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FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, MARCH 24, 1922.
NUMBER 36.
JUDGE SEARCY COM
MENDS CONSCIEN
TIOUS JURISTS.
Grand Jury Instructed to
Seek the Truth in All
Matters.
Fayette Superior court convened in
regular session Monday morning, with
Judge Wm. E. H. Searcy, Jr., on the
bench and Solicitor-General E. M.
Owens in his place as prosecuting at
torney, with a number of visitors pres
ent, in addition to the jurors and wit
nesses.
Court was speedily organized with
the selection of the 1 grand jury, of
which ft. E. L. Fife was elected fore
man and R. C. Willifprd bailiff.
Judge Delivers Charge
The Judge began the delivery of his
charge, considered one of the ablest,
condensed and most comprehensive
ever heard in Fayetteville, by con
gratulating the members of the grand
jury upon being chosen to serve at
this term of court. He declared that
they were entering upon the. discharge
of important duties, but it was a pa,-
triotlc service. He charged the grand
jury to be diligent in the discharge
of its duty and seek to command a
respect for law and order.
He urged them to seek to find the
truth in all their bills of indictment,
saying, that it was just as much their
duty to return no bills, in many cases
as it was to return truejiills.
“Be conscientious and seek the truth
in all matters,” said the' court.
Attorneys attending ^ourt are' A.
O. Blalock, Atlanta; B. D. Murphy,
Washington; J. E. Mundy, Jonesboro;
E. J. Reagan, McDonough; L. S. Camp,
Fairburn; Claude C. Smith, Atlanta;
Wm. H. Beck, Griffin; J. W. Culpep
per, Fayetteville; L, C. Dickson, Fay
etteville; W. B. Hollingsworth, Fay
etteville; H. A. Allen, Atlanta.
WOMEN TO VOTE
WITHOUT PAYING
1921 POLL TAXES
Returns and Payment
Next Fall Necessary,
However, Rules Geo. M.
Napier. V
BAPTIST W. M. S.
Has Great Day — Eigh
teenth Anniversary
Observed.
Northwestern Part Of
Fayette County Hard
Hit By Tornado On
Last Sunday Ni g h t .
Just at night fall Sunday night,
there burst forth a storm of destruc
tion from the western horizon that to
all appearances seemed bent upon
wiping everything in its path com
pletely off the earth.
The storm broke in all its fury just
above Tyrofie, near Line Creek, first
destroying the home of V. M. Davis,
and out-buildings at his place, then on
to Columbus Barges home, where it
utterly demolished the home and in
juring all the members of his family,
so badly injuring his wife that phy
sicians despair of her life, all trees
were uprooted and felled in this sec
tion. Ed Moore’s home was next in
the path of the storm and was wreck
ed as were two houses belonging to
W. D. Farr.
Yancy Swanson’s out-buildings were
next demolished, his home being just
' out of the direct path of the storm,
which roared along its way toward
Favors Mill. Dr. Hopgood’s house was
blown down and the chimneys of Bill
Landrum’s home were sent to destruc
tion in the wind’s fury.
Sid Moore’s house met with the same
results and is down, timber is lying
flat all along the path of the faorst
blow that Fayette county has had for
several years.
The exact loss of property has not
been reported and we are only able
to give a few of thp losses to homes
and out - buildings in the storm dis
trict, getting news from those who
have come from the district by round
about ways as the roads are practical
ly impassable.
Along with the wind was hail and
heavy rain, and all telephone wires
are down which account for the late
news of the terrible devastation
wrought by the tornado last Sunday
night.
Women do not have to pay a poll
tax for 1921 to be eligible to vote in
elections this year, according to an
opinion handed down by Attorney-Gen
eral George M. Napier to Governor
Hardwick Saturday. But women, who
are now on the same footing as the
men in regard to voting and paying
taxes, must return a poll tax to the
county tax receiver in the county in
which they live. Payment will be due
in the fall, when all state and county
taxes are due.
