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MODEM HILF
OF U. S. POPULATION
LIVESJNJITIES
Urban Majority Is Shown
for First Time in Country’s
History— Georgia and
Other Figures
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—For the
first time in its history the United
States has more town and city than
country dwellers, the census bureau
announced today.
Inhabitants of places of 2,500 or
more persons total 54,318,032, or 51.4
per cent of the population while ru
ral Inhabitants total 51,390,739, or
48.6 per cent of the population.
In 1880 the percentage of country
dwellers was 70.5; in 1890 it was 63.9
in 1900, 59.5 and in 1910 it was 54.2.
Michigan showed the largest
change between 1910 and 1920, re
porting an increase in the city pop
ulation from 47.2 to 61.1 per cent.
The proportion of urban population
larger than in 1910 in all but three
■tatea — Colorado, Montana and Wyo
ming. Texas, Indiana, Ohio, Flori
da and Oklahoma also show consid
erable gain in the proportion of popu
lation llrlng in urban territory.
Colorado, Montana and Wyoming
lost in urban population during the
decade, but the bureau said this was
duo to the fact that In each state by
tar the larger part of the total In
crease was In the population living
in rural territory—6s.6 per cent for
Colorado, 77.7 per cent for Montana
and 70.8 per cent for Wyoming.
The bureau’s statement did not un
dertake to account for the drift from
the rural to urban territory, but pre
viously officials have attributed It
largely to the world war. Large sal
aries in the citiesXattracted many
from the country, while many sol
diers who lived on farms before join
ing the army took up life in the cities
after their discharge.
Figures by States
The urban and rural population by
states follow:
Alabama, 409,317 and 1,838,85,7.
Arizona, 117,527 and 216,376.
Arkansas, 290,497 and 1,461,707.
California, 2.331,729 and 1,095,132.
Colorado, 453,259 and 486,370.
Connecticut, 936,339 and 444,292.
Delaware. 120,767 and 102,236.
Florida, 355,825 and 612,645.
Georgia, 727,859 and 2,167,973.
Idaho, 119,037 and 312,829.
Illinois, 4,405,678 and 2,079,602.
Indiana, 1,482,855 and 1,447,535.
lowa, 875,495 and 1,528,526.
Kansas, 617,964 and 1,151,293.
Kentucky, 633,543 and 1,783,087.
Louisiana. 628,163 and 1,170,346.
Maine, 299,569 and 468,445.
Maryland, 869,422 and 480,239.
Massachusetts, 3,650,248 and 202,-
108.
Michigan, 2.241,560 and 1,426,852.
Minnesota, 1,051,593 and 1,335,532.
Mississippi, 240,121 and 1,550,497.
Missouri, 1,586,903 and 1,817,152.
Montana, 172,011 and 376,878.
Nebraska, 405,306 and 891,066.
Nevada, 15,254 and 62,153.
New Hampshire. 279,761 and 163,-
122.
New Jersey, 2,482,289 and 673,611.
New Mexico, 64,960 and 295,390.
New York, 8,589,844 and 1,794,985.
North Carolina, 490,370 and 2,068,-
T 53.
North Dakota 88,234 and 557,446.
Ohio, 3,677,136 and 2,082,258.
Oklahoma, 539,480 and 7,488,803.
Oregon, 391,019 and 392,370.
Pennsylvania, 5,607,815 and 3,112,-
*O2.
Rhode Island, 589,180 and 15 217.
South Carolina, 293,987 and 1.-
*89,737.
South Dakota, 101,872 and 534,675.
Tennessee, 611,226 and 1,726,659.
Texas, 1,512,889 and 3,150,539.
i Utah, 215 584 and 233,812.
Vermont, 109,976 and 242,452.
Virginia, 673,984 and 1,635,203.
Washington. 748,735 and 607,886
West Virginia, 369,007 and 1,094,-
*94.
Wisconsin, 1,244,568 and 1,387 499.
Wyoming, 57,348 and 137,054.
Excess of Bachelors.
The world’s largest single collec
tion of bachelors now is included
■within the population of continental
United States, a forthcoming official
analysis of the census bureau reports
is expected to show.
The analysis may reveal nearly 10,-
000,000 bachelors, estimates indicated
today, counting all unmarried males
over 20 years old. Western states
and cities harbor most of the bach
elors.
Reports showing the proportion of
males and females in various cities
now are being made up almost daily.
