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P
puy AT HOME
AND HELP
DAWSON PROSPER
E;;, L. RAINEY
i WAL SERVIGE T 0
ILL HAVE 28-HOUR SCHED
ULE BETWEEN SAN FRAN
CISCO AND NEW YORK.
\RRIERS TO FLY BY NIGH
Lal Aurora Borealis, Making a
path of Light, Will Guide Airmen
Across Continent. Every Provision
Made to Protect Aviators.
Continuous air mail service from
ow York city to San Francisco, Cal,
000 miles in 28 hours, will be es-
L ilished Dy the postoffice department
. July and August, according to an
| ouncement by Postmaster General
by 5. New. To accomplish this
cvice air mail pilots for the first
me will fly nearly 1,000 miles, one
ird of this trans-continental mara
on of the air, in the dead of night.
Beacons on the Job.
Air mail will leave New York city
«t hefore noon, to arrive in Chicago
«mdown. From Chicago another
pilot will take the mail, fly all
¢cht along a path of beacons which
| light his way, and arrive at Chey
e, Wyo., at dawn. Another pilot
1 joad his airplane with the sacks
mail. wing over the Rockies and
¢ Sierras, and arrive in San Fran
co late in the afternoon.
\lore than a year has been spent in
eparation for this service. Those
Lo have directed the work are con
ent of the success of the venture.
r mail service has been in opera
-1 in the United States since May,
18 New York being linked with
ashington and Chicago. More than
o vears ago the trans-continental
ite was undertaken.
Reduce Night Hazards.
Two vears have proved that day
ing with the mails can be operated
isiactorily. Encountering all kinds
weather, the air mail pilots com
te 05 per cent of the trips sched
d. totaling 2,000,000 miles annually.
‘pon night service the future of
mail hinges. But night flying pre
ts many problems, and the post
ce department was unwilling to
pin night flying until it could as
¢ a 2 rcasonable factor of safety to
pilots.
\< 2 result of the preparations made
ing the last 12 months by the di
on of air mail, the night flights
veen Chicago and Gheyenne,
jo. will be made under conditions
bch offer scarcely more hazard than
dying. The pilot will be guided
2 pathway of powerful beacons
:hle of piercing through difficult
osnheric conditions, pointing the
- unerringly over the prairie to the
inal fields.
Many Emergency Fields.
ach airplane will carry powerful
rchlichts available for forced land
< in case of necessity. Emergency
i< have been located and lighted
rv 25 miles on the route. The coun
over which this route is laid is
stly level, which adds a degree of
tv to night flying should a forced
ding be necessary.
Billions of people in the middle
t will nightly witness an artificial
ora borealis, visible for 50 miles
n its source under good atmos
ric conditions, when the night ser
¢ of the air mail gets under way.
i will bée created by sweeping
its which will be established on
five regular fields—Chicago, Towa
v, lowa: Omaha, Neb.; North
tte, Neb.,, and Cheyenne, Wyo.
h of these beacons will have 600,-
000 candle power. .
Beacons 12 Miles Apart.
0 suit the needs of the ships of
air these light houses will swing
und on the top of their towers,
wing a beam three degrees above:
horizon, threc complete revolu
s being made every minute. Pilots
easily pick up these giant beacons
| quide their planes to the field.
ot depending alone on terminal
ts, the postoffice department is lo
fne less powerful beacons every 12
s along the route. T.ike their larg
brothers . they will also swing
md the horizon, but their visibili
is limited to about 30 miles. These
iller beacons will mark the emer
by to which a pilot may descend
lecessary. g
\hen the clouds hang low, how
r. there is a possibility that a pilot
pld bring his plane close to the
und and thus lose sight of the
rgency field beacons. As a final
bguard flashing traffic lights, like
s¢ which are placed on city streets,
Whose light will be directed to
d the skies instead of-along the
ace of the ground, will be located
If three miles along the line of
t,
hus, on a clear night, the air mail
Pt 7.000 feet up in the sky will see
farrow line of light stretching out
miles and miles over the level
ifics. The emergency fields will be
led and the buildings ‘and other
facles marked with red lights to
k¢ a plane landing easy. It is es
ited that the night pilots .will or-
Erily fiy at an altitude which will
¢ 1t possible for them to volplane
¢ necarest field at any point on
route should the engine go dead.
