonishment." says the Journal. "Exceptional circumstances require exceptional measures. Such a sum of mony would enable the ministry of finance to'consider the wiping out of the floating debt the repayment of advances by the Bank of France and the reduction of the circulation of paper money, the consequence of which would bo a diminution in the cost of living "
tendance Roy D. Weneer. Robert
Boyd, Miss Nora Holthouse and Mr. and Mrs. George Eggemeyer also attended. PICKELL TO COLUMBIA Frank G. Pickell, former principal of the local high school, and now head of the high school in Lincoln, Neb., will teach at Columbia university. New York city, during the summer months, it has been learned. Mrs. Pickell and the children will spend the summer in the East. FILES DISSOLUTION CERTIFICATE The preliminary certificate of dissolution for the Hagerstown Improvement company, of Hagerstown, has been tiled with the secretary of ttate. MRS. WHALLON ILL. Mrs. A. J. Whallon and son Arthur, are ill at their home on South Tenth street. TAKES TYPEWRITER EXAM. .. I A typewriter and stenographer civil service examination was taken by one
day to attend the ball of the Omicron Pi Sigma fraternity. TO HOLD DANCE The Y. M. I. association has Issued invitations for a dance to be given in the club rooms, Monday,, Feb. 16. The music will be furnished by Miller's orchestra. TWO ARE PLEDGED Misses Janet Seeker . and Doris Groan of Richmond, who is attending Indiana university has been pledged to the PI Beta Psi sorority. . NOT FOR TREASURER Ed Wilson, local business man, who has been contemplating running for the Republican nomination for treasurer at the May primaries, stated Tuesday that he would not be a candidate for the office. This leaves Thomas I. Ahl,' deputy treasurer, the. only announced candidate for the office.
TWO HURT BY TRAIN . DEAD AT LAPORTE (By Associated Press) LAPORTE, Ind.; Feb. 10. Harry Blair, who suffered a fractured skull when a taxicab in which he was ridiijg was struck by a Northern Indiana
Railway Company electric freight carj
last night, killing one man, died here today. Roy Amel, driver of the taxicab, was killed almost instantly. Harry Hauser who also was in the machine, was seriously injured. The automobile was in an ice rue" in the street and was unable to get out of it in time to avoid the collision.
BONDED PIES WITH KICK; J. BARLEYCORN'S TOMBSTONE WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Housewives as well as hotel keepers may apply for permits to purchase intoxicating liquor for culinary purposes, and each case will be decided on its merits by the federal prohibition com-
lnieeirmtfir Rut ftllfh nprsnns mucf nrn.
young woman at the postoffice Tues-, yide a $l 0oo bond for a purchase of
a quart for mince pies, or 200 gallons
TO RESIST COMPROMISE (By Associated Pr!.) LONDON, Feb. 10 Advices from I'iume received by the Central News
announce that preparations are being j typewriting class made there tor resistance against a i ha nril nnn compromise settlement of the Ad-' S4,,te,K
day morning, under the direction of Clarence Foreman. AIR FIELD NEEDS MEN. Urgent need of applicants for. civil service positions in the air service, at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, is advertised in a bulletin posted in the Richmond postoffice lobbv. 27 AT NIGHT SCHOOL. Despite the disagreeable weather
Monday night, night school attendance i
was not greatly below normal. Twenty-seven persons were present in the
ass, which can only
viatic dispute or the execution of the treaty of London, through which Fiume. would go to the Jugo slavs. Foreigners will be expelled from the city, if necessaryy. it is declared.
FLU
RAGING. HILL TOWN.
STORM HEMMED, BEGS AID NORTHAMPTON. Mass.. Feb. 10 Cut off from all physical contact with ihe outer world for four days as a re
sult of the blizrard which had raged
MISSIONARIES REACH EAST.
