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THE HARTFORD HERALD, Subscription $1,S0 Per Year, in Advance "rM- " ,f ' ? All Kinds Job Printing Xcally Executed. 47th YEAR. HARTFORD, KYM WEDNESDAY, FEI5RUARY 23, 1921. NO. 8 4 BANDIT SHOT WHEN TRYING TO HOB BANK Henry Starr Probably Fatally Wounded by Officer He Had Forced Into Vault Harrison, Ark., Feb. 19. Henry .Starr, notorious Oklahoma bandit, was probably fatally wounded when, with two companions, he attempted to rob the Peoples Bank lot Harri . son. When the robbers backed em ployes. of the bank Into the vault, a bank officer seized -a rifle that had been hidden there and shot Starr down. He then opened fire on tha other two, but (hey escaped. At the county jail Starr admitted his Identity,' but refused to give any Information concerning his compan ions, who were reported surrounded In a-wood, two' miles south of towii, by an armed posse ot more than 100 men. Starr underwent an operation at the Jail, performed In an effort to save his life. He was shot through the body, Just below the heart. He dictated telegrams to His wlf at Tulsa and his son, Henry Starr, Jr., at Oklahoma City, telling them that he was dying. "I always expected to die with my boots on," Starr told officers. He later was said to have given the names of his companions as Buch Davis and Tom -Jones. The three bandits entered the ' bank shortly before noon and draw ing pistols ordered officials and em ployes Into the vault. W. I. Meyers, a former president and one of the principal stockholders of the bank, entered at the time and - also was ordered into the vault. Mr. Meyers had concealed a rifle in the vault and Iri the darkness was able to obtain It and open Are before his intention became, known. The two bandits Who escaped fled In an automobile, but after driving a mile south of the town they set the machine on Are and escaped in to the hills. " COMMUNITY CLUB ORGANIZED AT CHAPMAN SCHOOL HOUSE The progressive citizens ot the Chapman school district, a few weeks ago perfected an organiza tion known as The Chapman Enter prising Community Club for the purpose of community betterment. The third meeting of this club .was held at the school building, last Friday night. At this meeting a program con slating of talks on such subjects as better farming, housekeeklng .etc, Interspersed with music and recita tions was rendered. Besides the k cat talent'ot the community the fol lowing Hartford citizens delivered addresses: "Sources of Recreation," Miss Elizabeth Moore, Red Cross Sec re tary; "Community Plan of Work,' M. L. McCracken, Farm Agent "Junior Agricultural Club Work," M. L. McCracken, Farm Agent Loyall P. Bennett Is Secretary and Vascoe Baird, chairman of the Iub. The usual time of meeting is on Friday night every two weeks. However, a special meeting will be Tield Friday afternoon, March 4, at which meeting E. M. Preuitt, Expert on Dairying, from the Agricultural College at Lexington, will be pres ent. Other community clubs are be lng formed In various parts ot the county. . , STOCKHOLDERS BUY THE A. C. A. PLANT AT BOONVILLE Farmers and stockholders of the American Co-operatlv, association at Boonvllle, Ind., have arranged to buy the plant of tha association there from tha receivers, Julius J. Ooets and Thomas Nlmlos, for $11, 000. An organization for co-operative buying has been formed under the leadership of Mr. Mets, of Boon villa, and Marvin Beard, tha mana ger there. Efforts ara being made to form similar organizations for taking over tha plants at McQuady, Ky., Dale, .Ind., and in Owensboro. MRS. RUBY NEEL McKINNEY SUCCUMBS TO TUBERCULOSIS Mrs. Ruby Naal McKlnney. wtta of Dr. M. S. McKlnney, of Owens-' Black Cat Club at tha home of tha ents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Neel at Fordsvllle, . Saturday morning at 11 o'clock, after a lingering Illness of tuberculosis. She was 21 years of aga and was married about one year ago. Their home was in Ow ensboro but Mrs. McKlnney resided at the home ot her parents 'during her illness. Besides her- husband and parents she Is survived by a brother, Hoover Neel. She was a member of Fordsvllle Christian church. Th funeral was conducted Mon day afternoon, by Rev. Lewis, for mer ' pastor of Fordsvllle Baptist church. The body was laid to rest In Fordsvllle