Later the bureau will have the very
•newest figures on the proportion of
males and females throughout the
entire United States, which probably
will show that there are 106 males to
each 100 females. This will put the
United States in a class by itself
among the great nations, since in all
other countries the excess of females
over males is marked, a condition
which has resultfid in a rush of wom
en immigrants.
Figures by Citleg.
Gary, Ind., now stands out as the
one city in which a woman desiring
a husband might expect more easily
to find her hopes gratified. Gary
now has 135 males for each 100 fe
males and therefore the largest num
ber of men dwelling in single blessed
ness.
Troy, N. Y., so far enjoys the dis
tinction of the greatest excess of fe
males in its population, the propor
tion being 100 females to each 84
males. Troy, accordingly, would
seem to occupy the position of a
haven for a solitary male anxious to
obtain a mate.
Troy has a total of 38.938 females
and but 33,075 males, while Gary has
31,819 males and but 23,559 females.
These records of Troy and Gary
may be completely overthrown, how
ever, by records for other cities now
being worked out by the census bu
reau.
Seattle. Wash., once had a record
excess of males, but the proportion
is being lowered with each census.
Tn 1900 Seattle reported 177 males to
each 100 females, but ten years later
the proportion had been reduced to
136.
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MURDER REIGN
IN IRELAND IS
TOLD BY MAYOR
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Lord
Mayor O’Callaghan, of Cork, who
came to America as a stowaway
without a passport and whose pres
ence in the country had caused a con
troversy between the state and la
bor departments, accomplished to
day the announced purpose of his
mission to the United States. He ap
peared before the commission of
the committee of one hundred in
vestigating the Irish question and
gave his story of conditions in his
native land.
Before a crowd which jammed the
hotel ball room where the commis
sion resumed its inquiry, the lord
mayor declared that the killing of
Lord Mayor Mac Curtain, of Cork,
and other Irish leaders in March,
1920, marked the beginning of "a
reign of murder” in Ireland which
had rendered life and property “en
tirely insecure.”
The witness gave his age as twen
ty-nine and told the commission that
he had been elected lord mayor by
the corporation council of Cork to
fill out the unexpired term of the
late Lord Mayor MacSwiney, who
starved himsel fto death in Brixton
prison, London.
“These outrages have been com
mitted by forces of the British
crown," Mayor O’Callaghan said.
"Raids on business houses have
been almost nightly in Cork since
March, 1919. Many houses have
been wiped out by fire, and others
looted, without being destroyed.
"There has been no sense of se
curity In Ireland for four years, and
constantly the probability of arrest
of any Irish freedom sympathizer,
without charge.”
“I haven’t slept In my own house
for two years,” said Mayor O’Calla
ghan. “I go to a different place
every night, to avoid arrest or worse.
My home has been raided eight
times in the last six months.”
Mr. O’Callagh n declared the Brit
ish have a “murder gang” in Cork
that goes to houses of political of
fenders and kill them.
“When a raiding party comes to
your ho”se you do not know wheth
er it is only arrest or the ‘murder
gang,’ ” he said, reading affidavits
to support t' e “murder gang”
charge.
“Were it not for Ulster, Ireland
would be unanimously for the repub
lic,” Mr. O’Callaghan said.
“The British government finds it
almost Impossible to collect its taxes
in Ireland," he continued.
“The Republican government is
succeeding in twenty-nine of Ire
land’s thirty-two counties today.
England is attempting, by forcing
disorders and placing handicaps, to
cause it to fail so she can tell the
world Ireland is incapable of self
government.
“Unionists, and persons of all pol
itics are paying taxes willingly to
the Republican government in coun
ty Cork, and, I believe in all twenty
nine Republic governed counties.”
O’Callaghan said the Cork city
council has been raided only once,
but no arrests were made. How
ever, at a raid of the Dublin city
council, six councilmen were arrest
ed witho't charge, he said.
O’Callaghan described “an attempt
to assassinate” Professor Stockley,
of Cork uniVeirity, a Republican
sympathizer, March 17, 1920, and de
clared his certainty that “British
police fired the shots.”
"And I am satisfied as if I had
seen it, that the police murdered
Lord Mayor M Curtain of Cork,” he
continued.
PERET ACCEPTS
PREMIERSHIP;
HAS CONFERENCE
PARIS, Jan. 14.—Raoul Peret to
day definitely accepted the office of
premier of France.