; Ross A. Hadley, general secretary i of the American Foreign "Mission ! board, received word Tuesday from j Mr. and Mrs. Fred N. Hoyt. missionaries on their way to British East I Africa, stating that they were Just off Port Said, and expected to land I for coaling within a few hours. Both
missionaries are well known in Richmond and nationally in Quaker circles. TWO WOMEN HOME
in this enrtinn t ho villa p-o rt' fnivi
v,,;r i th', irmMi,i i,m ! Mrs. William Deitnieyer and Mrs,
.if hove ia siiftV-riner from lnflr nf fnr.fl ! Charles Davis,
and medicines, with an influenza epi
demic raging. KINDNESS COSTS MAN $1,000. HAMMOND, Inu.. Feb. 10. John Horwatt. who conducted, a restaurant at Ecyst Chicago, heeded a hard luck i ale told by a well-dressed man and woman. He provided dinner for them and they left. Horwatt is now wondering whether there is such a thing as gratitude. When the man and woman left, $1,000. which was in Horwatt's coat hanging in the hall, disappeared.
SLEEPING SICKNESS FOUND IN ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 10. Six teen cases of sleeping sickness (Lethargic encaphalitis) . were reported to the Illinois Btate department of public health during the week ended yesterday, according to a telegram Dr. C. St. Clair Drake, director of the department, sent to Surgeon General Blue of l he United States public health serviceNumerous cases of the disease followed the recent epidemic of influenza, said Dr. Drake. Health officers are studying it closely, he said.
who were called to
Columbus, Ohio, two weeks ago by the illness and death of their mother, Mrs. Lewis, Stiasser, have returned home. MEETING IS POSTPONED. The meeting of the Woman's Missionary society of the First English Lutheran church, announced to meet Wednesday afternoon with Misses Emma and Anna Nolte, on south Fourth street, has been postponed indefinitely. FINED FOR BEATING BILL.
to stock a hotel kitchen, and for more than that the bond increases. In every case the purchaser must satisfy the commissioner that the quantity desired is within the needs of the purpose stated. But, again, the bureau does not look forward with enthusiasm to applications from individuals. The would be purchaser must file application with the federal prohibition director of his state, who will forward it to Washington.
1919 STATE OUTPUT
OF GOAL FAR SHORT
TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Feb. 10 Coal mines in Indiana produced 19,327,795 tons of coal during 1919, about 10,000,000 tons less than in 1918, according to figures compiled and just announced by the Indiana coal trade bureau. The miners worked 214,753.11 hours arid lost 31,501 hours because of car shortage; 26,206 hours because of labor troubles; 13,525 hours because of mine disability and 140,206 hours because of no market. The number of mines along the railroads and the coal produced -during 1919 follow: Big Four, five 'mines, 641,380 tons; Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, three mines, - 257,992; Chicago and Eastern Illinois, 47 mines. 5,517.481 ; Chicago, Indianapolis and Western, one Jmihe, . 57,510; Central Indiana, three mines. 55,528; Chicago, Terre Haute and Southeastern, 38 mines, 3,632,519; Evansville and Indianapolis, 14 mines, 756.486; Illinois Central, six mines,, 447,136; Monon, 21 mines, 1,518,353; Pittsburg, Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louis, 42 mines, 5,163,633; Southern, 20 mines. 1,078,628; Evansville apd Eastern, two mines, 44,137. The mines reporting to the Coal -Trade Bureau represent about 85 per cent of the total tonnage in Indiana. . -
Curtis Mrs. Val Curtis, 52 years
old, sisttr of Mrs. William Taggart, of
this city, died of complications of dis
eases in tne Memorial nospitai ai Connersville, Ind., Monday. . Funeral services will be held in the Bentonville Christian church at 2 p. m., Thursday. Burial at Bentonville.
Mullen Wayne Mullen, 62 years
old, and his 13 years old daughter, Georgia, formerly of near Williams
burg, Ind., died Sunday at Collinsville, Okla. He is survived by three sisters. He is also survived by one brother, Austin Mullen, of this city.