cemetery. TRACTOR SCHOOL A SUCCESS The free tractor school held at Beaver Dam on the 21st and 22nd, is now history. The meetings were well attended and appreciated, and of great inter est to all who own and operate a gas engine or tractor or an automo bile, as the talks dealt with the fudamentals which underlie anyone of these. The attendance was especially gratifying to those who were re sponsible for the school inasmuch as the weather was extremely un pleasant and many or rather most of the men had to come a considera ble distance THRU the bad roads This is the first time that this sort of educational work has been attempted in the State, and every dealer In the county was Invited to co-operate with the Experiment Station and the county agent in put ting this on; they all responded with the finest sort of spirit; the manufacturing companies furnished men to talk, slides, books, moving picture films, engine parts, charts, and time and money. Thanks are also due to the men in Beaver Dam who made possible the use of the Opera House, the moving picture machine and assisted in advertising the meeting. It is just such team work that al ways accomplishes things, and the meeting was indeed a credit to the community and the county. e MUSIC CLUB ENTERTAINS The Mozart Club, of Beaver Dam, music class gave a delightful social, recently in honor of Miss Loyce Gardner, who left this week for Hopkinsvllle, Ky., where she will make her future home. Several contests were engaged in and some musical numbers rendered, after which all adjourned to the Beaver Dam Drug Co., where pink and white cream was served with red and white hearts as favors. Each one in the club presented Miss Loyce with a wish for the fu ture. A very delightful afternoon was spent by every one. . Those present were: Misses Nora F. Jack' son, Alma Crowder, Violet Phelps, Commie Davis, Gladys Likens, Lu cretla Buckner, Blanche Buckner, Lucile Baker, Dorothy Williams, Elizabeth Austin, Henrye Porter and Mr. Frank Kelley Casebler. aa a MRS. TILDA E. LAN HAM DEAD Mrs. Matilda E. Lanham, wife of James I. Lanham, died at her home at" 1513 East Nineteenth street, Owensboro, Monday morning at 1: 20 o'clock, of a complication or di seases. Sha was 43 years ot age and Is survived by her husband, two sons and a daughter. Sha was a sister ot Mrs. G. A. Ralph, of this city. . The body was taken to Whites vllle by way of tha I. C. R. R.. Tuesday morning and burial oc curred near Magan, her former home, that afternoon. STATE AID SECURED County Judga Mack Cook and Hon. I. 8. Mason wera in Frankfort two days last wek for tha purpose of urging tha Stata Highway Com mission to- give stata aid, on tha Owensboro-Hartford highway. Tha Commission agreed to completa tha road from Ua present andlng on to Pleasant Rldga, a distance of about four miles. This will ba dona this year. Sheriff and Mr,. 8. A. Bratcher went to Frankfort, Thursday, where Mr. Bratcher mada his annual set tlement with Stata Auditor Craig. 8herift says that when ha and tha Auditor compared thalr figures they found a'dlfferenca of I cants, but they didn't tall out about that BORAH AGAIN GUILTY OF " LESE MAJESTY " Tells Senate That Harding Can not Rule Him; Intimates Insurgency Washington, Feb. 21. Emphatic notice was given in the Senate Thursday by "Senator Borah of Ida ho, Republican, that he would not "abdicate" his judgment to that of President Harding during the next four years. ' Senator Borah's declaration cama at the conclusion ot a sharp clash with Senator McCormlck of Illinois, Retrubllcan, over the question ot disarmament. The latter had charg ed that the naval disarmament pro posals of Senator Borah would "dis arm" Mr. Harding in arranging for a general disarmament council. Disclaiming any desire to embar rass ' Mr. Harding, Senator Borah, in replying, said: "We have heard much criticism in the last few years ot watting for a nod from the White House. Con gress has been accused ot abdicat ing not only its judgment but its functions. Let me say here, with' out disrespect to the President-elect that I shall not abdicate my Judg ment any more during the( next four years than I have during the past eight." Confronted by Deficit Declaring . that the government was confronted by a deficit this year of 2,000,000,000, Senator Bo rah said this amounted