The acceptance was made definite
after Peret had conferred with col
leagues in the chamber of deputies.
It was believed Peret will also have
the portfolio of the interior. Peret
conferred with several former pre
miers who, it was believed, will ac
cept places in the cabinet.
Aristide Priand, a former premier,
was appointed foreign minister.
E. I. Smith Gets
5 to 12 Years for
Killing Ethel Kelley
MACON, Ga., Jan. 13.—Emmett I.
Smith, former overseas soldier, was
allowed to plead guilty to a charge
of manslaughter here Tuesday after
noon in connection with the shoot
ing on February 19, 1920, of Ethel
Kelley and her daughter, Martha
Marsh Phillips, both of whom died
of their wounds. He was sentenced
to serve from five to twelve years.
The state consented to the plea fol
lowing the testimony of an expert
witness that Smith was a “psyco
patlfic subject.”
The trial took place n the su
perior court before Judge Henry A.
Mathews. There is another indict
ment against Smith. He is charged
with assault with intent to murder
for shooting Martha Phillips, daugh
ter of the dead woman. The girl
succumbed to pneumonia several
a f ter s he was shot by Smith.
T he women were in a car parked
on Wall street alley near Smith’s
room on January 20, last, when he
a “* r al h’ n g with them a short time,
shot both. It was charged he was
in love with the girl and that the
women went there to try to dissuade
. from carrying out alleged
threats against her.
Suit for $25,000
Grows Out of Move
To Arrest Editor
-. Tex.—Col. Billie May
edeitor l of e ’Jh e<l w ° pUt Gl V - Sanders,
editor of the Houston Press, in pris
on and keep him there without trial
r r J? n g „ l ? arGal J aw in Galveston ac
cording to May field’s answer to San
ders suit for $25,000 damages..
Mayfield ordered the arrest of
Sanders. August 30. 1920, following
criticism in the Press of martial law
at Galveston and the conduct of na
tional guard officers.
Officers sought to arrest Sanders
at the Houston Rotary club, 50 miles
from the martial law zone. Sanders
escaped.
Sanders’ suit aims to uphold the
constitutional rights of free speech
and free press.
Mayfield denies malice prompted
the arrest, but recites that "even if
the defendants did not have a law
ful right to arrest Sanders, they did
have a right to protect themselves
from the vicious and cowardly at
tacks of Sanders against them.”
C. M. Cyreton, attorney general of
Texas, represents Mayfield.
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Zeppelin airplane with which a
flight from Berlin to New York
is soon to be attempted. The
plane is built entirely of metal—
duraliminium. The crew consists
of two pilots and two mechanics
and there’s room for eighteen
passengers. An idea of the size
of the plane can be had by count
ing the people standing from tip
to tip and by noticing that the
wheels of the plane are as high
as a man. Experts expect the
plane to make the Berlin-New
York flight in thirty-six hours.
ROYAL WELCOME
FOR BALLOONISTS
BY NEW YORKERS
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—America’s
famous balloonists, Lieutenants Far
rell, Kloor and Hinton, were given
m ovation by a crowd estimated at
more than 2,000 when they arrived
today at the Pennsylvania station.
Police were called to keep back
the crowd that threatened to rush
through the gates to the platform to
give a personal greeting o the three
officers who were completing the last
leg of an eventful journey that start
ed December 13.
Mrs. Stephen Farrell and her son;
Mrs. Walter Hinton and Miss Alex
andria Flowerton, fiancee of Lieuten
ant Kloor, met the officers.
Lieutenant Farrell was the "lion”
of the ceremonies. The crowd kept
yelling—“ Where is Farrell? We want
Farrell.”
Farrell smiled and lifted his cap
in recognition.
The officers retired to "clean up”
for a dinner that was given in their
honor by the Rockaway Board of
Trade. They report early to head
quarters at the Rockaway naval sta
tion this afternoon.
The town of Rockaway was deco
rated with flags and bunting for the
occasion and many shop-keepers had
declared a half holiday in celebra
tion of the safe return of the balloon
party.
School children waited with a floral
shower along the line of march while
town officials were ready with ad
dresses of welcome and other evi
dences of the pride Rockaway takes
in her three suddenly famous resi
dents.
Lieutenant Farrell told newspaper
men that there was “nothing heroic”
in what the balloonists had dope. He
said he did not consider that they
had accomplished “anything like a
stupendous feat.”
