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VOL. XXXII.
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 9, 1922.
NUMBER 47.
BOARD OF EDUCA
TION MEETS.
2 Consolidated Schools
Ordered — Election of
. Trustees and Teachers.
At the regular meeting of the
Board of Education of Fayette County
on Tueseday,' an order was passed ef
fecting twoi consolidations. One in
volved the combination of the Inman,
the Woolsey and that part of the Low-
^ ry districts, lying east of Woolsey
Creek and between that creek and the
Flint river. The plan is ultimately
to build a consolidated school some
where near the center of the district;
but for the, next year no step will
be made in that direction. The or
ganization for 1922-23 will use the pres
ent two-room buildings at Inman and
Woolsey, running the lower grades
with two teachers at Woolsey and four
a higher at Inman with two more teach
ers. This will improve the present
situation by replacing one two-teacher
and two one-teacher schools with what
amounts to one four-teacher school.
A truck will bring the Lowry district
pupils to Woolsey, where the 1st to
the 4tli grade pupils will be left; the
5th through the 8th will be taken to
.Inman, the truck then returning with
the Inman lower • grades to Woolsey.
In the afternoon this route will be re
traced. The outcome of this plan is
awaited with interest, as the first “out
and out” consolidation in the county.
The second realignment consoli
dates that part of the Mitchell Hill
district lying east of White Water
creek, with the Brooks district, and
would incorporate also in, new district
that part of the Lowry district lying
west and south of the Woolsey dis
trict. Provision was made that all
wh owere forced by t\iis new align
ment to go over two and one-half
miles to school should receive aid
* from the county for transportation.
This number will be quite small.
That pai*t of the Mitchell Hill dis
trict lying west of the 'White Water
creek was incorporated in the present
Glen Grove district, the pupils from
that section already attending at Glen
Grove.
Elections will be 1 called immediate
ly for trustees of the consolidated dis-
■ trict.
The 29th of July was set for the
regular election of trustees of school
districts. The people are urged to
drop everything on that day and go
to the polls. The selection of the
school trustees is one of the most im
portant duties of a citizen.
Trustees of the local district .are
urged to make their arrangements in
regard to teahcres by the first Tues
day in July, and send in their selection
with license, qualifications and testi
monials, if i they have not previously
registered in the office at Fayetteville.
A new salary schedule has been made,
copies of which will be sent to the
secretaries of the local boards at
once.
The attention of teachers is called
to the regular examination to be given
in the first week in August, detailed
announcements of which will appear
next week. All teachers who are ex
pecting to teach in this county are
£ requested to take the) examination in
this county. Only those holding pro
fessional licenses and those with valid
licenses previously granted in this
•county are exempt.
WHO PAYS FOR
GOOD ROADS?
Atlanta, Ga., June 7.—Letters inquir
ing as to various details of the pro
posed state bond issue for good roads
are pouring in upon the office of the
■Georgia Good Roads Association, in
dicating the widespread interest being
taken in the bonds. One of the most
frequently asked questions is: “What
will the farmer who lives off the main
highways get out of it?”
The answer is plain: With the main
highway across the counties built and
maintained by the state,^ with govern
ment aid, the counties will have their
own funds left free for building and
keeping up the other roads within
their own borders. A vast propostion
of a county’s income is now expended
on the main highways.
The other most frequent question is:
“Won’t the bond issue raise the farm-
f er’s taxes?”
The answer is equally- plain: The
proposed amendments specifically pro-
.vide that bonds may be sold only as
fast as the income from the gasoline
tax and auto license tags will pay for
retiring them. The automobile owner
will bear the whole burden of paying
for these roads. The automobiling
public is making no objection, despite
the fact that most of the cars are own
ed in the cities and towns and not a
dollar of the bond money is to be spent
within the city and town limits.
FUNDS AVAILABLE
To Build 46,000 Miles of
Good Roads.
