Cape May County Times, 20 May 1921 IIIF issue link — Page 6

CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES. SEA ISLE CITY, N. J.

BRIEF CHRONICLES 3YHNB ANB SEA Ticks and Rashes Which Bulletin in Condensed Style the News ot the World. TIMELY HISTORY PARAGRAPHS Events at Washington Which Loom Large as Crucial Happenings. Industrial Activities at

Home and Abroad.

Senator Lodge celebrated his sev-•Dtr-Hm birthday anniversary. Ktrong sentiment la in evidence In tl»e House against the Senate provision which extends the War Trade Board contro' of the Imports of dyes. Representative Young of North Dakota, who introduced the tarid bill originally in the House, declared Uim•elf as opposed to the dye provision. The senate passed the emergency tariff and anti dumping bill, retaining alt amendments recommended by the finance committee, but rejecting tliose li'dividuaily proposed. The vote was

W to aa

The use of poisonous gases agnlust navai vessels under simulated battle conditions will be tested for the tlrst time during bombing experiments to be conducted otf the Atlantic coast beginning June 21. President Harding contributed to tlie American Legion fund for the decoration of American graves in liurofie. "for those sous of the Itepubi.c who gave thtir lives in tlie World War." Attorney General Daugherty atiBouncedNUe is considering a plan to reclaim young prisoners in Federal penitentiaries, especially tirst oftend«rs. by placing them m vocaiioual institution.. to be taught trades. Representative Moudell conferred with President, Harding regarding tegfalutive s.tuatiou in Congress.

| The National League of Masonic ^ Clubs, at Its*convention In Washlng- | ty to the administration of Brother j warren G. Harding. Drugs smuggled Into this country valued at $50,ti00 were confiscated by police detectives In raids In Brooklyn One Spaniard was killed In fight and two wounded. They were sailors. The bureau of foreign language Information service, of New Y'ork. conducted by tl»e American Bed Cross, will be operated as an inde|M-iident or-

ganization.

Price reductions of 12 per rent on cord tires. Ifi per cent on fabric and 20 per tvnt on tubes was ofllciullr announced by Goodyear Tire Company, of Akron, Ohio. U. K. Prohibition Commissioner Kramer believes New Y'ork will soon he dry if the good work of the police department Is kept up. j Daniel W. Lawrence, ninety. last of >' the makers of the Medford rum that famous before probib lion, died at his borne at Medford. Mass Wheeling Steel and Iron Companj's plant at Benwood, W. Va.. resumed operation.®. About 1.400 men returned to work. Lalhiiers accepted wage redaction of 18 cent: an hour.

William T. Tilden. champion lawn tennis player of the world, sailed on board the Mauretania for Korop?, to play in France and England in defense of Ids title. French rooters, one thousand strong, will be at tlie ringside on July 2 to cheer Curpeiiticr in his tight with Jack

Dempsey.

American polo team defeated u strong tram under W. S.-Buckinaster | by 11 goals to 27 at tlie Buckingham Club. England. The American tram is in tine colidktinu. , One wager of ¥2<KJ to gbuu was made in New York that Carpeutier would ; win by a knockout within ten rounds.

BREWERIES JOIN IN ENFORCEMENT n ry Leaders Receive Unexpected Aid at House Committee Hearing. VIOLATIONS ARE CHARGED “•eer for All. or Be«r for Nono,'* Is Message From Head of Big Plant—Physician Urges Delay. Washington.—The same ardent prohtMtlnnlstsVlio eighteen months ago Joyfully sung of the demise of John Barleycorn after passage of tlie Volstead law come la-fore Congress and admitted that John Is showing Signs

of life

To make certain of his death, they ! declare It to be tmiwrative for Con gr<sw to pass ‘he supplement to the ; Volstead law recently proposed by Representative VMatead. The original law has failed to make the coun-

try bone dry. they admitted. The House Judiciary Committee

began hearing* on the Volstead supplement. with every Indication that It will lie reported from eoinmttiee and promptly pawed through Congress. Tin- object of tlie measure Is to knock out the ruling of former Attorney General Palmer Hint l»eer may tie pnscrihed as medicine. Such prescription is prohibited absolutely by the hill. The supplement also gives to the prohibition comiuisslotier power t“ stop manufacture and importation of liquors v til the present supply of 40,000.000 albms is reduced to such an extent that It will greatly restrict Illegal u-tex of Intoxicant*. Other provisions plneo greater restrictions

lunufncture of alcoholic ton-

Traek and Held sports also — . v .o «..>»•%»•« » nand attentlou when the athletes of j |rs, and extend the Volstead law Jxford and Camliridge meet Harvard ' the Virgin Islands and Hawaii, md Yu at Cambridge. Muss., on July j The bearing showed some strange ^ j bedfellows. Tlie prohibitionists found Interest In the college rowing la ; that lined up with them In opposition uilug to such an extent that the big to lax enforcement of the prohibition