Lieutenait Farrell reviewed some
of his experiences in the north coun
try and told of heaping imaginary
sounds whil lost in the woods. He
described the experi-nce as sir.-.ilar
to that of a man lost in a desert
who sees a mirage. He did not touch
upon reports of his c ndition during
this time which led to his alterca
tion with Hinton at Mattice.
Alabamanian Killed
In Sheriff’s Office
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 13.
Robert Arnold, w r ell-known resident
of Henry county, was killed in the
office of the sheriff of the county
at Abbeville, Wednesday. Gus Free
man, also of Henry county, is in
jail charged with the shooting. The
men were talking on the court house
square and then went into the
sheriff's office, one of them closing
the door. A few minutes later, three
shots rang out and Gus Freeman
appeared in the doorway with a
smoking pistol in his hand. Arnold
was killed instantly.
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Wtoes Are So Scarce
In “Far North” Country
They Are Freely ‘Loaned’
NEW YORK.—A country where
wives are so scarce they have to
be “loaned around” was discovered
by Dr. Donald B. MacMillan, Arctic
explorer, and a member of the Peary
party when the North pole was
reached. Dr. MacMillan said that
such a country, containing no old
maids, was found in the far north,
above Hudson bay. This tribe, un
touched by civilization, contained 261
men, women and children when vis
ited by Dr. MacMillan in 1917.
“In this tribe, I found that monog
amy was almost an impossibility,”
said Dr. MacMillan. “There are so
many more men than women that the
women are loaned to the bachelors by
their married friends. Every girl In
GOVERNOR NAMED
PRESIDENT OF
COTTON CONCERN
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey was
elected president of the Georgia Cot
ton Trust corporation, formed to aid
the farmers of the state in. marketing
and financing their cotton crops, at
an organization meeting held at the
state capitol Friday.
It was announced that the bank,
which will have its headquarters and
principal place of business in Atlan
ta, will open for business in the
near future. Its charter was issued
Monday by the secretary of state,
with a capital of $1,000,000 and per
mission to increase to $2,000,000 if
necessary.
Other officers named were:
R. C. Neely, Waynesboro; H. H.
Tift, of Tifton, and H. R. DeJarnette,
of Eatonton, vice presidents; Mrs.
Sloan Truscott, secretary and treas
urer; Dorsey, Shelton & Dorsey, gen
eral counsel; executive committee,
Hugh M. Dorsey, R. C. Neely, Sam
Tate and R. R. Pitties.
The movement for the organization
of the Georgia Cotton Trust corpora
tion was launched more than a year
ago by Governor Dorsey. He toured
the state several times in the interest
of' the bank. His idea, from the be
ginning, has been to form an organ
ization which would prove of real
benefit to the farming interests of
Georgia.
A board of directors was to be
named late Friday.
this tribe is betrothed almost as soon
as she is born. I have had boys
of eight and nine tell me who their
wives were going to be.
“It is a test of friendship among
the men, this lending of wives. As
soon as the boy and girl are of mar
riageable ages, the boy loads the
girl into his dogsled and takes her
either to his own icehut or to that
of his parents. Girls are married
at the age of twelve or thirteen years.
There are no old maids in the tribe.
But there seems to be little if any
romance in the matchmaking. The
entire colony is strictly socialistic,
but not for ethical reasons, as it is
a matter of self-preservation entirely
in that frozen land. They either live
together or they die separately.”
LAWYER DRAGGED
OUT OF BED AND
KILLED WITH AXE
MERIDIAN, Miss., Jan. 14.—Moody
Price, member of the Meridian bar,
and until recently United States com
missioner for this division,
dragged from his bed by two un
known men shortly after 1 o’clock
this morning, and literally hacked to
pieces with an ax.
Mrs. Price, sleeping in the same
bed, was aroused by the disturbance
and fanted when she saw the attack
upon her huseband. She is still un
able to make a statement. Price lin
gered in an unconscious condition for
about two hours and died without
making a statement.
City and county authorities have
been unable thus far to obtain a clue
to the assailants or to develop a the
ory for the killing.
When neighbors reached the Price
home after hearing a disturba.nce,
they found the lights on and Price s
body resting in a pool of blood by
the side of his bed.
Investigation revealed ten ax
blade cuts in the lawyer’s head, be
sides numerous deep w’ounds about
the body. A bloody ax was found
on the front porch of the home. A
telephone wire leading to the house
had been cut and the attack careful
ly planned, officers said.