Funeral services and burial will be
held in Collinsville.
Clarke Cecile Amos Clarke. 20 years old, died at the home of his parents in Dayton, Ohio, at 11:30 a. m. Monday. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Clarke; three brothers, Forrest, Charles and Harold; and one sister, Majorie Clarke all living in Dayton, Ohio. The body w.ill arrive in this city Wednesday and will be taken to the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Bryant, '230 West Main street, where services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday. Burial in Earlham cemetery. Davis Mrs. Abbie Louise Davis. 50 years old, died of pneumonia at her home, 223 Chestnut street, late Monday night. She is survived by her husband, Willard Davis; five children, Mrs. Pearl Thornburg, Mrs. Grace Streke, Raymond, Howard and Paul Davis, one sister, Miss Clyda Smith; two brothers, Jerry Smith of Parker. Ind., and Thomas Smith of this city. Funeral services will be held at the house at 2 p. m., Thursday. Burial in Earlham. Brokamp Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie BrokamD were held in St. An
drew's church at 10 a. m. Tuesday.
Burial was in St. Andrew's cemetery. The Rev. F. A. Roell officiated. Lucas Funeral services for Seth Lucas were held in the parlors of Pohlymeyer, Dowing company at 1:30 p. m., Tuesday. Burial was in Williamsburg cemetery. Russell Funeral services for Mrs. W. E. Russell will be held at the home Thursday afternoon. Burial in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call at any time. Taylor Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie Taylor were held at 3 p. m , Tuesday. Burial was in King's cemetery. Wieser. Funeral services for Mrs. Rosa Wieser were held at the home of her daughter, three miles west, of Richmond, at 2:30 p. m., Tuesday. Following the services the body was shipped to Allentown, Pa., for burial.
FERN ALD BILL IS PASSED. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. A bill by Senator Fernald, Republican of Maine, abolishing the Housing Corporation, and transferring its affairs to the Treasury department on June 30 next, was passed by the senate Monday. It now goes to the house.
WED AT 84 AND 60 . GREENFIELD, Ind., Feb. 10 Dr. Isaac McGuire, 84, and Mrs. Martha Duncan, 60, of this city, were married yesterday by the Rev. Hillis L. Avery, pastor of the Methodist Protestant church. It is Dr. McGuire's third marriage and his second in two years. CHECKS FOR HOOSIERS WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 The bureau of war risk insurance has mailed checks aggregating $685,540.33 to 2,451 Indiana men who fought in the world war. These checks cover retroactive adjustments up to and including Dec 31 on compensation in accordance with
the increased amounts nrovided for in
Ed Hillings, charged with beating i tne Sweet bill.
board bill, was fined $o and costs
in police court Tuesday. EDGERTON IN INDIANAPOLIS. J. O. Edgerton. township trustee, was in Indianapolis Tuesday relative to business matters of the township. RETURNS TO COLLEGE Marcellus , Pohlmeyer returned Tuesday afternoon to SL Mary's col; lege at Dayton, O., after spending several days at his home here recuperating from an attack of influenza. TO ATTEND BALL John Evans, .Walter Ainsley and Robert Veach, who attend Miami university will arrive in the city Wednes-
JEFFERSON'S FAME JEFFERSQNVILLE, Ind., Feb. 10 Having heard of the fame of Jeffersonville as a marrying place and seeking to avoid , their" friends, . Sherman W. Aiken, 21 . years old, of .Patrolia, Ontario, and; Miss Ruth VanOrriian, 25, of Charlevoix, Mich", traveled ' several hundred miles to this city and . were married by "the Rev. "Oscar 'Lee Black. Aiken is a toolmaker. ',. V .