BBEAGE GROW IN TREES;
'TALKS USED FOR RAFTERS
O¢s cabbage grow on trees? Cer
¥. Not all ‘cabbage, but on the
"0 of Jersey, in the English chan
the natives grow cabbage .on
- hese are wild cabbage found
rthern Europe and as far east as
-+ Lhey grow to about 12 feet
St The stalks have been nsed
"alters by native builders, Walk-
L 8 are made of the stems which
g ttied down, Cg:’tivation {ulas
k. the tame. en e, smaller
V¢ and with a firme:‘head.
THE DAWSON NEWS
»
A Million Americans
Sick With 1 überculosis
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Cne
~million people in the United States
continuously are sick with tubercu
losis, it is announced by the Unit
ed States Public Health Service.
Children, particularly under the
age of five years, are said to be
most susceptible to infection. At
; is called to the fact that
illi are capable of re
mai i the human
body for
DISCOVERY IS MADE BY AN
EMINENT SPECIALIST. HAD
CHARGE U. S. PATIENTS.
GREENSBURG, Pa—Dr. William
P. Nolan, of ]eannettg, chief of the
Pennsylvania state tuberculosis clinic
of the Westmoreland county hospital,
has told the Westmloreland County
Medical Society of what he terms a
successful treatment for pulmonary
tuberculosis.
_The treatment consists in inhalation
of practically pure carbon in amor
phous form and calcium in the form
of carbonate, phosphate, chloride and
lactate.
A treatise on the treatment has been
forwarded to the American Medical
Association and the Rockefeller Insti
tute of New York. Dr. Nolan said he
had been assisted in reaching his con
clusions by Dr. Samuel R. Haythorn
land Dr. H. S. Permar, both of the
Melton Institute of Industrial Re
scarch, University of Pittsburg, and
Dr. Oskar Klotz, of the Rockefeller
Institute. |
~ Dr. Nolan was graduated from the
University of Pittsburg in 1913, and
has studied tuberculosis continuously
since graduation. He had charge of
the tuberculosis patients at, the Unit
ed States base ‘hospital No. 65, at
Brest, France, |
~ The low death rate from tuberculo
sis in Pittsburg first led him to inves
tigate the effects of carbon on lung
‘tissue. ‘
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WILL MAKE FIGHT
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j ON CITY TAG TAX
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ATLANTA MAYOR WOULD PUT
STILL ANOTHER TAX ON
AUTOMOBILE OWNERS.
ATLANTA, Ga.— Representative
Carl Guess, of DeKalb county, which
extends into part of the city of At
lanta, will oppose in the general as
sembly the proposition advanced hy
Mayor Walter A. Sims to put a mu
nicipal tag on automobiles in addition
to the state tag tax. “
It is the purpose of the Atlanta
mayor to ask the legislature to enact
a special bill this year giving that
right to Atlanta in order .that addi-|
tional revenue may be raised for the‘
}city treasury.
Representative Guess takes the po
sition that, it having been the custom
ever since the enactment of the first
state tag tax law, and therefore hav
ing become rather an unwritten law,
that the placing of a private tax or
tag fee on automobiles is reserved to
the state he will contend that Mayor
Sims’ proposition should not be al
lowed.
More especially, though, Repre
sentative Guess opposes the plan be
cause it would be the entering wedge
that ultimately’ would lead to a gen
eral application by other municipali
ties of a local or municipal tag tax
all over the state. The legislative fight
of the moral reformers this year will
be pitched around thé pool rooms of
the state.” From the DeKalb delega
tion is to come a bill to abolish all
pool rooms, except in cases where
pool tables are kept in private homes
or in regularly organized and operated
social and fraternal club rooms. l
BOOTLEG KING AND YOUNG WOMAN ACCOMPLICE DIE IN HANGMAN’S NOOSE FOR MURDER OF AN OFFICER
FORT SASKATCHEWAN, Alta.