NATION’S BUSINESS

As a result of tlie failure of the United States Transport Company to stand by the Lulled States Shipping Board in the present tight, Adiui.-ui Benson said lie had withdrawn six of the government ships, tormerly allotted to Umt company. The line hud employed seamen at L.e old rates, it was stated. The nation's foreign trade continued to lull oil in April, figures made public by the department of commerce show. Exports were Sa4u.uoo.owo compared with *387,000,000 the month before and $048,000,000 in April. 1020. Imports last month increased *3,000,UUo total the month before, but were $241,000,000 below the April, 1020,

murk.

The senate committee ou bunking ■ud currency rejected bills hitting at the Joint stuck land bunks of the Federal Farm Loan System. I'urtlal _ ay mu.is aggregati

races at New London and Poughkeepsie next month will draw iurger

crowds than ever.

Americans who enthuse over golf and polo are eagerly awaiting the roof the coining international

Dickerson of Nevada, who was superintendent of federal prisons up to the time of the appointment to Oils post of Dr. Huber Votaw, brother-in-law of the 1'resideuL has become managing director f the I’risoners’ Relief Society, with headquarters In

Washington.

MME. CURIE ARRIVES TO RECEIVE RADIUM Famous Scientist Says It Will Cure Cancer if Properly

Applied.

New York.—Mine. Marie Curie, aoclalmdO aa the world's greatest worn n scientist, who, with her husband, ilsered radium, arrived on the Olytn-

laws and prescription of beer as inedl cine were t»ie representatives of An-lieuser-Biiscb, Inc., of St. Louis, and

other hlg breweries.

Oliver T. Kcminer*. counsel for An-

liensit-BusHi, to tlie amazement of the | pic, aecompaiiled by her two daugle

•lies in England. Some of the heat j prnhihltionlata, not only declared there ; tera, Irene and Eve. She came to amateur golfers tfevelupcd in this ! was no emergency demand for beer ns | America to receive a gram of the ““"Y v “ l “I 1 ' ''" rt ll "-' ‘W' 1 -" 11 , " "laa 1! n™ wu« i „ hM , (o „„ d cbaiiipioiislnps before tlie cud of the dreamed a brewery would do—demand 1 . . mouth. I ,si a Congressional Investigation of the I " flCr °[ P ^ arcU ' Tbl8 American i*olo team In practice lax enforcement (if the laws against ; ^y 010 * ‘ e 6* t of American women, match defeated "Freebooters," one of ; the manufacture of real lieer. He ' < ‘ ur '. e ahe ^would use to

the strongest independent teums lu charged thu. brewers in I'ennsylvanla

jiTjir . r _ -arry ou her study of radium

England by 21 goals to 2. | Illinois and parts of Ohio are making j cu f* f ° r «* nc * r - According to the Supreme Council, hoer in plain violation of the law, ami : In ber „ “T'o “ ,e I 8,5n,5 “ 1o . ^ m f rlca ' of which Judge K. M. Landis, is the »‘»t «he prol.ibltion enforcement offl- j " 8 t J M - > 01 y n, I ,lc entere ‘ 1 ‘h® low e r clialrman, the populunty ot our ou- I vers are doing nothing to stop U-| w * 8 e,,,phatlc ,n

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populiii.lv ot our DU- I ‘■ t ‘ r8 nr <- nothing to stop it. . '-•ee-—- - , *. e-MM <n a, O?-«»t >»ln«i tortd rare

RIG DEATH LIST IN MINGO FIGHT Women Fleeing Towns in Coal Region as All Day Hail of Lead Sweeps Houses. TROOPERS TO THE RESCUE U, 8. Army Officer Invejtigate* Cali for Troops In Kentucky — West Virginia Families in Cellars Without Food and Water. Williamson, W. Va. — The battle zone of the Mingo coal district was lllnmlnnted by rifle flashes from the Kentucky and West Virginia mountains as another day of fighting closed with the belligerency of the riflemen apparently uiidlmlnlshcd. Reports received here at state police headquarters told of a general exodus of women and children from the mining towns under fire, the refugees going either to the hills or leaving the

district altogether.