New England furnishes the greatest amount of granite in the -United States." ' "
63 Members of Earlham Graduating Class are Announced by Coffin Dr. J. Herchel Coffin, registrar of Earlham College, announced Tuesday the following 63. names of students recommended by the college faculty for degrees at the anual commencement next June: Laura L. Adams, Eleanor Ballard, Juanita Ballard, Beulah Bowers, Ruth Boyd, Caroline Bradley, Romaine Brown, Helen Carter, Clara Comstock, Russell McLain Davis, Mary C. Dickson, Audrey Eastwood, Grace Edwards, Robert Gentle, Robert Glass. Milton Hadley. Irene Doty, Paul Edwards, Opal Hart, J. Mahlon Harvey, Ruth Harvey, Richard Hoerner. John H. Jessup, Cebren V. Joyner, Donald Kellum, Charles Kenyon, Mary Mills, Ralph Nicholson, Suzanne Orssaud, Margaret Parker, Lova Pearson. William Pitts, Eugene Raiford, Eurah Ratliff, Helen O. Riggs, Lorn a Scott, Ellen Sherrill, Morris Stanley, Tressie Thomas,- John George Baker. Lula Blair, Joseph Collins, Henry Deuker, Ralph Harris. Dorothy Heirominous, Caroline Heitbrink, Elraa Henby. Mildred F. Henlev. La Verne Jones, Vivian Kendall, Westine. Lietzman, Marion Mains, Howard Mills, Sumner Mills,. Kent Morse, Grace Moyer. Vera Newsom, Mary Pennington, Bessie Reagan, Amelia Ruger, Norval E. Webb, Paul Whitely.
Mother and Baby Dead, Rest of Family III Mrs. Frank Taylor, lllS1 Hunt street and her few hours old baby are dead of the influenza. The father and five small children are seriously ill of the disease, and will not be able to know of the death in their family. Funeral services were to be held for the mother and baby Tuesday at 3 p. m.
Mrs. Eliza Howard, 87 Years Old, Is Dead Mrs. Eliza Howard. 87 years old. widow of the late R. A. Howard, county surveyor for a number of years, died of senility at her home, 314 North Ninth street, at 2 p. m. Monday. She was born in Virginia in 1832 but has lived in Richmond since 1855. She was married to R. A. Howard in 1854. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Bell Horton, of Richmond, and Miss Lill'an Howard, of Santa Cruz. Calif.; four grandchildren, Howard Horton. present county surveyor; Agnes Horton, Amy Horton and Mrs. Lillian Cooke, all of this city. Funeral services wil be held at the home at 10 a. m. Thursday. Burial in Elkhorn cemetery. The Rev. Burbanck will officiate.
Miss O'Connor's Letters Read in Damage Suit (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 10. Love letters had a prominent part in the crossexamination of Amy O'Connor, of London, England, in United States district court today in the trial of the suit brought by Miss O'Connor against Al'leu Gray, Evansville millionaire, for $500,000 for alleged breach of promise. Miss O'Connor admitted writing the letters, but said one or two of them were false and had been written to "make Allen jealous." It was sought to show in the crossexamination that the plaintiff had travelled : much : without a chaperon and had "picked up" many friends. She! was asked -if she had not filed a suiL for breach of. promise against one Howard Dixon, in London in 1911. Miss O'Connor denied that she had ever known such a person and denied the. intimation that she . had settled isuch a suit out of .court for 500 pounds.
Pneumonia Is Fatal To Mrs. Jennie Hill
Mrs. Jennie Hill, 69 years old, died of pneumonia at her home, 307 North Eighteenth street, at 10 a. m. Tuesday. She was born in Richmond and lived here all her life. Her father, Christian Zimmer, now deceased, was county recorder for a number of years. She is survived by one son, Harry Hill, of New Orleans, La. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Thomas Wickett, Former Builder, Dead at 68 Thomas Wickett, 68 years old, former contractor and builder, died of pneumonia at his home. 806 North Twelfth street, at 10 p. m., Monday. He was born in New York In 1851, but had been a resident of this city practically all his life. He was a member of the K. of P. Lodge and the Friends church. He is survived by his wife, Ella, three daughters and three sons. Funeral services will be held in the home at 3 p. m., Thursday. Burial in Earlham cemetery. The Rev. Trueblood will officiate. ; Friends are requested to omit flowers.