—Mrs. Florence lLassandra, youthful
um runner accomplice, died on the
scaffold in the Fort Saskatchewan jail
vard at dawn today, with Emilio Pic
carillo, “king of the Crow’s Nest pass
bootleggers,” whose life she had many
times saved by her sex.
They* were executed for the murder
of Constable Steve O. Lawson, of the
Alberta provincial police at Coleman,
September 21, 1922, after Lawson had
made the last of a series of fruitless
attempts to capture their flitting whis
ky car.
Snake “Farmer” Finds World-wide
Market for Many Thousands of Reptiles
|Texas Man, . With Quarters for 18,000
Snakes, Sells Rattlers for From
o Fifty Cents Upward,
W. A. King, proprietor of the “King
Snake Farm,” at Brownsville, Tex.,
has about 10,000 snakes on his farm!
at the present time, according to a
reply he made to questions from the
department of agriculture, which is
making up a list of snake dealers and
arket quotations. He said that rat
tlesnakes sell for from S5O cents up
ward, and are never sold by the pound
or by the den.
“There is no regular market for the
skins or oil,” he said. “These are
merely by-products and have no reg
ular market price, selling for what
ever the buyer cares to pay.”
The chief source of supply, King
said, is Mexico. Shipments are made
WRIGHT WOULD LINKT
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TAX RATES OF GOUNTIES
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CONSTANT INCREASE IS CIT
ED BY CONTROLLER-GEN
~ ERAL AS GROWING EVIL.
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PRESENT SYSTEM PERNICIOUS
Piles Burden on People for ILocal
Purposes While the State Suffers.
Makes Important Recommendations
To the Legislature.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Limitation of the
tax rates of counties is strongly ‘rec
ommended by William A. ,Wright,
comptroller general of Georgia, in his
annual report to the governor cover
ing the fiscal year 1922, which was
made public Saturday. &
On this subject Comptroller Wright
says:
“While the state tax rate is limited
to five mills there is no limitation on
the rate which may be levied by
counties, Thus when additional reve
nue is required by a county the tax
rate is increased instead of the assess
ment of property. By this method the
county raises the additional revenue
needed without giving the state the
benefit of the slightest increase in;
revenue. " ‘
“If this system is permitted to con
tinue the state will be starved while
the counties can raise what they de
sire. If you will refer to table No. 1
of this report you will note that the
average county rate in 1900 was 5.61
mil!ls, while in 1922 the average was
14 mills.
“I am informed that a bill will be
introduced at the approaching- ses
sion of the legislature to limit the
lamount of the county levy. I earnestly
recommend the passage of some leg
islation looking to the correction of
this growing evil.”
Much Discussed.
This peculiarity of Georgia’s tax:
system as here pointed out by Comp
troller Wright has been the subject‘
of much discussion both in and out
of the legislature in recent years. Up‘
}to 1903 the state tax rate was not lim-‘
ited. The rate went up as sthe appro
priations of the legislature went up,
and went down as appropriations!
went down. The limitation of the rate
to five mills has had the effect, as
Comptroller Wright points out, of‘
constantly cramping the state for‘
funds.
Regarding the tax revision, Comp
troller Wright states in his report that
he is opposed to abolishing the ad
valorem system. This was the posi
tion he took in 1919, he peints out,
when it was proposed to substitute
a system of segregating and classify
ing property in place of the ad wvalo
rem and uniformity system.
“Since making that recommenda
tion,” he says in his report, “I have
given much thought and study to the
'subject, and am more strongly con
"viuced than ever that were the ma
‘chincry recommended for the new
system applied to the existing system
of ‘taxation -it would accomplish bet
ter results without the destruction of
\thc ysstem which has been success
fully in operation since the adoption
of the constitution of 1877.”
