Daily British Whig (1850), 5 Aug 1922, p. 5

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3 ALLEN ANITA STEWART "Rose '0 The Sea" L a The Baily British Whi gq [ALLEN ANITA STEWART "Rose "0 The Sea" i YEAR 89; No. 181. KINGSTON, ONTARIO. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1922. |F el Controller LAST EDITION. AFTER KEEN { | | I in. The announcement to this ef- fect was made yesterday by government officials following a conference in the premier's office beiween representatives of re- e G OF |" weorsesisom MAY CLOSE { ® To Bo Nauted FIGHTIN | IN CONDENSED FORM | : For Ontario | T FIRES ™ From Places Far and | =I" FORESTFIRES "25%" LACK OF COAL Aug. i : Jame TT owe | F() Ry a pe wSiel 1 Supe: | Forest fires are again raging in | ~ . central British Columbia. Pi S h . he strike in the United Staies | vaila : | a S et weather sets All A ble Men Have "= ove ie o the new Ford t F Been Called to Action, .. 7 25 omar as oer. Coke to Three Others. | {od a branch in the east end of Corn- ---- | wall, ---- a Ins i ais Valuable Timber Limits Have 'Michigan Commission Issues Senator Pat Harrison Charges Counsel for the slayers of Sir Henry Wilson has 'appealed to the House of Lords : 'Infant Killed by Motor Truck, ! i BEING MADE While Mother Is Only TARIFF PROBE : Bruised. | Raduazzo, aged forty-five, was sitting . : i the Capital Dome. |a huge automobile truck dashed from B washington Aug. 5.--The threat : wed » New York, Aug. 5.--That there are | . - soluie rara : 1 : d : Co icn a front stoop of her Vandam | on Ia e in un | street home coddling her three- | he Railr d Strike Situation * garage two doors down the street, 0a {veered into an iron fence alongside in United States Is |the stoop, tearing it down, and crash- absolute paralyzation of the coun- hangs oven the railroad strike ee -- ------------ 'BABY 18 HURLE! : FROM MOTHER'S ARNIS re ---- safer places for bhby than mother's | arms was proved here, Mrs. Rose | ts 0 wW 0 | | months infant, Marjorie. Suddenly Serious. tuation, administration officials ad- {the | | ftted to-day, after thorough study | the telegram of the chiefs of the g rallroad brotherhoods asking for conference with President Harding | 10 distributing significance was at- ched to the following paragraph of © telegram: "We fear a continuation of these nditions will inevitably result 'in ir members, as a matter of self- 'otection, being drawn into the con- | oversy, and we greatly deplore such | contingency." * "There conditions," include the inger to the safety of brotherhood 'embers through deterioration of 'comotives, violation of safety sta- es and rules, the refusal of the rail- fac executives to accept the Hard- settlament proposal and the Jain intention' of the railroads to Jush the shop crafts unions, the egram enumerated Administration officials believe the egram js conclusive evidence that e big brotherhood chiefs fear they ®nnot hold their 1,250,000 members J line much longer and that a se'tle- ent must be reached to avoid the "mplete stoppage of transportation. ; Propose Sympathetic Strike. he Wilkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 5.--Presi- gent Roberts, of the United Brother bod of Maintenance-of-way Em- Loyees and Railway Shop Laborers. nounced last night, that he had Hegraphed President Grable, at De- oit, their recommendation of a gmpathetic strike with the railway lopmen. RD NORTHCLIFFE'S CONDI- TION. Lard Work and Excitement Cause . of His Collapse, (London, Aug. 5.--The serious tone i the bulletins, issued yesterday, arding the condition of Lord briheliffe give a strong impression t there is little hope for his re- lvery. While the bulletins are ry vague, concerning the nature his illness, it is believed to be tha Bult of a breakdown, brought on bm hard work and excitemert dich he has undergone for the last Jar or more. It was announced, this morning, fat Viscount Northcliffe passed a for night and that his condition 18 somewhat worse, NY T0 STOP RABIES 18 BY VACCINATION Bw Method Is Remarkably Successful in Checking the . Epidemic Across Border. 