“Women are, in my opinion, entitled
to register and vote in the 1922 elec
tions without payment of poll tax for
this year. The capita, or poll tax, is
payable at the same time as other
taxes are payable, and payment of
same cannot be demanded as a con
dition precedent to the exercise of
the elective franchise,’’ according to
Col. Napier.
“Poll taxes were not due by wom
en for the year 1921. One of the con
trolling reasons is that it is provided
in section 1, of the general tax act,
‘that the terms and provisions of this
act shall not take effect and become
operative until January -1, 1922, and
shall continue thereafter.”
In order to vote in county and state
elections this year, women will have
to register with the tax collector be
fore April 1, when the registration
books close under the Neil primary
act. In Fulton county, W. S. Richard
son is tax collector.
Whether a woman is registered or
not she is liable for poll tax of $1
beginning in 1922. She is required
by law, on the same footing as a man,
to make her return of a poll tax to
the tax receiver before May 1 of this
year. In Fulton county the tax re
ceiver is T. M. Armistead. This tax
will not be due until December. After
th'e tax books close Mhy 1, the receiver
will make up. the tax digest, after
which the county commission will fix
the rate for 1922. No matter what
rate is fixed, the poll tax remains the
same, $1.
REV. DUTTON
Of Cartersville Invited
to Assist Rev. Garner
in July.
A day of prayer for Home Mis
sions was observed by the Baptist
Missionary society on March 13th.
The meeting was held at the home
of Mrs. L. G. Perry, and was a day
long to be remembered by all those
present.
The President Mrs. Turnipseed,
opened the meeting with appropriate
remarks calling attention to the fact
that is was the eighteenth anniver
sary of he socity and introducing Mrs.
W. A. Johnson, the “Grandmother” of
the society. Mrs. v Johnson was one
of three to organize the W. M. S. of
the Fayetteville Baptist Church, eigh
teen years ago and also organized the
Sunbeam Band, many of whom are
now active members of the present
W. M. S. Hence our dearly beloved
“Grandmother’’ Mrs. Johnson’s pres
ence and inspirational talks added
greatly to the success of the day.
Opening Devotional was impressive
ly led by Mrs. C. R. Foote. Mr. T. R.
Gay had charge of the morning pro
gram and it seemed as if each one
taking part had received a special
blessing of the spirit so clearly did
they bring before us our duties and
our responsibilities.
At the noon hour a delicious lunch
eon was served.
Mrs. L. A. Ingram had charge of the
program in the afternoon and gain
we felt drawn into His presence by
the ladies taking part in the program.
Misses Marylu and Loraine Graham
assisted by .Mrs. John Millsaps, Mrs.
Perry, Mrs. Wall* and Miss Perry,
had charge of the music which was
Unusually sweet and impressive.
At the close of the meeting a vote
of thanks was given Mrs. Perry, our
gracious hostess, who had done so
much toward making the day one of
comfort and pleasure to all.
Twenty-four ladies were present.
We thank our Father in Heaven for
such a day and give to Him the praise.
The Baptists of Fayetteville, under
the leadership of Rev. G. W. Garner,
are looking forward to a great meeting
beginning the fourth Sunday in July,
as was announced at the Baptist
Church on January 22nd.
Pastor Garner has invited Rev, Dut
ton of Cartersville to assist him in the
meeting. Rev. Dutton, who has re
cently returned from Panama, is a
very able man and preacher. The Bap
tist Church is to be’congratulated if
he can be secured.
May the months proceeding the
meeting be a time of preparation not
only to our Baptist members but to
all people of the town.
BROOKS NEWS.
HOW REAL
AMERICANISM
IS CREATED
County Highway News.
Hon. Jno. N. Holder, chairman of
the State Highway Commission and B.
C. Milner, chief field engineer, were
in Fayetteville Tuesday looking after
business in Fayette county.
Plans for the immediate construc
tion of the Morning Creek bridge were
devised and work will begin at once.