Small Balance Shown. |
The report shows an excess of the
estimated revenue for 1923 over ap
propriations of $248,393.26, the total
estimated revenue for the year being
$9,538,319.26 and the appropriations
totaling $9,289,926. The balance in the
treasury Jan. 1, 1923, is shown to have
been $1633,132.75. 'The estimate of
income is based upon the 1922 valua
tions. 1
1 The value of the property on thei
tax digests of the state has increased
from $238,934,126 to $1,027,784,721, or
approximately 430 per cent during the\
period since 1880, according to a table
prepared by Gen. Wright, while that|
of public service corporations has in
creased approximately 1,313 per cenl“
during the same period. The value of
public service corporations _has in
creased from $12,490,525 i‘ 1880 to
$164,975,361, it is stated. 1
Mrs. Lassandra denied, before she
was led to the scaffold, an alleged
confession that she fired the four shots
that ended Constable ILawson’s life.
Piccarillo, she declared, did the shoot
ing. This he denied.
Playing on the gallantry of the po
lice, Piccarillo had raised himself from
the humble station of peanut vender
at Crow’s Nest pass to one of her
wealthiest bootlegging citizens before
the law overtook him.
Known as Bootleg King. ‘
Long known as the bootleg king of
the pass, Piccarillo had worked in de-fi‘
y him to all parts of the world, he
said, adding that he recently shipped
20 snakes to London. In addition to
the sale of snakes, King donates l:«xrge|
amounts of venom to institutions‘
throughout the world for scientific
purposes. |
Mr. King’s farm has a capacity of
18,000 snakes, which are kept in spe-l
cially constructed buildings and fed
by machines upon a mixture of meat,
and eggs. Last year, the dealer esti
mated, his transactions involved the
sale of more than 20,000 snakes.
The largest purchasers of the rep
tiles, Mr. King asserted, are travel
ing shows, circuses and zoos, while
the venom is purchased to make cer
tain drugs.
A iR
Ancient Egyptians made coffins of
cork.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1923
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Ah, Perils of Air!
Deputy Gets Him
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—Dep
uty marshals with subpoenas is
sued by the District of Columbia
supreme court have always been
put to more: or less trouble in
making personal service, but for
the first time in the history of the
local courts a resourceful deputy
has had to make use of an ajrplane
to catch and serve his man,
The deputy is Ernest Swann,
who was given a subpoena to serve
on Phillip H. Lee, chief petty of
ficer in the naval aviation service.
Lee was sued by his wife for a
limited divorce.
According to the report made
by Swann, who had visited Boll
ing field several times without
finding Lee, the deputy, on the
last day the subpoena would be
good, discovered that I.ec was in
the air. Swann persuaded anoth
er flyer to go after Lee. When
Swann’s plant overtook the one
~ piloted by Lee both machines
~ were over Alexandria, Va., where
service would be useless.
‘ I.ee turned his machine toward
l Bolling field, followed by Swann.
No sooner had Lee’s plane touch
ed the ground than the deputy
hopped out of the pursuing plane
and handed the subpoena to Lee.
HUGE REDUCTION OF GOV
ERNMENTAL EXPENDITURES.
STILL SITTING ON LID.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Predic
tion that the treasury will finish the
current calendar year with a surplus
of $60,000,000 was made today by Di
rector Lord of the budget, on the ba-i
sis cf latest estimates of internal revefl
nue and customs receipts. |
The director placed customs reve
nue at $540,000,000 for the year end
ing June 30th and internal revenuc re
ceipts at $2,515,000,000. There is no
indication that there will be a falling“
off in the remaining months of 1923.‘
At the same time General Lord said
he did not intend to allow the lid of
federal expenditures to be pried loose
as a result of the better outlook. A
comparison of the total estimated ex
penditures of the operating depart
ment of the government for 1923 with
\the actual expenditure for 1922 shows
a reduction of more than $200,000 but
the budget director hopes to make the
saving even greater.