'New York, Aug. 5---Vaccination { dogs may end forever the terror hydrophobia and save human be- and dogs from the danger of dread disease mA new serum has been discovered Ach, it is claimed, renders a dog 'mune for one year after inocula- mn, Veterinarians throughout the coun- r are using it with success. Con- eticut had advocated officially its ® and allows dogs thus inoculated sedom from quarantine. Other wes and many cities have proposed 3 same scheme as a substitute for a2zling, confinement, and careful ashing. i -- 5 was considerable talk in the of the British House of Com- na on Friday regarding the possi- y of a general appeal. It was not * of guestion "although I should be nst it," was the comment. JAt Toronto Connie Tait, Winni. , won the decision over Frankie 11, Toronto, on Friday night. Both n are lightweights. -------- ESP P PPP RN 9 * | TRACTION STRIKE 18 SOON TO END ? * 5 Chicago, Aug. 5.-- Union of- ticials and the executives of the: Chicago surface lines, las ight, agreed to proposals which will likely end the trac. tion strike here. Representa:- ives.of the men accepted 70 'cents an hour maximum wage * @ | | | | | | | ed up on the stone steps The baby was knocked from Mrs. Raduazzo"s arms and crushed against the stone wall by truck, dying instantly The mother was only slightly bruised. but Is in a serious condition from shock. Joseph De Muccl aged twenty-one, the driver, was arrested He said Le lost control of the truck as he drove out of the garage He received his chauffeur license only two days ago JAP CHEMIST LEAVES BODY FOR RESEARCH ---- 4 The Will of Dr. Takamine Disposes of Over a Million Dollar Estate. Paterson, N.J., Aug. 5.--A re- quest that his body be offered to Dr. Malcolm Harrison, Chicago, "for re- search and, examination, particular- ly with regard to my liver which was operated on 30 years ago," is em- braced in the will of Dr. J. Taka- mine, Japanese chemist, who died re- cently in New York. Should the body not be wanted by Dr. Harrison or if Mrs. Takamine objects to the disposition suggested, the document requested that it be | cremated, part of the ashes to be bur- New in Woodlawn the ied in York city, and Japan The will, filed to-day for probate, disposed of an estate understood to be worth more than a million dol- lars. cemetery, remainder BISHOP GRIMES' ESTATE LARG Will Range From $150,000 to $200,- 000---Estimate of Intimates, Syracuse, N.Y., Aug. 5.--Accord- ing to Information received from persons conversant with the affairs of the late Bishop Grimes of this city, the estate of the venerable churchman will range in value be- tween $150,000 and $200,000. The provisions of his will, about which he was not secretive with those close to him in a business-way, it is indicated, dispose of about half of the total as a gift to the Grimes foundation for the home for aged Catholic men and 'women and the Cross Lake orphan sunmimer home. A gift of $60,000 to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is re- ported, in the form of cancellation of a debt of the church to him personal- ly. Apart from this gift and either outright gift or establishment of a trust fund of about $7,000 for Miss Ellen O'Leary, rectory housekeeper for many years, and a like gift or trust fund for a brother in Ireland, all goes to the foundation. It ds estimated that a net of be- tween $100,000 and $125,000 will be available for the foundation and its projects, ARMY OF BUGS INVADES HOMES IN WATERTOWN Watertown, N.Y., Aug. 5.--Water- town is being visited by a plague of bugs, The city health departmen* is now experimenting with a small crea- ture taken from a north side home, which is said to be poisonous. A large, many-legged bug, from an inch to an inch and a half in length, has also appeared here this summer, It somewhat resembles a scorpion, and has given several observers con- siderable fright. No one appears to recognize either of the bugs. FORMER DAISY LEITER BREAKS LEG BY FALL London, Aug. 5.