When Mrs. Price rallied several
hours later after her husband was
slain, she told officers that she was
awakened by the glare of a flash
light and leaped from her bed. She
was knocked down by one of the as
sailants, who then switched on the
lights in the room and joined the
other man <n the attack on her hus
band.
TEXTILE MILLS
SOON TO RUN ON
FULL TIME BASIS
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Jan. 13.—-That
the bottom has been reached and after
eight or ten weeks of straightening
out the knitting mills of the south
will enter upon a full time schedule
of operation was the consensus of
opinion expressed here at a confer
"ence of 55 hosiery and underwear
manufacturers, representing more
than one hundred mills.
All except two of the mills are
now operating two and three days a
week, and this mainly on prospects
and to give work to employes, accord
ing to reports given of the present
situation.
The conference was a called meet
ing of the southeastern and south
western divisions of the National
Hosiery and Underwear Manufactur
ers’ association, the two divisions
covering the entire south.
The view was expressed that the
public wants stable prices, rather
than ruinously low ones, and since
cotton and yarns are believed to have
reached bottom and are now showing
signs of life, officials of the organ
izations predicted that when there is
a decided change in the market it
will be upward, with a gradual ad
vance in prices.
“THE SUN SOON WILL BE
SHINING THROUGH CLOUDS”
DAYTON, 0., Jan. 13. —“The coun
try has weathered the storm and the
sun will soon be shining through
the clouds,” was the message J.
Barringer, vice president of the Na
tional Cash Register company, re
ceived from A. C. Ratchesky, presi
dent of the United States Trust com
pany, Boston, Mass., and read to
eight hundred N. C. R. sales repre
sentatives in convention at Dayton
Wednesday.
“Business will soon feel Impetus
of confidence fast being established
throughout world. There will be
temporary setbacks, but onward
march to industrial success is about
to take place,’.’ declared Mr. Ratches
ky.
This statement coming from one
of the nation’s financial leaders ra
diates optimism and encouragement
for the future and strengthens the
conviction that business conditions
in 1921 will be equally as good as,
if not better, than in the past.
Louisiana Warehouse Fire
CROWLEY, La.. Jan. 13.—The
Planters’ Warehouse here, containing
25 000 bags of rice, was destroyed by
fire early today, the loss being ap
proximately $250,000. partially cov
ered by insurance.
Origin of the fire, which was dis
covered shortly after midnight, so
far has not been determined. The
warehouse, a corrugated iron struc
ture, was valued at $25,000. The rice
was insured for $5 a bag.
FASTING WOMAN
PRAYS FOR AID IN
SAVING HUSBAND
DANVILLE, 111., Jan. 13.—Mrs. Sa
die Harrington, disconsolate because
her husband, Ernie, has not become
an evangelist In the Church of God,
after her fast of forty-six days, burst
forth in tears today and prayed that
she be told what else to do to save
his soul.
“Ernie still holds out In his sin
ful way, O Lord, tell me what else
I may do to make him see the light,”
was her tearful prayer, according to
_Sister Ada Peercy, nurse and worker
in the Church of God.
“I’ve fasted forty-six days and Er
nie is still as bad as ever,” Mrs. Har
rington told Sister Ada. “I am going
to continue my fast until Ernie gives
in or until I get another message
from God. The Lord has fed me on
spiritual manna this far and 1 know
H« will continue to take care of me.”
The fasting woman was never feel
ing better since her fast began than
today, according to Sister Ada, and
other Church of God members, who
visited her.
“It’s a miracle how she stands it,”
they said. “But look at Ernie; he’s
the one that looks bad.”
They were right, too, for Ernie has
a wan, worried and haunted look.
Mrs. William Harrington, sister
in-law of Mrs. Sadie Harlngton, and
a member of the Catholic church,
visited the woman today.
“Sadie has lost a little weight but
not much,” she said. "Her cheeks
are rosy and she says she is feeling
fine. Although I am not of the
same fait’i as adie, I know she
would not tell a lie. I am convinced
she has fasted forty-six days.”
In the meanwhile Ernie Harring
ton, who is now hailed as the new
white hope of Danville since he laid
a camera man and a reporter low
with his trusty right, is “fed up”
with the whole affair. The burly
and recalcitrant husband let forth a
mighty protest against things in
general today as he was trimming a
leg of mutton in his butcher shop.