The county forces will then be able
to complete their contract of grading
on the road to the county line, finish
ing the work between Fayetteville and
Jonesboro.
A tentative offer of $15,000,000 Fed
eral Aid having been made to the
county officials was promptly accent
ed on a fifty-fifty basis, and work nf
Purveying the road between Fayette
ville and the Campbell county line by
way of Bennett’s Mill, Flat Creek and
Stop, will begin at an early date.
What is the matter with the pub
lic schools? The only answer is that
there is too much public, too little of
the school. From one end of the land
to the other we need more and more
schools. More schools,- so that the
cherished 1 hopes and ideals and hard
work of the whole teaching force from
the superintendent to the assistant
teacher may serve the nation as they
so sincerely aspire to and plan for.”
The quotation is from “The Teacher
and the Taught,’’ an article in the
March issue of Harper’s Magazine,
written by Grace Irwin. Every friend
of the Americanization feature of the
work, of the public school should read
it; every legislator who raises a hand
or a vote against liberal support to the
public school should be tied to a stake
and made to listen to it. For it is not
only the child of foreign parents or
the child born abroad and emigrant to
the United States who needs Ameri
canization; it is the street child, the
child of poverty and ignorance and
wretchedness, who must have it. And
it is here that he gets his first and
often his only knolwedge of what real
American citizenship may be; here in
the public school, he learns not only
the three Rs but what truth, honor
and decency mean, and what the rights
of others stand for in young lives
otherwise lived only in selfish egoism,
Would there were more Grace Ir
wins and more Harper’s Magazines to
publish articles like this; articles
which show the American public
school in a more grjm light than that
which’ illuminates merely pretty build
ings on a West end avenue to which
the children of opportunity go. For
it is to help public schools, down in
the slums, standing often the one
clean spot in a wallow of civil, polit
ical, moral and actual filth, to which
America must look for the fires which
boil the melting pot. And the more
we read and understand the truth
the more will we demand of our city
fathers that these, the cradles of
American ideals for all our youth, be
well made and adequately supported
“Yankee Doodle.”
The origin of this national air is
unknown. The words were probnbly
written by Edward Banks between
1775 and 1777 The tune has been
ascribed to several emi uries, but is
prulmblv Kind Is 1 ' It was known
early ns ITt'.T
INTEREST CENTERS
IN WORLD SUNDAY
Methodist Seek Payment
of Overdue Pledges
on March 26.
COAL HIKERS WLL
WALK OUT APRIL 1
UNION MEN IN ANTHRACITE AND
BITUMINOUS FIELDS ARE
CALLED TO QUIT WORK
ra«ATHE»H p (|. MONEY BE
PASSES IN SEN
Underwood Urges United States Rep
resentative On Allied Reparation
Commission
IS RESULT OF STRIKE VOTE
Non-Union Production, Together With
Supplies On Hand, Expected To
Outlast Shutdown
Southern Methodists throughout the
connection are centering their interest
on World Sunday, March 26, at which
time every member of that denomina
tion who made a subscription to the
Centenary of Missions movement will
be asked to make a payment on his
pledge.
The “World Sunday” movement
which is now sweeking this section
was inaugurated, it is said, to arouse
Methodists to meet their obligations
for overdue missionary money, and ac
cording to the plans of leaders a spec
ial effort will be made in this direc
tion on March 26, the official “World
Sunday” of Southern Methodism, when
the theme of world missions will be
presented in every church within the
bounds of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South.
During the week following “World
Sunday” a church-wide canvass will
be made to collect arrearages in Cen
tenary payments. It is said that there
is a shortage of $4,000,000 in collec
tions to be made up before the meet
ing of the General Conference in May,
1922.
March 26 has been designated by
the Georgia State Sunday School
Board as missionary day. The Bap
tist Church here will render the fol
lowing program at 11 o’clock a. m.
Song, “Praise Him, Praise Him.”