The $350,000,000 appropriated by
Congress as Federal aid in conjunction
with State funds will result in the con
struction of about 46,000 miles of l’oad,
says the Bureau of Public Roads of
the United States Department of Agri
culture. This mileage would parallel
the railroad from New York to San
Fi;ancisco nearly 15 times, or, if divid
ed equally among the states, would
give nearly 1,000 miles to each State.
The status of road building on April
30 was as follows: In projects entirely
complete, a total of 16,375 miles;- under
construction, 13,950 miles in projects,
averaging 62 per cent complete. A con
siderable part of the latter mileage is
actually complete and in service.- In
addition funds have been alloted to
7,511 miles, much of which will come
under construction during the present
season. Besides this there is still avail
able for, new projects $60,148,000,
which on the same basis as previous
Federal aid construction will result
in the construction of 8,200 miles of
highway. In March the fund available
for new projects was taken up a.t the
rate of $12,000,000 a month and at the
rate of $5,700,000 in April.
STATE S. S. CONVEN
TION TO MEET AT
COLUMBUS.
Atlanta, Ga., June 8.—“Forward in
Religious Education” is the theme for
Georgia’s annual state Sunday School
convention, which will be in session
in Columbus, June 13-14-15. The con
vention text is “Speak to the chil
dren of Israel that they go fonvard.”
Exodus. 14:15.
Reports coming to the headquarters
of the Georgia Sunday School Associa
tion, under whose auspices this conven
tion is held, indicate that delegates
will be in attendance from every sec
tion of the state.
The First Baptist Church will be
the convention headquarter^, -wheve
all general sessions will be held. Di
vision and department conferences will
be held in other nearby churches. The
final preparations are being made lo
cally in Columbus to insure the suc
cess of the convention. One feature
of the 1 entertainment of convention
delegates will be the visit to Camp
Benning on Thursday afternoon, where
all visitors will have an opportunity
to see what is regarded as the great
est school in the world for military
training. .
Upon arrival in Columbus, dele
gates will be met by the reception
committee, headed by Dr. F. M. Jen
kins, and carried to convention head
quarters, where J. R. Fitzpatrick and
his committee will register them and
assign them to homes. No registration
fee will be charged. Delegates will
pay a reasonable amount for lodging
and meals.
The first session of the convention
will begin at 2:45 o’clock Tuesday af
ternoon. Out-of-state/speakers secur
ed for this convention include Dr. R.
A. Waite, of Chicago; Dr. W. A.
Squires of Philadelphia, U. E. Green
of Chattanooga, Miss Susie M. Juden
of New Orleans, Mrs. F. R 1 . Ballard of
Birmingham and J. O. Webb of Waver-
ly. Prominent Georgia workers on the
program include Dr. E. L. Grace of
Augusta, Dr. Allen J. Wilson of Au
gusta, Dr. Coston J. Harrell of At
lanta, Prof. M. L. Brittain of Atlanta,
Prof. W. A. Sutton of Atlanta, A. M.
Smith of Atlanta, Dr. E. B. Quick of
Atlanta, C. W. Sherman of West Point,
Miss Rosa May King of Atlanta and
others.
The convention music will be in
charge of Prof. W. S. Nicholson of
Augusta as director and Mrs. Annie
Jones Pyron of Cartersville as pianist.
Mrs. Pyron, the daughter of the well
known evangelist, Sam P. Jones, lias
been the convention pianist for years,
assisting in the past E. O. Excell with
the convention music.
Hinton Booth of Statesboro, presi
dent of the Georgia Sunday School
Association, will be the presiding offi
cer at the convention. Reports of the
year’s work will be made by
R. D. Webb,, general superintendent;
bliss Cora Holland, office secretary
and young people’s superintendent, and
Miss Myra Batchelder, children’s di
vision superintendent. In spite of fi
nancial handicaps, it is expected that
the report of the year’s work will ex
ceed that of previous years.
On the closing night of the conven
tion, a pageant, “The Rights of the
Child,” will be given by the Sunday
schools of Columbus, directed by Mrs.
C. M. Trulock. This feature alone will
be worth the trip to Columbus.