--The Countess of Suffolk while, riding in Charlton park fell from her, horse and suffered a broken leg. The Countess of Suf- folk was formerly Miss Daisy Mar- guerite Hyde Leiter, daughter of the late Levi Zeigler Leiter, of Chicago and Washington, She was married | | +] + |s'rike began the Erie railway has # | been losing money at the rate of $1,- 000,000 a month, its regional man. lager, A. J. Mantell, told the public "utility commission today. "time, he added, the Erie bas been "losing about $360,000 a year on its % [suburban trafic. ' instead of the present 82 cent 2 wage with an eight hour day : overtime. IT the agreement is ratified by the men, the cars will start running Monday morning. * ' * AL AXEL EEX T TE NR I * +o? $6,000,000 in the < | Public debt during July was announc- ** led by the treasury. 4 gross public debt stood at $22.957.- | | in 1904 to the nineteenth Earl of Suf- folk and Berkshire, who was killed in action during the world war. ---------- COAL STRIKE HITS ERIE FOR $1,000,000 A MONTH New York, Aug. 5.--Since the coal For some Debt Reduced Six Millions, Washington, Aug. 5.--A reduction United States On July 31st the 73,981 as compared with $22,963 - 81,708 on June 30th and with $23.- 91,237,008 on July 31st a year ago. a 3 3 > ? a fron: wheel of | Schedules. 5.--Declaring | Selfish Interest in Washington, Aug. jthat disclosures to follow would blow | {the dome off ihe capitol, Senator Pat | | Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi, | : : jinsigted in the senate Friday after- | About a Suggested Find of Ore and |noon, upon a searching investigation | |into the charges that certain sena- {tors 'were financially interested in various schedules of the tariff bill. | He did not confine himself to the wool growing senators, but declared that an .inyestigation would disclose ito give you any authoritative opin- | er, that a number of senators Were put- | ting money in their own pockets by | increasing the duties on chemicals, | metals, sugar and wool He commended Senators Hitch- cock, Capper and Glass for refusing to vote on the pulp schedule, |were publishers of Rewspa pave: {said, and were interested i reducing {the price of newsprint by placing {pulp on the free list. On that account | they had refrained from voting anc {thereby set an example which other | senators ought to follow, | Senator Gooding, of Idaho, chair {man of the agricultural tariff bloc, |admitted that he was the owner of {eight thousand sheep. The duty of thirty-three cents a pound on scour- | | 'ed wool would largely increase the {value of his holdings, but he de- jclared that a senator could not be dis- [franchised because he happened to town some sheep. Senator Bursum, lof New Mexico, said he was a wool | grower, but that he voted for the tariff on wool from principle. He |had always believed in protection and {would have voied for the wool duty if he had not owned a single sheep. |Any financial benefit that might ac- crue to him from the duty on wool would be merely incidental. To this | Harrison replied' that a man arrest- {ed for burglary might as well plead {that he had always believed in burglary and that any benefits he got from his burglaries were only in- cidental, The debate followed upon the re- fusal of the audit and control com- mittee to recommend an investiga- tion proposed by Senator Gooding, of Idaho, which was to extend not only to sena'ors,but also to Frank A. Mun- sey, owner of the New York Herald, which has been bitterly assailing the tariff bill, Gooding declared that Munsey was assailing the 'ariff be- cause he was a member of the Amenri- can syndicate which recently pur- chosed the estate of Archduke Fred- eric of Austria. The estate embraces iron and steel works, glass factories, coal mines, potteries and extensive fores: reserves in all the countries formerly composing the Austrian empire. ------ FIGHTING IN GENOA. The Police Fired Volley After Vol- ley Into Communists, Genoa, Aug. 5.--Violent fighting between Fascistt and Socialists rag- ed in the streets here during the night. There was much shooting in Deferrairi Square, one of the most fashionable districts of the city. The police fired volley after volley into groups of communists who wers massing to fight the Fascigti. - N Chased Employees Into Street. Milan, Aug. 5.