AMERICAN CITIZEN DRAWS A
SEVERE SENTENCE. HELD
ON ARSON CHARGE.
Louis Ayotte, of Sheboygan, Wis.,
who is serving a prison term in
France on the charge of burning his
father-in-law’s barn, has been trans
ferred to another prison.
Prison Location Secret.
According to the French custom
tthe location will be kept secret from
Ayotte’s family. Under the terms of
!the sentence he will not see a human
face for five years.
. Food and other necessities will be
passed to him through a small opening
high in the cell door. The only win
dow in his stone cell is a small slit,
so high he cannot see the outside
‘world.
| Cannot Read Books.
~ He will be able to draw one book
from the prison library each week,
but, as he is unable to read French,
it will be useless to him. No bcoks
printed in English are képt "in the
prison library.
- Ambassador Herrick is planning to
ask for a pardon for him, providing
the state department at Washington
approves such an action.
fiance of the police—always taking
Mrs. Lassandra along on his rum run
ning expeditions, because he knew,
the police say, that they would not
fire on his car if it contained a wo
man. So the Piccarillo car sped fre
quently through Crow’s Nest pass,
taking big consignments of liquor
from Gernie, B. C., to Blairmore and
Coleman, Alta.
Piccarillo’s wealth grew fast. He
became proprietor of the Blairmore
hotel and the Blairmore garage. Then
he was elected to the town council
\Last September Constable Lawson
imade a futile attempt to stop the big
car as it roared through Crow’s Nest
pass, with Piccarillo, his son, Steve,
and Mirs. Lassandra.
.
; Slain by the Woman.
~That evening, evrdence at the ¢rial
showed, Piccarillo and Mrs. I.assandra
went to the Coleman police head
quarters and called Lawson out. His
two little children, curious, followed
him. There were a few heated words.
Then, witnesses testified, Mrs. Las
sandra leveled a pistol and fired four
The Champion Hen of
The World Is Dead
lOWA CITY, la—John Suep
pel’s world champion hen is dead,
at the age of 11 years. She was a
dark Brahma and won highest
awards in the Asiatic class at the
international exposition in Califor
aia. Mr. Sueppel valued the bird
at $l,OOO. : ,
' LEGISLATOR M'MICHEAL
|MARION COUNTY LEGISLA
} TOR ISSUES FIRST STATE
{ MENT SINCE INDICTMENT.
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'DECLARES HE IS NOT AFRAID
Would Have Been a Coward to At
tack Smaller Official and “Let the
Chief Go Unnoticed,” He Says.
Has Received Many Letters.
Reviewing in detail his fight on al
leged extravagances of the state high
way department and setting forth his
reasons for charging W. A. Crossland,
federal highway engineer for Geor
gia, with graft, for which he was re
cently indicted by Bibb county grand
jury on a charge of criminal libel,
_Representatlve E. H. McMichael has
issued his first formal statement .since
the indictment,
“I might have pounced on a minor
official, one who had bought a rifle
and asked the merchant to charge it
as nails, but I would have been a
coward to do that and let the chief
go unnotcied, so I struck at the head,”
the legislator declares.
“They can’t intimidate me or stop
me with that indictment. I am not
afraid of a Bibb county jury. Cross
land would put me in a felon’s stripes
while he enjoys his beautiful home,
but, thank God, truth and justice still
reign in the hearts of the people.”
Here Mr. McMichael goes at length
into the controversy, and renews the
charges he made against Cro§sland.
The Quarry Deal
As to the quarry deal, he says:
“Between the sessions of 1921 and
1922 1 continued my investigations.
From all quarters of the state reports
came to me of irregular, wasteful and
crooked dealings. Among such reports
came the information that W. A,
Crossland had figured in that quarry
deal at Elberton, and when the deal
was finally consummated he raked in
$15,000. Before saying one word
about it 1 assured myself that he did'
get the money. |
“Now listen: In the report of the
highway department to the session of
1922, they said that the quarry was
a white elephant upon their hands,
and they suggested that it might be
well to exchange it, lease it or dispose
of it in some way.