It seems certain that the death toii of two has been Increased to at least six. while acceptance of nil the roI>orts would place the killed at from ten to fifteen. Two men are known to have lieen'killed at McOirr, Ky.. wlille other reports placed tlie total there at five. At Mutewun one, and possibly two. have been killed. I-ess definite reports from Merrimac, Rawl and Sprlgg tell «f killings, nod others re|Mirt killings on the Kentucky side

opposite Mntewar.

Fierce fighting was reported during the day from nil tlie towns that figured In tlie attack — Rawl. Merrimac. ; -Sprigg, Matewan and McCurr, while , new attacks broke out at the little j town of Gates, near Matewan, mid at ■ the New Howard Coal Coidi any mines nearby. A score or mo. o of non-utdou miners were reported to be hemmed In by the Are at the Howard mines, and

Uielr fate Is unknown.

Captain Brock us, in command of the state police, who made a flunking expedition into the mountains but lost Ids quarry, went to Sprlgg on a special train with fifteen men and again started on a Similar maneuver. Only two of the kno > n dead were identified. They are Dan Whitt, said by the state police to be a non-union miner, killed at Mntewnn while nttr lag to obtain water for u refug. family, and a man named Smith whose initials were believed to be D. W., and who was killed at McCurr. According to train passengers arriving from the tn ubled area, terrorstricken women and children were r<--ported hiding in cellars and ditgouti

in many

The appointment of. Mis* Lucille Atcherson of Columbus. O., to Ik- secretary of the Paris embassy Is beins considered by President Harding. GEimEUVERS” ABJECT SURRENDER Commons Cheers as Lloyd George Reports Unconditional Reply to Allied Ultimatum.

— Germany’

rage attendance j company. In n telegram to

figures recorded at the major league ! lnIItpe . opposed beer as medicine, games show an increase of nearly j big it would give privileges to o.uuo more than during tlie first month | rich. "Beer f..r all or beer for of the 1820 cumiiulgn. ; is my motto,” lie said.

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6Uu; tlie iH-erlug Southwestern, *1 U0U; the Kansas, Oklahoma & tiul *!iu,uou; the Mississippi Cenrral $240 0UU. ami the Paris is Mt. Pieasan

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A winter wheat crop of 0211,287,00 bushels was forecast by the Depari

Walter B. Jennings is to train the American stable of A. K. Mucomber. I* is understood lie will relieve George

li. Mt rate ut once.

William Gurcelun, of Boston, was appointed referee of the intercollegiate truck meet, which is to be held in the Harvard Stuudium May 27 and 28. Robert Groily is tlie latest of the Giants' recruit pitchers to get the axe. He ii as sent yesterday to tla- Wuterl*°tid ot SIO.OUO was deposited in the stale attorney's ultiee by attorney for i'ltcher Eddie Cicotte, formerly with tin wt. i.- S..X, .ndieted in connection

rcliiug for su i

Only one witness was heard in opP'lSitioo to the lilll, while about a down leaders of reform organizations tes-fifled. Dr. Dnvln, uLtji resolutions from the New Y'ork Medical Association. urged that Congess delay passing the bill until tlie American Medical Association meets In Boston next I month ami determines in a scientific manner whether be*-r has any niedlc-

I Inal value.

Tlie di-ctor and Mr. Volstead differed sharply us to whether near lieer would not la- as good for a sick man ..s real beer and as to whether real beer could la- made out of near beer by adding a few drops of alcohol. Dr. Itavin said the doctors'wanted Cbngrese to await a scientific determination of the vrlue of beer and not rake the word of i-'UglouM, lay and jHilltical orgnnlzntliHis ■ He argued that since Congress gave doctors the right to prescribe alcohol It could not limit them as to the form of prescrip-

all types of cancer. The method and time of treatment, she said, were the only doubtful elements in the cure of

the disease tb-day.