“Last night wa*T the first time
since I have been married that I
did not go home to sleep,” he said.
“There’s no rest for the wicked, I
guess. They are always singing and
praying around my house, so they
won’t let a hard-working man sleep.
I got tired of it last night and had
a good hours’ sleep on two nice
soft meat blocks I shoved together
in the back of the store.
“We got so much praying company
at the house that 'here’s no bed left
for me. For instance, there is Sis
ter Myrtle Baker, who says the Lord
called her from saving souls at Vin
cennes, Ind., to come and pray with
Sadie. She’s a nice enough woman
and all that, but it’s awfully incon
venient for her to get such a call
when all we have is a bed and a
davenport in the house.”
Harrington said he is now getting
his meals in the back of the store
as the cooking of food nauseates his
wife. His attitude is plainly changed
from a day or so ago when he was
concerned over the condition of his
wife. Now his sole thought is about
the time when things get back to
“normalcy” in the house of Harring
ton on Collett street.
Mrs. Harrington pleaded for the
Rev. G. S. Payne to come at once to
her when informed today that the
minister had been located.
“Fod God’s sake send him,” she
said when the news was carried to
her by her nurse.
“If I ever needed a consecrated
man like Mr. Payne, it is now,” she
was quoted by Ada Peercy, the
nurse, as saying. “Mr. Payne walks
very close to God and would be a
great comfort.”
Mrs. Harrington indicated she
would break her fast if Mr. Payne
advised her to do so after the two
had prayed together.
FAST IS “VERY UNWISE’’
EVANGELIST DECLARES
ELDORADO, 111., Jan. 13.—The
hunger strike of Mrs. Sadie Harring
ton to convert her husband to the
Church of God is “very unwise,” the
Rev. G. S. Payne, whose aid the
woman has been seeking, declared
today.
Mrs. Harrington has been anxious
for several days to find Mr. Payne,
an evangelist of the Church of God,
so that he might aid her to convert
her husband.
The minister just returned from a
trip to Texas and was first informed
of Mrs. Harrington’s condition when
he reached here today.
“I am willing to do anything I can
to help the poor woman,” he said in
an interview.
But the minister made clear that
he did not approve of the action <f
the woman in conducting a hunger
strike to convert her husband.
“There is no teaching of the
Church of God which would sanction
such action,” he said.
"I believe Mrs. Harrington’s ac
tion is very unwise,” he said. “How
ever, we should all do whatever we
can to help her. 'I am willing to at
tempt to convert her husband or do
anything else to assist her if I pos
sibly can.”
Asked if he intended to go to Dan
ville, he said he would if Mrs. Har
rington wanted him and he thought
it would possibly do any good. How
ever, he said, she was undoubtedly
taking the wrong method of trying
to have her husband’s soul.
7 Are Believed Dead
As Result of Wreck
Os Tug ‘Capt. Talfor’
GALVESTON, Texas, Jan. 13. —The
United States engineering department
tug, Captain Talfor, has been wreck
ed, and it is believed seven men of
the crew perished. The tug left Sa
bine Sunday morning for Galveston,
and nothing was heard of the craft
until today when her deckhouse and
other wreckage was washed ashore
on Galveston beach.
Officials are of the opinion that
the Talfor was wrecked on tne south
jetty of Galveston harbor. Coast
guard stations from Sabine to Free
port are searching for the bodies of
the crew. The Telfor carried two
non-sinkable metal lifeboats and one
wooden lifeboat, but nothing has been
seen of any of them.
Edward W. Pearl was master of the
tug and Anastasio Spirivakis, engi
neer.
“Karpoff,” Name Under
Which Lenine Wrote,
Is Dead, Says
BERLIN, Jan. 13. —“Karpoff, a
member of the supreme economic
council, is dead,” a Moscow message
announced today.
Karpoff was a nom de plume used
by Nikolai Lenine, whose serious ill
ness was announced early this week.
Those familiar with Russian affairs
said they knew of no other man by
that name.
The message said two physicians
summoned from Berlin to attend
“Karpoff” had been ordered back be
fore their special train reached the
frontier.
Drs. Hisse and Sallo were sum
moned Tuesday to attend Lenine.
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HARD FIGHT WAGED
ON NITHATE PLANT
AT MUSCLE SHOALS
Small Margin of Vote Be
tween Supporters and Foes
of Bill Is Shown at Every
Roll Call
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Coming
political campaigns will hear echoes
of the parliamentary battle In the
heat of which the senate finds Itself
today. If the United States should
get into war the issue will be in
tensified, according to southern Dem
crats in the senate.