Round trip rates of one and one-half
fare have been secured. In order to
get the benefit of this reduced rate,
delegates should, write to the' head
quarters of the Georgia Sunday School
Association, 917 Hurt building, Atlanta,
for certificates.
BE PREPARED TO
POISON BOLL WEE
VIL AT RIGHT
TIME.
“In time of peace, prepare for war,”
is a proverb more or less in disfavor
in international negotiations just now,
but it still applies to fighting the cot
ton boll weevil, says the United States
department of agriculture. Late poi
soning is likely to hurt the farmer
more than it hurts the weevil, and the
only way to be sure of getting an
“even break” with the weevil is to
be supplied in advance with calcium
arsenate and dusting machinery.
“We find every year,’ ’says B. R.
Coad, director of the department boll
weevil laboratory, “that many farmers
fail to realize their danger early
enough and then start making desper
ate efforts to poison after the infesta
tion has become very heavy. They
scurry around trying to get calcium
arsenate and dusting machinery, and
nearly always there is considerable de
lay. Even when they get the poison
and the machinery, it is extremely dif
ficult to control weevil infestation af
ter it becomes severe. There are- so
many weevil stages present in the
squares and bolls that some of them
come out every day and poison must
be kept constantly on the plants if any
good is to be done by it. This very
greatly increases the expenses of poi
soning. Then, if there comes even
a short spell of rainy weather-, such
control as has been gained is lost, and
the farmer has gone to heavy expense
for nothing. We advise all cotton
planters to be extremely careful about
starting late season poisoning. In a
few cases, it has been successful, but
at heavy cost and only under the most
favorable conditions. The only safe
course is to be prepared to poison at
the right time.” Write the Deltp Lab
oratory, Tallulah, Louisiana, ffir in
structions “When and How to Poi
son.”
STATE B. Y. P. U. CON-
VENTION TO MEET
AT ATHENS.
Athens, Ga., June 9.—The State Con
vention of the Baptist Young People’s
Union will hold their 28th annual meet
ing in Athens, June 21st, 22nd, and
23rd. More than one thousand dele
gates are expected and indications
point to the largest convention in the
history of the organization.
Among the speakers to appear on the
program are Dr. L. R. Scarborough, of
Texas; Dr. O. C. S. Wallace, of Mary
land; Frank, H. Leavell, of Tennessee,
and Dr. E. E. Lee, of Dallas, Texas.
All Baptist pastors in the state are
invited, and many other visitors are
expected.
Special plans are being made to en
tertain the delegates, and a reception
will be given, also an automobile ride
around the city and through the ex
tensive campus of the University of
Georgia and State College of Agri
culture. The Athens Banner, The
Athens New, and Athens Herald will
publish special convention editions de
voted largely to the B. Y. P. U. as
sembly, which will carry the entire
program and the list of delegates with
assignments to homes.
The Southeastern Passenger Associa
tion has granted reduced rates of one
and one-half fares on the round trip
certification plan. The Central of
Georgia railroad will run a special
train from Macon to Athens on the
21st, and the Seaboard Air Line will
run special cars from Atlanta.
One of the special aims of the B.
Y. P. U. work this year is to secure
4,000 tithers from among the young
people in the Baptist denomination
this year, and indications are that this
goal will be reached. More than 3.500
tiethers have already been secured, and
from thirty-five to fifty news names
are being reported daily to state head
quarters in Atlanta.
The citizens of Athens are co-opera
ting in making the convention a suc
cess in every way, and a 11 denomina
tions are represented in the personnel
of the home committee, which is ac-
t.u’ely at work securing homes for the
visitors.
GRADUATES OF
HIGH SCHOOL
Express Appreciation to
Woman’s Club.
We wish to extend our sincere appre
ciation to the Woman’s Club for the
floral offering given us on the eve of
our graduation.
(Signed.) SENIOR CLASS.
Never!
Love at first sight may be all right,
but it doesn’t cost a cent to take two
or throe mo v !->oks.