“In addition to the cost of $90,000
paid for a thing far removed from the
center of road building activities, too
far from four-fifths of the state to be
of any benefit whatever, they expend
some $40,000 or more in equipment,
and still it was a failure, Upon furth
er study I learned that they could
have bought a quarry or quarries near
the center of the state with suitable
and inexhaustible supplies for one
tenth the cost paid for the Elbert
county quarry.
“The highway department itself,
after trying it out two vears, officially
reported _its uselessness and advised
the legislature to dispose of it. In that
report my condemnation of its pur
chase was approved. Good citizens
from that section of the state, some
from Elbert county. wrote me that I
was right in my criticism of that pur
chase, and they estimated its value all
the way from eight to twenty thous-!
and dollars. The ~highest cstimat(-:
placed upon it by anyone was $25,-
000, and it came from a prominent‘
man in Athens—one of Gcorgia’s‘besti
citizens. 1 quote from his letter as
follows:
Athens Man’s Comment.
““One of the last letters that Joe
Hill Hall ever wrote was when he
replied to me and said: ‘lt fatigues
my indignation to think of the fraud
that will be practiced and the money!
made way with in this highway proj
ect’ The purchase of the Elbert
county quarry is a fair example. I
know the quarry well and our city
engineer condemned it absolutely. It
was probably worth $25,000 when it
was sold to the state for $90,000.”
“So at the very beginning of the
session of 1922 T renewed the fight.
(Continued on Page Seven.)
times. Lawson fell mortally wounded.
Mrs. Lassandra and Piccarillo were
convicted of first degree murder and
sentenced to hang. A wave of protest
'against the hanging of a woman fol
lowed and it was not until late yester
lday that her last hope was swept
away.
“Father Fidelis, Roman Catholic
chaplain, spent several hours with the
‘doomed pair. The sheriff barred news
paper writers from the prison and al
so refused to permit them to witness
the executions,
Piccarillo was first to mount the
Smoke Signals Will Inform World
Of the Departure of Arctic Explorer
i’Huge Bonfires Built by Eskimos Will
Herald Start of Amundsen’s Trip
; Across Polar Region.
When Roald Amundsen “hops off”
soon srom Wainwright, a little ham
let at the northern tip of Alaska, on
his airplane flight across the north
polar region, the news of his start
will be heralded by a chain of bon
fires built on the headlands along the
coast. The fires will be about 15 miles
apart and will be lighted by ‘Eskimos,
'waiting for the smoke signal to tell
the world that the daring aviator has
ibegun his flight. Ly |
' Amundsen hopes to fly in a straight
ltine from Wa’ilt};ru::uto the xsg;;é dqf
Spitzl i . o
rectly over the pole and?m,!‘.gfve him{
an extraordinary opportunity to ob
Aprises in the Legislature
. With Other Bootleggers
CONCORD, N. H.—A man
whose name was withheld today
stood up in the New Hampshire
legislature to vote on a tax meas
are. After he was reprimanded he
walked down to the clerk and
showed an order to appear ‘before
the United States court on a liquor
charge. He told the clerk he
thought he was in the court room
and that he was standing with the
sther “bootleggers.”
YEARLY AMOUNT PAID TO
EMPLOYES IN STATE TO
TALS SUM OF $101,180,339.
The fourteenth census of the man
ufacturing industry in the United
States discloses the information that
for the year considered total wages
paid to employes in Georgia manu
facturing enterprises amounted to
$101,180,339, of which 20,184 wage
earners in Atlanta manufactories re
ceived $19,844 634,
Macon manufacturing concerns, to
taling 165 establishments, as com
pared with 548 in Atlanta, paid to the
7,584 employes $6,645,633—m0re than
one-third as much as Atlanta, despite
the fact that the capital city, in pop
ulation, 1s practically four times as
large as Macon. '
Augusta showed a pagrroll account
for the year of $4,873,148, the Rich
mond county capital having 101 man
ufacturing establishments in operation
during the period.