Exercise, Good Samaritan. Characters:
A certain man, Reginaly Woolsey;
Good Samaritan, Hulette Gable; Priest,
Loyd Putnam; Levite, Abram Stein-
heimer; Inn Keeper, Harmon Scott;
Three Robbers, Len Shannon, John H.
Shannon, Wilson Shivers. Song, “Love
is the Theme," Lottie Bates. Recita
tion, “The Money of Our King,” Eloise
Woolsey and Lillian Cavander. Exer
cise, “The Good Steward.” Charac
ters: Young man, John H. Shannon;
Chinese girl, Lottie Bates; Japanese
girl, Matilda Evans; African boy, Lee
Boykin; Latin-American boy, Wilson
Shivers; European girl, *Lois Nelms;
Foreign girl, Ruth Padgett; Indian
boy, Rhett Steinheimer; Negro boy,
Charles Woolsey; Mountaineer girl,
Eunice Evans; Cuban girl, Effie Bell
Shannon. Solo, “Nothing Between,”
Paul Lee. Closing address by Super
intendent of Sunday School.
The Brooks Worn Club has re
cently planted a tree on the Methodist
Church ground here in memory of
Albert Posey, who died in France dur
ing the World War.
They also went to Vaught and plant
ed a tree there in memory of Frank
lin Posey, who died at Camp Gordon
during the war.
Elizabeth Woods, nine months old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Woods,
died at their home at Brooks, Tuesday
night at 8 o’clock, March 14th. Fun
eral services were held from the Chris
tian Church here, Wednesday after
noon at 3 o’clock. Rev. Luther Stone
of Atlanta conducted the services. In
terment was at County Line, Haisten
Brothers, funeral directors.
Mrs. I. A. Scott is visiting her par
ents at Fort Valley this week.
Mrs. Wm. Malone who has been
seriously ill is slowly improving.
Mrs. W. O. BoltSn and little daugh
ter, of Athens, were the guests of
Mrs. Lee Boykin last week.
Mrs. J. P. Starr and children of
Bolingbroke are the guests of Mrs.
J. B. Woods.
GEORGIA DOCTORS
Rev. G. W. Garnef of the Fayette
ville Baptist Church will preach on the
^reat Bible doctrine of predestination
next Sunday at the eleven o’clock hour.
Read Romans VIII.
Let everybody act on. the invitation
committee and give the preacher a
full house to hear this great comfort
ing subject presented.
PLAN HOME - COMING
MEETING.
Columbus, Ga., March 13.—(Special,)
—Columbus doctors assisted by the
Chamber of Commerce and all other
civic organizations are making exten
sive preparations for entertaining the
Home-Coming Meeting of the Medical
Association of Georgia in Columbus,
May 3rd, 4th and 5th.
_ Special features of the program will
be the banquet in honor of all former
presidents, the entertainment for la
dies and a trip to Camp Benning.
Important subjects on the scientific
program will be discussions on the
effects of the present methods of
living on' future generations, gland
deficiencies and gland feeding and the
prevention of infant mortality. More
than 200,000 babies die annually in
the United States. The majority of
these are preventable. Georgia must
do her share to prevent this appalling
loss.
Dr. J. M. Anderson, president of the
lof'al society is being ably assisted by
all other members of the profession.
Dr. E. C Thrash of Atlanta, president
Indianapolis, Ind.—Suspension ol
work by all union coal miners at mid
night, March 31, was ordered by offi
cers of the United Mine Workers of
America, the call being the first ever
issued for both bituminous and anthra
cite workers to walk out simultane
ously. Six hundred thousand men will
be directly affected by the order, it
is officially estimated. The suspen
sion, the order provides, will continue
until stopped by union officials.
The order, which was sent to the
3,000 local unions, directed the miners
to give the operators their fullest co
operation in the protection of mine
property and counseled against vio
lence and violations of the law. In
addition to affecting all union miners
in the United States, the order also
directed approximately 6,650 union
men in western Canada to join in the
walkout, but did not apply to 14,000
miners in Nova Scotia.