COMMANDS FIRST GERMAN STEAMER SENT TO LONDON
'imp M
CapL R. Wesner on bridge of his ship. The first German merchantman to
reach London since the war broke
out arrived at that port recently. It was the Borussia, commanded by Ctptain R. Wesner.
High School Notes
BELA KUN IN HOSPITAL WITH ATTACK OF ASTHMA VIENNA. Feb. 10. Bela Kun, the
former Hungarian communist dicta
tor, is suffering from acute asthma. He has been removed from the intern
ment camp at Karlstein to a military hospital. .
Dr. J. J. Rae.. pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, . will speak on
Abraham Lincoln at. the upper class
men's chapel at the high school next Friday morning. Music featured the freshmen's chapel Tuesday morning. The regular weekly meeting of the
Aero club was held during the activities period Tuesday morning.
Iking george opens u
BRITISH PARLIAMENT ' WITH ANCIENT FORM
Uy Associated Press) LONDON, Feb. 10. London today witnessed for the first time since 1914, the ancient ceremony of a state opening of parliament, with all its traditional pageantry.
King George, Queen Mary and tne
Prince of Wales, who accompanied the
Royal couple for the first time at such a function, proceeded from Buckingham palace to Westminister in state
carriages, escorted by mounted life guards.
The royal party ,wm received by
members of the two houses of parlia
ment in the House of Lords, where King George read the speech from the throne.
The route of the procession through
the Mall and down Whitehall for more than a mile was lined by military in khaki, the guards regiments not having as yet resumed their scarlet uni
forms. The gilded state coach in
which the King and Queen rode was
drawn by six black horses, with post-
illioned outriders.
Immediately in front of the King
and Queen when they entered the
House of Lords, was the sword of
state, while behind them came pages of honor officers, gentlemen at arms
and a yeoman guard, in scarlet and bearing halberds. The procession ad
vanced to the House of Lords in the
same order through the royal gallery and the prince's chamber, its slow progress through the gallery affording the few spectators a glimpse of a scf ne full of magnificent color. The King's Entry. Members of the House of Lords rose and bowed low when King George entered, and when the King and Quee, had seated themselves on the thron j a peer bearing the "cap of maintenance" stationed himself at their right, another carrying the sword of state took his position at their left and other dignitaries grouped themselves about. King George, In opening the speech from the throne said: "My Lords and members," instead of the customary "My Lords and gentlemen," this inovation being necessitated for the time at the prorogation of parliament in December by the election of Lady Astor to a seat in the House of Commr.rj. When King George last opened parliament, in February, 1914, his first words were: "My relations with
foreign powers continue to be friendly." Two hours elapsed from the time the procession started from Buckingham palace, until it returned.
Commend Action of Kentucky Governor
NEW YORK, Feb. 10. The Nation
al Association for the Advancement of Colored PeoDle today sent a tele
gram to Governor Edwin P. Morrow
of Kentucky containing resolutions of commendation of his attitude in de
fending the courthouse at Lexington
against the mob Beeking to lynch Wil-
lir.m Lockett, negro slayer of a white girl.
"In commending your honorable ac
tion," the resolution said, "the board expresses the view that you have set
a w('.hy example to all governors
and civil authorities everywhere.
which, if followed, would relieve our country of the disgrace cast upon it when lynching mobs do their will in over riding law."