--Fascisti have oc- cupled and wrécked. the plant of the Avanti, chasing the employees into the street. They evacuated the mun- cipal offices upon the appointment of a royal commissioner, replacing the Socialist city adminstration. -- SEEKING SEPARATE BOARD. Want J. 8, Woodsworth, M.P. To Be Their Representative, {find of fron ore there, and will not They | 20UDIs Iron ore, but will give he | | | | | | Already Been Over- whelmed. Band Prairie, Alta., Aug. Every available man in Grand Prair- {le and neighboring towns has been | pressed into service by the forest | patrols to help fight the fires that are til coal 'dealers, wholesale coal | dealers end cabinet ministers, | The appointment will likely be | made in a few days. | » b.-- CANNOT GIVE ANYTHING. Coal. Edmonton, Alta, respondent wires: | Aug. 5.--A cor- | bered areas of the Grand Prairie It is impossible district. The continued dry weath- with no rain in prospect, makes ions on an 'iron ore and coal find | the situation serious. north of Hudson Hope just at pres- Along the Porcupine, one ent. Prof. J.'F. Allan, ' provincial | most valuable timber limits geologist, is at present at Lake Ath- province, covering 'thirty-five square abasca Investigating the reported miles, is a total loss, despite the ef- forts of hundreds of men to check the flames. In the vicinity of Stur- geon Lake, the entire population, both white and native, is trying to save the famous timber berths be- longing to Foley, Welch and Stew- art. Fires along the line of the Edmon- ton, Dunvegan and British Columbia R.R. are reported under control but one. 'twenty-five miles northeast of here, broke away from the forty men who were fighting it, following a change of wind. One hundred men are fighting a terrific bush fire north of Laglace trying to prevent it sweeping down on the settlement prairie lands. Another hundred are engaged in a similar attempt to save the Valhalla prairies' settlement but this fire is now reported beyond ali control. Smaller fires are reported from a score of points in this ®orth country. in the be back for three weeks. Prof. Carl Clark, of the university, states that cooking coal is quite likely, but no opinion as he has never been over that country. Three other geolo- gists, I tried this afternoon, are out of city for brief periods on invest!- gations NO ALARM ON COAL SUPPLY Stated That One-Third of the Homes Have Been Supplied. After a conference with local coal dealers, on Friday evening, the fin- ance committee of the city council expressed no alarm over the fuel situation in the city. According to what could be learn- ed after the meeting, mo recom- mendations will be made to the coun- cil to take care of the fuel needs. A : Matement was made that one-third SA constitute the of the homes i SAY Were mi: a uv Pid ang , Fe 7 ond of the|U2ily luncheon of Frank Couzens, strike is "belléyéd by the coal dealers|tWenty-year-old son of Mayor Cous- to be imminent, no action will pe|eNs. Frank carries the delicacies to taken. Included among the coal|"Ork with him in a tin lunch pal. dealers present at the conferemce| Young Couzens is working for a were R. Crawford, C. R. Anglin, firm of architects as assisiant inspec- Frank Anglin, J. Sowards, W. A,|tor. He works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Mitchell, J. Swift, Jr. and. R. H,|and takes a half-hour for lunch. At Ward representing James Richard-|Present he is working on the new son & Sons. Fisher Body Company factory at i West End avenue and Fort street STRIKE AVERTED Weal. ON GREAT LAKES SAVING TO MARRY KITCHENER GIRL Heir to Millions Carries His Lunch Pail to Work. Aug. 5.--A bottle of milk The son of Detroit's multi-million- aire executive says he has 'o work hard and save money for his wedding next fall to Miss Margaret Lang of Kitchener, Ont, Mayor Couzens' wealth is in ex- cess of $30,000,000, and, his daily in- come is estimated at $8,000 a day. -- INCOME TAX DEFAULTERS. Vesselmen Agree to Withhold Order Till Attempt Made at Adjustment. Detroit, Aug. 5.