Never before in the history of the
coal industry has a suspension or
strike order called for cessation of
work by all unuion miners in' the Unit
ed States. In the past, wage contracts
in the bituminous and anthracite
fields have not expired at the same
time, but a complete tie-up in union
fields was considered during the great
anthracite strike in 1902.
A sympathetic strike by the bitumi
nous miners at that time was rejected
by the union’s convention, it being ar
gued that the soft coal workers were
bound by contract.
The issuance of the call came with
the , recent strike vote of soft coal
miners not completely tabulate*, blit
it was said officially that the work of
the union's board of tellers had pro
gressed to such a point as to show
every field voting overwhelmingly in
favor of a suspension. Indications
are that nine -tenths of the miners
favor the walkout.
Cessation of the suepension, in
whole or part, is left to the- union’s
policy committee, composed of more
than 100 union officials, which will
meet in Cleveland soon to consider
plans for conducting the strike. Out-
sta tiding among the questions to be
cons idered by the committee is that of
negotiating single state wage agree
ments
Washington.—Declaration that the
United States should insist upon pay
ment of its bill of $241,000,000 for
keeping American soldiers in Ger
many were made in the senate by both
party leaders—Senators Lodge, of
Massachusetts, and Underwood, Idaho.
Mr. Underwood also urged appoint
ment of an American representative
on the allied, reparation commission.
Both Senators Lodge and Under
wood charged the allies with attempt
ing “by a technicality’’ to oppose pay
ment of the bill for the American
troops, while Senator Borah said the
allies’ attitude was “entirely unwar
ranted.’’
Senator Underwood asserted the Re
publicans were responsible for not
having a member of the reparations
commission. This, the Democratic
leader asserted, was the only way in
which the occupation claim could be
collected, Senators Lodge and Poin
dexter, Republicans, Washington, de
nied this contention, declaring that
the obligation to pay for the Amer
ican soldiers rested upon the armis
tice agreement and not upon either
the treaty of Berlin or that of Ver
sailles.
Senator Borah brought up the ques
tion in the senate. He called atten
tion to reports that Premier Poin
care, of France, had declared America
has no legal right to collect for the
keeping of American troops in Ger
many.
“I have no doubt that Secretary
Hughes will work out some method
of securing payment,’’ said Senator
Borah, adding that he was primarily
interested in having all American
troops brought out of Germany.
“Our army was left in Europe sup-
MEASURE IS INCREASED $63,309,009
OVER AMOUNT CARRIED IN
HOUSE MEASURE
FIGHT OVER APPOINTMENTS
Bitter Attack Made On Item £oe
Gotham By Several Democrats, V
, Charging “8teal.”
Washington.—Thte postoffice appro
priation bill, carrying $623,773,000, was
passed by the senate after a heated
fight, carrying $63,309,000 more than
as passed by the house, $50,000,000
of the increase going for federal high
way aid.
The bill also carries provisions for
restoring to service the New Y'ork
pneumatic mail tubes and for continu
ing the New York to San Francisco
air mail service. The vote on the tube
amendment was 39 to 19 and came
after a bitter attack had been made
on the proposition by several Demo
crats. The $50,000,000 was accepted
by the senate without debate and with
out a roll call. .
A fight centering around postoffice
appointments, originating early in
discussion of the bill, resulted just
before adjournment of the senate in
the introduction by Senator Harrison—
Democrat, Mississippi—of a resolution
calling on the president to supply
the senate with the number of execu
tive orders he has issued removing
postoffices from civil service classi
fication. The resolution went over un
der the rules.
The fight which culminated in the
Harrison resolution was precipitated
posedly to the benefit of the allies.” I by un amendment increasing the num-
said the Idaho senator, “Certainly it j ber of postal inspectors from 420 to
was not for the benefit of the'Amer- ®20, a move which Mr. Harirson as-
ican people, directly or particularly, sorted was to make more places for
Rev. G. W. Garner
To Preach on
Predestination.