STATE ITEMS
CONDENSED
Atlanta. — Seven-year-old Edward
Bankston, was seriously injured when
he fell from a tree in front of his
home while playing with several
chums. He was carried to a hospital
where doctors seemed to think he prob
ably sustained a fracture of the skull
with the possibility of internal injur
ies.
Atlanta.—That the year 1921 was
probably the worst year in the history
of the state for the promotion of new
enterprises and that conditions have
already taken a decided change for
the better, is shown by the second an
nual report to the governor of the
Georgia securities commission, which
was received from the press recently.
Macon.—Dr. W. R. Bourne, a gradu
ate of Peabody college and recently
state inspector of high school for
Tennessee, has been elected by the
executive committee of Wesleyan col
lege as head of the newly created
department of philosophy and psychol
ogy. Dr. Bourne recently received his
doctor of philosophy degree from Pea
body college.
Atlanta.—Ten persons were killed
and 46 injured in ‘.automobile and
street car accidents during the month
of May, according to a summary com
piled and made public at police head
quarters. At the same time three peo
ple were injured in auto accidents dur
ing the course, bringing the total of
people hurt during the first three days
of June to eight.
Atlanta.—Public meetings for discus
sion of the proposed bond issue for a
state highway system were held in
several Georgia towns last week, most
of them reported as largely attended
in spite of the prevailing heavy rains
According to th headquarters of the
Georgia Good Roads association, inter
est is increasing in the bond issue
amendments as the time of the gen
eral assembly’s session approaches.
Savannah.—Walter S. Sims, Atlanta
lawyer and a member of the council
of that city, came literally “within an
inch of his death” at Tybee recently
when he sought to board a moving
train, stumbled and fell against the
tracks of the coach in such a manner
as to become fastened fev ids belt and
dragged for several yards! He escap
ed with badly mussed-up clothing and
numerous abrasions, but with no seri
ous injuries.
Decatur.—Action looking to closer
affiliation with the Georgia State
Dairymen’s association in the develop
ment of a co-operative marketing sys
tem for the selling of milk and dairy
products in Georgia, and to bring about
a more rigid enforcement of state and
municipal laws covering the inspec
tion of dairies, milk and milk prod
ucts, was taken at the regular semi
monthly meeting of the DeKalb Coun
ty Milk Producers’ association, held in
the DeKalb county court house.
Ringgold.—George L. Walton, 51,
veteran newspaper man, editor of The
Coosa County Record and formerly
editor of The Mason County Citizen,
died of heart failure at his home at
Ringgold. Mr. Walton was a Mason of
high rank. He is survived by his
widow and two daughters, Mrs. C. H.
Hirshock, of Lancaster, Pa., and Mrs.
George Stewart Bachelor, of this city.
Funeral services will be held from
the home, the Rev. Rutland officiating.
Interment will be in the Ringgold
cemetery.
Waycross.—Piedmont institute, local
Baptist denominational school, is to
become a junior college if the plans
of the board of directors mature. Steps
preparatory to the advancement of
the standard and curriculum of the
school are under way. Completion of
these plans will mean that the local
institution will become a junior col
lege, and will offer the same course
of study as now offered in the fresh
man and sophomore classes at stand
ard colleges.
Atlanta.—The appointment of a com
mittee on civic co-operation, whose
purpose will be to bring about better
relations between employer and em
ployee in Atlanta, has just been an
nounced by Emmett L. Quinn, presi
dent of the Atlanta Federation of
Trades. The federation sets forth that
in order for Atlanta to present a unit
ed front it is necessary for all interests
to “come together, discuss our prob
lems and work out a program that’
means peace and prosperity for em
ployer and employee.”
Atlanta.—A. B. Simms, connected as
cashier and later as vice president
with the Fulton National and one of
the best known bankers in the state,
has announced plans for immediate or
ganization of an Atlanta joint land
bank, under provisions of the federal
farm act. The new institution will
begin with a capital and surplus of
$300,000 and the capital will be in
creased as business warrants. Mr.