Following her arrival it was announced at the headquarters of tlie Marie Curie Radium Fund Committee that tlie *100,000 with which the grain is to be purchased had been oversubscrilied and that the amount in csces# wul be presented to Mme. Curie for the equipment of a new laboratory to be built on the outskirts of Paris. Tim small vial containing, the *100,000 gift will be presented by President Harding. During the six weeks of her sojourn here tlie visitor will receive degrees from many colleges and will travel, accompanied by her daughters, as fur wesi as Colorado, to Inspect the rnmotlte mines, from which the ore of radium is obtained.

I-ond.m. —Germany’s unconditional

acceptance ot the entente reparation terms was delivered to Prime Minister Lloyd George by Dr. Sthamer, German

minister of Great Britain, here. Tlie lex.’ of tlie reply, ns delivered

to the prime minister, began as fol-

lou-s:

“Mr. Prime Mlnis:or—In m-cordancu with Instructions Just received 1 am commanded by my govern men'. Ir accordance with the decision of (he relcbstag and with reference to the resolutions of the allied powers of May 5. 1921, in the name of the new German government to declare the following: “Tlie Gerumn government Is fully resolved, first, to carry out without reserve or comllficn its obligations aa defined by tlie Repunith.iis Cnmtnla-

sion.

"Second, to accept and carry out

. . rithout reserve or condition tlie guarwlthout food and water. 1 antees In respect of those obligutlot

WORLD NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM

Conflicting claims as to the res-prmsl- prescribed by the Keparatio

Mllty for the shooting were made by | mission.

officials of the United Mine Workers | “Third, to carry out without reserve and those of the Williamson Coal Op- ! or d ' l:l - v ,h ‘‘ measures of military, naerators' Association. Both agreed ! “'" 1 acriul d winiii--n«it notified to that tlie initial shots were fired from tho Uernmn government by tlie allied the Kentucky mountains opposite M»r- j P° wers 1,1 <heir note of January 20, rimac. The miners maintained the 1 ,ail - ,l " ,so overdue to be completed at

rlmac. The miners maintained tin buttle had been begun by non-union

r other persons connected with i 9C J| i |. M “' 1 dau ‘' >eratoin' Association, while op- ! Fourth, I

nd tlie remainder by the t

LONDON. — Prime Minister Lloyd forge. In a drama Me speech in the "use -f Commons concerning the

"The question should be left to the j Upper Silesian Imbroglio, eliaracter- ' men who practice at the bedside and I I red tlie action of the Pbilslt insurrecnot to tliose who practice In legislative j tlonlul* us a ramplete defiance of tlie j balls." the di ct-ir raid. j Treaty of Y'ersallles and declared that; All tlie prohibition leaders who tea- I the Allies should see It Is respected or i I titled udmitnd th.-it prohibition was ' Berlin nllnwerl to maintain order, not being enforced and thut additional DUBLIN. — Southern Ireland haa | law is needed. 1 again registered Its complete aileThe excuse of come, such as Ernest I glance to the Dali Klreann and renewed j V Claypoil. saperlntundent of the jits united demand for nn Irish repub- | Anti-Sal'on la-agik- of Rhode isiand. | He in the noininationa for tla-Soutiiern I ; was tliat -nher law s are not enforced. I Parliament. The Parliament Is now I

! virtually constituted.

HARVEY CALLS ON HAYASHI ROME.—Agitation haa been atarted

^ here to prohibit foreign owned steam-1

Japanese Embassy Visit Due to Spe- j ship lines from carrying Italian etnl-'j

1 grants. Under the American inunigra-

Londo

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Embassy Visit Due t ciat Circumstances.

.— The first official call a

George Harvey, the

i Hnyushi. the Jap-t

) ASKS PROBE OF DYE LOBBY i Senator King Offer* Resolution a Inquiry in Senate. j Washington Investigation of tl»

i restrii iiona Italy's annual quota

will tie 40.000.

WILLIAMSON, W. Va—Guerilla warfare, with all odda apparently fa- 1 voting the forces oppoeiug the State. , is being waged in the mountains of ; | tlie strike tom Mingo County coo!

i field.

! SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—With mer. citry close to the freezing |>oiut, heavy frost damage is reported. Estimates I set the loss at $00,000. _ I CHICAGO.—The average salary the | Methodist Episcopal Church pays It ‘ ministers Is *1.154, according to a • statement at the annual meeting of ! tlie Imanl of conference clultnunta. QUEENSTOWN. Ireland. — Qo-ena-j town was Isolated from the mainland through the blowing u|i . f Beivelly | Bridge. The bridge connected wltb . tlie mainland. MANCHESTER, England.—The Cot. ; ton Spinners' unit Manufacturers' As- | social ion lias given notice of a redm i lion of 30 per cent. In wages in the 1 weaving section. Three btundred 'houaand onerativea will be affected.

the Operators' Association, while operators' officials insisted the first shots bud been fired by ' former strikers.” Deputy Sheriff Hull reported to Sheriff A. C. Pinson that an emissary of the state forces, carjing a piece of white muslin on a stick, reached a perty of men who were shooting into a nearby town. The mountaineers rxs|iected the white Hag. When the deputy made bis errand known, the leader replied that (he hill men would accept ii true only when the firing from the Kentucky side of the river

had ceased.

fill 11 hot lie, Ohio.—Orders were received at ('amp Sherman from the corps commander ut Indianapolis to have troops ready to move into West Virginia. A detachment of tlie Nineteenth Infantry will make tlie trip. Equipment has been ordered prepared

by the railroads.

Washington.—Action on the request of the governors of West Virginia and Kentucky that federal troops lie sent to quell the disturbances on the Mingo county border is being withheld by the War Department, pending the report of a stuff officer sent from Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, to investigate the situation. Should the staff officer endorse the request, the whole question will he referred to President Harding before actb n is taken. SAYS CONGRESS RAISES COSTS Borah Declares Expenditures Will Ex-

ceed Those of Last Session.

Washington.—Senator Borah predicted In the senate that stutlstica s year hence would show tliat the present Itepuhllv'in (.'ongreiM had expended more money than was eX|M>iided by

tho preceding Congress.

The prophecy of Senator Bomb «a* made In a tilt with Senator t'uriis, tlie Republican wtiip, during attack ou tbe Naval Appropriations bill. GERMANS ATTACK POLES Begin Counter Offensive in Upper

wlthnu

carry i

delay tin* trial of war rrlrnl-

nuls and to execute tbe other unfulfilled portions of the treaty referred to In the first paragraph of the nnta

of the allied governments n fi.

“i ask the allied po«< rs to lake not*

InfimHlIntely of this declaration. (Signed) "STHAMER."

Mr. Lloyd George, In giving tb* , terms of the reply to the commor i,

' said:

| “This Is complete acceptance of ev- ' ery demand.”

LATEST EVENTS AT WASHINGTON

Counter Offensivi

Silesia.

oppeln, Upper Silesia.—YYvo dramatic Items of news were anm uoced General Lerend signed an ag -ement with Adalbert Korfunty giving, for the time being, the greater pan of Upper Silesia to tlie Polos. At Hie same time u German counteroffensive began at Katiber, Rorenberg and Kuxel. in which the Poles were generally defeated.

Doubt concerning the future status of General John J. Pershing in th* American military estabiishmffit was remeved when Secretary of War Weeks announced his selection of General Perching to be chief of start of the army in place of Major General Peyton C. March on July 1 Mr*- Emma C. Bergdoll. mother of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. draft evader, told the House Investigation Committee that she buried the $<0o,000 in gold obtained irom tho treasury in the fall of 1917. She ro.

fused to reveal where.

Attorney General Daugherty announc<d the appointment of J. E. Dyche of El Reno. Okla.. to be warden of the penitentiary at Atlanta, and in doing so stated that the selection would mmceth out * serious fa© tional row among Oklahoma Re-

publicans.

Admiral w. S. Benson, chairman of the United States Shipping Board, announced that private interests operating vessels to which the Shipping Beard lias title must place the 15 per cent wage reduction into effect if they wish to retain the

| ships.

. Bombing tests wh.cn will center ! • r0J " d ,hc destruction of the former erm.in warships and dummy bombs hurled against the radio-controlled bat. eshlp lewa will begin June 21. Jhe nation', unprecedented need for I bui'dings opens "an almost U n1 . ,utu ' ' ,0 American jirchL tecu. President Henry H. Kendall, ; r H e American Institute of Archi’ ec.s sad. in opening the fifty, izstion * nnU ** **‘* l0n the organ. It is reported that Oscar S. Straus has Japan * eiect * <1 a * ambassador to