to "a great er menace than anything the United States faced during the war." "Taxes and appropriations, ap propriations and taxes; have we lost our cunning for other meas ures?" he demanded. "I say taxes and appropriations will not carry you, my Republican friends, out of this condition. There must be a programme somewhere. . I have had the temerity to Tubmit two propos als and nowhere have they met with favor. "Very well, I do not complain; I will fall In with everything, but what is the programme? I ask for something; I have ceased to be pa tlent with the whispering from the for President Harding,' Something must be done." KILLS HER SON AS ROBBER Cheboygan, Mich., Feb. 20. Mrs. Ernest Cornell, mother of five child ren, heard a noise downstairs dur- lng the night. Arming herself with a revolver, she descended to tuS dining room. There she saw a man bending over a silverware drawer. "Hands up," she" cried. The burglar darted for the door. Mrs. Cornell fired. The burglar an as far as the barn and dropped. Mrs. Cornell took a lantern 'and hurried to the spot. She had killed her son, EvereUe, twenty-six years old. Mrs. Cornell is In a serious con dltlon and physicians say her re' covery Is doubtful. ENDS 11 DAYS OF TALKING Waukegan, III., Feb. 20. Miriam Rubin, eight-year-old Waukegan girl, suddenly stopped talking after sha had chattered almost continu ously for eleven days. Tha child appeared to be strong- ed and mora refreshed to-day after taking the longest sleep last night that sha had since being stricken with tha puzzling malady. Shortly before noon Miriam fell Bleep, and when sha awakened thirty-five minutes later "she talked only when addressed. Her tem perature returned 1o normal. BUGS THREATEN "WHEAT CROP, EXPERT REPORTS , Kansas, City, Mo., Feb. It. Myriads of green bugs of a kind not yet Identified hava appeared in Ok lahoma and , ara advancing toward the Kansas wheat fields, according to Information received bera by J. C.Mohler, secretary of tha Kansas stata board of agriculture. CTops In tha infected districts of Oklahoma ara seriously threatened, according to a message from Okla homlTTIty, which quoted Thomas B. Gordon, stata entymotbglst, as announcing ha would leava there, Immediately to Investigate. J JUDGE FLEM D. SANSON 0. I S ipB TAX Ruling On 50 -Cent Levy is Di rectly Opposite to Judge EAans' Decision Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 18. The Vance Act imposing a tax of 60 cents a gallon on liquor, collection ot ' which would add $20,000,000 to Kentucky's road funds, was held constitutional by Judge Ftem D. Sampson of the Court of Appeals. This decision was rendered in the esse of E. H. Taylor, Jr., Sons & Company, Frankfort. distillers, against State Auditor John J. Craig and others, In which Judge Robert L. Stout, Franklin Circuit Court, had granted the distillers an injunc tton to restrain collection of tire tax, of which the company hoTHs some $200,000 for the benefit of the owners of the whisky. ; Judge Sanfpson dissolved the In Jnnction, and his opinion held the exact contrary to Judge Evans In a similar suit in the United States District Court. 'May Affect Supreme Court Ruliuic . Judge Samrson's ruling may have a determining effect on the conclu sions of the United States Supreme fj'ourt, which has the Federal case under submission"""" us it Is' the con struction given a Kentucky statute by the Kentucky court. Jude Sampson's declaration that people, who pay taxes under a void statute, nave aa adequate remedy at law, supports the contention of Attorney Gen. Charles I. Dawson in the Federal case that tha peti tior.ers are not entitled to an in junction. The second vital point Is the na- ture or the tax. In this. too. the Attorney General' contention is jujtained. Judga Sampson regards (i'.e tax as an' occupation tax, "not alone on storing whisky 'as distin lingle excise on the continuous pro cess of distilling and aging whisky for the market. As such, he de olares .it is a legitimate exercise of legislative powers and is not dis criminatory. Tax Not Confiscatory He holds that It is not conflsca tory and says that, from the proof before him the owners have been able to pass the tax on to the con sumers. while whisky outside the State has been raised in price. He says: "As the distiller and warehouse men