--Federal inter- vention averted a sirike of union vesselmen on the great lakes, the dis- trict executive committee of the In- ternational Seamen's Union voting to withhold the strike order until 'he Department of Labor had made an effort to adjust the wage differences which caused the strike movement. One Convicted Farm Hand Has No Money to Pay. Port Arthur, - Ont., Aug. 5.__The prosecution of income tax defaulters is proceeding here and upwards of the next momth, The question of whether it {s the intention of the Do- éninion government to send default- ers to jail on their inability to pay the $50 fine is worrying court officials PAID DOLLAR PER ACRE NOW SELLS FOR $35,500 Port Arthur, Aug. 5.--W. W. Vie- kers, Toronto lawyer, and President cf the Vickers Company, yesterday completed the sale of eighty-five acres of area land in Neebing for $25,500, property purchased by his father in 1872 for $1 an acre. J. J. Vickers, father of the present com- pany President, was at the head of the lakes on a personal visit fifty years ago surveying Kaministiquia River for navigation purposes, ac- companied by his son, then a boy of ten, who yesterday, at the age of convicted but had no money to pay bis fine, as he has been out of work. He was remanded and an interpreta- tion of the act will be obtained from Ottawa. HANDSHAKING IS DOOMED, -- More Insanitary Than Nose-Rubbing or Kissing. Pittsburgh, Aug. g.--Handshaking raging at many points in the tim-| of the] a hundred will be summoned within | here. Today a young farm hand was | sixty years, put through the deal. The acreage was sold to the Cana- dian National Railways for yard ex- tension work which is now going on. SHOULD BE. MET AT ONCE This fs the Statement of Dr. Adam Shortt at Williams- town, Mass. Williamstown, Mass., Aug. §..-- Canada stands for the "'pajiuaent of ali genuine obligations at oae hun- dred cents on the dollar.' Dr. Adam Shortt, Ottawa, chairman of the his- torical documents publicati>n board of the dominion, last niga*, in com- menting on the note of tas Earl of Balfour to the Allies. "'Ws do not ask for any remission on the ground that we wish to escape our debts bul there might be very considsrable Winnipeg, Aug. 5.--Independent railway shopmen in Winnipeg are attempting to obtain a separate board of conciliation on the wage dispute. These shopmen, who be- long neither to the international or- ganization or the Ome Big Union, have petitioned for a separate board to hear their case and have named J. 8. Woodsworth, M.P, to act as their representative. International officials declare such a move would be useless. ------, 5,000 LIVES LOST. In A Wild Typhoon Which Swept Hong Kong, Aug. 5.--Pive thous- and live are believed to have been lost in a typhoon which, last Wed- nesday, devastated Swatow, 250 miles north west of Hong Kong. A Act. Winnipeg, Aug. 5.--The police are investigating the case of an eight year old boy who was taken for a joy ride by a truck driver and dropped on the prairie near . Mar- quotte, almost the width of ihe pro- vince from Winnipeg. The name of the autoist has not been learned. . -------- Major W. T. Blake has covered ac- other 'lap of his airplane journey around the world #rriving at Delhi on Friday. remission on the ground of equity." is doomed, according to a group of local doctors, members of the Alle- gheny County Medical Society, They declare that the custom spreads germs and wrecks nervous systems. The Hottentot custom of nose rub- ding is more san , these doctors | declare, and even practice of kissing ds not so harmful. ---- PRICE IS DETERRENT. Less British Coal Bought Since Rate Advanced. New York, Aug. 5.--Buying of British coal, the Coal Age Market In, dex said today, has abated somewhat. mainly because both coal and ships have become scarce if wanted for im- | mediate delivery, and because prices | have advanced sharply. Whereas two weeks ago English coal could be had cif. New York for around $7.50, it is now obtainable for late August and September. delivery at prices around £10. ; ---- Woman Educator Dead, Berlin, Aug. 5.