Simms has resigned as vice president
of the Fulton National after a con
nection with that bank for more thar
‘.en years, three years of which was as
cashier. In the organization of the
proposed joint stock land bank, he has
entered a new banking field in Geor
gia in that it will be the first of its
kind established in this territorv
RAIL MEN WILL
VOTE ON STRIKE
$60,000,000 BEING SLASHED FROM
PAY, UNION HEADS ORDER
BALLOTS MAILED
ORDER FOLLOWS WAGE CUT
As Pending Decisions For Other
Groups Are Announced, They
Will Also Vote On Strike
Cincinnati.—Railroad wages under
the new railroad labor board orders
for seven of the larger groups of the
country’s rail workers soon will be
at a level which does not measure up
to the American standard of living
and which will make vigorous protest
necessary, according to B. M. Jewell,
head of the railway employees depart
ment of the American Federation of
Labor, in explaining the quick strike
vote actiou of the conference of rail
way union heads.
In less than two hours’ time, heads
of eleven railway unions arrived at
an understanding whereby each organ
ization will take a strike vote imme
diately on issuance of wage reduction
orders from the labor board for its
membership. The votes will be re
turnable in 30 days, and the strike
vote for the six shop crafts, sent out
by President Jeweli’s orders, will be
in his office in Chicago by June 30.
The strike votes decided on will
affect about one million two hundred
thousand of the country’s railway em
ployees—all except the train service
men whose wages are not in dispute
before the board. Although wage cuts
have not been announced for any
classes but the shop crafts and main
tenance of way, pending decisions are
expected to add five other classes of
labor to the general slash. Union exec
utives of these organizations decided
to print their ballots and have them
ready to send out to the membership
immediately if the board, as anticipat
ed, orders further reductions in their
pay. i»~«£ j -
“The new wages do not permit a
minimum living wage,” declared Mr.
Jewell, “and they are wholly at vari
ance with the saving wage champion
ed by Secretary of Labor Davis and
President Harding. The labor board,
a federal body, has totally disregard
ed the secretary’s attitude as well as
the employees’ own evidence showing
the amount necessary to maintain a
railroad man’s family.”
No further action will be taken by
the union head at this time, pending
return of the strike ballots. When
the result is known—and the union
heads freely predict an overwhelming
vote to walk out—a working agree
ment is expected to be made by which
any stoppage of work would take place
simultaneously by all organizations.
Meanwhile President Jewell intimat
ed that a persistent fight would be
made to keep the necessity for gain
ing a “living wage” before the hoard
and other responsible authorities.
GASOLINE PRICES
WILL JUMP AGAIN.
IS PREDICTED NOW
As Congress And Justice Department
Open Probe, Rumor Of More In
creases Is Heard
Washington.—Congress and the jus
tice department have opened “court”
in the interest of ten million Ameri
can auto owners faced with constant
ly increasing gasoline prices.
Despite the fact that there are rec
ord reserves of both gasoline and crude
oil now in storage in this country, the
word has gone forth that the summer
open season for motorists will be
marked by high "gas” prices. By July
1, it is stated, prices will increase from
2 to 7 cents more per gallon, after
steady increases during recent weeks.
In response to complaints pouring
into congress and the justice depart
ment from all sections of the country,
both agencies of government have set
out to find the “why” of the in
creases.
Member Of Taft Cabinet Is Dead
Seattle.—Judge Richard A. Ballin
ger, who was secretary of the interior
during President Taft’s administration,
died at his home here recently. He
had been ill two days.
The Work Of Liquidating Property
Claims Growing out Of War,
Was His Chief Function
Washington.—Boris Bakhmetetf, the
status of whom as Russian ambassador
here has been a subject of controversy
since the Kerensky government which
appointed him collasped five years ago,
has been notified by the state depart
ment that hi3 credentials no longer
will be recognized by the United States
after June 30
The department acted after Mr.
Bakhmeteff himself, taking notice of
senate criticism of his continued pres
ence here, had offered to retire should
the Washington government desire it.
The work of liquidating property
claifhs growing out of the war, the
ambassador said, had been his chief
function in recent months and now
was about completed.