The total valuation of products
[manufactured in Macon during the 12
months periad reached $64,591,833.
For the raw material which entered
into "‘the manufactured products Ma
con expended $49,537,781, the differ~
ence between this amount and the to-‘
tal value of products being represent
ed by the value of increase by man
ufacture.
Atlanta disbursed $85,572,029 for
raw material while Savannah’s out
lay for this purpose was $59,355,181,
The Augusta total was $24,841,322,
NIGHT RIDERS AGAIN
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| ACTIVE IN KENTUCKY
BEGIN REIGN OF TERROR IN
TOBACCO FIELDS. RUIN
WHOLE EARLY CROP.
Night riding is increasing in the vi
cinity of Horse Cave, Ky. The raid
’ers’ targets are tobacco beds owned
iby independent growers. ‘More than
1,500 yards of tobacco plant beds
have been destroyed, ruining ail hope
for an early crop. Feeling is at fever
heat among farmers who have fallen
victims of the riders, and disorder and
bloodshed is expected unless the rid
ing ends. Some farmers threaten to
appeal to Governor E. P. Morrow.
| Scene of Recent War.
_ The district where the raids are be
ing reported is the scene of a recent
war between organizations and inde
pendent growers. Several persons were
shot, crops destroyed and homes and
barns burmed. Men and women were
whipped and abused by the riders.
Blocdhounds have been used in an
effort to trail the raiders, but always
the scent has been lost. It is believed
that the gangs travel in automobiles
instead of on horses, as they did in
the wars years ago.
Several Farmers Warned.
Several farmers have been threaten
ed and warned. One man found a
dynamite stick in a box on his front
iporch. About a dozen farmers have
received threatening notices ordering
them to “join the pool or suffer.”” A
few houses have been stoned. In no
instance has the name of any organi
zation been mentioned.
scaffold. Prison authorities denied a
request that he be permitted® to die
without the black cap over his face.
“You are hanging an innocent man
~—God help me,” Piccarillo exclaimed.
A moment later the trap was sprung.
Mrs. Lassandra followed him to the
scaffold.
“Why do you hang me when I
didn’t do anything?” she wailed. “Is
there anyone here who has any pity?”
Guards, ignoring her appeal, quick
ly prepared her for death, and just
before the trap was sprung she said
she forgave everybody.
‘serve and map, if there is anything to
'map, a large expanse in the heart of
the polar zone on which no one else
has ever looked.
} It is 2,000 miles from Wainwright
to Spitzbergen. The explorer may be
able to make the trip without landing,
but the chances are against him. The
flight will tzke place in the middle of
‘the six months’ day, so that whatever
thappens he will not have the danger of
‘darkness to meet, ,
‘ The chief peril is a complete break
[down of the airplane engine, which
might leave him helpless on the ice, a
thousand . miles from the nearest hu
‘man being, and with a limited supply
of food. To guard against this he will
have airplane *patrols sent out from
&Spitzbergen. If Amundsen does not
arrive in a few days from his depart
ure these patrols will search for him.
A NEWSPAPER
DEVOTED TO
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOL. 40.—N0. 37
HUSBANDS DRIVEN ON AS
THEIR WIVES, UNABLE TO
KEEP UP, FALL IN ROAD.
DEMAND $2,000,000 RANSOM
Twenty Foreigners, Including Amer
icans, Taken Captives When Out
laws Raid Express Train. U. 8.
And Britain Call on China to Act.
._}"EKIN. Approximately twent}
foreigners, many of them Americans,
including a prominent newspaper pub=
lisher and two American army offi
cers, are in the hands of the gang of
Chinese brigands, who rajded the
Pekin express at Suchow, province of
Kiangsu, shot dead one English pas
senger named Rothman and drove
scores of others, white and natives,
off like a herd of cattle.