St. Patrick Party.
On the afternoon of March 13th,
Mrs. D. B. Blalock gave a lovely St.
Patrick party. The Irish colors were
effectively used throughout the house.
The central decoration of the dining
table was a green “Irish” basket, the
handle being tied with a tulle bow into
which Irish shamrocks were caught.
The score cards were tiny Irlbh harps.
After the games, delicious refresh
ments were served.
Mrs. Culpepper
Entertains.
Mrs. J. W. Culpepper entertained
twenty of her friends at a lovely party
on the afternoon of March 9th. St.
Patrick colors were used in the effec
tive decorations throughout the re
ception rooms. On the lace covered
table in the dining room, green tapers
burned and at intervals baskets of
candy were placed. Rook was played
and after the game a delicious salad
of the state association will preside j courst was served. Mrs. Dean Murphy
at the meetings. I assisted her mother in entertaining
To Investigate Wrecked Mystery Ship
New Orleans.—A government cutter
probably will be sent to the wrecked
sailing vessel, discovered recently bot
tom up near Isle Dernier, off the south
Louisiana coast, in an effort to learn
the identity of the boat and the fate
of its crew, according to local cus-
town officials. Claude Blancq of the
steamship division of the customs
service said the cutter probably would
be dispatched from Galveston. Offi
cials began a search of their records,
Imping to find some clue to guide them
in identifying the vessel, a lumber car
rier which was sighted by the Louisia
na conservation * commission’s boat
Opelousas.
Slayer Of Lady Alice White Is Held
London.—Henry Jacobi, 19 years
old, pantry boy at the hotel where
l.ady Alice White was fatally injured,
was arraigned in police court charged
with the murder. It is alleged he con
fessed striking Lady White with a
hammer. She was found unconscious
in her room and died. Her skull had
been fractured. Lady White was the
widow of Sir Edward White, late
chairman of the London county coun
cil, and was between fifty and sixty
years old. In a lucid moment after
her injury she declared a burglar had
entered her room and struck her.
It now appears that our army is no
longer needed in Europe. It seems
to me that the attitude of the allies
is entirely unwarranted and warrants
us bringing .hom’' all of q^r soldiers."
Senator Borah added that the at
titude of the allies in maintaining
what he termed an excessive num
ber of troops in Germany was "un-
Republicans. The debate quickly en
tered the subject of postmaster ap
pointments and the president was
charged with having removed the Mar
ion, Ohio, office from civil service by
executive ordfcr so that he could * afr» 111 — <
point the postmaster in his home town.
This amendment involved $235,000
—but it required two hours of discus-
just” and calculated to prevent eco- *sion and a record vote of 40 to 21 be-
nomic recovery of Germany and also
of Europe. Senator Borah said the j
fore it was finally put into the bill.
question of the return of the troops
would be a “live issue” when the
army appropriation bill comes before
the senate.
“I can see no reason,’’ said the
Democratic leader, “why a single
American soldier should remain on
the Rhine.’’ The American troops
were “invited” by the allies to re
main in Germany, Mr. Underwood de
clared, and the American claim for
their maintenance is a “just and prop
er one.”
“In right, justice and fair play,"
said Mr. Underwood, "the American
government is entitled to stand on the
same basis and receive from Ger
many its proportionate pay for the
soldiers. I regret very much that the
allies are attempting to stand on a
technicality in opposing payment.”
Senator Poindexter, Republican
Washington, interjected that Euro
pean troubles were largely political
and economic and suggested that
America would become involved in
them by joining the reparations com
mission.
ALL AMERICAN TROOPS
ORDERED FROM RHINE
Washington.—Orders directing the
return to the United States by July
1 of all American troops now on the
Rhine have been issued by Secretary
Weeks. The order includes the re
turn by the end of the fiscal year of
the entire force of approximately 2,000
men excepted from the previous order
of several weeks ago under which the
homeward movement of the majority
of the American Rhine contingent is
now in progress.