In making public the correspond
ence, the department announced also
that termination of Mr. Bakhmeteff’s
duties as ambassador, “had no bearing
whatsoever upon the question of the
recognition of the Soviet regime in
Russia, which is an entirely separate
matter.”
At the same time department offi
cials made public an exchange of let
ters between Secretary Hughes and
Secretary Mellon of the treasury de
partment. in which cognizance is tak
en o fthe charges of misuse of Russian
embassy funds, produced in the senate
several weeks ago ‘by Senator Borah,
Republican. Idaho. A detailed state
ment of the embassy’s expenditures is
given by Mr. Mellon, whose letter de
clared that the $187,000,000 advanced
by the United States was “used sole
ly for the purchase of obligations of
the Russian government in accordance
with the liberty loan acts.”
Of the $187,000,000 total, the treas
ury secretary said $125,000,000 was
transferred by the ambassador to the
account of the Russian finance min
istry, leaving $62,000,000 “for expendi
ture in this country.”
“At the time of the fall of the Keer-
ensky government in November, 1917,”
the letter added, “the embassy had
$56,000,000 deposited in this country,
of which $10,000,000 was said to be
“the balance remaining from this gov
ernment’s loans to Russia,’’ ’the remain
der representing moneys derived from
Britis hand other sources.
HUNDREDS OF RUSSIAN
REFUGEES REACH VARNA
Varna, Bulgaria.—The survivors of
hundreds of Russian families fleeing
from Odessa and the Crimean ports
are arriving here in small boats --T
on rafts equipped with sails.
Many succumbing in their efforts
to escape from Russia, some of the
frail craft being wrecked; others per
ish by hunger and thirst, typhus and
the exposure to the elements,—this is
the report.
Some of those arriving have no
clothing other than bathing suits,
having escaped from the beaches. The
Soviet government is granting no per
mits for departure from the country.
WARNS HUNGARIANS WHO
DISCOUNT U. S. NOTES
Budapest.—American Minister Bre-
tano has warned the Hungarian pub
lic against tolerating the practice of
money changers who are refusing to
accept or are discounting Am: rican
bank notes of the buffalo and Indian
head issues.
The brokers’ prejudice against these
notes seems to be based on nothing
more substantial than the belief that
since the Indians and bufafloes are vir
tually extinct, the bank notes mint
be worthleess.
Pinchot Defends His Nomination Cost
Philadelphia.—Gifford Pinchot who
publicly state that he spent $120,-
000 to win the Pennsylvania repub
lican nomination for governor in the
recent primaries, would do the same
thing again “if it were necessary to de
feat an organized machine,” in a state
ment. He made this clear in answer
ing attacks by Senator Pat Harrison,
Mississippi, a democrat, who declared
the Newberry case “sinks into signifi
cance’’ beside the Pinchot statement
of campaign expenditures.
UNIONS AMENABLE
TO SHERMAN LAW
SUPREME COURT RENDERS VER
DICT IN FAMOUS CORONADO
CASE, ANENT STRIKES
UNIONS MJiELD SUABLE
Decision Reverses Damage Verdict
Against United Mine Workers As
Not Responsible
Nineteen Injured In Train Wreck
Chicago.—Nineteen persons were in
jured — two seriously — when the
Chicago and Northwestern passenger
train, No. 6, from Omaha to Chicago,
was derailed near Quarry, Iowa, ac
cording to official reports received at
the railroad’s office here.
Watson Re-Opens Attack On Hoover
Washington.—Senator Watson of
Georgia renewed in the senate recently
his attacks on Secretary Hoover’s ad
ministration of war relief organiza
tions and charged him with having
aided in efforts to overthrow the So
viet and restore the czarist govern
ment in Russia. He asserted that |
Hoover had caused a shipping board
steamer to transport a cargo of mili
tary motor trucks and supplies from
Bordeaux to the northern army in Rus
sia to be used in General Yudenitch’s
offense against the Soviets.