--~Fray Minna Cauer, aged eighty-two, noted educa- tor and prominent Jeader of the Ger- man women's movement, is dead, it was ledrned here today, | women and children. | ture of the afternoon was the throw- Some $1,500,000 was added to the | | debenture debt of Hamilton during | the past six months. | There are 700 Hamiltonians look- ing for work, according to employ- |ment bureau officials. | Stores and hduses were destroyed {by fire at Sutton, Ont.. on Friday The loss is fifty thousand dollars | Voting on the new agreement be- tween the city and the Ottawa Elec. tric Railway Company will likely take place in November George A. Ross, postmaster in Owen Sound since 1900, passed away suddenly at his summer home, King's { Royal Park, from heart trouble. | The Maple Leaf Milling Company, { Welland, has arranged to take a load {of flour to Wales soon, and a re'urn | cargo of coal will be brought back. {| Thomas Mulvey, under secretary {of state, has gone overseas to attempt | to secure payment of debts owing by {German nationals to Canadian eciti- lzens, | Plans of the Windsor Water Board for a filtration plant that will have sufficient capacity to supply all bor- {der municipalities are almost com- | pleted. ; Premier-elect John Bracken may |contest the deferred election in The | Pass constituency. This will he de- | finitely settled at a meeting next Wednesday. The Ontario Reformer, a paper [Dublishing three .times a week in |Oshawa, has been sold to Messrs, J |C. Ross and J. Ewart MacKay, both |of Toronto { While chasing a kitten about house {in Stratford 'little three year old {James Scott, Mitchell, fell in a bath {of hot water and died from scalds a | few hours later. | Questions of shortage, possible sup- {ply and transport of coal! to Cana- |dian provinces are being thoroughly | considered by federal advisery com- | / mittee at Ottawa, | The appointment of John Ward, | associate editor: of the Grain Grow- |ers' Guide, as acting secretary of the | Canadian Council of Agriculture, is | announced in Winnipeg. | At a recent meeting of the direc- | tors of the Porto Rico Railw ays Com- {pany D. E. Thomson, K.C., retired {trom the presidency, and D. E. Ross | was elected president: At Windsor, Thomas Byault, faint- {ed when sentenced to three months {o {8 year in Ontario Reformatory at {Guelph for failing to support his | eighteen-year-old wife. } Representatives of six striking | shop craft unions on southern rail- {Way are meeting in Washington to | consider settlement on basis of Presi- {dent Harding's proposals. | "Wireless controlled fiying hombs, {directed with mathematical accuracy {from a distant base to their objec- {tive, are a certainty of the next war," says the London Daily Express. {| J. C. Langlois, a well-known bar- | rister of Buckingham, Que., was un- | animously nominated to contest (ho | Labelle county seat in the Conserva- | | tive interests for the Quebec legisla- ture | Traffic earings of the { Trunk Railway for the week to July {31st, 1922, were: --$3,267,785, |against $2,786,667 for the same { week last year, an increase of $481 - 1118, or 17.26 per cent. Passage of the U.S. tariff bill in [the senate in August is declared by | republican leaders to mean that it { wlil become law in October, Others | believe that it will be held over until {November and a few that it will be | | killed entirely, Belleville has secured its tenth in- {dustry in eighteen months. The lat- est acquisition is the Bassick Manu- {facturing Company, with head office |at Bridgeport, Conn." This company {ds reputed the largest maker of cas- tors and furniture hardware in the world, ------ Gave Picnic to Whole Town, Sussex, N.B., tic to the whole town. About 3,500 persons were present, including men, The main fea- ing of 10,000 pennies from a plat- form into the ranks of the kiddies. -- Has Been Deported London, Aug. 5.