The fight, which is raging round
the Muscle Shoals nitrate bill, is
one of the bitterest and most closely
contested in years. Every roll eall
upon amendments and motions
showed a margin of but a vote or
two between its supporters and op
ponents.
The issue is this: Shall the gov
ernment spend a large sum of money
to put the nitrate plant at Muscle
Shoals, Ala., Into commission for
production of nitrates for use in
making war 1 munitions, fertilizer for
farmers.
The political significance of it, ac
cording to those who foresee a cam
paign issue growing out of it, is two
fold. If the bill is defeated, it is
claimed, the farmers of the west and
south will resent the refusal to spend
money to give them cheaper and
more abundant fertilizer. Then if a
war should occur, the dependence of
the United States upon Chile for ni
trate for explosives would be abso
lute, the assertion is, and if Chile
should be unfriendly, or if a hostile
force should prevent the United
States from getting Chilean nitrates,
the war might be lost.
If the attack on the bill Is unsuc?
cessful, its defeated proponents in
tend to go about the country rais
ing these issues.
Those opposing the measure con
tend it is a “grab at the pork bar
rel” and that its enactment would be
of vastly greater benefit to the com
pany which it has been charged the
British control than t'o anyone else.
They assert that the $12,500,000 ap
propriated by the bill will not prove
adequate to put the plant into oper
ation profitably; that from $50,000,-
000 to $200,000,000 will be needed,
and that the fertilizer produced wi'\
be infereior And not a bit cheaper
than similar grades now purchased
elsewhere. They state that private
capital has fully investigated the
possibility of the Muscle Shoals pro
ject and has rejected it on the ground
it cannot be done without great loss.
Advocates of disarmament and of
immediate reduction l the American
army as an economy measure
planned to unite today in another ef
fort to shelve the 'scle Shoals ni
trate bill for consideration of the
New resolution, ordering Secretary
of War Baker to stop recruiting un
til the army reached a strength of
175,000. It is now about 224,000
strong.
Nitrate bill supporters are ready
to filibuster to prevent their meas
ure being displaced, unless its foes
would agree to fix a time for a vote.
U. S. SENDS NOTE
TO JAPAN ON
OFFICER’S DEATH
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—The kill
ing of Lieutenant W. H. Langdop by
a Japanese sentry at Vladivostok is
“serious and regrettable," the state
department has Informed the Japa
nese government, it developed here
today.
The department at the same tlmo,
asked that Japan take "adequate
steps” for rectifying the wrong, as
far as possible, and of preventing
recurrence of such incidents.
A note to the Japanese government,
along these lines, was dispatched ny
the state department to the Ameri
can embassy in Tokio last night. No
mention was made of an Indemnity,
it was learned today, although the
state department still Is considering
asking that compensation be made to
Langdon’s family.
In reporting to the navy depart
ment yesterday that the Japanese *
commanding officer at Vladivostok,
General Oi, had issued strict instruc
tions that hereafter no sentry should
challenge Americans, Admiral
Gleaves, commander-ln-chief of the
Asiatic fleet, informed the depart
ment that "in view of developments"
had abandoned his plan to pro
ceed there for an investigation at
this time. The admiral’s message
said all high Japanese officials at
Vladivostok had expressed "sorrow
and regret” over the incident and
several had explained that the Jap
anese sentry who shot Lieutenant
Langdon was “very ignorant."
Lieutenant Langdon’s ante-mortem
statement that he did not fire upon
the sentry until he was himself shot
in the back was corroborated In a
report received at the Japanese em
bassy here yesterday, although an
earlier official report issued at To
kio agreed with the sentry’s version
of the affair that he was first fired
upon.
Fears Prisoners
Have It Too Easy
SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 13.—“ The
one thing which impressed me most,"
said Judge William VV. Davis, chair
man of the courthouse and jail com
mittee of the county commissioners,
after an inspection of the county
bastile, "during my journey through
the jail, is that it may really be a
little too comfortable for their own
good. The life the prisoners lead
may be a temptation for them to re- •
turn. They do not work and I real
ly do not like to see men pacing up
end down like passengers on ship
deck while the taxpayers are foot
ing the costs of their maintenance."
Judge Davis is a new member o*|
the board of __