Invitations To Pan-Pacific Conference
Washington.—Invitations to partici
pate in a Pan-Pacific conference
commerce to be held at Honolulu in
October, have been transmitted to all
of the governments bordering on the
Pacific ocean. The meeting, which
will be under the auspices of the Pan-
Pacific Union, is to discuss a wide
range of problems. The list of those
on the program made public include
communication, transportation, devel
opment and conservation of natural
resources, finance and investments and
international relations.
Washington.—Deciding the celebrat
ed Coronado coal case, the Supreme
court held that labor organizations,
although unincorporated, are amena
ble to the Sherman anti-trust act, and
that under it such organizations may
be prosecuted for restraint of inter
state commerce. The court also held
that labor unions are suable. Chief
Justice Taft, in announcing the deci
sion, did not indicate any dissent.
The case which presented the ques
tions passed on by the court was an
appeal by the United Mine Workers
of America, district No. 21, of that
organization and its officers, 27 local
unions and their officers and 65 indi
viduals, some of the latter not mem
bers of any union, from a decision by
the United States district court of Ar
kansas, approved by the circuit court
of appeals, holding them guilty of vio
lating the Sherman anti-trust act dur
ing the coal mine strikes in Arkansas
in 1914, and imposing damages of
$200,000 which were trebled under the
anti-trust law.
The effect of the decision will he to
set aside the damages, because of the
finding that the acts which caused the
destruction of property were not in
cited for the purpose of restraining in
terstate commerce.
During the strike, lawlessness pre
vailed and property damage was done
the Coronado and other mines con
trolled by the Bache-Denman Coal
company. The United Mine Workers
of America contested the jurisdiction
of the federal courts on the ground
that being an unincorporated associa
tion-of mine workers, it was not sub
ject to prosecution under the Sherman
anti-trust law.
Five questions were presented by
the controversary, Chief Justice Taft
said:
1. Whether there had been a cor
rect selection of the parties to be
sued.
2. Whether the parties not being
incorporated were subject to suit.
3. Whether the United Mine Work
ers of America had been engaged in a
conspiracy or in the destruction of
property for which that organization
and its officers could be held liable.
4. Whether there was evidence to
show that the conspiracy alleged did
restrain or monopolize interstate com
merce.
5. Whether thetri al court, in charg
ing the jury, had coerced them into
returning the verdict.
There had been no misjoinder of the
parties under the laws of Arkansas,
where the case was tried, the Supreme
court held.
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EMBARGO ON SOUTHERN
PRODUCE PROTESTED
Washington.—Before Commissioners
Potter and Atchesino and Director
Roth of the interstate commerce com
mission’s service bureau, New York
City, and the port of New York author
ity, presented arguments and objec
tions against an embargo on shipments
into New York of Southern Produce
and potatoes ordered by Pennsylvania
railroad, effective at midnight, June 5.
The railroad proposed to hold all such
consigned freight for New York at
Kearney, N. J., instead of transporting
it across the river in the customary
fashion to piers 28 and 29.
Lillian Russell Dies At Pittsburg, Pa.
Pittsburg.—Mrs. Lillian Russell-
Moore, wife of Alexander P. Moore,
publisher of the Pittsburg Leader, and
noted stage beauty of a score and more
years past, died of heart failure at her
home here after an illness of several
days.
Five Men Killed In Powder Explosion
Oakland, Calif.—Five men are dead
three badly injured and a dryer wreck
ed as the result of an explosion at the
Trojan Powder company plant at San
Lorenzo, eleven miles from this city.
American Vessel Seized By British
London.—A steamer bound from
New York for Fenit, county Kerry,
Ireland, with corn and a mixed cargo,
has been held up in Tralee bay by a
British sloop, says a dispatch to the
Press association from Tralee. A
large quantity of ammunition in bar
rels was seized, the dispatch says. A
Central News dispatch says the steam
er is the Seattle Spirit and she is now
berthed at Fenit pier. The Seattle
Spirit is a shipping board vessel built
at Seattle in 1919. She sailed from
New York May 18 for Cork.