Says Coal Production Curtailed SO Per Cent
The Black Diamond, in its most recent review of the coal .market, says: "Car-shortage, bad weather and low morale within the ranks of the railroad men conspired to make the last week one of the worst from the standpoint of coal production, in the history of the country. Car shortage, which has dominated the trade for the last few weeks, was by all odds the greatest deterrent to a normal output, curtailing production on an average 50 per cent throughout the country. "Even the railroad administration has removed its rose-colored spectacles and admits that the prospects for the immediate future are not encouraging. Only a continued stretch of mild weather would make possible anything like adequate railroad facilities. And fair weather is only a matter of hope. "Shortage of cars, shortage of motive power, poor repair of such railroad engines and cars as are to be had, low morale within the ranks of the railroad employes, due to disputes over wages; sickness of numerous railroad engineers; bad weather these aTe the dominating factors which are holding down car supply at the mines, and curtailing output accordingly. It is impossible to overcome these setbacks within the short remaining period of the coal year, and consequently production will be handicapped until warm weather comes.
Shoots Daughter, Then Fears to Kill Self
NEW YORK. Feb. 10. Mrs. Emily May Favre sat for two days beside the body of her 12-year-old daughter, Margaret, whom she shot through the heart Saturday morning as she lay asleep in her apartment in the Ashtn hotel, she confessed to the police today after her arrest on a charge of homicide.. She had tried to turn her pistol on herself, but lacked the courage to do it, she said. The little girl was ill with influenza at the time. Financial worries had. temporarily unbalanced her mind, Mrs. Favre told the police. She . had been receiving monthly payments from an interest in a lumber company left her by her father, and when these failed to arrive last week she wrote to a Mr. Jackson .t the company's New. York office threatening to kill herself if the money was-not forthcoming. The mails were delayed by the storm and Jaskson did not get the letter until today. His representative . called at Mrs. Favre's. apartment hotel without delay and receiving no response got the house manager to, force the Favre's front door.' ; They found Mrs. Favre sitting beside her dead daughter with a pistol . in her - hand. She made a movement as "though to shoot herself and the two men overpowered her.
Forge Finger Prints? .
Poo-Poo, Say Experts
The up to date master crook stole stealthily on his rubber heels into the apartment. Even his dark lantern was dimmed. He was taking no chances. The great Van Hoozls pearls were almost in his very clutch. Then for Havana, freedom, and Manhattan cocktails. The master crook set down his sealskin kit and unsnapped the fasteners. He fumbled for a moment. From its contents he selected his most scientific tool. It was not a new brand of nitro-glycerine, nor a patent jimmy. It was a rubber stamp.
Two days later, the master crook
was met at the gang plank of a Cu
bound vessel and iron bracelets w
rudely snapped on his wrists.
It s no use!" he said. "Even science is on the side of the law. Even my lubber finger print stamp avails me naught! "It was a good stamp, too it had President Wilson's thumb on it!" Milton Carlson of Los Angeles, who says he is a handwriting expert, claims that he "forged" the finger print of a convicted murderer in New Jersey in human blood on a butcher knife, making a perfect thumb impression of a man 3,000 miles away. He says he can do it again. Is this true, and is the system of finger prints, deemed infallible for 1,000 years, to prove a brazen idol with feet of clay, after a manner of speaking? Chicago finger print experts were not perceptibly discomposed over the Californian's proud boast.
Earlham Notes
Dolan Loree was elected president of the Earlham Science club at the spring organization meeting Monday night. Miss Grace Edwards was eleed vice-president: Louis Peacock, secretary: Walter Yamell, treasurer, and the following program committee was appointed: Dr. Wildman, Mabel Mayer, Charles Blackburn. Coach Nash Higgins is ill with influenza.
Ancient Egypt venerated owls and at times embalmed them. LT
Briefs
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Notice Knights of Pythias Funeral services will be held for Thomas W. Wickett. Meet at the temple Wednesday evening;, 7:30 p. m., Feb. 11, 1920. John N. Koll, C. C. Chas. E. Potter, K. of R. & S. The Boston public Latin school has been in continuous existence since 1C33.
"The Spinster's Convention" by Philathea Class, Wednesday, Feb. 11th at 7:30 p.m. 2nd Presbyterian church. Admission 10c
Everybody knows thattheiseaX
Tailor in town ia GRAHAM 532 Main Street.