Advices received here from several
sources indicate that the women
among the white passengers were re
leased, but only after they had been
!beaten and spat upon by their cap
itors in an effort to make them keep
up with the fast moving cavalcade as
it traveled through the darkness away
from the scene of the hold-up. Most
of the men and women, who were
lrouted from their berths, were clad
only in their night clothes. All of the
passengers lost everything they had
with them. ;
Husbands of the helpless women
were ‘forced to leave their wives where
they had fallen or were driven ahead
as the women dropped to the réar un
able to keep up with the main party
despite the beatings administered by
their guards,
$2,000,0000 Ransom Demanded.
A report received from official head
quarters says the bandits have de
manded $2,000,000 ransom for all of
the ca{tives. One of the women was
Miss ucy C. Aldrich, sister-in-law
of John D. Rockefeller, jr., of New
York. She was released and was un
harmed in a small village fifteen miles
from the main line, of the railroad
where the hold-up was staged.
~ Among the prisoners still believed
to be held captives are Robert Scripps,
prominent American newspaper pub
lisher, who is making a tour of the
Far East. Others held are Maj. Row
land Pinger, of the United States
army in the Philippines, with his old
er son, Rowland, jr., aged 8, and Maj.
Robert Allen, also of the American
army in the Philippines with his sen,
Robert. :
As the express train struck the
wreck®d right of way the brigands
’Opcned a ‘fusillade from their carbines,
| hattering the car windows and rous
ing the occupants of the sleepers.
The mauraders went through the
train seizing everything portable and
then dreve off upwards of thirty white
passengers and approximately a hun
idrcd native travelers. One man fell
lbefore a bandit’s bullet. His name was
given as Rothman and his nationality
as British. ; R 3
~ Without giving their captives an
opportunity to dress, the Chinese gang
iforced them at high speed over the
‘rough country in their bare feet. Some
fortunate ones eluded the brigands
and hid in the tall grass, but the re
mainder were herded along under the
guns of their captors.
Chased by Soldiers.
When the bandits had .departed the
soldiers arrived and took up the chase.
Later advices were received that the
troops had come up with raiders and
were firing upon them while the
brigands are said to have replied that
they would will their prisoners unless
the troops withdrew. The government
had instructed the military govern-,
ors of the neighboring provinces to
turn out their soldiery in the chase.
Suchow, near which the raid was
made, is situated on the Grand Canal,
fifty-three ‘miles by rail northwest of
Shanghai, and is an important station
in the railroad between Shanghai,
Nanking and Pekin. It is an ancient
walled city founded in the sixth cen
tury B. C., and has a native popula
tion of upwards of 300,000.
HOW WASHINGTON VIEWS IT
Washington, D. C.—Comment here
on the Chinese situation revealed a
doubt on the part of some officials as
to the ability of the Pekin government
to bring about the release of Ameri
cans and other foreigners taken pris
oner by Chinese bandits, and to pay
the ransom demanded. It was point
ed out that none of Minister Schur
man’s reports had shown definitely
what motive inspired the brigands.
Whether they sought ransom in cash
or recognition ‘and immunity was
said to be a question, the answer to
which would throw considerable light
on the central government’s ability
to fulfiil the obligations it has as
sumed.
China Has Promised to Pay.
The Peking government, it is un
derstood, has agreed to pay any ran
som demanded by the brigands and
to dismiss the civil and military gov
ernors of Shantung province. The
Portuguese minister at Peking, dean
of the diplomatic corps, presented a
concerted demand for action on be
half of the other foreign representa
tives. It is believed that a progress
ive indemnity for every day after
May 12th that the fcreigners remain
captive will be demanded. 3
Jacob Gould Schurman, minister. to
China, has been ordered to maée'
“virgorous representations” to the
Chinese government and to act as he
sees fit to secure the release of the
American captives. Various nations,
including the United S
armed forces in Chma.fm yuld
used to pursue and punish the band-.
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