--The Irish Re- publican headquarters a3 state that Father Dominic, chapiair of the frregulars, has been deported from Ireland by order of the Bris 1/gov- | ernment, and that he is coming io London on his way to the continexi. | ti One of the Dooleys Dead. * New York, Aug. 5.--HRoot Dooley, aged fifty-two, vaudeviils actor and {head of the Dooley fami!; of variery | # entertainers, died here yssierday in aospital, of wood alcohol poisoning He and his wife came hers from lre- land twenty years ago. Grand | Aug. 5.--Thursday | was a gala"day in Suseex, when J. | D. O'Connell, Cuba, who is at present | spending a vacation here, gave a pic- | Priority Order For 3,500 Tons Daily. | Lansing, Mich., Aug. 5.--The Ford {Company has only enough coal to run its plant fourteen days. Even if it ican get coal moving to its plant to- | day they may have to close for a {short time. Representatives of the {company so stated when they came {here from Detroit to ask for priority | {orders for coal. They took up their {request with the Public Utilities Com- i mission, The Ford Company, they eaid, had lon hand about 56,000 tons. The |company was under contract to fur- nish to the Detroit Gas Company 8,- 000,000 cubic feet of gas daily. This required one-fifth of the Ford«Com- pany's consumption of coal. The commission issued a manu- facturer's priority order for available coal for the Ford plants, which is {2,700 tons daily, and an additional priority order for 800 tons more, which is the amount required to pro- duce 8,000,000 cubic feet daily for the gas company, Today a letter was received from |the Ford Company saying that the Dodge, Chevrolet and the Studebaker companies depended on the Ford Company for coal for their foundries, and that the coke Supply was 80 near- ly exhausted that these companies might also have to shut down. { nt [PAST FOURSCORE, | PIONEER RUNS MOWER 'An Octogenarian Resident of Hamilton Township Still Takes Part in Marvest. Cobourg, Aug. 5. --Thomas Harris, who is eighty-seven years of age, has established a record by doing all of |the mowing this season on the farm of his nephew, Joseph Harris, in | Hamilton township, near Gore's {Landing. Mr. Harris is a former sue- jcessful agriculturist of Hamilton [township who retired from aciive |farm life some-few years ago, as far {as one with his indomitable spirit |and habits of industry can retire. | Mowing {s not the only achievement {of this veteran farmer this year. He bas also hoed two acres of turnips land intends to help with the reaping {if he remains at the Landing {throughout the harvest season. Be- {sides he has done other farm work {and apparently thoroughly enjoys it lall. | BROOKLYN MAN HAS BEEN DRUNK SINCE PROHIBITION | --- [Started on Long Spree Though He Had Never Drunk Before. New York, Aug. 5.--.One of the {longest sprees in history, if indeed {it is not absolutely the longest, was {attributed. to a former bar-tender, {August Detering, aged 51, by his wife, Rose, wino told a Brooklyn mag- {teirete her husband got drunk the !day prohibition went into effect and {had been drunk ever since. He {hasn't done a day's work in four | years, she said. Before prohibition, Detering never touched a drop, the wife declared. |He was locked up. . ---- ($244 4092000000004 | PENALTIES WERE ORDERED EFFECTIVE Paris, Aug. 5.--Germany's reply to the latest French note, 'demanding payment in full of the instalments on pre-war debt owing to French citizens, was delivered to the foreign office at noon to-day. Premier Poincare, after a quick perusal of the docu- ment, gave an order the pur: pose of which was not an- , nounced. The French to-day ordered into effect penalties against Germany for failure to pay in full in- stalments on pre-war debt: to French citizens The penalties concern German properties sequester- ed in France. Certain pay- ments that were being made to Germany, on account--ef war losses, are suspended in Alsace and Lorraine as are aleo indemnities under arbi- tration agreements reached between France and Ger- many in August and Septem- ber, 1821. No military ac- tion is invoived. 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