Coblenz.—Twelve hundred American
troops of the army of occupation have
left for the. United States by way of
Antwerp.
Hundreds Of Roads Ask Injunction
New York.—Injunction proceedings
have been instituted by the counsel
for nearly one hundred rajlroads
against the government in connection
with the rate order promulgated by
the interstate commerce commission ef-
i fectiv^ March 1, which the petitioners
Senator Lodge declared that the asser j j s arbitrary and outside the
$241,000,000 bill bad nothing to do p 0wers 0 f the commission. Practical-
witli the reparations commission,”
and that neither the supreme coun
cil nor any other body had the man
agement of a claim which, he said,
rested on the armistice agreement.
Fewer Passengers By Rail During 1921
Washington.—Passenger traffice on
| railroad in 1921 was 20 per cent less
than in the preceding year, according
to reports flied with the interstate
commerce commission. Passenger
miles lats year numbered 37,332,697,-
000, a decrease from the preceding
year of 9,508,935,000. Passenger sev-
enue was $1,153,752,002, a decrease of
$133,671,441, despite higher rates.
Texas Judge Kidnaped By Masked Men
Dallas. Texas.—Judge J. A. Pelt, 63
years old. was spirited away from his
home by unmasked men, and it is
stared at his home that he has not
returned. He was justice of the peace
a: Sour Lake' for several years.
Government Sets Up Liquor Blockade
AVnshington.—A twentieth century
booze blockade, composed of airplanes,
subchasers and speed automobiles
lirked together by wireless—is being
set up by the prohibition bureau. Plans
are ma uring for a ten thousand mile
wall about the United States to stop
the flow of alien rum. With this
l'i dude 100% effective, prohibition
c efs are confident the only source
c: supply of “good” liquor will be corn-
pie o’, cut off and that drinking will
pa ss because of inability to obtain pure
booze.
ly all of the eastern lines except the
New York Central, Pennsylvania and
Baltimore and Ohio joined in the ap
plication to set aside the order which
reduced by 15 per cent the proportion
of rates on inter-regional shipments
given to eastern lines, and added this
percentage to the amount allocated
to the New England carriers.
Federal Probe Is Nearing Completion
Washington.—The retail price In
vestigation of the department of jus
tice is practically completed. A few
prosecutions are anticipated but the
benefits claimed for the investigar
tion have been "largely psycholog
ical,’’ officials said. The investigation
covered the majority of trade associa
tions. retail stores and special cities
where prices seemed abnormally high.
The investigation, it was said, had
served as a warning to all merchants
Peel Is Appointed Secretary For India
London.—Viscount Peel, former un
der-secretary of the war and air min
istry, and chancellor of the duchy of
Lancaster in the present ministry, has
been appointed secretary of state for
India, succeeding Edwin S. Montagu, and trade associations, and had helped
who resigned recently. j to lower prices.
Slight Drop Seen In Cost Of Living
Washington.—Retail food costs for
I the average family in United States j
j during February were 0.3 per cent
j less than they were during January,
! according to the compilations made
i by the United Stares department of i
! labor.
Now Speeding Work On Tariff Bill
Washington.—Chairman McCumber
of the senate finance committee says
it is his hope to have the psrmurent
tariff bill ready for the senate wi bin
a few days.
Coal Miners Seeks To Prevent Evictior
Knoxville, Tenn.—An appeal for £
congressional investigation of th«
threatened eviction of coal miners
their wives and children of easterr
Tennessee and southeastern Kentucky
has been made to all representatives
‘n co-.’ress from that territory, S. A
Keiler. president of District 19, Unit
ed Mine Workers, announces. The ap
peal made by the district exeoutiv<
board of the union recites that, in spin
of the fact tha’ the miners of this dis
"rut . ad a wartime agreement run
ulna till March 31 thev accepted a cut