passed th? lax on to the con sumer and demanded and obtained In addition to the tax the same price for their goods, which pre vailed before the tax law was en acted, these millions of tax money now in depositaries subject to the order of the court belong either to the State as excise or to consumers ot whisky, who paid the tax, and In no event to the distillers and ware housemen, who have already received full price for their goods and only collected the funds now In litigation as taxes and not as part of tha price ot goods sold. It follows that neither the money nor proper ty of the distillers and warehouse men are either taken or threatened in the litigation." judge Sampson announced that under the decision In tha case of Craig, Auditor, against the Security Producing ft Refining Company, "when taxes ara paid under a void or unenforceable statute and when payment Is mada directly to the Auditor or directly Into tha, State treasury, tha person paying such taxes by applying to tha Auditor within two years from tha data of payment may hava such taxes ' re funded. Tha Attorney General Insists that under this opinion, which was hand ed dowa'atter tha trial betora Judge Evans, tha warehousemen should pay tha taxes to th State, and it the litigation results in their favor, they can collect tha money back. In bis opinion Judga Sampson goes on to say that this would not result in multiplicity of suits, be cause ona ault could ba filed and If tha court held against tha Stata, it would ba tha duty of tha Auditor then" to. refund their money to all tha others, which plan has been fol lowed as tha result of tha Security Producing ft Refining Company. Tha Vance act. which became ef fective last Marfh. levied tax of 50 cents tha gallon foi tha benefit of the State road fund on all whisky in storage to be paid as the whisky was withdrawn. It was estimated then that the tax would in ail amount to approximately $20,000, 000. J. G. Jarvis of the State Audi tor's office, stated that 4,929.627 gallons have be:il" withdrawn since the act went into effect. The case now goes back to the Franklin Circuit Court to be tried on Its merits. TWO RABIES TOSSED " FROM" SECOND STORY Ntew York, Feb. 21. A charge of tossing her two Infant nephews out of a second-story window while their parents were ill In bed was preferred against Celia Pargnan. 20 years old, who came here six months ago from Russia. The girl was arrested at a hospi tal, 'where she Is suffering from n fracture of Cue skull suffered when she Jumped out of the window after the boys. The older baby, 2 years old. Is dead; the other, 7 months, la in a seriou? condition. Montreal, Feb. 21. "Tim chiM kept me nwake at nights so I was taking It to the canal to drown it." was the explanation given to the rolice li.v a "young msin who was found walking ulong St. James Srreet with Ms" landlady's C-months-okl Infant in his sufU'aae. He w.i" 3nt to an asylum. a ALLEGED FRAUDULENT USER OF MAILS ARRESTED Danville, Ky., Feb. 19. When he applied for mail at the postofllce here n man giving the nanio Harry Fisher was arrested by Chief of Po lice Thurmond, taken before United States Commission, i' Lawwill and held in $1,000 bond for examining trial next Monday on a charge) o( using the mails to defraud. It is charged that he advertised in a magazine that he owned show tents and other paraphernalia and asked customers to mail him money at Danville. He had received money orders for $55 Just before his ar rest. Fisher who had Just arrived from Louisville maintains that his goods are lu Atlanto and that he had his mall addressed to Danville "so that I could look It over on the way." . .'iv r- LARGEST APPLE TREE Greensboro, Ga., Feb. 19. Georgia believes it baa probably the largest apple tree in the United States. It measures eight feet In circumference at Its base, is very tall and has a spread of limbs measuring 48 feet. W. J. Bryan, who soon will celebrate Mb eightieth birthday, planted the tree 52 years ago in Greene county and it is still bearing a crop of luscious apples annually. m a TWO CHILDREN HURT IN GASOLINE EXPLOSION Prestonsburg, Ky., Feb. 19. A 7-year-old child of Phelan Wireman sustained a broken leg and a' com panion was blown fifteen feet against a stump at Md. Magoffin county, when they threw a lighted match into 'a tank containing a quart of gasoline, RECEIVES CERTIFICATE Dr. J. B. Tappan, of this city, re cently received his certificate as an optometrist.. Under' law now in effect optometrists are required to undergo an examination before a board in Louisville. Dr. Tappan successfully passe? this and is thereby legally qualified as an optl- clun or optometrist. a CROWDER WESTERFIELD Mr. A. H. Westerfleld. of Wysox. and Miss Loretta Crowder, ot Ro slne, were united In marriage by Rev, Birch Shields at his home in Cromwell, last Wednesday, Feb. 16. These ara splendid young people and may they hava many happy years ot married Ufa. OHIO HANK RORRED Steubenvllle. Ohio, Feb. 19. A lona bandit walked into tha Mlnera and Mechanlti Bank Smithfleld. near here, and forcing Assistant Cashier Albert Ross and Ronald Smith, a clerk, into tha vault, es caped id a 'waiting automobile with 13,000 (a cash. SENATE V01 ES USE census m ms Bill Likely to Pass House Limits Immiat'o.i to 255,11 Yearly Washington, Feb. 21. The Sen ale pained Saturday afternoon by a vote of 62 to 2, the Dillingham Im migration Dill, which, beginning April 1, will, if enacted, limit tn a percentage basis the number of aliens who will be permitted to land in this country In the course of any Hucal year. As submitted by the Committee on Immigration the number of im migrants who could land in any fiscal year was fixed at 5 per cent of the nsmber of persons of Eu ropean birth in the United State3 in 1910. As passed by the Senate, the number is limited to 3 per cent of such persons, Which means that if the bill Is concurred in by the House and signed by President Wil son, the total--numiier ot n::ii:i.ur;nis from Europe and Turkey in Asia who can be admitted to the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30. 1322, will be 4 C 1 . On the r. per cent basis r,32,4n') v.-. is ;h maximum number ndr.ii 'sihla under the proposed law. Limit 0:i Nationalities , Bused on the een-us of 1910 the. number of person:' who v.iil be per mitted to land under the provisions of the Senate bill from the various countries in Europe, and Turkey in Asia, Is as follows: Belgium, 1.4S2; Denmark, 5,449; France, :l; Germany, 75.040; : The Netherlands 3.694; Norway, ! 12.116; Sweden 19,956; Switzer land, 3,745; United Kingdom, 77,- 206. Total Notrhwestern Europe, j 02,122. J Austria-Hungary. 50,117; Bul garia, 34 j ; .Serbia, l.u; j.otite negro, 161; Greece. 3.038; Italy, 40,294; Portugal, 1, 781; Rumania. 1,978; Rus.ila. 31,974; Spain, 663; Turkey iu Europe. 96 7; Turkey in Asia. 1,792. Tot:il outside North western Europe, 153.249. Graud total, 335,461. Two OpMNC Measure i The two Senators who opposed the bill were Senator James Reed, rjfimo'jrat, Missouri, Joseph T. France, and Senator Republican, Maryland. Mr. Reed made a speech in which lie eulogized the Dutch, Irish, Ger mans, Bohemians and other old time immigrants who came here more than-' halt a century ago. Because ot the splendid citizen ship records made by the descend ants ot these people, he argued that in hid opinion there was no excuse at this time to put up the burs against those who now seek to tome here from other countries. Senator Pat Harrison, Mississippi supported by Senator Wesley L. Jones, Washington, favored passage of the Johnson Bill, which would have stopped Immigration for four teen months. On the motion to substitute the Senate measure for the Johnson House Bill, nineteen Senators voted for the House mus ure. ' ' RUM 'TATTLE RALES' MAY RE REWARDED Washington, Feb. 21. Liquor "tattle tales" may be rewarded by the Government. Attorney CeneTal Mitchell Palmer Issued a ruling in an opinion sub mitted to Secretary Houston that anyone furnishing Information lead ing to the capture of liquor smug glers may be paid rewards up to $3,000 from the sale of tha Intoxi cants seized. The rewards, under the Attor ney General's ruling, however, may only be puid where Information la furnished of "a fraud upon the cus toms service." PECULIAR ACCIDENT (Vanceburg Sun) George Bruce lost a fine horse on his farm at Martin. Ha started to catch tha horse in tha barn when it whirled away, stepping on a to bacco stick. Tha and flew op and penetrated about two Inches be . tween ita front legs. Tha atlck waa ' removed and tha horse dropped dead in lesa than twenty minutes. -